The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

COLONIAL,

TEA.—The market has remained inactive, but prices
generally are well maintained for all qualities.
SUGAR.—OnIy a moderate amount of business has been
transacted, and no change of importance can be reported in
prices. Refined descriptions, however, have been in more
request.
COFFEE.—The operations have been confined principally
to good and fine qualities of plantation Ceylon, which
realised previous quotations.
Rlon.—The demand for East India has been rather
more active, but the business done was limited, owing to
the firmness displayed by holders.
SALTPETRE.—Business has been moderately active, and
good and fine descriptions have slightly advanced.
TALLOW. —The market has continued quiet, without any
material change in values. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted
52s 3d, and spring deivery 53s per cwt.

Mr, R. P. Harding (Harding, Pullein, and Co.)
was yesterday appointed interim manager of the Bank of
Deposit, Pall-mall-east, now winding up under an order
made on Saturday by the Master of the Rolls. It is under-
stood that notice also of proceedings in Bankruptcy has
been served, which will have the effect of causing a double
set of costs.
Mr.
j* C. Wyndham has named his Chesnut colt by
Rifleman) dam by Sleight of Band—Oiscau, by Comus,
Charle
magno ; and his filly foal by King Tom—Hornpipe,
Queen k'rastrada.

Atlantic & St Lawrence
13om.,BarodaLt.Cent Ind
Gu. 5 per cent..

Do Do. 13
Buffalo and Laze Huron
Do. New

Do. Preference
Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich
p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
Do. do. July 1, IK3
Do. do. June 1, 18;4
Clout ta. &S. Eastn. (Li ;,
Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.)
Cape Town & Dock Scrip
Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c.
Demerara.. .......

Eastn. Bengal go. 5 p.
East Indian, gu. 5 p. c.
Do. F Shares Ext
Do. Jubbulp ore
Do. 4i p c. Debentrs
Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864
Do. 1865-1870
Grand Trunk of Canada
Do. 6 per cent. Pref
Do. 2d I'ref. 6 per ct
Do. 6 per ct. Dcbentr
Do. 7 per cent. 1862 ;
Do. do. 1867

Do. do. 1872..
Gt.lndiaPeuin.g-ua.sp.c.
Do. New gua. 5 p. c...
Gt. South.of India (Lim

guaranteed 5 per cent.
Do. do.

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100 101
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61 63
50 53
85 37
40 43
32 34
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10,1 101
10k 9i
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Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt.
Do. 5 p. c. do. '77 d 0...
I Do. 54 p. c. do. '7B d 0...
'Madras guar., 4i p. c...
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90 92
100 101
93 95

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LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Railways. Paid. Leasing Closing Business
Co. s Price. Done.
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Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W .. ..
Birkenhead lOO Dn.&G.W q 4 86
Buckinghamshire lOO Do.
Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do. 53 54
Do. 5i per cent 100 Do.
Do. 5 lOO Do.
Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103
Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E.O , , • •
E. Lincolnsh. gApr c. 100 Gr. North. 133 136
E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 4t
Do. Woodbridg:,.. 100 • • ••
Gls.Barr.SzNeils.DiLl 100 Caledon .. ..
Do. new 1 100 D 0........ .. ..
Gloster & Dean Forest! all Gt. West. .. ..
Hull and :•elby all Yk.N. Mid 110 112
Do. halves
Do. quarters
Lancaster k Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 197 200
Lohdon & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 61 03
Do. Preference
Lon.,Tilb.& Southend 100 Peto &Co B4 86 86
Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk
Do 6 per cent lOO Do.
Mnc.,Bxtn.,t Matlock all LNW& M 31 3i
Mid. Bradford Prefer-
ence stock
Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5.6. E Counts. par * p
gua. 5 per cent...
Northn.kEastn. sp. c. all Do.
Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do.
Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do.
N. Eastn—Hartlepool 1( 0 N. E. Ber .. ..
North Western
L&N.W
Preston and Wyre. 1 all &L. yk. 1 .. ..
Do. 4 shares A. all Do. •• • • ..
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South Staffordshire
Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 91 93
Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brgtn 84 94

PREFERENCE SHARES.

Share/ Railways.

Paid. Closing Business

TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVgIVIBE R, 19, 1861.

!Business done

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LAW IN7ELLIGENCE—(This Fay.)

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COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood.)

JUDGMENT,-IN RE PETITION OF RIGHT OF J. M.

HOLMES AND OTHERS.

His Honour the Vice-Chancellor said—ln this case a de-
murrer is taken on the part of the Crown to the petition of
right of several persons claiming a title under Colonel Blyth
to certain lands in Canada.

