The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-02 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Advices from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market on Saturday closed quietly, and prices of Egyptians were id. dearer, but all other kinds were unchanged from Friday's currency. The sales were 7,000 bales. The Railway Share Market was quiet, and prices were generally steady. The condition of the Money Market during the past month is thus described in the Bankers' Ma gazine :—There has been little amelioration in the position of general financial affairs. The relief afforded by the payment of the dividends and the arrival of Australian gold has been wholly tem porary, and a revived demand has again been ap parent, which, it is feared, may eventually lead to an increase in the rate of discount by the Bank Directors. The present minimum of 6 per cont. is comparatively high, as they have augmented the terms for advances on stock to 64 per cent. If the present pressure should continue they will be obliged to adopt additional restrictions with reference to the negotiation of mercantile paper. For the last week it has been expected that such a movement would be announced, but the gold withdrawn to supply the requirements of the Irish banks during the late partial panic having returned, it has assisted to support the metallic reserve. As, however, the drain for export to the Continent has set in in renewed severity and the remittances from Australia and Atherica are not at this period extensive, an apprehension is entertained that not only may the stock of bullion be further trenched upon, but that the supplies themselves from these sources will be purchased and sent to Paris. Under such circumstances the Directors cannot follow any other policy, but it is to be hoped that the inquiry will not be maintained at a level which will either distress commerce or inter fere with the prosperity which it was supposed would be initiated by peace. The discount houses find ample employment for the whole of the funds they can command, but no further alteration has occurred in the allowance for deposits." The Discount Market continues vary stringent, but there is not more than the usual pressure im mediately before the 4th of the month. On the present occasion, however, as frequently before re marked, there are other circumstances to augment the demand, among which the most prominent are the approaching settlement of the qonsol account, and the payment of called-in joint-stock companies' shares. The full rate of 6 per cent. is charged for the best bills, while those of a second or third rate description are not negotiable except on much higher terms. The brokers and bankers are finding full employment for all the capital they can command, but they have not in creased their allowance for deposits. There is now less uneasiness with regard to the course the Bank Directors will pursue in consequence of the general complexion of the Bank Return, the receipt of about 600,0001. in silver, and the expected arrivals of gold from Australia. The drain of gold from this country continues, as much as 60,0001. having been taken from the Bank on Saturday, and it is expected that further sums will leave during the current week. Unless steady and ex tensive remittances from the Antipodes are received, therefore, we may yet expect a material diminution in the metallic reserves of Threadneedle-street ; but affairs have not assumed such an unfavourable aspect as to indicate an immediate alteration in the minimum. The Ecuatorian Coinmission of Agency received a remittance of 1,0001. on Saturday on account of Ecuatorian dividends. The English Stock Market is very quiet to-day, the arrangements connected with the settlement of the account being now in progress. At pre sent, therefore, very few fresh engagements are entered into, but sales still preponderate. Consols, for money, have been 93 to 93i and 92 to 93, while for the sth instant they have been 94, 93, and 931. The March quotation is 93i f. The New 3 per Cents. are 93i the Reduced 931 I, and Exchequer Bonds 98i 4. Bank Stock is 2174, India Bonds under 1,0001. are marked 3s. discount to par. The bargains in the Foreign Market are exceed ingly limited, but the prices are generally firm. Turkish 6 per Cents. have been 921 to 93 and 931 4, but the 4 per Cents. are merely nominal. Spanish New Deferred are 231 4, and the Certificates are flatter, viz., 61 to 61. Mexican Stock is 211 1, and Guatemala Bonds have been 68 ex dividend. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 21 22 ; Mexi can, 214 4 ; Peruvian, 78 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 544 5i ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 5 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 9 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 95 7 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40i 41 ; ditto Deferred, 234 ; ditto Certificates, 61 4 ; ditto Passive, 646. In the Railway Share Market there is but little change to report in prices. One or two of the leading lines have shown a slight improvement, but the variation has not been to any , important extent. Caledonian, Chester and Holyhead, and East Lancashire advanced about ss. North West ern, South-Western, Midland, and Great Northern fully mr.iatained previous values. There were no dealings reported in the I French lines, but Canada ruled steady. 431-rand Trunk of Canada advanced 59., and Great Western of Canada ss. British Mining Shares have been rather actively dealt in, and North Frances and Wheal Edward have realised slightly improved terms. Foreign Mining Shares are quite at nominal values. Joint Stock Bank Shares rule dull. Bank of Egypt are rather firmer, as also Oriental Bank. Miscellaneous Shares have been little inquired for, and prices have shown no material variation from Saturday's quotations. RITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES-I'4lS DAY. (-Emil the Offlesa/ List.) Bank Stock ................... ....ez. ............ 21'77'1 gone. 3 , u. " ut , riedllool "trinuiti 3 ~. { lent, •••nfrolp Arinsrit , ,,, .. . ' ......... 93 ei New 3 per Cent. Annuities ... ... ....... ' ..... 93 i 24 3* India Stock ........................................ 93 in n. ~,,, , l t, , kigulo .„ ... .. .. ... 2lB 20 Ditto, under £lOOO ................... -- Consols ~1 , c couin. E*(l.l6qu, 'ln , ie --- 93 2i .} n 001............ 3 a Par 5tie11'....................... .. .. ... . . 1 p - il22i ...... 1 p Ditto Bonds, 1858, 30 per Cent 9Bl r ', Ditto, 1859 ....... . . PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DA.y. Vquador New Consolidated . 110 Gnatemala Bonds, 5 per cent 5B x d Mexican .-; per • ent ............ Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1853, :Iper Cent .................. Russia,' Rends, 1 , 422, i St., 5 per Cent — D itto, 4i per Cent. ~ .p 1 , 1,h .ioude, .ik per.' out . . ........... ••• • ' D itto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .". ..."