The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-13 00:00:00

le to another re can be no era ble. . all to altice thoe of the e quotations eon done for ad 2s. ld. to y dull, and ire still very , irtber 30.) ed Ltere on ►n_ After lations for tangrhai on pting that over the lays :after ng of the ations fcT when the nprobable Lething in settlement Reed, je :ion of the it—stand st 197,0 6 e have for m Shan't my, 1,724 DTIS. authentic. , within 0 , rmation of g ice, at tbe" Lieve what . ) Fatshan, is leads us ina. illa in her Nov. 29. 100 dols. 100 dols. s. 9id. dots. dole. Nov. 24. nint. THO FNCE. ary to the of Social r the mer influential xl, for the ngemet!te e associa- I at Brad r meeting under the ford, Wile ion would and the mies' Ili ad mina several Live emu three to by the nittee of library xecutive , umbers.' v. J. 11 . • ute, suß d unani- That in as gene )tain the - est Rid fficers of purpose, es." Mr. ;reed to. tart' ere e motion the Rev. gatroyd, ie infor ntlemen ribers to £1,400. iduct in 40s 6d; 39s 9d; 40s 6d ; 41s Gd ; 93,679 ; !O peas, ,t exten d in the ive way nily mo d a dull 'igs sup all. d. R. d. 64 8 10 5 0 64 4 6 5 0 0 3 6 84 2 re pigs, . 75 . 380 1 ""'"' meat on gener -3s 2d ) Os Od ; by the asacted ipward ;s 6d to ; and applied ; from 5 6d to CO Os ; pigSy clover, r load• clover r lead. clover • load, 1110 A EY MARKET AND Ur; Y NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocii. There is rather more inquiry for discount accom modation, but the market still retains an easy appearance, in consequence of the accumulated supplies, and the additional relief afforded by the numerous payments now effected in the shape of half yearly dividends. The commercial demand must, of course, be expected to increase, as the recovery in trade is making steady progress, and will pro bably become accelerated during the next few. months. The accounts received from distant mar kets,are not quite so promising as could be desired but they contain evidence of a partial reaction, Which will, no doubt, eventually ensure a return of general prosperity. Meanwhile it is satisfactory to hear that much activity prevails in the manu facturing districts, and that most descriptions of raw material are in active demand. The current rate for first-class bills is about 24- per cent., but i n exceptional cases rather lower terms are re ported. At the Stock Exchange, the settlements in Consols, Foreign Stocks, and Railway Shares . !la ve temporarily stimulated the demand, but l oans are negotiated on very easy conditions. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed I vith a very dull appearance, and prices were Without material alteration. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales. In Railway Shares the transactions were limited, and values further declined. • • The fluctuation in the market for English secu rities during the morning was less important than for some days past, but it still exhibits indi cations of sensitiveness owing to the doubt felt w ith regard to the probable movement on t he Paris Bourse. The tendency, however, was decidedly towards an improvement, and higher rates prevailed. The partial recovery in t he Rentes which took place yesterday, as well as the rise in Consols, shows that confidence, has been somewhat strengthened ; and as the first telegram received to-day reported continued firmness, the Funds, after a few fractional changes, were maintained at the h ighest point attained on the previous afternoon. 4 t the present moment, however, a reaction of e Per cent. is apparent. Consols, after being 954 1 gj3Money and 951 I for the account, are now threes,3 I and 951 respectively. The New b6f and the Reduced have advanced to ; Exchequer Bills are 375. to 38s. prem. ; a d .: the Bonds, 1008 ; India Stock is 223 to 224 ; id° Debentures, 991 I, and Long Annuities 41. 7 ste ady at 181. a ,;1 11 the market for Foreign Securities the trans -I°llB have been moderate, and in some instances r e Qs are rather firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. 81 7: 1 g 9 0 to 901 ; ditto Scrip, Ist issue, 804 to „ ; ditto, 2d issue, 41 to 4 dis. ; Chilian Loan is to 2 di s. ; Mex i can has i mproved to 191 to 191 ; Russian 5 per Cents. to 113 to 1131 ; Sardinian, to 87 : 0 8 71 ; Spanish 3 per Cents. to 4411 ; ditto Defer re d to 29 ; and Dutch 4 per Cents. to 1011 Buenos Ayres, however, has receded to 801, the Deferred to 161, and Peruvian 41 per Cents. to 89 an d 9 0; and. Venezuelan 5 per Cents. are marked 43. The railway traffic returns of the past week ex hibit very little alteration, but they still bear evi dence of an improvement when compared with the corresponding period of last year. Parties in terested in this description of enterprise seem con fidently to anticipate a progressive increase in the earnings of the principal lines as the natural result of the improvement in trade, but at the present moment commercial operations are comparatively quiet, as usual at this particular season of the year. The returns for the past week, as compared with those of the same period of last year, show the following results : 1858. 1859. Great Western North-Western , 60,256 54,770 S outh -Western 13righton l‘lieand ' 29,633 28,051 So uth -Eastern Great Northern baneashire and Yorkshire itoirtstohlanasdtExeter ' 5'190 5,169 , 29,080 .27,948 t a a , n i e La ll este' Lester, And Lineola ~..,...10,034 9,018 6,279 . 4,976 N li mo a zi:o l e a r; c ,rh az e n wor e na as doni,.o h dn ire Carlisle. 5,348 5,130 .2,111 2,134 t. .. , an d v,r o ly et litimPtNli 1:71N 3,093 , if n . L .llartlepool V ,plin and Wicklow , .. 1,589 1,223 Zi'llilburgh and Glasgow .. .6,326 . . i 5,849 , a and South-Western rand Trunk of Canada reat Western of Canada 7,554 8,227 T he Railway Share Market to-day has been rather firmer, and prices in most instances have s hown a slight improvement. Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, h ave improved ss. • Midland, North-Eastern (Ber lvial), and North-British, 10s. ; Great Northern, „ ~..1 8. ; Great W e St e rn, 15 5 . ; an d C a l e d on i an , N or th- W estern, and South-Eastern, £l. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been in limited request, but prices are a shade firmer. . Lom bardo -Venetian have improved about 10s.; Paris and Lyons, it ; East Indian, £2 ; and Pun 7 iaub, s s . Joint Stock Bank Shares are very quiet. Bank of Australasia have receded ss. London and Westminster improved 55., and Ottoman Bank £l. In the Miscellaneous Market, Electric Telegraph declined 55., and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, Li to Ll 10s. imrrlSH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 ., "'tier Cent. Reduced Annuities 96 4 per Cent. Consols Annuities ~,ew 3 per Cent. Annuities ' 96 i Sli ot -Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Apr., 1885 lB/ India Stock Ditto Debentures Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO Consols for Account - I I March June. 'Fxchequer Bills, £1,000 ; 2d. & 11d.. 38 7 38 7 D itto £500 Ditto Small 1&d. Exchequer Bonds, 1859, 31 per Cent .... 100 k a L il cts OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK —n°B AYres 6 er Cent Dit to Deferred P l6l Mexican 3 per Cent l9l 1 Ditto Account Peruvian 41 pe r Cent B9 90 Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent ll3 1 Sardinian 5 per C en t. B7 Spanish 3' per Cent 441 Ditto New Defeired, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. so Ditto Account Ditto New Loan. Scrip , Bll 801 • Ditto 2d Issue ... . 'Venezuela, 5 per Cent.. . ... ............." . ....... . Dividends on the above p aya bl e i n London. Dutch Exchange, 12 Grti),. 21 per Cent — Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money . 9 54 1 1 Consols for Account THIS DAI'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Jan. 13.—Wind this day at noon N. ; light breeze and cloudy. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 12.—Wind M.Str. Leopard, from the West Indies. CAiIDIFF, Jan. 12.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Marguerite, for Havana. SWANSEA, Jan. 12 . —Wind N.N.W. —Sailed —Heznietta, for Cuba. Con K, Jan. 11.