The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Accounts from the manufacturing districts men tion that during the past week less activity has been. apparent in most departments of business. The woollen cloth trade at Leeds has been Steady, but not brisk; light fabrics suitable to the spring trade are in fair demand, and some of the shipping houses are moderately active with orders for the United States. At Bradford the dealings in wools and yarns have been limited, at barely previous rates. Piece goods have been inactive, but little alteration can be reported in values. At Man chester the market has been very quiet throughout the week. Cloths suitable to the India and China Markets realised steady rates, but for the home demand there was little business. At Leicester the hosiery trade has been less active, although good useful articles continue in fair demand. Wools and yarns continue at steady rates. The reports from the iron districts of South Stafford• shire continue satisfactory. Orders have increased, and fresh furnaces have been put into operation. At Birmingham business continues to improve, and most of the operatives are fully employed on Go v, er nment contracts. At Sheffield and Wolver• aanipton there has been little variation of import ance in the va r i ous man ufactures of the districts. in the hardware and lock business, however, rather more activity i s a pp aren t, some large orders for the U nited States having been given out. The Liverp oo l C o tt on M ar k e t on Saturday closed wi th a very heavy appearance, and 6,000 bales were disposed o f a t p rev ious rates. In Railway Shares the transactions were to a fair extent, and Prices exhibited an upward tendency. A quiet demand still prevails for discount accom nu:dation, both in Lombard-street and at the Bank. 're-morrow almost a million sterling will be required for the Australian Railway Debentures, but this has no doubt been amply provided for, otherwise an augmented inquiry would be per ceptible. The commercial engagements of the 4th are not supposed to be very heavy, as trade con ,t.inbes,restricted, but for this movement their li quidation will probably create rather more acti vity in the discount market. On Saturday about £ll,OOO, in gold, was taken into the Bank, and a large portion of the Austra l"' supplies announced on Friday will probably follow in the course of a few days. At the half-yearly meeting of the North Stafford shire Railway C om p an y t o -d a y a ver y s ati s factory re port was re a d, s h ow i ng a cons id era bl e i nc rease of traffic. The directors, after reserving £2,000, were enabled to declare a dividend at the rate of 2 per !ell& per annum on the shares of the company, and to carry a cons id era bl e sum t o th e nex t accoun t. T he chairman, Mr. Broderick, complimented them °II the satisfactory terms come to with the London and North-Western Company for the cessation of emnpetition. The report - was adopted unani- Mously. for he announcement for t h e new A us t r i a n loan £6,000,000 was no t unexpected, but it ha s naturally created much discussion in financial and stock exchange circles. Although the terms a re consid ere d lib era l , i t i s muc h d ou bt e d whether h e appeal will be readily responded to by the monied interest. The amount required is con siderable, and, owing to the discount to which the recently contracted loans have declined, together With the uncertainty attending the political horizon abroad, it is much doubted whether the negocia ti.,.°llB, even of an emin en t finan c ial establishment l ike that of Messrs. Rothschild, will be successful. The nominal price already quoted for the new security is 2 per cent. discount. The introduction of the Austrian loan pro duced an unfavourable influence upon the English stock Market, but at present the decline exhibited by Pie latest quotations is only per cent. This Probably arises from a conviction that the loan will not be subscribed in the present state of public 11 :„P i llicol with regard to political affairs on the C ontinent, and especially in the south. Consols have been 951, 9, and at one time a fraction loWer, f or money, as well as account, but the market ur) t e : W „ appears a shade stronger. For the March Threes the price is about 951 I. The New India and the Reduced Annuities are 9 5 2 96 i; Debentures, 991-- 1; Exchequer Bills, 345. to 37s prem.; and India Bonds, 22s to 265. prem. Speculation is exceedingly dull, and the sales and Otchases of money-stock are very much restricted. Business in the Foreign Market is equally dull, and the quotations tend downwards. Turkish 6 Per C ents. are 901, to sot ; the New Loan, 7 8 1 79 ; tto p, second issue, 61- to 6 dis. ; and the 4 Per Cents., 1051. Spanish 3 per Cents., Deferred, are 30 30k ; S ar di n i an 5 per Cents., 841 ; and 4 lnssian 41 per Cents,, 10 . 0 t. Mexican Bonds are narked 20 to 20k; Brazilian 41 per Cents., 94 to ; and Peruvian 41 per Cents., 911. Busine ss in the Railway Share Market has been very inactive, and the few dealings reported show a further decline. Eastern Counties, Great Western, Brighton, South-Western, North-British, North astern (Berwick), and North• Eastern (York) re ceded s s . ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s.; and C aledonian, £l. The Foreign lines have been very Wet. Lombardo-Venetian have declined 55., and Northern of France ss. The Colonial lines are flat. East Indian have declined 10s., and Great Indian Peninsular £l. Xeint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in steady demand, and in one or two i ns t ances h ave reali se d ra th er -higher rates. London and W estminster improved ss. ; Ottoman Bank, ss. ; B ank of Australasia, ss. ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam improved 10s. 13R ttITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. „ 3 Per Cent. R e d uce d A nnu i t i es 96 3 51 ~.4 Per Cent. Co nso l s A nnu iti es tew 3 per Cent. Annuities 96 53 63 Neer 25 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 1 3-16 Ditto 30 Years , exp ire 10th Oct., 1859 15.16 I ndia Stock Ditto Debentures 9 93 3 It Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO Consols for Account March June. Exchequer Bills, £l , OOO , 2d. & lid.. 35 4 I 37 4 D itto £ 500 Ditto Small, 1sd. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian 5 iler Cent. Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. 943 4 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Peruvian 43 per Cent 913 Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent Sardinian, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account . 843 3 Spanish 3 per Cent. Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent....... 303 Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New. Loan Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable In London. Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent — Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money - 9ss t Consols for Account, Feb. 8.:.... 951 t THE MAIL SERVICE.—THE TRIAL TRIP OF THE STEAMSIIIP NEPAVL.—The Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's new screw steamship Nepaul, built by the Thames ron Ship-building Company left the Southampton D ock nu Saturday, under the , hem of Capt. Hicks, to test her s Peed at t easured mile at Stoke's Bay. There were on board J. Allen, Esq., and G. Oldney, Esq. (managing directors) ; •Capt. Engledue (th e c om p an y' s superintendent), Mr. Lamb (superintendent engineer), Messrs. Hughes and Luke (Admiralty surveyors) h Messrs. Humphreys and Tennant (engineers), Capt. Ford and Mr. P. Rolt (of the Ship-building Company), &c. The day was somewhat rough, and the wind was blowing- very strong from the south-west. Four successive trials were made with and against the tide, giving the following results : M. B. - per hour. First mile 4 40 equal to 12.857 knots. Second do 452 lf 1 2.287 „ Third do Fourth do. being an average of about 12i knots per hour. The draught of water at the main was 151 feet; vacuum, 24 ; steam, 21; revolutions, 74. This result is extremely satisfactory, as there has no ship yet been constructed of the same power (200) that has accomplished so great a speed. On the re turn to South am pt on h e r sailing qualities were tried. H er fore rveraitongndaft canv a s o nly was set, and the topsails simply iineleived, and under this sail alone she attained a speed lifeboats ha over her bulwarks, in which there is ample room, should any disaster occur, for the passengers l a s lld the whole working force of the ship. The Nepaul is j 3 eal ltifully fitted up, is well manned, and will be commanded y Capt. Hicks. She will proceed to Marseilles on the Ist Pre" and Convoy the mails and passengers - from thence to exandna. SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAT.) Shares Railways. Closing I Business Paid. Price. Done. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. ng Share Railways. Paid. ClosiPrice. I Business - Done. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 4 1 5 20 Ardennes all - p 12.10 Amberg., Notting. Bost. 20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 3 1 d par and Eastern Junction 10 fli 61 61 5 Belgian East. Junction all 1 1 50 Belfast and Ballymena.. all - - 20 Beziers to Graissessaa.' all 7 8 13.14 Bir., Wol., and Str.Val. all 71 85 5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail. all 2 21 Stook Birk., Lanc., and Cliesh. 20 Dutch Rhenish Junction lOO 66 68 6 Eastern of France ...... all ' 2 27 25 Blackburn - - p 25 Blyth and Tyne all 30 12 20 Great Central of France all - - Stock Bristol and Exeter Stock Caledonian - - Stock Chester and Holyhead . 100 474 48 1 20 Lake Constance & Bale all - - 50 Cork and Bandon all • - 20 Lierre and Turnhout .. all - - 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage all - - 20 Lombardo Venetian.... 8 1/ 11p 91 1 20 Cornwall all 41 51 20 Lucca & Pistoj a, 5 p.c.pf. all - - A. t rcves. no div 20 Lyons and Geneva .... all 10 Do. A- `all - - until6p.c.per an. a i l - - 33 1 Maria Antonia al l - - 10 Do. B hasbeep pd.toß. 20 Do. do. New - - 50 Dublin andßelfast Jur c. all - - 20 Namur and Liege all gi 8 q 25 Dun.,Pcrth,&Alr.Junc. all 9 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref all 2 20 Stock East Anglian lOO 16 16 4 16 Northern of France .... all 37 37 3 71 Stock Eastern Counties lOO 62 63 62} 1 1 20 Do. New Shares - - p Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 45 47 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 81 91 Stock Do. do. B Stock 100 29 31 20 Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent 7 4 2 d 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.lrlds) 81 - 20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit. all 3.35 331 25 East Kent all 13 15 20 Paris and Orleans ...... all 51 53 Stock East Lancashire lOO 95 97 20 j Recife& S. Fran. (Peru.) 1 0 1 >} d 20 East Suffolk all - - ( ( gua. 7p. et. (Lim.) ... j 10 Do - - 20 Rie,..a and Dunitburg.... 4 - - Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 69 70 10 Rome and Frascati .... all - - Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 291 3 0 1 20 Royal Danish all - - 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - , 5 Royal Swedish - -- Stock Furness - - 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. .. all - Stock Glasgow & South Westn lOl 96 98 20 Sambre and Meuse..... all 7 7/ 10 Great North of Scotland all 10 104 10 Do. 55 per cent. Pref.... all 91 91 Stock Great Northern lOO 105 106 105 20 Southern of France .... all 20 21 Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO 90 63 86 84 West Flanders all 5 61 Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 133 135 137 6 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference . all 95 94 Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 1 5 4 1 1 0 51 20 W. & N.W. of France.. all 2 3 24 Stock Great Western - - Stock Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.stk lOO 56 5 7 20 Western of Switzerland all - - 12 Irish South Easterr - - 6 Wiesbaden - - 50 Lancaster and Carlisle. all 87 92 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all - - • 161 Do. Thirds - - 97 0 1613 4 Do. New Thirds l6 12 131 p Stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 71 97 8 i 16 Do. do. F £l6 6 d p - BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 9 Do. do. £9 shares 7 id 3 Do. West Riding Union 1 - Share Railways. i paid . Closing Business 20 Do. Southport - 11.6.3 London and Blackwall. all f } DI "a 11.6.3 Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh 41 - Stock Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast 100 la 1101 109 / 100 Atlantic & St Lawrence all Stock London & North Westn 100 961 961 Leased at 6 per cent.. 12* Do. Eighths Stoc London& South-Westn lOO 98 96 i 66 i 6 18 gu. 5 per cent Do all - - 25 L'derry & Coleraine ... all - 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. all 7,7 z, 18 Do. Addit. Capital A 6 id par Stock Man., Shef., & Lincoln.. 100 00 oat 18 Do. Do. B 41 id par 10 Metropolitan 3 - - d C o lt Buffalo and Lake Huron all 61 71 61 Stock Midland lOO 102 4 10 3 .., Do. New l6l - - d Stock Do. Binning!. & Derby. 100 77 7 9 ,4 100 f Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich 1 100 85 90 50 Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) all - (6 p. ct. bdp. 1 Aug., 1872 ) 25 Do. 1 Shares all - - 100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 100 80 85 100 Nentastle and Carlisle all - 190 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 100 78 83 25 New., Aber., & Herefd all 12 13 20 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. 1. 3.0. par 4 p 10 Newry & Armagh (def ' 9 - 20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s. - - 20 Newry, Warpt., & Ros all - - .20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 2s. - - pm Stock Norfolk lOO 65 67 20 Central Oude (Limited) 2s. 6d. - -- 50 North. Counties Union 3l 34 I d 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c. 2 I 1 P Stock North British lOO 621 63 62 1 4 1 175 Demerara - - Stock Nor.Dev.RaiL&Dk. Stk. 100 - - 20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c 5 i d par Stock Do.A Stk.- Arec.no div. Stock East Indian , sp. c lOO 1025 1035 1011 2.1 until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 - - 20 Do. C Shares all - - Stock Do. B Stock lOO - - ~,, 7"3 20 Do. E Shares Ext. 1 0 it 1 p Stock North-Eastn.-Berwick 190 9 931 2O Do. Jubbulpore 5 - - 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1613 4 1 1 d d 100 Do.ll p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 all - - Stock Do. Leeds lOO 4 481 20 G eelong& Mel. gua.s p. c. all 18 181 Stock Do. York lOO 77 74 78 7 1 Sto. Geelong Corporation 6 i 100 .- _ Stock North London lOO 101 103 Stoc .1 [ per.cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada 100 33 34 335 10 N. &S.Westn., Hampstd 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben„pay.'7B all 75 77 and City Junction.... £3 la. - 20 North Staffordshire.... 175 41 4 d 100 Do. 6 per cent. Frei* lOO 90 92 20 Gt e IndiaPenin.gua.sp. all 1011 1(21 102 20 North-Western 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 74 ~., 20 Do. do 4 } d par Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver. 100 32 44 10 Peebles all - 30 f Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.-Scrip 1 2,. - _ 20 Portsmouth l9 cent. ) 1 Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 16 1 65 , 16 1 10 Rhymney lO - 20 2oi Do. New 28 Stock Scottish Central lOO a 3 -115 100 c Do. Bonds pay. '76,with 1 all 106 108 ' Stock South. N.E„ Aber. Stock 100 27 4 28 4 ( opt. till '6O Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 80 88 Stock Shropshire Union lOO 46 47 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 106 108 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all 4 2 d 100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 104 106 Stock South Devon lOO 3 4 38 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do .. all 99 100 Stock South-Eastern lOO 74 741 20 Madras, guar., 41 p. C. all 18 18 Stock South Wales 20 SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun all 14 15 20 Do. 41 p. c. Extension.. 15 18 19 20 Do. do lB - - 20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c. 10 1 par 20 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 8 11 20 Do. Fourth do. 25 Stockton & Darlington. all 35 4 36 4 Stock Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 - - Do. do. 1854 221 - -- Newßrunswick&Canda. 25 25 Do. do. 1855 7 - - 20 i Ry.&Land(lLim.)g.6pc 10 2 1/d - Stockton & Hartlepool 164 - - Class ACapitl.Share.. Stock Taff Vale , lOO - - .. Do. do. Land d 0... .. Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 - - 20 Do. do. B. Capital do. ~,, 4 3 d 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rall 22 - - .. Do. do. Land do. _ "'" 20 Northof India Tramroad - - Stock Vale of Neath lOO 89 92 2s. Stock Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 90 4 90 Limited, Scrip - - 50 Waterford & Limerick all - - 20 Oude (Limited) 55. 