The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-06 00:00:00

TTIR Arm, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINCIr, APRIL e, 1850.

Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 — to
Man. & Lis. Union 41.2 s dis.... to
Midland.— • ........ to
Consol. Preference-100
Ditto,:so/. Shares ...... 80 ...... 31/i to
gidiand-,Sirm., and Derby...loo
#ffid!and, Consol. Bristol and
:q;rraingham. 6 per cent.... 100 -
Kidiand, Bristol and Glouc. 42 ... «
Ditto ditto 22/. 7s. ...
Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50
Midland, Leices. and Swan-
niugton (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .
Great Western (Irish) 47% — to
Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6
per cent. guar.
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO to
Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ..... to
Newmarket
Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s. —
Newport Abergy., and Herat. 6 ...... to
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7
Newry, Warrenpoint, and
Rostrevor .......... ..•.•••• 20
Norfolk lOO ..••" •••••• to
Ditto New 20/. l5 ...... to
Ditto Extension
Do. Do. 51,4 per cent
Do. do. Waveuey Valley... 2
Northern Counties Union ... 4
North British
Ditto, Preference ... 5
North Staffordshire........... 1714
North Western
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-

49,667,430 1112,443,902 113,806,8941
• Exclusive of

i12,723„310
if Adyances,

. ,
verhampton
Preston and: Wyre
Do. Half Shares (A) 10 -
Ileading,Guildfd.,& Reigate 15 -
Royston and ELitchin ..... .. 44 - ••• •• to ...
00. Shepreth Extension... %
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland .... .......

Ditt0,New......... ........... 221/2 — to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 13tit — dii ... to
Ditto. ditto, Class B. 9
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 5
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Ditto Halves, Ditto lO ... . to
Ditto, Oswestry 18%......
Ditto (New)...
Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref lO
hropshire Union 63f... .. 27i z. d. to
South Devon .. 5O ...... ...... to
Ditto, Preference ...... . - - to

South Staffordshire. 81,4 — .. ... to
South
_Eastern
Ditto, No. 2.: ni
Ditto, No. 3.
Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster _

and Goole - 13
~heffield, Rotherham, and
Goole N D )Gna. 5 peret. 181,4 ...... ... to
Do. do. (South Div.) 15 .....
Swans. and Loughor and Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal ..... .... . 8 -
Taw Vale Extension ........ 8
Thames Haven Dock and
Railway ..... 17% — , to
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ......
Waterford and Limerick..... 474.” .. to
Waterford,Wexiord,Wicklw,
and Dublin ...
Wear Valley 6 per Cert.
Guaranteed ......•.. 50 ...... ...... to
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do.
West Cornwall 7% to
Whitehaven and Furness lB ..... .-, ..... to —.
Windsor, Staines, and South
Western l4
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymoutk 50
Yak, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ...... 1214 % ... to
Do.:and Newcastle Eaten. 20
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. $
De.Hartlepool Dk. & Rly. 100
fork and North Midland .. $0 ...... 15% to
Ditto. Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Italian (late Italian
and Austrian) 51,2 —
Boulogne and Amiens 2O .....:6% to
Central of France ( Orleans
and Vierzon)
Demerara.....„ .............. ... 171,4 — ..... to
Datch Rhenish I
Eaat Indian ....
_5

Ditto ... 2O
Great Indian Peninsular h ...... ...... to
Louvain ila Sambre ........ 71/2 — ...... to --
Luxembourg
Ditto
Uadrid and Valentia
Namur and Liege 2e •—•— ...... to
Northern of France l6
Orleans and Bordeaux ...
Paris and Orleans... 2O
Parts and Rouen
Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 18
Rouen and Havre 2O ...... ...... to
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale ..... ..... 14 , — ...... to
Tours & Nantes -... ... .. 13
rournay, Jurbise, Landon,
and Bauch ..... .. 20 ...... ...... to —.
West Flanders B% — ....,.. to
JOINT STOCK BANNS.

