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y and Lay at ;. An ffects t the ars of the were those I Mr. .geant t that used, nsuffi- prNvise ) legi -5 been hineso cle to tnder- ) Tien ft this rs un- ents a from 111 the of the in the I as a s has r seen, id the offer a ons of of the ant in ag the paign. cannel 1, are Doc evils. to the led as —that n, ma n, has 'arkes army, kneel faces their Tung of the were time. tautly could 3 °, 0 00f. The officers, from the General downwards, are said to have enriched themselves greatly. " A General Order from the British Commander -111• Chief desired that all articles taken by officers and men were to be sent in for sale by public auc `l°ll, for the benefit of the army, which was done. ail were permitted to have the articles they had brought away for themselves valued, and have the option of taking or rejecting them. Many beauti ful curios and souvenirs were thus obtained at a lominal price. The sale realised 32,000 dols., which, with the value of the treasure, estimated at 61,003 dols., is to be divided as prize money on the Spot. " The pressure of the people is said to have had great weight in inducing the authorities to yield. " I believe that their yielding now under pressure is the same as at Tientsin in 1858, and that, if we retire from hence, they will again break their en gagements. There is no other guarantee for us than keeping the ground we have gained, having beaten the army out of the field. " Letters were found in the Palface from San-ko lih-sin to the Emperor assuring him of his confi dence in being able to annihilate us by the arrange ments he had made on the road at Chang-kia-wan, 'where the battle of the 18th ult. was fought. He beg ge d the Emperor to have no apprehensions as to the results; that, having ascertained how few our numbers were, he was confident he could surround and destroy us. " The garrison of Pekin is reported to be 60,000 to 70,000 men, or eight standards of 8,000 each; but probably not three-fourths of that number exist. " There were a few guns on the wall opposite to Our battery, and our works for riflemen were ex tended to within 190 yards of the wall. " San-ko-lin-sin, it is said, was in Pekin this Morning." • COMMERCIAL. HONG KONG, OCT. 28. TEA.—The state of the market at the open ports is most singular. In face of a heavy export, of full supplies, and of unfavourable advices from London, rates continue nearly at the standard at which they were pitched when the pro spects of a short supply were imminent. The tea-men combine as usual, making ingenious repre;entations about Coming supplies, sufficiently plausible to induce foreigners to believe them and to go on purchasing. It is true they are firm, but that probably arises more from their convic tion of their ability to bring foreigners to terms than fro m any belief they have in short supplies. The Worst of the tea trade as now conducted is this—that when the communications are interrupted and the country teas really stopped, as was the case lately at Shanghai and Can ton, spurious, inferior, or fancy teas are manufactured to such an extent, and meet with so ready a sale, as to cause the export to swell up se that when the country teas are released, they find a sale from their scarcity, and make shipments amount to a figure which is absolutely startling. SHANGRAL — In the absence of alarms as to the Nankin rebels, confidence has begun to return and trade to improve. Ningpo, however, still forms the principal outlet, the corn- Munications between the interior and that port being clearly less interrupted than those of Shanghai. HONGKONG.—The reports of sales give but a small husi tess for the fortnight. The import trade generally, how ever, is in a very healthy state, holders requiring an ad , Vance upon many kinds of staples, and stocksteing sensibly reduced. CANTON.—The state of the market for the different de scriptions of goods is naturally similar l&that of Hong kong. • FOOCHOWOO.—The heady sales reported last mail ap Pear to have supplied the demand. Stocks are rather heavy. AMOL—Stocks low, and rates firm, but small sales. INDIA. We take the following'froM the Calcutta English than of the Bth of November : The resumption of business after the holidays has been attended with the usualtendency to improve raent in trade. Exports have assumed a decidedly improved tone, although not on a very extensive scale. The money market remains in the same con dition of plethora, and no investments are found to relieve it. Imports have found somewhat freer sales, but still at prices showing a heavy loss. Freights still ruli high, and the promising news from China 'will help to maintain them for the present. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Joint-Stock Shares—The market for joint-stock shares is dull, with no activity. Government Securities—There is no new feature to re port in this market ; the opeiutittin , c.nd on tirely for local account. Money-market—Money is literally a drug, and cannot And employment at even from 31 per cent. to 4 per cent., with little hope of present improvement. Trade is miser ably dull and only transacted at a loss. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) MADRID, DEC. 12. The budget of expenses has been voted. The Leon Espanol announces that General Narvaez has retired altogether into.private life. Disastrous inundations have taken place in Grenada. Several buildings were overwhelmed at Santa Fe. The Badajoz Asylum was swept away, and many children were killed and injured. BOMBAY, Nov. 16. The sth Europeans have mutinied at Dinapore, and have been disbanded. One man was shot. The combination against the income tax con. tinnes to be maintained in Bombay. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. CARLSRUHE, DEC• 13 VIENNA, DEC. 13 The Pera with the heavy portion of the Calcutta, China, and Australian mails left Malta at 7 p.m. on the 7th, and may therefore be expected at Southampton in course of the 16th inst. The Ellora (from Southampton on the 27th of November) reached Malta on the 6th inst. at 6 a.m., and:sailed for Alexandria at noon. The Bombay left Suez for Bombay, and the Singapore (with extra mails, kc., of 12-18 Nov.) for Calcutta, on the 29th ult. RANOVER, DEC. 13. England has accepted the propo3al of Hanover, that the third million of thalers for the redemption of the State d ues be distributed among all other States, except England and Hamburg, according to their maritime importance. Yesterday the Representatives of the States on the banks of the Rhine assembled for the purpose of signing a convention, by which the Rhin e dues have been considerably diminished. Judgment was delivered to-day in the case of M. Richter. M. Richter was found guilty of the charge of having induced a pu blic functionary to abuse his official power by corr u p ting Gen. Eynatten. He was acquitted, for want of proof, on the charge referring to the bills of exchange, and was declared not guilty on all the other charges. The attorney for the Government recommended him. to the favourable consideration of the Court. BERNE, DEC. 13. In to-day's sitting of the Council of the States, M. Almeras, from Geneva , g ave notice of an interpellation on the state of the question of Savoy. FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes the following note: --- " The Government has been informed that the Marquis de Plceuc, French Inspector of Finance, sent on a mission to Constantinople at the request of the Ottoman Government, has never accepted the functions attributed to him in the publications relative to the new Turkish loan." A Paris letter in the Independe th atays" A journal stated yesterday (11th) Baron de Seebach had left Paris for Turin, but the asset-- tion is not true. 31. de Seebach, who is accredited at Paris by the Court of Saxony, also represents that Court at Turin. He was there for some time a year and a half ago, to settle the affairs of the Duchess of Genoa, who was a Saxon princess, but he has not been there since. M. de Seebach is highly esteemed here by the diplomatic body, and is well known for his reserve." A Toulon letter, of the 11th, says :—" The Foutenoy, ship of the line, received orders this day, at noon, to have all in readiness for starting at a moment's notice. The officers and men on leave were immediately recalled on board. The Fontenot' is going to Gaeta to replace the Alex andre, which is to have a new commander. The Eldorado frigate, Captain Sauvam, is to sail on the 15th for Alexandria, after taking on board 2,000,000 fr. in specie and an immense quantity of stores for the fleet and expeditionary corps in China. The lJlloa will leave for the same desti nation, also carrying 2,000,000 fr. in specie, and whatever stores the Eldorado may be unable to take." BOURSE, Dec. 13.