The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

HONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The return from the Bank of England, com pleted to the ith inst., is of a satisfactory character, but there is little variation of importance to notico in the various items. The bullion has been slightly diminished, and the reserve of notes shows a small in crease. The other securities, owing to the payment of the bills due on the 4th of the month have slightly diminished. The public deposits are rather smaller, but there is about a similar addition to the private balances. The various items will be seen in the subjoined table : Active Circulation .. Decrease .. .. Bullion .. • • • • -121,150,405 *0 94,225 .. 16,936,815 Decrease .. Rest • • • • ' 81,697 3,139,380 Increase .. Public Deposits 7,610 8,608,215 Decrease . • 71,100 Other Deposits . • .. 13,444,361 Increase .. .. • • • • 79,979 Seven Day and other Bills .. 792,422 Decrease .. .. • . • • 29,539 Government Securities .. 10,925,157 No alteration. Other Securities .. .. 19,350,811 Decrease; .• • • 25,828 Notes Unemployed .. 9,593,410 Increase .. • • 13,285 The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon exhibited a further slight improvement in the rates on Vienna and Trieste. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, which leaves on Monday for Bombay, will convoy £135,717 ; viz., £91,629 in silver, and £44,090 in gold. A call of £5 per share, or £500,000, on the East Indian Jubbulporejtailvray, and of £5, or £250,000 on the (F) Extension is due to•day. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday about an average amount of business was transacted at rather lower prices. The sales were 6,000 bales. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about £306,000, and the exports £193,000, exclusive of the following shipments direct from London to the Continent, during the week ending Thursday last : Gold coin, Calais'. . Ditto Boulogno Silver coin, Calais l,OOO „ Ditto Hambro' Ditto Boulogne Ditto bars, }iamb ro' The market for English Securities to-day has been rather fiat, but the decline bas been limited to * per cent., Consols being 951 for for the 18th pro'. This movement has no doubt been produced by a few calls in realisation of profits, and a slight de- Cline in the French Funds, but the alteration is of very little importance. The transfer books being Closed, the market is now left to the influence of the speculative dealings, and prices are easily effected by sales or purchases. The New 3 per Cents, and the Reduced are flat, at 95 ; Bank Stock is firm, at 227 to 228 ; India New Loan Stock is steady, at 1061 s ; ditto Debentures (1858) are 97k; ditto (1859) 961 97; and the Bonds 3s. prem. ; Exchequer Bills remain at 275. to 308. Prem. A moderate amount of business has been trans acted in Foreign Securities, and prices remained Without any change of importance. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 771 to 781; ditto New, 661 to 661 And the 4 per Cents. are 104} /. Dutch 21 per Cents. are firm at 65. Sardinian are steady at 861 ; Russian 3 per Cents. at 6G; ; and Brazilian 5 Per Cents. at 103. Mexican is flat, at 22/ f. The Ocean Marine insurance Company's shares are 1 premium. In the Railway Share Market only a moderate "Mount of business has been transacted, and in blest instances prices have shown less firmness. C aledonian, Great Northern, Great Western, Lan rehire ehire and Yorkshire, North Western, and Mid land, have declined ss. ; and Eastern Counties a nd S outh Western, 108. ; South-Eastern and North Briti s h brought about former prices. The Foreign and Colonial lines are flat. Per ' 4.einbuco declined ss. ; and Bahia and San Fran- C ifico, as. ; Lombardo-Venetian were steady at 12k. In the Colonial Market there was very little ac tivity, East Indian brought 103 to 103 i; Great I ndian Penirsula, 1001 101; Grand Trunk of Canada,, 391 391; and Great Western of Canada, 131 . Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have I ron dealt in to a very limited extent, and prices 'aye shown no particular alteration. Penin tklar and Oriental Steam, however, have advanced about b 143 1 BRITISH ck FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES B . • Sto • 8 3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 951 I let* Cent. Consols Annuities Shut 971 7 14 :1' 3 per Cent. Annuities b• li g Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 — I ate for 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 17/ .41.(21% Stock tDittp, 1859, 5 per Cent. itt4 Debentures, 1858 97 i b., Ditto, 1859 .. LCita Bonds, Ll,OOO ~ for Account (Jan. 10) 94 1 x d Dl): 3 , l equer Bills, £l,OOO, lid 3O 27 iet i 5OO . ... 30 27 14 0 Small, 1Id. • FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Irian 5 per Cent. b. 2 a1l 3 per Cent. , itto Account . - ort- ti b,nese, 1853, 3 per Cent. It 11 ,to Account Ok i b i , l a,_ l l 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent Barir.l:3 per Cent., 1859 661 _ b i ,. l l,lail, 5 per Cent Ti t ,, i ,"° Account brt,_eli Account Cent — D ; ''° 7B 7 . tto New Loan t i r4 Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. "to Account 31 ea . Dividends on the above payable in London. 4 1 _ 0 1 21 per Cent., Ex. 25f. NI to 41teta Exchange,, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 65 _ __ TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account (Jan. 10) 95! x d THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. ,„ 4 4_01, 11 , "locl e 131 ''t, Doc. 10.—Wind this day at noon, E. to N.E. ; 1, 0 late breeze and very fine. ij liktrsNtouTil, Dec. 9. Wind, East. —Arrived %b e "). Item, from Portland, and not H.M.S. Conqueror, le4,4)re reported. Off port—lsabella Robinson, from Co t ' .r° ll T, Dec. 9.—Wind, E.—Sailed—St. Thomas, t, b er wimbuc o; Marie, for St. Thomas. N‘a! ; _tt, Dec. 9.—Wind, S.E.—Sailed—Lucie, for the ,a tt . 'ibr tt t!, Dee. B.—Wind, S.E.—Sailed—The Swift, for 011.• -- /), erner T°L E Arrived—Marianne, .ara D . cc. 9.—Wind, S. t, t re it o Z i mt, Dec. 9.—The Nile, Riga to London, reported 4 4 14 "' i ng an having put back here, making water, &e., Itteueaconsiderably strained. Tho pumps are constantly it 6 :'. i to and it is hoped that the cargo has not suffered. - ' ll do t i - " v age can be arranged the vessel may be towed to e l , the re s? ° ll T, Dec. 9.—The Shamrock (schr), which was if t4 . l thi - • °11 the north side of the harbour, was got off and - 111 111„ th last night. The Hazard, which went on shore h th e _,P. toNI,,A pnie of the 4th and sth damage. was got off ';,:, Into the port, sustained n (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning. t h ,rtv,„l . " 4-----Liberty from London; Despatch, steamer, fj, i Be ,_Y; Surprise , from Fowey ; Gem, from Hartle kl,"7,lle(l-73nY, from St. Ives; Concordia, from Newcastle. 4 4 41 ' iss-te`'amplighter, for Seaharn; Alcester, for Cardiff; ' 4 ; A a ,. ll ,__er, for Rio Janeiro; Alliance, steamer, for "'anti' and Courier, steamers, for Jersey. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Ak!:ri llid ea g fresh. e 14 9—Madeira Pet, from ktrii,&.l,l, Deep. Taganr St. Michael's ( 11/ u ec. 1 0—ru og. liet Trundy, from New Orleans. Wi fiy ? „ " . .HARIItII AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. k i ttr, s. i v 4 'Dide, second hours' flood ; weather, fine. 4 11 14 -4 Alat v ' er e. 9 . —Susan, from . St. Michael; Wil!iam, It k e P , Neptune and Providence, from Or .d avelna r e o s m ; 4. 0 44 144.,, w e,tt, from Dunkirk ; Malbina and VI ar, f : 4 ,, A. 't,.."linger steamer, from Oporto ; Rhine, steamer, 41tioRt44-41"..°11,; rigor, steamer, from Boulogne; Bel ")r ZTfrom Ostend. • hree Sid rs for St. John's, Newfoundland ; okee --eart,er f e b • Louisa, for Cherburg ; ' ft) kadeira°r Ham urg ,find‘ , 1.% ( 1 4 ''' S .• i moderate. 4111. e -- Ine z tt c , 'A Charlestown Naiad for Algoa Bay -41 14 wood for Sydney ; °m oil. ~ Tigress, for Pall t -44 4 the i n ho un r i t f h orm r:r w in e c n e t 1v1t211,(4e38,,, ?riling of t litlirt•tetatioli 7p a ,the Austrian the last of the Austrian in ' tl/111e1.8 vll O h ,rllBlllYe' toreceive i'ranee. They wel 85 and Charles a t rl e r s a i o l- f 1441 'it' 414 h a arrived from wounded in Italy, th • ttil Yof t h ad been all seriously either arms .Prince 1-- Cale tli:if l e i , had or legs amputated ; . e 4 1 ;les 44Y:... resembled a hospital . travelhng sosaon f 4t kea l tild a t 7 B !ed s9ute words of con I tl ,kx . Inhabitant of Carlsruhe distribu t t o ed ea c c o h ffe o e, el nrs aruong them. DEAL, Saturday Morning. d 9- 9 01 ti 011 fly r 3 tiler t , adu l t: ;o C u il igt , 0 or 0 1 7; EV ° 14 016/11 g o f the of sM a o a. to , WO IS IS I3 SC le ol eed A° Se vorXl • X. erAi Boar IP - I ti of ne 100 - ro o# hiv b e fog . r a of if of 014 at .ti c od Ire o n . c tb i „ v itt: o o ' sa ia; it ooe h, , 74. 