The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

• 1 1i . . ___,, . . THE SUN, LONDON ! .....___ ____,,...................._ , ...___ ay.) MONEY .MARKET AND CITY NEWS. i SHARE MARKET.-( THIS DAY.) t BRITT SII POSSESSIONS. 4 r C 4 losing i Railways. Paid. P r ice. l:Sadness done SHARES AND STOCKS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. ORDINARY Share _______---- - ____ - -- . uusines , . io , !Atlantic &St Lawrence all 87 89 ng =with Although very few withdrawals of gold from , Share, Railways. Closing Paid. Price. I Leased at 6 per cent.. j partner- the Bank of England are now reported, and the ________ it. The price of that metal is only a fraction dearer in Paris 12.10 AWL/Cr:Z., A curing. hoot. gu. 5 percent --- - - I and Eastern Junction 10 64 64 61 Do. Addit. Capital A than in London, remittances are still made to the 50 ;Belfast and Ballymena.. all - - 18 Do. Do. 811 5d jid 201 Buffalo and L ake Huron all 43 55d 54 4 Continent, and the £61,000 received by the Africa 13.14 I Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 84 201 Do. New all - - Stock, Birk., L a., and Ch. June. 100 73 74 10 Do. Preference mating. from New York has been purchased for that pur- 25 Blackburn' reach of 25 I Blyth and Tyne all - - 1 00 j ! Buifalo,Brant.&Godrich i 100 - - / !6 p. ct. bds. 1 Aug . ., 18:2 ) pose. The cessation of the effluz from the Bank, 10 I Bost.Slefd.& Mid. Coon. all 64 7 100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 10 0 - - curt wall • S ock Bristol and Exeter ..., 100 104 106 certain however, has somewhat diminished the expectation t Stock Caledonian - - of a further immediate advance in the rate of 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan a ll - - 5 I Cleutta •&S.Eastrn.Lim. 1. 30. par 1 p 50 Cork and Bandon 9 - 20 ,Cape,Eastn.Prov.(Lim.) 2s. - - - 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 3s. 11 1 d discount, although the inquiry for money continues 20 'Cork, Blicrock,&Passage all - - 20 Central (Jude (Limitedos.od. - - E. active, at full quotations. 20 Cornwall all 6 64 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c. 74 1 $d 63 10 0. A A rcves. no div. 1 all - - 171 Demerara - - There were no bullion operations of importance 10 0. B until6p.c.per an. all - - 20 Eastern Bengal.g - u.sp.c 5 3dl d 44 hasbeen pd.toß. Stock East Indian, gu. sp. e lOO RO3 1011 101 1 at the Bank of England yesterday. 50 Dublin andßelfast June. all - - purpose 25 Dun s Pert h .,& Abr.June. all 74 8 20 Do. F Shares Ext. 10 5 d 1 p Stock l East Anglian2o Do. Jubbulpore lO 5 d 4p II lon the The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ex Stock CO- hibited a slight recovery in the Austrian rates. Stock Eastern Counties lOO 575 681 88 100 Do. 44 p. c. Debentrs. all 100 100 j 100 134 144 Stock Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1861.. 100 1001 1011 Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 39 41 20 Geelong & Melbourne .. all 20 21 ered an In the Liverpool cotton market yesterday the Stock Do. do. B Stock 100 27 29 80. 5 Geelong Corporation 6 1 100 25 Do Nw.A. lte E U3ds 84 - - - - transactions were rather restricted, and prices were 20 East • Suffol k( • • ) all - - ( per cent. Bonds for the Stock Grand Trunk of Canada! 100 35 36 35/ heavy. The sales were 5,000 bales. The Railway 10 Do - - 100 Do. 8 per cent. Pref i all 94 95 leridge, Stock !Edinburg and Glasgow 100 804 814 100 Do. 6 per cent. Debentr 1 all 735 744 Share market closed rather actively, and quota- Stuck Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. , 100 29 291 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 all 86 87 ter of a tions exhibited increased firmness. 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - Stock Furness - - 100 IDs. do. 1867.... all 76 78 . 10° 10 6 9 1 48 5 d 3 98 d lid 984 I 100 I Do. do. 1872.... all 75 77 Stock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp ) miness It appears by a return just published that the Stock 'Glasgow & South Westn. 100 100 102 10 Great North of Scotland all - - 20 Do. New, gua.s per cent. •e mime, total amount of Enfaced India Government Rupee Stock Great Northern lOO 108 lasi 1084 20 f Gt. South. of Ind.Lim.-, oath of Loans registered at the India House up to the 3let Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO 97 98 I guaranteed 5 per cent , ) I Stock Do. do. B Stock too 133 135 201 Gt.W. of Canada Shares 1 all 124 1 8 24 7 1 1 23 ,1 smeneed ' December last was £4,098,657, and the portion 201 Do. New 100 I Do. Bonds pay. '76,with birth to transfelred into stock £694,965. Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 112 114 Stock Great Western Stock Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk lOO 60 65 I opt. till '6O the eX. . 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 95 1(0 with the , There is a steady demand for discount accommo- 12 Irish South Eastern.... all - - Stock Lancashire & Yorkshire, 100 100 100 4 1804 1 1 100 Do. do. 73 without opt. all 95 1(0 dation both in the general market and at the Bank Stock London and Blackwall. l 100 68 70 674 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do Stock Lon.,Brighton&S.Coast 100 110 112 111 1 i Stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c lOO 86 89 )out six of England. Full rates are consequently enforced, 25 Lond. Chat. and Dover , all 12 13 Stock , Do. do. 5 per cent. 100 961 971 974 th great and a further advance is still considered probable Stock London & North Westn l 100 90 09/ gat 1 124 Do. Eighths lO 4 i 0 Stock Do. 43 p. c. Extension.. 100 90 93 91 state of the specie movement becomes more favour- Stock London& South-Westn lOO 954 053 93 4 Stock Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c. 100 - 20 Do. Fourth do, - unlesslo 1 d 3 d passion able. ' • 25 L'derry & Coleraine... all - - 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. all 8 10 rasnwd d i( c o rk, . i ty ne. )7. . 6d . p . ac all Stock o N M en e D N l vy b o ß. .. l Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 - --- to her The Market for English Securities opened favour- Stock Man., Shef ., & Lincoln.. 100 IS 384 384 of 1853, 50 Maryport and Carlisle . all 50 52 d stated ably, but the sales then effected produced heaviness, 125 Do. do. 1 Shares.... all - - all - - 10 Metropolitan and at the latest moment a decline of about I per -satiateloo 1104 1103 1081 s .. Do. do. Land d 0... Stock Midland 20 Do. do. B. Capital do. ) her for- cent. was exhibited, Consols being 94+ 1 for Stock Do. Birming. & Derby.; 100 86 88 .. Do. do. Land de, ~ f all - - 50 Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) all - - by tele.. money, and 941 1 for the account. Speculation is 25 Do. 4 Shares all 20 Gude (Limited) - - I need to dull, and very few transactions are recorded. 25 Ilfid Kent all 20 Scinde sis:, all 191 193 all - - 20 Do. New Le, 5 15 1 1 d 1 ins rot- • New Threes are flat, at 94,4 5 1, ; the Reduced are 10 DC, (Cray Line) 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all - - 20 Do. Punjaub .. 0, .. 0 5 5 fd 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. ac c '' all 3d 1 d 1 or some 25 New., Aber., & Hereld; all 91 • 105 101 20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 18 - - i 1866 the firm, at 94,1 95 ; Bank Stock is steady, at 2291 to ;0 Newry & Armagh (aef.) 9 - - 10 Trinidad(Limited)Scrip 1 fd Id 1 ler and 231 ; India ditto is 220 ; ditto New Loan has im- 20 st s oc o k & tiros all - - 100 57 59 c but he proved to 1031 -',-; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper rth . Counties Union 34 34 I d FOREIGN RAILWAYS. c led in has receded to 97. Stock worth British lOO 613 621 Stock Ncr.Dev.RaiL&Dk. Stk lOO - - - 19 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 41 44 ;111 20 Ardennes all - - p i Is re. took Dos& Stk.-Arec.no div. 20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.e 7 4 d par Business in the Foreign Market continues inac- s .N7TooewrYitac, Warpt., until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 - - iatment 5 !Belgian East. Junction all 3 1 100 - - f 20 Beziers to Graissessac all - - Sled her tive, and prices are tolerably firm. Turkish 6 Stock Do. B Stock Stock North-Eastn.-Berwick 100 955 96 935 6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 21 21 t 4 deli- per Cents. are 78 to 79 ; ditto New, 651 to 66+; 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1613 4 11 1 d 100 481 49 47f d 100 Copiabo - 10 Ditto Extension c pie her and the 4 per Cents. are steady at 1011 102+; Stock Do. Leeds 100 79 794 774 20 Dutch , Rhenish left her Stock Do. York Venezuelan 3 per Cents. have improved to 261 Stock North London lOO 107 109 20 !Eastern of France ...... all 244 254 -- 20 North Staffordshire 175 31 31 d v 20 , Euphrates Valley 2s. - - p ;oes, by 27 ; Russian 3 per Cents. are 641 ; and ditto 5 10 No. & Sou. W. Juncton all 9 91 20 ,Grand Rue. Guar .5 p.c 6 - - & her acts per Cents. are 109* 110. Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver. 100 35 36 364 10 Peebles all 73 81 20 Great Central of France all - - li suffered 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. she., all 63 7 si The Ocean Marine Insurance Company's shares 20 Portsmouth - - in impelled 10 Rhymney lO - - 20 Lake Constance & Bale all - - el th her are .2 I prem.; the Universal ditto, I I prem.; and Stock Scottish Central lOO 113 115 20 Lierre and Turnhout... all - - Stock South. N. E., Aber. Stock 100 274 28 tc 20 Lombardo Venetian.... 10 15 13p londent, the. Canadian Loan is 2 I prem. Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 84 86 20 Lyons and Geneva .... all - - G MI but The transactions in the Railway Share Market Stock Shropshire Union lOO 47 49 335 M. aria Antonia all - - a i 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all 4 3 d 10 Do. do. New - - P' have been very moderate, and in most instances Stock South Devon lOO 42 44 20 Namur and Liege all 8 85 in *en the s Stock South-Eastern lOO 875 88 881 481 a 8 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref..... all 19 10t prices have shown a slight depression. Eastern tt bing to- Stock South Wales t child, Counties, Great Westerns, South-Westerns, Mid- Stock SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun lOO 7 0 72 20 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 6 8 20 Do. New Shares - - p 10 Norwegian 'l'runk Prof all 9 10 a to fits, lands, and South-Easterns declined ss. Caledonians 25 Stockton & Darlington. all 385' 39 20 ParissLyons, and Medit all 345 351 at eatment , advanced ss. 25 Do. do. 'Paris - !Stockton & llartlepool 161 - - 20 and Orleans ...... all 53 55 , 1 Recife& S. Fran. (Porn.) 1 t 1 to s. She Scarcely any business was transacted in the Stock , Taff Vale lOO - -- 20 / gua. 7 ri. ct. (Lim.) ... 5 13 14 Id Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 100 - - 20 Riga and Dunaburg.... 10 - - si, 9ns at Foreign Market. Sambre and Meuse advanced to 25 ThamesHavrenDk&Rall 22 - - 10 Rome and Frascati .... all - - bx •by his 6, and Lombardo-Venetian are nominally quoted 50 Ulster dent in 11i1 1 i• . 25 Do. 12 10 Do. 2O 25 34 p 14 i d * p 5 Royal Swedish - - 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. - - Ca hi td over- Stock Vale of Neat]) lOO 00 62 62 20 Sambre and Meuse..... all 55 6 11 he t not be I n the Colonial Market prices have been steady. io victoria. Station & Pim 94 1 0 5 11 10 D e. 51 per cent. Pref. ... all 135 94 not of Grand Trunk of Canada realised 351 ; East Indian Stock Waterford & Kilkenny 10 0 - - f 50 Waterford & Limerick all - - a 20 Southern of France .... all 19 20 83 West Flanders all 51 54 d aration. 101 to 101 6'; and Great Indian Peninsula improved 20 West Cornwall . all 53 64 10 Do. 54 p. a Preference treated to 981 98,I• 20 West London 10 Do. Ist Class all - - all - - 20 W. & N.W. of France.. all 22 23 20 Western of Austria.... 0 - wl to i I Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are 20 Do. 2d Class all - - 20 Western of Switzerland all - - be rise.] 6 Wiesbaden - - to a shade flatter. London and Westminster have im- PREFERENCE SHARES. 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all - - 20 Zealand...-. all - - Le proved 51. ; Union of Australia ss. Royal Mail LI i'd Paid . ! Closing Businese • th Steam have declined 55., and Madras Irrigation share! Railways. Prize. Done. ss, COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. by sh, 26 Blythe and Tyne le per --Can.Gov.6p.c Ja.& July 100 113 115 of BRYAN - c. pref. (issued at t.. 50) all - - - Do. 6 p.c.Fh.&Aug. 100 109 11l ?air, re- • aztvrzsm FIUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. j Stk Bris. & Exet4p.etStock 100 95 97 14 - - - Do. 6p.c.Mr. & Sep. 100 112 114 we cal Le Poly. Batik Stock Lock Caledon £lO, 41 per cent 100 102 104 - Do. 6 per cent. 1879 100 - - - Do. 6 per cent. 1878 100 - - for 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 943 541 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. all - - - N.8.G0v.6p.c. Ja. &July 10C 109 110 cal Willa 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities - - - Do. 6p.c.Ap.& Oct. 100 - - tee Bazaar, N,w 3 per Cent. Annuities - - - N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 106 99 100 lnlia Stock - D0.5p.cen.1871 to 1978 100 99 100 am Ditto 5 per Cent. .. 1031 1 Stock E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc 1 0 0 99 101 - Do.sp.cen.lBBB and up 100 99 100 km Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc.... 100 12 116 - NovaScoteaGov.6 p.c. St. WM Me toys Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per cent. - Stock Do. do. Class C7pc - . 100 105 107 Deb. redeemable, 1875 . 100 108 109 due mod the Ditto 5 per Cent. 97 Stock' E. Coun. Ex. 5 p et. No.i. 100 114 1 1 6 100 113 115 - S.Aus.Gt6pc.Jan&July 100 109 in her men to Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO - Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 - - his f aver C insole for Account (March) - Do. do. April & Oct. 100 110 111 1103 11 tetioned Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11c1 24 5 3 Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. 100 82 84 Stock ,Edin.&Glas. spc shares 1 00 111 113 MISCELLA/lEOUS. pro COD (}snags IPAICEB OF FOREIGN PIMA AT ONE weLeex. Stocks Do. 4 p.c. gua. S. &D. 100 90 92 ------ - 3 swished Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent - Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. 100 774 784 78 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint .. all I, 14 15 u their Ditto Account - - 100 116 118 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited). all 1301 170 COD to emoveti Ditto, 3 per Cent., 1859 644 .Stock Gies. &S West.'r a. 5 pc. Stock Great Northern, sp. et. 100 120 122 25 Australian Agricultural 19 32 83 10 Australian Royal Mail . all - - wit public, Turkish 6 per Cent _ Stock Do. spc Redm.,lop.c.pm 100 112 114 10 Berlin Water Works ... all 41 55 ope hich los Ditto Account - - ) Ditto New Loan _„ 80 87 89 50 Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. all 38 40 gav Ditto Account - 10 Gt. Nh. or scotld, lat pf. au - 20 Do. B, 7p. c. till itaaa.. an zo 22 as 1 unwed Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. . nd)4 1 100 98 100 20 Do. C all 14 15 bar plies of . Venezuelan 3 per Cent •• 27 64 Stock p. ct. pref Stock .., 50 rent West. (Berke and ~ 100 Canada Land 324 120 125 10 Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim ) all 8 9 , fen, Dividends on the above payable in London. Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct. . 0 - - Stock Cop.Min.otEng.&Smltg all - - as t w whe• TWO O'CLOCK. Stock Do. Redeemable, 41 p c • t: I 10 0 97 99 25 Do. Preference 74 per ct all 234 244 infl ig f' stock , Do. Redeemable, 4p. et. 100 8 7 8 9 Stock Crystal Palace. - 3 O 3O Consols, Money 944 1 (1 - 1( d for sit Ditto Account (March 8) mot &Oa Do. 6p. c. Perpet. Deb. 100 101 103 Stock; Do. 5 p. et. R e d eem. P re f . was theloo 100 102 1015 8 ;Do. Bi rm . Pref. Shares all 10 1 . 04 Stock Electric Telegraph lOO 106 108 104 an I reit the to 'Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c.pf.sh. all 17 18 25 Do. New , Ir . STAT.E OF TRADE. 10 Do. do. sp. et. pref all 16 1 10 3 5 Eng lish & Aust. Co pp er all 2 4 2 4 2 1 exp Stock Do. Birming. guar. stock 100 75 77 764 15 Gen. Steam Navigation. 14 - - the ice, sad • 20 Do. Chesterguar.shares all 20 21 1 (Great Ship (Limited).. all 4 1 aPP MANCHESTER, Feb. 14.-There has been a good 135 Do. do. do ls lo 1 5 01 20 Indian & Aust. Telegr. 2s. - - He deal of business in yarns, and in some cases rather 20 Do. do. do. 1 all a l 5 LondonDistrictTelegr. District Telegr. 2 1 5 d 1 WITE Stock Lan. & York 6 p.a. stock, 100 139 141 20 London Discount 5 If ILI sect of Mr. higher prices. The chief demand in singles was in Stock Do.Barrisl.St.£s 3slodoc! 100 - - 4 Lond. Gen. Omnibus Co all 11, tf gen, 20's and 30's water-twist, and in 40's mule yarn, Stock Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan) . 100 - - 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 15 24 21 pub Burton, 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all - - , priv the latter being chiefly in demand for India. For Stock Lon.&Brig.spc.gu. No.l 100 116 118 ire Mr. Stock Do. ,sp. o N o . 2 100 116 118 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 3 4 enec 40's mule some very large additional contracts have Stock Do. gua., 6p. at. 10 Netherlands Land all - - on 4 aid the been entered into at very full prices. The Germans Stoek Do. do. sp. c. No. 4 100 1 1 6 118 • Stock Do. Do. 41 per cent lOO - - 6 Do Bp. c. Pref s iss. at Idi s. all 4 1 in are also free buyers to-day in all suitable descrip- 5 D o. d o . 451 - - per C. shares 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiaLand 80 - - that on . tions of twist. For Bradford the demand was some- StocklDo. 7 ner cent. Prof. St. 100 153 157 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 1 1 the pri• Stock i Do.6 p.c.do.(W.E.&C.P.) 100 133 136 1 Oriental Gas thing enormous, chiefly for the doubled yarns used prisoner Stock p.c S.(div.def.til'6s)' 100 IA 68 1 Do. New Shares lss. * d par in the warps of worsted goods for dress pieces. 25 Lond. Chat. and Dover all 21 22 10 Orientl. In. Steam, A 6 - - iange. Yarns cannot, in fact, be supplied in sufficient Stock Lon.&N.W.Cov.&Nun- 10 Ditto B 6 -- - had no quantities for this branch of trade. On the whole, eaton, sp. et Stock 100 117 119 1171 10 Ditto C 2s. - - hrough the Market for Lon.&S. W, 7po Stock Peel River Land & Min lOO 052 t. stock, 100 - - yarns has been healthy, strong, and 121 Londondy & Cole, 4 she , all - - 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam all 78 80 T to-n ing the ; vigorous, with a demand for all markets, home and 124 Londondy.& Ennis 4 sh. all - - 50 Do. New l5 19 14 •OlUerav 1 foreign. In the cloth market there has been less Stock g o a . n.gh., & Lin., 6p. at. 4 100 124 127 4 3 il' 2O Red Sea & Ind. Telegr l5 f 50 Rhymney Iron 1 p take activity, the letters by the overland mail, now over- S to c k DO. 3 5 p er cent. nael Mail T S e t l e e a g m . band. scrl p .1 a a 1 l l 3,5 a 36 I 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent. 5 1 3 P 1 25 00 1 ssßuooubyintahla AustralianMri Stock Scot.Austrin.lnT.(Lim.) 100 a° 1 2 130 53 , 324 ) medi• due,-,not being to hand. Manufacturers have few 124 nary port & Car., 4 p.c. all - - T he wal l or no goods to sell, however, and are indi ff erent 124 I Do. 41 per cent .. .... all - - Do. - - 1 Do. do Registered ~„I, i i ii 1 1 I lion .about extending orders which must necessarily be Stock Nfld. Con. 6p. a. Stock . 100 - - 30 ,Tr,,e 4 , Ce.9 l l3 V ,R er l e v oi l ie su l ; INES. and on like for delivery at a remote period, and form engage- Stock Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct. 100 139 141 _________ 23/ n 12 _D o e. : 44 p. C. pref. stock.. 