The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-02 00:00:00

IVIA.RKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHAN GE-WEDNESDAY.
The arrivals of English Wheat :from our market this
week have been on a somewhat extensive sale ; never-
theless, as a good clearance of the samples was effected
on Monday, and as the quantity fresh up was compara-
tively small, the show to-day was far from extensive.
Owing chiefly to the favourable change in the weather
for harvest work, and the comparatively small number
of buyers in attendance, the demand for all kinds of
Wheat of home produce was by no means active. Still,
however, the whole of the supply was readily disposed
of, at prices fully equal to those paid on Monday. The
best quanties of Foreign Wheat were in good request at
full rates of currency. The middling and inferior kinds
moved off steadily, at late rates. We had a very firm
inquiry for Barley, the best samples of which produced
a trifle more money. Malt was slow in sale, but not
cheaper. There was a better inquiry for Oats, at a rise
in the quotations of quite 6d per quarter. Beans, Peas,
Indian Corn and Flour had an upward tendency.

English
Irish.
foreign

Wheat.
4,840 qrs.

ARRIVALS.
Barley. I Oats. I Flour
320 qrs. 1,250 qrs. 1 3,050

5,180

3,010

Malt, 3,520 qrs.
33012,017G8 SOP MARKET.
'Our market comtinues exceedingly depressed, but we
have no further decline to notice in the quotations. The
duty is called from 205,0001 to 210,000/. Sussex Pockets,
212 s to 2L 6s; Weald of Kent ditto, 214 s to 218 s; Mid
and East Kant ditto, 218 s to 51 per cwt.

WHITECIMPEL.
Our market was but moderately supplied with each
kind of Meat to-day; yet the general demand was far
from active, on the following terms:—Beef, from 2s 8d
to 35 6d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; Lamb, 4s 2d to 5s
2d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d
per 81b, by the carcase.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
William Smith, alias Mahoney, alias Fitzgerald, about
17 years old, was indicted for stealing a purse, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Holmes Hall, from her person.
Mr. Aristides Legall, a law student, stated that being
in the Strand on Monday afternoon, about three o'clock,
he savv the prisoner, in company with a man who has
not been taken, and watched them. They went on
towards Temple-bar, and when they came to the " Baby-
jumper" shop they mingled with the crowd before the
window, and in a few minutes the prisoner passed a
blue purse to his companion. The latter ran away, and
Witness, calling out " Stop thief !" secured the boy, but
the man escaped.
.The proaecutrix, who had been standing at the window,
nussed her purse, which was a blue one.
The jury having found him Guilty, evidence was
given that he had been before convicted, and he was
sentenced to be transported for ten years.

READING, GUILDFORD, AND
REIGATE RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
general meeting of this company was held to day,
''the offices of the company, Exchange-buildings, Mr.
, Lainson in the chair.
The•report stated that the business of the company
bad progressed favourably, and that the directors had
been enabled to proceed on the funds furnished by the
call of last August, but that another call was necessary,
and the directors had accordingly decided upon making
/call of 21. 10s. per share, payable in September next.
Abe cash account showed that the balance in hand from
the last report was 147,3851. 6s. 9d. Amount received
on calls since February, 748/.1 amount received in ad-
vance of call, 11,2751.; interest, 2,3711. 13s. 5d.; which,
with other sources, produced an amount of 162,103/.
°B. Bd. The amount had been expended, with the ex-
ception of 8,140/. 1 ls. 10d., with an amount on loan of
52,390/. ss. 6d.
The CHAIRMAN briefly recapitulated the heads of the
report and stated that a portion of eleven miles from
corking would shortly be opened for traffic.
The report was then unanimously adopted. Thanks
Fare voted to the chairman and directors, and the meet-
log broke up.

COURT CI RCULAR.
OSBORNE, TUESDAY.
The Queen accompanied by his Royal Highness th
nee Albert', took an early walk in the Park at
Osborne.
The Younger members of the Royal Family also
walked and rode in the grounds.
The royal dinner party this day is expected to include
-,'°!"01 and Lady Catherine Harcourt, the Hon. Airs.
-""1131)s, and the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.

Mr. P. Borthwick had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Tidd Pratt had also
an interview, yesterday, with the Right Hon. Baronet,
at his official residence in Downing-street.

