The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-18 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET SHARE MARKETS. -
(TIIIS DAY.) Letallik. I Ciogln: :-rte... i.tletnoes
AND ea. 'in,. tea d. U17;4'1,714 Company Saturday, this day.
Ire firm COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAYS. -.-. * -.......-
▪ Tho
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! Bletehloy ~ N. rives..., -
spring CITY, Two O'CLOCK Ehr. Paid. RAILWAYS, CIOSill: Prices Bustness done St. 100 Buckghamsb - . L.&N. W. 94 - 96 '
was in I 1 Saturday this day St, 100 Clydesdale Jt.. 'Calocion... 94 - 98
Vie Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday ,_______ _______- ...
-, 25 all Col.StourVy. E. Un. ti
closed at the extreme rates of Friday, but with St.l toe. kneoteen...„.. ~„ ... 25 27
ter for I • Sud. and Hal. E. C..._ ... - ..,
t 23 c4lA.mbg. Nottng. Bout
A Eastn. Junet„. e. The More activity ; speculators anticipating a better 41 ---• 4fi St. lasi E. Lin. e. 6 pe Gt.Nrti,e. ... - ..,
es have demand next week from a rise of prices in the ,0 all 11%nolfast & Ballvmonft. ... -- . 5 all E. Un, H. Sh, E. Count. ... ... .••
St. 100 Glas. Barr. &,,Caldonian.
*United States' markets on the peace news. The 1.:3i all slru. leg. W, lve rh s Neils. Direct ••• --- .•
it week Stour Va ley 8 - 81 St. 100 Do. Now__ Do
sales were estimated at between 8,000 and 9,000 11 -1)i 13irIK e ihd. L mesh, 4
rtere of 2F; all Glstr.de Dn. Fr Gt. \Tem ... - ~,
bales (2,000 for export and 1,000 on speculation), Cheshire Junet l6 -15
inseed, 1,1/ all ,io. Chesh. 4 Birk tOo all Hrtlpl. Dk & Yk. New. 25,179 c°reprising 230 Pernam and Maranbam, 6d. to - £5O and 1;25 Cons 13 -14 Roil way ..... & BeTW. ... ....
61d. ; 100 Bahia, 6d. to Gid. ; 400 Egyptian, N. 22 19 Do., £2O. ..... - 8
45 all , lyth & Tyne origina' 5:1 all Hull & Selby Y. &N lif 104 •- 106
25 all Do. 6 Shares. Do
markei t° 91:1. ; and 2,000 Swats, at 4d. to 41d. The 1.?? all Do. 1 Shares. Do ... .- ~,
1 £25 (hod. at .£45. ••• - --- 124 all Lon.& Grooms S. Baste, 13 - iSi
of the Rs'ilivay Share Market was quiet, and quotations st. 100 I dristol and Exeter._ 85 - S 7
t. The 55 - 554 551 4 2j) all Do.Preferonce Do 231 - 246
were rather easier than on Friday. St. 1-00 1-!aletionian. St. 100 Lon., Til., &S, Peto it Co 1073 - 1126
11. All 10 61. 'Calm, and Cal digs() • - -
Accounts from Egypt mention that the crops 121 - 131 13 St 100 Lowestoft gr.
tations this 5 s all Chester 4 Holyhead. 4 per cent. Norfolk ... - ...
. Most season are particularly good, in consequence 5) all Cork and Bandon... ••• - •••
;ore,
20 all i Black, do Face. ... - - St. w 0 Do. 6 per ct. Do ••• ....... ...
and to of the abundant flow of water from the Nile upons , all Manch. Bxtn, L.& N. W
the 20 18 ;Cornwall and Ma lock & IBdid, 2. -
1. The agricultural lands. During last season the 10 all Do. A
me in- Government was afraid of a dearth in the country, 10 8 Do. B
Redcar Darlingt. ... - ... (
10 1: Crie f Junction ••• -
and prohibted the export of grain for a short time. 50 4A Doblindaßolfut,lnne 4 - 2 St. 100 Midld.Bradfd Midland.. 91 - 93
which • 61 5,f Newmarket
This caused them, on the subsiding of the waters '5 all Dun. P. & Abss. hie. - ...
:'s cur- 12 - 13 Bury E. (4.5pe En. Conn. p - tp d
in November, to encourage the husbandmen to St. 100 East Anglian .
50 all N.& Est.s p.e. E. Count. 55 - 57
}.O all Eastern Counties..
extend their plantations this season, and now Xt. 100 w•est. 'Mien, & lath 30 --32 :',O all Do. 6 per ct. D 0.,, ••• - •••
50 all Do. Fixetls pc Do
barley, that the crops are far on in ear, it 25 ot. 111: Do.,
Do., B. Stott
( , New A 20 -22
t 5 all Prest. &IN ye. L. & N.W. ..• - ...
▪ The is calculated that there will be 3,000,000 hectolitres 25 10 East Kent - .. 124 all Do. 1 Shre. ADo
of grain and cereals Sf all kinds over and above St. 100 i'llst Lancashire 7l -73 St. 1. 0 Roystn.& Mt. [Gtlforthn ...
25 181 Shef.Roth.andiLancash&
,he late St 100 Vint u-gh& Glasgoe 52 - 51
the consumption of the country, so that Egypt is 10. all l Edinb.and Peobles 94 -9/ Goolog.sp.e. Yorksh. ... - ,
I trade likely to export largely during the present year. St. 100 ti:dirt.Pri,t, &Dna& 22 - 24
10 9 'Forth & Clyde Jim ) ... - ... 10 all Shrows.&ller. T. Brassey 71 - 8
12 91 S. Staffordsh. M.MClean 3 -24 d 9
mGd to This circumstance, with the probable opening of 50 all Furness
••• 50 all WoarValleygr Stoekt. &
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the Russian ports in the Black Sea, will tend to 20 all Do.: Extension.. ... - - ..: 6 per cent... Darlingt ... - ...
25 all Do Do 32 - 33
keep down the price of grain at Marseilles and St. 100 IGlasgow&i3. West., 82 - 86 St.lloo Wilts&rSoinrst (ItWerrtn B3 - 85
10 all 'Great N. of Scotlnd. 61 - .7
peas, at other markets ou the shores of the Mediterranean, St. 100 [Great Northern__ 90 - 91 91 2 PREFERENCE 3 IiAR Ea. 3.
Ilven should the present tendency to rise in the St. 100 Do., A. Stock 174 - 76 7.54
Bt 100 Do B Stock 123 - 125 1234 4,1 St.l 100 I A berdeen ........ ...... •• • --• •• .
Western continental grain markets continue. '' B. St. I 100 I Do. N 0.2, 7p. C... ••• - ••
St. 130 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) 104 - 106
re to 7416 Advice; from Panama state that the Golden St. 1.00 Great Western 55 • L5ll 584 i 74 St. 1100 Do. Debentures BO -- •85
