The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-10 00:00:00

E FRENCH EMPIRE. For some time past a modification in the French Cabinet has been contemplated, but it has been Postponed till now on account of the Emperor's marriage it having been found that the retirement of the Ministers at the period of the marriage might he attribut e d t o th a t even t. Th e p er i o d a p pears , however, to have now arrived when the change will actually take place. Marshal de St. Arnaud 1 5 to leave th e War Department i n di sgrace , b u t ,s fall i s t o b e di sgu i se d un d er th e pl ea o f b a d _health, it h av i ng b een d e t erm i ne d th a t h e s h a ll leave Paris for a time, and take up his residence at the Hyeres. It is said that very probably . the de- 1 tree will appear in the Moniteur of to-morrow, by ,which M. Ducos, the Minister of the Marine, will °e appointed ad interim, Minister of War, till the definitive successor of Marshal de St. Arnaud shall be appointed. Marshal Valliant is still spoken of as the next Minister of War, but there appear to be some difficulties in the way of his appointment. It is said that in the event of Mar shal Valliant ultimately declining to take office, General Aupi c k, w ho' has been removed from tho place of ambassador at Madrid, and whose nomina tion as a senator appears in the Moniteur of Yesteaday, will probably be appointed Minister of War. Several other Ministers are also to retire. M. Bineau, the present Minister of Finance, is a mon g the number ; as well as M. de Maupas , the Minis ter of the Police. It is said that the Ministry of Police will be abolished, and that M. de Maupas will be recompensed by a foreign embassy. He has been offered one of the secondary courts, but he is said to aspire to that of London. All these changes will be made under the inspiration of M. de Morny and: M. Fould, who continue to have the preponderating influence in the councils of Louis Napoleon. The affair of Madame de Solms is not yet finishe it is to be brought forward in some other shape, and it is said that the parties connected with the case are in possession of some curious documents relating to the Bonaparte family and the Emperor, which they threaten to make public. •M. de Solms, husband of Madame de Solms, who was recently expelled from France, arrived at Havre yesterday. He will embark at that port for the United States. It appears that Madame de Solms, who with her brother is now resident at Brussels, gives out that the English Government has made strong repre sentations to the French Government on the sub ject of their expulsion. This, however, is hardly possible, for it appears exceedingly doubtful if they have any claim to the character which they assume of English subjects. It is certain that Mr. Wyse, the English Minister at Athens, whom they claim as their father, disowns them, and has always done so. He is undoubtedly the husband of their mo ther, but they were born long after their separa tion ; and as respects Madame de Solms herself, it has never been pretended, even by her mother, that she was Mr. Wyse's daughter. After receiv &lag the order of the Minister of Police—but be fore leaving France—both Madame de Solms and her brother wrote a series of the most insulting letters to the French Government, and the result was a peremptory order for them to be sent to the frontier at once. The question of a reconciliation between' the e lder branch of the Bourbons and the Orleans branch, after having slumbered for some months, ,gins again to be spoken of. It is said that the - Lung of the Belgians, who has hitherto taken no tart in the affair, has written to the Duchess of 'leans, strongly urging the necessity of a "fusion," and declari ng th a t th e resis t ance o f the Orleans family was seriously injuring the future prospects of the Comte de Paris. The exiled generals are all become Fusionists. Great surprise has been created, in Paris by the a ppearance of the name of the Duke,de Trevise the those who have recently been advanced to 'Lie dignity of senator. The Duke de Trevise not .7, 111 y held a high office in the household of the Duchess of Orleans, but was one of the most inti raate among the friends of her royal highness. It be recollected that as late as last autumn the Juke actually accompanied the Duchess to Switzer land, and remained with her till her return to Eng -1 At the period of the Emperor's marriage, he "as still so devoted a partisan of the Orleans family that h h e expresse d th e u t mos t i n dignation against Is daughter, the Countess do Latour-Maubourg, or the " treason" which she committed in accept ing place in the household of the new Empress ; nd yet, within three short weeks, he not only accepts7\ the place of senator, but his wife, the "vachess of .Trevise, has consented to follow the s e sanple of her daughter, and to accept a place in tie train of the new Empress. Another of the s enatorial appointments which has excited general ,lirprise is that of the Marquis de Boissy. M. - troplong, who has a lively recollection of the an hoyance to which Duke Pasquier was subjected thefr from the eccentricities of th e wor thy M arqu i s i n of P eers , is in a s t a t e o f ver it a bl e a l arm . It is said that the promotion of the Marquis is owing to the influence of the Countess Bartolini, the morganatic wife of the ex-King Jerome, who is very intimate with the Marquise de Boissy, for rnerly the celebrated Countess Guiccioli. M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who was so indisposed the clay before yesterday that it was found necessary to bleed him twice, is now considerably better, and all uneasiness as to his health has disappeared. It is now understood that the coronation of the ll Emperor Napoleon and the Em p ress Eu g enie will take place next month. By an Imperial decree in the Moniteur, General . 8 -11 pick, Ambassador at Madrid , M. Lebrun, mem ber of the Institute, and Baron Thieullen, deputy, are appointed Senators. A consulate is about to be established at Broussa, the x . residence of Abd-el-Kader. Baron Rous seau, formerly interpreter to the African army, is spoken of for this post. The Marquis de Lavalette, Ambassador at Con stantinople, has arrived at Marseilles. The direct transmission of messages by the elec tric telegraph between Paris and Londo n corn i - t uenced on Monday. A singular circumsta nce took Place on the occasion : a dispatch of forty words, sent from Paris at nine in the morning, arrived in Lo ndon at two minutes before nine. This is ex- Plained by the difference of time existing between the clocks of Paris and London. 1 , We read in the Constitutionnel :—" Capt. Cheva lier, of the . Port of Nantes, being last summer on h ealth, western coast of Africa, where he was in weak .?ealth, embarked a s a passenger on board the Eng lish Steamer the Emerald, which left on July 5, for England. The captain of the Emerald died a few d ays after the departure, and his loss was felt the Ore severely that none of the other officers were c apable of dire c ti ng the v esse l. I n th e emergen cy th e Passengers had recourse to Captain Chevalier, v notwithstanding the state of his health, con ited to take the command. Th e passage was a for tunate one, and on August 8 th e E m e ra ld cas t an eaor bef ore Pl ymou th. It wou ld b e diffi cu l t to g i ve _ idea of the gratitude expressed to Capt. Cheva (ter) both by the inhabitants of Plymouth and by the tL i nPany of Lloyd's of London, which had insured ac cept vessel. This latter company tried to make him t h e ePt some present, but not being able to overcome ° disinterestedness of the French captain, they t i et errnined to send him a piece of plate to signify ch evalier sense of his conduct. Accordingly, Captain f iver lately received from Lloyds a magnificent t eer cup, having on it an inscription mentioning 11 ',? motive of its being presented.. The form, or lirThents and chasing of this cup are fully equal to )4 41 at France ' can "produce in the same kind. The l lglish steamer had on board a valuable cargo of alnl oil, ivory, tortoiseshell, and gold dust." 2 8 i v iartinique journals have been received to the 4,, Lb. of J anuary, an d G ua d a l o p ue to Feb. 3. They ounce agreat amelioration in the sanitary state oen the islands. The crops presented a very satis t°rY appearance. The Bank of Martinique was ti2tpletely organised, and had commenced opera t,s to the great satisfaction of the colonists, who o long wished for such an establishment aslikely render great se rv i ces t o ag riculture. The mea bie° of livrets which had at first excited considera as now begins to be better appreciated, ee4l .,_e good effects of it are felt. On the 31st De la rr, 1852, the number of livrets delivered at b le .