The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-03 00:00:00

THE MARKET.—Friday Evening, Feb. 14.

Ashes—The market remains without change. Pots
are selling in small parcels at $8 25 to $8 371. Pearls are
nominal.

Beeswax is quiet at 40 to 41e.
Breadstuffs —The market for State and Western ft ur is
140 t 80 active; but pricer remain without essential change,

The sales are 7,100 bbls at $8 40 to $9 30 for superfine
State; $9 80 to $lO 20 for common extra State; $lO 30
to $lO 80 for good to choice do; $8 40 to $9 30 for super-
fine Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, lowa, &c., and $9 60 to $lO
25 for extra do ; $lO 35 to $ll 80 for choice extra do, in-
cluding shipping brands of round hoop Ohio at $9 80 to
$lO 35, and trade brands of do at $lO 45 to $l4 ; good to
choice white wheat extras at $l2 75 to $l5; St. Louis at
$lO 50 to $l2 for common to good, and $l2 to $l5 50 for
good to choice, closing quietly. We quote:—
Superfine State ... $8.40 to $9.30
Extra State 9.00 to 10.80
Super Western... 8.40 to 9.30
Extra Western... 9.60 to 10.25
Extra Ohio round hoop „. ... 9.80 to 10.35
Ditto (trade) 10.43 to 14.00
Extra Genesee... to
Extra St. Louis ... ... 10.50 to 15.50
Southern Flour—ls in fair request at former rates. Sales
were made at 559 bbls at $lO to $ll 40 for common to fair
extra, and $ll 50 to $l5 for good to choice do.
California Flour—The market is not so active, but a
shade better prices are realized. The sales are 1,400 sacks
at $l2 50 to $l3 75 if by way of Cape Horn, and $ll 25 if
via the Isthmus.
Rye Flour—There is a fair business doing and full
prices aro prevailing. Sales were made of 400 bbls at
$7 50 to $9 30.
Corn Meal—ls inactive. We do not learn of any sales
of moment.
Wheat—The market generally is unchanged, though
for California an advanc3 of one to two cents is obtained.
The sales are 39,000 bush, at $2 40 to $2 42 for No. 2
spring in store and delivered; $2 53 for Amber Green Bay
delivered; $3 17 for white California and white Southern
on private terms.
Rye—There is not much doing, but full prices are pre-
vailing. Sales were made of 1,500 bush, state at $1 78 in
store.

