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SOUTH SEA COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)
A General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company
was held this day at the South Sea House, Thre:tchicedle-
street, for the purpose of receiving the statement of the
accOnnts horn the Secretary, and also to declare a divi-
th"na f,.r the half year. The meeting was but thinly
attended.

Mr. Fe..mis took the Chair, and called on the Secre-
tary to read the minutes of the last meeting, which
were confirmed.
The CHAIRMAN said the Court was called for the pur-
pose of considering a dividend, but he thought it would
he hest fur the Secretary previously to read the answers
received to the addresses of congratulation agreed at the
last meeting of the Company.
The SECRETARY then read a letter from Sir James
Graham; in acknowledgment of the receipt of the ad-
dress, and conveying her Majesty's thanks ; also a letter
from Mr. G. A. Anson, acknowledging the address to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert. •
The CHAIRMAN said the Secretary would read the
statement of the accounts, prepared for the purpose of
proposing a dividend.
The SECRETARY rend the accounts, and it appeared
that the income fir the half year, was 162,0221. 19s. 6d.
and the opt-goings 101,790/ 3s. ')d. The amount to be
provided for ha:f a year's dividend on 3.662.784/. Bs. Gd.
South Sea Siock at 11- per cent. 64,091. 14s. Gd. The
deficiency to be supplied by the Government pursuant to
Act 55. George 111.. cap.,57, 3,86:d, 18s. 2d., making a
total On each side of 165,8881. I 7s. Btl.
The CUAIicaAN said, l'rom. this it appeared that the
Company Avas enabled to declare a dividend of 11 per
cent., and he had therefore to propose that warrants be
made to he paid on the same day as the Government.
Annuities.
This motion "as put and carried ; and there being no
further business
the meeting adjourned.

COTTIBII. CORPORATION.
(THIS
_DAY.)
hj-d meetingis iof the subscribers to this Institution was
Lay, at their rooms, Crane-court, Fleet-street,
fax the Purpose of receiving• the accounts, and affixing
the seal of the Corporatio'n to the transfer of certain
stock belonging to the lostitu Lion, called the Kin toul Stock.
Mr. NtisalTy took the Chair, and called on the Secre-
tary..to read the -minutes of the last meeting.
The CHAIRMAN inquired if any gentletnan had any
observation to make before he put the confirmation of the
minutes to the meeting. •
Mr. DA vrtisoN said he would make one observation,
not with a vim of narrowing the limits of the charity,
but 'with a contrary object. There had been
so much favouritism shown that it almost became
4 el qtletti(Ml. whet! • they should not bar the doors of the
becausel man}- of its subscribers had fa-
vourites. lie said, open the doors to all.
Mr. IV
EitSTER thought it was not a question to be de-
relded upon a motion made for the confirmation of the mi-
nutes. He thought they ought to be very cautious in
setting aside any standinglaw. •
After a few words from General ArreffEsoN, •
The CHAIRMAN said the question before the COM-
tatee Was as to the confirmation of the minutes, there-
re theme who r.pproved.or disflpproved of them, would
the ',Ralf, in ih,
---sn had any ohser 'On
The motion was ti rried.
tn _tile SECRETARY then read the ~.ecount,s, -from which it
appeared that the.expenses for the year were 6161. 16s.
4d, and the income: 80.11. 19s. 3,1, leaving a balance in
Vic 'ands of the Treasurer of 1881.. 2s. lid., which had
been carried to the credit of the Treasurer.
The accounts were ordered to be received, and entered
on the minutes.
The SECRETARY then read a letter from his Grace the
Mule of Sutherland, expressing the Noble Duke's
anxiety for the institution, and enclosing his subscrip-
tion of SC/.
11r• WArrs moved that a vote of thanks of the
sleeting be given to the Duke of Sutherland ; but
thr-I:He SECRETARY said the Noble Duke bad been
i Illked already at the last meeting, 'anti the motion was
rumediately ithdrawn,
The CHAIRMAN then said he had to submit a motion
to the meeting, for the purpose of empowering the insti-
tution to sell :it 1,0001. of the stock, called Kintoul
Stock, belonging to the institution.
