The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-14 00:00:00

MARKET IS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of wheat on sale in the leading country markets held on Saturday were but moderate ; neverthe less, 7the demands for all kinds was in a sluggish state, on somewhat easier terms. Fine barley realised full prices. Low and middling parcels were somewhat neglected. Malt sold at extreme Crates. Oats, beans, peas, and flour com manded very little attention. The latest advices from New York state flour was in re- quest, on higher terms. In wheat and Indian corn, very little was doing. Most of the Continental markets have ruled inactive. Up to our markets, last week, coastwise, the arrivals of English grain were very moderate. From abroad, we re ceived 9,302 quarters of wheat, 10,283 do. of barley, 1,670 oats, 1,348 beans, 40 tares, 5,378 linseed, 1,051 rape seed, 85 sundry seeds, 2,703 sacks, and 7,608 barrels of flour. Fresh up to-day the arrivals of wheat coastwise from Essex and Kent were very moderate, and in middling con ditieu., From the east coast they were small, whilst the receipts by land carriage were comparatively trifling. Notwithstanding that the show of samples of both red and white was smaller than for some time past, the de mand for all descriptions, owing to the large quantities of foreign flour on offer, and the inreased number of floating cargoes off the coast, was in a very inactive state. Al though no actual change took place in the quotations, much difficulty Was experienced in effecting a clearance. The number of offers from the midland counties to for ward wheat during this and the following month was on the increase. The millers, however, purchased with ex treme caution, at barely late rates. With foreign wheat, fresh as well as ex granary, we were fairly supplied. Good heavy qualities changed hands at full currencies. Low and middling kinds ruled very dull, at barely stationary prices. Floating cargoes were heavy, and the quotations gave Way 2s per quarter compared with Monday last. From the Baltic, numerous offers to ship wheat in the spring were received. The supply of English barley was small, but that of fo reign was large. Malting samples moved off steadily, at full prices. Low qualities of foreign were very dull, and a shade lower than last week. We had a fair inquiry for all kinds of malt, at full quo- The show of Irish oats was tolerably extensive, that of tations: , English, Scotch; and foreign limited. The trade was tolerably firm, at late currencies. Beans, the supply of which was on the increase, mot a dull inquiry, at barely stationary prices. In peas comparatively few transactions took place, at last - week's figures. The flour trade was in a very inactive state. In the quotatioha no change took place. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Malt—Chevalier • . • • 61s to 63s Oats Yorkshire and Limolnsh., Feed 16s 22e Potato •• • • 21c -24 s Yonghal and Cork Black. • • .... 16s 19s Cork, White . .• 16s 25s Scoteh,Feed..• •• 21s 25s Beans—Tick 34s 38s Pigeons . 36 443 Peas—Grey ..• •••• • • • 31s 35, Maple .••••• • • • • • 336 36a White. •••••• • • • • 36 40 Boilers ••••• • • • • • 38s 42s Flour—Town-made... 415 46s Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 32s 3. Stockta & Norfolk 32s 38s Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red .... new 42s to 48s Ditt0............ old 51s 51s Ditto, White new 44s 545 Ditt0........ old 49s 60s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 47s 53s Ditto new . 578 47s Rye—Old ............ 29s 32s New 298 32s Barley—¢rinding... •• 288 30s Malting ......... 318 34$ Chevalier.... •••3a s 39s Malt—Saffolk and N0r f01k............ 1548 58s Brown.-- 46s 528 KingstonandWare 576 60s SMITHFIELD. Since Monday last fair average supplies have arrived the port Of London for the time of year—the total imports amounting to 2,664 head. During the same period in 1852 they ,amounted to 1,578 ; in 1851, 2,233 ; in 1850, 1,679; in 1849, 1,729 ; and in 1848, 1,351 head. The arrivals continue in fair average condition. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Ostend 241 Harlingen 402 ... 142 ... 18 ... . Antwerp.. 293 ... 47 Rotterdam 1149 ... 1,155 , 217 iTotal .... 551 ... 1,831 ... . 282 ... Th. yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1852 169 1,297 212 ... 1851 442 1,495 186 13 185 0 725 765 189 -- 1849 372 • 1,180 ..„ 177 ... 184 8 436 806 109 ... The show of foreign stock in to-day's market wrs season ably extensive, and in full average conditian. Although the arrival of home-fed beasts fresh up this Morning were somewhat less than those reported on Mon day last, the supply of that description of stock was sea sonably extensive ; whilst its general weight and quality were good. The attendance of both town and country buyers was somewhat on the increase : nevertheless, the beef trad e , ow i ng , i n some measur e, to the change of the Weather, was in a sluggish state. In prices, however, no change took place. The primest Scots sold at 4s. per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,550 Scots and short horns ; from othar parts of ngla,rtd, 600 of various breeds ; and, from Scotland , 700 horned, and polled Scots. The numbers of sheep were again very limited ; but we observed a large increase in the arrival of clipped tegs. Most woolled sheep sold steadily at full prices—the primest old Downs being worth ss. 2d. Those out of the wool raoved off slowly, at late rates—the best Downs being quoted at 4s. 2d. per 81bs. We were tolerably well supplied with calves. Prime veal changed hands steadily, at full prices. Otherwise the trade ruled' . dull. Pigs--tim number of which was but moderate, moved off siowly, on former terms. Per Blbs to sink the offals. Inferior Beasts ... 2 2 1 1 6 to 8 3 Second quality ..:3 2 3 4 Prime large oxen 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots, dlc. 3 10 4 0 Inferior sheep ...3 10 4 0 Second quality' ...4 2 4 6 Prime crse.-wlled.4 8 4 10 s. d. s. (1. Prime Southdowu 5 0 5 2 Large crse. calves 3 0 4 0 Prime small do 4 2 4 6 Large hogs 210 3 2 Small porkers 3 6 4 0 Suckling calves 20 0 25 0 Quarter old pigs 19 0 25 0 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ..................... 4,206 Beasts 694 Sheep 16,410 Sheep Calves 164 I Calves 132 Pigs 215 I Pigs — A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, March 15, 1852, and this day, Monday, March 14, 1§53. TOTAL SUPPLY. Per 81bs, to sink the °Era's. March 15, 1852. Mar.l4, 1853 a. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. Chase and inferior beasts ... 24t0262 10 to 3 9 Second quality ditto ... 2 8 3 0 3 2 3 4 _Prime large 0xen . ...........3 2 3 4 3 6 $ 8 prune Scots, drc 3 6 3 83 10 4 0 Coarse and inferior sheep ... 2 8 2103 10 4 0 Second quality ditto •.. ... 303 6 4 2 4 6 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... ... 3 8 310 4 8 410 ?rime Southdown ditto ... ... 4 0 4 4 5 .0 5 2 prime coarse calves . 3 4. 310 3 0 4 0 jirae small ditto ... •• • • • ... 4 0 4 64 2 4 6 "Large hcms ••• •• • • 2 6 3 62 10 3 2 14-e at small porkers ••• •• • ••• • 3 8 310 3 6 4 0 Beasts._ 4,129 4,206 Sheep 22,770 16,410 Calves... 141 164 360 215 SUPPLIES ON SALE March 17, 1851.—Beasts, 3, 18,820 ; calv e s, 12 1 0 ; pigs, 2SO. March 18, 1850.—Beasts, 3,578; sheep, 19,840 Piga, 190. ,594 ; sheep, calyem, 102; 12 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. • Pull average supplies of country-killed meat—about , 6,5 00 • carcases—have arrived up to th ese mar k e ts since Monday last, The show of meat slaughtered in London on offer to-day was tolerably good, whilst the general demand inactive, as follows : Per Blbs by the carcase. ), s. d. s. d. s. a. Y. d. zeef, inferior 2. 