The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-04 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

Good and fine hops are in fair request, at full prices.
Infarior samples continue dull. Last week's imports were
180 bales from Hamburg, and 5 from Ostend. •
Mid and East Kent pockets, 31 lOs to 51 12s ; Weald
of Kent, 31' 51; to 31 18s ; Sussex, 3t Os to 3/ 12s ; year-
lings, 1/ 108 to 31 per cwt.

WOOL.
The sales of colonial wool have commenced heavily, and
prices, compared with the previous auctions, have given
way I d to 2d per lb. The following rates have been paid :
—Australian— Clean sheep's is 9d to 25 7(1 ; scoured, is
8d to 2s ; super., 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; hand Washed, is 6(.1
to 2s id. ; latnb's, is lid to 2s 2d -.skin, I s 2d to is ;
do. haudwashed, I s 7d ; locks, is id to is lid ; grease, 90
is 32id. Port Philip--Clean sheep's, is 9d to 2s 7id ;
scoured lamb's, la lid to 2s; 'do. handwashed, is 6d to
IS 7d ; pieces, Is 2,d to is 60. Adelaide—Clean sheep's,
is 70 to is 10.0 ;. haridwashed, is '64 to is 9id ; lamb's,
is 103 ; grease, 9d to is id; do. lamb's, is 0.0 to is 2d ;
do. locks, Zd to 84d ; aline combing, is 61:1; ; pieces, is 41.
Van Diema,ife Land—Clean sheep's, is lid to, 2s lid ;
lamb's, 2s ld to 2s I'd ' • pieces, is 7d per lb. The im-
parts last week were 191 bales from Odessa, 96 froni Genoa,
235 from Buenos Ayres, and 900 from Australia. • The
• private market is exceed,ingly heavy, and prices are. no-
minal.
The following are the current rates of English wool :--
Down tags, is 7d to is Set ; half,bred hOggets, le 6d to is
7d ; Kent fleeces, is stl to ls 6ti ; Down ewes, is 5d to
is ; Leicester fleeces, is 4d to is 5d ; combing skins,
is 'd to is 51 ; flannel wool, is 24 to is 6cl ; and blanket
wool, 101 to is 21 per lb. •
SEEDS.
Cloverseed is in steady demand, at full prices. Trefoil is
a slow sale. Carraway seed is in good request, at enhanced
quotations. Rape and oilseed'are firm, and, owing to the
small stocks and short arrivals, higher rates have, in some
instances, been paid. Tares and hemp-seed are steady at
about previous currencies.
W bite, per bush. 18s to 20

ewede 18• 20i
Anstard, 8r0wn...... 20. 224
White, new • • •... 108 128
T.Ares,Wtnter, new.. • • Gs Oa 780 d,

Carraway .. 44, 46s
. 243 2611
Hempseed, per quarter 41, 443
Linseed, Eng.iowing.• 70. 72s
Crushing .... •• .. 564 68s
Baltic 58 608
Odessa .. •...... 64s 65s
LinseedCahe, pr. ton—
English .. ...10' Os 10' 10p

01d....... • --s --F
Canary, per quarter •• 7-4 s 90i
Rye crass (new) .• • ... 32s 41s
Clover',lted Nub. (cwt.) 546 76
White •• •• •• 60* 73-;
roreign Red...—. 57s 74s
Whito.... Os 72,
21s 30=

iforeign,pertop9: 10 10 lOs
Rape Cakes, per ton 6i 0, 6 10s
Rapeseed, pr qr. 89s 84s

Trefoil, new..........

TALLOW.

Only a moderate business is doing in our market, and
prises ara lower than on Monday last. To-day P.Y.C. on
the spot is quoted 55's 9d ; for the last three monthia, 54s
per cwt. Town tallow, "55s 6d net cash. Rough fat, 3s
per Sibs.

1853.

1854.

Stock this day I 94,3g4 35,811
4( t 64, 3d
Price of Y. C
/ 47s 3d es 0
---•-

41.057
52s Odu
—s
2,377
80,604
11,7.34
95,660
54s 3d

1856. I 1e57.

E.
. Delivery last weck • • 1,618 849
Ditto from Jane 1 :... 99,689 90,590
4 Arrivals last week.. 854 2,468
I Ditto from Junel „•,, 63,425 103,086
I'r.ce oi Tvvvu 49, al. 61s 9ci

