The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

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COR EXCFUN G
There was a fair demand for wheat is most of the coun-
try markets held on Saturday, and prces bad an upward
tendency. B,rley soil steadily, at previous rates, and the
value of all other articles was well sup)orted.
Advice from the near Continent:l ports state that
wheat, barley, and oats have been i u inproved request for
export purpose. From New York vo learn that very
little business was doing on English amount.
The arrivals of English wheat nr to our markets last
Week W. TO only mod3rate. Flom abroad We received
18,886 quarters of wheat, 8,0 it blrley, 70,257 oats, 442
beans, 2,723 peas, 4,591 seeds, 260 sacls and 150 barrels of

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flour.
The arrivals of English wheat fres] up, to-day, from
Essex was moderate, from Kent rather extensive, and
almost wholly of the new crop. With rcry few exceptions,
the samples were in first rate condition, and they weighed
from 62 to GI lbs. per bushel. As the wheats have received
some damage in the Midland counties tram the late heavy
rains, the attendance of country buyers was considerably
on the increase, and the trade ruled brisk, at an advance
in the quotations realised on Monday lest
o from 2s. to
per qr., but the whole of the supp:y wasf not disposed

or.
We were well supplio 1 with foreign wheat, and the de-
mand ruled active, at au improvement in valUa of from is
to 2s per quarter.
In floating cargoes of grain very little Was doing, yet
prices were firmly supported.
There was a very firm demand for barley at fully last
week's curroncy. Tho new barle3's rro3tly came to hand
in improved condition. Some samples were remarkably

fine.
Fine malt sold Steadily at full price, but inferior kinds
were dull, and the turn in favour of buyers,
Although we had a very largo supp:y of foreign oats, the
oat trade ruled steady at last week's elrreney.
Beaus and poas sold to a fair extent at last week's prices.
Thera was a steady demand for flour, aud country marks
were is to 2s por 280 lbs dearer.
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~(.NDON, MONDAY EV EN IN G, AU GUST 17, 1857

LITERATURE.

The Modern Scottish, Minstrel. Edited by Charles
Rogers, LL.D. Iu 6 vols. Adam and Charles
Black. Edinburgh.
This admirable work forms a valuable addition
to the literature of the present day, its object Leing
to offer to the public a collection of the Songs of
Scotland of the past half century. To this are added
memoirs 'of the poets, which are interesting to
study, as in some way explanatory of their various
works, and characteristic of their peculiar bent of
mind. Another advantage possessed by this com-
pilation is the metrical translation from the Gaelic,
which undertaking, it is said, has not before been
achieved in the same manner. Those lovers of their
country who rejoice in the attainments of her sons,
or even the refined and intelligent who welcome
talent in every form of every land, should appre
ciate the appearance of this work as conferring, by
its labours and research, a finished specimen of a
nation's taste. It will strike the reader of these
memoirs that the cultivation of the muses is widely
diffused and extensively spread abroad in Scotland,
and the words of that minstrel, who was the shining
ornament of his country, and some of whose works
shed a lustre on these pages, are recalled to the
memory

" Oh, Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child I"
The country of the Ayrshire ploughman can claim
its bards from every rank, and its minstrels have
filled some of this world's meanest places, but in
the world of thought they have taken a high
degree, in the archives of its annals, they may he
invested with the everlasting insignia of the nobility
of mind, the knights whose swords will never rust,
the kings whose purple cannot fade. Although
associated with the highest flights of imagiryttion
into the regions of the purest and most lofty
thoughts, breathing the essence of refinement in its
nature and attributes, the spirit of poetry has been
universal iu imparting its gifts to the sons of men, its
presence has charmed the hours of the captive
prince, and formed the delight of the wander-
ing tribes; " stretched in the deserts round
their evening fire." Nor only there, but penetra-
ting into the busiest _resorts, entering the most
crowded confines, it has made music to the ear
deafened by the roar of traffic, and shown the form
of beauty to the eye wearied by the sight of con-
stant turmoil. The artizans labouring at their
dreary avocations, have hailed the presence of the
enchantress—
"Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom made the
fljwers of poesy bloom,
In the forge's dust and cinders, in the tissues of the
loom."
One of the most pleasing lays of the simple style
here met with is " The Land of the Leal." It is a
touching and beautiful composition, and does
honour to the taste that attuned its wing mea-
sures, and the heart that gave utterance to its
lovely truths. It is the production of Baroness
Nairn, by some it has been erroneously attributed
to Burns. The first verses are as follows :
I'm wearin' awa, John,
Like snaw wreaths in thaw John ;
I'm wearin awa'
To the land o' the leal.
There's nae sorrow there, John ;
There's neither cauld nor care, John :
The day's aye fair
I' the land o' the leal.
Our bonnie bairn's there, John •
She was baith gude and fair, John ;
And, oh ! we grudged her sair
To the land o' the leal.
But sorrows ser•wears pas: John,
And joys a-comin' fast, John—
The joy that's aye to last
In, the land o' the leal.

