ability, whom the Prussians called "the general of the officers," while Blucher was named "the general of the soldiers." But, perhaps, it is unfortunate for any man to try fortune in more ways than one. Gneisenau's ambition to figure as a pamphleteer unluckily induced him to write a book, purporting that the English light troops were not equal to the Prussian, on the ground that they were not equally clever at providing for themselves out of the hen-roost of the enemy, and finishing by a laboured argument, that the Prussians and not the English gained the day at Waterloo-thus cleverly throwing aside the claims of the general, who with but 25,000 British. (the only troops on whom he could depend,) held 72,000 French in check from eleven in the morning until seven in the evening, repulsed them in every attack, and waiting only for the Prussians to take advantage of their defeat, made but a single charge upon them, and swept Napoleon and his boasted legionaries from the field, for ever. The armistice had been spent in negotiations, but Napoleon was inflexible and infatuated. On his demanding formally to know the terms which Austria required for Europe, Metternich's answer was couched in this brief but distinct statement:-"The dissolution of the grand duchy of Warsaw, which was to be divided between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, reserving Dantzic for the latter power; the re-establishment of Hamburg and the Hanse Towns in their independence. The reconstruction of Prussia in her ancient possessions, with a frontier on the Elbe; and the cession to Austria of all the Illyrian provinces, including Trieste." This arrangement left to France the Alps and the Rhine for a boundary, an empire not merely large enough for all imperial purposes, but the only territory which France could ever hold with any degree of profit or safety. France might fight battles in Germany, and slaughter men; but the wars of three centuries had proved that she could make no permanent impression on that solid and strong country, and even the furious onset of her revolutionary armies had ended only in covering the German fields with their bones. The battles of 1794 had been fought over again in 1805 and 1806, and were now to be fought once again in 1813, without gaining a league of firm possession, even with Napoleon at the head of the French armies, and France straining her last nerve, and pouring out her last blood, to ensure that possession. Victory was actually deserting her, and every hour rendered the chance of permanent power more improbable. But the great calculator was bewildered by his vanity: he had made the war through selfishness, he had seen his military fame humiliated, and he was determined to raise it again, though France might perish in the experiment. We have this secret key to his councils given in the address of Maria Louisa to the senate, which was doubtless dictated by Napoleon himself in her interview with him at Mayence. "Associated," said she, "in that short interval with the most secret thoughts of the Emperor, I then perceived with what sentiments he would be inspired, if seated on a dishonoured throne, and under a crown without glory." This was the whole question-the safety of France was not concerned-there was not the slightest idea of invasion Napoleon within the Rhine would still have been the most powerful sovereign of Europe; but his personal glory had certainly fallen a little into the yellow leaf, and the world was to be convulsed for the simple purpose of enabling him to eat his supper in his ancient pomp at the Tuileries, and call himself the conqueror of Europe once more. The armistice was at an end on the 10th of August at midnight. On the 11th the Austrian minister announced to the French commissioners that the Congress was dissolved, and on the 12th Austria declared war against France. We have been thus minute in the details of this period, from their incomparable importance. The transactions of 1813, in both the cabinet and the field, were the groundwork of every great event since that hour-the fall of Napoleon, the extinction of the Jacobin empire, that Avernus of Europe, over whose poisonous exhalations no shape of virtue or liberty could wave the wing; the restoration of the old and balanced system, the peace, already of a quarter of a century, and the most sudden, singular, and permanent impulse ever given to the arts of peace, in the memory of man. A brief and spirited memoir of Prince Metternich adds to the valuable knowledge of the volume. He is the son of an Austrian functionary, formerly high in the administration of Austrian Flanders, and was born in 1773, at Johannisberg on the Rhine. Educated for diplomacy at Strasburg, he travelled in Germany, Holland, and England, and served at the Congress of Rastadt in 1799. His abilities distinguished him, and he was employed on missions to Russia in 1804, and Prussia in the following year, times of great interest in Germany. After the defeat of Austria in 1805, though but thirty-three, he was appointed ambassador on the most difficult mission in Europe-that of Paris, with Napoleon on the throne, and Talleyrand for foreign minister. In 1809 he was appointed Chancellor of State, on the resignation of Count Stadion; and from that period until now, for upwards of thirty years, has continued, under two emperors, the first minister of Austria, and the most renowned diplomatist of Europe-a duration and a distinction equally unexampled. of intellectual giants, excelled, perhaps hardly any equalled "No diplomatist," says Mr. Alison, "even in that age Metternich, in the calm and sagacious