The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-17 00:00:00

SAILINGS.

July 12. Noran cutter, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart., for
New Yarmouth.

15. Esmeralda schooner, John E. W. Rolls, Esq., for
Plymouth and Fowey.

YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.

Schooners—Capricorn, 313 tons—Fair Rosamond, 123
—Flirt, 132—Maud, 119— Merlin, 64—Wyvern, 205
Proserpine, 121—Magic, 86.
Cutters—Sparrowhawk, 84 tons—Alarm, 193—Pe-
terel, 98—Elizabeth, 65—Nymph, 31—Talisman, 96
Witch, 70—Osprey, 59—Gauntlet, 65—Lark, 65—Au-
rora, 42—Turquoise, 57—Stormfinch, 63—Antelope, 90.
Yawls—Dream 124 tons—Waterlily, 31—Syren, 68
—Susan, 40—Eagle, 53.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.

The following notice is from the Sailing Committee of
the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta:—
August 12. 501. prize for third-class cutters (75 tons
and under 105 tons).
14. 50/. prize for fourth-class cutters (105 tons and all
above).
17. Her Majesty's Plate for first-class cutters (30 tons
and under 50 tons).

18. The Royal Yacht Squadron dinner.
19. 501. prize for yachts of any Royal Yacht Clubs
under 30 tons. Fireworks in the evening by Mr. Thomas
Robson.

20. The Royal Yacht Squadron ball. Weippert's
band will attend.

21. Prince Albert's Plate for schooners of 150 tons
and under.

23. The Duke of Beaufort's Cup for second-class
cutters (50 tons and under 70).
N.B. Three vessels must enter and start for every
prize, or no race. In case three vessels are not entered
in time, the prize will pass to schooners above 105 tons,
O. M.

The entrance for all the raises will close on the sth
day, at midnight, before the time of sailing, so as to
have four clear days, except for the Cup of the 19th, for
which vessels may enter till within twenty-four hours of
starting.
THE ROYAL YACHTS.—Hundreds are daily availing
themselves of the kindness of Lord A. Fiticlarence in
allowing every one who pleases to go over the Victoria
and Albert and the Fairy. The boatmen are reaping a
good harvest.
The yachting season, which has been so long delayed
this year, appears to be about to commence in earnest.
Numerous fashionable visitors are daily arriving, and
the applications for houses increase; but we never re-
member so many houses to let at this late period before.
THE HARVEST.—AII sorts of corn promise well.
The harvest will commence in about three weeks. Beans,
peas, turnips, &c., want rain. The potatoes never looked
better, but cannot long stand out against the continued
drought.

Numores COLUMN.—Yesterday the works at
Nelson's Column, Ti afalgar-square, after a lapse of
nearly two months, were once more resumed, and, in
consequence of the recent grant made by the House of
Commons, it is said that this national monument is at
length to be completed without any further delay.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The late assistant-surgeon
of the Conway, Mr. Thomas Hart, committed suicide in
Portsmouth this morning, leaving a note at his hotel,
• hat disappointed hopes of his promotion had been the
cause. It should however be observed, that one of his
messroatess saw hita tipsy in the fair last night,

THE CAOUTCHOUC TRADE.
In consequence of the great aid constantly increasing
dein.nd tor caoutchouc (a corruption of the name given
it by the aborigines of Brazil, " cahuchu") in this
country and other parts of Europe, and the Uiiited SO TO
of North America, from the almost daily new uses to
which it is foci id applicable, the attention of the
Brazilian Government and Legislature has been
called to tt:e necessity of promoting the Pr°.
pagation of the trees from which it is exi
tracted, serinya elastica. On this interesting s;1.
important subject a memoir has been published by toil
Brazilian Institution for encouraging agricultural sou'
manufacturing improvements, from which it apPeeil
that the extraction of the gum is become so great, tile'
it is no longer procurable in the vicinity of towns er
villages in the province of Para, in which the trees are
only to be found which yield it, and those principalli
on the island at the mouth of the river Amazons,
on its banks in the interior ; so that at the rest
moment a great many' heads of families proceed in the
proper season into the woods and forests abounwob
there, without habitation or means of subsisting bl
from hunting and fishing, and thus lead a wandering
solitary life, until enabled to return to their hogs
with a sufficient quantity of the gum. Such, however'
has been the demand, that it has led to the commission
of many frauds, such as tilling the paens (loaves or
balls) into which it was generally formed, with mad
and dirt, so that the purcha3ers were put to the trouble
of opening them, in order to ascertain whether tbq
were imposed on or not, and have been led to prefer
in a plain and transparent state, that they may see
pure and clean. In 1828 the quantity exported el!
not exceed 4,000 milreis in value, and 20,0001 b.
weight, whereas in the last financial year, 1845-6,1
amounted to upwards of 800,0001 b. besides 415,921
pairs of shoes, the whole valued at 500,000 milreis
It becomes, therefore, a matter of great consideration
for Brazil not only to preserve this branch of her
trade in its present flourishing state, but likewise to uv
able to augment its production in proportion to its tor
creased consumption ; no other branch of its eXlOOll_,
trade is so profitable, since nothing but manual laboe'
is required, and one man employed in its collection eel
obtain extract sufficient in one day to make ten pairs (1)3
shoes, the current price of which being 300 rein
gives three milreis per diem, equal at the current ev
change to 7s. 6d. a day, which in that cheap cool
may be considered equivalent to 10s. 6d. in the Veit
Kingdom.