000 h O b i ° .4 0 )re oes w o o to l os a ORDINARY Silk Shard! Xtailways. 12.10 I Ambers., Notting. Bast. I and Eastern Junction 50 I Belfa, , t and Bally znena 13.14 'Bin, Wol., and iitr. Stook Bin, La., audCh. June 25 'Blackburn 25 Blyth and Tyne 10 llost.Slefd.& Nlid. Coun Stock Bristol arid Exeter Stock 'Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 1 0 Carmarthen Sr Cardigan 20 'Cork, Bikrock,&Passag,e 20 'Cornwall 10 Do. A A roves. no div 10 Do. B until(%). c per an hasbeen pd.toß Dublin andßeliast June Dun.,Pertli,& Abr.Junc , ' East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union A Stock Do. do. T 1 Stock! Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) East Suffolk 10 Do lEdinburr, and Glasgow & Dundee. Forth & Clyde Junction 'lPurness IGlasgow & South Westn Great North of Scotland Great Northern ' Do. do. A Stock Do. do. B Stock iGt. Sou th. & Wstn.(lreld) ,Great Western ,Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk llrish South Eastern , Lancaster and Carlisle Do. Thirds New Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire l I London and Blackwall. I L on., Brighton k S. Coast Lond. Chat. and Dover London & North Westn' I Do. Eighths London& South-Westn I L' derry & Coleraine L'derry & !Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan Midland ; Do. Thrilling. & Derby Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) Do. 4 Sbarz's Newcastle aud Carlisle New., Aber., & Ilerefd: Newry & Armagh (ad.) Newry, Warpt., & Roo Norfolk North. Counties Union North British Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk Do. A Stk.— Arec. no div until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 'Do. B Stock North-Eastn.—Berwick ,Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase ,Do. Leeds Do. York 'North London North Staffordshire No. & Son. W. Junction Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver Peebles Portsmouth Rh ymney Scottish Central Soon. N. E., Aber. Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 'Shropshire Union ISittingbourne & Sheer South Devon '.south-Eastern South Wales So u tl;Yorks.&Riv.Dun Stain's, Wok., & Wok Stockton & Darlington Do. do. ;855 Do. do. 18: , 8 Stockton & Ilartlepool !Taff Val& Do. Preference, No. 1 hamesHavenDk&Ltaill llllster Do. Do. Vale of Neath ,Victoria Station & Pim, Waterford J. Kilkenny, !Waterford & Limerick !West Cornwall IW-end Lon. & Cry. Pal IDo.A.—Arecy.nodiy.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B Do. B West London Do. Ist Class Do, 2d Class all all all all all Railways. Paid. Blythe and Tyne 1C per c. pref. (issued at £5O) & Exet4p.ctStock 'Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 44 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. Cornwall, 5 per cent. Dun. Perth, & Aber. Jun E.Angn. Class A 7 & spci Do. do. Class B'6 pc Do. do. Class C 7 po E. Coun. Ex. 5 p et. No.l Do. do N 0.2 Do. New 6 per et. Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares Do. 4 p.c. gua. S. & D. Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas. &S West.(* a. 5 pc. Great Northern, 5 p. et.! Do. 5 pc Itedm.,lop.c.pm Do. 44 p. c. do. do. Do.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pf 1 Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland)4 I p. et. pref. Stock Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p.et Do. Redeemable, 44 p ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct )o. Irredeemable, do DO, 5 p. et. Redeem. Pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf shares Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do. Birming. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock I Do.Barnsl.StXs 3slodpc L on. &Bri g.spe. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ...No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. et. Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Do. do. 44 per e. shares) Loud. Chat. and Dover Lon.& N.W.CoTANun, eaton, 5 p. et. Lon. &S. W, 7 p.et. stock, late 3d shares Londondy & Cole, shs. Londondy.& Ennis 4 sh. lan.,Sh., & Lin., 6 p. et. Do. £6 Do. 34 ner cent. Do. redeem. 6 per cent slaryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent Do. - Mid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct Do. 4f p. c. pref. stock 'Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. Hit.pref. st. Newport,Aber,&c.pret. s p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c.!) m Do. Perpet, 6 p. a with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p. c. shares I Do. 5 p. c. Ext.Stock,lB46 Do. 5i p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way.Val.Ex.Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, zua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.&DA.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Consol. Pref. 4 p. c. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 Do. York, H.& S:Purch. North Staffordshire .... Ox. wr. & Wol. 6 pc. Ist g Do. Redeem.,2d gua.... Do. Irredeem., 2d gua.) Rhymney Guaranteed.) Scottish Central, new pt Scottish North-Eastern) 3i per c. pref. 5t0ck.....1 Do.Aberdeen.gua.6pc.l Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock.' South Devon, Ann. 108.1 Do. Fixed 44 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 6) o Do .44 per cent Do. Fixed 4} p.c. Ist is South Wales, gua. 4 p.c Do. 4t per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.e Do. B 6 per cent Do. C 6 per cent . Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent . PREFFIRENCN SUARES. Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock S tock i Stock 1 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock , Leif Stock Stock Stock Stock 12 Stock Stcck Stocki Stock! Stock Stock Stock Stook Stock! Stock; Stock' Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock StocY Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 12 10 Stock Stock 2 5 0 i 10 20 I. 1 Share! Stle, 20 took 12.10 Closing Price. 96 98 102 103 51 6 [OO 102 [l2 115 [O5 108 [l2 114 111 113 [27 129 83 85 109 111 90 92 7$ 7$ ,15 117 [lB 120 [l2 114 [O6 108 86 88 98 99 98 100 89 91 91 93 [O2 104 fi 1 0 17 18 10 104 73 70 191 201 9 10 14 15 L 39 141 10 11 124 126 68 7 0 P I IP 39 141 [O2 104 a 14 10 11 11 12 11 113 109 111 91 03 97 99 li iP o ip 23 24 124 126 125 130 117 120 73 75 120 122 10 11, 231 24i 103 104 102 104 84 87 28 29 33 24 3'4 331 57 59 Business Done. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railway!. Bedford and Bletehley' B uckingl iarnshi re Chester & Tlolyhead ' Do. do. 54 p. ct Do. - do. 5 p. et. Clydesdale.Tunction Colchester, Stour Val E.Lincolnshire,g. 6 p.c E Union,liarwichShs Do. Woodbridge .. G I s. Barr. &Neils,Dret. ;MI& N.W N.W Do. Do. Do. Caledonia', i u E.U.AtE C Gt. North. E.Counts. Do. New ...........1 Gloster& Dean Forest,' Hartlpool.Dek.&ll 9 . ll . Hull and Selby ...... ICaledonin Do. I Gt. West. Ylc.N. & Br , Yk.N. Md I Do. IDo. S. Bast— Do. Peto &Co. Norfolk Do. W&M Do. Shares Do. I Shares Lon don&Greenwich , Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ct• Do. 6 per cent Manc.,Buxtn. & Matk Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 guarantt el 5 P. c. N orthn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent Do. Fixed 5 per cent. North Western...... Proston and Wyre. Do. 4 Shares ...... A.; lloystn,ll iteli.,& Shep; Slirowsbry& Hereford' Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset Wimbledon& Croydn„ Midland E.Counts Do. Do. Do. W L.Yk. Do. Gt.North.' Brassey all , 100 , all M'Clean Gt. West IL.&Bren iCK6. Share Doak*. Stock i Commercial Stock i Do 4 pprCent.Pref . Min Stock East and Wcst India Stock London Stock St. Katharine Stock Southampton Stock Victoria 410 17.00 New astotimweimo! Paid Leasing Closing Business • Co.'s. I Prioe. Done. 99 100 491 49, 123 125 113 115 103 105 16 17 139 141 4i 48 4if 50 21 2/ 98 100 66 58 14 14}1 138 140 100 105 P lo} p lot 10i 93 95 74 84 Closing sneineU fq " b4oe. Dose. 100 100 100 100 - 100 100 104 106 2 661 a Stocki Stock Stoc2(l Stock) Stocki 8 tocl Stoc Stoc Stol Stoc Stoc Stock Stock Stock 12 12 Stock Stock 12i 120 Stock Stock Stock stockl 10 Stock! Stock) Stock Stock Stock l Stock Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock' Stock Stock 10 8k Stock Stock Stock Stock los. Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Cal MARKETS,-( THIS DAY.) 'DAR. .ES AND STOCKS. ,Taid• Closing Susineu Price. ri Ci 8 R 77i 784 11i 124 ei 45 1 1101 103 02i 03 6 7 1 13 7 4, 1 8 564 67 38 40 27 20 80 111 30 31 98 99 165 107 94 95 132 134 112 114 671 67! 65 60 201 205 1 164 174 pi 16i 170 09i 100 65 67 116 114 13 14 DI 985 I 4d 97 66 8 9 37 38 1 1o8i lost as 88 101 114 67 69 34 I d 51i 611 I 94 9 1 51 1 (1 48 181 78 181 1 106 108 4 9}d 84 94 36 38 71 81 14 16 27/ 27f 82 84 47 48 3} 24 d 43 45 81 814 72 74 62 64 6 8 34 364 53i 544 11 21 12 d ar 6 6-1 3 7 1 q 44 811£ all 100 34 100 100 100 all }lOO 100 " 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 100 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, i 859, BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share Railways. paid. C p lo r s i l ee n . g 1" 1 .=—.....-eno done Atlantic ( 4 / St Lawrence Leamed at 6 per cent. Bom.,Ba.roda&Cent.lnd gu. 5 percent Do. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. Ii Buffalo and Lake Huron all 100 all 20 20i 10 100 I 100 190 Do. New Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich 6 p. et. bds. 1 Auir., 1812 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 Clcutta. & S. Eas t ru . Lim. Cape,Eas tn. Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Central Oude (Limited) Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.e Demerara Eastern Beng - al.gru.sp.c East Indian, zu. 5 p. a Do. F_ Shares Ext ! 17& 20 Stock Do. Jubbulpore Do.4i p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 Do. 4i p. c. Deben:rs. G eelong& Melbourn e Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 6 per cent. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 18 62 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 Sto. I Stock) 100 Stook Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. Do. New, gua.s per cent. Gt.S.of Ind.Lina.—Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt.W. of Canada Shares. Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with 20 f l 20k 20i 100 I 100 100 100 Stock Stock Stock Stock opt. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. V 3 without opt Do. 5} p. c. do. '77 do IMadras, guar., 4i p. C IDo. do. 5 per oent 'Do. p. c. Extension ,Do. Third EL gua.s.p.e Do. Fourth do. Do. do. . , Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds , 'Newßronswick&Canda. riy.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc Ciaas A Capitl. Share .Do. do. Land do Do. do. B. Capital do Do. do. Lau4 do Oude (Limited) Scinde d + 5 Do. New co Do. Punjaub A Do. Indus. Lit. Flo. •El,'" St. Andrews &Quebec A Trinidad(Limited) Scrip Stout all all all 1 160 1.3 0. ;2e. 6d. all all all 1 100 82 84 081 991 17} 171 d• 41 sid 51 1 61 spar i p lici Id 103 103}' par Id par id 1 i - --d 19t 200 i(.l par id par 831 991 9 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 45 45 I I 20 Ardennes all p 20 Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.e 5 5 I 45 6 Belgian East. Junction all 1 20 Beziers to Graissessac. all 6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 24 21 100 Copiabo 10 Ditto Extension all 1 # d 20 Dutch Rhenish 20 Eastern of France all 28 27 20 Euphrates Valley 2s p 20 Grand Rus. Guar .5 p.c 6 20 Great Central of France all 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs all 74 75 20 Italian Junction all 20 Lake Constance & Bala all 20 Lierre and Turnhout all 20 Lombardo Venetian lO 21 25p 125 20 Lyons and Geneva 335 Maria Antonia all 10 Do. do. New 20 Namur and Liege all 81 8 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref all 19 1 201 195 16 Northern of France 20 Do. New Shares 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref all 9 10 20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit all 375 270 20 Paris and Orleans 2 „ Recife& S. Fran. (Fern ) 13 1 1 1 d 11 1 " gua. 7p. et. (Lim.) 20 Riga and Dunaburg 8 10 Rome and Frascati 20 Royal Danish all 5 Royal Swedish 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all 20 Sambre and Meuse. all 65 7 10 Do. 55 per cent. Pref all fik 9 20 Southern of France 85 West Flanders all 55 51 10 Do. 55 p. c. Preference 20 W. & N.W. of France all 23 24 20 Western of Austria 6 20 Western of Switzerland all 6 Wiesbaden 6 Do 8 per cent. Pref all 20 Zealand all Share' 1 i I d c 1 I i 3 44 I 4 1 1 i e il t 54 56 I 79 81 11 13 22 24 P 6 7 51 53 120 130 36 38 1 1 10 11 It $1 & 271 14 15 BRITISH MINES. -- - Share Mines. Paid. 1 Closing Business Price. Dona Alfred Consols (Phila.(*) 2.11.1$ 45 51 20 British Iron Clifford Devon G. Cone. (Tavist ) 1 435 445 bast Bassett (Illogan) 3O 1225 1275 125 East Caradon E. WI Itusal (Tavistk.) 7.4.0 10# 11 11 Gam..kSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) 512 624 65 GI Great South Tolg,us l7s 135 14 G.Wheal A lfd.(Phitlack! 12.4.2 1 14 G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville 9l 4 t i i Herod' s-Foot 8 22 22 1 Hingston Downs 4.3.6 45 4 Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant) 9; 44 46 North Downs North France sil Rogan) 10 5 65 North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 9 105 N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) 5 5 65 Par Consols (St. Blazy). 15 9 10 20 Providence (Uny Lelntl 10.6.7 45 47 47 $ Sortrldge Cons. Min. Cc. lOs 1 6 SoutliCaradon (St.Cleer) 15 250 260 Sovth C. Brea( Illogan). 2 25 21 S -Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9 105 175 Stray Pal k 18.18.0 195 205 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 45 2 35 10 Tin Croft 9 5 5 51 Vale of Towey (Carm ) 125 6cl West Basset (Illogan) l4 18 lt 1$ 4 West Seton W. Caradon (Liskeard). 10 79 75 Wheal Basset (Illogan). 55 180 190 ..- Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 1075 1121 Wheal Edward (Cats.).. 6 11 1 Wheal Kitty (U. Lelant) 1.7.2 12 1 Wh'l Mary Ann (Mexhe) 8 34 36 I Wh'l Trelawney (Lisk.) 45 129 30 29 FOREIGN MINE* 20 Australian 7l 5 1 1 1 1 Bon AccordCopper,Lim l ss I par 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £sp ) 275 -- 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lirn l5 174 18 1191 i 5 Do. Land and MiumgCo all 1 Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. of Jamaica 40 Cobra Copper all 47 49 481 Copiapo l6 71 85 1 DunMoun.Cop.Min,g.Co all 2 2 Fortuna, 20 General all 24 26 3 Linares all 101 115 d 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariquita all 1 ,N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.L 105. P 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt all 6 7 5 Port Philip 1 4 5 1 Scottish Australn. (L.)... 10e 5 d par 18.2.85 United Mexican LAW INTELLIGENCE'.-(TRIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart.) ERODE V. SOARY-JUDGMENT-]POTION FOR DECREE. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor/said—The plaintiffs, infants, b) their bill, pray for the assistance of the court to give effect to the representations alleged to have been made by the late Dr. Anthony Dickson, the maternal grandfather to their father and mother before their marriage, that the Ed rington estate, and 105,000 Sicca rupees would be settled on them and their children. llis Honour the Vice-Chancellor referred to the evidence produced, both written and parole, on both sides, which was extremely contradictory; but, on a minute and careful consideration of the evidence, his Honour came to the conclusion that the balance of evidence was in favour of the plaintiffs, and declared accordingly, and remitted to his chief clerk to ascertain whether it would be for the benefit of the plaintiffs to elect to take the 105,000 sicca rupees, or the estate, or the residue. No costs on e ith er side. His Honour refused to grant an injunc tion, but granted liberty to apply, ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) UPS V. MASSRY.--IfOTION FOR DECRER.-411DGMENT. His Honour the Ma.ter of the Rolls said—l have looked into this case, and am of opinion that the A ord "relations" in this will means "next of kin ;" and, therefore, I must make a declaration that the next of kin are entitled to take the estate of the late Thomas Lee. Coots of all parties to come out of the estate. His Honour made the usual admi • nistrativo decree. POLICE INTELLIGENCE-( THIS DAY.) MARLI3OROUGH-STMET. SWINDLING OE A GERMAN DV A NOTORIOUS FOREIGN CARDSRARPER.