The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

310 NE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, q 2WELVE O'CLOCK. There is very little perceptible alteration in the position of the Money Market this morning, but the tendency is towards greater quietude and easiness. It is nevertheless expected that a large amouut of business will be negotiated in the inter val before the payment of the January dividends. Last week the rate for first-class bills was very firm at 3 per cent., but occasional transactions are now reported at 2'4 per cent. The accounts from the manufacturing districts for the past week have generally been satisfactory, although the preparations for stock taking, usual at the end of the year, have tended to prevent active Operations in most departments of business. At Manchester, however, a firmer tone has prevailed, 'while in the woollen districts the mills generally are fully employed. in the hosiery and lace trades of Leicester and Nottingham there has been no ma terial alteration, and more activity has prevailed in the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton. The half yearly meeting of the East and West India Dock Company has been called for the 9th prox. Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool cotton market to .day was much excited, and sales about 20,000 bales, at an advance of id. to Id. on last week's quotations. At Pais this morning, Three per Cent. Itentes Were quoted 70f., being sc. better than on Saturday. There has been a dull market for the English Funds in the absence of active speculation or a demand for stock on behalf of investors. Continued firmness, however, has been apparent, Consols having been maintained at 921 v for money and account. New Three per Cents. and the Reduced remain at 9211 ; Exchequer Bills at 9s. to 13s. Prem. ; Bank Stock is 232 ; India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 ; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1051; and the 51 per Cents., 1121. There has not been much activity in the Foreign Market, and prices have shown very little change. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are firm at 70t 711; do., 1862, 721 t; and the Consolides, 40t 41 ; Greek are 161, and the Coupons, 61 ; Buenos Ayres, 97 1 981; Mexican, 321 ; Peruvian New Loan, 92 ; Portuguese do., 481 4; Russian do., 941 ; and Venezuelan Scrip, 2 11 dis. ; Italian are firmer at 72k 1; Spanish Passive at 231; and the Certifi "tee at 9a :4. In the Railway Share Market the operations were not very extensive. Prices, however, in some in- Stances, exhibited a slight improvement. Cale donians, Great Easterns, and South Easterns, im proved ss. ; Great Westerns, Lancashire and York shire, North Westerns, and Great Northern A stock, 10s. The foreign and colonial lines continued inac tive, at about previous prices. Sambre and Meuse brought 104 ; and San Paulo, 238 ; Bombay and tiaroda improved to 106 t; East Indian realised 1 09 ; Madras 5 per Cents., 106 ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 1071. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares were ,Without change of importance. Bank of Austra lasia declineu to 699 ; London and South African I mproved to 23/ 8 ; Union of Australia brought 4 ° I; and Crystal Palace Stock declined to 36i. .„ BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. -tank Stock 232 3 a per Cent. Reduced Annuities peer Cent. Cons o l s A nnu iti es 92 4 i evr India 3 per Cent. Annuities Stock — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. D tto 5 per Cent Ditto 5/ per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100/ _ . Ditto Bonds El,OOO 26 Ditto under £l,000 Consols for Account 92a Xachequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent — Ditto £500 Ditto Small 9 13 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent.... ( Alilian 6 per Cent .. Ditto 44 per Cent E lXT l l3tian 7 pet Cent Ditto, Second Issue greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup as l5l 161 16 Ditto Coupons 6 ll Italian 5 per Cect. (Maremmana Railway) 751 Mexican 3 per Cent 11. .,„evir Granada 2 per Cent 27 Ditto Land Warrants .. 4 1 i 1 3 •• ~ Auvianli per Cent. Ditto 1862 •92 48/ Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 484 1 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1862 ,Ditto Scrip, £2O paid ittssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — bitto 5 per Cent , 18(3) Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £47 pd i pm Sardinian 5 per Cent. S panish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Danish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 9 4 4 T urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto 6 pe . . r Cent. 1858 D itto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds 721 Ditto (3 per Cent., 1862, Scrip,'£6o pd 33 4 pm „,enDitto Paid-up Scrip: v tr ezuela, 3 p er C en t itt o 6 per Cents., 1862 (Scrip), £53 pd 11 1 4 dis Ditto 11 per Cent It , Dividends on the above payable ink ondon, c tija; 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex 25f / lion, Ditto Account ~ 724 2 Cu THREE O'CLOCK. Ditto 1 y nso,B , Mone Acecant, Jan .8 921 4 ' When her Majesty left Windsor on Saturday : I t) among the Royal luggage were three boxes l"nginir to the B arone s s Blu c h e r a n d Lady Augusta b e :Lea, who were in attendance oh the Queen and the Prin. t . es of Hass e . O n arr i v i ng at Osborne it was discovered w eat th ese packages were missing, and although a messenger r .." immediately d es p a t c h e d to Windsor he was unable to i Z t e the missi ng l uggage . The Prince o f Wales lost six a g e s on his journey home from Marseilles.—Court Journal. "The splendid horses of Prince Orloff," says th e i n , el._ oepen ance, " h a ve been the admiration of ta •rsels ever s i nce hi s arr i va l es Mi n ister of Russia. He len pair, a ll th oroug h-b re d, an d o f a pure Russian breed' His Excellency presented to the King of the Bel mans one pair estimated by competent judges to be worth . l east 26,000 f. The news of the arr i va l o f th es e fine sai 113 , 1 E! at Brussels soon reached the Emperor of the k.,.. 41 .._° 11 ) and hi s M a j es t y , anx i ous t o l e arn whether they merited the eulogiums passed on them, sent to Brussels 4 18 fi rst equerry and aide-de-camp, General Fleury, with ofelple powers. The general was so struck with the beauty the horses, that he expressed his wish .o purchase to eei for the Emp eror . P r i nce O r loff at once consented t i p ar t with th e w h o l e , . an d t h ey are no d o ubt by this ` ll 4 in. the Imperial stables." 111188 IA AND CHINA.—Oar Shanghae correspon dent Writes :—A rumour is in circulation within the bast hour or two which, there is reason to suppose, has act for i ts foundation, viz., that in accordance w i t h t h e aeB°ciatione carrie I on at Pekin, the Russian Government 44ete_v co nsented to g i ve a id i n men towards suppressing the - Be that as it may, an agent of the Russian I. aver iunent left here three days ago for Nagasaki, and the 48 t news from that place is to the effect that the whole th e h Russian fleet in China ie about to rendezvous er e by the lot of next month. This fact, in connection with Shanghae rumour, which is supposed to have origi nated with the Russian agent, renders the theory'very pro- The rumour here is that 10,000 Russian soldiers are now on th e i r , way from the Arooor, and that they are to assemble at Nagasaki, prior to coming over to China to . et as a conti ngent to the Chinese troops . This service 'is h ta ted to b e rendered by Russia in considerat i on o f f ur ther erritorial Cincessions on the part of China."—London and Claita Telegraph. CURIOUS FACT.—The ship T. B. Wales, the de litruction of which by the Alabam a i s repor t e d by eograPh to-day, w a s , only yesterday, o ff ere d b y h er W le to a committee of the Boston Board of Trade, to g ratuitously L convey cargo of provisions from this p or t f or LLe Lancashire Falterers. Instead of going on this errand of cha r i ty to the starving operatives of England, she has b een wantonly destroyed 'by a piratical craft, built in Eng land with means furnished by British merchants.