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LITE ttATURE.

THE LA TV OF NISI PR ICS,EVIDENCE IN
CIVIL ACTIONS, AND ARBITRATIONS
AND AWARDS: with an Appendix of the New
Rules, the Statutes of Set-off, Interpleader, and Limi-
tation, and the decisions thereon. 3 Vds.
By Archibald John Stephens, Barrister at Law.
London, Longman, 1842.

The object of this carefully digested work is
to supply the legal profession with a practical
treatise, not only upon the law of Nisi Prins, but
also upon the subjects :of evidence in civil ac-
tions, and arbitration and award. "An appen-
dix of the new rules," observes the author, "and
of the Statutes of Set=off, Interpleader, and Li-
mitation, with notes of the cases that have arisen
on them, is likewise given, in the hope of in-
creasing the general utility of the publication."
A work of this sort was much wanted, for though
we have a multiplicity of law-books treating, with
more or less ability, of every branch of the profes-
sion, yet we have none on so comprehensive a scale
as the present, at once so minute and so copious, so
methodical in its arrangement, so clear and con-
cise in its explanations, and ranging over such
an infinite variety of subjects. Here we find
brief but pertinent expositions of the law in all
its myriad varieties and ramifications—we have
the laws relating to bankruptcy—bills of
exchange and promissory notes—debt—exe-
cutors and administrators—fisheries—insur-
ance shipping— tithes imprisonment-,-libel ;
we have the laws that regulate these, and a hun-
dred other matters, defined with a simplicity
and perspicuity that must render them obvious
to the most obtuse capacity. It is greatly" to the
author's credit, and vouches for the scrupulous
accuracy with which he has executed his labo-
rious task, that he has put forth no one state-
ment—no matter how apparently unimportant it
may be—without producing the soundest and
most recent. legal authorities for it, to which-lie
is careful to refer the professional or non-
professional—as it may be—reader, by notes
placed at the foot ,of every page. In treating on
that complicated subject, Bills of Exchange and
Promissory Notes lie does not content himself
with merely explaining the usual routine mode
of proceeding,
but points out all the technical
difficult
i of the
alterationscase layshich, in a greater or less
also those material and,
immaterial
degree, affect the validity of a bill. On the im-
portant question of Bankruptcy the author is not
less particular, and we find that lie has di-
ligently noted the latest changes which arc now
so . extensively making in a branch of the
profession that has long stood in need of reform.
In that portion of the work which is devoted to
the consideration of the Law of Evidence, we
perceived that all its special distinctions—such,-
thr instance, as relate to presumption, hearsay,
and documentary evidence, either in their
primary or secondary points of view, are.
marked with great discrimination; while as re-
gards the law respecting Landlord and Tenant,
nothing can be sounder or clearer than the
author's exposition
,e,xttpnod " Ejectment."sition in his chapter , headed
Equally lucid
is he on that ill-understood and enigmatical
question, the Law of Libel, the proceedings in
which, under existing statutesiand judgments, are
it must be confessed, in a most unsatisfactory and
inefficient state. We should not omit to men-
tion that the work possesses the advantage of one
of the minutest and most copious Indexes that
we have ever met with, and moreover that 'each
separate department contains its own analytical
table of contents. Tlins recommended, we can.
not doubt for an instant that it will soon win its
way to popularity, not merely among profes-
sional men, but generally among the higher and
middle classes, vvlio will find it invaluable as a
.work of reference. It must have cost the.author,
Mr. Stephens, a world of labour and research,
traces of which are visible in every page; but it
will not be labour thrown away, but, like the
seed sown in good ground, it will return him fruit
fourfold.

SELF-DEVOTION. 311 Vols.
Colburn, London, 1g49.
