The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-25 00:00:00

O USE OF israeli stands thout a rival ily, however , se prominent manifested.. instances, his ive, cautious, nful delibera scarcely ever m. His eyes low but Sil' s the appear ;e by an effort air of super- )3T the l b t unwonted voice, y unhewonted voice, look , its whole 91? - Formed. 11 1 likened, and n, the trag'e ction upon a antagonist --- f as a glance' barb to the winged steel on. It is thus art of son of scorn an ple, inflicted hen taunted is overthrovrt .rs ago, that ion to " th e mpleting th e de outbursts mician, here , the highest of history, In Ministry: ists at large, , are so well s hardenill have en tered cants are ea: recover their T; and the irket. Th e udia renders Last week, 1 1 1 ce of 40-inch hirtings are ed to jacc) - ;e are firm 01 Domestics been held to Christmas. nd this coo- I a tendency • The trade alto so .activo ifactory, and fired. There connection branches of 3ady. Spin' ere has been piece goods• transaction. is period of not been b ° there is no f trade, an d the begin' tinu es mode' is, however , T any Per ss since last T.—Nothing xl numbers s' iron, 02°' BRADFORD' ht will address ie day between ecise time has, will preside at .NBURY.- -4t II on WedneS 'a -atreet--grA a, a persona' he meeting 01 support of the the motion of pledging the for the repre' app;ated, 1 to India and h of Januarh re her for sea. ;patched fron3 and Glasgow, on via, lasted ur played, Mar" awn. In the OD, six gatne a 7 and Hudson E TRAINING ppointed th e sent to Liver- Irina service. her ready for nd moor her n. sday after rem the rince's Dock, 4 not Dock' rescued kin?* w lies. Thl o the last two INGHAM.'" .E LosT —A ear Notting - I occupies a 7, and they r three raello iga ge d in the he afternoon' 3 they coup ted out thet mgh to get Walker, who r a tumbling under Arbloh Acly burieq• thy, but NO veyed to the the body of )t, and quita nplete ruin, 3 all the vaa' .--MoneAss- AND PAR s the engine Redear was 3olckow and ilway, wer ras so bow stoker von) was only b the persons s not right. I back, and condition. Ito recover' ty i and, as a and Cargo sought pro' way s Otero --Yettwastie IP IN TIO he burning scuttled by ken belong' shots vier° hull of the t, and even ,o the cargo ultimatel3 r deck. /I sc Wright , cargo will dock. Of e, but both up and her goo ds and L of the fr.) belongs ta ts, and the he passer bids is in- n inque st low-stree t, 1 the body under the examine a Freneb• He re: los-gtree ., lay moned rn" houle tthe. 11° s se nt ft , man bid morteo l n conge s " on of the f rom the 'w himse lf the blood id the de" Ifortablyt d restrict ;xtrao11 11 :,. MOO VilW MONEY 211ARXET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Bank of England, the Stock Exchange, and all places of business resort are closed, as usual, on Christmas day. Subjoined are the particulars of the Bank of Eng land return for the week ending Wednesday last, showing an increased demand for money, and a continued accumulation of the precious metals : Active Circulation Decrease .. Bullion .. Increase .. Rest .. . , 219,705,990 • • • • 40,265 19,148,997 • .. 124,628 • .. 3,105,199 Increase .. Public Deposits . 4,755 9,660,818 Increase . 134,047 Other Deposits • .. 13,149,007 Increase .. .. 542,876 Seven Day and other Bills .. 752,694 Decrease •• •• •• •• 11,168 Government Securities .. 10,808,591 ' No alteration, Other Securities .. .. 16,494,120 Increase .. 505,617 Notes Unemployed . • • 13,242,060 Increase 13,5,845 Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about £227,422, and the exports £208,822, exclusive of the following shipments direct from London to the Continent, during the week ending Thursday last Gold coin Boulogne Silver coin Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., give the following Its the prices of the American Securities : Redeemable. Prices. 'United States 5 per Cents 1867-1868 102 104 Do. 6 per Cent Bonds Alabama 5 per Cent. Bonds — 78 —l ,..entlicky 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-72 92 94 Maryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds 96 98 M assachusetts 5 per Cent. Str Bonds — 103 104 Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock lBB6 98 100 P ennsylvania 5 per Ct. Stock. I— 83 85 ,„Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 87 871 , l ellnessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. Divers 84 86 vlrginia 6 per Cent. Bonds .. 1886 87 89 Zirginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 1888 86 88 Boehm 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 90 92 I llinois Central 7 per Cent. .. 1875 81 83 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. 1875 80 82 Illinois Central 6 p er Cent: (Preelands) Vc. shares, 60 dols. paid Michigan Central 8 per Cent 1869 84 86 Do. do. shares 45 50 Nevi , York Central 6 per Ct , New convertible York Central 7 per Ct , convertible, from June 15, 1857..59 I- ) o. do. shares New York and Erie, 7 per Ct., 3d mortgage New York and Erie 7 per Ct., New Ilfive York and Erie, 7 per Ct., sinking fund Do. do. shares Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort , gage Str. Bonds, not cony 4 ' o . do., Ist. do. .. - 1883 1864 1833 1862 1875 18.59 1865 BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock Iper Cent. Reduced Annuities 971 / I New 3 per Cent. A nnu iti es Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Apr., 1885 lB/ .., 11 1dia Stock Ditto Debenture s Bonds, £l,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO Consols for Account March Jame. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid.. 39 1 36 9 Ditto £500 37 9 I bitt,o Small,-11d Exchequer Bonds, 1859, 34 per Cent .... 1001 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent. Ditto 1858, 4/ per Cent 95 i ~ehilian, 6 per Cent wexican 3 per Cent 2O/ Ditto Account Peruvian 41 per Cent — Ditto Account , Ditto (Uribarren), 4/ per Cent. .. 88 r 9 Itussian, 1822, ZPt., 5 per Cent e 113/ t , Ditto 4/ per Cent. °,,ardinian 5 per Cent 9Ol 'Vanish iper Cent. — Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. — Ditto Account - 3lf ... Ditto Passive Spanish Cora. Cert. of Coup. not funded 6l Turkish 6 per Cent. — Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Scrip — Ditto Account .„Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Venezuela, 5 per Cent. Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. 'Austrian, 10 Gu. A 5 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account, Jan. 11 96A 7 ad ZORD HARDWICKE A MIDSHIPMAN. Throughout the whole of the year 1818 Charles Yorke commanded the admiral's yacht, a tender, the Little Jane, a small vessel more or less con tinually employed in conveying despatches to and fro between Halifax and Bermuda—between the 4 still-veiced Bermootb es" and the capital of the Nova Scotian Peninsula. Is there not a glimpse at once of the precision of the old Scotch:admiral and of the perfectly cool and high -bred effrontery of the young English midship- Man in the. faint echo from a point of time lying far away there at the extremity of that perspective of forty years,? Dinner in the admiral's cabin, on board the Leander--corks flying—glasses replenished. Admiral (looking askance, with a grim watch fulness, at one of the youngest of his guests, then drinking hilariously).' Misturr Yawrk ! hadn't Ye betturr drink the champagne in toomblers ?" Middy.—" Thank y ou, Sir David. Here, waiter, oring me a tumbhsr. ' (Fills it to the brim, and then bending forward, glass in hand, with the Politest of smiles)—" Sir David, I drink your very good health." Admiral—grimmer than ever, and breathing hard pis " shut up" accordingly.—The Derby Ministry: Cabinet Pictures. By Mark Rochester. 