The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 19.—Two o'Clock.—Although but
extremely few purchases are taking place, there is
little variation to notice in the prices of the prin-
cipal securities. Threes, for the Account, are at
62f. 50c., or a fractional advance on yesterday's
close. Italian Fives have also improved 35c., the
price now being 37f. 60c. From London Consols
are telegraphed with a fall of I. The " discount-
ing" list to-day comprises the following sums :-
109,5001. Three per Cents., 57,500 f. Italian Fives,
1,125 Mobilier Shares, and numerous other less
important amounts.
Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol-
lows :

42 per Cents 9l 90
Do. end month

Bank Shares —
Italian Loan 3B
Do. end month 3B 10
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
rAYS.

3 per Cents. 62 80
Do. end month 62 55
Credit Mobilier 470
Do. end month 461 25

Credit Fonder --
Do. end month 1090

For Account.
Orleans 7BO
Northern 1045
Lyons and Mediterranean 775
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
- Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

258 75

103 75

Ethardo at the Crystal Palace.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.

Sir,—l visited the Crystal Palace on last Mon-
day, deputed by a committee of gentlemen in the
country, to see the performance of Signor Ethardo,
with a view to engaging him for a fele. I had tra-
velled over 150 miles for this single purpose, and as it
rained I could not carry out the object of my mission,
for Ethardo did not perform. Might I respect-
fully suggest to the Crystal Palace manager
that an arrangement similar to that adopted during
the engagement of Blondin—to guard against dis-
appointment caused by adverse weather—his having
another " staircase" in the central transept, which
would be a precaution that would enable him (the
manager) to carry out his promises to the public,
and save others from making a fruitless journey,
as I did.—Your obedient servant,

A VISITOR.

The Late Mr. Cobden.
-.3.-

We have much pleasure in publishing the follow-
ing letter, which has been addressed to the Very
Rev. the Dean of Westminster :

"London, May 19, 1866.

" Conditional permission has been obtained from
the authorities at Westminister Abbey to place
within that building a bust of the late Mr. Cobden.
" One has been executed by Mr. Thomas Wool-
ner, to the entire satisfaction of Mrs. Cobden, whose
family regard it as a very perfect likeness of her late
lamented husband.

"It has also been ascertained that a suitable
position can be obtained for the bust.
" Considering the great and disinterested services
which Mr. Cobden rendered to his country, the
undersigned beg to express their hope that his like-
ness may not be looked for in vain within the Abbey.
" And they now respectfully request leave to
bring their wishes under the notice of the Very
Reverend the Dean of Westminster.

(Signed)

" ARGYLL.
" JAMES CLARK.
" CHARLES DICKENS.
" B. DISRAELI.
" W. E. GLADSTONE.
" J OSEPII HOOKER.
" B. JOWETT.
KINNAIRD.
" F. D. MAURICE.
" OXON.
" ALFRED TENNYSON.
" W. H. THOMPSON."

This petition was presented to the Dean on the
4th inst., and he immediately replied that he would
gladly give his assent to it. The bust of Mr. Cob-
den is one of three which the late Mr. Christy most
kindly placed at Mrs. Cobden's disposal.

MARKETS.---This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market to-day, the arrivals of English
wheat were very moderate. The trade was firm for all
descriptions, and Monday's advance in prices was fully
supported.

The market was moderately supplied with English
wheat. The trade was very firm, at fully late rates.
Floating carges of grain ruled firm, at full currencies
Barley was in short supply, and the trade was firm, at
fully late prices.
Malt was in but moderate request ; nevertheless, the
quotations ruled firm.

The supply of oats on sale was moderato. The trade
was firm, and Monday's currency was well supported.
Beaus ruled firm, at full lato quotations.
Peas were steady, at quite late rates.
The flour trade was firm, at the exttreme prices of
Monday.

81IIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 1,720 40 1,110 30 550
Irish
Foreign 2,010 180

:.- 25,870 300 slm
bis.

BOROUGH HOP.

The hop trade is very firm, and prices have an upwari
tendency. The Plantation accounts are unfavourable.

WHITECHAPEL.
The trade is firm at the annexed quotations :
Per 81b. by the carcase.
•
Beef 3s ed to 5s Od Mutton 4s Od to 6s Od
I Veal 4s Od to 5s Od Pork
Lamb, Os Od to Os Od.

COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending June For tho corresponding week
16, 1866. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 48,275-47 s 4d Wheat 51,802-41s id
Barley 728-36s Od 8ar1ey......... 1,073-27 s 3d
Oats

WHO'S PILLS.

L I

RE.

Mr. Disraeli's Novels—Popular Edition.
Three other volumes of this charming edition of
fictions—written, most of them, more than a score of
years ago, by the right hon. gentleman, the Leader
of her Majesty's Opposition --have just now come
under our notice from the establishment of Messrs.
Warne and Company, of Covent-garden. " The
Young Duke," as containing a brief memoir of the
Romancist-Politician, we have already referred to.
Here, grouped together, however, come three of the
happiest effusions of Mr. Disraeli's imagination and
wit—to wit, " Vivian Grey," " Sybil," and " Con-
ingsby." The two last mentioned are beyond all
doubt their author's literary masterpieces, the latter
especially. " Sybil" as a picture of The Two Na-
tions, meaning the Rich and the Poor, is enthralling.
But " Coningsby," after all, is our favourite. Si-
donia, Lord Monmouth, the Right Hon. Nicholas
Rigby, Henry Coningsby, and Edith Millbank, even
Tadpole and Taper—who does not remember them
who has once, no matter how long since, made their
acquaintance? They are amongst our familiars in
literature : and, regarding them as such, we can
always renew our intercourse with them with the
utmost satisfaction.

Century of Sonnets. By Jacob Jones. One Vol.
pp. 114. A. W. Bennett.

A veteran Sonneteer--and we don't hesitate to
add, the best of all living English Sonneteers—is
J. Jones, or (as his present title explains to us the
long-familiar initial letter of his Christian name)
Jacob Jones of the Temple, author of " Rural
Sonnets," author of " Iguez de Castro," author of
the " Anglo-Polish Harp," and other poetical writ-
ings. As was once said of Leigh Hunt in the Edin-
burgh, "we have a kindness for" —Mr. Jones. His
Sonnets on the Months, for example, have yielded
us for years and years past, whenever we have
thought of them, a charming sense of satisfaction.
Some among them, we have come to know by heart
from the mere frequency of conning them over.
But, thefeanent, we have a crow to pluck with our
author ! Why, in the name of fortune, has he been
unable to bear in mind and to act upon, the old
and acceptable adage, advising us all to leave well
alone ? His fault in the way of revision, and revision,
and revision—is the fault that has embittered the
gratification derived by us from Dr. Mark Aken-
side's " Pleasures of Imagination." The which
didactic and meditative poem—who is there that
knows it at all but will recall to mind the fact
here alluded to with a very pang of discom-
fort ! The which meditative poem appears in
all the approved editions of it in a sort of
or Siamese form—giving one almost a sense of that
incipient stage of intoxication when the victim of
his own inconsiderate drinking sees double. Mr.
Jones has so far spared his readers from this inflic-
tion, it is true, that he gives but one version of the
Sonnets he has, to our thinking, needlessly and cruelly
revised almost out of all knowledge—but the version
he now vouchsafes is one that we don't in the least
care for, in comparison with the earlier version we
have long learnt to love, the version, too, that clings
to our remembrance very confusingly as we turn the
leaves of this otherwise most delightful volume.
Take the Sonnet on December, for:example, begin-
ning, as we recall it to our recollection, in the
lovely original—
,4 Crowned with chrysanthemums that on his brow
Smile lonelily, like Duty tending Age."
And so forth: but here—transformed into another
kind of sonnet altogether (p. 39) beginning—

"A Posey of chysanthemums behold !
In his loft hand, to cheer his lonely sight."

Now, we put it to Mr. Jones himself thus, quite
frankly—asking him to consider for a moment
whether—lf Thomas Gray could come to life again,
and bring out a new and revised edition, or rather
an entirely new version, of "The Elegy in a
Country Churchyard"—he, our present author,

the writer of this little book of verse entitled "A
Century of Sonnets," would not himself as a
reader (and we may surely presume as a lover)
of Gray's Muse, resent, absolutely resent, any
emendation of any one stanza, of any one line, of
any one phrase, nay, of any single word of that
same Elegy in the Country Churchyard? Whether
he would or not—we should, for one, most cer-

tainly. And, in the same spirit, we resent Mr.
Jones's emendations of Sonnets that we would
not have had either himself or anyone else
presume to touch in the way of attempted
improvement. Apart from this one blemish, the
volume under notice is very acceptable to us. It is
worthy of the writer of " Spartacus" and the
" Roman Gladiator." It is " A Century of Son-
nets" that deserves, by reason of many integral por-
tions of it, to live far beyond another century's re-
collections. It is the work of an Artist, a Poet, and
a Thinker. We handle the little green volume of
sonnets tenderly " as if we loved it" laying it aside
upon a convenient shelf for after-reference, as we
might some malachite casket filled with a collection
of delicately graven cameos.

