The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-25 00:00:00

ALABKET AND CITY. NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The demand for discount accommodation con tinues very moderate, and the rates shows no alte ration. About £15,000 in gold was withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday. The Mooltan, which leaves on the 27th inst. for Bombay, will take out £31,991 in gold and £270,087 in specie. Since Monaay last the imports of specie have been about £353,300, and the exports £99,000. The Foreign Exchanges, yesterday afternoon, exhibited a slight advance in the rates on Holland and Hamburgh, but the quotation on Paris was rather lower. A dividend and bonus, together, at the rate of 14 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, have been declared by the directors of the National 13ank. At the ensuing meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of Egypt a dividend, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, will be proposed. The suspension has taken place of Messrs_ John Forbes and Co., warehousemen, but for what amount has not yet transpired, although the assets are believed to be considerable. At I:, meeting of the creditors of Mr. E. Abbott, of the Bow brewery, the liabilities were stated to be £33,989, while;the assets only amount to £6,842. A committee was appointed to investigate the cir cumstances of the sale of the brewery, and to ascertain in what manner the purchase money has been disposed of. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, a fair amount of business was transacted, and prices were steady. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales. The transactions in the Market for Public Securities to-day have been limited, but owing to a few sales, prices slightly tended downwards, but more firmness is now apparent, owing to the rise on the Paris Bourse, Consols being 92+ 93. The New Threes and the Reduced are steady at 921 d ; Exchequer Bills, March, 16s. prem. ; and ditto June, 21s. to 225. prem. ; Bank Stock remained at 241 and 243 ; India 5 per Cent, at 105/ 106 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Enfaced Paper, 861 ; ditto 5 per Cent. 1001 ; and ditto 51 per Cent. 1061 In the Foreign Market the dealings have also been on a reduced scale, but prices have continued firm. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 831 84; ditto, 1858, 741; Mexican have advanced to 291 4 ; Portuguese, to 461; Spanish, to 531 ; Italian are 63/ ; and Vene zuelan, 24. The Moorish Loan is 51 I prem. A limited amount of business has been transacted in the Railway Share Market to-day, and prices have shown rather less firmness. Eastern Counties, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North Eastern (Berwick), have declined ss. ; South Wales, how ever, improved 10s., and Brightons, 15s. In the Foreign and Colonial Markets the opera tions were of the most limited character, and prices 'Were generally unaltered. Dutch Rhenish brought 16 ; Great Luxemburg 9+ ; Bahia and San Fran cisco 15 1 ; Cape Town and Dock 15/ ; Great Southern of India 100 ; and Bombay and Baroda 100. Joint -Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were in moderate request, at steady rates. Union of Australia brought 401 ; Union of London 30 ; London and Westminster 731 741 ; London and County 39 40 ; Electric Telegraph 97 ; and South Australian Land 331. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 f i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 / India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent B6l Ditto 5 per Cent, lOOl Ditto 5} per Cent 0. .. 106 k tiitto Bonds 11,000 Ditto under £l,000 Consols for Account, Feb. 6 92/ March. 1 Jung. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 16 21 2 Ditto £5OO Ditto Small — i • FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto Account Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 — Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account - 3 Turkish 6 per Cent. — Ditto Account Ditto New Loan — Ditto Account Venezuelan 3 per Cent — 24 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Guil. .. '-)itto Certificates, 4 per Cent... French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 631 Consols Money TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto Account 924 3 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paid. 1 Leasing Closing Business Railways. Co. s Price. Done. I Be df ord and Bletchley all ILn. & N.W Birkenhead . Buckingh • nsilre lOO Do. Chester &II )Iyhead.. 100 IDo 535 544: Do. 55 per cent 100 i Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 , EX. &E.O 64 66 E. Lincolnsih. gBpr c. 160 iGt.North. 135 138 E.Union,liarwichShs all ;E,Counts. 4 41 Do. Woodbridge.— 100 ' . • • • • Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drtt. 100 Caledon .. .. Do. new Gloster & Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. .. Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Do. halves I Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Lm&N.W2OI 204 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all D 0........ .. .. London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64 Do. Preferen •e Lon.,Tilb.& S, , Ytliend 100 Peto &Co B2 84 , Lowestoft gua. 4 p 0.. 100 Norfolk Do 6 pier cent lOO Do.• llfrie.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& Id ii 41 4 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5.6. E Counts. par 5 p gua. 5 per cent... Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all Do. Do. 6 per cent..... all IDo . Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—llartlepool ICO N. E. Ber .. .. North Western &N.W Preston and Wyre. f all , s. , L. yk. } 44 46 Do. 4 shares A. all 'Do. ••• • .. .. .. Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 Gt. North. 134 137 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 120 122 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 90 92 I Wimbledn Az Croydon all L.&Brgln 84 95 THE PRODUCE MARKETS. (From Joseph Ti avers and Sons Weekly Chador.) The Produce Markets continue to show great steadiness, and from the increasing supply of money, holders are evi dently every day becoming more confident. The chief event of the week has been the publication of the long looked-for statement of M. Fould, the French Finance Mi nister, and although it produced for the moment some little dismay on the Paris Bourse, from the candour of its reve lations regarding the extent of new taxation requisite to restore the equilibrium of revenue and expenditure, it seems in England to have been regarded with approval. No material attempt is to be made to wipe off or reduce the addition to the public debt, caused during the last three years by the fact of the Government hav ing spent a total of more than 40 millions sterling beyond their receipts; but the European public will ba well satisfied if the system of excessive and exhaustive out lay is to be abolished for the future. The proof afforded by the anxiety displayed by the Paris financiers at the scale of taxation already acknowledged to be essential even to maintain solvency under the proposed system of re trenchment which reduces the army to 400,000 men, has been pointed out as a guarantee that the Emperor will en deavour, in his European policy, to avoid, at all events for the present, provoking any resumption of war in Italy or elsewhere ; and it is felt that every year during which France is permitted quietly to develope her commercial resources will have a great effect in weaning the people from the thirst for military domination. Consequently, among the trading classes of the United Kingdom, there is .a general disposition to take an improved view of Continental affairs, and to wish M. Fould every success in his creditable efforts. The intimation that among the new imposts to be levied an addition of the duty on sugar figures for the sum of £1,160,000, has attracted attention; but as it appears that unless in case of unexpected necessity it will not be brought into operation until July, 1863, and the amount of the in crease, spread over the immense consumption of France, will not be very appreciable, the measure has not had the stighest influenco on prices either in the French markets .or in our own. CONSOLS, WHEAT, AND COTTON.