The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-31 00:00:00

Per 81bs. to silt the offal.
e. d. to s. d.
ulterior Beasts..... 2 8 2 8

0. d. to I'd;
Inferior Sheep .. • 3 4 3. 10
Second quad. sheep 3 6 ; 1
Curse-woolled ditto 4 0 i 4
~outhdown blether 4 2 a" 0
Ditto outorthe wool° 0 ; 6
Large Hogg 2 JO
Small Porkers .... 3 8
n 7, 0
Quart.gr old rigs ..13 0 Av

Second quality •... 210 3 0
Prime large Oaea.. 3 2 3 4
Prime Scots •• ••• • 1 6 3 8
arge coarse Calves 210 3 4
1-rimesmall ditto 3 6 3 8
:uckllas Calves —lB 0 24 0
Lambs •• •••• •• 0 0 0 0
TOTAL SUPPLY
Sheep,
3,000

',casts.
430

AT MARKET
Calves. Flag
3
241 10
-

SCO
Beasts. I Sheep.
31 60
FOREIGN kTITLY.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves.
182 700 104

Calves.

Figs.

NEVTGATE AND Lz.anzNiiitzu
Theae markets were well supplied. Generally speak
ing, the demand ruled heavy, as follows:

At por stone by the Carcase. . d•
i. d. to a. d. , i• d. to •• 2 y
:eer,inferlor•• g ,
•• 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior •• 2
„- j .
-- middling .. •• 2 4 2 6 I mlddling•• 2I: $lO
primelarge .. 2 8 3 0 — prime ...• 3 ! i 6
prime small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge...... •• 2 : 4 0
Taal•• —••—•••• .. 2 10 a s' small ...• ••• • 3 °

BOROUGH STOP MARKET. • h
For most kinds of Hops—the supply of Whic3;
to
somewhat extensive—the demand continues firm, 8113-'4,
some instances, prices are a shade higher than last Ill'
Ten bales have come to hand from Ostend. Factor
prices, via., ready money—East Kent pockets, per o°.i
31 16s to 6/ 15s; ditto bags, 31 4s to 51 ss; MidDi
pockets, 21 6s to 5/ 15s ; ditto bags, 21 to 41 lg:
Weald of Kent pockets, 316 s to 4125.; ditto bitg°P` o'
31 105; Sussex pockets, 2/ 18s to 3/ 16s.