„ l l"hique amounted to 39,000, and the engage -4.t for l a b our compr i se d 9 , 000 i n di v id ua ls. get 7e Stock Market was fi r m yesterday, and in lu is u f ral Prices have advanced. The Four-and-a tlf6 Per Cents. are 10c. lower, at 1041. 90c., and Of p T r bree per Cents. 15c. higher, at 81f. 15c. Bank rallce Shares are 15f. l ower , an d th o s e of the reZ r gage Bank 12f. 50c. higher. Foreign Funds th e "V? nearly as they were, with , the exception of olh ri edinontese Fives, which are 75c. lower. Nv aY Shares are all higher, the diff erence b e ing -in , c A h erv i• to 10f. a share. Exchange on London )) 2 5f. 71c.; ditto • (90 days), 24f. 90c. ITALY. R'e1.,.11. Milan citizens are f or bidd en t o approach the th 4 , uli es• M. B ernar di, h av i ng fa i led to observe sen l : e gulation, received a bayonet wound from a Parliament° of the sth states that an Eng e.iLa °f acer had been expelled from Tuscany for Tlahliishing a revolutionary . committee. a, proceedings of Austria have already effected a n a re a e ,t change of opinion, not only in. Piedmont acli:gSwitzerland, but in Lombardy itself. The liati on recently f e lt aga i ns t M azz i n i an d his Tl l ereilts is r ap idl y turn i ng aga i nst the Austrians. to 2 a 6 igil of terror which has been established, - With the expulsion of many thousands of -11.s ive Tessinese, has excited commiseration for the oppressed, at the same time that it has forced the neighbouring countries to prepare for resistance. The Swiss Federal Council has voted a.law by which 25,000 men of the army of the Con -I:Federation are to be called out. The Piedmontese Government has resolved to make a representation to the Austrian Government in favour of Lombard emigres who have become Piedmontese subjects, oir the ground that the sequestration of the property of these persons is contrary to the law of nations. Switzerland is, on its side, to make similar repre sentations, so that there is every probability of some serious political complications in that quarter. The Piedmontese Government denies, through its constituted organ, that any restrictive change in the laws regulating the press is intended. Political executions continue to take place in various parts of Italy, and Austria appears to be suling the people with a rod of iron. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 4th an nounces that the refugees of Lombardy who have been naturalised in Piedmont have applied to the Sardinian Government for protection against the effects of sequestration decreed by Austria. The same paper adds, that the Government, after taking the advice of eminent lawyers, has remonstrated at Vienna on the subject, and communicated this step to the British and French Governments. Count Toggenbura, Imperial Lieutenant of Venice; has continued, until further orders, all the prohibitions concerning the press, which were in force in 1852. AUSTRIA. A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, dated Tues• day, states that the Emperor of Austria had gone out a second time in a carriage, and was still more improved in health. We read in a German journal :—" When the Archduchess Sophia, mother of the Emperor, received the news of the execution of Libeny, she burst into tears, and exclaimed, God grant that this may be the last victim of seduction.' She a then sent money to all the churches of Vienna for 20 masses for the repose of the soul of Libeny, and 14 said, Iknow that n o o th er person wou ld think of 50 performing this act of religion. It is for me, the N i mother, grateful to the Almighty for the preserva- 10' tion of the life of her son, and whose heart has St. been most deeply affected by the rage and folly of St. the convict, to accomplish this pious duty. Every 20 year during my life I will renew it at the anniver- 0 sary of the death of this unhappy man." 50 We extract the following from an article on the 40 Emperor of Austria in the Constitutionnel 25 " The Emperor Francis Joseph is of a tall and grace- 25 ful figure ; he has a high and open forehead, - penetrating St o l blue eyes, and a smile the sweetness of which does not ° St Bl exclude the supposition of great firmness ; his gait is st : dignified, and his manners 'are distinguished by great 50 elegance. Although fond of pleasure, as young men 25 i of 22 usually are, he never sacrifices business to t; he 100 makes his duties a law from which he never deviates. St. He rises regularly at five o'clock in the morning to de- 6 vote himself entirely to affairs of State. Sporting and 25 riding are the only recreations which he allows himself. 50 He may be seen every day leaving the Palace at two o'clock 20 to take his accustomed promenade, in the winter on foot on the ramparts of the city, and in the summer on horseback .on the Prater, the Champs Elyse& of Vienna. He is scarcely ever accompanied except by one aide-de-camp, and is always dressed in a military uniform. Being one of the best horsemen in Europe, he is fond of leaping the ditches and barriers of the Prater, and he every day tires out three horses in this dangerous exercise. No thing can be more curious than the manner in which he travels. Whether in winter or in summer he always uses an open carriage. His hand, which from his earliest age has been accustomed to manage a sword, has never carried an umbrella ;‘ he contents himself in bad weather with merely throwing a soldier's cloak over his shoulders. The sport which he most delights in is shooting the black-cock, which is carried on at night, and principally in the month of February. At that period the Emperor usually goes to the mountains of Styria, and passes several nights in the open air, a bed of dry leaves under the naked branches of the trees replacing the luxurious beds of the Imperial palace of Vienna. His hardy con stitution braves with impunity privations of every kind ; he can equally support heat, cold, and hunger." A Vienna journal states that in commemoration of the happy escape of the Emperor from assassi nation, the National Austrian Bank has placed 20,000 florins at the disposal of the Ministers of the Interior and War for charitable purposes. On the same occasion the Archbishop of Erlau gave 5,000 florins, the interest of which is to be em ployed in the education of an orphan daughter of an Austrian officer who has fought in Italy or in Hungary in a Hungarian regiment. The Chapter has also given for the use of military invalids a large house, the building of which, only a few years since, cost 70,000 florins. Austria has just paid the second and last in stalment of 1,796,230 florins to Russia for her in tervention in Hungary. A letter from Constantinople of the 17th ult., St in the Vienna Gazette, states that in his au- 5 dience to take leave, Prince Leiningen. was 1 5 treated with great distinction by the Sultan, who St gave him a very friendly autograph letter for the Emperor of Austria. TURKEY. The Vienna Lloyd of the sth inst. publishes the following letter from Constantinople, dated 20th February : " The Imperial Russian General and Minister of Marine Menzikoff has arrived here. His mission relates to the question of the Holy Sepul chres, and the Porte is said to have come to the re solution to ask the mediation of Prussia for its settlement. " Count Escarac, the French Consul at Damas cus, has come here to demand satisfaction for a breach