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

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. M. de Lacour, the new French ambassador at Constantinople, leaves Paris on Monday next to take possession of his post. It appears, however, that he is to take Rome on his way, and the belief is that Louis Napoleon wishes to profit by M. de Lacour's popularity and influence, to induce his holiness to hasten his visit to France. The ex cuse, however, made for M. de Lacour's visit to the holy City is, that Madame de Lacour wishes to be present 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 Officers of the French artillery in his train, who Will have the rank of attaches. A decree in the Moniteur declares that the oath prescribed by Art. 16 of the Senatus Consultum of Dec. 25, 1852, must be taken by the engineers of the pouts-et-cho.ussees and mines, and by the per sons employed in the department of public works. A Ministerial decision is to state when and where th e 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 on the publication and sale of books during the last three y ears . Th e num b er of publications, including books, pamphlets, and journals, printed and reprinted, has risen from 7,208 in 1850, and 7,350 in 1851, to 8,261 in 1852, makinff an increase on the former yea r of 1,063, and of 911 on' the latter. Out of these 8,261 works, 'which appeared in 1852, only 1 , 626 are rei m p ressions or new editions ; 6,635 are new. 4,321 of these works . have bee n p r i n ted 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 18 engravings and lithographic prints were published in 52, 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 one. The export of books in 1851 was 1,243,000 kilo grammes, of the value of 6,479,000 f., being an increase in weight of 145,000 kilogrammes, and in value of 748,000 f. over that of 1850. A proportionate increase took 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 f. more than in 1850. The progress continued last year, the export of books, en gravings, and lithographic prints together having in creased from 1,230,000 kilogrammes in 1850, and 1 ,385,000 kilogrammes in 1851, to 1,512,000 kilo grammes 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 Sardinia, Portugal, Hanover, and England, may be added those which have been this year signed with three States of the Germanic Confederation—Brunswick, the grand Duchy of Darmstadt, and the Landgrave of liesse Homburg. Negotiations have also been opened With Austria, the Grand Duchy of Baden, Bavaria, Den- Mark, and Prussia, for admitting the rights of authors and artists. A similar convention had been, as is well known, concluded with Belgium, but it has been post- Poned until the definite conclusion of a general treaty between the two countries. Thus the Government testifies its solicitude for the interests of literature and the arts by the protection which it affords them." The Stock Market was inanimate all yesterday, and prices remain without much change. The Pour-and-a-Half per Cents. are 15c. lower, closing at 104 f. 10c. The Three per Cents. are unchanged, at 80f. 75c. Bank of France Shares are sf. lower ; those of the Mortgage Bank 2f. 50c. lower ; and those of the Societe Mobiliere sf. lower. The new Piedmontese Three per Cent. Loan is 10c. lower, at 70f. 60c. Railway Shares were firm. The Lyons at first went up rapidly to 970 f., but after- Wards gave way, and closed at 955 f. It would Seem that the rumour of these shares being about to be liberated at 400 f. rests on probable grounds. cha,rtge on London (short), 25f. 5c., money ; ditto (90 days), 24f. 90c. ITALY. The Milan Gazette of the 11th publishes the fol lowing notification by the military commandant of Milan : " By order of his Excellency the General of Artillery (Count 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, and, according to circumstances, also of the lodgers. In ease the report of cannon be heard from the castle, all th e streets of the city must be illuminated in the same Manner. " 2. Whenever there is a disturbance of public tran quillity, every landlord must immediately have his door shut. No one is to remain in the streets, as in case of disobedien ce runs the risk of being arrested under sus picion of having taken in the r t in the disturbance. seven " 3. Fromt on evening i to seven in the morn ing, no one, whether on foot, orseback, or in a car riage, is to remain on the bastions surrounding the city. arrested Whoever is met with there shall be and severely punished. " General-Major Baron MARTINI. " Milan, March 10, 1853." The Giornale di Roma, of the 9th, states that on the afternoon of the 7th the new cardinals present at Rome, viz., Recanati, Savelli, Caterini, and Santucci, were presented to the Pope, who gave the m the cardinal's hat. In the evening the Sacred College, the diplomatic corps, the prelates, officers, and nobility publicly congratulated the new car dinals, as also the French ambassador, Count de Reyneval, who represented Cardinal Morlot, arch bishop of Tours. The city was illuminated on the occasion. 