The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-26 00:00:00

IVIOATFY I‘.,IAR,KET AND COMMERCJ 4 5. L INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton Market yesterday closed with a firm appearance, and prices were fully maintained. The sales were • timated at 3,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken by the speculators. The Railway Share Market closed quietly, 'and only a limited business Wtta transacted, but prices were a shade better. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Market Ns week there has been less animation, and the general tone of business is quieter, but at the same time the quotations of nearly all the chief articles steady. Sugar has been less active, but holders 'ave withdrawn several parcels offered publicly, so 43 to support prices, and thus very little variation hal taken place. Coffee has realised full prices, add a good demand has existed. At the forthcom ibg Dutch auctions 80,794 baskets and 2,745 bags of Java, besides 7,377 bags Mauritius, will be of fered. Cocoa is quiet, but 2 s. per cent. dearer. 'Lice continues steady, and for tea there has been an 'active enquiry, at a rise of Ad. per lb. Spices are s teady and tallow has advanced. The declar at i ons '° l ' the Indigo sales of next month are extended to 12 ,381 chests, and some additions may still be made. I . ll „tbe course of examination we find a very large Proportion of the Bengal crop to be more than corn-- 41 %4 cold and otherwise defective. Sound red dualities suitable for Russia are very scarce, and are kely to command higher prices. The deliveries of late have been steady, the arrivals early, and the st ock still shows a temporary increase upon that of lad year. The stock of saltpetre on the 20 th i nstant was 6 ,532 against 6,121t0ns at the same date last year. The B an k of France have reduced the rate for discounting bills from 6 to 5A per cent., but no a lt( ration is made in the terms for advances on stock. This measure, as far as we are in a position t Qindge, is a sound one, and, notwithstanding an ?Pinion is loudly asserted in some quarters that it la utterly inconsistent with sound principle, there %,t 1 be no question that the administration will U ltimately be proved to have acted with prudence kid a due regard to probable contingencies. Sup tb,Sing the stock of bullion has been diminished to t he extent of 800,0001., as stated, that is no reason /t , II Y the position of the Bank should render a c .ualige impolitic, and a wise det-rmination is ctident in the course pursued, viz., the Withholding , of increased facilities from the specu - Sive public. It is proved by the premiums paid the ci call " of different kinds of stock that a disposition exists to extend operations on the °urse, and if these were encouraged by an offer bu the part of the Bank to grant loans on e as ier t e 'lna the results might be disas t rous , and the I mprovement in financial affairs thus impeded. sin, there will soon be an issue of 50 franc notes, Le emission of the scrip of shares representi n g t he evr capital having already commended. As soon f a g some of the instalments are paid, note qrenlation will bs increased ; and with the pros pects o f a good harvest it will no doubt be °ll . lll , in spite of the doubts expressed , that the alteration made yesterday was not only , hare but perfectly justifiable. Of course , s uare is a good deal of disappointment ; some e x- Pected a reduction of 1 instead of A- per cent., while : t ilers made sure that the measure, whenever it W as adopted, would apply to loan as well as dis bzumt operations. During the fortnight ending last evening the a mount of bills drawn by the Honourable East I ndia Company on the three Presidencies were as fellows 4 Rates of Excbange— Amount. On Bengal, 2s Oid per rupee... £41,851 8 9 On Madras, 21 04d per rupee... 7,840 18 0 On Bombay, 2s. id. per rupee... 600 0 0 Total £50,292 6 9 The Trade and Navi Ration Returns for the month 4 1(1 five month , ' ended the 31st of May last, have b een published this um - ruing. These exhibit a steady ! I Pansionof our commercial intercourse with most the of the world, notwithstanding the tightness of "Qe money market and the dulness which seems to Drevail in most branches of business. The value ° l', our exports, and the results when compa - ed With the previous year, are as under : One m')nth. Five months. 1857 1856 Increase...£2 648,904 ... £6,888.212 'the import tables are also satisfactory, and those r elative t o s hipping show that a larger amount of 11 °nnage has been employed this year than in 1856 or 1855. This day a large meeting of shipowners, mer 21ant-seamen, and others, was held at the London Bishopsgate-street, R. W. Crawford, Esq., '" ( .P. in the chair, the object being to affect a re - Peal Of the Act of 1854, and to induce the Govern kept to grant a charter of incorporation for the 1 C ( merchant seamen of the empire. Although exceedingly dull, the English Funds eve been very firm all the morning, the decline in the minimum at the Bank of France, notwrthstand 113g the depression on the Bourse, having given '`llPPort. The market remains in the same dull and 17 4 a pathetic state, and there is no variation of the 2 0 slightest importance to comment upon. Consols St. have been 93i 1, and trey are now flat at 20 The quotations. For the opening they are 93g. 1 00 A he New 3 per Cents. are 92i 93, and the Re- 1( 2 ) 3 ;need 92/ 93. Exchequer Bills have further receded 1 8 1 being 7s. to ss. discount, and the Bonds are at St. . 8 0 India Bonds are marked 4s. discount. 100 Foreign Securities are quiet, but on the wh o le 20 lather firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents have risen to P,N 4, and the 4 per Cents. are firm a t 1021. 41 1 e only other transaction recorded is Russian 5 1.1 Par Cents., which have been done at 110. Messrs. D. Bell, Son and Co., report that during the week there has been very little business in. American Securities, and little change in prices. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Redeemable. Per Cent. united States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868...106 1061 united States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1863...106 1061 STATE SECURITIES. Alabama 5 per Cent Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk ,_Bonds lB4l-1871... 40 42 Mississippi 5 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 20 22 „ 4 "ennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock f n ennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 79 81 Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 83) 84i Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 84 86 LOANS OF CITIES. Boston 4i per Cent. Bonds 1883... 90 92 Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... I Tew Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... 75 77 ... 78 - ... 89 91 ...100 - RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not (lonvertible 1875... 89 91 Illinois Central 6 per Cent 1375... 86 88 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bonds 1860...106 108 Illinois Central (Shares), $3O paid 19 21 p Michigan Central Bp. Cent., Convert 1860... Do. do. do. ....... 