The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 15,—The market still continues
heavy, but Rente has not suffered a further decline,
Threes being unvaried at 66f. 85c. Mobilier has
slightly receded, and is now at 1,075 f. Railway
Market also heavy, and with a trifling fall on some
of the lines. The market closed as follows
per. Cents. ...... 93 40 Italian Loan 7O 05
IJO. end month.... Do. end month 7O 10
3 per Cents ...... 66 70 Ditto Threes .. 42 50
Do. end month..., 66 91 New Mexican .... 57 50
Credit Mobilier..., 1078 75 Russia,
Do. end m0nth....1081 25 Austrian .. B2
Bank Shares ......3380 Spanith Threes 5O 60
Credit Fancier ....1240 Rome Pebt -
Roman .......... 71 75 Deferred

HAIL W GY,S.

°Ash, Account,
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and '2leditcrranean 857 50 .. 862 50
New ditto — • .
Southern
Western .., ...
gastern
Sardinian 363 25 .. 365
Austrian
LOW bard
North of Spain
Saragossa 567 50 .. 568 75
Ditto to Barcelona

LITERATURE.

j Beauties of Tropical Scenery. By R. N. Dunbar.
Second Edition. One Vol. Pp. 147. Hardwicke.
So many eulogistic opinions of the press—frag-
meutarily given from several among our contem-
poraries—are quoted by the author or the pub-
lisher in regard to the contents of this little volume
of versification, that, having examined the book
for ourselves, we hardly know what to think of it!
Not of the book itself, but of the discrepancy
there is—the extraordinary discrepancy, as it
appears to us—between the contents of the
book and these sententious panegyrics.
Reading the latter, one is led to expect
that the descriptive passages wilt prove
to be worthy of a Tropical Thomson—that the
erotic passages are not unworthy of Anacreon
Moore. So prepared to listen to the warblings of
the singer, we turn to these warblings themselves
with breathless eagerness, determined to note the
effect produced by them upon ourselves Wen-
tively% Unhappily we have done so quite as
vainly as ever did Sir Charles Coldstream in
the earlier part of his nonchalant doings—when,
feeling his pulse (watch in hand) he shakes his
head despairingly—"No result !" Not quickened
by a single pulsation! Eyes undimmed, cheek
unflushed—we turn the pages listlessly. Even
the contagion of the choral praise we have before
referred to, as already the book's, or rather the
author's—fails to affect us in the least, even to the
feeblest echo of it. The publisher and his
printer, even the bookbinder, having done every--
thing they could for the volume! Superficially
viewed, it is the prettiest of literary ornaments for
a boudoir table. Beautiful paper, capital type,
graceful tooling on the cover ! To say nothing of
the lovely, fanciful frontispiece, representing the
Ideal 3oddess of the Tropics, a sort of a West Indian
Britannia, having beside her, instead of a shield
and a lion couchant, a prodigal cornucopia, running
over with flowers and fruit such as the torrid zone
alone could let loose upon the lap of Nature. An-
other embellishment, too, there is in this book
greatly enhancing its value—viz., an exquisite en-
graving of one of the comeliest portraits of that good
and great man Christopher Columbus, that we have
ever had the satisfaction of looking upon. ,But—
the book itself, the verses of R. N. Danbar—well,
really, honestly be it said, there is not the faintest
seeming of a reflected flush from the gorgeous pages
of James Thomson—this in regard to the descrip-
tive passages ! Neither is there anywhere that we
can discern the faintest echo of one turtle-dove tone,
caught from the amorous lays of Tom Moore—this
in regard to the erotic passages ! The following is
about the very best specimen of our author's quality
that we have been able to select for quotation. And
as a specimen of the writer in the happiest mood,
and at the happiest moment, we give it a place, here,
willingly :

