The Sun. — London, England, 1858-02-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET n.lll COM YIERCTAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with less animation, and prices were unal.ered. The sales amounted to 6,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken by the speculators. The Railway Share Market manifested a quiet appearance, and few transactions took place at about previous rates. The Board of Trade returns for 1857 have not yet been published, although upwards of a month has elapsed since the date to which they will be completed. Since the date of the last Bank of England return an addition of about 280,0001. has been made to the general stock of bullion, and the total probably now exceeds 15,700,0001., which is a larger amount than has been deposited there since 1855. About 60,0001. was sent in yesterday, and as there is a fair supply on land yet undisposed of, a ftu they augmentation will no doubt take place during the next few days. At present there is little prospect of the movement receiving any material check, con siderable remittances being en route from Australia, while the American receipts will form an im portant item in the specie importations for some time to come. A few parcels of gold have been despatched to France within the last few days, which has led to some discussion as to the proba bility of a renewed efflux in that direction. Of course, no definite opinion can yet be arrived at upon this point, but even in the event of a re sumption of shipments thither, the imports would be large enough, not only to supply that demand, but also to ensure a continuous accumniation of the precious metals in Threwlneedle-street. At the annual meeting, to-day, of the London and County Banking Company, Mr. Jones in the chair, a dividend was declared of 6 per cent. for the half-year, free of income-tax, which, with 5 per cent. already paid for the six months ending the 30th June last, will be 11 per cent, for the year 1857. The balance of 7,3941. lls. 4d. was carried forward to profit and loss new account. ALTERATION IN THE BANK RATE OF DISCOUNT. A further relaxation has been made in the minimum rate of discount, and it is now fixed at 3i per cent. This is the lowest point attained since September, 1855, and there is every pro bability of another reduction before many weeks have elapsed. The state of the money market, and the influx of gold, fully prepared the public for this modification, and as there is still a differ ence of per cent. between the newly adjusted quotation and the terms current in theopen market, it would create no surprise if another per cent. were subtracted next week. The Joint-Stock Banks and discount houses are expected to reduce their rate of interest to 2 per cent., in which case a further large aggregate amount of deposits will no doubt be withdrawn from those establishments for investment elsewhere. Money being plentiful, the preparations that have been made for the payments to-day, the 4th of th• month, have made scarcely any impression upon the market. The demand for the moment has rather increased, but this will subside in a few days. _ The Funis are not so buoyant as might have been expected. Temporarily, however, the settle ment occupies chief attention, and influences quo tations. Thus far the arrangements have progressed satisfactorily. Consols for money have been 951 1, and for ac cr.unt, March 4th, 95} b. The present quotations are 95i 1 and 95i 1 respectively, being higher. The New Threes are 951 ; the Reduced, 95i ; and Bank Stock, 227. Exchequer Bills are 255. to 30s. prem. ; ditto Bonds, 1004 ; India Stock, 219 ; and ditto Bonds, 21s. prem. In the Foreign Stock Market there is very little activity, and prices remain without alteration. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 981 99, and the 4 per Cents. nominal. Brazilian 5 per Cents. aro 103 ; Equador New Consolidated 14 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 455 ; Russian 5 per Ceuts., 112 ; Ditto 45 per Cents., 99a 100 ; Sardinian 5 per Cents., 891 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 421 ; ditto Deferred, 26 ; and ditto Passive, 5. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks i—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 516; Mexican, 20f 21; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 79 81; ditto 3 per cents., 54 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44i 451 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 110 112 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 99 101; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41i 42i ; ditto Deferred, 251 24. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :- 18b8. 1857. Great Western £25,647 £24,200 ..North-Western Booth-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern - 16,171 16,059 Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 19,545 21,741 Bristol and Exeter 5,199 5,279 East Lancashire 5,195 5,894 Lancaster and Carlisle Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincoln 9,177 9,059 North-Eastern North London North Stafford Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverh 3,730 3,818 West Hartlepool 2,781 2,721 Waterford and Limerick Edinburgh and Glasgow Glasgow and South-Western Scottish North-Eastern 3,625 3,377 In the Railway Share Market this morning the dealings were very limited, the settlement of the account on the English Stock Market absorbing the chief attention of the dealers. Prices in most in stances have tended downwards. Great 'Western, North Western, South Western, Manchester, Shef field, and Lincoln, Midland, and North Eastern (Berwick), each declined ss. ; and Great Northern, sad South Devon, 10s. Caledonian, Brighton, arid South Eastern advanced ss. ; and North British, 10s. In the Foreign lines no business was reported, and prices are quite nominal. Tice Colonial under takings are ashade firmer. Grand Trunk of Canada advanced 10s. ; Great Western of Canada, 55. ; and East Indian 10s. Mines, Banks, and Miscellaneous Shares have been quiet, but at bteady quotations. Bank of Egypt advanced ss. ; Australian Agricultural, ss. Electric Telegraph, it. Peninsular and Oriental Steam, and Royal Mail Steam brought former quo tat ions. BRITISH YUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY, (From the Officsal L 414 _ Business dons. 6 .nk Stook .. 227 25s 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Oent. Consols Annnitios 96 iiii4i New 4 per Cent. Annuities 96 ii !i i 6 India Stock 219 Ind •, Bonds. 1:10010 , )itto, under £lOOO lB p Ow_ solm for Account March 4 ... .... Ego- miter Bills, 2nd 81000 ..... S unit ••• •••• 24 p Exchequer Bonds, 1858,34 per Cent lOO4 4 Ditto, 1559 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. Brastalan 5 per Cent. Equador New Consolidated l4 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 2oi 1 Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent -- Ditto 3 per Cent 5.1 Ditto Account Partugnese Bond; 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent i4s Ditto Account - Russian Ponds, 182'2, £ St., 6 per Cent lr2 11; Ditto, iii per Cent. Ih rdinian Bonds, 5 p e r Cont. SP , nleli B owls, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account D .tto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 26 Ditt, Passive 6 Spanish Committee Cart. of Coup. not fun. 5 T tritish Honda, 6 par cent 99 1 Milo aDitto Account ua ranteed. 4 C e n t. - 03 Ditto per Accouni 103 k Dividends on the above payable In London. !itillEE O'CLOCK Consol e , money 05i $ Consols account (March) .. 