The Sun. — London, England, 1858-01-18 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET ALID COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The accounts received from the ms.uufaAuring districts this morning represent business during the past week as having been moderately active. A gradual and progressive improvement is in most instances perceptible enough to increase confidence. At Birmingham, however, no material change can be reported ; in the general trade of the place the operatives employed in the manufacture of iron being cc on strike." The late reduction of 20s. per ton agreed to at the meeting of the iron masters has been maintained, but first-class pig iron has ex hibited a slight improvement. At Leeds the Woollen Cloth Trade has ex hibited symptoms of improvement, and at the various Cloth Halls considerable quantities of goods had changed hands, increased confidence being manifested in the general improvement of trade. There have been a few failures of consequence during the week. Business at Bradford has been confined exclusively to immediate requirements, and prices have been barely supported. Some considerable purchases of goods have been made for home consumption, at a large sacrifice to manufacturers. The state of trade at Halifax has been slightly improved, but dealers exercise great caution in their transactions ; late rates, however, aro supported. The hosiery trade at Leicester is slightly progressing towards recovery ; a few orders for spring goods having beengiven out. The demand for the spring trade, as yet, has hardly begun, but an impression is generally entertained that matters must soon wear a more cheerful appearance. it Manchester, both cotton goods and yarns continue quiet ; no improvement whatever can be quoted in prices, and manu facturers complain that the present rates do not cover the cost of production. Stocks gene rally axe fast diminishing. The accounts from the East are considered rather more satisfactory, and the prices of articles suitable for those markets show an improved tendency. Letters from Liverpool report that the Cotton Market on Saturday presented a very animated appearance, and prices of most descriptions were fully maintained. The sales amounted to 8,000 bales, 3,000 of which were taken by the speculators. The Railway Share Market closed quietly, and quotations were without any material alteration. On Saturday a further sum of 152,0001. in Aus tralian and Russian gold was sold to the Bank of England, making an addition Since the date of the last weekly return about a quarter of a million sterling. Two or three vessels are now due from Australia, which may be expected in a few days, and thus it is imagined that the accumula tion will continue. Besides the supplies that may be calculated upon from that quarter large re mittances will probably be received from the United States, where the exchange is now in our favour. The Persia, announced this morning, has brought nearly 400,0001. which in the absence of any continental demand will, no doubt, be sant into the Threadneedle -street vaults. The amount now dispatched to France is very limited, the bi-monthly exports of silver to the East being still conducted on a moderate scale. The steamer on the 20th inst. is expected to take out a quarter of a million sterling, but this scale of export, if continued, will not occasion the least inconvenience. The Bank of France is receiving ample supplies of specie through the ordinary course of its business, without being compelled to purchase gold at a premium from this country. Last week the ex ports of specie from England were estimated at 60,000/., and the imports at 518,033/. No alteration can be reported in the general position of the Money Market. Since the reduc tion of the rate to 5 per cent., the demand has still further decreased, and in Lombard-street the terms charged for the negotiation of the best descrip tions of mercantile bills range from 3i to 4/ per cent. It is fully believed that the authorities 'will at once perceive the necessity of lowering their terms to a point more in accordance with those current out of doors. The English Funds present a very heavy appear ance n otwithstandin the increased ease in the money market and the continuous influx of gold. Owing to the uncertainty felt regarding an Indian i loan, the speculators are operating to a limited extent, and a few sales exercise an unfavourable effect. This has been proved by the variation in prices during the last few days, and the reaction from the highest point recently attained is now 11 about per cent. The market opened flatly, and there has since been a decline of / per cent., Consols being 94i for money, and 94/ for account. The New 3 per Cents. are 941 and the Reduced 94/ Exchequer Bills are heavy, and at 225. to 265. premium ; the Bonds are 99a to 100, and India Bonds 12s. to 168. premium. In Foreign Securities about the average amount U of busin ess h as b een done, but the market is dull ! and heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents, have been dealt in at 97i 98i ; t h e 4 per Cents. Guaranteed are , 1041 ; Russi an 5 per Cents, are 109; u Cents., 97k ; S ar di n i an, 89; ditto 4/ per M and Dutch 2i per Cents., 65i. exi can Stock i s 20,3 ; The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 6; Mexican, 1( 20i n ; Peruvian, 4, per Cents., 77 79 ; Ditto 3 1( per Cents., 52 54; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 45 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 108 110 ; Ditto 4/ per Cents., 98 100 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41k ; Ditto New Deferred, 25i 26. A very moderate business has been reported in the Railway Share Market, and in most instances prices have receded about /to 1 per cent. Cale donians, Eastern Counties, Great-Northerns, South- Westerns, North-Eastern ( Easterns, h ave declined 10s.Berwick), and Great W es t ern S outh- Bright on an d N orth Western, 1/. Midlands, s . , 10s. Most of th e ot h er lines dealt in exhibited a downward tendency. In the Foreign and Colonial u ndertaking's the transactions were rather nume rous, but at lower quotations. Northern of France, Paris and Lyons, and Great Central of France, were at ss. lower ; an'l L ombardo-Venetian, 10s. ; Grand Trunk of Canada declined 1/. Western of Canad a 10s. ;G rea t to 15 s . , 10s. ; and East I n di an, 10s. Joint-Stock Bank Shares are quiet, but prices are rather firmer. London and Westminster advanced 155., and Union of London ss. ; Bank of Australasia declined 10s. In the Miscellaneous Market there is little change to report. National Discount Company have declined 55., and Royal Mail Steam im proved 10s. BRITISH FIINDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY. (From the Official List.) Business il,nk Stock .... ,„ 224 done . Per Cent. Red u ced *. X . ntiitla . ******** 944 i A 3 per ;Gent Consols Annuities 948 i II New Per Cent. Annuities 94t Lodz Annnityizixsex,peiretij.Tan. 1860.. „ Ditto 30 spire sth Jan., 1860 1 13-16 ndia Band; 41000 r/itto, under 8 1000 .......... ............ .1612 p .......... .. .. Om sols for Acount, Evt ,, nnsr Rills 2tCi . ........ ... 941 ° I El , c y()Q O6 ~... ..................... ... 14.1.11 ...... ..... ..... : Erchequer Bonds, 1858, il . i . p . ;;.'6;;i: Ditto, 1659 ........................ PRICES OF FOREIGN • P4 - r , g,: - 17.-uz — THIS DAY. Ifexican 3 per Cent ................. ...... Ditto Account ....... . ....... .. Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent......... .. --. Ditto Account Jan. 29 Port uguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 78 -- Ditto 18b3, 3 per Cent 41i Ditto Account Russian Bonds, IS2, £ St., 5 per Cent lO9 - Ditto, 44 per Cent. ' 99 Sardinian Bonl E , 5 per Cent. Tetrkitsh Bond s, 6 per cent 9B .1 Ditto At eonnt Dttio Gnaranteod 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. , 12 Guilders 65. .--i. Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates RAZE O'CLOCK. Console, money ..... . ........ Ditto account (February • 4) .... 94 i .......—__ Mn. lionsurr, M.P.—W e ar e g l a d to s ' ate that Mr. A MR. is so far recovered from the effects of his late tfaccident tbat it is his intention to address the electors Stroud ( w i th Mr. Scrope cal topi cs of the da 'his co- mem b er) on the poli y in i the course of the present week. ,20 1 00 1(0 60 XlOO RAILWA.YS. id RAILWAYS. Closing Pre' s this day. 10! Ambg,. Nottng. Bost. dr Eastn. June.... 50 all Belfast & Ballymena. all Blrmng. Wolverh. Stour Valley St. 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junct 11 Blackburn ,11 Blyth & Tyne original S..2s(iss. at £45) )0 Bristol dr Exeter Ca1ed0nian............ )0 Chester dr Holyhead 611 Cork and Bandon 611 Cork, Black. & Pass 611 Cornwall Da, A ill Do. B all 51- fsi 8 - 70 - 72 25 a 1 25 I al s~} _ 's~ St. !10 St. XlO St. ilo 50 al 20 al 20 al 10 a 10, a 92 - 91 90 - 91 38 .- 40 11 - 13 .•• 4 - 50 Dublin&BelfastJunc. 25 all Dun. P. &Aber. June. St. 100 East Anglian ..... St. 'lOO Eastern Counties..... St. 100 lEasternUnion,A. stk. St. 'lOO IDo., do. 8............. 25 25 83 !Do. New A.... ; all East Kent St.lloo East Lancashire ... 20 ! all East Suffolk 10 ' all D o . St. , 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 0 I all !Edinb. and Peebles A.llOO 'Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 0 all Forth and ClydeJunc. St. 1100 !Furness . St. 1100 !Glasgow & S. Western 10 I all (Great N. of Scotland St. , 100 Great Northern St. 100 'Do. A. Stock 'l. l lOO 1D0.,, B. Stock St. 1100 !Gt. Sth.&West.are) St. 1100 Great Western. St. 100 ,Do. Str.V.R. gua.St 12 all 'lrish South-Eastern. 5C all ;Lancaster & Carlisle. 16t1 14itiDo., Thirds 16i 15 Do. New Thirds _ St. 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 16 6 Do., do. F .1:16 3 Do.. Wst. Riding Un. 20 all Do. Southport. 113 all London & Blackwell St. 100 Lond.Bright.&S.Cst St. 100 'London &N. Wester , 20 all IDo. Fifths 10 a11D0.,10/.Sh.,M&B ,C I 123 5 Do. Eighths St. 100 (London & S.Weatern 5 all Lnandrry.diColeraine 25 all Lndndrry. & Eunisk. °A. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln. 10 ; 13 Metropolitan 10 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland • Do. Birming. & De r 137 Midland o.West.(lr.) Do. A Shares ......... Newcastle & Carl isle.. Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint Rpstrevor Norfolk.. Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. di Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension _ Dodo. G.N.E.Purch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London. N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jia North Staffordshire North Western.. N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester dz Wolverhampton..... Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central ...., N.E. Abrdn. St !Shropshire Uniou Sitingbourne &Sheer. South Devon ..... South Eastern Do. 43. per c. Shares South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun D 0...... ...........W.. Staines,Wok.,&ok. Stockton & Darling ' Do. do., 1854 Do. do., 1855 Stockton & Hartlepl Taff Vale... ........... Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. D. &R Vale of Neath IWaterfd. & Kilkenny iWaterford&Limerick !West Cornwall ! 'West End of London' and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London _ Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wmbledon &Croydon I 8 - 9 19 - 19 3 / 4 , 62 3 / 4 -63 A 46 - 491 32 - 34 17 - 18 92 93 64 -- 65 32A - 52 - 94 9i - 10, 103 - 104 90 - 92 L 26 - 101 - 103 60 - 60) 58 - 62 79 83 8 10 p 8 10 941 —03 i d 6i 111 - 113 1001 - 101 - 99 - 100 e• ''''" 4« 40 - , ii St. lop St. 100 50 all 25 I a ll 1 00 all 25 all cn I 9 20 all St. 100 50 st. 100 St. 100 911 - 94;,; 67 - 68 fil : fk 62 - 61 34 -3; 55ij - 56 a. 100 88 100 2 5 100 all 25 16'1 St. 10) St 100 St. 100 10 31.1 92i - 993, 2d pai 54 55 8G 87± 93 97 !O l7i , all .0 i all ' ;t. :100 2/ - - 2j - 20 18 1 .0 10 3t. 100 100 it.,100 it. 8 - Leoo it. ,100 all it. 100 0 all 0 10 33 34 9 b d, LO6 - 16§ 25 - 26 48 - AO 34 - 34_ - T s i - 76 aIA 13- 15 7 - 5 d . 9 11 36 38 !O all 15 all ;5 17i ;5 5 161 ;t.llOO !O all It. 109 20 - 204 20 - 15 l• ••• !O all .0 I all ,• ''''''' ••• 5' all 5 all !O all .0 I all 7 - 9 3 - 5i - 6.1 .• ••• all .0 all • "--' ... • ..... ••• BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 10 all .8 9 Atian. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Con.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. Do. a i .8 all o.*, all ►0 100 k) 100 Buffalo ex Lake Bur. Buff. , Brnt. do God eh. ti p.e.bds., 1 Aug. ,'72 . Do. do., 1 July, '73 1 ! Do. do., 1 June, '74' Calcutta and S. East. !Central Oude (Lim.) !Ceylon A shares _Do. B. do. , . 14 - 15 185 - 90 83 - 87 80 - 85 10 100 !O 2s. 2s6d !O lOs !O 1 74 all - Demerara Eastern Bengal East Indian .j Do. C Shares Do.4A Do. do. do., '59, do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent Gd.Trunk.ofCanada Do. 6 p. c. Deben,,. Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pore. Do. New, guar, 5 p.c. Gt. Westn. of Canada Do. New Do, Bds., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, do. , Do. do., '73, with ou t option .............c ;Madras, guar. 46 p.c Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 4i p. c. Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. Do 4th Ex. do, I !Chide (Limited ' ) Scinde, guar, 5 per c, Do 3t. 100 !,0 15 )0 all )0 all 30 all - 1p 10:4 -- lip 20 21 49 51 85 87 211 21 1 p 20,!, -- 21 id par )O all !O alt 1165 I. lip 1105 - 110 103 105 19 .} —19 i 20 —. 21 d pair P P ••• .... ... 1 "'. lip MARC ETS—(This Day). Business dol this day. 5 i g 92 90,f 89i 62i 3i 21 3 32i 3 1034 i 3 90 59.1 1 8i 9 943 i 34 64 AAA 12 11 .001 99 4q 984 9 40 i 93i 3 i lO 20 20 50 all all all all !O I 5 FOREIGN. Gi - 7 ••• ...." oe• 1 .... 1,1 n 41 3 i - 27i - 28, - ... . 7A _ 8. 5 i - 58p1 28 --- 29 8i - -- gi 201. - 21 38. - 3ii 8. - 9A 34 - 34 55 - 57 1 lid 16 - 18 8 - 8A 8 - 8i 22 - 22 4 - 5 27 - 28 ... ..' ... Antwrp &Rotterdam Ardennes... Belgian East. Janet Beziers to Graissessac Carmeaux& Toulouse. Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France I Do. New ... Euphrates Valley Gt. Central of France Great Luxembourg, , Italian Junction Lake Conet. & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo -Venetian Lucca dr Pist.sp.c.p. I Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of France NorwegianTruk..Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Reeife & San Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 P. c. LO all Rome and Frssasti, .00 all Royal Danish 5 all Royal Swedish !O all Sambre and Mouse LO all Do. 5i per cent. pref . 0 ,0 all Southern of France 8i all West Flanders l 0 all Do. 5i per c. Pref !O t all W. dt N. W. of France !O 6 'Western of Austria tO all Wept. of Switzerland 6 all , w :es t ade n 6 all ; Do. Bp. cent. pref. 10 all 'Zealand 0 all :0 1 all 5, all 6 1 all !Ci 2s. 0 all D all ' , O all 5 I all !O all 13i all LO I all !O all !O all .6 all 10 all 0 all !O I all JOINT-STOCK BANKS, all AiTt7F-s ra Australasia 18i (Bank of Egypt 50 , Bank of London all , Bri. Col. Bk.& Ln. Co all ißritish N. American 10 IC.lik.of Ind.An.&Cl. 50 ;City 25 (Colonial . .......... 20 !Commercial of aid all i Eng.Scot.drAna.Cat all !Lon.a. Bk.of A.a.q all 'Ditto New 20 London and County 50 ILnd AE.Bnkng.Co 10 'London Joint Stock. 20 Lond.andWestminst, 35 National Pro. of Eng 10 Do, New 25 National Bank all New South Wales all Oriental Bank Corp 20 Ottoman Bank 15 ,Proyincial of Ireland all Do. New. . 1 R.Au5.8.,&;,6:1 all South Australia ... all , Unio n o f Australia .... : 23 Do. Now, .. . 10 Union of L0nd0n.,,,50 Unity Mutu a l .. . ...... 5 1 W0111413/4 of L 044 I 86 88 34 2id 43 52 •••• ••• 61 - 19 - fii isi 194 44 - 46 31 - 33 - 19i' ••• 35 - 37 46 - 48 *lt L . ; 'lit Shr. in TILE SUN, IAuNDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUAVRY 18, 1858 I Leasing tCompanies, Ln. &N. W. Caledon... E.U.dtE.O ,Gt.Northn E. Count. Caldonian. 