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 of Marshal Narvaez to have his case examined by the Senate, has decided against the p ro p osition that he shall have a trial by his peers, and also against the p ro p os ition that the Senate should pass to the order of the day on his claims. The committee has now 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., 43ii ; ditto Deferred, 2 4 i ; Redeem able Debt, first class, 10 11-16 ; ditto, second class, Oi ; Coupon Certificates, 51. Exchange on Lon don, 51. BELGIUM. The Belgian Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of the 14th, voted unanimously, and without dis cussion, 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 of . the credit to be appropriated to the depots of line at a reduced price for the benefit of agricul ture. The amount proposed by the Government (75,000 f.) was adopted. In the sitting of the 15th the bill for the dotation to the Prince Royal, who is about to obtain his majority, was adopted with out discussion by a majority of 83 to 1. The bill grants an annual allowance of 2,000 f.; the enjoy ment of the ducal palace at Brussels, and of the palace of Tervueren, with an allowance of 50,000 f. for keeping them in repair, and 100,000 f. for the expense of installation and the heavy repairs of the palace. The bill f or taking off certain prohibitive duties was afterwards brought forward and read a second time, and adopted by a majority of 78 to 2. GERMANY. „ Advices from Vienna state that the healt h of the -u-icaperor is completely restored. His physicians recommend him to make a tour of the Tyrol in the course of the spring. Austrian letters of the 12th mention a report that Austria had addressed to England a note on th e subject of the refugees. The Emperor of Austria intends spending some months at the baths of Ischl, as soon as the weather improves. The Archduke William is to preside at the Privy Council during his Majesty's absence. The house of Mechanezola, at Vienna, has sus pended payment. The deficit is stated at 220,000 florins. The Germanic Diet have decided on an increase f only 50,000 troops, instead of 200,000, required °Y . Austria and Prussia. TURKEY. A letter from Belgrade states that on the 26th ult. forty Turks were brought to that fortress under escort A plot had been discovered for set ting fire to and pillaging Montar and Serajevo. A Trieste journal says :—" We learn from Monte negro that Reis Pacha has withdrawn with his troop s to Nicsitch, and Dervis Pacha to Kovienic. The latter took with him the Grashovian prisoners and the Voirode. One of the prisoners, named Sarearitch, who could not continue his route on ae count of fatigue and suffering, was shot by the Turks. The Montenegrins, on hearing of his ueath, determined to avenge it, and, attacking the T urks, completely defeated Dervis Pacha, and took booty to the amount of 6,000 florins." The Turks have evacuated Montenegro. Omer ?acha h a d re ti re d i n t o Albania, Reis Pacha to Nicsitch, and Dervis Pacha to Kowienne. ...A teleg ra phi c dispatch, dated Constantinople, Iv-larch 6th, states that " Prince Menschikoff ar rive()at Constantinople on the 28th February. On th e 2d of March he was received by the Porte. On th e 3d, Fuad Effendi placed his resignation in the bandsof the Sultan, who accepted it on the 6th. ' ule rePlOced lay Riff* Pacha." THE SR ARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing l'rices Yesterday. RAILWAYS. 29 -- 64 - 6i gi 104 7i —6idxd 21 -- 22 d 31 --20xd 101 -- 105 641 -- 64 21A -- 22 182 -- 19; 1 . • —Ti pzd 8 -- 9 5A -- 5i 3,1 -- 44 13 --134xdi 10- - 114 - ii -3 .-} 73 —74 id 55 - 57x(11 74 - 76 32 34 62 64 81 82xd 45 47 122 —l2lxd 1071--108ixd 911 -- 91/ 6/ -- 71 92 -- 94 13 -134 p 761 -- 76; ; 4k -- 4R d -- 31 d' 16 -- 16; ... d 8i 9hxd l ! 1034 10A4 , 119 i 1191 24 —3p ad, lg —lBpad . 90 31.1 - 6 - 4Ad: 4 3d 11 12 19 21 29 —. SO 3i— 3d 754 76 44 .46 50 52 31 31 31 3 d 38 3i 9 10 53 55 7i 84' 2i d 352 36),1 44 -- 31 d 8 • - 82 3 -- 4p 47i -48 A 10J -- 102 64 -- 66 64 -- 66 70 - 75 18 20 9 10 14 151 s d' 21 22 78/ —78 i 36 37 12A 4 ,14• li —2" 14 - 15 9 9 2 29 31 91_ 91 id— ip 69 - - 70 7 1 , 7 d 2 R 2ad 59 60 1 Aberdeen ...... . Ambg. Nottng. Bost , & Eastn. Junet Biring. Wolverh. &- Stour Valley Birkeuhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon__ Cork, Blackrock anc, Passage Dublin&Belfast Junc 1 Dundee Perth&Aber-I deen Junction Do. New East Anglian (£25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. B.& H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do., do !Do., B. and C ,East Lancashire . East & West Ind. Dk & Binning. June 100 'Edinburgh & Glasgow 1 Edin. and Peebles 100 ,Edin. Prth. &Dundee 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 !Great Northern Stk moo ;Do., A. Stock 100 !Do., B. Stock 100 'Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 100 ;Great Western im Irish South-Eastern a ll ;Lancaster & Carlisle 11i Do., Thirds moo ;Lancash.