The Press. — London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

MA An Accc for the Rotes it Pro Pee Rest .- Public I Other D Seven ID Bills • Inel Nations: 3 per C. , Ditto fol 3 per Ce 3 per C Long Al Beek Su Osmium Etch. 6i InJia Do Brasilia Danish Dtch. ( F. French Do. E Mexican Peruviai Portugui Russian Spanish T:irkish RAU Aberdee Bina. Wt Bristol a Caledoni Chester Cork ant Dubin East Ani Eutern East LSI Eastern Great N, Gt. Std. Great W Lancash Lon., Til Lon., Br London London Midland Newmax Newry a Norfolk North B North Si North.A Wr Scottish Scottish South II South.E South ti r.outh Waterio isci Austral Canada Crystal Crystal I North B Feel Ri &Twat South Vim ties BAN] street, BANI Wttu t: osmiL mission Cevele+ Ds.c.os boys& Bath-st H +EI! PETtit broker Buena , sox. gi Lirerpi SCOI it0..1 fen s DSs of Glas 'Rona BAN butehei sub—] Fenebe - -Eby _sew ou „„ IioDL MARCH 15, 1856. DANK OF ENGLAND. As Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32 for the week ending on Saturday, the 4th day of March, 1826. netts DTPARTMILNT. Notes issued .... 1T2:,3e4,820 Government Debt 111,015,100 Other Securities 3,459,9 M Gold Coin it Bullion 9,909.52 e Silver Bullion .... £24,331,620 i BANKING DKPARTNZNT. £24,5151,G2G ProprietoneCapital‘l4,s63,ooo Government Seem Rest ............ ,792,370 rities (includin Public Deposits*.. 4,376.186 Dead Weight-Mil i 11.451,006 Other Deposits .. 13,286,064 Other Securities 18,926,343 Seven Day tt other *cites Bills -- £36,784,739 £36,784,759 issioners of • Including Exci;ecitter, Savings Banks, Col National Debt, and Dividend Accounts BRITISH FUNDS.— Closing Prices. OFFICIAL QUOTATION. Afon4L,Tuesd. Wed. Thurs. Friday 31i I 911 1 : 114 91f 911 f 92} i i 0211 ▪ -- -- "I -- -- . 92j j 0 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Acoonnt 3 per Cents Reduced 3 per Cent Long Allllllidel Beek Stock, 7 per Cent, Osmium Etch. Bills, 20. per die' InJis Bonds, (1,0000 , FO] Per Cent. .i •I - Brazilian - _ _ 6 Danish 5 Dtch. (Ex 12 Guil )2e French 3 Do. .. 41 Do. Bank Stock Mexican 3 Peruvian 4l Portuguese 4 Russian 5 Spanish 3 Torkish &cc 8 1p ild par Id par 0 7 3,1 [GN FUNDS. RAILIFALIS-• Aberdeen Bina. %QAT.* Stour Val Bristol aisd Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holynead Cork and Bandon Dublin ♦ Belfast Juno ] East Anglian Eastern I iiior. (B) East Lancashire Eastern Counties Great Northern Gt. Sch. and Wet of Ire. Great Western Lancashire* Yorkshire Lon., Tilbury, st Sthend Lou., Brighton, dtc London and Blackwall London and Nrth-Weet. 31:dland Neamarke►. Newry and Enniskillen Norfolk Nrzi,rn. Counties Union North British North Staffordshire \orth•Western Ott, Wrestr., and %Vole Scottish Central stottish - Midland - South Deccan South. E as tern ;I; dDuv: South. Western t.outh Wales . Waterford et Limerick )1 ISCILLAN t01:1 S Australian Agricultural Canada Mond. Trull Wed. —5 41101 e .4 - - 72:0 771f60e1T(30e: 94!20e94: c134:25e, E f 1. 1 121 -- 201 79 id I 431 281 961 1 971 SHARES. Mond. Tread. Wed. 26 726 7 i 351 64 8 1 8 2 11 8 i t: 87 9187 • iBf . 