Australasia
British North American
Colonial ........ 25 ..... ... •• to
Commercial of London
London Joint Stock ..... ..... 10 ...... to
London and Westminster... 20
National Provincial of Engld. 85
Ditto, New
National of Ireland - ..... 22%..... —..to
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New
Union of Australia
Ditto, New
Union of London ........ ...... 10
Union of Madrid 4O
MINES.

Anglo :lexicon .lOO ...... ..... to .
Asturian 00000000 •••" ••• ..... 15 ~....
Australian ...... 4 - ...... to
Barrossa Range 2Bs. ...... ...... to
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal
Bolanos Scrip - - ...... to --
British Iron
Brazilian Imperial .. ..... 24%...... 7
Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30
Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 -
Cobre Copper - ..• .. to
General - ...... to
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .. .. ... to
Do. Black Debentures...—.
...... to --
Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba lO ...... 7%..... to
United Mexican .....

COURSE ON
Amsterdam 12 2
Ditto, three months.. 12 4
Rotterdam .... . • .... 12 43i
Antwerp ........ 25 SO
Brussels . • ...... 25 $0
Hatuburgh .... • • 11.8. 13 133 i
Paris, 3 da),s'sight .... 25 55
Ditto. 3 months .... 25 75
tiarseilles •••• •• • . 25 77%
80urdeaux......... •
Prankfort on Maine.... 121 k
Vienna, effec. f 10...... 12 15
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 15
Peter sburgh, Sil. Rble .. 37%
Madrid • • ........ 49%
Cadiz • • . 49%
Barcelona •• • • ........
SeTillo•• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••

INCOME.

Customs ....

Excise ....
Stamps • • • • .• • • .

Taxes • • • •

Property Tax •• • • • • •• • • •
Post-office • • • • ......
Crown Lands • • .• • • • • • • • •
Miscellaneous . • • • • • •

Imprest and other Moneys • • • • •• • . • .
Produce of the sale 01 Old Stores .. • •
Repayments of Advances .•.

Quarters ended April 5.

4,593,119
1,833,G79
1,549,171
148,101
2,011,519
234,000
40,000
98,792
28,018

176,343
87,648

10,800,390

1850

4,432,584
1,867,218
1,538,125
177,231
2,069,608
231,000
40,000
47,960
109,000
192,759
91,400

10,796,885 it

of this port, was stranded 19th Feb.' in the Bay of To&,
near Cape de Verd, and stripped by the natives; crew
saved. _ _

FALmouTu, APRIL s.—The Isabella, from Odessa,
stranded near the Lizard Lighthouse, 34 instant, went
to pieces during the night; remainder of crew saved.
PENZANCE, APRIL 4.—lt blew a complete hurricane,
last night at W.S.W.,but no particular damage was sus-
tained by the shipping.

FRENCH PLAYS.-ST. JAMES'S
THEATRE.