100 104 105 102 lee 'Var. TlLempn a an d • ""' - I 1 lows menu which there is hesitation about taking with- stoc 6 k Do. with option tilllB6o 3 i A P dies r for • out some advance in terms. For the home trade Stock Do. Leic. & Hitpref. at. 100 95 97 money, market there is no change. 10 I NewportAber,&c.pret.s ) • I all 10 101 gene that LEEDS, Feb. 14.-There has only been a moderate 10 p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c. c m Do. Perpet. 6 p. c. with ~,,- Alfred Consols (Philack) - - Wl\ Share Mines. 2 1: 1 e 1 1 . d. 10 Closing Butz em attendance of merchants in the cloth halls this option till 1566 all 115 121 Price. Done. wou ,00king 1869 , p t . i a 11 Ex 74 par 4 P 0 • morning, and the tone of the market has been rather scrii night, Stk,ll3tes 100 - - Au British Iron Rat. ' The demand for summer fabrics is decidedly Stock Do. s t tp, a. Pref. do. 1847 100 - .... - Clifford , aril ', and easier, and the transactions generally have been S 8 1 100 1 1 Norti p lc o s - Devon - 330 340 men fell 5 er cent 100 111 113 G. Cons. (Tavist.) 1 440 450 Stock North Brit . Pimp - East B assett - %--- o fl,an). 30 130 135 r t aged Within a limited compass. gua. 5 per eent 100 109 111 Stock D 0.5 avVal.Ex.Sk 1847 100 - - Stock Do. New,E ast Caradonss 61 G oon sling a Stock Nth.Dev.Rail.& Di'k.Co. 100 93_ 91 - E. WI Russl Tav ( istk ) 7. 4 0 the I ise No. • 984 - Gant&StAub n(G e • • 11 114 - Herod's-Foo•t ************ Stock Do. Berwick, 4p. a Prof. 1- Great South 'lolon w s . 11.) 8 1 1 " 57 413.4. 974 3 d he met , THIS DAY'S MARKETS. St l o 7 ck Do.\'-East,Cons. Pret4p.e. 100 o 91i 2G Do. Leeds, 6p. a. No. 1. 13 - - - G.WhealAlfd.(Phill • • 1 1 43 l o .ek) 12.4.2 11 If - Margaret (any *** *********** 1.8 4 - G. Wheal Vor Melt; • -I 12 4 Do. do. Quarters,lB46 .. 9 - - Grenville * . a) 9 1 • . r, nearlo I 14 93 : 7" 2 1 7 4 29 1 do. do 25 90 York H.& S. Parch. sercial• Our market to-day was very scantily supplied with Eng- all 23 24 - N I I o th r tg sto ic a n p c o e w s n. 1 1. 3 - 1 o r g i a l li r 1 ) topped Bah wheat in fair average condition. All kinds moved off Stock Ox 1 6 Ist g , Wr. &Wo . IV. 100 124 126 124 125 130 1 - 0 Nort h rar eo n D s o o s l v: - N.Wh'l Basset a11e . g .. a . n . ) 4'3 : - Lady Bertha * -___ sNoourtthhcW:raredaolne(srto.fetieei) 121 49 51 5 4 4 6 4 1 1 250_ 1 2io l 20 North Staffordshire .... ffordshire .... . freely, at fully ls mend above laat week's quotations, and Stock Do. Redeem s 2el gua... • 100 - ed thell7 120 at which a good d was effected. Stock Do. Irredeem., 24 gua. 100 ( " St. Illaz Y• y • ) • . " 11 1 8 2 4 1 9 5 24 6 64 61 t that There was rather more inquiry for foreign wheat-the 10 Rhymney Guaranteed. all - - ts.. Providence (Uny Lelia) '0 6 7 18 50 .i S s o wh rtri e dg o e p C r o a n i s i. . „ ll l l i in og C an o ) - 18 . 1 : 8 9 f 54 Z 6 nits. show of which was good -at very full prices. Floating 81 Scottish Central, new pi all - - Stock Scottish North-Eastern 100 - - itained cargoes, however. were a slow inquirz. The barley trade was somewhat active, and extreme rates Stock 31 per ,. pref. stock- . 100 70 78 truth, were paid in every instance. Stock 15o.Aberdeen.gua.6pc. 100 122 124 Stock Do. 7p. c. pref. stock. 100 125 130 he pHs. Fine new malt was steady in price ; but old qualities 10e. South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 11 1 1 4 0 took were very dull. We have to report a fair inquiry for cats, at full quota- 10 Do , Fixed 44 per cent. all - -' - South C. Brea( Mogan). 2 21 3 1.0.6. South Eastern (Reading corner tions. 0 Ann., 1,0,6) all 24 244 - Stray Park ..... , . • 184 , Both beans and peas were firm, and there was rather Stock Do .41 per sent lOO 103 105 5 Tamar Silver and Ise;sl 81" 55 28 ides. more doing in flour. Fine country marks wore held for Stock o so D u .;) i ri v / a eril 4* p.c. 1:t is r t 81 83 10 Tin Croft . . ... ; , ..... :: 44 4 3 54 Wales, gu a p.c. 100 92 94 sellith, - higher rites. Stock Do. 44 per eent . lOO 101 103 - Vale of Towey . (....... 12 9 6d - I " is, and •s • • ARRIVAL/ TRU OUT Stock S .- Yorkshire , 4 p.c. gua. 100 85 88 - West Basset (Mogan). a -ti - 25 Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.e. all 284 29 -W. Caradon (Liaise di -it 10 ed which • ' Wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flwar. 25 Do. B 6 per cent -- W W e h s e t a 1 5 et°n Basset . i i . l l l:2,g lari a l i:i ):. id the • English 1,150 ( 4,080 i 6,170 ; 1,220 I 1,700 25 Do, C 6 per cent. all 324 83is 105 415 70 180 found Irish, .., - 70 1 - 790 i - Stock Watrfd 1 Kilkny, 6p.c. 100 50 55 - Wheal Buller( edruth) 5 Foreign 1,640 , 4,120 1 .- 11,280 - alts. - Wheal Edward (Cale.).. 6 IC4 II Oa 13 - Wheal Kitty(U. Lelant) 1.7,11 14 . 1 Lurie 1 _ bi s . LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. - Wh'l Mary Ann (Melillo) 8 30 4 so l ,A • !front ----- - Virti'l Trelawney (Usk.) 429 31 1 " • BOROUGH HOP. Railways. I Paid . L e as ing , ! Closing Business ---- - ---- F0 REIGN 3ma---Is----- , . Safe Our market is very dull to-day, and prices rule almost Co. IL . Price. Done. in the zo Australien 7 l- -1 " ---- 4 110 12141a1. Bedtorel and Bletchley all Ln & Di. w .. .. 1 Bon AccordCopper,Lim. 15s i 1 d par id had Buckinghamshire -- • 100 Ln& N.W 99 101 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £sp., 275 I - s .. living . " • WHITECHAPEL. Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do . Do. do. 54 p. et .... 100 Do. 505 31 127 129 20 Do.St.Johudelße y ,Lim. 15 21 22 eight, Each kind of meat is in moderate request, as follows :- Do. do. sp. et. Colchester, S t our 100 a11 C k a x le . d & o t ni c nl l o 6 3 10 17 5 5 Do. Land and Minnie°. all - _ 1 Clarendon Cone. Min Co. j - - d to the , Beef, from 3• Od to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 88:;all 46 48 J ' il.Lincolne'liire,seen.c. 100 Gt.North.'l4o 142 40 Cobra Copper plan- mail, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 58 2d ; and pork, 38 oilberiiid,:gpere.t.. 100 100 - Copiapo l6 7 8 box of 6 d to 5s Od per 8 1 b., by the carcase. IC Union,HarwicliShs. all E.Countei 41 44 1 DunAloun.Cop.MingsCp all I Caledonin - - 2 Fortuna AS a ----- - - GlDs.ollarWr.l - - 20 General all 24 254 would Colonel M'Cleverty, who has just bren appointed Do. New , 100 Do. ther's tMajor-Ge,neral on the Staff in India, will procee d to the Gloster& Dean Forest, all Gt. West. 1 - - 3 Linares all 1 0 1 111 In Ilartipool.Dck.datall.: all Yk N&B 5 Lusitantan ratt'• adras Presidency, relieving Major-General Craige.- Hull and Selby , • • I ' , - - , all Yk.N.Md. 111 113 1 Nlarlquita all f Sent 4 rtrie and ,Naify Gazette. Do. 1 Shares 1 all IDo. door. Do. 1 Shares - - all Do, . _. _. , ...._ _ 20 PontgibaudSilver, Lead Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice, accom- I to,* Lanc.&Carl,gua .s p.c. 100 Ln &:N I W 208 212 Alining and Smelt.... all 4 6 Rup P'hied by the Princess of Leiningen, and attended by Lady London&Greenwich . 100 IS. .East..' 61 66 5 Port Philip 1 4 I pond y the Car • ohne Barrington, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Colonel the Hon. Do, Preference 411 ••• Liddell, and Lord Charles Fitalto honoured Iy, the 0 ym- Lon.,Tilhy.&Soutend lOO ,Peto &Co.I 93 95 934 44 Lowestoft. gua• 4p. ct lOO ,Nerfolk ~1 - - 28.2.83 United Alexican l all 2 2/ __________ snow Pie Theatre with their presence last evening. Do. 6 per cent lOO 'Do i JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Ti away Iler Royal H ighness the D uchess d'A 1 uma e gave -m. Mane. Buxtn.&Matk. all ,LN W 3 ,- ,23 3 --- --- -- tnd I s Mid,liradford Prefer- I 1 I Closing I Business clerk grand ball last evening at her residence, Orleans House, enoe Stock T • ad.. T wickenham . Newmarkt„BuyyEx / 5. 5. 6.,E.Counts 3 lID -____ . • I W., I thin nent, chool ----- The Earl and Countess of Darnley come to town t 0.% from Cobham Hall, Kent. His Lordship has taken %residence in Bruton-street for the season. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield left town a few dais since for their seat, Shugborough Hall, Stafford. The Earl and Countess of Hopetoun have left L ol lg's Hotel for Lord Middleton's seat in Yorkshire. The. Countess of Powis, the Ladies Herbert, 'gad the Earl of Powis are expected iu town on Thursday, ir o Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire. An influential meeting of the wholesale tea trade w lr ki held this morning in Mincing-lane, and a committee 4 1Vointed for the p ur p ose o f re presenting to the Chan !eller of the Exchequer that the proposed charges on the 2 bonding and warehousing of tea arc considered exorbi- I'llt• The feeling on the subject was unanimous, and it .7 4 44 thought d es i ra bl e that the committee should at once r rt themselves into communication with the leading mem reit of the trade at the various bonding places throughout Ledl country, so as to obt a i n a general assent to their pr.).- i ngs• The question o f the heavy charges proposed to placed upon warrants was also warmly discussed. Stock Newmarkt..BuryEx guaranteed 5 p, O. Northn.& Eastn. 6 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent Do. Fixed 5 per cent North Western Preston and Wyro. I Do. > Shares A. Roystn,Flitch.,& Shep, l Shrewsbry& Eloreford Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Sbmerset..l Wimbledon& Croydn. 'Midland .I 98 100 E.Counts p Do. 57 59 Do. Do. ,Midland IL&N Sr L.Yk. j ',Do. — IGt.Nortli. BS 140 Brassoy 105 108 •• P M'Clean . 101. 11 p Gt. West 90 92 11...liairg•tn &4 DOCKS. Paid cloning Blithe" Price. : Done. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 19 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 41 44 :114 20 Ardonnes all 20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 7 4 d par 5 !Belgian East. Junction all 4 1 20 Beziers to Graissessac all 6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 21 24 100 Copiaho - 10 Ditto Extension all 11 4 d 20 (Dutch Rhenish 20 !Eastern of France all 244 254 20 Euphrates Valley 2s. —p 20 ,Grand Rus. Guar .5 p.c 6 20 Great Central of France all 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs all 64 7 20 Italian Junction 20 Lake Constance & Bab? all 20 Lierre and Turnhout all 20 Lombardo Venetian lO 14 14p 20 Lyons and Geneva 334 Maria Antonia all 10 Do. do. New 20 Namur and Liege all 8 84 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref all 19 191 16 Northern of France all 36 364 20 Do. New Shares 10 Norweoian Trunk Prof all 9 10 29 Paris,Lyons, and Medit all 344 354 20 Paris and Orleans 20 1 Recife& S. Fran. (Pern.) 113 11 Id gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) 20 Riga and Dunaburg.... 10 10 Rome and Frascati all 20 Royal Danish all 13 15 5 Royal Swedish 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. 20 Sambre and Meuse all 54 6 6 10 D.). 54 per cent. Pref. 20 Southern of France 84 West Flanders all 51 54 10 Do. 54 p. c. Preference 20 W. & N.W. of France all 22 23 20 Western of Austria 20 Western of Switzerland all 6 Wiesbaden 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all 20 Zealand...—. all • COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can.Gov.6p.c Ja.& July 100 113 115 Do. 6 p.c.Fb.&Aug. 100 109 111 Do. 6p.c.31r. & Sep. 100 112 114 Do. 6 per cent. 1879 100 Do. 6 per cent. 1878 100 - N.B.Gov.ap.c. Ja. &July 10C 109 110 Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 106 99 100 D0.5p.cen.1871 to 1978 100 99 100 Do.sp.cen.lBBB and up 100 99 100 NovaScotiaGov.6 p.c. St. Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 108 109 S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July 100 109 111 - Vict•Goy.6p.c.Jan&July 100 Do. do. April & Oct. 100 110 111 1104 11 MISCELLA/lEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint .. all 1 14 15 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited). all 1130 170 25 Australian Agricultural 19 32 83 10 Australian Royal Mail . all 19 Berlin Water Works ... all 44 51 50 British American Land 40 50 Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. all 38 40 20 Do. B, 7p. C. tlll zo 22 20 Do. C all 14 15 100 Canada Land 324 120 125 10 Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim ) all 8 9 Stook Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg all 25 Do. Preference 74 per ct all 234 244 Stock Crystal Palace. 5 Do. Preference at 5 84 Steel Do. 6p. c. Perpet. Deb lOO 101 103 Stock Electric Telegraph lOO 106 108 104 25 Do. New 5 English & Aust. Copper all 21 24 24 15 Gen. Steam Navigation. 14 1 'Great Ship (Limited) all 4 4 a 20 Indian & Aust. Telegr 2s. 5 London District Telegr 2 1 d 20 London Discount 5 14 1 LI 4 Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co all 18 l 4 g 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 14 21 24 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 3 4 25 National Discount Co 5 11 4 d 10 Netherlands Land all 6 Do Bp. c. Pref.,lss. at Idi s all 4 100 N.llr.&NovaScotiaLand 80 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim ) all 1 Oriental Gas 1 Do. New Shares l5B. d par 10 Orientl. In. Steam, A 6 10 Ditto B 6 -- 10 Ditto C 2s. - Stock Peel River Land & Min lOO 50 52 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam all 78 80 t , 50 Do. New l5 19 14 20 Red Sea & Ind. Telegr lB p t, 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New all 61 7 100 Royal Mail Steam 6 O 52 53 524 St oss oo l k ,Tss s uo co r:b4 t int . h A ia:r u i s :nc t se r pt l .Tr n oa . efl i iiu n e i: Ls L ecoran i: pd ) 11 100 aalalll 1 - 20352 I 1 t, 1 Do. do Registered I a 161 iVar. iliernpnis 11 a nd 2 84 11 12 Agra&UnitedServiceßk Australasia Bank of Egypt Pank of London Brit. Col. Bk. A LoanCo British North American Chtd. Bank of India, &c Ch.3ler.of In. Lon.ACII 1 I City .Colonlal Corn. Bank of Canada Commercial of Lsndon 'Eng Scot., & Aus. Ch Gen. Bk. of Switzerland Won. Char.Bk.ofAustral. London and County I London Joint Stock ... L . ondon & West m i ns t er INat. Prov. of England, Do, new National New South Wales ;Orient .sk. Corporation Ottoman Bank Prov 1 (1 01 4 1 of ifelalid N . • 1110. few .. ..... .. t Solfh Auttralia .... Union of Awsfralia • lUnion of LoiWan .Unity BiutUal ........ up \ 73 7% 79 81 24 25 51 52 20& 21 31 33 64 ea 39 40 19i 20 16} NI 22f 22f 33 35 1:24 40 41 10 20 77 79 56 i 1: 46 i 211 284 = es THE SUN, LONIiON, WEDNESDAY E'VENFNG, FE BRUARY 7 r c 1 ,, Z--Z ( LITERATURE. aZ.Z 7, The Earl's Cedars. By the Author of " Smugglers and Foresters," &c. 2 vols. Booth, Regent street. These volumes present a complicated story, which contains some dark scenes of life. Some of the persons met with have a very real appearance about them. Duncan Geddes, the keeper, is an excellent sketch ; in his strong character and severe style we seem to trace some remnants of the old Covenanters. As is often the case with such men, sorrow and disappointment hardened him the more, uutil he look e d upon all around with uncompromis ingsternness. The re i s a l so someth i ng worthy of notice in the wild recluse, Matthew. It was his tales of wondrous travels and voyages that first created the desire for roaming in the mind of Charles Frankland. As he wandered about the beach, this strange individual would descant on his long past days, and tell how, when at the age ofhis auditor, he had " crossed the line, and seen the southern cross dip down beneath the water in another hemisphere." This was the learning that Charles prized. " What was the cold teaching of books, compared to the simple words that came from lips which had given forth a wild shout, when at last, after unnumbered perils, the vein of virgin gold was found ?" As might have been supposed, after such thoughts in youth, the energetic hero lost no time in seeking adventures abroad ; but he met with the most romantic ones at home. Near to his father's house was the stately domain of Lord St. Lo. It was called the "Cedars" from the magnificent trees, that were its glory and its pride. The circum stances connected with the family to whom the estate belonged were most peculiar, and the house hold of Doctor Frankland was mixed up in their affairs. Lady Honoria is wild and fitful in her moods, but one cannot help sympathising with her in the many sufferings she underwent in conse quence of the persecutions with which she was sur rounded. The stepmother was inimical enough to have belonged to the old tales that abound concern ing that class of relations, and for a time indeed her direful plots seemed to succeed, at last how ever, the retribution that so often overtakes the de vices of the cunning, anif confounds the machina tions of the crafty fell ',Ton that deceitful woman. In spite of all her me.neeuvres, she lived to see the son of one of her step-children inherit the property. Among the many who flit across the scene, Captain Fairfax is one of the most pleasing. He is a good representative of his class and displays many of those qualities that have long distinguished the British seaman. The pictures of horns-life that ap pear in the first volume are pleasant to dwell upca, and far greater serenity reigned beneath the bum ble roof of the country practitioner, than under the grand dwellings of the Earl of St. Lo. The con flicting circumstances of the latter portion of the tale are very ingeniously disclosed, and the "Earl's Cedars" is altogether a very eventful story. The Comprehensive Ristory of England ; Civil, Military, Religious, Intellectual, and Social. Illustrated. Parts Ito 26. Blackie and Sons; Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London. The inhabitants of Great Britain may, without national prejudice, or exaggerated vanity, be per mitted to claim for the history of their empire a degree of interest and importance second to the annals of no other state or nation, ancient or modern. Reaching from our own eventful epoch, when England is foremost in the march of progress and leading the van of civilisation, back to the shadowy days of early legend— " Beloved as fable, yet believed as truth," the rcords of our national achievements are inse parably interwoven with the rise and progress of modern Europe. Even before emerging from the gloom of barbaric ages we can recognise some of the spirit of our later days. Caractacus and Boadicea proved themselves no unworthy antago nists for the victorious Romans, while few of the gorgeous Camara could bear comparison with our English Alfred. Coming down to the days when our national existence had assumed a more definite form, what thrilling episodes we encounter. Every where we see the same dauntless spirit, loyal and self-sacrificing to the death where it embraces a cause, be it ever so hopeless ; inflexible and invincible where its freedom is at stake. We cannot proceed far in the history before we come to the sturdy barons of Magna Charta ; while the Scotch struggling in early ages for their national existence, and later on for their freedom of worship, though defying successfully the tyranny of the English, prove by that very defiance their kindred spirit. The annals of the Civil War, grievous as such a calamity must ever be are not without their redeemin g t ouc h es. The chivalrous devotion of the gallant cavaliers upholding a failing cause, the unbending determination of the resolute Puritans, unflinching in their sense of duty, may each show, among crowds of time-servers and self seekers, brilliant names and noble characters that do honour to their nation and their age. The changing scenes of the history bring us down through many eventful years till we reach the climax of naval, military, and political glory at the beginning of our century. Now the giants of those days have passed away into history, leaving 'their humbler successors in less stirring times to reap the