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—President, for barbadoes. (13Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Wind N. Arrived—Ceres, from Cardiff; Atalanta and Wonder, Ma meta , from Jersey ; Gipsy an d Edith from Llanelly; 'iarY Coles, from Bangor; George and. Rainbow, from Cardiff; British, Lady Percy, Tiber, and Bewley, from i resvport. Sailed—Malakhoff, for Cardiff ; O r i ssa an d Th ames, steamers, for Alexandria ; Laura, for Newcastle ; Havre, steamer, for Havre ; Dispatch, steaer for Jersey ; I) auube, for Newport ; Lamplighter for mSeLham. (BT SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Mornin. wind W. ; tide three hours ebb ; weathe r li g h t and line. t„ A a'rived—Westley, from Villascotia ; Dambro, from t-lavannah; Stuart Wortley, from Calcutta; Hero, from from • Julia, from Guernsey ; Cornelius, Gunnell, lorora New York. Sailed —Lord J. Russell, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Thursday Morning. ;Find N.W. ; moderate. f asuod in Tow—Norala, from Honduras andhn Henry, I° lll Madras—both for London ; Caroline the Blon- C4.ll;tafrnotinino p ir e lidon for Cardiff. Dale from Shields, for 2 I f ?as sed—Eling Grovo, from Cardiff, Forget Me Not, Buenos Ayres ; Albermarle, from Columba, St. Mi from St. Kitt's, Gomanzas from Honduras, Pro ',Aerie°, fr om Taganrog, Trinidad, , from Demerara—all for '`. l orldon. 40 • uz Tow—William Cory, demur, for LoAdon. SHARE MARKET.-( THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railwar. Paid Closing Price. Arnhem., Notting. Bost. awl Eastern Junction ►sleifast and Ball , rmena,. l Bir., Wol., and &r. Val. Birk., Lane., and Chesh. 61 61% 7 1 8i Junction Blackburn 66 68 1% 11 30 S 2 95 96 86 67 47 481 Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ('Chester and Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, BlkrockokPassagel Cornwall 5 si A A rcves. no div. Do' Do B until6p.c.per an. hasbeen pd.toß. Dublin andßeliast June. Dun.,Perth,Sz Ab %June East Anglian Eastern Counties Eas' ern Union A Stock Do. do. B Stock Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk 8 4 164 1 74 62 63 47 49 31 33 Do Edinburg and Glasgow Edin.,Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glaso - ow & South Westn Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. do. A Stock Do. do. B Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) Great Western Do. S tr.Vl. Rail Gua. S Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle Do. Thirds IDo. New Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire Do. do. F 2111 Do. do. £9 shares Do. West Riding Union Do. Southport London and Blackwall IDo.Newiss.at P.slosp.sh 'Lon ~Brighton &S.Coast London & North West& Do. Eighths London& South-westn I L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man., Shef., & Lincoln Metropolitan Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) Do. 4 Shares Newcastle and Carlisle New., Aber., & Herefd Newry & Armagh (def ) Newry, Warpt., & Ros Norfolk North. Counties Union North British Nor.Dev.ltail.&Dk. Stk Do.A Stk.— Ai ec.n o div urtil6p.c.hasbeenpdll Do. B Stock North-Eastn.—Berwick Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase Do. Leeds Do. York North London N. &S. Westn., Hampstd and City Junction.. North Staffordshire North-Western No. Az Sou. W. Junction Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver Peebles Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scoth. N. E.,`Alber. Stock Da Scottish Mid. Stock Shropshire Union Sittsnzbourne &Sheer South Devon South-Eastern. South Wales .. SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun. Do. do Staines, Wok., & Wek Stockton & Darlington Do. do. 1854 Do. do. 1855 Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale Do. Preference, No. 1 . ThamesHavenDk&Ra4l Vale of Neath a!1 100 31 100 100 100 100 100 1613 4 100 100 •100 £3 la. 174 all all 100 all all all 221 7 101 100 100 90 92 1O! 5 4'6 961 38; 102} 60i it Business Done. 95 6f I 6i 92i 14 131 13 Limited., Scrip Oude (Limited) , Scinde, Do, ' "4 LI Do. New Do. Puujaub Do. Indus. St. Flo brg 4 St. Andrews A: Quebec A Trinidad(Limited) Scrip Waterford ,S& Kilkenny) Waterford & Limerick West Cornwall W-•,•nd Lon. & Cry. Pal. Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to )3 Do. B West London Do. Ist Class Do. 2d Class PREFERENI Share' Railways. 25 Blythe and Tyne IC per c. pref. (issued at £5O) Stk Bris. & Exet4p.ct.Stock 20 Do. do. do. Shares tock Caledon no, 41 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Stock Chester & Holyhd, 5.1 pc Steck Do. do. 5 p. et 61 Cork & Bandon, 64 p. 6 Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun. Stock E.Argn. Class A 7& spc Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc Stock E. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l Stock Do. do N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Stock East Lane. 6 per et 5 E.& W. York. Jen. fifths Stock Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares Stock Edin. Perth, Dur. 4 pc. Stock Furness, 5 per cent Stock Glas. &S West 5 Pe Stock Great Northern, 5 p. ct Stock Do. 5 Pe Redpi.,loP c•Pm Stock Do. 4i p. c. d o. do. - 00 D0.5p.0. Redm.,s pc. pm 10 Gt I\ll. of Scotld. Ist pf ( Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) I p. ct. pref. Stock Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct. Do. Redeemable, 44 p ct. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p. et. Redcem.Pref. Do. Ilirm. Pref. Shares Gt. West Ches. 8 p.c.pf. shares Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birming. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon.&Brig.spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. . • •Nb. 2 Do. New g - ua., 6 p. ct Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Lon. & N. W. Coy. &Nun eaton, 5 p. ct Lon. &S. W, 7 /let. stock,' late 3d shares .... Londond7 & Cole, 4 ahs. Londo - , - 4dy.& Ennis sh. .IKan„Sh., & Lir., 6 p. ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. Maryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent .. Stock Stock Stock Stock 264 Stock 13 20 stock Stock Stock Stock Stook Stock, Stock' 12 12 Stock Do. Mid. Con. 6 p c. Stock Do. Con. Bri s. &Bir.6 p.ct Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock.. Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. it. Newport,Aber,&c. pref.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet, 6 p. c. with option till 1866 Norrolk Deb. 4 p.c. shares Do. 5 p. c. Ext. Stock,lB46 Do. 54p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way. Val. EX. Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.RaiL&Dsk.Co. N-East.irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Benvick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1. Do. do. Quarters, 1846 140. York, H. & S. Purch. North Staffordshire Ox. r. & WoL 6 pc. Ist g Do. do. do., 2d gua. Do. 44 p.c. Db. stk.in perp Scottish Central, new pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 34 pert. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen.gua.6 pc. Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock. South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Arr.., 1.0.6.) Do .44 per cent Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Ist Do. New do., 2d issue.l South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Do. 44 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua. Stockton and Dar. 5 pal Do. 6 per cent 'Waterford & Kilkour: y, 6 per cent 13 15 95 96 69 70 281 294 96 98 10 14 106 107 20 92 133 135 1 55 041 1051 551 56 57 87 N 124 13 p 12t 134 p 96. 4 97 id 6 6i 111} 112 i 9i 05f 1 93 91 38& 39 - -e 1102 1024 75 77 12 124 65 67 3f 3 d 591 60 93 1/31 3} d 48 49 ' 761 ;71 101 103 41 4 d 13 1 7 8 13 4 1 1 CO 32 113 115 2n 281 86 88 46 47 4 2d 38 39 731 741 73 75 In 14 9 11 341 35 gi Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 8i Stock Stock Stock Stock 10s. 1.0.6. Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 20 25) 25 Stock LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Itailways. Bedford and Bletchley all In & N.W Buckinghamshire lOOLn & N. W Clydesdale Junction. , 100 ' ICaledenin Colchester, Stour Val.l all fE,ITAE C E.Lincoinshire,g.6p.c.' 100 pt.Nerth. E Union,HarwichShs.: all l E.Counts. Do. oodbridee Gls.BarrW.&Neils,Drct. 100 Do. New lOO Gloster& Dean Forest all Hartlpeol.Dek.&Rall' MI 11011 and Selby all Do. lj Shares ..... all Do. Shares .... . all London&Greenwich ICO Do. Preference .... . . 100 Lon.,Tilby , &Soutend. 100 Do. Barking Shares all Lowestoft, glut. 4p. ct 100 Do. 6 per cent lOO Manc.,llnxtn. & Matk. all .c. all N ll .l ' r ea l w d d u . s ; na ß b r . r aa & a, d rnk r :f te l e t r r isr r t g p E : . 6 e. P x Stk. 100 North: l .& Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent Do., Fixed 5 per cent. - Preston and Wyre. Do. Shares A . Roistn,Hitch.,& Shep Sh .Itoth.&Gol.g.6p.c. Shrewsbry& Hereford South Staffordshire .. Wear Valley, g. 6 p. c. Do. do. Wilts and Somerset Wimbledon& Croydn Irialedonin Do. Gt. West. Yk.N.