The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-29 00:00:00

HE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING JANUARY 29 18

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Paid.

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Leasipg
Company,

Closing Price:,
Saturday.

this 4ay.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Great inactivity prevailed in the demand for wheat in
most of the country markets held on Saturday. In prices,
however, no mAterial change took place. The barley trade
ruled dull, at barely stationary figures. In other kinds of
spring corn, as well as in flour, only a moderate business
was doing.
Most of the Continental markets have been rather (lull
for wheat and other articles, and prices have been with dif-
ficulty supported. High rates for both wheat and flour con-
tinue to reach us from New York.

The Warden,. By Anthony Trollope. 1 vol.
Longman and Cc.

r.,,,ndon
N.
L. &N.W.
E. Un.
E. C.....

, This is a very clever and entertaining book,
though its object is not very clear. The Warden
is a Mr. Harding, a gentle, honourable, and esti•
mable clergyman, who has been appointed by his
old friend, the Bishop of Barchester, to the war-
denship of an establishment called Hiram's Hospi-
tal. Twelve old men of the town of Barchester
were, by the will of one John Hiram, entitled to
be maintained, clothed, and lodged in the hospital.
As, in the case of many similar bequests, the value
of the property had greatly increased; and, though
Mr. Harding on his appointment aided twopence
a day to the men's allowance, still a great discre-
pancy existed, the pensioners receiving each one
his
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s
,Wsivrhi
Warden's
idatneeshgnne sixpence.l3lo:fit:
tvbruyhtoi.
tbeeas,rtsyiwi,ahtAii
position,tanaehdrlkto aarse Acaoluieinl
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co. lblcebdai
high-soundingoleaty.:
befaecdo,
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would.
Archdeacon,
atcAgi
rwine.tccit he Warden 800 / .
a year. This. being obviously unjust and wrong,
o
John Bold, the Reformer of the town, took upon
himself, the awkward task of bringing it before the
public. The task was the less incumbent, upon
n old
h
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dailoustetsdly ar:eanitivolscoliesepethnce;enodene(iyi.odtaeasirusornoeot:afglioftgdnc.
tniiihtattti
in-
security
tcswivißheo chiefhiceirslue.hvdnrioHiinsptCpsycai Ineurado(datirfediannd:Cediigtnii(mes:n
such course would be the sure modec;:i encouraging
the Church's enemies, and be deserting his post in
the hour of danger. Poor Mr. Harding endured
it for some time, but at length, driven desperate by
two articles in a leading newspaper, he escaped the
vigilance of the Archdeacon, rushedto London, and
resigned his lucrative but most unenviable position.
By this time, however, John Bold had consented to
the entreaties of the fair Eleanor Harding„ to aban-
don the.ca.use, and so both sides, left the matter
where it was. The hospital is deserted and ne-
glected, the old men die off and are not replaced,
and the survivors find to their- dismay, instead of
each man having the hundred' a year they had ex-
pected, they only lose the twopence a' day Mr.
Harding had given them. The ex-Warden retires
to a quiet lodging, to the disgust of the Archdeacon,
and his daughter becomes Mrs. Bold: This is the
substance of the book, but it gives a faint idea of
the.keen *observation, knowledge of life, and satiri-
cal sketches contained in it. Some well-known
characters are introduced under very transparent
disguises. Few will fail to recognise Carlyle and
Dickens among them, and the graceful testi-
mony to the part the " twenty shilling num-
bers" have taken in the reformation of many
great abuses, will be generally appreciated. Bar-
chester and its dignitaries are evidently in-
tended for portraits ; but the unsatisfactory point
it was simply intended to exemplify the frequent
of the book is its having seemingly no •object. If
misappropriation' or such funds, and the inconsist-
ency of the guardians of such establishments being
rich men, while keeping strictly to the letter of
the will, and not either enlarging the number of
recipients or increasing their allowance, the end
would be easily attained. If, on the other hand,
the author was opposed to innovations, lie might
easily have taken the other side and made out a
more favourable case for the delinquents, repre-
sented the danger of alterations, &c. But he does
ydgteeee:
neither one nor the other, or rather he does both.
He says that the old men had all that they wanted,
were quite happy, and succeeds in giving the im-
pression that John Bold did a great deal of harm
and no good by his meddling, while the injustice of
the case is evident. With this exception, most
readers will derive pleasure from its perusal, from
its lively satire, its clever delineation of character
and sketches of real life.

t. 7 - 99
,99 - 101

A.Nrti
ICaldonian

133 - 135

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New.
& nerw.
Y. &NM
Do

The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week
were again moderate. From abroad we received 24,789
qrs. of wheat, 3,545 barley, 32,572 oats, 3,098 beans, 3,630
peas, 1,618 tares, 42 linseed, 90 sundry seeds, and 870
sacks of flour.