8 2 10 Mutton; Inferior 3 4 3 8 Ig o. middling 3 0 3 2 Do.,middling 3 8 4 0 D 0•, 1 , prime large 3 2 3 4 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 •,,""°•_, do. small ....3 4 3 6 Veal -, 2 8 4 4' ' - grk, large 2 8 3 2 Pork, small 3 6 4 0 • BOROUGH HOP. St, The supply of all kinds of hops being very limited, the _ l5 tizorult of business doing is exceedingly small. Prices, 8 l owever are firm. Mid and East Kent pockets, 100 s to 10 .Weald of Kent, 95s to 126 s ; Sussex, 95s to 115 s Per cwt. 10 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. ° B3 tNCrise and by railway, the arrivals of potatoes con- Ilue limited, and in very moderate condition. The im ports from abroad since Monday last have been large— Pz., 170 tons from Calais ; 290 ditto from Dunkirk ; 910 ( 1. ?;n , Rouen BO from Havre ; and 30 from Antwerp. i r ulY a limited business was transacted to-day, as follows : 9 5 °1 1t Itegents, 105 s to 155 s per ton ; Lincolnshire do., 8 to 125 i; Scotch do., 95s to 115 s ; foreign, 90s to 105 s. WOOL. supply of English wool continues very small. In CrY instance full prices have been paid for each descrip u, with an improved demand. Foreign and colonial ialities dull, but not cheaper. The imports last week We re -38 bales from Gibraltar, 637 from Sydney, 44 from h tend, 157 from Hambro', 28 from Odessa, 1 5 from Leg itad 22 from Antwerp. SEEDS... „ We have a s t ea dy d eman d f or th e b es t qualities of clover • 207 c e ed, at v er y f u ll pr i ces . All other ki n d s are a s l ow sa l e . f"linseed very littl e i s d o i ng , and East India has sold at r o !e, 50s to 51 4 p er quar t er . M ost o th er see d s command Y littl e a tt en ti on. R ape - capes are rather dearer. Lin seed qualities are held at full currencies. Tung ! , Lute, per bush. 9s to lls ".Wede 10s Its 8r0wn...... 7s lOs T dre w hite, new...... 7 s Od l Os , Win ter, new 40 64 Od ea u SPri ng • • Cs Od as 6.1 e kr Y. Per quarter 388 42s C) O ,. ' in t% • • • ••• • • • 28s 34s er, Ite€llgiaFt. (ewt.) 45s 63a _White „ 46s 6 6 4 corelgts Red...... 48s 63,1 T refoil White.... 46s 649 1 •. •. 26s nal Carraway, new ••• • .. 388 41s Coriander, new ...• • • Ms 174 Ilempseed, per quarter 32s 25s Linseed, Eng.';owing. • 58s 62s Crushing ........ 49s 54s .......... 49s 52s Odessa .. ........ 49s b3s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— __ English . 9/ O. 10' 10s Foreign, per ton 71105 10l 58 Rape Cakes, pr ton 51 53 5/ 101 Rapeseed, New, prlst 23: Os 26i Os TALLOW. h Since ou r l as t report, the demand for all kinds of tallow t i ruled heavy, and prices have further receded. To-day, .e. On the s p o t , i s quo t e d at 445., and for delivery dur g the la , ht two mo n th s 43 s 3d p er cw t . T own tallow is " Per cwt. net -cash, rough fat 2s sid per 8 lbs. • • 1849. 1850. 1 1851. lito c k ~, l' . ''S day . •• • 2B'' 20 35,375 d 7 to !;:88,t136t0 46,849 363 d t ric e of Y . c. t040030,60dd;50750s Od 40s Od to 36, i' ,, , ....livery last Week ..; 1;507 , 1.657 1,536 2,49 4')ltt()•fr°,llJuno 1.. .. 84,167 1 77,92, .79,358 90,249 &riYal l'ast* Week 646 ; —2lO Ditto froio June . ' ... :•. 104,854 87,834 ' 92,126 100,364 ri, ' of Town ....... , 433 od:1 391 6cl: ...4Qced. aas 9d. _ ... , 1852. 1853. 36,369 14s Od to 0.'3 Od 2,235 82,836 • 780 78,577 4ba 9d TAE SHARE MART RTs. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Bes'neas done this day. Paid I RAILWAYS. 1 1.00 Aberdeen ... . . ........ 84 Arnbg. Nottng. Bost dr Eastn. June all. Binang. Wolverh. ill __ __ Stour Valley. 31 28 Birkenhd. Lancsh. & ' Cheshire Juliet...— 273 all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons 22 184 Do., £20.. . St. 100 Bristol & Exeter St. 100 Caledonian. 50 all Chester & Holyhead 50 all Cork and Bandon 20 all Cork, Black. & Pass 50 45 Dublin&BelfastJune 25 all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction 5 all Do. New ...... . L . 25 all East Anglian (£. 25. dr E. & L. & D.) 18 all Do., (XlB E. & L 1.).. 20 all Eastern Counties..... 25 all Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... 25 8:3 Do., d 0... 25 all Do., B. &C. St. 100 East Lancashire ... . 50 . all East & West Ind. Dk & Binning. June St. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 10 13 Edinb. and Peebles St. 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dunde e St. 160 Glasgow &S. Western St 100 Great Northern Stk St. 100 Do., A. Stock St. 100 Do., 8. - Stock St. 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) St. 100 Great Western.. .2 11 Irish South-Easterx. all Lancaster &Carlisle 3 113 Do., Thirds . 100 Lancash. &Yorkshirel 11415 DDo. Do., wFisft Ridinghs ..... Un. .... all Leeds Northern...... . all Liv.Crsby.drSoutlypi. all London & Blackwall 3 Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond.Bright&S.Cst., 100 London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do. ,10/.Sh.,M&B 0 100 London & S. Western 423 Do., £50... ••• ••• 31 Do., £40••• ••• • • ••••••' aII Lniadrry.diCoferaine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln. 43 Do., Man. &Lin. Un. 100 Midland ..........•..... 100 Do. Birming. & Derby, 474 Midland G. West.(lr.; 17 Do. 3 Shares all Newcastle &Carlisle 100 Newmarket , ns 1 3 6 N p ew o p . B t.l ui br x g te .4 s l i t o fT. Newry & w E a nn rre i n sk p i o ll in ee Newryall , & ROstrevor 100 Norfolk all Do., New 3i Northn.Counties Un 100 North British ... 13 North Devon, NO.l 6i Do., No. 2... all Do., i A Deferred 5 Do., i B Guaranteed 17i North Staffordshire all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. unc 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland_ 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. & N. Westn. ...... Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby. & Herefd. all Shrewsby. dr Chester (Nor. W. all Do. Halves, do. all Do. Oswestry ...... 6i Shropshire Union all South Devon... 100 South Eastern-- all South Wales.. 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun NI Stockton dr ii — artlepl. 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath......... all Waterfd. dr Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 13 West C0rnwa11........ 21s. Wrabledon &Croydon 1 Woodford - .00 York Newctl. dti Berw. 20 Do. Extensions. 11a Do. G.N.E. Purchase .00 York di N. Midland.. 1100 'Aberdeen . Closing Prices Saturday. 293 -- 303 64 63 9 -- 10; 7i —6i(lxcl 21 -- 22 3i 2i d LUI 105 641 654 22 224 18A 193 14 lip 8 - 40 25 25 St. 50 25 1.00 St. all Do., No. 2, 7 p. s.. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p.c. St 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares .. 100 Caledonian £lO ...... 1 all Chester dr llolyhead Guar. 5A per cent... 3,1 Corkitl3a - ndon 54 p.c. all Dundee Perth&Aber- Been Junction all EastAnglian (X 3 10s) 6 per cent. all Do. (R 5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£7l7s) 7p. all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do. No. 2 ........ all Do., New 6 p. c. St.. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... 100 EastLancash. 6 p.cts. all Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 5i per cent .......... 100 Glasgow &S. Western guar. 5 per cent.... 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c. 100 Do. sp. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).. 100 G. West. fixed 4i pc. 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O, 100 Do., 6p. c., Stock... 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c... 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. all Do. Convertible, sp. c.,1852., ..... 'lOO Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 5 London &S. Western, Con. Thirds . 10 Londonderry& Coler. iShares .............. all bandy. & Ennis. i Sh all Hanch.,Shef., & Lin., . . i Shares, No. 1 all Do. New, £lO 3 Do., £6 .......... • all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c all Do. 4i per cent 100 Mid.Consol. 6p.c. St 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 42 per cent all Norfolk Extension all Do. Guar. 4 per ct all Do. Way. Val. 5 p e 100' North British .:. all North Staffordshire 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c , 9 Do all all s S h hre rew w s s b & y ß . i sz rm c . N. G. r (Nor. W.Min),B P.C. c. 10 Do. 5 pe r cen t e all South Devon 14 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of 21 08.6 d. all S. Yorksh.4p. c. Guar. 3 Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. LOO York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p. c . Pref. 5 Do ... . 10 York& N.......... H & S. Purch 19 i a 105 (- Par 150 - 3i - 5i - 3 / 138`- 13.4 10 - 111 - 8 72i - 731 55 - 57 76 - 78 32 -- 34 62 -- 64 81 -82 i 45 -- 47 122 - 124 1 91 07 i -- 108 bt -- 92 -- 97 134 14ip 78 78j 4 —41 d 34 —'3 d 16 —l6 Z ci 98 11 18 p 104 11,5 119 1201 2 3p 1 lip 90 —91 h 5 - 4id 4 11 12 19 21 291 - 3 - 76 - 44 30 3d 764 46. 50 31 • 3i 3 3d 3 3$ 9 10 53 • •55 7 —.Bl 24 35A —36 i 4t 8 - 8i 32 - 42 p 472 - 484 100 - 102 64 - 66 64 - 66/ 70 - 75 18 20 9 10 14 15 3i —3. d 21 22 783 79 36 37 123 13 4 4 19 21 1 24 14 , 1 .154 9 9. 