... " . 231 i s Polish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 6, i a a Tnor -ibil Bends, 6 per cent Ditto Account - D itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. - Ditto A ccoun t !enamel% Bonds 44 per Cent D itto Asecant ' S74 Ditto Deferred, 10 per Cent. . . I)4t ch en N at i 1". , ..h. , r r n. Exchange 20 per Ceti - j 12 Guilders D itto 4 p er Cent. Certificat es .' C onsols, money 93 THREBO;CLOCK. Ditto, Amount (Feb. 5.) 20 20 20 11, EESENTATION Or COLCHESTER.--A n address from Lord John Manners, announcing his intended retire 4ent'from the representation of this bor oug h, was i ss u e d te on Saturday evening. T iao ."MATE ON LIEUTENANT-GENERAL S IR ,N ATHANIEL 111 % B , K.ll. K.C.Binquest was held on Thursdhy ast, before ' Mr. Minckton, coroner, at Upcott house, near Taunton, the residence of General Thorn, on the body of that gentleman, who died suddenly on the previous day, a few hours after his return from London. The jury returned a verdict of "Died by the visitation of God.'' General Thor.n 'entered the army as er ',. B ign in O c t o b er , 1802, and had consequently been fifty-.five years in the service. He was made a lieutenant general in June, 1859, and obtained the coloneloy of the Third B u ff s i n J uly o f t h a t year. H e had been more han fifty years in the service, and on Saturday week Was kia , ghted by her Majesty at Windsor Castle at an investiture of the Order of the Bath, SHARE MARKETS —(This Day.) W, Shr. ivaici, Clo.inw Pnc this clay. Bumness done this day a.aILWA pa. Ambg. ?To Estitt.. Jun • ilymt- RI - rating. Volvo Stour Valkty Birk Lau •ai iceslttre 'Do. 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Ricardo's arrangement Si ... )o. ilirmag.& Der Ildld. G. West. (I • c )o. Half Shares... Newcastle & Carlist Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrf Newry & Enniskill , Newry, Warrenpo)ni and Rostrever.,... Ntorfolk ....... lorthn.Counties r North British Devot Rail Dock Stock Do., A Stock...— ), , B Stock .... N. Eastern—Ber.v , o. do. Zatensiob ) ?tiro , Do. Leeds 10. York north L0nd0n..,., 4 . &S. Wstrn., Rt.", at +ad, an , i City J' ' , forth - Stafford;hi , lorth Western—... . & S. West rn. Jiin Wore., r - t• ,-aenth Eihymney . ott, Scot. N E.Abrdn St. Do. Scot. Mid. St 4., rTni SitinrbourneUSheer. moat i D ,voa South E3.8t,n).... loath WAles Yrksh. & Riv."Flq A . a;ne.,Wok &Wn Stockton & DivAng do., 1554 Do.; do., 1855 ;to 4ton di Hartle faff Vale ~ ;o. Pref No. 1 r"•amee }fay. D.& Vnle of Neath...., Oiraterti. &Ikon! VAterforl&Lima, West Cornwall.. ,Vest End of Load. and Crystal Palso•. Do. A . ...... Do. B West London._ Do. Fil st Class Do. Second Class— Wimble +- fik7='‘rn- filil i 2f 36 i 8 - .4;• 95: 53 - 5* ::;31 34 93 - 95 7 - 8 93t - 04 78 80 L 23 125 11 113 656 66 64 66 65 70 5 6 5 A 96,E 9R; 6i - 7 108 - 109 06 106 A 20# 211 104 10A $ .06i - 1074 33 34 821 -82 i 53 - .3i 146 53 55 3i - )9i 40, 836 84 4 3ij 3 2. 7 4 18} 59i cO3 98 102 5h 4id 7i 8 10 11 2i 28 108 25} 72 —74 i 85 3d 3 e 7 9 2 - 4 5 - 5i tvlak UAL t)aroGh, .., Olen. India, g. 5 p. c' Do. Ceylon A shares Do. B. do —moray% !astern Bengal . 4 :ast Indian A and B, g• 6P. ..... Do. Ex. l C, gu. 5 p. c 'Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D 0.4 )„. do. do., '55, d, Geelong t Melbourne. guar. 5 per cent.. Gd. Trunk of Caned :)o. Cert, of Deben, con. into Stk, VW' : i)o. Comp. 6 p. e., de Gt. In, Pen. g. 5 p. c Do New, guar. 5 p. c Wefiterp of °anvil+ Do. New.. , Du. Bda., payable 's' Do. do., '76, p. '60.. Do. do., '73 do Do. do., '73, withon option Niadras, guar. 4 p.c Do. do., 5 P. c. Do. 4i p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c Scrade, guar. 5 p. c. D 0... St. Andrew's and Quebec (4)— COLON' AL nits.. ntwervezit,tt rd tr. Ardennes , elgian Eastn. Jun, tnarßissoss c Buff. & Lk. Hut, Ry. Canneaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. retch ittieuiso • astern of Franc, 'Yew Euphrates Valley Eur..ln.Jn.Tel.Rail i it. Celina' of Frai, e 'rest le xembourq, Italian Junction 1,,k, ° ou s t . 8t Bael Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca a Pist. 5 p. c.p. ~.yous and Genera ;,you & Mediterrs , . Maria Antonia Do. do. New . .7.4 i nur & Liege Do. do., E p. c. Prof Northern of Fran. NorwegianTriankPre Paris and Lyons , Paris and Orleans Recife & San. Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. Rome and Frascati.. .;uyal Danish Royal Swedish iambre and Meuse 1.2 ). 6! p. cent. Pref, 4ortth ern of France , vest Flanders I)e 6 A per c Pref Wiesbaden Do. N. W. of F ranco W estern of Austria , cent.P;ef. W "t. of Switzerlad ~ 1 a l N'l,~~ ~:~. &astre.i/5.5,.. Hank of gypt Bank of London.. Col. t3k.Sttin. C ritish N. America., Chartd. Bank of Aai Buk. of India, Anstrala, & China City Colonial Commercial of Lord gutz.Scot.&Ans.Cht Lond. O'nart. Bk. of Australis ............. Ditto New ............. London and County.. bro. s-, E. Bnkg. Corp. London Joint Stock.. Loud. & Westminster National Pro.ef Eng Do. Now ........... National Bank ...... New South Wales.... Oriental isk. Corp... Ottoman Bank ...... Provincial of Ireland Do. New ............... R tins B Z i GO Ina (it 3 ,, nth Australia Unica of AuFtr , lta., I Do. Now I T., , ndor, Unity Mutual - YPeater►l ISt •)f Lund ~ ~- ~~ - 1 7 - lf 107 - 109 -- lip 211 - 214 49 - 51 81 83 20$ - 209 `24 - • 5 23 - 2ii 99 - 100 11* 123 118 - 123 108 110 19f —19 i 21t 21i 1 d Par, ••• - 2 p iltijbl 6 61 1# 11 1i 2An liP 41 5 par 1 321 32#, 9 10 par 41 51 'si - 29i 30) Sil 19 19 , 37k 37, 9 9i 543 -54 i 51 - 56 i - i P 18 - 20 I - I 8 -8i 41 4i 9§ 10 34 35 4 - lip KA.kUliks 94 95 1 8d 6 i 0p 5 .4 4; op 68 17i IN 18 - 'BA 17i -- 184 1.• • • ... "'". .0 . . '''' .w .w. 50 48 - 7 37 39 1 id - - - 36 Ex - 62 7 - 9 fi _ 9dl 10 i,"; 6d E SUN,. LQ ooN, MONDA ING, FEBRUABN, 2 1857, LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. THE MAGAZINES. Closing Prices Business RAILWAYS. o:npor,. this day.: this day ;.Tedford add Leadwi 131et , Thley „. N. W , ;•t.. Buckghamsli L.&N. W. 96 - 98 9B Clydesda,• Ca 1010,... 98 -- 102 Col. Stour V, , E. U. &E.O 11 - 13 F. Liu. g. 6 /ie. Gt. rt• n. 133 136 E. Un. H. SI:. E. Count. 4 4. Glas. Barr. Caldohjaa• Neils. Direct _ - Do. Now Do Gletr.4 Du Fr Gt. W. 3 srit Hrtlpl. Yk. Now. Railway... & Bcrw. & &lby Y. &N H- 109 - ill Do. Do.. ••• ••• Do. e Shares. Do ••• LOB. & Grealw S. Easters 12i - Do.Preferer:'o Do 23 -21 Lon,, Tit., k Pete &Co lOB - 110 Do. Bark. Sh, Do 1 p Lowostoft g:. 4 per cent Norfolk ... Do. 6 per et. Do.. ...... - Manch. 13= L.&N. W and Ma.tloeli & 21 2 Stekten & Redc.g 6 p.c. Darling t. ••• Midirl. Midland 92 Newmarket Bury E. G.spe En. Conn. .ir pm Pi.&Est.sp.e. E. Conuc. 56 -- Do. 6 per et. D 0... ••• ••• Do. Fixeds pc Do ..