His Honour the Vice-Chancellor stated the circum-
stances of tho case, from which it appeared that an Act
of Parliament was passed for the formation of a canal
in Canada, and it was declared that, in so far as the lands
were not required for the purposes of the act, they would
be invested in her Majesty the Queen, and restored on ap-
plication by petition to the parties interested therein. His
Honour the Vice• Chancellor, on referring to the act, ob-
served that the lands invested in her Majesty the Queen
by the act of the Legislature were lands comprised in the
schedule. Now the demurrer on the part of the Crown in
this suit in effect relates to lands out of the jurisdiction of
this court ; and, therefore, as the case is not one within
the jurisdiction of this court, a question arises whether I
should take upon mys. if to judge on the rights of parties
abroad. By the first section of an act passed in the last
sesAon of Parliament, it is enacted that a petition of right
may be entertained and considered by the Court of Chan •
cery or the Courts of Westminster in the same manner
as if the dispute was between subject and subject.
His B onour-the Vice Chancellor declined to give any
opinion as to the right of the party in a court of law to a
mandamus to compel restitution of the lands; but his
honour was decidedly of opinion that her Majesty the Queen
had not renounced her Royal prerogative to become a
trustee for the persons beneficially interested in these
lands resident in that country. His honour allowed the de-
murrer with costs.

FROM GENERAL ZAItOMEI.

15 i

Receive, &c.,

LADISLAS ZAMOYSKI.

LITLRATURB.

said and Done. Smith, Elder, and Co.

TILE AFFAIRS OF POLAND.-LETTER

The following is a translation of a letter, relative
to the alleged discovery by the Russian authorities,
of 15,000 muskets on Count Zamoyski's estates,
addressed to the Journal des Debats by General
Zamoyski, and which has been transmitted to us
for insertion in The Sun :

" PARIS, Nov. 12, 1861.
" SIR,—AII the papers of to-day repeat, after the
Prussian Gazette, the news of 15,000 muskets
having been seized by the Russian authorities on
one of Count Zamoyski's estates. Allow me to
make use, on this occasion, of the expression of
M. Royer•Collard—" I do not know, but I affirm"
—that this news is evidently incorrect on every
point. Sufficient proof of this is to be found in
the conduct, during the year, of all Poland, in-
cluding all parties, without distinction of place,
class, calling, or religion.
Although the brother of Count Andrew Za-
moyski, I am not authorised to speak in his name,
all political relations having necessarily ceased
between us since the year 1831. I emigrated in
order to continue abroad a struggle which our
disasters had interrupted ; ho devoted himself to
the service of his country by rigorously keeping
within the limits of what was permitted under
the Russian regime. But the whole of his life—
a lire of 43 years' uninterrupted public service—
contradicts the imputation of which ho is now the
object. It is well known, too, what the Russian
police is; and it is evident that under such a
system the introduction of arms, even in small
quantities, is simply impossible. But what, above
all, prevents the arrival of arms is, that Poland
does not now require any to defend its rights. The
Count Zamoyski, spoken of in to-day's news, is
the same who in March last was addressed in
words which have since become famous. The
Emperor's deputy, disconcerted in the face of a
population which knelt in prayer under the fire
of volleys of musketry, once said to him—" Let
us fight—l will order arms to be provided you."
The answer of the Count was—" We shall not
fight, Prince. You may go on killing us as you
have done; but you will not have peace until you,
who are not Poles, quit the country. Then, and
then only, shall we forget our grievances, and ren-
der homage to the Emperor as our King."
Since this interview took place, out of four
viceroys or governors who have succeeded one an-
other in Warsaw in the space of six months, one
has died of grief, another has committed suicide,
and two have left the country tired out, having
exhausted every expedient at their command.
This is because Poland has, in truth, invented a
new mode of making war. It is the upholding,
without arms, of a right which no longer re-
quired declaring, and for which every suffering
that is endured is a triumph.

