The Sun. — London, England, 1858-01-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET A TD COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The advices received this morning from the manufacturing districts are rather more satisfactory. At Manchester the easier state of the Money Market had caused a gradual return of confidence ; the im provement however is slow, buyers having mani fested great caution in their operations, and the slight advance in the value of the raw material pre vented any large speculative transactions being entered into. For long cloths, T cloths, and print ings there was a better inquiry, but holders demand fully former terms. Business at Birmingham has been languid, and in many establishments the'men are only working three days a week. The fancy trades are particularly dull. The iron trade of South Staffordshire remains remarkably quiet, and few orders have been received either for home or foreign consumption. Both buyers and sel lers are waiting the result of the quarterly meeting of the ironmasters at Wolverhampton on Wednesday next. At Nottingham there have been a few buyers in the market from the Continent, and on the whole a fair business has been tran- taacted, symptoms of improvement being visible in most departments. The hosiery trade, however, is depressed, there being few orders from the United States. The manufacturers, however, are in good spirits, as it is generally expected that be fore long there will be a good and healthy demand. In Leeds the markets for both wools and piece goods have exhibited a decided improvement. All classes are acting with more spirit, and trading con fidence has in a great measure been restored. A moderate quantity of goods have found purchasers at barely late prices. Trade at Halifax has exhi bited an improved aspect. The carpet manufac turers are better employed, and most of the mills are now working full time. There was a fair amount of heavy goods sold during the week, and in several instances improved prices were realised. At Bradford a moderate business has been done in both wools and piece-goods, and on the finor qua lities of combing wools an advance of lid. per lb. has been established. In piece-goods there is a fair business doing, and the stocks generally in the hands of the manufacturers are very low. The hosiery trade at Leicester continues depressed. Worsted yarns are lower, but the transactions en tered into are limited. An expectation, however, prevails that, as the spring advances, business will be very brisk. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed flatly, and prices of most descriptions de clined. The sales were estimated at 4,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken on speculation and for export. The Railway Share Market exhibited a very active appearance, and quotations improved. Last week the receipts of specie were 647,3181. and the exports 35,7441. On Saturday about 20,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank of England. According to a statement just issued, it appears that last year the exports of gold and silver direct from London amounted to 28,477,5901. against 17,806,9401. in the previous year. Besides this 8,654,500/. was sent to France, by way of Folke stone and Dover, and 2,133,5801. and 1,398,8201. was dispatched from Mediterranean ports to India and China. The demand for money during the last two or three days has been quiet, and owing to the general impression that the Bank directors will speedily reduce the minimum to 5 per cent., the public limit their applications as much as possible. While the official rate is maintained at 6 the bill brokers will manage to maintain their terms at 5i or 51, but as soon as 5 per cent. is established as the mini mum, a fraction below that point will be sub mitted to out of doors. As this change may be merely the question of a week or two, parties en gaged in business only obtain what they require at once, and hEnce the market presents a quiet ap pearance, with a tendency towards increased ease. The general allowance for deposits is now 4 and 4i per cent., so that if discount business can for the moment be obtained at an average of 5i per cent., there is a fair margin of profit, but there is reason to believe that both the bankers and the discount houses have an excessive supply, which must be partially unproductive. - - There is a very inactive market for public securi ties but this can excite no surprise after such an important settlement. The quotations are rather heavy and a decline of about per cent. has en sued, but upon the whole, the market exhibits great strength and no material reaction is anticipated in the face of increased ease in monetary affairs, and the continued influx of gold into the Bank vaults. Consols have been 941 95 for money, and 95 to 951 for account. The New Three per Cents. are 95 to 951, and the Reduced 94-/ 95. Bank Stock is 220 to 222. Exchequer Bills are 13s. to 15s. prem., and the Bonds 901. Foreign Stocks are also very dull, and at rather lower quotations. Turkish 6 per Cents. are marked 981 to 99, and the 4 per Cents. 104 to 104 k. Russian 6 per Cents. are 110 ; ditto Small 100 ; Sardinian 88 ; Spanish New Deferred 26} ; and the Passive 51 ; Dutch 4 per Cents. are 65. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks r---Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 6; Mexican, 20f 8 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 79 80 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 54 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 431 441; Russian 5 per Cents., 108 110 ; Ditto, 4i per Cents., 98 100 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41} ; Ditto New Deferred, 25i 26k ; Ditto Cert ificates, —; Ditto Passive, —. Business in the Railway Share Market this morning has been active, and quotations have exhibited a buoyant appearance. Several of the leading lines showing an improvement of about to I s per cent. Great Northern and South-Eastern improved ss. ; Caledonian, and Lancaster and Car lisle, 10s. to 15s ; and Great Western and Eastern Counties, 11. ; South-Western, Brighton, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Edinburgh and Glasgow declined ss. to 10s. In the Foreign and Colonial under takings prices have been steady. Eastern of France, Southern of France, and Lombardo Venetian, realised former quotations. Grand Trunk of Canada improved 108., and East Indian declined ss. Mines, Banks, and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive. Ottoman Bank have improved ss. ; Union of Australia, 10s. ; and Peninsnlar and Oriental Steam, ss. to 10s. BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. (From the Official Lists) Businessdone. Bank Stock 8 per Cont. Reduced Annuities 95 4,1 5i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94i 5 4i New 3 per Cent. Annuities 95 5 India Stock Is as Ilona, .ClOllO flitto, under £lOOO 1 p Oat sols for Account, Feb 4 Thanequer Bills, h.O. 2100'J _ _ _ ''soo S call Exchequer Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent 99i PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. Brannan 5 per Cent. Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 2oi Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1863, 3 per Cent... Russian Bonds, 1822, St., 5 per Cent llO Ditto, 4i per Cent. 99h Ditto Small eardinia.n Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Account Spanish Roads, 3 per Cent. 'tato New Deferred 3 per Cent,26i Ditt, Passive Turkibh Ronde, 6 p . r cent Ditto Account .................. 9O 8 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 pe . r Cent. Ditto Account ... ....... 104; 4 Dividends on the ai3O; . e payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 23 per Cent., 12 Guilders 65 4i 51 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates fttlitEß O'CLOCK. Console, money ...... .................... 91i Ditto account (February 4) ......... 95 UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA. MEETING THIS DAY„ The half-yearly meeting of the Union Bank of Australia has been held to-day, at wbich a favourable repert waA presented. The net profit for the half-year was 88,3381. ss. lid., and a dividend of 10 per cent. for the halt -year was proposed. In consequence of the requirements of the numerous branches, and the extension of the business is the colonies, it was agreed by the directors to call up the remainder of the third series of capital of 221. 