29 3 9/ 10 d ip a 70 7 7a 2 —24 d 59 60 PREFERENCE SHARES. - --- 1071 - 20 61 -- 6 gl := ig -- 14i - 18i -- 19 2 p liP 3 - 127 - 129 -= 112 - 9 407 id - i P - 152 4064 -- xd ad xd Ilosi 3t P 1 147 109 8 36 5 131 i 1 „„, r — 15 Pm d 100 x 20 1 10 20 50 50 100 25 10 -- 11 134 -- 14 10 -- t 9 111 P, ... -- • ••• '''' r 1146 -: -148xd P 23 225 i - 1 - 2 - 108 - 25 - i 11 -- 171 -- __ Ili 16 par 26 20 id 1100 - 102 5 -• 5, P - SIGN. d-- par 1 lad 13 21 p 2 -- s lidi 6 p 1 lip 1 —24 p 1§ 2 p P 7 - 4 - 4 1 - 1 - 14 d- - 11 2 - - 81 6 - 7 - -371 14 - 8 - 9 17 - 44 - 434 18 p 421 -42 i 3 3 / 1 - 34 4 - sip P - 4 20A - 21 - 5 4 r - fi Oi idis p 10 11 3 P 4 . 'l-d. FORK 3 Antwerp&Rotterdara 3 BelgianEastn. Junct. all Charleroi &Erquelin. 6 Dijon and Besangon.. 8 Dutch Rhenish .... ... all East Indian 1 Do. Extension .... all Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 Gd. Junct. of France 15 Gt. Western of Canada Shares _ , . 5 1 Lucca & Pistoja sp.c. 0 15 Luxembourg..,.., XI 10 Do. (Railway) 5 2 Do. • 3 Do. (Canal) i; Do. 6p. ct. 7 Lyons (St Mediterran. 4:1 Madras all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do. 201. 3 p. é. Bds . (fmy. B. &Ams. Sh s. ) all NorwegianTrunkPref 10 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Ronen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 ParisCaen & Chcrbrg. 5,i Quebec &Richmond all Monet and Havre all, Sambre and Meuse • 4 Do. 5i p. ct. pref... 4 Southern of France 2s. Upper India Scrip all West Flanders.. 6' DO. 51 , per c. 10 Western of France 2 West. of Switzerland 3 0 4 5 St. x d ad 25 xdlloo 50 25 12, 12 1 x d 20 xd I 50 xd 5050 xd i 25 12 xd b xd 0 921tifxdi 25 Pm 78/ 120120iixd 91 90 xd 11i 29 764 43 65 4i 22a 1a I 4 par par Par 29 - pa 46 -- 2f - 60 70 8 1P d 17, —18 i 3 3 p 18 1i p idis— par P d d— par 7i 8 - P lip 1 lip Par P 22 24 p 7 7} 6 7 par, p 11 13 6i 7 - P t— $ P par— p P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. all Australasia all British N. American 2 Clutd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian 7i Lond. Chart. Bk. of . . Australia . 20 London and County.. 10 London Joint Stock.. 20 Lond. & Westminster 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 22i National of Ireland.. all Oriental Bank of 5 DCoorreiwution.. 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co all South Australia all Union of Australia 2. Do: New 10 - I Union of London.. all Union of Madiid.. 92- 93 2i Zap ~ - ... 2/ - p - RP i— a p 55 - 56 par 52 53 77 - 78 8 : i - 9 MISCELLANEOUS i 35 Australian Agricult. 4 AUstralsn.Pcific.Mail 5 Austrain. Royal Maill 38i Brit. American Land 324 Canada 5 Crystal Palace - _ _ 110 115 [ex Poel &xd ad 100 5 4 20 2 Cry stal Pal. of France 1 Eastern Steam 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 50 General Screw Steam 21 Irish Beetroot, Sugar all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 2 Netherlands Laud.... 214 Nrth. ofEuropeSteam all - Peninsular & Oriental 25 Do. ' Do. 60 Royal Mail Steam 25 South Austral. Land 1 Submar. Telegraph.. 2 Univeral Emigration and Oolonization.... 28i Van Diemen's Land - 19~ .-- 20~1 110 14 x [and ad 5j 6j sib LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA E) LONDON, March 14.—Wind at Noon,• W., dull, with rain. DEAL,..March S.E. by E. Arrived--Ro chester, Lawrence, South Seas *; Briton, Singapore ; Susan E. Howell, Baltimore ; Eliza, Demerara ; Solem ' Charles ton ; Triton, Galatz ; Stockholm, B a t av i a ; Margaret Connall, and Jane Greene, Madras ; Isabella Herens, and Duke of Lancaster, Mauritius ; Nicholas, Maracaibo ; Mary and Ellen, Feulthorpe. Sailed--Tory, Port Philip ; Maid of Alicante, and Earl of Chester Melbourne ; Grati titude, Madras ; Titania, Calcutta; Express, Pernam buco ; Erie, New York.. t FALMOUTH, March 13.—Wind, S.S.E., moderate. Ar rived—Othello, Savannah ; Advena, Jaffa ; Harbinger, Odessa; Catharina, Ibrail: Sailed—Pauline, Valparaiso. PLYMOUTH, March 13.—Wind S.E. Arrived—Madonna, Bahia ; Carmen, Santander. Sailed—Sir Thomas Man sell, Corunna. • • LIVERPOOL, March 12 and 13.-'—Wind, S.S.E.' Arrived— , Lancefield, Adams, Rio Janeiro Mary Spencer, Fisher, Calcutta; Adriana., Smith, Rio Bent° ; Englana's Queen, Macmtlan ; Countess of Seft o n, C a ll ao ; C onnec ti cu t, N e W Orleans; United Kingdom, and Colonist, Savannah ; Ash burton, NeW York ; Serpent, St. Michael's ; Continent, and John and. Lucy, New Orleans; Astine, Alexandria. Sailed—Gertrude, Boston; Mountaineer, Smyrna ; Iron Prince (s), and Marco Polo, Melbourne ; Luna, Manilla ; Courier, Bombay; Mary. inch,. Lima; lanthe, Monte Video ; Piedad, Bahia ; Phoenix, Antigua ; Colon, Porto Rico; Pastorita, Havannab.; Annapolis, Philadelphia; Progress, Asia (s), Universe, and Lady Russell, .New York ; Cteamore, Newfoundland British Queen (s), Con stantinople ; .Earl of Charlemont, Port Philip • Sabrina, Perth, W.A. ; Woodland Castle, Barbadoes ; dhaos, Sa vannah; Harvard, Virginia. The wreck of a timber laden ship, of from 700 to 800 tons, was passed on the 10th of Feb., in lat. 28 N., 10ng..34 W., by the Adriana, arrived here. . . . _ QUEENSTOWN, March 1.1 and 12.—Arrived--Albion, and Abel; Mauritius; Delhi, Callao; Aristides, and Syron, Galatz. SKIBBEREEN, March 11.—The Thoinas Henry, from New Orleans to LiVerpool, on' shore on the' Sand Banks, is a total wreck ;.preparations are being made for landing the cargo. CROMER, March 13. 7 —The Cromwell, Of and from Shields, for London, struck upon a sunken wreck (supposed on Sheiingham Shoal) yesterday, and . sank in deep water ; crew saved. MESSINA, March 2.—The Cumberland, from Alexandria to Queenstown, was abandoned at sea on the 26th of Feb., about 100 miles to S.W. of Sardinia, and is supposed to have founder ed soon after ; crew saved by the Christiana, Cornell Brokinshaw, arrived hero from London, bound to Constantinople. on Thursday, an action ' an extensive butcher in that Hardy, some time since h t t e h r e , F agedrst SEDUCTION..-7h; thteienShweriaefrbsreCuoguhrtt bayt Mr, Thomas the seduction Royal Dragoons, for put in to show that, the defen -20 years. Letters were t town, against Herbert Morgan, a he had offered to engage o gcg harn ) where he might :(after the Royals had left Nett' g result of ' the intimacy was dant professed warm affeciiox s .n for s.f h e i r s h vi e e r tim at , B a r n e d mp t t ha eh t see his " darling" often. The , GOO/. damages and 40s. costs. 91 . bill of the government THE. LAW of PILOTAGE.—....e ocfahpla.tadinauni the birth of ,a child. The jury' returned a . verdict— lauses. . By 'the on pilotage contains twenty-6ve .° piloting ships outwards from the port of t o the pre amble it is declared to be expedient that the L rig n h d t eri of and ' the right of piloting ships inwards same port, should be vested in one body of ° pilots, and that such,body should be subject to uniform autho rity and control. The union of the Trinity-house and Cinque Porta is to be effected. The Board of Trade is . to examine and grant licenses to masters and mates, with, power to withdraw the same. Re turns are to be made by Pilots of their earnings ; and all returns are to be laid before Parliament. Alter ations are to be made in the management if necessary. The , Trinity-house regulations are to be approved by her Majesty in council, instead .of by the chief justice of.the Queen's, Bench or Common Pleas. The bill is to extend to all ports and districts in Great Britain or Ireland, Stc.,:in which any masters of vessels are com pelled by law to employ pilots. The day on which the law is to:take effect is to be inserted in the same, which is to be called " the Pilotage Law Amendment Act, `"'- " xi I 30 361 j x (Woo Pm 50 25 69i i d x d 25 9 100 59i 60 x(1 10 i pm r r ,►'k +• '~ Th r ; ► ) I T rr T , r ter") , or yr ; THE' SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING,H 14, 185 8, Paidi RAILWAYS. all Bedford and Bletchley all Birm. & Coed. guarantee all Do.withoutgr all Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. all Do.wthtguar 100 Bnckghamsh. all ClydesdaloJc. 'lOO ' E. Lincoln. gr 6 cent. . all . Glstr.&Dn.Fr all llrtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares all Do. Shares all Lon.