tbirD XXitttott

IMPERIAL PA RLIAMENT•

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships were announced to assemble
at one o'clock, for the purpose of advancing
pro soli
Bills a stage, but no business was ceeded with tile
past three o'clock, owing to the absence of a Bishop, lo"
their Lordships could not proceed to business witholll
prayers being read by one Right Rev. Prelate.
During the interim Noble Lords hurried about in lin
directions in the vain hope of finding the missing Pl.
late, the Bishop of St. Asaph, the youngest Blob°Pl
whilst messengers were dispatched for the Right fit:
Prelates who reside but a short distance from
11
Houses of Parliament—the Bishop of Worcester, '
the Cloisters, and' the Bishop of London, but with 11°
better result.
A heavy debate raged within the walls of the
in which Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, I'Li-
Rerlesdale, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the P:
of Shaftesbury took part, as to what should be d°ll'
It appeared that the House of Commons was Wail
as they had completed their business, for the purpose
receiving the Poor-law Amendment and other Bill!
and that the Commons had instructed Members
bring up a number of Bills; in fact, the business of 101;
branches of the Legislature was at a standstill- A"
one for two hours and the other for more than half $ll

hour.
At length the Bishop of Bath and Wells was fang so
and the Right Rev. Prelate having read prayed!
galleries were thrown open, and business cornisiennor
nearlya quarter after three; the Earl of SHAFTZS,ISCov
acting both as Chancellor and as Chairman of v°
mittees.

LEITH HARBOUR.
Lord REDESDALE moved for copies of the corre011;
denc9 which had taken place between the Cominissi°lltve'o
of this harbour and the G.mmissioners of her Meig%if
Treasury, in order that their Lordships 'nigh' k°,4o
what sums of money had been advanced for this pow
work.

Lord CAMPBELL did not object to the return. ht
Lord REDESDALE said the Commissioners Bongo
enormous powers by the Bill. The cost of the work Wif
stater to be 35,0001., but they sought power 'to orr:gs
200,0001. As the Bill had been passed almost withko
discussion in the other House, it was necessary t,".4
their Lordships and the public should have the 1010"
information on the subject.
The return was then agreed to.
COMMITTEE.
The following Bills were passed through Comreitteet
Canal Companies Bill.
Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill, No. 3.
Highway Rates Bill.
Militia Bill.
Copyright (Colonies) Bill.
Public Works and Drainage (Ireland) Bill.
London-bridge Approaches Fund Bill.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time Oil
passed:—
Post-office Bill.
Navigation (No. 2) Bill.
Recovery of Public Monies (Ireland) Bill.
Muscle Fisheries Bill.

COMMONS' AMENDMENTS. op
The C, mmons' Amendments to the following
were agreed to:—
Saint Aubyn's Estate Bill.
Tunstall Market Company Bill.
Sir Henry Willoughby Rouke's Estate Bill.
lyt
A considerable number of Bills were brought v f
the House of Commons by list, and not singly and
grave and formal ceremony, as heretofore.
'l'
Their Lordships then adjourned at Half past