Barley—The supply is still loss than the wants of the
trade. Prices are firmly held.
Barley Malt-3,500 bush sold at $1 90 to $2.
Beans—Are very firmly held at irregular prices.
Corn—The market opened steadily, but closed heavily
at a decline of one to two cents. The sales are 57,000
bush at $ t 26 $1 28 for new Western mixed afloat ; $1 29
for choice lots of ditto ; $1 24 to $1 28 for white South-
ern, $1 30 for handsome Western yellow ; $1 15 to $1 27
for New Orleans, and $1 25 to $l. 26 for new y ellow
Jersey.
Oata—Aro inactive and prices are in the buyer's favour.
Sales were made of 32,000 bush Western:at 841 c in store,
and 86 to 861 c afloat.
Candles- Aro steadily held at 20 to 230 for adamantine ;
45c for sperm ; 55c for patent.
Coffee—There is a moderate inquiry, but no transac-
tions of moment are reported.
Rice.—We do not learn of much doing to-day, but as
the stock is quite reduced holders are demanding a slight
advance. We quote Carolina at lOic to 111-e.
Salt.—The market for English is quiet. There have
been large arrivals of Ashton's within the past few days,
but we do not learn of any forced sales. Of the other
brands there is a good supply, which is being jobbed of at
former prices. We quote as jobbing prices—s 3 90 to $4
for Ashton's ; $2 90 to $3 for Marshall's and Worthing-
ton's; $3 to $3 10 for Higgins's ; and $2 to $2 10 for
Liverpool ground. Prussian salt is quoted at $3 to $3 25 ;
bulk salt is dull at 50c. to 55c for job lots of Turk's Island.
Domestic salt remains without change. There is a fair
stock here, for which former prices are being obtained for
small lots. We quote 50c. for solar fine ; 50c for solar
coarse ; 45c for common fine ; $1 80 for Syracuse ground ;
and $2 65 for factory filled.
Seeds—ln grass seeds there is no change. Clover is
selling in a small way at 12 to 13c, and timothy at $2 75
to $3. For flax there is but little inquiry.
.A few parcels
aro selling at $2 60 to $2 70. Linseed—We noto further
sales of $5,000 bags, March shipment, at $2 15, gold, in
bond, and 2,000 bags to arrive per the Santee, a resale, on
private terms.
Soap—Castile is quoted at 16 to 161 c.
Spelter—Silesian is firmly held at 6i to Gic gold, with
sales of 125 tons on private terms.
Spices—The market generally is very quiet, but prices
are steadily held. With the exception of 500 bales cloves,
which have been sold in bond for export, wo do not learn
of anything worthy of mention.
Sugar —The market for raw is not so active, but prices
are steadily held. We quote fair to good refining at 1210
to 121 c., and No. 12 Box at 121 c. The sales are 65 hhds.
Cuba at 121 c to 131 e; 50 boxes Havanas at 131 c; and at
auction 212 boxes Havana at Hic to 14/0. The demand
for refined is good at former rates. We quote soft yellow
at 141 c to 151 c ; soft white at 151 c to 16-ic, and crushed,
powdered, and granulated at 17-1-e.
Teas—There is a little more demand at full prices. The
sales from first hands aro 2:700 hf ch green ; 2,700 do.
Oolong, and 2,500 do. Japan.
Tallow—The market is in the buyers' favour. Sales
were made at 110,000 lbs at 11e to llic, the latter price

an extreme.
Stearino—Thero is but little doing. We notice sales of
42,000 lbs at 131 c to 14:.
Grease—The sales are 29,000 lbs at 9c to 11c.
Butter—The market is unchanged. The demand for
the prime qualities is active, and as the offerings are light,
prices aro firmly held. The common ;and medium grades
are plenty, and sell slowly at about former rates. The re-
ceipts of Canada aro liberal, but are mainly of the poorer
qualities, which are in but little request. We quote Stahl
in Welsh tubs at 40 to 46c; do in firkins at 47 to 49c, and
do in half firkins at 50 to 52c. Canada at 27 to 35c as in
quality.
Cheese—There is no new feature in the market. The
exporters aro buying choice in very small quantities at
steady prices, but no considerable lot could be moved
unless the sellers would submit to a material decline. The
home trade is light. We quote dairies at 11 to He, and
factory at 12 to 15c.
Tin—Pig is inactive at 21e, gold, for Straits ; 25 to 26c
do for Banca ; 23 to 231-c do, for English. Plates are
in small demand ; we quote I. C. charcoal at $8 25 ; 500
boxes were sold on priVate terms.
Tobacco—There is little doing, but prices are firm. Wo
notice sales of 132 hhds Kentucky at 8 to 18c.
Whalebone is moderately active; 5,0001bs Arctic were
sold at 69c, gold.
Whisky—The market is quiet and prices are nominal.
Lard—The market is dull and prices are declining.
Sales were made of 650 tcs and bbls at 14 to 141-e for No 1
to kettle rendered city ; 14 to 14}c for "Western ; 14} to
144 c for steam rendered and kettle dried do, and 14i to
15c for kettle rendered do, the latter price an extreme.
Gunny Bags—There is a small demand; 50 bales in
Boston wore sold at 19c.
Gunny Cloth—ls slow of sale at 19e.
Hay—ls offered at $1 to $1 05 for shipping, and $1 20
to $1 40 for retail qualities.
Hemp—Manilla is steadily held ; 500 bales were sold at
11c, gold.
Hides—Are rather quiet to-day. We have only to note
sales of 1,500 Texas, 25 to 26lbs, on private terms.
Hops —We do not learn of any change in the market.
Small lots aro selling to the brewers at 15c to 60c for Ame-
rican, and 30c to 45c for Bavarian.
Iron—Scoth Pig—The market is a little more active ;
100 tons Glengarnock, from yard, were sold at $4O ; 150
tons Gartsherrie, from yard, at $4l, and 125 tons Eglinton
do. at $4O. American—There continues a fair business at
unchanged prices ; the sales are 2,900 tons Crane and
Thomas, for general delivery, monthly, within 90 days, at
$33 to $35. We have to quote sales of 400 tons old rails
on private terms.
Lath—There is nothing doing from first hands in con-
sequence of the lack of stock. Eastern aro quoted at $3.
Lead—Foreign is steadily held at 61,- to 61c., gold, for
ordinary.

