The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-21 00:00:00

HE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, APRIL 91, 1853

THE ASH

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Business
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Paris After Waterloo. By J. Simpson. Black-

Shr. I Paid.l
100 Aberdeen
81 Ambg. Nottng Bost,
& Eastu.
all Birmg. Wolverh. &
Stour Va11ey.......
28 Birkenhd. Lauesh. &
Cheshire Junct.
ll Do. Chesh. & Birk.,
£5O and £25 Cons.
184 Do., £2O
100 Bristol and Exeter
100 Caledonian
all Chester & Holyhead
all Cork and Bandon
all Cork, Blackrock and
Passage
45 Dublin&BelfastJunc
all undee Perth&Aber-
deen Junction
all Do. New
all East -Anglian (£25 L
and E. & L. & D )
all Do. Do. (18/. E.& H )
all Eastern Counties
all Eastern Union, Class
A. (late E. U. Sh.)
gij. Do., do
all Do., B. ar d C
100 Enst Larcashire
all East & West Ind. Dk
& Binning. June
100 Edinburgh & Glasgow,
14 Edin. and Peebles
100- Ed;n. Prth. &Dundee
100 Glasgow &S. Western
100 Great Northern Stk
100 Do., A. Stock
100 Do., B. Stock
100 Great Southern and
'Western (Ireland)
100 Great Western
11 Irish South-Eastern
all Lancaster &
113 Do., Thirds
100 Lancash.& Yorkshire
15 Do., Fifths
fl Do., Wst. Riding Un
all Leeds Northern
all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt
all Lo idon & Black wall
3 Loud. Tilb. & Sthend.
100 Load. Brigt. &S. Cst.
100 London &N. Western
n Do., Fifths
1 D0.,£10 Sh.M.&B C
100 London &S. Western
42A Do., £5O
34 Do., £4O
all Louden/. &Coleraine
all Lndndrry. & Ennisk.
100 Manch. Shef. &Linchi
4i Do., Man.& Lin. Ms
100 Midland
100 Do.Birming. &Derby
47A Midland G. West.(lr.)
17i Do. 1. Shares .. .. .. .
all NewcasLle & Carlisle
100 Newmarket . .
31 Do. Bray Extension
16-
ewp. Aberg. &Hftd
n Newry & Enniskillen,
all Newry, Wave] ioint,
and Restrevor
100 Norfolk
all Do., Jew .... . ....
Northz.Counties Un.
106 North British .. . ... • .
13 North Devon, No. 1.
all
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Deferre
5 Do., A B Guaranteed
17i North Stalfordshin=
all North Weste :n .. . .....
10 N. &S. Westrn. Junc.
100
Oxford, Worcester, &
Wolverhampton
100 Scottish Central ......
100 Sc o :•fish 3rdlaud
100 5P ....vsbr & Birmg
1.00 Do., L. & Westu
Guaranteed Stock
8 sby.& Hereord
all Shrev. by. & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
all Do. Halves do
all Do Do. Oswestry
63 Shropshire Union ....
all South Dev0n..........
100 South Ea5tern.........
all So ath Wales ..... ....
15 S.Yorksh.RiverDun.
5 Do. . .....................
16i Stockton & Hartlept
19 Thames Haven Dock
and Railway:
17 Vale of Neath
all Waterfd. & Kilkenny
all Waterford& Limerick
14 West Cornwall
1/.18 Wimbledon&Croydn
1 Woodford
103 York Newea&Berw.
20 Do. Extensions
11 Do. G. N. E. Purchase
100 York &N. Midland..'

