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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAy EVENING, MAY 22. 1851.

Never has the truth of the old adage, "ex t remes
meet," been more clearly exemplified than in tb a cases
of Mr. GUSTAVUS ROCHFORT CLARKE, the Icon goclast,
and Messrs. MILLAIS, HUNT, and COLLINS, tb ea Pre-
Raphaelite brethren ; not more naturally doe e Pro-
tectionism, when carried out, run into So rialism
(witness the speeches of BUSFEILD FERRAND a ad the
letters of RICHARD OASTLER passim) than does
Clerkeism run into Pre-Raphaelism. Mr. R 4 lea-
FORT CLARKE objects to the generality of painting • and
sculpture, that it is either voluptuous, and calcti lated
to excite impure ideas, or that it is blasphemous, and
to give vent to his indignation he actually did pt Iblic
execution cn a print of Muauxo's magnificent pic-
ture of the Trinity by tearing it up, amidst, a s he
tells us, the applause, but, as others who were pre-
sent tell us, the contemptuous laughter of an Exc ler-
hall audience. At this point the Puritanism run
mad of Mr. CLARKE meets with and joins the Ca tho-
licism run mad of the Pre-Raphaelites ; they w ould
n
bleven-c:o?uabctkibneg
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have joined him in this act of wanton destruct ion.
Fie upon principle objects to the ' represen-
tation either in marble or by painting of
earth."
"the likeness of anything that is in the hen yens
tice,
the earth;'
and
dr i the earth beneath, or in the waters 111 der
such
above thes
The carry out his principle'
Thep trec-
that they carefully avoid painting any
likenesses. The sublimity of MURILLO Ls ?jog
ascomprehensionbi of Mr. CLARKE, is by him
AstfirgLatrisseedntitled 4". gelnY ;
which is exhibited
Royal Academy, in, „,,Yiear doubtin
of Mr. CLARKE'S admiration.
it represents two children in but the picture by Mr.
tilise Dove returned to the A rk,"
becitahoe Exhibition
s of the
not, the ob. ject
It is essentially Clar ky;
litter of straw (as if NoaArtgabiand,
picattuartheloinfgA: At:
the
PrOper nd
pers), cuddling a dove.
JUANA, by the same artist, would 110
mended by Mr. CLARKE as a marvellously
most un voluptuous picture, for even Mr. CLARKE, hit zh
Puritan and rigid moralist as he is, might almost eron. se
Lord ANGELO for his desertion of such a MARIANA.; at
all events, his subsequent condemnation to pass the 1 e-
mainder of his days in her society was, if she b
the slightest resemblance to the MARIANA limned
Me. MILLAIS, quite punishment enough for i
faults of which he could have been guilty. Equs
would Mr. CLARKE admit the propriety of I
RUNT'S delineation of the "Two Gentlemen ofVeron
they are
in the flesh
gentlemen such as were never st
from the days of ADAM dow
wards, and who,
I]
s ould they ever appear on I
stage of life, would
continue single gentlemen
their
for days, seeing that their appearance is a peril
cu love. Les extremes se touchent ; and here 1
have the Bigotry of the Iconoclast and the Bigotry
the Ultra-Catholics in art uniting in a repudiation 1

