The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-24 00:00:00

-RONEY MARKET ilfiD CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The accounts from the manufacturing districts d uring the pa s t wee k state t h at b us i ness genera ll y has bee n d u ll , although in one or two instances s ymptom s of improvement have been perceptible. At Manchester prices have been well supported for both cloths and yarns, while a steady business has been done in spring goods at Leeds and Brad ford. The hosiery trade of Leicester has continued dull, but at Nottingham a slight improvement has taken place, in the lace trade, owing to the receipt Of orders from the Canadian and Gorman markets. In the hardware districts of Birmingham, Shef geld, and Wolverhampton there has been a slight Improvement, and the operatives are now working full time in several departments. Owing to the vast accumulation of money at . the command of the joint-stock and private establish ments, the rates of discount continue exceedingly easy, and on the Stock Exchange the terms for ad vances are almost nominal. The inquiries on com mercial account are extremely moderate, and the promoters of new joint-stock enterprise are taking advantage of the opportunity to bring forward nu merous projects requiring a large aggregate amount of capital. A fair amount of business took place in the Liverpool C o tt on M ar k et on Saturday, at previous rates. The sales were about 8,000 bales. About £12,000 in gold was withdrawn from the Bank of England on Saturday. The Africa, from New York, has brought £123,640 in specie. The day for receiving tenders at the Bank o f i Engl an d f or the next instalment of £400,000 n bills on India has been changed from the Ist March to the 28th inst. The traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway Of Canada for the week ending the 7th instant amounted to £10,389 against £7,050 last year. Business was resumed in the English Stock Mar ket this morning with some activity, and on the appearance of the Chancery broker, who effected s ome large purchases, a rise of 4- per cent. took place, Consols being 9321 for money and the 6th proximo. The New Threes and the Reduced improved to 932 4; Exchequer Bills, March, are firm, at 17s. to 20s. P r em. ; ditto, June, at 225. prem. ; Bank Stock is Steady, at 243 ; India ditto, at 226 ; and the 5 per Cent., 106! 1071. In the Foreign Market the dealings have been rather less active, and prices have a downward tendency. Turkish. 6 per Cents. are 84 5 ; ditto 1858 , 741 75. Mexican are flat at 341 z. Spanish are firm at 53Z ; ditto Passive have receded to 20 ; d 6 itto Ce r tifi cates are depressed at 72 ; and Italian per Cents. at 68,1 &. The New Italian Loan is I prem.; and the Ottoman Loan of 1861, 651 66. The operations in the Railway Share Market hsve been moderately active, but in some few in sttlances pri ces h ave shown a slight downward _ , vem ent. Great Westerns, Lancashire and York shire, and Blackwall have receded ss. ; London and ties 10 s• ; and Midl an d s 15 s . ; E as t ern Colin " and East Anglian have improved 55., and Norfolks 10s. c The F oreign and Colonial lines generally are a Great W estern of Canada, have improved to 121 ; an Gr and Trunk o f C ana d a are fi rmer a t 251 ; ast . Indi an realise 1011 1021, ; Great Southern of India, 100 to 1001; and Scindes, 102. .. hi nt - Stock B an kl an d Miscellaneous shares exhi it a s l ight down and movement in prices. London Westminster have declined to 841,, Union of Austra lia improv e d t o 441 ; an d U n i on o f L on d on t 1 ; 332 1 ; Cry s t a l P a l ace Stock has receded to 341. Li en insular and Orie n t a l St eam to 681, and V an le alau's Land remain steady at 91. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. g awk St oc k a P e r Cent. Reduced Annuities 93} i I NPer Cent. Consols Annuities 9 3 i i t I, W . 3 per Cent. Annuities '"ila Stock uitto 5 per Cent. DDitto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — itto 5 per Cent. lO2 1 o 51 per Cent .. lO7l 8 7f Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100 1) !tto Bonds £l,OOO into under £1,000 Co nsols for Account, March 6 93} i i March. Jung. PZehequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 20 22 Ditto Ditto .. • £500 Small , X. / () REIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. kexici:l. Moorish Scrip 1 ,„ u, Doper Cent ict.to Aunt ~ ,,L 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St — ~. itto 41 pet C ent 9 31 4 ' l) , 4ll .isli 3 per Cent .uitto Accou t Ditton. Passive ........ 20 mls Cert. of Coup not funded T urkish 6 per Cent * ttDitto Account . to New Loan ....... 841 _ltto Acco.int *** 741 i Vlttn Guaratteed, 4 • per • Cent. ,uitto A ccount he. Dividends on the above payable in London. I t; 5 per cent., 1861 6Bl I 93 Ce asols, AT one TWO O'CLOC tt y Account ** 931 / SP ORTING INTELLIGENCE. z, LETTING AT MANCHESTER—SATuRDAY. a g : l4 the Lincoln Handicap, 5 to 1 was freely offered 11,:ilet Suburban, and some few investments were made „_"°11 Arcadia, Shropshire, and Ducat, but the most business w a . 1 1 — ne on Zuleika, 6to 1 being taken freely. Straw tell"S' R ill and Li v i ngstone were each supported for the this Stak es , b ut no great amount was invested upon 11,0" ChangeForis in the two favourites ; 15 to 1 was asked for we t l4 Jealousy, but the only investments we w made ell Pert Northern Light and Coronet. Closing p sa rices : LINCOLN HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Suburban (offered) to 1 agst Zuleika (taken freely) 1 0 to 1 agst Arcadia (taken and offered) 10 t o 1 agst Ducat (taken) 10 to 1 agat Shropshire (taken and offered) BROCKLBSBY STAKES. to 1 agst Strawberry Hill (taken) sto 1 agst Livingstone (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 3to lon the field (offered) Bto 1 agst The Marquis (offered) 12 to 1 eget Wingrave (offered) 14 to 1 agst Alvediaton (taken) 20 to 1 agst Caterer (taken) THE DERBY. Bto lon the field (offered) 28 to 1 agst Typee colt (offered) 33 to 1 agst Malek (taken) 33 to 1 agst Caterer (offered) GRAND NATIONAL. Bto lon the field (offered) 14 to 1 agst Jealousy (offered) 14 to 1 agat Thomastown (offered) 20 to 1 agst Northern Light (taken) 20 to 1 agst Corona (taken) CHESTER CUP. 20 to lon the field (offered) RACING FIXTU 'RES FOR 1862. vART. FEBlv Lincoln - KA l‘Thana 8 Derby • Li„ l7 g ll t 0 1: zsotoelr ..... . ........... 26 .CH. Coventry Warwick Spring ...... 18 Shrewsbury S ........ 27 Edinburgh Spring ...... 29 ___ AP " 4 1711 pt on 1 ji oB ton Pa rk 4 p!" 1 Spring lO prPool hunt Club l2 teland • Newmarket C 2l Bishop Auckland 2l Catterick Bridge 24 Abergavenny 24 Thirsk 29 MAY. IVewitarket F S • • Claester Sp r i ng • .. 20 York Spring *** Salisbury Bath Harpenden 3O JUNE. 1 3 eorr, Q 3 Beverley .... Oh ei kniramer.. . Ivi a ,_°?sford ll Newcastle 4acutoettiester ....... 17 Carlisle ........... •• iim . • • C I dih • JULY. tib h ar tl. .. 1 Abingdon IN . , - IT Clui; ..... St:"°11 ....... 2 Hungerford . .ek brid ... ......... • • 3 Nottingham ........ 11„illehester ........ 4 Southampton ........ Wowliaarket Li_ r e cest Er 10 Marlborough It 1 l'l3°°l . ........... .. 15 Goodwood ll aucl ie AxGusr. bi r l gbi e • • • • .. 4 York 45ri„, ) - ° ll • . ........ 5 Stockton ~;.1 01 3. C blb ......... 7 Eaham ........ Airo" • • p g Lichfield . . t ., .1 7e ,,, • • ............ _ . . % _ 4 teacii n ' 4 alnpton • ....... 12 Bridgwater .. • • Wera oe l •., ............ 14 Ludlow • t ............. 15 1 \~,a ~ j: 3' Share 13.14 Railways. Bir., Vol., and Str. VaL Blyth and Tyne Bost., Sled., and Mid. kio Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Clrk and Bandon Ccirnwall [0 Do A A gets no divl 10 Do. B ti 116 p c.p an.has been paid to B.' SO Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June it East Anglian 3t Eastern Counties ;t Eastern Union, A stock' ;t Do Bdo do DoNw A, late E U 3ds it East Suffolk ;t Edinburgh & Glasgow it Edin., Perth, & Dundee It Glasg. and S. Western.' 