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LITERATURE

CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
By Charles Phillips, Esq., one of her Majesty's
Commissioners of the Court for the Relief of In-
solvent Debtors W. Blackwood and Sons, Edin•
burgh and London. 1850.
This is indeed a valu tble contribution to the na-
tional literature. The very title-page is suggestive.
It tells of a rare combination of advantages, of an
author worthy of his subject, and a subject worthy of
its author; the portrait of a man of refined and
sparkling wit, fervid, impassioned, and, perhaps, un-
equalled eloquence and genuine and consistent patriot-
ism, depicted by one scarcely inferior in any of
these qualities to the great original; we should rather
say a series of highly finished minatures—all gems
of inestimable value—of many of thos,e distin-
guished men who constituted the pride and glory of
Ireland in her palmy days, when she was an object
neither of pity or contempt, who were
" Of other times, when there were giants in the land."
It was a period of vital importance in the history of
that unhappy kingdom, which must excite enthusiasm
in the heart and raise a blush on the countenance
of every genuine son of " Green Erin." And the
men were worthy of the days in which they lived.
Their virtues and their vices were eminently Irish,
the natural fruits of the national character. There
were no artificial restrictions to obscure the one or
conceal the other. Each was revealed in its native
lustre or naked enormity, and Irishmen have much to
boast of. The compatriots of Curran, Grattan,
Hussey Burgh, Burke, Kirwan, and of one, the last
but not the least of that bright band—Plunket, who
still happily survives in the enjoyment of the chum
cum dignitate which he has so richly merited, the con-
necting link between two distinct and, alas! very
different eras in Irish history, may well exult in the
fame of their countrymen. But Charles Phillips does
not merely delineate these stars of the first magni-
tude—the planets of the Irish system, he places
before us with almost equal care the secondary lutni
varies, who, although they
" Paled their lesser lights"

THE REV. MR. BENNETT.
It is really quite time that the public should knout, on
some competent authority, whether Mr. Bennett is to
continue Incumbent of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and of
St. Barnabas, Pimlico, or not.
Some weeks ago that gentleman tendered to the Bishop
of Landon his resignation, and that tender was accepted
by his diocesan. Since then Mr. Bennett's friends have
been holding meeting after meeting to persuade them-
selves that this offer is n it binding on so " Catholic " a
clergyman as he is; and have had at least one interview
with the bishop to induce him to withdraw bis accept-
ance of the proffered resignation. But, though Dr.
Blomfield " wept " with the deputation who thus advo-
cated the doctrine and practice of equivocation, and so
exhibited weak and silly symi,athy instead of just and
manly indignation at this attempt to escape from the
performance of a solemn promise, Bishop Blom field is
too subservient a follower of what be deems public opi-
nion to yield, even in his tears, to such entreaties; and
so, it is stated, replied that he was under " the painful
necessity" of doing what he said ho wou'd eo.
Nevertheless Mr. Bennett, it is announced, has not
resigned, and will not resign. A benefice can only be
legally resigned in the Church of England by the in-
cumbent executing a deed of demission addressed to the
bishop of the diocese. Such a deed Mr. Bennett, it is
stated, has not yet executed, and will not execute. And I
Bishop Blomfield, it is added, will now proceed against
Mr. Bennett in the Ecclesiastical Courts; leaving, how-
ever, Divine service to be performed in St. Paul's and
St. Barnabas by those curates who have hitherto been
Mr. 13ennett's assistants there.
Such is the position of affairs as stated in the news.
papers; and assuming its accuracy, there is some diffi-
culty in deciding whether it is more discreditable to Mr.
Bennett or Dr. Blomfield.
Mr. Bennett has undertaken to do an act which
he now—nothing having subsequently occurred to re-
lease him from his undertaking—declines to perform.
This is an offence against common honesty which no
refinement or subtlety can justify or excuse: one, too,
that was certainly not to be expected from a man of
Mr. Bennett's apparent and outward frankness, sincerity,
and conscientiousness; an offence calculated to shake all
confidence in the promises and fair dealing of clergymen
of Mr. Bennett's way of thinking; one certain to con-
firm the public in the belief so prevalent of their jesuitry
and disregard of the ordinary obligations of morality
when at variance with their proselytising zeal. No
doutt it is hard—very hard—that Mr. Bennett should,
in December, 1850, be coerced into such a promise by a
bishop who, in June, 1850, encouraged and shared in his
proceedings at St. Barnabas; but it was with a know-
ledge of that hardship Mr. Bennett promised to resign,
and as an honest man he ought, by the fulfilment of his
promise, to have risen superior to his diocesan; as it is
he has reduced himself to Dr. Blomfield's level, if not
fallen beneath it.
Bishop Blomfield cannot, of course, compel of his own
mere motion Mr. Bennett to execute a deed of demission.
But did he, by the long-continued consistency of his
episcopal life, by the example of unerring fidelity to the
Church displayed in his career, by the uniformity of his
own personal views and practices, and by the influence
which piety, moderation, firmness, and kindness always
confer, occupy in his diocese that position which a
Bishop of London ought to occupy, not even an unscru-
pulous tractarian would dare thus to trifle with him. It
is because Dr. Blomfield's career has been weak and va-
cillating, inconsistent and tyrannical, because he has re-
duced himself to a place which none can admire, and
only sycophants can profess to respect; because he has
deprived himself of all moral weight, that Mr. Bennett
has the bad courage thus to treat him; and hence this
squabble between him and one of his clergy is discredit-
able to both. The bishop who would not admit a single
Irish clergyman into his diocese can't get a disorderly
tractarian out of it. The retribution is fit, though
severe.
And no wonder Mr. Bennett resists, when he finds
other bishops encouraging their clergy in the very prac-
tices for which Dr. Blomfield insists on his resignation.
lie turns to Oxford, and what does he see there? No-
thing less than Bishop Wilberforce (who told the Pro-
testants of Chipping Wycombe that he knew of no
siomish tendencies in his clergy), sanctioning the ap-
pointment, as preacher in the University Church of St.
Mary's, of Dr. Pusey, under whose tuition, and by whose
teaching, Rome has for ten years been receiving increas-
ing supplies of English clergymen. He looks to Sher-
borne Minster, and there be finds Bishop Begot " losing
no time" in assuring the clergy of that church that he
" considers candlesticks upon the communion table in
the church as one of the most legitimate ornaments in a
church;" that "they were legitimately placed there by
the churchwardens, who are officers acting under the
ordinary, and he as ordinary has no objection to their
being placed there;" and that he " cannot therefore con-
ceive under what supposed right or authority any indif-
ferent person interferes in the matter." No wonder with
such high encouragement Mr. Bennett resists the autho-
rity, sad treats as naught the moral influence of his in-
consistent diocesan.

