The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-24 00:00:00

RNING-;:i. JULY 24, 1841.

terrogatory, the choice of an advocate, &c., were com-
pleted with respect to M. Pellapra before he secretly left
Paris ; and his constituting himself a prisoner at the
Petit-Luxembourg is only in execution of the warrant
for his arrest issued by the Chamber of Peers on the Bth
July. It will consequently not be necessary to proceed
to any new examination of M. Pellapra. M. Chaix
d'Est-Ange has been, it will be remembered, chosen the
advooate of that gentleman. It is supposed that the trial
will be completed on Friday, and that on the next day
the decision of the Court will be given."
It is understood that ultimately M. TECTE w 11 be
transferred to the fortress of Ham.
General CUBIERES is about to set out for the
United States. -

The Orleans and Bourges Railroad was opened on
Tuesday.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Wednesday, at 771. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 1181. 65c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,277 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 973 f.
75c. ; Havre, 645 f. ; Great Northern, 5721. 50c. ; Avignon,
625 f. ; Vierzon, 583 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux, 485 f. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 2701. ; Basle, 1821. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg,
4181. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes, 397 f. 50c. - Paris and Lyons,
4321. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4351: ; iordeaux and Cette,
438 f. 75c.; Boulogne, 365 f ; Spanish Three per Cents., 32%.
LYONS, JULY 19.-Paris and Rouen, 9701. ; Avignon and
Marseilles, 635 f. Vierzon, 592 f. 50c.; Northern, 5721. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 151 A-Dutch Rhenish, 3%-
Great Western Canada, 3%-Lyons and Avignon (Consti-
tuted), 2%-Northern of France, 1234-Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 55/4-Paris and Rouen, 38A-West Flanders, 4.

SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN OF
NAVAL OFFICERS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I think the commercial world, and the public
generally, cannot know that a school was estab:ishe d
some years since at New Cross, Deptford, by the aid of
a noble bequest of the late Dr. Bell, and the assistance
of Alderman Lucas and a few other benevolent indivi-
duals, to enable officers of her Majesty's navy (who de-
serve so much at our hands, since it is owing to their
achievements and daring that England has attained her
present pre-eminence, and her merchants and the commu-
nity generally, the wealth which has flowed in upon us),
to educate their children at a reduced rate, and to pro-
vide for the gratuitous education of their orphans. or
they would have come forward with alacrity, and gladly
have availed themselves of the opportunity to enrol their
names in support of so noble a cause. Too true it is,
that the institution has not met with that assistance
which it had every reason to expect from the public, and
consequently the council was obliged at the outset to
clog the admission to the school with an entrance-fee of
lot., in addition to the payment of 251. per annum.
This entrance money I am satisfied is a bar to the
placing of many a boy at the school. because his parents
cannot command the funds ; still the council say they
cannot do without it. This entrance fee can be bought
up for the trifling sum of 251., entitling the purchaser of
the debenture for two lives constantly to have the son of
a naval officer in the school, and who will thereby get a
first-rate education on his parent paying the moderate
sum of 251. a year ; and t • the gratification of assisting
to educate many orphans of those who have fallen in his
country's service.
For want of this support, this noble institution, after
an outlay of may thousand pounds is in danger of falling
to the ground, or of being diverted from its original
purpose. Surely in this crisis there must be many
noble hearts who will readily step forward with this
trifling sum to aid in averting such a calamity. Surely
there must be many of our merchants and wealth?ci-
tizens who will readily admit that they owe much of
their prosperity to the security afforded them by nur
" wooden walls," and the gallant hearts who commanded
them, and who will therefore be proud of the opportunity
now afforded them of showing their estimation of the
service; and surely there must be many of our wealthy
aristocracy and landed proprietary who, knowing that
they owe the quiet enjoyment of their possessions to the
sanctity thrown around our shores by the gallant deeds
of " the heroes of bygone days," will be found to step
forward and assist the members of that service to w hotn
we all owe so much. I firmly believe there are many
su •h; and to them I would earnestly appeal, through
you, for assistance to enable the council to carry out the
objects of the Royal Naval School.
I feel that lam occupying a large portion of ur
space, and will conclude by referring your readers to the
secretary, Mr. Eames, R.N.S., New-cross, Deptford, to
whom I have sent my name as a subscriber for one de-
benture to commence the list.—l am, Mr. Editor, your
most obedient servant,
A COMMERCIAL MAN,
Who thinks the Royal Navy deserve
much at our hands.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen went in State yesterday to the House of
Lords to close the session of Parliament with a speech
from the Throne.