0 GreatNrtlin of Scotland It Great Northern., ,t Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish South Eastern I Lancashire & Yorkshirel London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast: Lon., Chat., and Dover; Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen. Man., Shef., & Lincoln.l Maryport and Carlisle. Do * shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid Gt. W. of Ireland) Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry, Warnpt, Norfolk North British Nor. Dev.R aildzDk. stock i Do A stk ; A recs no d till 6 pc. has been pdB I 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. Rl. & Canal, Portsmouth Rhy mney Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stocki Do Sc 4. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer South Devon S. Durham & Lane. Un South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington I Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. Do Pref. No. 1 ThamesHavenDk&Rail Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Watert ord & Limerick West Cornwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Har.(l6lt West Midland Oxiord Do Newport Do Hereford LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Paid. Co. s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln. &N.W Birkenhead.. Buckin,gh - nsmre. Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do 53 55 54 Do. 5t per cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do 112 114 Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&E.O E. Lincolnsh. gapr c. 100 Gr. North. 136 138 E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 4i Do. Woodbridge.. 100 • • • • Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drci. 100 Caledon .. .. Do. new _.., .. .. Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. .. Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 109 111 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 200 205 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all Do . ... • • • • London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64 Do. Preferen . Lon.,Tilb.& S,. -thend 100 ,Peto &Co B2 84 Lowestoft gua. I p c.. 100 'Norfolk Do 6 per cent lOO Do. —. . „ .z_ •_! _ Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& M at 4 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5. 6. E Counts. p i p gua. 5 per cent. .. Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all !Do. Do. a per cent..... all 'Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool ICO N. E. Ber .. .. North Western Preston and Wyre. i all U N A: } 44 46 Do. 4 shares A. all Do. •• • ••. . • • • Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 Gt. North. 134 136 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 ,T Brassey 122 124 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 93 95 Wimbledn eu Croydon all LABren 84 94 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share! Railways. Paid.( Closing Business Prices. Done. 25 'Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at £5 all at Bris. & Exet. 4p.c. st 100 93 95 20 Do. shares st Caledon. qr. shrs, No. 2 100 64 Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. all 20 Cornwall, 5 percent all 20 21 65 Dun. Perth, &Aber...Tun all 6 65 10 Do. Ist Class Pref all st E. Angn. Class Asp. c lOO 99 101 at E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 100 109 111 st Do No. 2 100 109 111 st Do. new 6p.c. at lOO 126 128 st Eastern Union, 4p. 0— 100 81 83 st Do. sp. c. guar lOO at Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares 100 112 114 at Do. 4p. c. guar. S. & 100 90 92 st Furness, 5 per cent lOO st Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c lOO st Great Northern, sp. c lOO 119 121 st D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.e.pm lOO 113 115 st Do. 41 p. c. do lOO 106 103 st Do.sp.c.Redrc.atsp.c.pm 100 109 111 111 195 10 Gt. Nh. of Scot. Ist pref. all st Gt. Sn. &W. (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 0 102 50 Great West. (Berks and Hants Ext) 5 per cent 6 et Do. redeem. 43 p. et lOO 98 100 :100 st Do. redeem. 4p. ct lOO 89 91 st Do. irredeem. 4p. ct lOO 90 92 st Do. sp. c. redeem. pref. 100 102 104 8 Do. Birm. pref. shares all 93 101 10 Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs all 17 18 10 Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs all 104 11 st Do. Birm. guar. stock lOO 77 79 284 Do. Chester guar. shares all 204 354 134 Do. do all 10 101 20 Do. do all 15 16 100 Lan. & Carl. 41 p.c. pref 80 st Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stockl 100 135 137 st Do.Barnsl.st£s 2s 10df,e 100 at Do. 6p. c. (East Lan.) lOO st Do. 44 p. c. (Blackb. pur. 100 102 104 at, Lon.&l3rig.sp.e.o.u. No.l 100 112 114 at Do. 5 per cent do. No 2 100 112 114 at Do. 6 p er cent do.— st Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 100 112 114 at Do. 7 per cent pref. stk 100 152 156 st Do. 6 p.c. do(Vir.I 4 I&C.P.) 100 128 131 st Do. 4 p c.st.(dlv.def.lll'6s 100 75 77 at Lon.Chat.&D.v.sp.c.pt. 100 96 98 964 st Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 100 at Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. st., late 3d shares 100 at Do. per cent 2s 6d Do. (Prtsm. perpl. anus of 2s 6d 12+ Londondy. & Cole. 1 shs all 121 Londony. & Ennis. 1 she all 134 13/ at Man. Sh. & Lin. fi per et. 100 124 126 6 Do. £6 at Do. 34 per cent, 10 Do. redeem. 6 percent 5 4 fpm 123 Maryport & Carl. 4 pr. c all 124 Do. 41 per cent. at Midland Con. 6p. c stk. 100 .. at Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c 100 136 138 st Do. 44 p.c. pref. st. rdem , 100 103 105 at Do. 41 p.c. irredeemable 100 105 6 Do. 44 per cent . . • all at Do.Leic. andllit4per et 100 94 96 st Norflk. sp. e. Ex. st. 1846 100 .. at Do. 54 p. c. Pref. st. 1847 100 .. at Do.sWay.ValEx.st.lB47 100 .. st Nort British, 5 per cent. 100 111 113 at Do. New vua. 5 per cent 100 109 111 10 Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. she. 7 14 11pm 10 Do. do. do. all .. st Nth.Drn.Rail.&Dck.Co. 100 r at N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. 100 .. 3 st Do. 44pr. ct. redeemable 100 .. r at Do. G. N. E. 4p. ct. pref. 100 100 102 ) 17 Do. Berwick 4p. c. pref. 8. 13.4 97 99 20 Do. Leeds 6p. c. No. 1 13 3 dis par 123 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. 9 .. 25 Do. York, H. &S. Purch. 10 • • • • 20 North Staffordshire.... all 1 dis par 10 Rhymney Guaranteed.. all 22 23 * at Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock.... 100 .. 9 at Do.Aberdeenguap.c 100 .. .at Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 100 .. • • i o s. South Devon, Ann, 10s. a ll 132 136 2 10 Do. Fixed 41 per cent all 10 11 7 1 0. 6. South Eastern (Reading 0 sat Do, Fixed 41 per cent 110 Ann., 1.0.6) st Do. 43 per c en t 10 0 1 1 1 10 03 3 8 j. South Wales, gua. 4p. c. 100 .. • at S.DYOrkshirdeo,.4 att Do. 44 per cent p. e. 18 g 59 u . a lO O 100 i; •5 , st Do. 5 per cent lOO 20 90 25 stock. & Kilkny 6 Do. P- Dar. c. p !c. tea` a l l 3l 28 2 1 9 4 [5 25 st W. Mid.-Oxf Ist L 7 25 B st Watrl D d o ' k, 6p. c all 31 33 6 P. c all 32 34 p f .red. 100 103 105 stk 100 128 130 c. 100 42 45 o i. st Do. 22 st Do.Newports2pd.er, * 4 st Do. Perpet.6 p. .1866 100 124 128 .25 at DO. Ihll 1869 100 120 125 29 DOORS. 26 stock Do. 4 per I;ent.Pret.Dfin.! 100 19 stock ;Commercial ...... . t . 26 stock East and West India ..1 100 124126 * London. 26 stook.. Ho 100 57 59 gq stock St. Katharine. lOO 60 82 stock 'Southampton lOO litAk 100 101 I • 20 ID O 4 NOW 2 Id p .. 18 .. 24 .. 25 .. 26 .. 15 .. 17 .. 17 . : 24 26 .. 26 .. .. 28 6.4.0 9.16.1 SHARE MARKET-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Paid. Closing Busin ess Price. done. 7i 8 4 7 96 07 no IK 42 44 104 11 19 204 57 68 56 59 37 40 93 04 301 SO! 101 103 1118 119 118 119 134 136 104 106 71 71i 57 6) 107 1071 59 60 120 121 45 47 96 101 102 9 11 43 44 7 13} 134 132 1 1P 101 103 68 70 65i 66 981 031 55 d p 54 1 871 871 , 100 102 5 _6 di 10i 11 95 96 127 129 45 47 102 104 46 48 37 39 83! 