1869._ 89 91 New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 88 90 Ne w York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertible 1883... 78 80 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage 1833... 80 82 N. York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 72 74 N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund - 80 82 Panama 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage 1865... Pennsylvania Central 6p. Cent., Ist Mort 1880... 89 91. To-morrow is "making-up" day in the Railway Share Market, and the account is stated not to be so heavy as usual. Most of the principal shares are firmer. There is an advance in Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton, Caledonian, North-Eastern, and nearly all the principal lines. The Foreign are quiet, and tha French shares, owing to a decline at Paris, ara all lower. Indian and Canadian shares are equally dull, and a decline of 1/. to I/. 10s. has occurred in Grand Trunks. Mines, banks, and miscellaneous shares are re , markably inactive. BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) Business done. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92/ 3 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 21 India Bonds, 1:1010 Ditto, under £lOOO Consols for Account, Ditto for Opening Exchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO " • • 0000000 £5OO 8 7 d 4 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per 0 0000 Ditto, 1859 000 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent 464 7 Russian Bonds, 1822, is St., 5 per Cent llO Sp utiFh Bonds. 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 42 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. nit fun 6i Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Wends on the above -ayst• > • Dutch Exchange, 2 per Cent., 12 Guilders Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates 711 REA O'CLOCK. Consols for account, July 9 938 ex d 4d ~ 934 ~ 93# 963 fi 102fi 2 to Lon ,(n. g gingt bore, lon for 0 sch 5; G. J i eg ed re *lO frau - ie said a t the day ill in the lowly; Id, the sitting )ery by tionera ving• ice o—. j%eter '° bivoree pa th ie is ioto, ° op PY At ATA,, go , l ing o bee ° T. 1 to ll The s p ol: , :rof e- n3ell tg of I °di* 10° $ E '3 the ee d tiv e. Jell 0. e r a 1 o e . e ,e iel lv of atel 3 S°‘ ll. e r, dot tp a n A " o ut an' e s. I tb e A ° so ,t ic htiO or ) t nt3 W aste d the Mm e evi hous e rev ioo P t, ;ea tie Of c l 3 tapto re r o. or , o 0 r'. o : a ``l3' 11 0 Tie IV' oft 3g la 3" 70 9 ,er , e o Nod arft ert y )roP Wil o*vg 1 r ot' e rbt , coo •„0 a b ei ". org-gP of the , the tla te ito e o . .0 s o, 0 30 gr. Ist, oh xobs , olp- Ot ~/~. _-~. ARC' MARKETS—(This Day.) RAILWAYS. Shr. I raid Di ! 101 50 all 13i, all St. 1100 25 all 25 all 'lOO 100 100 all all all 100 all 100 100 RAILWAYS. / Ambir,. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junc Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Janet.- Blackburn ..... myth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall • Ds. A Do. B ... Dublind;l3elfastJunc. Dun. P. &Aber. June. East Anglian Eastern Counties..... EasternUnion,A. stk. Do., do. B. Do. New A East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk Do. Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles_ Edinb.Prth. &Dundee Forth and ClydeJunc. Furness . Glasgow & S.Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) Great Western. Do. Str. V. R gua. St Irish South-Eastern Lancaster &Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F. £l6 Do., Wst. Riding lin Do. Sonthport. London & Blackwall Lond.Bright. & S. Cat. London & N. Western Do. Fifths . . Do. ,10/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London h S. Western Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Wanch.Shet&Lincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland ..... Do. I3irming.& Derby Midland Gl. West. (Ir. ) Do. Shares . ...... Newcastle & Carlisle Newpt.Aberg.&llrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor N0rf01k......... Northn. Counties Un North British St. 100 50 3i St.!100 St. 100 ,North Devon, Rail. dr Dock Stock ........ Do., A Stock ......... st. too St. 100 St. 100 Do., B Stock ...... v, Eastern - Berwick 25 23i 1 1)o. do. Extension 25 16i Do do. G.N.E.Purch 50 all Do. Leeds St 100 Do. York St. 100 North London . . ... 10 31.1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn 20 17i North Staffordshire 20 all North Western.. 10 all N, d; S. Westrn. June. St. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 20 16 Portsmouth 10 10 'Rhymney St. 100 Scottish Central St. 1.00 Scot. N E. Abrd n. St St. 103 Shropshire Union 10 6 Sitingbourne &Sheer 50 all South Devon St. 1.00 South Eastern 10 all Do. 4. per:. Shares St. 100 South Wales 20 all S. Yorksh. RiverDnn 20 10 D 0 ..... 20 all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. 25 all Stockton & Darling 25 15 Do. do., 1854 25 3 Do. do., 1855 ... 164 Stockton & Hartlepl St. 100 Taft Vale _ 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 25 22 Thames Hay. P. &R 20 all Vale of Neath 20 all Waterfd. & Kilkenny 50 all Waterford &Limerick , 20 all West C0rnwa11........ 10 all West End of London and Crystal Palace.. 5 all Do. A 5 all j Do. B S 0 all West London 10 all Do. First Class 20 all Do. Second Class 10 all Wnibleilon&Croydon BRITISH POSSESSIONS. WO all Atlan. and St. Law. 18 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. 18 all Do. 20i 10:! Buffalo & Lake Hur 100 Buff. , Brnt.dt Godch 100 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 100 Do. do., 1 June, '74 2s. Calcutta and S. East. 2sld Central Oude (Lim.) lOs Ceylon A shares 1 Do. B. do. " all Demerara . 2s. Eastern Bengal 100 East Indian 15 Do. C Shares all D 0.4 p c.Bnds.,'s7 all Do. do. do., '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent 100 Gd. Trunk. of Canada all Do. 6p. c. Deben all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 perc. 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. all ,Gt. Westn. of Canada 04 10l Do. New O all Do. Bds., payable '57 O all Do. do., '76, p. '6O O all Do. do., '73, do O all I Do. do., '73, without option 0 all Madras, guar, 4} p.c !co all Do. do., 5 per c. l 0 10 Do. 4i p. c. Eaten. . 0 0 5 Do. 3d Ea., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ea., do. It) ss. Oude (Limited) ZO 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c 20 all Do FOR 10 all AntWrp & Rotterdam 0 18 Ardennes... 5 all Belgian East. Janet !O 16 Be zi ers to Graissessac 6 all ,Carmeaux&Toulonse Coal Mines and Ry Ditch Rhenish Eastern of Franco Do. New :17.0 I 12 l 0 all :0( all O 2s. O 18 !0 1$ IG 4 all .l 0 all .9 6 5 all 213 all 20 all 33, 4 all 10 all Euphrates Valley Gt Central of France Great Luxembourg Italian Junction Lake Const. & Bale Lierro and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran Maria Ante;:la Do. New . 20 all 20 all 16 all 1.0 all 20 all 20 all Namur & Liege . Do. do. 6 p c. Pref Northern of France. NorwegianTrnk. Pre Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans 20 1 Reeife & San Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. 