&Greenw all Do. Preference all Lowestoft gr. all 4 per cent all Do. 6 per et all ALtneh.Bston and Matlock all Middlesbro' & Redcar all Midld.Bradfd all Northern and Easternsp.c. all Do. 6 per et.. all Ero. 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Reinarkable as, our expectations were ;from its _very commencement as to the merits of this extra ordinary wo r k on its completion, those :expecta timiS we m us t avow have been, in every respect; realised. My Novel" is something regard to its author th an a no th er signally,more in success fidachievement i n literature. It :must for many reasons, to our thinking, be regarded as MS master piece. Neve r thel ess, we would have it especially understood, th a t, i n declaring this, to be our , deli berate and . , conscientious conviction, we are not disposed to treat the predecessors of the neiv fiction before us with anything.bearing even the seinblance of. disparagement. We have no inclination what:. ever to depreciate- the excellence of Sir Bulwer; Lytton's earlier performances, in _ order that we may pronounce a more 'studied panegyric upon the latest fruit of his ever-fructile and ever-ripening imagination. Among his former productions we • can enumerate favourites so secure in our affection, se elevated in our estimation, so fully and Cordially commanding our admiration, that it would, reqiiire Some almost preternatural display of originality on the part of our great novelist to loosen their hold upon our not superficially exercised capacities of appreciation. Those wonderful creations of his— the offspring of his prolific and comprehensive in tellect —are, in fact, altogether too diversified in their nature to clash with each other in their claires upon our preference : they are too dissimilar in their character to necessitate at the hands of the `critic a choice that would assuredly be as idle' as it might in effect appear 'to be invidious. It is scarcely so much in reference to the varied aspect of Sir Bulwer Lytton's reputation in English lite , . rature :that we offer the tribute of this acknowi ledgment—although We might discover wider field for arguments o f a similar tendency in the fact of -that ample and golden reputa tion being derived from eminent labours in its mor e - •removed and almOst..every one of ,more exalted departments,. It is, rather that we are here writing. in allusion .to the aston ishing contrasts visible in the chequered group , of , his prose fictions alone, t o th e variegated dyes (so to speak) colonringginto splendour his gor geous robe as a romancist, the charms of an ever changing manner, and of an ever-shifting purpose, which are among the chief spells of his wizard fascination. Undoubtedly, the fact is marvellous enough, that, in Bulwer Lytton, we haVe a man who has adventured into.nearly every one of the higher regions of imaginative literature —that in all these regions, without exception, he has mastered the difficulties in the 'way of ambiti ous enterprise— that from all he has brought, soo ner or later, some. brilliant work at once the result of his daring and the reward of his assiduity. Throughout this ap parent changefulness, moreover, he has proved himself faithful-to - the object of his intellectual toil, and net less also to the source from which it may be said• tb have emanated. Art has ever been the jea lous mistress he has served, as Nature has been, in all his purer and loftier efforts, the source of his inspi ration. The, one has been, in a manner,. the God dess and the other the Priestess of his imagination. Under such auspices he has been enabled to build up for himself no common or, we believe, evanes cent reputation. Twenty-five years have scarcely. elapsed since the commencement (in earnest) of his literary endeavours, since the beginning of his pilgrimage after the True and the' Beautiful— and, already he has achieved for himself distinction as a Poet, as a Dramatist, as an Essayist, as an Historian, as a Reviewer, as a Novelist, as a Bio grapher, as a Publicist, as an Orator, as a Pamph leteer i taking part in the lowlier as well as in the . loftier rivalries ; soaring 'at one period into an epic atmosphere (the empyrean of Fancy) when chauni ing the.gloiltes of King Arthur, and at another di recting his plastiC mind to the consideration of the homelier interests of agriculture in those matter- , of-fact " Letters to John Bull," signed by him with such exquisite accuracy and sig nificance--" A Landlord and ,a Labourer." Yee, in very truth, a labourer ! For never, surely-, did'any one less appear to comprehend tie luxury of the dolce far niente—the faith of the lotos eaters, the wisdom of the lazzaroni. Never re laxing in his exertions, or only pausing from them for a while with a view to their yet more energetic renewal immediately afterwards, Sir Edward • Bulwer Lytton has, within this past quarter of a century, and, while only yet in the maturity of his manhood, inscribed his name unfailingly in three divisions, at least, of our national Walhalla. Neither the wit of . Sydney Smith, nor the subtle genius of Pascal, could secure a very extended popularity to the labours of even the most suc cessful pamphleteer. As an orator, Sir Bulwer Lytton has yet to develope those great resources which upon more than one notable occasion, in the House of Commons, he has revealed that he really possesses in his capacity as a rhetorician. A generous and discriminating critic he has frequently shown himself to bo through the pages of the New Monthly, as he has before now proved himself a vigorous and masterly Reviewer through his contributions to the Edinburgh. Yet in-neither capacity has ho gained, because in neither has he apparently aimed at pre-eminence among his 'contemporaries. Charming though his graceful memorial of Laman Blanchard, he cannot be said, even by,lia admirers, to haVe mastered the diffi culties encountered in the pathway of the biogra pher—and this simply, we take it, by reason of his never having attempted in that particular school any elaborated composition. His fragment of a history of Athens, ornate and eloquent though it is unquestionably, is still simply a fragment, so that he may be 'declared to have merely entered his claim to the dignity of an annalist, without follow ing up that claim' by - any adequate justification. His "Student" must always place him among the most delightful Of our essayists, even while it fails to elevate him above the writers of " Elia " and the " Spectator." Whatever may be thought of it by cavillers like the ingenious Secretary to to the Admiralty, the carefully-considered and closely-reasoned chapters of " England and the English " will continue to obtain for its author a high degree of consideration, in spite of the supreme and. overshadovving renown of such men as Delohne and Montesquieu. But, as a poet, as a novelist,, and as a dramatist, the reputation of Sir Bulwer Lytton may surely now be regarded as established. In each of those re markable characters he has long since vindicated his right to our admiration ; and he has done this, let us observe, by a diversity of rare and very ad mirable: 'achievements. HiS frequent and vari-, ens successes have been the consequence, seem ingly, of his implicit reliance on the' O e n re that confidence which was the talisman of good fortune to Napoleon the Great, and which consti tutes in reality the secret of victory as well to bookmen as to conquerors. It has so operated in. his instance, that the lurid p rom i se o f " Falkland" has been almost; forgotten ever since the sparkling, vivacity of " Pelham" first awakened the pub lic mind to the birth of . a 'new and creative' genius among our master-novelists. It has 'so ' deve loped its influence in hisregard, that the immature graces of the " Duchess de la Valliere" have been' lost sight of now that its worth has been wholly eclipsed, by the sterling value of plays like, the brilliant " Money," and the exquisite " Lady of Lyons," and the impassioned " Riche lieu." It -has, in fine, so revealed the fervour of its. inborn energy as a, source of incitement,- that the youthful effusions of his muse (the-very titles of which;we shrink from enumerati ng , because of theirnow•Aobvious and 'scarcely.accountable inferi ority) have been cast aside by himself as only Merit ing Oblivion, dwarfed as they are by contrast with' his' later and more majestic oompositions—poetry throbbing with the warm blood of 'his.