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r Eastern, and York and Berwick. French Shares
are also rather lower. Lyons are down about
and Strasbourg
The Gold Mine Shares have been dealt in rather
more, but at very low rates.
The Land Companies' Shares continue heavy.
The Australian Banks are firmer.

BRII-1,5H FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
/From the Official List.)

Business done,
Bank Stock .
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities....
..... ?;
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 97i if
New 3e per Cent. Annuities lOl4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 , 5l
India Bonds, £lOOO ...... •••••• • .....
Ditto, under £lOOO ...
27
South Sea Stock
Consols for Account 11th August • 97Z
Exchequer Bills, id.
£lOOO
1p 2 d
1;500
Small 1 p 2 d
1 p 2d

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto New, 1852, 4,-; per Cent 991 x d
Mexican 3 per Cent.
261
Peruvian Bonds, 41. per Ceut. B4
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 4,i per Cent.
Ditto Small
102
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 231
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6B P a
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, q per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates - 8
HALF•PAST TWO.
97i
07i

Consols •
Ditto August A ccount ....

LITERATURE.

The Quarterly Review. No. CLXXXV,

Scarcely as attractive as usual, from the recon-
dite nature of several of the subjects selected for
criticism in the present instalment, the Quarterly
nevertheless secures some notice from the more
observant, if only for the various merit of three
out of the eight current contributions. Compara-
tively few will feel tempted to examine the paper
having reference to the curious " Annals of the
Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters," re-
cently edited, with copious notes, by John O'Dono-
van. Several of the inquisitive observers of the
progress made of late in the yet further entangle-
ment and complication of what is called the
Eastern Question, may be disposed, at the first
glance, to scrutinise the chapter relating to the
ingenious " Etudes sur la Situation Interieure, la
Vie Nationale, et les Institutions Rurales
de la Russie," written by the Baron Auguste
de Haxthausen : but a few pages will clearly
enough indicate that but small information
can be expected from that quarter to throw light
upon the mysterious events now taking place in
the council chambers at St. Petersburgh and Con-
stantinople. Every one interested in the develop-
ment of the extraordinary changes set on foot by
the Oxford Tractarians will be eager, no doubt, to
peruse the reviewers comments upon what are
here boldly pronounced (in italics at the head of
every page) " Ecclesiastical Forgeries," as collated,
revised, and weighed in the balance, by E. J.
Shepherd, Rector of Luddesdown. Beyond that
circle, however, we fancy that few will be induced
to read those same documents carefully through-
out. As to the notice subsequent taken of Signor
Ruffini's Autobiography, it may be conjectured
with some reason that by this time we have had
enough, and to spare, of references to, and quota-
tions from, and advertisements about, the vera-
cious "Lorenzo Benoni." Respecting the old Tory
Quarterly's strictures on the Palmerston Policy,
it may be well imagined that enough virulence and
vituperation are compacted together for one while,
under cover of a dispassionate criticism on the two
volumes relating to " Lord Palmerston, l'Angle-
terre et le Continent," penned by the Flemish-
born Austrian, Count Ficquelmont, who was
despatched in 1847 to overawe the discontents in
Lombardy with the grandiose title of Imperial
Commissioner. If any doubt could, by possibility,
be entertained as to the probable tone of this par-
ticular contribution, it would, we conceive, be
speedily enough dissipated by the candid avowal
of the reviewer in question at the outset of his lu-
cubration the avowal we mean in reference to
the present Home Secretary's summary and un-
ceremonious ejectment from Lord John Russell's
Government. "We trusted," says he, " that a
better era had opened on our policy, and that
amicable, really amicable, [the italics are the
Quarterly's, not ours] relations would be resumed
with our ancient allies"—meaning thereby, of
course, ancient allies like the Austrian Kaiser and
the Russian Autocrat The " better era" signify-
ing an era of cringing and abasement on the part
of Western Europe before the pride and arrogance
of Northern Absolutism. The " amicable, really ami-
cable relations," meaning relations in which every-
thing would be subordinated to the development
of the policy of the Czar. After this enough has been
remarked to induce the majority, we conjecture, to
look elsewhere than to this new instalment of the
Quarterly for a calm and discriminating balance
between the acts of Lord Palmerston and the as-
sertions of Count Ficquelmont. Having mentioned
these five diversified contributions, we find now
remaining the three meritorious papers already re-
ferred to, but not yet particularised. Conspicuous
among these, is an elaborate article on g, The Ox-
ford Commission." According to the opinion of
the reviewer, the commissioners are—" and,,,
says
he, " we might use a harsher word "—enthusiasts.
He adds, that, among other things, " they have
treated the university like the most insatiable
carpet bag : stuffed it with legislators till it can-
not stir, crammed it with teachers till its head
turns round." Nay, he concludes his strictures by
declaring that " from such a temper [as that of the
commissioners] has proceeded a scheme of univer-
sity reform, of which the university constitution is
a blunder, the university instruction a theory, and
the university extension a joke." So much for the
Quarterly's notion of the Oxford Commission.
Another of the more alluring papers in the current
number of our contemporary is a discursive and
depreciatory review of the " Memoirs of Thomas
Moore," edited by Lord John Russell. In the
course of this review but stinted praise of any kind
is awarded to the Posthumous Papers of the Bard of
Erin—the vanity displayed in which is treated with
churlish scorn, as altogether unpardonable. Car-
ried to such an extent of severity, we cannot but
think this churlishness somewhat blundering and
illogical—for inasmuch as some amount of vanity
must be supposed to originate every -literary pro-
duction partaking of the character of an auto-
biography. Either a man or woman, as the case
may be, must imagine himself or herself to be of
some interest or importance in the estimation of
the world, or he or she would never dream of not-
ing down particulars illustrative of domestic life
and personal temperament. It appears to us, con-
sequently, rather unfair, to say the least of it, to
visit upon the head of poor Tom Moore the weak-
nesses attributable more or less to every writer of
autobiography. 'lt may be observed, by the way,
that the reviewer, in the indulgence of his some_
what amusing spleen,
quotes with humorous apti-
tude four lines from Moore himself (vide his
" Works," p. 520) as being applicable to these
" Memoirs" edited by Lord John Russell :