before their more distinguished brethren, were
yet worthy of the immortality they have
now received at the hands of their ta-
lented countryman—Tom (lipoid, Harry Deane,
Grady, Jerry Keller, Jonah Barrington, Peter Bur-
rowes, and John Egan—honest Jack, who, to the
rough and blustering manners which gained bim the
soubriquet of " Bully Egan," united a kindly and
generous heart that endeared him to his associates,
although it did not prevent them from occasionally
making him their butt—wbo was incorruptible and
unpurchaseable—who, although poor in this world's
wealth, yet rejected all the tempting offers that were
held out to him for his vote, and in the sterling ebul-
lition of his feelings shouted, " Ireland for ever, and
d—n Kilmainham, ' and died, leaving only an un-
sullied name and three shillings ! ! behind him—whose
names have been
" Familiar in our ears as household words."

ran's peculiar phrase, 'men begin to measure their
depth by their darkness, and to fancy themselves pro-
found because they feel they are perplexed'—no idea
can be formed of that illustrious body; of the learning
that infoimed, the genius that inspired, and the fire that
warm, d it; of the wit that relieved its wisdom, and the
wisdom that dignified its w it; of the generous emula-
tion, that cherished while it contended; of the spotless
honour, that shone no less in the hereditary spirit of the
highly born than in the native integrity of the more
humble aspirant; but, above all, of that lofty and un-
bending patriotism that at once won the confidence and
enforced the imitation of the country. It is not to be
questioned that to the bar of that day the people of Ire-
land looked up, in every emergency, with the most per-
fect reliance upon their talent and their integrity. It
was then the nursery of the Parliament and the peer-
age. There was scarcely a noble family in the land
that did sot enrol its elect in that body, by the study of
law and the exercise of eloquence, to prepare them for
the field of legislative exertion; and there, not unfre-
quently, there arose a genius from the very lowest of
the people, who won his way to the distinctions of the
senate, and wrested from pedigree the highest honours
and effiees of the constitution. It was a glorious spec-
tacle to behold the hope of the peerage entering such en
intellectual arena with the peasant's offspring—all dif-
ference merged in that of mind, and merit alone de-
ciding the superiority. On such contests, and they were
continual, the eye of every rank in the community
was turned: the highest did not feel their birth debased
by the victories of intellect; and the humblest expected,
seldom in vain, to be ennobled in their turn. Many a
personage sported the ermine on a back that had been
coatless; and the garter might have glittered on a leg
that, in its native bog, had been unencumbered by a
stocking."
We could multiply extracts, all eminently deserving
of especial commendation. The volume may be
opened at any page with pleasure and profit, from the
preface to the appendix. Our space will not, how-
ever, permit us to linger longer over the rich and va-
ried collection of sweets, or to give specimens of the
oratory of the gifted child of genius whose fame is
still enshrined in the memories of his countrymen. We
cannot, however, refrain from transferring to our co-
lumns the simply beautiful dedication, the most per-
fect in every respect that we have ever seen

