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

MONEY KA AND CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Advises from Liverpool state th At 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. fl The condition of the Money M irket during the past month is thus described in the Bankers' 4a gazing :—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 cent. is comparatively high, as they have augmented tha terms for advances on stock to 61 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 For the last week it has been expected that such a movement would be announced, but the gold withdrawn to supply the requirements of the Irish banks during the late partial panic having returned, it has assisted to support the metallic reserve.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 America are not at this period extensive, au a pprehension 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 f most prominent are the approaching settlement of the Consol account, and the payment of called-in joint-stock companies' shares. The full rato 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 B ink 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. V rnw~i Do. A The Ecuatorian Commission 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 93i. The March quotation is 93i f. The. New 3 per Cents, are 93i I, the Reduced 931 I, and Exchequer Bonds 981 Bauk Stock is 2171, India Bonds undei 1,0001. are marked 38. 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 I, but the 4 per Cents. are merely nominal. Spanish New Deferred are 23j I, and the Certificates ar• flatter, viz., 61 to 6i. Mexican Stock is 21t and Guatemala Bonds have been 58 ex dividend. 10 . 20 . 1 0 St. 10(1 8., ' 17 al 10 4 ~ , all St. 10i St. 100 cif `t. 1.) 't. It! 50 I -t] 1.1 1.1 25 I AI ;n. 7 7 ail ruerar, The following are the nominal prices of Foreigt, Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 21 22 ; Mexi can, 21i ; Peruvian, 78 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 544 5 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 5 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 9 ; ditto 4t per Cents., 95 7; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40i 41 ; ditto Deferred, 23# f ; ditto Certificates, 61.1 ; ditto Passive, 5f 6. 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 maintained previous values. There were no dealings reported in the French lines, but Canada ruled steady. Grand Trunk of Canada advanced es., 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 Hank Shares rule dull. Bank of Egypt are rather fi rmer , as a l su O r i en t a l B an k. Miscella neous Shares have been little inquired for, and prices have shown no material variation from Saturday's quotations. BRITIBEI " L t 11) 8 etil DAY al ON PC I - , ( ), (_From the Official List.) ' sum -14 t, e 'Bank Stock . ... .... .. 217 3 3 w. , —nt. :win; ed •; ...... (1 . .. ....... '''''''''' .., 9 3i i •+, ‘4. , ~, osoi6 %n(1 , I, 93 i 24 4 ;w 3 per Cent. A nnuities 93g } 111 It i5,,,,,h,, r.it:, .. id par Ditto, under ...--• ' Consols ' 21000 or Nec ount ... 93 24 3} -10(1, 14. .3,11;;;que; •li, 4.-. Ditto - Bonds, D 558, dA per Cent. 984 } Ditto, 1859 Pt tlef B 1)I' FOREIG NI FUNDS AT ON 9 i r .•• . Guatemala Bonds, 5 per cent 53 a d lionioan 3 per cent Ditto Account per Cen. nit t' New Deferred, 3 per Cent. . . 4 Lit to Account ~.BPanial, Committee Cert. of Coup. o',l Nu 6.; ii 1 Trtrkihh .;onds ~ p«r cent 93 2i 3} Di tto Acc oun t . n. , ;, encl. : r !tit ar i r Ditto sc,ange, 2 2 p Dutch E i er 12 Guilders at° 4 per Cent. Certificates 9B WO O'CLOCK. Ditt o Consols, money T 93 931 Ditto larcht 93 931 cAccount . • 93} 931 11.0 4 140 rd j 113}INTATION OF COLCHESTER.