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

. v r THE 81IN, . , -.. LAONDON, WLi _ 'I, tf,SDAY EVENTS I Lords Saltire and Welter are well drawn, and im- 31 0... 1 7 4 71 1 .1 11 ,1e1 7-?,KET _:.STD CITY NEWS. H -._..- SARE DIA RKET-(71111S DAY). t BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ) prove as they progress. Their conversation --- -e __ _____ss,... ____ _ Shan Railways. Closing !Paid. Price. Bueiness done about Ravenshoc's affairs brings out the similarity yet contrast of their disposition. A chapter on CITY, Two o'Caoees. An active demand for money is still experienced ORDINAR7. SHARES AND STOCKS. • - 100 kilaacic .V - st - LaViienCe all .1 53 57 - beggars furnishes some strange accounts of the beggars of London. The writer endeavours to in discount circles, and there . is not likely to be any share; 1 Railways. I Closing Business stk f lloso Pstrodat.Cent Ind 100 97 98 Raid. Price. done. t 6 - u" 5 'per cent........ 18 Do Do. B all - - d f show that much might be done to mitigate the evil. diminution in the inquiry till after the 4th of the - 50 I l'eliast and Nor. Coun4 all - 13.14 Bin., Wol., and Str. Val.' all 71 8 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all n4l d 204 Do. New - A poem entitled " Britain's Eernest Money," is one month, when a large aggregate amount of commer -10 100. Preference ...... all 55 61 25 Illyth and Tyne . all - - l of the best poetical contributions we have met cial paper will arrive at maturity. Even then the 10 Bost,Sleaf„andMid.s.o. all 65 61 100 auffalo,Brant&Godrich 100 _ 5 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 1 with in the periodicals for some time. It re lates to the murder of Patrick Vans Agnew market will, no doubt, exhibit some firmness, owing st Bristol and Exeter 100100 at ,Cal.edonian' 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 1 00 - - t. of the Bengal Civil Service, and Lieutenant to the revenue collections; but their effect will be 10 ;Carmarthen & Cardigan all - - 101 94 (' 10 6 2 1021 1 100 00. do. June 1, 18S5 100 - - all - - 5 lcutta.&S. Easfn. (Lio ) all 41 5 of short duration, as the release of the January Anderson, when on a mission to Lahore. The for- of idends will l 1 • the availableso IC , rk and Bandon all 2 2 0 0 'C co o r r n k, w ß a l l riock, & Passage all i 6 _ 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Li in.) 2 , 0 - - 20 "ftpeTown & Dock Seri] 16 1 id lowing is a sample:- arge.y increase . .. 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6 P.C. 71 - - Then like enchantment broken plies, and probably create renewed easiness. As it 10 Do A 10 Do. B A gets no div all _ - till6p c.p an.has all - .. 171 Demerara all - - 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 sr. . all 101 love 191 By some unearthly spell, is, however, the mercantile community are in a posi- been paid to B. stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 98 4 99 4 " 100 Wild forms, and wilder voices 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 41 42 20 Do. F Shares Ext..... all - - Fill the " Eedgah" where they dwell. tion to obtain great facilities for trading operations, 25 Dun„Perth,&Ab. June all 101 11 st East Anglian lOO 18 19 18/ 20 Do. Jubbulpore all - - And a darkening circle hems them round ; the bills being still negotiated without any diffi- st Eastern Counties ... 159 511 1,21 521 3 ... 100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs. all 98 100 . No help or hope of freedom shows,loo Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864 all 99 101 1001 culty at 3 per cent. in the open market as well as Do Do. 1855-1870 all 100 101 - Save one clear path above them, Bdo do 100 32 34 1 Which no earthly power can close. at the Bank of England. ata Ea D s o tern Union, A stock 100 47_ 50__ 25 DoNw A, late E U3ds ' 9 i - - stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 18 19 I Britain's envoys hold high audience st East Suffolk - - 100 Do. 6 per cent. Prof.. all 56 59 A small quantity of gold, viz., £4,000, was takenl oo Do. 2cl Pref. 6 per ct.. all 45 50 Of a strange and solemn kind, Looking dauntlessly for severance into the Bank of England yesterday. , at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 281 291 291 at Fdinburolt & Glasgow. 100 88 90 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 30 34 32 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 34 38 Of the body and the mind. 10 Worth & Clyde Junction all - - l a o t ( . 3 1 r l aeloo Do. do. 1867 .. all 29 32 A further slight decline was exhibited in most st Furness - - 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 29 32 Then fearless spoke Vans Agnew, of the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon, e• stock Gt.ln di a Peni n. ssua.sp.c. 100 100 101 981 While before his flashing eye 20 Do. New gua. sp. a.. 10 1 i d A moment quail'd the rabble rout Gold is now of nearly the same value in London s aTeT a r n tt d an S .o . st Great Northern lOO 1121 113 1135 f Western lOO sll _ 93 I_oo 100 PO 111 11l 101 stock Gt. Soutii.of India(Lim) st Do A stock That came to see him die as in Paris, but it is about 5-10ths per cent. cheaper st Do Bdo Do g . uaranteed 5 per cent. 100 99 100 " 'Tis well," he said ;" I hail the sign at Gt. S. an' W. of Ireland 100 101 104 do. all here than in Hamburg.eta Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 81 94 91 ti That ye, with your own hand, at Great Western Should use the stain of Saxon blood The Shannon, from the West Indies, has arrived at Do Str Val guts. stock 100 55 58 20 Do. New p . 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all - - To redden this fair land ; w i t h £488,900 in specie. 12 Irish South Eastern .. all - - st Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1061 107 1071 581 74 100 I Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all - - It has been arid the ..'axon red 100 IDo. 5s p. c. do. '7B d 0... all - - . Will cover India o'er At a meeting of the Canada Company a dividend st Lon., Bng,ht.,& S. Coast 100 115 116 st London . and Blackwall 100 54 56 116/ stock Madras a s suar., 41 p. c... 100 89 91 1 stock Do. tic. 5 per cent lOO 99 100 That India's chart shall need to trace of IA per share was declared, free of income-tax. st Loo., Chet., and Dover 100 44 46 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 91 93 Its native states no more. s t Lon. '& North Western 100 911 02 93 1 0 The report of the directors of the Port Phillip and 20 Do. 5 do .... - . And we, the least of England's sons, stock , Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Buds lOO - - 25 L'derry &Co. . . .. leraine I all - May gladly die to claim Colonial Gold Mining Company recommends a dis- st Lon. & South Western; 100 92 93 93/ 4 9 11 20 INewllr unswiek & Cancia Fresh conquests for our country- tribution of ls. 6d. per share. 25 L'derry & Enniskille si all at Man., Shef., & I,inco'u. 100 441 15 Ry.&Land(Lim.),;.olx; all 5 7 i Class A Capital Share t Fresh honour for our name. 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all - - The dividend warrants on Buenos Ayres Sterling 121 Do.. Do. do. Land do , But we die not unremembered, 75 6 61 20 !Do. do. B Capital do . Bonds will be paid on and after the 12th inst. The 10 Metropolitan ' all 4 6 i And not unrevenged we die, st Midland 3 5hare5........ .. all - - all 1274 1271 1284 94 .. 'Do. do. Land do. ...... Per our brothers here in thousands sum of £4,400 has been employed in the redemp- 6,4.0 Do New - hide (Limited) ... . - - - stockScinde .......... 4..; 100 1014 1021 Will seek us where we lie. st Do Binning. & Derby 100 98 100 tion of nine Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent. Bonds, valued 50 20 IDo. Punjaub ....1 LI E, O 15 1 1 d The storm of Britain's iron hail Mid Gt. W. of Ireland all - - 20 IDo. Do. ........ ss cs all - - d I Will sweep your city round, And soon her dread artillery Will rase it with the ground." at £4,500, and £5,226 has been applied to the ex- 21 Do. 1 shares 25 Mid Kent tinction of 56 Three per Cent. Bonds, amounting to so Do Cray Line £18,400.a1l - - all - - all - - 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all - - 10 Newry & Armagh, del. 9 - - stock IDo. Indus. St. Flo. g .., 100 1 :95 100 10 (Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.., 1 ,1 4 0 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. What wonder art they trembled At the stern reply he gave, To-day a call of £2O became due on the Lancaster 20 Newry, Warnpt, & Ros. all - - st Norfolk lOO 61 63 20 Algerian 10 Antwerp & Rot:erdarn all 61 61 61 : 1. Or deem'd the light of prophecy and Carlisle Railway £lOO 41 per Cent. Preferenee st North British - -p Shone on him from the grave P st Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 1 0 0 - - 20 Bals&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. 15 /4 d 144 For many a father thought, I ween, Shares; of £1 ss. on the London, Brighton, and st Do A. stk ; A recs no d 5 Belgian East. Junction all 4 4 When that proud speech was done, South Coast 4fr per Cent. Preference Shares, and of till 6 pc. has beenpdß 100 - - st Do B stock lOO - - 20 Beziers to Graissessac.. all - - "Carmeaux Mine es Rail 30 105 115 I would yon Kaffir's lion heart £2 on the Stockton and Darlington New Shares. st Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 994 991 101 100 Copiapo ................ all - - Were placed within my son !" 25 Do, G N.E.purchase 16.13.4 11 d d 3 0 Ditto Extension .... all 434 The traffic receipts of the Dutch Rhenish Rail st Do Leeds 1 "The A Saheb Faggot" is an amusing Christmas way Company for the fortnight ending the 30th of at Do York tale. " A Glance beyond the Trent Difficulty" is a St North London - - ( sketch of the international law of the sea, by November, were £7,363 against £6,494, in the cor- 10 Do new 5 - - 19.16.4 North Staffordshire . _4 ffordshire 171 55 4 1 d 121 20 Do, do. all - - 20 Great Central of France all - - J. M. Ludlow. " English Sacred Poetry, in the responding period of 1860, and on the Great Lux -10 N. and S. W. Junction. all 104 101 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... all 8/ 91 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" reviews the embourg the returns for the past week show an in- at Not. Gran. Rl. & Canal 100 88 90 90 1 20 Italian Junction .•• .. all -- - merits of Keble and his predecessors. " Passing crease o f £Bl2 . 10 Peebles all - - 20 Lierre & Turnhout . ....' all - 20 Portsmouth - - 20 Lyons & Geneva •• .• •• all - - events-the Conservative reaction" goes to show 10 Rh ney - - 20 mur & Lieg•e .. ••• • • • an 81 11 that the success of the Tory party is owing to The interest coupons on the Grand Russian st scot secentrei 1 their giving up old Conservative prejudices. Railroad Shares have been announced for payment. st Scot. .z. E., Aber. stock 100 28 40_ France.... all 885 391 381 _ 16 Northern of st Do Sc It. Md. stock lOO 93 97 16 I Do. New Shares • - - Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester - 10 Sh rews . and Welchpool all - - 10 /Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 810 st Shropshire Union INTERNATIONAL _EXHIBITION, 1862, day was rather inactive, and prices tended down -10 Sittinobourne & Sheer, all - - , , 20 )Paris & Orl.. all 50 52 • wards. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales. st South Devon lOO 36 38 20 25 S. Durham & Lane. Un. all - - t i ;,run. 7p. ct. lim •• •• • • 17 5 4 d TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. On the Great 'Western R tilway of Canada the at South Eastern - - f , Recife & S. Fran. (Pero.) SIR,-I am directed by her Majesty's Commis- 100 65 67 20 Royal Danish ...• ••• • • • all 11 13 traffic receipts for the week ending the 13th inst., st South Wales at S. York. and River Dun PO 95 97 5 Royal Swedish .• •• - • all - - sioners to request that you will have the goodness amounted to £10,849, being an increase of £2,491 20 Staines,Wok.,andWok. all 51 6 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.. • all - - to contradict a statement which has been made, that 25 Stockton & Dar.ington all 36 38 20 Sambre & sleuse ••• • • • all 61 7 7 0 compared with the same perion in 1860. 25 Do l3 7 8 p 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref..- all 84 91 it is the intention of her Most Gracious Majesty to Increased animation and buoyancy have prevailed 25 Do New, 1860 5 41 51 p 20 San Paulo, rim, g• 7p. C. 4 4 I - .1 open the Exhibition in person.-I am , Sir, y our in the market for st Taff Vale - 100 - - 20 S.Aust 3sLomb Venetin 18 id 1 p 181 public securities to-day, owing to at Do Pref. No. 1 - 26 Southern of France•• •• all 251 261 obedient servant, the favourable advices from America, which lead to 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 - - 20 S. East Portinsal 7 P ct. 4 - 50 Ulster F. R. SANDFORD, Secretary. the supposition that the demands of this country 25 Do 12.10 5 t va lo ot Neath 2O 24 35 54 1d ip 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference.. all 94 10 20 W. & N.W. of France .. all 20 21 Offices, 454, West Strand, London, W.C., will be conceded. Numerous purchases have, there- - - Dec. 31, fore, been effected on speculative account, and ade st Victoria sta. and Pim lOO - - 20 , Western of Switzerland all -- - . - at Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 6 ' Wiesbaden ... - - 1 - cided improvement has consequently taken place. 50 Waterford & Limerick. all - - 6 Do. 8 par cent Pref... • all ..1 all 1 AN LIIMENSE GUY, C onso l s h ave b een as hi g h as 91a 1, and they re- 20 West Cornwall 20 West London all - - 20 Zealand - - BRITISIIMINES. Do 10 Ist class - - -- 20 Do 2d class all - - main firm at those quotations, showing an improve- - , Al!re.. Consols (Pliiiiick , 3.2.10 1 / The immense 300-pounder Ar ms t ro ng gun, manufactured at the factory of Sir W. Armstrong, at Elswick, near New meat of fully 1- per cent. Advanced prices are at W. Hartlepool Han& R. 100 - - at West Midland Oxford 100 45 48 2 0 I British Iron .......... 16 1 2 - I CliflOrd , nil 28 32 castle-on-Tyne, has been forwarded to the Royal Arsenal, also current in the other departments of business. at Do New or 100 42 45 - Devon G. Comm. (Tavistol 1 365 375 to be subjected to a series of experiments at Shoeburyness, The New Threes and the Reduced have improved to st Do Hereford; 100 88 90 - East Bassett (Mogan)" 130 50 524 - - East Caradon . . ........ 11.11.6 281 f9l 1 in the presence of the Ordnance Select Committee. This 90a and 91-1 ; India 5 per C sea. Stock has further LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. - E. WI Russel (Tavistk.); 7.4.0 21 31 - Gam.&St. asubyn(Gwen.) ! 551 18 20 , extraordinary weapon is constructed on the muzzle-loading advanced to 104 U ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced - Great South Tolgus.... I 17s 31 44 principle. It weighs 12 tons 8 cwt., and should the experi !Paid. Leasing Closing Business - G,Wheal Alto. (Phila ck, _ mental trials prove satisfactory, Sir W. Armstrong will Pa p er is firm at 971, but the 5 1 per Cent. fiat at Railways. Co. s Price. Done. -G. Wheal Vor (frets ton) 40 6 7 have the merit of producing the most powerful agent of mo- 1021. -- - - - ;Grenville 6.8.6 11 2 ------ - Herod's-Foot ........ dery warfare. - A general improvement is also apparent in the Bedford and Bletchley ItZ 1 6 .3&T...11T , ;ji a - ilinoston Downs s, 4.11.6, 8% 31 ' Birkenhead.. -- , Lady Bertha - -- Foreign Securities, and rather more activity pre- Buckingh -n a ism. , . 100 Do 94 06 ..- I Margaret (Orly Lelant) 9S 40 12 VHS DAIS SHIPPING. veils. Turkish 6 per Cents. have advanced to 78 and r& H dylieft . d.. 100 Do. Do. 5/per cent - 100 Do. 53 54 128 125 - (North Downs ......... . 21 41 5 - North Frances (Mogan) 115 2 2 a...____-- 79, being 1 per cent. higher ; ditto, Loan of 1858, Cheste Do. 5 „ 100 Do ll2 114 - IN.WII'I Basset (Illosan) 1.14.0 24 31 Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 - 'North Wheal Crotty .. 9 . 18 .9 11 25 I' LONDON, Jan. 1.-Wind this day at noon-North- to 68 and 69, which is a rise of about 1 per cent. - Par Consols (St. Blazey; 15 7 8 Easterly ; Ugh breeze, and dull, hazy weather, and sharp d'tt D f d Spanish 3 per Cents. are ex div; 1 o e erre S • h 50E. Lincolnsh. gSpr c. 100 G .North. 133 136 136 Colchester, Stour Val. all 1 , 3.U.&1 4 1.0 63 65 frost.E.Union,liarwichShs all E,Counts. 