The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-28 00:00:00

L. a child, left eo ;ed forest by be st mortals until ing that time she e worthy to sue waters, Being' fight her hone' her eighteenth Lved the dange r Ind please WY ;e in the fisher' e stranger, f ell, its, on knowill ne, but allaye d uld the knigh t estroy him. In passion. Th e ath she became mortality. The the passion et trothed to hitu , im a sad adieu' end finding hin t gave him th e weakness, a nd igst the Spirit s very romantic esented on the at of the Wate r of Pantomime ;aver it accord tissue of dro ll transformat ion en reclining ° II eping over the eys the - Tar a talda. Corali e Lressing ther e ,' d g ment which ly into Colton' 'a special pro' Ltch over these irthly peregri - unturned t° is charged t 0 ies ; and th e els, after the mages, is els° same laudable in the harly again appear s that Undine's s h e ma y hope Xing beneath Id; viewed ibdued. with me, [r. Frederick other artists, t." The sew Hut on the view of wad anted forest► branches and the fantastic t view of the T Nymphs,' mtiful shell* , may be • and artistic uous. The t translueen Le of those their charms dessly Nos their leaves aped. Then never was bi ream." The and fanciful clause, which he received ►tors, whose If splendour. ent, and hag es, and prae' ascription 01 I at the foil) 3 craze; the duet with a and there is qr. Arthur ght. Herr on, and fills ness is occa ellent land' Bay and an There is )n of Queen i a magnifi" linaugura- ter. Such d long acl ences have igent ; and of his pa d his neW The sub ', being no shape by tr and the terials for ever have roue as in The piece G , reek leading V engaged e entry of estoration mon, but prisoner, I the sun onsity as moment, a Corres ner (Mr. nap to be ork, and 3s should ion Aga pensates Achilles. with his "the George), parties, against Lads the " Plea a ballet, :'wenty- Charles 9a,, but thread ;gist, in within la and • (Mrs. ponies. ;hting, om the Ls pre- s Ajax ,nsiety " ter empo- agger lector ralour all hands to be roomy and comfortable, and there can be 'Ale doubt but that, when all the arrangements are made, t le new Adeiphi will be one of the most convenient places of amusement in the metropolis. The performance commenced with an amusing little I jecs called "A Photographic Soir6e," in which the prin cipal parts were sustained with characteristic humour by I.lr. B. Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole, and Miss Woolgar. The new act drop, designed by Mr. Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., and painted by Mr. W. Telbin, then descended, and the National Anthem" was performed with excellent effect. At the conclusion Mrs. Alfred Mellon stepped forward, and delivered the following introductory address, written by Mr. Shirley Brooks : ‘"Tis an old custom which, for custom's sake, You will forgive us that we do not break— The brief address, that from the olden times, With courteous homage and decorous rhymes, Has marked an opening night. Time quickly flies, While Stanfield's magic pencil charms one's eyes. Now Christmas bells speak out with gladdening chime, And every thought is fixed on pantomime— Permit me, while this veil our picture screens, T wo words about two transformation scenes. Here, where I stand, so London legends tell, Dwelt old King Rowley's saucy favourite, Nell, The least unworthy of the graceless graces Who ruled by virtue—well--by right of faces. Itecal those days, by facile memory beckoned— "We live again beneath King Charles the Second. What is the picture ? See, with sword in hand, Three drunken nobles scour along the Strand. There, in Rose-alley, on the pavement bleeds A poet who denounced a peer's misdeeds. Yonder's Whitehall—asylum and resort Of coarser rogues than ever formed a court ; While such divinity doth hedge a king— Tis a low hedge, inviting treason's spring. But hark I—misfortune bath new gifts in store, The Dutchman's cannon on our river roar ; And what cares England that those Dutch advance, ICnowing . the Merry Monarch sold to France ? What was our dfama then ? One scarce dares name That vile addition to a nation's shame. Enough to say, the desecrated stage Mirrored 'too well the baseness of the age. " One traniformation scene. With all its scene, Vanish the age of saucy Mistress Gwyn ; And the next change in our dissolving view, Presents your own far happier times—and you. A Queen, God bless her I and bless those, we pray, Nearest her heart, at home or far away I A Queen beside whose throne no traitor creeps, No courtier fawns, no ruined subject weeps. Her father's blazon waves that throne above; Its deep foundations are her people's love. If aught of despot in her sway bath part,. 'Tis in the hold she lays on every heart, Proudly her banner glitters in the day, Wher(England's cannon sweep her foes away ; More proudly when its folds, protecting, wave O'er the sad exile, or the ransomed slave. " The actor fearlessly before you stands, And asks a generous justice at your hands. The stage has shared the change, and boldly claims Your warm approval of its ends and aims. We preach no moral, but our pictures teach Morals that lie, at times, too deep for speech, While the light lesson of the laughing hour May, when the laugh has passed, retain its power. These are the twins that owe the drama bir th— A noble sorrow—and a harmless mirth. "We too—the house in which you sit, I mean.. Have 'had our private transformation scene. The dear, old, pleasant, inconvenient nest, Where, for so long, we tried to do our best For you, and for the drama—that has fled; We humbly offer you this house instead. And if the earnest effort he has made Please yon, - our manager is well repaid. But that his anxious mind be fully eased, Come'every night and tell him you are pleased. There's many a face behind our curtain here, Waiting the greeting which we hold so dear— Faces of those who shared our last campaign, Of some who left us, and return again. And some new faces in our ranks you'll view, Whose owners hope to be your favourites too. All bid you welcome to our new abode ; AlI ask the kindness in old days you showed, And none more earnestly than she who bends Before you, welcoming her dear old friends." It is almost needless to record that the address was heartily responded to by an audience willing to respond to the exertion.s"of the worthy Manager. The farce of " Good for Nothing" followed, with Mr. Toole as John Dibbs and Miss Woolgar as Nan. Mr. Toole is a valuable addition to the talented company which Itr• Webster has collected with so much discrimination for the public amusement.. The Pantomime, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, is entitled "Mother Red Cap ; or, Harlequin and Johnny Gilpin's Ride to Edmonton." Mr. Hildebrand was Harlequin, and Miss Jenny Hayman most graceful and elegltnt as Colum bble- The pantomime is but of average merit; but without dtvelling upon it in detail, it is sufficient to record our meed o f . approbation at the important improvements which have ) ,_ ° ean adopted in this establi s hment, many of which our ..,,, 4411 ited space prevents us from noticing at present. 'v a, therefore, content ourselves with observing that, beyond a doubt, this theatre is one of the most convenient and handsomest.places of amusement in London, and we I b 3 Pe that the enterprise and outlay of Mr. Webster upon i t Will not be unrequited by the public. OLYMPIC. The Christmas burlesque here is entitled " Mazeppa." T he name indicates nearly enough of the story of the extra -I;a4tranza, a version or perversion of Lord Byron's poem. a ir. Robson is, of course, the hero of the tale. The trans f°rraation in the concluding scene is very gorgeous, and the 13 ieee winds up brilliantly. Mr. H. J. Byron is the author, and his fertility in puns is certainly immense—the burlesque 18 thickly sown with them. Some are audacious, and some made the audience wince a little ; but others were clever en ough to redeem their weaker brethren ; and the dresses 411 4 scenery were unexceptionable. PRINCE SS' S. • It has been an immemorial custom to preface the riotous 1411 of pantomime with some gloomy history, some tale of Mt and punishment, laying down a good solid foundation of practical ethics, occasionally enforced by an impressive tallows scene, as with " George Barnwell," as a prepare tire to the very , wild morals of clown and pantaloon. In this, as in many other instances, Mr. Kean scorns routine, laid leads up to his pantomime with the " Jealous Wife," tearlessly confident that the tiffs of Mr. and Mrs. Oakley *ji b 1 Only prepare the way for the more practical jealousy of marlequi n and Columbine. The pantomime for this year le entitled " The King of the Castle ; or, Harlequin Prince bialzond and the Princess Brighteyes," and is due to the 1/e ll and inventive genius of Mr. Alfred Crowquill. The plot of the introduction owes no debt to any tale of the ureery or schooliroom, but bears a strong family resem "'lance to all in turn. We shall not attempt to describe in cidents which are as exciting as they are difficult to bring thin the usual compass of rational experience. The klug of the Castle, who rejoiCes in the name of Holufrom !