—Boste n Tr anscript. T he Madrid Gazette of the 22d publishes the t .:" MI which a b o li s h es p ass ports from the I s t oanuaty, as already briefly announced by telegram. A foreigner may prove his identification by a written declara %len signed by t wo res p ec t a bl e p e rs o ns. He must al s o mak e Th known whence h e ca me and the object of his journey. T ." Visas of tr ans po r t s by the Spanish Consuls i s sup ',-,sleed, as we ll as th e fees demanded f or th em .— treagnani. A telegraphic despatch announces that the se cond line o f ra i ls on the ra il way from Bordeaux to Cette, the last section of which had been officially re ceived by the State engineers on the 24th, has been since Opened to eiroulatioa throughout its extent. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val 8 8i Blythe and Tyne. .... Bristol :nid Excivr Caledonian Corn w-, I 10 Do A 10 Do. B been paid to B. 50 Dublin Belfast June. ffun.,Perthofir Ab. June. st Edinburgh & Glasgow. 3t Glasg. and S. Western.! st Great Eastern, Ord. stk It Ditto A stock it Ditto East A nglian at t GreatNorthof Scotland It Great. Northern... it Do A stock t Do B do_ 8.4.0 Do. 25 shares Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western 19.16.4 Do Str Val guai stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do I shares... Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick, 12.10 Do, G.N.E. purchase, Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Stafrordsliire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stoclz Do Scot. 'Mid. stock I •Ahrews. and Welchpool IShropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath IVictoria sta. and Pim 1 Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R ' West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 6 i 84 16 115 116 61 71 41 43 13 14 86) 87i 105 107 46 47 43 45 24 25 124} WI 12/4 129! 135 137 104 10(1 07} fP 109 1091 71} 724 118 119 38 39 97 674 101 10Z 40 41 9 9i 1281 129 11 ltp 96 98 53 54 25 27 991 991 55 57 88 8h 125 127 107 1:0 1 I 4i 4i . .11 Ili 118 120 47i 486 IC4 106 464 i 4" 681 i 47 49 334 34# 88 884 684 f 96 100 103 7 8 39 40 104 101 7k 147 149 46 5 r 26 3 pi 554 sfl 24 36 6 d# 1, 87 90 140 145 118 i 29 31 43 45 35 37 94 :6 93i d 88a } BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share; PRA Price. Rosiness done 100 I tt!antic &St Lawrene, all 67 69 stk Ii Rom.,Baroda&Cent I.(• 106 107 1062 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 204 Buffalo and Laxe llurop all 51 51 10 Do. Preference all 8 84 100 I 111111alo,BrantAGodricl, to 77 10 ( .6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1,1 K• 100 Do. do. July 1, 1571 , tOO 75 78 100 Do. do. Juno 1, 1,74 100 72 75 st Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(l.' ; 100 1( 6 108 st (7apeTown & Dock Seri) 100 1( 74 108.3 stock lEastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 1( 7 1( 8 stock haat Indian, gu. sp. t. 100 108 11:9 109 20 Do. do. G Ext.... 5 1 16p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 2 4 IP 24 stock Grand Trunk of Canath 100 22 225 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 74 78 100 Do. 2d I'ref. 6 per et.. all 61 66 100 I Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 35 37 85 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 48 52 100 I Do. do. 1867 .. all 34 86 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 34 36 stock iGt.lndiarenin.r.r,ua.sp.c 100 1074 1(84 1075 20 Do. New gua. sp. C... 12 1 14v 20 i Do. January, 1862 .. 4 lip 5 stock !Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 106 20 5 W. of Canada Share: all 12; 134 205 Do. New 100 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 99 100 100 I Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 90 92 Indian Branch Limited 1 —d 2 stock Nladras guar., sp.c. .. 100 105; 1015 stock Do. 4/ p. a. Extension 100 10) 101 stock Dc. 4 d 0........ 100 i 5 . 7 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock 111elb.Corp. 6p. o. find, 10i, .50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 51 53 100 Do. 7 p.c. alortg. Bds. alt 20 Newßrunswickac Cand. ; Class A Capital Shar all 3 5 20 i Do. do. B Capital do. .. alt 3 6 N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist f bds 100 83 15 stook iScinde (100 1(65 1074 o. Delhi • 9 100 1044 1054 !D. do , 2 6 p 20 Do. Punjaub •.d c, 15 If o st Do. Do. .. , ,1 0 105; 1(65 106 stock I Do. Endus.St. Flo. J 100 101 103 102 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.c.Ja &J uly ; 1677-SI Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug -. . 1 100 406 108 Do. dp. c. ar. & Sept.! 100 106 108 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July.' 100 906 100 100 995 100 - Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 98 100 ! Cape G.llope, 8 p c,1873 100 0!; 10 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 111 113 Do. 1890 100 112 114 I- Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 114 118 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p o 100 - -- N.B.Gov.6p.c..la..tJuly 100 1074 1084, Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct., 100 I N. S.W. G ov. 5 p c., 1866 100 1014 1024 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 1014 1024 1014 Do. d0.,1888 SLupwds 100 101 1016. New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 111 113 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling„ 1875 ' 100 108 109 Queensland Gov. 6p. c 100 11 113 G6p.c.1878,2 up 100 111 113 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.,tJuly 100 Do. 1.) 6 p.o. ! 100 1081 1091 1054 9 11:81 109/ 105 9 SHARE MARKETS---This Day. _T_ 01ZDI NA 1:N SHARE AND STOckS. ,Railways. ITI SII MINES. Cambrian Consol. Gold !: !ntiort Amalgamated ;)evon Ci. Coco. Cravist -ast Bassett (IllOzan East ClOgau Gold Ltd East Caradon East Carty - - E. WI Russel (Tavistk. Gam.46St.Autoyn(Gwen.) reat South Tolgtis (1. Whcal 'for (ilelston Grenville tlerod's-Foot ingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (tlny Lelant 3larke Valley.. ~ .tyndy Iron Ore (Lim ' New &tun • • orth Downs Ni.Wh 't Basset ( I 1 lo ;an Nlorth Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols (15t. Blazey Providence (Uny Lel nt. South Caradon(St.Cleer S. Carty Brea (Illogan) Fran. (Illogan Stray Park Tamar Silvak Lead Min. Pin Crott West Basset (Illogan) W Caradon (Liskeard; West Set= ...... . Wheal Basset (Illogan Wheal Buller (Redruth, Wheal Bitty (U.Lelant) WhealLud ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) Wheal Seton Wheal Tretawney (Lis ) Wheal Union 21 ? 500 5103 52-- 64 P iP 44 45 11 411 21 31 15 17 7 74 6 64 44 5 47 49 24 21 14 la 41 13 81 9/ 4 cis pr 135 145 216 21 4/ 6si 5 5 1 43 380 39) 22 21 3.0.0 7.19.0 574 17s 40 6.15. • 8.1'2 1. 7.0 206 x. 3.0 2.4.9 1k 3.15.6, 28.9. 1 go 95 39 to i 1 13 if 13 14 47i 5 5 2.0.5 2.10.8 8 581 7 3.13 26 23 280 290 771 821 971 621 7h 81 91 1 0 15 16 185 190 17 18 51 61 41 5 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent. Redeem. at 5 per cent. prem., 1094 9—Great Western (Cerks and Hants Ext.), 5 per cent., 100. PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 5 per cent. pref., 1071—London and South- Western, si per cent., 1056. ' LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham 4i per Cent., 89. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 141—Recife and San L om b .), guaranteed 7 per cent., 184—South Austrian anddo Venetian, 231 4. FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 20—St. John del Rey (Rm.), 511 5. JOINT-STOCK L'ANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 951—Australasia, 69I—Lon don and County, 30—London and South African, 231 I—Lon don and Westminster. 80.! —Ottoman Bank, 331 I—Ditto New, 71—Standard of British South Africa (Urn.), 10—Union of Ireland (Urn.), 4—Union of London, 331. MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 36i —M editerranean Ext. Telegraph (lim.), 3g—North British Australasian (Om.), I—Oriental Inland Steam (lim.), 84 j. The screw-steamer Calcutta lately took out a pack of hounds for the Madras Hunt. The dogs, thirty-one in number, are beautiful specimens of their race, And have received a thorough training in their work. Already they have been tested at Madras, and found fully up to the work. DESPATCH OF THE AMERICAN AND UNITED STATES MAILS.