The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-03 00:00:00

rEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1860.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

Share Railways.
Closing '
Paid. Price. Business done
100 Atlantic & St Lawrence a-ri— 87 89
stk ißom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 934 944
Gu. 5 per cent.
18 Do, Do. B 16 14 11
201 Buffalo and Lake Huron' all 51 6 54 4
204 Do. New
10 Do. Preferene,e
Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich
100
100 78 82
6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 73 78
100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 70 75 •
5 Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim) 1. 30. 1 d 4p
20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s.
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s. 2i 2 d
20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 74 4 4.•
174 Demerara....., ...... _ all
20 Eastn. Bengajegu. sp. 71 14 14 d 64
stock East Indian, /kru„ .sp. c, 100 995 ICO4 994 1004 1001
20 Do. F Shares Ext..... 15 4 d .4
20 Do. Jubbulpore. l5 d
100 Do. 44 pc. Debentrs. all 984 991
100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864.. all 101 102
20 Geelong & Melbourne.. 214 221
sto.
Geelong Corporation 6 100
percent. Bonds
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 311 321 324 24 2
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 89 91
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 65 57 554 6 4
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862
100 Do. do. 1867.. all 51 64 63
100 Do. do. 1872.. all 50 53
took GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 964 97 96/ 7
20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 6 Id 4 d 54
20
IGt. South.oflndia (Lim) 13 2 lid
guaranteed 5 per cent.
205- Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 131 134 131 44 4
201 Do. New
Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
100 all 93 96
opt, till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 93 96
100 Do. do. '73 without opt.. all 93 96
100 Do. 55 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all 90 92
stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c... 100 83 85
stock Do. do. 5 per cent .... 100 94 95 94 4
stock Do. 44 p. c. Extension 100 87 89
20 Do. Fourth do.. .... 10 14 14 d
20 Do. d 0..... .... all
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100
Newßrunswick & Canda
20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g,.6pc all 5 7
Class A Capital Share
Do. do. Land d 0... ....
20 Do. do. B Capital d 0... all 5 7
Do. do. Land do. ......
20 Oude (Limited) ........ ss.
stock Scinde ... ...... + 100 974 985 985,
20 iDo. Punjau)) .... a g 7 11 d lid
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20 ,Do. Do. ..... .. a. all d
ato3k IDo. Indus St. Flo. ?,,a, 100 03 041
20 r StAndrews & Quebec A 18
10 ITrinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 4 4 d
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
10 Antwerp & Rot.terdaml all 5 55 155
20 !Ardennes . ........ all 1 --p;
20 Bah.&S.Fran Eim.7 p.c. Si I id ,
5 ißelgian East Junction all 4 1
20 Beziers to Graissessac.. all
6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 24 24
100 Copiabo .... .... & ...... all
10 Ditto Extension all 24 2 d
20 Dutch Rhenish ........ 15 4 140 124 4
20 Eastern of France .... all 25 26
20 Grand Rue. Guar. 6p. c 6
20 Do. do. all
20 Great Central of France all
20 Gt. Luxem., con. she... all 64 7
20 Italian Jurction .. ... all
20 Lake Constance & Bale. all
20 Lierre & Turnhout .... all
20 Lyons & Geneva ...... all
336 Maria Antonia .... ~.. all
10 Do. New .
20 N'arnur & Liege .... —.. all 74 Ai
20 Do. 6p. c. Pref. ... . all 194 20f
16 Northern of France all 376 6'85
20 Do. New Shares ..... 15 —— p
10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 74 85
20 Paris,Lyons, & 3lediter. all 344 354
20 Paris & Orleans.. .... all 53 55 55
20 r Recife & S. Fran. (Fern.)
gua. 7p. ct. lim ...... 13 24 25d
20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 14
10 i Rome & Frascati .... all
20 Royal Danish ......... , all 14 16
5 Royal Swedish ........ all
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all
20 Sambre & Meuse ...... all 54 5
10 Do. 55 per cent. Pref..... all 85 65
20 San Paulo, lira, g. 7p. c. 2 4 Id 14
20 S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin 12 14 4 d 11 1
20 Southern of France.... all 19 20
84 West Flanders ........ all 54 54
10 Do. 55 p. c. Preference.. all 95 94
20 W. & N.W. of France .. all 22 23
23 Western of Austria.... 6
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden
6 Do. 8 per cent. Pref all
20 Zeat.nd

BRITISH MINES.

Share

Mines.

Paid. 1 Closing Business
Price. Done.

