The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-05 00:00:00

Some excitemcnt wA$ caneed by the squatters lo-
cating on unoccupied lands around the city, but
the whole matter was conning up for legal adjudi-
catiou before the proper courts, .arid would be
settled in that way peaceably and without further
disturbance.

" looked like a wash-house in a fit." " Here it was,"
he writes, "I did my best to do my ditty and keep
up the spirits of those about me ; and your
nervousness being a great dealer in your
joke fantastic, I succeeded apparently With all,
and certainly with the children." Of his success
With his children he gives an illustration, in which
the droll and the horrid are strangely mixed together.
Some unfortunate ducks were on this vessel, " kept in
miserable coops, over which 'the sea constantly break-
ing, the poor wretches were drenched and beaten to
death." liaving mentioned this, Leigh Hunt descends
to the consideration of his children in the cabin be-
low, who, not being aware of any danger, " were as
gay as confinement and uneasy beds would allow
them to be. With the poor ducks," he continues, "I
made them very merry one night by telling them to
listen when the next sea broke over us, and they
would hear an acquaintance of theirs laughing. The
noise they made with their quacking, when they
gathered breath after the suffocation of the salt water,
was exactly like what I slid : the children listened,
and at every fresh agony there was a shout." To us
the whole scene is wonderfully natural. Although
our author, in his way of recording it,
deals for once rather lightly with the
painful, be is exquisitely sensitive in regard to the
horrible, as may be seen from his manner of re-
counting the following hideous act of cruelty :
"It was during my infancy, if I am not mistaken,
that there lived at Hampstead (a rery unfit place for
such a resident), a man whose natee I suppress It at there
should be possessors of it surviving, and who was a
fameus cock-fighter. Ile was rich and idle, and there-
fore had no bounds to set to the unhappy passions that
raged within him. It is related of this man, that, havink
lost a bet on a favourite bird, he tied the noble animal
to a spit in his kitchen before the fife, and notwithstand-
ing the screams of the sufferer and the indignant cries
of the beholders, whose interference he wildly resisted
with the poker, actually persisted in keeping it there
burning, tili he fell down in his fury and died."
Insomuch has the writer of this autobiography an
abhorrence of regarding the pain of any living crea-
ture with indifference that for the first time, perhaps,
since the death of the father of angling, he here speaks
with peculiar severity of lzaac Walton. As a species
of relief to the last quotation we transcribe the fol-
lowing most humorous description, in which the
author is alluding to the period of the threatened 'in-
vasion of England by the French, when he himself
was enrolled among the St. James's Volunteers :
" We bad been a regiment for some time. without a
eolonel. The colonel was always about to be declared,
but declared he was not; and meantime we mustered
about a thousand strong; and e ere much amazed, and,
perhaps, a little indignant. At length the moment ar-
rived—the colonel was named; he was to be introduced
to us; and that nothing might be wanting to our dignity,
he was a lord, and a friend of the minister, and nephew
to the victor aforesaid.
" Our pat axle was the court-yard of Burlington House.
The whole regiment attended. We occupied three sides
of the ground. In front of us were the great gates.
longing to be opened. Suddenly the word is given, My
lord is at handl' Open burst the gates—up strikes the
music. 'Prevent arms!' vociferates the major.
"In dashes his lordship, and is pitched right over his
horse's head to the ground.
"It was the. most unfortunate anticlimax that could
have happened. Skill, grace, vigour. address, example,
ascendancy, mastery, victory, all were, in a manner, to
have been presented to us in the heroical person of the
noble colonel; and here they were, prostrated at our feet
—ejected—cast out—humiliated—ground to the earth;
subjected (for his merciful constructicn) to the least
fellow-soldier that stood among us, upright on his feet."
In the midst of the intense drollery of this
description, we can detect the sarcastic tone
of the author of " Captain Sword and Captain
Pen as also in the- witty sentence previously
occurring, that "a bullet is of all pills the one that
most requires gilding." Occasionally our author takes
too broad a license with the language, as where he
coins such words as " unforgivingtiess," " untimeli-
ness," and "unyieldingness. ' But whenever, as it
sometimes happens, his verbal coinage is for the sake
of a joke we welcome it with rejoicing instead
of depreciation. It is thus on the occa-
sion when a friend gives him a vine stick
as a souvenir of Italian scenery. The giver, he
says with a jocularity that would have tickled Elia
amazingly, " came to Maisano to take leave of' us ;
so we christened the stick, as they do a seventy-four,
and lie stood rod-fatter." From the more serious
sections of the narrative we would eagerly present to
our readers those in which Leigh Hunt makes his
peace with the memories of Lord Byron and Sir Wal-
ter Scott, writing of them both in a manner that
does honour to bits gentleness of heart, and proves be-
yond all gainsaying his manliness and magnanimity.
As about the most attractive features in the auto-
biography, we reserve them for the perusal of all
persons in the original, satisfied that by so doing we
shall be holding out to the intelligent a scarcely re-
sistible temptation. One passage, however, relating
to Sir Walter Scott, we must be permitted to
transcribe—it is a passage which, as far as the esti•
mation of the noble-minded is concerned, will be like
crowning Leigh Hunt with a crown of laurels:—
“It can be of no consequence to the memory of such
a man what I said or thought of him, whether before
his death or after; but for my own sake, since I am
Forced to speak of such things in a work like the present,
I may be allowed to state, that whatever hostility I was
forced to maintain with his peliticr, and so far with him-
self, I had the pleasure of expressing my regret for the
mistakes which I had made about him, long before I ex-
perienced their ill effect.. I will add, that long after
those effects, and when he was lying sick in ',anion on
his way to his last home, I called every morning at his
door (anonymously; fur I doubted whether nay name
would please him) to furnish a respectful bulletin of his
health to a daily paper, in which I suggested its appear-
ance; and I will not conceal, that as I loved the huma-
nities in his wonderful pages, in spite of the politics
which accompanied them, so I mourned for his closing
days, and shed tears at his death."

