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MARKET NEWS.—(This Dar.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There was an improved feeling in the demand for home-
grown wheat in the leading country markets held on
Saturday, and prices had an upward tendency. Barley,
however, was dull in sale, and lower to purchase. Most
other articles were tolerably firm.
The Continental markets have been firm for wheat, and
prices have had an upward tendency. The shipments of
both wheat and flour from America have been only
moderate of late.

Limited supplies of home-grown produce were received
up from market last week. The imports from abroad were
12,443 quarters of wheat, 4,239 barley, 14,547 oats, 80
beans, 403 peas, 1,230 linseed, 30 mustard seed, 70 sundry
seeds, and 7,240 barrels of flour.
Fresh up from Essex, the arrivals of wheat to-day, coast
wise and by land carriage, were small ; and the receipts
from Kent were only moderate, consequently, the show
of samples of both red and white was limited for the time
of year, and the condition of the supply was by no means
first-rate. The market was well attended both by town
and country millers, and the demand for all kinds of wheat
of home produce ruled active, at an improvement in tho
quotations realised on Monday last of from 33. to ss. per
quarter.

There was only a' moderate chow of foreign wheat.
The demand for nearly all kinds was steady, and, in some
instances, the currencies were is to 2s per quarter highs
than on this day se'nnight.

'We had an improved inquiry for floating cargoes o:
grain, at very full prices.

The quantity of barley on offer was not extensive, yet
the trade ruled heavy, and the quotations were 24 to 3s
per quarter lower.
Malt moved off slowly, but we have no change to notice
in prices.

The show of oats was very moderate, and the oat trade
ruled steady, at full prices.
Beans wore in short supply, and fair request, at. last
week's currency. We had a fair inquiry for peas, at fully
late rates.

The lour trade was firm, and country markets advanced
is to 2s per sack.

Malt—Chevaller •• • • 76s to 77s
Oats 7- Yorkshire and

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
frheat—Essen L Rent,
Red •• new 62a to 68a
Ditt0..••.... old 633 7i,
Ditto, White new 663 72s
Ditt0........ old 70s 773
Norfolk and Lin-
coln, Red, old —s —a
Ditto new ••.••• —s —a
aye—old •• .• •• •• •• 42s 443

New . •• •• •• •• •• —8
Uarley—Grinding..... 40s 45s
Malting ......... 42a 46s
Chevalier..•• • • 453 48a
Malt—linffolkandNor-
folk............ 693 74s
Brown.••.•••..••.••• 633 643
Kingston and Ware 693 763

Lincoln/tit., Feed 24$ 26s
Potato
Toughal and Cork
Black. .• ...• 215 28.
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Cork, White ..... 22s 268
800tch,Feed..... 263 298
Beans—Tiok ••••• .. 36s 398
Pigeon. ...... 42s 45,
Peas—Grey 36$ 408
Maple..• •• •• •• •• 443 458
White........... 443 488
Boilers .......... 4143 483
Flour—Town-made... 583 608
Suffolk .. •• 463 498
Stooktn & Norfolk 463 49

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

About average supplies of foreign stock wero received in
the port of London last week—the total arrival having
amounted to 7,578 head. In the corresponding week in
1855 the imports were 10,370 ; in 1854, 10,038 ; in 1853,
10,517 ; in 1852, 12,167; in 1851, 7,853; and in 1850
7,000 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WERE.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
Bremen 427 ... 4
Frederickatadt 61
Hamburgh . 87 ... 838
Rotterdam 570 1,612 •
Harlingen
Medemblik 7 1,244 _
Nieu Diep 2l 522
Amsterdam 25 ... 835

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Calais
Dordt 42 ...
Emden . •••
Schiedam
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97 ... -
17 ... -

4 ... -

41 ... _

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... 5,468 552 233
The yearly comparison of weekly imports Is as follows :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pig";
1855 1,833 7,052 208 527 .. 754
1854 1,711 7,218 248 313 516
1853 2,06 7,263 ... 783 422
The demand for stock on French account in most of the
Dutch markets is still only moderate, yet prices in Holland
continue high. Large numbers of stock, especially sheep,
continue to be Imported into France from Spain.
The turnip crop is progressing wcll in the whole of our
grazing districts.
There was about an average time-of-year supply of
foreign stock on offer in to-day's market, but its general
quality was inferior.
We had an increased show of home-fed beasts on sale
compared with Monday last. The condition of all kinds,
however, was by no means first-rate. The primest Scots
were in fair request, but other qualities of beef were a slow
sale, and prices were 2d per 8 lbs. lower than on Monday
last. The general top figure was 4s 8d per 8 lbs.
From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton-
shire we received 2,500 shorthorns; from other parts of
England, 500 of various breeds ; from Ireland, 400 oxen ;
and from Scotland, only 20 Scots.
We were fairly supplied with sheep, most of which were
in low condition. The mutton trade was in a sluggish
state, at Friday's decline in value of 2d per 8 lbs. The
best old Downs sold at 5s 2d per 8 lbs.
The few lambs in the market sold at mutton prices.
Although the supply of calves was very moderate, the
wool trade was rather heavy, and prices wore 2d per Bibs.
lower than on this day se'nmght.
Pigs—the supply of which was moderate—were steady,
at full quotations.