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" regnikVsold" by the New York _Herald, and
that suspicion ripened into certainty on reading,
in the next place, the original document which
our contemporary thought fit to transfer to
his broad sheet in extenso. It is true
that productions of an extraordinary nature ap-
pear not rarely in the American newspapers, but
our friend of the New York Herald is by no means
' such an ignoramus as to put forth seriously a tirade
such as that which galled the Times into an affrighted
belief in its sober import. The whole affair would,
however, have passed away like every other nine days'
wonder, but the English journal seems resolved to
try and have the last word, and thereby, with all re-
spect be it spoken, to write itself down a kindred
animal to honest DOGBERBY. The Herald, in the
last impression which has reached Europe, announces
that the effusion to which so much importance was
given in Printing House-square, was—as it
needed no ghost from the grave to tell us—
" a slight missile sent from a playful hand," but, with
an admirable gravity, baits its hook again for ano-
ther bite in the same quarter where it had in the
first instance been ,:o successful. And our contempo-
rary, with some degree of ponderous jocularity, la-
bours to prove himself a little less frightened than
before, when (as the Herald remarks in a paragraph
which our contemporary did not include in his nume-
rous quotations therefrom on Wednesday morning)
" he treated the menacing intelligence with a terrible
anxiety to be cool, and devoted his serried columns,
day after day, to explanations, affecting to laugh, and
appearing very much like a traveller in some great,
dark forest, whistling to keep his courage up, while
looking backward and forward to see some frightful
spectre at every turn."
It is really "milking a ram" for a print professing
to be "the leading journal of Europe," to address
tself to refute such a bouncing hoax as the assertion
that, when the aforesaid " playful missile" reached
London, "the Prime Minister sent offs note instanter
for the Duke of WELLINGTON—the Ministers ten-
dered their resignations—Lord STANLEY tried to
form a new Cabinet in vain, and the politicians, so
conservative, so grave, so self-confident in the Yeo-
manry and in the business population, did not even
dare to venture on a general election, to form a new and
reliable Government. England trembles from top to
toe, and even the QUEEN, who has considerable nerve,
was so much frightened, that Prince ALBERT
regretted that an American newspaper con-
taining such alarming suggestions should have
reached the shores of happy Albion ! Apprehensions
of this character soon begat worse fears, and with the
speed which an emergency only can create, thirty
thousand brilliant bayonets bristled in the neighbour-
hood of Hyde-park, besides we know not how many
parks of artillery were ready at a moment's call."
Our contemporary has given the benefit of the im-
mense circulation which he enjoys to a full elucida-
tion of the marvellous treasures which are piled
within the crystal walls of the matchless Palace of
Industry, and that in a free end cordial spirit. It is,
moreover, mainly, if not altogether, owing to his
powerful pen that a check has been applied by the
Commissioners of Police to that excessive nuisance the
cab-extortion system, which, if permitted to riot un-
checked, would he found materially to interfere
with the comfort and accommodation of a great
number of visitors to the metropolis during the
present memorable season. But we must be per-
mitted to say that a worthier occupation might be
found than giving currency to humbug, which may
leave an ineffaceable and alarming impression on
the minds of many respectable aged females, besides
affording a hearty laugh in New York at the capacity
of gullet which exists in this instance on the part of
the foremost journal of "the Britishers."
We shall not enter now into a consideration of an
article entitled " The World's Fair in London. Its
Objects and
the
published also in the New York
Herald of the 6th of May. We regret and pity the
uncandid tone in which a string of fallacies,
which may go down with the unthink-
ing or prejudiced among our Transatlantic
kinsmen, are couched. It is much to be ap-
prehended that there is just a leetle spice of envy or
disappointment lurking at the bottom. It is notorious
to the world that the display of contributions in the
American department in the edifice at Hyde-park is
far behind that furnished by any other country ; in
fact, to speak the word plainly, it is unanimously
voted "shabby." Whose fault is this ? The great
Republic is amply supplied with sources, natural and
artificial, sufficient to have rendered her a proud com-
petitor with the states of the Old World at the "Fair
of the Universe." And we confidently believe that it
would have diffused a sincere and wide-spread
pleasure amongst our own people had our Co-
lumbian kinsmen, or, as we may justly term
them, our Anglo-Saxon brethren, come out
with a little more strength and effect on such
a great occasion. But there is no use in assum-
ing the airs of a discontented child, and scolding us
in such terms as the following, which we extract
without a further word of comment, trusting that we
shall hear no more of a paper warfare which
reflects no credit on either of the parties con-
cerned, both of whom, and one in particular, ought to
know better than to make such an ado about nothimg
" The British see that their supremacy is gone--that
the glory of Ichabod is departed, and the cowed
bully becomes the abject sycophant. England sees
that her destiny is under our control." (!)
" Our opinion, then, of this great show is, that it
originated in selfishness; that it will not tend to advance
peace throughout the vierld, as it was intended it
should ; that it is a Yankee trick to make the :rest of
the world contribute to England's wealth; that as
far as arts and manufactures are concerned, it vill be
a failure; and that, on the whole, it looks like a
gigantic humbug." (! ! )

the lovely, the graceful, and the beautiful, and in a
worship of the hideous, the awkward, and the un-
nal.ural. How this league of the extremes of folly
againit common sense is to be carried out
remains to be seen; whether Mr. CLARKE will give up
his Puritanism to join the Pre-Raphaelites in their
ultra-Catholicism, or whether, giving up their ultra-
Catholicism, and deriving their inspiration from Mr.
Rocuroxr CLARKE, they will found a new second-
commandment school of art, in which beauty shall be
deemed blasphemy, and the least approach to nature
sin, is as yet uncertain ; but that Clarkeism and Pre-
Raphaelism are but different stages of the same
disease, is, we think, abundantly evident.
TH