9 58 1 1 32 i 1159; 60, 12 -- 8112 3 12 3 3 2i.3 Id 121 3111111 31 22 4 Ile 4 71 3 171 3 9 1 1 1 8 4 I 92 3 :91 $ 03 5 103 I 601 11 60 1 1 1 83, 1 , 831 -- 1 -- 99 100 99 100 71 i 7 1 i 994100991100 691701 694 70 51 3 1 51 $ d. —d 30 1 t 8 81 30 }1 8 1 -- -- 24 $ 104 6 104 6 74 6 74 6 121 3i 121 31 786 7 92 1 3192 j 31 71 3 70 2 Cryital Palace Cr tl Palace of Fri • North BritiAris.Laud Feel Hirer Land & Scottish Aust. Invest. South Australian Land Vv. pitmen's Land .. 8d v i ssiiel 94: 20i 79i zd I - AO5 1 Is 1 4 1 22 113 i 4 I 71 X 19 11 92 3 :63 6, 61 9 . 1 &le 39 100 ! 7 I,' 9911000 831 701' 1 51-3 , 77tur. 26 7 112 13 2d 18 4 In 5 ;79 4 Ili lo4l 4 I ,Ins 41 :62f 3 ;d 5 i 1 92 101 71 i loot 70e I Friday. 114 20g 79 1 xcl 49t 103 98 I 'Si 3 130 1 el id' 1245 ,104 6, sni 1, Frid. 26 27 8 : 6? 00 601 124 3i 4 2 d 13 4 23 5 :2 4 Pi 1 I'3 4 104 6 6.1}. I 831 4 99 101 * 1 7 ° 1 In 5 ,104 I 17 8 lii. 3 1844 71 921 3i 170 2: 5:1 2. It} 3 93 9 98 4 '7O 2 23 6 IS 61 123 143 8 2 1 1 2 1 1 I 1 1 t it 35 1 121 I It 1 1 1 35 6 3 6 14, 14 14 SS SI 143 8 I' f 1 1 It t 45 6 114 5 1 Si — l l 30} lt 6s id 24i 5} 104 6 75 7 12i 3 68 9 93 4 143 0 24 e 2j 1, 36 e 14j 3 FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Mardi 11. BANIEREPTCY ANNCLLED.—Wiu.um Lranas, Wells nree. Orford-street. coachmaker. BANKRUPTS.—JoHN SEARLE, March, Isle of Ely, builder— Witutie DzAcos, Boxmoor, Hertford, brewer—SAmpsox Lucas bxxvita.z. Skinner's-place, Sise-lane, City, merchant and com mission sgent—Josa HAvivrx, Farningham. Kent, licensed vie tas.ler-11 txuast Hirroxisos and THOMAS Fuocrrox, Leaden h'll-"rvai City, ship and insurance brokers—Extza Goaros, Caland-street, Fitzroy-square, Middlesex. music smith— DAVID Dx.cos, Chum Middlesex, butche r -PATRICH SKIPFLISOTOX Dovitau.x, Twickenham, Middlesex, builder—Grosos Dzwtso, Eatb-strest, Newgate-street, City. printer and engraver—Gicoaoa Leolenhall-street, City, ship and insurance broker— PrTtit LRICRSTES, Essex -street, Strand, Midd _ lesex , metal br , :ker and commission agent--Joszeie HANCOCK r.vtles, Aber gunny. Monmouth, surveyor and budder—Autxa cDCa Stier sov. Ki ugston - upon-Hull, warehouseman—Joss atzIiARDSON, Liverpool. timber merchant SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—SISZON LORD and Co-, G low. London, and Rochdale. merchants and dealers in I.i-.llen cloths—Janus Gloms'. (deceased). Glasgow, writer— LI.,SSAY WEBSTKIL Dundee, silk mercer—Joss Hircius, late °f G iasKow, lodging and boarding h o u se k ee p e r, and publisher— Ta v sus DUNLOP, Musselburgh, saddler. Friday, March it. B . ANK RUPTS.—JAw MicitiE, Sleaforthonse, Battersea- Surrel. minist WILLIAM STEVENSON, Leicester, re tutcher—Cnast.t CANON, Lo • e-lane. Eastcheap, meat sales- BAtIER, Scarborough , draper—GEORGIE BOSH, "Incparch street. merchant —Twoit..s Paczw, Ludlow, builder cunlN Chel.ea. timber merchant. oTCH i.4 EQUESTRATIONS.—WILLUM Bxnw, Edin" ,7yb, b uilder —Ric-row A ircuisox Lander, merchant—Jaxas sn: Company, Crofthead of Nedston, Iterdrewskire—Jedura nsissys, Gu am Miter, deceased. THE PRESS. rcarkets. (Reportederelusively for "Taz Pazse.") CORN EXCHANGE—Very moderate supplies of home- grown wheat, chiefly in poor condition, have been on sale here this week. For all kinds we have had an improved demand, at an advance in the quotations of fully 4s to es per quarter. Foreign wheat—the imports of which continue limited—has sold to