—On Saturday the Cunard Royal Mail steamer Africa was despatched front Liverpool for Boston with mails for the United States and British North America, together with a large number of passengers, cargo, &c. The Inman steamer' City of Baltimore will leave Liverpool for New York on Wednesday next with mails for the United States. Letters will be received at the Liverpool Post.office until 1.30 p.m. Late despatches Via Cork will be received until 8.30 p.m. The Europe gives some details relative to the affair of the arms seized in the Danubian Princi palities. The Prince of Servia, it says, has declared that the said arms had been purchased by him from Russia, not` for the purpose of disturbing the tranquillity of Turkey, but solely to secure internal order. In spite of that decla ration the arm s are not, it is said, to be given up to Servia until t he which has been ordered on the s u b j ect of the military wants of that Principality shall have been con cluded. On Thursday next, the Ist of January, the new Chancery Act as to titles will t a k e effect. The object of the new law is to enable persons to obtain an " indefeasible" title to land, and thereby save litigation and considerable expense, Pd : Closing Paid : Price. Busineer done. Share 13.14 111 E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DBCEVIBER 29, 1862. MARKETS---This Day. MARK-LANE. The country markets, held on Saturday, were very mo derately supplied with wheat. For all qualities the trade ruled firm, and, in some instances, fine produce realised is per quarter more money. Malting barley fully supported previous rates ; otherwise, the demand for spring corn was by no means active, on former terms. The flour trade was steady, at full quotations. Advices from New York state that the inquiry for wheat, flour, and maize was somewhat mote active,-at extreme rates. On the Continent, however, the corn trade is still dull. Sm^all supplies of English grain, &c. were received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted to 10,742 quarters of wheat, 2,735 barley, 18,543 oats, 520 beans, 600 peas, 72 tares, 7,598 linseed, 1,800 oilseeds, 190 maize, 298 sacks, and 1,709 barrels of flour. Fresh up to this morning's market the arrivals of Eng lish wheat were very small, and the condition, for the most part, was unsatisfactory. The attendance of buyers was far from numerous ; nevertheless, the supply of dry pro duce was disposed of at the full prices of Monday last; otherwise, the trade ruled heavy at that day's currency, and a portion remained unsold at the close of business. The market was well supplied with fez eign wheat, to a considerable extent, ex granary. In most descriptions a moderate retail business was transacted, at the rates cur rent this day se'nnight to is per quarter advance. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, and prices ruled firm. The supply of malting barley was small, and the trade ruled firm, at, in some instances, a slight advance in the quotations. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off slowly, at last Monday's currenoy. In malt, a fair average business was transacted at late rates. With oats the market was very moderately supplied. For all qualities the trade ruled firm, aLd good and fine corn rea lised an advance of 6d. per quarter, compared with Monday last. Beans—the supply of which was moderate—moved off slowly on former terms. Peas were dull at fully the late decline in the quotations. The market was fairly supplied. In flour sales progressed steadily, and prices wore well supported. CURRENCY PER IMPERJAL MEASURE, Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new Ditto, old 47s 528 Ditto, white, new 468 52s Ditto, old 548 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —B s Ditto, new Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 26s 35s Malting, new Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk sos 66s Brown Kingstown and Ware 568 70s Chevalier 66s 25s Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolush., Feeding. 20s 258 Potato Youghal and Cork, black lBB 258 Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 22s 26s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey, new Maple White, new Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk 348 38s Stockton and Norfolk -is 35s market presents a quiet appearance, yet there are no sellers except at quite previous rates. The import, last week. amounted to 309 bales from Moretown Bay; 925 Taganrog; and 202 bales from Bremen. General Sir Philip Bainbrigge, K.C.B. This meritorious and distinguished officer, who died at St. Margaret's, near Titchfield, Hants, on the 20th inst., was descended from an ancient family tong resident in the counties of Leicester and Derby. He was the eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel Philip Bainbrigge (who was killed at the battle of Egmont -op- Z-e in 1799) and Rachel, daughter of Mr. Peter Dobree, of Beauregard, Guernsey_ HE was born in 1786, and entered the navy as mid shipman on board the Cmiar, under Lord d e Saumerez. On the death of his father the Duke of York gave him a commission in the 20th Regiment, which he joined at Malta in 1801. He was after wards in the 7th Fusileers, and was appointed to a company in the 18th Royal Irish in 1805, with which regiment he served in the West Indies. After the taking of Curacoa, he was appointed Inspector of Fortifications in that island. Returning borne in 1808, he entered the Itoyal Military College at High Wycembe, to qualify for the Staff, and, basting passed his examination with distinction, was ap pointed Deputy,Assistent Quartermaster General to the 4th Division of Lord Wellington's army, then in the lines of Torres Vedras. On joining he wee ordered to examine the island of Lyceria, in the Tagus, to ascertain the practicability of crossing it, which be did, and his report being satisfactory to Lord Wellington, be was brought to head-quarters. In 1812 he was posted to the 6th division as head of the Quartermaster-General's Department, but on the advance of the army into Spain he was recalled to head-quarters, as he had previously examined the country over which our army was to advance, although it was in possession of the enemy, Lord Wellington being anxious to know from him per sonally all particulars respecting it. He was scon after promoted to be Permanent Assistant-Quarter master-General, with the rank of Major, and served in this position till the end of the campaign of 1814. He was present at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos, at the battle of Salamanca, part of the siege of Burgos, in the retreat from Burgos (during which he rendered valuable service by extricating a division of the army from a critical situation), at the battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, last siege of St. Sebastian, and the battles of the Nive and Toulouse. On these occasions he carried the orders of the duke and of the chief of his department, and was often employed in dangerous services. After the campaign in Belgium and battle of Waterloo he was sent to join the army of occupation in France. After the peace in 1815 he continued to hold the appoint ment of Permanent Assistant Quartermaster Gene ra: till he was made Deputy Quartermaster-Gene ral in Dublin in 1841. When be attained the rank of Major-General in 1846 the Duke of Welling ton gave him the command of the Belfast dis trict, and in 1852 he selected him to command the forces in the Island of Ceylon. During the period that he remained there the upright dis charge of his duties, and unremitting exertions for the welfare of the troops, made him beloved and respected by all clas-es, and his departure, on being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1854, was much regretted. In 1837 be was made Companion of the Bath, and subsequently received the reward for distinguished services. In 1854 he was appoin tad Colonel of the 26th (Cameronians), and at length, in 1860, received the rank of Knight Commander of the Bath; he had also the war medal and seven clasps for Ciudad Rodrigo, Badea j( z, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelie, and Toulouse. In him the country has lost one who devoted himself with zeal to the public service, was most upright in the discharge of his duty, and active in his profession. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. For the time of year, our market to-day was fairly sup plied with each kind of foreign stock, but its general quality was by no means first-rate. Sales progressed slowly, on rather lower terms. Notwithstanding that the total supply of beasts was very moderate in numtPr, the demand for all kinds, owing to the mildness of the weather, and the large quantities of meat on offer in Newgate and Leadenhall, was in a very inactive state, at, in some instances, a decline in the quo tations realised on Monday last of 2d per 81bs. The top price was ds per Blbs, and some really prime Scots, crosses, &c., sold at 4s led per 81bs. The general quality of the beasts was good. -.Front Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire we received 1,700 shorthorns, &c. ; from Norfolk, 400 Scots, &c. ; from other parts of England, 300 various breeds ; from Scotland, 300 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 380 oxen and heifers. There was a very poor show of sheep in the pens, both as to number and quality. Prime downs and halt-breds sold steadily, at full prices, the top quotation being 5s 10d per Sibs, but all other breeds moved off slowly, at barely last week's currency, to a slight decline. _ _ Calves, the supply of which was moderate, ruled about stationary, but the veal trade was inactive. No quotable change took place in the value of pigs. The pork trade, however, was very dull. Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 81 Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 5 0' Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 2 Second quality do. 4 4 4 10 a. d.e.d. Primecrs-wool d 0.5 '0 5 6 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 8 5 10 Large crse. calves 4 2 4 8 Prime small do 4 10 5 2 Large hogs 3 8 4 4 Small porkers , 4 6 4 8 Suckling calves, 10s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts d I Cows 3,790 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts . Sheep Calves Pigs .... , Sheep . . 13,710 Calves Pigs 270 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Dec. 30, 1861, and this day, Monday, Dec. 29, 1862. Per 81b. to sink tho offal. Dec. 30, Dec. 29, 1861. 1862. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4 3 8 3 4to 3 6 Second quality do Prime large oxen .. 4 6 4 8 4 2 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. 4lO 5 0 410 6 0 Coarse and inferior sheep .... 3 2 3 6 3 8 4 2 Second quality do. .. 3 8 4 4 4 4 410 Prime coarse-woolled do 4 6 5 2 5 0 5 6 Prime Southdown do. .. 5 4 5 6 5 8 510 Lambs ...... Large coarse calves Prime small do. ,. 5 2 5 6 410 5 0 Large hogs Neat small porkors 4 8 5 0 4 6 4 8 Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs 3lO 420 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dec 3l, 1860.—Beasts, 3,460 — sheep, 16,500—calves, 56—pigs, 200. JAN. 2, 1860.—Beasts, 3,340 —sheep, 16,450—calves, 151—pigs, 370. The total imp9rts of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 2,440 head. In the corresponding week in 1861,w0 received 2,382—in 1859-60, 1,163—in 1859, 2,554 —in 1858, 8,550—in 1857, 782—in 1856, 654 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDUIN LAO WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 116 .. 537 .., .. 166 .. Harlingen •• .. 249 .. 835 • . • . • • llamburgh .... .. 263 .. -- .. .. Boulogne. -- .. 16 .. .. .. Medimblik .... .. .. .. Dordt NieuDiep .msterdam• •. • • . 196 . • -- .. • • Antwerp .. .. .. .. 34 .. --- Bremen 1 Corunna. B5 .. 1 Ostend — • • Tonning ..."" • • ..-- • . - • • - -- .. -- .. 3 • • -- Total 356 1,881 .. .. 203 .. The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1861 407 .. 1,965 .. .. 10 .. 8 SRO .. 163 .. 1,759 109 .. 61 1859-60 .. 176 .. 273 .. .. 14 .. 62 1859 • 326 .. 2,041 .. 187 1858 149 .. 397 .. .. 104 .. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The arrivals of meat from Scotland, and various parts of England having increased to some extent, and the weather being very mild for the time of year, the trade generally is in a most inactive state, at depressed currencies: Per 81b. by the carcase. Inferior beef 2 6 2 10 Middling do. .. 3 0 3 6 Frime largo do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 2 3 10 Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 6 a - d i d Middlingmutton 3 8 4 2 Prime do 4 4 4 6 Veal Small pork 4 0 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in our market is exceedingly small. Good and fine samples command former prices ; but in the value of inferior produce a slight fall has taken place. Last week's import amounted to 99 bales from Antwerp ; 6 Ostend ; 475 Hambro' ; 66 Bremen; and 533 bales from New York. Mid and East gents Weald of Rents Sussex Bavarian Belgian American .. 115 s to 130 s „ BOROUGH AND SPITALFIRLDS. Large supplies of home-grown potatoes continue on sale, and the arrivals from continental ports, since our last, have been moderate. For all descriptions the trade is still in a sluggish state, and, in some instances, a slight fall has taken place in prices. Last week's import amounted to 2 bags from Harlingen; 801 tons from Nantes; 180 tons from Dunkirk ; 176 baskets from Dorset ; 110 tons Rouen ; and 50 bags from Rotterdam. Yorkshire Regents Do. Flukes Do. Rocks 7ss to 90s „ Kent and Essex Regents 9os to 120 s " Scotch Regents Do. Rocks 7ss to 908 „ Foreign 568 to 75$ ~ WOOL. Since our last report, the demand for all kinds of wool, owing to the holidays and to the short petiod which has elapsed since the doge of public sales, has been" much re stricted, nevertheless . prices have ruled firm. Today, the SEEDS. Rapeseed was firm at extreme quotations ; linseed ruled toady, at full prices ; but for other seeds tilde trade was ♦ery qliet, on former terms. Cakes moved off heavily, and prices had a downward tendency. Turnip, White,p. bus.lls to 14s Swede —8 —s tilustard, Brown 9a 12s White, Tares, New 7s 6d 8s 6d Old per quarter - a —s Canary, per quarter 46s 62s Rye grass, new a —s Clover, Red Eng., ct. —a —s White Foreign Red —s - a White —s —s Trefoil, new. —s —a Carraway —6 Coriander • —8 —8 Hempseed, per qr —8 —8 Linseed,Eng.sowing 72s 748 Crushing Baltic — - 9 -S Odessa —s —s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £loos.£lo iOs Foreign £lO Os £ll 6s Rape Cakes,p ton.£6 Os £6 I:ss Rapeseed, new,pr qr 68s 72s TALLOW. The tallow trade is somewhat firmer today, and a slight advance has taken place in prices, St. Petersburg Y.C. being worth 45i. 3d to 45s 6d per cwt on the spot; 45s 3d to 45s 6d for January to March; and 45s 6d to 45s 9d for March delivery. Rough fat, 2s 41 per 81b. 1858. 1860. 1861. Stock this day.... 31.Q05 1 41,453 Price of Y.C. 01 t0 , 5752d to 51s 2d —s Od Delivery last week 1,565 1,101 Ditto from June 1 66,153 48,4187 Arrivals last week 335 327 , Ditto from June 1 86,491 81,359 Price of Town .... 53s 6d 52s 6d 72,4 , 21 54,711 60s0d to 516 9d to —s Od -s dO 599 1,004 53,917 81,721 tol 2,532 99,489 80,683 61s Od 526 fld 1862. 55,535 45s 3d to 458 6d 985 48,543 1,085 65,769 46s 6d LAW INTELLIGENCE---This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Gculburn.) IN RE WEST-DISMISSAL OF A PETITION IN "FORMA PAUPERIS" ON THE GROUND OF FRAUD. This bankrupt, Mary 'West, w,s a lodginghouse-keeper at the West-end, and applied a few days since on her own petition in forma pauperis, but in the course of her exami nation she admitted that she was in the receipt of a pension of £l3O a year. His Honour now, in giving judgment, said that in these cases persons with means sought to obtain for nothing that for which they were able to pay. He considered this was an attempt to impose upon the Court. In this case it was very clear, and he should therefore order that the peti tion be dismissed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STREET RUFFIANIS M.