survey which he took of existing events, in the prophetic skill with which he divined their probable tendency, and the admirable tact with which, without exciting unnecessary jealousy, he contrived to render them conducive to the interests of the country." "His talent, and there it was unrivalled, consisted in gaining possession of the current, and directing it to his purposes. Laissez venir was his ruling principle at all periods of his life; but this seeming insouciance was not the result of listlessness and indifference, but of a close observation of the course of events, a strong sense of the danger of directly opposing it, and a conscious power of ultimately obtaining its direction. He was well aware of the tide in the affairs of men which every age has so clearly evinced." We leave our readers to gratify themselves with the intelligent and expressive portraiture of the great statesman given in the History, and shall merely observe that the secret of his success as a minister seems to have consisted in being faithful to that Conservatism which never failed any man who had the good sense to adopt it, and the firmness to maintain it. The march of mind, the rights of the rabble, and the statesmanship of the streets, had been treated by Metternich at all times with due contempt. He has not suffered popular clamour to extort a single concession, nor popular conspiracy to dictate to public council. If Metternich had been minister of France ten years ago, he would have sent her rabble of patriots to the dungeon, and saved the Bourbon throne. If he had been minister of England as many years since, he would have crushed the Whigs, silenced the roarers for Reform; and by calling on the property of the country to protect itself, and the good sense of the nation to control the absurdity of the populace, he would have rescued us from ten wretched years of party strife, and national humiliation from unequalled feebleness of council, conjoined with unequal avarice of pelf; from statesmanship which had no other object than office, power exercised only for party, economy which has added seven millions to our public encumbrances, and reforms which menace us with a republic. He would be to our age what Pitt was to that of our fathers. The accession of Austria to the grand alliance diffused high exultation throughout Europe. It was justly regarded as turning a probability into certainty, and redeeming the general mind from the anxious contingencies which had so long agitated every bosom of patriotism and peace. By those who look deeper into consequences, it was regarded as the solution of the great problem, whether France had the actual capacity, under the most favourable circumstances, of assuming the dominion of the continent; whether a general combination of the powers beyond the Rhine would not be always equal to coerce an invader; and whether the coming evidence of that fact would not operate as a security against war for a century? But the intelligence was received with tenfold, and almost dramatic exultation on the scene of the campaign. Mr. Alison always describes with animation, but he here excels himself 69 "I received," said Augereau to Fouche, "letters from headquarters immediately after the battle of Bautzen, and it appears that that horrible butchery led to no result; no In a country extremely intersected prisoners, no cannon. with inclosures, we have found the enemy prepared or intrenched at every point; we suffered severely at the subsequent combat of Reichenbach. Observe that, in that short campaign one bullet has carried off Bessieres on this side of the Elbe, and another, Duroc at Reichenbach. What a war! we shall all be destroyed! What would he do at Dresden? He will not make peace; you know him better than I do. He will get himself surNo one can doubt that Ausrounded by 500,000 men. tria will follow the example of Prussia. If he continues obstinate, and is not killed, which he will not be, we shall all be destroyed." 66 his com Junot, a gallant sabreur, but who retained the ruffian habits of the republic, next furnished the moral. He went mad. Fouche was sent for to the camp, to super“To outstrip the slow arrival by couriers of the long-sede him in his government of Illyria. Junot had been wished-for intelligence, bonfires were prepared on the a common soldier in the republican ranks; his dashing summits of the Bohemian mountains; and, at midnight courage had recommended him to Bonaparte in Italy; on the 10th, their resplendent lights told the breathless and when the leader of the French armies rose, host in Silesia, that two hundred thousand gallant allies rade arose along with him. The Moscow retreat tried were about to join their standard. The Emperor of Rus- his health; Napoleon's reproaches at a time when he resia and King of Prussia, with their respective troops, proached every one, tried his temper, and the brain finally were assembled in anxious expectation at Trachenberg, gave way. On Fouche's arrival, the lunatic general was in a large barn, awaiting the agreed-on signal, when, a sent back to France, where, in a fortnight, he flung himlittle after midnight on the night of the 10th, loud shouts self out of a window in a paroxysm, and was killed. on the outside announced that the flames were seen; Napoleon felt the death of his old officer, perhaps as and soon the sovereigns themselves, hastening to the much as his iron nature could feel any thing. When he door, beheld the blazing lights, prophetic of the fall of received the intelligence, he exclaimed-" Voila encore Napoleon, on the summits of the mountains. Such was un de mes braves de