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the effects produced by this dust alone is the cause of the pallid countenances so general among British soldiers, or Whether it is combined with other matters—such as the too frequent recurrence to cooking the meat rations by one old system of boiling, by which the greater portion of the nu triment is lost ; or that the barrack-rooms are overcrowded, !tad not sufficiently ventilated. Whatever may be the cause, it is a fact, that the same ruddy complexions so common to the peasantry, are uncommon with soldiers ; yet the latter are supplied with a larger amount of daily food, are better clad, especially in the article of warm clothing for winter, are infinitely better housed, and have decidedly less labori ous work to perform. Soldiers however, notwithstanding appearances, as a class, rank as one of the most healthy. The new cooking ranges, and the improved system of ven tilation applied now to all barrack-rooms, will possibly solve the problem. Under the head of the " Colonial Question as affect ing British Honduras" the plan of encouraging or in fact enforcing self-dependence of the colonies is recommended. We consider that the author of this paper is perfectly right in maintaining that those who serve in the West Indies should receive double pay, as they do in some other less deadly climates. It was at one time the custom in the West Indies for the planters to make an allowance, but on the abolition of slavery, their profits decreasing, the allowance was withdrawn. Where, however, the climate was notoriously unhealthy, and living expensive, it was insisted upon ; and here the prompt decision of Wellington displayed itself; with him there was no negotiation or delay; he settled the question off hand with this message—" With draw the supplies," said th e I ron D u k e, " an d I w ill withdraw my troops." A p a p er en titl e d "Remi niscences of the Last War in Canada," will be read with interest. The author states he has recalled from the lumber room (we supp ose of his brain) his experience of olden days, and trusts that if any of them bear upon the present exigency, they have not been rummaged out in vain. He has evidently great experience of those days, however acquired, and his narrative is full of interest and practical detail. Among other amusing anecdotes related, the following shows that the transatlantic fire eaters were not much smarter in 1814 than in 1861. Peruse the following, 0 reader, and judge for your self : A CLEVER SURPRISE. The capture of Fort Niagara was a smart thing. A detachment of the 100th Regiment went across the river, on the ice, after dark, and marched quietly down towards the Fort; two or three crept up to the advanced sentry and secured him ; getting the countersign from him, an Eng • lishman took his place, and the relief coming out, they 'Were also seised; the party under Captain Nowlan then advanced to the gate, and giving the countersign were ad mitted, seized the guard in an instant, and let in their comrades, the main body of whom had just come TT ; they separated immediately, and posted sentries over the bar rack-room doors. Captain Nowlan and a -Arty of Grena diers made for the officers' mess room, where they were playing cards ; just as they opened the door one of them said, ' What is trumps ?' A British officer replied, Bayo nets It is not easy to describe the feelings of the Yan kees to find themselves prisoners all at once. The men showed some little fight, but were quickly overpowered, and and Fort Niagara remained in our possession to the close of the war. A review of "The Second and Third Marquesses of Londonderry," under which name the lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart are published, enters at some length into tne history of these nota bilities. The number also contains several other papers, among which are to be found "A Visit to the Tuscarora and Nashville," " The Indian Engi neers," " The Defects of Armour Plating" (of which the public have heard quite enough for the present), " The Administration of the Navy," and " Particu lars of the Murder of the late Mr. Adolphe Schla gintweit, the Prussian Traveller." THE POET LAUREATE AND THE L ITE PRINCE CONSORT. A new edition of the idylls of the King contains the following dedication : These to his memory—since he held them most dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself—l dedicate, I dedicate, I consecrate with tears— These Idylls. And indeed he seems to me Scarce other than my own ideal knight, "Who reverenced his conscience as his king; Whose glory was, redressing human wrong ; Who spake no slander, no, nor listened to it : Who loved one only and who clove to her"— Iler—over all whose realms to the last isle, • Commingled with the gloom of imminent war, The shadow of his loss moved like eclipse, Darkening the world. We have lost him he is gone 'We know him now : all narrow jealousies Are silent ; and we see him as he moved, How modest, kindly, all-aceomplish'd, wise, - With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly; Not swaying to this faction or to that ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantage-ground For pleasure; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot ; for where is he, Who dares foreshadow for an only son A lovelier life, a more unstain'd, than his ? Or how should England dreaming of his sons Hope more for these than some inheritance Of such a life, a heart, a mind as thine, Thou noble Father of her Kings to be, Laborious for her people and her poor— Voice in the rich dawn of an ampler day— Far-sighted summoner of war and waste To fruitful strifes end rivalries of peace— Sweet nature glided by the gracious gleam Of letters, dear to Science, dear to Art. Dear to thy lend and ours, a Prince indeed, Beyond all titles, and a household name, Hereafter, through all times, Albert the Good. I3reak sot, 0 woman's heart, but still endure; Break not, for thou art royal, but endure, Itemenbering all the beauty of that star Whith shone so close beside thee, that ye made Onelight together, but has past and left Th ) Crown a lonely splendour. May all love, Ls love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow then, The love of all thy sons encompass thee, The love of all thy daughters cherish thee, The love of all thy people comfort thee, Till God's love set thee at his side again. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. HAY MARKETS. S urrHPIELD..--Meadow hay, £2 5s to £5 ; clover, £3 10s to £5 15s Od ; and straw, 8s to £1 168 Od per load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly at late rates. CUMB ERLAND.—Meztiow hay, £2 5s to £5 Os; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 15s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Trade dull. W HITECHAPEL.—eadow hay, £2 5s to £5 Os; clover £3 lOs to £5 15s Od ; M and straw, £1 8s to £1 lOs per load., A slow demand. MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocx. The progress of business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has been rather inactive. Tea has remained at about previous rates. Good and fine descriptions of coffee and sugar have barely sustained former quo tations, while superior qualities have been neglected. Rice, fruit, and spices have exhibited no change, while saltpetre and tallow has continued dull, the latest quotations being for P.Y.C. on the spot 475., March delivery 465. 9d., and last 3 months 48s. per cwt. There was a fair inquiry for cotton in the Liver pool market yesterday, and prices were unaltered, The sales were about 5,000 bales. There is an increase of £419 in the traffic re ceipts of the Brighton Railway for the past week, and of £lO6 on the South-Eastern. About £109,000 in gold was withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for export%tion. Increased activity is reported in the Discount Market this morning, but the augmented demand is fully accounted for by the arrangements con nected with the bills due today, the 4th of the month, and the withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England on Continental account. At an adjourned Jneeting of the creditors of Mr. E. M. Abbott, of the Bow Brewery, it was resolved that the estate should be wound up under a deed of assignment. Business in the market for Public Securities to day has continued extremely dull, and no change has taken place in the quotations, Consols being 921 1- for money and the 6th inst., and .921 and 93 for the March account. Arrangements are now in progress for the monthly liquidation. The New Threes and the Reduced are steady at 921 93; Ex chequer Bills, March, are 16s. to 18s. prem.; ditto June, 19s. to 225. prem. ; Bank Stock is flat at 2371 and 238 ; and India 5 per Cent. firm 1061 1. In the Foreign Market business has continued exceedingly active, and Mexican and Italian Stocks have experienced a further important ad vance. Turkish 6 per Cents. have improved to 85 to 851; ditto 1858, to 751 76; the £lOO Bonds to 77 and 78; Equalor to 171 ; Portuguese to 464 47; Venezuelan at 261 ; Spanish 3 per Cents. are 541 ; ditto Deferred 451 1-; ditto Passive, 191; and ditto Certificates, 71 ; Mexican have riden to 351 ; and the Italian Loan to 671 681 ; the Moorish Loan is about 51 prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has been moderately active, but a further slight decline has taken place in prices. Eastern Counties, Great Westerns, North Westerns, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North British, have declined 55., and Caledonian 108. Midlands, however, have im proved 10s., and South Easterns Ll. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been rather largely dealt in, and enhanced prices have in most instances been current. Dutch Rhenish improved ss. ; South Austrian and Lom bardo-Venetian 55., Grand Trunk of Canada 55., Great Western of Canada 55., and East Indian ss. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were also in moderate favour. Bank of London improved to 771 ; London and County to 43t ; Union of London to 30 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam remain steady at 691 ; and National Dis count Company 41- BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock •••• 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . ... 92f 3 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 924 3 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880... Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l 9-16 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent lOll I Ditto 51 per Cent lo7k Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 934 A Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 991 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Consols for Account, Feb. 6 92/ ndia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .••• 1061 1 ___ March. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d 16 17 Ditto £5OO June. 40k 120 1201 COLONIAL. TEA..—There has been a very limited business transacted; but prices, however, remained without material alteration. SUGAR.—The market has been dull, and in some in stances prices have slightly given way. Refined descrip tions, however, had realised previous values. COFEEE.—OnIy limited dealings have been recorded in colonial descriptions, and prices have remained without change of importance. Good and fine qualities of Planta tion Ceylon, however, command high rates. RICE.—For the better descriptions of East India there has been only a moderate demand, and late quotations are barely maintained. SALTPETRE.—Business has been inactive, and the few bargains recorded have led to no material change in values. TALLOW.--The market has been rather dull ; prices, however, have experienced no material change. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 475, March delivery 46s 9d, and last three months delivery 48s per cwt. THE MEMORIAL FUND,—Last evening the fund now being raised by the committee at the Mansion-house for a memorial of his late Royal Highness the Prince Con sort exceeded £25,000. Yesterday afternoon the Lord Mayor was honoured by a letter from the Duke of Cam bridge, enclosing a contribution of £lOO. ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.—The following is an extract from the letter of the Governor of Antigua to a re lative, dated the 11th of January last, when the expecta tion of a rupture with America was imminent We are taking steps for defence against predatory attacks. An ar rangement is being made with the captains of merchant v esse l s in port, by which, on a given signal, men from such vessels will repair to a battery which commands the entrance to the harbour; and I find that on board these vessels are men of the Naval Reserve, who have been drilled to gun nery, and are delighted at the idea of giving their service. This incidentally shows the value of that system. But I heartily hope there will not be war." NEW MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.— The follom ing gentlemen will be entitled to take the oaths and their seats as members of the House of Commons on the re-assembling of Parliament on Thursday :—Mr. Charles Turner, elected the third member for South Lan-, cashire, under the act of last session; Mr. W. Morrison, elected for Plymouth, in the room of Viscount Valletort, who has become the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe ; Mr. Chas. Seeley, returned for Lincoln, in the room of Ma j or Sib .t 'l°rP, deceased ; Mr. Edmund Potter, returned for Carlisle, in the room of Sir James Graham, Bart., deceased; Mr. Wm. Cox, returned for Finsbury, in the room of Mr. Thos. buncombe, deceased ; Sir Robert Clifton, Bart., returned for Nottingham, in the room of Mr. J. Mellor, who has been raised to the judicial bench; Mr. J. Laird, returned as the first member of the new borough of Birkenhead ; Mr. Foley -Vernon, elected for East Worcestershire, in the room of Mr. R. J. Hodgetts Foley, deceased ; Colonel Fane, elected for Oxfordshire, in the room of Mr. George Granville Ver ten deceased ; Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, elected for Cole r .., ai ne, in the room of Dr. Boyd, deceased. Three seats— ohoreham, Greet Grimsby, and Lincoln—remain to be filled up. 22 19 21 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Equador New Consolidated Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account - 5 a Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 46 14 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '60.. 46 Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. 98; 9 Ditto 4 3 / 4 per. Cent, 1860 Ditto 3Ver Cent. 1859 .. GO Sardinian 5 per Cent. Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive - Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto llj per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f 99f. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 6B n 8/ n 8 1 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Account COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YLSTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 18 11 18i Antwerp .. 25 35 Brussels — 25 35 llamburgh — 13 7 Paris Ditto Marseilles 25 40 25 40 13 71 25 20 25 45 25 45 Frankfort on Maine Vienna 118 k 14 10 118 k 14 20 Trieste Petersburgh Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples . Palermo Messina Lisbon 14 15 32f 14 20 321 48R 48i 25 55 25 55 25 55 40 119/ 120 511 48 48 25 60 25 60 25 60 CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—Ie has been decided to utilize the space the recent fire formed in Paternoster-row, by opening a street into it from St. Panl's-churchyard. To effect this long desired improvement, it will be necessary to widen the narrow and inconvenient thoroughfare of Lon don House-yard, and the inhabitants of the locality have been served with notices that their tenements will be re quired for the proposed alteration. Another excellent plan is projected to connect the Thames embankment at Black friars-bridge with a new street, proceeding east from Earl street, to New Earl-street, Cannon-street West, joining Cannon-street at the corner of Great Trinity-lane. This work will direct the traffic from Cheapside, and bring Can non-street, and Cannon-street West, into use. Intelligence has been received of the missing steamer Royal Bride, which sailed from Cardiff for New York on the 18th of November last. She was spoken with on the Gth of last month by the ship Conqueror, in lat. 36, long. 61, all well. The premium of insurance upon her at Lloyd's had reached to 50 guineas. . _ It is understood that a letter has been addressed to Lord Russell by the Committee of the General Ship owners' Society, urgently pressing that the opportunity afforded by the negotiations which are reported to be pend ing with the Belgian Govornment for a commercial treaty between Great Britain and Belgium, should not be allowed to pass without strenuous efforts being made for the aboli tion of the Scheldt dues, The advices from the River Plate to-day show that the effectual pacification of the Argentine Republic, under the auspices of Buenos Ayres, is . now considered certain, Almost all the interior provinces have declared in favour of the new policy, and the loss of power and prestige on the part of General Urquiza is said to have been so com plete that he is likely to retire from public life and perhaps to leave the country. The bar silver by the Mexican packet has been disposed of at 61/d. per ounce, being an advance of id. on the price realised for tho amount brought by the last steamer. During the greater part of last week there were hardly any transactions in silver, but Saturday and yester. day a large amount of business for the Bombay mail has been done at the present rate and at 611. The dollars are not yet sold. LIVERPOOL SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE HARTLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—His Worship the Mayor (Mr. R. Hu tchison) yesterday forwarded an additional remittance of £l,OOO to the local committee, which, with the previous remittance, makes the sum of £2,500 which has been trans mitted from Liverpool for the benefit of the surviving suf ferers. DEATH OF STIERIFP LOGAN.