CO LONILM. been
market for most descriptions has
a little firmer, and with a somewhat improved delz*-04
Barbadoes by auction sold at 41s to 43s for mid 10 g°o,
' yellow, and at 43s 6d to 44s for fine. Demerara r:6a
lised 375 6d to 39s for low and mid yellow, and 55Lot
' to 37s for good and fine brown. Refined has been faro
at 49s 6d to sls 6d for grocery lumps. 4100
EAST INDlA.—Mauritius, 5,400 bags went by sta
at full prices; fine yellow, 40s 6d to 425; greh 3',09
40s; and brown. 32s to 365. The chief part of 713 e,
bags Bengal found buyers at full quotations ; white s;
Ito
mid however, being somewhat lower; fine, 44s to to
mid to good, 41s 6d to 49s 6d; fine grainy white, 496004
50s; good and tine: grainy yellow, 43s to 455, and ,to
and fine soft yellow 38a to 40s. Madras sold et 296
041
30a for soft brown, and at 31s to 34s 6d for low to Ig-
mid yellow, in small parcels. Manilla, 4,866 bags „ro
d
taken in, ord and mid dark brown at 305 to 311 6d,""
good yellow 38s 6d.
Aga for
FOREIGN.—Cubs sold publicly at 39s id to ,--30
mid to good yellow, at 42s 6d for tine, and at 375 t 0 st
6d for syrupy. Brown Bahia, 440 caves was taken 02 ps
38e 6d for strong, and damaged white Havanneb
at 25s to 27s for washed.
COFFEE.—There has been very little business clorl
this article, and prices have continued much the 16f.
-
ty
Native Ceylon was at 486 to 496 for good ord. P'a-for
-for
tion has been held at 65s to 705 for good, 58a to 606 0
mid, and 54s to 57s for other sorts. Bahia has be4eos
taken in at 463 to 47s for good and fine and mixed, Id
to 46s fur ord, and Zia 6d for black. A small Par"
Jamaica was taken in at 40s for fine ord.
Cocos.—Trinidad has been taken in at 445 for ato
grey, and good red has been sold at 544 to 575; inidkot
good grey, 506 to 525. Bahia mid and good w .
.vas 1'8"
in at 30s to 31s, and Para grey at 30s.
SALTPETRE.—The lower sorts have been litter
cheaper, but other descriptions firm. Fine Btoal Pe
o
cent retraction, 29s to 29s 6d; and ord and mid 1(44
196 per cent, 26s 6d to 27s for Calcutta. Msdrslait
and 9 per cent refraction sold at 27s to 275 id for -
quality. ire
Rum.—The demand has increased, and prices see
firmer; strong Demerara, 2s 8d to 2s 9d; proof '-
wards, is 8d to is 9d; and East India proof, 18 7‘l'
oft,
RlCE.—Madras has been taken in at 83 6d Per -
and very little has been done in Bengal.
gka for
SPICES.—BIack Pepper has realised 3id to d;
heavy and half heavy Malabar, and Penang Sid to 31
bees
mid white has been taken in at bid; Cloves have ilet,o
at full rates, viz., 6id per lb. Nutmegs quiet at 26 7os
3s; Pimento, 4id; Cassia Lignea went off heavily
to 975 6d for mid, and good bright and good ord 07,0%.
at 92s 6d to 935; Cinnamon at the quarterly sales
n" d
mostly bought in inferior at about previous rates''-
good and fine 3d to 6d per lb lower. at! par
ARROW•IitOOT, fiC.—St. Vincent sold at 5d to •
lb; Rio Tapioca brought 2d to 4,id per lb.
COTTON.—This article has been dull at barely Pre
vious rates.
TEA.—There have been buy 4,
ers a shade under the p
.r
~e
0;
vious rates for common Congou, and holders being ;',"no
not much has been done. The public sale of 10,1'
packages went cff tolerably well. 9a
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been firm at 37s 6d to 375 . -
per cwt on the spot.
Mors
GREEN FRUIT.—The market has been quiet; he- a
of Oranges are not disposed to press sales, two csrgbeile.o
from St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at PI to
sale, were taken by the trade at prices barely equi od
last week. More inquiry for Lemons—any of roe
quality command a sale. Black Spanish Nuts out 0' 1.115
market. Barcelona likely to improve in price. 5611.0
Sour Oranges are in demand; quality superior 10 "
Seitboll.

71 p
71 p
96%

891,1
106

58
9114

(QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAI(4O
(Sittings in Banco, before Lord CAMPBELL and Jea—tic
PATTESON, COLERIDDE, and WIGHTMANO
THE QUEEN U. THE INHAB/TANTG OF soLloncir'
JUDGMENT.
Lord CAMPBELL delivered judgment in this 058 ible
morning. He said it was admitted that the Our" 4.
this case had resided for five years so as to be irrealne,
able unless an interruption of such a residence bad be,
created by imprisonment. The pauper, it was asen°3:g!sin
had been removed from the respondent pariah Witmitos
intention of returning thereto as soon as his time 0, p.
prisonment should expire; and the question of isterr
Lion was then raised en the argument upon the grciun-ol
-oe
that absence by imprisonment would constitute tp
interruption. The Court, however, saw no reason
support that proposition, while the danger of en lit
Touring to destroy the right by means of iMprisoneleof
afforded a reason against the construction. Soeleold
the cases which had been cited in the argument wow
an impression that imprisonment would be CV is
in the residence, but on examination of those mseelio
would seem that no such rule hag been laid
wool°
down, is,
them. If the Court held that irremovability
destroyed by every imprisonment the pauper wenidAus
much restricted; and the Court had come to the
sion to decide against the appellants, under the air°
stances which had been stated in the argument.
Judgment for the appellants accordingly.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)„,„
The Court proceeded with the special paper tt:'-unir
but the cases heard during the morning involved tir
dry questions of pleading and practice, which were
of interest to the parties immediately concerned.