—DougIas Crawford, of Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington, engineer, was charged, be• fore Mr. Tyrwhitt, with assaulting Mr. Henry Brock, butcher, of 4, Hooper's-court, Knightsbridge, and also Mrs. Hannah Brock, the wife of the complainant. Mr. Brock said that at half-past eleven the previous night he was on his way home with his wife, in Piccadilly, when he saw the defendant and another young man going along in front of them. One of the young men caught a female in his arms and insulted her. Not wishing to have any thing to do with the defendant and his companion, he with his wife stepped aside to avoid them ; the defendant dropped his walking stick off his shoulder into his wife's bonnet. On expostulating with the defendant, his friend said "Let him have it," and the defendant then struck him in the face and knocked him down, and while on the ground struck him several times, cutting the inside of his mouth. Au omnibus man called out to the defendant that he was a coward not to let him (complainant) get up, and a soldier then came up and pulled the defendant off, and on complaining to a constable whom he had previously warned of the defendant's conduct, the defendant struck him again. Mrs. Emma Brock proved that defendant put the stick on her bonnet, and she was afraid that it would have gone in her eye. A constable proved seeing the defendant strike the com plainant. Defendant, in answer:to the charge, said that a female rushed upon him and his companion, and they afterwards went on, when the complainant seized his stick and broke it, and he felt exasperated and struck the complainant. Mr. Francis Gilbertson, a clerk in the office of the Recife and San Francisco Railway Company, was called by the defendant, and said that while in Piccadilly a female rushed up to him. He, with the defendant, left her, and then went on. While passing the complainant and his wife the defendant's stick was suddenly seized by the complainant, and a scuffle ensued, and the defendant struck complainant - and on the complainant speaking to a constable the defen dant struck complainant again. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the defence was a very meagre one. The witness wanted him (Mr. Tyrwhitt) to believe that complainant seized the defendant's stick without any pro vocation - a very unlikely thing. The defendant had acted very roughly towards the defendant, and he should fine him for the assault on the female, or two months, and £2 or two months for the a=sault on the complainant. ROBBING A LIEUTENANT.—A private of the Coldstream Guards, named Walt(r Shartics, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a breastpin of the value of £2, the property of Lieutenant Brabszon Harlowes. The evidence of the prosecutor was to the t fleet that he aiet two soldiers in the Haymtaket and treated them to drink, and lost his breastpin, of the value of £2, while in their com pany. William Ballend, employed at the Black Horse in the Haymarket, deposed to seeing the prisoner put his arm round prosecutor's side and take out his pin, and then go out of the house. A young man said he heard the prisoner say that he hail taken the pin but thrown it away. Stephen Smith, 326 A, proved taking the prisoner into custody, and that he was very violent on the way to the station, kicking him several times. The prisoner's sergeant gave him an indifferent char acter. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr. Tyrwhitt, in com mitting bim for two months, with hard labour, said be could not understand how a ge ntleman —a lieutenant in the army—could treat so ldi ers - to drink in a public-house SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (By MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. There is no truth in a report circulated this morning that the Inman steamer Eta is in Belfast Lough disabled. G RA VESEND, Monday Morning, Arrived, Dec. 28—X. L., from Bu'ogne; Elizabeth. Ciceley, from Guernsey; snow Bird, from Quebec; Dela ware, from Philadelpbia ; Polynesia, from Pugwash; Bonada, from Charlotte Town • Adam Whie, from St. Michael's. William IV., from gaffil ; Artems, from Kol ding ; Flying Fish, from Demerara; Cornelia Anna, from Gothenburg ; Assyrian, from Shanghai. Arrived, Dec. 29—N orthf i eet, from C anton; Pid en Elina, from Alexand r i a; Ballarat, from Shanghai. DEAL, Monday Morning. Ancbored—Mathild a , from Sunderland, for New York ; Kami, for Swansea; East London, for Port Natal—both from London. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived—Victori ne , f rom Rouen; Tenterden, from Sun derland ; Deux Louises, from Benin; Argyll (steamer), from Carent an. Sailed—Elizabeth Young, f o r Sunderland ; Ouse, for Hull; Derwent, for C ar di ff ;, Xanthus, for London. AGES OP THE NOBILITY.—It appears from "Who's WLo in 1863," that the eldest duke is the Duke of Cleveland, who is 74 years old, and the youngest the Duke of Norfolk, aged 15; the eldest marquis is the Marquis of Lansdowne, 82, the youngest the Marquis of Ely, 13; the eldest earl is the Earl of Charlemont, 87, the youngest the Earl of Charleville, 10 ; the eldest vie • count is Viscount Combermere, the youngest Vis count Downe, 18; the eldest baron is Lord Sinclair, 94, the youngest Lord Rossmore, 11; the eldest member of the Privy Council is Lord Lyndhurst, 90 ; the youngest Earl Spencer, 27 ; the eldest member of the House of Commons is Gen. Hon. Sir Hugh Arbuthnott, member for Kincardine shire, who is 83, the youngest Mr. Reginald A. • Pyner, the member for Ripon, 23; the eldest judge in England is the Right Hon. S. Lushington, aged 80, the youngest Mr. Baron Wilde, 46; the eldest judge in Ireland, Chief Jus • tice Lefroy, 86, the youngest Mr. Justice Keogh, 45 ; the eldest judge in Scotland, the Lord Justice General, 69, the youngest the Lord Justice Clerk, 52 ; the eldest archbishop is the Archbishop of Dublin, 75, the youngest the Arch bishop of York, 43 ; the eldest bishop in the Bishop of Exeter, 85, the youngest the Bishop Designate of Glouces ter and Bristol, 43 ; the eldest colonial bishop is the Bishop of Toronto, 83, the youngest the Bishop of Ontario, 37 ; the eldest baronet is Sir Tatton Sykes, 90, the youngest Sir George R. Sitwell, 2 , the eldest knight is General Sir James L. Caldwell, 92; the youngest Sir Charles T. Bright, 30. CLOTHES FOR LANCASHIRE.—One of these store. rooms full of cast-off clothing is well worth visiting. It is really remarkable to 'see what very good things people have consented to part with, and also what queer and un likely objects have found their way into the packages. I saw coats and trousers in most excellent order, with just a button-hole a little worn, perhaps, or some small matcer of that sort wrong. Some of the garments had very likely got out of fashion, though with plenty of wear left in them. Some, perhaps, had been from the first hateful to the wearer, who had chosen them In en evil hour, and who was now heartily glad of the opportunity of getting rid of them. There were in one collection a couple of bonnets of the shape worn before the present French pattern came in. They were trimmed exactly alike, and no doubt had belonged to sisters. One lady had sent a muslin jacket to keep some factory girl warm, while another jacket of silk, richly trimmed with lace, had been contributed by some other benevolent person. Some ladies had sent silk dresses ; one gentleman a gorgeous dress waistcoat of moire antique; another, or perhaps the same, a pair of dress-boots with morocco tops. But the most ingenious contributions of all were a swallow-tailed naval officer's coat, a cap to match it, acd three scarlet hunting coats.