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      February 14,1857.] T He Lead Eb, 165

      February 14 , 1857 . ] T HE LEAD EB , 165

      The Anglo-Indian Almanack. The Anglo-Ind...

      THE ANGLO-INDIAN ALMANACK . The Anglo-Indian Almanack for 1857 . Published at the " Indian News" Office . If any proof were required of the growing interest in Indian affairs felt by the British public , it might be found in the circumstance that a compilation of the above character has become not only useful , but necessary . The speciality indicated by the title has been ably worked out . Almost every species of information that can be desired respecting the organization of our Indian Empire is clearly and systematically afforded . In addition to the ordinary matter furnished in cosmopolitan almanacks , we find in this little volume everything we could wish to know ; ahout the Civil , Military , and Ecclesiastical services , their Examinations , Regulations , and Pensions . We are told where every regiment is stationed , where every civilian is to be found , and what duties he is discharging ; and , in short , where we must look for our brothers , kinsmen , and friends , "whatever be the post they hold under Queen or Company . Nor are the " outside barbarians" altogether ignored , though the Fourth Estate is apparently considered unworthy of notice ; and the same silence is preserved with regard to the Uncovenanted Service . Perhaps in the following year these deficiencies will be supplied , and also some fuller instructions given for the benefit of persons about to proceed to India ; in the present number the Marseilles route is entirely omitted . On the other hand , there is a very useful summary of debates on Indian questions in the two Houses of Parliament during the last session , together with much valuable information about Railways , Postal Regulations , Coins , Weights , Measures , and many other subjects that have hitherto puzzled the homely wits of home-keeping youths . In other words , an " obvious void" has been now filled by this Anglo-Indian Almanack , which we cordially recommend to all who have even a Scotch cousin in India .

      Dk. Young And His " Night Thottghts."—Th...

      Dk . Young and his " Night Thottghts . "—The study of men , as they have appeared in different ages , and under various social conditions , may "be considered as the natural history of the race . Let us , then , for a moment imagine ourselves , as students of this natural history , 'dredging' the first half of the eighteenth century in search of specimens . Ahout the year 1730 , we have hauled up a remarkable individual of the species divine—a surprising name , considering the nature of the animal before us , but -we are uaed to unsuitable names in natural history . Let us examine this individual at our leisure . He is on the verge of fifty , and has recently undergone his metamorphosis into the clerical form , ltather a paradoxical specimen , if you observe him narrowly : a sort of cross between a sycophant and a

      psalmist ; a poet whose imagination is alternately fired by the " Last Day" and by a creation of peers , who fluctuates between rhapsodic applause of King George and rhapsodic applause of Jehovah . After spending " a foolish youth , the sport of peers and poets , " after being a hanger-on of the profligate Duke of Wharton , after aiming in vain at a parliamentary career , and angling for pensions-and preferment -with fulsome dedications and fustian odes , he is a . little disgusted with his imperfect success , and has determined to retire from the general mendicancy business , to a particular branch ; in other words , he has determined on that renunciation of the world implied in " taking orders , " with the prospect of a good living and an advantageous matrimonial connexion . And no man can be better fitted for an established church

      He personifies completely her nice balance of temporalities and spiritualities . He is equally impressed with the momentousness of death and of burial fees ; he languishes at once for immortal life and for " livings ;" he has a fervid attachment to patrons in general , but on the whole prefers the Almighty . Ho will teach , with something more than official conviction , the nothingness of earthly things ; and he will feel something more than private disgust if his meritorious efforts in directing men ' s attention to another world are not rewarded by

      substantial preferment in this . His secular man believes in cambric bands and silk stockings as characteristic attire for " an ornament of religion and virtue ; " hopes courtiers will never forget to copy Sir Robert Walpole ; and write begging-letters to the King's mistress . His spiritual man recognizes no motives more familiar than " Golgotha" and "the skies ; " it walks in graveyards , or it soars among the stars . His religion exhausts itself in ejaculations and rebukes , and knows no medium between the ecstatic and the sententious . If it were

      not for the prospect - of immortality , he considers , it would be wise and agreeable to be indecent , or to murder one ' s father ; and , lieaven apart , it would be extremely irrational in any man not to be a knave . Man , ho thinks , is a compound of the angel and the brute ; the brute is to be humbled by being reminded of its " relation to the stalls , " and frightened into moderation by the contemplation of death-beds and skulls ; the angel is to be developed by vituperating this world and exalting the next : and by this double

      process you get the Christian , " the highest style of man . " With all thin our now made divine is an unmistakable poet . To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhetorician , there is added a real spark of Promethean fire . He will one day clothe hi . s apostrophes and objurgations , his astronomical religion and hi . s charnal-houae morality , in lusting ver . se , which will ntand , like a Juggernaut mado of gold and . jewels , at once magnificent and repulsive : for this divine in Kdward Young , the future author of the " Night Thoughts . "Westminster Review ( January ) .