& Yorkshire 15 !Do., Fifths lit Do., Wst. Riding Un all ILeeds Northern a ll ILiv.Crsby.&Southpt a ll !Loudon & Blackwal' Y 'Loud. Tilb. &Sthend . 100 Lond. Brigt. &S. Cst.' 100 London &N. Western 12 i Do., Fifths 1 Do. ,£lO Sh.M. &B. C 100 London &S. Western 42,i'D0., £5O 31 ;Do-, _ . Londerry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. •P Manch. Shef. & :Amin r ID° Man. &Lin. Un l Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Mici laud G. West. (Ir.) Do. # Shares Necscasde & Carlisle Ne 'market Do. Bury Extension Newp. .kberg. H ftd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warmnpoint, and Restrevor Norfolk Do., New Northn.Counties Un North Bridsh North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Weste n N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Certral S%.otdsh Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Cuaranteed Stock Sh'e vsby.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do Do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Sough Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun Do. Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath • Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledon&Croydn 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. 5A per cent,. Cork&Bandon 5i p.c. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction E. Aug. (705.) 6 p. e. Do. (X 5), 7 per cent. Do. (£7 17s), 7. p et. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. e. St Eastern Union Scrip Gear. 6 per cent East Lancash. 6 p. cts Edinb. Prth. & Dund Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c i Do. 5 p. e., Redeem at 10 p. c. prem.. Gt.S outhn. & Westn, (Ireland) Eights Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Great Western, fixed 41 per cent Lan. & York. F. £2O Do., 6 p. c., Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. 0 Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p. c London & S. Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry & Coler. Shares • Lonclndry. & Ennisk. 4 Shares ••• ••• ••• Manch. , Sher. ,& Lin., Shams, No. 1 Do., New, £lO Do., £6 . ....... • Marypt. & Ca - . 1. 4 p.c. Do. 41- per cen:;.••• ••• Do Mid. Consol. 6 p. e. Do Consol. Bristol Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4 per cent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Guar. 5i Valle et, Do. Waveney y 5 per cent North British ... • .• • • North Staffordshire I Oxford, Worcester, &' Wolverh. £15,6p. c. Do. Shrewsbury & Birm New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 3 p.c. Do. 5 per cent. South Devon Do. New S. East ern (Reading Ann.) r x 4. Os. 6d. S.Yorksh. 4p.c. Guar. ‘T0.14-al . &Kilk. 6p. c. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref IDo York & N. Midland, H. & S. Purchase... PREFERENCE SHARES. 1106 - 108 iiie 7_ - _ - iiii 19 20 id 64 gel 3i 3 - - ILp - 2 p p 14 - 15 ISi -- 19 3i -- 3i 1128 - 129 1110 - 112 81 - 9 61 -- 74xd 105 -- 107 ad — I P 150 —152 150 - 1531 Si - 3 iP 10 11 131 -13 i 8 - 9 101 - il/ A -- i P 146 -141 p 22 - 2362- 2 - 2 109 - 111 25 - 26 .1 -11 p 11 -- 111 17i __ 184 16 -- 17 par -- P 2 61 -- 261 20 -- 21 c 1 __ par, 101 -- 103 I ! 5k par — - , p 1 - 13 14 2ip 21 1 a 6 p 1k 1 p 24- p 2 pi #-- ip 7 —Blxin 41 - 4 1 1 xin 11 —l4xin 14 —2 xin P p 9 —ll pl 2 —2: p .. - .. 7i -- 8 6 -- 7 36i -- 37 1! -- 1 --9 184 -- 19 p 42 43 42 -- 43. 33i -- 31 51 p 2O --2 91 -- 9i 5 4i g P d par 10 —ll p r=ol — Par .• 4 FORE: Antwrp. &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Junet. Charleroi & Erquclin Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca and Pistoja. per cent. pref 'Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) I Do. 6p. cent. pref 'Lyons & MediteiTan 11farlras Maria Antonia Do. New Namur Liege (with interest I le ) / 13 431 . 1h ex ern int o e fTr t ance Do. 201. 3 p. e. Bds (fmy.B.StAms.Shs.] Norwegian Truk. Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre—. Sambre and Meuse Do. 5 per cent. pref Southern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5i per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Zoidactio..i.,.• Business done this day. 29i 30 100 8 184 100 100 all all all all y 100 all 100 all 3 6 100 St. St. St. St. 100 100 100 100 1/.lsl ,100 20 111 100 St. 5 St. 20 St. 15 all all 100 100 10 all 14 all 1061 10 20 10 20 JUN. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1853. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. Bedford and Blotchley. Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Birm. Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. (1 per cent. Glstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. 1 Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Batn and Matlock Middlesbro' &' Redcar Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. e. Do. 6 per c Do. Fixeds p c Prost. & WYrel Do. tihares. Roystn.& Hit. Do.Shepth.St Shef.Roth.and Goo'eg.s p.c. S. Staftordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Somrst Leasing Compans. London & N. West. Gt.Westn iDo 30 - 31 29 -30 i 30 - 31 29 - 30 105 -107 522 -534 Do Do Caledoa , Gt.Nrthn. ,Gt. Westn Yk. New. k Bern. Y.