If I am asked why this imputation, which is
absurd as it is mendacious, is made, I will an-
swer by two words which explain all, " The Mode-
rates !" "It is they," according to the expression
of one of the most daring of the envoys from St.
Petersburg, " that constitute the force before which
we in Poland now feel ourselves powerless." And
why is this? Because they blush before the world
at their impotence against the Moderates. The
character of moderation, then, must be taken from
the Poles at all hazards. Already the Consistory and
half of the Chapter of Warsaw have been impri-
soned, together with the members of two commis-
sions of inquiry, which the latter has had the
courage to appoint in succession, in order to inves-
tigate into the profanation of the churches. Simi-
larly the two Protestant priests, the Grand Rabbi,
the two Vice-Rabbis, the President of the Jewish
Consistory, several bankers, and the Provost of the
Merchants, have been taken to prison, evidently
because they are all Moderates. In the provinces,
in Lithuania, in Volhynia, old men of 90 years of
age—such as Mr. Wagner and Count Tarnoweki,
have been sent of the country. And yet, during the
whole year that these terrible trials have lasted, not
a single soldier or police agent has been struck by a
Pole, not a single insult has been offered to the most
insignificant symbol of the Imperial authority. On
the contrary, violence and insult are received by
all with the invincible confidence given to the feel-
ing of right, the unanimity of a great people, and
its faith in Divine Justice. But the justice of man,
so far as it is represented by the public opinion of
civilised nations, is also- one of those elements of
strength on which Poland desires to rely. To mis-
lead this public opinion, is the object of the unceas-
ing machinations of our enemies. I have thought
that the name of my brother, and the danger which
to•day's news shows to be hanging over his head,
made it my duty to endeavour at least to give to
the measures which seem to be threatening him
their true character. I shall, therefore, be parti-
cularly obliged to you, sir, if you will kindly
facilitate my accomplishment of this duty.

This is a story of considerable ability, possessing
grert interest. The attention of the reader is never
suffered to flag, no page is dull and no description
wearisome ; but of description or detail there is in
truth very little. The tale is chiefly told, and the
characters pourtrayed by means of conversation,
which is always the most attractive and successful
method of story telling when cleverly done, but at
the same time the most difficult to do easily and
well. The title, "Said and Done," is borne out by
the motto, which is chosen from the writings of the
late Rev. F. Robertson, of Brighton, the gifted and
lamented preacher whose elegant words have
clothed so many unrecognised truths. "It is a
perilous thing," says the sentence on the title page,
to separate feeling from acting ; to have learnt to
feel rightly without acting rightly. It is a danger
to which, in a refined and polished age, we are
peculiarly exposed. The romance, the poem, and
the sermon teach us how to feel. But the danger
is this—feeling is given to lead to action; if feeling
be suffered to awake without passing into duty, the
character becomes untrue." This inconsistency or
harmony between dreaming and working the author
has endeavoured to portray in the dramatis personae
of the story. One of them, a poet, much given to
melancholy moralising, and what Carlyle terms
gossamer gauze, finds his poetical day-dreams and
elevated sentiments only too attractive to one of
the heroines of the tale, Cicelie Bracken-
bury. Cicelie is a charming character, although
too ready to indulge in unreal reveries
and airy castle building; fortunately she
discovers, or is shown, her mistake and learns to ap-
preciate sterling merit although not robed in ges•
samer gauze. The chief interest of the story, how.
ever, centres upon her cousin Aurelia, only child
and heiress of Sir John Brackenbury. Aurelia is
represented as a noble character notwithstanding a
large share of pride and reserve. She is thoroughly
truthful in thought and action, quick-sighted and
severe when she detects insincerity. Unfortu-
nately, partly from circumstances, partly from
too ready a compliance with the wishes of her
parents, her life does not bear out her aspira-
tions. She is weak, inconsistent and unjust,
though rather from the force of events than
from any deliberate intention. But at last she
awakes to her error at the call of a
great sorrow, and learns that though her
hopes have been disappointed, her life need not
be unworthy of them, and so she sets to work
to bring her feelings and her actions into har-
mony once more. Ernest Chaloner, Cicelie's
half-brother, is a noble and unselfish character,
who realises, most of all the group, the due con-
sistency between "saying and doing." The story,
is more like real life than works of fiction gene-
rally are, inasmuch as the untoward events and
unpropitious circumstances of outward life do not
accommodate themselves to the wishes of heroes
or heroines, but they, on the contrary, have to
shape their course according to uncompromising
realities. The reader interested in the graphically
drawn characters is tempted to wish for the return
of the benignant sway of fiction, and lays down the
volume with a feeling of dissatisfaction at the con-
clusion. The first half of the book is the best, the
latter portion being a little hurried, but the atten-
tion is secured throughout. The complicated cousin-
ships of the Brackenburys and the Chalonera intro-
duce a variety of characters, most of them happily
individualised. Altogether it is a volume full of
attraction and interest, not without its moral,
though hidden rather than professed, and so simply
and naturally written that those who care for no-
thing beyond entertainment can scarcely fail to find
what they seek.

GRAY'S INN, Nov. 18.—At a pension of the Hon.
Society of Gray's-inn, holden this day, Joseph Burgin,
Esq., and William Nicholson, Esq., were called to the de.
gree of barrister-at-law.