      Dratii of this Kino ok Aiiyhsinia . —A letter from Alexandria of the 24 th ult . states that intelligence has beon received thero of the death of King Theodore , the King of Abyasinia .

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      The Sunbeam. The Sunbeam: A Photographic...

      THE SUNBEAM . The Sunbeam : a Photographic Magazine . Edited hy Philip H . Delamotte , F . S . A . Parfc I- Chapman and Hall . The first number of tlie Sunbeam contains four exquisite illustrations The Woods at Penllegare , by Mr . J . D . Llewelyn ; The Tournament Court in the Castle of Heidelberg , by Sir Jocelyn . Coghill ; Magdalen College , Oxford , from the Cherwell , by Professor Delamotte ; and the Baptistry ,- . Canterbury Cathedral , by Mr . F . Bedford . Mr . Llewelyn has caught with marvellous effect the light- tracery of branches—the path , the bridge , the moss around the roots , the heaped leaves on the turf . Sir Jocelyn Coghill brings out , with beautiful precision , the Raphael and Giulio Romano facade in the Tournament Court of Heidelberg Castle , the Octagon Tower of Frederick , the -vegetation piled against the walls , and the windows which show only the shadows within . Magdalen College , " the point of mediaeval romance that jewels the whole city" of Oxford , is delicately photographed by Professor Dolamotte , whose trees and water ar « wonderful , as well as his aerial perspective and the tone and outline of his architecture and landscape . Mr . Bedford ' s Baptistry , Canterbury Cathedral , may be described in one sentence : it is perfect .

      Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. B...

      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . BLAKE . —On the 20 th ult ., tho Dowager Lady Blake : a son . SALTOUN . —On the 8 th irist ., at Ness Castle , near Inverness , the Lady Saltoun : a daughter . STOKES .-On the . 29 th ult ., at Galatz , the wife of Major Stokes , Itoj'al Engineers , her Majesty's Commissioner on the Danube ; a daughter . MARRIAGES . CHURCHILL-CALTKORPE-On the 5 th inst ., at St ., George ' s , Hanover-square , by the Bishop of Oxford , Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill , second son of the Duke of Marlborousrh , to the Hon . Harriet Louisa , Esther Gough Calthorpc , third daughter of Lord Calthorpe . TURNBULL—MYERS - —On the 13 th of December last , at the Cathedral , Madras , by the Very Rev . Archdeacon Shortland , Gavin Ainslio Turnbull , Esq ., 12 th Royal Lancers , to Mary Isabella , eldest daughter of J . P . MMyers , Esq .., of Tenby , Pembrokeshire . DEATHS . IND . —On the 2 nd insfc ., at Baldock , Herts , Mrs . Mary Ind , in the lOOth year of her age . She had 10 children , and lived to see the tairth of 09 grandchildren , 114 great grandchildren , and two great grandchildren ' s children—in all 195 descendants . . LUCAS . —On . the 31 st ult ., at Lisbon , aged 70 , Charlotte , relict of the late Robert Lucas , Esq . POWER—On tho 8 th inst-, at Haslar Hospital , Richard Blizard Power , Esq ., Assistant-Surgeon R . N ., aged 30 . The trials and hardships endured in tho Crimean war led to his proraaturo end . .

      F1jom The London Gazette. Tuesday, Febru...

