The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-17 00:00:00

#50,41, tztogf22l.., 41.4 0 4 ft , • WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE GOLD CUP. Minna Routh Thirteen ran THE FRENCH EMPIRE. , s M. de L acour , the new French ambassador at ‘j ~onstantinople, leaves Paris on Monday next to ' 4l ce possession of his post. It appears, however, that he is t o t a k e R ome on hi s wa y, an d the belief 1 that Louis Napoleon wishes to profit by M. de La. , co . ur's popularity and influence, to induce his Holiness to hasten his visit to France. The ex elise, however, made for M. de Lacour's visit to the Holy City is, that Madame de Lacour wishes to be p r esent at the grand ceremonies which are to take Place during Holy Week. In addition to his ordi nary staff of attaches, M. de Lacour is to have two ° Meers of the French artillery in his train, who Will have the rank of attaches. A decree in the Moniteur declares that the oat/ Dec. Prescribed by A r t. 16 of the Senatus Consultum of V. L 25, 1852, must be taken by the engineers of "tie ponts-et-chaussees and mines, and by the per sons employed in the department of public works. A Ministerial decision is to state when and where the said oath is to be taken. We read in the Constitutionnel " The re-establishment of order and security has not been less favourable to literary than to other works, and a proof of this is given in the documents recently issued 1311 the publication and sale of books during the last t hree years. The number of publications, including "ks, pamphlets, and journals, printed and reprinted, has risen from 7,208 in 1850, and 7,350 in 1851, to 8,261 in 1852, making an increase on the former year of 1,063, and of 911 on the latter. Out of these 8,261 works, which appeared in 1852, only 1,626 are reimpressions or new editions; 6,635 are new. 4,321 of these works have been printed in Paris or in the banlieue, 3,925 in the departments, and 15 in Algeria, which begins to furnish its contingent. To this we may add that 4,519 e,ogravings and lithographic prints were published in 4 852, whilst in 1851 the number was only 2,961. The number of pieces of vocal music has risen from 885 to 1 ,367, and of instrumental from 809 to 1,076. The artistical movement has therefore followed the literary . °ne. The export of books in 1851 was 1,243,000 kilo ralnmes, of the value of 6,479,000 f., being an increase weight of 145,000 kilogrammes, and in value of "B,OOOE over th a t o f 1850. A proportionate increase t ook place in the export of engravings and lithographic Prints. The weight in 1851 was 149,000 kilo „..grammes, and the value 5,087,000 f., being 17,000 kilogrammes, and 443,000 E more than in 1850. The progress continued last year, the export of books, en- Mviogs, and lithographic prints together having in 'eased.i from 1,230,000 kilogrammes in 1850 , and L' 38 5,000 kilogrammes in 1851, to 1,512,000 kilo sraMmes in 1852. The increase in exports must not solely be attributed to the improvement in the political state of affairs, but must be considered as partly owing to the conventions which the Government has entered into with foreign Powers, for the protection of literary and artistical property. To the treaties concluded with kArdinia, Portugal, Hanover, and England, may be ;tided those w hi c h have been this year signed with three f ates of the Germanic Confederation—Brunswick, the G rand Duchy of Darmstadt, and the Landgrave of g eese Homburg. Negotiations have also been opened nth Austria, the Grand Duchy of Baden, Bavaria, Den mark, and Prussia, for admitting the rights of authors k nown, artists. A similar convention had been, as is well concluded with Belgium, but it has been post tiaed until the definite conclusion of a general treaty ween the two countries: Thus the Government :stifles its solicitude for the interests of literature and t he arts by the protection which it affords them." - _ The Stock Market was inanimate all yesterday, rd prices remain without much change. The r a t per Cents. are 15c. lower, closing 4 1 1 04 f. 10c. The Three per Cents. are unchanged, i 80 f. 75c. Bank of France Shares are s f. lower ; rse of the Mortgage Bank 2f. 50c. lower ; and p l ose of the Societe Mobiliere sf. lower. The new edmontese Three per Cent. Loan is 10 c. lowe r, at 7 0f. 60c. Railway Shares were firm. The Yoris at first went up rapidly to 970 f., but after ,Lards gave way, and closed at 955 f. It would F o ern that the rumour of these shares being about be liberated at 400 f. rests on probable grounds. change on London (short), 25f. 5c., money ; to (90 days), 24f. 90c. 50 25 .00 St. 20 20 50 20 ITALY. The Milan Gazette of the 11th publishes the fol 4ing notification by the military . commandant of . 4411.a/ 1 fßy - order of his Excellency the General of Artillery ount Gyulai), commandant of the sth corps d'armee, and military commandant of Lombardy, the notification Of Feb. 19 last, issued by the military commandant of this city, is revoked, and the following measure pre scribed : " 1. The illumination with lanterns is suspended from this day, but in case of any disturbance of the public Peace, every window on the first storey of the street or square where it occurs must be illuminated during the night, under the severest responsibility of the landlord, 4 'A according to circumstances, also of the lodgers. In !. 1 , 113 e the re port of cannon be hear d from the castle, all t he streets of the city must be illuminated in the same " 2. Whenever there is a disturbance of public tran every landlord must immediately have his door 14 . No one is to remain in the streets, as in case of .1, 3ebedi ence he runs the risk of being arrested under sus viejen of having taken part in the disturbance. " 3. From seven in the evening to seven in the morn 4, no on e , w h e th er on foot, on horseback, or in a car wige, is to remain on the bastions surrounding the cit y . noever is met with there shall be arrested and se verel y perished. - - " General-Major Baron MARTINI. " Milan, March 10, 1853." 4 : k The Giorna/e di Roma, of the 9th, states that on 4 , 4 e afternoon of the 7th the new cardinals present at Rome, viz., Recanati, Savelli, Caterini, and Zaaltueci, were presented to the Pope, who gave sera the cardinal's hat. In the evening the Sacred Co llege, the diplomatic corps, the prelates, officers, and nobility publicly congratulated the new ear -r°als, as also the French ambassador, Count de Yneval, who represented Cardinal Morlot, arch 18110p of Tours. The city was illuminated on the °ceasion. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 11th are totally des titute of interest. A letter of that date informs us that the committee of the Senate, on the demand ?f Marshal Narvaez to have his case examined by Vs Senat e , has decided against the proposition that shall have a trial by his peers, and also against ""e proposition that the Senate should pass to the crcler of the day on his claims. The committee has 11 °v7 to decide on the proposition that the Marshal shall be permitted to come to Madrid to take his seat as a Senator. The following are the prices of Stocks . :—Three per Cents., 43if • ditto Deferred, 24i- ; Redeem able Debt, first class, 10 11-16 ; ditto, second class, cl ; Coupon Certificates, si. Exchange on Lon e'n, 51. _ _ BELGIUM. is The Belgian Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting ' 2ll the 14th, voted unanimously, and without dis !ussion, a credit of five millions of francs applicable to the expenses of the War Department. The end Of the sitting was occupied by the second discussion 2f the credit to be appropriated to the depots of !;.re at a reduced price for the ben efit of agicul ,re. The amount proposed. by the Government ' 5 ,000f.) was adopted. In th e sittin g of the 15th t he bill for the dotation to the Prince Royal, who i s about to obtain his majority, was adopted with °lit discussion by a majority of 83 to 1. The bill rants an annual allowance of 2,000 f., the enjoy- XLent of the ducal p a lace at Brussels, and of t he palace o f T ervueren , with an allowance of 50,000 f. l °r keepi ng th em i n repair, and 100 , 000 f. for the e I Pense of installation and the heavy repairs of the The bill for taking off certain prohibitive :ties was afterwards brought forwar d and read a 6 coild time, and adopted by a majority of 78 to 2. GERMANIC. I ,_Advices from Vienna state that the health of the rec ommend is completely restored. His physicia ns him to make a tour of the Tyrol in the. purse of the spring. Austrian letters of the 12th mention a repo rt thatt he Austria had addressed to England a note on 'it subject of the refugees. 