The Express. — London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

lIEW RAILWAY PROJECTS. HICII LEVEL BRIDGES OVER THE THAIIES. When the Select Committee of the blouse of Lords reported In favour of a railway which should form an "outer circle" round London, with " a 'bridge on the eastern aide of the metropolis to con nect the railways north and south of the Thames," they must have very imperfectly considered the difficulties attending, such a work. Certainly they had no evidence before them to justify such recom mendations The evidence went to show the pos sibility and the difficulty of passing through Lon don, and connecting the different railways within the metropolitan circle, and it also illustrated the possibility and the difficulty of using the Thames Tunnel as a means of communication from one aide of the Thames to the other. No one, however, was hold enough to propose an " outer circle" railway with " a bridge " across the navigable part of the river ; nor can it be supposed for a moment that the Lords themselves knew what such recommenda tions would involve. First, let us take the bridge. A bridge across the Thanies is, of course, the key of inch &railway. Without it an outer circle railway would only work back traffic from Blackwell on the north side of the river, round by Kensington, to Rotherhithe, on the south of the river, and rersd. This it is possible to do at present by the North London and other lines with even greater facility than an "outer circle" line could effect it. A bridge at the east of London, then, is the key of the outer circle system, without which an outer circle line must fail. Now, for the benefit of the House of Lords and of bbs public generally, let it be considered what such a bridge implies. "A bridge at the eastern side of the metropolis" implies a bridge on a high level, so as not to inter fere with the shipping of the Thames. It was to avoid the construction of such a bridge that Sir Isambard Brunel proposed the Thames Tunnel. So far back, then, as the time of that enterprising en gineer any sort of communication, however difficult to effect, was considered preferable to a bridge. One reason for this is that the high level required (not leis than 150 feet above high water mark) must be obtained from perfectly flat shores. How is this to be accomplished 1 Hitherto such a work has certainly never been attempted anywhere. The high level railway bridge atNewcastle—which being above the navigable part of the Tyne was not required to be on a high level for the convenience of ship ping, but only for the convenience of railway com munication—starts from the summit of the high cliffs through which the river flows. The Britannia bridge across the Menai Straits also starts from banks very much elevated by nature on either shore. Bat in the case of the bridge across the Thames imagined by the House of Lords an artificial access to the high level must be obtained from both shores of the river, requiring the construction: of a hun dred bridges, on high levels, across thoroughfares, railways, canals, rivers, and even across docks, before the level of the bridge across the Thames can be approached. It is needless to point out how much the construction of such approaches must add to the expenses of the bridge itself. But this is far from being all. The bridge must 'tot only be on a high level, but, to aimit of the free passage of shipping, it must be of a great span. The smallest span spoken of in connexion with these high level bridges is a span of 800 feet. No fixed bridge has ever been attempted by the boldest engineer with any such span as 800 feet. The only bridge in the world over which railway carriages are passed, which has a span of 800 feet, is the bridge at the Falls of Niagara, constructed by Mr. Boebliug, an American engineer, on the suspension principle. But the suspension principle would be utterly inapplicable to a bridge across the Thames. A suspension bridge oscillates with the weight of tie load, and with the momentum of the carriages raring over it. No load much exceeding 300 tons Las ever been conveyed, at any one time, over the Niagara suspension bride, and no train is allowed to pass over that bridge at a greater speed than three miles an hour. Even with these limitations the span of the Niagara suspension bridge has been thought so dangerous that it has been practi cally diminished to 700 feet, by building up sup ports at each of its extremities. No engineer would propose a suspension bridge for railway purposes across the Thames ; and therefore we may take it at once that the proposed bridge would be a fixed bridge, built upon the tubular principle, or on the lattice principle, which is a modification of it. Now the central tubes of the Britannia-bridge are each 472 feet long. The height of these tubes is 31 feet ; their width 14 feet 8 inches ; their weightlittle less than 2,000 tons. It will be remembered that a great facility presented itself to Mr. Robert Ste phenson for the erection of the Britannia Bridge. In the very centre of the Menai Straits there was a reek, called the Britannia Rock, of which he took advantage to build a pier, upon which the tubes were rested. No such favourable opportunity pre sents itself in the channel of the Thames. There is no favouring rock in the middle of the Thames, and to build a pier or staging from the bed of the river, in the centre of the tideway, of sufficient height to carry the works over the centre of the stream 150 feet above high water mark, may be considered an impossibility. The bridge, there fore, must have a span from shore to shore, which implies a span of 800 feet at the very leash; and in order to be in proportion to 800 feet in length the bridge will require to be nearly 60 feet in height and of corresponding breadth. The weight of such a bridge could not be estimated at less than 5,000 tons ; and whether such a weight could stand at a span of 800 feet, or whether a bridge with such a span would not break down of its own weight, is a question which experience at present has not detenuined. One thing, however, has been determined re specting such a bridge—and that is, the difficulty of Netting it up. The iron tubes of the Britannia, 470 feet in length, were floated into the Menai Straits, and with all the advantages of that posi tion were got into their places with extreme difficulty, and were only raised to the required levels, after six or seven weeks' hard labour, with the aid of the most powerful hydraulic machines ever employed. Now let us suppose • tube, ',early double the size of those used for the Britannia_ bridge, to be constructed on the Thames, it may be at Milwall ; let us suppose it safely floated to the point at which the piers for the high level bridge are to erected on either side the Thames. How is this tube, or beam, or whatever it may be, of 800 foot in length, and nobody knows how many thousand tons weight, to be erected 150 feet above high water mark ? Can such a work be executed without stopping the navigation of the river far a period of time which may depend *a a variety