The Sun. — London, England, 1862-11-28 00:00:00

ATOl.\ - EY MARKET. 4 , CITY NEWS—YESTERDAY. The Bonnie Lassie has arrived Cram China with 431 ,763035. or tea. The Emigration Commissioners have taken up 14 ° ship Clara fur the conveyance of passengers from Birkenhead to Melbourne. A special meeting of the Liverpool and London Insurance Company is called for the 10th of Decem ber, at Liverpool, to invest the directors with the requisite powers for the amalgamation with the Globe Insurance Company. A supplemental deed of settlement will then be submitted, " embodying the resolutions of the annual and special meetings of February and March, 1859, converting the capital of the company into stock, restoring to the company the unpaid portion of the capital of £2,000,000, and defining the powers of the board of directors in re ference to the issue thereof ;" and for other purposes. At the eighth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Law Union Fire and Life In surance Company, held this day (Mr. Henry Mason presiding, in the absence of the chairman, Sir Wm. Foster, Bart., from ill health), the directors reported that during the year ended the 30th September last 2,137 fire policies had been issued, insuring £1,453,757, and yielding £1,956 7s. sd. of new premiums; and in the life department 223 policies, Insuring £137,105, the premiums upon which amounted to £5,036 16s. 6d., showing an excess of new business over that of any previous year. After payment of all claims and expenses the balance of Income over expenditure for the year was £17,466 6 8. 6d., increasing the assets of the company to £125,952 10s. 9d. The report having been adopted, and the retiring directors re-elected, a divi dend and bonus were declared at the rate of 7 per colt. per annum free of income tax. CITY NEWS---THIS DAY. CITY, TWELTE O'CLOCK. ; There is very quiet feeling in monetary circles !o -day the quotations continue steady, and the lecriiries are exceedingly moderate. The receipts on the Great Western Railway of Canada, for the week ending the 14th inst., Amounted to £14,269, being £3,706 larger than in the corresponding period last year. „The Bank o f E ng l an d re t urn for the week ending iGdnesday s h ows some i mpor t an t a l ter ations. There is a further decline in the bullion, and an in crease as exhibited in the discount; but, on the other hand, an important addition has been made to t he reserve of notes. The particulars are sub loteed Active Circulation .. Decrease Bullion . ••• Decrease Rest •• Icrease .. • • Publicn Deposits Increase .. Other Deposits.. .. Increase .. Seven Day and other Bills Increase Government Securities .. £19,883,135 .. 429,195 .. 15,018,993 145,578 3 , 106 , 989 8,162 •• 7 , 390 , 865 36,475 . 14,376,780 372,765 792,809 24,957 11,113, 992 No alteration. Other Securities .. • • 19,320 593 I .. • • • • 158 , 742 Not Unemployed .. • • 8,849, 745 Increase .. • • • • ' • 254,035 , At a meeting held to-day of the Clerical, Medi al, and General Life Assurance Society, the report Presented stated that the new annual premium d erived from 485 policies assuring £294,244, have amounted to £10,017, a sum exceeding the average of the previous five years. The income has risen from £195,406 to £200,887 per annum, notwithstanding the large abatement caused by the application of the bonus in numerous instances to the reduction of premiums. After the liquidation of all claims and expenses, and the payment in cash of the bonuses on more than 2,000 policies, the consoli dated or assurance fund amounted, on the 30th June last, to £1,332,377. baring the last few days there has been rather m ore activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Tea, however, has continued dull. Sugars have been in better request, and at slightly enhanced prices. Coffee is dull, and only a mode rate business has been transacted in rice, fruit, spices, and saltpetre, at about previous rates. o ""cqv has remained at steady quotations. P.Y.C. 1 11 , t he spot 46 3 . 6d., and spring delivery 465. 6d. °l ea. 9d. per cwt. Two O'CLOCK. o At the half-yearly meeting of the Trust and Loan e ° „ParlY of Upp er C ana d a , t o - d a y, the Right Hon. th r• Bouveri e , M.P,, i n the chair, a dividend at e rate of 81 per cent. per annum, less income tax, Zas declared. The net profit made during the six 1 °11 , t . ! 1 f 3 ending the 30th September last was £14,662 I) ; " 11 . The chairman alluded to the satisfactory 4 4 h rea s of the company, the gradual improvement h il d' es 'ed in every department of industry in Ca ittt 4 ; 3and in particular the high state of prosperity Li t ,-"ed in agriculture. The last provincial Exhi fa 4141 held at Toronto was spoken of as highly satis teet°% and that the breed of cattle was quite equal either the English or Scottish. b i ,, L ith ough the transactions in the English Stock ei ; 4 cet to-dav have been limited, the quotations have Wn undiminished firmness, Consols having been the Maintained at 934 for transfer, and at 92 * s for st , ;ta proxi mo . Th e N e w Three per Cents are B ill: 37 at 921 ; th e R e d uce d, flat at 92* ; Exchequer i J une, 10s. to 14s. prem. ; ditto March, 10 s. to e„ . P re na• ; Bank Stock, 235 and 237 ; and India 5 - t• Loan, 1091 I . de4here has not been much activity in the Foreign elartment but prices have in several instances : 41 a further upward movement. Turkish 6 per 7 14 7 44 .1 1854, have advanced to 841 d ; ditto, 1858, Co s' ditto N ew L oan S cr i p to 21 prem. ; an d t h e b : asel ides to 39, 2 ; ; Greek Bonds are 171 ; Italian 47 , °e improved to 711 ; Portuguese to 48 ; ditto New ; and Spanish Passive to 237,- 11 the Railw a y Sh are M ar k e t th e d ea li ngs h ave been „ rathe r li m it e d ; prices, however, h ave b een a sha de fi rmer. Lancashire and Yorkshire and Mid .t..llB ha ve i mproved ss. Caledonians and North- Z . _ stern s ; , 10s.; and South-Easterns, 155.; Great Westerns, however, declined ss. The Forei gn an d C olonial undertakings remain i nactive, without any material change to record in prices. Joint-Stock Bank and Shares were in fair re quest at full rates. Bank of Egypt impr ove d to 25 and 25}; Ottoman B ank to oz;—, or t , and Lb. New Shares to 86. 8-1. London and Westminster b rouOlt 791- £3O l l ; and Standard of British South Africa declined to 41. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOC , K. 235 37 1 / 4 11 k St k 3 OC 92 4 pe r Cent. Reduced Annuities 93/ liDer Cent. Consols Annuities 92 i li ew 3 per Cent. Annuitte 761 ~!'iv 21 per Cent. Annuities —l-I?litties, 30 yrs, expire . th Jan., 1880.. Inat for 0 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.. 15 / a Stock Ditto 6 per Cent. e,, t, f ! s i i t to t t o o D ß.o eb n et t u . r l e ,o s o , o 4:per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001 28 92i i 1 1 ,;', 1 , Is for Account, Dec. 4 LuEL Stock for Account, 5 per Cent March. zolleglier Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Ct. ..12 i 1 11 0 n9 14 12 10 ,hit „ Ditt o £SOO 12 10 )3:azit:aylniOasßlllZlGN FUNDS—ONEI2O'ICOI,IO46x. er . G bit t ° 4 1 pepr Cent. Cent . 1852-58-60 re e k 1 Itali an s Per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons N e 4 6 Per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 721 D itto Grenada, 2 per Cent Ditto Land Warrants Pe u , it ,.., t ° ex over-due Coups. & Hectares .. 12 -1,1.1,94,n 4i per Cent .. Nultt o 41 New, Paid.. 1a dis ~,,,,, 1862, A Scrip, £73 I)l tt c' 4 ,, ~se per Cent., 1853 48 bitt' n ''"c ' u nt 11 1 ,,,.° - pei Cent., 1862; 961 1 bi t 'l a rt 6 per Cent 1822 £ St k LO Scr i p vpF,tdo. ,aid up r , bi ttop Per Cent 23/ a a taa4 . ,_ assive T tlt i c l .°' o . Cart. of Coup. not funded 4 1 6 per Cent. 1854 SI i .6,,._() Account I)' : t', o 6 per Cent. 1858 .. 71 ,!to Aceount 76a ,-.`-!rto, £lOO Bonds -yo ltto 6 par Cent., 1862. Scrip, £6O pd. • • 2 1 pm I telitzttou7e6Pl' P e3d rC ':r o p n eS t e . cri l tp 362(S cr iP), £43 paid —l4o'n.i.B bat vidend s on the above uayabie in L a It a i i e ,, h, 2 1 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 6 P2r Cent., 1861 Ex. 25f Itto .A.ccount ' 7ll TWO O'CLOCK. ell!°t114) M oneY, With the div Ditty 1401, W il ..... tirt . l9ttr•ttel, 94- g Rd SHAPE TVIARKET...THIS DAY. O.R.DINARY SHARES AND STOOft.S. Railways. Paid. Closing Business Price. , done. 131 Bin.. ITOI., at , Sir. Val 25 Blythe and y de: 10 Bost.,Sleal.,andMid.Co P t Bristol and Exeter et Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cot uwal I 1 0 0 D D° O. A B b t A. l e l e l n g liP e p t c s a .n ui n a o n to .l ( i l a ß i Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth.& fib. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st iGreatNorthot Scotland iGreat Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an IW. of Ireland 'Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire (London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast ,on., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares Nietropoli tan Midland NewDo Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern — purchase Berwick Do D L o,G ec .N as . E. Do York Do Carlisle ••••.• • • North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aher. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon S. Durham & Lanc.Un, South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok_andWok. Stockton & Darlington 25 I Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim 'Waterford & Kilkenny, West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Mid'ant -Oxiordl Do Newport Do Hereford PREFERENCE S Brie. & Exet. 4 p. c. st Do. shares Caledon. qr. shrs, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. Cornwall, 5 per ccnt Do. 4a p. c. gua. perpet Dun. Perth, & Abcr.Jun Do. Ist Class Pref 1 Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. C. guar. S. & D Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c Gt.Eastn, E.Coun. Ex. 1 Do No. 2 Do 6 p. c. pref Do. E. Angn A st 5 p.c. Do Do, E. Agn. B 6 p c. pf. Do. do. C 7 do. Do. E. Union, 4 p.c. gua Do 5 p.c. gua Do.Norrk 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 Do. do. 5. p.c. pref. 1347 Do. 5 p. c. Wavy. Val. '47 Great Northern, 5 p. c.. D 0.5 p.c. Redm.lop.c. pm. Do. 44 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redtr..atsp.c.Pm Do. Hertford purchase. Do. do. 44 p. c. pref Do. Luton do Do. do. do. sp. c. pref Gt. Nh. of Scot. ist pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland' 4 per cent Great West. (Berks and Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 44 p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. ct Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. a redeem. pref Do. Bum. guar. stock 70. Birm. pref. stock Do. Chester guar. shares Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. she Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. she Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. pref Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stocl. Do.Barnsl.st.£s 3s 10dp, Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 44 p. c. (Blackb. pur I.on.&Brig,.sn.c.gu. No.l Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. 5 per cent. do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 1 Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P. Do. 4p c.st.(diy.def.lllW Lon.Chat.&Doy. sp.c.pf. Lon. & N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent et., late 3d shaies Do. (Portsm'th perpetl, ut 2s. Gd) Man. Sh. Lin. fi per ct Do. £6 . Do. n per cent, .... Do. redeem. 8 per cent Mary port 8c Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 4a per cent Midland Con. 6 p. c. stk Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c Do. ela p.c. pref. st. rdem Do. 4a p.c. irredeemable Do. 4a per cent Do.Leic. andl3it4per ct Nort British, 5 per cent. Do. New gua. 5 percent Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs N-East, Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Do. 4apr. et redeemabh Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pref Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, H. & S. Purch Do. Carlisle 4a p. c. Do. do. 4 p. c. N. London 4a P.C. £2O pf North Staffordshire Scottish North-Eastern p. e. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.e Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 4} per cent South Eastern (Reading. Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 4a per cent Do, Fixed 4a per cmt South Wales, gua. 4p. c. Do. 4} per cent Do. do 1859 Do. 5 per cent S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua Do. 6 p. c. gua Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 p. c Do. C 6 p. c Taff Vale No. 1 Pret. Witted & Kilkny, 6 p. c. -Oxf Ist gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red 1)o. Perpet.6 p. c. pf. 186 C Do. tilt 18091 Share 8 6,1 61 84 E 6 1148 115 51 Oi 41 43 13 14 8,4 86 101 106 45 46 41 43 23i 241 1231 124 1251 126)1 135 137 104 106 651 661 55 57 1081 1091 69 70 119 121 38 39 951 001 1011 1021, 381 391 8f Si 127! 1.2! , 1&p 97 99 541 55/ 26 29 99 995 —d 56 67 88 88 , 1 126 128 105 107 P 44 4 d 105 11 118.120 48 40 103 105 46 48 331 341 884 89 69 70 97 99 7 B 39 40 94 104 p, 6 p 146 148 44 5 p 24 3 p 554 564 24 34 p lAA p 87 f 9 140 145 29 31 43 45 35 37 941 351 ARES. 95 97 20 21 ei 7 111 113 91 93 111 113 110 112 129 131 105 108 129 131 148 151 117 119 112 114 105 107 108 110 93 100 98 100 88 90 89 01 102 104 77 79 170 175 104 106 133 140 103 105 116 118 116 118 136 140 116 118 155 100 131 135 78 12 97 99 21 123 125 I 41 111, 67 69 'Pm 140 142 103 105 94 96 ilo 112 108 110 1 liprn g 2 94 102 104 98 100 id ip 22i 23i 10s. 10 1, 0.:6. 100 100 100 all all ie 101 24 24i 02 104 ,02 104 87 89 21 21i 28 29 33 34 33 34 45 47 126 ILB 120 124 100 102 121 123 117 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid. Leasing Closing' Business Co. s Price. Done. i I Bedford and Bletchley all tLn.&N.IV Birkenhead.. Buckingli , mAhire lOO [Do. Chester & Holyhead.. 100 ;Do 55 17 Do. 50 1 per cent 100 ;Do. 1126 128 Do. 5 „ 100 :Do ll5 117 . Clydesdale Junction 100 Cledon. .1103 105 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.1.1.&G.Y. 67 69 E. Lincolnsh. z, 6pr c. 100 IGt.North. 136 138 Gls.BarrANeils.Drct. 100 Cledon Gloster &Dean Pores all 'Gt. West — Gt.Ea ; tn. Newmarket 2.00 at. Ea etn. - al., a per Mil I. Do. 2. IL Harwch. 4 p.c 100 D 0... Do.Wodbrg. Ex. 4 p.c 10E 'Do. — Hull and melby all , Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 202 204 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do. Bromley, 6 per c all D 0........ Do. New ShlB6l, 4ip.c all Do Do.Wn. Ext. A, 4t pC. all Do ..... ... 81 0 London & Greenwic 100 S. Easter', 6.4 66 Do. Preferen 'e L0n.,Ti1b.&5...-Ithend, 100 • eto &Co B7 b 9 Lnd'dr. &Ennis. orig. 100 Do. A, 100 Irish N.- Do. B, 100 Western. Do. C 100 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk . • • .. Do 6 per cent lOO Do. • • • Mnc.,l3xtn.,& Matlock all LNW& 11 •3; 41 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Nor.Dev.Rail & Dock lOO L.&S.W. Do A stock lOO ram Ist Do B stock , 100 .. an.,1863. Nortlin.&Eastn. sp. c ' all t. East', 66 58 Do. 6 per cent all all o. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 100 N. E. Ber .. .. North Western Not. Gran. El. & Cl. 100 xt.North. 951 961 Preston and Wyre. I all " I ` N iL. Yk. 44 46 Do. i shares A. all o. •••• .. . • • . Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 ' t.North. 136 138 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 L.&N.W.. 136 137 Do. Do. South Staffordshire lOO n.&N.l'i West London, Cls A all V.Ln.Ex Do do B all n&N.W. Do do C all s t*Crt.Wst. Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 92 94 Wimbledn & Croydon, all L. &Brgtn 81 91 ....--- FREFERENCE SHARES A Dividends contingent on the Profits ol Gt Eastern sp. pre— *Cilledon. (: ,1.71 .77 0 ° 0 10 2 0 1 L K o e n nt & Co l a k s ,N t :a fi vi p .4 .c a t p . pt. 13 k B . Do. do. 44 do. shares all Lond'n, Brig'tn, per cent.... .... . . 1858 100 IDo. do. 4 per ct. 1860' 100 iDo. do. 4 S per et. 1861' 100 Do. do. 4 per ot. 1861 31 Ln.Cf.tra,&c. 6p.c.2d pi (00 Do, Metrop.Ext P,6 p.c. all I Lon. &S.Wcstern 4 p.c„ 100 INorth British £lO Gua., Shares, 1881. 'Do Ed , Prth , & l s'nee,4p c 100 I `ticottisliCentral4; p. 0.: irred. pref ....... . • lOO S.-Eastern ti p.c. 1859.. all Do. 5 p.c. June 1861 (rd.) all Do. 5 p.c. Aug. 1.861 (rd.) all Vale of Neath ..... LND STOCKS ,1 each separate Year. 10? 104 P 106 p 1 i 0 101 103 ei 61 103 105 92 06 103 105 83 85 10D 100 104 106 * Failure of full dividends in any made owl out 91 OR nroUts W auy 82 84 10 101 10.4- 101 10 10f 201 21t given half bUbbequelr -year not to be ALA year. 116 I 6.4.0 19.16.4 12.10 2s. Gd. 1231 127 f 8 05f 100 1 70 120 191 38f 9 96 iiii 1021 4 401 301 St 128) 89} 9 I 89i 102} FOREIGN MI. zu Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Lim all 0 1 i 5 Brazil Land ck Illn.Co all 1 2 2 Capula Silver 40 Cobre Copper all 20 22 20 Copiapo . 