a fair extent, and prices have had an upward tendency, say 2s per quarter. There has been a good sale fcr barley, at is to 2s per quarter more money. Malt, however, has changed hands slowly, at the late decline in value. We have been fairly supplied with oats, in which only a limited business has been doing, at ed per quarter less money. loth beans and peas have moved off steadily, at very full prices. Flour has sold to a fair extent, and in some cases Norfolk qualities have realised rather more money—viz., 2s to 4s per sack. ENGLISH—Wheat, Essex and Kent red. sds to 725; white, 60s to 755; Norfolk and Lincoln red, Ma to 675. Malting barley, 36s to 41s ; grinding ditto, 29a to 31s; aistilling, 3.3 s to 355. Malt, 60s to 755. Feed oats, 22s to 235; potato, 23s to 28s. Rye, 44s to 47a. Tick beans, 32s to 3M; Harrow, 35s to Sds pigeon, 87s to 41s. Grey peas, 34s to 35s ; maple, 37s to 3ds; white boilers, 40s to 43a per quarter. Town made flour, 61s to 2135; country marks, 4ds to 34a; households, bits to 60s per 2801bs. BOND—On the 10th instant, at Leamington, the wife of Lieut.- Colonel Edward Bond, of a daughter. MONTOOMERY—On the Bth instant, at Grey Abbey, the Lady Charlotte Montgomery, of a son. MURRAY—On the 7th Instant, at Eastwoutl, Dunkeld, N. 8., Lady James Murray, of a daughter. SAVILE—On the 11th instant, at Foulmire Rectory, near Royston, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur S av il e , o f a d aug h ter. TIMBRELL—On the loth of January. at Benares, the wife of Captain C. W. Tunbrell, Bengal Artillery, of a daughter. ARRIVALS THIS WEEI. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Enclish ....1020 .. lel() .. 4880 .. ...ISO .. 870 Irish .... 3190 .. - Foreign bls. LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIO AY—Wbea4, 5,1'46 quarters, Ms 7d; barley, 1.949 quarters, 376 bd ; oats, 6,243 quarters, 216 Ild ; rye, quarters, ; beans, 888 quarters, 386 7d; peas, 473 quarters, 4us Ild. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat, 696 Ild ; bar ley, 33s Ild; oats, 246 Id ; rye, 46s 8d ; beaus, 406 10d; peas, 406 3d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 71s 7d; barley, 36s 8d; oats, 24s 2d ; rye, 495; beans, 42e 4d ; peas, 41e. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK—Wheat, 10094; barley, 81,7%3; oats, 24,808; rye, 139; beans, 6,242 ; peas, 1,293 quarters. BREAD—The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from gd to 9id; of household ditto, 70 to 84d per albs loaf. TEA—We have a very dull market for all kinds of tea, and to effect large sales lower rates must be accepted. Present rates are as follows: Congou, 9d to 2s 6d; sing Yong and Oolong, 10.1 to Is 10d; Souchong, Sid to 2s 6d; Flowery Pekoe, la 48 to 4s; Caper, to —; Scented Caper, Is 3d to Is lld; Orange Pekoe, to ; Scented Orange Pekoe, is 4d to as 8d ; Twankay, ad to is 2d ; Hyson Skin, ad to Is 2d: Hyson, Is 2d to 4s; Young Hyson, aid to 23 6d; Imperial, lld to 2s 4d; Gunpowder, ad to 3s fal; Assam, is Gd to 45 4d per lb. Up to Saturday last duty was paid on 10,922,724168, against 8,758,18iAbs last year. SUGAR—Our market has become rather heavy, and most kinds of raw sugar have changed hands at a decline in the quotations of folly Gd per