LITERATURE.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEIGH
HUNT; with Reminiscences qf Friends and Con-
temporaries. 3 Vols.
Throughout the long list of prose writers whose
uatnets adorn the annals of English literature, we
cannot remember one more thoroughly delightful
to ourselves then the author of the present
" Autobiography." It requires, we are perfectly
aware, a very Considerable amount of temerity
to utter any such explicit opinion during the
lifetime of a man of letters. So great, how-
ever, is our contempt for this species of critical
reservation, that we acknowledge ourselves ready at
all times, on occasion, to set it openly at defiance.
Because a man happens still to be in the flesh, we
cannot for the life of us see why his excellences
should he overlooked, or his gifts or accomplishments
depreciated. It appears to us a very scurvy trick,
that of compelling intellectual celebrities to grruate
through the grave to the honours cf a full and per-
il cted reputation. Yet such has long been the cus-
tom- in society, insianuch so that the majority of
persons are disposed to underrate,
in every possible
mariner, the merits and capacities of their contempo-
raries simply from that very circumstance, because
they are their contemporaries. Against such indi-
viduals we cannot with sufficient earnestness express
our sentiments of complete and diametrical opposition.
It is these people who make up the number ofhowlens
after " the good old times," meaning the times of
bloodshed, and brutality, and ignorance : and who,
shutting their eyes against all that is noble and com-
mendable in these latter days, proclaim the present
age an age of decadence and degeneration. They
little reflect that the same depreciative cries have been
raised in all ages without distinction. They fail to
recognise their own likeness in the person of that
&nellfungus celebrated in the " Sentimental
Journey.' Our abomination of the whole class is so
cordial in its nature, that it is with a secret rapture
that we call to mind the manner in which one of the
genus was " put down" by the surly indifference of
Dr. Johnson It is related of this un-
fortunate wight by Washington Irving,
that • after sitting for a short time in
the presence of the great moralist, he got up to take
leave, expressing a fear that a longer visit might be
troublesome. " Not in the least, sir," said Johnson;
I had forgotten you were in the room." So entirely
do we dissent from their views upon most subjects,
that in scarcely any can we detect that moral
poverty which they declare to be everywhere now--
a-days prevalent. In our native literature, for ex-
ample, we yield the palm in scarcely any particular
to preceding generations. In history, if we have
not a Robertson or a Lvttleton, we have a greater than
either hi Macaulay. Among our poets, if we cannot
number Robert Herrick or Suckling, we have a
Barry Cornwall and a Tennyson. As a novelist we
cannot claim a Fielding or a Smollett, but we can
boast of a ackens. After the utterance of opinions
like these, somewhat less surprise may be
felt at our rashness in designating Leigb
Hunt as one -of the most delightful prose
writers in the language. Delightful at all times, he
becomes especially so whenever his subject will
allow of his being more than usually conversational.
It may be conjectured, therefore, how pleasantly he
can goseip in that most conversational of all kinds of
authorship, autobiography. Out of his own personal
recollections he has contrived to compile three vo-
lumes so charming in their character that we have
perused them from first to last with unflagging
avidity. Everywhere fascinating, his style assumes
to itself an unusual grace, where, like his favourites,
the old Italian writers, " his prose falls a-talking of
his poetry." His own remembrances are fruitful of
incidents, humorous or pathetic, during the years
which followed his birth, on the 19th of October,
1784, et the beautiful village of Southgate in Mid-
diem- x. His reminiscences of friends and contemporaries
furnish him again with an additional store of the most
relishable anecdotes. One while, for example, he re-
minds us, with an almost audible chuckle, of Charles
Lamb's exclamation to
.a brother whist player re-
markable for hands more clever than clean—" M., if
dirt were trumps, what hands you would hold I"
Another time he tells us of Coleridge's remark on
hearing of the death of his savage old schoolmaster,
" It was lucky that the cherubim who took him to
heaven were nothing but faces and wings, or he
would infallibly have flogged them by the way!"
Hear our autobiographer again in his most jocular
mood recounting a circumstance connected with a
visit once paid to him by Wordsworth. " Under the
study," says he, " in which my visitor and I were
sitting, was an archway, leading to a nursery ground;
a cart happened to go through it while I was in-
quiring whether he would take any refreshment; and
he uttered, in so loPy a voice, the words, Anything
which is going forward,' that I felt inclined to ask
him whether he would take a piece Of the cart."
As he observes immediately afterwards, " Lamb
would certainly have done it," but then
Lamb was so peculiarly constituted that, as
Leigh Hunt says of him in another part, arid
in his own most felicitous manner, " One could have
