The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

AMERICA. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Saxon* from NOW York on the 13th init., arrived at Southampton yesterday wit► 113 passengers and 260,000 dole. for England, 76,831 dole. for Prance, and 51,808 dole. for Hamburg. The Canadian screw steamer Hibernian, from Portland, on the 13th, arrived at Liverpool yester day morning with New York journals of the 12th inst., and telegraphic news to the 13th. The City of Manchester Arrived at Queenatow d from New York last evening. She brings 146 pas sengers, and 576,070 dole. in speeie. FROCK/WINGS IN CONGRESS. A bill wsa to be introduoed into Congress sub mitting a proposition to the effect that if Missouri would adopt a system for the immediate abolition of slavery in January, 1864, the Federal government would compensate the loyal citizens to the extent of twenty million of dollars in thirty-year bonds. The committee on ways and' means have agreed upon three appropriation bills for the next fiscal year, which will be reported to the house —the Army Bill, which appro priates 741,000,000 dollars ; the West Point Bill, which is essentially as usual, and the Fortifi cation Bill, which makes unusually large appro priations, especially for New York Barbour, vari ous points on the coast of Maine, and the To rtugas and other Florida forte. The following is a further summary of the pro ceedings of Congress : In the Senate on the 11th a resolution was adopted in structing the committee on finance to inqr , re into the ea prdiency of allowing Surat cotton to be imported into the United States upon the payment of the same dunes as for cotton imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope. The bill relating to the confirmation by the Senate of volunteer appointments in the navy wee indefinitely postponed. The President sent in a manage recommending a vote of thanks to Lieutenant George W. Morrie . and Lieutenant John L. Worden. the commanders, respectively, of the sloop-of-war Cumberland and iron battery Monitor, for gallant conduct in the action with the rebid steamer Merrimac. The sub ject ws referred to the naval committee. A communica tion was also received from the President in answer to the resolution of the Senate calling for information end evidence relative to the Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota ; ordered to be printed. The resolution relative to the arbi trary arrests of certain citizens of Delaware was then taken up and diseuesed till the adjournment. In the House of Rerrreesetatives a bill to adjust the ep-1 propriatione for the civil service of the Navy Department was paned. The bill makes no new appropriations. A resolution, providing armed vessels to convoy ships laden with provnions for the starving of England, was in troduced, but objection was made to its consideration. The bill appropriating 9,500 dole. indemnity for damages re ceived by the French ship Jules et Marie by collision with the United States steamer San Jacinto was passed. A mes sage from the President recommending that John L. Norden receive the thanks of Congress, by resolution, for his gallant conduct on the Monitor in combat with the Merrimac, such thanks being necessary under the law to advance him one grade in the naval list of officers of the navy, was referred to the naval committee. Mr. Roscoe Conkli ng asked leave to report a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy, with an amendment Is the nature of a atilietitute, and desired that a day should be =signed for its consideration. The Speaker mid that the select • • committee on that subject had expired with the former session of Congress, and would have to be revived. A reso lution calling fora statement of the number of Men in the army, both regulars and volunteers, what regiments have rewired pay since the Ist inst., what regiments remain un paid, and bow long they have been without pay ; also whether the money appropriated for the pay, clothing, and subsistence of the troops has been spent for any other was adopted. Resolutions were offered declming the President's emancipation not warranted byy the constitution; that the policy et emancipation as ptrdiated in the pro °lunation is not calculated to beaten the restoration of peace, not well chosen as a war measure, and is an assumption of power dangerous to the rights of citizens, and the perpe tuity of a free government. On the motion of Mr. Lovejoy, the resolutions were laid on the table by a vote of nickel) , four against forty-five. The house then went into com mittee of the whole, and diacussed the President's plan of negro emancipation. Both honace adjourned till Monday. WAR NEWS. THE CROSSING OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK. _ _ The following appreciation of the situation at Fredericksburg is from the New York Herald of Dec. 13: The main body of General Burnskle's army crossed the Rappahannock yesterday, and now occupies the south side of the river. The enemy still (ma intain their position on the hi ll s, and exhibited no signs of evaima;ing it up to last night. Nothing but a terrific battle coo dislodge them if they are ready for that Woe. During the pumage of our troops yesterday at the different points., General Sherman's oorps leading the way in front of the city of Fredericksburg, the enemy poured a constant fire upon our troops in the city and on the forces who were crossing on the two lower bridges, although they did very little damage. _ General Bayartts cavalry, which crossed on the lower bridge, had five men killed while endeavouring to ascertain the enemy's position. Our lessee in all were very slight, considering the import ance of the movement and the danger to which our troop, were necessarily exposed. We give a list of the °mashie, as far as can be ascertained. A stirring description of the bombardment and assault is given in our special to my (correspondence, accompanied by a tine map of Fredericksburg and its vicinity. After occupying the river front of the city on Thursday night we boat about 100 men in kille d and wounded while driving the rebels through the city. They fired on our men as they ad. mimed through the streets while secreted in and behind houses. Yesterday morning a dense fag hid everything from view, but cleared away in the afternoon. Meantime the enemy was rapidly pa sing over the river, and before nightfall nearly the whole force occupied the south bank. At latest amounts the remaining portion was ready to follow at care. The same paper eaye : The destination of the Banks expedition is clearly defined Ly an officer on board one of the tranepoi s as follows "ft will not go as far as some think, and yet further than others suspect." . . _ General Rosencranz has ordered that no more flap of trace shall leave Nashville for the conveyance of parties detiring to go South. The privilege has been abased by women. The following is from the New York Times of the Fame date : Headquarters, Army of Potomac, Deo. 12, Evening. At 10 ei clock this meaning the fog began to clear away, bat bal'ore 11 the air was again thick, which continued until two, when the fog entirely cliaapper-ed. At a quarter peat two the rebels opened with all their guns posted on the first ridge of hills. Their main fire was directed upon the city, which was filled with our troops. Those guns which were posted on the left of the ridge were opened on the larger body of troops which emeeed on the two lower bridges and bad formed in line of battle, and were moving obliquely down the liver fronting the Idaseaponax. Although several of their shells exploded, none of our men were injured. General Bayard's cavalry, which crossed on the lower bridge, bad five men killed while endeavouring