Foremost in excellence among the names before us
are those of Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Camp-
bell. It would be a work of superoroga.tion to at-
tempt now-a-days to measure by a common
standard, or to criticize by a brief notice
such giants of renown, whose fame has been spread
through the length and breadth of the land, and
gives promise of its descending to generations still
unborn. The songs of Scott here selected are
culled from various sources ; the reader will recog-
nise many a favourite taken from those wonderful
compositions that blent the romance of history with
the charm of the fable, and joined to the light of a
poet's fancy, a lustre reflected from the heroic age.
The works of Scott, both in prose and poetry, were
powerful in 'restoring the memory of the past in its
majesty, they were as the vestal nymphs fanning
the expiring flames on the altars of chivalry. The
poems of Campbell yield to none in spirit and daring,
they awaken to the conflict as with the sound of a
trumpet, they inspire to success by the war-song of
victory. A. grander naval ode was never penned
than " The Mariners of England." The empire
on which the sun never sets can find no better ex-
ponent of its guardian powers than the author, who
has declared that
" Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep ;
Her march is o'er the mountain-waves,
Her borne is on the deep."
With the same energy and enthusiasm that fired the
recital of the exploits of the hearts of oak on the
ell address himself to the
great waters, does Camp
b
civic heroes. He has exclaimed to the men of Eng-
land, "Let the world revere us, for our people's
rights and laws," and the more intimate know-
ledge we have since gained of foreign nations
only enhances our conviction of the truth so
eloquently expressed, that our country's civil
liberty is worth a hundred Agincourts. The
poems by Francis ,Bennoch ate worthy of con-
sideration. They are composed in a free, genial
spirit, and bear the indebble impress of the real
and the true. The feelings of the heart have guided
the pen, and each flowing verse and tuneful mea-
sure seems kindred to some cherished sentiment-,
or addressed to some congenial mind. The author,
who expresses his thoughts in a natural manner, be
the style ever so simple, has attained a triumph
that nothing can deprive him of. True genius is
independent of disguises, however splendid, and
needs no straining after effect—it despises and re-
jects them. It was not in a cloud of hazy ambi-
guity that the master spirits of the sublime art
enveloped their " thoughts that breathe, and words
that burn," and whoever would follow, however
afar, on their immortal track, must infuse the na-
tural into the ideal, or the highest efforts of talent,
the most vivid flashes of fancy, will become as
sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. In the works
of Francis Bennoch there is a diversified series.
" In varying cadence, soft and strong,
He sweeps the sounding chords along."
Here the gallant ship dashes over the Atlantic
waves ; there the faithful lover pays his vows at
the shrine of his affections. Florence Nightingale
is a worthy theme for song, and a heroine for whom
worship is not homage thrown away. She is here
addressed in appropriate strains, and we behold
from her portraiture that while she walked on her
mission as the handmaid of Mercy, the influence
she shed around was that of the angel of
Peace. Perhaps the most interesting song
among this collection is that entitled " Good
Morrow." The first stanza was composed by. Mi-s
Mitford. ; the second, by her request, was the work
of Mr. Bennoch. It will be seen thafthe arduous
undertaking of completing another's creation has
been successfully achieved
Good morrow, good morrow ! warm, rosy, and bright,
Glow the clouds in the east, laughing heralds of light ;
Whilst still as the glorious colours decay,
Full gushes of music seem tracking their way.
Hark ! hark 1
Is it the sheep-bell among the ling,
Or the early milkmaid carolling?
Hark ! hark !
Or is it the lark,
As he bids the sun good morrow i
Good morrow;
Though every day brings sorrow.
The daylight is dying, the night drawing near,
The workers are silent ; yet ringing and clear,
From the leafiest tree in the shady bowers,
Comes melody falling in silvery showers.
Hark ! hark !
Is it the musical chime on the bill,
That sweetly ringeth when all is still!
Hark ! hark !
Oh, sweeter than lark,
Is the nightingale's song of sorrow,
Of sorrow ;
But pleasure will come to-morrow.
Prefixed to the poems is a memoir of the author,
written by William Jerdan. It is interesting to
peruse, and, as may be supposed, is a production of
ability. It would be difficult to find, among minor
poets, a subject more beautiful in its expression, or
more touching in its earnestness, than the elegiac
tribute of David Moir to his child, who shared the
doom of Heaven's favourites' early death. The
genius of poetry reveals its fairest and purest gift,
and fulfils its holiest mission in such a prerliicesv.
Its wings can take no higher flight than f
oto_ I (,),.voen
the spirit that has mounted to the gates la
theta the
—its language declare no grander tlain
_ child God. of
Idustln
these called v toer
sstand e besfeoer e
theth e tfl thins
rnuodrnaeoe
sfosf
tihot
esf
the father's love, blent with the ervo
thettirdecocnvilit
eresd7r7o reapergCahtrhiestrieadn'bsyfathitell-e
lasting, or a per time
have been garnered in the
wof the flowersny early
373 memory, with a fragrance more f
l. p
h.
1 I', 895:26
tr moreje(inli 3 havetha sweet.tn a, o,?ooFf ep4wouwclferftisiuhleltyhmeigrironatievdresodmo o i
twayen,,,

