The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-16 00:00:00

• • - THE SUN , LONDON , '------ FOREIGN. H. .1 1 .10.YE1 MAR.K.ET AND CITY NEWS. • SHARE MARICET.-( THIS DAY.) . 0 Closing I Busin4ss • ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. Paid. Pri • o Dce. one. ________ C. 15. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Closing Business eting in Share Railways. Paid. Price. Done. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 51 n The rates charged for discount accommodation of Par- 20 Ardennes all - - p in Lonbard-street are nosy equal to the Bank of 12.10 A inberg., Notting. Bost. 20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 3 1 d 1p , ig about and Eastern Junction 10 61 61 (4 / 5 Belgian East. Junction all 1 11 1 :he tom- England minimum, which shows that the demand 50 Belfast and Ballymena.. all - - 20 Beziers to Graisiessae all 7 8 13.14 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 74 71 5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 2 21 least an is rather active. It was generally expected that Stock Bir., Lae., and Chesil. .20 Dutch Rhenish m. Mr. , about this period the applicatiOns on commercial Junction lOO 66 ( S 6 Eastern of France ...... all 27 28 25 Blackburn - - P ntended account would be more extensive ; the inquiry 25 Blyth and. Tune.. , all 29 31 20 Great Central ot France all - - Bright, has also been stimulated by the settlements Stock Bristol and Exeter and the Stock Caledonian - - id order, at the Stock Exchange and the subserip- Stock Chester and Holyhead le --' 50 Cork and Bandon all - 20 Lake Constance &Ba all - - 20 Lierre and Turnliout... all - tion of £233,220 towards the Chilian Loan, who had 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage all - - 20 Lombardo Venetian.... 8 31 34 1 3 20 Cornwall all 41 44 20 Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf. all - - 'which was completed yesterday in a satisfactory 10 Do. A 2O Lyons and Geneva .... all 241 251 rds, said meaner. It is generally imagined that bankersf A rcves. no div. a _ _ 10 . B " til6 r""P er an ' t ( a ll - - 34 Maria Antonia all - - Do. hasbeen pd.toll. 20 Do. do. New - -_, ably few and other capitalists will now be enabled to find 50 Dublin andßelfast June. all - - 20 Namur and Liege all 9 91 reform, increased employment for their re- 25 Dun. Perth &Abr.Junc. all 7 1 8 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref all 21 22 Permanently Stock ." East Anglian 100 10 17 16 Northern of France ... . all 39 4 0 4 ~,, '9.3 held Stock Eastern Counties lOO 634 641 64 4 54 4 4 4 20 Do. New Shares - -P . 4 Of tho sources, but at the same time there is not the Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 46 48 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 81 91 slightest expectation of any recurrence of pressure Stock Do. do. B Stock 100 31 33 ... nag --he 20 Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent 7 3 ,1 d t it, even , s uch as will compel the Bank authorities hastily to 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) 81 - - 25 East Kent all 12 13 20 Paris Lyons, and Medit. all 354 3 a4 20 Paris and Orleans ...... all 55 56 for him. remove their measure of relaxation which has lately Stock East Lancashire lOO 95 96 96} 20 East Suffolk all - - 20 c Recife& S. Fran. (Fern.) ) 9 i 1 9 ( gua. 7p. et. (Lim.) ... ) iof Rus- created so much discussion in financial circles. 10 Do - - 20 Riga and Dunaburg.... axing all The Orwell, f r om Australia, has brought 79,220 Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 6 7 68 10 Rome and Frascati .... al l and said Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 27 4 28 1 28 } i 1 20 Royal Danish all - - o unces of gold, valued at £316,880. 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - 5 Royal Swedish - - - the only Stock Furness - - 4 Do. 7 p er cent. Pref. .. all - servative About £120,000 in bar gold was withdrawn from Stock Glasgow & South Westn 1l) 92 94 Stock Great Great North of Scotland all 10 101 20 10 Do. Pref. ... all 91 Lin pre - t he Bank of England yesterday for transmission to Great Northern lOO 1081 109 1081 8 74 Sambrep Southern cent. .3 F l t r e . a u n s Meuse..... e . : .. : : : 1 1 1 1 2. 7 3 1 2 8 ne ingrc - Chili on account of the new loan. The deficiency Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO W 9 694 4 20 4 84 West Flanders all 5 6 Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 132 134 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference . all d 9 ' offering t hus created, however, is likely,to be replaced by Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 104 105 104 4 1. ... ~ 20 W. & N.W. of France.. all 2 24 b and the Stock Great Western - - it would a Portion of the above Australian supply. Among Stock _,Do.Str.Vl.ltail Gua.Stk lOO 55 57 2 0 Western of Sw itzerland all - - ometimes the arrivals this morning is the steamer La Plata, 12 testi South Eastern all - ~„---- 6 Wiesbaden - - 50 Lancaster and Carlisle. all 86 ou 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all - - onsisting Which has brought £160,926 in specie. 164 Do. Thirds - - 1613 4 Do. New Thirds l6 12 13 p iblecloth. . The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed Stock Lancashire A Yorkshire 100 98 99 99 1 si 9 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. A clamour. 16 Do. do. F 116 6 I d firmly, and 10,000 bales were sold at full rates. meetings 9 Do. do. £9 shares 7 0d NI , A Closing Business caking of In the Railway Share Market a moderate amount 3 Do. west Riding Union I - 20 Do. Southport - - Share' , Railways. IPas...] p r i ce.: D ona . rsons had of business was transacted, and quotations were 11.6.3 London and Blackwell all 6 6 1 6 • streets. steady. 11.6.3 Do.Newiss.at £5106 . sh. 4/ - - 6 Atlantic &St Lawrence! a ll - - 781 - Stock Lon.. Brighton &S.Coast 100 112 114 1131 14 100 Leased at 6 per cent., another Stock London & North Westn 100 96 064 •961 14 1 k 1 , Bo z m.,Baroda&Cent.lnd 9 The advices from New York by the steamer City growing . ... now of Baltimore, which haArought .£22,085 in specie, Stock London& South-Westn. 100 95 9 6 96 1 6 i 25 L'derry & Coleraine ... all - - 18 bo all - - theylB Do. Addit. Capital A 6 I par 5/ 6 .7 . had no report continued easiness in the Money Market, 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. all - 18 Do. Do. 841 1 par Stock Man., Shef. & Lincoln.. 100 38 39 was not but the exchange is too low to admit of any ex-22001i Buffalo New w nd Lake Huron all 6 7 61 10 Metropolitan ' - - d thject but Pectation at present that gold will be forwarded in Stock Midland lOO 102 1 1024 1021 4 i 100 Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich 161 141 131 d 4/ like this. Stock Do. Birming. & Derby lOO 74 76 (6 p. ct. bds. 1 Aug., 1872 l® 78 ! 82 lar ge quantities to this country. 50 Mid. Gt. West.(lreland) all - - per of the 100 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 100 75 78 t Silver continues in active request at full rates 25 Do. 1 Shares all - - 1® Do. do. 1 June, 1874 100 73 76 75 diminish , too - Neweastle and Carlisle all - - 20 Ckutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. 1. 3.0. - - p par es in the he bullion dealers being busily employed in pre- 25 New., Aber., & Herefd all 111 12 121 20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s. - - 10 Newry & Armagh (def.) 9 Crown in Parin g consignment s for the next steamer for the 20 New r y , War p t., & Ros all ___- ~__- -- - - -20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 2s. - - pm 20 Central Dude (Limited) 2s. 6d. - -- .T to abso- East. - Stock Norfolk 100 64 66 WI 6 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c. 2 4 1p 4 npleasant 50 North. Counties Union. 31 3 1 3 d all - - „, A meeting of the Great Luxembourg Company Stock North British lOO 58 591 59 81 • 171 Demerara 20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c 5 par 1p az the goes - has taken place this-day-the Hon. Francis Scott,Stock East Indian, gu. sp. c lOO 1081 108 4 1081 981 Stock Nor.Dev.RaiL&Dk. Stk. 100 - - Stock Do.A Stk.- A rec.no div. 20 Do. C Shares all - - had been NI. P., in the chair. The'report - states that the line until 6p.c.hasbeenp(lll 100 - - 20 Do. E Shares Ext lO 1 14p limit the • . ... Stock Do. B Stock - - 20 Do. Jubbulpore 5 - - eto limit Was opened from Brussels to Arlon on the 27th of Stock North-Eastn.-Berwick too eei 05 944 a 0 i 100 D 0.41 p.c. Ms. pay.'s9 all - - 25 Do. do. G N.E.Purchase 1613 4 1} f d d to do that, October last. The traffic commenced on the whole Stock Do. Leeds lOO 48 49 481 f 20 Geelong&MeLgua.s p. c. all 171 181 iblic Intel - line on the Bth of last menth . and. it gave the 100 774 771 7 7 1 37 1 sto c Geelong Corporation 6 lOO _ • ( per cent. Bonds 1 - Stock Do. York Stock North London Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 36 38 ue to play 1 directors every reason to suppose that it will to N. drS.Vvestn.,llampatd 1 00 I" "3 . 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B all 78 79 70 81 ry. They I become very remunerative. Up to the end of and City Junction £3 Is. - - 20 North Staffordshire 174 4 31 d 13f 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref lOO 92 94 the pria- , 20 Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c all 214 21 211 November, the traffic from Brussels to Namur 20 North-Western r been one 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 7 8 1 20 Do. do 4 } p4l I a measure , Was yielding £1,147 per - week. As the company Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver. 100 30 32 n Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.-Scrip 10 Peebles all - - 20 1 I 2s. par ip b was this, was still liable to make between 15 and 16 miles of 20 Portsmouth 201 Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 17 171 . . whether 1 e xtensions, the directors intend to raise £320,000 for 10 Rhymney lO - - 201 Do. New Stock Scottish Central lOO 110 112 i - e.udulent that f Do. Bonds pay. '76,with I all 106 108 purpose at Brussels, on the 20th instant, if Stock South . N.E., Aber. Stock 100 271 28 26 i 1 100 they were Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 84 56 / ept. till '6O s anctioned by the proprietors. The traffic of the Stock Shropshire Unionloo Do. do. '73 till '6O all 106 108 1 such as . 