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g, on the 6th of iment unhesita• of the Sublime enter into cony nment, in order eding ; and that issible accident, to Admiral Sir iron to the Dar. tantinople upon ist in defending om attack. ill ere sent by Lord Lords Commis' lame time Lord is and wished of lubjeet, through St. Petersburg , the Cabinet of ch I Nterally re than an other by all indepen. of the civilised rer up political the dictates of mankind forbid endent govern' were to make aly and univer• ahonoured." 3 were commui• which entirely on th• 11th of by reported to were sent to the the islands of ma, and to put Villiam Parke t me having thug Porte in resist• ►lent demand of that these two land of extra- shed, the prin. the subject Of ills clearly and getically main' 'l.ench Govern' acted that, true - ernments ny, maintain and the right ed in the per' h by the Ms' lie extradition , acceding to it. imself declared ,o make such a nd universeill oured ;" I can' Lonour and dig' lain in friendly r Government gradation and daring the non' be a rule unit' the civilise! State is bound ►ligations of $ tip remark, in nents are fog, tches to Loral 49.) Ea time to time )sburgs, Boa' se nobody call r to the general of humanity' A' international tever ; neither t the rights of !et stipulations itical refuges., sting for such rear of contra" modern times with diligence respecting the following 0 vents of Intle sixth edition, ies stipulating d or convicted generally fol ks are that 6 extradition of ditical crimes. Ly to political the rights of of Austria and, rsal opinion 0 1 emanding the )leki, and the wless inhuman the rights of ated, reoeivio the futility of id of comma's Austrian bre le Saxon Go' , unt Ladislaus pence of iti ) Federal Diet treaty exists Ming for the I the 28th No iaterial decree lund of human 3ermany mat funding rep.. ets, but Count the Germania every school- Run gary ner the Germanic if extradition id to pretend Ay which by will not say aeon ate, the coomplishing teki. there Wa s at icient treaty► )11, exhumed Lustria could Bnt purposes. contains the 1 be unlavr discontented ston, true to rational lavr, the declare •pretation of officers and ) have been of Hungary at." But In )t one word .ern, can be he English ersally stag " but what Lecepted but —demanded led over the 3f Hungary • murdered, she drove r loathsome their coun ;o her ven ment when qss of just orld believe means to ostitutional allowed to humanity ; regard the which her ace. 3ror of the ast remoo overnment Le English s, will not rce of those, ;land was ;SUTH. A correr khe Cannel -Trafalgar ;—a sevete )r desertion or that the heir offence -Army 'fl NONZT MARKET AND CITY H' S. AI,Tr CITY, Two o'CLocii. -LZATION IN THE BANK. RATE OF DISCOUNT. .. 11 , 11 e minimum rat e of discount at the Bank of :gland has been advanced this morning to 6 per v'?t., and the measure has not created much sur -1'011", because the demand for gold for shipment t he United St a t es , and the increased activity of th e money' market had prepared the public for a mo dification o f th e terms upo n w hich the directors co nducted th e i r o p era ti ons . The latest return e l ibited a very unfavourable change in the posi tion of the establi s hment. Animportant decline was r eported in the bullion, while the other securities here augmented to the extent of £636,782, and the b a tanee-sh ee t, taken altogether, was the most un satisfactory presented throughout the year. There is still an active demand for money; and Batonry probable that a portion of the accommo , obtained last week was procured, not for ' ul Mediate requirements, but in anticipation of e nhanced quotations. The adviees from the manufacturing districts mention that the transactions generally have been v an unimportant character, owing to the inter :ection of the Christmas holidays. At Manchester, Lee ds, Bradford, and Huddersfield, and most of the tbiery en districts, the operatives, however, have be en Well employed in the fabrication of spring t a nc 'de. The late severe weather caused an increased d emand for worsted hosiery at Leicester, and the ~"°/kpeople continue to be fairly engaged upon con- Lreot orders. In the hardware districts there is no cha nge of importance to record, and at Birming ham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton the process of stock -taking has been the chief business attended to dcrin g the past week. The Directors of the South Australian Banking of 10 have notified that a dividend at the rate 10 per cent. per annum will be payable on and after the 16th of January. Th l , Saxonia, from New York, has brought * 9 3200 for France. , In the Li ver p oo l Cotton Market, on Saturday, 4 u cainess continued rather active, and prices were 1 1141 3' maintained. The sales amounted to 12 , 000 val es. M e diterranean first annual meeting of the London and 7 4 diterranean Steam Navigation Company has j r t been held, when it was stated that pending t completion of the company's fleet,!which is ex peo e ted at an early period, several vessels have been char tered to keep up the connection between Lon don and the It a lian ports, and have exhibited satis tol7 results, which enables the directors t o 1 ; (s:Prese their conviction that when the company's 1 ,7 11 steamers can be engaged, a profitable ret urn be made to the shareholders. T he Market for Public Securities has been rather de p r essed i n consequ en c e of the advance in the value of money ; th e speculators, although opera ting to a very limited extent, having been encou k-a,ed to eff ec t sales. Consols have, therefore , the y about 1, per cent., viz., from $ 2 l, at which abu ndant opened, to 921 There appears to be an supply of stock, and the greatest diffi -41 is experienced in obtaining loans , even at C 4 . 37 onerous rates of interest. The New Three per etit s• remain at 921; the Reduced are flat, at 92 1; Bank Stock is at 233 ; India Debentures have re ad to 951 961; and Exchequer Bills are flat, at %die. to par. in -u4 siness in the Foreign Market has been exceed eetlY dull, and prices are heavy. Turkish 6 per nts• are 70 to 71; ditto New 56 to 56t ; Portu 'neee are flat, at 47 ; Mexican at 2111; and Bra :47i.alln. 4 1 per Cents. are steady at 861 ; Buenos A y r es Deferred are 30i. been the Railway Share Market the dealings have have very limited, and in some instances prices it f e allowed rather less firmness, owing to the Cance in the value of money. Great Western, h til leashire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern i t ' ve receded ss. ; and Midlands and North -68". ern (Berwick), 102. ; West Midland improved h r ie Foreign and Colonial lines have been in s! li mited request without any material bl'inge in values. Antwerp and Rotterdam realise : ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 24 ; Great Western 0 C anada, 11; and East Indian, 9 81 t• Joint Steck Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con- Lille inactive, and late rates were barely supported. II BRITISH FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. a '''k b . Stoek trier Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 24 f 2 Pr 3 le..- ,Per Cent. Annuities otock biro 1- ) bit ti , -- --ebentures, 1858 9 54 6k c o ,„_ .0, onds Ll,OOO 7 5 dis 1 4 " 01 8 for Account, Jan. 10 DStock for Account — It z 40 6 per Cent. for A ccoun t lolf cll et• rter Bills, £l,OOO, 1&d Ditto Small 11 t ....., FOREIGN FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK. ian 5 per Cent ll iw , t to 4i per Cent. 1860. B6l f V 4 il Ayres, 6 per Cent k....,.0 Deferred Port uguese 8 per Cent 2 ll I ` ll guase 3 per Cent.. 1853 47 T ii ,L‘to.,., 3 per Cent., 1856, '7 and '9 .46 bir, 6 per Cent 7of -'" Now Loan 6 4 -Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. ColUiols for Account, ex div. ......... 924 i ' P OLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). MARLBOROUGH-STREET. % 11"131..yr-cnuLfsm.—BA.D CASE.—Mary Ann Kendall , A rj 01 17, was charged before Mr. Beadon with stealin g , I,Foubert's-place, Regent's-park, some silk dresses, 5. 