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V. COURT OF CHANCERY.
This being the last day of Trinity Term all the Equity
Courts took motions.
(Before the Lords Justices of Appeal.)
WATSON V. LYON.—JUDGMENT.
Their lordships gave judgment this morning in this
case, which came before them a few days since, upon ap-
peal for the decision of the Vice:-Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, declaring that the plaintiff was entitled
to his lien upon certain property near Liverpool,
called the Clifton estate. Their lordships were of opinion
that the decree of the Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster was substantially correct, and ordered it to I
be affirmed, with some slight variations.
BULLOCK V. BENNETT.—JUDGMENT.
The Lord Justice Turner gave the judgment of their
lordships on the appeal from the decision of the Vice-
Chancellor Wood. The question, in this case, arose
under the will of Mr. Samuel Bullock, who, after
directing that all his estates should be converted into
money, gave the sum of 1,2007. to trustees, upon
trust, to pay the interest of that sum to his
daughter, Mary Ann Bennett, as long as she should
remain unmarried. It appeared that the daughter
had been twice married, and was at the date of the
will a widow. But previous to the testator's death
she had married a third husband, and the testator dying
without republishing his will, it was asserted on the part
of his daughter, the twice widow and the third time wife,
that she wa entitled to the interest during her life of the
1,2001. On the part of the residuary ledatee it was
urged that the third marriage barred her claim, notwith-
standing there was no republication of the will by the
testator. The Vice-Chancellor Wood decided that she
was entitled to the interest of the 1,2001., and from that
decision the present appeal was brought.
Their lordships were clearly of opinion that the Vice-
Chancellor had miscarried in his judgment, and ordered
his decree to be reversed and the appeal allowed.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Wood.)
IN BE KNIGHT'S TRUSTEES.—JUDGMENT.
His Honour gave judgment this morning in this case,
declaring that the daughters of the testator took vested
interests at 21, and directing the costs of all parties to
be paid out of the estate.

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The Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor Kinders-
ley, and the Vice-Chancellor Stuart, were engaged the
whole morning with motions possessing no points of the
slightest interest.

None of the Equity Courts will sit again until this
day week, which is the first Seal Day after Trinity
Term.

QUEEN'S BENCH.
THE QUEEN v. THE GUARDIANS OF TEE POOR OF

SINGSTON-UPON-HULL.—JUDGNENT.
Lord Campbell delivered the judgment of the Court in
this case, which came before them for their decision rela-
tive to the right of a town-clerk of a borough to charge
extra for making out the list of voters in accordance
with the registration acts, and turned upon the 55th
section of the act. His lordship said that in the long
run their decision would not be of much importance
either to town-clerks or the payers of borough-rates and
poor-rates, because for the future the salaries would be
- regulated according to the work the former would have
to do, and come only from one rate. Their lordships
adhered to the principle they laid down in a former
case, namely, that a town-clerk could not make any
charge for his own time or trouble, or the time
and trouble of his clerks usually in his employ.
ment, relative to the duties of his office. The town
clerk was to be paid all expenses incurred in carrying
this act into effect, which the court held to be money
disbursed by him in so doing, and not a recompense for
his time and trouble. At the same time if, by his reason-
able exertions and those of his clerks, a town clerk was
unable to prepare the list of voters, and was necessarily
obliged to call in the aid of other persons to assist him
in doing so, that would be an expense incurred which
ought to be reimbursed, but he should not merely em-
ploy his clerks and himself in doing other business as
an excuse to hand the making the lists over to others.
In this case their lordships were of opinion the plaintiff's
claim ought to be paid.
THE QUEEN V. JUSTICES OF SENT.
Mr. Pashley, Q.C., applied for a rule calling on the
Justices of Kent to show cause why a certiorari should
not issue, compelling them to bring into that court an
order made at quarter sessions discharging Mr. Charles
R. Bager, district surveyor for the Lewisham district
under the Metropolitan Building Act, from his office,
should be made absolute. At the quarter sessions al-
luded to a complaint in writing was made by Mr. David
Willoughby against, Mr. Eager, alleging that, as the
district surveyor of Lewisham, bo illegaly detuaLded and
received a fes of Mr. Willoughby for certain houses
erected by him under the above act, to which he was not
entitled.
Mr. Bramwell supported the /We.

