The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-03 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The British Funds opened this morning at the same quota-
tions they left off; 89'4 for the Account, ; Reduced, 894 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 98i 99; Exchequer Bills, 10 12;
Bank Stock, 169 170 ; India Stock, 248 249 ; India Bonds,
par, 3 prem. .
In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal. Spanish
Active, 21i 22 ; Deferred, 10i 4 ; Passive, 5* ; Brazilian,
' 67i 68i • Portuguese, 314 32 ex-dividend ; Three per Cents.,
19* ex dividend; Colombian, 204 21*; Mexican, 27* 4;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51* ; Five per Cents.,
100%.
SHARES.—Great Western, 26 27 prem. • Ditto, New,
12i 4 prem. ; London and Brighton, 3,1,- 4 du. ; I3lackwall,
Bit 8 die. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; Southampton, 55 56
per share ; Croydon, 14 14 per share ; Greenwich, 7i 8 per
share; Manchester and Birmingham, 17 16 dis.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton
London and South Western 3Bi
Ditto Tenths l* to
JOLT STOCK BANKS.

Australasia.

40 ...... 58i,..... to

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-(YESTERDAY).

_ .
Amsterdam CF. 12 7} Gibraltar .
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 ,Genoa . ... 25 85
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.D. 13 14 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 .Palermo, per oz 119
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaua 25 85 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1491 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres
Berlin.-- ... ... . ........ 7 New York, 21 days sight 46i
Vienna, effee. fl. 3M. 957 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto lO 0 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilboa 36 New Doubloons 0 , 0 0
Barcelona
Seville Silver in Bars 0 0 0

36

YRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 1.
3 per Cent. Consols -
Three and Half Stock 97& Grand Canal Stock -
Ditto Reduced ...... ... Ditto Debs. 0 per cent... -
Ditto New 1830.
3i per Cent. Debs.
HALF-PAST ONE.

The British Market is still in the same state as in the early
part of the morning, without a feature worth noticing, and may
be quoted at 893/4 for the Account; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 89i 90, rather better ; Exchequer Bills have improved
to 12 16 trem. ; India Bonds, 3 prem.
In the Foreign Market there is only three quotations; it is
entirely neglected. Mexican, 27*; Portuguese, 31} ex-div. ;
Spanish, 21k,
The Share Market is also inactive :—London and Brighton,
461/2 , Great Western Fifths, 10i.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consojs, ; Mexican. 27* ; Spanish, 21i 22.

THE PRESIDENT STEAMER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The publication in The Sun of the Ist inst., of
an opinion by Captain Hosken of the " Great Western,"
that the President "is yet above water," has given me
great gratification; I have ever held the same,and expressed
it when the President has been mentioned by friends in
my presence. As my experience has been in other seas,
and not being at present actively engaged in steam navi-
gation, I felt that an opinion put forth by me alone might
appear presumptuous, and would have little weight with
the public, and as little effect in alleviating the agonizing
suspense of the relatives and friends of those on board
the President ; but not the less did I, and do I, believe
that they have been too soon consigned to despair. The
absence of public discussion on the subject by practical
men of local experience, with its tacit implication,
has hitherto prevented my obtruding an opinion ;
now, however, the appearance of an opinion from
an experienced and intelligent officer, employed on the
same line, has induced me to offer a few observations, as
I entirely agree with him in the conclusion he has come
to. The result of the investigation held at New York, is,
to say the least of it, vague and unsatisfactory, and
I agree with Captain Hosken that, without for
a moment questioning the abilities or judgment
of Captain Cole and the other nautical gentlemen who
concurred with him as seamen, they may yet not be
competent judges " in a steam-ship case." It is admitted
on all hands that Captain Roberts was an officer well
qualified for his command, nor is it indeed to be sup-
posed so important a trust would have been confided
to one who was not so. It is clearly ascertained
that the President was not fully loaded when she started ;
and on the evening of the 12th, when last seen, she must
have been further lightened by a day and half's consump-
tion of coal. These are very material facts ; although
when last seen by Captain Cole the President ap-
peared to be labouring and pitching heavily, and shipping
seas, yet it is fair to infer that she was not really
making such bad weather of it, as to cause any serious
apprehensions in the judgment of Captain Roberts, or
he would have borne up. Admitting that he would carry
perseverance as far as prudence would possibly permit,
it is not to be supposed he would have continued to
push the vessel against what he felt her to
be unequal to. As, therefore, there are grounds
for supposing that Captain Cole thought she was making
worse weather of it (when he last saw her) than she
really was, so also are there for belief that he may
be wrong in his other conclusions. It appears the
wind chopped round from N.E. to S.E. on the
morning of the 13th, causing a dreadfully confused
sea, in which, in all probability, the vessel was
disabled, though not, I yet hope and trust, lost.
My own view of what may probably have befallen
the President is as follows :—That in the con-
fused sea, caused by the change of wind, some acci-
dent happened to the machinery, of a nature
which could not be remedied by the engineers
with the means available on board ; that she was
then hove to under sail ; and subsequently, in some
of the heavy rolls and lurches which she must have
made, one or more of her masts went over the side.
What means she had for getting up a jury-rig I do not
know, but it is certain that under the best that could
be expected, an immense hull like hers would
still be very unmanagable, and in this state
she may have got entangled with the fields of
ice, which have spread so unusually this year over
the Atlantic. In such case, the probability of her being
fallen in with by other vessels was exceedingly lessensd,
as all who got sight of the ice naturally avoided it ; one
vessel going out of her way one hundred and fifty
miles to do so ; and this might account for her
not having been seen by any vessel. If she
had foundered anywhere near where last seen by Captain
Cole, it appears to me almost impossible but that some-
thing belonging to her would have been picked up before
this. In foundering, such an immense hull, not held
together by so many decks as a sailing-vessel of equal
dimensions, would have soon blown or broken up to
an extent which would have covered the adjacent
sea with wreck and other articles, which could badly
all have escaped the notice of vessels passing in the track.
Such, Sir, are some of the reasons which lead me also
to the same conclusion to which Captain Hosken has
come, that there is yet strong ground for hope that the
President is yet above water, and while no one
would more deeply regret the having raised fallacious
hopes, I am impelled to offer the above observations
from a strong belief that in this distressing case hope
has been too soon abandoned. _ _ _