Per Bibs to sink the offs.

s. 4. a. d. N. d. a. d
Interior Beasts.... 2 10 to 3 2PrimeSouthdown 410 5 2
Second quality.... 3 4 3 BilArge tree. calves 3 8 4 2
Prime largo oxen 310 4 4(Prime small do 4 4 410
Primo Scots, ate. 4 6 4 81Large hogs
Inferior Sheep ...3 8 3 10iSmall porkers 4 2 4 8
Second quality ...4 0 4 4Suckling calvee 23 0 30
Prime erse.-wlled.4 6 4 81Quarter old pigs 22 0 28 0
TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY.
sheep .• .......• 25,780
Calves .• •• •• ......•• .. 254

Beasts— ---....•••••• • 1,769
Sheep ....... ..... ........ 4,300
Calves." •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 197
.....

A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle
Market. on Monday, Sept. 17, 1865, and this day, Monday,
Sept. 15, 1856.
Per 81bs, to sink the offals.

Sept. 17, 1855. Sept 15,1856
a. d. s. d. e. d. s. d.
3 6to 3 82 10 to 3 2
410 4 23 4 3 8
4 4 4 63 10 4 4
4 8 410,4
6 4 8
3 4 3 63, 8 310
3 8 4 014 0 4 4
4 2 4 614 6 4 8
4 8 5 o'4lo 5 2
0 0 0 0)0 0 0 0
4 0 4 613 8 4 2
4 8 5 04 4 410
3 6 310 3 6 310
4 0 4 64 2 4 8

Coarse and inferior boasts ...
Second quality ditto
Prime largo oxen ...
Prime Scots, dic
Coarse and inferior sheep „.
Second quality ditto
Primo coarse woolled ditto
Prime Southdown ditto
Lambs
Large coarse calves
Prime small ditto
Large hogs ...
Neat small porkers ~„

Beasts... ... ... ... ... 5,630
Sheep ... ... ... ... ... 27,620 1
Calves... ... ... ... ... ... 187
Pigs ... .:. ... ... ... ... 317
Surinam ON SALE, Sept. IR, 1854.—Beasts, 5,607; sheep
and lambs, 56,970; calves, 362; pigs, 3,0.
Sept. 19, 1853.—Beasts, 6,22 i ; sheep and lambs, 27,410;
calves, 275 ; pigs, 440.

5,320
25,780
254
290

LITERATURE.

Little Dorrit. No. X. By Charles Dickens.
" Poverty" is over—the poverty of the Dorrits
of the Marshalsea ! No. X. has duly brought us,
as we anticipated, to the end of Book I.—half of
the new story by Boz being thus already com-
pleted. Another instalment will, of course, begin
the second moiety—" Riches "—the riches of the
Dorrits—no longer the Dorrits of the Marshalsea !
For old Mr. Dorrit is " ont of it" at last, as en-
tirely as Tip, and Fanny, and Frederick. He Rot
only comes out of a prison, but comes into a fortune
—through the benign agency of Pancks the Tug,
Pancks the Grubber, Pancks the Gipsy (in truth)
" Fortune"-telling How all this comes to pass is
told very excitingly by means of a chapter expres-
sively entitled—" What was behind Mr. Pancks on.
Little Dorrit's hand." William Dorrit, the snivel-
ling, degraded, despicable Father of the Marshalsea,
turning out to be heir-at-law to a great estate—an
estate showering the glory of sudden wealth upon
the receiver of dirty douceura of silver and halfpence
under the title of " testimonials"—upon the vul-
gar prig of a son with a respectability some-
thing between that of a billiard-marker and that
of a stable-hanger-on—upon the consequential
little hoity-toity ballet-dancer at a low suburban
theatre—upon the half-comatose clarionet-player,
whose conversational powers are principally re-
stricted to the utterance of " Yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes"—and, last of all, upon poor dear Little Amy
Dorrit herself, the needle-plying Child of the Mar-
shalsea. The chief interest of the revelation made
first of all by Pancks, and afterwards by Clennam,
in this same wonder-working chapter, lies in the
disclosure of the great news in turn to Little Dorrit
and to her Father. Flora (relict of Mr. F.) shining
forth incidentally in this portion of the narrative,
more than ever good natured, and, be it said, also
more than ever ridiculous. The subsequent
chapter, with which the First Book terminates,
places upon record the manner in which the
Marshalsea becomes an Orphan. William Dorrit
(how is it that he comes to be mentioned at page
315 as " Edward Dorrit, Esquire 1") and his Fa-
mily driving away from the Debtors' Prison, in
which the head of the house has Eeen incarcerated

