The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-04 00:00:00

rHE SUN, .I_,I'ONDuN, MONDAY EVIV.,":34ING, MAY 4, i 8,57,

MAP4Aw Di:Ews.--4114:1s D 34.)

THE MAGAZINES.

CORN EXCHANGE.

The principal country markets held on Saturday were
firm for wheat, at is to 2s per quarter na-:re money. Barley,
ho ever, ruled dull; oats commented a trifling advance,
I
all the values of all other articles was well supported.
he near continental markets have been firm for most
kinds Of produce, and the quotations have bad an upward
tendency. • In the United States both wheat and flour
have commanded more money.
Only moderate supplies of English grain were received
up to our market last week. The imports from abroad
were 6,007 qrs of wheat, 18,754. barley, 16,59!. oats, 77 peas,
160 tares, 213 linseed, 30 rapeseed, 40 mustard seed, 95
sundry seeds, and 2 222 brls of flour. ,
The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to our
market, to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, was mode-
rate for the time of year. The condition of the majority
of the samples exhibited a further slight improvement.
There was an average number of both town an country
millers in attendance, and the demand for nearly all kinds
of wheat, of home produce was steady, at an advance in
the quotations realised on this day se'nnight, of is per
quarter.
There was a good show of foreign wheat, chiefly ex
graaary. For fine parcels we had a steady demand, and
the quotations ruled about is, per quarter dearer. Se-
condary and inferior kinds moved off slowly, yet prices ,
were well supported.
Floating cargoes of grain were held for more money.
Scarcely any English barley was in the market, and the
supply of foreign was only oa oderite. The barley trade
ruled firm, at full prices. Malt, however, moved off slowly,
at barely late rates.
We were fairly supplied with foreign oats, yet the oat
trade ruled firm at an advance of from 6d to is per qr.
The few beans in the,market sold readily at 1s to 2s per
quarter more money.
There was an active inquiry for peas, the prices of which
advanced is to 2s per quarter.
The flour trade was firm, and country markets were is
per qBolbs dearer. The same advance was demanded for
American qualities,__
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Blackwood.—" The Athelings" we grieve to
think are evidently approaching to a termination.
The twelfth part virtually sets at rest all doubt as
to the fact of Louis Rivers' legitimacy—establish-
ing the veracity of his claim Co the name, style,
and title of Lord Winterbourne. There is a hitch,
however, in the disentanglement of the thread of
the narrative. An apparent misunderstanding
between, and estrangement of, Agnes and Lionel !
Another instalment will probably put all that to
rights—and then we shall have an end of it. Pos-
sibly we aretoo hasty in our anticipations—but what
wehavehere stated is ourimpression. The additional
fragments of the new serial in Blackwood entitled
" Scenes of Clerical Life"—strange to tell with
" such" a heading—proves to be wonderfully ro-
mantic. But then, it must be confessed, the se-
cond title is a little more suggestive of romance
than the first—to wit, " Mr. Gilfil's Love
Story." But fiction before now, sooth to say, has
dealt somewhat largely in hero-clergymen. Don't
we all of us very well remember the three evan-
gelical Chevaliers in " Shirley ?"—and the more
recently created Mr. Hale of " North and-South I'
—and further back than either, Oliver Goldsmith's
charming Dr. Primrose, the " Vicar of Wake-
field ?" So that. perhaps, after all, it is only the
most natural thing in the world, that these " Scenes
of Clerical Life," and particularly those coming
under the supplementary title of " Mr. Gilfil's Love
Story," should prove to be most romantic. The
readers of Maga in May cre likely to he breathless
enough by the time they have got well through the
number. For, besides being hurried through all