3 11 n. BRIGHT, M.P., AT NEWCASTLE. Mr. Bright being unable to accept an invitation to address a public meeting in Newcastle expressed a desir e t o m ee t the executive of the Northern Re ' . °rlll Union, to confer with them as to the best cours e to be pursued in the present position of the !dorm movement. On his return from Glasgow he t herefore stopped at Newcastle, and met the execu ;!ve of the union at the Central Station Hotel on Thursday morning. Mr. BRIGHT detailed the points of his contem- Plated measures, as far as he had yet made up his mind upon them, which were discussed seriatim and at length. These comprised, we understand, a ti lting franchise for boroughs, £lO occupancy for e t:gullies, shorter Parliaments, vote by ballot, and s uch a re-distribution of seats as would give the treat towns an increased number of members. * Various suggestions were made respecting the 1 1 ,l'opriety of making the borough and county fran- Zeise similar ; or if the £lO rental was made the basis of an occupation suffrage in the counties, to ;nstitute a third franchise, which would include 'edgers in the boroughs, and a large proportion of working men in counties. Mr. BRIGHT said logically no reason could be adduced against manhood suffrage, but that the Question to be considered was, what was the best actical measure that could be carried through arliament in the present position of parties. He Was not wedded to any particular scheme, and was t he of gleaning information from bodies like ie Reform Union, representing large sections of the people, upon the subject. Mr. COWEN explained the position of the Union, a nd the work they had done during the past twelve ''enths. They had held upwards of sixty public Il lettings, and. in the aggregate had appealed to a bove 40,000 people. Last session they forwarded 0 petitions to the House of Commons, and their organisations in the different towns and villages in Pe two counties were in a very efficient state. He l aid before M r . B r i g ht what was int e nded to be rile by the Union between this time and February. every place of any importance in Northum- Mberland and Durham they would get up petitions ore the meeting of Parliament, and take such ot her measures from. time to time as might be found 1, - e,,,essary. -gr. BRIGHT expressed his gratification at the resultsand of the policy pursued by the Reform Union, said if o th er pl aces h a d d one as gre at an amount 0 Work the reform party would have been much S tronger than at present. e jhe i n t erv i ew , w hi c h was o f a s t r i c tly private I ,7 i aracter, concluded with the understanding that ,file the Union still held by their original pro ,tttnrine they were prepared to give Mr. Bright t o e tY possible assistance anal support in his efforts 1 , Carry a large measure of reform through the ZiTnie of Commons. The meeting lasted upwards two "" e tory natu r e . — hours, and was of a very cordial and satis- Newcastle C7ironicle. !TARE MARKET.-(YESTERDAY.) Share, Railways. 12.10 Amberg., Notting. Bost. and Eastern Junction I.lelfast and Ballymena Bir., 1/Vol., and Str. Val Birk., Lane., and Chesh Junction Blackburn • Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blkrock,&Passage Cornwall A rcves. no div Do. A Do. B unti 16p.c.per an ha sbeen pd.toß Dublin andßelfastJunc Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc East Anglian 13,14 Stoek Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 16f 1613 4 Stock, 11.6.3 11.6.3 Stock Stock 12i Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 25 Stock Stock Stock stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 10 Stock Stock Stock Eastern Counties Eastern Union A Stock Do. • do.• B Stock Do.Nrr.A.(lte.E.U3ds) East Kent Stock Stock 25 Stock Stock East Lancashire . East Suffolk . Do Edinburg and Glasgow Edin.,Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South Westn Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. do. A Stock Do. do. B Stock Gt. South.& wstn.(lred) Great Western Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle. Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds (Lancashire & Yorkshire Do. do. F £l6 Do. do. 29 shares Do. West hiding Union Do. Southport London and Blackwell Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast London & North Westn Do. Eighths London& South-Westn L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man., Shef., & Lincoln Metropolitan Midland Do. Birming. & Derby. Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) Do. Shares NeNdbastle and Carlisle New., Aber., & Herefd Newry & Armagh (def ) Newry, Warpt., & Ros Norfolk North. Counties Union North British Nor.Dev.Rail.SzDk. Stk. Do.A Stk.— Arec.no div. until 6p.c.hasbeenp dB Do. B Stock North-Eastn.—Berwick Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase Do. Leeds Do. York North London . N. &S.Westn., Hampstd and City Junction North Staffordshire North-Western No. & Sou. W. Junction Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver Peebles Portsmouth . Rhymney Scottish Central Scoth. N.E., Aber. Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock Shropshire Union Sittinzbourne ds Sheer South Devon South-Eastern South Wales SouthYoi ks.& Riv. Dun Do. do Staines, Wok., & Wok Stockton & Darlington Do.do. W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal. Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till Share! Railways. 25 Blythe and Tyne 1C per c. pref. (issued at £5O) Stk Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 20 Do. do. do. Shares took Caledon £lO, 44 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Stock Chester & Holyhd, Sipe Stock Do. do. 5 p. ct. 61 Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c 61 Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun Stock E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc . StocklE. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l Stock Stock Do. do N 0.2 Stock,Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Stock East Lanc. 6 per ct 5 E.& W. York. Jcn. fifths Stock Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Stock Furness, 5 per cent Stock Glas. &S West. g a. 5 pc Stock Great Northern, 5 p. et Stock Do. 5 Redm.,lop.c.pm pc Stock Do. 44 p. c. do. do. 100 Do.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pf Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) 4 Stock I p. ct. pref. Stock 50 rest West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct Do. Redeemable, 44 p ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et Do. Irredeemable, do.. Do. 5 p. ot. Redeem . l're f I Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf shares Do. do. 5 p. ct. pref Do Binning. guar. stock Do. Chesterguar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon. &Brig.spe. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ...No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. et Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Lon. & N. W. Cov. &Nun eaton; 5 p. et. 'Lon. &S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares 'Londondy & Cole, 4 shs Londondy.& Ennis 4 sh Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6 p. ct Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. Maryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent ... . Do. do. 1855 Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale Do. Preference, No. 1 ThamesHavenDk&Rail Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Cornwall Stock Stock Stock Stock ' 7 p.c. has been pd. to B Do. B West London . Do. Ist Class... Do. 2d Class . PREPERENI all 100 34 100 100 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock, 100 100 100 1613 4, Stock £3 Is. 174 all all 100 all 12i 12 Stocks Stock, all ) 100 6 100 100 100 100 all 12 Stock Stock Stock Stock 10 11 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Do. Mid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. st. Newport,Aber,&c. pref.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet, 6 p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p. c. shares Do. 5 p. c. Ext. Stock,lB46 Do. 5i p• c• Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way.Vai.Ex.Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Nth. Dev.ll aiL di Dsk.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. all all 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 8.13.4. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. C. No. I. Do. do. Quarrs,lB46 80. York, H. & S. Purch. North Staffordshire Ox. Wr. & Wol. 6 pc. Ist g Do. do. do., 2d gua. Do. 44 p.c. Db. stk. in perp Scottish Central, new pt Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 34 per c. pref. stock Do. Aberdeen.gua. 6 pc. Do. 7 p. o. pref. stock. South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 44 percent, South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6.) Do .44 per cent Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Ist is Do. New do., 2d issue South Wales, gua. 4 p.c Do. 44 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua. Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e. Do. 6 per cent Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. - ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 8- 1 66 68 14 11 29 31 93 041 871 88 451 4'. 41 5-,: 1Z 1 1 7 63c 641 47 49 31 33 88 451 ts 17 63! 