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beTon ^ tSlhe ^ ok * ia spite of its inartificial simplicity , is no doubt due to ' rtTp . " realitv . " & * & reality is not enough , or we might contemplate the SidriSd listen to the tale of" every Nobody : art requires completeness 'Si Tvpical pi-egriancy in the work brought before the attention ; and above al l ^ iri ^ equu-es fitness . Now there are subjects w hich belong to fictionsuch as the viciMitudes , the passions , the character , which mirror human nature to itself , and give it the pleasure of self-contemplation , perhaps with some warning or incentive in the lesson . But here the object must be the ' passions , the vicissitudes , the character ; not an abstract or controversial lubiect You may as w , ell dramatise a debate in Parliament as a controversy on ecclesiastical legislation . Even if it were possible to convert Mr . Chancellor of the Exchequer ' s annual statement into a novel , cui bond financiers would not follow Sir Cornewall Lewis into a romance , nor would romance readers swell his majority in the division . There are , indeed , occasions on which fiction may be employed to illustrate argument and enforce a moral—as where an evil to be exposed must find its remedy , not in the acts of the legislature , but in the altered feeling of society ; or where the cause advocated is so much under the ban of prejudice that it can only be approached indirectly . Nay , narrated illustrations may familiarise to the multitude the doctrines already intelligible to the few ; but that is a delicate task , since it requires the feeling which makes the artist in combination with the logic , or the command of facts which makes the statist ; and the faculties have seldom been united , although a Harriet Martineau has proved that they are not incompatible . But we do not have a Harriet Martineau every day ; and when such a mind appears amongst us we must accept the good which it can confer , -without expecting to make it a model for imitation either in art or polemics . Some sense of the unfitiiess of fiction as auxiliary in discussing a subject not excluded from actual and open , if not triumphant debate , is shown in the effort of the present writer to avoid working on the feelings— -which it is the very object of fiction to do . No doubt it would be barbarous to remove church-rates from the ' category of " orders of the day , " with a bill soon to be consummated in an act , and to replace it among iconoclastic agitations ; but that is the very reason why it
; should not be made into a fiction . '"' W «' m uWt ^^' ei : f t 1 i ^<»^^ knniJiE ^ k tive ^ test ^ if she proposes to herself a career illustrating practical truthV of the legislative order , auxiliary to debates in Parliament , we beseech her to let this be her last volume , and do solemnly warn her off a romance in aid of Mr . Brown on decimal coinage , or a melancholy tale pathetically supporting Sir Benjamin Hall ' s promised bill on Thames purification and arterial drainage . If , on the contrary , her object is to depict human nature as she finds it , struggling to develop itself amid hostile influences , then let her not eschew the argument that touches the feelings , but by all means avoid topics suited for leading articles rather than artists .
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CORN MARKET . Mark-lano , Friday Evening , September 28 , 1855 . Since tliia day week the price of English Wheat has not varied much . On the spot , new Wheat is about is . cheaper , but for cargoes at outports no less is taken . Supplies in the country markets are smaller this week than last , and it . is expected a further falling off will take place next week . Prices have risen in America in proportion to the rise hero . In Franco a slight decline has taken place in some of the markets , but it is not material so far , and we have still orders in hand for that country . Saidi Wheat is worth 58 s . to 56 a . cost , freight and insurance , Galatz 739 . to 75 s . A cargo superior I brail sold at 78 s . cost , freight and insurance . Barley is extremely dear , but there is little offering—the prices range from 86 s . to 40 s . Oats are firm with a good supply . Bye . —Wo have buyers at 57 s . cost and freight to nftar continental norts .
