The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

Accounts from the Sandwich islands state that the
volcano Kilauea, the great crater of Mauna Kea, has
recently had a strong eruption, and is still unusually
active.
The Oregon accounts announce the discovery of a
vein of coal on the Cowlitz river, eighteen miles from
g% its junction with the Columbia, and about one mile from
the main Cowlitz. The vein is two feet thick and about
half s, mile in width, fifteen feet above high water mark,
and about forty feet below the surface of the bluff
mountain. Governor Ogden, of the Hudson Bay Com-
pany, at Vancouver, sent a boat and crew to bring a
quantity away, that it may be fairly tested.
dia. Many of the citizens of Oregon had gone to the
els. Klamath and other mines in that vicinity. We see from
the Oregonian that gold mines have been discovered
north of the Columbia river, near the coast. The editor
had seen a letter from a respectable source, stating that
the Indians had brought in a considerable quantity of
gold dust, and represented that there was much more
left. But this wants confirmation, as the Oregonians
have discovered gold before in this way. Indian gold
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stories are not the most reliable.
%
% The market for Public Securities has been very
buoyant, and, contrary to the rumours circulated yester-
day, the Directors of the Bank of England have made no
advance in the rate of discount. Consols have advanced
about 4 per cent., and parties are buying for the divi-
dends payable in July. The quotations for Transfer have
been 97i to 971, and for Account, 97i to 97k. The
news from France is again of rather a satisfactory cha-
racter. Bank Stock has been firm at 210 to 2101. Ex-
chequer-bills have been quoted 41s. to 455.; and India
Bonds 535. premium. Consols now are 971- I for Money,
and 97 for Account.
Scarcely any business has been done in Foreign Se-
curities. Peruvian have been heavy, at 80i to 814'.
Spanish Fire per Cents. are also flat at 193 to 20, and
the Passive at 51 to S, Parties are realising profits,
and the possibility of a change in the Ministry is an
inducement to make sure in this respect, although there
may subsequently be a stronger Cabinet formed. Dutch
Four per Cents, have been marked 89i to -I.
Railway Shares are looking better, but the aggregate
transactions are not large. Lancashire and Yorkshire
have rallied about 21., Great Western 21. to 21. 10e.,
North-Western 1/. to 21., South-Eastern 1/. to 11. 10e.,
and others in proportion. Foreign Shares are com-
paratively quiet. A severe gale was also experienced on
the 26th January on the leeward side of Hawaii.
The last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained up to
this day are in round figures as under:--
Great Western...
£19,037 £17,618
North-Western 48,041 ... 46,992
South-Western
Brighten
Midland
South-Eastern
North Stafford 4,708 .. 4,746
Caledonian
Consols ...
QUARTER TO THREE.
Ditto Account, June 10 ... 97
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCB.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2lO 2101,E
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9611A%
8 per Cent. Consols Anns
New 314 per Cent. Anus..
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7% 7 5.16
De. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 7%
India Stook
Do. Bonds, 1000/ 53 p
Consols for Account 971%
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001.
sow. ......... ............ 41 p
Small
45 p
FRIGIE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds 5%3/4
Spanish Bonda,3 per Cent,lB4o —
Ditto Account . ..... 39%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 24 per Cent., 12 Guild —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 89% %

LOYD'S' SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 22.—Wind at noon W.N.W., light airs.
NEWPORT, MAY 21.—Wind N .E.—Sld. Nevva, Caro-
line, Rio Janeiro; Bara Brook, Ilavannah; Joy, Cape
de Verds.
LIMERICK, MAY 19.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Clyde,
Quebec.
QUEENSTOWN, MAY 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Mary
Harrington, Moulmein, and eld, for Ardrossan; Belt.
ance, Mauritius, and sld. for the Clyde; Lady of the
Isles, Pernumbuco; Industrious, Barbadoes.
PETERHEAD.—Arrd. Pomona, Greenland, with 7,000
seals.

