The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 16b3.

THE 211 ARE MARKETS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prio.s
YesterAay.

184
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Ambg. Nottng. Bos
k Eastn. Junct

Wolverh. &
Stour Valley
Birkenhd. Lancsh. &
Cheshire Junct

Do. Chesh. & Birk.,
£5O and £25 Cons,
Do., £2O
Bristol and Exeter ,
Caledonian

Chester & Holyhead.
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Blackrock and
Passage
Dublin&Belfast June
Dundee Perth&Aber-
deen Junction
Do. New

East Anglian (£25 L.

and E. & L. & D.)
Do. Do. (181. E.& H.)
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union, Class
A. (late E. U. Sh.)
Do., do

Do., B. and C
East Lancashire
East & West Ind. Dk
& Birming. June
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Edin. and Peebles
Edin. Prth. &Dundee
Glasgow &S. Western
Great Northern Stk
Do., A. Stock
Do., B. Stock
Great Southern and
Western (Ireland)
Great Western
Irish South-Eastern
Lancaster & Carlisle
Do., Thirds

ILaneash.& Yorkshire
Do., Fifths

Do., Wst. Riding Un,
Leeds Northern

Liv.Crsby. &Southpt.
London & Blackwall
Loud. Tilb. & Sthenc',
Loud. Brigt. & S. Cst.
London kN. Westerr
Do., Fifths
Do. ,£lO Sh. N. &B. C
London & S. Western
Do., £5O
Do., £4O

Londerry. &Coleraine
Lndndrry. & Ennisk.
Mauch. Shef. &Lincln
Do., Man. & Lin. Un
Midland

Do. Binning. &Derby
Midland G. West. (Ir.)
Do. i Shares
Newcastle & Carlisle
Newmarket

Do. Bury Extension.
Newp. Aberg.&Hfte.
Newry & Enniskille
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Restrevor...,
Norfolk

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North British

North Devon, No. 1.
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North Western........
N. & S. Westrn. June.
Oxford, Worcester, &
Wolverhampton ...

Scottish Central

'Scottish Midland .

Shrewsbury & Birm:;.
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Shrewsby.& Hereford
Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
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Do Do. Oswesti y
Shropshiro Union
South Devon
South Eastern
South Wales
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Waterfd. & Kilkenny
Waterford& Limerick
West Cornwall

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Woodford .
York Newctl. &Bern.
Do. Extensions
Do. G. N. E. Purchase
York & N. Midland

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RAILWAYS,

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C onipans

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Blotchley....
Birm. & Oxfd.
guarantee....
Do. withoutgi
Birm. Woly. &
Dudley guar.
Do. wtht guar.
Buckghamsh.
Clydesdale Jc.
E. Lincoln gr.
6 per cent.
Glstr.& Du. Fr
Dk. & 1
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Do. 1 Shares.
Do. 4 Shares.
Lon.&Greenw
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4 per cent.
Do. 6 per ct.
Manch. Bxtu.
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Australian
Australian Cordillera
Australian Freehold
Ave Maria
Baden (Gd. Duchy of)
British Austrin. Gold
i British Iron
Brazilian Imp. (issued
at £5 pm.)
Do. Cocaes & Cuiab-
Do. St. John Del Rey
Carson's Creek
Cobre Copper•
Colonial Gold
Copif po
CopperMinersof Eng
Do. Preference
English and Austin
Copper Smeltg. Co
General
Great Nugget Vein
Great Polgooth
Lake Bathurst
Liberty
Lond. &Californ. Gold
Quartz Crush. Co
Mariquita
Mexican & S. Americ
New Granada
Nouveau Mondc
Port Philip
Quartz Rock
Rhymney Iron
Do. New
'Santiago de Cuba
South Australian
En Croft
United Mexican
Waller
West Granada
West Mariposa
Yuba

JOINT-STOC.

Australasia
British N. American
Chrtd. Buk. of India,

Australia, & C'hint
Colonial.
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Corporation.
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Closing Prices
Yesterday.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Australian Agricult ) 110 115
Aus trlas .Pc i e. Mail
Australn. Royal Mail
,~Brii.
Americo. Laud
, Canada . .
CI fatal Palace
Crystal Pal. of France
Eastern Steam
Electric. Teleg. of Ir —
Gen. Steam Navigat —
General Screw Steam 1
Irish Beetroot Sugar,
Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel;
Netherlands Land !
N rth . of Europe Steam
Peninsular &Oriental
Do. Do,
Royal Mail Steam
South Austral. Land 54 57
Submar. Telegra pb
Universal Emigration
and Colonisation I
Van Diemen's Land lB 20

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MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Weekended March 5, 1853, made up from the Returns of the
In•pectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale,
per Imperial Quarter.

.. IWHEAT.1WHEAT. BARLEY. I BATS. I EYE. BEANS. I PEAS.
45s 2u 31s 34 Ilas 411 30s 431 I 34s 53 31a 6d
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. IP.
Is Od is Od is Od Is Od is Od is ud
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.
Wheat, 86,001 ; Barley, 78,434; Oats, 23.869; Rye, 118; Bears,
7,859; Peas, 2,393 quarters.

HAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 12s ; clover
ditto, 41 Os to 51 Os ; and straw, 11 fis to 1/ 14s per load.
Trade firm.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 Gs to 4115 s ; clover
ditto, 41 Os to 51 Os ; and straw, 1184 to 1116 s per load.
A fair average supply, and a steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 313 s to 41 12s ; clover
ditto, 410 s to 515 s ; and straw, 116 s to 1113 a per load.
Supply rather limited, and trade firm.

LITEBATUBE.

THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood.—Unconsoled for the absence from
Maga of the long-accustomed instalment of Sir
Bulwer Lytton's masterpiece, we turn almost in-
curiously to the lighter contributions contained,
in lieu of that familiar favourite, in the pages of our
contemporary. Candidly, however, through all
our feelings of disappointment at the non-appear-
ance of any further chapters of "My Novel,"
there creeps out a sense of pleasure at the con-
tinuation of the serial entitled " Lady Lee's
Widowhood." It is, moreover, with no merely ordi-
nary gratification that we notice this month the
commencement of a new fiction, under the name
of "John Rintoul; or, the Fragment of the Wreck."
It is with delight that we welcome its initial pas-
sages ; it is with a sort of glow that we hail their
publication. And why ? Because we recognise in
it—we cannot fail to recognise in every sentence of
it—the same gentle hand that penned some
months ago the dear little story of the sor-
rows and adventures of blue-eyed " Katie Stew-
art." Yes, we feel convinced of this—we feel
satisfied of having detected the paternity (or ought
we not rather to say the maternity?) of the author-
ship. " John Hinton]. " will constitute a compa-
nion picture to " Katie Stewart "—a picture (each
of them) as minutely finished as a Dutch Interior,
with all the sparkle and freshness of a landscape by
Constable. The narrative which is here begun in
this goodly March number of Blackwood promises
the same exquisite delicacy of treatment which we
did not fail to applaud in its graceful and winning
predecessor. The meaning of the rather odd title
is explained already in this first instalment. John
Rintoul's father and younger brother are lost
one windy night in spring in the little sloop
the " Euphemia "—all that is found to tell the
tidings of the wreck is a fatal fragment of
it picked up by the bereaved hero of the
fiction, himself the skipper of the ill-fated
Euphemia. Several other characters besides the
two Johns (Pere et Fits) and Patie Rintoul are
admirably drawn and charmingly grouped together.
There is the elder John's wife Kirstin, and the
younger John's wife Euphie : and there is Euphie's
sister Agnes, loving and beloved by the shipwrecked.
Patie Rintoul ; and there is Auntie Ailie, other-
wise Mrs. Plenderleath—anc? the wee bairn Johnnie
—and a cluster of other equally natural characters.
Only at the very close of " Part I." is the reader
let into the secret that Patie Rintoul—supposed to
have been irretrievably lost by his disconsolate
relatives—has, in fact, been saved from the wreck
on that fatal night of March by a Dutch smuggling
brig, the " Drei Bruderen." Out of such an inci-
dent it is easy enough to foresee the construction
of a romantic plot, very alluring when the fiction is
told by a writer so winning in manner as the
author of " Katie Stewart." A really delightful
gossipping paper, anent " Clubs and Clubbists,"
opens the current number of Blackwood, the con-
tributor therein making for himself an opportunity
to inveigh against the indecorum of such dances as
the waltz, the polka, andthe galop. Another oppor-
tunity he makes for himself, and one of a very dis-
similar kind—being one, in fact, which enables him
to " have at" Sir Charles Wood for that now noto-
rious speech of his at Halifax, by which, as Maga
very justly observes, he stultified himself as a
man, and disgraced himself as a Minister of the
Crown." The writer adds, very sensibly, that the
Emperor Napoleon 111. "is quite competent to
conduct his own affairs; and, at all events, requires
no advice from so very imbecile a quarter." There
is a curious and rather interesting chapter in Maga
on " The Vegetable Kingdom"—a subject suggested
by Lindley's work so entitled, and by Schleiden's
" The Plant, a Biography." We are indebted to
another contributor for an insight into Dr.
Neigebaur's recent " Rambles in Southern
Sclavonia," —in the course of which, we
are told that " Bem was a junk (hero), and a very
skilful leader Perczel, a hot-blooded church-
breaker—Messaros, an old sergeant in general's
uniform—Kossuth, a man who knew what he
wanted, but not how to do it, and who dealt more
in fine words than in wise counsels." There is
subsequently in Maga an amusing critical glance at
some recent volumes by MM. Gautier, Mery, and
Nerval, the review being headed "A Trio of French
Tourists." The blunders made by one of these
same tourists (M. Mery), when speaking of Eng-
land, are something delightful as here pointed out
by Blackwood. He talks, for instance of Edgar-
road in London, of the Adelphi fishmarket, and of
somebody who " took in the Sun, merely to read
the fourth page, containing the advertisements,
like all the English !! !" After this comes an ar-
ticle on " Peace and War," already referred to in
our leading columns ; and, finally, an argument on
" The Malt Tax," which is the theme of the " po
litical " for the March number of Blackwood.