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly atter Tice
LORDS' AMENDMENTS. we.
The Lords' amendments to the following Do's
considered and agreed to :
Directy mp ve cn t. ohehela
London and Portsmouth, Brighton and ‘,..--,.10011
ter, London, Brighton, and South Coast, and
and South-Nestern Railways.
Duffryn, Llynvi, and Porth Cawl, and Lynvi
Railways Amalgamation.
East Lancashire Railway (Southport Branch and ...Pres°
Extension).
Exeter and Exmouth Railway.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks. eat'
London Bridge Railway Termini General Enlarge° onti
Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and 14011
Dereham Railways Amalgamation
Portsmouth Paving, Lighting, and Improvement-
St. Ives (Huntingdon) Improvement.
South Devon Railway (Extension and Amendrnent)o
On the motion of Mr. GREENE, the following P
were read a third time and passed:— Este
Newbart (or Gravenors) Estate Bill; Paterson ate
Bill; Pickernell's Estate Bill; Duke of Richmond's Es .
Bill; Hylton's Estate Bill; Penson's Estate Bill; eOlllll
sell's Estate Bill; Earl of Devon's Estate Bill; Pliiro
das's Estate Bill ; Gillespie's Estate Bill; Oklaiio,,n
BP
Estate Bill ; Northam-bridge Company's Estate OP
and Lord Ward's Estate Bill.
„eh
On the motion of Mr.- GREENE, the StrathbOn.
Railway Bill, and the Caledonian Railway (Purchasel
Lease of Wishaw and Coltness Railway) Bill were
drawn.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Finsbury 14
th
respect to the case of the Raja of Sattara.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATioSY
This Bill was read aBILL third time and passed, after
short discussion.
ASSISTANT SURGEONS IN THE N.A - gore
Mr. WAKLEY gave notice of his intention 00etbet
day nex to ask the Secretary of the AdmiraltY 01100
in the next session it was his intention to introu
Bill to impreve the condition of the Assistant Serge
in the Naval Service.
%cell°
ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION
MEN T BILL.
The House went into Committee on this Bill. re
The clauses were read over and agreed to, and the
port was ordered to be brought up on Monday ee%""
The House then resumed.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES (No. 2) 13gitcin
The Committee on this Bill was deferred till AIL-
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY 131/"."-
On the motion that this Bill be read a third time'
Lord G. BENTINCK moved that it be rs`' 00°
till Honourable and Learned Members who were (Os'
present should be in the House to take part in the
cussion. j4oble
Sir G. GREY acceded to the suggestion of the
Lord, and postponed the Bill till Monday.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. , Dig&
A message from the Lords brought up severt „rod
The House, at a Quarter past Three o'clock, OP-
till Monday at Three o'clock.

tend
To ELECTORS.—We beg to impress upon the at the
tion of electors that, to entitle them to appear on
registration lists for the ensuing year, all poor-rates 4
le
assessed taxes, due before the 6th of April last, 131°
paid on or before Tuesday next, the 20th inst.
ewe ice
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, JULY „bri ee
moderate arrivals to this day's market. At rh- :le
rather exceeding those obtainable last Friday, we -th et
a retail demand fur wheat ; the fineness of the We
preventing extensive operations. Little pasajog.
barley, and no change in value. Oats and shelling Itis
as well sold. There is an improved demand for be"—
at 2s. to 3s. per quarter more money.
jaie
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 16.--Tb- the
continues to be badly supplied with samples, on, loci;
transactions of the week are consequently very bra' de.
but prices remain steady. The refined market itZrery
cidedly better, both as regards demand and value•
little doing in ruin.—Briad Mercury.
•