to ascertain the enany's position. The troops which craned below are sleeping on their arms tonight, the advance being within three-quarters of a mile of Maseaponax creek, their left resting on the Rappa hannock. The enemy occupy the opposite side of the creek iu force. The guns posted on the bank this side of the river silenoed , the enemy's artillery after a duel of half an hour. This ended the firing for the day. The only damage done by the rebel shells thrown into the city was to add so much to its destruction. Twenty-five of our men wets killed last night in the streets while driving the enemy out. Nearly every house in the city has been damaged more or less by the firing of the pest two days. Several splendid residences have been completely riddled, as also all the churches. The fire appeared to be directed to the most prominent edifices. Severe. cams of wanton destruction of property by our troops occurred when they entered—property which could be of no use to the enemy. In many homes the furniture all remained, showing that their occupants left in baste. Some of our troops mistook the British flag fora Secession gag, and tore it from the residence of the British consul. This looming the owner came over to recover it, and it was returned to him. _ . . The main body of the ahny is now over the river, the remainder being in pozition to cross at aryl time. There are no indications of the enemy evacuating. If he remain a battle must immediately Naze. News from Washington of the 12th inst. states that the Navy Department has received a letter from Lieutenant Commander English, dated off the oust of Florida, stating that the boat. belonging to his vessel had captured in Marian River the English schooners Agnes and Ellen, and sent them to Key West for adjudication. In the M'Dowell cue nothing o: importance had farther been elicited. In the cue of General Porter General ll'Dowell was examined, testifying as to orders of the 29th, dirroting Porter to advance, which order was similar in 'Eton° 000 he, as senior officer, had already given to General Porter. _ The .tamer Kensington has captured the British schooner Maria, from Belize., and 'chooser Came, from Harammh, while trying to run the blockade at Sabine Pisa. Special Washington despatches of the 12th state that General Slocum'a command participates in the general movement He ham left Harper's Ferry, and at last advicea was between Manassas and Strasburg. Major-General Sedgwick has been assigned to the command of the 9th army corps, late General Burnside's, and will join the army on Monday or Tuesday. The news from the army of the Potomac is suddenly is vested with the most startling interest. Yesterday moral al movement forcrossing the Rappahannock coinia n ell and List night the city of Fredericksburg was in possession of our forces, with comparatively trifling loss. During Wednesday night pontoon bridges were got in readiness for throwing across the river, and at 5 o'clock yesterday emu og the construction of three of them commenced in front of the city. When they were about half completed the erectly opened a murderous fire of musketry upon the engineers, and forced them to desist from their work ; 143 pieces of our artillery then opened upon the city, and the fire was responded to by the rebels, but without much carnage. The city was set 01 fire in several places by our shells. The attempt was then made to finish the bridges, when the enemy's sharpshooters again , opened and compelled • retreat. Finally, volunteers to CMS the river in small boats were called for, and sprang out of the ranks by thousands. Only jOO, however, were chosen, who crossed the river in the most dashing style, drove out the sharpshooters at the poini, of the bayonet, and captured a large number of them, who were brought over the river and secured. The bridges were then completed, and the city was immediately occupied by our forces, the rebels being driven back to their defensive worm Meantime General Franklin was also engaged in the construction of bridges about three miles below the city, in which work be met with little opposition. He did not cross, bowers?, until he heard that the city was in our possession. The gunboats were also engaged in shelling the enemy about 15 miles below, where they ,had collected in considerable force, last night everything was reported quiet, with the prospect of a great battle to lie fought to-day. A correspondent of the Barlow Journal states the Franklin's division was under orders to make a rapid move ment on the sth inst., and to fall upon one of the flanks of the rebel army stretched along the Rappahannock. A storm of rain sod snow came on, making the roads so nearly impassable, that iostead;of marchiogisisteen"rnilesjas was in tended, the division made bat nine miles the first day, and the movement had to be ahsndoned. A despatch from Nashville, dated the 10th inst., leads us to expect a battle in that vicinity before long. The rebels under Joe Johnson, Bragg. Cheatham, Forrest, and Morgan, • lvanoed and drove in the national picket. on the morning of the 10th, at all points. A collisioo was expected weer Hartsville, the scene of the recent disgrace, and rein forcements were being hurried toward that point. The guerilla Forrest wee said to hold Clarluiville with a con sideiable force. -- ",ifiTribereiespatch from General Curtis to General pal leek regarding the recent battle at Fayetteville proves it to have been one of the first magnitude, and that ire results were even more disastrous to the enemy than at first re ported. Their forces are now ascertaioed to have been 28,000 strong. Our loss is killed and wounded is estimated at 1,000, and that of the rebels at over 2,000. They left nosey of their dead and most of their wounded on the field, and moved off in the night with muffled wheels. They are believed to have erosed the Arksams River. A despatch from Cairo states that General Hovey, who meetly occupied Grenada, Mississippi, arrived with his staff at Friar's Point, on the Mississippi, ou Sunday morning. It menet known whether his entire command returned with bits. A pnboat recounaissasee had been made up by the Yazoo River, but the result, are not made public. The loyal Tennessee regiments which have bees T r = around Louisville for some time received maraldag ea Monday, rod Amato& their *a:tare. Direction not employed it, at least not towards the French con sisted. sill. The corrected telegram from Mr. Reuter The Washington correspondent of the Pkila• / reads in fact as follows :—"ln May last the French delphia Ledger writes under date Dn. 11 : , consul at New Orleans wrote to M. Mercier, the The Banks and tot tress Monroe expedition were sot for French minister at Washington, that fieneral Butler the 'ta" River, that il aerial°, het fee • mare seethe "' used towards the most respectable people against whomhe oug e . held a " emu. '" The "Peditt" earned kerne". the ht h had cause of complaint the quantities of coal, and provisions for 60 days, which would imply that a Gulf port was th e destination of the squadron . most extraordinary language. Ma first words were It is pcennle that Texas is the paint in view, in furtherance I almost always, ' I will bang you,' or 'I will send of the project alluded to yesttrday, of dis:ding it up into ' von t o F or t J oo k oon. , e four states. A portion of the expedition was pared off ' Hatteras on Sunday last. The pirate Medium' has again been heard of. She recently captured the ship Levi Starbuck, from New Bed- ' ford, bound to the Pacific, in lat. 35.10, long. 66, and burnt her, also the ship T. B. Wales, of Boston, from Calcutta for Boston, with a full cargo of ealtpstre and gunny cloth, which she also burnt. This capture was