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CONTINUED.) ELECTIVE PEERS OF SCOTLAND. ! LA' I4.:ST PRICES OF SHA.RES,
~temTbheorma 7',.1 / T the Rod of Dandonald, whose restoration to the IIN BANYCS, ASSURANCE. AND OTHER COM-
r asde 9uincey contributes to Toit for Sep- honours of the Bsth we had lately the plea-aire to re-
IvrY of the
seeantitter, the. criticism upon " Scnlosser's Literary His- .:.ar,i, has addressed the following letter to the Elective
ruR Prom tite Official List,
LASHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
Eighteenth Century." As a piece of Peers of Scotland :-
article is incomparably clever. Every LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.
i , . My Lords impossibility of adopting the
schieon,cseo_has a.relisb. . For Ithe ig"rance evinced b • rn°,4 respectful course, that of addressing your Lord- .-...-
lOINT-STOCIL BANES.
rin his disquisitions on English literaturt" :hips individually in writing, with a view more clearly
i , dingitsvrer,rtehe last century he receives a castigation, Such, to explain my motives in offering myself as a candi- Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
1 . lie
_.,1: surne he never obtained before, and which date for the honour of obtaining one of the vacancies Annum. Share.
ewctialti assuredly wince under. Speaking of the in the representation of the peerage, forces me again -- -- ---
x 1. d. Z s. d.
abilities or'
Mr. De Quincey does justice to the to resort to the press. I have now, however, less Australasia • ... ••• • • • 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
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to our thi°_nfkSipirgßichard Steele-an essayist who is not, i3,,ritshNoTth American 51. per Cent. 50 0 0 50. 0 4SS
t ~.,onurtercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0
appreciated. deserves. .
as he Mr. De -
hesitation in pursuing that course, by reason of the
, Quinceycolonial...... .••. • • • ...... 51. per cent. 100 0025 0 0 -
known, or '
very kind letters I have received from those peers to .
Point.„ makes one significant observation upon this whim I have the honour to be personally,
~ lionda and Westminstr Si. per cent. too 0 o 20 0 0
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Generally," • ..,ondon Joint-Stock .•• 61. per cent. 50 00 10 0
• Shakspe (in he says, "if you see a line from who feel that conduct free from political bias may r
' iletropolitan ...• •.• • • - 25 0 0 710 0
bet lax: re the papers of the Spectator), it is safe to merit the favour of their suffrages. Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
dege y that the paper is Steele's ; sometimes, in-
_T3T Lords, the honour of becoming a representative,
„Ditto, New.......... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0
2010 0n 0 -1,-
0I shall ..at' nal of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 0
deed, of casual contributors ; but, almost to a cer- under the peculiar circumstances of my case,
Nat. Provticlal of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 , :35 0 0 -
51 taillt ,
I not a paper of Addison's." About Addison'. not attempt to undervalue ; nevertheless, I feel that if Ditto, New......... 5/. per cent. 20 001io 0 0
It remark upon Milton's "[Triton of Australia.... , 61. per cent. 25 0 01 25 0 0 -
Laat it i ci Paradise Lost"-namely, such personal consideration could justify my offering
Union of London. .... 1 Si. per cent. t5O 0 0i 10 0 0 -
a__, 5 a Grecian palace as to amplitude, symmetry, myselCto the notice of your Lordships, 4 urther perse-
A
0 ' Li architectural skill ; but, being in the English verance, under the circumstances of secret electoral