of contingencies and accidents ? Con tractors are bold men ; but is there any contractor looki *sough to encounter the liability which would acres from the stoppage of the navigation of the River 'Thames for a month, a week, or even for a day, during the progress of an attempt to lift • Ws, ors nintliplicity of beams, equal in measure- THE EreRFSS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1863. went to the breadth of the river itself, to a beigia of 130 feet above the river levell We say nothing of liability to accident. That is supp..aing an extreme case. But the question is, how a, bridge is to be constructed at a height in the air of 180 feet, with a span across the river of 800 feet, and without the possibility of constructing even a staging in the centre of the river to facilitate the execution of the works I Before considering further the question of outer circle railways dependent upon bridges over the navigable portion of the Thames, it would be well to know how such bridges admit of execution. this. It would have involved an additional cost of several thousand pounds, still more delay, and what eras more awkward, an application to Parliameut fur more money, with of tieteesity a humble confession of a gross blunder. All this was too much for My Lords, and so it happened that we have now a first-rate, magnificent to look at, swift, and powerful, and no iODDC fit for ocean ser vice, for in form she resembles the lines of the fastest and finest of the Atlantic packets—the Adriatic. The Minotaur was intended to be finished by May of this year according to contract ;this time, there fore, bee been: exceeded by six or seven mouths ; but besides the delay, for which the Admiralty are directly to blame, many other important changes and improvements have been ordered, for which it is satisfactory to be able to say the Admiralty are rather to be thanked than blamed. As it turns out, considering the large size of the Minotaur, no ship in the fleet has ever been built in so short a time. Of the two sister ships ordered on the same day—the Agincourt and the Northum berland, the first will, it is expected, be launched in the course of next summer, and the last will probably be ready by this time next year. If the slip vacated by the Warrior, in December, 1860, had been filled at once by the Minotaur, we should have her complete and equipped by this time. The moat important alteration was made in con structing an entirely double bottom to the ship upon the cellular system, so that in case of such an accident as befel the Africa the Minotaur would be unhurt, or, at least, the &anew of such vital injury are very much diminished. Another great improvement is considered to be in the addition of two masts to the three originally designed. f These are, of course, made of iron, upon the plan DOW almost universally adopted in iron ship building, whether for the navy or merchant ser vice. Although there have been these delays-- -which, no doubt, would have been most rigo rously punished by fine and visited with Admiral Robinson's utmost official rebuke bad they been attributable to the contractors—the Minotaur floats now in the Victoria Docks, a much more finished ship than the Warrior was at her launch. The whole of the teak backing is fastened on to her sides, and the greater part of the armour plates are fixed. It is only about the bows of the ship' that 'we observed any large portion remaining to be put on. The whole of the strong internal works, such as the compartments and the immensely strong-plated bulkheads and decks, are substantially complete. The following are the dimensions of the new first rate : Feet 10. Length perpendiculars between perpendicula 400 0 Breadth Depth io hold 4l 7 Burthes'in lan balder.' isessarement 6,814 18-81 The length of the keel for tonnage is stated to be 364 feet 5 inches. The Warrior is a ship of 6,176 tons and 1,250-horse power ; the Black Prince is the same. The speed of the two ships, however, differs, that of the Warrior being stated at 14.354 knots, and of the Black Prince at 14.3, and by another trial at 13.584 knob. The Minotaur is to have engines made by Messrs. Penn of 1,350 nominal horse power, that is, 100 higher than the Warrior class ; and it is expect ed , with these superb engines, she will have • speed of rst least 14 knots. The form of the Mi notaur is very different from the Warrior ; she is not wall-sided at any part of her lines, and when the view is taken from her bows where she tapers finely and gradually up to her stem and swells again towards her bulwarks, nothing can be more perfect than the curves of her sides, and we should say she has the appearance of a very fast ship ii her engines give her the power. The stem is made to bulge out and then in again, in the line of • swan's breast, but in form sharp as a cleaver comparatively speaking. This projecting prow is supported inside by • complicated system of cellular supports and_bars, interlacing and ex tending Nick into theibrceder part of the ship, so as to give immense strength to this prow, and enable the ship to charge an enemy that was not nimble enough to get out of her way. We believe this structure and form is due to the invention of Captain Ford, the able superintendent of the Thames Company's shipbuilding. The stern of the ship is rounded with remarkable exactness, and thus carries the line of ports completely and sym metrically round the ship. These ports give the Minotaur a most compact and handsome appear ance ; in place of the usual square hole they are more like embrasures in a fort, being bevelled off inboard, but so narrowon the side as just to allow of elevation and depression of the gun—the training of the gun being allowed for by the slope of the portaidea Great additional protection is by this arrangement obtained for the gun's crew. The armament of the Minotaur is expected to be 60 guns of the largest calibre, though, of course, not all 600 pounders, otherwise her armament alone would weigh above 1,000 tons, which, added to her armour which is 1,850 tons, (and the weight of the empty hull is nearly 6,000 tons), would leave littl e for engines, rigging and masts, coal, ammunition, stores, he. The total weight of the ship fully equipped is estimated at 10,000 tons. To move this enormous weight against a heavy sea will require, of course, enormous power, but we observed that the ordinary screw propeller is trusted to for this, with • rudder of gigantic proportions. We presume, however, that provision has been made in this part of the ship for adapting either the double screw or additional steering power, if necessary, both of which have been found to be of the last import ance in making the Atlantic voyage. The launching of this immense vessel was a matter involving no small amount of practical skill and cleverarrangement, yet it was aooomplished with perfect ease, without a mishap of any kind, so far as we heard—certainly without any blundering whatever, and with a systematic and thoroughly well-understood plan. There was no wild excitement of bewildered foremen at their