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

I MA ititZET NEWS.—(This D

CORN EXCHANGE.
There was a fair demand for wheat in most of the coun-
try markets held on Saturday, and prices had an upward
tendency. Barley sold steadily, at previous rated, and the
value of all other articles was well supported.
Advices from the near Continental ports state that
wheat, barley, and oats have been in improved request for
export purpose. From New York we learn that very
little business was doing on English account.
The arrivals of English wheat up to our markets last
week w-re only moderate. From abroad we received
18,886 quarters of wheat, 8,031 barley, 70,257 oats, 442
beans, 2,723 peas, 4,591 seeds, 260 sacks and 150 barrels of
flour.
The arrivals of English wheat fresh up, to-day, from
Essex was moderate, from Kent rather extensive, and
almost wholly of the now crop. With very few exceptions,
the samples were in first rate condition, and they weighed
from C 2 to 61 lbs. per bushel. As the wheats have received
some damage in the Midland counties from 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 last of from 2s. to
35. per qr., but the whole of the supply was not disposed
0

We were well supplied with foreign wheat, and the de-
mand ruled active, at an improvement in value of from is
to 23 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 currency. The new barley's mostly came to hand
in improved condition. Some samples were remarkably
fine.
Fine malt sold steadily at full prices, but inferior kinds
were dull, and the turn in favour of buyerA.
Although we had a very largo supply of foreign oats, the
oat trade ruled steady at last week's currency.
Roans and peas sold to a fair extent ut last week's prices.
There was a steady demand for flour, and country marks
were 13 to 2, per 280 lbs dearer.

CURRENCY PER. IMPERIAL MEASURE
Wheat--Eszes ID Kent, (Malt—Chevalier .•.• 781 to 80s
R.3d •• new 575 to 603 .Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto •• .... old 65s 693 Lincolnsk., Feed 20s 233
Ditto, White new 653 lie Potato .
Ditto.• •• .... old 683 72s Youghal and Cork
tiorfolk and Lin- Black. •• •• •• 183 22
coin, Rea, old 55s Gss Cork,White ••• •• 193 289
Ditto new •• •• 635 653 Scotch, Feed. •• • • 203 24.
aye---0131 •••••• .• •••• —s —s Beans—Tick .•••• •• •• 370 403
New •• •• •• ...... 325 363 Pigeons •• •• 43 46.
Maley—Grinding.— •• 265 32.3 Peas—(Trey ..•• •• •• •• :iB5 403
Nialtit4 .•.—.... 403 413 Bliplo. •• •• •• •• .• 40.3 41s
Chevalier•••• . . 425 46e White. •• •• •.•... 499 41-
Dif Ilt—SutrolkandNor- Boilers ... —..— 40s 44s
folh• ••• • • ...... 675 77s Flour—Town-made... 525 s+s
Brrvn •• ............. 623 633 Suffolk •... •—•— 423 43s
King3tonsndWare 693 783 Stooktn ik Norfolk 44e —s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The tota imports of foreign stock into London last week
were 8,922 head. In the corresponding week in 1856 we
received -',028; 41187;5, 8,867; in 1854, 9,703; in 1853.10,9'3;
in 1852, 13,005 ; in 1851, 10,101; and in 1850, 7,202 head.
IMPOP.TS INTO LONDON LAST wsaa.
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves.
Rotterdam 248 1,546 393 256
Elarlingen 62 ... 235 ... 14 136 ... 580
Flamburgh 2O 930 ... 10
Dordt
Meclemblik 2O ... 1,628 ...
Tonninge•i 219 ...
Tonning
Schiedam
Amsterdam „ 2B ...
Antwerp 32 •••
Calais

••• ...'..

1 ...

715 -
23 ... 106
839 ...

—. • to • .