0 ., N th, and other articles, of the value of £ 9, the p ro p ert y her mistress, Mrs. Harriet Griffiths, the wife of a ham %beef shopkeeper. te , 4 . Griffiths said the prisoner had only been in her Ni ee three months, and on Saturday night last she missed moire antique dress, &c. The prisoner had absconded on the previous Tuesday. She had been ,detected that day in she a quantity of goods from the window, but though W asforgiven for it it was afterwards found that she had tak en them away. On Saturday night, Sergeant Joy having f- '`uu the prisoner, she gave her in charge. The articles x.°d Ueed formed only a part o f the p ro p erty. The value of th ose missed on Saturday was £9. 11r. Beadon remanded the prisoner for a week. VIM DAY'S -,,,,LoNnorr, Dec. 3 1 . — Wind this day at noon—Soutb asterly ; f res h breeze, and thick, hazy weather, w ith rapid thaw. PORTBYOUTII, Dec. 30.—Wind W.N.VT., foggY. — A rrived—Rochester, feom New Orleans for Antwerp. PLYMOUTH Dec. 29.—Wind W. S. W.—Arriv ed —Solon , ` r ota Rangoon' . f all, Dec. 30,—Wind W.N.W.—Arrired—Sydney Z . 41 1, screw steamer, from the Westward ; Le a pi ng Waters, '''° 4 l the River, and sailed for Bombay. LXITH, Dec. 29. Wind S.W.—Arrived—Arthur, u'arn Callao. (IT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOIITHAMPTON, Monday Morning. z Arrived, Dec. 29.—H avre , steamer, from Havre • Emma : I le/ from Jersey ; Empire, from 'V ievre ; Southampton, eamer, from Jersey. Arrived, Dec. 30.—Bremen, steamer , from Bremen ; Duk e e , ornwall, steamer, from Dublin; Argy ll, steamer, from are n t am Sailed.—Duke of Cornwall, steamer, for London. BZ SIBMARINS AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. 4r rived, Dec. 30.—Aurora, steamer, from Rotterdam. sailed Lord John Russell, steamer, for D unkirk ; Earl or Auckland, steamer, for Rotterdam; Baron Osy, for Antwerp WIND AND WEATHER REPORT. THIg DAY, D : -Ardrossan, S.E. ; fine Brizilto n , S.W.; fine ristol, N.E. ; amp 'n k tobridge, N.W.; cloudy , 11, E. E. ; rain 0 , S.E . • fin —lll tht W W light; fog ni, . 1), 1 1 lig ht N E. • damp E. fog Dumfries, E ; snow Vitides,r(l.-KlinburghS.E..; fog, thaw sil asgew, E.S.E. • fine, thaw Gavesend, variable, light; haZy lEc. 31, 9 A.M. Harwich, N.E. ; cloudy Hartlepool, S.E. ; unsettled Holyhead, E. ; light breeze, hazy Inverness, S.'W, ; fine Leith, S.E. ; thaw Milford Haven, S.W.; fog Newmarket, N.W. ; dull Norwich, S.E., light Perth, S.E. ; thaw Peterborough, N. ; fog Port Glasgow, E. ; dull Southampton,W.N.W. ; rain Weymouth, W.S.W. ; rain Whitehaven, N.E. ; fine York, S.E. ; mild, thaw CATIONS, DEC. 29. Marseilles, N.W. ; clear Montpellier, N.W. ; foggy Paris, E. ; rain St. Petersburg, calm; cloudy, snow Stockholm, E. ; cloudy Strasbourg, E. ; cloudy Toulon, W. ; fine Turin, W. ; clear YieLU2a, ; foggy CONTINENTAL S 1 t reB t, E.S E. • cloudy *iruseels, cloudYy, fo g Cherbourg, S.E.; fine i\C°Ponhagen, N. • very foggy ES E cloudy titvre " llg h orn,lsT.wr, ; fine Ll,lPsio, S. • cloudy 'Oats, N.: rule A I - Lain. HARE ORDINARY SIIAti ways. raid • I Closing I Business I Price. I Done. Bain - myna all and Str. Val all 85 84 end Ch June 1 0 0 81 83 all 114 125 Cyne all and Mid.Co all 64 7 Ex.eter 100 99 101 100 975 974 975 & Car (Egan all au (len all ,VPassag - e all all 6 64 nets no div f all il6 pc peran all been , d. tor el fast Jum all , &Ab. June all 84 100 16 8 17 164 rn mties lOO 53 5 54 4 ion, A stock 100 37 39 [o B do 100 26 28 late EU3ds. 135 100 & Glasgow 100 87 89 , & Dundee 100 29 291 de Junction 100 all S. Western 100 116 118 ,of Scotland all ern lOO illl 112 lock do of Ireland 100 111 113 Elm 100 7 4 5 741 745 34 1 gua. stock 100 61 84 •eastern all Yorkshir. 100 119 120 1194 19 Blackwall 100 62 64 S Coast 100 117 119 117 , and Dover 100 50 32 L. Western 100 1014 1021 1024 14 . Western lOO 95 96 95 5 7oleraine all 8 10 LinPoln 100 53 55 d Carlisle all shares— all n 5 35 24d 100 1354 1365 1351 1.4.0. tg. & Derby 100 108 110 of Ireland all rll all rd C irlisle all nagh, def 9 7 6 d apt_ c. Roe all 100 54 56 es Union.. 34 —d . . 100 655 66 l&Dk.stoct 100 revs no d. s beenpd.B 100 100 (—Berwick 190 105 1055 1051 4 5 1. purchase 16 134 p 1p 100 64 95 100 95 965 100 100 102 5 —•— 'dshire 174 24 25 -1 154 Junction all 95 n ram Rail ll 85 85 all all hr▪ al ber. stock 100 345 344 I. stock lOO 87 89 pi0n,..,., 100 50 52 & Sheer. all 6 7 100 425 434 n 100 874 885 8.84 75 100 62 64 liver Dun 100 78 90 . and 'Wok all 6 8 trlington all 425 435 11 11 115 p 100 4Dk&Rall 22 -- all 551 561 p .... d 3 p 100 87 69 ,nd Pim all lls 11/ Kilkenny 100 lAmerick all I 1 • .... all 100 .—Oxford 100 49 51 494 Newport 100 42 44 Hereford 100 83 85 lWlways. B,:o.tast and Ballymena. - - - ; Bir., IVol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June .Blackburn i ßlyth and Tyne Sleaf. and Mid.Co firi3tol and E..et , ir • Caledonian Carmarthen & Car digan Cork and Bandon Cork, Birock., &Passage: Cornwall 4)c) A. (A gets no div. Do B = until ()pc peran. hasbeen , d. toP Dublin & Belfast, -June. Dun., Perth, &Ab. June , East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do Do Nw A, late EU3ds East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness and S. Western Great Nam. of Scotland Great Northern Do do A stock .... d() do Gt. S. W. of Ireland Great Western Po Str Val gua. stock Irish South-eastern.... Lancashire & Yorkshir' London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover Lona. &Nth. Western Lond. & Sth. Western.. L'derry & Coleraine .. L'derry & Ennisfollert \fan. Shef. & LinPoln Nlnryport and Carlisle.. I .21 Do do # shares.... 'Nietropolitan tTidland Do new Do Rirming. & Derby Mid. G. W. of Ireland Doi shares 111 id Do, Cray Line ....„: Newcastle and Carlisle Newry ,t Armagh, def.. Newry, Warupt, Boa. Norfolk. Nalm. Counties Union.. North British Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoet Dr A stk ; A recs no d. until iipchas beenpd.B Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do , C.N.141. purchase Do Leeds .... Do York North London .. Do new.. _ \Torth Staffordshire... N. and S. W. Junction. Not. & Grantham Rail. rzebles . • • • • . Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer. South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do Taff Vale Do Pref. No 1 ThamesliavenDk&Rall Ulster .... Do . .. Do .... : Vale of Neath Victoria Sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford ,45 Limerick West Cornwall . West 'London .....• • • • • Do Ist class Do 2d class .. Westliartlepool Harbr and Rail West Midland—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford PREFERENCE SHARES. Paid Closing Business Share! Railways. I Price. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5O ! Bris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £10,41 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent... Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun.. E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.e. Do. do. Class B 6 p.c.... Do. do. Class C 7 p.c.... E. Coun. Ex. 5 p. c. No.l Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. guar... ,Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares Do. 4p. c gua. S. & D. Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. I Furness, 5 per cent .... IGlas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. Great Northern, 5 p. ct. Do.6p.e.Redm., io p.c.pro Do. 44 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pfi ( Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) 4 p. ct. pref. stock Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p. ct. ro. Redeemable,4l p.ct. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct. Do Irredeemable, do.— 'Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref. I Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. ptsh. Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birmg..guar. stock I/o. Chester gua. shares IDo. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock Do.Barnsl.st.£s 3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon. & Brig. 5 page. No.l Do. 5 p. c No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. C. Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 !Do. do. 41 per °en.% I Do. do. 4/ p. c. shares Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.dettil '65) Eon. Chat, and Dover Lon. and N.W. Cov. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct Lon. & S.W, 7 p. et. stock Do. 44 per cent .. . Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns. ot' 2s. 6d • • • • Lotidondy. & Cole. 1 eh. Londony. & Ennis. 1 eh. Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et. Do. £6 Do. 31- per cent Do. redeem. 6 percent 'Jarylort & Car., 4 p. c Do. 41 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock IDo.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 41 p. o. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leio. & Hit. pref. at. Norflk 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 51 p. C. Pref. do. 1847 Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47, North British, 5 p. C. : Do. New, gua. 5 p. c • Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs Do. do. do. Nth.Dev.Rail. & Dck.Co. N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p. c. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. do. do Do. Leeds, 6 p. a. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, &,t. Purch. North Staffordshire Rhymney Guaranteed, Scottish Central, new pl Scottish North-Eastern 5/ p. c. pref. stock._ Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.o Do. 7 p. c. pref. stool South Devon, Ann. 10s.' Do. Fixed 41 per cent, [South Eastern (Reading 101 103 204 214 6 6i 99 101 112 115 106 108 110 112 108 110 124 126 112 114 90 n 116 119 112 114 1 104 106 186 88 98 100 v 6 100 89 91 90 92 LOI 103 95 10 175 185 195 11 76 78 20 21 10 105 115 151 137 139 16 118 .16 118 38 143 16 118 .03 105 53 158 [3O 134 89 71 90 92 Ann., 1.0.6) _.„ Do. 41 per cent Do. Fixed 14p.c. Ist is South Wales, gua. 4 p.c Do. 41 per cent. S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua. Stock. Jr Dar. A 5 p. e Do. B 6 Der cent Do. C 6 per cent Watrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. c W.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua atle 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red, Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pi 1864 Do. till 1869, Ist is. Do. do. 2d is. a la 118 150 155 13 14 70 i 72 H i i P [37 139 lOr 103 95 97 12 114 AO 111 litp 93 95 102 104 P iP P IP 23 24 123 12$ 130 133 loi 11 231 241 101 103 101 103 90 92 99 101 85 88 271 281 32 331 32 331 45 48 124 126 123 125 100 102 123 126 116 119 stock stock stock stock istock stock 25 stock stock stock 10 19.16.4 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock stocK stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 100 stock 50 stock stock stock stock ttOck. 26i stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 2s. 6d. 124 124 stock 6 stock 124 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stook stock 101 10 Mock stock stock Share 13.14 stock stock stock stock stock stock StCol( stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 6.4.0. stock 8 et ocic stock stock 10s, 10 1.0.6 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stook stock stock 12i enrrhall7l/101yh 1 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ______ ___ ! Paid . I Leasing \Closing Business Railways. *! Co.'s. Price. Done. 100 Ln &N. 98 ---------cllihesdcersti In d li si l i e ir tr . i . e . y .l a ead.. 100 I Do. n 1 W lOO 125 127 Do. do. 100 I Do.. 5 per cent.r , ll3 115 Clydesdale Junction.. Do. do. 5i per cent., 100 IDo 100 k aledonin 102 104 ' 100 Gt. Nort . 135 137 E.Lincolnshire,g. 6 P• t i Colchester, Stour Val. all '.U. , &E h C i 16 17 Do. Woodbridge •• • 100 1 E.Union,liarwich Shs, all l E.Counts. 4} 4} Do. N ew ... ...... , 100 . . • • . • • Gls.BarrANeils,Drct.l 100 C D 4I O edonin 2 —___ Gloster& Dean Forest all ,Gt. West. Hart l Pool.Dek.& Rail. all IC k.N.dzl3r Hull and S e lb y Do. i • • • Shares ... Do. Shares ... a ll o. . . Lanc.& Carl. gua.5.p...c.. 100 n.& NAV 208 212 210 London & Greenwich) 100 . East. Do. Preference . lOO o. Lon.,Tilby.& Souiendi; 100 eto & Co. 92 94 Lowestoft, zua. 4 p.ct. 100 Torfolk .• Ma Dll• n 6 c. P ,B er ux ce tn n & • • ..1,1 • • all L NlVatt 3 k 3 1 8 1 Mid. Bradford Prefer- 1 ence Stock ........ Newmar ~ ry ixkt Bu L . 1 100 Midland 97 99 guaranteed sp. c. 5 . 5 6 E.Counts I i P Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c, all 0.55 57 Do. do. 6 per cent .... a"tki, 100 )o. ..... . all o Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all , 0 —.— North Western Preston and Wyre. f all L& NW ) A . all a al l l l Do. # Stares, ... Roystn.llitch., & Shep 100 IG t. North. 135 137 Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 T.Brassey 104 106 Do. Do. 1 ' South Staffordshire .. Do. 4-1? Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. Veit. G. 93i Wimbledon a Croydn._ all LA; Brgt n 'h ITOVIM;—.I--------- ] ! , Do ,Midlandl :6 .ilce: k. n: i, 15 154 Sharel Docks. Paid .I Closin g B us i nes s ' Price. Done. 1 _ stock leornmercial , . stock 7 Do. 4 per Ccnt.Pref.Min. stock East and West India stock (London stock 'St Katharine stock Southampton stock Vistala ....... 2 0 IV New 100 - 100 - 100 - 100 100 - 100 100 101 103 'IS DAY.) ES AND STOCKS. 111 1 100 LO 4i t 100 100 100 all all TIIIS DAY'S XARRETS. 00 Agra ilinteiService Bk 40 'Australasia 25 Bank of Egypt 100 ;Bank of London 20 Bank of Turkey 50 British North American; 20 ;Chtd.Bank of India, &c.) 25 ; Ch. Mer. of In. Lon. it; Cli 1 100 City 100 Colonial ........ ...... 20'1 1 'Com. Bank of Canada 100 (Commercial of London 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch 20 'Gen. Bk .o Switzerland 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 100 London & Westminster 100 Nat. Prov. of England . 20 Do. new ..... ......... 50 ;National Bank ........ 20 , New South Wales 20 ;Do. new 25 ;Orient. B. Corporation ! 20 lOttoman Bank j 100 I Provmcial of Ireland 10 fllo. new 25 South Australia 25 Union of Australia 50 'Union of London 100 !Unity Mutual... 1 83 k 5 72 74 21 22 50 b 2 11 1 CORN EXCHANGE. The leading country markets held on Saturday were scantily supplied with wheat, and all kinds moved off freely, at a further improvement in value of from is. to 2s. per quarter. There was a steady business doing in barley, and all other articles, at very full prices. Throughout the continent wheat has realised more money for spring shipment, and other articles have continued Erna The latest advices from the United States are to the effect that flour was rather cheaper. The arrivals of English produce up to our market last week were limited. The imports from abroad were liberal, viz., 30,793 quarters of wheat, 24,650 barley, 23,109 oats, 2,600 rye, 35 beans, 4,860 peas, 90 tares, 105 linseed, 5,350 rapeseed, 460 maize, 196 sundry, 1,383 sacks and 13,055 barrels of flour. Fresh-up to-day, a very limited supply of English wheat was received, coastwise and by land carriage, in very middling condition. The weather having become com paratively mild, fewer difficulties present themselves as regards the unloading of vessels in the Pool; consequently the demand was far from active, but at prices fully equal to those realised on Monday last; indeed, in some few instances, they were rather exceeded for very fine samples by from Is. to 2s. per quarto/. We were extensively supplied with all kinds of foreign wheat. Importers, however, were very firm in their de mands.; but the business done was only moderate, at last week's currency. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, on former terms. English and Scotch barley realised full quotations, but foreign parcels were abundant, and dull in sale, at late rates. There was only a limited sale for all kinds of malt, on former terms. There was a good supply of oats on offer, yet the demand was steady, at 6d. per qr. more money. Beans moved off slowly, at late quotations. We have to report a very inactive sale for peas, at late rates. 