• ••. Prost. &AN yr L. Sit N. VI - Do. •.k Shrh. A Do Roystu. & Hit Gt ItTorth 132 - 135 Shef.Roth.an Laneash& Goole g. sp. e York sh. • Shrews. &H er T. Brassey S. Stailordsh. M.MClean 9 • 9i Wear Valleyg, Stockt. & 6 per cent... Dardngt Do Do.. 33 34 Wilts&'74mirst Git,Weara. 88 - 90 88 Blackwood.—lt would be difficult not to recog nise at once, in the very remarkable critical and biographical paper closing this February number of Blackwood, the master hand of one of the most gifted among the many gifted writers constituting the corps of Maga—let us say the Staff of Ebony ! —the Knights of the round-table of King Christo pher ! It is an article eloquently del i neati ve of the genius and of the career of the Right Honour able Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Baron St. Leonards, twice Lord Chancellor of Ireland, once holder of the Great Seals as 14)rd High Chan cellor of England, and incomparably and beyond all manner of question the greatest lawyer of his - generation. It is an article penned, moreover, unmistakeably, as we have intimated by one whose hand is by this time, we take it, altogether unmistakeable—by the hand, we mean of no less eminent a contributor to Blackwood, (or we are very much mistaken) than Mr. Warren, the learned Recorder of Hull, the accomplished author of " Ten Thousand a-Year," one of her Majesty's Counsel, M.P. for Midhurst, and (last but not least among his titles) the labo rious and lucid editor and annotator of Black stone's Commentators. To this attractive memo rial of " Lord St. Leonards" we would here very earnestly direct the attention of those who care to note the incidents of a life as remarkable iu its way as that of almost any man' now a life which is here strikingly and patheticallydesignated one of " splendid slavery"—the life of a profound scholar, of a wise and upright judge, of a bold yet cautious Reformer of the Laws he himself has so often and so sagaciously administered. flow laborious this life has been, let the following astounding record of its toils demonstrate—" Ho has often been known" says Blackwood, speaking of Sugden, when he was in full practice at the bar : He has often been known to return to his house, then in Guildford-street, Russell-square, from the House of Commons, at three o'clock in the morning, having been engaged incessantly in court all the previous day till he went to the house ; and at six o'c'ock his servant would bring candles to his bedside, when he would sit. up to read his briefs. At a quarter to nine o'clock he would be seen at Westminster, holding five or six consultations before ten o'clock, when the Lord Chancellor's and Vice-Chancellor's courts opened ; then be was retained probably in every case in either court, which he would be addressing incessantly. At the rising of the court, a little after four, he would betake hiMself to the House of Commons, and remain there often till two o'clock i❑ the morning, or later, reading his briefs i❑ a room at the coffee-house at Bellamy's of that day, during the inter vals of his attending the debates, snatching a hasty dinner at any moment that served. Onc' he returned home at half-past six o'clock in fhe morning, and went to bed till eight o'clock, when he rose to prepare for such another day as the one before ! How mortal flesh and blood— how any mortal brain, could stand such tear and wear as this, seems a mystery ; but he was blessed with a fine constitution, and was of temper4tte and abstemious habits. It should be especially remarked, in regard to this brilliant paper upon Lord St. L-3onards, that it opens thus impressively : We believe that England never before saw, living at once, three such remarkable subjects for the portraiture of some future Lord Campbell, as the three ex-Chancel. lors now adorning the House of Lords—Lords Lycd hunt, Brougham, and St. Leonards,—Lord Campbell himself being a distinguished member of that house, for a brief space Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and now the learned and upright Lord Chief Justice of England. At some future time we may ourselves attempt sketches of Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham, and Campbell ; but our present concern is with that one of the aforesaid three ex-Chancellors whose name star - ids at the head of this article. Without attributing to him the attractive and dazzling characteristics of Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham as orators and statesmen—the latter, too, a prodigy of versatility and power—we shall, by a plain narrative of facts, establish the pretensions of Lord St. Loonards to be regarded as a great lawyer, whose name will be ranked with those of Lord Hard wicke and Lord Eldon ; while, in several respects, his career is more remarkable and more instructive than that of either. Gladly shall we hail the fulfilment of the promise here given, the promise of companion sketches of Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham, and Campbell— though how possibly anything like simple justice can be done within the, compass of a single sketch to a marvel like Brougham, altogether (we must confess it at once) passes our comprehension 1 Be fore turning our attention from this really masterly essay upon Lord St. Leonards, we would especially direct the notice of our modern race of law writers to the pithy and sarcastic advice with which the author of the paper follows up his ingenious com mentaries upon those two profound and authorita tive treatises, which will serve to perpetuate the -fame of Lord St. Leonards—" Sugden on Powers," and " Sugden on Vendors and Purchasers." Let a young gentleman, who has just donned his wig and gown, study to imitate the example of this great living sage ; and if he must turn author at a period when he ie really only commencing as learner, let him well con- H aider the nature of the work which ha proposes to offer to a learned profession. Let it not consist of hasty and flimsy comments on newly-enacted statutes, or on heads of law already bristling with text-books ; but let a real want be looked for, and then let due time and considera tion be devoted to supplying it. Thus it was that Ed ward Burtenshaw Sugden planted the acorn which he has lived to see flourishing in full vigour as the oak. The first of the newly-pencilled " Scenes of Clerical Life" has happily brought to a conclusion the record of " The Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Bar- ton." The ninth instalment of " The Athelings" carries the reader to the very verge, as it would seem, of an ectaircissement, to the very brink of the denouement. The evil genius of the story, to wit, Lord Winterbourne, awaiting in the last sentence half consciously the bursting of some strange "thunderclap," the rolling down of some sudden and nameless " ava lanche." Implying in all this, of course, the exposure consequent upon the discoveries, in search of which Charley, the Big Boy, has gone to Italy, armed with a couple of ten-pound notes, a gram mar, and a dictionary 1 Among the remaining contributions there are observable two political articles—each sufficiently well timed. One—re lating to foreign politics—about " The War in Asia." The other—relating to home politics— about the " Ticket-of-Leave." Anything, by the way, but The Ticket ! The last-mentioned paper appearing in the form of a letter to Irenoeus, from his indefatigable correspondent Tlepolemus. Added to all which Blackwood gives us, within the com pass of this number for February, certain jottings by the way from " Pera to Bucharest," and No. I of " Letters from a Lighthouse." Dublin University.