The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-09 00:00:00

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M ar : ad read ha )eak, 00 01 the sa me 3 conc h With ir we W ° °l l pronoun ce nost non hint yvit id beo°, l3 ?; what," ally a a e:„ 80 tsantrY , on its fir a o L it beoao cl hag eau -ge „f iaracter v more ogr e : ht blue el' :ne volevt heart fe l! ! e, and if 5 ,1 anted itsei4 e scape W t o onage ~e 0 cba". o m id was l sf ate qua l ' , a o bliterat e d as Jell ° n prove B e , hi c natat )stract, uals, eve zated I n ,er who ) f i t excelled i s the lees ° iend wh° l : l s it flow 3q uire fo' 4 Jerro ld it their sie" Priory it is intelleeb clover doi: per I°l/ OS; ClOO lAO, Ds per "" 0 o 3; ClOl do N per to n s equenc e , ° : old ers b ov e 'ate& Til e ; „ m petiti ° do higher :a tinnes;,7o ies of 1- , , 00 onsurartoi e rise, Yil I for hod p i a ntati,„ ° : - Fullior ar 10 suPeri- • )n in PO ce fitz ° ' rule et Tar 3 So P are On to SeP te , d ril e rt. OOP- ght, 36 use s fr°''i m the r° ° , Of 6 C e ' her nap ; she when 81 : the neig h: E l be w * ii •ance, so MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoca. Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton Market yesterday closed with a hardening tendency, at the extreme rates of last week. The sales amounted to 12,000 bales, 2,500 of wh'cli wore taken by the speculators, and 2,000 by the ex- Porters. The Railway Shar3 Market closed with a dull appearance, and prices of all shares were a sill de lower. It has been announced by the Union Bank of London that they are authorized by the Delhi flank to arrange all the engagements of that esta blishment drawn upon the London and Eastern Banking Company. The advices from China as already reported have increased the firmness of the silver market, and the demand continues active. The bars received by the last West India steamer have been sold at s s• rid. per ounce, being d. per ounce more than the previous supply realised. Although the rates at Hong Kong and Shanghai are higher and will keep up the present drain of silver, it is satisfactory to notice that the Indian exchanges are more favour able, the quotations both at Calcutta and Bombay b eing lower than was at first supposed. Purther amounts of gold have been taken into the Bank of England, and a larger proportion of t he late supplies is likely to be so appropriated t han most persons anticipated ; but of the 345,000/. brought by the Sussex and the Walmer Castle, about 120,0001. has been sold to the authorities, and a part of the remittances by the Kent, the South Carolina, &c., will probably be also added t° the etock .of precious metals in Threadneedle street. An active dernand still prevails for discount ac ennnodation, and at the Bank of England and in L ombard-street the applications are found to be „"Y numerous. At the same time, however, no naculty is encountered by parties requiring assist ance, and as the supply is large, there is perhaps 'tees pressure than of late. One cause of the sus tained inquiry is the activity with which the Go /.ernraent collections, as usual at this period of the rear, when the dividend payments are approaching, ar e made. Probably in the course of a few days the inquiry will slacken, but it is impossible at all :_ l nes to calculate upon any beneficial change, for he least increase in the demand seems to have a decided effect upon the market. The transfer books for Consols close to-say, and t he market will now be solely under the influence of speculative operations. Subjoined are the days a ppointed for the shutting and re-opening : Shut. Re-open. Consols New 3i per Cents „ 10 „ 17 New 2,-1 per Cent „ 10 ... 17 5 per Cents. Annuities, 1860 „ 10 ... „ 17 Ditto, 1880 lO ... „ 17 India Stock There is very little animation in the market for z = iglish Secu r iti es , an d the quotations seem rather e avY• It is difficult to discover the real cause of „ 4540 t his apathy and weakness, but a prudent course , " B Poeulation is evidently dictated by the continued dt ,and for money and the specie drain. The attendance of the members of the " House" is and business in all departments is con `t acted. Consols for transfer have been 93i 94, "(I for account 94; and 94g The New 3 ' Aer Cents. are 92i and the Reduced 92 g. dis a llk Stock is 2121 to 214. India Bonds are Bs. count, the March Exchequer Bills 2s. dis,, and the Bonds 98i Consols are now 94 for money 411 .„. 4 94 i g for account. he re stocks are exceedingly inactive, not Ore than h a lf- a -d ozen b arga i ns being recorded. u' Turkish: 6 per cents , h ave b een 951, an d are now 2 7 1 ed 95. P eruv i an 3 per cents. are 53 ; Dutch Per cents., 651 ; and do. 4 per cents. 97k. The followi ng are the nominal prices of Foreign Stacks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6± ; Mexican, - "q 3 ,; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 76i 71; ditto 3 per 53), 4i ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45i 61; ls eliau 5 per Cents., 107 9 ; ditto 41 per eer 1 . 441 . ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 411 21; ditto dlelt Deferred, 25± A ; ditto Certificates, 61 ; ditto Passive, 51 I. The Railway Share M ar k e t h as b een i nac tive, ba t the few dealings reported have in most in atlinces been at a slight improvement on yesterday's u ~.q uo tations. G reat N ort h ern an d L ancas hire and Yo rkshire advanced ss. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and L incoln, 7 s . 6d. ; an d N or folk and North Eastern ( 1 1. 13 ti er wick), 10s. In the Foreign and Colonial t • " no business of any importance was transacted. Gre at Western of Canada receded about ss. ir ,_ l , ll Mining Shares the only business done was in 'bre Copper, at 52, being about . yesterday's quo tation. 2 °int-stock Bank Shares ruled quiet. London Westminster improved about ss. ; Ottoman 0 , 411 k) about ss. ; and Union of Australia de '4lled 10s. Ni - i Very few dealings are reported in Miscellaneous t o 4r es• North of Europe steam have improved ss. ; Yal Mail Steam declined 10s. ` S ITISE FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Offletal List;) Business done. .....,..._..... r k Stock 21 31 12 ,i 14 b „ 3 --, Cont. Reduced Annuities NeeroD ittoe: 924 $ Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 3i 4 3i 4 4 p ow • hid, Boer Cent. Annuities 92i ii " nds £lOOll ••• . 00000 under £lOOO 8 d n sols for Account, Zieheq uer B i lls, 24d. 94. 1 . 11 009 2 d I I) i t b i -- Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent. lttoo, 1359 lb aD ., 'ES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Partl ' c lan Bonds, 4i per Cent — DittoTt„ 3 per Cent. - 53 I 'M Bonds, 6 per cent 95 b it , Dividends on the above sayable In Lon ion. k. - ;.; 41 ' Exchange, 24 per Cen`..., 12 Guilders 654 gavitto 4 per Cent. Certificates; 974 ___ TWO O'CLOCK. C onsols,7moncy :Ditto Account 2 ,. 11 CHINESE ASSASSINS AND SIR JAMES BROOKE. (Front the China Mail of April 16 ) the Chinese who attacked Rajah Sir J. Brooke at I NT . Sarawak, murdered Messrs. Wellington and L e ° l etts, and wounded Mr. and Mrs. Crookshank, rere suffered a fearful retribution at the hands of eo MalaYs, having been nearly extirpated from the tOnatry by their relentless pursuers. It appears , l at, not con t en t e d w ith th e m i sc hi e f th e y had already done, they returned to the town in greatly 14creased. force ; but the whole Dyak population was 111 arm s , and the Chinese had to retreat, closely P c ressed by the Malays. A letter in the Penang m'azett e says `` About 1,000 to 1,500 Chi namen h ave h a d their heads taken off by - the Dyaks, who are in arms in 4. 4 . 1 directions. The Chinese had held possession of t he town for about two days, before the steamer Sir d ames Brooke art ived, and were in the forts and about the town. The first shot from the reamer's lone 18-pounder cleared the fort, and L II a short time they were all swarming out of the .„-1ti1,13) the steamer all the time hard at work guns and rifles, which did considerable exe . c.cu 11°,11. Every day, boatloads of heads were arriving a nd the Dyaks were flocking in in thousands -41 ' 4 cutting ' the Chinese off in all directions. They 4 3 1 e all cleared out of the Sarawak territory, only . wedded, -or so out of some 2,000 to 3,000 having . 