than he who cherished the remembrance of " Casa IMPERIA
Wappy :"
Oh ! can it be that o'er the grave
The grays, renewed, should yearly wave,
Yet God forget our child to save
Casa Wappy I

It cannot be ; for wore it so
Thus man could die,
Life were a mockery—thought were woe,
And truth a lie—
Heaven were a coinage of the brain—
Religion frer zy—virtue vain,
And all our hopes to meet again,
Casa Wappy
Then be to us, 0 dear, lost child !
With beam of love,
A star—death's uncongenial wild—
Smiling ably° !
Soon, soon thy little feet have trod
The skyward path, the seraph's road,
That led thee back from man G
Wod,
Casa appy !
Yet, 'tis sweet balm to our despair,
Fond, fairest boy,
That heaven is God's, and thou art there
With him in j•)y !
There past are death and all its woes,
There beauty's stream for aver flows,
And pleasure's day no sunset knows,
Casa Wappy !
Farewell, then—for a while farewell,
Pride of my heart
It cannot be that long we dwell
Thus torn apart—
Time's shadows like the shuttle flee ;
And dark howe'er life's night may be,
Beyond the grave I'll meet with thee,
Casa Wappy !

lAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' Amendments to the Lancaster and o.lr.
lisle and Ingleton Railway Bill were considered ‘1,4
agreed to.
MERSEY CONSERVANCY BILL.

Sir J. GRAHAM moved that a select c.immittrm,
appointed to inspect the Lords Journal relative #., the
Mersey Conservancy Bill, which had passed this 11.0,8,3.
The right hon. baronet having explained the objects of
the bill and its progress through this house and the Ron
of Lords up to its being referred to a select committe,
said that the object of the motion was to put an end ce
the present bill, with a view of introducing anocti,r
bill this session, to be passed through its various at-Apo'
without delay, to give effect to the bill in the ilo'lse of
Lords, changing the amount of compensation from
750,000/. to 1,500,0001.
Mr. J. EWART seconded the motion.