—An address from ment fr ° o - 133 4 Manners, announcing his intended retire isle On ~.tilthe re presentation of this borough, was issued , bltott or±'Y evening. Artortzi, cal." LIEU TENANT-GENERAL SIR NATHANIEL TR r A "`"Y leaf, l '' a., R.C.B —An inquest was held on hou se, near , i before M. Mnnckton, coroner, at Upcott on the hotly ofthat' the residence of General Thorn, the previow. A entle ,ho died suddenly on London. ih:T t y ,, , a few Xr ii s w after his return from Visitation.of Gd.,7 returned a verdict of "Died by the ensign i„ Oet o b e .General Thorn entered the army as fiftY•five year s i n t r t ; 180 2, and had consequently been general in J une, 18e service. He was made a lieutenant- Third BuffB in j 0 15 4, and obtained the colonels y of the than fifty years irl Y t if that year. He bad been more was kn ghted b y h er e i service, an d on S aturday week i nvestiture of the o ri i • a jesty at Windsor Castle at an OXFORD, Feb. 1.-.... , 7 11 of the Bath oil in the room of the Deaaelection of a member of Coun vras held yesterda y b ' a of Cnrist Church (resigned) y etween and after an hours ,-.ll' the hours of 2 and 3 p.m., Cradock , Principal ( P A . B ing wa' decided in favour of Dr. two to one, there b • rasenose by a majority of nearly Plutntre 43 being for pr. Cradock 84 ; for Dr. , votes. Txt e . AMERICAN man Jol M au a MAILS —Th e B r i t i sh and North Artie- Gyt, . Leitch, i eainship C .mnany's steamer Europa, at twO o'clock, foerfßLlverpool on, Saturday afternoon, cargo, and so p uieng o e s r t i on, with the usual mails, a full to. :0, VI; 100 too 100 100 COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Sh IX.ILILWALYS Aintvic No -4, ,41.•1 JClrk IV , Iv,, Ve.,l y 'Birk ,7 1109 , :tt,c, D). OhA.h. i . , do. 'Blackburn • ••,..1.)7,.. , br. 4.25 (issii. at ttn,, C? -, ester Llolph rk and Bend , ;Cork, BiaA, Ft P •n- 1 . 1 , 111. P. dx A it East Alqtiati. FAsterli 14" 1 . 7 -, Do., B. Stock 5 East Kent East Suffolk Do. E finbui NEdin , Pee 1,-.0 Edin. Pr., I) In Glasgow & S. Westr all , Great N. of Scotto,. IGreat Nortlith. 'Do., A. St:,..A . R o e . Gt &WesT.' stern.. 4to.;r V 1 7 , Sth. IT 4 Thirds...., .2 Do. New Third... ,1) aiding 611 Do. out; 11 11, 0 ri,n k Itiack W' 'Ls: - 1d • Rright & anti N. 6 iD.,. Fiftha .... 541D0.101. cih., M& 24' Do. Eighths 00 LondonsndS. We . Lndodrrydtt3olera , LindwirtT. & Run; al C.nch.Shef.& Line:. Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement... Sildlanu ... ►O. & I)er 1f1d1(1. G. West. =T 00. Half Snare.,_. Newcastle & Carlitil Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrf Newry & Enniakii Newry, Warrenp. n and kostrevor: Norfolk IsTorthn.CountiesT;:. North Nth !)evon Rail. N Dock Stock Do., A Stock , B Stock N. Eastern—Beres , o. do. Extensio , G.N.E. enr , Do. Leeds Do. York ; North London . SS. Ws trn. Frau shad, and City Js North Staffordshi , Forth Western . St S. Westrn. Jun worc.. Rhymney . ott clo,tr- 1 Scot. N E.Abrdn St, Do. Soot. AA. St ••in.r. SitingbournekSheer. D .rou South Eaceru... ' , oath Wtles Triton. & 83 i / 4 3 74 59/ 5i 72 10 27 anti, Wok, ‘.7'4 Srookton & Darting do., 1854 Do., do., 1855 , twakten & Hari, t'lff Vale 'o. Pref., No. t • am es Hay. D.& '• Val ); Neath... Waterfd. & Kilkent NAterford&Limei West Cornwall.. Ar.st End of * Loud and Crystal Palao , Do. A ......, Do. B West London Do. Filst Class .. Do. Second Class_ Wlmble +- k • rll COLONI AL, riztrutlft rlon. India, g. 5 p. c Do. Ceylon A shares Do. B. do Eastern Bengal . •asc Indian A and B, g. op. Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D 0.44 p.c.8nd5., 1 57 ). do. do., 's', d- . Geelong t Melbourne guar. 5 per gent. . 'ld. Trunk of Canad +►o. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. Do. Comp. 6 p. c., d. ik In. Pen. g. sp. c, Do New, guar. 5 p. c (4t. western of Canad Do. New Bde., payable '& Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, withon' option.. liadras, guar. 4 p.c Do. do., 5 p. c. Do. 4 p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. sp. c Scinde, guar. 5 p. c. D 0... St. Andrew'i and tt m 1▪ 0 Ardennes All celgian Eastn. Jun( 16 , 4iners to c 10 Ruff. & Lk. Ilur. Ry. a Carineaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. ;2 'qt.& K , cn•sh... ▪ 44 . ,stern of Pranoi all 'l4"° Euphrates Valley Eur. In.Jn.Tel.Rail. 4;eut• a of rrai. e treat to ze nbonr Italian Junction...... dz. rissb Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca 4 Pist. sp. c.p. uyone and Gent.va 'Ayons isris Antonia . do. New • Li(ge I_, Do. do., C p. c. Prof . ..)rthern of FrAn..r . VorwegianTrtinkPre 'aria and Lyon g i'aris and Orleans ] Recife & San. Fran ,) (Pernam.) g. 7 P. c Rome and Frascati ral Dania] „ Royal Swedish -,e.robre and Meuse. 