9sg i THE SUN, L 0 !VD ON, T HirttSb A Y Ekir*NlNG, SHARE MARKETS—(This Day). RAILWAYS. Paid RAitwAra. iAtnbg. Nottng. Bost. dr Bastn. June.... Belfast & Ballyrnen Birmng. IVolverh. Stour Valley B.rkenhd. Lancsl , . Cheshire Junct '9lackburn Bly th & Tyne original £25 (iss. at .£45)... Bristol & Exeter.— Caledonian-- ..... ;Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon—. ;Cork, Black. & Pass ;Cornwall De. A 11 D Do. Ti 11 nblin&BolfastJune 11 Dun. P. diAber.June 0 East Anglian '0 Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A.stk iDo., do. i 3 3 Do. New A East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk Do. Edinburgh & Glasgow Ed int). and Peebles Edtnb. Prth. &Dundee Forth and Clyde June. Furness .. Glasgow & S.Western ;Great N. of Scotland !Great Northern IDo., A. Stock IDo., B. Stock IGt. Sth.&West.(lre). I Great Western. 'Do. Str.V.R gua.St [rich South-Eastern. Lancaster &Carlisle. Do., Thltde.. I Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F .1:16 .. Do., Wet. Riding Un I Do. Southport. London & Blackwall Lond.Bright.&S.Cst London & N. Wester Do. Fifths Do. JO/. 5h.,M&8... C Do. Eighths London & S.Wsatern Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Manch. Shef. &Lincln. Metropolitan ........ Do. J. L. Ricardo't arrangement Midland . Do. Binning. & Derb Midland G. West.(lr. Do. Shares ......... I Newcastle &Carlisle. Newpt.,4 berg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniakiller ewry, , Warrenpoini & Rostrovor Norfolk ......... Northn. Counties Un North British ........ North Devon, Rail. d Dock Stock Do., A Stock ........ Do., B Stock N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension ... ,Do do. G. N.E. Burch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Haul') stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire.. North Western........ & S* Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton.. Portsmouth Rhymney (Scottish Central Sci)t. N.E.Abrdn.St I Shropshiro Union 'Sitingbourne &Sheer !South Devon South Eastern Do. 4. per c. Shares South Wales.. S. Yorksh. RivwrDnn Staines,Wok.,B:Wok.l Stockton & Darling • ; Do. do., 1834 Do. do., 1855 'Stockton & Hartlepl Tall Vale I Do. Pref., No. Thames Hay. D. kR. Val, of Neath ...... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Water ford& Lime ri ck West Coinwall West End of London and Crystal Palaco Do. A Do. B West London Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wimbledon &Croydon , BRITISH PO Atian. and St. Law. 1 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. Do. Buffalo & Lake Hur Buff. Brut. & God ch 6 p. Ads., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., I June, '74 Calcutta and S. East. Central Oude (Lim.) Ceylon A shares Do. B. do. Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do.4i p.c.Bnds. '57 Do. do. do., 's9;do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent Gd. Trunk. of Canada; Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In, Pen. g. 5 pare Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Wostn. of Canada Do. New Do. Bda., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p.'60... Do. do '73 do. ...I Do. do., '73, without option Madras, guar. 4i p.c Do. do., 5 per C. I Do. 4i p. c. Eaten ' Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.e Do. 4th Ex., do :Dude (Limited) iScinde, guar. 5 per c Do Closing rroA. this day. 51 - Fi 81 - 8i 72 - 74 i : oi 92 91 941 - 94 37 - 39 10 - 12 • . •• - 4 - 5 8 - 9 1 18- - 19, 2 ; 61 - 62 ' 48 - 50 33 - 35 15 - 17 VO - 92 ''i = ss li - i' 94 - 96 9i - 10/ 1051 -10 q 91 - 93 131 - 133 104 - 106 60i - t5l 60 - 65 80 85 10 12 p 10 12 ; 931 91 d 6j - 6i 106 - 107 11011 - 102 3 - d 983 993 40 - 40. 95j - 96 66 - 68 13 - 14 63 - 65 3i - 3.1 51 - 55 ... -... • •• 97 - ii - 51 - 52 83 - 81 96 - 98 3}- iil = 32 33 9 5 d, 107 - 109 25}- 26 49 - 51 i- 35 - 37 74 - 75 83} 84. 13 15 7 5 d 9 11 37 36 100 - 105 7 - 9 3 - 3i 6 - 6i ISSESSIONS. ••• .''.. ••• i , i 14 - 15 85 - 90 83 - 87 80 - 85 ••• ••• 11P, 108 i -- 109 2 la -- 19i- 20) 47 49 84 - 86 211 -21 i - 1 Pt 21 - 24 - iP, 1 110 - 115 !HO - 115 105 106 19i 20 20 21; d par A - 4 - IR i' - 1p FOREIGN. 10 ! all ' Antwrp Ai Rotterdam 63 —6/ 20 all Ardennes 5 1 all Belgian East. Junet 1 13 20 all Beziers to Graissessac 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 31 4 20 15 Dutch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of France 28 283 20 all Do. New 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 all Gt, Central of France ... 20 all Great Luxembourg.— 7i 83 10 6 Italian Junction • ••• 20 all Lake Const. & Bale 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ...d 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 51 —53 p 5 all Lucca & . . 20 all Lyons a n d G eneva 2 8 29 20 all Lyons & Meditenan. 33i all Maria Antonia 10 all Do. New — ••• 20 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. 201 •-201 16 all Northern of France 3Bl 331 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 83 9 20 all Paris and Lyons 343 35 34/ 20 all Paris and Orleans 55 57 20 9 Reeife di San Fraa , (Pernam.) g. 7p. c. 1 -- 3ip 9i 10 10 all Rome and Frascati... 20 all Royal Danish l6 18 5 all Royal Swedish 3 I 20 all Sambre and Meuse 8 8. 10 all Do. 53 per cent. pref 8 83 20 i all Southern of France 2ll 22 81 all West Flanders 413 41 10 all Do. 53 per c. Prof 20 all W.&N.W. of France 27 -- 28 20 6 Western of Austria ••• 20 all West. of Switzerland ... ••• 6 all 1 W test aden . 6 all I Do. Bp. cent. pref. ••• 20 all Zealand • ••• JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 10 all Australasia B5 87 86 125 181 Bank of Egypt 00 50 Bank o f L on d on 45 —52 49i 9 40 all Bri.Col.Bk.diLn. Co — 50 all British N. American 120 10 C.Bk.of 103 50 City 6l 63 100 25 Colonial 271 00 20 Commercial of Lond. 20 all Eng.Scot.drAns.CLit. 19 19 • . 6 20 all Lon. Ch. 184 193 20 all Ditto New 50 20 Loudon and County 303 ... 50 LndotE.Bukng.Corp 4 50 10 London Joint Stock. 301 130 100 20 Lond.andWestminst, 45 , 100 35 national Pro. of Eng. 4 20 10 Do. New — 60 25 gational Bank 20 all New South Wales 44 46 25 all Oriental Bank Corp 34 36 353 20 20 Ottoman Bank 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all 00. New.. ••• 5 1 R.Aus.R. &G. im.co 25 all ►iouth Australia 35 57 35 25 all Union of Australia 46 48 47 6 23 Do. New 26 28 27 50 10 Union of London 25 24 100 50 Unity Mutual •• •41 1.0 50 Wostrußk o f Loud/ ...d Business dons this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing ompanies Closing Prices tnis day RAILWAYS. Paid' Buckghamsh. iClydesdale Jc. ,Col.Stour Vy. lE.Lin. g. 6 p.e E. Un. 11. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. ,Do. Naw Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. i Shares Lon. &Grecnw Do. Preference, Lon. Til., &S.l Do. Bark. Sh.' 1 Manch.Baton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.diEst.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct Do. Fixed sp. c iPrest. do Wyre Do. Shre. A Roystn. & Hit. Shrews.& Her S. Staff ordsh IWearVal.g6pc IDo ,Wilts&Sonarst Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (188 d. at 501.) Brie. & Ex. 4 p.c. St. Do. 4 per c. Shares Caledn..£lo 4i p. c. Ches. & Ho. 5i p.c. Do. do. 5 per cent Cork&Bandonsip.c. Dun. Perth. kAber.J. E. Anglian ClB. A Sh. Do. do. Cl 9. B 6p. c. Do. do. CIA. C 7 p. c. lEas.Co.Ex,sp.c No. I Do. No. 2 ....... ,Do. New 6 pr. c. St. ;East Un., G. 6 p. C. IDo. 51., 0 per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lane ash. 6 p.cts. E.&W. York. J. sth. Edin. & Gl. 5 p. c. Sh. Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness, 5 p. c .... Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c Great Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem._ Do. 4i per cent ..... Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N. of Scot.lst Pro Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.W.(B.&II.Ex.Spc IDo. con. red. 4i p. c. Do, con. red. 4 p. c. IDo. irred. 4 per tent. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Bp. c. P. S. o. do. 5 p. c. do. Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesil, Gua. Sh Do, do, do. Do, do. do. Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No. 1 D0.,P., 5 p.c. St. No. 2 IDo. New Guar. 6p.c. Do, do. 5 p. c,, No. 4 Lon. & N. P., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 r. ct... Lon. & S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares ... Londy.dr. Color. jSh. Londy. &Ennis. Sh. S.,&L. 6 p. Cent. oi chi. do. £6 ... Do. do. 3,1 per cont Marypt. & Carl. 4 p.c Do. 4. per cent Do. do. Mid. Consol. 6p. c. St. Do. Con. Br. Mr. 6 p.c. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &H. Prof. St. New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c. rod. 5 p.c. pm. Do. Perpot. 6 pr. ct. Norfk.Deb.4 p.c. Sb. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 5i p.c. pf , 1847 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~1847 North British Do. 71. Preference N.B. Berw. 4p.c.Prf , Do. do. do I Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 Do, do. Qrs., IS4B , Do. York 11. &S. Pur North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. 8; Woly. 6 p.c., Ist guar Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar._ !Do, do. Debentr. St. Scot. Cent. New Pref., Sc.N. E. Aber.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. Do. do.:3i p.c. pf. St. South Devon , Do. fixed 4i pr cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d., Do. 4i per cent 1 1 Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh I Do. New 44 pr. cent . Wales Gua. 4 p. c. Do. do. 4. p. c '.Yorksh.4 p. c. Guar Stock. &Dar., 5 p. C Do. do. do. Waterfd&Kilk. 6 pc PREFERENCE SHARES. ..• -- •.• 90 - 92 1100 - 102 6 - 64 105 - 110 110 - 114 100 - 112 107 - 110 1127 - 130 73 - T 5 Lib 20 111 - 113 103 - 64 - 66 10,E - 11 I ••• - •.. 5i - 6 91 - 93 84 - F 6 85 - 99 - 101 10 -15 i 16 - 17 10 -10 i 73 - 75 19 - 20 9; - 10 14 - 15 35 - 137 50 - 165 118 - 122 - 6p -70 i 134 - 101 - 103 92 - 94 ilk -- iii ... .-- • 06 1197 - 109 91 - 98 I - ill ••• - ..• 21i - 123 121 - 122 ,106 -10 i 103 - 112 71 - 73 10 - 1(1 24i 2rs, 98 100 98 100 25 - 29 BRITISH MINES. Iv 121 Alfred Cons. (Philk.)i British Iron Condurow (Cambrn.) Dev. Gt. Quilts. (Tay.) East Basset (Illogan) Great South Tolgus Grt. W. Alfrd. (Philk. ) Grt. W. Vor (Helstn.) Lady Bertha N. Frances (Illogan) N. W. Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) Porkellis U. (Wend.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co. S. Caradon (St. Cleer i S. Cara Brea (Illogn. S.W. Frances(lllogn. Cam. S. & L. Min. Co Tin Croft Un. Mines (Gwennap) V. of Towcy (Camay.) W. Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskrd ) Wh. Basset (Illogan). Wh. Buller (Rdruth). Wh. Edward(Calstcki Wh. Kitty (U. Llant Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 20 1 27i 17b 1715 17h lallbi 7i 1 108. all all all all 1.2 . i - 13! 5 - 80 - 90 450 - 470 92i 97 15 - 16 3i - 4i 111 1 - 11 10 - 11 15 - 16 4 - 5 19 - 20 4 - 5 11 - lf 355 - 365 5 - 5} 220 - 240 1 - 4} - 44 - 11 24i -215 i 1105 - 115 180 - 200 320 - 350 7i - 8 11* - 12! 44 - 46 - 24 MINES. - 21 ii d 12 -- 13 - P -- id lgi -- 17 j -- id ... .- ••• 5 - 6 - 2 - 2ik 4 a - 48 FOREIGN Australian Bon Accord Cop. (IL) Brazilian Imp.(issued at £5 pm) Do. Cocaes dt Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min.' Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper Copiapo Dun Mountain Cop• per Mining Co. Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada Noveau Monde Pont. Sil.Ldif. di Smlt Port Philip Santiago de Cuba United Mexican Ln. &N. W. CalGdon... E.U.&E.O Gt.Northnl E. Count. Caldonian. I Do. Gt. Westn.' Y. & N.M. Do IDo Do Poto &Co , In. &N. W. & Midld. ,Midland... Count.. &N. W. IDo Gt.Northn, T. Br:mosey M. MCloan, Stk. &Dar Do IGt.Westn ' 96 - 98 100 - 102 13 - 15 135 - 140 4 - 41 •.II ... 109 - 111 ... _ --- ii - 13] 231 - 24; 97 - 100 2i - 2i 9G - 9* 56 i - 58 r l4 - 13$ 7i - S , 10 - 11 34 - 91 - Easiness this dy CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Baron Brain well.) THE LATE IATAL FULL ACCIDENT IN STONECETTES-STRIZT. A livery-stable keeper, named Child, surrendered to answer a charge of manslaughter. It will be remembered that on the 18th December a white bull ran from a herd of 40 that were being driven from the New Cattle Market in the direotion of Earring dcn-street, and became infuriuted by being pursued by several persons. The bull having at length run into the ride of the defendant's premises, and the parties there becoming alarmed, it was knocked down, and they afterwards endeavoured to turn it out. A policeman came up, and the drover, who, ending the bull in a quiet state, requested the defendant to allow the bull to remain in the yard ; but he refused, and insisted upon its being driven out. It ran up several streets, and knocked several persons down, amongst whom was the unfortunate deceased, who had six of his ribs broken. He was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he did on the 3d of last month. The bull was not secured until he had ran as far as White friars-dock. At the clnclusion of the evidence for the prosecution, Mr. Robinson said the evidence that had been adduced did not in the slightest degree affect Mr. Child. He had done nothing more than he was justified i■ doing to protect the lives of his servants and the valuable property at that moment on his premises. Suppose, for instance, a bull ran into a china.shop, would not not the propreitor be j ustified in expelling the trespasser I He thought he would. Baron Bramwell—.Supposes tiger came into your drawing.room, where you were sitting, were you bound to keep him there, or drive the creature out, knowing it to be by nature a dangerous animal Mr. Robinson submitted that you were positively justified, in self-defence, in turning the animal out. Baron Bramwell —.1f the tiger Game into the drawing room and, while I was taking means to secure it, eat my child up. Batthere is a question Rhetb er I had a right to turn him out knowing he could do no mischief. What I submit to the jury is, did the defendant turn out the ball knowing at the time he was a dangerous animal and likely to do mischief 1 It is like two men struggling for a plank—is the one bound to want for the other ? Mr. Robinson said there was no evidence that the defendant knew the bull was likely to do mischief. Baron Bramwell—l think there is ; but should the jury convict the defendant I shall reserve the point for the decision of the judges. Mr. Robinson then addressed the jury for the prisoner and contended that the defendant was juPtified in doing as he had done finding that the bull was destroying his property. A number of witne nes were called to show that the defendant merely ordered the bull to be driven out— that he was not beaten by sticks but that be eventually quitted the yard of his own accord. Th• jiffy returned or. verdict of not guilty. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) LIBEL. —James Cowan, convicted of libel, was this in the usual manner, entered into a lengthened morning brought up for judgment, and being called upon state ment that he did not consider he ought to be subjected to any punishment. He had not been actuated by animosity in what he had done, but had merely been actuated by a desire to benefit the public. The Recorder, after referring to the character of the libel, sentenced the defendant to twelve months' irnpri sonroent, and at the end of that time to find two securities, and to enter into hie own recognisanees in 2Q01., to be of good behaviour for two years. POLICE INTELLIGENOE.