10a. Per share at into rvals.. The state of the colony wa , improving, and three new branch( s bad been established at the gold fields, making altogethez 20 branches in Australia and New Zealand: The accounts stated the total amount of assets at 5,424,953/. Bs. 10d,, of which 200,0001. was the reserve fund. After some discussion the report was adopted, and the resolution for the additional capital agreed to. SHARE VIA.ICKETS—(This Day). RAILWAYS. Closing Pace ,, this day. Business dons this day. IPaidl RAILWAYS. Nottng. Boat & Eastn. June.... Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancs . !). & Cheshire Janet Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) CBristol & Exeter aledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon._ Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall De. A Do. B Dublin&l3elfastJune Dun. P. &Aber. June East Anglian Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A. stk. Do., do. Do. New A East Kent !East Lancashire ;East Suffolk Do. 'Edinburgh& Glasgow Edi nb. and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dundee Forth and ClydeJunc. Furness . Glasgow di S. Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do A. Stock Do. , B. Stock 'Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire) Great Western. Do. Str.V.R. gua. St Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster &Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F £l6 Do., Wst. Riding Un. Do. Southport. London & Blackwall Lo nd. Bright . & S. Cs t. London &N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,10.5h.,M&8 0 Do. Eighths London & S. Western Lndndrry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef. &Lincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo'F arrangement Midland Do. Birming. & Derb3 Midland G. West. (Ir. ) Do. Shares Newcastle &Carlisle Newpt.A berg.&Hrfd Newry di Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Restrevor Norfolk. Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock ...... Do., A Stock Do., B Stock .. N.Eastern— Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E.Purch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. WAIL, Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth.. .0 Rhymney . Scottish Central ....,, Scot. N .E. Abrdn. St )0 Shropshire Union ... 8 Sitingbourne &Sheer. Soutfi Devon South Eastern Li 'Do. 4} per c. Shares Co South Wales .11 Is. Yorksh. Riveracu, 20 I 10 St. 10 20 a] ...... ...... 11 jStaines,Wok.,&Wok ll (Stockton & Darling 7i l Do. do., 1854 5 Do. do., 1855 16i Stockton & Ilartlepl .00 Taff Vale.... DO Do. Pref., No. 1 , 25 i 1 Thames Hay. D. &R. Vale of Neath ..... 10 Watered. & Kilkenny, ,11 Waterford&Limorick 11 West Cornwall.. 11 West End of London and Crystal Palaco 11 Do. A Do. B all West London all • ••• I Do. First Class... al Do. Second Class.., 11 IWmbledon&Croydou BRITISH P, 11 lAtian, and St. Law. 9 'Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 6 p.c. 11 Do. 11 Buffalo & Lake Hur i K) Buff. , Brnt. & Godch. 10 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73, 100 100 Do. do., 1 June, '74 20 2s. Calcutta and S. East. 0 2s6d Central Oude (Lim.) 20 10s Ceylon A shares 1 20 1 Do. B. do. 17i all Demerara. 20 2s. Eastern Bengal St. 100 East Indian 20 15 Do. C Shares 100 all D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7i 100 all Do. do. do. '59, do. 20 all Geelong dr do., guar. 5 per cent. 10 ,Gd. Trunk. of Canada 11 Do. 6p. c. Deben I It 'Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pert 4 iDo. New. guar. 5 p.c 11 Gt. Wostn. of Canada 3 Do. Now 1 Do. Bds., payable '571 1 Do. do., '76, p. '6o 1 Do. do., '73, do Do. do.„ '73 without option 1 Madras, guar. 4. p.c 1 1 Do. do., 5 per c. ) Do. 44 p. c. Eaten. 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do, s. Oude (Limited) 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c all Do 2(41 al 100 10 1 100 10, 100 a: 20 a: 20 20 a' 20 1: 100 a 100 a 100 a 100 a 20 ! a; 20 a 20 20 20 20 20 20 5 i - 5 i 8 - 81 69 - 71 - .9f - 90 - 92 88 - 89 38 - 40 11 - 13 ••• ••• 4 - 5 18i 199 1 6Cq ai 45 48 31 33 17 - 18 91 - 93 63s fi4'i ••• ••• k - 93 9i - 101 99 - 100 85 - 87 124 - 126 99 - 100 5B - h 9 58 - 62 78 - 8.1 8 - 10 p 8 - 10 r, 9! - 95 i - i 108 1 - -1106 i 98i - 99 - 974 - 984 • -- ••• 40 - 41 93i -94 i 6G - 67 ... - ... 13 -- 14 62 - 64 3 - 34 53 - 54 971 - 98 2d pal 53} 54 85 86 90 95 .. - ... 31, - 2i gi ::- ..oil 32 33 9 5 d 105 - 107 25 - 26 47 - 49 3i - 2i 34 - 36 71 - 73 804 81} 13 15 7 5 d 9 11 36 38 •.. - ••• 20 - 2(31 17 - 20 7 - 9 3 - 3. 6 - G. ISSESSIONS. 11 - 21 5 d i 85 90 83 87 80 85 ..• --- .•• 1 - lip - 1 P 111 - 112 - 21p1 20 - 21 53 - 55 85 - 87 22 -22 i 1 - l 21k - 21$ip - P 105 - 110 105 - 110 103 105 lq - 214 22 204 par i p I 1 p i —14 p 2 ^ 2PI FOREIGN. lAntwrp&Rotterdam Ardennes Belgian East. Juliet Beziers to Graissessac Carme aux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New Euphrates Valley Gt. Central of France Great Luxembourg Italian Junction Lake Const. & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca & Fist. sp. c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran. Maria Antcula Do. New Namur & Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France NorwegianTrnk. Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Reeife & San Fran , (Pornam.) g. 7 p. c. Rome and Fraaasti,... Royal Danish ......... Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 52 per cent. pref Southern of France West Flanders all iDo. 5,i per c. Prat . all W. do N. W. of France 6 I Western of Austria all West, of Switzerland all I Wiesladen all i Do. Bp. cent. prof. all !Zealand ......... JOINT-S' all[, 18ir. 50 all lir ; all . Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London Bri. Col, Bk.& Ln. Co British N. American C.Bk. of Ind. An.&Ch City ;5 ;Colonial Commercial of Loud. Eno. Scot &MIS Cot ** • • • I Lon. Ch. Bk .of A ast 'Ditto Now !Loudon and County Lnd.&E.Bnkng.Corp I London Joint Stock, Lond.and.Westminst. National Pro. of Eng. Do. New 'National Bank ..... 'New South Wales Oriental Bank Corp Ottoman Bank !Provincial of Ireland ``Do. New R. Aug. B. &G.Im.Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. Now Union of London Unity Mutual •Weatrul3k of Loud 6li - 7 li -3.: 4 - 4i 3 - 3i 28 -28 i of '''' • • • ii = i' 6 - 6k..1 29 - 30 204 8 i - 21 39i - 39 84 - 9} 351 -35 i 56 - 58 1 - fd" is 8- 8 8 23 23; 5 9} 27i 28 ... ... BANKS. 86 89 3i 2d 46 52 60 - 62 19 - 18 - 18.; 46 -- 48 31 -- 33 181 -- 19 •.. - ••• 35 - 37 50 - 51 ... --- ..... "" io.•d :: tf. teed 92 90 1h; 89 A 8i A 20 39 A St. n i 50 19 50 60i 2i li 2i 2 2 50 5 47 12 32 St. 92 I 12 50 63i 33i 1 25 991 100.1 86 124 5 6 1581 60 594 604 94/ 108 i i 99 Si 41 98 7i 81 40i 1 94 i 31 66 5 3 i t 4 981 8 i i 8 100 100 100 all all 100 all all 100 3 20 all all St. 100 St. 100 20 all 10 all 12i 5 St. 100 z 5 all 25 all St. 100 10 14 10 i 1 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 2 all 100 all 25 1 all 50 ' 9 20 1 all St. 50 St. St. 100 3i 100 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 25 all 25 16i St. 103 St 100 St. 100 10 31.1 20 1 20 I all 10 I all St. 1100 20 11 10 li St. 101 St. 50 1.1 St. ill St. 111 ;5 1 22 St. 10 , 50 al 20 al 20 , 10 20 a, 10 al THE SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1858 LLNES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paid RAiLwAye. Leasing Companies. Closing Prices this day Ln.&N.W. I Caledon... Gt. Northn E. Count. Caldonian. I Gt.Westn. .Y. & N.M ,Do S. Eastern s Do Peto & Co Do Ln. &N. W & Midld [E. Count. Do Do L.&N. W. Do Gt. Northn l T. Brassey M. MClean Stk.dgDar.' , Do Gt.Westn. 101 Buckghamsh 100 Clydesdale Jo. all ,Col.Stour Vy. 100 I E. Lin. g. 6 p.c all E. Un. 11. Sh. 100 'Olas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. 100 I Do. New all Glstr" &Dn.Fr all u lldx Selby all Do. Shares all ' I Do. i Shares all Lon. &Greenw all Do. Preference, 100 I Lon. Til., dzS. 10 !Do. Bark. Sh. all 'Manch.Bxton. and Matlock 100 Mdld. Bradfd. 