10 7i Rome and Frascati 20 all Royal Danish 5 all Royal Swedish 20 all Sambre and Meuse._ 10 all )o. 5i per cent. pref. 20 all Southern of Franco 83 all West Flanders 10 all Do. 54 per c. Prof 20 all IW. & N.W. of France 20 6 ;Western of Austria 20 all West. l of Switzerlad 6 all \ Wiesbaden 6 all Do. Bp. cent. pref. 20 all Zealand JOINT-S' :Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London' 'Bri. Col. Bk. dz Ln. Co British N. American I C. Bk . of Ind. Au. cite h City • Colonial Commercial of Lond. Eng.Seot.dzAus.Cht. Lon. Ch. Bk. of Asst :0 I all Ditto New 0 all I. 5 18L 0 50 k 0 all )0 all 0 8 DO 50 DO 25 00 I 20 20 I all 20 {all 20 50 10 20 London and County Lnd.&E.Bukng.Corp London Joint Stock Lond.andWestminst 35 National Pro. of Eng 10 Do. New 22i National Bank i ' all New South Wales all Oriental Bank Corp 15 Ottoman Bank 15 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 R. Au% B. &G . Im. Co all South Australia all Union of Australia 1 2i Do. New 10 Union of London 50 Unity Mutual 50 Westrak of Loud i - 3 2d }BB 92 5 - 90 85 - 90 11 - ii PI ••• ••• a i 108 110 11 -- lip 20 201 1 58 59 86 88 211_21, A 4p 221 —22 i IR Zia 100 101 106 112 106 -- 112 106 - 108 19 - 20 21g - 22 - $ - fP - - ii = ii, IGN. 61 - 7 7 11 - 1 d 5 i 3 - t s n, 281 - 291 par 24i 6A ~. • • 4 - 4i7 9i -- 304 - 134 - 20t - 20 3ii - 3 9 8. - 9A 59 - 59 57 - 59 i d -- pa' 16 8 8.1 29 4i 9 30A par BANKS. 89 91 1/ lid 49 5t - - 441 63 - 65 171 - 181 1 18 - 18 -18 i Closing trice. I Business done this dsy this day. 5i - N 81 - 9 70 - 72 7i - 8i 90 - 92 74i - 7FI 36 - 37 4 - 5 9 - 10 19i - 20 1 11i - 111 51 - 53 33 -36 i 8 97 - 62 - 64 34 - 35 99 -101 8 - 9 99 - 103 91 - 92 122 - 124 1104 - 106 641 - 651 1 63 -651 70 74 6 8 p 6 8 1001 101 a -A 6i —s, U 2 114 1031 1044 1011 -102 i a 1 - 4411 83-1 -84 i 55 - 56 i• ia 63 - 65 3/ - 43f - 431 933 1 - 2k - 2 • 2i - 11 - 45} T - - 72 96 - 99 - 4i'l 7i - 8 10 - 101 33 - 333 7 - 5 105 103 24} 25) 43 50 3 2a 18 - 19 75 76 84 89' 5 4t-1 5 4,id 9 40 42 211 - 22 31 - 4.1 7 - 9 3 - - 6 ~ ...... ... St. 20 St. St. 100 100 • •• . THE SUN,, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, I 8,7; LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ?SPORTING I NTELLJ EIV C.& LITERATURE. ;hr I Paid; RAILWAYS. Leasing :ompanies (Nosing Prices this day. Business, this dny NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE RACES.—WEDNESDAY. • (Additional Particulars.) Free Handicap of 5 soya each, 3 ft, with 50 added. The second to resell?, 20 sovs out of the stakes. Winners ex ra. Three quarters of a mile. 28 subs., Mr. J. Scott's Imperieuse, 3 yrs, sst 1111) {Challoner) 1 Mr. Tbomosub's Minnie, 3 yrs, 4it 121b...(W. Little) 2 Mr. W. 11. Brooks's Manganese, 4 yrs, let 101 b (Bearpark) 3 The following also ran :—Codrington, Plausible, Breeze, La Victims, Sneeze, Matilda, and Attorney General. Betting-5 to 2 each agst Imperieuse and Breeze, 4 to 1 agst Sneeze, 6 to 1 each wzst Manganese, La Vic time, Matilda, and Attorney General. Won cleverly by half a length, a head between the second and third; good fourth. La Victime was fifth, the Attorney Gene ral sixth, and Matilda seventh. Sneeze, Breeze, and Plausible were the last three. The Grand Stand Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ; for two and three-year-olde„ Two-year-olds, 6st 12Ib ; three, Bst 121 b. Allowances and penalties. The - second to save his stake.- . 17 subs. Mr. Jackson's Saunterer, 3 yrs, gat 21b (J. Osborne) 2 Mr. Gray's Meta, 2 yrs, Tit 10Ib (Charlton) 2 Mr. J. Osborne's Intercidona, 2 yrs, fist 9ib (Challoner) 3 The following also ran :—Medallion, Bradley, and Lady Dot. Betting-5 to 2on Saunterer, 7to 2 agst Meta. Won in a canter by two lengths ; half a mile between the se cond and third ; same distance between .the third and fourth ; bad fifth ; Lady Dot was beaten off. Popular History of the Aquarium of Fresh Water Animals and Plants. By Ge urge B. Sowerby, F. L S. Popular Greenhouse Botany. By Agnes Catlow. Lovell Reeve, Heurie t —street, Gwent, Garden. There appears to be a natural tendency in the human rice—at least in the better porton of it, to pet and cherish s zaething belonging to the lower orders of creation. In Mrs. Thompsou's duodicemo style of residence, where a large family and small means are curiously male to balance every Christ mas ; and where, we know, every extra quartern loaf is a matter of importance ; yet, there, we sea a favourite canary hanging at the window ; whose cage must have involved the disbursement of a serious capital, and whose luxurious support must add somewhat to the weekly expenditure : but the family would go into deep mourning - if anything happened to that graceful little embodiment of silver note, and golden coat. Mrs. Thom son has been known to keep her uncle waiting in the back parlour, while she finished attending to Bijou's • domestic comforts in the front one. Mr. Thompson may be seen on the fiercest of dog-days burthening himself with a bunch of chickweed and plantain for . Bijou's ex press delectation ; and the undeveloped Thompsons are so duly impressed with Bijou's value, that their affection and admiration for him are scrupulously exempt from the usual juveni'e adm:xture of insult and injury. The house is certainly not big, but we cpte3tion it its occupants would not deem it much less if it did not contain that pretty, useless little bird. Those rich people, the Stockmans of Stamford hill, have such exquisite carpets and sofas, that one almost doubts the propriety of their being used by more material beings than Oberon and Titania ; but there is an old fox-dog and a young setter who are privileged to parade the velvet pile without even rubbing their s'ioes, and to repose on the damask cushions, as though they could order new furniture and pay the upholsterer whenever they chose. The 'cobbler round the corner pafronisee a huge tabby cat, whose woudetful ability he is never tired of eulogizing, on the score that it sits by his side and insists on helping him to pull out the wax ends at every sticb. It is a verit .ble fact that he loses time and profit by Grimalkin, but it is an equal fact that the dumb thing is an essential adjunct to the cobbler's comfort and content. The boudoir of the Fitz Cavendish's noble man sion, exhibits an Indian paroquet, and an Italian greyhound ; and all visitors enjoying the entree to that sanctum, would run some risk of losing the good opinion of the amiable lady dowager and her lovely daughters, if some gentle words of courtesy were not bestowed on " Vert" and " Zephir." The tiresome young Binkles, of Tooley-street, have contrive Ito surreptitiously establish a Lilipu tion rabbit hutch in the lower regions of the domi cile, and are in a state of perturbation lest the matter should be known in the upper department. Of course it does become recognised by the inferiors, and a degree of threatening and expostulation im plies the possibility of Mrs.. Double Smut being immediately ejected from the premises ; but in due time Mr. Binkle is seen peering wiih some degree of interest into the secret chamber, and heard to give a sort of indifferent hint, that a larger hutch had better be had, now the doe has young ones ; while Mrs. Binkla may be discover(' on the stairs, enquiring, in the true maternal tone, breathing something of the candle-cup an 1 