'D0.... Gt. %Vestn. & Do Do S. Eastern Do Peto &Co Do Ln.&N.W. & Midld. Midland._ E. Count Do Do LAI'S. W Do jGt.Northn ! pSI. Brassey f ‘ . Mama tk.dtDar Do iGt.Westn Closter Prices tkis day 93 - 95 94 -- 96 12 - 14 132 - 136 4 - 41 1107 - 109 12 - 13 V - 99 - 101 2i - 2i 93 - 90 i -11 P 56 - 58 '132 - 135 71 - 8 9 - 31 i - 32 85 - 87 Business this day MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) We were well supplied with foreign wheat, fresh as well as ex-granary. White samples moved off slowly, on former terms; but inferior red qualities were lower to purchase, by is per qr. The supply of foreign barley was extensive, and most kinds sold slowly, at is to quite 2s per qr less money. We had a dull inquiry for malt, and last week's prices were with difficulty supported. There was only a limited supply of oats in the market, and the oat trade ruled steady, at fully last week's im provement in value. Beans were in moderate supply and fair request, at full prices. Peas supported last week's currency ; but the demand was far from active. Flour sold slowly, but we have no change to notice in its value. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. NY3eat—Essex & Kent, Red .... new 424 to 49e Ditto— •• .. old 52s 563 Ditto, White. new 54s 57a Ditt0........ old 57s 62s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, o'd 465 Ditto new •••• •• 48s aye —Old .......••• •• New ...... ...... 32s Barley—Grinding... •• 30s Melting .....•• •• 363 Chevalier— • . 393 Malt—SnffolkendNor- Malt—Chevalier 72 to 71• Oats Yorkshire And Lincolnsk., reed 20s 231 Potato Youghal and Cork Black. Cork, Whl:e • • 19; 28s Scotch, Feed... •• 20s 245 Beans—Tick •• • • .. 36s 39 Pigeons ...... •• 39• 42s Peas—Grey .. • • •• .• • • 375 39, Maple... •• .. • • • • 385 40 s White..• • • 40s 41 Boilers .......... 425 44' Plonr—Town-made.•• 455 47' Suffolk ...• ...... 385 40' Stooktn & Norfolk 375 39s - - folk .. .... •••• •• 64s 725 1 Brown ...... Kingston and Ware 68s 72 3 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 541 head. In the corresponding week in 1857 we received 1,237; in 1856, 1,105; i❑ 1855, 2,371; and in 185 I, 1,7196; in 1853, 3,354 ; in 1852, 1,508; and in 1851, head. IMPORTB INTO LONDON La? WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. . Lambs. Calves. Figs. Rotterdam 65 ... 291 ~ ... 63 - Schiedam . Antwerp ---- ..• - ... ... - ... 120 T0ta1.... 65 ... 291 185 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1857 377 ... 644 216 1856._ ... 565 ... 563 187 ... 1855 857 ... 1,300 212 ... 1854 767 ... 1,( 07 197 ... 1853 537 2,873 • 539 ... 5 1852 289 ... 1,021 „., 2811 ... -- The show of each kind of foreign stock in to•day's mar ket was very moderate. About average supplies of beasts were received up to our market this morning from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, for the time of year ; but, compared with Monday last, their condition was inferior. Notwith standing that the weather has become colder, the demand for all breeds of beasts was in a sluggish state, at last week's decline in value. The top figure for Scots was 4s 6d per Sibs. Prom Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Oawbridgeshire, we received 1,860 Scots and short horns ; from Lincolnshire and the Midland counties, 800 short horns ; from ether parts of England, 400 various breeds; from Scotland, 700 Scots , • and from Ireland 400 oxen. We were again very moderately supplied with sheep, the general quality of which was by no means first-rate. Nearly all breeds met a slow inquiry; but we have no change to notice hi prices. The best old Downs sold at 5s 41 per Sibs. From Ireland, COO sheep came fresh up to hand. Calves, the supply of which was lirsited, sold steadily, at Friday's improvement in value, of 4d per tabs. The beet quality of veal realised 5s 4d per 81hi. The pork trade ruled heavy, and, in some instances, prices had a down ward tendency. Per Bibs to sink the orals. e. d. e. d. s. 4. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 44 3 rimeSouthdown 410 6 4 Second quality.... 3 6 3 10'Lxrgo crse. calves 4 4 410 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 2 Prime small do 5 0 6 Prime Scots, die. 4 4 4 04arge hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 8 3mall porkers 4 6 410 Second quality ...3 10 4 o l Snckling calves 21 0 27 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 2 4 81Quarter old pigs 20 0 26 0 TOTAL SUPPLY; FOREIGN' SUPPLY. Boasts Sheep and lambs .......16,840 Sheep and lambs 303 Calves lO6 Calve s 7O Pigs 225 Pigs ..................... ... & statement and comparison of the supplies and prices or fai stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Jan, 19, 1857, and this day, Monday, Jan. 18, 1858. Per Elbe, to sink the ofrals. Jan. 19, 1857. Jan, 18, 18:38 s. d. s. dd (I s. d. s. . Coarse and inferi or b easts 3 4to 3 6,3 2 to 3 4 Second qu a lit y ditto . ''. .... 3 8 4 0,3 6 310 Prime large oxen ... .. ". ".. 4 4 4 5 , 4 0 4 2 Prime Scots, die 410 5 0:4 4 I 6 Coarse and inferior shee p ) .l. 4 0 4 4P4 3 8 Second qu a lit y dit to . ~.. 4 6 4103 10 4 0 Prime coarse w oo ll e d ditto .... v 5 0 5 2 : 4 2 4 8 ... ." . Prime Southdown ditto ' . .... 5 4 5 64 10 5 4 Large coarse calves' .... ”. ''. 4 4 5 6,3 10 4 4 Prime small ditto ... ... . 5 8 6 0;4 6 5 0 Large hogs ... . "' "' . .... 3 8 4 4,3 10 4 6 Neat small pork ers ''. . 4 6 5 24 8 410 Beasts... ............. ... 4,072 4 , 0 02 Sheep and lambs.. ... ••• 15,420 16,840 61 106 Surmise 0:1 &us, . Jan,.. 21, Pigs ... ~ .., ... 32 0 225 and lambs, 20,330 ; calves, 71; Pigs , 460 ' Jan. 22, 1855.—B eas ts, 3,161; s h e ep and lambs, 21,310 ; ()eves, 32 ; pigs, 315. 1856.—Beasts , 3,755 ; sheep Ow.. . ....INNS NEWGATE AND LEADENFIALL. Fair average su in these markets t o -d ay , g r ime beef, mutto n, and vea l , were in fair r pplies of each kind of meat were on offer request, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand ruled heavy, ---- Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. s. Reef, inferio r lO 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling ..... 3 8 4 2 Do. prime large 3 8 3 10 I Do., prime ...... ...4 4 4 8 Do., do. small 4 0 4 2 Veal.... ... ...... 3 6 4 6 Pork, large 364 0 1 Pork, small ........ 424 10 supported, BOROUGH HOP. The late imp rovement i n the va l u e of new hops is freely steady demand. Al l other hops are t o lerably firm. Last week's import s amounted to 76 b a l es from Hambro', and 65 from Rotte r d am , and, in Borne i ns t a nces, rather exc eeded, with a New Mid and East Kent pockets 75s to 116 s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 6i s t o 8 4s ; Sussex ditto, 57s to 725; Year lings and Olds, 214 to 40s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last only moderate sup plies of English and Scotch pot a t oes have come to hand. The imports have been composed of 175 tons from Antwerp, 4 from Bremen, 300 tons from Roiten 90 tons from Groningen, 200 tone from Dunkirk, 203 gags from Paris, and 130 tons from Hambro% The trade dill continues inactive, as follows : York regentc, ---s to 1603 per ton ; Essex and Kent, 120 s to 1403 ; Scotch, 80 s to 1203 • ditto cups, 75a to 85s ; middlings, 503 to 60a; Lincoln's, 110 s to 120 s; blues, 55. to 65s ; foreign, 551 to 65g. `_~ WOOL. We have to report an improved inquiry for colon i al wool ; but the business doing is limited. Foreign qualities rule heavy, but not cheaper. English wools are some what firmer. In the present state of the market, how ever, it is difficult to quote prices. Last week's amounted to 357 bales from N ew York, and I, /01 from Taganrog. imports SEEDS. Canary-seed has been in steady reauest, at fall prices. Trefoil and Canary-seed are quite as dear as last week. Most other seeds, as well as cakes, are held for extreme rates. Tart l[us : y ip:k ite e . r . 2 : 60 5 : 5 to 22 1 23 6 5 : 8 0d 5 55 1 6 4; 1 Canary,per quarter .. 745 84s , Rye mime (new ) ,„ • 225 28 Clover,RedEng.