MORNING-A FRAGMENT.
Let Art's elate enthusiast laud
Thy miracles, immortal Claude I
Nature's great Rival, that ceuld'st grace
With added charms Creation's face I
But not thy pencil, dipt in heaven,
To canvass could have fully given
The loveliness of Morning's smiles
Reflected by the Indian Isles :
When, wringing their green tresses, bright
With the clear unction of the night,
Upon the breezy shore thoy pay
Their matins to the God of day;
And render to their Solar king
Their fresh breath's grateful offering.—
While he, with furnace-crowned head,
Comes flaming from his saffron bed :
Casts, like a haughty conqueror,
Brief glance on mountain, sea, and shore;
Tben rushes, on red axle driven,
Sheer up the central steep of heaven.

Bright as that early beam of light,
The Bee-bird darts his flashing flight
Through almond walks, and citron bowers,
Rifling the nectar of the flowers,
While yet the dew in every bell
Is pure as when from heaven it fell ;
For nought but beverage of the skies
Could nurture those ethereal eyes.—
The red Flamingo lifts his head,
And wades the marsh with stately tread.
And the lone feather'd Fisher flies
From cliff•built eyry, to surprise
On distant banks her scaly food,
And bear them to her callow brood.
Graceful versification—nothisng more. A good deal
of interesting information is, all through the volume,
given in the form of notes. There is a long rig-
marole of a preface. And there you have the work
accurately defined ! Saving only that the author
—thanks, probably, to the favourable opinions of
reviewers more readily pleased than we can affect
to be in the matter of versification—saving only, we
say, that the author has bad the satisfaction of be•
holding that timbre of success Second Edition
honourably placed upon the title-page to this
volume of "Love Songs and Lyrical Sketches."

SPORTING INTBLLIGENCE,

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY.

There was a fair attendance of members here to-day.
For the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes Early Purl was in
most request, 3 to 1 being accepted about hiat at the close.
For the Northumberland Plate Tottenham and Sir Roger
were in demand at 7 and S to 1 respectively, and 4 to 1 was
taken several times about the pair coupled. There was very
little done on the St. Leger or next year's Darby. Closing
prices :

THE SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STARES,
3to 1 agat Early Purl (taken)
sto 1 agat Suspicion (taken)
7to 1 agst Douche (offered)
Bto 1 agst Alabama (taken)
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
7to 1 agst Tottenham (taken)
Bto 1 agst Sir Roger (taken freely)
Bto 1 agat Caller Oa (offered)
100 to 8 agst Donnybrook (offered)
4to 1 agat Tottenham and Sir Roger, coupled
(take;)
ST, LEGER.
7to 2 agst Blair Athol (taken and offered)

TIIE DERBY OF 1865.
Bto 1 apt Liddington (offered)
30 to 1 agat A 1 (taken)

WEIGHTS FOR THE GOOWOOD CUP.

(Calculated
Age st lb
Lord Clifden 4 9 7
Stradella ..
Limosina
Blab&ld
Dollar
The Ranger .. 4 9 0
East Lancashire
S3a King
La Toucques 4 8 10
Queen Bertha
Scottish Chief

c:) June 14.)

Age s:, lb
Claremont 3 7 7
Bel Demonio 4 7 0
Bacchus....
Glendusk
The Little Stag 3 7 7
Myrtle ..
Lord Zetland .. • • 3 7 3
Hollytox
The Major..
Molly Carew 3 7 3
Esperance 3 7 3

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, June 15,.--Wind this day at noon—South-
West; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with showers
at times.

CLYDE, Juno 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Arabia, from
Trinidal.

CARDIFF, June 13.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—John Henry,
for Bermuda.

OFF FALMOUTH, Juno 14.—Arrived—Mary Edwards,
from Rouen.