51 Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. all N.dtEst.s p.c. all Do. 6 per et i all Do.Fixedsp c 1 all Prest. dtWyre ,1 all Do. Shrs. 100 I Roystn. & Hit. all Shrews.& Her all, S. Staffordsh all WearVal.g6pc _ . 25 1 all ID° St.lloo !Wilts&Somrst, PREFERENI all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (issd.at 501.) 100 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. 7 Do. 4 per c. Shares 100 Caledn. 210 41 p. c 100 Ches. & Ho. 5 p. c 100 Do. do. 5 per cent all Cork&Bandons4p.c all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J 100 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c 100 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c 1.00 Eas.Co.Ex,sp.cNo.l 1100 Do. No. 2 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St all East Un., G. 6p. c. all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. all Do. do. 4 per cent 100 East Lancash.6 p.cts all E.&W. York. J. sths 9 Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.e. 100 Furness, 5 p. c 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem 100 Do. 44 per cent 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. all Gt.N. of Scot.lst 18 Gt. S &W. (Ireland) 18 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. 6 Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc 100 Do. con. red. 44 p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4 per lent. 100 Do sp. c. red. pref. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do.ChesterBp.c.P.S. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua, Stk. all Do. Chosh. Gua, Sh. all Do. do. do al Do. do. do 100 Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc.No.l 100 D0.,P.,5 p.c.St.No.2 100 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. 1003 Do. do. 5 p. c., N 0.4 100 Lon. & N.W., Cov. Nuneaton 5 r . ct... 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 per ct. late 3d Shares ... all Londy.& Color. 4 Sh. all Londy. &Ennis. 4 Sh. 100 1., S.,&L. 6p. Cent. 44110. do. do. £6 100 Do. do. 34 per cont. all Marypt. & Carl. 4 p.c. all Do. 44 per cent 104 Do. do. 100 Kid. Consol. 6p. c. St 100 Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c 100 Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St 100 Do. L. &H. Pref. St all New., Aber., &a., pr 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c. pm all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct all Norfk.Deb.4p.c. Sh 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 100 Do. 54 p.c. pf , 1847 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. 100 North British 34 Do. 71. Preference 100 N.B. Berw. 413. c.Prf. ) 8i Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 9 ,Do. do, Qrs., 1848 10 Do. York EL &S. Pur all North Staffordshire 100 Ox,, Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar. 100 Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar I 100 Do. do. Debeatr. St. all Scot. Cent. New Pref. 100 Sc.N.E.Al9er.g.6p.c. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. 100 Do. d 0.34 p.c. pf. St all suth Devon all Do. fixed 44 pr cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of 21 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 44 per cent 100 Do. Fixed 44 p.e. Sh 100 Do. New 44 pr. cent 100 . Wales Gua. 4p. c. 100 Do. do. 44 p. c all ,:.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all Stock. &Dar., sp. a, 19 Do. do. do. 100 Waterfd& Kilk. 6pc St. St. St. St. 17 20 12 BRITISH 2/ 12 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 1 Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 27{ East Basset (Illogan) 17s Great South Tolgus 1715 Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 7fi Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 17s Lady Bertha 8 N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Basset (Illogan) 6115 North Wheal Crofty Ifi Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 6s. Sort, Cons. Min. Co. 2i S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 2 S. Cana Brea (Illogn. 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn. 4i Tam. S. &L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 Un.Mines (Gwennap 12s 6 V. of Towoy (Camar.) 16 W. Basset (Mogan) 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.) sfi Wh. Basset (Illogan). 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 5i Wh, Edward(Calstek) 117: Wh. Kitty (U. Llant' 8 Wh, Ma. Ann (Menht. 4i Wh. Trelawney (Lis.; FOREIGN 10 j 7i (Australian 110 s. Bon Accord Cop. (IL ) 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm) all Do. Cocaos 6z Cuiada 15 Do. St. John Del Itey A Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper 16 Copiapo all Dun Mountain Cop per Mining Co. all Fortuna all General all Linares 1 Lusitanian all Mariquita all New Granada all Novean Mondo all Pont.Sil.LdM.dr Smlt 1 Port Philip 16i Santiago de Cuba all United Mexican ' 92 - 91 94 - 96 12 - 14 132 - 136 3i - 4 ••• '''' 1106 - 107 12 - 13 23 • - 24 99 - 101 2 3 / 4 - 2i 92 - 94 - P 55 I - 57 - 135 7i - 8 9 - .1 84 31i --86 -- i 1 1 SHARES. 6 -: si o'6 -: ii **6 ::: di 105 - 110 110 - 114 106 - 109 104 - 107 124 - 127 ii -: 16 1113 - 718 107 - 110 100 - 102 62 - C 4 10 - 101 5i -- - 4 90 -- 92 83 -- 85 83 -- 85 97 -- 99 9i -- 9i 154 -- 9f -- 10 ; 70 -- 72 18 -- 19 9 -- 13i - 14 - 135 - 140 115 - 118 155 - 160 115 - 120 - 4_ 61 -.68 132 -- 134 93 -- 99 88 -- 90 11 - iii 1.0 - 105 96 98 i i d 22 - l i i - 23 115 - 120 103 - 105 105 - 110 71 - 73 10 - 10. 23 - 23. 95 - 98' 94 - 98 26 1 - 7 .- 28 5 -- 55 MINES. 12a 13 5 7 1 80 901 420 440 95 100 14 15 4 5_ - 1 111 - 121 13 - 15 4 - 5 16 - 18 4 - 5 13 - 340 - 350 4 - 5 220 - 230 i f - li 3 - 4 i - 1 1 24 - 26 liw -110 i 145 - 155 260 - 280 71 fi 12 • - 14 , 44 - 46 1 26 - 28 MINES. 1 k i d — i p ii 21 ... ..._ ... , 124 - 13 - ..(1 43 - 45 12 - 13 1 id P id 16 17 8A -- 9 yd - 44 -: ii - I 2 - 4 3 / 4 - MISCELLANEOUS. 900 Atlantic Tel. (Lim.) 19 Australian Agri=lt. all Australia. Royal Mail all Berlin Water Works.. 2 .Do. New iss. at 5/. d • 40 (Brit. American Land 32 Canada 100 I Do.Go.6pe.Jan&July all Copper Min. of Eng. all iDo. Pref. 71 p. cent. all (Crystal Palace... all 'DO. Preference all .Crystal Pal. of France all (Eastern Steam 100 lEleetric Telegraph all ;Electric Tel. of Irel all iEn.&Aust.Cop.SmCo 10 lOsjur. & Ind.Jetn. Tel. 9 all iEur.Sam.Stm.(lim.) _ _ O all Gen. Ir. Se. Col4im.) l 5 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 2 5 London Discount 4 all Lond. Gen. Omnibus 2 10 ,Magdalena St. Navig. l 0 all IMediteran. Elec. Tel. .0 all 'Do. Extension Toleg. LO all Mexican& S.Amerien ;5 5 !Nat. Discount Co [0 6 INetherlands Land._ l 0 all Do. Do. 5 all Do.B p.c.Pf.iss.at 1 d 5 2 Do. Do. 80 New B. &N. S. Land 100 N. S. W. Gov.s p.e.D. all 'NI. B. Australasian... all Nrth.ofEuropeSteam all Oriental Gas 10s. Do New Shares all Peellir. Ld. & all Peninsular & Oriental 10 Do. New all Rhymney Iron 60 Royal Mail Steam all 'Scot. Austral. Invest 100 S. Aus, Gov. 6 p.e.bds all 'South Austral. Land all Submarine Tel. Scrip all Do. Registered 5 True. Lu. Co. Up. Can. 28& Van Dteateu's Land.. 50 50 50 100 25 - 26 ••• --- ••• 4 - 5 in io 1091 -13 21 0 i 27 -- 23 -- 25 lj -- if 4 -- 44 4 - 5i 1 - 108 Ilse i .. 1, - i ••• S . 5 - 6 1 • 3i - 3i i 0 l J i 2i - 34 3 - :1 1 - Ed 17 - 20 93 - 95 i - iii 1 i 4 11 b2i 73 -- 75 20 -- 6i --22 P 51 -- 56 31 - 36 I - 1 i - 1 8111• - -.... ••• 10 -- 12 Business this day Tbirbr VOttiAisi SUN OFFICE, Six a' Clock. TATTERSALS'—(This Evening.) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 25 to 1 agst The Colonel (taken) 25 to 1 aget Jean du Quesne (taken) 25 to 1 agst Weathercock (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agst Clydesdale (offered) 13 to 2 agst Brother to Marchioness (taken) DERBY. 12 to 1 apt Clydesdale (taken freely) 18 to 1 agst Sedbury (taken) 20 to 1 agat Ditto (take 22) 25 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (taken) 25 to 1 agst Longrange (taken) 25 to 1 agat Cock-a-doodle doo 40 to 1 agat Ethiopian (taken) 40 to 1 agst Brother to Mary Copp LAW INTELLIGENCE.