7 ),.. 61 p. cent. p r of. ^nnthern of France Ist Flanders k. 5,4 per c. Pref r.dEN. W. of pranc e Western of Austria West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ._ ...... Do. Bper cent.Pret 1)1 'VT." ( k Anstralast Bank of Egypt ...... Bank of London Coi. isk.&Ln. 0. :ritiik N. Arrierica , ,! clh ar td. Bank of &al , , hrtd. Bnk. of India, Inatrnila & China City k:lolot tal Commercial of Lord Flnk , ..Soot.Sl Ate. Cht Loud. Chart. Bk of Australia Ditto New Louion and County !Ala./a. Bnk g. Corp London Joint Stock 1, 0 Al. at Westminster National Pro.ef Do. Naw National Bank New South %Taint.— Oriental Bk. Corp Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland bo. Now ft Ans B &Go Im Co knetralia . UniGa of 4nittir; I Do. Now f Unity'Mutual WtUlt43lll Bk of Lond , '123 11 651 65 5 5 96 6i 108 [O6 201 101 741 THE SUN, gusiness done this day E T SHARE MARIKET3 —(This Jay.) A • W Cirmine Pre , Saturday. Si 9 81 9 Do. 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I. p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c 100 Do. irred. 4p. c. 100 Do. sp. c. red. pref all DG. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c.P. . all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Qua. Stl , all Do. Ches. Gun. Sh. all Do. do do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F. 20 100 Do. 6p. a. Stock 100 Lon. &B. G.5pc.N0.1 100 Do. P., spe. St.No.2 Da. New Guar.6 100 Do. do. sp. 101 ion. &N. W., Coy. ituaton 5 p. et.. 100 L , a.& a, W. 7 per c late 3d Shares 411 L Tidy. & Cnler, Sh ¶ll Londy.&Ennis.i 101 L. 6 p. Cent Dc , . do. do. £6 100 Do. do. 31 per cent. all 4:4rypt Carl,4 all Do. Der . 10 Do. do. 1100 60n501„6 p.c„Sr, 1100 rion.l3r, - *:jr. epf 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. t 400 Ditto L.& H. Prof', A New., Aber., die., pr. 5 p. C. red. 5 p.c. pm. 6 Do. Perpet. 6 p et. with optn. till '66 aili Norflr, Deb, 4 p.c. eh 100 DO„PrOf. 5 p.c. ,• 100 LJ 6 pc, Ext.,1846 1100 D... 5 per c.pf ,1847 1100 Do. Wv.v„Fpc.,lB47 1 10 n North British : 1 3 D r o , 7. 1,0 I"r rw efer 4 en v e : : 17 8f Do. do. do 20 13 Do Leeds 6 p.e .N,„: 12f 9 De. do. Qrv.,1848... L 5 10 Do. Vorkll.& 4 l'"r 20 all North Staffordshire. 9t ino o x w o ~ , N v 61),. . , , . 1 100 Do. 6 p.c. Redeem. a.l Soot. (lent. ,New Pt ef 100 Sc.N. E. &bor. g 6 pe all Do. d0.,7 p.c. pf. st. 100 D0.d0., 3 p.c. pf. st I all South Devon all Do. flxed,4i percent' all 3. Eastern (Readin,zl Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. ,I.ok, Do. 4i per cent I all Do. Fixed 4i p c sh (100 3 Wales Gna. 4p. c ,100 Do. do. 4. p. c.... ( all S.Vorksh.4p.c.Gnar all -Itock.,t Dar., sp. c 15 Do. do. do all 3tock..&.H—artl. P. c. till July all Watorfd.& Kilk. 6p c la ‘ll lAngio Californian I 7 ;Australian all Baden (Gd.Dnehy of all Bltenar. Iron & Coal 14 British Iron 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued at CF . ‘ pm.) all Do. Comes Sr Cuiab 15 Do. St. Johr Del Re k Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper ..... 1A Colonial Gold all Copper Min. of Eno all Do. Prof. 7. p. cent. Cop iapo all Fortuna all General all Gt.NnmetVoinit .g ail Great Pohooth all Gt Wheal Vor Unite , all Liberty all Linares 1i Lusitanian all rdariquita all Now Granada all Nouveau Monde._ ail Pontgi.Sil. & Le. Min. I Port Philip . all Quartz Rock all ithyraney Iron all Do. New 154 Santiago de Cuba. , 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co, all sigma. Australian. . all 1 Do. Scrip all Do. 10 per cent Prof 4 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 9 rii. Croft . tinitA Mexican . all %1I West Mariposs...„ . P S Worthing Mining of Anotralia . PREFERENCE iHAREe. 96 98 44 5 5 i 8 25 19 10 d tnstraln. Royal Mail 10 all erlin Water Work 50 40 ‘rit. American Land 100 3 32,cadzi St. 1, (40.61 - ,e.Tank.;n l St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug St. 100 DD.6p c. Mar & Sept 5 .11 • ‘ri,ta) Pal ace...-.