The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, 1 1 1 FUN, every week. One Penny, Novi Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d. ; post free, is., the SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with 1, -- 1 numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers:— W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Rood, Esq. E. L. Blanchard, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. U. W. Bridge roan, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. LI. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, Wallace's new opera, LOVE'S TRIUMPH. Commence at 8. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With DUCK HUNTING. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by A TICKET OF LEAVE. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening, A.S.S. After which, THE TRIPLE AL LIANCE. To conclude with THE HONEYMOON. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, IT MUST BE TRUE, 'TWAS IN THE PAPERS. Followed by PEEP O'DAY. To conclude with KILL..N.UNEY. Commence at 7. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay. market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.— Grand Selections from Verdi's " Boccanegra." Maciarren's Cantata "May Day," and Locke's Music of "Macbeth."— The Etolle Family —Unsworth, E ug ene, and Duley, Sze. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY EVENING.—Re-app earan ce of Unsworth. the orizinal of "Or any other man' -The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline ParsKes—Mr. Maclagan's Entertainment Drew Dean, the great Flautist—the Neapolitan Minstrels—Selections from Verdi's " II Corsaro" and "Nabuco," Donizetti's "Don Se bastien," &0., with full band and chorus. Commence at 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHI THEATRE.— Olmar every Evening. -Grand Musical En tertainment, 60 performers. Commence at halt-past 7. THIS NEWSPAPER, "THE SUN, " Was on Thursday, in pursuance of the order of the Lord Chancellor, in the cause " Chaplin v. Young," put up for sale by auction, by Messrs. E. and H. Lumley, at the Auction MaTt, London, when the highest bidding for the copyright and good will and the leasehold premises, in addition to £1,420, the valuation of the plant, machinery, furniture, and effects, was the sum of £l,OOO by ?Ir. Kent, the principal editor of the newspaper, and who became the purchaser thereof, subject to the biddings being opened within eight days by an increase of the price. ADAM RIVERS STEELE, Solicitor, 44, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C. of Reform and Liberalism in that con- • stituency at least, has succumbed or been subordinated to the cause of the Peninsular and Oriental Company—as opposed in the splendour of its enterprise to the other great local Company, of which Capt. MANGLES (the defeated Liberal can didate) is Chairman of the Board of Directors, viz., the West India Mail Packet Company ! Hence the triumph won by the supporters of the Conservative ' candidate, the new Lord Mayor ROSE, now M.P. for Southampton ! The upshot of the electioneering strife lately raging in the streets of Southampton is, in its way, however, we cannot but think—so much of, and so flagrantly, an anti-climax that it can hardly (now that it can be looked back to in a calmer mood) fail to startle the Liberal electors of the borough into a somewhat sobering recognition of the egregious folly of their late proceedings. From this result, now visibly before us-- the return, that is to say, of the Lord Mayor ROSE, the Conservative candidate the constituency ought, beyond a doubt, to learn a lesson that, if only taken wisely to heart before the nest election, may then stand them in good stead, and preclude them, at any rate, from the other wise exceeding risk of again being thus irritatingly " sold," and—what is worst of all—" sold," too, by themselves ! From the Nettle of this recent Danger into which they have fallen with their eyes wide open, and with so very ludicrous an aplomb, let them at least pluck that flower Safety for the future. The Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool has re belled against its representatives. It has rebelled by repentance. At the previous meeting it re solved to uphold the blockade of commercial ports, as distinguished from naval and military ports and arsenals; at its last meeting, on Wednesday, it went a step further, and proposes, though the dis cussion is adjourned, to support also the right to capture private property at sea. Both these steps are in reversal of its former decisions and memo rials to Government, and the leading gentleman in support of the - penitential resolutions is Mr. SPENCE, known to us only by his plausible advocacy of the South and its institutions, and his depreciation of everything Northern. The present blockade is one which of course cannot be broken by us, and Mr. SPENCE incurs therefore no risk for his Southern friends by now upholding commercial blockades ; perhaps also, so far as expression of opinion goes, he does them service by maintaining the desirable ness of such destruction of property as that prac tised by the Alabama, and by the Sumpter before her. That it is perfectly fair while the Federals seize every vessel with Southern property on board, cannot be denied ; but Mr. SPENCE and his brother merchants maintain, in addition, that such captures are also expedient. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnls DAY.—Morning, lh, Wm.—Afternoon, 2h. 10m. To - stoußow.-Morning, 2h. 2 7m.—Afternoon, 211. 45m. It is to be remembered that though America retains the right of privateering, the nations of Europe, being more civilised, have, by the Treaty of Paris, abandoned the practice. Except, there fore, in a war with America, this mode of maritime depredation must be abandoned. The question, therefore, now is, shall we abandon also the right to seize the property of the enemy at sea by means of our QUEEN'S ships, and induce, which of course we could easily do, other nations to adopt the same policy. As every navy is smaller than ours, other Powers would obviously be but too glad to agree that all purely trading vessels should enjoy the same immunity from capture as is enjoyed by a farm house or a shop, on land. Mr. SPENCE de nies the very parellelism itself of the cases. To most persons, at first sight, they seem to be iden tical, with only the difference of the private property being in one case on the common highroad of all nations, and in the other on the soil of the belli gerent himself. This last would, indeed, sewn rather to be a reason why it should be more open to appropriation by an enemy, but Mr. SPENCE j rules otherwise; we much suspect, because he had found himself constrained to confess, that to retain commercial blockades, which he and his friends had agreed to do, and to forbid capture at sea, of the property they sought to shut up in port, was a manifest absurdity. The borough of Southampton is earning for itself a peculiar and distinctive reputation. Not an en viable reputation by any means. But one of a very exceptional character. It is precisely the constituency where a successful hit may be hoped for, by any adventurous candidate who may care to "go in and win" —or, at any rate, trust confidently upon the chance of winning —by what billiard players call a FluAe. The least likely name among those submitted to the selection of the electors, so often turns