The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-31 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL

Pro,rletor, Mr. R. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING, Illsacs 31,

Will he Presented WERS mit AT HOME, AN ADELPHI FARE
OF THREE REALiVF.; AND A DESSERT. Characters by Messrs.
IL Webster, L. Murray, Keeley, &c. •; Miss F. Maskell and Mrs. L.
urruy, &c.
Alter which, A NOVEL EXPEDIENT.
With TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
TIIE PRETTY GIRL. OF S lILBERG.
PEPIN() THE DUMB BOY, AND PUG, HIS MONKEY.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.

Third Night of an entirely new Drama.
THIS EVENING, MUCH 31,

Will be presented SALVATORI ; or, the Bandit's Daughter.
Supported by Messrs. H. Marston, F. Robsou, and W. NI org(i (their
4th appearance here), G. Cooke, Kinloch, and Clifton ; misses
Anderton and H. Gordon.
be followed by the Farce of CATCHING AN HEIRESS.
To conc'ude with the Ballet of THE DUMB RECRUIT.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Fourth,Night of the New Management.—New Dramatic and Eques.
trian company.—New Spectacle and New Stud of Horses.

THIS EVENING, MAaca
Will be produced an entirely new grand spectacle, in three acts, by
Fitzball (founded on principal recent hostile events in Kaffraria),
entitled AMAKOSA ; or, Scenes of Kafir Warfare; with new
scenery, costumes, and appointments.
To be followed by SCENES of the ARENA.
To conclude with a POPULAR FARCE.
B .x-ottice open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
rrifti DAT —Morning 6 min. after 5 I Evening 29 min.aft. 6
To•Monnow—Morning 57 min. after 6 I Evening 31 min.aft. 7

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1853,

state of the wind and weather at each of the following
pieces at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
HASTINGS-S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SOUTHAMPTON-E., strong breeze—cloudless.
TUNBRIDGE-N. E., strong breeze—cloudless.
BASINGSTOIEE-N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH--S.E., gentle breeze— cloudless.
SWINDON-E., fresh breeze—cloudless.
CAMBRIDGE-E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock :
LIMERICY-S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
MULLINGAR- calm—foggy.

THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICR, MARCH 31.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

44—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during tho night.
51— this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 2918.
WIND, S.S.E.—Fine, sunshiny weather.

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and Captain PRICE, of the 6/th Bengal Native
Infantry, also perished in the deplorable transac-
tion, while Lieutenant BUSHNELL and Messrs
HINDE and WILSON, mates of the Winchester,
were severely wounded.

the merely actual and simply matter-of-fact--
abandoning at will the luxurious charms of fancy
and the seductive faryland of imagination.
Whenever, moreover, Mr. WARREN has thrown
aside his pen as a romancist, to take it ui) anew
as a lawyer, his professional writings have always
assumed to themselves even in their manner, in
the style of their composition, a peculiarly solid
and practical character. They have been the pro-
ductions not of a dreamer, but of a master of
jurisprudence. They have displayed this in their
oneness of design, their concinnity of expression,
and their plenary appreciation of what ought in-
variably to be regarded as the three most desir-
able merits to be found in works of this descrip-
tion—clearness, completeness, and condensation.
Admirably as these qualities have been united in
the previous effusions of Mr. WARREN, "as a
lawyer," they have never been so homogeneously
combined as in the one just published, a work
scarcely less attractive to the mass of electors
throughout the country, than to Solicitors, and
Counsel, and Agents, and Members, and Candi-
dates, constituting as it does an authoritative
manual of the whole Parliamentary Election Law
of the United Kingdom.
Several reasons have induced us to direct at-
tention in this manner through our leading co-
lumns, to a volume which we conceive to be one of
very great political importance. Among other rea-
sons we do so, because in this matter we speak less
as critics than as publicists, less as reviewers than
as journalists. Then, also, we are disposed to
comment in this manner upon the circumstance
of its appearance, as, according to our previous
argument, a brilliant evidence that sound legal
knowledge may be allied with eminent literary
capacities, that one and the same man may be a
practical lawyer, and yet, at the same time, enjoy
deservedly a high reputation in polite literature.
Besides, we take it to be but just and reasonable
that there should be some express recognition of
the enormous labour manifestly devoted to a pro-
duction of such great .public utility as that relat-
ing to the law and practice of Election Com-
mittees—an amount of labour absolutely astonish-
ing if viewed in reference to the mere toil of
compilation. Without any work whatever of this
character, the authorities, more particularly of
late, have suffered really grievous inconvenience.
Everything considered, therefore, it comes before
the public most opportunely. What consider-
ably enhances its value, and cannot fail to render
it doubly acceptable, is that, while the style of
the work is delightfully graphic and picturesque,
the details accumulated in the different chapters
appear, from all we have yet been enabled to see
in the way of analytic examination, to be remark-
able for their general accuracy. It is lamentable
to reflect that the author closes his elaborate en-
terprise with the acknowledgment that " the im-
pression left on the mind (after the most painful
scrutiny of the subject) is that of sorrow and
mortification :" an impression, says Mr. WARREN,
" forcing one to exclaim—how much corruption
exists which no legislation can prevent, detect, or
punish !" It is the old sad story—the old
melancholy lamentation. Perhaps the Learned
Recorder of Hull will pardon us, in consideration
of our political tenets, when we venture to ques-
tion the absolute necessity of that most sorrowful
and even despairing conclusion. Certainly we
shall be forgiven for so doing, by our good
friend the Hon. Member for the City of Bristo]

