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

FOREIGN SUPPLY.

Beasts 294
Sheep
Calves llO
Pigs —

Tile , ICENVGATE AND
4eral denaand ruled w
Per 81bs by
tee?, inferior S. d. s. d. s. d. s. d
tio . ...... 2 3 0 Mutton, Inferior 36 3 8
bo ' nliddlin b., prix L.... 3 3 4 Do.,middling 310 4 2
pi, do. ,--ose 3 4 3 6 I Do., prime 4 4 4 6
k, ia,..--....3 6 3 8 I Veal 3 4 4 4
3-'e 4 10 I Pork, small 4O 4 6
1.4.m.3bs

LEADENHALL.
iteady, at full prices.
the carcase.

The 1, BOROUGH HOP.
)ae sinew, .doin in our market to-day is limited ;
to.r:e..rt,e—e.oss, prices areg fairly supported. The number of
ilii7ll4 °ll offer is small. The following are the quotations :
kat, ab.cl East Rent kets, 115 s. to 1608. ; Weald of
t, 1108.
to 1265. ; and S x, 105 s. to 120 s. per cwt.

COLONIAL.
deta4,rt. •---The market has b:en brisker this week for most
tonii."P"llB, With a short supply, holders exhibiting more
and The demand has been good for the home trade,
14 fillier •
Prices have been obtained, the better sorts being
a4s, tilt request. Demerara, by auction, went at 33s to
kncli„:l.,zid. and 32s to 32s 6d for good brown. East
stno7—tsengal publicly was taken in at 36s to 37s for a
2,17.,' Parcel of mid white Benares ; Madras partly sold at
e,,i d-ct_to 30s for common brown to low mid yellow, being
at e".r.er ; and Mauritius also went for about 7,000 I:l.gs
i,(i't rise, good and fine yellow 36s to 378 6d, low to good
bro,_Yell°w 338 6d to 35s 6d, fine brown 32s to 335, and fine
car°,,_ and low yellow 34s to 355. Foreign— Floating
aea°,,‘" have been in request, and yellow Havannah for
Noe , Poits has been sold at 23s 6d to 24s for
ip3;134 and 14i. At auction Bahia has been sold at 30s
to r 3 6d for low to good brown, 34s to 359 for fine brown
cow Yellow, and 36s to 38s for low mid strong grey.
)to -°"l4.—There has not been much activity in the mar-
,t, but holders refrain from pressing sales. In Ceylon
he:Y little change has occurred. The latast sales by auction
forveg been at 54 to 60s 6.1 for mid and good, 52s to 55s 6d
lICA,,IIe fine ordinary and low mid, 50s to 51s for fine ord,
4•448 to 50s for triage. Jamaica was taken in at 85s
is
419°41„,nr fine, being above the value. Native Ceylon is
dot.,_-'8' nominal.' Mocha has been neglected, and tends
-n"oveards mid having been taken at 65s to 68s per cwt.
bej,,?c4.°4--The market has been dull, and Trinidad has
grey. "alten in at 36s for good red, and 31s to 33s for good
ber,..4jc,B.Pepper has been rather higher—Malabar good
tol -'l.,,'`A Per lb pimento mid rather mixed with blacks
1(41 .• la Oil ti, f• au
ci,
th'
~,,rtlfoterTdrsiniTtaanilk:;l_nd,pamBiiodg.apore nutmegs realised 2s 9d to 2s.
_Tv
.rices have declined 61:1 to is per cwt on
COTTON,—The
tates. market is quiet at about the previous
9 catxxe.L.—This article has been
prices.
TEA..--Prices have been well supported,
Iticz.-13eDgal sold at 10s ed to 11
brought in at former
s for good white.
transactions.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. has been at 678 with moderate
11,, . BEN Faun.—The market is
Ga
better
rper cwt on the spot.
fro °3k demand exists forall kinds. supplied, a
,113. at:lu-; L_ , -ands. Two cargoes oranges
wellt u --ic...ael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale,
qi,,,„ au advance of 4s. to ss. per box. Several parcels
,k4({3l,t°llB have been received vid Liverpool, from Naples
iliike4l4lll a, and realised high prices. Nuts dull of sale,
4Ncl el. t° corttan. ue so until the reduction of duty is ren-
tert4int

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 m 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 from 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, but defied
fate, and rushed wildly on in her own
way. Hers was not a temper to be controlled
by an ordinary effort—a mmd 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 wnuld take him from
her. She seemed to imagine that she had a
claim on him paramouirt 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 up-rooted. 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 infoil 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
nevermceoansnquteoredprosetelfc,t otherse nelvvehrilteoohkernewceasy-
sary
was amid the flowery paths of inclination, where
she murmured bitterly at the thorns in her
roses, his co'urse 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
young hopes were crushed, and lay in the dust.
The love of her youth was the undying sorrow of
her whole existence. It was sanctified by a pure
and solemn trust;, but it was sorrow stiil.
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 socieLy 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,
NvEile 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 vole. Hurst and
Blackett.

An account of this comparatively unknown region
by one so well qualified, by a long residence, to de-
scribe its peculiarities, 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 uneivilisation 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 e subject to the
greatest superstitions. Each individual possesses
his particular Fetish, or deity, which he greatly
prizes ; but some Fetishes are considered more
powerful than others, and many will often travel
great distances at great expense to have a vow
or an oath taken before a particular Fetish.
On one occasion a man summoned a woman for
having brought death andmisfortunei entreated her
on his family,
because after some quarrel she
Fetish to punish him. So great wasa the value he
set upon it that he finally consented to a
surrender
thatfr he
five of his slaves, who were of the woman'swa
so as to obtain possession, of her Fetish
might appease it, and the woman refused to comply
until compelled. On this occasion the Fetish
a brass pan with a bunch of feathers. It is with
s
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. Cruicksha.nk 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