— " The Fortunes of Glencore" are continued, and the present portion is an exciting one. The first chapter represents the subtleties of statecraft, in which Sir Horace Upton displays his usual sagacity and foresight. Afterwards he and Lord Glencore proceed to Italy, where, by an un fortunate coincidence, they came to the same spot where Billy Traynor and the youth were resting. The story leaves off at a critioal juncture. " The Doctor of Philosophy" is concluded in this number. It is a well-written narrative, and describes in a natural manner the peculiar temperament of the recluse. Gertrude, his long-lost daughter, is dis covered, and her sad story is told by her with a simplicity which is interesting. " Travelling in China" is an article which conveys a great deal of information concerning the strange people of that country. One peculiarity of the Chinese is the great importance they attach to the burial of the dead. " Death is a mere -trifle ;no one troubles himself much about that ; but the quality of the coffin, the ceremonial of the funeral, the choice of a burial-place, all this is matter for serious Consi deration." It is mentioned that to such an absurd extent does the feeling prevail that a sick man will often suggest to his friends that it will be better not to incur expense in his cure, but save the money for a handsome funeral, to obtain which desideratum it is worth while to lose a short period of life. The first paper met with is on an important subject, " The Car dinal Treaties of Mediaeval and Modern History," by Professor Creasy. "The Treaty of Verdun" is the first of the series. The importance of this is shown by the remark of Palgrave, that the "history of modern Europe is an exposition of the treaty of Verdun." It was concluded in August, 843, be tween the three brother's sons of Louis le Debon naire, and by this means the scheme of their grand father, Charlemagne, to unite his conquests in one nationality was subverted. It is observed that, although the treaty gave general satisfaction, the partition of the Carlovingian empire was mourned over by some as a calamity to Christendom. It is recorded as a curious fact that, with one temporary exception, the attempts of Germany or France to acquire dominion over the other have been unsuc cessful. There are several poems among the col lection in this number, of which two are deserving of notice—one on " Culloden," written in a spirited and animated style, and another which has for sub ject the " Rainbow in the Cloud." The latter is divided into two parts—the Cloud, and the Rain bow, and the purpose is to show that the gloomiest prospect should not cause despair, for joy comes out of grief " And when the angry sky grows dark, And when the storm is loud, I know God's smile succeeds God's frown — The Rainbow in the Cloud." Frazer.—Mr. J. A. Froude contributes " Glean ings from the Record Office" respecting " The Dis solution of the Monasteries." One of these is a description of the condition of the Abbey of St. Albab's in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, drawn by Morton, Henry Vll.'s Minister, Card i• nai, Archbishop, Legate of the Apostolic See, in a letter addressed by him to the Abbot of St. Alban's himself. Of all extant accusations against any one of the Abbeys this is said to be the heaviest, and to lend assured credibility to the reports which were presented 50 years later, on the general visi tation. By way of offset to this and other docu mentary testimony relating to English Abbeys, of a like nature, we have a record of the sufferings and utterances of the last Abbot of Woburn, "a genuine child of Adam, labouring in a trial too hard for him." " The Interpreter ; a Tale of the War," is continued, and promises to he the most successful of the author of "Digby Grand's" efforts. The reader is introduced to a school, at Everdon, in "sweet Somersetshire," where Vero and Da Rohatihave been sent, the most noticeable charac ter in which is likely to figure conspicuously in the story. This is, de facto, the head boy—RopsleY, who is described as " the main spring, round which turned the whole of the little world at Everdon." .His accomplishments are manifold. His character, pre cociously developed, is that of a singularly cool, calculating, wary, and selfish man, knowing every one's secrets and keeping his own. " A visit to Kars while in the hands of the Russians" will re pay perusal. "Emanuel Swelenborg" is the sub ject of au interesting article. His peculiar theo logy is given up, and he is held up to admiration as " the greatest psychological observer that the world has yet produced." There can be no doubt the Baron was a man of extraordinary genius, and, in some respects, far before his age. " The Three Numbers" is a story of the Monte Christi) class, a tale of wrong and vengeance, recorded as " an in stance in which the perpetrators of the most atro cious crimes eluded the vigilance of the Parisian police. " A Christmas Week at Glasgow" should be perused by those who would form a just notion of that great commercial city and its inhabitants. The writer concludes by bidding farewell to "liberal and kind-hearted Glasgow." "Little Lessons for Little Poets" contains some unimpeach able criticism, together with " baser matter." Some of the advice given to Gerald Massey, true poet as he is, may be taken with advantage to his future fame. Beside the above, we have other contributions of merit, the number concluding with a powerful vindication of the "War with China." Bentley's Miscellany.