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all l 100 Do. do. "a without opt all 105 107 IX. Bright ' Great Luxembourg line for this year was £49,042 Stock South Devon 4 64 472 d 46 100 36 1 ri 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do .. all 99 100 the bills Of 78 . 6d., leaving net £25,649 16s. 4d., and £971 Stock South-Eastern lOO 75 7 5 0 75 k 1 5 4 1 20 Madras, guar., 41 p. a all 1 181 181 20 Do. do. 5 per cent., all 20 24 201 1 3t of these Stock South Wales 10 S. ld. for the canal. After the deduction of 20 SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun all 12 14 20 Do. 41 p. c. Extension.. 15 4 d individua l interest on obligations, a balance of £2,158 £s . 4d. 20 Do. do lB - - 20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c. 5 4p 61 20 Do. Fourth do. of the in - 20 Staines, Wok., & Wek.. all 9 11 lock Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 - - remained to be carried forward. 25 Stockton & Darlington. all 324 33 4 e countrY 25 Do , do. 1854 2 21 - - Newßruns•wick&Canda. 20 { Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc 10 2 lid .e. Their The directors of the Port Phillip and Colonial 25 Do. do. 1855 7 - - Class ACapitl.Share.. Winely the Gold Mining Company have received a remittance Stockton & Hartlepool 161 - - St - ock Taff Vale lOO - - .. Do. do. Land do. . .. 20 Do. do. B. Capital do. lO 4 S d )sed rating o f £1,500, making, the sum of £5,000 for the first Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 - - .. Do. do. Land d 0... _ _ le mode of dividend. 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 100 85 - 90 - 90 Stock Vale of Neath2o I Northof India Tramroad Limited, Scrip 2s. the condi - Stock Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - The market for Public Securities is rather flatter, 50 Waterford & Limerick all - - 20 Dude (Limited) - 160 years 20 10 hest Cornwall D a secret. a decline of 1 per cent. having taken place, notwith- 20 Do. -end Lon. & Cry. Pal. all - - 20 Do. New P 5 ler I p t think the standing the arrival of the Orwell from Victoria. 5 Do.A.-Arecv.nodiv.till . p ß .c. has been pd. to 13 all 3 H 20 Do. Punjaub that they T he withdrawal of old from the Bank appears to 5 Do 7 g all 6 1 ot 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. bt,,,P' 5 da p more ill - 20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 18 - - be -regarded as an unfavourable feature. Consols 20 West London all - - 10 Trinidad(Limited) Scrip' 1 par 1p instructed 10 Do. Ist Class all - - haYe been 971 1, and 97 to 971 ex dividend for the 20 Do. 2d Class all - - . . dread the tended to ac count. The Government broker continues his Closing SHARES. - BRITISH MINES. cress coul d i nvestments for the Savings Banks. Bank . Stock Share' Railways. 'Paid.' Price ng i Business Done. Share! Mines. 1 Cl os ing Business Paid. price. Done. it was the is firm at 2251 to 227. The New Threes and the 25 Blythe and Tyne It per Dght.ful, re - Reduced are marked 971 I ; the March Exche- c. pref. (issued at 250) all 49 51 - Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.10 8 9 1 see did not 1 Stk Brie. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 100 96 98 14 21 3/ ' t iller Bills are 355. to 38s. prem. ; June ditto, 375. 20 pritish Iron question et 20 Do. do. do. Shares 9 - - - Condufrow (Camborne) . 20 50 .• 60 to 38s. prem. •; India Loan Debentures, 99i • and tuck Caledon £lO, 41 per cent 100 103 105 10 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) 1 450 460 Lowing that , 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, N 0.2. 7.10 - - • - East Bassett (Illogan). 30 150 160 ntroduce 0, ditto Bonds, 14s. to 15s. prem. , Stock Chester & Holyhd, 51 pc 100 - - - Great South Tolgus..,. 17s 13 14 ry of land. In the Foreign Stock Market an average amount Stock Do. do. sp. et. lOO - - Cork & Bandon, 51 p. a all - - - G.WhealAlfd.(Pnillack) 11.14.11 3 4 ' -G. Wheal Vor(Helston) 81_ 1 i sfranchise d - Lady Bertha of business has been transacted, and prices are a k Dun. Perth,&Aber.Jun. all 51 61 tea to the Stoc E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc 100 100 103 - North Frances (Illogan) 81 7 4 . l with the depressed.- Turkish 6 Per Cents. are 93 to 931 •; Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc.... 100 112 115 Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc .... 100 109 113 1101 - North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 3 • -- N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) nil. 7 1 8 'of Biscay' .to g • 1 + ti lt Scrip, ..s., issue , +to 1 (Es. ; ditto, 2d Stock E. Conn. Ex. 5 p ct. No.l 100 115 117 1151 -- Par Consols (St. Blaxy) 11 16 17 tat, as the is sue, I dis. to par. • ; ditto 5 per Cents. are heavy Stock Do. do N 0.2 100 113 115 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock 100 131 133 - Porkellis Unit. (Wen .d ) 9 - - - Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s i he momen t at. 1051 Venezuela 5 per Cents. are firmer at 45 Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. 100 84 86 1.• - SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 21 40$ 41i 100 - - - • Sorth C. Br Illogan). 2 21 3 e as zealous Stock East Lane. 6 per ct 4 61-, ; ditto Deferred at 171 181. Russian 5 per 5 E.& W. York..Tcn. fifths all - _ 1832. The ‘ Cents. are steady at 1131 ; and the 41 per Cents. Stock Edin.&Glas. spc shares 100 - - -S. Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.18.9 240 250 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Iroduce the Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. 100 72 73 721 Mining, Co 4l I 1 -at 1031 1. Mexican are 20-1- 1,-. Brazilian 41 pCr Stock Furness, 5 per cent .... 100 _ - 10 Tin Croft 9 31 34 'ofessing to ver put the Cents., 961 ; and ditto, 1858, 951. Chilian Loan Stock Stock Glas. &S Weitz a. 5 pc. 100 113 115 Great Northern, 5 et 100 122 124 1 3 . • - UnitedMines(C wenn ap) 40 - - - Vale of Toomey (Corm.) 12s 6d I 1 isle, and it has been Ito + prem. Stock Do:s pcßedm.,lop.c.pm 100 113 115 113 - West Basset (Illog,ar). 11 22 231 Stock Do. 41 p. a. do. do. - W. Caradon (Liskeardj. 20 130 140 .he was in The last week's railway receipts, ascertained un 100 Do.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm 6O Cl ee - Wheal Basset (Illogan). 51 210 220 bill. All he s - 10 Gt. 2Q. of Scotld, let pf all 101 114 - Wheal • Buller (Redruth) 5 140 160 to this day, are in round figures as under :- Gt• Sn.& W (Ireland) 4 1 inn . - Wheal Edward (Ca's.).. 51 21 3 _ rer he spoke Stock t pct. pref. Stock ) - - Wheal Kitty(U. Lelau 1.7.2 8 9 !nee under - 1858. 1851. 50 Great West. (Berks and 6 - - - Wh'l Mary Ann (Menhe 8 46 47 Gieat Western - - Wh'l Trelawncy (Lisk. 41 28 30 ght should ,North-Western dorm. Il e _ e olith-Western nge to hie! ,-nr.iehton ion. Thin , Midland but 11 3 ° 4 s outh-Eastern 10 t. West . i. Ches. 8 p.c.pf. 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £sp .) 27 1 2 , Great Northern 22,72,5 25,573 all 164 174 11 111 12 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim. 15 9 principles. L -411 eashire and Yorkshire 22,989 18,389 10 Do do. sp. ct. pref all 10 101 5 Do.L and and 31iningeo. all 11 2} thing of the Bristol and Exeter d . the orit ~..Chester and Holyhead N orth-Eastorn 1... 4,400 4,604 26% Do. Chester guar.shares a'l 18 131 Do. do. do all 9 91 fug Co. of Jamaica ... 1 -- d 40 Cobre Copper all 38 40 Now, e kiast Lancashire 3 0 ,669 29 , 113 20 Do. do. do. 6,491 4,BB3Cepiapo l6 10 12 le House ° f kanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln; .... 9,602 9,046 Stock stock L L o an n: & York 6p c stock 100 143 145 1431 1 DunMoun.Cop.Mino - .Co all * ry on thei r Xerth London &B • 5 •• N 1 100 - - rig.. pc. gu. o. 2,125 2,228 Stock Do. pref., sp. c. ...No. 2 100 - - 2 Fortuna 20 General ' all 11 11 all 20 2i own indivi - North Stafford - - 3 Linares ' all 8 84 ' ame of th e ~...4 3,t ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 4,322 4,001 Stock Do. do. sp. c. No. 410 - - 6 Lusitanian ' the latte r, west Hartlepool 3,267 3,102 Stock Lon. &N. W. Cov. &Nun - 1 Meriquita all 1 dinburgh and Glasgow ,o set thera's,34s 4 , 901 Stock Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Ar.s.l4 10 11) I - •et Glasgow and South-Western , and re r i Scottish North-Eastern - - Mining and Smelt.... all 4 1 4 eficent an Grand Trunk of Canada - - 5 Port Philip antatiees ° I Great Western of Canada 7 ,684 9 , 408 Stock Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6p. ct. 100 121 123 122 1 30 Santiago de Cuba l6-1 1 1 igorthern of France Stock Do. 31 per cent. rs the 111°-100 68 72 The alai ° The transactions in the Railway Share Market 121 Maryport & Car. , 4 p.c. all -- - COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Do. 4 per cent. .. ...... all - - )lete chang e have been of a moderate character, and in some few 121 Do. - - of LordSs i nstances a slight reaction has taken place in values, Stock s Mid. Con. 6p. c. Stock - _ Share Securities. Paid. Closing 1 Stock Do.Con.BrislArßir.6p.ct lOO 142 141 --.----_ B D us o in ne e . ss aciently as - Stock Do. 44 p. a pref. stock.. 100 104 106 ion as wa s netvvithstanding the favourable character of the Can•Gov.6p.c..Ta. &July 100 116} 1171 117 1 101 6 Do. with option till 1860 3 1 ip' t . 4 1 gle Libera l traffic returns. Great Northern have declined il ; Stock Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. st. too 96 97 - Do. 6 p.c.leb.&Aug. 100 113 115 - Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. 100 113 115 rith them il l Sri 4 ghion, and North-Eastern (Berwick), 10s.; Great 10 f Newport,Aber,&c. pref.s all 91 94 - N.8.G0v.6 p.c. Js. &July 100 114 115 114 4 Ir. Newde - . Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North (p. c. redeem, at sp.c. pm 10 Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with - Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - the House, British. 