..• -

- 105
- 124 - -

T0ta1....1,046 6,140 ... 513 643 580
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows :
Beasts. Sheen. Lambs. Calves. Pies
1856 1088 3,147 ... 196 407 190
1855 1,461 5,638 ... 231 627 ... 907
1854 1,73 S 6,525 ...- 71 600 860
1853 _1,528 6,140 774 671 759
1852 1,576 ... 8,890 9'15 ... 930 614
1851 1,789 6,844 ... 219 610 549
There was a fair average supply of foreign stock in to-
day's market, and the demand ruled steady, at extreme
rates, to a slight advance.
From our own grazing districts, the receipts of beasts
fresh np, this morning, were but moderate in number,
and almost generally deficient in quality. The compara-
tive coolness of the weather, •added to an increased number
of buyers in attendance, produced a steady demand fir all
breeds of beasts, at an advance in the quotations realised
on Monday last of 2,1 per 81bs. The best Szots sold
readily, at fully 4s 10d per 81bs.
The arrivals of beasts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire,
and Northamptonshire, amounted t r 2,000 short horns ;
from other parts of England, 370 of various breeds ; from
Scotland, 25 Scots, and, from Ireland, 70 oxen.
We had a fair show of sheep, but their goner tl condition
was by no means prime. Middling and inferior breeds
sold readily, at an improvement in valus of 21 per 81bs.
Prime downs, and half-breds, were brisk, and 2d to (in
some instances) 4d dearer. A few downs prorluced 5s 4.1,
but the general top figure was a 2d per Slbs. A good
clearance was effected.
The show of lambs was tolerably good, and all breeds
ruled heavy, at 2d per Sibs less money. The highest quo-
tation was 64 per 81bs.
We were fairly supplied with calves, yet the veal trade
ruled steady, at an improvement in value of 2d per 81b.
The top quotation was 4s 10,1 per 81b3.
Pigs were in short supply, and sluggish request, at
last week's currency.
Per Sibs to sink the offals
a. 4. s. cl.l s. 4. s. a.
interior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 61PrimeSouthdown 410 5 2
gec,sud quality...,; 8 4 (*Argo crse. calves 3 8 4 4
Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4Prime small d 0.., 4 6 410
Prime Scots, dm 4 6 4 10,Large hogs
Inferior Sheol) ...3 0 3 4'Small porkers 4 2 4 8
Second quality ...3 6 310 Suckling calves 23 0 30 .0
Prime crse.-wlled.4 0 4 9 Quarter old pigs 21 0 18 0
Lamb, 4s 8d to 6s 0,1.
TOTAL SUPPLY FOR.EION BUPA*.

Beasts
Sheep and lambs 24,620
CAlves 322
Pigs 315

Beasts
Sheep an lambs 4,036
Calves ...........
Pigs• '

