The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-14 00:00:00

miclE SUN,

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

:NuV. . to
breeze and fine.
BONCHURCII, I. W., Nov. 13.—The Gaulle (Hano-
verian gullies.), from Wilmington, N. E., to Bremen, was
run on shore near Shanklin this morning, her cargo
having caught fire, end is burning to the water's edg...
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13.—The Europa, from River John
to this port, was totally wrecked 25:11 ult., at Living-
atone Cove; crew saved. The Eglinton, Montreal and
Quebec to this port, put into Sydney, C. 8., 26th ult.,
with cargo shifted, but would sail again in a few days.
Arrd. Elizabeth, Barclay, Charlestot:; China, Attridge,
Quebec. Sid. Ventura, Africa; Portland, Coquimbo;
Wyoming, Philadelphia; Andrew Foster, N( w
DEAL, Nov. 13.—Wind W.& W. to S.W.— Arid. Prince
of Wales, Wilson, Manilla; Yorktown, I'ebor, New
York; Aomori, Benson, Q reb e; O'ga, Crewe, ditto.
Arrd. from the River, Surpass. Sperris, Palermo.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mont-
rose. steamer, Gibraltar; left 6th, Cadiz 6th, Lisbon,
9th, Oporto and Vigo 10th inst.
LEITH, Nov. 12.—Arrd. Prince George, Quebec,
LEITH ROADS —Arrd. Gipsy, Rubinson, Utill3o,,
BRISTOL, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. John Cabot,
Thomas, Africa.
PLvAtouTri, Nov. 13.—Wind, W.S. W.—Arrd. 12th,
Prince, Richards, Prince Edward's bland; Marsella,
Hawke, Labrador. 13th, 11. M. S. Serpent, Rio Janeiro.
SHIELDS, Nov-. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. 12th, Two
Sisters, Browne, Dalhousie. Sid. James Ilart, Aden;
Eliza, Brazils; Vesta, Carthagena; William Botsford,
Coquimbo; Ashley, New York.
SUNDERLAND, Noy. 13.—Wind S.—Arrd. William,
Churlistoc, Quebec.
MILFORD, Nov. 12.—Wind W.—Arrd. Christina,
Swinton, Quebec.
SCILLY, Nov. 10 AND 11.—Wind S.W.; 12th, W.S.W.
—Arrd. 10th, Regolo, Mangan, Ragusa, for Queenstown
or Falmouth.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 13.—Wind W.N.W., fresh breezes.
--Arrd. Voluna, Bulman, Quebec, for Truro. Off
port, 12th, Enchantress, Punchard, Rio Janeiro, and
sailed for Altona.

MARKET INIEWS.-(TIIIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY
This week's arrival of E❑glish wheat, coastwise, has
been confined to only 910 quarters, chiefly from Essex.
Although the show of samples here to-day was small,
the demand was far from active, nevertheless Monday's
improvement in value was freely supported. Only 970
quarters of wheat have reached us from abroad. Se
lected qualities of both red and white moved off steadily
at full prices. In the middling and inferior kiwis ex
ceedingly little business was transacted. Floating
cargoes were held at full currencies. The show
of barley—both English and foreign—was small. Grind-
ing samples sold freely, other kinds slowly, at late rates.
Malt was in moderato supply and sluggish inquiry, at
unaltered quotations. The best parcels of Oats were
held at full prices. Damp qualities ruled very dull.

English • • ....
Scoteh......
Irish .......-
Foreign .. ..

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat,

Barley. Oats.

Malt.

Flour.

Qrs. Qrs. I Qrs. Qrs. Sacks
910 1,-180 i 1,4 i 0 1,020 1,860

970 3,160
4,010

71022,0UG1Et 31OP 11111.14,MET.
Really find Hops continue in stesdy request, at fully
last week's quotations. In other kinds very little busi-
ness is doing.

WELITECIMPE L.
Each kind of Meat sold heavily, at barely stationary
prices:—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 23' 103 to
39 10d; ;Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 4s 2d
per 31bs by the earea,e.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual
early walk.
The Iloyal Family took waking and pony exercise
in the Slopes and Eastern Terrace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot-
ing this morning, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Autnale,
and attended by Lieut.. Colonel Hon. C. 13. Phipps
and Lieut.-Colonel Hoy. A. Gordon.

There is no addition to the royal dinner party this
evening.
Lord Dufferin has relieved the Marquis of Or-
monde in his duty as Lord in Waiting to the Queen;
and Captain Hon. Joseph Denman has relieved Sir
Stovin in his duty as Groom in Waiting to
her Majesty.

