The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-28 00:00:00

', and the tters from 3selF, " we it the re ne is to be e heads of retain the ifetiut se engaged announces n Railway areholders v ill reckon s a decree Lher redue on the de- 3 n•)Wv fixed stock, and an»ounces Itiuwess do mad second :ing Ferdi rand Doke thy, 1831, le Couut de gust, 1827• Neapolitan tatives not Vlon - lay no day, at the he Interior closing on nstitutions, a under the e on Mon . be left for )r to bring it the two uld propose iion to the eing agreed he Ministe ion having proceedings* May 26. alitzio, has iignia of the lrew. TO Led with re in Senate on . the throne. great length f Vicalvara, policy to he ig the Go )f its power, for the us' onnell) who had a right not approve t he did not amongst the preventing t he wished, ly to extend nded himself r saying that iecessary t° id that be nity of the Ality. The er says that ;hal Serrano .esponsi bility ne had been lied that the :visions pre' debate was reports con• art of Bays' in favour of ie adds that the crown DNESDAY• apt. Jeffrelf phia Sill" ••ea at a quarte r the Mersel York to the all parts of the advices 6il, but she passengerg, lital one for She pasiea 38 miles 00 intelligenc ° of General wing take o a Juan del New York. ail and ad -527 doll. in 'be Souhera sins; other )r business io growing fie beyond it hopes Of New Gl's' rge British ) the ports• Peru is t° Ft the caPr outh, but, ranco, wh o ao. Both nds of the that sugar , exchauga good. e. Stock n London ;ing sale, t was dull her quiet; berate ow er Evange* Er the Dat' to go on ~ittd State being en!' one n ot to given tbat . ff or t to oh YestadaY d on Mr. • the yet el • inten de d l rad cleared or any Ha' to sell the Bed no °l3. h sale tool; IntS of the oticin to go The cap he matter t, thoug h Prospect, repa i n ted , is her pre- MONEY MARKET i LIM COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, but steadily, and Prices were unaltered. The sales were estimated at 5,009 bales, 500 of which were taken on specu lation, and 500 for export. The Railway Share Market closed with a dull appearance, but previous prices were fully maintained. Business in Mincing-lane, and in most other de partments of business, is gradually being con tracted, and the effects of dear money are becom ing more apparent. The Board of Trade Ret urns, lately published, exhibited an extension of com merce, but this is no proof of commensurate profits having been realised. The frequent failures that are announced in the manufacturing dis tricts give evidence of the embarrassments caused by the high prices of the raw material, and the difficulties experienced in obtaining discount ac commodation. _ _ The public sales of colinial wool, which com Inenced on the 30th ult., terminate tomorrow. No partizular change has taken place in tl-e mar ket for silver, but full prices are current. Buy , rs are awaiting the receipt of advices from India and China, via Trieste, which we expected to-day or to - Morrow. If a futtherad.vance should be report-d, the shipments ou the 4th will, no doubt, p•ove ex ceedingly large, and the demand would ih-n natur ally increase. Supplies are still received fr.un the Continent, ab nit 40,0001. having been received from Boulogne. It is, therefore, expected that a Portion of the gold IWely imported from Australia by the Istamboul, which arrived in town yesterday, Will be rerni ted to the Continent, in payment for this and other supplies. The Bank of England directors at their "parlour meeting" to-day, made no alteration in the terms of discount, and no determination seems to have been arrived at with regard to making advances on stocks during the shutting of the transfer books for consols. It was generally presumed that they Would have msde some announcement on the subject, but although no instructions have yet been given, there can be no doubt that the au thorities will grant this accommodation. With respect to the rate of discount, it was not supposed a ny change would be reported, as there is an active demand for accommodation at full rates in most quarters, partly owing to the preparations for' the 4th of the in ,nth, and partly also in c , ,u- Sequence of the settlements at the St ck Exchange. When the obligations are discharged a period of increased ease will probably ensue, and if the drain of silver to the East should diminish, additional relief will naturally be afforded. The telegraphic despatch from Ttieste has just arrived. The China exchanges are higher, but those at Calcu'ta and Bombay are a shade lower. The report of the directors of the loitian Bank read to-day showe I a net profit of 9,6771. 10s. 6d. on the years' transact ims, which was much beyond the preceding years profits. This, added to the former balance, made 16,991 1 . 9s. 4d., from which two dividends at 5 per Cent. per annum being taken left a balance of 9,4911. 9s. 4d. on Ist of Jan. 1857. The report was adopted, the dividend being de clared previously. The En4lish Stock Market is dull, but firm and the alterations in the India and China ex change 3 have not yet exercised any effect upon values. The public operate very cantiou , ly 1 1 . 11 c1 the general appearance of the mat ket is, there fore, exceedingly dull. Consols fir transfer have bee n 93i. 94i , and 93-1 94, w-ile fir the account Thehave b 'en almost stationa r y a t 94 to 94 k o present quotations are 93 94 and 941 re aPectively. The New Threes are 921 at d the Reduced 921 1. Bank Stock is 212/, and India ditto 2211. The March Exchequer Bills have risen to 6s. and 7s. premium, and the Adver tised" ditto, of which the Bank broker his bough , to 3 0,000/, are 2s. to 4s. premium. In Foreign Securities business is dull. Turkish 6 per Cents. have risen to 95i ; and the 4 p , r Cents. are 1011 ; Mexican 3 per Cents. have risen to 22 231-the clergy in the Republic having Withdrawn their opposition. Dutch 2t per Cents. are 65i ; and Spanish Threes, 44 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :-Greuada Deferred Bonds. 6t 7 ; Mexie 221 i; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 77 8 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 531 511 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45i 61; Russian 5 per Cants., 107 109 ; dia.) 44 per Cents., 6 7 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41k ; ditto De ferred, 25i ; ditto Certificates, 61 ; ditto Pas live, 5i I , The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :- 1857. 1856. Great Western £29,607 £27,221 North-Western Brighton Midland South -Eastern ealedonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 6,165 6.319 Gkiester and Holyhead least Lancashire 6.609 6,046 Lancaster and Carlisle Manchester, Soeffield, and Lincoln 10,015 8.852 North Staff ird North London o Xford Worcester, and Wolverh... 4,1 42 3,173 W ept Hartlepool ulster 1,423 1,290 and Ballymena .cKlinb urg b and Gla s gow Glasgowarid South-Western Great Western of Canada. Grand Trunk of Canada Northern of France In the Railway Share Market a very limited amount of business was done. Prices, however, showed a slightly upward tendency for some of the principal undertakings. North-Westrrn and Mid land advanced ss. ; Manchester, Sheffi-Id, and Lin c°l") 7s. 6d. to 10s., and North-Eastern (Berwick) 1 /., Lancashire and Yorkshire, and S vuth-Eastern, were about ss. to 10s. lower. The French and Canadian lines are inactive, and exhibit no mate rial variation in prices, Sambre and Meuse, how ever, have imp oved 10s. to 15s. Mining Stares are at nominal values. No busi tress of any importance being reported. Joiut-stock Bauk Shares are mo.terateiy active. London and County have advanced 5,. , and Ott .man B ink 10s. ; Cfnnmemal ..f London awl Provincial of IM:int' realise former values. In the Miscellan ous Snares, Canaila, L au d de clined 10s. Royal Mail Stead). and Peel River realised former r:t::s. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE , I;Lt. v r „ ( from the Oltieutt Ltd.} Business done. Bank Stock 3 per °ens. Keduced A.nnuitieb 3 per Gent Consols krinuitieb :;3,1 4i 4 3i New 3 per Cent. Ann lilies 92:4 India Stock Consols for X ce.s , i ,, Ez3hequer Bills, 20. March. I June. £lO00. Ditto Advertised 2 4 p ! Pftlor,s (Jr e4)ti,EICI - N FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, 1 3razilian 5 per Cent. ... ..... Ditto 5 per Cent. (Rothschild's) Ditto New, 1852, 44. per Cent. Mexican .3 per Cent — Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822, 1: St., 5 per Cent Ditto, 4i per Cent. Sp,niih tionds, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per ten . - Ditto Account 254 urkihti .'orris, 6 per cent 944 Ditto Account 9S- A tittar aiteed, A per Cent. - - Ditto Account lOll en , . 3 - e above ava3l..- ::11. batch Exchange, 2:I, per Cent., 12 Guilders 65: 1 ; I' W OO'CLOCK . Consols, money Ditto for account 94 94i M. Francisco Travassos Valdez has been appointed by the Portuguese Government arbitrator to the mixed British an d P or t u guese Commission at the Cape of Good dope for the adjudication of slave questions. M. Val dez has hitherto held a similar office at Angola, and is favourably known in literary circles in Portugal as the wr.ter of some able pr ,ductions on the slave trade, where he was the first to draw attention the discov.-ries of Dr. Livingstone in Africa, and to their probable effect 0 , 0 that abominable traffic. I\l. Valdez's father, Lieut.- (Aeneral Count Bowfin), is well-known as the chief of the staff of the late Dom Pedro, and as Prime Minister to the late Queen of Portugal. SHARE MARKETS—('This Day.) RAILWAYS. RAMWAYS. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena Bing. Wolverh & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh & Cheshire Junct...... Black burn Blvth Sz, Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) 100 100 100 6U Bristol & Exeter__ Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall all 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 D.... A Do. B iDublin&BelfastJune Dun. P. &Abcr.June East Anglian . 'Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A.stk Do., do. B Do, New !East Kent East Lancashire FAELSr. Suffolk ...... . I Do I 'Edinburgh &Glasgow ,Edinb. and Peebles Edinb. Prth. &Dundee. (Forth and ClydeJune.' !Furness . ...... . !Glasgow & S.Western IGreat N. of Scotland IGreat Northern !Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Sth.&West.(lre.) Great Western. Do. Str.V R gua. St lirish South-Eastern I Lancaster & Carlisle. ij;Do., Thirds ....... Do. New Thirds Lancash &Yorkshire Do., do. F. 116 Do., Wst. Riding Un. Do. So uth port. ..... London & Blackwall Loud. Bright. & S. est. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,16/. Do. Eighths London is S. Western Lndndrry.&Coloraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef. &Litwin . Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland . ..... Do. Birmiag.& Derby Midland G. West.(lr.) Do. Shares ......... Newcastle is Carlisle Newpt. Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskille, - ; Newry, Warrenpoir ' is Rostrevor Norfolk.- ........ Northn. Counties Un North British ...... North Devon, Rail. & 'Dock Stock . ..... Do., A Stock Do., B Stock N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E Purch I Do Leeds IDo. York North London ..... IN. & S. Wstu. , !lamp stead, and City Jn ' North Staffordshire INortl , Western.. N. & S. Wostrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton.. Portsmouth Rhymney 'cottish Central .. !Scot N.E.Abrclo. St Shropshire Union !Sib ngbourne &Sheer !South Devon South Eastern IDo. 0 per c. Shares 'South Wales !S. Yorksh. River Dun Do 'Staines,Wok.,&Wsok. Stockton & Darling.. Do. do., 1854 Do. do., toiNs Stockton dt Hartlepl iTaff Vale Pref., No. 1 !Thames Hay. D. &R Vale of Neath Waterfd. dt Kilkenny Waterford diLimeri ek West C0rnwa11....... West End of London' and Crystal Palace Do. A I Do. B West London__ Do. First Class, Do. Second Class I Wmbledon &Croydon KRITISH Misr,. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. Do. Buffalo & Lake Hur. Buff., Brnt. & GO ch. 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., 1 June, '74 Calcutta and S. East.l Central Oude Ceylon A .hares Do. B . ,Demerar; 'Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares D 0.44 p.c.Bncls. '57 Do. do. do., 's9;do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent Gd. Trunk. of Canada, Do. 6 p c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Westn. of Canada , Do. New Do. &le., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p. '6O I Do. do., '73, do. Do. do., '73, without' option Madras, guar. 44 p.c. Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 4i p. c. Exton. Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. Do. 4th Ex , do. jOude (Limited) !Mode, guar. 5 per c Do FOR: all A ztwrp & Rotterdam 18 Ardennes all Belgian East. Janet. 16 Re ziers to Graissessac all Carmeaux&Toulous , Coal Mines and Ry 12 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France all Do. New 2s. Euphrates Valley 18 (it Central of France Pi Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction all Lake Const. & Bale all Lierre and Turnhout i Lombardo-Venetian all Lucca & all Lyons and Geneva all Lyons & Mediterran, all Maria Antc...la all Do. New all Namur & Liege all Do. do. 6 p c. Pref, all Northern of France all NorwegianTrnk. Prel all Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans 7 Recife di. San Fran , IPernam.) g. 7 p. c. 7i Rome and Frascati... all Royal Danish all 70. 5i yalS p w er ecli ce. pref sh nt all Sambre and M euse all all (Southern of France all \ West Flanders . all Do. 5,1 per c, prof " all W.&N.W. of Fr ain( 6 Western of Austria._ all West. of Switzerland all .Wiesbaden ... all Do. Sp. cent. pref. all Zealand Closing Prices yesterday 5a 5i 8i - 9 67 - 69 8i - 9 89 - 91 7 - 731 35?.; - 36 4 - 5 9 10 18i 19 ltd 12 52 -- 54 35 -- 36 7id 97 98 55 E 32 = 33 95 - 97 8 - 8. 96,1 - 9 - ; 88 - 89 121 - 123 103 - 105 661 - 67 63 - 65 70 - 74 6 - 8 pi I 6 - 8 I 1 1 - IUI4 - 6 —s} 111 112 ,101 A 105 id pal 98 99 4ii = ii 831 - 83 , 53 - 55 = 16 63 - 65 3 - 31 , 42i - 43 86 - 87 S 4 - 2i - 2i 40 - 41 65i - 666 96 - 99 5 - - 8 10 - 101 30 - 31 7 - 5 105 107 25 26 98 50 3 2 d 18 19 74i 75 86 87 6 5 6 5 d 41 - 43 26 - 20, 4 - 7 - 9 24 - 3 5,1 - 6 ISSESSIONS .• . - ... p ld par 95 97 92 95 92 95 11 - 107 - 109 'A - lip 191 - 20 63i - 64:1 91 - 921 21 -21 i a ipl 23f - 23,i 1 2 - 2f 100 - 101 1110 - 114 110 -- 114 106 108 19 20 21 —21 i id — e p itp ip ... - ... 4, - 2 p eg -61 1$ - 14 -21 p 5 - 51 29 - 291, par ip 24 , 2;? 2 , 6i 51 - BIP - - 301 ..• ••• 8 8 20 201 37& —38 s 84 94 581 584 56 58 I d -- parl 17 19 lh 8h 8 81 301 31 - 9A 10 30} 31 par 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS, !Australasi Bank of Egypt Bank of London Bri. Col Bk. & Ln. Co British N. American C. Bk . of Ind . An. &Ch City Colonial ; C omm ercial of Lond En g .o' Scot. &Ans. Cht ;Lou. Ch. Bk.of Aust I Ditto New 'London and County Lnd.&E Bakng.Corp ;London Joint Stock iLond.andWestminst INational Pro. of Eng. Do.' New National Bank New South Wales Oriental Bank Corp. Ottoman Bank ...... ;Provinc ;al of Ireland Do. New R. Ans.B. &G.Im.Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. New Union of London Unity Mutual Westra Bk of Load , 867--" Er 2 Ltd 51 5;1 , la 62 64 17 - 1 ; 4 17t -17 t 17 - 174 gm 40 - 41 - •,. - ••• 53 - 55 6 - 7 ..