The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-21 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

gmrrinenum.—Mdadow hay, 2/-15s to 5/ 5s Od ; clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 6/ lOs ; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ 8s per load.
Trade dull.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, 31 Os to 51 8s ; clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 61 6s ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 10A per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, and prices had a
downward tendency.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 153 to 51 ss; clover
ditto, 31 Os to 6165; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load.
A dull market.

Nearly all the large quantity of dollars arrived by the
Mexican packet was sold yesterday at 59d. per ounce.
This is an advance of sd. on the price realised for those
by the previous Mexican packet, but is considerably
lower than the rates obtained towards the end of last
month, when dollars were scarce, and chiefly in second
hands. A considerable amount has been taken to supply
orders for China and India.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE LORD
DUDLEY COETTS STUART.—A special meeting of the
committee appointed to carry into effect the resolutions
adopted at a public meeting held at Willis's-rooms,
under the presidency of Lord Shaftesbury, was convened
on Tuesday, the 19th, at 10, Duke-street, St. James's, for
the purpose of coming to a final decision on the nature
and character of the testimonial to be erected to the me-
mory of the late Lord D. Stuart. The attendance of the
committee was very numerous. Among those present
were the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Zetland, F.Fer-
guson, Esq., M.P., Captain J. Townshend, R.N., M.P.,
Professor the Rev. D. W. Marks, the Rev. J. S. Boone,
H. J. Montefiore, Esq., W. L. Birkbeck, Esq., P. F. C.
Johnson, Esq., W. Rothery, Esq., &c. After a length-
ened discussion, a resolution was agreed to, on the motion
of the Rev. J. S. Boone, and seconded by the Earl of
Harrowby, "That the funds collected should be appro-
prioted to the erection of a distinct department in one of
the uuendowed metropolitan general hospitals, to be dedi-
cated to the memory of Lord D. Stuart, in which there
is to be placed a butt of that lamented nobleman." On
the motion of Dr. O'Connor and H. Farrer, Esq., a sub-
committee was appointed to carry the resolution into
effect. The resolution was warmly supported by the Earl
of Harrowby, the Earl of Zetland, J. Ferguson, Esq.,
M.P., H. J. Montefiore, Esq., C. Johnston, Esq., Pro-
fessor Marks, and H. Farrer, Esq., &c. Additional
BRINCTIptiOIIS were announced since the last meeting.

LITERATURE.

Every Boy's Book. By George Forrest. Illus-

trated by Harvey and -Weir.- G. R outledge.
An old friend with a new face will be at once
recognised in this " CompleteEncyclopaedia of
Sports and Amusements." Every Boy's Book is in
reality nothing else than The Boy's Own Book,
slightly extended, perhaps, and from first to last
differently arranged. It is, however, very far
from possessing in any respect the merit of origi-
nality.. Yet as the result of somewhat elaborata
labour p. the
gether in no small degree meritorious. It had long
way of compilation, the book is alto!'
been anticipated, as we have already observed, by
its prototype and predecessor. Its editor possessed,
ponsequently, at starting, the advantage of what-
ever had been previously
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of a similar character, offtehcetre d
volumes
earlier h we
soi
dr ke
s
the , one above mentioned, volumes, for ex-
ample, like that charming one published
some years ago, and still retaining a considerable
share of popularity among the members of the
rising genet ation, the conversational treatise en-
titled " Philosophy in Sport made Science in
Earnest." Nevertheless, forgetting for a time as
much as possible all that had been hitherto ac-
complished, we must perforce accord a high weed
of commendation to the zeal displayed by Mr.
Forrest in the bringing together within a little
more than six hundred beautifully illustrated
pages, so many lively and welcome particulars cal-
culated " to afford recreation and instruction to
boys in their leisure"—being, in fact, as the book
is called, " A Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports
and Amusements." Let any schoolboy procure a
copy of this pleasant repository of in-door and
out-of-door entertainments, and we warrant him he
will, with a little care, soon become an adept in
fun and frolic, and a welcome acquisition to the
playground. Armed only with a pooketfull of
these wonderful little pellets, known even to every
mischieydus urchin of the gutter as Marbles, he
will soon learn from Mr. Forrest what varieties of
excitement may be won from " taws" and " allys"
by the mysteries of three-holes, nine-holes, bounce-
eye, tip-shares, snaps-and-snops-and-bounce-about, ,
the pyramid, and picking-the-plums ! Then under
the generic head of Tops what diversities will he
not find enumerated—whether the toy chosen for
the nonce be the hardy, little, spiked, veteran
Peg-top ! or the big, burly, aldermanic slave
of the lash, the Whip-Top ! or the drowsy,
old, melodious, roundabout Humming-Top,
painted and glittering in the dance like a
harlequin ! Or again, under the comprehensive
designation of Balls, what different kinds of games
are there not implied—from that elastic compound
of bladder, leather, and air, the football to that
bounding sphere of whipcord and india-rubber the
famous racket-ball ! From the duller orb of
worsted, battered over the grass in golfing, or in
hockey, to the white compact little globe of string
and kid, employed in homey-holes and rounders !
Besides all which toys, are there not yet remaining
to be enumerated, as the spolia opinzx of every
skilful boy on a sunny holiday, kites, and hoops,
and popguns—the sling, the quoit, and the boome-
rang dutch-pins, nine-pins, and skittles—
and with these, too, the little tinselled graces,
and those famous implements in the thwacking
contest between parchment and feathered-cork,
popularly hight battle-dore and shuttle-cock ! Hav-
ing introduced his young readers to sources of
amusement such as these, adapted to their immature
tastes as children, and having previously explained
in all due form the secrets of Hop-scotch, of I-spy,
of Prisoner's Base, of Leap-frog and Baste-the-
Bear, of Follow-my-leader and King-of-the-Castle,
of Hare and Hounds, of Duck and Drake, of Hop-
skip-and-jump, and the like pastimes requiring
no toys for their performance, the author of
Every Boy's Book enters upon higher grounds, ac-
quainting his host of pupils with all kinds of
athletic recreations. He teaches them, after the
pleasantest fashion, gymnastics and skating, swim-
ming and archery, angling and cricket. In the
chapter relating to Horsemanship he carries them
with him not merely through all the paces, walking,
trotting, cantering, galloping, but imparts to those
who list a number of useful hints or " wrinkles,"
about gibbing, shying, bolting, kicking, rearing,
stumbling, and all manner of other tricks of equine
restiveness. While in the chapter on Driving he
goes out of his way to explain thd difference of nu-
merous well-known vehicles, the stage-coach, the
chariot, the post- chaise, the laplau, the barouche, the
phaeton, the cabriolet, the gig, the tilbury, the curri
ele, the stanhope, the denneb, the brougham, the
britzschka and the droitzschka. It seems, however,
rather out. of place, by the way, for this instructor
of youth to inform his readers in regard to the
brougham that it is " the most convenient of all
the carriages, and, like its noble inventor, adapted to
a great variety of purposes "—(a rather poverty-
stricken little joke)—as entirely out of place as it is
to reprobate further on one of the most agreeable
and smooth-running of our hack-conveyances, the