22J 23 34 36 70 72 39 41 21 22 161 18 - 123 23i 361 47 48 14 19 Most kinds of English flour commanded extreme rates, and foreign parcels were rather dearer. CURRENCY PER IMPERTAL }ERASURE. Wheal—Essex. and Kent, red, new 4Bs to 84$ Ditto, old fils 678 Ditto, white, new s4s 65s Ditto, old 63s Ms Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old sBs 668 Ditto, new . 468 54s Eye—Old —8 —8 New Barley—Grinding...., 2BB 33s Malting 36s 46s Malt -Suffolk and Norfolk 528 688 Brown Kingston and Ware s2s 708 Chevalier Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 228 28. Potato 2Bs 33s Youghal and Cork, black ... 22s 27s Cork, white 228 298 Scotch, Feeding 258 298 Beans—Tick Pigeons 468 52s Peas—Grey Maple White 458 52s Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk 4os 44s Stockton and Norfolk. . lO6 Os THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E,VENING. DECEMBER 31„‘.860. per cwt. X 6. Os to 4 ..;18 Os Os to 14 Os sOs to 9 Os 5. Os to 9 10s dam, 54 from Hamburg, 75 from Antw.erp, 72 from Ostend, and 20 from Havre. New Mid and East Kent pockets.. W ealds Sussex Yearlings 43 45 28 27 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT Sh'CU Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja...t July 100 Do. 6p. cent. 1879 100 Do. 6p. cent. 1880 100 Do. 6p. cent. 1882 100 Do. 6p. c. Feb. ,14 Aug. 100 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 Do. 5 per cent lOO Do. Scrip B2 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.Zaulyi 100 Do. 6p. c. Ap. do Oct.! 100 N. S. W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 100 Do. sp. c., 1871 to 1876 100 Do. 5 p.c.,1858 & upwds 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 lOO S.Aus.Gt. 6p.c.1878 &up lOO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct. 100 MISCELLANEA 1000 32& 10 stock 25 stock stock stock stock Anglo-Mexican Mint 'Atlantic Tel. (Limited) !Australian Agricultural ! Berlin Water (Limited); British American Land BALL Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.)4 ; Do. 13,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) , ;Do. C. (Limited) ;Canada Land !Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim )I ;Cop.Min.ofEng.&Spnitz I Do. Pref. 7i per cent. Crystal Palace Do. Preference Do. 6 p. c. Pet pet. Deben 1 !Electric Telegraph I Do. New English & Ans. Copper. Gen. Steam Navigate Great Ship Limited) Do. 17i p ct Preference Lon. District Tel. (Lim. London Discount (Lim. L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim. Madras Irr. and Canal , IMediter. Electric Teleg 1 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ;National Dis. Co. (Lim 'Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim Netherlands Land Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis N. Br.&NovaScotiaLan IN.B.Australaslan (Lim. Oriental Gas (Limited). Do. New Shares (Lim.) ' Orin tl. In. Steam(Lim.)A Ditto B. Ditto C Peellt.Lnd.&Min.(Lim.) ,Pen. & Oriental Steam . Do. New RedSea&lnd.Tel.g.44p.s, Rhymney Iron D, ;o. Niw 100 (Royal Mail Steam 6O stock] Scot. Austin. Inv. (Lim 1 100 25 outh Australian Lan all 1 übmarine Tel. Scrip I all 1 o. do. Registered , all 10 I Do. do ' all 20 r..k Ln. Co.ofUpr.Can 5 ill: Van Diemen'. Land BRITISH POSS. Share, stk I 18 stock stock 100 stock 100 100 stock stock stock Railways. Atlantic & - St Lawrence Bom.,Barodat.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent Do, Do. Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. New Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&,Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. Cape, Eas tn. Prov. (Lim. , Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c Demerara X astn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4i p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Geelong & Melbourne Geelong Corporation s per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1887 Do. do. 1872 G t. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 6 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ...... Do. Bonds pay. '76, with opt, till '6O Do. do. '73 till '60... ... Do. do. '73 without opt. Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... Madras, guar., 41 p. c... Do. do. 5 per cent..... Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. Fourth d 0........ all all all 100 100 100 100 all all all all all 100 100 all all all all all 100 Melb.Corp. 6 p. c. iNewßrunswiek <SE Canda Ry. Az Lan d(Lim.)g.6pe Class A Capital Share , o. do. Land do. 10. do. B Capital d 0... 10. do. Land do. .• .... Ousle (Limited) . ..... .. _.. ... Scinde .....• •• •• ' epal 20 Do. Punjaub .... a I es 9 20 o. Do. ........ c.: .to sk o.lndus.St. Flo. gz 20 t.Andrews & Quebec A 10 Trinidad (Lim) Scrip„ all all all all 100 100 100 all 20 stock /100 10 all 100 18 Paid. - 71 F 1 100 112 117 111 113 !HI 113 1.433 i 104 I - - 108/ 109} 100,1 1011 101 102 100. 101 09 110 'lea iosi' ,O US. 13 11 29 31 41 5 35 37 18 20 13 15 110 113 24 241 30i 314 1100 IC2 1 107 109 93 96 24 1 21 3 il l 1 11 1 d 1 11 if 21 2 4 lf lio 3 2I i 1 i il pr i 1 47 50 71 73 11 14 17 18 pi 17 19. 5 8 47 49 136 141 33 35 - 1 - 5 7 } ISSIONS. Closing Prise. 77 80 921 934 11 14 44 :2. 5 di 6i 7 75 80 67 72 5 70 d pr lf If lt 2} 1/(1 98 99 98i 991 100 a 101! 23 24 75 80 46 50 57 60 60 54 48 52 95 96 lid d 2} Ild 11 11} 91 91 d 95 100 95 100 v 3 96 90 93 83 85 93 94 86 87 1¢ d 5 7 5 7 974 984 1 241 11,1, d 92 94 WAYS. 5e 51 I i li I} P 4 1 ! 10 lli 3 20 2/ lid 23 24 74 71 194 204 384 394 74 64 35i 36,1 54 56 3} 214 6f 8 1 Ai 1 }d 1 4 i 11 d 20 21 2l 22i METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 2,031. In the corresponding weak in 1860 we received 1,163—in 1859, 2,554—in 1858, 8,550—in 1857, 782—in 1856, 654—and in 1855, 935 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAO WEEK. From. Beasts. Rotterdam Harlingen. Hamburgh .. • . Ostend Vigo Dordt .. . —• • Amsterdam Antwerp .. • • • . Boulogne... Toning ... . • Medemblik Nieu Diep — . • • • • . Total 163 1,769 Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 96g —.. 72 .. 761 .. 2 .. - • . --- • • --- -. • 8• . --- •. -.• 35 .. "-. • • •• .- 27 •• •-•- •• •--- •• - • • "". ''''' • • The yearly comparison of weekly import's is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves Pigs. 1860 176 .. 273 .4. . .. 14 .. 62 1859 326 .. 2,041 .. .. 187 .. 1858 49 .. 397 .. .. 104 .. 1857-8 147 .. 461 .. .. 174 .. 1856 351 .. 231 .. .. 72 .. 1855 489 .. 580 .. , . : 56 .. 10 There was a very poor show of foreign stock in to-day's market, compared with many previots weeks, and the de mand for it ruled steady, at enhanced quotations. The quality of the beasts was very middling. A very moderate supply of beasts was received fresh up from our own grazing distrtcts, in but middling condition. All kinds commanded a steady inquiry, at an advance in the quotations of quite 2d. per 8 lbs. A few very superior Scots and crosses sold at ss. 2d., and the general top figure for beef was ss. per 8 lbs. From Lincolnshire, Leicester shire, and Northamptonshire, we received about 1,200 shorthorns ; from the Eastern districts, 400 Scots, &c. ; from other parts of England 600 of various breeds; from Scotland, 50 Scots and crosses ; front Ireland 70 oxen, &c. We were very scantily supplied 'with sheep, for which there was a good consumptive demand, at 2d. per 8 lbs. more money. The best Downs produced quite 6s. per 8 lbs. The best half-breeds were worth ss. Bd. to ss. 10d., and the best long wools Ss. Bd. per 8 lbs. The few calves on offer met a brink sale, at 4d. per 8 lbs. above hog week's currency. We have to report a very firm market for pigs, and in mule instances prices had an upward tendency. Per Blbs to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool do. Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Pme. S' thdown d o Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Largo orse. calves Prima Scats, &c. 4 10 5 0 Prime small do Crse. &inf. sheep 3 10 4 0 Large hogs Second quality do. 4 2 4 8 Small porkers Lambs, Os Od to Os Od. s. d. s. d. 5 06 8 .5 10 6 0 4 4410 5 05 4 4 04 6 4 85 2 Suckling calves, 19s to 22s ; and quarter •eld store pip. 23e to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. PORBIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 3,460 Beasts Sheep and lambs 16,000 Sheep Calves .. 