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co i ail S I 3 East Do! Rey (Limited)l 1 1 IP 2 Fortuna. , all 31 31 20 General all 20 t 2 2 Gt N. Cop. ~f S. Austr ll 11 Ed 15 liapunda kLimited) 1 I 1P 2 Linares all 7 8 5 Lueitanian 2 Ids pr 1 Mariquita 1 all I i 2 Mont.A.Braz Gold Min all 2 21 1 N.RhineCopotS.Aus.L 1 1 ids 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt..., all 1 3 5 Port Philip . 1 Santaßarbara GldMine 4 4 fpm 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) los. 5 fpm 20 St. John del Rey (L.) l5 61 63 62 11 28.2.85 United Mexican 1 Worthing (Limited) ' all 4 I 3 YudanamutanaS.A.Ld i all 31 31 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 1 , :0 IA graetiJnitedService li• • 60 87 89 100 Alliance B.Ln.&L'pool. 12 71 8 p 191 40 Australasia,.. all 71 i 3 25 Rank of Egypt all 241 251 25 5 100 Baal of London 2022 5 0: 0 11 ecc ß :h r m i t. t dß i . s . Bk. : aa ll onnf o kk r ßo t o. h : c Af alinu c ittnia - .. je ab& a .ic r a. : . lan a 0 5 1 : 1 0 1 9 5 5 0 52 97 c C : ii i . ,o sl .7 e is r a . col of In. Lon.dz Ch. all l 211 _212 d 95 100 City Ll F mo n n ,Ge n . . ea t ß r i kal Brazilian. B o t a S witzerland k i, tr ittrd) , l a e ll 1 2 0 2 0 0 5 t., o . k Aus. Ch . . .. a 2 5 15 01 2 94 0 11 2 94 3 0 3 1 20 20 100 ;Ilin'stan,China&Japani 5 1 10 00 0 2 1 3 1 4 4 p d n 181 100 Lon., B. Al. c 3•Sz R. Plate 4 1 o' - 20 Lon. Char.R.of Austrai all 271 eh 50 London and County .. 20 386 4 39 84 9 30 50 London Joint Stock .. 10 364 sm 100 'London & Middlesex... 2 pr ip` 20 London and S.African.. 18 231 24 p 100 I L ondon & Westminster 20 79 80 804 791 20 Do. new 1 0 0 0 0 F a e t t . rO p pi o & v. P o r t o E vi n n g l i a ß n n a k , i 1 1 42 0 2 2_2 3 : 1 p 20 , Do. dO ........ 2 18 25 Orient. B. Corporation . li 5 2 0 0 ,I.,lNact,‘‘losnoaultßh,tivnkale.;........... a 3.1 , 01 — 5464 —6453 554 2 50 'Ottoman Bank ......• • • 2 all ,;35 4 6 5 33 P 81 335 i 2l 31 24 120 Do. new 100 Provincial of Ireland 10 Tio. new ......... ...... 25 ;South Australia ..,.• • all —• = Do. new Provincial of Ireland 1 . 130. new 'South Australia ..o.• • Union of Australia Union of Ireland, Lim. Union of London • all all all 7 12 100 '7 50 48 49 1 04d 334 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-M - exican Mint Atlantic R. MI. Stm (1d) Australian Agricultural Bahia, Steam I Limited). Berlin Wate - 2 (Limited) Bombay Gas Limited. British American Land B.&l.Mag - . Tel. A. (Lim,) Do. 8,7p.e.t1111852 (Lim ) Canada Land China & Japan Coast & Co ß p i . Do. Pref. 7} per cent. v m e i r ito S fE tea n m g.BL N s a m vi i g tg a Crystal Palace Do. Preference Do. d p ct. Perpet. Deb E. Ind. Cotton Agency E.lndia & Lon. Ship A. Do. B. E.lndia Irrign. & Canal Electric Telegraph ...• Do. New English & Aus. Copper en. Stm Navigati m reat Slip Limited) Do l7i p ct Preference Indian Carrying (Lim.) Italian Irrigation Canal Lon. District Tel (Lim.) L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) 0 on. & S.lrel.Dt.Tel.L. ladras hr. and Canal Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) Do. 8 per cent. pref National Die. Co. (Lim.) Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim.) Netherlands Lano,Bp.c. IN.Br.&NovaScotiaLand iN.B.Australasian (Lim.) Oriental Gas (Limited). Do. New Orintl. In. Steam(l.im.) Ottoman Gas, Limited Peelß.Lnd.&Min.(Lim) ! Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New Quebrada Land,Rail,& Mining (Lim). • • • • • • Rhymnyy Iron Do. Njw _ Rio Janeiro City Impts. do. 'royal Mail Steam Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lim ) outh Australian Land ,Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. do. Registered Do. d 0... • •• Telegraph to Ind .a (L.), Trust and Agency Austrlasia (lim)lst is. , _Tr.& Ln.Co.ot Upr.Cano K'dom Tel. Co. (limj yo.Ditmeu'o 14414.,1 _ 100 all all ILAI all 1 5 3 28 18i 9 2 4 241 e 25 64 7 i dis ip 34 67 97 100 19 ?1 85i 86i 110 113 110 113 pr i p 5 41 d ipm 100 103 2} 2: 27 28 I I I i IV i P 4 3 d 11 If 3 4 21 4 2i 2 p pr 2 p 10 12 1i 1 } Ip *d f 51 52 54 p 73 75 14 16 pr ! 1 ) 21 6 28 25i 55 57 133 137 32 34 4 6 id d ip 11 iP 12 13 THE ''SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING% - NOVEMBER 28, 1862. CRIMINAL COURT-THIS DAY. SPORTING-THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before Baron Bramwell.) 1101113E11Y WITH 'VIOLENCE. WARWICK RACES. No Steeple or Hurdle Racing today. onDER 1:1:NNING. Selling Stakes .. 2.30 Scurry Handicap Short's Hendibap 3.30 Welter Cup .. 4.0 Richard Hurley and Wm. Windsor, two young men, of decent appearance, were charged with feloniously assault ing Mr. Frederick J. Bush, and stealing from him a, watch and chain. The jury having found the prisoner guilty, he was sen tenced to four years' penal servitude, GAROTTE ROBBERY. John Kington was found guilty of garotting a Yorkshire man, and sentence was deferred. POLICE-THIS DAY. MANSION HOUSE. GAROTTTNG A POTHAN.—Mary Ann Fosse' and Ellin beth Jacobs were placed at the bar chargod with highway robbery. The prosecutor, Geo. Taylor, a potman, was this morning about two o'clock passing along Aldersgate-street, when the prisoners came up to him and with violence began to rifle him of his property. He called out " Police," when the prisoners ran off, but the officers followed, and in a short time both prisoners were secured. The prosecutor gave a very satisfactory reason for being out so late. He had been to Greenwich, and, having missed the last train, he had to walk home. The prisoners said the prosecutor must be mistaken. The police-constables said the prisoners were well known as bad characters. Alderman Carden said he had made up his mind to deal most severely with every case of highway robbery, and he should therefore commit both prisoners to take their trial at the Central Criminal Court. BRITISH POSSESSIONS Hai lway Atiantio Lawrence !Born.,Barodajz.Cent Ind Go:s per oent.. -- Do. New BUirtiO d Ke Duran DO. Prel - orance .... • • uftalo,Bra nt,,5.;(3 ici e p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187'2 Do. do. July 1, 4873 Do. do. June 1, 1879 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin) cape Town Dock Scril Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian, °u. 5 p. e. Do. do. GExt Do. do. H do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct Do. 6per ct. Debentr. Do. 7 percent. 1862 Do. - do. 1867 Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. Do. gua. 5 p. c... Do. January, 1862 .. .Gt. South. of India (Lira guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 wittet opt Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8 Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. o. Extension Dc..H d 0........ Melb.Corp. R p. o Bnd , Melb. & ITobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Newßrunsmck a Canw4 Class A Capital Shari Do. do. B Capital d 0... N.Rl.C'da6 pc Ist 1 bds Seinde Do. Delhi ti Do. do Do. Punjaub Do. Do. Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 100 100 100 10n all all RAIL Closing ,7d. Price. I BUSilleBl3 done 61 66 10!: 105 5 5i 72 zq 76 80 74 78 72 76 104 106 106} 1071 104 IC6i l i 7i U li p 'S& a fil ) 21 22 66 (8 87 69 32 34 13 45 32 24 32 34 105 107 liP 1P 104 105 121 121 8k 8 96 98 89 81 1 I dis 10k 105 98 100 94 96 51 53 3 5 3 5 83 65 105 i 1061 103& 1041 i _I a" fp ,101 105 1100 102 V% A.. 1 1061 104} 124 10 97f 101 31 FOKEI Antwerp & _Rotterdam. Bah.e&S.Fran..Lim 7 p.c. Behan East. Junction Co_piapo ................ Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ....... Do ;Eastern of France 'Grand Rue Gitar. 6 p. c. !Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... Italian J unction Namur : : : Do. 6 p. C. Pref. Northern of France Do. New Shares _ N.Rail. of BuenosAyres Gua. 7 p a., I.lm Do. ' do .... Norw.zian Trunk Pref. Ot'mn( Smyrna to Aidn) Paris,Lyons, & Mcditer. Paris & 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (fern.) gas., 7 p. ct. Riga & Royal Dani5h.......... Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref...., Sambre & Meuse Do. 5 percent. Pref..... 1 an Paulo, lira, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust, &Lomb Venetin IS. East Portugal 7 p ct. Southern of France.... and Savona, .... West nandera ..,..... Do. 5} p c. Preference.. W. & N.W. of France .. 7* 7i 7 6tt 1 li p 204 E/i 13; 14i BT, 04 20 21 40 41 id lip 86 9i 9 8 d 95 *6 41 43 171 18a 15 17 i 1 94 DI 9i 24 234 324 334 24 2:d 6 74 lot )01 20,4 214 !OLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Cau.