Leather—Hemlock is held at full prices, although no de-
cided change is noted. The business has been mostly to
meet orders from the South and West, the demand from
the East being very light. The shipments abroad have
been very fair. The receipts hero are very moderate, and
the market is quite poorly supplied with light weight com-
mon and damaged qualities which meet with the most de-
mand. Oak is not sought after to any extent ; our last
quotations are, however, sustained. Rough meets with
a very fair inquiry, more particularly light qualities.
Naval Stores—Spirits of Turpentine—There is a better
receipt noted, and prices are more in the buyers' favour ;
we quote at 65c for merchantable lot., with no sales of
moment noted. Rosins—The market for the low grades is
at a stand ; no decided change in prices is noted ; No. 1
and pale are moderately active, at very full figures; the
sales are 275 bbls No. 2 on private terms ; 300 bbls do. at
$3 371-; 100 bbls lcw No. 1 at $3871 to $4 ; 412 bbls fine
No. 1 at $4 75, and 750 bbls at $5 50 to
.55 75, with
a small lot do. rumoured sold at $6 75.
Oils—Linseed is firmly held at $ll5 to $1 18; 5,000
galls were sold for the balance of the month at $1 15. In
fish oils the business is very slow ; wo quite at $2 to $2
05 for crude sperm ; $2 25 to $2 30 for refined do ; 62c to
650 for crude whale ; 76c to 78c for refined do. Lard is
a little easier at $1 23 to $1 38, the latter price for strictly
prime lots. Wo notice sales of 25,000 lbs tallow oil on pri-
vate terms.
Petroleum—,Crude—ls firmly held at 111 e in bulk ; 1,500
bbls do were sold on private terms, and 400 bbls in ship-
ping order, at 171 c. Bonded—There is a very irregular
market ; we quote standard white at 240 to 243 c ; 600 bbls
were sold at the latter price. For Philadelphia delivery
we have to note the sale of 2,000 bbls bonded, standard
white, for March delivery at 23...
Provisions—Pork—The market is very quiet. We no-
tice sales of 1,150 bbls, at $23 50 for now Western mess,
cash regular way, closing at $23 50, $22 12 for '66 to '67
mess; $lB to $l9 for primp and extra prime, and $2O to
$2O 75 for prime mess. The afternoon market is quiet but
steady, We quote new mess at $23 37 to $23 50.
Drugs, &c.—The trade, which is very light, is princi-
pally in chemicals; the sales are 100 tons soda ash, at 21-e
to 2ae gold ; 25 tons sal soda at lie do, 500 kegs bicarb
soda at tic to 41e, 100 casks bleaching powders at 41c to
tie currency, and 50 tons do, to arrive, at 3 3-16 to 31c
gold.
Wool. —There is a fair inquiry from the manufacturers
for the low and medium grades, but at low prices. The
offerings of this description are light. For the fine quali-
ties the is but little demand. Foreign wool iv inactive,

Births.
bite,
CATHCART—On the Ist inst., at Bolton Hall, Yon-s
the Hon. Mrs. A. Cathcart, of a daughter. etofn
Fox©o the Ist inst., at IteciflleHouse, Stoke New"'
the wife of E. H. J. Fox, Esq., of a daughter. ,eeti
GOODE—On the 24th ult., at 18, South Audley-P
Mrs. Wm. James Goode, of a daughter.