—Dickens' s All the Year Round. The Late Outrages in the Metropolis. A deputation appointed by the vestry of St. Pancras waited, by appointment, on Sir George Grey, on Friday to present a memorialupon the subject of the recent numerous robberies with violence, and general unprotected state of the metropolis from depredation. Mr. Plaw, the vestry clerk, introduced the deputation, and read the memorial, which stated that the memorialists were deeply impressed with the inefficiency of the laws and of the mode of punish ment adopted towards hardened offenders, which have of late years prevailed in their treatment even of heinous crimes, that they regard the system of granting tickets-of leave to hardened criminals to have failed in its benevolent intentions and they respectfully beg to urge upon the au thorities the immediate abtdonment of a system fraught with so much evil ; and that more repressive means should be adopted to check the great growth of crime. They sug gested the advisability of adopting measures in which cor poral punishment should form an important feature in its application to crimes accompanied with violence to the per son, as wall as by a modification of the dietary table of pris ners, so that the same shall not present the incongru ous condition of being a higher class than that given to sol diers and to poor persons, both in and out of workhouses, and to adopt means for exterminating the schools which foster the growth of crime, and expressed it as their opinion that the efficiency of the metropolitan police is greatly re stricted by the inefficiency of the laws for the proper and adequate punishment of the desperate ruffians who infest this metropolis in thousands. Mr. Ross having spoken in support of the memorial, Sir G. GREY said that Government had already or pointed a commission, consisting of the most competent men, to deal with this question, and he had no doubt that they would go into the subject fairly, and that great good would result from their inquiry. Ile drew their attention to the Acts of Parliament which had been passed upon this subject, substituting penal servitude for transportation. The colonies to which convicts were formerly transported had of late years so rapidly advanced in population, civi lisation, and prosperity, and to strongly objected that it was deemed impolitic to continue the system of transportation to those colonies. With a view to meet this difficulty the act of 1853 was passed, substituting penal servitude for transportation, the effect of which was that where a man was sentenced to seven years, the Penal Servitude Act gave him four years. This was found to work in so unsa• tisfactory a manner that the act was amended in 1867 in this way—that where a man was sentenced to seven years, and his conduct was particular'y good, at the end of some three or four years he was entitled to a " ticket-of•leave," which was intended to place him for the three years, or re mainder of his original sentence, under the surveillance of the police, and which rendered him liable to be taken into custody and to complete the remainder of his original sen tence if it were discovered that he was not getting his living in an honest and legitimate manner. This was the oresent state of the law, and Parliament having done that, the Government could not altetethe present system without sanction of Parliament. The Get% crnment, had, however, done the best they could until Parliament assembled, by getting the commission appointed, whose report would be ready to lay before Parliament early in the ensuing session. In reference to the memorial from St. Pancras, Sir George Grey said he observed there was a paragraph which stated "that robberies with dangerous and murderous violence to the person, commonly known as garotte robberies," &c., had prevailed in the metropolis, and many of which had happened in the parish the deputation represented. He should feel obliged by the authorities of St. Pancras for warding him authentic information of when and where those robberies to which they particularly referred took place. He did not mean from the newspapers, fcr it had been ascertained that many of the paragraphs which had appeared were exaggerations, and in some instances had no existence whatever. If they would forward him the parti culars he would direct investigations to be made, as the more real cases there were the m ore th ey would strengthen his (Sir G. Grey's) hands. Mr. Ross said the question was, who was to make this is vostigation. He was quite certain the police were not the proper parties, for they were interested in making it appear that there were none of these cases of robbery with vio lence, and that they were all fabrications in the papers, whereas a great many occurred which never got into the papers at all. Mr. FARRER said that he wished to call Sir George Grey's attention to the effect of the ticket-of-leave system, as eli cited in the charge of Mr. Baron Bramwell to the grand jury at the recent assizes at Nottingham. He related a case of a man who had been sentenced to penal servitude as an example. This man became entitled to a ticket of leave. He then committed some offence, for which he was impri soned for a short period and then liberated. Subsequently he committed a third offence, and was thus subjected to and paid the penalty of three sentences before the final ex piration of the period of the first. He submitted that such a system was tuning law and justice into ridicule. The HOME :-.ECRETA.RY said he had himself hewn struck with the case referred to by Mr. Ferrer, who had very pro perly brought• it under his notice, and had noted it down It certainly was a very stn ng case to go before the commis sion when it assembled. At the same time, he was sure that the deputation would see that the Government could not interfere in the matter pending that inquiry, li e was, however, much gratified at the information which had been afforded him, and if they would furnish him w ith the particulars he required, they should, together with that he had already received, be forwarded to the proper quarter. The colone;cy of the 26th Regiment has just become vacant by the death of General Sir Poilip Bainbrigge. No step has yet been taken for filli ng it , b u t the probabilities are in favour of Major-General Sir Sydney Cotton, K.C, 8., finding h;mself gazetted to it when he lands in England upon the close of his long, gallant, and most valuable career in India,—Artny and Navy Gazette. GARIBALDr S JOURNEY TO CAPRERA. General G3ribaldi's journey from Pisa to Leghorn when on his I eturn to Caprera, is thus described in a letter from an officer formerly on his staff : He wished to embark on the Arno, and in that way reach Leghorn by a canal, an old work of the Medici, which runs from Pisa to that city, and a boat was prepared for the purpose by his friends. This way of travelling, always long and tedious, would have been rendered mote so by a heavy fall of rain; therefore the General, yielding to the prayers of his friends, resolved to go by rail. As he wished to avoid the great demonstrations of popular feeling which are on no occasion wanting, he de sired to go by a special, and to start earlier than the ordinary train. Yesterday he was very tired from receiving so many visitors, and suffered from being obliged to talk, which aggravated his wound by exciting the nervous system. Nevertheless he received all with singular affection and infinite benevolence ; and indeed, I did not once notice in his serene and calm bearing, I will not say movement of inop:tience, but even of vexation or weariness. When all was decided for the depar ture by railway, the weather changed, and there fore the General returned to his first plan of going by the canal. At half past two in the morning his bed was taken on the shoulders of some of his Pisan volunteers,who claimed for themselves that honour, and with great care was carried down the stairs of the hotel, and then by some neighbouring step to the boat. All Pisa was alive. Numerous par ties filled the coffee-houses and other places, wait ing the hour of departure, in order to see their General. The street, the banks of the Arno, and the bridges were full, and it was with difficulty they were able to make a path in the crowd through which to carry the illustrious wounded. Torches gleamed from all the windows. Bengal lights illu minated the beautiful Lung, Arno, and the scene was truly picturesque. In the midst of this crowd, which applauded and saluted the hero, we descended the Arno, and entered by the