A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle
Market, on Monday, Aug. 18, 1856, and this day, Monday,
Aug. 17, 1857.
Per 81bs, to sink the o/Tals.
Aug. 15, 1656.1Au,,,.17,1857
s. d. s. d. \s. d. s.
d.
Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4 t,o 3 sp 4to 3 6
Second quality ditto ... ... 310 4 2,3 8 4 0
Prime largo oxen 44 4 4 8 (.4 0 6 10 4
Prime Scots, die ... 410 5 0, 4
Coarse and inferior 5heep......3 S 3 1013 o 3 4
Second quality ditto ... 4 4 0 4 8
40 4 8
4 1 6 3 1
Prime coarse woolled ditto _. 4 6
Prime,Soutbdown ditto 410 52 4 6
0
10 5 2
Lambs ... .•. ••• 4 8 6 o'4 8
Largo coarse calves 3 6 4 2 3 8 4 4
Prime small ditto ... ... 4 4 4 104 6 410
loi3 8 4 0
Large hogs • 3 2
\T 3
eat small porkers •••
•8 4 4
2 4
138
Beasts... 4,000 ,6
Sheep and lambs 150 322
28. 24,62
403
Pigs , 345
Brenta on SALE, Aug. 21, 185.5..—Deasts, 4,405; sheel ,
and lambs, 25,790; calves, 257; pigs, 437.
Aug. 21, 1851.—Beasts, 4,822; sheep and lambs, 28,960 ;
calve", 262 ; pigs, 455.
NEWGATE AND LEADE/sTFIALL.
This market continue to be fairly
supplied with most
kinds of meat. Prime beef, mutton, and lamb aro in good
request. and prices have an upward tendency otherwise,
the demand is in a sluggish state.
Per bibs by the carcase.
a. d. s, ri. s.
s.
Beef, inferior 2 8 210 Mutton, Inferior 210 2 0
Do., middling 3 0 3 4 Do
Do. prime large 3 6 3 8 I Do., middling..... 3 2 3 8
Do., prime..... 310 4 6
Do., do. small 3 10 4 2 ........ 3 6 4 2
Pork, largo 363 10 Pork. small ........ 40 4 8
Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 6d.
BOROUGH -BOP.
There is a moderate business doing in fns
hops, at full
prices ; hut other kinds rule dull. We have v,Ty little
change to notice in the accounts from the plants, ions, and
the duty is called 110,000/.
Mid and East Kent pockets, 4/ 15s to 61 Os ;
Weald
of Kent, 4! Os to 4/ 10a : Sussex, 31 10s to 41 ; yeas -
lings, 01 Os to 0/. Os. per cwt.
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
Tho'arrivals of potatoes continuo good, and in excellent
condition For all kinds, the demand is steady, and prices
are well supported. York Regents, 55 to 6s ; Shaws, 4s to
54 ; nridd:ing, 33 to 3s 6d per cwt. The imports, last
week, were 516 bags From Schiedam, 4; cases, 24 barrels,
and 27 sacks from Lisbon.
WOOL.
The public sales of colonial wool are still attracted by
buyers, and the whole of the supplies—over 60,000 bales—
have been sold, at from ld to lid per lb. advance. The
following quotations have been paid since our last:—Aus-
tralian--7Clean sheep's, is lld to 2s 74d ; scoured, is !ld
- to 2s 71 ; pieces, 1s 7d to 2s 2d; slipe, is 6d to is is 1011;
• grease, 11d to s 4d. South Australian —Clean sheep's,
is 6d to 2s 2d ; scoured, is 8d to 2s 10 ; lamb's, is 10d to
2s 20. Port Philip—Clean sheep's, I s lld to 2s 7d;
scoured, 2s to 2s 8d; handwashed, is lld to 2s 3d ; lamb's,
is lld to 2s 6d. Van Diemen's Land—Clean sheep's, is 6d
to 2s 64 ; secured, is 8d to 2s 2d ; grease, lld to 2s 2d.
Cape—Clean sheep's, is 64 to 2s 20 ; handwashed, is 4d
to is lld ; lamb's, is 9d to land. Sydney —Clean sheep's,
lld to 2.
s
is 9d tots 5,1; scoured, is 8d to 2s sd; lamb's, is
Other wools, including several parcels of foreign have been
sold freely, at is 6d to 2s 5d per lb. The private market
is very firm, at fully last week's prices. Last week's im-
ports were 836 bales from Algoa Bay, ess from Adelaide,
896 from Sydney, 370 from Mogadore, 22 from Monte
Video, 103 from Sam, 60 from Antwerp, and. 83 from
Dublin.
Current prices of English Wool :—Down togs, is 6,1 to
lad ;half-4de hoggets, is 5d to is 50 ; Down ewes
ard hogs, is 4tois 4 ; Kent fleeces, is 4,1 to Is 4id ;
Leicester ewes and bogs, is 31 to is 4d ; flannel wool,
is 10 to is 3d ; and blanket wool, 10.1 to ls. 40 per
SEEDS.
Linseed is dull, and prices continue in favour of buyers.
Rapeseed has also met a limited inquiry on lower terms.
Canaryseeki has sold steadily at full prices, but all other
seeds are without alteration. In cakes very little is pass-
ing at late rates.
Tarnip,White,per bush. 159 to l 8: I
Swede • •...., 165 18
idnstacd, Brown.• •• .. 165 23'
White, new...... 105 125
Nres,Winte7,new....so Od 6s Od
•• •••• --s
Cans per quarter • 785 884
Rye irass (new) .• • 305 4251
Clover,RodEng (cwt.) —s
White —s —5
Foreign Red.. •• •• —S —5
white.. —9 —s
Trefoil, new • ...... 228 2 4

Carraway •• •• 441 463
Coriander 28s 333
liempseed,per quarter 42. 44s
Linseed, Eng.-lowing •• 74s 761
Crushing ........ 63s 69s
Baltic .......... 605 62s
Odessa ......... 66s 67s
fahiseedCake, pr. ton—
' English .. 9/ lOs 10115 s

Foreign,perton 101 0, 10 15s
Rape Cakes, per ton 6Z Os 6,5 s
Rapeseel, new, pr qr. 74s 80s

TALLOW.
Our market is very firm, and prices are fully 4s per cwt.
higher than on Monday last. To-day P.Y.C.on the spot
is selling' at 65s per cwt. Town tallow, 63s not cash.
Rough fat, 33 60 per 8 lbs.

TB5l,

1856.

1857.

Stock this day ..17.025
51s o,lt,
Price of Y. C I aod
Delivery last week ••I 1,911
Ditto from June 1 .... i 17,474
Arrivals last week.. 716
Ditto from Junel •
•• 11,182
0fT0wn...,!•1 52. 91

40.424
55s Odt,
55i 3d
2,647
20,683

10.641 12, 577
53s 6d to -353 Od to
534 91 —s Od
1,503 1,873
43,059 16,359
416 2,581
15,991 15,79
553 9d 665 db

LITERATURE.