84 68 70 99 101 384 3 61 4 84 94p' P 144 148 554 564 24 34 d itro 28 131 47 49 43 46 90" 92 201 57/ 8 71 MI 601 120 961 8* 131* i 981 d FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Lim all 5 Brazil Land & Mm.Co all 11 1/ 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo ; 10 Cobre Copper all 32 34 Copiapo l6 6 8 1 DunMoun.Cop.Minf , .Co all 1 11 3 East Del Rey (Limited) 1 ) I 2 Fortuna. all 2 2I 20 General all 22 24 2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 Id 1 p 11 Kapunda (Limited) 1 1 11 p 3 Linares all 8 9 5 Lusitanian 2 1 d pr 1 Mariquica all V ; ; 1 , N.RhineCopotS.Aus.L I f. 1 1 20 I Pontglbaud Silver,Lead, Mining and Smelt... all 2 4 5 Port Philip 1 1 1; 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) los. 11 lir. m 20 St. John del Rey (1,.) ' 15 63 65 28.2.81 United Mexican all 81 9 8 1 1 Worthing (Limited) i all I I COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 1877-82 Do 6p. cent.lBB3-4 100 - - Do. 6p. cent -- 100 - - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 106 108 1 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 109 1 11 Do. 5 per cent lOO 99 100 Do. Inscribed stock 100 97 99 991 100 -- 'Cape G.llope, 6p 0.1880 100 111 113 I Do. 1890 100 111 113 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 lOO 111 113 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p o 100 N.B.Gov. Op.c. d a.&,July 100 1051 1061 1061 Do. 6p. e.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. 00866 100 99 100 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 971 981 Do. d0.,1888 &upwda 100 97 98 974 New Zealand 6p. cent 160 107 109 103 ,Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. C sterling, 1875 lOO 1071 1084 S. Au5,G6p.c.1878.& up lOO 6 p.c. Jadauly, 100 1041 106 , Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct 1 100 IC7 108 1071 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 Agra&UnitedService Bi 5O 89 91 !91 40 Australasia all 66 67 66 25 Bank of Egypt all 211 221 100 Ba-Ak of London 50 British North American all 52 53 1531 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 21! 221 221 25 Ch. Mer. of In. Lon.& Ch. all 12 54 100 City ... 50 96 100 100 Colonial Mil Com. Bank of Canada.. all 20 Eng.. Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 181 19 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 251 26 24 20 Do. new all 24 ?51 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 20 London and S.Af rican lO 1 fp 100 London & Westminster 20 80 82 81 801 100 sat. Prov. of England 42 20 Do. new . 50 National Bank 20 Ne r South Wa1e5...... all 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all 54 55 54i 20 Ottornan Bank 100 Provincial of Ireland.. 25 10 Do. new 25 South Australia ..,- all 25 Union of Australia 50 Unti),. of London 100 Unity 60 MISCELLANEOUS. N.nglo-MeKican Mint .. Atlantic B. MI. Stm (1d) Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural' , Bahia Steam (Limited). 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. (Lirn.ll China & Japan Coast & River 'Steam Naviga. Cop.Min.ofEng.&Sulltg Do. Pref. 74 per cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Do. R p ct. Perpet. Deb & Lon. Ship A Do. B E.lndia Irrign. & Canal Electric Telegraph Do. New English & Aus. Copper Gen. Steam Navigati Great Slap Limited) Do. 'ln p• ct Preference Indian Carryin,,, ,, (Lim.) Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) Madras Irr. and Canal Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim , Do. 8 per cent. pref National Die. Co. (Lim ) Nerbu.Ceal&lron (Lim ) Netherlands Land Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl die. N. Br. &NovaScotiaL and N.B.Australasian (Lim.) Oriental Gas (Limited). Do. New Shares (Lim.). Orintl. In. Steam (Lint.) Pee l ß.Lnd.&Min.(Litn) I'en. & Oriental Steam Do. New Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.44p.c Rhymney Iron Do. New.. Royal Mail Steam' Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lim.) South Australian Land Submarine Tel. sc r i p !Do. do. Registered do.. .. (L... T e legraph to Ind a .) Trust and Agency o t Austrlasia (11m) Ist is. Tr..t Ln. Co. of Upr. Can. V. K'dom Tel. Co. (lira.y Van ,DieMen'a Land —1 16 17 2 3 26 28 51 54 29 32 18 20 9 11 111 113 16 17 81 35 104 1(8 105 108 li O pr }pm 96 99 3 3} If 1; 24 21 4 5 a iP I 2 le tO 15 15 11 14 1 14 75 8 51 53 68 70 10 12 195 194 17 19 5 6 52 54 134 131 32 34 4 6 - ids ip pr p 1 / lt 9 10 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1862. THIS DA Y'S MARKBTS. CORN EXCHANGE. Although the country markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat, the demand for aII kinds was in a sluggish state, and prices had a drooping tendency. All spring corn moved off heavily at barely previous rates. In flour very little was doing. Throughout the continent the grain trade has continued remarkably quiet; but in America rather more money has been paid for both wheat and flour. Up to our market last week the arrivals of English produce were much restricted. From abroad we received 9,895 quarters of wheat, 3,725 oats, 2,121 beans, 797 tares, 9,581 linseed, 1,274 rapeseed, 26 sundryseeds ; 1,170 sacks and 20,022 barrels of flour. Total 35,378 „ TALLOW. Fresh up to this morning's market the arrivals of Eng lish wheat were on a very moderate scale, and, generally speaking, the condition of the samples was decidedly infe rior, All dry parcels changed hands steadily, but by no means readily, and last Monday's quotations were well sup ported. Damp parcels, however. were only saleable by submitting to lower prices, but there appeared to be no dis position to make purchases in them, even at reduced rates. Our currency, therefore, for English wheat remains much the same as on this day se'nnight. There was a fair show of foreign wheat on the stands. For the most part sales progressed slowly, and a limited amount of business was transacted, at prices barely equal to those realised on Monday last. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, neverthe less the quotations were supported. Good and fine malting barley met an improved sale, at very full prices ; but inferior parcels, as well as grinding and distilling sorts, moved off heavily, at about previous rates. The malt trade was dull, on former terms. Although the supply of oats was by no means extensive, the demand for them was in a sluggish state, and the cur rencies were barely maintained. The show of beans was less extensive. There was, how ever, no improvement in the inquiry for them, yet prices ruled firm. Peas—the supply of which was only moderate—sold slowly, at late rates. The flour trade was dull, and the value of American qualities ruled somewhat in favour of buyers. Country mar kets also were the turn cheaper. CURRENCY PER IMPERJAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new Ditto, old —B 8 Ditto, white, new 6lB 688 Ditto, old —S -s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old _B s Ditto, new Talavera, Rye — Barley—Grinding 2Bs 298 Malting 368 428 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk sos 66 8 Brown Kingstown and Ware 568 70s Chevalier 668 688 Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 2lB 258 Potato Youghal and Cork, black .. 198 238 Cork, white l9B 248 Scotch, Feeding 23s 26s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey .... 358 38s Maple White 3BO 418 Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk 9 Stockton and N0rf01k.....—... moderate business has been passing, yet no change has taken place in the quotations compared with our last report. The first series of public sales of colonial wool for the year are announced to commence on Thursday next. The arrivals since last auctions consist of the following, to which must be added about 5,000 bales 1 ft over from the last series : Sydney Victoria Van Diemen's Land 469 » Adelaide 5,210 „ New Zealand Cape 19,133 „ The tallow market continues dull, and a further decline has taken place in the quotations, P.Y.C. being to-day quoted at 46s per cwt; rough fat, 2s sid per 81b. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Hallways. (Atlantic tt St Lawrence Bonk,Baroda.k.Cent Ind flu. 5 per cent Buffalo and Lake Huron, Do. New Do. Preferonce Cletitta...k;asin. (Li ) Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town at Dock Scrip Demerara.. ... lEastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c 'East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. 