Pont-a .Mare into the canal called the Fosso dei Vaicelli. Nothing I can say will give you any idea of this voyage. I can only tell you that, for five or six miles, although the hour was so late, all the fishermen and boatmen, the only inhabitants, were crowding along the waterside, which was illuminated by bonfires and torches. I, who know this country, and know of what people this crowd was composed, find in these truly popular demonstrations, spontaneous, coming from the heart, a new proof of the immense influence which this singular man exercises. To see the wives of these fishermen and boatmen, showing themselves in their balconies, lantern in hand, and crying with pleasure that at last they were able to see their hero, the boys and men throwing themselves into the water, in order to salute him nearer—indeed. we,who have cccotnpanied him in so many triumphs, were astonished when we thought of the ovation through which we were passing, and at so unusual an hour. This demonstration lasted, I may say, during the whole journey, which was longer than we expected, I believe, by the cunning of the good Livornese, who rowed the boat slowly, as they wished that the General should arrive at Leghorn by daylight. And here I despair of giving you any idea of the affectionate demonstrations made by this good population. Immense crowds, great cheering, words of admiration and of love, women crying, blessings from all! The boats, the bridges, the banks of the canal, the windows, the roads—all were full of people, who placed themselves every where and anywhere, even at some risk to their lives, to see and salute Garibaldi. It is useless; no one who did not see it can have an idea of it. The postal steamer Sardegna, on which the Gene ral wished to go, was anchored in the Porto Nuovo. Accompanied by a crowd of boats we arrived at the steamer. Here the roughness of the sea ren dered it difficult to approach ; novertheless we got alongside. Strong rowers kept the boat firm. A cradle was let down in which the General's bed was put and the ascent began. He was hardly raised a few inches when a heavy sea struck the steamer, knocking it against the boat. It seemed as if it would crush him bttween the sides. Our hearts were in our throats. The boats tossing on :he waves, the confusion, the cries, the cheers, formed an inexplicable tumult, in this moment of peril. The General suspended in the air, tranqui: and serene, turned himself to the people, drew his hand from under the clothes, and saluted them. Finally, the hour of departure arrived ; the Gene ral's bad was placed on the deck; he saluted ua and kissed us with affeetion. The parting pained us, And we returned sorrowfully to Leghorn. FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (From the Paris Elegant.) Black is less warn than in former years, but silk still prevails. The trimmings are very low down, small flounces, bands, passementeries—all these at tbe edge, The full-dress robes have many bouillons and ruches. plenty of ornaments, but always much below the knee. They are laid on with exquisite taste, difficult though it is. Fashion is coming back to those torttllons, to those twisted trimmings, which we used to laugh at in old engravings. They are making white cashmere dresses, which will have a frantic run this winter?' They are trimmed with black guipure, several rows of which are laid on; the ro• tondo collar to match is supremely elegant, and can only be worn in a carriage, as you may believe. Some paletots, longer than the marine jackets, or sautes en-barque, are in use, which resemble a gentleman's frock coat more than they do a palctot. They fit close to the waist; they are well calculated for ladies of a full figure, and become them admirably. . . For ball dre,ses, blonde and lace, either genuine or imi tation, will be much in wear this winter. A rather serious attempt is being made to return to short shapes. Many women who accept a fashion, whatever be its nature, have determined to assume them. Bonnets still continue what they have been. There is no hope of seeing them change before next spring. Well, we must submit, and take them as we find them. Still, in stead of building them up in squares, like a spade, let us round their shape, en aureoles; let us lessen the bundle of flowers over the forehead ; let us put the plumes lower down, and bouquet not on the crest but a little on one side. Be satisfied with a single species, and do not heap together a sample of every herb and flour on your devoted head. As for coiffures, the fashions are ludicrous: feathers with littlo hits of gold strewn over them, like boxes fur sugar-plums ; flowers intermingled with these ieatht rs, with or without gold, falling down in front like those on the black funeral horses; more feathers again, arranged in horizontal lines ; whatever you like; such are the things which the great manufacturers throw into circulation under the pretext that they are new. We have to communicate to you several novelties in bonnets. First of all a mauve satin capote grooved en eventail, or like a fan ; on the side a similar kind of pouf shelled in blonde, and in leaves of mauve velvet; the garden under it is in the same style, and so soft to the cheek I The strings are of mauve taffeta, an eccentricity most lavishly distri buted about this year. A grey velvet bonnet with a Chantilly appret with cross lappets. The bac k is of g ooseberry velvet, as well as the bavo'et, adorned with a Chantilly tail. A bouquet of grey velvet displayed above and a second below the pgss o . These three colours mix admirably together. A second capote made of black velvet, edged with white taffeta, over a lace lappet, is laid on Mary Stuart fashion, and turned up with a tuft of anemone in gooseberry velvet, fringed round with natural grasses, with a small bird hover ing above them. Beneath them is a blonde ruche with an anemone on the side. The strings are black. The evening coiffures are equally extravagant, though in a different manner. They are quite as singular, but they add to what I have already described a good share of tinsel. They mix with the hair behind, they are held up with gold pins, or, better still, with jewels, if you prefer it. I do not dislike, as wreaths, bunches falling down about the head. It is very becoming, especially to young and fair persons. Acacias, Virginia jessamine, glycines then, and any sort of bunch or cluster, make a delightful coiffure, which I can unhesitatingly recommend. As trimmings for dresses, this is certainly one of the prettiest inventions of the florists. They are placcd in the midst of the bouillons, falling down here and there, and lost in waves of tulle. This mode of trimming is beautiful. In general, the bending and falling flowers are far ref tie; and more easily laid on then the straight ones. DESPATCH OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND Bom BAY MAILS.--SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 27.—The Pen insular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ellora, Captain Kellock, sailed hence to-day at two p.m. with the mails f Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, and Upper Bengal, together with 19 first and 20 second class passengers, including Captain Barnard, Ensign Heath, and Lieutenant Roberts. Amongst the passengers pro (seeding vid Marseilles to join this mail are—Captain Bond, Colonel Tapp, Ensign Davidson, Colonel Grimes, and Major Southey. The Ellora takes out on freight 990 boxes specie, value £359,350, of which amount is, for Bomby— Bar silver and Sir. pieces, £274,450 ; bar gold, £31,230 , gold coin, £5,000 ; watches, jewellery, and precious stones, £O7O, and for Alexandria--sovereigns, £48,000. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. TAT'IERSALLS'—'IIus EVENING. THE DERBY. 