The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-02 00:00:00

DON, MONDAY EVENI U, JANUARY 2, 1865.

HER MAJESTY.

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" Oh Mister Timbs—oh, F.S.A.!
One of five hundred Fellows,
To organise and make us hay
Who rake and blow the bellows ;
Who do recall things great and small—
The past, who will make pleasant ;
What is pulled down in this our Town
Your London makes most pleasant !"
And it is with this instructive and entertaining
cicerone, " 0 Mister Timbs--oh, F.S.A. !" that we
set forth here again, out and about, in all sorts of
odd nooks and corners of this vast and populous
city of ours—penetrating, now the purlieus of
Downing-street, now the precincts of Lyon's-inn !
Stalking about the streety site that once was Vaux-
hall Gardens ! Seeing with him the last of the Old
Bridewell of London, as in one of Scott's most famous
romances we saw once upon a time (in our mind's
eye, Horatio) the last of the Old Tolbooth of Edin-
burgh, euphuistically termed by Sir Walter " The
Heart of Midlothian :" or, as in one of Charles
Dickens!s later fictions, " Little Dorrit," we
beheld in the perspective of the past the
dingy walls (both inside and outside) of the
grim old Marshalsea. Mr. Timbs, in one chapter,
here, talks to us about Mayfair; in another about
the Temple. He carries us with, him one while, into
Fishmonger's Hall, at another into Sir John Soane's
Museum. He recounts all the changes that have be-
fallen Covent-garden—gives us the record of Forty
years in Fleet-street--shows us at a rapid glance
the general aspect of Charing-cross, once a
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fiy fire two or three yetiri ago, old Campden
H4se. He pr.-ades there for a moment in the midst
of that. now fashionable and 'always picturesque
L;eality tkt. remark—we give this brief passage as
affording a specimen of Mr. Timbs's manner as a
narrator, rather than as an antiquarian gossip—
" The name of Campden has been given to the high
ground about here—one of the most, charming sites
in the environs of the metropolis. It adjoins the
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hich are on a level with the stone gallery of St.
Paul's Cathedral. Thus," adds Mr. Timbs (p. 63),
" we have Campden Hill and Grove ; consisting of
elegant villas and lines of well-appointed house 2,
where painters do love to dwell." Altogether the
pages from which the foregoing words are taken—
these chatty and really exhilarating Walks and Talks
about London—make up as delightful a book as any
that John Timbs, F.S.A., has ever issued from the
press. The which, surely, is saying a great deal,
when we recall to mind for a moment the long and
radiant series of anecdotal compilations from the
same hand that has already made its appearance.

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The Old City and its Highways and: Byways. By
Aleph.- One Vol., Pp. 387. W. IL Colliug-

ridge.

Another favourite antiquarian , gossiper about
London—an author, in one respeCt, however, dif-
fering from the foregoing, inasmuch as unlike Mr.
Timbs, he writes anonymously—here, in this hand-
some and substantial tome, emblazoned upon the
cover of it YE OLD CITY, prattles to us about all
sorts of things and persons metropolitan ! Aleph
from page 1 to page 387 has this talk, of course,
after the fashion of other authors, entirely to him-
self. But—not after the fashion of many authors
—he never tires us. We listen—delighted. Whe-
ther his discourse be about the Auction Mart or
about Mail Coaches—about Old St. Paul's or about
the Monument—about Milton as a Londoner, or
about Beckford as a Patriot Lord Mayor. lie has
something new to say to us in regard to such old old
stories as about Sir Walter Raleigh's Imprisonment,

about the notorious South Sea Bubble, abou

Colonel Blood stealing the Regalia, or about the
roystering feasts of yore at the Shaksperian Boar's
Head in Eastcheap. A plentiful sprinkling of
charmingly engraved embellishments from the
pencil of C. W. Sheeres, tends to the enlivening of
the letterpress descriptions. Now we have before
us the vera effigies, cut upon wood, of " Master
Henry West Betty," now the ditto ditto-of H. R. H.

the lamented Princess Charlotte. Here is Hogarth's
squinting sketch of Wilkes—here Lawrence's hand-
some limning of Sir Astley Cooper. As a frontis-
piece the volume gives a very curious plan of Lon-
don as it was in the days of Sir Christopher Wren.
As might be conjectured—the mere germ or nucleus
of London as it is nowadays ! About as striking a
contrast as might be discernible between a sapling
oak tree and an oak tree umbrageous with the
growth of a thousand summers. Like all the other
books we have ever yet seen issuing from the City
Press establishment of Mr. Collinridge, the present
volume is as handsome in its general getting up, in
its typography, in the excellence of the very paper
upon which it is printed, and in the elegance of its
external decorations, as the most fatidious lover
of books in their comeliest form could reasonably
desire.