The royal procssion was formed in the following
order :

A carriage drawn by six bays, conveying three Gen-
tlemen Ushers, Sir Frederick Smith, Mr. Arthur Black-
wood. and Mr. Alfred Montgomery ; the Exon of the
Yeomen Guard, Captain Kincaid ; and the Page of
Honour, Mr. Gordon.

A carriage, drawn by a set of bays, conveying the
Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert, Captain the Hon.
A. H. Gordon ; the Groom of the Robes, Lieut.-Colonel
Seymour ; the Silver Stick in Waiting, Col. McDouall ;
the Groom in Waiting, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore; and the
Page of Honour, Mr. Forbes.
A carriage drawn by six bays conveying the Clerk
Marshal, Lord Alfred Paget; the Equerry, in Waiting,
Colonel Buckley; the Field Officer in Waiting, Colonel
Sir Ord Honyman ; and the Comptrollers of the House-
hold, Lord Marcus Hill.
A carriage drawn by a set of bays conveying the
Captain of the Yeoman Guard, Viscount Falkland; the
Lord in Waiting, the Earl of Morley; the Lord in Wait-
ing to the Prince, Viscount Clifden ; and the treasurer of
the Household, Lord Robert Grosvenor.
A carriage drawn by six black horses conveying the
Lady in Waiting, the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe;
the -Lord Steward, Earl Fortescue; the Gold Stick in
Waiting, the Marquis of Anglesey; and the Groom of
the Stole to the Prince, the Marquis of Abercorn.
The Queen's Marshalmen, two and two.
The Queen's footmen.
A party of the Yeomen Guard.
The State Coach, conveying her Majesty the Queen,
his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, the ➢Mistress of
the Robes, the Duche*s of Sutherland ; and the Master
of the Horse, the Duke of Norfolk.
The Queen and Prime Albert were conducted to their
carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, and the Vice-Cham-
berlain.

The State procession left Buckingham Palace by the
temporary garden entrance at twenty minutes before
two o'clock, escorted by a party of Life Guards.
The Crown was conveyed to the House of Lords by
Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Royal Suite, returned to Buckingham Palace at five
minutes past three o'clock, and were received by the
Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain.

The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past three
o'clock. It was attended by his Royal ►Highness Prince
Albert, the Lori President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secre-
taries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Coioni ii
Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Cnief Co,n-
missioner of the Woods and Forests, the Paymaster of
the Forces, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain,
the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole
to Prince Albert.
At the Council a Proclamation was ordered to be
issued for the dissolution of Parliament.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Lana-
nd Lord John Russell.
The Court was attended by the MarqUis of Anglesey,
Gold Stick in Waiting; the Earl of Morley, Lord in
Waiting; the Treasurer of the Household; the Vice
Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the Household, and Mr. li
R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the French
Plays with their presence last evening. The Royal suite
consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon.
Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley,
and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by ber
suite, returned to her residence, Bushy House, Bushy
Park, on Thursday night from town.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, attended by Baroness
Hammerstein and Baron Knesebeck, left town at half-
past ten o'clock yesterday morning for the continent.
Their Royal Highnesses proceeded to the Bricklayers
Arms station, and left by the South-Eastern Railway for
Dover, from whence their Royal Highnesses will embark
for Oatend, en route to Frankfort. The Duke of Cam-
bridge visited and took leave of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday morning at Gloucester
House.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Last Night.)