language is to be -
C.A.N.A.I.S•
4, regarded as if built in brick ; arrangements unfavourable to me, must demand ex -
had it been so happy as to be written in planation. 1 ,i, Dividend
a Irian Nantes of f f..,, , Dlvldenel Price. Names of e,
_. per Price.
i b Greek, then it would have been a palace built in I may, my Lords, without presumption, infer from uompanies. IA 1 per 1 Companies. - Annum.
spirit . Annu.
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if marble"-the critic e.;claims, in a delightful the habits of my whole life, that (however deficient
4of indignation-" Indeed! that's smart-that's I am in various acquirements familiar to your Lord- £ ; £
handsome
' Ashtn& 01.111 97'5/.55. 70 Alonmouthsh 100 10/. -
I calculate !" But the most exquisite ships) I possess a professional knowledge with which ,
‘sliby-la-Z 113 41. P el
- Mntgoinrysh 100 51. -
burstof wrath-for which we do avouch ourselves your Lordships are unacquainted-for instance, that Ilanisley •• • .1160 121. 1.80 Macclesfield. 100 - 15
Positively Ilasingstoke..lloo - - Neath .•• . • . 100 201. 340
grateful to Mr. De Quineey-is that lam aware of causes which diminish the efficiency of
Brlilt&Abrg,lso 5/. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. -
it Where he corrects Schlosser's blunder about Cato. the naval service, and the means more effectually to I:romford..•.
,100 141. 1 - Peak Forest. 78 3t. 4200
11 i'..'ulosser represents the English People as hay- increase and direct its energies. That such know- Dudley...." 1100 4/. 33 11. 4s.
i Zga " extravagantly applauded" that wretched ledge may be rendered useful in a national point of I,?, it: ba3:re•s:c• Lis 111 03.30 41. 51 Shropshire ••1251 Si. -
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ißtoegc tellditaige.... :: 85 4/. 54
4 . lna on its first representation, and he expresses view I hope will not be denied by those acquainted
'4 himself as E:ewash ... 100 321. - Somrset C0a.11150 7/. 10.. 130
Forth &Clyd 100 I - Do.Lk FdSt 12 61. p. c. -
0 change
.amazed that they should so thoroughly with the importance of the subject, or who shall take C-andlunctirloo 6?. SO Stffrd & Wore, 140 28/. 275
0 'Lige their nature and for,et Shakspere. Mr. De the trouble to inform themselves of the truth of facts :;and. Unionlloo 11. lOs 21 Shrewsbury..ll2s 1 51. -
Quinceysays
denies the first part of this statement, and lam about to state-or rather to repeat, after a lapse
gaYs " f
-hat man must have forgotten Shakspere, in- of nearly 40 years.
deed, and from ramolissement of the brain, who could My Lords, serious provocations to hostilities is pro- Li'lamorgnsh.ll72,. 1390.. i - Stourbridge..ll4s 201. 305
listr&Brklyl.soool
:;rantliatn •• ;1 l/ 10 -
, 1-21. -..... ssterytetrrdsoanndAvi 79 . s.
0 , admire thiddersfield. 57 -, - wye hail. 126 1/. Bs. -
0 4)t. its e Cato." After explaining that the enthusiasm bably more near than, on a superficial view of foreign Kennt & Avu 39 7s. 6d. 51ii Trnt. & Mr-1
Lancaster .•• 47 1/. 10s. - sey ••.. j 50 301. -
1$ , proceeds
audience was solely of a political kind, he affairs, the public may imagine. Twenty years of Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 505
-,sey
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Your
ehflS-" Now, Mr. Schlosser, I have mended ill conducted wasteful war originated liabilitieswhich Leicester .... 140 101. 75 Worcstr &-'t -
4 i., 21. 41%
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harness : all rioht ahead ;so drive on once 30 years of peace have failed materially to diminish. Leiestr &Ntli 83 41. 36 firming. j
Loughborogh,l42 701. 530 tWilts & Brks 67 IL 11