—The market has been heavy, and prices are a trifle lower. For the Account, Threes are now at 68f 75c ; Mobilier, 768 f 75c ; Orleans, 1,383 f 75c ; Northern, 990 f ; Mediter ranean, 910 f; Austrian, 510 f ; Lombard, 483 f 75c. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 96 .50 Credit F oncier Do, end month.... 96 55' Belgian 4i 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 68 80 ' Roman 74/ Bank Shares 2925 —lAustrian Credit Mobilier.... 768 75 Spanish Threes 5O Do. Account 772 501 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1382 50 .. 1383 75 Northern New ditto 9OO .. 903 75 Lyons and Mediterranean 910 .. 911 25 Geneva 375 .. 372 50 Southern Western ern .... East Sardinian 397 50 .. 397 50 Ali strian Lombard , 482 50 .. 483 75 AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Teutonia, Captain Taube, from New York on the Ist inst., has arrived off CONVOS. She brings 26 passengers for En g land and Havre, and 67 for Hamburg, 85,000 dols. in specie for France, and a cargo consisting of 1,500 tons of cotton, hops. &c., for Hamburg. ()n the 13th inst., off the Eddystone, she spoke the British barque St. Jean, bound east, and the Bremen brig, No. 177, bound west. The news by the Teutonia has been anticipated. LITERATURE. BULWER'S LIBRARY EDITION. The fourteenth volume of this noblest among all the numerous editions of the collected fictions of our great English Novelist completes his gorgeous classic romance of " The Last Days of Pompeii." The mere names of these masterpieces of imagina tive writing form a scarcely resistible attraction. " The Last Days of Pompeii !" Who that has once read that magnificent record of one of the most tragic and appalling incidents related in profane history, does not recall vividly to mind the salient points in the wonderful panorama there unfolded to view in those all but pictorial pages ? The wierd eltritch Saga of Vesuvius—the daring and licentious impostor Arbaces the Egyp tian—the handsome patrician, the hero of the tale, Glaucus lone, his beautiful beloved—Nydia, the blind girl, the true heroine of the story, Nydia, the tende r, the graceful, the bewitching and self-sacrificing Nydia— Apaacides, the heathen priest—the nameless be liever in the new-born creed of the Nazarenes—the people of those old classic days in their homes and haunts, in the streets, in the market-place, in the temples of their false gods, busy at their callings, lounging their time away over their amusements—the Gladiators (among others) in their " Flash Dens" first of all, and last of all, upon that dread LAST DAY OF POMPEII in the cruel Amphitheatre ! It is upon record in the writings of Dion Cassins, that so it came to pass— that awful catastrophe swallowing up, as in the jaws of hell, the twin cities of Pompeii andHerculaueum ! While the people were sitting, tier upon tier, watch ing their deadly sports in the public amphitheatre. It is thus they are revealed to us in this superb ro mance under the glamour of the golden atmosphere of poetry, the truest poetry, thrown around it by Sir Bulwer Lytton's magnificent imagination. The effect produced upon the reader's imagination in turn by that last crowning spectacle of horror, despair, and desolation is like that, let us say, of one of the late John Martin's marvellous pictures written ! There is the same overwhelming sense of hurry, of terror, of vastness, of a multitude of people, of a blinding light dying out in uttermost darkness, of sublimity in short mingled here in this enthralling romance, in this romance of romances, with a pathos supreme and exquisite. An examination again of this great work, viewing it as a work of art, and as one of the most splendid productions of Sir Edward Lytton's genius as a romancist, confirms, nay, if that be possible, more than confirms—enhances —our original admiration for it. Viewed apart from all its companions this one fiction alone is a " material guarantee" of the permanence of its author's lofty and world wide reputation. In our estimate of his now volu minous writings, we unhesitatingly place it high n the first rank of his admitted masterpieces. The Male Flirt, A Novel. By Mrs. Gordon Smythies. Felix Featherstone, clerk in the Foreign-office, is the beloved of damsels of high an low degree. Blanche Bullio n, the heirrss ; Eve d leen Lovaine, the beauty; Clara Cribb, the humble housemaid; Cora Constantia, then ashing and def ant—all are or have been dying love of o--.e who only seeks to win hearts and east tl-em as'de as worthless. General Report—" the only English General I ever knew," says Mrs. Lovaine, " wh o Is a ez t liar and coward" —General Report, for once speaking truth, designates Felix by the odious title of male flirt, but the love-born damsels are each incredulous in her own instance, until the gay deceiver leaves a card at the door marked P.P.C. in the corner, and turns his envied attentions in another quarter. Such is the theme of this little novelette from the lively pen of Mrs. Gordon Smythiee. --- Flowers, Grasses, and Shrubs. A popular book on Botany. By Mary Pixie. Jam es Blackwood. Truly, says the author of this little volume, " a love of flowers is natural to all," and very zealously she has aspircd 1 o gratify t hat love b y the garland of varied lines she here presents to her readers, The various favourites of the flower garden and the field are gracefully dep'cted, both with pen and pencil, and quotations from the poets are thickly scattered up and down the page. The work is written in a reverent spirit, "looking from Nature up to Nature's God"— ,' Blessed be God for flowers I For the bright, gentle, From out their odoroush o ly thoughts, that breathe beauty, like a wreath Of sunshine on life's hours." Many interesting anecdotes are mingled with the in formation here conveyed. Altogether the volume f or ms a charming gift book for the youthful lover of botany. .._ THE LEATHER FRAUDS.—At Guildhall, yester day, Alderman Carden committed the whole of the accused for trial. The Old Bailey sessions commence on Monday, but Mr. Van Sandau stated an application would be made postpo nemen t of the trial ti ll t he January sessions. for a Mr. Tremenheere, the Commissioner appointed by Government to inquire into the expediency of adopting the Factory Ac t in a modified form in the lace trade, has arrived in Nottingham, an d c ommenced his investigation. The inquiry, which is conducted with closed doors, is ex pected to last a fortn i g ht. It is r eported in Paris that argn China, e reinforcements and some w ill b e se nt to the French expediti l on i that 30 , 000 men will be e xaggera t e d rumours affirm despatched. THE SPREAD OF FASITION.