—As the public, before attaching any weight to the
opinion above ,siven, will necessarily require to know the
qualifications for judging he who offers it may possess,
I beg to state, they are the result of six-and-twenty years'
active service in the India Navy, including the opening
of steam-communication between Bombay and Suez. in
1830, and eight years' subsequent experience in steam-
navigation.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
F. H. WILSON,
Retired Commander Indian Navy.
Hammersmith, July 2d, 1841. •

PORTUGAL.—In the sittings of the 19th of
June, in the Chamber of Deputies, K Jose Estavao,
addressing the Minister of Marine, said he had been in-
formed that that the Governors of the Portuguese Afri-
can settlements openly connived at the slave-trade, and
that in so flagrant a manlier, that, in order to facilitate
the departure of slave-laden vessels, they were in the
habit of ordering ships of war on idle errands in a dif-
ferent direction, and requested that measures should be
taken to put an end to the evil. The Minister promised,
in reply, that the subject should be strictly inquired into,
and the necessary steps taken aceordingly.—Antl-Slavely
Reporter.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. The following
gentlemen were elected Fellows of the College of Phy-
sicians at the usual annual meeting last week, the new
measures of reform not having yet come into operation
—Dr. Blair, Dr. Yelloly, Dr. Morrison, Dr. Cooper, Dr.
Goldie, Dr. C. Forbes, Dr. Macarthur, Dr. Lefevre, Dr.
B. Lee, Dr. K Hall, Dr. A. T. Thomson.—Medical

ijazetle.
We learn from Tulle, that the trial of Madame
Laffarge, for stealing the diamonds, will positively commence
on August 5 ; that she intends to appear in person, and is now
actively engaged in preparing her defence.

LITERATURE.
THE LOVER AND THE HUSBAND. 3 Vols.

