The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-30 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET

I. 4'3,,

This day's supply of Sheep and Beasts was moderately good,
but not so great as that of this day se'nnight ; of fat Calves and
Porkers but limited. The trade was very dull throughout, with
Veal at a depression of full 2d. per stone; with Leef, Mutton,
and Pork, at barely Friday's quotations.

?IMES PEA STONE or tiLzs. TO SINK THE OFFAL&
S. d. to S. d. s. d. los. d.
inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Large Lambs
Second quality ditto 210 3 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0
Prime large Oxen... 3 8 310 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 4
Prime Scots, &c..... 310 4 2 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 8
Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 6 Large Hogs
Second quality ditto 3 0 3 2 Small Porkers 4 6 5 (1
Coarse-woolledditto 3 6 4 4 Suckling Calves 12. s to 40s. each.
SouthdownWethers 4 6 4 8 Quarter old Pigs 12s to 18s.each.

' - -
SUPPLY, AS TER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Beasts. Sheep and Lambs. Calves. I Pigs.
2,581 1 17,130 110 96
About 500 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about
450 up the other northern roads; about 200 (including Irish)
from the western and midland districts; about 1100 from Nor-
folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about SO from Kent
and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c
in the neighbourhood of London.

NEWG ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. d. t. d. tos.
Beet, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior... 2 6 3 8
- middling 2 6 210 - middling.. 3 0 3 6
-- prime large 3 0 3 4 -- prime 3 6 310
-- prime small... 3 4 3 8 Pork, large 3 8 4 6
Veal
Both the above markets were largely supplied, and the trade
in them owing, it was said, to many of the retail butchers' shops
being still heavily stocked with their last week's meat, very dull.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—Jan.....
Our supply of Wheat from the farmers today was large, for
which there was a goal demand, and the prices of this day
se'nnight fully supported. Of Oats there was also a fair
supply, with sale and prices steady. The arrivals of Barley
though moderate seem just to keep pace with the demand, and
though little is left unsold, no improvement can be noted in
price. Malt dull. Little doing in Pease or Beans. Rye in re-
gular demand. Flour free sale. _

New. Old.
Wheat, Northumberland s6s. 658
Norfolk and Suffolk 584. —s. —s.
Berwick and Scotch 565. 61s —s. —s.
Foreign 50s. —s. —5.
. _

Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. —s —s. —s•
Foreign 33s 36s —s —s.

Barley, 111.11 ting, Norfolk and Suffolk...34s. 36s —s. —s.
Grinding and Feeding "4s. 28s —s. --s.
Malt, Norfolk and Sunlk 60s. Gis —s. —s.
Beans, Small Sts. 36s —S. —s.
Tick 30s. 34s —s. —s.
Pease, White 345. 38s —s. —s.
Gray 30s. 34s —s. —s.
Oats, Northumberland, I'otatoe "4s 25s Fs. 28s.
• Feed 18s 22s 2•2,5. 21.4.
Foreign
Flour, Fine (per sack) —s. —s 43s. 488.

MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt.
Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday 3,005 0
Quantity of fine Copper , 246 11
Average Produce —..—......
Amount of Sale, 16,0221. I Is. Od.—Average Standard, 961.45. Od-

SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 28.-- Having been
present at the London meeting of the Southampton Rail-
way, at the City of London Tavern, on Monday, we can
state that there now remains no doubt of this great under-
taking being fully accomplished. We state. the opinion
of many of the most influential of the London merchants,
with whom we had a conversation, that in a very short
time (probably a very few days only) all the shares will
he taken. We, therefore, see nothing which can prevent
the Directors going to Parliament with the Bill this ses-
sion, particularly as an important explanation was made
at the meeting as to time.—lt was stated, the usual
.notices for a Bill must be given ti the House on
the, Pith of February, but that there would be then
allowed six weeks 'to prove the necessary qualification of
four.fifths of the amount being subscribed.—Hampslare
Adt•ertiser.

LITERATURE.

EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. 108.
EDINBURGH. 1832.

The most eloquent, the most animated essay
in this very superior number, is one entitled
" Characteristics," and is suggested by Schlegel's
Philosophical Lectures, and Hope's Essays on
the Origin and Prospects of Man. In this dis-
cursive treatise, which in every line bears traces
of a master-spirit ; which is bold yet cautious
withal ; speculative, yet never wandering beyond
the domains of reason ; threading labyrinths, yet
not without an Ariadue's clue ; and in which we
cannot but fancy that we recognise the masculine
and subtle intellect of Lord Brougham, the first
part forms a singular contrast to the last. The
reviewer sets out with the assertion, that as the
truest physical health consists in all the several
organs of the body performing their functions
unconsciously and in harmony each with the
other, no one asserting its separate existence,
and making itself felt above another ; so in the
social system, that is the healthiest state of so-
ciety in which all opinions harmonize and blend
together for the common good, in which
puzzling theories and blighting speculations are
unknown, and the mighty machine moves on
in a straightforward, unembarrassed course.
Assuming this as the test of a healthy
social system, the reviewer goes on to show
that the present state of society is alto-
gether the reverse ; that it is a monstrous chaos
of contradiction and disorganization, rotten at
the core, and containing within itself the seeds
of decay and death. That the old harmony and
consentaniety of things and principles, thoughts
and actions, exist no longer ; for that doubts
and " obstinate questionings" are daily at work,
in all forms and varieties, to fetter impulse, to
reduce the divinity that once stirred within us,
to the level of the mechanical, to bind us to the
chariot wheels of scepticism, to fill us with horror,
mystery, and despair. He traces this spirit
through all the ramifications of society ; and
concludes with the remark that " the sum of
man's misery is even this, that he feels himself
crushed under the Juggernaut wheels, and knows
that Juggernaut is no divinity, but a dead me-
chanical idol." The second part of his essay
is of a more cheerful complexion. Sick of wading