Hansom's safety cab, as at once "clumsy; awkward,
and dangerous." Under the same category of
Athletic Recreations are included instructions about
boating and sailing the latter section being
briefly explanatory of matters relating to the sloop,
the cutter, the brig, the schooner, the smack,
the canoe, the galliot, the junk, the yacht, the
felucca, and the brigantine. Another division of
the work supplies an abundant store of information
to the Young Naturalist—acquainting him, first of
all, with the most approved method of catching
birds, whether by the aid of decoy-birds or by that
of bird-lime, whether by the common brick trap,
or the simple seive trap, or by the net, or by the
springle. Information is next given in reference
to all the varieties of singing birds—the linnet, the
goldfinch, the bullfinch, the thrush, the skylark,
the blackbird, the woodlark, the titlark, the black-
cap, the robin, the wren, the tomtit, the yellowham-
mer, the chaffinch, the redstart, the redpoll, and the
nightingale. Next, of foreign Talking Birds, includ-
ing the macaw, the parrot, and the cockatoo, and of
native talking birds—such, for example, as the
starling, the raven, the jay, the jackdaw, and the
magpie. In the descriptions dedicated to pigeons,
after due mention has been made of the stockdove,
the ringdove, and the turtledove, everything that
could reasonably be expected upon the subject may
here be learnt in relation to tumblers, carriers,
pouters, runts, fantails, jacobins, ruffs, nuns,
croppers, turbits, and trumpeters. As later on,
also, in reference to aquatic fowls and domestic
poultry, to rabbits and squirrels, guinea-pigs, and
white mice, gold and silver fish, bees and silk-

worms. Nevertheless, as though all the foregoing
were insufficient, the volume before us comprises
three other distinct divisions or compartments.
One miscellaneous in its character, another
scientific, and another yet in elucidation
of certain parlour amusements—the last-mentioned
including chess and draughts, puzzles, and cha-
rades. The scientific pursuits relating to no less
lofty and (some of them) abstruse themes than those
furnished by arithmetic, geometry, chemistry, gal-
vanism, magnetism, electricity, pnuematics, optics,
mechanics, hydraulics, acoustics, and photography.
The chapter upon miscellaneous matters with
which the volume is brought to a conclusion—
being descriptive, successively, of carpentery and
fireworks, of secret writing and gardening, of
fencing and of broadsword. So ends the book with
a flourish of quarte and tierce, of advance and
parade, of retret. lounge, and recover ! A wel-
come gilt it would be—this animated encyclopaedia
of sports and amusements whether among the
snows of Christmas or among the green leaves of
Midsummer.