The Press. — London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

and effective manner, and will be really popular. But it is not alone in these additional features that great efforts are being made, since every branch of the ordinary attractions of the building is being made to assume its brightest and most festive aspect. All the orange and citron trees have been so arranged as to assist in the general effect of the Christmas revels, and, as their boughs are now heavy with golden fruit, their appearance is beautiful in the extreme. Since the winter, too, the picture gallery has been largely augmented. There is a very lair average show of works of the French school and a tolerable display of native art. In addition to these there are also some really fine and notable paintings of the pre-Rapbaelite masters, many of which were at the Manchester Exhibition, and in the large vestibule leading to the picture-gallery are a fine collection of French photographs, which are quite astonishing, both as regards size and their perfect finish of detail. So that, altogether, the Palace presents the most attractive features to holiday keepers, and is in every way most worthy of the patronage and support of the public. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—Tfie Christ mas programme at this institution is this year more than ordinarily attractive. A private view of the holiday entertainments was given on Wednesday evening, and received the unqualified approbation of those present. In addition to the Indian dissolving views there have been prepared a new series beauti fully painted, and appropriate not only to the pre sent festive season, but to the tastes of the juvenile visitors who may he expected during the next few weeks. Experiments in natural magic and legerde main follow, but they lose their charm by, we think, a rather inappropriate explanation of all the secrets. This, of course, will be peculiarly attractive to boys ambitious of becoming conjurers, but it destroys the delusion. Iu addition to these attractions an in teresting lecture is given by Mr. Pepper on several recent inventions. When to these are added the permanent entertainments of the institution we may safely conclude that the Polytechnic will justly occupy a large share of patronage during the Christ. mas holida)s. SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Haydn's Creation will be produced on Friday, the Bth January, when Mr. Sims Reeves make. his first appearance this season. Obituarg. Mn. JAMES COPPOCK, the *ell-known parliamentary agent of the Reform Club, in the interests of the Whig party, died on Saturday night of an attack of bronchitis. Mr. Coppock, who was about fifty-five years of age, was only in the autumn of this year appointed by the Government to the Treasurership of the County Courts of Kent, in the room of the late Mr. W. F. A. Delane. His services to the Whig party are too well known to need recapitulation here. SIR GEORGE CArrxv, BART., died on the 15th inst., at the advanced age of eighty-four. Sir George as a scientific man held a high reputation. He was a Liberal in politics, but preferred the quiet of philo sophical pursuits to an active parliamentary career. He sat for Scarborough once in the first Reformed Parliament. The late baronet was the father-in law of Mr. E. S. Cayley, one of the members for the North Riding of Yorkshire, and he is succeeded in his title and estates by his ROD, Sir Digby Cayley. REAR-ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS BEAUFORT, F.R.S., died at Brighton on the 18th instant. Sir Francis entered the navy in 1787, and after a long and gallant career, in 1812 retired from active sea service to hydrographical labours, and finally was appointed hydrographer to the Admiralty in July, 1832. In 1885 he was nominated a commissioner for inquiry into the laws, &c., under which pilots were appointed, governed, and paid ; and again, in January, 1845, for inquiring into the state of the harbours, shores, and rivers of the United Kingdom. He accepted the rank of retired rear-admiral on the Ist of October, 1846. A DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNER, One Woszkowski, a quasi Polish refugee, last Monday explained to us, at the Court of Exchequer, the manner in which some of these persons continue to subsist, and to sub sist magnificently, in this country. M. Wosz• kowski, by profession a teacher of languages and a writer of begging letters, was in the habit of extending his services to servants and landladies, so as to obtain either an introduction to their lady lodgers or the conveyance of bouquets to his susceptible pupils. Iu this way M. Wosz kowski appears to have eked out a tolerable living, for the bouquets led to letters, to professions of love, and to promises of marriage, but beyond the promise affairs seem never to have progressed. M. Wosz kowski, when the fatal settlement was broached, seems to have displayed himself in hie true colours. The matches were invariably broken off, and M. Woszkowski, as in the case of a lady of family in Staffordshire, pocketed a handsome sum (3004 on fflontg 'ffttrket anD otitg THURSDAY EVENING. THE most important event of the week in the Money Market has been the reduction by the Bank in the rate of discount from ten per cunt., at which it was fixed on the 9th November last, a few days before the issue of the Government letter, to eight per cent. By this measure the circulation is again placed under the Act of 1814, and the excess of 2,000,0001. issued against securities, for which the Indemnity Act was passed, is cancelled ; therefore for every note issued ab0ve114,475,0001. bullion must bo reserved. As a necessary result of this movement, the terms allowed by the discount•houses and joint. stock banks for money at call and on short notice have, been reduced. The banks are only giving 0 per cent., the discount•houses Oi and Of per cent. A moderate demand has been kept up for discounts during the week, and on the best bills it has been met with ease and readiness at rates varying