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Leader (1850-1860), 21st February 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 186, Untitled Article

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      Eoman Chaeaotee . — The genius of Borne displayed itself in character , and scarcely needed an occasional wave of the torch of thought to show its lineaments , so marble strong they gleamed in , every light . Who ; that has lived with those men , but admires the plain ' force of fact , of thought passed into action ? They take up things with their naked hands . There is just the man , and the block he casts before you , —no divinity , no demon , no unfulfilled aim , but just the man and Rome , and what he did for Home . Everything turns your attention to what a man can become , not by yielding himself freely to impressions , not by letting

      nature play freely through him , but by a single thought , anearnest purpose , an indomitable will , by hardihood , self-command , and force of expression . Architecture was the art in which Rome excelled , and this corresponds with the feeling these men of Rome excite . They did not grow , —they built themselves up , or were built up by the fate of Rome , as a temple for Jupiter Stator . The ruined Roman sits among the ruins ; he flies to no green garden ; he does not look to heaven ; if his intent is defeated , if he is less than he meant to be , he . lives no more . —Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli .

      The Intimate and Ineradicable PecttiiIabitt OF THE Poet . —The art to work on and on for ever in a purely ideal element , to chase and marshal airy nothings according to a law totally unlike that of rational association , never , hastening to a logical end like the schoolboy when on errand , but still lingering within the wood like the schoolboy during holiday . This peculiar , mental habit , nowhere better described than by Milton himself when he speaks of verse" Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out , With wanton heed and giddy cunning , "

      is so characteristic of the-poetical disposition , that * though in most of the greatest poets , as , for example * Dante , Goethe , Shakespeare in his dramas , Chaucer , and almost all the ancient Greek poets , it is not observable in any extraordinary degree , chiefly because in them the element of direct reference to human life and its interests had fitting preponderance , yet it may be affirmed that he who , tolerating or admiring these poets , does not relish also such poetry as that of Spenser , Keats , and Shakespeare in his minor pieces , but complains of it as wearisome and sensuous , is wanting in a portion of the genuine poetic taste . — - North British JRevieio . No . XXXII .

      Milton ' s Wife . —How Milton had been led to commit such a blunder as to marry a girl so totally tmsuited to be his wife , can only be explained by the reasons he himself hints at—the inexperience of even the soberest man in these affairs ,, the very haste of men who have lived strictly in youth ¦ " to light the nuptial torch / ' the " persuasion of friends , " the want of sufficient opportunities " for a perfect discerning" till too late , and the known fact that " the bashful muteness of a virgin , " so romantically interpreted by the lover , may often " hide all the unliveliness and natural sloth "

      which constitute sheer stupidity . Stupidity , if wo may judge from Milton ' s allusions , was the quality which , after his eyes were opened to the real character of his wife , he found most unendurable in her . " A mute and spiritless mate , " " a mind to all duo conversation inaccessible , " such are the phrases in which ho seems evidently to refer to his own case ; and " what a solace , " he adds , " what a fit help such a consort would be through the whole life of a man , is less pain to conjecture than to have experience . " No sensible man , he even says in another place , but would rather forgive actual unfaithfulness in a woman than this sullen

      incompatibility of tastes and temper . —North British Review , No . XXXII . I ^ anoy and Imagination . —Thnt which , after our refining modern habit , wo aro now \ ised to distinguish from 3 1 ancy under tho name of Imagination , is but the samo power ns Fancy leased to the tenure of a more human and more impassioned service . —North British Review , No . XXXII . Education -Lifk . — I WaB now in the hands of teachers , who hud not , sijico they enmo on the earth , put to themselves quo intelligent question as to thoir business

      here . Good dispositions and . employment for ( , hc heart gave a tone to nil they fluid , which whs pleasing , and not perverting . They , no doubt , injured those-who accepted tho husks they proffered for braid , and believed that exorcise of memory was study , mid to know what others know , was the object of study . But to me this wns all penetrable . I liad known fijrcnt living minds , — -1 hud seen how they took their food and did their exorcise , and what their objects were . Very early I / fhew that the only object in life was to ffrow . —Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli .

      The Publication of Experience . —Genius seems to me excusable in taking the public for a confidant . Genius is universal , and can . appeal to the common heart of man . But even here I would not have it too direct . I prefer to see the thought or feeling made universal . How different the confidence of Goethe , for instance , from that of 3 yron!—But for us lesser people , who write . verses merejyas ; vents for the overflowings of a personal experience , which iii every life of any value craves occasionally the accompaniment of the lyre , it seems to me that all in

      the value of this utterance is destroyed by a hasty or - discriminate publicity . The moment I lay open my heart , and tell the fresh feeling to any one who chooses to hear , I feel profaned . —When it has passed into experience , when the flower has gone to seed , I don't care who knows it , or whither they wander . I am no longer it , — I stand on it . I do not know whether this is peculiar to me , or not ; but I am sure the moment I cease to have any reserve or delicacy about a feeling , it is on the wane . - ^ -Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli .

      Superstition . —This catching at straws of coincidence , where all is geometrical , seems the necessity of certain natures . It is true , that , in every good work , the particulars are right , and , that every spot of light on the ground , under the trees , is a perfect image of the sun . Yet , for astronomical purposes , an observatory is better than an orchard ; and in a universe which is nothing but generations , or an unbroken suite of cause and effect , to infer Providence , because a man happens to find a shilling on the pavement , just when he wants one to spend , is puerile , and much as if each of us should date his letters and notes of hand from his own birthday , instead of from Christ ' s or the king's reign , or the current Congress . These , to be sure , are also , at first , petty and private beginnings , but , by the world of men , clothed with a social and cosmical character . —Memoirs of Margaret . Fuller Ossoli .

      The Student in Ill-health . —She was all her lifetime the victim of disease and pain . She read and wrote in bed , and believed that she could understand anything better when she was ill . Pain acted like a girdle , to give tension to her powers . —Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli . The Morality of Aet . —Certainly , in the face of any conspicuous achievement of genius , philosophy , no less than sympathetic instinct , warrants our belief in a

      great moral purpose having mainly inspired even where it does not visibly look out of the same . Greatness in a work suggests an adequate instrumentality ; and none of the lower incitements , however they may avail to initiate or even effect many considerable displays of power , simulating the nobler inspiration to which they are mistakenly referred , have been found able , under tlie ordinary conditions of humanity , to task themselves to the end of so exacting a performance as a poet ' s complete work . — Brow 7 iing on Shelley .

      Bad Poetry . —All the bad poetry in the world ( accounted poetry , that is , by its affinities ) will be found to result from some one of the infinite degrees of discrepancy between the attributes of the poet's soul , occasioning a want of correspondency between his work and the verities of nature , —issuing in poetry , false under whatever form , which shows a thing not as it is to mankind generally , nor as it is to the particular describer , but as it is supposed to be for some unreal neutral mood , midway between both and of value to neither , and living its brief minute simply through the indolence of whoever accepts it , or his incapacity to denounce a cheat . —Browning on Shelley ,

      The Poet s Neglect . —The misapprehensivencss of his age is exactly what a poet is sent to remedy ; and the interval between his operation and the generally perceptible effect of it , is no greater , less indeed , than in many other departments of the great human effort . The " E pur si muove" of tho astronomer was as bitter a word as nny uttered before or since by a poet over his rejected living work , in that depth of conviction which is so like despair . —Browning on Shelley .

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      CORN EXCHANGE . Mark-Lane , February 20 . —Our market on Monduj was well supplied with wheat and barley of our own growth , and with oats from Scotland , and the Dutch ports . English wheat was Is . and barley 2 s . cheaper ; oats , bare y maintained former rates . Foreign wheat was held for its previous value , but the transactions in it were very limited . Beans and peas were more difficult to sell . Since M onday , the trade has continued in the same dull state , floating cargoes of Egyptian wheat are fully Is . cheaper . Un me other hand , barley and oats on the spot are rather firmer . At tho principal countiy markets held during the wcck , wheat and barley have declined Is . to 2 s . per quarter , a * some of the lower Baltic ports , prices of wheat arc ratner drooping , while in the French ports the tendency is ratner upwards . _____ - _ -.