56 Calves Pigs A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Jan. 2, 1860, and this day, Monday, Dec, 31, 1860 : I'er Blbs, sinking the offal. Jan. 2, 1860. Dec. 31, 1860 a. d. s. d. B. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . Second quality ditto 3lO 4 43 10 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. ~ . •4 10 5 O v i 10 5 t Coarse and inferior sheep . . 3 6 4 03 10 4 4 Second quality ditto . . . . 4 2 4 6 4 2 4 0 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . . 4 8 4104 10 5 0 Prime Southdown ditto . . Lambs Large coarse calves . . . 4 2 4 8 4 4 410 Prime small ditto Large hogs . . . , . . Neat small porkers . . . • 4 0 4 10'4 8 5 6 Beasts Sheep and lambs . . 16,450 16,606 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ex SALE, Jan. 3, 1859.---Beasts, 3,905; sheep, 8,950 ; calves, 110 ; pigs, 300. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since our last report fair average supplies of both town and country-killed meat have appeared on sale. Generally speaking, the demand rules steady, and prices are well supported. Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. P. d. Inferior beef 2 10 3 4, Middling mutton 4 2 4 6 Middling d 0.... 3 6 4 0 Prime do Prime large do.. 4 2 4 4 Veal Do. small d 0.... 4 4 4 6 Small pork 4 8 5 4 Large pork 4 0 4 6 Lamb.......... 0 0 0 0 Inferior mutton 3 4 4 0 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Only limited supplies of potatoes have come to hand since Monday last, chiefly by railway. The imports have amounted to 350 bags from Hamburg, and 93 tons from Louvain. The demand is somewhat heavy, at the annexed quotations : _ . York Regents Ditto Flukes ... Kent and Essex Regents Scotch ditto .... Do. Cups. French 9os to 100 s „ Belgian SEEDS. The seed trade is still devoid of animation. Canary is firm, at full quotations; but other descriptions rule next to nominal in value. Cakes drove off slowly on former terms. furnip,White,p.bus.36s to 38s Swede -2 -s Mustard, Brown 12s 14a White, new 12s 18s Tares,Winter, new.. lls 14a Old -s -El Canary, per quarter 56s 64s Rye grass, New 26s 28s Clover, Red Eng., et. 64s 74s White Foreign Red 6os 68s White 72s 76s Trefoil, new 268 32s Carraway 3os to 34e Coriander lBB 20e Herapseed, per qr 445 48e Linseed,Eng.sowing 66s 688 Crushing Baltic sBs 60s Odessa ' 58s Od 695 Linseed Cake, p. ton— English .... £lO 10s £ll 5s Foreign, pto £lO 5s £llloa Rape Cakes,p.ton £slos £6 Oa Rapeseed, p. qr. 70s 76s WOOL MARKET. The demand for English wool is much restricted, never theless prices are well supported. Foreign and colonial qualities are almost nominal. The imports last week were Only 76 bales from Natal, and 442 ditto from Algoa Bay. BOROUGH HOP. Our market continues in a most inactive state, never theless prices generally are well supported. Last week's imports were 160 Wilco from New York ) 20& from Lotter- TALLOW There is only a moderete demand for tallow; yet, com pared with last week, very little cb ange has taken place in prices. To-day, P.Y.C., on the spot, is selling at 60s. per cwt. Rough fat, 3s. 21 per 81bF 18,56. • • z Stock this day.... 15,964 Price of Y, t;, ( 588 3d t —s Oci Delivery last week 1,524 Ditto from J une 1 77,303 Arrivals last Week 288 Ditto from J une 1 79,292 Price of Town .... 598 6 d I 1 !.t857. 1858. I 1859. 1860. 1 7 30,TT40 ! 31,905 44,453 1 72,636 r 5 3s 311'0'5180i to - 7s 9 1166050 d to —s Od 51s 3d —s Od —s Oct 1,935 1,464 1,101 599 67,048 66,153 48,987 53,957 , • '286 333 327 581 85,176 86,491 81,359 99,489 5559 d 53s 6d 59s 6d 61s Od LAUNCH OF THE WARRIOR. The formidable iron -cased frie•ate, the largest man-of-war ever built, and snore than 1,500 tons larger than the largest vessel in the world after the lie river the Great Easte rn , was sa f e l y launched intothe on Saturday. Th e l aunc h o f one vessel is k launch of every other—the same first steady and then hurried rush into " the native element," and it is finished. The Warrior was not expected to ' offer any very peculiar feature in her first taking to the water, but, nevertheless, the ceremony seemed to excite unusual interest, and so, in spite of the intense cold and thick snow which lay over everything, the yard of the Thames Shipbuilding Company was crowded with many hundreds of ladies and gentlemen anxious to see the first start of this invulnerable frigate. At one time it seemed extremely probable that all these anxious specta tors would be disappointed of the expected cere mony, for the Warrior not only did not go off the slip at once, but was only got to move at all after some delay, and the exertion of all sorts of compulsion. Sir J. Pakington himself named the ship—the first time, we believe, since the launch of the Thunderer, that the ceremony has ever been performed to a man-of-war except by a lady. The vessel was duly named and told to go to its element, but this the Warrior seemed most reluctant to do. The intense frost of the previous night had, in fact, frozen her down to the " ways" so firmly that nothing would move her. Hydraulic presses, which are always kept fixed and ready in case of such contretemps, were worked and pumped to the utmost they would bear, a heavy gun was fired on her upper deck to start her by concussion, but in vain ; she only moved slowly for a few inches, when the frozen grease on the slips brought her up again fast as ever. The tide was at its height, and it was evident that if she did not start* in a few minutes she could not be launched till the next spring tides. A hawser was made fast to a powerful tug, hun dreds of hammers made the ways vibrate, while the men on board ran from side to side to start her, but all to no purpose. At last two other tugs came to the assistance of the first, and fortunately their united efforts were successful, The Warrior moved a little slowly, then stopped, then started again, and, gaining momentum as she descended, slid rapidly down into the water, and was safely afloat just as the tide began to fall. Of course, in her present extremely light draught of water, it is difficult to judge how she will appear when brought down to her load line. As far, how ever, as can now be seen, she will, when finished, be one of the most superb, and, from her extremely fine lines fore and aft, one of the lightest looking frigates in the world. When in seagoing trim her main deck portsills will be about 81 feet from the water, and in this respect she possesses an immense advantage over her French rival La Gloire, whose ports are only 5 feet 9 inches—much too near the water to make her guns of any use in a sea way. In point of speed, also, the Warrior will probably be unrivalled even by that wonderfully fast frigate the Ariadne, or her sister the Galatea. Among other improvements the 'Warrior will inaugurate is one which has been most urgently needed for yearb—an improvuuleut ua the prebuilt cumbrous and awkward ship's gun carriage. Those which will be furnished to her have the stands fixed, the gun running backwards and forwards in a slide, with a pivot for training the gun fore and aft placed about the centre of the gun. The advantage of this is that it will allow the present wide port holes to be reduced to half their width, without at all interfering with the range of the gun fore and aft. Thus the portholes of the Warrior will be three feet seven inches high, and only two wide instead of four—a reduction which, of course, diminishes by one•half the chance of a shot or shell entering the aperture. For the space of nearly two feet, also, all round the ports, the armour plates are seven inches thick, instead of 41. The result of the experiments made by Mr.