The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-29 00:00:00

FOREIGN' SUPPLY.

Beasts 294
Sheep 7BO
Calves no

Pigs

rrry_ NENVGATE AND
'.4e general demand ruled. s
Per Blbs by t--
/leer inferior s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
De ',.„7,,„ ...... 2 8 3 0 Mutton, Inferior 3 6 3 8
Do.' mid '3 2 3 4 Do.,middlinZ 310 4 2
Do,; firilue large 3 4 3 6 I Do., prime 4 4 4 6
Pork, ~,8'3,41
.-3 6 3 8 1 Veal 3 4 4 4
`grge .. 3 4 310 'Pork, small 4 0 4 6
Lambs

LEADENHALL.
;toady., at full prices.
the carcase.

BOROUGH HOP.
4eTliv e business doing in our market to-day is limited ;
Mertheless prices are fairly supported. The number of
aples on Offer is small. The following are the quotations :
Xeniand East Kent pockets, 1158. to 160 s. ; Weald of
1108. to 1265. ; and Sussex, 105 s. to 120 s. per cwt.

Six COLONIAL.
des 4,1 t, ,---The market has been brisker this week for most
eooillhl°l3e, with a short supply, holders exhibiting more
and ,!'ence. The demand has been good for the home trade,
ill 4111er Prices have been obtained, the better sorts being
34sulost request. Demerara, by auction, went at 33s to
Itidif°r mid, and 32s to 32s 6d for good brown. East
,iB.----13engal publicly was taken in at 36s to 37s for a
. 27:'," parcel of mid white Benares ; Madras partly sold at
dearerGCl ' 305 for common brown to low mid yellow, being
; and Mauritius also went for about 7,000 bags
anibro Yellow
u. Ilse, good and fine yellow 36s to 37s 6d, low to good
338 6d to 35s 6d, fine brown 32s to 335, and fine
earawilo.and low yellow 34s to 358. Foreign— Floating
he 'Lave been in request, and yellow Havannah for
Nor Ohs has been sold at 23s 6d to 24s for
to s;1•1 and 14i. At auction Bahia has been sold 'at 30s
to for low to good brown, 34s to 35s for fine brown
c°,,w. Yellow, and 36s to 38s for low mid strong grey.
ke
e i:PrEE.—There has not been much activity in the mar-
but holders refrain from pressing sales. In Ceylon
ha little change has occurred. The latest sales by auction
f:ve been at 56s to 60s 6d for mid and good, 52s to 55s 6d
t-r ane fine ordinary and low mid, 50s to 51s for fine ord,
i 425
to 5 for triage. Jamaica was taken in at 85s to
al 'or fine being above the value. Native Ceylon is
(1-ot4°4 nominal. Mocha has been neglected, and tends
wnward •d having been taken at 658 to 68s per cwt.
co s,
boo, ?.°4--The market has been dull, and Trinidad has
gre3,l ''.ken in at 36s for good red, and 31s to 33s for good
SPICEberB.--Pepper has been rather higher—Malabar good
sole 4id per lb, mento mid rather mixed with blacks
_ at
a.to:slotrT6dp7rtaoltu:.iii Singapore nutmegs realised 2s 9d to 2s
and mid,
raCteOsT.TON.__ThePrices have declined 6d to is per cwt on
e medanna kinds.
market is quiet at about the previous
Coic
Prices,m ur -.L.—This article has been brought in at former
Ii
TE engai sold at I.os Gd to Ils for good white.
s A
8•7-Prices have been well supported, with moderate
LL w •
qAa ° .Y.C. has been at 67s 9d per cwt on the spot.
FRUIT.—The market is better supplied, and a
ht, ' tlenaand exists for all kinds. Two cargoes oranges
Miuhael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public salo,
of le~t an advance of 4s. to ss. per box. Several parcels
deteel i
aO4 a have been received via. Liverpool, from Naples
s
at 4 il:hsina,
ertain and realised high pri
reduction oces. 3.sTutsfdduuy is
ran-
m,
to continue so until the
c,

SOUTH SEA STOCK.

