The Sun. — London, England, 1859-01-17 00:00:00

ong, autho r rough, Ace b . G. W e " glas. made they always beo llected th e ', lg preface; es. Sou x to Ent, ory of ; the subjce t 's delighw o axists le one to s e ` d ; and beautiful" 'half ofd! h surpril defeated iliar featl y !ader of 1 $' 1 ; indispens s 4 i our g en t nence. n and ease', its net,, in accepted the old • points 0 I G. H. Le' art I. 131' Lich prol v , Mr. V, co of sub)," race, as v 4 of the hip et before d , 3ries of M of physio' ', ny degil e f the folio ° 1 ()gramme - J to mane ineessan he knowl ~ 1 every l , o " then diso , avers, pre o n, becaus B l 1 the 10 1° motion , , o 4l '1?- 1 ° sons, 0 ) man 20 1 i ia all ct dure it " 01 61 o, stood tb2l( eft to o ' o l we bees 1` Lfic knc l6 9 lublic tho 9 utious to co : najoritY de ti. Itomical i i gain kn.° j e author 7: ( miceptiOn ' dinary P A 1 impresseli s, with9o 11 be hie • a scienc e e most ? sitil / ie po .0 ze, he 1 0 sits an the raotil e 0 . d igible an # t discov 0 of origlp ;hed in 0 1 ratted fa itreatise, iat wok; e work id ie di tend P o i , tality ns,wh m, anp e in PTo The il l 1 4actice 3ar ana 3sary f terms. ,owcroftf j [der. ies" 'Welt 67 oldeil6l, had re0:1 The of a se t cesseo l„ jp hness e o f v e ye pr,,, t 4, 1 adven Petition 'iccadi lll. ndiule, abetio s . their i 9 baroo p Croo as, zoolo course rhougl'i it i l l! move 0 P 3 its s re ll e reyall e c r ior ay in'e lion. If the e e s ante f ` r if il ? e i nocl u eo lave t , a ° to, w orb' The:: of t' sired. ce, te onh oweil' o o as V )Ll3 A d o ay tO i - 5 ~,, 3 re l lja fj? : if ro of ° , Vol ll°ll' 0 i „sttiON g iS O: WO , 0 fift St f ' . en cleadi ;stdt;std ta to , L p t r f.,, , been 0(4 ,s Gill i it: ; , ,, ;Gi g° o v ii L tbo 1,;i1, 1 ,'' b.olie a f , IV )rs and h er 2 reliwoil 1 ratite to . 1 ,j, rotbi.;,,i r 113/7 19 0/ 0; tio 0- a it 11 1,1 ' CO ,Cll2C° T Hill D EDIT lON SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following appointment was made at tho Admi- ralty this afternoon : Master—James Milton, to the Coast-guard. TATTERSALLS"-(THIS EVENING.) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6to 1 figst Promised Land (offered) 20 to 1 agst Ralpho (taken) CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 agst Longrange (taken) 50 to 1 agst Royal Sovereign (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Prioress (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Black Tommy (taken) DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Promised Land (taken) 100 to 6 agst Electric (offered) 20 to 1 agst Musjid (offered) 20 to 1 agst Marionette (taken) 20 to 1 agst Cavendish (taken) 20 to 1 st Merryman (taken) Very little betting. The Chester Cup was scarcely named. MONEY lIIAREET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'Ctocir. The accounts received from the various manufac turing districts of the North of England continue to be of a satisfactory character, although during the past week there has been less activity exhibited in several departments. The woollen cloth trade at Leeds has been moderately active, but chiefly in light goods for the coming spring demands. The shipping houses have bought to a fair extent, but the high rates now ruling for the raw material inter feres sadly with the export trade. At Bradford worsted yarns have been in demand, but for piece goods there was only a limited inquiry, at about former values. Spring goods at Huddersfield have been in good request, and the general tone of busi ness is satisfactory. The market at Manchester has exhibited much firmness, but the average business of the week has not been large. A fair inquiry exists for India goods ; but, owing to the spinners and manufacturers being fully en gaged upon orders not yet completed, prices were exceedingly firm. All branches of the hosiery trade at Leicester have exhibited sYmptoms of increased activity. Worsted yarns continue at full rates, and the operatives are fully employed. The iron trade of South Staffordshire ha s been steady; purchasers, however, have acted with great caution. At Birmingham the high rates now current for metal has materially inter fered with the business of the neighbourhood, copper having advanced £5 per ton. At Sheffield, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, trade has shown a gradual improvement, and prices tend upwards. In the Liverpool Cotton Market, on Saturday, business was quiet, and prices were unaltered. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales. Railway shares closed heavily, and quotations tended down wards. Owing to the increased supply of money, occa sioned by the release of the dividends, the quietude of trade, and the contraction of speculative enter prise, the general condtion of the money market exhibits no change of importance. Its prospects continue favourable, and low rates of discount are anticipated for some time to come. It is now ascer tained that one or two of the principal contingen cies, which it was expected would greatly accelerate an advance in the value of accommodation, will have comparatively little effect. A delay, for instance, is likely to take place in the introduction of the Russian, Austrian, and Sardinian loans, lately referred to, and it has now transpired that the Metropolitan Drainage Loan for £30,000,000 which has been arranged with the Bank of Eng land at 34 per cent, will be subscribed at inter vals as required, and will therefore not exercise an immediate influence. The amount will be raised between the present time and the year 1864, and for the ultimate discharge of the principal there is to be an assessment of 3d. in the pound for 40 years, on the annual value of property in the Metropolis. By this means it is estimated that the loan will be extinguished in about 30 years. Business in the English Stock Market to-day has been conducted upon a very limited scale, the ope rators being kept in a state of suspense until it was ascertained how the Paris Bourse had opened. Quotations throughout the morning consequently exhibited a very steady appearance, and although some descriptions of negotiable property remained very heavy, Consols rather tended upwards. Mode rate investments are made by the public, but these exercise very little influence while the market is so completely under the control of political contin gencies. Consols have been very quiet at 95-1 a. The New Threes are marked 961 and the Re duced 9617 Long Annuities are 181; Bank Stock is steady. at 226 ; India ditto is 222 to 2241, and ditto Loan Debentures 991; Exchequer Bills, 3. 5 '5• to 38s. premium. A moderate business has been transacted in the Foreign Market to-day. Turkish Securities, how ever, appear to have attracted most attention. The New 6 per Cents. have been 791 801, and the pre sent price is about 791 80. The second issue is marked 51 per cent. discount. The old 6 per Cents. are 89- i 7 ,- to 901, and the 4 per Cents, 105. Transactions have been recorded in Russian 41 per Cents, at 991 100, in Sardinian 5 per Cents. at 861 871, in Spanish 3 per Cents. at 451, and ditto Deferred at 301. Mexican Bonds are 192 Buenos Ayres Deferred 161, and Chilian New Loan is 3 to 2 discount. The transactions in the Railway Share Market have been extremely limited, and with one or two exceptions, prices have receded about 1 to 1 per cent. Caledonian, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western and South Eastern have receded Ss- ; and Great Northern and Midland, 10s. ; Eastern Counties, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee and .Bri g h ton have improved about 10s. The Foreign lines are moderately active at about former rates, the chief feature, however, has been an improvement of about ss. to 10s. in Lom bardo-Venetian. In the Colonial Market East Indian have advanced 10s., and Great Indian Peninsula 10s. Grand Trunk and Great Western of Canada have realised former quotations. For Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there has been a very limited inquiry. Union of Australia have advanced 55., cultural, Crystal Palace and Australian Agri , and Royal Mail Steam brought former rates. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3per Cent. Red u c e d Annuities 961 per Cent. Consols Annuities Long Annuities, expire sth . Jan., 1860 — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Apr., 1885 lBl India Stock Ditto Debentures 994 4 4 ConsoLs for Account .. 9 5,1 i I March June. F xehequer • Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 11d.. 35 1 35 Ditto £5OO Ditto Small, 11d FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent. Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. ~. Ditto Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent l9l Ditto Account Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent. S ardinian, 5 per Cent. BP-4 714 Spanish 3 per Cent 451 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cont. Ditto Account Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 6/ Turkish 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Scrip Ditto Account Ditto 2d Issue Ditto Account - 51 d Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Ven ezuela, 5 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent ma Dutch Exchange, on the above payable in London. Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 651 Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 9ss Consols for Account, Feb. 8 951 SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS Railways, I Closing Business (Paid Price. Done. tat. on 10 64 61 a.. all al. all 74 84 th. 100 66 68 ... all 11 111 ~. all 30 52 100 94 95 f. 100 48/ 100 861 49 49 87 , :71 61 71 61 81 all ge all all 5 ti iv: all m. B. ic. all ic. all 8 81 100 16/ 171 100 621 631 631 21 ck 100 46 48 ck 100 30 32 is) 81 all 13 15 100 95 97 96 1 .. all .. all ,_— tw 100 69 70 .e. 100 29 291 291 4 in all .. 100 a . 166 96 98 id all 10 101 100 105/ 106 106 54 100 82 91 100 IN_ 14 100 551 564 56 1 100 56 57 all • all 87 92 141 121 131 p 16 12/ 131 1) 'e 100 97 971 971 7 r -- F. all 6 4 61 q. I 1. 41 ;t 100 112 113 1124 13 100 / 9641 d 66 1 96 1 i 7 1. 100 93 94 941 431 . all 100 38 39 381 9 3 —d . 100 1024 1024 1021 2 4 • 100 74 76 i) all all all [ all 12 121 9 all . 100 65 67 34 34 3(1 . 100 611 62 6142 } . 100 100 -- -- 100 16 100 13 4 9314 1 114 d 934 i d 100 48 49 481 , 100 774 78 7 7 1 100 101 103 f 3 la. 1 4/ 44 d al 1 74 3 8 13 3 1 t all 1311 100 29 31 30 i all 19 7 5 d 10 100 113 115 100 271 28 , 100 86 ES' 100 46 47 all 4 2 d 100 37 1 884 100 '74 74/ 100 73 75 74 4 I a ll 14 141 18 all 9 11 all 34 351 351 221 7 161 100 100 22 100 90 92 100 all all 6 61 all all 3 31 all 61 61 all all all Amberg., Notting. Bost. and Eastern .Junction Belfast and Ballymena.. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Birk., Lane., and Chesh Junction Blackburn Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter ... Caledonian Chester and ITolyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blkrock,&Passage Cornwall Do. A A /aves. no div. Do until6p.c.per an. • B hasbeen pd.toß. Dublin andßelfast June. Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc. East Anglian ... Eastern Counties Eastern Union A Stock Do. do. B Stock Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U:kls) East Kent 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.(lreld) Great Western Do. S tr. 1 71. Rail Gua.Stk Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds. Lancashire & Yorkshire Do. do. F 216. Do. do. 29 shares Do. West Riding Union Do. Southport • London and Blackwall Do.Newiss.at 2.5105p.5h Lon.,Brighton&S.Coast London & North Westn Do. Eighths London& South-Westn, L'derry & Coleraine .. L'derry & Man., Shef., & Lincoln Metropolitan Midland Do. Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) Do. Shares Newcastle and Carlisle New., Aber., & Herefd Newry & Armagh (def ) Newry, Warpt., & Ros Norfolk North. Counties Union North British Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk Do.A Stk.