TO
LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX.
Poetry has said, that
" The Friendship of a great tam is a gift of the Gods."

might speedily be forgotten, but for the kind and
honourable tribute paid to their memories in the work
now before us. There are others, too, of a different
character, whose names are recorded in these pages,
some well entitled to the distinction, and others,
" flies embalmed in amber," who individually had
no claim to so high an honour, but who were
necessarily introduced as connected with more
worthy objects. It may be said that the present is
but a third edition of a book that had been long
before familiar to the reading public. It is,
however, to all intents and purposes a new work.
The former editions had long been out of print, and
a copy could not be obtained save by some happy
chance. There was an eager demand for a reprint,
but Charles Phillips, jealous alike of his friend's
posthumous reputation and of his own literary cha-
racter, was anxious to amend and improve the pro-
duction of his more juvenile years, ao as to satisfy
himself—a critic even more fastidious, so far as this
work was concerned, than the sternest reviewer that
ever crushed the hope of a young author. Publishers
would have rejoiced at a rescript, because they would
have been sure of purchasers, book collectors
would gladly have adorned their shelves with a pro-
duction that was placed beyond their reach ; but
the writer was inexorable. He would not consent
to its reproduction until he had leisure time to devote
to its completion. The due appreciation of his pro-
fessional exertions, the unceasing labours of a bar-
rister's life, retarded this consummation, "so devoutly
to be wished for," until his well-merited elevation to
the bench, which gave to the country a learned,
painstaking, impartial, and exemplary judge, and to
the literary world a new edition of" Curran and his
Contemporaries." We shall not attempt to give any
summary of the life of the remarkable man who forms
the chief feature in the admirable volume now under
notice. His life was busy and stirring from the
hour when, in 1775, with, as he said himself, " no
living possession but a pregnant wife," he was, after
much indecision respecting an emigration to America,
called to the bar of Ireland, until that, in which, in
1807, he exchanged tor the judicial robe " the gown
which for so many years he had worn with
dignity to himself, with advantage to his
clients, and with honour to his country ;"
indeed, he might say, from his natal dry, on the 24th
of July, 1750, until that of his death, the 14,h of
October, 1817, he had passed through all the vicis-
situdes of life. " The son of a peasant" (as with too
great humility he styled himself), he gained for him-
self a seat at " the table of his Prince," where he
was the welcome and honoured guest, and that
without in any degree compromising the sterling in
dependence of his political principles, which were
never, during his !varied career, even momen-
tarily sullied by the breath of slander. He was
ever above suspicion in his ardent and unde-
viating patriotism ; the zealous, energetic, and
unflinching advocate of many political victims, he
never truckled to arbitrary power, or tempo-
rised under circumstances that might have appalled
the boldest. None attacked him with impunity;
the playful gibe, cutting sarcasm, or torrent
of burning eloquence, were ever available,
and he invariably repelled his assailants with the
weapons of their own choice. As a boon companion
he was unrivalled. As his able biographer justly re-
marks—" He was a little convivial deity. He scared
in every region, and was at home in all ; he touched
everything, and seemed as if he had created it; he
mastered the human heart with the same ease that he
did his violin. You wept, and you laughed, and you
wondered ; and the wonderful creature who made
you do all at will never let it appear that be was
more than your equal, and was quite willing, if you
chose, to become your auditor. He had no conversa-
tional rule whatever ; he spoke from impulse; and be
had the art so to draw you into a participation, that,
though you felt an inferiority, it was a contented one."
We shall borrow from the same gifted source the fol-
lowirg graphic sketch of his professional character
and position :
" We feel at borne with him in the Four Courts.
There never, perhaps, lived a greater advocate—cer-
tainly never one more suited to the country in which his
lot was cast. He had all the qualities by which his
countrymen are attractLd and attached. His imagina-
tion was wonderful, his eloquence copious, rapid, and
ornate, his powers of mimicry beyond all description.