Marriages.
vtr• liA°3:sp
LEWIS—TIARRISON—On the 29th ult., at Mal as'
younger son of tho late John Lewis, Esq., of
Monmouthshire, to Emily Gwynne, second sur''
daughter of George Harrison, Esq., of Malpas.
METCALF—WILKS—Gn the 29th ult , Reigate, u-tbetli,
T. P. Metcalf, Esq., Canningten, Somerset,. fillipt'ar
ODeC
the third surviving daughter of the late Jose
Wilks, Esq., H.E.I. Co.'s S.

Deaths. iebire'
CALVERLEY—On the 28th ult , at Oulton ITa „11, x°l--'.
John Calverley, Esq., aged. 79. fbi I4°r
CHAMBERS - On the 29th ult., at Ferndale, sou
wood, Fred. A. Chambers, Esq., aged 39. 130.
CHANDLER—On the 28th ult., at 308, Fulham-road,
Alfred Chandler, aged 60. Ari 9 'l''
MARTIN —At The Susan's, Eastbourne, suddenlY, "'"-5
F. Martin, aged 60. rit,,,g Vrieei
PRICE—On the Ist itst., at Brighton, Ralph v"--.
Esq., of Hill House, Carshalton, agr) d 59. der
A so
RoitEnTsoN—On the 28th ult., at Cheltenham, 4-1°
r 9
11. Robertson, Esq., aged 43. WI)
Rosier On the 29 h ult., at St. Leonard's-on-Seth
Roxby, Esq., aged 58.
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(From the 31.9riggyiSlar.)
Ir. Dickens has just hal...shed a course of readings
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Christmas Carol," and ending with " Boots at the
Hollow Tree Inn."