made in lat. 28.30, long. 58. We have &deices from Newborn, N.C., to the Bth inet., which are interesting. The message of the rebel Governor Vance had been received. It contains no Indication of i l unionism, but, on the coetrary, appeals for a stern and determined devotion to the rebel ranee. He, however, re- Recta severely upon the rebel conscript law, and is rather disposed to grumble gererally at the condition of affairs in the State and in the ofederely. From the rebel journals it is learned that General Whiting has been Opined in com mand of • rebel forte at Wilmington, which point is be lieved to be one of these aimed at by the expeditions fitting out by the National Government. Union and free Moue meeting' were being held in Newborn and Beaufort. The following are the latest telegrams published in the Boston papers of the 13th inst. : Headquarters, Ai my of the Potomac, Dec. 12, 10 a.m. After occupying the river front of the city lad night we lost about ICO men in killed and wounded while driving the enemy through the city. They fired on our men as they advanced through the Amine while secreted in and behind houses. Not much mercy was shown to those who were caught. This morning a dense fog bid everything from view, but now it is partially passing away. The troops commenced moving at an early hour, General Sumner's grand division leading the way over in front of the city, to be followed by Major-General Hooker's grand division. General Franklin's grand division, which crowns nearly three miles below the city, is almost over. At a quarter past 9 the first gun was fired, the engage ment lasting about half an hour, the rebels not making a very spirited reply: Information received during the night and this morning from deserters and prisoners shows that the rebels have two strong lines of bakra:m in the rear of the city, the first one being one mile back, and the second a mile from the first. The wheie army is in rapid motion, and well concentrated. The troops are in eandlent spirits, and maxims to be led upon the works. SOUTHERN EXECUTIONS IN TEXAS. (From the Texas Paper.) A week or two ago we gave a brief account of the trouble is Cook County, growing out of the &emery of a treasonable plot to su. render that partial of the state to Fedeesl authority. Cook County k • border county, coatignous to the Indian laeribary, and is thinly inhabited, • great portion of the settlers being originally from Ohio ad Indiana. It seems there was • secret organisation formed, having ripe, pipe, and pm/swords. The members are swage to secrecy, and those found worthy were entrusted with three degrees. The first degree bound the member to setavey, sad to avenge • brother member's blood. The second degree was confined to robbing, jay-bawking, tcc. The third ocontem ' plated the re-establishment of the old Union. By lame means the whole plot was discovered, sod created intense excitement. About seventy men were arrested, the most of them, as we understand, low cha racters, with here and there a man of limited influenoe. About twenty-four of them were tried and executed, when the eonimenity was freshly excited by the intelligence that the soo of an hotel-keeper at Gainesville (whose =mews do not reoollect) bad been waylaid and moseyed several miles from town. Colonel W. C. Young and several others went out to get the body, but had not reached the spot when some one in ambush shot Young through the head, killing him instantly. Such was the exasperation caused by these assassinations that the community hung several others. The number executed in Gook county, at hst accounts, reached forty-two, and two others were shot in attempting to make their escape. The extent of the plot was not known, bat it was not stippeeed to be very extensive. How could it be, when there are probably not a thousand 013i011 men, if so many, in the state! It was trued, how ever, to Grayson county ; some few arrests had been made at Sherman, and one man was condemned to be hang. Others, it was expected, would be summarily dealt with. Sines writing the foregoing it is rumoured that several persons have been hung in Grayson county, and among them a Dr. Lively. NEW "vatic CONVENTION. We referred briefly yesterday to a new table of rates lamed by the Post-office, carryfeg into effect the pro. visions of a convention with Russia, Hamburg and Bremen, which will come into operation on the let January next. The following are fuller details of the new table. The postage to the German States is throughout 13d. for letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight, and the letters will all be forwarded viii Belgium, unless for Bavai:a, Wnrtem. berg, Baden, and Luxemburg, which will be sent otherwise unlessspecially superscribed via Belgium. The post age to Heligoland is also 6d. The postage to other states for letters under half an ounce will be as follows : Denmark, 9d. ; Norway, is. 2d. ; Sweden, Is. ; lonian Islands, 10d. ; Italy, Ild. [Letters for Italy and Papal States intended to be forwarded via Bel tlwor must be superscribed " vs Be4ium.l—Greece, is. f eta Belgium, must be superscribed "via Belgium:l— and Poland, 10d. ; lainenbum, 7d. ; Switzerland, 64 [if via Belgium, must be euperecrihed "via Belgiuml ; rapt, by Australian packets, 101., except Cairo, Ac., h. Id. ; &gear, Zfta, kiiholla, and Bamanud, Is. 2d. ; Maissoura and Damietta, is. 3d. ; Saes and Ports Saida, la. 6d. ; Alexandria, 10d. [Letters for EV pt, if via Bel gium, must be superscribed " via Belgium. 1 The postage to the most important places in Turkey, Moldavia, Sere* and the Levant, in which Austria maintains post-of6oes, is as follows, viz. :—Belgrade, 6d. ; Jamey and Bucharest, 9d. ; Galati, 10d. ; Bsyrout, Constantinople, Dardanelles, Galli poli, 11d. ; Jerusalem, ' ; Adnanople, lid. ; Alexan dretta, Tripoli (in Syria), Aleppo, and Damascus, lid. Letters for places in Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia, Berrie, and the Levant, at which Austria does not maintain post.oflicee, should in all cases be addressed to the care of an agent at one of the ports at which there is an Austrian post-office. Letters for Galata, Beyrout, Constantinople, Dardanellea, Gallipoli, Alessndretta. Tripoli, and Damascus, if to intended be forwarded via Belgium, must be superscribed " via Belgium." The postage or newspapers and book packets is for each newspaper to the German States, foreign countries in Europe and Heligoland, s:a Belgium, and if not exceeding 4 oz. in weight, 2d. ; each packet, 4d. The postage or newspapers a she like weight to the lonian lands, Alexandria (Egypt) Turkey, Moldavia, Wallachia, Servia, and the Levant, and to Greece and Egypt (Alexandria excepted), is 3d. The book and newspaper postage to the German States must be paid in advance. AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH LANCASHIRL - Some conversation took place upon this subject at the meeting of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board yesterday, during which it was recommended that the vessels which are freighted 'CI provisions for the relief of the distressed operatives should be exempted from dock end town dues. A very general feeling was expressed in favour of such ex emption, though the ultimate decision of the board upon the subject was messed until next week. A shocking accident occurred three days back in the church of St. Catinat at klaneilles, during the perform anos of weepers. An anthem was being sung, accompanied by the occasional tolling of the bells, when the clapper of one of them suddenly detaching itself, fell through the roof into the choir, lolled one of the musicians, and broke the leg of another. A letter from Naples says :—" The excavations of Pompeii are every day producing reruns which attract crowds of visitors. The price of admission, fixed at 2fr., produces on an average from 1501 r. to 200 fr. a day, and that so= applied to the works makes them progress to the great advantage of arclueology. The adm;esion is free on Sun days only. Foreigners are tooth% both to this city and to Rome." 0171 " GIIILT GARDIU(S." —ID a second letter to the Times "S. G. 0." 