BAH, COURT.--(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice Enr.n.)
EXPARTE CORPORATION OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TO.d
Mr. CROMPTON applied, on behalf of the corporeini;.
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for a rule calling upon e°:B
cillor of that borough to show cause why a quo worr,sl::.
should not issue requiring him to prove his right t° ai
office he held. He was elected in November lasts
before that time and since he had supplied
nd
gaol of the corporation with stationary and printiePtig—
had, besides, contracted for the corporation ad/er..
ments, and sold the corporation his newspaper. ,;(0
Mr. Justice Erma was not aware that a corp
was authorised to lay out the borough fund in the par
chase of newspapers.
Mr. CROMPTON did not know how that was. the
Mr. Justice ERLE said that the Act directed that ;01,
borough rate should be applied to the payment of esier.
aid the balance, if any, to the improvement of the Wy.
Surely purchasing newspapers was not improving'
town. But, at all events, the fact of the councillor 0
ing his colleagues newspapers was no disqualification-0
Mr. CROMPTON contended that, under the sth sad ad
William IV., chap. 76, his printing for the gaol
contracting for the corporation advertisements disqn-
tied him for the office.
sro
Mr. Justice ERLE thought that circumstan—
enough for a rule to show cause.—Rule nisi accodien
QUEEN V. CAMERON'S, COALEROOK AND SWAN'S°
tr. RAILWAY.
for
ALT. NOGGINS moved, on behalf of Mr.
rule calling upon the Coalbrook and Sweat:el:97li%
Company to show cause why a mandamus should
or
t
issue commanding them to allow that g theentlemen 50
spect their books and accounts as a shareholder io
manner the deed of settlement authorized. Mr. Carifj,eron.
-
had loved same coal mines to the nomany in nonsiue—ra •
hut 010
lion of 130,0001., which they were now working,
consideration wa --
obereifi not paid in money, but in the -