—Sacob Mindl, described as a German courier, but who is said to be a well known canlsharper, and frequenter of billiard-rooms, was charged with defrauding David Piepes, a German commercial clerk, out of employ, of his silver watch of the value of £2. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prisoner, Mr. Albert intrepreting the evidence. From the evidence of the prosecutor who said he resided at 208, Marylebono-road, he was passing along Oxford street on his way home when tho prisoner asked him some thing in English which he did not understand. A gentle man, who was close to the prisoner, said to me in French, that the prisoner was .a German. The prisoner then asked for a street which he did not know, and walked on with him and just as he was about to leave the prisoner said, "Will you take something to drink with me ?• and he went into an hotel with the prisoner and the other man, who said he was a Swiss. While they were in the hotel a short man, who said he was a Spaniard, and had just returned from America, where he had inherited a large fortune, came in, and after a short time said he pre ferred wine to beer, and asked what sort they would take, he having joined in conversation with them. Prisoner im mediately said, "It's usual, and custom requires, that we should play for our score," and took from his pockot a sort of cigar-case, which contained a red and a white counter, the case being so constructed that when a person called "red," prisoner opened it and showed "white," and vice versa. The prisoner and the Spaniard and the Swiss then played, and the Spaniard lost five times, and said, " I owe you for the opera, the dinner, and some bottles of wine." Some gentlemen then came in, and prisoner said, "We are not comfortable here, so we will go to another hotel," which they did, and the Spaniard then said to the prisoner, " I've lost several times, it's your turn to guess," and he placed on the table £2O in notes, and asked prisoner to stake his £2O. Prisoner said he had not got so much, but would stake his watch ; and the prisoner and the Swiss then placed their watches on the table. The Spaniard said they were not worth £2O; and the prisoner, turning to him, said, "For God's sake lend me your watch for a minute and help me out of this difficulty; in a minute I will give it to you back, and £6, the third part of the £2O I shall win off the Spaniard ;" and he then gave him his watch and he laid it with the others. He should have taken the money if the prisoner had won, but all he wanted was his watch. The Spaniard then went to work, and on the first occasion the prisoner was to guess he gave a blow on the table which upset the counter in the case, and the Spaniard won, and took up his own £2O and the three watches. He then said, " Gentlemen, I want my watch—it's not a fair game." Mr. Lewis—That was your opinion ? The prosecutor said the prisoner then said he would give him another chance of winning, and took him with him to got some money to play the Spaniard again, and as soon as they got into the street the prisoner said, " What do you want?" Ho told him ho wanted his watch, and as ho could not get it he gave him into custody. Mr. Lewis said it had been held in a similar case that the watch was only lent, and that the person had his remedy in the county court. Mr. Bingham said ho did not think a man who did not come into court with clean hands had much to complain of, but he must have the watch restored. Sergeant Rogers, C division, said he thought if prisoner was remanded he should be able to show that he was con nected with a gang of swindlers. Mr. Bingham said he should remand tho prisoner, but would take good bail. THAMES. THE SAILOR ON A LEE SlEORE.—William Sloane, a stout man-of-war's man, who had nothing on his person but a blue shirt and a pair of canvas trousers, but who was not withstanding in a cheerful humour, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with committing a violent assault upon a man who did not appear against him. Police-sergeant Stimpson, No. 21 K, said that the pri soner was intoxicated last night, got into a row, and ill-used a man. He ascertained that the prisoner was a deserter from her Majesty's ship Queen, at Portsmouth, and left her on Tuesday. Tho prisoner had lost or spent all his money, and been robbed of his clothes in a house of ill-fame in Shadwell. Mr. Yardley said the prisoner could scarcely be considered a deserter, for his pass ticket extended to the 9th instant. He directed Stimpson to convey the prisoner to the Croco dile receiving ship, off the Tower. A MEAN AND BRUTAL SCOUNDREL.—James Stutter, a coalwhipper, aged 35, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with committing a violent assault on Mrs. Sarah Chandler, landlady of Ship public-house, in Bell-wharf, Shadwell. Mrs. Chandler said the prisoner had been in the practice of frequenting the Ship, making a disturbance, and calling for beer and liquors which ho had not paid for. On Friday night he came to the house with others, and called for a pot of beer, which he carried into the tap-room, drank part of it, and refused to pay for it. She took away the pot, and he snatched it from her and threw it at her head. If it had struck hor it might have killed her, or done her a serious injury. The prisoner then took up another pot and struck her on the arm with it. She had been in great pain all night, and her arm was bruised. Mr. Yardley said the prisoner was a mean and brutal scoundrel, and sentenced him to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. HOW TO BE HANDSOME. —It is perfectly natural for all women to be handsome. If they are not so the fault lies in their birth or in their training, or in both. We would therefore respectfully remind mothers that in Poland a period of childhood is recognised. There girls do not jump from infancy to yowng-ladyhood. They are not sent from the cradle directly to the drawing-room, to dress, sit still, and look pretty. During childhood, which ex tends through a period of several years, they are plainly and loosely dressed, and allowed to run, romp, and play in the open air. They take in sun s hi ne as does the flower. They are not leaded down, girded about, and oppressed in every way with countless frills and superabundant flounces, so as to be admired for their much clothing. Plain, simple food, free and varied exercise, abundant sunshine, and good secrets of beauty in after life. me T nt h a e l e s u t l e t a u i r n e e d r uri A n u g a t r k a e l w a h si o a l n e period of c hildh o od are the of 2,760 tons register, with engines of 700-horse power, and formerly the pro perty of the European and Australian Company was offered at Lloyd's on Thursday, but no sale was effected. ------ - The Toulouse journals announce that Marshal Niel and his wife had loft for Paris. The Marshal is to preside over the committee established at the Ministry of War for the defence of the coasts of France. An Imperial decree promotes M. Jules Sandau, member of the French Academy, and librarian at the 241azarine Library, to the functions of deputy -conservator of the same establishment. OLD BROWN ON HIS TRIAL.