14 : 411 e Emperor of Austria intends spending some Oruths at the baths of Ischl, as soon as the weather t 7Proves. The Archduke William is to preside at "Yrivy Council during his Majesty's absence. lie The house of Mechanezola, at Vienna, has sus- Med. payment. The deficit is stated at 220,000 The Germanic Diet have decided on an increase Flily 50,000 troops, instead of 200,000, required )- Austria and Pnissia. TURKEY. 1114. 4 - letter from Belgrade states that on the 26th forty Turks were brought to that fortress ti escort escort A plot had been discovered for set ffi.re to and pillaging Montar and Serajevo. N,Ue Turks have evacuated Montenegro. Omer ' a had retired into Albania, Reis Pacha to csi tch, and Dervis Pacha to Kowienne. &Triest e j ourna l says :—" We learn. from Monte t:lglo that Reis Pacha has withdrawn with his —vc l' a Niwitch, aud Dervis Pacha to Kovienio. TEE SHARE MARKET& BRITISH RAILWAYS• Closing Prices this day. 29i -30 i 6} - 6i 29i 30 10,} 1 7i —6Adad 21 22 si 2. d 104 105 641 —6 4 i 21 22 18 194 ... ••• 1 --- liP 8 - 9 gl -- 4 12i -- 138 10i -11 i 7i r- 84 73 -- 74 55 - 57 74 - - 76 33 -- 35 62 -- 64 81 -- 82 45 -- 47 123 - 124 107 i -- 1084 91 -- 911 7,i 92 94 13 13Ap 76 —76 A 41 3A 3d 16 —I6A x d 8i -- ) 103 i -- 164 -- 119, -i - 3 lip 0 - 91 -6 40 4 _ 30 ni 19 — 2 l 29 30 3A 3 d 75 —7 5 i 44 46 50 __ 52 3i l — 3 34 gi 9 -- 10 -- 55 7i -8/ 24 -- 2B d 35. -- 36 ..• - 4t- 4d 8 -- 8i —4 p 48 - 49 100 - 102 64 - 66 64 - 66 70 75 ... dis 18 -- 20 9 -- 10 14 -- 15 i 31 -- 3 d' 21 -- 22 77t -- 78/ 36 -- 37 12i -- 13 4 -- 41 19 -- 21 1f 2,1 14i -- 151 9 -9; 29 -- 31 91 -- 9i 4d-- 4p 69 TO 7i 7 a 21 - - 2id 59 60 Baslness c 1( Ines this day . RAILWAYS. Paid Aberdeen ...... Ambg. Nottug. Bost & Eastn. June Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons Do., £20—.•••••••••• Bristol & Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Dublin&BelfastJur c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction 25 25 St. 50 100 100 100 100 100 all Ili 1100 114 all all all 100 42i, Do. New ......... East Anglian (C 25 L & E. & L. & D.) Do., (XlB E. & H.) Eastern Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. Sh Do., d 0...... ..... Do., B. & C .. East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Binning. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S.Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. )1 'G rea t Western.. fritiaSouth - Easterm. Lancaster: & C-rlisle Do., ... L a ncash. &Yorksin .: r e Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. &So pt London & Blackmail Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lo id. Bright. & S. Cat. London & N. Western Do. Fifths London & S. Western Do., £50... •••••• Do., £40.. •••••••• Lnndrry.diColeraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. ffauch.Shef.&Linoln. Do., Mau. &Lir. Ti:. Midland . Do. .& Derby Midland o.West.(lr.) Do. Sha7es ••••••• ••• Newcastle &Carlisle.. Newmarket..... ......• Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg.& ll tfd . l Newry & Enniskillen 'Newry Warrenpoint I & Rostrevor .......... Norfolk. ..... .......... • Do., New ..... • Northn. Counties Un North Bri:Ash ......... North Devon, Do., No. 2.........• Do., A Deerrod Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire.. North Western........ N. & S. Westrn . June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton..... Scottish Central ...... Scottish Midland...... Shrewsbury &Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock... Shrewsby. & Herefd. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)...... Do. Halves, d 0....... Do. Oswestry ...... Shropshire Union... South Dev0n......... South Eastern South Wales.... ..... S. Yorksh. River Dun D 0...... ......... Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny We terford&Limerick West Cornwall Wmbledon &Croydon Woodford York Newctl.&Berw Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent... Cork dtl3andon 53 p.c. Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction....... EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent. .........• • Do. (E 5) 7 per cent.. Do. (E 7 17s) 7 p. ct.. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2... ..... Do., New 6 p. e. St.. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... EastLancash. 6 p.cts. Edinb.Prth.drDund ee 5 per cent.........• • Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent.... Great Northn. 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c., Redeem., at lo p. c. preen Gt. Southn. & W estn. (Ireland) Eighths... ' Gt. Westn. (Berks & Rants Ex. 5 p. c.). • G. West. fixed 4a p c. Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock... London and. Brighton Guaranteed sp. c... Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, 5 p.' c., 1852 Do. New Guar 6 p.c. London & S.Western, Cou. Thirds Londonderry& Coler Shares ...... bandy. & Ennis. Sh Manch. ,Shef., & Lin., 1 Shares, No. 1 Do. New, £l.O Do., ..... Marypt. &Carl. 4 .. p. c. Do. 4z per cent Do.• .•• • ...... Mid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. C o nsol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per co Do. Pref. 4•1 per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Guar. 5i per ct Do. Way. Val. 5 p North British • North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6 p• c• Do Shrews& Birm. N. G Shre asby. & Chester' (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref. Do.. York& N. Midland H. & S. Pure"). IIGN. PREFERENCE SHARES. .06 - 1081 .06 - 108 19 20 d pa] 64 3g - 3 - lA] 1i -- 2 p 1# -- 1 1 1 p 14t -- 15 18i -- 19 8} - 127 - 128 .10 - 112 8 - 105 i.-107xd id—i 'go 152 ...... xd si 10 11, 13 13, 8 -- 9 -- 101 -- 11, A 147 —l49xd 22p --- 23 P 2 2i 109 111 25 26 .1 1 1 2 P 11 11 ! —18 A lip 16 17 par P 26,t 261 20 21 id par 101 - 103 5 - 5i - ipl —pr 1 134 14i 24 dis 6 6 p it lt —2p 2 p P FOR: Antwerp&Rotterdam BelgianEastn. Junct. Charleroi & E. quelin. Dijon ar d Be:Arc:on Dutch Rl-euish East Indian . Do. Extension .... Gt. Irdian Peninsula, Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Western of Canada Shares Lucca & Pistoja sp.c Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. ct. pref Lyons & Mediterran Madras Namur & Liege (w!.:11 interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern 'of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds• (fmy. B. &Ams. Shs ) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Quebec &Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. 5,3 p. et. pref , Southern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders.. Do. N per c. Pref.... Western of France West. of Switzerland ,Zealand ......... ..... 74 - 8 4 2 Par" p 9 —it p 2 2b p 74 -- 8 6 -- 7 36a -36 i 14 -- 15 8t -- 91 18i -- 18ip 42 -- 43 42 -- 43 33A 34 4 -- i -- 5iP 20h -- 21 91 -- 9i P 4-1 51 idis p 10ip Ad P —~a. 9 i pm 15 10 2 3 2 7 44 all 64i 21 2t 13 m d ad ad 33 4 81 I ad 121 3 a d d 91a 1 d pm 764 10,f IGi d 9 xd 1.19 i 19 18a 19 14i x d 2/ 90 1 a d 29ii 75iiatixcl 13f a i 49 81 9 102 64i 781 8 x d 70 x d. 12i x d 59i x d 8 71 3 8 7i 4 10HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVE":NING, MARCH 17, 185_3. RAILWAYS. Bedford and Bletchley Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee D o. winoutgr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do.wthtguar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares : Do. a Shares : Lon. &Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent ! Do. 6 per ct Manch.Baton and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar all all all all Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp. c Prest. dt Wyre Do. i Shares. Roystn.& Hit. Do.Shepth.St. l Shef. Roth. & Goole g. 5. p.c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts &Somrstl Closing Prices this day. Leasing Compans. London N. West Gt.Westn, Do L. &N.W, Caledon.., Gt. Notrhn Gt. Westn. Yk. New. & Berw , Y. &N. Md Do c. Eastern, Norfolk Do Ln.&N.W & Midid Stckton Darlingt. E. Count Do L. & N . W &Ln& Yk Do Gt. Northn Do Lancash. & Yorksh MrMClean Stockt. & Darling IDo IGLlVestn. 30 -31 29i -30 i 30 -31 29 -30 105 -107 52i -53 k 151 - 153 32i -33 i 111 - 113 55A -56 A 27 -28 A 131 - 144 25A - 26; 19 - 19 25 - 27 n - 3ixd Oi 64 - 66 scl xd :43 151 48 150 1— d 32 -33 i 103 - 104 MINES. 