cradle hymn, as to "How many there are, and what co lour?" The young Binkles are extatic, and the of I Binkles go on encouraging the population of " long ears" until they might stock a warren. S me would experience no delight in the " great globe" itself, unless it contained go' d fish. Monkeys are fraternized with iu many families. (We are simply alluding to the natural and in)..A 'agreeable of the genus.) Pet pigs are to be mat with, (and again we would intimate that we tuuch only on those of the quadruped order), and d 'mice, white mice, squirrels, parrots,and silkworms, are common and familiar residents among us--though, as re gards the latter "pets," we fully concur in the opinion of a gentleman, who remarked the other evening that he could "see no fun in keeping them." However, pet what we may, it is pretty certain that so doing is indicative of a loving and beuevo lent nature ; and despite the empty-headed sneers launched against that unjustly vitupe rated race—old maids—regarding their affec tions for birds and brutes—we are incline - I to think that the disposition which prompts the exhibition of tenderness and love, even towards the meanest of dumb things, is one of God's most blessed gift, and that "old maids" are by no means more objectionable, either in a moral or social point of view, than "old bachelors," who too fre quently "pet" nothing but their own stomachs or their own pockets. Fashion has a control over this department of our civilised constitution, as it has over every other. Once upon a time monkeys were all the rage. Long-eared, snub-nosed spaniels were in the ascen d (nt in the " merrie monarch's" days, when his Gracious Majesty could not walk in the Mall, or enjoy his luxurious saturnalia, without the company of half-a-dozen of these celebrated " bow-wows. ' Then, French poodles became prominent features on the face of English society. More lately, Skye and Argyle terriers have asserted their supremacy, being recognised by quick-witted people as " ani mated door-mats," "loco-motive mops," and " self acting brooms." At this present epoch of petting fancies, the strange and unfamiliar creatures of " the vasty deep" command our devotion and ex cite our curiosity, under the form of "Aquaria." Our drawing-rooms and conservatories now present to our notice " crystal palaces" on a minor scale, wherein we may gaze on star-fish without the aid of a telescope, and dilate on the beauty of sea anemones without presuming to pluck one. There we may revel in "Sea Cucum ber" without thinking of the cruets in conjunc tion ; make pleasant company of coral skeletons, and sport with Sea Urchins who never plague us with their noise or mischief. This novel and in teresting introduction not only serves to amuse 'the idle and ornament our dwellings, but ministers to the elevating general knowledge of natural his tory, and the abstruse pursuits of the scientific in vestigation of Creation's wonders. With a com paratively inexpensive receptacle, stocked with tiny tenants of the lucid flood ; and with this work of Mr. Sowerby's on the table beside it, much may be learnt, even by the most uninitiated, of the functions, habits, rue tamorphoses, and construction of the astonishing family leaping, floating, and diving before as. The volume is a compact and simple book of reference, though thoroughly correct in its deta i ls of natural I classification. A. great number of coloured plates illustrate the various orders and characters expa tiated on, which are very attractive, and help the young disciple of the aquarium school most ma terially. In short, we can only pronounce the publication to be worth much more than its cost. Of Miss Agnes Catlow's Popular Greenhouse Plants, we need say little, as her works on Garden Botany, and Field Botany, have rendered her name honourably familiar to all lovers of Floral nature. Miss Catlow, in her present production, fully sus tains her reputation, and the most exquisite in habitants of the greenhouse are as ably and charm ingly described by her pen, as they are beautifully represented by the pencil, in the plentiful and gor geous illustrations. The Northumberland Plate of 200 soya each, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya each, 10 ft, and 5 oily if declared, The second to receive 50 sous out of the stakes, and the third to save hia stake. A winner of a handicap subsequent to the declaration of the weights of 200 soya or upwards, 611) extra ; of two of that value, 91b extra ; the winner of the Derby or Oaks, 91b extra. Two miles. 60 subs, 30 of whom declared. Nr. G. Forster's Underhand, 3 yre 6st llb ...(Plumb) 1 Lord Zstland's Skirmisher, 3 yrs, 6.t 10ib (Charlton) 2 Mr. \V: Robinson's El Hakim, 3 yrs, sst (W. Little) 3 Mr. Jackson's Mongrel, 3 yrs, 6st 6ib (Challoner) 4 Mr. Lister's Pantomime, aged, 7st 121 b ...(Snowden) 5 Sir C. Monck's Vandal, 5 yrs, Est 10Ib (Cresswell) 6 Mr. Davidson's Barad°, 5 yrs, sst 111 b (Elardcastle) 7 Betting—Even on Skirmisher, 9 to 2 agst Underhand, sto 1 agst Mongrel, 7 to 1 agst Vandal, 10 to 1 each agst El Hakim and Pantomime, The lot got away at the first attempt ; Barmier, who cut out the work for his stable companion, El Hakim, leading, with El Hakim second, Mongrel third, Vandal fourth, Underhand fifth, and Skirmldier last. Ia this order they ran at a mode rate pace until after rouading the Newcastle turn, when Mongrel took the lead, Vandal going on second and Skirmisher third, but in the next 200 yards Skirmisher went to the front, followed by Mongrel, Underhand., and El Hakim in the order named, and thus they ran until nearing the coal pit turn, when Underhand took second place, with El Hakim thisdand Mongrel fourth. El Ha kim went up to the favoarite, and ran with him up to the distance, where El llakim was in difficulties, and Underhand challenged Sr.irmisher and beaded him half way up the distance. A. splendid race home ensued, which ended in favour of Underhand by a head ; El Hakim was beaten a couple of lengths from Skirmisher ; Mongrel was a bad fourth. The race was good for the last three quarters of a mile only. Prioress fil y was struck out at 2.15 p.m. The Commercial Visitors' Stake of 50 soya each, 3 ft, with 50 added, for 3-yr-olds and'up wards. Optional selling weights, &c. About one mile. 10 subs. Mr. Allen's Plausible, 5 pre, (25/ ), B , t 2th...(Kendall) 1 Mr. J. Meny's Cock. Robin, 3 yrs (25/.), Est 111 b (Cresswell) 2 Mr. Thompson's Rawcliffe, 3 yrs (351.), Est 111 b (J. Forster) 3 Mr. Dickson's c by Annandale—Messalina, 3 yrs (25.) 6-t 111 b Batting-2 to len Plausible, sto 2 agst Rawcliffe. Won eas , ly by a neck, half a length bctweeh the second and third, good fourth. The winner was sold by auction to Mr. J. Merry for 121 guineas. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas ; three-yr-olds, 7st ; four, Bst 10Ib ; five, 9,t 4lb ; six and aged, 9st 71b. Three miles. Mr. Hunt's Geteral Williams ' 3 yrs, 7st...