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      Notes And Extracts. Roman Csabactee.— Th...

      NOTES AND EXTRACTS . Roman Csabactee . — The genius of Rome 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 Rome . 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 , an earnest 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 j 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 Inebadicabi-e Pectoiabitt OF the Poet .- —The art to work on and on forever 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 , "

      ig 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 Greet 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 Review . No . XXXII .

      MilTOn ' s Wipe . —How Milton had been led to commit such a blunder as to marry a girl so totally unsuited 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 unlivoliness and natural sloth "

      which constitute sheor stupidity . Stupidity , if wo may judge from Milton ' s allusions , was the qualit y which , after his eyes were opened to the real charucter of his wife , he found most unendurable in her . " A mute and spiritless mate , " " a mind to all due conversation inaccessible , " such nro the phrases , in which he 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 , ho even saya in another place , but would rather forgive actual unfaithfulness in a woman than this sullen

      incompatibility of tastes and temper . —North JSritish Review , No . XXXII . Fancy and Imagination . —That which , after our refining modern habit , wo are now used to distinguish from Fancy under the namo of Imagination , is but the same power as Fancy leased to the tenure of a more human and more impassioned service . —North British Review , No . XXXII . EmroATTON - Life . — I was now in the handa of teachers , who hod not , since they ' camo on ' the earth , put to themselves one intelligent question as to their business

      hero . Good dispositions and employment for the heart gave a tone to all they said , which was pleasing , and not perverting . They , no doubt , injured those who accepted the hiwkB they proffered for bread , and believed that exercise of memory was study , and to know what others know , wa » the object of study . But to mo this was nil penetrable . I had known great living minds , —I had seen how they took thoir food and did their exerciso , and whnt tb , eir objects were . Very early I knew that the only object in life was to grow . —Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli .

      the value of this utterance is destroyed by a hasty or indiscriminate 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 .

      The Publication or 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 Byron!—But for us lesser people * who write verses merely as vents for the overflowings of a personal experience , which in every life of any value craves occasionally the accompaniment of the lyre , it seems to me that all

      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 Art . —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 : maiiily 4 # spw ' , ed even where it does not visibly look out of the same .: Greatness , Jn 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 the ordinary conditions of humanity , to task themselves to the end of so exacting a performance as a poet's complete work . — Browning 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 . cheai . —Broivhing on Shel / eg . 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 , Ies 9 indeed , than in many other departments of the great humnn effort . The " E pur si muove" of the astronomer was as bitter a word as any uttered before or since by a poet over his rejected living work , in that depth of conviction which is bo like despair . —Browning on Shelley .

      Woman ' s Empire . —In the sensons of silence and solitude only do we learn to appreciate woman . The hurry of the world shuts her out from our soul : but when there is silence in the mind , —when the heart rests , —when the hush of the world has breathed over the spirit , —when the mind , self-left , feels itself in its loneliness , —then ia its hour of contemplation . —Shelley ' s Letters .

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      Money Market And City Intelligence. Frid...

      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Morning , Feb . 20 . As a measure likely to Imvc eventually an important effect upon trade , the proposed revision of the Law of Partnership has boon much canvassed in the City , and although the principle of limited liability is denounced by the great capitalists , the opinion of a largo majority of mercantile men is strongly in favour of some alteration by which it should be recognised . lu the Money Market , the event of the week has been tho announcement from the Treasury that the eight-anda-half millions of Exchequer Bills duo next month , would bo renewed at tho samo rate of interest which they now

      bear—namely , 2 § d . per day . This rate is equal in £ 2 5 s . 7 | d ., or rather more than 2 i per cent , per aim And as money is now so abundant that it can be readll ' obtained on mercantile securities , at 2 per cent ., and J the Stock Exchange is not more than 1 £ , this lavi h disregard of economy on the part of the Chancellor of vl Exchequer has called forth much , disapprobation , and ren dered him , if possible , even more unpopular . It had been generally anticipated that the rate of interest would have been reduced to l ^ d . per day ; and it i $ difficult to iMa ! gine why so obvious and so justifiable a means of savin *? £ 32 , 000 , of public money should have been so recklessly disregarded .

      The operations in Consols have been extensive , but from the announcement respecting the Unfunded Debt and from other causes , prices have given way , opening on Monday at 97 ^ , and closing yesterday at 97 ^ . \ . chequer Bills were on Monday at 54 s . to 58 s . prem ., but have recovered to 60 s . and 63 s . Bank Stock is steady at 217 to 218 .. : ¦ ¦¦ ¦ V ' In Foreign Stocks , during the early part of the week , there was much animation , but the market has since he ' .

      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 ^; EquadorBondV 4 |; Grenada Bonds . SOi ; Deferred , 8 ; Mexican , 3271 \ Small ex Coupons , * 32 £ ; Peruvian Five per Cents . 99 ^; Deferred , 49 ; Portuguese , Converted Five per Cents . 34 J ; Sardinian Bonds , 88 f ; Spanish Five per Cents . 24 ; Coupons , 9 §; Three per Cents . 41 ; New Deferred , 18 £ ; Venezuela Three-and-a-quarter per Cents . 36 £ ; Deferred , 15 ; Belgian Four-and-a-half per Cents . 91 J ; Dutch . Exchange 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 . ¦

      British Funds For The Past Week. (Closin...

      BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices . ) Satur . Mond . Tuea . Wedn . Thurs . Frid . BankStock 217 217 217 216 * 218 3 per Cent . Red 98 98 97 J 97 * 971 3 per Cent . Con . Ans . 97 * 97 * 97 * 97 97 * , 3 per Cent . An . 1726 ... .:.... ¦•¦• ¦•¦••• •••••; 3 per Cent . Con ,, Ac . 97 * 97 * 97 * 97 -97 * 3 * per Cent . An . ...... « 9 * , 99 * 99 * 99 99 * New 5 per Cents •••••• ••¦•¦• Long Ans ., 1860 7 7 * 7 J 7 | Ind . St . 10 * per Cent . 259 258 259 Ditto Bonds , £ 1000 ... 73 p 68 p ...... ...... Ex . Bills , £ 1000 ...... 58 p 63 p 61 p 56 p 82 » Ditto , £ 500 68 p 53 p 61 p 56 pj C 0 p ...... Ditto Small 58 p 57 _ p _ 61 P 56 p J 60 ?_____ ¦¦ :

      Foreign" Funds. (Last Official Quotation...

      FOREIGN" FUNDS . ( Last Official Quotation during the Week enwno Thubsday Evbning . ) Belgian 4 * per Cents 91 * Peruvian 5 per Cents ...... 99 f Brazilian Small 96 Peruvian Deferred ..... •¦¦ 49 Buenos Ayres Bonds 63 Portuguese 5 per Cents ... AH Chilian 6 per Cents 104 Sardinian 5 per Cents . ... » . Danish 5 per Cents . 103 * Sardinian 5 p . Ce . it Acct . 8 SJ JDutch 2 * per Cents 59 Spanish 5 p . Cent . Acct ... t * Batch 4 p « Cent . Certif . 91 * Spanish Coupons . » i EcuadorTBonds 4 * Spanish 3 perCen to . ...... « Granada , ex Deo . 1849 .... 20 * Spanish 3 p . Ct . NewDef . gj Granada Deferred . 8 Venezuela • Mexican 3 per Ct . Ace ... 32 J Venezuela Deferred Moxioan Small 32 {

      Corn Exchange. Makk-Lane, February 20.—O...

      CORN EXCHANGE . Makk-Lane , February 20 . —Our market on Monday was well supplied with wheat and barley of our on " growth , and with oats from Scotland , and the Dutch won . English wheat was Is . and barley 2 s . cheaper ; oats dbu j maintained former rates . Foreign wheat was held loi u previous value , but the transactions in it were : very-unii - Beans and peas were more difficult to sell . Since Mourn ) , the trade has continued in the same dull state . * wn » cargoes of Egyptian wheat are fully Is . cheaper , u other hand , barley and oats on the spot are rather N » ¦ At the principal country marketa ^ held during tuo » - wheat and barley have declined Is . firSs . pcr q" *; th cr some of the lower Balcic ports , prices of wheat ml drooping , while in the French ports the tendency is upwards . - ~ = ^ = =-

      From Tub London Gazette. Jfrijuy, Februa...

      FROM TUB LONDON GAZETTE . JFriJuy , February 13 . jlBy . BATrKRurTfl .-G . Wat « rhouhu . lato of "" P ^ Xtiiror , I " market , and Cranford-Btroet , watoh and clock inonu B , mm . surrender Fob . 23 , March 27 ; solicitor , Air . w » N ^^ et .-strooti oftloial aaiignoo , Mr . Nicholson , J Iaa » gl » % , vreH : iO J . GaiMi , Whitohavon , Cumberland , grooor , JH u . *» . j , oW niw » nolioitors , Meusrn . Evans and Son , Liverpool sj , N ,, vvuw »« l ( - * NewcaHtlo-upon-Tyno ; official wwignea , Mr- 1 »»««^ jjrixlonupon-Tyno .-G . Jlivviymnu , Ben ., Ounibcrland-pl ^ . Qf it riHe , fturior , P « b . 20 , Maroli 23 ; solicitor , ^' v / l 'isdwurda , . Tamos-fltroot , Uodford-row ; ofjloial » P » W f ® ' , „„ \ V (> i < J 4 r " Fredorick ' s-placo . OldJevyry . — J . JAMiiH , No < h * . rion , f ) p . shiro , tailor and draper , Fob . 20 , Maroli ii \ ig J ( irin ,. «• HouthttH , lUrmlnehMh ) ofllci « l assignoo , Mr . «»»» " m tjor , hum—rf , Law . llarrow-road , lato of W « J g'ny ^" j , ^ , en , Feb . 20 , Maroh 2 O ; solicitorfl , Mewrfl . Bou «» »» jIr . W » Soutliampton-Btroot , Bloomsbury ; offloial afl ^ ifinoo > ^ rt , more , llMinghall-Htrool . —J . S . Waud . Brut ^ on , » o » jat (> i Bilk throwator , Fob . 25 , March » 4 : jolfoitor , ^^ % Gra »* oflloial asslgneo , Mr . Button , Bristol . ~ , ^ l ^ J « tyft . Bolton , LanoaH dro , oonfectionor aud ^ 'Xn ^ hcster ; o ^ li ' ob . 20 , March 18 , solicitor , Mr . Button , Manchester ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1852, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21021852/page/22/