The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-02 00:00:00

EGYPT.

Our dates from Alexandria are to the 21st of
August.
Cholera continued to prevail throughout the
country. At Alexandria there were about fifty
deaths daily, at - Cairo double the number, and
throughout the Delta it exists more or less.
Abbas Pacha, the Viceroy, had gone down the
Damietta branch of the Nile, and stays alternately
at Mausourah and Damietta. His Highness bas a
steamer in readiness for him at the mouth of the
Nile, to embark, should the cholera assume any
degree of intensity in his vicinity.
Trade was dull now in consequence of the cholera.
The new crops were coming down rapidly from the
interior, and are generally said to be abundant.
Cotton continued in high favour, and 14 dollars per
cautar was the last price paid. Exchange on Lon-
don, 97i piasters per pound sterling.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Bombay Times.)
BOMBAY, W EDNESDIY, JULY 24.

The money market continues as easy as at date of
last report, and, as usual during this period of the year,
there is an enormous amount of capital laying unem-
ployed in the banks and the hands of the native mer-
chants in the bazaar. The import market has been very
inactive during the month, and there has consequently
been little business done to report on. .A consider-
able degree of activity has prevailed in tho cotton mar-
ket, the purchases being entirely for exportation to Eng-
land. By the date of our next dispatch Cocoa-nut day
will have passed, and the coasting Uncle of the port been
partially re-opened. Whether the commercial season
will open favourably or otherwise, depends on the pros-
pects of an abundant or scanty harvest. Up to the pre-
sent date the appearances throughout the interior are said
to be in favour of the former.
Piece Goods—During the past month 40 and 45-inch
grey shirtings of and, above 5q reed have slightly im-
proved in value, and have ben in demand. White
shirtings of 66 at 72 reed, particular makes; grey ma-
dapollarns and T cloth, over 6lb. in weight, have been
in some slight inquiry, but at former rates. The only
descriptions of fancy goods for which any inquiry exists
are grey and bleached mulls, fancy border bleached
dhoties and lappet scarfs. For Turkey red goods there
is at present no demand whatever. The advises from'
Marwar of the prospects of the season not being con-
sidered favourable, have had the effect of deterring the
native suppliers of its markets from purchasing—added
to which a considerable portion of their old stocks re-
main on their hands to be disposed of before entering
on fresh transactions. The following is a memorandum
of the
;Teleese.°f4ot h
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m3B grey shirtings.
500 Co "
to a larger extenttton yarn 3r. lla. per piece.
40
hasX3bBeen di's'posed of
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during the month than might have been expected the
sales amounting to 156 bales water and 245 mule; and
the prices obtained for
-Os. and 30s of both descriptions
show an advance on former
rates. We have not heard
of any sales of Turkey red, but understand that a good
demand exists for best quality
a lir• to lr. per lb. For

In Exchange an unusually small amount has been
done, for the want of takers, and rates ruled from 2s. Oid.
to 2s. Oid. for six months' sight, credit, and first-class
documeut bills, till within the last week, when the rate
was pushed to 2s. ld., at which some document draughts
were negotiated. Freights have for London further
slightly improved, but rates to Liverpool remain much
the same.
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IItELAND.
NEW LAW APPOINTMENTS.-Mr. Baldwin, Q.C., ad-
rising counsel to the Government, has been appointed
one of the judges of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, in the
room of the later Mr. R. Farrell. Mr. J. Gibson, for-
merly Member for Belfast, is appointed assistant bar-
rister for the Queen's County, in 'the room of the late
Mr. 1-:choales.

COLLECTOR-GENERAL OF TAXES.—The Lord-Lieu-
tenant has appointed Alderman Staunton, for many
years proprietor of the Dublin Weekly Register, to the
office of collector-general of taxes in Dublin, an office
created by the New Municipal Act, and for the
arduous duties of which that gentlemen is eminently
qualified.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—A paragraph having appeared in your Friday
Evening's paper, to the effect that a box, containing
contributions to the Peel Fund, had been stolen from my
parlour, I shall feel much obliged by your contradicting
the same, as it might do serious injury to me in my
business. The fact is, the box in question was concealed
up the chimney, for a. lark." Zne mountain, there-
fore, has brought forth a mouse, for the magnified
amount of a few shillings in the box is really no more
than a few pence. And, believe me, with respect, yours,
most obediently, J. STURCH,
Acting Manager for Mr. Watson.
Warwick Arms, Pimlico, Sept. 2.