Aliret Consols (Philack)
British Iron

4% 9

Clifford

,
200 210
430 440
1074 1124
91 101
11 114
29 31
111 12i
1; 13

Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.)i
East Bassett (Illogan)..
!East Caradon ..........I
IE. W'l Russel (Tavistk.)'
IGam.tSt.Aubyn(Gwen.)
Great South Tolmis....
G.-Wheal Alfd. (Philack)
!G. Wheal Vor (Helston)
Grenville ...
!Herod's- • •
Hingston Downs
Lady Bertha
!Mirgaret (Uny Lelant)
!North Downs

2.14.6
7.4.0

j 17;
12.13.9
5.14.6
8.12
4.8.8
1.8.6

2i it
30 31

31
23i
381 40
31 4.

'North Frances (Illogan)
iN.Wh'l Basset (1110 an)
[North Wheal Crofty
[Par Console (St. Blazey)
,Providence (Uny Lelnt.)[
[ Sortridge Cons. Min.Co.l
South Caradon(St.Cleer)
,S. Carn Brea (Illogan)
S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim
IS.Wheal Fran. (Mogan),
Stray Park
[Tamar Silv.& Lead Min
[Tin Croft

5a

9.18.9
1*
10.6.7

8- 9
11l 12&
45 47

295 310
2} 2t
133 140
52 55

3i
all
18 1, 9
122..18..0!

21 21
411 5

!Vale of Towey (Coml.)!
IWest Basset (Illoban)..
Caradon (Liskeard)!
'West Seton

1,,',',3 6dl

Wheal Basset (Mogan'
'Wheal Buller (Itedruth;
Weal Edward (Cals.:
!Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant`
j Wheal Mary Ann (Meni
Wheal Trelawney (Lis.

1.7.2

FOREIGN M

20 Australian
1 Bon Accord Copper,Lim.
35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £;
20 'Do• St• Johndel Rey,Lim'
5 iDo.Land and IhningCo 1
1 Clarendon ConsilinCod
40 Cobre Copper
Copiapo
1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Col

Fortuna.
General
Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr
Kapunda (Limited)
Linares
Lusitani an
Mariquira
N.llhineCopofS.Aus.L 1
Pontgibaud Silver,Leadt
Mining and
Port Philip
scottish A ustrin. (L.)
,United Mexican
Worthing (Limited)
Do

171
181
65 68
280 290
130 135
80 85
2i 21
1314
24 26
23 25

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27 28

dis.
41 43
10 12
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22 23
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1 1 p
101 1
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7

all
1125.6 d.

all
1
10s.
all
all
19s.

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11 2
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COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
_____. a
r —n. Gov. 6 p.aJa. & July 100 112 115 115 141
Do. •6 p. cent. 18n 100
Do. 6p. cent. 1880 100
Do. . 6p. cent. 1883 100
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 110 112
Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 113 115
( Do. 5 per cent lOO 101/ 102} 10/ 14
t Do. Scrip 5O
N.B.Gov. 6 p.o. Ja.&July 100, 1051 1061 106
Do. 6p. c. Ap. & Oct. 100
N. S. W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 100 99 100
Do. sp. c., 1871 to 1876 100 99 100
Do. 5 p.e.,1888 & upwds 100 99 100 991 1
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c
sterling, 1875 lOO 107 108 1071
S. Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.1878 &up lOO 108 110
Vie. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 I -
' Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oot lOO 109} 110 , 110 91 10
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
100 Agra&UnitedService Bk 50
40 Australasia all 61 66 61
25 Bank of Egypt all 20 21 201
100 Bank of London
20 Bank of Turkey .
50 British North American all 55}
20 Chtd.Bank of India, &a. all 201 21
25 Ch. Mer. of In. Lon.& Ch. all 32 14 ,
100 City
100 Colonial ...... —.. . ... 26
20'11 Com. Bank of Canada.. all
100 Commercial of London. 20 20 21 201 4
20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 15 161
20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all
20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 231 24 281
50 London and County .. 20 36
50 London Joint Stock -.. 10 301 1
100 London & Westminster 20 58} 8
100 Nat. Prov. of England . 42
20 Do. new l2
50 National Bank ........ 25
20 New South Wales ...... all
20 Do. new
25 Orient. B. Corporation
20 Ottoman Bank ....
100 Provincial of Ireland
10 Do. new
25 South Australia
25 Union of Australia
50 Union of London
100 Unity Mutual 6O I ,
MISCELLANEOUS.
10 Anglo-Mexican Mint., all 134 144 14 /
1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all
25 Australian Agricultural 19 26 28
10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 41 5
50 British American Land 40 30 32
50 B.&l.Mag. TeL A. (Lim.) all 35 57
20 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) all 19 21
20 Do. C. (Limited) all 12 14
324 Canada Land all 114 117
10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim ) all
stock Cop.Min.ofEng&Smltg. all
25 Do. Pref. 71 per cent.
stock Crystal Palace
stock Do. Preference
stock Do. 6p, C. Pet ?et. Deben. 100 106 108 107/
stock Electric Telegraph
25 Do. New l5 id 1 p
5 English & Aus. Copper all 24 2} ,
15 Gen. Steam Navigati as 14
1 Great Ship 1 huffed) all a 4 1
1 Do. 171 pet Preference / ids pr
5 Lon. District TeL (Lim.) 2 24 2
20 London Discount(Lim.) 5 11 lid 31 1
4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all 11 11
20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 24- 21
10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all
10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 3 4
25 National Dis. Co. (Lim.) 5 11 1/ d 34 4
20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 2 lid
10 Netherlands Land all
5 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis. all
100 N. Br.&NovaScotiaLand 88 —4 1
1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all / 1 / 1
1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 1 1
1 Do. New Shares (Lim.) . 15s. ipr
10 Orintl.ln.Steam(Lim.)A 6
10 Ditto B.
10 Ditto C
stock Peelß.Lnd,&lBlin.(Lim ) 100 17 50 .
50 Pen. & Oriental Steam
50 Do. New 25 121 131 p
20 RedSea&lnd.TeLg.44p.c all 18 181 18
50 Rhymney Iron
15 Do. New all 50 64 '
100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 51 53
stock Scot. Austin. Inv. (Lim ) 100 122 125
25 South Australian Land all 31 34
1 Submarine Tel. Scrip all /
1 ' Do. do. Registered.
19 Do. do 4 all 514 oil
20 Tr. ir Lo. CO.ofUpr.Can 5 ...
109 Pah Diemen's Laud