ithacompany numbering some 11,97
uron which the
rtaPane gave him credit fur all the calls ;:mouhting to
0/. each. Mr. Cameron bete;; dissatisfied with the ma-
nagement of the concern applied to the cretary in Au-
gust last to be allowed to inspect the books and accounts,
which was refused on the ground that he could not be
lowed in the light of a bond( fide shareholder, and he
_1448 therefore been compelled to have recourse to the
Pre ent proceedings to enforce his right.
,a___Mr• Justice ERLE was not quite certain that a man-
-'lltOs was the proper remedy.
thilnllooones knew of no other, nor was he smlte
us_t.nere was any precedent for this application.
Justice ERLE was informed by the clerk of the Weivirn that thee() was a shareholder in the We Orford,
ord, Wicklow
4 obtained a , and Dublin Railway Compeey, who
00 mandamus to inspect the books of that
eoihrlitnY, and upon the strength of that decision a rule
4" cause might go in this case.
Role nisi accordingly,
inTchard Martin, Esq., 8.A., was scorn in this morn-
mgcl called to the degree o' Barrister-at-Law.
niv,-
--4010 N PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
BLOSTER v. RICE.
arui Wall a case in which Mr. Bramwell had obtained
stile! calling upon George Flintoff, bookseller, of Fleet-
eau: pnd Joseph Chuck, bailiff and broker, to show
tithheeti;:fohY an attachment should not b issued against
illegally rescuing goods from the officers of the
of the° Middlesex, and assaulting them in the execution
the e!' dat37- From the affidavits it appeared that,, on
tun wm. Cif September last, the Sheriff's bailiff, Mr. Sic.
Stikwaca in Possession of the premises of Mr. Rice, of
►hillunder a warrant from the Sheriff, and
fir ° •fl Possession Chuck the broker put in a distress
therapt' to the amount of 841., condemned the goods en
lilt treruises, and sold them to Mr. Flintoff, who, as-
eye% Ye
the broker IR
's CR, proceeded to carry them.
ahrP--!erlag the resistance which was offered by the
rtl. a followers. The case now came on fcr argument.
of itit',4ergeant BYLES, for Mr. Fiintoff, read a number
th 'Moults, which satisfied the Court that he was not
atirrB°ll who was sworn to in the affidavits of the
theme!r' JAMEs, for Mr. Chuck, before entering into
,a of the case, took a preliminary objection that
thistt-ontvit of Mr. Sloman, the Sheriff's bailiff, stated
Areler.""? 9th of September he was in possession of the
24th of La question; under a warrant issued on the
ate "_, ugnst, by the Sheriff, and signed Messrs. Carden
atiddi Ougkni _n,
,„,„. m 3 the Sheriff of London and Sheriff of
riod9-.• Now it was a well-known fact that at that
that
office was filled by Messrs. Lawrence and
.11,15 ' and that it was not until the 2Sth of September,
atessl.B"ldaY for changing the sheriffs in London, that
4elee.B. Carden and Hodgkinson were elected to the
The
eltotioh -""an CHIEF JUSTICE said this was a fatal ob-
`koefiri.* It Was not at all likely that these gentlemen
fore "aye been so premature as to sign a warrant be-
fekitha time of their taking office. Mr. Sloman had
Pose pt° show that he had been anything but a tres-
-44' °lt the premises. The rule must, therefore, be
Ittgedßule discharged.
bcFmt V. LAWRENCE AND OTHERS.
;144
beStioll
• THOMPSON in this case applied for leave to enter a
The action
to deprive the plaintiff of costs. T
ch, ?ought by the plaintiff, Mr. Doyle, of the Weekly
deth"icle, against the Sheriff of Middlesex, to recover
fee .tites for a falie imprisonment. A verdict was given
eou'ltha plaintiff, with 40i, damages, and it was now
/10:It to deprive. The affidavit on which this applies-
iteth,..-Ita grounded stated that the defendants resided
eetioul 20 miles from the plaintiff, and that the cause ot
414 a arose within the jurisdiction of the County. Court,
that havet" It Was, therefore, competent to the plaintiff
tOaght his action in the County Court.
"'e &ranted.
INSOLVENCY.—(THIS DAY.)
, TILE HATTER. OF ARTHUR HENRY LpIAN.
1134 07 ease, which has been from time to time before
fa and reported in this journal, was this morning
el. bear
lee The Insolvent bad got into possession of a house be-
litiegillt to a Mr. Oppenheim, in Great Prescott-street,.
pro,„_°4almed it as part of thei
Leman estate, in which
e Peng h„ .
ratO
- Was interested. Mr. Oppenheim had been
of th Considerable law expenses, and was still kept out
!ad, property, which he had held for thirty years;
its D. trUSt Property, he was compelled to recover
-18seekm- The insolvent' had been some time in
0:13 and admitted that since he had filed his petition
feel -" made an agreement to let the house in question,
tiwould not give up his birthright.
BCattlan opposed, and Mr. Saunders supported the
B_ve„,.
L-"ft:TR again adjourned the case.
AMERICAN NEWS.