&NMd Do 151 - 153 32A .- 33A 111 -- 113 55i -- 564 264 -- 274 13 -- 141 254 -- 264 194 25 -- 27 I S. Eastern) D 0... INorfolk & Midkl. 'S'tekton& Darling. 2i 3ixcl 1105 - 106 E. Count IDo 64 - 66 L. &N.W. &Ln&Yk ...... xd. Gt Nor: chn Do 149 —lslxd 148 —lsoxd Lap nsh & Yorksh. M. MCI An Stoc ci. & ugt. D 0...... . 1— d 32 - 33il 103 - 104 IfilWestn. MINES. 1 all 'Agua Fria 108 all Anglo Californian g p 10 2 Australasian.. ll 2 p 31 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera par pl/ 4 1 all Australian Freehold. 1— 4 p 1 1 all Axe Maria - 1 p 1 all Baden(Gd. Duchy ot) par p 1 all British Austrin. Gold e p 20 13.5 Br' ish Iron 7 9 p Z 5 241 Brazilian Imp. (issued at X 5 pm.) . 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 31 - 4 4 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 4 Carson's Creek par p 40 all Cobre Copper 46 —47 47 6 1 Coloaial Gold 2l —3l p 431 . - 14 Copla - r)o St. all CopperMinersof Eng 7O 75 25 all Do. Preference 74 — B 4 p 5 all English ard Austin Copper Smeltg. Co l4 d 44 a 20 all General lB —2O 2 all Great Nugget Vein 34 —3a p 5/ 5 3 all Great Polgooth . IA —lg p 1 all Lake Bathurst 1 dis— par 1 all Liberty ti 1 all Lond. &Californ. Gold Qu-rtz Crush. Co a d 1 all Mario aita ld par 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ B4 9 88 1 all New Granada p 1 all Nouveau Mondo lg p2l 5 1 Port Philip 1- 1 p 21 2 1 all Quartz Rock par— 1 p 50 all Rhymney Iron 22 —24 15 Do. New 7 8 30 104 Santiago de Cuba 1 all South Australian 1- 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l3 286 all United Mexican 6 7 64 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada I p 1 all West Mariposa Adis 4 p 1 all Yuba 4 - P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 93 - - 94 93 50 all British N. American ... ... 60 20 2 Chrtd. Eulc. of India,' Australia, & China' 24 —21 p 100 25 Colonial •• 100 20 Commercial e: Lon don 4 English Scott'sh ard Australian 3 —3.4 p 20 7, Lord. Chart. Bk. of. Australia sa Sap 171 184 50 20 London and Count / 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. &Westminster 20 2 Lore° o: Aus trara and India ... 1 1p 24 50 221 Na,:onal o:lrelard 25 all Oriental Bank of Corpoiatiol. 55 56 56 25 5 Do. re r — 1.00 25 Pro v:r cial of Irela , 10 all Do. New — 5 1 'Royal Australn.T & Gold hill). CO., par— ip 25 25 South Australia ... 25 all Union of Austrava 7B 79 781 91 81 21, Do. New Bl 9 50 10 Union or 40 all Union of Madrid — MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult i 107 112 105 4 6 20 6 Austrlasn.Pcific.Maill ... ... 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail; ... „. 38A , Bri;;. ATP ericn. Land ... -- ... 100 32i Canada I 5 1 Crystal Palace i ... 6111 i 4 2 Crystal Pal. of ... 20 1 Eastern Steam Francei ... 1 ... 1 1 Electric. Tel: - ...g. of Ir.! ... ... . . 15 14 Gen. Seam Navigat. ; .. ... 100 50 'General Screw Steam I ... ... 20 21 hish Beetroot Sugr • ... ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... 10 2 Netherlands Land 1 ... ... 20 2i'Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... ... 50 all Peninsular &Oriental ... ... 83 4i 50 25 Do. Do. ... ... 100 60 Royal Mail Steam , ... _ ... 25 25 South Austral. Land 57 59 56i 3i 1 1 Submar. Telegraph I ... ... 5 2 Universal Emigration l 10 and Colonisation ' ... ... 100 28A,Tan Diemen's Land '25 —26 23i 3 23i 3 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, March 17.—Wind at Noon, N.E., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, March 16.—Wind, E.N.E., strong. Ai rived 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 (8), 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, B Boston. The Maly 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, Carkaagena to New castle, has been brought in with damage, having been in contact with a Guardr, Castor. BELFAST, March 15.—The Archduke, of Dundee, is on shore at Gai ron Point, and the tide flows in and out of her. The Diligence, of Cardigan, muck 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, Callao. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAG: PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended March 17,1'" 3, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cit and Towns in England and Wale. per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. IBARLEY. C 41`6. I 1 RYE. BEANS. 1 PEAS. 145 s 8d 31s 9d i rls 6cll 303 9d I 24s 4d 22s Li DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEATOd 15 Oil . I BARLEY. Is OATOd 3. I Is RYE IsOd . I REANS Od . 1 16 Is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 103,145; Barley, 69,093; Oats, 24,566; Rye, 122; Beans, 8,886; Peas, 2,495 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ Gs to 4/ 12s • clover ditto, 4/ 05 to 5/ 5 s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 14s per load. Trade dull, and prices rather lower. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 31 3s to 4/ 15s ' • clover ditt o , 4/ Os to Si O s ; and straw, 1/ 7s to it 16s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. WHITECHAPa.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 1/ 413 s / 12s ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 5 / 5 s ; and straw, il/ demand. 63 to perA. A full average supp l y , and a slugsh MEAT MARKETS. NRWGATR AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand at this market to-day rulcd steady, at lull prices.— Beef, 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 45 6d ; Veal, 35 2d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 2s Gd to 4s per Bibs, by the carcase. SO,THALL, MARCH 16.—The supply of stock on offer was very moderate, yet the general demand was sluggish, with little alteration :—Beei; 2s 8d to 45 Od ; Mutton, 3s Gd to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s 4d to 45 2d ; pork, 3s Od to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. RomFoRD, MALCH 16.—Our marke t to-day has been tolerably firm, a - the following are the quotations : follows Beef,E Quarter W from Bdmese 2 At fe r err 10;mi t t o 53s — 4 1 : 08As 0 ( 41 t, l )2 ; 82td5ocs. kema Mutton, mcu htot.moved Mutton, 3 d, 5 8d t o 5 s 2 d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Pork, 3s Ocl to 3s 10d per Blbs. L ES, l s Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 8d per Bibs. 4olffOdsllytoowss,2dal TUE EAST INDIA COMPANY.—III 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. LITERATUBE. Harry Muir. By the author of " Adam Gneme,' &e. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. ll s e Nswdadbsdt pthcieuiwaffirotpra l sti eitfuifetictu Scottish esr s eloitshsteotfi eepsomahahn p . opnenfialte o ordidnrn s otwi lesisndetuci powerfully-delineated faeur sh l ,ea e ttitomntEhrilwth t doero o yeenndar_uoeffiuhq c dfn ast o coeeutiwce n norriai idotmiezctonh:teeofhnesi, and :seencoaattss e ofnadsne: meinddd a fnenfda smragdtoi rsmer:nesrsivargitto, scenery, fashion, dramatis wh,neu • r e ka.:daiasti tny,epn s i std i doeghw m Nifraecr) oke p letaoo: iosrol din smfesueunmwdonaoit theta country is very ably drawn, from the little Maggie Macgillivra llelwceb y rtneoyee , t: dragon r t ahge herou had mother's whoost eh guarded e e n e s generations doo r t h en familiar h pass a sunlight,ssaway. scenes ay. from r o ‘ o c t m l P e n i g e g e u d ' Harry Muir, the nominal hero, is only a secondary personage in the tale--the results of his doings are features of the work, and the effects he causes e a c r t t - h m a a t t o t e w r h f o o m r r t e h m e afir first; t ; b p u l a t it e is m u h s i t s f e o ld rm est t s h is e te s r u M bj be given. Her vigorous mind could well have borne her family through every trouble—but it was not so to be. She had to bear the heaviest burden this life can bring, to remain passive when burning for action, to let things take their course of evil, when she felt that by her exertions they might be turned into a safe and Lecure channel. In this character the authoress achieves a signal triumph. Many may rush on in the struggles of life and fall or win, b ttwhh u hee t oi rd i e t ua i su s t ,s on feet, eatenhl and yet a few who can their hgderoe iasorhneesidtn wishes unfailing control da ssi:i re crumbleedn themselves, dgothbw,enuheaoinptteh and courage. Their heart's desire, their soul's am bition, is gone; it has become worse than dead—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 circum tances; but time, that shattered h er b r i g ht h o p es , and cast a shade over her young lif e , b roug ht wisdom age might have envied, and faith martyrs might have emulated. She is made pleasing in her manners, which is not often seen in those cast in her mould : her way of yielding the precedence to her young sister-in-law (quite a• child in heii 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 determined and resolute conduct, is welcome after the vacil lating and wayward Harry. The indiscriminating multitude are always led away by such men as make oth ers su ff er the s b e u w t h t o he fee f l ar t - h s e ee l i e n as g t and wise-judging know t il h a a r t ry tho ; most, and that those who laugh in trouble and revel, without a care for the day, are clouding others' sunshine, and laying up in store many a sad mor row for those connected with them. An admirable lesson is here giveA for those unversed in such knowledge. No one is sent here to smile and enjoy himself, but to promote the welfare, and, if possible, the happiness of others. Harry never cared for his wife, his children, his three sisters, his friends, his home, or his fortunes. All might go to wreck 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 feetthc 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 had 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 tended and taught from infancy—combined a mother's'care, 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 thought 9 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 rear. 