" The following volumes," says the Editor,
Mr. Gleig, in his introductory. notice, " came
before the public under circumstances of so
ya nature, as will not, I
m a degree of interest
striking ksliinrge,afnadil nttoelgainvcehtcoil
at once more powerful and more lasting than
their intrinsic merits might perhaps have other-
wise called forth. Not that on the latter score I
have one word of apology to advance fin- them,
for they are every way worthy of the reputation
of the authoress of the Only Daughter.' It
has become my sad duty to announce that
Self-Devotion' is a posthumous work, written,
indeed, and printed off more than two years ago,
yet now standing forth as the last legacy of her
whose genius wove the web. For Harriette
Campbell has been removed, in the very
spring time of youth and beauty, from this
world to a better, without having been per-
mitted so much as to see, in their perfect
state, the results of some months of light, but
not, therefore, unlaborious exertion." Under
these circumstances, criticism is necessarily dis-
armed ; but, in truth " Self-Devotion" stands in
no need of the critic's indulgence, but may safely
rest on the broad basis of its own merits. It is
sweetly. and feelingly written throughout, and
there is just enough of mystery in the plcit to keep
on the stretch.
drawn with uncommon • skill and delicacy ; and
Thete reader's
heroine, curiosity continually
nandolph,
is a
portrait
the scene at the Nun's Fountain, where Julian,
the twin-brother of Katherine, plights his troth
to the young and susceptible Lady Ida, is scarcely
inferior to the memorable interview between
Lucy Ashton and the M
aster of Ravenswood,
em-
phasis in the. "Bride of Lammermuir:,
with such which Sir Walter Scott describes

THE ANTIQUARY. Cadell
f o rd edition
This
part
re-publication by Mr. Cadell. The abbey scene
of Arbroath, which constitutes so picturesque a
formsol.the thel alvbeurriteeyenv ntohvg the Abbots-
ford now' under
,
part of the original—Dousterswivel digging for
the treasure—Edie Ocbiltree's listening to the
rumour of the -swamping.of Mucklebackit's boat
—and the humorous interview between the
Antiquary and the Phoca—liiive been well con-
ceived by the artist, who with these and half-a-
dozen other 'good designs, has embellished ten
more chapters.

completes the twentieth
THE TALISMAN. Cadell.
now issuing in small
ofTtilliee
Ipvraevseenritoyvoll.culmneinctso,m i
octavo; and. the accompanying part, that of the
fifth, republishing in size royal. So established
in public favour, and the acceptance of every
imaginative mind, as are the !ales of the Cru-
saders, it is: necessary only to make allusion to
their rich Oriental pictures, hazardous incidents,
and historic scenes, clothed in the splendour of
Scott's fancy, .and crowded with the personages
of European and Asiatic chivalry—Saladin,
Richard, Berengaria; Plantagenets, Templars,
and Barons—to re-invite perusal of them, in the
cheap and, popular form in which they now ap-
pear before the public. Some minor pieces of
Sir Walter's, also,
accompany the volume and
the part,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

TIMES.—The. Indian news, which we were yes-
terday enabled to lay before the pUblic in our First
Editionl although interesting, contains little that our
readers will- not have already anticipated. Generals
Nott and. Pollock have proceeded each some marches
on their road to Caubul, General England towards
Quettah, and Affghan politics remain in the same dis...
tracted state as ever.} Futteh Jung, son and heir of
Our old protege Shah SoOjah, has taken refuge in the
English camp, and very various. reportg prevail con-'
teTning the state of affairs at Caubtl, of which the
most unsatisfactory is;' that Mbar Khan has mur-
dered Captain Troup (a story; 'lioirever, which seems
entirely to want confirmation); arid the most favour-
able, that the KuzzilbaShes; constituting 'the 'British
party in that city, Were in possessiOn of thoseprisoners
who were there confined, and' of the person of Akbar
Khan himself. We rejoice that decisive steps have at
last been taken to rescue the prisoners:from their peril,
and that Lord Ellenborough has redeemed himself
from those imputations of spiritless hidiffetence to
the fate- of our countrymen to which his reported
policy gave a too plausible occasion. It is a useless
and 'frivolous task, with our present knowledge, to
speculate upon the past. Lord Ellenborough may or
may not have issued the ultimate order to withdraw
the troops. 116 may or may not have had reason for
what he did. The Want of cam6iS—the negotiations
entered,on by Akbar Khan—hapes, expectations, fears,
and their reasons—all these are things which may
hereafter be laid before the world. It is' enough for
us at present to know, that vigorous measures, and
timely measures, are being pursued ; that the season
for advance is not to be lost; that we shall yet this
autumn demand our countrymen from the citadel
of Caubul. Little us we have ever liked this unscru-
pulous war, highly as we value the independent
rights of nations, and earnestly as we should depre-
cate in the case of others any tyrannical interfer-
ence which England would reject with detestation if
attempted against herself, we have never had other
than one opinion as to the mode in which, having a
just demand, it was incumbent on us to enforce it.