We were early in our seats on that memorable
first night, and waited long with such patience as
we could command, and yet he we looked for
seemed to come before us suddenly at last, with the
still swifness of a meteor. His business-like man-
ner nipped in the bud the surprised salutation of an
audience somewhat slow and cool, for he went at
the work in hand with brief pause or preliminary,
and put directly at us the fact that " Marley was
dead." And he went through with that work with
no dallying or coquetting with the subject or
" points" at a flying leap ;
audience—taking his
and when all was done going as he came, rather
hurriedly and unceremoniously, our hearty farewell
burst of applause scarcely overtaking him, such
good time did he make in his retreat.
Mr. Dickens's style of reading is new to us. We
are glad to find it so refreshingly unprofessional and
uuhackneyed—to see in it no attempt at stale elocu-
tionary effects and stage " business." About him
is no odour of the footlights—no musty stage tradi-
tions smother his genius. His English is simply
that of an English gentleman. The descriptive
portions of his readings are given precisely, it seems
to us, as he would read or talk to a little group of
friends in his own pleasant library At home. Yet
his voice has leas to do with his personations than
we expected. His face, his action, more distinctly
mark his characters—in short, we find him more of
an actor than a reader. Yet it seemed that the
" Chrismas Carol" had never before made music s'a
merry, so solemn, or so tender as when it came from
his lips, as once it came from his heart.
The coming of a great author before the people,
to read from his own works, is an event peculiar to
the age we live in_it shows, begging the pardon
of our distinguished English visitor—the progress
of liberal, not to say democratic, ideas. It could
during the last century,
scarcely have occurred
when literary genius was both more subservient
and more arrogant than now ; when it was hedged
in, like royalty, by awful reverence and wonder.
Think of Richardson reading his " Clarissa Har-
lowe" to a tearful audience of our great, great
grandmamas, or of Johnson rolling on to the
platform to read his " Rasselas," or even of
Scott reciting " Marmion." Olympus is being
grafted dowir-iirtmr.eploorrilrergetting""iiie—wp-
on to Olympus. The last proposition has certainly
seemed the true one during these more than " Ara-
bian Nights' Entertainments," when, with hearts
thrilled with pleasure that was almost pain, or
touched with pain that was sweeter than pleasure,
we have looked and listened, and laughed, and
wept, and grown young again under the spell of a
great master.
And say what you will over there of " American
furors," the return to us of this great novelist, who
has satirised and delighted us, whom we have with-
stood on the copyright—bad luck to us—whom we
have reproached and loved, read and robbed for
more than a quarter of a century, is a profoundly
interesting event, coming as does, not as the terrible
note-taking " chiel," but as the interpreter of his
own marvellous conceptions—the personator of his
own quaint, or tender, or terrible creations. The
fact that it is Dickens who reads, his eye through
which sparkles the drollery, his voico through
which trembles the pathos, is doubtless that which
sets this apart from all other entertainments of the
kind. This, it is claimed by some, is the chief
power that attracts, the peculiar charm that en-
thrals us ; and "if so, why not ?" It is enough.
It is possible that there were better actors in the old
Globe Theatre than Will Shakspere ; but could
they all live again for us, some bright, wondrous
mid-winter night, who but Will Shakspere should
interpret for us Lear, Othello, Hamlet, or Falstaff ?
Ab, if he stood thus before us, we should find small
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pay at two dollars a ticket ? Our severe eyes would
scarcely be offended by a rosebud in his button-hole,
or a diamond on his finger. We would hardly turn
to remark to our neighbour that he was not as
young as when he was engaged in that discreditable
little affair at Charlecote. No ! he might rise in
his inflections to any vocal altitude—he might bud
out at every button-hole, and wear the Kohinoor
on his index finger; he might be balder than the
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It is well for Mr. Dickens that he did not
" locate" Dotheboy's nail, with its unspeakable
brutalities and cruelties, in Massachusetts. -Not
Ticknor and Fields could have saved him from
the wrath of an outraged commonwealth, and
the doors of Tremont Temple would have been
closed against him for ever. Yet great England
has forgiven the faithful painter, and set herself
to correct the abuses which made his picture so
hideously life-like. He may even visit York-
shire without danger of discourteous treatment.
Thick-skinned Christians those Yorkshire men !