Fraser.—Tho first article in Fraser is very inte-
resting to all critics, and those devoted to literary
analysis. It is entitled " Shakespeare and the
New Discovery," and after recording some inte-
resting, facts, perhaps not generally known, it
quotes several specimens of a work recently disco-
vered by Mr. Collier—a copy of Shakespeare's plays
which appeared in 1632, which contains MS. altera-
tions and corrections innumerable. It is supposed
that these emendations are the work of some ma-
nager or actor, as stage directions are intro-
duced, and long speeches or scenes are struck cut
as if unsuited for performance. But it is evident
the corrector must have continued his alterations
from a,l ' ton of the work, and a desire to im-
prov i- 'perfect arrangement. The quarto
edit'. ilus and Cressida, published in 1609,
before representation, contained the following ex-
traordinary addreAs til" -the reader :—" Eternal
reader, here you have a new play, never clapper-
clawed by the palms of t.the vulgar." The
writer justly observes, this c, was obviously
not written by the author of the plays.
The different readings of various passa,ds given
are very entertaining and curious. The singu-
lar tale of " Hypatia" is continued, and we pre-
sume approaches its conclusion, as the present
number chronicles the death of the heroine. The
" Personnel of the New Ministry" presents us with
the following striking and original view of political
inconsistency :

"In assuming office under the Minister whose later
life had been spent in opposing his foreign policy, Lord
Palmerston evidenced, at least his magnanimity ; while
in thus presenting England to the eyes of foreign powers,
at a serious crisis, as not disunited on the question of
her foreign policy, he rave unequivocal proof of his self-
sacrificing patriotism.'

The chief remaining papers are a curious article on
fish, and " The proposed New National Galleries
and Museums."

Bentley's Miscellany .—" Aspen Court" is the pro-
minent feature in this magazine. Three chapters
are given. "Demetrius the Impostor" is an incident
in Russian history. There is a melancholy story,
entitled " The Sculptor of the Black Forest," which
describes the ill success attending a young German
aspirant for fame in Paris. "My New-Year's
Eve," and " Papa's Consent," are two comic tales,
which do not possess more than ordinary merit.
Mrs. Moodie gives us a tale of the prairie, founded
on fact, " The Well in the Wilderness." An Eng-
lish family, emigrating- to America, imprudently
take up their abode in an uninhabited spot, near a
forest, which contains a dark swamp. The well,
which is their only supply of water, is situated
there. Some time after their arrival, the
two children are seized with fever, and while suf-
fering from thirst exclaim eagerly for water. The
mother ventures alone to the well, but does not
return. Her husband, coming from his work, and
finding her missing, goes in search of her, and dis-
covers a panther devouring her bones. It is, in-
deed, terrible to think this tragedy is drawn from
real life. " Random Recollections of Campaigns
under the Duke of Wellington" are continued, and
recount the battles of Fuentes d'Onor and Albuera,
with several other military adventures. There is
an article on elephants, giving us many zoological
anecdotes. Some verses, entitled " A Valedic-
tion," are pleasing, though possessing no striking
originality.

The Dublin University.—The first subject claim-
ing the reader's attention is one replete with in-
terest. Under the title of " The Crown Matrimonial
of France," we are presented with a list of the
Queens who have worn that diadem since the days
of Charlemagne. " Uneasy lies the head that
wears a crown" is indeed exemplified hel.e, as will
be seen from the following epitome
" And now have we not laid before you a t lack cata-
logue of those who have worn the ' Crown M. Ltrimonial'
of France. Out of sixty-seven Royal and Imperial
consorts, there arc but thirteen on whose names there is
no dark stain ofsorrow or of sin. Of the othiTs, eleven
were divorced, two died by the executioner, nine died
very young, seven were soon widowed, three were
cruelly traduced, three were exiles, thirtee:a were
bad in different degrees of evil ; the prisoners
and the heart-broken make up the remainder.. All
those who were buried at St. Denis were den ied the
rest of the grave : their tombs were broken, their coffins
opened, their remains exposed to the insults of a revolu-
tionised populacd, and then flung into a trench and co-
vered with quick lime. Does history show any parallel
to this list of Queens and Empresses in any civilised
country ? "

In 4,
Lectures at Mechanics' Institutes, high
eulogium is passed on Lord Carlisle and Lord Bel-
fast, for their praiseworthy efforts to ameliorate
their fellow-subjects. The Right lion. J. Napier,
M.P., is here introduced to our notice in the
"Portrait Gallery." An account of his,'laborious
life and signal successes is compiled far the in-
formation of the reader, which is descry-