" With crumbs of gossip caught from dining wits,
And half-heard jokes bequeathed like half-chewed bits,
With each ingredient served up oft before,
But with fresh fudge and fiction garnished. o'er."
Rather apt, we take it, as an illustrative
quotation—remembering that
q correspondence
the other day ; v(n reference to these
indentical " Memoirs") between Lord John Rus-
sell and the Marquis of Londonderry ! Mention
has still to be made of the only other contribution
of the Quarterly not yet individualised—we mean
the enthralling treatise, as we may call it, on the
,6 Generalisation of
Comparative Anatomy. "
Richard Owen has
obtained in this another of those
splendid and,
let us add, those nobly-deserved
panegyrics,which
vast labours and his surpris-
ing genius have commanded, even from his imme-
diate contemporaries. It is remarked at the close
of this really admirable paper that Cuvier once,
with an instinctive prescience of coming revela-
tions, asked, " Why should not natural history
one day also have its Newton ?"—the reviewer
adding thereupon, " The best proof of the reason-
ableness of that question we hold to be the success
which has attended the last researches of Cuvier's

English successor"--meaning, of course, thereby,
Richard Owen, the man who has been justly styled
by Humboldt the most illustrious anatomist of his
generation. Testimony of the perfect accuracy of
this most eulogistic assertion need not be sought
elsewhere than in Owen's immortal lucubrations
" On the Nature of Limbs," or " On the Architype
and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton"—
works in every way authorising the application to
him of that glorious title, the Newton of Natural
History.

TZIE METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—Yes•
terday a further Parliamentary paper, obtained by Sir
B. Hall, on the metropolitan sewers was printed. In
1851, from October, the payment for management (since
the passing of the Amendment Sewers Act, in 1851)
were 3,2901. 13s. 10d., and the payments for local su-
pervision of works 2,3411. 16s. ld. In 1852 the pay-
ments for management were 14,5511. 9s. 9d., and for
local supervision of works 6,4781. 2s. 7d. In the present
year, to the 30th of June, the payments for manage-
ment were 8,761/. ls. lid., and the payments for local
supervision of works 3,1661. 15s. 6d.