Sir Thomas Freemantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
:yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board
sof Inland Revenue, had also an interview yesterday
with the Right lion. Baronet, at his official residence
in Downing. street.
The Bishop of Guiana had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Attorney General had an interview yesterday
'with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The members of the General Board of Health,
lord Ashley, Mr. Chadwick, and Dr. Southwood
Smith, accompanied by Dr. Sunderland and Mr.
John Griffiths, the architect, yesterday visited and
inspected the Kensal-green Cemetery and catacombs.

EALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Court Circular.)
" The Priory, Nov. 13.
"The Queen Dowager slept for several hours
awing the night, and her M9jesty is tolerably com-
fortable this morning.
"DAVID DAVIES, M.D."

EXECUTION OF THE MANNINGS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
was a witness of the execution at Horse-
"nnger-lane this morning. I went there with the
intention of observing the crowd gathered to behold
it, and I had excellent opportunities of doing so, at
intervals all through the night, and continuously from
daybreak until after the spectacle was over.
I do not address you on the subject with any in-
tention of discussing the abstract question of capital
punishment, or any of the arguments of its opponents
or advocates. I simply wish to turn this dreadful
experience to some account for the general good, by
taking the readiest and most public means of advert-
ing to an intimation given by Sir G. Grey in the
last session of Parliament, that the Government
might be induced to give its support to a measure
making the infliction of capital punishment a private
solemnity within the prison walls (with such guaran
lees for the last sentence of the law being inexorably
and surely administered as should be satisfactory to
the public at large), and of most earnestly beseeching
Sir G. Grey, as a solemn duty which ha owes to so-
ciety, and a responsibility which he cannot for ever
t away, to originate such a Legislative change
himself-.

I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the
Wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected
at that execution this morning could be imagined by
no man, and could be presented in no heathen land
under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the
crime which brought the wretched murderers to it,
faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks,
and language of the assembled spectators. When I
came upon the scene at midnight, the shrillness of
the cries and howls that were raised from time to
time, denoting that they came from a concourse of
boys and girls already assembled in the best places,
made my blood run cold. As the night went on,
screeching, and laughing, and yelling in strong
chorus of parodies on negro melodies, with substitu-
tions of " Mrs. Manning" for " Susannah," and the
like, were added to these. When the day dawned,
thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians and vagabonds of
every kind, flocked on to the ground, with every
variety of offensive and foul behaviour, Fightings,
faiutings, whistlings, imitations of Punch, brutal
jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight
when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd
by the police with their dresses disordered, gave a new
zest to the general entertainment. When the sun rose
brightly.—as it did—it gilded thousands upon thou-
sands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in
their brutal mirth or callousness, that a man had
cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to
shrink from himself, as fashioned in the image of the
Devil. When the two miserable creatures who
attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned
quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no
more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls
had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of
the previous obscenities, than if the name of Christ
bad never been heard in this world, and there were
no belief among men but that they p. risk like the
beasts.
I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources
to' general contamination and corruption in this coun-
t -nnotdlthink there are not many phases of London
I,lreaat u
that could surprise me. lam solemnly convinced
nothing
this • that ingenuity could devise to be done in
suehcity' in the same compass of time, could work
ruin as one public execution, and I stand
astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits.
I do not believe that any community can prosper
Where such a scene of horror and demoralization as
I,v,as enacted this morning outside Ilorseinonger lane
krsol is presented at the very doors of good citizens,
and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when,
la Our prayers and thanksgivings for the season, we
are hutnbly expressing before God our desire to re-
14ove the moral evils of the land, I would itsk your
readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of
this one, and to root it out.
I am, Sir, your faithful servant,
CHARLES DICKENS.
Devonshire-terrace, Tuesday, Nov. 13.

The Master of the Rolls has appointed Tuesday,
November 20, at the Roils Cuurt, Chancery-Tane, at
three o'clock in the afternoon, for swearing solicitors.
Very person desirous of being sworn on the above day
must leave his common law admission, or his certificate
°t practice for the current year, at the Secretary's office,
Ltulls-yard, Chancery-lane, on or before Monday,
November 19.