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FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Ofjtici At Quotation » imiKO the Wbbk ending TinmBDAY Evening ., ) Brazilian Bonds i IU ""> lan Bonds , 6 por BuenosAyrosOporOnts . ... Cot }! : » "AnorOoiVts Chilian 0 per Cents 103 * ^^ t ^ iPot . NwVot . 19 Danish 6 nor Cents ! tC ISJ Co « . m ttooCrt . Ecuador Bonds ... S | ' f " ooupVnot fun Mexican 3 por Coutn .... 21 fl Vo ° ' ^ X ** po ^ ents . 854 Mexican 3 por CO-for K ' , ° fi ,, or Contu Aoc . Oct . 10 ai £ X ,, 24 perConts 04 Portuguese 4 por Conta . A * #$$ , 4 J / orContOcrtlf . 00 Porfcuguoso 3 p . Oouw . ... ' * "
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The Polytechnic is at present exhibiting a model of the town and fortifications of Sebastopol , together with the siege works of the Allies . The Belbek towards the north , and Tchorgoun in the direction of the east , are the limits of the representation , which , commencing at the Quarantine Inlet and Battery , includes Kamiesch , the monastery of St . Qeorge , Balaklava ( whence the course of the railway is followed ) , Kadikoi , the scene of the heroic Light Cavalry charge , the advanced positions of the British and Sardinians at Kamara and Tchorgoun , the rivers Tchernaya and Chulin , the Traktir Bridge and the ravine down which the Russians came in their last attack , the Mackenzie-road , winding along the sides of steep hills and commanded by numerous batteries , the Inkerman Lights , and the Star Port' and its outworks . Mr . Holman , master of the National School at Stansted , Essex , is the modeller ; and he has very handsomely made a present of his work to the Polytechnic Institution . It will doubtless become an object of great attraction to the visitors , since a model , executed with such attention to minute details , cannot fail to give the ordinary newspaper reader a more definite idea of the scene of that gigantic struggle which even yet remains uncompleted . A model combines the advantages of a map and a picture with others peculiar to itself . _
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Istdia and China . —By the last Overland Mail , we Jearn that the Santal rebellion continues , but the rebels are beginning to give way . Fifty thousand rebels are assembled in the hill districts . The bill for granting a charter to the Oriental Gas Company has passed its second reading . Lord Elphinstone has returned to Bombay . Lord Daltiousie' remain ' s at the Neilgherries . Money is very scarce . The pirates in China hold under control a coast line of two thousand miles in the tea districts of Hoonan and Oopack . . The rebels are in great strength , ; and $ he trade , of Canton , 13 / very restricted .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . BIRLEY . —September 23 , at Newton le Willows , Lancashire , . the wife of Joseph H . Birley , Esq .: a son . GWYN .- ^ -September 23 , at the house of her father . Quarles Harris , Esq .., Paragon , Blackheath , the lady of . Captaiu 1 jL W . Gwyn , II . M . ( now in the Crimea ) : a son and heir . MAHOMED . —September 22 , ' at Ryder-street , St . James ' s the wife of Mr . Mahomed : a daughter . '
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MARRIAGES . OWEN—BUSSEL . —Septembor 22 , at Carshalton , Surrey , Henry Moore Owen , eldest son of Thomas Owen , Esq ., 1 Welshpooi ; Montgomeryshire , to Jane , youngest daughter of the late Robert Brown Russel , Esq ., Bedford-park , Stroatharo , Surrey , and relict of the late T . B . Rush , Esq ., Erith , Kent . PRUDENCE— INGS . —September 22 , at the parish church of St . Anne's , Westminster , Stanley George Prudence , of Gray ' s Inn and Clapham-common , solicitor , to Frances Anne , eldest daughter of John Ings , Esq ., of Honloy-in-Aden , Warwickshire , and of London . STONOR—PEEL . —September 25 , at the Bavarian Ohapel , Warwick-street , by the Rev . Edward Howard , and afcer-- wards at St . Margaret ' s . Westminster , by tho Very Rev . the Dean of Worcester , tho Hon . Francis Stonor , second son of Lord Camqys , to Eliza , daughter of the lato Right Hon . Sir Robert Peel , Bart .
