The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 185 3,

cumstance of her having herself proposed to Herr
Findelkind. An episode in the narrative is of a
somewhat kindred description. Audrey's father
having at the commencement of the fiction sud-
denly and mysteriously disappeared from Charlie-
wood, ultimately, in the course of the story,
"turns up" again as a sailor, calling himself Tom
Taylor, though having no kind of resemblance
whatever to the comical Professor known as a con-
tributor to Punch, and as the editor of " Haydon's
Autobiography." Tom Taylor, otherwise Dabney,
going on a wild-goose chace after his long-neglected
daughter (supposed to have married one Fiddle-
skin, a foreign itinerant with white hair and a
barrel organ) is most egregiously deceived into the
belief that he has discovered her and her husband
in the persons of two most rascally and designing
vagabonds. He supports this knavish couple until
the woman dies, and, dying, discovers to him the
whole secret of the deception. What in this episode
surpasses even its improbability, is the unaccount-
able oddity of the circumstance that the authoress
endeavours by every device to excite our sympathy
for the woman, and to call forth in behalf of the
rogue, her husband, feelings of interest, or at least
of commiseration. Another testimony, we con-
ceive, that our suggestion is not altogether erro-
neous, namely, that the novel before us is a veri-
table curiosity or phenomenon in literature. As a
curiosity in this way it reveals a considerable
amount of ingenuity—ingenuity in the linking to-
gether of a series of the most unlikely incidents, and
•Iti the grouping of some of the least attractive of all
conceivable characters. " Audrey," in these re-
spects, stands altogether alone among the writer's
productions. If contrasted as a work of art with
its predecessors from the same hand, it must rank
undoubtedly below bothl;". The Cup and the Lip"
and "The Tide of Life." It cannot, consequently,
be brought for an instant into comparison with the
enthralling and picturesque romance'of the "Forest
and the Fortress," much less be mentioned in the
same breath with the exquisite narrative of the
" Ransom," the first and incomparably the best of
all Miss Laura Jewry's varied compositions, a fic-
tion that, carried us back to the days of the cru-
saders,
a story that reminded one of Scott, a tale
that built up the author's reputation •

TIZE CHOLERA.

(Fiona the General Board of Health, Oct. 8.)
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
Deaths on the 7th of October :
Cholera
Diarrhoea 3

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the present outbreak
has been 1,460. In the same period (viz., the first 37
days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in
1831-2, the number of deaths was 258.

Most of the country markets held on Saturday were
fairly supplied with wheat, in which about an average
I business was transacted at full prices. At the outports
foreign wheats were steady, but not dearer. Barley, the
supplies of which were but moderate, moved off freely, at
extreme rates. The malt trade was rather active. Oats,
beans, peas, and flour were very firm.
The Continental markets continue firm, and the late ad-
vance in prices has been well supported. The latest ad-
vices from New York state that the inquiry for grain and
flour was by no means active.
The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week
were on the increase. From abroad, we received 8,261
quarters of wheat, 2,975 barley, 3,410 oats, 4,775 beans,
835 peas, 473 tares, 3,540 linseed, 87 rapeseed, 291 mustard
seed, 19 sundry seeds, and 8,060 barrels of flour.
Fresh up, to-day, coastwise from Essex, Kent, &c., the
receipts of wheat were on a very moderate scale. By land
carriage the supply was by no means extensive, neverthe-
less, there was a slight ilium() in the show of samples
compared with Monday last. Notwithstanding that the
attendance of millers and others was tolerably good. the
demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce was in a
very sluggish state, at prices barely equal to those obtained
on Monday last. There were inquiries for forward delivery
parcels, but the firmness of the growers prevented business.
With foreign wheat we were tolerably well, but not to
say heavily supplied. A few parcels changed hands for
shipment to the continent at full quotations, but for home
use very little was doing, at barely late rates.
Since our last, twenty vessels have arrived off the coast
with wheat, from the westward, and the cargoes have sold
at full quotations.

The supply of both English and fcreign barley was
small. All kinds were in but moderate request. In prices,
no change took place.
We had a fair inquiry for malt at late currencies.
The inquiry for beans was less active, owing to the in-
ward arrivals. In prices, no change took place.
Peas met a slow inquiry, on former terms,
The flour trade was tolerably firm, at late figures. The
supply of. bath English and foreign was very moderate.

. CURRENCY PER 'IM
Whaat —Essex & Kent,
..Red now 57s to 65s
Ditto •• • • ........ old 57s
• oitto, White new 583' 683
• Ditt0........ old 628 67s
Norfolk and Lin-
coin, Red, old vs3s 63s
Ditto new o. 50s 58;
ayB-01a 00s 00s
. New 31s' :itls
Baley—Grinding..... 288 • 31a,
Malting ..... •• .• 351 38. s
Chevalier— •.. 408 445,
%fait—Suffolk and Nor- V '
563, 62s
Brown •• • • 603 578;
Kingston and Ware 61s 65s

SHARE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

'ERIAL MEASURE.
Malt—Chevalier .... 68s to 70s
Oats -- Yorkshire and
Lincolnsh., Feed 22s 25z
. Potato
youghal and Cork
Black. .....• 21s 23s
Cork,White ..•
• Scotch, Feed. ..
Beans—tick ...40.3 44s
' ' Pigeons ...... 4IS 49s
Peas—Grey • 40, 42s
Map1e...........45, 48s
White........... 46 52s
Boilers 56s 60s
Ficur—Town.made... 65s 70s
Suffolk 443 46s
Stockta &Norfolk 42s 48s

Closing Prices
this day.

SMITHFIELD.

Basiness done
this day.

The imports of foreign stock into London last week
were good, viz., 12,452 head. During the corresponding
period of 1852, we received 8,660; in 1851, 6,618; in
1850, 7,352 ; in 1849, 5,092 ; in 1848, 3,800 ; and in 1847,
3,893 head.

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