— Arec.no div until 6p.c.ha,sbeenpdß Do. B Stock North -Eastn.—Berwic!i Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase Do. Leeds I 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 Sitt 4 noourne & Sheer South Devon South-Eastern South Wales South Yorks.& Riv. Dun Do. do Staines, Wok., & Wok Stockton & Darlington Do. do. 1854 Do. do. 1855 Stockton & Hartlepool Tail Vale Do. Preference, No. 1 ThamesHavenDk&Rail Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Cornwall W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B Do. B West London . Do. Ist Class... Do. 2d Class . PREFERENCE SHARES. Railways. 25 Blythe and Tyne 1C per c. pref. (issued at £5O) Stk Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 120 Do. do. do. Shares Stock Caledon PlO, 41 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Stock Chester & Holyhd, Sipe Stock Do. do. 5 p. ct 6} Cork & Bandon, 51 p. 6iDun. erth,&Abe7 & r.Jsnpen. Stock E.An P gn. Class A Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc Stock E. Conn. Ex. 5 p ct. No.l Stock IDo. do. N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock Eastern 'Union, 4 per et. Stock East Lane. 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. spc Stock Great Northern, 5 p. ct Stock Do. 5 pc Redm.,lop.c.pm Stock Do. 4 p. c. do. do. 100 Do.sp.c. Redm..s pc. pm 10 Gt. Nh. of Scott& Ist nt Gt. Sn.& w (Ireland) 4 p. ct. pref. Stock rent west. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct Do. Redeemable, 4} p ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p. et. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Sham Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf shares Do do. 5 p. ct. pref Do Binning. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon.&Brlg.spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ...No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. ct Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 1 Lon.&N.W.Cov.&Nun eaton, 5 p. et. Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares Londondy & Cole, 4 ells Londondy.& Ennis 4 sh Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6 p. ct. Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent. 11,Iaryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent 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. NewportAber,&e. pref.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. pm Do. Pe et, 6p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c. shares Do. sp. c. Ext.Stock,lB46 IDo. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way.Val.Ex.Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.& Dsk.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pre:. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1. Do. do. Quarters, 1846 80. York, H. & S. Purch. North Staffordshire ox.wr. & Wol. 6pc. Ist g Do. do. do., 2d gua. Do. 41 p.c. Db. stk.in perp Scottish Central, new pt Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 3.1 per e. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen.gua.6pc. Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock. South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Stock 50 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 26? 20 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stook Stock, Stock] 12 12 Stock Stock 12i 124 I Stock Stock Stock Stock 14 Stocks Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock St Stocit Stock Stock Stock 10s. 1.0.6. Stock Stock Stock S teek Stock all 1100 6 i& 25 stop 100 100 100 100 all Ann., 1.0.6.) Do .4 per cent Do. Fixed 45 p.c. Ist is Do. New do., 2d istrie. South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Do. 45 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua. Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e. Do. 6 per cent Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. Paid .I Closing I Business P r i ce . Done. 98}9 124 k LINES LEASED AT FIX: Leasin; Co.'s. Railways. Paid Share! 