The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 30.—Two o'clock.—Business in the
markets for Stocks and Shares continues very re-
stricted, whilst quotations—with the exception of
Italian Fives, which have retrograded no less than
if. 15c.—have undergone no sensible change. The
above-named Stock is now being dealt in at 51f. 80c.
Three per Cents., for Account, remain unvaried at
Saturday's closing prices—viz., 68f. 85c. Credit
Mobilier Shares have declined 2f. 50c., to 653 f., and
Credit Foncier 5f., to 1,295. Comptoir d'Escompte
are 3f. 75c. lower—viz., 876 f. 25c. In Railway
Shares Austrian show a decline of lf. 25c., and
Lombard of sf. A fall of in Consols is tele-
graphed from London.
Three o'clock.—The market has closed as fol-

lows :
li per Cents 66 75 Bank Shares 3565
Do. end month — Italian Loan 5l 90
3 per Cents. 6B 80 Do. end month 5l 85
Do. end month 6B 85 Mexican Loan —
Credit Mobilier ... 651 25 Do. Bonds —
Do. end month ... 655 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier — Home Debt —
Do. end month 1292 50 Deferred

LITERATURE.

Etchings by John Leech. One Volume. William
Tegg.

Fifty-one etchings by John Leech—six of them
illustrative of Theodore Hook's " Jack Bragg,"
twenty-six of Albert Smith's " Christopher Tad-
pole," and the remaining nineteen of 'W. H. Max-
well's " Hector O'Halloran"—make up a volume,
for the publication of which, who will not be grate-
ful to Mr. Tegg, of Cheapside ? Although Leech
was to find, later on, that his forte lay iu pencillings
upon boxwood far rather than in scratching the var-
nish off copper plates with the point of his etching
needle, these easier manifestations of his rare gifts as
a pictorial humorist, have a delightful interest for
all who appreciate his unrivalled genius as a comic
draughtsman. Many of the etchings here collected
together for the first time, apart from the letter-
press they were designed to embellish, we kno,w by
heart, and have laughed over years ago to our
heart's content. Grouped together in their present
form, they make a most acceptable table-book for
the drawing-room, full of fun as they are, and set-
ting even the sourest faces (as they are safe to do)
on the broad grin when the leaves are turned 'twixt
thumb and finger.

Burger's Lenore.

Translated by John Wynnia

Grant. Murray and Co.

Often as Gottfried August Burger's wierd
Ballad of " Death and the Maiden," otherwise
better known, the wide world over, under that
Maiden's name of " Lenore," has been done into
English, and that too upon occasion by masters of
German and English as rarely gifted as the great
author, or compiler rather, of " The Minstrelsy of
the Scottish Borders "—a happier translation, upon
the whole, has hardly ever.been achieved, even by
the best among his nine or ten English predecessors,
than the one upon his successful completion of which
Mr. Wynniatt Grant may well receive our congra-
tulations. It is at once flowing and literal—but
best of all it is a translation into idiomatic English
from the thoroughly idiomatic German original.

Mattie : A Stray. By the author of " Owen: a
Waif." One Volume. Chapman and Hall.

Another of the popular tales penned during the
last few years by the writer of " High Church" and
" No Church" is here re-issued as the eighty-second
volume of the Messrs. Chapman and Hall's two-
shilling series known as the Select Library of Fic-
tion. Although Charles Lever and Harrison Ains-
worth are among the contributors to that Library,
and althOugh Mrs. Trollope and Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs.
Gore and Mrs. Oliphant, Whyte Melville and
Geraldine Jewsbury are in the same enterprise—the
homely tale here told about " Mattie : a Stray,"
is not unworthy of taking its place at the end of
the long bookshelf already loaded with its eighty-
one predecessors.

A TlTaif on the Stream. By S. M. Butchers. One

Volume. Traner and Co.

A Waif of a very different kind from the one
just above mentioned—(poor Owen to wit)—is this
modest little collection of fugitive pieces in verses,
by a writer with whose name we do not remember to
have been previously acquainted. The preface is so
deprecatory, in its tone, of anything like serious or
searching criticism, that it would be out of place to
deal in any way severely with lucubrations so in-
troduced to us. Happily, we can recognise in them
no call for severity of any kind in the way of direct
reprehension. The verses are harmonious and
graceful throughout—repeatedly, moreover, evidenc-
ing, on the part of the authoress, a gift of sensi-
bility so rare, of its kind and in its intensity, as of
itself to influence us, as we read, as with a spell of
fascination.