1 all Ag,na, Fria 10s. all Anglo Californian 10 2 Australasian l— 2 34 3 20 5 Australian 6 —64 p 64 1 all Australian Cordillera par 1 p ti t 1 all Australian Freehold, par pll 4 1 all Ave Maria 4 dis— p i 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 1 all British Austria. Gold 4 g p 20 13.5 British Iron 7 9 35 244 Bral.ilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm 5 54 54 i 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 4 44 44 1 4 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 4 Carsons's Creek par 4 p 40 all Cobre Copper 46 47 474 8 5 1 Colonial Gold 2B 24 434 .1 •• • 14 Copie po 54 -- 64 54 St. all Copper Min. of Eng 7O 75 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 74 —84 p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co l4 4 d 44 14 1 20 all General lB —2O 2 all Great Nugget Vein 24 —34 p 54 5 3 all Great Polgooth. l4 —1./ p 1 all Lake Bathurst. 1 all Liberty i i p 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co / I d 1 all Mariquita 4d— par 10 9 Mexican&S.Amerien 8 9 88 i 1 all Now Granada — 4 P 1 all Nouveau Monde 1 1/p 2/ / 4 .5 1 Port Philip g— 1p24 2 14 1 all Quartz Rock 4dis— 4 p 1 50 all Rhymney Iron 22 —24 p 15 Do. New 7 8 30 104 Santiago do Cuba 7 8 1 all South Australian...., 4 4 p 10 7 Tin Croft ll 13 284 all United Mexican 64 7 64 1 all Waller — ... p 1 1 all West Granada I 4 p 1 all West Mariposa i die — 4 p 1 1! all Yuba 4— i P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 924 934 93 50 all British N. American ... ... 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 24 —22 p 1 100 25 Colonial — ... 100 20 Commercial of Lond ... ... ... 10 English Scottish and Australian 24 3 p 134 20 124 Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 54 —53 p 174 50 20 London and County ... ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... ... 20 2 London Bank of Aus tialia. and India 50 224 Nat'onal of Ireland ... ... 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 56 57 6 4 6 4 25 5 Do. New — ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 10 all Do. New — ~. 6 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co 'par 4 4 25 all South Australia 5O 52 51 25 all Union of Australia 774 784 78 94 81 ... 2. Do. New B4 0 50 10 Union of London ... ... i 40 all Union of Madrid ... • ... MISCELLANEOUS 1100 35 Australian Agricult. 105 110 'lO5 4 8 8 . 20 4 Australsu.Pcific.Mail ... ... 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail ... ... .. . 38 4 ,8rit. American Land ... ... 100 324 Canada — ... 5 5 Crystal Palace — ... 6 44441 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ... ... 20 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir ... ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... ... 100 50 General Screw Steam ... ... 114 12 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... 10 2 Netherlands Land ... ... 20 24 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... ... 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... ... 83 44 50 25 Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam . . 25 25 South Anstral.Land 55 57 564 34 5 4 1 1 Submar. Telegraph ... ... 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization ... ... 100 284 Van Diemen's Land 24 25 234 35 44 23i 3 5 4i LLOYD'S SJJIPPINO-(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, March 17.—Wind at Noon, N.E., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, March 16.—Wind, E.N.E., strong. Arrived from the River, and sailed—Juno, for Sydney, N.S.W ; Cen taur, Algoa Bay ; Albemarle, Port Philip ; Euphemia, Geelong. Arrived—Preciosa, Rio Janeiro, for Abo ; Olden burgh, New Orleans, for Bremen. BRISTOL, March 16.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—Jas. Tit comb, New Orleans. PLYMOUTH, March .16.- -Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Syd ney (s), Australia and Cape of Good Hope—on freight, 175,790 oz. of gold. Sailed—Elizabeth, Melbourne. Off Port—Ella, Charleston, for Amsterdam. PORTSMOUTH, March 16.—Wind, N.E. Off Port— Cygnet, Berbice. Sailed—Andalusia, New York. SOUTHAMPTON, March 16.—Wind, N.W. Arrived— Teviot (s), Brazils. LIVERPOOL, March 16.—Wind, S.S.E. Arrived—Priam, Wilmington ; Marion, Rio Hache ; Carthagena de Colum bia ; Joshua Mauran, New Orleans ; Houghton, do. ; Emigrant, Mobile ; Scation, Apalachecola. Sailed— Presto, Melbourne ; Jenny Lind, San Francisco ; Town of Liverpool, Pernambuco ; Douce Davie, Honduras ; Pro vidence, Vera Cruz ; Chesapeake, Baltimore ; Forest King, New York ; Constitution, do. ; Compromise, do. ; St. Johannes, Boston. The Mary Ann, arrived hence at Bos ton, had received damage, having been on shore. CARDIFF, March 16.—Sailed 1.R.L., New York. ALMEIRA, March B.—The Belmont, Carthagena to New castle, has been brought in with damage, having been in contact with a Guarda Castor. BELFAST, March 15.—The Archduke, of Dundee, is on shore at Garron Point, and the tide flows in and out of her. The Diligence, of Cardigan, ssruck on the Briggs, and is full of water. SHIELDS, March 16.—The Spring, of Yarmouth, is on Mushell Scarp, but is expected off. DUNDEE, March 15.—Arrived—Clymene, MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended March 17,1853, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales. Quarer. per imperial IWHEAT. EASLEY. OATS. RYE. BEANS. I PEAS. 45e 8d 3ls 9d 18s 6(11 I I 30s 9d 1 34s 43 32s 9d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I 18 Od 18 Od 18 Od I QUANTITIES OF GRA Wheat, 103,145 ; Barley, 69,093 8,886; Yeas, 2 I sys. wags. I PIM. I Is Od Is Od 1 ls Od IN SOLD LAST WEEK. ; Oats, 24,566; Eye, 122 ; Bens, 1,495 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, 3/ Gs to 4 / 12 s ; clover ditto, 41 Os to 51 5s ; and straw, 115 s to 11148 per load. Trade dull, and prices r ather lower. C IIMBE RLAND.—Mead ow h a y , 31 38 to 4115 s ; clover ditto, 410 s to 5/ Os • a nd straw, 117 8 to 1 / 16 s per load. Supply good, an d tr ade dull. WHITICOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 4/ 128 ; clover ditto, 41 Os to Si 5s ; and straw, 1/ 68 to 11138 per load. A full average supply, an d a sluggish demand. MEAT MARKETS. at NtnhwisGAmTLAetNDtoL-dEsAyDEruiNHedALLst.e—aciThype at tenfearal prices.— Beef, 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 48 6d ; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs, by the carcase. SOITHALL, MARCH 16.—The supply of stock on offer was very moderate, yet the general demand was sluggish, with little alteration :—Beef, 2s Bcl to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s Gd to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Pork, 38 Od 38 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, MARCH 16.—Our market to-day has been tolerably firm, and the following are the quotations Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3 s Ed to 5s 2d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Pork, 3s Od to 3 s 10d per Blbs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 18s to 25s each. LEWES, MARCH 15.—A1l stock moved off slowly, as follows , :—Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d • Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 2cl ; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 8d per 81bs. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.—In compliance with a requisition, signed by about 100 of the leading mercan tile firms of the town, the Mayor of Manchester has convened a meeting of bankers, merchants, and manu facturers of the borough, to be held on Tuesday next, to consider what suggestions that community ought to make to the Government or to Parliament for the better deve lopment of the resources of British India, and the conse quent amelioration in the condition of the people. LITERATURE. Harry Muir. By the author of " Adam Gra me,' dic. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. It is impossible to conceive a more simple tale than this. In the quiet and secluded cot entry d well its heroes and heroines, far away fron i the strife of politics, the maze of fashion, the d in of business, and• the traffic of commerce. Na won derful event is introduced, and no striking cam ualty appears, and yet, notwithstanding, it wool d be difficult to find a more interesting story, or • to : meet with more powerfully-delineated dramatis pen .once. Nature is here shown forth, and truth speaks now. Scottish manners, customs, scenery, and lif e are veryably drawn, from the little Maggie Macgi lli vraY, " clipping" at her mother's door in the sun 1 light, to the aged dragon who guarded the familiar s cenes from whence he had seen generations pass a way. Harry Muir, the nominal hero, is only a sec or tdary personage in the tale--the results of his doi ug s are features of the work, and the effects he c auses form the subject-matter for remark ; but it; is his eldest sister Martha to whom the first places must be given. Her vigorous mind could well have, :borne her family through every trouble—but it was. / tot so to be. She had to bear the heaviest burd en this life can bring, to remain passive when burn in g for action, to let things take their course of evil, • when she felt that by her exertions they might be to .rned into a safe and secure channel. In this oh ai .acter the authoress achieves a signal triumph. Many may rush on in the struggles of life and fall or • win, but it is only a few who can control their tse Ives, who can see their dearest wishes crumble I sex Leath their feet, their cherished fabrics dashed do` rn into the dust, and yet go on in unfailing strength, , hope, and courage. Their heart's desire, their sour; s am bition, is gone; it has bec ome worse than dedear l- —but the spirit will not yield ; it resists to the ?, end. Martha is shown like this. At first she rebelled against her fate, and would not bend to c it cum tames; but time, that shattered her bright hop 'es, and cast a shade over her young life, brought v. rit;dom age might have envied, and faith martyrs migh Lt have emulated. She is made pleasing in her ma milers, which is not often seen in those cast in her n to.uld : her way of yielding the precedence tcss her young sister-in-law (quite a child in her ways,) while conscious herself of surpassing 'other women in intellect, is very graceful and touching. Rose and Violet are charming _girls, and afford a relief to the sombre foreground of the picture. Cuthbert Charteris, with his deter mined and resolute conduct, is welcome after the vacil lating and wayward Harry. The indiscrimi m ding multitude are always led away by such nie.n as Harry ; but the far-seeing and wise -judging. Imow that those who feel the least make others slit E'er the most, and that those who laugh in troublle and revel, without a care for the day, are clouding others' sunshine, and laying up in store many a sadt mor row for those connected with them. An admirable lesson is here given for those unversed in. such knowledge. No one is sent here to smile and. •enjoy himself, but to promote the welfare, and, if post 3ible, the happiness of others. Harry never cared for his wife, his children, his three sisters, his frit 3nds, his home, or his fortunes. All might go to w - reek and ruin, provided he was amused —not that he was bad-hearted or evil-disposed by nature. But what is nature without grace, and what good worth mentioning is there in a man who cannot refuse wrong or trampling under his feet the snares of those he really despises ? One point .is very natural : Harry, so yielding abroad, was a very despot when crossed at home. He exerted his authority as mas ter of the house, but .he could never be the master of himself. With his transitory physical advan tages, with health and strength buoying him up, he felt himself as king and lord of all, never caring or heeding for that inward power stronger than armed hosts, and " mightiest in the mighty," which can stand forth unharmed in the midst of ill, meet the seducing tempters face to face, and resist and overcome them. As little Violet said in her precocious reflections, "Is it all the fault of those who lead away ? Are not people themselves to blame for being led away ?" And again, " You never talk of folks being led away for good." Many are the wise say ings of Martha in the long, wearying season of trouble which those wretched sisters to endure. When Rose said her heart was breaking, Agnes (the miserable wife) exclaimed it would kill her. Martha, whose feelings for Harry, whom she had watched tendedand taught from infancy—combined mother'slcare, a sister's sympathy, and a wife's de votion, faltered not—her love was immortal in its depth and height, its foundation sunk far below earth's annoyances, its fervour exalted her above time and space, and sought the seventh heaven. Thus she entreated them : "It must not kill you. Bairns, hear me ; you must let nothing kill you, nothing crush you, even in your innocent hearts, till God sends the messenger that will not be gainsaid. Now it is coming—may be ruin, may be destruction, certain distress and anguish. But the end is coming which God knows ; you must not pine, you must not weep, nor waste your strength with mourning. Bairns, we have to wait, and be ready and strong, to meet it when it comes. This is what we have to do." The end was long appearing, but it came all too soon. Then did the heroic sister complete her per fect work, perfect as far as earth will allow, for it bore the stamp of Heaven, and spoke of the life to come. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." Martha knew this ; but the question is, How do we live in those hearts ? Many blamed, some despised, her brother. She had to reverse that blame, to change that feeling, and she suc ceeded. As far as the world outside and his home were concerned, he had only been extravagant ; he had laid down good plans, but not carried them out. Two thoughts suggest themselves to the mind at the conclusion of this work. A warning is held out, a promise is given. To all such as Harry ruin is near. Youth and strength are as shadows flying away at a breath ; riches, talents, and honours make themselves wings and are gone ; but the memory of the just is sacred ; in his home it is revered as a household god—in his land it is blessed by the generations of his countrymen ; and for those like to Martha it is shown that we are not to think we can be all we like or seek, although we crush selfishness and cast away folly. The ambition of good becomes an evil, unless we follow instead of leading. In the path assigned to us there may the endeavours soar, but it is not right or reasonable to mark out a course the fancy de sires, and, because success does not smile, call the world a desert, full of vanity and vexation of spirit. Sorrowful was Martha most of the days of the years of her sojourn, but her sorrow turned at last to joy—not the wild zest of young hopes, but the tutored thanksgiving of a disciplined heart. Vain were her talents when exercised in her own way— her life was nothing, her brother's death struck terror to her hopes. It was not till yielding to the will of Him who gave the talents that shetriumphed. She lifted up her eyes to the heavens, where she trusted her departed treasure had passed, before on earth she found peace. In the following pas sages will be shown the great force of the author in describing her characters :—Alexander Muir was an excellent old man, in whom age had no power to chill his affections to God and man, and who was young again in his love to the rising race around him. The conclusion, when Martha looks out by moon light on the scene sacred to the memory of sorrows passed away, sweet in the blessedness of hopes fulfilled, and shining in the glory of promises in store, is surpassingly imagined. Her long day of work over, at evening tide she rested from her labours ; the glaring noonday of distracting trials was spent—the calm orb of night, the stars of peace, shone down upon her suffering heart and soothed her wearied spirit. With one alteration, to her might be applied the epitome of Evangeline, " Fair was she and young when, in hope, began the long journey, faded was she and old when it ended," not in disappointment, but in love, that took the sting from sin and the victory from the grave. " Alexander Muir was one of those whose end of life seemed almost as pure as its beginning, A spirit so blameless and placid that we might almost think it had only been sent here, because it is a greater joy to be a man, and know by certain experiment the wonderful mystery of redemption, than to be satisfied with such knowledge as the sinless in heaven can gain. It is happy for us amid the dark records of common lives, that here and there God permits us one such man, born to be purer than his fellows ; so much lower than the angels, that the taint of native