—The funds have been quiet during the week, with a tendency to flatness, which is occasioned by the doubts as to whether the Eng lish and French Governments will not find it necessary, before long, to take formal steps for setting aside what seems to be pretty generally considered the "ficti tious" blockade of the Confederate States by the Federal :States of America. The quotation of Consols in our last was 93k, and, after having touched 921, the prices yester day evening was 93. Wheat has been dull at the decline of last week, and the cotton market has shown rather less agi tation. A decline of id. per lb. has, however, been sub mitted to. The Judges in the Probate Court yesterday re fused the a pplication of Mi ss Sheddon for a re-opening of the cause 44 ,Sheddon v. Patrick." ASSASSINATION AT PIsA.—A correspondent in a conte m porary says : — A. very disastrou s wd long on arriving resident a physician incident has just occurred here. Dr. "M‘Carthy, in'this city, much re s p ected and esteemed, as returning that to his horne on Friday l ast from Leghorn, an at the railroad station, too k a carri age for purpose. Two porters or facckint, as is their custom, accompanied the carriage, and notwithstanding Dr. M'earthy's repre sentations thLtt he did not req uire ' heir services, persisted is following him. One of these men insisted on carrying Upstairs the small trunk which formed all the Doctor's lug gage, an dhe paid this man and dismissed him. The other, however, insisted upon payment, and though civilly re- Imonstratea with, would not leave the house, but continued to use the moot insolent and abusive language mingled with threats of vengeance. The Doctor, losing patience, at last 'rushed out to .remove him, when the fellow, drawing a stiletto, stabbed twice in the abdomen, the wound pe netrating. to the .intestines. After 40 hours of agonizing torture, to which the largest opiates offered no relief, he sank yesterday and expired at 3 o'clock—the victim of a system which has now become popularised in the north as Mach as the south of Italy. Of course no one dreams of the punishment of the assassin, nor is there any likelihood that measures of precaution will follow this foul and in famous_. murder, though meetings of English residents at Pisa and Leghorn-Aro now convened to address M. Ricasoli OU the subject. SHARE MARKS T-(THIS DAY). ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. 1 A .. no ets div Do A ' I Do t ) i e l e l n 6p p e a .p id an t . o h ß as . , . B I ; Dublin ,t Cellist June. Dun.,l'ertli.&Ab. June ;East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do Bdo do DoNw A, late E U3ds East Suffolk I Edinburgh & Glasgow. iEdin., Perth, & Dundee Glasg. and S. Western. GreatNrthn.of Scotland ,Great Northern Do A stock Do B do 'Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Trish South Eastern ..1 Lancashire & Yorkshires London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast .Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine .. L'derry & Enniskillen. Nlan., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle INewry, Warnpt, & Ros Norfolk (North British Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock Do A stk ; A rocs no d till fi pc. has been pdß Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York 'North London Do new North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. Gran. lii. & Canal, Portsmouth Rh 3 mney Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Sc.Do - oMid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer ' South Devon S. Durham & Lanc. Un South Eastern 'South Wales IS. York. and River Dun , taines,Wok.,andWok. ',Stockton & Darlington, Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do Pref. No. 1 Thames El avenDk&Rail. Ulster Do Do 'Vale of Neath !Victoria sta. and Pim (Waterford & Kilkenny iWat€ r I ord & Limerick West Cornwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Har.ALR West Midland -Oxiord Do Newpor' Do Hereford Wol., and Str. Val , Blyth and Tyne Bost Sleaf andnid.Co ! Bristol and Exeter I Caledonian C•irk and Bandon Cornwall 13.14 , Closing Business P "'“' Price. I done. 7 8 64 7 95 07 104 104, 42 44 lot 11i 10 20 54 55 48 52 34 36 91 93 304 81 101 103 1121 1131 109 110 132 134 101 106 68 681 67 6) 108 105, 5g 60 119 121 45 47 94} 041 974 9.4 9 11 441 45 f 7 1321 134 1 4 3 11 3 103 105 65 67 135 i 66 1011 1011 574dt p b 8 891 802 98 100 4f 104 11 d 92 93 125 12 `. 44 46 100 102 46 48 37 a 781 791 67 69 97 99 54 8 32i 4O 8 1G p 6 7 p 554 564 1 1 24 34 d 88' 92 127 i 131 6 61 84 86 47 49 44 46 89 91 PREFERENCE SHARES. p a id . i Closing I Business Prices. I Done. Share( Railways. 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. l pref. issued at £5 all at Bris. A Exet. 4p.c. at 100 92 94 20 Do. shares st Caledon. qr. shrs, No. 2 100 61 Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. all 20 Cornwall. 5 percent all 205 211 65 Dun. Perth, & Aber.Jun all 6 65 10 Do. Ist Class Pref all st E. Angn. Class Asp. c lOO 101 103 at E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 100 109 111 st Do No. 2 100 108 110 at Do. new 6p.c. at lOO 125 127 st Eastern Union, 4p. c— 100 81 83 st Do. sp. c. guar lOO at Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares 100 111 113 st Do. 4p. c. guar. S. &t' lOO 90 92 at Furness, 5 per cent._ _ 100 st Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c. 100 st Great Northern, sp. c lOO 116 118 st D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm lOO 113 115 at Do. 45 p. c. do lOO 104 106 st Do.sp.c.Redrcatsp.c.pm 100 (103 110 10 (it. Nh. of Scot. Ist pref. all at Gt. Sn. &W. (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 97 99 50 Great West. (Berke and Hants Ext) 5 per cent' 6 st Do. redeem. 45 p. et..., 100 98 100 991 9 at Do. redeem. 4 p. ct lOO 88 90 st Do. irredeem. 4p. ct lOO 89 91 st Do. sp. c. redeem. pref. 100 102 104 8 '3o. Birm. pref. shares all 95 Pa 10 Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. she all 17 18 10 Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. she all 101 11 at Do. Birm. guar. stock lOO 76 78 201 Do. Chester guar. shares all 201 201 131 Do. do all 10/ 101 20 Do. do all 151 15f 100 Lan. & Carl. 41 p.c. pref 80 st Lan. A York. 6 p.c. stock 100 135 137 at Do.Barmil.st£s 2s 10d pc 100 at Do. 6p. c. (East Lan.) lOO at Do. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pur lOO 102 104 at Lon.&Brig.sp.e.gu. No.l 100 114 117 at Do. 5 per ceraLdo. No 2 100 114 117 at Do. 6 per cent. dO. at Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 100 114 117 st Do. 7 per cent pref. stk 100 153 158 at Do, 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) 100 1.`,8 132 st Do. 4 p c.st.(div.def.lll'6s 100 74 76 st Lon.Chat.&Dov. sp.c.pf. 100 96 97 st Lon. &N. W., Cov. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 100 112 114 at Lon. As. West. 7p. cent. at., late 3d shares st Do. 4} per cent 2s 6d Do. (Prtam. perpl. anns. of 2s 6d 121 Londondy. & Cole.. ahs all 125 tondony. A Ennis. 5 shs all 131 14 et Man. Sh. & Lin. 6 per ct. 100 126 128 6 Do. £6 st I Do. 31 per cent l OO 68 72 10 I Do. redeem. 6percent. 5 5 4pm 121 I Maryport A Carl. 4 pr. c. all .. .. 