Faithless Asiatics are not to be tampered and treated
and dallied with. They are to be coerced. By the
strong and inflexible arm of force—by deeds—by the
steady infliction of an increasing chastisement, inces-
sant, inevitable, and, if need be, ruinous—by such
media alone is redress to be sought from the wild and
lawless Affghan. Treat, if you please ; but advance.
Reversing the saying of the great Athenian, " Hear,"
we should say, " but strike." Our course is at pre-
sent clear---let our policy be as unambiguous as our
claim—war, decisive, overwhelming, and unwavering,
till our demands are in act and deed complied with.
Why this course has been hitherto delayed, we do
not, and have not materials to inquire. It has now
at length been taken, and we look to hear next month
of its triumphant results. Most thankful shall we be
when these shall be accomplished, and our troops at
liberty to retire within those boundaries which they
should never have passed.
• CHRONICLE.—It was justly observed by one of
the speakers at the Hardy Commemoration Dinner,
on Saturday, that bad as the present state of things
may be under a Tory Government, yet "if the Chair-
man had lived in the time of the trials of Hardy and
the others, he would have thought it a reign of terror
then, and comparative quiet now." And certainly
had the Government succeeded in those trials, no man's
liberty or life would have been secure. As it was,
the most flagrant outrages were committed on per-
sons obnoxious to the dominant party ; and a series
of atrocities perpetrated, according to forms of law, or
with ." a vigour beyond the law," which would in-
fallibly urge the existing generation into open rebel-
lion. But, as the speaker went on to observe, the
tone and temper of society has changed, and it is now
much better informed than it was while it endured or
cheered the proceedings by which Pitt sought to de--
stroy his former associates in the cause of Parliamen-
tary Reform. It may not be amiss, however to re-
mark, that there are no decisive indications
of Toryism having changed with the times.
The restraint of external opinion upon it
will partly account for the greater lenity of its
rule. And there are other causes. Toryism is yet
but fresh in office. There are no sanguinary French
revolutions in progress to scare the people. No plot
has yet been got up successfully, though the disposi-
tion has plainly not been wanting. And the party
itself is in a somewhat disjointed condition, from the
crooked policy of its leader. Means and appliances
are not in readiness to play over again the remorse-
less game of. Pitt. We should not, therefore, rely
too, confidently on the increased intelligence of the
people ; nor should we rely at all on the ameliorated
temper of Toryism. Were the lives of Parliamentary
Reformers attempted now, as they were in 1794,
there are Tory journals that would vindicate the
deed. Those days, and the spy system of Castle-
reagh that followed, and the .Manchester massacre,
are looked back upon by the party without any
shame, or change of opinion. They do not even
deem it worth while to say that it would be abhor-
rent to re-enact such scenes. They have no regret
that Horne Tooke, and Jeremiah Joyce, and Thomas
Holeroft, were not hanged. Any reflected share'
in the moral responsibility of those purposed beastly
murders does not offend their consciences. The dif-
ference is a difference of external circumstance; and
not, even in profession, a difference in the actuating
principle. If the Southampton pistol plot had not
missed fire ; or if the other " conspiracy" hoax had
succeeded ;, or if any similar trick should generate
alarm, however groundless, and " fright the isle from
its propriety," our commemorators of the " acquitted
felons" of 1794 would soon be transferred from Rad-
ley's to Newgate to hold their anniversary. A panic
amongst the people of property, that is the only desi-
deratum. And we have little doubt that it will be
tried on the first promising occasion. Such legal doe-
trines as those of Lord Abinger would answer all the
purposes which a Tory Ministry could desire. There
is " ample room and verge enough." Nor can we be
-surprised:should a Tory Executive pursue opinion as a
crime, and construe it into a treason. It is the mo-
rality. of the party. No name can arise in literature,
however bright, which • it does not seek and toil to
overcloud, should the author not be a tool or ally of
the faction. All are judged and appreciated accord-
ing to their politics. . We believe the party is quite
ripe for a crusade against all freedom of, thought and
Speech,' and-only Waits" its opportunity for emulating
its political ancestors.