SUMMER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES,
1855.

--mispirowa.
Yesterday being the last day but one of the present
term, the judges finally appointed the days for opening
the Commission, and holding the ensuing General Assize
and Gaol Delivery in and for the several counties
throughout England and Wales, and the following is an
accurate and official statement of the days so appointed :
HOME CIRCUIT.
Judges—The Hon. Mr. Justice Wightman and the Hon.
Mr. Justice Cresswell. Hertfordshire— Tuesday, July 10, at Hertford.
Essex—Friday, July 13, at Chelmsford.
Sussex—Wednesday, July 18, at Lewes.
Kent—Monday, July 23, at Maidstone.
Surrey —Saturday, July 28, at Croydon.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Judges—The lion. Mr. Baron Platt, and the Hon. Mr.
Justice Crowder.
Yorkshire—Tuesday, July 10, at the Castle of the
City of York.

The certiorari was ordered to issue.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
EXTENSIVE BANKING FAILURE.—IN RE STRACHEN, PAUL,

AND CO, BANKERS.

A petition in bankruptcy having been adjudicated yes-
terday against Messrs. Strachen, Paul, and Co., bankers,
of the Strand, and the case having been ballotted to his
Honour, the bankrupts now surrendered to prevent
delay, although seven days are allowed to dispute the
adjudication. The notification of the bankruptcy will
therefore appear in the Gazette of this evening, with the
days appointed for the choice of assignees and last exa-
mination. The amount of the debts and assets were
not stated, but a preliminary statement will be laid
before the Court at the first meeting.

City of York—The same day, at Guildhall of the city,
Durham—Tuesday, July 24, at Durham.
Northumberland—Monday, July 30, at Newcastle.
on-Tyne.
Town of Newcastle—The same day, at the same place.
Cumberland—Thursday, August 2, at Carlisle.
Westmoreland—Monday, Aug. 6, at Appleby.
North Division of Lancashire—Wednesday, Aug. 8,
at Lancaster Castle.
South Division of Lancashire—Saturday, Aug. 11, at
Liverpool.

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NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
Judges—n Right Hon. Mr. Baron Parke and the
fon. Mr. Baron Alderson.
......shire—Wednesday, July 11, at Ayles-

CENTRAL CRIMIATA r., COURT.-
(TR.'S DAY.)

bury.
Bedfordshire—Friday, July 13, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire—Wednesday, July 18, at Hunting

(Before the Recorder.)
William, Floret Miller, 21, a well dressed young man,
pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering a forged order for
the delivery of a check book.

Cambridgeshire—Friday, July 20, at the County Couri
of Cambridge.
Norfolk—Tuesday, July 24, at the Castle at Norwich,
City of Norwich—The same day, at the Guildhall o;
the City.
Suffolk—Saturday, July 23, at Ipswich.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
Judges—the Hon. Mr. Jastieo Coleridge and the Hon.
Mr. Justice Maule.
Northamptonshire.—Tuesday, July 10, at North.
ampton.
Leicestershire.—Friday, July 13, at Leicester.
Borough of Leicester.—The same day.
Rutlandshire.—Tuesday, July 17, at Oakham.
Lincolnshire.—Wednesday, July 18, at the Castle of
Lincoln.
City of Lincoln.—The same day, at the Guildhall.
Nottinghamshire.—Saturday, July 21; at Nottingham.
Town of Nottingham.—The same day.
Derbyshire.—Wednesday, July 25, at Derby.
Warwickshire.—Saturday, July 28, at the Castle of
Warwick.
The Coventry Assize has been abolished.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.
Judges—The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir
Fredk. Pollock, and the Hon. Mr. Justice Erle.
Berkshire. —Tuesday, July 10, at Abingdon.
Oxfordshire.—Thursday, July 12, at Oxford.
Worcestershire.—Monday, July 16, at Worcester.
City of Worcester.—The same day, at the Guildhall
of the city.
Staffordshire.—Thursday, July 19, at the Castle of
Stafford.