Dr': BELL said the proposal to sell out the 1,0001. would
or course diminish the Kintoul trust, and he took the
liberty of urging a suggestion which he had made
,°ll more occasions than one, relative to the sel-
ling of this stock, which would go on diminishing until
the whole of that immense sum of money was lost. He
thought they should apply to the Legislature, or, at all
events, take the advice of Counsel learned in the law as
to the question.
General ArrcuEsox said he would submit to the
Court whether it was at all usual, that when one subject
was before a meeting, another should bo introduced. He
had no wish to interrupt, but merely to suggest that
by such a course of proceeding they would get into all
sorts of irregularity.
Dr. BELL said they had not perfectly understood him,
and the Gallant General had quite misunderstood his ob-
servation.

The CHAIRMAN said the question was as to their sel-
ling out the stock of 1,0001.

lir. BELL said he was going to move an amendment
to the motion before them.
General .AITeIIESON said the
that the seal of the Corporation
'should
dn
bbeefaoffirextehdemtoitviales
transfer of the stock for 1,0001. ; and he (Dr. Be)l)
Nvi,hed to introduce a motion as to whether they
to
m co could
( k .
alter a gentleman's will. He humbly u m
it
s)h
IkeyGentlean that this course was out of all order.
1)r. BELL said, would they allow him to
.pinie.n, and he thought it would saveaTte his own
good deal of
Inc'? . He perfectly understood themotion before them.
TN he ettAinslA said that they had granted pensions,
and they must adoptthis course to meet the grant. _
Dr. BELL said it:it was but a matter of form ho had totally thibunderstood it. Ile thought it was a motion
Itiosrhtehpeocil.efelioltiolyration of that Court, and it seemed to him
competent to any one meet it with an
amendment.
The Cuantmati s
meats, and aid they were under such engage-
must kp them
After a few wee
ords in explanation from Dr. BELL, .
The CitAthatAN put the question,
mu the meet were then taken into consideration,
which was carr.ied
e meeting adjourned at two o'clock.
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DAY.)
IvThhe aIAJIKETS..._(T HIS
CORN EXCIIANGE.
Fleur also
s_tloPPsloile(si
iolfeaGvir.iit3i,.n since Monday have peen
.small
itsi_arleY, and Oats, all very dull at last quotations
COLONIAL MARKET. •
Although there waS little 'activity in the market,
.the
orders for goods are grailuall increasing, and prices
firm for sill the lent% articlesY ; confidence has much
fairinFreased amongst mercantile men. Raw Sugar met a
sale. Brown IVest
Yellow, Gls. to 71s. India, 58s. to GOs. ; low to fine
quest, standard lam per
cwt. Refined goods in fair re-
ps 803.'6d. per cwt.'
TEA MARKET.
There was a good demand for Free Trade Tea and
prices were firm; Is. 9id. was the lowest rate of Common
Congou cash. Company's Is. 10d, per lb.
TALLOW MARKET.
A good demand ; prices firm at 48s. 6d. on the spot,
and 495. for delivery in the next two months.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
There was but a moderate inquiry for meat. The
supplies were fair, but in prices no variation - occurred
worthy of notice. Of Game and Poultry we had a fair
show; but trade was dull, and prices nearly nominal.
Eggs dull of sale, at 4s. Gcl. to 10s. per 120.
1,........._

• ANIMAL MAGNETISM
We cannot adduce stronger evidence of our disposition
to treat fairly the pretensions of those who profess to
thave the power of producing magetie sleep, than by at-
ending yesterday, ut the Hanover-square Rooms, Mr.