After some remarks from Mr. HENLEY,
The motion was agreed to and the committee narr,el„
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.
The committee was resumed on this bill.
On clause 28, providing for the dismissal of pet:alone,
Mr. HENLEY asked for an explanation of the. clans%
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the the 27th
and 28th clauses were proposed with a view or prevent.
it g colluoirm between the parries in uncontested casae,
and the 29th gave an extended area of defence.
Mr. HENLEY moved the omission of the wor,/s •
"alleged adultery," and the insertion in their pla,o,
"facts alleged," to make the clause consistent with the
2712 clause.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the
amendment.
After a discussion in which Sir W. Heathcote, Lord
John Manners, Mr. Ayrton, the Attorney-General,
Mr. I Butt, Mr. Henley, Mr. Bovil, Mr. Wigratus
and Mr. Walpole, took part,
The amendment was withdrawn.
Mr. BOVILL moved an amendment :—That conele.,
nation of adultery on the part of the husband should n,
be an absolute bar to a divorce for subsequent adultery
on the part of the wife, but that it should be left to toe
discretion of the court.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL accepted the amend.
meet, and it was subsequently agreed to by the Con ~
mittee.
Mr. H. INGRAM moved an amendment, prohibitibg
a petitioner, whose petition has been dismissed truat
again petitioning the court in the same case within five
years. If parties aggrieved were allowed perpetually to
apply to the court it would engender the worst feelings
and destroy domestic peace. On the other hand a period
of five years was likely to cool down the passions, and
give rise to a reconciliation.
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL said that the appre.
hension of the hon. member was unfounded, because the
bill prevented a second application to the Court after r 4
decision in the same case.
After some discussion the amendment was negatived.
The clause, with amendments, was then agreed to.
[LEFT SITTING.]

