The Sun. — London, England, 1862-01-17 00:00:00

he transactions which she had denounced as essentially pira+ical, and so express has been her unfriendliness to the United States that she has not hesitated to discover cause of quarrel with them, even at the expense of the sudden abandonment of a principle which she had contended for during many generations, and the adoption of a doctrine against which, when advanced by the United States, she had protested with all the emphasis of war. I confess, then, I am not free from the most serious apprehensions in regard to our future relations with England. We have ali thought till recently that war with England was scarcely in the category of possible events. That she would make a war which she must know this country would feel and history would record, was waged by her in the interests of barbarism and wrong, and designed to inflict an ir re p ara bl e an d unprovo k e d i n j ur y upon 7 nation which had been, in honest faith, her best friend, and as far as the wishes of its people were concerned her truest ally, Was what the American people could not believe. .So con fidently did they feel themselves entitled to her friendship that upon the breaking out of the slaveholders's rebellion there was not a loyal man in all the North who did not rely with unquestioning confidence upon the warmest sympathy and heartiest good wishes of her Government and people. But in all this they have been grievously disappointed, and it is not to be denied that their feelings have been sorely wounded. They thought that the land of the Russell's and the Sidneys, of Charles Fox and Gladstone, of Milton and Tennyson, would have denounced the insurrection as inex cusable and its motive as infamous. But, instead, they find they sympathies of the British nation, not with the free North fighting for the pi eservation of their Govern ment, upholding the cause of Chilization and humanity, bu with those who are endeavouring to destroy that Govern ment in order that slavery may be spread and perpetuated, and its systems, habits,institutions, and practices, strength ened and encouraged." A new af tack upon the Confederates is contem plated somewhere in the neighbourhood of Port Royal, but the particulars are not yet known. The latest despatches from that quarter say : "At the time the Cahawba left Commodore Dupont was making preparations to attack the rebels in a new quarter, but, for obvious reasons, the details are not made public. The frigate Wabash is in complete order, and will be used to cover the landing of the troops. Alarge number of gun boats were also in readiness to take part in the contemplated movement. General Sherman will act in conjunction with the naval force. The defences at Hilton Head were rapidly progressing towards completion. An intrenchment had been built in a favourable position to protect Fort Walker against a . large invading force. General Stevens's brigade, number ing about 4,000 men, was still encamped at Beaufort. Gen. Stevens had issued an order prohibiting any person from crossing the lines unless provided with a pass. The property I of the town was protected by the troops. In a reconnais sance made by th e Eth M a i ne R eg i men t , a t a recent date, six. rebel pickets were captured." MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The 13ank of England Return, completed to the 15 th inst., is of a favourable character, the princi pal feature, however, is the large diminution in the Private Deposits, and the other securities, caused by the repayment of advances made by the esta blishment on Government Securities. The bullion has been slightly augmented, while there is a diminution in the reserve of notes, and the Go vernm.ent Securities. The various items and the ch anges they present are shown in the annexed table. -Active Circulation .. X 20,698,100 Increase .. 344,485 Bullion 16 291,626 Increase .. .. 245,609 R- .eat - -- -- 3,276,760 •• •• •• .• •• I 44,375 crease .. ••• Public n .. Deposits 353 •• • . • • 4 ,5839 Increase .. • • • • ..40,379 Other Deposits.. .. .. .. 16,480,452 Decrease .. • • • • '' 1 ' 726 ' 036 Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 762,825 Increase .. .• •• • • 29,765 Government Securities .. .. 12,268,618 .. Decrease .. .. .. 500,000 Other Securities .. .. .. 17,144,246 Decrease .. .. • • • • 1,012,641 Notes u nemp l oye d .• .. . ... 9,425,320 Decrease .. • . 79,980 The Shannon, which left to-day for the West Indies, conveyed £12,700 in specie. The directors of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company have issued their report prior to the Meeting, which states that after payment of all claims and making provision for a second third of the preliminary expenses, there is a balance of X 125,613, from which it is proposed to payinterest only, at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, leaving £115,653 to be carried over. The progress of business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the past few days has been rather less active. Sugars have de clined about 6d. per cwt., while at the public sales of tea previous prices were with difficulty supported. Coffee cortinued in very limited request, at about previous rates, while the operations on "rice, fruit, a nd spices were on l y o f a li m i te d d escr i pt i on. S altpetre has been dull, without any change of im portance to report in values. For tallow there has be en a very limited demand for both present and forward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 48 s 9d to 49s per cent. Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester day was very inactive, but prices were without any 1 111 P 0 rtant change. The sales were estimated at 5,000 b ales. At th e f orthcom i ng meet i ng o f t h e N at i ona l Di At Company a dividend at the rate of 6 per t en t. Per annum will be proposed, the available alance being L 22,640. ,The English St oc k M ar ket to-day has been 1 2 t ;tier flatter, in consequence of a few speculative ' a tes, but the fluct ual i on h as no t b een o f importance. C onsols are 939 a for money and the account, but the amount of business transacted has been compa ratively small. The New Threes and the Reduced ;re firmer, at 921 931; Bank Stock is at 240 and 41 ; India ditto is fiat at 224 ; but the 5 per Cent. Loan remains at 1051 and 1061. Inc reased firmness has been apparent in the Foreign in the Market, but the transactions have not been quite so numerous. Turkish 6 per Cents. ' B3 l to 84 : 1; do., 1858, 74 to 741 ; Mexican have TPl* "e d to 288 29, Equador to 15t, Italian to 4"4 , and V enezue l an are fi rm a t 237 I Brazilian t' Per cents. are flat at 91. The Moorish Loan is 4,1 to si prem. The thalings in the Railway Share Market have been + -- to a moderate extent, and prices have exhi bited a firmer tone. Eastern Counties, Great Wes tern, North Western South Western, and North Eastern (B er wick), have advanced ss. ; Great Nor therns, Midlands, and So u th E as t erns , 10 s . ; and Lancashi re and Yorkshire, 15s, The Foreign and Colonial lines are also in fair demand at full rates. South Austrian and Lom bardo-Venetian have advanced to 191 ; Dutch Rhenish, to 161 1 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, to 21t 211 ; Great Western of Canada, to 111 ; East Indian and Great Indi an Peninsula bring previous prices. - Joint, Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull. London and Westminster realise 721 731; Union of London, 30 to 301 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 731; and Royal Mail Steam, 501, 1. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. .1 3 ank Stock 2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 i 2 6 Per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock 1 Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 5Ji per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100 99 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 99a I f . Ditto Bonds £l,000 I)ifto under £l.000 Consols for Account, Feb. 6 9 31 i i March. I Juns. 21 18 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... Ditto £5OO . . Ditto Small 1 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860 Chilian 6 per Cent ...... I)itto 4 per Cent Equador New Consolid a t e d .. . ls± Mexican, 3 per Cent ......... Ditto Account ......... Grenada Active. Ditto Land "Warrants Do. Ex over - due Coups. & Hectares. 9 z Ditto Deferred, Ex Hectares. New G r enada, 2 per Cent ........... .. . t - eruvian 41 per Cent Ditto (Uiibarren), 41 per Cent. ...... 94i Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ..... Ditto Account 46i 7 Thlssi h n 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. Ditto 41 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 60 i 591 ardinian 5 per Cent 771 Ditto Account 4anish 3 per Cent. — Ditto Account Ditto New Deferrel i iN.., • ~ o Account Ditto Passive S panish Cert. o f C ou p. no t f u nded .......... 7 1 61 7 Turkish 6 per Cent. .. Ditto Account 8 Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds; Venezuel an 3 per Cent Ditto Account Dutch D'.vidends on the above payable in London. '4 ll ,tch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Gull. ' lllO Cjrtificat - s 4 per Cent... Malian, • '' , • 5 per Cent. , 1861 1861 63a THREE 'CLOCK. Consols M one y Ditto Account tf • 931 i ............ 28i 9 SHARE MARK ET-(THIS DAY). ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share; Railways. paid.l Closing Busi ness I Price. done. !Belfast and Nor. Coun. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bost.,Sleaf.,and iii dA2o Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan C irk and Bandon Cork, Blrock, & Passage Cornwall Do A I A gets no di v Do. B ti 11 6 p c.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Juno. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do Bdo do DoNw A, late E U3ds East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin., Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction afZ 7 8 64 7 95 f 7 1034 104 lon Furness Glasg. and S. Western. GreatNrthn. of Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an 1 W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish South Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen. Van., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do 3 shares 3retropoll tan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid Gt. W. of Ireland ' Do. k shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle' Newry & Armagh, def. Newry, Warnpt, ac nos Norfolk North British Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock l Do A stk ; A revs no dl till 6 pc. hoe 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. RI. & Canal Peeble3 Portsmouth Rh 3 ney 4 col 61Central Scot. J. E., Aber. stock , Do So )t. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union Sit Lin,gbout & Sheer South Devon S. Durham & Lanc. Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and Riv - r Dun' Staines, Wok. ,an dWok. Stockton & Darlington Do . • • Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do Pre.. No. 1 ThameaHavenDk&Rail Ulgter Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Wateribrd & Kilkenny' Watertord & Limeriolc ; West Cornwall West London Do tst class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Elar.ttß ' West 31'dland Oxford'' Do Newpo-t Do Hereford 5 6 41 42 10 11; 18 19 54 55 48 52 34 36 91 93 34 31 101 103 114 115 i 1114 112 i 132 134 101 106 69} 69t b 7 6g 104 109 57 S 9 117 119 45 47 95 45f 96 07 9 11 441 14i fi 7 [331 . 134; -• ) ;I ) IC4 106 83 85 65}!w1 01i 102 Ldp 576 s 8 89i 891 97 OP I gi lt d 91 92 124 126 42 44 98 100 46 48 37 39 79 79i 61 438 97 99 5i 8 39 40 6 4 Oi P s } 6 i P 554 564 24 34 d ip, 57 90 ' 1274 134 61 61 84 86 47 49 44 46 89 91 541 I 35 1141 i 15 111 k 12 131 14 i 70 64 ss loB l 1 1 1 95f I 961 44i 2 6; [33; ; i 41 3; P 105 65f f 1011 2 571 I LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, Leasing Closing Business Railways. Paid .' Co. s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead., - lOO Do.&G.W Buckingh •nCiire. .. 100 Do. 95 96 Chester &11 ilyhea . d.. 100 Do 534 544 Do. 54 per cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do ll3 115 Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. an E.U.&E.O 63 65 E. Lincoltah. g3pr e. 100 Gt. North. 135 138 E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 44 Do. Woodbridge.... 100 • • • • Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drc. 100 Caledon .. .. Do. new Gloster & Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. .. Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 200 205 201 London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 84 Do. Preferen c Lon.,Tilb.& s.. ithend 100 Peto & Co.. 82 84 824 3 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do 8 pier cent lOO Do.• 3inc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& Mn • 44 4 3 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx I 5. 5. 6 I E Counts. par 4 p gua. 5 per sent... *; Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all Do. Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 110 N. E. Ber .. .. North Western Preston and Wyre. i all L&N.W ,t L. yk. 1 44 46 45 Do. 4 shares A. all Do. •• .. .. .. Roystn.Hitch.t Shep.l 100 Gt. North. 134 137 Shrewsby & Herefordl 100 T Brassey 119 121 Do. Do. j 3 . . 1 14 South Staffordshire i 100 Ln.&N.W .. .. Wilts and Somerset , 100 Gt. West 91 93 Wimbledn t , Croydon) all L.&Brgtn 84 94 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share! Railways. I Paid.( Closing Business Prices. Done. 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at £5 all at Bris. & Exet. 4p.c. at 100 92 94 20 Do. shares at Caledon. £10.41 p. cent lOO st n quar. shams, No. 2 100 65 Cork & Bandon, 55 p. c. ali 20 Cornwall. 5 per all 205 214 61 Dun. Perth, & Aber..i un. all 6 65 10 Do. Ist Class Pref all at E. Angn. Class Asp. c lOO 101 103 at Do. Class B 6 per cent lOO at Do. Class C 7 per cent lOO at E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 100 105 110 at Do No. 2 100 107 109 at Do. new 6p.c. at lOO 124 126 at Eastern Union, 4p. c-- 100 81 83 at Do. sp. c. guar lOO at Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares 100 111 113 at Do. 4p. c. guar. S. & 100 90 92 at Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 p.c. 100 at Furness, 5 _per cent._ _ 100 at Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c. 100 at Great Northern, sp. e_ 100 116 118 116 16 171 at D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm. 100 112 114 118 14 st Do. 45 p. c. do lOO 101 106 1051 5 st Do.sp.c.Redir.atsp.e.pm 100 103 109 10 Gt. Nh. of &:cot. Ist pref. all at Gt. Sn. &W. (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 97 99 50 Great West. (Berks and Hants Fxt) 5 per cent 6 Et Do. redeem. 45 p. et... 100 98 100 99 at Do. redeem. 4p. 100 88 90 at Do. irredeem. 4p. et_ _ 100 89 91 at Do. sp. c. redeem. pref. 100 100 102 8 Do. Birm. pref. shares., all 91 101 10 Do. Cheaters p.c. pf. shs all 17 18 10 Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. she all 105 104 st Do. Birm. guar. stock lOO 76 78 265 Do. Chesterguar. shares all 20 20 131 Do. do all 10 10 20 Do. do all 15 15 100 Lan. & Carl. 45 p.c. pref 60 at Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock 100 134 136 at Do.Barnsl.st£s 2s 10d De 100 at Do. 6p. c. (East Lan.) lOO st Do. 45 p. c. (Black)). pur lOO 102 104 at Lon..tßrig.sp..e.zu. No.l 100 112 115 at Do. 5 per een.Ldo. No 2 100 112 115 at Do. 6 per cent - AY/7i._ 100 136 138 at Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 100 112 115 st Do. 45 per cent. do. 100 5 Do. 4i p. c. pref. shares all st Do. 7 per cent pref. atk 100 152 155 at Do. 0 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) 100 127 130 at Do. 4 p c.st.(diy.def.llll3s 1 0 0 73 75 at Do. 4 per cent. pref 100 st Lon.Chat&Doy. sp.c.pl. 100 94 96 10 Do. West. Ex, B, 6p. e. all 10 Do. Metrop. EiL ti, 6 p.c. 3 5 at Lon. & S. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 100 112 114 at Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. at., late 3d shares 100 st Do. 44 per cent 2s 6d Do. (Frtsm. perpl. of 28 64 125 Londondy. & Cole. 5 she all 125 Londony. & Ennis. shs all 134 14 t Man. Sh. & .Lin. 5 per ct. 100 126 128 6 Do. £6 . at Do. 35 per cent. ...... 100 68 70 10 Do. redeem. 6 per eent 5 5 4pm 125 Mary - port & Carl. 4 pr. C all .. 125 Do. 44 per cent ..... . all at Midland Con. 6p. c. stk. 100 .. st Do.Con.Bris.& Bin 6 p.c. 100 134 140 at Do. 45 p. c. pref. stock lOO 103 105 6 Do. 45 per cent. . at Do.Leic. andllit4per et 100 92 94 at N ,, rflk. sp. e. Ex. st. 1846 100 .. at Dn. 54 p. c. Pref. at. 1847 100 .. st D 0.5 Way.ValEx.st.lBl7 100 .. at Nort British. 5 per cent. 100 111 113 112 at Do. New gua. percent IO,Q 109 111 10 Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs 5 1 15pm 10 Do. do. do all _ st N th.Dvn.Rail.&Dck.Co 5 .. at N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c lOO at Do. 45pr. 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 8. 13.4 4 dis par 124 Do. dn. Quarters, 1848 l3 .. • • 25 Do. York, H. &S. Purch 9 20 Forth Staffordshire lO s . dis par 10 Ithymney Guaranteed all 22 23 8 5 Sottish Central. new p 1 all • • • • st Q.cottish North-Eastern p. e. pref. stock all .• • • st Do. Aberdeen,gua.6p e 100 .. at Do. 7p. C. pref. stock 100 • • !. 10 s , South Devon, Ann, 10s. 100 132 136 10 Do. Fixed 45 per cent all 10 11 10. 6 . South Eastern (Reading all .. Ann., 1.0.6) at D , ). 4i per cent at Do, Fixed 45 pet cent 'lOO 101 103 at South Wales, gua. 4p. c. 100 st Do. 44 per cent st Do. do. 1859 lOO .. at Do. 5 per cent lOO .. at S. Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua lOO 86 80 20 Do. C gua l3 25 Stock. & Dar. A 5 P.C. . • ilf 28 29 25 Do. 13 6 P. all 32 34 25 Do. st Watrfd & r, laooll 4321 33 s t W . Mid.-Oxf lstg - uastk 100 126 128 at Do. 2d do. .. . 100 122 124 at myewport 5 p.c. pf.red. 100 101 103 at Do. Perpet.6 p. 111866, 100 120 124 ot tai 18691 118 121 6.4.0 [9.16. --- all all FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Algerian ..... Antwerp & Rotterdam. , Ardennes.... .....•• . Bah.2S.Fran..Lim.7p.c. l Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine .tI ail P eoplapo ............... Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ........ Eastern of France ...., Grand Rua Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. Italian Junction ...... Lierre & Turnhout ... Lyons & Geneva ..... Namur & Liege ...... Do. 6 p. o. Pref. ....... Northern of France... Do. New Shares ...... iNorwegian Trunk Pref. Paris,Lyons, 84 Medi ter. IParis 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (Fern.) xua. 7 p. ct. ...... Riga ct Dunaburg...... Ro - yal Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... ISambie Meuse ...... Do. 5i per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, lira, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust &Lomb Venal* Southern of France ....1 S. East Portugal 7 p ct. West Flandern ...... Do. 54 p. c. Preference W. ctr N.W. of France West'-rn of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden ...... Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand 18.8. all all all all all 81 4 - - P i i 14 Ili 4 86 29} t3ij 91 91 F ti 20 2l $8 $9 8 10 40i 41i 52 64 3 4}' 11 13 8 8 .21 1 ; I -J p 26& t 76 - - 7 74 91 101 21 22 18} i i BRIT] SI Itred Consols (Philack); British Iron Cliflbra . Devon G. Conn. (Tavist.)l East Bassett (Illogan).. East Caradon ... E. w'l Russel (Tavisti.) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus.... G.Wheal Alfct. (Philack , G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville ... Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant) North Downs North Frances (Mogan); N.Wh'i Bass ,, t (Illo;an) North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (Uny Lelnt. ) Sortridze Cons. Min.Co.l South Caraden(St.Cleer)! S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 1 S. Dev. Iron .Gen., Lim S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.Az Lead Min Tin Croft Vale of To wey (Carm.) l West Basset (Illogan).. W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Soton Wheal Basset (Mogan)! Wheal Buller(Redruth) Wheal Edward (Cals.)l Wheal Kitty (U.Lelano Wheal Mary Ann (Men.), Wheal Treiawney 2.14.6 7.4.0 55: 17s 6.8.6 8.12 4.11.6 I.los ES. i I 1 2 29 31 375 385 50 52b 29 1 291 2} S 16 18 311 A ifi 1.14.0 9.18.9 lk 10.6.7 all 18.V.t 2719. 13s Cdi 1:7 . .2 6 6} 1 2 37 89 " 41 43 5 51 2 21 31 11 7 8 40 42 315 825 3} 4: 110 120 29 81 14 2 74 8 i 13 14 46 48 280 290 87 92 75 85 11 21 7 8 15} 167} 16 17 FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccordCopper,Lim 17.6 4.4 20 Brazil St.J.del Rey,bint 15 64 67 68 4 8 5 Do. Land and MinmgCo. all 11 11 1 Clarendon Cons.MittCo. ; dig. 40 Cobre Copper all 34 36 Copiapo l6 6 8 61 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co ail 1 14 2 Fortuna. 20 General all 23 24 2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 p 14 I Kapunda (Limited) 1 1 11 p 24 Linares all 7 8 5 ILusitanian 2 ; d pr 'Mariqui La all 1 1 IN.RhineCopof S.Aus.L 4 4 id 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt... all 2 4 5 ;Fort Philip 1 14 11 1 1 ,Scottish Austrin. (L.) los. 1 lipm 1 88.2134 United Mexican . 1 Worthing* (Limited) all 4 4 Do • • COLONIAL GOVERNMENT sEcu trriEs. Can. Gov. ti p.c.Ja. &July 1877-9 I 100 107 110 1031 Do 6p. cent.lBBo-21 100 Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-91 100 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Autr. 100 108 111 1101 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 108 111 Do. 5 per cent lOO 98 92 984 9 -- Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,lBBO 100 108 110 Do. 1890 100 109 111 N.B.G'ov. p.c. J a.&July 100 104 106 1054 5 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. G ov. sp. c.,1866 100 97 99 Do. sp. c.. 1871 to 1876 100 96 98 Do. p.c..1888 & upwde 100 96 98 971 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. sterling, 1875 lOO 105 107 S. Aus,Gop.c.lB7B.& up lOO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Js. &July 100 102 104 Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct lOO 'lO5 1054 1054 i 1 1 DOCKS. stock Commercial I 100 stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min ; 100 stock lEast and West India I 100 122 124 stock London lOO 57 59 stock ;St. Katharine.. lOO 62 65 stock Southampton lOO stick , Vtetori a 20 Do , New 2 1 14 4cl JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 A cr,ra&UnitedService Ilk 50 SS 87 86 40 !Australasia all 64 16 25 Bank of Egypt all 214 224 100 Bank of London 20 Bank of Turkey 50 British North American all 50 52 51 20 , Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 21 211 25 jCh.Mer. of In. Lon.& Ch all 33 55 334 100 'City 100 ,Colonial.... 25 80.11 'Corn. Bank of Canada all 100 iCommerclal of London 2O 20 114.3ng.. Scot., & Aus. Ch all 184 191. 19 20 IGen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 251 261 26 20 Do. new l5 254 26 60 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 20 London and S.African lO pr ip 10 i t 100 London & Westminster 20 72 74 , 734 24 1 100 Nat. Prov. of England 42 I 20 /Do. new 50 !Nationalßank 25 20 Ne t‘ South Wa1e5...... all 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all ,53 64 534 4 20 , Ottoman Bank . 100 ' Provincial of Ireland ! 25 8' 10 I Do. new •• . all 25 I South Australia .l all 324 25 Union of Australia , all 41 43 50 !Unio,i of London I 12 30] 31 30 4 1 301 100 itinity Mutual ' 60 ISC ELLA' Anglo-3ft. xican Mint Atlantic 11. All. Stm (1d)I Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Berlin Water (Limited) British American Land B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) Do. C. (Limited) Canada Land Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim Cop.Min.ofEng.