—OId Brown thought only of freeing as many negroes as he cou ld reach; and he attempted it in a wild sort of way, from which anybody whom he had consulted would have augured nothing but failure and destruction. Destruction to his own life will apparently bo the result. Ho is sentenced to death • and will probably become a martyr, idolis e d b y a l l negroes.' But a failure his scheme is not. This is partly owing to his hay ing applied an unexpected test to the secur i ty of a slave holding society, under the circumstances of the time; and more perhaps to the influence of his personal b ear i ng on a ll witnesses. At first ho was with difficulty preserved from death at the hands of the citizens, thosigh he lay on the ground wounded. By degrees ono citizen after an o th er b ecame inte rested in what he said, and inquisitive about what he thought. In a few hours the great work was done ---he had opened a aw iie h f o c le itiz o rnTo u f ni e t yery clas s y, approached the old new m The governor, honour able senators,eo worlda yeoman e w chief deference, with gentleness, with over whelming interest. They ceased to re p roac h him, an d per haps to pity him ; and people out of doors began to think thorn bewitched. All this was because of the great disco very he had been the occasion of their making. What was this discovery? It was that a rob us t- m i nded yeoman, a God-fearing man, reared in the primitive of course of Bible study, who was pure from worldly aims, actually believed the personal freedom of men of any race a cause worth livine , and dying for. Under the coerce d press, an d t h e restricted preaching and literature of the slave State, such a notion had never found entrance to the understanding of the citizens, who had fancied all aboliti on i s t s t o b e thi eves and cowards. Old Brown's devotedness to his cause, and his indifference to his own fate, at once fascinated every generous-minded man who came near him. His new ad mirers would have deferred- his trial till h o c ou ld obtain counsel of his own choice, and till he had somewhat re covered froinchis wounds—wounds in the head, which at times impaired his memory; but the frightened community would hear of no delay, and Old Brown was carried on his bed into court. My readers have probably seen some account of the trial, and have registered in their minds his short speech on receiving his sentence of death. Ais voice and manner of that speech will no more be forgotten on the spot than the matter and the words,—Once a Week, TI,IO2IIAS DR Q UINCE Y. Thomas Do Quincey died at Edinburgh on Thursday, December 8, at 10 o'clock a.m,, in his 75th year. In noticing, on the occasion of his departure from us, the life and character of De Quincey, none of the doubt and hesitation occur which render the task generally embarrassing as to what to commu nicate to the public and what to suppress. The " English Opium Eater" has himself told publicly, throughout a period of between thirty and forty years, whatever is known about him to anybody ; and, in sketching the events of his life, the recorder has little more to do than to indicate facts which may be found fully expanded in Mr. De Quincey's " Confessions of an Opium Eater," and " Autobio graphic Sketches." The business which he has, in fact, left for others to do is that which, in spite of obvious impossibility, he was incessantly endea vouring to do himself—that of analysing and form ing a representation and judgment of his mind, and of his life as moulded by his mind. The most in tense metaphysician of a time remarkable for the predominance of metaphysical modes of thought, he was as completely unaware as smaller men of his mental habits that in his perpetual self-study and anlysis he was never approaching the truth, for the simple reason that he was not even within ken of the necessary point of view. "I," he says, " whose disease it was to meditate too much, and tb observe too little." And the description was a true one, as far as it went. And the completirm of the de scription was one which he could never have himself arrived at. It must, we think, be concluded of De Quincey that he was the most remarkable instance in his time of a more than abnormal, of an artificial condition of body and mind—a characteri sation which he must necessarily be the last man to conceive of. To understand this, it is necessary to glance at the events of his life. The briefest notice will suffice, as they are within the reach of all, as related in his own books. Thomas De Quincoy was the son of a merchant engaged in foreign commerce, and was horn at Manchester in 1786. He was one of eight children, of whom no more than six were ever living at once, and several of whom died in infancy. The survivors were reared in a country home, the incidents of which, when of a kind to excite emotion, impressed themselves on this singular child's memory from a very early age. We have known only two instances, in a rather wide experience of life, of persons dis tinctly remembering so far back as a year and a half old. This was De Quincey's age when three deaths happened in the family, which he remembered, not by tradition, but by his own contemporary emotions. A sister of three-and-a-half died ; and he was per plexed by her disappearance, and terrified by the household whisper that she had been ill-used, just before her death, by a servant. A grandmother died about the same time, leaving little impression, be cause she had been little seen. The other d ea th was of a beloved kingfisher by a doleful accident, When the boy was five he lost his playfellow, and, as he says, intellectual guide—his sister Elizabeth, eight years old, dying of hydrocephalus, after manifesting an intellectual power which the forlorn brother re called with admiration and wonder for life. The impression was undoubtedly genuine; but it is im possible to read the " Autobiographical Sketch " in which the death and funeral of the child are described without perceiving that the writer referred back to the period he was describing with emotions and reflex sensations which arose in him, and fell from the pen at the moment. His father meantime was residing abroad, year after year, as a condition of his living at all; and he died of pulm o nary con sumption fore Thomas was seven years old. The elder brother, then 12, was obviously too eccentric for home management, if not for all control; and looking no further than these constitutional cases, we are warranted in concluding that the Opium Eater entered life under peculiar and unfavourable conditions. He passed through a succession of schools, and was distinguished by his eminent knowledge of Greek. At 15 he was pointed out by his master (himself a ripe scholar) to a stranger in the remark able words, " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." And it was not only the Greek, we imagine, but must have been the eloquence too that was in cluded in this praise. In this, as in the subtlety of the analytical power (so strangely mi s t a k en f or entire intellectual supremacy in our day), De Quincey must have strongly resembled Coleridge. Both were fine Grecians, charming discoursers, eminent opium takers, magnificent dreamers and seem large in their promises, and helpless in their failure of performance. De Quincey set his heart upon going to college earlier than his guardians thought proper; and, on his being disappointed in this matter, he ran away from his tutor's house, and was lost for several months— first in Wales, and afterwards in London. He was then sixteen. His whole life presents no more re markable evidence of his constant absorption in introspection than the fact that while tortured with hunger in the streets of London for many weeks, and sleeping (or rather lying awake with cold and hunger) on the floor of an empty house, it never once occurred to him to earn money. As a classical corrector of the press, and in other ways, he might no doubt have obtained employment ; but it was not till afterwards asked why he did not, that the idea ever entered his mind. How he starved, how he would have died but for a glass of spiced wine in the middle of the night on some steps in ,oho square, the Opium Eater told all tke world above thirty years since ; and also, of his e;itering col lege ; of the love of wine generated 1 03 r the comfort it had yielded in his days of sta , : - vation ; and again, of the disorder of the functioris of the stomach which naturally followed, and. resort to opium as a refuge from the pain, It is to be feared that the description given in those extraordinary " Confes sions" has acted more strongly in tempting young people to seek the eight years' pleasures he derived from laudanum than that of his subsequent torments in deterring them. There was no one to present to them the consideration that the peculiar organisation of De Quincey, and his bitter sufferings, might well make a recourse to opium a different thing to him and to anybody else. The quality of his min d,and the exhausted state of his body, enhanced to him the enjoyments which he called " divine ;" whereas there is no doubt of the miserable pain by which men of all constitutions have to expatiate a habitual indulgence in opium. It may or it may not be that others mAy, one or all, procure the pleasures he ex perienced, but it is certain that every