&Br Yk.N.Md. Do. Do. S. East Do. Peto &Co. Do. Norfolk Do. 1.15 ItA3t Stk.& Dat Dlidlat . E.Counts. 15.5. O. Do Do. • IL& NAV L.Yk. all all all all all Do. 100 G t North 18116 Len.& Yk all T Brassoy all 111• Clean all Stk.SrDar all 1 1)0. 100 'Gt. West, all L.&Brgtn DOCKS. Docks. 98 100 104 106 17 19 143 146 4 41 2 1.1 98 1(.0 58 60 1142 144 gi of 14 11 92 94 8 9 Stock Commercial lOO -- Stock DO 4 pereent.pref.Min lOO Stock East and West India lOO Stock London lOO Stock St. Katharine lOO Stock Southampton lOO Stock Victoria <0 DO New ~.... 18 id i p Leasing i Closing) Business Co.'s. Price. Done. I Paid I Closing Business Price: Docks. Sharel 100 100 all all all all all all all all ;E SHARES. Closing Paid. Price. 49 51 96 98 ►lO3 105 6 -61 100 103 113 118 109 112 115 117 114 116 132 134 84 86 73i 744 113 115 121 123 111 113 100. 100 (1 (0 101 11} 95 97 86 E 8 88 90 100 102 91 lot 16i 17i 10 10 73 74 I 9 18i 19i k 91 14 144 143 145 120 122 163 168 123 125 1 1' 68i 72 143 145 104 106 98 11196 , 91 91, 114 111 9 10 - - Ll 2 114 99 100 i die p d 234 244 122 124 108 110 1 01 103 101 11 241 25 104 106 104 106 17 19 29 30 33 34 48 52 BuaJnees Done. all 1100 100 100 100 100 all nig lil. , LONDOX, THURSDAY EVENING-, JANUARY 13, 1859, FOREIGN Share' Railways. 'raid. C p l Business o!ing I Price. Done. Antwerp & Rotterdam Ardennes Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac Carmeattx Mine & Rail Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley Great Central of Franc - Gt. Luxenr. Con. shs Italian Junction 4i 5 pp 7 8 21 21 25 26 61 7 Lake Constance & Baic Lierre and Turnhout... Lombardo Venetian.... Id part Lucca & Lyons and Geneva Maria Antonia do. New INamur and Liege Da 'do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of France IDo. New Ma-e 3 Norwegian Ti unk Pref. Ottoman. gua. f, per cent Paris,Lyors, and Medit. Paris and Orleans ...... Recife& S. Fran. (Fern.) gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) Riga and Dunaburg Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. - 7 per cent. Pref. Sambre and Meuse. Do. 54 per cent. Pref Southern of France West Flaniers Do. 54 p. C. Preference W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand 23 24 8; VI 21 21 351 36 P 84 9i I 32 32} 49 51 d 7f 71 91 9 i 20* 21 51 6 24 23. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. S haro 1 Railways. Atlantic & St Lawrence! Leased at 6 per cent.. Bom.,Barod..&Cent.lnd gu. 5 per cent po. Do. Addit. Cap Pal A Do. Do. B Buffalo and Lake Huron "24 100 1 Do. New Bufalo,Drant.&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. 1 Aug., 187° Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June. 1874 Clcutta. &S. Ea strn. Lim. Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Central Oude (Limited) Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c Demerara 17i 20 Stock, Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.e. Nast Indian, gu. 5 p. c Do. C Shares Do. E Shares Ext _ Do, JubliulpOlc D 0.44 p.c. Bds. G eelong& Mel. gua.s c. Geelong Corporatio 6 percent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B Do. 6 per cent. Pref Gt. In diaPenin gua.sp. c Do. New, gua.s per cent Do. do Gt. S. of Ind Li m. —Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt.W. of Canada Shares Do. New sto. toc k 100 100 20 100 100 100 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76,with ept. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. ''3 without opt Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 44 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c Do. Fourth do. Stock Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds! Newßrunswick&Can da. Ry.arLand(Lim.)g.6pc Class A.Capitl.share.. Do. do. Land d 0... Do. do. B. Capital do. Do. do. Land d 0... INorthof India Tramroad p aid. Closing Business Price. Dons. all 9 all 4i all 161 1 100 100 100 1. 3.0. 2s. Gd 2 all 5 100 all all all 100 1 00 all 100 all id par d d A 7/ 81 13 12 di 87 92 ' 84 88 83 85 par i lipl d +p 105 106 - 100 7 18 19 36 37 76 78 91 93 104 106 par i p par p 16i I6} 4 d 106 108 106 108 105 107 99 100 181 19 20i 201 d d p p d 2 lid 4 3d 1 tirr 21! 22f I ll d p id I p, BRITISH MINES. Share Mines. Paid. Closing i Business Price. Done. Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.10 84 94 20 British Iron Condurrow (Camborne) 2O 10 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 460 470 East 13essett (1110 an) 3O 165 175 Great South Tolgui l7s 12 13 G.WhealAlal.(Phillacr, 11.18.8 24 21 G. Wheal Vor(Helston) 94 Lady Bertha North Frances (Illogan) 84 7 8 North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 2 3 N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) nil. 7 8 • Par Consols (St. Blaxy) 14 154 164 Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s 4 1 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 24 410 420 Sovth C. Brea( Illogiin). 2 24 3 S. W heal Fran. (Hogan) 18.18.9 225 235 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 44 14 11 10 Tin Croft 9 3t 34 34 UnitedMines(Gwennap) 40 Vale of Towey (Carm.) 12a 6d f 1 West Ilasaet 14 22 23 W. Caradon (Lieheard). 20 100 140 Wheal Basset (Illogan). 54 215 225 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 120 140 Wheal Edward (Cats,) 5l 24 21 IWheal Kitty (U. Lelant) 1.7.2 8 9 - Wh'l Mary Ann (Meohe) 8 48 50 - - Wh'l Trelawney (Lisk.) 44 31 31 FOREIGN MINES • 20 Australian 1 1300 AccordCopper,Lim lOB d p 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p ) 27 1 2 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim l5 11 13 5 Do. Land and MiningCo • all 14 24 1 Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. or Jamaica 40 Cobra Copper b all C 9 41 Copiapo l6 10 12 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming,Co all 2 Fortuna 20 Gen—al all 20 21 3 Linares all 8 9 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariguita all 1 1 New Granada all 1 N.RhineCop.of S.A us.L 10 p 20 Pontg-lbaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt all 44 5 5 Port Philip 1 f 30 Santiago de Cuba l6l 1 1 28.2.81 United Mexican all 24 2 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Share Securities. Clewing Business Paid. Prices. Done. Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja. & July 100 1124 113 1121 Do. 6 p.c.Fb.&Aug. 100 113 115 Do. 6 p.c. Mr. & Sep. 100 113 115 N.8.G0v.6 p.c. Ja. &July 100 1094 1104 --Do. 6p.o.Ap. & Oa. 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb, 100 99 100 NovaScotiaGov.6 p.c. St. 994 Deb. redeemable,lB7s 100 1091 1104 S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July 100 109 111 Vict - Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 JOINT-STOCK • __ Share Joint-Stock Banks. Paid. Closing I Basikess Price. Done. 100 Agra&UnitedServiceßk 50 40 Australasia all 1)1 0.3 011 25 Bank of Egypt all ,27 271 100 Bank of London 5O 149 61 • 40 Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanC43 all . ~ 5) British North American nil 66, 60 20 Chtd. Bank of India ; it) 2 , lid 100 City • 5O 63 65 100 Colonial 25 20.11 Com. Batik of Canada, all 100 entnlnercial or London, 20 ...- 20 - Eng., 8 , :t., & Aus. Ch tilt to 17 20 GCli. Bk. of SWltEerlaild all . 20 Lan.Cdar:l3,lWAtiStital. all 211 22 60 Letitltni and Minty 60 'llOnabli slint Stock - 100 LeS)1011 & Westminster. 20 ..... 100 Nat. Prov. of England. 35 -- 20 ' Do. new lO 50 National Bank 25 20 New South Wale 3 25 Orient, Ilk. Corporation all -- 20 Ottoman Bank all 20 201 201 100 Provincial of Ireland 10 Do. New all .25 South Australia 25 Do. New • 171 25 Union of Australia all - 25 Do. New 60 Union of London lO -- 100 Unity Mutual 65 - -- 100 Western Bk of London 50 19 17 d MISCELLANEOUS. Closing Share) miscellaneous. I Paid. Price, liutinerns dos le , A 8 lo.llt - xican Mint'.. all 13 14 1056 Atiftntic Tel. (Limited). all 240 2 28 Australian Agricultural w 35 36 10 Australian Royal Stall . all / 1 10 Berlin Water Wn. tics ... all 21 31 10 Do New s _laitkied at 25 dis 3 50 Btll,iith American Land 40 ill 'Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. all 40 42 20 Do. B, 7p. c. till 1862.. all 19 21 20 Do. C . " all 13 15 • 100 Canada Land 321 -- 10 Chan.falands Tel,(Lim ) all 91 101 Stock Cop.Min.olEng.&Smltg all 25 - Do. Preference 71 per ct all 24 25 5 Crystal Palace. all 11 I/ 5 Do. 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N e w .. .. 60 7 2rB ; 100 Royal Mail Steam, : 1 Scot.Austrin.lnv.( Lim ) a ll 1 25 137 , 2 1 5 , D os S :I . m t d h ao A ri t e g in u s e t T r s a et l le r i e g a Australian .dL.an. Scrip..d all 11 l lli 37 3191 ' . _ 20 ik . ' v Tr an .