4i p o . Debentrs. Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Do. 1866-1871 Do. do. G Ext.. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref' Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 Gt.lndiaPentn.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 percent. Gt. W. ofCanada Shares Do. New . Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't oPt.l Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 d 0... Madras guar., 5 p. c. .. Do. 4 c. Extension Do.lt Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Ends.. New Brunswick n Candst. Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pt Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. .- Seinde Do. Punjaub ...• Do. Do. •• • • g Do. Indus. St. Flo. EDE Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. all {lOO 15 all 100 ifraid. Closin:z Price. all 67 70 100 101 51 6 a 7/ 8} 5 :it I IP 99i 100} 1011 1021 99 101 102 102 102 103 104 105 25 26 71 73 60 63 40 42 40 45 37 40 37 40 100 k 1016 pr ip 99i 100 124 12! 8 71 98 102 93 95 994 1004 92 94 90 92 5 7 4 6 101 i 1024 i pr 95 98 FOREIGN A1gerian........, Antwerp dt Rotterdam Ardennes.... ..• • • Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac Cermeaux Mine it tail Copiapo (Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish *astern of France Grand Bus Guar. 6 p. el Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxcm., Con. shs... italian Junction . Lierre & Turnhout .... Lyons Jr Geneva ...... Namur & Liege ........ Do. 6 p. c. Pref. ........ Northern of France....' Do. New Shares ..... Norwegian Trunk Pref.l Ot'mn (Smyrna to Aidn) Paris,Lyons, Medi ter.i Paris dr 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (Pern.)l xua. 7 p. ct. lim Riga & Dunaburg...... Royal Dani5h.......... Royal Swedish ....... Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse ...... Do. 54 per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin Southern of France.... S. East Portugal 7 p ct. West Flanders Do. 54 p. c. Preference.. W. & N.W. of France .. Westurn of Austria.... Westurn of Switzerland Wiesbaden ...... Do. 8 per cent Pref.... Zealand ... BRITIS 1 fred Consols (Phi / ack) iritish Iron Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea.... E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) Gam.& St. Aubyn(G wen ) Great South Tole:us G.'W heal Alfa. (Philack G. Wheal Vor (Helston Grenville Elerod's- Foot fi ingston Downs Lady Bertha liargaret (tiny Lelant Mark e Valley.. Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) North Downs North Frances (Mogan N. WWI Basset (1110 _fan` North Wheal Crotty . Par Consols (St. Blazey Providence (Uny Lelnt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Carn Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim 'Wheal Fran. (Moan' Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. Tin Crott Vale of Towey (farm ) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard West Seton Wheal Biteeet (Mogan; Wheal Buller(Redruth) Whcal Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (11.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) Business don, METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKEL For the time of year the supply of foreign stock here to day was moderate, and in fair condition. The show of home-fed beasts was seasonably exten sive as to number, and, with very exceptions, of prime quality. All breeds met a very dull sale at a decline in the quotations, compared with Monday last, of 4d per Blbs. The highest quotation for Scots was 4s 6d, and some re. markably good beasts changed hands at 4s 4d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,360 Scots, short horns and crosses; from other parts of England, 800 various breeds ; from Scotland, 400 Scots end crosses ; and from Ireland 280 oxen and heifers. About an average supply of sheep was brought forward in fair suitable condition. On the whole, the mutton trade ruled steady at last week's currency. The best old Downs realised 5s 6d per 81bs, clipped sheep sold at 8d per 81bs beneath that quotation. Lambs moved off steadily at 7s 4d per 81bs. There were about 160 in the pens. Calves—the supply of which was limited —moved off slowly. Prices, however, were supported. The top price was 5s 10d per 81bs. We have to report a dull inquiry for pigs at barely last week's quotations. - - Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 0 S 2 IPrimecrs-wool d 0.4 8 6 2 Second quality do. 3 4 3 10 , Pme. S'thdown d 0.5 4 5 6 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 2 ' Largo orse. calves 4 10 5 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 Prime small do.. 5 6 5 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0 Large h0g5...... 3 8 4 2 Second quality do. 4 2 4 6 Small porkers .... 4 4 4 8 Lambs, Os Od to Os Od. Suckling calves, 103 to 265; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 295. FOREIGN SUPPLY, Beasts Sheep Calves ll6 Calves Pigs. 405 I Pigs The total imports of foreign atom into London, last week, amounted to 1,282 head. In the corresponding week in 1861, we received 3,059—in 1860, 1,921—in 1859, 1,829 —in 1858, 617—in 1857, 884—in 1856, 429 head. TOTAL SUPPLY. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LA.131 WEEK. From Beasts. Rotterdam .• • . 60 • • Harlingen lO4 .. Hamburgh — .. Ostend.. .. — .. Corunna Dordt Amsterdam 5O .. Bremen Boulogne — • • Oporto - • • Medemblik Antwerp ..... Nieu Diep — • Il Sheep. Lambe. Calves. Pigs. 306 .. .. 171 .. 3 13 .. .. 7 .. 6 424 .. .. .. • • ...... 18 . . - ; ; - .. - '''''' • • .-. . • -- • • --- - • • -- . . 9 • • - Total .... 314 .. 761 .. .. 199 .. 8 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Piga. 1861 631 .. 2, 1 65 236 .. 27 18R0 .. 323 .. r3OB 124 .. 66 1859 542 .. 1,111 .. 176 .. 1858 123 .. 132 .. .. 362 .. .857 l5l .. 637 93 1856 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Feb. 26, 1861, and this day, Monday, Feb. 24, 1862. Per 81b. to sink the offal. Feb. 25, 1861. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2 to 3 6 Second quality do 3lO 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots, &c 4lO 5 0 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 8 4 0 Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 4lO 5 8 Prime Southdown do. Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. 5 4 5 8 Large hogs Neat. small porkers 4 8 410 Beasts Sheep and lambs 14,900 Calves Pigs 390 SUPPLIES ON SALE, FEB. 27, 1860.—8 sheep and lambs, 16,000 ; calves, 120 ; pigs, FEB. 28, 1859.—Beasts, 3,595 ; sheep and 1 calves, 103 ; pigs, 420. Feb. 24, 1862. 3 oto 3 2 3 4 310 40 4 2 44 4 6 38 4 0 42 4 6 48 5 2 54 5 6 00 0 0 410 5 4 5 6 510 38 4 2 44 4 8 3,960 15,410 89 255 feasts, 3,960 ; 300. iambs, 16,450; NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale at these markets continue large, and the trade generally rules heavy, at quite 2d per 81bs beneath last Monday's quotations. Per 81b. by the carcase. d s d sd Inferior beef .. 2 6 3 0 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 0 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Prime do .. 4 2 4 4 Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal .. 4 4 5 4 Do. small do. 4 0 4 2 Small pork 4 2 4 6 I..nge pork 3 6 4 0 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. Since our last report there has been an improved feeling in the market for hops, and several parcels of old, of good quality, have been taken for export, at the late reduction in their value. In new hops, however, a limited business has been transacted, at late rates. La st week's import was 140 bales from New York, and 65 from Harobro'. New Mid and East Kents 150 s to 205 s per cwt. New Weald of Kents l4os 170 a New Sussex ), BOROUGH AND SPITALFIRLDS. Home grown potatoes continue to arrive somewhat freely to these markets. Good and p rim e qualities move off slowly, at about previous quotations, but inferior parcels are a heavy sale, and prices are with difficulty supported. Scotch Regents 100 s. to 140 s, per ton. Ditto Rocks York Regents • 120 s. to 150 s. ~ Ditto Flukes ..140x. to 160 s. " Dittoltocks llOB. to 120 s. " Kent and Essex Regents .