E FRENCH REPUBLIC.

r_l!/,e have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
'they all contain long articles on the question of
the revision of the Constitution, one of the most re-
markable of which is by M. DE LAMARTINE. In that
article he distinctly states that it was the Legitimatist
Deputies who, on the 24th of February, 1848, urged
him to conclude his speech by proposing a provisional
Government, and that having precipitated the
monarchy of July into a republic, they now seek to
plunge the republic into anarchy ; and he significantly
reminds the BERRTERS, the DE FALLoux, and their
clique, that on the 18 Fructidor, when the Legiti-
matists were intriguing and conspiring against the
first Republic, the Directory crushed the treasonable
conspiracy by seizing 53 of the, conspirators, with
PICHEGRU at their head, and deporting them ; an act
which was approved of by all France. He concludes
by recommending the PRESIDENT to propose a repeal
ofithe Electoral Law of the 81st May—that is, a return
to universal suffrage, and to appoint a really Repub-
lican Ministry.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has a long article in the
Presse on the intrigues of the Monarchists, which he
concludes in the following terms :
" The Republic will not be overturned, for to be so,
monarchy should be re-established. But it is all over
at present in France with the monarchy, for it could not
there resume its course, four times interrupted, except
in going back at least to 1750. A whole century fallen
to ruins does not spring again into life. If Charles 11.,
brought back by Monk in 1659, could again raise up the
throne in the place of the block on which the head of
Charles I. fell in 1649, the reason was that in England
only a king fell. The institutions remained standing ;
the British aristocracy, the inequality of property, the
rigime of substitutions had survived the protectorates of
Oliver and Richard Cromwell. But is it so in France,
where the right of the eldest son has been abolished,
where equality of division in the property left has become
part of the system, where the hereditary aristocracy has
disappeared? The impossibility of re-establishing the
monarchy is equivalent to the impossibility of over-
turning the Republic. No, it will nut be overturned,
because it could not be replaced."
CLOT BEY, chief physician of the PACHA of
Egypt, has just arrived in Paris from Alexandria.
The Bourse was feeble, with very little business
doing. The Fire per Cents., opened at 90f. 65c., and
closed at 90f. 35c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f.
sc. Orleans Railroad Shares, 8201.; Havre, 245 f; Great
Northern, 472 f. 50e.; Avignon, 220 f.; Vierzon, 4301.;
Bale, 145 t.; Bordeaux, 3981. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg,
363 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 2711. 25c.
RUM:ESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, Oh—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17 t 4— East Indian, I(3—Northern of France,
14:—Paris and Strasbourg, 101/.2—Rouen and Havre, 91—
Sambre and Meuse, 3%.

Railways.

Aberdeen .. .„
Caledonian 10/. ..
Chester and Holyhead ..
Dund. Per. & Aber. June,
East Anglian (3i. 10s.)
6 per cent. ..
Eastern Counties Eaten.,
S per cent. No. 1
Do. No. 1.. • • ..
Do. New 6 p. cent. Stock
Eastern Union, Scrip
guar ax. 6 per cent.
De. 10/. Deben. Shares .
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares ..
E. & W. York. June. bths
Edin. Per. & Dun. 5i p. ct.
Glasgow & S.-WV. Consol
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent.
Great South. & Western
at eland) eighths
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 20/. ..
Do. 6 per ct. Stock ..
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1 ..