'Lite' :—" We have no right in this matter to seek ' a sign,' to demand of Heaven minim. low aid to help in work in reality of a very commonplace character. You would discharge the scoilerymaid whom you saw wiping out a rink with • dinner napkin. Can any religious power, however aided by church and dissent's highest united prasare, hope rally to prevail over the hearts and habits of people forced to dwell in these foul lanes and alleys? I declare 1 have been, in one city, in places so vile that I should have felt a Bible as much out of place sea pack of cards in a pulpit. Religious zeal, by Heaven's aid, may steal a soul or two now end then from these Guilt-Gardens, but the mama you never will affect until you dis perse it. I call out for rigid inquiry into the actual state of them places—honest evidence how they came to be what they are, for whose profit they are sustained. 1 ask, in the oame of common humanity, on what prin ciple of justice ground is to be for ever covered with dwell logs for therich while the poorer our towns, who must exist is a certain proportion to those dwellings, have no provision made for their physical or moral healthy existence. If we are for ever to be told that such places must be—that there most be a ' criminal quarter' in our metropolis,— then I say let it be so girt about with those whose duty it is to protect us from criminals that to leave that quarter will be to do so under such watchful vigilance as shall make the crimes of the professional offenders as difficult as hazardous. I do not believe you can deal by education, by help of missionaries of church or any deno mination, or of both in union, by any known machinery for ' good,' with beings such as these, herded together in such places. Yon may starve them out by police action. It is vain to hope to do much more." THE SPAWNING SEASON IN THE ETTRIGH.-0/1 Thursday and Friday last the wind blew a violent gale from the westward, and was accompanied by heavy showers of rain which had the effect of raising the waters to heavy floc L As they began to subside, the preemies of immense numbers of newly-run fish was observable, especial'' , in the Ettrick, where no fewer than fifty heavy salmon were counted making the sweat of Selkirk Cauld at one time. On Friday evening a hard frost set in, and by Sunday the waters were mooing pretty clear, and the salmon had freely token to the spawning beds. Immediately opposite the town of Selkirk an interesting scene is now attracting great num. hers of spectators. On • reach of fine spawning water, the fish, mostly of from 161 b. to 30Ib. weight, are liter rally fighting for room to deposit the spawn ; and many of the " kippers " beer evidence that they are far from having escaped scatJalem, large wounds being noticeable on their holies. Since the commencement of the season, when the fish arrive from the sea, they have continued unusually numerous, but at no time have they at all approached, either in size or number, what they are at present. Whether the increase is fully accounted for by the more efficient means taken for the protection of the fish during the last two seasons, may be a matter for specu lation ; but the fact is unmistakeably apperent, that each . returning spawning season—at least so far s the Ettrick is 1 concerned—shows that fish of the salmon kind are rapidly inereasing.—RdinGurgia Courant. THE STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRA DE. —BIRMING HAL DWI 24.—The preliminary meeting of the ironmuters of South Staffordshire and Said Warwickshire was held to. day at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton, Philip Williams, p Esq., in the chair. A resolution was unanimously to adhere to the old scale of prices for all descriptions of (imbibed boa MUSIC. • HER MAJESTY'S - THEATRE. ingthion to the usual Christmas performances el the Messieth, there was one last night (Christmas eve) at Her Majesty's Theatre. In one respect—the quality of the principal iogsre—it was by far the most effective perform ance of the season. There was Mullis. MMus, now unrivalled lv oratorio gauging u in everything else ; there was Mr. Sims Reeves, "the great English tenor," and there were Miss Palmer and Mr. Bentley, who have no superiors in their respective capacities of contralto and bus. The chorus was not egos' to the thoroughly trained voices of the Seared Harmonic Society, who are accustomed always to sing together, whereas this was a body of singers got together fora carti osier ocessioo. But their singing, nevertheless, thanks to Mr. Benedict's skill and Sunned% was on the whole very eaddsotory. The instrumental band, too, was of adequate strength, end contained many of our most eminent per formers. Titiens was in splendid voice, and sang with all her accustomed power and pads= Sims Reeves also pat forth all his strength ; and Mies Palmer and Mr. Bentley acquitted themselves admirably. All the performers were loudly applauded, bat there were happily no encores. There was an immense audience, every part of the theatre bedng crowded to exam. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMI3I3I 25, 1862. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. The Saxonia and the city of Manchester sail to-morrow for Europe, the former with 340,000 dots., and the latter with 458,000 dole, in specie. Stocks were dull and heavy at the sr mud board, Chicago and Rock Island, 811; Mtlwsnkie and Prairie do Chien (2nd preferred), 81; Cleveland sad Pittsburg, 43 ; Illinois Central scrip, 785 ; Michigan Souther* Guaranteed, 834 ; Michigan Southern, 394 ; Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 1121 ; New York Ceatral, 1031 ; Hodson, 764 ; Erie, 61i; Illinois war ken, 105 ; Tennessee Sixes, 54 ; Minoan Sizes, 524 ; Treasury, 7 3-40, 1034 ; United States Sizes, one year certificates, 97 ; United States Fives, 1874, Coupons, 92 ,• United States Sits , 1881, Coupons, 1044 ; Gold, 31g. Exchange, 145, 1455. Cotton quiet, sales X 3 bales, at 66gc. to 67c. for middling uplands. Flour sales. 10,800 barrels. Late and Western open 1 quiet, and closet. dull and heavy. Superfine State, 5.75 dots. to 6 dole. ; extra ditto, 6.15 doles. so 6.30 doh. ; ronndhoop Ohio, 6.75 do 6.8:1 dots. ; extra Westes a, 6.25 dots. to 6.60 dols. ; Southern unchanged; sees 850 barrels. Canada bolsi y ; nits 520 barrels. Wheat dull and lravy, and la. lower ; sales 79000 bushels. Chicago spi g, 1.22 dohs. to 1.29 dais. ; •Milwaukie Club, 1.27 dots. to 1.34 dole. ; amber, lowa, 1.35 doL to 1.365 dol.; winter red, Western, 1.40 dot to 1.44 dol.; amber, Michigan, 1.45 doL to 1.47 dol.; good white, Michigan, 1.55 dol. ; Canada club, 1.30 dol.; handsome amber w otcr Bette, 1.46 g dol. Corn heavy, and 10. lower; sales, 96,000 bushels ; mixed Western, 760. to 765 c. for sbippiag, sad 64c. for unsound. Oats quits active and firm ; sates , 125,000 bushels, at 670. to 70c. Beef quiet ; sales, 200 bbls. Pork more active, and firmer ; 6.450 bbls.; mess, 14 doL to 14.25 dol.; prime, 11.625 doL to 11.75 doL; Waste= prime mess, 13 doL to /6 doL Cut meato firmer sad 1:00111•CiiVO; sales, 1 00,0001 b.