Despite, however, this powerful drawback, there
is every reason to congratulate the country on
the auspicious prospect of permanent tranquillity
in India and Kafirland, and the probability
of no such onerous demands on the Bri-
tish Treasury being henceforward required for
the vindication of the British honour and
_the protection of British-subjects in those remote
quarters. The intelligence, too, is peculiarly
well-timed, inasmuch as it will prevent the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER from relying on
the existence of hostilities as a ground for refusing
to part with or modify any existing source of in-
come. No valid reason can now be assigned
against venturing on fiscal experiments which
promise propitious results, and which nothing but
very urgent exigencies could justify the neglect of
for even a single Session.

If evidence were wanting to prove how well a
really sound and practical lawyer may yet be the
very man who has acquired distinction for him-
self among the most eminent and gifted cultivators
of polite literature—that evidence might be found
in the remarkable volume * recently issued from
the press by the learned Recorder of Hull.
Happily, however, the fact referred to has not
remained until now in order to be clearly demon-
strated. Notwithstanding the ignorant prejudices
hitherto in vogue to the contrary, it has so hap-
pened that we have seen in England some of the
most celebrated authors upon general subjects rise,
in spite of their literary merits, to the highest
posts in the legal profession—showing, unmis-
takeably enough, that Fancy may be occasionally
allied to Justice, that the daughters of Mnemosyne
may sometimes be attendant on the Goddess of
the Sword and Scales, that the gentler graces of
Art may be combined (without detriment to
either) with the severe charms of the science of
Jurisprudence. Illustrations of this have fortu-
nately received a twofold commemoration. They
are inscribed upon the annals, at once, of Law and
of Literature. Howbeit, these testimonies are
not alone of the Past--they are not restricted to
History they are discoverable elsewhere—
they are discernable even nowadays among
some of the most notable of our contempo-
raries. Seldoin, perhaps, has there been any
period in this country during which the circum-
stance here indicated, was, everything considered,
more capable of immediate demonstration. For
precisely at this time we may recognise in the
Lord Chief Justice of England one of the most
luminous of our biographers, and in one of the
twelve Judges of the land one of the most classic
and poetic of living dramatists. Added to these
honoured names—added to the name of TA.LFOURD
and the name of CAMPBELL--it were scarcely pos-
sible to refrain from, at least, some cursory
allusion to one other intellect, rendered illustrious
by its researches into so many of the manifold and
multiform departments of human knowledge. It
is scarcely necessary, we conceive, to do more than
simply mention its comprehensive character, its
indefatigable energy, and its indomitable perseve-
rance—for, notwithstanding all the jealousies, and
piques, and animosities engendered by political
contention, it cannot easily be forgotten that, in
BROUGH4 M., an orator in an age of orators, the
translator of DEMOSTHENES, the celebrant of a
. whole generation of Statesmen, a lover of science,
1,;p4-4;neer of art, a cultivator of letters, a student
:and.-a-debater, a legislator and an administrator,
rose, in defiance of all these " obstacles" to legal
advancement, so that he ultimately contrived to
ascend even the woolsack of the Lord High Chan-
cellor.