HMI MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box
ber Majesty's Theatre was last evening occupied by the
Hon. Mrs. Charles Cust, the Hon. Miss Macdonald,
Captain the Hon. James MacdonalCand party. In her
Majesty the Queen Adelaide's box there were the Prin-
cess Metternich, the PrinceSs Melanie Metternich, the
.Princeßichard of Metternich, the Countess Flahault, and
the Baron of Hugel. Among the audience were his
Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Naples (Count of
Syracuse), his Serene Highness the Prince of Hesse, his
Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Duchess of Leeds
and Miss Lane Fox, the Duchess of Montrose, the Duke
of Leeds, the Duchess of Richmond, his Excellency the
Russian Minister, the Baroness de Brunow and Madlle.
Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister,
his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency
the Sardinian Minister, the Count B. bletaxa, the
Baron Nicolay, the Count de Barke, the Marchioness of
Douro, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of
Donegal, the Marquis of Douro, the Countess of
Glengatl, the Earl of Lansdale, the Earl of Cadogan, the
Earl of Mountcharles, the Viscount Ranelagh, the Vis-
count .Anson, Viscount Somerton, Lord Gardner, Lady
Lyndhurst, Lord Elphinstone, Lord W. Graham, Lord
Ernest Bruce, Lord Sandy!, Lord W. Lennox, Lord
Charles Wellesley, Lord Fitzroy Somerset and the
Misses Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Howard, Lady Palmer,
Lady Warneford, Lady Colborne, the Ladies Somerset,
Lady Ann Beckett, the Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse,
Bart, M.P., M. Canofari, General the Hon. A. Upton,
Colonel Fludyer, Colonel J. Dixon, Sir G. Carroll, Bart.,
Sir A. Maclean, Bart., and Lady Maclean, Sir J. John-
stone, Bart. and Lady Johnstone, Lady Mary Ross, Sir
W. Baker and Lady Baker, Lady Augusta Paulett,
Major-General Sir A. Woodford, Bart., Sir Ralph
Howard, Bart., Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Mr. Peru-
tier, Mr. Moore, Major Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips,
ltr.Dennistoun, Mr. and Mrs. Towneley, M. C. Koud-
riaffsky, Mr. C. Barry Balwin, M.P., Mr. Sturt, M.P.,
Captain Meynell, R.N., Mr. 0. Morgan, Mrs. Ascus,
Major Buckley, Mrs. Percy, Mr. and Mrs. Farquhar,
:Mrs. Fraser, Mrs. Paule, &c. &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT- GARDEN.—Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by
Lady Augusta Cadogan, the Countess of Jersey, Lady
Clementina Villiers, and Mr. Mildmay, honoured the
performance at the Royal Italian Opera last evening
with their presence. Her Majesty's box was occupied
by the Duchess of Grafton, Lady Seaford, and the
'Misses Hardy. Among the general company were his
Royal Highness Prince Louis Napoleon, the Duke and
Duchess of Cleveland, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
and Ladies Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Monte-
bello, Duchess Dowager of Bedford, Lady Rachael Rus-
sell, and Mr. and Mrs. William Russell, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Titch-
-leld, the Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis of Douro, Earl
and Countess of Granville, Countess Dowager of Essex,
Miss Johnstone, Sir John and Lady Walsh, Viscoun-
tess Dillon, Earl Darnley, the Countess of Mansfield
and Ladies Murray, the Earl of Dysart, Viscount
Sydney, Baroness Braye, Baroness Ranelagh, Viscount
Templetown, Viscount Neville, Viscount Mandeville,
Lady Caroline Maxse, Lady Emile Pennyfather, Lady
Georgians Codrington, Lady Henrietta Somerset, Lady
Charlotte Denison, Lady Mary Bentinck, Lord and
I.sdy Carrington, Lord Francis Gordon, Lord and Hon.
Lates Foley, Lord Eardley, Lady Webster, Lady Scott,
44ady Morgan, Lady Domville and the Misses Domville,
Sir John and Lady Burgoyne, the Misses Burgoyne,
Lady Quentin, Lord Charles Bruce, Lord Wodehouse,
Lord and Lady Stratheden ; Colonel and Hon. Mrs.
-,, '''usgibbon, Hon. A. Willoughby, Hon. G. Milles, Hon.
~
Fortescue, Hon. Miss Campbell, Hon. Mrs. Murray,
lion. Mr. and Mrs. Ashburnham, Hon. Colonel and Mrs.
Anson, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir Jasper anh Lady At-
kinson, Sir George Armytage, Sir Wm. de Bathe, Sir
Abdy, Mr. and Mrs. Villeboyes, Mr. W. Roso, Mr.
and Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mrs. Mountjoy Martyn, Mrs.
Coghlan, Mrs. Pulsford, Mrs. John Stanley, Miss Mit-
chell and party, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Miss
Richards, Colonel Oliver, Colonel Nield, Colonel M‘Dou-
tai, Captain Seymour, Captain Caddy, Captain Webster,
at.N., Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.J.