& Di Ln em .C en o.o , f o lip an r. d Ct . t. m'IND' entBhdp: .: c . I :pnnr.desf..i: Omnibus Co. all 1 i 11 P s i. i 12— LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the. Lord Chancellor.) APPEAL.-WYTREA V. LABOVCREUE. Sir Richard Bethell, Q.C., resumed his argument in this part-heard appeal for the respondent at the , sitting of the court this morning. _ _ It is probable the arguments will continue the whole day. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood.) JUDGMENT.-TAILOR V. THE GREAT INDIAN PENIN- SOLAR RAILWAY COMPANY. The contention in this •ca se was, whether there was a regular transfer and sale of a number of shares of this com pany to the plaintiff. It appeared that the company had fallen into an irregular practice in selling and transferring shares in groups and upon ad valorem stamps, and the question raised was, whether the shares sold were £2 or £2O shares, and whether there was a legal deed of trans ference executed of these shares. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor, after delivering a long and elaborate judgment, and referring to the practica of jobbers and stockbrokers in the sale and transfer of shares of railway companies, considered that it would not be necessitry to restrain by injunction any further proceedings in this case, and ordered the deeds to be delivered up to the company, and 120 shares delivered to the plaintiff, Mr. Taylor. And unless the sum of £135 is paid, with interest at the rate of 4 per cent., 'costs to be paid to the company, with liberty to apply. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.) JUDGMENT.-BOUKHART V. HOUGHTON. This was an application for an injunction to restrain the defendant from carrying into execution a verdict obtained by him against the plaintiff for injuries done to his land by the copper works of the plaintiff. `Theeclefendant at law obtained a verdict for £4sodamages. His Honour the Master of the Rolls considered that the defendant was at liberty to have his rights ascertained at law ; and, although he might not be entitled to complain of the nuisance of the plaintiff's works at the time he en tered upon his farm, yet he was entitled to complain upon an extension of the works, and obtain damages for an ex tension of the nuisance complained of. His Honour refused the motion with costs. IN nE NICHOLSON-JUDGMENT. This was the taxation of a solicitor's bill of costs. His Honour tho Master of the Rolls, instead of sending it to the taxing master to be taxed, with the assistance of Mr. Hughes, to save expense to the parties, taxed the bill himself Amount of bill, £4,306; taxed off £319 14s. Bd. Each party pays their own costs and costs of taxing. His Honour made a declaration and order accordingly. JUDGMENT--.FELL V. WRIGHT. His Honour the Master of the Rolls was of opinion that the question involved in this case was a legal question (which might be disposed of in a court of law), but could not be disposed of on the motion. His Honour refused the motion with costs. ' COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Campbell.) lITIGHES V. DINORBEN.-LIBEL. Mr. Macaulay, counsel for Lady Dinorben, having ob tained a rule calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict of the jury, which was for the plaintiff, should not be set aside, the Attorney-General, for Mr. Hughes, this morning, supported the verdict. • The cause was tried in Juno last, before Lord Campbell, when, after three or four days, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and damages, by consent, were assessed at 40s. The plaintiff, Mr. Hughes, was a gentleman of fortune, the proprietor of Kinmel-park, in Denbighshire, and he. brought his action against Lady Dinorben, the widow of his uncle, the first Lord Dinorben, under pecu liar circumstances. The first Lord Dinorben was the eldest son of the Rev. Edward Hughes, a gentleman who, besides being possessed of a very large property, married, an heiress, and acquired another large property also in the north of Wales. At his death the whole of his vast fortune passed to his eldest son, Colonel Hughes, who afterwards became Lord Dinorben. He married, and had two daughters, but only one son, who unfortunately became a lunatic. Having lost his first wife, Lord Dinorben, in 1840, being then at the advanced age of 72, married the pre sent defendant, and died in 1852. The plaintiff was the son of Lord Dinorben's younger brother, who died about 1836. There had not been that friendly intercourse between the two brothers which might be expected and desired from such near relations ; and after the death of Mr. Hughes, the plaintiff's father, the estrangement was continued between the plaintiff and his uncle. Upon Lord Dinorben's death an attempt was made by the plain- tiff to bring about a reconciliation, but in vain; and al though some ciemmunicatici passed between him and Lady Dinorben, he continued to be almost a stranger to her. In consequence of the unfortunate condition of the second Lord. Dinorben, proceedings were about to be taken to issue a commission of lunacy, and contemporaneously the plain- tiff became attached to one of the daughters of the present Lord Ravensworth. In July, 1852, an engr.gement was made between them, although the marriage was for a time deferred, and o f course the intercourse between the plaintiff and the family of his intended wife was of the most friendly nature. The Attorney-General, in the course of his remarks said, the present rule had been obtained on the ground that several of the letters were improperly put in, and that the verdict was against the evidence. The short and conclu sive answer to the arguments of his learned friend, Mr. Macaulay, was, that such objection now came too late, as he ought to have made it at the trial, when the letters were put in and read by the officers of the court. Mr. Macaulay said the letters were never read in due form by the officer of the court, or he should have done so. The contents of the letters were made known to the jury by the learned Attorney-General in the course of his opening speech, and, therefore, he had no opportunity of objecting. The Attorney-General said his learned friend, he now remembered, was quite right; but, under the circum stances, he thought the conclusion come to by the jury was correct, and therefore the present rule ought to be discharged. [The case was proceeding when we went to press.] itnisTot SrtiAlt-MARKET, Jan. 12.—There has not been much competition in the sugar-market since the opening this day week after the holydays, but about 500 hhds. West India have been sold at steady prices. In rum the only transactions are 118 puns. of Demerara, at _ _ 2s. 3d. proof: SUICIDE BY MR. ACKERMAN, THE PUBLISHER. — In the morning of yesterday Mr. Ackerman was found lying partly undressed on his bed in an apparently lifeless state, a tumbler that had contained prussic acid being found near him. An inquest was held before Mr. Wakloy yester day, when a verdict of suicide was Teturned, the state of de coased's mind being left an open question. PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO MR. ROBERT DUFFELL.—This gentleman, the manager of the " Royal Property t " was presented, last Tuesday with a very hand some testimonial, valued at upwards of fifty pounds, sub scribed by the entire company of these gardens, as a mark of respect for his very gentlemanly and upright conduct in his management of the gardens last season. The testi monial consisted of a gold watch and chain, a silver snuff box., and a silver tankard. SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPERATION.—A rare and difficult operation has just been performed by Dr. P. 11, Watson, F.IIC,S. The child of Peter Low, engine man, Grantors , had swallowed a common dress-hook, un noticed by the mother, on Thursday last. The parents were recommended to apply to Dr. Watson, in the hope of saving the child's life ; and, trusting to his skill, they left the case in his hands. On Saturday last he made an inci sion into the cticoia cartilage and removed the hook. The child hl noW doing Wall, and shows every symptom of a speedy recovery.--. Edinburgh Coterani, From a return lately published it appears that the number of ships that entered the port of Hamburg in the year 1858 was 4,884, with erews of 44,540. in 1856, 6,03'7 in 1857, with crews of 61 ,1 40 ifital, and 6,201 1856, with 49,264 men. The decrease of last year has beeti cattsed by the depressed state of trade. Of the various nations the English were the most numerous, the total number of ves sels sailing under the British flag being 1,698; the next being the Hanoverian, numbering 781. Only 22 ships be longed to the United States. SNOW IN THE ALPS.