The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-14 00:00:00

Uplands—very orthuary to middling, 10-lc. a 114 e. per
lb.; fair to good lair and good, 124 e. a 13c. and 134?.
Tennessees Alabamas, 104 c. a 11ie. Louisianas,
&c.—ordinary to middling, 104 c. a 114 e.; fair to good
fair, 13c. a 134 e.; good and fine, 14c. a 144 c. per lb.
The sales since the 14th instant are estimated at 4,200
bales.
The exports, &c., of cotton since the Ist of September
are as follow.—
Total Fxports. To G. Britain. ltecipts. Stocks.
This year - - 924,000 605,000 1,684,001 523,000
Last year - - 1,130,000 744,000 1,933,000 530,0 0
Year before - - 1,714,C00 1,175,000 2,293,000 537,000
Flour—The receipts continue to be unusually great,
nevertheless the downward tendency in prices appears to
be checked. A few lots of Western Canal, in poor order,
sold this morning at 8 dolls. to 8 dolls. 124 c., but the
bulk of the sales at 8 dolls. 25e. 2,000 barrels Genessee
to be celivered in June sold at 6 dolls. 500 barrels Jer-
sey corn meal brought 5 dolls. 374 c. The market re-
mains bare of southern flour. Corn is firm, sales of
25 000 bushels at 105 c.. to 1124 c. for mixed, white and
yellow, 10,000 ditto for delivery in July and August
brought 95c. to 97e.; 500 bushels of rye were taken at
11.5 c., and 1,500 at 120 c.
The receipts of flour to day via the North River are
24,717 barrels—making 181,110 barrels received during
the week, which is about 50,000 barrels more than were
ever beton received within the same space of time.
Potashes are dull of sale at 4,874 dolls.; shippers
offer 4,75 dolls. Pearls are steady at 6,50 dolls.
Pork is firm; sales of new Mess were made at 16,50
dolls; and new prime, 14 dolls.; old Mess 15,50 dolls.
Beef has an upward tendency.
Sales of Turpentine at 34 dolls, a 3i dolls. per brl of
280 lbs., for prime soft Newbern. Spirits of do. do.
35c. a 36e.
The Canadian Government have authorised the
transmit through Canada of foreign wheat and Indian
corn without payment of duty.
The Inspector-General, under date of 15th May, gives
notice of this fact, and states that foreign wheat and
malio, on being entered for exportatiou, shall be per-
mitted to pass through Canada to its port of exportation,
on bonds being giving in three times the amount of duty
otherwise payable, that the said grain shall within six
months be exported.
The " ship fever " introduced by the Irish emi-
grants, was spreading in the Atlantic cities of the
United States, and also in Canada, and causing eonsi-
de-rable alarm. The quarantine regulations were
being enforced with great strictness, and hospitals and
boards of health established.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY 22.
Every day or two produces its news. We now learn
that the rancheros, or guerillas, had been very trouble-
some near Vera Cruz; two hundred of them had been
followed by Walker and his rifles, and four killed; .ix
United States dragoons had been killed by these people
on tne previous day. The Mexican Congress had re-
fused the mediation of England by a vote of 44
to 33. The returned officers of volunteers in this
city tell me that, in their opinion, there is no chance
of peace—not even if the capital be taken; but
they think there will be no more pitched battles. Four
of the states north of Mexico talk of separating and be-
coming a new republic under our protection, but per-
haps this report is but a weak invention of the enemy.
The American officers, who are prisoners in Mexico, are
reported to be well treated ; but the capital and Go-
vernment are full of confusion, and will not send Santa
Anna a dollar, though he tells them that he has rallied
7,000 men at Orizaba. The U. S. fleet is spread along
the Gulf shores to prevent the escape of Santa Anna by
sea, if he should attempt it. Everything is in confusion
at Yucatan, where another revolutionary movement is
going on. On Rio Grande a camp of instruction has
been formed at Palo Alto, with 1,400 men. General
Cushing had unfortunately broken his leg at Matamoras
by a fall. The number;of regiments returned and to re-
turn from General Scott's army is seven. The Illinois
regiment brings home less than one-half its men. The
division of the army to march on Puebla and Mexico,
cannot now reach 6,000 men. Will General Scott march
right straight on to the Halls of Montezuma, or will he
nit ? That is the question. From all that I can hear
and read, I think he will go to Puebla, and wait there
for reinforcements. A great many of the returned vo-
lunteers are very sick—hospitals here and at Pensucola
full of " discharged on account of sickness."