HERALD.—The intelligence brought by the
overland mail from India sets at rest all doubts as to
the course which Lord Ellenborough has adopted
beyond the Indus; and its chief value is that it does
so. Sir Henry Pollock has advanced to Gundamuck
at the entrance of the Khoord Caubul Pass. General
Nott was en route to Ghuznee, and General England
was retrograding from Candahar to obtain command.
over the•Bolan Pass. It has, indeed, peen suggested
that Sir Henry Pollock has not made Gundamuck to
push on to Caubul, but will diverge eastward towards
Ghuznee, and after uniting with General Nott will
retire by way of the Bolan Pass on Dadur. But this
suggestion is contradicted by Sir Robert Sale's order
of the 16th of August, in which he calls on the officers
and men of his division to march as lightly as possible,
that every camel and beast of burden might be
rendered available for ammunition, &c., "to enable
this force to meet General Nott at Caubul." There
cannot then be any doubt as to the orders which
the Generals commanding-in-chief have received.
Well ; Caubul will doubtless be easily reached;
Generals Pollock and Nott will meet there ; one divi-
sion of its population, the Kuzzilbashes, is said to be
disposed to receive our troops quietly; while discord
and confusion seem to prevail amongst Akbar Khan
and his chiefs and followers ; his breach of the laws
of war will probably be avenged by the death of some
thousands of his countrymen ; we may even compel
him to release his prisoners ; but having re-occupied
Caubul what are we to do next ? Will not our real
difficulties again commence with success, as the late
Lord Wellesley warned the Whig Administration in
1838 ? The difficulties which that great statesman
then predicated were not to be the result of the mis-
management of our officials, but the consequences of
the country, the people and the climate, and they
are just as predicable of the reiterated as cf the
original assault on Affghan independence. The
Duke of Wellington is said to have joined in his
departed brother's warning in 1838 ; if so, his
Grace must renew it in 1842—for the war in Affghitnis-
tan is as unchangeable in its nature as war in Spain.
We are, it is said, only making a demonstration of
our strength, and proving to India that our armies are
ultimately invincible ; the pity is then—if this be so—
that we have so bad a cause in which to prove what
no one within the Indus doubts—that we are obliged
.
to demonstrate our prowess by repeating our injustice:'
But we do not believe that the intention of Govern-
ment is by any means so limited; Affghanistan will
not be evacuated after Caubul has been retaken, the
prisoners released, and a few royal salutes fired ; the
millions which these operations will cost will not be
invested so profitably ; Generals Pollock, Nott, and
Sale are not marching for any such parade purposes;
and Caubul re-occupied is not to be shaken off so easily.
When the British flag is again mounted in the capital
of the Affghans, the country will have to be re•
settled, another Shah will have to be placed on the
musnud, and another attempt be made under
his Government to reduce Affghanistan to a
British dependency. Our ambition will swell as our
success progresses, and Lord Ellenborough will in
course of time probably see less " folly" in- the de,-,
claration of Simlah than he once and no " crime
in the subjugation of this distant country. - Prince
Futteh Jung has re-appeared, and accompanies Sir
Henry Pollock, anticipating doubtless, that elevation
which the valour of Lord Keane s army purchased for
his father Shah Soojah. Sir Robert Peel congra-
tulated himself that death had determined the treaty
of Lahore, it remains to be seen whether victory will
not revive some part of its obligations or its spirit.
POST.—An unjust war will always be an unfor-

tunate one. Victories may be gained by the assailing
party—cities may be taken and sacked—thousands of
ffies may be slaughtered—mighty conquests may be
achieved, and mighty devastations made :—in all its
superior results, the war is still an unfortunate one.
Injustice carries its curse with it ' • and this observa-
tion holds good more with regard to the present age
than to any preceding one—the spirit of the camp has
so much succumbed to that of the council chamber.