—{This Day.) HILARY TERM. To-day being the first day of Hilary Term, the learned Judges , Queen's counsel, a nd leading members of the bar, attended the Lord Chancellor's levee at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook-street. Mr, Ser geant Byles, the newly-appointed Judge of the Common Pleas, in the room of Mr. Justice Cresswell, appointed to the New Court of Probate, was present, and received the congratulations of his friends on his elevation to the Bench. The learned gentleman's appointment has given general satisfaction to the members of the bar, as well as every one connected officially with the Court of Common Pleas. Two features of unusual interest arise in connection with the proceedings of the present term. The first is that of the opening of the new Court of Probate, and the Divorce and Matrimonial Ceases Court. The working of the latter will, no doubt, create much interest and attention, and be watched with great anxiety. These Courts, presided over by Mr. Justice Cresswell, will hold their sittings in the Lords Justices' Court, Westminster Hall, and will be open to the public the same as the other courts. The final arrangements for their coming into active operation this day have been completed, but it is not expected that any causes can be proceeded with for a few days, in order that the necessary notices and forms may be eomplied with, required by the rules of practice adopted for the guid ance of suitors. The Bishop of Oxford still continues his opposition to the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Court. From an official letter addressed to the surro gates of the Consistory Court ever the Bishop of Oxford's diocese, his lordship proposes to set the authority of the Court over the civil law of divorce, by directing that they do not grant a license for marriage to any person who has obtained a decree for a dissolution of marriage under the provisions of the act, if the hus band or wife (as the case may be) of such divorced person be still alive. The other feature of interest in connection with the erm is the trial of the Royal British Bank Directors, at Guildhall, the first day of the after term sittings. A proceeding that has engrossed public attention for a considerable period and a natural anx;ety manifests itself in many quarters whether the law really will be able to meet this case, or the trials after all turn out a delusion. At the termination of the Lord Chancellor's levee, the learned judges proceeded in state to Westminster, and commenced the business of the term by swearing in the n ew judge. A large number of persons, considering the state of the weather, had assembled to witness the interesting ceremony. CITY SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.) SENDING ANONYMOUS LETTERS TO HIS HONOUR. On taking his seat upon the bench, his Honour said that he had lately received a great many anonymous letters from a person who had been committed to prison from this court upon a judgment summons. These letters were most abusive, and accused his Honour of sending the "innocent to prim," and letting the " guilty go free." One of the letters received this (Mon day) morning was written upon the hack of a blank form from the office of the Treasury of Customs, and from that his Honour drew his own conclusions. POLICE INTTILLTGENCE.—(This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAPTAIN AOSEELET AGAIN.—John May, 17, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Beadon, charged with picking the pocket of Captain Ackerley. Charles Cole, 317 A, a detective officer, said on Saturday night he was standing at the corner of Princes-street, Leicester-square, when he saw the prisoner following the captain, and put his hand into his pocket and draw out about six inches of a white pocket handkerchief. Prisoner then turned round, and seeing he was noticed, put the handkerchief back into the pocket. He then took him into custody. The prisoner was well known, and had been before convicted. Police -constable Gordon said he knew him to be a thief. Captain Ackerley said he wished to ask the magis trate whether the officer had any right to take the boy into custody. He was in plain clothes ? Mr. Beadon—Yes. He does duty in plain clothes. Capt. Ackerley (in a stentorian tone of voice) said he was certain the boy did not intend to p ick his p ocket. It was an impossibility. His pockets were deep ones, and very low. The officer had no authority for taking the boy. He did not show his staff, which he ought to have done, and was liable to 51. for not d oin g so, b y the 10 th Geo. IV. Would the magistrate ask the boy whether h e h a d a step f a th er , a sister, and a brother ? Mr. B ea d on sa id h e wou ld do so, and the prisoner, in answer to M r . B ea d on ' s questions, said he had. Captain A c k er l e y sa id the officer called himself a de tective. Th e ac t 10 G eo . IV. said the officer should show hi s staff. He bad not d one so. The officer struck the boy. He did not know that he was in the commis sion of the peace as well as the mag istrate. When he told the inspector of the officer's c onduct he took no notice. If the boy brought an action against the officer he would support him. Those things should be laid before the leislature. He thought p revention better than cure. If his worship thought p ro p er to commit the boy, h e might. The consta bl e had taken the boy to elevate himself. Th e constable struck t he boy which he h a d no right to d o. He had no doubt if he had a staff h e b ad a right to do so, but not without. These things should b e l a id b e f ore the Government. The boy should b e a d monished and not pun ished. The captain here went on in such an excited manner that Mr. Leadley, the clerk, wa s compelled to request him to d es i st, but the cap tain replied that he wouli only talk to the mag i strate. Mr. Beadon asked the officer whether he had struck the boy, as he had ao right to do so ? The officer (Cole) said he certainly had given the boy a slight knock because he called him a liar. The captain here again went on in such au excited manner that Mr. Beadon told him he certainly must be quiet. Mr. Beadon said he should cAntnit the prisoner for one month, cautioning the constable not to strike anybody again. THAMES. ALLEGED CRUELTY ON BOARD A DDTOH SHIP. — Mr. Charles Moerchin, a foreigner, of the Circus, Minories, who has frequently acted as an interpret er in this court, appli e d to M r, Selfe to ta k e hi s declara tion of the oath of fidelity o f a t rans l a tion of depositions under the following circumstances:— A few days since a German named Borman came before Mr. Yardley and said that his eon Henry Borman had been treated with great cruelty on board a Dutch ship, sailing under the Dutch flag b e tween London and the West Indies, and that d eat h was the result of such treatment. Mr. Yardley at once stopped the applicant, and paid he had no jurisdic,ion over offences committed on board foreign ships on the high seas. The father afterwards waited on the inspector of police at the H Dutch consul, who immediately directed an inquiry, and Pr. Moerchin took down the statements of the " h "se, and they referred him to the tl n ed that Captain Wilphoorsh, the master of the ship Johanna Jaoob, had beaten and kicked the boy repeatedly while he had Dutch 'wooden shoes on, and was guilty of other acts of cruelty. The boy died h o o t a s t on the voyage, and his death was believed to have been caused by the ill usage. The voyage was from London d cr i e vi w si , ° : to Nioara, in the West Indie s and back to London. D r . Moerchin said he had made a translation of the Dutch mariners depositions into English, and he wished to declare the trauelation was a correct one. Mr. Selfe asked the object of making the proposed declaration. Dr. Maerchin said, for the satisfaction of the Dutch Consul, w ho intended to take further proceedings in the matter directly he was assured the depositions were correctly translated. Mr. Selfe said the object of the Dutch Consul was highly Praiseworthy, but he (Mr. Selfe) would not sign the papers before him or take the declaration of the foreigners. There was no law to justify him in doing so . .He would only take declarations in certain cases pointed out by the law. He was therefore under the necessity of refusing the application. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S.INN-ROAD.—The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending the 9th of January is 2,584, of which 598 w ere new cases. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING'S-OROSS.—Num ber of registered attendances patients for the week ending Jan. 8, 1,234. Total from the let of Januarh 1867, to this date, 70,059, LITERATURE. Mervyn, Clitheroe. Nos. 1-6. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. George Routledge and Co. Welcome, thrice welcome—" Mervyn Clitheroe" redivivus. A whole lustre has elapsed since the date of its original commencement. The narrative is at length, however, happily resumed, in spite of the uninterrupted continuance of those laborious occupations which it is hardly surprising should have led in 1852, to its temporary abandonment by its author—at once Editor and Romancist. It should be remembered in regard to these literary avocations of Mr. Ainsworth, that it is only within the interval that has elapsed since the casual cessa tion cf . Mervyn Clitheroe's monthly appearance, that his own magazine, the magazine called after him self, a first-class periodical conducted with consider able ability and extended to many volumes during a career of several years' duration, was at length in the fulness of time brought to the term of its ex istence. Beyond that, however, it must be espe cially borne in recollection that this indefatigable man-of-letters simultaneously directs the editorial department of two of the most conspicuous of our popular monthly periodicals—Bentley's Miscellany originally edited by " Boz," and in which Mr. Ainsworth aclOeved one of his greatest successes, that won for him far and wide by his romance of " Jack Sheppard !" And the New Monthly Ma gazine already famous for its many distinguished editors, amongst these being numbered in suc cession as Harrison Ainsworth's predecessors, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Hood, Theodore Hook, and Bulwer Lytton. Notwithstandin g the unre mitting assiduity consequent upon the double editorship of the New Monthly and Bentley, our author during this interval has not by any means been idle in his own peculiar capacity as a story teller. Scarcely had his pen completed the last chapter of the old Englishlove-tale of the " Flitch of Bacon"—when it was busy relating the fortunes and misfortunes of that ill-starred scapegrace " The Spendthrift." A fictitious history which is in literature what Hogarth's " Rake's Progress" is in art—a high moral, inculcative of prudence and mo deration, conveyed through a record (here liteiary, there pictorial) of enthralling and protracted vicis situdes. Mervyn Clitheroe, howbeit, we have now to do with—now that it has been fairly resumed in ear nest, and with every prospect of its speedy and felicitous completion. At the period when the four first numbers were issued we very well remember avowing our unaffected belief that this particular fiction promised to be, in many respects, to our thinking, its author's masterpiece. The rea lisation of our anticipation appears now in truth to have been only for a while postponed. December brought a fifth, January has brought a sixth instalment ; so that already half of the entire work has made its appear ance. Judging the book from this moiety we can deliberately and explicitly endorse our former opinion, and pronounce " Mervyn Clitheroe " prospectively, in many important par ticulars, our author's masterpiece. It is thoroughly national. It is racy of the soil, a flower of home growth—no exotic—but thoroughly indigenous. The scenes here depicted with a luminous pencil alternate between Cheshire and Lancashire. The Coketown of Mr. Dickens's " Hard Times" is not more vividly Birmingham—than Mr. Ainsworth's Cottonborough is obviously Manchester. The picturesque meres, and mosses, and coppices, and pastoral haunts, and sylvan nooks, the villages and hamlets, the country seats and the farm houses, the cots and mansions of those northern counties are described as only one perfectly familiar with them could describe them, and then simply on the pro viso of his holding in his grasp the pen of Harrison Ainsworth, the pen to which we are already in debted for " Rookwood." and " The Lancashire Witches." Admirable, each in its way, are the deli neations of The Anchorites, otherwise known among its neighbours as Jacobites' Hall, the luxuri • ous, old-fashioned dwelling-house of excellent Mrs. Mervyn, our hero's wealthy relative and pro tectress—or the description of uncle Mobberley's farm of Nethercrofts—or the sketch of an acaderni , cal interior in the Free Grammar School of Cotton ' borough. As for the interest of the story—adven ture rapidly follows adventure. At the very outset there is a hair-breadth 'scape upon the ice of Marston Mere, where Mervyn saves the life of his rival and evil genius, Malpas Sale : and before we have reached the middle of the narrative we have come upon a duel between these same closely con trasted competitors. Already, moreover, the characters have become not only singularly nume rous, but no less singularly diversified. Several of these portraits, drawn to the very life with the facile touch of a master, are in truth inimitable. They are not merely painted undoubtedly to the life, but evidently from the life—creatures rather of flesh and blood than purely of the imagination. Hospitable Mrs. Mervyn (already mentioned), the rich old Jacobite gentlewoman. Tipsified old Uncle Mobberley, the farmer, of Nethercrofts, also previously particularized. Simon Pownall, the rascally barber-surgeon. Che them Quick, his spindle-shanked apprentice. Pretty Sissy Cul cheth, the little Welch cottager. Honest Ned, her husband, the red-whiskered gamekeeper. Appbia Brideoake, the blonde beauty of the re mance—and Ora Doveton, the charming brunette. Laughter-moving Old Hazy, of Owlarton Grange, dealer in dreams and diablerie—and goodnatured Doctor Foam, the antiquary and philanthropist. Doctor Sale the pragmatical Vicar, father of Mal pas, the villain of th tale aforesaid. Phaleg and Peninnah the Gypsies, not forgetting Obed, their limber offspring. Cuthbert Spring, the facetious diner-out. Colonel Harbottle, much of a port drinker, and all but a fire-eater. The redoubtable and portentous Dr. Bray, the very sbadow—though it must be allowed a very substantial shadow—of Dr. Parr, with all his learning, all his dry humour, all his rudeness, and all his love for an after-dinner pipe of tobacco. The loquacious Mr. Comberbach—butler at the Anchorites. Even among the four-footed personages introduced, are there not sundry " characters " with which the reader has longsiuce become pleasantly familiarised 1 To say nothing of the young hero's shaggy little pony Taffy, are there not the old watch dog Talbot, and the companion bloodhounds Gaunt and Lupus, together with their St. Hubert successor I From the bare catalogue here enumerated the variety of personages pourtrayed in Mervyn Clitherce may be readily conjectured. The delight ful skill with which they are pourtrayed may be better appreciated by quotation. Here is Mr. Ainsworth's admirable silhouette of— THE THRASHING TUTOR. "The Rev. Abel Cane, under whose care I was first placed, was a sound, classical scholar, but a severe die ciplinariate He was one of those who believe that a knowledge of Latin and Greek can be driven into a boy, and that his capacity may be sharpened by frequent punishment. Under this impression ho was constantly thrashing us. In his drawer he had several canes of various lengths, and of various degrees of thickness, tied with tatching-end to prevent them from splitting, and for all these he found employment. While calling us up for punishment he got as red in the Os as a turkey cock, and occasionally rose up to give greater effect to the blows. Some boys were so frightened that they couldn't learn their tasks at all, and others CO reckless of the punishment which they knew must ensue, whether or not, that they intentionally neglected them. I have seen boys with "blood blisters," as they called them, on their hands, and others with weals on their backs, but I not recollect that the castigation