• 17,609 1 10,684
45s to 55s :!d to
—s Od —s Od

1,388 1,572
101,532 10,896
1,004 338
72,599 91,600
6(1 588 dd

THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood.—" The Athelinga" we grieve to
think are evidently approaching to a termination.
The twelfth part virtually sets at rest all doubt as
to the fact of Louis Rivers' legitimacy—establish-
ing the veracity of his claim to the name, style,
and title of Lord Winterbourne. There is a hitch,
however, in the disentanglement of the thread of
the narrative. An apparent mist': nderstand:ing
between, and estrangement of,. Agnes afid Lionel !
Another instalment will probably put all that to
rights—and then we shall have an end of it. PoS-
sibly we are too baaty in our anticipations—but what
we ha.ve here stated is our impression. The additional
fragments of the new serial in Blackwood entitled
" Scenes of Clerical Life"—strange' to tell with
" such" a heading—proves to be wonderfully ro-
mantic. But then, it must be confessed, the se-
cond title is a little niore suggestive of romance
than the first—to wit, " Mr. GilfiPs Love
Story." But fiction before now, soot?' to say, haS
dealt somewhat largely in hero-clergymen. Don't
we all of us very well remember the three evan-
erelical Chevaliers in " Shirley ?"—and the more
recently created Mr. Hale of " North and South ?"
—and further back than either, Oliver Goldsmith's
charming Dr. Primrose, the " Vicar. of Wake-
field ?" So that, perhaps, after all, it is only the
most natural thing in the world, that these " Scenes
of Clerical Life," and particularly those coming
under the supplementary title of " Mr. Gilfit's Love
Story," should prove to be most romantic. The
readers of Maga in May ire likely to he breathless
enough by the time they have got well through the
number. For, besides being 'hurried through all
the mazy windings and involutions of the two serial
tales already mentioned —"The Clerical Scenes"
and "The Athelings"—they are dragged on, a se-
cond time, " Afoot" through an arti, le so entitled,
an article in which they are wearily tutoyged all the
way uninterruptedly ? And this, too, af er having
been whisked across the Atlantic at a tangent for a
run, literally " A Run to Nicaragua." A very ex-
hilirating and refreshing rim it turns out
to be, however—forttinatelY. Then, another
contribution leads us the most eccentric
and erratic dance imaginable, through a censiderable
part of all the 145 small octavo manuscript volumes
of Old Thomas Hearne's Diary ! A Diary recently
"licked into shape" under the auspices of the
amiable and learned Philip Blis,t, Principal of St.
Mary's Hall, Oxford—the said diary extending ore,.
the three decades ranging between 1705' and 1735,
kept by a sort of an academic Evelyn, or respectable
" old fogified " Pepys After an archological
dissertation on " The Sculptured Stones of Scot-
land " and a pleasant glimpse of " Life in Central
Asia," we have—fancy this in Blackwood, ye Gods!
—a rhythmical school thesis (" After Rogers," as
t hey say---'3, very long way After Rogers), designated
" Columbus." A bit of Prescott or Irving "done
into verse," in regard to which we may say, with
a slight alteration, what somebody saidto the Eng-
lish translator of the Iliad—" Very pretty lines,
Mr. Johnston, but not Poetry !" Afterwards—
there is no mistaking the authorship—Bon Gaul-
tier, the real genuine Original, the veritable Simon
Pure—W. E. (not Gladstone but) Aytoun—gives
us four comical " Lays of the - Elections." Well,
perhaps, after all they are not so much comical, es
ridculous. Here is just a fiavotar of the
fun of the thing :
There I saw a Chanticlero
Strutting with intense delight,
Spurr'd and plumaged like a horo,
Victor in a desperate fight.
Deftly rose the feather'd phantom ;
To the hustings' top it flew—
" Cock-a•doodle !" crow'd the bantam,
" Cock-a•doodle•doodle-doo !" -
"Fowl !" said 1, "in various fashions
Mother Nature shapes her'plan ;
Say, do poultry feel the passions
That molest the heart of man ?
Hath ambition stirr'd thee nearly ?
Gallant bantam, tell me true !"
"Cock,-a-doodle 1" crowed it clearly ;
" Cock-a-doodle doodle-duo !"
The gallant Bantam being of course, " in point of
fact," as Cousin Pheenix says—my Lord John
Russell. The next lay referring to Lionel Roths-
child—the next to Milner Gibson—the next to
Richard Cobden. Not one of the four Lays being
evidently hatched over by the small bird whisper-
ing such very queer notions ever and anon into-the
ear of Bon Gaultier ! The last contribution in the
May number of Blackwood—though. veryfew would
suspect as much from its title, that being briefly a
fourth of friend Phosphorus's "Letters from a
Lighthouse "—is Maga 's Political ! •Zln which, by
he way, the oddest views of things imaginable are
gravely advanced. For instance,-Lord Palmerston,
we are told, had much better, for his own sake
—fancy ! had much better-for his own sake NOT
have dissolved the last Parliament ! Again-with
a clear gaiia of close upon a hundred to the side of
the Liberals in the New House of Commons (a gain
admitted by honest Ebony), with that clear gain
of a hundred to the Liberals, there is no mistake at
all about it—Phosphorus insists, that the strongest,
compactest, most formidable, most powerful body
in the House is that of the Conservative Party
They, says he, have scarcely lost anything iu the
General Election ! Then where the Den—, but we
will keep our temper, Where, we ask, do these one
hundred gained by the Liberal party come from ?
We suppose, from the place where the " ruck" of
the " Derby" find themselves—Nowhere ! With
which small joke, good-naturedly whispered in the
ear of Maga, close we our notice of the May num-
ber of Blackwood.