—The Edinburgh papers mention the death of Mr. Alexander Steward Logan, Scotch advocate, and sheriff of Forfarshire, in his 51st year. He was called to the bar in 1835, and was more remarkable for his humour than for his legal attainments. He was a thorough Whig, and .was reward e d b y hi s par t y some years ago with a sher iffdom, which is now vacant by hie , death. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1862. SHARE ILIA.RKET-(THIS DAY). ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways. Paid./ Closing Business Price. done. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bost., SI eaf.,and 'Bristol and Exeter , Caledonian 'Cork and Bandon Cornwall gets no diva Do I A ti 116 p e.p an.has l Do. B been paid to 8.1 Dublin & Belfast June. 7 8 64 7 go 08 103 104 11031 i & Dun.,Perth,& Ab. Junc East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do Bdo do DoNw A, late E U 3ds East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin., Perth, & Dundee Glasg. and S. Western.l GreatNrthn.of Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an 1 W. of Ireland Great Western ...... • • Do Str Val gua. stock. Irish South Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine .. L'derry & Enniskillen. Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent 68f 4:31 Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry, Warnpt, & nos 1 Nori olk North British Nor.Doy.Rail&Dk.stock Do A stk ; A recs no d till i; pc. has been pdß Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York North London Do new North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction ) Not. Gran. RI. & Canat Portsmouth Rhs mney Scottish Central' !Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. '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. , an dWok. Stockton & Darlington Do _ Do New, 1860 Taff Vale Do Pref. No!1 i ThamesHavenDk&Rail jUlster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim 1 Waterford .1: Kilkenny' Waterford t Limerick West Cornwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 13.14 25 10 st st 50 20 5 6 42 44 10} 11 194 20 53i 64 51 53 31 35 92 93 30& 31 102 104 [l3 114 !OH 1101 132 134 104 106 661 671 57 6) Nei 107 59 61 117 119 44 46 924 03 97 08 9 11 43 44 7 74 130 f 134 1 8 1 11 3 100 102 65 67 611 65i Sao 1001 d p 561 SRI 8S 88 99 101 44 41 d i 10i 11 92 94 125 127 44 46 100 102 46 48 37 39 79 791 67 69 98 100 5 81 881 1 3li 8 1 91 PI 5 6.1 144 148 55} 564 2f 35 . 1 d jp 91 94 127} 132} 6i 7 84 86 47 49 44 46 90 92 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid. Leasing Closing r Business o Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead.. , lOO Do.&G.W 84 86 BuckinghrniO. re. Chester & H Ilyhead.. 100 Do 534 544 Do. 55 per cent 100 Do 124 126 Do. 5 „ 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&E.O E. Lincolnsh. gApr c. 100 Gt. North. 136 138 1374 E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 45 Do. Woodbridge.... 100 • • • • Gls. Barr.&Neils.Drct. 100 Caledon .. .. Do. new Glos ter & Dean Forest all .t. West. .. .. Hull and Selby all k.N. Mid 111 113 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 201 204 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do. Bromley, 6 per c all Da .... ... .. .. London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64 Do. Preferen -e Lon.,Tilb.& s,v , ,thend 100 Peto &Co Bl 63 821 Lowestoft gua. *p c.. 100 orfolk Do A pier cent lOO Do. 3inc.,Bxtn.oirMatlock all LNW& 31 34 41 4 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5.6. E Counts. 4 3 p pm. 5 per cent... Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all IDo. Do. 6 per cent..... all iDo. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool ICO N. E. Ber. .. . . North Western L&N.W } Preston and Wyre. I all jr, L y k. 44 46 Do. 4 shares A. all Do. ••• •. .. .. Roystn.llitch.& Shep. 100 Gt. North: 135 138 Shreweby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 121 123 1215 25 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 91 93 Wimbledn t Croydon, all LABrgtn, 85 95 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share( Railwa Pa id.( Closing I Business ys. Prices. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at £5 Bris. & Exet. 4 p. c. at Do. shares Caledon. qr. shrs, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent Dun. Perth, & Aber.Jun Do. Ist Class Pref E. Angn. Class A 5 p. c E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 Do No. 2 Do. new 6 p. c. st Eastern Union, 4 p. 0-- Do. 5 p. c. guar Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. &.U Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c Great Northern, 5 p. c D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm Do. 44 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redmatsp.c.pm Gt. Nh. of Scot. Ist pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland) 92 94 20 21 6 6i 99 101 109 111 108 110 125 127 81 83 112 114 90 92 116 118 113 115 104 106 108 110 4 per cent Great West. (Berke and Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 4} p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. ct Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref ,')o. Birm. pref. shares Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs Do. Birm. guar. stock Do. Chester guar. shares Do. do Do. do Lan. & Carl. 4} p.c. pref Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock Do.Barnsl.st£s 2s 10dpe Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pnr Lon.&Brig.sp.c.gu. No.l Do. 5 per cen,k). No 2 Do. 6 per cent o Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) Do. 4p c.st(diy.def.lll'6s Lon.Chat.&Dny. sp.c.pf. Lon. & N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent 97 99 98 100 89 91 90 92 [O2 104 9i 10i 17 18 10i 11 76 78 20i 21 10t 10 15i 15 [35 137 102 104 112 114 112 114 135 140 112 114 150 155 126 129 74 76 95 97 st., late 3d shares Do. 44 per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpL anus of 2s 6d London dy. & Cole. she Lon dony. & Ennis. shal Man. Sh. & Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent, Do. redeem. 6 per cent... Mar ort & Carl. 4 pr. c. p Do. 4+ per cent. ........ Midland Con. 6 p. c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c . Do. 41 p.c. pref. at. rdem Do. 4/ p.c. irredeomable Do. 41 . per cent . Do. Lew,. andHit.4per ct. Norflk. 5 p. c. Ex. at. 1846 Do. 51 p. c. Pref. st. 1847 D 0.5 Way.ValEx.stlBl7 Nort British, 5 per cent. Do. New mut. 5 per cent Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs. Do. do. do. Nth.Dvn.Rail. &Dck.Co. N-East. Cons. pref. 4 c.c. Do. 4i pr. ct. redeenia'ble Do. G. N. E. 4 p. et. pref. Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. N 67 I Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. Do. York, R. & S. Purch. North Staffordshire.... Rhymney Guaranteed.. Scottish North-Eastern 43d 124 10s. 10 1 O. 6. 3O p. c. pref. stock 1 Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 4o per cent South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 4O per cent Do, Fixed 44 per cent South Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 4/ per cent Do. do. 1859 Do. 5 per cent. S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua. Do. 5 p. c. gua. Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do.. B6p. c Do. C 6 p. c Watrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. c. W. Mid:-Oxf Ist gua stk _ Do. 2d do. 100 100 100 all all Do. Newport 5 p.c. pf.red. Do. Perpet.6 p. c. pf. 1866 Do• tall 1869 112 114 131 14 124 126 1 'Pm 68 71 I 'PM 135 137 ,103 105 93 95 lii ii: 1109 111 11 lipm 102 104 98 100 4 dig par dis par 22 23 132 136 10 11 241 212 101 103 101 103 86 80 j 1} p 28 29 32 34 31 33 42 45 127 129 123 126 103 105 123 126 119 122 DOCKS. stook 'Commercial . 