44/ - Sortridise Cons. Min. Co. 1 1 I 20 IProvidence(Uny Lelnto 10.6.7 39 41 l GYP HURST CASTLE, Jan, 1.-Arrived-Shannon, steamer, from the West Indies. 411 ex div. ; and the Certificates are 6 . 1-, being ex- Do. Woodbridrze.... 100 ceedingly buoyant. Mexican have improved to .. .. .. Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Caledon .. .. Do. new 5 ...... .. .. Glos ter & Dean Forest all Gt. • West. .. .. - ,South Caradon(StCleer) 1% 310 120 - S. Carn Brea (Mogan), 5.9. f. 4 41 1 'S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. all i 4 - S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.1Q.9 110 120 _ 281-. Hull and Selby all YkN Mid 110 112 'Stray Park 27 19. 29 31 ',BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA.PIi.) The operations in the Railway Share Market Do. halves SOUTHAMPTON Wednesday e Morning Do, quarters b• Arrived-Rainbow, f rom Cardiff; Leda, stamer, from have been moderately active, and a marked iMs Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.& N.W 195 200 - 'Vale of Towey (Carm.),l3s 6d, i 1 Dublin ; Shannon, steamer, from St. Thomas. The provement has taken place in prices, owing to ape- London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 112 1 6 1 1 - ; West Basset (Illogan) ' 15 I 14 15 Shannon reports having had easterly gales throughout the Do. Preferen a - ;W. Caradon (Liskeard) 5 I 44 (6 passage. culative purchases induced. by the more favourable Lon.,Tilb.& Ss stnend 100 ' Peto & Co. 83 85 Lowestoft gaga. Ip c lOO Norfolk .. .. .. - 'west Scton .. ......... 175 271 285 - . Wheal Basset (Illogan)I 51 85 90 Sailed-Gipsy, for Llanelly. character of the American advices. Eastern Coun- Do 6 per cent lOO .Do. - IWheal Buller (RedrutliS 5 . 75 85 LNW& 31 31 3a - Windt Edward (Cale.) 71 2 21 ties and Great Northerns have advanced 10s.; 31nc.,8xtn.,& Matlack all 4 Mid. Bradford Pref er- - I Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant); 1.7.2 44 51 (By SUBMARINE sIND MAGNETIC TELEGRAFH.) Great Westerns, 155.; Caledonians, Lancashire and ence stock - ( W healW Mary Ann (Men 4 8116 17 GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Newmarkt, BuryEx 5. 5. 6. E Counts.'par 1 p - !heal Treir wney (Lis.) ; 7 16 17 Sailed -Panther, for Boulogne. Yorkshire, North Western, South Western, North gua. 5 per eent. .. 55 57 FOR ISIUN NI INES. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Eastern, Berwick, and South Eas Passed • -Montmorency, for Queensland ; Bridgetown, for Midlands, £1 10s. terns, £1 ; and Do. 6 per cent. Northn.&Eastn. sp. c all Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. •• • • s 0 Australian i Barbadoes . Emanuel, for River Plate-all from London. i In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the N. Eastn-Rartlepool la 0 N. E. Ben. .. .. North Western 20 Brazil St..J.del Rey,Lin. 15 48 50 44: 5 Do• Land and Mining Co. all 15 14 L &N.W operations have been limited, prices, however, ex- 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo. I - dis. MURDER OF A CHILD BY HER FATHER.-On hibited an improved tendency. South Austrian Do. 4 shares Preston and Wyre 1 all Ar, L. yk. 43 45 A I all Do. ••• • . . .. 10 Cobre Copper all 34 36 Monday the inhabitants of the town of Windsor were hor- Roystn.Hitch.& Shep.l 100 Gt. North. • l i3 136 - Copiripo . 1 DunMoun•Cop.Mings Co • ail i 15 rifted by the commission of a most appalling murder by a and Lombardo-Venetian realise 185 ; Great Western 2 Fortuna. of Canada 9 3 1 - • East Indian, 99 100 ; ,e e , and Great , 3 • • 111 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 118 122 120 1 Do. Do. 'tan named John Gould, a bricklayer's labourer, living in South Staffordshire .. I 100 Ln.&N.W .. .. 2 ,Gt N. Cop. of S. Arista 1 1 1 p 15 C lewer's-lane. Windsor. It appears that about four o'clock Indian Peninsula, 981. Wilts and Somerset.., 100 Gt. West. 90 92 11 'Kapunda (Limited) 1 1 11 p Wimbledn tr Croydon) all L.&Brgtn 81 91 the little girl Annie Gould, six Years old, broke a small Joint Stock Bank an d Miscellaneous Shares re - 3 all 7 8 Linares 5 ILusitanian ; 2 1 d pr basin. Thi s occurrence so i rr i tate d t h e father, that he seized main without any material variation. PREF ERENCE SHARES. a ;Mariquica all 1 1 upon his child and cut her throat in a most frightful man. - 1 IN.RhineCopofS.Aus.L / 1 1. 1 20 Pontgfbaud Silver,Lead; l ier. The unfortunate child ran to the door of the house BRITISH FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. I Paid. Closing Business Share/ Railways. ' ; Mining and Smelt... all 2 4 and immediately fell to the ground, when the brutal father 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9OB i 4 Prices. Done. 5 Port Philip , 1 11 11 i per Cent. Consols Annuities took her up and threw her into the street. A little boy • . 915 4 1 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.)..1 10s. 11 pm 11 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9 04 14 25.214 United Mexican ........I ail 81 81 ,81 1 / named Samuel Wilkins ran forward to pick her up, and 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. I ,Worthing (Limited)....i all 4 1 India Stock - pref. issued at £5 .... all - - j Do I .. W as immediately covered with the blood of the poor girl, Ditto 5 per Cent. - - Whose head f e ll b ac k , b e i ng near l y severe d f rom her body. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent - , 20 Do. sha es - - , Ditto 5 per Cent. She was promptly conveyed to the infirmary, but life was Ditto 51 per Cent - - COLONIAL GOV Is RNMENT SECURITIES. 1025 st Do. quay. shares, No. 2 100 - - - ; Carstiov. 6 p.c.Ja. &J uly ' found to be quite extinct. The murderer was found wait- Cork & Bandon, 51 p. a all - - Ditto Debentures, 4 0863 - per Cent., Oct.,ct. 20 Cornwall. 5 per cent.... all 201 215 - 1877-9 ... 100 102 105 Ina at his door. On being questioned by the police, he ad- Ditto 1859 - Do 6p. centiziso-2! 100 - - Initted his guilt. He was at once taken into custody and Consols for Account, Jan. 9 91% 4 10 Do. Ist Class Pref all - - - Do. 6p• cent.lBB3-4 100 - - c onveyed to the police-station, and from thence to the gaol, India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .... 1041 / st E. Anosn. Class A. sp. C lOO 101 103 _ Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 104 107 Co await the examination by the magistrates and the core- March. Jun s. at Do. Class B 6 per cent lOO llO _ Do. 6p. C. Mar. & Sept.; 100 104 107 Do. 5 per cent lOO 92 95 94 5 ner's inquest. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... - 811 st Do. Class C 7 per cent.. 100 108 108 st E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 100 104 110 - -- Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,lBBO 100 156 1(8 Ditto £5OO - - at Do . 00. 2 100 106 108 - Do 18901 100 106 108 FIRE.-A fire broke out early yesterday morn- Ditto Small - I - at Do. new 6p. c. a; lOO 123 125 -N. B.G ov. 6 p.c..1 a.&July 100 100 102 ing on the remises of Mr. Franckey, wine merchant, Can terbury- FOREIGN FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. K. at Eastern Union, 4p. c- 100 81 83 - Do. 6 p• c• AP. & Oct. 100 - - Pst Do. sp. c. guar lOO - - - N. S. W. Cs ov. sp. c.,1866 100 95 98 place, Lambeth. Several engines attended in due Mexican, 3 per Cent - Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 95 07 96 4 time, but it was too late, and the firemen were unable to Ditto Acco ant - Do. p.a. 1888 & upwds , 100 95 97 get the flames subdued until the building was destroyed c'eruvian 41 per Cent - at Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 p.c. 100 - - - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. e. sterling', 1875 lOO 101 103 Ditto (Hagan-Arica & Tacna) 41 p Ct. 99; st Furness, 5 per cent.... 100 - - and a horse burnt to death. Mr. Franckey was insured. Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. - - - S. Aus, •up.. 100 • - - EARL RUSSELL'S REPLY TO THE DEPUTATION. Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £St .. - st Great Northern, sp. c.. 100 115 116 - Vic. Gov. 6p.c. Ja..&.lnlyi - I Do. p.o. AP.