The sale; of Cotton at Liverpool ''esierday were
3,000 bales, including 2,000 bales American, at 61-d. to
lid. per lb. The market was heavy, and American
might be called id. per pound lower than last week. In
Railway Shares business was again dull. The market
wa3 declining, and a considerable quantity of Stock was
pressing. _ _ _

- The day of the prorogation of Parliament is usually
characterized by much dullness in City circles, an i there
is no exception to this rule upon the present occasion,
business being quiet in most departments.
The corn market is steady to-day but not higher, the
demand being as slack as ever. The arrivals of foreign
are large, and there is more English brought forward.
In the English Stock Market there has again been a
want of buoyancy, and the " Bear" party seem to
have the opportunity of repairing some of their past
losses, even should the quotations come round again soon,
if they wisely " make hay while the sun shines."
There can be no doubt that at the present time
money is rather in demand, and that until after
the 4th of August it may so continue, but with
the near approach of harvest, and from present appear-
ances a good harvest too, whatever vague reports are
circulated to the contrary, with abundant crops on the
continent, with a largely increased amount ot' bullion
in the Bank of England, and with the prospect
of the French loan being deferred a while we
cannot see any reason for despondency as to the future.
Consols are now 88f for present transfer, and 884 f
for account. Exchequer-bills have 1., alised Bs. to 1l s.
premium. The New Three and-a Quarter per Cents.
have been 90i to 901,- Bank Stock is 196} to 198.
The transactions in the Foreign Market are but few.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been 22, and the Passive
; Portuguese Four per Cents. have been nominal.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 571 i.
In the Share Market there has been some heaviness.
BRITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
196 k 198 1918

Bank Stock ..

Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 883; 89
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 88%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 90%
India Stock .. . • . .. 244

India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 10 5
Consols for Opening, Aug 26. .. 8851 74
Exchequer Bills. l%d. 2d.
1,0001... 11 8 lip
5001. .... 13 9 p
Ditto. Small .... 17 11 p

ONE
O'CLOCK.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, Small • • • • • • .. ..
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. .. •
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent ..
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..

Ditto, 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds ..
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Passive Bonds
Ditto, Three per Cent
Ditto, for the Account • • ..
Dividend,. on the above payable in London.

.. .. .. 112!4

.. .. .. 4%

.. 57%% 57%
.. 90% 90;4
BUSINESS
PAID. DONE AT CLOSING
ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.

89
88%
90%
214

Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

30%
112%
22
_4;74,

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction . , .. • • 2% ••.. ••••• . • • • 1%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17 •• • • 17
Birming., Wolva., and Dudley.. 10 .... 15%34 154,
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 5
Buckinghamshire .. .. 61.45.... X dis. ••.. • • % dis.
Chester and Holyhead 32% ••• • 26 ••••• • • • • • 26 vi
Eastern Counties .. .. 20 197% 20 19% 19
Do. rerpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. %
Ditto, York Extension .. 7% ......
Eastern Union .. .. 50 .... 60
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 12% .... 15
Ditto, Thirds .. • • .. 13s. 4d..... 31,4 p„
Great Northern
_6 .. • •
..4 % %

%P
_fili

15
3% p
41
A

Great Western .. .. 85 •• .. 117 116
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 15 .... 19% 19)i
Ditto, New 17/, .. .• .. 7 .. • • 9% 9
Leeds and Bradford .. 45 . 94%
London and Blackwall .. 16/. 13s. 4d.
London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .. • •
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent 9 .... .. • ....... 91A
Londen an North-Western ..100 •• .. 176 175......•. 175
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 12 .... 28 .. 28
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 11% .. • ...... 1114
London and South-Western 411. 6s. 10d... .... • .... 68
Ditto, Scrip 50/... .. • • 5 •• • • 514'A •••• • • • • 5%
Midland ..100 ....125 126.. .... • • 128
Ditto, 401. Shares .. .. 40 •• .. 474 47 ••• • • • 47%
Ditto, 501. Shares .• .. • • 6 •• • • 9% %••• • • • 9%
Do., Consol. Bristol and Birm.
:Six per Cent. .. 100 .... 128 • • ...... 128
Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 .• .. 29 28% .. • • 28N
Ditto, New • • • • • • 5 •• • • 9% ••••• • • • • • 9%
Norfolk ..100 ••.. -- ••..•• • • • . 123%
North British .. .. 25 .• .. ••• • • •
Ditto, Thirds .. • • 1 •• • • 2% •• • • •• • • 23
North Staffordshire .. 714 .. • • 10% • • •• • • 10
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .. • • 5% • .
Royston and Ilitchin .. .... • • • • • • .....
Shrewsbury ana Birmingham 3% .. ••••• • • • • •
Shropshire Union .. 4 .... 2% .. • .
South Eastern and i)ovor .. • • 33% .. •. 36
Do., New (d 0.331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 17 .... 16% 15%
bo., New (do. 1A) .. No. 4. 614.... 5%..........
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425..... 3%% p......
York and Newcastle .. 25 .... 37% •
Ditto, Extension •. • . • • .. 10 .. • • 16 15%
Ditto, Preference .. 8 .... 12%
York and North Midland .. 50 86
Ditto, Preference • • • . 6 .... 15%