It appeared that the prisoner was the son of a mis
sionary in India, and that both his parents died there.
He was then sent to this country, where the Missionary
Society took him in hand, and sent him to a school in
Yorkshire, the master of which, Dr. Munro, gave him a
very good character during the period he was under his
charge. The prisoner subsequently obtained a situa-
tion in the establishment of a mercantile firm, and it
appeared that he had endeavoured to obtain a
cheque-book from the bankers of one of their customers,
no doubt with the ultimate intention of obtaining mein
by means of forgery. It was stated that the prisoner
had got into difficulties in consequence of betting upon
horse races, and that this was the occasion of his being
in his present position.
The Recorder said that this system of betting among
persons in the prisoner's condition of life was a most;
fruitful source of crime, and it was very fortunate for
the prisoner that he had not been able. to >obtain posses-
sion of the cheque-book, and thus have been in a posi-
tion to have committed a much more serious crime. He
then sentenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour
for eight calendar months.

The Common Sergeant sat in the new Court during
the morning trying persons for passing bad money. The
cases were all of the ordinary description, not possessing
sufficient interest to warrant a report.

Shropshire.—Thursday, July 26, at Shrewsbury.
Herefordshire.—Saturday, July 28, at Hereford.
Monmouthshire.—Wednesday, Aug.l, at Monmouth.
Gloucestershire.—Saturday, August 4, at Gloucester.
City of Gloucester.—The same day.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.
Judges—The Hon. Mr. Justice Williams and the Hon.
Mr. Justice Crompton.
at Winchester.
County of Southampton (Hants)—Tuesday, July 10,
Dorsetshire—Monday, July 16, at Dorchester.
Devonshire—Thursday, July 19, at the Castle of Exeter.
City of Exeter—The same day, at the Guildhall.
Cornwall—Wednesday, July 25, at Bodrnin.
Somersetshire—Monday, July 30, at Wells.
Wiltshire—Saturday, Aug. 4, at Devizes.
City of Bristol—Wednesday, Aug. 8, at Bristol.
NORTH WALES AND CHESTER CIRCUIT.
Judge—The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Sir Jno. Jervis.
Montgomeryshire—Tuesday, July 17, at Newtown.
Merionethshire- --Friday, July 20, at Dolgelly.
Carnarvonshire—Monday, July 23, at Carnarvon.
Anglesey—Thursday, July 26, at Beauinaris.
Denbighiliire—Saturday, July 28, at Denbigh.
Flintsbire—Wednesday, Aug. 1, at Mold.
Chester and City—Saturday, Aug. 4, at Chester.
SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER CIRCUIT.
Judge—The Right Honourable Lord Campbell, Lor I
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, who, after pro-
ceeding through the Circuit, will join the Lord Chief
Justice of the CJimnon Pleas at Chester, and the a:—
sizes for that city and county. The following are his
lordship's arrangements :
Cardiganshire—Thursday, July 12, at Cardigan.
Pembrokeshire—Saturday, July 14, at Haverfordwest.
Town of Haverfordwest—The same day.
Carmarthenshire—Wednesday, July 13, at Carmar-
then.
Glamorganshire—Monday, July 23, at Cardiff.
Brecknockshire—Saturday, July 28, at Brecon.
Radnorshire—Thursday, August 2, at Presteign.
Cheshire—Saturday, August 4, at the Castle of
Chester.
City of Chester—The same day, at the Guildhall.
VACATION JUDGE.
Mr. Baron Martin will remain in town as Vacation
Judge, and preside daily at Chambers during the ab-
sence of the judges in Circuit.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.

HAY MARKETS.

1/ 33 to 1/ 9s per load. tearaandddoew hay, 3/ ?s to 5/ 10s ; cloven
BMITRFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 5/ 10s Od ; clam
straw, 17
dull.
Supply ditto,
uu ,133
n2/1 t :old
Aet
moderate
e/. LaOnldm;
dit;:o, 37 5s to 67 83 ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 17 101 par load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our quotations.
WHITEOHAPP.L.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 5, 103; clove?
ditto, 3/ 5s to 6/
Trade rather dull 10s; gnd straw, 1/ 3s to 1/103 per load.
.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y- -.EVENING, JUNE 12 1858
LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ( LAW" INTELI
I I

SIR JOSEPH P2l XTOA' S SCHEME FOR THE
IMPROVEMENT OP THE METRO P OLIS.

LITERATURE.