••• 5 all Do. Preference 4 ail !ryltal Pal. of France 1 4 'Liston Iron Ore 20 18 Eastern Steam St 100 lectric Telegraph 1 all gloctrie Teleg. of Ir 5 all En.l.aus Cop Sm Co 25 all Gen. Ir Sc Col (lim.) 15 14 Gen Steam Navigat. 11 all General Screw Steam 20 5 London Discount 4 all Loud. Gen. Omnibus 20 l 0 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all 'lediteran. Elec. Tel. 10 all gexieanitS.Americn. 25 5 Nat. Discount Co 25 5 Do. New . 10 5 Netherlands Land 10 all Do. Do. 5 3 Do. SpcP iss at 1 d 5 1 Do. Do 100 80 New B. & N.S. Land N.S.W. Gov. 5p.c.D. 1 • 1 all N. B. Australasian 20 17i Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 1 all Oriental Gas .. 1 2s. Do. "New Sy s " . all Peel P.r. Ld. & 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 50 10 Do. New .00 50 Royal Mail Steam 1 11l Scot. Austral. Invest 1 all Ditto New 25 all Bluth A.ustral.Lamd 1 at. Submar. Tel, Scrip.., 1 til Do. Registered.... 20 .rrnstar I .. vo.TT ,00 Van Diemen's Land fit,.„ V.o9.o.4;,JaziatJuli j6li 16 4 106 i 1.071 7 12a i t , I 5I St. t 5 10 40 5 15 LON !)oN, MONDA x EVEI FEBRUARY 2 1857 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAVai. closing Prices Saturday. Business this day t pi:.t ~•.. a~ Redford i) ;31etchley Buckgnauoil 01ydeg‘lai 01. hour Vy. E. Un. H. S. . Barr. DJreQt Londol, N. Vic 7t. L. &N. E,U 96 98 98 102 11 - 13 133 136 4 ... 4i lE. 00i111 Caldont Do Gt. WOTC.II Now. & Borg. • . Y.&IIM Do 109 - 111 na .. !S. Rapt, 12i - 13 23 -21 LOB - 110 1 1), Peto 4 Co Do Norio i Do L. tr N. & Stckton 28 2i 92 94 En. Corl. 56 58 E.. Clonv.L, L. &N. W Do at North • t ncaßb k Yorkrh. .r. Brassoy 114.,"&01,,mi Stockt- kl Dar;ine, 132 135 .; (4tW‘Ag 3P - 124 7.6 ; 76 18 120 112 114 103 105 02 - 64 9 i - 10, 6 - 6 93 - 95 83 99 101 10 - 16t - 171 10 10: 74 - 76' 194 - 20 9 i - 10,1 14t - 15,i ••• .34 T 136 1?4 115 - 1159 - . • •• ''''. 6o 137 - 139 - 100 89 - 113 - 116 105 - 110 61 - 63 16 - t 7 23 - 24 102 - 105 10i - 10$ U - ii !._ -105 d - 112 274 -28 t 2 - 3 p 3 - 31 MINES VI I SCI '1 = fi 7i - - 2 3 1 3 i 16 - 18 - 56 33 - 37 25 - 27 12 - 14 - 74 84 id 8 - 10 23 - 25 6 8 24 3 11 - 3 • 3i lt' 21.1 5. 6 40 45 129 --- 133 1101 I►oi 1101 i 28 - 2i 5$ 9i - 93 - 18 6i —7/ 4 ad 3 - 4 4 2 - 4 9 1 - 14 3 4 31 4p, d p —• 3id 14 - OP 2i 2i 66 68 3 4pi ••• • 1 , 35 37 1 - 1 , MI 's 106} THE QUARTERLIES. ' tf The Edinburgh Review. No. CCXIII. The spt cious 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 I last article, we mean, relating to " India, Persia, and Affghanistail." Further comment upon the subject as. 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 Governor- General of India, speaking in the name of his Most Gracious Sove reign, and on behalf of her Supreme Government. This Pentiltimate, or ninth contribution to the nets 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 a n d pa i nstaking criticisms, referring the one to Presc o tt' s " P hilip the Second, " and the other to Fergu son ' s "Handb oo k o f Archite c tu r e." 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 heiht, 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 male 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 m anner an d a dd ress 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 soh, of 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 mare 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 au 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 nonogenari Ln—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." As to the elaborate paper in the Whig Quarterly upon the two last volumes of " Macaulay's History of England"—it is less a criticism than a panegyric. Nor can this, after all, be very greatly won dered at. For, say what his most virulent depre dators may, there is an immense amount of truth in such sentences (in regard to this wonderful literary performance) as the followin g Its rhetorical power fills th e wor ld 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. Macaulay'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." r a There hg n c e a e n t b e e r i n , j o c s h t e te s at all p t oke n about f n it, e that a n for the the