The Modern, Scottish Minstrel. Edited by Charles
Rogers, LL.D. In 6 vols. Adam and Charles
Black. Edinburgh. _ _

This admirable work forms a valuable addition
to the literature of the present day, its object Wing
to offer to the public a collet-Aiwa 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 pos3essed 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 laud, 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 rages, are recalled to the

memory—
" Oh, G,lcdonia ! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child 1"
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 be
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 imazinition
into the regions ef the purest and most lofty
theughts, breathing the essence of refinement in its
nature and attributes, the spirit of poetry Las been
universal in 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 e tribes, " Wretched in the d.serts round
their evenine. fire." Nor only there, but penetra-
ting into the busie-it resorts, entering the most
crowdel confines, it his made music to tie 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
flowers of poesy bloom,
Iu 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
touelr;ng and beautiful: compositi'n, and does
honour to the taste that attuned its flowing m, a-
sure, and the heart that gave utterance to its
lovely truths. It is the producti'n of Baroness
Nairn, by some it has been erroneously at ributed
to Burns. The first verses are as follows :
I'm wearin' awa, John,
Like suaw 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 nude and fair, John ;
And, oh ! we grudged her eair
To the land o' the leal.
But sorrows Bel' wears past, John,
And joys a-comia' fast, John—
The joy that's aye to last
In the land o' the leal.

Foremost in excellence among the mines before us
are those of Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Camp-
bell. It would be a work of supererogation 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 gecerations
sill
unborn. The songs of Scott here selected aro
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 t-) 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 inemary of the past in its
majesty, they were as the vestal nymphs fanning
the expirng flames on the altars of chivalry. The
poems of Campbell yield to none in spirit anddaring,
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 deplored 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
great waters, does Campbell address himself to the
civic heroes. He has exclaimed to the men of Eng-
land, "Let the world revere us, for our people's
righ's 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 hun.,tred Agincourts. The
poems by Francis Bennoch ate worthy of con-
sideration. They are composed in a free, genial
spirit, and bear the indel ble impress of the real
and the true. The feelings of the heart have guided
the pen, and each flowing vtrse 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. Itt 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. Site 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 se-n that the 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 I hark I
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
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 l hark !
Is it the musical chime on the hill,
That sweetly ringeth when all is still?
Hark I 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 o
ability. It would be difficult to find, among. minor
poets, a subject more beautiful in its expreessireg,.aer
more touching in its earnestness, thai?etsh,
shared
d the
tribute of David Moir to his child,
lwh n
purest gift,
genius of poetry reveals its fairest
such a presence.
and fulfils its holiest mission in
doom of Heaven's favourites' etaranyddeath. The
tes of heaven
mounted to t e thing
the spirit that bas than the
no grander
Its wings can take no higher
—its language
declar°st nd
webe the throne of its
child of dust called teorsesaight than to follow
seer the fondness of
God. In
Few of the many flowers early
Christian's faith.
verses
with the fervour of the
reaper have been garnered in the
gathered by the
the father's
memory, with a fragrance more lasting, or a perfume
thenlovee,
sweet. Few of the mourners of little child-
lureonta bave more powerfully engraved their convic-
tion, that "of such is the kingdom of heaven,"

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

It cannot be ; for were 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 fret zy—virtue vain,
And all our hopes to meet again,
Caga Wappy !
Thcn be to us, 0 dear, lost child !

With beam of love,
A star—death's uncongenial wild—

Smiling above !
S•mn, soon thy feet have trod
The skyeard path, the seraph's road,
That led thee back from man GO,
Casa Wappy
Yet, 'tis sweet balm to our despair,
Fond, fairest boy,
That heaven is God's, and thou art there
With him in jly !
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 rf my heart !
It cannot be that long we dwell
• T 6119 torn apart—
Time's shadows like the shuttle flee ;
And dark howe'er life's night may he,
Beyond the grave I'll meet with thee,
Casa `Nappy !