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 househ.ld god—in his land it is blessed by the generations of his countrymen ; and for those like to Mariam, 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 bocome^ an evil, unless we follow instead of leading. In the rah 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 suczess do:" 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 she triumphed. 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 sorro 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 wh en it e nded," 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 . begin - ling. 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 King of all. Lichened over with the moss of age, in happy class, qui e t plac end here a and there, live gracious souls of this Alexander Muir 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 -pan that tablet on the wall, and not one wish or pas sing project of whose mind, which ever ga i ne d 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 t o th e beautiful d awn Qf 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 full and swelling heart. God, 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 h•is permitted her—her, so greedy of good fal-te and honour—to clear and redress his sullied name • and the angels :..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 dangei3 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 temptrtion and sor w n reac'i him never more —the same held rues up in the great strength of joy and faith, and bleFses God, who knoweth the beginning from the end—who mak Ai His highway through the flood and the flame—His highway still, terrible though it be—who conducts into ',he pleasa , t places, pnd 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." Zan ni. By. Sir E. Lui. :.er Lytton._ Cheap Edi- tion. Chap - ian and Hall. It is not witout ample reason that the author of this noble romance ranks it amongst the b;gliest of his prose works of imagination. Although we have not failed to recognise under the current of the fcCon a variety of Typical mennings of very profound significance, we have no iier been among the number of those who have resolu::e'y regarded it as an allegory. It Tre:::e as erroneous to treat it obdurately as a proclrc . ,ion of a simply allegoric character, as it would be—and in this we follow the hint contained in the exceedingly suggestive " Note" appended to the p:eseat volume—to treat in the same perve"se manre the " Fausi," of Gathe, or the "Hamlet" of Shaksnere. Indeed, we cannot altogether adopt as suffic'ent the ingen'ous 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 hcro of the story should be conside-f_d as the incarnat'on (if one might so express it) of Ideal ism. Zanoai, the character we mean, and not the book, is something mo:.o than the symbol of Idea 1.'4111 —just as Faust is so.nething more than the type of Int3llectual Ambit'on, or as Hardet is son- ojiing me e than the embodiment of Human Irresolution. Each, we take it, must rather be rega- ded as a veni . ahle nycrocosm : a being inspired by p-_-;, - aliar asr c-i,tions and acting under peculiar circumstances. Singularly clever though the explanation here given by some unknown comer entator (" one of our most eminent living writers," as Sir E. B. Lytton himself te'ls us in his " Preface"), undoubtedly is—it is to us, we repeat, altogether unsatisfactory. Zo,voni, as we have s. , en, 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 w_th the argument ad vanced by the writer of this very curious Appendix, we must again acknowledge it to be so far ingen'ous 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 p. edit'o a, our author takes o car 'on to remark somew a l earnestly—" I refer those who do me the honour to read Zanoni ' with more attent'on than is given to ordinary romance, to the pc3m of King Arthur' for sug gestive conjecture into most of the reg'ons of specu lative research, affecting the higher and more im portant condition of our ultimmte being, which have engaged the studet 's of immaterial philosophy in my own age"—a reco - nn enta'ion, by the way, which, if adopted, must trove noL less pleasurable than profitable to the strd:nts 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 r' iognised and appreciated. Its fasci nation we have all felt, Ceepening and enlarging as we advanced in the perusal, from thie first wailings of that w'erd cremona of Pisani to the last hell born reverberatiols of that grizzly Reign of Teri Jr (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 oue, moreover, of a very remark able chart- Ater—that of having tended to popularise in this con try the otherwise recondite history of the still not extinct race of the Rosicrucians. Collected Poetical and Is inatic T 7 .