—ffhis Day.) MA IMBOROUGH-STREET. ASSAULT ON TSB POLlClL—Williata Welch, aged 29 ; Michael Larkin, 29 ; Thomas Johnson, 21 ; Patrick Mack, 25 ; and Mary Larkin, were charged, the male prisoners with assaulting several police-constables, and the female with exciting the mob to rescue the others from custody. Police-constable C 74 said he saw the prisoners, who were drank, creating much disturbance in Charler-street, Soho, at shout 12 o'clock last night. They had been turned oat of a public-house, which appeared to have provoked them, and hence their disorderly conduc►. Sergeant Silverton said he came up to the atsistanee of 74, and saw Larkin 'trace the latter a severe blow in the face, and as he laid hold of him threw him down. ♦ll the male prisoners took part in the assault, and their language was very bad. CB9 and others came up and were likewise assaulted. On their way to the station, when taken into custody, they kicked repeatedly the policemen ; the female, by her language, endeavouring to excite the mob to the rescue of the others. Larkin fined 40e. or 14 days ; the rest of the male prisoners 20s. or 7 days ; and the female discharged. LLOYD'S SHIFPING.—;This Day.) LONDON, Feb. 4.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W.; moderate breeze and hazy, with much rain at times. SWANSEA, Fib. 3. —Wind S.W.—Sailed—Bella Donna and Margaretta, for Coquimbo. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 3.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—La bang, from Callao; R. M. Mills, from Callao, with stern and entwater sprung, and leaky about the bows ; Jesus Ramos, from Guayaquil. CORK, Feb. 2.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Nithsdale, for Sydney. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 1. —Wind S.S.W.—Arrivei— Georgiana, Iron Belize; Ruffen', Savannah. Feb. 2. Arrived —St. Vincent, from Mauritius ; John Philip, Mauritius. BRIDLINGTON, Feb. 3. Wind S. W.—Arrived —Spec, from London for Hartlepool, w ith stern stove in and other damage. _ _ _ DARTMOUTH, F e b . 2 .—Wind S . W.—Arrived—ledo (e), from Rotterd am f or Japan. PLYMONTII, F e b. 2. frora Moulm e i n . HULL, Feb. 3.—Wi nd S. W.—Arrived—Glory, from Monte Vid eo . —Wind S. W. — Arrived. — Pearce, FALMOUTH, Feb. 2.—Wind W.—Artived—Steidricbt, from P ara ib a; Glenroy, Akyab. F e b. 3.—A rr i ve d— Kimigunde, from Rio G ran d e ; TWAIa Harmer, Havana; Preciosa, Pernambuco. CARDm, Feb. 2.—Wi n d S.W.—Sailid—Silistria, for Callas. F e b . 3.—SailedM Ayres. —on ti s queen, from Buenos on; nratOUTII, Feb. 2.—Arrived — Map, from Bank. kok for Ramberg. WRITITABLI, Feb. 2.—The Sarah (brig), bound to Wales, tan k i n the Prince's Channe l yes t er d ay , i n n i ne fathom water. Coat, Feb. I.—Th e Expert, S hi e ld s to Constantin o pl e , which p u t i n h ere Jan. 26, leaky, has b een surveye d and ordered to di sc h arge part of cargo. Via°, Jan. W.—T he Renedo (Span i s h brig), Mata nzas t o London, put u Jan. t$ to repair serious damage sustained at sea, a n d mak i ng a considerable quantity of water. MUBOUR NR , V ICTORIA, Dee. 15.—The A.uchneagh, Clarke, arrived Isere Dec. 12, reports having sighted seve ral larg e iceberg s , N ov . 15 ,in Ist. 4 9 S. , long 45 E.; same day pa sse d part of the hull of a large ship which appeared to be in con t act with ice, being much c h a f e d ( t h e sever i ty of the we a th er prevented further informa ti on b e i ng o b. tained, and on t he 30th passed about 2 0 f ee t o f s hi p ' s ra il, with six s t anc hi ons and bulwarks attac h e d, pa i nte d stone colour. RIR JANXIIIO, Dee. 31.—Th e B e liva (brig), of and from Bremen, h as b een passengers saved. totally lost near Rio Grande ; crow and (IT zrao;nuo vermazira.) Wind W.S.W. LITAItrOOL, Thursday Morning. Arrived—James Simpson, from Paraiba ; Prince Phil. lip., from Ostend. Off Imperial , Westbettrne, Thessalia, Glengsriff, Bar. mouth. - - Feb. 3.—Divers have hem down to the Albert, and cleared the wreck of the spars, rigging, &a. ; they have also sent up about 12 packages of cargo. The wind coming from the S.W., they were obliged to leave her. Wind N. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 2 . Arrived—St. Vincent, and John Phillips, from the Mauritius; Speedwell, from Marianople. Wind S.B. DUBLIN, Feb. 3. Arrived—Arbatas , from St. John's, N.B. ; Anne Hall, Odessa : Alverton, Alexandria. Wind S.S.W. HOLYHEAD, Feb. 3. Arrived—l Cate, from Liverpool, Dordt ; Nigro, Liver. pool, Oporto. BY SUBMARINS AND BRITISH TILEGRAPH. GRAVISBND, Thursday Morning. Wind S.W., tide four hours' ebb, cloudy. Arrived—Firret, and Providence), from Gravelines ; Charlotte Anne, Ancona ; James Brown, Odessa ; Minna, Cuessa ; Vesta, steamer, Oporto; Earl of Auckland, Rot terdeem. Sailed—Pilot (s), for Antwerp ; Panther (s), Boulogne ; Hanover (a), Ostend ; Dutchman, Constantinople. DEAL, Thursday Morning. riv.i.needds_lwAiilafurceesh:from Marianpole, for Hull. The Alhambra, with the Peninsular mail, has brought 8 . 500/. M.ENTING AT GATESHEAD. —On Monday night a pub. lic meeting of the inhabitant s of Gateshead was convened petitioning Parliament in favour of by the mayor (B. J. Prockter, Erg.), of electoral reform, for a comprehensive the purpos e o measure The meeting was well attended, and the mayor presided. The following reso lutions were carried unanimously :—" That in the opi nion of this meeting the present restrictive franchise de rr" yes a large number of ou r fellow-countrymen of the ir just electoral rights, entail, on the nation class legisla tion, financial extravagance, and an irresponsible foreign policy, and demands a comprehensive and radical reform in the representation of the people in Parliament. That a ny mealure of electoral reform to be satisfaCtory to the p e ople, must include among its provisions manhood suffrage, vote by ballot, and the abolition of the present property q uali fi cation of m em b ers o f the 'l ous e of Commons." 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New ... 7l — 81 p 50 all ymney Iron 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 64 66 641 5 • 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest ll 1 i St. 100 S.Aus, Gov. 6 p.c.bds lO5 -- 10 106 1 25 all South Austral. Land 36 38 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip 1 ih 1 all Do. Registered 20 5 Trus. Ln. Co. UP. Can. ... ... 10( 281 Van_ lemenh Land.. 10 -- 12_, 101 34} 91 2 63 5 4k 100 i 994 11 1211 2 16i i i rj FEBR UARY t 4 I'BsB ENGLISH PASSPORTS. We are requested to publish the following no. floe "Foreign-office, Feb. 3. " The - Ambassador of hie Majesty the Emperor of the Freneh having notified to the Earl of Clarendon, her Majestj's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that the Consul-General and other consular officers of his Imperial Majesty in the United Kingdom will no longer grant passports to other than subjects of his Imperial Majesty, notice is hereby given that, in order to facili tate the obtaining of passports by British subjects desir ing to proceed to the continent, the conditions of the fifth regulation, Ander which such passports have bitberto been issued at the Foreign-office, will be extended as hereinafter described. "According to that regulation passports have hitherto been granted 'to British-born subjects, or to lonians, or to such foreigners as have become naturalised either by act of Parliament or by a certificate of naturalisation granted by the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment,' who were either known