20 West Cornwall 20 Do. 10 W-end Lou. & Cry. Pal. all - - 20 Do. New ,.. ,I 5 , pl i u• 5 p 10 5 Do.A.-Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B all 3 4 20 Do. Punjaub 5 Do. B , all 61 61 65 1 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. tc:," 5 ' 1 i d 4 20 West London I all - - 20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 18 - - 10 I Trinidad(Limited) Scrip 1 Id i p 10 Do. Ist Class 1 all - - 20 Do. 2d Class I all' - - 'DT, 7,11, LI 1141,717,/ Sharel Railways. Pat Closing I Business d. Price. Done. Sharel Mines. BRITISH MINES. Paid. \ Closing Business Price. Done. 25 Blythe and Tyne it per c. pref. (issued at £5O) all 49 51 I j \ - Alfred Consols (Philack)l 2.11.10 71 65 Stk Brie. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 100 94 96 i 20 Dritish Iron 20 Do. do. do. Shares 9 - - - Condurrow (Caniborne). 20 - - tocklCaledon 210, 45 per cent 100 103 105 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 7.10 - - • - 10 Devon Est G. Cons. (Tavist Bassett (Illogan). 30 195 20 . 5 . 1 . 465 475 Stock Chester & Holyhd, 51 p c 100 - - - Great South Tolgus.. 17e 12 13 Stock Do. do. sp. ct. - - 51 - - G.WhealAlfd.(Phillacii) 11.18.8 3 3 1 CI Cork & Bandon, ber. p. c all Jun all 6 i, -65 -G. Wheal Vor(Helston) 9 5 1 61 Dun. Perth.& A Stock E.Angn. Class A 75pc 100 100 103 - North Frances (Mogan) 81 - Lady Bertha 4 1 Stock Do. do. & Class B 6 pc.... 100 113 118 - North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 2 3 Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc .... 100 110 113 Stock E. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l 100 1 15 117 1161 -- N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) nil. 7 Par Consols (St'lllaxy) Stock Do. do N 0.2 100 114 116 -- 15 16 17 ... Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 - - Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock 100 132 134 - Sortridge Cone. Min. Co. 6s 1 1 Stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. 100 83 85 - SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 21 420 430 Stock East Lane,. 6 per et..... 100 - - -- South C. Brea( Illogan). 2 25 21 5 E.& W. York. Jen. ll:the all - - - S Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.18.9 230 240 Stock Edin.&Glas. spc shares 100 - -, 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. 100 715 7 5 4 Mining Co 45 1/ 11 Stock Furness,. 5 per cent .... 100 - - 10 Tin Croft 9 3.1 31 Stock Glam. &S West.; a. 5 pc. 100 113 115 - - UmtedMines(Gwennap) 40 - - Stock Great Northern. sp. et. 100 111 123 - Vale of Towey (Caren.) 12s 0d 5 1 Stock Do. 5 pcnedm.,lop.o.pm 100 111 113 - West Basset (Illogan) ll 20 22 ' Stock Do. 41 p. c. do. do. - W. Caradon (Liskeard). 20 65 70 100 Do.sp.c. Redm..s pc. pm 6O 61 66 - Wheal Basset (Illogan). 51 220 230 10 Gt. NIL of ScotlcL Ist nt all 104 114 - Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 115 125 Stock ( Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland)4 1 100 - - Wheal Edward (Cals.).. 54 25 21 1 p. et. pref. Stock 50 Great West. (Berks and 6 -- - - Wh'l MaryAnn(Menhe) 8 48 50 Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct. . - - Wh'l Trelawney (Lisk.) li 33 35 Stock Do. Redeemable, 45 id lOO 91 93 93 Stock Do. Redeemable, 4u. et lOO 84 86 FOREIGN MINES Stock Do. Irredeemable, do lOO 85 87 Stock Do. sp. et. Redeem. Pref. 100 98 100 81 20 Australian 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares all 10 101 1 Bon AccordCopper,Lim los 5 d 1 p 10 Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.e.pf. 35- Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p ) 27 1 2 shares all 161 171 20 Do.St.Johudelßey,Lirn. 15 11 12 10 Do do. sp. et. pref all 10 101 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. all 11 25 Stock Do Birming. guar. stock 100 73 74 1 Clarendon Consols Min -20 Do. Chester guar.shares all 19 20 191 ring Co. of Ja maica ... 1 -- d 134 Do. do. do 20 Do. do, do. Stock Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock 100 140 142 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 5 Stock Lon.drßrig.spc. gu. No.l 100 - 2 Fortuna Stock Do. pref., sp. c. ...No. 2 100 - --20 General all 21 2 Stock Do. New gum, 6p. et... 100 - - 3 Linares all 7 85 Stock Do. do. sp. C. No. 4 100 - - 5 Lusitanian 3z Stock Lon. N.W.Cov.&Nun- 1 Mariquita eaton, sp. ct. 1 New Granada all 5 Stock Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares lOO '163 • 168 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.L 10 1 p 1 121 Londondy y & Cole, 1 shs. all - - 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead 121 Londoncly.& Ennis 1 sh. all - - Mining and Smelt.... all 41 5 Stock Man-Sh., & Lin., 6p. et. 100 121 123 5 Port Philip 6 Do. PO 45 i li 30 Santiago de Cuba l6l 1 1 28.2.81 United Mexican all 21 3 1 Stock Do. 35 per cent. 121 Maryport & Car.. 4 p.c all - - COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Do. 4 per cent .. - - 124 Do. - - S h are Closing Business . Stock Mid. Con. 6p. c. Stock . 100 - - Prices. Securities. Paid Done. Stock Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct. 100 141 143 _ Stock Do. 45 p. pref. stock.. 100 10 4 105 . 6 Do. wi c. th option till 1860 3 5 ip - Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja. & July 1 00 112 1 113 1 1131 13 Stock Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. st. 100 96 98 all 91 9 i 9 i - Do. 6 p.c.Fb.dzAug. 100 114 115 - Do. 6 p.e.Mr. & Sep. 100 114 115 10 1 Newport,Aber,&c. pref.s p. c. redeem, at sp.c. pm - N.8.G0v.6 p.c. Ja. &July 100 110 111 10 Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with -- Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - option till 1866 all 111 111 - N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 100 991 1001 - NovaScotiaGov.6 p.c. St. 10 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c. sh arcs all 9 10 Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 1101 1111 Stock Do. 5 .c. Ext. Stock,lB46 100 - - 51p. c. Prof. do. 1847 100 - - - S. Ans. G t. 6 pc. Jandauly 100 109 111 Stock Do. Stock Do. Way.Val.Ex.SklB47 100 - - - Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 107 109 Stock North British, 5 percent 100 112 114 112 Stock Do. New, gums per cent 100 - - JOINT-STOCK BANKS. _ Stock Nth.Dev.Rail.." , r Dek.Co. 100 - - Closing I Business Stock N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. 100 - - Sharei Joint-Stock Banks. Paid. Stock Do. Bernick, 4p. c. Pref. 100 98 d Price. Done. 17 Do. do. do. p 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. C. No. 1. 13 - - 100 Agra&UnitedServiceßk 50 - - 125 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 - -- 25 130. York, H. &S. Pm•ch. 10 5 d 5 p 40 Australasia all 9 0 9 2 9 1 5 20 North Staffordshire .. . all 234 244 25 Bank of Egypt all 26 27 Stock Ox. Wr. & WO. 6 pc. I[4 100 125 127 100 Bank of Loudon 5O - - - Stock Do. do. do., 2d gua. lOO 110 112 V . ,.,, rit. Col. Bk. & Loan Co. all - Stok Do. 41 p.c. Db.stk.in peril 100 89 101 .11 1 11 4 .' Xritish North American all 58 60 85 Scottish Central, new pi all - - 204' Chtd. Banff of India, & c 10 2 141 St ock Scottish N.-Eastern deb 100 - - 100 City 5O 625 635 Stock Do. 31 pert. pref. stock 100 - - 10 0 Colonial 25 - - - Stock Do.Aberdeen.g - ua.6 pc. 100 - - 20.11 Corn. Bank of Canada all - - Stock Do. 7p. c. pref. stock. 100 - - 10 0 Commercial 0r London. 20 - 10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 101 11 20 - ag., Scot., & Ans. Ch. all 164 17 10 Do. Fixed 41 per cent. all - - 20 en. Bk. of Switzerland all - - 1.0.6. South Eastern (Reading 20 Lon.Char.Bk.ofAustral. all 21i 22 Ann., 1.0 6 ) all 241 25 50 Londou and County - •- S Stock Do .41 per cent lOO 101 106 50 London Joint Stock ... 10 - - 325 Stock Do. Fixed 45 p.c. lstis lOO lel 106 100 London & Westminster. 20 -..- 48 71 Stock Do. New do., 2d issue lOO - - 100 Nat. Prov. 0: England. 35 - - Stock South Wales, gna. 4 p.c loo - - 20 Do. new lO - - Stock Do. 41 per cent lOO - - 50 National Bank 25 - - 20 S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua. all 17 19 20 New South Corporation all Wales 39 25l Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e. all 29 30 25 Orient. Bk. - - - Do. 6 per cent al 33 34 20 Ottoman Bank all 2 0 20 5 20 25 i Stock Waterford & Kilkenny, Provincial of Ireland all , • - 6 percent.