7z5 at: illythandTynelOPei
23. 25e Gate had arrived at that port from California with St. 100 Do. Stour Val. Rao 5
Gna. Stk. - 60 c. pref. (issd.at 501. ... - ..•
24s 29e 1,976,928 dollars of bullion. The most satisfactory 12 all Irish South-Eastern_ St. 1.00 Brie. & Ex. 4p.c. St 92 -94
21s 24s accounts haw, been received from the gold fields. 50 all neaster k Carlisle 74 - /7 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares... •.. - •••
221 253 161 14710. Thirds 6l -71 „m St. 100 Caledonian £lO 95 -97
261 3'e There has been an abundant supply of water, and 16] 8 !Do. 'New Thirds ...... 61 - 711 r 15 all Chee. &Ho. Gu. 51 pc 154 - 161
34s 38s consequently plenty of work ; and a large yield is St. 100 Lancash.andYorksh. 81 ••-• 814 9fi all Do. do. Pref. No. 2. ... - ...
ss• 443 3 1 D. WetsEidingUn. ... - ... 2s all Do. do. Prof. No. 2 ... - •••
32s 363 expected. In the agricultural operations of the States 20 ' •
all Liv.Crsny.&Southpt - - •• 64 all Cork &Eandonslp.e. .., - .
tits 373 . 64 all Dun•Prth .4 Aber.J. 54 - 6
38s 423 the results are likewise cheering. Not only are the Ili all 'London & Blackwall 61 - 7
44e 484 farmers able to grow sufficient wheat for home St. 100 Lond.Bright&S.Cst. 97 - 98 97 4 10 2E. Anglian Cis. A Sh. - - ...
61s 67s St. 100 Lend. and N. Westn. 100 - 1004 100 i 1 11 St. !WO Do. do. Cl.. B6p. c. ... - ...
49s 504 consumption, but there has been an export to 20 16 :Do. Fifths - Par St. ;100 Do. do Cls. C7p. C. ... - •••
494 503 . 64 all Eas.Co.Ex,speNo. ' 4- I P pm
akustralia and New York during the past year. 10 51D0.101.5h.,M&8...0 Id - part
12A 2} Do Elehtbs if - 6r, all Do. No. 2. .l -,- 6 Pin
The total quantity raised in the State in 1855 was 10 all Do. Now 6 p. c. St 12 - 124
it" 100;Lon.don'andS.-Weslii: 914 - 9124 921 3 x d
k were 3,525,441 barrels, and the export was equivalent 50 all !Do., .£5O - 31 20 all East Un., G. 6P. c- - - --
Ia the t° 142,566 barrels. The export of gold during the 40 all Do., £4O - ...
10 all Do. I. Debentr.Sh. ••• - ...
79, in Utile period was valued at 45,182,631 donara ; and 25 all 0.,
£4. ... - ...
25 all Lndndrry.& Ennlsk . • - kit. all Do. do. 4 per cont... - - ...
St. 100 Eamt Lane ash. 6p. et, ••• - -
i 1851,
of other exports, including quicksilver, 4,189,611 St. 100 ktanch•Shef.& Limb 241 • 2,5 5 all F..&W. York. J. stliF ••• - ...
• dollars. 412 r 525. Do., Man. & Lin. Un •
10 1 Edin. & 01. 5 p.c. sh. ••• - •••
10 •
1 Metropolitan 1 - - id
Pigs. 113' telegraph from Liverpool it is announced that St. 100 Midland - 691 70 691 St. 100 iesi Prtla.&Dua.4p.c 64 - 66
20 all Furness
- St. 100 Do. Birmng. &Derb 40 - 42
••• -- the American steam packet Africa has arrived in St. 100 Glas. &5.W.G.5 p.c. -
... •-- 50 all %lid] d. G. West. (Ire. - - .
... .-. the Mersey, with 310,000 doll. in specie, and ad- 25 all Do. Half Shares St. 100 Great Northn. sp. e 116 - 118 an6i
vi 100 all Newcastle & Carlisle. ... - .„ St. 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem,
••• -- Cos from New York to the Gth inst. at 10 p. e. prom. 108 - 110 108
--2 F all Nwpt.Aberg. &HIV - - ...
"IP The English Stock Market
-has been quiet but 50 St. 100 Do. 41 p. c . 103 -- 105 102
81 Newry &Enniskille) ... - ...
..• --- itsl2l 71 Do. sp. c. Scrip, Red.
..........
ThadYl at about the closing prices of Saturday. 20 all Newry Warrenpoin-
and Rostrevor - at sp. c. pm... i to
- 0 Particulars of the new loan have been awaited St. DO Norfolk 49 - 51 10 all Gt.N. of Scot. letPre 9i - 10
vis t--St. 100 Gt, S. ,!rW. (Ireland ... - •
Pigs. ,/rith "
considerable anxiety, and the speculators 50 33 Northn.ConntiesUn ...
St. 1.00 North British.,: .„, 29 ..- 30 20 11 Do. 4per 0. Prsf ,- ... •-
...
441'0 naturally been undecided bow to operate.so +1 Qs. sis(o.lsll.Bxspe 6 - AA
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5 e Nith Devon Rai!. &
A °Mols for money have been 901 -?k to 904 1, St. 100 Dock Stock St. ,11X) Do. con, red. 41 ine, 90 - 91
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9 and s 904 i to 90a1 1 for account ; but they now
4 i il' a St. 100 ' ?o„ A Stock... . ... - ~. St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p.e,80 -. a 2
st, 1100 Do. irred. 4p. e. 80 -8:
7 8 all 'lo., B Stock ..... - -
tills at 001 to 903/4 for the former, and BSt. 100 Do. sp. e. red. prof 95 100
-- all 1B G t ,
Do., . Illtrall CO . - ...
• •10 all Do. 40. do. ... - ...
9°l to 90i for the latter. The New Three per St. 100 N.Eastern-Berwic' 744 - 754 753
ere 300 ti all Do. [firm. Pref. 3h.. 94 -10 f
25 211,D0. do. Extension 6j - 6(I 141
gregate ee4tS• are 01f to 911, and the Reduced Annuities
00i 25 15 IDo.do.G.N.E.'inrch. 41 - 3i 10 all Do. Chester Bp. c. P.:: 161 -• 164
tO i ; Exchequer-bills are ss. and 2s. discount. 50 all 'Do. Leeds 144 ..- ;56 141 10 all De. do. sp. c. do.. si 101
beasts , iroreign Securities are heavy at the following St. 100 'Do.
York 5l 52 511 St Ds Do. Birm. Gila. Stli• 70 -72 72
St. 100 North London 't all Do. Ches. atm. Sh., NA - 194
thorn 'Notations, with very little business doing. Turk- 10 31 18 N .&S.WStril P.
Ham- •. • - •• •
1.3, all Do, do. do Si - 9i
g more ish ~ ,
20' al Do, do. do l3l - 141
6 per Cents. 93 to I. Ditto I per Cent. Gua- , stead, and City Jn.. ... - ...