Mr. Mitchell commenced last evening the dra-
matic season at this theatre, and judging from
the completeness of the performance, and from
the admirable programme which he has put
forth (and Mr. Mitchell is one of the few theatrical
managers who consider that a programme is a thing
to be not advertised merely, but fulfilled), we doubt
not but that the dramatic season will be to
the full as brilliant as was the operatic
season which closed at Easter. The piece chosen
for the opening was Scribe's world-famous comedy
Bertrand et Raton, with M. Samson, of the Theatre
Francais, the most finished comedian of the age, in
the character of Bertrand, a character which he
created on the original production of the comedy,
and in which he has always continued unapproached
and unapproachable. This comedy was performed
at this theatre about three years since, during the en-
gagement of M. Perlet, and its plot is well known to
the Eoglit.h public from an adaptation of it by Mr.
Bunn, entitled the Minister and the Mercer, which
was brought out by that gentleman during
his first lesseeship of Drury-lane, on which
occasion the character of Bertrand was sustained by
Mr. W. Farren. Bertrand was intended by. Scribe
to be, it is said, a finished portrait (not a caricature)
of Talleyrand ; and if such were his intention, he has
certainly, by the aid of M. Samson, succeeded in
placing upon the stage a Daguerrotype of the beau
ideal of a modern diplomatist, high-bred, subtle, in-
triguing, bitterly sarcastic, yet most smooth, most
polite, most polished, most aggravating, yet most im-
passible, the Bertrand of M. Samson is the
very perfection of the very highest comedy.
His wit was "as keen, yet as polished, as his sword,"
and the almost supernatural quiet of his self-posses-
sion, under the most trying circumstances, added im-
mensely to the effect of his delineation of the charac-
ter. You felt that he was playing with all those
about him as a chess-player plays with his men upon
the board, and that he was the master of everything—
even of circumstances. Never have we seen
such a perfect exhibition of the calm con-
sciousness of irresistible intellectual power as
in the Bertrand of M. Samson last evening.
M. Armand, as Raton, gave a hearty version of the
character of the brawling, shopkeeping politician, who,
had he been an Englishman, would have been the
crack orator of vestries, one of the leaders of the
town council, and the terror of mayors, churchwardens,
n d guardians of the poor. Jean, honest, bustling
Jean, his servant, was admirably acted by M. Tetard,
who brought out the bonhommie of the character in full
relief, and M. Leon, as Eric, was the most interest-
ing juvenile lover that has ever appeared. The fussy
but warm•hearted and excellent wife of Raton was
admirably performed by Mademoiselle Avenil, whose
passionate burst of agony on hearing that her son has
been arrested on a charge of treason, and that his life
is in danger, was true tragedy of a very high order.
[his lady is from the Odeon, and made her first ap-
pearance here last evening, and at once established
herself as a favourite. Mademoiselle Brassine (from
the Palais Royal) also made her debut last evening,
and created a most favourable impression by her
graceful delineation of the character of the interesting
Christine. Mademoiselle Junia, as the Queen Dow-
ager, was dignified and majestic; and altogether the
comedy was asi perfectly cast, and as perfectly put
• upon the stage, as possible. The applause at the con-
clusion was enthusiastic, and the house was com-
pletely filled in every part.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.
A new :drama, entitled The Two Dogs of the
Grange; or the Old Inn Yard, has been produced at
this 'favourite little theatre. It abounds in startling
scenes and thrilling incidents. The principal charac-
ters were sustained by Messrs. Green and Smith, who
played their parts with much vigour; while Mr.
Menders, as a retired linendraper, seeking excitement
in a wife and a provincial tour, affords the audience
much amusement by the comic style of his acting.
The great burden of the piece, however, devolves upon
a couple of the canine species, whose training and sa-
gacity are truly astonishing. They of course divide
the applause with the other supporters of the drama,
which is carefully mounted, and bids fair to have a
lengthened run.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

CAMBRIDGE, Arimi s.—Last night, between eight
and nine o'clock, one of the most extensive fires
which has for some years occurred in this county
broke out at Cottenham, a large village about seven
miles from Cambridge, the population of which con-
sists of upwards of 1,800 people. The fire began in
some stacks at the upper end of the village, and,
aided by a strong wind, it spread with such rapidity
that in the course of two hours nearly half the place
was reduced to ashes :—when the wind, which had ;
been blowing through the town, changed—and owing
to the exertions of some of the undergraduates, who
arrived—the lower end of the village was saved.
The fire was got under (or rather burnt itself out)
about two o'clock, about which period the engines
arrived from Cambridge! Owing, we believe, to
some misunderstanding amongst the authorities, the
engines would not leave Cambridge until they were
sent for, although perfectly aware of the existence of
the fire. We believe that all the property is more or
less insured. The fire is supposed to be the work of
incendiaries.