°erythingheim, and is played by Mr. Saker, possesses a da ughter, the Princess Brighteyes, whom he wishes to marry, ; titer the fashion of all such potentates, to an elderly, but wealthy, party. The Prince of Diamonds, however, is ItB ei t 8 e by a variety of supernatural beings, the most pro 'loent among which is Jack Frost, who exercises his power °rel. the King to Such effect that ho gives his consent to the e8 1 ) ° 1 1sal of his datighter and the Prince of Diamonds. The 14t rigue is certainly not of the most complicated kind; ne vertheless, we should be sorry to pledge ourselves to the e9 ,rroetness of the version we have given. The happy con clusion to which we have referred being arrived at, a grand s cene occurs entitled the " Palace of Jewels," which pre es th e way f or th e appearance o f Cl own , H ar l e q u in, . t- attaloon, and Columbine, which parts aro assumed re spectively by Messrs. Huline, Cormack, Paulo, and Miss ,oline Ad ams . Th e h ar l equ i na d e i s o f th e usu al degree 0 ` merit, and exhibits the ordinary number of tricks, • • al con veying satirical hits at the follies of the day. Crinoline is of course a prominent subject of allusion. and a full-sized and is brought on the stage by Clown and Pantaloon, t"'id converted into all sorts of uses by them. After travel at from the city, where the Lord Mayor's show is held up ridicule, and then taking a trip to the sands at Margate, V l ore all sorts of ga m bol s a re performed by Master James I llioe clown junior, a,loyal tableau in the good old legiti bs_4te style, representing Neptune and Britannia surrounded _Y the W oo d en wa ll s o f Old E ng l an d, c l oses th e p an t om i m e 81:tlidet cheers of enthusiasm. STRAND. %. I.ll e Christmas entertainment here is from the pen of ▪ p -88113 . Halliday and Lawrence, and is entitled " Alotor, Ye Queene, Ye Earl, and Ye Maydenne," the Alot of which is founded on Sir Walter Scott's well-known liciv 'el• The incidents of the tale are pretty generally un tlerstood—the scene between the Earl of Leicester (Miss c Wa rlherough) and Amy Robsart (Miss M. Oliver) at 4ranor rlace ; Queen Elizabeth's (Mrs. Selby) meeting Z i th the t wo r i va l ear l s a t G r e enw ich ; th e gran d fete at g ehi lworth ; the appearance of Amy Robsart b e f ore the ~,,,1 1, e gh ; Varney's plot, charging Amy with being mad, and . t ing her away for the purpose of destroying the evidence Mau master's villany by a foul murder—these are the 48 es of the burlesque. The piece, however, does not end 1. t he manner described in the more sober account of the t re at novelist. A m y' s f ee t, we are told, entered the trap ; 14, happening to wear c r i n oline of a somewhat extraordi -41.4_1"Y size, she was prevented from falling into the snare and hfe was saved. Laraboume and Amy successively fight t int 'Varney, who is vanqui s hed by the fair swordswoman. lt lniately the maiden Queen joined Leicester and Amy in 1 44 ,riaire, and then came the grand denouement, represent -01 the eras of Elizabeth, Anne, and Victoria in the Court 10 ,?e,rps• This was certainly a dazzling spectacle; and_ one e e 4; considering the si z e of the house, could hardly be 0 4-`l ,.. r paseed at any theatre in London. The whole of the to• lahacters were excee di ng l y we ll susta i ne d . Mi ss M. Wil- as Sir Walter Raleigh, and Miss C. Saunders, as Tres won showers of applause ; while Miss Swanborough ito t • r i l eti the house by s t orm . A d ec id e d succ ess was • e ved; there was no hitch is the arrangements, and it b l augured well for a good "run" and a profit ' thing the management. SADLER'S WELLS. G T he entertainments provided by Messrs. Phelps and d reen wood for their Christmas friends an d th e public at f avourite place of resort were " The Lady of Lyons" c7 a a grand comic pantomime, entitled " Harlequin and I zaak Walton ; or, Tom Moore of Fleet-street, the -4 ' e t Trout, and the Seven Sisters of Tottenham," The A, title of the piece indicate the nature of the story. The Palace of Pearl in the Realms of Crystal, where the trans formations take place, and the ugly. Brobdignagian masker become the agile Harlequin (Mr. C. Fenton) and Colum bine (Miss C. Parkes), the senile pantaloon (Mr. Naylor), and thievish clown (Mr. Nicolo Deulin), who highly de lighted their holiday audience by their tricks and gambols., We cannot speak too highly of the scenery, much of which is by Mr. C. S. James, a young artist of great promise. The Palace of Pearls would, for gorgeousness and taste, bear comparison with some of the best displays of Madame Vestris herself; and the dances were really excellent, both for their picturesque grouping and the skill with which they were performed. We doubt not that " Old Izaak Walton" will have as many admirers on the banks of the New River as he has ever had by the side of streams where lovers of the rod and line contemplate and angle. SURREY. Order and good humour marked the commencement of the truly magnificent pantomime, bearing the title of "Har lequin Father Thames and the River Queen ; or, ye Lorde Mayore of London." The opening scene was formed by the fitting up of the proscenium so .as to repre sent " Waterloo Bridge on the Surrey side," while through the arch might be seen Charing-cross Suspension Bridge, the Palace at Westminster, -&c. Here Father Thames, most ably delineated by Mr. E. Marshall, bearing a sort of trident impaling a specimen of the feline species, evidently a victim to asphyxia, assembles his parliament, consisting of the allegories bearing the names of Fleet Ditch, City Sewer, Strand Sewer, Miasma, Diphtheria, Typhus Fever, &c. ; as also Chelsea New Bridge (a smart fellow), Blackfriars Bridge (a cripple friar), Westminster Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Puddle Dock, &c. Sanita, admir ably portraired by Miss Cuthbert, appears and signifies her intention to purify the Thames. This scene is succeeded by one of a truly gorgeous and brilliant description, termed the Crystal Home of the River Queen, which elicited re peated bursts of applause, and calls for Mr. Shepherd (one of the spirited lessees), who duly answered the call, and received the general congratulations of the audience. In this splendid scene a grand ballet of water nymphs by Mademoiselle Rosine (the Columbine) took place, exhibiting magnificent specimens of the Terpsichorean art, the beauti ful classic groupings by M. Chapino having a most pleasing and brilliant effect, which at its conclusion was received with loud and reiterated plaudits. In the performance there were some admirable hits and tricks :having reference to Louis Lapoleon, the Weeclon Inquiry, the Adulterated Lozenges, &c. The performances of Mr. W. Buck, the well-known Clown, Mr. A. Tapping as Harlequin, Mdlle. Rosine as Columbine, and Mr. W. Bradbury as Pantaloon. The pantomime reflects the utmost credit upon the spirited I lessees. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. This favourite place of amusement last night was densely thronged by pleasure seekers. The pantomime is entitled " Harlequin Baron Munchausen, and his Comical Cream Cob Cruizer ; or, the Queen of the Fairy Steeds' Haunt." We shall not follow the Baron through the whole of his adventures with his gallant charger, but confine ourselves to general remarks. The principal scenes in the opening of the pantomime are the Song Bird's Retreat, where Aurora, the Goddess of Morning, consults with Daybreak, when a bevy of fairies make their appearance mounted on creams, palfreys, and fairy ponies, forming a cavalcade of beauty. The grand transformation scene, the Golden Birds' Home, the Fairy Steeds' Haunt on the Island of Gems, and Regions of Fancy, were most beautifully got up, and gained renewed rounds of applause. The harlequinade was most ably supported. Mr. Hemmings (Harlequin), Miss Julia Weston . (Columbine), Herr Cole (Pantaloon), Messes. Thorne, Holloway, and Agussi, and Mr. H. Forrest (Clown). The jokes embraced many leading topics and follies, crinoline as well as peg-top trousers coming in for a full share. There can be no doubt that " Harlequin Baron Munchausen" will hold its own against its rivals ; and it is to be hoped repay the enterprising lessee, if last night is to be taken as a test for exertions as a caterer for the amuse • mcnt of the public. MARYLEBONE. The pantomime here is entitled " Goody Goose ; or, Harlequin Goodheart and the Good Boy who helped the Old Woman Home from Market," for the opening of which Mr. Haslewood is answerable, Mr. Nelson Lee claimirg the paternity of the comic scenes. To run through the adven tures of Mr. Goodheart, who is the hero of the opening, would occupy more space than we can afford. The dia logue was sparkling, the comic scenes fresh. The scenery, by Mr. Fenton, of the Haymarket, was really splendid, and the transformation scene, gorgeous with gold and beauty, put one in mind of the scene in Planche's " Court Beauties," when the beauties were framed ; but here they all repre sented Ceres, and tinsel and coloured fire added to their charms. Mr. Cave may congratulate himself upon his success. GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD. The performances here commenced with a pantomime, entitled " Queen Anne's Farthing and the Three King doms of Copper, Silver, and Gold; or, Harlequin Old King Counterfeit and the Good Fairy of the Magic Mint;" but, as is usually the case on Boxing-night, not a word could be heard. The scenery, under the management of Messrs. Gilks, Qui . * and Irwin, was most beautiful, particularly the transformation scene, which was superb. It represented a crystal fountain, surmounted by a canopy sparkling with crystals and brilliants, and supported by naiads clothed in silver, and under it reclined the Fairy King (Miss Adelaide Downing), who performed the part remark ably well. In the basin under the fountain rose another row of naiads covered with silver, and the light thrown upon the silver glittered with great splendour, and the revolving stars, lighted by fireworks on either side, added materially to the effect of the imposing scene. As usual, " Tippetty Witchet" was sung by the Clown, who, on being called on for " Hot Codlins," danced the sailor's hornpipe. The various tricks and transformations were well managed, and the cuts at the crinoline were well received. The whole was concluded by a drama entitled the " Sol dier's Wife, which, as usual, was not heard, but seen and applauded." CITY •OF LONDON. The pantomime, which was entitled "King Comet, and Prince Quicksilver ; or, Harlequin All the World and his Wife," contained the usual amount of pantomimic none sense ; but the various transformations introduced were very good,-and the scenery throughout was beautiful. The best scene in the whole piece was what is termed "the transformation scene," where Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon are introduced in propria persona. The new and beautiful scenery by Mr. Beaumont is highly creditable to him, and the machinery was worked with ad mirable accuracy, and the effect of the whole was greatly increased by the application of Hughes's electric light. The performance succeeded in all respects, and was highly applauded by the audience. NEW ROYAL PAVILION. Mr. John Douglass was rewarded last night by an over flowing house. The pantomime, entitled " Handy Pandy Sugar and Candy, Which Hand will you have ? or, Har lequin Orpheus and the Magic Lute." The following is a brief outline of the plot, written by Mr. Dolphin. The first scene represents the Giant Mountain by moonlight, with the Shepherd Gurty sleeping, who is after wards punished for his somniferousness by the dame Kal zam. Orpheus then arrives with his magic lute, and play ing anair, the very trees express their delight by means of their bark, and waft him to the Rose-entwined Palace and Terraces, in the City of Light. Orpheus informs the Fairy Queen that King Snob bewails the loss of his son and heir. The Queen expresses her willingness to help him, but can not do so, he being protected by a second self, and in the power of the Demon Hag. Orpheus starts to rescue the lest one, first encouraged by a grand ballet pf the Fairy Roses in the World of Fancy. Then we come to the cot tage of the dame, where Christabel is mourning for her lost love. Heralds here proclaim a description of the lost prince who turns out to be the sleepy shepherd, Gurty. The Hag and Demons appear to thwart the search for the prince, but in turn are thwarted by the lute of Orpheus. The Hag spares the life of Gurty upon condition that he selects his future fate from the Giant's hand. He consents—" Which hand shall I have ?" His choice is made up, and he draws his second self, who appears by his side, " like twin sun flowers on one stem ;" and here follows some business of a peculiar nature, in which, whatever Gurty does in action, voice, and manner, is also done by the other. Harlequin, Mr. Ashate ; Columbine, Madame Pauline ; Clowns, Messrs. Chappell and hndershon ; Pantaloons, Mr. J. Matthews and Mr. J. Smith ; Spright, Signor Sylvani. A number of comic scenes are then introduced. The whole of the pantomim' ists deserve credit for their united efforts in securing the success of the entertainment, which reflects great credit upon the management. ALHAMBRA PALACE. Messrs. Howes and Cushing, from being mere flying visitors, seem to have become regular dwellers in the land, and the American enterprise and industry are fast making the Leicester-square circus the chief place of its kind in London for equestrianperformanees. We have before had to notice and praise the very excellent plan upon which this place is conducted, and though, owing to its extreme popu larity, the crowd was rather great yesterday, yet the same good system provided for all comers with out any inconvenience beyond that which the great number of applicants for admission rendered unavoidable. One of the:great attractions of the day was the introduction of a no less celebrated quadruped than Cruizer himself, who was walked about by his great subduer, Mr. Rarey. If anything was necessary to prove Mr. Rarey' to complete com mand over horses, the quiet aspect of this once most fero cious brute, now tame and docile as a little pony, would at once have demonstrated it. There was a very droll panto mime performed in the circus, in the course of which some astounding feats of horsemanship elicited repeated bursts of applause.• The clown of the circus is as great a marvel as any member of the company, and his drolleries show that our Yankee cousins have even a better notion than ourselves of amlisi4g 1 2uffooueries.. Throughout•the per formances were of the most spirited and amusing kind, and This splendid sale was very fully attended lrst night, and those who preferred tho attractions of the ball-room to those of the over-crowded theatre, appeared to enjoy themselves to the highest degree. The selection of music was excellent, and dancing was kept u p w ith u n a b a t e d spirit until nearly midnight, when the devotees of Terpsi choro retired to their homes evidently delighted with the pleasures of which they had partaken. The arrangements of the spirited proprietor for his Christmas visitors were capital. Everything went as merry as a wedding bell. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1858. they bid fair to become one of the standard attractions of the holiday folks this season. WYLD'S GREAT GLOBE. Whenever pleasure-seekers are about, this most instruc tive place of amusement is sure of being extensively patronised, and, as a matter of course, it was crowded yes terday. So varied and extensive have the dioramas here now become, that the visitor may fairly reckon, when he once enters the building, on making pictorial acquaintance with half the civilized places of the world ere the entertainment is concluded. There are museums, lectures, wax-works, minerals, expositions, and panoramas innumerable. Th a t , old stock favourite, the diorama of China, has been im proved and added to. Hong Kong and Canton are now pretty nearly as well known as Cheapside, and the visitor, therefore, is further taken on from Amoy to Chusan, and Shanghai, and so on up the Gulf of Pechele to Peiho and Pekin itself. These, however, are not the only novelties ; even. Japan has been laid bare to curious eyes, and the streets, houses, and cities of the most jealously exclu sive people on the face of the earth are here all faithfully portrayed to London holiday seekers. The view of Nan gasaki, the capital of Japan, if we may so call that city, is an exceedingly good one, and gives a fair glimpse of the street life of that curious nation. The diorama of what we I hope we may now term tke late seat of war in Upper India is still in great force, and a long series of 42 tableaux gives the visitor a vivid notion of this turbulent portion of our empire from Calcutta to Benares, and thence on to Agra and its noble Hall of Audience. Taken from beginning to end, the whole of the entertainments proffered at the Great Globe are of the most interesting kind, and, while they in terest from their variety and beautiful pictorial effects, are as instructive as they are really entertaining. It would be difficult to name another place of its kind where so much can be seen and learnt for so reasonable a fee for admission. society, and he would appeal to all before him to say in what way they could mom beneficially use any turplus means with which Providence had blessed them than to bestow these means on such an admirable charity. The worthy alderman con cluded by reading a letter from the Lord Mayor, expressing his deep regret that continued illness prevented him from attending to advocate the in terests of the charity, expressing his deep interest in its prosperity, and enclosing a cheque for £lO 10s. in aid of its funds. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. In the course of the evening the healths of the founders and the various officers of the institution were proposed and duly honoured. The subscriptions announced, including many from leading firms, amounted to upwards of £6OO. 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West Riding Union i -- 20 Do. Southport L 1.6.3 London and Blackwall all 5 1 64 1.6.3 Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh 44 itock Lon.,Brigliton kS.Coast 100 112 f 1134 Stock London & North Westn 100 954 854 95; 4 124 Do. Eighths itock London& South-Westn lOO 95 5 95 4 9 4 4 25 L'derry & Coleraine 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 'Stock Man., Shef., & Lincoln lOO 384 394 10 Metropolitan itock Midland lOO 103 1034 1034 4 1 tock Do. Birming. & Derby lOO 74 76 50 Mid. Gt. West.(lreland) . all 25 Do. 4 Shares all 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all 25 New., Aber., & Herefd all 114 124 .10 Newry & Armagh (def.' 9 20 Newry, Warpt., & Roe all itock Norfolk lOO 65 67 50 North. Counties Union 34 4 3 d tock North British lOO 584 69 59 tock Nor.Dev.RaillkDk. Stk lOO tock Do.A Stk.— Arec.no div until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 tock Do. B Stock tock North-Eastn.—Berwick 100 94 1141 944 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1613 4 4 4 d ti tock Do. Leeds lOO 4 84 484 481 tock Do. York lOO 77 774 77 i 4 tock North London lOO 102 101 10 N. &S.Westn., Hampstd and City Junction £3 Is. 20 North Staffordshire 174 44 4 d 131 20 North-Western 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 74 84 took Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver lOO 30 32 10 Peebles all 20 Portsmouth l9 7 5 d 10 Rhymney lO Lock Scottish Central lOO 111 113 Lock Scoth. N.E., Aber. Stock 100 28 284 c.elc Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 84 86 ock Shropshire Union lOO 45 47 10 Slain:bourne & Sheer all 4 2 d bock South Devon lOO 3 7 35 bock South-Eastern lOO 744 74 175 Lock South Wales 20 SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun all 13 15 20 Do. do lB 20 Staines, Wok., & Wek all 9 11 25 Stockton & Darlington all 33 34 25 Do. do. 1854 224 :5 Do. do. 1855 7 Stockton & Hartlepool 164 ockl Taff Vale lOO ock Do. Preference, No. 1 b 5 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 ock Vale of Neath lOO 90 95 ock Waterford & Kilkenny 100 ,0 Waterford & Limerick all '0 West Cornwall O W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal all 5 Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B all 3 34 5 Do. B all Of at O West London O Do. Ist Class O Do. 2d Class - FRT,7 'EREN , Share! Railways. Paid. Closing Price. liminess Done. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. As may be imagined, the entertainments here were adapted to holiday visitors, and, independently of the many attractions to be found here daily, science was to be found made easy. Not only were the wonders of the oxyhydrogen microscope displayed, but Mr. E. V. Gardner explained the various specimens of food and their adulteration, by means of Mr. Twining's specimens from the museum of domestic economy. Mr. Gardner likewise drew a nume rous and attentive auditory, whilst he explained the various principles of natural magic, and showed' that many of the experiments were simply performed by de ceiving the sight, the observation being taken off at the same time by attraction and by rapidity of remarks, which took away the attention of the spectator. At the same time, many of the so-called legerdemain tricks were per formed by means of chemical appliances. From Mr. Gardner's explanation we shall be afraid that at many Christmas parties our young friends will be disposed to sell the wizard, saying, "I know how to do it." BURFORD'S PANORAMA. Delhi, Lucknow, and other scenes rendered notorious by the recent events in India, still continue sufficiently attrac tive to warrant the proprietor in delaying to produce any novelty, but that is no matter of surprise when we remem• bar how well and with what apparent truthfulness all Mr. Burford's panoramas are rendered. Indeed, no visitor from the country considers he has seen London until he has been to the panorama in Leicester-square. CANTERBURY HALL. The Canterbury. Hall last night successfully vindicated its claims to popular favour, notwithstanding the many attractions provided elsewhere. This is pre-eminently the place to visit at a season of general festivity, for people meet each other face to face, and the whole aspect of the scene is more social than the theatre. The spacious area of the music -hall, ante-hall, and fine-arts gallery was completely filled soon after the opening of the doors, and a goodly proportion of the visitors sought the attractions of the picture gallery until the time when the musical part of the feast got into full play. An etnbarras de richesses awaited the audience, for to vocalisation has recently been added instrumentation of a character which would reflect credit upon the very best performance at the Hanover-square Rooms. We allude particularly to the celebrated " Sauvlet Family," from Amsterdam. Their talent, which we have already acknowledged in a previous notice, is of a conspicuous character, and is rapidly making its way with the lovers of sterling music artistically per formed. A burst of applause followed the performance of their first piece, and the audience were most exacting in their encores. Mr. E. W. Mackney convulsed the audience with some of his nigger eccentricities and his collaborateur, Mr. J. G. Forde, introduced his peculiar by-play with effect into the class of comic songs in which he shines. The whole entertainment, musical and pictorial, gave unlimited satisfaction—the result of Mr. Morton's discriminating enterprise. Mr. F. Jonghmans continues ably to direct the musical portion of the entertainment, We are promised by him a selection from. Flotow's opera of " Martha," and also one froin Balfe's new opera: ARGYLL ROOMS. THE NIGGERS. At the present moment there are two companies of nigger melodists contending for public favour—the Coloured Opera Troupe, at the Oxford Gallery, Oxford-street, and the Ohio Minstrels, at the Adelaide Rooms, Lowther-arcade. Both companies are excellent in their way, and, it being difficult to give the pas to either, we recommend our readers to visit both. The dancing of the Ohio Minstrels is irresistibly comic. MISCELLANEOUS. The various gratuitous exhibitions, of which we gave a list yesterday morning, were all numerously attended, and many of them, such as the Pantheon Bazaar and the Lon don Crystal Palace, were literally crowded to excess. The National Gallery and the British Museum received an im mense number of vifitors. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' ORPHAN SCHOOLS. The anniversary of this most useful and admirable charity was celebrated last night at the London Tavern. Notwithstanding the temptations of the season, the assemblage of the friends of the insti tution, and the seal and enthusiasm of all present, was worthy of the best preceding festivals. The institution was founded in the year 1845, and since then has steadily progressed - in public esti mation, and specially of the class for the benefit of whose orphans or destitute children the schools were originally established. In the absence of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor whose continued in disposition prevented his attendance Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Hale took the chair, and presided with great urbanity and effect during the proceedings of the evening. The usual loyal toasts having been proposed and responded to in the usual loyal and enthusiastic manner, The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening " Prosperity to the Commercial Travellers Orphans' Schools at Pinner." In doing so, he said all who were engaged in commercial• pursuits were aware, from experience, of the vicissitudes of life and knew how soon persons in prosperous circumstances were suddenly reduced to adversity. The company all knew, too, it was impos sible that commercial transactions could be carried on - without the aid and assistance of the class of persons called commercial travellers, who traversed the country in search of orders, and this" enriched the houses represented by them, while they facilitated the general business of the country. They were a class who, from the very nature of their occupation, deprived themselves of all domestic and family comfort, and spent the greater part of their time away from those who w ere most d ear to them, their wives and children ; and hence they had the strongest claims to the sympathy and sup port of all classes engaged in the trade and com merce which made this country so great. Who could help rejoicing that an institution of this kind had been founded some 13 years ago, and had gone on flourishing ever since ? He regretted very much the absence of M r . G eorge Moore, to whom that institution was deeply in debted, but who had written a letter to show that the intense aid unswerving interest he had from the commencement taken in its prosperity was unabated, and that he was only prevented from being present by severe domestic affliction. (Hear, hear.) The company would be Flad to hear what was the actual position of the institution at pre sent. He was glad to state the expenses of last year showed a considerable diminution of the preceding year, and he concurred with Mr. George Moore in hoping that the result of this would be the addition of ten or twelve children to the number already in the schools. He confessed that the smallness of the annual subscriptions—considering, that between £3,000 and £4,000 a year was re quired—inspired him with feelings of considerable alarm, and he hoped that the number of annual sub scribers would soon be considerably increased. The chairman, in continuation (alluding to the girls and boys, to the number of 150, educated in the schools, who were present in the gallery during his speech, who afterwards passed through the room, pleasing ever y o ne by their healthy and pleasant looks), said, be was happy to say, that from the con versations he had had with the master and mis tress of the schools, that the children who were the objects of their enlightened and truly prac tical 'benevolence, would, in after days, become useful, respectable, and honourable members of A call of 2s. per share was made at the meeting of the Pendeen Consols Mining Company to-day. The market for English Securities is very dull, but previous quotations are supported. Consols being 96i buyers, speculation is almost suspended, and the attention of the members is principally directed to the settlement in Foreign Stocks and Railway Shares. The :Government broker has re sumed his purchases on Savings Banks' account. Bank Stock is marked 2241 to 225. The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are 97/ Z. India Loan Debentures are firm at 991. to 100; ditto Bonds, 14s. to 16s. prem. The March Exchequer Bills, 375. to 38s. prem. ; June ditto, 365. to 395. prem. ; and the Bonds have been dealt in at 1001 ;-1. In the Foreign Stock Market an average amount of business is recorded, but prices are generally heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents: are 921; ditto Scrip, Ist issue, 1- to 1 dis. ; ditto, to -1 dis. ; Chilian Loan has been marked 1 to .4-.prem.; Brazilian 5 per Cents.h ave receded to 1021; ditto 41 per Cents. to 944 and 951; Peruvian to 92/ ; Russian 5 per Cents. to 113, and Austrian to 831; Portuguese 3 per Cents, are firm at 484 ; Spanish Deferred at 311, and the Certificates at 61 ; Venezuelan 5 per Cents. are steady at 44; ditto Deferred at 161; Dutch 21 per Cents. are 67F; and the 4 per Cents. 101+. The transactions 'in the Railway Share Market have been limited. Prices, however, were steady. North Western, North British, and Eastern Coun ties improved ss. ; and South Western and Midland, 10s. ; Great Western and South Eastern declined ss. The foreign lines were inactive. Northern of France receded 55., and Namur and Liege improved ss. In the colonial lines a downward tendency pre vailed. Grand Trunk of Canada declined 10s. ; Great Western of Canada, ss. ; and East India, 10s. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show little variation from previous rates. English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered have declined 10s. ; Electric Telegraph improved 10s. ; and European "and American Steam, ss. ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam brought former rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97/ New 3 per Cent. Annuities /ilia Stock Ditto Debentureg Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO .. Ditto under £l,OOO . Consols for Account. 14 97 61 March 3 ime. •:xchcquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. &lid_ 37 8 36 Ditto Small, lid. ......... ... I 36 9 Exchequer Bonds, 1859,3} pet Cent PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent. ...... 1021 Ditto 1858, 4} per .......... 94-t 5 i Peruvian 4} per,Cent ...921 PorLusuese 1853, 3 per Cent. ........ 48 Russian, 1 822,. .. £ St., 5 per Cent.... 113 , ardinian ' 5 per Cent. ....... 9oi panish 3 per Cent ...... Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent .......311 Spanish Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6/ I Venezuela, 5 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent....... . 16f Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 10 Gu. £, 5 per Cent. . . ..... 83 Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2/ per Cent... 67 t Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. ........ jolt TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for Account ............ 961 7 xd DEATH OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM ROYDS.—This gallant officer, -, ,hose death has been an nounced as having occurred at Cheltenham, aged 69, en tered the army Feb. 16, 1808, and accompanied the 52d on Sir John Moore's expedition to Sweden. He subsequently served with a battalion of detachments at the passage of the Douro, and capture of Oporto, and was present at the 'action of Sebugal, battle of Fuentes d'Om-, siege and storming of . Cuid ad Rodrigo, siege and storming of Badaj oz, where he was wounded at the assault; battles of Sala manca, Vittoria, Heights of Vera, Nivelle, Nire, Orthes, Tarbes, and Toulouse, besides various minor affairs. He had received the war medal with ten clasps for his valuabl e services. LORD BROUGHAM.—The Lord Provost of Edin burgh has received the following reply to a requisition addressed to Lord Brougham by the inhabitants of Edin burgh, inviting his lordship to a public dinner after the celebration of the Burns Centenary Festival •--" Provence, December 18, 1858.—My Lord,-- have this morning had the honour of receiving your lordship's letter with the enclosed address, and I have no words which can express how deeply I have been affected by it. B elieve me, my lord, I did not read either that or your letter with dry eyes. I refer not merely to the personal kindness of my hi g hly-esteemed fellow-citizens (as the honour formerly but it is an un speakablebestowed entitles me to call the gratification to find all great community under your lordship's care approving, witho u t di st i nction of class, or party, or sect, those measures to which, to the very moderate extent of my powers, lily life has been de voted, for improving as well as preserving our institutions, raising the character of our people, and furthering generally the progress of human improvement. The sickness which has visited this family, and the uncertainty of the meeting of Parliament, at which I must of course be present, pre vent me from naming the time at which I can hope to have the happiness of meeting my friends in your city. As soon as this can be ascertained, I shall have the honour of again addressing your lordship. Believe me to be, with great respect, your faithful servant, BRotattA,m.—Right Hon. the Lord Provost." AN ECONOMICAL SLAVE. —" emsar," said a planter to his negro, "climb up that tree and thin out the branches." The negro showed no disposition to comply' ; and, upon being press e d f or a reason , answered Well, look he ah,massa ' if I go up dar an fall down an d b ro k e my neck, dat'll boatousand dollars out o' your pocket. Now, why don't you hire an Irishman to go up, and den if he falls and kills hisef, dar won't be no loss to nobody ?" GUN ACCIDENT.