some- 20 173 North Steffordshire.. 74 - 7(I 16 6 Lan. &York. F. a 1 - i !
ranteed Stock 1004. Mexican 204. Spanish 3 per St. 100 Do. 6p. C. Stock .. 132 134
n Mon- C 20 all- North Western - •••
-educed "its. 424. Venezuela 43/4 per Cent. 284 291. 10 all N. &S. Westrn. Jona ••• - ... St, 100 Lon. & Brigh. (4.5 p.( . ... - ••••
, 10 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, St. 100 no. Pref., 5p.0. St .- -.-
The Committee of South American Bondholders St. 100 'Do. New Guar.6 p. c: ..• - ....
h._ any} Leicester. -
1 Cam- ha_ received a further remittance of 2,0151. it. 1)0 sx Wore., & Woiv 23 - 25 St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent . ... - ...
a other 18 !,0 8 •••4er.nonth St. 100 TlOll.Br,N. W., Coy..
ncl 200 A 8* 10d. on account of the Equadorian divi- -
St. 100 ,gcottish Central lO4 - 106 Nuneaton sp. et ... - -
St. St 100 Lon.& S.W. 7 per ct ....- ...1)
St. 1.00 !Scottish Midland .... 75 - 77
p num- I
Mocks.-
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign St. 100 I ,diropshire Ut ini .... 45 47 12. all Londy. & Coley.. i Sh. •.. - •••
t them. I 15to k 50 all 'loath Devon - ...
Ili ntton 20 c a:-Gronada. Deferred Bonds, 6i 74; Mexican, +.
.. 1.10 'loath Eastern 634 - 654 644 41 St. 10 51.,5.,& L.,New,l9/ ••• - •••
'rendes i 1 • Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 56 ; St. 100 kaith Wales 7l -78 73 o 4 Do. .£6 $- B
lin the P ' 12? all Niarypt •& Carl, 4p e ... -• ..
Ceuta.
4 per Cents 47 49 ; Russian 520 15 4. Yrksh. & Riv. Due 4 - 21 12"1 all Do. 44 per cent. •.. - •••
• ) per 20 6 )0 - id
12? 1.01 Do -- •••
.1 trade Uenta., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish 30 16 os;nee,Wok. PsWolt ... -
tations. 3 Per Cents 42i * ;ditto Deferred, 234 i ;ditto 25 a'l Stockton & Darli , 36 - 38 St. 100 Aid.Consol.6p,e.si ... -
•)St. 100 no. Con .11r.B. r. 6pc 132 - 134
at full Certificates, 4/ 5 ; ditto Passive, 64 1. l& sts :sun & Hartlepl ... - .
Bt. 100 Do. 41 p. e. Pref. 5 ... - ...
R. 130 Saw vsle . - ..
' 16, all Do. Pref. 47i pro- cer 1 d
Railway Shares are lower than the closing quo- St. ton Do. Pref., No. 1 ... - ...
25 22 I",sines Hay. D.& R - - .., 5 all Do. Si. Pref. 4p, e. 4 - 46
0. d. rations on Saturday. Great Western, ss. to 10s. St. 100 ,Ditto L. & 11. Pref. s, ... - ...
e 10 .. ,Illverstone & Lanes. ... - ...
410 es; London and North-Western, 55., and Mid- 2J all ;Vale of Ncath 2O -- 22 10 all I New., Aber., 4re., pr. 1 _
5 4 ISM ss. ; Great Westernof Canada continues firm, 2) all Waterfd. & Kilkenny 33 - 43
sp. c. red. 5 p c. pm. $ • -
6 0 50 all Waterford&Limeriek ... - ... 10 ali Norfolk Debeature ...
4 2 ' alld Great Luxembourg are inclining upwards. 2) all (West Cornwall. •4
- •6
St. 100 De. Pref. 4p.c. St ck ... - ... .
410 ,In Miscellaneous Shares there is scarcely any 10 all Wost' End of London St. 100 'Do. sp. is. Ext ••• - •••
29 0 and Crystal Palace.. ... - ••• St. 100 ,De. sApor et.pref ... - ...
28 0 business doing, and prices are nominal. 5 all Do. A... .. - •••• §t. 100 De. Way. Val. sp. o ... - •
5 3 I Do. B . t. 100 North British 99 - 101 !
St. 100 N. E. Berw, 4 p.c P 91 - 4,3
. 600 .....81tITISH FUNDS THIS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK. 20 all West London • - •.•
.. 5. (Freres the Otßial List.) 10 all Wimbledn&Croydon ... - ... die 17 7 Do. do. do 54 -54
.. 11 20 13 IDo Leeds6p.cf.No.l ... - ...
Businesk done.
.. - !lank Stock - .
25 1.0 'Do.York}l.& S. Per 1 - id
sof fat 04 tar gent. Reduced Annuities ... - ... 201 20
ot, on
New
Cent Consols Annuities WI i i 10 1 all lAatwernartoct revu. 8 - 8.1.
garket4o 40 'Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. , St. 100 10x,Wo.kW.lf Vine ',.. - ~. 964
.7.7 3 per Cent. Annuities - ...
44°Nt Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... . 33
• )itto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6 11-16 20 10 Ardennes . .... 11 - lip 84 all Scot. Cent. ,New Pro, ... - ...
18, '56 411dia Stoe - 21• 25 all ;South Devon 134 - 141
225 6
n_" k 20 14 Beziers to Graissessae 1 - spar 10 li iDo. fixed,44 per ceni ... - ...
8. d• - •'. eel. for Account
to 3 3
2 Ezehaquer Bills, 24d. Central India,Scrit 6 - 4 p 54 1 Ann.) of £1 Os. 66. 23 - 231 8
4 4 I'soo £lO - 4 •• • St. 100 'Do. 44 per cent 95 - 100
00
s.
5 2 d
1
4 8 91,1101 - ••• St. 100 'Do. Fixed 44 p c sh. 94 -- 94
20 11 Dutch Rhenish l, - i r 114 St. 100 S. Wales Gua, 4p, o. ... - ...
3 4 Ditto Ronde, 1858, 33 per Cent - 20 all Eastern of France ... 371 - 371 20 all iDo. do. 43 p. c.... ... - ...
3 10 'Ditto, 1853
4 4 ' Piti-e, 20 13 Do. New lO - 12,, 20 all 18.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar. ... -
410 ••••E OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOC B 20 all Kest Indian, g. 5 p.e 21 -Ely
, 25 all !ctit.ock.& Dar. ,sp. o. ... -• ..
0 0 , Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
._eDltto Small - 20 15 Dc. Ertension •. A- i p 154 25 15 iDo. do. do. ... - .s.
s 4 103 100 all D0.4?,p.c.8nd5.;57 ... - ... 124 all Stock.! & Hartl. g. 6
6 0 al
'lean 3 per Cent. - ttat ell 1,,,. 110. (10.. .C 9, d' . .. - ... Ip. o, till July 1, '56 ... = ...
4 0 a Ditto Account - 24d
410 I an'fil, Howls, 3 per Cent - guar. 5 per c nt.. -. •.•
' bitte Account
3,955
19,670 hitto yew Deferred, 3 per Cent. - /4 1 all Ague, Fria - •••
3 T Ditto t r Account - 151 15t 1 all Anglo Anstrin. Gold