particular,most p art o t n o e w e iz in n e o nt teedo ther t ha n veteranthe Right reviewer H o n i n . John Wilson Croker, of the Quarterly —the Mr. Rigby of Disraeli's " Coningsby"--nthe didicatee Of Southey's "Life of N e l son "—th e e dit or an d anno tator' of Boswell's " Life of Johnson." In which last-mentioned capacity, don't we all of us very 1 well remembe r h ow once upon a ti me h e was t a k en in hand b . y Mr. Ma cau l ay i n th e Edinburgh, a n d flayed alive from head to heel, and then soused in a sort of a diab o li ca l li terary cau ld ron of g reen vitriol? Afterwards, too, longyears aft erwards,don't we all of us rememb er equa ll y well hays 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 in Dr. Johnson's liking, if that un wieldy humorist was really and literally in earnest when he said h e " l ove d a g ood hater !•,, As an antidote to the p o i son o f the malignant critics of the Quarterly—here, in these cordial comments of the Edinburgh, are unctuous droppings of the honey of encomium ! Encomium seems but a weak word, however; let us ca ll th e article in question—rather than this—a kind of a grandiose literary apotheosi s ! Here is the Reviewer's congenial reference to the Demi:God of Mr. Macaulay's idolatry— WILLIAM. " 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 taosrtyic. te w mp e e c ra o m hs e id n e t, r b h u is t p w o a r s tra e i s t se o n f ti wr al il t l o iam th n e o tr l u es t s h coofrrheicst than able ; doing him the justice which had been too much denied him, and depicting his failings or his virtues with a true and discriminating 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, a tt i e n lass which the truestich a hero, re se f n a s v e Ou a rites o f although not perhaps romance-writers. His t emperament was f r i g id , and was congealed into s till -h arder ice by his ignorance of the language of the coun t ry 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 decay. But he was a hero, notwith standing,—a man with a commission the most difficult and hazardous, which he performed 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 o the new numb er o f. th e . Edinburgh, a treatise n " Human Longevity," an argument on " Convocation," and a political essay of a very alluring kind on the theme of "French Society under the Directory." * Vide The Sun of Monday, the 19th of January, 1857. MEXICAN BONDLIOLDERS. Subjoined is a communicaticn received by th e Mexican Bondholders Committee on Saturday) per steamer Atrato " The committee have received advices from Mr. Whitehead, dated Mexico, the 2d ultimo, and referring to some of the 19th December last, which have not yet come to hand. Mr. Lerdo had resigned the Ministry of Finance, which had created an extraordinary sensation. The leading papers of the capital treated his retirement as the greatest of all calamities, and it was hoped, in consequence of the manifestation of universal feeling in public, that the President might still succeed in averting Mr. Lerdo's retirement from office. Politics still con tinue somewhat unsettled. There bad been a pronuncia• 'unto at San Luis ; and in the south General Alvarez's conduct had been so doubtful as to cause serious appre hensions. " The packet brings 25,000 dollars from Mr. White head, but no other remittances, for dividend fund." CANTERBURY BALL. The great English tenor singer, Mr. Sims Reeves, has recently had 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 into the hands 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 tide 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 arc making for the annual full dress ball, which takes place on Wednes• day, February 18. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT TAYLER.—Lietitenant George R. Tayler (1815) died on the 28th ult., at 35, Canning street, Liverpool, in the 62d year of his age. He entered the navy in March, 1805, as a volunteer on board the Uranie frigate, Captain Hon. Charles Herbert. THE MAGAZINES. Blackwood.