wita'-end—no rushing to and fro, no noise, except the steady hammering of the army of men, each with his heavy hammer, who knocked away supports and wedges gradually till it came to the last man, a stalwart north countryman, who felt the occasion, and bad painted his hammer bright blue, and was standing ready fur the last blow. At the head of the cradle on which the ship lay was a powerful jack, and her fore foot rested upon a small hydraulic press, not bigger than a bat, with which the whole 6,000 tons was to be first started. The hammering ceased, and there was a general lull of attention, when we heard a gentle voice say " Success to the Minotaur ;" a lusty old English cheer echoed the wish, and the towering form of iron started into life at the sound, and glided away to its new home, like some huge leviathan roused from its sleep. The great 8-inch cables held her back as she plunged into the water at high tide amidst the wreck of the cradle and a crowd of venturesome little boats. Four steamers awaited her, and at once took her in tow towards the buoy moored below the pier at Blackwell. It was just a quarter to three, and (to announce the launch we suppose to the Frenchmen), a number of most comic balloons, in the shape of monsters, were sent off, each with a packet tied to it. There was a large assemblage of visitors of all nations, it would seem, to this cosmopolitan dock • The Duke of Somerset was present, with /IL James Stansfeld, M P., and Mr. Romaine ; Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy ; Captain Drummond, Sir John D. Hay, Mr. Reed, Constructor of the Navy ; Mr. Watts, the late chief constructor, during whose time of service the Minotaur was designed, and many other distin guished persons connected with the service. The ceremony of christening was gracefully performed by Mrs. Romaine. It only remains to say that, according to the opinion of the builders of the Minotaur, this formidable ship might by extra ordinary exertions be got ready for sea early in the summer. Prinic &Room Comwrsumi.—The commix dosses held meetings on Thursday, Friday, aad BatorJay last. Prosiest the Earl of Davos, the Lain Lytteltea. the Hoe. Edward Twisletoe, the Rom W. H. Thompson, and Mr. H. Halford Vaughan. - . HoznimAN's Tra 14 choice sod strong, moderate ia prism and wholesome to um. These manatees, hay* smered r Ws Tee • morel prokr•uost. It l• sold Is pasksis 1,210 apass.—Mtvaniessimlj Rat. Init.lltipnct. 3IETROTOLITAN COUNTY COURTS, Sitting days appointed for the preseat week. Witnesiwarn, I& Mertia's.lasse.—Mowday, Dee. 14. BLOWISIDST. Tortland-read.—Wedneeday, Deo. 10; Thursday, 17 . Friday, 15. 51Alitieuer, Minlebooaroad,—Theacti,y, Deo. 16 WOdass dny, 16 Thursday, 17. Monti:wren, Old4treet.road—Tneeday, Dec. ; Thursday, 17. Bow, Bow-road.—Monday, Dee. 14: l& HITRCHAPEL, Great Preeoot.etreet.—Weduseday, Dec 18 • Thursday, 17 Friday, IS. SoUTNWAIUL, Nwanshrest..-I'saiday, Dec. 15 . Thursday, 17 Friday, 18 LAmerni, Camberwell New.road.—Tuesday, Dec.ls • Wednes day, 10; Thursday, 17 WANDSWORTH. South.street.—Thineday, Dee, 17. CITY OF LONDON, Gulldhall.buildinp. —Tuesday, Dec. 16; Wed. ne•day, 18 LOAD Itarors MONT, Guildhall.—Seterday, Dec 19. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. D. 12. (Before the Judge OR'limy.) LIDST9II2 V. LIDSTONZ AND IDX0111:18. Mr. M. Chambers. QC., and Dr. Spinier for the peti tioner; Mr. Lopez for the respondent ; Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Cole for the co-respondent. Robert Lidstoue, a workman in the Devoaport Dockyard, prayed for a divorce, on the ground of hie wife's adultery with as attorney tamed Edmonds, one of the partners of • firm in large practice at Plymouth. He claimed NIP, from the co-respondent as damages. The rispoodente besides • denial pleaded almost every possible defensive allegation. The took place to 1850, the respondent, then Salina Parks, Mg • girl of 17 or 18. There had been one child. The married life of the parties was gated to have bees the most happy conceivable, until the respondent be came acquainted with Edmonds. At length, in May, 184;2, the husband quarrelled with the respondent on amount other ittimacy with the co-respondent, and she left him. The child was placed in the charge of her mother, who had marrieds per son named Cluck, but the respondent banal( disappeared. At length she was traced to No. 15. Vietoria-place, Stoke Demerol, where she was living as Mrs. Rood, the wife of a commercial traveller. This Bond was identified as the co respondent. • For the defence evidence was riven to show that while the respondent was a well-educated woman, the petitioner was • coarse, careless, and illiterate person ; that he had lived very unhappily with her, and that there had actually been a separation on account of his threats and violence. The jury found • verdict fur the petitioner with :1001. damages. Deuce nisi, with costs against the co-respondent. increasing and becoming quite Intolerable to the respectable tradesmen et the distrtet. The prisoner, is defeece, laid she did not like to be insulted by a police-constable. She bad been three years is this country, and this wee the first time ales had hew brought to that court. Mr. Knox was aware that women of the pitmen clam were the greatest nuisance in that district. As it was the Bret case of the kind that bad porno before him he would not go to the full extent of the law, but would reduos the punishment from one mouth to fourteen days' imprison ment. His determination wee to put down the nuisance if possible. Shortly afterwards Mr. Edward Lewis entered the o and said he was instructed to give both", of appal Hin advised the appellant to submit to the penalty inflicted by the court, but his advice had not bees acted upon, and be wee there to tender bail. Two persons came forward, and their bail was accepted. TEE LAUNCH OF THE MINOTAUR. ' The First of the First-rates of the Iron Navy of England was launched from the great iron ship building yard of the Thames Company at Black well, on Saturday, and with a success which may in every respect be pronounced " brilliant." First, the weather, which with us is always nine poiuts either to the good or the bad in the success of any thing. was magnificently fine. The sun shone out gloriously ' • the wind was just fresh enough to dis play the flags that give life, colour, and expression to every picture of the sea and ships, and the glorious old river seemed to leap with joy and welcome at the approach of another of a new race of Old England's Sea Kings. Certainly this was a day of days for the middle of December, and a:together the scene was one to rouse one's confidence in the prowess of our navy, to inspire fresh energy, and sweep away the misgivings that will arise when on every side we see going on at the same moment the forging of those weapons which are to destroy these wonders of modern naval architecture. Notwith standing that Russian guns are being made by English hands, and proved sound and strong on our own proof-ground at Woolwich ; notwith standing we are made to listen to the boasts of foreigners at