- j 100 49 52 10 Do. New I 25 South Australia - 25 Do. New - - LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 25 Union of Australia all - - 25 Do. New 2O - 50 Union of London lO - - - 235 Railways. Paid. Leasing Closing' Business 100 Unity Mutual 55 - - Co.'s. Price. Done. 100 Western Bk of London 50 20 18 d 301 1 _ Bedford and Bletchley Buckinghamshire ClydesdaleJunctlon 1 Colchester, Stour Val E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c E Union,HarwichShs Do. Woodbridge Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest Hartlpool.Dck.&Rail Hull and Selby Do. 4 Shares Do. Shares London &Greenwich Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend Do. Barking Shares Lowestoft, gml- 4 P. a Midsb.& Redcr, ID,roa.n6c.seruxeetnnt.st Matk. Mid.BradfordPrf. Stk. Newmarkt.,BuryEs 1 Not Do. do. 6 per cent.... guaranteed hn.sz .aat s n p . 5 . ;.c. j Do. Fixed 5 per cen t ' Preston and Wyre. Do. 4 Shares A. Roystn,Hitch.,& Shep Shf.lloth.&Gol.g. s p.c. Shrewsbry& Hereford South Staffordshire ..1 Wear Valley, g. 6p. c. Do. do. Wilts and Somerset.. Wimbledon& Croydn. Share Docks. Stock Commercial lOO Stock Do 4 perCent.Pref.Min lOO Stock East and West India lOO Stock London lOO Stock St. Katharine lOO Stock Southampton lOO Stock Victoria lOO OS 100 20 Do New lB I Ln & N.W Ln & N.W Calcdonin E.U.&E Gt.No-t6. E.Counts. Caledonin Do. Gt. West Yk.N.Md Do. Do. S. East Do. Veto &Co Do. Norfolk Do. LN W&M Stk.&Dar Midland . E.Connts. Do. Do. Do. all & L& L N . yr . all Do. 100 iGt.North 18 11 6 Lan.& Yk all T Brassoy M'Clean • all Stk.& Dar all Do. 100 Gt. West. all L.&Brgtn 90 02 8 9 DOCKS. 91 i I Paid Closing Business Price. Done. 98 100 161 106 17 19 142 144 4 4..; Lll 113 65 67! 115 120 . 90 92 2a 98 1(.0 58 80 1142 144 9} Di 11 11 MISCELLANEOUS. Miscellaneous. Anglo-Mexican Mint Atlantic Tel. (Limited). Australian Agricultural Australian Royal Mail . Berlin Water Works Do New, issued at .C 5 dis British American Land Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. Do. B, 7 P.C. till 1862 Do. C ... Canada Land Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim ) Cop.Min.otEng.&Smitg Do. Preference 7i per ct Crystal Palace. Do. Preference Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Eng. & Aust. Cop.St.Co Europ. & Ind.Junct.Tel Europ.&Am.Stm.(Lim ) Gl.lron ScrewCol.(Lim' Gen. Steam Navigation. London Discount Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co. Mediter. Electric Teleg. Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) National Discount Co Netherlands Land Do do Do 8 p.c.Pref.,iss.at ldis. N.P.r.&NovaScotiaL and N.l3.Australasian (Urn ) North of Europe Steam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares Peel River Land & Min. Pen. & Oriental Steam. Do. New Red Sea & Ind. Telegr. Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Seot.Austrin.lny.(Lim ) South Australian Land Submarine Teleg. Scrip Do. do Registered Tr.& La.Co.of Upr. Can Nag Diemou's Land! all all all 158. all all I ' , dd. \ Closing liminess done Price. 14 131 :40 270 3.5 36 I 1 4 40 42 19 21 13 15 115 120 •9/ 14 - - 23 25 141 305 108 1 1} 11 2 1 It 1 6 7 1 i i d 1 2 1 14 15 18 1 Ws par 21 31 2.t 21 a -it 125 137; 37 38 ' 5i 5 8 4 i si 9 11 1311 26 5. 5. 6.1 all all all THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY - EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1859. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. FOREIGN CORN EXCHANGE. Most of the country markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat, in which only a limited business was transacted, at about stationary prices. There was a fair sale for barley, oats, beans, and peas ; but flour met a dull inquiry. The continental markets have continued somewhat heavy for wheat. Spring corn, however, has commanded full prices. In the United States, produce, generally, has ruled steady. Very moderate supplies of English grain arrived up to our market last week. The imports from abroad were seasonably good, viz., 5,677 qrs of wheat, 45,374 of barley, 13,956 oats, 80 beans, 5 peas, 200 tares, 1,1795 linseed, 2,680 rapeseed, 440 sundry seeds, and 511 sacks of flour. An unusually small supply of English wheat came fresh to hand this morning coastwise and by land carriage, but its general condition was somewhat improved. Although several of last week's unsold samples were on offer, the stands were scantily filled. The attendance of both town and country millers was by no means numerous, yet we had a fair demand for nearly all kinds of wheat of home pro duce, at last Monday's currency. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Good and fine qualities were held firmly, at full quotations. Low and damp parcels moved off heavily, at barely late rates. Floating cargoes of grain were at slow inquiry. Fine English barley was scarce, and in request, at full quotations ; but inferior foreign parcels were a slow inquiry . The malt trade was heavy, at barely last week's quota tions. Oats were in very moderate supply, and steady request, a fully previous rates. Their was a steady inquiry for beans, the prices of which advanced ls. per quarter. Peas moved off steadily at late rates. In the value of flour, no change took place. The demand may be considered steady. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new 3ss to 43s Ditto, old Ditto, white, new 3Bs 50s Ditto, old —B —8 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s ' - ' 8 Ditto, new nye—Old —8 —8 New Barley—Grinding .., 248 30a Malting .365 378 Chevalier 3BB 438 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown - Kingston and Ware 6OB 66s Chevalier Oats—Yorkshire and Line,olnsh., Feeding 238 26e Potato 248 29s Yonghal and Cork, black ... 20s 2.3 s Cork, white ' 228 27s Scotch, Feeding 23s 268 Beans —Tick Pigeons . 4lB 445 Peas—Grey Maple lBs 403 White 3Bs 42s Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk 3OB 329 Stockton and Norfolk METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 573 head. In the corresponding week in 1858 we received 787; in 1857, 1,239; in 1856, 916; in 1855, 1,362; in 185-1, 2,709; in 1853, 3,770; and in 1352, 1,968 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam Hamburgh B.. 47 .. —..— Antwerp — • • Ostend — • . .. •-- .. 64 e. ....... .. ....... .. 29 .. Ilibtal 163 The above is the smallest supply of stock that has reached us in any week for some time past, and we must now anti cipate limited importations during the next month or six weeks. The supply of foreign stock in to-day's market was limited as to number, but its general quality was tolerably prime. Sales progressed slowly, at late rates. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing dis tricts were only moderate, and the general quality of the stock was very middling for the time of year. The atten dance of buyers was o&y moderate, aid the beef trade was somewhat inactive. In prices, howeve; very Hale change took place. A few very superior Scots realised 5s per 81bs, but the general top figure for beef was 4s 10d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,200 Scots and shorthorns, from other parts of England 600 of various breeds ; from Scotland, 270 Scots ; and from Ireland, 23 oxen• We were again rather scantily supplied with sheep, the general condition of which was by no means first-rate. The mutton trade was far from active, and very little change took place in prices. The extreme value of the best old Downs was 5s 2d per Blbs. _ _ Calves, the supply of which was limited, sold steadily, at full prices. _ _ The pork trade ruled heavy, at last week's quotations. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Second qualitydo. 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 Suckling calves, 19s to 21s 18s to 225. a. d. s. d. Prime ers-wool d 0.4 6 4 8 Puce. S'tbdown do. 4 10 5 0 Largo crse. calves 3 8 4 6 Pi ime smell do 4 8 5 4 Large hop 3 0 3 6 slain porkers ... 3 "8 4 2 and quarter-old store pigs, TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts 3,570 Sheep 15,980 Calves .. 101 Pigs 250 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Feb. 1, 1858, and this day, Monday, Jan. 31, 1859. Per Blbs, to sink the offals. Feb. 1, 1858. Jan. 31, 1859. s d. s. d. s. d. 8. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . Second quality ditto 3 8 4 0 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. . • • Coarse and inferior sheep . . 3 4 3 8 3 6 310 Second quality ditto . . . .3 10 4 0 4 0 4 4 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . . 4 2 4 8 4 6 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto . . Lambs Large coarse calves . . • Prime small ditto Large hogs Neat small porkers . • • Beasts Fieep and lambs . . Calves Pigs SurruEs ow SALE, Feb. 2, 1857.