„, --- ••• 16 —14 d -- 7d, ..~. Business done tills day. St. St. St. 50 t. 0 st. St. 20 all 11 all St. 100 St. 100 /0 all 10 all 12i 21 St. 100 25 all 25 ' all -4. 100 10 1 10 1 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 25 ' all it. 50 St. St. 20 20 10 ',I. all 104 100 jlOO 2s c ld lOs 204 204 100 100 100 100 20 20 20 20 all all all all 6i 101/ 5 44 / 861 7i i 233' i IN 10 29/ 30 rWE s!t) N, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 28, .1857 EPSOM RACES.—(This Day.) LIFE IN BENGAL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH . .) FOUR-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Walmer beat Pitapat. Two ran. TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Princess Royal Yaller Girl (Mr. Barnard's) 2 Twelve ran. THE OAKS.--MI John Day's boises were scratched on Monday, except Vigil and Aspasi.a. We mentioned a fortnight since the progress ef fected by the dacoity Commission. It has dimin ished crime some eighty per cent. In some Zillahs it may be said to have extinguished it. In others, where dacoity was lately so rife that every man of property went to sleep iu doubt whether be should not be a pauper by the morning, a gang robbery is almost a phenomenon Few, however, who read [ I those bare statistics have any idea of the ob i stacles the Commissien has to encounter. Re cent trials have giveu the public some idea of the obstacles which impede the Euglish police. In the great bullion robbery the thieves dis played an ability almost amounting to genius Their accomplices embraced men of high respectab lily, belenaing to a class which by its habits alone seems g T a e r mp werel and m snore e subtle receiver almost to defy suspicion. Yet we doubttif Pierce It of c den zor d i s a: , • 17.a a s n a d Jew Saward, barrister and fence, member Of the andlnner Agar fool compared with Anondo Kagh. Ramcoomar was a philosopher, and one of no mean brain. He had probably not stuate:l Edear Poe's detective stories, but h e h a d arrived at the conclusion of Edgar's hero Dupuis. Man 1 and particularly man of the police species is go verned by habit. Crimes habitually occur in a cer tain way. Therefore when a crime is discovered, the police always pursue it on the p:esumption that it has been committed in the habitual manner, and the moment a link in the chain is !ost are hopelessly at fault. Usually dacoitiu in Bengal are commit tt d by men of the same caste. They can trust eath other better. They' excite less observation while travelling. They can keep up a more per fect surveillance over each other's acts. Darogalis as " practical men" are well aware of this fact, and therefore when a dacoity takes place, use this as their datum of inquiry. There were so many men. Who has seen a gang of so many men of one caste ? Moreover, if one is caught - , all the remain& r are expected to be nearly of one caste, and ac cordingly the darogah's duty is narrowed to that caste, to his infinite comfort. Ramcoomar, however, as we have said, was a philosopher. Relying on this invincible chain of habit he fo , rued, his gangs of widely d fferent cases. Ho collected three goalas from his own village, a Kybnrt from Hooghly, two Chundals from M Lheintelpore, tato Booyan coolies oft the railro‘d, a Mu-sultnan from Btmpore, some Bagdees aLd Hat ee• from the country round. The receiver was a Seukra, and the spy an oilman. It will be obvious to any one acquainted with Bengal that an informer's story descr,barg ouch a gang as this would be regarded as simply ludicrous. Acting on this assumption, Ramcoomar, the in stant he was out of jail, recommenced his lucrative trade. Three dacoities were committed wituin six miles of the Commissioner's house without a clue • o the perpetrators or a trace of the property. The Commissioner, his deputy, and his agents, were equally at fault, and the gang might have enjoyed months of impunity but for an accident. They had taken 1750 rupees in bank notes from a Ba boo's house. They had the temeerance to wait three months, but at last one of the notes was presented, the bearer seized, and the note traced to a moodee's shop. The moodee, though a Bengalee, invented so poor a lie that he was arrested. Once within the Commissioner's grip, the truth began to ooze out. A casual remark caused the arrest of six more, and in a few weeks the most scientifically organised gang in the country was broken up. Anondo Kagh was a mild Hindoo. He was of good caste, and regarded by his neighbours as thoroughly respectable. He did not, it is true, keep a gig, but he did perform those ceremonies which are in Bengal what the gig is in England, the palpable evidence of respectability. He was an ,old man with that hale active look which is so rare in India, and which always prepossesses Englishmen. This man was not so much a Sirdar dacoit, as the Abithopel of the entire dacoit fraternity. His true character was some what strangely revealed. The joint magistrate of Baraset had received information that a gang of suspicious looking men had gone out to commit a dacoity to the eastward. They were headed he was told by an " old Kaet." The roads and ghauts were watched, the guards doubled, and the joint magistrate himself was all on the alert. No dacoils however appeared, when just as the official fervour subsided, intelligence was received of a dacoity in the house next to, that occupied by Anondo Kagh. The magistrate proceeded to the village, and he first person he met was the "old Kaet." Anondo at once confessed that he had invited the Dacoits, that they had refused to go further, and so he had given them a neighbour's house{ to plunder. He was dis- • believed, but compelled to give security for good behaviour, a little precaution which the judge as a matter of course disallowed on appeal. He was subsequently convicted of another offence, and then the whole truth came out. Be was profes sional adviser to no -less than four dacoity clubs. His plan was to send out two of his relatives into service to persons reputed to be of wealth. If the report proved true, Anondo directed his bands to the attack. If false, the relatives extended their inquiries into the neigh bouring families, always alighting at last upon the richest. Meanwhile Auondo deemed himself safe. The gangs never knew whence ther orders were received, and although he was mentioned in many confessions, no trace of his identity could be dis• CHARLOTTE BR,INTE. covered. These two stories are sufficient to show the class of men with whom the Commission has now to deal. It is not the dacoiti themselves who are so formidable. They can be kept in or der by mere terror. It is the leaders will ni it is imperative to arrest, whose ingenuity is equal to the organised force arrayed against thew, and who can raise new gangs almost from the ground. It is the respectable thieves who really puzzle the police. and if some of the evidence recorded before Mr. Ward is correct, we must strike among the peerage as well as the bourgeoise. Next week we hope to point out an obstacle to the Commission more important and more dangerous even than the astuteness of the dacoits.