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The other two were not so confounded by the fellow
impu-
dence, however, but what they detected the dodge that itbeing practised on their companion. The apparent beggar,3
while holding with one hand his hat immediately before the
eyes of the party in question, bad dexterously contrived to
carry the other, under cover of the hat, to the waistcoat of
the latter, whose watch-chain was dangling
there. The scoundrel had got the guard within his handet
the instant that he was detected; but, on observing the
game to be up, he struck one of the party who attempted to
collar him a violent blow on the face, and, before he could be
stopped, made his escape at full speed by way of the Green.
Two men, who appeared to be acting in concert with him,
though keeping at a small distance, were, however, appre-
hended. One of there is a flesher by trade, and neither are
known to the police.---Sorth Br dish Mail.
Mr. Carlyle, in his last pamphlet, makes two ima-
ginary personages carry on the following dialogue : " • What
are bishops?' Overseers of souls.-4 What is the soul ?"The
thing that keeps the body alive.—' How do they oversee
that ?' They tie on a kind of apron, publish charges: I be-
lieve they pray dreadfully, macerate themselves nearly dead
with continual grief that they cannot in the least oversee it."
LINCOLNSHIRE.—An extensive farmer, writing to
a friend in Leeds, says "We are now very busy with the
harvest. Wheat has received great damage from mildew,
which I think extends throughout this county, a great part
of it having no!hing but bran. Barley and oats are also
much lodged from the heavy rains, and I fear will be gene-
rally of infeiior quality."— Leeds Mercury.
ACCIDENT ON BEN-NEVIS.—On Monday last
voung gentleman named Henry Grant, son of Duncan Grant,
'Esq., of Newhall, Glasgow, had started with a party of friends
from the Caledonian Hotel to ascend Ben-Nevis, and on the
way down regardless of their remonstrances, preceded them
by some distance. They followed more leisurely, and on
arriving at the glen, were much surprised at not finding him
there before them. A search was at once instituted, and
about seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, his body was found
lying at the foot of a precipice at the turn of the glen. From
the injuries received the unfortunate gentleman must have
expired instantaneously. He was of most exemplary conduct
and character.—Scotsman.

EXHIBITION or 1851.—We understand that the
organisation of local committees throughout the United
Kingdom is now considered to be complete. Eighteen have
been appointed for the metropolis, and 321 for the remainder
.of the kiogdohi!

orange yarn 121 annas per lb. have been obtained for a
small lot of seven hales. Sales:-
60 bales water twist, 3001 b. each, No. 30, at ills. per lb.
60 bales water twist, 3001 h. each, No. 30, at Bas. per lb.
36 bales water twis,, 400th. each, Nn. 30, at Bi-as. per lb.
100 bales mule twist. 300 lb. each, Nos. 20, 20 bales, at
annas 61; 30, 30 bales, at annas Si; 40, 40 bales, at as.
91, 30, 10 bales, et annas 11 per lb.
95 bales mule twist, 3001bs. each, Nos. 18, 20, 22, at
annas 6 per lb.

50 bales mule twist, 3001 b. each, Nos. 40, at sir. 10
per lb.

i - 7 bales orange yarn, 400!
' annas 12,i per lb, b. each, Nos. 30, 40, 50, at
' Metals.—Copper—An improvement has taken place in
L the price of bottoms, sheathing, and braz'ers. Australian
is in moderate demand, while sales in South American
are with difficulty effected. Iron—Hoop, sheet, and
square nail ro.l remain as before, while round nail rod
and English bar have slightly advanced in demand and
value since our last. Steel—Swedish in bar and tubs is
steady and firm; in faggots dull of sale. Lead—Sheet
has somewhat improved, and pig is in rather Letter de-
mand than formerly, though no advance in price has
taken place. Spelter has slightly improved in demand
and value during the month.
Cochineal—No transactions reported.
Saffron—Prices remain as before; stocks continue
large, and demand extremely dull.
Beer—ln Hodgson's we have not heard of any trans.
actions. The market has been stripped of Allsop's, 560
hogsheads having been disposed of at 65:. per hogshead,
and sales of 27b hogsheads "to arrive" hate bees
effected at the price paid for what was in the market.
Bass's has also sold to some extent at 65r. per hogshead.
Marine Stores—Oil of linseed and spirits of turpen-
tine are the only articles under this head at atl in de-
mand. 200 bolts bleached canvas have been sold at
174 rs. per belt. Cordage and sewing twine are dull. A
sale of 300 cwt. red lead is also reported.
Bottles-100 gross Liverpool, and 200 crates other
kinds, quarts, have been sold at 15a. and 18a. per dozen
respectively.
Corks—A sale of 900 gross, at lira. per gross, is re- I
ported.