The plan of Sir Joseph, as explained by him before, a I The Martins of Cro' Martin. No. VII. By! committee of the House of Commons, is as follows : 1
Charles Lever.
He proposed to enclose London in a monster arcade 180
are no more than a couple of chapters in
feet in height, with a roadway 72 feet wide, such arcade There
to be fitted up on each side with shops, the upper part
~.,
"—and
number of "The Martins of Cro' Mar-
and rear to be appropriated to drawing-rooms, sleeping-
'l4
rooms, and other domestic apartments. Parallel with and yet the story is, in these two chapters,
carried well onward in the earlier stages of its de-
this arcade, at a considerable elevation fr,-an the ground, velopment. The one introduces us into " A
a railway would be formed, on one side of the arcade Studio," th -
being used for the up line, and the other for the down,
acquaints use veallethlierthoefmSienithmoYd CorfopwreeparTinh
•
while the carriage-way in the centre would be usedpreparing
o“ t hAe
nr
merely for carriages going to the shops. He proposed Election Address"—that projected against the con-
that this arcade, commencing near the Royal Exchange, stituency of Oughterarcl, by our old young friend
Jack Massingbred. In all kinds of situations Kate
should proceed thence across Cheaps and over a
bridge to be constructed between Southwark and Black-
friars bridges thence to High-street, Borough, where a Henderson appears before the readers of Mr. Lever's
junction would be formed with the railways at London- new work as a veritable phenomenon as Mr. Pea-
cock's intimate The Swan of Avon bath it—a
bridge. From the Borough it would return by a circuit-
ous course to the Thames, forming a junction with the
" paragon of animals." Already we had been in-
South-Western Railway, crossing the river by another
bridge to the Strand. A branch would cross the river by formed by the previous numbers that Kate could
a third bridge from near Lambeth Palace to the new extract melody from the piano almost with the
Houses of Parliament-street. •By the way of Victoria-
skill of a Listz or a Thalberg—and that she could
street it would then proceed to Brompton, across Ken-
sington-gardens to the Great Western Railway station ;so converse in the sweet and voluble language of
thence to the London and North-Western and Great the south as to impart, by her tones, fresh music
Northern statiors ; thence to Islington,. and back to to the dulcet verses of Tasso and Petrarch. We
the Royal Exchange. He also proposed a branch to
had yet to learn, however, that she could paint with
Piccadilly, &c. The length of the arcade would be
ten miles two furlongs, and the branch two furlongs. the dash of an academician, and fool the rabble to
the top of its bent by means of rhetorical casuis-
He entered into a variety of details to show that the
work would be highly remunerative, as well as to form tries and political balderdash with all the precision
a means of speedy transit and improved communication. and promptitude of the most practised demagogue.
First, from the Mansion-house down to Victoria-street, Harry Lorriquer has evidently selected the
and the Regent-circus to the Mansion-house. In getting governess of Oro' Martin as a sort of ideal
up these estimates he had gone to the expense of emplo3 - counterpart, in the softer sex, of the Admirable
ing an efficient surveyor, and also a person who is known Crichton. Poor Mary Martin is quite forgotten
in London as a valuer of property connected with the for the new favourite. • Although Mary at the out-
whole of the districts. There were three bridges over set threatened to be the ne plus ultra of a heroine
the river-1. Queenhithe, 406,500/. •2. The Strand
outheroined. Eclipse sped far beyond the rest of
bridge, which is much longer, 754,800/. ; and he had an
the field, but Kate has distanced Eclipse. We
estimate from a first rate contractor to complete it fer
600,000/. (the size is like Waterloo-bridge, but, with all meet her at every
thing. turn, and fin
Sheds her
tonishes successful
Simmand
iy
the houses, &c., upon it, it will not be so heavy as Ler-
supreme n eve ry