The passions were under his absolute command; either
the laugh or the tear was ready at bis bidding; his con-
trasts—their rapidity, their ease, and, strange to say,
their apparent propriety—were marvellous. There was
no time to criticise, where the mind was wrapt in
wonder and delight, and the hearer was hurried, now
into the regions of philosophy and fancy, now through
the scenes of fun, and drollery, and humour, amid
which the Irish peasant delights to forget, or laugh away,
his wretchedness. He had another quality, apart from
intellect, which the times demanded—indomitable
courage. The English advocate is engaged in conten-
tions, earnest, ardent, animated, hut—peaceful. Not so,
however, must we read Curran's history. In the days
from which be dates his glory, peril beset his path,
armed men composed his auditory, exasperated authority
denounced his zeal, and faction scowled upon the daunt-
less advocate it burned to make its victim. Bayonets
were often bristling at his breast, and the interference of
the bench was sometimes called for, to procure him
even the decency of a hearing. His daring to appear
at all in defence of a state prisoner was made matter of
grievous accusation ! Lord Carleton broadly hinted to
him, be might lose his gown if he defended Neilson.
Well, my Lord,' said Curran, somewhat contemptuously,
his Majesty may take the silk, but he must leave the
stuff behind.' He scorned both the threat and the im-
putation. I feel no shame,' he sass in 1798, at such
a charge, except that of its being made at such a time
as this, that to defend the people should be held out as
an imputation upon the King's counsel, when the people
are prosecuted by the state. I think every counsel is
the property of his fellow-subjects. If, indeed, because
I wore his Majesty's gown, I had declined my duty, or
bad done it weakly or treacherously—if I had made
that gown a mantle of hypocrisy, and had betrayed my
client, or sacrificed him to any personal view-1 might,
perhaps, have been thought wiser by those who have
blamed me, but I should have thought myself the basest
villain upon earth.' It was amid such scenes, and under
such discouragements, that Curran pronounced the
memorable orations which have made his name im•
mortal."
The following gloving description of the bar of Ire-
land, where Charles Phillips commenced that prof,. s-
sional career which has since been continued with so
much credit to hiuKelf in this more favoured country,
is especially worthy of notice :
"To that enlightened body, as at that day constituted,
the ' future men' t f this country may be allowed to turn
with an excusable, and, in some sort, a national satisfac-
tion. There were to be found, her nobles, her aristo-
cracy, her genius, her learning, and her patriotism, all
concentrated within that little circle. No insolent pre-
tension in the high frowned down the intellectual splen-
dour of the humble: education compensated the want of
birth; industry supplied the inferiority of fortune; and
the law, which in its suitors knew no distinction but
that of justice, in its professors acknowledged none ex-
cept that of merit. In other countries, where this glo-
rious profession is degraded into a trade—where cun-
ning supplies the---place of intellect, and a handicraft
kmeobanism is the substitute fur mind—where, in Cur-

111 CURRA.N'S -
I once possessed it.
In Lord BROUGHAM'S
I again enjoy it.
To these page. therefore, affectionately devoted
To the memory of the one,
I proudly and gratefully, with his own permission, prefix
The name of the other.
It is only justice to make honourable mention of a
portion of the work, too often neglected in similar
publications—" the Index," the importance of which
to the reader, enabling him to make the volume one of
reference, by which any subject can at once de dis-
covered, is so fully known to every professional reader.
It is prepared with the utmost care and accuracy,
such as you would find in a well-arranged law book,
rather than in a work of general literature. In every
respect, then, we commend this admirable volume to
public notice; it will be found eminently worthy of
repeated perusals—one without which no library can
be complete.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, DEC. 28.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
took their usual early morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot.
ing this morning, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Duke de Nemours and the Prince de Join-
ville, and attended by Colonel Hon. Charles Grey
and Colonel Bouverie.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours and the Prince de Joinville took leave of
the Queen and the Prince to-day, and quitted the
Castle.

