The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Nov. 30.—The reponse de primes (op-
tion) has been made 70f 32ic to 70f 35c for the
Threes. The market has been firm, and prices
well maintained. at the quotations of yesterday.
The amount of business has been limited, specula-
tors being occupied in preparing for the settlement.
Threes are now at 70f 40c; Mobilier, 775 f; Orleans,
1,390 f; Northern, 988 f 75c; Mediterranean, 911 f
25c; Austrian, 510 f; Lombard, 490 E The following
are the last quotations :

41 per per Cents ... 96 40 Credit Foncier 920
Do end month.... 96 50! Belgian 41, - -
1
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 35 I Roman
Bank Shares .. 2930 Austrian
Credit Mobilior.... 775 Spanish Threes., 49 25
Do. Account 771 25 Home Debt .. 4B 50

i sh, Is. 4d. obtained ; coffee, firmly maintained at
445. to 455. ; hams, York, dull sales at ls. 2d. ; lard,
81d. ; p0rk,.1033. per barrel ; pimento, large tran-
sactions at lid. per lb.; sugar, from 17s. to 225.,
for dark to fair. Exchange on London, 90 days,
1 per cent, premium ; 60 days, 11 per cent. ditto ;
30 days, 2 per cent. premium.

THE BRAZILIAN MAIL.

LISBON, Nov. 30.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tyne, with
the above mail, has arrived, and will leave to-morrow
at noon for Southampton.

She brings £3,841 in specie and 107 passengers,
60 of whom are the shipwrecked crew of the Per-
severance.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rio.—Exchange on London, 27. Coffee, good
first, was quoted 5,600 rein. Total export since the
departure of the last mail, 270,000 bags, of which
58,700 were for the Channel. Stock, 40,000 bags.
Freights, 40s. to 455.

BAlllA.—Exchange on London, 261. Cotton,
7,800 reis per arroba.

PERNAMBUCO.—Exchange on London, 26-1- to
261. Sugar, 2,400 reis per arroba.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 1.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mail, has
arrived.

She brings 7 passengers, £915 in specie, and a
full cargo.

She spoke the yacht Osborne on the 28th ultimo
and the Alhambra on the 29th ult.

There is no political news of importance from
Lisbon. The English squadron, under the com-
mand of Admiral Stopford, was lying in the Tagus.
At Lisbon, on the 27th ultimo, exchange on Lon-
don, three months, was quoted 54i; Paris, 527 ;
Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 526 ;
Rentes 3 per Cents., 471-; Coupons, 461- ; Deferred,
371 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 562 Commercial
and Mercantile Banks of Oporto, 260 milreis.

PARADISE AND THE PERI.

BY THOMAS MOORE.
Illuminated by Owen Jones and Henry Warren.
Lithographed by Albert Warren.
Published by Messrs. Day and Sons.

Talk no more of the days of Book-Illumination
having gone by. Here is proof to the contrary.—
proof positive that would have rejoiced the heart of
one of those old monks who, with carmine and
gold and emerald and purple, and with all the
rarest pigments and the most elaborate gilding and
silvering, were wont—brush in hand—their cowls
thrown back for better light—kneeling reverently
at their desks in the convent cloister—to "glorify"
the Missals and the Psalters as with glimpses of
Heaven.

Here, again, at the Christmas time of 1860,
in the days of the steam-engine and the
electric telegraph—here in the latter half of the
nineteenth century is a volume but just now pro-
duced as gorgeous in every way as any one of those
exquisite books decorated by the Brush and
Palette of the old monkish Illuminators.
It may be objected to Messrs. Owen Jones and
Henry Warren that, unlike their ecclesiastical pro-
totypes and predecessors in the art of illumination,
they have taken as a theme a fragment of Pro-
fane Literature. Let their excuse be, how-
ever, that among all the fragments of modern
poetry they have selected one which is es'
sentially and intensely an ecstatic hymning
of Heaven ! " Paradise and the Peri" may surely
be deemed as worthy of illustration in this way as
the " Romaunt of the Rose," that boast of the
MediEeval Illuminators.