THE NAVY ESTIMATES.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

Sir,—lf there are any amongst us who can carry
their memories so far back as the month of February,
1849., they may perchance recollect with what a
flourish of trumpets Mr. Ward (then Secretary to the
Admiralty) heralded the introduction of certain naval
reforms, with which we were to commence a new
era of confining expenditure within the bounds of
credit.
They may also remember with what ingenuous
candour that most diffident of functionaries admitted
and deplored past etourcleries ; with what solemn
promises of amendment he covenanted for the future ;
with what pathetic appeals he harrowed up the feel-
ings of the too credulous Commons, by describing
the unexampled sufferings of himself and
his colleagues, shut up for six whole weeks
in one of the Admiralty yachts, and re-
fusing all invitations to dinner. Hard in-
deed must have been the heart which
did not sympathise with these excellent men. I well
remember how deeply we middies felt for them, espe-
cially when rowing guard round the vessel that con-
tained so precious a freight; and often at night, when
we have seen the faint ray of the taper that illumi-
nated their labours glimmering through the port-
hole, like the lanthorn of some distant Pharos, our
thoughts have involuntarily turned, by comparison,
to the sufferings of Bounty Bligh And ;the crew of the
Wager.

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING APRIL 5, 18:30.

No. I.—An Abstract of Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of April, 1849, and fith of April, 1850, showing the
Increas:? or Decrease on each head thereof.

QUARTERS ENDED YEAR ' ' T
od I QUARTERS ENDED YEAR 1 Year ended April 5. Ouarter ended April 5.
~
r_____-____ ./k- , end__ ,11--------.----.---, ended ~.--.-----A.----, r--•---"--'-,
July 5, Oct. 10, , Jan. 5, Aprils, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Aped 5, April 5,
1848 1848 1 1849 1849 1849 I 1849 1849 1850 1850 lB5O Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
--II
£ £ £ £ . X 11 X • X X X, i 1 . £ £ £ £
Customs .• .. .. .. .. .. .. 4,447,832 5,406,483 4,682,395 4,591,119 19,129,829 , , 4,128,777 5,253,272 4,729,630 4,432,584 18,535,263 ,1 Customs .• . . .. .. 594,566 .... 160,535
Excise 3,473,803 4,102,574 3,253,162 1,820,575 12,650,114 li 3,020,602 4,287,577 3,625,001 1,859,473 12,792,713 1 Excise •••••• • • • • • . 142.599 .... 38,898 •• -
Stamps . .............. 1,557,640 1,461,942 1,472,598 1,549,171 6,401,351 1 1,619,697 1,816,747 1,509,860 1,538,125 6,354,429 Stamps .• ..... .... 313,078 .. .. 11,046
....
Taxes ................ 2,034,133 215,656 1,921,013 148,101 4,318,903 11 2,054,730 203,057 1,897,961 177,231. 4,332,979 ~ Taxes 14.076 .... 29,130 •• • •
Property Tax. 988,401 1,892,890 424,434 2,011,519 5,317,244 ; 1,033,240 1,914,006 449,394 2,069,608 5,480,:'48: Property Tax- .... 149,004 .... 58,089 •• • •
Post-office ..... - ...... 136,000 221,000 198,000 234,000 789,000 1 196,000 224,000 152,000 231,000 8031,000 Post-office ..... .... 14,000 -•• .... 3,000
Crown Lands .... •• • ... 10,0.10 20,000 30,000 40,000 100,000 ! 40,000 20,000 60,000 . 40,000
.160,000 1 Crown Lands .., 60,000 •• • • .. .. •• • •
Miscellaneous •••• • • .. 9,227 13,923 21,709 98,792 143,651 1 70,140 21,902 1 58,408 47,960 198,410 1 Miscellaneous - - ... 54,759 •• .. .... 50,832 •
-- 1:--- 4
Total Ordinary Revenue 12,657,036 13,334,468 12,003,311 10,495,277 48,490,092 ;i12,163:186 13,610,561 12,473,314 j 10,395,981 48,643,042 Total ........ 747,516 594,566 126,117 225,413
China Money •• • • ... • • .. .. 84,284' .. 84,284 11 - .. .. .. .. 1 China Money ...... 84,284 •••• •• • •
Imprest Moneys, &c. .. 168,600 168,437 123,895 204,361 665,293 , 109,875 120,134 1 125,087 101,759 656,'55 Imprest Moneys, &c. .... 8,433 97,398 •• • •
Repayments ofAdvances 86,813 112,605 140,695 87,648 427,761 1 1 170,841 166,199 124,989 91,400 553,349 1 Repaymt ofAdvncs. 125,588 .... 3,752 •• • •
i
• -
Total lncome .. 12,912,449 13,615,510 12,352,185 10,7k,286 49,667,430 1'12,443,902 13,896,894 12,723,3:0 10,789,140 49,853,246 Total
•
i 1
687,288 225 413 f
Amount applied to Con- ;1 1 ,
Decrease Deduct. Deduct
,
solidated Fund* .. .. • • 6,818,019 7,270,4'26 8,974,147 5,897,300 28,919,892 1 7,220,278 8,298,974 8,236,315 5,967,008 29,722,575 Decrease
Ditto, as Advances .•• • • 231,111 428,746 184,380 185,554 1,029,791 393,077 490,426 374,172 296,337 1,554,012
Ditto, as part of Ways &
Increase Increase
Means of the Year.. - 5,863,319 5,956,338 , 3,193,658 4,704,432 19,717,747 4,830,517 5,107,494 4,112 823 4,525 795 18,576,659 185,816{ on 1,854{ on the
i
1 - ' the Tear. Quarter.
Total .• • .•112,912,449 13,615,510 12,352,185 10,787,286 49,667,430 1112,443,902 113,896,894 12,723,310 110,789,140 49,853,246 ,
- - - - -