Dublin Uuivertity.—Tlie account of " The Cas-
tle'of Dublin" is continued in a second chapter, it
contains a great deal of information, and will prove
very interesting. Some of the facts mentioned are
curious and striking, as, for instance, the traffic
carried on by the merchants of Bristol in sending
slaves to Ireland. " A Sketch of Two Homes "is
a cleverly writen tale, it consists of a series of
reminiscence, all melancholy, the two passages of
domestic life are widely different; far more sympathy
is felt for the latter characters, however, as they were
the victims to the terrors of disease, while the others
sacrificed themselves to the impulses ofage and
jealousy. An article is met with on "Whewell's
History of Moral Philosophy in England." • Pre-
vious to entering on an analysis of the subject, the
writer speaks of Dr. Whewell in high terms. "The
name of Whewell must ever be mentioned with re-
spect and gratitude in any history of moral philoso-
phy that may hereafter be published in the English
language." After enumerating many of the emi-
nent services he has rendered to his country, he ,
goes on to criticise what he considers his defects
among which he classes his style as egotistical and
dogmatic. The chief point of the article consist in
remarks made on the great wr;ters of the seven-
teenth century, Hugo Grotius, Robert Sanderson,
and Thomas Hobbes. • "Sir Charles James Na-
pier" forms the subject of andther paper ; the two
first volumes of his life that have recently appeared
are discussed ; the reviewer has evidently entered
into the spirit of what ha terms the "various and
deeply interesting contents of these volumes." The
strange story of "John Twiller " becomes more
amusing in this portion of it, and there is the com-
mencement of spms important discovery that is
evidently looming in the distance. " The Rides
strid. Reveries of Mr. lEsop Smith," are proceeded
with. The last article, called " A Fortuitous Con-
currence of Atoms," is very sensibly written, and
takes a calm and cautious view of the various vexed
political questions of the day. "The Manchester
Exhibition of Art Treasures" is deserving of atten-
tion for its details and descriptions, and also for its
being•the subject 'at present uppermost in public
interest. It is tray stated that the present time
has been characterised by many as "the age of in-
vention,' the age of telegraphs, &c., but that the
nineteenth century has some claim to be called
" the age of exhibitions." At the conclusion of
these remarks a hope is expressed that the benefits
derived from the exhibition may be rendered last-
ing instead of transitory.
" Will the public be contented to let all this galaxy at
Manchester dissolve and disperse, without an effort to
substitute something permanent and fine in its place ?
Are there no generous hearts amongst those who shall
bring their pictures to Manchester for a season, to edify
and delight the public, who will not also give a portion
ofthem as it permanent gift to the nation ? • Are there
none who may be disposed for an adequate price
to sell their masterpieces to the nation, and will the
nation refuse a grant for their purchase ? We hope and
believe tat these questions would be answered in the
affirniative, if the appeal or the application were made."

Bentley's Miscellany—Bentley's Miscellany opens
With its usual anticipatory notice of the Royal
Academy. It gives some interesting details of the
paintings of the chief exhibitors. Dudley Costello's
story of the Millionaire of Mincing-lane, is progress-
ing slowly. The present instalment gives us three
chapters. A panegyric on Mr. Charles Kean's
skilful representationsof Shakspeare's plays follow,
in which it is justly observed that the great suc-
cess they have met with is a sufficient proof
that the adoption of correct illustrative scenery,
dresses, &c., far from being derogwory,'
to the plays themselves, only heigh,ens their
dramatic interest. " The Wolf's Betrothed"
is the title of the new work of Alexandre Dumas.
It is a strange, weird story, not yet completed. The
paper in B'entley's gives a summary of it, with 'co-
pious extracts fur the benefit of the curious. "The
Fatal Article" is the title of the present instalment
of " Byways of History." It alludes to the article
in the marriage treaty of Charles I. and Henrietta
Maria, which stipulated that their children should
le brought up by their mother till the age of 13.