don-bridge) ;3. The bridge at Westminster, 638,700/. Crowe by the genius with which she handles his
The Arcade, 5,458 yards lineal, at 1,0001. a yard ; the brush and pallette. She satisfies even the fastidious
roof 54/. a yard ; and foundations for the same distance, and ever-captious Lady Dorothea by her anti-
-400,000/. ; land, conveyance, &c., 3,403,400. Total cost, tude as an amanuensis. She charms Mary Mar-
including three bridges, 11,307,941/. The whole arcade tin more and more by her wonderful gifts as a
is 11 miles long, and will cost about 34,000,000/4 that cantatrice. She dissipates for a time the mingled
includes everything complete. He had not gone into the ennui and insouciance of Martin himself, by amusing
question of any amount for the resale of surplus land. them with the very cream of the morning's newspa-
With regard to the receipt to be expected from the let-
per. shy contents the heart of old Counsellor
Wig of the property, lie had not gone into it for the
Renton b becoming the most patient of listeners
whole length, but only for that part of it from the Man- • .
to the garrulity of what Rogers once delightfully
sion-house to Westminster, and from the Mansion-
branded with the soubriquet of—anecdotage ! In
house to Regent-circus. The bridges would cost to build 1,800,000/., and the rental, exclusive of the rail- fine, she extricates from all manner of difficulties
way, would be 124,0001. He had valued the houses on the newly-announced candidate for the suffrages
these bridges, taking 30 feet frontage by 48 feet deep, of the electors of Oughterard. The number closes
at 6001., and to arrive at that he had desired his sur- with rare promise of excitement by means of an
veyor to make inquiries in different parts of London, and Irish election, which bids fair to be pretty sharply
he found for an equal frontage on Ludgate-hill the rent contested. The rival candidates threatening to
would be exactly 6001.; in Cheapside, 7501. and 7201.; in take the borough by storm being the son-and heir
Loth bury, 700/., 6601., and 650/.; in King William-
street, 5601., 720/., and 570/4 h Moorgate-street, 6701, of Martin, and the quondam friend and nominee of
that same lord of the soil, the spiteful exquisite
and 6201.; in Oxford-street, 8001.; and in St. Paul's-
and game
man of the world, Jack Massing-,
churchyard, 840/. He thought, therefore, his estimate -
for the bridges at 6001.. would not be too high. In the bred.
same district in the street arcade he had taken it at 6001.
also, because, as he said before, one part of this commu-
nication, from Waterloo-bridge station to the Mansion-
house, would be the largest thoroughfares in the world.
In the other district—that is, from Belgravia to Victoria-
street—he took it at 400/., and through the Strand to
about Waterloo-station to about 500/. He got from the
bridges 124,000/., and from the street arcade 510,0001.
Then he came to the passengers, and taking two-thirds
of the traffic as ascertained at different places, that would
give 506,620/. per annum, and, allowing 40 per cent. for
the working expenses, would leave a profit of 303,9721.,
making a total receipt of 937,972/. Believing, as he did,
that it would be difficult to get any ordinary company to
do this work in a proper manner, and the amount being
so large, he (Sir J. Paxton) should propose to do it by a
Government guarantee at four per 'cent. He proposed
that 4 per cent, should be applied as a sinking fund,
which would in 60 years reduce the whole amount, and
it would then become national property. By the next
plan, of getting the undertaking carried out by
j dif-
ferent localities in London, when they came to
unc-
tions he apprehended there would be great diffi-
culty both in raising money and determining what
to do. In case, however, the world would not take it
up, people knew what four per cent. Government Stocks
meant, but would want something more in the case
mentioned. The third plan would be to carry it out
entirely by private enterprise, although, from-the num-
ber of persons who would hold shares, &c., it would be
a most difficult matter to carry out as one of share pro-
perty. The first plan he considered for all reasons the
best.