---Dudley Costello proceeds with his,new story of. "TheMillionnaire ofMincing lane," which partakes very much of the character of his former tales. "A Visit to the Grand Sheriff of Mekka" follows, and gives a description of the ancestral and domestic history of the Sheriffs and their government. The picture is not par ticularly attractive, and the traveller who per formed the journey for the sake of reconciling him. self to Europa is likely to have attained his object. The series of papers which appear under the sin gular title of " Mingle-Mangle, by Monkshood," give us this month a sketch of the brief and mys terious career of Sir Thomas 0 verbury. The Per sian War is, of course, the subject of an article which takes a review of our position, politically and geogffraphioally. "Thanatos Athanatos " is con tinued, mingling together extracts from prose and poetry. reasoning and reflections. " The Redcourt Farm" is the title of the first part of a new story, specially intended for the lovers of the horrible. Smuggling and murder are its two principal fea tures. A comparison between " The Two Bacons " follows, which endeavours to defend the Chancel lor from Pope's accusations, by proving that his brother Anthony was more unscrupulous than he. A narrative of a journey to some of the spots ren dered memorable by the Russian War has little novelty to recommend it. A notice of James Bos well's letters is little more than a series of extracts from the work itself. The second name in the Gallery of Theatrical Portraits is that of the popular Mrs. Glover. Colburn's Nets Monthly.—The Nets Monthly presents its usual variety to its readers, without offering them anything very remarkable for origi nality. The story by the author of " Ashley" is continued under a different title, according to this writer's custom. It reads a mournful lesson on the folly of those who possess comfortable means squan dering them in the vain pursuit of wealth. Sir Nathaniel's series of papers on the notabilities of every age are proceeded with in their usual style. St. Charles Borromeo is the subject of the present number. The "History of the Newspaper Press" brings it down this month to nearly the close of the last century. It contains much curious information, but is somewhat tedious. The " Swedish Voyage Round the World," trans lated by Mrs. Bushby, whose researches in Scandinavian literature are most persevering, recounts the voyage of the traveller from South America to the Sandwich Islands, where it leaves him exploring the neighbourhood of Honolulu. The story which possesses the unattractive and apparently comic title of "Information relative to Mr. Joshua Tubbs, and certain Members of his Family," is in reality a tale of every day troubles, with very tragical events. It is not without inte rest, but rather of a melancholy character. The second paper on the "Memoirs of the Duc de Raguse," brings the notice to a conclusion. The only poem in the number is some simple and pleasing verses on old age. Cyrus Redding con tributes his usual political article, and Florentia a lively paper on "The Baths of Lucca." Colburn's United Service.—Lieutenant-Colonel Macdougall's " Theory of War" meets with the general approval of his reviewer, who makes a few extracts from the chapter addressed to young officers, and the author's incidental remarks on the siege of Sebastopol. " Gossip about Paddles and Screws," among much interesting matter, calls attention to " what may fairly be called a Steam Gun," invented in 1500, a rude sketch of which appears in some unpublished manuscripts (in the library of the Institute of France), left by the celebrated Italian painter, Leonardo da Yinci. A copy of the sketch accompanies the paper, and together with extracts from the MSS. illustrates the justice of the appellation. A steam gun in 1500 I " The General's Hut in the Trenches" is continued. The battle of the Tchernaya is gra phically described, and we have an incidental notice of Colonel Hamley's coolness and daring as au observer in circumstances of imminent peril. " Sketches of French Admirals," —the individual presented is one of the greatest naval heroes France has produced, to wit, Vice-Admiral Brueys. "The Austrian Empire,"—the writer propounds a theory, according to which we must look for an important divergence in Saxon and Slavonic revolutionary development. The admirers of Austria are not likely to take much exception to it. "Bonaparte 's March to the Pyramids" is the subject of an inte resting descriptive sketch. " Shooting in Pied mont " appears to be sufficiently good to please the English sportsman, who will be glad to find in Victor Emmanuel anardent and indefatigable bro ther of the craft. " Military Adventures in Por tugal," though not very stirring, will find readers, as also, if in greater abundance, will "Scraps from St; Helena." These include a bon mot of Napoleon's " not generally known." Here it is : " A mason employed in the construction of the new house at Longwood had fallen from a height and hurt himself. The ex-Emperor endeavoured to con sole him by saying he hoped it was nothing serious. " You see," said he, "I have had a sad fall myself, nevertheless lamon my legs and doing well." In an elaborate and instructive article on " China," and in the " Editor's Portfolio," the conduct of Admiral Seymour is warmly commended. " The last dreadful resort of bombarding the city," it is said, "is more the act of Yeh than of the English Commander." " The con duct of the British authorities," remarks the Editor, " has been (i.e., previous to the fracas), to the last degree cringing and servile. As far as regards Canton, our vaunted treaty has been per mitted to become a dead letter, and we could almost say our Consul was a party to the act, so placidly has he connived at its ignorement. We could blush to repeat the indignities to. which British officials have submittedin the hope of warding off a collision whichJ threatened at every turn. A nd to what merely has been all this temporising ? It has servedpurpose ctiteatrhroeganceof the Chinese and finally to pr to create new difficulties, t o incre e ls . nrinendations as in these remarks. His reco rup ture it sought t o avort:' We suspect there is some to truth what should be do ne are charactemsed by vigour and good sense. PREFERENCE 3HA.RE4. Myth andTyn, i Up, c. pref. (issd. at V. Brit. & 4p. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Oftledn. ElO 4i.p.c, Itios.&, Jin. 5, Do. do. Pref. 5 per c. Cori: st liandonb,ls.p., Dna. Prth Az Aber, X. Anglian els. A St, Do. do. els. B 6 p. • Do. do Cis. C 7 p. gas. Co. Ex,spoN< , Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 p. c. gast Un., G. 6 p. Do. 5/., 10 Der can Do. 101. Defa, , ntr.Sl Do. do. 4 per cent. P.lact Lanca.h 6 p.ct' V,. kW. York. J. stl, Edin. & GI. 5 p.c. sh FA. Prth un.4 Furnace, 5 p. C. (41as. & S. W. 0.5 p. c (Treat Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. o. Bodeen , . at 10 p. c. pram . Do. p. , D 0.5 p. c., Red. at I U St. 1(Y) 100 lot) 100 100 130 100 1 , )0 100 Gt. N. of Scot. 1 st Pr , Gt. 11W. (Ireland Do. 4per a. 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CHESTER CUP. 14 to 1 agst Leamington 100 to 6 agst Mincopie 30 to 1 agst Schiedam 30 to 1 agst Claret 40 to 1 agst Early Bird 40 to 1 agst St. Domingo 50 to 1 agst Yellow Jacik 1000 to 15 agst Swyndel Dhyg,ga 50 to 1 agst La Victime 100 to 1 agst Lance TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. sto 1 agst Schiedam (offered) DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Loyola (offered) 20 to 1 agst Zuyder Zee 20 to 1 agst Sidney 25 to 1 agst Lady Hawthorne 25 to 1 agst Sprig of Shillelah 25 to 1 agst Arsenal 25 to 1 apt Athlete. 