105 - 107

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EaELF.,

12i -- 13
224 -- 23
10/ -- 114

Fresh up to our market this morning the arrivals of
English wheat, coastwise, were 'considerably in excess of.
the supply reported on this day se'nnight, and we had a`
fair quantity by land carriage. Tho show of samples of
both red and white, especially of the former, were rather
extensive, owing to which, the increase in the imports from
abroad, and the moderate number of buyers in attendance,
the trade was in a depressed state, at a decline in the quo-
tations paid on Monday last of from 3s to 4s per qr. At
that decline much difficulty was experienced in effecting
sales.

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2i - 2I

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Darling"

92 - 94

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L. & N. W
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57 - 59

The quantity of foreign 'wheat on offer was larger than
for Some time past. All descriptions met a very dull in-
quiry, at 2s. per qr. beneath last week's currency.

Floating cargoes commanded very little attention, yet
there were no sellers on lower terms.

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132 - 135

The show of barley was tolerably good, and the trade
was iu a very sluggish state. In some instances prices
gave way is. per quarter.
sMINae Malt met
weree
wt a aysed hrtyl le
ay, l sale,evxtnively supplied with foreign oats.
The r
trade atat barely late rates.
is per qr. less money.
Beans, the show of which was good, were very dull, and
ls. to 2s. per qr. cheaper.

2i 2 d

31 - 32
91 - 93

The inquiry for peas washeavy, and the quotations gave
way ls. to 2s. per quarter.

There was only a moderate sale for flour. In prices very
little change took place.
CURRENCY PEE lIIPERIA.L MEASURE.

Wheat—Essax k Kent,
Red .. new 684 to 74a
Ditto .... old 70a 756
Ditto, White new 748 dos
Ditto.. • • .... old 768 83s
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red; old (8s 705
Ditto new • • • . 673 70s
Bye—Old ...• • • —s —s
gow .. • • • • .... 44s 4 Is
Barlay —Grinding .• • 303 332
Malthr; . • . • • .... 32 34s
Chevalier.. • 30s 37s
14elt-3uffolk and Nor-
folk ... • ...... 62s 67s
drown .•••• .• ........ 53.3 10s
Kingston and Ware 68. 70s

Nigh—Chevalier .. • • 71s to 72s
Oats Yorkshire and
Lincolnsli., Feed 25s 27s
Potato .s 28s 30.
toughai and Cork
81ack....... 253 29s
Cork, White ..... 263 30;
Scotch, Feed. 28s 31s
Beans—Tie's ......... 41s 45s

Pigeons ....45; 54s
Yeas—Groy 37s 40s
•• •• •• 41s 43s

WI ...465• 48s
Boilers ......... 47s s
elour--Towo-maclo... 68s 73s
Suffolk 54s Ces
Stonatn & Norfolk 53s 54s
FIELD.

SMITH

hfeoaiic'nle..ilgBnl.sl3::toh3e,ek2cloii;rteoisup
corresponding week
L1;51:1, 02n,414a6";
weekTh The
amounted
inn-1188'5541, w2e,65r1e7iinve1d8151),9495;4; in 1819, 1,350 ; and in 1848,
443 head. teidmptoorlt,s4oo7f

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The Baltic : its Gates, Shores, and Cities ; with a
notice of the White Sea. By th© Rev. Thomas

Milner, M.A., F.R.G.S. Longman and Co.
The interest with which, until the formal an-
nouncement of the return of our fleet from the icy
waters of the Baltic, everything connected with
that sea was regarded, is reviving, and likely by
all accounts to reach its culminating point during
the present year. The appearance, therefore, of
the work before us is very opportune, while, irre-
spective of such a consideration, it cannot but be
welcomed as containing useful information respect-
ing a region eminently deserving of attention, on
account of its remarkable physical geography, active
and important commerce, and historical and scien-
tific associations. As the author remarks—" Few
parts of the globe ha're a more unique natural cha-
racter, or can boast of such a catalogue of illustrious
names connected with their shores." These furnish
topics which are illustrated with much ability, and
possess a permanent interest.