moins! Junot! O, mon Dieu!" the joy which pervaded the deeply-agitated assembly, that Shortly before his death, Junot wrote a letter to the they all embraced, many with tears of rapture. Sponta- Emperor, which, amidst much excitement arising from neous salvos of artillery, and feux-de-joie of musketry, commencing insanity, contained expressions strongly deresounded through the whole Russian and Prussian lines. scriptive of the feelings entertained by his early compaJoy beamed in every countenance: confidence had pos- nions in arms at that period:-I, who love you with the sessed itself of every heart. With lightsome steps the adoration of the savage for the sun-I, who live only in great body of the forces in Silesia obeyed next morning you-even I implore you to terminate this eternal war. the order to march into Bohemia. Innumerable columns Let us have peace. I would wish to repose my worn-out of infantry, cavalry, and artillery soon thronged the head, my pain-racked limbs in my house, in the midst of passes in the mountains; and, before the six days' delay my family, of my children, of my friends. I desire to mination of the armistice had expired, eighty thousand enjoy that which I have purchased with what is more precious than all the treasures of the Indies-with my Russian and Prussian veterans were grouped round the blood-the blood of an honourable man-of a good walls of Prague. The Emperor of Russia and King of Frenchman. I ask tranquillity, purchased by twenty-two Prussia arrived soon after in that city, where they were of active service, and seventeen wounds, by which received with the utmost cordiality and magnificence by the blood has flowed, first for my country, then for your the Emperor of Austria; and a review of the principal glory?" forces of the latter on the 19th August, ninety-one bat- It is curious to see how completely this opinion had at talions of infantry, and fifty squadrons of cavalry-in all length pervaded every mind, perhaps not excepting Nanearly ninety thousand men, defiled before their majes-poleon's own. Fouche, on his passage through Prague, ties-conveyed a vivid image of the vast accession of going into what he well knew was only an honourable strength which their cause had received by this fortunate allowed for the commencement of hostilities after the ter alliance." As if for the purpose of crowning this series of good omens, on the next day the accounts arrived of the total defeat of the French army under Soult, in the Pyrenees, after the most daring intrepidity on the part of the British-a victory which threw open the whole southern frontier of France to invasion. It is gratifying to the sense of retributive justice, which is, after all, only a homage to the principles of society, to find that Napoleon, and the instruments of his sanguinary ambition, were at last beginning to feel the miseries which they had so recklessly inflicted. The Emperor's despatches exhibit that fierce irritability which shows the fever of the mind. He passed his days in sullenness and solitude, and what nights he passed, are only to be imagined by those who can shape to themselves the phantoms of falling empire. His chief officers gave frequent and unequivocal testimony to the alarms which had at length began to harass them. years "Eu banishment, had an interview with Metternich, whom he But there were other signs of the approaching ruin. arms. ability, chief of Ney's staff, and since distinguished as a military writer, came over to the Allies. But a still more remarkable personage, the celebrated Moreau, arrived from America, and on the 16th of August reached the allied camp, where he was received by the sovereigns with all imaginable honours. An attack was now planned against Dresden, the pivot of Napoleon's operations, which failed simply by forgetting, that in war time is every thing. If the Allies had attacked the city in the morning, instead of the afternoon, Dresden must have fallen into their hands, Napoleon's retreat would have been cut off, and the French, in all probability, compelled to lay down their Six hours made all the difference between matchless triumph, and defeat with the loss of 20,000 men. Yet, Napoleon's partial success on this occasion unquestionably had the ultimate result of involving him in more inextricable ruin. It encouraged him in his obstinate determination for war. Instead of finishing the contest, this partial victory enabled him to drain France by continual draughts of her heart's blood; it stimulated him to hostilities, while every hour was deepening his fate, and it finally exhibited him in a state of such utter exhaustion, that to treat with him as a sovereign would be a political folly, and his natural destiny was felt to be the chain. A series of encounters between the detached corps of the French army and the Allies, followed with varying success. From August to the middle of October, the losses of human life were immense; but the Allies received perpetual reinforcements, while the enemies' battalions were diminishing day by day. The consequence was, that Napoleon found it necessary to retire towards the Rhine; but unwilling to abandon Germany without a desperate effort, he made a stand at Leipsic. There he was immediately followed by the Allies, and the forces concentrated round the city were stupendous. The Allies mustered 290,000 men, with 1300 pieces of cannon. The French force exhibited a decided inferiority in point of number, 175,000 men, and 720 guns-a great disproportion in the muster-roll; yet, when we recollect the composition of the troops, the experience of their generals, and the profound ability