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DEATHS . B ARCLAY . —May 14 , at Beochworth , Melbourne , Victoria , Emmelino Hester , tho wife of Hugh Ross Barclay , Esq ., of the Mounted Gold Escort . GILBERT . —September 25 , of paralysis , Mr . Joseph Francis > i Gilbert , landscape painter , aged 63 , for twenty years a resident of Chlohostor , second son of Mr . Gilbert , the woll' ¦ known inventor of several ingenious plans for firing bombs < I 'with greater precision . JBiEPINGTON . —September 82 , afc Amlngton Hall , in tho - county of Warwick , Vico-Admiral a Court Ropiugton , in
tho 72 nd year of his age . TWADDELL .-Soptombor 10 . Mias Lotitia Twaddoll , at Ramsgato , aged 80 . TOULES . — Soptombor 16 , at Jorsoy , after a protracted illness . William James VoHloa . Esq ., of Lincoln ' s Inn , ; barriscor-at-law , formerly an Assistant Poor Law Commissioner . ' WOLLEY . —Soptombor 20 , atlunbridgo Oastlo , accidentally drowned , Jane , tho ail ' ooMonato and bolovod wlfo of Wil' Ham Frederick Wolloy , Esq ., of Campdon House , Kensington .
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , Soptembor 20 . ^ BANKRUPTS—GKoncm Pahicer , Southampton , cook—W » li , iam : AanToar . Loughborough-road , Brixton , builder—« koeoe Sfjhght , Goawoll-stroot , confeotlonor — John JFattison , Alpha-road , St > . John ' B-wood , and Park-street , U roavonor-Bquaro . Burgeon—Moses Yua . bsley , South-bank .
St . John ' s-wood , wine merchant — Richaed Thomas Fixchett , Hanover-street , Hanover-square , tailor—William Ouxton , "Liverpool , chemist—Thomas King-don , Netherexeji . Devonshire , cider merchant—Thomas Allen , and Thomas Cpthbeet Cockson , Manchester , Italian 'warehousemen .
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Friday , September 28 . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED Fbancis Stephen Foley , Goldsmith-street , warehouseman—Wn . tram Jeefebson , Westoe , and Thomas Drxoir , South Shields , alkali manufacturers . BANKRUPTS .-Chabx . es John Maee , Blackwall , shipbuilder—Georo-e Fox Bames , Paiil's-streetj Finsbury , oil and colounuan—Babnett Bebcsens , Snow-hill , Birmingham , general dealer—Thomas LfUaraBEN , South Shields , ship-builder — John PiTri Birintngimm , retail brewer—John Dupfield , Oldbury , Worcester , publican — Jambs Ellis , Spring Hill , Warwickshire , timber merchant — Samuei . Bkid&e , Manchester , builder . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . — Rev . John Millar , Jedburgh , Master of . the Nest Academy—Andrew Scott , Dunfermline , paper manufacturer .
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speculating ; and , indeed , the bargains , with tho exceptions of real sales , have been positively nothing . In the Foreign Stock Market , Turkish Six per Cent , has fallen very much . On Tuesday it was nominally at 88 to 80 . On Thursday morning , at one time it was quoted 81 , 81 J . Later in tho day buyora camo in , and it finally rallied to 85 at the close of yesterday ovoning . In the Four per Cent . Guaranteed Turkish Stock the fluctuations wero likewise of an oxtensivo nature ; but it must bo remembered , with regard to this stock , that , despite of the guarantoo by tho Governments of Franco and England , heavy instalments remain to be paid , and it is a question whothor it will settle down to its value until affcor January .
MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , September 28 , 1855 . The Bank of England have increased their rate of discount , this week , from 41 to 5 per cout . This had been anticipated in the Money-market during the last week ; and the Fuuds have been exceedingly flat , cousoquent on heavy sales . On Wednesday tho fall was to the extent of one per cent , in Consols . Tho commercial state , of the country hardly warrants so severe a fall ; and it is probable that the publio , having now seen the worst , will recover ' confidence , and reinvQstmonts bo made . There has been little or no
over-Tho arrival of largo quantities of gold from Australia , under ordinary circumstances , would have had tho effect of keeping up prices , but for some inexplicable reason it is discovorou that tho Bank of Franco aro purchasers to tho amount of ono million and a half . Many conjectures aro afoot on this remarkable monetary movement , since it is evident that tho purchases are made with a heavy loss . Tho quidnuncs of Gapol-oourt and tho Royal Exchange imagine it a dovico of Russia to get specio undor cover of Franco ; but this must bo spoodlly dlaoovorod , wero such an intrigue on foot .