Do. quarters, 1848 •
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Creyd.n thirds
De. pref., S p ct. Stock,
1851, from 501. chars. E
Do. new guar., 6 per et.
London &S.-W., new • •
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line., guar. ahrs., No. I
Do. new, 10/. .• ••

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Do., 6/.
Midland Con. 6 p. c. stock
Do. Consel. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per cent...
Do. Bristol & Glouces.
Norfolk Extension ..
Lt). guar. 5% per cent.
Do. Wavcney Valley ..
North British ..
Oaf. Won &W 01. 15/.6 p.c
Shrewsbury and Blrm.
New Guaranteed
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent.
South Devon ..
South-Eastern, 4% p. et.
Waterford & Kilkenny, 51.
West London, 1 st Cl. (101.)
Do. 2d Class do. (par)
York, Newc., and Berw.,
Gt. N . of E. Pur.
York and North Midland
11. and S. Forth.

floplone and-Amlen” .•
Central of France (Or-
'cam and Vierzon) ..
Demerara .., .
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Dutch Rhenish • • ..
East Indian ..
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Do. do. do. ..
Great Indian ponimmi,..
Ditto ditto ..
..
Louvain ala Sambre ..
Luxembourg .. .. .
Ditto .. .. . :..
Madrid and Valentia
..
Maria Antonia ..
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Ditto, New ..
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Namur and Liege .. ,
Northern of France .. i
Orleans and Bordeaux ..
Paris and Orleans .. ..
Paris and itonen .. ..
Paris and Strasbourg „.
Bonen and Havre ..
Sambre and Meuse ..
Tours and >` antes .. ..
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and IlasSeit ..
West Flaw:len i; ..

THE 8

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Asturian
to-day.• Australian .• ••
Barossa Range ......
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Bolanos Scrip
4 British 1r0n.... ••• • • •
Brazilian Imp. (Is. 51. p.)'
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba
Do. St. John del Rey..
Cobre Copper •
Copiapo • ••
Mexican & S. American
Real Del Monte, Uureg,
13% Do. Black Debentures.
[l% Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......
Tin Croft
United Mexican—. •• ••

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Australasia
British North .America
Colonial
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stack ....
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.
7 Do. New
National of Ireland ....
Provincial of Ireland.—
Do. New
[l5 !4 Union of Australia
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Union of London ......
Union of Madrid •
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Canada .....

Gen. Steam Navigation .
18 Penin. & Oriental Steam.
Ditto ditto
Royal Mall Steam ......
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will not be influenced by
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
55u The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es-
-55% timated at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for exportation. The sales comprised 4,000
American, 300 Pernam and Maranham, at 6-id. to 74d.,
200 Egyptian at 7d. to 84d., and 600 Surat at nd. to
41-d. %per lb. The market was heavy at previous rates.
—ln the Railway Share Market there was an alarming
panic, and prices of all the leading stocks fell 4 to 5
1753 per cent., but improved towards the close at better prices.
I3V tiss% The quantity of home-grown Wheat sold in the
English markets last week was 75,271 quarters.
Private advices from Rio Janeiro say—" The Go-
vernment is perilling its very existence in its efforts to
suppress the slave trade. The once notorious slave
steamer the Serpente (now the Golfinho of the Brazilian
navy) has made several captures. Last week she car;
ried off 200 newly-imported negroes of Marambaia.
They are supposed to have belonged to Joaqnsin Breves,
6% % the well known and opulent slave-dealer. This man is
54% the owner of ten large farendas, and the master of some
, II
is% h 2,500 slaves. His largo possessions give him great po-
litical influence, and the seizure of his slaves shows
plainly the energy and determination of the Govern-
ment."
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
7% es its junction with the Columbia, and about one mile from
the main Cowlitz. The vein is two feet thick and about
half 13. 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.
djs. Many of the citirrens of Oregon had gone to the
di'. Klamath and other mines in that vicinity. We see from
the Oregonian that gold mines have been discovered
north of the Colombia river, near the coast. The editor
had seen a letter from a respectable souree, 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
stories are not the most reliable.
94 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 974 to 974, and for Account, 974 to 974. The
news from France is again of rather a satisfactory cha-
racter. Bank Stock has been firm at 210 to 2104. Ex-
chequer-bills have been quoted 41s. to 455.; and India
Bonds 535. premium. Consols now are 974 4 for Money,
and 974 4 for Account.
Sc.ireely any business has been done in Foreign Se-
curities. Peruvian have been heavy, at 804 i to 814.
Spanish Five per Cents. are also at at 194 to 20, and
the Passive at to a, Parties are realising profits,
,g 0 and the possibility of a change in the Ministry is an
TI% inducement to make sure in this respect, although there
may subsequently be a stronger Cabinet formed. Dutch
i% Four per Cents, have been marked 894 to 4.
Railway Shares are looking better, but the aggregate
transactions are not large. Lancashire and Yorkshire
have rallied about 21., Great Western 21. to 21. 10s.,
North-Western 11. to 21., South-Eastern 1/. to 1/. 10s.,
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
day are in round figures as under:-
1851. 1850
Great Western...
North-Western .... 48,041 ... 46,992
South-Western
Brighten
Midland
South-Eastern
.. 10,979
North Stafford 4,708 •.. 4,746
Caledonian
QUARTER TO THREE.
• 97“
▪ 974