4e Med. All the Chinese women went over safe, t teut 700 ; and of all the booty they got in`,Saraw ak, tp l 7 Possess very little now. One of their ruses of Y i ng ;to get quit of the Dyaks was to throw i i ,"eY among them. The Chinese were marching e ; 4 body o f a b ou t 2,000, i nc l u di ng 700 women and e nd . ei ren, and the Dyaks hovering about them, oc orinally making a dash at a corner, detaching 40 the .*- 10 from the main body, and whipping off h a heads with great zeal. The Chinese have o r a terrible lesson in Sarawak. Their manner lxl g° ll , l g about it was to take hold of a China by his tail, and whip off his head with great tiT (t eritY ; one blow sufficed. I hardly expect the. slaughter will stop here ; the Dyaks, having blood up : and expecting the Chinese to have a a a t - I,,ef booty, will pursue them till not a man is 1 4 ° ,, n1 Y 10 or 12 Alalays and Dyaks had been killed the pursuit. Mr. and Mrs. Crook hank were ne ar l y recovered from their wounds, and quiet had saaell. restored. Mr. Russell, a metallurgist, was in vedterier of the country at the time, but lie was Panie by the him fidelity of 10 Malays who accom - ti 20 20 10 St. 5 20 10 20 20 00 100 100 120 SHARE- MARKETS—(This Day.) RAILWAYS. raid I Reitman. 2i 10 1 A.rnbg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June.— ) all Belfast & Ballymena all Birmng. Wo'verb. Stour Va11ey........, 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh Cheshire Junct...... i all Blackburn all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £4E)... 10 Bristol & Exeter...... 100 Ca1ed0nian............. 100 Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.... all Cork, Black. & Pass. all Cornwall all D% A 8 Do. B 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dun. P. &Aber.Junc. 100 East Anglian ......... all i Eastern Counties..... 100 lEasternUnion,A.stk 100 IDo. ' do. B ..... 8i iDo. New A........... 172jEast Kent ... ......., 100 East Lancashire ...... all 'East Suffolk 4 Do. 100 ;Edinburgh & Glasgow all lEdirtb. and Peebles 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dundee all Forth and ClydeJunc. 100 !Furness ...... 100 !Glasgow & S. Western all , Great N. of Scotland 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock ..... 100 'Do., B. Stock ..... 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre. 100 I GreatWestern. 100 Do. Str.V.R. gna.S all Irish South-Eastern iC I all :Lancaster &Carlisle. .6W 14f Do., Third 5.. ........, .01 12 IDo. New Thirds 100 'Laneash &Yorkshire 6 Do., do. F. Do., Wst. Riding TM. all I Do.' Southport. ..... 114 all London & Blackwall R. 100 Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. R. 100 London &N. Western K/ all Do. Fifths 10 all Do. ,10/.Sh.,M&B C' 122 21 Do. Eighths R. 100 London & S.Waatern 15 all Lndndrry.&Coleraine ;5 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. ;t. 100 Manch.Shef. &Lincln. l .0 1 Metropolitan .0 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement .... it. 1100 Midland . it. 1100 Do. Eirming. & Derby all Midland G. West. (Ir. ) all Do. Shares ......... all Newcastle &Carlisle.. all Newpt.Aberg.dalrfd. 9 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint dz ROsirevon. St. 50 St. St. 100 Norfolk.. 3? Northn. Counties Un ,100 North British ......... 100 North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock . ... 100 Do., A Stock ......... 100 Do., B Stock ......... , 100 N. Eastern Berwick 23 Do. do. Extension _ 16 Do do. G.N.E.Purch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 11.00 North London ..... 31.1 N. &S. Wstn., Tramp stead, and City Jn 17i North Staffordshire all North Western.. all N. do S. Westrn. Juno 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 16 Portsmouth 10 !Rhymney 100 Scottish Central ...., 1 100 Scot. N. E. Abrdn. St 100 Shropshire Union 6 , Sitingbourne &Sheer all :South Devon 100 ;South Eastern all D. 4?. per; . Shares , J 100 ;South Wales 17 ;5. Yorksh. River Dun 7 IDo . all I itaines,Wok.,&Wok. all IStockton & Darlin—.. 15 Do. do., 1854 ' 3 Do. do., 1855 16 Stockton & Hartlopl 100 Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 1. . ... 22 Thames Hay. D. &R all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. dz Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall.. all West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A all Do. B all West London all Do. First Class all Do. Second Class all I Wmbledon &Croydon BRITISH PO: :0 all 'At'an. and St. Law. .8 9 ' Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. _ _ all IDo. 103 Buffalo dt Lake Hur. 100 Buff. , Brnt. & God ch. 1100 t 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 100 Do. do., 1 June, '74 2s. Calcutta and S. East. 2s6d Central Oude (Lim.) lOs Ceylon bares 1 Do. B. do. . all Demerara . 7 . 2s. Eastern Bengal 100 East Indian 15 Do. C Shares all D 0.43 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 all Do. do. do., '59, do. all Geelong dt Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. 100 Gd. Trunk. of Canada all Do. 6p. c. Bebop._ all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pert. 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. all Gt. Westn. of Canada 10.1 Do. New all Do. Bds., payable '57 all Do. do., '76, p. '60.,. all iDo. do., '73, do. all IDo. do., '73, without option all Madras, guar. 42 p.c all Do. do., 5 per c..,, 10 Do. 44 p. c. Exten, 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c, 5 Do. 4th Ex. do ss. Conde (Limited) 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c, .00 20 20 _ all IDo - FOR: all A_ntwrp & Rotterdam I I 18 Ardennes. all Belgian East. Junct. I 16 Beziers to Graissessac all Carmeaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry / 12 Dutch Rhenish / all Eastern of France I all Do. New 1 N. Euphrates Valley 1 18 Gt. Central of France ) 18 Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction ) all Lake Const. & Bale ) all Lierre and Turnhout ) 6 Lombardo-Venetian 5 all Lucca & Plat. sp. c. p ) all Lyons and Geneva ) all !Lyons & Med items% 5 all IMaria Antonia . all Do. New ) all Namur & Liege ) all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref 3 all Northern of France D all NorwegianTrnk. Prof D all Paris and Lyons D all Paris and Orleans 0 7 ;Recife & San Fran , (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c 0 7A Rome and Frascati 0 all Royal Danish 5 all Royal Swedish 0 all Sambre and Mouse , 0 all )o. per cent. p r 0 all Southern of France. 8i all West Flanders ... . O all Do. 5k per C. P r ef O all I W.& N.W. of g ranc ;, O 6 iWestern ofAustria. • O all !West. of Switz er l an d 6 all Wiesbaden ............ 6 all I Do. Bp. cent. pref.' ;0 all ',Zealand Closing Price‘ yesterday 51- 51 8i - 9 67 - 69 8 - 9 89 - 91 72 -72 A 36 - 37 . . .. - 4 - 5 9 10 18 19 lla 1J 52 54 1 353 363 8 7 d 97 98 j 53 s: 83 - 33 95 - 97 8 - 9 96.; -9" i 87 - 89 . 121 - 123 [O2 - 104 61i 64i 63 - 65 70 - 74 6 - 8p 6 -8;, -100 ii - I , • • '''" •• 6 - 61 [ll - 112 [O4 - 101. - 94 - 100: p. ....... ... 421 83} - 83; 54 - 55 ••• -. •.• 15 - 16 61 - 63 3i - 42 - 43 89 - 90 3 - 2A f 21 - 2 431 - 68. - 691 96 - 99 5 4id 7i 8 10 10 ; i 3} 30;4 7 5 [O5 107 25 26 49 51 3 2d 18 191 , 73 744' 87 88 5A Old 5A 41d1 40 ::: 42 20} -- 21 4 -- 4 1 7 - 9 2i - 3i 5i - 6 ISSESSIONS. -11 P, ld par }93 98 91 94 91 94 11-1 i pl I - A 107 - 109 lip 194 - 20 633 - 64 91 - 92 21 - 211 - p i 3$ - 235, 1i - 2t i p 1.00 - 101 1.10 - 115 1110 - 115 106 - 108 19 - 20 21 - 214 ( 1 - IP - BP :16 6 i - 7 ••• ••• par 1p 4i 51 4 2 lid 28/ —29 ii Psi IP 24i —24 i 6j .•• 4i - 5f iii =--- 29 A - Si 20 - 201 33 - 381 V - 91 57i - 58 56 - 58 f d . parl 16 18 8 t 3 29t 29; 9i 30 31 par 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. all tAustralasiii. 18i Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London; all ;Bri. Col. Bk.& all !British N. American' 8 I C.Bk.of Ind.Au.dtCh 50 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond. all Eng.Scot.diAns.Cht. all Lon. Ch. Bk.of Aust all ; Ditto New 20 ;London and County 53 ;Lud.diE.Bnkng.Corp 10 I London Joint Stock 20 LoncLandlVestminst 35 National Pro. of Eng 10 Do. New.... • 22A National Bank all Now South Wales all (Oriental Bank Corp. 15 'Ottoman Bank 15 ;Provinc' al of Ireland all ;Do. New 1 R. Aus.B. &G.Im.Co. all South Australia ill ! Union of Australia 26 1 D0. New '0 Union of London 4) Unity Mutual ..... 