—Friend of India. NEWSVENDBBS BENEVOLENT AND P_ROVIDANT INSTITUTION. The 18th anniversary of this society; the object of which is the granting of pensions and tempo rary relief to indigent masters and servants en gaged in the sale of newspapers, was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, last evening. The festival was presided over by Mr. John Walter, M.P., who was supported t►y the leading members of the trade and a company num bering ah , rut 150 gentlemen. The occasion was also honoured by the presence of groups of ladies. The finances of the society are in a flourishing state, and a portion of them have been disbursed in affording timely aid to the necessitous. After the repast the usual loyal toasts were duly given from the chair and cordially responded to by the a , _sembly. • The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the '• Army and Navy," remarked that they were all extremely rroud of the laurels won by their brave defenders, both by sea and land ; hut there was a community of interest bet weenthose services and , he trades repr, sented at that board. The army and navy would have little incentive to the achievment of great deeds if there were no newsvendora to spread the fame of those deeds through the world. (Cheers.) One portion of the trade, which he be lieved was not represented that night, but which was generally known by the name of the "roaring vagabonds"--(a laugh)—seemed to suppose that the army and Davy had been cretted for their especial benefi', because during the whole of the late war it was impossible to get a quiet hour in his part of the town from the. extreme enthusiasm evinced by this fraternity in daily proclaiming the achievements of those gallant services. (Laughter.) Whatever mistakes might have occasionally marked the sten torian announcements of this enterprising class, he was sure that whenever the army and navy were again called upon to distinguish themselves the newsvendors of Loudon would be delighted to give publicity to the records of their prowess and hero ism. (Cheers.) The to ist was drunk amid loud applause. The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the toast of the evening, observed that the principle of combina tion was one of the most deeply ro,,trd qualities of the human mind, and would al ways exist le one form or another. If it (1 . 11 not take a .good direction it was pretty sure to t .ke a bad one. Most of them rememb ere d the period when the spirit of combination was widely exhibited in a very disagreeable and un amia'le fashion. He alluded to the time of the Trades' Unions, when masters on the one side and servants on the other were arrayed against each other in the strongest antagonism. Of late years, however, whether owing to the greater diffusion of common sense among all classes, or, as he hoped, to the greater dissemination of a Christian and charitable spirit, a happier state of things prevailed. Combinations now assumed a more benignant and friendly aspect, and society reaped a corresponding benefit. Benevolent ins.itutions, represen tug al most every trade in the kingdom, had sprung up ( n all sides ; and no doubt they would see the present society, which he regal ded as only yet in its infancy, becoming widely ramified through the country in due course and extending its branches in every quarter. There was something remarkable— it might almost be said mysterious—in the way the intellectual food of the community was daily pro vided. Foreigners and fir nds from the country often wonder how the physical wants of a vast city like London could be regularly supplied ; and it was only by passing the baker's shop in the middle of the night and observing the underground opera tions them going on there, or by noticing the wag gon loads of cabbages piled as high as that room on their way to Covent-garden at 4 o'clock in the morning—(laughter)—that such persons could gain a faint idea of the mode in which the Londoners got their bread, meat, and vegetables. The intel lectual food of the community was supplied in a similarly mysterious manner ; and most people knew nothing of the occult processes which resulted in the appearance of their newspapers on their breakfast table. One class of traders who minis tered to the comforts of the people were called licensed victullers. By an analogous nomencla ture newsvendors might be termed "the unlicensed intellectual victuallers" of the country, sup plying as they did its daily mental aliment. (Cheers). Indeed society would find itself exceed ingly embarrassed and could not get on at all with out the service of so useful a class of caterers. (Hear.) He had not had an opportunity of ex amining the report of the Newsvendors' Benevo lent Institution for that year, but he had looked into the report of the year before, and he was sorry to say he did not find it quite so encouraging as he could desire. He trusted, however, that the result of that evening would enable them, when they next published a statement of their position, to furnish something more satisfactory. (Cheers.) As near as he could calculate what he might call their work ing expenses, they amounted to about 40 per ant. of their entire receipts. This was far too large a proportion—(hear)—and a society in which such a state of things existed could not be deemed self supporting. Let them endeavour, then, as far as possible to reverse these proportions. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman concluded by prop,sing "Pro sperity to the Newsvendors' Benevolent and Pro vident Institution." The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm. The Secretary then read a list of donations in aid of the funds, which was headed by Mr. Walter, 251. ; Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, 101. ; Mr. J. C. M`Donald, 51. ss. ; Messrs. Dawson and Son, 51. ; Baron Rothschild, 51., dre. The total sum Collected during the evening amounted to about 1001. Mr. WILD, the chairman of the committee, pro posed "The health of Mr. Charles Dickens," the president of the institution, and expressed bis hope that the s ate of their finances would before ling enable them to provide almshouses as well as small pensions for the objects of their bounty. Mr. TERRY (the treasurer), in very complimen tary terms, gave " The health of Mr. Walter." (The toast iv.s received with enthusiasm). The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, said he was convinced, from the difficulties with which the newsvenders had to contend, that their task was no light or easy one. What between the public who must be supplied, and the newspaper publi,her who could not print his impression fast enough, the poor newsvencler was, as it were, in a vice, where he was pretty well squeezed, and had very much of a dog's.lile of it. (Laughter.) He had taken con siderable pains to obviate the complaints of iudig nant subscribers, who complamedbitterly that they did not receive their papers till mid day, forget ing all the time that the fault perhaps lay with some prosy orator in the House of Commons, who pro tracted the debate beyond 2 o'clock in the morning, and thus delayed the newspapers getting to press. He hoped however, by the application of additional power to the printing process, to accomplish before many months elapsed that which it must be owned was no easy achievement—namely. to please every body. (Laughter.) " The health of the Donors" was next given, to which Mr. J. C. M'Donald briefly responded, for cibly pointing out the consolation which the news vender might derive in the midst of the daily vexa tions to which he was exposed, and earnestly coun selling the members of the trade to bear and forbear with each other. Twelve o'clock having arrived, The CHAIRMAN excused himself from further at tendance, on the ground that it was time to think about " going to press," otherwise their country friends might not receive their n ewspapers with due punctuality in the morning. (Laughter.) " The Press" and a few other toasts were also drunk, and the party separated at a late hour. The musical arrangements were under the direc tion of Mr. Smythson, assisted byMiss Jane Wells, Mr. D. King, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Gene, who contributed greatly to the enlivenment of the even ing. Mr. B. Banks, jun., acted as toastmaster. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paidi HA.LWAYi. 25 50 25 123 12i 20 100 100 all 100 all 'lOO 100 all all all ' all all 100 7i all 100 all all all all all 100 all all 1 all 1100 Bnekghamsh. Clydesdale Je. Col.Stour Vy. l E.Lin. g. 6 p.c E. Un. H. Sh. Alas. Barr. & I Neils.Dixect. , Do. New l Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Hull & Selby. Do. A Shares. }Do. Shares. Lon. &Greenw Do.Preferenee Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark. Sh . 1 Manch.Rxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per et Do. Fixed sp. c I P I D e . s S t. t%rVsY re Roystn.& Hit. I Shrews.& Her S. Staffordsh WearVal.g6pe Do Wilts &S,,mrst Do.. Leasing Companies Ln.&N.W. Calodon... Gt.'sTorthn E. Count.' Caldonian. Gt. Westn. Y. & N.M Do Do S. Eastorn Do Peto & Co Do La. &N. W & Midld Midland E. Count Do D 0... Do L. tit N . W Do Gt.Northn l T. Brassey l a r i: . rttok. 1c :. v i e:7 4 l e t a a n r n . . 'E SHARES. Closing Prices yesterday. 92 - 91 ii 1 - ii 3~ - 4~ iii 6 = iiii 12 12 22 234 104 106 par k p 88 - 90 - P 54 - 56 130 - 1 3 3 8 - 9 9 - 94 31 - 324 86 - 88 9 . 3 - 95 si —ss - - .. 5t - 6. 1108 - 112 1 108 - 112 - R 12 - 12 ii ::: :,• ii 1.7 115 [O5 - 107 [OO - 102 61 -- 63 10i -- 10$ 51 -- 64 1 1 93 -- 95 83 - 85 84 -- 86 LOO -- 101 9A -- 10 16i -- 17 9t -- 104 72 -- 74 19 -- 194 91 -- 91 144 -14 M L 33 -- 135 1 137 - 140 114 - 116 1154 - ]56 .. . • - .• $ - iP 66 - 68 130 - 1.32 96 - 98 86 - 88 ••• - ••• 11 - 114 idi iiii 91 92 1i ld i id 22 —22 i 1111 - 112 114 - 116 105 - 110 o 22 33 / 4 98 - 100 95 - 100 27 - 28 2 - 3p ••• ... •• i 21 - 2 MINES. 18 - 19 7 - 8 150 - 160 470 - 480 17 -19 6f - 6i 4?; - - 16 - 18 20 - 21 5 - 6 22 - 23 5 - 6 -- 1i 330 - 340 5 - 61 ,300 -- 310 - 41 - 41 1200 - 220 - 1 30 - 32 140 - 150 260 - 270 360 - 380 51 - 51 17 19 46 - 48 23 - 25 MINES. - 1 1$ - li 14 - 16 id 56 58 10 12 id 15 17 71 71 ld p - e : i. " - ii •. - 4 ..• ,ANEOITS. -19 i 4 - 5 1 148 - 152 lili- 114 32 - 37 25 - 27 - 2* 5t 92 ••• ". ••• 14 .".. li elle ••• n li Cl . A •.! it - •••i .. 1 ••• . 1.. l 4 44 41 4,3 par ip 18 22 g 9 3.0 id p 2 21 - 23 5 - 7 60 - 62 li - 11 34 - 36 -- 1 i - 1 11 - 18 100 100 100 all all Business this day TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—On Saturday last, you published, .by re quest of Mr. W. W. Carus Wilson, an extract from a review, containing he says, " a complete answer to the statements regarding his father's charitab!e ins!itutions." The statements referred to are, I presume, the following :----That the.unhealtby situa+ ion of Cowan Bridge, unwholesome fo3d, exposure to cold, Azic., enfe-bled the girls and predisposed them to disease; that fever broke out among them ; that ab ;ut forty of them suffered from it ; that the surgeon, who was called in, condemned the girls' daily food by the expressive action of spliting out a portion of it which he had takon in order to taste it ; that • the school was ramoved to a new situation and a committee of management appointed. Now, let us examine the " Complete answer," and see how these ch arges are di s p ose d o f. And, fir:4, the reviewer assumes that these statements rest solely on the testimony "of one who, when but a child of nine, left the establishment." A re ference, however, to " The Life of Charlotte Brow e," will show that this is a false assumption. Ile praises the situation of the school, "on Mr. Carus Wilson's property, halfa mile from Castertion hall, high and healthy ; " but he has not the can dour to state that this description applies to he present site, and not to that referred to in "Jane Eyre." He eulogises Mr. Wilson's liberality, but omits to state that funds are raised from the public for the supprt of the establishment, which Mr. W. W. Carus Wilson modestly calls his " father's charitable institutions." He makes no mention whatever of the condem nation of tlie food by the medical gentleman, of the fever which scourged the schoo!, and the c(•nse queut change of site, and reformation of the estab lishment. But, surely, the ladysuperintendent, "whose able letter appeared in a review," will supply the gentle man's omissions, and in her " long and complete answer to the assertions in Jane Eyre," make some reference to this eventful period in the existence of "the clergy daughters' school." She does no such thing, at least as quoted in the review. She eulogises Mr. Wilson ; asseverates her own impartiality ; refers to her apostacy from her Church, and expatriation from her country ; makes a somewhat erroneous statement respecting Mr. Bronte's family ; hazards sotne conjectures about the intentions of the author of " Jane Eyre ;" and lays before us a bill of fare at Cowan B►idge —" meat, vegetables, and puddings daily in abundance." Very good, Madam but what about the ccoking that spoiled these provisions ; boiled the puddings in unclean water ; compoutMed the Saturday's nauseous mess from the fragments accumulated in a dirty larder during the week ; and too often cient up the porridge, not merely burnt, but with offensive fragments of other substances disco verable in it ? The Reviewer says " the whole of this letter Mrs. Gaskell must have seen, as she quotes one sentence out of it word for word." Whether Mrs. Gaskell has seen this letter, I do not know ; but if the Reviewer will refer to the "Life," vol. i., page 78, he will find that Mrs. Ga;kell quotes from a letter which she bad herself received from the same lady, who evidently in both instances used the same form of expression —identical, however, in only three words, "bright, clever, little"— in reference to the same child. May I not justly retort the charge of disingenioumess on the Reviewer ; who must have known this, when he aecused Mrs. Gaskell of making a garble-1 quotation ? " Jane Eyre" was published in 1847 ; Lowood was almost immediately identified with Cowan Bridge, yet " the Lady who was superintendent in 1824" was discreetly silent for more than seven years, until, in fact, the author was laid in her grave. So were Mr. W. W. Carus Wilson and the Reviewer, for aught I know. Their present pro ceedings are merely an illustration of a very old fable. To the day of her death "Ctirrer Bell" maintained that the picture drawn in " Jane Eyre" was, on the whole, a true picture of Cowan-bridge school, as she knew it by experience ; that the institution was subsequently im?roved she knew, and stated in the same work in wnch she had exposed its former mismanagement I am told thal the Reviewer, referred to in this letter, has, with exquisite taste and treat charity, alluded to the closing hours of my wife's life, de scribing them as painful. Painful indeed they were, but not iu his sense of the term. On this subject I would say to him, " Who art thou that judgest another Judge not that ye be not judged. First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye." Trusting to your sense of justice to give this letter a place in your impression, I am, Gentlemen, )our obedient servant, A. B. NICHOLLS. Haworth Parsonage, May 20th, 1857. M. THURNEYSSEN AND THE CREDITS MOBILIER. The following communication regarding the fail ure of M. Charles Thurneyssen, is from M. Isaac Pereire, the President of the Credit Mobilier Com pany : " Paris, May 25. 