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 13.

Her Majesty's packet Swift, Lieutenant Long,
arrived last night from the Brazils, having left Rio
de Janeiro on the 13th of April, Bahia on the 20th
of April, and Pernambuco on the Ist of May. She
brings on freight about 10,0001., and the following
passengers, viz. :—Lord A. Beauclerk, late of her
Majesty's ship Curacoa ; Captain Thompson, late of
Curacoa ; Captain Proctor, late of Harpy, Mr. and
Mrs. Hapley, Mr. Sanville, Mr. D. Last, Mr. De
Castro, Mr. Plowes, Mr. Finnie, Mr. Murray, Mr.
Ramsden, Royal Navy ; also Dr. Coates, left at
Pernambuco ill. Her Majesty's steamer Rattler,
having on board Lord Howden, had arrived at Bahia,
and sailed for Rio de la Plata on the 26th April. The
Swift left at Rio de Janeiro the Crescent, Curacoa,
and Firebrand. The Griffin steamer, with the River
Plate mails, had arrived at Rio on the 9th of April.
The news by this packet has been anticipated by the
recent arrival of her Majesty's brig Frolic. The ex-
change at Rio was 281, and at Bahia The want
of tonnage appears to have increased, and 555. to 70s.
had been obtained for the Channel. Coffee had ad-
vanced a little in the higher qualities, and although
the stock was very large (45,000 bags), the propor-
tion of these qualities was very small. The present
quotations are :—Superior, 2 reis 950 milreis to 3 reis
50 milreis ; good first, 2 reis 800 milreis to 2 reis
850 milreis ; good seconds, 2 reis 400 milreis to 2
reis 500 milreis ; Sugars are quiet—white, 300 reis ;
brown, 2 reis 100 milreis to 2 reis 200 milreis per
arroba. Hides had been bought up for the Ameri-
can market at 170 reis per lb., and the stock was re-
duced to 7,000. Government stock had remained
firm, notwithstanding considerable sales for foreign
account (chiefly English), &c., at 821 and 82} per
cent.

Since the departure of the Penguin steam•packet,
about 200,0001. has been done ; the transactions of
the last week being at the rate of 28i and lastly
at 28, with more money at 281 than bills.
The news from the Emperor was very satisfactory ;
he was diverting himself by gratifying his subjects
who approach him. He was expected to return in a
week. The Empress was going on well.

