The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-07 00:00:00

HARE 31.ARKET-(TIIIS DAY.)

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

ORPINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Share Railways. 11'614. C-1651114 Business done
Trice.
100 A tlantic& St Lawrence, all 85 87, 861 6
stk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind!
t Gu. 5 par cent 100 96/ 975 97
18
205 P Do,
Do. B' 131 d 4 d
and Lake Huron! all 44 5 d
Do. New . ,! all—
10 Dn. ('reference ......' all 64 61
100 j Buffalo,l3tant,&Godrich 100 75 80
) 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 70 !..7.,5
100 ,D. do. June 1, 187.1 100 6,8
5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim) I. 30. 5 d 4P
20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 25.
20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s. 21 lf
20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 74 it
174 Demerara:.
20 Rosin. Bengal gu. sp. c 5 1 4 d
aloft East Indian, gu. sp. C. 100 102 1021 102
20 Do. F Shares Ext.....! 10 par I p;151
20 Do. Jubbulpore lO par 3 p
100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs all 985 995
stock Do. sp. c. Deb., 1861 all 101 102
20 Geelong & Melbourne all 21 22
sto. Geelong Corporation 6 100
per cent. Bonds
stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 31/ 324 311
100 Do. a per cent. Pref all 91 93 92 11 21
100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr all 60 -413 63 605
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 all 78 80
100 Do. do. 1867 all 65 70
100 Do. do. 1872 all 65 70
stock Gt.lndiaPenin.ema.sp.e lOO 991 1001 094 100
20 Do. New nma. sp. c 6 4d4 d 54
20 Gt. South.of India (Lim) 10 11 15d
guaranteed 5 per cent.
205 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 121 124 121
201 Do. New ..
100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with all 98 100
opt, till '6O
100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 93 100 •
100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 93 100
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do all 92 94
stock Madras, guar., 4/ p. c lOO 83 90
stock Do. do. 5 per cent lOO 93 99
stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 91 93
20 Do. Fourth do lO 11 1 d
20 Do. all
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Mids. 100
Newßrunswick & Canda
20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7
Class A Capital Share
Do. do. Land do
20 Do. do. B Capital do. .•
all 5 7
Do. do. Land do. .....
20 Oude (Limited) ss.
stock Scinde 100 100 101 1001
20 Do. Pnnjaub C all 11 d 1 d
20 Do. 140. ........ 8 5 d
stork Do. Indus. St. Flo. 100 95 91
20 St. Andrews Quebec A 18
10 !Trinidad (Lim.) !•crip 1 4 ;di
FOREIGN RAILWAYS. •
19 Antwerp & Rotterdam; all 45 44
20 (Ardennes
20 ?Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7p.44 . 7 • id 874
5 rßelgi tn Batt. Junction all 4 1
20 Beziers to Gra issessac I all
10 Buen.Ayres &S. Fcrndo p 84 91 at
6 Carmeaux 311ue & Rail all 21 24
100 ICopiabo
10 Ditto Extension I all 14 11c1
20 (Dutch Rhenish I 15 51 61d I
20 'Eastern Of France
20 ;Grand Rue. Guar. 6p. c 6
20 ' Do. do. I all
20 Great Central of France; all --
20 Gt. Luxem•• Con. shs• ' all 65 64 20 'ltalian Junction I all
20 'Lake Constance t Bale ! all
. „ .
20 Lierre & TurnhoW
20 !Lyons Geneva all
331 Maria Antonia ....
10 Do. New
20 Namur & Liege
20 Do. 6p. c. Pref.
16 Northern of France all 331 395
20 Do. New Shares 12 p
10 'Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 8 9
20 Paris,tyons, & Mediter. all 315 344
20 Paris & Orleans all ! 52 54
20 Recife &S. Fran. (Pern )
gua. 7p. ct. lim l3 2 lid 114
20 Riga & Dunaburg lO
10 Rome & Frascati
20 Royal Danish all 13 15
5 Royal Swedish
4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. all
20 Sambre & Meuse .
10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref all 84 81
20 San Paulo, lim, C. 7p. c 2 4 id 11 1
20 S.Aust.&Lemb Venetin 12 1(1 1p
20 Southern of France all 20 21 204
'Bl West Flanders
10 Do. 61 p. c. Preference all 94 9
20 W. & N.W. of France
20 Western of Austria 6
20 Western of Switzerland all
6 Wiesbaden
6 Do. S per cent. Prof. all
20 Zealand

S Closing Business
Share R .11ways. Paid. price. Done.