I-Juneau's second lecture. We witnessed his debut In London,
an amount of which we published a few days back. The
lecture yesterday was simi:ar to the. one delivered at the
City of London Tavern. The theory which this gentle-
Man is commissioned to propound is certainly most prepos-
terous. It was quite unnecessary for Mr. Duncan to repu-
diate all knowledge of anatomy and physiology, for alter
his exposition no one conversant with medical matters
would for a moment believe that he was acquainted even
with the elements of these sciences ; but for a surgeon,
for a man who is represented to be ' one of the first
anatomists and physiologists in this country," having the
slightest claim to a knowledge of anatomy. and physio-
logy, to bring before the public such a rationale of mag-
netic sleep, is, indeed, incomprehensible. What evi-
dence have we that' congestion of the brain, lungs, and
heart takes place in any state of somnolency? It is a
mere gratuitous assumption, unsupported by the sem-
blance of a fact. Admitting that the brain, &c., are in a
state of congestion, is it not ridiculous to suppose that
this unnatural condition of all the vital organs can be
instantaneously removed by a puff of wind ? Yet such,
we are told, is the result. In a twinkling of an eye, by
mdee:ie)lsyl blow in" upon the face, the patient is roused from
This, if true, is indeed a most wonderful
discovery in physiology. After subjecting the same lady
who was perated upon at the London Tavern to some
magnetic experiments, Mr. Duncan volunteered to mag-
netise ally one present. Two persons mounted the plat-
form, and had pieces of cork strapped to their foreheads,
at which they were told unflinchingly to gaze. After
the lapse of fifteen minutes one person manifested, much
to the joy of the operator, appearances of sleep. His
arms and legs were extended, and they were found per-
f .etly rigid. Upon one arm a chair was placed, which the
agnetized person sustained with ease. The majority of
those present appeared satisfied with the result of the
"Periment. Indeed, it was wonderful to witness the
unanimity which prevailed throughout the whole of the
el.heedings. The lecture was scarcely interrupted by a
nYer e interrogatory. Must of the persons present were
ithis friends or zealous advocates of mesmerism.
tut
USS what does the experiment prove ? We do not
cc-
ITthe the lecturer of having acted in collusion with the
Is°4 whom he appeared to magnetize, but certainly
eLree— • •
~.istances warranted such a supposition. He repre-
sented himself to be " warehouseman." and two of his
i:r s advanced in front of the platform to vouch for
itee.ipectability. As for the tetanic spasm exhibited
aau Patient, it was proved to amount to nothing, for
dt,rTal gentleman present showed that he was able to
terl4(sitV the weight of the same chair upon his ex-
m without being mesmerized. Until we have
hii:tx;itlitlte person upon whom Mr. Duncan performed
Ie„ twyeritnent yesterday was perfectly unknown to him,
who s'T still be sceptic on the pOint. The other person
imoP...e_ra7tiiionties.had not the slightest
nutrkePd
That,
g what 1 call a finished sermon," re-
finished
at lab, as he wars coming out of church. "Yes,
think it itiaes‘t,er'" though I began

LITERATURE.
QUARTERLY REVIEW, No, 137.
Murray, London, 1542.
The general character of Wordsworth's poetry,
especially of his Sonnets, is discussed at consider-
rable length in this Number. The discussion is
fairly enough carried on, and if in places it be a
little too exuberant in point of panegyric, such
excess is a fault on the right side, more particu-
larly when we bear in mind the flagrant in-
justice with which the great Lake poet was
treated by certain influential critics for the
best part of a quarter of a century. Mr. Words-
worth is a rare instance of an author not only
creating the taste by which he is to be appreciated,
but reaping, in his own lifetime, the full harvest
of that improved taste. Year after year, in
spite of all that ridicule,or prejudice could do,
he has seen the circle of his admirers gradually
Widening, until at length it embraces almost
every name of any note in political literature. His
reputation is now placed beyond the reach of
envy and detraction ; but though enemies are no
longer to be feared, much mischief may be done
by the blind enthusiasm of friends, who are
often a great writer's worst foes. When we
find Mr. Wordsworth constantly compared to
Milton, whose sustained majesty of thought and
depth of feeling, developed apparently without
effort, he has never, with all his straining, been
able to approach ; when we find Lord Byron
contemptuously thrust aside, in order that all
eyes may be fixed uninterruptedly on him ; when
we are told that he has exhibited evidences of
imagination superior to any that modern poetry
can show; and that the melody of his versifiea-
tion is only to be equalled by the uniform purity
of his taste; when we find these exaggerated
praises heaped upon Mr. Wordsworth, we are
strongly tempted to regard them in no more fa-
vourable light than as attempts to coerce
public opinion into absolute. submission. It
was but the other day we read in a literary
journal of some influence, that if there was one
quality more than another for which the author
of the " Excursion" was remarkable, it was
pathos! Now, we have been for years no inats
tentive readers of his poetry, and we hope we
have profited by the high and pure moral truths
they enunciate ; but never yet have we perused
them otherwise than with an unmoistened eye.