did them any good, but the very reverse. But our preceptor had other ingenious modes of torture. He would make us stand in the middle of the school for a whole day, and even longer—sometimes on one leg—and the effect of balancing in this posture, with a heavy dictionary in hand, and a Virgil under the arm, was ludicrous enough, though rather perplexing. It must not be imagined that I escaped the cane. I had enough of it, and to spare, both on shoulders and hands. Not withstanding our dread of him, we used to play Mr. Cane a great many tricks. We notched his canes so that they split when he used them ; put gravel into the keyhole of his drawer ; mingled soot with his ink ; threw fulminating balls under his feet; and even medi tated blowing him up with gunpowder. An adventurous youth essayed the effect of a burning-glass oa his ear, but was instantly detected, and called round for punish. ment. Another tried to throw the rays from a bit of looking-glass into his eye, and shared the same fate. With all his discipline, if our dreaded master were called out of school for a few minutes, the greatest row would commence. The boys sitting at either end of the form would place their feet against the edge of the desks, and squeeze up those between them so unmercifully that they roared again. Books, volleys of peas from tin cases, and other missiles, were discharged at the occu pants of the opposite forms ; and the miserable fellows in the middle of the school became marks for their comrades, and returned th e aggression infthe s o se wit they could. These dis turbances were,o u b r o them ; n essed by the ushers, but th e y rarel y mentioned and Dr. Lonsdale was too far off to hear what ass oing on, and I don't thick he altogether ap.provdreadtfhuel second master's severity. To a new boy, _ e it od w e a r s " Come to bear Mr. Cane cry out to „ some offender, round, you stew-ew-pid ass-s-s ! dreadfulhiswitness like a serpent to as he uttered the final wo rd of scorn ; the writhings of the victim as he underwentd castigation ; still more dreadful to bea r the words a ressedtorhovihmeesaedalsfl,l. intensified as they were b y the furious looks that drove accom panied them. In some cases, Mr, the capacity they possessedout of boys' the There was one poor little fellow, Devereux Frogg, whose wits could never be stimulated. Poor Devereux I bow I pitied him, and tried to help him, and crammed him—but it was of no use. When we went up he was so frightened that all went out of his head, and the daily drubbing ensued. And there were others like him. Mr. Cane was a fresh-comp lexioned man, with good features, and a h an d some aquiline nose ; he was scrupulously neat in his attire, and wore a long gold watoh-ehain, which he twirled about when walking, or when ezoited ; and he had a habit of thinking aloud. What strange enntradietions of character come persons offer. Out of ;:ch.io!, Mr. C ariz , was very amiable and good-tempered, f'nd of music, and Cultivated a taste for poetry. I hated Lila eordial v then ; but I 1-arlit to like him afterwat ds, :sod now .1 lament in him the loo; friend." " • As a companion extract—ddineative this time rather of incident than of character—take the fol lowing enthralling passage„descriptive of the ice breaking on Marston Mere, an event to which, it will be recollected, we have already made passing reference. The two school-boy adventurers are suddenly startled about midway on the frozen sur face of the Mere by the ice bending—when, quoth Mervyn Clitheroe : " Forcing a laugh, I begin to repeat the schoolboy rhymes— _ _ _ " If it bends, it'll bear, If it cracks, it'll swear, If it breaks—' " r Hold your tongue I' interrupted Malpas. Why the devil do you mention such a thing as breaking now ? I wish we were safely back again. What a tool I was to come with you at all " He was here interrupted in his turn by a most ter rific crack, beginning just beneath his feet, passing under mine, and sweeping on with an awful noise to an immense distance. Malpas and I stared at each other aghast, uncertain whether to advance or retreat. " We were now about midway from either shore, and therefore it seemed immaterial which course was adopted. Malpas was for turning back ; but he had scarcely moved a foot in that direction, when another crack, louder and more appalling than the first, took place beneath him, and water sprang from between the fissures. Starting bade with a cry of terror, he speeded off in the course we had originally pursued. We trod es lightly and moved as swiftly as we could, stepping on the points of our feet. The distance between us and the shore seemed interminable. The ice seemed fairly giving way, and cracked and groaned most fearfully. On looking back I saw that the surface not fifty yards behind us was covered with water. I now gave myself up for lost, and thought of my mother, hoping I should be buried beside her, if my body was ever found, in Marston Churchyard. " Malpas, who was not encumbered with a gun and a bag of wild ducks, and who besides, bad a very light pair of heels; got considerably in advance, and thinking I might safely follow where he went, I shaped my course accordingly. But I soon found this to be an error, for the ice which bent beneath him and cracked, would hardly sustain me, and more than once gave way alioge ther, so that my emapes from destruction seemed abnoet wiraculou c. For some time, my attention bad been so intently directed to my own precarious situation, that I had not dared to glance towards the shore ; btr, now looking in that direction, with a thrdt of delight, I dis covered that I was much nearer it than I expected— scarcely more than a hundred yards off, while the ice had become much firmer. But where was Malpas ? Had he already reached the bank ? I could nowhere perceive him. A vague apprehension crossed me that he had sunk through the ice ; and my fears were instantly afterwards confirmed by remarking Lie cap only a few yards before me. At a glance I saw what had happened. In his haste, he had incautiously approached a spring, and had fallen through the thin c ffering of ice. The sound of his immersion had been drowned in the loud cracks and explosions. All selfish considerations were lost in the thought of saving him, and twenty rash plans—any of which would have cost me my own life—. occurred to me. I approached as near as I dared to the bole. Nothing was to be discerned of him. The ice was as transparent as crystal, and I looked eagerly around for any object beneath it. The next moment I distinguished Malpas under the glassy barrier with his hands outstretched, and his eyes open and fixed ou me. Never shall I forget their expression. I sprang to where he was, pointed in the direction of the aperture, and signed to him to move towards P. He understood me, and with a last alert struggled thither, and got his head above the ice. But the trail support broke beneath his hold, and he sank again. I uttered a cry of despair. But the next moment he reappeared ; and, having thrown myself flae on the ice, I managed to lay my gun across the bole, and he caught hell of the barrel. But I saw that he was so much exhausted, that unless he could be immediately extricated be must unquestionably perish ; and I therefore approached still nearer, though at the greatest personal risk, until I could grasp his hand, and then, bidding him second my efforts, I exerted all the strength I possessed, and suc ceeded in dragging him out of the hole." So far from diminishing in any respect in its attractions, the work only increases in its interest as it advances : the last number, the sixth, being in truth, perhaps of all, the very best yet published. The tendency of this progression, to say the least of it, is auspicious. May it continue throughout the remainder of the serial to the date of its comple tion f Mervyn Clitheroe, in that c. se, can hardly fail to realize our expectations to the fullest— assuming the foremost rank among the many bril liant fictions already contributed by the genius of Harrison Ainsworth to the atoms of our imagina tive literature. Sir John, Falstaff. Illustrated by George Cruik shank, Parts TM. and IX. Longman and Company. Another