--The journals of the south of France state that great quantities of snow have fallen in the Alps. Last week a diligence returning from Turin was stopped by the snow on Mount Genievre. One of the con ductors was sent on to get more horses, but unfortunately he fell down in the snow, and fainted away. It so happened that he was soon discovered by some dogs-belonging to the customs' officers, and taken to the nearest house. When he recovered his senses, he stated under what circumstances i shesent oi i . , had left ft the diligence. Four stout horses were at once n anc l -eth their help the passengers were delivered I from their unpleasant situa.,.`2,l A POSER FOR THE LAWYERS.—Attei hearing a tbdialiii will case at Dublin, on Saturday, Master Litton amused the gentlemen of the long robe present b request ing their opinion on the following point; on which he im:.l. been consulted on that morning :—The governor of a gaol not a hundred miles from Dublin was on Friday arrested and incarcerated in his own griOl for a debt of £4OO, the attorney for the plaintiff demanding aIId obtaining a certi ficate from him that he was in custody. Now, in the exe cution of his duties as governor, could he go beyond the walls of the gaol without being liable to arrest for escaping from prison under the above committal ? Counsel seem quite posed as to the law of the case, there being no prece dent, but would consider it, and talk with his lordship on it on an early day. A wild boar strayed from one of the forests in the neighbourhoOd of Avranches, arrived a few days ago on the beach at Bourne, and seemed greatly astonished to find itself in a vast open space, with the sea near it. A number of villagers, armed with pitchforks, guns, and clubs, assem blpa ' - i- „'• I not venture to surround it. It turned round rest, a shoemaker, i t . -1f pain a advanced irritated' e'galtt;v6and one of them, braver than , the i t a ;Jab with a pitchfork. The him a distance of several feet. It then turned in a savage manner on the other assailants, but three or four guns were ° th n e t a ii. iiimal, and rushir4 on tho man threw discharged simultaneously at it, and the animal fell dead. PAUL JONES IN THE FIRTH.--Last week, Mrs. Reekie, a widow, died at Pathhead, near Kirkcaldy. She was known to have been the last of those young lasses 'who lighted the fires in Ravenscraig Castle when the men of Path.head kept armed watch and ward nightly for the return of Paul Jones. She often referred to this period in her life, on a nd described minutely the appearance of Mr. Shirra drove , when engaged in praying the beach for that wind which the vessels of the dreaded Paul down the Firth. 'She was 27 3 , ears single, 44 years married, and 28 years a widew, and was in the habit of saying that she had lived three life limes. Her offspring was as follows : 7 - Nine children, 65 gr andchildren 116 great-grandchildren , and -three great great-grandcliildrea—m all 193, —.Edinburgh Courant. iI.ETI - X0 4T SHEFFIELD, AN AMERICAN ON THE BALLOT. On Tuesday evening a meeting was held in the Tem perance Hall, Sheffield, to consider " The importance of making the ballot a part of the New Reform Bill." There was a very numerous attendance. Alderman H. E. Hoole presided, and on the platform we observed Edward C. Whitehnrst, Esq., vice-chairman of the London Ballot Society ; Pliny Miles, Esq., of America ; Mr. F. Sims, Sheffield, agent of the Ballot Society, &c. Mr. PLINY MILES was loudly applauded on rising. He said he did not know that he was called upon to make any excuse for his appearance. Though his voice was feeble, he would raise it in a country like this in furthering the ballot. To him it was a matter of surprise that there should be anything like objection to vote by ballot, provided the rulers consented to allow the people to vote at all. (Cheers.) In the United States they believed that all power emanated from and belonged to the people. There was a party in this country, who were known as their rulers, when in reality they should be their servants. (Hear, hear.) He was not there to advance anything which might be taken up as an argument for cer tain parties or certain conditions of society, but to state certain facts. Their opponents had said the ballot did not work well in America. True some people were not strictly honest, and they had a very wide suffrage ; certainly the American was not a perfect Government, neither was the English one. (Hear.) They had next the universal suf frage in all their states, and their nation had gone through prosperity unequalled for nearly a hundred years. We were accustomed to think the two Governments were among the best in the world for the government of the people. English people were accustomed to think theirs the best, and Americans did the same. If he were asked what form of Government he would prefer, he should choose the lat ter; but it must be a fundamental maxim that all power existed in the people, and not necessarily in certain parties that were born in certain positions. Their rulers had to come to them to carry on the springs of war, for taxes, for money, and why should not they came to them for power. (Cheers.) He was conversing the other day with one of those simple, well-meaning persons they world find every where, whom he met in London, and he said he did not know what to think of the ballot ; he could not understand it. He (the speaker) told him there was no difficulty in understanding it; it was exceedingly simple. They had it in America. to protect the voter in his inalienable rights as well as for convenience. The people were not accountable to others for their use of power. When the people in America sent their representatives to Washington to make regur, lations for the public good, they said "We Rill have no secrets with you, and every vote you ca:t shall be an open one : we will not allow you to go there and vote under the rose." Then at the end of two years, if they were not pleased w ith the votes given, they said, " Stand on one side, and we NI ill put somebody else in your place." (Hear.) It to him looked a very simple matter. He did not appre ciate the political system of this country, but at the same time it appeared to him, .that if they were called upon to give an opinion, it should not be one of coercion. There was a difference between voting of one's own free will, and being driven to it at the pOint of the bayonet. If they allowed people to vote, and did not allow them to vote as they pleased, then the operation simply became a farce. They had on the table a copy of an American ballot box. They had generally a larger box than that, because they had generally a larger number of votes in most communities than that box would hold. But people came to a table like that where everybody stood round. There were two or three inspectors of elections. A voter handed his paper to one of them, and he had no right to open it or to look at it. He saw that it was a single piece of paper, and took it before his brother inspector and dropped it into the box, and thus the process went on silently and secretly. Some English men said they had disorderly elections. They had had sometimes a little disorder. Even in New York they had sometimes disorderly elections, it was said. And had they not in this country sometimes disorderly 'elections ? (Hear, hear.) He was told that one man in every six had the power of voting in this country. In America five-sixths had the power ; and he believed that more than two fifths of the residents in New York were persons of foreign birth, and were, therefore, much less under control; and yet he had never seen anything like fighting at the polls. There was very frequently a great deal of delay caused by what was called challenging the votes, that was, in suspicious cases a person said he would challenge the vote. A magistrate who was present took up the Bible, and the voter had to make oath that he was lega'ly a voter, and qualified to vote under the constitution of the state; and some instances had been found where persons had perjured themselves. The ballot was a great advantage where there was a very wide suffrage, and he must say that open bribery was certainly not common in America, that going and purchasing votes was not common. for a very good reason—that there was too large a crowd to buy; andanother reason was that the purchaser was buying a very uncertain piece of goods that could take wings and flyaway. (Laughter.) Suppose there were two candidates, ore named Wood; he (Mr. Miles) could get voting papers for each candi date. If then, a ruffian. friendly to Wood, came up and insisted on knowing how he (Mr. Miles) was going to vote, what would he gain by his question? He could show him the voting paper Rath Mr. Wood's name on it, as though he were going to vote for Wood, yet drop the oppo nent's voting paper into the box, and the ruffian could not ascertain for whom he had voted. So, vote without the ballot looked to him just like saying, "We will permit the people nominally to have a certain power, but in reality we will give them none, providing we can get them under our thumb." He could not see a reason why the people should not have theballot, except for one simple reason—that were it adopted intimidation could not go on. He had heard of one or two persons from Virginia who said the ballot box was quite useless. One said it was the box of Pandora, from whence issued every evil. There were, however, opinions in Virginia not prevalent in any other of the states. In colonial times, he believed it was there that one Of the original magistrates thanked God there were no schools and no learning. The present governor of the State of Virginia was Mr. Wise, who stated, in Congress) that he came there from the county of Virginia, and he thanked God there was not a newspaper in the county. He did not know that they were discussing the qualifica tions of electors, but on that subject there was the opinion of one of their eminent men, which was worth quoting. A bill was proposed, which provided that no man should have a vote unless he was worth 250 dollars. Benjamin Franklin heard the debates in favour of the property qualification. He did not see precisely the ground of argument, but, after listening. he said he thought the votes were cast by men; and ho did not know why men worth nothing should have a vote as well as the man worth 260 dollars. lie said a man might have a cow, a pig, a quantity of household furniture, or a donkey. If that amounted to 250 dollars, ha would have a vote ; but before the next election the ass might die, and then he could not have the vote. He added, "Now, gentlemen, is it the man that votes, or is it the jackass ?" (Laughter.) He once beard of a candidate for office in New York, who had a friend, a banker, of some in fluence, and he asked his Mend if he would assist him in being elected to a certain office. The banker acquiesced, and said he would. He stumped for him—that was he made some speeches in his favour. The election day came, the ballots were deposited, and it was found at the gentleman had got just three votes. " Why, how is tEis ?" said the can didate. The banker could not tell. He said, " Certainly there are three votes. I put in one, and you put in ano ther, but where the d evil the other came from I cannot tell." (Laughter.) In America they had a process of counting noses, as they called it. The agents, canvassers, and can didates went round and asked about the votes, so as to form an estimate of the result of the election, and they could judge only by the promises given. He might ask in this country if it were not know n how every man voted ? The poll book Was open to every one, and could be made use of. Could that be done in the United States ? No. If a larga Ottiployer, or a man renting land, or one who had a good deal'of Witte/roe on those around him, should attempt to coerce them, why filen it was perfectly easy for them to go and deposit a vote, which cotild not possibly be known to the candidates. The law protected him in giving him a secret vote, as unquestionably it should in every com munity. Methods had been tried to neutralise the effect of this. In Massachusetts it was found the people printed voting papers, but a plan was adopted to prevent it by print ing a certain stamp on the back of the papers, £,O as to know them. They were printed by the state, and it was made obli gatory on every person to have one o f those p a p ers, and put it inside an envelope and seal it up, and every vote was illegal that was net so. He .had heard the opinion of John Ran dolph against the ballot. He had a large number of slaves, and a great number of persons over whom he had influence; and it was very evident from his position in life that he would oppose the ballot, because he could not influence persons as he might have, done had they given open votes, To those who wished to give them to understand that they actually did, and did not " k e ep the promise to the ear and break it to the hope," they would say, " Y ou may vote as you please ;" but it was like a picture he once s aw, which represented a q ueen and a prime minister, w wanted her to sign a document asthe sovereign of the people. She did dot seem inclined to sign it, and the minister had gone as a matter of form. He was represented as saying, in his blandest tones, "There is no compulsion, only you must sign it." (Laughter.) Well, if there was no compul sion, then vote secretly ; but if there was compulsion, then let them vote according as they wished. The ballot had been described as A simple, silent shower, That demonstrates the freeman's power ; Like the snow-flake on the sod, That executes the will of God. (Loud cheers.) Mr. E. C. WHITEHURST having addressed the meeting Councillor A. Boozes moved " That this meeting desires to express its opinion that the adoption of the ballot is in dispensable to an honest representation, and that no mea sure for the aaiendment of the representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament will be satisfactory which does not contain a provision that the votes be taken by way of the ballot." The resolution was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said the next resolution had reference to , a gentleman on whom had beep p laced b y the people the responsibility of drawing up a reform bill, who, by his un- 111 113 65 67 115 120 94 96 33 21 tiring exertions on behalf of his country, had been obliged Martin's voice—do we have trilled to us the pig uf n to retire for d season from the service of the people, he words of the graceful song of " The Coquette" meant John Bright, :Csq,, M.P. for Birmingham. (Loud " O'er the meadows tripped sweet Kitty,' - 04 otns-tinued cheering.) The resolution was, "That this On a dewy morn in spring, meeting, l'illiMt it sincerely rejoices in the conyalescence of Like a lark, her blithesome ditty, • • John Bright, Esq., M.P., deg es at the same time to con- Gaily, lightly carolling, vey to him its hearty thanks for his untiring and unflinch- So la la! Le ralla, ing exertions to obtain for the working classes of this coup- " Lubin, as she passed beside him, Offered two lambs for a kiss ; try a fair and full share of the elective francilf.se, and that Roguishly awhile she eye'd him, franchise protected by the ballot." (Loud applanse.) Tripped away, then carolled this, Mr. MILES, in seconding the resolution, said that in $o la la! Le ralla. the United States, where he had spent most of his life, " Ribbons red young Collin proffers, the opinions oftenest quoted, respected most, looked Robin with his heart would wile, up to most, wore those of three or four individuals. But she mocks at all their offers, The King or Queen of England never made speeches Singing, as she mounts the stile, So la la! Le ralla." except very short ones occasionally from the throne, and they were read, but there were three or four persons in the Sufficient, however, in the way of quotation—or British parliament whose opinions were quoted and re- we shall have enough to do, in truth, if we linger spected in America. The first person he s hould name was yet longer, bee-like, among these delicate leaves. the late Joseph Hume—(hear)—and the others were John Our choice might only be fully satisfied by enfring- Bright, Richard Cobden, and that unflinching patriot whom ing the law of copyright. Wherefore close we they all knew, John Arthur Roebuck. (Loud cheers.) This the little volume, and lay it aside with one cordial w thiso r d re o n f dTehr faithful an a i nngd fraterk s o , fatthpe ag al translators. rrtienagt,Gtoermtheang,seiplicuestrsyhobwynthine resolution was also carried unanimously. n Mr. M'Tuiuc moved, " That the thanks of this meeting two be given to Edward C. Whitehurst, Esq., and to P. Miles ; Esq., of America, for their able speeches in favour of the ballot." (Applause.) , Mr. HlnnEnn briefly seconded the proposition ; and after a few questions had been asked, in answer to which it ws, shown that the ballot worked well in Australia and America, and that there was no possibility of