      F 1 JOM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , February 10 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . —Henry John Girdlestone , Brighton , Berlin wool dealer . BANKRUPTS . —Wir . tr am-Ed-wards , Hi ^ h-strcet , Wapping , ale merchant—Tjiomas Skinnhr , Sliellield , electroplater—Htam Levt , Liverpool , clothier . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —A . Muirtiead , Glasgow—R . Goya n , Glasgow , stone merchant , and Eastwood , near Pollokshaws , Renfrewshire , quarrier—W . Gardner . and Co ., Glasgow , builders—J . M iiii / ER , late of Kirkmichael , farmer—J . Anderson , Cumnock , Ayrshire , draper . Friday , February 13 . B ANKUUPTCIES ANNULLED . —David Smith , Dukc ' sroad , St . Pancras , licensed victualler—John Atkinson , Westboumc-grovc , Hayswatcr , builder . BANKRtll'TS .-Wuujui Er >\ vAnD Hawkey , Sykesterrace , Mile-ond-road , tailor—William Bryant , Stratford , Essex , boot and shoo malcor—Adolpicits Sciikrman , Georgc-slrect , Minoriea , general merchant—JonN Smith , Staplchui'sts Kent , com dealer—Frederick Kindred , Framlinghain , Suffolk , miller — SiaisniuND Ganb , Essexstreet , Strand , morchaiifc—John - Danokhfiei-d , Sen ., Kirkley , Suffolk , builder-Thomas Corneli ,, King-street , Regent-streot , carver and gilder— George Catjlton , Hadford , Nottinglmnn , brewer—John Lises , Garrison-lane , Birmingham , brickmaker—Michael Pa aiCER , Kingston-upon-llull , ironniongei—John 1 ' a . tji ., St . Mary Axe , City , seed merchant —Charihb Fox , Hulrrie , Manchester , corn and Hour dealer —John William Lanoridoe , Birmingham , stay maker —Gavin M'Clymont , Jun ., liradfprd , drapor—Ohaki . ks Hadson Clayton , Liverpool , milliner—John Davihon , Kingstoii-iipon-Ilulli anchor maker—' Pnn . n * Poutek , Liverpool , cotton broker—Michael . Stepanofp , Liverpool , merchant — Georgia Oavens , CarliHle , iowollor — James Watts , Norton Saint PhilipH , Somer . sotsniro , innlioldci—' ¦ William Oalvert , an « l Wii . wam Cai . vbut tho Younger , Siiudcrliiiic ] , hosiers—Sir Chmit . ks Fox and John Hjsndersok , London WoHts , SmoUiwick , Stnfl ' ord , Fore-strciDfc , I > iinohoiise , and 8 , New Sj ) ring-Knrdcjisf ( . 'iiBineorH and contractors . SCOTCH SKQUUSTUATIONa—William Kelly . Ko . ntroad , GIiiskow , conlriictoi—David Wright , llarwood , insar West Cnlder , fnrniei—Hii . i . son , Titrnkk , and Company , North iii'iclgo-strcot , Kdinburgli , clothiers—William Kiiir-L . -EY and Jameb Farih . Greoiioek , Lnruo l ' ottcry Company .

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      London, Fridiiy Jvvoning, J^.-Bunry 13, ...

      London , Fridiiy Jvvoning , J ^ .-bunry 13 , 1857 . Tin : arrlvnls of two p-ol < l ships , and tlio favourableritiluclion in tlwi forlhcdiniiiK « wHniati ' . s , and th « iii'ospcct of tho lncoinc-tax liciiig lowcicil , liavit conlriliutiMi lo niakii tho public scciiritic . i ami sham tiiiirk < : t . s wonr a l ) riglit , i ! r aNpcct , than has provallcd for wniu : weeks . Tho Tlirci ) i ) cr Out . < 7 oiihg 1 h aro w < ill nii pporl . cd f'ii * money : il . » : $ ;( , !) tj for r > th March nuooiint , y ^ l , Uti ; and uvor ho littlo utir madu iu real

      purchases and investments will give the market a strong extra fillip upwards . Turkish . Six . per Cent . Bonds are rather more in , demand , and have risen from 93 i to 95 K and look still to bo tending to go even higher . Four por Cent . Turkish continue steady . The foreign share market has greatly improved ; Luxembourg arid LonYbardo-Venetinn moro especially . Grand Trunk of Canada have not kept pace with tho general improvement ; the delivery of shares in this undertaking has been heavy this account . _ In the heavy railway market , Leeds and Birmingham , and Great Westerns , havo been most inquired after : tho continuation prices were not heavy , and it is probable that it has not been a heavy full account . Eastern Counties have mado a stride upwards . South-Eaacerns are 15 s . por share ; the dividend , it is now understood , will bo at the rate of 15 s . per share , or 5 por cent , por annum ; at their present price this would give 6 fc por cent . Caledonian aro arm at 32 j , and with increased care in the Money Market will see a much higher figure . Yesterday and to-day money was easily obtainable at 6 per cent , on Government ; securities . .