out, there, to be, after all, the name of the " returned"—of the new M.P. for Southampton The constituency, as we all know, is essentially a Liberal constituency. Among the registered elec tors a very considerable majority is notoriously made up of advanced Reformers, men dead against Toryism, men but the faintest degree, if at all, tinctured with the flavour of Conservatism. Yet, out of this Liberal borough, there has just now emerged, in the person of the new Lord Mayor of London—the Right Hon. WILLIAM ROSE—a thoroughly true blue or high Tory representative. It is for all the world like that charming little trick of the laboratory—so often witnessed by the frequenters cf the Polytechnic Institution—the turning of a lump of ice out of a red hot crucible After the sharpest contest that has long been witnessed, even at Southampton, out of the partu rient mountain of the great Liberal constituency comes forth—a ridiculous ROSE ! Let us, however, hear his arguments. He says, first, that it would be "inhuman" to destroy pro- perty on land; the suffering caused to the unarmed " innocent" population would be great, and have no tendency to move the Government of the country to come to terms. This is as fallacious as it is plau sible. Oar own statesmen have told us in the re cent debates that the fundamental reason why pri vate property may be seized at sea is, that every individual in a nation, its suffering merchants in cluded, must be considered as represented by his Government, and participating in its acts. But if this be sound reasoning, and on the principles now acknowledged between nations it really is so, pri vate property is as fairly liable to the enemy's attack on land as it is at sea. The possessors in one case are as "innocent" as in the ether. The inhu manity or cruelty is simply a question of degree, since loss of property at sea may be the cause of fearful suffering. Then as to the tendency to move the Government of a country, Mr. SPENCE must be quite wrong. In proportion as the distress of farmers and tradespeople, fleeing from the invad ing foe, demanding support, like the operatives in Lancashire at this time, or known to be suf fering in their homes from the presonce and exac tions of the enemy—in proportion to the distress thus caused by an invader would be the desire of the Government to put an end to it by pease. The sufferings of a province by land would tell more than those of merchants from their ventures at sea. Again the ball flies into the winning pocket—by a fluke ! It is idle to talk of the mere contest of political parties having led to this surprising result at Southampton. For political parties read—rival companies 1 Instead of Whig and Tory, or let us say Liberal and Conservative, having been pitted against each other, in the two opposing candi dates, Lord Mayor ROSE and Captain MANGLES --it should be said that the MONTAGUES and the CAPULETS there at daggers drawn in the streets of our great southern outport, were severally repre sented by the Peninsular and Oriental Company on the one hand, and on the other the West India Mail Steampacket Company —the latter plying across the Atlantic, the former across the Mediterranean. The result is as we have now witnessed. From nine o'clock in the morning until the close of the poll at four o'clock in the afternoon, the candidates may be said to have run almost neck and neck. If, when the poll was closed eventually, the com petitors osme not in by a dead heat, there was but a very small difference perceptible between them. Accordingly as the numbers were looked at through the yellow or jaundiced glasses, or the glasses delicately tinged with the faintest suspi ei°ll of the couleur de rose they looked thus differently But next, says Mr. SrExcE, there is the prin ciple of self-interest. It is not the interest of a commander by land to exasperate the inhabitants of the country by pillage. Self-interest is the only principle Mr. SPENCE can trust in time of war, and he rightly thinks the hostility of the people would be a great inconvenience to a gene ral. He would stir up a hornet's nest. The pro perty, too, on land, was dispersed, and cumbrous Ito * , .. le; .. .. 1,681 to transport ; the p r operty at sea condensed, and mant A diffe ti , nee, la 1,638 easy of transport. There is doubtless much truth der the oir,,, m (tul t eIYI of 54 against 43. Un- in this. But the whole might be far more briefly ances, a difference so insi nificant as to g- expressed by laying down at once that war that discernible iewi°lltn,rt to little more than makes it lawful to do anything which we con dee. But, in %retiree, an ease, awde.edledum and Tweedle- sidered it to be our interest to do; W - ALLENSTEIN'iI ceived to have been, in it will be per- sack and slaughter at Magdeburg being quite as firm)... of Candidate. Insomuch i s ti ; is th e Conservative justifiable as a seizure of mercantile property on Lord Mayor Ros 4 may now be fact ensured, that the ocean. Perhaps, indeed, it might not be dif as the looke d l upon confi dently by friend and foeficult to show that the less noticed sufferings by borough of Southampton. The e v o e n M ee . r P. for the famine, and consequent disease, following on the preserJative of that Liberal Constituency a t t h ive re- cessation of employment through exercise of bel t at sack of iae turned out of the red-hot crucible. e lump ligerent rights at sea, cost as many lives as the and burning of Magdeburg. Far more Al together the result of this late stormy ar most valuable land Perished. from those causes in the thirty years' Southampton amounts to this, that again the R ouse %portable self. It is obvious also to remark that the divided against itself has Allen. The Liberal ma• property of a country is tran own greatest enemy, enough, and could always be sent to It e of operationAs ii . jority there has been its has allowed little petty raneours and the merest the be. B turned sr conveyances furnished in sordid rivalries to fritter away its inherent the count r y i tself. cun t ; and, accordinaegrteoetl:ith Again, the exasperation of the strength collectively. It has forgotten the interests people,. and o f . their fellow-cou t ainst themircon might be theory now so popuhir of the United Kingdom for the pettier interests ap-. quite as naturally pertaining to the borough and out-port of South - with those who arnpton. According to the narrowed view of the liberal Electors of Southampton of late—Britannia's greater the suffering cause b 9 the war, the sooner i to t be likely t erm i n a t e rule over the wave s wou ld a l most seem , in it wo u ld Soldiers, indeed, their eyes, to have been restricted toinduced ,like worthy of the name, could not be i nd . i n Italy, to out down uuarmed, the rip- Plea of the Southampton Waters l The Cgtilge Autr i l m mon, but CONSERVATIVE B;ATLIRN. Rose M glee itt 1,674 LIIsERAL RETURN. • - N , '" • ;2 „ . ,N i Stet , , • . 