`, childhood, and yet: naellowed with the sunny ripeness of the' judgment of his maturity. Conspic uous th oug h i t is most indisputably in each of the different depart inellts of alreadyour author particularised, the, ndo m it a bl e per severance appears to be, perhaps, the , most conspicuous in that true faeryland fro t 4 the purplemista of which he has summoned the IQveli ness of ./Egle, and the mirth"of Gaviaine, and the, gentleness of Caradoc, and the wisdom of Merlin, and the pomp of Carduel, and the pride and the glory of Pendragon. There • were auguries, nb doubt, of nobler ackievements for the future in those pensive verses on " Constance," ending, as they did, with a gush of natural emotion, and more clearly still in those touching and' sO lemn lines on " Milton," in which 'the Dreamer rose at times into the rapture of the Cele brant, but their promise we cannot but Con ceive to have been altogether surpassed by that satire and that epic which have, within the laSt few years, been their successors. Questioned for a long while, Bulwer Lytton's 'capabilities as a poet have come at last to be recognised ; insoinuch that he has been enabled, twice, to test the value of their power under the disguise or shadow of the anonymous.' Therefore, 'now, at least," he may exult at the tardy fulfilment, in this respect, Of what we doubt not had long continued among his most cherished aspirations_rejoicing, as Horace rejoiced; in his tender and alinost plaintive ode to Melpomene. Romw principis urbium, Dignitatur sobolet inter amab,iles • Vatum ponere me choros ; Et jam dente minus mordeor invido. Unlike 'that loitering voluptuary, however, the bard of "Kind Arthur" has indicat e d b y hi s p u blic lif and this not merely in reference t o th e c ity of Li nco l n , or the , shire. of Hertford—th a t he .; does not regard the indulgence of poetic reverie as a lt og ether incompatible with participation in . . the ruder struggles 'of the commonwealth.* Hence ? we have found him, at interval 4, taking part an the - discussions of Parliament ' • and while in this manner co n tributing his modicum .to the records o f H ansard, assiduously st A v i ng; as we have seem, after that distinction which 'he has' commanded in snail 'extraordinary abundance frein so many and such opposite departments of Imagina tive literature. Marvellous we have alreadY said, ' has been the intellectual plastiCity with *hich he has 7 eqUally shOirn himself a proficient now in one, and now in another of these depa.rtnients : ibut still more marvellous, to our thinking, has heen. the variety of manner, or, more , strictly speaking, of style displayed by him in his one and patamount , character as a novelist. • Altogether, Bulwer .Lytton has writte] about twenty novels, and between no two of themj we may safely assert, is there traceable any kind of resem blance whatsoever:- Several of them, indeed, are of a totally distinct species from each ot4r—con ceived in a different school-4/-4ton after 4 fashion wholly dissimilar. Compare, forexainple, Pelham,' that: Iliad of the - Artificial, in Niouich the hero was, 'according to the happy phrase of his historian, "'6. personal combination of antitheses," at once a disciple of Wisdom and a votary. of pleasure, a moralist and a voluptuary, a fop and a philosopher— compare it with Zanoni, that' Odyssey of V e Mys- • tical; 'in which, 'under ce r tai n typi ca l f o s were unravelled 'some of the tangled mazes in the great , problem of human e xi s t ence —t hero. being, se to speak, the incarnation o f ea li sn/ I (to' adopt the ingenious explanation p . forth 'u by . some ..nknown writer in the appendix to the cheap edition just published) enforcing, through the medium of his fictitious career, the sublime truth; that '" the universal lot is, after all,lthat of the highest privilege." What two stories could possibly present a more startling con t ras t It o eac h other ?—here the Adventures 'of a Gentleman— there a Romance of the Rosicrucians ! ' Ccimpare, again, the delicate and beautiful figment of The Pilgrims of the Rhine, called by its writer sd grace fully and modestly " an episode out of the ;graver epic of human destinies" -compare it with *lofty and:majestic narrative of Rienzi, in which fie last of the -Roman Tribunes, " the hope of Italy," and the "friend of Petrarch," was so touchingly and fervidly celebrated. Here, not less, was an asto nishing contrast—the memorial of a heroic patriot sinking under the weight of popular ingratitude, and the: memento of a young girl slowly dying of consumption ! Then, there was Paul Clifford, a story designed to illustrate " a vicious pri son-discipline and a sanguinary criminal code," and by so doing, to direct attention •in a particular manner to - ,those enormous flaws in our penal institutions—and there was Godolphin, in which the vices of the " intellectual trifler," were embodied—and there was the lovely classic tale- of The Last Days of Pompeii, which was com posed when " a stranger froin that remote and barbarian isle which the imperial Roman shivered when he named, paused amid the delights of the soft Campania," and created a soul under the rib s of the ,dead Heathendom. What attractive diver sity of .theme—and Protean changefulness in the very , style of the different compositions ! 'Con tinuing the catalogue of these remarkable works, there were the meditative history of Ernest. Mal travers, and the turbulent and agitated current of events marking the career of Alice and that story of The Disowned, in which was adroitly typified in the person of Algernon Mordaunt, the " Heroism of Christian Philosophy :" and there were the melancholy memorials of Eugene Aram, convey ingi as their writer intended under the veil of an alluring Romance, the grim and awful significance of a Tragedy—and that noble historical narrative recounting the rise and fall of Warwick, The Last .of the Barons, from among the real personages in which . the author could evoke imaginary men, and things like poor Adam Warner and his Eureka—and Devereux, wherein the people and manners of 'the last century were depicted through the aid of a fictitious autobio graphy,—and Harold, a poem in prose, relating the downfall of the last of the Saxon sovereigns- , --and Leila; depicting the fate of Grenada and of Boabdil, the last of the Abenceriages—and Night and Morning, a tale purely English and domestic; one of the best among the best, a favourite among our favonrites—and Lucretia, the wierd annals of crime and infaniy—and the Cantons, abounding thrdugh, out with a most tender pathos and a most sweet . philosophy. After all these amazingly variedpro ductions comes the latest of Btilwer Lytton's lite rarY achievements—and anachievement it assuredly is in the strictest sense of the word—this fiction, which he has himself distinguished above its prede cessors by designating it MY NovnL, par excellence. If we were required to attempt a careful analysis of the plot, or a minute exposition of the incidents described in the course of its development, we must fairly acknowledge at once that we should . feel ourselves to be in a position of no inconsiderable em barrassment. Honestly, we would about as. lief un dertake to define minutely the contents of the 'En- Cyclopcedia Britannica. We would as soon be con, ducted into the great hall (when completed) of that wonder of wonders, now b e i ng erec t e d a t Saltaire, and after viewing all that complicated whirl of Wheels, and pulleys, and pistons, and mules, and throstles, and devils, and scutchers, making up the din and madness of its machinery, be asked—cqolly —to describe that. Fancy, for an instant, ; the , task of 'thridding the labyrinth of all its intricate and interwoven involutions ! And then discover. ' the cui bone ! Besides, supposing the' explanation to be actually accomplished, we have a; rather . shrewd suspicion that it would be something tanta mount in lucidity to Johnson's definition of net work L-." reticulations or decussations with inter stices between the intersections"—the elucidation being, in fact, more difficult of comprehension than the thing elucidated. No : the work itself .is here tempting all men to read it for themselves and not to search after a scanty inkling of 'the drift of the story,, by obtaining iit second-hand from the dry