ri ... - ..
205 "sh [toads, 6 par cent 93 100 9 i Do. Cert. of Doben. Low all Anglo Californian ... 1
Ditto Account
sheer , .v Ditto Guaranteed. 4 per Cent lOOl 100 all' Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 82 -• PC, 1 Ali Australian Cordillev -
... -
Inezuela Bonds, 44 per Cent - 511 1 11l Ave Maria.
"elves, Ditto Deferred, 16 per Cent. ....... - 204 201 ,• - ..•
1 , all Baden (Gd•Deehy of ' ... - ...
livttiends on v.«. shove payable In London. 26 14 Groat Luxembonr, 50 I all Bleonar. Iron & Cm. ... - ...
Constituted Share,' 44 - 51 544
P'each Restos, 44 per Cent. -
5
h Ditto 3 per Cent 74f 75c ex 25f 30c 4 all Do. Obligations... 3 - 31 31 3 35 26 Bra,zilia.nlmp.(issuo,
itinue 'Jatcli Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Gnil ... 614 20 11 Do. re-is. forftd. Sh. ... -- ... at 05 pm.) - 21
=lent
QUARTER PAST TWO. ./.0 all Gt.WesternofCansea
elhares - ,1 26 30 all Do. Comes tfr Cuiab 2 - '..4
! C •neole, money Q. 9l 91,', M 54 Do. New - 3/1 20 1.5 Do, St.. John Del 11.e3 26 - 2
Ditto Account, 914 911 tiii• Ili ,Do. Bds., payable's7, 1 ; Clarmdon Cons. Min
s. d. Co. of Jamaica,...,, 4 - ip
2 10 ,
1 The market rather excited. 1 with option till '55.. 99 - 100
i 4') all Cobre Copper 66 - -68
3 4 ! 1.00 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 .. 122 - 125 5 1 Colonial Gold ... - ...
100 all Do. do., 76, p. '60... 122 - 125
4 2 TEE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS St. , all Copper Min. of En., 36 - 40
5 0 ' 25 ,' all Do. Pref. 76 p. cen 26 - 28
4 10 COMPANY. 4'o all
fDocp.tdioon., '73, without
106 104
~. iIC Copiapo. 22 - 94 23
• 20 all i Hamilton & Toronto 251- 254 2
This new company exhibited on Saturday, for the 100 all IDo. 6 per cent. - id
20 all Gent,al. . l4 -16
first time, at its offices 454 Strand, the designs for-
hops. tv , 7 I all lt.NuggetVeinßeg. I - 4
kinds i toarded in competition for a prize of 1001., to be awarded 22(01 all7l LiensLake4l all Great Polvootb .... 14 -21
5 111 [Lucca dr Fist. sp. c,p. .. _ pyr,
Count.anaT Turnhout
nh Basleou t ..
.. :
...: .
..... 0
from
~ the best plan of vehicle adapted to its traffic. The
' (knew' ... 9- 10 5.1 all Ct Wheal Vor United 1 id
from J"ges selected to decide the prize are Mr. Charles .0 16 ILY°n' and 1 ! all Liberty i - 1
20 14 Lyons 4 Moditerrsn ...
Manby, Mr. George Godwin, and Mr. J. Wright, car- 3 1 all Linares 6j - 7
cwt ; r,,age builder to the London and North• Western Railway. 5 ! 11 Lusitanian
11- 4 I
-
These gentlemen have not yet determined which is the 2101' allto votos.d.
Nraeew, go:::
54 irp..
C.
1 119
~
20 5 Do. 4i in e. Exton 4 - d 1 all Mariquita .. 4- I
1 all New Granada
4 --
illecessful design, but their choice seems to rest between :31n all Maria Antonia ... 7 ' 9 1 all Nouveau Monde
two-one sent in by Mrs R. F. Miller, the other by Mr. if, an Do. do. New ....... .. 2 - 3
frail- 10 all Pontgi.Sil & Lo. Min. 12 - 14
Wilson. Both present considerable improvements on el all Namur 4 Liege (wait' 5 1 Port Philip
D ift in 64 - 6 - ...
the best forms of omnibus now in use, but whether they interost) 1 all quartz Rock 4 - 4
ten- Nlfil all the conditions requisite for a conveyance of the 9.0 all Do. (ex interest) sf -54 .t., 50 1 all Rhymney Iron .19- 21 x d
70s kind can scarcely be ascertained except by practical 1.6 all Northern of France. ','6l - 874 " 15 all Do. New 6 - 8 x d
20 all Do.2ol.She ll4 121 30 1 13? Santiago de Cuba.. 24 -. 3
70s; trial. What is required for the proper accommodation
..,,0 all Do. 201. 3p. c Ads
'OB to of the public is clearly defined by the company under... i 6s. -.it-L. Cons. Min. Co 34 - 4 x d
(fray.B diAms.Shs. •
.. - ••
the following heads :-Increased height and width in- 1 all :stall A.ustralian.. i - i
10 all NorwogianTrunkPre • 7 •- 8 1 , all so. Scrip 2 - 2
•
aide, improved ventilation, 17 inches straight seat for 20 all Paris and Lyons 484 -- 481 494 1 4 so. 10 per cent Prof
... -- ..
each passenger, with room for 20-12 inside and 8 out• 40 all Ditto Bonds - . ... 41 am. S. &L. Min. Co. ... - ..
Leidy. .
, Rule; easier means of access to the roof seats, greater 'to all Paris and Orleans.... 48 - 50 10 9 fin Croft 4l - 54
encod Protection there to passengers, reduced noise in motion, 10 5 Rome and Frascati.. ... - ... 283 all United Mexican 34 - 4
'heed the weight of the whole not to exceed one ton, and 10 all ,Royal Danish l9 - 20 1 all Waller
4 -
1 7d; the present outside width not to be materially ex- 5 all IRoyalSwedish l4 - 21 14 214 1 all West Mariposa .....,•
dto 4 all I Do. Obligations .... ?ti - 24 24 11. 12s. Worthing Mining or
seeded. The General Omnibus Company, in directing its
63d.; 20 all Sambre and Meuse 9 - 94 Australia
attention thus early to the essential point of securing
219 all Do.. 53 p. cent. Prof.' ••• '...' .41
°pS , 1 701 Yuba..
••• - • •
;d to Vehicles in which people can travel with a moderate de- 2p 5 Semde, guar. sp. e 1 - 13 - - ••• --- ...
Ado- gree of comfort, is unquestionably consulting its own 20 all Do.
•"'
dand best interests as well as those of the public ; and not- 20 all Southern of France ... -pm -
tnbs, 'withstanding the difficulties which the narrow streets of 20 16 St. Andrew's and a 19 Australian Agricult. 25j - 265
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LITERATURE.