fruition of their labours, and to carry out those great principles of civil and religious liberty which the tread of contending armies kept from full de velopment, though it could not exterminate the seed. After a long interval of peace, and domestic improvement Europe seems threatened with a return of storm and convulsion. We can hardly hope to escape altogether from the strife and turmoil around us. It is well then that in this anticipation, the men of the present should learn from the errors and achievements of the men of the past, and study the fourklation and develop ment of their national greatness. The importance of a full and accurate knowledge of the history of our country is now becoming universally recog nised. It is not a mere rote knowledge of names and dates and the outlines of a school epitome, or cate chism that is required,but a thorough comprehension of the individual features of each successive epoch, a familiarity not alone with the names but with the characters of the great men of the time ; a sense of what was the nature of the principles contended for in our social struggles ; a perceptien of how the opinions and doings of one a r se acted upon another, of what was the extent of the influence exercise d by education and literature and the gradual ad vance of the people in political knowledge ; a right view of the onerous position held by England among the nations of our day, and of her responsibi lity to God and man for her use or abuse of her opportunities and power. We have much pleasure in directing the attention of those who wish to acquire this invaluable knowledge to the work before us, which is now approaching its com pletion. Commencing with the earliest traditions, it gives a full and comprehensive account of the history of England, as viewed in its civil, military, religious, intellectual, and social objects. A work combining the civil history of a nation which has wrested its freedom alike from despots and demo crats ; the military records of the people who have struggled successively and successfully with the whole of Europe, the religious annals of the greatest triumph of the Protestant Reformation, the intel lectual achievements of the countrymen of Shakes peare, Newton, and Bacon, and the social progress of a self-governing community may well be called a comprehensive history. Nevertheless, all these pro mises are fully and fairly kept. The various branches are carried on simultaneously in different chapters ; the style is clear and copious, enriched by nume rous extracts and quotations. The following pas sage, taken from the early announcement of the work will give the best view of its plan and pur pos -..-........v. au.r0 ,..w....0..0..4 individuals by whose effective but unobtrusive labours th Kveral departments of art and science were improved, and their influence extended over the community at large. " In treating of these subjects, care has been taken neither ' to be too abstruse nor yet too prolix. Instead, therefore, of entering into a minute reccrii of each custom, art, and science, and thus encumbering the general narrative with disquisitions by which the reader's patience might be too severely tried, the principal points have been selected and introduced, for the purpose of giving strength, distinctness, and continuity to the history, as a record of the religious, intellectual, and social progress of English society." More than a thousand illustrations enhance the value of the work. They include maps and plans of various localities, battle-fields and ports, views of buildings and monuments, illustrations of the manners and customs of our ancestors; por traits of celebrities, and steel engravings of his torical subjects. We heartily commend this value ' ble and interesting work to all who wish to obtain a thorough knowledge of the history of their own country, and if continued and completed with equal success and ability, which there is little reason to doubt, it will form no unworthy record of our national greatness. "The history of a country is not exclusively impressed upon its battle-fields. These, indeed, are the great land marks that first arrest the eye, and over which the popular feeling is most delighted to linger. The deliverance of a land from thraldom, and the heroic deeds through which a small nation has become a great one, are, indeed, of para mount importance, and should therefore be duly commemo rated. But th e adaptation of a people for those achieve ments, although a silent and unobtrusive, has also been a most essential process; and its record is to be traced, not upon the heaving surface, but in that under-current of progress by which the people have been borne forward—by which they have been taught the full value of national free dom, and the best modes of securing it. But here some one else than the successful soldier has been at work, and some thing else than mere military training. The wise and the good, who carried on that improvement, and made each generation better than the preceding, are a country's verit able heroes—the progress of that improvement is its real history. " But while these are truths so obvious that it seems almost impossible to overlook them, history, a hitherto been written, has been too exclusively desvoiiehdoutot military achievements and political movements reference to that moral and int e llectual progress country emerges from barbarism into civilisation, by which a and its _ people become intelligent, happy, and fr ee . and, This defect in historical writing has often been felt,on two occa sions, attempts have been made to produce T histories t of be our own country as they ought to wri en yoluminous but un f these was Dr. Henry's well-known. t finished work; the other the "Pictorial History of Eng land," which was an improvement on the plan of Hen r y . attempt In the present work an has been made to imp rove upon both ; and the plan which has been followed for that purpose we shall now pro ceed to specify. " Tn the Comprehensive History of England, while due preponderance has been allowed to the civil and m ili tary annals, co nstituting, as they do, the most di s ti nc t and im portant' part of the narrative, special attention has been • given t o present a History of the Peopl e o f E ng l and, as well as of England itself—of the state of religion and the progress of social refinement, as well as of conquest and political aggrandisement. More particularly, the following subjects have been grouped together in two sections, and suitably detailed at each important period or epoch of the history :—the state of religion—the industrial condition of the people, and their agricultural and mercantile progress —the dress, distinctive habits and customs, and the general aspect of society at each step of transition—the progress •f literature, science, and the fine arts; and notices of those • Stories of Peninsular lfrar ; or Peninsular .sketches. By %V. H. Maxwell,fh,q. Charles H. Clark, 13, Paternoster-row. These sketches, by a practical writer like the author of the " Stories of Waterloo," with which most of our readers are conversant, would have come out with great ad -vantage at the close of the, Russian war, just to show the public that many of the shortcomings of the War-office, and other in competent public institutions, were not peculiar to that period. The " Sketches" are not as concisely compiled as might be, but this is made up for by the truthfulness of narrative for which Mr. Max well is so remarkable. If we had general officers in the Crimea who thought more of pipeclay and blacking than the rations of the troopers and the feed of their cattle, in the Peninsular campaigns things were carried rather further, if possible, as is shown in the following extract :—" We recollect hearing of a major of brigade, who threatened to punish a guard for coming a file short—i. e., to punish the thi r ty- n i ne fil es w h o did their duty,for the fault of the fortieth, which was absent." When we think of the incompetency of some of our officers, we would ask for some of the spirit of the olden days. When all was in confusion at the siege of Badajoz, when ladders broke down and the troops were repulsed, the commanding officer of the fifth (Lieutenant-Colonel Ridge) exclaimed to an officer of his corps—" There, you mount one ladder, and I will lead up the other." " Come on, Fifth, lam sure you will follow." lie was killed, but the place was carried. How would such con duct have answered at the Redan ? The Colonel fell ; his troops continued to advance, in spite of all opposition, leaving a guard of honour over their leader. Share Dooks. Stook', Commercial lOO .—.___, Stock Do 4 porCent. Pref .31in lOO Stock East and west India lOO .... Stock London,., ; lOO ' ..- Stock'St. Katharine lOO ..... Stock Southampton lOO Stock,Victorla ,»«,. lOO Iva 104 50:2,D0 New aDtatampaavis•! 