1. • f (11 THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 6, 1862. TIM SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1862. they might be easily induced, on Mr. SPENCE'S general principles, to distress them to the uttermost, that their cry might ring in the ears of their Go vernment, and dispose it to peace. This is precisely the effect he aims at through pillaged merchants ; why not aim at the same result through pillaged traders and farmers ? Mr. SPENCE prefers driving an enemy, he says, to peace, not by slaying a cer t a i n number of them, but by making them wish for peace ; and the wish is to be created by the sufferings caused by blockades and seizure of property at sea. It is difficult to see why, if this be humane and manly war, it should not be humane and manly to say to private citizens —" now you must al/ quit your homes—march off to some other place, where your Government must maintain you, till you persuade it to make peace, and to make you more urgent petitioners for that object, we shall take possession of all you leave be hind worth our using, and destroy the rest. Very hard on you unarmed innocent people, we know, but you are the storks got amongst the cranes, and there is no help for it--you must suffer till you ob tain peace." We are wholly at a loss to see how, on the principles of Mr. SPENCE and his friends, such language could be regarded as inhumane. Would it not be humanity to obtain peace by these military distress warrants, rather than by " slay ing a certain number of the enemy." We do not mean, yet, to deny that there may be good arguments found to justify what we agree with Mr. SPENCE in thinking cannot well be sepa rated, commercial blockades and seizing the enemy's property EA sea. We do not think, however, that Mr. SPEN CE'S arguments will be sufficient. They appear to us to be almost self-refuting. The ques tion will ever run up mainly to this—in order, not to defend ourselves, nor to increase our means for blockading dockyards and arsenals, but, to facilitate attack on an enemy, is it worth while to support a system which inflicts on British trade such calami ties as we now endure ? Dressed in white silk, and adorned with a diadem and necklace, composed of brilliants and emeralds, valued at more than three million reals—the QUEEN ISABELLA 11. of Spain is described to have recently delivered her Speech from the Throne to her Royal Cortes with much solemnity of manner, and in a voice at once firm and sonorous. Reading her Catholic MAJESTY'S Speech, one might really be led to imagine, from the mere tone of it, that Spain is ' at the very summit of modern civili sation, and the present reign there the most glorious in her national history. The attitude assumed by the SOVEREIGN throughout is, if one might venture to speak thus of a female Sovereign,one slightly hesitating between a strut and a swagger. The language employed is distinctly the grandiose verbiage of a true Hidalgo. Scanning the long and carefully elaborated sentences one needs hardly to have been told that in delivering them her MAJESTY spoke with that firm and sonorous voice or with that excessive solemnity of manner. Hero is a flavour of it. " The policy," says the QUEEN, "of my Govern ment, in concert with the Cortes, for the last four years has procured for the nation much increase of wealth, and led to internal reform, besides gaining for the country the respect and conside ration of foreign nations." And farther, "In con tinuing the system already commenced of liberty, of tolerance, and of constitutional administration ; in accustoming various classes of society to the exer cise of rights which elevate their dignity, and to labour, which is the stimulus to and which increases wealth ; in inculcating upon all the principles of morality and Christianity —we trust that we shall receive the blessing of Heaven in support of our efforts. Public tran q uillity, that accompaniment of free and laborious nations, will be consolidated. History will point to the present period as one fruitful in prosperity, and the reforms which may be necessary in the legislation of the State will be accomplished by the effort of public opinion alone, without the suddenness and the violence which ordinarily accompany revolutionary re actions." Than all which, surely, nothing could by possibility be more delightful or more auspi cious. Only when the sonorous voice has ceased, and the brilliants and emeralds of the necklace are no longer glittering to the rise and fall of the breath heaving the bosom of the royal speaker, when the silk has rustled away, train and all, out of the sight of the admiring Cortes—it does recur to mind somehow that all this vaunt about liberty, tolerance, and Constitutional Administration in Spain is about as valuable in its way as the famous babble of Miss WILUELMINA AMELIA SKEGGS (in the Vicar of Wakefield's parlour) about SHAKSPERE and the musical glasses ! THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.—REMOYAL OF DYER'S-WHARY-PlER.—Yesterday a number of men were engaged in removing the above steamboat-pier, which was sold a few days ago by Messrs. Pullen, Horne, and Co., by order of the directors of the company, it being no longer re quired for the accommodation of steamboat passengers, and the construction of the Thames Embankment necessitating its removal. SHIPMENT OF RAGS TO _ A -MERICA.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 4.—During the past month, 8,000 bales of cotton rags have been bought in this market, and 3,000 bales in London fer shipment to the United States. These purchases have consisted chiefly of Egyptians, at 13s 6d to 14s 3d for white, lis 6d to 12s 3d for blue, and lOs to Ils for coloured ; with a considerable quantity of Japan blues at about 13s. Since the bulk of these purchases were made prices have advanced, and Egyptians have sold at 15s for white, 13s 6d blue. Our market is quite bare of stock. DEATH OF MISS GORE OUSELEY.—Miss Alex andrina Gore Ouseley died on Monday night at her resi dence, Conegar House, Frome, at the age of 47. She was the daughter of Sir William Gore Ouseley, the distinguished diplomatist. Miss Ouseley mixed in the highest society, the late King William IV. being a frequent guest at Sir William's house. But she and her sisters chose lowlier hearths, and for many years devoted their lives to works of charity, and in ministering to the wants of the poor, in comforting the sick, and in educating poor children, sought to perform the mission which their Master had given to them.—Bristol Post. A RAILWAY SQUA3BLE.—The West Midland Railway Company have been endeavouring to recover for cible possession of the refreshment •rooms at the Worcester station of their line ) which have been held adversely by the tenant, Mr. Walton. The company and their tenant have been for some time of loggerheads on this account, and the company have repeatedly given Mr. Walton notice to leave, but ho refused, and there being an uncertainty about the terms of his tenancy, the company or their officers (acting with or without authority from the Board of Directors) proceeded to take forcible possession of the refreshment rooms. Accordingly on Saturday night last, after all Mr. Walton's servants had left the railway, a party of railway workmen nailed up the doors and windows of the refresh ment rooms. Next morning (Sunday) Mr. Walton, ac companied by a party of friends, made an attempt forcibly to regain possession of the moms. Thy wore met by a body of railway workmen, armed with staves, and on Mr. Walton attempting to get in at a window ono of the men, named Jarrett, felled him to the ground by a blow on the head. Mr. Walton was carried away insensible, and a mob having collected and taken the part of Mr. Walton, a seri ous riot would have been the result, but for the opportune arrival of the police, who took Jarrett into custody. He i s to be examined on Monday next. The manager of the rail way,A. M • C Sheriff, is the Mayor of Worcester, and he has addressed a letter to the Town Council, stating that in consequence of aspersions cast upon his character in con nexion with the affair ho can take no part in business of any kind connected with the city " until the charges now sub judice are investigated and decided on by the proper tribunal." A letter from Grosswardein (Hungary), in the Ost•Deutsche Post, states that a band of bank-noto forgers, having at their head a proprietor named Belyei, have been arrested and lodged in the prison of that district. A Jew, a notary, and other individuals, have also been taken into cuatodY. A paelEt of 800 ten-florin notes unfinished, with the press and the instruments used in their pianufacture, wore tlioc9rgs4 at 13c rooicivace. ..