• shoulders. at 45c. to 41e. 1,000 Irwin hams,ai Bc. Bacon quiet ;sales,4,Boo bezel. a. 7c. :or Cumberland eat, Bic. far Cisiy long clear, . and ::4c. to 9a. for Westemn City short ehar. Dressed hogs firmer ; sales at 51c. to 54c. for Western. Lard unchanged ; sales 920 bbls. Butter steady. Whiskey heavy ; sales 500 bb's. at 381 e. to 39c. Rios more waive ; males 120 ban at 6c. to 7c. duty paid, 400 ditto ai 55e. to 540. in bond. Sugars steady ; sales 500 hhds. New Orleans at 84c. to • 114 c., iacludi ig 125 hhds. by auction at 9.94 dole, to 11.31 do's. Coffee quiet and steady ; sales 800 bags Rio .at 29c. to 32c. Molasses steady ; sake by suction 650 bbls. New Orleans at 275 e. to 34c., and 50 hhds. Porto Rico at 39c. to 425 e. Freight; to Liverpool very doll. Cotton nominal ; dour. le.ll 9d. ; grain, 7gd. to Bd. in bulk and chip's begs. Wool du NEW YORK, Dec. 13 . The stock market was very dull yesterday, and Priem were a fraction lower. The feature of the market was general indisposition to do business. Gold fell to 1311 ; exchange to 145. Money wan in demand at 6to 7 per cent. Cotton was steady yesterday, and the tendency of prices was downward. There was much less activity in flour, wheat and corn, prices of which declined slightly. The demand for pork was brisk, and 6,000 bbls. were sold, mem closing at 14.25 dolt per bbl. Beef and lard were lees active and drooping. Bacon was mote freely pur- chased and was 6.-m. A good demand existed for gunny cloth. There was more activity in ingot copper and Straits tin, at advancing prices. The freight market wee dull, and tendency was towards lower rates. [ln the American telegram from Mr. Renter, published in our impression of yesterday, the fol lowing avers respecting General Butler : "In Eliy last the French consul at New Orleans writes to K Mercier, the French minister at Washington, that General Butler made nee of the most extraordinary language in addressing him. His first words were almost always, I will hang you,' Or will send you to Fort Jackson.'" Extra ordinary language this undoubtedly would have been ; but we now learn that General Butler never THE REPRESENTATION OP TOTEM. Little was done in Texas on Tueeday except by the telegraph clerks, who were kept pretty haul at work by the Duke of Somerset and his spat. The liberal = m edia( tolerably secure of the seat, inasmuch as it to the duke," have determined that it world be Mammas to take any public steps towards filling up the vacancy until after the funeral of the Earl of Gifford. Morarer, Oluistnias week is not the most 'citable of sea. sons he essemeneang a airfoil. It is dangerous work oar nab* when • C7hrielenr-box may be construed into • bribe. The liberal party in Tote's abhors bribery when " the duke's seat" hue to be filled up. Hie geese's as... is sufficiently potent to dispense with en eepenctiture of oratory or gold. The electors of MA ME) never require oocrincing on such an ocauion, the duke's recommendation and the penalties of not accepting that re, snmendation being gaits sufficient. Mr. Alfred Seymour, who to all accounts is to be the liberal candidate, beers not only the ducal name, but will have the ducal imprimatur. He wee to have arrived in Tones on Tuesday, but he was tele graphed to that he bad better defer his visit till next week. Is is not probable that anything will be done this week, nor is it thought likely at present that the con mortarless will attempt to contest the seat. Some statistics of the late *Union have jut been published by each of the two parties, which have now an addi tional interest. The total number of electors is 345. Mr. Pander maned 171 votes, Mr. Dent 5, and 169 electors did not vote. The liberals declare that of these 169, 18 would not have polled ; 14 "at least" promised to von for Mr. Tendee ; leaving 137 for Mr. Dent Thus, ate cording to the liberal calculations, had Mr. Dent gone to the pal, Mr. Tender would have received 185 votes, Mr. Dent 142. giving the former a majority of 43, which is 36more than Mr. Mills obtained at the poen , election of 1.859. The conservatives, on the other hand, declare that they have • clear majority of five votes, after giving , the Duke of Somerset " every particle of influence he can poisibly enforce." Thus they make up their return—" Mr. Tender received 171 votes ; five more would pro bably have voted for blur if hard pressed `making • total of 176. 15 of this number had promised Mr. Dent, and only • voted for the sake of voting, which would have rodent' Mr. Tender's majority (query total ?) to 16L 169 then rumens to be accounted for: 18 refused to vote on either side, and 151 ware staunch supporters of Mr. Dent; deduct the 15 who voted as • matter of indifference for Mr. Pander, thus 166 voter remained for Mr. Dent, giving him a majority of 5." It must be confessed that this conservative majority is decidedly shaky, and we are more than ever in clined to compliment Mr. Dent on his good common sen.e in refusing to contest • borough in which fifteen electors are so "indifferent" that they will vote contrary to their promise. We suppose that this fifteen must have Waned to the Lipstein Anociation, and having bees baulked of their money by Mr. Dent's wise retirement, voted out of spite for his opponent But this sort of gentlemen are trot to be relied upon, and although they may have promised Mr. Dent, they wen no doubt open to negotiations from the other side. It appears that out of the whole register of 345 electors, no less than 98 are tenants of the Duke of Somerset, and of these 88 voted at the last election for Mr. Pander, although there was no mutest Thus two-sevenths of the whole constituency is at the bidding of the ducal agents. Nevertheless, Totnee did in times past return a con servative in conjunction even with the present Duke of Somerset, then Lord Seymour. In 1839 there was • double return, Mr. C. Barry Baldwin and Mr. Wm. Blount' each polling 142. This election was declared void, sad at the succeeding one, which took place in April, 1840, Mr. Baldwin (conservative) was elected by • majority of seven votes. At the general election the following year Lord Seymour and Mr. Baldwin were returned without • contest. In 1847 a sharp fight took phin ; but while ford Seymour polled 28D, the other liberal candidate, Mr. Samson Ricardo, polled only 151, and wee beaten by Mr. Baldwin, who Polled 154. The last-named gentleman was, however, beaten in 1852 by the late Mr. Mills, and for the la t ten years the ducal interest ham been too strong for the con servative party.— Western Morning News. nssmurioN IN SKYE. The following minute has been published on behalf of the Free Presbytery of Skye : At a meeting of the Free Presbytery of Skye and Uist, bold at Parkes on Wednesday, the 17th curt., the mem bers were engaged for some tame in considering the present state of the people of their bounds in Skye, with respect to means of switenance ; and came unanimously to the follow ing findings : 1. Having entered into conversation on the condition and prospects of the people of their respective snipe gations, it was speedily found that the minds of all the brethren had been deeply exercised for some time past on this painful subject ; that many individual cases have now been reported by each one of the brethren present, of such a nature as fully to show that immediate relief is necessary for the preserve- Um' of life, and that these cases have hest toted to exist in the following districts of Skye, viz., Kilmuir and Sten scholl, Suizort, Brarsdale, Parsee, Strth, end Sleet, with the north end of Ramsay and the Island of Rona; that in the absence of the Rev. Yr. of Duiriniah, the brethren preset moot undearaketo give any precise state ment of the rooditioia of that district, but that generally speaking the brethren have no reason to think that matters it some parts there are really in a better state than in the districts already mentioned. 