ELECT EVE PEERS OF SCOTLAND.
the Earl of Damlonald, whose restoration to the
honours of the Bith we had lately the pleasure to re-
.,3rd, has addressed the following letter to the Elective
Peers of Scotland :
My Lords,— Die impossibility of' adoption- the
-no,t, respectful course, that of addressing your 'Lord-
ships individually in writing, with a view more clearly
to explain my motives in offering myself as a candi-
date for the honour of obtaining one of the vacancies
in the representation of the peerage. forces me again
to resort to the press. I have now, however, less
hesitation in pursuing that course, by reason of the
very kind letters I have received from those peers to
,ch )m I have the honour to be personally known, or
who feel that conduct free from political bias may
merit the favour of their suffrages.
My Lords, the honour of becoming a representative,
under the peculiar circumstances of my case, I shall
not attempt to undervalue ; nevertheless, I feel that if
such personal consideration could justify my offering
myselCto the notice of your Lordships, further perse-
verance, under the circumstances of secret electoral
arrangements unfavourable to me, must demand ex-
planation.
I may, my Lords, without presumption, infer from
the habits of my whole life, that (however deficient
I am in various acquirements familiar to your Lord-
ships) 1 possess a professional knowledge with which
your Lordships are unacquainted—for instance, that
I am aware of causes which diminish the efficiency of
the naval service, and the means more effectually to
increase and direct its energies. That such know-
ledge may be rendered useful in a national point of
view I hope will not be denied by those acquainted
with the importance of the subject, or who shall take
the trouble to inform themselves of the truth of facts
I am about to state—or rather to repeat, after a lapse
of nearly 40 years.
My Lords, serious provocations to hostilities is pro-
bably more near than, on a superficial view of foreign
affairs, the public may imagine. Twenty years of
ill conducted wasteful war originated liabilities which
30 years of peace have failed materially to diminish.
Such a contest, even of one-fourth the duration,
would add some hundreds of millions to the incum-
brances on fixed property, the consequences of which,
I apprehend, your Lordships cannot contemplate
without painful anticipations.
It is, my Lords, from former oversight, and mis-
management in regard to naval affairs, that wars in
which this country has engaged have been protracted
to an injurious length. From a recurrence of this
evil I am low as desirous to preserve my country as
when, with that view, I brought forward proofs of the
most injurious abuses, which party spirit at that pe-
riod unfortunately defended. Naval power, my
Lords, may be compared to an almost irresistible ma-
chine, which, if deficient of a pin (or key) to connect
its energy with the work to be performed, unprofitably
wastes its force.
Assuredly, my Lords, had Members of your Right
Hon. House, or Hon. Members of the other House of
Parliament, then, or since, reflected on the conse-
quences of permitting the proceeds of captures (so
wisely decreed by their predecessors as a provision to
stimulate and reward the energy of the navy) to be
wholly absorbed, during the last three-fourths of the
late war, by the rapacity of the Courts of Admiralty,
they would have perceived, not only the directly in-
jurious effect, but the suppressed discontent and dis-
gust manifested by those who feared to complain of
being duped and plundered. The consequence of this
was, my Lords, that when the sea had been swept of
large vessels, whose proceeds paid amply for their
condemnation, the commerce of the coast carried on in
numerous small vessels, each comparatively of little
value, was left unmolested, being far better protected
by the exorbitant and all-absorbing charges of the
Courts of Admiralty than by all the forts, batteries,
and ports on the shores of the enemy.
My Lords, the increase of the navy to thrice its
number between 1802 and 1806 was an unnecessary
and heavy pecuniary expense ; yet that expense was
insignificant when compared with the injurious con-
sequences of its continued inactivity. Judging from
the past, I may sincerely assure your Lordships that
if measures shall not be taken prospectively in peace
to give effect to enactments awarding recompense for
risk and activity in war, millions on millions will
again be spent without adequate results. The total
disregard of this important truth was further mani-
fested by the determination not to relax the prohi-
bitory duties on captured wine, or even to purchase
it at the price of beer, and serve it as an antiscorbutic
to the navy. Hence originated the practice to start
the captured liquors on entering the ports of England,
to get free of the expense of Custom-house officers on
board, or the cost of storehouses on shore during the
tardy and expensive process of condemnation. In
the late war, my Lords, the enemy's coasting com-
merce was injurious to this country only as it proved
beneficial to them ; now to that commerce is to be
added the carrying trade in coal, for the use of steam-
ships, to promote the destruction of our trade, foreign
and domestic.
My Lords, I trace the expenditure of more than
the portion of the public debt which renders it im-
portant to landowners to desire a tax on corn, to the
then asserted, and blindly supported, "vested rights "
of the Court of Admiralty. If such rights remain,
my Lords, the captors of vessels carrying continental
coal must be indemnified somewhat after the manner
that the captors of slave ships are rewarded. Any
of your Lordships may investigate these facts, and
take up this subject with great advantage to the pub-
lic and to yourselves.
There is, however, an important question, only in-
ferior to the national benefits to be derived from re-
storing to the naval service the rewards of valour and
exertion, namely, the preventing the funds that might
and ought to be applied to improve the naval depart-
ment from being diverted to comparatively useless
purposes, under the mistaken impression that in war
our coasts and commerce can be protected by forts
and ports of refuge ; I assert, my Lords, after the
most deliberate professional consideration, that one-
fourth of the sum necessary for such passive modes
of defence would suffice to enable the navy to annihi-
late every ship of war in the ports of Europe or else-
where. I repeat, that the most effectual means of
defence is to deprive an enemy of the power of ag-
gression.
Your Lordships may perhaps hear from sceptical
persons, or may yourselves suspect, that my opinions
are visionary ; but, my Lords, the secret plans which
I presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent
in 1811 have again been fully investigated, and,
after six months' deliberation, were officially reported
on in January last ; thus I fearlessly assert that these
plans can set at nought not only all ordinary modes
of defence, but the novel means of destruction pre-
paring in foreign countries for use, both on shore and
afloat, namely, the projecting horizontal shells, car-
casses, and incendiary missiles, to blow up or burn
our ships of war—to which means a recent device
has been added, as yet essayed only on the brute
creation, placed in vessels, fired at experimentally, to
prove its destructive power.
As an officer, I gratuitously gave my secret war
plans to my Sovereign and country ; my plans of de-
fence, as a substitute for forts and ports of refuge in
war, I am desirous, in my character as an amateur
engineer, to render useful, if I can obtain attention
and dispassionate consideration. These, my Lords,
were the prominent objects that induced me to in-
trude on your Lordships' notice, and I trust their
`mportance will be deemed a sufficient justification.
I have the honour to be, my Lords,
Your faithful servant,
London, Aug. 25. DUNDONALD.