sin has come with him into the world—so much higher than they, that the mantle of the Lord has fallen upon him, and that he stands accepted in a holiness achieved by the Master and Ring of all. Lichened over with th e moss o f age , i n qu i et places here and there, live grac i ous sou l s o f this happy class, and Alexander Mui r was one ." * * * "That night, standing on the turret, Martha looks out upon the lands of Allenders—the lands which her own labour had cleared of every overpowering burden, and which the same vigorous and unwearied faculties shall yet clear of every encumbrance, if it please God. The moonlight glimmers over the slumbering village of Maidlin—over the pretty houses of poor Harry's impa tient fancy, where Harry's labourers now dwell peace fully, and know that their improved condition was the will and purpose of the kindly-remembered dead. And the little spire of Maidlin Church shoots up into the sky, guarding the rest of him whose memory no man dares malign—whose name has come to honour, and sweet fame, since it shone upon that tablet on the wall, and not one wish or pas sing project of whose mind, which ever gained expres sion in words, remains without fulfilment, or without endeavour or settled purpose to fulfil ; and Martha's thoughts turn back—back to her own ambitious youth and its bitter disappointment—back to the beautiful dawn of Harry's life—to its blight, and to its end. And this grand resurrection of her buried hopes brings tears to Martha's eyes, and humility to her f u ll an d swe lli ng heart, -, Gad, whose good pleasure it once was to put the bar of utter powerlessness upon her ambition, has at last given her to look upon the work of her hands—God, who did not hear, according to her dimmed apprehen sion, those terrible prayers for Harry, which once wrung her very heart, gave her to see him pass away with peace and hope at the end, and leis permitted her—her, so greedy of good fame and honour—to clear and redress his sullied name • and the angels k now the deep, un speakable humility of thanksgiving which swells in Martha's heart. So to all despairs, agonies, bitternesses of the strong heart, which once stormed through them all, but which God has chastened, exercised, at length blessed, comes this end. Harvest and seed-time in one combination, hopes realised and hopes to come, all giv ing thanks morning and evening for fair days sent to them out of the heavens, and sorrow charmed into sweet repose, and dangers kept away. But though Martha's eyes are blind with tears, and her heart calls upon Harry—Harry, safe in the strong hand of the Father, where temptation and sorrow can reach him never more —the same heart rises up in the great strength of joy and faith, and blesses God; who knoweth the beginning from the end—who maketh His highway through the flood and the flame—His highway still, terrible though it be—who conducts into the pleasant places, and re freshes the failing breast with hope, and the sleep which He gives to His beloved fell sweet and deep , that night upon the wearied heart,of Martha Muir." Zanoni. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. tion. Chapman and Hall. It is not without ample reason that the author of this noble romance ranks it amongst the highest of his prose works of imagination. Although we have not failed to recognise under the current of the fiction a variety of typical meanings of very profound significance, we have never been among the number of those who have resolutely regarded it as an allegory. It were as erroneous to treat it obdurately as a production of a simply allegoric character, as cit, would be—and in this we follow the hint contained in the exceedingly suggestive " Note" appended i to the present volume—to treat in the same perverse manner the " Faust" of Goethe, or the "Hamlet" of Shakspere. Indeed, we cannot altogether adopt as sufficient thelingenious suggestion of the anonymous critic whose explana tion of the meaning of " Zanoni" is honoured by insertion in the reprint before us, and who argues that the hero of the story should be considered as the incarnation (if one might so express it) of Ideal ism. Zanoni, the character we mean, and not the book, is something more than the symbol of Idealism —just as Faust is something more than the type of Intellectual Ambition, or as Hamlet is something more than the embodiment of Human Irresolution. Each, we take it, must rather be regarded as a veritable microcosm : a being inspired by peculiar aspirations and acting under peculiar circumstances. Singularly clever though the explanation here given by some unknown commentator (" one of our most eminent living writers," as Sir E. B. Lytton himself tells us in his " Preface"), undoubtedly is—it is to us, we repeat, altogether unsatisfactory. Zanoni, as we have seen, may, to a certain extent, be considered to represent " Idealism," and Mej nour " Science," and Viola " Human Instinct," and Aidon-ai " Faith," and the Dweller of the Threshold " Fear," and Nicot " Passion," and Glyndon " Unsustained Aspiration, and Mervale " Conventionalism "—but that is very far from all, there are beyond these inner meanings still un penetrated. Nevertheless, although to a consider able extent dissatisfied with the argument ad vanced by the writer of this very curious Appendix, we must again acknowledge it to be so far ingenious that we are in a manner grateful for its publication. It may excite in the minds of the more super ficial or uncontemplative readers of " Zanoni" a train of wholesome and elevating speculation. It may afford them a clue through the labyrinths of its subtle and mysterious philosophy. During the Preface to the present edition, our author takes occasion to remark somewhat earnestly—" I refer those who do me the honour to read Zanoni' with more attention than is given to ordinary romance, to the poem of King Arthur' for sug gestive conjecture into most of the regions of specu lative research, affecting the higher and more im portant condition of our ultimate being, which have engaged the students of immaterial philosophy in my own age"—a recommentation, by the way, which, if adopted, must prove not less pleasurable than profitable to the students in this philosophy. Of the romance, as a work of art, it would be almost an impertinence in this place to offer any thing like a formal analysis. Its beauty has long since been recognised and appreciated. Its fasci nation we have all felt, deepening and enlarging as we advanced in the perusal, from the first wailing' of that wierd cremona of Pisani to the last hell born reverberations of that grizzly Reign of Terror (depicted in such ghastly and sombre colours to wards the close of the narrative), and which may be said to have only terminated with the yells of the populace round the guillotine when the axe descends, and " blackness rushes on the soul of Maximilian Robespierre." " Zanoni" must be re garded as invested with another interest not yet mentioned, and one, moreover, of a very remark able-character—that of having tended to popularise in this country the otherwise recondite history of the still not extinct race of the Rosicrucians. Cheap Edi Collected Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir E. Bldiver Lytton. Vol 11. Chapman and Hall. Another volume of this excellent edition of the Collected Poetical and Dramatic productions of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton having just appeared, it only remains to observe that it comprises the first nine books of " King Arthur," an epic, the beauties of which we ourselves have already frequently com mended, after having subjected it as a work of art ' to the elaborate analysis of impartial criticism. New graces become apparent on every re-perusal, and that, we take it, is a sufficient token of sterling excellence in either ancient or modern contribu tions to literature. A single perusal, however, will amply satisfy the mind of every discerning reader that " King Arthur" is as assuredly one of the most remarkable of living effusions as it is undoubtedly and beyond all question our author's poetic masterpiece. The Natural Principles of Beauty. By D. R. Hay, F.R.S.E. Blackwood. . . A treatise which, in its ingenuity, not less than its subject, is exquisitely beautiful. Already, in a more elaborate production, the auther had ex plained how the aesthetic developments of the human form coincide perfectly with