4 107 i 1121 95: 1 95/ 6 51 381 102 i 3 '5 58 1 I 94k I 1 d 771 7 i 122} 133 Paid. Closing Business Price. Done. 12 14 95 97 68i 89 28 28 93 95 10 10, 107 108 22 94 133 135 1014 1051 551 551 55 57 87 a 2 12 13 p 12 13p 98 DUi d I d, 5i 6} 1124 113 115.1 1 I d 95} 951 38i 39i -d [O3 103 74 76' 11# 12i 6.5 67 3i 3d 58i 69 94 )41 , lf (11 4Sf 481 77 771 102 101 41 4 d 13 13 74 Si 30 32 7 5d 11l 113 28 28} 84 86 45 47 4 2d 37 38 741 751 76 77 13 15 9 11 33 31 161 100 100 100 100 all all all all all all all all 90 95 6 64 3 6 1 61 ARES. Paid.' C r ic i 4s ce. ing I Business Done. 49 51 96 98 1103 105 6 100 103 115 120 109 112 115 117 113 115 131 133 84 86 72i 73i 113 115 122 124 112 114 100 108 C 4 60 10 111 195 97 86 E 8 87 89 99 101 91 101 164. 174 10 10i 72 74 18 19 9 9 131 14 143 145 120 122 163 168 22 124 142 144 104_ 106 96 97 VI 11i 111 9 10 110 112 99 100 a die p I ip d 231 24} 121 123 106 108 101 103 loi 11 244 25 103 105 1 103 105 17 19 29 30 33 34 43 48 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Leasing Closing Business Pl"'"' Co.'s. Price. Done. Sharo Atlantic & St Lawrence Leased at 6 per cent.. Bom.,Baroda& Cent.lnd w i c; 5 percent Do. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. 1 Aug., 1872 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Central Oude (Limited); Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c Demerara Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c Do. C Shares Do. E Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore D 0.44 p.c. lids. pay.'s9 Geelong& MAT; ua.s p. c. Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B Do. 6 per cent. Pref Gt.lndial'enin.gua.sp.c Do. New, gua.s per cent Do. do Gt.S.of Ind. Lim.—Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. J Gt.W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with apt. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. 'l3 without opt Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 44 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Do. 41 p. c. Extension.. Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c. Do. Fourth do. : Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds Newßrunswick&Canda. Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc Class ACapitl.Share Do. do. Land do Do. do. B. Capital do Do. do. Land do Northof India Tramroad Limited, Scrip Oude (Limited) Scinde • 4 Do. Do. New Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. Flo. , e 7' St. Andrews & Quebec A Trinidad(Limited) Scrip BRITISH MINES. Shure' Mines. Paid. \ Closing I Business Price. Done. Alfred Consols (Philack) l 2.11.10 71 8/.! 81 20 pritish Iron Condurrow (Camborne) 2O ' 10 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 1450 460 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 'l7O 180 176} Great South Tolgus.. 17s 121 13 G.WhealAlfd.(Phillaci) 11.14.11 2/ 3 G. Wheal Vor (Helston) 8/ 1 Lady Bertha North Frances (Illogan) 81 71 81 North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 3 4 N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) nil. 71 81 -- Par Consols (St. Blaxy) 11 151 161 Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s I / SouthCaradon (St.Cleer) 21 405 415 • South C. Brea( Illogan). 2 21 3 S. Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9 230 240 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 4l 5 15 10 Tin Croft 9 35 31 UnitedMines(Gwennap) 40 - - Vale of Towey (Carm ) 12s 6d 4 West Baktset (Illogan) ll 22 23 W. Caradon (Liskezrd) 2O 130 140 Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5l 210 220 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 120 140 133 5 Wheal Edward (Cals.). . 51 2} 21 Wheal Kitty (U. Lelant 1.7.2 8 9 Wh'l Mary Ann (MeNhe) 8 41 46 15} - - Wh'l Trelawney (Lisk.) 41 28 30 FOREIGN MINES 20 Australian 1 Bon AccordCopper,Lim. 100 par I p 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.) 27 1 2 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim. 15 131 141 5 Do. Land and Mining - Co. all 11 2} 1 Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. of Jamaica ... d 40 Cobra Copper al l 4O 42 Copiapo l6 10 12 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 1 2 Fortuna 20 General • all 20 2 3 Linares all 7 81 8 5 Lusitanian 1 lifariquita all 1 1 New Granada all * 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.l lO p 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lea, Mining and Smelt all 41 54 5 Port Philip 1 1 1 30 Santiago de Cuba l6l 1 1* 28.2.81 United Mexican COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Share Securities. Paid. Closing Business Prices. Done. Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja. & July 100 116 117 1161 11 Do. 6 p.c.Fb.&Aug. 100 113 115 Do: 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. 100 113 115 N.8.G0v.9 p.c. Ja. &July 100 113 114 114 131 - Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - N. S.W. Gov. sp. C. Deb. 100 1011 102/ 102 NovaScotiaGov.6 p.c. St. 1131 Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 1131 1141 S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jandauly 100 112 114 1431 12 Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 111 113 112 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Share) Joint-Stock Banks. Paid. Price. i Done. Closing I Basistess AgrakUnttedServiceßk Australasia Stock Stock Stock 8 Stoc k k Stock Stock, Stock 10$. Bank of Egypt Bank of London Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanCo British North American Chtd. Bank of India, &c City Colonial Coin. Bank of Canada Commercial of London Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch Gen. Bk. o Switzerland Lon.Coar.Bk.otAustral. London and County London Joint Stock London & Westminster Nat. Prov. of England Do. new 27 28 2 1141' 621 63 100 20.11 100 1.0.6. Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 25) 25 1 Stock, National Bank New South Wales Orient. Bk. Corporation Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Do. New South Australia Do. New Union of Australia Do. New Union of London Unity Mutual Western Bk of London 17 18 - - 211 221 49 50 211 21/ 20 iB d n Bedford and Bletchleyl all !Di & N.W - - MISCELLANEOU B uc kinghamshire . ... 100 ILn &N W 99 100. Clyd es dale Junction. 100 Caledonia 104 1 06 Shari Miscellaneous. Paid . ~S Colchester, Stour Val . E all .U.ILE Cl 7 19 p r i ce. Zuwiness don. E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c. 100 ,Gt. North. 143 145 E Union,HarivichShs. all E.Counts. 4 41 , Do. Woodbridge . 100 - 10 Angio-Mexican Mint'.. all 13 14 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drci. 100 Caledonia 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited), all 250 280 Do. New lOO Do. — 25 Australian Agricultural 19 351 36 4 , 351 Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. West. 10 Australian Royal Mail . all Hartlpool.Dck.&Rail. all Yk.N.&Br 10 Berlin Water Works ... all 21 3k 31 4 Hull and Selby - - _ Do. 4 i Shares all Do. - - 50 British American Land 40 _ . Do. Shares all Do. — 50 Brit. & Irish Ma..Tel.A. all 40 42 London&Greenwich Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend. 100 Peto &Co. 94 96 100 Canada 321 112 116 Do. Barking Shares.. all Do. — 10 Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim ) all 9 / 10 1 Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ci. 100 Norfolk.. Stock Cop.3lin.of Eng.&Smity, all Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. — - 25 Do. Preference 71 per ct all 24 25 Manc.,Buxtn. & Matk all LN W&M 2/ 1 5 Crystal Palace. Midsb.& Redcr, g. 6 c. all Stk.& Dar • 5 Do, Preference all 5 5 Mid.BrcdfordPrf. Stk. 100 Midland .99 161 20 Eastern Steam all 2 2 Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 pm Stock Electric Telegraph lOO 111 113 112 guaranteed sp. c. 5. 5.6. E.Counts. 4 * p 5 En g . & Aust. Co p .St.Co all ! 1 11 11 Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. Do. do. 6 per cent. . all Do. 9 Europ.&Am.Stm.(Lim.) all 14 14 11 i Do. Fixed 5 per cent'— . all ll _ L D & o. N iv 1 20 GL Iron ScrewCol.(Lim , all 15 Gen. Steam Nayigation. 14 P re ston and Wyre. I a -- & L.Yk. . 20 London Discount 5 1 Icl Do. 1 Shares A. all Do - 4 Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co. , all 11 1 1 11 1 Roystn,Hitch.,& Shep 100 Gt. North 142 144 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all --. Shtlloth.&Gol.g.sp.c. 1811 6 Lan.& Yk 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 6 7 Shrowsbry& Hereford all T Brassey gi 91 25 National Discount C 0... 5 1 /d 41 South Staffordshire .. all APClean . 101 101 10 Netherlands Land 6 Wear Valley, g. 6p. c. all Stk.& Dar 10 Do do all 1 2 Do. do. ~ , .......... all Do. 5 Do 8 p.c.Pref.,iss.at ldis all 11 2 11 1 Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West. 93 95 100 N.l3r.&NoyaScotiaLand 80 15 18 Wimbledon& Croydn. all L.