and then melting away into thin air himself, out of a
imagined him cracking a kst in the teeth of a ghost,
sympathy for the awful." It is in these epigrammatic
sketches of character that our author is ever most
happy, touching each one's identity off with peculiar
vividness in a few syllables. What an exquisite
notion he gives us of Mrs. Spencer, where he calls her
"a delicious little old woman, the delight of all the
children of her acquaintance." Then hear him talk
of the morning reader named Salt, who was remark-
able for speaking in his throat, " with a sound as if he
were weak and corpulent," and famous also at
Christ Church, for saying
" murracles" instead of
miracles"—and you have the man at once conjured
up before you visibly, corporeally, and must cer-
tainly audibly. Equally graphic in their force
are the descriptions given towards the commence-
ment of this autobiography of the author's
childish recollections, not only at the time when his
family were struggling on
"between quiet and dis-
turbance, between placid readings and frightful
knocks at the door, and sickness, and calamity," but
likewise on the memorable occasion when a certain
old lady of quality astounded him " by letting her
false teeth slip our, and clapping
them in again.' "1
had no idea," hays he, "of the existence of such
phenomena, and could almost as soon have expected
.
her to take off her head and re-adjust it." About this
period it is that he cells to male seeing Mr. Pitt,
thin and gaunt, in a blue coat, buckskin breeches, and
bouts, powder and pigtail,
" with his hat off his fore-
head and his nose in the air." When he heard Pitt,
moreover, speaking in the Commons in his "loud,
important, and hollow voice,"
and when the persons
he appealed to said " Hear, hear," our author, like a
child as he was, thought that they said "Dear ! dear!" in
objection, and wondered that Pitt did not seem in the
least disconcerted. Anything,
however, it matters
not whether recollections of childhood or of manhood,
receives a flavour racy of our author's humour in
the very process of . passing
through his memory.
When alluding to the cloisters at Christ Church,
called the Garden, and in
all probability once the
vement." Calling to mind
"Its only delicious crop
forrilo nma sa tneyr my garden,ears has hebe
been
na say
pavement."
one of his schoolfellows, who made game even of the
he says of the former," He
terrible pedagogee Boyer,
was a regular wag ; and would snatch his jokes out of
the very flame and fury of
.0e Muster like snakdra
gO7l fame
and too, he pencils oil the
Yankees, where he writes, n cannt .
it get it out of
my head that the Americans are Es
with the poetry and romance
takenngli outhmen,
of
them ; and that there is one great coun-
ter built along their coast from north to
south, behind which they are all standing like so
many linendrapera." He describes the bust of Fa-
broni (a late good-natured critic and bishop), erected
n
to his memory in the Campo Santo at Pisa, mention-
ing that the features are so full of a
.certain jolly
gusto, that he longed to have eaten macaroni with
him—and we behold the bust at once, as Leigh Hens
depicts it, with Fabroni for ever " living in inset ip.
Lion,'' and " looking treats in stone." Equally ad-
smainriaebleis his
cemetery by mention
such c h of,
tmenhe frescoaso
paintings i that
r
gagna, Metntrii
Giotto, and Benozz4—pictures which the
i
figures
repr( servedlike a dream of humanity during
the twilight of creation." His words, moreover, are
quite as epigrammatic in defining the charactistics of a
whole country as in recording any of the minor details
of his compasition. Having observed that " Italy is a
land of volcanoes, more or less subdued," he suddenly
exclaims, "it is a great grapery, built over a flue."
When commenting on the sense of wonder with which
the Italians regard British hardihood and rashness,
he remarks that " An English mail-coach, with that
cauliflower of human beings a-top of it,
,bumping from
side to side, would make the hearts of a Tuscan city
die within them." Once, while expatiatitg on the
picturesque appearance of the Genoese domiciles, he
save, " some of the windows have vines trailed over
them, net in the scanty fashion of our creepers, but
like great luxuriant green hair hanging over the
house's eyes"—a description somewhat kindred to one
in the sixteenth number of "David Copperlield." If
our author, who has a keen eye for colour, sees a.
fisherman with a red cep on, floating in his boat across
the bay of Naples, he says of the_ cop, "it is like
a scarlet bud in the blue atmosphere,' Ile meets in
Piedmont wish an Italian gentleman, whose name,
says he, " was a piece of music—Luigi Rivarola."
Who can describe a sailor's, walk aboard ship during
rough weather better than Leigh Hunt ?
" He
rolled about." erils he, sveAkiov °.f a g.laline Jack
Tar—" he rolled about with the vessel as if his feet
had suckers" The whole aroma given in this por-
tion ut the " Autobiography" of the veyage towards
the Mediterranean, wbee "the minds stud rain toge_.
trier ran blied and howling along. tta vessel's
is worthy, its its surprising vividness, (if a similar in-
cident in the history of. Paetagruel• The new, into
tee small cebin ht which the author and his fatnily
were huddled; in its tumbling about is said
,to bays
•