7to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Carnival (taken) 40 to 1 agst Cairneastle (offered) 50 to 1 agst Tajo (taken) 50 to 1 agat Giles the First (taken) 50 to 1 agat B tldwin (offered) 1000 to 15 agst Tambour Major (taken) 11 00 to 15 agat Wcldga (taken) The Loss of the Steamer Lifeguard. _ BETWEEN FIFIY AND SIXTY PERSONK DROWNE'). The hopes of the most sanguine as to the safety the steamer Lifeguard are now utterly extin guished by the melancholy intelligence which wo nave to communicate. The inevitable conclusion to which all must now arrive is, that the ill-fated ves sel has succumbed to the fary of the hurricane of Saturday evening, and that all on board have met with a watery grave in the elementary war of that dark and stormy night. Whatever may have been the cause of her foundering, whether it happened in the manner suggested in our impression of Sa turday or by any other way, the tremendous sea running at the time would preclude any attempt being made to save the lives of those on board by having recourse to the boats. No boat could have survived a moment in such a fearful sea. The final catastrophe, in all probability, came aoo suddenly upon her to give time for the adoption of means holding out the slenderest prospect of saving life, and she would go down without leaving a living witness of the dreadful catastrophe. When she did not arrive in London about the usual time, it was hoped that the delay had been caused by her hav ing been blown off the land, and that she would shortly either arrive at her port or be spoken by some passing vessel ; then as time passed by with out bringing intelligence of her whereabouts, it was supposed that she might have, in addition to being blown off, been disabled seriously, and was drifting about in a helpless state in the North Sea ; then as nothing was heard of her, it was suggested that she might have made some continental port; but as days passed by without any tidings of her, the conclusion, was reluctantly come to that she had gone down on the night of the storm. A strong confirmation of her melancholy end was found on Monday, a. Bridlington smack having picked up a box which was known to have been on board the Lifeguard when she left the Tyne; and since then a quantity of wreck has been washed up near Flamborough Head. It is trud that the box might have been washed from the deck (where, from its contents, it was not likely to be), but taking the finding of it in connection with the length of time which has elapsed since she was last heard of, no one can entertain the faintest hopes of her safety. This melancholy lass will throw a deep gloom over many a household. Many of the crew were married men, with families. One of them has left a wife and 11 children. The Shipping Gazette of Thursdaycontains the fol lowing report relating to the foundered vessel :—‘ 4 Or! Monday a box was picked up by the smack Lira, and taken into Bridlington. It was fcund to con tain some poultry and Christmas presents, together with some letters written by parties in Newcastle. Mr. Anthony, the owner of the Idra, sent the letters to Newcastle, and this (Thursday) morning inqui ries were made at the Irongate Wharf, London, by the parties to whom the box was addressed. They had been advised of its coming by the Lifeguard, but had heard that the letters which were in it had since been received by the parties in Newcastle. the box is sot in the Lifeguard's manifest, but it is quite certain it was on board, possibly in one of the cabins. There were about 35 passengers in the ship; the crew numbered 22 hands." The same paper also states, under date of Bridlington, Dec. 24, a quantity of wreckage has been washed on shore at Flamborough Head." It does not state what the nature of it was, but it may possibly be he remains of the woodwork and cargo of the ill-, fated vessel. The following is a list of the crew and passengers on board at the time she sailed, but it is neces sarily incomplete as the list of crew and passengers on board at the time she went duwn:-- Crew of Lifeguard—John Barry, master; Frede rick Clark, mate ; Gill Wilson, second mate ; Ben jamin Welling, boatswain; William Mitchell, sea.- man ; William Stevenson, seaman ; James Mitch, seaman ; J. Sinclair, seaman ; John Cookson, sea falan ; John Strachan, seaman ; name unknown, ship's cook ; George Samuels, Ist engineer ; Nlackie, 2d engineer; William Grierson, 3d engi neer; John Hayter, fireman ; George Leslie, fire.- man ; William Evans, firemen ; Charles Thompson, fireman ; Robert Wilks, steward ; name unknown, assistant steward; Christina Wyness, stewardess; Richard Rolf, fore-cabin steward. Saloon Passengers—Miss Stephens, governess ; Mr. P. C. Chaldicott, late of Newcastle ; Mr. Haw kins, Mr. Moore, draughtsmen with R. Stephenson and Co.; Mr. James Long, schoolmaster, 41st Regiment. Fore cabin Passengers—J. Hollingsworth,George Bromley or Liddiard, Halliday, William Cross and his son, William Watts, Mr. and Mis. Russell, Ellen,Bracken, 17 years of age, Mary Ann Bracken, 24 years of age ; 16 or 17 other names unknown. Shields Passengers—lt cannot be positively ascertained hew many passengers embarked on board the unfortunate vessel at Shields. One of the bridgemen at the Shields Steam Ferry, with his wife and two children—he having got a fortnight's holiday—were supposed to have been put aboard of her, but that cannot be determined yet. Two sailor lads in the employ of Mr. Strong also got holidays to spend their Christmas with their friends in London, and it is not known whether they went up in the Lifeguard or the General Steam Naviga tion Company's boat until a reply is received from London. The Lifeguard was deeply laden When she crossed the bar to go to sea, and appeared to be too much by the stern; and sailors who saw her go out state that she did not rise with the seas, but plunged through them. Some anxiety is felt with regard to a new East Indiaman which left the Tyne in the same tide with the Lifeguard ; she has not been reported at the Downs. She ought to have called there to have left her North Sea pilot.-- Newcastle Chronicle. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—A further in spection of this line was undertaken on Saturday by Colonel Yolland, the examination being mainly confined to the mode of working the signals. The result of the trials made a few days since was so unfavourable as to in duce Colonel Yolland to withhold the usual certificate of the fitness of the line for public traffic. The difficulty that has arisen is in connection with the distant signals, and by the plan of working them which h ad been arranged by Mr. Fowler, the engineer, alargeamount of physical labour was required on the part of the signalmen. Indeed, it was cal culated that no signalman could be relied upon to work them for a longer period than a couple of hours per day. If his duties were continued beyond that time it would be at he expense of that certainty of working which, in a rail way so novel in its character, it was essential for the public safety should be secured. During the past week some me chanical alterations have been introduced, and the " pull" for the signals has been considerably reduced. Under these circumstances the Government inspector will certify to the Board of Trade that the line is in a fit condition for public traffic, though it would be desirable to ease still further the mode of working the distant signals. The Board of Trade will not, however, in consequence o f this defect, exercise the power with which it is vested, of prohibiting the openin g of the line, and we may now hope after so many delays and unforeseen difficulties, to be able shortly to announce with certainty the day on which the railway will be opened for traffic. A number of trial trips are to be made to.day. The arrangements for the grand banquet• to the share holders at the Farringdon-street terminus are neatly com pleted. The station has been tastefully decorated with &Era of all nations, and accommodation has been provided for about 1,000 guests. No day is yet fixed for this banquet as the directors await the receipt of the official opinion of the Government inspector. _ _ As a proof of the general inclemency of the weather experienced at Worthing, the Sussex Ex press states that violets out of doors are in full bloom i n multitudes; and in some of the gardens strawberries are blooming without shelter of any kind. 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