--Ail extract from a beautiful and fashionable young lady's letter :—" I must tell you, dear, that I have got sack a capital crinoline. I wish I could send you the pattern. It is a perfect love — the most angelic thing I ever saw—so light, and graceful, and easy, and so comfortable that one feels as though one was swimming through the air with it. Of course, it is thoroughly French. I got mine at Boulogne in the Grandeich Rue. It is beautifully made, and w ith an extracase, wh unbuttons down the fr o nt, and allows the steels to slip out, as easily as you would pull a pair of scissors o ut of their l e ather sh eath. There is no s titchin g to the steels, I need no t tell yo u. This is a ver y g reat convenience, as it enabl es a lady to send her crinoline to the wash with the same ease b o th sides, &e. (And so the letter runs on f or 20 on as or dinary petticoats. The body i s d e eply gored all the w a y more , but we think we have printed quite eno u g h to war n the oeut l eme n to prepare for a, very severe , winter)." d in w e s a THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MONEY MA REA T 41VD CITY AEWS, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The markets for Foreign and Colonial Produce during the last few days have shown considerable heaviness. Sugars have exhibited a downward tendency, lower rates having been accepted by holders. In the refined market prices have also given way. For the better qualities of coffee full rates have been realised, but com mon and inferior descriptions have been cheaper. Tea has remained very inactive, opera tions having been partially discontinued pending the settlement of the dispute among the trade with regard to the adjustment of the fees to be paid at public sales. For rice there has been st ; a very limited inquiry; and fruit, spices, and salt- st', petre have been neglected. The tallow market st has continued very quiet, and prices have shown st less buoyancy, P.Y.C., on the spot, being quoted st 60s. to 608. 3d, and spring delivery 60s. Gd. per st bare NY L• Increased activity prevailed in the Liverpool sty Cotton Market yesterday , and 12,000 bales were s t disposed of at full prices. • st, A further sum of £ 104,000 in refined gold was 9 s t,' sent into the Bank of England yesterday ; but st some small parcels of sovereigns were withdrawn st for shipment to the United S tates. st st At the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of st the London Chartered Bank o f Australia a dividend 't of 31 per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax, st was declared. At a meeting held yesterday of the creditors of Messrs. Piper and Sons, builders, the liabilities et' were stated to be £52,236, and the assets £15,617. st, After a long discussion a composition of 4s. 6d. in the pound v, as agreed to, payable by instalments extending over a period of twelve months. 1 The demand for money continues moderate, and discounters are still charging rather less than the st Bank of England minimum for the best qualities of st commer cial bills. Greater confidence s eems to :t prevail among capitalists in consequence of the more favourable tendency of the sp ecie movement st st at the Bank of England and the anticipated failure st of the Turkish Loan. e f t The Teutonia has arrived at Southampton from la New York, with 119,000 in specie for France. A meeting of the proprietors of the South Aus tralian Company has been held to day, when the supplementary report of the directors, of which the 0 , 1 following is an extract, was adopted :—After deduct- st( ing the amounts allowed for losses and reductions :I`, 0 of rent written off , th e income for the half-year ,1 ended the 30th of June is as follows, viz. :—Rent st( free; country lands, £ 7 , 200 3s. 4d. ; ditto mineral :I`, lands, £44 13s. 2d. ; ditto town lands, £2,119 18s. 3d.; ditto port lands, £1,541 1 ls. 6d.; wharf sr( age, £2,419 -3s. 2d. Total, £13,325 lls. sd. st( The market for Public' Securities has been very dull to-day, but previous quotations have been firmly maintained, Consols being 92 for the 1 8 2 t account. Speculation is very much restricted, and sti the dealings for transfer in the stocks for which the books are open are equally circumscribed. The New Threes are firm at 921 1 ; the Reduced are steady at 921 ; India 51 per Cent. Enfaced Paper st is at 101 y ; ditto Debentures are flat at 961 ; but s . Exchequer Bills have improved to 2s. dis. Business in the Foreign Stock Market is quiet, s but prices, in some instances, show a further im provement.- Turkish 6 per Cents. are 721 to 721 ; ditto New, ,57.1- ;to 581 ; and the £lOO Bonds are firmer at 59 60 i ditto 4 per Cents. at 1021 ; Mexi can, at 21t-; and Brazilian 41 per Cents., at 86 87; but Russian 4? - 5 per Cents. are heavy at 941. Business in the Itailway Share Market has been inactive ; prices, however, are generally well el maintained,. Caledonians have advanced to £1 10s. sr° and North British £ 1 10 s. ; G reat Northern, 155., :0 and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ss. Mid- eta sto lands are heavy, and have declined ss. sto The FOreign and Colonial Market s have con- 8:, tinued dull. South Austrian and Lombardo-Vene- Fit( tian are steady at 13 1. Grea t Luxembur g have sst4 improved to 6.4- ; East Indian to 1011 ; and s s t t ', Great Indian Peninsular to 981. st 4 rJoint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous S hares have : been neglected. Australian Agri c u ltural are 1 steady at 311 and 4.4ng10-Mexican Mint at 131. st BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .2a i New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock. . — Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 51 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 1858 96h Ditto 1859 96i Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — • Ditto under £l,OOO 9 dis Consols for Account, Jan. 10 .. On i India Stock for Account — • Ditto 5 per Cent .. Exchequer Bills, £l. OOO , 1 1d Ditto £5OO 2 di Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian 5 pet Cent Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860 .... 87 61 Mexisan 3 per Cent .. Ditto Account Portuguese 3 Der Cent.. 1853. Russian 5 pet Cent. 1822, £ S' Ditto 41 per Cent 941 Turkish 6 per Cent .. Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds Ditto Guaranteed. 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. t!s. 80 TWO O'CLOCK Consols for Account, 10th Jan., en div.. 921 WILLS AND BEQUESTS. SHARE stOc The will of General Sir Henry Wyndham, st, K.C.8.. M.P., of Coekermouth Castle, Cumberland, 8' has been brought into her Majesty's Court of Pro bate. It bears date July 17, 1856. Sir Henry died possessed of personaltty in the United King- sty dom estimated for probate duty at £70,000, The only legatee mentioned in the will was his adopted daughter Georgina, wife of Lieutenant Charles Wyndham, of the 9th Bengal Light Cavalry, to whom he had left the whole of his property real and:personal, but who died in t he be g innin g of the sty year 1858, and he had not since then made any 6t s t, other disposition thereof. He had a lso appointed • ! her sole executrix. Sir Henry may therefore, be said to have died intestate, and his estate and effects 1. will be shared according to the statute of distribu- . t tiers of intestates' effects, letters o f administration, st with the will annexed, having b een granted sstt to Elizabeth Lady Wyndham, the relict of Sir st Henry, who administered thereto on the 10th of the present month. Sir Henry died on the 2nd st of August last, at the age of 70. si The will of David Jardine, Esq., police magis trate, residing at 23, Cumberland-terrace, Regent's s Park, and of Weybridge, Surrey, has been proved in the principal registry. the personalty being sworn under £14,000. The executors nominated are the Rev. John Gylby Lonsdale, M.A., Canon of Lichfield, and the testator's wife, who died in his lifetime. Probate was taken out by the sur viving executor. The will is exceedingly short, and is entirely in Mr. Jardine's own handwriting; it bears date the 20th of October, 1852, and the whole of his property, both real and personal, he had b;:queated to his wife ; but in coesequence of her death, and his having made no other will, the entire estate has to be divided amongst the repre sentatives of the testator according to the statute of distributions. Mr. Jardine, who was magistrate of Bow-street, was.an intelligence, acute, and pains taking man : he was decided, prompt, and just in the administration of his magisterial functions—as such his memory will be much respected and his loss regretted. ° He was called to the Bar in 1823, and had held the office of police magistrate for 20 years, and was also Recorder of Bath. The will and codicil of Amelia Maria Harriet Kinnier Lady Macdonald, formerly of Arlington street and Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, but who died at Bonlogne-sur-Mer, on the 16th of October last, were proved in London on the 29th of last month, by her sister, Isabella Charlotte Lady Malcolm, the sole executrix. The personalty was sworn under £7,000. The will bears date so far distant as the year 1846, by which her Ladyship has bequeathed the whole of her property, real and personal, to her sister, Lady Malcolm, absolutely; and by the codi cil, made in 1851, she has left a legacy of £6OO to herlservaiat,,James Short, and his wife, or either of them who may be in her service at the time of her disease, and a legacy of £lOO to another servant, on the like condition.