that law of harmonic ratio which has been allowed to be an universal law of nature ever •since the age of Pythagoras. Upon this coincidence Mr. Hay has based a new and very charming system of propor tion. He has expounded his system, moreover, with infinite elaboration. His last splendid volume will have sufficiently indicated this—the work is entitled, " The Geometric Beauty of the Human Figure Defined." His present treatise we take to bo a yet clearer evidence of the correctness of his views, afforded through the medium of an indivi dualised illustratioi. It can scarcely fail to popu larise the system of which the author is the origi nator. As the writer himself intimates, at the outset of his new publication, the method by which he has founded upon the law of harmonic ratio a distinct system of proportion may be readily enough expounded. "It consists in dividing the semi circle by 2,3, 5, and 7, and multiples of these primes, in the same arithmetical progression in which the monochord spontaneously divides itself in the production of the harmonics of sound, and using the angles thus produced in applying har monic proportion to plane figures, through diagonal direction instead of vertical and horizontal distance. By this means," continues Mr. Hay, " divisions by 2,4, &c., give what may be termed, in harmonical phraseology, tonic angles ; divisions by 3,6, &c., dominant angles ; divisions by 5, 10, &c., medi ant angles ; and divisions by 7, 14, &c., subtonic angles." In all this we only recognise another and very admirable indication of the analogy traceable between the fine arts—an analogy which has long since, in various particulars, been more than suspected. Colour and sound have long been felt to possess this analogy, to a degree that elevates into something more than the oddly fanciful that remark of the blind man, that scarlet was like the blare of a trumpet. Hitherto detected in other quarters, this latent analogy has now been gracefully traced out by . Mr. Hay, and applied by him to the more inti mate association of form and number—according to the rules which had previously been known to link number to harmony by a series of symmetrical proportions. Besides the more com prehensive production already alluded to as having emanated from the same hand, there have appeared , various others, all tending to establish the author's really exquisite Theory of the Beautiful in Form. This theory, as he him self reminds us in the preface to the elegant pamph let here submitted to criticism, "is applicable to every species of formative art, from an architec tural structure to the meanest household utensil." He has deemed it advisable, however, to restrict its application through the present treatise to the structure of the Human Figure. Even here he has still further restricted himself—and, let us add, we cannot but think judiciously—to the analysis of the Female Figure alone. The argument is illustrated by four engravings, besides a frontispiece. To quote once more the words of the author—" Here an attempt has been made to prove that the mind is capable, through the eye, of judging of symmetry, or of proportional beauty, by seizing on the prominent points of an object, and inquiring what are the relative direc tions which the other points occupy as seen from thete." Furthermore, he observes—" It has been made to appear that the highest standard of sym metry, so estimated, is deduced from the simplest that lair that could have been conceived—the law Business this day. the angles of direction must all bear to some fixed angle the same simple relation which the different tones in a chord of music bear to the fundamental note—that is, relations expressed arithmetically by the smallest natural numbers. Briefly, it is here proved, " that man, th e i mage of 'his Maker, has even in his low estate a frame based on the type of the most perfectly conceivable symmetry. By founding (if we may so ph rase it) thi s noble theory, Mr. Hay has covered his name with distinction, and has laid the basis, we conceive, of no ephe meral reputation. By illustrating it anew through the medium of this graceful treatise, he has con ferred a real boon upon the community, for he has afforded the public another opportunity of follow ing the golden rule of the poet--by looking through the holy and awful mystery of Creation to the holier, and yet more awful, mystery of Omnipo tence. The Boy-Menters. By Captain Mayne Reid. Bogue. A companion volume has here been produced to that charming story of the " Desert Home," which we took occasion to commend in the strongest terms—as it eminently well deserved—at the time of its first appearance. The present narrative Pike its predecessor, is avowedly wr itt en f or c hildren, and is designed, as all such works should be, to convey instruction in the very process of creating amusement. Captain Mayne Reid has already shown in a remarkable manner his skill as a writer of fiction. His two earlier effusions, the animated and popular " Rifle Rangers," but, still more, the enthralling and picturesque " Scalp Hunters"—a production, by the way, that may be regarded as bearing to the North American Prairies the same kind of relation that Herman Melville's exquisite " Typee" bears to the South Sea Archipelago— revealed no ordinary powers of originality as a fabulist or story-teller on the part of our new literary adventurer. This originality we did not fail at once to recognise ; and we have a gratifying remembrance that we were about the first to assert that Captain Mayne Reid had displayed merits as a writer such as augured admirably for his futur performance. We were not tardy in proclaiming this to be our conscientious conviction as re viewers. Nor have we been disappointed in our anticipations. Without attempting any very extravagant enterprise, our author has endea voured to extend his popularity since that period, and in doing this he has displayed merits which in his regard we had not even conjectured. Aspiring to charm the imagination of childhood by the description of fanciful incidents, and of ficti tious characters, he has shown very u nusua l re sources of invention—but, more than this, an inti mate and enviable knowledge of nature, both animate and inanimate. These capacities, presented to our notice for the first ti me by Captain Mayne Reid in his " Desert Home," have been yet more strikingly developed in his new volume, entitled " The Boy Hunters.' Let us acknowledge, how ever, at once, tat we cannot regard the latter to be in any degree comparable to the former simply as a work of imagination. It possesses none of its peculiar and alluring fascination. It retains not a vestige of that charm which led one on from page to page, from chapter to chapter, through the whole history of the lost faniily in the wilderness. It re calls to mind no sort of associating recollection of the famous " Swiss Family Robinson"—much less does it revive our early and loving remembrance of our inimitable Defoe's masterpiece. Unlike the " Desert Home" in these respects, this new tale of " The Boy Hunters" bears more of an analogy to " Sandford and Merton" than to the incomparable " Robinson Crusoe." It teaches by example. It is crowded, if not with " wise saws," at any rate with " modern instances" in abundance. The drift of the narrative may be very readily indicated, and from this the character of the whole work may be at once understood. We are taken first of all to Point Coupee, about three hundred miles up the longest river in the world--starting from its mouth or delta—the river Mississippi. Here we are intro troduced to a farm settlement belonging to a Frenchman named Landi, one of Napoleon's old soldiers, a colonel of cha sseurs , w h o , on the downfall of the Emperor, has emigrated to this region of the globe, accompanied by his three children. Colo ne l Landi is presented to the reader at once in his true character—now that his military propensities have, by the misfortunes of his hero-idol, been denied any further development —namely, in the character of a Hunter Naturalist. Besides his three sons, the old Colonel has another companion—Hugot, a male domestic, formerly one of the soldiers in his regiment, now his attached and devoted adherent. With neither of these, however, has the story much to do—with neither master nor man have we much interest, our atten tion being from the very outset almost exclusively restricted