of domiciliary rights on the part of the Turkish governor." The Ottoman Government has - conceded to the French Consul at Smyrna, an indemnity of 300,000 piastres, for distribution among such of his coun trymen as have been plundered by brigands ; the amount of the indemnity is to be levied on the surrounding villages where the depredations were committed. There are accounts from Montenegro, in the Journal de Francjort, but they do not reach to the 18th ult., which was our last date. They confirm, however, the fact of a victory over the Turks by the mountaineers, • and add that George Petrowitch has issued a severe order against the cutting off the heads of fallen enemies. PRUSSIA. Public attention in Germany has for some time past been fixed on a prosecution instituted by . the Government of Baden against Professor . Gervinus for high treason, for having published an " Intro duction to the History of the Nineteenth Century." The tendency of the work was to prove from the past that, by natural historical development, Ger many is destined to becOme united and republican ; but this work was of an exclusively philosophical character. M. Gervinus has just been tried by the Criminal Court of Mannheim. In his defence he denied that, as an historian treating an historical subject, he Could by any possibility be guilty of treason ; but he declared his determination, what ever might be the result of the trial, to continue to write history according to his convictions. By a telegraphic dispatch from Mannheim, we learn that the Professor has been acquitted of the charge of high' treason, but condemned to ten months' imprisonment for exciting to sedition : and his work has been ordered to b 3 destroyed. Next mouth a new kind of paper money is to be in circulation i n P russ i a ; th e present notes are to be called in. _ . The Cologne Gazette states that a manufactory of forged Russian b an k- notes, on a n extensive scale, has been disco vere d a t B er li n . The princi pal person engaged in this affair has been arrested. The Grand Council of Basle, in its sitting of the 7th, ratified the treaty concluded with the Baden Government for the prolongation of the Baden railroad through Switzerland. In the Prussian. Chamber of Deputies, on the 7th instant, the Government were defeated by 180 votes to 130 on the third article of the ground-tax law, pro vididing an indemnity for the dispossessed nobility. The majority would allow of no in demnity, and the Government announced the abandonment of the law altogether. SPAIN. The Senate has under consid era ti on a propo sition for the appointment of a Commission to re port upon the demand of General Narvaez to be admitted as Senator. The following are the prices of Stocks :—Three ) er Cents., 42'1 to ; ditto Deferred, 232 ; Re eemable Debt, first class, 10i ; ditto, second class, ; Coupon Certificates, 51. Exchange on Lon- an, 51. THE SHOEBLACK SOCIETY.— Yesterday the boys of the "polishing brigade," clad in their well-known red uni form, together with 27 girls from the Female Refuge, in Dorchester-place, paid a visit to the Panorama of Hin dostan, in Baker-street. The museum in connection with the exhibition was also opened to the little visitors, who were much delighted with this collection of curiosi ties from our Eastern Empire. It is gratifying to find, that this mode of employing boys in the street has been successfully introduced into Dublin (where there are 26 " shoebla,cks " and " broomers "), Brighton, Liverpool, York, and even Alexandria, where these useful public servants appear on the pavement, as symptoms of the assimilation between Egypt and Europe. The success of the Shoeblack Society as a, reformatory institution, may be learned from; the evidence concerning its operation-con tained in the Blue-book lately issued by the committee on juvenile delinquency. At the end of the second year of its existence, the total receipts ,of the society are found 4 to be 1,5001. *-- -r T___ l "l -- THE SUN, LONDON, TIIURS,DAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1853. TR E SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Paid [ RAILWAYS. 100 Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junct.... a ll Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 28 Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junct. 11 Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 184 Do., £2O 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Blackrock and Passage 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction a ll Do. New all East Anglian (£25 L and E. & L. & D.) all Do. Do. (181. E.& H.) all Eastern Counties all Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) 8:3 Do., do all Do., B. and C 00 East Lancashire all Ea st & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June.. t. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 0 14 l Edin. and Peebles.... 1001 Edin. Prth. &Dundee 100 'Glasgow &S. Western 100 'Great Northern Stk.. 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Eastern I all Lancaster & Carlisle 111 Do., Thirds , 100 Lancash. & Yorkshire 15 Do., Fifths 114 Do., Wst. Riding Un all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Soutl.pt k all London & Bl;okwall 3 Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Loud. Brigt. &S. Cst. 100 London &N. Western 12 Do., Fifths 1 D0.,£10 Sh.M.&B. C 100 London &S. Western 424 Do., £5O 34 - Do., £4O all Londen7.&Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch. Shef. &Lincln 4i Do., Man. & Lin. Un , 100 Midland 100 Do. Binning. &Derby 47i Midland G. West.(lr.) Do. Shares a ll Newcastle & Carlisle 100 Newmarket 3 Do. Bury Extension 16 Newp. Aberg. &Hftd 7i Newry & Enni.::illen all Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor 100 Norfolk all Do., New 3 Northn.Counties Un 100 North British 13 North Devon, No. 1 6i Do., No. 2 a ll Do., A Deterred 5 Do., B Guaranteed 174 North Staffordshire all North. Weste ..... 10 N. &S. Westrn. junc. 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton ... 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. &N. Westn Guaranteed Stgek 8 Shrewsby.& Hereford a ll Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. MM.) all Do. Halves do all Do Do. Oswestiy 63 Shropshire Union all South Devon - 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh.River Dun 5 Do. IA Stockton & Hartlepl 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath • all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford& Limerick 13 West Cornwall Ll.ls Wimbledou&Croydn 1 Woodford LOO York Newctl.&Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 113 Do. G. N. E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland PREFERE. 100 Aberdeen all Do., No. 2,7 p. e... 100 Ms. & Ex. 4 p. c. St 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares.. 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5h per cent. 34 Cork&Bandon 53 p.c. all Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction all E. Ang. (705.) 6p. c. all Do. (£5), 7 per cent. 2 Do. (X 7 17s), 7. p et. all Eastern Counties Ex- tension, 5 p. C. No. all Do., No. 2 all Do., New 6p. C. St all Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent 100 East Lancash. 6p. cts all Edinb. Prth. & Dund 100 Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. e 100 Do. 5 p. c., Redeem at 10 p. c. prem all Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks Hants Ex. 6 p. c.) 100 Great Western, fixed , 4i per cent 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O 100 Do., 6 p. G., Stock 100 Londonand Brighton Guaranteed 5 P. c 100 Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St all Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar. 6p. a 5 London &S. Weste m, Con. Thirds 10 'Londonderry & Coler 1 Shares all Loiidndry. & Ennisk. Shares ... all Manch., Shef.,& Lin., Shares, No. 1 all Do., New, £lO 3 Do., £6 all Marypt. & Cali. 4p. c all Do. 4 per cent D 0...........— ..... • 100 Mid. Consol. 6 p.c.Si. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. percent.) all Norfolk Extension..., all Do. Guar. 5i per ct. all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent. 100 North British all North Staffordshire... 