---11. to ......8. /9 Lincolnshire ditto 110 s. to 130. " Foreign SEEDS. » Cloverseed commands rather more attention, and the market both for linseed and rapeseed rules firm, at full quotations. In other seeds very little is doing. Cakes move off heavily, at barely late rates. Turnip,White,p.bus.lls to 148 5wede........... —s —s Mustard, Brown l2e 14s White,' ........ 7sod SsOd Tares, Winter ...... 786 d Se Old per quarter s 42s Canary, per quarter 48e 60s Rye grass, new..... —s Clover, Red Eng., et. 488 52s White ....... 58s 76s Foreign Red.... 44e 50s White. 68s 888 Trefoil, new. ..••••• 20s 248 Carraway 22s to 256 Coriander l4B 18e Henapseed, per qr sos 528 Linsee d , Eng.sowing 72s 74s Crushing 6 OB 68 8 Baltic 548 589 O dessa Linseed Cake p ton —s —9 English ' £lo 108.C11 59 Foreign £lOlOBl2 Os Rape Cakes,p ton £6 Os 6 158 Rapeseed, per qr.... 63s 66s WOOL. In all War of Wool, both English and colonial, a very Lives of the Wits and Ifurnourists. By John Timbs, F.S.A., author of " Curiosities of Lon don," &c. 2 vols. Richard Bentley. Mr. Timbs has long been known in the literary world by his ingenious complations and valuable works of reference. Without much original talent, he has succeeded in producing a series of works of general utility and interest, containing a large amount of condensed information. We can not altogether coincide in Swift's remark when he says that• " Abridgments, abstracts, and summaries have the same use with burning glasses—to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's 'imagination." Summaries and abridgments are too often dry and lifeless, robbing history and biography of all that vitality and inte rest which excites the attention and makes a far deeper and more lasting impression on the memory than the mere rote knowledge of facts. It is not for the purpose of instruction—for the first study of a subject—that abstracts end summaries are valu able ; they should rather be addressed to those who —wishing to verify some assertion, to correct some inaccurate knowledge, or to renew some forgotten reading—seek, under the pressure of other occupa tions, concise and authentic statements. The work before us is not exactly of this kind. It is in tended for those who are already familiar with the names and characters of the celebrities it chronicles, but who wish to obtain fuller and more exact information concerning them. It is similar in design to the volumes of Anecdote Biography, recently published by Mr. Timbs, and is equally readable and entertaining. The plan followed is to give first a sketch of the humourist's career, arranged in paragraphs under appropriate headings, and subsequently a chapter of " Charac teristics, Personal Traits and Opinions," in which are collected those flashes of wit and sparks of humour, whose brilliancy has not been extin tinguished by the lapse of years and change of manners. From the number and variety of these anecdotes, we have no doubt that Mr. Timbs's work will be widely read and highly prised, while the out line given of the wit or humourist's history will be useful to many readers. The disparaging remarks which have been made by some persons on Mr. Timbs's works appear to us to be decidedly unfair. The compiler does not profess to publish an en tirely original book ; the very plan and object of the undertaking would prevent his doing so. All the anecdotes, personal details, &c., which form the staple of his entertaining vo lumes are naturally told somewhere else, but the task of collecting, verifying, and classi fying these various stories is no light labour, and the effect is by no means insignificant. He who reads one witty saying can now read a hun dred others beside it, and epigrams, puns, and re torts are traced to their right owners. The work is founded on the best authorities, which are cited in the margin, and to the later lines the compiler has been able to add the results of his own expe rience. He tells us that his canon of economy has been to reject what is no longer essential, and another rule has made him endeavour to give a local colour to each anecdote. His list of subjects include many names of eminence : we have lives of Swift, Foote, Goldsmith, the two Caimans, Sheridan, Sydney Smith, Theodore Hook, the two Smiths ; and others. It may therefore be seen that Mr. Timbs has a rich field for his exertions, and his ef forts can hardly fail to gratify his readers. Many humorous poems, too long for quotation, are given ; among them, James Smith's clever verses on pun fling. We subjoin a few anecdotes out of his large collection, as affording the best sample of the attrac tions of these volumes : 1858. 1859. 1860. 1861. 1862. Stock this day.... 19.277 20,720 02,940 70.910 43.635 Price of Y.C. r 52s 9d to 52s 6d to 6080 d to 5959 d to 46s Od to —s Od -s Od 60s 3d —s Od Os Od Delivery last week 1,938 1,432 1,201 1,001 1,705 Ditto from June 1 87,987 82,036 65,922 61,435 96,952 Arrivals last week 390 1,110 694 802 173 Ditto from June 1 93.2 2 91,180 86,781 108,251 83,826 Price of Town .... 55s 6d 54s 3d 61s 9d i 60s 3d 48s 6d LITER A 7 ÜBE The Odyssey of Homer; in English Hendecasyllable Verse. By Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury. Part 1. The Iliad of Homer; in English Hexameter Verse. By J. Dart, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, author of " The Exile of St. Helena." Part 1. Longman and Co. These volumes have been printed uniform as re spects size and external appearance, and doubtless many classical literati will desire to possess them both. There is always something attractive in the perusal of these marvels of ancient verse in what ever form they are presented to notice, and perhaps nowhere in his essays did Macaulay command more acquiescence than when he paid his admirable tri bute to their merits. " These two strange old poems, the wonder of ninety generations, still retain all their freshness. They still command the vene ration of minds enriched by the literature of many nations and ages. They are still even in wretched translations the delight of schoolboys. Having survived ten thousand capricious fashions, having seen successive codes of criticism become obsolete they still remain to us immortal with the immor tality of truth, the same when perused in the study of an English scholar as when they were first chaunted at the banquets of the lonian princes." In the preface to the Odyssey Dean Alford informs uA that " the following version is line for line. I have not shrunk from incurring the risk of some roughness in the version, if I might in any mea sure reproduce in our language the very form and cadences of the glorious old bard.' Mr. Dart, in introducing us to the Iliad, observes that he labours under the disadvantage of want of leisure, but that, not supposing he will ever have more time, he has determined to try the venture of publication, especially as he has been informed that " his attempt to reproduce the most noble of all pro fane authors, in a shape more nearly resembling the original than the existing versions, is sufficiently successful to warrant its publication, even in its present imperfect state." Considering the care and attention inseparable from such attempts that must have been bestowed on these translations, and the just appreciation that the authors exhibit for the subject of their labours, it is to be hoped that their efforts will meet with due encouragement in the right quarters. If they induce those who are cog nisant of the grand language of the poet to study the original themselves, and thus renew their ac quaintance with the mighty and majestic strains; if they impart desirable information to those who can only dwell through interpretation on their sublimity and beauty ; if they interest and excite the student to compare the merits of rival transla tions, and the benefits of various modes and methods; if they attain any or some of these results they nay consider their efforts have been crowned with suc cess. It will also be a gain that is worthy of the struggle, as