Fair wai thy blush, the faired and first of the blushes
of morning !
Deep was thy shudder, 0 Earth ! the throe of thy

JONATHAN FREKE SLINGSBY.

Poems. By John Francis 'Pallor, LL.D. James

self-retention :
Inly thou strovesl to flee, and didst seek thyself at thy

M`Glasban. Dublin.
Have you heard of J. F. Slingsby,
Slingsby of the manly chest,
low he slays the snapping Turtles,
In the regions of the West l

centre !
Mightier far was the joy of thy sudden resilience ; and
forth with
Myriad myriads of lives teemed forth from the mighty
embracement."
In very truth—the poetical apotheosis at once of
animated nature and of the principle of gravita-
tion ! And to the Earth, the maternal Earth, thus
addressed by Samuel Coleridge, Dr. Waller gives a
voice of song, a voice of irresistible and melliflu-
ous allurement. Conspicuous among his charming
and thoroughly national love-ditties, must be in-
stancod the very beautiful one suggested by the
old Irish phrase of tenderness, sweet to the ears of
Celtic maiden as the sound of the Cushle-mo-chree,
or of the familiar asthore, or of the accustomed
mavourneen, the poetic adjuration " DANCE LIGHT,
for my heart it lies under your feet, love How
slogs Dr. Waller to the time of that old phrase of
the master passion, on the lips time out of mind of
his emotional fellow-countrymen—whispered at
twilight in the green lane, and by the brook side,
and at the meadow-gate ? How sings he to the
dear ell phrase of tender and honeyQd blarney—
How does he sing to it ? Listen !

reading, for the " snapping turtles" of Bon
Gaultier, all literary impostors, and for " the
regions of the West," Ireland. Of course—every-
body who is anybody has heard of him. Every
body has, of course, heard of Jonathan Freke
Slingsby—has read him—has laughed over his ex-
hilarating drolleries, and sighed over his amiable
sentimentalism. Every one who has an eye for fun
and frolic, for the humorous and the poetical,
knows almost by heart the " Slingsby Papers"—
the contributions of Jonathan Freke to the Marra.
of Dublin—himself its Christopher North, and
Timothy Tickler, and Irish Shepherd, all rolled
into one ! Has he not long been its editor ? is
he not still its editor ? the best editor. the Hiber-
nian Maga has had since the harum-scarum, rol-
licking reign of one Captain Harry L9rrequer
Doa't we all count, as upon a thing of course,
upon our finding, month after mends, in the
pages of the clever old Trin Coll. organ oue
of those delightful effusions, half pathetic
verse, half humorous prose, by the penning
of which, Jonathan Freke Slingsby has won
for himself his own capital, delightful, pecu-
liar reputation. Well—here, in this charming little
volume of "Poems"—we have him at last in pro-
prid persona, and no longer in mere masquerade.
Ensign Beverley no more, but the veritable Cap-
tain Absolute. The mask of Mr. Slingsby dropped
—we recognise under the hood of the familiar
domino, the features of Dr. Waller. The genuine
Simon Pure is at length " brought to book" lite-
rally. It is " out," if in no other way at the end
of the work under notice, through the medium of
the fly-leaf advertisement. Ecce Signum—"By
the same Author, THE SLINGSBY PAPERSi -&C."
All hail ! to Dr. Waller in his own entity therefore,
and no longer half hidden by his facetious pseu-
donym, his fantastic soubriquet, his quaint, queer,
odd, ridiculously circumstantial nom de plume—
Jonathan Freke Slingsby, eke contributor to, and
editor of, the Dublin University Magazine. Dr.
Waller, in truth, is to the Dublin University what
the famous Dr. Magian, of glorious memory, was,
once upon a time, to Fraser's Magazine—a prodigy
at once of animal spirits and scholarly accomplish-
meats. Learned and lively, witty and wise—how
shall we say it ? to the height of the ludicrous and
the depth of erudition ! Yet forgetting, as we
needs must, for awhile, his master-hand in the
authorship of the " Papers" by his alter ego J.
F. Slingsby—turn we our attention here for a
time exclusively to these " Poems" by himself,
in his own proper person as J. F. Waller. They
are the natural extiress of the fruitfulness of his
poetic imagination. Not, that is to say, the second
and third squeezings of the vat, but the spon-
taneous running over of the wine of life—poesis
—as, in the grape countries, when the vine
gatherers collect the first rich streams exuding from
the mere weight of the ripe bunches, heaped one
upon another in a purple mountain of mellowness I
"Drink deep or taste not the Castalian spring I"
It will glide pleasantly enough we warrant even
over the palate of the more fastidious. There is
temptation to the quaffing, moreover, even in the
very title of one of our author's minor productions
e., " Bibe Amice de Meo," suggested by a red
clay drinking-cup found at Pompeii, with that
alluring inscription around it, and still preserved
in the Neapolitan Musee Borbonico. Let us con-
fess it at once, however —we prefer the
songs and the fugitive pieces happily con-
stituting the bulk of the little volume before us,
to semi-Tennysonian love tales in verse such as
the first and longest of the " Poems" in the
collection, the ono entitled "Raveuscroft Hall."
The daintiest, and most delicious, and delectable
morsel in which, Dr. Waller Mast forgive us for
saying, is the little fragment quoted iu it from
the " Talking Oak" of the Laureate. Quoted,
however, in one verse, only to be spoilt (we will
believe at once, entirely by a slip of the printer),
namely—where it should have been, instead of
"I,"—

"DANCE LIGHT.
" Ah, sweet Kitty Neil, rise up from that wheel—
Your neat little foot will be weary from spinning ;
Come trip down with me to the sycamore tree,
Half the parish is there, and the dance is tieginning.

The skin is gone down, but the full harvest moon
Shines sweetly and cool on the dew-whitened valley ;
While all the air rings with the soft loving things,
Each little bird sings in the green shaded alley.
With a blush and a smile, Kitty rose up the while,
tier eye in the glass, an she bound her hair, glancing ;
'Tis bard to refuse when a young lover sues—
So she couldn't but ohoo'e to—;4l off to the dancing.
And now on the green, the glad groups are seen—
Each gay-hearted lad with the bans of his choosing ;
_ _

And Pai, without fail, leads out sweet Kitty Neil—
Somehow, when he asked, she ne'er thought of refusing.
Now, Felix Magee puts the pipes to his knee,
And with flourish so free sets each couple in motion •
With a cheer and a bound, the lads patter the ground—
The maids move around just like swans on the ocean.
Cheeks bright as the rose—feet light as the doe's,
Now coyly retiring, now boldly advancing—
Search the world all round, from the sky to the ground,
No such sight cal& be found as an Irish lass dancing.
Sweet Kate ! who could view your eyes of deep blue,
Beaming hurriedly through their dark lashes so mildly,
Your fair•turned arm, heaving breast, rounded form,