THE MAGAZINES.
BLA CK IV 00D.
The race of tourists—whose name, thanks to rail-
roads and steam-vessels, is now Legion—receives the
malediction of Blackwood. Especially the professional
lady tourists—women who, according to the apt ex-
pressions of the critic, " talk of faces they have never
seen, describe fites to which they would never have
been admitted, and quote conversations which they
have never heard." Some we could name who
come precisely under this category—authoresses
with all the dogmatism and none of the genius of
Mrs. Somerville, with much of the self-sufficiency .
and very little indeed of the verve and brilliancy of
Madame de Steel, Madame Daciers in everything but
erudition, and Corinnes in everything but tact. The
writer who eyed so superciliously the Americans in
Philadelphia, the French in Paris, and the Italians in
Rome might perchance detect the delineation
of her own character in these sentences but
for an obliquity of vision which defies the
appreciation of truth. Although Miss Harriet Mar-
tineau is not classed among these melancholy profes-
sionals—" scattered over Europe, all pen in hand, all
determined not to let a henroost remain undescribed,
all portfolioed, all handbooked, all getting up a
journal,' "—her theological lucubrations as to the
career of Moses are justly the subject of the con-
demnation of the reviewer ; and certainly the flip-
pancy of such irreverent interpolations cannot
be too severely condemned. " The Caxtons" conti-
nues to be the chief attraction of the magazine, and,
if completed as it has commenced, will certainly stand
among the most exquisite serials which have adorned
the pages of Blackwood. Already Fame is not silent
as to the authorship. It is whispered among the literary
circles that the scholastic hand of a ripened genius
is detectable throughout, that the mind which conceived
Adam Warner could alone have imagined Augustine
Caxton, that the great work on " Human Error" has
something of a prototype and a foreshadowing in the
mechanism of the Eureka, that, in short, the author
of "The Caxtons" is no other than Sir Edward Bulwer
Lytton. Whether the notion be erroneous or correct,
we are satisfied that .Bulwer might have created a
roving blade like good Mr. Peacock, that the
young scapegrace his companion is almost the double
of Varney, that Trevanion promises to be a compa-
nion picture to Brandon, and that, under any cir-
cumstances, the story, as far as it has gone, is emi-
nently worthy of our distinguished countryman. It
is the fate, at any rate, of Sir Bulwer -Lytton to
have almost every noble anonymous effort in Eng-
lish literature at once fathered upon his genius—
a circumstance, to our I hinking, which shows that the
prolific, cultivated, elegant, and virile beauties of that
genius are in some me asure appreciated. We have
again and again expressed our conviction that the
" New Timon" is his, that the splendid epic
of " King Arthur" is his, that occasionally the
cunning of his Imml is perceptible among
the contributions to the Edinburgh Review ; and
while we now acknowledge that there is much of the
verisimilitude of his style in these opening chapters
of the " Caxtons," we must acknowledge that, with
all our admiration for the powers of Sir Bulwer
Lytton, we could never have attributed to him such a
sweetness of wisdom, such a gentleness of senti-
ment, and such a bewitching refinement of pathos,
as are the principal characteristics of the work
now appearing in the pages of Blackwood. The
present instalment follows Pisistratus on his road to
London. His accidental interviews with Mr. Tre-
vanion and afterwards with Lady Elinor and Fanny
are admirably told; and in the entrance of the young
pedestrian into London it is well said—" the Gra-
dual is a great disenchanter." Those who have
pored for hours and hours over the dusty records
of the lore of ages piled together in those glorious
halls of learning the library of the British Museum,
will relish the following passage—so true, so accurate,
so genuine :
" Pisistratus," said my father, one evening as he ar-
ranged his notes before him, and rubbed his spectacles.
" Pisistratus, a great library is an awful place! There
are interred all the remains of men since the Flood."
" It is a burial-place!" quoth my Uncle Roland, who
had that day found us out.
" It is an Heraclea!" said my father.
" Please, not such hard words," said the Captain,
shaking his head.
" Heraclea was the city of necromancers, in which
they raised the dead. Do I want to speak to Cicero? I
invoke him. Do I want to chat in the Athenian market-
place, and hear news two thousand years old? 1 write
down my charm on a slip of paper, and a grave magician
calls me up Aristophanes."
The seventeenth chapter describes the wanderings
of Uncle Roland de Caxton through the streets
of London. The description is life-like, and
the touch of feeling at the close, when the
light breaks in upon Pisistratus is beautiful. " Life
in the Far West" is continued in the old harum-
scarum spirit, so delightful to catch now and then in
the narrative of a traveller from the days of Strabo
down to those of Kinglake. " Art and its
Prospects" is a bone of criticism, not a fos-
sil like the leg of a meratherium, neither a mur-
derous weapon like the jaw-bone which slew
the Philistines, but a bone full of the marrow of
research. "Eighteen Hundred and Twelve" is a
ghastly reminiscence of one of the most awful catas-
trophes mentioned in ancient or modern history—the
wonderful conquest of Russia by the Emperor
Napoleon, and the destruction of his great army,
not by the puny hand of man, but by the arm
of the God of battles. " The Blue Dragoon,"
a tale of circumstantial evidence; " Laurels
and Laureates," a paper of agreeable chit-chat
about the old poets and poetasters of England ; " The
Horse- dealer," a story translated from the Danish,
and " Sketches in Paris," are all capital additions to
the number, which is worthy of the prolonged fame
and popularity of Blackwood.

T ft F SUN,

LON-DON.