It applies, too, to Britain more forcibly than to all.
nations of the earth besides ; for, large as is her mate-
rial strength, how powerless would it be in asserting
dominion over the world-like regions subjected to her
sway, were it not for the moral support she derives
from the impression so carefully cultivated in the
minds of foreigners by our olden statesmen, that vulgar
fraud and robbery are at all times excluded from the
objects and purposes of any war in which we may
engage. Are our wars against the Affghans and
Chinese destined to read us a harsh though whole-
some lesson on the impolicy of unjust aggression?
Human foresight can form no clear opinion as to
when and where these wars, and the effects that may
flow from them, are to have a termination. Up to
the present time, in Affghanistan, all has been dis-
honour and disadvantage to England. The short-
lived flush of triumph that attended the first advance
of Sir John Keane, has proved to all, except that
lucky person himself, a most signal misfortune. It
paved the way, under Whig imprudence and mis-
placed confidence, for the unguarded, fast-and-loose
state of things that left our armies and our envoys
to be massacred by the savages whom we had wronged
to the point of desperation. And, since then, it has
been disaster after disaster—confusion becoming worse
confounded—as each successive month goes by. We
know the beginning of thecalamity-, and can but specu-
late on its end. From the intelligence brought by the
monthly mail just arrived, can we glean anything of sub-
stantial comfort for the conscientious and really patriotic
Englishman ? We fear not. Forward movements are
making—movements on Ghuznee—on Caubul—with
burning of villages and slaughtering of natives. Se-
cresy is stated to be a feature of Lord Ellenborongh's
policy, but we may presume that one main object of
these movements is recovery of the British prisoners
so long in the hands of Akbar Khan. It seems the
idea is that we may easily regain possession of Cau-
bul, and that the surrender of Lady Sale and her com-
panions will be an immediate consequence of this.
That it may be so we earnestly hope, but deeply do
we lament that the prolongation of our ill-omened
visit to Affghanistan is involved in these operations.
If our countrymen can be released without the in-
fliction of fresh violence on people with whom we
ought at this hour to be on terms of friendship,
it is clear that any dragging on of the war
would be altogether unadvisable. Three deadly
scourges—war, pestilence, and famine—make daily
ravages amongst the British troops. And then the
narratives of outrage that we see coupled with the
English name ! The burning of villages—the de-
struction of vineyards and orchards—what worthy
monuments of our national glory ! Such matters, it
will be said, are amongst the chances of war. But
what a war is it ! Every one of.the objects for which
the Affghan expedition was said to be undertaken—
the raising of a "bulwark" north-west of our Indian
empire—the extension of English commerce in Cen-
tral Asia—the frustration of Russian intrigues—every
one of these objects is now much more difficult of
accomplishment than it would have been five years
ago,. before the Whigs had crossed the fatal Rubicon
of rashness and wickedness. After the war is termi-
nated Government will have a mighty work on its
hands. There will be the undoing the mischiefs gene-
rated by this unhappy contest—mischiefs that grow
with its duration. And then will come the establish-
ment of some fixed and permanent policy with the
several nations that border on our territories. The
evil opinions which, by waste of so much blood and
treasure, we have lately been at pains to inculcate
amongst these nations, will make this a matter of
much greater difficulty, now that Palmerstonian wis-
dom has been brought to " mature development."

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The merchants, on the appearance of
the Sardinian tariff, have generally expressed strong
approbation of the conduct of Sardinia. While
France, the United States, and other important coun-
tries have shown a bigoted predilection for a high
protective system, the little State of Sardinia, with-
out a single application from abroad, has come for-
ward, and of her own accord, has in the most liberal
manner declared herself an advocate of free trade.
A circular, which has been received by some of the
highest firms in the City, has caused a considerable
sensation, as it is one of those evidences of unwilling-
ness to satisfy just claims on the part of a private
American debtor which we have often seen illustrated
on a large scale by the State Governments of the
country. Often have the honest citizens of the United
States deplored the probable effects of " repudiation"
on the morals of their country, and warned ti e States
that profligacy in a Government is likely to be fol-
lowed, sooner or latter, by profligacy in individuals.