36%
15%
5%
P
36%
16

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 20 .... 1434 ..........
Dutch Rhenish • • .. • • •. 7 .... 3%1 .....
Luxembourg .• _.. 6 ..
..
...
Northern of France .. 10
Orleans and Bourdeaux
.... 5%

14'
3,i
1%
12%
5%

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
British North American .. .. 50 " .... 46 x d..... •• • 46 x d
London Joint-Stock ••.• .. 10 .... 17 .• • 17%
National Ireland .. • • 22% .... 19 ..... •• • • 19
Union of London .. .. • • .. 10 ...• 13 x 13 xd

Real del Monte, Unrezistered MINES... •• .. 21( .......... 21
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam ......C.F, 12 4% Gibraltar.... .• ••• • • • —1
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 2 Leghorn .. ...... ...... 30 50
Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 5 Genoa •• • • 25 90
Antwerp ...... • ... 25 85 Milan ••• • • •
flamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 12 Venice... •••• • • • •
Altona •• .. •• • Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight •..• 25 50 Palermo, per oz.. • .
Ditto, ........ • .... 25 80 Lisbon.... •••••• • • • • • • 52
Marseilles • •
Bourdeaux.... ... • • • • 25 90 Rio Janeiro ••••• • • • • • 26
E'rankfort on Maine l2l£ Bahia .. ••••••• • • • • • • •
Petersburgh, 3Us Buenos Ayres •• • •
I lerlin .......... „ New York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effec.flo.... • lO 2 Philadelphia .. •••• • • • •
Trieste, ditto lO 3 raices OF BULLION, PIE OZ.
Madrid ••• • •
Cadiz .. •..
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Barcelona .......
geri11e.............• Silver in bars .....• •• 0 0 0

Captain Bernard, Captain Knox, Mr. Nesbitt, and
Mrs. Franks and family, were among the passengers that
embarked at Blackwall yesterday morning on board the
General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Soho
for Antwerp.

LITERA.TURE.
FORTESCUE. A Noret By James Sheridan
Knowles. Three Fels.

In a novel, from the pen of a dramatic writer, we
are naturally dispcsed to look for some peculiarities
which may, in a certain degree assimilate it with its
author's ordinary compositions. For instance we
may expect the heroes and heroines of the tale to be
possessed of a certain vitality more akin to the self-
acting personages of the drama than the automata of
an ordinary romance, we m:y expect pecularities of
temperament to be more nicely discriminated, and
the individuality of character to be more clearly de-
fined. As a drawback to these advantages we may
likewise anticipate that the dramatist, while he aspires
in a novel as in a drama, to "hold a mirror up to
nature," and pourtray life as it is, will also (forget-
ting for a while his change of materiel) in a novel as
in a drama, endeavour sometimes to effect a compro-
mise between nature and stage effect, and diminish
occasionally the probability of a denouement in order
to enhance the attraction of a " scene." These pecu-
liarities, whether defective or otherwise, may easily
be remarked in this novel by Sheridan Knowles.
Many of the "situations," more especially the climax,
where the chief personages of the tale are are all un
expectedly assembled in a church, real evidence of
the dramatic experience of their author. But " For-
tescue" has one great attraction which a drama can
scarcely possess—namely, the earnest, genial, warm-
hearted style in which it is written. Many passages
have evidently been thrown off hurriedly, under the
impulse of the moment, and are consequently most
animated—written con amore, as the saying is, than
which never was saying more expressive. Among
these passages are brief but earnest eulogies of
Shakspere, inspired by a walk to Shakspere's Cliff, of
Thomas Moore, suggested by a casual quotation, and,
above all, of the great namesake and relative of the
author, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Fortescue is a
distant relative of the great orator, who is, in conse-
quence, frequently alluded to in these volumes. After
referring to Mr. Sheridan's death and the poverty
which surrounded it. Sheridan Knowles, who is evi-
dently his most devoted admirer, eloquently and even
passionately eulogises his conduct, and denounces the
little respect shown to his memory in his having no
monument in the new Houses of Parliament. But let
him speak for himself :