2 l -- _ . _ IMPERIAL PARL . LAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented against the abolition of church rates, the Highways Bill, and legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister. PRIVATE BUSINESS. ' On the motion of Mr. C. FORSTER, the Brighten Im provement Bill was withdrawn. The following Bills were read a second time :—Border Counties and North British Railway Companies, Caithness Roads ; Caledonian, Edinburgh and. Glasgow, and Scottish Central Railway Companies; Consett District Water, Dublin Corporation Water, Epsom and Leatherhead Rail way, Great Northern and Metropolitan Junction Railway, Horsham and Steyning and Beeding Roads, Leeds Town ihip, Leicester Cemetery, London and North-Western Railway (No. 3) ; London and North-Western, Great Northern, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Companies; Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, Mirfield Gas, North and South Lanarkshire Roads, Pontefract and Castleford Railway, Portsmouth Now Rail Ways, &0., Rugeley and Abbots Bromley Railway, and West Hartle , pool Harbour and Railway. THE INDIA HOUSE. Col. SYKES gave notice that, on the motion for the ad journment of the house on Friday, he would ask if there was any truth in the report of the removal of the business of the East India House to the Victoria Hotel ; that some of the manuscripte of the. East India House were to be destroyed, and if so, what steps will be adopted to provide premises for the East India Company ? CORRUPT PRACTICES PREVENTION ACT (1854) AMENDMENT Mr. MELLOR, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that, since the introductim of the measure, he had received letters from different parts of the country, not only sympathising with the principle of the bill, but ap proving of its provisions. He had already explained the nature of the bill, and ho would notdetain the attention of the house at any considerable length In the first place, he would state that lie proposed to gives certain amount of dis cretionary power to judges in dealine with parties convicted of having received bribes or offered bribes, by which the maximum punishment to be inflicted for such offences should be six months' imprisonment with herd labour. Some con sidered that his bill did not go far esough in dealing with these offences, and that it should hare been rendered more stringent in regard to those who were proved to have been guilty of bribery ; but the fact was that in many cases a trap was laid for those who were irduced to offer bribes, and therefore in some instances the party receiving the bribe was the more criminal party, and consequently should suffer the severest punishment. The judge would be able, from the complexion of the case, to decide between the respective degrees of the criminality of parties charged with those offences, and therefore to inflict the proper punishment. He then alluded to the re cent case of attempted bribery at Norwich, in which a town councillor was offered a sum of £5OO to induce him to vote for an alderman of the borough. To show that an altera tion in the existing law was requisite, when an inquiry into the circumstances was ordered, one of the persons called on to give evidence refused to do so because it would tend to criminate himself. He believed he was correct in stating that there was a feeling on both sides of the house that something should be done by Par liament in order to remedy what was an apparent and serious evil. He did not propose his bill MI a final mea sure, but merely as a provisional one, which would have the effect of repressing the evil. (Hear, hear.) He referred to the committee appointed to inquire into the elections at Gloucester and Wakefield, in the latter of which boroughs a large amount of money was proved to have been ex pended in direct bribing, in hiring bands of ruffians to intimidate the electors, and in beer and spirits to corrupt the voters. He proposed by his bill that no candidate should be allowed to pay election expenses, other than those excepted by the existing Act of Parliament, and that any money expended for election purposes should be paid through the medium of an election agent and election audi tor. He did sot approve of the latter official, as h e con sidered him at present little more than a useless machine; but he did not intend to deprive him of his func tions. Finally, he proposed to do away with paid canvassers altogether, and ho called on the house to accept his bill, which, if it was not final in its eperation, would have the effect of diminishing the evil which was a degra dation to the country. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUNT approved of some of the provisions of the bill, though he did not consider it an efficient measure as a whole. He contended that the evil which the bill proposed to remedy would not be effectually suppressed unless mem bers of that house and candidates for election were prepared to carry out the spirit and letter of the laws passed by the Legislature in reference to this subject. Sir H. GOLDSMID opposed several of the provisions of the bill, and the principle it proposed of repressing bribery by severe penal enactments, which experience had shown to be fallacious. He referred to the history of crimes in this country, to which severe cunishments were applied to support his proposition. Y'or instance, capital punishment had failed to prevent the commission of forgery, which was diminished by doing away with the cir culation of notes of small amount, which removed the temptation to commit the offence. Again, in the case of smuggling, the severest punishment had been found inoperative as a tepressing agency; but when there was an alteration in the excise the offence was re duced, because its commission ceased to be profitable. The hon. member then proceeded to argue in detail in support of his proposition, that bribery, like other offences, was to be prevented or repressed by removing the temptation to its commission, rather than punishing it severely. Mr. A. STEWART approved of the bill generally, but considered that it would be desirable it should be referred to a select oommittee. He disapproved of the provision with respect to paid canvassers or messengers, as being open to practical objection, Mr. COLLIER defended the provision of the bill which gave judges who teisd cases of bribery a atieretionary power as to the amount of punishment to he inflicted. Hon, mem bers iu the house denounced bribery as a degrading of fence, but their sincerity would be doubted so long as they did not inve s t th e j u d ges of the land with power to inflict on those committing it a degrading punishment. (Hear, hear.) He approved also of the provision by which money for election expenses should be paid only through an election auditor, and he proposed to add that any person infringing that provision. should lose his seat. Having expressed his approbation of other clauses e st appoint a public prosecutor in cases of the bill, he contended it would be desirab/s 3 t o secutor was proposed to be appointed in the He had introduced a bill last session by which a 'tribe üblic prrYo public officer, and not left to the e private individual& generally, by which prosecutions would ce entrusted to a 'case p ef offences Some P r- de tical difficulty had been ":selessness or malice of on several grounds encountered in the detail of the bill, but he thought that the proposal might be adopted in the present instance, in which public morality [LEFT SPEAKING.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. POSTPONEMENT OF LINCOLN RACES. These races are postponed, on account of the frost, until to-morrow or Friday. It is fully expected that they will take place to-morrow. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TaxsoKr. The present state of the weather quite upsets all calcula tions in racing matters. Horses are stopped in their work, and speculation, under the circumstances, becomes ridicu lous and altogether unlooked for. The Lincolnshire Han dicap is quite shelved at present as a betting race, and so general is the opinion that the frost has set in in earnest, that as touch as 5 to 2 was laid that the Lincoln Handicap would not be run during the present week. Owing to a general me e ti ng of the members of the sub scription rooms having b een f i xed for to-day, the appoint ment of a committee of m anagement, and transacting other important business for th e b etter regulation of the betting rooms, took precedence of o th er business. In other respects the following quotations will suffic e : CLOSI NG PRICES. LIVERPOOL STREPLECRA.SL 12 to 1 agst Anatis (taken) 14 to 1 agst Xanthus (taken) 100 to 6 agst Brunette (taken) 100 to 5 agst Emigrant (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 100 to 6 agst Chore Annie (taken) 20 to 1 agst cby Andover (taken) 20 to 1 agst Nucleus (taken) 40 to 1 agst Hal o'Kirklees (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6to 1 agst Wizard (offered) sto 1 agst Lupullus (take 11 to 2) 7to 1 agst Buccaneer (offered) CHESTER CUP. 22 to 1 agst Satellite (offered) 22 to 1 agst Birmingham (offered) 22 to 1 agst Longrange (offered) 25 to 1 agst Victtka (take 200 to 7) 30 to 1 agst Squire (taken) 100 to 3 agst Tame Deer (take 40 to 4) 100 to 3 agst Promised Land (offered) SO to 1 agst Sir William (taken) 1000 to 10 agst El Hakim DERBY. (offered) 9to 1 agst Umpire (take 10 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Mainstone (offered) 11 to 1 agst Thormanby (offered) 12 to 1 agst Buccaneer (offered) 100 to 8 agst The Wizard (offered) ARRIVALS AT LINCOLN, Nucleus, Rattlebone, Zodiac, Madrid, White Rose, Jenny Longlegs, Tormentor, Stapleton, Fernleaf, Desmond, Apollyon, Contention, Julio, Minster, The Present, Greta, Rupert, Cantab, The Gentle, Glautius, Reverie, and Ap pendiz. The weather very severe, and the ground covered with snow. The following telegraphic message was received from the clerk of the course last night : " There is very little chance of running to-morrow (Wed sesday), but hope to do so on Thursday. The snow is fast disappearing." PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.----The Vimiera, Captain Swanson, belonging to Messrs. Dunbar, 89 days from Syd ney, all well, put into the Sound to-day. She has three cabin and two steerage passengers, and a cargo including 1,100 hales of wool, 50 tons of gum, 100 logs of iron bark and cedar, 1,000 hides, az d 1,0 )0 horns. Signall e d J an . sth, in lat. 23 44 S., l ong. 28 W., the Lord Burleigh, 49 days London for Auckland ; 1. th e the Hamburg ship Et ro p e , bound to the C a p e ; 25th, passed a large water-logged ship, some time abandoned. The Vimiera made long. 20 W., Jan. 21st, since which strong north-east gales have pre vailed. The Lizard was sighted in 86 days. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.