—lt would be difficult hot 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 delineative of the genius and of the career of the Right Honour able Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Baron St. Leonards, twice Lord Chanc,dler of Ireland, once holder of the Great Seals as Lard 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 tirue, W 3 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 Milhurst, 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 inc dents of a life as remarkable in its way as that of almost any man now a life which is here strikingly and pathaticallydesignated 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 lie himself has so often and so sagaciously administered. flow laborious this life has been, let the following astounding record of its toils demonstrate—" He 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 Commoes, 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'clock his servant would bring candles to his bedside, When he would sit up to read his briefs.. At a quarter to nine o'c!ock he would he 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 eith er cour t, which he would be addressing incessantly. At the rising of the court, a little after four, he would betake himself-I) the House of Commons, and remain there often till two' o'clock in the morning, or later, reading his briefs in a room at the coffee-house at Bellamy's of that day, daring the inter vals of his attending the debates, switching a hasty dinner at any moment that served. One, he returned home at half-past six o'clock in the morning, and went to bed till eight o'clock, when he rose to prepare for such another day as the one before! How mortal fish and blood— how any mortal brain, could steed such tear and wear as this, seems a mystery ; butt he was blessed with a fine constitution, and was of temperate and abstemious habits. It should be especially remarked, in regard to this brilliant paper upon Lord St. Leonards, that it opens thus impressively We believe that England never before saw, living at once, three such remarkable su',jectq for the portraiture of some future Lord Campbell, as the three ex-Chancel lors now adorning the House of Lords—Lords Lyed hurst, Brougham, and St. Leonards,—Lord . Campbell himself being a di-tingutshed 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 stands at the head of this article. Without attributing to him the attractive and dazzlingcharacteristice of Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham as orators and statesmen—the latter, to.), a prodigy of versatility, and power—we shall, by a plain narrative of facto, establish the pretensions of Lord St. Leonards 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 Cawpbell— 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 I 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. Loonards--" 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 is really only commencing at learner, let him well con sider the nature of the work which he proposes to offer to a learned profession. Let it not con-dat 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 supplyingdt. Thus it was that Ed ward Burtenshaw Sugden planted the acorn which he has lived to ads flourishing in full vigour at 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 Athelinge carries the reader to the very verge, as it would seem, of an alaircissement, to the very brink of ' the denouement. The evil genii's 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 ! 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 Irenaeus, 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 critical 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 I 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 Palarave, 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. Fronde 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. Alban's in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, drawn by Morton, Henry Vll.'s Minister, Cardi nai, Archbishop, Leg Ate 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 be the most successful of the author of "Digby Grand's" efforts. The reader is introduced to a school, at Everdou, in "sweet Sornersetshire," where Vere and Da Rohan have been sent, the most noticeable charac ter in which is likely to figure conspicuously in the story. This is, de fact., the head boy—Ropsley, who is described as " the main spring, round which turned the whole of thelittle world at Everd on." 