2. That the brethren severally have been making pretty eztensive and awful survey of the present and prospective COP ditioa of the people of their own bounds respectively ; and that it has been found that, painful as are the owe already referred to, these cannot be said to form, by any maws, the bulk of what must, in course of a few weeks hence, be the amount of actual destitution of food, and the danger to health and life in three districts. 3. That while the means of snbsisteoce to the hulk of the people of this island are at lust but scams sad bare, a sucoessioe . . of three years very novella' and edemas to crops and fallings has this season reduced the bulk of the people to circumetaeces in which very many families are absolutely and painfully unable to supply to themselves the means of subsistence; and that, with all that can be supplemented by the daily Labotus of as many among them as are competent to earn ordinary wages, there is still presented to the minds of the brethren a prospect of human suffering, for the next six months at least, which they cannot contemplate without greet satiety. 4. That conflicting statementa on this subject having obtained publicity, the brethren feel bound, es mat ter of obligation and duty, to make equally public what, to their own personal observation and knowledge, is the true and actual state of the case ; and knowing further that cor rect information on this subject is desired by many Chris tian members of society, they resolved thetas extract of these resolutions shall be offered to the newspaper press of the country ; amain they feel at liberty to take this step without testifying to their own dread of any public systematic mode or process al gratuitous distribution of food, even in times of necessity, as being, notwithstanding all exertions to the contrary, exemdiogly dangerous to the interests of mo rality and religion alike. The brethren of this Presbytery hereto subsenbing agree to lay the case before the Chris tian benerolence of their country at large, and io the full confidence that from that source sufficient shall be provided from smell' Tae Nsw GOVERNMENT Omens. —Yesterday some 200 men were (missed in completing the extensive I foundations for the future foreign, colonial, and other Government offices. The magnitude of the works may be estimated from the fact that the same number of men have been employed daily during the last six months on the ' foundations, under the contractors, Mews. llelk and Loris, the area extending from the park and the Privy Council-Mike in Whitehall, on the one aids, up King street to Charlerstreet, the remnitieg depot, up to the site formerly occupied by the State Paper and Stationery office, extending over a surface of several thonseed Immo* feet. The foundations throughout are laid in 14ft. deep of solid concrete, being equal to that on which the Houses of Parliament are built. In one place where the ground was treacherous the foundation had to be carried down to a depth of 30 feet. Preparations are being made by Mr. Scott, the architect, for constructing the building after the designs selected by Lord Palmerston and the committee of the House of Commons, is the Palladian style. The build ing will be so constructed as to be made available at it proceeds for the public business. The cotton question is giving our generals a great deal of trouble in Tennessee and Mississippi. So keg as boyars are allowed to follow the flag, it seems impossible to keep army officers from taking a hand in speculations, and this, of nouns, leads to corruption. General Grant has ermoluded to try a new plate, which may work better then say age of the old onee. He has determined to have all cotton bought, shipped, and sold on amenat of the swot, paying the owners a fair pries, and trend t►e milts to the Tressary department—lfisseari popsy. NAVAL AND IDLITABY. ADWIDAIBV, Deer. 24,—APPOINTIMXTIL —Lieut.- emu F. B. Raishimr, to the Firefly ; sod W. H. Heaton, to the Bowe& Master V. F. Johnson, to the Malawi. Mader M. 8. Guy, to be additional to the PU PA Surma De. J. Deriding, to the Memos& Armatttam 8. & O. Hill, to the Hogue. J Clerks J. W. Bosom* to the Impregnable ; and G. J. Van; to the Hawke. Mr. M. Jame We boss soraisaled kr a naval ea ist• ship. Dia 24.. r 7 His Netherlands Majesty's screw corvette jam L a 16 gam, Captain Van Rees, arrived at Spithsad this morn ing from Nissand for Rio de Janeiro and Aus tral., having a terrific gale of wind in the North Sea on y sad Seterday last. She lost her mill i anchor, and shells; lam boats were stove in, and her me obiaery dewed On the ?and instant she fish in with the Iloglish schooner Orlando, of Jersey. laden with and bound from St. Michael's to Hall, tobßy masted, off the Hinder Bank. She took the mermaer in tow and brought her to moorings in Dour roads. Ifs corvette, on anchoring at Spithead, ea- salutes with the garrison and thigehip of the coca in-chief, and her captain was afterwards presented to the naval and military authorities of the port and pr elim by the Chevalier Vanden Berg, the Dutch coeval. The Djaniki wee towed into harbour this afternoon to repair dime spa The ?gin, 4, Oldness screw-vessel, sailed this morning at daylight fur the Thames. The Himalaya, iron screw troop-ship, Captain L Lacey, was nada-kid to-day after repair. CHATHAM, Duo. 24. The prooeedinga and finding of the general court martial which assembled at this garriton for the trial of First Lieutenant J. M i ßedlelv, Royal Marines, having been approved by the Admiralty, the sentence wee promulgated at headquarten today. The primmer was found guilty as all the charge', and he (wee senteemed to be dimmed bar Majesty's aervies. WOOLWICH, DR). 24. The steam troop-vessel Megtera, Commander i Henderson, having embarked detechments from various regiments for Malta and Gibraltar, left the harbour this morning for her dsstinatioo. She has also taken out a large amount of provisions and other stone for the Medi terranean fleet, and for serious stations. Mr. Thornton, muter shipwright at this dockyard, hn been directed to superintend the completion of a tartlet COM issoced some months winos, and intended to be &Red in the am off the practice range at Shosburynees, for the pet tiest of tasting the 300-pounder muzzle-loading Arm strong gun forwarded from the Royal Arsenal about a fortnight since. The thick teak and oak backing of the target will be cased with 4i-inelt plates, manufactured of the best description of metal at the Thames iron-works, BlackwalL At the suns time, experiments will be made with Whitworth and Armstrong heavy guns, directed against a target which will be cased with sections of five, six, and even seven inches iron plates, in order to fully demonstrate the power of rifled ordnance versus iron. The afield competitive trial between Sir W. Armstrong and Mr. Whitworth, in the presence of the ordnance select committee and a special deputation of artillery, engineer, and naval officers, will, it is understood, take place with 100-pounder guns during the month of January, and is looked forward to with mach Interest Has MaJaarv's SHIP Oontratoa.