fraud or deception being practised by the scrutineers, it was carried amid applause. LITERATURE. Poems and Ballads of Goethe. Translated by W. Edmonstoune Aytoun, D.C.L., and Theodore Martin. Blackwood.and Sons. An exquisite companion volume to the Poems and Ballads of Schiller, already issued from the press by the same publishers. What Sir Bulwer Lytton accomplished so successfully in the one in stance, Messrs. Aytoun and Martin have achieved no less successfully in the other; so that henceforth the two greatest poets of Germany take their place side by side among the grand foreign classics per manently incorporated with our own literature. The majority of these translations from the. Poems and. Ballads of Goethe—as in the instance of the kindred translations from the Poems and Ballads of Schiller—originally appeared in instalments in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine. Several years have elapsed since that partial and periodical pub lication. And now at last those scattered frag ments have been grouped together, and—consider ably enhanced both in number and excellence — here make at length their very welcome collective appearance. As the joint editors and translators intimate in their Preface, they have by no means attempted to give in this volume a version of all or even of the majority of the minor poetical pieces of Goethe, fugitive and miscellaneous. In this they have acted without doubt most judiciously. Their selection from that wilderness of grace and beauty is surely all that the most unreasonable under the cir cumstances could well have hoped from their blended taste and assiduity. " Every voluminous author"— they write by way- of explanation as to their m o t iv e in making this selection instead of giving the whole —" every voluminous author has been unequal in his efforts ;" adding, " Goethe, who .was the most industrious and indefatigable literary , man of his age [and they might have added, who lived himself to the age cf a patriarch] was no exception to this rule." They append to this obviously sufficient re mark a hackneyed simile only too suggestive of a derisive application altogether undesigned. " His wheat,though of the finestquality,h as not been so well winnowed that the chaff has entirely disappeared." The deteriorating particles making up the aggre gate bulk were surely worse than anything that might be thus indicated. With the wheat garnered up from the fields of literature in the toils of that laborious and extended life, there were tares too abundantly intermingled. There, moreover, were the wild oats—sown in affluent and heedless profu sion—now only worth the perishing. A more accurate, while at the same time a less hackneyed, metaphor, expressive of the motley aspect of the treasure opened up to them for selection in that mine of jewels—the Complete Poems and Ballads of Goethe—would have been the one applied by Dr. Johnson (in his famous Pre face) to Shakspere, where, speaking of the scarcely , calculable gems of thought and poetry there em bedded, he described them with eloquent allitera tion as "clouded with incrustations, debased with impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerals." Here—in this delicious little volume of the choicest selections—William Aytoun and Theo dore Martin have given the rarest of the poetic gems of Goethe, in undimmed lustre, and as nearly as possible in the actual counterpart of the original exquisite setting. In regard to the blend ing of those ever-welcome names upon the present title-page, it is pleasant to read the acknowledg ment here subjoined—familiar though the fact re lated had long been rendered by the rumoured knitting together of the reputations of the Beau mont and Fletcher of burlesque—" The translators may, perhaps, be allowed to add that they have already had some experience of the advantages of literary co-operation ; for a volume of humorous poems and jeux-d'esprit, issued by them several years ago, under the title of ' Bon Gaultier's Bal• lads,' has been fortunate enough to obtain a wide circulation." The familiar voices had long been recognised, it is true—yet it is not the less agree able to have the double mask at length thrown aside as superfluous. Wherefore " All hail, Macbeth and Banquo ! Banquo and Macbeth, all hail !" Opening the book with a three fold relish of anticipation, we find this Aytoun- Martin version of Goethe comprising within it upwards of one hundred (in all 108) of these minor poetical productions from the hand of the metrical giant of Rhineland. Fortv.one " Songs and Lyrics" —a quarter of a hundred.'" Miscellaneous" pieces— a score of "Ballads and Legends"—one-and-twenty "Poems in the manner of the Antique"—and the poet's own " Introduction." To all these there are only two explanatory notes appended—one to the eltrich ballad of the " Erl King"—the other to that wonderful, impassioned, pagan masterpiece, " The Bride of Corinth." The translation of the last-mentioned poem, in itself one of the most signal though it must be confessed also one of the most horribly sensual of the triumphs of the genius of Goethe, is also here one of the most remarkable achievements accomplished by the united skill of the translators. In the melody, no less than in the accuracy of the version, it is worthy of being thus designated in simple truth—an achievement. It is a triumph won by Messrs. Aytoun and Martin together—as in a lesser degree is that gained by them conjointly in the translation of the mystical and (in itself for the most part) unsatisfactory " Introduction." Else where in the volume, with one or two rare exceptions, they work each upon a separate canvass, each copying a separate picture, from the original before them by the Great Master, with the like glowing colours and with an admi rable faithfulness. Sometimes the skill of one is shown in the epigrammatic, as in " The Husband man :" " Lightly doth the furrow fold the golden grain within its breast, Dceper shroud, old man, shall cover in thy limbs when laid at rest. Blithely plough, and sow as blithely Here are springs of mortal cheer, And wheno'er the grav e is closing, Hope is ever stand ing near." Sometimes the dainty adroitness of the other is shown in the mirrored playfulness of . a ditty like that charming one, " Who'll buy a Cupid :" " Now see this little Creature— flow modest seems his feature He nestles so demurely, you'd think him safer surely; And yet for all his shyness, , There's danger in his slyness, The cunning rogue ! Young loves to sell I My pretty loves who'll buy 1" Nothing could well be finer than the version of that marvellous, goblin, grimly " Dance of Death," from the weird. opening to the ghostly climax "It must have its shroud—it must have it betimes — The quaint Gothic carving it catches • And upwards from story to story it climbs, And scrambles with leaps and with snatches. Now woe to the warder, poor sinner, betides Like a spindle-legged spider the skeleton strides From buttress to buttress still upward 1" As a contrast to which—ah! charming the fresh ness of " Early Spring." It is Aytoun here who sings the song of Goethe : " Come ye so early, Days of Delight ? Making the hillside Blithesome and bright ? " Merrily, merrily, Little brooks rush, Down by the meadow Under the bush. * * #— u Birds of gay feather Flit through the grove, Singing together Ditties of love. * * * # " Now comes there sounding A sough of the breeze, Shakes thro' the thicket, Sinks in the trees. " Sinks, but returning, It ruffles my hair ; Aid me this rapture, Muses 7 to bear ! " Know ye the passion That stirs in me here? Yestreten 21 gloaming Was I with my dear I" Daintily, too, daintily—this time it is by Theodore Re-issue like p utting u S . t c tp r i Saps I. Kent l S v k i s e ah t n l d / g e s c:coa. 8 ,1 a y to er George . do el w tr n uisi u kl p sikh on that little bit of carpet mentioned in the Arabian Fairy Tales—openin g once more this wonderful ommuin-yathprum book of fun, by our greatest English caricaturist. As quickly as the Scotch trespasser, in one of the etchings in the pi e 'sent number, we are " Bock agen"—in the days of our fathers,when ladies wore dresses apparently with out any underclothing, and had their waists imme diately under their arms, and donned bonnets of the memorable shape of the ancient coal-scuttles ! When gentlemen adorned themselves with great shelving _hats, with curled up brims of very flagrant dimen sions, and struggled painfully into coats with skin tight sleeves, the waist-buttons immediately between their shoulder-blades, the collar half-way up the back of their heads, the tails draggled down into close proximity with the tendon Achilles ! When, to adopt the words of an arch-wag who delightefl us with a hearty laugh on this last New Year s Day— " Small boys had a dreadful high-shouldered, sleeved, strait waistcoat put upon them by their keepers, over which their dreadful little trousers were buttoned tight, so that they roamed about disconsolate, with their hands in their pockets, like dreadful little pairs of tongs that were vainly looking for the rest of the fire-irons ! " Back into that , extremely ridiculous age we are carried at one wink from the familiar eyelid of Cruikshank Redivicus. 