to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, or recommended to him by some person who was known to him, or upon the applicaticn of any banking firm established in London, or in any other part of the United Kingdom ; but her.ceforth pass ports will also be granted on the recommendation of the mayor or chief magistrate of aoy corporate town in the United Kingdom, and also on the recommendation of any magistrate or justics of the peace, such recommen- dation to be addressed, upon the cover, to Her Ma jesty's Secretary of State for Foreign A fftirs, Passport Office, Downing-street, London,' and forwarded by post from the country; and such recommendation should he made in the following form, signed and sealed by the person giving the recommendation : " (Date •f place •nd day of the mouth.) " The undersigned, Mayor of Chief Magistrate of Magistrate for Justice of Peace for , recommends A. B. (Christian and surname to be written at length), a British subject fora passport to enable him to a naturalised subject. - a proceed to , , accompanied, as the case t may be, by his wife and children, with theirtutor, named C. D. (Christian and surname to be written at length), a British subject 1 and governess and ma d • naturalised British subject servant (or servants) and man-servant (oreervants) named E. F. 1 a British sabjeot (or subjects). a naturalised t3ritish subject (or subjects). " ' Signature (Christian and surname to be written at length). " ' (Seal)? " If any person so recommended be a naturalised Bri tish subject, his certificate of naturalisation, with his signature sub,cribed to the oath printed on the third page of his certificate, must be forwarded with the ap plication for his passport. " The passport so applied for will be transmitted by return of post, if possible, to the mayor, chief magis trate, magistrate, or justice of the peace who may have given the recommendation, to be delivered by him to the party, and if the passport should be required for a natu ralised British subject, his certificate will he returned with the passport; but the mayor, chief magistrate, ma gistrate, or justice of the peace, on whose application a passport is granted to 4 naturalised subject, not being a servant included in his employer's passport, will require such naturalised British subject to sign the passportln his presence. " The charge on the issue of each passport, whatever number of persons may be named in it, is 6.. ; and tha", sum must be forwarded with the application for the pa 42- port; and if the remittance be by Post-office order such order is to be made payable to the Chief Clerk of the Foreign-office,' at the Post-uffice, Charing-cross. "If, however, a person recommended from the coun try for a passport prefers it, he may obtain his passport at the Foreign-office on the day following the receipt of the application, and pay the charges en the passport being delivered to him ; but in this case the words • Passport will be applied for at the Foreign-:;ffice' mutt be added to the letter of recommendation. "The form of application heretofore adopted by banking firms will continue to be used by them. "The general regulations for passports as now amended are as follows : " 1. Applications for Foreign-office passports must be made in writing, and addressed upon the cover to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Passport-office, Downing-street, London." "2. The charge on the issue of a passport, whatever number of persons may be named in it, is 65., which sum includes ss. stamp-duty. "3. Foreign-office passports are granted only to British ►orn subjects,or to lonians, or to such foreigners as have become naturalised either by Act of Parliament or by a certificate of naturalisatio❑ granted by the S. cretary of State for the Home Department. When the party is a `naturalized British subject,' he will be so designated i❑ his passport ; and if his certificate of naturalization be dated subsequently to the 24th August, 1850, his piss• • port veil be marked as good for one year only; but this regulation will not preclede any person whom it affects from obtaining, at any future period, on his producin + his old passport, a fresh pa.tsport for a further limited period of one year, without being required to pay a fresh charge. " 4. Passports are issued between the hours of 11 and 4 on the day following that on which the application for the passport has bee❑ received at the Foreign-office. "5. Passports are granted to persons who are either known to the Secretary of State, or recommended to him by some person who is known to him ; or upon the application of any banking firm establi,thed in London or in any other part of the United Kingdom, or upon the recommendation of the mayor or chief magistrate of any corporate town in the United Kingdom, or of any magistrate or justice of the peace. " 6. Passports cannot be sent by the Foreign.office to a person already abroad ; such person should apply to the nearest British Mission or Consulate. " 7. Foreign-office passports must be countersigned at the Mission in London, or at some Consulate in the United Kingdom of the Government of the country which the bearer of the passport intends to visit.' " 8. A Foreign-office passport grantcl for one kiurney to a British-horn subject or to an lonian, or to a a natu• ralised British subjnt' whose certificate of naturalisation is dated previously to August 24, 1850, may be used for any subsequent journey if countersigned afresh by the Ministers or Consuls of the countries which the bearer intends to visit ; but a passport granted for one journey to a `naturalised British subject, whose certificate is dated subsequently to the 24th August, 1850, can only be used for a subsequent journey undertaken within the period for which the passport has been originally granted. " List of the Principal For, ign Paspor'-offices in Lon don where Foreign-office Passports are to be vised. "2" Austrian Legation—Chandos-house, Cavendish-sq. " Bavarian Legation— 3, Hill--trees, Berkeley-square. " Belgian Consulate-53, Gracochurch-street. " French Consulate-30, King William.street, City. " Netherlands Consulate-20.1, Great St. Helen's. " Portuguese Consulate-5, Jeffreys-square. " Russian Consulate-32, Great Winchester-street. " Sicilian Consulate-15, Cambridge-street, Edgware read. " Spanish Legation-17, Hereford-street, Park-lane. " Turkish Embassy-1, Bryanston-square " Foreign-office, February, 1858." * It is requisite that the bearer of every passport granted by the Foreign-office should sign his passport before he sends it to be vised at any foreign Mission or Consulate in England. Without such siguaturo either the visa may bo refused or the validity of the passport questioned abroad. And travellers who may have any intention of visiting the Austrian States at any time i❑ the course of their travels on the continent are particularly and ear neatly advised not to quit England without having their passports ♦iced at the Austrian Mission in London ; but theca is no necessity for the visa to a Foreign-office passport of either the Prus sian or Sardinian authorities in the United Kingdom. THE RI:I II bGEE QUESTION. A correspondent, signing himself " Lex et Con suetudo," contributes a very able article to the Times of yesterday in reference to the constitu tional and legal aspects of the refugee question. With regard to the demands made on us by the French Government, to alter our laws for their special benefit, the writer of the communication expresses himself as follows : " Of course, air, I cannot supply you either from the statute-book or the fountains of the common law with methods of punishing crimes