the mazy windings and involntione of the two serial
tales already mentioned —"The Clerical Scenes"
and "The Athelings"--they are dragged on, a se-
cond time, "Afoot" through an article so entitled,
an article in which they are wearily tutoyeed all the
e way unint4roptedlv ? And this, too, after haying
' been whisked across the Atlantic at a tangent for a
run, literally " A Run to Nicaragua." A very ex-
hilirating and refreshing run it turns out
to be, however—fortunately. Then, another
contribution leads us the most eccentric
and erratic dance imaginable, through a considerable
part of all the 145 small octavo manuscript volumes
of O'd Thomas Hearne's Diary ! A Diary recently
"licked into shape" under the auspices of the
amiable and learned Philip Bliss, Principal of St.
Mary's Hall, Oxford—the said diary extending over
the three decades ranging between 1705 and 1735,
kept by a sort of an academic Evelyn, or respectable
,t old fogified " Penya! After an archaeological
dissertation on " The Sculptured Stones of Scot-
lend " and a pleasant -glimpse of " Life in Central
Asia," we have—fancy this in Blackwood, ye Gods !
—a rhythmical school thesis (" After Rogers," as
hey say—a very long way After Rogers), designated
" Columbus." A bit of Prescott or Irving "done
into verse," in regard to which we may say, with
a slight alteration, what somebody saidto the Eng-
bah translator of the Iliad--" Very pretty lines,
Mr. Johnston, but not Poetry !" Afterwards—
there is no mistaking the authorship—Bon Gaul-
tier, the real genuine Original, the veritable Simon
Pure—W. E. (not Gladstone but) Aytonn—gives
us four comical " Lays of the Elections." Well, •
perhaps, after all they are not so much comical, as
-simply ridculous. Here is just a flavour of the
fun of the thing :
There I saw a Chanticlero
Strutting with intense delight,
Spnred and plumaged like a hero,
Victor in a desperate fight.
Deftly rose the feather'd phantom ;
' To the hustings' top it flew—
" Cock-a-doodle !" crow'd the bantam,
"Cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo !"
"Fowl !" said I, "in various fasllions
Mother Nature shapes her plan
Say, do poultry feet the passicrns
That molest the heart of man ?
Hath ambition stirr'd thee nearly !
Gallant bantam, tell de true I"
"Cock-a-doodle !" crowed it clearly ;
"Cock-a-doodle doodle-doo !"
The gallant Bantam being of course, " in point of
fact," -as Cousin Pheenix says—my Lord John
Russell. The next lay referring to Lionel Roths-
child—the next to Milner Gibson-:---the next to
Richard Cobden. Not one of the four Lays being ;
evidently hatched over by the small bird whisper-
ing such very queer notions ever and anon into the
eat of Bon Gaultier ! The last contribution in the
May number of Biackwood—though vetyfew would
suspect as much from its title, that being briefly a
fourth of friend Phosphorus's "Letters from a
Lighthouse "—is Maga's Political ! In which, by
he way, the oddest views of things imaginable are
gravely a,dvancecl. For instance, Lord Palmerston,-
we are told, had much better, for his own sake
—fancy had much better for his own sake NOT
have dissolved the last Parliament ! Again—With
a clear gain of close upon a hUndred to the side of
the Liberals in the New House of Commons (a gain
admitted by honest Ebony), with that clear gain
of a hundred to the Liberals, there is no mistake at
all about it—phosphorus insists, that the strongest,
compactest, most formidable, most po-tverful body
in the House is that of the Conservative Party !
They, says he, have scarcely lost anything in the
General Election ! Then where the 'Den—, but we
will keep our temper, Where, we ask, do these one
hundred gained by the Liberal party come from ?
We suppose from the place where the " ruck" of
the " Derby" find themselves—Nowhere ! With
which small joke, good-naturedly whispered in the
ear of Maga; close we our notice of the May num-
her of Blackwood.