I 1 H EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

TATIERSALL'S-(THIS _EVENING.)

LEAMINGTON STAKES.
4to 1 agst Royal Sovereign (talon)
4to 1 agst Crater (taken)
6to 1 agst Wild Rose (taken)
7to 1 agst Argosy (taken)
ST. LEGER.
9to 2 agst Sabreur (offered)
sto 1 agst Thormanby (taken)
6to 1 agst The Wizard (offered:
Bto 1 agst Umpire (taken freelj)
Bto 1 agst Sweetsauce (taken)
20 to 1 agst St. Albans (taken)
50 to 1 agst Cape Flyaway (take')
50 to 1 agst Tom Bowline (taken)
50 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(7111S DAY.)

SHERIFFS' CO inn
PRINTERS AND MACHINE BOYS.-IMPCRTANT DECISION.

SMITH V. DANKS.

Plaintiff is a machine boy, and defendant a master printer.
The action was brought to recover 12s. wages stopped, and
7s. 6d., one week's wages, in lieu of notice.
Defendant pleaded on the first occasion that by the rules
of the trade plaintiff was not entitled to notice, and that as
to the 12s. plaintiff had been fined that amount for breaking
a form.

His Honour adjourned the case for consideration, and
this morning said he had consulted twc printers of great
standing in the trade, and they are both positive upon one
point—the machine boy is entitled to a week's notice.
Mr. Danks—Then as to the 12s. ?

His Honour—You must show negligence on the part of
the boy. If he wilfully or negligently broke a form con-
taining type, you would be justified in dismissing him on
the spot, and stopping all his wages.
Plaintiff—l couldn't help breaking the form, and no type
was spilt.

His Honour—A great many people employ wretched
little girls as servants, and these wretched little girls break
plate. That case applies here. You, Mr. Danks, employ
little boys as machine boys, and then forms are broken.
There is no negligence shown here, and plaintiff must have
a verdict for the whole amount.

THE PANIC IN THE LEATHER TRADE.--ISRAEL V. OSTLER

AND ANOTHER.

In this case, in which plaintiff recovered a verdict for a
sum of £2O 18s. for certain hides supplied to defendants,
Mr. Ford moved for a new trial, on the grounds that the
verdict was against evidence, that his Honour had misap-
prehended the law, and surprise.

His Honour ruled that upon the first ground defendants
could not apply. Upon the second defendants could appeal,
and as to surprise there was not much in it.
A long argument ensued, in which Mr. Ford, Mr.
Buchanan, for plaintiff, and his Honour took part,

Mr. Ford contended that the market value of the hides
was the principal ingredient in the matter, and that defend-
ants had allowed plaintiff a fair market value.

llis Honour was of opinion that upon the failure of
Messrs. Streitfield and Co., the salesmen were afflicted
with an unreasonable panic, and sold at any price, and a
panic value was not a quarituni market value.
Mr. Buchanan urged that the verdict was in accordance
with the evidence, and his honour refused the application,
giving plaintiff costs and defendants leave to appeal.