wood.
This volume consists chiefly of a series of sketches
of the different incidents and characters which ap-
peared in the French capital after Waterloo. It
also contains some lively descriptions of the town
and its chief attractions. It includes a revised
edition of a visit to Flanders and the field. The
following anecdote is interesting :
" I had the good fortune to travel from Brussels to
Paris with a young Irish officer and his wife, an Ant-
werp lady of great beauty and very pleasing manners.
The officer had been in the battle of Quatre Bras, as
well as of Waterloo. .An anecdote of his fair Belgian,
which he justly took some pride in relating, will further
serve to give an idea of the kind of scenes then occur-
ring. He was in cantonments at Nevilles, having his
wife with him. The unexpected advance of the French
called him off on a moment's notice to Quatre Bras, but
he left his servant with his wife, one horse, and the
family baggage, which was packed on a large ass. Re-
treat at the time was not anticipated, but was suddenly
ordered on Saturday morning, when he contrived to
get a message to his wife to make the best of her
way, attended by the servant, to Brussels. The ser-
vant, a foreigner, had availed himself of the opportu-
nity to take leave of both master and mistress, and made
off with the horse which had been left for the use of the
latter. With a firmness becoming the wife of a British
officer, she boldly commenced on foot her own retreat of
twenty-five miles, leading the ass, and carefully pre-
serving the baggage. She was soon in the midst of the
retreating British army, and much retarded and en-
dangered by the artillery. Her fatigue was great ;it
rained in waterspouts, and the thunder and lightning
were fearful. She continued her route and got upon the
great road from Charlerois to Brussels, at Waterloo,
when the army on the Saturday evening were taking up
their line. In so extensive a field and large a force it
was in vain to seek her husband ; she knew, moreover,
that the sight of her there would only have embarrassed
and distressed him ; she kept therefore slowly moving
on to Brussels all the Saturday night, the road crowded
with all sorts of conveyances, waggons and horses, mut?
titudes of native fugitives upon it, and many flying into
the great wood, while the wounded worked their painful
way, and some dropped to breathe their last. Many
persons were actually killed by others, if by chance they
stood in the way of their endeavours to save themselves.
And to add to the horrors, the rain continued unabated,
and the thunder and lightning still raged. Eight miles
further, in the night, this young woman marched in the
mud, her boots worn off, so that she was nearly barefoot,
but still went on unhurt. She continued to advance,
and although many lost their baggage and many their
lives, she entered Brussels in the morning in safety, and
without the loss of an article."

RAILWAYS.

Closing Prices
Yesterday.

Business done
this day.

all !Bedford and

Bletehley.
all Birm. Oxid.
guarantee ...
all Do.withoutgr
all Birm.Wolv. &

Dudleyguar 1
all Do.wthtguar:'
100 Buckghamsh.
all Clydesdale Jc.
100 E.Lincoln. gr.
6 p. cent
all Glstr.&Dn.Fr
all lirtlpl. Dk. eit

Failway
all Hull & Selby
all Do. i Shares
all Do. Shares
all Lon.&Greenw
all Do. Preference
all Lowestoft gr.
all 4 per cent
all Do. 6 per ct
all Manch.Bxton
ard Matlock
all Middlesbro' &

Redcar
all Alidld.Bradfd 1
all Northern and!
Eastern sp.c.
all Do. 6 per et
all Do.Fixedsp.e
all Prest. do Wyre

114 Do. Shares.
100 Roystn.& Hit.
100 Do.Shepth.St.
lets Shef. Roth. &
Goole g. 5.p. c
9 S. Staffordsh..
all- WearValleygr
6 per cent ...

all Do
100 Wilts &Somrstl

all Agua Fria
all Anglo Californian
2 Australasian..
5 Australian
all Australian Cordillera
all Australian Freehold
all Ave Maria
all Baden (Gd. Duchy of)
all British Austrin. Gold
13.5 British Iron
24i Bra •dliln Imp. (issued
at £5 pm.)
all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba
15 Do. St. John Del Rey
Carson's Creek..
all Cobre Copper
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I !Colonial oold .