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in.the Quarters ended the sth April, 1849, and the sth April, 1850.

Quarters ended April 5,

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED).

THE DUBLIN UNLVERSI2I'.

This able periodical for the present month con-
tains some spirited and interesting papers. We would,
however, wish to feel the Irish national magazine
smack a little more of tho "native." We should be
gratified to see more of its space devoted to the efforts
of Irish genius upon Irish subjects, and we feel con •
vinced there is no such dearth of either in that fair
green land, as to justify the introduction of so much
foreign matter as appears in the April number. The
opening paper, "Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of
Fortune—the days of the Guillotine," is one of those
dark tales of blood furnished by the French revolu-
tion in the days of Robespierre. " Memoirs of the
first Duchess of Orleans" is an exceedingly interest-
ing paper ; it refers to stirring scenes and times,
and makes us acquainted with the virtues and
vices of many of the great European houses. "An
Autumn in Sicily, being an account of the principal
"Remains of Antiquity existing in that Island," &c.,
by the Marquis of Ormonde. The extracts from
this book are instructive and classical. "Mysteries
of Kancba ; or the Mesmeric Waren," is continued,
and we have no doubt will prove ageeable to the
curious in such subjects. The next paper, "Ameri-
can Literature," is a notice of some charming
"Poems Lyrical and Dramatic," by Henry Wades-
worth Longfellow. In " The Two Ravens ; a Story of
the Eighteenth Century," the scene of the story is
laid in Marseilles. The next paper is entitled "Social
Statistics; or Hints for the Improvement of Directo-
ries." There is a good deal of humour in these hints,
and we think them worthy the attention of frolic-loving
Punch in the compilation of his next " Comic Alma-
neck." "English Notions of Irish Improvements,"
is a serio-comic sarcasm on some of those
wise (?) suggestions for the improvement of
Ireland which occasionally emanate from Leaden-
hall-street, Old Jewry, or some such agri-
cultural district of the famed kingdom of
Cockaigne. " Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the
Cavaliers ; including their Private Correspondence,"
edited by Eliot Warburton, Esq.—many a gallant
heart, not yet dead to all sympathy with the age of
chivalry, will read these memoirs with delight.
" Expedition against the Chinese Pirates :" this is
one of the best written, as it is one of the most im-
portant, if not the most important, paper in the
series. We had the pleasure to notice in the January
number of this magazine the detailed account, by the
same able writer, of Sir James Brooke's expedition
' against those murderous piratical hordes which infest
the Indian archipelago, and for which act of justice
and necessity the gallant Raja was abused through
every mood and tense by some perhaps well- meaning
gentlemen belonging to a confederation called the
" Peace Society." We cannot see any great mischief,
beyond the mere loss of time, in a number of amiable
gentleman meeting to pour forth pious aspirations for
universal peace among the whole family of man ; but
we think such a society would become mischievous by
expressing sympathy with robbers. and murderers.
The clever writer of these papers, is evidently well
acquainted with the atrocities of tlae Chinese, as well
as the Borneo pirates, and we trust he will continue
to employ his talent upon this important subject till
these sea-dragons, these monsters of the deep—at
whose crimes humanity shudders—the savage enemies
of commerce and civilization, shall be swept from
every sea. The number concludes with a very amus-
ing and humorous " Letter from an Irishman in Paris
to his Countryman at Ballaghadereen."