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LITERATURE.
THE Q UAR Z ERL Y RE VI EW. No. CLXI:
Not the leading article in point of position, but
certainly the leading article in point of ability, among
the oior.: papers contained in the hundred and sixty-
first number of the Quarterly Review, is the one en-
title,sl " Pantagruelism." Much erudition is scattered
thtough the contribution, but its excellence is frit-
tered away by the entire absence of arrangement, and
the rather doubtful purpose of the arguments.
To an ordinary reviewer it would be a rather
eruharassing thing to have to compile an
article complete and one in itself upon the
triple theme of the political caricatures by H. 8.,
the " Sartor Resartus" of Thomas Carlyle, and the
' Doctor" of Robert Southey. Yet upon this literary
and pictorial tripod, as it were, has the Quarterly
Reviewer raised a very able, and, in many respects,
eleoorate disquisition. The incongruity, or more
strictly speaking, the want of unity in his subject,
has however, deteriorated so far from the intrinsic
Merit of his compilation, as to render it at times
diffuse and disconnected. The writer sets out by
stating that his object, if he can be said to have one at
all of a definite character, is to afford illustrations
of a style of composition which he distinguishes
by the generic title of Pantagrueli stic. Every one
who is a lover of the vis comica has read, of course,
Rabelais, or it he has not, he deserves to be—like one
ef the monks depicted by that prince of jesters_
kicked to death in a desert. Every lover of the vis
comica, therefore, is at once familiar with the mean-
ing of the term Pantagruelistic, a word compounded
of rayrsc, which in the Greek signifieth all, and gruel,
which in the Arabic signifieth thirsty. For Panta-
gruel, according to the authority of the incomparable
author of " Gargantua," was horn on a certain Fri-
day, when the pclople were all at their orisons, and
groat drops of -water exuded from the ground like
sweat, which, when the observers had collected and
of the
drunk they
found to be salt and brackish as the brine
wherefore the father of Pantagruel so christr,ned him as a
commemoration of t e time of his
birth when all were thirsty. Rabelais further ex-
Plains the signification of Pantap.ruclism, declaring it
to be " a sort of high spirits worked up in despite of
accidents ready to drink too if you will," or as the
reviewer, yet more distinctly expresses it " that sort
''3f gaiety which a moderate allowance of good wine
Is calculated to produce ;in plain English—a ten-
dency to skylarking !" Plain English enough
We opine, language which Mr. Roebuck would call the
vernacular. From the assertion that although Rabelais
created the expression 7ravl-a- gruelism, he was far
from behe reviewer dashes off into an episodical eulogium
pane Aristophanes.
ianngey ric is a And in the course of this
t 1
passage to which we would in a particular
r direct the attention of the Royal Academician,
DANIEL. MACLISE containing, as it does, a sugges-
tion of ~ with opportunities for the manitesta-
ho his very great artistic genius.
nOt " As we can-
Pe to see Aristophanes restored to the stage,
a fashion
lays the reviewer, " though Sophocles has, after
truly ~ resumed his buskins, we should be
glad to see the next best thing—a
of illustrations of his comedies—say the "Knights"
isorn the
" Peace"—by an artist of real skill and real
;,,-Illour; he must be a better draughtsman than
"'A czsch and less formal than Flaxman ; he must have
the fun 4
lik ti- a caracaturist, and the feelings of a poet ;
f. eR. , he must be able to preserve an identity of
a," in the leading characters, but he must be able,
oat_ the same time, to sport with an unlimited variety
among ire
and groupings." " There is an artist
often continues 11,," continues the reviewer, " who toc
do allnitstakes his own calling, but who could
Aristophanes this—Maclise ; and if it were done,
Bich he
could ould be restored to the only stage,
in the worf °"IIPY in the nineteenth century."
Fell on't;' iz. s
eenhs ae 1 I oo
fne.r, let. Mr. Maclise " think
the fol' ' prompts us to give
justice . • -
'°wing very
ofocr ophnes, in
Arist forcible and specious vindication
sSaynateS. regard to his conduct towards
Still we must premise the quotation, by
bi_si g that the writer is guilty of almost as much
la
Phenly in his remarks about Socrates, as he im-
ofPates with ,
Socrates,uen flippancy to Rousseau. The name
quy._...B however, defies all aspersion and oblo-
cr4tes theocrates the wisest of the sagesof antiquity—So-
:_ Christian greatest of all pagan philosophers—Socrates
e in principle, in the midst of licentious-
't It PAYtheisni !
,i
to
.. is s impossible" proceeds the Quarterly Review,
strict understand the death of Socrates, without a
he liv:trenne to the history of the times in which
Chang e believe the case to have stood thus. A great
pe Was introduced into the Athenian character of
14t1.01(e'est who was a disciple of the philosophical specu-
h r Ansxagoras. We shall best characterise this
,14rige by saying that it consisted in the rise of the
,ilt:e of >tz;',%?..a.,/o:9ol—that is (according to the Athe-
ia:,tbeaning of the phrase) of those who were for lodg-
blil e'lver with au aristocracy, not of birth and wealth,
wase..l talent. In this state of things great influence
tiainea's'ercised by the Sophists, par excellence the men cf
almost „resting' on intellectual accomplishment ; and
°Ppese,l'verY educated man subsequent to Pericles was
aei6sh - to the old established democrac) either from
Predie, motives or on theoretical grounds. We
.mday,
Aleibi"te this distinctly of Critias, Antiphon, Thucydi es,
Crates es, and Soph-ocles. As for Euripides and So
raove, 'they were considered as fellow-workers idn
asa
turp ''erlt for the exaltation of the middle class,,an
ima,cophist,s (See Art•stoph. Ran 771, and .'iLch. c.
atexepti P. -4). Aristophanes was the great solitary
Ath°2l to this tendency on the part of literary men
Besratcs ; hence his antagonism to Euripidesf arnettil
the 8'
wh°,
houghaltho they would never have favoured
tier establishment ure oligarchy,
hi„t•he,s,P,oo than fort hp 400 or and were rath*,r
the 30, had given ear-
k,?,lollZ-ations than any others of their wish to place the
Patsiopi /c6Ol above the Demus. In one of his most
rnoutCe tragedies Euripides had ventured to put into the
1 of Theseus r.f,tijv is the words—
AIM nn thC4PY Y) ''/1.1.47W ',7,4EL TrOAESc.—Supp/. 244..
tioia sheraraenes who, if he had been a consistent poll-
pEliLlytitht have brought these views to a practical ex-
_.Vve rnt, was certainly a favourer of middle measures.
10,0er:ve no doubt then that Aristophanes looked upon
kiddlse.s a 4
a mischievous advocate of the cant of the
and
serFlass reformers, to whom he attributed hypocrisy
of the class reformers, the usual qualities of the talking patrons
t
t,_.
aoretical changes; and if we are right in supposing
tiZeio sort of Stoicism not that which was positively
by all Ped
by
Zeno, but that which is practically adopted
wt
trayen of genius and sincerity in a vicious age—if
to„._
t. suppose that a sort of Stoicism is the necessary.
Aristophanes."o nitant of true Pantagruelisni, then the feeling of
e. may not have been very different from that
Rome,W'u h was subsequently
0, who used to say that
expressed by the model Stoic of
and erbeari `Socrates was a loquacious
ng Person, and endeavoured, as tar as it
was possible for
by abolishi tai, to get the mastery over his country.
tag over li-ng established customs, and drawing or bring-
laws.,
(Plutarch
=nest citizens to opinions contrary to the
BIWA remember th Ca t°
Illai°r'
SoCrat's de •
served the punishment
c. xxiii.) After all, we
at the question for us is not whether
the rough which he incurred. or
received handling which he had some years previously
Ze. from Aristophanes, but whether our Pants-
eurelistic poet sincerely believed, and on grounds which
sufficient hirn, as a conscientious and clear-headed man,
ae, 0 i_ent and satisfactory, that this father of many
gk n °ls of philosophy was a mischievous character, whose
itittoviiv Was as much a piece of cant and quackery as
A lying spirit of divination possessed by Lucian's
Ale der or any other 4/EL;3othawri; and S weden-
bergian of ancient or modern times. If Aristophanes had
Ac oar
which we must admit to have been sufficient for
211 l Contemporary, who could not estimate all the important
asequences which might one day flow from the doe-
nes of Socrates, and who was bred up in the belief
that toleration is a cowardly vice; if he had reasons for
believing that this was the case, and was besides cor.n-
pelted to identify Socrates with the
proceedings of a
party which paved the way for the subversion of the old
ceinstitution of Athens,we cannot but extol him for acting
'with unshrinking courage on the strength of his own
convictions, and we willinglysae strong band which cut
recognise in ' The Clouds'
the same good heart and the m
415 Cleon 'into shoe-soles for the knights.'" (Ach. 300.)
~,, Alter a few galant slashes at the now popular
-tory bugbear of Popery, mentioning it as a " mysti-
nd as a system assuming
Station of Christianity,"
II right to " enslave. the individual conscience, and
l intellect," the writer
mergestncram.p the individual
; into a milder and less polemic strain by re-
k_erring to the Divina Commedia of Dante, which,
zwever, from its strictly allegorical character and
, . ,S "0
„~
~."' rantaglism. Speaking of the contributions
made to the raw materials of the English language
-3' Skelton—atrue Pantagruelist—the reviewer ob-
-44-v"---" A certain shrewd Professor of the Un i-
‘'etrsitY of Cambridge was once asked, in our hearing,
'whether Shakspere or Milton had the greater
~°l:ninand of the English language : he replied, briefly
;tl°ligh, Shakspere could have slanged Milton into a ditch
~.-4.fiee minutes." Swift, in like manner, is mentioned,
;"dvvith reason, as one gifted with this pantagrzzelisCc
Olubility. Jean Paul Frederick Richter is received
Oro,l the same number, while Sterne, and Hogarth,
titild Churchill, and Voltaire are rejected. We cordi-
ti,,‘ 3: agree with the writer in his depreciatory epithets
.e Iv ''° the sincerity of Southey's facetiousness in that
°c llaerful monstrosity of modern literature, The
the 67% We have devoured the five first volumes,
-.lse
Silth we have not yet seen, but from those
Inur,,vollimes, it is as impossible to deny the
anti;' reading and the profound learning of the
thah'3l. as it would be to regard his grins as other
Ills eater produced as by galvanism, or look upon
affeessPvagant gaiety as other than an extravagant
howe7len and a gigantic humbug. No affectation,
tar ,:r, have we ever been able to see in the charac-
artst,L;.t.coMpositions of Thomas Carlyle, and as an
tollo,lo vindication of the latter we transcribe the
`4 sins paragraph ~._
vltneh 'n regard to Mr. Carl qe's style—we have heard
feetm°l its aff • )
iiL. ss,affectation If it be true that he is
.an af-
ttra 4 atin'nr, no one can have any business to claim for
VQtlf 4 ektieet arLong the Pantagruelista; for affectation is
Oiril 4, nr,_,,sßilt we believe that the case is not so.
tankti:4 power of thinking transcends his power
fie, 4 colouring of quaintness and perbtutry