COLSOIa ••• •• •••
Ditto Account, Juno 10

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PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLONOCK. PRICES
%% .
CLOSING
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced'Anns.
3 per Cent. Consols Ann uitiee...
New 314 per Cent. Arms.,. 9754% 98
Lung Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o 7% 7 5-16 7 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 7% 7%
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0004.. ...... .......
Consols for Account p
97A% 97%
Exchequer Bills. I%d.
1,000!.
500/.
Small, ..
O
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. CLOSING
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.......PRICES.
57
hquador Bonds— 3%
Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent.......
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ......".
Ditto, Account ..... .... ..
Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent . —
Ditto, Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent .....
Sa-mi6h 5 por Cont. 184 e
Ditto Account.. ... .....
..
Ditto, Passive
5% %
Ditto. 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 214 per Cent
Ditto. Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild --
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifkatbs

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING._( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 22.—Wind at noon W.N.W., light airs.
QIIEENOTOWN, MAY 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Mary
Harrington, Moulmein, and sld. for Ardrossan; Reli-
ance, Mauritius, and sld. for the Clyde; Lady of the
Isles, Pernumbuco; Industrious, Barbadoes.
BRISTOL, MAY 21.—The Greek brig Falcon, and the
Russian barque Vesta, have comp up here from
Peuarth 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, Havannala; Delphy, ditto; American
Eagle, New York. Arrived from the River, Emma,
Colvin, Hong-Kong ; Thomas Snook, Fernando Po ;
Index, St. Kitt 's ; Blanche, Jamaica ; Grecian, ditto.
Arrived from the River and sailed, Thetis, Adelaide,
South Australia.; Argo, St. Croix ; Ayo, West Indies;
Helen, Quebec.
OFF COIf..ES, MAY 20.—Stephane, Now York, for
Bremen.
LIVERPOOL, IS/LAY 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Christians,
Singapore; Queen, Corisco ; Margaret, Callao; Savage,
Porto Rico; William Sprague, New Orleans; Castilian,
New York; Do Witt, Clinton, ditto; Elizabeth, Calcutta;
Helen, Savannah ; President, New York. Sld. John
Bull, Bombay ; Zillah, Valparaiso ; Princess Victoria,
Para ; Alice Ja ue, Jamaica ; Robert Kelly, New York.
Off port, Renown, Maranham ; Wi.rbler, Irene, May,
and Belvoir Castle.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
NEWG.B ME AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of each kind of meat on sale to-day were
small. Genera, lly speaking, the demand ruled steady at
our quotations. Beef, from 2s 4cl to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s
8d to 3s 10d; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s to
3s 10d ; Pori, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per Blbs. by the carcase.
FLY lARZETS.
SMITHFIELD.' --MA
eadow Hay, 3/ us to 4168; Clover,
81 3s to 4/ 108;: and Straw, 11 is to 11 103 per load
Supply moderat(l, and trade dull.
CUMBERLAND.. Meadow Hay, 3/ Os to 41 8s;
Clover, 3/ Os to 4s' 8s; and Straw, 11 38 to 1/ 1 ls per load
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEI. toog 4/ 63; Meadow Hay. 31 -- •
Clover, 310 s to 41 8s; and Straw, 1/ Is to 11 10s per loud.
Trade rather dull.