Belfast and Ballymena
Bir., Wol , and Str. Val.
Birk., La., and Ch June
Blackburn

8 8i
71 73
11 12i

Blyth and Tyne
Bost. Shef. and Mid. Co
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Carmarthen & Card*mil
Cork and Bandon..
Fork, itlrock., &P-atsage
Cornwall
Do A (A P;ets no div.
Do B trAtil 6pc perm.
hasbeen pd. toB
& Belfast June.
I rinn., Perth, &Ab. June
East Anglian
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union, A stock
Do do B do
Do Nw A. late EU3ds
East Suffolk

tO2 104
91 914

104 34
91} I

Do
Edinburgh & Glas7.ow
Edin. Perth, & Dundee
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glam. and S. Western
Great Nthn. of Scotland
Great Northern
Do do A stock
Po do B do
Gt. S. et W. of Ire%nd
Great Western
Do.Strl?a,... nits. stock
.6-easteri'raisnhSaSF!tini' -eastern
re Yorkshir,
Lou
..-.,0n and Blackwall
s Coast
Chat., and Dover
Loud. & Nth. Western

Do eiz,hths
Lond. & 'th. Western
L'derry & Coleraine
L'derry & Ennistra
Man. Shef. & I,ln^oln
Maryport and Carlisle
Do do 4 shares
Metropolitan
Midland

Do I,irraing. & Derbyl
Gt. W. of Ireland

Do A shares
Kent.... .. .
Do, Cray Line
Neweagtle and C trlisle
New., Aber. & Herefd
Newry & Armagh, def
Newry, Warppt. & Ros
N0rf01k.......:..
hn. Counties Union
North British..
Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stn.:,
13,A. stk ; A rees no

until Ope enpci.B
Do 13 stock
Nth. Eastern—Berwick,
Dodo,G.N.E. purchase
no Leeds ........ ......

I1)o Yoe, ..
North London .
North Staffordshire—
N. and S. W. Junction
Not. & Grantham Rail
Oxf. Wor. & Wolvcrptn
Peebles. ..... .......
Portsmouth

Rhyrnney .
Scottish Central
Scot. N. E. Aber. stock
Do Scot. Mid, stock
Shropshire Union..
Sittinebourne tIL Sheer.
South Devon ........
South Eastern
South Wales ...
S. York. and River Dun
Staines, Wok,. and Wok
Stockton & Darlington

Do do
Stockton it Hartlepool
Taff Vale

Do Pref. No 1
ThttmesHaven.l)k&Rail
Ulster ••
Do ....
Do .... : ......
Vale of Neath
Victoria Sta. and Pim
Waterford & Kilkenny
Waterford & Limerick
West C,,rnwall
West London
Do Ist class
Do 2nd class
Worcester &Hereford::l

BRITISH MINES.

Mines.

Paid' IClosingBusiness
Done.

iA 1 1 re 1 Consols (Philaek)
!British Iron •
'Clifford
Devon G. Cons. (Tavist )
(East Bassett (Illogan)
East Caradon
E. WI Russel (Tavistk )
IGamASt.Auloyn(Gwen )
Great South Tohzus
G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack)
IG. Wheal Vor (Ilelston)
Grenville
Herod's- Foot.— • .. •
Hinp.,,ston Downs
'Lady Bertha
M rgaret (Uny Lelant)'
North Downs
!North France+ (Mogan)!
N.Wh'l Basset (1110 an)l
(North Wheal .softy
(Par Consols (St. Blazey)'
Providence (Uny Lelnt.)
!Sortrid!ze Cons. Min. Co.
South Caradon(St.Cleer),
IS. Cam Brea (Illog,an)
S. Dev. Iron kG en.,
S.Wheal Fran_ (Mogan)!
Stray Park
TainirSilv.& Lead Dlin I
Tin Croft,
Vale of Towey (Carin 4
West Basset (111 wan) I
W. Caradon (L!skeard)l
West. Seaton
Wheal Basset (Mogan)
Wheal Buller (Iledruth)
Wheal Edward (Cals.)
:Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant)
I Wheal Mary Ann (Men.)
!Wheal Trelawney

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1- 2-
270 2,30
445 455
110', 115
8 ft
11 114
39 41
12) 13
3 6i
29 31
31 41
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44..45
51 51
4 5
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4 94
124 134
44 45

11 11
295 305

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330 340
150 160
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'ARE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, .0560,

LITERATURE.