no one can ever be otherwise than benefited by the fuller comprehension, and more correct appreciation of these elevating and refining studies. It has truly said in the well-known, aphorism, " Ingenuas didicisse ;Waiter artes emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros." The readers may infer that at a future period they will meet with con tinuations of these works, as they are styled first volumes. SIIERIDAN. At one of the early performances, at Drury Lane, in one of the stage boxes, sat the fretful critic, Cumberland, who, amidst the general laughter, was observed not once to smile. When the comedy was concluded, he incautiously remarked to a friend, " I am much surprised that the audience should laugh so immoderately at what could not make me smile." This was told to Sheridan, who coolly observed that Cum berland was truly ungrateful for not smiling at his comedy, as he had seen a tragedy of Cumberland's at Covent Gar den Theatre, not a fortnight before, and had laughed from the beginning to the end. Tom Sheridan and his father had many a pass of wit. One night, as they were supping together, just when Tom expected to get into Parliament, I think, father," he said, " that many men who are thought to be great patriots in the House of Commons are great humbugs. For my own part, if I get into Parlia ment, I will pledge myself to no party, but write upon my forehead, in legible characters, To be let.' " " And under that, Tom," said his father, "write Unfurnished.' " Tom took the joke but soon repaid it. One day, meeting two royal dukes walking up St. James'-street, the youngest thus flippantly addressed him : " I say, Sherry, we have just been discussing whether you are a greater fool or rogue—what is your own opinion, my boy ?" Mr. Sheri dan, having bowed and smiled at the compliment, took each of them by the arm and instantly replied, " Why, faith, I believe lam between both." Being on a Parliamentary committee, he one day entered the room when all the mem bers were seated and ready to commence business. Per ceiving no vacant seat he bowed, and looking round the table with a droll expression of countenance, said, " Will any gentleman move, that I may ' take the chair ?' " SAMUEL rooTY. Hugh Kelly wag mightily boasting of the power he had as a reviewer of distributing literary reputation to any extent. "Don't be too prodigal of it," Foote quietly inter. posed, "or you may have none for yourself." „ Foo t e " Why are you for ever huramiug that air? Although the public must be pretty well ac quainted with the history of this war, from the perusal of the voluminous accounts of special corre spondents and Government despatches, a succinct and comprehensive narration of the various events of the campaign cannot fail to prove interesting. Colonel Wolseley has contrived to combine a de tailed account of all the movements of the army and flotilla, together with a description of the coun try, and the habits and customs of its strange inha bitants. The capture of the Takoo Forts is minutely described. The Chinese had taken great pains and spared no expense in their construction ; but, like most Chinese works, it was too complete, for each fort being surrounded by two ditches, some 20 feet apart, the space between them being planted " as thickly as close stubble, with sharp bamboo stakes, to cross which on foot was almost impossible"— thus, when the allies entered at the gate, the de fences, which had proved ineffectual to keep them out, presented an insurmountable barrier to the discomfited garrison when they desired to retreat. In the arrangements for the attack the French, as is usually the case, were far better prepared than the English, who, in military affairs, generally con trive to be too elaborate, and thus often baulk their object by being too secure. The author, in deprecating certain a rrangements, fault after the justice to admit that it is easy t o find after the mischief is done. "It is very easy when an undertaking of this kind is over, to pick out faults in the arrangemeut s made before hand, and many are the wiseacres afterwards, who say, ' Oh, why was not so and so done ?" How very stupid to have done so and so ?' These remarks particularly apply to hangers-on about the camp, travelling gentlemen, and that class commonly known as adventurers. Errors in judgment are frequently made in all warlike operations, and such will ever be the case, as long as warfare presents such a vast variety of combinations. One of these mistakes was made in taking up a small pontoon bridge, instead of a number of ladders, or a small plank-bridge made like a fire escape, to rest on wheels. As it happened, the pontoons were not only useless for the assault, but were really a very great impediment, as they blocked up the narrow cause way along vhich we had to advance, and exposed a large number of men for a considerable time as they carried them, and who had freAuently to stop until a wounded man was removed from the party. A round shot passed through one of the pontoons as we advanced and rendered it quite useless. A few ladders made of bamboo, and a small number of planks carried along with them would have enabled all to get across both ditches easily, whereas all the English storming party, who actually captured the place in conjunction with the French, struggled and clambered across the wet, muddy ditch, having water nearly up to their armpits ; the pontoons did not prove of any use, and were the unfortunate cause of many wounds and several lives being lost." Before leaving the swamp on which the Takoo Forts were built the author inspected the forts on the south bank of the river, and from his observation Colonel Wolseley understood the cause of the failure of Admiral Hope in 1859. He vindicates the conduct of the gallant admiral in making the attack, and shows that although his rashness was censured on that occasion, because of his want of success, yet had he declined the encounter he would most probably have met with far greater blame. He observes that because the forts were taken with ease in 1858, it did not follow that they should not be able to with stand an attack in 1859; and after describing all the obstacles to be met with by a force attacking from the sea, he sums up by stating it to be his be lief that were a resistance offered similar to that which the land force encountered in the recent attack, no troops in the world could capture the forts from the sea. The melancholy affair of the cap ture of Mr. Parkes and his comrades, and the sub sequent deaths of the unfortunate Brabazon, Ander son, and Boulby, are related with every particular. Col. Wolseley blames Mr. Parkes for dividing his escort. This is no doubt right enough, but Mr. Parkes's greatest mistakes seems to have been when he found that the Chinese had not kept faith with him, and were prepared to cut off his retreat, to waste precious time in attempting to negotiate with a people in whom his long experience must have taught him no trust was to be placed, If when he found his advance stopped by Chinese infantry ! in stead of seeking their General, he ha d given e the order to charge, hi s wo ul d p ar ty e have reached reached the British lines as di len d C s ome few minutes previously. But for the fortu tnhaetec icumstance that Col. Walker was called to assistance of a French officer and so got himself involved, he and those with him would have shared the fate of their less fortunate countrymen ; " but finding that to remain longer in the Chinese lines without fighting was impossible, and for so few men to contend against crowds would have been ridiculous, he called out to his party to ride for their lives," and all (some half a dozen) started at a gallop, and cut their way through with only I two wounded, although exposed to the fire of all those near them, as well as the batteries. The de scription of Pekin and its fortifications are full of interest. An amusing account of the sack of the Summer Palace by the French is given, in which the author maintains that soldiers are little better than schoolboys on such