111141:VAL OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW.
,„ At LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
litell,4l early hour this morning the screw-steamer
lot Glasgow Captain Matthews, entered the
feet y 1 from Philadelphia, after a run of thirteen days
seeeen hours. She brought twenty-two passengers
I,llt_ fair cargo of goods.
ibis is not any intelligence of the least interest
L.l arrival, the Niagara's advices having aotici-
itte-d all that is in the Philadelphia papers now to
t,
4,7 Pena all tnat is worthy of notice.
Lee Senate a lengthy and fierce debate had taken
rii—Zs relative to the removal of free coloured people
tioti,fri:ca• Mr. Henry Clay presented several peti-
tthm- favour of the subject, as well as one from
titivl7 Island, praying that more effectual
tmeansade
110111` be taken for suppressing the slave
.r
the Petitions were ultimately permitted
htodlielosen
bre table. Several members of Congress
,a
.a
aeated Petitions praying for repeal of the naive
aye Bill.
the House of Representatives the new postal
.The ere being discussed.
to Planters of South Alabama were about to hold
peetll,lention to devise means for suppressing an ex-
Av? insurrection of the negroes.
pet" lottery of pictures for the benefit of the passen-
l'sati.ll toe Helena Sloman, which took place at New
produced 657 dollars.
rollhe Walls of six four-story brick houses in Twenty
li
t;street, New York, fell on the 15th instant with
kad e„lithdolia crash. Several persons were killed
Volf,-.l,lrge number severely wounded. Workmen
444
.nsY clearing away the rubbish, and severalhe
uoclies had been recovered and taken to thltgte
°
tht:,_we had arrived at New Orleans to the effect
AL :41e Government of Yucatan had separated from
kr
'a the' John C. Campbell had sailed from New York
sAbiiiwrnpire State, as chief engineer of the Panama
Aro?'
of ng the, post-offices recently established is
which
4,4 evr Buda, Decatur county, lowa, of
hitt ter4l Ladislaus I.ljhazy, late Governor of Comorn,
en appointed postmaster.
nr4e8.78- James Goold and Co., of Albany, have
shi„ t a pony-sleigh, of very beautiful workman-
far the World's Exhibition.
iltilk.rlere is nothing new about Jenny Lind at Havan-
deem The Faro expresses its gratification at the mo-
ve e scale of prices. A dance, entitled " The Ar-
p
tiuti4ef Jenny Lind," was already in the course of
Bation ; and the Faro expresses its inability to
tte.:" the immense quantity of poetry relative to the
sares:fn which it had received. The Havaneros are
'97 under the spell.

____
ti,ito
Philadelphia,on e 15th instant, the delayed ar-
COM
the
lAL,
thil ' uf the pteetner Atlantic had acted unfavourably on
hiti Market for cotton, and transactions have been
Ivii,d*: Without any change in prices. For flour there
bell
•, :I;,tg4dY. demand, and sales reached 1,600 to 1,700
Itten'n'"eitiding standard Penna. brands at. 4 dolls. 621 c.,
for.;"°. boding
choice western at 4 dulls. 75c., all taken
%t fjPort ; the retailers are buying only in bmalllots,
totin4aer quoted rates. Rye flour and corn meal reel.
bar 0'44,43, the latter is offered at 2 dolls. 87ie. p
%wit-- ior Penna. ;meal.
4,ootohe demand for corn Grain—Very little uirivlng,
ood, Kith sales of 3,000 to
likoteblibi Sand Penna.
a e a Southern
for pe Oats scarce and wanted. Rye is selling at 70c.
tark •nna` Wheat continues without demand, and dull.
`..,tiols,firat it 32i dolls. first No. 1 Quercitron. Seeds
adoration, and sales moderate.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
I'Robr OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
,1)10,4 ' COWES, JAN. 30.
'nave. c'r CENTENARIAN.—Ott the 25th inst., ill
dtcdrterilte West Cowes, in the 104th year of her age,
IteifrhillarY Read, widow of the late William Reed, sh_itp-
stcrt- The old lady had always enjoyed good health,
tlleututt(l never required a doctor exeeptconfine,:
414 she appeared in her usual health at four o'cloc
Ulm Elva was a corpse. Her eight was so good
pep, eould see to cut profiles and a variety of
of her °l"liments with her scissors. The Queen, hearing
%hot fame this art and her great age, sent Tor her to
Out ,:118 Palace, about twelve months since, when she cut
litiOieral birds. cats, &c., fur the Princess Royal, the
iretce Wales, &c., and for the Duchess of Kent, who
acta- 14:2"It. Her Majesty and Prince Albert made her
There ltindsonle presents, as did the Royal .childrer.
Years „.7,_ two of her neighbours whose ages exceed 90
tO aisZvut and twenty-three whose united ages amount
tka7 Years, hveraging 79 years each, yet this i 3 in one
bole.and most densely populated neighbour-
,triet,„ It is con'sidered to be the most unhealthy dis-
Oe EC this town. In Inspector Ranger's printed report
the-L-e,ribeis it as being " inhabited by pigs and people."
llfi t 0 ;"c of Wight artist of the Illustrated London News
Itrour its readers with her likeness and memoirs.
lioe,,,7ad's brother was carpenter of the immortal Nel-
c snip at the battle of Trafalgar.
of 1,/°„kill'a of AGE.----Mr. Bell, son of Robert Bell, Esq.,
dit, 'lts Castle, East Cowes, attained his majority to -
NM.. i'ut) Castle has been full company all the week,
One "Kcly to continue so for me. There is only
continued round of rejoicing theye.
T.