epitome of a reviewer. Adventuring upon any such epitome appears !to ourselves at least, in reference to a really 'remarkable work like' " My Novel;" about as rational a proceeding as it' might be on ,ex &Mining some masterpiece from; the looms of the Gobelins,, (or, as the Cockney called it, the Tapeatry of 'the'Goblins,) instead of pausing before it! to admire the delicacy, and adroitness, and elabera tien apparent in every portion of it as a miracle of art, to go prying curiously at the back of it, ,in .quisitive after every thread and tag knotted there in, the process of fabrication . eager to see where the damson-colour commenced and the apple-green ended, or where the peach-blossom ended and the ruby-red commenced. ,Taxidermy is a .very pretty science no, doubt, and some'lions may not lose their. tali* gloss during 'the course of; .the preparation. :Entoniology again is, without question; a study eranieritly ':wertily of every reasonable encourage ment 'though in the handling of them some of the ,bloain is apt at times to be rubbed off the wings of your rarer prizes, your, dragon-moths and your tiger-butterflies. Let no disparagement be under stood as implied by. the comparison. Rather. otherwise. , There is a bloom on a thought or on a sentiment. no less than on the wings of a butterfly.. We. confess to having no sympathy whatever with those who- woul d for ever be reducing the beautiful to the matter-of-fact—any more than we should , derivenpleasure from seeing every clown that passed through, our, garden fingering the petals of our choiceat aneraonies and picotees. Briefly, we can not understand the advantage, much less the sat .s -faction of reducing the ,plot of some masterly Work of imagination to a dry syllabus or abridg- Ment. Scarcely less idle we conceive it to be, seeking as some solvers of such riddles perpetually are,. for the hidden meaning of every fanciful cOmposition. Sir Bulwer' Lytton has himself expressed this , 'elsewere (" Pilgrims of the 'Rhine," ch. xviii.), where he complains that some critics in !their over-subtlety have' turned Hamlet into an - allegory, 'not even allowing Shakspere to paint mankind, but insisting On his embodying qualities. " i They turn, poetry, into metaphysics;' - says : tiO; ! s ‘ and . 6-04 seems to them shallow, unless an allegory; • which is false, ,can be seen at the bottom: ' The remark, in the' original, is applied to' the G-erman, but it is unhappily no less appli- cable to a certain portion of -our own literature., Against the danger of this oyer-subtlety, as against that' of the reduction of his plot to a bald epitome, our author is fortunately, guarded in his present work by the circumstance of its magnitude—and. 'not merely by the circumstance of its magnitude, but by that also of its infinite elaboration. ' ' The diversity of the characters introduced to the readers of "My Novel;" is only equalled as a dis— nngcideeinemts a e s f so t c h i e ati i in one' common interest through all the mazes of ipi dis play king i o i of t i i i n o v s e e n c t i i l o a n r a o b t y o rs t h t e o v g a e r t i h e e t r y , the cheqUeted narrative, and weaving the Unbroken thread of the story through a countless number or tions. Everywhere throughout the fiction there is Complicated, and yet distinctly traceable, , involu diScernible; on a careful scrutiny, the application of the subtlest art to the grateful toil of its de velOpthent. Only, however, upon • a careful scrutiny, for otherwise the . art • remains in visible under the garb of a facile and all-: embracing ease, an ease. imparting to the language II The opinion expressed by Horace runs thus—it occurs at the very opening of this delicious ode : " Quem to Melpomene, semel „ Nascentem placido lumine videris, Ilium non labor Isthmius, , Clarabit pugilem, &c. Sed quce Tibur ?Rue fertile prfcfluunt, • Et spissce nentorum come, Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilem. --Carmaib. iv. ii. the charm of, a spontaneous eloquence, and infus ing. into the whole work the spell of a most sweet and natural fascination. 'Never before, indeed, has Sir Bulwer Lytton manifested More delightfully the highest skill of all—the cirq celaVe artem—that skill which is; in truth, the offipring of his more elevated aspirations, as it is the reward of his pro longed and indoinitable perseverance. Riccabocca we would at Once Select from . aniong" the crowd of imagmary,Lbeings depicted My Novel " as our especial favourite. .Nuinerous other favourites we hAve, of course, amidst all that motley concourse of his 444Mpanions. We have an affec-' Lion for the bluff old Squire of the parish of Hazel dean—an affection.none' the less Sincere because of our malicious pleasure in the remembrance that hisAiether man was only clad in nankeen when he tumbled among the thistles, and none the less ear pest because of our contempt for the stocks and our admiration for the sermon on the text from Gala tians. We have an affection, too, for the pure,min and gentle-hearted Parson of that same parish of Hazledeau—in spite of-' his irritability over the fluctuations of a rubber, and this, even though WE cannot refrain from chuckling : nt the recollection of his discomposure on that horrible, high-trottins horse, when hailed from the postchaise window by Richard Avenel's inquiry of—" How's the leather ?' We have a kindness even for that same Dick Ave nel-4he true type of your go-ahead manufacturer; fr-mh-frcim the inspiriting influences of the political atinoSPhere of Yankeeland—liking liim not a jot the less because we „happen to be amused when he is so - " catawanipously thawed up" (to employ one of his own. characteristic expressions) on venturing to aspire to the attainment of a baronetcy through the interest of Audley Egerton. For Audley Egerton himself, we cherish, through all those clouds of suspicion, sentiments only of the tender est sympathy and' the fullest admiration. For it is impossible not to recognise in his instance, under the conventional frigidity of publklife, the warmth of the human affections. Harley L'Estrange—let us acknowledge it, at once—we should have loved' incomparably the most of all, but that we conceive that most exquisite creation to have been strangely marred towards the close of the narrative. Na tural though the change depicted by, our author in the whole character by Lord L'_Estrange--wakened to revenge as he is only by the 'discovery of what he imagines at the first to be an act of unexampled turpitude—it must, nevertheless, be admitted, to our thinking, that, if in this Sir Bulwer Lytton: has evidenced his superior allegiance to the, True, he has in the very act of so doing—sacrificed the Beautiful. Until this sudden and startling trans formation in Harley's nature we should have laughed to scorn the judgment of any reader who could for a single instant have hesitated in accord ing to him a decided preference among all 'the characters: Since that change, however, our par tiality in his regard has been, as it were against our own inalination, utterly dissipated. Every thing he does, even when restored to his former suavity, fails to revive in its early freshness our genial estimate of his temperament. There is a flaw in what was previously the " one entire and perfect chrysolite" of his really love able idiocyncrasy. And so—H ar l e y L'E s t range brought down from his pedestalwe turn with un divided, admiration to the disguised Duke of Ser rano, the good Alphonso, the gentle ; the wise, the guileless even where he fancies himself most full of guile, the homely and yet stately, the chivalrous and yet fantastic, the magnanimous and kindly lord of the little Casino, feeding upon sticklebacks, and ever thumbing the pages of that dreadful Machia velli—Dr. Riccabocca. Even Melancthon must have loved him in spite of his being one of those incorrigible " Papishes" e ven M e l anc th on , we say, because was it not his mild voice that was raised in applause when Servetus was slowly roasted to death by Calvin ? Yes, forbidden . by the records of the fourth volume to' sustain our preference for Lord L'Estrange, we select Dr. Riccobocca - from among all the more attractive characters in "My Novel," as our favourite of favourites. And this, notwithstanding that we have amongst those favourites not already mentioned several whom we