occasions. He ridicules the idea of the remonstrance made by the French against the burning of the Palace afterwards , by the British. He thinks that after they had taken or destroyed everything of value in the building, it was rather out of place to deny us the satisfaction of destroying the shell. After leaving Pekin, Colonel Wolseley paid a visit to Nankin, and he gives a very different acc ou n . tof the rebels to that furnished by some othe r travellers. He says that there is no regular form Govern ment, that the soldiers, or rather mob,_ of live byp. lage, and that if proof be required o f the wanton destruction of property perpetrated by these robbers one need only look at the banks f the river above the possessions of the self-called Christians, where all is prosperity, and in their own territory, where all is desolation. That the Chi n ese hold human life cheap i but it would seem that they possess s Weil ace known, di s cretion in their wholesale slaughter. There is a certainresemblance bet o w m e e e n n , the Mormons and Chinese with at least that portion of the celestial empire under the rule of the Eastern King,. who calls in the assistance of religion to secure is own ends THE FAIR SEX AT NANKIN. e population of which is now very ‘‘ In N a nkin, th are about two women for every man. Most of capt . ured, a large proportion hav small, there and unlike any other town the inhabitants have Soochowl2.ee had hitherto visited . in the empire, the women ing been taken from which I rode about in public, and did not pretend, as walked and Chinese ladies usually do, to be in the least degree afraid o f fore igners, nor did they see k to shun us. '1 hey were a lmost all beautifully dressed in the curiously worked silks and. satins of Soochow. With admirable discrimination the followers of the Heavenly King seem exclusively to reserve the good looking women in the almost general mas sacres which follow their victories. Old women and female children there were, we may say, none, although there was a very large proportion of boys. To be the husband of one wife does not necessarily form part of the new faith, the For sixpence, the epitome of human life, as de. pictad in immortal verse by William Shakspere Beautifully illustrated by the facile and graceful pencil of John Gilbert. Admirably engraved and most enterprisingly published. The publication of so much at such a price requires the coining of a word aptly to define its excellence as a dis play of mingled courage and munificence on the part of Messrs. Dean and Son, of Lud gate-hill. The firm just mentioned has for a long while past been securely assuming to itself aposition analogous nowadays to that occupied long ago —a whole century since—by Mr. Newbury, of St. Paul's-churchyard. It has come to be a pleasant sound in the ears of picture-loving childhood the name of this popular house for story-book, parti cularly for picture-story-book, publishing. And not the most agreeably will the name of Messrs. Dean and Son be held in recollection by reason of Gilbert's sixpenny version of the Seven Ages of Shakspere. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STONE THROWING AT A CAPTAIN.—John Buckley, a labouring man, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with throwing a stone at Captain Arthur Annesley, of the Gre nadier Guards, residing in Clarges-street, while in Hyde park the previous afternoon. Captain Annesley said—l was walking in Hyde-park yesterday afternoon when I felt a blow on the top of my hat. I turned round promptly, and from the manner of the prisoner, and the stone falling at my feet, I charged the prisoner with throwing the stone. He denied it, and I gave him in charge. As soon as I had done so some of the prisoner's companions asked me, if the prisoner apolo gised, to forgive him. On the way to the station the pri soner said he had done it, but that it was not a stone. I was only five yards from the prisoner when I felt the blow. Wm. Savage, SA, said—l saw the prisoner turn round and throw the stone at the prosecutor, and strike him on the hat. The prisoner, who at first denied it, afterwards said it was only a lump of clay. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a most intolerable and dan gerous practice,and if persons would indulge in it they must pay for it. He should fine the prisoner 205., or a month. " YOU'RE AN OLD WOMAN FROM THE COUNTRY, BUT YOU HAV E GOT OVER ME."—Ann Stephens, a woman of about 50, was charged with robbing a young man named Samuel Merritt, a plasterer, of 11, Hay's-place, Session Grove. The young man said he fell in with the prisoner, passed the night with her, and, when he left her in the morning, politely wishing her " Good morning," he missed £5 10s. from his pocket, in which he had a 10s. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked when it took place. The Young Man—Last Monday night, and I've been looking for her ever since. I should know her from a thousand others. (Laughter.) Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner. MI - 3.9.3 - 5.11.61 all 27 19. 1138 6cl 315 25 2f 3 100 05 29 31 14 2 9 94 124 134 39 *1 270 280 974 102 724 77 1f 2 104 114 15 16 18 19 1021 11 43 21 44 101 f .100 i 100 10a i RAILWAYS 6 1 6 ; t 1 I 11 12 .4 4 d I i P 23 z 4 108 102 Ri fi 20 21 40 41 8 10 8 74 423 I.l} 54 65 3 3.1 12 15 si 9} 0/ Opm 'a mp 28i t9i 7f if 10 10i 22 23 ES. i t 30 32 410 420 48 6? 30 31 14 11 2t 31 33 15 4 4i 61 7 2 2} 36 38 2} 21 a 42 4 10 10} Id ipm 5 54 3 34 If 21 74 el 42 44 16i li I 111 a at I 1 asked a man without a sense of tune in him. " Because it haunts me." "No wonder," said Foote, "you are ever murdering it." _ Foote praising the hospitality of the Irish, after one of his trips to the sis:..! kingdom , a gentleman asked him whether he had ever be e n at Cork. " N o , s i r ," re pli e d Foote ; " but I have seen many drawings of it." Why iearned men are to be found in rich men's houses, and rich men never to be seen in those of tho learned, VI as once asked of Foote. " Why," said he, " the first know what they want, but the latter do not." TILE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. The story of the production of this delicious little novel, is one of the best known episodes in Goldsmith's history. No ins dent of an author's life has become more popular • painters have transferred it to their canvas, and biographers to their pages, and our anecdote life of the novelist would be incomplete without it. The work had been no hasty effort, but a labour of love. whenever the author could shift off the yoke of translation or compilation. It is thought to have been commenced so early as 1761, and it lay by him until the spring of 1763. The circumstances attending its sale are too singular to be told in any other words than those of Johnson, as reported by Bos well : " I received one morning," says Johnson, a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion—l perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." _ _ _ Mrs. Piozzi gives the same anecdote with some varia tions; among others, that Johnson found Goldsmith with his bottle of Madeira in the evening not the morning; and Mr. Croker inclines to adopt this more favourable account. Another version of the story is that Goldsmith insisted on the landlady joining him in a bowl of punch. Nearly two years elapsed ere the " Vicar of Wakefield" was published ; when it rapidly obtained a popularity which has lasted down to our time, and which is likely to last as long as our language. It came out nn the 27th of March, 1755 ;, before the end of May a second edition was called for ; in three months more, a third ; and so it went on, widening a popularity that has never flagged. Yet Johnson was deceived as to its succeeding : speaking of the work to Boswell, some time subsequent to its publi cation. he observed, "I myself did not think it would have had much success. It was written and sold to a bookseller before the 'Traveller,' but published after, so little expec tation had the bookseller from it. Had it been sold after the ' Traveller,' he might have had twice as much