BOOKS RECEIVED.
Hurst and Blackett—The Three Watches, by W. G.
Wills. 3 vols. Mr. Stewart's Intentions. 3 vols.
Not Proven. 3 vols. The Gold Mine and other
Poems, by H. E. Hunter. The Day-Star Prophet, by
Mrs. Allnutt.

Chapman and Hall—Brookes of Bridlemere, by Whyte
Melville. 3 vols. Which is the Winner ?by Charles
Cla;ke. 3 vols. Lindisfarne Chase, by T. A. Trol-
lope; 3 vols. Quite Alone, by G. A. Sala. 3 vols.
Captain Herbert, a Sea Story. 3 vols. Cotton and
Tobacco, by Col. Coin. History of the Reform Bill
of isp, by Rev. W. W. Molesworth. Homerton's
Jeanne Laraguay.- The Chasseur d'Afrique, by Col.

Viralmsley. Through Macedonia, by Mary A. Walker.
Wm. Blackwood and Sons—The Perpetual Curate. 8

difitatt eirtrlat

OSBORNE, Dec. 31.
The Queen, Princess Helena, and Prince Arthur,
walked out yesterday.

OSBORNE, Jan. 1.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
drove in the grounds yesterday.
Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold, attended by
Major Elphinstone, walked out.
His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen is expected
to-day on a visit to her Majesty.

Walks and Talks About London. By John Timbs
One Vol., Pp. 311. Lockwood and Co.

Another of Mr Timbs's delightful books—as rich
in anecdote as any among his now voluminous series
of compilations. It is especially a worthy companion
to his famous volume entitled " Curiosities of Lon-
don." But that Mr. Timbs has already required a
distinct shelf all to himself in every well-stocked
English Library, we should have been tempted to
place his present work, together with its predecessor,
the " Curiosities of London," but just now men-
tioned, side by side with " The Town" of Leigh Hunt.
Higher commendation than that, we could not con-
ceive it possible that we could well apply to any
anecdotal book having particular reference to our
giant metropolis. " Walks and Talks about Lon-
don" is of the same genus among topographical and
antiquarian works of this character as " The Old
Court Suburb" of the author of " The Town." In
;truth, among Mr. Timbs's iritiotlyre is one very
delightful one that we here tale with him into the
heart of that same " Old Court Suburb," or as our
author himself rather delights to call it, after an-
other of its well known sobriquets—one bestowed
upon it by Dean Swift " Kingly Kensing-
ton." Among these Talks of his, the one he
thereupon has with us about Kensington and its
surroundings, is to our fancy about the very plea-
santest. At all times we are glad when, as a plea-
sant Gossip, he takes us companionably by the but-
ton-hole. Conspicuous among his many agreeable
qualities, he, never bores us. He is never long-
winded, or monotonous, or wearisome. He tells us
briefly what he has to tell us, and goes on to some-
thing else. What is it Crofton Croker sang to him
cheerily, whimsically, coloquially, in his merry
verse ?

WTe--
1114.*---arinding

Oats

Feue•

Nothing of importance has
seeds, yet the quotations rem:
Cakes are in limited request,
Turnip, White,p.bus.2CB to 228
Swede —8 —s
Mustard, Brown --s
White,
Tares, Spring — s
New 'winter, hush i b las
Canary, per quarter —s - s
Rye grass
Clover, Red En;., et. - a —S
White
Foreign Red —s —s

White. —Es --131
Trefoil new s —0

vols. Recreations of Christopher North. 2 vo
What Led to the Discovery of the Nile, by Captain
Speke. A Walk Across Africa, by Captain Grant.
Gems of German Poetry : translated by Lady John
Manners.
Smith, Elder, and Co.—Dunmara, by Ruth Murray. 3
vols. Darkest before Dawn. 3 vols. Margaret Den-
zil's History. 2.v015. Maude Neville. 2 vols. Lewes's
Goethe and Lewes's Aristotle. Campaigns in Virginia.
by Colonel Chesney. The Englishwoman in India.
The Hygiene of the Army in India. Mr. and Mrs,
Falconbridge. 2 vols.
Sampson Low, and Co.—John Godfrey's Fortunes, by
Bayard Taylor. 3 vols. Lion Hearted. 2 vols. Bri-
gandage in Italy. 2 vols. A Dangerous Secret. 2
vols.