LITERATURE;
SHIRLEY ; A Tale. B, Currer Author of

dace leyre." 3 Vols.
The rewiers and the admirers of ° Jane Eyre "
and the terms are almost synonymous—have been ex-
pecting with considerable interest a new work by
Currer Bell. " Shirley" makes its appearance ac-
companied by all the advantages and disadvantages
attendant upon the second effort of a successful writer.
All who admired "Jane Eyre" will read "Shirley,
and all who read " Shirley" will institute a strict
comparison between that work and its fortunate pre-
decessor. happily for " Shirley" it will lose nothing
by the comparison. The satne features which, not-
withstanding their sometimes revolting accompatii-
tnents, rendered " Jane Eyre" so attractive, are to be
met with abundantly in " Shirley." Foremost among
these is the style—the peculiar style, so fresh, so
vigorous, and so emphatic. So emphatic that the
meanest incidents are rendered impressive as realities ;
so vigorous as at times to be positively startling,
and so new and fresh that it differs from the language
of ordinary novels as the keen breeze of the mountain
differs from the soft atmosphere of the hot-house. So
it WAS in " Jane Eyre," so it is in " Shirley." As a
specimen of this energetic and animated style, take
the following remarks, which are almost at the very
commencement of the first volume. We give them
merely as a specimen of a peculiar style, almost too
flippant, perhaps, in this individual instance:—
" Of late years, I say, an abundant shower of curates
has fallen upon the north of England; but in eighteen-
hundred-eleven-twelve that stlluent rain had not de-
scended; curates were scarce then: there was no Pasto-
ral Aid—no Additional Curates' Society to stretch a
helping hand to worn-out old rectors and incumbents,
and give them the wherewithal to pay a vigorous young
colleague from Oxford or Cambridge. The present
successors of the apostles, disciples of Dr. Pusey and
tools of the Propaganda, were at that time being hatched
under cradle-blankets, or undergoing regeneration by
nursery-baptism in wash-hand-basins. You could not
have guessed by looking at any one of them that the
Italian-ironed double frills of its net cap surrounded the
brows of a pre-ordained, specially-sanctified successor
of St. Paul, St. Peter, or St. John; nor could you have
forcs,en in the folds of its long night-gown the white
surplice in which it was hereafter cruelly to exercise the
souls of its parishioners, and strangely to nonplus its
old-fashioned vicar by flourishing aloft in a pulpit the
shirt-like raiment which had never before waved higher
than the reading desk.
" Yet even in those days of scat-city there were curates;
the prrci,ais plant was rare, but it might be found. A
certain favourcd district in the West Riding of Yorkshire
could boast three rods of Aaron blossoming within a
circuit of twenty miles. You shall see them, reader.
Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whin-
bury, walk forward into the little parlour—there they
are at dinner. Allow me to introduce them to you:—
Mr. Donne, curate of Whinbury; Mr. Malone, curate of
Briarfield; Mr. Sweeting, curate of Nunnely. These
are Mr. I)onne's lodgings, being the habitation of one
John Gde, a small clothier. Mr. Donne has kindly in.
vited his brethren to regale with him. You and I will
join the party, see what is to be seen and hear what is
to be heard. At present, however, they are only eating;
and while they eat we will talk aside."

The story of " Shirley" is almost wholly devoid of
intricate plot or abundance of incident. It serves
merely as the framework for a group of striking
portraits, and as the occasion for the delineation—
and a most exquisitely natural delineation it is—of
various phases of human passion. To reveal the plot
of a novel is generally unfair, for it puts an end to
the curiosity of the reader ; but to reveal the plot of
".Shirley"would be harmless, for it is not the plot but the
manner in which it is worked which renders this
novel so attractive. The characters of the heroines,
Shirley Keeldar awl Caroline Helstone, are especially
felicitous. Shirley, the chief heroine, is just of age,
and consequently the independent mistress of great
wealth and large estates. Somewhat spoiled, perhaps,
by the peculiarity of her position, she is proud and
wilful, bat withal graceful in her wilfulness and
womanly in her pride. Louis Moore, the impoverished
son of a once wealthy family, half foreign, half
English, is a tutor in the house of Shirley's uncle.
This Louis Moore is the hero of Shirley's romance.
His character does not appear very attractive, perhaps,
oo account of the painfully embarrassing position in
which he is placed. Loving Shirley, he is too proud
to woo the wealthy 'Miss Keeldar, and she, on her,
part, is too proud to give the smallest token of encou-
ragement unsought. The situation is well imagined
and marvellously well described. Alluding to an
interview with Shirley, Louis Moore writes thus:—
" She could not hear me speak so unmoved, and she
was moved: It was right—l meant to move her. She
could not answer me, nor could she look at mc. I should
have been sorry if she could have done either. her
cheek glowed as if a crimson flower, through whose
petals she sun shone, had cast its light upon it. On the
white lid and dark lashes of her downcast eye trembled
all that is graceful in the sense of half-painful, half-
pleating shame.
" Soon she controlled her emotion, and took all her
feelings under command. I saw she had felt insurrec-
tion, and was waking to empire—she sat down. There
was that in her face which I could read ; it said, I see
the line which is my limit—nothing shall make me pass
it. I feel—l know how far I may reveal my feelings,
and when I must clasp the volume. I have advanced to
a certain distance, as far as the true and sovereign arid
undegraded nature of my kind permits—now here I stand
rooted. My heart may break if it is baffled; let it break
—it shall never dishonour me—it shall never dishonour
my sisterhood in me. Suffering before degradation !
death before treachery!