cannot regard otherwise than with very peculiar tenderness. There is John Burley the wasted genius —a companion picture to David Fallen, companion we mean as affording a touching contrast to that exquisite delineation—poor John Burley illustrating his baulked ambition by that . one-eyed perch which he declared to be the Delilah of his existence ; squandering the resources of his rare intellect upon that- detestable Beehive which was only another name for Oblivion ; and in the downward anguish of his despair seeking to degrade to the gaudy squalor of a gin-palace the dieties of whom Schiller had sung so divinely in his glorious Dithyramb ! There is Leonard Fairfield, the young poet, or rather the lovely ideal of a young poet—all the freshness of youth and all the passion of poetry, constituting the charm of his individuality —winning his way to our heart first by his refusal of the sixpence, and first imbib ing the bitter wisdom of experience from the terrible life and death of Chatterton. We are not without a partiality, moreover, for Dr. Morgan, the good natured homoeopathist ; for Frank Hazeldoan, the young Guardsman, who is as generous a ne'er-do weel as lie is undoubtedly a thoughtless scapegrace ; for the faithful Jackymo,' ever looking after the small fry in the fish-pond, when he is not tending his garden, or invoking the aid of his sainted name sake. Besides those already mentioned, what crowds there are of other and very, different cha racters ! A glimpse of the broken-hearted soldier, Digby. An outline sketch (but such an outline sketch!), as sUggestive and all-sufficient as oue of those from the pencil of Moritz-Retzsch--of the dyspeptic poor relation, Higginbotham with " expectations!" A callotype of old John Avenel, the imbecile wreck of a small, retired, provincial tradesman. A kind of si houette, in profile of the haughty Colonel Pompley, an officer having a supreme horror of Vulgarians. Beyond all these, in addition to a multitude of other personages, ranging through all the ranks of society in England, as the second title of the story naturally leads the reader to anticipate, besides a concourse extending upwards in the social scale from Stirn, the hard-lieaded Steward of Squire Hazeldean, to the Earl of Lansmere, the father of Harley, Lord L'Estrange—there are minor figures grouped elsewhere on this broad canvas duly su bordinated, of course, to those which are placed in the foreground more conspicuously.. Prominent, howbeit, among the less prominent, are Mark Fairfield, the poet carpenter—Mr. Norreys, the London Man of Letters—Mr. Prickett, the book seller—Spendquick, the man about town—Borrow well, unquestionably his half-brother-7-Mr. Sprott, the tinker, the gentleman who enters into that very admirable arrangement with his beast of bur den (vol. i. p. 26)—" The Tinker went behind and sung, the Donkey went before and was thwacked." Maunder Slugge Leslie, Esquire, of Rood-hall, the decayed landed proprietor—Oliver, his youngest son, not too proud to play at cricket with the children of the villagers--hosest Farmer Bruce of Hawleigh—even the nameless Austrian Prince, and the equally nameless Bonifice of the Lansmere Arnis, the latter being the dogmatical iisputator who poses Parson Dale 'when piqued upon the inaccuracy of his knowledge its a philolo gist, by sententiously observing, in regard to tlic difference between bumptious and gumptious (vol. i. p. 320), " Bumptious is bumptious, and gump tious is guinptious. • Now, the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is gumptious." All these are delineated with a bold_ and apparently careless facility ; but yet, at the same . time, it may be remarked, in every instance with singular niceness of discrimination. Perhapi still more ad.mirably, contrasted with each other are the three principal, villains of the narrative—the brilliant; hardy, and relentless . Giulio Franzini, Count di Peschiera--- - -the sleek; Jew money-lender, Baron Levy, who first appears upon the scene (Vol. ii., p., 137) as " a handsome'inan with a came)ia in bis button-hole.;"—and wiliest of all the schemers in "My . Novel," Randal Leslie, the protege of Audley Egerton, as crafty as lago and meaner than lachimo, one who evidently coincided ' with the Duke do Lauzun (" Duchess de la Valliere," Act i., :sc. iv.)-in.believing that "The best hero is- the cleverest rogue." 1 Randal may be regarded, we conjecture, as placed in 'the , balance against Leonard, 'just ,as Levy the usurer has the direct 'counterpoise of interest to Egerton the statesman, or as Peschiera may be viewed in the light of a foil or antithesis to Ricca bocca the true hero of the book being Harley- a passage Lord L'Estrange. Randars position as the bad tl geniug of the story is happily indicated in describing him gliding after nightfall through the darkened streets of the metropolis, When (Vol. iii., and on. p. 282) " solitary amidst the vast city, went the still through the machinery of civilisationTi .iroughout the Spirit of of Intellectual Evil." always with . 1 , , • gress of the tale, it is that we find ourselves carried a.mination of the intrigues of Il , s,use of relief e sl a ie w tO Y a fr eO l n u te P i u n n p e lt: tion of the subtle but harmless unsuspicious and benignantt Rie'escas th oc il c o a s . oph w y e o sa f u ti n le . ter on among all thoser e villanous c,asuistries and cold-blooded proverbsali tion, with ' making up the staple conversation, with _ ever-hesitating?f. the ;gentle glitle nature of belief t in ,s 4. Machiavelli. that 3ilost uncontaminated eurde of all the disciples find ourselves shelter were in the p t a h n e y fi l ow i e s r- a b s e i ds of some greenb and among his a u l:a ocigm.t. Wh_fenweev and sunny " Pleasaunce." association, to impart a of even the most grotesque portions o i es ircit Costume being : in biz f 3 i r i r is ° colstume— of habitual sorts nature dsemisty, to y Inisqtterade. In this nia fac ir t' l i s e P v e:n brella becomes glorified— 1 Chinese Emperor. Hi s book his red: um- the symbol of a ...carried under his 19 5k 5i arm into the meadows—must have been just such a quaint Old volume as Charles Lamb loved to kiss with such enthusiasm. HiS meerschaum, again, must have "been of a quality and an amplitude sufficient to provoke the envy of Ernest Maltravers. As to hiS philosophy, which we have 6.lr.dy mentioned as so distinguished by benevo lence; that, we rest assured, could never have borne the slightest possible resemblance to the philosophy attributed by Devereux (Beolk iv., ch. ii.) to Boling broke, where he says it reminded him of " the en chanted tent in the Arabian Tale, which one moment lay wrapped in a nut-shell, and the next covered an army. ' Riccabocca's philosophy never could have been -compressed, by hydraulic agency or otherwise, within, the compass even of a cocoa-nut grown in the land of Brobdignag. It not only enswathed himself perpetually, but must lfave been flutteiing abroad for ever over the whole wide world of his kinsfolk, and more cherished com panions. Yet, With all this, was Dr. Riccabocca an oddity. Insomuch 80, that when he adjusted his spe c t ac l es and shrv e y e d the ass (Vol. i. p. 27), we don't wonder at all " that the ass pri.led up its other ear and suz•veyed Dr. Riccabocca." Leonard hacl. ‘already, on first observing the doctor perched up on the stile, displaying in full, relief that meagre figure, and those features having about them something "awful and Satanic," Leonard. Fairfield (we have it on the thotity of his historian) fie v€ already, brave young rustic as he was, " looked e2:o(.ed.ingly frightened." marvel, therefore, that Under the gaze of RiOaliocca the ass'Tricked up its other ear with *such wondering inquisitiveness ! During the peru sal, of the whole of the - twelve books a this prose epic of the domestic life of England, we have failed to detect one syllable that does other than enhance the dignity and elevate the reputation of Alphonse Riccabocca. :Balanced as the heroes of " My Novel" are, so to speak, against each other—not less so are its heroines, or even the rest of the female characters. It would be difficult to do justice in a few words to the exquisite delicacy of their delineation. Vio lante, the heroine of the story as Harley is the hero, Violante, the brilliant and beautiful Vio la,nte, presenting