POLICE INTELLIG CE-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SELLING SPIRITS WITUOITT A LICENSE.—ASSAULT ON
A POLICE INSPECTOR.—Peter Ward Hebblethwaite, chan-
dler shop-keeper, and Bridget Hebblethwaite, his wife,
were charged with selling spirits (rum) without a license ;
and the female was further charged with assaulting In-
spector Webb, of the C division, &c.

The defendants were fined £25 each, or three months' im-
prisonment in default,

THAMES.

DARING ROBBERY AT THE STEPNEY STATION OF TH33
BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—John Cannon, a tall man, about
23 years of age, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged
with stealing a silver watch, value £7, from the person of
Mr. John Lowe, fishmonger, of No. 3, Northampton-place,
II olloway.

Mr. Beard, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor stated that between eight and nine
o'clock be was at the Stepney station, making his way with
others towards the North London train, which had just
arrived, and in the rush that took place the prisoner got
before him, and he felt his watch drawn from his pocket.
He seized the prisoner by the arm, held him, and struggled
with him. The prisoner ran away at great speed along the
platform and fell over it. An officer followed the prisoner,
who got up and looked over the wall of the railway, and
also put his hand over. Directly afterwards the prisoner
was secured.

Mr. Beard cross-examined the prosecutor in a very in-
genious manner. Mr. Lowe said he came to the conclusion
that the prisoner stole his watch, because he stood in front
of him, and because his face was close to his own, and there
was no other one near him.
Mr. Beard—You think so.

Witness—And I think rightly too.
Mr. Beard—You are jumping at conclusions.
Witness—And a right conclusion too. He stole my
watch. Now, sir, I contend—

Mr. Beard—l won't argue with you. Did he not run in
common with others when the train arrived.

Witness—Yes ; but he ran before, and the others ran
behind me. He looked over the wall and threw my watch
away.

Mr. Beard—You have got that in your mind.

Witness—And you won't get it out of my mind.
George Barry, a railway constable, said that the prisoner
was brought to him, and he afterwards looked for the pro-
secutor's watch, which he found on the roof of a shop in the
rear of the premses of Mr. Pearce, shirt maker. It was
open and the glass was broken. Mr. Pearce's shop was
below the railway, and right opposite the place where the
prisoner looked over the wall. The prisoner cut his knees
and hands severely when he fell.

Mr. Beard said there was only a case of suspicion
against the prisoner.

Mr. Selfe said he intended to° commit the prisoner for
trial, but on the intercession of Mr. Beard, consented to
deal with the case summarily, and on the prisoner plead-
ing guilty he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

MAGAZINES.

Blackwood's Magazine.

If we wanted a proof that the personal animosity
and bitter vindictiveness of party feeling has in
great measure died out among us, it would be
afforded by the opening paper in Maga. It is a criti-
cism on the political career of Sir Robert Peel, in
this old established organ of the party who so long
looked up to him as its leader and whose ranks he
finally disorganised. The days of those contentions
and the bitterness of feeling that attended them
have long since passed away. It is as an eminent
English statesman, as one of the recognised chiefs
in our Parliamentary history of modern times, that
his career is discussed, and his character analysed
in the paper before us. Founded on Sir Lawrence
! Peel's recent memoir of his distinguished relative,
it gives us a brief outline of the rise of the family to
wealth and honour, and of the early training which
shaped the future Premier's tastes tad habits.
The effects of his education were apparent, in
the opinion of the writer, through all his later
life. The younger Pitt was held up before him
as the model of a statesman, especially with
regard to commercial and financial questions.
" It was the spirit of Pitt's commercial policy which
mainly chimed in with the opinions of the success-
ful manufacturer; and this he did his best to im-
plant deeply on the mind of his son. Without
doubt, the seed thus sown never lost its vitality.
For many years after his entrance into public life,
Peel seemed to be carried away by the tide, which
had set in strong in favour of a protective system.
But if ever the real history of the man comes to
be written, it will doubtless appear that even then
he distrusted the wisdom of the course which he
was pursuing." In other respects, however, the
critic considers his training to have been productive
of more harm than good. It encouraged the re-
serve and restrained manner which was afterwards
complained of by his party. "He became so much
of a casuist also that even as a boy he could never
arrive at a conclusion till he had passed in array
before his mind's eye all the reasons against as well
as for the object proposed to him." Of his oratory
we find the following description :—" He gained
ground from day to day in reputation as an admi-
nistrator, and began by degrees to take his proper
place in that House of Commons which was by-and-
bye to become his world. Not that the House of
Commons ever accounted him a great orator. His
skill in debate was, perhaps, unrivalled ; but in his
best days as a speaker, he fell far behind Canning,
Tierney, Windham, Plunkett, and Brougham, and
these and many more long overshadowed him by
their eloquence. For Peel had not a scintilla of
genius. His style was diffuse and laboured; his
best thoughts always seemed to he overlaid with
words ; and his three courses degenerated at last
into the merest mannerism. What he did not receive
from inspiration, however, he managed to acquire by
diligence and close attention to details." The essay
is written throughout with a moderation of tone
and absence of prejudice that are highly commend-
able. The writer is evidently one thoroughly con-
versant with his subject, and familiar with the
inner life of Cabinets and parties at the eventful
epoch he refers to. He has been actuated by a fair
and painstaking spirit, and has accomplished his
task as a whole with discrimination and candour.
As an evidence of his appreciation of the lamented
statesman's intrinsic merits we quote some of the
concluding paragraphs :