30 to 1 agst Kent 33 to 1 agst Saunterer THE QUARTERLIES. The Edinburgh Review, No. COXIII.. The specious sophistries for which the political article of the quarter in this newly published number of the Edinburgh is remarkable, we have already endeavoured at once to expose and to de nounce* in our leading columns—the tenth and last article, we mean, relating to "India, Persia, and Affghanistaii." Further comment upon the subject a- treated by the great Whig apologists of Lord Palmerston's Government, as affected by its policy towards the Courts of Teheran and St. Petersburg, were, therefore, we cannot but think, at the present moment altogether superfluous. Another political treatise of a more truthful and, therefore, be it added, in more senses than one, of a more practically useful character, precedes this illusory argument as to the origin and progress of the new Oriental war—the war proclaimed against Persia at Calcutta, on the Ist of November, 1856, by the overnor- General of India, speaking in the name of his Most Gracious Sove reign, and on behalf of her Supreme Government. This Penultimate, or ninth contribution to the new number of the Edinburgh, relates in an especial manner to " Parliamentary Committees and Rail way Legislation." In earlier pages of the same number will be found by those who list, two very genial and painstaking criticisms, referring the one to Prescott's " Philip the Second," and the other to Ferguson's "Handbook of Architecture." There are, later on, moreover, a couple of essays exceed ingly attractive, each in its peculiar way—the first relating to " Husband and Wife" considered, in allusion to their Rights and Liabilities (suggested, as every one might guess, principally by the Honourable Mrs. Norton's " Letter to the Queen"), and, the second, referring to "Lawyers and Critics," the Critic's English, the Lawyers Scottish. The last-mentioned con tribution, no less obviously elicited, we should con jecture, to the generality, by the Memorials of his Time, written by Henry Cockburn (one of the Lords of Session), and published posthumously. Here is a pen-and-ink sketch of that popular Scotch man, as dashed off by the ready and graphic quill of the reviewer in the Edinburgh "Henry Cockburn was rather below the middle height, firm, wiry, and muscular, inured to active exercise of all kinds, a good swimmer, an accomplished skater, and an intense lover of the fresh breezes of heaven. His face was handsome and intellectual ; a capacious brow, which his baldness made still more remarkable, large, lustrous, and in repose rather melancholy eyes, which, however, when roused by energy or wit, sparkled like a hawk's, and a well formed nose, were the principal characteristics of a very striking physiognomy. His manner and address were, among his friends and intimates, singularly winning and attractive. He was the model of a high-bred Scotch gentle. man of the last distinctive sell( ol which his country possessed. He spoke with a Doric breadth of accent, such as was used by the higher classes in Scotland towards the end of the last century, untinged alike by mere provinciliasm, or vulgar affectation of the language of the South. In temperament, while he could assume any mood, and sympathise with all, and was master alike of the stern and the pathetic, he was naturally of an easy and careless hilarity. His flow of good humour was never failing, and neither care nor anxiety, nor time could quench it. He had high thoughts, noble ambition, deep reflection on men and things, but they never weighed heavy enough upon him to repress the elasticity of a spirit which bore him up through all the vicissitudes of an active life, and burned as brightly at the age of threescore and ten, as it did during the period of his vigo rous manhood recounted in these volumes. " He had a word and a good deed for all; a skating holiday for the school-boy—a half-hour's gossip, spiced perhaps with ancient scandal, for the nonogenariatt—old school flirtation for the girls—and exhaustless stores of unrivalled wit and anecdote for his younger associates, all as ready, genial, and heart-springing as his daily inter course with his contemporaries." o u f p u on ag th ia e n t i ;_o l i a t st is v l o e l s u s m a e c s ri o t f ic 7 s Al m As to the elaborate pap e r in the Whig Quarterly a thanc aul a a y p ' s a History g i s y t r o i r e y . Nor can this, after all, be very greatly won dered at. For, sa y w h at his most virulent depre ciators may, there is an immense amount of truth in such sentences (in regard to this wonderful literary performance) as the following :—" Its rhetorical power fill s th e wo rld with admiration, and chains the attention by a charm rarely pos sessed by history, and which even fiction sel dom attains." Or again, when the Edinburgh Reviewer, speaking of the reception accorded to the two introductory volumes published now some seven years ago, observes : " Malignant critics sneered. Silly women, and sillier men chattered about Mr. 11-acaulay's historical novel, and the more superficial of the public took for granted that because the work was brilliant it could not be solid. To our minds, as said seven years ago, herein truly consisted the accomplished author's highest praise. His rare combi nation of the powers of the imagination and the reasoning faculty, enables him to sway the judgment while he warms the fancy. With resources of fact, laid up and made avail able by a marvellous memory, he paints the most dry and uninviting details with a pencil dipped in the brightest colours. This union of qualities, so seldom found united in the service of history, produced a result of its kind entirely without a parallel.' . _ . _ There can be no mistake at all about it, that the m " o rr st al p ig a n r a t n o t ne cri e t m ic i s n " h ent er a e n s d po v k e e t n of eran m r e e a v n fo reviewer the rin particular, to wit, no other than the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, of the Quarterly — the Mr. Rigby of Disraeli' s " Coningsby"—the didicatee of Southey's " Life of Nelson"—the editor and anno tator of Bcswell's " Life of Johnson." In which last-mentioned capacity, don't we all of us very well remember how once upon a time he was taken in hand by Mr. Macaulay in the Edinburgh, and flayed alive from head to heel, and then soused in a sort of a diabolical literary cauldron of green vitriol? Afterwards, too, long years afterwards, don't we all of us remember equally well how he avenged himself The Edinburgh review intimates that he did so in a manner that was " malignant." At any rate he did so in a way that must have won him a place is Dr. Johnson's liking, if that un wieldy humorist was really and literally in earnest