the possession of these guns that could pierce our iron-cased ships like baskets and send shot and shell through earthworks 30 feet thick, the sight of the Minotaur is enough to rouse the old undaunted spirit of the nation. Even though we have seen a Russian floating bat tery of enormous strength lying aide by side with the Minotaur in the yard of the Thames Iron Ship Company, and know that more than one cupola battery has been built in England for foreign powers, nevertheless there is in beholding the launch of such a ship as the Minotaur, so noble and beautiful in size, strength, and proportion, something invigorating and inspiriting. We feel it is impossible that the wealth, the skill, the science, and above all, the national energy represented by this ship, can ever permit a thought of decadence, or a doubt of danger to our shores. The Thames iron ship yard is, amongst the many vast undertakings of the kind in the kingdom, per haps the most remarkable for having sprung into its present state of extraordinary power and com pleteness during the last six or seven years, and as the birthplace of the Warrior, the first ship of the iron navy of England ; the "Pervenetz"—in English the " First Fruits"—of the Russian navy ; and the first iron-cased ships for the navy of brave little Denmark. For some time past might have been seen upon the slips in this yard the filinotaur, first rate, 6,812 tons ; the Valiant, third rate, 4,06 i tons ; the Victoria, Spa nish frigate, of 4,862 tons ; a Turkish frigat e o f 4,222 tons ; the Pervenetz, Russian battery, 2,812 tons ; two large ships for the Penin s ul ar an d Orien tal Company, or for the London and Mediterranean Company, besides, other smaller vessels, makin g i n all a tonnageof 35,000 tons. The Company, which, we believe, consists of a few capitalists only, have a yard, which ought to be called a territory, of some thirty acres, with • population of artisans of near 5000,, to whom is paid from 5,0001. to 6,0001. a we e k. The Minotaur by no means represents the full capabilities of the establishment, for the largest slip could accommodate a ship of 12,000 tons, and the launching be effected with the greatest possible ease. This is one of the best instances of the power of English enterprise in private dockyards, with which might be mentioned the neighbouring yard of the Millwall Company, where another first-rate and sister ship is being built—the Northumber land; Messrs. Laird's, at Birkenhead, where the third first-rate—the Agincourt—is building, where about 4,000 men are employed ; Messrs. &muds's, where tue Prince Albert cupola battery is being built ; Meese. Palmer's, in the Tyne, builders of the Defence, where 12 merchant ships of the largest size, from 1,000 to 4,000 tons, are now building, employing some 3,500 men ; Messrs. R. Napier's, in the Clyde, builders of the Black Prince, the Rector, and a Danish cupola battery, now occupied with no leas than three Turkish frigates, each of 4,221 tons, plated with 51 inch iron all over, and teak backing of 10 inches, with other vessels. On the Clyde also are to be seen two iron-cased ships for the Emperor of China, and no doubt a place would be found for any potentate in the world who could pay for the work. It is important to bear iu mind the fact that all these enormous resources, to say nothing of the great metal-making factories of the country at this present time, full of foreign contract, for steel guns and armour plates, will assuredly be kept em ployed ; and that while our government are setting up their plant for building iron-plated ships, and cutting away the msguificeut granite docks to float out the monster vessels, all at enor mous cost and sacrifice, our private yards are actually building the iron navies for the foreigner at very much lees cost to him. Unless the authori ties have grown wiser, we shall probably see the very slip from which the Minotaur was launched speedily occupied by some first-rate foreigner. If the saving of time and money is of such vital importance just now we may see h o w these points have worke d in the building of the Achilles, the first attempt of the government dockyards at iron shipbuilding. The Achilles, which is about the same tonnage as the Warrior, and rated in the second class, was ordered to be laid down three-quarters of a year before the Minotaur, but it will be at least a fortni g ht b e f ore the Achilles, a much smaller ship, with not much more than half the weight of armour-plates borne by the Minotaur, will be undocked. When the one first-rate undertaken by the Admi ralty—the Captain—will be ready, must depend upon the number of alterations that may be sug gested by the new Chief Constructor of the Navy, and the contingencies which at present surround the question of armour-plates, backing, and skin. Much as the Minotaur is to be admired as a grace ful and very powerful ship, we cannot pretend to congratulate the Admiralty much upon her invulner ability, if that is to be a sine qed non of a first-rate. It stands proved beyond all refutation, even by Lord Clarence Paget, that the Minotaur, over the whole of her fighting deck, is a more vulnerable ship than the Warrior. She has, it is true, been exemp ted from the fault of having only the centre part of the ship protected, as the armour plates are carried, right fore and aft, on the main deck, covering all the guns, but in taking away the 9 itches of teak backing anal putting in its place the one inch of iron upon the armour plata so as to keep the weight per square foot of the two arrangements equal, the Minotaur has been weakened. The target experi ments have proved this over and over again, and it is remarkable that the 600- poun d er Armstrong gun has never been fired at the Minotaur target, but at one constructed on the plan of the Warrior, showing that this was admitted to be • stronger target. But the most astonishing thing is, that the Admiralty were well aware that the sides of the Minotaur, as designed, were weaker than the War rior ; they bad their grave doubts from the moment of giving the order to build her on Sept. 2, 1861, and very properly inserted a clause in the contract, ena bling them to alter the combination of wood and iron forming the armour of the ship. When it was die) covered at Shoeburyneas that 18 inches of timber backing was better than one extra inch of armour plate, the building of the ship was stopped, and the constructor of the Thames Shipbuilding Com pany was required to give an estimate for restoring the nine inches of backing. As the ship was then so far in progress that the shelf for the armour plates was made, it became a diffictelt and expensive matter to maks so very important an alteration a ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Dzser, Dec. 12 (Before Mr. Berm Marge.) THE WIGWELL GRANGE MURDER. The learned judge occupied nearly two hours in summ ing up, and the jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned into court with a verdict of Ouilig. Amid breathless silence the Clerk of the Arraigns said : George Victor Townley, you hsve put yourself