Faust, a Tragedy. By Goethe. With Notes,
Grammatical, Philological, and Exegetical. By "
Falck Lebahn, Ph. D. Longman. 25
The object of this work is to assist students who 100
read without a master, and it will doubtless afford St.
them great advantages. There are three divisions g
of notes, the grammatical ones give the rules of 50
grammar, and the words in German and in Eng- 20
lish. In the exegetical notes the meaning of the
author is explained in contradiction of many sup-
positions on the subject. In the introductory re-
marks it is observed—
" The popular traditions of northern Germany give
strange accounts of Dr. Faust. They represent him as
having been in the possession of supernatural secrets, of
a magic mantle, and other conjuring apparatus ; he was
said to have performed wonderful feats, with the aid of
his associate and familiar demon, and at last was duly
seized and carried off by the devil as per contract. The
simple fact is, that Dr. Faust, being far in advance of
his era in the physical sciences, made experiments, the
results of which must have appeared superhuman to the
narrow-minded understandings of the people. All that
his contemporaries could not account for, by their own
limited experience, they ascribed to magic and unholy
arts, and Faust paid the usual penalty for superiority
in an age of ignorance, by being traduced as a sorcerer."

14 Copirpo
all CopperMinersof Eng
all Do. Preference
all English and Austin
Copper Smeltg. Co
all General
all Great Nugget Vein
all Great Polgooth
all Lake Bathurst
all Liberty
all Lond. &Californ. Gold
Quartz Czush. Co
all Mariqvita
9 Mexican &S. Americ
all New Granada
all Nouveau Mondo
1 Port Philip
all Qam ia Rock
all Rhymney Iron
15 Do. New

10 Santiago de Cuba
all South Australian
7 Tin Croft

all United Mexican ....
all Caller
all West Granada..... .
all West Mariposa
all Y dot%

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Australasia.
British N. American
lehrtd. Bnk. of India,

ni -88 i

The Angler's Companion to the _Rivers and Lochs of
Scotland. By Thos. Tod Stoddart. Blackwood.
The fact of this little volume having reached a
second edition sufficiently proves its value ; and,
indeed, from the variety of the information it con-
tains, and the completeness of the directions given,
it would be difficult to imagine a more useful
" Angler's Companion." It displays considerable
knowledge of the subject and of the country, for it
gives a minute account of all the rivers and lochs,
their characteristics, the fish frequenting them, and
the best means for ensnaring them. It has been
revised and subjected to extensive alterations, the
result of the author's increased experience. It is
ornamented by an engraving of the results of " a
day's fishing," and possesses the useful accompani-
ment of a map of Scotland, illustrative of the
rivers and lochs described.

Australia, k China!
Colonial.
Commercial •f Lon-
don
English Scottish and
Australian
Lond. Chart. Bk. of
Australia
London and County
LOndon Joint Stock
Lond. &Westminster
London Bauk of Aus-
tralia and India
National of Ireland...
Orier tal Bank of
Corporation
Do. New
Provincial of Irelare
Do. New

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3 - 3ip

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20
50
20

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Royal Australn.Rkg.
& Gold Imp. Co
South Australia
Union of Australia
Do. New
Union of London
Union of Madrid

dis— par
48 50
76 77
8 9

The Events of a Year. By Emilie Carlon. 3 vols.
Newby.
This is another of the novels of that celebrated s,
authoress of the " Birthright," " Woman's Life," 3
die. She is not to be surpassed in the life-like de-
lineation of her characters. They all seem perfect
in their different styles—not that these in question
are pleasing ones. The events are rather painful
than otherwise, but the mode of expression, the
descriptions, the whole arrangement of the plot is
admirable. The Rittmeister is very ably drawn—
bold, stern, and unyielding to those who did not
understand him • but when once his heart was I
touched his whole character underwent a change, 2
or rather developed itself. Then he was affable
and pleasing, possessed of a strong power of fasci SI
-
nation and attraction, almost impossible to resist. S.
Lavinia was a most remarkable woman, appa-
rently calm and composed ; she was really full of S 1
deep feeling and exciting impulses. A marriage S
de convenience between these two unusual person-
ages produced an extraordinary confusion of ideas,
sentiments, and passions ; all turned out right at
last, but it was not till after both had drunk deeply
of the bitter cup of sorrow, and learned the hard
lessons of experience. Julia was a regular spoiled
child—pietty, trifling, and faulty ; she went on
from one extreme to another till we leave her at
last in the enviable position of a tallow-maker.
Some of the subordinates of the tale are very