THE BRITISH POLITICAL, COMIIER-;
CIAL, ECCLESLASTICAL, AND HIS '
TORICAL GAZETTEER; Travelling Road

Book, and County Atlas.
This national and comprehensive work pAresses
admirably, and we trust to tho satisfaction of the
spirited proprietors. When complete it will form
one of the most extensive and ustful historical records
extant. The present part contains elegantly executed
maps of the counties of Cornwall, Essex, and Suffolk,
also a neat map of the Scilly Isles, and a beautiful
engraving of the Bristol Terminus, Great Western
Railway."

LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS. No. M.—

Downing Street. Edited by Thomas Carlyle.
Our Chelsea Seer of the Goosequill becomes more
pungent in his sarcasm on all political and social im-
becilities, in proportion as he grows more coherent in
his manner of composition. No. 111. is the best, the
wittiest, the wisest, the sauciest, as he himself might
term it the comprehensiblest of the Latter-Day
Pamphlets yet published under his editorship and
supervision. A voice of more than two centuries
back, and, speaking periodically from the titlepage,
seems to ring at the tail of every sentence like a
"refrain." "Then said his Lordship, Well, God
mend all Nay, by God, Donald, we must help
him to mend it !' said the other."—(Rushworth :
Sir David Ramsay and Lord Rea, in 1630.) That is
the tune to which Carlyle is chaunting
.the sylla-
bling of his Sibylline Leaves—like Solomon Eagle
gliding
,through the streets of London during the
ravages of the Great Plague, with the burning pan of
coals upon his head, crying out in a loud voice "O,
the great and terrible God !"—esteemed by some an
idle fanatic, and regarded by others with the awe and
reverence due to a prophet breathing the language of
inspiration. We are to be enumerated neither among
those who may be called the worshippers of Car-
lylistn, nor among those who jeer the biographer of
Croinwkll as a parrot-like repeater of the mysticism
of Ciermany. Through all the haze and fog of his
obscurities we recognise a keen and sharp-edged
truth ; in all the eccentricities of his style we behold
a large-hearted humanity and a generous and burn-
ing earnestness. For this we respect his reasonings,
and listen attentively to the blurted sounds that ren-
der articulate his strange and sometimes fantastic
meditations. At present his fervent and penetrating
gaze is fixed upon the purlieus of " Downing- street"
—a mysterious locality where in " a jungle of red
tape" dwells that official monster or magician, that
Merlin or Minotaur y'clept the Government. 7klr.
Carlyle sneers at the doleful creatures inhabiting this
region of the Executive authority, and appears to re-
gard with despair the chance of ever appealing effec-
tually "now to this doleful creature, now to that, and
to the dead red tape jungle, and to the living Universe
itself, and to the Voices, and to the Silences." Espe-
cially does he look sorrowfully, woefully, and wist-
fully on the plight of our Forty Colonies, as the for-
tunes of those remote possessions are attended to by,
the Colonial-office in this same Downing-street. Al-
though our pamphleteer premises very modestly that
to him " individually these branches of human
business (the offices of the Government) are little