-ki of Sir E. Bultver Lytton. Vol 11. Chapalan 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 cora mc 'ided, after having subjected it as a wort: of art to the elaborate analysis of impartial criticism. New graces become apparent on every re-perusal, an , that, we take it, is a sufficient token of sterling exk. _thence 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 anther 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 be a yet clearer evidence of the correctness of his views, afforded through the medium of an indivi dualised illustration. 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 publi. Ition, the method by which he has founded upon the law of harmonic ratio a distinct system of proportion may be readily enough expounded. " It cor.7:sts in dividing the semi circle by 2,3, 5, and 7, and multiples of these primes, in the same ai:tbmetical progression in which the monochord spontaneously divides itself in the production of the harmonics of sound, and using the angles thus prnduced 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. Co:our 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 u r o ok e u r r g e ht a of the Beautiful in Form. This theo r y , 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 house h o l d u tensil. " He has deemed it advisa bl e , howe v er, to restrict its application through the present treatise to th e s t r ucture 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 was re or thee o f —lt t hasproportional direc tions t been r the author—" Here an attempt has been made to prove that the mind is capable, through the eye, beauty, by seizing on the prominent points of an ot these." object, s ejudgingFurthermore, f o nr,he symmetry, o bv aree rs relative and inquiring ons which the other points occupy a s seen f rom made to appear that the highest standard of sym metry, so estimated, is deduced from su the • np i est law that could hare been conceived--the law that 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, the image 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 phrase it) this noble theory, Mr. Hay has covered his name with di s ti nct i on, 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-Hunters. 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,llike its predecessor, is avowedly written for children, 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 unusual 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 time 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, that 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 chapterto chapter, through the whole history of the lost family 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 its 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 chasseurs, who, on the downfall of the Emperor, has emigrated to this region of the globe, accompanied by his three children. Colonel 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 bu f falo—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 Landor 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 Con* 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 " blonde," 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.—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 'stapes 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 half-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 hke 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, &c., a true-bred Mexican mule, designated " Jeannette." Such are the members f 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 such rapid suc cession, that the attention of the reader is kept i n continued state of suspense and wondering excite ment. Throughout the whole story Ca ptain Mayne Reid shows a delightful familiarity with the animate and inanimate marvels of the grea t North American Continent. its He re vea l s an in timate acquaintan ce with fauna an d it s flora, and " w hil e undertaking as he himself respon sibility for the t ru th o f his Story, no his preface, "theobserves author o f th e Buy Hunters claims claims consideration for the truthfulness of the materials out of which it is constructed." Several times during the he takes occasion course of the narrative, to exress his mitigated most unmitigated contempt and detestation to call your for what he is p leased Closet Naturalist s . Against this, we must protest with all the force o f c onviction , and in n o _ measured language. Against all these passages h treason, we must protest, against as a spe cies of lug to some among the noblest pioneers in knowledge in • st all this, in the science of Natural History! Agaill flagrant as against a very fact, we must protest, bl de No one can poem and very heinous ingratitu • admirable h d he hig admire more than we do t labours of such a man as Audubon, as Captain Mayne Reid might have called him, a type of your out-of-door naturalist. But we should conceive it to be disgraceful and ungrateful on our part to endeavour to exalt the reputation of such men as Audubon, by depreciating the value of the fame acquired by men whom our author has been pleased to sneer at, as your Closet Naturalists. Who are those men ? Why, such men as Buffon, and Olivier, and Linnaeus. Happily, the genius of those three