The readings of Mr. Dickens wins upon us night
by night, because, doubtless, it is so peculiarly his
own—bears no marks of the tutoring and training
of professors of elocution. He has evidently kept
no vocal " chicken." His voice has not the mea-
sured mournfulness of Booth's, nor the melodious
rumble of Forrest's, nor the steady bugle-like clear-
ness of Fanny Kemble's ; but it is an organ through
which breathes every
.human passion, from the I
savage greed of a Squeers to the joyous heartiness
of a John Browdie—from the icy pride of a
Dombey to the tender lovingness of little Florence.
There are in that voice, searching, surprising
tones that no stage tutoring ever gives—tones
that transcend art. How heart-breaking is the
cry of a Florence Dombey over her dead mother ;
and how terrible the desolate wail of poor Smike !
That is not alone the wild plaint of misery and
penury, cold and hunger ; it, is the cry of a lost life,
of a famished heart, of a forsaken soul.
In the " Dombey " reading, what variety,
what masterly management of character ! Dom-
bey the Pompous, Pipchin the grim, Blimber
the portly, Toots the delicious, darling Floy,
and dear " old-fashioned" little Paul. If the
simple story of the pretty " blighted child " has
melted our hearts countless times, with its sur-
passing pathos and tenderness, what is it to have
the author himself show us the little lad, just
as he arose from his own heart, sweet, quaint,
patient, and thoughtful. He seems to bring him in
his arms to us, loving and reverently, as Bob
Cratchet carried Tiny Tim. He deals with him
very tenderly, as seeing about his head a light of
divine purity, solemn and ineffable. We have
heard that when " Little Dombey" is read in Eng-
land, the ball is sombre with the mourning dress of
bereaved mothers, who seem to find a melancholy
sort of comfort in listening to this story, so " won-
drous pitiful," and who, amid their tears, bless the
gracious heart that could so feel and reveal what
love, what hope, what dear joy could be buried in
a little grave, with a " little, little child."
After the pathos of this story, the trial from Pick-
wick is needed to lighten the heart. It is deli-
ciously absurd, though some of the best points in
the original are omitted in the reading. We miss,
especially, Sam Weller's last Parthian arrow—
" Would any other genTinan like to ask me
anythiu' ?"
Mr. Justice Stareleigh and Old Weller are here the
great successes in this reading. Sam Weller—well,
perhaps, people are a little unreasonable as regards
Samuel, who is an immense favourite in America,
having a sort of Yankee drollery and " cuteness,"
and—yes, impudence—about him, very plea-
sant and endearing. He is native to us—so
each devout lover of " Pickwick" brings to
the ball his own private Sam, invisible,
but individual and
_quite satisfactory, and pits
r*Craritgaitpot-the 4i+Sittni.L,othieh.a.f ter the oliL
Sam, the true Sam, the original article, none
genuine, unless bearing this signature—C.D., with
the flourish. The truth is, we have never seen Sim
Weller, and we probably never shall see him, not
because " there ain't no such a person ;" he still
lives, of course he does, but in our fallen condition
we are unworthy to behold him. Should he come
among us bodily, jostle us in the streets, write his
name on our hotel books, and spell it with a " We,"
yet should we not recognise him. But if the true
magician fails to show him to us in the magic
mirror of his genius, we will have no other conr-
ing, but resign all hope of seeing
our
d old
friend till we meet him " some summer morning,"
oeranrin
if we are good Pickwickians, at that hospitable
house at Dulwich, where he will open the door to
us, and show us in to " the governor," and help to
make us delightfully at home. Then we shall see
him as he is.

Dr. Marigold, the garrulous Cheap Jack, is
surely one of the most quaint and enjoyable of
the most eccentric characters of Dickens. We
laugh, at first, at his droll assumptions, and whim-
sical comparisons ; but he wins constantly on our
respect and sympathy until he becomes a very
dear Jack indeed. It is a character rich in manly
tenderness, in simple, patient, unselfish good-
ness—shaded, but scarcely marred, by touches
of vanity and boastfulness —an esprit de
?metier too honest to be quite absurd. He
stands out on his " foot-board" distinct from all
other creations of the great master of English
fiction, yet as a sort of kinship with each of those
admirable and lovable characters taken from lowly
life, whose homely, unconscious virtues renew our
faith in,'our reverence for, poor unregenerate, unen-
lightened, sorely-tempted, socially-ignored, asthe-
tically contemned, religiously condemned human
nature.

" Oh, it is because it is Dickens ! Yes, thank
genial teacher, our strong
Heaven, it is he !—our
helper, our consoler under a thousand sorrows
and cares, oure merry ancient, our wise, cheery,
safe friend, who has made everyday life brighter,
and nobler, and easier for us all ; whose
beneficent genius
has transfigured its homely du-
ties, turned its water into wine. He is this, and he
is still more. Who, after listening to the reading
of "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Dombey," can deny
that Mr. Dickens has dramatic genius of the rarest
order ; that he has given to human nature the most
careful, minute, and reverent study, and that his
personations are true as life itself ; that in short he
is a great artist ? Occasionally, in the midst of our
sadness or our mirth, there surges in upon us the
full realisation of who this man is, and of the great
debt we owe him--the long, long score—a debt we
can neither liquidate by our tears nor repudiate by
our laughter. But soon We become only vaguely
conscious of his presence, while beholding vividly
his exquisite creations—we seem to see them
thrcugh him, as be had grown diaphonous, like the
ghost of Marley.
Iu "Nicholas
Nickleby" seems to us best dis-
played Mr. Dickens's versatility as au actor.
He carries the whole dramatis persona; in
his face. They who watch that carefully, mark
every delicate shade of expression, every light-
ning-like transition, are satisfied ; they who
look for some miraculous transformation of the
entire man, who would ask to see Pickwick in
gaiters, Sam Weller in his his spectacles and
striped waistcoast, Old Marley in his tights and
pigtail, as he walked the earth, are slightly disap-
pointed in Mr. Dickens. In this reading his eyes—
wonderful eyes they are—now glare ; that is, one of
them glares, with the cruel greed of Squeers ; now