will often el.titch to his writings ; and if he has convinced
hi-eaself that the common literary style of his country-
men is used as a vehicle for the concealment or inade•
quate expression of thought, he will be not unlikely to
substitute for it the plain-speaking of colloquial inter-
course, though this should occasionally verge towards
vulgarity. Hence mannerism ;—but we can by no means
see that mannerism must necessarily be affectation
Some of our readers will perhaps be startled by the as
sertion we are about to make—that Mr. Carlyle's style is
identical in its leading peculiarities with that of Bishop
Andrewes. Perhaps there were never two men who
were more different in the habitual direction of their
thoughts, or in their early training, or in the raw mate-
rials of which their writings are made up. And we feel
certain that the author of Sartor Resartus ' never read
a page of the bishop's writings, otherwise he must have
referred to them in his Cromwell.' We must conclude,
then, that these two peculiar writers of the seventeeth
and nineteenth centuries wrote as they did from some
internal necessity of a similar nature—namely, that as
Andrewes wished to speak plainly from the pulpit on
subjects which were involved in the wrappings of theo-
logical learning, his pedantry, quaintness, and slant*,
were the results of his struggle with the fetters imposed'
upon him ; and that the same defects in the style of the
modern author were produced by a similar wish to shake
off the trammels which he felt to be imposed upon him
by the sometimes unmeaning decencies of the fashion-
able mode of writing." _