DEC. 29.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and
the domestic household, attended Divine service this
morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev.
G. Wellesley officiated, and administered the Holy
Communion.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking exercise.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
continues ill, at her residence, Gloucester House,
Piccadilly. Inquiries were made after the health of
the Royal Duchess yesterday, on the part of the
Queen and the members of the Royal Family.

But what encourages him ought to sink deep into the
heart of the laity of the Church of England; for it in-
dicates where the weakness of their Church really lies—
in the bench of bishops. Even now episcopal lines are
laid to divert the consideration of Parliament from that
which alarmed Lord John Russell far more than Papal
aggression. " There is a danger which alarms me much
more than any aggression of a foreign Sovereign." It,
then we are to have legislation (and most properly) for
the minor danger, how much more imperative must be
legislation for tLe major danger? If Parliament has to
cendder that which only provoked Lord John Russell's
"indignation," how much more incumbent is it for Par-
liament to deliberate on what roused his •• alarm?"
Yet endless are the episcopal intrigues now in pro-
gress to avert the consideration of the greater subject
and to confine attention to the smaller matter. Amougat
other devices is a characteristic one. We are, it
seems, to have the old scheme of " more bishops'
revived. This is Dr. Blomfield's remedy for all our
ecclesiastical ills. To checkmate Cardinal Wiseman he
proposes at once to create Anglican sees of Westminster
and of Southwark; and so to bring the Cardinal's terri-
torial titles within the repressive provisions of the
Roman Catholic Emancipation Act; the new sees to be
maintained whilst he lives, out of the funds of the eccle-
siastical commission; after his demise, out of the re-
venues of the bishopric of London. And to some such
scheme as this, Mr. Sidney Herbert and Lord Ashley
will, it is said, lend their support.
Of such plans the laity must beware. Sir James
Graham long ago told them that the want of the Church
of England was clergy—Protestant clergy—not bishops;
and to create additional sees until some security is taken
to preserve the Protestant character of the Church is to
increase, not to lessen its danger; for it has been by the
active agency of some bishops, and by the supineness of
the rest, that there is now a danger in the Church
which alarms Lord John Russell " much more than any
aggression of a foreign Sovereign."
Before, then, the question of more bishops can be pro-
fitably entertained by the Legislature, two other ques-
tions must be settled ; —l. What is the Church of England?
2. Where is the Church to be found? We have through-
out England parish churches numberless,, and clergy in
every latish; but in them we have no uniformity of doc-
trine, of views, or of practice 4. There we are taught to
believe in ecclesiastical infallibility, here in the all-suffi•
ciency of Holy Scripture; in this parish oe have a sacri-
ficial mediatorial priest, in that an unpretentious minis-
ter; in one church we have an altar, in another a commu-
nion table; in • Pimlico we have auricular confession in-
sisted on; in Liverpool we have the punishment of death
recommended as a penalty for such a practice; in short,
disguise it as we may, we have two different, nay, two
antagonistic schemes of redemption taught in the Church
of England? 1L hat, thee, is the Church of England?
Where is it to be found? These are not questions to be
shirked by asking for "more bishops."—Daily Acres.

NEW BARONETS.—The Queen has conferred the
dignity of Baronet of the Unittd Kingdom upon Major-
General Sir W. R. Gilbert, G.C.8., James Matheson, Esq.,
F.R.S., and Thomas Tufton, Esq. The services of General
Gilbert in India are well known. Mr. Matheson is Member
for Ross and Cromarty, and was formerly partner in the
eminent house of Matheson, Jardine and Co., in which his
cousin, A. Matheson, Esq. (M.P. for Inverness) is now the
leading partner. Mr. Matheson resided for many years in
India and China, and on his return to England received an
address and a service of plate, worth 1,500/: trom the mer-
chants of Bombay, who expressed their high sense of the
judgment and firmness displayed by him in the difficulties
which sprung out of the seizure of the opium. Mr. Tufton
has succeeded to the vast estates of the late Earl of Thanet.