(Challaner) 1 Mr. Jackson's Sneeze, 3 yrs, 7st (Bullock) 2 Mr. J. G. Hendersou'a Logie o' Buchan, 3 yrs, 7st (J. Forster) Batting-2 to 1 on. General Williams, sto 2 agst Suetz , :. Won by 10 lengths, about the same distance between the second anct third. THURSDAY. Tyne Handicap. Courtooay La Vieture Sprig of Shillelagh Speculation Plato Caliph Ondiue Gateshead Stakes. Saunterer ...walked over. Corporation Plate. Vandal . ... .. General `Nil Tams Nine ran. STOCKBRIDG - E RACES-THURSDAY. Seventh Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 sous each, for 4-yr-olds ; colts, Bst - 101b ; fillies, 84t 503. Certain penalties and allowances. Two miles and a half. 49 sub.. Captain White's Aleppo, Sat 101 b (Flatman) 1 Mr. U. Hitl's Rogerthorpe, Oct .(A. Day) 2 B.ron RothsOild's Turk, Bst 71h (D. Hughes) 3. Mr. G. W. Fitz wil liana's Wentworth, Bst llb (G. Mann) 4 Betting.-5 to 4 agst Aleppo, sto 2 agst Rogerthorpe, 3to 1 agst Turk, sto 1 agst Wentworth. Won by a length ; the others tailed off. The Stockbridge Ddrby, a sweepstakes of 25 soya each, with 200 - added ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, 6.b. Certain penalties and allowances. The second to receive 100 soya out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake. mile. 37 subs. Lord Milton's Ignoramus, Bst 101 b (J. Osborne) 1 Mr F. Robinsou's Anton, Bst 101 b Mr E. Day's Slanderer, Bst 101 b. (D. Hughes) 3 Lord Chfden'a colt by Surplice—Beeswax, Bst 51b (Flatman) 4 Betting.-7 to 4 on Ignoramus, 100 to 5, bar two, offered. 5 to 1 and 9 to 2 were taken about Ignoramus winning this event and the St. Leger, and 1,690 to 10 about Anton winning this event and the Sr. Leger. When the horses had got well together the starter was prevented from lowering his flag owing to Anton being off the course and behind a heap of mould. The signal, however, was soon given, and we may at once state that the race was throughout confined to two, the Beeswax colt and Slander dropping hopelesrli into the rear after going about 100 yards. Ignoramus was first off, but was soon passed by Anton, who, with a lead of about a dozen lengths, made the running at a good pace. On r ounding the last turn, Ignoramus gradually crew upon Anton, headed hint at the St end enclosure, and won easily by half a length. Slanderer and Beeswax colt were tailed off. Ninth StockbridieTiienTiia.lStake;of 10 sovs each, fur 2 -3 r-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 51b. Those by s , allions or out of mares that never bred a winner al lowed 31b. T.Y.C. 33 subs. Mr B J wee's Star of the East, Bst 71b (Flttman) 1 Sir J. B. Mill's c by Bay Middleton—Cymba, Bst 101 b (G. Mann) 2 Lord Portsmouth's The Pinsticker, B st s lb (D. Hughes) 3 The following also ran :—Rose of Cashmere, and Scourge. Betting—Even on Cymba colt, 5 to 2 agst Star of the East. Won by a neck, a length between second and third, bad fourth. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 addedf for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Optionil selling weights, &c. T.Y.C. 9 subs. Mr. IL Hill's Admiralty, 2 yrs (301.), sst 21b (Blackbarn) 1 Mr. Newbold's Benefit, 3 yrs, (301), sst 121 b (Salter) 2 Mr. Parker's f by Joe Lovel, Terpsichore, 2 yrs (301 ) sst 21b 3 Mr. E. Hall's Lady Elizabeth, 2 yrs (301.), Set 21b (Faulkner) 4 The following also ran :—Pomona, Blue Mantle, Ath lone, Lass of Richmond-hill, and Mangosteen. Betting-5 to 2 agst Lady Elizabeth, 4 to 1 agst Po mona, 6 to 1 agst any other (offered). Won by six lengths ; a head between the second and third ; half a length between the third and fourth. The winner was sold by auction to Mr. Y. King. The Stewards' Plate of 100 stove, added to a sweepstakes of 10 soya each. for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Certain penalties and allowances. Two miles. 40 subs. Mr. T. Parr's Fisherman, 4 yrs, Bst, 91b (Wells) 1 Mr. Soewing's Pole Star, 5 yrs, 89 Sib ...(J. Goater) 2 Lord Clifden's Brother to Homily, 3 yrs, Est 61b (Bra)) 3 THE MOORS.—Throughout the winter grouse have been :n fine condition—their plumage glossy, flight vigorous, and the well-known crowing of the cock s loud and clear. The nesting time is now over, with very favourable weather. On all low moors the young broods are strong, and counting from eight to ten in a covey. A sportsman, well known for great feats on the moors and in the deer glens, writes from his shooting quarters on the 4th of June:—" Grouse are quite healthy, and stags are getting very forward in condition. I expect better herds this season than we have seen for the last three or four years." Another sportsman writes on the 7th of June :—"I am happy to g disaive good d accounts of my hill, disease having quite ppeare. A. great many grouse are hatched and strong ; and, should the fine weather continue, and water not become scarce, I think we may promise ourselves a capital year." From all we have heard it appears certain that wherever there was a sufficient breeding stock ' there will be at least average sport. No season for a long is time earlier has by promised better for deer-stalking —grass a month than last year, and ee those who are versed in the beauties of angers will be gratified to find the caberfeigh in perfection.— Inverness Courier. CRID(E IN SCOTLAND.—A blue-book just published gives long tabular statements of crime in Scotland in the year 1856. From the abstract it would appear that the number of persons charged with offences in 1856 exhibits an increase of 2'2863 per cent. ; 2,591 rnal,s and 1,122 females were committed, 2,996 tried, 2,762 convicted, outlawed, or found insane, 926 convicted as relapsed or previously convicted culprits, and three con demned to death. The proportion of convictions to committals was 74'3873 per cent., and the proportions of acquittals to committals 25'6127 per cent. ; 1,046 were offences against the person, 3so against property with and 1,942 against property without violence, 79 malicious offences against property, and 85 offences against the currency. Offences against the person have increased 7 . 613 per cent. ; offences against property, without violence, 5'77342 per cent, and malicious offences against property, 1 282 per cent. Forgery and currency offences have decreased 31 . 451 per cent. 716 persons (of both sexes) could read or write, 2,352 could do both imperfectly, 556 could do both very well, and 81 had a superior education. Of the 234 acquitted, 179 got off by the open verdict of " Not proven." Three of the criminals were sentenced to be hanged, 72 to be transported, 202 to penal servitude, 2,170 to imprison ment, nine to be flagellated, and 223 to fines, Ignoramus was struck out at 3.15 p.m. Batting-7 to 4 on Pole Star , 2 to 1 ag4t Fisherman, 100 to 5 agst Brother to Homily, pole. Star made the running until nearing the dtaance, when Fisherman j ,fined her, challenged her opposite the Stand, and won a most exciting race in by a head. Very bad third. The Mottisfont Stakes of 15 soya each, 10 ft, with 100 added ; for 2-yr-ol:i colts, 85t 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b. Winners extra. T.Y.C. 28 subs. Sir L. Newman's Vandyke, Bot 101 b (A.. Day) 1 h r. Parker'OVilton, Bst 1016 .....................(Wells) 2 Mr. B. E. Cooper's The Bald Faced Stag, Bst 101 b (Fiattnan) 3 Mr. H. Hill's The Beacon, Bst 101 b (G. Mann) 4 Betting-7 to 2on Vandyke, 6 to 1 agat Wilton. Won by a neck ; bad third. Eighth Stockbridge Triennial Stakes of 10 sous each, for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillie., Bst 51b ; certain penalties and allowances. One mile and a.half. 33 Mr. F. Robinson's Anton, Bst 101 b (A.. Day) w.o. Flatman weighed for R. E. C toper's King of the Forest, Bst 71b, a❑d the horse went to the post, but was ultimately withdrawn. BETTING ON THE COURSE. ST. LEQER. 