South San Francisco was rapidly becoming a place
of great resort for shipping. The case and safety with
which many of the largest ships had discharged at
that place had made it a very desirable anchorage. It
was considered the most favourable place for storage
on the bay, particularly on account of its protection.
from fire. It had the purest water • for ships' pur-
poses, and would ultimately be a place of considerable
commercial importance.
From a Sacramento paper we extract the following
description of an extraordinary lump of gold, the
largest, it was said, that hcd ever been found in Cs.
lifornia:—

Lest evening we examined the largest lump of gold
' we believe ever dug in California; it is a re.ixture of
quartz and gold, the whole weighing 301 h. (360 ounces)
' troy, From the tests male, it is ascertained the lump
contains about 23;b. of pure gold. This inaronrch piece
alti dug from a ravine in the dry diggins between the
North and Aliddle Forks of the Yuba River (!he location
being known as the Jain Crow diggiegs), by Mr. W. H.
Jules, of New York City, and Mr. J. Grives, of New
()gleanie The tirtt of these had been a year in the dig.
gings, and had not averaged over 10 dolls. per day. Him-
self and par!ner had taken possession of an old hole
which had beau worked out and deserted by two negroes.
Finding that they could not work to advantage without
draining the ewer cff, they dug a trench or canal, and
as soon es the water dirappeared commenced work.
• They had worked several hours, when one of them
thought he espied a piece of gold jutting out from the
earth in tho.canal which they had dug to carry off the
water from the main hole. Ile stooped to examine it,
and, finding it to be the pure metal, he drew forth his
case knife, scraped the dirt loose around it, while it con-
tinued to grow larger and larger, until the 301 b. lump
above mentioned rolled out at his feet. They kept the
matter a profound secret, and started off to Marysville,
• where they were offered 10,000 dolls, for it, which they
refused. They are exhibiting it at M'Keight'e Sutter
Hotel, at 50 cents per head. The ravine from which
this mammoth lump was taken is 'nothing more than a
email- brook,- running through a flat; the ground rises
'gently on the sides, aed is covered with a rich coat of
grass. It was found about two feet below the surface.
The young men are on their way home, and expect to
realize a fortune from exhibiting it in the States."

COMMERCIAL IN FELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Aua. 24.
Money Market—The Stack market was heavy tc-day
at the First Board with a moderate business. Govern-
ments were in demand and improved le per cent, under
the advices from London. At the Second Board the
market was better, and Erie went up to 75. Reading
was also better and in demand. Tne sales for Reedit%
!or the last few days have been enormous. In Ex-
change there has been but a moderate business for this
steamer. The transactions include hills on London at
10 to 10i per cent. premium; and Paris, .st. 2l c. to
st. 22ic., 60 days; little done on the other places. We
quote on Amsterdam 404-c. to 401 c.; Antwerp. st. 231 c.
to sf. 25c.; ilamburgh,3s/c:; and iirEmen,79ic. to 80c.
Cotton—The demand continued active at steady prices
until the receptien of the Europa's telegiaphic advices
yesterday, when there was lade or nothing done. We
do not vary our quotations. The receipts at all the
shipping ports are, 2,054,073 bales, againbt 2.695407
to same date last year—a decrease this season of
641,334 bales. The total foreign export this year is
675,855 bales less than last, say 462,068 bales decrease
co Great Britaiti, 82.996 'decrease to Fiance, 90,040 de-
crease to north of Europe, and 36,751 decrease to other
foreign parts. The shipments from southern to
northern parts arc 6,507 bales less this season than last;
and there is an increase in stock of 38,565 bales. The
sales since our last are 9,500 betles—we quote:—

Atlantic Porta.
Inferior
Low to go4AI ordinary
Low to good piddling 12i —13 e.
Middling tar to fair
Fully fair to good fair
Good and fine
The arrivals have Leen from—

Gulf Ports.
11i to Hie.
12 124,1
12~— 1310.
1:4
14ie.
none.

none.

Galveiton
New Orleans ...
Georgia
South Carolina

846 bales.
... 405
... 795
... 1,637

Totd ... 3,683 bales.
Totil import duce Ist inst. ... 10.530 bales.

Export from Ist to 20th August. 1850. 1849
Cotton bales ... ... 38.110 8,047,
EXPORT FROM THE UNITED STATES.
Since Ist of Septt-mber, 1849
Same time, 1848
Domebtle Goods

Export from Ist to 20th August. 1850. 1849.
Cotton goods, packages
Grain—New wheat is ccming forward to a fair ex-
tent from the west and south, but with a moderate de-
mand for milling, prices are without particular change.
The sales are-5,000 bushels prime white Pennsylvania,
at 1 (Hi. 241 c.; 3,700 good new Indians, 1 doll. 3c.;
30,000 Canada white, last week, 1 doll. 15e. in bond;
and 8,300 newGruesste and free Canada on terms not
to :de public. 11)e is in moderate supply, and a little
higher. The sales are 14,500 bushels, at 63ic. to 64c.
in the slip, and 64i e. to 65c. delivered. Oats are with-
out particular change; we quote river and canal, 40e. to
440.; Jersey, 37e. to 40e.; and Canada, 39e. to 41e. Two
cargoes Southern yesterday brought 34, cash. Corn was
in good supply and fair demand at previous rates until
yesterday, when, after the Europa's telegraphic advices
were received, higher prices were demanded; no sales,
however, were made at an improvement, but the market
evidently closed with increased firmness. The sales ate
112,000 bushels, at 62i0. to 63,.. for mixed WeStern, to
which the supply is mossly confined, closing at 63c.,
60e., and 61c , for heated, and 64ic. to 65c. for round
e;low.