LERWICH.—SId. Enterprise, Davis's Straits.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 20.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Thornley
Close, Quebec; Mayor, ditto.
BRISTOL, MAY 21.—The Greek brig Falcon, and the
Ruesian barque Vesta, have come up here from
Penarth Roads to repair, both vessels having been on
shore there.
DEAL, MAY 20.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd.
Henry Pratt, Calcutta ; Alvarado, Mauritius; Ranger,
Bahia; Adelaide, Havannah; Delphy, ditto; American
Eagle, New York. Arrived from the River, Emma,
Colvin, Hong-Kong ; Thomas Snook, Fernando Po ;
Index, St. Kitts ; Blanche, Jamaica ; Grecian, ditto.
Arrived from the River and sailed, Thetis, Adelaide,
South
n, Quebec. Australia; Argo, St. Croix ; Ayo, West Indies;
Hele
Br e
Orr COWES, MAY 20.—Stephane, New York, for
men.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Christiana,
Singapore; Queen, Corisco ; Margaret, Callao; Savage,
Porto Rico; William Sprague, New Orleans; Castilian,
New York; De Witt, Clinton, ditto; Elizabeth, Calcutta;
Helen, Savannah ; President, New York. Sld. John
Bull, Bombay ; Zillah, Valparaiso ; Princess Victoria,
Para ; Alice Jane, Jamaica ; Robert Kelly, New York.
Off port, Renown, Maranham ; Warbler, Irene, May,
and Belvoir Castle.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
NEIArGATE AND IMADENIX.a.I.L.
The supplies of each kind of meat on sale to-day were
small. Generally speaking, the demand ruled steady at
our quotations. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s
8d to 35_10d; Lamb, 48 8d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s to
3s 10d ; Pork, 2s 6i to 3s 8d per Blbs. by the carcase.
HAY IYEARILETS.
SMITHFIBLD.—Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 41 6s; Clover,
31 3s to 4l 10s; and Straw, 1/ is to 11 10s per load
Supply moderate, and trade ull.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 3/ Os to 41 88
Clover, 3/ Os to 41 8s; and Straw, I/ 3s to it l is per load.
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. ,
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 31 os to 41_
Clover, 3/ Os to 418 s; and Strsw, 1/ Is to 1110 s per load.
Trade rather dull.

MEAT MARKETS.
SOUTHALL, MAY 21.—Our market to-day has been
but moderately supplied with each kind of stock, in
which a steady business has been doing at very full
prices. Beef, from 2s 6i to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s;
Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s Sd; and Pork,
3s to 3s 6d per Sibs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, MAY 21.—Prime Beasts and Sheep sold
freely at an advance of 2d per 81bs. In other kinds of
stock only a moderate business was transacted.—Beef
from 2a 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 43 10d to
5a 10d; Veal, 3s t031.5-08.du;
rPmoarkrk,
e3tahtaos
ruled 3 s 6dtpo esl
tolerably
lb btl
yso
Milch Cows with their small Calf, 14/. to 18/. each.
HAILSHAM, MAY 2
firm, as follows:—Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton,
4s 2d; Limb, 5s to 5s 6d; "Veal, 33 2d to 33 6d a
per am