Often have we recognised in them the pre-
sence of a lofty intellect, speculating on hu-
manity in the kindliest and most indulgent
mood, and giving all the fervour of a pro-
phet utterance to the most exalted senti-
ments; but we have been unable to detect
any of that-quick, active, trembling sensibility,
_which makes its appeal direct to the heart. Mr.
Wordsworth, we suspect, would himself be the
first to repudiate such tenderness, as derogating
from the high, pretensions of the philosopher.
A certain slisds pewiveness at times steals
over his spirit-1-0e T i"; inseparable from fixed
habits of contempla 1:so ; but he never strikes a
deeper chord of feeling To do so would he inconsis-
tent with his philosophic, creed, which in some
points is singularly austere. We perfectly agree
with thellikkiewer that his " Sonnets" are among
his best andinost characteristic productions ; and
we may add, too, that they are incomparably the
finest in the language. Their clearness and com-
pactness are unrivalled, mid not less worthy
of note are the felicitous diction and ima-
gery in which they abound. What, for instance,
can be more appropriate than such expressions
as the " sonnet's scanty plot of ground"—the set-
ting"'sna'spathetieligh t"—the " audacious flight"
of genius—or " pure religion breathing house-
hold laws P"-Or what more definite and impres-
sive than the image of .upstart wealth, which
must needs " run glittering like a brook in open
sunshine ?" We could easily multiply instances
of similar felicities of thought and expression,
but we must hurry on with our notice. To pro-
ceed, therefore ; the Reviewer quotes several un-
published sonnets, wherein Mr. -Wordsworth in-
timates his ideas of " Punishment by Death," to
which, in the case of murder, lie appears de-
cidedly favourable. In the subjoined poems it
will be seen that lie illustrates the question with
great force and subtlety :
. ‘.‘ Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide
Locked in a dungeon, needs must eat the heart
hopeless thatin autluurtauladl
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opnrfit d e ;
Out of his own humanity, and part
`Vi
a
exile on a savage coast,
life-long fl es el-Ilvooetrilgyd
Soon the relapsing penitent may boast
, fit, Of yet more heinous guilt, with fiercer pride.,Hence thoughtful mercy,
mercy sage anilpure,
.Sanctions the forfeiture that law demands,
Leaving the final issue in His hands
Whose goodness knows no change, whose love is sure,
Who sees, foresees ; who cannot judge amiss ;
And wafts at will the contrite soul to bliss."
See the Condemned alone within his cell,
And prostrate at some moment when remorse
Stings to the quick, and with resistless force
Assaults the pride she strove in vain to quell.
Then mark Mai, him who could so long rebel,
The crime confessed, a kneeling penitent
Before the altar, where the sacrament
Softens his heart, till from his eyes outwell
Tears of salvation. Welcome, death ! while Heaven.
, Does in this change exceedingly rejoice ;
While yet the solemn heed the State Lath given
Helps him to meet the last tribunal's voice
In faith, which fresh offences, were lie cast
On old temptations, might for ever blast."