Chilcote Park or, The Sisters. By the Author
of " Likes and Dislikes." J. W. Parker, West
Strand.
This little book is written in a very attractive
manner, and is altogether out of the common in its
style. The characters are exceedingly well drawn,
and although the first story is exceedingly melan-
choly, and the second contains much that is of a
painful nature, still there is something irresistibly
fascinating in the perusal of the book. Those
tales are the most effective that do not attempt to
create an eclat for themselves out of nothing, that
do not strive after effect and struggle to seem
simple, but let things take their course, and when
light and shade alternately illumine and obscure
the humanity of which they treat, they let the
readers judge for themselves as to the brightness
of the day of joy or the gloom of the night of
sorrow. This little work is replete with the truest
discernment and the nicest discrimination. Bertha
is an exact counterpart of a young girl thoroughly
spoiled, and yet when she would allow herself to
be natural, of a loveable disposition and a fascinat-
ing manner. Her early death is very sad, and
doubly so as her sister was thus so painfully de-
serted. The second portion of the book refers to
Agnes, and her adventures are of a most romantic
class. It was finally her dreadful fate to undergo
one of the most terrific visitations that can befal a
human being—to be shut in a sane condition within
the walls of a mad-house. In the last struggle,
however, she turned on her destroyers, and
defeated them in their hour of pride, and
as they thought their day of victory. Agnes was
of a brave spirit, and the thought of danger gave
her strength and roused her courage in a conflict
far harder than the fiercest battle-field, and when
threatened by a fate more cruel than even the
tribunal of the dark Inquisition used to inflict in its
inmost cells. In one point Agnes was mistaken.
Mercy is a God-like feeling ; but justice is the first
consideration in an affair of this sort. For the sake
of society, whose vital principles are affected to their
foundations, for the sake of the laws of man that
are cruelly violated, and the commandments of
Heaven that are thus trampled under foot, no one
is justified in not bringing to open shame the per-
sons who immure their fellow beings in an asylum,
knowing them in their hearts to be in the full pos-
session of their senses. If it is only to deter others
from following their example, it is requisite,
but to protect other victims and discover
other oppressors, it is a solemn duty not to
pass lightly by, and compromise the guilty as
Agnes did. Doctor Martin is a fine character,
who is one of the redeeming persons met with in
these chronicles of guilt and gloom. Altogether
this story is of great interest, and displays sufficient
ability to render it a desirable study to those who
desire something more than mere amusement. In
these graphic pages some of the most prominent
sorrows, sharpest sufferings, and most deadly sins
of human nature are disclosed with a sympathy
that touches, a reality that stirs the feelings, and a
vividness that rouses the indignation of the be-
holders. When we stand at the couch of the dyine.
Bertha, and see her sinking in the sunshine of
beauty, youth, and love, into the cold and dark
abyss of the grave, we know that it is a scene
that the sons of Adam must pass through,
again and again, till the curtain of oblivion
has been drawn around themselves, and for
them the things of time are lost in eternity ;
yet not the less do we feel the effect of the repre-
sentation for its oft rehearsal in every age and
clime. One of the most striking lessons of the
story is here given. Bertha, in her innocence and
gentleness, had done no wrong, but she did fear
death ; she did not look to a better world with the
confidence that is often most freely expressed by
those who die surrounded by all that makes life
precious. This was the sting of the parting for
the agonised group who sat under the orange trees
gazing on the Atlas Mountains. When we enter
with Agnes the awful dwelling-house of madness,
a far darker night than that of the grave enshroud-
ed the prospect, and the pain is increased by the re-
flection that many crossed that threshold as sound
in mind as she who was taken in the toils of a
wicked plotter, and brought to be an offering on
the shrine of their greediness for gold. Of all the
crimes committed for that purpose, this ranks in
the first order of guilt ; and this surely will call for
the most dreadful doom when the destroyers of their
brother's intellects stand before the Judge who
created them, and from whom not the closest secrets
of the asylum ate hid. The records of some of these
retreats, especially before the recent improvements,
would furnish horrors that no language can ade-
quately tell, and must stand out in the blackest cha-
racters in the chronicles of the recording angel's
testimony. " Chilcote Park" will most. likely gain a
favourable reception on account of its vigorous
expression and vivid delineations, the interest