Nor feel his heart warm, and his pulses throb wildly.
Young Pat feels his heart, as he gazls, depart,
Subdued by the smart of such painful yet sweet love,
The sight leaves his eye, as he cries with a sigh,
`Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love I' "
William Allingbarn, one of the most gifted and
genuinely poetical among Dr. Waller's follow-
couutrymen and contemporaries, William Ailing-
ham, author of " The Music Master," and of the'
" Day and Night Songs," has chaunted a lay of
Irish Love, wonderfully like this in spirit aid in
character. We mean the song sold, far and wide
about Ireland, as "a ha'penny ballad," the quaint,
charming, delightful song of "Lovely Mary Don-
nelly !" Who does not remember it that has once
read it. With it's—

" . . . Mary kept the belt of lova, and 0 but she was
gay !
She clawed a jig, she sang a 81,1,y, that took iny heart
away."
With its reminiscence of—

" When she stuod up for dancing, her steps were so com-
plete,
The music nearly killed itself to listen to her feet :"

And its memory, too, of how—

"The fiddler moan'd his blindness, he heard her so
much praised,
But bless'd himself he wasn't deaf when once her voice she
raised "

Ah, who, say we, can ever forget it who has once
read that dear old ballad of " Lovely Mary Don•
nelly," written by the young Irish poet, William
Allingham ? And to the Mary Donnelly of Ailing-
ham the Kitty Neil of Waller is " own sister " in
nature, if not in name, in heart, and beauty, and
grace, and agile dancing ! Is she not ? Read the
lay again ! Hear "Felix Magee put the pipes to
his knee and with flourish so free [the rogue !] put
the couples in motion !" Watch Pat [poor var-
let 1] when " the sight leaves his eye," hear him
when "he cries with a sigh—' Dance Light, for
my heart it lies under your feet, love!' " Dr. Wal-
ler, after that, it needs no words of ours to aver,
can write a love-ballad With the best of them, a
genuine Irish love song, full of grace, and drol-
lery, and humour, and tenderness—such as the
world owes much for the possession of, to Moore,
and Lover, and Griffin, and let us add also, more re-
cently, to Waller and Allingham. As such a song-
writer—lrish to the core—we greet the author of
these "Poems " cordially with an earnest greeting
—none the less welcome to him, we trust, coming
frankly from the hand and heart of an English-
man.

" A tear-drop trembled from its source
And down my surface crept.
My sense of touch is somewhat coarse,
But I believe cite wept."
The typographical arrangements of the volume,
however, are here and there by no means irre-
proachable. As, for (another) example, where the
four lines from the original Italian of Metastasio
are given by Dr. Wailer as the refrain-motto to
his charming translation of the old ecclesiastic's
" Hymn to Venus," might Surely have been given
intact, being (to say the most of it) a quatrain so
exceedingly simple and sententious :
Scendi prop!zia.
Col too splendore,
0 belle, Venere
Madre d'Amore.
A charming translation we repeat this to be, to our
thinking, this sweet and dulcilluous version of the
melodious and dulcet Lino a Vencre of Metastasio :
and yet hardly so much a translation after all as an
elaborate paraphrase. Otherwise we should never
find developing into such ingenious labyrinths of
metaphor and versification, under the anglicising
auspices of Dr. Waller, that rapid glimpse of the
glories of cloudland vouchsafed to us by the Abbate
Pietro Metastasio, when he sings A Fenere—
Per to le tremule
Faci del cielo
Dell' ombre squarciano
L'umido velo.
Or again, where the lovely phantasm of the Pagan
goddess is apostrophised by the Christian priest in
the courtly phrases of Parnassus—
Vien dal too epirito
Dolce e fecondo
Cih the d'amabile
Racchiude it monde.
Enough, however, in the way of what might, if
further insisted on, be at once objected to, not un-
reasonably, as hypercritical fastidiousness in retard
to an English version of Metastasio, which, if n-A
a strictly accurate translation, is at any rate a very
graceful paraphrase. Several of the " Songs '
given in an earlier portion of the volume we
are not at all surprised to observe have
been already sot to music by different composers.
Harmonious lyrics as they are, for the most part
suggestive of melody and instrumental accompani-
ment. Witness this Dr. Waller's exquisite ditty,
entitled, tenderly, Cushic- mo-chrce, otherwise—
PULSE OF MY LIEART.
By the green banks of Shannon I wooed thee, dear Mary,
When the sweet birds were singing in summer's gay
pride,
From those green banks I turn now, heart-broken and
dreary,
As the sun sets, to weep o'er the grave of my bride.
Idly the sweet birds around me aro singing,
Summer like winter is cheerless to me ;
I heed not if snow falls, or flow'rets are springing,
For my heart's light is darkened, my Cushle-mo•chrec!
Oh I bright shone the morning when first as my bride,
love,
Thy foot, like a sunbeam, my threshold crossed o'er,
And blest on our hearth fell that soft eventide, love, •
When first on my bosom thy heart lay, asthorc !
Restlessly now, on my lone pillow turning,
Wear the night-watches, still thinking on thee ;
And ciarker thau night breaks the light of the morning,
For my aching eyes find thee not, Cashlc.in,o-chrce !
0 my loved
me
eone ! my lost one ! say, why didst thou
lea
To linger on earth with my heart in thy grave !
Oh ! would thy cold arms, love, might ope to receive me
To my rest 'neath the dark boughs that over thee
wave.
Still from my once happy dwelling I roam, love,
Evermore seeking, my own bride, for thee ;
Ah, Mary ! wherever thou art is my home, love,
And I'll soon lie beside thee, my Cushic-mo-chree !
Another charming lyric is "The First Cuckoo of
Spring," with its constantly recurring Cuckoo !
Cuckoo ! chiming in softly with the rhythmic ca-
dence of the stanzas. What, however, can we say
of the " Spinning Wheel Song ?" What but that
in the daring identity of its theme and in the rash
resemblance of its execution, it appears to our
, wondering observation an act of poetical audacity
after the matchless Chanson, of Beranger—" La
Mere Aveugle."
It is evident repeatedly to us, while turning over
mpeecOuiliar aptitude for
"Poems,'' that
Dr.the
pa
g e s
Fallero fi
sh is
discovering the poetry lying
endsao awc
ee
df u
with
vi
tohl um
perdu, for the million
in old sayings—aphorisms as old as the hills, or
older, may be, some of them, if they happen to have
come down to us from our antediluvian progeni-
tors. Thus at one moment Nye find him. celebrating
" Laborare est Orare "—the dictum was it not of
the good, and wise, and grand old Tertullian 7 At
another we listen to him while he sings a pensive
commentary in verse upon "The Remembrance of
Youth is a Sigh"—the saying of Ali the son of Ma-
hornet 1 Again, has he not given us—yonder a
lyrical illustration of " Welcome as Flowers in
May," and yonder another to the fanciful thought
"There's a lining of silver to every Cloud ?" In his
" Song of the Earth," too, has he not given most
persuasive voice to the maternal orb addressed so
lovingly, and reverently, and wondrously in those
divine hexameters of Coleridge—
,, Bride and Consort of Heaven that looks down upon
thee enamoured ! .
Say, mysterious Earth l 0 say, great mother and goddess,
Was it not well with thee, then, when first thy lap was
ungirdled,
'Thy lap to the genial Heaven, the day that he wooed
thee and won thee !