A. to
eethlg of the proprietors of South
C. Franks)
EraStuokekotporoek.
sidie Yesterday, the Sub-Governor (mr •
the tg• lie stated that the directors, in consequence of
of the Exchequer,
hatro.r°,l3, °sal made by the Chancellor
of i -4tiod the proprietors together, not with tthoe objectlaa
resonii,-.,'ulately coming to a conclusion, but.
taLs'oon before them upon which action mighty be
the-1 hereafter. While thus proposing to constitute
of ?resent proceedings merely formal desirous
, he was
the tirnishing any information that might be required on
a. general position of the company. In the course of
its efingthened conversation he explained the state of
terearlallces• The South Sea Company was a char-
co
rnPanY, and the charter was perpetual. Its
Gurces consisted of a debt from Government of
sums invested in various stocks, 610,0001.,
- general surplus, including property, of 38,9031.
dee2la'7tBt4l•fi;gures comprised their freehold building, est-
pea: dat 25,0001. If the terms connected with the pro-
thered Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock were accepted,
ef
int
e ewould be a reduction of a per cent. in the rate
fro ireaty and also a reduction in the profit derived
to 1- e management of the dividends, &c., amounting
the about 5,000/. a-year—a sum nearly the same
the
arranexpenditure. In acceding to or rejecting
the getnent, individual action could not avail
It ePorate vote of the company being essential.
ea would be quite competent to take part of the
Was
Pita' in money and part in stock. When that vote
settled it would remain to be decided what
;et subsequently be effected through the powers of
charter. Several .of the proprietors expressed an
ii,",."1°11 that it would be politic to take measures for
rea‘Fendering the charter and finally winding up. The
intenance of a large body of directors, whose number
eeta nearly double that of the employed staff, and the
aa"_sequent expenditure, warranted this course, especially
,s convenient opportunity was now presented. The
to r)
,-.Gcvernor, in reply, intimated that it was necessary
prive the board legally constituted to preserve the
the lieges of the charter, and that the remuneration of
h.;!irectors, which was fornittly 3,000/. per annum,
prepared
been voluntarily curtailed one-half. They were not
riee.„Pred.on the present occasion to state any positive
Sole with regard to ultimate proceedings, but their
meter some
was to serve the interests of the proprietors.
W
some further explanations the annexed resolution
. unanimously carried :
A, That this meeting do now adjourn, it being left to the
luseeretion a the Court of Directors to call a special general
Zee.lng or meetings, at such time or times as will enable
the Court of Proprietors to exercise any rights of option
me InaY be entitled to under the bill now before Pr
rlia-
The meeting then separated.

PROPOSED NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCIENCE AND
1211CellAllICS, &c.—Some time ago a numerously-signed
sr:iinp'spritealgivvvase transmitted
evf from Manchester to the corn-
telttee of Privy Council for Trade, praying their lord-
ships
Prince Albert
everfacility for the furtherance of the
Positions made by his Royal Highness
for the formation of a national library of all mechanical
and scientific works on inventions, and the establish-
;tent of an exhibition of machines and models. Their
lordships' reply has been received by the Mayor of
Manchester. The subject, they say, is one which must
l'aterally command their best sympathies, recogn.ising
as they do its importance to the interests of science
and commerce, and the possession of accurate knowledge
nr'en all matters relating to inventions. The memorial
rtefers itself, however to the commissioners of patents,
t? Whom their lordships will forward it, with the intima-
lee that their lordships would be happy to render the
eniraissioners any assistance in their power towards an
"Jed so likely to promote the good of the community.
SERIOUS. CHARGE.—A wandering gipsy, named Kelby,
has been arrested at Elgin on a charge of murder. It
Appears that on the Ist of the month she entered the
use of a Mrs. Wilson, at Burghead, and demanded
w(Tce (
boiling water. She had in her possession a gill of
kY, which she purchased at a neighbouring shop ;
het
Water
on the poor woman declining either to furnish the
her'water or to partake of a dram which was proffered
, she was furiously attacked and maltreated, inso-
_:eee that she was unable to leave her bed, from the
effects of the assault, and lingered in great pain till Sab-
exa `.vesh, when she expired. The result of a post mortent
ties,
winaation, and of the inquiries made by the authori-
a Kelby's apprehension and committal for trial.
Courier-
ren?UlClDE OF A COMPOSITOR.—A painful degree of bate-
ni:'.t_s excited at Southampton on. Tuesday morning,
for
isbecoming known that Mr. George Ilueker, who
Years bad been employed as a compositor in the
the Hampsh,ire Independent newspaper, had
4,ensnt!,°;eicl his life by cutting his throat with a razor, and
ve"y.severing his head front his body ; he was; disco-
in !Dy his wife, who was in bed, on the floor weltering
-ilia IT
41°0d. • Life was not quite extinct but he breathed
rauchlast_
.shortly afterwards.. Ilneker was held in
UP-4- • csteuni b establish ployer, and by every ode con-
"""euL With the anent.