—lllustrated London News, Mr. Francis Higgenson, a lieutenant in the Royal nav y, who some time ago was before the public in reference to the Atlantic Telegraph and an alleged assault on Mr. Alderman Salmons, yesterday gassed through the Insol iTut.Court. 7S DAY.) ORDINARY SHAITES AND STOCKS. Paid. Cl o sing Business Railways. Prioe. Done. o :Beltast and Ballymena 3.14 Wol , and Str. Val. - ocik Birk.. La., and Ch June, 25 I Bitickburn , • 25 Blyt h and Tyne 10 Boot. Slear. and Mid.Co oelc Bristol and Exelcr St 81 83 llf 124 ook 'Caledonian 10 ,Carmarthen k Cardigan 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cork, IBrock., ,Passage 20 G 4 7 97 99 97/ 08 Cornwall .... D Do o I C A unt' c li e 6 th pc n p o er d i. i n v i • hasheen! (1. toll i 0 Dublin & Belfast June. 25 Dun., Perth, &Ab..lunc )ck East Anglian )ck Eastern Counties )ck Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do 25 Do Nw A, late EUlds. ock East Suffolk ock Edinburgh St Glasgow ock Edin. Perth, DundeQ 10 Forth & Clyde Junction ock Furness ock an:l.S. Western 10 Great Ntin. of Scotland, ock Great Northern ock Do do A stock ock Po do It do ock (It. S. & W. of Ireland ock Great Western . 'ock Do Str Val gm. stock 12 99i rish South-eastern k (Lancashire & Yorkshire 1 ick London and Blackwall I ,ck Lon., Bright.. & S Coast 1 rek Lond., Chat., an Dover I ,ck Lond. &Nth. Western 1 ,ck Lond. & Sth. Western 5 L'derry & Coleraine 5 ; ,'derry EnnisKillen •ck Man. Shot & i 0 11Iaryport and Carlisle [2i Do do # shares [0 Metropolitan ,ck Midland 0. Do new ,ck Do nirming. & Derby Gt. W. of Ireland 15 Do A shares 15 Mid Kent 10 Do, Cray Line )0 Newcastle and Carlisle 10 Newry & Armagh, def 10 Newry, Warnpt. k Ros )ck Norfolk ........ SO Nt lin. Counties Union.. )ck North British )ck Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoct )ck until A stk ; A recs no d. u Opchas beenpd.B ock Do B stock ... ••• • • • ock Nth. Eastern—Berwick l 5 Do , C.N,E. purchase ock Do Leeds . ock Do York ock North London 10 Do new 16.4 North Staffordshire 0 N. and S. W. Junction 2 Not.. Grantham Rail .0 icebles .... •• .. •• • • Portsmouth .0 ithymney ...• .. •ck Scottish Central ,ck Scot N. E., Aber. stock •ck Do Scot. Mid. stock 10k Shropshire Union [0 Sittingbourne & Sheer ,ck South Devon .• • • • • let South Eastern • • ,ck South \Vales ... ••• • • ick S. York. and River Dun 9 Staines, Wok,. and Wok 15 Stockton & Darling - ton 5 Do do ,ck Taff Vale ...... ••• • • • ,ck Do Pref. No 1 5 ThamesHavenlik&Rail 0 Ulster ... • • ; , ck Vale of Neath 3 Victoria Sta. and Piro , CA7 Waterford & Kilkenny ;0 \Vaterford & Limerick 9 West Cornwall 9 West LOndon ........ • • [0 Do Ist class •. • • • • 10 Do 24 class .. •• • . ;k West II artlepool Harbr and Rail k West Midland—Oxford Do. Newport ▪ Do. Hereford! all 100 3i 100 100 100 100 100 :6 13 41 100 100 100 5 17i all 100 100 100 100 6 6i 7/ 8i 16 17 52 52 30 38 26 28 S 7 S 9 29 29i 7 6d 54 56 631 64 10-1 i 105 1 3 41 63 931 941 101 103 21 24 1 g S g Sf 114 11 6 33i 34 87 8 9 49 5 6 7 42 43 84i S 5 63 65 77 79 8 B 41 42 10 11 p 556 513! 2* d * 30' p 68 70 111 6 6i 47 48 42 44 82 85 PRF,FERENCE SHARES. Paid Closing Business p r i ce _ Done. Share! - Railways.- 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5 O I tk I PHs. & Exet.4 p.et.stock 0 I Do. do. do. Shares Ick ICaledon £10,41 per cent •ck IDo. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 61 !Cork & Bandon, 5& p. c. 9 !Cornwall. 5 per cent 6-1 I Dun.Perth&Aber..Tun. ock E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c. oe.c Do. do. Class B 6 p.c ock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c ock I E. Coon. Ex. 5 p. c. No.l ock Do. do. No. 2 ock Do. New A per ct. stock. A Eastern Union, 4 per ct. A , Do. 5 per cent. guar... A I Edtn.&Glas. sp.c. shares ck Do. 4p. c gua. S. &D. I ck Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. ck I Furness, 5 per cent .... ck ' Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. ck 'C• re:A Northern, 5 p. ct. 'etc I Do.sp.c.Tiedm., 10 p.c.pm •ck 'Do. , q p. c. do. do. 9 li)o. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm 0 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pt. )ck ! 1 Gt• Sn• & W (Treland) 4 p. ct. pref. stock 50 'Great West. (Perks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. et ock IC o: Ilecleemable,4l p.ct. ack ! Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct. ack IDo. Do Irredeemable, do ock I Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref. 8 Do. Birm. Fret. Shares. 10 !;t. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.slo. 10 Do. do. sp. ct. pref ock Do Birmg.glisr. stock 261 Do. Chester gua. shares In Do. do. do. 10 Do. do. do. )ck T. a n.&York 6p. c. stock ock I Do.Barnsl.st.£s 3s 10d pc ace Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) • ock 1 , on.& 13rig,.5 pc.gn. No.l ock Do. 5 p. c No. 2 ock Do. gua. 6 p. C. Ick Do. do. 5 p.c No. 9 ;ck Do. do. 44 per cent..... 5 i Do. do. 41 p. c. shares.. ock i Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock. ock I Do. Gips. do. (W.E.&C.P.' ock Do.4p.c.S.(div.def.til 'os' ock ,T.on. Chat , and Dover. , ock 'Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct..... , ck Lon. & 5.W,7 p. ct. stock •ck Do. 0 per cent 6d. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns of 2s. 6 d 1 all [2l Londondy. & Cole. 4 sh.l all 124 Londony. & Ennis. 4 slid all )ck Man. Sli. &Lin. 6 per ctd ICs 95 97 [Ol 103 20a 21 5 6i 99 101 111 113 !06 108 110 112 108 110 t 24 126 80 82 111 113 90 ?2 1117 119 r B l 113 101 108 5 87 98 100 99 101 90 92 91 93 102 104 9% 10 17i 1871 let 101 78 78 20 21 10 10% 151 151 137 119 116 t 8 1111 118 138 111 116 118 103 135 152 155 130 134 0 71 90 92 1118 118 1150 155 12i 13 )0 4i 70 72 6 Do. £6 )43'c Do. 3i per cent 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent 12 Narycort & Car., 4p. c al 124 Do. 44 per cent. al )ck Mid. Con. 6p• e. stock 10( )ck Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c. 101 ck Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock 10( 6 Do. with option till 1860 1 )ck Do. Lelc. & flit. pref. st. 10( )ck Norflk sp. c. Ex. st. 1846 101 )ck Do. 54 p. C. Pref. do. 1847 10( )ck Do.slVay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 10( )ck North British, sp. C. .. 101 Clck Do. New, gua. sp. c.' 104 101 Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs 1 10 I Do. do. do. al ock Nth:Dev.Rail. drDck.Co. 10( ock N-East.Cons.Pref. 4p. c. 10( ock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 10( 17 Do. do. do 81 3 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 11 Pi Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. 15 Do. York, • . S. Purch. 1( 20 North Staffordshire.... al 10 Rhymney Guaranteed al 84 Scottish Central, new p al ock Scottish North-Easte 34 p. c. pref. stock.... 