7',.1 Thomas de
T
Quincey contributes to Tait for Sep-
tember a criticism upon " Schlosser's Literary His -
taZtethe
the Eighteenth Century." As a piece of
sentence has a
article is ineompArahly clever. Ever
relish. For *he ignorance evinced b;
during in his diquisitions on English literaturt•
the last century he receives a castigation, such,
7e Presume he never obtained before, and which
"' will assuredly wince under. Speaking of the
SPectator, Mr. De Quincey does justice to the
abilities of Sir Richard Steele—an essayist who is not,
to our thinking, appreciated as he deserves. Mr. De
Quincey makes one significant observation upon this
P°l Ls
``Generally," ho says, " if you see a line from
Shakspere (in the papers of the Spectator), it is safe to
betl
of largely that the paper is Steele's ; sometimes, in-
deed,casual contributors; but, almost to a cer-
tainty, not a paper of Addison's." About Addison's
rtle,ntltal .it upon Milton's " Paradise Lost"—namely,
t " a Grecian palace as to amplitude, symmetry,
and architectural skill; but, being in the English
re ,
language, is to be regarded as if built in brick ;
1
had it been so happy as to be written in
' Greek,raea s
then it would have been a palace built in
pn
marble"—the critic exclaims, in a delightful
spirit of indignation—" Indeed! that's smart—that's
!landsome, I calculate !" But the most exquisite
burst of wrath—for which we do avouch ourselves
Positively grateful to Mr. De Quincey—is that
where he corrects Schlosser's blunder about Cato.
Schlosser represents the English people as hay-
" extravagantly applauded" that wretched
jama on its first representation, and he expresses
himself as amazed that they should so thoroughly
change their nature and forget Shakspere. Mr. De
Quincey denies the first part of' this statement, and
!Ps " that man must have forgotten Shakspere, in-
'teed, and from ramolissetnent of the brain, who could
admire Cato." After explaining that the enthusiasm
of its first audience was solely of a political kind, he
proceeds —" Now, Mr. Schlosser, I have mended
'Lellr harness; all right ahead; so drive on once
Ire' • . . But, oh, Castor and Pollux, whither
--poiivwhat direction is it that the man is driving us ?
IvelY Schlosser, you must stop and let me
get
eyaChZ.ll .1111 "o no further with such a drunken
He (Schlosser) actually describes Addison
aa_a dull prosaist, and the patron of pedantry !
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the man of all that ever lived the most hostile even
.rwdhat was good in pedantry, to its tendencies to-
AV the profound in erudition and the non-popular;
sunLOn, the champion of all that is easy, natural,
dor'eial, a pedant and a master of pedantry ! Get
A wn, Schlosser, this moment ; or let ins get
41.nd
A lo ends the first half of this criticism : again,
jav;'' are grateful to Mr. De Quincey for his wrath and
Cs enthusiasm. Ever thus let Englishmen be
Ind earnest when speaking of Joseph Addison!
isadY Georgiana Fullerton 's " Grantley Manor '
reviewed with elaborate extracts. Our own opinion
II
P" this beautiful tale has already appeared in the
bitoa.rutrnehunasf The Sun. A long story, called "Pauline
retails to us the circumstances of a
V)itevin tradition. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder con-
-41141111es his admirable papers upon " Scottish Rivers,"
discoursing still about the Tweed, tells us again,
Lich
the exquisite verse of Sir Walter Scott—
"lf thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight."
p George Gilfillan, in the second of his " Sketches of
o;rnale Authors," discriminates the peculiar merits
h,,,,l‘irs• Elizabeth Barrett Browning. He describes
Of. as " perhaps the most imaginative and intellectual
tt British females"—he might have called her one of
tbe most imaginative and intellectual women that
ve ever lived, and not exaggerated. The opening of
e Paper is right gallant in tone, and will be not un-
pleasant reading to the gentler sex. Mr. Gilfillan
writes
as nervously and as eloquently as ever, and
shoutsits
so much of that Thomsonian turgescence
tr .en marred the fervour of his " Literary Por-
ieft.', He lavishes more graceful imageries upon a
file Contribution than could be culled from any
Y effusions of the ordinary magazine writers. One
rss,„age we must quote, not so much from its excel-
•
M this particular as from its spontaneous energy
an eulogium. He is writing of one of Mrs.
°Y...ning's poems :
dy Geraldine's Courtsbip,' as a transcript from
set, ted-leaved tablets of the heare—as a tale of love,
the richest music—as a picture of the subtle work
Rio the Stern reasonings, and the terrible bursts of pas-
' poe"t"-is above praise. How like tr volcano does the.
beenheart at length explode! How first ail power is
the 1:'13411 in the dreadful trance of silence, and then in
l'lngened tempest of speeeh! What a wild, fierce
'lows forth from his lips, in which, as in that of
madness, the foundations of society seem to
t "er
o like reeds, and every mount of conventionalism is
th longer found; and in the lull of that tempest, and in
sue rsturning sunshine, how beautiful, how almost
telshilmitn, seem the figures of the two lovers, seen
,
.and magnified through the mist of the reader's fast-
tt,„rg tears. It is a tale of sucussful love, and yet it
,ti You like a tragedy, and most melts you in the crisis
star triumph. On Geraldine we had gazed as on a
that, dry-eyed and distant admiration; hut when
to star dissolves in showers at the feet of her poet
beautiful e wep for very joy. Truly a tear is a sad yet
thieng; it constitutes a link connecting us with
Grettll,t countries, nay, connecting us with distant worlds.
auch"tiion has, amid all her immensity, wrought no
lovely work as when she rounded a tear:,
gooAdill"g the miscellaneous articles in Tait some are
the-* The Political Register is a fair summary of
election, and the " Song of the Locomo-
Nied.". oco-motive, ,
the 1 o-motive as poor Tom Hood
lyre 't—would have been better but for the previous
e of Tilbury Tramp.