—The number of Bea men and marines voted for the service of the Royal Navy in 1760 was 73,000, and the sum of £3,640,000 was granted for their maintenance. The navy at this time consisted of 120 ships-of-the-line, besides frigates, fireahips, and smaller vessels. The French navy had become se weakened by the war that few ships remained to be employed, and conse quently only six were taken during the year. In North America the appearance of the British squadron compelled the French to raise the siege of Quebec, and the whole of Canada came into the possession of this country. FROM THE LA ST NIGHT GAZETTE OF WHITEHALL, FEE. la The Queen has been pleased to direc'. letters potent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Vis count and Earl of the United Kin';dom of Great Britain and Ireland untoWillian2,lßaron Weal and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, I.y the names, styles, and titles of Viscount Ednain, of Idnam, in the county of Roxburgh. and Earl of Dudlty, of Dudley Castle, in the county of Stafford. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEE. 11. The Queen has beAn pleased to approve of Mr. Giacomo Graham as Consul at Melbou me for his Majesty the King of Sardinia. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 13. The Queen has been paeased to appoint Fletchley Whit ley, Esq. (Colonial Treiisurer and Receiver-General) to be a Member of the Execur.ive Council of the Bahama Islands ; and William Henry Doyle, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the said Islands. Her Majesty lias also been pleased to appoint Peter Joseph K. Ferguson, Esq., to be an un-official Member of the Legislat;:ie Council of thelsland of Saint Lucia, during the temrorary absence of Francis Beausoleil, Esq., a Member of that Board. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 14. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMIINT. Borough of Hertford.—The Right Hon. William Francis Cowper, First Commissioner of Works and Public Build ings. Borough of Gateshead.—William Hutt, of Gibside, in the county of Durham, Esq., Vice President of the Com mittee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations. WA, PALL-MALL FEB. 14. 34th Regiment o -OFFICE f Foot—Major-General John Eden, C. 8., to Le Colonel, vice General Sir Thomas M. Brisbane, Bart., G.C.8., deceased. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Robert Stewart Blackett has been permitted to retire from the service, by the sale of his Commission. 11th Light Dragoons —George Andrew Coventry, Esq., Paymaster of the Royal Sussex Militia, to be Paymaster, vice Erskine, transferred to a Depot Battalion. 16th Light Dragoons—William Alexander Battine, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase. 17th Light Dragoons—Cornet John Midge Fraser to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Hox. William Henry Curios, promoted. Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Stansfeld to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Hill, promoted. 16th Foot—Ensign George Lee Le Mesurier Taylor to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Anderson, who retires. 20th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph C. Cox to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Captain O'Neill, who resigns that ap pointment. 24th Foot—Ensign Charles A. Hewitt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ogilvy, who retires ; Ensign William Malo de Rune Barclay, from the 11th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hewitt. 25th Foot—Major Patrick Robertson, from a Depot Batta lion, to be Majo r , v i es Pit ca i rn , w h o exc h anges; Ensign Louis Jones Lambert to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Terry, promoted ; Ensign Fowell Buxton Johnston to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lambert, whose promotion, on the 13th January, 1860, has been cancelled. 47th Foot—Ensign Frederick George Berkeley to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Meyer, who retires. 49th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Mackay to be Adjutant, vice Cahill, promoted to an Unattached Company. 63d Foot—Lieutenant Charles Colquhoun Pye to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Bennett, appointed Adjutant of a Depot Battalion; Ensign George Wyatville Wynford Knapp to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pye. 71st Foot—Ensign Henry Brooke Wilson to be Instructor of Musketry. 82d Foot—Quartermaster R. P. Brooks, from a Depot Bat talion, to be Quartermaster, vice Connor, who exchanges. 86th Feot—Ensie'm George Edward Anstruther Hilliard to be Lieuten an t, by purchase, vice Mackenzie, promoted; Herbert Charles Boulcott, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vies Hilliard. 99th Foot—Brevet-Lieutenant. Colonel Henry James Day to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet- Colonel Smyly, retired upon full-pay; Captain Charles Blamire to be Major, without purchase, vice Day ; Lieu tenant G. Robert Stewart Black to be Captain, without purchase, vice Blamire. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign George Lidwell Har notte, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Ensign, vice Plunkett, promoted. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Charles St. Clair Pete, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harnette, appointed to the lit West India Regiment. DEPOT BATTALION. Major Andrew Pitcairn, from the 25th Foot, to b e M a j or , vice Robe r t son , who exchanges. Pa: master George Pott Erskine, from the I Ith Light Dragoons, to be Paymaster, vice Young, who retires upon half pay. Quartermaster John Conner, from the 82d Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Crooks, who exchanges. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel Philip Smyly, retired full pay, 99th Foot, to be Major-General, the rank being honorary only. Capt. Edward John Ellerman, of the 98th Foot, to be Majorin the Army. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of Gen. Sir T. Makdougall Brisbane, Bart., G.C.8., Colonel of the 34th Regiment, on 27th January, 1860. Lieutenant -General Edward Buckley Wynyard, C. 13., Colonel of the 58th Foot, to be General. Major-General Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, Bart., to be Lieutenant-General. Brevet •Colonel Charles Stuart, half-pay Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Major-General. Lieutenant -Colonel 'William Devenish Deverill, of a Depot Battalion, to be Colonel. Brevet-Major 'William F i rederick Hervey, half-pay Tln• attached Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieutenant -Co lonel. Captain. Edward Henry Fisher, Royal Artillery, to be Major. COMMISSIG N SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Monmouthsb!re Militia—John Finnerty to be Quarter. master. C° MNI T :SSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD WAR. DEN OF THE CINQLE PORTS. bd Company of Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers — Henry Wise Harvey to be Captain ; Major William Prime Jones to be First Lieutenant ; Morris Bowles Thompson to be Second Lieutenant ; Charles Roberts, M.D., to be Honorary Surgeon. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. 2d Monmouthshire, or Ist Newport Rifle Volunt e ers— The Hon. Frederick Courtenay Morgan, late Rifle Brigade, to be Captain ; Sir George Ferdinand Radzivil Walker, Bart., to be Lieutenant; George Barclay Gething, Gent., to be Ensign. 6th Monmouthshire, or Hanbury Corps of Rifle Volun teers.—Major Henry Charles Bird, to be Captain ; Richard James Pye Steele, to be Lieutenant; Charles Conway, Gent.. to be Ensign. Royal Denbigh Rifle Regiment of Militia—George Henry Rose Briscoe to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Jacob William Geoghegan t o b e Li eutenant; Ensign Hugh Robert Hughes to be Lieutenant. Northamptonshire Volunteer Rifle Corps, 2d Company —John Wardlaw, Esq., late Captain in King's Own Light Infantry Militia, to be Lieutenant. 21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Captain Nathaniel Eckersley to be Captain Commandant. 6th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers —John Isaac Mawson, Gent., to be Super numerary Lieutenant. Ist Cornwall Artillery Volunteers—Henry Marley to be Honorary Surgeon. 2d Cornwall Artillery Volunteers— William Thomas Alexander Pattison to be Honorary Sur geon. 2d Section of the Cornwall Artillery Volunteers— Edward Dunstan to be Lieutenant. Bth Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—William Herbert Man sell, Esq., to be Captain; Francis Gilbert Enys, Esq., to be Lieutenant; William Francis Phillpotts, Esq., to be Ensign. 9th Cornwall Rifle Volunteers—Henry Hawkins Tr3mayne to be Captain ; Edmund Carlyon to be Lieutenant; John Coodo to be Ensign. sth Surrey Rifle Volunteers—Captain Thomas Eman to be Captain Commandant ; Lieutenant Edward Griffiths Syms to be Captain. 11th Company of Stacey Rifle Volunteers— James Oliphant, late Colonel Honourable East India Com pany, to be captain; Timothy Richardson, Esq., to be Lieutenant; John Stewart Oliphant, Esq., to be Ensign. Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers, 6th Company—Thomas Aurelius Attwood, late Lieutenant of the 3d Company, to be Captain. 7th Company —Henry Perrot, late Lieutenant 69th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain. Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia Artillery— George Frederick Webster, gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Thomas Augustus Forbes Leith. resigned. let Forfarshire Rifle Volunteers—David Greig, Esq., to be surgeon. 2d Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers—Robert Wal ker, Esq., to be First Lieutenant, •vice Francis Balfour Paton, Esq., resigned Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.-4th Corps (Glasgow Northern Battalion).