1 1" Sir,—ln announcing the failure of M. Chas. Thurneyssen, yon have referred to the Credit Mo biller, and have also stated that he was connec:ed with me by relationship and business transactions. "Your good faith has been imposed upon by statements emanating from malicious motives, for M. Charles Thurneyssen has never had any busi ness connexion with me or with the Credit Mobi lier. He was never at any time mixed up with the operations conducted by that establishment, nor a director of railway companies or other industrial undertakings. " The insinuations therefore regarding the Credit Mobilier are without foundation, nor have they any better basis as respects myself. Although a cousin of M. Charles Thurneyssen married one of my nieces, he can scarcely be looked upon as my relative ; and I have never had social intercourse or business transactions with him. I regret that this abuse of the privileges of the press should render it necessary for me to enter into my private affairs ; but I feel bound to add that on one occa sion I rendered a service to M. Charles Thurneys sen, solely out of regard to his fa - mily, and that I have suffered in consequence. About three and a half years ago I lent him 500,000 f. to extricate him ft om the embarrassments into which he was plunged by speculations in land, and that sum is still due to me. " His uncle, M. Auguste Thurneyssen, whose declining years are embittered, and whose fortune is largely diminished by this painful event, is one of the most highly esteemed and respected men in Paris. He was formerly a banker, and connected with the house of Stieglitz, and for the last 20 years his name has been associated with those of the most respectable English and French capitalists as g director of the principal railways. Like his son, M. George Thurneyssen, it is only as a creditor that he is connected with his nephew's failure, which, deplorable as it is, does not possess the ex aggerated important e which has been attached to it. • I doubt not, sir, that, having given currency to reports so unfounded, you will give equal publicity to these explanations. Every one has a perfect right to form his own estimate of the Credit Mubi lier as an institution, but it is an abuse of that right, and one unworthy of the English press, to connect that society with events to which it is com pletely a stranger, and to attack it through its ad ministrators, who are at least entitled to some con sideration from the position they occupy in public esteem.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, " I. PERIERE." THE PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.--The following is the form of oath to be taken henceforth (in all cases) in lieu of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjura tiou, viz. :—" I, A. 8., do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall be made against her person, crown, or dignity, and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heirs and her successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against her or them ; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the Crown, which succession by an act entitled a An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject,' is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance to any other per son claiming or pretending a right to the Crown of this realm ; and I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, directly or indi rectly, within this realm. So help me God." The act, however, will ❑ot affect the form of oath prescribed for papists by the Roman Catholic Relief Act (10th of Gee. IV,, cap. 7). LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, May 23.—Wind this day at noon, S.; slight breeze, with passing clouds. PORTSMOUTH, May 27.—Wind S.—H.M.S. Devastation, from Devonport ; H.M.S. Snake, ditto. Sailed—H.M.S. Eurydice, for Cowes. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind S.W. Arrived—Euphrates, screw steamer, from Palermo ; Gleaner, San Sebastian; Bijou, Lisbon; Belle, Africa; Sarpen, Alexandria; Heinrich, Hamburgh ; Eclipse, Ostend; Don Antonio, Buenos Ayres; Viligant, Ostend; Telegraph, Newfoundland, with loss of bowsprit, fore and main topmast, and having been in contact off Crosby with the Felicia, New Orleans. Sailed—Commodore, for Stettin ; Jane Fergusson, Riga; Sir W. F. Williams, Hobart Town. WATERFORD, May 25. Wind S.E. Arrived—Henrietta, for Memel. DUBLIN, May 27. Wind S.S.E. Arrived—Farewell, Affiance, Endeavour, and Anne from Dunkirk. HOLYHEAD, May 27. Arrived—Harriet, from Charlestown; Elizabeth, Poin Lerou. BELFAST, May 25. The Beta, from the Clyde, for Boston, has been towed in here, making water, and bowsprit sprung. Must dis charge for repairs. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TFLEGRAPIT.) GRAVESEND, Thursday,lo a.m. Wind E. ' • tide five hour's ebb ; fine. Arrived, May 28.—British King, from Grenada; Jas. Holmes, Barbadoes ; Agnes, St. Vincent ; S. and 0., Darien; Equinox, Cienfugos ; CaYolinda, Cherbourg; Enterprise, Lazarotte ; Neptune, Havannl ; Wm. Lo thian, and Paca, Cronstadt ; Unity, Guernsey ; Planta, Tobago. Sailed, May 28—Chatham, for Madras. DEAL, Thursday, 9.36 a.m. Wind E.N.E., light. Passed—Achilles, from London, for Philadelphia. Sailed in tow—Blenheim for London ; A rethusa, f or Calcutta ; Lavinia, for Trinidad ; Latona, for Point de Crane ; Affiance, for Launceston. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE TO OFFICERS ON BOARD SHIPS OF WAR.—On and alter the Ist June next, letters posted in the United Kingdom addressed to officers serving on board any of her Majesty's ships on a foreign or colonial station will be chargeable with the uniform British rate of 6d. when not exceeding half ounce in weight, ls. when above half ounce, and not exceeding one ounce, 2s. when above one o unce a n d not exceed ing two ounces, and so on, instead of being subject to the ordinary rates of postage from this country to the particular foreign country or colony at which the ship may be stationed. In r‘ddition to this Bri tish rate of 6d. the letters will, of course, be subject to any foreign rate of postage chargeable upon them. Letters, therefore, forwarded via Maxseilles, to or from the Mediterranean, India, China, or Australia, will be liable to a French transit rate of threepence per• quarter ounce, and letters to or from the Pac;ge will be liable to a New Grenadian transit rate of sixpence per half ounce. The prepayment of the postage wi Ibe optional or compulsory, according to the regulation in force with respect to ordinary correspondence addressed to the place at which the ship is station ed, but the delivery of the letters will, in most cases, be accelerated if the postage be prepaid. An arrival of about 30,000 sovereigns is expec a c ted from Constantinople by the Ottoman Bank, in additi on to the 42,0001. just received. The amount from Russi a to-day (about 50,1001.) will be taken chiefly for the C ontinent to pay for silver. Of the 180,0001. AuArat ian gold which reached London this afternoon a portion 1 gill go to the Bank. MARKET NEWS.—(Tins Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended May 28, 1857, made up from the Re turns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in tngland and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT I OATS BEANS pEAs 57s 9 d 42s BARLEY 8d 124 s lld 30sEYE 7 d 43s Sd 42s 3d THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. RYE BEANS PEAS WHEAT I BARLEY I OATS I 55s 3d 43s 6d 23 s 9d 39s 2dl 41s 2d 40s 2d ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 112,312; barley, 7,110; oats, 9,974; ryo, 52; b e ans, 5,274.; peas, 510 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATI ANDLRADZNRALL.—The trade generally ruled steady, as follows : —Beef, from 3s 4d to 48 ld Mutton, 36 2d to 5s Od; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 2d; Veal, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per Sibs, by the carcase. SOUTIIALL, May 28.