100 stock Do. 4 per Cent.Prei.Min. 100 stock East and West India .. 100 123 125 stock kondo^ .. . 100 57 59 stock E SL , Katharine.. lOO 60 62 stock South a mpton lOO et,ok Victoria , 100 98 100 99 i 20 poi Nevi ~...1.4 0 4 .14 P Share BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. Atlantic & St Lawrence' Bom.,llaroda&Cent Ind' Gu. 5 per cent... Buffalo and Laxe Iluron Do. New . Do. Preference C l eutta.&s.Eastn.ll.llll Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim ) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Demerara Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. pc. Debentrs. Do. 5 p. e. 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 et Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 G t. In diaPenin. gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.e. '73 with't opt Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Madras guar., 5 p. Do. 4 p. o. Extension Do. 44 do Melb.Corp. 6 p. C. Bnds Newßr unswick Canda Ry. &Lan d(Lim. 6pc Class A Capital S hare Do. do. Land do Do. do. B Capital do. Do. do. Land do. Scinde •• ••• •1 Do. Punjaub e Do. Do. •• Do. Indus. St. Flo. g o , Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. all 100 15 fall 100 !Paid. iClosing Price. all 100 all all all all 63 G 99i 100 i 51 5# d 7 8 41 6} & ip 994 1004 1014 1021 99 101 1014 102; 1014 102; 104 105 24 26 70 74 60 03 41 43 45 50 38 42 37 40 100 101 id 99 100 12( 13 7( 74 98 100 SS 92 99 100 92 95 90 92 o 5 7 4 6 101} 102 i i it 96 99 1 }d 1001 I 12 13 121 FOREIGN Algerian ..... Antwerp & Rotterdam. Ardennes.... Bali.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine & Rail Copiapo • • .. • • • • Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Grand Rue Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. she... Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout .. • • Lyons & Geneva •• Namur & Liege •... • • Do. 6 p. 0. Pref. .. •• •• • • Northern of Franoe.• • • Do. New Shares -. •• • • Norwegian Trunk Pref. Ot`mn (Smyrna to Aidn)' Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. Parts & Orleans.. • • •• •• Recife & S. Fran. (Peru.) zua. 7 p. ct. lim •• • • Riga & Dunaburg.• •• • • Royal Danish...• •• •• •• Royal Swedish ..... Do. 7 per cent. Pref...• Sambre & Meuse .• •• • • Do. 5k per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, lirn, Z• 7 1)- o• S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin Southern of FranCe•••• S. East Portugal 7 p ct. West Flanders ...• •• •• Do. 54p. e. Preference.. W. & N.W. of France • • Western of Austria.... Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden •...... Do. 8 por cent Pref....l Zealand . • BRTTI& Alfred Consols (Phi/ack) Rritish Iron .......... Clifford ............... . Devon G. Cons. (Tavist./ East Bassett (Illogan)• • East Caradon ...... • East Cern Brea ..... W'l Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus..• • G.Wheal Al fu. (rhilack: G. Wheal Vor (Haston) Grenville ............ Herod's- Foot .......... Hingston Does. Lady Bertha .......... argaret (tiny Lelant) nark e Valley.. .......• Myndy Iron Ore (Lim.) North Downs .......... North Frances (Mogan) N. Wh '1 Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crotty •• Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cern Brea (Illogan).. S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. ...Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park ............ Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. Tin Croft .............. Vale of Towey (Carm.) West Basset (Illogan).. W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) IVheal Buller (Redruth) Whce.l Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) Business done 8111 sl}{ I 104 102} 2} lt 2; 26 5, 5 , 74 3 61, THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following appointments were made at the Admiralty this evening :-- Master George Stanley to the Fisgard for surveying Paymaster Charles G. Smith (additional) to the Russe' Master's Assistant William F. Maxwell to the Fisgard for surveying service. Assistant-Paymaster—Melville Maxwell (in charge) to the Espoir. Engineers—J. Ross to the Hawke, for the Lark ; D. Leitch (first-class assistant) to ditto, for the Advice ; T. M. Thompson (second-class assistant) to the Blenheim, for the Charon, vice Wood ; G. R. Beer (acting second-class assistant) to the Hawke, for the Advice. LONDON GAZETTE. —(This Evenzng). FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 25. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ed ward St. John Neale, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation in China, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Lega tion in Japan._ The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Thomas Francis Wade, Esq., C. 8., to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation in China. FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 1. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry B. Mammond as Consul at Dublin, and of Mr. Jame s W. Mar shall as Consul at Leeds, for the United States of America. WHITEHALL, FEB 3. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Patrick Fraser, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or Sheriffdom of Renfrew, in the room of Robert Macfarlane, Esq., ap pointed a Lord of Session in Scotland. CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 3. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Coleraine—Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, of Downhill, in the county of Londonderry, Bart., in the room of John Boyd, Esq., deceased. County of Oxford—Lieutenant-Colonel John William Fane, in the room of George Harcourt, Esq., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 4. 2 d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, Bart., from the 10th Foot, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ewart, promoted. 16th Lancers—Gentleman Cadet Johu Palmer Brabazon. from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, without pui chase, vice Alan John Colquhoun, appointed to the 42nd Foot. Royal Artillery—Surgeon Richard Francis V alpy De Lisle, having completed a period of 20 years, Full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of Ist October, 1858. Military Train—Captain Edward Jervis has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission. 3d Regiment of Foot—Captain Francis Houlton Hartwell, from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Wm. Henry, who exchanges ; Ensign James Edward Foster to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Awdry, who retires ; George Agar Alexander, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Foster. 6th Foot—Captain Isaac Harmond, from 97th Foot, to be Captain, vice Henry John Lawrell, who exchanges. 7th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Edward Harrow, from the 59th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Frampton, who ex changes. 9th Foot —Captain Arthur George E. Morley, from 90th Foot, to be Captain, vice Wm. Lawrence Murphy, who has retired upon half-pay ; Quartermaster-Sergeant Patrick Boylan to be Quartermaster, vice James Parrot Arrowsmith, who retires upon half-pay. 10th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Annesley to be Captain, by purchase, vice George Frederick Coryton, who retires ; Lieutenant Walter Hedger to be Captain, by purchase, vice George Wm. Graham, who retires ; Ensign Ed ward A. H. Roe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Annesley; Ensign Alex. Fraser to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hedger; Archibald Glen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Roe ; Arthur William King, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fraser. 11th Foot—Clifford Wharton Charles Kemeys•Tynte, Gent., late Lieutenant Ist Somerset Militia, to be En sign, by purchase, vice Lloyd, appointed to tb. 16th Fo•t, 14th Foot—Surgeon John Elliott Carte, M. 8., having com pleted a period of 20 years, full pay service, to be Surgeon- Major, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of Oct. 1. 16th Foot—Ensign Basil Clifton Westby to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Pennefather, who retires; En sign Charles 'Whitworth Lloyd, from 11th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Firz-Herbert, appointed to the Rifle Bri gade ; John Edward Orange, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Westby. 17th Foot—Captain Win. Henry, from the 3d Foot, to be Captain, vice Francis Houlton Hartwell, whoexchanges. 