Several curious examples are given of this strange
resemblance between the s'yles of Carlyle and
Andrewes, as for instance in the derivation or real
meaning of proper names ; in the manufacturing of
words ; in the use of the vulgarest colloquialisms;
in a pedantic play upon words ; in an etymological
sort of punning; in abrupt exclamatory sentences;
in quaint inversions ; and in emphatic and demon-
strative epexegesis. Perhaps the most remarkable of
these resemblances is the last—namely, the epexegesis.
" From Oxford to Rome" is a dissertation Protestant
to the back-bone. It is conceived in a spirit of true
earnestness. Those who love the witcheries of
voyaging in the Antic and Antarctic regions will
read with intense interest the review of the
works written respecting the memorable expedi-
tion of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N.,
one of the ablest navigators that ever lived. The in-
terest of the article is enhanced by the mystery sur-
rounding the fate of the expedition to the North Pole
under Franklin and Crozier—for the safety of which
expedition all true hearts pray. Of the " Financial
Pressure" we have spoken so repeatedly, and there is
a certainty of so many better opportunities than the
present arising to tempt us to a reiteration of our
animadversions upon the Bank Charter Bill of 1844,
that we shall content ourselves with simply men-
tioning the publication of a paper upon
this important subject in this number of the
Quarterly. " Peel Policy" is a diatribe very little to
our taste. The great statesman, whose conduct is
rendered the theme for so many malicious invectives
and scurrilous vituperations, will not go down to
posterity through the pages of the Quarterly Review.
His memory will live, as he desires it to live, in the
cottages of those who labour, and from the great
boons he has showered upon his contemporaries, that
remembrance we do believe will be as beautiful as
it is illustrious. Quarrel we must, and we do, with
Sir Robert, for his innovations upon the national
system of currency—as a grand and ruinous
mistake ; but we should be ungrateful not to call to
mind, at the same time, the noble and patriotic mea-
sures he has been principally instrumental in passing
through the Houses of Legislation. " The Heirs of
the Stuarts" and " Grand Jours d'Avergne" are
papers replete with historical knowledge, happily
compiled. " Lord Lindsay on the History of Christian
Art" and the "Journal of a Residence in Portugal"
complete the very able contents of this number of the
great organ of the shadow of Conservatism.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

FRIDAY, JULY 16.
BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTRR, &c., BILL.
Order read, for resuming adjourned debate upon Question
(154 h July), " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"
—Question again proposed :—Debate resumed :—Question
put. The House divided.
MAJORITY—AYES, 63.
Acland, T. D. Frewen, C. H. Parker, John
Antrobas, Edmund Gaskell, J. M. Plumptre, J. P.
Bannerman, A. Goulburn, Henry riumridge, Captain
Baring, W. IL Graham, Sir James Polhill, F.
Bentinck, Lord G. Greene Thomas Repton, G. W. J.
Borthwick, P. Grey, Sir G. Rich, Henry
Bowles, Admiral Hamilton, G. A. Richards, Richard
Brown, W. ..-71, llatton, Captain Russell, Lord J.
Buller, Charles Hawes, Benj. Ryder, Granville D.
Chohnondeley, H. llobliouse, Sir John Sailcloth Lord
Christie, W. D. Hope, G. W.' Somerville, Sir W.
Clive, Viscount Hornby, John Stuart, J.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Jervis, Sir John Theslger, Sir F.
Cowper, W. F. Labouchere, Henry Tollemache, John
Denison, J. E. Law, Hon. E. C. Turnell. 11.
Dickinson, F..H. Legh, G. C. Turner, Edmund
Disraeli, B. Macaulay, T. Vivian, J. E.
Duckworth, Sir J. 31aule, Fox Wortley, J. S.
Dundas, Admiral Mundy, E..3f. Wynn, C. W.
Dundas„Sir David Newdegate, C. N. TELLERS.
Entvrisle, William Nicholl, John Hill, Lord hf arcus
Ferguson, Sir R. O'Brien, A. Stafford Ebrlngton, Viscount