—A shocking and fatal accident has just occurred at the house of a lady in Llangollen. Two young men, named George Barrett and Henry Brawl, were painting the greenhouse, and they went to the saddle-room to eat theirdinners, after partaking of which, the latter per son took hold of a gun, which had been lying loaded about the place for some time, and while he was examining it and •showing his companion how they used such things in the militia, it went off and shot him in the mouth, causing in stant death,--Carnarvan Herald. Blythe and Tyne IC per c. pref. (Issued at £5O) Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 44 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Chester & llolyhd, 54 pc ' • Do. do. 5 p. et. Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc : Do. do. Class B 6 pc Do. do. Class C 7 pc ; I E. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l :IDo. do N 0.2 :I De. New G per et. Stock : Eastern Union, 4 per ct. East Lane. 6 per ct E.& W. York. Jen. firths Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares Ed in. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. ;I Furness, 5 per cent Glas. &S West. ..r a. spc Great Northern, 5 p. ct Do. 5 pc Redm.,lop.c.pm Do. 44 p. c. do. do. I Do.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm t. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pt , ( G W (Ireland) 4 1 p. ct. pref. Stock '.rest West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct Do. Redeemable, 44 p ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p. ot. Itedeem.Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf shares Do do. 5 p. ct. pref Do firming. guar. stock Do. Chesterguar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon. &Brig.spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. C. ...No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. ct. Do. do. 5p c. No. 4 Lon.& N. W.Cov. &Nun eaton, 5 p. et. Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares Londondy & Cole, 4 shs ,Londondy.& Ennis sh & Lin., 6 p. ct Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. i naryport tc Car., 4 p.c IDo. 4 per cent... Do. Mid. Con. fi p. c. Stock . Do.Con.Bris. Bir.6 p.ct. Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1850 Do. Leic. & If. i t.pref. It. Newport,Aber. &c. pref.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet, op. c. with option till 1800 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c.sh a res Do. 5 p. c. Ext.Stock,lB4P Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way.Val.Ex.Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, . - rua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Raillz Dok.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 0 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1840 Po. York, IT. & S. Purch North Staffordshire Ox. *yr. & %Vol. ape. Ist g Do. do. do.. 24 gua. Do. 44 p.c. Db. stk. in perp Scottish Central, new . pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb - - Do. 34 per c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen.gua : 6 pc. • Do. 7 p. c. pref . stock. South Devon, Ann. 108. Do. Fixed 44 percent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 6 ) Do .44 per cent Do. Fixed 14 P.C. Ist is Do. New do., 2d issue South Wales, gua. 4 p.c Do. 41 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua Stockton and Dar. 5 P.C Do. 6 per cent Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. 1031 MONEY MARKET AND CITY NETVS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Markets for Foreign and Colonial Produce are now closed for the Christmas holidays. By private contract a limited business has been trans acted in one or two of the principal staples, but prices have exhibited little change of importance. Tea continues firm, and in sugar there is no change to report. Stocks, however, as compared with those of the same period of last year, show a considerable increase. Coffee continues firm, but rice and rum exhibit a slightly down ward tendency. In saltpetre and tallow there is little alteration, P.Y.C., on the spot, being quoted ' 50s. 9d. ; and spring delivery, 50s. 6d. to 50s. 9d. per cwt. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a mo derate business was transacted, 9,000 bales having been disposed of, at full rates. In banking circles there is still a good inquiry for discount accommodation, but as soon as the en gagements now arriving at maturity shall have been completed, renewed easiness and quietude may be anticipated. An extensive absorption of money always takes , place at this period, but it usually subsides during the payment of the January divi dends at the Bank of England, which augment the available supplies, and satisfy for a time the re quirements of the public. At present the rumours lately circulated with respect to contemplated foreign loans have not been confirmed, and if even- tually they should be negotiated, they are likely to be spread over a long interval, and the effect upon the money market, in that case, will perhaps not prove so detrimental as many are now inclined to imagine. There is very little business in progress in any department of trade, and during the next few days no improvement is anticipated. Transactions are restricted as much as possible, but notwith standing the prevailing quietude there is a general expectation of a decided revival of commercial activity early in the spring. Advices from distant markets strengthens this impression, and it is hoped, for the sake of the revenue, and those engaged in industrious occupations, that it will not prove fallacious. I: SHARES. 49 51 96 98 1103 105 6 6} 100 103 115 120 109 112 115 117 113 115 131 133 84 86 721 73i 113 115 122 124 112 114 106 108 64 66 10} 111 95 97 86 88 87 89 99 101 91 10} ltli 17i 10 10i 72 74 18 19 9 9i 13} 14; 143 145 120 122 163 1r)8 122 124 _„i 68' 727 142 144 104 30( 96 i 97; P Pi 91 114 111 9 10 110 112 99 100 i die p d 11) 23} 241 121 123 10(1 108 101 103 Stock Stock Stock Stoik Stock Stock , Stock' Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Bedford and Bletchley Buckinghamshire Clydesdale Junction , .1 Colchester, Stour Val: E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c. E Union,HarwichSlis. 10} 11 241 25 103 105 103 105 17 19 29 30 33 34 Do. Woodbridge ... Gis.Barr.&Neils,Drct. Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest. 43 48 Hartlpool.Delc&Rail Hull and Selby Sharei Do. 1 Shares T,ondon &Greenwich Do. Preference Lon..Tilby.&Soutend Do. Barking Shares Lowestoft. gua. 4 p. et Do. 6 per cent Manc.,Baxtn. & Matk Midsb.& Tleder, g.6p.c Mid. Brad fordPrf. Stk Newmarkt.,BuryEx ) guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent. Do. Fixed 5 per cent Preston and Wyre. Do. Shares A. Roystn.Hitch..& Shep Shfltoth.&Gol.g.sp.c. Shrowshry& Hereford South Staffordshire .. Wear Valley, g. 6 p. c. Do. do Wilts and Somerset Wi m bledon& Croydn Ln & N.W 1,11 & N. W Caledonln iE.U.kE C Gt. North. E.Counts. Caledonin Do. Gt. West Yk.N.&Dr Yk.N.Md. Do. Do. S. East Do. Peto &Co Do. Norfolk Do. LN W&M Stk.& Dar Midland . E.Counts. Do. Do. Do. L&N W 1 S L.Yk. j Do 99 100 104 106 17 10 143 145 4 q IGt.North. Lan.& Yk T Brassay M'Clean Stk.& Dar Do. Gt. West L.&Brgtnl 112 lli DOCK S. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid.l Leasing Closing Bosint . ss Co.'s. Price. Done. Docks. I Paid Stock Commercial lOO Stock Do 4 perCen t.Pref. Min lOO Stock East and West India lOO Stock London lOO Stof.k i St. Katharine lOO Stockrouthampton lOO Stock Victoria 40 D 0 New lB 111 113 65 e,'7; 1171122 , 94 9G -0 .1 *- • 99 IL 58 60 1142 144 14 13 93 95 8 9 Closing Business Price. Docks. 101 103 id }p Share all 1 100 100 100 100 100 all FOREIGN Railways. I Paid. Closing 1 Business Price. Done. [Antwerp & Rotterdam 'Ardennes 5 5} Id l ip 1 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessaa Carmeaux Mine & Rail Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France 27 28 Euphrates Valley Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs Italian June - -I) - -71 Lake Constance & Bide Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf Lyons and Geneva Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur and Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref Ottoman, g,ua. 6 per cent Paria,Lyons, and Medit. Paris and Orleans Recife& S. Fran. (Fern, gua. 7 p. ct. (Lim.) .. Riga and Dunaburg... Rome and Frascati ... Royal Danish - Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref. Sambre and Meuse Do. si per cent. Pref Southern of France West Flanders Do. 5.1 p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand 4f 41 24 25 9- ti 214 22 las 40 1 si 9} P 3 1d 351 35- 55 56 id ip 7k 8' 21 23: J 5 6 9 24 241 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share Railways. ! Paid. Closing Business Price.. Dias. Atlantic it St Lawrence Leased at 6 per cent.. nom.,Baroda&Cent.lnd' I all 9 all gu. 5 per cent Do par } p Do. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. Buffalo and Lake Huro ß n Do. New Buffalo, Brant. &Godriehl 6 p. et. bds. 1 Aug., 1872', Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 Clcutta. &S.Ea tru.Lim. Cape, Ea stn. Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Central Oude (Limited) Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c Demerara Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c Do. C Shares Do. E Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore D 0.44 p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 G eelong& 31e1.gua.5 p. c. Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canad Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B Do. 6 per cent. Pref Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New, gua.s per cent Do. do Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with spt. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. '73 without opt Do. p. do Madras, guar., 4i p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Do. 4f p. c. Extension Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c Do. Fourth do. Slelb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds Newßrunswick&Canda. Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc Class ACapitl. S h are Do. do. Land do Do. do. 13. Capital do Do. do. Land do Northof India Tramroad Limited, Scrip Oude (Limited) Scinde Do. Do. New Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. Flo. b.c St. Andrews & Q uebec Trinidad(Limited) Scrip par par ip ti Gi 15 s 14 d 18' • 82 75 ' 78 73 76 1. tp 1 lipi 10 M - p 1 161 1100 1100 100 I. 3.0. 2s. 641. 2 all 5 100 all all all ) 100 1 00 all 100 all 17 18 36 37 76 78 91 92 21f 211 101 161 4* 31 d 106 108 106 108 105 107 99 100 181 19 20 201 d I P 2 lid, 4 3d 1 IL) 21i 224. IP i 1), par i 17 par p Par IP BRITISH MINES. Closing Business Paid. Price. Done. Miami Mines. Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.10 7; 81 81 20 &Willi Iron Condurrow (Camborne) 2O 10 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 450 460 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 170 180 Great South Tolgus.., l7s 12f in —61.1 v Alfd.(Phillack) 11.14.11 21 3 G. Wheal Vor(Helston) 81 1 Lady Bertha North Frances (Illogan) 8/ 71 81 North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 3 .4 N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) nil. 7; 81 --Par Consols (St. Blaxy) 11 151 161 Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s 1 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 21 405 415 • Soi'th C. Brea( Mogan). 2 21 3 S. Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9 230 240 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 4l ; 11 10 Tin Croft 9 31 31( UnitedMines(Gwennap) - 40 — - Vale of Towey (Cam ) 12s 6d I I West Basset (Illogan) ll 22 23 W. Caradon (Liskesrd) 2O 130 140 Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5/ 210 220 Wheal Buller (Redi uth) 5 120 110 Wheal Edward (Cals.). 54 21 21 2/ Wheal Kitty (U. Lelan t 1.7.2 8 9 Wh'l Mar Ann (Herdic 8 41 46 -- Wh'l Trelawney (Liak. 41 28 30 FOREIGN MINES 20 Australian 1 800 AccordCopper,Lim lOB par I. p 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p ) 27 1 2 20 • Do.St.Johndelliey,Lim l5 131 141 5 Do. Land and 31iningC3 all 1 21 1 Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. of Jamaica — d 40 Cobra Copper al l 4O 42 Copiapo l6 10 12 1 DunMoun.Cop.Mina.Co all 11 2 Fortuna 20 General all 20 21 3 Linares all i 7 81 8 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariquita all 1 1 New Granada all 1 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.; 10 1 p 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lem. Mining and Smelt all 41 5 5 Port. Philip 1 30 Santiago de Cuba lOl 1 1 28.2.81 United Mexican all I 21 2 , COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Closing Business Share Securities. Prices. Done. • Can.Gov.6p.c..Ta. & July 100 116 117 1161 16 Do. 6p.c.Fb.&Aug. 100 113 115 Do. 6 p.c.Mr. IL Sep. 100 113 115 N.11.G0v.6p.c..Ta. &July 100 113 114 Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 100 1011 1021 Nova ScotiaGov.6 p.c. St. Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 1131 1141 - S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July 100 112 114 Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 111 113 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Share) Joint-Stock Banks. Paid. Closing Business l'rice. Done. Agra &UnitedServiceßk Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanCo British North American Chtd. Bank of India, &c City Colonial Com. Bank of Canada Commercial of London Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch Gen. Bk. of Switzerland Lon.Char.Bk.ofAustral. London and County London Joint Stock London & Westminster. Nat. Prov. of England. Do. new National Bank New South Wales Orient. Bk. Corporation Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Do.-New South Australia Do. New Union of Australia Do. New Union of London Unity Mutual Western Bk of London 27 28 2 lid fizi 63i 17 18 211 221 49 50 21 211 20 18d MISCELLANEOUS. Miscellaneous. Anglo-Mexican Mint' Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Australian Royal Mail . Berlin Water Works Do New, issued at £5 dis British American Land Brlt. & Irish Magr.Tel.A. Do. B, 7 p. c. till 1882 Do. C ... Canada Chan. Islands Tel.(Lim ) Cop.Min.otEng.&Smitg Do. Preference 7i per ct Crystal Palace. Do. Preference Eastern Steam.., Electric Telegraph Eng. & Aust. Cop.St.Co Europ. & Ind.Junct.Tel Europ.&Am.Stm.(Lim ) GLlron ScrewCol.(Lims Gen. Steam Navigation London Discount Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co bfediter. Electric Teleg. Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) National Diseount Co Netherlands Land Do do Do 8 p.c.Pref.,i ss.at N. Br. &NovaScotiaLand N.B.Australasian (Lim.) North of Europe Steam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares Peel River Land & Min Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New Red Sea & Ind. Telegr. Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austrin. Inv.(Lim ) South Australian Land: Submarine Teleg. Scrip. Do. do Registered LTr.& Ln.Co.of,Upr. Can oan Diemen's Laud_., all all 15e. all all I 3ii ratd.l Closing p rice. 'Business dons 13 14 200 280 3 4 36 1 I 2i 34 40 42 19 21 13 15 112 111 91 101 24 25 14 11 5 5 2 24 111 113 1} 1} 11 1 If t dll 6 7 I 1 cl 1 2 14 2 15 18 4 1 I 1 spar 4 3 81 83 12 13 254 - 4 q- 8 60 in [3O 140 38 4 0 113 sa . 221 2 .19 a 100 1 c 100 1 o i Sto. I Stop 20 1 2° 201 100 / 100 100 101 100 100 20.11 100 1 all all all all all all - sa. 15 all 5 5 /5 MR. BLACK, M.P., ON TRADING MO_RA_iI2'Y. A meeting in connexion with the Scottish Trade Protection Society was held in Glasgow on Wed nesday evening. Mr. Charles Cowan, M.P., pre sided ; and was supported by Mr. Black, M.P., the Lord Provost, and many of the leading inhabitants of the city. After some introductory remarks by the chair man, Mr. BLACK, M.P., delivered an address. He commenced by adverting to the calling of mer chants as having ever exerted a greater amount of influence for good or evil than any other class in the community, and to the blessings of knowledge and eivilisation, liberty and religion, as following in the train of commerce. The true merchant, he said, was but the true man illustrating a particular con dition in life. The morality which governed all other relations should equally prevail in mercantile life, and neither opportunity nor policy, nor the most temptingprospects ofgain should allow the merchant to deviate from the strict line of honesty, and the same honourable dealing should guide him whether in the sale of a yard of calico, or of an East India man. The true merchant will not try suddenly to get rich by borrowing money and engaging in hazardous gambling speculations. Suppose a man should attempt to borrow a thousand pounds in order to bet at a horse race, would any prudent man furnish him with the means, or would any upright man give him money for such a purpose ? Gamblers can borrow money only from gamblers or from fools. And if borrowing money to speculate on the chance of a rise in any commodity be not gambling, by what name shall we call it ? The principle is ,just the same, whether we stake money on the swiftness of a horse, or on the failure of a crop, or on a rise in the funds. Suppose a man should borrow money for