from eight to nine per cent. The Lombard-street houses have had almost exclusive possession of business this week, the joint stock banks having done but little, while the Bank of England has been kept out of the market altogether, by the high terms neces sarily required before the rate was reduced. But in all cases it has been only the choicest paper that has met with ready negotiation. Inferior bills are still regarded with distrust, especially as commercial failures are of almost daily occurrence, and no one can tell what the annual balancing at the end of the year may bring forth. At the reduced rate to-day there was an active demand, of which the Bank took advantage to lend out some rather large amounts. Specie continues to flow in, principally from the United States. As there is an unwillingness to take bills for remittance to this side, specie only is avail able; and large amounts may be expected weekly, until the ordinary course of trade revives and coati. dence returns. Some Australian ships with gold on board are now overdue. The Stock Exchange was closed to-day until Mon day, in order that Saturday, as well cis Christmas day, might be a day of rest from the wear and tear of business. Consols left off last Saturday at 92} to fez div. The daily influx cf gold into the Bank, and the grow ing ease of the open Money tdarket, soon produced a conviction that discounts would be lowered, and in response to this opinion the funds advanced, Consols touching 93} without the dividend. They gradually settled down at 93} to }, and they stood at this price when it was announced that the Bank had reduced the rate two per cent. For some hours afterwards quotations remained the same, thus proving that the movement had been generally anticipated ; but sub sequently • few large purchases, principally specula tive, caused an advance to 93f toa, and that was the final price this evening. Railway Shares have also improved since our last but the highest quotations have not been maiutaiued, owing to the traffic returns iu sonic of the great lines showing a large falling off. In the Foreign Market an advance of about one and a quarter per cent. has been established in lurkish Six per Cents. Some of the joint-stock banks have also derived an improvement from the favourable circumstances of the week. Exchequer Bills are ls. better. The latest price to-day Wee 3s. die. to Is. prem. The Trade Reports from the manufacturing dis tricts, particularly those in some of the woollen branches, are very bad. In Manchester, however, there is rather more employment than last week. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, December 22. BANHRUPTS.—Jons Barrrns, Noble street, raleon•square, dealer in ilk-CHABLCS HUBBARD, Queen's•ruad, Havistock• hill, builder—Jolts COLLINSOM, Pitwau•buildiogs, St. Luke's, licensed victualler—Sami•st.Hannts and ISAAC GABRIEL COSTA, Commercial-street, Whittchapel, wholesale clothiers — SemnEL. EDWARD STEANE, Oxford. soap and blue manufacturer — HOßEßT CAVE, Windeor, Berkshire, ffshmonger — Nisiuomv Moos, Green street, Orosveuor-equare, child-bed linen manufacturer-JOIN STARKEY and JUNIN FRRDERICK ADCOCK, Birmingham, percus• awn cap makers—THOMAS Banks, Caswell End, Staffordshire, malster—HENßY JOHNSON, %Yost Bromwich, Staffordshire, licensed victualler —JOHN JAMIESON krftxs, Newark-upon- Trent, Nouiughsuishire, tailor—THomes Gowns, Bristol, victualler—EDW•ND SMYTH, Swansea, Glamorganslare, draper ALEXANDER BRYSON, Hecker, Yorkshire, brewer — JOHN STEAD, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, joiner—WILLIAM CROAMLEY and GEORGE Ckosscax, Elland, Yorkshire, cotton spinuers — JoHN BUCKLEY SHARP, Biugley and Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinner.— DAVID ROBERTS and WILLIAM JAMES HANSON, Halifax, Ycrk 1-hire, worsted spinners—SAMUEL atatow, Sheffield, grocer— WILLIAM WAINMAN, Sheffield, joiner - 41.3M HAYNRI, Liver pool and Cork, Ireland, shipowner—JOHN HAMPSON, Wrexham, Denbighshire, grocer—Wu-Lux SIGRVING WALIER, Liverpoo4 shipbroker —EDWIN SPENCR ROBERTS, Liverpool, shipowner-- Oh:01ton Wortankm., Warrington, Lancashire, iron manufacturer —ANDREW VEITCH, NeVICWILIe•UpOII Tyne, musicseller—WD. LIAM GOUNDRILL, Eastrington, Yorkshire, farmer. -- - SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. — WiLuAis WILSON MorrAT, Edinburgh, bookseller--JAties MURPHY ANDERSON, Glasgow, ironmonger—PETE*/ ML'L+aaw, Glasgow, ship carpenter-- WILLIAM DAVIDSON, Edinburgh, coffee merchant —EDWARD KERR, Kilmarnock, tinsmith—WiLmAst CAMERON, Glasgow, 0011101ISSIOD merchant-0E09.0i }ituaßAY, Glasgow, Hasher— Jamas Warr, Elton, hotel keeper—Josmim RAissnAis, Dundee, baker—Wu .mou Isioximas, Frio, Aberclesuabire, menhaul. THE PRESS, DECEMBER 26, 1857. that occasion) for his considerate conduct in return ing the letters of the lady, and not openly exposing her breach of faith. " When he was off with one lady he took up with another," said the distinguished Pole last Monday at the Court of Exchequer. But happily he has been caught at last. A lady of rank who had imprudently fallen into the Woszkowski trap, and had lent him 1001., had the courage, upon discovering the real character of the fellow, to bring an action against him fox the money lent. As a set off, the Pole pleaded that he had spent the money in fitting himself out for the wedding, and among other things in redeeming his watch and chain from the pawnbroker. The Chief Baron, after hearing the evidence, refused to entertain this plea, and the jury immediately founi a verdict for the plaintiff. BRITISH PIINDIL. OFFICIAL Qt 5 per Cent.Consols Ditto for Account 3 per C•Lts Reduced 3 per Cents Lang Annuities Ronk Stool, 7 per Cent __ New 2/ per Cent Annuli I Exch. Bills, 20. India Borids,(1,0001.) 1 20d FOREIGN FUNDS. 92i 93 93; 17f 213 218 k Per Cent. Brazilian Danish Men. ( Ex 12 0 uil )21 :french 3 (ex d.)' Do. 4i Do. Bank Stock Mt•lican 3 Peruvian 4e Portuguese 4 ituseiau et 'parish 3 ['wthal Aco .5 nroad. Wed. 96i 91 66 rt . 65e f f. 19; 766 Autw. 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