The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-14 00:00:00

Liverpool CottoJ Market—This Day.

Market opens with a depressed tone, and the
sales will probably foot up 5,000 or 6,000 bales.

Sir 11. Bulwer intends, says the Libel*, to re-
main for some time in Paris, where he is engaged in pro-
parin for publication an important work on politics.
THE ACCIDENT TO THE REV. PROFESSOR SELWYN.
—The bulletin issued by the professor's medical attend-
ants on Tuesday morning was as follows:—" Professor
Selwyn has again passed a good night, and the more
serious symptoms are subsiding." Inquiry last evening
elicited that the progress was still favourable. The most
anxious inquiries as to the state of the professor were con-
tinued throughout yesterday, not only by members of the
university and other friends in residence, but by a large
number of both from a distance.

THE BYRON NATIONAL MEMORIAL.-A meeting
of the committee for raising a national memorial to Lord
Byron was held on Monday in the Mayor's Parlour, Not-
tinbam—Mr. T. C. Hine in the chair. A number of replies
from literary men and noblemen who had been asked to
further the movement were read. The feeling of the
meeting was that a bronze statue of the noble poet should
be erected in one of the principal streets of Nottingham.
The Dean of Westminster had been written to respecting
the memorial being placed in Westminster Abbey, but no
answer has been received.

THE. METEORIC SHOWER.—Rain fell during Mon-
day night and continued almost without intermission dur-
ing the whole of yesterday forenoon, so that nothing was
of course seen in London of the "meteoric shower."
Those, however, who were on the look out (and they were
many), after 12 o'clock last night, can bear witness to the
accuracy of the calculations of our astronomers ; for from
that hour until four 4 o'clock, an extraordinary number of
what are popularly called "shooting stars" were to be seen
travelling in space.

AGRA AND MASTER3IAN'S BANK (LIMITED).—A
meeting of creditors under £lOO was hold at the London
Tavern yesterday, when the chairman, Mr. Thompson,
stated the result of the meeting of the day before, and said
that, after the payment of the dividend of ss. in January
next, it was proposed by the board, if the bank were re-
suscitated, to pay of the creditors under £lOO in full, and
as soon as possible. The amount would not be consider-
able, averaging only about £3O each, or altogether about
£160,000. A similar resolution to that passed by the
larger creditors the previous day was at once agreed to,
and the meetindseparated.
STRANGE ACCIDENT AT TYNEMOUTH PIER.--Two
men, whilst walking along the pier on Monday, were sud-
denly struck by a strong wave breaking over the side and
washed off their legs into the water. A heavy sea was
running at the time, and the cries of distress by the unfor-
tunate men attracted the attention of two foy-boatmen,
who bravely put off to their assistance, and succeeded in
bringing the half-drowned men ashore.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CALF.— On Sunday after-
noon a fine cow, on the farm of Mr. Richard Harper, Red-
dish, near Stockport, was delivered of, perhaps, one of the
most extraordinary calves ever born. It had two heads
(one at each end of its body), two tails, seven legs, and
eight feet It was calved by Messrs. J. Woolfenden and
F. Ousey, veterinary surgeons, Stockport, but was de-
stroyed before parturition was accomplished. It is now in
the possession of sir. Qusoy, and will be preserved.

14:1,1,;11EN(111:
Great Ristern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1, 80
tireat Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent. pm:, 101 i

I•IIKFERNINCE S ik RES AND STOOKS.
North London, 4i per cent., 100

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
London and Glreenwich,l6l
Nottingham and Grantham IL and C, 901

FORE) CiN RAILWAYS.
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 3i
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 161

BANKb

Albion, 5}
Alliance, tim.. 181
London Chartored Bans of Australia, 21i
Linton of London, 44}

DOCKS.
London and:St jiatharine, 66
Southampton, 05i

MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 15}
Ceylon Company, 8
Credit teoneter of England. lim 31 I
Nr.tional Discount ompany, 15
Oriental Gas, lim., 5k
Thames and Hersey Marine, Insurance, Um., 51/
Trust and Agency ot Australasia,;lim., ti

BLUNDERING INTO A WRONG PROFESSlON.—Un-
fortunately the choice of a profession is about the
last which can be managed safely by a young man who
knows little or nothing of the world. Most of us drift, it
may be, into our professions. Somebody who is in the
college boat is coming up to London to eat his term-
dinners in the Temple ; and, faute de nzieux, Jenkins of
Magdalene, whose chief notion about law is that lawyers
wear wigs and that the successful ones are admirably paid,
comes up to London too to accompany his fellow-oars-
man, eats his five o'clock dinner, and calls himself a bar-
rister. The fatal move is attended with lifelong conse-
quences. Possibly the bar turns out to be the very voca-
tion for which Jenkins was designed by nature, and he
becomes, in turn and with much satisfaction to himself, a
drudge, a bully, and a celebrity. But it is equally probable
that the noble profession of the bar is not the thing for
Jenkins. His soul is incapable of stooping to hard work
in dingy chambers ; he misses the little professional chances
which only fall to the lot of those humbler persons who lie
in wait by day and night for them; leading cases pall on
him ; points of practice puzzle him ; the success of still
more incompetent noodles than himself, who are fortunate
enough to possess cousins in the attorney line, aggravates
and exasperates him; and be becomes, accordingly, mor-
bid, idle, briefless, and hopeless, and divides his inglorious
life between London drawing-rooms and his club. For all
this he has to thank the one lazy instinct which brought
him up to London 20 years ago, to eat law dinners, because
some one else was coming up to eat them too. The punish-
ment seems a severe one ; and, in the oyes of an impartial
judge, destiny appears to have hit Jenkins rather hard,
simply for rushing at one unhappy turning-point.—Satur-
day Review.