&0ct...1 100 1021 1031 1031 3 --- 1 t will be seen from a statement elsewhere that an im- Ditto 4% per Cent. at Do. 41 p. c. do lOO 102 101 Spanish per Cent - st Do.sp.c.Redm.atsp.c.pm 100 107 109 _ o _ portent deputation waited on Lord Russell on Friday, on - Ditto Account 5 O 10 Gt. Nh. of scot. Ist pref. all stock _Commercial . 100 - 1 the subject of the American dispute. The memorial pre- Ditto New Deferred.... - Rented by the Baptist Union, which was adoptedby Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded also 64 4 per cent lOO 97 99 stock East and West India .. 100 123 125 124 545 the 5 0 Great West. (Ilerks and stock Il s ondor .. . lOO 58 Si Baptist Board, will be found in another column; and Turkish 6 per Cent... We are enabled to state that in the sentiments expressed in Ditto Account - - st Do. redeem. 41 p. ct.... 100 98 100 stock ISt. Katharine stock 'Southampton lOO - Ditto New Loan th at memorial, Lord Russell expressed his entire concur- Ditto Account - - - -... ‘... 2III 5 cl . rence. Some of the other memorials suggested that a Dlvidends on the above payable in London. at Do. sp. C. redeem. pref. 100 102 101 99 _ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. recourse should be had to the principle of arbi- Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 tration, a 63% 3 8 'an Birm. pref. shares.. all 95 10 10 Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs all 17 18 100 Ag,ra&lJnitedService Ilk 50 85 87 I suggestion with which Lord Russell - TWO O'CLOCK. 10 Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shy all 105 101 40 !Australasia all 59 61 fr ankly expressed his inability t o agree. Fi rs t , h e C onso l s, M one y 261 Do. Chesterguar. shares all 20 201 25 I Bank of Egypt all 201 211 100 !Bank of London ..... knew that the Plenipotentiaries at Paris had no thought Ditto Account - - When they agreed to the minute in favour of arbitration, of - 20 Do. do all 15 151 - 1 50 British North American all - - a pplying arbitration to disputes in which national honour COURSE OF EXCHANGE , -YESTERDAY. .- -ESTERDAY. 100 Lan. & Carl. 41 p.c. pref 60 - - 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 191 20 Was involved. S econ dl y, i f we went to arbitration in this Amsterdam Ditto - - 100 'Cit y st Do. 6 c. (East Lan.).. 100 - - 100 Colonial ..... 0 . . ... 25 - case, we must a ssume th e poss ibi l i ty of an adverse decision - ; Rotterdam p. 11 19 11 1 9 % a t D o. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pus. 100 101 103 10•11 ,Corn. Bank of Canada.. all - - and if this happened it would lead to an important result, Antwerp.. - 25 521 2 5 5 71 at Lon.&Brig,.sp.o.szu. No.l 1 00 112 1 15 11 4 4 100 (Co m mercial of London. 20 - - • • "that the flag of France would ho a protection to those who Brussels - 25 521 25 60 st Do. 5 per cent, do. No 2 100 11? 115 20 I Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 17 172 placed themselves under it ; that the flag of Austria would Hamburgh - 13 74 13 84 st Do. 6 per cent. ao lOO 136 133 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all - - be a protection ; that the flag of Italy would be a otection; Paris but that the British flag would be no p ro t ec ti on. " ' Within Marseilles at Do. 4 5 per cent. do. .... 100 - - 20 Do. new l5 34 4 Ditto 3 Months, 25 55 25 62 4 5 Do. 45 p. c. pref, shares all - 25 55 25 624- - at Do. 7 per cent pref. stk 100 152 1 55 50 'London and County 50 I London Joint Stock the limits demanded by national honour, the Government Frankfort on Maine.. - 1181 1181 at Do, 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) 100 127 130 20 , London and S.Alrlcan lO 1 id were desirous of doing everything to prevent so great a Vienna - 14 45 14 60 at Do. 4 p c.st.(div.def.lll'6s 100 73 75 Trieste - 14 50 14 60 st Do. 4 per cent. pref .. . 100 - - 100 I Nat. Prov. 01 ienglan(Z 52 - - calamity as war. In making their "propositions" to the' 100 I London & Westminster 20 67 69 Petersburgh - 324 325 st Lorschat. &Dov. sp.e.p . f. 100 90 92 914 20 /Do. new ~.,,..... .... 12 - - 10 Do, West. Igx., 11, 6p. c. all - - 50 . National Bank ........I 25 - - American Government they had been as moderate as pox- Berlin - - - 10 Do. Metrop. Ex. 13, 6 P.C. 31 - - 20 ;Ne s South Wales ... . , all sible, and had avoided ever ythi ng nee dl ess l y exaspera ti ng. M a d r id - 48 1 ‘.; 4 48 5 st Lou. &S. W., Coy. & 25 Orient. B. Corporation. ( all 150 52 They had asked for no pecuniary or other compensation, as Cadiz - 481 481 Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 100 111 113 20 1 Otto - nan Bank . . all 17 18 in such Leghorn - 25 75 25 8 i at Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. . a case they might have done ; they had not asked 100 ; Provincial of Ireland ..! 25 - that the actors in the affair should be punished, as had Milan - 25 70 25 774 st., late 3d shares .... 100 - - 10 I Do. new 1 all 1 - - fre Genoa quently been required in similar cases ; all they hadasked Naples - - 101 25 'South Australia ..,-..• all I- - 2s 6clIDo. (Prtsm. perpl. anus 25 : Union of Australia .... all 138 30 - 39% 395 all - - was that 50 I Un. .. of London . i 12 275 285 28 the men should be given up to Lord Lyons, and that Palermo - 1184 118 124 Londondy. & Cole. 1 sirs' alt - - 100 I Units Mutual.. - aessina suitable apology should be made . which M • for the indi gnity - 118% 119 121 Londony. & Ennis. 1 shs a'l 131 14 at ISC 14; IsL ANI CM had Lisbon - 515 524 Et Man. SIL & Lin. 6 per et lOO 125 127 I of 2s 6d been ofered to the English flag. Lord Russell held it to be “impassible" that these demands should not be corn- Oporto Foreign Gold in Bars ( t ' d) £3 17 9 s anuar .... ~st Do. 31 per cent. ........ 100 65 70 10 IA tlantic R. 311. Stm (14 all ' 1 2 plied with. If, however, through no fault of ours, we were Mexican Dollars - - If 121 Maryport & Carl. 4 pr. c. all .. .. 25 I Australian Agricultural 19 25 27 forced int o war, "he could only say that that would be a Silver in Bars (Standard) ..... misfortune which, like all other misfortunes, must be 0 0 0 st Mid lar d Con. 6p. c stk 100 .. .. 50 British American Land 40 - - South American Doubloons .. borne." It w il l b e seen that the deputation was an impos- st Do. C at Do. 4 on•Bris. & Bin 6 p.cs 100 137 139 50 13.&1.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim) all 29 32 ing one, and Ip. c. pre:::. stock.. 100 102 104 2 0 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) all 18 20 it was received by Lord Russell with the 6 Do. 41 per cent .... .. . all .. .. 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 911 Utmost possible respect._ RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862. at Do.Leic. andHit.4per et. 100 92 53 321 Canada Land all 98 102 99 The Freeman (London). at Norflk sp. a Ex. at. 1846 100 .. .. 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lira ) all - - TAKING - WIN FEBRUARY. E.-Let every guest help himself Lincoln - - and challenge his • - st ,Do.sWay.Vallax.st.lBl7 NO .. .. 25 Do, Pref. 71 per cent. .. all 15 17 MARCH. St 'Nort British, 5 per cent. 100 109 111 at. Crystal Palace lowship, and avoids the annoyance of awkward servants Nottingham S slopping the wine into your glass. Peo le for et that the at. Do. 6 p et. Perpet. Deb lOO 99 101 27 10 Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. sir's. 5 1 11pm Derby Spring 6 I Shrewsbury S .. 20 E.lndia Irrig - n. & Canal 1 id /pm good old fashion was abandoned on the Queen coming to 10 Do. do. do. all •• • • at N th.Dvn.ll aiL&Dck.Co. 5 • • • • at. Electric Telegraph .• .. 100 93 05 the throne, who as a girl, could not challenge her guests to APRIL. at N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. 100 .. .. 25 Do. New l5 - - take wine ; and thus it became the fashion to imitate her at Do. 41pr. ct. redeemable 150 .. .. 5 English & Aus. Copper all 21 21 Northampton 1 Newmarket 0 2l at Do. G. N. E. 4p. ct. pref 100 99 101 15 Gen. St-cant Navigate sn 14 - - 28 Majesty in that which to her was Croxton Park a matter of necessity.- Epsom Spring 10 Thirsk l7 Do. 13erwick 4p. C. pref. 100 98 100 29 20 Do. Leeds 6p. c. No. 18. 13.4 1 dis par 1 Do: 171 pct Preference all i 1 .Dinners and _Dinner _Parties. following analysis Ponteland - - CHURCH COLLECTIONS. - The 25 Do. York, H. &S. Punch. 9 .. .. 