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja &J uly 1877-Sf .. . . Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,1873 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 Do. 18901 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1861, p c N.8.G0v.6 p.c. J a.&July Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,1866 Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 ' 1 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand 6 p. cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. ster:in,„cr, 1875. Queensland Gov. 6 pre. S. Aus G6p.C.1878.& up.. Via Gov. 6p... Ja.&July Do. to 6 p.a. 131tIT1S Cambrian Consol. Gold Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) Eset Clogau Gold Ltd East Bassett (Illogan) 1 East Caradon ..... East Caru Brea... W'lRussel (Tavistk.)i' Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G. Wheal For (Helston) Grenville .. Herod's-Foot • I Elingston Downs Laay Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant:l Marke Valley.. Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) North Downs North Frances (Illogan N. WWI Basset (Illo4an North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) I 'rovidence (Uny Le In t.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogan) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.ez Lead MM I Tin Cron West Basset (Illogan) W Carzdon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) Wheal Buller(Redruth)l Whuti Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lclant) WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) 1071 101 ilO5 107 105 107 98 0l 97 99 111 112 111 113 Fll2 114 1 113 115 ' l lO6l 1071 101 102 101 102 1004 1014 111 113 108 109 109 111 ,110 112 'Mt 104 21 23 1 P 490 500 52 64pr ip 35 86 12f 131 21 31 14 16 61 7 61 tlf 5 5/ 45 47 2 21 11 11 40 f 2 81 9 1 ds pr t 21 8 4f fit 6 6 41 43 # # 395 405 24 3 024 074 43 15 13 131 13 14 31 83 290 300 821 871 50 62 1 11 8 9 101 111- 15 16 171 18 MARLBOROUGH-STREET. RODDURY AND ASSAULT.—John Davis, an ill looking fellow, who is in the habit of hanging about the Haymarket at night, was charged with stealing a silk umbrella from Mr. Thomas Bamford, of 103, Ebury-street, Pimlico, and Louisa Lloyd was charged with assaulting the prosecutor Prosecutor said that between one and two that morning he was passing the Haymarket when the female prisoner accosted him. She seized his hand, and said, "You villain, I'll make you pay for this," and then thrust his thumb into her mouth and nearly bit it through. He was in great pain and at the moment felt his umbrella go. In answer to Mr. Knox prosecutor s a id h e was in liquor at the time. 215 C proved seeing the male prisoner run away from the prosecutor, and, suspecting he had stolen something, he went after him and brought him back with an umbrella in his possession, which the prosecutor identified as his pro perty. The female prisoner said prosecutor had tried to take liberties with her, and that he bad taken her into two pub lichouses and never given her anything. Barns, the gaoler, said that both prisoners had been in custody several times—the woman for drunkenness and annoying gentlemen. Mr. Knox said it was a caso of a drunken person stagger ing into the Haymarket at two in the morning. A female then accosted him, and he gets robbed. Ho should commit the male prisoner for a month for unlawful possession, and the woman for a month as a disorderly prostitute; and if he had the power to send the prosecutor for a month he would do so. WESTMINSTER. 1061 7 100/ 108 i 7ft CAUTION' TO TRADESMEN.—Richard Higgs, a young man, was placed at the bar, charged with uttering a spu rious florin to Agnes Ewen, barmaid of the Chelsea Water Works tavern, Chelsea. Agnes Ewen stated that last evening the prisoner came to the house and called for a pint of beer. He tendered a spurious florin in payment. She examined it, and believ ing it was bad, put it in the detective, when she found it was so, and prisoner was given into custody. Mr. Arnold—Did he give any account about the florin? Witness—He said a gentleman gave it to him for con• veying a box to the Victoria station, and he did not know it was bad. Mr. Arnold—How do you know that he did F Witness—l don't know. Mr. Arnold—The offence for which the prisoner is charged is not barely that of uttering a counterfeit florin, but for uttering it, well knowing it to be counterfeit. Is there any evidence to show that he had guilty knowledge ? Policeman—Mr. Jenkins, the landlord, thinks he did. Mr. Jenkins stood forward. Mr. Arnold —Have you any reason to believe the prisoner knew this piece of money to be counterfeit ? Mr. Jenkins—Every reason. I have during the last three weeks constantly had bad money offered, some of which has been taken, Mr. Arnold—Was he one of them ? Mr. Jenkins—Not that I am aware of. Mr. Arnold—Then your reason for supposing that pri soner knew this florin to be bad is that other persons have given you bad money. Mr. Jenkins—l looked out at the door and saw bad cha racters about while prisoner was in my house. Mr. Arnold—Had you seen him with them. Mr. Jenkins—No, I had not; but they were looking in. The prisoner was nn thZ point of Leii.g discharged for want of evidence when a policeman said he knew the pri soner as the common associate of thieves, and believed he had been convicted of felony. Prisoner was remanded until Monday. 711 E GREAT BANK PAPER ROBBERY. Yesterday Buncher, Cummings, Brewer, Burnett, Griffiths, and Williams, were again placed it the bar before Alderman Cut ett. Mr. Freshfield appeared to prosecute; Mr. Lewis de- John Stanley, Geo rge S fended Brewer and Mr. P ater, B unc h er . geant Tilcock, of the Cit y P olice f orce , we re examined, but nothing new was elicited. raith, John Lichfield, and Ser- Mr. Pater wished to know if the whole of the evidence against Buncher had been produced, Mr. Freshfield said he had given quite enough to justify the committal of all the prisoners. Alderman Cubitt said he was quite of that opinion. Mr. Pater contended that no prima facie case had been made out against his client Buncher, and therefore that he ought to be discharged. Alderman Cubitt said he bad fully made up his mind that Buncher was implicated in this robbery, and therefore he should faii in his duty if he did not send him with the other prisoners for trial. After a few words from Mr. Lewis on the pal t of Brewer, who contended that forging a bank note on genuine paper was not an offence under the act relied on by Mr. Fresh. field, The whole of the prisoners were fully committed for trio at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court, to be held on the 16th of Dec. next. SHIPPING---THIS DAY. LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind this day at noon—South; moderate breeze, and fine weather. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Arrived SOIITUAMPTON, Friday Morning. —Water Sprit e , from Havre; Al exan d er , f ro m Newport. Ore N AGNETic TELEGRApH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived—Mary Ann, from Abbeville; John Runyan, from New York. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. A.up•aalia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec. 2. via Marseilles Nov. 27. Falkland Islands ... Dec. 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 2. via Marseilles Noy. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton Deo. 11. via Marseilles Dec. b. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 2. via Marseilles Nov, 27, Newfoundland ,.Dec. 10. Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec. 4. by - U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Nov. 28. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife Dec. 10, Bahamas, via New York Nov. 28. Mexico.. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.--VALUE OF LAND. — The Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool have taken from the Metropolitan Board of Works on building lease, a plot of ground at the corner of the new street, Borough, measuring 280 yards, at an annual ground-rent of £500; this, if sold in the ordinary way, would produce a freehold of £260,000 an acre. The hospital property must have been sadly mismanaged, when but £296,000 was obtained for four acres of land, with all the buildings thereon, in cluding also compulsory sale, 80. It is said that the Board of Trade originally selected a London man, who thought the property was worth £350,000, but the Board was par suaded to appoint a Liverpool man at the request of both parties. Surely it is not too late to inquire into the matter.