~-. _ . COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. e. The Queen and her Royal Highness the Princess Helena walked and drove this morning. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had an audience of the Queen. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury was presented to her Majesty, at an audience this morning, by the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary cf State for the Home Department, and did homage on his appointment. The Rev. Lord Wrothesley Russell was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. The Duchess of Athol' has succeeded the Countess of Caledon as Lady in Waiting, The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from Canada, " Irigge v. Lavallee (part heard), was concluded. Judgment was deferred. An ap peal from Agra, " Muheshrarain Singh v. Kishnanuad Misr," was commenced. The Lords present were—Lord Kingsdown, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. Ryan, Sir L. Peel, and Sir J, Colville. Despatches were reeeived yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches wero sent to the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena, AMERICAN RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.—Part of a train was destroyed on the Algiers railroad on the 17th ult. by the explosion of ammunition in a car behind the tender. The accident is supposed to have been caused by a spark from the cigar of some imprudent smoker. Eleven persons were killed and 17 wounded. On the 21st, a dark and foggy morning, when the passenger train to Boston reached the Charlestown-bridge the draw was found to be open. The engine and tender plunged into the river, and were soon submerged out of sight. The smoking car, in which were a number of passengers, was thrown forward with all the passengers in a heap. The remaining cars were uncoupled in time to avoid taking the plunge. Many of the passengers in the smoking car succeeded in making their escape by jumping from the windows and saving themselves by swimming, while to others were thrown planks taken from the bridge. Four persons were killed, and several more or less injured. The train was going slowly nt the time. ATTEMPTED FRAUD BY A FEMALE—At the Man chester police court, yesterday, Adelaide Cecilia Monk, a respectable looking woman, was brought up charged with attempting to obtain money by false pretences from the North-Eastern Railway Company. Mr. Cobbett, solicitor, who appeared for the company, stated that the prisoner made a claim on the company for some luggage which she professsed to have lost at Thorpe Arch, in Yorkshire. The amount of the claim was £l5O. Her statement was that she travelled from Thorpe Arch to Manchester on the 15th November last, and that her luggage, which had been put into the hands of the railway servants, was lost on the way. The company, however, were prepared to prove that not a single ticket was issued to any person from Thorpe Arch to Manchester on the 15th November, and they also found on inquiry that no luggage had been left at Thorpe Arch on that day. Their inquiries also tended to show that the prisoner had not been out of Man chester at all on the 15th of November, Mr. Hawker, the superintendent of police on the line, gave evidence that the prisoner represented to him that she had come from London to Thorpe Arch, and that she left the same place the next day, having in her possession two tin trunks and ono largo hair trunk containing clothes and money. She said that on arriving in Manchester she found the trunks had been taken in some other direction, and that in consequence she had been unable to take her passage to America, whither she intended going. Mr. Hawker also proved that no ticket to Manchester was taken out at Thorpe Arch on the 15th November. A man named Birkbeck, living at Ard wick, said that the prisoner had lived in his house for seve ral weeks, and that she had never been out of Manchester on either the 14th or 15th November. The magistrates remanded the prisoner for some days to make inquiries into her case. She is said to be an American. ROBBERIES BY POST OFFICIALS,—NECESSITY FOR REGISTERING MONEY LETTERS.—Henry Sorah, a messenger, lately in the employment of the post. office at Bolton, was indicted at the Liverpool Assizes yesterday for stealing the half of a £5 note, which had been posted at one of the pillars under the prisoner's care. The latter was ad dressed by Mr. James Ward, of Bolton, to Messrs, C. Tay lor, of Gomersak, near Leeds, but it never reached its des tination. On the 14th November a brother of the prisoner offered the half of a £5 note (subsequently identified by Mr. Ward as the note he had posted) to a Mr. Bradshaw, pawn broker, of Bolton, but Mr. Bradshaw , suspecting that a robbery had taken place, had the boy taken into custody. The lad said his brother had given him the note, and when the prisoner was apprehended he said that he had found the half note in the street. The jury found the pri soner guilty, with a recommendation to mercy.—David Ross, another letter carrier, pleaded guilty to two indict ments for stealing letters. He was sentenced to penal servitude for four years, and Sorah to 12 months' imprison ment with hard labour. Mr. Commissioner Gurney, in passing sentence, said that after the recent Post-office order as to the relTistrution of mnpor letters, parsons who persisted in putting money in ordinary letters were highly culpable for placing unnecessarily temptation in the car rier's way. He should refuse the expenses of witnesses in such cases. ( ESCAPE AND SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC.—On Tues day evening a young lady named Hodgson, who had been three months in the asylum at Mount Head, near Otley, belonging to Dr. Smith, of Leeds, made her escape between 5 and 6 o'clock in the evening; the woman who keeps the lodge, hearing the gate close, supposing it was her daughter, who was expected home, not going out to see what was the matter. A short time afterwards a mason, named Moon, and his companions, on their way from Ilkley to Burley, came up, and found a crinoline and a head-net on the bank of the river. A struggle was heard in the water, and upon looking closely they saw something floating on the surface, but, the river there being very deep, and none of the party able to swim, they did not venture in. They, however, threwined f out whata a l leathernturned t a which appeared to touch the h t to be a woman , b u t s h e was h unwilling sr to take h o ld o f it. Th e p oor eatr u noornow creature then gave a loud scream, and having turned on her back and uttered two or three shrieks, sho sank. The body was not recovered till Wednesday afternoon. FAROE AND ICELAND.