—A private letter from Rum Cay, Be at which place will be remembered the One new p-of.dthe-lise Cuequeror wee tota , ly wrecked last Otnietinasene, states that the wreekets are *All working at the remains of the unfortunate vowel ; but, owing to the bad position in which she lies, in the most exposed and roughest portion of the surf, rely little had yet been sewed. The screw had not been recovered, though a coneiderable quantity of copper and other metal had been saved from the fragmente mattered ever the bottom and aloe. the shore. No part of the hull is viands above water, although the divers say that a great portion of the lower deck end bottom still remains intact on the spot where the ship first struck. All attempts to blow her up by submarine explosion had proved ineffectual from want of proper apparatus or competent persons. W honorer a ship of war had been there it had been too rough for them to render much auistance, and it was thought the wreck would furnish occupation to the wreckers for some yens to come. THE SUSPECTED DEATH PROM VIOLENCE ON BOARD SHIP. Yesterday evening, Caplais Stone , the master ; Lewis US; the chief mate ; and Heary Preede, the boatswain, of the ship Martha Pope, were charged at the Thames police-court with causing the death of William Curtis, the steward ; and after the evidence had been taken, Mr. Woolrych said this was a very important cams for the ends of Justice and for the parties accused. The 'widows of great violence having been done to the deceased was positive. He took the whole of the facts together, and he felt bound on those facts to remand all the prisoners until Tuesday next, and to decline the responsibility of taking bail for either of them. Cnaurrwas DAY IN LONDON.—The sir to-day is as mild as in April, and the sun shines with almost summer heat and brilliancy. The streets, however, are damp and dirty. The churches were well attended this morning, and the thoroughfares are tilled with throngs of people. CHEISTILIE-DAY IN GREENWICH HOSPITAL—This morning the in-panicroers of Greenwich Hospital, numbering nearly 2,400, were mustered and inspected br the lieut.- governor of the institution. After attending Divine service the veterans proceeded to the dining-halls, each man being provided with 11h. of scan beef, vegetables ad Mauna, plant pudding, and a qua of strong ale. This tout is in addition to the usual MONS of mutton, soup, and potatoes. The ordinary quantity of beer was served out in the afternoon. A quantity of snuff and tobacco was also farnided to those persons who are consumers of such elides. ORRIMMAII-DAY IN THE PRISONS. NOtWith amain the periodical gaol deliveries which have taken Onse anew tbe New Baohuptcl Act a considerable num ' err dishier, will spend their Christmas this year under the grandlenship of the metropolitan sheriffs. But even to time*, mem brings some share of gladness and good sheer, and if the provision made for than by the beano- Ima be somewhat lea bountiful than formerly, that fact is denbtlens owing to the comforting thouela that their rased position is so much ameliorated thist ft no longer mode the some Whitten eonsideratico. Yesterday the lad Mayor, in accordance with time-honoured mutant, sent a ieatiou of materials for a Christmas dinner to the in mates of Whitecrouttneet Prison. The present consisted of a substantial allowance of rout beef, bread, and vege. tables sufficient for every prisoner within the walla. The number of prisoners incarnerated io this the City prison amounts to seventy-eight, and as those of their body that can afford the luxury of a private banquet &dim to partake of the Lord Mayor's bounty, their his fortunate brethren Native a superabundant allowance. Only 21 prisoners spend to-4*y in the debtors side of the lioreeroonger.lase gaol. rd tl• ow divide amongst them selves two bequests left to daresy prisoners for Christmas = a Mr. Arthur Mouse, and • Mistress Jemima during the last century. These bequests. however, were prudently limited in amount, doubtless from • hy gienic consideration of the dangers of high feeding where there can be nooxerrise The sum left by tbefrugal Mistress Meekett is only 13a. 4d. per year, whilst the magnanimous Mouse left but 12s. These stipends, supplemented by if., according to custom from the Archbishop of Canterbury, are all that the hapless wiehts in custody of the Surrey sheriffs are afforded to supplement their ordinary rations. The sponging-houses are said to be unusually full. Their inmates are dependent entirely on their own resources for whatever of Christmas merriment they may enjoy. The Queen's Bench is absolutely deserted. The large bequests left to the prisoners are unappropriated this Christens& They are by the act of parliament. under which the Beech was closed last September plead at the disponi of the Lord Chancellor. THE REPRESENTATION or EAST KENT.—The com mittees of both the candidates are actively prosecuting the canvass in behalf of their respective eanSdata, and both profess to be equally sanguine of anceens. Is the towns the strength of the liberal caodrdate, Sir Edward C. Daring, is pronounced to be unassailable, while the country districta are looked upon as the strongholds of Sir Norton Kutch bull The past week has been devoted by the candidates themselves chiefly to addressing the freeholders and electors in the various polling districts, but Sir Edward Deriog, in this respect, amain to have the advantage of hie hoe, op ponent, and is received with greater favour by the bulk of the electors. Sir John Tylden, an old Kentish reformer, has booed an address is favour of his friend, Sir Edward Dewing. BERADALBANE BeTATES.—We (Perthshire Courier) understand that the Earl of Breadaltane does not intend to take up his residence at Taymonth Castle at present. He intends to let both the castle and the shootings belonging to the estate. The latter alone are estimated to bring up wards of 10,000/. The 'occasion duty payable by the earl ttootph s e rt govsegment will beg per cent. on the value of the Kura s CoLLEGE, LONDON.—The professorship oft Exegesis of the New Testament, is this epilogs, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Tery . Rev. Dean =coil to the bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol, has been cow ' forred upon the Rev. Edward Hayes =Cm et ILA, of Bmageore College, Oxford. The prole Pereiedie Theology, lately held by Plumptre, has deelessi recent. LLANELLY.—A public discussion on the gllagygi a " Which are the more deserving of our tie Northern or the Southern States of Morris fool off in connexion with the Meckanies' In Yds town. The discussion continued ever thseselahla. Eel wee emsdneted throughout in perfect good fee** ela the grasition to the vote, the chairmen Isdkvel Id i tt North had carried it by a large majority. Sao wggbop sodium at each of the zositisp. 11. MONEY SARE7I7-(THI6 DA.T4 Christmas-day being a dose holiday, we into an report to make tiger this head. The conmacrefal demand for money has increased, owing partly to the approach of two or three Week days as regards business, combined with the tempo rary disturbance incidental to a season when nest persons endeavour to make the balances at their bankers as large as posaible. In Lombard-Mama the rates yesterday for good bills were 24 to'3 per cent. At the Bank of England the amount of businers was considerable. About 8,0001. in gold was bought by the Bank yesterda. • The Lo y ndon and North Western Railway tradie return shows this week an increase of 1,1591. It is announced that the marine department of the Commercial Union Assurance Company will commence operations on the Ist of January. The interest at the rake of 6 per cent per annum on the shares of the Ottoman Railway Company is advertised for payment in due course. With reference to the market for American serer rides Mr. E. F. Battarthwaite reports as follows : There bas bum a 'Seedy mortal is Leaden for Megrims essurities during the past week, and quotatioes nimain almost unaltered. We have had more inquiry for WM' common sad pawed (hares, from the apart whisk Yr obtained circulation that a dividend will be declared at tile , end of this year en the pegerred. The Peesglvania beer of Atlantic and Great Welders hoods are at 71, re a=, par east premium ea the pries el iamb, taking the on paying up in fall ieto emalmatios. The bon& as the Now York sectioa are aria at 74, carrying the Jemmy maims, which are advertied to be paid by Messrs. Hey. wood, Benemds, lied 00.. at 4a. per dollar, is accordance with spiniest to that (bet From Mr. James Low's Indian circular we ex tract the following, which show the exports el specie to the East from Great Britain for 12 yam% and from the Mediterranean ports fur 10 years : From Great Britain for 12 years : 1851, gold. 102,2044 aim, 1,716,1001. ; 1852, gold, 921,7391. ; silver, 2,630,239 1 .; 1853, gold, 880,202/. ; silver. 