19th Foot—Lieutenant Wm. Henry Moffatt to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Fredk. Montagu Alison, promoted, by purchase, to an unattached majority . 21st Foot—Capt. Thomas Gardiner, from half-pay, late 98th Foot, to be Captain, vice Charles Hill Freason, who re tires upon half pay. 24th Foot—Lieut. Robt. C. T. Atthill, from the 50th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Oliver Goldsmith, who exchanges. 25th Foot—Ensign Wm. Grogan Knox to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Edward Gore Browne, pro • moted, by purchase, to an Unattached Company; Gerald Monteath Shirley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Knox. 28th Foot—Ensign Ellis Houlton Ward to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Win. Alfred Steward, deceased. 29th Foot—Lieut. Henry Grantham Fulford, from 97th Foot, to bo Lieutenant, vice Francis Wm. Prittie, who exchanges. 33d Foot—Capt. Joseph C, Smythe, from 531 Foot, to be Captain, vice Francis A. Ball, who exchanges. 34th Foot—Capt. Wm. Cody, from half pay, late 3d West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Edward Herman Marsh, who retires on half pay. 36th Foot—Lieut. C ement Sheriff T. Sale to be Captain, by purchase, vice Horace Edward Willet, who retires; Ensign George Cotton Dumergue to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sale; Wm. Skerrett, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Dumergue. 60th Foot—Lieutenant Oliver Goldsmith, from 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert C. T. Atthill, who ex changes. 63d Foot—Captain Francis A. Ball, from the 33d Foot, to be Captain, vice Joseph C. Smythe, who exchanges. 55th Foot—Ensign Francis Holt Tate to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edwin Charles Hilton, who retires; Francis Hoey Wade, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tate. 59th Foot—Lieutenant Win. John Frampton from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Harrow, who exchanges. 63d Foot—Easign Major Dawson Hill to be Lieutenant, by purehase, vice Charles Ellison Terrot, whose promo tion, by purchase, has been cancelled ; Gentleman -Cadet Wm. Bigg, from the Royal Military College, to be En sign, without purchase, vice Hill. 69th Foot—Surgeon Huntley George Gordon, M.D,, hav ing completed a period of 20 years full-pay service, to be Surgeon -Major, under the provisions of the Royal War rant of the Ist October, 1858. 75th Foot—Captain Oswald Win. Every, from 90th Foot, to be Captain, vice Thomas Carlisle, who exchanges ; Ensign Anthony Rowband, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice George Benjamin Singer, deceased. 79th Foot—Surgeon Thomas Goldie Scott, M.D., having I completed a period of 20 years full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major, under the provisions of the Royal War rant of the Ist October, 1858. 85th Foot—Ensign Wm. Frederick Hancocks to be Lieu • tenant, by pu;chase, vice Boles Reeves, who retires; Avery Jebb, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Han cocks. 88th Foot—Ensign John James Davidson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lewis Mansergh Buchanan, who re tires ; Frederick Maddan Maitland Mapleton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Davidson. 90th Foot—Captain Thomas Carlisle, from the 75th Foot, to be Captain, vice Oswald William Every, who ex changes; Captain and Brevet-Major William Temple Parrett, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Morley, appointed to the 9th Foot. 95th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Gresham Paske to be Adju tant, vice Lieutenant Sexton, promoted. 97th Foot—Captain Henry John Lawrell, from 6th Foot, to be Captain, vice Isaac Harmond, who exchanges; Lieutenant Francis William Prittie, from the 29th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Grantham Fulford, who exchanges. Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Frederic Arthur Riley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Henry Wilmot, who retires ; Ensign Robert Hamilton Lloyd Anstruther to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice, vice Riley; Eneign Walter Hepburn Melitas Fitz Herbert, from the 16th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Anstruther. 3d West India Regiment—Captain Gillian Meclean Ross, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice James Francis Birch, who retires upon half-pay. rUEVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—Deputy-Purveyor John Thomson to be Purveyor to the Forces, vice William S. Rogers, deceased; Deputy Purveyor Alfred Pope, to be Purveyor to the Forces, vice William Anderson, placed on the retired list. UNATTACHED. Major Edward Burgoyne Cureton, from 12th Lancers, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase; Captain Frederick Anthony Trevor, from the 4th Foot, to be Major, by pur chase ' • Lieutenant Maurice George Beaufoy Fit z G e rald, fi om the 97th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase. BREVET. Captain Chasles Jolliffe, Royal Marines, to be Major in the Army. __ MEMORANDUM. The undermentioned officer upon half-pay has been per mitted to retire from the service, by the sale of his com mission, under the conditions of the Horse Guards' Cir cular Memorandum of the 15th February, lE6l:—Cornet Archibald Glass, half-pay, late Land Transport Corps. BANKRUPTS. James Davis, Tabernacle-walk, Finsbury George Rowley, oilman, Islington Felix Lievin Bauwens, St. Ann-street, Westminster Richard Cooke, tin plate worker, Freemantle, Hants Charles Roads, oilman, Walworth -road Joseph Pyefinch, railway guard, Hoxton Edward Wilson, gingerbeer maker, Poplar New Town ' Henry Hammond Stammers, tailor, Strand William Naughton, grocer, Naughton, Norfolk Thomas James Walton, merchant, Bishopsgate, City Kadir Bukhsh Turkish bath-man, Finsbury George Bickerdike, gas engineer, Lower-road, Islington William Whiteman, builder, Pimlico Isaac Simm, coal merchant, Edge lane, near Liverpool George William Brown Drury, surveyor, Preston William Henry Sharpies, yarn agent, Manchester Parnell Johnson, cabinet maker, Market Rasen, Lincoln Walter John Stone, Llandudno, Carnarvon Richard Balshaw, joiner, St. Helens, Lancaster Mary Jones, farmer, Bryndn, Llanidloes Henry Rinks, coin merchant, Bicester, Oxford Daniel Church, clerk, reckam-rye, Surrey Samuel Amis, fish curer, Suffolk William Pipe, butcher, Frasalingham, Suffolk John George Stratton, mining agent, Walworth, Surrey Samuel Finney, blacksmith, Leek, Staffordshire Wm. E. Matthews, boot maker, Birmingham Wm. Law, brewer, Birmingham Richard B. Blakeway, farmer, Heathton, Salop Henry Thomas, farmer, Herefordshire Pantaleone Constantine Salvago, merchant, Manchester Joseph Myers, furniture dealer, Old Kent-road John Baylie, att9rney, Southwark Joseph H. Challenger, pianoforte maker, Brixton . Thome J, Eketedt, pianoforte manufacturer, Nowlugwn Robt. Smith, sett., builder, College•st„ Camden-town. Charles W. West, bookbinder, Bouverie-at., ly leet• street Nathaniel D. Norris, hop merchant, Hereford Wm. H. Tomkins, printer, Walsall Thomas Philpot, innkeeper, Shrewsbury Henry C. D. Borne, grocer, Boston Wit 6 A. Dolby, land agent, Syston, , n u Licolnshire Humphrey M. Freestun, commander .N., Moneta* Grove, Soraersetshire LAW IIV TELLIG.ENC E.—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Air, Registrar Higgins.) IN RE RAWLES-AWRWARD MISTAKES. This bankrupt was . described as of Bolingbroke-row, Camberwell-road, boot and shoe manufacturer, and this was a meeting for the choice of assignees, Mr. Hubert Wood, Colema n - street-buildings, was solici tor the petitioner. Tho debts are under £3OO, and there would have been sufficient to pay 20s in the pound had the property been sold under two executions by the sheriff, who paid a distraint for rent, and handed the surplus, less expenses to the messenger of the court who was in posses sion, as it was made clear that the debts on which the executions were issued were due from the bankrupt's father. The cases generally were very unimportant before the Registrar. IN RE PAUL, STRACHAN, AND SATES. A meeting was appointed for a dividend under the joint estate of these bankrupts, but the case was not on during morning. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ARTFUL AND CRUEL FRAUD.