101 ock Do..Aberdeen,gua.6p.c. 104 ock Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 10( 10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. al 10 Do. Fixed 44 per cent. al .0.6 South Eastern (Beading Ann., 1.0.61 DCR Do. 44 per cent. 10( Ick Do. Fixed '4p.c. Ist is. 10( )ck south Wales, gua.l p.c. 104 OE Do. 44 per cent 10( tck S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua 10( 5 Stock. Sr Dar. Asp. c al, Do. B 6 ner cent all i • Do. C 6percent all ak Watrfd SzEilkny, 6p. c, 100 3ck W.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua stk 100 ,ock Do. 2d do 100 ,tock Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. 100 stock Do.Perpet. 6p.c. pt 1866 100 stock Do. till 1869, Ist is. 100 124 Do. do. 2d is. 74 I IP L3R 138 102 103 )0 195 -96 .11 113 109 111 P 93 95 102 104 P in P }P 23 24 gi 122 124 )0 130 133 11 1(4 11 a 231 241 O 10t 103 O 101 103 O 40 92 0 99 101 O 85 II 27 88 1 281 I 32 331 I 32 3.3 1 45 48 124 126 123 125 99 101 123 125 115 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paid. Leasing \Closing \ Business Railways. Co.'s. Price. Done. Bedtoro and Bletchley all Ln & 11. W .. .. Buckinghamshire .... 100 Ln &N.W 98 100 \ Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do. 53 531 Do. do. 51 per cent. 100 Do. 125 127 Do. do. 5 per cent. 100 Do. 133 115 Clydesdale Junction.. 100 Caledonin 102 104 Colchester, Stour Val. all F.U.&E C, 16 17 ,E.Lincolnshire,g.6 p.c. 100 Gt. N0rth. , 135 137 \ E.Union,Harwich Shs, all E.Counts. 4} 41 Do. Woodbridge . . \ 100 • Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drc . t. 100 Ca.ledonin Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. West. IT ar tlpool.Dck.& Rail. all Yk.N.&Br Hull and Selby Do. 1 Shares .Do. i Shares ....... all Do .... ..-- Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c. 100 'Ln.& N.W 07 211 210 London & Greenwich 100 S. East... 61 63 Do. Preference ..... 100 Do. Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend. 100 Peto & Co. 93 97 Lowestoft, gua. 4 p.ct. 100 'Norfolk .. Do. 6 per cent........ 100 Do. ~. . 1 ' Nana , Buxtn. & Matk. all LNW &IEI 31 31 Mid. Bradford Prefer • ence 5t0ck.....-.... 100 Midland 97 99 Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 gu aranteed sp. a i 5 . 5 6 LC OIIIIII3 i i P Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. -55 57 ) Do. do. 6 per cent .. . all D 0....... Do. Fixed 5 per cent.. all Do. .— North Western ) L& NW r Preston and Wyre. t all ,s 5 Lyk. l B •.Do. 1 Stares A. all Do. Roystn.Hitcli., & Shep 100 Gt. North. 135 137 r Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 T.Brassey 104 105 Do. Do. I it i 1:\ . ~, Sou th Sta ff ordshire .. all . M'Clean.. 101 11 v Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West 93 95 T Wimbledon& Croydn. all L.& Broi l 71 811. ,f --. men. _! Docks. Paid]Closing Business Price. I Done. Share' _ . stock ICornmercial ' . 100 _ stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min. too stock East and West India ICO stock London lOO c .. stock St. Katharin e. 1 100 _ stock , Southampto n . 1 100 stock Vietoria 103 111) DO NOW t.Fuvr_esuelimat 100 101 S i i fri ~~' 1104 f 105 6# DECEMBER 14, 1860. 2e} 4 1 1 ® 100 100 1 stool 1021 2 i stool 941 stool 2r 49} 9 I stock 13515 i f I 20 69 Share Railways. Paid. Closing Price. Swilling don e Dm Atlantic &St Lawrence all 7779 stk i Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 10 0 95 96 1 Gu. 5 per cent.. s' 18 Do, Do. B 16 1 4 1 d 24 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 41 54d 204 Do. New - - 10 Do. Preference .. _ . all 64 7 too 1 Buffalb,Brant&Godrich 100 75 80 I p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 'Do. do. July 1, 187: 100 67 72 100 Do. do. June 1, 1879 100 65 70 5 Clcutts.&S.Eastn. (Lim' 3 Id pr 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.' 2s. - 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 5 ' 11 11 d 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c 7l 11 1 d 174 Demerara all - - 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 10 1/ 11 stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 101 192 1011 20 Do. I` Shares Ext all d pr 20 Do. Jubbulpore all d pr 100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs all 99 100 100 Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864_ all 1001 1011 20 Geelong & Melbourne all - - stock Geelong Corporation 6 . per cent. Bonds lOO - - stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 241 254 25 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 77 79 791 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 49 51 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 100 Do. do. 1867 all 48 52 100 Do. do. 1872 all 17 50 stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 97 9S 9 8 i 20 Do. New gua. sp. c 8 1d Id 20 Gt. South.of In di a (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. all 2 1.4 d 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 104 11 111 201 Do. New 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with opttill '6O 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 95 100 100 Do. do. '73 without opt. all 93 96 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do all 90 C 3 stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c l.OO 85 87 stock Do. do. 5 per cent stock Do. 41 P. c. Extension 100 88 89 20 Do. Fourth do l5 14 11 d 20 Do. d 0....• _- - - stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 - 20 Newßiunswick & Canda Ry.&Land(Lim.)g. 6 pc all 5 • 7 Class A Capital Share I .• Do. do. Land do. ... 20 Do. do. B Capital d 0... all 5 7 • • Do. do. Land do. ...... 20 Oud e (Limited) .• -_.• • . 58 . n - ,., ,-„,., stock Scinde ... ...... ' $ 444 1 09 " 1- 20 Do. Punjau . b .... os 0 10 14 d 111 1 20 Do. Do. ..... .. ',a 8. all stock Do. Indus :St. Flo. E T, ,. . 100 94 96 20 StAndrews &Quebec A 18 - -. i 10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 4 W . FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 54. 54 1 . 20 Ardennes.... ..... .. all - -1:q 20 Bah.&S.Fran...Lim.ip.o. 10 14 1 114 5 Belgian East. Junction all 1 20 Demers to Graissessac.. all - - 6 Cio-neaux Mine & Rail all 1 104 111 100 Copiapo - ......&...... all - - 10 Ditto Extension .... all 3 ltd 20 Dutch Rhenish ........ 16 25 2a 20 Eastern of France - . all 234 244 20 Grand Rua Guar. 6p. o. 6 - - 20 Do. do. $ll - - 20 Great Cehtral of France all - - 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... all 61 64 61 4 20 Italian Junction .. . . all - - 20 , Lake Constance & Bala all - - 20 Lierre & Turnhout .... all - - 20 Lyons & Geneva ... ... all - - 334 Maria Antonia .... ... all - - 10 Do. New - .... ........ all - - 20 Namur & Liege ........ all 74 7 20 Do. 6p. c. Pref......... all 194 201 16 Northern of France.... all 084 394 16 Do. New Shares .-.. 15 - 10 Norwegian Trunk Tref. all 74 84 20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. all 351 361 20 Paris & Orleans.. - .... all 54 56 20 1 Recife & S. Fran. (Pere.) gua. 7p. ct. lim ...... 13 31 24,1 :;.,-' 20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 14 - - 10 Rome & Frascati ...... all - - 20 Royal Dani5h.......... all - - 5 Royal Swedish - - 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all - - 20 Sambre & Meuse .... - all 51 5/ 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref all 81 R 4 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. C 2 1 4 I'l 20 S.A.ust. &Lomb Venetin 12 4d 4 d 134 20 Southern of France all 20 21 84 West Flanders 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference all 9 9 20 W. & N.W. of France 23 Western of Austria .-: 6 • - - 20 Western of Switzerland all - - 6 Wiesbaden - - 6 Do. 8 per cent. Pref all - - 20 Zealand - - BRITISH MINES. paid. ! Closing Business Price. Done 31 41 i 220 230 410 420 1174 122 4 11 } 11411 i 1 27 29 94 10 14 11 1 14 2/ 34 31 33 34 11 31 1i 53 55 41 41 34 4i 4 5 104 114 01 11 45 47 1 14 300 310 1'42 1 - 21 3i 115 155 49 51 2i 21 54 17 1 18 1 76 78 350 370 120 125 135 145 11 1i 17 18 20 22 17 19 i _ 1 d 21 28& 29 _ di.. LII 43 45 ill 1 t Lll 1 2 11 21 23 1 par 1 1 3 / 4 li p dl 9 3 / 4 11 2 p P al .6d. } I Id Lll 5 6 .08 1 . lil ail 1 2 all 1 L9s. 1 K BANKS. 