vividly brought before us, and as an animated pic-
ture of Swedish life it must be regarded.

Frank Merryweather. By H. 0-. Ainslie Young.
2 vols. Newby.
This is a very complicated tale. There is a great
deal of the romantic in its events. The hero is
deprived of his father's property by a forged will
being brought forward in place of the real desires
of the deceased being executed (he left no actual
will.) Mr. Munroe was a thoroughly selfish man.
His great wealth made him arrogant and conceited. ;
but it was impossible for him to enter the high so-
ciety he wished, for his want of education was too
apparent, and his manners were extremely un-
polished. Besides all these disadvantages under
which he laboured, there was another and a
greater—his mode of life in India was necessarily
contracted, and he was, from his high position, a
person of the greatest consequence in his own s,
circle there ; but at home it was very different.
He was lost in the aggregate of celebrities. He 8
could not succeed. in gaining a place in the privi-
leged classes of meritand of fashion. He met with
one disappointment after another ; and. finally, to
cheat his cares, took to opium eating. He nearly
caused his death by these means, and it was by a
fortunate change of events only that he was saved.
Frank, the hero, is a very interesting character,
although he loses some of his attraction from giving
way to passion on one occasion, and subsequently
destroying the life of a valued friend in a duel.
Constance was a most unhappy lady. Her mother
died, her father did not care for her in the least, S
and her favourite plans were always thwarted. At
last, however, fortune smiled on her, and the con-
clusion leaves her under the most favourable
auspices. Perhaps the most amusing character is •
Mr. Munroe's sister, Aunt Dorothy, who spends
her time in collecting specimens and curiosities.
She devoted so much of her senses to these studies
that she had not much to spare for very-day life ;
and her mistaking a courier for a nobleman in
Paris was very ludicrous. On the whole, this
story may furnish amusement ; and some of the
sketches of Indian life introduced. give a pleasing
variety to the oft-repeated tales of home oc-
'rrences.

STRIKES AND RISE OF WAGES IN WALES.—Nearly all
the trades in South Wales have followed the movement
initiated by the English operatives for an advance in
wages ; and where such addition has been refused, general
recourse has been had to the " strike." In some cases
this has been successful, and the masters have been
obliged to accede to the wishes of the employed; whilst,
on the other hand, in many instances, it has been un-
availing, the employers preferring to obtain fresh hands
rather than comply with the conditions proposed. The
shoemakers in particular seem very generally to have
met with the desired advance, which in some instances
has been as much as 25 per cent. This has been esta-
blished throughout Merthyr, Newport, Caerphilly, Aber-
gavenny, &c. The painters also have had a rise of 10 per
cent., and carpenters and masons have also benefited.
A MOTHER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY HER SON.—OH
Sunday last a shocking accident occurred to a womanuf
the name of Holland, residing in Albion-street, Notting-
ham. It appears that during the hour of breakfast, on
in question,
of age,estion, the son of Mrs. Holland, a boy
theabout
o rn ing
fifteen
years
was handling a loaded pistol,
and hip mother in Stempting to take a crust of bread
out of his hand, either touched the lock of the pistol
herself, or caused her son to do so, as the piece instantly
k discharged, and the contents passed into the face of Mrs.
Holland. The pistol was loaded with shot, and, of
course, inflicted a fearful wound. Surgical assistance
was immediately procured, and the woman is now doing
as well as can be expected.