DOCKS.
1 Dividend Amount
Name of Company. 1 per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
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£ s. d. X e. d.
..!ornmercial .. •• ..... 31. per cent. Stock. , - -
East and West India... 6/. pr cent. Stock. - 126
East Country - -
I )ndon • • • • • ••••• • • • W. pr cent. Stock. - 103
SLR atharine • • • • .... 5 per cent. Stock. - , 84
Southampton • • - • . . . 2/. per cent. 50 0 0 , 0 0 0 -
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount 1
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share. I
,
£ s. d. i 2 s. d.
Albion .. • • • • • • •• • • • • 31. 101 500 0 0 ' 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 1 11 0 0 174
Ditto Marine.• • • • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 I 5 0 0 5,4
tlas . 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 14%
British Commercial .• 75. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 6%
'lericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 , 2 10 0 20%
31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
12s. 50 0 0; 5 0 0 11
ilagle • • • ... ...... • • • • Os. 50 0 0 , 5 8 0 5%
Eng.& Scot. Law • • .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0' 2 0 0 -
European Life .• • • -5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. I -
Freemasons' . • • ...... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
'lobe ..... • • • • ...... 6/. per cent. Stock. - i 127
Guardian ...• • • • . • • .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 , 47
Imperial Fire ... • .... 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 210
Imperial Life • • • • • • • • 125. 100 0 0 j 10 0 0 14%
Indemnity Marine •• - it. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 , 5 13 1 -
Law Life.. • • • • • • • • .. 1/. 55. 100 0 0 1 10 0 0 -
LNal and General Life - 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 -
Landon Fire • • • . • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
London Ship • .• • • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
Marine .. • • • • • ...... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 l5 0 0 -
Med. Invlid&Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 21. Bs.
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 -
National Life......... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 , 5 0 0 -
P.dladium Life ...... .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 41s xd
Phoenix • - I - 185
1 Protector Life.. - ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 38.
Provident,Life • • • • • • • • 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rock Life • • • • • • • • • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 181
.nn Fire • - - 210
Ditto Life .• 11. Os. - - 49
Vict,ria Life .....•.•• - - 1 4 0 0 4
LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. . Price.
Annum. Share.
--.
£ a. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland • • ..• 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 j 169
Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 150
British Linen Company 81. par cent. - 100 0 0 200
Commercial Bank • • • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162
National Bank ...... .. 6h per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
Union Wank of Scotland 7%1. pr sent. - 50 0 0 83
Western Bank.. • • .. • . 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 8214
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. ' - 5 0 0 I 6%
Clydesdale Bank • ....• 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 1131. Is
Eastern Bank • • • . . . - 51. per cent.l - 10 0 0 'III 5s
Caledonian Bank ..... 7%1. pr cent.' - 2 10 0 41. 9s
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. - 5 0 0 GI. 12s
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 121. 11
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. , 20 0 0 1 0 0 235. Oil
Ilercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 0 12%
lnsur. Co. of Scathed • • Si. per cent. I 10 0 0 All paid. i 9
/North British Insur.•. 5% 1. pr cent.l2oo 0 0 10 0 0 26
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 1100 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin.&Glasg. Railway 1/.105. pers. i 50 0 0 50 0 0 61
Ditto, 4 Shares.• - 7s. 61. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 15
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 19%
"41asov & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 61 !•4
'llitsgw & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18%
Gls,-.ov &Garnkirk Itail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39
Standard LifeAssmrnce.l Si. per cent. 1 50 0 0 1 2 10 0 9