WOOLWICH, MAY 21. The Master-General and
Board of Ordnance have approved the erection of new schools
to be constructed two stories in height in front of the Royal
Artillery Arms Tavern, at the north-west gate of the bar-
racks, for the instruction of ,'OO boys and 250 girls, sons and
daughters of the non-commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners. The quar-
ters of the schoolmasters will be on the right, and of the
schoolmistresses on the left, and on an elevation in the centre
will be placed a clock. The officers of the Royal Artillery
intend giving a grand ball on Wednesday, June 11; and the
officers of the Royal Marines intend giving their third soiree
this season on 'Wednesday, June 18, in the mess-room of
their spacious barracks.
•
SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT DisTlLLEßy.—Yesterday
morning the detective officers of Inland Revenue, Messrs.
Scott, Elmy, and Pargeter, proceeded to a house, No. 7,
St. James'saplace, Chapel-street, Shoreditch. They found
the front door open, a female being engaged cleaning the
steps leading thereto. Having entered the house, they soon
discovered that they were on the right scent, and in a back
room they discovered a copper still erected, and charged
ready for commencing the process of distillation. Another
copper still was in the room, but this was unset, and was
evidently intended for the purpose of rectification of the
spirits produced from the other still. Upon going into the
place they discovered a matt engaged in setting molasses
wash for working, who was immediately taken into custody,
and who gave the name of Henry Montague. The officers
found a small quantity of spirits forty per cent. over proof,
about a hundred gallons of molasses wash, that was destroyed,
and the usual description of atensils. A communication for
the discharge of the waste wash had been made from the
cellar to the common sewer, in a very ingenious manner, by
means of a surreptitious pipe, and the whole place was ad-
mirably adapted for carrying on the trade. The whole was
conveyed to Broad-street warehouses.
The following paragraph, from the Southern Cross
(published at Auckland, New Zealand) of the 31st of De-
cember, illustrates the effect of the Californian traffic in
altering the route of communication with the Austrian
colonies. The vessel alluded to is owned by a Liverpool
house, and had previously performed some remarkable
voyages. In the present instance, as the sailing distance
between San rancisco and Auckland is estimated at not
less than 6,000 miles, she must have kept up a speed of 207
miles a day throughout that passage:—" On Saturday last
our citizens were startled by an extraordinary 'Novelty,'
the barque of that name having arrived in port from San
Francisco in the short space of twenty-nine days, and bring-
ing London news of the 2d and New York news to the 14th
of October. Here is another and a _remarkable testimony to
the change in our geographical poti tion which the Panama
route is certain eventually to effect,. since with all the circuits
and delays of American and Calif brnian transmissions, we
have been put in possession of European intelligence in the
hitherto unprecedented apace of ei, ghty-seven days."
A FAT FRENCHWOMAN.—•A few days since a
female, only 25 years of age, died at the Hotel Dieu, appa-
rently from no other complaint than her extreme obesity.
Without any known cause, and without any change in her
usual regimen, which, moreover, -was not very nourishing,
she became so fat in four years as to be incapable of moving
about. She weighed nearly 4501b5. Galignani's Messenger.
QUIN's INCOHERENT STORY.:—Quin is said to have
betted Foote a wager that he would speak some nonsense
which Foote could not repeat off-ha nd after him. Quin then
produced the following string of incoherencies :—" So she
went into the garden to pick a cabbage-leaf to make
heran
apple-pie of! and a she-bear comis*g up the street, put
head into the shop and said, 'Do you smell any soap?' So
she died, and very imprudently married the barberlanth
powder fell out of the counsellor's wig, and poor
Mac-
kay's puddings were quite entire ly spoilt; andPicinnes, and
Mrs.
there was
present the Garnelies, and the G and
the great Pangendrum himself, wi th the little round button
at top ; they played at the ancient gamtheeohf
e'eCisaotcfhthwehiro
catch can,' till the gunpowder ran out of
boots."—Notes and Queries.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILS'rAT.—The committee
Railway,
Et a
y, with the aon this company's Bill for coniT:,an.
F
chester, Sheffield, and LincolnshalruaaGlarirtned the pre-
amble r n-
-3b
y a
bour branch and station at Shnele,
,ha live dec
proved.
KthstanirstY RAILWAY.
WATERFORD AND , -The
preamble of this Bill for sale or amalgamation and other
powers is proved.
CORE AND WATERFORD ANI) KILLARNEY thilic-
TION RAILWAYS.—The preambles of these Bills are declared
proved.
INCENDIARIsm.—The Dowd: itown National School
(county of Louth), of which Mr. N. Callan is the patron,
was burnt maliciously on Sunday .bight, between the hours
of twelve and one. The house and E wery article it contained,
including books, maps, desks, and forms, were totally con-
sumed. No reason can be assigned for the disgraceful act.
Mr. Callan is a gentleman of kindl:r disposition, and gives
a great deal of employment to the rural population of his
neighbourhood, and for many years has expended a good
deal of money to provide the children in education, and for
which the recent act is a poor r edturn —Drogheda Con.
servatire.

THE —LATE RIOT AT BIRKEIPMEAD.--Peter Fitz
simons, one of the prisoners tried. and convicted at the
Chester assizes of taking part in time riot at Birkenhead, was
discharged from custody last week, Mr. Justice Williams,
who tried the prisoner, having certiiie d to Sir George Grey
that the conviction was against evid,tt,ce.— Chester Courant.
DISCHARGE OF CAPTAIN PA LILETT SOMERSET.—
Yesterday morning Captain Paulett Somerset, having com-
pleted the term of his imprisonment, was discharged from
the House of Correction Coldbath-fi ells. A great numbere
of persons had assembled to Ivitnes a his departure at th
usual hour, but the gallant officer .had been discharged
about an hour before that time.
DIECOVERY OF A NEW I'LA.NET..—Mr. J. Hind
has just discovered another new ple.net in tpeconstellatio
Sc)rpio, about eight degrees north of the ecliptic,
the stars
and form-
ic; at the time an equilateral triangle with
Szorpii and Libra;. It ,is of a pale bluish. ctolouretgiaud
,anitdie.ts
lizht is about equal to that of a star of the umh
ra