through the slough of despond, the reviewer makes

a desperate effort, extricates himself from the
mire, and stands again on terra firma. He discovers
that though Astrcea has left earth, the rays of her
departed glory still linger behind, to inspire—to
illumine—to vivify. That. the dawning of an
auspicious era, when faith shall once more re-
sume her old inheritance, and casuistry " skulk
back to her old cavern," is at hand ; when the
“godlike" in human affairs shall again be visible ;
and " the name of the Infinite Good be recog-
nised as God." The only fault we have to urge
against this splendid metaphysical disquisition
is, that the first half neutralizes the effect of the
last half ; that the two portions are balanced
with too much precision, in too sea-saw
style ; and that as it sets out with undue
despondency, so it concludes with undue sanguine-
ness. The reviewer begins like a Byron and ends

like an Owen. Now the truth lies in the mean ;

in neither despairing like the one, nor hoping
like the other. God knows the frame-work of
society is bad enough—thanks to the systems upon
systems, theories upon theories, speculations upon
speculations that daily come forth unblushingly
to swindle us out of our common sense, and
compel us to doubt even the fact of our existence
—still there is a redeeming spirit in human nature
quite sufficient to work its way and re-establish
its own rights. The vessel may be labouring just
now because the sea runs high ; but a skilful
pilot sits at the helm, and a patch of blue sky
peeps out to windward. Besides, troubled
waters always run themselves clear. Society
throughout the world is now in a state of rapid,
unprecedented progress ; there is no more resting
on the oars ; all around us is in motion, all pressing
forward, though in different ways and with diffe-
rent degrees of success, to one common goal.
Truth and freedom are making their sacred influ-
ence felt throughout the world. But till the
old has become the forgotten (except in history)
and the new has sobered down into system, and
assumed light and form and harmony, society can-
not but be disorganized. A state of change is
ever a state of fever, of inquietude, and possibly
even of danger, when the most monstrous sys-
tems, whether of religion, politics, morality, or
literature are spawned, when even truth is made
to look like falsehood, and falsehood like truth ;
but these evils cannot be helped ; they but fol-
lowed the inevitable course of nature, who in
the end asserts her rights.

" Tour in England by a German Prince,"
is a smart notice of Prince Puckler IVluskau's
late clever volumes of travels. There is much
truth in it, but more severity. " External
Relations of Portugal" should be read by all
who desire to know the exact amount of imbecility
with which Lord Aberdeen is blessed as a politi-
cian and statesman. The article is one of the most
cutting exposlv we ever read, full of facts, dealing
little in reflection, and adroitly leaving the reader
to form his own conclusions. " Southey's Edition
of the Pilgrim's Progress" is clever and even
brilliant, though not without paradox. We
cannot assent to the propriety of these remarks.
" In the works of many celebrated authors, men
are mere personifications. We have not an
Othello but jealousy, not an lago but perfidy,
not a Brutus but patriotism. The mind of
Bunyan, on the contrary, was so imaginative,
that personifications, when he dealt with them,
became men:, It is precisely this quality which
we all so much admire in Shakspeare ; and if
in any two characters he has carried it to a
greater extent than any other writer that
ever existed, it is in those very two which the
reviewer deprecates—his Othello and lago.
These two are not mere dead, cold personifica-
tions, but actual breathing men, full of life, bone,
and muscle, with hearts beating within their ribs,
and passions, such as many can feel, and all under-
stand. In fact, they are as much life as life itself.
This is especially the case with Othello, whose
reality of character we all recognize; the workings

of whose mind are as much matters of history, as
those of Czsar whtni he halted at the Rubicon,
or Anthony when he resigned the empire of
the world for Cleopatra. Zanga indeed is a per-
sonification. Not so Othello. The one is a
long, methodical description of a passion, the
other is the man himself on whom such passion
operates. The same remark applies to lago.
Surely he is no tame, lifeless personification
Brutus we give up. He, perhaps, is really and
truly an essay upon patriotism, but this is in-

separable from the nature of the somewhat vague
and intellectual quality he represents. With
the reviewer's remarks on Bunyan we cordially
agree. The " Pilgrim's Progress" is indeed
one of the most surprising books—inter mille
millesimus—ever penned. It stands alone in
unapproachable excellence of design and execu-
tion. Nothing is like it : nothing even
affects to be like it. The age must be remo-
delled, the current forms of literature become
wholly extinct, before we can have another
Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, or Passage
across the Chill Waters that lead to the Wicket-
gate. Bunyan's master-piece is a work that has
communicated delight and instruction to mil-
lions. Children have read it as an interesting
narrative ; men as a fine moral homily. It ex-
cites equally the sympathy of all ages, of all
classes, and is as intelligible in the heart of
Africa, or among the Red Indians of America,
as in the more civilised climes of Europe. The
moral it conveys, though lofty, is familiar, and
of universal application ; and the narrative as
much a matter of truth as Robinson Crusoe or
Fielding's Prose Epics.

" Sir Thomas Lawrence," as a criticism,
makes no pretension to originality, but is read-
able, and not too eulogistic. " English Uni-
versities, Oxford," is laboured, but not in vain ;
and " Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hamp-
den" is a generous eloquent testimony to the
memory of one of the most sterling patriots
that England has yet seen. In those com-
paratively primitive days, patriotism was the vir-
tue itself, not the assumption of it. Men acted
then, they talk now. On the whole, we con-
sider the present number of the Edinburgh Re-
view the best we have seen for months.