of Napoleon, giving a fair chance for victory against almost any amount of troops collected from so many various nations, under so many generals new to war, encumbered by the presence of so many sovereigns and diplomatists in their camp, and commanded by an honest Austrian, who, though brave and even sagacious, was forced to listen to the opinions of the potentates around him, and mingle the courtier with the general. A striking characteristic of the latter years of this great war, was the constant appeal of the soldier to feelings higher than soldiership. The generals of the French republic had set the example, by ardent addresses to their troops displaying the prizes of victory. Napoleon, eloquent by nature, had roused the feelings of the French soldier by brilliant temptations to his vanity. Nothing could be more vivid, yet nothing could be more false. They were electrical flashes, which dazzled intensely for the moment, but then passed away, and left no trace behind. The addresses of the Allies, at this period, were solemn callings to feelings more permanent, and therefore more powerful; simple, and therefore more intelligible; sacred, and therefore more likely to endure, in a struggle of terrible difficulty to the soldier and the state. At daybreak, on the 16th of October, the first of the great three days' battle, Prince Schwartzenberg, the Austrian general, issued the following noble proclamation, which was read to every company and squadron of the army: : "The most important epoch of this sacred war has arrived, brave warriors! Prepare for the combat. The bond which unites so many powerful nations in the most just, as the greatest of causes, is about to be yet closer drawn, and rendered indissoluble on the field of battle. Russians, Prussians, Austrians! you all combat for the same cause: you fight for the liberty of Europe-for the your names. independence of your children-for the immortal renown suburb Schoenfield was taken and lost five times. At The Next morning at daybreak, the Allies prepared to storm Leipsic; but the French were already in retreat. They were instantly pushed over the Elster. original fault of the position now exhibited itself in the impossibility of escape by the single bridge across the river. The result was, that upwards of twenty generals, with nearly 30,000 prisoners, were taken; 250 pieces of cannon, 900 waggons and chariots, captured in the various conflicts, were the allied trophies. In the afternoon, the sovereigns, with their staffs, entered the city, and met in the principal square. War never displayed a more consummate triumph, or a nobler scene. joicing among the people, and they glanced after the cloudy retreat of the French columns, as if they had seen the spirits of evil winging their way from the land, and the sky of Germany cleared for ever. All was re But we must now close our sketch, by merely mentioning that the latter portion of the volume gives the narrative of those gallant achievements by which the British army swept Soult over the Pyrences, and uncovered the "intangible" frontier. In our remarks on the performance of the historian, we have scarcely alluded to the vividness and variety of his narrative. The public have already had sufficient evidence of the skill and animation of his style. Where we differed from his views, we differed with hesitationwhere we agreed, we received additional conviction from the force and feeling of his philosophy. But we are simply speaking the fact, when we say, that we have read | home. He has been lauded as a kind of pacificator the whole volume with the interest of a fine romance. of the empire, as the physician who has healed the The subject itself unquestionably administers largely to disorder that was likely to prove fatal to it, or at the enthusiasm of literature. The conflicts of nations; least to cost it a limb; when he should rather have the tremendous powers of rival thrones urged into colli- been looked upon as the nurse who administered sion, like encountering planets; the prodigious ability the remedy prepared and ordered by a higher intellidisplayed on all sides; and even the frightful havoc of gence. The ground had been ploughed up before he human life, invest the whole subject with a wild and came-all he had to do was to sow the seed. What awful grandeur, that seems scarcely to belong to the the fruit may be remains yet to be seen. transactions of our temporary world. We seem to be present at the convulsions of more than empires, and the final hours of more than dynasties; the struggles of those energies which exhibit themselves but faintly in their mortal representatives, and the rise and fall of mightier depositories of power, than wear the diadems of earth. We have never doubted that the French Revolution had a deeper birth than even the sullen bosoms of its homicides; and we as little doubt, that its extinction was wrought by influences as much superior in power and penetration to man, as its origin was profound, malignant, vast, and terrible. Still, to have wielded such a subject with due mastery is distinguished praise, and we look with impatience for the next volume of Mr. Alison. From the Britannia. THE LATE LORD SYDENHAM. Ir would be scarcely possible to conceive a more impressive instance of the perishable nature of all worldly honours than that furnished by the premature death of Lord Sydenham. A life of assiduous and laborious endeavour, and the fortunate accident of an unusually favourable position, had at length procured for him nearly the highest dignity of which a British subject is capable: he had been enabled to be the medium of carrying