---Beasts, 3,391; sheep and lambs, 16,220 ; calves, 67 ; pigs, 205. Feb. 4, 1856.—Beasts, 4,207 ; sheep and lambs, 17,780 ; calves, 56 ; pigs, 253. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The arrivals of meat from Scotland and various parts of England continue on a liberal scale. The supplies on offer to-day, killed in the metropolis are only moderate, and the trade generally is inactive, as follows : Per 81bs. by the Carcass. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beef 3 oto 3 4 1 Mid. d 0..... 3 6to 3 8 Pm.large do. 3 10 to 4 0 I Do. small do. 4 2to 4 6 Large pork.. 3 oto 3 8 Infr. Mutton. 3 2to 3 6 Mid. do 3 Bto 4 2 Prime do. 4 4to 4 6 Veal 3 6to 4 6 Small pork 310 to 4 2 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of potatoes at hand, coastwise and by rail way, since our last, have been only moderate, and the im ports have been confined to 85 tons from Rouen, and 16 bags from Ostend. The demand for all kinds is steady as follows : York Regents, 80s to 105 s per ton ; Kent and Essex, 70s to 90s ; Scoteh, 45s to 80s ; do. Cups, —s to —s ; Foreign 40s to Ns. TALLOW. Since Monday last there has been a fair average business doing in most kinds of tallow, and.priees have ruled firm. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 535. 6d. per cwt. Town tallow, 525. 6d. net cash. Rough fat, 2s. 101 d. 1855. 1856., 1857. 1858. 1859. Stock this day.... 40,470 23,657 11,729 22,994 j 24,509 56s 6d to 58s Od to 63s 6d to 53s Gel to 538 od Price of Y.C. • • —s Od —8 Od —s Od —2 Od —7B od Delivery last wee 1,721 684 1,757 2,520 2,296 Ditto from Jure 1 b 5,749 82,193 85,024 78,413 75,656 Arrivals last week 6,072 2,909 1,347 325 180 itto from June 1 61,199 59,308 79,773 88,295 E 88,593 Price of Town .... 57s 3d 540 6d 64s Od 55s 9d 55s Od WOOL MARKET. Since Monday last, there has been less activity in the demand for all kinds of English wool. In prices, however, no change has taken place. There has been more passing in foreign qualities, at extreme rates, and colonial parcels aro held for more money. The imports of wool into Lon don, last week, were 1,065 bales from Sydney. 921 do., from Algoa Bay, and 342 from Berdianski. BOROUGH HOP. Most kinds of new hops continue in steady request, and last weeks prices are well supported. All other kinds are very dull, and the quotations rule next to nominal. Mid and East Kent pockets 7os to 120 s per cwt. Weald of Kent do s4s to 70s „ Sussex do sis to 66s „ SEEDS. On the whole there has been a steady demand for clover seed, and late rates have been well supported. In trefoil very little is doing. Linseed has changed hands slowly at barely stationary prices, and rapeseed with difficulty brings last week's quotations. Cakes are dull, and rather cheaper. Turnip,White,p.bus.l2B to 14s Carraway Swede Mustard, 8r0wn.... Ss lls llempseed, per qr 30s 38s White, new.... 12s Ms Linseed,Eng.sowing 728 748 Tares, Spring, new Bsod 108 Od Crushing —s —s Old —s —8 Baltic --s —s Canary, per quarter 58s 68s Odessa Rye grass, new 22s 258 Linseed Cake, p. ton Clover, Red Eng., ct. 64s 68s English £lO Os£lo 158 White 7os 78s Foreign, p ton C 9 Os Od 1010 s _ . Foreign Red.... 58s 048 Rape Cakes,p. ton 5 Os 6 5s White 70s 78 apeseed, p. qr Ols 085 Trefoil, new lBs 20 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 4OB Sheep Calves 67 Pigs AMWAY' LOAN FOR. £6,000,000. I MR. BRIGHT ON THE CURRENCY. The following prospectus has just been issued : AUSTRIAN LOAN, FOR £6,000,000 FIVE PER CENT. STOCK, 'WITH DIVIDEND FROM JAN. Ist, 1859. Messrs. N. M. Rothschild and Sons beg to announce that they will receive subscriptions for a loan of £6,000,000 Austrian Stock, bearing interest at 6 per cent. per annum, which loan was sanctioned by the decree of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, on the 31st December, 1858, and for the negotiation of which loan Baron Brentano ' Aulic Councillor in his Imperil Majesty's service, has been commissioned by the Finance Minister. The interest on the bonds commencing from the Ist Jan. 1859, will be payable in pounds sterling, half yearly, on the Ist July and Ist January, at the counting-house of Messrs. N. M. Rothschild and Sons, in London, or at the option of the holders,, at the office for the payment of the public debt in Vienna, at the exchange of 10 forms Austrian currency, in silver, per pound sterling. The bonds will be of £lOO each, and numbered from 1 to 60,000. Tho reimbursement of this loan will take place by means of a sinking fund of 1 per cent. per annum, to be applied to the proportionate part of the bonds, to b e drawn by lot annually on the 2d January, commencing on the 2d January, 1860. The payment of the bonds thus drawn will take place on the Ist July following. The subscription price is £BO for every £lOO stock, pay able at the counting-house of Messrs. N. M. Rothschild and Sons, as follows : £2O £2O £2O £lO £lO To subscribers who should prefer payment in anticipation of the above terms, a discount at the rate of four per cent. per annum will be allowed. As it is essential that the times of payment should be punctually observed, if the instalments be not paid on the day appointed, the party making default shall forfeit the instalments previously paid, and shall not be entitled, after the day, to claim any bonds or dividend warrants in respect of that or any subsequent instalment. The dividend warrants due on the Ist July, 1859, will be deducted from the instalment payable in that month Subscriptions will be receive - d by Messrs. N. M. Roths child and Sons, from 11 o'clock a.m., on Monday, 31st January, and each succeeding day, until 11 o'clock on Monday morning, 7th February next, when the list will be closed. All applications to be accompanied with a deposit of 5 per cent., which, upon allotment, will be carried to the credit of each subscriber ; if the deposit should exceed the amount of 20 per cent. en the allotment, the balance will be returned forthwith. New-court, St. Swithin's-lane, 31st Jan., 1859. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The adjourned sessions at this court commenced this morning, before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and the other civic authorities. The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, congratulated them on the state of the calendar, which contained a fewer number of prisoners for trial than usual. There was no charge of wilful murder, and only ono of manslaughter, an, d that was rather of a peculiar character. The facts were o a certain extent involved in obscurity, and the deposi ions, as was frequently the case, were so badly written hat it was almost impossible to read them. The prisoner ran against the deceased and knocked him down. He was taken to the hospital, but death eventually ensued, and the question for the jury will be—first, whether the injury was occasioned by the prisoner, and, next, whether that injury was the cause of death ; and, if it should be made out that the deceased was knocked down accidentally, and that the prisoner had no intention of causing any mishap, in that case the death would have arisen from misadventure, and the prisoner would not be liable to a criminal charge. There was a charge against a mother of throwing her child out of a window. It appeared from the evidence that the woman was roused by an alarm of fire, and that she seized her child and threw it out of the window, at the same time crying out " Save my child." If they should be of opinion that she really intended to endea vour to preserve her child from fire, then they would be jus tified in finding a bill of assault only. The other case alluded to by the learned judge was that of Ann Collyer, charged with setting fire to her master's house. He said, before the jury could return a true bill against her they must be satis fied that the fire could not have taken place accidentally, and that the evidence excluded the supposition that the act could have been committed by any other person. If, in the exercise of their duties, the jury should stand in need of any assistance he would render the required aid imme diately. The grand jury then retired, and after a short time the trial of the prisoners was proceeded with. Reuben Michael, a respectably-attired man, was in dicted for perjury, which it was alleged was committed before Mr. Justice Willes, at the sittings at Guildhall, at a trial in which the prisoner was the plaintiff. Mr. Orrige, in stating the case against the prisoner, was stopped by the