POETICAL LICENCE IN GRAMMAR.

In re DR. MACKAYS " LUMP OF GOLF."

We observe that exception has been taken in
certain quarters to one of the critical opinions ad-
vanced by us in our recent review of Dr. Mackay's
graceful and ingenious poem of " The Lump of
Gold." During the course of our remarks upon
that very charming, but not, as we still venture to
conceive, altogether faultless production, we did
certainly object, and for that matter do here for-
mally and most earnestly reiterate our objection
to what we may continue to designate, for want of
a better phrase, the frequent ellipse of Dr. Mac-
kay's participles—objecting to this decidedly and
peremptorily as ungrammatical. We instanced
casually, in the matter of these objections, such
lines as the following :—" Tradition itself
has forgot them"—" The Pharaohs are forgot"
—and " That civil discord might have broke."
Whereupon a correspondent of one of - our
weekly contemporaries questions the validity of our
right to reprehend passages like those already
adduced as in any way ungrammatical. Suggesting
that they are strictly correct in construction by
virtue of that very convenient and elastic privilege
familiar even to every school-boy votary of the
muses, the All-saving and all-potent privilege of
Poetical Licence. And instancing in corroborative
testimony of the suggestion thus thrown out—not
so much in palliation as in distinct justification, if
not positively in actual commendation of Dr.
Mackay's violation of one of the rudimentary laws
of syntax—the second verse in Thomas Campbell's
Lines on Waterloo—and the opening one in Robert
Burns' glorious bacchanalian of " Auld Lang
Syne." The former running thus—
" Our Flumes have waved in combats that ne'er shall be
forgot ;"

and the latter thus, as everybody well remem-
bers—

" Should auld acquaintance be forgot."

Very well—so far, everything yet said upon the
matter only goes to prove that Thomas Campbell
and Robert Burns could be, no less glaringly than
Charles Mackay, decidedly ungrammatical. By a
poetical licence if you please—but still ungram-
matical. Greater poets than either Burns or
Campbell have been so before now. We could
help the correspondent of our contemporary to
plenty of yet more extraordinary violations of
syntax for the sake of rhythm, or of euphony, or
of both together—instances much more notable in
their way than those adduced by him from Burns
and Campbell. Lit us say at once from writers
no less classic and authoritative than Byron and
Shakspere. For example have we not from the
hand of the first mentioned the opening of that
lovely song of his—

"There be none of beauty's daughters," &c.
And in one of the daintiest ditties in Cymbeline, in
perhaps the most exquisite and dulcet serenade
ever penned by man, do we not listen (for the sake
of the rhyme) to—

Hark, hark the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phcebus 'gins arise
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies.
Precisely as here recorded, Shakspere wrote, Byron
wrote, Burns wrote, Campbell wrote—by poetical
licence of course but still, ungrammatically.
Always, however, remember —Shakspere, By-
ron, Burns, Campbell wrote thus most ex-
ceptionally, most rarely, just once in- a way,
in obedience to the exigences, as we have said,
of rhyme, or of metre, or of euphony. Instances
like these are but sparsely sprinkled up and down,
here and there, in the grander treasures of our
poetical literature—not scattered broadcast, hither
and thither, as these fore-shortened participles of Dr.
Mackay are so lavishly in his charming little book
of " The Lump of Gold." The authority of mere
poetical licence, we take it, is only admissible oc-
casionally—as we have already expressed it just
once in a way—dying out, and lapsing into no au-
thority at all, whenever it is allowed by a loose
and
exquisitive
style, or a callous taste to harden into a habit! The
" poetical licence" of the lopped participles of Dr.
andpain-
Mackay we never denied—but we objected to them
bie i earnestly,yet
more as we eeda
ronheeertel againy,a
e , object to them, if
beyondpossi-
ble,all manner of
pain-
fully doubt,—toungrammatical. our ag on i s cTdh
e sensitive
ears—decidedly
taste of Pope led him in the very first couplet of his
immortal " Rape of the Lock" to sacrifice to the
venerated lams of grammar, even alias cruelly, his

I subtle and refined sense of the euphonious ; where
we find him singing, as it were through his teeth—
" What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighiy contests rise from trivial things,
I sing, &e."
Enough, however—the accuracy of our exception
to the frequent misuse of "forgot" by Dr. Mackay
in his recent volume we must hero insist upon ex-
plicitly. Pardoned it might be—once—in submis-
sion to the despotic power accruing to the poet
from his vaunted prerogative of unlimited and
irresponsible licence-in metrical composition. Re-
curring again and again—it must be heartily pro-
tested against as a wanton violation of the sanctity
of the beautiful and symmetrical code of the gram-
marians ! Comic writers of verse can alone hope
to enjoy the singular privilege of so writing vvitli
anything like impunity. Reading their oddities
of thought and freaks of syntax, we can, of course,
"grin and bear it" complacently enough. As
where Cowper sings to us in his diverting ballad of
" John Gilpin," in the voice of a rhyming punehi-

" My sister and my sister's child,
Myself and children three,
Will fill tho chaise ; so you must ride
On horseback after we."
But a poet at once didactic, serious, and senti-
mental—must expect no mercy at all, either for
a false quantity or a flaw in grammatical construc-
tion. Au unconditional forgiveness upon the score
of "poetical licence," may, we repeat, be accorded
once—but, demanded again and again, the plea be-
comes inadmissible, the fault proves unpardonable,
the double crime against good taste and good
grammar seems absolutely to require a protest in
the way of wholesome expiation. For the fervour of
this protest the critic is no more responsible than the
muscles of his face are responsible for screfring
themselves into knots under the acid influence of
the sourest of green gooseberries—or his teeth for
presuming to be set on edge by the biting of a piece
of flannel—or his every sense for being jarred into
anguish under the scroop of a rusty nail drawn
across a slate perpendicularly. Against the of-
fender, whoever he may be, we for one must needs
cry out agonisedly—even though we may recog-
nise in him, through our profound admiration, the
glorious genius of a Campbell, or a Burns, or a
Byron, or a Shakspere.

INSIDE SEBASTOPOL " AND THE

CRITICS."