Go, ransack the journals of the llraise for any vote
of Sheridan's that was not to the truth of Liberty !—a
phrase of his own, when he was arraigned for laying a
thoughtless wager that the men, most of whom he mis-
trusted, because he knew them, would not succeed in
their efforts to obtain office. If he had a fault in respect
to his devotion to liberty, it was, perhaps, that of his
loving it too much, where the land of his birth was con-
cerned ; for we perfectly well recollect a night, when
kindled into burning—and how he could burn l—when
kindled into burning at the enumeration of his counto's
ages of Oppression and persecution, and at the relation
of the game of blood that had been played, by luring or

goading, to plunge her into insurrection ; he Attuck'the
table with his clenched hand, and exclaimed, "By -
had I been there at the time, I should have been myself a
rebel

"And Sheridan is not to have a monument in the new
Houses of Parliament! Our love to the judicious com-
missioners! 0, for an Apollo to award them the honours
of Midas! Give Burke a niche—not a crevice to She-
ridan! Write it down with a steel pen I—the handle, a
cherished polished splinter from the abandoned hulk of
any one of many ships, which, when they were new, and
well found, and full-manned, he saved at the mutinous
Nord

4. To the kennel with rewards! After this they are
offal and ordure! Leek on!—the Crown—the Ministry
—the Parliament—the country ! and applaud the
discrimination, disinterestedness, and justice of the
sapient junta—Burk!—But never mind!"

And then follows a passage, which we will not
quote, but which, en passant, we must entirely pro-
test against, namely, some indignant and most
unworthy remarks in reference to one of
the biographers of Sheridan, who is styled,
in irony, " a composer of mechanic's essays,"
—a title which, to our thinking, is a very
honourable one. But while we disapprove of such
observations we can, to a certain extent, excuse
them, because like the warm-hearted eulogiums they
are evidently written hastily under the impulse of
the moment. The following passage relating to the
death of Sheridan is of some interest :
"Fortescue was left alone. lie read the account of
his cousin's sickness and his death.
" Solitary work!' sighed Fortescue—`A faithful wife
—and one faithful friend!—And poverty—but that ex-
plains it. Providence ! where was the world in his
bitter extremity—the world which he delighted, in-
structed, served? Alone!—Merciful Providence, alone !
—But now for company! They will show themselves at
his funeral.'
"He read the description of the funeral, and there,
indeed, they were.
Nauseous parade!' Fortescue cried. There was
not one heart among them all!—What troops of them
there were—to enjoy the credit of attending at the obse-
quies which they might have deferred, perhaps for many
a clay, had only a few of them clubbed together, as they
do, year after year, for a plate, to be run for by a race-
horse! And his strait must have been known to them—
and there was not one of them--noble or commoner—
who had not banqueted upon his genius, the most lus-
trous and diversified of his time! " Die!—but, I shall go
to your funeral!" I wonder if they managed to squeeze
out a tear. It would have been carving and gilding to
their hypocrisy! A pity that such a piece of workman-
ship should he put out of hands incomplete. They had
no hearts!—He had one.'
" Here Fortescue threw down the,paper, stamped upon
it, and wept.
" had a heart,' Fortescue repeated; and good
reason have I to know it—a heart that never allowed
him to look at his own circumstances when those of an-
other solicited his assistance, and he thought he could
accord it; and if not, he could not refrain from promising
it. Some way or another he must relieve the heart that
never looked upon need, or listened to it, without filling
till it overflowed with compassion. Did I not know that
man? I did, from the first—from the moment that my
poor father introduced me to him, when his full bright
eye looked thoughtfully and cherishingly upon the boy
of his less fortunate relative. Did I not know that man!
—Did I not love him!'
" Here Fortescue's tears flowed afresh.
" He had scarce dried them when Mrs. Parkyn re-
turned. Observing the newspaper upon the floor, she
stooped to lift it. He anticipated her, and placed it upon
the table.
" Will you not keep it?' she kindly inquired.
"' No, madam. All that I want, and more than I want,
is imprinted upon my heart! Bloodless creatures;'
" I know what you allude to, but there was one re-
deeming exception. A nobleman—it has been said an
early friend—supplied him with one hundred guineas."
"' Don't believe it, madam!'
" Why, indeed, I heard but yesterday a new version
of the story, and which I have every reason to regard as
the true one.'