— City Press. It is stated that the cotton crop of next year, in Brazil will be such as to realise £4,000,000, and that in 1864 the quantity will at least be double. The seed is being sown extensively in all the provinces, and, it is said, with complete success. The Giornale di Napoli states that the body of the notorious brigand Esposito was found a few days ago near Centola (Principata Ullteriore) with five stabs in the neck. It is believed he was murdered by his own com panions. GREA7 SHIP COMPANY. SPECIAL MEETING,—(TIIIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the directors and pro prietors was held this day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering the present position of the company. W. BARBER, Esq., chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The report submitted to the meeting went at length into the earning capabilities of the ship, which were considered to be of tho most favourable description. The document then went on to refer to the accident which befel the ship on her last voyage, and then proceeded as follows : "The financial results to the company, consequent on this disaster, are most serious, and it becomes the duty of your directors urgently to press the subject upon the attention of the proprietors. Your directors stated in their last re port that th© working capital of the company, assuming the amount then asked for to be raised, would not be placed on such a satisfactory footing as prudence would dictate, but they hoped, from the favourable prospects before them, to be enabled to extricate the company from the difficulties which at one time appeared insurmountable; these antici pations they confidently believe would have been more than realised had the ship completed the voyages then designed for her, and that, at the end of the year, the working ac • count would have shown a very large balance to the credit. The accounts of disbursements in New York, pertaining to the present voyage. has not yet been received, but it must of necessity be heavy ; the wages and victualling of the crow will also form a very large item. The liabilities may be estimated at this date as under : On bills payable, and open accounts about £9,000 Interest on £35,000 mortgage debt, due 30th inst 1,750 Ditto on £25,000, duo Ist January 212,000 Add four months' wages to crow, less advances.... 7,000 £19,000 exclusive of the mortgage debt, the claim of Mr. Towle, Mr. Parry, &e: The assets may be taken at about £6,000, almost the whole of which consists of freight and passage money received in New York and there held against disbursements and contingent liabilities alluded to above. The mortgage debts amount to £60,000, of which £25,000 is repayable on Jan. 1 next, and the balance on May 31 next. In consider ing the question of finance, your directors think it neces sary, that in any arrangements made, the above mortgages should be absorbed ; they are also of opinion, having in view the present state of the money market, and the security offered, that the amount required for this purpose, and to provide for the other liabilities of the com pany, including the repair and outfit of the ship, should be obtained at 8 per cent. per annum, and your directors there fore recommend, that they should be authorised to issue on such terms and terms and conditions as they may think fit, a mortgage stock for £lOO,OOO, repayable in three years, and to bear 8 per cent. interest, payable by coupon attached to the bonds, and to be secured by a mortgage of the ship, given to three trustees with power of sale in case of de fault, either in payment of the interest or principal; the company to insure the amount, or, at the option of the bondholder, to pay the premium of insurance to him he thereby becoming his own underwriter, and having no claim on the company in case of loss." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it was absolutely necessary that something should be done by the present meeting to secure the vessels remain ing in possession of the company. Mr. SCOTT RUSSELL said he should like to know what instructions the dirctors had sent out to America with respect to repairing the injury to the ship, and also whether Captain Paton took the ship through the channel in which she struck on his own responsibility. The CHAIRMAN said the directors had not interfered with the steps taken to remedy the accident, until after the first attempts had failed, and then the directions they had sent to America were that the ship should be brought home with as little delay as possible. With respect to the course the ship had taken he had to inform the hon. proprietor the directors, as in all previous voyages, had instructed Capt Paton the course he was to take. Mr. TAYLOR thought the meeting had better proceed to consider the main points, and that was how to surmount their difficulties. He did not think the situation of the company was as desponding as tha report made out, as the ship had shown that she was capaple of giving the proprie• tors a good return for the capital they had invested. After a long discussion the report was adopted, with the following addition—" That the directors be empowered to raise any sum of money, not exceeding £lOO,OOO, at 10 per cent., on such terms as they may think fit, but that no bonds may be issued below par." IHE BANK BULLION. According to the return published yesterday, the Bank bullion is now at a point below any previ ously touched during the current year. On the 11th of Jane last, when the rate of discount was 3 per cent., as at present, there was a decline to £15,033,100, and the total shown yesterday is only £15,018,993. But the peculiarity is observable that, owing to the restriction of trade, the total of unemployed notes held by the Bank, instead of di minishing, as is usually the case when a continuous drain of gold is in progress, shows an increase, and is now £654,495 in excess of the amount at that period. Some further considerable changes, there fore, must take place before the question of another advance in the rate of discount is likely to be enter tained. Last November, when the bullion held was only £14,210,774, and, therefore, £808,219 below its present sum, the rate was reduced from 3 to 3 per cent., and although the difference then existed that there were signs of an approaching influx of bullion, while now there is but a doubtful antici pation even of a temporary check to a long con tinued efflux, there will apparently be no special reason for further action until a reduction to that point shall have taken place. The drain has now been of almost unprecedented duration, but there has rarely been a time when so much uncertainty prevailed as to the probabilities either of a conti nuance or a turn of the tide. There are no large amounts immediately expected from Australia, and consequently for the present it is upon the West Indian and American supplies we must depend entirely for our Indian requirements. The quotations of exchange received this morning from Bombay do not hold out any prospect of a heavy or speedy lessening of the process of absorp tion going on there; but, on the other hand, there are reports to-day from Paris of an improvement in the condition of the Bank of France, and of a cessa tion of the recent efforts of that establishment to attract gold from all available quarters. Our grain importations are still on a scale equal to more than a million sterling per week, but these will gradually diminish, and as there will be heavy payments to come from America at the commencement of the new year, and the Australian arrivals both of wool and gold will at that date be numerous, it is possible that if no upward movement of the rate of discount should previously be found necessary the position of the market will then admit of the operation being further postponed. Meanwhile, it is satisfactory to notice that the Government balance at the Bank is 75 per cent. in excess of its amount at the corres ponding period of last year, and to understand that, notwithstanding the trials consequent on the cotton crisis, the revenue receipts throughout the United Kingdom are very favourably maintained. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria. cap. 32, for the week eliding on Wednesday, the 26th day of Nov., 1862: ISSUE DEPA.RimENT. otes Issued ........X28,732,880 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,082,880 Silver Bullion £28,732,88 0 £28,732,8801 RANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' Capi- Government Seen tal X 14,553,000 titles (including Rest Public Deposits (in- nuity) .£11,113 ,902 _• _, . Doll-Fr eluding - Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 7,390,865 Other Deposits.— Seven Day and other Bills 792,809 Other Securities 19320 03 Notes Gold and Silver 930,113 Coin £40,220,11 3 I W. X 40,220,413 MILLER, Deputy Cashier. • .---- APPALLING ACCIDENT NEAR ALNWICK.—A lamentable accident occurred on Wednesday, atßock Moor House, a farm about five miles from Alnwick. Eight per sons—chiefly young women—were killed, while several others were severely injured by the explosion of a boiler at tached to a threshing barn. The cure of Caltanisetta, in Sicily, having refused to baptise a child under the name of Joseph-Garibaldi, the parents kayo instituted law proceedings against t 14.6 3.0.0 7.16.6 LITERATURE, The Public Life of _Lori Illacaulay. By the Rev. Frederick ArLold, 13,A. •Tinsley Brothers, Catherine street, Strand. Without pretending to be a complete biography of Lord Masaulv, the _work before us conveys a good idea of that aspect of his character which, exposed to public view, is nes el thelcss fading from men's meniories, or of which the latter and comparatively recent portion is alone remem bered with distinctness. It is in fact a record of his acts and opinions ; it relates the impression he produced on his cotemporaries; and it touches on the many important events in whieh he took a prominent part. The writer also displays considerable impartiality; he' does not suppress adverse judgments; and the reader is thus to some extent enabled to form an estimate for himself. Born at Rothley Temple, October 25, 1800, and of Scotch descent, Macaulay showed early indications of no ordinary capacity. At the age of 13, greatly impressed with Napo leon's Russian campaign, he wrote a poem called " Mos cow." As a schoolboy he is described as being "rather largely built than otherwise, but not fond of the ordinary physical sports of boys ; with a disproportionately largo head, slouching or stooping shoulders, and a whitish or pallid complexion ; incessantly reading or writing, and often reading or repeating poetry in his walks with his companions ;" and a candid friend of a poetical turn de scribed him a few years later as Little graced With aught of manly beauty--short, obese, Rough-featured, coarse complexion, with lank hair And small grey eyes . . his voice abrut, Unmusical. p A writer in an American paper pictures him when speaking on the Reform Bill as " a little man of small voice, affected utterance, and hissing like a serpent." Nevertheless, "these spasmodic symptoms gradually wore off as the fire of argument kindled up his soul, and the more proper shapes of human speech by equal degrees formed upon his tongue and flowed from his lips." At 18 he went to Cambridge, where he took high rank and obtained the Chancellor's gold medal for the best English poem, the subject being Pompeii. In 1821 he gained a Craven scholarship of £5O a year, produced another prize poem on " Evening," and contributed articles to Knight's Quarterly Magazine, on " The Athenian Orators," and " Italian Poets." His first appearance in London was at Freemasons' Hall, in 1824, when he made an anti slavery speech which attracted some attention, and in the same year he was elected Follow of Trinity. In 1826 he was called to the bar, and went the Northern circuit, though apparently without obtaining any business. But his career may be considered to have really commenced in 1825, when he joined the Edinburgh. Ream, and contri• buted the first of those essays which have given him a foremost place among English writers. In 1830 he took his seat in the House as member for Calne, his maiden speech being on the question of the admission of the Jews. Shortly after this commenced the famous Reform Bill agitation. " Unparalleled scenes were then witnessed in the two Houses. Noble lords were shaking their fists in each others' faces, and Sir Robert Peel had to be dragged down to his seat by his friends." And it was now that Macaulay gained his great reputation as an orator, even his bitterest opponents admitting his power. As a specimen of cotemporary criticism we give from the Noct•s Ambro stance : BLACKWOOD ON MACAULAY. Tickler—" You will laugh when I say it, but do you know it is a plain, simple fact that this Tom Macaulay put me much more in mind of the Jeffrey of ten years ago than did the Jeffrey tpsissimus of hodie." North—" You pay Mr. Macaulay a high compliment— the highest, I think, he has ever met with," Tickler—" Not quite ' • for it is the fashion, among a cer tain coterie at least, to talk of him as 'the Burke of our age.' However, he is certainly a very clever fellow, the cleverest declaimer by far on that side of the house; and, had he happened to be a somebody, we should, no doubt, have seen Tom in high places ere now." North—" A son of old Zachary, I believe ? Is he like the papa ?" Tickler—" So I have heard, But I never saw the senior, of whom some poetical planter has so unjustifiably sung : " ' How smooth, persuasive, plausible and glib, From holy lips has dropped the precious fib.' The son is an ugly, cross-made, splay-footed, shapeless little dumpling of a fellow, with a featureless face, too— except, indeed, a good expansive forehead—sleek, puritani cal, sandy hair; large glimmering eyes, and a mouth from ear to ear. He has a lisp and a burr, moreover, and speaks thickly and huskily for several minutes before he gets into the swing of his discourse ; but after that nothing can be more dazzling than his execution. What he says is substantially, of course, mere stuff and nonsense ; but it is so well worded and so volubly and forcibly deli vered—there is such an endless string of epigrams and antitheses—such a flashing of epithets, such an accumula tion of images ; and the voice is so trumpet-like, and the action so grotesquely emphatic, that you might hear a pin drop in the house. Manners Sutton himself listens. It is obvious that he has got the main parts, at least, by heart ; but for this I give him the more praise and glory. Alto gether the impression on my mind was very much beyond what I had been prepared for ; so much so that I can honestly and sincerely say I felt for his situation most deeply when Peel was skinning him alive the next even ing, and the sweat of agony kept pouring down his well bronzed cheeks under the merciless infliction." North—" The feeling does credit to your heart. Have you read his article on Byron in the Edinburgh ?" Tickler—" Not I. I wonder how many articles on Byron we ate expected to read. Is there to be no end to this jab ber—this brainless botheration about a case as plain as a pike-staff, and that lies, too, in a nutshell ?" North—" Macaulay's paper is, however, an exceedingly clever thing, and you ought to glance your eye over it. The Edinburgh has had nothing so good these many years past. In fact, it reads very like a paper in one of their early num bers ; much the same sort of excellence; the smart, rapid, popgun impertinence; the brisk,airy, new-set truisms, min gled with cold, shallow, heartless sophistries ; the conceited phlegm, the affected abruptness, the unconscious audacity of impudence ; the whole lively and amusing, and much com mended among the dowagers." On the passing of the Reform Bill he was, after a severe contest, returned for. Leeds, when he assumed an extremely independent tone. In one of his letters during that period we find the following remarks on "BEGGING FOR VOTES." "My dear am truly happy to find that the opinion of my friends at Leeds on the subject of canvassing agrees with that which I have long entertained. The practice of begging for votes is, as it seems to me absurd, pernicious, and altogether at variance with the true principles of repre sentative government. 