82 M 191 20 50 62 1 f 57 59 22} 22t 34 36 70 72 39 41 21 22 141 151 25i 26 45 47 18 19 Nines. Share Allied Cor solt (Philack) 20 British Iron Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Taoist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) 1 , Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen ) Great South Tolgus 1 G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha !Margaret (Uny Lelant) 91. North Downs 2l North Frances (Mogan) 111 'N.Wh'l Basset (Illo4an) 15s North Wheal Crony Par Consols (St Blazer, 1k 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 14s youth Caradon(St.Cleer) 11 3. Cam Brea (Illogan).. 31 1 S. Dev. Iron .Gen., Lim. all S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.1 , .0 Stray Park 24.18.0 5 Tamer Silv.& Lead Min 41 10 Fin Crort 9 Vale of Towey (Carm ) A3s 6d West Basset (Illozan) ll W. Caradon (Liskeard) 5 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 51 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 Wheal Edward (Cals.) 12 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 1.7.2 Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) S Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 5i FOREIGN Ml' 20 I Aus t ra li an 1 IBonAccord Copper,Llm lss 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at ZS p ) 27} 20 Do. St.Johndel Rey,Lim 15 5 Do. Land and Mining - Co. al' 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo 40 Cobre Copper f COplapo .. 1 unMoun.Cop.Ming Co a 2 Jortuna. , 0 General 2 Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr. 1} Kapunda (Limited)..... $ Linares 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariquita 1 N.RhineCopotS.Aus.L I l 2 s 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Leadl Mining and Smelt a 5 Port Philip 1 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) 1•2•8 1 1\ United Mexican 1 Worthing (Limited) 1 I Do .. 1 JOINT-STO' 100 Agra&UnitedService 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 ChAter. of In. Lon.& Ch. • 100 . City 100 Colonial. ... 2011 Corn. Bank of Canada.. 100 Commercial of London . 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral 50 London and County .. 50 London Joint Stock .. 100 Louden & Westminster 100 Nat. Prov. of England . 20 Do. new ••••• 50 National Bank ........ 20 New South Wa1e5...... 20 Do. new 25 Orient. B. Corporation 20 Ottoman Bank ... .. . 100 Prov metal of Ireland 10 Do. new......... 25 South Australia 25 Union of Australia 50 Union of London 100 Unity Mutual.. ...... COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECU - Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 100 - Do. 6p. cent. 1879 100 - Do. 6p. cent. 1880 100 - Do. 6p. cent. 1882 100 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 - Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 - ; Do. 5 per cent lOO - 1 Do. Scrip B2 - N.B.Gov. 6p.c. Ja.&July 100 - Do. Bp. C. Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S. W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 100 - Do. sp. c., 1871 to 1876 100 - Do. 5 p.c.,1888 &upwels 100 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO - S.Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.1878 &up lOO - Vic. Gov, 6p.c. Ja.&July 100 - I Do. do. 6p.c. Ap.&Oct 100 MISCELLANI 10 1000 • 25 10 50 60 Anglo-Mexican Mint .. Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Berlin Water (Limited) British American Land; B.&LMag. Tel. A. (Lim.)i 20 20 32i 10 stock 25 stock stock stock stock 25 Do. 8,7p.C.ti111852 (Lim.)l Do. C. (Limited) Canada Land Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim ) Cop. Illin.ofEng.&Srnitg. Do. Pref. 7 per cent. Crystal Palace Do. Preference Do. 6 p. c. Pet het. Deben. Electric Telegraph Do. New -& English & Aus. Copper. a 15 Gen. Steam Navigatt m 1 Great Ship Limited)... a 1 Do. 17i pct Preference a 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 20 London Discount (Lim.) 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) 1 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg 10 Med. Exten. TeL (Lim.) 25 National Dia. Co. (Lim.) 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 10 Netherlands Land 5 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiaLand 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.) . 10 Orintl.ln.Steam(Lim.)A 10 Ditto B. 10 Ditto C stock Peelß.Lnd.&Min.(Lim ) 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam 50 Do. New 20 RedSea&lnd.Tel.g.4ips 50 ;Rhymney Iron 15 I Do. New 100 ;Royal Mail Steam . ... stock 'Scot. Austin. Inv. (Lim ) 25 `Sout hutma t u n s e V el l .a ns c l rl a p n .d 1 Do. do. Registered .• • • 10 Do do. • ••• • 20 Tr. 1 Ln. CO.O.IUPLO an • Woo Via DlCUleleb Land ... .lil2 117 111 113 111 113 ;103k 104 11084 1094 1004 1014 1004 1014 1004 104 108 I 101 13 14 1 13-1 31 33 31, 4t 5} 30 32 35 37 18 20 13 15 110 113 23i 21 28 30 100 1(2 1(811J 93 96 2a 1 21 2a 11 1 c 1 1 11 1; 21 2 4 1t 101 3 2di 1 1 pr 50 53 I 73 75 13 14 17 1 8 p 17 1 9 5 6 46 48 130 135 33 35 6 7 LS 10 lUS. 114 116 11091 'lOl , 105 107 132 131 112 114 73 731 60 62 [2O 1! 62 64 116 117 52 54 102 10! 945 955 loi 11 48i 49 3i 21.1 135 1351 107 109 611 i I 11 1 21 105 if 941 31 LAW INTEL ,LIGENCE.-( MIS COURT OF BANIRUPTCY. (Before 'r. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE LAWRENCE, MORTIMORE, AND STItEATITILD This was a meeting for proof of debts and declaration of dividend. Debts of the London estate, amounting to £BOO,OOO, will be paid at Is. 3d. in the pound; Liverpool estate, £200,000, will be paid at 2s. in th,; pound. The business of the day was for proof of debt 3. Mr. Murray appeared for the assignees, and after some discussion several claims were admitted, which, it is feared, will lead to some litigation. At all events the amounts of the dividends on those claims must be reserved, and pro bably the dividend will not be immediately declared. POLICE INTELLICIERCE-r THIS DAI.) MARLBOROUGII-STREET. ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A FRENCHMAN.—Pierre Mai son, a Frenchman, living at 4, Francis-street, was eharged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stabbing with a knife a French woman named Marie de Lille, with intent to du her bodily i harm, in Sherrard-street. Mr, F. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prisoner, who is a tall, stout, middle- aged man, of re spectable a; pearance. From the evidence of the prosecutrix, which was given at some length, it appeared that about one o'clock that morn ing a quarrel took place between them, owing to the pri soner expressing his intention of leaving the prosecutrix for the society of an English or Scotch female, and that on her trying to get him to go home with her, they having been living together, he struck her a blow on the side just above the heart, causing her great pain, and on her putting her hand to the part she found all her clothes penetrated, and her hand full of blood. She then felt faint and fell. The knife, it was stated by the surgeon, was prevented going farther by the ribs of the injured woman. Previous to this the prisoner had allowed the Scotch girl to assault her. Waterson, 144 C, said that hearing the cries of a female he went up, and the prisoner said " The knife from the female," but be found the knife in the prisoner's right hand. The female said " Oh," and then fell into his arms. He then noticed that her clothes were covered with blood. He had turned on his light, and saw that the blood was issuing from the side of her dress. He then told the pri soner that he must come with him, and he refused for some time but he ultimately Compelled him to do so. The prose cutrix sdd she did not wish to give him in charge, but that three months' imprisonment would do him good, as if he did not do it this time he would another. 