" Margaret Davidson" is a notice of a biogra-
phical sketch of this young American poetess,
recently deceased, which has been published by
Mr. Washington Irving in Philadelphia. The
notice is penned in a kindly spirit, though the
Reviewer is not wholly devoid of a certain whole-
some distrust respecting the precocious powers
of the young Margaret. If we even believe half
of what is recorded of her by her biographer,
enough will still remain to call forth our wonder
and admiration. At six rears of age she was
familiar with the poems of Milton, "and marked
with taste and discrimination the passages which
struck her ;" and when little more than four years
old, " a bright star-light night," we are told, •
"would seem to awaken a mysterious rapture in her
infant bosom, and one of her early expressions
in speaking of the stars was, that they shone like
the eyes of angels !" This gifted young girl died
when she was only fifteen, of confirmed consump-
tion, brought ons--or at any rate aggravated—by
her constant habit, which she could not repress,
of overtasking all , her mental faculties. The
" Copyright Question" is an admirably. rea-
soned article—eloquent, Where eloquence is ne-
cessary—argumentative, where plain argument
will best answer the purpose—full of perti-
nent facts, all bearing directly on the question,
and from which facts such deductions are drawn
as might bring conviction home even to the
perverse, and somewhat obtuse, understanding of
a Warburton. Those who have read Mr. Ser-
geant Talfourd's splendid speeches on the subject
of copyright, should read this article with .equal
attention, for though it does not possess the lofty
tone of thought, the rich poetic colouring, and
the generous enthusiasm of those eloquent
orations, yet it brings equal sincerity and manli-
ness of reasoning to its task. We quote an able
passage, which combines clearness of argument
with vigour and animation of style in no ordinary
degree :
The greatest antagonist of the very principle of lite-
rary property in the last age was far too sagacious not to
see the consequences that must in reason flow from it—
were it once admitted. Not venturing to contradict
the statement on the other side, that even then the days
of the patronage plan were over, he denied boldly that
any effective stimulus for minds capable of worthy things
in letters or science ever had been or could be supplied
by the hope of any worldly delight or advantage what-
soever, except only the pure 'enjoyment of intellectual
exertion, and its consequence in honour, respect, fame.
But these motives, however powerful, can he. of them-
selves. sufficient only in the case of-men fortunate
enough to need nothing beyond what these motives
point to. In the energetic exertion of every noble fa-
culty there is a delight beside which no other earthly
pleasure can be named. The soldier knows it, a:.d so
does the poet. The aged bard was found with streaming
and flashing eyes, trembling all over, in the midst of
his Alexander's feast. After an interval, the secrets of
which we can never penetrate, lie exults over again in
the applause of educated England. He has this joy and
honour, because they cannot be denied him—and lie gets
them at nobody's cost ; the accordance of them is in-
stinctive, and in itself a delight to the yielders. But-
shall this be all? Grant that the creative glow, and this
reflex confirmation of its high origin—attained or anti.
cipated—may indeed be the sufficient rewards of the il-
lustrious effort itself ; such efforts occupy, after all, but
a small space in the mind that is most capable of them—
they are severe though sweet—perilous as well as price-
less: let them be frequent and continuous, as the lesser
heroes of ordinary toil may safely be—and there ensues
a madness or a torpor. And since a man is not the less
a husband and a father because he is also a Dryden, and
the broad course of time and life must be given to the
Common cares of the whole humanity that is in every
man—we must, if we would have such efforts repeated,
reconcile it with the standing reason of this favourite of
Nature, that ho shall so order his existence as to keep
that intellectual power which might have been profitably
diffused over a wide space, concentrated and compressed
for the exhausting energy of divine moments. It is the
same with the hero. He too puts forth one at least of
the noblest attributes of man in that splendid perfection
which implies consummate felicity in the act, and which
cannot be observed of other men without drawing from
them precious worship.
" Sound—sound the clarion ! fill the fife !
To all the sensual world proclaim—
One crowded hour of glorious life
- Is worth an age without a name."
But what nation ever proclaimed to her soldiers that
this was to be their sole recompense ? " England ex-
pects every man to do his duty," said Nelson, before a
battle ; bat, under the like circumstances, he had said
also, "A Peerage or Westminster Abbey!"
The lreview -of " Stephens's Travels in Central

America," is a careliil digest of a work chiefly
valuable for its accumulation of useful facts.
" Fish-markets and Fish-ponds," is an amusing
paper, conveying brief directions for stocking
ponds with the best fresh-water fish. In the
course of this article we are told that Professor
Owen has lately discovered a multitude of fossil
turtle at Sheppey, whence we infer, that if lie
will persevere in is examination of the locality,
he will find, at no
_great distance off, a multi-
tude of fossil Aldermen, since, wherever there is
a turtle; there, in the immediate neighbourhood,
one is sure to find an Alderman. " Turtle with-
out Aldermen," says the Reviewer, " seems a
strange dispensation"—a remark in the justice
of which we cordially concur. "Letters of John
Adams" is a dull, wearisome notice of the re-
cently published correspondence of one of the
great founders of the American Republic, the
friend and colleague of Washington during his
first and secondTresidentship. Of the two re-
maining articles, the most readable is the one
"On the Principles of Gothic Architecture."