MINORITY-NOES, 18.
Aglionby, H. A. Escott, Bickharn Thornely, T.
Aldam, William thistle, A. Trelawny, J. S.
Brotherton, J. Horsinan, Edward Wakley, Thomas
Clements, Viscount M'Taggart, Sir J. Williams, W.
Collett, J ohn Moleaworth, Sir W. TELLERS.
Currie, R. Philips, Mark Hume, Joseph
Duke, Sir J. Roebuck, J. A. Osborne, Captain

Preamble, p. 1, line 21 ; Amendment proposed, to leave
out the words " that a measure should be submitted to Par-
liament for continuing the Bishoprics of St. Asaph and
Bangor as separate bishoprics :"—Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Preamble."
The Committee divided:—

TriA SUN, LONDON‘ SATURDAY
_EVENING, JULY 17, 1847.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE. JULY 14, 1847.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles H.
Broadwood, Ezq., Exon of her Majesty's Body Guard
of the Yeomen of the Guard, vice Henry Chard, Esq.,
resigned. .

PRTCE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending July 13,
1847, is 275. 11<2d. per cwt.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, JULY 15.
The Du ko of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint
the Rev. Stephen Jordan Rigaud, M.A., F.R.A.S.,
Senior Assistant Master at Westminster School, to be
one of his Royal Highness's Chaplains.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 15.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr.
William Carrol, as Consul at St. Helena for his Majesty
the King of Sweden and Norway.
WHITEHALL, JULY 14.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
John Scarth to the church at Sandwick, in the united
parishes of Sandwick, Dunrossness, and Cunningsburgb,
in the presbytery of Lerwick and stewartry of Orkney
and Shetland, vacant by the transportation of the Rev.
Alexander Shand, late minister thereof, to the parish of
Nesting.

(From the London New Price Current of July 16.)

SUGAR.— I'o-day the home trade purchased Raw
Sugars with increased freedom, whilst exporters were
more inclined to do business, and better prices were
obtained for all sorts. The purchases made in West
India Muscovadoe were extensive, and for bright gro-
cery kinds the rates obtained were 6d above those of last
Friday ; for grey and brown more money was obtained,
so that for these sorts prices close the same as on Friday
last. At public sale 110 hhds Trinidad were sold at
38s to 38s 6d for low and mid yellow.
REFINED.—To-day Refined goods were extensively
dealt in by the home trade, and prices further advanced,
brown grocery Lumps selling at 57s 6d to 58s, and
Standard Lumps at 58s 6d to 595. Bonded Crushed
Sugar is little required, and 31s 6(1 to 32s is the present
value of the best.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon, at public sale, 942 bags
and 49 casks Mauritius were offered, and taken in at
rather above the value—good and fine yellow at 43s to
465, middling 40s 6d to 41s, low 3is to 39s 6d, fine
brown 37s to 37s 6d. 52 puns Trinidad Molasses at 20s

per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon white Bengal Sugar met
with attention, and 1,579 bags at public sale were all
sold at rather higher rates—fine white Benares at 48s,
good middling and good 45, 6d to 46s 6d, damp and
washed 424 to 475. Madras is not much required, and
419 bags were taken in at 34s for damp yellow and
brown.
FOREIGN.—There has not been much desire evinced
on the part of exporters to do business, whilst the home
trade purchased only small parcels by private treaty, al-
though there were sellers upon former lower terms. The
refiners working under bond are not much in want of
Sugar at present. At public sale 3,788 bags and 145
chests Pernambuco were offered.
MOLASSES.—In West India the business transacted
priv.stely has been trifling in all sorts. In East India
little business has been done, and prices still tend down-
wards, whilst there is a fair supply.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Native Ceylon was wanted,
and the parcels offered at public sale, amounting to
1,435 bags were nearly all sold at full rates. 12 casks
and 539 bags Plantation Ceylon were chiefly disposed of
at steady rates. Of Jamaica 17 tres 82 barrels 6 bags
were sold at full rates. 25 bags St. Domingo sold at
32s 6d for pale. Of Mocha the quantity offered at
public sale was large, and amounted to 519 bales 365
half- bales ; nearly the whole was taken in above the
value.