PLYMOUTH, June 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Sirocco,
from London for Sydney.
NEWPORT, June 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Young
Mechanic, from Havre for New York—S. W, Hansom,
from London for Shanghai.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PLYMOUTH, Wednesday, 10 a.m.
The screw steam frigate Aurora, 35, Captain Sir F.
Leopold M'Clintock, Knight, from Ireland, arrived in the
Sound this morning,
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, June 14—Celia, Irma Nassau—Victoria, from
New York—James Lamb, from Manzanillo—Agnes,
trout
Belize—Susanne, New York—Energie, from St. John's,
New Brunswick.
Arrived, June 15—Eleanor, from Port Natal —Caber-
filo, from Guernsey—Dasker, Fahrsund.
Sailed, June 14—Columbus, for Auckland.
Sailet, June 15—Maggie Lauder, for Point Agar; Vic
toria, for Kurrachee.

, DEAL, Wednesday Morning,
Passed, June 14—Isly, from Gambia; Ellen Sheppee,
rota Prince Edward's Island—both for London.
Passed, June 16—Victoria, from St. Kitt's; J mast°, from
Colombo; Saxon (bark), from the west; Augusta (screw
steamer), from Liverpool; Princess Royal of Ipswich, from
the west—all for London.

LORD HOUGHTON (R. Monclttonlags) is pre-
paring a new and revieed.edition of his " Life and Letters
of Keats," which will be published shortly by Messrs.
Meson and Co.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(Thia Pay.)

-4. —
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fine.)

IN RE J. ANDREWeI--.-RE.---*--A WITNESS ARRESTED AND
BROUGHT UP ON A WARRANT.

In this case the witness sought to be examined is a well•
known wholesale stationer, and was brougiit up in custody
from Manchester, having been apprehended on a warrant
issued by his Honour, he having neglected to attend in pur-
suance of two summon,es which had been served upon him.
Mr. E. Reed complained, and said that it was a great
hardship on a most respectable
.tradesman in the City to
drag bim up in custody from Manchester. He was corn-
pelted to be absent from London from time to time on his
country journeys, and behind his back the present warrant
was obtained witholit any reasonable ground, as the witness
could have been mat with, and the matter was not so urgent.
He thought it a most monstrous proceeding. He (Mr.
Reed) therefore asked for his instant release from custody.

Mr R. Griffiths, for the assignees, said that Oe witness
was taken before Mr Commissioner Holroyd yesterday, but
that learned Commissioner refused to interfere. He (Mr
Griffiths) objected to the witness being discharged until he
had given the information required of him. The bankrupt
denied that he had a shilling to bring up to town, but ad-
mitted that L 3 had beenleft,with his brother at the count •
ing house.
Mr E. Raed—l move that he must be discharged.
Commissioner—Why ? He must be examined first.
Mr Reed—Yes, examine him ; he is willing to be exa-
mined.

His Honour—Let the examination go on.
The examination was devoid of general interest, touching
deeds held by the witness as a security.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

WESTMINSTER.

FURIOUS DRIVING BY A CABMAN, AND NARROW
ESCAPE.—R, G. Crouch, cab-driver, was charged, before
Mr Arnold, with furiously driving his horse and cab, and
with endangering the lives of passengers.
Police-constable B 149 said that at about two o'clock
that morning he was on duty in Belgrave-place, when he
hears a cab approaching him. He looked back, and ob-
served the prisoner, who was driving a hansom cab at a
very furious rate. On tha prisoner reaching Eccleston-
bridge he came in collision with a four-wheel cab, and tore
off the hind wheels of the latter. In consequence of the
collision, the prisoner was jerked from his seat on to the
roof of his cab. Prisoner was drunk.

The driver of the four-wheeled cab said that the damage
done to his cab amounted to £3 10s. He called out to the
prisoner upon seeing him coming towards him, thinking
that he (the prisoner) might be asleep, but he paid no
attention to him.

In answer to the magistrate, it was stated that the pri-
soner was in :he employment of Mr Floyd, cab proprietor.
The prisoner stated that the horse he was driving was
hard-mouthed, that he had been a driver Eleven years, and
had never met with an accident before.
He was remanded till Friday.