(cwt.) 59s 70i 1 Trefoil,lWhite Foreign WR . • h .• 2 doss 0 5 s as 2 767 4896 Carraw ay •• 43s 46s Coriander.— "• • 26' 2°3 li empseed,per quarter 38a 44s Linseed, Eng. Sowing•• 70i 723 Crushing •• •• •• " Baltic .......... 494 833 Odessa 52s 83s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English 9! 101 10!51 Foreign, per ton 101 0. 10 Ms Rape Cakes, per ton 5; 15s 5110. t utPeseed, new, pr qr. 645 68s .---.....m..•••4 TALLOW. The demand for most kinds of tallow. is in a sluggish state, and prices are a shade lower than on Monday last. p.y.c., on the spot, is selling at 54s per cwt. Town Tallow 53s 6d nett cash. Rough fat, 2s lid per 8113 s. CORN EXCHANGE. Nearly the whole of the country markets held on Satur- day were but moderately supplied with wheat, yet the demand for most kinds ruled ♦ery inactive, and prices give way is to 2s per quarter. Fine barley was in re quest, at full quotations, and oats were rather dearer. In other produce very little was doing. On the continent very little change has taken place in the value of either grain or flour. In the United States the export demand for wheat and flour has continued heavy. Only mod era t e suppl i es o f E ng li s h p ro d uce were re ceived up to our market last week. The imports from abroad were liberal, viz., 19,197 quarters of wheat, 17,883 barley, 16,180 oats, 4,065 beans, 8 peas, 325 linseed, 2,63 J rapeseed, 300 sundry seeds, 2,917 sacks and 9,201 barrels of flour. The quantity of wheat received fresh up, to-day, coast wise and by land carriage, from Essex, was very limited. Compared with Monday last, the receipts from Kent were rather on the increase. The attendance of both town and country millers was very moderate, and the demand for all kinds was in a sluggish state. Most of the finest wheats sold at prices equal to this day week ; but low and mid dling samples moved off slowly, at less money, viz., is to 23 per quarter. 0353. 1 1854. 1 1855. I 1556. 1857. --- ........_ .._._... —. ......1 41.248 34,806 21.973 13,641 27,020 B P th ric C e k o t f hl Y B . d C ay ••• • 1 ! — 4 0 5 4 5 'e 1,417104 —1:45041 62 t 24 se 578 Od 588 Oche 61s 9d to 4s esi to Delivery last week • • ' I 10,063 52,900 80,602 81,428 73,191 Ditto fr inJune 1.... 269 1,660 2,050 656 1,100 Arriva/L last week.. 51,706 56,123 78,099 8 7,0 99 I 'od 151 64- _ 8 04 568 6d 624 64 55 8 94 Price or Town ..... — 2 1 ,49 — 2 3 ,4 ° 11 Ditto from Junel.... , 87 936 THE LATE RESCHID PACHA.—" Intelligence from Constantinople of the Bth," says a Vienna letter in the Ost Deutsche Post, "announces that the Sultan was exceedingly distressed at hearing of the death of Reecbid Pacba, and that an autopsy of the body was made to prevent any malevolent suppositions as to the cause of his death. It appears that the 'deceased, during the morning of . the day on which he died, had trans acted baking's as usual with several persons. He had taken his coffee and smoked with apparent relish, when all of a sudden a violent contraction became apparent in his mouth, and soon after he expired. It was this unexpected decease which led to the idea of poison, for li there does not appear to be any foundation,'_ THE LEVIATHAN—(This Day.) It was generally expected that operations would be recommenced this morning for moving the Leviathan down the ways the few feet which remain between her present position and low-water mark. That work, how ever, has been deferred, as there is no immediate neces sity for it. The launch Trill take place on Friday the 28th or Saturday the 30'.h, so that an early day next week will be ample time for the preliminary arrange ments. This morning the vessel was publicly exhibited, and visitors flocked from all parts of London to what has not inappropriately been termed " the dirty Nand of Dego," to inspect the monster ship about which there have been so many conjec'ures and so many anxieties. An admission fee of 2s. 6d. was charged, and similar facilities will be granted during certain hours every day this week, to enable the public to go over the ship. As soon as th• vessel arrives at low-water mark, a process which will be attended with no difficulty, the work of unpacking the cradles will commence, and then there seems to be no doubt the spring tides will gradually boat her. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, and Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Crompton.) THZ QUEEN ♦, THZ JUSTICES OF STAFFORD. The Solicitor-General moved for a rule calling upon four of the justices of Stafford to show cause why an attachment should not issue against them. This was one of those cases that bad so oft- n been brought before the Court, in which attempts had failed to enforce the salu tary provision of an act of Parliament, passed for the regulation of mines. Some time since a writ of mandamus was applied for against these gentlemen, who allowed the rule to be made absolute. They afterwards made an attempt at bearing, but had made no return. The only difficulty about the matter was, that the four gentlemen were served with the writ at different times. The writ was issued in May ; but Mr. Ridgway was not served till the Ist of June, Mr. Glover on the 3d, Mr. Manway on the 18th August, and the other gentleman on the Ist September. The attempted hearing took place after the latter date. The application was to compel these gen tlemen to make a return. Rule granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. :Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice Byles and a Common Jury.) ROBERTSON ♦. SLAUGHTER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a chip broker and agent, at Lloydß, egainet the defendant, a miller, for an assault. The defendant pleaded a . ._ uatification. It appeared Lotu the evidence that the plaintiff and defendant were at a eels at Sutting, near Dartford, near where the plaintiff re-ided, o❑ the 7th August last. For the defendant it was urged that the plaintiff was at the sale in a partial state of intoxication, using insulting and offensive observations to the auctioneer, to the annoyance of the public, amongst whom were a number of ladies. He went up to the defendant and addressed him, "Now, Uglyy, have you men George Manley here." Defendant asked him if he meant him (defendant), and on repeating the offensive expres sion the defendant kruck him a blow on the nose, which caused it to bleed a little and abrased the skin, which the surgeon, who was in the room, plastered with a little gold beater's skin after having wa-hsd the blood off with a sponge and cold water. The plaintiff denied that be was in tke habit of taking spirits in the morning. To a glass of rum he was a stranger, but took gin medicinally. The landlord of the Bull, at Dartford, however, proved the plaintiff had three glasses of rum and water at his house before going to the sale, and it was shown that he had been smoking and drinking ale before that. The plaintiff denied that he drank any rum that morning. The learned judge, having summed up, the jury re turned a verdict for the plaintiff, damage, one farthing'; they were unable to say on what count they returned tkeir verdict, and had to be locked up to reconsider it. COURT OF B kNKRUPTCY. (Bofors Mr. Commissioner Gun!burn.) 'THE APPROACHING OV TUB PRINCESS ROYAL, His Honour intimated that the Court would not sit on Monday next, which day having been appointed for the marriage of the Prtncers Royal, SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Prondergapt, Q. C.) IMPORTANT TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.-PARKER T. NORD. This was an action to recover 151. 15.. 6d. from defendant, woollen draper, by plaintiff, a commercia traveller. Mr, Buchanan, of Basinghall-street, appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Marsden for the defendan% One of the items of the claim consisted of 4/. 