Export, from August 1 to August 20.
1850. 1849.
Bushels. Buibels.
... 19.952 9,680
4.860 186.249

Wheat ...
Corn ...

Flour and Meal-The improved feeling in the flour
market, noted as existing for some descriptions in our
last, has since become general, and with a very good de-
reand both for export and home use; prices generally
have slightly advanced, and the market closes with firm-
ness and buoyancy, the conviction being prevalent that
rates have reached their lowest point. Canada is in-
active and lower, with sales of 4,000 barrels at 3 dolls.
50c. to 3 dolls. 621 c. for sour; and 4 dolls. 50c. to
4 dolls. €2lc. for superfine No. 1 in bend. The sales
beside.i wei e-Saturday, 14,000 barrel-; 9,000 for ex-
port; Monday, 8,500; and yesterday, 12,000; one•hall
tor export. We quote sour, 3 dolls. 62ic. to 3 dolls.
87F.; fine, 3 doll, hoc. to 3 dolls. 750.; superfine No. 2,
3 dolls. 62ic. to 3 dolls. 75c.; ordinary State, old, 4 dulls.
25c. to 4 itolls. 37ie.; common State, 4 dolls. 37ic. to
4 dolls. 434 e.; straight State (both fresh ground), 4 dolls.
4340. to 4 dolts. 50c.; favourite Stave, 4 dolls. 50c.
to 4 dolls. 621 c.; mixed Ohio, Indians, &c., 4 dolls.
25c. to 4 doiN. 37ic.; mixed Michigan, 4 dolls.
37i-c. to 4 dulls. 4340.; strap ht ditto and good
Unto, 4 dolls. 434 ti. to 4 dolls. 50c. ; fancy
Michigan, 4 dolls. 56,1 c. to 4 dolls. 62ic.; pure
Genessee, 5 dolls. Vic. to 5 dolls. 50c. for old,
end 5 dolls. 50a. to 5 dulls. 684 c. for new, fancy Ohio,
5 dolls. 371 c. to 5 dolls. 50c.•' fancy Genessee, 5 dolls.
75c. to 6 dolls.; extra Ohio, 5 dolls. 50c. to 5 dolls. 684 o;
and extra Genessee, 6 dolls. to 6 dolls. 50c. Southern
has been in fair demand, but closes heavily at previous
rates, with sales of 4,000 bbls. at 5 d0115..25c. to 5 dolls.
311 c. for mixed, and 5 dolls. 3lic. to 5 dolls. 37ic. for
straight brands, 5 dolls. 75c. to 6 dolls. 12ic. for tuncy,
and 5 dolls. 75c: for new Baltimore, 80. Rye flour is
without change; the sales are 1,000 bbls. ut 2 dolls. 87itc.

Ic is said by our author, when speaking of Sir
Walter in regard to genius, that he was " perhaps
the least quotable for sententiousness, or wit, or any
other memorable brevity, in the whole circle of
illustrious writers." The remark is novel to us,
and, we cannot help thinking no less correct
than novel. Certainly the same thing cannot be
said of Leigh Hunt himself; of which, if further il-
lustration be required, we could give them from this
very work before us abundantly. Thus, for its sen-
tentious humour, the following mention of Mr. Kin-
naird is to the last degree adtnirable—it is in evidence
of his loyalty :—" After dinner he begged that God
save the King' might be played to him on the piano-
forte ; to which he listened as if his soul had taken its
hat off" Contracting broadly with this, what a fine
thought that is that the world is not old enough to
know better than it does, " because we yet live but in
the tuning of its instruments." Of poetry Leigh
Hunt always talks with the taste and genius of one
qualified to discourse on that divine inspiration. In-
stance this his question, " Who does not learn to
love everything in the all embracing sweetness of
poetry ?" And again, "It is our business to be
grateful for what a poet sets before us, rather than to
be wishing that his peaches , were nectarines, or hi&
Falerniatt champagne." One more laughable anec-
dote we must cull from this delightful autobiography.
It is as follows :
" An amusing story is tald of Thornton, which may
show the quick and ingenious, but, perhaps, not very
feeling turn of his mind. It is said that he was once dis-
covered by his other sitting in a box at the theatre,
when he ought to have been in his rooms at college.
The old gentleman addressing him accordingly, that
youngster turned in pretended amsz ment to the people
%bout him, um! said, 'Snioke old wigaby, who takes me
for his sou: Thornton, senior, upon this, indignantly
hait..ns out of the box, with the manifest intention of
setting oil for Oxford, and finding the rooms vacant.
Thornton, junior, takes double post-horses, and is there
before him, quietly sitting in his chair. He rises from it
on his father's appearance, and crier,' Ah; dear sir, is it
you? To what am I indebted for this unexpected
pleasure?"'

