The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-23 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The show of new hops is very moderate. For all kinds
there is a fair demand, at the late advance in the quotations.
Otherwise the trade is less active.

Mid and East Kent pockets..B6s to 150 s per owt.
Weald of Kent do.
Sussex do. 6Bs to 824 ~

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.

Since Monday last fair average supplies of potatoes have
come to hand, coastwise and by land carriage ; on the
whole, the trade rules firm, as follows :
York Regents. loos to
Do Flukes l4oe to
Kent and Essex
Scotch

160 a per ton.
150 s „
120. „
1303 „

Do Cups
Dunbar Cup 9os to 100 s
French .... BOB to 90a

WOOL MARKET.

There is more disposition shown to operate in most kinds
of English wool, and prices are well supported. Foreign
and Colonial qualities command full quotations, but the
demand for them i■ by no means active. Last week the
imports were 124 bales from Sydney, and 719 from the Cape.

LITERATURE.

Gathered Together. Poems. By William Wilson,
Author of " A Little Earnest Book," &c. Long-

mans.
We have frequently had occasion to commend
this author's prose works as full of earnestness, and
showing a cultivated taste and ready appreciation
of the beautiful. He now comes before us in a new
form, and though we cannot consider his poetry
equal to his prose, there is much in this little collec-
tion that will please the reader of simple and
natural tastes. Many of the poems were written
some years since, and those on Lamartine and on
Hungary show the writer's deep and honest feeling
on the subjects; they drew letters of cordial thanks
from the great men to whom he addressed them.
A warm sympathy with human freedom and pro-
gress is shewn in all his writings, and his descrip-
tions of scenery testify his love of nature. We
quote the following passages as specimens of the
author's powers :

•
ELECTRICITY.
As little know we what our infants think,
As what this baby•power shall yet perform ;
It travels in the lightning on the storm,
And of new wonders leads us to the brink.
We know net, using it, what 'tis we use,
Or how it triumphs over time and space!
Surely those miracles which once took place,
Hold scarce more Wonder-food on which to muse!
This soundless voice most boundless secrets sways:
Now nation, mentally, shakes hands with nation;
Through pathless waters, over trackless ways—
The hemispheres can hold a conversation I
Material types express all that's believed ;
The immaterial cannot be conceived.

The subjoined verses are extracted from a pleas-
ing and graceful poem entitled " Where I would
wish to rest "

With waving corn-fields far around,
Where sing the larks at morn ;
With bushes matted close about,
Where nightingales are born I
All interspers'd with mossy banks,
Where Spring's sweet violets nest—
Cahn and secluded is the spot
"Where I would wish to rest.
Where ivy claspeth round the tower
Of the gray church so old ;
As though it could preserve from time
Beneath its green arms' fold.
Dark yew-trees spreading round the porch—
Of church-yard trees the best—
For nature seems to love the spot
"Where I would wish to rest.
Where—westward open to the sea—
At solemn death of day,
The glorious sun in grandeur sets,
Shedding his latest ray.
(The sun is brightest when he sinks,
Like man by death careened)
The golden sunsets bathe the spot
Where I would wish to rest.
Where, at the stilly hour of night,
'The clear-eyed moon looks through,
Casting fantastic shadows there,
On grass and gravestone, too;
Bedecking with its silver light
The brooklet's crimpled breast—
That thrilleth lowly by the spot
Where I would wish to rest.

Narrative of the Mutinies in °tide. By Captain
Hutchison, Bengal Engineers.
District Duties during the _Revolt in India. By
H. Dundas Robertson, Bengal Civil Service.
Campaigning Experiences in _Rajpootana and
Central India, 1857-58. By Mrs. Duberley.
Smith and Elder.

Books on India seem now to have become a
recognised branch of literature. Works on the
country itself and its national resources, the best
method of government, and the discussion of the
difficulties attending the missionary question, may
indeed be expected to issue from the press for
some time to come ; but we should conjecture that
the volumes before us were about the last stragglers
of the formidable army of personal narratives and
adventures during the revolt. The two works first
mentioned serve to illustrate two aspects of the
question, the one being by the Military Secretary
to the Chief Commissioner, Oude, and the other by
a member of the Bengal Civil Service. The
narrative of Captain Hutchinson is a work
of some importance. It has been com-
piled with the concurrence of the Govern-
ment of India, and by the direction of R. Mont-
gomery, C.S. Chief Commissioner of Oude, with the
object of affording to all who may have lost frierds
or relations in Oude the most accurate and com-
plete information that the local Government has
been able to collect. It has been a book of great
care and research, and the narrators have, as
far as possible, been left to tell their own story,
which adds greatly to the merits of the volume,
besides making it far more interesting to the reader
not personally concerned in the tragedies. From
the anther's position, and from the fact of its being
published by authority, the work has a character of
authenticity which must renier it valuable to those
whose friends or relatives were engaged in those
terrible scenes.