125 i Do. 45 per cent all .. .. st I Midland Con. 6p. c. stk. 100 . .. st I Do.Con.Bris.& Bine p.c. 11 - 134 140 st Do. 45 p.c. pref. at. Hem 100 103 105 at Do. 41 p.c. irredeomable 'l6O - €6 Do. 41 per cent..... , itill at Do.Leic. andHit4per et . . 00 93 95 st Norflk. sp. c. Ex. at. 1840 ,100 _ .. st Do. 51 p. c. Pref. at. 1847 100 .. .. st Do.sWay.ValEx.st.lB47 100 .. .. at Nort British, 5 per cent. 100 111 113 at Do. New ;ma. per cent... 100 109 111 10 Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs. 7 31 11pm 10 Do. do. do. all _ .. st Nth.Dvn.Rail.&Dck.Co. 100 .. at N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. 100 .. .. at Do. 41pr. ct. redeemable 100 .. .. at Do. G. N. E. 4p. ct. pref. 100 100 102 17 Do. Berwick 4p. c. pref. 100 98 100 20 Do. Leeds 6p. c. No. 1 'B. 13.4 4 die par 125 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. 13 .. 25 Do. York, H. &S. Purch. 9 .. .. 9i 20 North Staffordshire.... 10 1 dis par 10 Ithymney Guaranteed.. all 22 23 st Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. c. pref. stock.... all • • •• at Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c 100 • • • • at Do. 7p. c. pret. stock 100 10s. South Devon, Ann, 10s. 100 132 136 10 Do. Fixed 41 per cent all 10 11 10. 6. South Eastern (Reading all .. .. Ann., 1.0.0) st Ds. 4} per cent at Do, Fixed 41 per cent 100 102 104 st South Wales, gna. 4p. C. 100 .. at Do. 45 per cent at Do. do. 1850 1 100 .. .. at Do. 5 per cent. lOO .. .. at S. Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua. 100 86 8,1 20 Do. sp. c. gun.' 13 1 11 p at Wat 2 5 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c all 28 29 25 26 Do. B6p. c all 32 34 ri D d o k KilkCn6y,p6. p c .. .c 100 3 42 1 3 45 3 W. Alid.-Oxf Ist gua stk 100 127 129 at Do. 2d do lOO 122 125 st Do.Newpor t 5 at Do p.c.pfred 100 102 103 at .Perpet.6 p. c. pf. 1866 100 122 125 Do. till 1869 100 118 121 DOCKS. _____ 7 ___________ Stook Commercial . . .. stock 'Do. 4 per Cent..pre.i.V.*•( I °° i in. 100 s tock East and West India .. ' 190 122 124 stock Vindon ................ I 100 57 5 9 stock St. Katharine .......... 100 62 65 stock ',50uthampt0n.......... 100 I stAk '-v-letoria .. ...... .........' 100 98 100 99i SO ! DO NeW •" " "' l. 'S"' 2 1d p 6.4.0 19.16.4 12.10 :091 I 133} 68 1 1 i 1321 13 101} 1 } d 57 ft 891 13 12/ rim SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1862. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) THIRD EDITION. BOW-STREET. THE POSTMEN AND TRIM CHRISTMAS-BOXES.—TWO letter-carriere, named Finkney and Cottam, appeared to a summons issued at the request of the Post-office authori ties, charging them with delaying the delivery of their letters. Mr. Peacock, the solicitor to the Post-office, said the two men were letter-carriers, and the latter one of the two (Pinkney), during the last one or two days of Decem ber last, instead of delivering all the letters entrusted to him, gave a number of them to the other defendant, Cot tam, to deliver for him. Cottam, it appears, had engaged with the man to leave the letters at their respective ad dresses, but instead of doing so he got drunk and did not deliver one of them. On the matter becoming known to the Post-office authorities it was thought proper to institute the present proceedings. Pinkney said he had been five years in the Post-office He did not deny giving the letters to Cottam to deliver, and the reason he did so was that he had been delayed very much in his usual duties by the collecting of his Chris mas boxes. Cottam was interested in the amount of money collected, and he did not think he would fail in delivering the letters he had entrusted him with. Cottam said he certainly had undertaken to deliver the letters, but he had been to a party the overnight and there having made merry he was soon overcome with the drink that was given to him during the time he was engaged de livering his own letters that he was quite unable to deliver those of Pinkney. Mr. Corrio having been informed that the men had been suspended for the last fortnight, said that being the case he would only fine them 20s. each, but he hoped it would be a warning to them, as it was a very serious thing to delay the delivery of letters. Pinkney said it would be a most unfortunate warning for him, for he would most certainly get his discharge. Mr. Corrie said he hoped not as he had, he thought, been punished enough. He hoped Mr. Peacock would represent his wishes to the Postmaster •General. Pinkney expressed his thanks to the magistrate for his kindness. Mr. Curie said he should not have interfered at all in the matter had it not been that, during the time he had been in the employ of the Post.office, Pinkney had con ducted himocif GUMMI) luost certainly, was tne most to blame. Another letter carrier, named Walker, was summoned for not delivering his letters. Mr. Peacock said the defendant, instead of delivering a number of his letters, smuggled them back to the Post office, and laid them in such a position as to get them stamped as "late," or "unknown at the addresses." Mr. Rowe, inspector of letter-carriers at the Western District-office, said the defendant was a letter carrier there. His district was Crawford-street and its neighbourhood, and he was on duty on the Bth of the month. He left with his letters about half-past seven, and the time occu pied in their delivery would be about till half-past nine. In the event of his not being able to deliver all of them he ought to have written on them the cause, and left them to be stamped as " not known." Ott the following day three letter carriers complained of a number of letters being put in their delivery, which the defendant ought to have delivered the previous evening. The defendant on the following day was told of ,the Circumstance that 22 letters of his had not been delivered, and he selected about a dozen, and said he could get no answer at the addresses given. Amongst them there was a letter that ought to have been delivered at two on the afternoon of the Bth. Having reason to suspect that he was not speaking the truth, he (witne a) went over the ground, and went to the different addresses, and found that nearly al of them were at shops which did not close till 11 o'clock. It was here found that the man was i n a s t a t e o f in toxication, and Mr. Corrie adjourned the hearing of the defendant's explanation for a week. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. Atlantic & St Lawrence 13orn.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent... Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New ..... Do. Preference. , Olen tta...Eastn. ( 'Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) l Cape Town & Dock Scrip Demerara ......... rEastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian, m. 5 p. c. Do. po. I)ebcntrs. Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Do. 1866-1871. Do. do. G Ext..: Grand Trunk of Canada Do. erper cent. Pref.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et.. Do. 6per et. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872 .. G t.lndtaPenin.gua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 percent. Gt. IV. of Canada Shares Do. New ....... Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt. Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... 51adres guar., 5 p. o);.. Do. 4/ p. c. Extension Do. 4 . *' d 0.....-- lielb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. .igewßrnnswick t Canda, Ay. &L an d(Lim. )g. 6pe Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. ...... Scinde .......... 8 4 i.: Do. Punjaub •••• V, fe ID°. Do. ........ Z ? Do. Indus. St. Flo. q„; Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. all /100 15 all 100 Paid. Closing Price. 