to 2 dolls. 93ie. Corn meal remains firm, with a good
demand at previous rates; the sales are 500 bbls. Jersey
at 3 dolls. 12ic. cash.
Export, from:lst to 20th of August..
1850. 1849.
Wheat flour, barrels... 89,369 57,016

Provitcions— Ohio pork has been in bf tier demand,
yeetorday, owl tor mess some improvement
4,as elobiry firmly; the' sales are 3 000 barrels,
at 8 Oolls. 3lie. to 8 dolls. 37ife. for prime; 10 dolls.
314 e. to l 0 dolly. 434 e. for mess, mostly 10 dolls. 37ie.;
and 9 dolls. 874,,. tor thin mass. Beef is in steady
tad rather incre.sed request, and some 300 to 400
barrels have again charged hands within our range.

150 bat nits of beef hams —brought 12. dolls. 50e. Ohiolard is steady, with a fair demand for home use, the
=ales are 700 barrels, at Etc. t Cie. for prime, and .500
kegs 71. Cut meats have been more active than for
some trace past. anti we note sales of 800 casks at gc.
and 6c. for dry salmi shoulders and hams, and 511. to
6.. for pickled hams.
Export from Ist to 20tb August.
1850 1849.
Beef ... barrels 1.139. 668
Pork- 5,025 4,321
Lyn! kegs 1,294 4,545
Iron—The market tor various descriptions is without
particular change. We notice sales of 250 to 300 tone
Swedes, at 80 oolls. to 81 dolls. ; 450 ditto, Scotch pig in
yard, 20 dolls. ; 500 ditto, from the wharf, 20 dolls.
25e., with some in a small way at 20 dolls. 50c, • all
.n the usual time ; 90 ditto, wrought scrap, 25 dolls.
25e. cash ; and 100 ditto cast scrap, on terms not made
- -

In writing with the gusto of a humorist of the meet-
ing between the little Prince of Monaco and the
Emperor Napoleon, Leigh Hunt expresses an uncer-
tainty as to whether it took place on the occasion of
Napoleon's j,,urney to or his return from Elba. It
was in the vicinity of Climes, at the commencement
of the triumphal march to Paris which inaugurated
the famous Hundred Days. Another portion of the
work, which having simply regard to details, seems to us
to require emendation, is that in which our author, with-
out naming his authorities. fixes Cuccaro as the birth-
place of Columbus. Apart from all such minor
particulars, these three volumes of " Autobio-
graphy" form an inestimable contribution
towards the history of British literature.
They yield, moreover, a thousand beautiful tokens of
excellence, on the part of their writer, justifying
those who have come to look upon his name as one
among their "household words, a name associated
with the love of Paulo, and the woods of Rimini, and
those pastoral charms abounding in our English land-
scapes, in the delineation of which, in melodious
verse, Leigh Hunt has acquired for himself a sweet
and enviable celebrity. Between the publication of
his Autobiography and the present criticism upon it,
the author's elder brother (mentioned affectionately
in its pages) has breathed his last, a circumstance
which can only tend to increase the sympathies to-
wards Leigh Hunt of those who, like ourselves,
know him merely through his writings, while
it can only deepen their aspirations for his own
longevity.

rialireei!;bl-,,ts To Liverpool there has been rather less
fir
though the engagements hare been consider-
able. Ws. notice 2 000 bales of cotton at 3-16 d. to id.,
mostly 7.32 d, 15,000 barrels of flour, Is. 6d. to le. 9d.;
20 hhds. tobacco, 205.; 11.000 bushels wheat, 5d., &c.
To London last w, ek, 30,000 bushels wheat, 3d. To
Glasgow, 1,200 barrels flour, Is. 9d.; 200 resin. Is. 6d.;
rind 50 ashes, 17c 6;. To E-lavre there is more offering.
To Amstt-rdam, 75 barrels ashes, 17s. 6d.; 100 resin, 2s.
and 20 tons measurement goods. 20s. A British schooner
for Teneriffe took staves at 25 dolb. per 1,000.
TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
NEW ORLEANS, Aucusr 20.
Cotton has advanced a, 2 500 halts have been sold at
12} to 12i for middling, and 12i for good middling.
freights to Liverpool are 7-161.

- NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 22.
The cotton market is dull The tales y..bte,tday of 1y
reached 300 bales, ut 1:24f! to 12ie. for middlitl.

When penetration is guided by malevolence and
hate, it sees only that which is supetficial; but when bene-
volence and Live direct it, it fathoms men and things, and
may hope to attain unto the most elevated mysteries.
Lliza Cook's Journal.
CONVICTS FAt HOBART TOWN hired convict
ship Hyderabad is appointed t o sail from Queenstown, Ireland,
with 400 male convicts, on Thursday next.