The meaning of the whole affair seems to be
that the creditors of the firm in question were at last
wearied into accepting a composition, of 50 per cent.,
as they despaired of obtaining anything further, and
that they now learn from the writer of the circular,
who is more punctilious than his partners, that the
private property of the chief member of the firm was
never taken into consideration, but that he has con-
trived to keep his own fortune untouched, while pay-
ing the creditors half their dues. As the opulence of
the members of a firm is often the principal reason of
the credit given by individuals, it is highly essential
that such conduct as is exhibited in this ease should
be visited with the severest censure.
CHRONICLE.—Within the last eight months
the price of Whitby and Newcastle built ships has
fallen nearly 3/. per register ton, while new ships sent
over from America have been sold at 3/. 10s. to 4/.
per ton register, which cost the owners 8/. to 101.
per ton. The gross amount of British registered ton-
nage is 2,600,000 tons. The best informed parties
valued this property eighteen months ago at an aver-
age of 111. per ton, including steam-boats, the finest
East India ships, colliers, and coasters, giving for value
28,600,0001. The same parties calculate the depre-
ciation within the last eighteen months at about 40
per cent., or 11,440,000/., a most fearful loss of pro-
perty, and it is said that one-third part thereof is
mortgaged. Ships are crowded in different parts of
the globe waiting for freights, but, even at the low
export quotations, merchants• do not ask for ships,
prices in England offering no inducement. The
same observation as to lowness of price compared
with cost of freight and charges, applies to the
case of British merchants who have goods on hand.
Generally speaking, they are exported to the
colonies at a loss, although the last advices from
our Australian markets were of a more favourable
character. That single gleam of light in the black
perspective of the future is swamped by the blunder-
ing American tariffs, the prohibitory ordonnances of
the French against our linen yarns, and the protec-
tive principles manifested by the States of Germany.
The renewed rumours of a commercial treaty between
Spain and England can scarcely be relied upon as yet,
so as to be thrown into the scale as a make-weight
against the gloomy catalogue. A general prostration
of trade and commerce has had a most adverse influ-
ence on capital embarked inPin and the reduc-
tion of the timber duties under the new- tariff has added
to the evil. Here is another instance in proof of the
truth of the prediction delivered by Lord John Rus-
sell, that the tariff of Sir Robert Peel would disturb
everything and settle nothing. Never wars there a
political prophecy more literally ful filled. The new tariff
has done a vast deal of absolute mischief, and almost the
only good it has as yet effected, is its admission of
a sound principle, but that eventual good has
been purchased in the mean time by an immense
amount of direct and immediate evil. The shoema-
kers, the glove-makers, the corkcutters, the Cornwall
miners, the lace trade, and others, have all been ex-
posed to great injury by the diminished duties levied
on foreign articles imported, that now compete with
them at lower prices in the English markets. Ladies
can buy their eau de Cologne at a less exorbitant cost;
their gloves, shoes, and furs at lower prices. Spices
are also lower ; so are hams, tongues, and American
pork , • but want of employment and lack of wages are
still nearly as great as before. If Sir Robert Peel had
not touched a single article in the old tariff that he did
touch, and selected instead the two staple articles of
consumption only, namely, corn and sugar, he would
have conferred a real and substantial boon upon the
poverty-stricken masses of his countrymen; trade
would have revived ; wages would have improved ; and
the agriculturists would have been spared the panic
which has afflicted them by the recent fall in the price
of cattle. We have no doubt that the farmers would.
also have been spared the double panic to which
they have been exposed ; for if foreign corn had
been admitted during the past year at a fixed duty
of Bs. per quarter, the late sudden depression in the
price of wheat, greatly aggravated by thelnumerous
t -
failures in Mark-lane, would not have occurred.