Opium—The price of bestEXPORTS quality Malwa has risen
considerably since our last, and may now be quoted at
1,385r5. to 1,390r5.
per chest, at which a large quantity
has been purchased. Stock being low, and good opium
scarce, this rate is likely to continue for some time. The
following is the result of the last Calcutta sale, as re-
ported by the Bengal Hurkaru of the Bth instant:—
We give the results of the ninth opium sale of the
season, which took place at the Exchange this morning:—
Chests. Highest. Lowest. Average. Proceeds.
Behar ... 2,085 1,025 1,015 1,021,3-11 21,29,300
Benares... 865 1,035 1,025 1,029,4-10 8,90,350
This exhibits another rise in the averages of 20 2-3 r,
for Patna, and 27-7-3 r. for Benares.
Cotton Wool—The purchases during the month
amount to 11,850 bales and 3,325 candles, almost entirely
for the English market. The great demand and high
prices ruling at home have caused the value of all
descriptions at market to advance considerably-7r.
and Br. per candy higher rates having been paid during
the month than were obtainable at the date of our last.
The latest advicea from China for the staple were unfa-
vourable, and scarcely any purchases have been made for
that market.
EXCHANGE.—We quote six months' sight bank and
first-class credit bills on London at 2s. Old., and docu-
ment bills at 2s. old. On Calcutta, 60 days' sight, par.;
and on China 215 r. per 100 dolls.
FREIGHTS. —To London and Liverpool the rate of the
day is 31. per ton; to Cork one vessel has been taken up
at 3/. 2s. 6d. per ton; and to China 71r. to Br. per
candy. The departures of vessels during the month
have been numerous, and the arrivals comparatively
few. There are now in the harbour 30 English vessels, j
of which there are on the berth for London 4, for Liver-
pool 11, for Cork 3, for Hull 1, and for China 4.
(From the Calcutta Englishman, July 13.)
We have since our last issue to notice an increased
activity in our export market, which has, however,
within the last eight days again received some check by
the advanced position taken by exchange, and slightly
increased requirements in freights.
Indigo, of which none is offering, without a trans-
action.
Sugar has continued in extending general inquiry at
the extreme rates ruling on the departure of last mail,
which have in some instances been slightly exceeded.
Saltpetre has commanded a steady share of attention
at firm previous value.
Rice in but partial demand, and former rates main-
tained.
Raw silk less active, buyers being reluctant to accom-
modate themselves to the higher range of requirements
ruling towards the close of last mail.

Corahs meet with inquiry for the better kinds only,
which are held for higher prices on the score of the
limited supply.
Oil seeds continue in unabated extensive demand, both
for American and home shipments.
Shellac more inquired after, and prices rather stiffer.
Lac-dye quiet, and the ordinary native sorts obtain-
able at a further small concession in prices.
Safflower, of which the supply is now sensibly falling
off. held to extreme former value.

Jute continues in active inquiry, at extreme previous
rates.

Opium ha!, since the sale, slightly declined in Patna,
this sort being sold at 1,015 to 1,017 rs.; but Benares
commands 1,030 rs.

In our import market we have experienced but little
desirable change since our List, unaltered low prices
ruling without proving any incitement to rouse our na-
tive purchasers from their apathy, the less since our
abundant stocks increase the efforts for realization,
which remain steadily resisted, the large home shipments
during the month of April furnishing buyers with addi-
tional 1 easons for a determined reserve to go into stocks.
Gray shirtings hare, by dint of their depressed prices, met
with tolerably current sales in the 140-inch kinds, others
being as neglected as ever. Gray jaconets are at the lowest
previous prices in somewhat better demand, v hich
also applies to madapollams in an improved degree. All
sorts of bleached goods remain dull, and without the
slightest improvement. Mule twist has continued in
good demand at the full rates prevailing at the close of
last mail. Metals continue neglected, except copper,
which has commanded an improvement of 8 annas,
but within the last few days buyers refuse to meet these
terms.