—" In his Pen and Pencil Sketches' published by Longmans, Mr. Symington has given to the public a rich mine of information regard ing a corner of the world which as yet may be said to be almost a terra incognita to tourists - and book makers. The illustrations are numerous and well executed, and with the graphic descriptions of the letterpress the reader cannot fail to realise vividly the scene through which the author's pleasant pen and ready pencil have chosen to conduct him. An appen dix is added giving a number of Icelandic stories, poems, and other specimens of their literature. Hints for tourists are not forgotten. The book is valuable for the large amount of general information which it contains on the physical features and phenomena of Iceland."—John o' Groat Journal. A CORSICAN SOLDIER CONDEMNED FOR MURDER. —The military tribunal of Chalons has just tried a young soldier of the 52d Regimant, named Pietri, a native of Corsica, on a charge of having murdered, on the 3d Nov., a young man named Raussin, the son of a farmer, residing at Saint Memmie, near Chalons. It appeared from the evidence, which agreed with the accounts given at the time the murder took place, that M. Raussin and his son were returning home from one of their fields, with a load of green fodder, on the top of which they were seated, when they came up with two young men, one of whom was a grocer at Chalons, in shooting attire, with a fowling piece, who lay on the ground dead drunk, and the other the prisoner, who was somewhat less intoxicated. The latter asked M. Raussin to allow his companion to ride to Chalons on the fodder. The farmer refused on the ground that it would be dangerous to place a man in such a condition on the top of a load among the scythes and forks lying there. This refusal so incensed the prisoner that ,he seized his companion's doublo -barrelled gun, ran after the cart, and, aiming at young Raussin, killed him dead on the spot. Ho then discharged the other barrel at the father, but missed him ; the shot, however, struck a rake hanging at the back of the load, All these facts were proved by tho evidence of M. Raussin, and many other witnesses deposed as to the drunken state of the sol dier and his companion, especially tho servants of a farm house whero they had drunk four bottles of wine. The pri • Boner, when asked what ho had to say in his defence, stated that he had gone out with Reg,naul for a day's shooting Towards evening they went to a farm-house to obtain re freshment, where they got intoxicated, and he had not the slightest recollection of anything that occurred from the time they left the house till after his arrest. He conc:uded with expressing the remorse ho felt for the dreadful results of his drunkenness. The prisoner's counsel declared that his client was in reality a madman when ho committed the crime, and implored for him the benefit of extenuating cir cumstances; but the tribunal, deeming intoxication no ex cuse, unanimously declared the charge of murder fully proved, and condemned the prisoner to death. EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES OF THE POLICE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF GAROTTINIS AND OTHER ROB REMISS 'WITH •VioLENcE.—The metropolitan and City Police authoriti es aro ma ki ng extraor di nary e ff or t s t o sup press the m ons t rous cr i mes of garotting and et h er s t ree t robberies, effected w ith *7 i o l ence, occurrence . in the met ro p o lit an an d su b ur b an di s t r i c ts, At ngaltest,ftll d h additionalo confer constablesc a other b et placed o ' n ' re rn no c n o o meeting. n ofg i te . Av nightly beats, es number of detectives and officers in plain clothes aro also employed as patroles, the whole being under the superin tendence of an inspector of each division, assisted by ser geants and acting sergeant s , selected from the most act ive and intelligent constables. The haunts of thieves are watched vigilantly, a n d t h e i r movements re p or t e d, the raf lam, however, in some instances manage to elude t he vigi lance and activity of th e police, desp it e w hose exertions several robberies have been committed. These are supposed by tho police to have been effected through the means of scouts (principally whoa a PUCCURA War or Abnilt thg 9550 MaY be, females), who signal to their accomplices LATEST NEWS PARIS, DEC. 6. The Moniteur of to-day says : "The Emperor will inaugurate the Boulevard Prince Eugene on Sunday next. " His Majesty will receive the congratulations of the municipal authorities in the pavilion which has been erected before the Arc de Triomphe." THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY. TURIN, DEC. 6. The following is the probable list of the new Ministry : President of the Council of Ministry and Minister of Foreign Affairs—Signor Pasalini. Minister of Finance—Signor Minghetti. Minister of Commerce—Signor Manna. Minister of Public Works—Signor Menabrea. Minister of War—Signor Petitti or Larovere. Minister of Marine—Signor Ricci. Minister of Public Instruction—Signor Amari. Minister of Justice—Signor Cassinis. Minister of the Interior—Signor Perruzzi. BERLIN, DEC. 5. The Neue F'reussische (Kreuz) Zeitt4ng of this evening says:— "The statement of some Berlin papers that all Generals commanding divisions and all Chief Pre sidents of the Provincial Governments have been summoned to Berlin, is without foundation so far as concerns the former. "The Presidents of the Provincial Governments only aro expected here, as usual, to report to the Government on the proceedings of the Provincial Diets." BUCHAREST, DEC. 4. Reliable information having been received that a supply of arms, the destination of which was un known, was to be conveyed across the Principalities, the Government gave orders for their seizure. The Servian Government, however, having offi cially claimed the ownership of the weapons, and requested for them free passage across the Rouman territory, the arms were immediately ordered to be restored." ATHENS, DEC. 1, 5 45 p.m. Public opinion, being irritated by an unfavour able telegram, has obtained from Government a lebiscite for the election of. Prince Alfred. ATHENS, DEC. 1. The Provisional Government has prevented de monstrations in favour of the Duke de Leuchten berg, which were in course of preparation. The people have compelled the editor of the Aeon newspaper, notorious for Russian sympathies, to quit the country. Disturbances have .taken place at Patras, occa sioned by demonstrations in favour of the election of Prince Alfred. Several riots which had broken out among the peasantry have been appeased. TURIN, DEC. 5, (Evening). No change has taken place in the politica situation. Signori Cassinis and Pasolini are charged with the formation of a Ministry. They have not yet accomplished the task, but still hope to succeed. THE FORTHCOMING CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. (Front tl& Era.) For some time past the metropolitan managers have been busily preparing for the holidaye, and at this moment the various theatres exhibit a scene of activity in every department which would astound those who are not aware of the amount of artistic skill and mechanical labour called into requisition for the pleasures of the people. Reserving till a more seasonable period the details of the novelties in preparation at each house, we here append the titles of