A DOLMAN.
littnircultar interest will be found in the September
fro itr of Dolman by its metropolitan subscribers,
th 411. e biographical notice of the late Roman Ca-
-4.1e 13ishop of London. It is penned by the Rev.
Pet:,.t9r, and has a certain degree of importance, ap-
tier;lng as it does so soon after the honourable men-
the Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths in the House of
besln°os by the present Prime Minister. The editor,
te rll-„,.es,,itb is eontribution,gives us three additional chapz
hi animated account of the "Gordon Riots.
Char ' Paley writes a paper upon the "Anglican
Whif -", System as exhibited in the Universities," which
berse 'it will be particularly unpalatable to the mem-
by tho' ,sthe Church herself, will be peculiarly relished
the etuissenters. There is a frivolous essay upon
eha enaracter of Oliver Cromwell, in which the
besriade,,ter of that great man is absurdly depreciated.
e..stran't this, the writer makes no mention of anLexd-
rret—rilioary vindication of his Highness the or
Creet°r, Published a few months ago—a paper on
flop in in September, 1847, without any mlen-
°N%looked°' Thomas Carlyle, is rather an anoma ous
1101werdn,leed'Aubigne might have been over:,
u
but Carlyle ! " The Lay of the Beacon,
is a spirited translation from the
the ; 'a the style of Macaulay—but with the former
Irish-881°n of the verse is more of a pretence. Most
the readers will examine with curiosity and pleasure
graphic sketch of O'Gorman Mahon.