—The supply of stock here to-day wa s very moderat e, and the trade g enerall y ruled brisk , on higher terms :—Beef, from 3s 44 to 5s 3d ' • Mutton ' 4s Gd to 5 s 2,1 ; Lamb, 5s 6d to 68 6d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Pork, 4 s Od to 5 s Od per 81 bs , to sink the offal. ROMFORD, May 28.—The trade was brisk, as follo ws Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 3s to 5 s kci Lamb, 6s Od to 7s Od ; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pcrk, 48 to 4s 10d per 81bs. HAY MARKETS. SurrrtriELD.—Meadow hay, 2L 10s to 41 4s ; clover do., 3/ 103 to 51 ss; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 103 per load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 4/ 4s ; clover do., 3/ lOs to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 11 lOs per load. Trade dull. WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 103 to 41 4s ; clover do., 31103 to 51 56 ; and straw; II 58 to 14 les per load. Both 113 y and straw sold slowly. ~..‘ , —....Juikaki.... PREFEREN , Blyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd.at 501.) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. Do. 4 per c. Shares.. Caledn. £lO 4 p. e. Ches. & Ho. 5. p. c. Do. do. 5 per cer Cork &Bandonsp.e. Dun. Perth. &Aber.J. E. Anglian Cis. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. 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.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash.6 p.cts E.&W. York. J. sths Edin.&Gl. sp. c. Sh. Ed.Prth.&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 10 p. c. prem l Do. 42 per cent ..... 1 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N.of Scot.lst Pre Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc Do. con. zed. 41 p. c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per *IA. Do 5 p. C. red. pref. I Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do.ChesterBp.c.P.S Do. do. 5 p c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesil. Gua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. Lon.&B.G. 5 pc.No.l' D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lou. & N.W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct... 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BRITISH Alfred Cons. (Philk.) British Iron .... ..... Condurow (Cambrn.) Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) Great South Tolgus GA. N. Alfrd. (Philk.) IGrt.W. Vor (Helstn.) ILady Berth?. I N. Frances (Illogan) IN.W.B.tsset (Illogan) `North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) ; Porkellis U. (Wend.), Sort. Cons Mw. Co S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S. Care Brea (IIlogn.) S. W. Frances(lllogn.) 'Tam. S. Ik. L. the. Co Tin Croft Uu. Mines (awennap) ~V. of Towey (Camar.) IW. Basset (Illos•an) Caradon (Liskro ) Wh. Basset (Illogan) Wh. Buller (Rdruth) Wh. Edward(Calstek; Wh. Kitty (U. Llant' Wh. - Ma. Ann (Menht. Wh. Trelawney (Lis.: FOREIGN Australian Brazilianlmp.(issue( at £5 pm) Do. Cocaes & Cniads Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica Cobra Copper Copiapo Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada Noveau Monde Pont. Sil. LdM. & Smlt Port Philip Santiago de Cuba south Australian Do. Scrip Do. 10 p. c. Prof. United Mexican , MISCE: Australian Agricult. Australn. 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IV Diemen's Land,.. 100 100 100 .100 100 St. 12i 12i 12i 120 St. all all 100 100 al l all 100 100 100 100 all all 100 100 100 100 20 12 25 20 St, L 0.6 20 25 25 12i 100 1100 11131 161151 12s 6! lit 7s 50 100 St. Si. St. all 10 all 80 LOO all all all all all all 5 2811 150 1121 i TIT - ER - AT - UR - ET -----1"4 The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon. Abridge , 4 from the French by Bayle St. John. Two •Toll', Chapman and Hall. The Memoirs of Saint Simon occupy a prominent place in French historical literature. They form one of those works, less valuable from their direct information than for that incidentally given, and more to be valued as. giving a vivid and 1ife..14 picture of the minds aad manners of the time than as an authentic rec, , rd of history and politics. The work in French, we are told by the editor, occupies twenty volumes, which he has reduced to four, the first series being now issued, and the second to be published in a short time. They furnish a sum mary of Court life during the latter years of the reign of LouisXlV. and the Regency of the Duke of Orleans, and the effect is very similar to the view of the fairy world by daylight. Mr. St. John; a most decided democrat,, who very probably con siders Robespierre a greater man than Napoleon, is delighted with such a congenial picture, prov ing o) hi s m i n d th e i nna t e w i ckedness and medio crity of kings, and leading him at last to wonder at the small amount of the executions during the French Revolution l . Those who may be inclined to dispute the justness of these conclusions, :will yet see in the extravagance and misgovernment of this diqiipated Court the signs of the coming storm. The last volume leaves the King, after his many re verses in the campaigns with Prince Eugene and Marlborough, putting tax after tax on his over burdened people, while the lavish exp en d i t ure of the Court and its unworthy satellites was, scarcely curtailed. In that gaudy and dissolute circle, as one after another dropped from it, their deaths seem to have been hardly heeded. A hurried whisper, a day of excitement, a few hours of pretended sorrow, were the only tributes rendered to the brother and son of the King. The selfishness and heartlessness of the head of the court set an example; readily followed by the others. St. Simon occasionally indulges in a little moralising, but rejoices just as much as the others over the death of his opponents. The Duke of Bourgogne was the honourable excep tion to the Royal family. Had he come to the throne instead of his contemptible son, Louis XV., how much mischief might have been delayed, if not averted. The last chapter, of this series, leaves him succeeding to the dignities of his father. The next will probably commence by telling us of the death of his charming Duchess, so soon to be fol lowed by his own. The editor has exercised a judicious description in his abridgment of the work, but -a. little more_ severe censorship would.. have been acceptable to English readers. Iu 'his desire to show the closing days of that brilliant court as they really were, and to give the gossip of the day with the vraisemblance of the original, he has admitted some Court scandals that could have been well dispensed with. He asserts, no doubt with correctness, that the undertaking has been tedious and difficult. M. de St. Simon having lwen most elaborate in his descriptions of all festi vities, cereinunial4, and the like, and most diffuse in kis histories of the relations of relations of all con cerned in any particular event, these details have been wisely omitted, and also almost all St. Simon's numerous discussions on poi'tts uf precedence, &c., on which subject h. seems to have been as infatuated as his Royal mas,er. The following extract from the preface, by the editor, may be interesting to those unacquainted with the biography of St. Simon : "The army was the first scene of St. Simon's worldly experience. When very young he entered the Bing's Mus keteers; and in time rose to the command of a regiment. He served in more than one campaign, and appears to have discharged his duties conscientiously and 'well. While still in the camp he began