49 51 98 98 1103 105 6 64 100 103 113 118 109 112 1115 117 114 116 1132 134 83 85 734 74i 113 115 121 123 111 113 105 108 Ci 66 102 111 92 94 84 E 6 86 88 98 100 9 1 lot 164 171 10 10 73 71 1 9 ,}19i 9t 9f 14 144 143 145 1120 122 1163 168 123 125 68 - 70' [43 145 [O3 105 90i 98 11) 1 9i 9I 11i 111 9 10 112 114 99 100 i dis p id ip 234 2-14 123 125 103 110 1 101 103 10} 11 244 25 104 106 104 106 17 19 29 30 33 34 48 52 D RENTALS. Closing Business Price. Done. Bedford and Piet&ley all tLn & NAV Buckinghamshire .... 100 ILn &N W 98 100 Clydesdale Junction.. 100 Caledonin 104 106 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E C 17 19 E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.o. 100 Gt. North. 142 144 E Union,HarwichShs. all E.Counts. 4 44 Do. Woodbridge... 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct. 100 Caledonin Do. New........... 100 Do. Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. West. Hartlpool.Dek.&ltail. all Yk.N.&Br Hull and Selby Do. i Sh a res Do. Shares ..... . . all Do. London.SzGreenwich . 100 8. East 65 674 Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend . 100 Peto &C Do. Preference ...... 100 Do. . ._„._ ll5 120 119 o. 90 92 Do. Barking . Shares.. all Do _ L o westoft, gua. 4p. ct. 100 Nor folk, __ __ __ Do. 6 per cent . ... .... 100 Do. Mane., Ruxtn. &Mr tk. all LN W&M 2i It Midab.&Redcr,g.6p.c. all Stk.& Dar .... Mid.Bradfordn't. Stk. 100 Midland . 98 no N ew markt.,BuryEx 5. 5. 6. E.Counts. I i p ppml gurranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. Do. do. 6 per cent. . all Do. Do. Fixed 5 per cen" t. all Do. all & L& L N yk. W 1 _ A. all Do. — Pr Do e . s i to S n h aarneds Wyre. . 1 Roystn,Hitch.,& Shep 100 Gt. North. 142 144 Shf.Roth.&Gol.g.sp.c. 1811 6 Lan.& Yk _ Shrawsbrv& Hereford all T Drassoy 91 Smith Staffordshire .. all , M'Clean . 104 11 91 Wear Valley, g. 6p. c. all Stk.& Dar Do. do. Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 90 92 Wimbledon& Croydn all L.&Brgtn 8 9 DOCKS. Share Docks. I Paid Cl ig li e : 7 Business Done. ------. Stock Commercial lOO Stock Do 4 perCent.Pref.Min lOO Stock East and West India lOO Stock London lOO Stock St. Katharine lOO Stock Southampton lOO Stock Victoria 20 DC , New • 18 Share] Mines. Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.10 9 10 20 pritish Iron Condurrow (Camborne) 2O 10 Devon G. Cons. (Taoist ; 1 460 470 East 8. , ssett (Illoaan) 3O 105 175 Great South TolTus l7s 12 13 G.WhcalAl 1 11.'f3.8 3 31 G. Wheal Vor(Helston) Lady Bertha North Frances (Illo;an) , 6, 7 8 North Wheal CM ty 7.9. ' 2 3 n'l Basset (Mogan) nil. 7 8 Par Cor sols (St. Waxy) 11 16 17 Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s a SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 21 41 5 4's Sorth C. Brea( Il'ogan`. 2 2, 3 S. W heal Fran. (Jilogar ' 18.13.9 230 240 5 Ta-tar Silver and Leau Mining Co 4l 1 1 10 Tin Croft 9 3 4 1 34 Unit - d3PrelGwcnr ,)) i 0 Vale o' Towe -, (Cam.) 12s 6d I West B.lsset (tile . ,ar) l4 20 22 W. C: - • °don (L' Et rd) 2O 130 140 Wheal B....scet (Ilic:Tan) sf 215 225 W her' Luber uth) 5 120 140 W heal (,(Cals.) si 24 2/ Wheal li:tty (U. Lelant) ,1.7.2 8 9 I Wh'l Mary Ann (Menhe) 8 43 50: Wh'l Trelawney (Lisk.) 44 30 31 FOREIGN MINES 20 Australian 1 Boa Ae;:ordCopper,Lim lOB d* p 35 Brun. Imp. (is. at £5 p ) 27 1 2 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim l5 11 12 11 • 5 Do. Land andMinin,t;Co all 15 25 1 Clarendon Consols Mir ing Co. Jamaica 40 Cobra Copper all 38 40 39 81 Capiapo l6 10 12 1 Dun3loun.Cop.Min all 2 Fortuna 20 General all 20 21 3 LinaFes all 74 8 4 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariqui:ll all 1 New Granada all 5 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Atr.L 10 1 1 p 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining. and Smelt all 41 5 5 Port Philip 1 30 Santiago de Cuba l6l 1 1 28.2.81,United Mexican all 21 3 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECAIRITIES. Shave Securities. Paid. Closing Business •Prices. Done. Can.Goy.Gp.c.Ja. & July 100 1124 'll3 :1121 113 Do. 6 p.c.Fb.it.in.?;.,, 10' 113 115 Do. 6 p.c.Mr & Sep. 100 113 115 N.8.G0v.6 p.c. 3a. &July 100 1091 1101 1101 13 Do. 6p.e.Ap. Si Oct. 100 - - N. S.W. frac , . sp. c. Deb. 100 , 99 , 100 , 991 1 NovaSmtiaGov.6 p. c. St. Deb. redennable, 1875 100 1110 111 S.Ass.Gt.6pc.JaniSauly 100 109 111 1105 Vic , •Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 , Share' OINT-STOCK 'BANKS. troint-Stiff Bank/. 