4,710.6654 , _• 1864, 11. 11,174,2991. • silver. 3,132,0034 ; 1856 . gold. *KIM ; silver, 6,404886 i. ; 1856, gold, 404,7491. ; silver, 12.118,9861. 1867, gold, 269,275/. ; silver, 16,795,232/. ; 18l$, gag. 168,3051. ; silver. 4,7 8 1, 9231. •18•59, gold, 788,26 W. ; silver. 14,828,5211. ; 1860„ 1,669,746/. ; silver, 8,C0 , 9,27111. 1861, gold, 783, • silver, 6,838.2921. ; 1862, 014 1,631,n31. ; giber, 9,864,0561. Total geld, 9,742,4121. ; total silver, 91,864,1801. From the Mediterranean ports for 10 years : 1853, gold, 93,5261. ; silver, 848,362/. ; 1854, gold, 48,456/. • silver, 1,451,0141. ; 1856, gold, 243,2397. ; silver, 1.524,3406.; IMB, gold, 74,0391. • silver, 1,11410,9161. ; 1857, gold,. 259,9861. ; giver, 3,35(),6891. ; 1868. gold, 165,1101. ; elver. [ 911.0431 ; 1860, gold, 142,1441. ; diver, 1,521,9701. • 1864, gold, 765,1381. ; silver, 2,764,05 g ; 1861, gold, 64 , i,9341. ;„ silver, 2,021,0601. ; 1862, gold (including shipments per Mar serge , [min . :riga de France), 1,488,920/. ; silver ilooladn , ins shipments per Yeseageries Imphiales de Feracel, i 4,173,6761. Toed geld, 3,925,6141. ; total silver, 20,556,024 d, WZDNESDAT EMTigG. Consols, which closed yesterday siiiii to ez div, both for money and the Bth January, opened and closed to-day at 924 to f . The official business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Console, for money, 924, , ex div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 92f, # ; New Three per Cents., 9'4, 1, d ; Bank Stock, 2321 ; India stock , 22 54, ex div. for open ing ; ditto Five per Cent. eloek, 1084 ; ditto Bonds, 265., 295. r .; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1001, #, ; Four per Cent. enfacee rupee paper, 95 ;di Five per Cent., 1064, t, ; ditto Fiie-and-a-Half per Cent., 1124. The India Five per Cent. Stock was quoted 108 to 4, ex div., India Bonds 265. to 29e. prem., and Exchequer Bills, 9s. to 13s. prem., being Is. lower than yesterday. Foreign stocks were firm, with a favourable ten dency. The shares of the Bank of London were again in demand today, and were officially marked 100, or 100 per cent. premium on the amount paid. The demand extended to the shares of the Alliance Bank and Imperial Bank, but Bank of Australasia, Bank of'Hindustan, and London Joint Stock Bank were quoted rather lower. Crystal Palace and Rio Improvements shares were firm, while Netherlands land and Royal Mail Steam showed heaviness. Ocean Marine shares closed to-day at 61 to # prem. • Thames and Mersey, 2 9-16 to 11-16 prem.; Universal, 1* to Wis. • North British and Mercan tile, 15 to 4 ; Commercial Union, to *prem. ; and London and Provincial Marine,4dis. to par. The closing quotat;ons for shares in new under takings were as follows :—London and Northern Bank, par to pm. ; English and Iris)) Bank, dia. to p ar; Bank of !kinds, Panisub, and Delhi, per toprem. ; Bristol and South Wales Zinc Smelt ing, to 1 prem. ; &cif ti Financiers of Egypt, ito # prem. ; London, Birmingham, and South SS& fordshire Bank, # to # prem. ; and Oil Wells d Canada, 4 to 1 prem. Queensland Government Bonds were rather morn offered. Maryland Five per Cent.. were inquired for. MINES.-(THIS DAY. The Stock Exchange is closed to-day. An extraordinary meeting of the Rhyacog Mining Company (Limited) is called for the 2ud Jan., to consider the propriety of winding up the under taking. At Bedford trailed Mass thres-montlily general mewl: bg isidaday, the swanks showed a balance in Land 40 1,202/. 3a 3 d., and as estimated balance in fayonr of the mine before the next weeds' of 1,0171. 2s. Bd. A divides& of 2a, fid. par share was desisted. At Marton Downs twwwwathly general meeting yester day, the somata 'hewed a Wanes in hand of 11W. 18s. sad as eMilasted beau* against the mine of 3s. 4d. A call of is. per share was made. RAILWAYS.—(THIS DAY.) The Stook Exchange is closed to-day. PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DSO. 14.—thiles to-day :—London and North Western, 105—Rona Pastern and Dover, 1161—Irie, 425--Santbre and Mame, 101. M DSC. !e.—The market was 'quiet. end prices stea Great Pastern, MIS I—Great Luxembourg, 14 1-16—Great NortNien A, IWl—Orest , Ship, Os. 9d. 6a 6th—Greet Western eg Cansda,l3l-14118—Oreat Weetern,o9l—Lancsaldre and Yorkshire, 10111 9—Aanchester and County Bank, 11 p —Mancleger, Med ial, rand Lincolnshire, 401—New York and Brie. 431—North Staffordshire. Mt d.—South Partern, ssi, s—Ditto, 41 peril cent. aged, 1025—Senibm and Lan ca shi re erp and Rotterdam. 71—San Paulo, paid up. !Si lnsurance. 1.16 p Bllansasam, IWO. Bs.—The sales today were of /Orman ham Canal, at 901 Birmingham Banking Company shares, at 161 ; Birmingham Joint Stock Bank (Limited), Sf ; and Britannia ISMS', AM. South Staffords closed, 11 to 111 y; Birmingham Gas, 144, Mayen; Staffordshire Gel. 100, burrs ; Metropolitan wagon buyers iot r oTiOr b tWe e e r' ximtVie d ol i the l' other share market., the ham Stock Exchange will be closed on Friday and Saturday after autanim-day, and re op ened for businest on Monday, the 881 k Id. ho list will, therefore, be published this week. The CONDI:WNW MUILDDRER OCEOLD.—WiIIiILIN Oekold. the old man easideuseed for executioo at tie leas wises for the murder of hie wife at Oldbury; continues to exhibit a calm demeanour, and pays special attention to the ministration of the chaplain, the Rev. J. Adßeece. As yet an intimatioe bee lime received from the secretary of state, and unless a reprieve be granted the dread sen tence will be carried out on Friday week, the second day of the new year. It remains to be seen whether three persona who have usually expressed abhorrence at capitol punishment will memorialise the Home Secretesy on the matter.— Worcester Chronicle. A Cosnacrenierrio PassErr.—The United Cooke Pension Society have made a monster plum pudding, to be presented to the Leoreakire operatives. The authorities of Marylobnoe Union lent one of their large boiler.. The dimensions of the mould were 3ft. tin. in depth, Mt. lin. over top. 21t. gin. in bottom, 10ft. 211 n. in circum ference in top, and Bft. 4in. in circumference at bottom. The ingredients were 13016. of currants, 130Ib. of sultanas, 21016. of flour. 1:30Ib. of suet, 80th. al peel, 80th. of sugar, 1,040 eggs, 8 gallons of ale. 41b. mixed spice, lib. of ground ginger—gross weight about 900th. The pudding will be at the Amber Tavern, Olisapsids, on Friday, and roman wilt Monday following, to be promoted on Nay Yeer'rday. DESPATCH Or AIIIIRICAN AND CANADIAN Mena. —Yesterday, the Lamm steamer City of Washington wan despatched from the Mersey for New York, with mails feu the United States., together with passengers, cargo, he. To day (Thursday) the Noetreel Oesaa Steamship Cowpony's Ammer Nova Booties will leave Liverpool for Talked with mails for Canada and the United Stake. Os Ms day the British and North American Royal Mail Steamship Company's steamer Africa will be despatched trout the t% for Baotou, with mails for the United Nato. bes at the Liverpool Peet-office will be for this somplion of lettere, ha, until 10 a.m., and NA till 8.30 p.m. without, and with late tees of one pansy tilt L3O p.m. • Simla raex svu.—This applies to the 160. .I.o2ATweeters corralled by Alfred Webb Mile% WIN= eati I L ia 73 13eoo etre* Ream erequen, g rlid on the leo, root i'ilt 'ail owl ii.d. .$