upon your country upon the charge of murdeneg Elisabeth Caroline Goodwie, and they say you are guilty. Have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you? The culprit bowed his bead, and remained silent. Mr. Baron Martin, whom lips quivered with emotion, put on the black cap, sod the usual proclamation having been made, said—George Victor Townl, after everything that could poesibly be urged in defence "f your crime has been done with an ability sever excelled, the jury have found yen guilty of murder, and I am bound to my that in that verdict I entirely concur, for if the defence that has been set up in your behalf was allowed to have prevailed, it seems to me it might have been attended with the most dimatrous consequences to the country, and if it did he once e instilled into the minds of young men that they were justified in taking away the life of a young woman who transferred her affections to another, the consequences in. deed would be dreadful. I have but one duty to perform, which the law imposes upon me ; my province is purely ministerial ; it is the law that sentences you, sot I. I have only to express an earnest hope and prayer that von will Inks the opportunity of making your peace with God daring the short time of your stay on earth, Ido not mean to make any comments on your most painful ace, but only to pass upon you the sentence which the law pre. mites for the crime of murder. His lordship, who was almost inaudible throughout the delivery of bis remarks, faltered in prononocing the final words and the dread sen tence finishing with the words, "and may the Lord have enemy on your souL" The scene in the court at this period war most distress ing. The miserable criminal, however, bowed to the learned judge, and left the dock apparently unmoved. THE POLICE COURTS. GUILDHALL. Henry dyne, • nil;raille•lOoking object, was placed at the bar before Sir R. W. Cordes, charged with robbing William Holme, a roues fellow fresh from Yorkshire, of his watch end chain, Talmo 10f. . _ It appeared from the evidence of a welter at a coffee house in Bartholomew-close that the prosecutor had been partaking rather freely of droop liquors, of which the pri soner WA advantage, for he sat hinted, dose to the prose cutor, and wu in the act of drawing his watch from his pocket and tnutaferriag it to his own. The waiter inter lard, and a policeman was called in, but the utor was so drunk that he was usable to prefer any c nor woe be ooescious that any attempt had been made y the prisoner to rob him of his property. The prisoner was, how. ever, locked op. On being asked what brought him to London, the prose cutor merely stared at the magistrate in blank amazement. Sir R. W. Carden—Lid you come tomes the Cattle Show? Prosecutor—Yea, air. Sir R. W. Carden—And you made a beast of youndf instead. (Laughter.) Prosecutor—Y-ea, sir. R. (Laughter.) Sir .W. Carden—What part of the country have you come from? Prosecutor—From Bradford, air. Sir H. W. Cardea—l thought Yorkshiremen were not so easily taken in. Hare you lost anything else! Prosecutor—Yes, air, four half-sovereigns, and I have only lOs. left. Sir R. W. Carden—But for this waiter you would have last your watch and chain. so I think you ought to make him some compensation. Have you a return railway ticket! Prosecutor—Yes, sir. I'll give the waiter what you think proper to charge me, sir. Sir H. W. Carden—Oh, I cannot charge you anything, but I think you bad better rive him the ICU, you have left, and return immediately to Yorkshire, and so avoid getting into further mischief. The primmer was thou oommitted to prison aa • rogue and vagabond for three mouths, with hard labour. BOW-STREET. Three boys, maned Henry Elston, James Wood, and Georpe Cook, were brought up on remand, charged with dealing an iron safe, 000taining six N. not.., • gold watch and chain, and other articles of jewellery, &c., to the value el about 701., besides a policy of life insurance, several lessee and other documents, the property of Mr. Woods, the master of the Refuge for Destitute and Homeless Boys, Great usen-street, Lincoln's-ion, government eetabliali moot, o f which they were inmates. It appeared that the pri soner Wood had been employed in the household work, and had menet° Mr. Woods' private apartments? On the 3rd last., at about half-past 7 o'clock, Mr. Woods missed the iron safe in question from bis bedroom. and on inquiry ascertained the three misonen bed absconded. He sent out several men in search of them, and on the following night, the 4th inst., they were found at the Bntannia Theatre, Buxton, where they bad been "seeing the play." They a t coca ad mitted that they had stolen the safe, and had left it in an arch under the new street in course of formation in con- tinuation of Farringdon.streat. They were given into cus tody, and a constable was sent to the spot. The iron safe was found there with a great hole in the bottom. An attempt had been made to force the lid, but unsuc cessfully, and ultimately • great piece had been hammered with a stone out of the bottom, which was double and very street. Through this the co:deed of the safe had been taken out The papers and deeds were mattered about the vault, bat the watch. jewellery, and money were gone. When first brought before the magis trate they stated that they had concealed the !W. notes in a crevice of the wall of the vault. The place, however, had since been searched by the polite, but nothing bad been found. The priaoeers, when taken, had only a few shillings about them. Mr. Woods expressed • hope that the magistrate would settle the case summarily, suggesting that the prisoners might be sent to a reformatory. id r. Corrie—l think this is too earious an offence. I am inclined to think it is a case for the superior power of the judge, bat I woe% decide at once. I will remand them for • week. I do not say positively that I may not °Gorki them, and send them to Old Ford Reformatory, but my present impression is that I must commit them (or trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Caroline de Lacy. a Gamma prostitute, fashionably draws:twee brought before Mr. Knox, charged with disorderly conduct, and making use of bad language in RAgeet-street. The inhabitants of the district have made complaints of the conduct of the numerous foreign loose women who ply their avocation I. the most shameless manner, both by day sad night, but no active steps have been hitherto taken against these ironies. Police-constable Rough, A 310, said about half-past live o'clock in the afternoon he saw the prisoner and several countrywomen of her class standing together near the County Fire-office. He told them to go away, and ad loft exempt the prisoner, who said she would not move, and added that elm bad "got one polioetnau's coat off, and she would have soother nerved in the IMO way." The Kimsey continued to obstruct the footway, and se a vast crowd col lected he took her to the station- how. The prisoner wee one of the most troublesome of the wog of fond& women that infested that district. . Mr. Heuq Cabslt, of Glambeworetrest, said