&Sraltg Do. Pref. 71 per cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Do. 6 p et. Perpet. Deb E.lndia Irrign. & Canal Electric Telegraph Do. New English & Aus. Copper Gen. Steam Navigatx Great Slip Limited) Do: 17i p et Preference . . - Lon. District TeL (Lim. L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.' Madras irr. and Canal Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim National Dis. Co. (Lim ' Nerbu.Coal&Tron (Lim ; Netherlands Land Do.B p.c.Prefliss.atl dis. N. fir.&NovaSeotia I. and N.B.Australaslan (Llm.) Oriental Gas (Limited). Do. New Shares (Lim.). Orintl. In. Steam (Lim.) PeelltLnd.&Min.(Lim) Pen. & Oriental Steam Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.4ip.c Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austin. Inv.(Llm.), South Australian Land Submarine Tel. Scrip.. Do. do. Registered .... Do. do Trust and Agency or Austrlasia (litn)lst Is. Tr..t Ln.Co. of Ilpr.Can. U. K'dom Tel. Co. (km.) au Lumen' L tud 100 all all 'a:l all 1 5 1 281 14 IS 1 2 26 28 51 61 29 32 18 20 9 /1 105 103 15 17 Al 83 103 !( 6 100 103 pr bra 84 07 n 3} I 1 4 1 11 14 2 24 34 4 ii le i 1 10 15 1 11 11 18 1} 14 7 8 49 51 72 74 11 13 19 20 17 19 5 6 135 140 33 35 4 1 °I P i 1 21) ti 9 10 79f i 9 } THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, BRITISH .POSSESSIONS. Railways. Atlanric & St Lawrence Bom.,Barodat4r.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. Do Do. B Buffalo and ',axe Huron I 'Do. New 1 jDo. Preferonce ...... Buffalo,Brant,/¢Godrich ! 6 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, IS7 Clcutta . ,t, S. Eastn. (U , I ) Cape,Eastn.Prov. 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Scrip.. i 100 all 100 all 1 flOO 15 all 100 1 Closing Price. Paid. 656(1 991 1004 41 5 d 6i 71 q 61 1 id 99i 1001 101 102 99 101 101 102 101 102 2011 21i 62 65 50 54 33 37 38 42 32 8.5 32 34 99/ 100► i pr 99} poi 11 111 9i 98 1 91 88 92 90 N 99i 104 92 94 5 7 4 6 01 YO2 pr d 94 98 111 11 1 I !Business done LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(2I44 Day.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lords Justices of Appeal.) APFEAL - JUDGMENT-GRIESLET Y. MOT:7MM Lord Justice Turner said—This is an appeal from an order of Vice-Chancellor Stuart on hearing the case, on further consideration. The facts of the case are fully stated in the appeal on the original decr ee, otherwise it would be necessary to state them in detail, but they may be shortly stated. Sir Richard Westley devised his estate to Wm. Mousley, under which some mines were allocated at a time when he was his known and confidential adviser. The indenture conveying the lands to Wm. Mousley ex pressly stated that the sum of £9,940 was paid to him as the price. On 21st Feb., 1837, there was a mortgage granted over the property for £7,734. Sir Richard Westley devised all his real estate to Lady Sophia, his wife, for life, and the remainder to his children entail. Lady Sophia died in 1837 and Sir Richard in 1847, and the plaintiff, his eldest son, in 1852, attained twenty-one. In 1852 he filed a bill in this suit, and in 1855 he filed another bill to set aside the sale by Sir Richard West ley to William Mousley. On hearing the cause the Vice- Chancellor declined to set aside the sale, not only as against the plaintiff, but against Lady Sophia Westley. The certi ficate of the chief clerk showed that £3,000 of the price re mained due, and that the mines were opened in the lifetime of Sir Richard Westley. His lordship (Lori-Justice Turner), on considering the opinions of Lord El don and Lord Redesdale in the case of Lewis v. Morgan, 5 Price, pp. 242 and 243, came to the conclusion that it was absolutely necessary for the confi dential agent to prove that a bona fide contract of sale was entered into, and that a full and fair price was paid for the estate. It was the duty of a confidential agent or solicitor purchasing from his client to protect his interest, and to put him in the same situation as if he sold to a stranger, and to prove that the price was really paid. Lord Justice Knight Bruce was of the same opinion. Lord Justice Knight Bruce and Lord Justice Turner varied the decree of the Vice .Chancellor, except in so far as it allowed a proof of money received from the mine or other wise, and allowed the appeal without costs. SHERIFFS' COURT. AN ADMIRAL'S OPINION OF THE Lilf-BURTON Y. SMITH. In this case, adjourned from a recent day, the plaintiff is a British admiral, and the defendant had been his tenant, the action being brought to recover tithes. Upon a former occasion Mr. Buchanan successfully objected to plaintiff's recovering, and the case was postponed for an amendment of the particulars and agreement. Mr. Buchanan now observed that as the particulars had not been amended ho supposed the admiral had withdrawn from the action. Mr, Green (for plaintiff)—My friend speaks hypotheti cally, for notice of withdrawal has been served upon him. Mr. Buchanan—l have had no regular notice. If I have you must prove it in the usual way, The Court stated that the admiral had sent a communica tion respecting the suit. The admiral was o f op i n i on t h at if it was not competent in this court for a plaintiff to recover payment of an acknowledged debt he thought it advisable to withdraw. Mr. Green remarked that the question would be tried in another court, and the admiral's butler had fetched away • the papers. Mr. Buchanan—Ah I the admiral was rather at sea lasi time. The Court having intimated its opinion that plaintiff could not recover unless under special agreement, the cause was struck out. ADVENTURER IN MINES.-IMPORTANT JUDGMENT,- COOK V. FULLER. £49 195., plaintiff b e i ng an Th This was an adventurer in theactionto p erleyeno Wood r Mine, and defendant purser of the same. Mr. Robertson, for the defendant, objected to the juris. diction of the Court, and the Court having overruled the objection, the facts appear to be these :—Mr. Cook was re cently sued by workmen in the mine, and in three actions he was condemend in debts and costs. The total amount was £618; he now sought to recover £49 19s. as defend ant's contribution towards such payments. It was alleged that there were 35 adventurers in tho mine, and the plain tiff's case was that be was entitled to sue defendant as one of such adventurers for his contribution, it being urged that the sum now sought to be recovered was less than defend ant's share or contribution. The Court ruled that it was not competent upon the plaintiff to sue defendant in the present form of action. Plaintiff should have sued each and every co-adventurer for his share or contribution. Mr. Whitehurst, for the plaintiff, thought he might go on. The Court was of opinion that this is a statutory action, and could not be maintained as against defendant solus. Upon this intimation Mr. Whitehurst consented to be nonsuited. Mr. Robertson applied for and obtained costs. POLICE 2NTELLIGENCE.—( This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE AT THE HAM YARD SOUP KITCILEN.—Thomas Sullivan, a tall Irishman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting John Chapman, 79 C, and also Dray, 170 C, at the entrance to the Ham Yard Soup Kitch en , G rea t Wi n d m ill. street. Chapman, 79 C, who was evidently suffering acute pain, said—Yesterday afternoon, at half-past two, I saw the pri soner standing at the corner of Ham Yard, near the Soup Kitchen, with a large number of others. I told them all to go down the yard, as they were causing a great obstruc tion, and persons could not pass along the street. Prisoner said he had as much right to stand where he was as any one else, but moved a little way down the yard. I then went to speak to the superintendent of the kitchen, and on coming up the yard the primer pushed against me, and I fell on my hands. I asked the prisoner why he did it, and he said he would kick ray -- inside out. My hat fell off. Mr. Tyrwhitt—That shows what a useless thing it is. Chapman—l stooped to pick it up, and the prisoner then gave me a violent kick in a delicate part, and before I could get up he knocked me down flat on the ground, giving me a severe blow on the h( ad. Another constable then came to my assistance, and the prisoner knocked him down on the top of me. We took hold of the prisoner to take him to the station, when he kicked me violently, and I fell. Pri soner then got one knee on my chest and another en my body, and bit me on the forehead (the constable's forehead bore marks of the prisoner's teeth), and also bit two of my fingers. I then became so unwell as scarcely to be able to walk. Inspector Walker handed Mr. Tyrwhitt a certificate as follows : " I certify that police constable Chapman, 79 C, is suffer ing from a kick in the perineum. "F. D. ToTILILL, Divisional Surgeon." Dray, 170 C, confirmed a portion of Chapman's evidence, and proved being assaulted himself. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner, who, it is said, was once convicted for stabbing a man at Greenwich. THE WAIT. BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA..—SIN GULAR CASE OF Aun.—Edward Smith, a coachman, of 4, Meard-street, was charged with being concerned, with another, in defrauding Mr. David Arthur Samuel, builder, of Belvedere, Kent, of a £5 note at the Plough, Rupert, street. Mr. Samuel said—l live at Belvedere, Kent, and yester day went into a house in Leicester-street, and there got into conversation with the prisoner about the war between England and America. After a short time prisoner said he would take me to another house, where some one would talk to me. Prisoner there said, " Who's going to bet about the fight between Mace and King." He then said, " You bet, and I'll go you halves." I laid down aXS note, saying I would only bet £3, and was to have •S 2 back. I had given the note to the landlord, telling him to give me £2 back. I afterwards went out and asked the landlady for the landlord, and she said there was none, and that she was a widow. Mr. Tyrwhif t---You had been all tho time taking some thing ? Mr. Samuel—Never mind that. The prisoner incited me to bet. The men all bolted—of course, they did. It was the man who said he was the landlord that took my note. The argument about the war was at the house. Prisoner—Why, I never met you till six last evening. You said you would like some alamode beef, and I took you to a house to get some in Tichbourne-street. You then said you would like a toothful and went to Rupert street. There was nothing said about the war with America. A gentleman came in and you offered to make a wager that Mace won the fight. Robert Parsons, son of the landlady of the Plough, Rupert-street, said prosecutor and prisoner came in and had some drink: Prosecutor came out and asked for the landlord, and ho told him there was none. He then sa'd he had given the landlord a £5 note, and he would not leave till he had it. He had only seen prisoner once before, and then he left without paying for some half-and-half. Lees, 341 A, said prosecutor had been drinking. He took the prisoner into custody and found that he had changed a half-sovereign at the Black Horse. Prisoner was remanded. A few days ago, whilst two young ladies, Miss Rose O'Grady and her sister, were walking in their demesne at Newcastle, county Limerick, they were attacked by an insane man named John Keeffe, who assaulted them with a stone and inflicted very severe injuries on their persons. Their shrieks attracted the attention of their coachman and another servant, who came to their assistance and arrested the offender, and handed him over to the police, who had him committed to bridewell pending investigation by the magistrates. BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS.--" Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Watches, sto ICO guineas; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphlet, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construc tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with the greatest certainty the watch best adapted to their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of: a remittance. —J. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, 46 and. 47, Cornhill, London E.C. Established 1718. 100 100 100 stock 100 100 100 100 100 • 100 stock 1011 101 i 1 211 i 62 9 iii all all all all , 3210! 7 1 I 736 2 3 411 501 } 1 JANUARY 17, 1862. THE SUIiITE.R. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to say a word to the civilized world, in defence of my ship, against the scurrilous and cowardly attack made upon her by Mr. Gideon Welles, who is just now the Secretary of the Navy of the Northern fragment of what was formerly known as the United States of America. That gentleman (for by courtesy I must call him such, from the high official position which he occupies), used the following language in his recent report to the President and Congress of what remains of the old Confederacy : " It was natural that apprehensions should pre vail in regard to armed cruisers commissioned ex pressly by the rebel leaders to depredate upon our commerce. This robbery of merchants and others engaged in peaceful and lawful pursuits by piratical cruisers is not inconsistent with the general conduct of those who have violated law and moral obligations to gratify inordinate ambition. Our extended commerce presented inducements for piratical warfare, yet but few of our misguided countrymen have prostituted themselves to the pur poses of plunder, though thereto invited, and these few have been in constant flight to escape the avenging power of our vigilant naval forces. Such of these cruisers as eluded the blockade and cap ture were soon wrecked, beached, or sunk, with the exception of one, the Sumter, which by some fata lity was permitted to pass the Brooklyn, then blockading one of the passes of the Mississippi, and, after a brief and feeble chase by the latter, was allowed to proceed on her piratical voyage. An investigation of this whole occurrence was ordered by the department. Socn the Niagara and the Powhattan, from the Gulf squadron, followed in vigorous pursuit, the latter, though long in com mission, and with defective boilers and machinery, under her energetic commander, tracking her pira tical craft as far as Maranham. The Keystone State, Richmond, Iroquois, and San Jacinto were also in search of her at different points and periods. Although a piratical rover, without license from any recognised of acknowledged Government, and avowedly engaged in the robbery and plunder of our citizens, I regret to say this vessel has been re ceived and her wants supplied, against the remon strance of our consuls, by public authorities in many foreign ports where her character was well known." The closing paragraph of the above elegant ex- tract from an American State paper would seem to show that, although it was penned ostensibly against myself, it was, in fact, levelled at those European Powers which had acknowledged the Confederate States to be a lawful belligerent in the war which had been forced upon them. On no other supposition could it charge me with "rob bery" on the high seas, and with being a " piratical rover." A pirate is hostis humani generis, and may be seized and summarily dealt with by any and all the nations of the earth ; but the fact is these officers of the defunct Federal Union are so blinded by their venom against the South that they have. no longer the power to distinguish between terms. Mr. Welles, also, in imitation of the dirty and mendacious press of the Yankee States, calls me a privateer. He knows better than this. Ho knows that a privateer is a vessel that bears a letter of marque, and that I am cruising under no such letter. He knows that I have been regularly commissioned as a ship of war of the Confederate States. If he and his deluded associates insist upon calling the citizens of the Confederate States rebels, under