Passages in, the Life of a Soldier. By Lieut.-Col.
Sir J. E. Alexande-, K C.L.S. 2 vols. Hurst
and Blacke!t.
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 woe fare, would have been
confined to his own private affairs or travelling ad-
ventures. Now the case is different ; 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 tee simple and soldierliko
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 Fome
years, being on the staff of General Sir Benjamin
D'Urben, commander-ie-chief of the forces in Bri-
tish No:th Amex 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 Parliarm_,rit House, which he COD siders to have
bees the result of a series of unfortunate accidents
rather than of direct intsnticee A less serious cum-
mot on, though at tended with some casualties, was
occasioned by the Gtvazzi riots some years later.
We have some sketches of Canadian scenery, as
well as its s ,cial features, and a description of the
country surrounding the lakes. At the commence-
ment of the Russian war the author volunteered to
join the army in the Eas, hiving previously been
in Russia, and having spout some time in the
Crimea. In the beginning of the year 1854 the
xpected ord, r came, and Sir James Alexander
lett for the East., where he remained un!il the pro-
clamation of peace and the final evaestiwion of the
Crimea. The battles of the Alma and Inkerman
were of course over long before his arrival ; be
joined in the midst of the weary siege, and was
present on the unfortunate 18,h of June, as well as
in the concluding struggles. Without any parts an-
j ship, and evidently avoiding censure or criticism
on any one in authority, he draws a melancholy
picture of the sufferings 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-
avoidaVe hardships of such a prolonged campaign.
Tne duty in ths trenches was most arduous, even
without the danger.
" Who of the-e a who live at home at ease' can fully
understand the extreme misery and wretchedness of oar
soirliers, who nightly went down to the trenches in the
winter months of 1854-55, on rations of salt meat and
hard 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 recd.;•.e-grirned 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, cut of the trench and in
rear, they Exposed teernselves to be shot, as the parapet
was not suldicieWly high to protect them. One night
three For tellows, overcome with fatieus, went outside
the parapet to sleep on a clryp lace, risking the Russian
bullets—they were all three :hot. Trench life was nst
a pastime, certainly, summer or winter, yet some officers
really took an int-eest in it, and I heard that deservedly
eitserned and gallant soldier, Slr John Campbell, rally a
field- fficer one day about his partiality for the fourth
parallel."
Sir James Alexander himself, though firmly con-
vinced of the ultimate suczess of the siege, was
not at all sanguine as to the result of the attempts
on the 18th. Ho sajs—
`•.Though some doubtless considered victory as certain
on this occasion, I own I had not the least idea of sac•
ce,s myself. I had wa'ched almost every morning from
the front the state of affairs 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 pressurp, 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 k uccess. Of
course, our duty, whatever we thought of what was
likely to happen, was to do oar best, to comply stiictiy
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 ackevements in the hack 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 nut always
agreeing with the beginning, but this is less no-
ticeable in the second volume 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 tAd 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.

THE ACCIDENT TO THE ATLANTIC
TELEGRAPH CABLE.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY EVENING.
Mr. Cyrus Fi(-1,1 arrived in London on Saturday, and
made the 1.1 )wing official report to his co-directors :
" Her Mi.j-sty's ship Leopard, Captain Wainewright,
arrived at Portsmouth on Friday evening, and reports
that the Atlantic telegraph cable was lest 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 indes 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. A t 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 too 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 tho ship. The Agamemnon, Niagara, and Su--
quehans. are to remain a shirt time where the cable
parted, to try some exp?riments 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 company,
and then all the vessels go on to Portsmouth. The
Cyclops was sen 4, back with despatches to Valentia, and
she was then to join the Leopard atPlymoutb. Although
this unfortunate accident will postpone the completion
of this treat undertaking for a short time, the result of
the experiment has been to convince all that! took part
in it of the entire practicability of the undertakinbg, for,
with some slight alteration in the pay:ng_nut Taco:lnez,
there appears to be no great difficulty in layin. d
cable. It has been clearly proved that telegraph
can success- ;
fully telegraph through 2,phnocable,
500 miles ofetecegra
had per-
and that its submergence at a greatrrdenp h
t. There is no
ceplible influence on the electric
dcouwn at the rate of five
practical obstruction to laying
de th of water that there
miles per hour in the greatestbetwp
between Ireland and New
is in the telegraphic plateau
now ob'ained must be cf
foundland. The experience
to the company, d d dth f
an understood erstoo
great value ompany will decide whether it is
the directors of the c d
e cable made an try again immedirtEly
best to have mor
uinoctial gales are over, or wait uutil another
after the,eq,
summer.

DEATH or Du 111AusnALL HALL.—This well-known
physician died at. Brighton on Tuesday last, in his 67th
y 1 •ar. In the history of medicine (ooserves the Literary
Gazette) his came will be rememb•-red with distinction on
account of his ingenious and elaborate researches on the
physiol.,gy 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 not:ce. Various other
professional treatises were written by him, the earliest as
long since as 1830, entitled " Commentaries on Diseases
of Ferna'es." Li 1837 he published a systematic 1w8(4,6
on the "Theory and Practice of Medicine,"and, iT. .
" Practical Observations and Suggestions in Medicine.
Dr.
Dr. Marshall Hall was a member of the Institute. .
France, and of various medical societies and. scientific
institutions on the continent, as well as in this country
nd America.