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all 11 11 MAY. of a collection made on Sunday last at one of the 20 North Staffordshire.... 10 }die }pm 20 Madras hr. and Canal.. 1 2 25 34 N ir t F S east-and 1 ewm ' e 5 Salisbury Churches for the local district visiting society iscurious, Chester Spring showi ng as the sympathy of the poor for those more destitute York Spring than t 31 p. c. pref, stock.... all .. .. 10 Netherlands Land all - - themselves, The amount collected was £7 1 3s. 9 d JUNE. st Do.Aberdeenasua.6p.c 100 .. .. 5 Do.B p.c.Prefsiss.atl dis all 1 I which was made '0 - coins :-1 half solve.: Epsom Summer.. .. 3 Ascot up of the followingl N.l3.Australasian (Lim.) all 1 11 n r eign, 4 half-crowns, 5 florins, 69 shillings, 67 sixpences, Chelmsford Manchester 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 35 11 u fon 10. 6. South Eastern (Reading all .. .. , 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.). all 11 11 rpences 26 three oboes 89 pennies, 93 halfpennies, 18 fa t • JULY. Ann., 1.0.6) The things, 1 Australian penn3r and one Belgian halfpenny Club stzr 15 st Do. 41 per cent , st. Peelß.Lnd.&3lin.(Lim) 100 47 50 ham .... 1 Abingdon t .....r total number of coins was 353. L \V il i i n u c r l Y te rrE - Newton ~ EXTRAORDINARY SHOOTING CASE IN _ ... 2 Hungerford LivzitrooL.-Wilmer, the man of colour, charged with Stockbridge attain tins s• ,to shoot a man named Dalton in the street, was Newmarket again brought .. ... 7 Stamford .. before Mr. Raffles, at the Liverpool lice- Worcester court, • police- ~ 10 Marlborough 29 ' 25 Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c... all 271 285 25 South Australian Land all 32 24 3esterday. A police officer, who had examined the Liverpool ........ .... 15 Goodwood walls i n 25 Do. B 6 p. c... all 31 33 / 1 the street, to see if there A.v cisUST. 25 Do. C 6 p. c... all 31 33 1 Do. do. Registered .... 'all t hose m were any marks similar to Radcliffe ........ st Watrid & Killsny, 6p. c. 100 42 45 10 Do. do all 4 6 which ado by bullets, deposed that at W. Mid.-Oxt Ist gala stk 100 123 125 124 10 Trust and Agency or had g on ... Bri ht . ..... .. .... 5 Ecrbatn . ... lB a t Do. 2d do lOO 121 123 Austrlasi a (lim) Is t is. 1 id i p would exactly corresponded to the indentation which Brighton Club . ,-' • • ...... 7 York .be made by a pistolshot. The • prisoner was cora- Lewes m ated for trial on the charge of attempted murder. Wolverhampton ~ .. 11 Stockton . 1 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Paid. Co. a Price. Done. -- Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W .. .. Birkenhead. Buckingh ma mre.. Chester & H Ilyhead.. 100 Do. 53 51 Do. 5/per cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do ll2 114 Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. all it3.U.&141.0 83 65 E. Lincolnsh. gApr c. 100 G r.North. 133 136 136 E.Union,HarwichShsl all E,Counts. 4 44 Do. Woodbridge.... 100 .. Gls.Barr.&Neils.Dret. 100 Caledon .. .. Do. new Gloster & Dean Forest all Gt. est. .. .. Hull and : , elby all YkN. Mid 110 112 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.& N.W 195 200 London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 61 83 Do. Preferen o Lon.,Tilb.&s, - Viend 100 ' Peto &Co B3 85 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do 8 per cent 1 100 Do.• Mne.,Bxtn., & Matlock I all LNW& 31 3/ 31 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock I 100 Midland 94 96 Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5.6.1 E Counts. } par / p gua. 5 per eent. .. Northn.&Ea.tn. sp. e. all Do. Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Rartlepool 1( 0 N. E. Ber .. .. North Western Preston and Wyre. 1 all L&N.W sr, L.yk i 43 45 Do. 4 shares AI all Do. ••• • .. .. .. Roystn.Hiteh.& Shep.l 100 Gt. North. 1 33 136 Shrewsby & Hereford; 100 T Brassey 118 122 120 i Do. Do. I 3 .. 1 1/ South Staffordshire 1 100 Ln.&N.W .. .. Wilts and Somerset , 100 Gt. West. 90 92 Wimbledn & Croydon) all L.&Briztn 84 9/ THg SUN, IiAONDON; W s, d'SDAY EVENING *.tATUA p 18624 FIN-iNCIAL P.ROSPECTS, It is useless to-day to speculate on the financial prospects of 1862. The general tendency of Eng lishmen is to anticipate the worst, and hence we may hope that, whatever may be their apprehensions, the result will be better than they would now con jecture. At the commencement of the year just closed they were disposed to fancy that their gold would be drained away because the channel of pay ment for American grain and cotton happened to be diverted from the east to the west, and at the end we find that our stock has increased 25 per cent., and is considerably in excess of the average of the last 15 years. At the same time, although most persona were still inclined to believe that the Ame rican people would not be found either so wicked or so mad as to enter into a sanguinary civil war, the most gloomy pictures were drawn of the future probabilities of our Lancashire population. Yet the worst that could have happened in America has taken place, and with mid-winter passed we see the capitalists and operatives of Manchester boldly meeting the situation without suspensions of pay ment on one hand, or any appeal to national aid on the other. Although our habit of distrust is invete rate, the country has no reason to look with alarm at any of the contingencies before it. Indeed, in a commercial sense it would be difficult to determine whether in the present conjuncture our interests would I'e promoted most by war or by peace. A superficial glance would seem to tell in favour of war, since, contrary to all former precedents, war would now restore commercial intercourse, instead of interrupting it. The whole of America is at this moment closed against the mercantile operations of Europe—the North by the Morrill Tariff, and the South by the blockade, which, by the barbarous ex pedient of choking up all the harbours, is threa tened soon to be rendered in some degree perma nent. Hostilities would at once liberate the com merce of the South, and remove the cotton question from the list of the world's terrors, giving us at the same time 8,000,000 ready customers for our manu factured goods. Oa the other hand, it is not easy to see that we should be exposed to damages that would greatly counterbalance these effects. Our shipping might be temporarily affected by the action of privateers, but the captures on one side would be met by those on the other, and, as Ame rican commanders would probably find no ports for their prizes and little shelter for themselves, the risk of English vessels would, it may be hoped, soon become little more than nominal. As regards our general commet ce, it would, of course, be entirely free from disturbance. The regulation that gives immunity to cargoes in neutral ships prevents for the future all anxieties on that point ; and, as the power of carrying on the war depends upon money, and money depends upon trade, England, as the nation of greatest trade, may always rely on her ability in a just cause to exhaust every opponent. It is true that, supposing the war to be protracted through the year, we should have no supply of American grain, but this would be a disaster for America, not for ourselves. The New York journals gravely assure their credulous readers that the withholding their wheat and flour would cause mil lions in England to experience starvation, and be infallibly followed by a revolution. The fact is, however, that the choice whether our custom shall be given to Russia or to America is always simply a question of a shilling or two per quarter, and the Americans, in their eager contemplation of rebellion on this side, while they are punishing it with fire and sword and the gallows at home, forget to is quire what would be the condition of their own far mers with the produce of their labour rotting for want of buyers. Thus, there is nothing in the com mercial state of the case to give us uneasiness. The parties who insist that we should bow meekly to the Trent outrage ask us to look at the cost of the Russian war, and what we gained by it, to show that submission in any case is always most profitable. But they could not make a more unfortunate re ference, for while they themselves are entirely re sponsible for that war by having deceived the Em peror Nicholas into the belief that we should never attempt to redress any outrage on the comity of nations, its results in pecuniary and commercial respects have been favourable in a degree never con templated, from the impulse it gave to the trade of India, and which has never since been lost. In the same way we might trust, even if unable to conjec ture how it could come about, that another war in defence of righteous principles, recognised by all the civilised world, and carried on without a thought of national animosity or a desire for aggrandise ment, will be followed by results such as will cause us to look with no mortification on the sacrifices may have rendered necessary.