" 'Pray tell it me.'
" The act of friendship originated in the suggestion
of an amiable poet, who urged upon Lord H-- the
need of a supply, and offered to contribute the moiety.
The proposition was met, and another interview was ap
pointed ; but when that interview took place the person
solicited declined, upon the plea that your cousin's wile
had disabused a common friond as to the existence of
any pecuniary difficulty.'
" And what was the result ?'
" The poet himself gave the money.'
" God bless him ! and the peer, madam ?'
" He reimbursed the poet to the amount he had pro-
mised, upon ascertaining that his demur had been founded
upon a perfect fallacy.'
" And with whom did the fallacy originate ?'
" With Lord L--, who probably was misunder-
stood. In my mind the poet had all the honour !'
" And let him have it,' rejoined Fortescue.
"'The memory of the kindly deed belongs of right to

him !'
" • Rogers !'
" Yes !'
• • • •
" The new version of the anecdote was the correc,
one ; and it was a pity that one of Sheridan's biogra-
graphers—for Sheridan was the man to whom our hero
had the honour of being allied—should have attributed
to the nobleman the whole credit of a transaction, of the
merits of which his lordship could lay claim, at the most,
to but aninconsiderable and very questionable share.
After all, there was nothing enormous in the boon It
could hardly have involved a mortgage ! We ourselves,
when at a pinch, have been offered five times—ay, ten
times the same amount by a Glasgow cotton spinner.
and by a Glasgow merchant sailor—scions of Nature's
noble family I"
Besides the genial tone of kindliness which pervades
these volumes, they are imbued with a genuine reli-
gious spirit, demonstrating by that best of all teach-
ings—the teaching by example—how beautiful and
happy a feeling is a humble dependence upon God,
and a constant and cheerful submission to His will.
The main object of the work is apparently to incul-
cate the great importance of self-command. Henry
Fortescue, the hero of the story, is a youth of great
promise and good principles, hut endued with lively
feelings, whose impulse he is ever ready to obey. In
order the better to illustrate the evil effects of such a
tendency, the author of his history has placed him
in a somewhat peculiar, and certainly very trying,
situation with regard to the two heroines of the tale
—Marian and Lucy. The characters of these ladies,
as opposite as night and day, are both very excel-
lently delineated—that of Lucy is, perhaps, the most
naturally done, that of Marian is more ideal.
Marian is represented as the possessor of every
personal grace, and mental and moral good quality ;
while Lucy, the ill-educated daughter of uneducated
parents, has only a beautiful face, and viva-
city of manner, to counterbalance the absence,
of every other attraction. Marian is much
younger than Fortescue—he has been accus-
tomed to regard her only as a chill, yet child
as she is, she is devoted to him, and he himself fully
conscious of her many esti nable qualities, believes
that in time she will be a paragon of perf ction. Her
mother is anxious to look upon Fortescue as a son,
and all his bettor feelings prompt him to preserve his
heart for Marian. This is a somewhat unromantic
and business-like way of dealing with such a subject,
as most novel readers will agree, hut this is the il-
lustration which the author of " Fortescue" has