Bentley, Londnz, 1841.
" The following stories," says Mrs. Gore, who
has undertaken the task of editing the present
volumes, " are derived from one. of the most
popular, and decidedly the most original, of
n odern French novelists, and might have been
aptly named, The French painted by them-
selves.'" Such a name would indeed have been
the most appropriate that. could have been se-
lected, for the tales—with the single exception
of the "Goldsmith's Wife," whose scene is laid
in, Spain—are all illustrative of the manners,
habits, and feelings of modern France, which
are delineated with great apparent truth and
freedom of touch. The principal story in
the collection, entitled " The Lover and the
Husband," is a sad tragedy of domestic life, and
inculcates—which is seldom the case with mo-
dern French fiction--a stern, but salutary mo:al.
Madame de Bergenheirn, the heroine, is a young
and susceptible Frenchwoman, married at an
early age to the Baron of that name, a bold,
sporting sort of provincial Squire, whom she re-
spects, but cannot love. Shortly after their mar-
riage, she meets in Parisian society with Viscount
Gerfaut, a celebrated author, with whose refined
manners and conversation she is greatly captiva-
ted. He is equally struck with her personal and
mental attractions ; and as a young Parisian roue
is never happy without an intrigue, he manages
to ingratiate hirrigelf with the lady's husband,
who invites him to his castle, in one of the more
remote provinces of France. Here the literary
Viscount improves his opportunities so well, that
his host's wife is brought to avow a deep affection
for him, and the parties have several clandestine
meetings, in one of which they are discovered
by the Baron de Bergenheim, who in.tantly
challenges the Viscount. The parties meet
the outskirts of a wood, where a boar-hunt is
going forward, arid the husband falls by his ad-
versary's fire, and is brought in dying to his
repentant wife, who, in a paroxysm of madness,
thugs herself into the river that flows at. the base
of the castle. This tale is, we understand; from
the pen of Mr. Gore, whose translation reads
off with ease and spirit. As will be seen by our
slight sketch of the plot, it is not remarkable for
novelty of incident; but some of the scenes are
sketched with uncommon vigour; and we know
few more striking or dramatic dialogues than
those which take place between the husband and
the lover, after the discovery of the latter's in-
trigues. The character, too, of the old-fashioned
Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle de Corandeuil, who
detests the very mention of the July Revolu-
tion, is ably and consistently supported through-
, out. Miss Austen never hit off a crusty old maid
with more fineness of tact. But, indeed, the
sketches of French life generally—especially
provincial life—deserve the highest praise for
their uniform discrimination and dexterity.

• DUBLIN REVIEW. No. XX.
Dolman, London, 1841.
The objection which we have so often urged
against this periodical—namely, that it is heavy
and monotonous in the character of its articles—
applies with less force than usual to the present
Number, which contains quite enough of variety
to satisfy all classes of readers. Among the
lighter reviews, is a notice of Moore's poetry,
suggested by the late uniform edition of his
works, which is penned in a sprightly, flowing
style but is somewhat too lavish of; and indiscri-
minate in, its eulogy. We believe, there is con-
siderable truth in the Reviewer's assertion that
the Irish Melodies had a great share in preparing
the English mind for the measure of Catholic,
Emancipation ; and we can readily imagine, and
sympathise with, the feelings of just and honour-
able pride with which Mr. Moore must look back
on his exertions in this patrintiC cause. In an
eloquent and even learned. notice of Mr. Hal-
lam 's " Literature of... Europe," theJteviewer, al-
luding incidentally •to =some of the religious ab-
surdities of the last thirty years, observes that
many men of education still believe in the doc-
trines of that crack-brained enthusiast, Joanna
Southcote, " having submitted to the operation
of being sealed, and what is still more conclusive,
having paid for it." We must beg to doubt this
fact, notwithstanding it is asserted so positively.
Of Irving, the great apostle of the Unknown
Tongues, we are assured that "he was a man in-
I ferior to no one in intellectual powers." This
also we must take leave to doubt, for we have
more than once heard Mr. Irving preach in Hat-
ton-garden, and never discovered aught in his
sermons but a certain flashy eloquence, which
was ill calculated to stand the test of rigid exa-
mination. It was the preacher's manner . that
gained him such popularity; his matter, when it
was intelligible, was seldom much raised Above
common-place. -" Mental Epidemics" is an ar-
ticle full of useful suggestions respecting the best
mode of keeping the mind in a state of sound
health. We do not, however, agree with
the writer in his strictures upon .tea and
coffee, which, when not taken to excess, are
harmless beverages, if not positively nutri-
tious. At any rate, if they be poisons, they
must be very slow ones, for Dr. Johnson, an
inveterate tea-drinker, attained his seventy-fifth
year ; and Voltaire, who was as inveterate a
coffee-drinker, lived to be an octogenarian.
" Navigable Polar Sea" is D. sketchy notice
of an expedition undertaken to the inhospit-
able climates of the North Pole, by order of the
Russian Government, in the year 1821. "Sport-
ing in Ireland" is just one of those light, ram-
bling, entertaining papers which used to be SG
attractive in the pages of Blackwood's Maga-
zine. The Reviewer remarks that to " givela
joke, and take a joke" is the great secret
of travelling happily and successfully through
Ireland. Let the tourist be able to do this,
and we are told that he may go through the
country from Connemara to Cavan, and be met
everywhere with good-humoured kindness, and
receive the hundred thousand welcomes of the
warm-hearted people to every description of
rural sport in their vicinity. We quote the
Reviewer's directions to the sporting tourist who
may be anxious to have a day's hunting. with
O'Connell, among his own wild native moun-
tains of Kerry. The sketch of the open-air •
breakfast in this extract is so piquant, that it
gives one quite an appetite to read it :
" The tourist must be stirring with the first light—
Mr. O'Connell generally setting out for his hunting
ground at four in the morning ; and, if he would keep
pace with him in his walk to the rendezvous, he will find
that some previous practice, under the instructions of
the famed Captain Barclay, is extremely desirable. He
will find the hnnting-pack small in number, seldom ex-
ceeding nine couple, about twice that number being :left
in kennel ; but he will see at once that they understand
their business—that they are just the description of dogs
for a mountain country—well sized, but not ever large ;
light bodied, but deep chested, and not at all leggy—
well hung about the head, and most musical in tongue !
Talk of Italian and German concerts ! never was such
glorious music as the cry of that little pack will draw
from the breast of the grey mountain, wakening Echo in
her thousand caves, and seeming to make the giant crags
tremble at the roar. They will not be long before they
come upon a trail, and the sagacity with which they un-
ravel the various windings thereof, will delight the true
sportsman. They are never helped—never lifted ; and
their losing a hare is a thing almost unheard of. Their
blood is pure Irish, descending from an ancestry as re-
mote as that of the Milesians who followed the chase ;
and their vigour, endurance, and instinct, are almost
unequalled. Some of the mountaineers always keep near
them, in order to pick up the hare, when killed ; and
" the Liberator" is never far in the rear. Two hares be-
ing killed, breakfast is announced ; and the hungry
sportsman finds a cloth laid in some grassy dell, covered
with a profusion of cold meats, hot potatoes, sandwiches,
and not unfrequently a dish of mountain trout reeking
from some cottage gridiron ; 'and copious accompani-
ments are provided, in the shape of tea, coffee, milk, cold
punch, porter, cider, and spirits of various kinds ; of
which latter articles there are now but few partakers in
this neighbourhood, gentry and people being almost,
without exception, followers of the " Apostle of Tem-
perance." Breakfast over, the stranger may amuse him-
self f9r awhile in reading the newspapers, or smoke a
cigar, anti 1:,)ok forth, over abrupt precipices, and across
deep and romantic glens, on the Atlantic,q and muse on
what Brother ,),,,nathan"
is about. But when " all
hands are refreshed, he
"
ust be readyfor afresh start,
if he do not see fiv( or
and must be very very unluok) -1 fastidious indeed,
six hares killed by fair hunting, with his day's
if he do not declare himself well pleasea ,
amusement."