that ou heariag the disturbance he west te the door and beard the primmer abusing the oeuatable for remasetiog her to move away. He hollow the primmer to be the most iodecent mat aallaolows of foreign mesa who oolleatod about Regent ad &Hy. The aulisese et thew fan* women Ina WORSHIP-STREET. George Morrie, young man of 20, living in Devonshire...street, Sboreditch, described as a labourer, wee charged before Mr. Cooke with maliciously wounding • young woman named Susan Francis, with intent to do bar grievous bodily harm. The promeutrix, whose forehead was covered with surgical droving, end who was so extremely weak as to be scarcely able to give her evidence, stated that she had been acquainted with the prisoner four months. About Mil* o'clock on the previous night she was in the company of • strange man in Ebenezer-street, City-road, when the pri soner saw her part with him, and coming up to her with a knife in his band, he struck her with it in the forehead, and then stabbed her in the back, and she fainted. On recovering she found she had been carried to the house of her aunt. She was perfectly sober, having had only one glass of spirits with the other man. She found she bed been bleeding from three wounds, which were dressed by • surgeon. She could only account for the prisoner so attacking her on the supposition that be did not approve of her being in the company of the other man, as be did not say • word to her before be struck her with the knife. 'Alice Jackson, a girl of 17, living st the bones of Mrs. Lloyd, in Ebeneseratreet, gave a somewhat different so• moat of the outrage. She stated that the prosecutrix, who had called at the house with the other man, left there alone, and the prisoner, who, when the door was roamed, wan found standiog on the step, instantly knocked her down and kicked her. The witness' said that be had a knife in his hand, but when he gave her the Grit blow he did not strike her with that ; it was with his fist. She got up, and be immediately knocked her down again, in fact several times. The prosecutrix at last rushed into the passage, and he followed her, striking her with the knife more than once in the back. She groaned, fainted, and fell. The prisoner then went into the road and appeared to be quarrelling with some men. Witmer picked up • knife and gave it to a young man, and then assisted in con. veying the proseentrix to her aunt's in &whiff-row, where she was attended by • surgeoe. Two wounds were visible in her shoulders and • third in box forehead, from which the blood flowed so profusely as to sash through three jackets or underdresses she had on. The prisoner, who had fainted during the examination and wee obliged to be removed by Bendall, the gaoler, offered so defence, and was ordered to be remodel. MARKET& TALLOW.—BATIMDAT Evxmara.-21te market was Eat to-day —Spot, 40s. 6d. new; old, 40s. ' • January, 41a.; Mardi, 425. ; April to Jane. 425. Delivery to bat evening, 1,686 auks; arrivals, 1,444 make. COTTON.—lxrzarooc, Dec. 12,—We have had a firm market, with prime le (avow of ashen. The sales are 5,000 balsa, of which 2,000 are oa speculation and for export. 600 American, 26d. to 28d. ; 3,640 Surat, 15d. to 24d. ; 400 Egyptian, 27fd. to 300. ; 60 Pernambuco, 260. ; 200 his. and Ma .aio, 250. to 260. ; 2Vi Peruvian, ba 280.; 80 Smyrna, 220. to Md. To-day's import 6142 ke. COTTON GOODS. —filithcitUoirxn, Dec. 12. —The mar• kit her recovered during the week from the depression which followed the raising of diaconate, and both on Tues day and yesterday we had rather livelier marketa. The business effected waa not lugs ; on the contrary the eggregate sales of the week have been rather inco nsid erable. Spin ners and manufacturers have regained confidence to a great extent, and are naturally falling back on the high quote. thins which prevailed before the troubles of the money market disturbed trade. They have paid deer for cotton, and they wish to cover the expenditure, and with Lnkiroat, if that is possible. On the other oonfidesce is sot no easily restored with the buyer, and especially if he is a shipper to distant markets. Of late the amounts; from India have been encouraging, bet the shipper knows that if anything either in the tmericen States or elsewhere turns up to depreciate the present MCC MOOS value of cotton or cotton goods, steam and telegraph will have taken the news to Bombay or Calcutta long before his goods strive there, sod this renders him cautious, to say nothing of the three per cent. extra charged by the banks for discounting the bills he draws against his shipments. Still the market seems to be creeping on to more business, and probably the tone of the advisee to hand by the Persia will give more 000tideoce, indicating as they do that Winter is likely for the present to retard materially, if not stop the progress of military operations for a time. Messrs. Ponder and Co. give the quotations of 84 lb. 40-inch China shirt:hip at 21.. to 21s. 6d. ; Bombay, 39.usch shistinp, 6 lb., 15e. 6d. to 16.. ; 7 lbs., 178.6 d. to Oa. 9d. ; 45.ioch, 7 lb., 18s. 9d. to 19 e . ; 81b., to TA. 6d. ; and 9 lb., 25e. 6d. : long clothe. 2s. 4d. to 2.. sd. per lb. T cloths a little lower; ordinary makes of 6 lb. and 7 lb. having been sold at 2s. 3d. to 2s. 4d. per lb. WOOLLEN.—Lam, DEC. 12.—The unpropitious wea ther this looming appeared to bare an unfavourable influ ence upon the markets, which were thinly attended, and not characterized by any animation. The small demand was mainly for spring sampler in light fabrics, in addition to which a fee. tweeds and hair lista, and a sprinkling of heavy goods, met with purchasers. No notimable change in quo tations. HARDWARE—Biammaum, Dry. 12.—The trade of this town continues active ; onion come infreedy on account of the country shopkeepers, and for hardware goods in general domestic use there is a brisk demand, most of the manufacturers haying orders is hand at this moment to keep them in full work until Christmas. The export trade has undergone very little change of late ; there is • fair amount of business doing with the eastern markets, acid the (Awe sod Australian trade is pretty good, and fr.= America there are a few orders coming in. As to the state of the principal branches carried on here there has not been much change of late ; the metal rollers are bossy ; the platers re port a alight improvement ; the accounts are the same from the jewellers and in reference to some of the limey trades. The edge.tool.makers guierally are well supplied with orders, this branch being well sustained by the demand for the foreign markets, and the hollow ware and tin-plate workers are doing a good average burliest& le the adjoieing district of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire trade is foe the most part active ; the foundries are all in full work, and the steady demand for railway fittings is sufficieut to keep all who are engaged in that branch tally employed. At Walsall the saddlers' iroomongers are doing a good trade for the Ilee•00, and the gas-fitters are busy. On the Dudley and Stourbridge side of the district all the large works are in full operation ; the various trades carried on in the neigh. bourhoods sat Wolverhampton and Easton are in a healthy state, and the factors have been giving out a full average amount of orders fur the time of year. The iron trade continues remarkably brisk, but no further advance of prices has up to this tints bees determined upon. DORlC—CAmaamoz, Dec. 12.