—Alexander Mien, Esq., to be Captain of the 13th Company; Peter Hamilton, jun., to be Ensign in the 13th Company ; James Morton, Esq., M.D., to be surgeon. 19th Corps (Glasgow 2d Northern Battalion). — Lieutenant Daniel Reid, late 28th Company, to be Major; Ensign James Boyd Thompson to be Captain of the 28th Company, vice Latham, resigned; Peter Wilson, gent., to be lieutenant in the 28th Company ; Stanley Latham, gent., to be Ensign, vice Thompson, promoted. 32d Company (Summerlee).—John Neilson, Esq., to be Captain ; James Lang., gent., to be Lieutenant; James Muir, gent., to be Ensign. 37th Company (Lesmahagow).—James Thomas Brown, Esq., to be Captain ; Hugh Mossman, jun., gent., to be Lieutenant; John Blackwood Greenshields, gent., to be Ensign. 50th Company.—William Walker Scott., gent., to be Lieutenant. 51st Company.—Robert Buchanan, Esq., to be Captain ; John Crawford, gent., to be Lieutenant ; Frederick John Christian Dietrichsen, gent., to be ensign. Car michael lteloßya o l be L r a ts n o a n rk t s o hi r b e e M e i a l p it t i a a i — n, l4 Militia—Lieutena nt James prolute promoted Captain Walter Brisbane Park to be major, vice Harrington, resigned. Ayrshire Artillery Volunteers-2d Company—William Baynham Cuthbertson, gent., to be irst lieutenant ; Wil liam Bell M'Kessoch, gent., to be second lieutenant. Forres Rifle Volunteer Corps, being No. 1 Company in the County of Elgin—Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon Cum ming, Bart., to be captain ; Fel ix Calvert M'K enz i e, gent., to be lieutenant; Robert Davidson Mayfield, gent., to be ensign. let Company of the Banff Volunteer Artillery Corps— William James Whyte, M.D., to be captain. BANKRUPTS. Ellen Susannah West, lodging-house keeper, Horton. William Watts, builder, Southam, Warwickshire. Thomas Streeter, hotel keeper, Portsmouth. Eleazer Slader, grocer. Bridport, Dorsetshire. Henry Quarterman, builder, Oxfcrd. William Worrall, grocer, West Melton, Yorkshire. Richard Heys, provision dealer, Heywood, Lancashire. Joel Durham, contractor, Wingland, Norfolk. John Jones, maxtle manufacturer, Lambeth-square. John Whittaker Bush, colour manufacturer, Wands worth. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Henry Campbell Thorburn, clerk, Glasgow. James Finlay, gasfitter, Glasgow. Alexander Cameron, sewed muslin warehouseman, Glas gow. BOY ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.-A Case 01 ac cidental poisoning occurred at Little Clacton last week, a boy named George Jeffries, aged eight years, the son of a rat-catcher of that place, having drunk in a mistake for beer from a bottle containing a solution of arsenic used for destroying rats, which his father had incautiously placed within reach in the house. The child was immediately seized with the usual symptoms of poisoning, front the effects of which he died on Saturday, notwithstanding the exertions of Messrs. Manthorp, surgeons, to save his life. On the 6th inst, an inquest was held by W. Codd, Esq., coroner, when the jury returned a verdict of " Died from incautiously drinking solution of arsenic."--Essex Herald THE BUDGET. The Budget is something more than a Bud get; it is a T reaty, and a Treaty contracted with a State far behind ourselves in all commercial and financial res p ects. I t i s a Treaty with a Sove reign who has to make ignominious apologies for the prejudices of his subjects, and ask us to humour them. So we have to make heavy concessions, trusting to that immense superiority which en ables us to give the vantage to competitors, and knowing that a nation which puts any restrictions on commerce is its own worst enemy. Yet .the course which France compels on its Government is in several instances so indecently unjust that it cannot be passed without remark, even if there were no factions ready to profit by it. 'the Treaty binds us for ever neither to prohibit the exporta tion of coal, nor to put any duty upqn it, whatever our financial wants or our political extremity. We are thus bound to supply France herself with coal up to the very eve of war ; and, with fleets steam ing against us, to allow coal to go we can never tell whither. France puts herself under no such re strictions, for, as she exports no coal, her share in this clause means nothing. Certainly the clause ought to be modified, and we ought to leave ourselves at liberty to forbid, on just cause, the export of the chief munition of modern warfare. Coal, next to the sea, is the great defence of this country, and at the same time the means by which it can be most readily assailed. In one other point also the Treaty is so one-sided that it can hardly pass without some modification. It reserves for France all the advan tage she attempts to secure by her Navigation Laws, and denies to us the power of reimposing our own code, even if we wished it. The English merchant, besides that he has still to meet high protective duties on English goods imported into France, against no such duty on French goods imported into England, will further have to struggle against another code of duties and prohibitions for the en couragement of the French marine. We in this country know by this time that all attempts to favour the native shipowner at the expense of the world at large, Though a nuisance to everybody, are most mischievous to the nation itself which makes the attempt. But, even with this steady convic tion on our part, it is not agreeable to recognise what we believe to be at once a jealousy and folly. Then, what limits does the Treaty impose to the additions which France may please to make to her Navigation Laws, if a new access of popular frenzy should force it on the Emperor ? We trust that these clauses, at least, will be amended. —Times. REALM - OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) The mortality in London has risen, apparently in consequence of the cold weather. The deaths were less than 1,390 in each of the two previous weeks ; in the week that ended last Saturday they were 1,442. In the ten years 1850-59 the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1188; but as the deaths in the pre sent return occurred in a population that had in creased, they should be compared with the average raised in proportion to the increase, namely, with 1306. The comparison shows that 136 persons died last week, who would have survived if the rate of mortality had not exceeded the average for this period of the year. The mean temperature of the air has been lower than the average on every day, except two, of the current month. On last Friday the mean was as low as 28.5 deg. ; on Dec. 17th in last year it was 22.8 deg., and on the same day the thermometer fell as low as 15.5 deg. The deaths arising from pulmonary diseases, not including phthisis, rose from 368 and 389 in the two previous weeks to 401 last week ; the corrected average for ton weeks corresponding to last week is 296 ; this class of complaints is at the present time, therefore, mach more fatal than usual. In the corresponding week of 1855, when the mean tem perature of the air was as low as 30.9 deg., the deaths under the same head rose to 424 ; but with this exception they were considerably less in all the corresponding weeks than the number shown in the present return. Bronchitis was fatal last week in 217 cases, pneumonia in 144; phthisis (or consumption) in 129; and it deserves to be noticed that the first two were more fatal, the last less fatal, than usual. The deaths from small-pox now returned are 3Y, of which 10 occurred to persons 20 years old and upwards. There were 47 from scarlatina, 4 of which were returned in the sub-district of Kensington-town, and 4 in Rotherhitho. There were also 11 from diphtheria. A hawker of fruit died at 90, Great Peter-street, Westminster, from destitution. A labourer died from apoplexy, caused by inhaling the vapours of spirit in a ram vault in the London Docks. Seven persons died at the age of 90 years and upwards, and amongst these was a widow in the Marylebone Workhouse, who had attained the age of 100. Last week the births of 1,030 boys and 991 girl., in all 2,021 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-9 the average number was 1,721. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29. in. in. The respectivelyreadi ngstohfe the highest barometer an d t h te e l l l o f w ro e m s t 30:9 in. on Sunday to 29.44 in. on W e d nesday, air i n in the 7 deg., which i s 2.2 de g. of t a b h s e e l d o e w t c t r h m e j a n v e e i wean temperatu re mean 43 ye ars e day except Sunday ars( daily ww b e ee i ee n kk g . wa sT3hBe rage of the same weeTkhien temperature )rnaagoe on every nthl am b n y ads k lb f ve r. le . odw G n e l ts a nd i s ea h ya e ,y r ae . epreassstiotnwwo a d s ay fr s om of 7 th w e week the amou n t o f this de 10 degrees. The ther mometer i n the shade rose to 50.2 on Wednesday, and fell to 23.2 degrees on Saturday, which were respectively the highest and lowest points in the week. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 27 degrees. The mean daily range was 10 3 degrees. The dif ference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 5.6 degrees, representing the dryness of the air. The mean degree of humidity was 81, comi.lete saturation being re pr . sented by 100. On Friday the humidity o f th e air was only 70 ; and on that day a thermometer on the grass fell to 9.5 degrees. The wind which was chiefly in the south-west on the first folly days, changed to north on Thursday, end on Saturday turned again to south. Rain fell to the amount of 0.40 inches, three-fourths of which fell ors Monday. Snow fell on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. It is stated, and we believe with good reason, that Colonel Sir John Douglas, K.C.8., of the 7Pith Highlanders, will succeed Colonel M'Cleverty as AsF istant-Adjutant. General at Edinburgh.—Arin and Haug / Gazette.