The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

SEEDS.

Linseed, rapeseed, and cakes are ♦ery dull, and may lye
purchased on lower terms; but most agricultural seeds are
quite as dear as last week.
r vmp,wmtu, per bush. 223 to 25e
Swede
nfustsrd. 145 24•
T !bite, new Rs 11'
T tres,Winter,new....7s Od 840 d
Canary, per quarter . 5; 625,
.tve ;,r.aas•. •• „ 241 30s
Clover,RedEng. (cwt.) 77s 92;
White •••• .• .• '• 83 104
Foreign Red.. •• •• 655 74.
White•... 745
Trefoil. new.. •• 465

Carraway ....... ••• 44c 50e
Coriander •• • • •• •• 2i3 2Rs
liempseed, per quarter 54s 58;
Linseed, Eng..iowing.• —s
I Crushing •••• .. .. 65s 68s
Baltic ••• • • • —5 —5
Odessa ••• • • • —8 —s
, Linseed Cake, pr. tom—
, English • • ...131 Os 18' Sc
Voreign,per ton 12/ Os 13! 1(1
• Rape Cakes, pr ton 61 les 7! bs
Rapeseed, New, pr qr., 38s 90s

TALLOW.

There is an improved feeling in the demand for tallow,
and prices have advanced since Monday last V. per ton.
Town tallow has risen 21. per ton, and is ♦ery scarce at 48s
nett each. P.Y.C. on the spot, 488 ; and for the last
three months, 48s Gd per cwt. Rough fat, 2s 8d per 8 lbs.

1853.

1854.

185.6.

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42,914 4 23,627 33.831 33.211 23,231
15e 6 Ito 45s 9d 66s 6.lta 4Ss 9.1 toy 48s Od.
—od te 46s Od —3 Od —s Od {to —s ,
1,055 '2,14 1 2,100 i 2,414
96,603 93,123 $1,014 74,117 i 94,46
1,911 ' 1,160 1 69 642 1,6: d: A
102,983 81,127 98,533 71,358 71,05
383 01 4S. 61 64s M 50* Od 50‘. 6d! 01

- _ _L ERATUR F.
The Great World of London. Part I. 13y Fleury
Mayhew. David Bogue.
According to that popular Americanism which
has been incorporated with the " very body of the
time," by being mixed up in our daily vocabulary
—Mr. Mayhew's great work " progresses," and
progresses, we will venture to observe moreover, to
admiration. The second instalment relates for tke
most part to London considered in relation to the
twin subjects of Law and Justice. Another capital
photograph, by Mr. Herbert Watkins, portrays
to us in a single page the appearance of a Con-
vict and a Convict-ess 1 Besides this there is a sort
of bird's-eye frontispiece, giving the reader a corn.
prehensive view of London traffic, as observable
any clear day from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral!
Cabs, 'busses, drays, carts, waggons,—
c. Whisky, buggy, gig, or go-cart,
Curricle or Tandem "
swarming, jostling, rumbling, to and fro, along the
tiny, far-down perspective of Ludgate Hill Steam-
boats, Wager-boats, wherries, ferries, barges, smacks,
tugs, and all sorts of cockleshells sailing, rowing,
floating, flying, floundering in all sorts of fashions
about the surface of dirty old Father Thames !
Factory chimneys smoking, and houses-chimneys
innumerable, and railways threading the crowded
jumble of streets with their iron-rails, and afford-
ing a groove for the smooth-gliding wheels of the
steam-engine and.its attendant train of first, se•
cond, and third-class carriages ! London Traffic ! it
is a Babel—a hurricane of industry—a whirlpool of
" toil and trouble"—a maelstrom of emulation alai
excitement. Everything combines to assure ne
that if the work be only concluded as it is com-
menced it will be a very wonderful book indeed—.
the product of a life—an authority—a standard
of reference—a repository of curious and coat.
prehensive information. When completed,
Henry Mayhew's " Great World of Lon-
don" might have, as perhaps the most felici.
tious motto that could anywhere be selected
for its title-page-will Mr. Mayhew accept our
suggestion in good-spirit and adopt it when the
time comes for the issuing of the title-page ?—the
following remarkably apposite passage from CA.R.
LYLE'S Hero-Worship :
" This London City, with all its houses, palaces,
and steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immea-
surable traffic and tumult, what is it but a
Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into
One,—a huge immeasurable Spirit of a THOUGHT,
embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces,
Parliaments, Hackney C Aches, atharine Docks,
and the rest of it !" Lect. v., pp. 266-267, ed.
1841.