55 60 99 100 4i s:d 100 all all all all 6 7i 41 ti I id 99 100 101 102 99 101 101 102 101 102 104 105 21 22 62 65 50 64 34 37 38 42 32 35 32 34 94 100 pr 99 100 Ilk 9 ok 95 98 88 92 99 100 92 94 :90 92 5 7 4 6 101 102 I i 94 98 I id FOREIGN Algerian Antwerp dz. Rotterdam Ardennes I S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine it Rail Copiapo ................ Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish . Eastern of France .... Grand Rus Guar. 6 p. c. Do_ do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout .... Lyons it Geneva ...... Namur & Liege ...... • Do. 6 p. c. Pref. ........ !Northern of France—. IDo. New Shares 'Norwegian Trunk Prt.l Ot'mn (Smyrna to Aidn) l'ar!s,Lyons, .Sz Medi ter.! Parts & 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (fern.) gua. 7 p. et. Riga & Dunaburg...... 'Royal Danish.. Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse ...... Do. 54 per cent. Pr0f..... San Paulo, lira, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust &Lomb VeneLin i Southern of France.... S. East Portugal 7 p ct. West Flanders Do. 51 p. c. Preference.. I W. & N.V. of France ..1 Western of Austria.... Western of Switzerland' r Wiesbaden .. Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand .. BRITIS: 411 red Consols (Phi/ack , firitish Iron Clifford Devon G. Cona. (Taoist ; East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara.don ..... East Cant Brea.. E. WI Russel (Tavistk.' Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus .Wheal Alfd. (Philack T. Wheal Vor (lielstonv Grenville ... llerod's-Foot ilingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant' Mark e Valley.. Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ) North Downs North Frances (Mogan NT. WWI Basset (1110 zan` 'forth Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. I3lazey) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) iortridge Cons. Min. Co. 3outliCaradon(St.Cleer Carn Brea (Illogan) S. Des'. Iron &Gen., Lim. *Wheal Fran. (Illogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Caren.) West Basset (Illozan).. , W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (IllogaW Wheal Buller(RedrutW Whe.,l Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) Wheal Treimeney (Lis.) Business done MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE WORKS FOR THE SEWERS IN OXFORD-STREET.— Mr. Ladd, bootmaker, of Oxford-street, accompanied by another tradesman residing in the same street, attended before Mr. Yardley yesterday. Mr. Ladd said the contractor (Mr. Brassey) for the sewers, under the Metropolitan Board of Works, had for the purposes of the works erected a scaffolding in front of his house, and he had to complain that he had on the erec tion placed large boards which had been let to a bill-sticker for the purpose of posting bills. The boards prevented persons on the opposite side of the street seeing his shop, obstructed his light, and were detrimental to his business. He had spoken to the bill-sticker, who said h e h a d as muc h righttotheplace as he (Mr. Ladd) had t o hi s h ouse, as i t was let to him. The second tradesman residing nearly opposite the end of Marylebone-lane, said he had also to complain of a similar nuisance, the boards erected for advertising pur poses obstructing his light, so that ho was compelled to burn gas in his kitchen all day, and his shop was hidden from view. Both applicants said they did not, of course, object to the erections necessary for the works, although they were sources of great annoyance, because, being mostly poles, the light was not obstructed, but the boards were a different matter. Mr. Yardley said he did not see how he could interfere, but if the lght in either case was obstructed the remedy was by action. He thought, however, an appeal to Mr. Brassey's feelings might be attended with a good result. The applicants then withdrew. SWALLOWING A PINT POT I—John Forty and Eliza beth Forty, husband and wife, were charged with stealing a pint pot at the Angel, High -street. Ths barmaid at the Angel, High-street, St. Giles's, said the man and woman were in the house for some time, and directly after they left she missed a pint pot. The female prisoner was brought back, and on her asking where the pot was, she replied " I swallowed it," and though a striot search had been made it could not be found. John Rogers, 87 E, said he took the prisoners into cus tody, and the female prisoner told him that she had " swallowed the pot." Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the woman, and said he would take the man's recognisance to appear on Monday next. THAMES. ROGUES IN THE BAXEHOUSE.—E XTRAORDINARY CASE. —William Jolliffe, aged 25; George John Nash, 24; and William Townsend, 30, journeymen bakers, were brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing four sacks of flour, the property of Mr. James Tozer, master baker, carrying on business at No. 1, St. Anne's-road, Bow •common, Stepney. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, conducted the prosecution, and said that Mr. Tozer's business was a most extensive one, and his losses by dishonest servants had been very great. It appeared that about 10 or 11 days ago Mr. Tozer missed a quantity of flour, and on Saturday, the 18th inst., Jolliffe left the premises and Nash took his place. On Thursday night last the prosecutor was in his loft over the bakehouse and heard a conversation between Nash and a foreman recently employed by the prosecutor. Nash said, "We have had a b—y game hero; we have taken four sacks of flour in a fortnight. It's a wonder the b—y barrow did not break down." He then made pro posals to the new foreman to continue the depredations, which the foreman, an honest and respectable man, refused to comply with, and communicated all he had heard to his master. The prisoners were subsequently apprehended. Nash was taken into custody on his master's premises by police-sergeant Poole, No. 23 K. On his way to the station house Nash said, " I will not split on my mate, if I get three months for it." Poole afterwards arrested Joliffe in his own house, No. 10, China-place, Back-road, and there found a flour sack. It was one of those taken away from Mr. Tozer's premises. William Cadling, foreman, to the prosecutor, said that Nash told him he and Jolliffe had taken flour away from the loft over the bakehouse, a basket and a sack at a time, r and sold it to a German baker in Stepney. The evidence against Townsend was that he was in the employ of Mr. Tozer until a fortnight ago, and that ou his being apprehended by a constable, a promise was held out to him by his master under the very stupid policeman's advice, and he then made a confession. Mr. Selfe said he could not even hear the confession made under a promise, and the police constable had no right to question a person or extort confessions from him by threats or promises. After some further evidence affecting Nash and Jolliffe, they were remanded for a week, and Townsend was dis • charged. Mr. Stoddart, by the advice of the magistrate, said he should have made a witness of Townsend. A BLIND MAN'S PERSETERANCE REWARDED.