when he said he " loved a good hater I" As an antidote to the poison of the malignant critics of the Quarterly—hero, in these cordial comments of the Edinburgh, are unctuous droppings of the honey of encomium I Encomiuni seems but a weak word, however; let us call the article in question—rather than this—a kind of a grandiose literary apotheosis! Here is the Reviewer's congenial reference to the Demi-God of Mr. Macaulay's idolatry— WILLZAjj. "That the centre of his great picture should be occupied by one prominent figure, to which all others are accessory, might not only be anticipated from the historian's enthusi astic temperament, but was essential to the truth of his tory. We consider his portrait of William no less correct than able ; doing him the justice which had been too much denied him, and depicting his failings or his virtues with a true and discrimin,ating hand. Never had a man a more difficult position to fill. That he held it at all, and handed down his crown in a succession never broken to this day, would of itself have been sufficient to have earned the grateful remembrance of his adopted country, and to have concealed from view failings or defects far greater than any which can be laid to his charge. But he did much more than this. He was, in the truest sense, a hero, although not perhaps of. the class which are favourites of romance-writers. His temperament was frigid, and was congealed into still harder ice by his ignorance of the language of the country he undertook to govern. There was nothing in his person, or his demeanour, or his course of action, to excite enthusiasm. And above all, he came, lived among us, and died, a stranger ; a willing exile from a land for which he hourly pined, toiling for a nation which was hard to satisfy ; his busy earnest spirit fretting his hardworn body to deay. But he was a hero, notwith standing,—a man with a com m i ss i on t h e most difficult and hazardous, which he petfortited nearly single-handed, with few to help but disguised enemies and half-hearted friends. To his success this country owes her safety in a time of the greatest peril, and Europe a large proportion of its advance in social and political improvement." In addition to the articles already enumerated, there will be found in the new number of the , Edinburgh, a treatise on "H uman L ongev ity,' an argument on " Convocati on ," and a essay of a very alluring ki n d on the theme of "French Society under the Directory." political * Vide The Sun of Monday, the 19th of January, 1857. OXFORD, Feb. I.—The election of a member of Coun oil in the room of the Dean of Christ Church (resigned) was held yesterday between the hours of 2 and 3 p.m., and after an hour's polling was decided in favour of Dr. Cradock, Principal of Brasenose, by a majority of nearly two to one, there being for Dr. Cradock 84 ; for Dr. Plumtre, 43 votes. CANTERBURY HALL. The great English tenor singer, Mr. Sims Reeves, has recently bad the offer of a month's engagement from the enterprising proprietor of this popular place of amusement. The terms proposed were twelve hundred pounds for the period stated, the sum to be paid i n t o th e bands of any banker who might have been appointed by Mr. Reeves. He has, however, for the present declined the liberal proposition of Mr. Morton, but we understand he will accept the proposal within a twelvemonth. An Irish comic singer of the name of Collins is creating quite an excitement there at present, and gains for himself immense applause. Great preparations are making for the annual full dress ball, which takes place on Wednes• day, February 18. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT TA.YLER.—Lientenant George R. Tayler (1815) died on the 28th ult., at 35, Oat:ling street, Liverpool, in the 62d year of his age. He entered the navy in March, 1805, as a volunteer on b , Jard the Uranie frigate, Captain Hon. Charles Herbert. 1114 124 65i lOss 106 1978 7 3t. 20 St. 1031 7i 16j un 9 471 i I IU 1 0 all 1100 all all zli all all 100 LITERATURE. Little Dorrit. No. XV. By Charles Dickens. A capital number—one of the very best instal nteuts of " Little Dorrit" yet published. What possibly, by the way, can be more deliciously lu dicrous than the comparison of Mr. Dorrit's " flourishes" about the subject of Fanny's Mar -1 riage the comparison of those very cha racteristic flourishes with which writing mas ters are in the habit of embellishing copybooks and ciphering-books : " where the titles," writes B . oz, " of th e e l ementary ru l es of ar i t h metic d i verge into swans, eagles, griffius and othercaligraphic de corations, and where the capital letters go out of their minds and . bodies i n t o ecstac i es of pen and ink " — what possibly, we as k, th an this i n its way can be more deliciously ludicrous ? Throughout almost the whole of this fifteenth Number, Mr. Dickens is " himself "—thoroughly. A n d he could at by any chance when he is in this mood be any one more entirely delightful. What a picture that is for example of Mrs. General at bedtime ! " H er re tirement for the night itwas always h er f rost i est ceremony ;as if she felt necessary that the human imagination shouldbe chilled to prevent its following her ;" to which is added—" When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon exercise, she withdrew." What again can be more cormoil than the disparage ment pronounced upon Mrs. Merdle's false hair, as viewed by her affectionate daughter-in-law that-is to-be—" for I am confident," says Fanny Dorrit to her sist er , " it' s no t all real, ugly as it is, and unlikely as it is that any one in their senses would go to the expense of buying it l" And that notion about the " Roman Cxs;ars," as revealed to us through antique sculpture how horribly true it is ! Where Mr. Dickens alludes to "The murderous-headed statues of the wicked Emperors of the Soldiery, whom sculptors had not been aths to flatter out of their villanous hideousness." Ants that final glimpse we have in the present number of Mrs. General, as she appears when wanderingamong the ruins of old Rome, ever accompanied by Prunes and Prism, Mr. Eustace, Papa, and Potatoes— " scratching up the dryest little bones of antiquity, and bolting them whole without any human visitings —like a Ghoule in gloves !" Then Mr. Merdle, in the midst of a conversation, suddenly getting up "as if he had been waiting for his legs and they had just come !" Or, better still, that great Dyspeptic Capitalist, when—advancing to greet hi son-in-law, Sparkler's bride, newly arrived in Lon don from the continent—" His hand seemed to retreat up his sleeve as be advanced to do so, and he gave her such a superfluity of coat cuff that it was like being received by the popular conception of Guy Fawkes." Appended to which memo randum of Mr. Merdle's doings, we find it written —" When he put his lips to hers, besides, he took