55.; Caledonian and Edinburgh, Perth and option till 1866 all 111 111 111 10 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c.shares all 9 10 - N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 100 1011 1021 102 4 4 - NovaScotiaG 0v.6 p.c. St. • ie House ° I Stock Do. 5 .c. Ext. Stock,lB46 100 - - Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 114 115 u b undee, have improved 5s to 10s, and Vale of Perth, d powerf 19 t cone ill ti £ l . The Foreign lines have been at quite nominal StockSto n D o o .. 51 . a p v . .c v . Pref. llEx do.. s k 1847 547 100 100 .. . .- _. - ....- Sv.iActu.Gs.oG:.•.66pp.cc:Jjaannsr&Juullyy 1 1 00 00 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 4 5 Stock North British, 5 per cent 100 109 111 rity of th e rates, no business of importance having been re- Stock Do. New, elm. 5 per cent 100 - JOINT-STOCK BANKS. ~ 01 opinions Ported In the Colonial - Market, East Indian have Stock Nth.Dev.Rail.& Dsk.Co. 100 - - Stock N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. 100 - - Closing I Business was, the es; declined about 10s. ; Great Indian Peninsula, and stock Do. Berwick, 4p. c. Pref. 100 99 100 Share Joint-Stock Banks. I Paid. they wou ld most of the new East Indian undertakings con- 17 Do. do. do. political iir 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. C. No. 1 13 - - Price. Done. 100 A gra&UnitedServic , eßk 50 - - tibue at steady rates. 121 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 . 9 - - Wish tO se e, 25 'AI. York, 11. &S. Purch.. 10 / d AP 40 Australasia all - - innovatie§ Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares 20 No rth S taff o rdshire.... all 231 241 25 Bank of Eg - ypt all 27 28 Stock Ox. wr. & Wol 6 pc. Ist 0 - 100 ' 120 122 122 100 Bank of London 5O - - id not Ws have exhibited little variation. London and Stock Do. do. do., 2dgua " 100 - - 40 Brit. Col. Bk. & Loan Co. all - - Stock Do. 41 p.c. Db.stk.in peril 100 100 102 00 British North American all - - ;ry, but vri l ! County are steady at 30 ; Oriental Bank at 37a- ; 81 Scottish Central, new pi all - - 20 Chtd. Bank or India, .tc 10 21 1/6 lcient lanc l i Australian Agricultural at 351 I ; And Peel River Stock Scottish-N.-Eastern deb 100 - - 100 City e) much a s Stock Do. 31 per c. pref. stock 100 - -- 100 Colonial - - Land have improved to 3. Stock Do.Abordeen.goa.apc. 100 - - 20.11 Corn. Bank of Canada all - - • less an a d- Stock Do. 7p. c. pref. stock. 100 - - 100 Commercial of London 2O - - Y. at home . . 108. South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 101 11 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch all 174 184 ,18 air country' 10 Do. Fixed 41 per cent. all - - 20 Gen. Bk. of Switzerland all - - ' since 184 29 BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. 1.0.6. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 6 ) all 241 25 20 Lon.Char.Bk.otAustrsl. all 211 211 211 50 London and County Bank Stock tended to 227 51 S tock Do .44 per cent lOO 102 101 103 50 London Joint Stock ... 10 - - 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 971 it i . Stock Do.Fixed4lp.c.lst is. 100 102 104 100 London & Westminster. 20 49 50 491 throw how , 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities - - 100 Nat. Prey. e England. 35 - - said, who New 3 per Cent. Annuities - _ 20 Do. new lO - - of our lived India Stock - - __ 20 S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gun. all - - 20 New South Wales - - S, have done Ditto Debentures 994 25) Stockton and Dar. 5 p .e. all 28 1 29 28 1 9 1 25 Orient. Bk. Corporation all --- - 371 this resi n ' bitto Bonds, £I,OOO Ditto under £l,ooo - - ur lifetim e; C onso l s for Account - change fe l ' March June. . 25 South Australia - - y years ne - txchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. &lid... 38 137 8 - 25 Do. New l7l - - iples. I / e i . JAW) Small, 11d. ' 35 I - LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing! Business 25 Union of Australia 25 Do. New all - - 174 20 - - O e ' -FOREIGN FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. Railways. Co.'s. Price. I Done. 50 Union of London 100 Unity Mutual lO - - past.l 55 . lgth, but it trazilian 5 per Cent. - 100' est ern Bk of London! 50 20 1,8 d, Paid. _ 'atioll ; it 1° ' Ditto 1852, 41 per Cent within th ig . , Ditto 18:58, 41 per Cent. 951 4ad Bedford and Bletchley all Ln & N.W - - MISCELLANEOUS. additional Buenos Apes, 6 per Cent. , Buckinghamshire ... . 100 ILn & N.W 99 100 Clydesdale Junctlon.. 100 Caledonin 104 106 Ditto Account ) the peOP IC , Grenada New Active, 21 per Cent. Ind deput e" /lexicon 3 per Cent . - EE.l7Lnintoconl,nusahrwircifh.6sph.ac.. 100 a E G . t c .N oun ort t h s: 143 4 1-1 4 5 4 Vement, 9 0. -.„ Ditto Account .. 204 4- Do. Woodbridge... 100 - - 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint'.. all 13 14 a I think ot P eruvian 45 per Cent - Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct. 100 Caledonia - - 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited). all 250 280 „.. Ditto Account - - 25 Australian Agricultural 19 35 36 351 4 usands W il g 10 Australian Royal Mail . all I 1,1 that I she" rorturuese, 1853, 3 per Cent. - - Hartlpool.Dck. &Rail. all Yk.N.&Br - - 10 Berlin Water Works ... all 21 aa Ditto Account Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent ll3l Hull and Selby - - 10 Do New, issued at .15 die 3 - 102 s C D h o a . n i : I r e s landsf r ec eT e71.4.T...p el ' ..e..i i r e.. m . c t ). 60 British American Land 40 - - with gre llt Ditto 41 per Cent. Do. 1 Shares all Do. -.-- 50 Brit. & Irish Mat-. Tel.A. all 40 42 varmly ar Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6 Lon don &G reenwich ~ 100 S. East 65 671 20 Do. B, 7p. C. till 1862.. all 19 21 29 13 44274 15 2102585 Turkish 6 per rim' 100 Canada Ditto New Loan Scrip - Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend. 100 Peto &Co. 94 96 321 112 116 Reform AS: Ditto A' count - - Lowestoft, gm 4p. et. 100 Norfolk .. - - Stock Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg all _ _ after whi eD • Ditto ! - 41 ha me - Do. 6 per cent lOO Do - - nit , 0 .1 1 0,0 iunt o the pria c i ~1 ) tto G utranteed, 4 per Cent. - 5 Do. Preference all 5 5 20 Eastern Steam d tlO v eau zu..ia, 5 per Cent. - Mid.BradfordPrf. Stk. 100 Midland . 99 16.. ropose pm Stock Electric Telegraph lOO 112 114 112 ._ •Ditto Account Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent lBl 171 1 guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. 5B CO 10 Europ. & Ind.Junct.Tel. 10s. irman O w Dividends on the above payable in London: Do. do. 6 per cent. . . all Do. - - 9 Europ.&Am.Stm.(Lim.) all f 11 /1} , THREE O'CLOCK. Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do. - 20 GLlron ScrewCoL(Lina" all - - 15 Gen. Steam Navigation. 14 - L& N W Preston .and Wyre. 1 all & L.Yk. - - " 20 London Discount 5 11 /d 41 Corisols, Money - 1.). Ditto Account, Jan. 11 ... 97 i x d Do. 1 Shares A. all Do. - - 4 Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co. all 11 1 )r. john ~.,, Roystn,llitch.,& Shep 100 Gt. 142 144 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all - - valuable tO!, • Siff. Itoth.&Gol.g.sp.c: 18 11 6 Lam& Yk - - 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 74 81 yi art Shrawsbry& Hereford all T Brassey 91 Of 25 National DISPOUIIt C 0... 5 1 1 d , di e d at ~- o f .3 South Staffordshire .. all M'Clcan . 101 101 W' oar Valley, g. 6p. c. all Stk.& Dar - - • - - a native 4 CRYSTAL PALACE.-ONE SHILLING DAY, Wed- a 0 0 ;1 . esclav Dec. 15.-Admission on payment, 394 ; ditto by D o , d o . levote _.., , L is a s n .i d tt ldis. all 15 14 i s t llatUi . l eakni ' tickets, 351; total visitors, 745. Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West. 92 94 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiaLand 80 15 is ~ Dr. Clio FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR THE RUGBY STATION. Wimbledon& Croydn. all L.&Brgtn 8 9 . 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 4 4 20 North of Europe Steam all - _ tY• Ile IP FATAL Monday evening an inquest was held at Rugby, on - 1 Oriental Gas ork in Me 4 t he body of John Osborne, aged 20years, who, while walk- DOCKS. 8 4 1 83 3 8 3 21 1 [e was 0 c e 'ir c i 44.,, line ~ - „t"-aiong the to the Rugby station, in order to go by ams entplei Share Docks. I Paid Closing i Business I ' 4 e mail train to Wolverton, due at 3 a,m. Saturday, was Price. Docks. 9 Post. , „,. -,,,r b srt. ' ree l s, by the train while walking on the outside of the Pen. Peel Rs6ivoerrieLnatnalds&te3almgr.in. .... 1 5 : a s 5 0 :1 81 1 1 . 1 5 ; 111 s I P-1 3 53. Iby Mss t ed 5 4 ' B l and his head so crushed against a post that ho ex- Stock Commercial lOO - all 251 261 rib' tests tell Dired soon afterwards. He had just before been talking to Stock Do 4 perCent.Pref.Min lOO Ai comp At th e . t • Pointsman on his platform, to whom he told his inten- Stock East and West India lOO - - 60 59 61 hotoW0_.„oo ,t 2 'rt, and who cautioned him as to the danger of walking on. Stock London lOO - 1 Scot.Austrin.lnv.(Lim.) all 130 140 15 Do. New ...... a diett,'' le lin e at that time- The deceased was quite sober and. loo - 25 South Australian Land all 38 40 50 Rhymney Iron rallei • sto Stock St. Katharine 100 -- 1 Submarine Teleg. Scrip. all I 14 1 Le Fan"' 0 ''' he knew the line well, and having boon a railway 12°5°00 IcedD o ßoyal .NS ee Mail A. lStea m.lia: all i 11 n . 0041 eez a Stocks St u, Southampton victori a 100 101 103 102 1 Do. do Registered ..... a, : , 00. his servant, the pointsman allowed him to proceed ; , t , D o New .., lB 4# 2 1 iPI "" ls Way , The verdict was " accidental death." • s 1 20 iTvran.&memLn.Ceno.o,toULpanrial... 26 5 4 ii i Closing Business are Railways. Paid. Price. Done. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 55 55 ___—_----- 2O Ardennes all —pi 10 Milberg., Notting. Bost. 20 BalL&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c 3 1 d Ip , and Eastern Junction 10 65 61 6} 4 5 Belgian East. Junction all 1 15 1 10 laelthst and Ballymena.. all • 20 Beziers to Graisiessae all 7 8 .14 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 75 75 5 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 2 21 osk Birk., Lane., and Chesil. 