Wheat would not have advanced to a famine price, nor
been down so low as 48s. per quarter. i
would have been regulated by a steady action of sup-
ply and demand, and we should not have known the
baneful effects resulting from extremes of high and
low prices. The industrious mechanics, the straw-
pwl.oaiutl-dwork haveerbs,e anden lteft the unrepresented
in their e
edclasses
rgenerally,p e ete
branches of trade, while they would have enjoyed the
benefit of a cheap loaf; and the intercnange of Ame-
rican and European wheat for British
goods,
steady trade, would have relieved thelistret usssn wd-ehir, a
which
still presses upon the manufacturing districts.
glut of money. in , London would have' been .The
l
d
in a healthy. demand
to
prise. Our foreign tradeinvest ihrlaCvoelnimmeprreoi:yelde,ntaenrd-
prices would have advanced under a simultaneous im-
[ provement in the price of wages. The shipping in-

terest would have participated in the amelioration o
trade, and with a diminished cost for fitting out and
working their ships, would. have experienced .the.be-
nefits of an advance in freights.
SUN.—Stocks closed firmly this afternoon, a fair bu-
siness having been done. Consols for Money left off
at 94 to :4-, and for Time at 94k to I. Exchequer Bills
were again .58s. to 60s. premium, New Three-am-1-a,
Half per Cents.loll to Reduced Ditto poi- to 11,
and Old Three-and-a-Half per -Cents. 100bt. Bank
Stock continues slowly to advance. This a!ternoon
it reached 169 to 170, since, in the event of a conver-
sion, there would be some little profit on management
for the Corporation. India Stock also improved, being
at 255 to 2.56. India Bonds were not dealt in.

The additional transactions in the Foreign Markel
this afternoon were limited to Colombian at an advance
to 21i, to Mexican at 33i to Brazilian at
Portuguese ConVerted, for Account, at 33, and to Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 52
Shares were rather firmer this afternoon. Bir-
mingham and Gloucester Railway at ; Brighton
at 14 to 13Z- ; Blackwall at Hi ; and South Eastern
at
.2.74. discount. Birmingham were 911 ; Great
Western, 191-; and Northern and Eastern Scrip at 11
premium. National Bank of Ireland Shares were 11
discount; Union of Australia, 8f premium; and
Union of London, 'par.
We have no further news this afternoon.

THE THEATRES.
H 4 Y.37ARKE T.
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A new monopolyiogue, from the pen of Mr. Buck-
stone, entitled the Belle of the hotel, was produced at
this theatre last night, the clever and accomplished
actress Mrs. Fitzwilliam re-appearing here tbr the
first time since her return from America. The piece
was written purposely for her performance, and was
founded on the "Notions," which, with Mr. Buck-
' stone, they had picked up during their sojourn with
brother Jonathan. The scene, as imparted by the
title, represents an American hotel, and our ;heroine,
after a few rhyming lines, appears as Miss Protea
Snook, and tells us she has run away from. England
*ith her Italian singing master, Signor Amoroso,
who is teaching
.her his divine science, but Slie is du-
bious whether she shall be contented With `becom-
ing a prima donna only, or whether slie shall
not also rival Rachel in tragedy, and Taglioni in sal-
tatory accomplishments. She expresses her intention
of studying all three arts; and makes her exit. She
again appears equipped in the full costume of a Yankee
fireman, Jerry Phoenix, who is in love with the aforesaid
Miss Protea Snook. In this character Mrs.Fitzwilliam
' gives us a bit of genuine Yankee, with a new version
of the tippecanoe air of " Old Rosin the Beau." Here
she is transmogrified into Mrs. Macscribblescrabble,
an elderly lady, who is busily engaged in Trollopizing
America after the. most approved precedent. Then
appear Signor Amoroso himself, Shelah ,Mullins, an
Irish chambermaid with a brogue that is certainly
divisible by a knife, and, finally, Mademoiselle La
Petite Sylphide—a fat danseuse—a corpulent serial
lady. This was the last disguise which our Protean
actress assumed, and the piece terminated with the
agents of Miss Snook's father, by the -contrivance of
Jerry Phoenix, carrying off Mrs.,Macscribblescrabble
instead of the erratic daughter. " At the fall of the
curtain Mrs. Fitzwilliam Was loudly called for. Mrs.
Fitzwilliam also performed in the petite comedy of
My Little Adopted, in the character of Lauretta Sey-
mour. Mrs. Honey acted as Kate O'Brien in Per-
fection.