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      NOTES AND BXTBACTS .

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      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Morning , Feb . 20 . As a measure likely to have eventually an important effect upon trade , the proposed revision of tho Law of Partnership has been much canvassed in the City , and although tho principle of limited liability is denounced by the great capitalists , tho opinion of a largo majority of mercantile men is strongly in favour of some alteration by which it should be recognised . . In tho Money Market , the event of the week lias been the announcement from tho Treasury that the eight-amlit-lmlf millions of Exchequer Bills duo next month , would bo renewed at tho same rate of interest which they now bear—* nnincly , 2 } d . per day . Thin rate is equal to £ 2 5 s . 7 A < 1 ., or rather more than Si per cent , per nun . And as money ia now so abundant tluvt it can be readily obtained ou mercantile securities , at 2 per cont ., and on tho Stock Exchange is not more than 14 , this lavish disregard of economy on the part of tho Chancellor of the Exchequer has called forth much disapprobation , and rendered him , if possible , oven more unpopular . It had been

      generally anticipated that the rate of interest would h been reduced to ! 4 d . per day ; and it is difficult to ini ginewhy so obvious and so justifiable a means of savin , £ 32 , 000 , of public money should have been so recklessl disregarded . ^ The operations in Consols have been extensive W from the announcement respecting the . Unfunded i ) ett and from , other causes , prices have given way , openW Monday at 97 f h and closing yesterday at 97 ii V _ chequer Bills were on Monday at 54 s . to 58 s . prem but have recovered to 60 s . and 63 s . Bank Stock is steaiiV « + 217 to 218 . 7 at

      In Foreign Stocks , during the early part of the week there was much animation , but the market has since be- ' come languid . The transactions quoted in yesterday ' s official lists were—Brazilian Bonds , Five per Cents , small 96 ; Buenos Ayres Six per Cents . 53 ; Chilian Six per Cents . 104 ; Danish Five per Cents . 103 £ ; Equador Bonds 4 $ ; Grenada Bonds , 204 ; Deferred , 8 ; Mexican , 3271 ' Small ex Coupons , 32 ^; Peruvian Five per Cents . 991 . ' Deferred , 49 ; Portuguese , Converted Five per Cents . 341 ' Sardinian Bonds , 88 f ; Spanish Five per Cents . 24 Coupons , 9 f ; Three per Cents . 41 ; New Deferred , l& ^ j Venezuela Three-aud-a-quarter per Cents . 36 J ; Deferred 15 ; Belgian Four-ahd-a-half per Cents . 91 |; Dutch Ex !

      change Two-and-a-half per Cents . 59 . Railway and Mining Shares have been in little request . The Corn Market is inactive , and prices on the whole are rather lower . For Colonial produce the demand continues steady , and the late advanced quotations for sugar are fully maintained .

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      BRITISH FUNDS FOB THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices . )

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      Satur . Mond . Tues . Wedn . Thurs . Frid , Bank Stock 217 217 217 216 * 218 218 3 per Cent . Red 98 98 97 } 97 } 97 f 98 3 per Cent . Con . Ana . 97 * 97 } 97 | 97 97 £ 97 J 3 per Cent . An . 1726 ...... ...... 3 per Cent . Con ., Ac . 97 * 97 * 97 i 97 97 | 97 * 3 f per Cent . An . ...... 99 * 99 * 99 } 99 99 * S 9 | New 5 per Cents .. ...... ~ ...... Long Ana ., 1860 ...... 7 7 $ 7 £ 7 * 7 Ind . St . 10 * per Cent . 259 258 269 ...... Ditto Bonds , £ 1000 ... 73 p ...... 68 p Ex . Bills , £ 1000 68 p 63 p 61 p 66 p 62 p 60 p Ditto , £ 500 .. 7 .. ' . 58 p 53 p 61 p 66 p 60 p 63 p Ditto , Small 58 p 57 p [_ 61 p 56 p 60 p 63 p