before they are committed, or aiticipating acts which hove not yet been conoeived. such methods are strangers to our law in all its depart ments, and please God, shall long remain so. Ido not expect th of Lord Palmerston is about to lay before Par liament a loin des tweets. If he did I should not ask for a place in your columns to state an argument against it, for before such a proposition could even be entertained the Tintei must have ceased to exist. But it will be said, why not pa , s an act to satisfy public opinion in France and to gratify a friendly Government? In the first place, I do not think it is a very desirable thing that the English criminal law should be moulded to meet the temporary excitement and clamour of foreign nations, This would be a valid objection, even if the demand had been preferred in the most delicate and reasonable manner. But it seems to me, that in existing circumstances, unless we are . under some clear moral obligation to make provision for a proved wrong, we are not in a position to indulge in mere complimentary legislation. It woull indeed th b e e beneath us to notice the inveterate swagger of French soldiery, who seem to think that they can trample on the liberties of England with the same faci lity as those of their own nation. The serious feature of the traneactieu is the publication of these apeeches in the Monitcur. It is thus which converts this silly bravado of military swashbucklers iuto pablic insult and a national me nace. Now, sir, it seems to me that the proper course for a nation in such circum stances is very much the same as for an individual. If your neighbour asks y ou in a quiet, do reasonable, gen tlemanlike manne r to oblige him, you may more for him than is necessary or even prudent ; but if he comes to demand of yon a thing whicli you are neither morally nor legally bound to do, with insulting words and menacing gestures, and threatens to kick you if you do not comply — if you are a man of ordinary spirit or common firmness, you coolly tell him to seek his remedy. Until the insult s in the Moniteur are retracted as pub licly MI they bare been offered, it seems to me th at th i s i s very much o ur position 1:1.8 a vie of the French G overn meet. It they are to come as suit ors t o t h e b ar of the High Court of Parliament, they must, before they can be heard, purge their contempt." These are noble as well as legally sound senti ments. We commend them to the special attention of Lord Palmerston. PROSTITUTION IN THE METROPOLIS. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Ttmes Sir,—Certain persons have, as you know, com menced a crusade against London prostitutes, and, if one of that abandoned sisterhood may presume to address you, grant me your attention. The precept and example set me by parents, now, thank God, in their graves ; the education likewise " thrown away" upon me, and my subsequent ex perience as a governess in a highly respectable family, were not necessary Ito the conviction that the class among which I may be numbered con aiats of outcasts whose undisguised pursuit is an ()fence to the laws of God and man. I know that we are cut off from the moral, social, and religious worlds. lam conscious that there is nothing in common between us and other women but sheer mortality. lam aware that we are beings whom men should shun and women must condemn. We need not be told of our ruin and degradation, because we never " fall" without being alive to the fact. A woman seduced may forgive her wrongs and outlive her sense and shame. Her conscience may harden and her very memory may sleep, but she never need be reminded of her real condition. It is impossible for her to forget what she is ; society will not permit her to do so. lam speaking now of lost mortals like myself, and not of those whose sin ful life Fortune seems to gild. Do not suppose, then, that I would attempt to defend what transpires nightly in the Haymarket, in Coventry-street, or wherever women of aty caste congregate. I do no: ask you to countenance anything of the kind. No, Sir, give "Vice its own image," and do your duty. But, you yourself refrain from going a step too far, pray give a warning word to others. It is one thing to put down a nuisance ; it is another to per secute individuals. I will anticipate much that may fairly be said, and admit that if I live avowedly in defiance of those regulations which the coin munity has established as indispensable to its well being —(" I waive the quantum o' the sin," the b idy's pollution, and the soul's perdition ; that is my private business, and God help me I mine alone, I hope)—if I pat ade my iniquitous trade so as to commit a public outrage, I must expect to be checked in such openly vicious courses, for I believe the liberty of the subject should end where injury to others begins. But pray tell those good gentle men who are bent upon " putting us down," that their's is not only a delicate, but a difficult under taking, and they should be careful lest they have more to answer for than they dream of in their philo sophy. One Horace,—au authority whom you gentlemen quote,—has said, I believe,— "Let the wise man be considered a fool, and the just man as unjust, if his rigorous adherence even to virtue herself carries him beyond the proper bounds." I hope these worthy gentlemen are not attempting to cure an evil by driving it inwards. There is a scandalous eyesore and annoyance existing; remove it ! But if those excellent men imagine that by clearing the thoroughfares of professed wretches like me they will advance one step in the cause of virtue they are gravely mistaken. Wives and daughters and sisters should be spared disgusting scenes of all kinds, and fathers and sons and bro thers should be tempted as little as possible. I can yet admit that ! But London is, for it size, the most moral town in Europe—perhaps the civi lised world—and I once had a friend who could prove it. Leaving continental citits, with all their recognised and even legalised enormities, out of the question—go, for example, to the quiet, orderly, religious, and apparently sleeping village of Dol gelly, in North Wales, " where a seraph night dwell," and where you find all serene, and the number of bastard children on the parish books will astound you. The vice of London, sir, is seen to float on its surface ; let it pass as the weed on its way to the ocean. Hit accumulate so as to become offensive, disperse it. If it otherwise annoy and cannot conveniently be avoided, deal with it ac cordingly. But have we not our uses 1 1 believe and hope that I am a warning to every woman I meet. I fancy, too, that even men sometimes pause in their worst designs when they look upon me, or feel a pang should those designs have been accom plished. Do you think that when I have laughed boldly (as we never do when sober) in the face of a virtuous girl, and as much as to say, "see what ono of our sex can come to I" my maniac conduct has not whispered " Thank God, and take heed 1" I have seen the half-starved milliner and humble orange-girl hurry past me with a shudder, and the poor servant, snatching a moment to gaze about her, go to her work rejoicing that "she has not come to that !" And then your sex. Hea ven grant me patience that I may content myself with observing that no good man ever noticed me in the street, save with pity, indifference, or con tempt ; and there is no seclusion which the vicious will not penetrate. As for temptation, iu which shape is it the more dangerous, that of a notorious street-walker, or a modest maiden going on an errand ? However numerous be the Maria Mil woods, depend upon it George Barn wells are scarce. Do you think I could not make myself understood without shocking the looker-on, or openly display ing my purpose I Can I not even add to my "snares" and "attractions" by disguising myself as a downs e, a young Quakeress, a dressmaker, or even lady—aye, and acting the part too 1 My reason for not resorting to those stratugews is there is no necessity for so doing. Yet you, of course, but little know how many of us appear in those characters, and without exciting the slightest sus picion among the public in general. 