4s. for a month's notice, defendant having agreed to give half a guinea per week and 3i. commission. Mr. Buchanan insixted that the plaintiff had received no notice, but a letter was put in in which defendant requested plaintiff to send home his pattern case. His Honour—l think that is a notice, for it is virtually depriving plaintiff of all connection with the house. Mr. Buchanan—ln a letter sent afterwards they offer explanations, viz., that the pattern case was wanted for a town traveller. His Honour—l think the plaint if 1113 ua t have taken it as a notice. Thd question then arose as to commission, the defendant alleging that plaintiff could not recover on a sale of 321. as the goods were returned. His Honour thought the objection a good one. Mr. Buchanan—Were the goods according to sample. Defendant—Yes. Mr. Buchanan—Then you had no right to receive the goods back again. His Honour —I think plaintiff cannot recover for any returns arising out of hie Fate. If I give a verdict fur 101. that will be sufficient. Mr. Buchanan having asiented on the part of plaintiff a verdict for 101. was given. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. PEOYIDINt IDAINST THE COLD.— John Smith, a poor miserable-looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Beadon with stealing two larnbs'-wool shirts, the pro. perty of Mr. lirooks, hosier, &c., No. 374, Oxford-street. Cole, 317 A, deposed that about nine o'clock on Saturday slight he saw the prisoner in company with two other men dodging outside the prosecutor's shop, in the doorway of which a quantity of woolle❑ goods were dis played. He watched them for about a quarter of an hour, when the prisoner left his companions and sneaked into the doorway of the shop, and took t ,e two lamb , ' -wool shirts produced from a lot of others piled just inside the shop. The prisoner then ran off do vrn Brunswick -street as hard as he could, followed by witness, who came up with him in Noel-street. As soon as he caught hold of the prisoner he threw down the shirt , ' and begged of him to let him go, as he only took the shirts to keep him warm, and intended to pay for them. On searching him at the station nothing of any ♦alue was found upon him. The prosecutor's shopman identified the property as belonging to his muter. The prisoner. who pleaded guilty, was committed to the House of Corrcction fur three months, with hard labour. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LottnoN, Jan. IS.—Wind this day at noon, W. ; light breeze and line. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—York, from London for Calcutta ; Wellfleet, from ditto, for Mel bourne ; Aberfoyle, from Shields for Madras, to stop a leak. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 17.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed —Cos pstrick, for Cape of Good Hope ; Sir George Pollock, for Jamaica and Barbadoes. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 17.—Wind N.—Sailed—Nemesis (s), for Calcutta. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Wind N. W, Arrived, Jan. 16—Pet, from Newcastle; Clara, Effort, Lighr, and Sign, John and Isabella, and Paultons —all from Sunderland ; glory, Jersey. Arrived, Jan. 17—Leila, from Sunderlaud ; Devon shire, Newcastle ; Eagle, London ; Wellington, Riga ; Emily, Havre ; Lord John Russell, Portsmouth ; Pere, steamer, Alexandria ; Eliza and Jane, Sunderland. Sailed, Jan. 16—Parana, for Jersey ; Mary Ann, Sun derland ; William, Hartlepool ; Hamburg°, steamer, Bar celona. Sailed, Jan. 17.—Marys, for Hartlepool; Glory, Jersey; Nemesis, steam, Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Aden, from Hongkong; Barcelona, screw steamer, Havre; Milan, screw steamer, Trieste ; Marosa, Galatz. Sailed— Gentoo, for Valparaiso; Sagamore 's , New Orlea ns; Tell Tale and Little Jenny, St. Michael ; Marquette, New Orleans ; Nigro, Oporto; Julia Cobb, H avauna , "; Pyreole, Nantes ; Living stone, Bahia ; Maria, Gibraltar. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEcaura.) GBAragiurD, Monday Morning. Wind last hour's ebb ; fre s h an d fine. . Wind N. W. ; Jam is. —Sappho, from D emerara ; Svea, Bior rre Dibgid, .S A° a rr iled, Jan. 17. -- Chieftain, for Mad ras. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind W. by N. ; moderate. Anchored—Gem, from London, for Cardiff. Passed, Jan. 1 7 — Thomasine, from Shields, for EiS.Vre; Expert, from Shields, f or C cnstant i nople. • rbut 13tittion SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. RAILWAYS. Buckghamsh iGlydesdale Jc. I Col.Stour Vy. E.Lin. g. 6 p.O E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. !Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do. Sharee Do. Shares Lon. dtGreenw Do. Preference, Lou. Til., di S. Do. Bark. Sh. Man ch. Baton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.dzEst.s p.c. Do. 6 per at Do. Fixed 5p c Prest. di Wyre Do. Shrs. Roystn. dz Shrews. Sz Her IS. Staffordsh WearVal.g6pc Do.. Wilts&Somrst PREFERENCE SH_ ARES. 25 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref.(isscl.at 501.) ... ... St. 100 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St 90 92 20 7 , Do. 4 per c. Shares .. . ... St. 100 ICaledn. £lO 41 p. c 96 98 St. 100 Ches. & Ho, 5i p.c. ... ... St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent ... - ... 61 all iCork&Bandons/Ip.c ... ... 61 all Dun.Perth.StAber.J 6 61 St. 100 E. Anglian Cls, ASh ... St. 100 IDo. do. Cls. B 6p. c 105 110 St, 100 IDo. do. Cls. C7p. c 110 114 l i St. 00 Eas•Co•Ex,sp.cNo.l 107 110 St. 100 Do. No. 2 St. 'lOO Do. New 6 pr. c. St 125 128 20 all East Un. ' G. 6p. c. ... ... 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. ... ... 10 all Do. 101, Debentr • Sh. ... ... St. all Do. do. 4 per cent ... ... St. 100 East Lancash.6 p.ets ... ... 5 all E.&W. York. J. sths ... ... 10 9 Edin. it Gl. sp. c. Sh. ... . ... St. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dnu.4p.c. 74 76 , 74. i St. 100 iFurness, sp. c — ••• St. 100 IGlas, di 5.W.G.5 p.c . • -- ... St. 100 'Great Northn. 5 p.c ll5 --118 St. 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prom lO3 110 St. 100 Do. 44 per cent lO2 104 103 DO 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. 1.0 all iGt.N.ofScot.lstPrc lO 104 10 18 Gt. Sdi W. (Ireland) ... ... l 0 18 ,Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. . . ... 50 6 iGt.W.(B.&H.Ex.Spc . 5i 6 it. 'lOO Do. con. red. 4i p.c. 90 92 it. 100 IDo. con, red. 4p. c. 81 83 81 it. 100 Do, irred. 4 per tent. 82 54 834 21 it, 100 Do. sp. c, red. pref. 95 97 97 8 all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh 94 10 .0 all Do. ChesterBp.c.P.S l6 17 0 all Do. do. sp.c. do 4 DI it, 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk. 70 73 Si all Do. Chosh, Gua, Sh. Iq. 1N 3i all Do. do. do. 9l 9i 91 4 '0 al Do, do. do l4 15 4. 100 Lan4 York. 6pc.St ... ... t. 100 Lou. &B. G. 5 pc. No.l ... ... ,t. 100 D0.,P.,5p.c.5t.N0.2 ... . . t. 100' Do. New Guar, 6p.c. 135 140 140 t. 1001 1 1 Do. do. sp. c., N 0.4 115 118 t. 100 Lon. &N. W., Cov. di N t. ,100 Lon, im &eaSt.°llll7.s r. 7pe c r t e . i: ... ... late 3d Shares 155 180 24' all Londy.& Color, iSh ... ... 24 all Londy.StEnnis. ASh ... •• , t. 100 M., S.,&L. 6p. Cent ll5 120 6 1 44 o. do. do. £6 ... t. 100 Do. do. 31 percent. 61 €8 2/.1 all Marypt. h Carl, 4 p.c. ... ... all •Do i per cent.: ...... __ i 102 Do. (.10. 100 Ili& Cousol. 6p. c. 1100 Do.Con.Br.Bir.6p.e. 100 Do. 4. p. c. Pref. St. 100 Do. L. &H. Pref. St. all k ew., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct. lall Norfk.Deb. 4p. c. Sh. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 100 Do. 5. p.c. pf , 1847 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. ‘.,1847 100 North British 133 - 135 99 - 101 89 - 91 91 90 Ili • ...... ••• • .--. • • • [lO5 - 107 3i Do. 71. Preference 100 N. E. Berw. 4p. c. Prf. Bi,Do. do. do 13 I Do. Leeds 6 pc. No.l 9 Do, do. Qrs., 1848 10 ,Do. York &S. Pur 97 - 99 i - i ••• - 21i -22 i all North Staffordshire_ 100 Ox., Wor, & Woly. 6 1 p.c., Ist guar, 100 Do. 6p. c. 2d guar._ il.OO Do. do. Debeutr. St. i! all Scot. Vent. New Pref. 400 Sc.N.E.Aber.g.6p.c. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. 100 Do. do.3A p.c. pf. St all "outh Devon all o. fixed 4A pr cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4A per cent 100 Do. Fixed 43 p.c. Sh 100 Do. New 4 , 2 . pr. cent 100 .S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c . 100 Do. do. 4S p. c all S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar all !Stock. &Dar., 5 p. c 19 I Do, do. do. 115 - 120 103 - 105 105 - 110 71 - 73 10 - 10:; 23 24 96 gs 95 OS 2ii - 28 101$ i Waterfd& Bilk. 6 pc. 50 - - 55 BRITISH MINES. . . 2112 1 Alfred Cons, (Philk.)l 12i 1413 12j 20 14 British Iron 1 6 7 . . 20 Condurow (Cambria4 75 85 10 1 Dev. Gt. Oasis. (Tay.) 420 440 ... 271 East Basset (Mogan) 92i —97 i ... 17s Great South Tolgus 141 151 ... 17t5 Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 4 5 ... 7i Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 11 -- li ... 17s Lady Bertha ... 8 N. Fran c e s (Illogan) 111 121 ... . . N.W.Basset (Illogan) 13 15 14} ... 6115 North Wheal Crofty 4 5 ... li Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 17 19 1118 i ... 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 4 5 ... 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 11 11 ... 21 S. Caradon (St. Cleer 340 350 ... 28. Carn Brea (Illogn. 41 —51 t f ... 19 S.W. Frances(llloo ' m. 200 215 5 41 ram. S. &L.Min.Co. it li 10 9 Tin Croft 3l 4 ... 40 Un.Mines (Gwennap). ... ... ... 1281 , V. of Towey (Camar.) i 1 ... 11 W. Basset (Ill ogan ) 24 26 ... 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.) 109 110 ... 4 Wh. Basset (Mogan). 145 155 ... 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 2CO 280 ... 51 Wh. Edward(Calstck) 71 8 ... 117 Wh. Kitty (U. Limit) 10 12 ..... 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Monht. ) 45 47 4:i Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 26 28 FOREIGN MINES. 20 71 Australian 1 10s. B on A ccor d C op. (li.) } a d --i p 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued at .£5 pm) 30 all Do. Cocaos di Cuiada .. --- 20 15 Do. St. J o h n D el Rey 11 1 121 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica 40 all Cobre Copper 4l 43 i:42i 2 ... 16 Copiapo 1 all Dun Mountain Cop per Mining Co. 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares 5 1i Lusitanian 1 all Mariquita 1 all New Granada i _.i 1 all Novean Monde 20 all Pont.SiLLdlll.4k Smlt 41 5 2 5 1 Port Philip ••• ••• 30 16i Santiago de Cüba 28i. all United Mexican 4i 4i 541 i .541 If MISCELLANEOUS. )00 900 Atlantic tel. (Lim.) 15 19 'Australian Agricult.' LO all lAustralis. Royal Mail LO all .Berlin Water Works LO 2 I Do. New iss. at Si. d 10 40 Brit. American Land )0 324 Canada It. 100 Do.Go.6pc.Jan&J u l y it. all 'Copper MM. of Eng. 15 all Do. Pref. 7§ p. cent 5 all Crystal Palace 5 all Do. Preference 20 St. 1 5 all Crystal Pal. of France all Eastern 5team......., 100 Electric Telegraph all Electric Tel. of Irel. all En. &Aust.Cop.SmCo 10s. lEur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. all Eur. &Am. Stm.(lim.) ill Gen. Ir. Sc. Col.(lim.) 14 ;Gen. Steam Navigat. 5 .London Discount all 'Lend. Gen. Omnibus' l 0 10 :Magdalena St. Navig. [0 all 'Mediteran. Elec. Tel. .0 all ,Do. Extension Teleg. .0 all Mexican & S.Amerien :3 5 I Nat. Discount C 0.... .0 6 'Netherlands Land.... 0 all Do. Do. . 5 all Do. 8 p.c.Pf. iss. at Id. 5 2 Do. Do. f 80 Now B. &N. S. Land, 100 N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. all N. B. Australasian... all Nrth.ofEuropoSteam all lOriental Gas lOs. Do Now Shares all Peelttr. Ld. ds Mind all Peninsular (St Oriental 10 Do. New all Rhymney Iron . 60 Itoyal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest. 100 S. Aus. Gov. 6 p. c. bds. all South Austral. Land all Submarine Tel. Scrip, all Do. Registered 5 TrUS. lAD, Co. Up. Can 284, VanDlexaela Land 26 - 27 • • •• - •• 4 - 5 3 5 ^, 40 ••• 110 27 32 23 25 ld 4 104 - 108 1 i ii id .1 P 5 6 ••• -- ••• 11 'Ad 3t 3i 3 4 - 3. -d 17 — 20 93 95 i ^ I 1 - P ,2i 24 74 - 76 6 - 7p 21 - 23 55 - 57 - 11 ii - 36 i = 11 ••• `... I.e. 10 . 12 131 28 32 noi g 11 101 OPENING OF THE FRENCH LEGISLATURE. THE EMPEROR'S REMARKS ON THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. PARIS, MONDAY AFTERNOON. The Emperor's discourse at the opening of the Legislative Session announces several administra tive measures. He stated that in China the French were acting in concert with the English fleet, to obtain the redress of grievances. " I cannot con clude without spe iking of the late criminal attempt, and I deplore the sacrifice of so many victims in the attempt to reach the life of one iudividual. However. such plots convey a useful lesson. In the first place, those who have recourse to them betray their own weakness and impotence. In the second place, assassination never serves the cause of assassins. either those who struck Julius Caesar, nor they who struck Henri IV., profited by their murder. God sometimes permits the death of the just; but never the triumphs of crime. These at tempts can neither disturb the present nor the future. If I live, the Empire will live with me ;if I fall, the Empire will be confirmed even by my death ; for the indiguation of the French people and army will afford a new prop to the throne o my son." TATTER , SALLS'—(This Evening.) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 20 to 1 apt Knight of the Shire (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7 to 2 apt Clydesdale (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst Brother to Marchioness (taken and offered) 15 to 1 aget Vandyke (taken and offered) DERBY. 10 to 1 agat Clydesdale (taken) 100 to 6 agst Toxopholite (taken) 20 to 1 agat Ditto (taken and offered) 22 to 1 agst Cock-a-doodle-doo 25 to 1 agst Longrange (offered) 28 to 1 agst Vandyke (taken) 30 to 1 agst Kelpie (taken) 40 to 1 agit Eclipse (taken) 40 to 1 agst Brother to Mary Copp (taken) 1000 to 10 ag,t Carmel (taken) NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—gins Day. The following appointments were made this afternoon at the Admiralty : Midshipmen—L. H. P. Strachly to the Victory ; A. M. Byars, E. G. Maddock and J. H. Carr to the Renown. LITERATURE. The Plays of Shakespeare. Rifted by Howard Staunton. Vol. I. Routledge. It is something to have proved oneself first of all a perfect master among chess-players, and afterwards a ripe Shaksperean. This feat—diffi cult though it may seem, though it really is Howard Staunton has successfully accomp lished. His fame as a chess-player is not a thing o' yesterday. His reputation as a poetic critic and a dramatic commentator has, on the con trary, been only very recently sign diced. It is none the less actual nevertheless. It is so entirely un deniable now that this goodly volume, of 746 pages, imperial octavo, double columned and minutely annotated, has been issued from the press of Mr. Routledge, that we may henceforth regard Staun ton as one who has now permanently assumed his place among men like Malone and Steevens, as he had already done among men like Phillidore and Delabourdonnaye. A duplex celebrity like this is, certainly, to say the least of if, a very remarkable achievement. It is an achievement, moreover, entitled, by its very singularity, to an instant- and cordial recognition. That recognition it com mands from ourselves forthwith and ungrudgingly. According to Sir Wm. Jones, chess dates back to a period removed from this by some 4,000 years. Yet the science of that emperor of games has only in very recent times, indeed, been even proximately appreciated, tint is to say, appreciated with any due regard to its elevated excellence. Insomuch that we do not conceive that we are writing in any way extravagantly when we assert that possibly the greatest chess players IN ho have ever lived are now living, are men of this present generation. It is therefore, remember, at this crowning epoch in the history of chess that Mr. Staunton has won for himself his eminent and splendid reputation as