And Mr. Mayhew's enormous book is this same
aggregated Thought at last duly and mosb ex.
pressively articulated !

Great Sieges Ancient and Modern. A Lecture
by the Rev. R. S. Brooke. Dublin : Oldham ;
1856.

Out of the many Discour-es, Orations, Prole°.
tions, appropriate to the Recent War, delivered
during the course of the last three years in all parts
of the United Kingdom—this Lecture upon "Great
Sieges : Ancient and Modern," by the Rev. R. S.
Brooke, may be very well selected as something
" out of the common," as oue entitled to par-
ticular consideration. It was originally de-
livered in the Dublin Rotunda on the sth
of last February. It has since been published in
the form of a little threepenny pamphlet, and we
doubt not will secure to itself, in the fulness of
time, a pretty wide circulation. Wherever it is
read we are satisfied that the Christian amenity,
to say nothing of the judicious patriotism of the
speaker, will be recognised upon the instant
by every rational mind—a Christian amenity and
a judicious patriotism so signally evidenced where
the reverend lecturer talks of the Religion of our
generous and heroic allies the French as a Temple
—" full of idols and rags "—" full of spiritual beg•
gat y "—" full of moral filth"—full of " ignorance, '
of " falsehood," of " absurdity," of " tawdriness"
and the like ! Anything more thoroughly Christian-
like, anything more truly patriotic in its tendencies,
anything more graceful, more delicate, more gra-
ciously and decently temperate, both in argument
and language—(hearing in mind the " subject" of
the Lecture, and the "time" of its delivery, and
the " profession" of the orator)—we, surely, can
none of us call to recollection ! The Discourse stands
forth for these reasonseonspicuously among all kin-
dred and contemporary discourses, and must be con-
sidered therefore quite per se—it is a manifestation
of patriotic ardour wisely directed to the conser-
vation of a great national friendship, and an evi-
dence of Christian magnanimity overflowing with
fraternal tenderness—such as cannot fail, of course,
to excite a very general and a very profound admi-
ration ! Sufficient for us—cherishing as we do
certain curious opinions as to what really
constitutes the Genius of Civism and the
Spirit of Christianity—sufficient for us (view-
ing the matter thus) if we here point to
this same Lecture upon " Great Sieges, an-
cient and modern," an index-finger expressive of
anything you please excepting—of course—either
scorn or indignation I The argument of the lecturer
being, as we have already remarked, so distin-
guished throughout by the judiciousness of the
Patriot and the amenity of the Christian.