Pitman—Our Eternal Homes.
Saunders, Otley, and Co.—Uncle Angus. 2 vols. Arno's
Waters, by Forsyth. Tho Log of the Alabama, by
Capt. Semmes. A Bit of Bread.
Macmillan and Co.—Legends of Number Nip, by Mark
Lemon. Ballads and Songs of Brittany, by Tom
Taylor.
J. Maxwell and Co.—Barry O'Byrne. 3 vols.
Bentlay—Momoirs of Archbishop Whataley. - 2 vols.
Murray and Co.—Reverses. 2 vols.
J: C. Hotten—History of Playing Cards.
Groombridge and Sons—Royal Children, by Julia
Luard. Two Months in a London Hospital, by A. J.
Cooley. The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by
T. Archer.
J. and C. Mozeley—Madame Fontenoy.
Hodges, Smith, and Co.—The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva
by Arthur Kavanagh.
H. G. Bohn—The Bibliographer's Manual. Appendix.
Bell and Daldy—Festus, by P. J. Bailey. Seventh
Edition.
W. Allen , and Co.—Joys and Sorrows of a School.
master.
W. P. Nimmo,—Tabor's Teachings. .
James Duffy—Poems of Speranza, by Lady Wilde.
Lockwood and Co.—History of a Voyago to the Moon.
Guide to Domestic. Service.
Virtue Brothers—Campion Court, by E. J. Worbois.
Ward and Lock—Love's Strife with the Convent. 8
vols.

Nissen and Parker—Greek Autholog,y.
s:wreodie--,-Now Gymnastics.

MARK E 2 S --This Day,

MARK LANE.
The country markets held on Saturday were firm for
wheat, and dry produce changed hands at an advance in
' prices of is per quarter. In the demand for spring corn
there was a great want of activity, but very little change
took place in the quotations. The flour trade was steady
at full prices.
On the Continent the wheat trade is tolerably firm, but
the demand for wheat, flour and maize at New York for
export is still much restricted.
The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week
were very moderate. The imports from abroad comprised
7,500 quarters of wheat ; 5,138 barley ; 20,856 oats ; 710
rye ; 19 beans; 29 tares ; 11,116 linseed ; 1,132 oilseeds ;
513 sundry seeds ; 30 sacks and 316 barrels of flour.
The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our market
to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, were small. The
bulk of the supply was received in good condition, and the
trade ruled firm, both for red and white qualities, at an
advance in prices, compared with Wednesday last, of is.
to 2s. per quarter. Nearly the whole of the samples was
cleared from the stands at an early hour.
There was a fair average supply of foreign wheat on
offer. Spring red American descriptions were in request,
and the quotations had an upward tendency. Winter red
American parcels were firm in price, and all description
of foreign wheat changed hands at extreme currencies.
In floating cargoes of grain a moderate business was
transacted and prices ruled firm.
With barley the market was well supplied. The show
of samples of good and fine malting produce being small,
the trade for such qualities was decidedly firm at full
quotations. Inferior barley was a dull inquiry at the recent

low prices.
The trade for malt was in a sluggish state. In prices,
however, compared with Wednesday last no quotable
change took place.
The supply of oats on sale was moderately large. New
Russian qualities were rather difficult of disposal, but in
nearly all other descriptions, a fair average business was
transacted, and prices ruled firm.
Beans—although the supply on offer was very moderate
—sold heavily, and a reduction of ls. per quarter took
place in the quotations.
Peas met a slow sale, but without quotable change in
from Wednesday last. The market was scantily
supplied

In most descriptions of flour a moderate businesi was
transacted, at full currencies.
CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 311,1104'1'
Ditto, 1801
Ditto, white. 1863 +l+,_,
160-1
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afat--Suiroik allc,::0:t.);;‹. ..7
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00s
fires -
Kingstown and Ware Oa r 314
Chevalier
•Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding .1...1s jils
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black ,'-'). 22s
Cork, white
Scotch, Feeding 2os R3s
Beans—Tick
Pigeons,
•Grey. 33s stir
Maple
White 36bl 40s
Boilers 36s 40s
Flour— 'own-made, per 2801 b
Sullblk 285 30s
Stockton and Norfolk "Os 28s
American, per barrel iti 25s

occurred in the demand for

ain unaltered from last week.
on former terms.
Carraway 34s Ms
Coriander xis 2:18
liempseed, per qr., Cs 4cis
Linseed,Eng.sowing 61s 68s
Crushing
Baltic —s —8

Odessa —s —8
Linseed Cake, p ton —8 —8
English XIO Os £ll6O

Foreign i 9 lOs 5s
Rape Cakes,p ton £5 lOs £6lss
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 74s 78s

TALLOW.
The tallow trade is firm to-day, at full quotations.
P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s, Bd. per cwt., on the spot ; 41s to