the several pantomimes and burlesques that will be produced on Boxing-night at the prin cipal establishments. The ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN, will have a grand pantomime, with a burlesque opening, by Mr. S. H. Byron, founded on Madame de Villeneuve's charming story of "La Belle et la Bête," and under the familiar title of "Beauty and the Beast," presenting the old fairy tale in a novel point of view. Mr. W. H. Payne and his clever sons will have, with Mr. Charles Fenton, the prin cipal characters in the opening; and the scenery will be from the fanciful pencil of that able artist, Mr. William Callcott. DRURY-LANE, always a great house for this kind of entertainment, will open, brilliantly re-decorated, under the management of Mr. Falconer, and with a new burlesque grotesque pantomime, entitled " Little Goody Two Shoes ; or, Harlequin Cock Robin." It has been written, as usual, by Mr. E. L. Blanchard, and the incidents of Oliver Gold • smith's simple story, from which the first portion of the title is derived, will be illustrated by Miss Lydia Thompson as the heroine. The new scenery by Mr. Grieve, the masks and character-appliances by the ingenious Dykwynkyn, the dances by Mr. Oscar Byrne, and the introduction of some remark able mechanical changes, will render the opening unusually attractive. The Harlequinade will be supported by Mr. Boleno and Mr. C. Lauri as Clowns, Mr. Cormack and St. Maine as Harlequins, and Madame Boleno and the Misses Gunniss as Columbines. The HAYMARKET adds to the continued attraction of Mr. Sothern's impersonation of Lord Dundreary a new burlesque, by Mr. William Brough, founded on Dr. Johnson's well-known tale of " Rasselas," in which the adventures of the famous Prince of Abyssinia will be depicted after the usual fashion of extravaganza. The PRINCESS'S will have the advantage of Mr. William Beverley's valuable pictorial aid in a new pantomime, furnished by Mr. E. L. Blanchard, and entitled " Riquet with the Tuft; or, Harlequin and Mother Shipton." Mr. Belmont and Mr. C. Seyton will have the chief parts in the opening, and the pantomime company will comprise Mr. Milano as Harlequin, and Mr. R. Power as Clown. The LYCEUM will not open under Mr. Fechter's direction until the first week of the new year, when a new drama and a fairy extravaganza will be produced. The OLYMPIC produces a burlesque on the sub ject of " Robin Hood," written by Mr. F. C. Bur nand, and enriched with some picturesque sylvan scenery. The music will be composed and arranged by the experienced Mr. James Tully. The STRAND has its usual contribution of a bur lesque, by Mr. Byron, who has this year turned Sir Walter Scott's novel of "Ivanhoe" to the ac count of extravaganza. The ADELPHI is supplied by Mr. Byron with a burlesque on the subject of "George Barnwell," Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon filling the chief parts. The SURREY pantomime is entitled "Harlequin and Mother Goose ; or, The Queen of Hearts who made some Tarts, and the Knave of Hearts who Stole them," Miss Julia St. George and Miss E. Webster playing prominent characters in the open ing. _ . The BRITANNIA has a pantomime on the "Ara. bian Nights" story of " The Sleeper Awakened." The GRECIAN has selected the capital German legend of " Number Nip" for the development of Mr. George Conquest's remarkable talent as the hero. -... FRANCE. BOURSE, DEC. s.—The market for Rente has been very heavy, but in the trifling amount of business done the cloeiug ciout.tiva of yesterday has been well maintained, Threes, for the Account, being firm at 701. 60c. The Railway Shares Mar ket has been rather more animated than the Rente, and some few of the lines show a slight improve ment. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents. 97 80 Do. end month 3 por Cents Do. end month 7O 50 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilior 1098 75 Do, end month 1106 25 RAIL' Bank Shares 3400 -- Credit Fonder 1340 Piedmontese Fives 71 Italian Loan 7l 10 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 60 13 25 Ro MAYS. Cash. Account. 1050 .. 1052 50 Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1146 25 .. 11i0 Geneva . Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard - North of Spain Saragossa 660 .. 662 25 Ditto to Barcelona ITALY. The following is the text of M. do Sartiges's address to King Victor Emmanuel on presenting his credentials as Ambassador to the Court of Turin : " Sire—The Emperor having honoured me with the mission of representing his Government at your Majesty's Court, I am happy, as my first duty, to be enabled to communicate to your Ma jesty the assurance directly given me by my august Sovereign of his sincere and unwavering feelings of affection and sympathy towards your Majesty and Italy. I shall fulfil his intentions by endeavouring to maintai❑ and consolidate the good understanding existing between Italy and France, a task which will be rendered easy by my desire to be agreeable to your Majesty, and by your high benevolence which I solicit before hand. I have the honour to present to your Ma jesty the credentials with which his Majesty the Emperor of the French accredits me to your august person as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary." The King replied that he was highly gratifed to hear, by the Emperor's direct commands, the assurances of the sincere and constant sentiments of affection for his person and sympathy for Italy, the destiny of which is intimately connected with that of France. He added that the qualities which distinguished the representative of his august ally was a pledge in his eyes that the relations between the two Goverments would preserve their character of mutual confidence which exists between the two dynasties and the two nations. RUSSIA AND GREECE. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 30th No vember publishes the following article 1— t‘ The question of the choice of the future Sovereign of Greece is the chief topic in the foreign press. Even before this question is brought before the National Assembly, which is to meet at Athens, candidatures are brought for ward, the resolutions of the Great Powers are anticipated —even a sort of competition is established between them, as if they were not bound by engagements taken in common. " We believe we may affirm that the Russian Govern • ment has never for one moment dreamt of deviating from the principle laid down by the protocol signed at Loudon on the 31 of February, 1830, and which excludes from the throne of Greece the !northers of the reigning families of the three Courts. "The majority of the foreign journals contain, on this subject, the most contradictory assertions. For instance, La Fraaee, usually well informed, attributes to the Cabinet of IPndon the initiative of a declaration in this sense to the two other protecting Powers. " We are enabled to state that already on the 19th (31st) October the Imperial Cabinet formally declared that for its part it remained faithful to the spirit of the protocol of the 3d Febru ary , 1830 , an d th a t kiPICO then it has never varied front that attitude. " By comparing dates the conviction will bo easy that that declaration followed too close upon the events that have occurred at Athens fur it to have been anticipated by any similar step, and that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg has been the fi rs t to ca ll to m i n d th e pr