to us in a typical manner (Vol. iv., p. 299) the glory of "the Woman who Exalts"— may be estimated (for want of a better phrase) as the cameo effigy of the loftier qualities of her sex in contrast to the intaglio as represented in the person of Helen, the gentle companion -picture to that of the boy -poet, Leonard. Helen, the tender and timorous, but still, in every crisis, the brave hearted Helen, revealing to us by a like significance (Vol. iv., p. 296) the yet nobler glory of "the Wo man who Consoles." Moreover, there are lights and shades of comparison scarcely less easy of discern ment between the Squire's Harry and the Parson's Carry—good wives both of them, and admirable ex amples oflowlier, yet, in their.way, equally loveable phases in the nature of your true English gentlewo man. Simple-hearted Jernima too has her undoubted charm, proving herself (could we give greater :Praise ?) not unworthy to be the spouse of Doctor Riccabocca. There are winning traits even in the poor widow Fairfield, and this we say, albeit she did wear " a kerchief that had cost tenpence," causing her, together with other tokens of her poverty, to be apostrophised by her brother Dick as a nasty, dirty, dusty, dowdy," during the course of his memorable outburst of indigna tion. Added to these, there are various other female characters in "My Novel," which it were superfluous here to enumerate. Two of these,' however, cannot be altogether overlooked in a criticism on the fiction the events recorded in which they influence somewhat remarkably, al though both of them appear before us only through the haze of very shadowy descriptions. Conspicu ous, indeed, among even the more noteable crea tions of our author, in this the latest and most elaborately matured product of his imagination, shines above them all—Nora, the buried heroine of the romance, and yet not so much its departed heroine, as the vital memory through which the affections of the principal actors in the story become • refined and, in a manner, consecrated. Frank's bride is the other invisible personage not yet men tioned, the often heard of but never seen—Miss Sticktorights. Quotation from a work so complicated and com prehensive would obviously be nothing else than an-abortive extravagance. It would simply be the old absurdity over again—Scholasticos and the brick; as immortalised in the Witticisms of Heirocles. Little, therefore, remains to be added to our foregoing observations. - It has yielded us 'peculiar satisfaction to offer even this in adequate tribute to the genius displayed in the production of this noble masterpiece. Admirable as have been so many other of the literary achieve ments of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, " My Novel" equals the happiest effort among them in its por traiture of character ' while it surpasses them all by its really wonderful display of the abounding resources of his invention, by its masculine and idiomatic eloquence, and " by that exquisite symnietry of design which might of itself jus tify us in according to it one of the highest places among the treasures of imaginative lite- For its pure and elevating • senti dents it is not unworthy of the haul which had before penned that golden couplet (" New Timon," Part iv., § 2)— " To reason less is to imagine mere ; Those most aspire who meekly most adore !" For its frequent evidences of sensibility it may be regarded as not unworthy of one who had written the " Pilgrims of the Rhine." As a transcript from Nature, it is not unworthy o f th e au th or o f " Eugene ram." While, .as a work o f A r t, it is worthy of the Letter e d Englishman who had already realised the hope •of Milton and the dream of Dryden, by celebrating the glory of Arthur in a national epic (" King Arthur," Book i., st. 88) " Theme to all song and marvel to all youth-- - • Beloved as Fable, yet believed as Truth." rattire. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. • EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE. The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in this company was held at Edinburgh on Thursday; Mr. John Balfour, of Balbirniei chairman of the company, pre- It rota the report it, appeared that the receipts for the past half-year had amount‘xl to 66,837/. Bs. Id., and the expenditure, including the working of the line, the de benture interests, &c., to 52,9771. 6a., leaving a balance of 13,8601. 2s. id. This sum, with the balance of 11,446/. 14s. , 2d. on the half-year ending July last, givei on the financial year an aggregate surplus of 25,3061. 15s. 3d., after payment of working expenses and the debenture interests at the reduced rate of three-and a-half per cent. ; but, deducting the working expenses only, the actual free revenue for the year ending 31st Jan. last amounts to 53,400/. 10s. 4d. From the surplus on the present account, interests to the amount of 7581. 2s. sd. have been paid on bonds over property, and no other obli- , :itions. Since the accounts Were closed the following fur ther payments have also,been made : —9741. ss. 5d7 as a half-year's interest to the Granton Ferry proprietors at the reduced rate agreed upon, with them, and 6,929/. 2s. 2d. as a half-year's interest on the debts due to the banks, at the, rate .of 3 per cent. per annum, in terms of the arrangement formerly reported ; the remaining sum of 4,,1981. 12s. ld. (less 4261. 18s. id. appropriated by parties having claims on capital account) has been depo sited-in bank, for the payment of a half-year's interest to the other creditors, which theayrgvfeaioilrlfstr;heecps.eneivaien sous aieirtoeuist interests; at r nh e ye - duced rate set forth in the sch eme f or the general ar theeotnhiepadnisyc'hs aff r4ig surplus em en r et of main after same will be appropri a t e d among the pa r ti es entitled thereto, after the bill now before parliament has b een passed. _ . - The were unan reporti mously and aadoptec com p d. an ying statem en t of accounts The next business was to consider the working agreement b e t ween the Edinburgh and proposed Company and th e L even Railway Company Perth . The company propo se d to undertake the construction la of tter a branch line from the town of Leven to the main line of the other company at Thornton miles—and t o furnish a. ---a di s t ance of about six motive for th e t ra ffi c . Up o n loco the. completion o f the branch th e Edi n b urgh and P er th pany u ndertake to work and maintain it for 25 Ye? o r : finding the -necessary of the locomotive. The terms were that the e Lev dividends, pany should undertake the ?apnea ° f . ti: Ed in burgh, Perth, interest on loans, &c., and to pay the fEurct each t ra i n , the and on Company h. a mile. fur a between the two surplus revenue to be equally divided r°llin g stock, with the e e x n eeb3 o ti m. companies. . • by the a f -4., ratifying After considerable d i scu s sion, ma,jori.,, thorising was ''carried by a Leven Company, and au agreement with the L . ev i e n the usual form. the directors to execute it, ~. the chair manmotion The meeting then separate Fox CLUB.—The second meeting of the Fox Club this f Z tland • Mr. F. Pundas, ~ .P.; Sir R. —the Earl o e , year was held on Saturday evening at Brooke's. Present. the lion. R. S. Carew ; Captain Towns the Right H. Lord. M. Hill, ME; Mr.! oil,. ABlasrtto.,;) ; enj, rt 2,..; my.; the Ron. C. C. Cavendish, M.P.; 114 r 8.... A. Sqnfurd ; Colonel the lion. R. Boyle, M.P.; 5i,...A. j. Chohneley,, Bart.; the Hon. I.H. Duncan - .31r. S. F. Stephenson; Lord Saye and Sele ; anci Colonel Sir 11. J. F. Davie, Bart., M.P. 31ANsiori AT BALMORAL.—We understand that con utendeLeof tracts have been entered into for the building of a new deTritiheewosurkpsena.re to h car ried Smith, architect.—Aberdeen mansion for her Majesty and Prince Albert, at Bal moral, and that the works will be proceeded with o soonur 9 as utf from townsman,eoi nw ea designsth permits.andlv. un just Town to hand by foul:ital. uos i rR Oct.l u. A last, . —T which e hi el ilio hasbar t Tow Guardian of the 16thA ship Panama, states that the number of emigres the landed at Melbourne the who Octo ber last was 3,000, and thateek finding the 12th of Oct the Forest Creek diggings the amount of gold which°- that month amounted had yielded up to the 12th of to 6)699;4831. oterlisg. f 27j -31 -3o 31 8 41 8 1 4.} 55 48,E a