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one is not surprised at their egotism, and their for-
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• wardness with ladies. It also accounts for the pre-
cision and clarte of their language, which, having
very few words, would naturally fall into equivoca
terms had they not to explain themselves to foreigner&
who understand them imperfectly. On such occa-
sions their egregious vanity seldom fails to explode.
Poverty of roots implies absence cf poetic diction,
for almost every word is used in a fac-
titious, conventional sense, but "poetry should
be simple, sensuous, impassioned." The Italian
poetry in its nature is improvised-- their conversation
probably superior to anything antient or modern—in
fact, more antient than either Greece or Rome. Ca-
vallo, from whence cavalry and cavalcade, is caballus,
which was obsolete in the Augustan age. The same
of belle, and many other of the commonest vernacular
words, given by Eustace—older than Rome—as Ocl
as the cloaca maxima, the citadel of Tiryns and
other cyclopean structures. The number of
radical vocables in Italian is prodigious --. they
claim to possess 48,000 more words than the
French and yet scarcely any synonints—no one ever •
comes to the end of them, except the market-women
of Florence and Sienna. Their prose is unpleasant,
but what is prose ? Walpole and Byron were both
formed by originality and Italianistn—the 'inward
Phidias acting on th.. Saturnia tellus and its marbles;
both were tolerable judges of Italics, but neitherever
dared to speak or write Italian, which is -alai; tine. of
Mr. Rogers. Byron said, with his usu.al..ct}ndon. r,
" It is easy to know a little Italian, but very,difficult •
to know it perfectly','—and yet he learned it by' the
enseignement mutuel. To say, Italian is. superior to
the antient languages would be a solecism—it is the
most antient, but the proud Greeks and Romans putit
dOwn:

[PRICE SD.

to 91,9061. The rates; ard taxes in the half-year
ending June 30, 1850, amounted to 9,6151.; whit.,
for the corresponding period' of 1819 they amounted to
113,27/. The item of cartage_ for the former period
amounted to 4,7371., and for the latter period to 1,1781.
Tne maintenance of way I'or•the- last half•year cost 934
per mile, while at the corresponding period of 1849 rise
cost was 851. per mile. The total expenditure per train
per mile was, in 1850, '34. 5d.; and for the correspond-
ing period of 1849, 3s. 9d. The expenditure on gross
receipta for :the half-year ending 'June 30, 1850,
amounted to 43.3 per cent.; and for the corresponding
period of 1849 to 42.9 per cent. The total amount ex.
ponded in renewals and improvements dining 'the past
half-year has bee❑ 11,779/., as compared with 7,495/. in
the corresponding period of 1849. The charge o❑ re-
' venue for interest and preferential dividend for the half.
year ending the 30th June, 1850, amounted to 61,107/.
while at the corresponding period of 1849, it etuounttd
to 55,7881. The total charge prior to dividend, including
all expenses for the last half•year, amounts to 159,740/.
as against 147,6951. in the corresponding period of 1849:
The net amotmt at the credit of revenue account for the
half year is 130,4561., of which 33.2211. is appropriated
for interest on loan, and 27,886/. for dividend. on pre-
ference shares, leaving -a balance .of 69,3491, out of
which the directors recommend a dividend of 14 per
cent. 'for the half year, leaving a balance of 1151. to the
credit;of the treat account. It, Appeaks from the stock
and share, account.- that, the .company is authorised' to
raise 7,440,9301. of-which' power 301,3624 has not been
exercised. The capittrl account shows' that 7,126,4291.
has been received, and 7,150,574/.-expended, leaving a
balance against the compuny.of '24,145/. The- revenue
account for thq halt-year states that 229,0901. had been
received, and 98,634/, expended, leaving a balance of
130,4561.