'With the assist ance of another constable he got the prisoner to the station. The prosecutrix, in answer to Mr. E. Lewis, said she did not take the knife out of the house herself, and did not threaten to kill herself by taking poison, as she was so unhappy with him, and many times wished for poison to drink for the purpose. Mr. Lewis said he supposed it was useless for him to address the magistrate, and Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had made up his mind to send the prisoner for trial. The prosecutrix reluct antly signed the depositions, having stated several times in the course of the case that she " loved the prisoner." The depositions—all but that of Dr. Tothill, who was not in attendance—being read over, the prisoner was com mitted for trial. The prisoner has already undergone twelve months' im prisonment for throwing snuff in the eyes of a person jeweller, with the object of committing a robbery. Mr. Albert, the interpreter, read over the evidence to the prisoner. TINS DAY'S 11211LKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Oar market to-day was very scantily supplied with English wheat, chiefly in poor condition. The few fine samples on offer changed hands freely, at fully Monday's currency ; whilst other kinds were firm in price, and a good clearance was effected. There was a large quantity of foreign wheat on offer. Importers, however, were very firm in their demands, and some of them refused to sell except on higher terms. The transactions were not to say extensive ; nevertheless, ex treme rates were paid. Floating cargoes of grain were in some what improved request, at full currencies. We had a good consumptive demand for all kinds of barley, at quite Monday's quotations. There was a fair average business doing in malt, both old and new, at very full prices. Oats were very firm, and sales progressed steadily. Beans and peas ruled steady, and the demand for flour was tolerably active. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English 1,750 ' 970 710 , 110 ; 1,140 Irish. Foreign 14,8;0 brls. NEWGATE AND LE.kDENHALL. Although the supplies of meat are on the increase, the trade generally is steady, at very full prices. Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. 1 s. d. s. d. Izferior beef .... 2 4 2 10 1 Middling mutton 3 10 4 2 Middling d 0.... 3 0 3 6 Prime do . 4 4 4 6 Prime large do.. 3 8 4 0 Veal Do. small d 0.... 4 2 4 4 Small pork 4 10 5 2 Large pork 4] 0 4 8 ,_amb.... ...... 0 0 0 0 Inferior mutton 3 2 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. There is a moderate demand for good and useful hops— the supply of which is limited—at full prices ; but all other kinds move off slowly, at late rates. New Mid and East Kent pockets .. SV ealds Sussex Yearlings per cwt. £6 Os to £lB Os 4Os to 14 Oa sOs to 9 Os sOs to 9 10s COLONIAL. TEA.—The market has been dull, no business of any im portance having been transacted. SUGAR.—A very limited amount of business has been done, and easier rates have been received for all descrip tions. The refined market has also been very depressed. COFFEE.—For the better qualities of plantation Ceylon there has been a good demand, and full rates have been easily obtained, but inferior descriptions have been at lower value. RICE.—The market has continued dull without the slightest change to record in prices. Fnurr.—At the public sales te greater portion of the go ods offered were bought in, the h trade declining to operate at the current rates. TALLow.— The market has continued flat. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 60s. 3d., and 60e. 3d. to 60s. Gd. for spring delivery. THIS DAY'S SIIIPFING. LONDON, Dec. 14.—Wind this day at noon—North; moderate breeze, with fog. CARDIFF, Dec. 13.—Wind E.—Sailed —Equator, for Callao. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 13.—wind N.N.E. to E.N.E.— Arrived—H.M.S. Madeira. PLYMOUTH, DQC. 13.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived—Susan, from Prince Edward's Island Dover Castle, from London, and sailed for Melbourne. Sailed—Queen of the Wave, for Madras. BRISTOL, Dec. 13,—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Charles Cooper, from N.B. GRIMSBY, Dec. 13.—The Industrious Helen, from Kirkaldy, for London, has put into the Roads leaky, and will come into port to discharge and repair. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind E., hazy. Arrived, Dec. 3.—Perast, from Trieste ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Jason, from London ; Argyll, steamer. from Carantan ; Atalanta, steamer, from Guernsey ; Temora, steamer, from London ; Mary, from Waterford ; Queen Charlotte, from Portsmouth; Ally, from Sunder and ; L'Ulysse, from London. Sailed—Malcolm Brown, for Aberdeen Mechanic's Own, for Newport; Clipper, for Cardiff; Temora, steamer, I for Dublin ; Southampton, steame r, for Jerse y ; Light and Sign, for Sunderland. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) AVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind N. ; tide first hours' flood ; tine. Arrived, Dec. 13—Wanderer, from Ship Harbour, Nova Arrived, from S c otia; Earl of Mar and Kell ie, from Akyab , Antwerp. Sailed, Dec. 14.—Seine, sle amer, for Boulogne; Cosmo. A.my, politan, for Hamburg. DEAL, Friday Morning• Wind E. by S. ; moderate. Passed, Dec. 13.—Sofina from London, for Boston. Passed.—St. Helier, for ' Corfu; Advance. for Mobile Bentinck Fanny, for Cardiff; Regina, for Honduras —al from London. ri a MAILS. • ---,- -4---. MAILS DUB. •• .. • • .. .. Dec. 19. Australia, Ceylon, an d Mauritius ( via South ampton) • • (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. Do. • • Dec. —. Brazil and Cape Verde .. _ . e . • • .. Jan. 5. Buenos Ares, Monte Video, , & - .. .. Dec. —. Balaroas and Havana (via New York). • Cuba and Mexico .. • • • • • . .. Dec. 29 (via Galway) •• • Canada, &c. • • •.. .. Dec. —. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Jan. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Dec. 19. Do (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. Overdue. India(Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Dec. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Deo. 1 9 . Lisbon .. • • • • • • .. Deo. 21 Malta, Egypt, and Aden Overd AL "' , Do. .(;ia Southampton) . • Dec. (via Marseilles) .• 1 3s 2 1. Tig o, and Oporto .. • ... .. .. • • Dec. 20 . United States, California, & c. 4 . • •.. • • Tan. 10. iNi astern Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .4:17 'iSir ' %It Indies and Pac ific, Carthagena, Cu — os., & • Dec. 14 A decree of divorce was, yesterday, pronounced by the Judge Ordinary in the case of FOOter 11. Foster and ,ITIES. 104 j 3& FRIG DENI. Yesterday an adjourned inquest was held before Mr. Humphreys, coroner, and a jury, at the Man chester Arms putnic•house, Milewell, P o plar, on the body of James Goodwin. a Lebourer, aged 31 years, late in the employ of Westwood and B iiiev, engineers and boiler-makers, who was line (.1 on Saturday afternoon last by an iron boiler, upwards of 10 tons in weight., falling upon him while it was being removed on a truck from wee of their work shops to the wharf for shipment. Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, instructed by Mr Preece, a member of the Mile-end weary, attended the inquest for the widow of the deceased ; and Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, appeared fcr Messrs. Westwood and Bailey. The boiler in question was much wider and longer than the truck on which it was placed, and drawn over a tramway by a horse and a number of labourers: There were three ropcs attached to the truck. The liorse was attached to one rope, end a number of labourers, of whom the deceased was one, to the other rope. The boiler was not. made fast to the truck by chains or ropes, lied it over hung the truck on each aide, and also at the back and front. The truck Lad just reached. the end of the tramway, and the fore wheels, which were only 18 inches high, had reached a turn table, when, owing to the soft nature of the ground, the metals on which the truck rested sank, the turn table tipped, the hind wheels of the truck went up, and the boiler was thrown off the truck towards the horse and the men who were pulling. The boiler fell upon the deceas e d an d crus h e d hi m . He was 10 or 15 minutes under the ponderous weight before he was rescued. He