Recorder observing that he did not see in the depositions any corroborative evidence of the charge against the prisoner. It was a well-known fact that a charge of perjury could not rest on the evidence of one person. Mr. Orrige said all the evidence he had to offer appeared on the depositions. _ _ The Recorder said it was insufficient, when a verdict of not guilty was immediately returned, and the prisoner was discharged. Daniel Chilvers was indicted for stealing, at West Ham, 221bs. of brass fittings, the property of the Eastern Counties Railway, also with feloniously receiving the same, well knowing it to be stolen, and also with having been previously convicted of felony. The prisoner pleaded guilty. The Recorder, before passing sentence, called for the certificate of the former conviction. The document set forth that Chilvers had been convicted in 1844, 1855, and 1856. An inspector of the Metropolitan Police then informed the Court that the prisoner, after the three convictions just mentioned, was also confined for 12 months in Maidstone Gaol for a very daring robbery. The police had for some time been on the look-out for him, as he was considered one of the most expert thieves in London. The Recorder said it appeared that lenient punishment had no effect on the prisoner, who would, however, for some time to come, be well looked after, as the sentence of the Court was that he be kept in penal servitude for four years. _ _ Mary Sloman pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with feloniously concealing the body of her dead child in a cellar. Sentence deferred. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY. • (From the Derbyshire Courier.) A memorial has recently been addressed by a number of the inhabitants of Birmingham to Mr. Bright, requesting his " advocacy in Parliament on behalf of the interest of labour against that of money." Mr. Bright has replied in the following letter to Mr. Edmund Taunton : " Rochdale, Jan. 12, 1859. " have received a memorial with many signatures, of which yours is the first, requesting me to endeavour to procure the abolition of the monopoly in money.' It might be deemed a sufficient answer to say that my time and thoughts are just now so fully occupied with a great public question that I cannot undertake anything further ; that is certainly the position in which I am paced, but I will not confine myself to such a reply ; to tell you the truth, I do not comprehend what you complain of, or what you wish to bo done, for in the many conversations I have had with persons who thought themselves well informed on what is called Our monetary system,' I have never had the good fortune to find any two of them agreeing upon the exact grievance or the precise remedy. I have always thought this a great misfortune, because until I could see clearly where the wrong was, or is, I could have small hope of discovering a remedy. Ido not defend what exists in con neetion with the Bank of England—much of it seems to be at variance with the laws of political economy, but I find many of the propositions made by those who wish for a change are even less in accordance with that science, and long discussion with those who most loudly denounce the present system only leaves me more puzzled than before. I confess, therefore, that I am not the most suitable person to undertake the great change which I presume you are looking for. I . will willingly support any inquiry by Parliament in the hope that the truth may at last be discovered ; but I do not feel competent to teach Parliament and the country on the abstruse ques tion to which you have drawn my attention. When it comes before the House of Commons I will give it all the conside ration in my power. I wish I could send you a more satis factory reply.—l am, very respectfully yours, _ _ "JOHN BRIGHT." We give Mr. Bright full credit for his assertion that he does not " comprehend" what is complained of, and we then affirm that his constituents have good reason to find fault with their representative for expecting them to supply him with comprehen sion as well as with arguments. Mr. Bright, in his speech at Bradford, objects to the House of Lords that they do not represent trade. He says, " They do not represent trade, they do not, many of them, know much about keeping of accounts, or buying and selling, the rise of prices, or the fluctuations of the markets." Few men understand more than one thing well. As landowners the House of Lords may be said to represent land, and to understand the management of their estates. This is a very useful and important kind of knowledge. The wealth of nations springs from the land. The capi tal employed in agriculture, says Adam Smith, is " of all the ways in which a capital can be employed by far the most advantageous to society." The House of Lords also contains men who have thoroughly studied the laws and the constitution of the country. It contains men who understand how the army and navy of the country should be managed so as to protect the honour of the nation, the security of its commerce, and the lives and liberties of its inhabitants. It contans men who have devoted their lives to the consideration of our relations with foreign countries, and who are fully qualified to conduct those intricate and difficult disputes which must inevitably arise between us and other nations. Mr. Bright has recently exhibited his profound ignorance of the Constitution of his native country. The art of war, which is the best security for the en joyment of peace, he laughs to scorn, or abuses with supercilious malignity. Of diplomacy,which requires frequently the exercise of the most subtle intellect, he knows only the name. He imagines that a per plexed national dispute, as complex in its bearings as an intricate case in equity, may be settled by in stinct, a smut declamation, or the light of nature. Mr. Bright glories in calling himself a free trader, plumes himself on having been a leader of the Anti-Corn Law League, and vilifies the landowners of England. His knowledge of the principles and history of free trade is as superficial as his know ledge of other things. His notion, with that of the Manchester School in general, of free trade in corn was that it would pull down agriculture and exalt trade on its ruins. But free trade has neither secured cheap bread, nor permanent prosperity to trade. And as to the landowners being the chief monopolists, let him attend to the deliberate opinion of the great advocate of free trade. Adam Smith had a mind sufficiently capacious to take in the whole of a great national question, and sufficient liberality to award to every class of the community its fair proportion of merit. " Country gentlemen and farmers," he said, " are, to their great honour, of all people, the least subject to the wretched spirit of monopoly." The inhabitants of towns, merchants, and manufacturers " seem to have been the original inventors of those restraints upon the importation of foreign goods, which secure to them the monopoly of the home market." "It was in imitation of the trading community," he adds, " and to put themselves on a level with those (inhabi tants of towns) who, they found, were disposed to oppress them, that the country gentlemen and farmers of Great Britain so far forgot the generosity which is natural to their station, as to demand the exclusive privilege of supplying their countrymen with corn and butcher's meat." But if Mr. Bright knew little or nothing about the history of his country, its constitution, its means of national defence, its diplomacy, or even about his great question of the Corn Laws, he may be supposed, at all events, to know something about that by which he lives, and the interests of which he professes to be anxious to promote. " My Liege and Fusbos," says the honourable member for Birmigham, " Here's success to Trade." Here, then, we have a man who " represents trade," who understands "buying and selling, the rise of prices, and the fluctations of the markets." Money, Mr. Bright must know, is one half of every bargain made in trade. Buying and ceiling, the rise of prices, fluctuations in the markets, all have an intimate relation with money. Yet Mr. Bright cannot " comprehend" that his constitu ents complain of a monetary system under which poor-rates in Lancashire increased 56 per cent. last year, and under which several millions of his fellow countrymen are, as he says, constantly- either paupers, or on the verge of pauperism. He can not see " where