—Joseph M'Cullah, a boy, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following fraud:— Mr. Davis, the Governor of the Boys' Refuge, Commer cial-street, Whitechapel (a valuable institution, and which numbers among its committee the names of Samuel Gur ney, Esq., M.P., Sir F. Buxton, Bart., the Hon. A. Kin naird, M P &c ) attended to watch the case. ••, • Mrs. Mary Burgin, a widow, and employed at the University College, said the prisoner called on her last Wednesday and told her her son who was in the Refuge had gone raving mad, and, while in that state, had lost a half-sovereign which the Committee of the Refuge had given him to get changed. The prisoner said he had given the boy all he had, 45., and that 6s. were wanting to make up the money, or he would be turned out of the Refuge. She said she would go herself, but the prisoner said that that would not do, for before she got there her boy would be discharged. She gave the prisoner 3d. to pay his omni bus back, and he left, but she found that he had gone to an immediate neighbour and got 2s. in her name, stating that she had sent him, but this was not true. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the poor woman said that if she had had the 6s. she, believing the prisoner's story to be true, would have given him the money. A young woman named Lake, said the prisoner called and said he was sent by Mrs. Burgin for 25., and, as she believed the prisoner had been sent by that person she gave him 2s. A constable said he took the boy in Whitechapel, He said he was sorry he had done it, and that he deserved all he got, He had heard the prisoner had got money by similar means at Woolwich. Mr. Davis said the boy had robbed his own mother. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner for a week. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Feb. 4.—Wind this day at noon—S , ,uth- Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. COWES, Feb. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Marco Polo, from Poo-Chow-foo, and sailed for Hamburg. Feb. 3. Arrived—Catherina Hermann, from Rio Janeiro, with loss of sails. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Virgin Maria, from Gibusa, leaky. Sailed—Annette, screw steamer, for Sydney. Feb. 3.—Sailed—Lincolnshire, for Melbourne. FALMOUTH, Feb. 3.—Wind S.W. —Arrived—Rhea Sypio, from Callao; New Trade, from Rio Janeiro ; Glo riosa, from Callao ; Ferment, from Newcastle for Cagliari, to stop a leak. CLYDE, Feb. I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Greenock, from Mauritius. Sailed—lsabella Hamilton, for Hong Kong; Mary Glover, for Boston; Maid of Orleans, - andllorese, for New York. BELFAST LOUGH, Feb. I.—Arrived—Clara,lrom Liver pool for Kurrachee. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mag dalena, steamer, from Halifax, with fittings carried away and rudder head damaged, having experienced a severe hurricane on the 25 ult. SWANSEA, Peb. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived — Yehlima, and Mary Ann Johnston, from Caldera. DUBLIN, Fob. 3.—Arrived—Queen Victoria, from New York. KINGSTOWN Feb. 3.—Arrived—Hero, from Phila delphia; her 'Majesty's ship Himalaya, from Ports mouth. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 3. Sailed Bahiana, screw steamer, for New York. Put back—Brenda, for Hali fax, N.S. OFF FALMOUTH, Feb. 3.—Wind S. W.—Arrived— Roska, from Rio Janeiro. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales returned from Buckingham Palace, and embarked in the Fairy yacht for Osborne at half-past 10 a.m. Arrived—Oden, from Musquash; Alliance, steamer, from Havre. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Feb, 3—Roselle, from Hamburg. Arrived, Feb. 4—Arno, from Hamburg ; Mary Ann, from Levider ; Mould, from Lisbon ; Palmerston, from Singapore ; Concordia, from St. Michael's. Sailed, Feb. 4—Concordia, steamer, for Boulogne, DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed— Cormine. from New York, for London. Sailed—Contest, for London, and several outward bound. HOUSE OF LORDS.—The Right Rev. Dr. Henry Philpott, Bishop of Worcester, will tike his seat in the House of Lords at the opening of Parliament, and will act for the present as chaplain. Dr. Thomson, who has re cently been consecrated Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, will remain without a seat until one of the stipulated vacan cies arises. The Himalaya screw steam transport arrived in Kingstown at 12 o'clock yesterday, having on board 21 officers and 744 men of the 44th Regiment, under the com mand of Lieut.-Col. Blenkinsop. She also brings 70 women and 71 children. The Himalaya left Portsmouth on Thurs day, but was obliged by the storm to anchor that night off the Needles, from which point she steamed to Kingstown in 53 hours. It appears that the Union Bank of London have entered into an arrangement with a view to place about £4,500,000 of additional Portuguese bonds upon the Lon don market between this date and the end of next year. The Union Bank will execute this service for a commis sion of 1 per cent., making no further charge of any kind. The operation commences by their opening a credit for £lOO,OOO, which they undertake to advance so soon as they receive an amount of bonds equivalent in market value with an additional margin of 8 per cent. When the sale of the first £lOO,OOO shall have been com pleted, and the Bank are repaid their advance, with interest at 1 per cent. above the current rate of the Bank of Eng land, a fresh credit of like amount is to be opened, and so on until the close of the transaction. The issue of these bonds is for the purposes of railway expenditure. According to the financial accounts from New York the reaction in the premium on Bold has been caused by a report, very generally current, that Mr, Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury, alarmed by the remonstrances of the banks and the principal capitalists against his wild schemes for an unlimited flood of paper, was about to make different proposals. Some persons believed that instead of an unrestricted issue of Government notes he would now resort to the more honest course of raising money by the creation of interest-bearing securities to be sold at their market value. It was seen however by the parties in Con gress and elsewhere interested in keeping up the national outlay, that the limits of this measure would be very nar row, and it is remarked by the New York Journal of Com merce that " the army of leeches fastened on the Treasury" are all clamorous for the original plan. Meanwhile, from the uncertainty thus occasioned, the money and exchange markets were in utter confusion, and fluctuations of 3 or 4 per cent. in the value of bankers' bills are alleged to have taken place in a single day. There is still much talk of re setting to taxation, but the majority of observers are be lieved to be perfectly convinced that the moment its practi cal operation begins to be felt all enthusiasm for the war will be at an end. _ SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE KEN NINGTON TRAMWAY.—Yesterday Mr. C. St. Clair Bedford, coroner for Westminster, received information of the death of a youth named Shaw, arising from an accident, which occurred under the subjoined shocking circumstances, in the Westminster-road, near Astley's Theatre, on Saturday last :—The poor lad followed the occupation of a shoeblack, and his station was at the corner of the York-road, nearly facing Astley's Theatre. On Saturday afternoon, at five o'clock, he was crossing the road, when, from some unex plained cause, he came in contact with one of the Brixton omnibuses, which was at the time running partially on the tram rails laid down for the use of Mr. Train ' s cars. The wheels of the vehicle p assed over the unfortun ate boy,the hinder wheel nea rl y removing the u pp er most portion of the skull. On being picked up i t was found that the shaft wheel of the omnibus running on the metal lines of the tramway had lacerated the poor boy's head in a most fright ful manner; in fact, he was literally covered with the blood which gushed from his wound. lie was immediately taken to Westminste r Hos p ital, b ut, as maybe supposed, his case was considered hopeless from the first, and although every thing was done for him by the medical officers of the insti tution, he only sutvived until ten o'clock, never having re covered from the state of insensibility in which he was when he was first picked up _ _ . TriE LATE MURDEROUS ASSAULT IN LIVERPOOL. —G. Green, the sailor charged with the murder of Enos Seth, the steward of the sloop British Queen, was yester day committed by the Liverpool borough coroner for trial on the charge of wilful murder. 6.4.0 V. 16. 