to note down in a journal the events that were occurring around him, incited to do so by the pleasure he had received in reading the Memoirs of the Marechal de Bassompierre. Even at this early time it is evident that he was endowed with a rare power of obser vation, and good natural sagacity; and with a certain rigidity of opinion which prevented him from much shar ing the vices with which he came in contact. " St. Simon's military career did not last long. He had served more than five years when the peace of Ryswick was signed ; and the field never saw him again. The great war of the Spanish Succession began in 1702, and nearly all Europe was involved in it, until the treaty of Utrecht decided the question at issue; but St. Simon, being de prived of the promotion he thought himself entitled to, resigned his rank. In this, doubtless, ho acted wisely. He seems to have had no special pradilectionfor a wintery life—never speaks of his interrupted career with soldierly regret—does not even imply that he had talent in that direction. The court, not the camp, claimed him. He was formed to move, not amidst helmets and plumes, but amidst powdered wigs and gold-headed canes—to wander observant amidst fans and hoops, not tents and trenches. In that sphere, looking on at the intrigues and sche mes that thickened or dispersed around him, joining in them himself when a friend was to be served—for St. Simon was evidently capable of friendship—or an enemy to be thwarted 7 -he was equally capable of enmity ;—maintain ing himself in intimacy with most of the courtiers whose views were in harmony with his own, and with many whose views were very different; fighting for the rights and dig nity of his order with the tenacity of a man who regards them almost as passports to eternal salvation, and who sees that in the confusion of new grades and unusual privileges arising, he and his fellows are counting for less and less every day ; criticising the plans of government in opera tion, and drawing up new plans of his own ; noting with a sort of prophetic cunning all political 'and diplomatic changes threatened, the struggles to gain power and the struggles to preserve it ; and all the while keeping his ear open to reports of all domestic occurrences at the court— the love-affairs, the scandals, the marriages, the tragedies in this direction, the comedies in that; -such bring his position and occupAion, we need not be surprised at the vast extent and varied nature of his Memoirs. A more active and public mode of life in which he would have been forced to find work for the critics rather than play the critic himself, would not have suited him so well ; and would have injured the interests of posterity. We see this plainly in the review of his career. " During the lifetime of Louis XIY., St. Simon enjoyed much indirect favour from his popularity with the leading personages of the Court and the Government; but the King, displeased with him in the first instance for his re tirement from the army, and afterwards for his deter mined stand in support of the most petty privileges of the order to w bich"he belonged—to say nothing of his pedan. tic and meddling disposition— never bestowed ranch no. tice upon him, and sometimes evinced marked coldness. It was not until the government fell into the hands of the Due d'Orleans, the Due de Chartres of St. Simon's child hood, that his position changed. With the Due d'Orleans he had always been on good terms. He had stood by him in fair weather and in foul; and now to a certain extent reaped the reward of his devotion. He became a mem ber of the Council of State ; and had nominally a voice in deciding the affairs of the nation. But he was not meant by nature to be a statesman any more than lie was meant to be a soldier. Abler and more unscrupulous intriguers got hold of the helm ; and St. Simon, despite of his inti macy with the Regent, never had any sensible influence on great affairs, and continued to jot down notes of what he knew of the manners and character of the Court. The historical portion of the work, the details of Blenheim, Ma'plaquet, tkc., and the account of how the news was received in Paris will be to many the most intert sting portion. After the terrible re verse of Blenheim none dared to send the news, and the public anxiety and suspense were fearful. On another occasion after much delay the king des patched Chamillart himself to bring the true state ment. The work will be welcome to many who are desirous of rendering themselves in some de gree acquainted with so remarkable a work, afford ing as it dues, through the lapse of a century and a half, a glimpse of the petty strifes and dis,ensions, the splendid dissipation and selfish ambition, the golden chains that were too often worn in the Court of the Grand Monarque. Ernest Basil. A Novel. By J. M`Grigor Allan, author of "The Woinala Hater," &c. 3 vols. Newby. • This story may serve to amuse an idle hour. It is written in an agreeable manner, and contains an immense variety. The various adventures that Ernest Bash meets with are very entertaining, and it is very curious to notice the misrepresentions to which he is subjected in his efforts to benefit those around him. The several characters are well described, particularly that of the mischief-maker, Flacid, who goes about from place to place dissemi nating his dangerous tidings, generally contriving to mix a graiu of truth with his falsehoods in order to give a likelihood to the stories. Miss Fair weather is a sample of an arrogant and selfish girl, and she is truly shown to be the style that gene rally deceives people by false appearances. Elinor Lawrence is a direct contrast to this, and the little that is seen of her is very attractive. One of the c hi e f points of the story is the account given of the hypocrisy that is practised to so great an extent by persons pretending to be so much better than their neighbours, till they are suddenly discovered to be no worse than the generality. Of such was whole,St those P e ewni who ors like kmseoe most ti C vp l e o rl o s y e ba , anb a dl n e d atni alsoteac Flaccid. On the tdothtiiesatlaslkeewtcihllesp.lease There is a Sardinian priest at Turin at present who ii in the 104th year of his age, being born in 1753. He has; been presented to the King, who has added 100 f. to his yearly pension. He does not look more than 60, and his hair is still black. REPRESENTATION Or LEEDS.—Out of respect to the character and memory of Mr. R. Hall, the late member for the borougu of Leeds, the leaders of the two chief polittcal parties in that borough have agreed to postpone all meetings or other active steps as to the future repre. sentation of the borough until after the funeral of the deceased bon. member. It is understood that the pre. position for this arrangement was first made by th e Liberals, and was at once acceded to by the Conserv*. tires. Notwithstanding this highly creditable dispokii. tion on the part of the political leaders—a disposition that has met with the approval of the great bulk of the inhabi. tants of the borough—a placard, without imprint, was posted in Leeds yesterday, naming Sir W. Clay as a fit and proper person to be put in nomination as Mr. Hall's successor. The name of Mr. Bright has ale° been mentioned, even in preference to Mr. Cobden. by some o itbe Liberals, but until after the funeral of Mr. Bail, which will take place to-morrow '(Friday) at Whitelcirk Church, near lieedF, nothing certain can be known or done. + \ ._ . all 9 all 100 100 all all 1100 all I.Bi 50 all all IGN. 89{ 121' 1011 66i 1011 43 i 83i 51 401 I 66 75 4} 29i 381 i 54 8i i 47 i 14k 58i 100 St.