-Whit worth with his 90 pounder gun and flat-headed shot against the iron sides of the floating battery Trusty showed that under favourable circumstances as to steadiness of ship and point blank range he could send the projectile through the side of a four inch iron vessel. Many shots were fired on that occasion. One, owing to a very trifling motion of the Trusty, which was moored at Southend, glanced from her side in a flame of fire, turned up, and went clear over her. The others all went through the four-inch iron, but only one went so completely through the oak timbers inside as to fall dead on the main deck. Yet these oak timbers were a merely nominal protection, inasmuch as they were rotten to powder, and the " beams" could be torn away in handfulls of yellow dust. This rapid delay always takes place when armour plates are laid over wood. Rotten as they were, however, so much had the passing through of the four-inch iron stopped the momentum of the projectiles that they quite sufficed to prevent it going through into the main deck. Mr. Whitworth himself admits that through five-inch iron plates, backed up by 20 inches of solid teak, it would be almost impossible to send a shot, and it is not unfair therefore to con clude that the sides of the Warrior are practically invulnerable to any artillery yet known that can be brought against them. The slope inwards, or " tumble home," as it is termed, of the Warrior's sides, is only two feet, —au incline little, if at all, over a slope of 15 degrees. Every recent experi ment shows that this is not enough. In the model sent in to the Admiralty by the Thames Ship Build ing Company the incline of the side was more than 25 degrees. The value of such an incline was shown when Mr. Whitworth was firing at the Trusty, a little movement in which sent the shot glancing up and over her. It is true that shot, and above all spherical shot, will not go through the sides of the Warrior, whether iuclined or vertical ; but it is equally beyond a doubt that several shots striking the same plate would smash it, in addition to se riously injuring the woodwork behind, which, of course, bears the whole force of the tremendous concussion. Impressed with the vulnerability of iron-cased frigates in this respect, Mr. Jones last summer prepared models of frigates with angular sides, coated with armour, and inclining inwards at an n angleo a f rt 50 0 deg. what a ship's side A butt constru w c o t u ed ld o h n e t , adhmtspe n la e n, the same p a r t i h n y c i t p h l e e the result proved, Portsmouth and E w x a c s e l e l r e e n e t t , e a d n a d t fractures less of angular armour. Net only were the AS might have been expected, the desided success than half what they would have been had the plates been vertical, but the effect of the concus sion was altogether diminished by one - half, and the woodwork behind suffered less in proportion. A plate manufactured by the Mersey Iron Works 2 1 ft before took 17 blows in a space of 5,-,ft. by . Any part of it was removed, and then the iron was lot effectually penetrated, nor the woodwork be ind it much injured. This plate, in fact , st o o d wonderfully, receiving blow after blow from 68- pound shot, almost on the same spot , and it w as some time before it showed any symptom of weak aess. There are two other most important advantages Delonging to this plan of Mr. Jones. The bolts, n. rather the holes in the plates through which the Dolts are passed and. fastened inside the ribs of the ship, form the weak Points of the plates. When struck with shot the cracks spread from rivet-hole rivet-hole till the p late is almost as full of frac- Ares as %broken pane 'of glass. But liith plates laid FOREIGN RAIL' Antwerp & Rotterda Ardennes Bah. &S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. , lielian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessao.. Canaeaux Mine & Rail Copiapo Ditto Exten!, - ion * „ „ Dutch Rh. - aish East2rn of France .... Grand Rue. Guar. 6 p. e. Do. do. Great Central of Franc • ,Gt. Luxem., Con. she... Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale. Lierre & Turnhout .... Lyons & Geneva. ...... I Maria Antonia .. Do. New Namur & Liege ........ Do. 6 p. e. Pref. ........ 'Northern of France. — Do. New Shares ...... I% j a o r riMa o n ns Trlzia c g er ef : 'aria & 0r1ean5........ ecife & S. Fran. (Pern. gua. 7_p. ct. lim Riga & Dunaburg...... Rome & Frascati ...... Royal Danish Royal Swedish ........ Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse ...... Do. 5i per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, lira, g. 7p. c. S.Aust&Lomb Veneti. Southern of France.... West Flanders Do. 5i p. c. Preference.. W. & N.W. of France .. Western of Austria.... Western of Switzerland NViesbaden . iDo. 8 per cent. Pref. ,Zealand BRITISH MINES. Mines. Share! ( Paid. l Closing Business Price. Done l AitrerasonsolsfrEiraci)l 2 .ll.lo 31 4 20 !British Iron !Clifford , nil 206 215 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 1 410 420 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 114 118 !East Caradon ," .. E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) 7.4.0 101 111 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) 541 26 28 Great South Tolgus... 17s 9 9 I G.Wheal Alfa. (Phi1ack.)!12.13.9 1 11 1 !G. Wheal Vor (Helston) 91 11 11 Grenville 15.14.6 3 31 k !llerod's-Foot 8.12 32 34 .11ingsboa Downs 4.10.6' 3 5 31 •-. Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant) 9; 54 66 North! Downs 2l 3; 44 !North Frames (Mogan) 111 4 5 IN.Wh'I Basest allo;an) 15s 4 5 'North Wheal Crotty !Par Consols (St. Blazey) 14 91 11 20 'Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 45 V Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 14s 1 11 South Caradon(St.Cleer) 11 1 300 310 —S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 3 21 31 IS. Dev. Iron &Gen., Li m . a 1 S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan),18.18.9 115 155 ,Stray Park '24.18. 49 51 471 5 ,Tamar 5i1v..15 Lead Min 41 21 24 10 !Tin Croft 9 5/ !Vale of Towey (C arm )13 s 6d ~, i !West Basset (Illogan) ll 37- 18 !W. Caradon (Liskeard) 5 76 78 \ - est Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan)! 51 1171 1221 Vheal Buller(Redruth)i 5 160 170 (Wheal Edward (Cass.) 12 11 1; ;Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant 1.7 . 2 17 18 , Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 20 22 W heal Treiawney (Lis..l 5l 17 19 FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccordCopper,Lim.) 15s 1 d 1 85 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.)l 271 2 21 20 Do.St.Johndel Rey,Lim 15 28/ 29 261 1 5 Do. Lan d and Mining Co. all 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo. 1 dis. 40 Cobre Copper all #43 45 Copiapo 1 IDunAloun.Cop.Ming.eb ail 1 1 2 ,Fortuna. all ,A 2 21 20 General all 21 23 2 Gt, N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 p ar 1 p 11 [Ramada (Limited) 1 1/ 11 p 3 L i nares all 91 10 5 ILusitan lan 2 1 p p 1 Mariquita 131 all 1 N.lthineCopotS.Aus.L 121.6d. 1 Id 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt all 5 6 5 Port Philip 1 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) los. /ct 2 8, United Mexican r all 1 2 1 Worthing (Limite d)...: all 1 1 DO ~,..•• 1911. —* ,ITIES. 100 J Buoinele done , on Mr. Jones's plan at such an angle of inclination. it will be unnecessary to employ more than a very few bolts in attaching them ; and if the plates are well dovetailed ;nto each other, five placed thus : • : Mould be amply sufficient to attach them. This is one most important advantage, but there is another almost as great in the diminution of the tendency of the ship to roll by the weight of the iron sides being made to lean in board and more to the centre of gravity. We do not mean to say that an incline of 50 degrees is necessary for iron ships' sides, as we know there are many important objections to such a " tumble home;" but every error is only a truth abused, and Mr. Jones is far nearer the truth when he states 50 degrees to be the necessary in cline than the Admiralty when they state that twelve degrees are sufficient. The ablest I ' lauthorities in gunnery in th e navy h ave o ffi c i a ll y expressed their opinion to the Admiralty in favour of Mr. Jones's plan, and shipbuilders and practical seamen profess to be convinced that the sides of a floating battery should have an incline of from 30 to 35 degrees. Still the Admiralty have as yet done nothing, and in this matter, too, the Emperor of , the French is ahead of them. The success of Mr. Jones's plan was only clearly established in last June. Yet already the Emperor has tested the Ivalue of the improvement, has built one gunboat i(the Tortoise) on this principle, and others are in Course of construction. by thi s Will the Admiralty p r ofit example of our neighbours as they have done in the matter of iron-cased frigates altogether, At all events, if they don't build angular-sided vessels, let them at least build others like the War rior. Let the slip that is now vacant at Millwall be at once occupied by another, and let no time be lost in diminishing the distance between the pro gress of our navy and that of France in the matter of iron-sided men-of-war. The Warrior is a superb vessel; all that the country wants is more of them; all that scientific gunners and seamen want is that such an inclination should be given to their sides as would not only keep out the shot, but glance it up wards off the vessel altogether. Having seen the Warrior built the Admiralty are about to try their hands at building one at Chatham. Far be it from us to say that this ship will not be in form, strength, and speed, as fine a structure as the Warrior itself; but we may, at all events, venture to express an opinion that some long time must elapse before the public are likely to see it finished. By all means, however, let one be built at Chatham. We are too far behind the French in this matter of iron frigates not to wish that every means may be resorted to to restore the equilibrium of our navy. But while doing this at Chatham let not the Admiralty ne glect to employ to the same end the great private yards which have given such proofs of their skill and resources as are shown in the Warrior and the three other vessels of the same class now building. A few words about La Gloire may not be out of place here. According to one set of statements, she is the most perfect and most formidable vessel ever built ; according to others neither the one nor the other, but a bad and irremediable failure. Neither of these extreme reports is true, but the latter is nearer the truth. From the immense thickness of the wooden scantling under the armour plates, and from her being coated entirely with armour, she is so low in the water that, as we have said, her port sill is less than six feet from the sea. When fully laden, with all coals and stores on board, it is scarcely over five, and this fatal defect renders her maindeck guns all but useless in a moderate sea-way. For the same reason she is not able to stow more than from three to three and a-half days'coal. The bunkers of the Warrior hold fuel for six and a-half days' full steaming, and, with a very little extra stowage nine days coal can always be carried out of port. The speed of La Gloire has been stated to be 12 knots. Now, if the statement of one of her officers is to be believed (an officer, too, thoroughly well ac quainted with her engines), the utmost speed that has been obtained from her has been short of 11 knots, and at this speed the vibration of the stern was so considerable that it was evident the armour plates would all work loose if it was long maintained. Nine and a-half to ten knots an hour is stated to be her utmost average speed, and this must Ise consi dered a high rate for a ship of such size and weight. None attempt to deny the fact that in a sea. way La Gloire rolls almost dangerously, In fact, all iron clad frigates must roll slowly :slid deeply, if in their construction especial pains are not taken to guard against such a defect. Their massive iron sides, when once started, are like heavy fly-wheels set in motion, and roll they must. Beyond a certain degree of inclination also, the weight of both sides leans over on one, and thus the roll must always be both slow and very deep. To counteract such motion the Warrior has two ridges of iron on each side of her bottom, like lee-boards, and extending almost along her entire length. Each of these plates is about two feet deep, and the resistance which they offer to her rolling is, of course, immense. Roll, how ever, to a certain extent she must ; but she will undoubtedly roll less than any iron frigate built without the ridges we have mentioned. The work of fitting the Warrior with the rest of her plates and engines will go on as rapidly as possible in the Victoria Dock, whence she will start at the end of May or beginning of June, for Portsmouth, to be masted. THE SUEZ CANAL. A letter from Alexandria, dated Dec. lith, says :—Since Said Pasha's return from Suez intel ligence has been received of certain disturbances having lately arisen with the Bedouins of the neighbouring deserts. It was at first stated that they had interfered with the workpeople engaged in laying the foundations of the Red Sea light houses ; but, according to later and more reliable reports, the affray has solely been between a small number of Bedouins, recruited as labourers by M. delLesseps for his canal works, and a small de tachment of Egyptian irregular troops. The Egyptian Government, it appears, objects to the introduction of Bedouin Arabs into the Isthmus, and in the endeavour to prevent the enrolment, by the opposition of its influence among the Bedouins, a quarrel has taken place in which one or two men have lost their lives. It is difficult to understand what the precise objections of the Egyptian Go vernment to the enrolment of the Bedouins may be; but even to those least favourable to the prose cution of M. de Lesseps' scheme, it will be matter of regret that, if good and solid grounds exist for the prohibition, they should not be set forth in an open and unassailable manner. M. de Lesseps went to Suez for the declared purpose of engaging labourers for the canal works, and of imparting a fresh impulse to the languid progress of the " Universal" company's operations. As might easily be foreseen, his efforts in that direction met with but very slender success. Whether with or without the approval of the Go vernment, he has little chance of collecting more than a trifling number of Bedouins, and still less of being able to keep them at work for any length of time. Even their love of money will never be sufficient to overcome their innate dislike for regu lar labour of any kind, and they will moreover en counter the same causes for discontent as those that have acted in the case of the Egyptian fellahs. In deed, the mere fact of failure with the latter is sufficient to show the utter hopelessness of the attempt to replace them with Bedouins. The fellahs are thoroughly inured to a life of hardship and to privations of every k in d , and are, moreover, industrious and laborious to the highest degree, in spite of which, the attempts to secure their services have proved altogether ineffectual, as was, indeed, ssl clearly foretold by all posse •ng the slightest knowledge of their temper and character. The small number allured by the prospect of high pay soon grew dissatisfied, and endeavour by every means in their power to obtain their discharge. Attempts have been made to maintan discipline by floggin g , a thing which will lead to serious conse quences if attempted with B edouins. In the case of fellahs, the immediate result has been that the men desert in bodies, sacrificing the arrears of pay that are held back in the end them to their work. N o t only, eavo ever ur , , to s bind how i this the cage with the native labourers, but even the European artisans have been throwing up their appointments in large numbers. One, a French man, when lately asked Why he had Abandoned his place, answered that at first he got men but no pickaxes, then lie was supplied with, pickaxes but no mcn, and 'at last, when he had both labourers and tools, they found themselves without stores or provision of any kind, upon which he and his men appear to have left the place in a body. The only work that can, though by stretch of language, be characterized as in the least degree effective is performed by the dredging machines, a small um:aber of which are at work in Lake Menzaleh, and one