—We had a lam supply of all corn, cad prior were la. to 2a per qr. lower. Wheat, red, 325. to 40a ; white, 42a. ; barley, 28a. to 36a. ; bees', 325. to 38s. ; oats. 18s. to 245. per qr. Csguiscß, Dec. 12.-There was a slow ale for wheat, of which there was • good supply at our market this morning, and before the close 6d. less per Oaths* bushel was taken. There was • fair supply of barley and oats. Oats were is good demand at last week's rake ; barley sold slowly, with out chooge in value. Prices:-Wheat, white, new Us. to to 18e. ; ditto, old. 16e. to 18a. ; red, new, 14s. to lis. ; bar- - - ley, new, ifte. 6d. to 1 ls.: oats, potato, new, cis. 6d. to ils. ; BIRTHS. ditto, 01(1,98.64.10 101.; ditto. Pieninony tia. to 7s. ; ditto, old, 0 I ULT.-December 10, at Wooborn house. Bucks. the .IN ' 4 Be. 6d. to 9a. 6d. ; rye, 12.. 6.1. to 14s. per Carlisle bushel. A. Oilhey, Roy .of a .11. Flour, le. 7d. to ls. 11d. per stove ; oatmeal, ls. 7d. to Hig i ii a g a ß i .-December lzr ata to, o r the Pool.honw, near Stourto n. .h. Is. Bd. ; ryemeal, Is. Ed. ; barloymeal, Is. 4d. Hl DTON.-Deceruber 11, et Upper Tooting, the 'Wk.! T. 0. COLCHESTER, Deo. 12.-A heavy supply of wheat, good Hutton, Esq., of a timelier. of barley, and small of other 'raja. Wheat and barley de- MARK 4.-Deoneber 10, the wile of the Bar. Professor II ams dined Is. Beans and peas difficult to quit. Margaret-street, Covendishowoare, of a son. of NAill.-Deecniber 10, at Upper l'ulll.hill. Mrs. F. J. Nash, GUILDFORD. Dec. 12.-There was • fair supply of what A son. at our market to-day, for which the trade ruled very dull. TH BURTON,-December 10. at Cireseeister, the wife .4 C. A. Sellers gays way Is. per qr., but at that reduction sales were Thruaton, Esq., of l'eunal Tower, Meriouethshire, of arm. not readily effected. Fine malting barley we. in good re- MARRIAGES. quest at late values, but middling sorts were difficult to COLK-MATCHETT.-December 10, at At. John's Sepulchre, selL Wheat, 40s. to 54. ; barley, 35e. to 39e. ; pea, 31s. Norwich, by the Illy. T. Calvert, U. Cole, Esq. Illy. Uttoubrsitu to 375. ; oats., 19s. to 25a. shire, to Harriet, daughter of the late J. Makhett, Le,., of st• Catherine. Cottage, Norwich. HERTFORD, Dgc. 12.-A good supply of wheat ; trade NA INE-BEARUIIORE.-Decenshar 10, at Trinity Chock steady for red at last week's rates ; not so much demand for Upper Chelsea, by the Rev. J. Hays'. R. Hayne,kaq.,of Ulloa white, and trade dull. Barley trade very heavy, and prices Donetshlm, to Mary Anne. widow of the late camels 1 . again rather drooping. In oats and beans no change. Wheat. Beardmore, of Uplands. Hoots. bar 30 at th en. 1 Mid, per load, 73 8 . 6d. to 2.',.. ; fine, 26s ; white. 25a. to 26a. • POTTI N ORR-8111 PPERI e 44 iN. m .. ,, ' ehur h. Cheaterle-street. by the A. M. Hopper, M.A fine, 275. ; barley, malting. per qr., 34.. to 38e. • grirding. R. Pottiager , Fey., of the Inner Temple . sec of the lee Ns. to Ms. ; oats, coarse, 16s. to 295. per qr. ; aid, 26e. to Lieutenant-General the Right lion. Mr If Potholer,. Bart. 28.. per qr. ; beans, per load, 24a. to 275. ; pea, Ms. to H.C.8., to Mar) Adeline. daughter of the Ker. F. 11.olopperi' 26.. 6d. am, of lfermitsgr, county Durham. LeicraTeß, Dec. 12.-The supply of wheat was fully as DEATHS. average, the show consisting almost altogether of new de. BUTLER-Deeernher 11, at Lee, Blackheath, Reginald, an .4 scription• There was Limited business done at Is. per qr' 3. H. Butler, F.; , aged 11. reduction. New white found buyers at 40.. to 45e. ; new CROOK. - December 11. at Wellington-road. ellnllvrEeli. 1-.. C red, 38e. to 41.. par 341 stone. Of barley there was • Kv er: 4 4 B t. 2 .1-0tit. 6 1; : ,. it ,.. 0. 11 . E‘,....0, Regent gy r e, IA.. supply, and there was • quiet ladies in th e I sad vins _ c ,, il „,„ . p erc y. wes o, minim, age.' Li. tand, prices having to be reduced Is. per qi. • HARRISON. u./ -Degeoher it, at Ramsgste, W. Herrin)°, FA{ • . malting, 335. to 38s. per qr. ; triad*" 275. to 29.: 1. ti. acym Dragoons, aged 49 . per 30 stoue. There we. a fair inquiry for oats, the show of HODOSON.-Deventber 10, at East Wnodhay Rector). LIU"' which was by no means large, and late prices were main. Mazy BoVillik the wile of the Rev. 0 Ilettren tallied ; old, 25.. to 2145. ; aew, 21s. to 235. aged 5. The demand for ban.. was he althy. and recent rates were K IT L. v...!...zry 3,40 11...1t 1 itt.,, .1,;;. i few ', gi ro Moe. ' 4 per St stone, . 110011TON.-Decemher 11, at , R rat i Margaret. daughter of the sepenwted without difficulty ; old, 41e. to 4 3.. i new, 34., I end.° a, Mr. ernes Henry Kettle,. late chief engineer or the to ads. per 38 Moos. F lour, 29a. to 325. per sack. Tayung, and formerly In the Peal and Oriental rttons NEWCARTLE•tiPOII-TIRE, Dec, 12.-At our market this Na. 'moon Company's service. (11 ester Min. te e morning we had • free delivery of Wiest from the growers, ' ( re''N NEL L - December 10, et the h ( riyi ; ' et r,,u, 4,,.; or). relict of Laeuteuant-Heweral sir Y. C. on for which a slow sale was experieseed, at • decline of 1.. per ' qr. upon the rotes of this day se seight ; south country I ----- samples also meeting a inoderate inquiry, M a similar reduc tion. Foreign was held at former rates, which had the effect of checking Weiner. Flour moved MI slowly, bat ia its vales little vacation of moment eta be anted. Matto BERTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. Printed and Pabllsbed by WELLIAX UM i gZer et & Lomhant-street, In th• City a lades. a ai g Ofilok la Intuhani-atnet, In the Prided of indarleis' yompas. MCKIM= 14. US. big barley in very moderate domed, and still tartle t lower ; nothing doing iu grioding descriptions. lo malt few transactions occurred. AMU sod peas unaltered. (rata steadily supported their value. The arrival this week are ; -Wheat, coastwise, 1,620 qrs. ; foreign, 610. Bee* , eetiottliali, 390; foreign, 466. Malt, onstivin. 20. Coih. cioustwise, 756. Peas, cemeteries, 42 ; forsito 4 27. nom, ecentwiss, 1,210 sank*. ladies eon 6o 1,:k10 sacks. NOirtirtat, Inc. 12.-There . 11 good supply o f w h eat 4at this ma , het to-y, aad nrilrtu sot bein fre e buyers the Wee made were effected at a reduction of 61. ( 0 la per quarter. There was a fair supply of barley, malting qualities *early supported last week's rates, while ordinary aorta, of which there was some quantity offering, may be eousidered la. per quarter cheaper. Flour ls. per sa c k lower. White wb,at (weighing 63Ibs. to 661ba.), 445. to 46e. ; red ditto (weighing 631b4 to 631144, 40s. to 424 ; best chevalier malting barley (weighing &Sibs. to WM.), 36e. to 375. ; runs chevalier ditto (weighing 5416 e. to 55144 344 to 35a. ; distilling ditto (weighing 521 b,. to 53144 Zta to 30e. ; oats, 24.. to 26e. ; beans, 365. to 375. ; pe u , 33e. to 36e. per quarter. Flour, 2:44. per sack. Averages- Wheat 3,10.1, qrs.. 41.. Bd. ; barley , 10,311 qrs., Ms. 74. ; 0•111, 46 qrs, 234 6d. Norman...it, Dec. 12.