—'l imes' City Article. THE FRENCH TREATY. Some interesting communications have just been addressed to the Leeds Chamber of Commerce by M. Boisselier, the French Consul at Leeds, relative to the Commercial Treaty between England and France. The substance of these communications may be thus stated :—The first conveyed, for the information of the commercial community, the im port of two communications received by the Consul from the French Government, having reference to the ownership of trade marks, patterns or designs, and models, and to a reduction decreed by the Em peror in the fees now levied for certificates of ori gin. Hitherto the law in France in regard to foreigners provided only for the protection of trade marks, but the Emperor, giving a liberal interpre tation to the words of the treaty, " trade patterns of every description," had, by decree dated the sth of June, 1861, extended an equal protection to de signs or modele, subject to the regulations of a memorandum which accompanied M. Boisselier's letter. In a similar spirit of liberality, the Em peror, who on the adoption of the Commercial Treaty had decided on a considerable abatement in the dues on certificates of origin, had sanctioned a further reduction of one-half in the actual fees, and from the:lsth of October last consular certificates of origin have been charged 2s. instead of 45., and visas or attestations ls. in place of 2s. It was hoped that thrs reduction would have a doubly bene ficial effect—first, of further facilitating commercial transactions, and then of putting an end to certain irregular practices which frequently resulted in inconvenience to exporters. The Consul wished to impress the fact that the French Government, in the most liberal manner, had taken successively all the necessary measures for the easier execution of the treaty ; Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and agents had been established in several localities; authorities had been appointed for the issue and attestation of certificates and vouchers ; he had himself selected correspondents in the principal manufacturing towns of Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Dews_ bury, &c.; and fees had been twice reduced until they now amounted but to a nominal sum. These successive measures would enable exporters hence forth to obtain their vouchers on the spot, and to satisfy themselves of the regularity of their invoices, instead of resorting to the indirect and eventually hazardous course adopted by some. The second letter was explanatory of certain allegations which had appeared in the Lon don newspapers, and which were calculated to mislead the public as to the manner in which the details of the Commercial Treaty were carried out by the French authorities. All the objections were discussed seriatim at considerable length. The first allegation was, that no package would be admitted into France which contained distinct arti cies liable to different rates of duty ; but the fact was, M. Boisselier stated that the restriction ap plied solely to some yarns—viz., flax or hempen, cotton, and woollen yarns, and to linen and cotton fabrics, and had been adopted with a view to facili tate the examination of goods by means of random samples or tests, and thereby to save importers the unnecessary delay which in case of mixed packages would be entailed by a seriatim verification of each successive article. The second grievance was, an ar bitrary over-valuation on the part of the authorities in the assessment of goods taxed ad valorem, but on this point the treaty supplied its own remedy by providing that if an importer had good ground for disputing a valuation, he had a right to claim a re valuation by special experts. To the third assertion that some goods sent before the Ist of October had not been liberated on the 25th, M. Boisselier replied that special precautions were adopted to avoid any such delay, and he affirmed with confidence that the Custom-house authorities at Paris wero enabled to deliver in the course of one day (Oct. 1) all the ' goods that the owners wished to take out. Lastly, complaint was made of the denial to certain ports of the privilege of admitting to duty articles taxed ad valorem, and the writer enlarged upon this aver ment, arguing that there was no grievance, as it was freely agreed to by the English Government in the 4th article of the Anglo-French Convention that the French Government should have the power to designate exclusively the Custom-house of Paris for the admission of tissues taxed ad valorem. The Em peror, however, on the 9th of Sept., being anxious to facilitate international intercourse, issued a decree by which eight more ports were opened to the di rect importation and admission of these tissues— viz., Marseilles, Bordeaux, Nantes, Rouen, Havre, Lille, Mulhouse, and Lyons; and had given a fresh proof of his anxiety to satisfy every requirement, having by a decree of 14th inst., opened the Custom House at Strasburg for the importation of British and Belgian woollen and cotton 3 erns of every kind, and the Custom-houses at Boulogne, Calais, Dun kirk, Valenciennes,:Strasburg, and Chambery had been also added to the list of those previously opened for the direct importation and clearing of textures taxed ad valorem. The French Govern ment (M. Boisselier added) could not but learn with pleasure that their efforts in the fulfilment of their arduous and gigantic task are duly appreciated when carrying out the details of the treaty, and giving importers all the facilities which extant l aws will allow as being compatible with the guarantees required by the interests of the Treasury and for the rogular working of bona fide trade and com merce. After receiving these communications the Council of the Chamber expressed their thanks to M. Boisselier, and assured him that several Leeds and other gentlemen engaged in trade with France bore testimony to the generally satisfactory manner in which the French Custom-house authorities car ried out the treaty. FRAUD ULBN2' B KRUPTCI IN G-L ABG 0 TV. During Friday and Saturday last the Glasgow Circuit Court was engaged in investigating a charge brought against Reuben Brooks and Frederick William Thomas, described as merchants, of forg ing and fabricating false and fraudulent bills of exchange, for the purpose of defrauding the credi tors of the said Reuben Brooks, who contemplated obtaining sequestration of his estate. The bills of exchange were alleged to have been fabricated in the office of the prisoner Thomas, St. Vincent street, Glasgow, on an occasion or occasions between the Ist June and 10th July last, and were for the fol lowing sums, viz., three for £3OO, two for £3,000, and one for £4,000. Edward Izzard, picture-dealer, London—l know Brooks, and I have seen Thomas before. I saw them both in the Prince Albert Tavern, in London, on the 2d July last. Being shown three bills for £3OO each, I depone that I saw them there on that occa sion. The handwriting in the body of the bills was filled in, but no drawer's name. Brooks wrote the words, " Accepted, R. Brooks." I also saw these £3,000 bills now shown me, but they were not filled up. The words, "R. Brooks, accepted," were inscribed on that occasion. Being shown a £4,000 bill, I saw it on that occasion too with only the drawer's name on it. I now recognise it. Mr. Brooks wrote his name and the word "accepted" on the bill before any other writing was put on it. On