i nc iple agreed upo n in common, and to declare its resolution toobserveit faith fully under the prenat circuatauces." SAVE LEICESTER-SQUARE. It is to be hoped that the inhabitants of the neigh bourhood of Leicester-square and the friends of open spaces, will organise a proper opposition to the com pany who threaten to fill the area with a general market. Now that the "globe" is removed, the largeness of the space, which bad been forgotten, comes to light again. Thrown open, as we have said before, with trees bordering a few walks, it would be a boon and a blessing. Every inch of open space in the metropolis ought to be fought for—given up only at the sword's point. Leicester-square, first Leicester-fields, has many stories. In the house of the Earl of Leicester, at one corner, died Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia. To this house retired two Princes of Wales in dudgeon. In Saville House Peter the Great was entertained by the Marquis of Caermarthen. Poses Plastiques and a Cafe Uhantant are the present entertainments there. Sir Joshua Reynolds lived, painted, and died at No. 47 in the squat e ; Hogarth, whose house was on the opposite side, took his regular walk in the inclosure ; and after him came the great John Hun ter, who formed there that collection which has grown into the noble museum of the College of Sur geons in Lincoln's Inn-fields. However, it is not of the Leicester-square of past times that we would speak, but the Leicester-square of today, which we would see improved, beautified, and preserved for to-morrow. The Board of Works, if they have power, should give their aid to prevent the area from being again blocked up.—Builder. LINES TO A LEADEN BULLET. (From Punch.) " PISA, Nov. 2G—At ten o'clock this morning Dr. Zanetti successfully extracted the bullet from Garibaldi's wound.--Renter's 2elegrans." What gold or gem, discoloured lump of lead, Now in a hero's wound no more to rankle, Outshines thee, drawn to light from that deep bed, Where thou halt lain in GARIBALDI'S ankle ? Thy lustre is such glory as redounds From hangmen's tools that wrought a Martyr's passion, Clear of the doubt that commonly surrounds Those trinkets of ecclesiastic fashion. No fable 'tis that thou didst strike him down Against oppression strong and shameless, leading A hope forlorn ; what Saint o'er won his crown In juster cause more generously bleeding ? Dy Wee no rest upon lit. tumuli w 110111 C, Where the Erect of France expounds her mission, Trampling the right by which he reigns at home ; Propping by force the rule of superstition. True Relic, how unlike that spurious Cross, The Legionary badge false France wears on her That bauble's but the mock of Honour's loss, Thou art the emblem of all lost but Honour. M. Mario has abandoned to the pension fund of the Opera the sum which was coming to kim for the re presentation in which he appeared in the " Huguenots." Several of the journals state that M. Lafontaine, of the Oymnase, is about to be married to Mlle. Victoria, of the same theatre. The State of Mlle. Livry, after exciting great alarm until the last days, has now so far improved as to allow her medical Mien° . , ts to entertain hopes of her recovery. She is, however, s till ,:ceedingly weak. A new piece by M. Emile Aug."': entitled , File de Giboyer, a sort of sequel to the LffrAn•• Dais. s ame author, has just been brought out at tho rar,„ . he The piece was very successful on the fi rst night, but as it is a cruel satire on the "old parties" and the "catholic world," disturbances, it is thoug ht, may pe rhaps occur at future representations. Mdlle. Patti remains at Paris till January next, and is engaged to return the ensuing season; the interval being filled up by en gagements in Vienna, London, and b e generally known that the new Naples, where she is to appear in a new opera by Verdi.lt may not work, " Thro u Erb Algeria," is the production of Miss Craw ford, daughter of the late M r. Sharman Crawford, formerly member marble for Rochdale.statutes, intended to fill th e recesses avl" w hich still re main vacant in tin court-yard of th e L o • h av e just boon deposited fur the moment at the entrance to • Assyrian Museum. Th • Wt. • They consist of " Pandora," by - "A woman toi- • • ' M. Loison I bu<richng herself while standing on a funeral pile," M. Rawls; " Diana with a Fawn," by M. Chabaud ; " Modest: 4 'l." by the same ; " In' ocence," by M. Marcellin; and " by M. Thomas. M. Emile de Girardin him agro, - : joined t he Press* as one of its writert6, ME7ROPOLH4iN BOARD OF WORKS. Yesterday the usual weekly meeting of the Board was held at the offices, Spring-gardens ; Mr. John Thwaites in the chair. The estimate for the sums required for the enstt ing year was brought up by the finance committee, as follows : Sewerage and Drainage.—Sums required for works during the year 1863, exclusive of main drainage, works, and other special account works, is £26,800; rent, taxes of pumping stations and contingent works, £10,250, making a total of £37,050. Mr. DALTON moved the adoption of this part of the estimate, which was agreed to. Local Improvem ents—Xlo,ooo Mr. DALTON then moved the adoption of this, which he said was for carrying out local improve ments. Mr. CARPMAEL, in a short speech, moved as on amendment, that the sum of £50,000 should be agreed to, for he considered that public improve ments were of the greatest importance, and they could only be executed by a large outlay. Much was expected of that board by the public, and he believed that they would hail with pleasure a rate of one penny in the pound, which would yield £57,000 for such a purpose. Mr. Deputy HARRISON seconded the amendmen t and said,he fully concurred in what the honourable member had said who had just sat down. Mr. F. DOULTON, M.P,, said he objected to so large a sum being raised for street improvements , at a time when the ratepayers of Lambeth, the parish he had the honour to represent, were paying 6s. in the pound, and would probably next year have to pay 7s. He said the board ought to con sider seriously before they added to those very heavy burdens. Mr. FREEMAN thought the ratepayers ought net to have their burden increased. He would not ob ject to £lO,OOO, but he could not vote for so large a sum as £50,000. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he should support the amendment, because it would not press upon the ratepayers, but would be charged on the landed in' terest, which had both the legal and moral right to bear it. Since the commencement of the board/ which was about seven years ago, they had spent in street improvements £21,000, which he cone i " dered a miserable sum. Mr. WILKINSON thought that instead of £21,0 00 the sum came nearer to £140,000. He hoped the board would pause before they put suoh an amoun t aside for the purposes contemplated. If they ag reed to the £50,000 it would hold out an inducement to the City and the metropolis to scramble for it. After a long discussion the amendment was nega tived, and the original resolution carried by a Darr majority. The estimate for general purposes, amounting to £19,129 55., was agreed to. On the motion for the adoption of the expelle e° under the Sale of Gas Acts, the Chairman wad' nounced that the money spent under those acts vfej to be spread over three years. The repayment of sums amounting to 0051 16s. 6d., and the compensation to late office', amounting to £1,453 175., were agreed to wither' dissension. a The clerk, in the absence of the enginee r, tea the engineer's report upon the main drainge works. Communications were read from the clerk, suP e r r intending architect, and accountant, praying .I°, an increase of salary consequent upon their In .: creased duties on account of the Thames Embank" ment. A MEMBER moved that it be referred to the Thames Embankment Committee. Mr, H. L. TAYLOR objected, and moved as all amendment that the communications do table. The amendment was put and negatived, as wa s also the original motion. t he board ad' After the usual routine busines s i ourned. li e on the MARKETS-THIS DAY. COVENT GARDEN. Our market to-day has been fairly supplied with fruit and vegetables, and the demand has been inactive a t 010 quotations. g 4 a. d. s. d. 5. d. i - 0 Pine apples, perlb 8 oto 10 0 Cherries, per lb. Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 6 Grapes,per lb 2 6to 5 0 Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 0 Foreign do loto 2 0 Walnuts, per 1 00 10to 0 0 Melons Nectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 0 t° o 0 Apples, per ht-sv. 2 oto 3 6 Figs, per d0z..... 0 oto 0 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 8 oto 14 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 ot° o 0 Lemons, per 120 3 6to 8 0 Plums, per do. .. 0 o t° g ; 0 Gooseberries hi eve° oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto ii 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries,prpt 0 o t ° •triarrAßLEs. A t° 0 g Shallots, per lb . • ° ~ r o 2 i Horseradish, pdn 1 v-- 0 7 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 1 6 Celery, per ditto 0 Br o 0 0 A Beet, per doz. .. 1 6 i o 0 " Parsnips, per do. 0 0 . 0 0 3 6 fl u a s h l l r s o a o l m a cl B , , p p . p p t n i . , 0 0 0 0 i; vo n : Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Cabbage lett,score 0 orn # 0 Mint and savory.. o to 0 0 Endive, per score 0 0 to to 0 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 0 0 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 0 oto C I „ 0 Capsicums, per do i., oto v 0 Rhubarb, per blin - o to 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 0 to ° Seakale, per bun, 0 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL'oA ea ch; Turkeys, 5s Od to 10s Od ; geese, 5s Od to'7s u - 000 goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 3s Od-;. duck iocl Os Od to Os Od ; rabbits, is to 2s Od each ; wild ' l° o ° ,oo, to is 2d ; pigeons, Gd to 9d each; large Surrey f - „ v ilAt 8s Od to lOs Od ; chickens, 5s Od to 8s Od; barn-door," 6d ; 3s Gd to 5s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s 6d to ' e l Od ; grouse, 2s Od to 2s 6d each ; pheasani s, 3s Od snip4s o gd partridges, is 3d to 2s 3d ; woodcocks, is 9d to 2s • ' r cl; to is Od; teal, is Od to Os Od ; wild duCks 2s dd to _ se m widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od',,„ oa guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, 4s oa to L, 0 each; :Ostend fresh butter, lld to is ld ; English, ido4 to is 3d per lb ;'English eggs, 10s Od to 123 Od; erello' BsOd to lOs Od per 120; leverets, 2s Gd to 3s 6d eaCh• BILLING SG-ATE. l oa; Salmon, 2s Od to Os Od ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d 0 .. .0 p r awns, Os to Os ; pike, skate , sturgeon, and halibut, Oa 10 t I lb. i turbots, 2 s Gd to los ; cod, 2s Od tolos Od ; brills, 1s0; to 55 Od; doreys, Is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, Os 6d toaetos lobsters, Gd to 2s 6d ; crabs, Gd to 2s Gd ; plaice and g l 'ia.,,, oil Od to Os Od each; soles, Gd to 2s Od per pair ; o '7 o o oysters,lBs to 20s ; natives, 48s to 50s per bushel; vi ll '; oa; 3s Od to 9s ; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, ls Od to 1. 0 11 flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s per ;0 1 herrings, Gs per 100; bloaters, 7s to Oa per 100; o *"' tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. 2a; l alliti t ' Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s Od to 1 7- 1 a 6d ° Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Po rk ' 4s Gd per 81bs by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. qa to 414 ,,:c1a q Od Beef, from 2e 8d to 3e 10d •, mutton, ,6 i fl ak/ " lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ;an - to 4s Gd per Sibs by the carcase. BREAD. • eqr fed The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolisf • 7d to Bd, of household do., 6 1d to 7 d p er 41b loa. HIDES AND SKINS. u WO Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 24d to 3d ; 641 b to 72 1 " , 4icl; 3id ; 721 b to 801 b, 3 d t o 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 30 *0 gt 881 b to 961 b, 31d to 5d ; 961 b to 1011 b, 4d to 54d ; 'itioO 1121 b, 4id to 51d. Horse hides, 8s Gd to 10s 6 d ; Cab ',., t light 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; full, 6 s Gd to Os Od ; polled Shia t° Gd to lOs 6d ; half-breds, 6s 9d to 78 9d ; DownS, 55 0 J, shearlings, Os Od to 0 3 OA£ 6 I s 3oc‘vs 3 viult, d o,oH:s ; 7:3: l doEci a mroel;t7:sbizAasAi3n,Nio(!o:2l3s.ol,Bo.—dt olie05asdlOoodlsv;; HAY MARKETS. ,„ f off SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £1 16s to £4 5s Od; er, Per do., £3 lOs to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 12s to Ll l v ' load. Supply moderate ; trade dull. lov er ' . 0 -- - d re a now stra h w ay :x il l2 l s Gs to to x i4 l s 6s s;;;o l ` O d; hay, and s l tr i aw l , G .G s per load. Trade slow. itol2,Lsltousoi 160 FRUIT. Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9to 1 3 Red ditto ..... 2OSo 4 0 Savoy do., pr dz 0 10 to 1 6 Cauliflowers, pdz 2 oto 3 0 Brown, per bun. 010 to 1 0 Potatoes, per ton 90 to 160 0 New ditto, pr pd 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 0 Cucumbers 0 oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, h.-sv. 0 oto 0 0 Brus. sprouts, h.s. 1 Bto 2 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 6to 2 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0 French beans, h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0 ChS ON Tr _ R 1 7_ __' _" -._ _ _ TCII COAST.----liv- th e WRE - _____." l w_t_l n with wheat, and 1::, ."' ..,C0 ~,,,,i p o, Dec, 4„-Yesterday morning two fine schooners got ou x sand h an ,k, „ it ' !he mouth of the river Tay during a ' sti l l , gale ade from the RE. They were the Osprey, Fraserborkit" e Gutenberg, of Lubeck, liidel; . n i 1 .0 11,1 x, from Ri ga . Th e ve ,,L:els arrived in the riv er 63, - r h jj e '. _:: t . , morning in company, and tn':frwards struck on d ' the 3 -_ , 1 .1 r dy Sands. Both vessels rolled over 1.2 s a nk, and the C O prey having got into deep water immediately 8"-l'ovi, rew, six in number, taking to their boat. The boa t / a t he ever, almost instantly swamped in the heavy sea, Al l ~o r . men with difficulty got on to the rigging of the sehOP'' The Gutenberg having, in the meantime, lost her bei rjf ho ' s drifted to the north side of the river, and ran ashore atei-r, Duddori Down, where she heeled over, when her crew ' ° tuuately managed to reach the shore by means of their °"; boat. As soon as the wrecks were observed the Balderal, lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was lattuellei., and r e scued the crew of the Osprey from their perileus u se d, tiou and brought them ashore. They had been eg)°°ers . drenched as they were in the rigging, for about four liOn I and lost their all, save the clothes they wore, I