It would be too much to speak of him as one of Eng-
land's greatest statesmen. He possessed little originality
of mind, and no genius. But he was painstaking, able, in-
dustrious, unprejudiced, honest in the best sense of that
term, and incapable of meanness. In spite of the pains
which were taken to settle his opinions in early life, he
seems never to have wholly surrendered his own judgment
to that of others. Indeed, his nature was one of those
which mature themselves very slowly, and are therefore
open to the charge, often very ill-founded, of having no
fixed principles to guide them. How gradual, yet how
steady, were the advances which he made towards the
adoption of those views of commercial policy which are now
everywhere in the ascendant. How, by little and little,
the conviction seems to have dawned upon him that men's
religious opinions ought not of themselves to present any
impediment to their possession of political power. Yet no
man of his age cared more for the wellbeing of the working
classes; and it would be to do him great wrong were we to
question his firm attachment to the doctrines and discipline
of the Church of England. reel's defects were those of
temperament merely. He was constitutionally shy and
proud. He could neither give nor receive unshackled
familiarity. His manner was not a pleasant one, either in
the House of Commons or anywhere else.
He had many admirers, therefore, but few friends. Still
he was a man of whom, with all his shortcomings, Eng-
land has cause to be proud•; and whose name will go down
to posterity among the ablest and most disinterested of those
who have taken the lead in the management of her affairs.