—that VILLIERS of the Ballot. Until it (the
Ballot) shall have been " tried and found want-
ing," we cannot by any means regard the preven-
tion, detection, and punishment of the corruption
still (!) existing as beyond the reach of ALL legis-
lation. However this may be—whether good or
evil would result from that " Un-English" sys-
tem which is nevertheless not so " Un-English,"
but that it can be habitually resorted to at the
Club-houses by English Gentlemen—the cause of
Parliamentary Reform, no matter how unwit-
tingly, cannot fail to be advanced by the appear-
ance of the elaborate and comprehensive volume
which Mr. WARREN has here presented to the
country and to the Legislature. Considered in
detail, the -various sections of the work will be
found, as in the instance of the chapters relating
to " Evidence" and " Agency," worked up with
admirable skill into very treatises or disquisitions.
Viewed-as a whole, the work will be admitted on
all hands, we doubt not, to be a sufficient attesta-
.. _ _

A novel and striking proof that legal and lite-
rary abilities are by no means incompatible has
recently, we repeat, been furnished by the Learned
Hull Recorder. Doubtless, the present is not by
any means the first occasion upon which Mr.
WARREN has indicated.—in the teeth of that igno-
rant prejudice which we have alre.•uly mentioned—
that he has capacity for profound research, for
vigilant and unwinking astuteness, for apposite
knowledge, and ripened experience as a Lawyer,
although, in revealing these rare qualities, he has
had to contend agaost the influence of his success
as a novelist, and as 'such actually to labour under
the burden of a rare and brilliant reputation. The
anomaly of the thing is absolutely ridiculous. But
it is, unluckily, as true as it is ridiculous. Never-
theless, contended he has done against the diffi-
culties of his position as a Man of Letters—and
so far triumphantly. We should be fain to exult

tion of Mr. WARREN'S legal ability, and to con-
stitute the latest and not the least interesting tes-
timony that a practical lawyer may—just within
the limits of possibility—be one of the "bright par-
ticular stars" of literature. Henceforth, or we
are marvellously mistaken, WARREN'S " Law of
Elections" will be referred to as the standard au-
thority even within the walls of Parliament.

TRIP. SUN, LONDON, TREIRSDA.T EVENINCI, mmitcn tiL obi,

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 15,000 bales. The market closed with
a very animated appearance at an advance of /Id.
per lb. for American. The sales comprised 13,000
American, 400 Pernam and Maranham at 64d. to
7-0., 350 Bahia at 6d. to 61d., 500 Egyptian at
stl. to aid., and 800 Surat at 3id. to 41d. per lb.
Railway shares were rather firmer.
The six weeks' average price of wheat is 455. 2d.
per qr. _ _

The sailing ship Meteor arrived in the Channel
from Port Philip, which place she left on the 25th
Nov., and has on board 44,704 ounces in gold. The
Lochnagar, which sailed on the 20th Nov., has
about 4,000 ounces, and is also in the Channel.
Two or three vessels are near at hand, according to
the last accounts from the Cape of Good Hope.
The Great Britain passed St. Helena four days
previous to the steamer Calcutta, consequently has
only lost time since.
Hamburgh advices of the 28th instant state that,
owing to the holidays, there was nothing done on
the Bourse. Spanish Three per Cents., privately,
were quoted 41i. The navigation of the Elbe was
expe3ted to be free in the course of a few hours.
The cold was deg. Reamur.
Late dates from Smyrna state that the firman
allowing agriculturists to pay off in silver advances
obtained upon their crops, giving interest at the
rate of 12 per cent, per annum, had given much
satisfaction to them, although it disappointed the
expectations of the merchants, who were speculat-
ing for higher prices.
The Pacific steamer from the United States has
arrived.

The telegraph forwarded from Paris as to the
bearing of the Russian Imperial Ukase, does not
appear to be strictly correct. According to a letter
from Brody, brokers of the Jewish persuasion, even
though regularly sworn and admitted, are to be
prohibited doing business for Christian firms, and,
on the other hand, Christian agents are not allowed
to represent Jewish houses. This is a specimen of
intolerance which appears to have been most un-
called for, and cannot but prove injurious to
Russian commerce.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MARCH 30,

The following had the honour of dining with the
Queen yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to the
Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Earl Granville,
and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage
yesterday afternoon, and again to-day. Colonel Bou-
verie and Captain Hon.i Dudley de Ros were in attend-
ance on horseback.