Qui me eelivrera des Grecs et des Romaine?
Du fond de leurs,tombeaux °es peuples inhumains
Feront assurecnent le malbeur de ma vie . . .
Et tot. triste famille a -qui Dieu false paix,
Psce d'Agamemnon qui ne finit jamais,
Et dont on 'Nit partout les querelles antiques
Et lcs assassinats, mis en Vera heroiques
Returning to the foreigners at Paris—l could not,
except here, have hoped to converse with a young
Swede who asked to light his cigar by mine—quod
felix faustumque sit—prmbere lucernam accendenti.
He was a vary intelligent person, obviously more
than a German. I told him in the words of Charles
XII. that the Swedes had formerly conquered Rome
and had not degenerated like them. " Yes," he said,
" there is still une jeunesse in Sweden." In a few
years, he said, Sweden, Norway, iknd Denmark will
form one nation : tbo' little spoken of, it is certain. I
think he said Oscar I. would be chief. These confe-
derations have always been succcessful : a confedera-
tion of Italian states conquers the world—Luxuria
incubuit—a confederation behind the Danube and
Rhine, with currency difficulties, reconquers it--
victumque ulciscitur orbem. Again, America is a
confederation, and even England a triple cord which
will not be soon broken. Perhaps the Swedes may
yet march to Rome ?
But in fact the Decline and Fall, like all other
great events, is a CURRENCY QUESTION, and Robertson,
in the Introduction to his " Charles V.," lays it down
formally. The Romans had sent so much cash to
India in payment of various luxuries, "from whence
in the course of trade it never returns," that they
were unable [for want of medium] to pay the stated
tribute to the confederation behind Danube and Rhine.
In other words, prices fell, labour lost hire, exports
lost return, and the damage, pressure, burtben, and
veritable cost of all DEBTS was immensely increased,
so that " money-prices could not redeem money-
obligations." These Romans couldn't pay—they
" wanted money to pay dividends." Illyrian fund..
holders were suspected of complicity with the Bank of
Rome and the exporters of gold. General Danube,
the best officer in the service, was put on half-pay.
The congestive bankerhood (of Rome) was supposed
to have absorbed all the deposits entrusted—else why
those Quarterly Advances, " renewed, not generally,
but to individual" Romans, according to Pageus —at
lower rates than discounts (Normannus et Tookeus) P
Or why did Peelus complain of " the bank maintain-
ing an arbitrary preference for such bills ?" And
whence the terrific procemium to his Oratio pro
Virili, 10th Kalends June, 1844 ?—" Mr. Speaker,
deep and entire secresy is necessary absolutely in all
transactions relating to money." Symptoms also ap-
peared (at Rome) analogous to our " Song of the
Shirt," and Bivouacs in Hyde Park, in more modern
times. One Pate (a Roman) took it into his poor
pate that all this money went to the Empress of Rome
and her Consort, and that people were imprisoned
during her Majesty's pleasure, or hanged when her
Majesty's pleasure was known, when she chose to
sign a death-warrant!
The Roman usurers, the annuitants, the salaried,
the aginteurs, no doubt were slow to find this nut—
the latifundists, or Reel proprietors of land, who had
the fief'-simple and " ro3alties" or held in capite (mu-
tatis mutandis), had a strong suspicion, but were too
I much in the power of their bankers to complain ! This
mignt appear to ~eitle the currency point, but the
great question, What is a pound ? remains. The
noble Romans would have been wise to pre-
vent the oozing of gold and silver—if they
could became it was the only medium
of payment, but we, having adopted bills of various
kinds, invented originally in leather by Carthaginians
and Tuscans, Tyrians and Tyrrhenes—both Tyr—
may " let our riches fly," as Bacon speaks, " to bring in
more," and create a market money for our own market-