BANWRN IRON COMPANY —lll vursuance of an
order for the sale of tbis undertaking, under the Joint-
S ock Companies Whaling. up Act from the Court of
Cnancery, the property hear Neath, consistiug • of i,37 act ts
oT mineral grotu.d, and 31,2 ni les of tram-roao, with fur
nace:3, &c., put up to auction at Swansea hist week, but
Do bid being offered, it was b,ught in. This is the si-cud
bale of prol.c.rly u. tt,r !Le Wllitibg up Act, the first bmig
that of the _Yin wich Yarn Company, which failed to find a
purchaser.

We tuiderstAmt th,t flerhill Wynn, of
the 7th Fusiliers, will offer himself as a candidate for the
represent.ti,n of the county of Montgomery, on Protectionist
principles, in consequence of the death of his uncle, the
Right lion. Charles Williams Wynn.— Herald.

ONDON, THURSDA Y EVENING, S.EPTEIdIiE It 5, 1850.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
It is rumoured in naval circles that Lord Francis
Russell, brother of the Premier, is about to resign
the command of her Majesty's ship Tweed. The
reason assigned for this step is o it i, stated, to
a reproof administered to his Lordship by the Admi-
ralty for not taking proper precautions to secure the
health of his crew during the prevalence of the fearful
epidemic that has ravaged nearly the whole of the
south-east coast of America.
'We have received letters from our private corre-
spondent in the Tagus up to the 29th of August ; at
that time Commodore Martin's squadron was lying
there, with the exception of the Encounter and Con-
flict ; the former would probably proceed to the Me-
diterranean to join the fleet under Admiral Sir Wil-
liam Parker. The latter vessel was to go on to Gib-
raltar, and return with stores for the Li•bon squadron.
.I'he late order issued by the Admiralty for the ad-
tnission at assistant surgeons into the ward and gun-
roomy has given general satis.action ; and, on board
the Prir.ce iseeent (the commodore's ship), the com-
mander and his meesmates did not wait for the issue
of the general order, but immediately on the arrival
of the packet announcing the decision of the board
they invited Dr. M'Leod and his two brother officers
to join their mess, where they were received in the
most cordial manner.
In our list of ships now in commission we acci-
dentally omitted the Cygnet, brig, of 8-guns and 80
men ; the Dolphin, brigantine, of 3-guns and 65
men—ls:li on their way to the coast of Africa. We
also did not insert the names of three or four small
tenders at Sheernes., as their crews are borne on the
books of the flag-ship—'heir names are, the Rennie,
Hope, Ceres, and Thames.
The Firefly, steam-sloop, 3 guns and 220-horse
power, has been commissioned at Woolwich, by
Commander George A. Seymour; she will take out
the October mail to the coast of Africa.
Pos.' SMOOTH, WEDNESDAY.--Tae Lords of the Ad-
miralty embarked last night, about 8 o'clock, on
board their yacht, the Black Eagle, for the Channel
Islands, and, most probably, Cherbourg.
This morning the Lightning steam-vessel, with
Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, Rear-Admiral
Sir Chirles Napier, and other distinguished officers
ou board, sailed at 8 o'clock for Cnerbourg.
The Fire Queen steam-yacht, with C.&ptain Chads,
C. 8., on board, and a large party of officers of the
Royal Naval College, also sailed this morning for
Cherbourg.
The steam-packets Prince Albert and Lindsey,
the property of the local steam-packet companies,
also sailed this morning for Cherbourg, well freighted
with passengers to witness the grand review of the
French fleet.
The Blenheim Indiaman, one of the fleet of Messrs.
Smith, sailed at 6 o'clock y esterday evening 14 Cal-
cutta. This splendid ship is frigate-built, is pierced
for 48 guns, and has been pronounced by the dock-
yard authorities as quite able to carry that number of
32-pounders. She is 1,660 tons, builders' measure-
ment, and 210 feet from stem to stern. The officers
of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 60, Captain Hen-
derson, C. 8., lying at. Spithead, spent a considerable
time on board, and expressed their admiration of their
namesake in marked terms. On leaving the ship the
men, the crews of her .Majesty's ships and officers,
gave the Indiaman three hearty cheers and one cheer
more for her prosperous voyage and safe return,
which were acknowledged right lustily. She then
set sail with a full and valuable cargo, and every cabin
occupied.
The Fanny tender, Second Master Scarlett, sailed
this morning, with a large party of naval officers, for
Cherbourg.
The Dragon steam-frigate, Captain Gifrard, went
out of harbour to Spit head this morning.
The Portsmouth yacht sailed this morning, with
Captain Charles Eden and party, for Cherbourg.
PLYMOUTH, SETT. 3.—Admiral de Mackau, formerly
Minister of Marine for France under Louis Philippe ; le
Comte de Kerouariz, Captain de Frigate; and M.
Fourgunot, arrived on Mon lay at Elliott's Royal
Hotel. They have called on the Port Admiral Sir
William Hall Gage, Commodore Superintendent
Lord John Hay, and the heads of other public de-
partments, have visited the dockyard and inspected
men-of•war, &c. These distinguished visitors leave
to-morrow (Wednesday) for London.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are
expected here, on an official visit, on Thursday.
Commodore-Superintendent Lord John Hay
hoisted his broad pennant on board the St. George,
at twelve P.M. on Friday, when she was put in cow,
mission.