2to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken and offered) GOODWOOD STAKES. 20 to 1 agst Fulbeck (take') 20 to 1 agst Fisherman (taken) DERBY. 100 to 6 agst Clydesdale (taken) 20 to 1 agst Streamer (taken) Very little betting. GOODWOOD STAKES.—Relapse, 3 yri, sst 51b, should have been included in the list of acceptances published yesterday. "LIITLE DORRIT." By CHIRLES DICKENS. It is a great pleasure , and yet a great grief to us also, that Little Dorrit has arrived at List, in due course, at the period of its termination. We have never yet closed the green double number (xix and xx) of any one of Mr. Dickens's elaborated serial tales with ut this Billie mingled feeling of chagrin and satisfaction. It is precisely the same with us now, in regard to this concluding instalment of Little Dorrit, precisely the same as it has been with us previously, in various degrees, after a perusal of the closing chapters of Bleak House, of Martin Chuzzlewit, of Donibey and Son, or of David Copperfield. Observe—we have said "as it has been with us previously, in various degrees." The pleasure and grief we have here very sincerelyspoktn of, being, of course, proportioned to the excellenee of each particular performance. Delight at the final satisfaction of a long sustained, a piqued, and sometimes even a tantalized curiosity I Regret that the dear companion of many a gladdened month before, will be surely, surely missed by us here after ! Such—we need hardly have said to m tuy thousands upen thousands—are the conflicting emotions (agreeable to the last, notwithstanding their in oongiuity) with which we end our first reading of one of these great composite fictions by one whose name we have long learned to love and honour as that of the most delightful of all English Humorists. Any one who happens not to have yet read " Little Dorrit," but tvho has of course read one or more of Little Dorrit's predects aura, may, at once by an appeal to the memory, imagine our " regrets " at least, on putting aside —finished and done with for the time being (in fact until the next reading)—the last new story by Charles Dickens ! Recollect, for example, how it was with you—un ler the like straight—you who were readers in your time of "Martin Chuzzlewit," "the immortal narrative," as Sir Edward Lytton genially calls it in the last number of Blackwood, in the commencement of his new serial tale in monthly instalments! Remember how loath we were then to part, so far as the first reading was concerned [and the first reading of a fiction is its very life, as any after perusal is merely a recollec tion of it] —how loath ive were to part then, for once and for all, from the midst of that crowd of motley and familiar characters ! Wonderful Sa,ireir Gamp and her apochryphal acquaintance Mrs. Harris— chirrappiug Poll Sweedle pipes and Bailey Junior straddling about during the whole story the most delectable and incorrigible of Jackanapes—Tom Pinch " Dear Tom; Old Friend," about whom a clever critic in a recent number of Maga, wrote to our thinking little short of " rank blasphemy"— Pecksniff, that most sleek and oleaginous " Greek Chorus" in broadcloth—Montague Tigg alias Tigg Montague, with his Anglo Bengalee great hocus pocus swindling association—and with these how many more ; the Spy Naddgett, the murderer Jonas, M. Todgers whose gender still seems to us to savour somewhat of the epicene, Mark Tapley, Mrs. Lupin, John Westlock, Old Chuffey, Ruth, Cherry, Merry, Betsey Prig, Young Martin, Old Martin Chuzzlewit ! The cata logue threatens to be interminable—we cease. Re collect how gladly we would have lingered longer in the midst of them, thosevivid delineations, those li teral " creations," those seemingly tangible, visi ble, living-and breathing personages. And you who have not read " Little Dorrit," but who have read " Martin Chuzzlewit," may fancy the throng of familiar figures now scattering away from us int 3 thin air at that ghostly exorcism - "The End"—fatal as the sound of cock crow to the witches of theWalpurgis ! Yet scattered from us thus by the so far unwelcome close of our first perusal—the characters of Little Dorrit like so many hundreds of those in Little Dorrit's preJe cessors will live long (better this than flies in amber !) in the perpetuating medium of a most vivid 'remembrance. What characters ' what creations they are many of them ! Pancle4, the Tug. Casby, the Patriarch. Gentle, anly hearted Arthur Clennam. Flora per fectly natural, yet utterly preposterous. Plor nish, the good-natured, •growling plaister-r. Mrs. Plornish, his hdpmate, with her rare Italian ac complishments. Little Mr. Nandy, her old father —of Phyllis and Chloe, and yet also of the Work house. Dear Little Dorrit. Uncle Frederick of the Clarionet. Mr. Dorrit, of Mayfair, and likewise —hum —ha— of the Marshalsea. Blandois Rigaud (of Paris), Chevalier cl'lndustrie—he, of the descending nose and the ascending moustache. Mrs. Clennam, old Flint winch, Affery, Tip, Fanny, Merdle, Meagles, Doyce, Gowan, Maggy, Mr. F.'s Annt, Sparkler, Physician, Bishop, Bar ! All the well-to-do denizens of the g'y world—and all the ill-to-do denizens of the poor miserab'e dilapidated world of the Marshal sea. What a microcosm the book is ! _ replete —in spite of its shortcomings—with tra gedy and comedy, with the homely and the eltritch, the romantic and the commonplace, the pathetic and the ridiculous I The author expressis a very natural wish in his preface to the effect that now the various threads of his narrative arewoveu to a conclusion, it may not be unreasonable on his part to ask " that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern fiuishei." How reasonable this wish is, to our thinking, may be conjectured, when we add that in this double number the manifold mysteries of Little Dorrit are surprisingly explained. Observe are ex plained, are actually accounted for—not slurred over, but accounted for. Flintwinch's shadowy " double "—Mrs. Clennam's "motives "—all the ghostly sounds and rumours about the House up in Crutches—RigawFs power over "them two clever ones." Everything in the story, we repeat, is ex plained that seems to require, and at the same time to defy explanation. It is the most rational expla nation, indeed, of apparently inscrutable enigmas that we c►n call to mind since the winding up of " The Mysteries of Udolpho." As to the fall of the House upon Crutches—(a fall which Mr. Dickens may re►sember we ourselves anticipated)—Poe had already, in one of his brief wierd Tales of Glamour, employed the same grimly idea by way of solution ! We allude to his record of "The Fall of the House of Usher." Here is the incident as described by Mr. Dickens, with a pen dipped in the ink of De Balzac. Blandois has been left alone in the house, smoking upon the window sill— " whoof I"—his moustache going up and his nose coming down "as he ogles a great beam over his head with particular satisfaction." A short time afterwards— It