Dipping into this exquisite volume, however--'
tenderly turning the leaves over as if we loved
them—we come, first of all, upon the frontispiece
—the Peri standing in the very porch of Paradise :
" One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood, disconsolate,

And, as she listened to the spring
Of life within, like music flowing,
And caught the light upon her wing,
Through the half-open portal glowing,
She wept to think her recreant race
Should e'er have lost that glorious place."
So—through the half-opened portal, as it were—•
the light and glory from within has been caught,
seemingly in gushes of splendour, upon the leaves
of this truly magnificent volume of illustrations.

Poor Tom Moore himself! Could he but have
lived to see his charming fancies embellished by
the splendid touches of the irredescent and diaphou-
ous art of Owen Jones and Henry Warren, those
two paragons of illuminators ! Could he but have
survived to have had this gorgeous volume laid
before him—one might almost then have expected
the sensitive little poet to have emulated the sensi-
bility sung of by Pope in regard to one who eould
" Die of a rose in aromatic pain I"
The volume is, in simple truth, at every leaf, in
every imaginable way, by every hue and turn of
graceful and fantastic decoration—resplendent.
Upon each page, to the reader's left hand as the
volume lies open before him—a passage of the
poem is emblazoned upon a gold ground, surrounded
by the most diversified and lovely arabesques.
Confronting each of these emblazoned pages—to
the right hand of the reader, as he turns the
leaves of the volume, are a succession of superb
illustrations, each of these also upon a gold
ground, and surrounded each also by a rainbow'
framework of arabesques. Here are two sylphine
forms, with pink wings, floating through the
empyrean, singing to the trembling strings of a
speaking to
the kneeling
Here
kneelin is
gptehnei—"tGhleoroioluosnAounsgel ''
Angel,
bearing
the golden key, and robed in heavenly raiment like
an embroidered chasuble ! There is the Peri float-
ing sad and disconsolate among the stars over earth.
, with his bloodhounds.
Page
ee Gaafztenra, thepa uthlgretehses
glorious embellish-
ments unfold themselves. The whole book
is a very parterre of blooming colours--•
upon the text and upon the pie-
ctuoiroeusrisnsltarvelasmg
lavish ipnrofusion. As a gift book, ore more
radiant in every way it would be difficult to
produce. Certainly Moore's fame is "in luck" just
now, what with Tenniel's illustrated edition of
" Lalla Rookh," published the other day,
by the Messrs. Longman, and this sumptuous
volume of " Paradise and the Peri," illuminated by
such master-hands as those of Owen Jones and
Henry Warren, and published with a munificent
disregard of the cost of the " getting up " by the
Messrs. Day and Sons, the Lithographers.

LITERATURE.

Head and Hand, or Thoughts and Action in relation
to Social _Happiness. London : Houlston and
Wright.
The author of this neat little volume is the Rev.
R. W. Fraser, M.A., whose former work—"
Ele-
ments of Physical Science"--commanded so much
attention when it was first published. The object
of " Head and Hand," the author says, is to point
out and illustrate by interesting examples from
ancient and modern biography the principle and the
practice on which prosperity and happiness depend,
and certainly a more successful accomplishment of
such a task could not have been effected. As a
Christmas gift book nothing could be more appro-
priate—the table of contents is as varied ae the
most fastidious could desire. We have examples of
filial affection and its relation to prosperity in
mature years, lessons derivable from the animal
world, distinguished scholars of foreign countries,
the value of time, honesty, veracity, temperance,
benevolence, and the importance of truth in an
communications with children. As example is,
more efficient as a method of conveying lessons 01
precept, however eloquentlyexpressed,
ePl.axperteiascsel wisdom
iNsvdrconim than
end this highly interesting
volume to our readers, feeling satisfied that on
perusal they will endorse the favourable opinion vre
have expressed.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD .1
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Nov. 24, was 2,479, of which 631 were A°
CikSOS.