a chess player. And now, referring in turn to his more recent but hardly less brilliant adventure, in literature—we believe that, according to a far more authoritative witness than even Sir Wm. Jones, to wit,Cocker very nearly 242 years have now elapsed since the death of rare and right excellent Master William Shakspere, upon St. George's Day, in the year of grace 1616, at his own mansion in New place, in the little Warwickshire borough of Strat ford-upon-Avon. In other words, it is only about eight years short of two centuries and a half since the greatest poet, the greatest dramatist, the greatest inspired intellect (among writers) this world has ever seen, breathed his last peacefully at the time and in the spot just particularised—upon the very day which was the fifty-second anniversary of his birth, within arrow shot of the little tenement in Henley-street, where his glorious eyes had first opened to the light. During these 242 years whole libraries have been printed and published in refe rence to the works of this extraordinary man, sim ply in the way of commentary. Authors themselves of the greatest genius have written ponderous tomes about Shakspere and his marvellous productions. Illustrious dramatic poets, no less than others of comparative insignificance, have striven to aid the extension of Shalspere's popularity by alto rations and (as they conceived them to be) emendations ! Dryden, not less adventurously than Colley Cibber, dared with an almost sacrilegious audacity, to tam per thus with the integrity of th© original text. And besides all this impertinence of adapters, and all this loquacity of commentators, how affluent since the life-time of Shakspeare has not literature been of panegyrists both of himself and his incom parable masterpieces. Even during his life-time — a career extending over the latter half of the reign of Elizabeth and the first half of the reign of James—earnest eulogies of the " Immortal Bard," the " Sweet Swan of Avon," were sung in thrilling accents by Ben JOUSOIi and Elmund Spencer. Afterwards the glory of his fame was celebrated in the imperishable verse of Milton—was il lustrated by the authoritative pen of Johnson—was recognisd more and more distinctly in his native land by generation after generation. Until with the dawn of this nineteenth century it may be declared at fast to have been fully - and exultantly appreciated. Nevertheless, there is perhaps not a t• ingle name in the hi , tory of the literature of any time or of any country that has been covered with greater obloquy, either by jealousy or by ignorance, than that of the grandest poet that ever breathed the music of genius into human language. Pope said of him that "he wrote better and worse than any other man." Hume actually wrote of him (in his History of England) " as one born in a rude a g e [the age of Bacon, and Raleigh, and Sidney, and Spencer, and Burleigh], and educated in the lowest manners, [cin ,, James, it is well known, wrote to Shakspere with his own hand ; and Shakspere, it is no less well known, wrote one or two of his plays expressly at her Majesty's command, to be enacted, and they were so enacted, at the Court of Queen Elizabeth] with out any instruction either from the world [!] or from books." So much for Hume's sagacity. Again, has nit Voltaire talked of Shakspere as an "inspired barbarian ?" And even gone the length oillgiclaring that to his mind Hamlet—Hamlet, that grand phi losophic and poetic masterpiece—appeared r I" the production of a "drunken savage . Nay, to to be crown all—it was only the other day, just a year or two ago—that we read for the first time, be it said (in spite of all our profound admiration for this wayward man's own resplendent genius) with feel ings of scorn and contempt the dignified estimate of fli y p o ri t a i nt t l h y ink wrote Shakspere formed by Lord By ron ! Au estimate given to the world in one of the v o l umes of Moores Memoirs, edited by Lord Jo h n Ruisell—the en lightened estimate estimate of Shakespere's geniu s f ormed 'Thomas Om L o a r s d Byron, moore ..... w 4 11 , ). el l) on he ' t Shak spere a d— d humbug 1" Notwithstand ing all which absurdities, twithstanding the spleen of Pope, and the obtuseness ito and the envy ofYoltai re, and the of Hume, jealousy of Byro n —there, far ab ove even those lofty_ heads, shine for ever gloriously upon a pinnacle of renown those great men could never with their unit e d ce l e brity ha ve h oped tot a tain for themselves, the name and fame of.Shakspere. Foremost among the most genial of his • . s appreciators hav e b een th e gi ft e d critics of G ermany : witness this the views ex pressed upon this su bj ec t b y L ess i ng, i n his "Dra mat urgie," by H er d er i n th e " Blattenivon deuts c er Art and K unst, " b y Goethe in his " Wilhelm h Meister," by Tieck in his " Poetisches Journal," and last, and best of all by Schlegel in his popular " Lectures upon Dramatic Art and Literature." As to our English commentators, it would be diffi cult to adventure upon the enumeration even of the chief among their names—from Dryden, and Cib ber, and Rowe, downwards to Johnson and Ma lone, and Steevens, and Bowdler, and Ayscough— bringing the catalogue gradually down to our own days when the two rival illustrated editions were embellished, one by the pen of Charles Knight and the pencil of William Harvey, the other - by the 981 8 i 53 864 5i i 6 14i i 32 3 i 1061 25" 3531 751 5 4 Bfl za bi 6 10 1.0.6 20 25 25 St. 2i I 2'o 1 10 109 j 9 • 50 48 86 A 211 - i 20 32i I iT; 1f I 1 35 36 47 1 19i 4 24 26i 13 20 St. 118 19 99 100; pencil of Kenny Meadows and the pen of Barry Cornwall. Here—about a dozen years afterwards comes forth another elaborately illustrated and an notated edition of "The Plays of Shakspere :" an edition, however, in which, in addition to the matchless text, the sole attractions, are the notes aid the typography. The woodcuts profusely scat tered through the pages being ,!in truth, dia me t r i ca lly the oppo s it e of embellishments. Engravings in truth they ar e f or the most part se:miserably puerile in design, so fe e bl e in fancy, so utt er ly d evoi d of humour, so entirely wanting- in the attributes of either the graceful, or the grand, or the beautiful. that we conceive the kindest thing here to be done in their regard is to cover the artist's name over sub silentio, and to pass his pictorial efforts by, with—indifference. That is in one sense the most, and in another the least, they demandat our hands—indifference. Particularly w h en we bear vividly in our recollection the exquisitely graceful and humorous designs from the pencil of Kenny Meadows—designs, in the truest sense of the phrase, and surely that is grand commenda tion, in the truest sense of the phrase, Shakspereae. Not so with these by—but we forget ; we gene rously suppress the name, elsewhere a name of emi uence, and pass on with a sense of relief to Mr. Staunton's annotations. These in numerous in stances are manifestly the fruit of many years fami liarity with the text of Shakspere. They are the ripened results of long and happy meditation. Not sudden freaks of thought—jotted down upon the margin (as the edition it passing through the press) simply for the purpose of having something to say. A considerable number of them, certainly, appear to us superfluous. We its tentionally italicise to sis, because we understand at the very time when we write the words that the exception taken to these particular notes constitutes strictly and obviously nothing more than an individual objection. To other readers they may not be unnecessary. There fore it may, perhaps, be as well to let them stand— although precisely the same things have been said very nearly in precisely the same way in every other annotated edition that has preceded this one during the last hundred years. Supposing, how ever, instead cf persisting in these objections upon a matter, comparatively speaking, of little import ance—supposing, by way of example, we cull from among these manifold leaves one of these more blooming and ripened plums of annotative expla nation. In doing so we will deal fairly with our reader, we will open the book haphazard. It opens at page 181. It is in the fourth scene of the second act of Romeo and Juliet. The nurse is talking to Romeo about Mercutio. Nurse.