&Brgtn 8 9 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 4 1 20 North of Europe Steam all DOCKS. s 1 Oriental Gas 1 Do. New Shares lss. 4 dis par 5 Peel Rimer Land & Min all 24 3 Sh are Docks. I P .m Closing "liminess Price. I Docks. 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam. all 81 83 82 50 Do. New lO 12 13 20 Red Sea & Ind. Telegr 5 i ip Stock Commercial ............ 100 50 Rhymney Iron Stock Do 4 perCent.Pref.Min. 100 15 Do. New all 71 8 Stock East and West India... 100 . 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 60 61 1 60/ i Stock London ................ 100 1 Scot.Austrin.lny.(Lim ) all 130 140 Stock St. Katharine.......... 100 25 , South Australian Land all 38 40 Stock Southampton .......... 100 1 Submarine Teleg. Scrip all il* Stock Victoria ............... 100 101 103 1 Do. do Registered all ; 1; , 20 ,Do New .............. 18 id 4 p 1 20 l iT ir r u t pi Ln e . io Co vi o,f o Ul aa rlan 2851. 10 -12 THE PUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBgIt 25, 1858, FOREIGN. REFORM .211EL'772V - (; AT LEEDS. Railways. p aid. Closing I Business Price. Done. We stated yesterday that a public meeting of the inhabitants of Leeds, convened by the mayor (Sir P, Fairbairn), in pursuance of a numerously signed requisition, was held on Wednesday morning, to consider the subject of Parliamentary Reform, but that in order to afford an opportunity for all classes to be present, it was adjourned to Thursday even ing. The adjourned meeting accordingly took place on that evening, at the victoria Hall, when there were nearly 3,000 persons present, the ma jority of them being of the working classes. In the absence of the mayor, Mr. J. D. Lii?ock was called to the chair, and was well supported by many influential inhabitants of the town. The CHAIRMAN said they were met to exercise a most important constitutional privilege; and it was the pride and gloty of their country that they could assemble togethero express their wishes on all the great and important subjects that affected the wel fare and wellbeing of society. (Hear, hear.) The great matter which was now before them was a reform in the representation of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) One strong reason why he deemed that such a reform was necessary was, that he did not believe that the House of Commons as at present consti tuted faithfully represented the feelings and wishes of the people. (Applause.) If it did, why was it that those great measures of liberty—Catholic Emancipation, the abolition of the Test and Cor poration Acts, the abolition of the Corn Laws, Municipal Reform, and the Emancipation of the Jews—had been so long delayed ? Why had the voice of the people not been heard in Parliament, and why had those great measures, against which nothing was now said, though so many evils had been predicted—why was it that those great mea sures had been delayed so long ? It was because the voice of the British. House of Commons was not heard so distinctly as the voice of the people. (Hear.) If it had been, the House of Lords, who listened solely to the voice of the House of Com mons, would long before that dayhave granted those reforms to which he had referred, but the House of Commons did not knock loud enough at the door of the House of Lords, and the consequence was, that the Lords said, " The people don't care about these things, and we don't care;" and the consequence was, that those measures were delayed a great deal longer than they ought to have been. (Hear.) Now, they;could not be surprised that such should be the result when they considered the present con stitution of the House of Commons, when they found it stated that there were 71 boroughs, each having a population of not more than 10,000, who sent 117 members to Parliament, and that there were 54 boroughs returning 89 members. He was not surprised that the result should be what he had stated. The truth was that the Lords exercised too great an influence over the election of members of the House of Commons—(hear)—and when they found that, out of an adult population of six mil lions, the franchise was only enjoyed by one ; and that 330 members, more than half the whole num ber, were returned by 200,000 electors, one-fifth of the electoral body, he was not surprised at the pre sent apathy, and want of zeal in the cause of the people shown in the proceedings of the House of Commons. (Hear.) What then was the remedy for this evil? There were three important mea sures in his opinion which were necessary. One was, a considerable extension of the suffrage ; second, the enfranchisement of many large and im portant boroughs ; and third, the disfranchisement of a great many of those snug boroughs which were under the entire influence and control of members of the House of Lords. (Applause.) The extent to which that suffrage should go was a matter upon which reformers were greatly divided in opinion ; and they of the middle classes might, perhaps, be considered by some of their more ardent friends as rather timid. It might be thought that because they had obtained the franchise themselves they were not satisfied and willing to extend that franchise as, far as their more ardent friends would desire, but what they asked them to do was this : They asked the more advanced reformers to go with them so far as they co ald— (hear, hear)—for they might rely upon it that it was their wisest and best policy; and when they had gone with them as far as they could, they could then strive to go a little further, and take them with them. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) This was the policy of wise men ; but if, instead of that, they were determined to pass a resolution which was in opposition to their wishes, and which they could not conscientiously support, they would be under the necessity of withdrawing from them. (" Oh, ch," hisses, and disapprobation.) This did not alarm him, for he told them what he believed would be the practical working of any such im prudent proceeding. (No, no.) If they passed a resolution that night which was not in accordance with what those around him believed to be the policy of this country, and they could not go with them, the consequence would be that they would stand alone—(" no, no," and renewed disapproba tion)—or they would secure nothing. Therefore, he would urge them most sincerely on that occasion to go together; to sink their minor differences ; and if they thus acted together with heart and hand, they would be able to procure for those be fore him an advantage and position which they did not at present possess, and which, if the more ad vanced reformers did not go with them in this way they would be•sure to forfeit. Mr. EDWARD BAINES wzs loudly applauded on rising to move the first resolution. He congratu lated the people of Leeds upon meeting under cir cumstances so immenselymo re pl eas ant and favour able than they met under on a similar occasion, in .Antwerp & Rotterdam Ardennes 5 G Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessaa Carmeaux Mine & Rail Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley Great Central of France Gt. Luxem. Con. shs Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian Lucca & Pi stoj a, 5 p.c.pf Lyons and Geneva — P cl 1 I} I 27. 28 7 71 4i 41 Pi 1 31 - aria Antonia Do. do. New . Namur and Liege .. Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France Do. New Shares .. Norwegian Trunk Pref. Ottoman, gala. is per cent Paris,Lyons, and Medit. Paris and Orleans ...... Recife& S. Fra'n. (Pero.) g - ua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) Riga and Dunaburg Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref. Sambre and Meuse. Do. 54 per cent. Pref. Southern of France West Flanders Po. 5 p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France. Western of Austria ... Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand 1817, in favour of those great principles of reform they had lived to see carried out and triumphant, and the benefits of which they were enjoying at this day. His opinions upon the subject had never altered. He had always thought that our repre sentative institutions were the glory of our land, and the chief support of the liberties of England. He had alwayabeen anxious to free them from every defect and abuse, and to extend the franchise as fast and as far as the moral and intellectual im provement of the people justified us in extending (" Hear, hear," and. cheers.) He venerated the constitution of his country. He believed it was the means of giving us a greater amount of true and well -regulated liberty than existed in any other country on the face of the earth. He also venerated the Reform Actor 1832, which he among others did his hest to obtain. (Hear, hear.) But nothing was perfect. It was i n va i n t o sa y that the, institutions should be immutable when the people for whom they existed were changing and ever im proving. (Cheers.) We lived in an age of great and rapid improvement, and it was a happy circum stance that we had now arrived at another of those great constitutional epochs which would be consi dered memorable in the history of our country, which called for another great improvement in the representative institutions of our land. (Cheers.) The fact which he had mentioned of the early pe riod at which the borough of Leeds took a part in this great question of reform was one consideration which led him to think that it became them to meet and show their interest in those principles in which their fathers took a part, and who struggled in times less favourable than those in which we lived; and he thought it would be a most unworthy thing on the part of the People of Leeds, if, when they knew the question of reform was to occupy a most important part in the deliberations of the next Parliament, they manifested no concern in the , matter, they sat still and were perfectly indifferent —they, who had been professing year after year that they saw defects which ought to be remedied, and improvements which ought to be made in our institutions, when the time came they said nothing whatever, but allowed a measure to be introduced without manifesting the least interest on the sub ject. (Hear.) He thought it became them to meet, and he trusted that that meeting which, as had been said by the chairman, was the first great poli tical meeting that had assembled in that hall, would be a meeting that for many years hence they would look back on with pleasure and honest pride, as a meeting altogether in its tone, spirit, and resolutions, worthy of the inhabitants of this important borough. The resolution he had to move was " That this meet ing is decidedly of opinion that an extensive and effective measure of reform in the representation of the people in the House of Commons is of urgent im portance. ' After reading the 2d and 3d resolutions intended to be submitted, in order that the meeting might understand better What was to take place, Mr. Baines proceeded to show how nearly they were in accordance with their friends the Parlia mentary Reform Association of Birmingham in the line that was proposed for adoption. He said he held in his hand an address from the Reformers of Birmingham to the Reformers of Great Britain and Ireland. It was signed by Mr. Muntz, the son of the gentleman who for so many years was the popular representative of that great town, an d there they declared their principles under these three heads :-Ist, a large extension of the suffrage ; 2d, vote by ballot—(cheers)-3d, a more equal appor tionment of members to population. (Hear, hear.) These were the same things which they asked the meeting to advocate and to resolve in favour of, and they added one thing more—namely, a shorter duration of parliaments. (Cheers.) If the Reformers of England should unite to claim those great prin ciples, and should then watch to see that they i were properly carried out in detail by P ar li amen t, e was persuaded that we should have to date from the year 1859 another great and essential improvement in the institutions of our country. (Hear.) He would now state the reasons which convinced him that a great extension of the suffrage was a measure that would be just, safe, and expedient. (A voice, " What extent?") He did not define the extent. He thought it not desirable ; but the meeting should infer for themselves from the facts that he laid before them and the principles he should express. (Hear, hear.) His first reason for thinking that the suf frage might be extended with safety was this, that he thought now, and lie always thought, that the Reform Act of 1832 did not extend the suffrage so far as it might be extended with perfect safety —(cheers)—and that being so, he called upon his fellow-townsmen and his fellow-country mcn to testify whether the suffrage was not much too limited now. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) And now he wished to state his reasons for thinking that it was too limited, believing that you need no longer confine the suffrage, as it was then con fined, mainly to the middle classes, but that it might be very well extended to a large number of the workint , classes of this country, and that they were morally and intellectually entitled to have the franchise thus extended to them. (Cheers.) His first fact was founded upon returns which he found in the census of education taken in the year 1851. It was a most satisfactory return ; it showed an immense advancement in the education, and there fore in the intellectual condition of the people of this country. He did not know how anyone could hear or read the figures he should give, resting as they did upon official authority, without delight. It was stated that the number of day scholars in the year 1818 was 674,883. He asked them to bear that in mind. In the year 1833, a little after the Reform Act had passed, it had risen to 1,276,947; but in the year 1851, at the date of the last census, it had risen to 2,144,378. (Cheers.) So that they had the day scholars in England between theyears 1818 to 1851 multiplied threefold. And now, re member that it was the day scholars of 1818 who became the voters of 1833, because the men of their day were those who were in school ten, twelve, or fourteen years ago, and therefore the state of edu cation in 1818 showed the state of the voters in 1833 ; and so it might be said that the state of edu cation in 1851 showed not exactly what votes were now, but what they would be some four, five, or six years hence. He was sure the whole of them would admit that Sunday Schools had rendered an immense benefit to their country. (Cheers.) Hear what the numbers of Sunday scholars were in those years. In 1818 the number was 477,225 ; in 1833 it had risen to 1,548,990; and in 1851 it had risen to 2,407,542—that was five times as many as were found in the Sunday Schools in 1818. Did not these facts prove, beyond all dispute, a very great improvement in the intellectual condition of the people of this country? (Hear, hear.) Lest it should be said that he overlooked the fact of the growth of the population during the time he would mention that he did not do so, but the proportions were those that the day scholars and the Sunday scholars bore to the population. There was one day scholar for every 171 of inhabitants in 1818; in 1833 there was one day scholar for every 111 inhabitants ; in 1851 there was one day scholar for every 81 inhabitants; an improve ment of more than double in the proportion which the scholars bore to the population. With regard to Sunday scholars, there was in 1818 one Sunday scholar for every 24 of the population ; in 1833, one in 9 ; in 1851, ono in 71 of the population, showing an enormous improvement in the number of persons found in Sunday schools between these years. The advance was great, rapid, and continuous ; and it proved beyond all possibility of dispute that there must be a much higher degree of education, and therefore a much higher degree of intelligence, in the latter period than in the former. Mr. Baines gave many other facts, upon which he founded strong arguments in support of an extensive and effective measure of parliamentary reform, and con cluded, amidst great applause, by moving the reso lution which he had already read. Mr. W. BROWN seconded the resolution. All the great political parties in the state, whether Tory, Whig, or Radical, had declared through their leaders that the time had arrived when the consti tution of the House of Commons required a large and a liberal renovation, in order that it might be placed on a wider and more popular basis, and re present more truly than it now did the wants and requirements of the people. (Hear, hear.) It was felt and acknowledged that there were large num bers of men—worthy, industrious, and intelligent men—both in the counties and the principal manu facturing towns of the kingdom, well fitted to ex ercise with advantage to the State that franchise of which they were now deprived. The large increase of population in some districts, and the progress of material prosperity and general intelligence of the people, demanded, in his opinion, a redistribution or transfer of the members now