12.10 67 1 I'l 106 f 7 601 118 92f 971 f 8 7f 130 i lf 1 101} f 641 f 100} f f d 431 3 80 791 80} f FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Lim all 4 1 1 5 Brazil Land & Mln.Co all 11 11 1 Clarendon Con R.MiuCo ; 40 Cobre Copper all 32 24 331 3 Copiapo l6 6 8 1 Dun Moun.Cop.Mlncr.Co all 1 11 3 East Del Rey (Limited) 1 4 2 Fortuna. 20 General all 23 24 2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 pr p 11 14 Kapunda (Limited) 1 1 14 p S Linares all 74 8 5 Lusitanian 2 4 d pr 2 1 Mariquica all 1 1 N.RhmeCopofS.Aus.L„ Id 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt..., all 2 4 5 Port Philip 1 11 1 4 1 / 1 'Scottish Austrin. (L.)., Ins. 1 1 pm 17 20 ISt.John del Key (L.)..., 28.2.81 United Mexican ~, ,,,,,I 15 64 66 all 84 9 8 4 1 'Worthing (Limited) ( all • COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July) 1877-82 Do 6p. cent.lBB3-4 100 - - Do. Bp. cent. --- 100 4 - - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 106 108 Do. 6p. a. Mar. & Sept. 100 ,109 ill Do. 5 per cent lOO 954 994 98 9 Do. Inscribed stock 100 97 99 Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1880 100 110 112 Do. 1890 100 110 112 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 lOO 109 111 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c 100 N.13.G0v. 6 p.a. J a.&July 100 1044 1051 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Uov. sp. C., 1868 100 99 100 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 97 98 Do. d0.,1888 &upanis 100 984 974 971 7 New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 106 107 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO 1064 1074 S. Aus,G6p.C.lB7a& up lOO - ;Vic,.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 103 105 1044 :Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oo I 100 106 107 107 64 1044 107 61 1103 105 405 107 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 Agra&UnitedService Bk 60 86 88 40 Australasia all 64 66 651 25 Bank of Egypt all 211 221 100 Bank of London ... 5O 76 78 774 50 British North American all 50 52 20 Chtd.Bank of India, dm all 21 214 25 Ch. Mer. of In. Lon.ez Ch all 32 84 100 City 100 Colonial ........ ...... 25 89 41 20'11 Corn. Bank of Canada all 20 Eng., Soot, 85 Aus. Ch all 181 19 20 Gen. Bk .01 Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 254 26 20 Do. new all 264 Mt 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock • 20 London and S.Airican lO pr 4p 100 London & Westminster 20 74 76 100 'Vat. Prov. of England 42 20 Do. new I 50 National Bank ..... ... 25 RC New South Wa1e5...... all 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all 534 544 541 20 I Ottoman Bank ......... all 19 194 100 I Provincial of Ireland .. 25 10 Do. new all — 25 South Australia all 25 Union of Australia 50 Unto,. of London I 12 30 31 301 3 0 100 Unity 60 MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint .. all 141 151 10 !Atlantic R. MI. Stm (1d) all 1 8 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all 123 Australian Agricultural 19 26 28 10 Bahia Steam (Limited). 1 10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 51 6 50 British American Land 40 _ 50 B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) all 29 82 20 Do. 8,7p.c.t1111852 (Lim.)' all 18 2 0 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 9 1 1 825 Canada Land .. . 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim ) all _ 10 China & Japan Coast & River Steam Naviga. 25 _ _ et. Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg all _ _ 25 Do. Pref. 71 per cent all is 17 et. Crystal Palace et. Do. Preference et Do. 6 p ct. Perpet. Deb lOO 101 104 10 E.lndia & Lon. Ship A 75 16 Do. B. 75 ii 0 L 20 E.lndia Irrign. & Canal 1 /n . i,t,„ et. Electric Telegraph 10 95 44,8-. 25 Do. New l5 5 English &Aus. Copper all 3; 31 15 Gen. Steam Navigati m 14 ...: ...._ 1 Great Slip Limited) all 1 1 1 Do! 175 p. ct Preference all 1 2 Indian Carrying (Lim.) 1 ..: _ 1 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 45 _ ..... 4 L.G. Omnibus Co.(Lim.) all II 14 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 21 gi 34 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ) all 10 Do. 8 per cent. pref all ___ _ 25 National Dis. Co. (Lim ) 5 i . .. 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 It lit I 10 Netherlands Land all ... 1 5 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl die. all 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiALand 81 10 4 15 i 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 1 14 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). 'all 14 14 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.). all 11 15 10 Orintl. In. Steam(Lim.) all 7 8 at. Peelß.Ln d.&Min.(Lim) 100 49 51 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam al! 69 71 695 50 Do. New 3 ' 10 12 41 405 20 Red Sea&ln.Telg.4sp.e all 1 84 194 50 Rhymney Iron all 1 19 15 Do. New all 5 6 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 50 52 at. Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lim) 100 135 140 25 South Australian Land 'all 33 35 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip all 1 Do. do. Registered ...• all all 41 6 1 10 Do. do 2 Telegraph to Ind ' a (L ) 1 Ide par 10 Trust and Agency of Austria's (lim)lst is. 1 ~ 20 Tr.& Ln.Co. of Upr.Ca n. 5 p i lip 6 k k 1 6 U. lc dom Tel. Co. (Mm.) 1 14 4 19 van Diemen 's Land iis 28; 910 RAILWAYS 6 1 101 11 i 4i 4 4 1 p 23 t 4 101 101 83 I. 20 21 . 89} 40i 8 10 8i 7i 41 44 53 65 3 1 211 12 15 i 81 9 9} id pr lk 281 2ip 7 71 1 10 104 211 224 MINES. 3.9.3 lef f 1 f lot I I 1 f i 3 191 20 5.11.6,, all 1.8.1q.5, 2719. 1138_6dj - 4 --- F 1 2 3 0 32 385 305 51 53 29& 30 2i 101 3 11 16 ig 3i 4 6} 64 1 4 2 39 21 3 1 it 9 1 10} 1 51 2 it 2 i } 2 7 8 42 44 32 3 g 8 4 f 3 1 0 i 110 115 29 31 1 4 2 8 g 1311 14 1 44 ig 290 300 100 110 65 75 1j 2} 6} 101 15 16 18 19 301 30 101 21 I 51-... service. OUR MONETARY SYSTEM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,--The commercial aspect of the nation is, confessedly by all parties, exceedingly dreary. Stagnation, dulness, and lethargy are everywhere apparent. And why ? Our national wants are as great as they have ever been; and our means, measured by our aggregate physical, mental, and accumulated capabilities, are not less than heretofore. Yet, large masses of the people are unemployed; much wealth is lying inactive; and much besides employed at considerable loss. If asked, Why is this ? some reply, The unsettled posi tion of the United States of America has seriously embar rassed our trade and done us much damage ; some, that the high price of the principal necessaries of life has been very prejudicial; others, again, that the taxation levied is too great for the national vitality or elasticity to withstand ; and others, that the death of the late much-lamented Prince Consort has enveloped our industrial interests in the pre sent sombre cloud. Doubtless, these are grave difficulties, and render impe rative great consideration before the national judgment is surrendered to any passing claim. Many are the rumours which obtain currency that would be scouted if caution and research were more general. Many bugbears, in such a case, which now extensively frighten many from their senses, induce reckless and panic-stricken expenditure, and necessitate the endurance of burdens too heavy to be borne, would be divested of their terrors, and appear what they are —mere chimeras of the fancy. But, how is it that John Bull attentively and almost com • placently listens to alarmists, if they but whisper danger from a foreign foe, and yet to remedial suggestions, the application of which might eradicate domestic evils, pays tardy and unwilling attention ? How is it that men grope in the dark to find costly and injurious expedients to abate rampant and crying evils, when tried and effective antidotes lie beside them wilfully neglected ? At the present moment it is a palpable fact that in both town and country the population are numerously unem ployed, unproductive, and unconsuming ; and trade and production are paralysed. It is all very well, indeed very important, to search after every proximate or ultimate cause of depression or distress ; but not well determinedly to ignore any one source of mischief or perplexity. To ignore the baneful influence of our deranged circulating medium is neither wise nor patriotic. Its evils may be de signated " legion." They arise in every direction, and their bitter fruits poison full many a cup. Of the many symptoms which this formidable disorder presents, not one of the least distressing is the stagnation that now saddens the national mind. Whence this stag nation ? Is it an essential element of commercial existence ? Confidence is gone, and, in its absence, employment and consumption aro diminished ; and, consequently, demand, production, and distribution are seriously affected. But, what disturbs the machinery of trade and depresses the general mercantile confidence ? The disturbance is always first caused by the rise of discounts checking trade, embar rassing its activities, diminishing or absorbing its profits, or inflicting losses, sometimes of very heavy amount. And the rise of discounts—disastrous to our trade, and diametri cally opposed to our productive and national prosperit- in times of trading and commercial activity, and the direct and certain fruit of our absurd monetary system. When trade expands, and bills of exchange con sequently multiply, and the monetary circulation requires to be expanded to afford increased facilities for augmented business transactions, under our pre sent system the money in circulation which supports or underlies the bills, and sustains the trade which the bills represent, does not proportionately increase, but actually becomes less in amount from the exportation of gold. The activity of trade and consequent multiplication of bills of most unexceptionable character, except under a collapse of the currency, render the amount of money needed for cir culation so much the greater. Such activity causes prices generally to rise, for their tendency is always to rise till they reach the remunerative level, above which, with free home and foreign trade, they cannot be sustained. But one article of merchandise—gold—is distinguished from all others, and exempted, by a legally fixed price, from the in fluence of such activity, and forbidden to rise in price • That article, thus fettered, or, at least, partially restricted in its action, is made the basis of our currency, and has to sustain the important function of testing, supporting, or exploding our entire circulating medium, That it too frequently does the last-mentioned dis-service is far too well known. Not being permitted to rise hi price, it is easily, and in preference to our productions, taken by our merchants for exportation. We thereby as a people lose the money which should irrigate and fructify our internal industry and trade ; the money of the nation is exported, no other being provided in its stead, and the commodities which we want to export in exchange for money or money's worth, that we may therewith keep our, people employed and pay our way, accumulate upon our hands. This process then goes on till exhanstioatand col lapse ensue, and crisis, paralysis, and. iii)t - ptcy super vein. Then follows a period of great depression, every body wondering what can be the naltse, but nobody believ ing that the currency has anythilig to do with it. And if here and there a person be 'bold enough to suggest, more especially to state his belief, that such is the case, he is at once by many classed with the deluded followers of phan toms and nostrums, and supposed to entertain every con ceivable vagary. For some months past we have had a plethora of monoy, and, judging from the Bank of England returns, and the low rate of discount, it is exceedingly difficult to get it em ployed. This is traceable to the same cause —want of con fidence. Confidence, after repeated infraction, is not easily restored. The same causes being in operation, the same results may speedily ensue, and hence caution most reason.. able and essential is exercised, although greatly to the pre judice of the nation's industrial interests. Those traits of character and habits of business save from commercial shipwreck many who, under existing influences, are often endangered. Yet the exigencies which necessitate not merely cautious effort, but diminished application, and em ployment, are most certainly and energetically - to be depre cated. The system which originates those evils cannot be too much reprehended or too soon revised. It is rotten at the core, full of corruption, pregnant with fearful disaster. Its history may be written in tears and blood; and the catalogue of ills which it has inflicted upon our beloved country would be of a most harrowing and heart-rending • character. All this may bo easily pooh-poohed ; and so let it be. But let the votaries of our present system point out its ex cellencies ; let them, with due regard to historical facts, justify it: The advantages by them most generally in sisted upon are its severest condemnation. It is supposed to favour low prices, and to narrow and discourage produc tion, than which, for a numerously populated and highly taxed community, no greater evils can well be conceived. But some may possibly start the inquiry —What features would mainly characterise the system which currency re formers advocate ? I may, sir, briefly reply, they would have money—the medium or instrument of domestic ex change —nationally provided upon an elastic principle, in abundance proportioned to the exigencies of our taxation and internal trade, and at a rate of charge which should neither tempt to rash speculation nor deter from well-ad vised enterprise, or ruin those engaged in it. When will Britons, in relation to this question, assume their true manhood, and look it in the face ? Let them not further mistake the varying aggravations of commercial ' derangement—such as deficient cotton supply or threatening war—for the disease which afflicts the body politic ; but un derstand that it is deeper seated in its constitution, and can only bo ejected by a renewed and more healthy circulation —a more regular and abundant supply of its life-blood— the money of the nation. Let them know that paper money, issued by Government under wise regulations for our home taxation and trade, is in all respects, as a domestic circulat ing medium, an instrument for the discharge of manetary obligations far superior to the precious metals. And let them demand that it shall be thus issued for value received;' for public services, interest of the national debt; Isecurities deposited, au., &o—that it be legal tender, receivable for debts and taxes, having no reference to either price or quantity of gold ; and that it be cancelled upon its return, in payment of taxes, or otherwise, to the national treasury. Then may the precious metals healthily find their market price in such national money and crises, panics, stagnation, forad o e n vOr an b d ani d e e h pr e e L io i l a , m, &c,,at least, of C H. un i versa l prevalence, be Bramfield, Saxmundham, Jan. 28, 1862. How MR. SLIDELL ARRIVED AT BOULOGNE:— Th e Boulogne Messenger says :—." Mr. Commissioner Slidell—that very expensive gentleman for Englaed— arrived here by the Princess Maud on Thursday last. The Wretched weather prevented many of the habitual atten dants being on the quay when the boat arrived, and those few who were there did not know that at least £1,000,000 worth was passing them in wet clothes and cold aspect. Mr. Slidell went direct to the station, and proceeded by the first train to Paris," Mr. and Mrs. Slidell are now in Palle: THE MEXICAN EXPEDITION.—It appears that the principal Chambers of Commerce in France petitioned the Emperor to undertake the Mexican expedition. It ii expected that it will produce most advantageous results for the money-market, as the Mexicans pay in silver for the French produce exported to that country. Previous to the state of anarchy which has so long prevailed in Mexico the a average annual export of silver t o E uro p e was va lued t 125,000,000 piasters. That exportation has been sto e P ed or very much impeded d ur i ng th e l as t t wo years by b by t he h re volutionary state of the coun t r y. It i s believed a _ silv ta ; French Chambers of Co mmerce th a t the expo the allied from Mexico to Europe shall be resumed, whe e l of foreign troops have occupied it, for the great of Customs it ing to a report published by the Director commerce, and particularly for the mozaedryvamnarket. Accord silver imported into ap pears that the value of the exceededgeld on the contrary, the that of the gold and silver France in the year 1860 hil an e exported by 154,6,50,020 f.; exported value of the gold and from France during silverhat of the gold and silver imported the year 1861 exceeded metals expor t e d to pay for corn,and by 88,149,440 f. This t difference is accounted for by the amount of the precio us by the deficiency in the importation cau se d b y the war fla America, ~,4 ~- I 100 stk 20i 204 10 17; Stock stock 100 100 100 100 stock, stock 1.11.6 3.0.0 7.7.0 661 178 6.15.0 8.12 4.14 1.12 X 4.3.0 12:3 2.0.0 2.2.9 li 10.6.7 1.7.2 6 i I 151 t