-There was a pretty good lo w, of wheat at our corn exchange to-day, the coeditios of the simples beiag irregular. The impury was slow at la. pm quarter below late rates. New white sorts made 41a to 47e. ; new red, 38e. to 42e. ; old white, 41e. to CA. ; red, 9s. to 42e. per 36 stone. The supply of barley was tolerable, but the tone of the trade wee ioactivs, prices for secondary sorts were la. per quarter lower; malting, 30a. to 404 per quarter ; grinding , 275. to 30a par 30 stone. Oats were a moderate show, and mks were effected at quite as much mosey as Nat week ; old, 24a to 314 ; new, 20e. to 25e. ; old foreign, 21e. to 245.. per 24 stone. Beau, were held at fully former terms, old. 3k to 43e.. new , 33e. to 375. per 38 atone. Fleur, Mt to 375. per 20 stoe. 0/101D, Dec. 12.—Great dulness prevailed this mortise. and last week's rates for the few traesactioaa, were 6,4 =Mistakeable. White ruled from 40s. to 46a. ,• red, from 36e. to 425. Barley was a complete drag. and so tithe, was the Wipes* done that prime were not even quotable. Oats, of which there were large qtasititiee aims& as not much doing, made from 16.. to 26e. Besse were w ort h from 304. to 42a. Bog peas, 325. to 355. Boding peas, were well repnwented, but owing to the tine open we i gh. , there was no demand for them. Floor (seconds), 30e. per seek. PrrISBOIIOIIOII. Dec. 12.—We bane a large supply of wheat offering here to-day ; fine samples la., sod secooduy aorta L. to 2s. lower than last week. Barley leas showing, and, there being a better demand, maintained its pries o.i. in abundance, and lid. to ls. per qr. cheaper. No alteistios iD bens, sod few showing. READDIG, D.C. 12.-Thera was only a limited supply of wheat at our market this morning, with an average Attend ance. &risen was very languid, and millers only pur. chased to meet preload demands. Mkr being unaltered. io other articles the trade was purely of a nominal cluracter, Barley is quite a drug in the market ; film malting sorts maintain their value. Rocerarn, Dec. 12 -The stands were fairly furnished with whist, for which there was a quiet demand at about former rates. For best kinds of foreign the terms were :os. to 54a., and others 46a. to 50a. But samples of home grown white wheat were, 44s.ato 48a. ; and inferior and se. coodary kinds, 40e. to 445. per quarter ; best red, Ka. to 445. ; and others, 36e. to 40a. Barley wee in limited supply and the demand dull, operations being ermined chiefly to best malting kinds, which realised 35e. to 39a. per duster ; beet grinding, 26.. to 295. per quarter. Oats were firm, and superior old and foreign kinds maintained late rates ; for superior lots the terms were 225. to 25m, and others 18s. to 22a. per quarter. Beans and peas both a slow trade, but the quotations are about the same as before. Flour was m o turn dearer, but operations were mostly of a retail chancier. YORK, Dec. 12.-We bad • tolerable show of wheatat our corn market to-day for the time of the year, and rte attendance of the bade was moderate. Fine amides set much altered ; inferior, la. per quarter down. Priem for new white ranged from 42a. to 46e. ; for new red, 38e. to 41s. per 36 stone. There was a fair supply of barley ; quality very irregular. The demand ruled gat, and pricer most be written la. per qr. lower ; malting. 28e. to 325. per quarter ; grinding, 275. to 28a. per 30 Moos. Oats were Is pretty fair request, and sales took place at rates equaling those of th, week previous ; new, 18s. to 20e. per 24 stooa For beans there was a middling demand, sad price, under went very little change, 38e. to 4411. per 38 stone. Malt. 58e. to 60s. ; rye, Vs. per quarter. Flour, 30a. to 32a. per 20 stone. Waimea, Dec. 12.—The supply continues good of both wheat and Data Wheat is not quite so stroog in prim as last week, but for the best mmples growers hold firmly for former rates. Oats dull, and rather widest the seller. Other things about as before. Prices to the grower:— Wheat, white, new, 41s. to 45a, 631bs. per bushel ; red, ditto, 395. to 425., 631bs. per bushel. Oats, new, 101. to 11d. per stove. WORCIDATIR, Dec. 12.—At this day's market there was a fair supply of wheat, which could only be sold by sob mitting to a reduction of fully la per qr. Barley north. Wally unaltered, but very difficult to men. Oats fully as dear. Beans only taken in retail. Peas are le request. KIRKCALDY, Dec. 12.—At our country markets this week we had fair supplies of barley and oats ; small of wheat. The price of barley and wheat may be quoted about L. per qr. lower, but farmers are vary reluctant seller. ; oats, fine qualities command fully more money ; inferior u before. Here, to-day, we bad fair supplies of barley and oats ; small of wheat. Barley and wheat may be quoted la. per qr. lower. Oats unchanged. Wheat, new and old, 275. to 446. per qr. ; barley, new, 24a. to 29a. 6d. ; oats, new, lts. to 21s. 6d. WATS/WORD, DPC. 12.—Onr &Rinie of foreign grain this week are moderate, and deliveries of home- grown muck the same. Coastwise, with the exception of 230 socks flour, scannely anything has reached ns. The trade generally bus ruled dull since thin day ee'nnight, with a tendency to loser prisms. All descriptions of wheat must he written 6.1. per barrel cheaper. Oats sod barley noaltored. The condition of country corn is still very unsatisfactory, and great are is requiredin selection of samples suffleimitly dry to stand an average vo age. India. one in limited demand ; fact then) is hardly any inquiry except for really prier samples to hold over. Flour unchanged. Laporte this week :—Wheat, 2,309 qrs. • Indian con, 1,870 ; flour, a seeks. Exports this week : Harley, 160 barrel* ; oats. 8,5i0; flour, 1,488 sacks; Indian con, 80 barrels; oat. meal, 44 Backs. CATTLE.—Csausut, Dec. 11.—Irish cattle constituted the bulk of our supplies on the Bend' to-day, and Maims was not brisk. The great feature of the week in the cattle trade here has been the Christmas fat show, at which some good prices were realised for animels exhibited. The silver cap for the best short-born bullock wes won by Mr. G. Head Head, of Rickerby Park, but the animal was not sold in the not. The same exhibitor won the chief prise for the best crossbred heifer. The prise for the best fat bullock or heifer rising three years wu won by Mr. lease Bell, Car lisle, with a light roan heifer, 2 years and 11 months old, which also won the cup for the best bullock or heifer on the proud, and sold afterward' for 40:. Other &ennuis shows by the same exhibitor were sold for 391. and 42f. respec tively. Galloway heifers sold for 221. 10s. and 2V. A short horn bullock shown by Mr. Newton, of Chollerton, North umberland, 3 yams and 5 mouths old, and ttft. in girth, sold for 491. Ilk. Half-bred sheep sold at 70a. and 71s. each ; Cheviots, 61s. BR. 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