money, though sixty guineas was no mean price." GEORGE CO LMAN. Colman and Bannister were dining one day with Lord Erskine, the ex-chancellor, who, in the course of conversa tion on rural affairs, boasted that he kept on his pasture land nearly a thousand sheep. " I perceive, then," said Colman, "your lordship has still an eye to the Woolsack." One day, speaking of authorship as a profession, Colman said, "It is a very gocd walking-stick, but very bad crutches." (This is usually attributed to Sir Walter Scott.) He was once asked if he knew Theodore Hook ? " 011 yes," was his reply, " Hook and I (eye) are old asso dates." Narrative of the War with China in 1860. By Lieutenant-Colonel G. T. Wolseley. spiritual revelation regarding which has been made to serve even such vile purposes as the suspension, in particu lar cases, of the tenth commandment. The eastern king who declared he was the Holy Spirit, and, like Tien-wan, had fre quent pris ate intercourse with Gott the Father, upon one occasion said be had been directed by Him to transter some particular wife or concubine (I forget which), from a friend's harem to his own. Th ose w h o are determined to discover good in these people aver that prostitution and adultery are punished amongst them by death ; that I think quite probable i but as such a penalty is inflicted for the most trivial offences, it does not prove that they consider those sins as peculiarly heinous. "Not long before our arrival two women, who were heard to speak deprecatingly of the existing government, and to make some comparison between the present misery of their situation and their former lot—were beheaded at once. Although the social eNil' may have death for its declared penalty, and although it may be to a certain extent abolished after the manner in which many wise people in England would wish to see a stop put to it—namely, by making the offence criminal—c et of this lam satisfied, that it has not improved the morals of the brethren.' The work is replete with interest, and much curious information is to be found in its pages. The Literary Budget for England, India, China, Australia, and the Colonies. Saunders and Orley. This publication is continued with the same spi rit and energy which distinguished its outset. A complete resume is given of tl'e literary events of the day, and the reader who peruses its plges will be perfectly au fait with all of importance or interest that has transpired during the month. It is most probable that this periodical will meet with considerable success on account of the peculiar ad vantages which it possesses. "The Philosophy of Common Place" is a well-written article, that con tains much truth ; but it is, at the same time, too severe in its strictures occasionally. The following passage exemplifies some of the evils of the present day—" There can hardly be a doubt that the constant contemplation as it were in a looking -glass, of our own poor, petty, sordid, daily lives, and our own mean aspirations, gradually unfits us for the appre ciation of loftier things. It seems as if what has been called "the grand air" is departing from our character as well as from our manners. Nothing is done now upon so great a scale as formerly. Everything is little. In statesmanship we have no Pitt. In literature we have neither a Johnso n , a Gibbon, a Byron, nor a Walter Scott. On the stage we have no great actor. We have no great historical painter. We are not so absurd as to say that this is an age of mediocrity. On the contrary, it is an age full of the highest excellence, but it is an excellence content with lower ends than we could wish to see. Why cannot people now Bit out a five-act tragedy? Why cannot they appreciate the classic eleg ince of style? Why is it that a man " talking Blue Books for three hours" is hailed as a great orator ? The answer is that " we have grown smug, sensuous, and commonplace." All who atten tively dwell upon this subject will acknowledge the force of these observations, as it is a well known fact that there has been much retrograde movement in all elevation of sentiment, and the standard of principle has sunk much lower of late days. All tastes may be suited in these contents. They range from grave to gay, from lively to severe. There are reviews of long works, and notices of small ones, arti cles on publications of prominent interest, and an immense variety of anecdotes on all topics that are of immediate and remote connexion with litera ture. Among the incidents of interest in " Literary Intelligence" is the mention that her Majesty so highly appreciated t he tribute to the memory of the late Prince Consort in Blackwood's Magazine that she has ordered twelve copies to be struck off sepa rately and forwarded to her. Saunders and Otley's Literary Budget is decidedly a success, alike front the skill with which it is arranged, as from the ability which distinguishes its writings. seven Answers to the Seven Essays and Reviews, By J. Wash Griffin, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. Longman. These able essays were originally published in special supplements to the London Review, and in that form attracted some attention. They are now re-issued in a collected form, with an introduction by the Right Hon. Joseph Napier, late Lord Chan cellor of Ireland. Those who are interested in the questions raised by the recent controversy will do well to possess themselves of this volume, which is evidently the work of a man of study and reflec tion, who brings to the discussion of weighty sub jects the intelligence, cultivation, and temperance of tone indispensable to their proper consideration. Shakspere's Seven Ages. Drawn by John Gilbert. Engraved by Thomas Gilks. Published by Dean and Son. THIS DAI'SSHIPPING. LONDON, Feb. 24.—Wind this day at noon—East; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather. DEAL, Feb. 24.—Wind S.E. — Arrived—Weymouth from Sunderland for Hong Song. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 24. Arrived Africa, s crew steamer, from New York, and proceeded for Liverpool; left New York on the 12th. HULL, Feb. 22.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Rose, from New York. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) SOUTIIAIsIPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived —Lady Eglinton, steamer, for Dublin, Sailed —St. Charles, for Cardiff ; N ew S peedwell, and N ec essity, for Shoreham ; Tonning, steamer, for Oorto : Char l o tte, for Guernsey. p (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVEND, Monday o Arrived, Feb. 23—Fanny HuESntley, from Tries M te. rning. Arrived, Feb. 24—Excel, from Bruges ; Queen of the Isles, from Guernsey. Sailed, Feb. 24—The Bride, for Swan River ; Reporter, for New York; Se a Breeze, for Mauritius. Arrived—We DEAL, Sunday Morning. ymouth, from Sunderland ; Maiden Queen, from London —both for Hongkong. A Turin letter of the 18 th says :—" The Gazette announces this evening that the recognition of the Kingdom of Italy by Prussia may be considered as an accomplished fact. The words pronounced yes terday at the Chamber by the President of the Council would seem to anticipate that important event. The Senate has just voted the bill imposing the tax of one-tenth on railway receipts. The oppo sition was more determined than usual in that As sembly, there being 34 noes against 62 ayes. The principal objection was that as the railways belong directly or indirectly to the State, in con sequence of the guarantee given, the tax wi ll be paid by the State itself ; that is not absolutely true, as the fares will be increased by the amount of the tax ; besides this, a prosecution by the companies is to be feared, as their agreement contains a clause of exempti o n from all future taxa tion. To that it is replied that the tax will be pa id b y the traveller and not by the 'company." 12.10 7 71 5 6 121 1 8 4 5 Share 100 stk 204 204 to 176 stock stock! 100 100 100 100 stock) stock 1000 2.14.6 3.0.0 7.7.0 56/ 17s 6.15.0 5.12 4.14 1.12. 4.3.0 12.3 2.0.0 2.2 9 If 10.6.7 1.7.2 all 4 1 all all all all all 100 all i 1 4 I 3} 3 _;