Passages in the Life of a Soldier. By Lieut.-Col.
Sir J. E. Alexande-, K C.L.S. 2 vole. Hurst
and Blackett.
Military memoirs have risen into considerable
importance in the last few years. During the long
European peace the record of a soldier's experience,
unless engaged in Indian was fare, would have been
confined to his own private affairs or travelling ad-
ventures. Now the case is dill: rent ; and although,
unfortunately, our attention is directed to a fresh
scene of strife and suffering, the interest in the
events of the Crimean struggle is not exhausted,
and many will welcome the simple and soldierlike
picture of camp life which is given in these volumes.
The first volume is chiefly occupied with recollec-
tions of Canada, when) the author passed some
years, being on the staff of General Sir Benjamin
D'Urban, commander-iu-chief of the forces in Bri-
tish North America, with whom he had previously
served at the Cape of Good Hope. He describes
the riots of 1849 respecting the unpopular Rebellion
Losses Indemnity Bill, and the subsequent burning
of the Parliament House, which he considers to have
been the result of a series of unfortunate accidents
rather than of direct intention. A less serious com-
motion, though attended with some casualties, was
occasioned by the Gavazzi riots some years later.
We have some sketches of Canadian scenery, as
well as its social features, and. a description of the
country surrounding the lakes. At the comeaence-
ment of the Russian war the author volunteered to
join the army in the East, having previously been
in Russia, and having spent some time in the
Crimea. In the beginning of the year 1854 the
expected order came, and Sir James Alexander
left for the East, where he remained until the pro-
clamation of peace and the final evacuation of the
Crimea... The battles of the Alma and Inkerman
were of course over long before his arrival ; he
joined in the midst of the weary siege, and was
present on the unfortunate 18th of June, as well as
in the concluding struggles. Without any partisan-
ship, and evidently avoiding censure or criticism
on any one in authority, he draws a melancholy
picture of the bufferings of the army, not so much
from neglect or want of necessaries, for the worst
time was over when he arrived, as from the un-
avoidable hardships of such a prolonged campaign.
The duty in the trenches was most arduous, even
without the danger.
" Who of those `who live at home at ease' can fully
understand the extreme misery and wretchedness of our
soldiers, who nightly went down to the trenches in the
winter months of 1854-55, on rations of salt meat and
bard biscuit, inducing thirst and disease, plunging
through mud, and arriving at their posts wet and weary,
unable to lie down in the slush of the trench, and keep-
ing.a, miserable vigil till dawn showed the pale, haggard,
and mud-be-grimed ' Crimean heroes ?'
"Frost, snow, and rain then alternated. If the
trench guards sat down, they were perished with cold
and wet : if they walked about, out of the trench arid in
rear, they exposed themselves to be shot, as the parapet
was not sufficiently high to protect them. One night
throe poor fellows, overcome with fatigue, went outside
the parapet to sleep on a dryp lace, risking the Russian
bullets—they were all three shot. Trench life was nut
a pastime, certainly, summer or winter, yet some officers
really took an interest in it, and I heard that deservedly
esteemed and gallon", soldier, Sir John Campbell, rally a
field-.fficer one day about his partiality for the fourth
para'lel,"
Sir James Alexander himself, though firmly con-
vinced of the ultimate success of the siege, was
not at all sanguine as to the result of the attempts
on the 18th. He says—
, Though some doubtless considered victory as certain
on this occasion, I own I hasl not the least idea of suc-
cess myself. I had watched almost every morning from
the front the state of affsirs in the town, and on the
enemies' works. I knew that they were strong, well-
prepared, and net in the least inclined as yet to yield to
our pressure, also that they had not been sufficiently
beaten, or our works pushed close enough to their prin-
cipal line of defence, to give assurance of success. Of
course, our duty, whatever we thought of what was
likely to happen, was to do our best, to comply stlictly
with our orders, to put a bold face on the matter, and
to express no doubts, but to encourage one another ' to
quit ourselves like men.'"
He shows both officers and men in favourable
colours, though without any effort, and he keeps
his own achievements in the back ground, though
he was engaged in many of the scenes of danger.
The style is simple and straightforward, though
sometimes careless, the end of a sentence not always
agreeing with the beginning, but this is less no-
ticeable in thesee,ondvolume than the first. The
work is evidently the production of a military offi-
cer of experience and judgment. The Appendix
contains many hints, which deserve the considera-
tion of those occupying positions of military autho-
rity. The precautions that should be observed
respecting the men's dress, exercise, food, and
drink, &c., are told in plain terms, and much
sensible advice given, which officers and soldiers
would do well to profit by. The work has con-
siderable attraction for the reader, offering enter-
tainment in its Canadian sketches, and interest,
though of a mournful character, in its records of
Crimean experience.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
The August session of the Central Criminal Court
commenced this morninff, befora the Lord Mayor, Al.
derman Sir C. Marshall, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden,
M.P., Mr. Sheriff Keates, Mr. Mr. Under Sheriff
Anderton, and Mr. Under Sheriff Crosley. There ar
106 prisoners to be tried, which is under the usual ave.
rage, considering there has been an interval of nearly
six weeks since the last sessions.
The Common Sergeant, in charging the grand jury,
congratulated them on the comparatively small number of
prisoners to be tried, and the light character of the
offences. With the exception of one charge of murder
by a man named Payne, in St. Martin's-lane Work.
house, and a charge of manslaughter against the engine.
driver, stoker, and signalman on the North Kent Rail.
way, the charges that would be brought before them for
investigation would be of the ordinary description.
During the present session a bill had been intro.
deiced in the House of Commons, but withdrawn, for
tha abolition of grand juries. Undoubtedly there Iver 3
some strong arguments for their abolition, but at the
same time it could not be wondered at that a great des 1
of constitutional jealousy should be expressed at the
abolition of an ancient institution that bad been and was
of so much advantage to the liberty of the subject, cope.
cially against the improper use of the prerogatives of
the Crown. There were no doubt many cases in whizli
their inquiry, following that taken with great care by
magistrates, might be dispensed with, but in others it was
essentially necessary they should be called on to pro•
nounce an opinion. After alluding to the charge of mur-
der, the learned gentleman said there was a charge of
manslaughter against three men, servants of the London
and South-Eastern Railway Company, arising out
of the melancholy and fatal accident that occurred at
Lewisham station at:the end of June last, by the prisoners
running into a stationary train at that place. Man.
slaughter was murder without malice, and might arise
as much from culpable neglect or omission in doing A
lawful act, as well as the perpetration of an illegal act ;
and the question they would have to consider was
whether the deaths of the unfortunate persons who were
killed by that accident resulted from the neglect and
carelessneFs of the parties charged, when in the discharge
of their official duties. The learned gentleman in cor.
elusion referred to the case of stabbing in the Queen's
prison, to a charge of burglary against certain parties
who entered at night an unoccupied house, where goods
were stored, for the purpose of regaining possession o f
them, from a belief that they would be defrauded of
them, which he thought could not be sustained, because
the law held that to constitute burglary it should be en-
tering premises within certain hours with the intention
of stealing. That he did not think applied to this case,
which was undoubtedly an unlawful act, laying the
parties open rather to a charge of trespass than burglary.
After some further remarks on one or two other cases,
he dismissed the grand jury to the discharge of their
duties.