'As tho title of this delightful serial informs us, the work here commenced, and which will be completed in ten instalments, consists of a—" Re-issue of Scraps and Sketches," by George Cruikshank. It is tho republication, in other words, of a collection of renowned humorous illustrations—masterpieces. of the ridiculous—chefs d'ceuvre of the grotesque,...ala bizarre, the utterly laughable, and irresistibly indi crous ex travagances.We envy t hose who come fresh to the examination of all this rare pictorial comicality. One after one here the series pours forth from the publisher's shop in Fleet Street—the well-known printseller's, No. 86; hard by St. Bride's Church, ovt r against the Punch office. Here they come stream ing out in procession upon the illustrated outer cover of the Re-issue— Illustrations of Time — Phrenological Illustrations—Scraps and Sketcht s —Sketch Book—while the public of to-day (such a different public altogether) loiters wondering upon the pavement at the unexpected reappearance. There, for example, stands the gentleman with a beard, a wide-awake, a cutty-pipe, an all-round collar, Balmoral boots, and peg-top trousers. There the lady with an oyster-shell bonnet, clad in crino line. Oh ! Ha! Hum! Puff ! Puff! Puff ! " says my gentleman smoking superciliously—and out they stream again into daylight, those dear old delightful provocatives of good humour. Part One gives us the immortal " Illustrations of Time "-- the analysis of the fun of which would be an imper tinence, particularly after the panegyric by Thackeray in the "'Westminster." Wherefore we content ourselves here with cordially welcoming back in this revised and collected form, the famous masterpieces of our inimitable Cruikshank. ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE. ' After carefully re-perusing the correspondence between Mr. Dodd and the provisional committee of the Royal Dramatic College, we adhere to our already expressed opinion, that both parties are to blame. ' Mr. Dodd was too exacting, the committee too peremptory. Mr. Dodd would have clogged his grant with conditions, which .he thought him self entitled to impose, • but which' the committee . were disinclined to accept. His tone was offensive and uncourteous, their secretary's disagreeable and sarcastic. This gentleman, one would fancy, must have conceived a particular dislike to Mr. Dodd. At an early period of the negotiations be tvaitted him rather sharply ; and at the general meeting. of subscribers, which yesterday afternoon was held at the Adelphi Theatre, he stated what was. positively untrue, when he declared that Mr. Dodd 'had pro mised, in the first instance, an unconditional con veyance of the land, and afterwards withdrawn his offer. Mr. Dodd may have put an unwarrantable construction upon the terms which he attached to his gift; but that he did attach some terms (and in so doing he was perfectly justified) is proved be yond question by the letters of Mr. Dodd himself, and of Mr. Macphail, the solicitor to Mr. Dodd. No one at yesterday's meeting defended Mr. Dodd's cause; whether through his inability, or hii ne glect, to find a champion, or because the sympathies of the subscribers were altogether anti-Doddite, we are unable certainly to say. Whatever the reason may have been the fact is undoubtly to be regretted, not so much on Mr. Dodd's account, who is old enough to take care of himself, as because the fair fame of the chiefs of the histrionic profession, and of the noble lords, their patrons and supporters, suffers even from the suspicion of discourtesy. For our own part we should have abstained from entering into the discusSion, and have left Mr. Dodd to his own resources, had he not been vigor ously assailed by a portion of the public press upon a one-sided and incomplete report. If the friendly style of Mr. Webster had been imi tated by the secretary to the committee, tor if Mr. Webster himself had persevered in the policy of conciliation which he originally advo cated, we still think that all acrimonious feeling would have subsided ; that the dispute might have been satisfactorily arranged, and that we should have been spared the unpleasant disclosures eonse, quent upon the publication of the correspondence. Whatever verdict public opinion may pronounce upon this unfortunate controversy, it is sufficiently clear that the intended benevolence of the Hoxten philanthropist has been of signal service to the in terests of the Dramatic College. In addition to the offer of Mr. Moore, already announced, the London Necropolis Company have communicated to the committee their desire to place at the disiosal of the college five acres of ground near Woking. .The intention is generous enough, but there is scme thing sinister in the suggested proximity of the necropolis and the asylum, of death anu decay We suspect that aged and worn-out actors would prefer a retreat at Gerrard's-cross, in a spot hal lowed by venerable associations, where the poet Gray was born and his memory is still cherished. The termination of Mr. Cullenford's report would, but for the unseemly allusion to Mr. Dodd, have afforded us peculiar pleasure. We are thereby informed that, besides the promises of generous benefactors to build several of the almshouses, a sum of noarly £3,000 has been subscribed, and donations to the amount of £250 per annum volun teered in aid of the college funds. Surely such unstinted liberality should have con vinced Mr. Creswick that in favour of the Drama no " standing protest" was needed "against igno ranee, prejudice, and bigotry." Some persons t here may be who entertain a conscientious o b j ection to visiting theatres. • But we can en j o y a play--we can weep with Lear, laugh at Dogberry, and grow melancholy with Jaques, without imputing either prejudice or bigotry to those who from honourablei s a i i s s s i o n. A c t or s and actresses are expo:ecl, perhaps, t scruples deny themselves this o re o e x re o a la t i i .tm on.oporlinot The time has gone for stage - p la y ers t the gibes and scorn of society. g only a recognised b ut an honoured rrlle po e fo d to more formidabl e tem p tations than lawyers, or tradespeop le ; and some unha pp il y fall victims t o the seductions by which the y are surro unded. But n o one can p ossibl y de ny that hdavviinngdicated the reputation of undergone the ordeal th o se player; who lead virtuous lives are all the theNllll.iotrheos t ur a te g sfl e pi . enecteh l i t angf i o :qu an ld. be invidious to mention names, but there are *so many living examples of players,. as much esteemed by the educated classes as they are admired by the vulgar, that to talk of one clergyman's offer of five acres of land to a dramatic institution as a " standing protest against ignorance and bigotry" looks very like an insult to the giver's cloth. The truth is, that the morality of the age, as manifested by the improvement oC.• all places of popular entertainment, including theatres, has marvellously advanced within the .last 20 or even 15 years. The national taste haa_ , been paria fled and. refined ; and, as a natural consequence, those who cater for the amusement of the - .public have ceased to pander to the wants of the gross and vicious few, since the virtuous many have rewarded their honest efforts. But even a young man can remember when harlots habitually attended the saloons of theatres, and when no respectable person could sit for half an hour in any music hall in London where. the entrance fee was less than halfsa-crown.-2lforning Herald. Share, 12.10 14.14' Stook Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock] Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 161:f4 Stock 11.6.3 11.6.3 Stock Stock 14 Stock Stock] Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock StocLi Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Sock Stock Stock Stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 8.13/ 100 7 I