was then conveyed to the Poplar Hospital, where he lived only half-an hour, and his agonies were so great during that time that he said he wished he had been - killed outright. Other men had a very narrow escape. There had been three other accidents on the same tramway, and other boilers had fallen off the trucks; but those accidents had not been attended with fatal results to any of the workmen. The coroner and Jury, accompanied by M r. Smith. Mr. Young, and others, viewed the tram way and the truck. Both were of very slight con; struction, and did not seem to be capable of bearing the neavy weights placed on them.. The tramway had been frequently repaired. The ground on which it was placed was soft and " puddley." The jury examined several witnesses in addition to those who gave evidence at the Poplar Hospital on Tuesday night, and their testimony went to show that the truck was not large enough for the boiler which had been placed upon it, that the boiler ought to have been secured and made fast to the truck by chains and ropes, and that the tram way was not in a perfect state. The jury ultimately returned a verdict of acci dental death, and the coroner, at their request, warned the representatives of Westwood and Bailey, who were present, to take precautions against the o ceu rrence of a similar accident. A gentleman connected with the firm said that the same truck and tramway had been used 14 years for the removal of boilers over it, and this was the first occurrence of a fatal nature which. hail `.uken place. The Coroner—l hope you will bear in mind the old adage, " The pitcher that goes often to the well is broken at last." Recollect I have given a warn ing, and should' another fatal accident occur the consequence may be serious. A Juror—lt is the opinion of the jury that the truck is too small, and the tramway too slight for boilers so large amid heavy. PUNCII'S FLAN FOR PBEVENDINTG WAR. (Registered Prospectus.) Everybody knows why there is no duelling. People may sometimes talk nonsense about the world having grown more sensible and humane, or they may talk other nonsense about its having been time for gentlemen to discard duelling when it de scended to the lower orders, e. g., the celebrated case where the barber fought the linendraper on a question of honour, and the shaver of beards winged the shaver of ladies. The law may have had a little to do with it, but the law is not always regarded with the reverence due to it; ladies smuggle lace, peasants poach, and gentlemen gamble behind iron doors. There was somethinc , more than civilisation, pride, or respect for the law required to put an end to private war. Life Assurance did it. Every decent man's life is assured, and policies are declared forfeit if the decent man is put out of :he way by a duel. Sa nobody challenges anybody or if any wild Irishman, vicious Frenchman, or any other valueless life were to invite an assured life to the combat, the assured life would knock the other life down, and then assign him to the police. Why not try this excellent remedy on a large scale ? Let a Company be formed to be called the Throne Assurance Society. But as kings never die, the object of the Society must be to make a king comfortable in his circum stances by paying him a bonus at specific times, and by advancing him money on the usual condi tions of assurance offices. llis reign would then be al xays happy and comfortable. But, if he goes to war, the policy shall be void, and the Throne Company is to have a right to confiscate his taxes, and to send the other kings, who have beer. his securities, to quod. The speculation would answer uncommonly well, for sulljects would be too happy to see that the premiums, which preserve them from the miseries of war, were regularly paid up. The office would not be liable if a King were kicked out by his own subjects, as a Sovereign with the command of money ought to be able to make his people perfectly content. Soverigns would, of course, have to submit to the usual examination. A King proposing to assure might be asked :- 1, How about your Constitution ? 2. Have you ever been afflicted with Divine Right, or any other insanity. 3. Have any of your ancestors died violent deaths, as by the block, guillotine, private strangulation, Sc.? 4. Are you subject to Friests, or any similar affliction ? 5. Give the name of your political adviser, and say how long he has known you. 6. Are you assured in the Holy Alliance, or any other old office ? Further details will be published in due course. In the meantime, Mr. Punch, Provisionol Director and Manager,invites the consideration of Capitalists to his scheme , . It appears to him to be a noble idea, entirely in conformity with the spirit of the age, and highly calculated to bring about t h e Millen nium. will, N f . p T o s h s e i bl v e a , l ü b a e b r l e e t a s i e n r e v d i c f e o r o f t hDlr. Actuary y B , s r i n g h e! artment. ___................. ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL FOR 1861. —Last night, Mr. Gilpin, M.P. for Northampton, and who holds the office o . f Secre tary of the Poor Law Board, in an address to his.consti not of the Cabinet, tuents, which will in all probability attract considerable attention throughout the country, announced that, definitelyiioethminPhgaticallY. of their plans, yet ty li , elie t v h e a. , t spietakin although o o u o g u h l d he know wii s speaking by per- Was the in hmeissihoand b u every t O re n aso n tention of Lord John Russell to introduce into Parlia ment,nuthtoori in the ensuing session, a Reform Bill similar in its general provisions to that of last sess i on, b ut w i t h some modificati ons. The failure of the last bill was attri buted to want of earnestness, both in and ou t o f t h e h ouse ; b u t it was a positive fact that there was a strong desire on t h e part of the people of England for a Reform Bill, and was considered most advantageous to discuss it while the minds of man were calm enough on the an impartial and unprejudiced consideration. He called on the people to send in petitions byth th thousand to the 9 ousan House of Commons on the • subject. MR. ANGERSTEIN ' ." M P AND HIS CONSTIT UENTS. —Last night at e i g ht o'clock anuinerously attended public meeting of the electei s of Greenwich was held at the Lite rary Institution, in that town, to hear an address from Mr. NV• Angerstein, M.P. for the borough, explanatory of his Parliamentary conduct during the past se lion, and his views as to various political an d local questions. The chair was occupied by Mr. B. Cook, of Blackheath, who briefly referred to the Parliamentary career of Mr. Angtrstein as being highly satisf actory to his constituents, who wish e d t o earnes t and sincere reformer s . M r . be represented by A n gerstein, then addressed the meeting, after whi c h M r . C o bb e tt m oved a reso l u t i on expressive of entire appr o val of the Parliamentary conduct of Mr, Angerstein since his election, an d pledging the electors to contin ued suppor t . G .. Bennett seconded the motion, which was unani ra ou • sly a dopted, and the meeting then separated. pg.AINAGE.—Mr. 11. M. Vavasour, in a letter 0 , contemporary says : —ln, your report of what took place 5t the meeting on Wednesday upon the subject of drainaq - e I am made to say " The common outfall was in most ca b sc; a sluggish stream, generally running into a canal.' What I said (speaking of a particular district with which I am acquainted) was :—" Small thready drains extend in every direction, but the common outfall remains as before—a sluggish mouldering stream, running into a navigable canal, at the junction with which the course of the water is still further impeded by a dam, over which the water flows three feet." It is in contemplation of the Society of Arts to have an exhibition of the works of the late C. R. Leslie, B.A. in their great room, probably in May, 1861. Nap ,lion. from trkes Lmp itish the )ara- ?they ated lese ;or [ley ore ler 2d, ne 109 j