Lord Waterpark has succeeded Lord Camoys, and
Colonel Hon. Robert Boyle Major-Gen. Berkeley
Drummond, as Lord and Groom in Waiting to her
Majesty.

Earl Granville left the Castle this forenoon, for
London.

Sir James Graham has been invited and is expected
this afternoon.

Mr. E M. Archibald, Attorney-General of New-
foundland, had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle
yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Rev. Mr. Sully
had also an interview with his Grace yesterday.
Mr. Hamilton Lindsay and Mr. Henry Wise, the
chairman and managing director of the Eastern Archi-
pelago Company, had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon at the Foreign-office yesterday.
The Prussian Minister had an interview with the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, yesterday at the Board
of Trade.

Earl Granville, Lord President, returned to town yes
terday from Windsor Castle.

Di;patches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope,
the Mauritius, and St. Helena.

BANKRUPTCY COURT-(THIS DA Y).

Mr. Commissioner Evans was the commissioner of the
day, and was chiefly occupied at a private meeting.

IN RE HRNNETT.

This bankrupt was described as of Duke-street, West-
minster, railway contractor. The failure is said to be
for a very large amount. The petition in bankruptcy,
issuing 'from this court, was gazetted on Friday last,
bankrupt having surrendered and obtained protection.
Two other petitions, however, have been opened—one in
the Bristol and Exeter Courts. The course to be ulti-
mately adopted, under the peculiar circumstances, is at
present uncertain, but Mr. Johnstone, the messenger of
Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's Court, has proceeded with
assistants to take possession of bankrupt's property, in
different parts of the district.

Advices from Constantinople state that the capital
of the new bank is to be 200 millions of piastres, or
more, of which the Government and various officials
had already subscribed about half. All the
" bechliks" and paper money circulating would be
withdrawn.

The South Sea House held its meeting to-day
merely to make a statement of its bond-debt.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company
has adjourned its meeting.
The English Stock Market has been very firm,
but there is scarcely any business doing. Consols
realise 100 to k for Transfer, and 1001 for Account.
South Sea Stock is maintained at 1111. Exchequer
Bills of March are quoted Os. to 10s., and East
India Bonds 425. to 475. premium.
Foreign Stocks are influenced diversely by the
arrangement of the half-monthly account. Portu-
guese Four per Cents. have been quoted 391-. to I.
Spanish Certificates are firm at si and the Three
per Cents. have been at 49 to The Turkish
Loan is at 2 premium. For Peruvian Scrip the
price is 31 to 4. Mexican Bonds are worth 25 to
26, and Grenada 23i. Venezuela Deferred is at
16/. Dutch Four per Cents. have been marked 98g.
The account is now pretty nearly adjusted in
the Railway Market, and prices have a tendency to
increased buoyancy. The " contangos " paid yes-
terday were havier, showing a " Bull " account ;
but a few real purchases would soon rally the
market.

The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to
;his day, are in round figures as under :

1853. 1852.
Great Western £16,934 £15,265
North Western.. 45, 442 42, 365
South Western 10,159 9,263
Brighton
Midland
South Eastern 12,269 10,441
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire lB,lOl 15,891
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick 14,793 13,281
The Gold Mine market has been more animated,
and prices are firmly maintained generally. The
Brazilian Cocaes are higher.
The Land Companies' shares are heavy again.
Joint-stock Bank shares are steady.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)

Business done,
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Bonds, .1.000 45
Ditto, under £lOOO 47 2
,
South Sea Stock
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, lid. June. March
£lOOO
£5OO 7
Small 6
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Graz Han Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent
Grenada Bonds, Deferred,
Ditto Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon . 231
Greek ex over-due Coupons
Mexican 3 per Cent 258
Ditto Account April 15, 268
Peruvian Bonds, 1849, ,li per Cent.
Ditto Scrip
Portuguese 4 per Cent. 394 1 1
Siml Bonds, 3 per Ceit
Ditto Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun B/ i p
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent, 1852 2 p
Venezuela Bonds 3fi per Cent —
Ditto Deterred, 1 per Cent l6l
•
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 65/
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates...
TIMER O'CLOCK.
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Ditto April Account

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