one must expiate his offence against the laws of the human frame. And let it be remembered that Do Quincey's excuse is as singular as his excess. Of the many who have emulated his enjoyment, there can hardly have been one whose stomach had been well nigh destroyed by months of incessant, cruel hunger. This event of his life—his resort to opium—ab sorbed all the rest. There is little more to tell in the way of incident. His existence was thence forth a series of dreams, undergone in different places—now at college and now in a Westmoreland cottage with a gentle suffering wife by his side, striving to minister to a need which was beyond the reach of nursing. He could amuse Ins predo minant faculties by *reading metaphysical philo sophy, and analytical reasoning on any subject ; and by elaborating endless analyses and reasonings of his own, which he had not energy to embody. Occasionally the torpor encroached even on his predominant faculties ; and then he roused himself to overcome the habit—underwent fearful suffer- ing in the weaning—began to enjoy the vital hap piness of temperance and health; and then—fell back again. The influence upon the moral energies of his nature was, as might be supposed, fatal. Such energy he once had, as his earlier efforts at endurance amply testify. But as years passed on he not only became a more helpless victim to his prominent vice, but manifested an in creasing insensibility to the most ordinary requisi tions of honour and courtesy, to say nothing of gra titude and sincerity. In his hungry days in Lon don he would not beg or borrow. Five years later he wrote to Wordsworth, in admiration and sym pathy, received an invitation to his Westmoreland valley, went, more than once, within a few miles, and withdrew and returned to Oxford, unable to conquer his painful shyness—returned at last to live there, in the very cottage which had been Wordsworth's ; received for himself, kis wife, and a growing family of children an unintermitting series of friendly and neighbourly offices; was necessarily admitted to much household confidence, and favoured with substantial aid, which was certainly not given through any strong liking for his man ners, conversation, or character. How did he re compense all this exertion and endurance on his behalf ? In after years, when living (webelieve) at Edinburgh, and pressed by debt, he did for once exert himself to write; and what he wrote was an exposure, in a disadvantageous light , of everything about the Wordsworths which he knew merely by their kindness. He wrote papers which were eagerly read, and of course duly paid for, in which Words worth's personal foibles were malignantly exhibited with ingenious aggravations. The infirmities of one member of the family, the personal blemish of another, and the human weaknesses of all, were displayed; and all for the purpose of deepening the dislike against Words worth himself, which the receiver of his money, the eater of his dinners, and the dreary provoker of his patience, strove to excite. Moreover, he perpetrated an act of treachery scarcely paralleled, we hope, in the history of literature. In the confidence of their most familiar days Words worth had communicated portions of his posthu mous poems to his guest, who was perfectly well aware that the work was to rest in darkness and silence till after the poet's death. In these magazine articles De Quincey—using for this atrocious pur pose his fine gift of memory—published a passage which he informed us was of far higher merit than anything else we had to expect. And what was Wordsworth's conduct under this unequaled experi ence of bad faith and bad feeling ? While so many anecdotes were going of the poet'g fireside, the following ought to be added. An old friend was talking with him by that fireside, and mentioned De Quincey's magazine articles. Wordsworth begged to be spared any account of them, saying that the man had long passed away from the family life and mind; and he did not wish to ruffle himself in a useless way about a misbehaviour which could not be remedied. The friend acquiesced, saying " Well, I will tell you only one thing that he says, and then we will talk of other things. He says your wife is too good for you." The old poet's dim eyes lighted up instantly, and he started from his seat, and flung himself against the mantelpiece, with his back to the fire, as be cried with loud enthusiasm-- " And that's true ! There he is right ! " and his disgust and contempt for the traitor were visibly moderated. During a long course of . years De Quincey went on dreaming always —sometimes scheming works of high value and great efficacy which were never to exist ; proinhing largely to booksellers and others, and failing through a weakness so deep-seated that it should have prevented his making any promises. When his three daughters were grown up, and his wife was dead, he lived in a pleasant cottage at Lasswade, Rear Edinburgh —well known by name to those who have never seen its beauties, as the scene of Scott's early married life and first great achievements in literature. There, while the family fortunes were expressly made contingent on his abstinence from his drug, De Quincey did ab stain, or observe moderation. His flo‘F. of conver sation was then the delight of old acquaintance and admiring strangers, who came to hear the charmer, and to receive the impression, -which could never be lost, of the singular figure and countenance and the finely modulated voice, which were like nothing else in the world. It was a strange think to look upon that fragile form, and features which might be those of a dying man, and to hear such utterances as his ; now the strangest comments on insignifi cant incidents ; now pregnant remarks on great subjects; and then, malignant gossip, virulent and base, but delivered with an air and a voice of phi losophical calmness and intellectual commentary such as caused the disgust of the listener to be largely qualified with amusement and surprise. One good thing was, that nobody's name and fame could be really injured by anything Do Quincey could say. There was such a grotesque air about the mode of his evil-speaking, and it was so gra tuituous and excessive, that the hearer could not help regarding it as a singular sort of intellectual exercise, or an effort in the speaker to observe, for once, something outside of himself, rather than as any token of actual feeling towards the ostensible object. Let this strange commentator on individual cha racter meet with more mercy and a wiser interpre tation than he was himself capable of. lie was not made like other men ; and he did not live, think,'or feel like them. A singular organisation was singu larly and fatally deranged in its 'action before it could show its best quality. Marvellous analytical faculty he had ; but it all oozed out ,in barren words. Charming eloquence he had ; but it degenerated into egotistical garrulity, rendered tempting by the gilding of his genius. It is questionable :whether, if he had never touched opium or wine, his real achievements would have been substantial—for he had no conception of a veritable stand-point of phi losophical investigation ; but the actual effect of his intemperance was to aggravate to excess his intro spective tendencies, and to remove him incessantly further from the needful discipline of true science. His conditions of body and mind were abnormal, and his study of the one thing he knew anything about—the human mind—was radically imperfect. His powers, Roble and charming as they might have been, were at once wasted and weakened through their own partial excess. His moral nature relaxed and sank, as must always be the case where sensibility is stimulated and action paralysed ; and the man of genius who, 40 years before, admini stered a moral warning to all England, and com manded the sympathy and admiration of a nation, has lived on to achieve nothing but the delivery of some confidences of questionable value and beauty, andto command from us nothing more than a com passionate sorrow that an intellect so subtle and an eloquence so charming in its pathos, its humour, its insight, and its music, should have left the world in no way the better for such gifts—unless by the warning afforded in " Confessions" first, and then by example, against the curse which neutralised their influence and corrupted its source.