cwt. Crushed is rather inactive, but not cheaper. The demand for refined goods is steady, at. 498 to 52s per :mt. COFFEE—Good ord native Ceylon is slow in sale at 50s to 51s per cwt. All other coffees are dull. The following are current rates :—Java, 438 to 535. Sumatra, Padang, and Batavia kind, 41s to 48s. Manilla, 448 to 4as. Mysore, 438 to 791 ed. Mocha, garbled, 70s to tits ; ungarbled, 568 to 625. Ceylon native sorts, ordinary to good ordinary,49B to 525; plantation kinds, good ordinary, 525 to 545; fine to line fineordinary, 55s to 60-4 ; middling to good middliLg, 618 to aut.. Jamaica, ordinary, 47. to 498 ; good to fine ordinary, 50s to 548 6d ; low middling to middling, stis to 64s ; good to tine middling, 658 to 90s. Costa Rica, ordinary to good ordinary, Ors to 525; fine ordinary, 54s to 568 6d ; fine fine ordinary to colory, 57s 6d to Gas 6d. St. Domingo. 468 to 495. Rinses and Cuba, or? inary to good ordi nary, 448 to 475; tine ordinary to middling, Ids to 60s. Porto Rico, 48s to 618. Rio, 40s to :Alt La Guayra, good ordinary to middling coloury. sos to 695. COCOA—This article is dull in sale, and may be purchased on lower terms. Red Trinidad is quoted at 458 to 508 per cwt. RICE—We have a better feeling in the demand, although the stock is 13,0.0 tons in excess of last year, and the quotations have imoro.ed 3d per cwt. Bengal, 9s 9d to 13s 9d; Madras, 96 to 10s 3d ; Ja7a, 13e 6d to 16s tid; Penang, 98 to 9s 6d ; and Arracan, 9s 6d to 10s 3d per cwt HEMP AND FLAX—Saran hemp has fallen in value 31 to 41 per ton. All other kinds of hemp are very dull. The flax market is extremely inactive. COTTON—There is leas doing in our market Prices, how- ever, rule about stationary. Surat, 4fd to Sid; Bengal 3.id to 4d ; and Madras, 41..1 to 4 ; d per lb. WOOL—The imports this week are under 600 bales, chiefly from the Cape. There is a very Arm demand by private con tract, at extreme quotations. METALS—Scotch pig iron has sold from 6Gs 6d to 68s per ton. Manufactured parcels are very firm. Rails, at the works, f-1 to 81 2s 6d ; common ban, 64 2s 6d to 81 5s sheets, single, in London, 111 10s to 121; hoops, 111 to 111 lOs ; and nail rods, 101 to 101 5s per ton. Tin moves off slowly—Bancs, lifoi to 1295; and Straits, 103 s to 1345. Tin plates are dull. I.C. coke, 340 s to 30s 60; I.X. ditto, 3d. to 36s 6d per box. There is a good demand for lead. British pig. 961 10. to 271: Spanish, 251 to 251 10s per ton. Quicksilver. is Bed to Is 9d per lb. Spelter moves off slowly, at 231 7s 6d to 231 10s per ton on the spot. Zinc, 301 10s to 311 per ton. SPIRITS—There is very little inquiry for rum—the stock of whioh is extensive—at barely the late decline. Proof Leewards, 2* to 2s 2d; East India, is 10d to 2s per gallon. Brandy is still dull, and lower to purchase. In the value of other spirits we have no change to notice. HOPS—Over 300 bales of foreign hops have come to hand this week. Fine new qualities are selling at fall prices; but in feriov kinds 040tiritle very dull. Mid and East Kent pockets, 41 Iva to 6110 s; Weald of Kents, 31 to 51; Sussex, 21 Its to 41 10, per cwt. POTATOES—The arrivals continue large, and the trade is heavy, as follows :—York Regents, 64.), to 808; Kent and Essex ditto, 53s to 70s; Scotch ditto, 60s to 70s; ditto reds, 50e to 605 per ton. Low qualities may be purchased at from 30s to 408 per ton. OlLS—Linseed oil, on the spot, 315 6d to 35s per cwt. Most other oils support last week's currency. Turpentine is a slow sale. Spirits, 328 to 3;s; rough, 9s to 9s 6d per cwt. TALLOW—Our market is very quiet, and prices are rather drooping. P.Y.C.,ou the spot, 57s to 'Xis 6d; and for the last three months, its per cwL Town tallow, 51s dd net cash. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS an EXCELLENT MEDICINE—Perfect digestion and pure bile produce good blood, and if the functions of either the stomach or the liver are disordered Holloway's Pills will assuredly repair the mischief, and enable them to supply the channels of circulation with an uncontaminated fluid. Then, in cases of Bile, Indiges tion,or Disordered Stomachs, why not use this invaluable re medy, which has cured thousands when every other medicine tailed! The number of years these pills have been in use con firm the efileac7 of their good effects. Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world; at Professor Heiloways Establishments, 244, .trend, London, and 80, Maiden•lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Constantinople; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir , Malta. COALS—HoIy-well, 138; Eden Main,l6B 3d; Haswell, 17s 9d; Lambton, 17s 3d; Stewart's 178 9d ; Hartlepool, 17s; Heugh Hall, 11s 3d ; Kenos, 16s 8d; Tees, 17s 94 per ton. METROPOLITAN CATTLE—The supplies of each kind of fat stock on offer this week have been but moderate. Gene rally speaking the trade has ruled steady at an advance in the quotations of 241 per bibs. Beet has sold at from Is 2d to 4s 84 ; mutton, Is 4d to Ss ; Teal, 4s 2d to Ss 8d; pork, de Gd to 4s 10d per sibs to sink the offal. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL These markets have been very firm, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 104 to 4s 2d ; muuo:), 2s 104 to 4s Id; veal, 3s 8d to Gs; pork, Is 2,1 to 4s bd per slbs by the carcase. KAILBIAGES. BLACK—SPOTTISWOODE--On the 12th of January, at St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, T. Black, Esq., Commander of the steam-ship Beard, to Helen Cecilia, second daughter of Lieut.- Colonel A. C. Spottiewoode, 8.N.1. MACINTOSH—MENZIES—On the 12th instant, at Edinburgh, Eneas Win. Macintosh, Esq., of Raiguiore, to Grace Ellen Augusta, daughter of the late Sir Neil Menzies, Bart. WA RING—GILL—On the sth instant, at St. Mary's, Bathwick, Bath, Captain Waring, of Chewton Priory, Somerset, to Louisa Gignac, daughter of T. Gill, Esq., J.P. DEATHS. ABBOTT—On the sth instant, at Bruges, Belgium, Elizabeth Louisa Jane, wife of Colonel Thomas Abbott. BEATTY—On the 11th instant, in Bloomfield-terrace, Harrow row, James Beatty, Esq., Engineer-in-Chief of the Crimean Railways, aged 36. BISHOP—On the 7th instant, the Rev. John Bishop, M.A., of Mereer's-terrace, tipper Holloway, aged 92. DRYSDALE--On the Nth instant, at Southampton, Isabella, wife of Captain John Drysdale, 42nd Royal Highlanders, now serving in the Crimea. JONES—On the 2t.h instant, at Brighton, Jenkin Jones, Esq., M.D., R.N., aged tic. LIDDELL—On the 9th instant, at Nice, the Hon. Thomas Lid dell, second son of the late Lord Ravensworth. MACLEAN—On the 11th instant, at Brampton, Louisa, daughter of the late Sir Lachlan Maclean, M.D., of Sudbury, Suffolk. 