LITERATURE.

Ada Gresham. An Autobiography. By Mary
Anne Lupton. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

This is, in many respects, an original composi-
tion. There is much to be met with in these pages
that is not often seen in the novels of the day, or
found in more abstruse writings even—a fund of
thought, a depth of meaning, and an earnestness
of feeling are revealed. The circumstances are
peculiar ; but it is only in no ordinary scenes that
such a character as that of our heroine could be
developed ; she was indigenous to no routine
existence. Her career, indeed, exemplified the
proverb that they " who sow the whirlwind
must reap the storm." Impetuous, incon-
siderate, and unyielding, she resembled more
in her actions and thoughts some fabled
heroine, or some despotic sultana, than the simple
daughter of a city merchant, brought up in the
retirement of home, and that home in every, way
inimical to sentiment and romance. She fell into
a very natural error for one so constituted ; she
idealised realities, and formed her own fancies of
what took place, and then, wildly awaking frOna her
dream, she started to find that the real, the true,
and the actual turned out very different. She did
not, however, yield up the reveries of ima-
gination to the reflections of reason, bat defied
fate, and rushed wildly on in her own
way. Hers was not a temper to be controlled
by an ordinary effort—a mind to be curbed
by an easy struggle. Hers was a spirit that must
be broken before it would bend, and a heart that
clung tenaciously to its earthly idol in the
face of the heavens, whose mandate recalled
it. It was this absorbing feeling of self that
ruined her character, and finally destroyed
her hopes. It is admirably shown in the last
volume how true love was wanting in Ade-
laide. It was for herself she mourned. Her
nature shuddered at suffering, but her weak and
vacillating senses shrunk appalled at the exchange
of suffering for rest ; her proud spirit would not brook
the right of even its Maker to direct the fate of one
she so adored. Although in health, she would not
deny her own fancies to make his life happy—no
sooner did sickness appear, than she inveighed
' against the decree that would take him from
her. She seemed to imagine that she had a
claim on him paramount to all things. Her
passion without principle, her hope without
faith, allured her on to misery. The deep anguish
that at last overcame her when she knew how
guilty her past had been, yet could feel no source of
strength in the present, nor see one ray of promise
for the future, is surpassingly beautiful in its
truth. In her own words—" It was a terrible
period." The authoress is eminently successful in
this point of her narrative, to show to what an in-
tense degree human tortures can reach when the
heart attuned to tenderness is dead to religion. In
no state could severer sufferings be imagined than
when the over-mastering feeling of a life-time was
about to be suddenly uprooted. The mourner in
death saw the King of Terrors only, not the mes-
senger of rest ; she beheld, hereafter as the scene
of separation, not as a heaven where their love
might be perfected. It is impossible to convey a
true idea of the mournful tenour of such sub-
jects by a few passing remarks ; it is necessary
to peruse them in detail in the eloquent language
which here gives them grace. The glowing ardour
of youthful feelings is well contrasted with the
calm sublimity of a matured experience ; but in
either extreme there is life-like resemblance and
animated delineation. The art of the romance at-
tains it height when it describes nature, and fiction
shines brightest when its words teach us truth.
The consuming care that finally destroyed Gas-
coigne is ably shadowed forth. He resisted every
self-indulgence to a blameable particularity. He
had bound himself the slave of a stern taskmaster,
not the disciple of a Saviour of love. -He was weak,
weary, and worn out, yet he persisted in toil that might
have overcome the strongest. He forgot that there
is oftener more service in resignation to weakness,
than in indications of action. His fault was as
great in its way as that of Adelaide. The one
never conquered self, the other never took neces-
sary means to protect himself. While her way
was amid the flowery paths of inclination, where
she murmured bitterly at the thorns in her
ruses, his course of duty summoned him, he
declared, to pass repeatedly over burning plough-
shares. It may easily be supposed that those
whose footsteps were so differently cast would not
walk together. To adjust the difficulty their posi-
tions had to be reversed. It was Gascoigne who
came to consider his dying bed a couch of roses,
while Adelaide had alone to pass through the fiery
ordeal of life. With her " shattered idol" her