the idea that those States still form a part of the old Yankee concern, then he might charac terise me as a rebel man•of--war, But if I am this, so were all the ships of the American colonies commissioned by the Virginian George Washing ton. Mr. Welles tells the President and Congress that, by "some fatality," I ran the blockade of New Orleans, and that he has ordered the whole affair to be investigated. With the blind rage of a baffled madman (quern Deus vult perdere, &c.), he will, no doubt, endeavour to crush the harmless and inoffensive commander of the Brooklyn, who, poor man, no doubt, did his best. He says, also, that he has had six of his largest and fastest steamers in pursuit of me, and that the commander of one of them was so energetic as to perform the wonderful feat of tracking me as far as Maranham, in Brazil. This, I suppose, is one of those daring acts —the officer being in command of a heavy frigate —which called forth the panegyric of the Yankee Navy which we find in a subsequent part of Mr. Welles's report, for after praising his clerks this officer goes on to remark—" To the patriotic offi cers of the navy, and the bravo men who, in various scenes of naval action, have served under them, the Department and tho Government justly owe an ac knowledgment even more earnest and emphatic," than that which they owe to his clerks ! Oh ! for a James to pourtray these "scenes of naval action," confined to a predatory warfare on the Potomac river, directed chiefly against women and children ; to the capture of a sandbag battery at Hatteras ; to the masterly movement of the great Dupont, the "greatest naTal commander of the age" in Yankee hyperbole, who not only knows how to use gun powder, but, with Yankee thrift, to turn an honest penny by selling it to the Government ; and to the pursuit of the piratical Sumter, away ever so far, even to the shores of Brazil, by the gallant Porter, who probably for this feat— so little material has Mr. Welles for heroes—will be made a " flag officer." I feel honoured to have been thus pursued by six frigates, and if one of them caught Messrs. Mason and Slidell instead of catching me, why, that is John. Bull's affair, and not mine. But lam fleeing from those ships, says Mr. Welles. Soft, Mr. Welles ! He would have me, I suppose, fall into the Yankee trap he has set for me, and rush to the encounter of his six frigates, the least of which is twice my size, and of more than twice my weight of metal. He dare not send a ship of equal force to meet me, and if he did dare do so, being safely ensconced himself in his arm- chair, I venture to say that the officer would not dare to find me. But I have to inform Mr. Welles that by "some fatality" I have run another block- ade. I have recently steamed out of the port of St. Pierre, in the Island of Martinique, in the face of one of the fastest and finest of his Yankee ships, the Iroquois, and which is more than twice my force. Poor Captain Palmer ! I fear that he, too, will be immolated on the altar of the " Universal Yankee Nation," because he did not catch the Sum ter, though from all we can learn he had fits on the occasion. This honourable captain is indeed a fit representative of the honour of Yankee-doodledom, for he violated the sovereignty of France and his own solemn pledge at the same time, given to the commanding French naval officer present, by caus ing blue lights (brought all the way, no doubt, from New London, Connecticut) to be burnt on board a Yankee schooner in the harbour, to signal ,o him my departure. But I only allude to this en passant, as France is abundantly able to take care of her own honour,— " If the universal Yankee nation " Can whip all creation I I I" When Mr. Welles learns, too, that on my way hither I burnt three more Yankee ships, and liberated a fourth, only because she had an English cargo on board, he will probably send six more of his doughty war ships after me—that is to say, if he can spare them from burning corn-cribs and frightening women and children along our South ern coast. He will take especial care, too, to put plenty of men and guns on board of them, for other wise I might not be in "such constant flight to escape the avenging power of our vigilant naval Forces." A word or two more and I shall have done. What can wise Mr. Welles mean when he objects to the "robbery of merchants and others engaged n peaceful commerce and lawful pursuits ? " -Does he not know that all property, with rare exceptions, captured on the high seas, is property belonging to "merchants and others engaged in peaceful com- merce and lawful pursuits!" Why this senseless diatribe, then, about robbery, and piracy, and pri vate property, and peaceful commerce, and lawful pursuits ? If Mr. Welles would give me an oppor tunity of capturing some of his public property I would be much obliged to him. But he takes very good care not to do this by sending his heaviest ships after me ; and have the Yankee naval officers in those " scenes of naval action " in which they. have distinguished themselves refrained from the capture of private property ? I saw recently in a Yankee paper an account of a wood sloop—that is a sloop loaded with firewood—having been " most gallantly " captured and burnt, the other day, on the Potomac, and a number of other small craft, belonging to the poor people along the coast, have been captured from time to time, and sent to Yan keedom for adjudication. Even fishermen have been subjected to the same fate—a class exempted by all civilised nations. But I suppose it is only when the vessel is a fine ship of 1,000 tons, belongs to a Yankee, and is captured by the Sumter, that the property becomes private ! Astute Mr. Welles ! The fact is, that this Northern horde of the Alasi, which is bearing down upon the sunny fields of the South, in imitation of their ancient prototypes, has (while Mr. Welles is singing his hypocritical song) set all the rules of civilized warfare at defiance, and captures private property on the land as well as on the sea. The gallant Dupont laid his unscrupulous hands upon all the cotton he could find at Beaufort—a few bales only, as it happened—and, first and last, many brilliant achievements in the way of stealing negroes and robbing and burning private residences have been accomplished by these Northmen amid the " various scenes of naval action" in which they have flourished. But I grow tired of the subject, and I fear I have already trespassed too much upon your space and patience. lam reminded, too, of the old adage, that " He who meddles with pitch shall bs defiled," and so I will take leave of Mr. Gideon Welles and his scurrilous report. R. SEMMES, Commander Confederate States Navy. Confederate States steamer Sumter, Cadiz, Jan. 9. THE WINDHAM CASE. This morning Sir Hugh Cairns made an application to the Master to order that the examination of Mr. Windham might be taken in open court instead of in a private room. The young gentleman, he assured the Master, was most anxious that such a course should be adopted, as he felt that the justice of hip case would enable him to go through the examination with calmness and deliberation. The Master thought tho best course to adopt was to ad here to the arrangement of not taking Mr. Windham's examination in public. In cddition to the jury, counsel on both sides could be present, and a short-hand writer would also attend. The learned counsel did not further press the subject, and the hearing of witnesses was proceeded with. A number of letters written by Mr. Windham from Guernsey, Paris, and other places, during the last year were read, and Mr. Martin, the person to whom they were addressed at Felbrigg, explained the matters therein alluded to. The case for the derendatt will certainly not close for some dt.ys. THIS DAY'S AITAREITS. CORN EXCHANGE. The show of samples of English wheat here to-day was very small. For both red and white qualities, however, the trade was in a sluggish state, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations. Wtth foreign wheat the market was well supplied, and all descriptions moved off heavily at the late reduction in their value. Floating cargoes of grain were a dull inquiry, and prices were with difficulty supported. Malting barley sold steadily at late currencies, but grind ing and distilling sorts were in slow request, on former terms. The malt trade was inactive, yet no change took place in prices. For all kinds of oats there was a fair demand, and the quotations were supported. The inquiry for both beans and peas was very moderate, at previous rates. All descriptions of flour met a heavy sale at Monday's 'all in tha quotations. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. 540 ( 1,120 780 j 70 1 890 sacks. Irish.. .. 70 - 1 2,3: F0reign........ 32,790 14,580 —19, 1 5 3 g 51,020 brls. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. RELEASE OF MESSRS. Z AChERIE .AND ROGERS BY 2'HE AMERICA.N GOVERNMENT. (From the Gazette of this evening.) OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE. FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 17. Copies ofj correspondence with her Majesty's Minister in the United States. FROM LORD LYONS TO EARL RUSSELL. Dated Washington, December 31, 1861. (Received January 15, 1862). My Lord,—The Secretary of State of the United States has informed me that, having learned that Messrs. J. W. Zacherie and T. J. Rogers, American citizens, were taken from a vessel called the Eugenia Smith, under the British flag, and under circumstances similar to those involved in the case of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and that they are now confined in Fort Lafayette, ho has caused orders to be given for their discharge, and permission for them to return to Norfolk, in Virginia, by way of Fortress Monroo.—l have, &c., (Signed) LYONS. EXTRACT OF ♦ DESPATCH FROM LORD LYONS TO EARL RUSSELL. Dated Washington, December 31, 1861. (Received January 15, 1862.) I have the honour to enclose herewith to your lordship a copy of a note from Mr. Seward to the Secretary of the Navy, which has been communicated to me to-day by Mr Seward, referring to the fact of a British schooner, the James Campbell, captured for breach of blockade, having been brought into Now York, with the British flag fly ing :under that of the United States; Mr. Seward con demns thi; act in the strongest terms; the act was dis avowed with equal promptitude by the naval authorities of the United States, under whose notice it was brought. Enclosure in Lord Lyons' Despatch. Department of State, Washington, Dec. 31, 1861. To the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. Sir,—This department has received unofficial informa tion that the schooner James Campbell, captured by the blockading squadron, was carried into New York with the British flag flying under that of the United States. This unseemly act must have been occasioned by a misappre hension of his duty by the officer who ordered or allowed it. I will, consequently, thank you to give such orders as may tend to prevent a repetition of the same,—l have, &c., (Signed) H. SEWARD. EXTRACT OF A DESPATCH FROM LORD LYONS TO EARL NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat are moderately extensive. Owing to the more favourable weather, the trade is somewhat firmer, and a slight improvement has taken place in the velue of good and prime qualities. Per 81b. by the carcase. a it a dl a d a d Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 2 Middlingmutton a 6 3 10 Riddling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime do .. 4 0 4 4 Frime large do. 3 10 4 0 Vaal 4 0 5 2 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork ~ Large pork .... 3 8 4 2 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 0 3 4 BOROUGH HOP. The market for good and fine new English hops is firm at quite previous quotations. Inferior qualities, owing to the large quantity of foreign hops on offer, are a dull in quiry, and prices are barely maintained. There has been a large importation of American hops this week. New Mid and East Kents .. 170 s to 231 s per cwt. New Weald of Keats .. 140 s 185 s „ New Sussex l3os 165 s „ COLONIAL. TEA—At the public sales the biddings have been mode rately active, but only good and fine qualities have sus tained previous quotations. SUGAR—The demand has been of a less active character, and prices have shown less firmness. In the refined mar ket no change of importance can be recorded. COFFEE—OnIy limited dealings have been announced, and both plantation and native Ceylon have been at slightly reduced prioes. RlCE—East India descriptions have been taken to a limited extent, without, however, any material change to notice in value. _ s s SALTPETRE—Business has been inactive, and the few bargains entered into have been at about former prices. TALLow—The market has continued dull, and prices generally have shown a further downward tendency for both present and forward delivery. P.Y.C., on the spot, is quoted 48s 9d to 495, and March delivery 49e per cwt. TIIIS DAPS SHIPPING. LONDON, Jan. 17.—Wind this day at noon—E. ; moderate. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 16.—Wind E. to S.S.E.—Arrived— Hebe, from Belize. OFF PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 16.—Arrived—James R. Keeler, from London, for New York. RAMSGATE, Jan. 16.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Jolo, for Havana. COWES, Jan. 16.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Forester, for Demerara. OFF DUNGENESS, Jan. 15.—Arrived—Pride of the Avon, from West Indies. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON ' F r iday Mornintp Sailed—Excavator, for Arbroath; Harriet, for Briton Ferry ; Argyll, steamer for Carentan ; ,Susanna, Britannia, and Danube, for Newport. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Tan. 16.—Dreadnought, from Demerara ; Ger• mania, from Landscrona ; Water Sprite, from St. Mi c h ae l' s ; Carry Ann, from Horsens ; William and Mary, from Guern sey • Ann Fezina, from Aarhuus ; L ou i sa , f rom W e ill e. Arrived, Jan. 17—Lightning, from Landscrona ; Lyra, from Demerara; Victoria, from Aarhuns ; Reward, Rover, and Hannah, from Guernsey; Champion, from Boston; Brazier, from Hamburg. Sailed—Queen of the Isles, for Brussels. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed, Jan. 16—Bronda (s.s.), from London, for Hali fax; Spirit of the Wind, from London, for Nassau. THE THAMES EMBANKMENT, SOUTHERN SIDE: Yesterday afternoon the commissioners met at the offiees of the commission in Victoria-street, Westminster; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. About 20 plans for im proving and embellishing the Surrey or southern side of the river and its navigation, as well as for establishing a public thoroughfare without stopping the trade upon the bank, have been sent in to the commissioners, who will proceed to investigate their merits and report thereon to parliament on its reassembling, in order that both sides of the river may be embanked or improved contemporaneously. INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. — The installation of the Duke of Devonshire as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge took place this afternoon at Devonshire House, with the usual formalities. The mem bers of the Senate met previously at the Burlington Hotel, and the procession, as it proceeded on its way to his grace's residence, attracted much attention. DEATH OF A PENINSULAR OFFICER. —We have to record the demise of Captain Thomas Potter, late of the 28th Regiment, which occurred at Gosport on the 13th instant, at the advanced age of 74 years. The deceased officer entered the army on the 13th of November, 1806, became lieutenant the 2d March, 1809, and captain the 25th of October, 1814. He served in the Peninsula throughout the whole of the campaigns, and received the war medal with eight clasps for Corunna, Barrosa, Bad ajoz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivello, Nive, and Orthes. SMUGGLING BY A FEMALE.