Cocos.—Although West India can be obtained at a
reduction on former rates of 2s to 3s per cwt, still little
desire has been evinced to operate, and 102 barrels
118 bsgs at auction were nearly all taken in and with-
drawn. Foreign Cocoa is heavy of disposal. Of all
kinds of Cocoa the arrivals still exceed those of last year.
TEA.—There has been a falling off in the demand for
black this week, still holders evince firmness, and insist
upon fully former rates for all kinds, whilst there is but
a moderate quantity on offer. In Congou only a small
amount of business has been done, but common cannot
be obtained under 9d, and good common 9id per lb. For
green former rates are asked, but the business concluded
has not been of much moment in any sort.
RICE.—To-day at public sale 1,768 bags Singapore
Rice were sold at a decline on former rates of 6d to Is;
middling white went at 14s to 15s, good 15s 6d to 16s,
sea damaged 88 6d to 14s. Privately little was done i n
any sort of rice.
SPICES.—To-day at public sale 1,016 bags picked
Zanzibar Cloves were only in part sold at Bid to Sid for
fine, and at 7d for ordinary. 32 bags Bourbon fetched
7d per lb.
SFlRlTs.—There is a plentiful supply of Rum, and the
quantity on offer far exceeding the demand, a further
tall in the value must be quoted. The deliveries con-
tinue to be unsatisfactory, especially for exportation ;
Jamaica is offered Id to 2d per gallon under former
rates, still the purchases made have been trifling in all
kinds by exporters and the home trade. The total sales
since this day week are only 200 puns. High flavoured
sorts 5s 2d to 5s 3d. East India is little required, and
proof with certificate can be procured at 2s 6d. Leeward
Island have been operated in with caution, and prices
are yet on the decline. Demerara is dull of sale. For
Brandy prices remain much the same as on this day
week, but there has been little desire to do business by
exporters or the home trade. Geneva is in good request
for exportation at 2s 8d to 2s 9d, and for fine for home
use at 3s to 3s 3d. For British Corn Spirits the demand
is dull.

INnroo.—The quarterly sale of East India which
commenced on Tuesday has gone off better than was ex-
pected, considering the late dulness that prevailed in
trade generally. Importers of Bengal showing a desire
to realise occasioned the home and export demand to
be good for all sorts, whilst the principal
portion passed the hammer has been sold ;
good and fine qualities brought last sale's rates.
Kurpah has been only in moderate request at
from last sale's quotation to 2i per lb in advance.
There was little disposition evinced to do business in
Madras, but buyers are compelled to pay the rates of
the May sale to 2d per lb advance. There has been only
a moderate attendance of exporters or the home trade.
ro-day during the progress of the sale 91 chests were
withdrawn, and 906 chests have passed. There is no
alteration to notice in the prices of Bengal, which remain
very irregular.
SALTPETRE.— All qualities of Rough are much re-
quired by exporters and the home trade, and in conse-
quence of the scanty supply, buyers are compelled to
pay stiff rates. In British Refined a good deal has been
done at 33s to 33s 6d, at which prices are firm. Nitrate
of Soda is in little request.
Ous —Although the supply of Linseed is not large,
still there are sellers upon further reduced tea ms.
On the spot the home trade operated with caution,
hnd only small parcels were taken by exporters,
whilst 27s per cwt was accepted. There aro sellers for
forward delivery at 26s 6d, but few contracts have
been concluded. The consumption, however, does
not decrease. There is no further advance to notice in
the value of Rapeseed Oil, but large purchases have been
made. Olive Oil cannot be quoted higher, but the
demand is good both from exporters and the home trade.
Of Palm the stock has been further increased, still
the market is firm, and many purchases have been made.
Cocoa Nut is less required, whilst the supply is on the
increase, and prices are on the decline. The value of
Lard Oil is 43s to 475, end of African ground Nut Oil
41s to 42s per cwt; but little business has been done. Of
Fish Oils there are large arrivals, still holders are firm,
and there is no decrease in the demand. Southern of
all sorts has been in excellent request; at public sale 100
tuns were all sold. In pale Seal a good deal has been
done, other kinds have been sold to a fair extent. For
Cod a fair demand exists, and there is but a moderate
quantity on offer. Sperm does not improve in value, as
there is a plentiful supply, but by private treaty several
purchases have been made.
TALLow.—Russsian on the spot is offered upon fur-
ther reduced terms; still the town and country trade
have purchased with caution. There has been little
business transacted for forward delivery. Other
sorts of Tallow are little wanted, and can be obtained
upon rather lower terms. The value of rough Fat is
2s 9id per stone of Blbs. The supply from St. Peters-
burgh this season is estimated at from 135,000 t 0140,000
casks.