1 know a de signing and disreputable girl who has been passing herself off for a long time upon a city banker as a parson's wife ; and another who pretends to have her " Sunday out," that she may walk abroad wit h a gentleman of Somerset-house ; and serve them right ! Then there are unfortunates who live in style ; some appear in carriages, some ou foot. Your sex may know them, but mine mistake them for decent women (I am still alluding to the profes sional courtezan). These are the pitfalls for the males of good families. But in respect to the more common of my class—not by any means the worst —now under censure, pray say a word iu time, and before she be committed to the tender mercies of the police. He is not the man to " take her up tenderly." Consider, sir, she is "c ne of Eve's family," as your mother was, and as your wife and daughter are !—aye, and as even your Queen is. She has no other claim to your forbearance. "Alas for the rarity " Of Christian Charity "Under the sun ! " Oh, it is pitiful, " Wear a whole city full, " Horne has she none." Appoint commissioners who are fitted for the office, intelligent, respectable, and responsible gentlemen, and make it worth their while to devote themselves entirely to the reduction of the scandal complained of. Empower these officials to have us taken up and punished for riot or impropriety of any kind. But let not the "pelting petty officer," the ignorant officer of a few shillings a-week, and it may be an unfeeling and unthinking brute, inter fere with us as he will. Recollect it was man who made us what we are. It is man who pays for the finery, the rouge, and the gin. It is for man that we are yet as, as well as 'hat, we are. It is man who, when we apply ourselves to industry and honesty, employs us upon starving wages ; and if man had his way, and woman's nature not superior to his, there would be no virtue extant. Say, then, is it for man to persecu'e even the most profligate among us 3 What is he better than the worst of us ! In the next place, why begin with the most ab ject and unprotected f Why (as you threaten to do) pounce upon, not only the most conspicuous israwler, but the thinly-clad and silent "lost one" walking the streets like a trespasser, even whet the weather would make one hesitate to turn a dog out into it f Why should the virtuous indignation of the present day be all expended upon —if I may be allowed so to mention her—the poor creature without a friend, while her more for tunate sister, whom I will call harlot, stares im pudently from out her luxurious brougham, throw ing more discredit upon what I understand as our " social system" than it suffers from a score of less pampered strumpets? I do not allude to the un obtrusive victim, "hiding her diminished head" behind silk curtains, nor even the more "ex perienced," making "the best of a bad bargain." (As to the latter it is wonderful what dragons o f virtue " notorious women" among them become at, maturity !) But Ido say, sir, that the community more than tolerates those who hind fools to set them up where good women should b=, while it sets its face against others who are only poorer, and less lucky, to say nothing of the honesty that is t o be found even among the lowest. Pray, sir, think of this, and tell those gentlemen whose speeches I read to act upon it. They may be husbands and fathers (is are many of all degrees who visit us), and I can allow for their parental solicitude. But if they be Chri , tians they will imitate one who said, "Go and sin no more," and not " move on," " anywhere, anywhere out of the world." Your humble servant, ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. P.S. I cannot give you my name, having so dis graced it, nor my address, as it is disreputable. .MARTIAL 13AKEIZEI.—" The entry of Prince Frederick William of Prussia with his bride it,to Berlin," says a letter from that city, " has raised several discussions among the different trading corporations of the capital. The bakers, among others, have claimed the right to wear swords, which the magistrate disputed. The per sons interested having addressed a petition on the sub ject to the Prince of Prussia, the head of the Govern ment, his Royal Highness wrote on the margin : 'The bakers may wear swords, or even carry cannon if they wish it.'" LITERATURE. - - The Pickwick. Papers. By Cheri - els Main. 2 volo. Chapman and Hall, and Bradbury and Dram. It is with great satisfaction that we see a new and complete library edition of Mr. Dickens' works is now about to be offered to the public. The former edition was necessarily incomplete, as it was published some years since, and it could not com pare to the present, whose size and type leave nothing to be desired. The series is worthily inaugurated under the auspices of the immortal Mr. Pickwick, and will, of course, embrace the whole of those delightful fictions that have moved the tears or provoked the laughter of so many English hearts. Not the least attractive) part of the work is the preface, in which the author gives the following interesting account of the rise and progress of the "Pickwick Club" " I have seen various accounts in print, of the origin of these Pickwick Papers ; which have, at all event, possessed for me—the charm of perfect novelty. A s i may infer, from the occasienal appearance of such him- tories, that my readers have an interest in the matter, I will relate how they came into existence. " I was a young man of three and twenty, when the present publishers, attracted by some pieces I was at that time writing in the Morning Chronielo newspaper (of which one series bad lately been collected and pub lished in two volumes, illustrated by my esteemed friend Mr. George Cruikshank), waited upon me to propose a something that should be published in shilling ntimbrrs —then only known to me, or, I believe, to anybody else, by a dim recollection of certain interminable novels in that form, which used to he carried about the country by pedlars, and over some of which I remember to have shed innumerable tears, before I had served my appren ticeship to Life. " When I opened my door in Fereival's Inn to the managing partner who represented the firm, I recog nised in him the person from whose hands I had bought, two or three years previously, and whom I bad never seen before or since, my first copy of the Magazine in which my first effusion—dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet-street— appeared in all the glory of print ; on which memorable occasion—how well I recollect it walked down t• Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half-an-hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business. " The idea propounded to me was, that the monthly something should be a vehicle for certain plate.' to 1-• exe cuted by Mr. Seymour ; and there was a notion, either on the part of that admirable humorous artist, or of my visitor (I forget which), that a Nimrod Club,' the members of which were to go out shooting, fishing, and so forth, and getting themselves into difficulties through their want of dexterity, would be the best means of in troducing