the wrong is ;" and though not prepared to " defend what exists in connection with the Bank of England," much of which appears to hint to be " at variance with the laws of political economy," he learns nothing on the Currency Question from one, he hears what is said and is " more puzzled than before," and being unable or unwilling to think for himself on the subject, he confesses that he—the great " representative of Trade"—is "not the most suitable person to under take" to assist in redressing a great commercial and financial grievance; that he—the great free trader—is not prepared to do anything to repress the monopoly in money! "I do not comprehend," says Mr. Bright, " what you complain of, or what you wish to be done." We will tell Mr. Bright of what Currency Reformers complain. We complain of a system by which man is made the slave of money ; by which the rights of labour are sacrificed to those of capital ; and by which the working men of England are, at intervals of a few years, driven by povc , tY and deprivation into the workhouse and the gaol in order that usurers and hard calculators ay gain 20 per cent. for their money. Mr. 13rig may gain 20 per cent. for their mofle. Brights constituents addressed him some time ago request ing his assistance and advice to obtain relief from the distress under which they groaned. That dis tress was caused by the monetary crisis of 1857. A child may understand how the monetary system works. The Englishman's money is made de pendent on the quantity of gold which comes into the country. When gold comes in abundance a large quantity of paper money is issued by the Bank of England. Money is then cheap. Dis counts go down to 2 per cent. Speculation is stimulated. Prices rise. Trade flourishes. Poor men are fully employed at good wages. The taxes on which Mr. Bright throws the blame of the dis tress of the people, are then paid without difficulty. But when, from the rise on the price of commodi ties, or from any other cause, Gold is drained out of the country, the Bank is obliged to contract its issues, money is made scarce and dear. Discounts rise to 10 per cent. Merchants and traders are ruined by thousands, and working men are thrown out of employment by hundreds of thousands. Gold is then tempted back to our shores, by the fall in the prices of all goods and commodities, the poor man again gets food for himself and his family, and the Hard Calculator counts up his gains, buys another estate, or invests another £lOO,OOO on Consols in readiness for the next panic. Here is a question—not a very " abstruse ques tion" either, as to its practical evils—to which Mr. Bright, as a representative of trade, ought to turn his attention, unless he means inexcusably to ne glect his duty. " But," says Mr. Bright, "what do you wish to be done ?" Of course we wish this abominable grievance to be remedied. A repre sentative of trade ought to make it his business to find out a remedy for an admitted evil. But. we will give Mr. Bright a remedy. We 1.611 Government to issue, or to empow er the B an k t i o issue, some 20 millions of pap er money (w experience has proved to be sufficient) !or the do- Tins money to mestic circulation of this country. be a legal tender at the Bank and everywhere w an ed d receivable for taxes. T hen, whether g _flo in or went out of this count, we s ioul have a steady, safe,.circulating mediurym. Violent d flu'ctua tions in discounts and in price s would be avoided, and panics would cease. Mr. Bright says that he never found " any two" Currency Reformers agree ; this is because he knows so little about Currency Reformers. In the last committee of the House of Commons on the Monetary system; Mr. Sroatier and Mr. Cayley, members of the committee, agreed on this remedy. Mr. Twells, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Capps, wit nesses examined, agreed on it also ; and it has the approval of many of the oldest and most talented of oar monetary reformers,--Mr. John Taylor, Colonel 111‘Donald, and a host of others who are fully competent to form an opinion. But whether they agree in this exact remedy or not, there is a rapidly growing conviction among all thinking men that a system under which panics are periodical, and the Bank Charter Act has to be sl:spended to avert national bankruptcy, is -tho roughly rotten. And it is becomimg more and more evident every day that the trade in money ought to be free, and that the great principle of Monetary Reform is gold at its Market price. This is a question which bears more directly on the moral and social condition of the people of England than any other. Whatever Mr. Bright may say to the contrary, every man in England is free. He can go where he pleases, worship as he pleases, do the best he can for himself, and express his 'opinion openly on any subject, always providing that in doing all this he does not unjustly injure his neighbour. The thing which presses down the energy and. the industry of the masses is a bad money law, by which they are thrown out of work, deprived of a market for their labour, and the just reward of their time and talents, No Parliament, reformed or unreformed, can reach the grievances of the working classes of all orders, which leaves this rich man's law in operation to place industry under the feet of capital. FUNERAL OF TIM LATE MR. HALLAM. -The secluded village church of Clevedon, on the Bristol Channel, presented on' Friday • last a me. morable and impressive scene. On that afternoon the remai - as of the late Henry Hallam, the histo rian, were conveyed from Clevedon Court, the seat of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, M.P., nephew of the deceased, to a grave which, through a mysterious inversion of the common order of succession, had been already rendered classic ground by the ashes of his two gifted sons. It is now six and twenty years ago since the father, dismayed and almost broken-hearted by the abrupt bereavement, carried to the same secluded spot upon the shore of the Atlantic one whose name will often and for ages be repeated on both sides of that ocean in answer to the question,—" Who is indicated by the ini tials ' A. H. H.," familiar on the title-page of the "In Memoriam" of Alfred Tennyson ? This was Arthur Henry Hallam, who is remembered still, and who will cease to be remembered only when their memory shall altogether fail, by many of the now foremost, spirits of our time, among whom in his day he was ranked ungrudgingly as the foremost and most promisin g . H e di e d in 1833, near the completion of his 23d year. Four years later, and an amiable daughter was reunited to the brother who had been her playmate ; and three years afterwards a still sadder necessity summoned the father to lay his wife beside the ashes of their children. Mrs. Hallam was sister of the late Sir Charles, and aunt of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, the present Baronet, of Clevedon Court ; and it was her husband's exce e di ng an d un if orm attachment to this family, coupled, perhaps, with the characteris tic beauty and seclusion of the spot, which led him to select the parish church of Clevedon as the last resting-place for his own. For the next 10 years it might have seemed that the almost marvellous accomplishment of his surviving son Henry Fitz maurice Hallam—no way less gifted than the bro ther he outlived—were destined to bring such con solation for his bereavements as a parent not inex perienced in literary and intellectual eminence might find in the achievements of his son. But this hope also was doomed to an inscrutable disappoint ment ;. and in 1850 Henry Fitzmaurice also died, almost suddenly, upon the continent, at the age of 26, and now rests in the same grave with the others. For the last eight years of a life which had been darkened by this astounding succession of bereave ments Mr. Hallam found not only consolation but considerable cheerfulness in the tender assiduities of his only surviving child, who was married in 1851 to Colonel Cator, of Pickhurst, in Kent, with whom lie lived uninterruptedly till his death on Friday, the 21st of January, at the age of 82. His mind remained lucid, and occasionally even vigor ous, to the last, and he continued to enjoy at times the society which the habits and circumstances of his life had rendered most congenial to him. But, while he cheered himself amid the affectionate homage which on all hands was emulously paid to him, it was unequivocally manifest to those who had access to