was one of those summer evenings when there is no greater darkness than a long twilight. The vista of street and bridge was plain to see, and the sky was serene and beautiful. People stood and sat at their doors, playing with children and enjoying the evening; num ber.; were walking for air ; the worry of the day had al most worried itself out, and fow but themselves were hurried. As they crossed the bridge, the clear steeples of the many churches looked as if they had advanced out of the murk that usually enshrouded them and come much nearer. The smoke that rose into the sky had lost its dingy hue and taken a brightness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. From a radiant centre, over the whole length and breath of the tranquil firmament., great shoots of light streamed among the early stars, like signs of the blessed later covenant of p:?.ace and hope that changed the crown of thorns into a glory. Less remarkable, now that she was not alone and it was darker, Mrs. Clennarn h urr ied on at Little D.,rrit s side, untii,loAted. They left the great thoroughfare at the turning by wnich she had entered it, and wound their way down among the silent, empty, cross-streets. Their feet were at the gateway, when there was a end dee noise like tbun 'er. 6' Whit was that ! Let us make haste in," cried Mrs. Clennane. They were in the gateway. Little Dorrit, with a piercing cry, held her back. In one swift instant, the old house was before them, with the man lying smoking in the window ; another thundering sound, and it heaved, surged outward, opened asunder in fifty places, collapsed, and fell. Deafened by the noise, stifled, choked, and blinded by the dust, they hid their faces and stood rooted to the spot. The dust storm, driving between them and the placid sky, parted fur a moment and showed them the stars. As they looked up, wildly crying fur help, the great pile of chimneys which was then alone left standing, like a tower in a whirlwind, rocked, broke, and hailed itself down upon the heap of ruin, as if every tumbling fragment were intent on burylng the crushed wretch deeper. Ultimately, we are told, on digging out the ruins they found "the dirty heap of rubbish that had been the foreigner before his head had been shivered to atoms like so much 01 23 by the giant beam that lay upon him, crushing him." As a contrast to this horrid casualty take the laughter-moving vengeance wreaked by Pancks upon the Last of the Patriarchs. Proprietor and Grubber, have been the central figure in a final tableau in Bleeding Hart-yard, when — Quick as lightning, Mr. Pancks, who,. for some mo ments, had had his right hand in his coat pocket, whipped out a pair of shears, s wooped upon the Pa triarch behind, and snipped o ff short, the sacred locks that flowed upon his shoulders. In a paroxysm of animosity and rapidity, Mr. Pancks then caught the broad-brimmed hat out of the astounded Patriarch's hand, cut it down into a mere stewpan, and fixed it on the Patriarch's head. Before the frightful results of this desperate action, Mr. Pancks himself recoiled in consternation. A bare polled, goggle-eyed, big-headed, lumbe r i ng personage stood staring at him, not in the least impres,ive, not in the least venerable, who seemed to have started out of the earth to ask what was become of Mr. Casbil• After staring at this phantom in return, in silent awe, Mr. Pancks threw down his shears, and fled for a place of hiding, .where he might lie sheltered from the cons equences of his crime. M r . P an cks deemed it prudent to use _all possible dispatch in making off, R. 100 IBuckgharnsl, R. 100 'Clycleeale Jc. 5 all I Col.StJur Vy. it. 100 E.Lin. g. 6 p.t 5 all E. Un. H. Sh. it.loo Gas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. !DO Do. NeW 25 , all IGlstr.&Dn.Fr. i 0 all Hull & Selby. ;5 all Do. Shares. .2A all Do. I Shares. .21 all. Lon.&Greenwi !O all Do. Preference it. 100 Lon. Til., &S. .0 74 Do. Birk. Sh. 5} all Manch.Bxton. and Matlock it. 100 Maid. Bradfd. 64 54 Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. all IN. clitst.s 50 all Do. 6 per Ct 50 all Do. 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I too 29 8 9,1 50 491 77 8 15i i 15 48 50 38i —39 i Par 1 P 36 - 37 56 - 57 6 - 7 10 id 1071 though ha was pursued by noting but the sound of lanuter in Bleeding Hart Yard, rip2iing through the air, and making it ring again. Does anyone wish—rather, does not everybody who has read Little Dorrit wish i olearn s , met hing (before closing she book) about the WhereaLouts of the vanished old debtor's prison of the Msrshalsea Here is the eminently. characteristic record by Mr. Dickens (:n his preface) of his own pers anal researches into the matter down at Bermondsey. He writes - - Some of my readers may have an interest in being in formed whether or no any prtions of the Marshalies Prison are yet standing. I did not knaw, myself, until. the sixth of this preteut manth, when I went to look. I found the outer front courtyard, often mentioned in this story, metamorphosed into a butter-shop; and I then lmost gave up every brie& of the . jail for lost. Wan dering, however, down a certain adjacent " Angel Court, leading to Bermondsey," I came to " Marshal. sea Place ;" the houses in which I reclgirsed, not only as the great block of the former prison, bat as preserving the rooms that arose in my mind'.-eye when' I became Little Dorrit's biographer. The smallest boy I,ever conversed with, carrying the largest baby I ever saw, offered a supernaturally intelligent explanation of the locality in its old uses, and was very nearly oorriet. How this young Newton (for such I judge him to b 4) came by his information, I don't know ; he was a quar. tor of a century too young to know anything ahout it of himself. I pointed to the room where Little Dorrit was barn, and where her father lived so long, and a ked him the name of the lodger who tenanted that apartment at present ? He said " Tom Pythick." I asked him who was Tom Pythick ? and he said, " Joe Pphick's uncle." From this same brief yet ample Preface We learn with delight, but not by any means with wonder—(for a popularity like that of Charlie Dickens, true, and noble, and genuine, and good, like his own Rare Genius, must inevitably expand rather than contract in proportion as the know ledge of it spreads, and with the knowledge of it the no less inevitable appreciation)—that "never* has he had so many readers ! He said the same thing (as he reminds the public) in his Preface to Ble t,k House. And he adds, "In the preface to its suc cessor, Little Darrit, I have stall to repeat the same words." An announcement his many realers will receive, one and all, with no trival sense of satisfaction. It is from the introductory pages to Little Dorrit that we cull—(a blossom betw‹ en the two last green leaves of the serial) —our conso lation upon closing Mr. Dickens's latest narrative. " Deeply sensible of the affection and confident) that have grown up between u.," writes Mr. Dickens to his readers, " I add to this Prefacc.., es I added to that [the Preface to Bleak House}—May we meet again 1" How many will echo " with a heart and a half" that plea , ant aspiration I TH& "PRINCE CONSORT." At the