"I, for my part, said, If she were poor, I would be
at her feet. If she wero lowly, I would take her in my
arms. ller Gold and her Station are two griffins, that
guard her on each side. Love looks and longs, and
dares not. Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay.
Truth and Devotion are scared. There is nothing to lose
in winning her—no sacrifice to make—it is all clear gain,
and therefore unimaginably "
Yet the continuation of this scene, however truthful
it may be, considering the peculiar character
of the actors, is not quite pleasing. There
is not enough of the softness of love in it to temper
the ungenial pride of the penniless lover, too proud
to open his lips, and the wealthy maiden, "who
would be wooed, arid not unsought be won." We
were about to quote a passage illustrative of our
meaning, but on second thoughts we refrain, and
leave the revelation of the denouement to the readers
of " Shirley." The following passage will give a
correct idea of the peculiar character ei6 the proud
and yet gentle Shirley. She has been for some time
pale and apparently unhappy, but she persists in de-
claring that nothing ails her. At last the tutor,
grown anxious, entreats her to confide in him, and,
like a submissive child, the imperious heiress obeys.
She tells that the following accident had befallen
her :

" I heard a panting sound ; a dog came running up
the lane. I know must of the dogs in this neighbour-
hood ; it was Phoebe, one of Mr. Sam Wynne's pointers.
'rho poor creature ran with h, r head down, her tongue
hanging out ; ehe looked a; if bruised and beaten all
over. I called her; I meant to coax her into the house,
and give her some water and dinner; I felt sure she had
been ill-used. Mr. Sam often flogs his pointers cruelly.
She was too flurried to know me; and wilen I attempted
to pat her head, she turned and snatched at my arm.
She bit it so as to draw blood, then ran panting on.
Directly after, Mr. Wynne's ke,:per came up carrying a
gun. Ile asked if I had seen a dog, I told him I had seen
Phcehe.

" You had better chain up Tartar, ma'am,' he said,
and tell your people to keep within the house, I am
after Phoebe to shoot her, asd the groom is gone another
way. She is raging mad.'
Mr. Moore leaned back in his chair, and folded his
arms across his chest; Miss Keeldar resumed her square
of silk canvass, and continued the creation of a wreath of
Parmese violets.

" ' And you told no one, sought no help, no cure; you
would not come to me l''_

" I got es far as the school-room door; there my
courage failed; I preferred to cushion the matter.'
"‘ Why ? What can I demand better in this world
than to be of use to you ? '
"' I had no

" < Monstrous ! And you did nothing? '
"' Yes; I walked straight into the laundry, where they
are ironing most of tha week, now that I have so many
guests in the house. While the maid was busy crimp-
ing or starching, I took an Italian iron from the fire, and
applied the light scarlet glowing, tip to my arm; I bored
it, well in; it cauterized the little wound. Then I went
up stairs.'
" I daresay you never once growled?
" I am sure I don't know. I was very miserable
Not firm or tranquil at all, I think; there was no calm in
my mind.'

'There was calm in ysoau
ttr person. I remember lis-
tening the w
was
tiieh
sittingroomo le timeat w
above;
the
ee
foot n
l atowi
altushnithbi
ieeedot:l,to hearwishing i f
Phoebe
you
moved
had not bitten me.'
"' And alone! You like solitude.'
"' Pard:in me.'
" You disdain symnsthy:
" ' Do I, Mr. Moore? '
With your powerful mind, you must Act indepen-
dent of help, of advice, of' society.'
So be it—since it pleases you.'
" She smiled. She pursued her embroidery carefully,
and quickly ; but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glit-
tered, and then a drop fell.
" Mr. Moore leaned forward on his desk, moved his
chair, altered his attitude.
If it is not so,' he asked, with a peculiar, mellow
change in his voice, how is it, then?'

"‘ I don't know.'
"' You do know, but you won't speak; all must be
locked up in yourself.'
" 'Because it is not worth sharing.'
" Because nobody can give the high price you re-
quire for your confidence. Nobody is rich enough to
purAa6e it. Nobody has the honour, the intellect, the
power you demand in your adviser. There is not a
Shoulder in England on R hic h you would rest your
hand for support—far less a bosom which you would
permit to pillow sour head. Of course you must live
alone.'

" I e,th live alone, if mod be. But the question is not
how to live—but how to die alone. That strikes rue in
a more grisly light."'
A conversation between the two heroines, Shirley
and Caroline, throws still further light on the elm-