Clytemnestra : The Earl's Return : And ether
Poeml s. By Owen Meredith.. Chapman and
Hal.

Mr. Meredith's volume of poetry was not opened
by us without rather large expectation. As in so
many other instances of late, we had heard it said
of him also—this is the man at last in earnest—not
the Coming Man, but the Man actually Arrived—
the true poet, the bard of the age, the " bright
particular star," the new-born planet " swimming
into its ken "—not, however, this time before the
eyes of some lone traveller " upon a peak in Da-
rien," but within the comprehensive gaze of an
entire generation. We were told by some of our
contemporaries to console ourselves at length under
the pressure of repeated disappointment, for that
here, at length, was the successful compeer of the
Laureate, one whose hand would win new laurels
now that the bay wreath was crisping into the
"sear and yellow leaf' upon the broad forehead
of Alfred Tennyson. It was not, however, any
vague predictions such as these which awakened
our curiosity in regard to the writer of The Earl's
Return, and of the classic tragedy of Clytemnestra.
Assurances such as these we had overheard already
too often (only to find them ludicrously falsified upon an examination of the vaunted masterpieces) to place any solid credence in the mere avrec arEv
of such exceedingly fallible vaticinators of metri-
cal excellence. It was something beyond the cus-
tomary panegyrics poured out upon the young-
ling poet, which, in the instance here referred
to, encouraged us for the moment to believe that
now in reality, we might rejoice with reason over
the apparition of a genuine phenomenon in poetic
literature. It was seriously avowed by a respect-
able weekly newspaper that in his Clytenthestra,
Mr. Meredith had equalled Milton, and surpassed
2Esehylus. Certainly, we must confess it to have
been altogether beyond our power to swallow any
declaration so very tough and stupendous as this
—but we were compelled perforce to believe that
the book, so spoken of; must of necessity, comprise
merits of some sort, more than usually remarkable.
Well—we have read Clytemnestra, and have care-
fully turned over the subsequent pages of the
volume : those dedicated to the "Earl's Return,"
and the "Artist," and the "Wife's Tragedy," and
other poems—and the result is nothing less, of
course, than the old story all over again—complete
and painful disappointment. Yet the production
is altogether meritorious. The verses are, fur the
most part, scanned throughout judiciously. The
melodious rhythm rises even, here and there, above
the level of mediocrity. But to talk of the mighty
masters of the human mind, to whisper the awful
names of Milton and 2Eschylus ! Monstrous puffing
like this is assuredly a cruelty no less to the reading
public than to the unfortunate literary adventurer.
Never can any one have more cause to exclaim in
anguish, "save me from my friends," than writers
treated on their first coming forth as Mr. Owen
Meredith has been treated ! They float for a
season on the surface of the current of oblivion,
sustained in their perilous position by inflated
puffs like those we have particularised, puffs inge-
niously tagged on to their names and those of their
works through advertisement. But, as with
Shakspere's "little wanton boys," that swim on bladders--

" blowen up with wind,
Which, being prickt, do vanish into noughts,"
they yield their bubbles to the wind before very
long, and flounder by a practical bathos to the
inevitable bottom of Lethe. Unannounced by any
extravagant encomiums, a volume such as the one
here submitted to our examination, might ass
muster well enough among the crowd of
kindred
tomes put forth bycongenialcompetitors. But fancy
a work proffered with such a particularly resonant
flourish of trumpets, heralded by so sonorous and
reverberant a fanfaronade, upon op which,
ening
haphazard, cue's eye lights
upon a the following:—
passage like
" The clouds were troubled, and the wind from his
nrison

SHARE MARKETS.

De-hind them leapt down with a light laugh of scorn ;
When the last thing she saw was that bare !Auk thorn;
For the forked tree as the bleak blast took it,
llowl'd thro' it, and beat it, and bit it, and shook it,
Seem'd to visibly waste, and wither, and wizen To
A passage occuring at page 148, in " The Earl's
Return," which resembles somewhat in quaintness
of tone and oddity of idea that previously given at
page 132, in a little poem—the best in the volume
—" Good Night in the Porch," where it is strangely
written :

•
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 11.
STOCK Exciztarroz.—The market this morning opened
firm, but has since been dull, closing flat at the quotations.
Caledonian 328 i—Eastern Counties, 12 5-16—East Lan-
cashire, Di—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 12$ 3—Liverpcol,
Crosby, and Southport, 13—London and Nortb-Western,
101 i s—Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, 28,1—Ditto,
101. shares, 13 15-16—Ditto, 61. new, ? —Midland, 750
North Eastern, G. N. E. Purchase, d.—South Eastern,
19 18 15-16 19—Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per Cent., 133
—Dutch Rhenish, d.