at an inner station, whither it has been conveyed with heavy expense of labour and time. Theqe machines, it had been announced would excavate 1,800 cubic metres per day, instead of which the maximum of their work proves to be only 200 cubic metres each. At Port Said, the tramway constructed for the purpose of conveying materials to the jetty, and which last, spring was destroyed by the sea, has not been reT i mired. Some of the inland stations have been ditogether aban doned. At one the few men that remains are em ployed in collecting natives, for what useful pur pose in connection with the caned it is hard to under stand. At another the men have been engaged in cutting a section of the g7,•and canal on its full scale, the object of which seems equally, if not more mysterious, since even the rigole de service, or elementary cutting, cannot be said to have been any where fairly commenced. M. de Lesseps lately applied to the Viceroy f or assistance in obtaining workpeople--in other words, to be supplied with forced labour, a request which, fortunately for his subjects, and for the interests of the country in general, Said Pasha has refused, under the influence, it is said, of the French Go vernment. The latter for the present appear in. clined to leave:111. de Lesseps to his own resources If this policy of " non=intervention" be persisted in, the affairs of the CanalSompany will probably soon come to an issue, and, for the sake of the shareholders, it may be added, the sooner the better MAZZIFI ON THE ITALIAN QUESTION. The following letter has been received by Mr. W. Sharman, the secretary to the Sheffield Gari baldi Fund:— DEAR received, on my coming back from the country, your very kind note of invitation to the working men's soiree. I cannot, unfortunately, comply with your wishes and mine and be with you on that evenin g ; but I feel thankful for the sympathising thought, and have joy at your having given me an opportunity of expressing, in the name of my countrymen, too, how grateful we are for all that has been nobly done in your country to promote and help the success of our national cause. We know that you have bee' really workin g for an idea—for the triumph of the great principle which may ultimately reign over Europe-- ,, N a ti ons belong to the people, not to dynasties, Emperors, or Popes," Why should you meanwhile bring to a close your efforts ? Was not their aim the triumph of that principle throughout all Italy ? Was not your help for those who are fighting the battle of Italian unity and absolute independence? The aim is not yet reached—the battle is only half won. Ours is a mere truce. A day is yet for the purpose of bury ing our dead and considering the dangers that we must still front. Next year we shall have the Venetian and Roman questions to settle. Will you not be with us, help us as far as your power goes ? Stand up in avowed sympathy for Rome and Venice as you did for Palermo and Naples. Combating in your own way, as we in ours, not for a mere fact, but for a principle. Do not dissolve. Keep up your committee, your associations, your subscrip tion list. Much has been done, the most remains. Rome, in our hands, is the inviolability of the soul and liberty of conscience enthroned everywhere over the whole world, and our war for Venetia will be a grand one for others ; it will be the rising of Hungary, and of all the other nationalities denied for centr,ries by that artificial thing which they call tke Austrian Empire, and which, to all who look, beyond a dead parchment arbitrary science, the true source of a perennial font of inquietude and war in Europe. You can help us through this double unavoidable forthcoming struggle in the same way you helped us through the first. But the main point on which your Italian agitation ought now to bear is the correct, honest understanding of the non-interfer ence principle, which has been often declared to he the basis of your external policy, and which has been approved of in words by the French Govern ment. We want nothing more, but nothing less. Is the non-interference doctrine amounting to this—" We shall never go for good-doing, anybody may for evil-doing?" Is it a godless, heartless theory of self-abdicating indifference to mankind, the outward life of England and everything that moves, lives, suffers, struggles out of your imme diate vicinity ? Is the task of a free, great nation like yours throughout the world the task of a mere powerless on-looker on right and wrong ? Or is it e great high principle, which, spoken by a power ful nation of believers in one God, and in one law, must be recognised by all, and shield a people which chooses to manifest its life, wants, duties, rights, and tendencies against the undue, unruly, oppressive interference of armed foreigners ? That is the question which we want you to solve in your practical way for the good of mankind and the honour of your own country. I do not speak of Austrian interference in our Venetian lands. It is a long standing affair, grounded on treaties, assented to by all Europe, and the solution must belong exclusively to our selves. But the interference of Louis Napoleon in Rome, supporting the political tyranny of a Pope, when all provinces desert one by one as soon as favourable circumstances allow, and denying all possibility of Italian unity, has not been assented to—only tolerated, whilst we ourselves did not loudly protest against it, and there was no affirma tion of our national right in Italy. lt is not grounded on treaties; it is an open violation of them. It took place, as the 2d of December, by surprise. It claimed to be tolerated, merely on the ground that it would. last only a very short time, and would not deprive the Roman people of their rights. It has deprived them of all rights, and it lasts since 11 years. It is, in fact, a disguised conquest, and furnishes Im perial France with a base of operation for long nursed usurping schemes on the South, now m a de more visible by the new interference at Gaeta., And this in open defiance to both Italy and Europe. All Italy points to Rome as to its na t ura l metropolis, and large French reinforconents are immediately despatched there. The ink it Lord John Russell wrote hi s last excellent t h which Lord i to Europe about non-interference is scarcely dried when the zone of Fr enc h occupation i s w idely h erence ch re enlarged, and stretches from Rome to yieerbo, and to the Neapolitan frontier. Is there no possibility for you to help us against an obstable which might be, through a universal imposing expression o f European opinion, peace fully removed, and which bids us, if that do not take plaee ,try and fight both Austria and France out of Our own l an d a t no distant period ? Might b e done to our cause h.y a non not immen se go od interference agitation gio tion being raised up in England, aiming at makingit a practical boon to .ourselves and others, and teaching both your Gol7ernment and Europe, that an individual may lecture and offer advice , but that a great nation we Lrns and leade• p Might you not suggest to your countrymen that for the sake of avoid in g injustice end war, , they ought to open negotiations with Frail me about the necessity of adhering to promises, and leaving Italy to the Italians ? As for the calumnies systematically ht aped on me—don't mind them ; I don't. I remem .ber the time, not far distant, in which your aristocratic, or money .worshipping papers, were treat ing me as a madly Utopian demagogue, becaus(! I was pleading for Italian unity. The verdict', of the whole Italian population has now prow !d that I was right. It is a compensation worth an: r amount of useless unprofitable praise, when the cordial thanks of good, true, unprejudiced worki 'rig men, such as yourselves, come to me. It is to it e worth the language, favourable or not, of edit :( )rs net knowing me, nor seeking for informatic c, a about me, but blindly receiving importations from; power seeking men of Turin or Paris. Ever yours, very gratefully, London, Dee. 25, 1860. JOSBPII KAU rtiL 9 10 61 :' 98 1 I ENE