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6 p. c. 9 Do. all Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed all Shrewsby. & Chester Nor.W. (Min), 3 p.c. 10 Do. 5 per cent. all South Devon - 1.1 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. all S.Yorksh. 4p. c. Guar. 3 Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. 10 9 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. 5 Do 11 York &N. Midland, H. & S. Purchase FOREIGN, 3 Antwrp.&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn. Junet. all Charleroi & Erqueliu 8 Dijon and Besangon 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 1 Do. Extension...... all Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 Gd. Junct. of France 153 Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares ................. 1 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref ...... 15 Luxemb0urg........... 10 Do. (Railway) ......... 2 Do. 3 Do. (Canal) ....... 2 Do. 6p. cent. pref 7 Lyons & Mediorran 4:3 Madras 29 Maria Antonia 10 Do. New all Namur & Liege (with interest all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all . Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. &Ams. Shs.] all Norwegian 'Fmk. Prei 10 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 Paris Caen&Cherbrm. 5i Quebec & Richmond all. Rouen and Havre all Ef.,mbre and Meuse 4 Do. 5, 1 per cent. pref 4 Southern of France 2s. Upper India Scrip ,all West Flanders 6 Do. 5i per c. Pref 9 Western of France 2 West. of Switzerland 3 New Zealand... Closing Prices Yesterday. 30 - 31 6 3 - 6i 10 10 . 6-2 64d1 21 -- 22 3 2i d 105 -- 107 63i -64 i 22 -- 22 , 18i -- 1N -- ... -lip - 9 Business doue this day. Paid.' RA ILWAYS. all Bedford and all Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee.... all Do. withoutgr all Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. all Do.wthtguar. 100 Buckghamsh. all Clydesdale Jc. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all Glstr.&D n .F r . all lirtlpl. Dk. & Railway ..... all Hull & Selby all Do. i Shares. all Do. 4 Shares. all Lon.&Greenw all Do. Preference all Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. all Do. 6 per et. all Manch. Bata. and Matlock all Middlesbro' & Redear .... all Midld.B ra dfd . all Northern and Easternsp.c. all Do. 6 per ct. all Do. Fixedsp c all Prest. & Wyre 11 Do. Shares. 1.00 Roystn.& Hit. [Op Do. Shepth.S t 181 Shof.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p.c. 9i S. Staffordsh. all Wear• Valleygr 6 per cent all Do 1100 IWilts&Somrstl Leasing t Compans. London & N. West. (Qp.Westn D 0,.... L4N. w, Caledon.. at;Nrthn.' Gt. Westn Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NNId D 0......... D 0... ..... S. Easter; Norfolk D0....__. L.& N. W. & Midid. Stektou & Darlingt. Midland.. E. Count D 0...... L. &Ln&Yk Do Do ....... Lancash & Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Darlipgt. D 0...... . - IGtWestn. MINES. all Agua Fria I all Anglo Californian 2 Australasian 5 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) all British Austrin. Gold 13.5 British Iron 243 Brazilian Imp. (issued at .C 5 pm.) all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold 14 Copiapo all CopperMinersof Eng all Do. Preference all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co all General all Great Nugget Vein all Great Polgooth all Lake Bathurst all Liberty all Land. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co all Mariquita 9 Mexican &S. Americ all New Granada all Nouveau Monde 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New 1O Santiago de Cuba all South Australians 7 Tin Croft all United Mexican all Waller. ...... all West Granada all West Mariposa all Yuba.. JOINT-STOC. all Australasia all British N. American 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 m C C o olo m ni o a r l o . 20 Commercial of Lon don 4 Englikh Scottish and Australian 7i Loud. Chart. Bk. of Austfalia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Land. &Westminster 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 22 National of Ireland: all Oriental Bank of Corporation 5 Do. New 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australmßkg. & Gold Imp. Co 25 South Australia all Union of Australia 24 Do. New 10 Union of London 0 I all Union of Madrid 91i 92& li - lip' 2i - 2Bp 41 - 5 P i - ip 54i - par— i 50 52 77 78 8i 9 MISCELLANEOUS. 35 Australian Agricult , 100 110 6 Austrlasn.Pcitic.Mnil [ex Pool &xd 5 Australn. Royal Mail ... ... 38A:Brit. Americn. Land ... - ... ' 32 AlCanada — .• . 5 - Crystal Palace 2 Crystal Pal. of France ... ... 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir ... ... 14 IGen. Steam Navigat ... ... SCI General Screw Steam . ... ... 2i Irish Beetroot Sugar, ... ... all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... 2 Netherlands Land ! . ... 9 21 NrtY.ofEuzopeSteam .. . .. i 0 all 'Peninsular & Oriental 4) 25 Do. Do. .""'... ... * 60 Royal Mail St eam .. -_ ... 5 25 South Austral. Land 53 55 1 1 Submar. Telegraph ... _ ... 5 2 Universal Emigration 10 and Cololisation I ... ... 100 28. Van Dieirea's Land.; 16 18 MARKET A r EWS---TTHIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended March 10,1853, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Tvwns in England and Wale; per Imperial Quarter. .. IWHEAT. 'BARLEY. I 9ATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. 45; 9u 31s 7d 18s 31 I 30s 9d 345 8d 32s 6d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. I YEAS. Is Od is Od' is Od i s Od Is Od is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 84,548 ; Barley. 74,882 ; Oats, 21,951; Rye, 51 ; Bears, 7,996; Peas. 2,795 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. A full average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 8s to 4/ 16s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 5/ Os • and straw, 1/ 8 s t o 11 17 s per l oa d . Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to Si 5s • and straw, 1/ 8 s t o 11 16 s p er l oa d. Trade steady, at full prices. MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.—Tho general demand was in a very sluggish state, yet prices were supported. Beef, 2s Gd to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 35 6d to 4s Gd ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs, by the carcase. SOOTHALL, MARCH 9.—The supply of stock at this market to-day was tolerably good. The general demand rulen heavy, as follows :—Beef, 35 Od to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s Gd to 4s 3d ; Pork, 3s Od to 3s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, MARCH 9.—Our market ruled heavy to day, and the prices of this day week were barely supported. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; Veal, 3s Gd to 4s 2d ; Pork, 35 Od to 3s 10d per 81bs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 200 to 25s each. HAILSHAM, MARCH 9.—The general demand ruled steady for all kinds of stock at this market to-day, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 10d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, MARCH B.—Our market is firm, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 6d. to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 48 Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 8d per 81bs. CHICHESTER, MARCH 9 .—The demand for each kind of stock at this market to-day was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 48 2d ; Mutton, 45 Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, March 10.—Wind at Noon, S., light a i rs , and fine clear weather. Letters have been received at Liverpool from Sydney, N.S.W., to the 4th of December. They state that the Sydney (s) was to leave the following day for England. DEAL, March 9.—Wind, S.S.W., light airs and thick fog. Arrived from the River—Ann Ingate, for Geelong. wasd e a t l h d e e r B b o t h r o ;l a g s h t ~ , w in. ate j .a t r- . SOUTHAMPTON, March 9.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Severn (s), Brazils. FALMOUTH, March 9.