'The suffrage of an elector ought not to be asked or to be given as a personal favour. It is as much for the interest of constituents to choose well as it can be for the interest of a candidate to be chosen. To re quest an honest man to vote according to his conscience is superfluous. To request him to vote again s t hi s consc i ence is an insult." He was now made Secretary to the Board of Control,with a salary of £l,BOO a year, and on the appointment of a law commission to inquire into the jurisdiction, fige., of existing courts of justice and police establishments in India, he was made ordinary Member of the Council and President of the Law Commission with a salary of £lO,OOO a year. In India, where his fame had preceded him, his arrival created a great sensation, though his legislative powers were ques tioned, and his career there seems, upon the whole, to have been by no means a popular one. One law, however, met with general approval—the establishment of one universal system of Indian coinage; but some of his measures were severely reprobated. At length, however, the labours of the Law Commission came to an end, and the Penal Code in 26 chapters, with numerous illustrations, was produced. Some of the latter the writer gives, premising that they "certainly appear too trivial and absurd for serious legislation :" LAW FOR THE HINDOOS. A., a servant in Z.'s house, having occasion to write a letter, dips a pen in ink, the property of Z. Here, though the act of A. may fall under the definition of theft, A. has committed no offence. A., a friend of Z., calls at Z .' s house in Z.'s ab sence, and writes and seals several letters there with Z.'s paper and wax without asking any person's permission. Hero, if the acquaintance between A. and Z. bo such that, according to the usages of society, the con sent of Z. to such use of his property must be implied thence, A. has committed no offence. A. gets into a public carriage in which Z. is sitting, and, in seating himself, slightly hurts Z. by pressing him against the side of the carriage. Here, though A.'s act falls within the definition in clause 316, yet, if the whole harm caused was so slight that no man of ordinary sense and temper would complain of such harm, A. has committed no offence. His task completed, Macaulay returned to England, and shortly after made a tour in Italy, where he gained a know ledge of localities, which, in his " Lays of Ancient Rome," he found of essential service. "Lord Macaulay," says the writer, "always carefully studied the scenery and localityv. of historical events, and well knew their value in fyecoon the composition vivid and accurate impressions. t h co urse aces, he composition of his history he visited variouss some times taking up an unobserved resitdioexine for weeks together while pursuing his careful observations." A vacancy now occurring a d n n b g u t r h g a h t t h h i e s se at was expensesoccurring in the representationstoifp offered him which he ackePd ce rtain changes in the Ministry should not exceed £5OO, and - ed Secretary of War, and sworn appointed being made he was In 18 appeared his "Lays of An of Rome," an of the Privy Coun d u t i h i e agitation on the Corn-laws t a ki ng place, spoke in favour of a total repeal , but considered that a he nent interval of time should be allowed to permit the farmer to transfer his capital from one branch of indus try to another ; and he also opposed the income-tax. In'the nex t session he strongly condemned Lord Elle n b orough ' s co aduct with reference to the gates of the Temple of Bora nauth, and was equally severe on that gross blunder the Ashburton Treaty. As a specimen of his style about this period take the following conclusion to his speech on the Unitarian Chapels Bill : MACAULAY ON RELIGIOUS TOLERATION. We know that that sect is small, that it is unpopular, that it can produce little effect upon elections ;_ p e erhaps I b may go so far as t o say that it would probably the best way, to win public favour, altogether to such be the case repudiate them and their do c t r i nes ; and, therefore, if —if there b e any person of an arbitrary nature sue and intole rant turn of mind who wishes to enjoy the pleasure of per secution with perfect personal impunity—then I'say that he ites for the indulgence can have no more excellent op of his propensities than the p f p u r r e e r i s v e i n l present. have taken up the doctrines of ndFt;erlimgyiesneelfl,ibseirr,tyl, ' when some of those who are not because they are popular, () but because they are just; and the time may come t se t u his bill may be compelled to now crying out against le l. will attempt to prevent others from be the case, then, sir, appeal to the principles which it rests ; and if that shall oppressing them, as I contend against their insolence I now seek to keep them from lording it in the same spirit as I may hereafter have to battle for over others. At present 1 their rights." - In 1845 arose the Maynooth question. Macaulay sup ported the Bill for the augmentation of the grant in every stage, 444 once P39re took clUcc as Paymaster-Cicerali Rio conduct on these occasions gave offence to his constituents, and in the general election which took place soon after, a coalition was formed against him of " Pharisees and Pub licans," and he was thrown out. Two years later the Uni versity of Glasgow elected him Lord Rector, he was presented with the freedom of the city, and in 1852, Edinburgh having become repentant, made him overtures; and he, declining to give "any' expLua:.;on or any guarantee," once more became its representative. Of his effect in the house the late Mr. Whitty gives the following graphic sketch : "MACAULAY'S tr.." It was pleasanter talking on Wednesday, when the posi tion of Mr. Macaulay in Great Britain was measured in a great way. On a Wednesday the house and the committees are sitting at once, and the building is filled with scattered M.P.s, some at work, but the most loitering about the lobbies and corridors picking up old acquaintance and feeling for public opinion. About 3 on Wednesday one was loitering about too, for the talk in the house was not interesting—on a Wednesday it seldom is— and one could pick up members' opinion, which is as im portant as public opinion. You were walking along the committee lobby, wondering which room' you would take next, when, as you paused uncertain, you were bumped up against by somebody. He begged your pardon and rushed on, and you looked to see who it was ; a member, a stout member; a man you couldn't conceive in a run; and yet he's running like mad. You are still staring at him, when. two lucre men tr o t past you, one on each sid, and they arcs members, too. You aro very puzzled, and ccc the doer close toyou—' Members' Entrance' above it—dashed open, five members dash from it and plunge furiously down the 1 , bby. Why, what can be the matter ? More doors open, more mem bers lush out; members are tearing past you from all points in one direction towards the house. Then wigs and gowns ap pear. They tell you, with happy faces, their committees have adjourned; and then come a third class, the gentlemen of the press, hilarious. Why, what's the matter ? Matter Macau- lay is up, and all the members are off to hear him. yo u join the runners in a moment, and are in the gallery to see the senators who had the start of you perspiring into their moaeneanhiaayd,ns' up" ph„eeamrdpt emptied y places. ears; a n I d t t was he a n announcement " t passingann tohuen committee-rooms. Now, as of old, it emptied clubs, It was true ; he was up, and in for a long speech ; no t a mere sput, but an oration. He was in a new place, st an di ng i n the second row (above the Treasury Bench) from the table, word and looking and sounding all the b e tt er f or the elevation wad the clearer atmosphere for orators, which must be found in that little remove from the green boxes. The old ‘:oice, the old manners, and the old style—glorious speakilag P Well prepared, carefully elaborated, confessedly essayish ; but spoken with a perfect art and consummate management ; not up-and-down see-saw talking off a speech, but the grand conversation of a man o f th e world, confiding his learning, his recollections, and his logic to a party of gentlemen, and just raising his voice enough to be heard through the room. That is as you heard him when you got in ; but then he was only opening, and waiting for his audience. As the house filled, which it did with marvellous rapidity, he got prouder and more oratorical and ei it becameth speech h with i amteirnr teont e rapidity, enf ththu 8 e i increaser eh t. : i n a y n t wo g s o, a r f fd t o e sr r : ce then ay rerryyi h ns e egn p t o he u rinsceehd, hearers rl dry as the subject was, he gave it grandeur by looking at from