himself into custody by the wrists, and backed himself among the ottomans, and chairs, and tables, as if he were his own police-officer, saying to himself, Now, none of that ! Come ! I've got you, you know, and you . go quietly alon g with me !' " Occasionally there is a little cynical sparkle in Mr. Dickens' glance at the great world, not at all of the old genial kind—as where he describes, with a comical sneer, "the brilliant com pany of such as are not made of the dust of the earth, but of some superior article for the present unknown, shedding their lustrous benediction upon Mr. Dorrit's daughter's marriage." For Fanny Dorrit is married, after all, to Edmund Sparkler ; and Mr. Dorrit accompanies the wedding pair home from Florence to England, little Amy Dorrit remaining, during the interval of his ab sence, under the custody of Mrs. General, in Rome ! Returned for a while to London; Mr. Dorrit makes rapturous (but the reader is also led to conjecture, perilous) accotaintance with Mr. Merdle, the millionnaire—has a strange, tear ful, wrathful, confused interview with young John Chivery sends by him a testimonial of 1001. to be distributed among the poor 'fellows lying in the old Marshalsea—hears from Flora's incoherent lips of the mysterious disap pearance of Rigaud, otherwise Blandois—and to make good the story of this disappearance (a story, however, which he does not make good after all) pays an anonymous visit of inquiry to the, three grim old occupants of the House upon Crutches ! On his solitary way back to Rome Mr. Dorrit, while at Paris, buys, we are told, a gift of jewellery for a lady : asking for the commodity he wants from a pretty little Frenchwoman thus described —one whom Laurence Sterne could not have more daintily pencilled : " It was a charming little woman to whom he said it —a sprightly little woman, dressed in perfect taste, who came out of a green velvet bower to attend upon him, from posting up some dainty little books of account which one could hardly suppose to be ruled for the entry of any articles more commercial than kisses, at a dainty little shining desk which looked in itself like a sweatmeat." The gift of jewellery, by the way, being evidently for Mrs. General's owu exclusive wearing —Mr. Dorrit having an eye obviously to that same wily General's promotion ! Where must we look for the Future Prevention of Crime? By William Ellis. Smith, Elder, and Co. Taking, as his standing ground, the fact that the number of criminals or disturbers of the peace and comfort of society is greater than it need, and, consequently, ought to be, Mr. Ellis passes in review Governmental and Educational means " for Promoting Good Conduct or for Preventing Bad Conduct." governmental means or punitive mea sures, intended to operate as deterrents, he pro nounces susceptible of improvement, but, never theless, incapable of being made efficient. Turning to educational means he finds much room for hope. The education to which he would have us look is one vastly superior to anything hitherto attempted and made universal, specially aiming at teaching what good conduct is, and how it is to be attained ; and at training so as to inspire a desire and love for good conduct—at teaching what bad conduct is and how it is to be avoided—and at training so as to induce a horror of bad conduct. On an educa tion of this sort he is of opinion all intelligent and well-disposed men must fix their thoughts if they would effect any further sensible diminution in the number of criminals. Considerable time, how ever, must elapse before education can be ex pected to prevent moral malformations. Mean while he would have active energetic mea sures taken with existing criminals, so as to relieve society from their alarming and con taminating prowling abroad. " Criminals," we are told, "must be hunted out, s6ized upon, tried, convicted, and placed in confinement. Further than this, all the criminally disposed, who have thwarted the efforts of education in their behalf, are not to be abandoned in despair as utterly irre claimable. Some, perhaps most of them, ought to be subjected to reformatory discipline." On this, however, ho does not appear to pin much faith, to judge by what follows :—" The expectation of a large measure of success in this latter and more difficult department of effort is hardly warranted. Where partial success has been attained, relapses are to be found. To reform a character is surely a more arduous task than to form one. How can we look for success in a difficult undertaking from those who are inadequate to the easier ?" He has, however, this consolation for mankind—•" In pro portion as they approach excellence itt the perform ance of the easier duty, so will the strain upon them for the performance of the more diffic ult be lessened." Mr. Ellis has evident l y g iven the -sub ght,and if his conclusions be opensub ject ho considerable to CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) The February sessions of this Court commenced this morning, before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Common-sergeant, Aldermen Sir J. Musgrove, Sir R. W. Carden, Kennedy, and Lawrence, Mr. Sheriff Mechi, Mr. Sheriff Keats, Mr. Under-Sheriff Crosley, Mr. Under-Sheriff Auderton, &c., &c. The first edition of the calendar contains the name of 120 prisoners. The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, expressed his regret at finding so large a number of prisoners on the calendar, notwithstanding the short period that had elapsed since the adjournment of the Court, not a month since. The cases were not of a very serious or difficult character, and there appeared to be only one charge involving the destruction of human life, that of a chemist's apprentice, who gave by mistake a customer prussic acid for castor oil, be being at the time engaged in making up a pro scription, in which prussic acid was used, and thus caused his death. if the facts were made out to their mind, the party so charged was guilty of manslaughter, and it was well it should be known that persons dealing with deadly drugs, such as prussic acid, were bound to use the neces sary degree of caution to prevent such oalamitous acci dents, and that if they neglected to do so, and death resulted, that they were liable to be punished for it. The learned Recorder next alluded to the case of a person in the calendar charged with endeavouring to defeat the ends of justice, by preventing a person g i v i ng evidence in that Court on a charge of felony. Such a p roceedin g was looked upon by the law as one of a ver y serious character, and undoubtedly, if any person were convicted of the offence, he would be punished most severely. The grand jury were then dismissed to the perform. anee of their duties. al) 10e. 1 i 2s. all • 11 rtU 82a 84 3i 12a i 50 i 81} 20a 25 4/ 9 4 i 5A 5 3 i 41 Q 4 104 93 4 961 it 12i i 37f 5111 18 a 8 26 i I