representing the smaller boroughs, which were principally in the agricultural districts, to new, larger, and.more po pular constituencies, together with a large exten sion of the franchise, based upon worth and intelli gence. He maintained that this would not be a re volut:.onary but a trulyconsery at ive measure—a mea sure tending not to:uproot anddesti oy,but to renovate and strengthen. It would make the basis of the constitution broader, and add to its stability and greatness, by embracing a larger garrison to up hold and defend it. (Hear, hear, and applause.) They had, certainly, not now the corrupt and fin grant abuses to deal with which existed under the old, the " rotten borough" system, which the Reform Bill of 1832 extinguished ; but there were still great defects and anomalies to rectify. He had no desire to speak of class interests, or to excite class feelings. He wished to see all classes in that great community, both manufacturing, agricultural, and commercial, blended in one common prosperity, and working together in peace and harmony ; but he did desire to see the activity and the intelligence of the commercial communities more fairly and fully represented in Parliament than they now were. He believed that the time had come when Parliament would have to deal with this important question in a large, a liberal, and an enlightened manner. (Hear, hear.) He believed that the opinion had gained ground that the House of Commons, as at present constituted, did not represent the wealth, the population, and the intelligence of England as it ought to do, and it was these feelings and this conviction that had induced him to come forward on that occasion to second the resolution which Mr. Baines had proposed. (Loud applause.) The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was carried unanimously, and with acclamation. Mr. CARTER moved, and Mr. Councillor Mus- GRAVE seconded the next resolution—" That such measure of reform should include a large extension of the suffrage, with the protection of the vote by ballot ;" to which Mr. Councillor NEWTON moved, as an addendum—" Such extension of the franchise to include in England and Wales every male per son of full age, and not subject to any legal inca pacity, who shall occupy, as owner or tenant, any premises which are rated to the relief of the poor ; and also, in counties, the occupiers of houses paying a rental of £lO per annum."—Mr. 1). CAMPBELL seconded the amendment. The CHAIRMAN then put it to the meeting, and declared• it to be carried, the majority being about three to two. Mr. JOHN HOLMES then moved, " That such measure of reform should also secure a representa tion more in accordance with• the wealth, popula tion, and intelligence of the country, with a shorter duration of Parliaments than that fixed at present by law." In explanation of the course which he had pursued in voting, he stated that he did not wish to vote against the amendment, nor yet in its favour, although he was prepared to vote for the original proposition. He was sorry, therefore, that the Chairman had not put the original motion, be cause he believed the decision was not that which the, meeting really meant. (Disapprobation.) He might be mistaken, but it would have been more satisfactory had the amendment and the original proposition been put together, so that the real de cision of the meeting w ou ld have been made clear. Mr. PERRIGO seconded the resolution, and on being put it was carried. Mi.NliwToN then moved the adoption of a petition to Parliament embodying the above reso lutions. The propositions having been adopted, three cheers were given for Mr. Bright, after which Mr. NEWTON moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried by acclamation. 24 25 9/ !,1 21 22 444 401 - -p 8/ 9/ 3 1 351 331. 55 .56 ip 71 8 '23 2'31 5 6. 1 - 23 241 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. all 9 all ipar p par ip par ip •61 14 d 78 82 75 78 73 76 iP 161 1100 'lOO 100 1. 3.0. 2a. Ed , 2 all 5 100 all 1 I}p icti its3t ----- -- P 1 I P-- .1,4 Closing Business Price. Done. 4} I 511 108:1 9 81 9 17 18 36 37 76 78 91 92 211 211 ipPJ 16,14* 3 ¢ 1d 106 108 106 108 105 107 99 100 181 19 204 201 id d I r) 2 13d1 4 3d 1 111 ., 21i 24 iP AP I par p par pt par }p'l BRFORM MEETING AT BOLTON. A meeting of non-electors was held on Thursday night, in the Temperance-hall, Bolton, " for the purpose of discussing the question of the necessityfor Parliamentary reform, the basis on which it should proceed, and how far the scheme of John Bright, Esq., M.P., is entitled to popular support." The hall was about one-half filled, and a t t w enty m i nu tes to eight o'clock Mr. Crook, M.P., Mr. James Staton, and other members of the Non electors' Committee, ascended the platform, and were loudly cheered. Mr. Wm: Eaton was called to the chair. Mr. J. HODSON, an operative cotton spinner, moved the first resolution :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that it is the undoubted right of every man of sound mind and untainted with crime, who has attained his majority, to vote in the elec tion of members to serve in Parliament ; but that it is prepared to support any measure that shall meet with the concurrenceof reformers generally." He thought it the birthright of every man in Eng land to have a voice in the making of the laws by which he had to be governed. Mr. W. HARRISON seconded the motion. Mr. J. STATON supported it, and recommended the meeting to accept household suffrage, as the most they could get under present circumstances, whilst, at the same time, they asserted their claim to universal suffrage. A working man, named NEWTON, spoke in favour of manhood suffrage, and moved as an amendment, " That this meeting recognises manhood suffrage, and as men will contend for nothing less." Mr. Wm. WITHERINGTON seconded the motion, and on a show of hands the motion was dechred to be carried, though the division was a very close one, and the show of hands had to be taken twice. IRELAND. DUBLIN, FRIDAY. GALWAY AND AMERICA. Yesterday a most influential meeting was held at the Mansion-house, the Lord Mayor presiding, to consider what means can best be taken. to secure the establishment of increased postal facilities be tween Ireland and America, via Galway. The Oak room was densely crowded ; and the assembly com prised some noblemen, members of Parliament, and all the leading mercantile men of Dublin, without distinction of creed. or party. Several practical speeches were delivered, conspicuous among which were those of Mr. Codd, as spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Vance, M.P. Mr. Guinness, Mr. Grogan, M.P., Mr. J. Ennis, Mr. W. H. Cogan, M.P., and Mr. W. Long, ex high sheriff of the city. _ THE ARRESTS.-THE PHCENICAN OATH. . _ A few additional facts which transpired at the secret investigation now holding in Cork are made public in the localtpapers of yesterday. The Constitution says,—" Nothing could exceed the apparent levity and carelessness of the prisoners during the inquiry. They appear to be confident that the evidence against them will be so weak as to insure their release within a brief period. The evidence of the approver is very conclusive, and contains the proceedings at several meetings of the society at which he was present. He also deposes to two oaths having been administered to the mem bers of the society by a man named Cotter, for whom an active search has been instituted by . the police. The terms of the oath were very nearly as follows : " ' I have something to tell you which will be a benefit to you and to the country. I can tell it you if you promise to keep it secret. I have promised to keep it secret. " An oath of secresy was then administered, after which the following : _ _ " ' I, A. 8., do solemnly swear that I will, to the utmost of my power, endeavour to subvert and overthrow the Bri tish Government ; that I will join with and assist any fo reign army which mayarrive in this country with that ob ject; and that I will obey and carry out the orders of my superiors in this society to the best of my ability." " Such are nearly the words of the oath as de posed by the witness from recollection. All the prisoners have been identified as taking part in the conspiracy. Yesterday the inquiry was resume d , and, the direct examination having terminated, the ' witness was cross-examined by Mr. Downing. The progress made is necessarily slow, in consequence of the evidence having to be taken down in writ ing. The cross-examination had not concluded at the adjournment of the Court last night. It is expected that the inquiry will