The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

The St. eTanzes's Magazine.

This pleasant and lively miscellany proceeds in
its usual agreeable style. The opening article is
from the pen of Robert Hunt, F R S., and describes
the Museum of Geology to the uninitiated. In
speaking of the importance attaching to the acqui-
sition of the youngest and oldest of the sciences,
Mr. Hunt observes, " To the engineer who would
drive a tunnel, construct a canal, dig a cutting, or
form a harbour—to the architect who desires to
secure a permanent structure—to the miner in his
search for coal and other minerals—to the city, in-
deed, for which a good water-supply is required,
and to the well-sinker or the Artesian well-borer—
the qualified geologist is now admitted to be the
most reliable adviser. Thousands of pounds have
been saved by those who have availed them-
selves of the truths of geological science ;
while immense sums of money have been squandered
by men who have neglected its teachings."
Another very interesting scientific paper discourses
on " The Power of Water," conveying much infor-
znation in a clear and intelligible style. The
editress continues her story of " Can Wrong be
Right." Fresh troubles assail the unhappy Milli-
cent, but we are given to hope that her husband
is not so happy in his ill omened second marriage
as she supposed. She is gradually awakening to
the consciousness of her own error in supposing
that wrong could be right, and the influence of
her child will probably induce her to declare it.
" The Sovereign's Messenger" is an amusing narra-
tive of the troubles of a hearer of despatches.
"Love and Duty," and "An Old Man's Story," are two
well written sketches without any great originality
or power. " The Tracy Family 'is a somewhat
gloomy story, telling the old tale of a husband and
Wife deceiving each other by pretended fortunes,
" Whence ?" is the title of a curious paper describing
sundry mysterious sensations experienced by the
writer, who, however, brings forward no proof that
his presentiments are cot rect or well founded.
"Foggy thoughts in November" include most of
the disastrous events that have occurred since
the last season of fogs and frosts. " Sailors'
homes" is an able paper speaking highly of the
Merits of such establishments. It is probably
by the author of the recent paper on our sick
tailors. There is a pleasant " Christmas Carol "by
Thomas Hood the younger, and a charming little
story for the young of the household by his sister,
Mrs. Broderip.

Temple Bar.

" The Seven Sons of Mammon" is concluded in
a very successful style. This has been a long story
that has been well carried on in all respects, and
the description of Florence Armytage is very ably
done, and reflects the highest credit on the author.
There is a moral, to), to be drawn, and many an
adroit deceiver and apt ensnarer might learn a lesson
from the awful scene at the deathbed of the prisoner.
The sketch of her sufferings carries out the force of
this remark—" She was reserved for expiation in
this world, who dares to predicate about the next ?"
Sims muttered that it was very hot, and threw
the cell door open. The window was open already,
and so her soul had elbow-room, and the Something,
We know not what, came from between the parted
lips of this worn sinner, and passed into the open
going, God knows whither, and to be judged, God
alone knows how. Truly her sins were scarlet,
but there is snow that is white, and who can tell?"
The story concludes, on the whole, in a satisfactory
Manner, and is a smart sketch in some ways of the
Prevailing foibles and glaring errors of the present
day. "'she, Mystery at Fern wood" is concluded,
and is a readable romance of the sombre class,
Which will delight lovers of ghosts and visions of
haunted rooms and midnight spectres and appari-
tions. "Daughters of Eve" presents us this time
`with a French Celebrity, and appropriately and
gracefully remarks that "England has no mono.
Poly of the stock whence the best specimens of
nature's rarest handiwork are derived." This
aeries of sketches is very admirable, and affords a
useful reference for the lives of Notabilities. There
are some graceful lines on " Twilight," which are
pleasing and thoughtful; "Dreaming" is a paper
that is worth perusing, and will suit the
imaginative, who sometimes inhabit another
'world than the actual buying and selling
One. " Muscular Education "is a sensible article,
strongly advocating the advantages of a due atten-
tion to physical training in early life as well as
Mental and moral cultivation. The importance at-
taching to the preservation of the health in those
of maturer years is also forcibly dwelt upon ; and
the mistaken sacrifice of bodily powers to mental
pursuits, so fatal and so common an error in
our day, is condemned with due severity.
It cannot," says the writer, "be too strongly
enforced that, no matter how intellectual the calibre,
or how sensitive the fibre, material health lies at

the root of all. The brain must have its fat and its
Phosphorus. The heart must be touched with the
bright and pure life-stream, or the pace begins to
81acken, and the machinery yields to the vas inertice
of earth till it stops dead. It is not too much to
say that the greatest achievements await those who,
having pursuits not necessarily favourable to health,
nevertheless make it of the first consideration to
attend to the culture of the body." Among the
remaining papers is an article on Florence, render-
ing due homage to the attractions of the bright city
of the Arno.