—Wind, variable. moved—Haeti, lA3o4g7Ned.,Ca7acl_wsa.b.allndoenejla,rk lan passed s s of e W n COWES, March 9.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Bertha, Ha vannah. LIVERPOOL, March 9.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Union, Eow Orleans ; Affg,han, Mobile ; Meridi an , d o. ; Jessie, Charlestona;Nseptuue,brad of F Madras y; fe, Adventure Bonny, War lock, Valparaiso ; Thane Buenos, Ayres ; Wan derer, Demerara ; Janet, Laguna;• National E ag l e, N ew Orleans ; Deademona, do. ; Sulley, Mobile ; P or tl and, do. ; Windsor Castle, Apa:lachecola ; Matilda, Savannah ; Ala bama, Charleston; Telegraph, St. John's N.B. Sailed— E. Z., New York ; Emma, Calcutta • Philo, Lima ; Wal ter, Valparaiso ; Napariva, Coquimbo ; Atlantic (s), New York ; President, Boston. Off Port—Thomas Miller, Charles Watson, John Cumming, Richard Batt era b y , Alcesto, Johnston, Allen ton , and Australia. l iTee E , s g T o ° t FF in contactE2liarch9.—The Sovereign, London to Du with the Lady Barriedale (s), and received very considerable damage. PLYMOUTH, March 9.—The Lady Worsley, Liverpool to Bonny, went ashore at the latter place on the 15th of January, and was abandoned by the crew, who took a por tion of the cargo to Fernando Po. She was subsequently got off, with loss of rudder only, and anchored at New Calabar. London to Hartlepool, and th e James an d G RI MSBY, March 9.—The Placedia, Lond on t o Shi e ld s , to latter hields, makes Wate on shore near the Spurn Light, '''r been ga 'n an g l o ' t off — S he t hA t hanevneM, Closing Prices Yesterday. 30 31 293 —303 30 31 29 30 105 —lo7xd 523 —s33xd 151 153 323 333 Lll --113xd 55A --56Axd 26. —27 lid 13g -- 141 25A -26 A 19 —l93xd l 25 27 3 -3, 074 - 108, 64 Wad ad ad, 52 -- 1 ) 4 m .51 - 153 ad —id ad 32A- 103 - 104- I p , --_ 24 p 64 dis— /, par, P - A 1 Par p p --- 9 p 4 4A 24 -- 29 301 Par 1 p 43 45 2i n p 70 8 p Business this day LITERATURE. Life and Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. D. M. Aird. ' A really splendid and beautiful contribution has here been added to our cheap illustrated literature. Its subject, as indicated on the title-page, is one eminently calculated to command for it immediate popularity—though many will naturally be dis posed to conjecture that it is a subject by this time tolerably well exhausted. For ourselves we can not but acknowledge that we have had quite enough, in the shape of portraits and memoirs, at least for a little while yet to come, of his Grace the late Duke of Wellington. Every conceivable, and sometimes one might/fan c y it a l mos t inconceivable, term of eulogium has been employed in reference to that remarkable man by the " thousand and one" commemorators on his extraordinary career, who, instead Of recounting a history, have seemed lite rally to have been celebrating an apotheosis. It has been said of the great Napoleon by one who has failed to appreciate his character, we mean by no less a writer than M. de Lamartine, that, since the period of his demi se a t St. Helena,his features have been flattered in stone, and bronze, and marble—by the brush of the artist, and the needle of the engraver, and the chisel of the sculptor. But whether or no this be the case (which we don't at all conjecture, seeing that the countenance of the Conqueror of Europe has been described as emi nently beautiful in every feature, and in the whols contour of that majestic head, by the unanimous opinion of his contemporaries), there can be very little doubt but that the memory of the vic tor of Waterloo has been hugely flattered since the hour of his memorable departure. The great qualities observable in that remarkable cha racter we have always recognised, but we never could induce ourselves to believe that in it were to be found what has never yet been .discovered in mortal—perfection. Hence we have shrunk with sentiments not very unlike those pro duced by disgust from the over-laying of panegyric in so many recently published bio graphies. Among these we rejoice to believe that the memoir before us cannot be enumerated. Nevertheless, it gives all due honour to the fame of the illustrious hero. Besides the letterpress, which is stated to be from the hand of a popular author, the book is adorned with a profusion of spirited and most attractive embellishments. Among these embellishments are pictures of battles, sketches of notable incidents, and a variety of equestrian portraits—comprising amongst the latter, engraved likenesses of Marshal Junot, and of Lord Paget, and of Marshal Massena, and of Lord Gough, and others—conspicuous on the title-page, of course, being the effigy of the Duke of Wellington. The publication altogether is a marvel of cheapness, and the fruit of no inconsiderable enterprise. The London Clubs : Their Anecdotes and History. One volume. Henry Adams. By a curious coincidence, the little volume before us came into our hands a very few days before the appearance of that pleasant introductory article on. " Clubs and Clubbists " in the current March num ber of Blackwood's Magazine. By a curious coin cidence, we say, because the writer of that paper laments at the very outset of his gossippmg lucubra tions, the non-existence of any work of the very character by which the book here under notice is actually distinguished. It must be confessed, that a publication of this character had really for a long time been required, as the writer in Maga has re marked with some show of interest in the charm of its ultimate production. As a preliminary to a work somewhat larger and more elaborated, the volume issued from the press by Mr. Adams must be regarded as welcome to more than the contributor to Blackwood. It will be hailed, we doubt not, with satisfaction by the vast majority of those town men—whose name is legion—having a personal interest in the origin and doings of such establishments as those conspicuous by their architecture among the shops or private dwelling-houses of Pall-mall and Piccadilly. Whoever has compiled the agreeable narrative here presented to the public, must be allowed to have acquitted himself delightfully enough, even if his pages be submitted to the hy percritic, or (which is pretty much the same) the curmudgeon. A glorious jumble of chit-chat in troduces the reader to the general history of the Clubs of London a history rendered probable throughout by the circumstance of its being pro fusely intermingled with appropriate and illustra tive anecdotes. First of all, in this amiable gossip, we have mention of the famous " Mermaid, in Friday Street, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, who then introduced to the English the extraordinary and delightful novelties of—the po tato and tobacco ! Delightful, we say, with all submission to those who regard the former as having proved the bane 'of Ireland, and with all respect for the enthusiastic horror entertained for the latter by our excellent and merry George Cruiksbank—himseif, once upon a time, according to his own acknowledgment, a habitual dallier with the meerschaum. Another club of the same match less ago of poetry and good fellowship was—Ben Jonson's own—the 4 ‘ Devil Tavern," near Temple Bar. Here it was that, assisted by the learning of Selden, that rare humorist penned his celebrated Leges Convivales. Overleaping a considerable in terval in our national history, we come to the clubs of the days of Dryden—clubs with such whiMsical titles as the " Club of Kings," and the " Club of Ugly Faces." Contemporary with these was the " King's Head, or Green Ribbon Club," described amusingly by Roger North in his " Examiner." Subsequently, towards the middle of the last cen tury, was established the " Beefsteak Club," a resort of some celebrity. Another club, founded, about the same time, and of if similar character, though described by the writer of the present volume as perhaps of a " more refined order," was the " King of Clubs," the members of which as sembled at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, every