"TiaraTOS A.Waiialos"--is—COTatirittecl- in its--nsual
rambling style, occasionally quaint and suggestive,
at other times offering little to attract the reader.
"The Passing Bell" is the name of a new t-torv,
by the author-of " The itedcourt Farm." MyAt r
and murder have a large share in it. A bride
dies dery shortly after her marriage under very sus-
picious circumstances. It is to be presumed the
next number will afford some clue to the criminal.
Monkshood's "New Book Note;" take. for their
subject Michelet's "History of the League." This
number is scarcely equal in interest to its prede=
cessors: The " C4.llery of Theatrical Portraits"
presents us with a sketch of an eminent actor still
living—Mr. Macready.. The higtory of his early
days will be interesting to those unacquainted
with it.

The United Service.--The first paper in the
United Service has the somewhat satirical title of
" Military Education the Panacea for all our-
Shortcomings and Deficiencies." The writer, at may
be inferred, considers the subject has been treated
with some exaggeration, and the existing deficiencies
elevatedinto undue importance. He is indignant
at the blame of all the disasters which occurred in
the Crimea being attached to the officers of the
army, • and asks how it is that the officers of the
navy escape the odium of our naval failures. He
exclaims, More than half the sufferings of the
army arose from naval misinanagement7•-how is
it that the rage for instruction is not extended to
them ? It was not 'the officers of the army who
ordered the confitsion of Balaklava harbour for so
many months. It 'was not they who kept the
transports (the Prince, among the rest) outside,
riding at a dangerous anchorage 'in winter weather
until a
,storm cattle and destroyed them. It was
not they who stowed the sh'ps from England in
such a way that nothing could be got out at any
place where it was wanted. The offi ers of the army
did not do these things,' nor a great many others
which brought suffering andmisery upon them and
upon their men ; and yet they are blamed. and
charged with ignorance because of these acts and
their -consequinces; and they are to be sent to
school to learn to do better." The writer goes on
to attribute many of the failures in- the late war
to the want of a broad and liberal view of the con-
duct of those entrusted with military operati ins,
and to tying them down by the fear of regulations
" which are so many pitfills in the way of a prompt
decision when nothing but a prompt decision will.
avail." He remarks 'with just ce that the plain
necessity of atly case should be the only voucher
needed f-r the acts of a military commander in the
field, and hints that the' Admiralty and Horse
Guards require to be put in order as well as the
lower grades. A paper on " Hospices on Barren
Islands" presents uswith some sensible remarks on a
subject that cannot fail - to be of importance to a
maritime nation. It is greatly to the credit of our
Colonial Legislature, that the Governor of New
South Wales has already established a hospice on
Bobby Island. The interesting' account of " A
Scramble through the Hills to Cashmere," by Capt.
Colman, is proceeded with. The series of papers
on " The Military and Political Systems of Louis
XIV., Napoleon 1., and Napoleon III." has
reached the second number, and takes a review of
the military and social government of Napoleon. A
subject scarcely less interesting to the historical
student is met with in the next paper. It is the
Vnth Lecture "'On Military Science," and conti-
nues the criticism on the campaigns of Caesar, and
describes the victory of Antony and Octavius over
Brutus and Cassius at the memorable battle of
Philippi. An article which merits attention gives
us a panorama of Egyptian history, and remarks
that the Egyptian is the grand exception to the
general incapacity. of the African. A paper follows
it on Morocco, and gives some account of their
neighbours the Moors. All the Naval and Military
Intelligence of the month is supplied, and there
are several other articles on topics connected with
the United Sertices:

The New Monthly. —The New Monthly opens
with a criticism on M. Hues recent work on ChriQ-
tianity in China. The introductory sketch and
the copious extracts afford a very good idea of the
work itself to those who h4.ve not perused it, and
gives a concise account of the early history of the
Chinese and Tartars: " Park water" continues a
story begun in laSt month's impression ; it concerns
the fortunes of Sophia May, the clever, designing
girl, who is educated ahoire her station, and thereby
rendered unfit for anything. The present passage
of her life is in Ireland, where she Obtains the
situation of governess in a noble family. Thera
she Makes nothing but mischief • she inveigled the
brother of the Countess (who laad engaged her)
into The promise of a marriage ; and, although he
forfeited his word, and 'married a titled lady,
Sophil, May was not to be trifled with, and the
reader'is. 1611-'0 infer 'that she will proceed from
bad to worse, as the consequences of her. early
duplicity and Selfishness. " Note-1 on N,-,te-
worthies," by Sir Nathaniel, carries the reader
back to the'dayi of Grecian 'pre-eminenBe; to