50 Westru Bk cf Lond 88 96 - 1 I 2 lAd l 1 50 52 •• --- ... 11 id 62 64 174 - 171 17 -17 i 17 - 17 ..• ••• 3 4 9 7 4 40 9 /d I P i 61 . 63 1 b 5 7 57 6 7 *** - ••• -- 10 3d Business done this day. 43 I i i 89i i 90 !THE £SUN, LONDON T U ESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, t 857, LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ASCOT RACES. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. L eas i ng closing Prices Business Shr Ptu rA` LWAYd Companies yesterday. this cliky St. 100 Buckghamsh. Ln.&N.W. 93 95 St. 100 IClyderlaleJc. Caledon... ••• 25 all Col.Stour Vy E.U.&E.Ci 11. 13 St. 100 lE.Lin. g. 6 p.c Gt. Northnll3l 133 5 all E. Un. H. Sh E. Count. I 31 41 St. 100 Gla3. Barr. & Caldonian. Noils.Dircct. ••• ••• St. 100 IDo. New Do — ••• 2; all ;Glstr•SiDn.Fr Gt. Westn 50 all ( Hull & Selby. Y. k N.M lO6 108 25 all Do.. Shares. Do — 123 all I Do. Shares. Do 124 all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern l2i 121 20 all Do.Preferenee Do 2!3 233 St. 100 Lon. Til &S. Peto &Co lOl 1 06 101 10 7i Do. But:. Sh. Do i P 71 53 all Mancli.Baton. and Matlock & Midld. 2f 2f St. 100 I Mdld. Bradfd. Midland BB 90 89 6i 51 Now narket I BuiTE.G.spc. E. Count id - I p Pm 50 all N.&Est.s p.c. Do ...... 54 56 50 all Do. 6 per ct.. Do 50 all Do. Fixed sp. cDo 25 1 all IP rest. dr Wyre L. &I. W • •.. 123' all Do. 1 Shrs. A Do — St. 100 IRoystn.& Hit. Gt.Northo 131 133 10 all , Shrews. & Her T. Brassey 74 81 12 all S. Staflordsh.. M. MClean 9 93 50 lall IWcarVal.g6pe Stk.&Dar. 25 all !Do Do.. 3ll 325/ St. ,100 IWilts&Soinrst Gt.Westn. 87 89 (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The nineteenth quarterly general meeting of the members of this society was held this day, at the offices, No. 33, Norfelk street, Strand, Lord Ranelagh in the chair. The following report was unanimously adopted : • The executive committee have the pleasure to report 'that the exp.rirnent on the 21 of April !mit, of offering to the holder of rights of choice the opportunity to select houses leased and occupied, was attended with comple'e success—the three villa residences on the'St. Margaret's estate not only having been chosen with, early Rights of Choice, but considerable premiums were paid to secure these f xeellent investments. Before the end of the financial year, the committee hope to, be enabled to sub mit for sale other villas now in course of erection on the Enfield estate, within a couple of minutes' walk from the station. After a public meeting on the 25th of March, the Taunton estate was allotted on the 2nd of April. About one-third has been already sokl ; and the tenders for the roads and drains having been called for, it is expected the remainder of the plats will find ready purchasers. The contract for the Kentish-town roads and drains will be carried out without delay, and will facilitate the sale of the remaining plots on this valuable property. The' next allotment of estates i- , fixed for Thursday the 13th of June ; and on that day the Maidstone estate in West Kent, and the Redhill estate in Nut field, close to the Reigate and Redhill Station, in E ist Surrey, will he offered for sale. Now that two railroads are open to Maidstone—the distance by the North Kent line being reduced to forty-three miles—an increased demand is I expected for house accommodation. Tne property, being situated within so short a distance from the centre of the town and the railroad station, and the land being also of good elevation, commanding fine views of the Medway, ia admirably adapted for building purposes. The C, mnittee have set apart a free site for a church, svhicii is much wanted, in the neighbourhood of the Rochester and Quarry roads, and have much pleasure in adding that a handsome donation has already been subscribed by a gentleman in Maidstone, to secure the speedy erection of the church. TRIAL STAKES. Early Bird. . York.. Rosa thnbeur 3 Eighteen ran. Arrived—Heroine and Hobgoblin. Not here—Cora. .es for 1857. S B t i o b e u k r Y b i e .. I g u e b 2 24 5 WinebeAer 25 Carlisle . 30 Chelmsford 3O The Redhill estate is in the parish of Nutfi 11, and is about 21 miles from London, within a few minutes' walk of the Reigate Station, on the Dover and Brighton lines. The picturesque character of the scenery round Redhill is well known, and the estate to be "offered will give first rate building frontages. The Committee have been en abled to offer plots of about half an acre. each in this rising neighbourhood. The erection of the new church on the Woodbury Park estate, Tunbridge Wells, on the site given by the Con-, servative Laud Society, has been commenced. Nego ciations have been in progress respecting the building of churches on the Reading, Forest H.ll, and St. Margaret's estates ; but the Executive Committee are not yet in a position to report that any arrangement has been con. eluded for either of the above-mentioned localities. The river embankment of the St. Margaret's-terrace is now completed, and a noble carriage drive as well as a promenade have been secured on the banks of the Tha•nes, extending from. the Royal Naval Female School up to the railroad bridge. Tne questions of a foot-bridge and a station still occupy the earnest attention of the Com mittee. A recent inspection of the allotted estates has proved that those plots which are fenced in and looked after by the allottees 'stand the speediest chance of being let for ground-rents. Another advantage arising from the land being enclosed is, that the members can derive a good re turn until building operations be commenced. L )rd Alfred Churchill having retired, the executive committee have had the pleasure of electing Lieut.- Colonel Augustus Meyrick a member of the board under rule 32, late 33. Viscount Pevensey, M.P , the Hon. _ _ Ralph Dutton, M.P., W. B. Beach, Esq., M.P., E. M. Archdall, Esq., M.P., and Montague D. Scott, Esq., have been addd to the list of patrons and general com mittee. The returns of the business of the March quarter were only brought up to the seventh of that month in the last report.. The figures now stand thus :—Shares in pro gress to June 6, ] 857, 11,180 ; shares completed ; 2,163; total shares, 13,343 ; receipt., 295,5081 93. 101 Total withdrawals from the formation of the society in September, 1852, to June 6, 1857. 44,5891. 16s. Bd. ; total sale of land, from September, 1852, to June, 1857, 285,375/. 144. 2d. The returns of the Register of Order of Rights are as follows :—Completed, "2,422 ; drawn, 2,677 ; seniority, 1,381 ; total, 6,480. Deduct rights exercised on estates, building advances, itc., 3,854. Unexercised rights, 2,626. The last share on the Register of Rights by Seniority, a'ter the drawing of the 9th inst., will be about No. 6,217, and the last share taken up to the 6th inst. was No. 13,a43. The,EXecutire Committee had occasion in their last report, after the contests in East Sussex and West Kent bad taken place, to record the_good faith with which nearly all the allotteea who acquired the freehold fran• chisein those counties through the instrumentality of the society, had voted in favour of the Conservative can- dilated. Since the two struggles referred to, a general election has taken pace, the Fourth Parliament of Queen Victoria having been dissolved on the 20th of March, 1857, and the committee have again the satis faction of reporting to the members, that the returns of tho polling have been exceedingly gratifying, and had the general body of Conservatives acted with the same consistency and fidelity as the allottees of the society, some of the counties might have been saved to the cause. The committee were well aware that in a society, the commercial advantages of which have been so eagerly sought after by all. classes of the community, investors of — various shades of political opi nion would be found, many of whom, it may be stated, honourably abstained from voting, but so far as regards the members placed on the register by the society, the proportion of Conservative voters is at least ninety per cent. The Registration Courts will be soon re-opened, and will be for the allottees, who have not yet o'otained he franchise, to forward to the Society's solicitors on or before the 2011 of July, the requisite deeds, in order that the claims which are supported free of expense to the members, made be duly made and sustained. It is also important that the holders of plots on estates should give special instructions to name the polling district at which they desire to vote, inasmuch as freeholders in distant parts of the country have the privilege, _ _ under the Registration Act (6 Vict, c. 18, a. 36), to vote in any polling place in the county, although their qualifi- cation may be in a different district—the claim being made in due course before the revising barrister, who will in sert the name of such claimant for the polling place he may specify. Persons desirous of qualifying for counties can do so on the society's estates, the plans and particulars of which may be obtained on application at the offices. The Executive Committee, in conclusion, congratulate the members on the continued success of the society's operations. (Signed) RANELAGII, Chairman. (Countersigned) C. L. GEUNEISEN, Secretary. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, June 9.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.; strong breeze, and cloudy. FALMOUTII, June B.—Wind W.—Arrived—Anna Catherine, from Rio Grande. SWANSE I, June B. Wind S. W.—Arrived—William Leckie, from Cuba; Governor, Coquimbo; Pearl, Cuba. Sailed—Eliza, for St. Vincent. CARDIFF, June $.--Wind W.—Arrived—Berth Kohn, from Gibraltar. Sailed—Jessie Burfield, for Newfound land. COWES, June B.—Wind W.—Arrived—Schlossie, from Shanghai. Souvismnox, June 7.—Sailed—Ottawa (s.), for Bombay. PLYMOUTH, June S.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Roska, from Rio Janeiro. _ _ _ OFF . THE LIZARD, June 7.—Arrived—Johan Beck, from Rio Janeiro for Hamburg; North America (barque), homeward bound. OFF DovER, June B.—Arrived—Margaretts Roesnor, from F.;hields, for Hong Kong. BRIDLINGTON, June 9. Wind W.S.W., strong gale.— Artived—Diamond, from Middlesborough for London, leaky. • GRIMSBY, June B.—Wind E.—Sailed—Sovereign, for Bombay. t CLYDE, Jane 4. — A rrived — Harmonise, from New York. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUtHAMPTON, Tuesday, 10 a.m. Wind W. Arrived—Argyll, steamer, from Carenton ; Jason, steamer, Bremen ; Sir Robert Peel, Sunderland. LIVEMOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind W. N. W. Arrived—Corinthian, screw steamer, from Palermo ' • Arctic, Now York : Villa d'Equa, Gallipoli ; Ferdinand, Montevideo; Elese von Sowtzow, Dantzic; Stalwart, Philadelphia; LOO Christie, Ghent; Margarita, Minatel lan ; Martha and Jane, Demerara ; Linda, Porn-imbue° ; Annie, Maranham ; Camdut, and Sylvia, Alexandria. QUEENSTOWN, June 7. Wind S.E. Arrived—Ambassa ior, from Matanzas. Off—Talavera, frora. China, for Dublin. (BY SUBNA.BINE: AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.20 a.m. Wind W. • tide low 'water; fresh and fine. Arrived, W. Bth Martha, from Toning; Eliza Kirk bridge, Wyborg ; Orb, Guernsey. Sailed, June 9—City ;if Nantes, for Nantes: DEAL, Tuesday, 9.15 a.m. Wind W. by N. ; mod erate. Anchored—Happyßetran, from Seabam, for Rye ; Lord Dacres, Sunderland, Sou thampton ; Caroline Coventry, London, Madras. Passed —Australia, Austr tan bark, from the north for the westward. The tone of the commercial letters from India yester day is not unfavourable. At Bombay the transactions had been limited, but at Calcutta there had been an ex tensive business and prices were , firm although there bad been large arrivals. A. disposition to subscribe to the New Five per Cent. Loan was - fikewiSe a satisfactory feature. THE SCOTCH COURT OF SESsio'N.—The number of extra sittings of the Court of Sessio,l, in terms of the Act 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 36, Imo been six, all of them subsequent to January 1, 1853 ; of these Fix two were extra sittings of the whole court And four of the first division only. No extra sittings of tf‘e Lords Ordi nary have been held under the 10th section of the Act 2d and 3d Victoria, cap. 36, but under the 9th section of that Act all the Lords Ordinary have since Jan. nary 1, 1840, sat three weeks longer in each year than pre viously. The number of causes standing on the roll of the first and second divisions of the court, and ready for hearing on the Ist Jan., 18 5 7, w a s resPecl ively 27c): 5 and 30. Blyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd.at 501.) Bris. R, Ex. 4 p.c. St. Do. 4 per c. Shares.. Calecln. £lO 4?) p. C. Ches. & 110. 5. p.c. Do. do. 5 per cent... Cork&Bandonsip.c. Dun.Perth.StAber..l.! E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do, do. Ole. B 6 p. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7 p c. Eas. Co. Ex,sp .c No.l Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 pr. c. St East Un. ' G. 6 p. c. Do. 51.. 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sli. Do. do. 4 per cent ) East Lancash .6 n. cts ' E. &W. York. J. 5 Edin.& Gl. 5 Ix e. Sh. Ed. PAIL &Dun. 4p.c. Furness, 5 p. c Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c Great Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 1.0 p. c. prem Do. 4 per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N . of Scot.lst Pre Gt. S dz W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.W.( BAH.Ex.5pc Do. con. red. 4i p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per lent. Do 5 p. c. red. prof. Do. Birm. Pref. 511 Do. Chester Sp. c. P. S Do. do. 5 p. c. do., Birm. Gua. Mesh. Gua, do. do do. d 0.., Lan. & York. 6 pe. St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No. 1 D0.,P.,5p.c.5t.N0.2 Do. New Guar. 6p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N. W., Cov. 4.; Nuneaton 5 p. ct... Lon. & S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares . Londy.& Color. Londy. &Ennis. i Sh. M., S.,&L. 6 p. Cent. Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 31: per cent. Marypt. R Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4. per cent Do. do. Wid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 4. p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &H. Pref. St. New. , Aber. , &c., pr. sp. c. red, 5 • nm. Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. gorf k D ob. 4p. c. Sh. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1.846 Do. 3 p.c. pf , 1847 Do. Ws , . V. sp. ▪ , 1847 'North British IDo. 71. Preferenco Berw, 4 ). e, IDo. do. do Do, Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York EL &S. Pur North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Woly. 6 p.c. ' Ist guar. Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar Scot. Cent. New Pref Sc. N. E. Aber. g. 6p c Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St Do. d 0.31 p.c. pf. St South Devon 138 - 141 1 115 -- 117 54 - 156 130 - 132 95 - 97 86 - 88 ••• •••••• ••• 11 - 11, Ol - 103 91 93 1i ld ••• ••• - 22i -22 i lin - 14 - 116 !05 - 110 18 -: 19 Do. fixed 4A ' cent. S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of D. Os. 6d. Do. 4. per cent 'Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Sh S. WalesCua. 4 p. c Do. do. 41 p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., sp. c Do. do. do. 223 - 233 98 - 100 95 - 100 ii - ii 23 - 3 Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p.c. till July 1, '56 1 IWaterfd&Kilk. 6 pc.l • 2i - 3•• PREFERENCE SHARES. 9 - . - 94 .- i' 51 - -64 108 - 112 108 - 112 P i, - 71 : 72 di li6 105 - 107 90 - 101 61 63 104 En 93 - 95 83 - 85 85 - 87 100 - 101 9i - 10 - 17 91 -10 i; 72 - 74 19 - 19 94 - 141 -14 i 134 - 136 ••• ---- ••• 66 - 68 BRITISH (Alfred Cons. (Philk.) British Iron I Condurow (Cambrn.) D ev. Gt. Casls. (Tay.) Great South Tolgus G rt. W. Alfrd. ) Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) Lady Bertha N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Bassei (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) Porkellis U. (Wend.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogn.) S.W. Frances(lllogn.) ram. S. & L. Min. Co Tin Croft Un.Mines (Gwennap V. of Towey (Camar.) W. Basset (Illogan).. W. Carad on (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Illogan). Wh. Buller (Rdruth). Wh. Edward(Calstek) Wh. Kitty (U. Llant Wh. Ma. Ann ( Me nht. Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) MINES. 17 - 18 7 - 8 140 - 150 165 - 475 16 - 18 7 - 4 - i - 15 - 18A - 4 22 - 23 4 --54 )4 -- 13. :3 3 0 - 340 5 - 6 !30D -- 1k - 4 - 175 - - 1 29 - 30 135 - 145 260 - 270 300 - 320 6 - 64 17 19 46 - 48 23 - 24 100 100 100 100 100 [OO [OO 00 .00 [OO all all all 100 100 100 100 ,100 St. 12i 124 124 all 100 100 100 100 31 100 , 20 126 25 20 25 10 LO.O 100 100 100 100 all all 15 all ID 121 14s 1113 6/15 40 1.256 14 20 11781 FOREIGN MINES. 20 7 Australian 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issuecl at £5 pm) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada .. ... 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 11 . 16 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica i Id 40 all Cobre Copper 5l 53 52 . . 16 Copiapo 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares 5 1i Lusitanian 1 all Mariquita 1 i ll 1 all New Granada 1 all Noveau 'Monde 20 all Pont.Sil.l4lM.& Smlt 5 7 5 1 Port Philip — • 30 16., Santiago do Cuba 1 all South Australian 1 all Do. Scrip 1 all Do. 10 p. c, Pref ... ... 28A all United Mexican 34 4 MISCELLANEOUS. 25 19 Nustralian Agricult. 174 184, 10 all A ustraln. Royal Mail ... ... 10 all Berlin Water Works.. 4 5 50 40 Brit. American Land • -- 100 324 Canada - 152 St. 100 Do.Go.6pc.Jau&July 1121 11:i St. 100 Do. 6 p.c.Feb.&Aug. ... ... St. 103 D 0.6 p.c. Mar.&Sept. . • . . St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 30 35 25 all Do. Pref. 7! p. cent. 25 ..... 27 5 all Crystal Palace 2 21 5 all Do. P re f erence 4 all Crystal Pal, of France ... ••• 1 i Duston Iron Ore . . ... 20 18 'Eastern Steam ...? ••• St. 100 Electric Telegraph 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel ... ... 5 all En.&Aust.Cop,SmCo 11 li 10 10s. Eur. & Ind•Jctn. Tel. ... •.• 25 %II Gen. Ir • Se. C o l.(litn.) ... ••• 15 14 Gen, Steam Navigat. ... ••• 20 5 London Discount • 11 i i 4 all Loud. Gen, Omnibus 3a 3a. 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... ... 10 all Mediteran. E'ec. Tel, .., ••• 10 all Mexican& S.Amerien 21 21 2); 5 5 INat. Discount C 0.... 11 id 3/ 5 5 Do. New — . . 10 5 Netherlands Land •l4 fa 10 all Do. Do. 5 all Do.B p c.Pf.iss.at ld 4l 43 5 1 Do. Do. 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 18 22 St. 100 N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. ... .. 1 all N. B. Australasian... 4 i 10 all Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 9 4 104 10 1 all Oriental Gas 12 all 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... .., ss. D Pe o ell e .. w L S €l l . l3 & re A s linrl. 1i 2 2 50 10 Do. New 50 all Rhymney Iron 15 all Do. New 6 8 60 60 Royal Mail Steam 59 61 59i 1 all Scot. Austral.lnvest. 1i la li all Do. New .. ••• ICO all S. Ans. Gov. 6 p.c • bds ... r • ! 25 all South Austral. Land 31 36 ! 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip " " 1 i 1 all D o . R eg i s t ere d 20 5 Trus. u Ln. Co. Up. Can. ... ..• 100 28, Van Diemen's Lull_ 11 -- 12 11 i pm i 1 1311 17 19i 5 Racing Fixtur jU Beverley, Hull, &c .10 Hampton . Newton.... Newcastle. Knighton Len barn.. 23 23 04 NE. DER MAJESTY'S DRAWING ROOM. (Prom the TiMcs.) Yesterday, with the most economical typo2raphy, our printers only just compressed into tires co lumns the names of those who hid the honour of attending her Majesty's Drawing-reoin on Satur day. One of these columns save toe names of the favoured few who were admitted to the Diplomatic and General Circles, and had the privilege of a spe cial entree ; the second contained in close print, the list of pre entations ; and the third an almost ille gible mass of noblty and gentry, yet by no means the whole of the company attracted by the occasion. We believe there were near two thousand altoge ther. With the greater part it was no matter of choice, but of etiquct e, that is, of mrial necessity,' b attend; and the attendance was therefore as much to be reckoned upon and prepared for as -the attendance of the Commons at a call of the house. Of these several hundreds had to be presented to her Majesty, and the rest had to pass b: fore her with some degree of solemnity, not very much agitated or distressed, and, if possible, with their olothes-on;in the short hours.space of two ours. No doubt, this Was a task • which, if not absolutely difficult, yet might be done well or ill. It might not be quite so - serious an affair as taking 50,000 men out of Hydcpark, yet it was certainly .more of an opei-ation than any ordinary review on that bloodless battle field. We shall not hear move " the previous question" why so much should be huddled into one day, why there should now be only three or four Drawing-rooms in the season, and why not one every week, or as often as necessary. No doubt the English like a crowd ; they like to do things when everybody else is doing them ; and, as they thus move by precisely the same ltw, they natu rally find themselves attempting to occupy the same space and time, and having to fight for them. What we do ask is this, and we humbly put it to those whom it may happen to concern :—When two thousandladies and gentlemen in Drawing-room dresses are quite certain to pre'sen't themselves for the honour and the right of admission to her Majesty's presence within the space of two hours; when they must be admitted, and when all the con ditions of the problem are known to every official of the Court, from the Gold Stick near the Throne to the policeman in St. James's-street, Why are not preparations made accordingly, and why three times every year .have we a repetition of the con fusion, the surmises, and all but the calamities that fell to'the lot of our army in the Crimea? The public—that is the Duchesses, Marchionesses, Countesses ' &c.—appeir by thi s ti me t o assume it for granted that her Majesty can only be taken by storm. A large portion give it up altogether, partly because they feel themselves physically un equal to it, and partly because they do not like to give fifty guineas for a dress for the honour of ap pearing before the Queen in the tattered remains. The stronger and more adventurous get up early, dress early, and, under the direction of the police, fall intothe rank in Bond-street, or even in Oxford street, about noon, the Drawing-room beginning at 2, and there being no hope of achieving the great act of the day till between 3 and 4. When they eventually arrive at St. James's, and are at last put down, then begins a process often described, and not very unlike some of the more disastrous passages of the Crimean story. It is an affair of barricade - s and "pens,". and, narrative of the suffefers as well as the philanthropic suggestions that pour in upon us remind one of the arrange ments made for preventing accidents in the crowd at an execu•ion. Indeed, we have seen overnight in the Old Bailey precisely the same combination of pos's and rails, openings and gangways as are found necessary against the rush of the British aristocracy at St. James's. The unitiated people of England, who hear of the "Drawing room," of noble Wits in nisgnifitent dresses', of which they can obtain the minutest de scriptious, and of her Majesty's Throne, sur rounded by Ministers of State, Officers of the Hou-ehold, and all sorts of grand people, might naturally conclude that the company can move about and see one another with ease and composure. The fact is they are passed up to the Palace by the police, crowd° 1 into a " pen," and made to go through a series of rapid evolutions, till they find themselves once more in the same sort of durance, and have the pleasure of hearing their carriage called, often without the power of quitting the spot on which they stand, unless they can either fly over the heads of the reeking crowd or creep under their feet. Fortunate indeed are they if they escape with no further damage than the loss of a few yards of lace, a satin shoe, a flounce, or a handkerchief. " Fortunate," we say, because some lose their temper also ; and not a few are several days recovering from the heat, pressure, and even violence of the strugg'e. Now, it is not our place to say what ought to be done, particularly when the