JUNE.—The Spring is gone ; the Summer is come
B autitul as Spring is, and delicate and poetical her
children—the snow-drop, the violet, the primrose, and
the cowslip—we have seen and loved them once more,
and we will no longer regret them. As they came and
passed away amid the lingering chills of winter, we wel-
comed them, and we mourned over their departue. No
season like Spring makes us so sensible by its fleeting
beauties of the fleeting time; but Summer is the season
of full blown enjoyment, and now let us enjoy it. The
great, wise Monarch of Jerusalem exclaimed in review-
ing these very things, " Come on, therefore, let us enjoy
the good things that are present, and let us speedily use
the creatures like us in youth. Let us till ourselves
with costly wine and ointments, and let no flower of
the Spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves
with rose buds before they be withered." That was
wisdom in Solomon's time, and it is wisdom now. It is
wisdom to grasp the good that is before and around us,
and not to waste time in lamenting what is gone, or may
soon be going. And June seems the season made for
the universal rejoicing of all the creatures of existence.
The country is arrayed in its fullest yet newest beauty.
The trees are once more thick with leaves—leaves of the
most delicate freshness. It is, as Spenser says, wherever
we turn our eyes, " a leafie luxurie." The ground is
covered with deepest grass, and the birds and insects,
and flowers which are moving, singing, and blowing over
the whole face of nature, are countless.
On Saturday the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
of Saxony, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Count
Beust, accompanied by Lord William Ashley and their
suite, occupying three carriages, visited Guildhall. They
regarded with much interest the beautiful specimens of
penmanship in the Chamberlain's parlour, but
particu-
larly the hand-writing of Shakspere in Cher e City laurib
i rary.
Aldermen Farebrother, Johnson, Sir Pet Le, and
Sidney, attended them over the building.—Observer.
Measures are in progress for the erection of a
statue of the late Dr. Chalmers, to be executed by Mr.
Steel, from the admirable bust lately sculptured by him,
and to be placed within the new college.
MARRIAGE OF JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ,
Thursday morning, being the weekly meetininWake
g of the Friends
at their meeting-house, George-street, fie ld, was
fixed upon as the day upon which Mr. Bright's marriage
with Miss Leatham should be solemnised according to the
usual form of that body. Half an hour previously, to the
filled
time appointed (half-past ten), the chapel began to be
_
by a numerous and respectable portion of the inhabitanants of
the town and neighbourhood. Amongst the comp y' pre-
sent, most of whom were of the fair sex, we observed a
great number of Mr. Bright's political friends. Within a
few minutes of half. past ten the wedding party arrived, and
immediately took the seats apportioned to them. The
whole company sat for about three quarters of an hour in
perfect silence, when Mr. Bright arose, and taking the
right hand of Miss Leatham, pronounced in a low, but
distinct voice, the following words :—" Friends, I take
my, friend, Margaret Elizabeth Leatham, to be my
wife, and promise by Divine assistance to be unto her a
loving and faithful husband until it shall please God to part
us by death." While still holding hands, Miss Leatham
pronounced the same words, substituting John Bright for her
own name, in a low but tremulous voice. After which an-
other pause of some minutes occurred, when one of the con-
gregation offered up a short prayer, the whole assembly
standing. After some minutes had again elapsed, Mr.
George l3enington, draper, read the certificate, or declara-
tion, which was signed by the bride and bridegroom, and
their relations and friends, and afterwards by a large number
of the congregation. The wedding party consisted of the
bride and bridegroom, Mrs. Leatham (mother of the bride),
Mr. Bright (father of the bridegroom), Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Loatharn, Miss Priscilla Leatham, Miss Priscilla Bright,
Mr. Charles Albert Leatham, Miss. Esther Bright, Mr. Ed-
ward Aldam Leatham, Mr. Jacob Bright, jun., Miss M. W.
Barclay, Mr. Joseph Gurney Barclay, Miss J. M. Barclay,
Miss Ann F. Barclay, Mr. J. Priestman, jun. , and Miss
Elizabeth Thornhill. The whole ceremony lasted about an
hour and a half.—Lecds Mercury.

LITERATURE.
I?AIVTHORPE. One Vol.

The motto on the title-page—a line front Balzac,
" I hal commenced an insensate struggle ; I corn.
batted misery with my pen,"—sufficiently indicates
the purport of this volume. It is the history of an
author. A fertile theme for the pen of the romancist,
and one of which he not unfrequently avails himself.
In this instance, however, it is not only as a ro-
mancist, but also as a moralist, that the writer of this
fiction has selected a literary hero ; the adventures of
Percy Ranthorpe serve, not only to " adorn a tale,"
but also, and very effectually, to " point a moral"
and convey a useful lesson. Man of genius though he
was, to a certain extent, at least, the hero—this Percy
Ranthorpe—is no all-perfect ideal ; neither does he
possess all the attractive attributes generally asso-
ciated with the poetic character. He is represented
rather as a very natural personification of a class, of
which, doubtless, many members are now existing :