to the sayings and doings of Colonel Landi's three children. They set forth together at the commencement of the book upon an adventure which does not terminate until the very conclusion of the narrative. That adventure consists in the discovery and capture of a white buffalo—the skin of which, as a rare curiosity, Colonel Landi has been requested, by an autograph letter from Europe, to send to his friend Charles Lucien, Prince of Musignano—in alluding to whose merits, as a naturalist, our author says, to our mind drolly enough, " Not all the Bonapartes have been bad" —as naive an expression of intolerance towards the imperial race as a body, as even Walter Savage Lander himself would desire. Returning, however, to the purport of the present volume, it may be repeated, that, to gratify Prince Lucien with a surprise, by sending him one of those white skins which he has almost defied his friend to pro cure—they being regarded as scarcely less fabulous and unprocurable than the plumage of a phoenix or the horn of a unicorn—Colonel Landi resolves to send his three young sons out on an ex pedition of research into the buffalo-wilder ness. A wooden leg, won in the wars, pre vents him from going himself in quest of the desired booty. Hugot again must stop at Point Coupee with his beloved master, his old Colonel. There consequently remains no alternative. The boys must depart—and they go accordingly--though not until after being provided with all desirable equipments. The book recounts to us—and in this lies its attraction—their various adventures. First of all, however, we are made acquainted with them individually—the writer describing them very cle verly, and with very agreeable niceness of discrimi nation. Basil is the eldest, a black-haired stripling of seventeen, a " mighty hunter" like one of old, the true " son of his father" in blood, and born a Corsican. Lucien is the second, a youth fair-haired and delicate (like his mother, who was a " blon de," and one of the Basques), ever busy with his book when he is not himself making personal researches after knowledge, a student devoted to natural his tory of the sciences comprised in which botany and geology are his favourites. Francois, a curly haired urchin, is the youngest, and is described by the author as quick-witted, "merry to madness," &c., &e.—in short, more than any of them, a French man. These are the three " Boy Hunters," who start upon the expedition in search of a white buf falo, and in the course of which search they en counter all sorts of interesting adventures. Of course, they obtain the coveted prize in the end, but not until after they have passed through nu merous hairbreadth 'napes and become involved in a series of enthralling difficulties. It must not be forgotten that besides the children of Colonel Landi, there are four other characters of some interest, who participate in these difficulties and adventures. These are, Of course, the beasts of burden. Basil's horse, which is a h'alf-Arab, is known as " Black Hawk." Lucien's is a sober, quiet cob, named very appropriately "Le Bourgeois." Francois', like himself, a little skittish creature, more like a pony in size than a horse, though he is a full-grown horse too, being one of the fiery breed of the mus tangs, is called "Le .Chat." Besides these, there is the she-mule, " wiry and wicked as any of its race," employed to carry the tent, the provisions, the implements, the utensils, dm, a true-bred Mexican mule, designated " Jeannette." Such are the members of the little party which sets out upon this eccentric expedition. Basil on Black Hawk— Lucien on Le Bourgeois—Francois on Le Chat— and clattering after them the poor mule Jeannette. But no, there is yet another creature to complete the group, a noble dog—" A bloodhound with the cross of a mastiff"—Marengo. So they jog forth on their adventures. Exceedingly unlike angels' visits in these as in all other respects, these same adventurers are neither " few" nor " far between." On the contrary, they are so startling and novel of their kind, and follow each other in suc h rapid suc cession, that the attention of the r ea d er i s kept inacontinued state of suspense and wondering excite ment. Throughout the whole story Ca ptain M Reid shows a delightful familiarity with ay t n h e e North American animate and inanimate marvels of the great Continent. f timate acquaintance with its He r evea l s an ain flora, and " w hil e undertakin una and it s e r s o e sibility for the tr u th o f h is st o g no nlf observes as e authorth eotfniththe hi es m p ful ' n ß e o ss y Hunters ' in his preface, "h claims consideration t for of the materi a l s out of which it is constructed. ,, Several times duri t n o g the course of the narrative, he takes occasion to his contempt and a e nd lows.e.t_ nfost unmitigated Naturalists, io detestation 11at Againsth e is pleasedthis,. we ; must protest i w n e n m o us me t as pr u o r tee d sti la t,lka all the fort© of conviction, and nsguagaagien.stAagsapinecsitesalo.lftilzhe ptreaasssaogne: to some .among the noblest pioneers in the science of Natural Fristory. Against all this, in fact, we must protest, as against a kn o wledge in very flagrant and .,: 3 _, very heinous ingratitudo. No one can possibly . mire more than we do the high and admirable ad ,x d 1051 x d ; 14( iT ...;--------- labours of such a man as Audubon, as Capt ..., • \ \ Mayne Reid might have called him, a type of y tu•:;/ "\, ' --- - out-of-door naturalist. But we should concei . ~' ": • ~ -, to be disgraceful and ungrateful on our par •ixy' -Zzy 1, endeavour to exalt the reputation of such me ao'.l , ' . Audubon, by depreciating the value of the fa tv '' ;.-- - 1. - C . acquired by men whom our author has been please ...., - -- xi ,:. \+,,..4 to sneer at, as your Closet Naturalists. Who ._‘' . 4,o. 1- ' are those men ? Why, such men as Buffon, and Cuvier, and Linnaeus. Happily, the genius of those three illustrious men has not remained untilnowadays in order to be demonstrated. Every educated man knows the scope andvalue CI their great labours. It cannot soon be forgotten that until the time of Lin naeus there was a bewildering chaos in our ideas of the whole vegetable kingdom. It cannot speedily be lost to recollection that Baron Cuvier may be said with peculiar truth to have "created a soul under the ribs of death," and to have evoked from a world of dry bones a vital and vivifying philoso phy! Beyond all, it cannot be passed by as unde serving our especial remembrance that it was Buf fon who first conceived the notion of becoming the historian of the animal world, and that to that no tion we owe the existence of a work unsurpassed in the eloquent felicity of its descriptions, and which must ever be classed—what though there were a hundred thousand Audubons—among the treasures of the earth's literature. Here it is, we conceive, that lies the only blemish in the present narrative. In its regard we cannot altogether ac quit the author of the charge—which we might find it difficult to conjecture—of either self-sufficiency or of affectation. W e are f a i n to regard it as the , 1 latter. However this may be, in all other respects the book has proved to us eminently delightful. Several of its most surprising incidents have been illustrated by the pencil of William Harvey—whose ensibellishments to the tale number a dozen alto gether. As the frontispiece, we find the curious sketch of an ingenious portion of the narrative, entitled " The Chain of Destruction," the links o f which are formed by th e tarantula killing the humming bird, and the the chamelion tarantula, and the scorpion lizard the chamelion, and the snake the scorpion lizard, and the kite the snake, and the eagle the kite and—last link of all—Basil the eagle. Although, of course, nothing compar able to his " Scalp Hunters," or to his " Rifle Rangers " being, in fact, of a less pretentious cha racter, the " Boy Hunters," scarcely less than those more important productions, and scarcely less than the more alluring " Desert Home," reveals on the part of its a u th or , th e keenest observation of Nature, and a really delightful vivacity of imagi nation. ~/ \ NEW MUSIC. Pray for me, Gabrielle." Song. Dedicated, by permission, to the Countess de Jarnac. The Words and Music by Ernest Reinhold. Boosey and Co. Like all the productions of this talented author, the present bears the impress of taste and