—Daily News. 71118 DAY'S MARKETS. COVENT-GARDEN. Our market is seasonably well supplied with produce, and the trade on the whole may be considered steady, as follows : FRUIT., N. d. d. Pine apples, perlb 4 0 to 7 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 3 0 to 6 0 Foreign do 1 0 to 1 6 Melons, each Veaches,per doz 0 0 to 0 0 Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 1 Apples, per sv. 2 0 to 5 0 Pears, per do 3 0 to 8 0 Oranges, per 100 5 0 to 10 0 Lemons, per 100 4 0 to 8 0 Apricots. per doz 0 0 to 0 0 s. d. e. d Cherries, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb 1 oto 1 6 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0 Figs, per doa 2 6to :1 0 Strawberries p ptl 0 oto 0 0 Gooseberries hi' sv 0 oto 0 0 Currants, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per do. G reenages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries, pr ptlo oto 0 .0 kBLES. BEGET! Greens, dz bunch 3 6 to 4 0 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9 to 1 0 Savoy do., pr do. 0 10 to 1 3 Cauliflowers, p dz 1 0 to 3 0 Brocoli, per bli. 0 10 to 1 3 Oldpotatoes,p ton 80 to 120 0 New ditto, per ton 0 0 to 0 0 Peas, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6 to 2 6 Carrots, pr do 4 6 to 5 6 Cucumbers 4 0 to 6 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Spinazli, hr. -sy 0 10 to 1 0 Brus. sprouts, h.s. 1 6 to 2 0 Old onions, dz bun 0 0 to 0 0 New do., hf. sv 1 3 to 1 6 French beans, h s. 2 0 to 2 6 Leeks, per bunch 0 2 to 0 3 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8 Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 4 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 6 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pu, 0 oto 6 0 Mushrooms,p pun 1 3to 1 9 Artichokes, pr dz' 2 oto 3 0 I Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Endive, per score 0 9to 1 3 Radishes, dz buds 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, hf eve 2 6to :3 6 Waluittig, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 4 oto 6 0 Seakale, per pun. 3 0 to 4 • NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s Od to lOs Od ; poults, Os Od to Os Od each ; geese, 4s Od to 7s Od ; goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducklings, 2s Od to 3s Od ; rabbits, is 0(1 to is 6d each ; wild do., ?d to is 2d ; pigeons, Gd to Os 10d each; large Surrey fowls, 5s Od to 10s Od; chickens, 3s Gd to 7s Od; born-door fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s Od to 2s 9d ; grouse, 2s Od to 2s 6d each ; pheasants, 2s 3d to 2s 9tl ; ptarmigan, Os toOs Od ; woodcocks, 2s Od to 3s Od; snipes, is Od to is 3d ; teal, Os Gd to is Od ; wild ducks, 2s Od to 2s 3d; widgeons, is Od to is 6d ; plovers, Os Gd to is Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, 4s Od to 7s Od each; Ostend fresh butter, Os lid to is Id ; English, is 2d to is 5d per lb; English eggs, 13s Od to 14s Od ; French do., lls Od to 12e Od per 120; leverets, is 9d to 2s Gd each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s Gd to 4s 4d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; lamb, 05 Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 35 4d to 4s 10d per 81bs. 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Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 45 4d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 39 4d to 4s 10d per 81b., by tho carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, 2s Od to Os Od; trout, Os Od to Os; eels, 8d to Is ; prawns, 3sod to Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Gd pei lb. Turbots, 2s Gd to 20s ; cod, 2s Od to 15s Od ; brills, is Od to 105 Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, Os Gd to 2s 6d ; lobsters, Gd to 2s 6d ; crabs, Gd to 2s Od ; plaice and gurnets, 4d to Is Od each; soles, 3d to is Gd per pair; common oysters, 16s to 20s ; natives, —s to 44s per bushel ; whitings, 3s Od to 10s Od ; haddocks, 4s to 12s Od ; smelts, is Gd ; flounders, is Od to is 6d per dozen; mackerel, 40s; fresh herrings, 6s; bloaters, Ss to —s per 100; carp and tench, is to 3s per brace. ——— - BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis aro from 7d to ma , •f household do., 5d to 61c1 per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 4d to 4'd ; 641 b to 721 b, 41d to 41d ; 721 b to 801 b, 41d to 5d ; 801 b to 881 b, 6d to 51d ; 881 b to 961 b, 51d to 6d ; 061 b to 1041 b, 6d to 61d. Horse hides, Bsod to lOs 6d ; calf skins, light 3s Od to 5s Od; do. full, 8s Od to 10s Od ; polled sheep, 7s 6d to Os 6d ; half-breds, Gs 6d to 7s Gd ; Downs, 4s 9d to 6s Od; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; shearlings, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIALD.—Mus,doW hay, £2 10s to £4 Os ; clover, £3 lOs to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 8s per load. Trade dull. Supplies moderate. CUMBERLAND.--MeadOW hay, £2 lOs to £4 Os ; clover, £3 lOs to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 5s to £llos per lead. A slow sale. WILITECTIA.PEL.—Meadow hay, £2 lOs to £4 Os ; elovez, £3 15s to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to 8s per load. Trade dull. COAL MARI (Prices of Coal per Ton at, ;ET—DEC. 9. the close of the market.) Walls End. s. d. llowers'WestHartley.,l4 e 3 Bates' "West Hartley 13 6 Tanfield Moor 14 3 Tanfield Moor Butes-14 3 Wylarn l5 9 West Wylani l4 9 C. d . Gibson 17 6 Heugh Hall 18 9 Riddell 17 9 Acorn Close 18 Bircbgrove Graigola 2l 0 Powell' s D &film Steam 22 6 Garway and Duffryn Malting. 22 6 I Nixon' s Duffryn 22 6 35—Sold, 25. Walls' End. Northumberland 15 0 - Brandon. l6 • Whitworth.. 15 0 Ships at mark, LARGE MASTS.—A vessel which arrived some days ago at Cherbourg, from Vancouver's Island, brought for the dockyard 12 masts, which, according to the local journals, " astonished all who saw them"—three being of nearly the length of 121 feet, and rather more than 36 inches in diameter at 15 feet from the butt, and most of the others nearly 100 feet long and 34 inches. The masts are described as perfectly straight,without knots or defect, and of a species of wood superior in quality to all other wood used for waste. Moir value is about 53,000 f. TILE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OP METEOROLO G Y. At a recent meeting of the British Meteorological Society, T. Sopwith, Esq., M.A., the pre sident, read a paper on " The Practical Importance of Meteorology." Mr. Sopwith commenced by say ing :—ln drawing the attention of this society to a subject which must be considered to be the very basis of the society's existence—for without prac tical utility all theoretical studies and observations would have but little claim on our attention—my object is not to occupy your time by any detailed statements of views which are well understood, but to endeavour to direct attention to the present state of meteorological science with reference to some means of promoting an increased attention to pheno mena which, if accurately observed and applied, may in a great degree afford certainty in the place of conjecture, and reasonable ground of conjecture and anticipation in cases where no means are at pre scnt:recognised for forming even probable conjec tures. It may, indeed, be said of every science that its uses, and consequently its importance, are in creased exactly in the same degree in which correct observation is made the basis of practical applica tion. In one sense meteorology is even more popular than the sciences of astronomy, navigation, geology or any other study that might be named: Not a day —nay, scarcely an kour passes, but some remark or silent observation is made on the weather. It is the usual salutation of friends on meeting. Whether in or out of doors, each change of aspect in the clouds, the commencement or cessation of rain or snow, and above all the varying temperature of northern cli mates, never fail to attract earnest attention. In this sense we may say that meteorology is the most uni versally observed of all the sciences—that the whole family of mankind form a meteorological society, constantly engaged in observing results which, though vague and inaccurate, are mere frequently communicated in word and in writing than any other general topic, unless it be health, which is, as we all know, closely connected with, and depen dent on, meteorological conditions, so much so that