—" An a' speak anything against me, I'll take him down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such Jacks ; and if 1 cannot 111 find those that shall, scurvy knave ! am none of his flirt-gills ; I am none of his skains mates." Upon this last sufficiently enigmatical sentence, what has Mr. Staunton to say for himself by way of elucidation. Quoth he : "The meaning of flirt-gills, is not far to seek. It implied, like fir-gig, another term of the same age, a wild, flirting, romping wench ; but skains mates has been a sore puzzle to all the commenta tors. Some have derived it from skein, a knife or dagger ; others suppose it a mis-pronunciation of kins-mates ; and Mr. Douce ventures a random conjecture that the skains in question might be skeins of thread, and that the Nurse meant nothing more than sempstresses ! The difficulty after all proves of easy solution. Th 3 word skain, I am told by a Kentish man, was formerly a familiar term in parts of Kent to express what we now call a scape grace or ne'er-do-well ; just the sort of person the worthy old Nurse would have entertained a horror of being considered a companion to. Even at this day, my informant says, skain is often beard in the Isle of Thanet, and about the adjacent coast in the sense of a reckless dare-devil sort of fellow." Enough : a solitary footnote, such as the foregoing, will suffice—ex uno disce OMMS. The work is throughout carefully edited, the annotations as alrea fly intimated being only so far, to our mind, ill considered, that they appear to us occasionally too abundant, too minute and even microscopic. In a literary sense the edition is entitled to, and no doubt will receive, a large amount and a high de gree of consideration. Thorndale ; or, The Conflict of Opinions. By William Smith. Blackwood and Sons. It would be difficult to deny to this volume the great merit of originality. We are unacquainted with any literary production strictly comparable to it, either considering it in regard to its design or in reference to its treatment. Although its aim is strictly ethical, its argument for the most part metaphysical, its colouring scrupulously artistic throughout, and although, beyond this, the parti cular mysteries it strives, upon occasion, to eluci date are chiefly, if not invariably, the inner mys teries of psychology, it bears about as slight a re semblance to the " Wilhelm Meister" of Goethe as the late Shelton Mackenzie's art-novel of " Titian" bears to the younger Disraeli's psychological ro mance of " Contarini Fleming." If there be any book at all that it faintly reminds us of in tone, we should say it was possibly Sir flumphry DAvy'e strangely impressive phantasy, " The Last Days of a Philosopher." The tone, indeed, is at once emi nently religious and eminently philosophical. And the effect of the whole is, in truth, to sum up all in a few words, exquisitely and profoundly pathetic. "Thorndale" comprises within it the thought of a lifetime. Its every syllable shows it to be the pro duction of a thoroughly earnest man, and that man a Christian gentleman. It affords a wholesome cor rective to the mass of frivolous rubbish squandered annually from the printing presses of the Unite, Kingdom, in the form of one-volumed, two-vo lumed, and three-volumed frivolities, half of them absurdly facetious, and half mawkishly sentimental. Mr. Smith's book is not merely written thought fully, but conscientiously. It is the production of an author desirous of neither wasting his own time nor that of his reader. And while it is undoubt edly, from first to last, an imaginative composition that is, purely intellectual, it is moreover at the same time almost. unintermittiugly fraught with en tertainment. The general character of the work may be conjectured readily enough by the discern ing from the second heading upon the title-page— that second heading, "The Conflict of Opinions," being of itself, we take it, sufficiently significant. Yet more clearly, however, may the genius of the narrative be recognised, even before its perusal, by a cursory glance down the synopsis of the five books completing the Diary of Charles Thorndale. In those five books, penned haphazard, just as the whim of the moment has seized him, that dying diarist has written down upon the very in stant—frankly, unreservedly very thought that has flitted across his pensive and dreamy imagina tion. The author, or rather, as he would fain have us regard him, the editor and reviser of the whole production, discovers at Mount Posilbpo the blotted and straggling manuscript of his deceased friend, long after that friend has been buried away under the green lap of the Neapolitan soil, fragrant with myrtles, and roses, and orange blossoms—another of the mani fold victims of that fairest but saddest of all the Angels of Death, Consumption 1 Thorndale, in his diary, lays bare to us his bears—his heart of hearts. He gives eloquent, and sometimes thrilling utter ance to all his doubts and aspirations. The pages are not less plenteously sprinkled with tears than they are minutely tesselated with printer's ink. There is a nerve tingling .in every sen tence. As we read on, we not only th ink the writer's thoughts but feel his feelings. It is thus variously in each book in due succession—it matters not whether the book is Thorndale elf , o m d s e Cy sp ri i l r , it th o e f hero of the DmeonidearnvCoisrtecricailaorince, the Utopi an . T o the book , dedicated to the secord of the opinions of the penultimate personage, namely Seckendorf, is ad mirably prefixed as a motto that thought of Vol taire, " Ah, croyez moi, 2,'erreur a son m6rite." The motto selected say the least for the of i hewt an 4l is enigmatical t enough , hardly required tube authenticated with the name of Wordsworth— " Sleeps the future, like a snake enrolled, Coil within coil." At the conclusion of Thcrndale's Diary we have elaborately unfolded to us, in two parts—preceded by an introduction and supplemented by a conclu sion—" The Confession of Faith of an Eclectic and Utopian Philosopher," dated A.D. 1850. The introduction endeavours to explain "This Crea tion of Nature and Man" to be " A Progressive manifestation of the Divine idea." Part One undertakes to define " The Development of the Individual Consciousness "—and Part TwQ 4 " The Development of Society." The whole of this somewhat daring Appendix—purporiing to be the Confessio Fidei of Clarence—constituting, in fact, the scheme of a New Philosophy. It is scarcely necessary to add that, as this volume of Thorndale hardly leaves one theme of emotional meditation untouched, we very often find ourselves dissenting, toto ccelo, from the views and senti ments herein advanced. Indeed, the second title of the book, " The Conflict of Opinions," involves this, perforce, as an admitted necessity. It is nct merely the reader who dissents, but the writer him self likewise very frequently. Besides, the argu ments_e being repeatedly placed by him in t h e mouths of various and conflicting interlocurtoefirsp,o/:2. (the writer) is often, in a manner, no ni s oco rawatist sable for the opinions propounded, r raote a rtc. For for those expressed by his in e o se tleYA pages h e i s, the aggregate moral ef but may cheerfully The book is elevated a h c o c w ep e t ve t r h , at re r s e p s o po us n le i l ity. li ele a v v a p t r in ec g ia in bl i y ts t t o en ad d v e a n n ey ee . elective and discerning class of Among the more r _ readers I in design, . a ca ncl i:: hardly therefor f e a ' its anther' reputation. 28i i 24i 7i 3 si i 19 i Paid 100 100 all 100 all ,100 [ lOO 1 5i 26/ i 5i