Mr. Robertson accounts for the publication
of his work by stating that he was de-
tained fir some weeks in Calcutta waiting for a
passage to England. He employed his unexpected
leisure by writing a brief account of the scenes
through which he had passed, and the reflections aris-
ing from them. At the time of the revolt the author
was a joint magistrate in the Saharunpore district
in the North-west l'rovinces, and was subsequently
officiating collector for that district and placed in
a commission for the inyestigation and trial of
cases connected with the mutiny and rebellion.
11. had thus from his official position full opportu-
nity of forming a correct estimate of the position
of affairs, and as he was frequently the only Euro-
pean actor in the scenes he describes, his narrative'
has some originality to commend it to the atten-
tion of the reader. The earlier portion of his
work, he tells us, " will furnish a record of events
in a district under the government of the North-
west Prrovinees, where, notwithstanding mutiny
and rebellion, British authority was successfully
maintained by some half-dozen Englishmen left to
their own resources without the hope even of as-
sistance from European troops."
Mrs. Duberley is well known to the English
public as the enterprising and adventur-
ous authoress of " A Journal kept during the
Russian War." It is sufficient to say that
she displayed all the energy and spirit for
which she is famous, in this new and more perilous
campaign ; and tells us the part of the Brigade
which she accompanied, marched "in spite of
Indian sun and Indian rain, and in the toilsome
pursuit of an everflying foe a distance of 2,028
miles," more than 1,800 of which she herself ac-
complished on horseback.

The Bistory of Progress in Great Britain. By
Robert Kemp Philp. Houlston and Wright.
The early history of Great Britain, and tha gradual
advancement made toward civilisation by our an-
cestors, although partially hidden in obscurity must
always prove interesting to Englishmen. The pre-
sent work, when once the reader has mastered the
rule by which the author has regulated his compi-
lation of events, which we confess, in spite of some
assistance furnished in the preface, to be somewhat
difficult, will be found interesting in this particular ;
he commences his narrative with a description of the
state of England at the time of Caesars' first invasion,
and shows that the character of the English in the
days of yore was muck the same as at present—
that they were never actually conquered by the
Romans, although they suffered themselves to
be governed by them; that they submitted to
taxes when anything approximating to justice was
shown in the imposition, but broke out into open
rebellion when it was otherwise. The author has
evidently taken great pains in collecting his infor-
mation, from the Roman authors he gathers evi-
dence of the eloquence of the early Britons and
cites, besides the memorable speech of Caractacus,
Boadicea's exhortation to her troops before her
last attempt to preserve her country. Some curious
facts are brought to light, and amongst others our
readers will be surprised to learn that the bar-
barous and ridiculous practice of ploughing by
the tail, which Irishmen so indignantly repudiate,
was, according to the Rev. Cresar Otway, in vogue
in the remote west of Ireland as late as 1840 ; and
from other authority that the same practice con-
tinued in Scotland up to 1792. The prejudices of
the human race, and the fierce oppositian which all
improvements meet with, are too patent to need
comment ; but, as a further example of this suicidal
policy, we may cite the fact that when M'Adam
first commenced constructing his famous roads " the
old conservative coachman, the Marlborough one,
would not use the new turnpike road, but stuck to
the old waggon track. The Blandford required
but five foot width in a lane, and all the rest might
go to the devil. " The gentry he considered ought
to stay at home, and be -, and not run gossip-
ing up and down the country." It is a curious fact
that the two great roadmakers—M.Adain and s Tel
ford were born in consecutive yea' s ;
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teredtu in
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com-
mencing o
4 .
M'Adam was born in 1756, andTrcehlri
Telford
The progress of the art of naval a
with the coracle of the savage,
.on of the
and ad-
vancing step by step to the
Great Eastern, is described with the same care
which has been devoted to agriculture and road-
making; but it is rather disheartening to the lover
of old-established truths to be told that Sir Walter
Raleigh did not ad tiralolrdenu
alloc et paooctucaretpo
bte se
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tai
.enfds
it,thoo be
bawec cosorwkintost
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well illustrated, and deserves attention.

Kitehi Gana : Wanderings Round Lake Superior.
By J. G. Kohl. Chapman and Hall.
Indian tradition, manners, and customs have
been related too often to be new to the public ;

' nevertheless, the present volume has peculiarities
which must much recommend it. The author is a
man of deep research, and has taken great pains in
collecting the traditions and legends which compose
this work. The reader of an Indian novel half
doubts the reality of what is intended for facts, but
when he peruses a work by an author of known
probity and ability, he wonders rather than doubts
when he meets with the marvellous—and there
is certainly a great deal of the marvellous to
be found about Kitchi Gami, or the Big Water.
Together with the legends before referred to, a
sketch of the manners and customs of the parties
who are to figure therein, is indispensable to all
Indian narratives. The traditions are a pleasing
combination of love and murder, besides a good
deal of the fabulous, and many of the names which
they have borrowed from the animal kingdom are
founded on some of those fabulous traditions. The
magician has been busy amongst them in former
times, and even now is a person of no small conse-
quence ; but why recapitulate what has been so
often told ? Let the following extracts speak for
themselves :