" From little things—a star, a flower—that touched us
with the self-same thought,
My passion deepen'd hour by hour, until to that
fierce heat %was wrought,
Which, shrivelling over every nerve, crumbled the
outworks of reserve."
An electric action of the animal fibres, tending,
we should have thought, rather to produce palsy
or paralysis, than affection or mutual confidence.
Mr. Meredith had evidently, though, may be, un-
consciously, in his mind the opening of "Mariana
in the Moated Grange :"
" With blackest moss the flower pots
Were thickly crusted one and all,
The rusty nails fell from the knots
That held the peach to the garden wall."
To say nothing of the spot hardby where the "clus-
tering marish mosses crept," when he penned the
introductory verses of that same " Good night in
the Porch :"
"The stagnant levels, one and all, are burning in the
distant marsh," &c.
It is in this same poem, however, that we find the
only really noble passage we have been able to dis-
cover in the whole volume—a passage worthy,
howbeit, we cannot but think, of particular men-
tion and especial remembrance. It is where the
Borrow-stricken thus reverently apostrophises the
Divine Redeemer—
" Thou sufferedst here, and didst not fail: 27ty bleeding
feet these paths have trod :
But Thou evert strong, and I ant frail : and 1 am, man
and Thou evert God
Be near me : keep me in Thy sight : or lay my
soul
asleep in light."
As for Clytemnestra we pass tint by in silence
I,e..si
we would pass by a clever stone-maze:-
wiill;volnalit
some old blurred frieze of the Parthenon
with dim figures carved in bas-relief,
in stiff and somewhat monotonou4 procession as
_garuemnon and
jE theygi
sttrhouo by,
Oresteson e aafitledr
parillootchiaenr,,
Ac/]lectra, Cassan-
dra, the Herald, the Chorus, an
.with these the
murderess-queen herself that horrible old night-
mare of Argos, the ",..gliastly grim and an-
cient" Clytemnestra.
it s on
our senses, by the way, tjoar hearstran the el y
wifeup of
Agamemnon elnbabning the most arrant colloqui-

MANCHESTER, JUNE 11.
STOOK EXCHANGE.—There was not a large bn,iness ex-
cept in South. Eastern stock, but prices were higher than
on Saturday. Leeds stock, 82A—Sheffields, 284—Dovers,
1815-16—Midlands, 75)—East Lancashire, 19i---:Eastern
Counties, 12k.

alisms of nowadays in the spikenard and ambergris
of blank-verse—observing, at one moment—
" Fortune for us bath tii:own the Treble Six ;"
and at another_.