that occasion Thomas had an appointment with Brooks. It was kept. Thomas brought these bills for Brooks to accept. Brooks asked what he wanted wrah the acceptances; to which Thomas replied that he was to ask no questions ; that he would take him through the court, and that he must do as he told him. Thomas then gave him the three bills for £3OO, and they were accepted, and so were the others, as I have told you. By the Advocate Depute—Brooks asked Thomas who Watson and Co. were ' • to which Thomas re plied that be was a friend of his trading under that name. In reference to the £4,000 bill, Brooks asked Thomas who F. G. Smith and Co. were. Thoma§ said, " Of course, me ; I traded under that name." Brooks asked Thomas how much he should draw, and he said that the stamp would carry £4,000; thereupon Brooks signed his name. Brooks gave Thomas £25, but I could not say for what. There were six bills signed on that occasion. Thomas asked Brooks, when they were signed, if he had the cash. Brooks pulled out the cash and laid it on the table. Thomas picked it up, and said he would leave London next day. Thomas called on me on the 30th of June, 1861, seeking Brooks. " I found Brooks for him, and Thomas told him he must have some money. Brooks wished me to take Thomas £5, which I did the following morning. Brooks told me that Thomas was to carry Lim through the Gazette, but he did not say that he had given him the money for that purpose. The Jury found the following verdict ;—" We find Frederick William Thomas guilty as libelled, with the exception of forgery, which is not proven; and we find Rueben Brooks guilty as libelled, with the exception of fabrication and forgery, which we find are not proven." _ _ Mr. Brooks then addressed a few words to the Court, during the delivery of which he was much affected. He stated that he had not been aware of the law of Scotland in regard to those things, and he had not known that they would do any possible harm. He had never thought nor intended that the bills should be used in the manner they had been. He solicited the mercy of the Court, in con sideration that he had three young children, who were motherless, and whose state would be now very deplorable. Mr. Thomas also made a few remarks, towards the conclusion of which he completely broke down, sobbing loudly, and weeping copiously, when he resumed his seat. He stated that he had no in tention of defrauding any one in any way what ever. He alluded to his respectable parentage and connexions, and maintained he had been guilty of no crime. Had he not been in prison, those bills would never have been used, but while he was there they had been made use of, and the result was his position that day. Lord Ardmillan, in passing sentence, said it was a very painful matter, and no doubt both prisoners felt very painfully and poignantly their position ; but he had only one duty in sitting on that bench, and that was to administer public justice. Judges were every day in these courts pronouncing sen tences more or less severe against poor ignorant persons who had never been educated, who had been trained from infancy to, and had nothing to restrain them from, the commission of crime. He would not say the same of the prisoners at the bar : they had - been educated, and he was satisfied that when crime was perpetrated by educated persons they should be punished severely for it. He found, on looking back, that fraud not a bit more aggravated than theirs had been far more severely punished than he was going to sentence them now. The sentence of the Court was that each should suffer penal ser vitude for four years. The prisoners were then removed from the dock. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The show of samples of English wheat here to-day was very small. There was very little disposition, however, on the part of millers to make purchases ; nevertheless, all descriptions were held at fully Monday's prices. Importers of foreign wheat were very firm in their de mands, yet no improvement took place in the currencies, compared with our previous report. Floating cargoes of grain were in only moderate request at late rates. Malting barley met a steady sale at full quotations; otherwise, the barley trade was dull on former terms, Malt changed hands slowly at previous rates. For oats there was a steady demand, and prices were fairly maintained. Beans and peas were in moderate request at Monday's quotations. In flour very little was doing, yet the currencies ruled firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Eng1i5h........ 280 i GO i 400 I 1 620 sacks. Irish Foreip, - ,u........ 7,750 . 290 , C4O j brls. BOROUGH HOP. Very little business is passing in any description of hops ; nevertheless prices are supported. WHITECHAPEL. 4s Od to 4s 10d ; and pork, 48 The supply of meat is only moderat e • and the trade rules firm, as follows : Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 4d; w agon, 3s to 4 s fid i veal to 5s Od p er Sibs. Od THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSIN OP LO RD PALMER at B e thl e h em Hosp i tal, on the b ody Fr of szorr.—An inquest was held y esterd ay before Mr. Sergeant Payne, Coroner for Southwark, From thepavid Davis, aged 67 years, an off i cer i n t h e army.evidence it appeared that the deceased, i n o made an attempt on t h e li fe o f L or d Palmer ston they ( e w a r 18, h ow lB as Secretary of the War Department at the time), while walking in the street, by firing a pistol at him. He was arrested and tried at the Old Bailey on the let of M a y, 1818. The jury acquitted him on the ground of in sanity, and by the order of the Home Secretary he was removed to Bethlehem Hospital, where he has remained up to the present time. Tho warder went as usual on Mon day morning to his room to give him his ordinary meal, when, on opening she door, he found the deceased leaning against the back of a chair, quite dead. He called for assis tance, and the house surgeon came and pronounced life extinct, and that the decease d had died while in a fit of apoplexy. The deceased was 24 years of age when brought to the hospital. The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Died from apoplexy." THE AILE47IO,IN WAR. -.---- Among the many good gifts of Democracy a knowledge of itself does not seem to be included. If the Civil War does nothing else for the reading part of the people of North America, it will, at any rate, teach them what they are, and what is the true meaning of the phenomena which surround them. They can learn little or nothing from their home orators and their home writers. Of a mob, as truly as of a. monarch, it may be said that the same fortune which made them Kings forbade them to have a friend. They are approached with bound less adulation and prostrate servility. A thousand venal pens are ever ready to transform their vices into virtues, to falsify the most obvious facts, and to persuade the multitudinous Sovereign that his crimes are peoof of matchless virtue and his errors of more than human wisdom. But America so to speak, has in these latter days gone beyond herself. She has become the property not merely of penny a-liners and stump orators, but of the whole human race. The events which are occurring on her soil, though neither glorious to her sword nor to • er /ice, are yet of sufficient consequence; to attract to her the attention of the keenest observers and the most pungent writers of the day. Her institutions are explained, her politics are analyzed, her prospects delineated, and her finance dissected by hands in comparably more able than have been for many years employed upon them. A faithful mirror is held up to the misguided Confederacy in which sue may see her face, not as her flatterers have repre sented it to her, serene in majesty and terrible in calm resolution, but distorted with passion, envy, and hatred, and a burning but ungratified thirst for revenge. Of all such writings on American subjects we have seen none more clear, more just, and more conclusive than the short pamphlet of M. Sidney Renouf entitled" Europe and the American Union." With that inimitable power of etatement aail clear ness of deduction which are the acknowledged