20 Dutch Rhenish Junction lOO 66 68 6 Eastern of France ...... all 27 28 15 Blackburn 15 Blyth and. Tyne.. , all 29 31 20 Great Central of France all ock Bristol and kxeter . —... 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. slis.. all 71 7 1 ock Caledonian ock Chester and Holyhead )0 Cork and Bandon all 20 Lierre and Turnliout... all 1 10 Cork, 111krockotrassage all 20 Lombardo Venetian.... 8 3 1 34 p 10 Cornwall tO Do. A all 45 45 20 L ucca & Pistoj a, 5 p.c.pf. all f A rcves. no div. 1 all 20 L y ons a nd G eneva .... all 241 251 LO Do. B until6p.e.per an. hasbeen dt II p . o . all 331 Maria Antonia 20 Do. do. New all —_, 50 Dublin andßelfast June. all 20 Namur and Liege all 91 vt 15 Dun.,Perth,&Abr.Junc. all 71 8 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref..— all 21 22 ock East Anglian lOO 10 17 16 Northern of trance .... all 3 9 40 5 ~ ock Eastern Counties lOO 63/ 64 4 64 1 54 1 4 1 20 Do. New Shares ock Eastern Union A Stock 100 46 48 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 84 91 ock Do. do. B Stock 100 31 33 20 Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent 7 3 1 d 15 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) 81 20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit. all 355 351 15 East Kent all 12 13 20 Paris and Orleans ...... all 55 56 ock East Lancashire lOO 95 96 965 Fern. 20 c Recife& S. Fran. ( )/ 9 jig 10 East Suffolk all (gua. 7p. ct. (Lim.) ... I O Do - ock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 67 68 10 Rome and Frascati .... all ock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 271 281 28 1 1 1 20 Royal Danish all O Forth & Clyde Junction all 5 Royal Swedish ock Furness ock Glasgow & South Westn l(R) 92 94 20 Sambre and Meuse. .... all 71 8 O Great North of Scotland all 10 101 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref. ... all 91 ock Great Northern lOO 1081 109 1081 871 20 Southern of France .... all 23 2 ock Do. do. A Stock lOO 94 96 94 31 81 West Flanders all 5 3 1 ock Do. do. B Stock lOO 132 134 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference . all 9 9 ock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 104 105 104 5 4. _ .. 01 20 W. & N.W. of France.. all 2 24 t ock Great Western ock _Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk lOO 55 57 20 Western o f S witzerland all 2 Irish South Eastern all ..„-- 6 Wiesbaden O Lancaster and Carlisle. all 86 lim 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all 6rl Do. Thirds 13 4 Do. New Thirds l6 12 13 p ock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 98 99 99 1 4 9 6 Do. do. F £l6 6 5 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. d 9 Do. do. £9 shares 7 +d 6 1 Closing Business 3 Do. West Riding Union 5 Share' , Railways. 'Paid. Price.: Done. ] '0 Do. Southport - 6 1.3 London and Blackwall all 6 64 _____ 5.3 Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh. 4/ 6 Atlantic &St Lawrence' ock Lon.. Brighton &S.Coast 10 0 112 114 113 cent., 114 100 all 781 Leased at 6 per nt.. ock London & North Westn 100 96 96 1 ' 98 1 11 1 1 21 Do. Eighths id par • ock London& South-Westn. 100 95 96 961 6 i 18 gu. 5 percent Do all 5 L'derry & Coleraine ... all 5 L'derry & Enniskillen. all lB Do. Addit. Capital A 6 5 par 5/ 6 18 Do. Do. B 41 5 par ock Man., Shef., & Lincoln.. 100 38 39 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 6 7 6 O Metropolitan 3 1 ock Midland lOO 102 1 1021 d 162 1 1 i 201 Do. New 165 14/ 131 d 1/ ock Do. Birming. & Derby. 100 74 76 Inn i Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich j 100 78 • 82 O Mid. Gt. West.(lreland) all """ 6p. ct. bds. 1 Aug., 1872 5 Do. 1 Shares all 100 D. do. 1 July, 1873 100 7 5 7 8 100 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 100 73 76 75 O - Newtastle and Carlisle. all 5 New., Aber., & 20 Ckutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. 1. 3. 0. p par O Newry & ArmagHerefd. all 11 1 12 125 h (def.) 9 20 Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) 2s. . • . _ . - -20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 2s. Pm O Newry, Warpt., & Ros all ock Norfolk lOO 64 66 665 6 20 Central Oude (Limited) 2s. Cel. -- 20 Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c. 2 5 1p 4 O North. Counties Union. 31 3 1 3 d 59 81 17 Demerara ock North British lOO 58 595 • 1 ., .2 20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c. 5 par 11) 0 )ck Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk. 100 Stock East Indian, gu. sp. c.. 100 1084 1081 1081 981 Or Do.A Stk.— A rec.no div. 20 Do. C Shares all - until 6p.c.hasbeenpdll 100 20 Do. E Shares Ext lO 1 1 41 1 ock Do. B Stock ock North-Eastn.—Berwick 100 944 95 944 54 4-1 1 20 Do. Jubbulpore 5 5 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 16134 15 4 d d 100 D 0.41 p.c. Ms. pay.'s9 all - ock Do. Leeds lOO 48 49 481 1 20 G eelong& Mel.gua.s p. c. all 171 181 ock Do. York lOO 775 774 77/ 871 Sto. 1 Geelong Corporation 6 1 100 _ ock North London lOO 100 103 per cent. Bonds Stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 36 38 O N. &S. Westn., Hampstd 100 Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay 100 02 94 .'7B all 78 79 7 0 8 1 and City Junction.... £3 ls. er cent. Pref O North Staffordshire.... 174 41 3/d 13 100 Do. 6pl 13* 20 Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c all 214 21 21 1 O North-Western O No. & Sou. W. Junction all 7 8 1 20 Do. New, gua.s per cent. 4 1 p4l 20 Do. do 4 1 p 415 ock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver. 100 30 32 $1 O Peebles all r I Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip /2s par . - • /p O Portsmouth O Rhymney lO 201 Gt.W. of Canada Shares all 17 1 74 ock Scottish Central lOO 11 0 112 201 Do. New f Do. Bonds pay. '76,with ) a ll 106 108 ock South. N.E., Aber. Stock 100 27 1 28 28 i 1 100 ock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 84 86 / ept. till '6O ock Shropshire Union lOO 46 47 46 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 106 108 O Sittingbourne & Sheer. all 4 2 d 100 Do. do. ''/3 without opt all 105 107 ock South Devon lOO 36, 1 3 „? i, , , „, a 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do .. all 99 100 ock South-Eastern lOO 7 5 1.9 , ai a. =a 20 Madras, guar., 41 p. c. all 1 18, 181 ock South Wales p. c. Extension.. 15 5 d 0 South Yorks.& Riv. Dun. all 12 14 20 Do. 4f 20 Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.e. 5 1 p 0 Do. do lB 61 20 Do. Fourth do. 0 Staines, Wok., & Wek.. all 9 11 5 Stockton & Darlington. all 3 2 5 33 1 lock Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 Newßruns•wick&Canda. 5 Do, do. 1854 221 20 l Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc 10 2 1/d 5 Do. do. 1855 7 Class ACapitl.Share.. - Stockton & Hartlepool 161 .. Do. do. Land do. . ock Taff Vale lOO .. 20 Do. do. B. Capital do. 4 3 d ock Do. Preference, No. 1 .. Do. do. Land do.. 5 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 ock Vale of Neath lOO 8 5 90 90 20 c Northof India Tramroad ( Limited, Scrip 2s. ock Waterford & Kilkenny 100 20 O u d e (Li m ited) 0 Waterford & Limerick all 0 West Cornwall 20 Do. 0 W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal, all 20 Do. New :•.? 5 ierr 5 p 5 Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till . 7 . has been pd. to B 8 2O Do. Punjaub p.c 55 5 Do. B all all 6i 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. tag' 5 d 1 p D West London all 20 St. Andrews & Quebec A 18 0 Do. Ist Class all 10 Trinidad(Limited) Scrip 1 par 1p 0 Do. 2d Class all - - - • - —___ - Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.10 8 9 20 pritish Iron - Condutrow (Camborne) 2O 50 60 , 10 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) 1 450 460 East Bassett (Illogan). 30 150 160 - Great South Tolgus..- 17a 13 14 ' G.WhealAlfd.(Pnillack) 11.14.11 3 4 - G. Wheal Vor(Helston) SE - Lady Bertha - North Frances (Illogan) 84 7 - North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 3 N.Wh'l Basset (Mogan) nil. 7 -- Par Consols (St. Blaxy) 14 16 17 - Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 - Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s • } - SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 24 405 415 - • Sorth C. Bred( Illogan). 2 24 3 - S. Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.18.9 246 250 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 44 1 1 10 Tin Croft 9 1 34 - UnitedMines(Gwennap) 40 - - - Vale of Towey (Carm ) 12s 6d - West Basset (Illogar) l4 22 234 - W. Caradon (Liskeardj 2O 130 140 - Wheal Basset (Mogan). 54 210 220 - Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 140 160 - Wheal Edward (Cal s.) 54 24 3 - Wheal Kitty(U. Lelaal 1.7.2 8 9 Wh'l MaryAnn(Menhe 8 46 47 - Wh'l Trelawney (Lisk. 44 28 30 FOREIGN MINES 20 Australian 1 800 AccordCopper,Lim los d. * p 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £sp ) 27 1 2 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim l5 9 11 114 12 5 Do.L and and 31iningeo all 14 2} 1 Clarendon Consols 31in ing Co. of Jamaica - d 40 Cobra Copper all 38 40 - Copiapo l6 10 12 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 2 Fortuna - all 14 1 20 General all 20 2 3 Linares' ' all 8 8} 6 Lusitanian 1 Meriquita all 1 1 New Granada all } 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Ars.l4 10 1 p 1 - 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt all 44 5 Port Philip 1 30 Santiago do Cuba l6l 1 11 28.2.81 United Mexican all 2} 3 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Closing 1 'Widnes' Share Securities. Paid. Prices. Done. Can.Gov.6p.c..Ta. &July 100 116} 1174 117 4 16} - Do. 6 p.c.leb.&Aug. 100 113 115 - Do. 6 p.c.3lr. & Sep. 100 113 115 - N.8.G0v.6 p.c. JP. &July 100 114 115 114 Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - -- -- N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 100 1014 1024 102 } - NovaScotiaG 0v.6 p.c. St. • Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 114 115 - S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July 100 113 115 - Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 112 114 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. I Paid. Leasing Closing! Busin ess Co.'s. Price. I Done. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 858. THIRD EDITION have two brothers. One is on board ship and the other is in some other employment. When I was in Ireland I stopped with my aunt. I went to school in Ireland. I can both read and write. I never went to dancing houses in Ireland. The only time I ever went dancing was at the children's school parties. The female prisoner only as sisted my father once. I have told my father that his wife had gone down stairs in her night dress to meet a man. I did not tell him this till my father told me his wife had left him. I, after he had told me this, informed him about her going down stairs. There was a quarrel between the man and my father. I gave evidence before the magis trate. The charge was discharged, because the magistrate said I had perjured myself. My father told me to do so. He told me to say I was in the garden, when I was not, and heard all that passed. I never said a word about it at the Lambeth police-court. My step-mother left my father because of his ill usage. My father has charged me with burning a Protestant bible, but I did not. He threatened to beat me if I did not find the Bible. That was a day or two before I left to go to my aunt's. My father used to threaten me with a sword. I never recollect the prisoner asking my stepmother and myself to help him to get it out of the sheath. It was an old one. Before I left home one of the chidren I had under my care by some means burned itself. It was an accident. I did not tell my father about it until three or four days after. On the last occasion I went into my father's bed ' raff aunt was sleeping in the same room. She heard him call me to come into his bed. She said I might go, or he would get in a passion. When my aunt and myself left my father's house we left one of the ohildren in the bed. It was two years old. The child was left about 9in the morning. My father usually returned homo about half-past 6. I never said anything about the child being left in the house to any person. It must have re mained from the time I left until I came home without the slightest attention. I know Mr. Cotter. He is a Roman Catholic priest. He recommended me to go to a certain house in London. On one occasion my father threatened to kill me if I did not come home. Ho was then given into custody. After my aunt came to Plumstead we went to a Roman Catholic Chapel. I used to do so on Sundays before that. Mr. Ribton having addressed the jury in behalf of the prisoner, The learned Judge summed up. The jury retired, - and, after half-an-hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of " not guilty." There was another indictment against the male prisoner for rape on a girl named Ellen Saltmarsh, aged 14, but it was postponed till next session. The prisoner was admitted to bail. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) THE FATAL FIGHT AT ABBEY-WOOD. Samuel Asqueth, aged 16, was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying George Donald M'Donald. Mr. Sharp appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. The evidence adduced against the prisoner was precisely similar to that given when the prisoner was examined before the magistrate. The house surgeon of Guy's Hospital, in his examination, said, he was clearly of opinion that death was caused by injuries received during the fatal affray. In answer to several questions put to him in cross-exami nation by Mr. Ribton, who defended the prisoner, he said he would not swear that dislocation of the vertebra) might not be caused by the rough manner in which the deceased had been removed from the fatal spot, but it was highly improbable. _ . _ By the Recorder—The moment the spinal cord was in jured the party would become paralysed. He would be unable to get up when he once fell to the ground. The case for the prosecution having closed, Mr. Ribton contended that there was no case made out against the prisoner. Nothing had been brought forward to show that the injuries of which the unfortunate man died might not have been occasioned during the time that was consumed in conveying him from Abbey Wood to the hospita4 The Recorder thought there was abundant evidence to go to the jury. Mr. Ribton then addressed the jury for the prisoner. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock. TATTE'RSALLS'-( THIS EVENING.) TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agst Promised Land (take sto 1) 7to 1 agst Ralph° (offered) 16 to 1 agst Hal o' Kirklees (taken) DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Promised Land (offered) 20 to 1 agst Musjid (offered) 23 to 1 agst Electric (taken) 25 to 1 agst Cavendish (taken) 33 to 1 agst Balnaraeon (offered) 11 to 1 agst Musjid and Electric coupled (taken) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following appointments were made at the Admiralty this afternoon : Assistant-Paymasters—Henry J. Ray and John Evans to the Royal Albert. Master's-Assistant—Alfred Thomas to the Liffy. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.), COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lord Chancellor.) APPEAL-SCOTT V. TRE MAYOR, &C., OF LIVERPOOL. - _ The Lord Chancellor, at the conclusion of the arguments of the appellant's counsel (at the rising of the Court yester day afternoon), reserved judgment. APPEAL-SHEPPARD V. OXENFORD. This is an appeal from a decretal order of Vice-Chancel lor Wood, fixing the liability of shareholders, and allowing a proof of claims against the National Brazilian Mining Association. Mr. Rolt, Q.C., is being heard for the appellant. The disputed claim is about £6,000. The arguments will continue the entire tlay. (Before the Lords justices.) APPEALS -- WINCHESTER BANK-RAWLINS V. WICKHAM -WICKHAM V. HA_WLINS. These are appeals from a decretal 'order of Vice-Chan cellor Sir John Stuart, setting aside the contract of copart nery, on the ground of misrepresentation to the plaintiff. At the conclusion of the arguments their lordships delivered judgment. Lord Justice Knight Bruce and Lord Justice Turner were decidedly of opinion that the contract of copartnery entered into by the plaintiff was null and - void erb initio and in toto, and that no part of it could be enforced against the plaintiff,:on the ground of mis representation, fraud, and deceit on the part of the de fendants. Their lordships affirmed the decree of the - Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, with the addition that the money reco vered in the action at law against Mr. Wickham's estato would go towards payment of the costs of action. Appeal sustained with costs of suit. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) COLLINS V. COLLINS. His Honour the Master of the Rolls, at the sitting of the court this morning, said that this cause had been so con ducted that ho could not give costs in the suit. HOWOOD V. REAY. His Honour the Master of the Rolls remitted the ac counts, charges, and expenses in this suit to the taxing master, to be taxed, except those accounts on mortgages allowed by his honour, with costs. Costa of suit to be taxed as between solicitor and client. GA.SKELL T. CHAMBERS. His Honour the Master of the Rolls considered the answer in this suit sufficient to entitle him to order each of the seven trustees of the fund in question to pay the sum of £4,571 into court on or before the fifteenth day of Fcb. next.--Ordered accordingly. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (This Day.) QLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) ROPER'S TRIAL. The trial of Roper, who stands indicted for feloniously setting fire to a dwelling house, persons being therein, has been further postponed until next session. STABBING IN TILE HOUSE OP CORRECTION. George Simpson, 22, polisher, a prisoner in the House of Correction, was indicted for feloniously stabbing Henry Godwin, with intent to murder him, and with a like offence upon Benjamin Norris. There was also an indictment -against the prisoner for cutting and wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. • It will be recollected from the facts relative to this case, which have already appeared at length in The Sun, that the prisoner was undergoing a short term of imprisonment in the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, and in con sequenoe of his becoming dissatisfied with the meat with which he was supplied, a quarrel arose, and he, armed with a knife, 'Commenced a violent attack on the two warders, who were both very seriously injured, so much so that the life of one of them was despaired of. The jury found the prisoner guilty of cutting and wound ing, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The learned Judge sentenced him to 20 years' penal ser vitude. CHARGE Or ARSON. John Cavanagh, 36, mason, was indicted for feloniously setting fire to a house in the occupation of Wm. Cropper, at Bermondsey. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The following was the evidence offered against the pri soner:-- Mr. Cropper said—l am a bricklayer, residing in Snow's fields. I held a lease of a house in Ship and Mermaid-row, Bermondsey. I have known the prisoner for three or four years. He has been in the habit of working for me. He had been working for me about a fortnight before the fire. On the day the fire took place I found fault with him for leaving his tools about. On the 29th of November I was in the house in question showing it to a person. It was perfectly empty. On the morning of the 30th I was aroused to go to the place. Wh en I go t th ere I found five of the stairs smoking. They had been on fire. There was a quantity of greasy rags on them and a lot of half-esumed matches. The prisoner, with the police, came to ry door and first informed me of the fire. _ _ Mr. A. Jones, residing near the premises in question, said —I was returning home early on the morning of the occa sion, when my attentin was arrested by seeing flames issue from the window. I called out to see whether there was anybody in the house, and then ran home and called up my son, and returned to the fire, and saw the prisoner come out of the house. I placed my hand on his shoulder and asked him if he had been in the house ? He said he had not, and then wanted to go for a policeman. I refused to let him go, and very shortly afterwards a constable came up. The constable asked the way to get into the house. The prisoner took him round to the back of the house, but I said, " You know the back door is fastened." He then said something about the front, and on the policeman putting his hand on the gate, he said, "Why the gate has been opened." I had previously seen him pass through it from the house. When we got in we found the stairs on fire. There was also a quantity of greasy rags burning near them. The prisoner threw some water on the fire. James Currence—l am a police-constable. I was at the fire at Ship and Mermaid-row. I saw Jones and the pri soner standing near the gate. I went in. The stairs were burning. There were some greasy rags burning, I saw the prisoner throw water on the fire. I found the gate open ; about three-quarters of an hour before I had tried the gate' and found it fast. Dennis Plaw, another constable, gave similar evidence. Mr. Jones told me to keep my eye on the prisoner. I was afterwards told by Mr. Cropper to take the prisoner into custody. On his 'nay to the station he said, " What is Jones going to say about it" (the fire). I said, " I don't know." I searched him, and found one lucifer match in his pocket. Another police-constable produced some rags, and a Kieffer match of the same description as that found on the prisoner. }jr. Baron Martin said there was not sufficient evidence to convict the prisoner. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Baron Martin, in addressing the prisoner, told him it was a case of great suspicion, and advised him to be more careful in future. CHARGE OF RAPE. Henry Rudledge was indicted for violating his own daughter, Kate, a girl about 15 years of age, and Sarah Rudledge, his wife, was indicted with aiding and assisting in the commission of the offence. Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Orridge prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoners, who pleaded " not guilty." Mr. Sleigh, having stated the case to the jury, called Kate Rudledge, a rather respectable-looking young woman, who said—l lived in St. George's, Lambeth. The prisoner is my father, the female prisoner my step-mother. I lived at Plumstead about 14 months ago. My father sent for me from Ireland. I arrived on Oct. 14, 1857. It was on the Friday after I came to my father's or the day preceding that my father took liberties with me. It was in the morning early—about five o'clock. I was in the samo room with my father, who on that night slept with my little brother, and his wife slept with me. I was awoke by my father coming to bed, and his wife held me in bed. I screamed, and was going to get up, when he called out, " Whist!" struck me with his open hand, and told me to be quiet. At that time his wife was awake, and held me by the feet for about five minutes. At that time my father was taking indecent liberties with me. In about a week after the first offence was committed he again repeated it, and then continued to do so every morning for about five months. The witness hero gave evidence which was quite unfit for publication. • ' Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—My father sent for me from Ireland. I don't recollect my father leaving Ireland. I was brought up by my aunt. When I arrived in Eng land the female prisoner was living with my father. I MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAPTURE OF FASHIONABLE YOUNG PICKPOCKETS.— Henry Harris, 19, John Brown, 14, and James Reece, 21, all remarkably well dressed, and wearing loose coats, and the two former well known to the police, were placed at the bar charged with stealing a gold watch, the property of a gentleman unknown, but believed to hold an appointment at the Horse Guards. Charles- W. Bolton, errand boy in the employ of Mr. Barron, 23, Haymarket, said that about twelve the previous night he saw the prisoner Harris go up to a gentleman who was in conversation with some others at the corner of Windmill-street, and put his hand to his waistcoat pocket and cut the chain of his watch and directly after saw the watch in his hand. Harris was by himself at the film*, Brown being a little behind him. They went along Co ventry-street till they came to a silversmith's shop, when Reece crossed over, and he then saw the watch handed from one to the other, and distinctly saw it in Reece's hand. Seeing a constable coming he spoke to him, and he seized two of them, but Reece started off down Oxendon street. Brandig, a porter, residing at Penton-street, Walworth, proved seeing the prisoners together some time before the robbery, and following Reece down Oxendon-street, he (Reece) running at the top of his speed. Inspector Parke, of the C division, said a feature in the ease was that in the prisoner Reece's coat was found a cap. A constable proved stopping Reece and taking him into custody. He was almost out of breath with running at the time. Reece cross-examined the witnesses with some degree of ingenuity. The prisoners were remanded. A MILITARY RUFFIAN.--George Henry White, a pri vate in the Coldstream Guards, was charged with commit ing an assault on Robert Markham, a foreman carpenter. The prosecutor said that he was that morning in Oxford street, near the Marble Arch, with two men who had been working with him at a job at Messrs. Coutts':i‘ the bankers, having been employed all night, when he stopped at a stall to have some coffee. They had not stopped more than a minute-when theprisoner came up to him, knocked off his hat, and then took off his belt and gave him a severe blow on the head with the buckle, causing a severe wotmd,which bled very much. He had never said a word to the soldier. Joyce, a constable of the C division, said he was called to take the prisoner into custody, and found the prosecutor's head bleeding from a wound in it. _ _ Thomas Bensley, a carpenter, said he was with the pro secutor at the time. The soldier came up and said to him (Bensley), " Can I get through the gate ?" Witness said he did not know. The prosecutor said to witness, " I think the gateis shut." The soldier then said, "No gate shall stop me." lie then knocked off the prosecutor's hat, and took off his belt and gave him a severe blow on the head with it. Another witness called corroborated the previous wit ness's evidence. The soldier made use of vile language, and threatened to strike him also. Mr. Bingham, having animadverted in strong terms on the prisoner's brutality, sentenced him to pay a fine of Li, or two months' imprisonment. THE GRIEVANCES OF THE SHIPPING INTERES7I A public meeting of shipowners and others in terested in British shipping was held yesterday at the London Tavern, " to take into consideration," in the language of the advertisement, " the ruinous condition of British navigation, and to adopt such measures as may be deemed expedient thereto." Mr. David Dunbar was in the chair, and the plat form was occupied by a large number of dele gates from the various outports of the United Kingdom. The following members of the House of Commons were also present :—Mr. J. C. Cob bold, Ipswich ; Mr. R. Ingham, South Shields ; J. Mellor and Mr. A. W. Young, Great Yarmouth; Mr. H. Paull, St. Ives; Mr. Jas. Clay and Lord Ashley, Hull. The large room was crowded with representatives of the London shipping firms. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that the object of the meeting was to take into consideration the depressed state of the shipping interest, a fact which needed no arguments to prove. Some time ago the Legislature thought fit to repeal the Navigation Laws, but, whatever might be the various opinions as to the expediency of that course, he did not believe there was anyone pre sent who believed in the possibility of re-enacting those laws. (Hear.) In the outset, therefore, he was anxious to dislaim, for the meeting, any idea of asking f or a reversa l o f recen t legislation on this matter ; nor was it their intention to go into any discussion of the policy of that legislation. (Hear.) Neither was it their intention to take into their consideration the peculiar burdens to which the shipping interest was subjected, such as the local dues, the policies of assurance, &c. Another op portunity might possibly be taken for the discus sion of those grievances, but at present, acting on a resolution which had yesterday been agreed to by the assembled d e l egates, w h at i t was desired to press upon th e a tt ent i on o f t h e pu bli c was the grievance under which the shipping inte rest suffered from the non-fulfilment by foreign nations of the reciprocity clauses in the statute repealing the Navigation Laws. When those laws were repealed, a clause was introduced inta the act giving her Majesty power to re-enact the restric tions of the old laws against those nations which did not grant to English vessels the same privileges which their own vessels received therefrom, and, after eight years' experience of the disinclination of foreign nations to grant this reciprocity to British shipowners, they were justified in asking her Majesty to do them justice by exercising the right which had been conferred upon them by this clause. During those eight years foreign nations had enjoyed all the benefits of the concessions then made without their having one iota of advantage in return. A gross hardship it was felt had been done to the British shipowners on this point, and their object in assembling there was to ask justice from the hands of their countrymen. (Cheers.) He had that morning received a letter from Melbourne, in which it was stated that out of 52 ships which were lying in that port only 21 were British. Mr. G. F. YOUNG moved the first resolution— "That British shipping is at present, in all its most im portant branches, in a state of most deplorable and ruinous depression,which has been partly caused ,and is