skill. The words are touching and tender, and the accom panying music falls winningly on the ear. The plaintive pleading of the forlorn exile to his lost love will be repeated by many a melodious voice, for seldom have we heard a ballad more calculated to become a general favourite from its sweetness and simplicity. FATAL PILOT-BOAT CATASTROPHE. A most lamentable accident occurred off Greet Yar mouth. early on Tuesday morning, which resulted in the loss of three experienced pilots. It appears that a boat, containing five of the body, put off from the port, and was rowed out to sea towards Corton, on the look out for the London coasters. On nearing that place, it seems that the craft by some means got inside what is termed the outer bank, which is considered a dangerous position. Time would not permit them to extri cate the boat, before a heavy sea caught her broadside, and capsized her. Two of the pilots, Ben jamin Holt and Richard Garwood, succeeded in reaching the shore, although in a very exhausted condition, but the other three were imprisoned under the boat. Holt, the survivor, contrived, after much exertion, to raise the boat, but the poor fellows were almost past recovero. One of the sufferers, Abraham Wooden, was first conscious enough to recognise Holt, who was seized by the leg by the dying man. bolt having to clamber up a cliff to save himself, begged of the unfortunate fel low to loosen his hold. He eventually got clear of him, and reaching the summit of the cliff he gave the alarm. Assistance was then obtained, and on proceeding to the spot Wooden was found to have breathed hls last, and the other two unfortunate men, Isaiah Leggatt and George Fox, lying in the water, dead. They were at once conveyed to a neighbouring public-house to await a coroner's inquest. The deceased pilots were much respected at the port. ELECTORS AND POLLING PLACES.—Yesterday, a re turn to the House of Commons was issued, from which it appears that there are 50,170 electors for counties in Scotland, and 133 polling places. MARYLEBONE FREE LIBRARY.—Last night a public meeting, emanating from the working-man's committee appointed to conduct the movement at present on foot in the borough of Marylebone for the establishment of a free library to a successful issue, was held at 60, Pad dington-street ; Mr. Wilson was called to the chair. The chairman informed the meeting that the subscrip tions, including those of the Bishops of London and Durham, and several other influential promoters of the movement, amounted to 8001. Mr. Murrough, M.P., Mr. Oliveira, M.P., and Mr. Macgregor, M.P., moved and supported resolutions. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN TURIN.—The attention of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin was, in its sitting of the 12th, called to a subject which has often engrossed the attention of philanthropists, by an occurrence, which although rare, is not the first of its kind. A man, named Antonia Sismondi, 25, had been hanged for mur der that very morning, when, being taken down, and carried to the cemetery, a slight cough issuing from the body showed that life was not extinct. The grave-dig ger called for assistance, and the patient was taken into a. house and bled three times ; but notwithstanding all the assistance afforded him, he died a few hours after wards. This matter was brought before the Chamber the same day by M. Deviry, who moved as follows : —" The Chamber, inviting the Ministry immediately to provide for the reform of public capital execu tions, as also of the mode of execution itself, passes to the order of the day." The Minister of Justice con curred in the general principle of the motion of M. Deviry, who, he said, at the same time advocated the restriction of the punishment of death to one single crime ; but the ministry added that this was a matter requiring such serious consideration, that he could not for the present pledge himself to any course without further inquiry. M. Brofferio, expressing his conviction ' that the time was not far distant when capital punish ment would be done away with altogether, moved an amendment to the motion as follows :—" The Chamber, recommending the ministry to present a bill to correct the present e n a c t m e n t o f th e p ena l c od e respecting the punishment of death, passes to the order of the day." This amendment, being accepted by the Minister of Jus tice, was adopted unanimously. CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN THE UNITED STATES.— The usual annual returns have been published of the consumption of sugar in the United States during the past year. From these it appears that the total quan tity of foreign and domestic (produced from the c ane ) taken into use was 315,217 tons, against 288,485 to ns i n 1851 ; being an increase of about 9f per cent. About 13,058 tons, made from foreign molasses, and 11,600 tons, yielded from the maple tree, have to be added to this amount, and the aggregate consumption was there fore 339,875 tons. Out of this total the quantity of foreign was 196,558 tons, against 181,047 tons in 1851 ; and it would, therefore, appear that the consumption of the domestic production from the slave labour of Louisiana has increased in rather greater propor tion than that of foreig n . A s regar d s Prizes, the averages of 1850 and 1851 were a l most t h e same — v i z , tdo steady,bt e ln rela impression about $5 50c. for N ew O r l eans d escr i ptions, but last year shows a redu c ti on t o $4 8 1c., the quotations at the commencement having bee n very l ow, although they advanced it is taed andre s ma t ine t s i u o b s n e t g o u f e u n t t u l r y e prospects, of American deale rs th a t th e crops now coming forward from nearly all the producing countries • Will be rather above than under an average. In Louisi it is said, the yield will exceed in ,iia and Texas, all former ones ; being estimated at 280 0 quantity and quality ) 00 hhds. The accounts from Cuba are less favourabl Rico, Manilla, Java, and Brazil e, bit from Porto for ; while the effect ' of t a . full supply is looked from beetroot in Euro hasP creasing production from also to be taken into ac count. railways in this THEFT ExTRAoRD tion had been abandoned A RamwAy before and aft_ ______ ....... ..... one of tie neighbourhood, where a sta- Dooty. INART. — At a Place on the felony —for , and the old wooden hut re novelpresently oved, the other dap,novel a bystander saw an ingenious and committed, and made himself accessory both he looked on, said no thing, and all"' with his i owed the cunning felon to retire unmolested rat Our particeps crzinnos • ' saw a fine sleek peer out from beneath the old station office, and stood a carriage, not at that moment numbered amongst venture forth and proceed to a siding, where " rolling stock." Climbing up one of the wheels by the tion for lubricating the is axle kept , an d, as if to the spokes, the rat reached the p lace where the composi manner born, he dexterously raised the spring lid, and held it up with one of his for e- p aws. Then looking round to see if cat or hawk, or any of his natural enemies, were abroad, he seemed satisfied with his survey, and forth withoil and tall o w, which h t e composed we believe of palm said , . . plunged his nose and whiskers in the yellow unguent, ate with as much gout as aldermen are to exhibit towards the green fat of turtle. But as circumspection seemed requisite , o ur whiskered thief from time to time withdrew him head from the grease-pan to look around, and during these reconoissances he still held up his fore paw, looking the while exceedingly furtive and sagacious. 0 as s n e s d or sufferedetur satisfyne returned the hte As his apprehensions became allayed by the general quiet of the place—for no one was stirring near—he m was withdrew, 3,sthucshp resumed his " high and palmy" feast, till at length, his this delicate diis toafffaa i e ur p , i c wa u nas r d is , his abode. The cool and systematic manner in which o astonished and amused speotator that more than one previous visit of the same ratty had paid . kind. officials should be on their guard Railwa y unsuspected species of peculationagainst this new an d coin • property.—Manchester auvercwo. nutted on the it I 10 25 10 1.0.6 100 100 20 100 all 100 all 100 20 10 20 20 261 2/ i 21 3 36,1 a 281 i 50 25 12. 12 20 20 11 100 100 18i Do. 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