Cornhill Magazine.
" The Adventures of Philip" are continued. Mrs.
-Baynes comes out in her true colours, and her hen-
pecked husband acts under orders, and aids his
helpmate to molest their daughter. We do not
think that Mr. Tha3keray has carried out the cha-
racter of his hero. We have been led to consider
Philip Firmin as an independent off-handed young
man, but he allows Mrs. Baynes to browbeat him in
a most unnatural way. Madame Smolok comes
out in a kind hearted and womanly manner,
and reproves the old general in the sharp way
which a woman can so well launch at a man
'who lets his wife rulethe roast ; vous 'fetes
qu'an poltron General. The struggles of Brown,
Jones and Robinson are coming to a crisis. The
firm must shortly stop payment. A chapter on
Competitive examinations goes to show that the
spirit of rivalry does not tend to breed ill-feeling
between the rival candidates. We advise the
reader to pass over a p7per on the future recon-
struction of the navy. Theory is very well in the
Abstract, but when navies are to be conquered and
kingdoms won, we opine that the cutlass and board-
mg-pike will carry the day, and that yard-arm to
Yard-arm:England will prevail. "Agnes of Sorrento"
is continued, and number nine of " Bird's-eye Views
of Society" depicts the peculiarities of a popular
entertainment, and is as clever as its predecessors,
which is about as high praise as we can give it.

The Sixpenny Magazine. Ward and Lock.
Among all the marvels of this age of cheap
literature, the Sixpenny Magazine is the greatest.
Its closely printed pages contain a variety, of enter-
tainingt readin, with articles on political subjects,
and other instructive papers. " Animal Life in the
ocean" is a very able paper on that branch of zoology

which has recently attracted so much attention. Dr.
Thomson continues his !series of essays on our
Invalid Watering Places," and talks pleasantly
about the Isle of Wight, Bournemouth, and the
Channel Islands. "The Round of Wrong,"from the
French of Edmond. Abouc, is continued, and the
" Tales of the Musicians" tell us of the early life of
Haydn. "The King of the Mountains," and " The
Captain of the Vulture," two tales for the lovers of
adventure and burlesque, are progressing, and the
current events in law, literature, and science are
duly recorded.

Good Words : a Magazine for all the Week.
Edited by Norman Macleod, D.D.
This excellent publication continues with un-
flagging spirit, and in ability, variety, and interest
may compete with any of its more secular brethren.
With such contributors as ArchbishopWhately, Dr.
Guthrie, Dr. Brown, author of "Rab and his friends,"
and the editor himself, its literary merits can
scarcely be questioned, while the pleasant sketches
and tales supply the entertainment needed for
lighter tastes. The illustrations are plentiful and
or tolerable merit, capable, however, of considerable
improvement in me of the faces, which we hope
to see in future numbers. We are not surprised at
the extended success of this periodical, and hope
that it will maintain its character in the forth-
coming volume as ably as in the one now termina-
ting, and that its area of influence and popularity
may show even greater extension.

IitONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The accounts from the manufacturin g districts
during the past week state that the progress of
American affairs has, in a great measure, caused a
suspension of business at Manchester, and the few
operations that have been effected in cloths and
yarns were chiefly for home requirements. In
Leeds the woollen trade has been exceedingly
inactive ; but at Bradford and Halifax there has
been a fair inquiry for piece goods on French
account. The hosiery business at Leicester and
Nottingham has continued active, the chief demand
being for good useful winter descriptions of goods.
In the hardware districts there is little change to
record, except that at Birmingham one or two of
the staple trades, viz , the jewellery and electro-
plate departments, have been more active.
There is not the slightest change of importance
in the general condition of the money market,
which continues to be abundantly supplied. The
inquiry on commercial account has recently exhi-
bited a slight increase, owing to a partial revival of
business in certain departments of trade ; but the
ordinary demand is still comparatively limited, and
the banks and discount houses, in order to find em-
ployment for their accumulated resources, are still
freely negotiating approved mercantile bills on
terms ranging fully d per cent. below the special
minimum of the Bank of England.