greatly aggra vated, by the unequal competition to which, by the repeal of the Navigation Laws, British navigation is now exposed with the shipping of foreign countries." After adverting to his long absence from public life, the hon. gentleman proceeded to disavow, on be half of the meeting, any intention of reviving the controversy of Free Trade v. Protection. It was of the last importance, not merely as regarded con ciliating the support of public men, but even to obtain a hearing from the general public, that it should be distinctly understood that they had no intention of flying in the face of the decision which had been arrived at on that question, however erroneous some of them might think it. He was there not to ask for Protection, but for simple jus tice. (Hear, hear.) He did not wish for any new legislation, but merely that the law as it now stood should be carried into execution. It was no doubt, unfortunate that public opinion seemed to have adopted a foregone conclusion against the object for which they were striving. The great organs of public opinion, too, seemed to have adopted by anticipation a view of the question opposed to their claims, but it was clear that they had taken this course without a full examination into its merits. Still it was not for them to quail before these obstacles, but bravely to encounter them—(hear)--and he hoped that when a full and clear statement of the case had been laid before the public those who professed to guide public opinion would look carefully into it, and would endeavour to do full justice to an important British interest. When the Navi g ation Laws were repealed the ex pectation was held out to the shipping interest that in return for the surrender of the privileges then surrendered, foreign nations would give to them reciprocal advantages. That amiable man but ex ceedingly weak Minister, Mr. Labouchere, who proposed that repeal to Parliament, said therecould be no doubt that foreign nations would follow our example, although his concurrence in the clause which enabled her Majesty to reimpose the pro hibitions in the case of non-reciprocating nations, seemed to argue that lie had some misgivings on the subject. The language of Sir Charles Wood, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Porter on that occasion was, that the effect of the surrender of these privileges must be to give an immense impetus to the increase of British shipping ; but their predic tions, instead of being verified, had failed lament ably. The influential organ of public opinion (the Times) had lately stated that the advance of British tonnage since the repeal of the Navigation Laws had been incredible ; and, according to the Economist, that increase was more than 50 per cent., but the facts contradicted both of them. According to the Board of Trade returns, the total tonnage of British and foreign vessels entered inwards with cargoes in 1842 was 3,655,230 tons, and in 1849 it was 6,710,269, being an in crease of 66 per cent. in the eight years pre ceding the repeal of the Navigation Laws. In 1857 it was 8,731,806 tons, being an increase of 44 per cent. only in the eight years following that repeal. In the eight y-cars preceding the repeal the British tonnage had increased from 2,680,858 to 4,390,375 tons, being 64 per cent., and the foreign tonnage from 974,372 tons to 1,680,894 tons, or 73 per cent., while in the eight years following the repeal British tonnage had increased from 4,390,375 to 5,427,534, or 24 per cent., and foreign tonnage from 1,680,894 to 3,304,272, or 97 per cent. (Hear, hear.) It was argued, however, that because there had been an increase of British tonnage and of the trade of the country since the repeal of the Navi gation Laws, therefore British maritime com merce must have benefited from that measure ; but no fallacy could be more transparent. In the first place it might be asked, had the increase in our mercantile marine been greater before the repeal of the Navigation Laws or since ; and next, had the increase since that repeal been greater in the British commercial marine or in the foreign ? (Hear, hear.) That was a nut for the journalists who strove to write down this movement to crack. It was necessary that the people of England should take these things into their consideration before they made up their minds on this question, and this was an opportunity which ought not to be passed over. He might have written a pamphlet, and shown the result much more conclusively ; but who would have read it ? (Laughter.) He might have written, too, a letter to the editor of the Times, but would he have put it in? These figures, however, stated at a public meeting, could not be suppressed, and it was for their opponents to com bat them. Still, he would do the writers in the journals the justice to say that he believed they had been misled, and that they had not paid sufficient attention to the facts of the question. (Hear.) But to return to the statistics. In 1849 the gross registered British tonnage was 4,144,115 tons, and in 1857 it' was 5,519,114, showing an increase since the repeal, of 33 per cent. In the same time the tonnage of the United States had in creased from 3,374,01 4 to 5,250,456, being an in crease of 60 per cent.; and there was very little doubt that at the present moment the gross ton nage of the United States actually exceeded our own. (Hear, hear.) That was the result which he had predicted at the time of the repeal, and it was one which had scarcely yet been brought home to the convictions of the British people. Most people who had not studied the subject would be asto nished to find how foreigners bad come into our commerce and run away with th e best p art of i t . Intheeight years preceding the repeal of the na vigation laws British shipping entering in and clearing out had increased about 43 per cent., and foreign shipping entered in and clearing out had increased 36 per cent., but in the eight years suc ceeding the repeal, while British tonnage had only increased 42 per cent., foreign tonnage had in creased 118 per cent. In 1849 British tonnage entered inwards in the ports of London and Liver pool was 2,590,156, and foreign tonnage 1,900,209 ; but in 1857, while British tonnage was only 4,671,672, foreign tonnage was 3,211,420 tons. It was said, however, that we had overbuilt our selves, and that the depression was partly caused by that fact ; but he maintained that instead of that being the case we had not actually built to the extent which the average in crease o f the commerce of the United Kingdom would have justified us in building. In the eight years preceding the repeal of the navigation laws we built 1,751,913 tons, while the Americans built 1,448,842. But in the eight' years following that repeal, while we had only built 2,947, 127 tors, the Americans had actually built 3,385,945 tons. (Hear.) It was beyond all doubt that the commerce of the United States had not in that time increased in such a ratio as to justify this increase in their building; the increase, in fact, was accounted fo r by the opening which the repeal of the navigation laws had given to the American carrying trade. Our imports had increased from 1842 to 1857 from £65,000,000 to £136,000,000, but our tonnage had not increased in anything like the same r a ti o . In fact, we had not built enough, but the United States had stepped in and supplied the deficiency. The British shipowners when the repeal of the navigation laws was passed, were led to believe that they would obtain an indemnity for the privileges they then lost in the counter-advantages which would then be opened to them in foreign trade, but experience had proved the hollowness of this promise. For instance the trade with Brazil was open to all the world, but out of 41 ships which cleared out from Rio Janeiro for London last year, amounting to 13 ; 138 tons, and employing 468 men, only 7 were British, and only 70 of the men were British sailors. (Hear.) This was a fact which the commissioners now sit ting to inquire into the best means of manning the navy ought to take into their most serious con sideration. On the Ist of the present month there were in London 17,258 tons of shipping loading for our Australian colonies, of which only 6,984 tons were British, and of six ships loading for Adelaide not a single ship was Briti s h. (Hear.) Again, in 1855-56-57, 399,542 emigrants were conveyed to America. Of these 105,246 were conveyed in Bri t'sh vessels, and 294,296 in foreign vessels. That is another proof of the extent to which foreign ships are stepping into our trade. The last accounts from Batavia, where we have a reciprocity treaty, state that of 29 ships lying there only one vessel is Bri , fish. From Calcutta, from Singapore, and from the Chinese ports we have the same tale of vessels lying inactive. One great fallacy by which people were misled was that the interests of the consumers were benefited by the reduction of freight to the full ex tent of the difference which must exist between the sum paid tothe English carrier and the sum paid to the foreign carrier. That was a pure delusion. With respect to a large proportion of articles, im ported freight did not enter into the price at all. In bulky and heavy commodities freight, no doubt, constituted an important item in the cost of the article in the market in which it was sold ; but in goods of a valuable description and not of any bulk it entered less, and it diminished gradually accord ing to the diminution of the bulk and the increase of the value, until in the most valuable it ceased to exist at all as an element of price. But there could not be a greater mistake than to contend that, if a shipload of timber were brought over by a foreign vessel at a freight of £1 per ton, instead of £2 per ton by a British vessel, the consumer therefore would get it at £1 per ton cheaper. In all such cases the reduction of freight was added to the price of the article by the foreign producer, and he alone got the benefit. The price of an article was not regulated by its cost of production in the market, but by the proportion of supply and de mand in the market. When the Navigation Laws were repealed the ports of Great Britain did not present a single petition in favour of the measure, but the West Indian colonists did petition. Their object was to get their sugar conveyed home cheaper —not that the consumer here might have the bene fit of a reduced price, but that they might put the difference between the higher and lower freight into their own pockets. For many years he had been an advocate of what were called the principles of protection ; but he was neither bigotted to pro tection as a principle, nor to free trade as a princi ple. He objected to every attempt to carry out principles in themselves good to results which were pernicious. The Navigation Laws could never be reimposed in their integrity, and they ought not to be, but there was much of good in the Navigation Laws, and that good ought to be restored, or the maritime commerce of Great Britain must sink from the position which it had so long occupied. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman concluded by moving the resolution. Mr. ANDERSON seconded it, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. S. R. GRAVES, of Liverpool, moved the second resolution : " That, after the experience of eight years, it is proved that the indiscriminate admission of all foreign shipping to the privileges of British ships has failed to induce many foreign Governments reciprocally to admit British ships to equality of privilege with their own ships, and that British navigation is, consequently, in many cases impeded and in jured by prohibitions, restrictions, and regulations inconsis tent with fair and equal competition, for the express purpose of meeting which contingency the following clause was in troduced into the Act by which the Navigation Laws were repealed, was continued by the Act 16th and 17th Victoria, cap. 107, and is now the law of the land If it shall be made to appear to her Majesty that British vessels are subject, in any foreign country, to any prohibitions or re strictions as to the voyages in which they may engage, or as to the articles which they may import into, or ex port from, such country, it shall be lawful for her Majesty (if she think fit), by order in Council, to impose such prohibitions, or restrictions, upon the ships of such foreign country, either to the voyages in which they may engage or as to the articles which they may import into or export from any part of the United Kingdom, or of any British possession in any part of the world, as her Majesty may think fir, so as to place the ships of such country on, as nearly as possible, the same footing in British ports as that on which British ships are placed in the ports of such country? ", The resolution was put and carried unanimously. Mr. ATKINSON, of Hull, proposed the next reso ution "That, in the opinion of this meeting, the time has now arrived when all who are interested in British shipping should concur in an urgent appeal to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to exercise the powers thus vested in her, and to place the ships of all such countries as may continue to refuse to reciprocate the benefits conferred on them by the liberal concessions accorded to their navigation, as nearly as possible on the same footing in British ports as that on which British ships are in the ports of such countries.'" Mr. WAWN, late M.P. for South Shields, seconded the resolution, which was carried unani- mously. Mr. MITCHELL, in proposing the next resolu tion,— " That with this object the addreSinow read be approved and adopted ; that it be signed by the chairman on behalf of this meeting, and by the chairman of the General Ship owners' Society and the members of the various deputations now present from the ports on behalf of the shipping inte rests cf the metropolis and of those outports respectively ; and that when so signed it be placed in the hands of the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment for presentation to her Majesty,"— quoted from the Customs returns of Montrose, Dun dee, and Aberdeen, to show the great decrease of British shipping, and the increase of foreign ship ping in those ports since the repeal of the Naviga tion Lass. The hon. gentleman also expressed his belief, founded on the Earl of Malmesbury's letter, that the present Government were anxious to do justice to the shipping interest. The resolution was carried unanimously. The meeting then separated. THIS DAY'S 2IIARKETS. THIS DAI 'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Dec. 16.—Wind this day at noon, S. to S.E.; strong breeze, and dull, hazy weather. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived— Tweedsids (screw steamer), from Calcutta; Fire Sonner, from Callao. _ _ _ _ _ . _ SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 16.—Wind S.—Arrived—La Plata (steamer), from the West Indies. COWES, Dec. 15.—Wind E.—Arrived—Fulton (screw steamer), from Havre, and then proceeded for New York. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Quentin Matsey, from Havannah. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. The Dutch screw steamer Rotterdam, from Gibraltar, passed Hurst at 10.15 a.m. Wind S., blowing fresh. • Arrived—La Plata, steamer, from St. Thomas ; Amiable Virginia, from Havre; Wonder, steamer, from Jersey ; ' Pet, from Newcastle • Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Le Coq and La Poule, from Cherbourg ; Sazonia Aquiss, from Cardiff. Sailed—Cicely, for Simderland ; Tiber, for Newport; Dispatch, steamer, for Jersey ; Havre, steamer, for Havre ; Argyll, steamer, for Carentan. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind S. Arrived, 15th—Cintra, screw steamer, from Oporto. Arrived, 16—Indah, Touro, from Charleston ; Btutlbec, screw steamer, from Havre ; Wellington, from Nantes. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Wind S.W. ; tide high water; weather cloudy, Arrived, Dec. 15—Pilot Boat, No. 12, from Flushing; Queeley Shiel, from Bathurst ; Ann Jewit, from Antwerp ; Emma, from Ostend ; Lion, from Gravelines ; Draper, from Gijon; Betie Krouk, from Smyrna; Fair City, from G °them borg ; New Friendship, from Gravelines ' • A nna b e lla, from Holnistead ; Prince Albert, and Boa, from Cronstadt ; Christina, from Wolgast. Arrived, Dec. 16.—Baron Osy, from Antwerp; Marco Bozzuis, from Patras. Sailed—Flora, steamer, for Amstrdam. DEAL,e Thursday Morning. Wind S.S.W., moderate. Passed—Blue Jacket, for St. Thomas ; Gibraltar, for Cadiz—both from London. Anchored—Crocodile, from London, for St. Kitt's. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CHELSEA.—On Tuesday night a fire broke out on the premises in the joint occupation of Mr. It. Morris, wheelwright, and Mr. W. Bonney, chemist, No. 3, Beaufort-placc,Beaufort-street, Chelsea, and was not extinguished until the building, 70 feet long by 245 feet wide, was destroyed, and the adjoining premises con siderably damaged by fire and water. The cause is un known. ' The loss will fall on the Imperial, Emperor, and ()tiler offices, CORN EXCHANGE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. - Wheat, 41s Gd; barley, 358 ld; oats, 22s 10d; rye, 38s Gd; beans, 41s 8d; and peas, 43s Bd. THE Six WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 41s 7d ; barley, 35s 3d ; oats, 22s lld ; rye, 318 11d ; beans, 42s 7d ; peas, 44s 7d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 108,311; barley, 111,611; oats, 9,519; rye, 129; beans, 3,578; peas, 1,445 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. A full average time-of-year supply of beasts were on offer in to-day's market in excellent condition. All breeds moved off freely, at fully Monday's currency—come of the primest Scots having sold at fully ss. 2d. per 81bs. We were fairly supplied with sheep; the quality was good. The best downs and half-breeds sold steadily—other kinds slowly, at previous quotations. Prime calves were scarce and in request, at full prices ; but inferior calves declined 2d. to 4d. per 81bs. Pigs and mulch cows were in fair demand, at last week's currency. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. a. d, a. d Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Prhnecrs-w001d0.4 4 4 6 Second qualitydo. 3 10 4 2 Pme. S'thdowndo. 4 8 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Large crse. calves 3 4 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. 4 10 5 2 Prime small d 0... 4 6 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 4 3 8 Large hogs 3 0 3 6 Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Small porkers .... 3 8 4 2 Suckling calves, 17s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs ; 17s to 21s. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep Calves 312 Calves Pigs 3OO i Pigs HAY MARKETS. SMITITFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 Ss Od ; clover, do., £3 15s to £5 0s; and straw, £1 ss. to £1 10s. per load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 8s; clover do., £3 12s to £5 Os. ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 lOs per load. Supply good, and trade dull. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 8s Od ; clover, io., £3 15s to £5 Os. ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 lOs per load. Trade dull. MEAT MARKETS. NEw GATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are extensive, yet the trade rules steady, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 48 6d ; mutton, ' 3s 2d to 4s 6d • lymb, Os Od to Os Od ; vea l, 3s 10d to 45 8d ; pork, 3s Od to 4s 4d per Blbs. by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Dec. 15.—The supply of fat stock here to day was extensive, and the trade ruled heavy, as follows : Beef, from 3s 6d to 58 Od ; mutton, 3s 6d to 5s Od ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d per Blbs. to sink the offal. Romvoan Dec. 15.—Our market was well supplied to day, and a steady business was transacted on higher terms. Beef, from 3s 6d to 58'0d; mutton, 3s 4d to 5s Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; pork, as 4cl to 4s 2d per 8lbs; gulch cows, £0 Os ; suckling calves 17s to 20s each.