" The Romance of Agostino" is the title of a new
story whose first instalment promises an elaborate
plot. It is called " a true story of modern Rome,"
and true and false heirs, and withheld birthrights,
are already its prominent features. Leaving these
mysteries we come to an admirable article
bearing the singular title of " Great Wits,
Mad Wits ?" founded, as the reader may guess,
on Pope's celebrated line " Great wits to
madness nearly are allied," a theory which
it succe'ds in triumphantly refuting. It
appears that a French writer, physician to the
Hospice de Bicetre has recently published a work
setting forth the theory that "the pre-eminence of
the intellectual faculties has for its organic
condition a special state of disease of the
nervous centres." The humiliating theory con-
tained in this somewhat involved statement is
analysed, discussed, and effectually disposed of
in the article before us. M. Moreau, the author of
the work in question, seems to regard genius as
arising from the same mental or nervous constitu•
tion which in other cases produces insanity. " We
cannot admit," says the critic in confuting this
dogma, " that the strength and energy of the mind
are referable to the same causes as its weakness
and incoherence. To suppose that Shakespere was
nearly akin to an inhabitant of Han well is
about as reasonable as to consider the Benicia
Boy and Torn Sayers pathological cases. The
energy of genius is strength, not disease. It
may, like vaulting ambition, o'erleap itself,' The
intellect may be overtasked and succumb, but so
likewise may the athlete overtask his strength and
come home with a broken back." The long list of
examples which M. Moreau brings forward to
support his assertion do not prove much, seeing
that if a member of a celebrity's family has
been afflicted with blindness, apoplexy, or paralysis,
he points to the fact as ample evidence of a pre-
disposition to mental disease. But, as his critic
justly argues, if all his facts were as indisputable as
the cases of Tasso and Cowper, they would not war-
rant his deduction. They night prove that many
men of genius had been predisposed to insanity,
but not that their genius owed its origin to that
predisposition. The excitability often apparent in
highly gifted natures, and general among the in-
sane, appears to be the only foundation for M.
Moreau's absurd theory ; but that the excitement
is of a totally different kind, that thousands are
extravagantly excitable who are in no way re-
markable for intellectual preeminence, that a
high order of talent often accompanies a
calm and collected manner, are truths appa-
rent on the surface to any reflecting mind. As
is truly observed in the essay before us, " If
a few great men have fallen victims to the facility
with which the nervous mechanism may be dis-
turbed, men who have had nothing great have like-
wise fallen victims by thousands." In this age of
incessant exertion and mental high-pressure, how
many have have sunk beneath disease and exhaus-
tion brought on by a constant strain on their
nerves and faculties, by a total disregard of the
inexorable laws of health which exact so stern
a penalty from the offender, who under no circum-
stances could have claimed the pre-eminence of
genius. Which of us has not known men, highly
educated and of respectable capacity, but
devoid of a particle of the divine " afflatus,"
who have fallen sacrifices to an artificial
state of existence, and an incessant strain on the
nervous energy. " Overwork and unseemly neglect
kill the meanest as inevitably as the highest. It
is a tragedy which is no respecter of persons, and
darkens a thousand homes which are never
brightened by a ray of genius." The venerable age
attained by many of humanity's great intellectual
luminaries would of itself suffice to refute the theory
of a diseased organism. We have in our own day
seen some illustrious examples, for it must be re-
membered that not poets and enthusiasts alone, but
all who are remarkable for " pre-eminence of the
intellectual faculties" are included in this assertion.
An assertion so humiliating to the human intellect,
so derogatory to the dignity of the great names
who are the admiration and veneration of succeed-
ing ages, is indeed untenable and untrue,
,alanich he
d the
t.
ability, the logic, and the clearness with vc
writer of the essay before u 3 gathers. up t ar6
ments which are current on this suojec.t, and seve_
rally disposes of them, will be most
who rightly appreciate one of the Caa gifts
and of mankind's most serious respon es. /0
conclusion, the author turns to.
_anotncr fallacy
current on this subject--the indifference to minor
morals supposed to be i nseyara
hle genius.
This immunity to moral obligations claimd some-
times on their behalf by the friends as
well as the
enemies of genius receives no mercy_
at his hands.
He scorns the idea of , a direct connection between
splendid talents and.derl,igagements broken, trusts
violated or bills unpai and finds the reason for
such moral delinquency in the Weakness of the con-
science, not
the strength of the intellect. His re-
marks, in conclusion, are so just that we cannot
forbear quoting them
Men of genius are said to be by nature It
improvident.
may be so : biography too often seems to say it is so. But
thousands who have no genius are quite as improvident;
. and it is never virtue of his genius that any man is so
'lumen nature is human nature, and its infirmities may be

seen in the shade of its splendours, but they are not owing
to the splendours. The great Shakespear, the great
Newton, the great Goethe, were not little men because they
too had their littlenesses ; nor were these littlenesses in
any sense the product of their greatness. And if the
trembling sensibility, which is one of the conditions of
genius, makes a man more accessible to certain temp-
tations, it makes him also more accessible to moral
influences, so that, in'point of fact, the history of men of
genius is on the whole remarkably noble and pure. The
curiosity naturally felt about everything concerning men
of genius leads to the publication of all their errors and
shortcomings ; but who can doubt that a similar scrutiny
of the lives of grocers would yield a much blacker catalogue
of errors ? The vices of illustrious men are cried out from
the housetops, but who troubles himself about the vices of
blockheads ?
Our conclusion, then, is briefly this : genius is health
and strength, not disease and weakness ; it is sanity and
virtue, not insanity and vice. The man of genius may be 1
sickly and vicious ; but he is so by reason of a sickly body
and a vacillating will; not by any means because, with 1
this body and this will, he also possesses a splendid in-
tellect.
" Norman Sinclair" is continued in its usual style,
and there are also attractive papers on King
Arthur of the Round Table, and the gloomy re-
miniscences associated with the Tower of London.