An advance of 2s per quarter has taken place
to-day in the corn market.
To•day a call of £2 per share, amounting toge-
ther to £50,000, became due on the South York-
shire £2O 5 per Cent. shares.
Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market, on
Saturday, continued exceedingly dull, and prices
were generally id. per lb. lower. The sales were
about 3,000 bales.
About £12,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
of England on Saturday.
The Seine, which sailed to-day for the Nest
Indies, took £10,700 in specie. _ _

The Tagus, from Lisbon, has brought £12,500.
The Magdalena, with £44,600, has arrived at Lis-
bon from Brazils, en route to this country.
The fourth and last call of £5 on the new shares
of the Lo Edon Chartered Bank of Australia is pay-
able on or before the Ist of January next.

A meeting of the proprietors of the London
Joint-Stock Bank will take place on the 16th pros.,
for the presentation of the report, and the election
of five directors.

Much less excitement has prevailed today in
commercial channels with reference to the Ameri-
can difficulty, and a tendency to improvement is
therefore perceptible at the Stock Exchange.
Consols are 92! t for money, and 911 Z, less the
dividend, for the account. The New Threes have
improved to 901, 91 ; the Reduced to 901, 917,-;
Exchequer Bills, March, are Bs. prem. ; Bank
Stock is 2324, 233; ; India ditto 228 ; and the 5 per
Cents. 1051 1.
No important variation has taken place in Foreign
Securities, and the dealings have been restricted.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 79 80 ; ditto, 1858, 69 to
71, but the 4 per Cents. have receded to 104 ;
Mexican are rather firm( r, being quoted 274 ;
Spanish Deferred at 411, and ditto Certificates at 6;
Grenada Active realised 154; Russian 3 per Cents.
are flat at 59, but Venezuelan have improved to
221 t.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather more animated, and in some of the principal
British undertakings there has been a slight im-
provement. Eastern Counties, North Western.,
and South Eastern have advanced 55.; Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midlands,
and North Eastern (Berwick), 10s. ; and Bristol
and Exeter, £l. London and Brighton, however,
declined 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines were moderately
dealt in. Dutch-Rhenish improved to 151, San
Paulo were steady at 51, Antwerp and Rotterdam

at 67, 1, Bahia and San Francisco at 141, Grand
Trunk of Canada remained dull at 19, and Great
Western of Canada at 91. East Indian have de-
clined to 101 a I. Great Indian Peninsula improved
to 1001 N.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinued very depressed. London and County de-
clined. to 361, City Bank realise 75 and 75, Bank
of Australasia 61, and Agra and United Service
861.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9O: A
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9Ol 1 90:
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. 971, 8 7
Ditto 5} per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 99
Ditto ditto April, 1864 983 A
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l.000
Consols for Account, Dec. 5
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
March. 1 Jun 3.

Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small

14 pm
12 pm

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
bilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
ew :irenada Active
eruvian 41 per Cent —
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853..
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '6O —
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 pe/ Cent 92
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 59
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan .... —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
N enezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account ..
Dividends on the above payable in London.
THREE O'CLOCK,
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—On Saturday afternoon
a youth named Weymouth Hart, son of Mr. Stephen Hart,
of Tilling-ham, was with his brothers engaged in splitting the
butt eud of a tree which had just been severed from the
stock, by blasting it with gunpowder, about four ounces of
which were closely plugged into an orifice ; touch-paper was
lighted, and the part'es retired behind a haystack, when
some time having elapsed before the explosion took place,
Weymouth, judging that the paper had gone out, approached
with the intention of relighting it; after striking two or
three lucifers without result, ho was leaniag over it, when
the powder suddenly exploded, rending and shivering the
butt to atoms. The plug struck Weymouth's hat, which
was forced to a great height in the air. One of the larger
fragments struck him across the breast, and drove him a
considerable distance, and he fell aver the trunk of the tree,
when some of the smaller p rtions struck him in the face,
the blood flowing copiously. Most strange to say his in-
juries were comparatively trifling,