illustrious men has not remained until nowadays iu order to be demonstrated. Every educated man knows the scope andvalue of theirgreat labours. i It cannot soon be forgotten that until the time of . meus there was a bewildering chaos in oul• deasof the whole vege table kingdom. It cann ot speedily be lost t o recollection that Baron Cr ier may be said with peculiar truth to have "created a soul under the ribs of death," and to have evoked from a world of d r y b ones a v it a l an d v ivifying philoso phy. Beyond all, it cannot be passed by as unde serving our especial remembrance that it was Buf fon who first conce i ve d t h e not i on o f b ecom i ng th e historian of the animal world, and that to that no tion. we owe th e ex i stence of a work unsurpasse d in the eloquent felicity of it s d escri ptions, and which must ever be classed—what though there wore a hundred thousand Audubons—among the treasures of the earth's lit era t ure . H ere i t i s, we conceive, that lies the only bl em i s h i n 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. We are fain to regard it as the 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 embellishments 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 of which are formed by the 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 author, the keenest observation of Nature, and a really delightful vivacity of imagi nation. Closing Prices Yesterday. Business this day all 100 all 100 21. i 2f 50 25 12A 134 20 20 20 50 11 100 100 181 94 124 3 911 1 Pm 76/6 x d 16 A 119; 19 18i d x d 29 :i 901 78i 8 70 121 591 1 87i ain 9 i pm 1051 x d xd x a xd 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 OATASTItOPHZ 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. Holt 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, 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 Antonio 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 enactment of the penal code 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 cane) taken into use was 315,217 tons, against 288,435 tons in 1851 - ; being an increase of about 94 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 foreign. As regards prices, the averages of 1850 and 1851 were almost the same—vi z., about $5 50c. for New Orleans descripti ons, but last year shows a reduction to $4 81c., the quotations at the commencement having been very low, although they subsequently advanced and rem a i ne d steady. In rela tion to future prospects, it is stat e d t o b e the impression of American dealers that the crops now coming forward from nearly all the producing countries will be rather above than under an average. In Louisiana it is said, the yield will exceed in quantity and an qua T" ex,tY ss, all former ones ; bein g es ti mated at 280 000 h hdsT i he accounts from Cuba ar e l ess favourable,' but from . Porto Rico, Manilla, Java, and Brazil a full supply is looked for ; while the effect of the increasing production from from beetroot in Europe has also to be taken into ac count. A RAILWAY THEFT EXTRAORDINARY.—At a pla ce one of the railways i been aband o ned on this neighbourhood, where a sta ion had moved, the other day, and the old wooden hut re novel theft y, a bystander saw an ingenious and before and a..., committed; and made himself accessory both thing, an , l te u all the felony—for he looked on, said no. with his b owed the cunning felon to retire unmolested rat booty. Our p articeps crtminis saw a fine sleek peer out from beeath the old station office, and presently venture forth and proceed to a siding, where stood a carriage, not at that moment numbered amongst " rolling stock." Climbing up one of the wheels by the spokes, the rat reached the place where the c,omposi tion for lubricating the is axle kept, and, as if to the manner born, he dexterously raised the spring lid, and held it up with one of his fore-paws. 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 with plunged his nose and whiskers in the yellow unguent, composed we believe of palm oil and tallow, which he "th as much gout as aldermen are said to exhibit ate towards the green fat of turtle. But as circumspection seemed requisite, our whiskered thief from time to time withdrew his head from the grease-pan to look around, ani during these recomissances he still held up his fore paw, looking the while exceedingly furtive and sagacious. As his apprehensions became allayed by the general quiet of the place- —for no one was stirring near he resum ed his "high and palmy" feast, till at length , his delicate epicurism sated, he withdrew, and suffered the lid to fall, and, descending by the sp okes,: his abode. The cool and systematic this affair was transacted was su c h manner in which astonished and amused spectator that as to satisfy the more than one previous visit of the at ratty had paid officials should be on their same kind. Railway ~ unsuspected species of peculat ion guard against this new and property,-3faacheater Guarcuttn committed on their 36i i B in x in I in