the grand and historical point of view), and yet not leaving them time to cheer. A torrent of words—that is the only description of Macaulay's style when he has warmed into speech. And such words. Why, it wasn't 4 o'clock in the afternoon, lunch hardly digested, and yet the quiet, reserved English gentlemen collected there to hear the celebrated orator were as wild with delight es an. opera-house after Grisi at 10. You doubt it ? See the division • and before Mr. M acau l ay h a d spoken you might have safely have bet fifty to one Lord Hotham would have carried his bill. After that speech the bill was not thrown. out, but pitched out. Speeches seldom do affect measures; and yet this speech will have altered British policy on a great question ; and, don't forget, that on a WedrAsday, in a day sitting I People said, when it was over,, that it was superb, and so on ; and one began to have a higher opinion of the House of Commons, though it is queerly "led," see ing that if the Macaulay class of minds would bid for leadership they would get it ; and that perhaps the Lord Johns only get at it at present by a sort of moral justice, because they work for it. But it wasn't all congratulation. Mr. Macaulay had rushed through his oration of forty minutes with masterly vigour; and, looking at his massive chest and enormous head, you couldn't be surprised. That is the sort of man who would go through whatever the undertook. Yet the doubts about his health, which arise when we meet him in the street—he neves meets anybody —when you take advantage of his sphi nx -lik e rever i e, staring right on with calm, eternal eyes," to study the sickly face —would be confirmed by a close inspection on. Wednesday. The great orator was trembling when he sat down ; the excitement of a triumph—the massive head not withstanding —overcame him ; and he had scarcely the self possession to, acknowledge the eager praises which were offered by the Ministers and others it his neighbourhood. Evidently he had reasons for being as quiet as Gibbon wa s in the house ; an d i n t hi s case, too, no doubt, we must think enough will have been done for fame and for our pleasure if the history is finished. But his strength was gradually giving way ; he became unequal to the fatigue of his public duties, and in 1856 he wrote to the electors of Edinburgh resigning his seat. The year following he was appointed High Steward of the Bo rough of Cambridge, was made a peel, and his untimely death followed shortly after. In looking at Macaulay's character as a whole, it is as a literary man rather than as a statesman that he has a claim, on our regard ; for although his opinions on the topics that came before him appear both liberal and just, and although his power as an orator was undeniable, he neither originated any great measure nor attained the highest honour politics can give. It is as an essayist and historian that his memory will survive; but even here his spirit of partisanship will injure his fame. He appears as an advocate rather than as a judge, assumes a license 'only proper to fiction, and is open to the charge of exaggerating the merit of the side ho es poused, and of unduly depreciating those to whom he was opposed. Nevertheless, the fascination of his style is almost unexampled, and his works have not been surpassed in our generation for brilliancy and power. MARKETS-THIS DAY. MARS-LANE. To-day's market was scantily supplied with English wheat. Owing to the falling off in the recepts from abroad the trade ruled firm, and in some instances' rather more money was demanded. The show of samples of foreign wheat, ox granary, was somewhat extensive. In most descriptions a fair business Was transacted at full quotations. Floating cargoes of grain were in steady request at ex treme rates. Good and fine barley moved off freely at full currencies, but inferior parcels met a slow sale on former terms. The malt trade was in a sluggish state, and prices had a downward tendency. We were well supplied with oats, and the trade ruled heavy at fully the late decline in their value. Beans and peas were in moderate request, and the quota tions were steadily supported. Town-made flour changed hands to a moderate extent at Monday's reduction. Other kinds ruled steady. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK, Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English-- 1,120 I 1,210 i 1,380 i : ,4110 B3O sacks Irish ..... ..... 40 360 -- b' 11 7,140 31,060,; 520 sacks 2,020 brls NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale at these markets is season ably large, and the demand rules inactive at our quotations. Per 81b. by the carcase. s dad s dsd Inferior beef .. 2 8 2 10 Middlingmutton 3 19 4 2 Middling do. .. 3 0 3 4 Prime do 4 4 4 6 Prime large do. 3 6 3 8 V ea l 3 8 4 S Do. small do. .. 310 4 0 S ma ll pork . 4lO 6 0 Large pork .... 4 0 4 8 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. The finest descriptions of hops are firm in price, other wise the trade is dull, and a fall has taken place in the quotations. The supply of foreign hops on sale is largo. Mid and East Kents Weald of Kents Sussex Bavarian Belgian o o 1 1 6 0 8 5 : If n American COLONIAL. TEA.—There has been very little business transacted, and prices have remained without material alt era ti on. A large quantity is announced for public sale on the 2d Dec. SUGAR.—The market has been more animated, and prices have in most instances shown an upward tendency. In the refined market full rates have been current. COFFEE.—OnIy limited, transactions have been entered into, and quotations have remained without any change of importanco. RlCE.—East India descriptions have been in more re.. quest, but the dealings have not been extensive, and prices have remained steady. SALTPETE.E.—I3usiness has been inactive, and the :few bargains entered into have been at about former rates. TALLow.--The market has been rather more animated, and a fair amount of business has been done for both pre sent and forward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted Os to 46s 6d, and spring delivery 46s 6d to 46s 9d per cwt. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A singular and fatal accident occurred at Sheffield on Tuesday night at the terminus of the Midland Railway Company. A num ber of carriages were being shunted in order to form a re turn excursion train to Chesterfield and Derby, and either from the engine driver having too much steam on, or from the negligence of the signalling porter, they were backed with great violence against the wall which forms the end of the station, making a clear breach, and sending one carriage through into the station yard. At this moment some down or more people were passing, but all escaped without serious injury excepting one poor woman, who was so severely in jured by the falling of the wall that she died a few minutes afterwards. Her name was astertaiued to be Crouch, a re sident of Derby, and she had, along with her husband, visited Sheffield on business. Mr. Crouch was a few feet in advance of his wife, thus escaping injury; and, w h a t is most remarkable, a little girl, who was sent to show the way to the station, and who had hold of Mrs. Crouch's hand, was only slightly injured in the foot. _ _ _ - - THE COAL TRADE.—In consequence of the deten tion of light collier vessels on their passage down to tho North from London, tonnage is extremely scarce in the Tyne and north-eastern rivers, and some of the pits have been working short time. On Newcastle quay on Monday and Tuesday Bs. 6d. per ton was about the average freigh offered for gas coals to deliver afloat, and in some instances on Monday Bs. 9d. was offered for delivery at wharves. But no doubt if a fleet of light ships were arriving there would be a Tery considerable fall in thoo high rates. ~` a ~, I ore job, 000 litl OP ° t he ded, %Arta Oleg 'ore° r the ;oil' , I rtY. hiO , r of 'ton' said io n• ow Dv' Is to ° cir t 0 goo oirt- the Lice° !To V/ t he i to IV° 30' ,eats t 0 0 3too o 10 o°f )erl i ; es of d° ° ie idt tioll iet ill O' OW i s LO 0 0 ! sou' It t° 1 the .eig ° „o f Keg , ct ir tD ° O W 00. V Share 100 - stk 20 20i 160 too 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 IWO 100 100 stock stock 20i 20 100 100 stock stock stock stock 50 100 stock st 20 st stock 100 100 100 100 100 17; 40 6.15. 8.12 4.' 7.0 2.0.6 4.3.0 12:3 2.4.9 1k 10.6.7 28.9. 2.0.6 '2.10.8 all all all all all I pon a I