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 Sweienborg" 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 Christo class, a tale of wrong and vengeance, recorded as " au in stance in which the perpetrators of the most atro cious crimes elud9d, 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 fliture fame. 'Beside the above, we have 'other contributions of merit, the number concludin g with a powerful vindicatio n o f th e " W ar with China." Bentley's Miscellany.--Dudley Costello proceeds with his new story of "The Millionnaire 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 Europe 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 geographically. "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 •Cnancel lor from Pope's accusations, by proving that his 1 brother Anthony was more unscrupulous than ho. 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 New Monthly.—The New 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 wider 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. 13ushby, 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 Due 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 Vinci. 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 ! " 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 flamley'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 Einpire,"—the writer propounds a theory, according to which we must look for au 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 into restina 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 auardeut 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 fron t St Helena." These include a Son met 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 lead a sad fall myself, nevertheless lamon my legs and doing well." In an elaborate and instructive article ou " 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 submitted in the hope of warding off a collision which what merely purpose threatened all this ieevteermy temporising g turn. And ? to create new difficulties, t o increase the arrogance It has to served of the Chinese and finally to precipitate the rup ture it sought to avert." We suspect there is some truth in these remarks. His recommendation s as to what should be done are characterised by vigour and good sense. COLLEGE OF . DENTISTS. —The d e nti s t s h ave found "a local habitation and a name," th e f ormer at No. Cavendish-squares, (where th e Eth no l ogical Society holds i its meetings), the new titl e b e i ng the College of Dentists of England. All respectable members of the profession are invited to j o i n b e f ore the end of the Ye ar, after which time the ad m i ss i on will be by ex aminatien. Theinaugural address will be delivered by Mr. Robinson, on the 14th of February ; and a dinner was lately eaten by the friends of the Col lege, as a social, and w ith a l most appropriate, way of celebrating its establishment. Amongst the toasts proposed was " Th e Medical Press." It was very cordially received, and neatly acknowledged by two gentlemen closely connected with periodical literature. But, in a curious reckauO'e of London news, pub lished by the Dublin, Medical Press under the title of "Gossip," it is asserted that a person also responded to this toast, who apologetically stated that "he had done only a little in journalism ; he might have done more if he were dishonest." We trust our contem porary will delicately hint to its eorre spondent that even gossip can n ot b e accep t a bl e t o me mbers of the profession when it mistakes personality for satire, and impertinence for wit.