Search. One Volume, pp. 60. L. Booth.

A painful littlebook to read, although the argument
enforced within these sixty pages, is one that we
should exult to believe might yet be acted upon
throughout the land, among rich and poor alike,
in the palace and in the cottage. It is an argu-
ment penned directly in the interests of humanity,
and in the interests also of morality and of common
decency. " Both mother and child are doing well "
would henceforth be far more frequently than they
have been hitherto, the happy staple of Home News,
here in England, were the suggestions of " Search"
sagaciously and systematically carried out—in the
revision, that is to say, of the whole scheme of the
application of the science of obstetrics.

A Bundle of Epigrams. By Dufferiah. One Vol.
Mann Nephews.

A whimsical little half-crown volume of jeux
d'esprit, all of them short—some short and sweet,
some short and sour. There are seventy of them
in all, so that there are enough and—to spare !
Dufferiah calls himself on his title-page, Incumbent
of Horsehair-cum-Chintz—from which it may be
understood at once that his motto might almost be
4, Easy does it," as, with a half shut eye and a care-
less stroke of the pen on paper, he pokes fun at his
readers, upon all sorts of themes, good, bad, and
indifferent, now well, now badly, now, indifferently.

Several pamphlets dropping in upon us during the
last few days are so seasonably a propos as to deserve
at least enumeration at our hands. Carl Barthe-
lemy's " Sure Preventive for Asiatic Cholera" (pp.
70) is among them. Then there is Dr. George
Johnson's brochure (pp. 32) " On Epidemic Diarrhoea
and Cholera." There is besides these upon the same
all-important subject the Epidemiological Society's
" Report (pp. 93) of the Council on Cholera
Hospitals." Following very acceptably close upon
the heels of Lord Cranborne's Indian Budget, we
have a reprint of a paper (pp. 42) on " The Indian
Empire and our Financial Relations therewith," a
paper read before the London Indian Society a
couple of months since by Robert Knight of the
Times of India. Besides this, published by Simms
and Company, of Manchester, we have in a valu-
able pamphlet of 82 pages octavo, a copious record
of the "Transactions of the Manchester Statistical
Society."7-Seazon 1865-66.

GII,EAT AUCTION SALE OF THE EARL OF STAM-
FOITS SPORTING DOGS.—Yesterday the kennel of
sporing dogs, the property of the Earl of Stamford and
Warriton, were submitted for sale under the hammer by
Messrs. Tattersall. The dogs had been on view last week,
and tb4' kennel consisted of seven brace of pointers
of the most fashionable blood and pedigree, and were bred
by his lordship at his seat at Dunham Massey. The dogs
were highly hroken, and have been regularly shot over to
grouse and black game. There was a large attendance of
the elite of the sporting world, and competition
ran high for all the pointers ; and for three
young broken dogs—Sam, Pilot, and Staley—there
was quite a furore to becomo the purchasers
and they were knocked down to an average bidding of 40
guineas each. The deerhounds consisted of three-and-a-
half brace of celebrated dogs, and were fine specimens of
Scotch blood. These dogs have distinguished themselves in
deerstalking in the Highlands, and are duly entered for
sporting in the approaching season. There was less com-
petition for these dogs, but they realised very high figures.
At the annual meeting to-day of the Australian
Agricultural Company, Mr. Edward Hamilton,
M.P., in the chair, the report presented stated that
the net revenue amounted to £30,388 2s. 6d. (Ac-
count B), and that on the 31st December last the
accumulated profits available for distribution as
dividends amounted to £1.4,525 16s. 9d. (Account
C). In the month of February last this balance
was reduced by the payment of £5,000 to the pro-
prietors, so that the balance due to them on the
operations of the Company, up to the 31st Decem-
ber, 1865, now stands at £15,388 2s. 6d. The cash
in London amounts to £11,753 ss. lid., and out of
this sum the directors recommend that a dividend

of 10s. per share, free of income tax, be declared,
and that it be made payable on Tuesday, the 14th
day of August next.
At a meeting held to-day of the shareholders of
the East London Bank, the report of the directors
stated that, notwithstanding the severe and continued
monetary depression which has prevailed during a
period of the last half-year, the directors are enabled
to recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate
of 5 per cent. per annum, and make the usual pro-
vision for the reduction of the amounts expended on
bank premises and preliminary expense. This will
absorb £3,750, leaving £2,568 53. 3d. to be carried
to profit and loss new account. The rebate on cur
rent bills has been calculated at 10 per cent.