In tho Railway Markot groat depression continues , and with good reason ; oven tho old and meritorious French and Foreign Linos have felt tho shook . Canada Groat Western , Canada Laud , and Canada Government Six per Cent . Dobouturos maintain a linn appearance amidst tho general despondent state . Minos aro stagnant as regards those which aro dealt In rogularly In tho Stock Exchange \ but amongst British Miuos there hat ) boon groat speculation , several young and obscure mines having samplo oro , with groat promise for thofuture
Eastern Counties , 9 f , 9 # ; Edinburgh and Glasgow , 49 , 51 ; Great Northern , 85 * , 86 * ; Ditto , A stock , 67 , 69 ; Ditto , B stock , 122 , 124 ; Great Southern and Western , of Ireland , 99 , 101 ; Great Western , 54 J , 55 ; Lancaster and Carlisle , 69 . 72 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 75 | , 76 ; London and North Western ; 91 f , 92 £ ; London and Brighton , 95 , 97 ; London antt South-Western , 81 J , 82 J ; Midland , 644 , 65 ; ; Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire , 23 . 28 i ; Berwicks , 68 J , 69 i ; Yorks , 45 J , 46 i ; South Eastern , 564 , 574 ; Oxford and Worcester , 24 , 26 ; North Staffordshire , 7 } , 7 dis . ; South Devon , 12 , 13 ; Antwerp aud Rotterdam , 75 , 8 i ; Bombay and Baroda , 10 , 10 J ; Eastern of France , 34 | , 35 * ; East Indian , 22 | , 23 ; Ditto , Extension , l £ , If pin . ; Grand Trunk ; of Canada , 8 i , 7 } dis . ; Great Central of Franco , 3 , 3 } pm . ; Great Western of Canada , 24 , 244 ; Luxembourgs , 34 , 81 ; Madras , 194 , 20 ; Paris and Lyons , 42 J . 43 i ; Paris and Orleans , 44 , 48 ; . Sambre and Meuse , 8 . 8 & ; Great Western of France , 9 * , 1 0 *; Agua Frias , £ i ; Imperial Brazil , 24 , 3 ; Cocaes , 3 , Si ; St . John del Rey , 26 , 28 ; ' Clarendon Copper , * r § ; Cobre , 64 , 68 ; Linares , 7 , 74 ; Liberty . 4 , g ; Santiago . Sf . 4 i ; South Australian , S , 6 i United Mexican , 3 . 3 i ; Wallers , i , i ; Australasian Bank . 87 , 89 ; London and Australian Chartered Bank , 19 J , 20 ; City Bank , 53 . 55 ; London Bank , par , 2 ; Union Of Australia , 68 , 70 ; Oriental Corporation . 40 , 42 ; Australian Agricultural ; 29 , 80 ; Canada Land , 140 , 150 ; Canada 6 per cent . Loan ; ill , 112 ; Crystal Palace , 2 J , 2 f ; North British Australasian , 6 , I ; Oriental Gas , 1 . li ; Peel Rivers , 29 , 24 ; Scottish Australian Investment , 14 , 1 |; South Australian , 354 , 3 CJ .
Tho markots leave off at four o ' clock , rathor steadier . Consols for account , 884 , 88 J -, Turkish Six nor Cent ., 85 g , 8 DJ ; Do . Four por Coat ., 14 . 18 dis . ; Russian Flvo por Oont ., 07 . 00 . ¦
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK-( Closing Peioes . )
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8 at . Hon . Tues . Wed . Thxir . Frid Bunk Stock ! 3 por Cent . Rod 1 3 per Cent . Con . An . 90 i 90 894 89 88 $ 88 i Consols for Account 901 00 J 89 fi 894 88 | 884 3 t por Cent . An - Now 24 per Cents Long Ans . 1860 India Stook 228 280 228 Ditto Bonds , £ 1000 20 par Ditto , undor jflOOO 15 7 Ex . Bills , £ 1000 1 par 2 4 6 4 Ditto , £ 500 2 1 P » r Ditto . Small 4 2 » 4 par
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 945, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2108/page/21/
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