Council which was held yesterday an order was passed for publishing a Letter Patent, by which the Queen gran's to Prince Albert the title of "Prince Consort" during their joint lives. No one can object to the distinction which is thus conferred on the husband of the Queen after 17 years of married life. We are not now concerned to say whether the title of " Prince Consort" gives to the possessor any accession of heraldic rank which continental Chamberlains would recognise. Suffice it to say that it makes Prince Albert legally, as he already is actually, a member of the British Royal Family. Hitherto the Prince has had no British rank whatever. Philip of Spain was titular King of England, but the Consort of the present Queen is only what he was prior to his marriage—a Prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha. He has not even received a British Peerage. Although a naturalised subject of the British Crown, Prince Albert has hitherto lo:)rne only his German title, and out of England takes, we believe, according to the code of Court precedence, only his rank as a younger brother of a Ducal German house. Although styled "Royal" among ourselves, and no doubt invested by courtesy with Royal honours in friendly States, the Prince has by birth a claim only to the title of " Serene Highness," and must yield prece dence to numerous scions of continental Royalty, whose lot is obscure comparatively with his own. Her Majesty has then certainly transgressed no bound of moderation when, after a reign of 20 years, she confers on her husband a title which, without giving him any authority at home, assures to him a high and definite position abroad. Prince Albert will now meet foreign Royal families with the status of a British Priuce of the highest rank. Already, by Royal Order, he has taken precedence of all members of the reigning family in England, the new title only assures to him the same position in other countries, where these matters are ordered by immemorial usage rather thin in accordance with the statutes of any particular monarchy. We may well acquiesce, therefore, in the act which the natural affection of our Queen has prompttd in making this innovation on English heraldry. The law of this country has, indeed, always been that the rank of the wife confers no dignity on the husband. No ilougbt this is in accordance with the law which determines the descent of dignities in England. All our old English Baronies and a great number of the Scottish Peerages are, like the Crown, heritable by women. So, in default of a Saha Law, we have established by custom another which th e non-existence of the former almost renders neces sary—namely that thehusband shall receive no rank, dignity, or precedence in right of his wife. This bas become so much a part of our jurisprudence that we are inclined to forget that it is hardly un derstood in many parts of Europe. In Spain and Portugal, both lately governed by Queens, the Consorts of the Sovereign had the title of " King." It was thought no more than just that the hus band of a Queen Regnant should have the same social rank as his wife, even though he did not share her authority. Her Majesty is certainly the bast judge whether a similar regulation in England will enhance the dignity of her husband. If the title of "Prince Consort" gives to Prince Albert a higher position at the Courts where the Wife's dignity naturally attaches to her Consort, the people of England can have no objection to the graut. It is within the prerogative of the Sove reign of England to bestow any title of honour or any place in precedence, although a , :tual authority within the realm can only be conititntionCly exer cised in pursuance of an Act of Parliament. Prince Albert, therefore, may fairly bear his new title. We cannot, indeed, believe that the change was necessary to obtain for the Prince fitting respect among ourselves. For 17 years he has receive! almost every honour which the Crown or the great Corporations of the country can bestow. The list of his titles and offices obtained before middle age is . a proof of the public respect for himself or the widely diffused loyalty to the Crown. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort of the United King dom will be to us pretty much the same as his Royal Highness the Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. But, in spite of the poet, there is much in a name, and, if there be increased homage rendered to the new title on the banks of the Spree or the Danube, the English people will be happy to sanction and adopt it. --Times. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Juno 21.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.; light breeze, and sultry weather. SGUT HAMPTON, June 25.—Arrived--Indiana (s.s.), from New York. - PORTSMOUTH, June 25.--Wind S.S.E.—Arrived — Her Majesty's steamer Avon, from Woolwich ; her Majesty's Leopard, Devouport. Sailed—H.M.S. Melville, for Coins.. -- - (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind N. Arrived—Wyoming, from Philad el p hia ; Minha, screw Arrived--Wyoming, steamer, Oporto. Sailed--Lancaster, for Philadelphia; Annie, Archibald ; William Stetson, New Y ork ; Magrico, Lisbon Gambia Havre ; Oliver Putman, Calcutta ; Peter Jean, P ara Macedonian, Alexandria. QUEENSTOWN, June 24. Wind S S.W. Arrived —Georg e, from Girgen t i ; Reaper, Tripoli . Har riet and Molly , R io Grande ; Julia Cobb, Cardenas ; Fair y Queen, Rio Grand e ; Marth a Pope, Girgenti ; Roh-i-Noort Matanzas ; Plantagenet, Windsor, N.S. 011—Urania, from Antigua. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.30 cm. Wind calm ; tide five , hours' ebb ; fi ne. Arrived, June 25—Francis A. Palmer from Callao Eleane, Randers; Frederick Franz, Minitalan ; El Dorado, Nina, Picton. Call ; Arrived, June 26—G o ld en Fl eece, f ro m Algoa-bay ; Christiana Margaretta, Ramdere. George Sailed, Juno 26—O r i en t, f or Ad e laide; St. , Demerara. D EAL , Friday, 9 a.m. Wind N.N.E., light. Kong ; A Aden ; Don Eagle, bask, Sunderland Passed, June 25—Inkerman from London, for Hong Avon, London, Boston ; Passed—Suake, for Cape of Good Hope ;Lady Ann, nyde, Boston —all from London. Antonio, Liverpool, Hamburg. Adelaide; Seine,' screw steamer, Dieppe; Mary Ann e Hudson's Bay ; Anchored—Tamar, from Colombo, for London. Sailed—Minstrel Boy, for London. The Archbishop of Milan, Count de Romidy, is to receive a cardinals hat, and to be summoned to Rome, the place left vacant being filled by Prince Schwartzen. b ore , Cardinalarchbi,hop of Prague. BATTERSEA NEW PARK AND CHELSEA NEW BRIDAL Yesterday evening a public meeting numbering at least chiefly of the working classes, took t i ve thousand people, place at the loot of the new bridge, at Chelsea, to pro. test a, , nin-t the imposition of a toll ou that bridge. Amongst those present were Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P., General Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., Mr. Alcock, M.P., and Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. Resolution'. in conformity with the objects of the meeting were agreed to unanimously. 14 a nd Cur r.• ;ban, 'meg, [tting 4 the HdaYl Elaol. , am ber Ir. IP. )Al'• 109 i IGa 20i 59 7 384 9 ii 1 I