Admiral Moresby hoisted his flag, blue at the
mia-n, on board the Portland, Ceptain Henry Chad,
on Monday. In the evening it was struck again, the
Admiral having gone on leave of absence.
The crew of the packet-brig Crane were paid wages
on Monday, when she sailed for Plymouth.
The steamer Flamer is hourly expected. On ar-
rival her crew are to be paid wages, and she is to
convey the mails to the coast of Africa, touching at
Madeira.
Le Sanspareil block-ship will not be launched until
the first spring-tides in October.
The frigate Trincomalee and the brigantine Pan-
dora are ordered to be brought forward for commis-
sion; and the steam-vessels Vulture, "Vesuvius, and
Vii ago are also to be brought forward.
One hundr d and forty shipwrights have been taken
from Le Sanspareil and placed on the Portland, to get
her in readiness. to be taken out of dock the next
springetides. She is very defective, and will require
to be lifted, caulked, and new coppered. It is stated
that the Dublin, America, or Lancaster could be got
ready in much less time.
Wind—N. W., light breeze.
APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 4.—Commander George A.
Seymour (1845), to the Firefly steam-vessel, of 220-
horse power, commissioned this day at Woulwicb.
Lieutenant John Trevenan (1850), recently pro-
moted from the Ocean, 80, flag-ship at Sheerness, to
the Firefly.
Lieutenant John Corbett (1846) to the Excellent
gunnery-Aip at Portsmouth.
Acting-islaster G. R. Barnes (second master of
1846), to the Firefly.
Paymaster and Purser (acting) William Thom, re-
cently Clerk of the Victory flag- ship at Portsmouth,
to the Firefly.
Midshipman Edward White, to the Porgand, 50,
flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8., for the
Pacific station.
Master's-Assistants James H. Laurence and John
Jones, to the Firefly.
Clerk G. W. S. Hire (1850), to the Firefly.
N evel Cadet John Liddel, to the Portland.
Acting Gunner John Metchear, to :he Firefly.
The Buzzard steam-sloop has had her bottom
covered with copper sheathing, and was taken out of
the dock to-day, and placed under the shears at the
West side of the basin.
The Rosamond, 6, steam-sloop, of 287-horse power,
Wfas taken out of the inner basin to-day and into the
dock vacated by the Buzzard being taken out.
The Wasp steam-sloop will be ready for commis-
siau by the end of the present month, and commis-
sioned in the curly part of October to take out the
November mails to the coast of Africa, where she is
to be stationed. It is the intention of the authorities
to rend steamers only in future to the coast of Africa,
a they are the most efficient for the suppression of
the slave trade. The sailing vessels are to be all
wiihdrawn so soon as a sufficient number of steamers
can be gut ready to take their places.
THE SUBMA RINE TELEGRAPH
BETWEEN CALAIS AND DOVER.
DOVER, WEDNESDAY.—The wire so successfully
submerged last week has been cut asunder among
the rocks at Cape Grisnez, where the physical cot,-
figuration of the French coast has been found unfa-
vourable for it as a place of holdfast or fixture. All
communication between coast and coast has conse
quently been suspended for the present. The precise
point where the breakage took place is 200 yards out
at sea, and just where the twenty miles of electric line
that had been streamed out from Dover joins on to a
leaden tube, designed to protect it from the surge
beating against the beach, and which serves the pur-
pose of conveying it up the front of the cliff to the
telegraph station on the top. This leaden conductor, it
would appear, was of too soft a texture to resist the
oscillation of the sea, and thereby became detached from
the coil of gutta percha wire that was thought to have
been safely Encased in it. The occurrence was, of
course, quickly detected by the sudden cessation of
the series of communications that have been sustained
since the first sinking of the electric cable between
here and the Cape, though it was at first a perplexing
point to discover at what precise spot the wire was
broken or at fault. This, however, was done by haul-
ing up the line at intervals, a process which disclosed
the gratifying tact that since its first sinking it had
remained in situ at the bottom of the sea, in conse-
quence of the leaden weights or clumps that were
strung to it at every 16th of a mile. The operation
was accomplished by Messrs. Brett, Reid, Wollaston,
and E iwards, who have been attending to the ma-
nagement of the telegraph without intermission, and
who are now, with their staff, removing the wire
to a point nearer Cal4is, where from soundings it
has been ascertained that there are no rocks, and
where the contour cf the coast is favourable. It
is thought that for the present leaden tube a
tube of iron must be substituted, the present
apparatus being considered too fragile to be
permanently answerable. The experiment, as far as
it hiss gone, proves the Possibility of the gutta percha
wire resisting the action of the salt water, of the fact
Of its being a perfect waterproof insulator, and that
the weights on the wire are sufficient to prevent its
being drifted away by the current,, and of
in the sands. During the period that the wire was
perfect messages vse-re daily printed by Brett's Print-
ing Telegraph, in legible Roman t.}p9, on long strips
of paper, in the presence of a numerous French and