able labour—if the foreign market is not worth keep-
ing. At present there is a consensus or common-
sense-us that it is not. 'Why then delay creating
market-money for bread and cheese-market?—Because
the money-market won't permit ?—C'est incroyable
In fact we ought to keep up both home and foreign
market, but down with money-market.
I have been long enough here to verify two remark-
able facts : first, that you never see a beggar, which
may be owing to extreme cheapness of bread ; se-
condly, that in height of Paris season, with a pulve-
rising March wind, such as we insulaires never feel,
the audience even at the Grand Opera and Italians,
depart on toot, scarce half-a-dozen carriages being
visible at the principal entrances. From the cheap-
ness of bread, nearly all the shops closed out of com-
pliment to the terrorists of February, have re-opened,
and the Valais Royal, now National, resumes its
splendour. How, with this palace before bis eyes,
converted into an immense phalanstere or parallelo-
gram of shops, Napoleon could have qualified the
English as a nation boutiquiere, is difficult to
imagine. This shop-keeping is another consequence
of the central position of France.
The theatres at Paris seem built to show the spec-
tators as much as the spectacle. You are struck at
first by the ugliness of nearly all the women—
if any are handsome you are sure they are
Poles, Germans, or most of all, English. The
men, on the contrary, are very handsome, exactly
the reverse of what is observed in England. The
military education universal here does not compre-
hend the women, except indeed the vivandieres of re-
giments, who have a most military costume with
" pants" cramoisis. But the women in many De-
partments are intensely interesting from health and
moral beauty, which I a•tributo to the good parish
priest with candle, with hook, and with bell.
The theatres here are a part of popular education,
as it was in the days or Ben Jonson and Sbakapere.
Our fathers came to theatres for wit
And sat knee-•seep in nutshells in the pit."
The whole classic repertoire is recited in the ears of
the luxurious and ingenious French,
.‘ A people artful, active, curious, brave—
Yet will he slaves themselves whilst others they
enslave."
I went to the 103 d representation of Francois le
Champi, by —. It is exactly what "Tom Jones,
a Foundling," might have been if the characters had
been all Alworthys. Francois the foundling is brought
up by a miller's wife ten years older than himself,
travels, returns, finds the miller's wife a widow,
and phthisical=by his energy and shrewdness retrieves
the mill, and the widow recovers her health. Diffi-
culties from Madame Sevare, who being merely
cock-brained and purse-heavy, appears a demon by
contrast. Ends by Francois le Champi falling in
love with the widow, who dreamed of no such thing,
but was decking everywhere a wife for her adopted
son, and marries him at last, because tout le monde le
vent. All is most artistic—
" E quel the it caro e it bello aecresce all' opre
L'arte the tutto fa, nulls si scopre."
All is unexpected, nothing improbable, all too
humble and too excellent to be foreseen: Stint
lacrymw rerum. The tears are wrong from
you by mere sympathy. Yet the only positive
suffering is that the widow has a cough in the first
act, which gets well before second act begins. One
forgives Mme. George Sand Dudevant the. circular of
Ledru Roll►n, No. 16 (which, by the way,
excel-
lent), and ocher printed matter one never
hdaatr
such
read. She declares solemnly in the prefacenta
but
was
edtocharac!ers are found in every french t v:hegusiness
whether she was conscious of it or not,
an b
Character of the hero is precisely.
that
commentary on
English-
man. The play " ‘,"9ll3rsia tin amour pus et
Rochefoucault's maxim,
eroxneamnpatuds..entioeuinteVlange, c'estS Celui que nous igno-