" A creature, not too bright or good,
For human nature's daily food;"
endowed with considerable talent and even genius,
and also possessing no little ambition and no little
self-conceit. In the narrative of his arduous career
up that terrible acclivity—the hill of farae—is very
vividly pourtrayed, most of the varied phases of; an
author's early life, and the dangers and difficulties
that crowd his way. In the preface we are told that
" Ranthorpe " was written five years ago, and
the author has employed the interval in following
Boileau's advice, " Vingt fois sur le metier, remittez
l'ouvrage," and "Polissez souvent et souvent effacez,"
so wall that his composition has doubtless consider-
ably improved in style, and considerably diminished
in quantity. Originally intended to fill the pre-
scribed three volumes, -"RanthorFe" is now con-
densed into some three hundred and fifty pages, yet
is nevertheless likely to afford as much interest
and amusement as many of its competitors of
greater weight. The writer himself admits that such
a great change in the structure of his work has occa-
sioned many faults in the arrangement of the details,
which to a certain extent must have been unavoid-
able. The most conspicuous evidence of the con-
densation of the narrative is the variety of person-
ages and incidents, with which it is crowded, but
to the general reader, this feature will he rather
an attraction. To the general reader we can
cordially recommend it, it is full of animation
and activity, the interest never flags. The variety
of scene and character is almost boundless ; for ex-

ample, we are introduced to the poet first in his
hard-working obscurity; then we follow him
as the " lion into a.. h of fashion ; we see
him forget the humble love Of his early life to fall
at the feet of some heartless coquette, and then,
after finding him repulsed with scorn, we follow
the fortunes of the lady through her eventful and
instructive career. It is useless, however, to attempt
to give even a summary of the variety of adventures
detailed here. But " Ranthorpe" has a higher attrac-
tion than the power of affording mere amusement—it is
interspersed with many beautiful thoughts, and many ,
reflections pregnant with moral truth. A useful
lesson, too, as we have said before, is conveyed in the
history of its hero. Even at the risk of diminishing
our approbation and regard for the young poet, his
biographer has been careful to expose to us his faults—
faults rather incidental to his position than to
his character. The titles of the three first " books"
into which the history is divided, sufficiently indicate
the moral which it conveys—" The Poet's first
struggles," " The Lion," " The unsuccessful Au-
thor." The publication of his first book of poems—
The
Dreams of Youth"—obtains for the young
author no inconsiderable celebrity—he is wel-
comed in those circles where every novelty is
received with avidity —he literally descends
from the garret to the drawing-room, from
the poet he sinks into the lion. In thin
incident of his career is very naturally pourtrayed.
one of the casualties so often fatal to successful
genius. Escaping from the jaws of despair, he is
carried amid the vortex of dissipation—the Scylla
and Charybdis which guard the path of fame. In
pourtraying this period of his hero's life, the author
introduces a chapter on " the aristocracy of intellect,"
which is well worthy of attention. He premises that
there are two aristocracies, one of birth and one of in-
telligence. To the former he allows much, too much
indeed ; for instance, he observes, " the aristocracy
of birth is not the figment certain democrats proclaim.
A thorough bred hunter is not a hack." To this
comparison we most certainly object ; true we agree
with our author, that between the " two nations"
there may exist as great a difference in beauty of
person and refinement of manner as there does be-
tween the two quadrupeds he has mentioned; but
surely the cause is a very different one, and is attri-
butable not to birth, but education. The following
remarks upon the anxiety which individuals of each
aristocracy evince to become members of the other
are full of truth:—
"Whatever future changes may produce, there are at
the present day two potent aristocracies, both swarming
with presumptuous parvenus, despicable and despised:
parvenus (let it never be forgotten) of intelligence as well
as of station: men who aspire to qualities they have no
claim to: eunuchs of ambition!
" Society is brimful of absurdities, which no ridicule
will rewither ; and of this kind is the absurdity of the
members of one aristocracy consenting to become parvenus
in the other: authors degrading themselves into parvenus
of station, and lords descending into parvenus of intelli-
gence—this indeed is a misconception sometimes fatal;
always ludicrous. Lords consent to be lords; and, before
attempting to be authors, rigidly scrutinise your claims
and title- deeds! You are proud of your own blazonry,
and ridicule the pretensions of the parvenu ; but you
become equally ridiculous when aiming after the blazonry
of mental aristocracy—the titles of books; unless, indeed,
you have the gift of genius to secure your position.
" Authors consent to be authors ; and before attempt.
ing to move in the first circles,' unless your position
call you there, rigidly scrutinise what it is you want :
what is your aim, and whether this society and its
demands be compatible with the mission of your lives.
Do not degrade yourselves by abdication of a rightful
throne for a baffled attempt at usurpation of a foreign
One.
" Either there is dignity in intellectual rank, or there
is not: if there is, no other rank is needed; if there is
not, no other rank can give it ; for dignity is not an
accident, but a quality."
The chapter following Rauthorpe's precipitate retreat
from the theatre, after the failure of his tragedy,
vividly pourtrays what many must have felt. It is
called " Aspiration and Inspiration," and points out
the terrible difference which exists between them.
With an extract from these suggestive remarks, we
must take leave of " Ranthorpe, in the hope, how-
ever, of ere long again meeting with its author.
" There have been few men of genius, I fancy, who
have not had their moments of despondency. Exalted
by the contemplation of Beauty, and the harmonious
witcheries of Proportion, they have looked upon their
own efforts with disgust ; aspiring after perfection they
have doubted their capacity to attain it, and questioned
themselves narrowly as to whether they have not mis-
taken the aspiration, common to so many, for the in-
spiration given to so few. The very superiority. of mind
which enables them to conceive perfection, only the more
readily detects the distance which separates their works
from it. _ _ _