Bcyrninstre. By the author of "Lena,"
Cope," &c. 3 vols.- Smith and Elder.
The writer of this tale is already favourably
known to the world of novel readers. The pre-
sent work will not diminish her reputation, as
the characters are interesting, the plot possesses
some originality, and the dialogue a great deal of
spirit and liveliness. The heroine, Regina Howard,
is of an attractive, though somewhat uncommon,
character. She has been brought up by her grand-
mother, a charming old lady, the daughter of a
French emigre. Regina is often incensed at the
neglect her grandmother meets with from their
wealthy, though vulgar, neighbours, who, when
she was rich, had paid her assiduous attention.
She was the widow of the rector of the parish, and,
at his death, her income was greatly diminished.
Her granddaughter frequently wished for riches,
and subsequent events proved to her that our
wishes may be often granted and not fulfilled.
They form the acquaintance of a Mrs. Willingham,
who comes to live in retirement to escape the no-
tice of her husband, who had already spent her
large fortune, and was now persecuting her to ob-
tain a small income she had reserved for her son.
This son, Alban Willingham, on his visits to his
mother meets Regina, and they are engaged. His
father is by this time reported to have died in
America, and he looks forward to inheriting Bey-
minstre, the old family seat. His uncle, the pos-
sessor of it, had been the early lover of his mo-
ther, but she regarded him with indifference, and
eloped with his brother a short time before the day
appointed for their marriage. Too late she disco-
vered her mistake,and that Colonel Willingham only
cared for her fortune; Of course Sir Herbert Wil-
lingham saw them no more. The disappointment
embittered his life. But the estate being entailed,
both Alban and his mother confidently anticipated
his being one day the owner. He had been his
mother's great support in her troubles, and she re-
garded him with the greatest affection. He was
the total opposite of his father, of a firm and re-
served disposition, his only defect was that pride
which so often mars noble and elevated natures.
While affairs are in this position his regiment is
ordered to India, and his mother dies shortly after.
Sir Herbert Willingham comes to the death-bed of
his early love, and there meets Regina. He had
previously known of her engagement to Alban,
and, dying soon after, leaves all his property, the
much-desired estate of Beyminstre, to her. It
then appears that Colonel Willingham had agreed
to cut off the entail for a sum of money, and that
Sir Herbert, repenting the anger that had made
him vow none of his family should inherit the
estate, left it to Regina, thinking thus to atone for
it. But he was totally mistaken. Alban was still
in India, and the pride of both parties prevented
either making any advance. At length Mrs. Ar-
nold, the grandmother, wrote to him, telling hint
of her grand-daughter's intention to resign the
estate as soon as she came of age. This letter re-
ceiving no reply, for the simple reason that it did
not reach him, Regina concluded he had become
indifferent to her, and a complete estrangement
was the result. She still preserved her intention of
giving up the estate, however, which made her
miserable ; but many legal difficulties were in the
way. At length, on the day of her majority, she
announced her resignation, when, to her horror,
Beyminstre was claimed, not by Alban, to whom
she intended to resign it, but by Colonel Willing.
ham, long supposed to be dead, who had sud-
denly returned from America ! How the story
concludes, how the long-estranged lovers are re-
conciled, and what becomes of the estate which has
caused so much perplexity, we leave the reader to
discover. Suffice it to say that the conclusion is
satisfactory, and the interest maintained to the
end. A. great variety of characters are introduced,
in all classes of society, and their individuality fu all
preserved. The most remarkable of those is
_Miss winny Hopper, whose prototype may per-
-Imps be found iu many village towns, though on a
less exaggerated scale. The dialogue, a point in
which so many writers fail, is sparkling and bril.
liant, and will, no doubt, materially contribute tis
the success of the work with those who desire to be
amused. The episode of Edith Carleton is melan-
choly enough, but she is of too weak a character to
excite much interest. The novel altogether pre-
sents many attract ions to the readers of fiction,
who will no doubt derive considerable entertain-
meat from its pages.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

NEWMARKET R4CES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CRAVEN STAKES. A.F.

Napoleon 111.
Fisherman ....

Tyre._
Druid .

Won by a head.
BENNINGTON STAKES. D.M,

Three ran.
RIDDLESWORTH STAKES.
Anemone beat Armiger.
SWEEPSTAKES £5O SOPS.
c by Bolingbroke
br to Folly o' Day

Lawn

Saucebox..

Four ran.
£5O HANDICAP PLATE.

Thirteen ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS—{Thus Evening.)
The LoiD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