into effect and consolidating almost the greatest legislative experiment of this country since the act of union with Ireland; and although to his personal exertions but little could be due, yet his countrymen, with a superfluous but creditable gratitude, were prepared to accord him welcome and personal thanks; he was on his return to the scene of his early obscurity and yet unmerited distinction, with claims upon the national sympathy, which if they could not well be sustained were sure to be cheerfully acceded to;-such and so many sources of honour were yet in fruition, or all but in his grasp, when one of those casualties which point the moral of life, and strike at the foundations of human pride, interposed its irresistible veto on his hopes and aspirations, and swept himself and his dignities alike from the face of the earth. Death, which saved the Earl of Durham from the national odium attaching to the faults of his administration in Canada, has also withheld from Lord Sydenham the unfair enjoyment of much that was due to its merits. An undeserved importance attached to Lord Sydenham through the result of his mission to Canada. The effects of the measure for the union of the two provinces have yet to be seen. Assuming however, that all the praises it has received were deserved, more than a just share of them has certainly fallen to the lot of the late governor-general. If they be deserved at all, the late Earl of Durham who originated, and the British parliament which matured, the plan for gradually Anglicising the whole colony, have a much more solid claim than Lord Sydenham, who only carried out, in a systematic and business like manner, the plan that had been organized at services in Canada being conceded, renders it more But the unimportance of Lord Sydenham's personal easy to estimate the amount of his qualifications, and qualifications were but slight, and his standing altohis precise standing as a legislator. In truth, his gether fictitious. His rise, in the first instance, was owing to one of those mere accidents that have helped up so many men of mediocre powers; and I can readily believe what his astonishment must have been when a series of accidents of a similar character opened to him the prospect of a peerage, and even a cursory mention in history. It is only due to his good sense to say, that, extraordinary and unaccountable as the case was, it did not render him at all more assuming, or produce in him any of those freaks of pride and vanity that have so often rendered still more ridiculous the accidental elevation of fortunate mediocrity. Mr. Poulet Thompson was originally a merchant, member of a respectable firm in Austin-friars. Our young English merchants seem to have the same emulation for the honours of the senate, that our scions of nobility have for military glory; and, in accordance with that spirit of peaceful enterprise, this young merchant entered Parliament. Circumstances had early directed his attention to the study of the doctrines of political economy, and he also had become convinced that principles of free-trade, gradually carried out, were those that were best fitted for a country which he looked upon as in a state of transition, from agriculture, self-maintenance, and supremacy in war, to manufactures, universal exchange of commodities with all mankind, reliance upon foreign soils for support, and pre-eminence in the arts of peace. Luckily for himself these views were not merely taken up as speculative theories, or to serve party purposes as weapons with which to destroy the supremacy of the landed proprietory, but were the result of much observation and laborious investigation, and were honestly and warmly advocated by him. That he really saw only one side of the question, and that his views, though consistent enough with his own principles, were nevertheless unsound for national purposes, did not make him the less earnest or the less useful in his support of the new doctrines, so tempting alike to the inexperienced in polity, and to the eager for preponderance in the legislature. The able and practical manner in which he illustrated his views soon drew attention upon him, and he was looked upon as a rising young man. Indeed, but for his extreme imbecility as a speaker, he might have attained great personal influence as the House was then constituted. But accident was his friend. The Manchester people have always had a fancy for experimentalizing with smart young men just entered on public life. The same spirit that has recently led them to elect Mr. Milner Gibson, then influenced them to return Mr. Thompson to Parliament as their representative. As he was simultaneously elected for Dover, the public attention was still more fixed upon him, and he at once became a man of some importance. Fortunately for himself, he carried ballast; and prominency did not PRICES OF FOOD AT HOME AND ABROAD. render him, as it has done others, ridiculous, by ex-| first represented Manchester in 1832. Lord Melciting presumption or exposing shallowness. Earl bourne made him President and a Cabinet Minister. Grey saw that he might be made a valuable assis- Mr. Poulet Scrope, the author of several small works tant, and therefore appointed him Vice-president of on political economy, is his brother; he took the name the Board of Trade, an office of considerable im- and arms of Scrope by royal license on succeeding portance. From that moment his further rise was to property. LORGNETTE. natural and rapid. Under Lord Melbourne he speedily became a cabinet minister, with the presidency of his department; and, before he left office in order to go to