be terminated to morrow evening. The witnesses from Skibbereen, named Ambrose and Bevan, were escorted to the gaol by a strong guard of police. It is expected that one of them will be examined this day. Cot ter, the person who administered the oaths, has been arrested in England, where he had fled to elude discovery." In the N or th the excitement is quite at an end. No fresh arrests have been made, and the sudden emigration of suspected patriots continues to attract attention. The Banner of Ulster thus reports : " It is almost unnecessary to state that no further arrests of suspected parties have taken place in Belfast. It has come to our knowledge, however, that the Reign of Terror' has so far been estab lished by the feeble lesson already taught, that the Phoenix' and Riband' brotherhood have for the present wisely ,suspended their meetings sine die. Another result of Mr. Tracy's little swoop has been to give a fresh impetus to the previously flagging emigration trade. Several promising young men,' some of them with families, who have had lately no thoughts of Australia, California, or Fraser's River, have suddenly conceived the idea of at least aban doning our diggings,' and already ' made tracks' in search of other more secure from the vi s it s of the Peelers in disguise. We learn, from the coun try, that fear and trepidation have been widely spread by the Belfast arrest. A master tailor in the quiet and unsuspected town of Ballynahinch, has lost four of his unlooked-for sortie. It is not known whether they have gone to join Walker's Filibusterers or to swell the ranks of the grand army in New York, which is preparing to invade Skibbereen." TENANT RIGIIT IN ULSTER. The Derry Standard (Presbyterian organ) an nounces the re-establishment of the Ulster Tenant Right Association—another Phcenix poked up from the ashes of Irish agitation. The first business (?) meeting of the body is fixed for Wednesday next. Is there no sufficiently ardent patriot living to try his hand at the reopening of Conciliation-hall ? This is the season of merriment, and the speculation might take, along with the Christmas pantomime, Pell and his bones, or any other seasonable amusement. EDUCATION MOVEMENT. Thu people of Belfast have taken the initiative in a movement which if carried out can scarcely fail to further the progress of Irish education. The object in view is the establishment of a class of public preparatory schools for the Queen's Colleges, intermediate between the National Schools and the Queen's University. To this, says the Northern Whig : " The recent Endowed Schools Commission plainly pointed—and it is generally agreed by the supporters of a liberal and perfectly unsectarian national education that our Queen's Colleges will never be fully developed until we have schools analogous in design, but not identical in system, with Rugby, Eton, and the other great di s t r i c t schools in Engl an d, where boys are educated into students, and are prepared for the more matured and extended sphere of the University." The Whig supplies the following outline of the meeting : " Yesterday, in the Town-hall, a number of noble. men and gentlemen met to consider the deficiency of educational institutions in the north of Ireland, and especially the want, generally felt, of a high class of public schools for classical and scientific instruc tion. A committee was appointed to arrange for a public meeting, to be held in Belfast, on an early date, of those interested in the establishment of intermediate schools, on a non-sectarian basis, with a view of memorialising the Government, and of adopting such other measures as may seem best fitted to carry out their views. The following noblemen and gentlemen were present—the Mayor in the chair :—The Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, Lord Massereene, Lord Lurgan, Mr. Wil liam Kirk, M.P., Rev. Dr. Cooke, Professor Gib - son, Rev. John Scott Porter, Rev. Mr. Jones, Messrs. Robert Grimshaw, James Bristow, Thomas M'Clure, William Dunville, G. 0. Wilson, R. M. Wilson, William Bottomley, Thomas Sinclair W. Coates, J. Gibson, J. Herdman, and W. Muilan ; and the secretaries, the Rev. Dr. M'Cosh and Mr. J. Hamilton." The foregoing list embraces names of all religious creeds but one. The Roman Catholics have stu diously severed themselves from the movement, and have thus given their opponents fresh grounds for charging the whole body with subserviency t o th e intolrant policy with which Dr. Cullen inaugurated his accession to the office of Papal Delegate in Ire land. Even Bishop Denvir seems to have flung his old liberality to the winds, and although resid ing on the spot made no sign of sympathy with the object contemplated. Share' 20k 201 100 100 100 all all 8 all all all all 1 100 100 all 100 all 9 81 201 5 1 i 171 21; 21 1; 34 491 & 77 I ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE. The Belfast Banner gives the following account of an attempt to assassinate a respectable farmer. The motive is unexplained, but it appears to have had no bearing on the agrarian or any other con spiracy : " On Saturday evening last, between the hours of 8 and 9 o'clock, in the hitherto peaceable town land of Hillhall, near Lisburn, a most atrocious at tempt was made to murder William Wilson, a highly respectable and esteemed farmer. On the above-mentioned evening, while his manservant was in Lisburn, and he was alone, a man unknown to him, called upon him for a newspaper. This per son had been engaged with a neighbouring smith, named Scott, for about five weeks, and is supposed to be a ticket-of-leave man. On receiving the paper he said he should return it in half an-hour. When he came to return it, Mr. Wilson was foddering his cattle, in the absence of his man servant. He was accosted by a voice, You are suppering up ;' and while he was in the act of fas tening a rail, his back being turned, his assailant seized a massive grape,' and struck him a despe rate blow on the head, felling him to the ground. However, as he was a robust and st rong man he pulled the ruffian to the ground by his legs before the second blow was given. Then a fearful contest ensued, and, though Mr. Wilson must have suffered weakness from a copious effusion of blood, h e suc ceeded in overmastering th e f e ll ow, whom he tied in the house, where he remained until the autho rities arrived. The doctor was in immediate attif.- dance, and good hopes are entertained that Mr. Wilson will soon recover." THE GREAT CHESS MATCH.—Mr. Morphy and M. Anderssen continued their match on Wednesday, play ing two games. The first was an execs singly short 0110, M. Anderssen losing his queen early, and the moves ex tending to only 21. Mr. Morphy consequently war it. They then commenced a second game, in which the Ame rican player was also the victor. The games now stand thus—Mr. Murphy has won two, M. Anderssen one, and one has been a draw, t COMBINATIONS AMONG PRINZ:CRS. (From the Times.) A recent trial in the Court of Exchequer has dragged once more into the light of day those prin ciples and proceedings of Trades' Unions which were so effectually exposed in the case of the Amalgamated Engineers some six years ago. It is not often that the actual operation of these societies can be clearly brought before the public, and the lesson, at the present moment, is far too instructive to be lost. Readers in general will require to be informed that the leagues in question are by no means confined to those - purposes of mutual sup port which association naturally promotes. They are not Merely unions, but combinations —or; anised bodies, charging themselves with the abolutc regulation of their particular trades,. in defiance alike of economical laws and individual liberty. in the case of the engincers the society was leagued and bound t o keep the trade as select as possible, by limiting the number of appraitices, and to enhance the remuneration of the workmen by im posing terms upon employers and employed together. In the case of the Printers' Union the objects are similar, and they appear, indeed, to be so devised that, if they could be once accomplished, masters and men throughout the kingdom would simply be the slaves of the Union Committee. Fortunately the very violence of the principles defeats their end, and the society can by no means extend its control over the whole of this important trade. Here follows a sketch of its operations, as illustrated by the case of " Harrison v. Pearce Supposing a man desirous of getting his bread as a letterpress printer, he has, of course, the option of joining the Trade's Union or not. This