for nearly a quarter of a century—driving away
from it, not in a prison-van, or a hack cab, or a
job-fly, or anything of that sordid kind, but in a
grand carriage, the bran new carriage of a bran
new gentleman The task now devolving upon
Mr. Dickens in the sequel of his story appears to
us one of extraordinary difficulty, one sufficient to
tax to the uttermost the powers of our great no-
velist. He will have to define with the touch of
a master-hand the change effected upon the
various members of the Dorrit Family by
this abrupt and astounding transition from
Poverty to Riches. The influence of the change
we anticipate, will render Amy more than ever
loveable, and her relations more than ever disgust-
, ing, with the single exception, perhaps, of
that orchestral Life-in-Death, the clarionet-player,
Frederick. Besides the two chapters already here
particularised, the two chapters having such extra-
ordinary influence upon the fortunes both of the
Dorrits and of the Marshalsea, there are two other
chapters affecting the minor personages of the tale,
lending their charm to the present September in-
stalment. One defining " Mrs. Merdle's Coin-
plaint"—the other netting together a whole "Shoal
of Barnacles." In the former we learn the par-
ticulars of a sort of a confidential interview be-

tween Mrs. Gowan and Mrs. Merdle..-in reference
to the relation between whom, as types of two
contrasting classes, it is remarked--." True,
the Hampton Court Bohemians, without
exception, turned up their noses at Merdle as an
upstart ; but they turned them down again by
falling flat on their faces to worship his wealth"—
whereunto is added " in which compensating ad-
justment of their noses they were pretty much like
Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of
them." Mrs. Gowan tapping her chin (" it was
on the way to being a double chin," says Boz very
ludicrously," might be called a chin and a-half at

present") snbmits-her case to the judgment of Mrs.
Merdle ; the latter in the name of Society vouch-
safing in return her opinion—an opinion bolstered
up on either hand by the Bosom and the Parrot
Mr. Merdle is capital t looking a little common, in
spite of his enormous wealth—" rather as if, in the
course of his vast transactions, he had accidentally
made an interchange of heads with some inferior

spirit." Mr. Sparkler, his step-son, is still more
capital even than the capitalist—" anxiously feeling
his shirt collar as if it were his pulse, and he were
hypochondriacal." As to the "Shoal of Barnacles"

described immediately afterwards, they are inimi-
tably hit off—every man Jack of them—a great many
man-Jacks of them, of course, being Jacks-in-office!
Barnacles they are of all kinds and species, but
still to the last, though numerous and various, of
their kind and species—representing only a frac-
tional portion of the gigantic aggregate of Barna-
cles—Barnacles scattered with their despatch-
boxes [Why will Mr. Dickens always spell
Despatch with an d, after the stereotyped etymo-
logical blunder of the weekly newspaper so called 'l,l
—all over the world—" despatch-boxing the
compass ?" William Barnacle ; Tite Barnacle ;
Barnacle Junior, with his eyeglass and his
Tonnage, and his ever-lively dread about
Arthur Clennam wanting to know you know;
the engaging young Barnacle ; Lord Decimus Tite
Barnacle, and the rest of them, the whole " shoal"

here alluded to, being gathered together to cele-
brate the nuptials of Pet and Harry Gowan at Mr.
Mleagles's pretty little villa-home down at Twick-
enham. An occasion like so many others where
sundry aspiring individuals " buttered the Barna-
cles on all sorts of toasts." Barnacles, great and
small, come in for the undiscriminating sarcasms
of the arch-foe of the whole joint tribes of Bar-
nacles and Stiltstalkings. Air. Dickens, indulging
in a cruel reference to the three expensive Miss
Tite Barnacles, double 'loaded with accomplish-
ments and ready to go off, and yet not going off
with the sharpness of flash and bang that might
have been expected, but rather hanging fire I
And holding up for :general contemplation,
in the midst of inextinguishable laughter, the
oratorical powers of Decimus Tito Barnacle,
thus ludicrously celebrated in one stupendous
sentence. He (Lord Decimus) " trotting with
the complacency of an idiotic elephant among
howling labyrinths of sentences, which he seemed
to take for high roads, and never so much as wanted

to get out of !" With which delicious morceauw

of Irony we will close our comments upon this
number of Little Dorrit, a number illustrated as
usual by Phiz, with a pencil of slovenly ability--
but for once, thank Heaven, without one of his
blotchy sketches of " Darkness visible."