We noticed this handsome volume some weeks
since with a qualified approbation ; and as we then
predicted the work has gone to a second edition.
The author has taken advantage of this opportunity
to run a-muck at all his critics—not very wisely
perhaps, but that is his affair. Some people like to
read what sharp things can be said in a squabble,
so we extract the rejoinder of this " Civilian."
" Inside Sebastopol" ought to have been a God-send
to the writers instructed to cut it up. It was jotted
down in note-books, with a pencil, while I was thinking
more of the scenes before mo than of the rules of compo-
sition. More of the

Res gestss regumque, ducutnque, et tristia belle
;han of the

Quo scribi possent numoro.
In reading it over after it had passed through the press,
I was shocked at the number and the absurdity of
the "slips" it contained. I had called a shark an
anthropomorphous fish. I (or the printer) had filled
the steam-boats on the Bosphorus with Muscovites in-
stead of Mussulmans. I had misquoted Shakspearo. I
had twice written Dardanelles instead of Bosphorus. I
bad called Stafford House Sutherland House. I had writ-
ten " Piazza del Rotundo," for " Piazza del Rotonda,"
and "Mpunt Toro" for " Monte Tauri ;" and I had even
committed the unpardonable offence of changing the
tense of a verb in a historical Joe Miller, and had there-
by caused George the Third to reign a year before his
proper date. I thought of confessing these sins in a
a italogue of errata. But then it occurred to me that
the small fry of criticism would be bound by their alle-
giance to Albemarle-street, and the exigencies of their
advertisement department, to attack me ; for had I
not written evil things of profitable handbooks ? It
was like speaking lightly in his own village of the
church-warden wha distributes the weekly eleemosy-
nary quartern loaves. Would not every struggling
thing which just exists by the favour of the Memenases
who dole forth the pabulum of Grub-street be bound
to see in me an enemy ? Would not the goose quills
of a score of journeymen be dipped in gall ? Would
not the word go forth to make an example of the reck-
less mortal who had ventured upon this sacred rFfrvos ?
It was plain that Grub-street would hoot mo. Why,
then, should I help those candid gentlemen to a telling
article I Without my assistance they would have no more
chance of discovering that anthropomorphous should
have been written anthropophagous, than they would
have of understanding the historical atcl classical
allusions wherewith, as th, y dismal :3r complain,
my book abounds. But had I gi%en them this ire-
dex of errors, what an air of gra. d e iverit i would
the whole troop of dunces have assumed. E.-en the
sedate critic of the Scctator, who instinctively protests
against what he is pleased to call the smartness of these
' pages, would have been expected to be facetious elough
to ask whether this "anthropomorphous fish" was
not a merman, or at least a sea a't raey. The Leda,
which loftily rejects the evidence of Christianity, and
believes only in Heine, and Rug', and Mund-,, and
Gutzkow, and Laube, is now obrged to lecture me upon
my incapacity of balancing evidence ; but even Leda.,
muddled as her poor skull is v ith German in6delity,
might have done something better for her Albemarle-
street Jove. She might have superbly referred me to
"Guy's Geography," or pertly told mo that a rarged
school volume upon " Common Things" would have
taught me better, had she only known of that slip of the
pencil which wrote " Dardanelles". for " Bosphorus."
The A 3i7l(CUla, with officious zeal, kicks out viciously on
behalf of the "handbooks," and betrays a suspicious
knowledge of early copies of now editions. It is a fine
simple nature is that of Asinus of the As!)vetcht. We
can't quite say of him—
O prodige ! 0 merveille !
Mono ane park, et memo it pude bien ;
but there is something almost touching in the humble
piety with which ho adores what he calls the " magnate
of Albemarle-street." One is nearly tempted to respect
his faithful defiance of truth and fact when he talks his
own nonsense about the monuments of Rome. We see
the heroic object of the self-sacrificing creature. He is
heat upon proving that it is not true that the absurdities
of Murray's hand-books cannot be surpassed. It was a
fa'se thing to say or sing of Asinus that

Le diablo
Premier (intern' dos ecrits do he fable,
Lui fournissait ces examples frappants
Et mottait ane au sang de nos savants.
To give the devil his due, the fictions he inspires are al-
ways clever. The good brute did very well, all things
considered ; he lashed his tail, and cocked his ears, and
brayed most uncivilly. But if Asinus had only knewu
of the conflict between received chronology and my ver-
sion of the Joe Miller anecdote concerning Wolfe, what
a triumphant bray would have resounded along the
Strand ! Amether class of critics--the poor expiring
magazines—must be spoken of tenderly ; for of the
dying as of the dead, "nil nisi bonuus." Moreover, I
have a money obligation to them. They al vertise my
book among their articles, and a: no living thing of earth
ever reads those articles, the advertisements are an un-
balanced obligation. Even I only guess that lam well
abused by them. But this class of literary flunkies not
only wear the livery and ape the langua.;e of their mas-
ters, but, like their better-paid brothers of the shoulder-
knot, assume their patrons' names. When I read the
names I know infallibly the tendency of the articles,
and am not tempted to change their virgin uncut state
as they lie upon those club-room tables whore an old
superstition allows them still to linger.
Upon the whole I think it was more prudent not to
print a list of errata.
One thing which detracts from the amusement of an
author who is mobbed by the weekly and monthly lit-
terateurs, is that he feels himself in bad society. There
is a great difference between the polite persiltilaye of the
bal de l' Opera and the coarse practical jokes of an Eag-
lish masquerade. The temple of Asinus partakes of the
latter character. Therein the author is hustled by
dunces, slapped on the back or bonnetted by fellows,
who, without education or mother wit, are merely rude.
A. good deal of bad English has been expended upon
this bock by the small reviews, but not a thought, or a
fact, or a scrap of reading above the capacity of any
individual who had taken moderate advantage of the
early-closing movement and a mechanics' institute.
I am told by my serving man (who made his
information the excuse for rather a lengthened
absence, and a slight thickness of utterance) that
about the smartest things were said by
s
spectable vintner, who, in the intervalsthe belles leisure un-
posed by a tyrannical Legislature, do
esl
department of the Morning Justicejuie . My. repentant
Theodore, who himself writes occasionally sional ly in the Jits•
ticejaice, tells me that "Our Critic' makes therein huge
display of a new nodding acquaintance with rules of
Lance
syntax, and talks to the author of inside Sebastopol"
as Shakspeare's clown holds forth in " As
as learnedly
You Like It." 'Tis a sad thing that criticism,—

Migret in obscuras huinili sermone tabernas.
Where, 0 where are the Hazlitts, the Talfourds, the
Charles Lambs, the Fonblanques, the Leigh Hunts, the
Wilsons, the Magtnns, the Fosters, who only yesterday,
as it were, brought learning and genius to the ungentle
task I—who knew how to pierce deeply with a graceful
thrust, and who fought with a rapier, and not with
sticks and stones. A few still linger pon the staff of
the morning and evening papers, and often a flash of the
old light streams along the columns of the Press or the
Examiner. But the race is grown as rare as bustards,
and perhaps for the same reason—it pays better to keep
geese. There was a dignity in the suffering such men
If-Aided : there is no dignity, .but much abasement, in
holding up one's coat-tails and running through a pack
of half-starved curs.
There are some weekly, and monthly, and quarterly
critics who must yet attack me. The book has sold
largely and is quoted in all societies ; it cannot be
ignored. The Squeeze, for instance, is bound by its
party allegiance to cut me up, and, among others, .I hold
the the Saturday Parade, and the only magazine whic.
.I.as
any vitality in it, my debtors for an onslaugbt. gently
—but to do it cleverly. Let them, for the h
ttonourft of their
order, show that there is something beer le among
us than the dull faculty of ignorant contradiction pos-
sessed by the dreary Asinceum—which is more wretched