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      FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Official Quotation dubing thb Wbbk endiitg _ Furo . i . TvEvBirilTG . ) Belgian 4 * per Cents 90 } PerUYJtmJQaferred ......... 48 i Brazilian 6 per Cents . ... 96 Portuguese 4 per Ot « A » ... 32 f Buenos Ayres 53 Portuguese 4 p . Ct . Acct . 33 Chilian 6 per Cerita . ...... 103 * Sardinian 5 per Cents . ... 89 Dutch 2 * per Cents 69 * Bpanish 6 per Cents , ( div , Dutch 4 per Cent . Certif . 92 from Nov . 1840 ) 23 } Ecuador ... 4 * Spanish 5 per Cents , ( div . Granada , ex Dec . 1849 .... 20 } from May , 1841 ) 23 Granada Deferred 8 * Spanish Passives ............ 6 J Guatemale Bonda 42 Spanish 3 p . Ct- NewDef . 18 | Mexican 3 per Ct . Ace ... 32 $ Spanish Com . Certif . 1 | Peruvian , Account 99 * Venezuela Bonds »>*

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      FROM THB LONDON GAZETTE . Tueaday , February 17 . . BANKnurm-T . B . Baenks , Thaxted B «^^ ° Woodeurrender Feb . 26 , March 23 j solicitor , Mr . e % XniIehallstreet , Cheapsido ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , BaBi » 6 '"» street . is ^^ ji ^/ iir Tianctt " E . Clabk andH . BtBAOKr . HY , Ohorlton-upon-MedlocK ^ shire , ironmongers , March 2 and 29 ; Bolioitor , Mr . liOinu , » Chester : oflloial assignee , Mr . Fraser , Manchester . . Mn roh W . if awkins , Heage , Derbyshire , seedsman , Feb . ^ j nC 0 19 , solicitors , Messrs . Tngle and Bon , Belpor ; official nt » b Mr . Dittleston , Nottingham . „„•»»• . / . li is- so lid-J . T . Jambh Liverpool , merchant , Feb . 27 , March ™ , » tor , Mr . Athorton , Liverpool ; oMoiol assignee , Mr . * Liverpool . , o *« tinnor . Teb . ? ' Ebbcx wholesale

      R . ICnkhit , Plaifltow , , » w V ;™ Sene 0 , Mr . April 1 j solicitor , Mr . OoO , Pinner ' 8-hall ; official as »» 8 nco ' DolL . Moonmto-titrcet . ¦ j _ ninr Feb . 27 , J . MxM . mt , Conduit-street , Poddinstpn i * £° old Jewry-April 1 ; aoliuitors , Messrs . Lawrauoo ami uo .. „ t et ) t , chambers ; official nsmgneo , Mr . JohnBon , Basingnaw « ^^ j , R . Pjcaoook , Gatoshead , Durham , carpenter , * e » . «^ } nc 0 , 30 j solicitor , MV . goaife , Newoaatlcupon-Tyno * official Mr . Wakloy , NmvoiiHtlo-uiion-Tyne . _ . i merchant ?* J . A . O . kiciMANN and J . G . Gbm-bb , Liverpool , mp ! , March 4 and 25 \ Holioitorfl , Messrs . North and Orrou , jj » ollltiial asBiirnoo , Mr . Bird , Liverpool . „ iw [ flroh 2 « i W . Btjuu ,, Fonohuroh-ntreot , tailor . Fob . •"» ¦ £ ,. oho » l »' solicitors , Moflsrs . Stevens and Satchell , Q " " ; ' ^ . sido j oilloial aBBignoe , Mr . Stanslleld , BaBin ( j hall-Btrc « fol . ( i , O . Watbuhoubb , Ruport-Btreot , lla-ymavkot , ana ^ , Middlesex , waloh and clock manuiuoturer , Feb . *> , j , " „ Jtfr . Bolioitor , Mr . West , Uroshaiu-Btreot j oflloittl ftSB » B Nicholson . Basinghull-atrcct .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1852, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1923/page/22/