the purpose of buying a vast quantity of sugar, and awaiting an expected rise in its price, and should, without consulting his creditors, bet the whole sum on a decrease in the next sugar crop, would not the lenders be justified in charging him with a viola tion of faith in this reckless misuse of their money. They would be scarcely a shade of difference be tween the morality of the two transactions. The only difference between the commercial gambler and the horse jockey gambler is this—the one cheats rogues like himself, the other cheats honest men ; and it is this unmanly impatience, that wil not wait for the reward of honest industry—this reckless hazarding of borrowed money—which strews all the paths of commercial life with the bleaching bones of bankruptcy, and robs the unsuspecting poor man of his small but well•earned substance. Well-directed energy and enterprise are the life of commercial progress ; but -if there is one lesson taught more plainly than another by the great failures of late, it is that safety lies in sticking to a legitimate business. No man—merchant, trader, or banker— has any moral right to be so energetic and enter prising as to take from his- legitimate business the capital which it requires to meet any emergency. The public-spirited merchant will be ready to assist in the promotion of undertakings which are likely to be generally beneficial to the community ; but even here he must be limited by prudence. When a crowd of creditors stand vainly waiting for their dues, it is little comfort to them to be told, " Well, one thing must be remembered, and that is, that the money has been widely spread to aid important enterprises." The old maxim, "Be just before you are' generous," comes up at such times with great force, and the creditor naturally asks, " What right has this house to be enter prising with my money, apart from their legitimate business ?" Apologies are sometimes made for firms who have failed by recurring to the important ex periments they have aided, and the unnumbered fields of enterprise where they have freely scattered their money. We are told that individual losses sustained by those failures will be as nothing com pared with the benefits conferred on the commu nity by their liberality in contributing to every public work. Now, a man's relations to a creditor are vastly 'different from what they are to what is called the public ; and it is no excuse for any house in their time of failure that if they have wronged individuals it has been in serving the public. Sound personal religion is the surest hosig on which mercantile character can be founded; the man whose conduct is regulated by the precepts of Christianity has already adopted the soundest principles of mercantile policy; he is taught to be diligent in business, and to avoid those snares which would involve him in excess, extravagance, self-indulgence, and ultimate ruin. The religion of the Bible will impress him with an abidini , sense of his responsibility - to his Creator, and his duty to 11:.s fellow-mcn in all his mercantile transactions. Nothing, however, can be more disgusting than to hear a tradesman making loud professions of reli gion in order to secure an advantage in the way of business, or under the cloak of superior sanctity to shirk his duty, and to overreach his neighbours. It is humiliating to hear the mercantile conduct of such men contrasted with the honourable dealings of men who make no profession of religion, but arc only remarkable for their profanity and rough out-and out, honesty . . If you wish to test the qualities of a ;man's religion, do not follow him to church, where he must put on the garment of pious observ ance, but visit him at his shop or counting-room and mark the spirit by which he is influenced in his dealings with his fellow-man. If he regard merely his own interests, and, in securing his own, invades the rights of his neighbour, it would be small un charitableness to pronounce that men no true fol lower of Him who said, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Pro fessors of religion sometimes seem to think their religion too pure a thing to be brought down into the sphere of trade; but a man's religion is not worthy the name if it be not able to stand the ordeal of his business life, if it do not accom- pang him in his daily avocations, and lead him to sacrifice lust of gain whenever it prompted him to injure his fellow-man. Mr. Black proceeded to advert to the desirableness of shortening the terms of credit both in the wholesale and retail rade, inasmuch as lengthened credits increased risks, and had a tendency to show a greater apparent gain than was actually realised. Petty expenses and bad debts were too often left out of view, and an extravagant opinion of the profits of trade was often entertained not only by the public but by traders themselves. It was of the utmost impoitance, therefore, to keep accurate books and annually to balance them. 'Alen have sometimes gone on for years :with a vague idea that they were making money, when, in fact, they were on the high-road to bankruptcy. As a commissioner of income tax he had been surprised to find so many tradesmen who could not give an account of their income because they did not keep books and made no annual balance. Perhaps they thereby thought they would evade payment of the tax to the full amount chargeable, but in some cases he should not be surprised if they outwitted them selves, and at all events the commissioners did not accept their apology, and threatened, if they did not keep regularly balanced books, to take upon themselves the risk of charging them too high. Mr. Black then referred to those traders whom he might call the highwaymen of commerce, who fol lowed a reckless, unprincipled determination to become rich by fair means, if convenient, or by. foul, if necessary. He concluded by saying that it was one of pie objects of the society to guard the honest and prudent tradesman against the risks to which he was exposed by the mismanagement of the un instructed and the thoughtless, as well as against the reckless and the vicious ; and he had reason to believe that the mercantile public had greatly bene fited by its agency. THE MAILS, &C. SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.— The steamship Behar, Capt. Field, left this day with the Bombay mail, £155,311 in specie (mostly bar silver), and 30 first-class and 10 second-class passengers, among whom were Rev. F. Rosie, Colonel and Mrs. Buchanan, Capt. Graves, Mrs. Colonel Maberly, &c. The Alhambra left this day, with the usual Peninsular mail and 14 passengers. The passengers of the steamship Bavaria, which broke down on her passage from New York, and put into Queenstown, arrived here on Saturday in the steamship Bittern. Those destined for Hamburg (64 in number) left this day in the Haramonia. GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY.—We learn with pleasure that the Ch 'isty's Minstrels, per their treasurer, "Nirnmo," of Mitche ll's, n Old Bond-street, have handed over to the Royal Infirma ry , thenl. to give up the Cit y £5 out of the £2O paid to as it was unsolicited.-01 Tuesday evening . for the Reform meeting last This liberal act is all the more credit able.....asgow Horning Journal. ANOTHER MAN KILLED AT LIVERPOOL. -011 found d da ly y in n u 6 ight n , a man , named Bartholomew Doyle, w a s m being t a k e up hissolieead s t e ps was bleeding profusely, and after i n Upper Beau-street On . being taken to a dispeniiary, where his wound was dressed, he was taken to the workhouse, where he died on Sunday. A man named Peppei, who struck the deceased with a poker on the previous evening, has been taken into custody. THE PARIS OMNIBUSES. --The following statistics respecting the omnibuses of Paris in 1857 are not without interest :--There are 25 lines in the capital, and the vehicles on them conveyed not fewer than 55,474,154 passengers. The line on which the traffic was most active was that from ' the Bastille to the Madeleine, 7,681,297 persons having been conveyed on it ; the next is the line from La Chapello to the Barrier() d'Enfer, on which 2,793,668 persons were carried. On the line from Neuilly to the Lous , re there . were 2,757,446 passengers, and on that from Les Ternes to the Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire 2,757,440. The Cha renton lino was also much frequented, and on that from the Barriere des Martyrs to the Pantheon the number of pad songers was 1,675,008. The lireetince.hich.the movement is least active is that from the Bastille to Pere La Chaise, coal/ 374,035 pei-sons having been conveyed on it. 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