Saturday. Having duly mentioned the fore going, and some few others of lesser importance, our anonymous author arrives at last at the more magnificent system of MODERN aims—the subject more immediately under consideration. Speci mens of this system—such as the Albion, and the Clarence, and the Cocoa Tree, and Graham's, and Watier's—although of comparatively recent origin have already become extinct, and most of them nearly forgotten. Not so those which are found afterwards enumerated. Twenty-four of these are sufficiently remarkable to be particu larised : White's. Reform. Boodle's. Conservative. Brookes's. Athenaeum. The Union. Senior University. Alfred. Oxford and Cambridge. Arthur's. Wyndham. Senior United Service. Parthenon. Junior United Service. Arectheum. The Arm 7 and Navy. Garrick. Traveller s. The Law. Oriental. City and Gresham. Carlton. Whittington. Several of the anecdotes related in connection with some of these clubs are highly amusing, but the so-called " witticisms " of Selwyn are, to our thinking, in the very last degree abor tive and abominable. If these be examples of his wit, surely the man must have been the most intolerable of bores ' • and when we remember that he was not o f our time, we can only be grateful for being spared such an infliction. What a melancholy notion of wit they must have had in those days, if Selwyn was ranked foremost among their Dii 'Majores I Besides these twenty-four clubs above enumerated, there is another the name of which does not appear in the catalogue, and which is only mentioned at the close of the volume quite incidentally—the " Coventry" in Piccadilly. As an appendix are given the rules and regulations of four of these great establishments—the Army and Navy, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Conservative, and the Athenaeum—selected for that purpose by the writer, because they may reasonably be said to represent the four orders making up the entire system, namely the Military, the University, the Political, and the Literary. Altogether the little volume is quite a repertory of entertaining anecdotes. Giving the history of clubs—it is the vade mecum of clubbists. Villette. By Currer Bell. 3 vols. Smith and Elder. The fame of " Jane Eyre" has placed its author in the somewhat hazardous position of those from whom great things aro expected—whose writings are anticipated with anxious curiosity, and are sub jected to the test of severest scrutiny. In many respects " Villette" will not disappoint the ad mirers of " Jane Eyre," but the general feelings in spired by the perusal of this book will be those of surprise rather than interest, and' of admiration rather than pleasure—surprise and admiration at the power which it reveals rather than interest or pleasure in the story or the sentiments. "Jane Eyre" was a book that one could hardly lay down until it was finished, so breathless and absorbing was the interest which it excited ; and " Shirley," though less powerful, arrested our warm sympa thies in behalf of the gentle Caroline and the fitful heroine, but in " Villette" the peculiar tempera ment of the narrator and heroine (for they are one) ei t exerts its influence over th e rea d er . A ll manifes tation of feeling is kept d own w ith r i g i d determi nation. There is, how ever , an un d er current of, interest excited by th e s t rong emotions, guessed rather than revealed, w hi c h smoulder beneath Lucy u the at placid manner of th e qu i e t and ins •o• • Snowe. Never was heroine so unceremoniously treated by novelist. Fortune herself was not a more cruel step-dame to this friendless; homeless girl than is this arbiter of her imaginary destiny. Never are we rightly introduced to Lucy— " Who was her father —who was her mother Had she a sister—had she a brother ?" We are even now ignorant. Quietly, unostenta tiously, she makes her appearance, without any in troduction ; and speaking of others, not of herself, we at first were inclined to believe her some mere nobody who was going to relate to us the history of those around her, like th e " Old M an " of Mrs Marsh's tales. The first chapter takes us to " my godmother's house at Bretton," and makes us acquainted with sensible, respectable Mr s . Bretton, and her good-hearted, somewhat self willed son Graham, and a little visit or , Paulina a delicate, clever, " old-fashioned" child. The scene changes. Troubles, which are never revealed to us, have passed over the head of Lucy. Estranged from her godmother's family, bereft of friends and fortune, though of what friends and of what fortune we are ignorant, she resides for a time as companion to a wealthy, irritable invalid, some distant rela tive—Miss Marchmont. After a painful, wearying attendance upon the fitful moods of the invalid, Lucy is again left solitary—Miss Marchmont dies, but before her death occurs one beautiful scene. When relieved from pain, the irritable mind be comes tranquil, and the old lady relates to Lucy the love-story of her youth, and her life's sorrow, drawing therefrom a moral until then neglected. She would make others happy, and begin "to-mor row" with Lucy. But to her that "to-morrow" never comes. Once more alone, with the world all before her, some chance circumstances induce Lucy to venture across the Channel. She lands at Boue marine, and having on her passage made acquaint ance with Miss Ginevra Fanshawe, a pupil of Ma dame Beck, who keeps a Pensionndt des Demoi selles at Villette, Lucy is induced to proceed to that town, the capital of Labassecour, and at Madame Beck's establishment, in the Rue Fos sette, she is engaged as English. governess. Ma dame Beck and her establishment form an interesting study. They are portrayed with a mas terly touch, and give occasion to no small exhibi tion of the writer's sarcastic power. Madame Beck is a model schoolmistress (after her fashion). Hap piness and order prevail in her domain. No re proaches are heard from her lips, no officious inter ference annoys her subalterns. The system of Madame's government is secret espionnage. With gentle movement and noiseless tread Madame, un disoovered herself in most eases, discovers all things. To Lucy th is secre t b ecomes known on her rst arrival. When she has retired to rest in her appointed place in the dormitory, she observes a figure by her bedside, and, feigning sl ee p, t a k es cognisance of Madam e Beck's movements. Every article of Lucy's apparel is turned over with a care ful hand, her pockets searched, and everything, after .examination, returned to its original place with scrupulous exactitude. Lucy has no secrets, and therefore submits with good humour to the system, and with a certain ad m i ra ti on even recog nises Madame's skill. The sketches of character in this book are admirable. Madame Beck is a mas terpiece of portrait-painting. Excellent, also, is Miss Ginevra Fanshawe, the type of a somewhat numerous class of would-be delicate and sentimen tal young ladies, who are in fact selfish in feeling, and anything but refined in conduct. Very dif ferent is Paulina. The exquisite delicacy with which her very peculiar character is delineated proves that Currer Bell is equally felicitous in the finer and more graceful branches of art, as in those broad outlines in which she pourtrays a Madame Beck, or a Miss Ginevra. Graham Bretton, or Dr. John, as he is often called (who, with his mother is residing at Villette), is a character more generally met with in real life than in novels. Not quite so perfect as the ordinary heroes of a fiction are generally represented, he is, nevertheless, a very excellent and attractive individual, for a while "made a fool of" by Miss Ginevra, but afterwards raised to his true level by the nobler influence of Paulina. One other character we must mention, and that not the least important. In the Pen sionndt of Madame Beck, M. Paul Emanuel is the Professeur de Litte,-attire ; and being related to Madame, and a frequent visitor at the Pensionndt, he exercises considerable influence in the establish ment. He is the most impetuous and excitable of men, self-willed and domineering ; but, withal, kind-hearted and benevolent to excess. " Vif comme la poudre" himself, he abuses poor, quiet, reserved. Lucy for that very characteristic. But through all the abuse and bitterness so bountifully lavished on her devoted head, the real feelings of the Professeur for the EngliSh governess are easily discovered. In the third volume of her history Lucy acquires new interest in our eyes (for at first, sooth to say, we find her a very uninteresting person age)—her natural emotions, stimulated rather than repressed by the very unjustifiable interference of Madame Beck and other friends of the Profes seur, at length bid defiance to that iron hand with which she was wont to repress their every manifestation. M. Paul has accepted some mission to India ; he has quitted the Pensionnat. Will he leave the country without a farewell or explanation to Lucy ?