      A considerable business has been transacted in Joint-Stock Banks . Ottoman and Egypt are better , and the lattor are nearly at par . A large amount of business has beon transacted iti British mines , and it is to bo hoped that this kind of business may bo done through tho medium of the Stock Exchange , as a guarantee for real prices , and not fictitious . West Towcy Consols , Great Wheal Alfreds , Trewetlia , the Bassetts , Great Vor , Trelawny , MaryA . nne , have been amongst some of those in which business has been transacted . The Bank returns do not promiso to bo very satisfa ctorv to-morrow , but Consols lcavb . off 94 , OH for account , and 9 tf , i for money . Aberdeen , — , —; Caledonian , 61 , G 4 J ; Chester and

      Holyhead , 36 , tt 7 i liastern Counties , 9 J , 10 ; Great Northern !> 3 £ , i ) t i , Great Southern and Western ( Irelamio , 111 , US ; Ureat Western , G 8 £ , CD ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , IK * 99 . J ; London and Blackwall , 6 J , 7 ; London , Brighton , and South Coast , 108 , 109 ; Londou and North-Westorn , 107 i , 107 J ; London and Soutb-Wustern , l () ti , l 05 i , x . d . ; Midland , 8 U , 8 aj ; Nortli-lSastern ( Horwick ) , 86 J , 87 i ; South-Eastern ( Dover ) , 75 i , 7 ( 5 i ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , CJ , Bi ; DutcVi Rhenish , $ , = J pin . ; Eastern of Franco ( Paris and Strasbourg ) , 32 J , 32 j ; Groat Central of France , 4 A , 42 pm . ; Great Luxembourg , Hi , 0 i ; Northern of Franco , SfW , » 7 i ; Paris and Lyons , 54 i 55 J ; Royal Danish , 18 , 20 ; Royal Swedish , J , IS ; bambre and Meuso . Si , 8 J .

      Corn Market. Mark-Iano, Friday, February...

      CORN MARKET . Mark-Iano , Friday , February 13 , 1857 . Tiik market is very shortly supplied with grain of all kinds , and the arrivals oil the coast are not worth mentioning . Hut bolh Liverpool and London aro well supplied with Flour , and the tnulo remains in a quiet state and without alteration in tho valuo of any articlo excopt Oats , which aro a shade worse . A few unimportant sales of Wiiiuit havo been mudo on tlio East ( Joust for Uordoaux and north of Spain . Tiiroo cargoes of Maize Iiavo also bcon sold at about 41 . s . ( id .

      British Funds For The L'Ast Week. (Closi...

      BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE l'AST WEEK . ( Closing 1 ' hiceb . ) fiat , Mon . Tues . \ Wed . 1 'hnrJFriiI . Hank Stock 2174 2171 2174 21 U 218 : $ per Cent . Ked ' . ); s . i D ; $ 4 03 * 0 : 5 f « , u ui 15 per Cent . Con . An . 02 J ill * IMA 0 , 'JA 1 ) 4 Hi , Consols for Account Dili 5 « g twf « : jg mi | ¦ ,, ( . Now Unor Cunt . An . ' . Mi IKJi IW 3 031 DM I M | New ttj pcrCcuta ... 7 < JJ 1-ong Ann . 18 ( 10 2 J s > £ ,.,. ' . ; India Stock 5 > li > 220 Ditto Bonds , JilOOO ad 'in DiLto under £ 1000 ad i" {> par "i" { , n ! H 1 Jll frnn 1 () 0 ° lmr Par : Jl ) : ; » » "V » iwH ' h !• I ) ar > ) JU" " ar : J i > 1 Jr > Ditto , HnifiU ........... purl par lip : } p ; $ p ; j J , FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Official Quotation jh ; iuno tiik Wiiv . k . ending Fill DAY EVKNINQ . )

      I i-nziluui HondH IO : > 1 Portuguese 1 porOonts . ... IluenoHA . vrusUp . OontM W » 4 Russian Bonds , 5 msr Olulian

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1857, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14021857/page/21/