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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVVIIPOOL, Damn 14.
&rocs ExcuArroz —The sales are—Cheshire and Birkenhead, 52
Eastern Counties, Perpetual (No. 2), 7—Ditto, York Extension,
12s. 6d.—Edinburgl, and Glasgow, Halves, a% p —Ditto, New, b p.
—Grand Junction, 214 ex new—Ditto, Eighths, lg% p.—Ditto, 40/.
Shares (L-. M.), 41% p.—London and Birmingham, Quarters. 25 p.—
Manehester and Birmingham, Quarters (B), Sna.—Ditto (C), 7 p.—
Manchester and Bury, Extension, p.—Sheffield and Manchester,
119—Ditto, Quarter Shares, (No. 2) 4 p.—Ditto, ditto (No. 3),
Scrip. 2 % —South-Eastern and Dover. Halves, % p.—Dublin :and
Belfast Junction, 2% dis.—Great Grimsby Dook, 58. dis.—Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarters, ss. p.—Ditto, Extension, par—
Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4 p.—Huddersfield and Sheffield
Junction, 9 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, par —Liverpool and Bury, 14 p.
—Ditto, New Shares, 2% p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire,
par—Goole and Doncaster, % p.—London and York, 1 p.—Sheffield
and Lincoln. 15a. p.—Direct Northern, 7s. 6d. dis.—Glasgow and
Dumfries, 15s. dis.—Liverpool,Ormstirk, and Preston, 535. 9d. p.—
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 314 p.—Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield, 114 dis.—Derby and Crewe, 3% p.—East
Lincolnshire, ss. p.—Grand Union, 7s. 6d. dis.—Leicester and Bed-
ford, 7s. 6d. dis.—Liverpool and Leeds*Direct, 1,4 dis.-31atlock and
Midland Junction, 1% p.—Mold Junction, 1% dis.—Newry and War-
renpoint, 2% p.—Northumberland and; Lancaster, 11A dis.—North
Staffordshire, 3% p.—North Western 15.5. p.—Oxford and Birming-
ham Junction, 128.6 d.—Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 5 dis.—West
Riding Union, 2% p.—Dutch Rhenish, 1% p. Paris and Lyons, Con-
stituted 4% p

MANCHESTER, Msacn 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Blackburn, Damen, and Bel-
Lon, par—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 211 P.--
Chester and Manchester Direct, 275. dis.—East Lancashire, No. 2,
334 p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarters, .14 Mg.--
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 7% p. —Leeds an I Thirsk, par
—Le!cester and Birmingham, % dis.—Huddersfield and Manches-
ter Railway and Canal, 4 p.—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, % dis.--
Liverpool and Bury, 12—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C),
6% p.—Ditto, Quarters (A), 7% p.—East Lancashire, No 1,3% p.
—Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby, 14 die.—North Staffordshire,
9-16 p. c.—North Western, 11-16 p.—Preston and Wyre, Halves
(B), 20s. p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire,l% p.--Sheffield, Leek, and
Crewe, dis.--Manchester and Birmingham, 77% West Riding
Union, 2% p.—South Eastern and Dover, Half Shares, % p.—Man-
chester and Southampton, par —Lancaster and Preston, 9 p.—Shrop-
shire Union, 34 dis.--South Midland, 1% p.

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LEEDS, Diiitat 14.
STocx Exegaziax.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds, Ex-
tensions, 3% p.—Huddersflad and Sheffield, 7% p.—Leeds and Dews-
bury, 6% p. cash—Ditto, New Branches, 2% p.—Newcastle and
Berwick, 19% —North British, Half Shares, 2% p.—London and
York, 31. 45 —Glasgow and Dumfries, 11. 18s.—West Riding Union,
41. 19s.—Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., 275. 6d. dis.—Bradford,
Wakefield, and Midland, 15s.—Leeds, York, and Midland, Us. dis.
—Leicester and Bedford ,'7s. 6d. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland, 345. p.—North Western, las. 6d. p.

LITERATURE.

KNIGHT'S BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
PHILOSOPHY. Series from Bacon to the present

day.
This volume embraces Berkeley Idealism, Hume's
Sceptism, and many other " isms," to which such men
as Condillac, Reid, Cant, and Fichte gave a temporary
interest, though only to a very small portion of the com-
munity. The subject is extremely uninteresting, for it
exhibits men, ef great minds we admit, disputing about
subjects which are beyond their comprehension, and
occasionally quarrelling with each other, merely because
the language of the one is unintelligible, or misunder-
stood by the other. They fight with shadows, and, as
far as common readers can judge, would all be of the
same way of thinking, if they had words sufficiently
definite to explain their meaning. It is necessary, how-
ever, to know something of these wars of ideas which
have made such a noise in the world,and the present brief
outlineof the tenets held by those of modern times, drawn
up by Mr. E. H. Lewes, will be found well calculated for
the purpose. The result would lead to the conviction
that the men called metaphysicians have hitherto been
a most unprofitable race, and that the vortices of Des-
cartes, and the vagaries of Hegel, of which, in the
words of Dr. Ott, " absurdity is the basis," are just as
useful to society as all the rest put together. Mr.
Lewes, who seems to be of the same opinion, thus con-
cludes his remarks on the liistory of Philosophy :
" Modern philosophy staked pretensions on the one
question: flare we any ideas indepenci!ent of experiehee ? This
was asking, in other word=, Hare we any organtan of
philosophy?
" The answer always ends in a negative. If any one,
therefore, remain unshaken by the accumulatea proofs this
History affords of the impossibility of philosophy, Jet him
distinctly bear in mind that the first problem he must solve
is, Have we ideas independent of experienee? Let him solve
that ere he begins to speculate.
" And now, reader our task is done."

SCOTLAND—ITS FAITH AND ITS FEA-
TURES. By the Rev. Francis Trench. 2 'Pots.
This is a book without pretensions, and therefore it
disarms criticism. We cannot well conceive, however,
what objects the writer had in view, for it gives little
or no new insight into either the faith or the features
of Scotland. We have, it is true, a long and tedious
account of the Auchterarder case and its results, with
an outline of the speeches made ire the General Assembly
of the Free Church, held at Inverness last year ;
but all the details respecting these have already
been .fully reported in the newspapers, from which, in-
deed, the reverend author admits he borrowed them.
And, as regards the features of the country, and the
habits of the people, the information is exceedingly
scanty, the remarks in general have no novelty, and we
search in vain for anything like a description of the sys-
tem pf agriculture for which Scotland is so celebrated,
or any statistical details which can show that the country
has any peculiarities whatever. It is, in fact, a simple
diary which the writer made in his pony chaise, or at
the inns where he stopped on his way, interspersed oc-
casionally with amusing anecdotes, and with devout
meditations, which exhibit all the features of a sincere
Christian And a man of amiable dispositions.