known"—thereby empowering the captious to
jeer at him for writing about a in atter
in regard to which he confesses his ignorance
—there is a profounder knowledge of those same
" branches of human business" displayed in the forty-
eight pages before us than in many a thick tome
pennbd by a more pretentious politician. From these
pages we would fain extract many passages, rich to
overflowing with political wisdom, but we must restrict
ourselves to the following brief but shrewd and sug-
gestive quotation :
" In every ship, I say, there must be a seeing pilot, not
a mere hearing one! It is evident you can sever get
your ship steered through the difficult straits by persons
standing ashore, on this bank and that, and shouting
their confused directions to you: " 'Ware that Colonial
band-bank!—Starboard now, the Nigger Questionl—
Larboard, larboard, the Suffrage Movement!—Financial
Reform, your Clothing-Colonels overboard! The Qua-
lification Movement, 'Ware-re-rel—llelm-a-lce! Bear
a hand there, will you! llr-r-r, lubbers, imbeciles,
fitter for a tailor's shopboard thea a helm of Govern-
ment, Hr-r-r l"—And so the ship wriggles and tumbles,
and on the whole goes as wind and current drive. No
ship was ever steered except to destruction in that
manner. I deliberately say so: no ship of a State
either. If you cannot get a real pilot on board, and put
the helm into his hands, your ship is as good as a
wreck. One real pilot on board may save you; all the
bellowing from the banks
that ever was, will not, and
by the nature of things cannot."
Where is this real Pilot, this seeing Pilot 7—the
people begin to fancy with Thomas Carlyle that he is
wanting. Will he not answer Adman ! and take the
helm in hand ? Deeply is it desirable, if only for the
sake of out colonies.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
GREAT METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE.
Acceptances for the Steeplechase Sweepstakes of
15 sous. each, 10 ft. Twice round and a distance,
about four miles:—

------ -----.......
at lb at lb
BritishYeoman,aged 11 7 Spangle
Sir Peter Laurie, aged 11 5 Leo, aged
Proceed
Fugitive, aged ....
Miss Collingwood, The Thrush(h-bred),
aged lO 2 aged . 9 8
Little Paul (h-bred) The Last Forester
aged
Rachel, 6 yrs
Muria Day, aged ... 10 0 Skim
Thurgarton (h-bred), Molly, 6 yrs .
aged
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAT.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.--S to 2 agat Cheerful (t),
20 to 1 agst Ada Mary (t), 20 to 1 agst any other.
CHESTER CUP.---OirerS to take 12 to 1 about Cossack,
12 to 1 agst Peep-o'-Day Boy, 14 to 1 agst Miss Ann,
20 to 1 agst Roland, and 20 to 1 about Eilerdale. The
only bet laid was 1,000 to 15 agst Modesty. 14 to 1 offered
agst Glauca, and 25 to 1 agst John Cosser.
DRRBY.—Offers to take 11 to 2 about Bolingbroke,
and to lay 6 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum, 11 too
n 1 apt
Mayors, 12 to 1 agst The Nigger, 14 to 1 apt The
Italian, 15 to 1 agst Voltigeur, 18 to 1 agst Knight of
Avenel, and 50 to 1 agbt Charley. Offers t,., take 35 to 1
agst Nutshell, and 1,000 to 10 about Alonzo.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Mr. Powell's hds., Tues., Evelwen , Llandissilio; Fri.,
Ystrad Village-10.
N. D. IL, Toe., Norwood; Thurs., Chittlehat)ibolt
—loi.