111 - ADAME JENNY GOLDSCH MIDT-LIND. itiL HANDEL'S MESSIAH. ESE fER-hALL, Much lA. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces list the oratorio of the Messiah will be given for the second and last timelat Eseter-hall, 011 TUESDAY EVENING next, March l"th Principal Singers : Madame Jenny Goldschmidt (it being her last appearance in Loudon until the nionthof May next), Miss Dolby, Mr. Lackey, Mr. Swift, and Mr. Weiss. The Chorus and Orchestra will consist of more than Six Hundred Performers. Conductor, M. Benedict. Prices of admisaicn:—Stalls (lumbered and Reserved), One Guinea. Unreserved Seats (Body of the Hall), We. Gd. West Gallery, 10s. 6d. Area (under West Gallery), la. The tickets will be appropriated according to the order of apphcation ; no more will be issued than the Room can conveniently accommo date. Doors open at Seven; to commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Correct Books of the Oratorio are given with the Tickets. Application for Tickets to be made at Mr. Mitchell. Royal Library, 33, Old Bond St•eet. LIENTON' . "111MEAN PH AtAPH C, _ .LOTOGs. _ -.S. NOW OPEN, at the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours. 53, PALL MALL, next the British Institu tion, the EXHIBITION of the 350 PHOTOGRAPHS taken in the CRIMEA, under the patronage of the Queen. by ROGER FE'N'TON, Esq. Admission, Is. From Ten to Six Gaily r PINCE'S CLUB RACQUET and TENNIS GROUNDS.—Gentlemen desitous of becoming Members are requested to communicate with the Secretary, Mr. Prince, 14, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, who will fur. nish every information. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4 Coventry-street, Leicester-square. Open (for gentlemen only) from Ten till rem, containing upwards of I,oou models and Preparations, illustrating every part of the Human Frame in Health and in Disease ; the Races of Men, etc. de. Lectures delivered at Twelve, Two, and Four, Morning, and at Half-past Seven, Evening, by Dr. Sexton, FA-G. 8., and at Half-past Eight, by Dr. Kahn.—Admission, One ITAGNIFICENT FLOUNCED SILKS, la COMPTON-HOUSE, SOHO. SEWELL and Co.. hare the honor of submitting to Ladies a brilliant display of Spring Silk Dresses, comprising a selection of flounced Robes fur Morning, Dinner, and Ball Costume. Especial attention is directed to a quantity of small-pattern Silks for Young Ladies at 2a. 6d. and 22. 11d. per yard. Also a large lot of flounced Silk Robes, at 2i to 3 guineas, remarkably cheap. 44, 45, 46, OLDCOMPTON-STREET; 46,47, FRITH-STREET. CURE of CONSUMPTIVE COUGH by DR. LOCOCK'S PCLIIONIC WAFERS. From Messrs. Care. Cocks, and Roper, Man of Ross House : " A lady, a few months ago, told us she should never fear a c‘n sumptive cough again as long as she could get a box of Dr. Lo cock's Wafers, although the greater part of her family had died of oonsumpuon." To SINGERS and Punuc SPEAKERS they are invaluable for clearing and strengthening the voice. They have • plea. Ant taste. Price ls. 11.1., 2s. 91., and per box. Sold by all druggists.