sufferers are just the class that can take care of theaaselveß, if they only choose to do 5). Indeed, it would be rather ridiculous that we sh ou ld be supposed capable of instructing Marchionesses and Countesses how to take care of themselves. But we have an interest in the affair, if only because the scene is disgraceful to the national character ; all the more so, because it is too like some other demonstrations of the na tional character. For the sake of that character, therefore, and f ot the sake of the manyless important personages who mutt go to drawing-rooms, and cannot do much to mend matters, we beg to offer a word or two for the consideration of her Majesty's advisers and the Officers of the Household. The nation has recently spent a very large sum in adding private apartments and reception-roorbs of various kinds to Buckingham -palace, in increasing the open space about the Palace, and improving the ap proaches: It is quite out of the Question that they who have so readily granted the money for these inaprovevements should have some return for it in the use of the Palace for such occa sions as that of last Saturday three or four times a-year. Unless we bear any real objec tions, we must suppose it only a matter of feeling, and hardly worth the enormous inconvenience of the present practice. But if there be some valid though unknown reason for keeping the thing at St. James's, it surely would not cost very much to provide standing room for a few hundred more ladies and gentlemen, and preventing the necessity of' treating them like sheep, or other loss savoury animals, in a cattle-market. We have only .to look to the Houses of Pathan:lent, or even to the works now in progress in St. James's Park, for the proof of what we have often asserted—that the English public are always very ready with their money for a real and defensible purpose. Government has only to say that a new room, a new suite of rooms, or a rearrangement is wanted, and they will have the money without one word of complaint. But if they are not now prepared with any plan, at an events there is Buckingham Palace, which to all appearance is large enough, and has certainly cost 'money enough, for this purpose, and mi g ht b e use d for it till a better arrangement, if necessary, could be made. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WOREft—An adjourned meeting of the Board was held yesterday. The board resumed the consideration of the different clauses of the bill for the formation of a park for Finsbury. The clauses of the bill were agreed to. THE CASE OF THOMAS FULLER BACON.—As the trial of Bacon for the wilful murder of his mother, at Stamford, will take place in London, the trial will not take place until after the judges return from circuit, probably not until the August session, when a special day will be appointed. • TRINITY MONDAY.—Yesterday being Trinity Monday a special general court was held at the Trinity House on Tower-hill, at which his Royal Highness Prince Al bert was unanimously re•eleeted master, and Captain John Shepherd deputy master of that ancient corpora tion for the ensuing year. The court then proceeded to the parish church of St. ()lave, Hart•stieet, where Divine service was performed, and an excellent and appropriate sermon preached by the Rev. Lord. W. Russell. DEFALCATIONS OF OFFICERS OF SAVINGS-BANICS.—A return published yesterday gives full particulars of de falcations discovered to have taken place in savings banks, since the lst of July, 1851, with all the cor respondence thereto relating. Defalcations have taken place in the following bank—viz, in the Ongar branch of the Rumford savings bank, the Dunmow bank, the Ne sport (Isle of Wight) bank, the Runcorn bank, the Bradford (Wilts) bank, the Southport bank, the Yoxall and Barton bank, the Rugby bank, the West Lon don bank, the Bromleybank, and the Leicester bank. THE HARVEST.—The provincial papers speak most favourable of the forthcoming crops. The specie from New York yesterday by the Asia is 305,7501., of which a portion is bel►eved to be on French account. The Kent, from Australia, has been an nounced with 62,221 ounces of gold, valued at 249,0001. LITERATURE. The Fairy Family. A Series of Ballads. Longman and Copp any. An elegant and charming gift book, comprising within it some twenty-three very dainty Ballads and Metrical Tales, commemorative of our Fairy Mythology. Our Fairy Mythology, observe —the Fairy Mythology of the Europeans. The Family is a very large one, embracing among its numbers Fairies of the Woods and of the Groves, of the Fields and of the Metdows, of the Hills and of the Caves, of tLe Seas awl of the Rivers, of the Hearths of the Homesteads. As one of our young poets sings with a sweet treble voice (William Allinghatu to wit)--- " Wee folk, good folk, troopirg all together— Green jacket, red cap, and gray cock's feather !" The motto of the book imprinted upon its title. page appears to be addressed rather to its subject than to its readers— " Love them that honest be, And help them in necessitie." A pleasant lit'ie scrap of poetic prose from Luther is tagged on to the back of this title-page like a sort ef a mystic amulet—half apology, half encomium : " 1 would not for any quantity of gold fart w:tli the wonderful tali-s which I have retained from my earliest childhood, or have met with in • my progress through life." Who would ? Would any mercenary old hunx in the land ? If so—here is our retributive ill wish for him—May the gold so chosen prove in very truth to be " fairy gold," meling away in the grasp of his hard like snow fillies, _or crumplin g u p i n it s h o t p ressure int o withered leaves ! So much for the momen tary musing &Ain of that thought of Lu ther, prettily chosen by the author for his volume—like the tiny printed distich from a Christ mas comfit twisted up into a little explosive "kiss !" Whoever the writer of the volume may I”—it has evidently been, in regard to the hand that wrote it, a manifest labour of love. The Preface—whichis dated " Oxford, Aptil, 1857," (so that the Fairy Family has-been evidently nurtured, not inappropriately, all things cousidered,within the loving arms of Alma Mater)—anuoufwg.,, as the "reason" for this Book, the fact that hitherto our Fairy Literature has been to all intents and purposes nothing better than a ." moral poison"—" weakened by unmeaning ex travagances, polluted by indelicate allusions, and disfigured by purposeless cruelties and crimes." We can fancy Tom Ho 3d, much as he loved them, tenderly as be sang of their glories, sweetly and de liciously as he chaunted. his lamentation over their disappearance, adding (with a twinkle of fun in his eyes) to this enumeration of their imputed rascali ties—" Little Varmints I" Let that pass, how ever, and let us (for the sake of our author's ar gument) admit the accuracy of his reprehensive al lusions to our Fairy Literature—in spite of Hood's " Lament," in spite of Coleridge's poetic weakness for the "Pixies," in spite of Ariel in the bell of the Cowslip, and the tiny rabble rout of " Midsummer Night's Dream" from Oberon and Titania down to Puck, Cobweb, and Peasblossom I Granting our author's objections for the sake of his argument—we accept his book for its own sake gladly and light heartily. He, in sooth, must needs be an unconscionable curmudgeon, who caanot find in his bosom some little gossamer threads among the fairy c'irdage of his heart-strings, to tie to it the Good Folk trouping fantastically over these pages—to the music of the author's rhythm, to the clinking cymbals of his rhyme, in the rosy, glowing light of his imagination. Sylvan Fairies —the Elf-folk, the Korrigan, the Moss Woman, the Vila, and La Dame Abend() Pastoral Fairies—the Wee fair folk, the Lutin, the Monaciello, the Fairy Woman, and the Fairy Boy ! Water Fairies—the Fata Morgana, the Rusalki, the Merman and the Neck (or, as Mathew Arnold more pleasantly has it in his exqui site little song, "The Neckau") ! Cavernous and Hill-Country Fairies—the Still-Man and the Hill- Man, the Trolls and the Dwarfs ! Lastly, the Fairies of Homo and Hearth—Pixies, Kobolds, and Brownies Ala, the "wee folk" and the beautiful " Little feet that scarcely press The gowan to the grass Tottering