" -- with sense so subtly true
From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew."
Thus in the Grub-street Author, laden down by
calamities, steeped to the lip in squalor, grey in
ignominy, spat upon in all men's estimation as
the hireling traducer, the venal satirist, and the mer-
cenary pamphleteer, he has disclosed inexhaustible
acr
springs of virtues the most pure and elevated, of
endurance, of forgiveness, of self-sifice, of amenity,
of hope even in the jaws of despair, of courage in the
agonies of destitution and abasement. David
Fallen, as painted by the master-hand of Sir
Bulwer Lytton, David Fallen, hitherto generically
regarded as the outcast both of society and of litera-
ture, henceforth, we believe, be in some measure
loved may
if he be not actually respected, his conquest of
temptation may secure sympathy if it do not abso-
lutely command reverence. Here is his own sorrow-
ful but bitter epitome of the miseries he had endured
while sinking from the heights of the sublimest aspira-
tions down to the depths of a penniless obscurity—.-i
"Ilardnian.—You serve both Whig and Jacobite; do
" Fallen.—Sneering politician ! what h I entered the world, devoted heart either
and c cared
to two causes—the throne of the Stuart, the glory of
letters. I saw them both a
no heritage but loyalty and apoet.
My father left me
had to levy troops for Icia learning. He sold all he
1 g Charles, and buried his
gold in the red field of Marston Moor. Charles the
Second praised nay verse, and I starved; James the Se-
Kingcond praised m
William— P '
y rose and I starved ; the reign of
I passed that in prison ! Hardman.—But the
ministers of Anne were gracious
to writers.

"Fallen,—Aud offered me a pension to belie my past
life, and write Odes on the Queen who bad dethroned
her own father. I was not then disenchanted—l re-
fused. That's years ago. If I starved, I had fame.
Now came my worst foes, my own lellow-writers. What
is fame but a fashion? A jest upon Grub-street, a
rhyme from young Pope, could jeer a score of grey
labourers like me out of their last consolation. Time
and hunger tame all. I could still starve myself ; I have
six children at home—they must live.
" dman.—This man has genius—he might have
been a grace to his age. Pm perplexed; Sir Robert—
" Fallen.—Disdains Letters—l've renounced themfieanvee
pays services like these. Well—l serve him.
me; go!"

Wellmay Hardman, the rising Member of Parlia-
ment, exclaim after these declarations of the
pamphleteer—
Hardman (rising).—Not so bad as he seems—ano-
therst side to the character: this moves me; I've been a
p by a e
humble bybribe:m aywhbautt
writer myselafimaß; But
ministert e
remedy?corr t A at
Patron then for Letters!—The public?—yes, for the Author, whose talents the Public may chance to appre-
ciate. And for those who, with toils as severe, but
with genius less shaped to the taste of the many, can
win not the ear of the day, why perhaps in some far
distant age, when enough of the strong have dropped
to death broken-hearted, and enough of the
weak
(bowed down by the tyrant Necessity,) have veiled in
shame and despair the eyes that once looked to the
stars; these rival children of light may learn at last, that
the tie they now rend should be the bend to unite them,
and help one another."
In a subsequent scene, where Wilmott, disguised as
Curl], the bookseller, endeavours to bribe David
Fallen to part with a calumnious manuscript by pro-
mising to hand over to him three hundred guineas—
one of the most artistically conceived :and exqui-
sitely written portions of the comed—t unfortunate bookman vindicates the innate goodness

NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM': cr, MANY
SIDES TO A CHARACTER. A Comedy,
in Five Acts." By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton,
Bart. Chapman and Hall.
Under ordinary circumstances, our attention could
not fail to be attracted by a new dramatic composi-
tion from the hand of this illustrious author, the poet-
novelist of our generation. Produced as the present
comedy is, however, under auspices so remarkable in
their character, and so beneficent in their tendency,
it is impossible for the critic to do otherwise than
welcome it with a very peculiar earnestness. After
reading through the whole of this singular preduc-
tion, it remains no longer a matter of uncertainty as
to whom individually writers and painters are alike
indebted for the suggestion, end altimately also for the
foundation, of the Guild of Art and Literature. In
many generous sentiments,in many touching allusions,.
in many elevated ideas, relating to the condition of
the unsuccessful labourers at the desk and at the
easel—sentiments, allusions, and ideas scattered pro-
fusely through the pages here under consideration
we may recognise the pulsations of that noble heart,
in which this scheme of magnanimity may be said, in
the first instance, to have originated. Whatever may
have since been accomplished in the way of its pro'
motion, whatever may henceforth be achieved with 3
view to its ulterior and perfect development, to Sit:
BULWLR LYTTON will belong the glory Of
having elicited these timely tributes of sYni.
pathy, and sometimes too of admiration. As con-
clusive testimony of this, we refer not so much to
his grant of land to the projected institution, or to
the circumstance of his having proposed the under-
taking to several of his distinguished contemporaries
at a time when they were partaking of his hospitalities
at Knebworth, as to the internal evidence afforded by
the brilliant effusion just published. Without any'
thing beyond a merely cursory allusion to the fact
that the comedy before us was acted a few nigh
since at Devonshire House (as the title-page itsell,
records) in the presence of her Majesty and his Roya,
Highness the Prince Albert, we shall restrict our ob•
servations entirely to an examination of its dramatio
efficiency and of its general characteristics as S'
literary performance. Charles Dickens and his ama-
teur company will, we are rejoiced to think, find
adequate recompense for their exertions, not so much'
in the applause accorded to the display of their his-
trionic abilities as in the remembrance that they
were the foremost among the supporters of the scheme
submitted to them for acceptance or refusal by out
gifted dramatist. Were any tribute wanting to the
exalted patrician who has already evinced so much
solicitude for the furtherance of the undertaking, be•
yond that flowing from his own conscience and front
the appreciation of the more discerning multitude,
it would be discoverable in the aspiration
o gracefully expressed by Sir Edward in
his simple but suggestive Dedication—" May each
loftier Cultivator of Art and Letters, whom the In'
stitutiou established under your auspices may shelter
from care end penury, see on its cornerstone your
princely name, and perpetuate to distant times the
affectionate homage it commands from ourselves.
'With sueli emphatic acknowledgments of the share
taken by others in the organization of the Guild,
does its author preface the dramatic work which is
destined to be the germ of its resources. Nothing,
we are bold to say, could by possibility be more ad •
mirable than the conception of the comedy;
and the manner in which that conception has
been bodied forth is in a very great measure
of commensurate excellence. Those who may
erroneously imagine that the same masterly delinea-
tion of female character which has embellished the
previous dramas of Sir Bulwer Lytton may be per:
ceived in the composition now lying under review, will,
of course, as it were by necessity, meet only with disap-
pointment. In extenuation of this should be remem-
bered the circumstance that the play has been penned
for the especial advantage of a body of amateur come-
dians, and that consequently but little opportunity
presented itself for the gratification of this skill in
poetic portraiture. The various abilities of the play-
wright have, nevertheless, in no other particular failed
in their most complete and most satisfac-
tory manifestation. Upon the principal personages
among the very numerous and motley dramatis
persona, an extraordinary amount of energy, of
passion, and of world-knowledge has been expended.
The construction of the plot reveals an undiminished
facility of invention, or rather, we might say, an in-
genuity of contrivance which practice has perfected
to an adroitness absolutely incomparable. London
has been wisely selected as the scene of the incidents,
and those incidents are comprised within the narrow
but ample compass of little more than from afternoon
to afternoon. By choosing the reign of King George
I. as the date of his comedy, the dramatist has enabled
himself to depict one of those literary unfortunates
who were the objects alternately of Steele's pity and
despair, or of Pope's contempt and indignation.
David Fallen will rank henceforth among the
most memorable creations of that Genius who has
called into being, among a multitude of others, such
ideal existences as ZS/13011i the Rosicrucian, as Dali-
bard the Schemer, ,as Brandon the Man of Ambi-
tion, and Pelham the Man of Fashion—minds like
those of the eccentric: Warner, the reckless Clifford,
the vulgar Copperas, and the dreaming Maltravers.
The lesson which Sir Bulwer Lytton has undertaken
to teach in the five acts of this admirable comedy is
of a nature as hiunanizing as the indirect pur-
pose of the comedy is benevolent. He endea-
vours—and his endeavour is charmingly successful
throughout—to show that we, the people of
society, the units in an artificial aggregate, the
children of an elevating but often effeminating civili-
zation, are Not so Bad as We Seem, or, as the second
title more directly and emphatically intimates, that
there are Many Sides to a Character. Like this globe
of ours on which we live, rolling through space half
in light and half in darkness, the circle of our own na-
tures is chequered by peculiarities as arresting in vi-
vidness, and the conskleration of which is as inte-
resting to the humanitarian as that of the former is
to the student of ethics and astronomy. Inspired by
this beneficent reflection, Sir Bulwer Lytton has
contrived to reveal in the most despised and appa-
rently the most despicable those traits of
goodness which are in each of us the rem-
nants of that divine talisman, blurred and
broken it may be, our Similitude to the Divinity.
Affording in this manner a new and exquisite illus-
tration o the power by which the true poet, like
the bee,