,ZUE EGLEC7 IC REVIEW.
Urtib;"°ll3' the most important disquisition. in this
tinsrnrteis the one on the " Electoral Policy of the.
iv ,rB---What are its Results ?" It will emi-
4nd 'eNY perusal. The notice of Hans Christian
in aoeto-see 4.:3 Autobiography is genial.. A critical and,
4rCo a hypercritical article " Dublin
4nothe rPoration; deserve attention, as also does
_
Greeeer notice of Mr. Grote's learned History f
bi„.er c *trilVe have inadvertently taken the Septem-
;llehrr-41 -s."but,l°oß inthe left-handed manner of a
""ivar7ls7l,°Lar, but read either way, backwards or
they are sensible and well-timed.
TR-

COURT CIRCULAR.
ARDVEREKIE, AUG. 31. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Lei-
ningen, and attended ,by the Marquis of Abercorn,
the Hon. Captain Gordon, Viscount Jocelyn, and Mr.
Anson, enjoyed the sport of shooting.
Her Majesty, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn,
rode out in the forenoon.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, at-
tended by Miss Ilillyard, rode out on their ponies.
In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High-
ness, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Wait-
ing, went on a fishing expedition on Lake Laggan.
The Marquis of Abercorn and Viscount Jocelyn
will join the royal circle at dinner this day.
SEPT. I.—Earl Grey left Ardverekie for Howick.
OSBORNE, SEPT. 2.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince Alfred and the Princesses Alice and Helena
took their usual early rides in the grounds at Osborne
this morning.
The state of the tides has prevented Prince Alfred
and Princess Alice from taking their accustomed sea-
baths for the last two mornings.

str.eieetrr,,ag's
' •E SPORT/AG REVIEW.
"High-mettled Racer" has reachted‘‘
Thera
i 8 a di; and in a sorry plight too, poor fellow .
` cokel) Moral in this truthful series of engravings.his
sli,„:.t d for a Brace" is a capital vignette for t
field 11.14 season, from the original of C. Josi. It is a
ave Piece as fresh and exhilirating in tone as _a stroll
15011 th
• r the stubble or the meadow " when the dew
tie°, e grass." Craven, Castor, Saron, and Harry
`cracker are in rare spirits this month—ready.i
theto
.44 43,tnany jokes as Mantons or Eggs. A
13Y cc 4"vis himself to be in excellent condition
At .4.t is pleasant epitome of the yachting sea.:
lietienther times of the year The Sporting
With t`' may be devoured as a hearty supper,
sin gin the
"ging andslippers on the fender and the grog
only b steaming in the tumbler—now it can
gallop
NV_ ithtakue:
call hise in snatches —what a nabob would
write
.._
.iitiffin." The writers are aware of this, and
usual smartness ; so that even those who
I' 'nay read.

91,1143113ER5'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL.
mile slate-coloured complexion of our old favourite
to ways welcome to
art us, for he is ever glib, wen-
t. el.ed, sage and conversational —never garrulous.
44
as many lively and instructive contributions.

Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope, and also from the Governor of the Mauritius,
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor-General of Canada,
and also for the Governors of the other North Ame-
rican Provinces.

tr Z,114;-4" THEATRE TIIE BOSJESMANS.—These ex-
deli -narY beings are: nightly attracting crowded and
theigruted audiences at this snug little cabinet, to witness
were wonderful performances and really we must say we
Their4tonished at many of the attics of the. Bushmen.
tar", mode of attack and defence is very curious; their
th o, t
in tiyage is also Peculiar, nearly every word they utter,
it)
the dressing the audience, being accompanied by a click
e , which, to an Diglishman, sounds very
oaterirg— 'lr. Pox Cooper deserves every success in thus
no
doubt 10 for the amusement of the public, and we haved
Mat b he Will obtain it, judging from the crowded
" °I the h - a taste
fhouselast night.
To all those who have
74atre. or •the wonderful, we say—visit the Strand
l'a
con
t „... t SA.RAII SANDs.—One of our morning
_shi-
11.11oraries of. Thursday stated that the steam-ship
Yorki
,rirNstvh Sands had sailed from Liverpool for New
44 h. edue4daY• lip to a late hour on Thursday night
41—ad not left the port, owing to adverse winds, nor
921 'nisei for foreign ports gone out for two clays'

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Sir Robert Peel has purchased from a party in
Edinburgh the full-length portrait of Dr. Chalmers,
painted by John Watson Gordon. As a painting it is a
work of great excellence.
The late Walter Long, Esq., has bequeathed to his
father, the Member for North Wilts, the whole of hit
estates, stated to be worth 40,0001. per annum.
A petition for the pardon of Lieut. Munro, having
some 200 names attached to it, has been forwarded to the
Home Secretary from Ross-shire, of which county the
Lieutenant it a native.

Mr. J. W. Sutherland, and Mr. Mark Boyd, had
an interview yesterday with the Commissioners of
Emigration.

An engineer from the Board of Works is at present
laying out a new pier at Duncannon, county Wexford,
for fishery and steam accommodation, which will greatly
iraproY9 the WegOr(l Oarbol4r.