THE ACCIDENT TO TIIE ATLANTIC
TELEGRAPH CABLE.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY EVENING,
Mr. Cyrus Field arrived in London on Saturday, and
made the following official report to his co-directors :
" Her Majesty's ship Leopard, Captain Wainewright,
arrived at Portsmouth on Friday evening, and reports
that the Atlantic telegraph cable was lost at a quar‘er
before four o'clock on Tuesday morning, after having
then paid out successfully 335 nautical miles of cable,
and the last 100 miles of it in water over two miles in
depth, and the greater part of this at a rate of rather
more than five knots an hour, At the time the accident
occurred there was a heavy swell on. The Niagara was
going at the rate of four knots an hour, and as the engi-
neer found the cable was running out in tco great pro•
portion to the speed of the ship, he considered it neces-
sary to direct the breaks to be applied more firmly, and
unfortunately the cable parted at some distance from the
stern of the ship. The Agamemnon, Niagara, and SUF.
quehana are to remain a short time where the cable
parted, to try some experiments on the depth of water of
that part of the Atlantic, of 2,000 fathoms, which it is
considered will be of great advantage to the oaminny,
and then all the vessels go on to Portsmouth. The
Cyclops was sen' back with despatches to Valentia, and
she was then to join the Leopard atPlymouth. Although
this unfortunate accident will postpone the completion
of this great undertaking for a short time, the result of
the experiment has been to convince all hat took part
in it of the entire practicability of the undertakiog, for,
with some slight alteration in the paying-out machinery,
there appears to be no great difficulty in laying down the
cable. It has been clearly proved that you can success-
fully telegraph through 2,500 miles of tel
cable,
and that its submergence at a great depth had no. per-
ceptible influence on the electric current. There
onfifinvoe
practical obstruction to laying it down at Cher
miles per hour in the greatest depth of w ertahaet there
is in the telegraphic plateau between Irelaandmust be o and New
f
foundland. The experience now obained
great value to the company, and it is undwe;rsettohoeditthaits
the directors of the company will decide h
best to have more cable made and try agai.n .romedr. irtely
after the equinoctial gales are over, or wait until another
summer."

Brighton on Tuesday last, in his 67th
physician diedha
year. In the istory of medicine (ooserves the Literary
Oazette) his name will be remembered with distinction on
account of his ingenious and elaborate researches on the
physiology of the nervous system. In a work, published
in 1841, on the " Diseases and Derangements of the Ner-
vous System," he brought his views on this department
of pathology and practical medicine before the profession.
In 1842 his " New Memoir on the Nervous System, a
handsome quarto volume, with plates illustrative of his
researches, attracted considerable notice. Various other
professional treatises were written by him, the earliest as
long since as 1830, entitled " Commentaries on Diseases
of Females." In 1837 he published A systematic work
on the " Theory and Practice of Medicine," and, in 1846
" Practical Observations and Suggestions in Medicine. I
Dr. Marshall Hall was a member of the Instit.utetoul
France, and of various medical societies. and. scieunu r
institutions on the continent, as well ea ;a this co 1, Y
14i. America.