I:be o
collectio°P° has
just presenteA to the Vatican a rich
(kb. ~'4 of pontafical corns, commencing from Gregory 11.
, "11), and ending with Gregory XVI.
44011tb PANMURE.—It gives us great pleasure to
iDounce that this venerable nobleman has very much im-
ex,t/ed in health since our notice last week, and hopes are
i',._trtained that he may yet be able to add a icw more to the
~.."tUzerable charities by which his name is so universally
1in...-31ontrose Standard.

T 142

LITERATURE.

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of the _RIGHT
HON. Silt JAMES MACKINTOSH. 1 Fol.

Longmans and Company.
Among the splendid intellects whose contempo-
raneous appearance in Edinburgh about the begin-
ning of the present century imparted a peculiar lustre
to the capital of Scotland, not the least remarkable
was that of James Mackintosh. If an attestation of
the truth of this sentence were required we might
find it lying visibly at our elbow in the form of this
noble volume—a book comprising the majority of his
brilliant and diversified compositions. Such testimo-
nies are not, however, by any means demanded, the
fame of the departed scholar and statesman having
long since grown to a magnitude more than merely
European. Wherever the intelligence of the Anglo-
Saxon mind has been rendered apparent, wherever
the glory of our English literature has been recog-
nized, wherever the influence of our modern state..
craft has been in any marked manner experienced,
the abilities of Sir James Mackintosh have come
at last to be in some measure at least
appreciated. These are, in fact, the inevitable
fruits of every such sound and ripened
reputation. They are as inevitable as the beams
flowing from a luminous body. And it is well for
the interests of civilization and for the general cause
of human advancement that such should be the case—
the capacities of a single genius being, through the
medium of this sympathetic intercommunication,
diffused among the minds of the multitude. Mr.
Emerson has said that no thought when once uttered
can be monopolized, that an articulated truth cannot
be regarded as individual property, but that it be-
longs to every mind that can embrace or appreciate
it. In other words, the recognition of a thought
makes that thought the possession of its appreciator
quite as much and as ectually as it had previously
been the possession of its originator. That is not
the only poet who writes poetry—say as Shelley or
Drummond—but the reader of Shelley or Drummond,
forming a right estimate of the poetic effusion, be-
comes, while so doing, himself a poet in like
manner. He again is not the only philosophic
thinker who can pen volumes such as those
of Kant or Bentham, but the man who can
peruse the writings of Kant or Bentham, and do so
understandingly, is also as true a metaphysician. It
is from our entire coincidence in these views, and
from our sense of their almost inestimable value, that
we exult in the renown achieved for himself among
the nations of the earth by a strong and original
genius like that of Mackintosh. We feel that in the
very circumstance of his celebrity we may perceive
a calculable increase in the amount of general intel:

ligence. So that, according to the multitude and
fame of such individuals in an age, we may in exact
proportion and in a corresponding ratio estimate the
progress of popular enlightenment. From these con-
siderations, we are impelled to become in 4a way as
earnest hero-worshippers as Mr. Carlyle himself; in
reference especially to the lights of science and of
literature. Gladly, therefore, do we offer our meed
of homage to the memory of a man like Sir
James Mackintosh one, and not the least
conspicuous, among these veritable benefac-
tors of our species and eagerly and
cordially welcome a volume like the present con-
taining the mass of his miscellaneous productions.
With the names of Francis Horner, the Babbage of
political economists, of Francis Jeffrey, the Leibnitz
of reviewers, of Henry Brougham the Crichton both
of politics and of literature, bas become associated,
we believe, inextricably that of the versatile author
of the work lying before us for consideration. The
mere fact of his being the compeer of such individuals
as those we have just mentioned, is a sufficient proof
that the mind of Sir James Mackintosh was of no
ordinary character; and his inherent capacities were
perfected by the number and splendour of his ac-
quirements. Let the contents of the volume on our
desk be the illustration of this, an illustration at once
attractive and elevating. Throughout the various
themes selected by Sir James Mackintosh may be
observed the vigour of his understanding,
the depth of his meditations, the beauty
of his style, and the abounding wealth
of his knowledge. This, moreover, upon all occa-
sions, and under all circumstances—no matter whether
his luminous pencil is touching upon politics, upon
philosophy, or upon one or other of the contrasting
departments of literature. Everywhere the writer is
"at home" with his subject—everywhere his band
scatters abroad with a lavish prodigality the riches of
his rare and curious information. Throughout the
whole of the remarkable treatise with which the book
of his collected writings opens—the dissertation on
the progress of ethical philosophy, chiefly during
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, published
originally in the seventh edition of the Encyclopcedia
Britannica—throughout the whole of this majestic
composition are apparent the scope of his capacities
and the ornate beauties of his rhetoric. Many
careless blemishes naturally crept into a production
of such extent, written hurriedly for the purpose
of being hastily printed in the great compilation
alluded to, but these have been mostly obliterated
by the judicious hand of the editor, his respect for the
writings of his departed relative fortunately not pre-
cluding him from such successful efforts at their
emendation. In this already celebrated treatise Sir
James Mackintosh has passed severally in review the
genius of Grotius and of Hobbes, the in-
fluence exercised on that portion of ethical philo-
sophy relating to the moral faculties and the
social affections by such controversialsts as
Cumberland, as Cudwortb, Clarke, Shaftesbury,
Fenelon, Bossuet, Leibnitz, Edwards, Buffier, and
Mallebranche, alluding, especially in the end, to the
foundation of a more just theory of ethics than had
before existed, in spite or through the instrumen-
tality of writers like Butler, Hutcheson, Berkeley,
Hume, Smith, Price, Hartley, Tucker, Paley,
Stewart, Brown, and Bentham. The general re-
marks with which the dissertation terminates are
characterised by an incomparable excellence.
Foremost among the essays of Mackintosh is the
celebrated one in which he has contrasted, somewhat
after the fashion of Plutarch, the " Philosophical
Genius of Lord Bacon and Mr. Locke." This is
followed by his large. hearted " Discourse on the Law
of Nature and Nations." Then we have the " one
entire and perfect chrysolite" of his "Life of Sir
Thomas More," the greatest, the gentlest, and the
most spotless character whose name is recorded in
our national annals—a biography worthy of being
enumerated in the eame category with the life of
Savage by Johnson, of Goldsmith by Irving, and of
Nelson by Southey—a jewel—among memoirs as the
life of Benvenuto Cellini is among autobiographies.
After the ingenious " Refutation of the Claim on be-
half of King Charles I. to the authorship of EIKSIN
BAYIAIKI-1," and the elaborate "Memoir of the
Affairs of Holland," comes the famous "Review of
the Causes of the Revolution of 1688," in
which Sir James Mackintosh revealed his
extraordinary powers as an historical commentator.
His account of the " Partition of Poland," perhaps
the most admirable narrative of that catastrophe ever
penned, his masterly " Statement of the Case of Donna
Maria da Gloria," and his inimitable " Sketch of the
Administration and Fall of Struensee," impart an ad-
ditional interest to the volume, whose later attractions
are enhanced by the reprint of the well-known reviews
on Samuel Rogers' " Poems," on Madame de Steel's,
" L'Allemagne," and on the writings of " Machiavel."
The " Vindiem Galliew," in which famous work
Mackintosh dared, and not presumptuously, to cope
with the virile and majestic abilities of Edmund
Burke, stands, of course, prominently forward among
the rest of these miscellaneous compositions. The
close of the volume is preluded by the strains of that
classic eloquence which for a quarter of a century
resounded at intervals within the walls of the
Imperial Parliament—conspicuous among them
being those on the civil government of Canada, on
the affairs of Portugal, on the criminal law, and on
the system of national representation. Altogether it
will be seen that the work under review contains the
very pith and marrow of the genius of Sir James
Mackintosh, yielding to the book-lover an inestimable
treasure, and affording another golden volume to the
long catalogue of those already issued from the great
publishing establishment of the Messrs. Longman.