•• In moments of despondency, when with bitter
irony a man interrogates himself and says—Am I what
I thought myself ? and receives only dark, vague
answers—then, should failure come as confirmation, the
thought of suicide arises, and is eagerly clutched at by
despair. To such despondency a few noble spirits
have succumbed: spirits who had endured the goading
evils of poverty, envy, and neglect—endured them to a
frightful extent, but never suffered them to quell their
giant energies.
" They wrong us who believe we quail before the
ordinary ills of life! We have more than a common
courage to endure; the history of our heroic predecessors
amply shows it. Our lives are chequered ; but because
our path is on the stony highway, where thorns and
flints pierce our bleeding feet, have we turned aside?
Have we ceased the combat when wounded? No; if the
path be stony, are there not flowers growing on the
hedge? If the path be dark before us, have we not an
inner lamp to guide us safely onwards? Ay, a lamp
whose smallest glimmer irradiates the world with beauty !
By its light we walk, and walk cheerily; by its rays we
are warmed and gladdened in the depth of winter nights,
when perhaps the last dying embers flicker on our deso-
late hearths. We may be poor, but we are never abject;
we may be neglected, but we are not unhappy until we
neglect ourselves! It is only when this inner lamp is
quenched, or when we look on it as some false will-o'-
wisp, that all the glory of our mission fades away ; and
then what wonder if we arrest our steps and die blas-
pheming? Answer, Chatterton! Gilbert! Ilaydon!
To have passed a life of cherished hopes and
visionary efforts, and to find at last that they were based
on air! To have forsaken all this bounteous world affords,
to feed the hungriest vanity, or greediest sense, and to
find that you have been a dupe, a miserable dupe! To
hear the ceaseless roll of waters as they break upon the
shore, and know how great the busy joyouS world they
speak of; yet to feel like some poor stranded barque that
had tempted the rough waves in youthful confidence, and
now lies broken and deserted on them! To feel that
everywhere around you men are happy, busy, and you
alone without an aim—you alone purposeless, hopeless,
joyless.—you alone wasted ! And in this despondency to
recal the delicious reveries and bounding hopes which
once were yours; to recal the lonely walks, on summer
eves, along sequestered streams, where your busy fancy
struck out many a gilded pageant of the future; to recal
your midnight studies, when with burning head and
aching eyes you peered into the secrets of the great
Departed ; and then to look upon your present state,
aimless and joyless! To awaken from the dream of life
to find thatl
11,der lamp was false, a mockery of your
hopes! This is misery—this is despair mighty enough
to quell the stoutest heart!
" And this despair seised Percy Ranthorpe, and he
resolved to die!"
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FINANCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By

Thomas Doubleday.

A peculiar interest attaches itself to this remark-
able work at the present moment, seeing that every
endeavour is now being made for the reparation of a
protracted injustice. The national mind, we do
firmly believe, is ripe fora comprehensive reorga.