—Lancet. LITERATURE. Little Dorrit. No. XV. By Charles Dicicens. A capital number—one of the very best instal. meats of " Little Dorrit" yet published. What possibly, by the way, can be more deliciously lu dicrous than the comparison of Mr. Dorlit's " flourishes" ab ou t the subjectof Fanny's Mar riage the compar i son of . those very Aha racteriatic flourishes with which writing inas tars are in the habit of em b e lli s hi ng copy b ooks and ciphering-books : " whore the titles," writes B . ex, " of the e l ementary rules of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, gr iffi ns and other caligraphic de corations, and where th e cap i tal letters go outoftheir minds and bodies into e cstas ie s of pen and ink " — what possibly, we. ask, th an this in its way can be more deliciously ludicrous ? Throughout alinost the whole of this fifteenth Nuinber, Mr. Dicke ns i s " himself "—thoroughly. And ho could'nt by amy chance when ho is in this mood be any one-sn ore entirely, delightful. What a picture that is for example of Mrs. General at bedtime ! " Her re tirement for the night itwas always h er f ro i tiest ceremony ;as if she felt necessary that the human imagination should be chilled to prevent its followi ng her ;" to which is added—" When she h a d gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a , sort of genteel platoon exercise, she withdrew.. What again can be more comic 41 than the disparage meat pronounced upon Mrs. Merdle's false hair, a s viewed by her affectionate daughter-in-law that-is to-be—" for I am confident," says Fanny Dorrit to her si s t er , " i t ' s not a ll r e a l , ug l y as it is, and unlikely as it is that any ono in their senses would go to th e expense of b uying it !" And that notion about the " Roman Caesars," as revealed to us throu g h ant i que 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 to flatter out of their villanous hideousness." An that final glimpse we have in the present number of Mrs. General, assheappears 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 his son-in-law, Sparkler's bride, newly arrived in Lon don from the continent—" His hand seemed to retreat up his sleeve as h e a d vance d 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 along with me I' " 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) a - qniintance 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 ne 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 (s 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 ofjewellery 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 aczount 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 s weatoneat." The gift of jewellery, by the way, being evidently for Mrs. General's own exclusive wearing —Mr. Dorrit having an eye obviously to that same wily General's promotion ! Where must we Zook for the Future Prevention, of Grime ? 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. Oa 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, seized 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, he 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 those s l e o o sv k h for a re success n a difficult inadequate tohas, however, this consolation for mankind — "In easierund er undertaking k i n g e from ha it pro portion as they approach excellence in the. perform ance of the easier duty, so will the strain upon them for the performance of the more difficult be lessened." Mr. Ellis has evidently given the sub ject considerable thought, and if his conclusions be open to dispute his sincerity is net. CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) The February sessions of this Court c3intnenced 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 Anderton, &c,, &c. The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 120 prisoners. The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, expressed his regret at finding so large a number of prisoners on ti,e 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 invoiving 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 pre 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 calamitous 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 giving evidence in that Court on a c h arge o f f e lony. Such a proceeding was looked upon by the law as one of a very 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. ance of their duties. 110 1066 21i 106, 107& 84 31 50} 9 i i 54 8 26 9, 1 i