The Microscope : its History, Construction, and
Applications. By Jabez Hon'. M.R.C.S.
The volume before us is a familiar introduction
to the use of the microscope and the study of mi-
croscopical science, and the public is largely in-
debted to the author for a work on the subject, so
easily to be understood, so amusing and instructive.
With considerable clearness and skill he lays before
the reader the history and construction, and points
out the various applications of this wonderful in-
strument, to which every department of art and
science has in turn been indebted. Some readers,
enamoured of the subject, may deem the work too
succinct, but we think the author has wisely re-
frained from composing too bulky a book, and has
thereby added to its practical value by insuring its
popularity. Every one, after reading it atten-
tively, will know how to use and manipulate the
instrument, and few but will be better informed as
to its scope and practical utility. Hardly less
wonderful than the telescope, it is shown to carry
equally indisputable proofs of skill, design, and
infinite wisdom in creation. Books treating on
subjects that do this deserve, despite a few faults,
to be recommended to the public. The present
volume is illustrated by no fewer than 500 en-
gravings. Pater families and youngsters, think of
that ! five hundred well-executed engravings ifs
some 440 pages, exhibiting minute natural objects
of all sorts, and some of the most curious con-
struction. We cordially recommend the volume
to our readers.

Some Memoirs of John Hampden, his Party, and
his Times. By Lord Nugent. Chapman and

Hall.

A third edition of these memoirs in which such
brief omissions have been made as Lord Nugent
contemplated, with a view, we are told, to its ap-
pearance in its present form. Nothing of the
strictly biographical portion of the work has been
touched, but where the historical description too
much encumbered or overlaid it, this has been
slightly compressed with advantage, we agree with
the editor in thinking, to the general effect of the
narrative. The most interesting feature, however,
of the present edition is a brief memoir of the
deceased lord. Our readers do not require to be
told how-meritorious his lordship's memoirs of that
illustrious patriot and model of English coun-
try gentlemen, Hampden, are. The general
approval they have met with sufficiently demon-
strates that. It is a book to which Englishmen should
give an honourable place in their libraries, and
refer to again and again. If it does not tell as
much as could be desired of Hampden, it tells as
much as was accessible, and without flattery, all
redounding to his honour. Though not a great
historian Lord Nugent was a faithful one, and the
high integrity which characterised his life is
equally observable in his work. His lordship was
the second sou of the first Marquis of Buckingham,
and was born at Kilmainham Hospital, Dublin, in
1789, during his father's viceroyalty. His title was
derived from his mother, who, in childhood, was
the playmate of. Goldsmith, and played on the
simple-minded poet, and moralist the harmless
practical joke attributed in the comedy of " She
Stoops to Conquer" to Tony Lumpkin. Passing
with some distinction through his undergraduate-
ship at Oxford he left it with the reputation, which
he always maintained, of being a fair classical
scholar. He subsequently passed two years with
the army, and, on his return, received the Uni-
varsity degree of D.C.L., having previously de-
feated Lord Eldon and the Duke of Beaufort in a
contest for the Chancellorship of Oxford. The war
of liberation excited his intense sympathy, and he
rushed into print to commemorate the wrongs of
Spain and Portugal, and to express his cordial
admiration for the genius and exploits of the hero
of Torres Vedras, Badajoz, and Salamanca, who,
it is gratifying to be assured, cordially reciprocated
his kindly feeling. On the death of bis mother h. e
merged the name of Lord George, Grenville in
the title by which he was afterwards known.
Shortly after Mr. Perceval's death he was returned
for Aylesbury, and in the September of 1813 he
was married to Anne Lucy, the second .4daughter
of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Vere Poulet, to
whom he was devotedly attached. It is not our
intention to particularise his subsequent career—
in general terms we may say of it, it was that of
a conscientious and high-spirited Liberal, even in
times when to be so was to be stigmatised with the
most opprobrious terms, and to incur real danger.
With the struggles of the Catkolic body for eman-
cipation, he warmly sympathised—the oppressed
slave found in him a ready and constant champion,
a.ed Parliamentary Reform,. and the removal of t-
disabilties were greatly, promoted .by his
strenuous exertions.' To the List he wtis thefriend
of the oppressed, and the Hungarian exiles in this
country found in him a liberal and steady friend.