with eagerness !" Sometimes—and this not infrequently—our author embalms the memory of some heroic tale in the amber of a Fairy Ballad. It is thus with his me trical narrative of " The Vila," in which he has celebrated the moving story of the Life and Death, the Glory and Shame, the Rise and Downfall of Kara George, the Liberator of Ser• via Already the history of Kara George we very well remember, has been recounted with touching eloquence by Miss Laura J every (afterwards Mrs. Valentine) in her charming three volume romance entitled the "Forest and the Fortress." Supposing the - writer of this graceful celebration of " The Fairy Family" not to have read that historical tale already, he will thank us, we doubt not, for commending him now to its perusal. As as suredly the authoress of the " Forest and the For tress," under similar circumstances, would thank us equally, we rest assured, for bringing to her kn•wledge the fact that here again her hero has received the grateful tribu'e of a sigh—here, through the dulcet echoes of this pathetic legend of " The Vila." Altogether the work under our band, is a charming book—and one, if old in its subject, certainly new in its treatment. It con stitutes in itself a wondrous treasury of elfin lore— welcome, alike, in the boudoir and the library— pletsant reading no less by the winter fire-side than under the green shade of the summer leaves. Nothing New. By the author of " John Halifax, Gentleman !" &c., ke. 2 - Vols. Hurst and Blackett. • These volumes are a collection of various stories, previously published, but though many may be disappointed at not finding an original work, few will regret the opportunity thus afforded them of r -perusal. With the exception of " M. Anasta sius," there is not one of the tales not far superior to the ordinary novels met with, that, although clever is too painful to be dwelt upon, and even as a warning it might have been conveyed to the reader in a bett , r manner. An air of melancholy pervades all the writings of this authoress, and these brief sketches of existence are no exception to the rule. It is a softened and subdued senti ment, nothing morbid or extravagant is seen ; the same is observed in the description of the happier phases of life. All those who are introduced to our notice have passed through the ordeal instead of being unmindful of its terrors; if they smile, it is at the respite from care, not because they aro iguo rant of its appr oac h. Her aim and endeavour is to exhibit a maturer season of human lire than that generally chosen by novelists. Youth is not shown with unsullied freshness and undimmed bright ness, and, however fair in a pic`ure, such is not a true symbol of existence, but, after many a storm has been encountered, many a trouble borne, and many a sorrow gone through, the hero and heroine is seen, in some favourable instances, to recover strength and spirits to continue the long journey before them. As it is thus written of one of the characters, " Trouble had passed over her, ripening, not blasting, and left her in the Indian summer of her days, a season almost as beautiful as spring." This parsago occurs in the " Water Cure," which is the best, and also the most attrac tive of the stories hero met with. It cencerns the adventures of two cousins, men who, in different ways, had exhausted themselves physically and mentally. Austin had led a career of pleasure, and Alexander Fyfe had toiled in an intellectual sphere. In a happy hour for them did these friends repair to the mansion of their acquaintance, Dr. Corrie. There they underwent what Fyfe styled the "spiritual water-cure." It was not only their bodies that required braving, but their minds re ceived a new tone and impression. The details are excee linoly interesting, and the peculiar power of the authoress is strikingly displayed in the energetic yet sympathising James Corrie, the sweet and resolute nature of Ellice Keir, the vivid impetuosity of Fyfe, and the kind, though indo lent disposition of Au s tin Hardy. The friends were successful in their objects to procure hea lth of mind and body, if something still was wantin g it was not the fault of anyone, but the inevi tableth e doom of mortality, that, in blossom of their hope , fixed the canker and the blight. Each went , off to an to superintend his appointed place Austin in the great highway of life, A personally labours and e his great energy, which, cares be u had hitherto dela gated to others, a task though hidden, was considerable, eminently fitted him for. Fyfe in his turn resumed his task, but in a different frame from that in which he had relin quished it, his " work was wholesome, cheerful, bravo, such an one as is it t, , lie` Io Triumphe' of a gr eat spiritual 111arathon., ~ A Low Marriage" i s a clever story , brings before the reader on e o f those painful but oft-recurring scenes of trial when 1 an afflicted parent beholds the son or daughter of their love form an engagement in every respect undesirable. Mrs. Rochdale is a proud dignified lady, and her feelings may be imagined. It is not right, however, to give way entirely to pride and prejudice, and this the mother found out at last, in a time of suffering. " A. Family in Love" is merely a sketch, amusing in its way, indeed, the most lively of the series before us. " The Last House in C Street" is of a sombre style, and the " Double House" repr esen t s a painful affliction. The story is told in a most ingenious manner, and it is not until quite at the conclusion that the secret is discovered. " Alwyn's First Wife" is a narrative written with great feeling ' • it is not, perhaps, very likely to occur, in fact, but it is related with a touching earn es t ness , an d a depth of sentiment that arrests the attention. "Lord Erlistoun" is one of the later productiotra • only just completed. It is of a more every day class than those just before mentioned. Jean Douglas, the heroine, is an estitnable charact,fr, but she does not gan upon the reader as others in the novels have done. Lord Erlistoun himself is not a man distinguished for much, and the chief interest centres in Mark Browne, the young mer chant, who, in his busy career possessed a regard for the welfare of others, and a sympathy .wit't their troubles, that stamped his nature _with, a grace, that all Lord Erlistoun's outward refinement could not match. These stories may amuse a gay, but they will be found more suitable •to a gray , ' hour, to the study of the reader who would see life as it is, not as it may be in fancY, but never in reality—such will appreciate these pages. They will welcome these added geLls to a . casket, whose treasures are not counterfeit.. They will acknoyr ledge them as not unworthy of what has gcine before, for they are powerful and brilliant in their design and execution. THE MAN ABOUT TOWN ON THE DERBY DAY. A delightfully humorous article, in a recent ulna bn of our we.fkiy contemporary, the Sunday Times, has so exhilarated us in the perusal of it, that (while regretting, on account of its extreme length, the impossibility of our giving it here in its entirety) we cannot resist the wish to afford our readers the amusement of-a, few illustrative and very laughfer moving quotations. It is an article that in parts Charles Dickens himself might have written, an l that Thomas Hood might not have marred his repu tation for drollery by "fathering." We will give the cream of it, however, so that our readers may judge for themselves. Here is the commencement —and, remember, the theme is The Derby Day :--. A Confession. Ididn't go! There ! Lwidon may tumble into chaps, and the comet may entangle itself with our planetary system and upset Jupiter's satellites as, an illustra tion of that terrific tail that is to be continued in our next • and Mr. Cumming may be quite right after all, and' Alr. Robert Omen as soon as be likes may-pro claim from the front of the Royal Ezell/I'4e the fact of the millennium havin g com mence d, an d the Record newspaper may bring out its next number with amnia woodcuts, and Exeter Hall may be turned into a Canterbury Hall, and Mr. Wright of the Adelphi Way advertise himself as Hamlet for Monday next, and Ma dame Grisi may sing " Casts Diva" as Norma on