In the conception and charming personation of
Dr. Marigold, Mr. Dickens exhibits that profound
sympathy with the joys and sorrows of humble life
which make him so peculiarly the novelist of the
people—their helper, their interpreter, their prophet
of better days to come for the saddest and lowliest
of them. Perhaps the most absurd charge ever
brought against Mr. Dickens in this country is that
of being in reality quite shockingly deficient in
sympathy for the common people, while cherishing
sentiments of peculiar tenderness and ecstatic ad-
miration for rank and fashion—that, in short, " he
loves a lord." Well, the same charge was brought
against Robert Burns, the people's poet for all
time, made in spite of the grand democracy of his
" A man's a man for a' that."

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And Thackeray—great, sad, earnest, manly
heart !—Thackeray, who, all his life, lashed snob-
bery with a whip of scorpions, was himself called a
" snob." But who now dare repeat a charge so in-
sanely false, so ineffably silly ? Thank heaven
human spite and detraction are the rank weeds of a
day ; while human love and gratitude are the ivy
and the amaranth that make beautiful the grave,
and crown the memory of genius.
The truth is, that the great, catholic nature of
the man Charles Dickens includes within the wide
circle of its kindly human sympathies a mixed and
motley multitude—perambulating Pickwickians,
small paupers, neglected schoolboys, mariners,
fishermen, factory hands, carriers, Fleet prisoners,
street-sweepers, dustmen, convicts, detectives, strol-
ling players, Cheap Jacks, and deserving noblemen.
That circle takes in St. Giles, all of Bohemia, and a
part of Belgravia. He has not done much for the
class artistically ; Sir Mulberry Hawk and Lord
Verisoplit are not happy strokes of sycophancy ;
yet socially he evidently does not hold that the taint
of hereditary nobility excludes an honest fellow from

the brotherhood of man.
But the voluble, soft-hearted Cheap Jack, his
termagant wife, his frightened, dark-haired little
Sophy, and her poor dumb double—the elongated
Pickleson—the hoarse Minn, the kind doctor, the
mute lovers—sighing and signing—and their child,
talking miraculously, all fade from our sight; and,
presto ! we arc in Bob Sawyer's lodgings, and here

4d.
STAMCED sd.

is dear old Pickwick—that modern Don Quixote,
sane and rotund, with a squire surpassing Sancho
in wit and tact, " wise saws and modern instances;"
and here are the susceptible 'r upman and the irre •
pressible Winkle, and the poetic Snodgrass ; here,
of course, is Bob Sawyer, with 8.. m Allen and Jack
Hopkins, and we hear their thrilling stories of sur-
gery, and we see the fierce encounter between
Noddy and Gunter, and we feel the chagrin of host
and guests when the remorseless Mrs. Paddles re-
fuses warm water, though we know they will get
very satisfactorily drunk on cold punch, and we
shrink from their dismay when that night-capped
Nemesis appears to drive them forth in a highly
precipitous and opprobrious manner. And now the
magic picture fades from before our eyes, wet with
tears of delicious laughter--the great magician
closes his magic book, inclines his head, and
vanish es.

Mr. Dickens's reading version of " David Cop-
perfield," a marvellous piece of condensation and
reconstruction, contains much of the richest hu-
mour and deepest pathos of that most delightful of
all his novels—the one, perhaps, in which there is
most of the man, his tenderest sympathies, his most
golden memories. On the voice of the reader, we
are borne back to the time when we first read that
story, so touching, yet so inspiring, gracious in
its humanity, so pure in its Christianity. How
young we grow as A e listen !—how we shake off the
dust of the world, and become fresh-hearted, like
Daisy. What poor things conventional fine man-
ners and mere brain culture seem to us before the
rugged manhood, the grand simplicity of poor
Peggotty and Liam. How the little child-wife's
story, swinging like a light gossamer web from sha-
dow to sunshine, glistens for us with the morning
dew of new fancy and tenderness.