-- -
"A reed may show which way the tempest blows."
It is somewhat more in accordance with our notions
of what might have been the style of language ployed by Clytemnestra, when we hear her mut.
tering moodily about the misery it is
"To wake, and hear all night the wandering gnat
Sing thro' the silent chambers while Alarm,
In place of &umber, by the haunted couch
Stands sentinel."
Nevertheless, even this pails upon the appetite a recivtuffee of the classic- tragic, garnished w for
ith all the unities. So that, in spite of the sagacious hints vouchsafed by friendly critics about our Milton,
and another 2Eschylus, we are driven, in spite of
all considerations of gallantry, to give the go-by at
once not only to the adulterous lover of _zEgisthus,
but to the daughters also of Priam and Agamem-
non—
hurling the book, as we do so, in sheer despair
and exhaustion into the limbo of the wastepaper
basket.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(From the Daily News of this day.)
Austria must be closely watched. To all appearance
chat shifting contemplates another of those acts of
treachery which rendered it infamous during the wars
of the French Revolution. According to the most re-
liable accounts of the Circular addressed by the Cabinet
at Vienna, to its diplomatic agents, on the 25th of
e
May, Austria affects to believe herself relieved from the
obligationsdispute the 2
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December. Thee BTe
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does not
lay down conditions in their own interest going beyond
the original base ; but it maintains that the protocol
of the 2d of December will thereby be departed from,
the engagements entered into
and that the Imperial Governmenttenor
to
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against Russia, although Russia, haasetiv
i%t holds itself entitled to
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accounts from the Austro-Russian part in‘ the war
refused to conclude
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m v lit relied
swithdrawing expression ina self to
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ream the Polish frontier—twelve cavalry and threreoops
in-
fantry regiments are said already
licia. The pretext under which Austria seeks to er-
tenuate her desertion of the We; tera Powers will
not bear examination. When the Allies consented to
negotiate with Russia on the basis of the four points
they expressly reserved their right to modify the terms
if the progress of the war should throw more power into
their hands. Austria was cognisant of this reservation
and acquiesced in it. Austria has declared that the
Russian interpretation of the four points was inadmis-
sible, and has concurred in the close of the Conferences
on the ground that the belligerent Powers could not
come to an understanding as to the terms. According
to every principle of law and equity Austria is still
bound by the treaty of the 2d of December. Yet Aus-
tria, by withdrawing her troops from the Polish fron-
tier—in contravention of that treaty—actually assists
Russia in the struggle in which that Power is now en-
gaged. The consequence of Russian reliance on the
friendship of the Court of Prussia is that the line of
frontier from Thorn to Posen has been denuded of troops
to an unprecedented extent. In times of the profoundest
peace that part of the frontier was never known to be
left so entirely unguarded. The soldiers usually sta-
tioned there have been marched to oppose the Allies in
the Crimea. The withdrawal of the Austrian troops
from Gallicia will, in like manner, liberate a number of
the Russian regiments hitherto employed in guarding
the southern frontier of Poland ; they will immediately
receive the route for the Crimea. In titter contempt of
her solemn promises to the Allies, Austria is acting in a
manner that enables the Czar to bring a stronger force
into the field against them.
Even Ministers must now see the unutterable folly of
the weak concession by which Austria was allowed to
occupy the Danubian Principalities with her troops.
Against that occupation we protested from the first as
unnecessary. The Russians having been compelled to
evacuate the Principalities, the native authorities would
have naturally resumed their functions ; the Turkish
army of tho Danube was able to prevent the return of
the Russians, even though it might not have been found
strong enough to pursue them into Bessarabia; the in-
terference of the Austrians was utterly uncalled for in
that quarter. Even before the soldiers of Austria,
reached Bucharest it became apparent that their occupa-
tion of the Principalities would be worse than useless. .
By underhand intrigues and by open proclamations the
Austrian commanders sought to supersede the native
authorities. The subsequent conduct of the army of
occupation has been one tissue of usurpations upon the
local Government, and brutal maltreatment of the un-
offending natives. The Austrian occupation of Walla-
chia and Moldavia has been infinitely more oppressive
and irritating than that of Russia. And now Austria,
in whose hands'has been deposited this first stake in the
war between Russia and the Porte, unequivocally betrays
her intention to desert from the Allies to Russia. Wal- '
lachia and Moldavia can no longer be safely entrusted to
the cu-tody of Austria, which is ceasing to be a friendly
power. How does our Government propose to get the
Austrian army out of the Principalities, where it would
now be the height of folly to allow it to remain?
The conduct of Austria is not the result of mere inde-
cision or infirmity of purpose. Throughout the whole of
her trimming and tortuous proceedings Austria has
been emsistent—has kept her object steadily in view,
and pursued it without faltering. In the first place,
she contemplated with jealousy and alarm the
prospect of Russia's obtaining possession of the
Principalities. Austria repeatedly Fought to annex
them before Russia had grown powerful enough to make
the attempt ; and saw with irritation her competitor for
the coveted prize about to snatch it. Austria too had
uneasy misgivings that her mighty neighbour had an
eye upon some of her own frontier provinces. Austria,
therefore, coquetted with the Western Powers until she
persuaded them to place within her grasp those pro-
vinces which bad been rescued from Russia. But all
this time Austria had never for a moment lost sight of
the fact that Russia is her natural ally against Western
Liberalism. Austria sought to secure herself against
the arrogance and rapacity of Russia, not to break en-
tirely with Russia ; and now that the Czar appears to
be on the eve of being effectually humbled by France
and England, and that Austria has got possession of the
provinces the acquisition of which she grudged to -Rus.
sia, Austria turns round and extends the shield of her
protection over a power whose aid she feels will soon be
required to enable her to keep her ground against the
public opinion of civilised Europe. Austria has been
playing upon all parties, with a view to promote her own
selfish and sinister ends, and for the moment it would
almost appear that she has done so successfully. But
the end is not set. Paltry cunning and tortuous in-
trigue may secure partial and temporary advantages, but
never a complete and enduring triumph. The final and
avowed desertion of the Allies by Austria will consti-
tute a turning point in the events which are now deve-
loping themselves before the 'eyes of all Europe. New
and bolder plans of action are about to be forced on the
statesmen of the West ; new political elements are about
to be called into active existence.