number and there will be an end of this last brilliant comics serial embellished by the pencil of our inexhaustible Cruikshank. It is as it should be—considering its subject—perhaps the greatest of our artist's many wonderful successes. The etchings in the two latest instalments published are really exquisite both as works of art and as pictorial ebullitions of a humorous genius altogether inextinguishable. Whether it be because of their intimate association with the same locality, or because of their veritable resemblance to those delightful illustrations, we will not decide—but certainly these four last engravings, illustrative of the History of " Sir John," appear to us to bear a marvellous family likeness to the charming sketches adorning Harrison Ainsworth's historical romance of " Windsor Castle," sketches we have hitherto regarded as among George Cruikshank's undoubted masterpieces. But these now before us, fresh from the printing press, aro far and away the most grace ful productions we yet remember to have seen from a hand as much beyond the hand of Gilray or Row landsor, as the brush of Hogarth was beyond that of his sire-in-law, the vaunted Thornhill. Two of them pourtray Falstaff in connection with the immortal incident of the Buck-basket. In of e we see him smothered up in dirty linen by the mischievous hands of the merry wives, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page—names long identified in our mind with the recollection of two charming faces—those of Lady Boothby and poor dead Ma dame Vestris. • In the companion etching, coming immediately afterwards, we have the fat knight being bundled out of his sweltering lair in the basket, and soused in the muddy ditch, the cur rent of which is sluggishly surging under the effects of the immersion. Capital, too, is the deli neation of the cudgelling inflicted upon Sir Johu by Master Ford, when the former is striving . tcs make his escape unharmed under the disguise of Mother Prat. And at once beautiful andbeltrich is the scene disclosed to view by the dainty etching needle of Cruikshank, in his fairy-like limning of Herne's Oak, and the elfine rabble dancing about the prostrate form of Falstaff ! As to the accom panying letter-press, the " Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources, by Robert B. Brough, Esq.," it appears to us, from beginning to end, the most egregious mistake imaginable. It is intended, of course, to be extremely funny—but throughout is either merely vapid or impertinent. The serio comic observations upon Shakspere, especially, read to ourselves in every separate syllable quite intole rably. We cannot, in simple justice, but accord to the work of the writer about as much contempt as we award to that of the artist unaffected and unstinted admiration. Scenes of Clerical Life. By Gecrg© Eliot. 2 vols, i3lackliood. Those readers who have previously perused these stories in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine will delight in the opportunity thus afforded of re-pe rusal, and for those who are strangers to them, they can in all confidence be recommended as composi tions of sterling excellence. With truth and feeling are the events related to us, and we behold in vi gorous sketches, some of the trials and tribulations through which those must pa ss who aspire to be the labourers in the heavenly vineyard. " The sad fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, the shortest as she is and simplest of the three tales ; it is cbjefly made familiarlypleasing the delineation w ife o o f f whose sombre career is herein depicted. Her p e _ by ter t m he ed, culiar gift is the "soothing unspeakable cha rm of gentlo womanhood, which supersedes all acquisi tions a ll accomplishments." It was the saddestday of 4iis life when Amos consigned her to the dust in the bloom of life. The Countess Czerlaski is a good specimen of her class, shinin g with borrowed humouring her could light, and dispo rtin g hers elf and f a ncies, at the expense of others who ill afford such vagaries. " Janet's repentance" is rather a peculiar story, which endeavours intolerance that prevail e d in to exemplify th e Milby, a small town of the last century, on the occasion of the advent of a new curate, whose tenets did not exactly accord with the time-honoured tants. Jan e t i s prejudices and its inhabi an attractive character, with all short-comings, her fault s and impulsive ones, she is one of eager whose lot is too often dark and stormy, at the . same time that they are gifted with that exquisite sensibility, and that acute perception which can the most highly appreciate happin ess , and the most deeply feel sorrow. Her husband w4s a bad man, violent and ungoverned in his conduct, and even brutal in his behaviour to her. Stung by such insults, aggravated by her ill fortune, Janet sinks to his level instead of rising in the native worth and integrity of her own mind to resist and overcome evil of every kind. Mr. Tryan, the curate, is.well described as a zealous ad vocate of the doctrines he believed genuine. In failing health and depressed spirits, he effected what :many gifted with strength and assisted by approv ing friends have failed to realise, because his heart 80 1 14i 14 121, St. 107 6 St.! 121 12i 120 xd 1 10 20 25 20 20 St. 20 1 ••• 531 1 4k 32 1 ... 86 ••• 22k ••• ••• 211 1 ••• 131 121 ••• 1041 solo 19i ... 22 ... 61 i 1 11 35 51 173 183 22 1i t 116 17 11.9 18 104 i 4i li 110 9i 101 2 i 74i 31 102 3 Was in his av - ,rks. He know himself surrounr3ed by eotni - es and ib:otepasst.d y difficibties, but . he trusted in the wo-to of his cans-, bet ofhim rlf, he expected ut, nemerteete :•eturu to his exer.ioo,, and !,e looked forward to no respite to his paieful toils, till the gi ea! summons should be oiveli that to the weary labourer proclaims the dawning of the rest of heaven. Ho was mainly in strumental in rescuing Janet Dempster from the dreary despondency into which she had fallen, and his last hours were cheered by the prospect of his works livin g a ft er hi m, i nasmuc h as s h e wou ld b e leading a useful and honourable existence through the long years which stretched before her in the vista of the future. In " Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" we find displ a y e d the mod genius i n composition and the mo s t v i v id ness in nar ration. It is a striking episode of man's exist ence, one which stands out from the canvas of time as the beholder gazes on life's picture. gaezd W m e e a d r i e o fi c r r e s apparently t introduced d t dl. l\ , e l a r r . y G , l o fi 1 m in on h ot is on o o l d u s a and then looking back we are shown that this sombre and sedate old man in his quiet took part scenes of no common interest and excitement. It is truly said that enough consideration is not given to what may have been in the youth of that age, all consider so unprofitable to itself and all others. " Alas ! alas ! we poor mortals are often little better; than wood-ashes—there is small sign of the sap, and the leafy buds that were once there ; but wherever we see wood-ashes we know that all that early fulness of life must have been. I at least hardly ever look at a bent old man, or a wizened old. woman, but I see also with my mind's eye, that Past of which they are the shrunken remains, and the unfinished romance of rosy cheeks and bright eyes seems sometimes of feeble interest and insignificance compared with that drama of hope and love which Las long ago reached its catastrophe, and left the poor soul like a dim dusty stage, with a ll it s swee t garden scenes and fair perspectives, overturned and. thrust out of sight." CaptainWybrow, Gilfil, and especially Caterina stand out prominently before us, they are the chief characters, each admirably sketched in its peculiar and distinctive style. Caterina was a child of the South, which is a circumstance most felicitously contrived to account for her wild energy and fiery nature. Captain Wybrow is a type of the soltish man, which might be adapted to any time. He was conceited, and so long as his own ideas of self-indulgence were gratified, he thought little and cared less for what gave pain or pleasure to others. Gilfil