In the personation of Mr. leggotty and in the
description of the shipwreck, Mr. Dickens, we
think, displays his greatest dramatic power. His
rendering of the agony of the poor fisherman, on
hearing of the elopement of his." little Ernly," is
noble, tragic acting. And then the shipwreck !
How that marvellous word-painting, so like one of
the awful shipwrecks of Turner, puts on new vivid-
ness and fearfulness with his action, his tones, the
changing expression of his face, eager, passionate,
awe-struck. Then the homely grandeur of poor
Ham's life, crowned by his divine act of self-sacri-
fice, appeals to our hearts as never before. What a
death was that ! how piteous, how sublime !
After the tempest of winds and waves and
human passions, after that double wreck, how
sweet the fantastic love story of Barry the
Brave and Norah the Fair. How refreshing the
charming drollery of Boots! Surely " Boots at
the holly Tree Inn " is the most dainty and
delicious of all the shortest stories of Mr. Dickens ;
a fairy idyl, a burl of a romance, a tender burlesque
of love, a frolic of authorship. It is full of quaint
anomalies, of surprises, of fun and pathos. In the
author's reading the wee runaway couple come be-
fore us almost bodily, the gallant little cherub, the
pouting little angel in her "sky-blue mantle," and
talk to us, through faithful " Boots;" and we are
more delighted with them than an audience of
children could be by the illustrious General, Mrs.
Tom Thumb, and the baby. Boots seems to be a
sort of cousin german to'Sam Weller, with more
poetry and tenderness, and, perhaps, a rarer vein of
humour. There are people in this personation
which even our Jefferson could hardly equal. For
instance, the " Certainly, sir," in reply to Master
Harrow's declaration, " It is better than millions of
diamonds to be liked by Norah," and that ini-
mitable " Such, sir, is the depravity of human
nature."

As Mr. Dickens has decided not to visit our
Western cities, he will scarcely be able to realise
the most wondrous transatlantic work of the last
twenty-five years; nor will he, perhaps, note any
retuarkapie-,seial &anus 4asteria cities, As he
accepts no hospitalities and has very few visitors.
Everybody understands, however, that this care-
ful reserve is a necessity of his hurried, labori-
ous life, and he must be conscious of a genuine
kindly interest in him, an atmosphere of welcome,
which a little lingering illwill here and there can-
not poison. Some there are from whose palates the
sweets of a dozen romances have not taken the
wholesome bitter of the " Notes," and more who
hold " Martin Chuzzlewit" in grim, uncomfortable
remembrance. A few foreign-born " Native Ame-
ricans" have denounced him for lack of sympathy
with us as a nation. " Pogram Redivivus" has
orated through some obscure journals, and " Jeffer-
son Brick" has been " on the rampage" now and
then ; but it amounts to nothing, this slight coun-
ter current in the tide of a generous popular enthu-
siasm. Some attacks (for criticisms they cannot be
called) have been made on the artist and the man ;
attacks utterly vulgar and sordid in their charac-
ter. A coarse tirade by a nameless journalist
against an author on whose fame, as on the domi-
nion of his Sovereign, the sun never sets—whose
power over human hearts and imaginations is abso-
lutely Shaksperian—would be shocking, if it were
not pitiably foolish and futile. It reminds one of
the mad charge sometimes made by an irate young
buffalo of the plains on a locomotive under full
headway. There is a great tossing up of earth, a
frantic plunge, a brief bellow, and--something goes
on, and it is not the buffalo.

GRACE GREENWOOD.

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* The telegram gives the name as Mr. KINGITAISI, but
there can scarcely be a doubt the member for Ohio is the
person. meant.