THE IRON TRADE.--MEETING OF SOUTH STAF-
FORDSHIRE IRONDIASTERS.—The usual preliminary meet-
ing of the ironmasters was held on Friday at Dudley. There
was a large attendance, and all the firms of consequence were
represented. A well-grounded hope of " better times"
beamed in every one's face, and upon the whole we learn
that a more cheerful meeting has not taken place since the
commencement of the present year. Although the iron
trade wears just now a more healthy appearance than it has
for some years past, it was deemed expedient, under exist-
ing circumstances, to continue the present rate of prices.
No alteration, therefore. will be made, yet it could not be
concealed that the demand has improved considerably, and
that the new year is likely to find it still more so. Already,
we learn that some works are overwhelmed with orders from
the United States, and a further demand for spring ship-
ments is calculatedupon. Railway matters here and abroad
are likely in the ensuing year to revive, and something more
than symptoms of this improvement are already manifesting
themselves. It is also expected that the magnificent struc-
ture in course of erection for the Great National Exhibition
will induce similar buildings to be erected, more particularly
on the Continent and America, when foreigners have an op-
portunity, as they shortly will, of witnessing the splendid re-
sults of manufacturing skill and enterprise in this country,
and the commercial advantages which must result to them
from an unfettered interchange between nations. On the
whole we may congratulate the manufacturers of our great
iron district on the prospects which are at length beginning
to dawn upon them.—Birmingham Journal.

EXPLOSION OF GAS.—Yesterday forenoon, at a few
minutes before ten o'clock, the family of Mr. John Bobby,
the proprietor of the Cock Tavern, in Leadenhall-street,
City, were greatly terrified, owing to an explosion occurring
upon the premises. It appears that an escape of gas, by
some means not clearly ascertained, occurred from the pipe:;
of the new company, when the vapour coming in contact
with a flame a tremenduous explosion followed, which
broke the shutters and window-frames on the ground-floor,
tore down the ceilings in the cellars, and at the same time
set on fire the under side of the floorings and jeistings in the
basement. Owing to the prompt arrival of the police and
strangers, the fire was soon extinguished. Fortunately, no
one was hurt.

To FEED OYSTEES.—Put them into water and
wash them with a birch besom till quite clean; then lay
them bottom downwards, in a pan, sprinkle with flour or
oatmeal and salt, and cover with water. Do the same every
day, and they will soon fatten. The water should be pretty
salt.

CHRISTMAS BOUNTY —Her Excellency the Countess
of Clarendon, accompanied by Sir William Russell, Bart.,
aide•de-camp, distributed warm clothing on Christmas-eve
to 250 poor persons assembled at Castlekuock glebe, county
Dublin, and selected by the clergymen of the various reli-
gious demminations in the neighbourhood.

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER so, 1850:

Iron—Prices cont'rue firm as follow !—Scotch pig iron
213- dolls. per ton; English Com. bars, 363- &lie.; best,
40 dolls.; refined, 46 dolls. per ton. Tin, I.C. 1-3 X,
10 dolls.

Lead—Pig ii steady, with a fair inquiry; sales are
quoted at 4 d 011,,. 62k c. per 100Ibs. for English; 4 dolls.
75 c. for American.

Sugar—Our receipts aro light, and the market has
advanced -lc. per lb. fur New Orleans, there existing a
fair demand. We report sales at 5i c. to 64 c. for New
Orleans; Cuba, :51- c.; Pcrto Rico, 64 C.; brown Ha-
♦annah, 64 c.; white, Bc. per lb.; Dutch crushed, 8 c.
per lb.

Salt—The market is inactive at the fullovring rates:—
Liverpool, Ashtons, 1 doll. 40 c.; other brands, 1 doll.
25 c. to 1 doll. 35 c. per sack.
Spirits—The demand for foreign is moderate; sales
have been effected at 1 doll. 90 c. for Hennessey's
brandy;llartell's, 2 dolls. 30 c.; Godard's, 2 doll?.

30c. Whisky,: Irish, 1 doll. 15 c.; Scotch, 1 do
35 c. per gallon.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Mr. Walter Lacy made his rentrie on Saturday,
after an absence from London of three years, in the
character of Wildrake, in the Love Chase, which he
performed in the most artistic manner. We congra-
tulate the lovers of the drama on the return to the
stage of the most gentlemanly actor of the day. He
was much applauded throughout. Mrs. Nisbett was
the joyous, fascinating, Neighbour Constance, and
she never played better in her life than she did on
Saturday. Mrs. Parker was the Widow Green, and
acted with great spirit and humour. The pantomime
concluded the evening's amusements.