Canada, he had shaped out those alterations in the commercial code, some of which were carried into effect by Mr. Labouchere. It is a question whether his position would not have been a more natural one had he remained at home; but the attraction of the honour to be acquired in Canada, and of a peerage in the distance, proved too much for him; and, forgetful of his shattered health, which required a more genial climate, in an unpropitious hour he accepted the mission to that country which was destined to be his grave. Lord Sydenham's intellectual powers were not of a high order. He had no grasp of mind, and was destitute of imagination. He was chiefly remarkable for the extent of his information in connexion with commercial matters, and for the persevering industry with which he carried out his very limited views on the subject of free trade. The merit of originating them does not belong to him, but to others; all that can be said of him is, that having become convinced in his own mind that such principles were for the good of the country, and being without those higher faculties which would have enabled him to canvass their merits in reference to more extended political considerations, he worked them out perseveringly and straightforwardly, without attempting to take unfair advantage of opponents, or endeavouring to make them the means of transferring favour from one party to another. This is much praise, when bestowed upon a young Whig, whose future advancement depended upon the favour of his superiors. Lord Sydenham was very unpleasant to listen to as a speaker. His speeches always read well because they are intelligent, well-arranged, and generally instructive; but his delivery was wretched in the extreme. He had a little, weak, effeminate voice, with a whine or twang that was offensive and wearisome. I know no man in Parliament with so disagreeably monotonous a voice. He spoke more like a hedge-side preacher in a fit of sentiment. His manner also was particularly undignified and unememphatic. In person also he was very effeminate and unprepossessing. He looked like a driveller; and, being much subject to ill health, always had the air of a very unwholesome cockney with a bad cold. The want of manliness in his person was increased by his mode of walking, which was as if he were fearing to step on red-hot ploughshares. This was in consequence of his having suffered much from gout. In face he was thin, pale, and unhealthy, but his eyes were expressive and intelligent. In fact, he was altogether a much superior man to the "practical" bores who now infest the House of Commons. Had his personal advantages been greater, he might have acquired considerable influence there. Lord Sydenham first entered the House of Commons in 1826, when he sat for Dover. It was in Earl Grey's administration, in 1830, that he first became Vice-president of the Board of Trade. He THE highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality, at Hamburg, on Thursday last was 165 rix dollars a last, which answers to 50s. 9d. a quarter; and the highest price of red wheat was 160 rix dollars the last, which answers to 49s. 5d. the quarter. The mean price of white and red wheat together was 50s. 1d. the quarter. The highest quotation of white wheat in London on Monday was 80s. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat on the same day was 76s. the quarter; the mean price, therefore, in London of white and red wheat together, of the first quality, was 78s. the quarter. It appears, therefore, that wheat is 55 2-3ds per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg, and that with 37. 16s. a man may buy 12 bushels of wheat, whereas in London with the same money he can only buy eight bushels. At Leghorn, on the 21st of August, the highest quotation of white Tuscan wheat, of the first quality, was 47s. 11d. the quarter, which is about 67 per cent. less than the same description of wheat costs in London. A man, therefore, with 41. might buy in Leghorn 13 1-3d bushels of the finest white wheat, while in London, with the same money, he can only buy 8 bushels. At New York, on the 14th of August, the highest quotation of flour was 6 dollars and 75 cents the barrel, which is equal to 40s. 2d. the sack of 280 lbs. The highest quotation of the best flour in Mark lane on Monday was 65s. the sack. Flour, therefore, is 62 per cent. cheaper in New York than in London, and with 5s. a man may buy 35 lbs. of the best flour in New York, whereas with the same money he can only buy 21 lbs. in London. It must be borne in mind, however, that in all these places the prices of wheat and wheatflour are unusually high, in consequence of the speculation to which the prospect of famine prices in England has given rise. Thus in Hamburg in March, 1837, the highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality at Hamburg was 118 rix dollars the last, which was equal to 36s. 3d. the quarter. The highest quotation of white wheat in London at that time was 64s. the quarter.-Examiner. DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN STREET. THE Journal de Vienne mentions the discovery of another Roman street on the plain de l'Aiguille, during some recent excavations carried on under the direction of the Commission of Fine Arts of Vienne. Like all the other streets discovered in that place, it is paved with granite, and is very narrow. Underneath it is a well-constructed sewer, about four feet and a half high, in perfectly good condition, with small lateral sewers coming from each house. There is some idea of making this sewer serve for the actual wants of the town.-Literary Gazette. |