Miscellanies. Vol. 111. By W. M. Thackeray.
Another volume of Mr. Thackoray's delightful
" Miscellanies " reproduces for us, in a revised
form, several of those earlier productions of his
which won him so much praise from the discern-
ing, under the pseudonym of M. A. Titmarsh. In
this manner we are enabled to peruse once more
" The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon," by the light
of a great literary fame, second only to the two
most illustrious of living novelists. The names of
Dickens and Lytton being followed in due order
nowadays by that of Thackeray, the glorious writer
of Vanity Fair and The Netvcornes—to say nothing
of the ever-charming memorials of Colonel..Esmond,
or of the altogether inimitable Lectures on English
Humorists. In this great living author—the con-
temporary of Buiwer, and Boz, and Macaulay,
and Tennyson—immortal amonc, our writers of
fiction as the creator of Becky Sharp, and honest
Dobbin, and noble-hearted Thomas NewcoMe, and
delectable M. de Florae, and capital old tufthunt-
ing Major Pendennis, and loveable George War-
rington, and the infamous Marquis of Stevne, and
the hardly less execrable Dowager Lady Kew, and
beautiful Ethel, and handsome Clive, and that
most charming of couples, Arthur and Laura Pen-
dennis—in the creation of these and other scarcely
less real "ideal" characters, we recognise one rather
more important than a pleasant contributor to
Punch and Fraser. Somebody more welcome to be-
hold than the double of "Jeames," or the alter ego
of " Plicernan X.," or Charles Yellowplush, or
Michael Angelo Titmarsh, or Fitzboodle, or
the Snob of " Snobs," or the Bashi-bazonk
among " Bashi-bazouks," or the " Fat Con-
tributor" to the " London Charivari," or
any other among those not easily numerable noms
de plume, by which William Thackeray first won
his way to an immense popularity
and a splendid
reputation. Here is a fictionist rather more notable
than all this—a Great Author, and not merely a
successful feuillotonist or a light and sparkling
magazine-writer l The queer, comical, capital
masks have dropped off one after another, and at
last we have before the world, in his own proper
person, a humorist and satirist whose name will
henceforth rank with those of Richardson; Fielding,
Smollett, Swift, Lytton, Dickens, among the glories
of our national literature ! As the earlier writ-
ings of W. M. Thackeray these facetious "Miscel-
lanies" are right welcome every one of them,
even the most fugitive and ephenioral, even " Re-
becca and Rowena." And bearing yet vividly in
remembrance his noble masterpiece—" The New-
comes," we turn over with renewed zest the re-
cords penned by the same hand in a more negligent
mood of the "Legend of the Rhine," of the
" Little Dinner at Timmins s," and of " The Bed-
ford-row Conspiracy." As we have already
turned over curiously and laughingly (in vols. i.
and ii.) the " Ballads," the " Book of Snobs," the
'• Fatal Boots," " Cox's Diary," the " Yellow-plush
Memoirs," " Jeames's Diary," " Travels in Lon-
don," "Novels by Eminent Hands," "Character
Sketches," and last, but not least w their oni

travagant way, the " Tremens bus .Adventures of
Major Gahagan." Besides all which, however,
there bo pippins and elteese to come
yet"—ballads, verses, tales, squibs;-, burl esque and
satiric pasquinades, contributed du ring the last ten
years with a lavish and industrio us hand to all
kinds of period icAls. Let us hope t ;hat these may
not fail to include among their nun nbeY together
with what Mr. Thackeray has wi.t,t,.m. ior example
in Punch, in the Times, in Fraser, an( I, in fl o use-
hold Words, such sparkling and, in theiz • way, alto-
gether matchless criticisms as that delicious tri-
bute of admiration (in the Quarterly) to John
Leech's " Pictures of Life and Character-." Other-
wise the collection will remain after all signally
incomplete. Otherwise there will be something
still a-wanting even in Thac eray's "Miscellanies."

Oxford and Cambridge...L. Among a number of
meritorious contributions may be noticed a pleasing
paper on that fine old poet " Robert Herrick,"
and a laudatory notico of " Alexander Smith," of
whom, after a third perusal, it is said, "if his
future. performance does not belie his youthful
promise, he may look to stand in the first rank of
English poets, or, at the least, below only the
very greatest."