`S. No, 9,

MOORE'S POETICAL WOR.
Longman, London, 1841.
The present volume consists almost wholly of
satirical and humorous poems, many of which
made their first appearance in the Times, when
they excited, and deservedly, verygenerafatten-
tion. We have already expressed our opinion of
Mr. Moore's powers as a squib writer. In this pe-
culiar and difficult walk, he has long been, and
is long likely to be, unrivalled. His satire has a
" lightness and laughing frood nature about it that
must go far to conciliate even the parties whoul
it holds up to ridicule. Moreover, it never
misses its aim—never falls short of the • mark—
but goes direct home. As a poet, Moore has his
equals, nay, his superiors; as a wit and humou-
rist, he stands at the head of his class. From his
Preface to the present volume, we quote an
anecdote or two referring to the late Lord Hol-
land—one of the most accomplished of scholars,
and the most cordial, unaffected, and single-
minded of men :

.....
Lord Holland himself, in addition to his higher intellectual
accomplishments, possessed in no ordinary degree the talent of
writing easy an4layful vers de societi ; and among the in-
stances I could give of the lightness of his hand at such trifles,
there is one no less characteristic of his good-nature than his
wit, as it accompanied a copy o the octavo edition of Bayle,
which, on hearing me rejoice one day that so agreeable an au-

EVENING SUN

thor bad been at last made portable, he kindly ordered for We
from Paris.
So late, indeed, as only a month or two
allelicb his Lordship's
death, he was employiog himself, with usual cheerful
eagerness, in translating some verses of Aletastasio; and occa-
sionally consulted both Mr. Roaers and
the
as to different
readings of some of the l'►nes. In one of the letters which I
received from him while thus occupied, I find the following post'