Fraser's Magazine.
There is considerable variety apparent in Fraser's
table of contents this month. It opens with the
first chapters of a new story, entitled "Ida Con-
way," which promises some degree of interest. A
Manchester Man contributes a lengthened paper on
"Hymns and Hymn Tunes for Congregational Wor-
ship," which contains much sense. The writer
strongly supports the system of congregational
singing in preference to the monopoly of vocal per-
formance by the choir, dwelling on its manifest ad-
vantages in securing the sympathy of the people
and promoting devotional feeling. -We are told an
amusing anecdote of a church in Durham which
rejoiced in an unusually good choir. A stranger
one day attending the church joined in the hymn.
" Stop, sir, stop," exclaimed the fat sexton, wad-
dling up to him, " we do all the singing hero our-
selves, sir." The "Manchester Man" who writes
the article refers to the skill and taste for music so
prevalent in the Lancashire manufacturing districts,
and his suggestions are many of them full of sense
and practical benefit. Mr. Latrobe's instructions
for suitable congregational singing would be well
borne in mind by those on whom devolve the selec-
tion of hymns and tunes. " Upon every tune offered
to a Christian congregation in the church of God
let there be impressed as with a signet, gravity,
majesty, melody, harmony. Gravity—to bow the
spirit in reverence and forbid the sacrifice of fools.
Majesty—to remind the singer of the character of
that God whose high praise is upon his lip. Melody.
--to entice the ear of the hearer, and take even
his wandering affections by guile ; and harmony—
to embrace the varying tones of a mixed multitude,
and on the instant breathe into them one spirit
of concord and puce. Such unquestionably is the
character of the old church tune." Whether some
of its modern successors possess all these attributes
may he perhaps doubted ; but we are glad to see
the subject gravely considered and fairly discussed.
The Catholic and the Dissenting services both owe
much to the attractions of their music; the one
from its artistic excellence, the other from the prac-
tice of congregational singing, and we see no rea-
son why this part of our Church service should not
ceerpy a worthier position in our parish churches.
As the -writer before us observes, " We should re-
joice to see our church music and hurnology
studied and improved more and more, not with the
object of inculcating special doctrines or furl bor-
ing sectional views, but 'with the broad catholic
purpose of enlarging religious feeling, diffusing
healthy enjoyment among our people, uniting
class with class, and preparing cur congregations
here to join in the grand hallelujah hereafter."
" A Story of 1843-9," is a raelanct.oly record of the
disappointed hopes, the baffled ambition and vain
endeavours of the brave band of Lombard volun-
teers. Their tale was told with vivid and mourn-
ful interest by Count Emilio Dandolo, one of the
prominent actors in the events he chronicles,
whose brief career was closed by a lingering
disease at Milan, last spring, just as be had once
more begun to hope in the future of his beloved
country. Mr. Alexander Bain contributes a
lengthened paper on the propensities, examined
according to phrenological theories, which will inte-
rest those who turn their attention to physiological
studies. " Gryll Grange" proceeds in its accustomed
strain, full of curious research, and not without
interest in the characters of the tale, though the plot
is not the most probable. An able paper on Mr.
Kingsley's "Miscellanies," recently published, takes
a very just view of the general scope and tendency
of his writings, and considers he has done good ser-
vice by his labours in literature. The influence
which he exercises over his readers is, the critic
considers, " due to the singular felicity with which
he combines the highest degree of zeal consistent
with clear judgment, and the highest degree of
judgment consistent with ardent zeal. A little
more heat and he would be a rash, injudicious ad-
vocate ; a little more light and he would scarcely
be an advocate at all. He is a partisan and not a
philosopher, but his partisanship is of the most in-
telligent and independent kind." The critic ad-
dresses himself rather to a consideration of Mr.
Kingsley's general gifts and achievements as a
writer than to the analysis of any particular
work. We have further on an interesting paper
by "A man on the shady side of fifty," describing
France and Paris at the different epochs of forty,
thirty, and twenty years since. His reminiscences
are curious, and it will interest the reader to com-
pare the different stages. There are, however, so
many points left unnoticed or slightly touched upon
that we are not surprised at the announcement of
an additional paper, which is to supply deficiences.
The " Chronicle of Current. History," a new feature
in this magazine, is continued in a condensed form
and moderate spirit.