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young hopes were crushed, and lay in the dust,
The love of her youth was the undying sorrow o:
her whole existence. It was sanctified- by a pure
and solemn trust, but it was sorrow still.
While her fate holds out a warning to all self suffi-
cient and presuming, the sufferings of Gascoigne
may suggest reflections to those stern disciplina-
rians who convert the world into a desert. In
wealth and in poverty, in society and in solitude,
in life and in death, is the power of these varying
ideas shown, and the effect of their impressions
carried out. At the end of his toilsome labours,
Gascoigne confessed that he had worked for the un-
attainable. Adelaide beheld in the hour of trial
her weakness and her sin. The greatest interest
is felt for her, notwithstanding all her faults, for
she is a creature of light and shade ; her wishes are
often genuine, her desires often praiseworthy, while
for the errors of Gascoigne respect mingles with
censure ; for real devotion to an over-strained sense
of duty is always noble and exalted. It is not that
there is anything to lead astray the reader by an
avowal of their errors. It is more probable that the
contemplation of them would excite to good. Ima-
ginary perfection is not human ; it is useless to
depict humanity as possessed of such an attribute.
On the other hand no one of Adelaide's deep feel-
ing could have failed to be endowed with some
bright qualities, however veiled or obscured by
circumstances. In every scene of her reflected life,
she lives again before us her chequered course of
folly, suffering, and final peace. She conquered at
last, but it was in a self-imposed conflict. She had
not been called to such a fight, but had rushed in,
and it is evident that, had she remained in her own
home, as duty imposed on her, hers would have
been a happier and holier life. Hence no one can
feel encouraged, from the perusal of these pages, to
forego reason for romance, or the path of rectitude
for the way of vain desires. If ever suffering fol-
lowed sin, it was with Adelaide ; and if ever labour
was lost, it was with Gascoigne. A more interest-
ing work, on the whole, can scarcely be imagined ;
it appeals to the sympathies, while it enforces re-
spect, for it chronicles faithfully the world of trials,
while it shows in bright contrast the spirit of
virtue, which should make of those trials a crown
of triumph.

Little Nora. By J. L. Blackwood.
A very pleasing volume for juvenile readers.
It is the history of a little child in verse, and con-
tains several illustrations. The proceeds are to go
to the Society of Irish Church Missions. It is
elegantly bound, and presents an agreeable volume
for the young.

Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa. By
Brodie Cruickshank. 2 vols. Hurst and
Blackett.
An account of this comparatively unknown region
by one so well qualified, by a long residence, to de-
scribe its peculiari ties, must forma valuable addition
to the information which modern travellers have
given us respecting almost every part of the world.
To those unacquainted with their national laws and
individual customs, the African people present a
curious study. The author denies the assertion of
their inferiority originally, but maintains that long
years of ill-usage and uncivilisation are quite suffi-
cient to account for their present degraded position.
Their ideas are very singular, and, as is common
with most barbarous nations, they are subject to the
greatest superstitions. Each
j individual possesses
his particular Fetish, or deity, which he greatly
prizes • but some Fetishesd are considered more
itoankaetan
powerful than others, and many will often travel
grinbaenforaeu
expense to have a vow
greatoo n ane n e oathedistanceseea
s particular Fetish.
having brought death and misfortune
she
mmaoned a woman for
on his family,
because after some quarrel had entreated her
Fetish to punish him. So great wa,s thee
surrendervalue
set upon it that he finally consented t
five of his slaves, who were of the woman's
so as to obtain possession of her et'h family,
that he
might appease it, and the woman refused to
until compelled. On this occasion the Fetish was
a brass pan with a bunch of feathers. It is
an
with
ignorance and superstition like this that European
governors and missionaries have to deal. What
wonder then that they find it a difficult task.
One of the most interesting chapters in the
work relates the acquaintance of the author
with Mrs. Maclean (L. E. L.). He describes her
as cheerful and contented. He conversed with
her only ten hours before her death, and she gave
him many messages for England, for which coun-
try he was then starting. She desired him to tell
a friend of hers, who had prophesied her return by
the ship in which she went out, that " she was not
tired yet." Mr. Cruickshank narrates the univer-
sal consternation which spread through the colony
the next morning at the news of her sudden death.
He attributes it to a fit, as the authority of her
servant, who mentioned having found the phial in
her hand, is not to be depended upon. It will be
seen that these volumes convey much information,
and possess considerable interest. Those who are