PA EAT MARKETS.
SouTHALL, MA-sr 21.—Our market to-day has been
but moderately incoplied with each kind of stock, in
which a steady business has been doing at very full
prices. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 33 to 4s;
Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork,
3s to 3s Gd per Blbs, to sink the offal.
itomFoßD, MAY 21.—Prime Beasts and Shbep sold
freely at au advaace of 2d per Sibs. In other kinds of
stock only a moo.erate business was transacted.—Beef,
from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s 10d to
5* 10d; Veal, 3s to 3s 8J; Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs
Milch Cows with their small Calf, 141. to 18Z each.
HAILSHAIA, MAY 21.—.0ur market has ruled tolerably
firm, as follows:—Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton 3s 2d to
4s 2d; Laralh 5s to 5s Scl; Veal, 33 2d to 3s 6d' per 81bs.

ARUNDEL, MAY 20.—The general demand has been
by no means active, yet prices are well supported. Beef,
from 3s 2d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s 10d
to 5s 8(1; Veal, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs.
CHICHESTER, MAy 21.—0 n the whole, the trade has
ruled firm, at full quotations. Beef, from 3s to 33 10d;
Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d; Lamb 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 2d
to 3s 6d per Sibs. Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 151
to 181 each.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN'
For the Week ended May 15, 1851, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Emgland end Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. IBARLEY. OATS. I RYE. 1 BEANS. I PEAS.
PRICE .. 3Bs 2d 24s Id' 18s 11 d 25s 9d 2Ss 10d I 27s 2d
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
WHEAT. BARLEY. I OATS. I RYE. I BEANS, I PEAS.
Is Od Od is Od Is 01 Is Od Is 01
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK.
Wheat, 75,271 ; Barley, 13,319 ; Oats, 14,m9 ; Rye, 112 ; Beans,
4,837 ; Peas, 341 quarters.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL
v. LOFTUS.
This was an action brought to recover of the defendant,
Major Loftus, the sum of 516/. 18s. ad., us premiums
paid by the plaintiff on policies of insurance on the life
of the defendant, which had been assigned to plaintiff,
defendant consenting to pay the premiums as they be-
came due.

Evidence was adduced to show that arrears were due
to the amount claimed and had been paid by the
plaintiff.
The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed.
FALSE IMPRISONMENT—GRAFTON V. WILTON.
This was an action to recover damages for false im-
prisonment.
Defendant having suffered judgment to go by default,
the present was for inquiry to assess damages.
It appeared by the evidence that plaintiff was a ser-
vant girl, i❑ the service of a gentleman named Burgess,
who was residing at plaintiff's house, at Kingsland, until
a house which ho had purchased opposite was com-
pleted, and during the time defendant, who was of eccen-
tric habits, frequently complained of being robbed, and
had made allegations against many persons. Few per-
sons appeared to have given much credence to her state-
ments, or accounted for the loss by the defendant invit-
ing water-cress girls and others into the house. Mrs.
Burgess, who was called, proved that defendant had
given the girl in charge for stealing a shawl and some
trinkets, but as she (Mrs. Burgess) did not doubt plain-
tiff's honesty, she retained her in her service notwith-
standing the charge; but on a previous occasion she
(Mrs. Burgess) had discharged a charwoman, who de-
fendant alleged bad robbed her. Plaintiff had said that
defendant stole the witness's coals, and that appeared to
rankle in defendant's mind. The plaintiff was taken
before the magistrates, and discharged immediately after
her father's house had been searched.
The jury, after a short deliberation, gave a verdict for
101. damages.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY )
George Collins and William Collins, William Stapleton
and 'William Holdsworth, Henry Fame, John Darke, and
John Gore, who were severalty convicted of common
nuisance, by keeping wharfs in the parish of Padding-
ton, for the collection and accumulation of dust and
manure, &c., were called on their bail to receive judg-
ment. But after a few remarks from the Learned Judge,
sentence was deferred further to next sessions.
William Enser, a middle-aged man of respectable ap-
pearance, was convicted of corruptly taking a reward for
the restoration of a stolen dog, and was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment under the late Act.
The other cases tried this morning were destitute of
interest.

NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM: or, MANY
SIDES TO A CHARACTER. A Comedy,
in Fine 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 produc-
tion, it remains no longer a matter of uncertainty a 3
to whom individually writers and painters are alike
indebted for the suggestion, and 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 et
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 hear!,
in which this scheme of magnanimity may be said, in
the first instance, to have originated. Whatever waY
have since been accomplished in the way of its pru"
motion, whatever may henceforth be achieved with
view to its ulterior and perfect development, to Sir
BULWER LYTTON will belong the glory of
having elicited these timely tributes of
pathy, and sometimes too of admiration. As con'
elusive testimony of this, we refer not so much t°
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 foci'
that the comedy before us was acted a few nights
since at Devonshire Ilouse (as the title-page itself
records) in the presence of her Majesty and his Royal
Highness the Prince Albert, we shall restrict our ob-
servations entirely to an examination of its dramatic
efficiency and of its general characteristics se 8
literary performance. Charles Dickens and his awe;
teur company will, we are rejoiced to think, lint
adequate recompense for their exertions, not so mac'
in the applause accorded to the display of their his"
trionic abilities as in the remembrance that tbei
were the foremost among the supporters of the scheme
submitted to them for acceptance or refusal by Our
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 from
the appreciation of the more discerning multitude,
it would be discoverable in the aspiration
so gracefully expressed by Sir Edward in
his simple but suggestive Dedication—" May each
loftier Cultivator of Art and Letters, whom the Iv
stitution established under your auspices may shelter
from care and penury, see on its cornerstone your
princely name, and perpetuate to distant times the
affectionate homage it commands from ourselves.
With such 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 131"
been bodied forth is in a very great measure
of commensurate excellence. Those who mat
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 disar
pointment. In extenuation of this should be minor
bered the circumstance that the play has been penned
for the especial advantage of a body of amateur come'
diens, 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 dramatti
persons, an extraordinary amount of energy, a
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 afterncon. 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 Zanoni 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 humanizing 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 ball
in light and half in darkness, the circle of our own na-
tures is chequered by peculiarities as arresting in vi-
vidness, and the consideration of which is as inte-
resting to the humanitarian as that of the former 11
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 OL
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 of the power by which the true poet, like
the bee,

" 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
springs of virtues the most pure and elevated, of
of self-sacrifice, of amenity,
of despair, of courage in the
oe end dhuorpaenecvee,
no of
n the forgiveness,jaw :
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,may henceforth, we believe, be in some measure
if be be not actually respected,
his conquest of
loved
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 bad endured
while sinking from the heights of the sublimest aspira-
tions
a downrdilia
nto the o
u depths, e
)(fa penniless obscurity—
,H
both Whig and Jacobite; do
~ yservo
you either
her
:• F politician 1 what has either cared
careoilent.h_ enso foreerei
for me ? I entered the world, devoted heart and soul
to two causes—the throne of the Stuart, the glory of
no heritage but loyalty
letters. I saw them both My father left me
anda learning.apoet. He sold . a
hi:
11 h
Second praised my
had to levy troops for R.
gold in the red fiel , _ nig Charles, and ailed
ling
pwraiiisie, aof Marston Moor. Charles the
verse, and I starved; James the Se-
condd my prose, Ltd I starved ; the reign of
"14110—I passed that in prison 1
"Hardman.—gut the ministers of Anne were gracious
to writers.
" Fallen.—And offered me a pension to belie my past
life, and write Odes on the Queen who had 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 fellow. 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.
•` Dal dinan.—This man has genius—he might have
been a grace to his age. I'm perplexed; Sir Robert—
" Fallen.—Disdains Letters—l've renounced them. He
pays services like these. Well—l servo him, Leave
me; go!" _ _ _

Well may Hardman, the rising Member of parlia-
ment, exclaim after these declarations of the
pamphleteer—
Hardman (risiny).—Not so bad as he seems—ano-
ther side to the character: this moves me; I've been a
writer myself. But theremedy? A state may but
humble by alms; a minister corrupt by a bribe: what
Patron then for Letters!—The public?—yes, for the
Authorate, whose
for talents the Public may chance to appre-
ci. And those who, with toils as severe, but
with genius less shsiped 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
(hame bowed
and down by. the tyrant Necessity,) have veiled in
s desplir the eyes that once looked to the stars; these rival children of lipht may learn at last, that
the tie they now rend should be the bond 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 comedy—the
unfortunate bookmau vindicates the innate goodness