— About four years ago Thome! Schelefield undertook the arduous task, though stone-blind, of walking from Man chester to London, and accomplished the journey. The poor fellow's object was to seek to get into the Blind School, and acquire a knowledge of some industrial trade by which to gain a livelihood. On reachinglthe metropolis, however, his hopes were frustrated, for his age and other circum stances rendered him totally ineligible for the benefits of as admission into the London Blind School. Mr. Elliott, the magistrate at Lambeth Police-court, ordered him a sove reign from the poor-box en the case being brought before him, but the particulars of his application and his remark able journey having obtained publicity, no less than £l3B was subscribed by different benevolent individuals for his benefit. With this he returned to his native place, learned akipmaking, and commenced business. He subsequentl3 invented a gauge with wh i ch he could make skips more perfect, as he said, than "seeing men." In the beginning of 1859 he was called upon by two of the Governors of Hen shaw's Blind Asylum, Manchester, and became a teacher of akipmaking in that institution. When, some years ago, he e v of f f atnheouatsdyoluor system lie with others agitated for h stem of employment. This res ulted in their being treated as malcontents and dismissed from the asylum. Scholefield ret urned to Atherton, and was in the workhous e there for six months, and then undertook hi s remarkable walk to L on don. About Midsummer last, the estab lishmen t n inmate the Governors of Henshaw's Asylum, having inaugurated a system of outdoor employment, installed Scholefield as first superintendent of the department, at a salary of £65 a year, rooms, a ttendance, &e. He h as now £157 in the savings-bank.; SITX OFFICE, Six o'clock. SPAIN. The Pueblo of Madrid of the 20th states that a rumour prevailed iu the Spanish capital to the effect that in consequence of the Queen's interesting situation, the Government intended according a general amnesty for all political offences. The Discusion protests energetically against the cruelty of Marshal O'Donnell who, it declares, has trans ported the insurgents of Loja to Fernando Po, the murderous climate of which place has already made many victims among them. A SLAVR'S 'FLORY. The following is from the correspondence of the New York Times, dated Hilton Head, South Carolina, 24th December : " In a late visit I made toDr. Elliott's plantation, onHil ton Head, I found a group of six straight-haired, bright looking mulatto children, seated around the doorstep of one of the negro cabins, eating ravenously the boiled sweet po tatoes which a decrepit old man was distributing among them with appareLtly great solicitude; "The little ones were neatly dressed, which is an excep tion to the rule, and they were otherwise more attractive than any I had yet seen. I inquired into their history, which at once affords an illustration of a slaveholder's morality and his brother's honesty. Oh, no, sah I Dese are massa's children,' said the old man, in reply to my question as to whether he was their grandfather. Dere mudder name Rose ; he lib wid her as he wife, and when he die, some time ago, he make her and de children free.' Then he told me that Rose had gone over to General V iele's camp to do washing for the officers ; and that she had come with herself and family to the Yankees to escape being sold into slavery by her master's relations. I could not fully understand all that the old man said, but I heard enough to determine me to learn Rose's story from herself, if possible. Yesterday, therefore, I was at General Viele's quarters, and made inquiries after Rose. She was not there, but I was introduced to a young man named Israel, who gave me an intelligible history of Rose and her chil dren. He said that he and Rose belonged to the same mas ter. His name was James Garrard, and his plantation was four and a half miles from Blufftop. It was well stocked with cattle, and some 'fifty head of niggers.' Mr. Garrard, about 11 years since, wanted to marry a fine lady, but she ' kicked him' (Israel's word for rejected), and in spite, he took Rose to live with him. He bought Rose in Savannah, expressly for the purpose. I went with him for her in de buggy,' said Israel, and 'fore ho pay for she, he bring her home and try if she good cook and make pastry. Ho find she good, stirrin' woman, and he keep her.' He added, that Garrard had seven children by her—two boys and five girls—the eldest of which, a girl about ten years of ago, was then living at Savannah. Over a year ago Garrard died, leaving a will which called for the sale of his entire real estate—slaves, cattle, and other property, excepting Rose and his own children, who were manumitted. Out of the proceeds of the sale of the property a home was to be pur chased for Rose and her young family, and the balance of the funds was to be placed at interest, of which she was to receive 1,000 dols. a year for the support of herself and children, and the remainder was bequeathed to his brother in-law, Elliot Garrard, of Savannah. " This disposition of the property did not suit Elliot Garrard's views, and he has interposed obstacles to carry ing out the provisions of the will. Rose, meantime, has been living on the plantation, where matters have re mained comparatively the same as when James Garrard died. After our forces had taken Hilton Head, and when the people of Savannah were in a big scare,' Elliot Gar rard went to Rose and wanted her to retreat into the country, somewhere in Barnwell district, but she dreaded he might sell her, and refused to go. Next day she aban doned her home, took her family with her, and scught Yankee protection. lam told by those who know Rose, that she is a fine-looking, intelligent woman. She is very black, but her figure is perfect, and in her neat mourning dress and bonnet, unless her face is seen, she might be mis taken for es haughty a dame as South Carolina can pro duce. Her chief attraction, however, is her conversation, which is marked by intelligence respecting the objects of the war, and many other subjects connected with it. She speaks understandingly of her own affairs, the injustice of the executors of the will, and her intention of going North, where her children may have a chance in life, as soon as she can get her other child from Savannah. "In speaking to Israel yesterday, I am afraid I made him uncomfortable for the rest of the day. Said I: "' Do you like stopping here better than on the planta tion P' " ' Oh, yea, Sir,' ho said, promptly. " What will you do when the soldiers leave here ?' "At this question, th© look of surprise which passed over Israel's face was irresistibly droll. He finally re plied : " I'd go wi"em ;' " ' But suppose they won't let you ?' I said. " ' Den I jump into de boat 1 ' " ' Ah I' I answered, 'they might put you out again l' " It was evident that no such contingency had presented itself to his mind before. He simply ejaculated, with great emphasis, as if overwhelmed with astonishment and fear at the bare idea : " ' Goodness gracious :' " I asked him what he was afraid of, and he replied, If Massa Elliot Garrard catch me, might as well be dead ; he kill me certain.' I re-assured him of his safety before we parted." "A person," says the Sport, " who looks at the world in somewhat gloomy colours, having recently com plained in Al- Tuber's presence how hard it was that people must grow old, Hard as it is,' replied the veteran com poser, it seems to be the only means yet discovered of en joyinglong life.'" ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—The proceedings of the Charing-cross Railway Company and St. Thomas's Hospital have recently attracted considerable attention. It appears th- t the amount awarded by Mr. Stewart, of Liver pool- 4 ;296,000—was paid to the Accountant. General at the Bank of England on Monday last, a c nsiderable por tion of the money having been lent, as it is said, for that purpose by the Bank of England on some security furnished by the South-Eastern Railway Company. Under ordinary circumstances a deposit so made would entitle the railway company to take possession of the whole hospital at once, and to turn out its occupants, but by a clause in the Char. ing-cross Railway Act, inserted in the House of Lords, 12 months' delay is interposed to enable the governors of the hospital to make the necessary arrangements for the benefit of the sick poor. The railway company allege that the 12 months have expired. This point, however, is referred to Vice .Chancellor Wood, who has stopped the railway com pany at present by injunction. It is clear the governors of the hospital could not sot about buying land and building a new hospital until they were sure of having the means de rived from the sale of the old one, but the money having now been deposited, the railway company ought to receive all reasonable facilities for completing their works. This would probably shut up the great north wing of the hos pital, but it would still leave a large proportion for the pre sent untouched, until proper arrangements could be made. It seems that nothing has 3et been determined as to site. A suggestion of the area of the Surrey-gardens is said, ' however, to have met with favour. EMBEZZLEMENT OF FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS ON A LEEDS FIRM.—On Thursday night, Mr. English, chief constable, apprehended at the Wellington Inn, Wel lington-street, Leeds, Mr. Thomas Wilcox, commission agent,, a middle-aged married man, residing in Handsworth street, Birmingham, on a charge of embezzling various sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to upwards of £1,500, the property of Messrs. Bateson and Jordan, cloth merchants, Park Cross-street, Leeds. The defalcations are said to extend over a period of four years, and to have been chiefly caused by losses on the turf. The defendant, it is alleged, has been enabled to carry on these proceedings un discovered by forwarding inaccurate statements of the transactions between various tradesmen in Birmingham and the firm he represented. He was, in accordance with the practice of the firm, in the habit of allowing discount for prompt payments, but in his correspondence with the Messrs. Bateson, it is said he represented that in several transactions a credit of six months had been taken, and in this manner was enabled to withhold cash payments, keep ing up his accounts by the proceeds for other goods sold for immediate cash. Mr. Jordan, one of the firm, at the time-Wilcox was apprehended, was in Birmingham taking legal proceedings for the apprehension of the defendant, and a telegraphic message was sent informing him of the capture in Leeds. Wilcox will be removed to Bir mingham to appear before the magistrates, the offence having been committed there, and being consequently not within the jurisdiction of the Leeds bench. A DANUBE STEADIER.--The hubbub of the merry makers follows us to the Szechneyi, and is kept up till late into the night. The Moldavians are naturally a gay, care less, pleasure seeking sociable race, and the European com mission just now among them sends a whole host of agree able travellers up and down the waters about here. So we hear them whispering, and chatting, and flirting, and humming love songs about the cabins, and in the nooks and corners of the ship, or roystering jollily in drinking bouts upon deck, and clinking their glasses together, and smok ing, and telling the most wonderful stories ever heard, till the early summer daylight comes round again, and they fall asleep in their smart clothes and lackered boots—a gipsy company, in all sorts of impossible places, and in the drollest attitudes. These Danube steamers are amazingly entertaining in a general way. There is usually a great deal of good and curious company on board. The Rouman and Hungarian peasants, who join us at the village sta tions, mostly wear the national costume, and now and then there is a patriotic Boyard or magnate does the same. Tho ladies dress for these steamers as smartly as for pleasure parties on shore. The captain assembles a chosen half dozen immediately round him, and so we go, a bright.. coloured mass of gossiping, flirting, loud laughing, junk2t ing humanity, all jumbled into close acquaintancesh i p 1(31 : a week together or more, if we have the good fortune_ to be delayed by fogs or sand-banks.—. Dickens's the rear Round. stock FO ItEIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Lim. a , l 5 Brazil Land tt Min. Co..., all 14 1/ 1 IClarendon Cone.MinCo.l ; dis. 10 ;Cobra Copper 1 all 34 26 Copiap o I 16 6 8 1 I Dun Mnun.Cop.l%l ing Co i afl 1 14 3 ,East Del Rey (Limited)' 1 4 4 If 2 !Fortuna. 20 ;General all 22 24 2 IGt N. Cop. of S. Austr I 1 pr 4p 14 14 Kapunda (Limited) 1 1 14 p 3 Linares all 74 8 5 ILusitani an 2 i d pr 1 Mariquita. all 1 N.RhineCopotS.Aus.L l 4 id 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Leadl Mining and Smelt... ; all 2 5 Port Philip 1 14 14 1 !Scottish Austrin. (L.) j 10s. 7 14pm Mining and Smelt... Port Philip Scottish Austrin. (L.) 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The Canadian screw steamer Norwegian, Captain McMaster, from Portland (Maine) on the 11th inst., via Londonderry, arrived in the Mersey about 8 o'clock this morning. The news by this arrival has been generally anticipated. The Portland Argus of the 1 lth, in an editorial on the rumour that the Washington Government had agreed to let English troops pass through the State of Maine en route to Canada, says : We therefore hope the tender has been made, and we feel sure that our fellow-citizens, upon a moment's reflection will come to the conclusion that such an act would not only be becoming in one great nation towards another, but that it may be of vast conse quence in soothing tempers already irritated by false impressions, and in allaying the growing bitterness of feeling that has been so unfortunately fostered by indiscreet short-sighted persons on b)th sides of the Atlantic. In a postscript to this article the Argus says—. After the above was in type, we learned from a perfectly reliable source, the fact that permission has been given for the Hibernian, the next steamer due at this port, and which has English troops on board, to enter our harbour, and for the troops which she brings to pass over the Grank Trunk Railway to Canada. We learn also that the tender of per mission has been made in terms so courteous and unreserved as in themselves to carry an assurance that the Administration has the utmost confidence that the peaceful relations of the two countries will not be interrupted. The Hibernian is under instructions to come to this port, land her mails and passengers, and then return to St. John, New Brunswick. As at the time she sailed the state of things in this country could not have been known, the commander of the troops probably has no instructions in regard to availing himself of the courtesy tendered, permitting him to pass through our territory, and may not, there fore, feel at liberty to accept it. But whether he does or not, we are quite sure that the friendly courtesy will be duly appreciated by our English cousins. On the same subject the Portland Advertiser says: On Thursday a despatch was received from Secre tary Seward, addressed to the United States Marsha] and all Federal officers in this city, directing the agents of the British Government to have all proper facilities for landing and conveying to Canada or elsewhere troops and munitions of war of every kind, without exception or reservation. This is in striking contrast with the refusal of our neighbours across the water to allow the arms purchased by the State of Indiana to be shipped, though paid for and ready to be forwarded, and the refusal to allow one of our war steamships to coal at a British port. Secretary Seward is possessed of great suavity of manners that govern both his private and public life; and that always makes a favourable impres sion upon his enemies. We have great faith in the English people, and doubt not that their second sober thoughts will give signs of a peaceful solution of the Trent affair by the next arrival. In regard to an engagement reported to have taken place at Batb, Virginia, a late Washington telegram of the 11th inst. says : The skirmish of Captain Russell at Bath was a brilliant affair. He bad been detailed from Gen. Kelly's command with two regiments of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry, and was stationed at Bath. On the approach of Gen. Jackson in com mand of 6,000 or 8,000 rebels, his scouts gave him notice. He was six miles from the Potomac river, and took the infantry out about two miles and posted them as skirmishers in a dense wood. The cavalry was left to engage the advance of the enemy. An exchange of shots was the consequence, and the enemy's advance came on and fell into the ambus cade. Captain Russell lost seven horses, captured 13 of the enemy's, and retired with his whole force across the Potomac, with the loss of only two men, who were drowned in crossing. This is considered one of the most brilliant manoeuvres of the war. THE BOJiBAI AND 111EBI7EI?RANFAN MAi L AJ SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 24. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Delta, Captain Field, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 27 passengers, two packages of specie, value £1,430, also 10 cases shawls, 114 boxes oranges, 59 pack ages sundries, and 1,056 bales raw silk, value £90,000 sterling. The Delta sailed from Alexandria on the 10th ; Malta, 14th; and Gibraltar the 18th inst. On the 13th she spoke the steamer Pera, steering south east; 18th, her Majesty's ship Queen, steering east to Malta; 19th, her Majesty's ship Scourge, stand. ing northwest; and 20th, steamship Demetrius, steering to southward and westward. From Gibral tar to Southampton the Delta experienced strong gales, with rain and high sea. The usual Egyptian fleet, his Imperial Majesty's transport Mayenne and steamship Gomer, Russian corvette Actpell, and English steamers Morocco and Corinthian, were in the harbour of Alexandria. Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Neptune, Lon don, Surprise, Foxhound, and Firefly were at Malta. At Gibraltar—Her Majesty's ships Am phion, Scylla, Alacrity, Firebrand, Procris, and Cuckoo. The Doris, Queen, and Algiers left Gib raltar on the 18th for Malta. The Confederate steamer Sumter arrived at Gib raltar at 7.45 p.m. oulthe 18th, reporting that she had sunk one vessel and put a prize crew on board another ship belonging to the Northern States. The Sumter entered the harbour without showing any lights. A part of the cargo of the British brig Sappho, wrecked near Saffi on the 27th ult., had been saved, and every means taken to secure the interests of the underwriters. Her Majesty's ships at Gibraltar had received orders to proceed to the Mediterranean. The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 18th says : " The final settlement of the Spanish-Moorish dis pute by the actual payment of the money due as war indemnity by Morocco to Spain seems close at hand. The loan raised in London, added to a further sum to be paid over to Spanish agents at such of the Morocco ports as the Sultan's Govern ment may designate, will complete the first half of the war indemnity, upon payment of which and the fixing of the new limits at Melilla, it is stipulated that Spain shall evacuate Tetuan." We have not yet heard the result of the joint labours of the Moorish dignitary and the Spanish engineer officers who went to Melilla for the pur pose of fixing the new boundary. The chieftains of the Riff, it is thought, are men likely to turn a deaf ear to all persuasions of their own Sultan to surrender territory to Spain. Their objection may, however, be overcome by the Sultan first buying the land himself, and then handing it over to Spain ; and it is probable that his envoy is empowered to give compensation for the soil which an exte nsion of the Spanish frontier will take from its former masters. The Madrid journals publish the text of the treaty of commerce between Spain and Morocco. It consists of 64 articles, and is substantially the same as that concluded about two years ago between Great Britain and Morocco. The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 16th says the Cadiz papers confirm the fact of a protest having been made by the United States consul against the assistance given to the Sumter. The authorities considered themselves bound to afford such aid as was indispensable. The Sumter was inspected by Spanish official surveyors, when it was found that she had st rung a leak near the screw. The safety of the vessel would have been compromised by her proceeding to sea without stopping the leak, and p a e r r s m en i a tt l e o d f e t o a r e r ff a e c c a t . " indis the Sumter has been the Pe T us h a e b t le hr r e e r v i e r s s s " el i s n destroyed at sea by the Sumter a short time since, are the ship Vigilant, bound from New York to the Pacific for guano; bark, theE b e Windwardodge(lvlhsallaenrd)s;. schooner, Arcadia, bound to The British ships brigantine Arcadian, 52 days from Liverpool, steamer Ellora, four-and-a-half days from Southampton, and steamer Ann, eight days from Cardiff, had severally arrived out at Gibraltar since the 15th inst. Gibraltar exchanges were quoted on the 18th : London, 90 days' date, 491 to 49a ; Paris, sf. 25c. ; Marseilles, 51. 26e. ; Genoa, M. 29e. ; Madrid, eight days' -sight, par ; Cadiz, 1, di3 ; Malaga, pm. ; Seville, 7 1 1 dis ; Alicante, s dis ; Valencia, I pm. ; Barcelona, - 1 1 - pm. ; Spanish pillared dollars (Fer dinand), 21 per cent pm., no demand ; ditto (Caro lus), 22 per cent pm., in demand ; silver five franc pieces, y per cent poi.; Mexican dollars 3 per cent pm. Freights without change. MR. SEWARD'S REPLY TO MR. SMiTh O'BIUEII The following letter has been received by Mr. Smith O'Brien, from the Hon. Mr. Seward, the American Secretary of State. Mr. O'Brien, in for warding the communication to a Dublin journal, expresses his belief that it has been written with a view to produce an impression on the public mind of this country, and on that account he does not feel himself at liberty to withhold it from publi cation : " Washington, Dec. 28. "My dear Sir,—l have received your letter of the 2d of December. It is a pleasant circumstance, in these times of care and anxiety, to know that the generous friend ship which was so long ago formed between us has on your part, as it has on my own, survived the accidents of time and distance. I thank you sincerely, moreover, for the interest in the affairs of my country which prompted your communication, and I have not the least disposition to complain that you gave it to the press before it could reach my hands. The subject is not private, but a public one. You had a right to suppose that, if the advice you felt constrained to give was wise, it ought to be publicly known ; while if, from want of recent knowledge of Ame rican affairs, or any other cause, it was unwise, the intelli gent masses in Europe and America, whose consideration it should receive, would be able to discern the error. " You would hardly expect me, even if official restraints were removed, to discuss with you the questions you have raised. I the rather send you a copy of such public papers as I have had occasion to write recently upon the condition of affairs in the United States. You will find therein the reasons which explain my own position, which is in important rospects so different from your own, namely that society on this continent could encounter no reverse o its progress so disastrous as the division of the American Union. It would be war henceforth, continually, and for ever. So also I think that society in Europe has no evils before it equal to what would result from a revival of am bitions on the part of European States for dominion across the Atlantic. You view the dangers of war very differently from myself. 