STANFORD'S SHILLING MAP OF GERMANY—ap-
pears most opportunely at this moment, showing as
it does the Boundary of the Germanic Confedera-
tion, as well as the Territories respectively belong-
ing at this moment to Austria and Prussia—beyond
the Federal limits. Remembering how soon those
boundary lines or limits may have to be drawn
afresh upon the map of Europe, drawn not with
ink and a goosequill but with blood at the sword's
point—it will be well, of course, as a preliminary,
to refresh our memory upon the eve of these great
changes, by conning the map of Europe as it has
been ever since the last great settlement of the con-
tinental nations immediately after the Battle of
Waterloo.
Analysis of the Late Division.

Ayes.
Sir A. Buller
Sir C. O'Loghlon
Mr. Devereux
Mr. J. Brown
Mr. Young
Sir A. Agnew ...
Mr. Davey ...
Colonel French
Mr. Stock
Mr. Woods ...
Lord Milton...

PAIRS.

Noes.
... Colonel Lowther
... Mr. Kennard
... Colonel Bernard
... Mr. B. Harvey (Bucks)
... Mr. Patton
... Hon. Gerard Noel
... Mr. Hodgson
... Mr. Long
... Sir E. Kerrison
... Mr. Lort Phillips
... Mr. Troherno

The following is an analysis of the Division on Lord
Dunkellin's motion :
Voted for the Government—
Liberals
Conservative
Voted against—
Conservatives
Liberals ••• "• •••
Absent—
Liberals •••
Conservatives ••• 0411
Vacant Seats—
Hertford
Lancaster ... •••
Reigate
Totnes
Speaker ... ••• •••
Mr. Dodson (in the chair)...

305
1-30 G

273

41-317

... 1

... 15
... 13

Total

2
1
1- 5
... 1
... 1

_6,58

The following are the names of the members, not be-
longing to the regular Opposition, who voted against the
Government :
Agar-Ellis, L. G. Dering, Sir E. Horsman, E.
Andover, Lord - Doultou, F. Lowe, it.
Anson, Major Duff, it W. MacEvoy, E.
Baring, Henry Elcho, Lord M'Kenna, J. N.
Beaumont, W. B. Finlay, A. S. Mackie, J.
Biddulph, Col. Fitzwilliam, C. W. Maiuwaring, T.
Blennerhassett, R. Foley-, H. Marsh, M. H.
Browne, Lord J. T. Foster, W. 0. Packe, Colonel
Bruce, Lord E. A. Goidsmid, J. Peel, Sir It.
Bulkeley, Sir It. Gregory, W. Pim, J.
Carington, C. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pritchard, J.
Cholmeley, Sir M. Grosvenor, Earl Sheridan, it. B.
Clinton, Lord A. I'. Heathcotr, G. H. Tracy, C. it. D.
Clinton, Lord E. P. Heneae, IC Dunkcllin, Lord
Crosland, Col.

ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FROM INDIA—THE CHOLERA.
—PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning. The troop-ship
Durham, from Calcutta on the 25th February, arrived in
the Sound yesterday afternoon with the right wing of the
80th Regiment, and a detachment of the Ist battalion of
the 18th Regiment. Cholera broke out among the troops
at the commencement of the voyage. Seven cases termi-
nated fatally, but the last case occurred on March 3.
Reuter's Telegram.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—A repetition of the concert
of 5,000 voices given on the Ist May takes place this
afternoon, when the programme will include English,
Irish, Scotch, and Welsh part songs.
HEALTH OF MR. ROEBUCK.—Mr. Roebuck, who
for some time has been absent from his parliamentary
duties in consequence of severe illness, is said to be pro-
gressing favourably towards recovery.