these. I objected, on consideration, that ,although born and partly bred in the country, I was no great sportsman, except in regard of all kinds of locorao• tion ; that the idea was not novel, and bad been already much used : that it would be infinitely better fer the plates to arise naturally out of the tea: ; and that I should like to take my own way, with a freer range of English scenes and people, and was a'raid I should ultimately do so in any case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr. Pickwick, and wrste the first number ; from the proof-sheets of which Mr. Seymour made his drawing of the club, and that happy portrait of its founder, by which he is always recagnised, and which may be said to have made hint a reality. I connected Mr. Pickwick with a club, because the originel suggestion, and I put in Mr. Winkle expressly for the use of Mr. Seymour. We started with a number of 24 pages instead of 32, and toter illuetra'ions in lieu of a ceuule. Mr. Seyinour'e sudden and lamented death before the second number was published, brought about a quick decision upon a point already in agitation; the number became one of 32 pages with 2 illustrations, and remained so to the end. My friends told me it was a low, cheap form of publication, by which I should ruin all my rising hopes ; and how right my friends turned out to be, everybody now knows. " Boz," my signature in the iforailg Chronicle, appended tl the monthly cover of this honk, and re tained long afterwards, was the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of the Vicar of Wakefield ; which being facetiously pronounced through the nose, became B 'se., and being shortened, became Box. ' Boz ' was a very familiar houehold word to me, long before I was an author, and so I came to adopt it. "It has been observed of Mr. Pickwick, that there is a decided change in his character, as the-es meet pro ceed, and that he becomes more good and more sensible. I do not think this change will appear forced or unna tural to my readers, if they will reflect that in real life the peculiarities and oddities of a man who has anything whimsical about him, generaly impress us first, and that it is not until we are better acquainted with him that we usually begin to look below these superficial traits, and to know the better part of him." In a frank and genial dedication, th 3 series is inscribed to Mr. John Forster, as the friend of the author during his " wtiole literary life." The work before us has passed beyond the need of critical approbation, or analysis. It only remains to commend to the general public what the author himself styles "the best edition of my books." Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annota'ed by Sa - muel Lover. Houlston and Wright. The Lyrics of Ireland are synonymous witk mirth, melody, pathos, and patriotism, and Mr. Samuel Lover may be safely trusted as a guide and collector among their embarras de richesses. The present volume is handsomely bound and well printed, with numerous illustration'. It is a de lightful volume for all who prize the simple and natural ballad, the spirit-stirring marti d strain, or the humorous and laughter-moving songs for which Ireland has always been censplcuous. One who is himself not unknown in a path wh"olt so many of till great and gifted have trod before him is the fitting editor for this collection. Some of them do honour to writers of our own day, some trace back their origin till the authorship is for gotten, many more are from the pens of poets of a past generation, but their lyrics remain to us un changed. Iu the words of the beautiful poem, en titled "Songs of Our Land," with which the volume concludes,— " The bards may go down to the place of their slumbers, The lyre of the charmer be hushed in the grave ; But far in the future the power of their numbers Shall kindle the hearts of the faithful and brave." Bothisell : a Poem. By W. E. Aytoun, author of "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers." Third edition, revised. Blackwood. We have before criticised this poem at length, and therefore have only to say that it published in a commodious fortn, revised and corrected by the author. Talcs. By Professor Wilson. Bla•Aiwood and Sons. This is the eleventh volume of the excellent series of the works of Professor Wilson which Messrs. Blackwood are now issuing, eiited by Professor Ferrier, his son-in-law. The beautiful tiles in this volume are well known to English as well as Scottish readers, and have delighted both. Many will glad of the present opportunity of securing them in a complete and connected form. The next and concluding volume •f the series will contain the poetical works of Professor Wilson, affording another evidence of the versatility of his powers. Uncle Jack the Fault Killer. Willie's Birthday, and How he Enjoyed it. Willis's Rest; a Sunday Story. By the author of " Round the Fire," sic. Smith and Elder. These are three charming little stories for very young eopie a r r ed e a a 7 r r e s, ad b a already much muc w h r i i n te d r eb t t e ed i . vho i m he s y u a cl r i e l c i l t e te a l r p laid simple and within the comprehension of chil dren, while they contrive to convey indirectly a good deal of information, and to impress ideas on the mind in a new and striking way. They are valuable contributions to the juvenile library, suited for an earlier age than most story bookr, and being prettily bound and illustrated and in large clear type, they offer great attractions for birthdays and festivals. TheArt.T of Journal. The three large plates present number consist of the Spanish Letter Writer, by J. Phillip; Kilchurn Castle, by G. 11. Fripp, both in the Royal Collection at Osborne ; and Tho Wounded at Scutari, a beautiful engraving, from the sculpture, by J. Phyffers. The small woodouti and illustra tions scattered throughout the work are numerous, and occasionally very pleasing. The second paper on Paul Veronese opens the number, and there are many subjects of artistic interest treated of in its contents. The Book of the Thames, by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, is continued ; and there are papers on Art in Scotland, in the Provinces, and in Con tinental States ; on the Tombs of En;lish Artists, Botany adapted to Art, Colours obt +hied from the Animal Kingdom, &c. The thirty-third number of the series of papers on British Artists is de voted to J. F. Lewis, from whose works several illustrations are given. A CHILD ATTACKED BY A FEEKET.—On Friday last, at Redditch, a woman, named Aston, who was entrusted with the care of a child a few months old, locked up her house and went out, leaving the child in bed in au up• stairs room, and a ferret loose in a room on the ground floor. During her absence the neighbours, hearing the erdid crying, burst open the door, And on gu ttin l' air u f stairs they found that the ferret had ascended.the s , ado ttacz apon the and then mounted the bed, and na 'aelpless infant. It was in a sad state — . , commenced ud the ferret kaa an b a oth sides of the lace being eaten away, upon the head. ...new,it is supposed, defended Can be expected„ severely. It is going , IVotrerheompeon Chronicle. itself as well as it c o u ld, for ch ild, f a o s r wtehiel as s rin c s are both bitten all all 100 ,100 18 20 LOO LOO 2s6d 108 St. 20 WO 100 20 all all all all 64 3 25 St. 5 St. St. 20 St. St. 6 6 1 St. St. St. St. 5 10 100 100 100 100 100 26i1 20 . St. St.! 12i 1 12i St. 12i 12 12t all 1 all ' 00 1 1 1100 100 100 3i 100 12, 1 2 1 25 20 St. St. Si' St. St. St. 25 10 L 0.6 100 100 100 100 100 all all St. St. St. St. 100 100 all 100 all ,100 'lOO 54 97 ii