cultur:Ney PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Sheat—Essea it Kent, 44alt—Che-raller • • • • 77s to 80s
Red • • •• new 47s to 59a Oats Yorkshire and
Ditto old Lincolnsia., Feed 20s 22,
D,tto, White new 48a 70s Potato .
Ditto old Youghal and Cork
iiorfOlk and Lin- Black. .• •• •• 185 2I
coin, Red, old —s —3 Cork. White . • • • • 191 27.
Tito new • • • • • • 46s 593 Scotch, Feed. •. • • 20s 24s
ItYP—Old • • • • • • •• • • • • —s —s Roans—Tick •..... 345
New • • • • • • ...... 3 Zs 363 Pige0n5.......... 40 42
Bar'iy—Grinding ••• • • 26s 3la Peas—Grey .. • • •• 363 37,
Nfaltftig 40s:. 413 38s 39.
*.invcier•• •• • • 423 46s White •• •• 363 37,
Mai t—Suffolk and No- Boilers ... 353 38,
675 773 Flour—Town-made... 503 52,
Drown •••• .......... 62s 638 Suffolk .• 403 4ls
Kingston and Ware 69s 78s 4ltocktn 8.1 Norfoll; 393 40s

Dublin University.—The account of "The Cas-
tle of Dublin" is continued in a second chapter, it
contains a great deal of information, and will prove
very interesting. Some of the facts mentioned-are
curious and striking, as, for instance, the traffic
carried on by the merchants of Bristol in sending
slaves to Ireland. " A Sketch of Two Homes "is
a cleverly written tale, it consists of a series of
reminiscence, all melancholy, the two passages of
domestic life are widely different; far more sympathy
is felt for the latter Characters, however, as they were
the victims to the terrors of disease, while the others
sacrificed 'themselves to the impulses of rage and
jealousy. An article is met with on " Whewell's
History of Moral Philosophy in England." Pre-
vious to entering on en analysis of the subject, the
writer speaks of Dr. Whewell in high terms. "The
name of Whewell must ever be mentioned with re-
spect and gratitude in any history of moral philoso-
phy that may heretif,er be published in the Englisji
linguage." After enumerating many of the emi-
nent services he has rendered to his' country,. be
goes on to criticise, what he considers his defects ;
among which he classes his style as egotistical and
dogmatic. The chief point of the ayticleconsist in
remarks made on the great wfters of fhe seven-
teenth century, Hugo Gtotins, Robert Sanderson,
and Thomas Hobbes. " Sir Charles James Na-
pier" froths the subject of another paper ; the two
first volumes of his life that have recently appeared
are discussed ; the reviewer has evidently entered
into the spirit of what 139 terms the " various and
deeply interesting contents of these volumes." The
strange story of "John Twiller" becomes more
amusing in this portion of it, and there is the com-
mencement of soma important discovery that is
evid.eutly looming in the distance. " The Rides
and Reveries of Mr. YEsop Smith," are proceeded
with. The last article, Called " A FortuitOuS Con-
currence of Atoms," is very sensibly written, and
takes a calm and cautious view of the various vexed
political questions of the day. "The Manchester
Exhibition of Art Treasures" is deserving of atten-
tion for its details and descriptions, and also for its
being the subject at present uppermost in public
interest. It is truly stated that the present time
has been characterised. by many as " the age of in-
vention, the age of telegraphs, exc,, but that the
nineteenth century has some claim to be called
" the age of exhibitions." At the conclusion of
these remarks a hope is expressed that the benefits
derived from the exhibition may be rendered last-
ing instead of transitory.
" Will the public be contented to let 411 this galaxy at
Manohester dissolve and disperse, without an effort to
substitute something permanent and fine in its 'place)?
Are there no generous hearts amongst those who shall
bring their pictures to Manchester for a season., to edify
and delight the public, who will not also give a portion
of them as a permanent gift to the nation ? Are there
none who may be disposed for an adequate price
to sell their masterpieces to the nation, and will the
nation refuse a grant for their purchase ? We hope and
believe that these questions would be answered in the
affirmative, if the appeal or the application were niade."

Bentley'sllliscellany-713entley's Miscellany opens
with its usual anticipatory notice of the Royal
Academy. It gives some interesting details of the
paintings of the chief exhibitors. Dudley Costello's
story of the Millionaire of Mincing-lane, is progress-
kg slowly. The present instalment gives us three
cbapters. A panegyric on Mr. Charles Kean's
skilful representations of Shalt speare's plays follow,
in which it is justly observed that the great suc-
cess they have met with is a sufficient pi•oof
that the adoption of correct illustrative scenery,
dresses, &c., far from being derogat
to the plays theuiselves, only heigh.ens their
dramatic interest. "The Wolf's Betrothed"
is the title of the new work of Alexandre Dumas.
It is a strange, weird story, not yet completed. The
paper in Bentley's gives a summary of it, with co-
pious extracts for the benefit of the curious. "The
Fatal Article" is the title of the present instalment
of "Byways of History.° It alludes to the article
in the marriage treaty of Charles I. and Henrietta
Maria, which stipulated that' theirchildren should
old bought up by theii mother till the age of 1.3;