his more sacred privacy that he had sought and found his highest and enduring conso lations elsewhere than in the associations, or the achievements, or the expectations of this world. lle died in peace—the peace which this world can not give—a humble, meek, affectionate, and most venerable man. The funeral was strictly private, but it accomplished that pious wish so touchingly expressed in the epitaph, written by himself, over his elder son,— " Vale, Dulcissime, dilectissime, desideratissime. Hie, post hac Pater ac Mater, Requiescamus Tecum, Usque ad Tubam." TRAINING-SHIPS FOR BOYS. The training-ship now about to proceed to the Mersey, the et-decant 28-gun ship Conway, is, we believe, only the first of a series of ships to be similarly fitted and employed. The Conway will be employed as a training-ship for boys between the ages of 13 and 15. They will be received in three classes. One class will consist of lads whose parents are able and willing to pay a moderate sum for their support and education ; another will com prise those whose friends can contribute in a lesser degree ; while the third will consist of poor boys, orphans or others, who have no friends to help them. An association has been formed to supply the funds necessary for the support of the establish ment, which will be raised by voluntary contribu tion. The merchants of Liverpool have subscribed liberally for this purpose, and the Admiralty have lent a ship well calculated for the service as a commencement, and have fitted her as for sea. After some probationary terms have been gone through the most proficient among t he lads will be allowed to chocse between the royal and mercan tile services—the Admiralty, we presume, under taking to receive boys recom mended by the asso ciation into her Majesty's ships. The Conway has a superintendent and a sc h oolmaster, receivin g moderate o f boysbut increase, impro o improving s alaries ; and, as the num bersh staff will be augmented; but it does not see m a part of the scheme to educate the lads beyond certain elementary standards, or to fit them for pursuits of a higher character. The boys are to be trained for the sea, and prepared in morals and discipline for apprentices to the sea ser vice. We hope to find the Admiralty taking thehint from the Liverpool Association, and fitting out a number of the old men-of-war, now rotting in ordi nary, as training ships for boys. From 5,000 to 10,000 lads should be trained annually : The mer chant service would be glad of one moiety, and the Royal navy could dispose of the other. Every ship Might carry double her present complement of stout• boys with .advantage. The boy of 16 who leaves England for a foreign station usually returns a smart young seaman of 18 or 20, fit for anything, and from this stock we derive the best men under the pendant. Were this principle acted upon, the cry of want of seamen would soon cease to be uttered ; for the boys who entered the merchant service would, in most instances, be true to their first masters, and enter freely in ships of war were their services required. The Royal navy has no worse enemy to contend against than prejudice. The merchant seaman hears the Royal service badly spoken of ; every punishment is set down to the account of cruelty, and the rules of a man-of-war _are often described as inhuman and debasing. Ajen who know little about it, or whose bad conduct has brought upon them needful punishm ent, de.r ginbte in misleading others ; but if naval discipline ' were inculcated as a part of their education,iiti and boys were made to look upon t he r t posed as needful to the general assertions would often of hardy, men would find their damaging verted, and the egulations of ItheanolaiNeultural coml. be successfully vindicated. T g°°(.tions contro persuasion need be strong-limbed boys. the recruits, for if a well-dressed ties would alway fuizitstllioaolranrgoe siip, country church s u a s i e l d or in lad ob tainin g on a Sunday, we will answer for it he would be an object of attraction to scores to go into any of boys of his own age, all eager to enrol themselves in the same service. Boys description i received on board a train in a short ti me h ave the roug h edge taken off , and be prepared to begin a sailor's p w ould is i g s ohfi this career with right notions ; and. it is well known that during the long war the finest and braysst sailors we had were found among those who a few years previously had the p oug e followed h U d Service Gazette. FRIGHTFUL SUlClDE.—Yesterday. afternoon a painful sensation was created in the neighbourhood of Camden-town by the suicide of a man named George Keep hig, 28 years of age, in the employment of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, Camden-town, who destroyed himself by cutting his throat with a razor, at his lodgings, 33, College-street, Camden-town. It had been observed for some time past that his mind was in a wandering state. The father of the unfortunate man was in the room at the moment the dread • ful act was committed, but although he used every exertion to prevent its perpetration, so determined was the deceased that be effectually succeeded in accomplishing his object. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN INCORRIGIBLE SON.—Joseph Benjamin, 17, who has been at this court twice before on similar charges, was brought before Mr. Beadon, charged with robbing his father, Samuel Benjamin, general dealer, of 28, Little Pulteney-street, of a cap and 17s. kr. Benjamin said the prisoner, his son, had only been out of the House of Correction one month, during which time he had robbed him four times. On the night of Thursday last, he having absented himself for eight days previously, he managed to secrete himself in the house just before midnight, and the next morning he found that his two other sons had been robbed of 17s. On his being met with on Sunday morning, and taxed with stealing the cap he wore, and the money, he admitted he had stolen 148. He did not know what to do with him. Mr. Beadon asked the prisoner, if he could get him into a reformatory, whether ho would go. The prisoner said he would. Mr. Beadon then remanded the prisoner for a week. A BEGGING PICKPOCKET. —Ann Selaney, a female with an infant in her arms, was charged with picking the pocket of Mr. Arthur Wheeler, of 15, George-street ; Grosvenor square. The prisoner followed the prosecutor in the Haymarket on the previous evening, and, on his feeling a tug at his pocket and turning round, she asked him for a penny. He then put his hand to his pocket, and at once taxed her with stealing his silk handkerchief. This she denied, and said ho could convince himself by going to her lodgings, but, on a constable coming up, she handed from her bosom the handkerchief. Mr. Inspector Webb said she had been charged once before with an exactly similar offence. Committed for four months. - - TIIIS DJ.I'S LONDON, Jan. 31.—Wind this day at noon W. light airs and fine. PORTSMOUTII, Jan. 30—Wind W—Arrived—Phoenicia n, from London, for Sydney, New South Wales; Northfleet, from London, for Hong Kong; H.M.S. Virago, from Waterford. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 30.—Arrived—Engine, from Antwerp, for Rio Janeiro. COWES, Jan. 30.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Success, from Bombay. CLYDE, Jan. 29.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—John Bunyan, for Melbourne. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Wind W. Arrived, Jan. 31.—Elizabeth Jane, from Cork; Char lotte, from Havre. Sailed, Jan. 31.—John Byrkin, for Newport; Supply, for Seaham ; Lady Eglinton, (s.), for London; Syren and Alfred, for Sunderland; Clara, for Newport. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind W.S.W. Arrived yesterday.—Kaive, from Demerara ; Euphemia, from Tampico. Peraza, for Gibraltar, has put back. Eliza, for Mew foundland, has put back, with foremast sprung, loss of sails, &c. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Wind S.W. ; tide three hours' flood ; fine. Arrived, Jan. 30.—Blackwall, from Melbourne ; Samuel, from Demerara. Arrived, Jan. 31.—Cock of the :Watch, from Smyrna Furet, from Gravelines. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind W. by S., moderate Passed, Jan. 30.—Wolf, screw steamer, from London, for Genoa. Anchored,—Mirage, from Londoi, for Cowes. rift of ja 1 tee ng ng as Rio lie iid ing For ma ill ab alit an ing !Ist Ina 1 of rqr, ,‘ intl nu- tho 10 0 of ant ,n a the sth Share Siock' Stcaki 1