—will the manoeuvres of Madame Beck be successful ? The chapters in which this problem is debated recal to us the vivid power of " Jane Eyre." We enter into the agonising suspense of Lucy as she listens to every foot-fall, until her sus picions are aroused to certainty by Madame Beck's summons for the English governess to her chamber to write a letter for her ! We can fancy the strain ing nerves with which that dictation is listened to, until the noise of an arrival in the class-room is heard also ; and Lucy, with quiet determination, tells Madame that she must see what it is, and Ma dame accompanies her, and even then proves more than a match for her. The sequel we will leave to the readers of " Villette." We have said enough to give an idea—but a very faint idea—of the ad mirable collection of sketches of character here grouped together. The story, excepting occa sionally, as in the instance just alluded to, pos sesses no very powerful interest. The loves of Graham and Paulina are feelingly described, and the manner in which the happiness of their lives is spoken of forms a beautiful and refreshing contrast to the general tone of the book—for the tone of feeling which runs through " Villette" is bitter rather than tender. With a skilful hand human passions and actions are analysed, but the analysis is conducted on such a principle that the worst qualities only of those passions and actions are brought to the surface. All the alloy which min gles with human motives becomes manifest at the test of Currer Bell ; but the pure gold, which, in a greater or less degree, is infallibly to be found side by side with that alloy, is passed over in the scrutiny, and not taken into account. To this rule there are occasional exceptions, some of which we have particularised ; but those exceptions are, as we have said, only the more refreshing by reason of the arid nature of the philosophy with which they mingle. The following passages will give some idea of the power of the writing and the force of the sentiments : DISCIPLINE. " These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end they do good. They tend, how ever slightly, to give the actions, the conduct, that turn which reason approves, and which feeling perhaps too often opposes ; they certainly make a difference in the general tenor of a life, and enable it to be better regu lated, more equable, quieter on the surface ; and it is on the surface only the common gaze will fall. As to what lies below, leave that with God. M an , y our equa l, wea k as you, and not fit to be your judge, may be shut out thence. Take it to your Maker—show Him the secrets of the spirit He gave—ask Him how you are to bear the pains He has appointed—kneel in His presence, and pray with faith for light in darkness, for strength in piteous weakness, for patience in extreme need. Cer tainly at some hour, though not perhaps your hour, the waiting waters will stir in some shape, though not per haps the shape you dreamed, which your heart loved, and for which it bled, the healing herald will descend. The cripple, and the blind, and the dumb, and the pos sessed will be led to bathe. Herald, come quickly ! Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it through slow years stagnant. Long are the ' times' of Heaven ; the orbits of angel messengers seem wide to mortal vision ; they may enring ages ; the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations, and dust kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may mean while perish out of memory again, and yet again. To how many maimed and mourning millions is the first and sole angel visitant—him easterns call Azrael." - I SUSPENSE. " I think if eternity held torment, its form would not be fi er y rack, nor its nature despair. I think that on a day among those d a y s w hi ch never dawned, and not set, an angel en t ere d Hades—stood s delivered a p ro ph ecy of conditional pardonhone, died a doubtful hop e o f bli ss to co at , kin scwmeirlitalled, in revea , led i n hi s own glory a day and hour unl oo k e d for, me, no t now, but and grandeur the h e i g ht and compass of his promise — spoke thus, th en t owering, become a star, and vanished legacy than into his own despair. heaven. His le gacy was suspense —a worse * _. * * * " I always, through my whole life, like to penetrate to the real truth • I like seeking the goddess in her tem ple and handling the veil, and daring the dread glance:, 0, Titaness amongst deities ! The covered outline. but thine aspect sickens often through its uncertainty, b i : define to us one trait--show us one lineamentbctizetar.,,, awful sincerity. We may gasp in untold t i e , rr . o n r ity. W Z that gasp we drink in a breath of thY t.' s ; v e i rs l ift e d by heart shakes, and its currents sway like ri vers To see n earthquake ; but we have swallowed stre ngth. f ear her main and to know the worst is to take from advantage. CULTIVATE HAP PINESS NO Mockery in this world ever sounded to me so !ollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. 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Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, uncertain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth. bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise." FLOWERS. " I only had no bouquet. Ylike to see flowers grow ing; but when they are gathered they cease to please. I look on them as rootless and perishable--their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love." Amabel ; or, the Victory of Love. By Mary Eliza beth Wormeley. 3 vols. Smith and Elder. There is a deep meaning in this tale, although it may appear at first sight but a simple fiction to while away an idle hour. The authoress has evi dently a purpose above amusement, and a design beyond edification. The characters are exceedingly well drawn, that of the heroine in particular—she is described in all her various stages of early exist ence, for the narrative terminates while she is still Young. She is entirely the creature of the extra ordinary circumstances in which she is placed—an ordinary routine career would never have produced such results, or witnessed such emotions. The only drawback to this style of composition is, that it cannot be so pleasing or so gratifying to the taste as a more unassuming but less masterly class. Instead of soothing, it stirs ; instead of calming, it excite* but then it rouses the spirit in a noble cause—that of devoting passion to principle, sensibility to reason, self to others. Amabea's faults are evident : she studied her own pleasure, her own convenience too much at first. With no friends to take an in terest in her, and with a mother who had almost cast her off, she did not feel herself bound to give up her opinions, whatever they were. Hence arose many of her mistakes, her engagement with Felix, when he had no position to offer her, and when she was ignorant of his character ; and, subsequently her imprudent marriage with Captain Warner, con tracted with a view to interest and policy, not with a ' feeling of regard, much less of affection. The authoress shines conspicuously forth in her delineation of such a union. The structure based on that false