TORTURE IN INDIA.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE rose, pursuant to notice,
to present a petition from certain inhabitants of the
Presidency of Madras, complaining of the infliction of
torture by the ()Moen of the Government ; attribut-
ing the practice to weight in the assessment of the
Government revenue ; and praying for protection ; also,
—that by a report lately laid on the table it is
proved to the entire conviction of the house that tor-
ture, or the infliction of pain, for the purpose of
confession or extortion, has long been practised, and
still continues to be practised, by the native officers
of Government, in the realisation of the public revenues
and the administration of criminal law, to a greater or
less extent, throughout all the twenty provinces con-
stituting "the Government of Madras ; that the aforesaid
torture, although clandestine and unauthorised, has been
for many years known and admitted by the constituted
authoiities at home and in India, as shown by the public
records ; that this house views the aforesaid practice of
torture, affecting so many millions of her Majesty's
subjects, whether as an instrument for the realisation
of the public revenue, or the administration of criminal
Jaw, or for any other purpose whatsoever, as repugnant to
natural justice, abhorrent from humanity, and highly
disgraceful to the character of this nation ; that this
house hereby pledges itself to use the most effectual mea-
sures within its power for the annihilation of the odious
and baiblroug --practice of torture within the
above-mentioned Government and Presidency of Ma-
dras." The noble earl then entered at some length into
the various horrid means which the Government
officers employed to collect the revenue, and ex-
plained the pain inflicted upon the unfortunate
beings who were sentenced to undergo the in-
fliction of torture. Iu some cases the torture
was so strongly employed that death shortly afterwards
followed. Indeed it was upon record that death
had followed torture for the non-payment of revenue.
Amongst the many tortures inflicted he would mention
some of them—for instance, exposure in the sun in cer-
tain postures, with weights placed on the back ; tying
the victim by the hair of the head to the tail of a
donkey, and dragging him, thus attached, a
great distance along the ground ; severe beating
with cudgels, tearing the flesh with iron pincers, forcing
thorns under the nails, tearing women's breasts with
bamboo pincers, pulling out the mustachios, inserting
cayenne pepper in the eyes and nostrils, and other
similar barbarities. The noble lord then quoted a
number of ca=es from a report that had been
made to their lordships' house to show the univer-
sal belief in the minds of the natives of India was,
that the infliction of torture was sanctioned and carried
on with the full concurrence of the British Govern-
ment. That - torture was constantly resorted to
was well known, and admitted by every official
from the highest to the very lowest, and he thought
that it was evidence of connivance that it should be so dif-
ficult to obtain an adequate punishment, when the infliction
of it wits proved before European officers. Dismissal
from office bad followed conviction in some cases, but
that was not sufficient punishment, as he thought the
Lord-Chief. Jnstice would agree with him for parties
fuund guilty of such atrocious acts of cruelty.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. TOTTENHAM took the oaths and his seat for New
ROSS.
Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition praying for
an alteration of the law with respect to the property of
married women.
FISHERY HARBOURS.
Mr. E. ELLICE moved for a return of sums of
money advanced on public account since Jan., 1846, fur
building, adding to, or otherwise improving and main-
taining fishery harbours in Ireland ; and also a similar
return relative to Scotland.—Agreed to.
CANAL TRAFFIC.
Mr. U. BROWN asked the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, whether he intended bringing in
a bill for the better regulation of railway and canal
traffic ? And whether he intended bringing in any bill
for the better prevention of accidents on railways, by a
more defined responsibility of railway officials ?
• Mr. LOWE said it was not the intention to bring on
either of the subjects.
HAY FOR THE CRIMEA.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS asked the Under Secretary
for War, whether complaints had been received that hay
sent to the Crimea hid been of bad quality and in a
damaged state ; and, if so, whether he would lay on the
table of the house the information received on the sub-
ject ?

- Mr: F. PEEL—No such complaints have been
received.

FOREIGN TROOPS.
Colonel DUNNE asked the Under Secretary for the
War Department, why a return of the pay and allow-
ances of the foreign troops in the British service, ordered
some time since, had not been laid on the table of the
house ?

Mr. F. PEEL—The return was presented to the house
two or three days ago.

ST. JAMES'S-PARK.
Viscount RA.YNIIAM asked the Secretary of State
for the Home Department whether, pending any altera-
tion in St. James's-park, the privilege and great conve
nience of passing thro'igh the park in cabs would be con-
ceded to the public.
Sir B. HALL said he stated the course he intended
to propose a few evenings ago. Those alterations he in-
tended to state to the house on Friday next. His hon.
friend the Secretary of State was t.)O ill to attend to
answer the question of the kon. member, but on the
evening mentioned, he had no doubt he would receive
every information he required.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
Mr. -VERNON asked the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer whether it was the intention of the Government to
introduce a bill for the purpose of enabling the Govern.
ment or the trustees of the National Gallery to purchase
entire collections of pictures, with the view of sell*,
such portions of such collections as it may he undesir-
able or unnecessary to retain in the Gallery ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a
bill was in, preparation, and would shortly be intro-
duced.

RECRUITING IN AMERICA.
Mr. BAILLIE begged to ask the noble viscount
when the papers relative to recruiting in America
would belaid on the table. On the answer be received
would depend whether he would bring on the motion
that stood on the paper in his name this evening.
Lord PALMERSTON said the documents that must
necessarily form the groundwork of the answer to be
given had but a short time ago been received. They
contained a good deal of detail, and although Lord Cla-
rendon was occupied in buQiness of great importance be
still transacted the duties of his office as far as he could
consistently with theduties to which be was then engaged.
The answer to be given to Mr. Dallas requir to be
most carefully framed, in order not to envenom ad
dictus-
sion which be thought had already gone too far. Lord Cla-
rendon, he had no doubt, would very shortly return to this
country, and, under those circumstances, he thought
that next week be' should be able to submit the whole
correspondence to the house. (Hear, hear,)
Mr. BAILLIE said under those circumstances he
should postpone bringing forward his motion to a future
day. _ _