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 18.
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STOCK ExcqANON.—The market was dull to-day, and
the only alteration in prices we have to notice is Wilts, So-
merset, and W eymouth, which were done at 4411 ex in.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 18.
STOCK EXCHA.NGE.—Btainesa in this share market still
continues inactive,, and prices have a drooping tendency.
The transactions were as follow : —London and North-
Western, 108 N—Ditto, New Quarters, 9-16 p.—Midland,
Halves, 21L,. c. dis. Ditto, Eyewash Valley, 57%—South-
Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Registered, 4 .
MANCHESTER, JULY 18.

STocK ExcnArsos.,--We have little change to notice in
the share market. A small business has been done at heavy
prices. The transactions were as follow :—East Lanca-
shire, 6:4—Ditto, Quarters, 1 11-16 c.—Great Northern, 15 IA
dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 35% n.—Ditto, Fifths,
9 9-16 dis.—London and North-Western, New Quarters,
9-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield,and Lincolnshire, 15%—Ditto,
Preference, 8 3-16 North Staffordshire, 11% dis.—Shrop-
shire Union, 4 5-16 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, Conso-
lidated Steck (No. 3), 144 —Ditto (No. 4), 4% n.
BIRSIINGHAM, JULY 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a considerable demand
for local stocks, but the railway share market was ex-
ceedingly dull to-day. The only sale was—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham (B), 71. 3s. 9d. dis.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YEaTERDAY.
A very thin attendance, and no betting.
STAMFORD RACES.—THURSDAY.

Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, and 25 added; to start at
the double distance, and go once round. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Standwell's Miss Stamford, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 1
Mr. Lister's Lecomte, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b (Savin) 2
Mr. Baxter's Maid of Mansfield, 4 yrs (Matson) 3
6t04 on Lecomte. Won by a length.
The Two Years Old Stakes of 150 soya. each, 5 ft, and
25 added. T.Y.C. (19 Subs.)
Lord Exeter's Midas ..... ....•
The Gold Cup of 100 soil., with 20 added; for three
yrs old, 6st 71b; four, Bst; five, Bst 131 b; six, 9st; and
aged, 9st 71b; mares, &c., allowed 31b. Thrice round.
Lord Lindsey na The Gent, 3 yrs (F. Smith) 1
Lord Burghley's Little Jack, 3 yrs (J. Mann) 2
Sir W. Booth's Retail, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 3
Duke of Richmond's Jelly Fish, 4 yrs (Nat) 4
5 to 4,0 n Little Jack, 3 to 1 agst Retail, - 5 to 1 agst
The Gent, and Bto 1 agst Jelly Fisb. Won easy by
three lengths.
The Barleythorpe Stakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft, and 10

if declared, for two yrs old, &c. Once round and a dis-
tance. , Gentlemen riders. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Rayner's Pulcberitna, 4 yrs, 10st 121 b (Mr. Bevil') 1
Mr. Bird's Mrs. Taft, 5 yrs, llst 41b (Lord Strathmore) 2
4tol on Pulcheritna. Won by half a length.
The Stamford Selling Stakes of 10 sovs. eacb,.and 10
added. Once round and a distance. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Lister's Peasant Girl, 4 yrs (Bartholomew) 1
Mr. Webb na 3 yrs, 6st alb ... 2
Mr. Draper's Ruth, aged, Bst 121 b
2to lon Peasant Girl. Woe by a length and a half.
The Furred Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 10 added.
New mile. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Riyner's Pulcheritna, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Flatman) 1
L'ird Exeter's Visite, 3 yrs, 7st .............
jr.A Lister's Knight of Givyntle, 3 yrs, Bst 51b 3
Mr. St indwell's Miss Stanilnrd, 4 yr:,, 6st 12:0 4
7 to 4 sgst Knight of Ow) nite,s ti 2 agst
and 5 t...) 1 agst Visite. . Won by a short head, after a
tine race.

THE EX MB ITION Or 1851.—A performance by tbe
Printers' Dramatic Society will ba given to-morrow evening
at the Strand Theatre, the pieces selected for the occasion
being The Hunchback, The Eton Boy, and Sketches in India,
The members of the society will be assisted by the proles..
sional talent of Mir s Jane Coleman, Mrs. Parker, and Mrs.
C. Wharton. The receipts of the evening are to be handed
over to the Committee for the Exhibition of 1851.

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JULY 3.—Otti
well
Charles Waterfield and Charles John Evans, scholars Of Eton,
were this clay admitted scholars of Oils society.