an enlarged and practical view constantly recce , - rases their mutual connection. In almost every con dition of active life we find especial and important claims which this science has upon the most careful attention, in order to obtain the strict elements of health and comfort ; and in like manlier do we find evil results—the loss of comfort, health, and even life, as well as deterioration of prospects, ensue from its neglect. It is probable that in savage nations the immediate suffering arising from neglect, aug mented by the absence of the ameliorating arrange ments of civilised life, probably render the inhabi tants more accurate otherwise than those to whom changes of weather are of small moment. The in fluence of atmospheric changes upon the comfort and well-being of the living inhabitants of the globe and especially of the human race, cannot be over estimated, nor would it would it be easy even to enumerate the more prominent conditions which have so close a relation with life and health. In an ordinary lifetime a human being depends for exist ence on the inhaling of air with the lungs a number of times, which must be reckoned in hundreds of millions, any failure in which, even for a few minutes, would he fatal to life. How much then, in an operation of such enormous amount of repeti tion, must depend on the purity and density of the fluid we breathe. How important, then, are the means by which the condition of the atmosphere can be ascertained as regards its relation to health, and considered as an absolute means of existence. How important to foresee such changes in the atmosphere as are likely to affect personal comfort or the success of commercial or other pursuits. How important it is to have regard to density, to hu midity, to motion and temperature. As yet, the practical importance of meteorology is far from being generally understood and appreciated. The interests of the farmer, the shipowner, the mariner, the miner, and many other extensive classes of society are so largely engaged, that it is remarka ble to observe how small is the number of persons associated for the promotion of exact meteorology, scarcely, if at all, exceeding one person for each hundred inhabitants of Great Britain. This society has done more to consolidate the observations rela ting to British meteorology than could have been done by any amount of recombined operations. And here it would be unjust not to mention in the most prominent manner, the labours of Mr. Glaisher, who may be considered as the founder and promoter of a sound system of meteorological observations. The practical importance of meteorology will, I doubt not, be hereafter admitted as generally as that of other sciences. Its aims are such as admit of accomplishment, provided the same amount of public attention can be directed to the only means whereby progress can be .safely and surely made. These means of progress may be comprised in a few words, viz., correct observa tions made with accurate instruments in a suffi cient number of places, and combined under one general system of arrangement and superinten dense. After the mention and various illustrations of cases in which meteorological conditions are of great practical importance, Mr. Sopwith dwelt at some length upon the necessity for good and accu rate instruments, and care in the observations, quot ing from his journal as follows --Nov. 25, 1859. Correct observations in meterology have an impor tance which is not possessed by erroneous data ; the latter are not only without positive value, they promote erroneous views, prevent sound conclusions, and entirely impede all progress in those researches of science which are useful only when based on strict truth. Mr. Sopwith discussed observations taken with the utmost care and regularity in con nection with those at Allonhead and Bywell with standard instruments, and he found that at times the barometrical observation showed increasing readings instead of decreasing readings, and the variations of temperature were entirely wrong, owing mainly to the imperfection of the instruments. These results having come under the notice of the Duke of Northumberland, on whose property these observations were made, his Grace gave a written assent to a suggestion I had offered with a view to substitute good instruments, and to have correct observations taken. Not only did his Grace offer to defray the cost of such instruments, but proposed the establishment of meteorological observations at fishing villages on the coast of Northumberland, where there is reason to believe that loss of life might be averted by such a foreknowledge of the weather as can only be obtained by means of accu rate instruments. I am sure the members of this society will cordially approve the reception which these liberal and benevolent proposals have met with from the council, who at their last meeting directed a letter to be sent in acknowledgment of this im portant practical aid, and expressing also the de sire, as well as the willingness of the council to take the responsibility of having such observations made in strict conformity with uniform prin ciples, and so as to admit of comparison with correct standards. The labours of local societies, and of scientific individuals, must become of greatly in creased value when combined in one general and uniform system. I may here quote a remark mado by Mr. Drew, who says, " Looking at what private observers like myself may have been able to accom plish in the science of meteorology, we must arrive at the conclusion that comparatively slow progress will be made until our number is increased, and until we embrace in our observations a more ex- tensive range. In addition to the pressure, tempera ture, and hygrometric state of the air, it would be highly advantageous could we for localities ascertain the rapidity of evaporation, the range and intensity of solar radiation, and the state of electric tension. All which, in their varied combinations, go to make up that general result which we call climate, and which unitedly produce effects upon the natural world and the human frame, according to the pre ponderance in the atmosphere of is thus element or the other." When public attention thus directed to the subject it is probable that a greatly increa se d care will lead to greatly increased usefulness. I would especially mention schools as places where meteorological observations might be kept, under peculiarly favourable circumstances. In the mean time, there is one suggestion which I have ventured to offer, and that is that in many places where ob servations are kept the knowledge of them is con fined to the persons making them, or to a few per sons in the house or other building. Now it would be very easy to fix in a conspicuous manner a ladder , - like scale—a sort of enlargement of what we see in levelling stay( s—and having a large and prominent index, moveable by hand, so as to be placed daily at the several observatories, to show the two pre ceding observations. Such an arrangement will be placed at the Alnwiek Observatory, where it will be seen from Alnwick Castle, and from many miles of country, by the aid of a spying-glass of mode rate power. Such indications would make the weather as well known to the public generally as the time is known by a clock. ROYAL COLLEGE OP SURGEONS.—The following gentlemenhaving undergone the:necesary examinati, ns for the diploma were admitted members of the college at a meeting of the court of examiners on the 6th inst., viz.:— Messrs. H. Rickard, Plymouth ; T. Miller, Boyton, Suf folk ; 11. Horsley, Croydon ; T. Michell, Itedruth, Corn wall; F. Pout, Yalding, Kent; F. 0. B. Wither, Madras; T. Moore, Hales Owen, 'Worcestershire ; D. Kearney, Madras; T. S. Foster, Carnarvon ; S. Booth, Hudders field ; It. S. Wallis, Birmingham ; L. J. Lee, London ; H. S. Hutcheon, Aberdeen; A. Lloyd, Bristol; G. R. Irvine, Portsmouth ; E. C. Board, Bristol ; J. Neesom, Bradford ; C. J. Trotter, Holmfirth, Yorkshire ; J. Merrinece, Bel fast; J. Booster, Chester; W. Murray, Durham; W. N. Pell, Northampton ; and J. R. Thomas, Dublin. MALAGA, Nov. 29.—The steamer Genoa, with troops, mules, 100 tons of gunpowder, &e., took fire in the Mole. Fortunately they were able to sink her before the fire reached the gunpowder. Upwards done hundred mules perblecl, Pa rt. r oar botll 641 784 i Si i