horse hack, in a can ter round the circus, and all sorts of equally extraordinary things may occur, in any extraordinary manner that may be considered desirable, for no fact can ever again be expected to startle the nineteenth century se completely as the oee with which I have appalled the public at the head of this column. I DIDN'T GO ! lam prepared to be extinguished by Heir Wohfgemuth's magical cone, at five minutes' notice, or I will undertake to obliterate the memory of the bottle conjuror, and creep into any gas-pipe about the streets for the remain. der of my days ; but truth is great and will prevail. I repeat it —at the imminent grammatical risk of two negatives making an affirmative—l DIDN'T GO ! The analytical horrors of this awful situation I leave some future Goethe to do justice to, in a life-epic that shall out-Faust Faust.' I—the Ego of the profound lon derer—the Eidolon of the perpetual peripatetic—the , obstract entity of the lounging Londoner whether regarded objectively or subjectively, in the concrete or in the abstract, in the esoteric or exoteiic sense of existence in general and of mine in particular—l, even I, did not go to the Derby !" Here is the middle of it—descriptive of the Man About Town's Accidental Encounter (upon the Derby-day, while all London was away upon Epsom Downs) with— Peter Schltmil in Fleet-street. "When I sallied forth once more into Fleet-street, I rejoiced when a startling phenomenon produced a new sensation—l saw my shadow on the pavement ! It is a sight that can only occur to the lonely promenader down Fleet-street on the Derby-day. Narcissus-like, I stood for some time contemplating my old friend with a new phase. Another straggler past, and after him went his shadow too ; a second and a third, and then—hotrible to behold I—a fourth, and behind him fell no dark reflec tion. I looked at the substantial form of the shadow less snan. He was a small German, in the peaked bat and tunic-like coat of the legendary period. I might have passed him on othOr days in Fleet street, a thousand times, without detecting the little peculiarity which marks his memorable compact. It was Peter Schlemil himself. I could not resist the temptation to inquire after his lost appendage, and we then begin to fraternise famously. At last the gambling spirit of the day influences our fancies, and he offeri to toss me for my shadow, setting his own substance against my insubstantiality. Peter spins a new half-crown I lend him spirally into the air, and it comes down with a ringing reverberation in the solitude of the great tho roughfare. Schlemil wins, and becomes owner of a sha dow ouce again —my shadow. I look in the direction where mine should fall, and find it missing. The Man About Town is even shadowless on the Derby-day. Truly, Ts suis desold ! The old companion of my wan derings—no matter. 'Forgive, blest shade, this tri butary tear.' Schlemil now feels adequate to the Derby, and having the only thing that, not having had, ke t him away from the great gathering, he caaishee, too, with the rest." Here is the end of this wonderfully comical extrava ga,uz4. The Man About Town has just sewn Blink Bonny announced (a few minutes after the race has been rue) as the wiener of the Derby of 1857, in the window of the news' office ; and, seeing . it, he walks in to greet the publisher with this astound ing.... Canard. " Ha ! ha! Capital race, wasn't it ?' I exolaimed, on entering, with an effrontery which wag intended to remove all suspicion. Never enjoyed mysblf so much in my life. Saw hosts of people—glorious sport —course covered with carriages ! Saw one man lose thirty thou sand pounr's with the greatest coolness in the world, and make a good dinner after it. Wouldn't have been ab sent on any account.' " ' Why, you don't mean to say— 1' "'Of course I do. All London was there, and if I hadn't been I should have been ashamed to have looked London in the face again.' "'But really it seems impossible that'—and the pub• lishez consulting his watch, compared it with my own chronometer, and arrived at a careful correctness— ' that in the time you could.' "'Oh, am I the first back ? Ah! well, we came spank ing along the road with four famous nags in first rate style, I assure you.' " The road ! What, all the way from Epsom in half an hour r " Did I say the road ! Pooh ! absurd. Too slow for me. The rail of clurse. Finest engine in the world, and never stopped a minute for anybody.' " But such a quick return'- " For a small prophet,' I added quickly, hazarding a► feeble joke, in the vague hope of smothering the obvious impossibility, seems extraordinary, but it isn't. To save unnecessary delay, I took a return ticket.' "'But the first train after the race wcn't have bronght its passengers to London-bridge for the next half-hour at least r " 'Train ? Pooh ! did I say train ? Not half quick enough. I took my return ticket by the Emscrazo TELEGRAPH ! ! !' " _ _ Who is this "Man About Town ?" Certainly, beyond all manner of doubt, a very waggish gamin d 3 londres ! SUPPRESSION OF A FAIR, AT DEPTTORD.—On Sunday morning some hundreds of persons assembled on some ground near the Deptford Station of the Greenwich Railway with the intention of holding a fair. Superin tendent Mallalieu apprehended a man who was driving stakes into the ground for the purpose of erecting a marquee. In the evening a great number of vans as sembled on the same ground ; and the police having stopped three which were entering, were informed that they belonged to a Mr. Manley, who had taken the ground to hold a fair, who came up and was taken int) custody. Manley and the man who was driving in the stakes, and who was in his employ, were brought up at the Greenwich police-court yesterday. A letter was produced from Mr. Davidson, solicitor, of Spring-gar. dens, stating that no one had power to let, or hatt en i t e e t r , the ground tor th e p ur p ose of holding a fair. The magis trate ordered Manley t o find bail in 401., and to into his own recognisanoes in the same amount for his good behaviour for t rae months. The other prisoner was discharged. THE FRENCH PEASANTRY AND THE GOTERNMENT. The changes which have taken place in France since 1789 had thrown into the hands of the peasantry a l arge pro portion of the land of the country. As every owner peasantrylarge oro hold f a small an overwhelming s aland, nequal the whether of estate, h majority in'the franchise. The constitutional monarchy bad unwisely debarred this large class of the landholders of France from political power; but by that principle of society which seem s t o be one of the most deep-seated and irresistible conditions of political existence' no sooner were the existin g i nst i tut i ons of the country o verthrown than the supreme power in the State reverted, as it were, to its soitrce, in the owners of the soil. There, and there alone, the Government of the second empire has a basis —that is the main, if not the solo, condition of the pre sent tranquil submission of France to a form of sove reignty which has annihilated every semblance of free dote ; and the only claim to originality we can discover in the fabric raised by t h e Emperor Napoleon 111 , is his discovery that a Government ma y be founded and maintained for a considerable period of ,time, by the sole support of the landed peasantry, in spite of the disaffec tion of the towns, the aversion of the upper ranks, and the ridicule and vituperation of the educated classes. Toe peasantry were roused by the exercise of universal suffrage to the consciousness of political power ; but suppose that a wide n o t c e h i se error among that class of society idtti3ffrwisesltuo of tli to free eeac:frPal government And liberal p r i nc iples. In France the resu l t has been just the reverse. Unable to exercise that power by any direct machinery of tLe'r own, they delegated it absolutely, and in the most s imple form, to one man ; and they view without rte pugnance the uses which may be made of that power against liberties and rights to which they are strangers, provided their own independence and ascendancy be re spected, and their own prejudices and passions flattered by the head of the State, —Edinburgh, &view. ay.) 'ON. 911 231 12d 1001