fourldation, never yet could hold fast against the storms of fate. The only safeguard in the perilous course would be to preserve caution, and exercise self-denial ; but that is not to be expected from those who can sacrifice their affections, and shut out their convictions . of right and wrong. Still, as human b e i ngs will.por sist in tryin g th e experiment for themselves, An defiance of th e answer given to others by Fate-- " Where it s w hi r l w i nds have answered no, " it is' desirable th a t suc h a casualty should be considered by novelists. Admirably is it depicted here, Amabel married to make herself happy. In escap ing from a wretched family, she never considered that she had undertaken to please her husband, and exert herself in his house, in consequence of which she gave nothing but dissatisfaction. Cap tain Warner was very much to blame in his way acting, for he did not consider the difficulties other position, or make enough allowances for her - at last he quite n eg l ec t e d h er, w h en she really Lad done nothing wrong. Her subsequent follies and faults are too numerous to dwell on here ; suffice it to • pass over the causes, and trace the effects. Amabel was discarded by her husband, and had to return to her stepfather's home. He had lost her fortune for her (which her husband had generously returned on their separation), and it was therefore necessary for Amabel to exert herself in every way for the benefit of the family. Here she showed her true character, here she displayed her right disposition ; she was still a girl when consigned to a widow's fate, but the feelings of a noble-hearted and up right-minded woman, abeyant in prosperity, deve loped themselves in adversity, and gave life and vigour to her state that had seemed worse than death. Her energy sustained a drooping circle, lier talents kept together a decayed family, and, above all, her patience, her charity, and her reso lution prevented discord from reigning in a con fused and disorganised household. In. the latter portion of the work the interest is of the highest kind, in the pourtraying of Amabel's now isatural regard for her husband, whose merits she too late had discovered, and whose love for her had made him over susceptible and jealous, in the struggles pride had to encounter, the work patience h a d t o perform, the suffer ings 9 newly awa k ene d f ee li ngs had to endure, and, above all, in the unequal contest that a weak woman, lovely and unprotected, had to wage against a piti less world, the authoress rises to the height that is due. Amabel committed nothing but folly— crime was fan from her—but the appearance of evil was her ruin for a time. In the end she met her husband through the intercession of friends ; but again doubt cam e b e t ween t h em, and he went to "Africa. Amabel was staying at Portsmouth when his ship returned ; the plague raged on board ; all were forbidden to approach the deadly neighbourhood. Then the forsaken wife aroused herself, she felt she could be of service, and the consciousness of that enabled her to be strong in virtuous pride. She bribed the boatmen in the dead of night : they conveyed her on board—that ship, so neglected and deserted, the grave of many a gallant heart, shunned by all who beheld it, was her forlorn hope of life's happi ness, her land of promise after an awful desert wandering. The storm increased, the ship drifted down the coast, till at last, they were inveigled by " wreckers" on the shores of Brittany . Captain Warner, who had been seized by the plague, roused himself in the danger, and contrived to save himself and Amabel. Then, tried in the furnace of affliction, he recognised his wife. Pre vious explanation had cleared away his doubts as to her conduct, and he now acknowledged " that which could brave pain, fear, and death" could be no dream nor delusion. This was the victory of love. In sorrow, in suffering, and in shame Arne ber fought well and bravely—it was but meet that at last she should win the spoils of triumph, and in her long-desired home she should rest—" her warfare o'er." The characters of the subordinates in this tale are ably given, and it will, doubtless, become a favourite with many. If in the com mencement it may not appear attractive, it gains on the attention, and the force and pathos of its final scenes are enough to entitle the authoress to consideration and eulogium of the highest order. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn. Vols. 3 and 4. Colburn. The two first volumes of this very excellent edi tion of Evelyn's famous diary have already ap peared. The third and fourth, which are now before us, complete the work, and furnish us with much interesting correspondence never before pub lished. Among others are many letters from Jeremy Taylor—one of the most delightful of English writers, as well as one of the greatest of Ang2ican divines. Added to the correspondence of Jahn - Evelyn is a collection of the letters of his excellent and accomplished lady, who, according to the char acter here given of her by Dr. Bohun, must have been a most loveable and admirable woman. Th e private correspondence between Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Lord Clarendo (when Sir Edward Hyde) and Sir Richard Brown are also given, and the whole has been edited (fro the original MSS. at Wotton) by William Bray, Esq. These four volumes, beautifully printed and well arranged, will be treasures to those .v w . h u o a de light in genuine curio s iti es of literature, while to the student of hist or y th ey w i ll be rn e. Now, on the compl e ti on o f the entire work, we e must congratulate both editor and publisher on the it to very exce the public. llent manner in which th ey have present RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —Traffic turn for for the week en di ng March 6, 1853.... £18,133 8 2 Corresponding week last year .................... 16,477 8 3 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. —Traffic return for railway dian team-boats for the week ending March 8, Corresponding week last year 2,4ER 19 4 0 Increase in 185.3 .. . GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —TT 17 turn for the week ending March 5, 1853 lk o 0 11 Corresponding week last year Increase in 1853 £374 16 6 Commis sioners recently for the Exhibitionth of 1851, have entered upon E' -hrLENsiNGTON.—Her Majesty's Commis e occupation of this d other houses on the estate the Department of Practical Art to hold the next exhi bition of the works of the students of all the schools of art there in the month of May, as the space at Marl- - borough-house is already f u lly occupied. The same oc casion will be used to make an exhibition of cabinet wo r k f or the benefit of the students in the furniture class ; and it is said that her Majesty has been pleased to allow examples fr om the Royal palaces to be placed in the proposed exhibition. young man charged with forging an , THE FORGED ORDER ON SIR BENJAMIN HEYWOOD bankers, Man chester, for 3001., formerly a clerk in their employ, who nfessi e o r n b co y n d si i s r t e e et d a n il t i statedne d oArNdper Co. —The Heywood and Co.,' wA S remanded by the magistrates yesterday week, was faograi then ibroughtwosec prosecution t u i opn that yesterday.tbe case w C o u o l b d b e b t t e t a h b e en v t e c ry alle l d it a ti co e u nless the magistrates insisted on theirfurtb proceeding, the nst case ru m ca d the instrument i of disclosures made to Mr. Wright, e T vi h d ey e H c c o e u , could understanding they would not bgivenprobably on the tionHeywoods did not • e to the prosecn magistrates said it was a cas wish to use them. The case not for evidence was not given they them to decide- --er He was accordin di must discharge the if g schar ge prisoner. THE CONSERVATIVE LANDge4:: chase of the • 'Pi ' society was --..e •• • • - sixth vv. Hertfordshire, between made yesterday (Tuesday) in Ware and Hertford. I 20 20 20 20 10 20 10 20 lia 6 p 1 p 2, 3 / 4 p li p iP 91 3 i n la 24a -i 36j 14. 8. 27. 1 - 1 - i - 4 54 p P 1 p P 24 li 2