'While I believe war waged without neces sity and without motive, is not only a calamity, but a crime, I think also that the State which is just, equal, and tolerant in its government, as the United States, by force of their political constitution and their set tled convictions and habits, must always be, can and must bear with wars unnecessarily forced upon it by sedition within its jurisdiction. We shall never, with my ctaisent, make a war unnecessarily or unjustly against any foreign state. Standing always, not only in the right, but upon the defensive, we shall, while our virtue lasts, be ade quate to defend, maintain, and preserve institutions, the subversion of which could not increase the freedom or the happiness of one human being in the world, either in this generation or in any that are to come. "No, my dear sir, if you would promote the cause of America, of Ireland, of Great Britain, of humanity itself, speak and act in every case, and without qualification, for the American Union. " I do, indeed, know that too many of my countrymen, heated by passion, think and feel differently; but for me, who have not only seen but felt, in every hour of my life, and in every condition, the inspiring and elevating influ ences of such a political constitution and such a country, without seeing a single act of injustice committed on any one, or suffering a single injury myself, there can be but one loyal wish—namely, that I may die, as I have lived, a citizen of the unbrAen American Union, and may leave to those who come after me, as we received from those who went before us, all its honoured institutions, unimpaired and reinvigorated.—l remain, my dear sir, yours, &c., " WILLIAM H. SEWARD. " To Smith O'Brien, Esq., Killiney, co. Dublin, Ireland." A SE.RGRANT.MAJOR'S ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE GUARDS. We (Plymouth journal) have received the fol lowing letter from a sergeant-major Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards, on board the Adriatic, to a friend iu Devonport, which will, no doubt, prove interest ing to our readers : " Halifax, Nova Scotia, 3d Jan., 1862. "Dear Old Friend,—After encountering the dan gers of the deep for eleven days and nights, I find myself in Halifax. People in the Old Country (Yankeeism) say, 'Go to Halifax;' and to Halifax. I have gone. Oh, —, were you ever sea sick ? It :ou were not I hope you never will. I suffered frightfully, and, I am afraid, not with the stoicism of an Indian. We had 1,400 men on board, stowed. away something like pigs, all on top of each other. Then the rations were anything but inviting. Tea! God forgive me for calling things by their wrong names, for I verily believe it was nothing more nor less than a tar rope suspended in a boiler of water, with a small portion of sugar in it. The chocolate I can say nothing about for not one in ten drank it. The pea soup, the first day, was something awful ; some companies got all peas, and the others a Lind of liquor. The soldiers on board (like the Persian army, under Darius, which drank the rivers dry) attacked the water barrels immediately after in good force. The adjutant, after they had emptied one barrel, ordered them away from the second ; they would not go, but were mutinous enough to cry out, Throw him overboard' They then brought the hose to play on them, which soon cleared the ways. They were raging mad with thirst, The cooking, altogether, was abominable ; not suf.. ficient boilers. The duff,' commonly called pud ding, which was supposed to be for dinner, was generally boiled during the night, and issued out before breakfast ; it so stuck to the teeth you could not get them cleaned for an hour after. I was tolerably well up to Christmas Eve, when it com menced to blow a gale. The gale continued the whole of that and Christmas Day, and the day fol lowing. A more miserable Christmas I never passed. Not a particle entered my lips for the three days, although I got a sniff of a goose from the saloon. Then I thought of Home, sweet Home. The voyage, altogether, was lonely. I thought the other morning, as I lay in bed, that I should like to hear a baby cry, just for novelty's sake. On Sunday last we were on the banks of Newfoundland, and intended putting in the following morning at Syd ney, Cape Breton Island, for coaling, then, if possi ble, up the St. Lawrence, only we chanced, most fortunately, to meet the Persia (which had taken out the Ist Battalion 16th Regiment) returning from the St, Lawrence. She made her way as far as a place called Bic, and commenced landing her troops. Nine companies were safely on shore, when the ice drifted d own i n suc h masses that she was driven from her moorings and obliged to make out to sea, with the company and all the baggage on board. She left behind six of the ship's boats and twenty of her crew. Hearing this, we gave up the thoughts of trying to ascend the St. Lawrence, and, in company with the Persia, arrived safely in Halifax Harbour on Tuesday last. It appeared in the Halifax Chronicle of today, that the Parana was lost at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, having on board the Sc ots Fusilie r Guards, and o ther troops, but it turned out to be false. They are now at Sydney. We are now taking in coal, and expect to leave on Monday for St. John's, - New Brunswick, then overland to Q ue b ec, upwards of hlgand part by s l e i g hi ng . carried for him 401b s . o f iar willt by mhiti7ech b agg age only. It is frightf u ll y cold here ; you can se e nothing but ice and snow, and sledges flying Each h mites, officer from one part of the town to another, each drawn by one miserable animal called a horse,with a couple of bells jingling round his neck to give notice of his approach. Things are generally very cheap, meat particularly-21d. per lb.; lobsters, ld. each ; sugar, 10d, per lb. ; rum, 6s. per gallon; clothes very dear. The ladies appear in monster crinolines. The wea ther is so severe that I dread the journey, but I hope to be there by the end of the month, with a letter from you awaiting my arrival.—Ever yours, " -, lit Battalion Grenadier Guards." A deputation from the Associated Societies (Metropolitan and Provincial) of the Beer and Wine Trade, intr.duced by W. Scholefield, Esq., M.P., had a long in terview yesterday with Sir G. Grey on the equalisation of the licensing system. THE SIIORT TIME MOVEMENT IN LANCASHIRE.--- The Manchester papers publish elaborate returns of the short time movement in Lancashire, of which the follow ing is a summary :—The' returns embrace almost the whole of the districts in which the cotton manufacture is carried on in the north of England, including Manchester. The number of mills and factories is 1,174, employing 257,392 operatives. There are, in round numbers, above 69,000 working full time, 161,600 working short time, and 27,000 entirely without employment. The av erage number of hours worked by those on short time i s 35 2-3, or fully 3} lo p e l dd nt in all the other districts ave e th days per week. The proportion of operatives working f u ll time is very much greater in Manchester and Bolt on than in any other place. Excluding these two towns th e num ber wouldf hands stand inat 5, f 4e u m ll oo emoym 0, instead of 69,000. Di v i ding the total number of hours worked enuring during the week by erag the total would nu mbebreoafwhuantd3sB, p y 1-3 hours to each unemployed, per week. 5 6 19 5451! 1091 591 1211 94} i 98 441 i 5 1 i Share 100 stk 204 204 10 stock 6.15.6 5.12 4.14 1.12. r 4.3.0 12.3 2.6.0 2.2 9 li 10.6.7 71 1.7.2