THE STUD. By Harry Hieover.
A capital little volume, has been penned under this
isle, by Harry Hieover, as a sort of supplement to
he "Pocket and the Stud," a work already noticed by
ourselves. The present effusion is addressed particularly
to practical men, being, moreover, according to its
very title-page, designed fur strictly practical pur-
poses. Nu writer upon stable economy could be more
admirably qualified to proffer the pertinent and
wholesome advice compacted into these six chapters ;
no one, we maintain, could he better qualified than
our hilarious and indefatigable author, who draws all
his facts from *personal observation and all his de-
ductions from personal experience. Besides this, he is
ever in such good humour as to render his hints and
his gossip at all times acceptable. This latter cha-
racteristic be it observed, is no slight advantage to
one who, like Harry Hieover, is anxious to inculcate
truths upon a subject peculiarly fraught to most
people with irritating recollections. As a pleasant
token of the constitutional hilarity of the author we
would commend our readers just to glance for a
moment at the two engravings prefixed to this
volume of the " Stud," copied by the hand of
Hacker from original paintings by Hieover ;
one being entitled " Ralither a bad sort for any pur-
pose," and the other, " A pretty good sort for most
purposes." As to the practical nature of the sugges-
tions offered in the letter-press, that can be readily
perceived by a cursory " skim" through the leaves. For
instance, it will then be perceived that the diseases of
the horse, its imperfections and its propensities, are con-
sidered under separate heads and in separate divisions.
Among the diseases are particularly mentioned such
internal diseases as inflammation of the lungs, cholic,
inflammation of the bowels, megrim, staggers, and
bleeding at the nose, together with permanent
diseases, such as glanders, defective wind, defective
sight, chinked back, roaring, and whistling. Among
the external imperfections, again, are especially par-
ticularised, stringhalt, swollen or capped hocks,
swollen necks, windgalls, spavines, and a variety of
others subsequently enumerated. One of the
most felicitously written portions of the book is
that dedicated to the ill-habits of the horse, such
as biting, kicking, starting, shying, and jibbing.
Best of all, however, is the close of the volume, in
which are specified those points in the make and shape
of the horse which are snore or less desirable. This
section of the " Stud" is to some extent a prose ver-
sion of the celebrated passage in " Venus and
Adonis," and with some reason may Harry Hieover
pique himself on having therein unintentionally illus-
trated the comprehensive truthfulness of Shakspere.

The money-market in general is unaltered, but the
pressure in the bazaar continues unabated. The Bank
of Bengal has declared a dividend for the
of 8-8 per cent. per annum on stock, and shares are in
demand, without sellers. past half-year

PRACTICAL HORSEMANSHIP. By Harry

Hieover.
Encouraged by the success of his previous volumes
relating to the selection and treatment of horses, Harry
Hieover has here undertaken to- give tyros in eques-
trianism some practical suggestions on horsemanship.
Like all his former production, the ptesent book re-
veals at once the benhomnie of the author and his inti-
mate acquaintance with the subject of his lucubrations.
Mare lecturing he sedulously eschews, all his ad-
vice being conveyed to the reader in a manner most
delightfully conversational. It is more like a friend
and boon companion, giving one hints upon the
matter under discussion, than like the dogmatic
instruction proffered by an elementary writer.
Nothing can be more thoroughly pleasant and
agreeable than the tone in which Harry Hieover
pens his chapters. If we had space sufficient just
now for the purpose we would afford a capital illus-
tration of this by transcribing his facetious account
of the conversation which occurred some years ago
between Mr. Jessamy and himself, Master Harry
Hieover. The passage is indicative of his keen ap-
preciation of fun and his skill in the employment of
irony. Better, however, even than the anecdotes
scattered through the pages before us are the practi-
cal hints given by the writer, himself a proficient in
the science of horsemanship, such hints as those re-
ferring to good nerve and good temper, to long riders
and short riders, to firm seats and long stirrup lea-
thers. As to equipment, again, his ideas are emi-
nently useful relating to bits, curbs, snaffles, bridles,
reins, lip-straps, neck-straps, forehead-bands, throat-
latches, saddles, stirrups, buckles, and all such para-
phernalia. Nor is the closing chapter the least valu-
able in its instructiveness, we mean where our author
is discoursing alternately on rearing, kicking, plung-
trotting, cantering, and glillopping. Altogether,

MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBE

LITERATURE.
GODOLPIIIN. By Sir Edward Bulu•cr Lytton,

Bart.
A particular interest attaches itself to this cele
brated novel from tha circumstance of its authorship
having continued so long a matter of uncertainty.
Unaided by the reputation of its 'illustrious writer, it
rose, more slowly, it is true, than his other fictions,
but quito as steadily into popularity. That circum-
stance alone is a sufficient attestation of its peculiar
merit as a contribution to our light literature. Now
that it has achieved for itself a place among the mas-
ter-pieces of our poet-romancist, it is, of course, in-
teresting to find it at length acknowledged by him in
the dedication addressed to his friend Count Alfred
D'Orsay, who is designated by Sir Edward, with
perfect justice, "the most accomplished gentleman
of our time. That panegyric, coming as it does
from the author of " Pelham," is peculiarly
splendid, and, in a twofold respect, appro-
priate. It is only discovering another illustra-
tion of the astonishing versatility and fruitfulness of
Sir Bulwer Lytton's genius, when we find from the
Preface to the present cheap edition of '• Godolphin"
that it was composed " almost simultaneously with
Eugene Aram,' " works of as contrary character
almost as could be found within the range of our
romantic literature. From the healthy moral diffused
throughout " Godolphin" we are rejoiced to think
that by its present popular republication its influ-
ence will be diffused more generally throughout the
community than was hitherto practicablo.

SOUTHEY 'S LIFE AND CORRESPON-
DENCE. Vol. V.
Another instalment of this voluminous biography
will bring it to its completion. Within the pre.
sent volume the narrative is continued by the
reverend editor down to the fifty-fifth year
of the late Poet Laureate's existence, namely,
down to the winter of 1827-1828. During the
period which elapsed. in the interval between that
season and the spring of 1820, with which the fifth
volume commences, much was accomplished by
Southey to extend and elevate his literary reputation.
Much reason also was unhappily afforded by him to
bis political assailants during those same years—
reason, namely, to charge him with the most flagitious
tergiversation. As if to afford a testimony that there
really was some ground for these accusations, Mr.
Charles Cuthbert Southey, the editor of this
biography, observes, with a view to their refutation
(p. 2), " It has been the fashion with many of those
persons whose opinions were opposed to those my
father held in later life " (thereby implying that he
had held different opinions in earlier life) "to main-
tain that he had ' veered round like a weathercock
upon a gusty day,' that he was ' a renegade, an apos-
tate, and a hireling.' " These are the expressions re-
pudiated by his son as unjust in their application to
Robert Southey. Yet, as the previous sen-
tence sufficiently demonstrates, the filial de-
fender of Southey in the very act of
extenuating his conduct indirectly confesses, in
the manner we have previously intimated, that his
sentiments as a politician were different at different
periods of his career. While we persist in arguing
that the accusers of Southey were justified in in-
veighing against his shameless inconsistency, we
must at the same time protest that there was nothing
whatever in his character which could empower any
one to charge him with haviag forsaken the cause of
ultra-democracy, and with hiving become thereupon
the champion of ultra-conservatism, for the sake of a
pitiful pension granted to him by a Tory Government.
Those who can at all estimate the nature and the
genius of Robert Southey can never have supposed
for an instant that he was actuated, in his political
variations, by a miserable regard to mere pounds,
shillings, and pence. Lucre was not, we are satis-
fied, the cause of his abandonment of liberal princi-
ples. Yet, while acknowledging thus much, we are
perforce necessitated to attribute that disgraceful
apostacy to motives scarcely less deplorable—namely,
to a wretched subserviency to the authoritative,
a contemptible sycophancy to the great and powerful.
Gladly, however, do we let these bygones be bygones
now that the gifted subject of our remarks has de-
parted. Nor should we have reverted to matters so
fraught with painful considerations but that the son
of Southey, from a mistaken and blundering affection,
has revived a discussion which be might have done
better in abandoning to forgetfulness. Scarcely less
objectionable in tone is the reference made by this
same descendant to Lord Byron, in allusion to the
well-known " Vision of Judgment." The whole
manner of these remarks upon Lord Byron, but for
its being intensely absurd, would give cause for seri-
ous reprehension. Thus, for example, what can be
possibly said of the observation, that from 1813
" Lord Byron became year after year more noto-
rious," but that it is at once coarse and ridiculous?
Or again, how can we hear without derisive laughter
that Southey regarded Lord Byron "as a man
of the highest talents"—that wonderful genius
in whose resplendent presence the little glow worm
intellect of Dr. Southey " paled its ineffectual fires."
Making all allowances, however, for these errors of
judgment on the part of the editor, who must of
course be supposed to be liable sometimes to be car-
ried away by his filial predilections, the life and cor-
respondence before us progresses with very consider•
able ability, and with an interest that enlarges as we
proceed in our perusal. As embrellishments, we find
in the volume just published a charming group re.
presenting Isabel, Bertha, and Catherine Southey, a
an age when they were children, as also a rather
sombre view of Bassenthw.site Lake, near Whinlatter.