was of a generous disposition, but as often occurs, he seemed slighted and passed by, while all that was bright and lovely was flung in the path of the unworthy. However, real kindness and genuine worth must effect some good and influence in some degree, and he who had been nobody in the sum mer time of their glee, was the all-important re feree in the dark days that came all too quickly on Cheverel Manor. Some of the scenes are remark ably well traced which took place on the arrival of Miss Assher, the favoured rival of Caterina. It ap pears only in accordance with probability when we read of the early death of the young girl who had exhausted the energies of an existence on the occur rences of a few fleeting months. Her spirit had burned itself out, as it were, in its fiery struggles against time and fate, and no after calm or kind attention could renew the wasted strength or fan the expiring flame. So ended the romance of Maynard Gilfil's life ; the bright dream of his youth was over, the hopes of his manhood decayed. He went forth from the whirl of those eventful days to a long, cheerless, solitary existence ; but while those around deemed him cold and uninteresting, the heart within was mourning over the ashes of its early quenched fires. It needed not to tell one of his vocation, to where the stricken should. turn for solacA, or how the lonely may find a friend, but the human mind, overshadowed by such clouds cannot resume its original lustre or regain its won - tell source, and hence it is that the hero of this sad story is left as a ruin on life's highway. It is impossible to peruse these histories without agree ing in the skill and superiority of their author. He has displayed an insight into character, a knowledge of the ruling passion of men, and a brilliancy and vigour of expression that stamp .his pro ductions as those of no ordinary writer. What ever is attempted is successful, what he proposes to do is always carried out, and whether the person frigid d ib i ed nti J e e r a ul M es iss of LnomanheetraordaecCoartueiinr,n ora, w g hr n e with sal Lei.efien i. will nkoe ardour daonudb o a doubt obtain oabt ut arjanl.a southern wrr sun, alike perneh Scenes o t f o detail s clerc circulation which will bear testimony to the recognition of heir merits. LLOYD'S SNIPPING.--(This Day.) LONDON, Jan. 11.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived —Ariel, from St. Michael's; Olivia, from Hamburg for Rio Janeiro; H. M. S. Diadem, a cruise. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 9.—Wind S.B.—Arrived--Dane (s), from Plymouth. Sailed—Tyne (s), for Brazils. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 9.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Quin. tin Melyses, from Havannah. FALMOUTH, Jan. 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Garland; for Mogador. BIDEFORD, Dec. 10.—Wind. S.W.—Arlived—Remedy s from Primo Edward's Island. PIEL, Jan. O.—Wind S. W. —Arri ved—Jamea Gibson, from Demerara. NEWPORT, Jan. 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—Savage, from London for Madeira; Louis Henry, from Bremen for Cape of Good Hope, CLYDE, Jan. 9.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Copia, for De. merara. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 9.—Wind W.—Arrived —Sir Allan M`Nab, from Akyab ; James, St. John's Newfoundland; Wave, from Sunderland for Alicante, leaky, having been struck by a heavy sea during a gale. HULL, Jan. 9.—Wind S.W.--Arrived—Paraquet, from St. Michael's. KINGROAD, Jan. 9.-1 - Vinci S.W.—Arrived- Fire (s), from St. John's, N.B. for Falmouth. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Edith, from Cardiff; Pet, Newcastle ; Mal* colm Brown, Llanelly; Wonder, steamer, Jersey. Sailed—William, packet, and No. 4, for Sunderland. LIVERrooL, Monday Morning. Wind W. S. W. Arrived—Therese, from Baltimore; E. Z., St. John's, N.B. ; Fanny Jermes, Rio Grande ; John Stanfell, Primo. Edward's Island ; Arendona, Nantes ; William Punton, Newfoundland ; Ellen, Bahia; Wanderer, Demerara. Sailed—Royal Charter, screw steamer, for Melbourne; Rattler, screw steamer, Oporto. Put back—Semaphore, screw steamer, for Belfast, with loss of fan ; Virgin del Caronen, for Matanzas, leaky; and Heart of Oak, for Trieste. The Philadelphia, which arrived here from Philadelphia, in a heavy squall, in lat. 48, long. 25, Was struck by light. ning, and two seamen were killed, and three others badly injured. BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH. GPAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Wind S.W. ; tide high water; weather cloudy and light. Arrived, Jan, 11 —William Thornborongh, and Speed well, from Guernsey; Eliza Nelson, Prince Edward's Island ; Alice Tarlton, Berdianski ; Avra, Gravelines. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind S.W., fresh. Anchored—Marlborough, from London, for Patock; Clarendon, barque, London, Belize; Triumphant, London, Falmouth ; Ann, schooner, London, Falmouth. Passed, 10th—Alice Proverst, barque, from Mobile, for Rotterdam, and not the Alice, Captain Proverst, re ported yesterday. Passed—Washington, from Rangoon, for London. OUTWARD INDIAN MAILS.—The second despatch of Indian mails ria Marseilles since the commencement of the weekly communication took place on Saturday evening, letters and newspapers being forwarded to China and all parts of India, except Bombay and a portion of the Bombay presidency. The next mails for Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, and all other stations of India, excep t Penang and Singap ore, wil l be made up to-morrow (T ues d a y) morning, to accompany the Australian mails, via Southampton. as far as Suez ; and for the above places, via Marseilles, mails will leave on the evening of the 18th inst., as the 17th falls on Sunday. THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—The result of the poll for the e four additional di rectors of the C rystal Palace was made known on S a t ur d ay b y the wr e n c ineers appointed at the last meetin g o f t h e shareholders. The successful candi dates are Captain Walter, brother of Mr. John Walter, M.P..; Mr. Bicknell, son-in-law of Mr. David Roberts, R.A. and the owner of the magnificent collection of Turner's paintings ; Mr. England, the great locomotive maker, of N ew C ross ; an d M r. H ors l ey, w h o was one o f the most active members of the committee of investiga tion appointed by the shareholders. The number of votes were—For Captain Walter, 95,203; Mr. Bicknell, 82,360 ; Mr. England, 80,066 ; and Mr. Horsley, 73,855. THE FINANCIAL VALUE or INDIA.—In dispensing its revenue of 27,000,000/• we provide employment for a large number of our countrymen, and thus add to the general wealth of the nation. No fewer than 10,000 British officers, of the higher grade, are to be numbered in the civil and military service of the Government, whose incomes range from 2001. to 25,0001. a-year. AU these are well-born and educated men of the middle classes, who find an honourable provision out of the resources of India. The total sum they drew yearly cannot be less than 6,000,0001. or 7,000,000/. sterling. We have not included the European common soldiers, of whom there were 30,000 before the mutiny, and there will be in future at least 70,000 or 80,000. All these are maintained out of the Indies treasury at a cost which must hereafter exceed 3,000,000/. Again, there are the pensions granted to retired officers, officers' widows and children, in the two services, which are contributed by India and expended in England. In round numbers, we shall not be fibs' wrong if we estimate the direct worth of Indi,___% o ! Englishmen of all classes at not le es than 10,000,0(Lt di This is a magnificent subsidy for one co w ur:i ii t. another, and though we cannot asresaa w ith Valbezen that but for this resource Bril of 17 93 a' accou nt be. 84 ter:ZIdmustnot have survived the trials _ f the allow that it is an importantdit__erawau onuaierworirw, tween India and Zilgla n January number. 10 20 20 20 40 25 100 40 100 100 46 7 69i 544 4 854 95 74i 4 111 14 9 i 20 n 8 10 i ; 8 1 23i i 5 6o 1 27 21. 321 3 184 / 71 18i 91 13/ 157 k 96 § 221 i i 118 i 4i 44 i 3 4 Oni