option, however, although representing one of the simplest of personal rights, the Union does its best to render merely nominal, for it affixes a stigma and penalty on all who choose to take care of themselves and manage their own concerns in their own way. A printer not belonging to the Union is Called a " rat," and Union men positively refuse to work in his company. If in any printing-office the hands engaged were Union men that office would be abso lutely closed against any independent operati ve , however excellent might be his character or his skill. If the employers ventured upon taking him all the rest would leave, so that on his very first entrance into his trade a young artisan finds - him self debarred as far as possible from employment by men assuming to be his benefactors and protec tors. Let us next suppose that, with these terrors hanging over his head, he joins the Union, and accepts the chances of membership rather than fight single-handed against the machinations of a league. From that hour he surrenders every particle of personal independence and individual freedom. He is the slave of an unseen and distant conclave, whose orders are imperatively conveyed to him, to be obeyed at his peril. To begin with, certain large establishments are closed in his face. He is positively bound not to accept employment in the offices of the Times or the Queen's Printer, or is those of the Morning and Evening Star, or Morning Post, besides which, wherever lie may be engaged, he must resign his engagement if any non-Union printer is called in to work by his side. Thi s i s but the commencement of his slavery, for he cannot even put a price upon his own work or measure his own labour. The Committee assumes not only to nominate the places of his engagement, but to fix his wages for him, and determine the time and period of his exertions. All this is no longer matter of his own choice, capacity, or speculation ; he is a mere unit in a mob—a living and a thinking creature, but with no freedom in the exercise of his will or power. These are the conditions of his daily calling, which, underpenalty of proscription, and, if the society could insure it, of starvation, he must needs accept. The ease came out with remarkable clearness in the quarrel at Sheffield which occasioned the trial before us. The plaintiff was a newspaper proprie tor in that town—a sort of head-quarters of the Printers' Union, and the defendant pursued the same profession in the same place. In the plaintiff's office were a number of society men, of whom he wished to be rid. Why he conceived this desire he stated with great plainness. " The great objection was that their connexion with the Union enabled them to rule me and be my master, and they were so, instead of my ruling them and being their master. I could not employ what men I liked. They would have struck if 1 had employed a non- Union man. They would not allow me to make arrangements as to the wages I should pay—an in ferior man must be paid as much as a good man—and would not allow me to set a man his work according to his capacity. They wanted soma type, and I gave them some, and they refused to use it, although it was detrimental to them not to do so. They would not allow me t o p r i n t f or w h om I liked." Under these circumstances he took the resolution of employing more manageable hands, and the consequence was that the society issued a placard so scandalous and injurious as to constitute —when inserted as an advertisement in the defen dant's paper—a libel, which the jury visited with £5OO damages. There is one point in this precious illustration of tyranny which we cannot pass over without special notice. We need not advert particularly to the fate of the unfortunate proprietor, who, because he would not submit to dictation in his own office and his own business. was thus malignantly assailed. On this head the jury spoke out pretty plainly in their verdict ; but what we wish especially to indicate is the onslaught made by the Trades' Unions upon everything resembling excellence in industry, patience, or skill. It was precisely the same in the case of the Amalgamated Engineers, whose chief object of attack was the practice by which a man able arid willing to do better work than others received somewhat better wages. This species of distinc tion is, in the eyes of Trades' Unions, an unlawful and abominable thing. "An inferior man must be paid as much as a good man ;" and no man must presume to earn more than is convenient to his idler or more dissolute neighbour. The result aimed at is a dead level of mediocrity, with no scope for energy or excellence either in proficiency or diligence, and with one uniform scale of wages maintained as high as possible by combination and terror. It is lucky for these Unions that they can not quite have their own way. Their success, if they could ever be successful, would simply end.in ruining the trade altogether. When they talk of " a fair day's wage for a fair day's work," they forget that somebody must be found to provide the work and to produce the wage, and that this some body is just as much entitled to consideration as they arc. And now we should like to point the moral of this story by one remark more. The people who are cajoled or coerced into these Trades' Unions belong for the most p ar t t o th ose very " 'working classes" whom it is now proposed to invest not merely with a share, but with a possible monopoly, of political power. We say, a monopoly, because in many towns or districts, if Mr. 13right's designs were carried out, the new electors could of them selves, and of their own suffrages alone, out-vote the entire aggregate of existing electors. In Edin burgh, for instance, it is computed that there would be 9,000 of the new voters added to the 8,000 old. ones, and in Glasgow Mr. Bright himself antici pates a still larger infusion of fresh blood. At first sight the obvious reflection is, that these men would not go in a body either one way 'or the other, but would merge indiscriminately in existing parties, as at the period of the last Reform Bill. Look, however, at the examples given by these Trades' Unions ; observe not only the organisation of which the working classes arc capable, but the purposes to which they can be induced to apply it, and then say if classes so easily ruled and so easily led are qualified to exercise power so enormous without even the obligation of exereising:litettg.eeeis2 public. If these classes are capable of sub mitting to the dominion of Trades' COr p : and of allowing the edicts of these conclaves to supersede all their personal rights and why should they not be banded together behind purpose ? which a choose to the shroud of the ballot, for any " committee" of designing agitators may conceive ? We are told that _they ar e in d ustrious, havee it • intelligent, and th r ift y. V d t en e c o e p t e h r a a t t i t o h n e s y o f areth ens not tposocieties rof we , but against the machina tions of crafty leaders even in matters more imme diately within their own cognisance, and most intimately affectin g th e i r daily interests. Can we assume, then, that they will be more so when the questions at stake are less familiar, and the deci sions less apparently important ? THE FLITCH OF BACON.—A circular has been issued stating it is the general wish of the committee and the inhabitants of Dunmow that the ceremony "should be postponed till the railway is completed from London Dunmow .'" but how tar this will be agreeable to the candi dates who will be compelled to care/Idly bottle up the rising connubial squabble till the parliamentary battle has been fought and won, and the piokaxe has paved a way o f iron to the ancient rill, is somewhat matter of doubt, Chelmsford Chronicle, A LEAK STOPPED BY FISH.—As a brig belonging to the Tyne was on her passage from Shields to London during a late gale, she sprung a leak off Winterton, and a s she made so much water thc: crew refused to go any further. The captain put into Grimsby, engaged four extra men, and proceeded patch against the will of the obstinate crew. After she was discharged in London and put on the shoe the leak was found had proceeded from a hole in. whiet was found two fish, the one about the size of a swot, and the other of a larger size : the smaller one was quite ta and the larger one had its body half in. The captain is of opinion that had these two members of the finny tribe not taken. shelter in the hole, he would not have been able tcl keep her atioat.-2Vorthern,Pailv .Farms. 174 20 Stock Sto. I Stock' 100 W 20 201 100 I 100