—An elegantly-attired young woman (says Galignani) provided with a muff and ample crinoline, arrived at Rouhaix two days ago by rail way, and was walking away with a very dignified air, when something in her appearance having excited the suspicion of a custom-house officer, she was requested to enter the office. When there she was subjected to the examination of the female searcher, who soon brought to light, from under her dress, 300 Panatella cigars and 161 b. of fine to bacco. The merchandise was seized and the fair traveller placed in durance vile, but afterwards set at liberty by arrangement with the administration. RUSSELL Dated 'Washington, Dec. 31, 1861. I have the honour to enclose, herewith, to you a copy of a note from Mr. Seward to the Secretary of the Navy, which has been communicated to me to-day by Mr. Seward. It refers to the circumstances of an oath having been exacted as a condition of release, by the Commander of the United States steamer, from three British seamen, captured for broach of blockade, to the effect that they should undertake 12 , ,t to be employed in similar proceedings for the future. Your lordship will see that Mr. Seward strongly condemns this act, and release the seamen from the obligation taken by them. Enclosure in extract from Lord Lyons' Despatch of Dec. 31, 1861. Department of State, Washington, Dec. 31, IS6I. To the lion. Gileon Welles. Sir,—This department has been informally apprized that Commander Woodhall, of the United States steamer Connecticut, recently exacted as a condition of the release of members of the crew of the British echooner Adeline, captured for breach of the blockade, that they should enter into an engagement not to be employed in a similar pro ceeding in future. It occurs to this department that, as the requirement referred to is not warranted by public law, the commanders of blockading vessels should be in structed not to exact any similar condition for the release of persons found on board vessels charged with a breach of the blockade. It may be lawful to detain such persons as witnesses, when their testimony may be indispensable to the administration of justice; but when captured in a neu tral ship, they cannot be considered, and ought not to be treated, as prisoners of war. Angus Smith, John Mooney, and John H. Mclienry, the alleged British subjects above referred to, are consequently to be considered as absolved fr the obligation represented to have been re quired of them by Commander Woodhall.—l have, &c., (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWARD. LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Evening). WHITEHALL, Jtx. 16. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, unto Charles Wentworth Dilke the 3 °anger, of Sloane street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. BOROUGH OF NEW SHOREHAM. The Gazette contains the Speaker's warrant for issuing new writ for the electing of a member to serve in Parlia ment for the borough of New Shoreham, in the room of Sir Charles M. Burrell, Bart. deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. 17. MEmonANnum.—The Queen desiring to perpetuate the remembrance of her beloved husband's connection with the Rifle Brigade, and feeling sure that it w ill b e grat if y i ng to the corps to bear the name of one who, as its Colonel-in- Chief, took such a deep and constant interest in its welfare, has been pleased to command that it shall bear in future the designation of " The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade." WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 17. 36th Foot—Paymaster Chambre should have been de scribed, in the Gazette of 14th instant, as late Captain 14th Light Dragoons, not as late Chaplain. CmarLAlN's DEPARTMENT.—The Reverend Reginald Heber Bullock to be Chaplain of the Fourth Class. MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT.—Assistant -Superinten dent of Stores W. A, Holwell to be Deputy Superinten dent of Stores. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 9. CORPS OP ROYAL MARINES.—Mpjor-General Anthony Blaxland Stransham to be Inspector-General of Royal Marines. BANKRUPTS. The portion of the Gazette containing the Bankrupts had not arrived when we went to press. FATAL ENCOUNTER WITH SALMON POACHERS. A desperate and fatal encounter with salmon poachers took place at Brocklewath, on the river Eden, about eight miles from Carlisle, on Wednesday morning. Edward Atkinson and Robert Bowman, watchers for the Carlisle Angling Association, had reason to suppose that the river would be poached on Tuesday night, at a noted salmon spawning ground, at Brocklewath. They took with them an assistant, named Irving, and a policeman named Cow men. About half-past six on Wednesday morning, a man was seen standing in the river, about four or five yards y h a o a lsowwnhegieeptthl whistled t a a h n n k d a from the bank. came a me ando H p pe Bowmanss i e t e e m e t h d e topbo wentea e making i e n tw g l that the net w as " h an k ered. " Thereupon, o t n i e u l e l t d t h e o y nt Atkinson Atkinson endeavoured to take him into custody and seize his implements. The man turned out to be a no'orious poacher, named Robert Robinson, a blacksmith, at Cum whitton. Robinson resisted, and Bowman followed into the river. While they were engaged in putting the " twitch"—a looped string and piece of wood, answering the purpose of a pair of handcuffs—on Robinson, two on n or p th e eb o an ach k er o s f , twhohorivheairi, came been ledg he w r i e ll a o n w d s attacked them. One of the poachers lifted a heavy stick with both hands, and coming down upon Atkinson with all his might, felled him ; and Bowman was also knocked down senseless either by the same murderous implement or by the other man. The cold water appears to have revived Bowman again, and he crawled out of the river on his hands and knees ; but A.tkinson's wounds were of a more serious nature. He was found in a greatly dis figured state, on the bank about seven o'clock, but how he came there is not known. He must either, like Bow man, have been revived by the water into which he fell, and then crawled out; or else the poachers had carried him out. Atkinson was then taken to the farmhouse at Brocklewath, where he died in the middle of the day. It appears that Irving and the policeman had followed behind Atkinson and Bowman to the side of the river, and were standing there while the two watchers were ap prehending Robinson. While they were there the two other poachers rose from their ambush. Police-constable Cowman seized hold of one of them, but while he was at tempting to make him a prisoner the other poacher came to the rescue of his companion, and felled the policeman with a bludgeon. Irving appears to have gone off. Ro binson has been taken into custody, with his son. William Robinson. Cowman being in a precarious state, his depo sition was taken. He identified the elder Robinson as the man who had been fishing in the river ; and young Robin son was identified by Cowman as one of the two men who had knocked him down. The police are on the track of the third man. EXPRESSING THE AMERICAN NEWS. --The direc tors of the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company have re ceived from the Postmaster-General a complimentary- letter bearing testimony to the rapidity and accuracy with which they carried out the arrangements for therapid transmission of the important despatches from America on the subject of the Trent, RUMOURED Loss OF THE PARANA.—We are glad to learn that there is good ground for discrediting th e rumour that the Parana, with a battalion of Guards on which make make no mention Gazette has ad board, had been lost in the St. Lawrence . 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