characteristics of the higher minds of hiS coun try, M. Renouf strips off one by one all the glosses and disguises under which the real state of America has hitherto ,been cencealed. Slavery is not, he says, the cause of the capture. The r varnment of the Union had done nothing tr mote the abolition of slavery. The object is to re establish the Union, and the North will not com plicate the question by a Quixotic effort in favour of the emancipation of the despised and hated negro race. The triumph of the North would be the triumph of slavery. In fact, as friends of human freedom, we shudder at the concessions which the North might be induced to make at the expense of the slave for the purpose of winning back its lost Confederates. If abolition be ever taken up by the North, it will not be for its own sake, but as the last and the deadliest weapon with which to strike down its antagonists by the desolation of their hearths and the sacrifice of women and chil dren to the lust and cruelty of infuriated barba rians. Well may M. Renouf conclude that slavery is not the cause, nor emancipation in any degree the object, of the American civil war, and that to such a ground of sympathy the North is in no degree entitled. Nor has the North any claim on the sympathy of the mass of educated men who sin cerely wish well to liberty es residing in demo cracy. The South does not fight for absolutism, but against an union which she hes learnt to de test. The North does not fight for liberty, but rather to deprive the South of that dearest of all liberties—the right to &loose its own Government. If the Secession be completed, there will not be in America more slavery or less freedom. We shall have two Republics instead of ono, and their ri valry may at last break through the fetters of that mediocrity wbish chains everything in America, down to the same dead level, and leaves her in her utmost need without a statesmen, en orator, or a General. Having thus disentangled the question from cer tain considerations which tend to obscure its true significance, M. Renouf proceeds to inquire whet is the true policy of England and France with regard to America. The question, he remarks, is not one of principle, but of fact. America has been ever since its independence, 80 years age, a Power continually increasing in magnitude. Its means of increase have been absorption and annexation. At the rate at wino) it was proceeding the Union would shortly have reached the Isthmus of Darien, and proceeded to absorb the Spanish Republics of South Atoerica. It is for this extension of power, no doubt, that the North is contending, and, should they succeed ia subduing the South, they would probably revert to such a line of policy. M. Renouf might have added that they would by subduing the South mark the commencement of a policy of con quest, and that this new policy, once fairly inaugu rated, would very probably find nothing on the American continent able to resist it. The Govern ment of a peaceful Federation would be succeeded by a reign of military violence, and the equilibrium of Europe might be threatened by an armed demo cracy, powerful by sea end land, and having effec tually moulded its ploughshare into a sword to grace the arbitrary hand of some successful soldier. Besides, M. Renouf considers that France has a very heavy material interest in putting an end as soon as possible to the present sti uggle. Her trade, as an exporter of articles of tast?, and luxury, and as an importer of cotton, has suffered very materi ally by the civil war, and bankruptcy threatens many of her principal houses. England and France have common interests, and ought not to separate. If the North refuses satisfaction, England will at once declare war, and France, though at the request of England she will not immediately take part in it, will be no uninterested spectator of the contest. If, on the other hand, America should make repa ration, France and England will not let the oppor tunity slip without intervening for the purpose of putting an end to the conflict so fatal to America— so injurious to the peace and happiness of the civi lised world. It may not be,:as M. Renouf anticipates, that we shall be able to obtain from the South, as the price of our recognition, even the prospective abolition of slavery ; but we may not unreasonably hope that the events which are now occurring will in one way or another draw to a close that hopeless and exterminating conflict, fraught with so many events which disgrace humanity and perplex rea son, before it has been carried to an extent which will destroy the last vestige of a Republic once • fondly regarded as the last and best guarantee for human liberty and progress. Such is an analysis of this very remarkable pam phlet. It is well worthy the consideration of the American public, for it shows how clearly its actual position is estimated and how keenly its future is speculated upon by the very people whom the press and the statesmen of America have sought, as it appears in vain, to conciliate by all the arts of adulation. The appearance of such a pamphlet is cold encouragement to add a war with England to . the long catalogue of existing embarrassments. The nation which America has, in her presumptuous folly, taught herself to regard as her sure ally in the contest which she has so long sought to force upon England, which she has sought to conciliate by the share of the lion's skin represented by Lower Canada and by the most fulsome adulation, has taken the measure of her, of her flatteries, her menaces, and her promises, and contemptuously rejects them all.--Tines. THE OLD AND NEW YEAR. Some extraordinary gatherings of a religious character were witnessed last night and at an early ' hour this morning in various parts of the . metropo lis. For a long time past—from the time is be lieved, of John Wesley—it has been the practice of the Wesleyan Methodist body to keep the last night of the old year as a " watch night," setting it apart for the special purpose . of watchin g th e o ld year o ut and the new year in. Their custom has been, a nd still is, ito assemble about 10 o'clock or half past, and then to pray, preach, and sing alternately. At about a quarter to 12 the practice is to sing a jubilant hymn, and then, as the clock approaches more nearly the hour of 12 the whole congregation kneels down and devoutly engages in silent prayer, In this position they they continue until 12 o'clock has struck, and when, consequently, the new year has begun. The habit is then, at a given signal, to rise from prayer, sing another hymn, and depart with mutual congratulations and good wishes. This system was strictly adhered to last night and this morning at the chapels in the City-road, Great Queen street, Hinde.street, Manchester-square, St. George's-in-the-East, and others in connection with the body. IMPROVEMENTS IN NEIVGATE- STREET.—During the last few days a considerable improvement has been carried out in Newgate-steet, at the east end of it, in conse quence of the roadway having been widened several feet. For this purpose, some old and nearly dilapidated houses have been removed, and on the site in the rear of them some large warehouses will be erected. That which used to be called Butcher Hall-lane, which recently was only wide enough for one carriage to pass along, is now called King Edward street, and it is made int) a thorough fare of about 50 feet in width, well paved, and with a wide footway leading to Christ's Hospital. CLOSE OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Last evening the galleries of the British Museum were closed to the public, end this day the reading-room and library will be also shut until Wednesday, the 7th o f January, when they will be re-opened, and continuo op en ever y M onday, Wzdnesday, and Friday, the Satur da y afternoon admis sion not recommencing until May. During the rec ess no person whatever will be admitted to view the museum. The trustees of the British Museum have resolved to remove the whole of the zoological c ollection to the South Avensington. Museum, and it is expected a portion will be conveyed thither during the recess, 3 v - • - f ti 11•1 5 , ;~ 'i I I