of its style and the freedom of its sketches.
In its limited range it has empressed as
much that occurs in far more discursive narra-
tives, and altogether it is an excellent production
of its class—a class that cannot be too widely
known or too highly recommended—of moral
stories which contain lessons none are too old to
learn nor too wise not to stand in need of. Some
very mistaken critics have abused this style, and
said let one be amused at one time, and read a ser-
mon when one is to be pious. The real illustra-
tration of the events of daily life presents truths as
sublime, thoughts as beautiful, and hopes as sacred
as any that the most learned preacher ever ex-
pounded. Those who listen to sermons are the
first to acknowledge the merit of worthy attempts
to benefit society, and to welcome the appearance
of anything attractive in the right road. They
give instances, furnish examples, and present warn-
ings in a way recognisable by all, and that may
teach some whom subtle arguments could never
reach, and cold maxims never impress. It is one
thing to lay down a rule and another to apply it ;
in such a case it is applied in the living example
before us, and these after all, and not the theorist,
are walking the way that we must walk. It is no
fanciful allegory nor region of illusion, for the
heroes and heroines are climbing the hills of difficulty
that over and over again we must mount, and it
would be well if, like them, we followed the wind-
ings of the path that leads to the Palace Beautiful
and the Chamber of Peace. Such representations
of the minor trials and petty cares of life are al-
ways desirable, when they are told in a true spirit
and with a right purpose. If they eschew the
dogmas of stoics, and do not deny that small
troubles are hard to bear, and do not declare that
pain is of no consequence, and only to be laughed
at—if they do not fall into the opposite extreme of
the Methodist, and proclaim this beautiful world
as nothing but a vale of tears, and all enjoyment
sinful, and all hopes of comfort impossible. If,
avoiding these errors, they show the mercies that
abound, while they do not deny the trials that are
so numerous—if they picture some calmly bearing
injustice, otherspining under anguish in patience,
and many wearing a smile with an aching heart,
to spare the feelings of others surely
such examples may be followed with
benefits to others and blessings to ourselves. If
they go on to show that the hardest struggles are
soon over, the most intricate paths made straight,
• and the bitterest sufferings soothed, if we have
. faith to trust, courage to endure, and honesty to
guide us, are not these the truths taught by sages
and the steps trodden by saints ? Is it not the
wisest and the highest counsel to impart to aspiring
youth, care-ridden manhood, and trembling age to
enjoy the good gifts of the world, but when the evil
days come to remember that this world only
was not made for them, but those who ever seek to
perform their duties faithfully can never finally
fail—if they fight in the hardest battles of life, they
will come out more than conquerors, when death
calls them away, if they carry the cross on earth,
they shall wear the crown in heaven. If these
truths are ever so faintly foreshadowed, if these
hopes are ever so feebly imparted, the work is in
the right road, and the promise is fair to the seed
thus sown that it shall flourish abundantly here and
hereafter. Those who set forth to pioneer us in
our daily paths are as good angels heralding the
right steps to take on the heavenward track, as
the poetess has finely expressed :-
6, Shall not such lessons teach aright, and bid vain conflicts
cease !
Aye, when we commune with ourselves, in holy hours
of peace,
And feel that by the light and shade through which our
pathway lies,
By the beauty and the grief alike, we are training for
the skies."

Letters of Alexander von _Humboldt to Varnhagen
von Buse. Authorised Translation. Trubner
& Co.
The publication of the correspondence of a de-
parted celebrity cannot fail to awaken a consider-
able degree of interest, although a strong doubt
arises in the reader's mind as to the wisdom if not
the propriety of such a proceeding. In the present
case there can be little question that the production
of these letters will not enhance the reputation of
the great natural philosopher. It would be unjust
to attach blame to the fair editress, since she fol-
lowed
the positive instructions of her uncle and his
illustrious friend, but it is nevertheless much to be
regretted that this collection of letters should have
seen the light. They in nowise interfere with the
lofty reputation of the man of science ; it is his
individual disposition as a man that they depreciate
in our eyes. A certain cold hearted cynicism and
absence of geniality, a total want of kindly feeling
in return for the tributes, doubtless genuine, paid
sim from so many quarters, and withal a degree
of self satisfaction and superiority to the rest of
mankind) are apparent. in them and repel the