. . ~
" Athens, when she here
J
Her boldest and her bravest to the Syracusan shore."
He takes for his subject 'llicias, the Athenian com-
mander, and defends him from the attacks of Mr.
Grote. While confessing, with Dr. Phillips, that
he Was wholly incompetent to the sole Comman.d of
so great and difficult an enterprise, the writer
maintains that he 'had ' approved birnsolf a good
officer, his former undertakings had reflected' on
him high credit, and that Mr. Grote underrates
his abilities: He quOtes a passage frOm RousSeau,
in which he says—
" Combien do h6t:os glorieux mapanirnes,
Oat vecu trop Wan jeur."
It is to be feared—that observation may be applied
to the fame of many modern celebrities who have
seen 'thei;' reputations suddenly crumble 6.w.tay be-
fore a change of public opinion. The Electoral
Addresses furnish Cyrus Redding with the subject
of one of his, political article', which are more
elaborate than brilliant. " A Summer in Schles
wig" gives us some amusing descriptions of the
domestic life of the rural population, which, to say
the truth, does not seem? very intellectual. "'A
Swedish Voyage Round the World" progresses,
and t'lle traveller arrives at California, and gives
us an account of the gold mines, and the means of
procuring the precious metal. " Eutrapelia" is,
as usual, entertaining and well written, its topic
for this month being " BarrOw on Wit." The
" Family Iliatory of Joshua Tubbs" is continued
—it is not so humorous as its name would lead us
to suppose, many melancholy incidents having oc-
curred among the family circle of its hero.
Florentia gives us another of her .agreeable papers
• Of travel on " The Baths of Lucca," and the
" Memoirs of the Duo de Raguse," furnish the
subject for an article under the title of " King
Sivord and King Ren."

k The National. Magazipx.7-The chief contribu-
tion to this publication is "Lord ErlistounL-a
Love Story," by the author of "John Halifax,"
&c. It is interesting, although 'not to be classed
with the author's other works. Jane Douglas is a
fine character, but many of her views are mistaken.
An article, 'well worthy of notice, is written by the
authoress of "The House of Raby," on the sub-
ject of "Ignoble Cares." It is said that "the
great afflictions of life are easier to bear than the-
smaj.l worries !" A clever analysis is given of the
thou Sand miuor ills that embitter and irritate the
mind, and "weigh the burdened spirit down,
withthe cumbering dust of ear th"—m in ds and spirits
that, under other circumstances, might have
triumphed over great obstacles, and been victors in
the struggle with mighty foes. "Too Bad by
Half" is an amusing sketch. The paper on " Bright
Pokers" is very sensiblrwrittenconcerning the folly
and absurdity of families having " best rooms".
and "best things" kept sacred for occasional com-
pany, while the family in every-day, life are obliged
to put up with any and everything, thus sacrificing
comfort for show, and real respectability for ima-
ginary gentility. " A Word for the gonies of our
Working Men," contains some just remarks, and
suggests some plans for the anielioration of the life
of the labouring classes. It is shown that misma-
nagement occasions the same results as real po-
verty, in its extravagance and waste, ,and that care
in spending the money, would be of. more service,
than an increase of wages without prudence. Va-
rious other subjects of interest are met with.

The Commercial Traveller's Magazine. —This.,
magazine, representing such an influential and en-
terprising body, appears to meet with the encour-
agement which it deserves. it is progressing satis-
factorily, and will, no doubt,' maintain its charac-
ter. The subjects are judiciously chosen, and grave
and gay, entertainment and business, are pleasantly
and suitably mingled. The most remarkable fea-
ture in the present number is the first article,
which is entitled " The Real French Empire." It
takes a review of the modern financial- system of
France, and the extraordinary spirit of speculation
that has recently prevailed among Parisian finan-
ciers. The following remarks may be interesting to
those who watch the proceedings of " Societe de
Credit Mobilier"

"The princi pe of limited liabilities is applied hr France
under various forms ; that which is beet known in this
country is perhaps the partnership •en ommandite,
under which the shareholders& are answerable only for
the registered amount of their investment ; but the di-
rectors are responsible. In fact the directors form the
partnership, and the shareholders are what we should
call !sleepiiia• partners,' exempted froth any responsibility
heyo-nd the amount which' they have 'subscribed, and re-
stricted froni any kind of management. BUt this is liy
no means th'o imo,t of application of limited lia-
bility. The Societi Anonyme is a yet hr. complete