Bentley's Miscellany.
The " Oatremancbe Correspondence" is con-
tinued in its usual amusing strain. It takes for its
heading this month the old Norman proverb " Ce
qui vient de flot s'en retourne de maree," which
the writer illustrates by the present state of affairs
in general. The session just expired he considers
should be remembered in future times as the Peckniff
Parliament, owing to its resemblance to the horse
of that immortal worthy, who was always going to
do great things, but somehow never accomplished
his magnificent promises. "Everything," says M.
Victor Gouache, " that was to operate for the gene-
ral weal was predicted for the year 1860. Public
burdens were to be removed, obnoxious taxes sup-
pressed, reforms of law and of representation ac-
complished—a political millennium was at hand.
And what has been the result of all these fine
flourishes? Absolute and unmitigated disappoint-
ment. Not a single measure has been passed of all
that were promised." Leaving the remainder of
M. Gonache's amusing gossip we come to a tale
from the prolific pen of " Ouida." This month
there is really some variety in the story. The
scene is laid in France, and a mystery is ingeniously
interwoven with the tale which goes deeper than
practical jokes or lovers' quarrels. Still the style
is somewhat diffuse, and if the author could con-
trive to pourtray a hero of another type, not quite
so much favoured by the world's approval and his
own good opinion, divided between scornful asso-
ciation with men and contemptuous to-
wards women, the change would certainlyb re-
freshing. However, " Fleur de Lysand
the two Viscounts" is certainly a consider-
able improvement on his later productions,
have
Monkshood's pleasant papers oei,r bwi..,
remember
reached the second part. The reader will
first
of the that " Once a Child" was the title childhood
The present instalment is
Worn smooth
num-
ber, reminding us that the
hraostohneaerdened ruffian
and most ancient patriarch a
whethereats from
thosem
caprice w ho whose
and treats
ithtssohave had no childhood. The
entitled, "Never
rosy c ha ecehkisiv
less remarkable_ for their mourn-
been,
than for their striking talents,
nature
or
fortune,lot
no
melancholy
fßurlonte
are cited as instances.
. Coleridge says of himself
that be bad no childhood, and there are many little
temperamentsfamiy
ones in the various ranks of life who, in the words
of grte Browning's pathetic lament. "are weeping
in the playtime of the others." "Gurney, or Two
Fortunes," is at length brought to a conclusion,
and its complicated lot finally unravelled. A
lengthened paper on " The British Association at
Oxford" gives us a view of the old academic city,
and a sum emery of the principal papers read at this
Year's nr,eting. A paper on " Madame de Monte-
Span" follows the one in last month's number on
,‘ladame de la Vallicre, who also experienced the
vicissitudes. of court favour, though less deserving
of disgrace and downfall than the haughty daughter
of Mortunart. There are also papers on "Rome
and Naples" and " Natural History."

The New illo7zthly

A lengthened paper on " Italy ihcr Friends and
Foes," is the first to greet the reader in this number,
and discusses the great question of the day in its
varying aspects. The writer justly remarks,
in conclusion, that the French Emperor can easily,
if he choose, furnish us with a practical proof of his
sincerity by withdrawing his troops from Rome,
which will leave the road clear for the natural se-
quence of events. If he truly understands the
signs of the times, says the writer, he will grant
Garibaldi unimpeded action. " Surely if twenty
millions of united Italians cannot oblige Austria to
some amicable settlement, they do not deserve ex-
traneous support." Whether oar Imperial ally's
friendly professions and pacific intentions Will
stand so severe a test may be reasonably. doubted,
though the truth of the suggestion is indispn.table.
The interesting story of " East Lynne" is continued,

and recurs to the murder of Hallij ohn. The suspicions
of those interested in the discovery rest upon Captaia
Thorn, but we apprehend that the evil genius of
Lady Isabel, Francis Levison, will be found to have
been concerned in it. Sir Nathaniel in his " Notes
on Note Worthies" discusses the gifted and daring,
but eccentric and extravagant reformer Savonarola,
the Florentine monk, who was the chief personage
in Italy at the close of the fifteenth century. Mrs.
' Bushby's tale of " The Belles of the Island" is
brought to a conclusion, which is somewhat
melancholy. The voyage ito England, which
Helen Thornlev had so long eagerly anticipated, is
productive of the greatest distr ess,for her husband
is recognised by an old assoc;iate as having been
implicated in a forgery and murder comm4ted many
years before. He is tried and col idemned,lnd
suffers
the extreme penalty of the law . His heart-broken
wife dies on the voyage back to Jamaica, leaving
her orphan child to the care of her early friend and
companion, Geraldine. Wheal Geraldine reaches
the West Indies she learns th at her unhappy lover,
Le Vasseur, has committed au icide, in consequence
of his gaming losses. She SI tbsequently, however
marries an English clergym: tn, and recovers from
the effect of these complicate( I troubles. We can-
not say that the picture of West Indian life and
society is very attractive, thou gh possibly life-like.
" Gilbert's History of Dublin" is the subject of an
entertaining paper, giving us particulars of some
of the notabilities who have flourished in that city.
Two recent works of travel are d iscussed and quoted
at some length—namely, Captain Burton's account
of his "Explorations in the Lalce Regions of Cen-
tral Africa," and Mr. Atkinson's "Narrative of his
Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower
Amoor." Those who have not met with these
works will be able to form a good idea of their con-
tents by perusing these papers. W. C. Kent con-
tributes some melodious verses on the parable of
" Joathc.m," and there is also a ballad by Frederick
Enoch.