'Paid. Price. Done. Closing I Business Agra&UnitedServiceßir i Australasia ...... Bank of Egypt Baniz of London Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanCo British North American Chtd. Ban'; of India, &c City Colonial Corn. Bank of OM adr Commercial or London. Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch. Gen. Bk. of Switzerland Lon.Char.Bk.olAustral. London and County Lon don Joint Stocx London & Westminster. Nat. Prov. or England. Do. rew 91 93 26 274 49 51 58 6O 1 2 lid 63 65 161 17/ National Bank New South Wales 21 22 Orient. Bk. Corporation Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Do. New 46 48 South Australia . Do. New lUnion of Australia. IDo. New Union of London Unity Mutual Western Bk of London 201 21 64 66 19 17 d MISCELLAN EOUS, Sh are I Ills cellaneous. ,tockl paid. l Cplorsicein.g ISuginess dona 124 134 240 270 35 30 1 24 n 40 42 19 21 13 15 91 10} 24 25 Anglo-Mexican Mint' Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Australian Royal Mail . Berlin Water Works Do New, issued at: 5 dis British American Land Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. Do. B, 7 p. c. till 1802 Do. C . Canada Land Ch a n Islands Tel.(Ljm ) Cop.Min.otEncre&Smltg Do. Preferences n per ct Crystal Palace. Do. Preference Eastern Ste.= Electric Telegraph Eng. &Anat. Cop.St.Co Europ. & Ind.Junct.Tel Europ.&Am.Stm.(Lim ) Gl.lron ScrewCol.(Lim' Gen.. Steam Navigation. London Discount Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co Mediter. Electric Teleg Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ) National Discount Co Netherlands Land Do do DoSp.c.Pref.,iss.at ldis. N. Br. &NovaScotiaL and N.B.Australasian (Lim ) North of Europe Steam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares Peel River Land & Min Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New Red Sea & Ind. Telegr Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austrin (Lim ) South Australian Land Submarine Teleg. Scrip Do. do Registered ITr.& Ln.Co.oi Upr. C an Van Diemen'o Land u 14 1, 44 bk 2 - 2:i ;07 110 1 1* 1 2 11 ; lt 11 I 1 i 6l d 1 2 11 lof 15 18 i 1 1 di s par 21 3 80 82 12 13 251 2 7t 125 • 137} 37 39 I it 10 THE SUN LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1859. FOREIGN I Paid. Closing i Businoss Share' Railways. Price. Done. Antwerp & P.otterdam Ardennes Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessae Carmeaux Mine & Rail Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley Great Central of France Gt. Luxeir., Con. shs Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian Lucca & Pistoj a, 5 p.c.'s': Lyons and Geneva 4f 5 — P d par 7 8 2 2} 26 26 61 7; Maria Antonia -• • Do. do. New Namur and Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref. northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref Ottoman, gun. 6 per cent Paris,Lyon 8, and Medit. Paris and Orleans Recife& S, Fran. (Porn ), gua. 7 p. ct. (Lim.) .. Riga and Dunaburg Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref Sambre and Meuse Do. 5a per cent. Pref. . Southern of France West Flanders Do. 54 p. c. Preference ' W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand Share all all all all i i 23 24 8 81 204 21 3Q 37 81 91 P 3 1 321 331 51 53 I Id 7} 7 21 21 5 6 9 9:1 22 23 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 81 91 81 9 81 t 33 7 94 4 Railways. (P ai d. A Closing I Business Price.; Done. lAtlantie_dc St Lawrence' Leased at 6 per cent., Bom.,Baroda&Cent.ln4 gu. 5 per cent. Do Do. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. 13 Buffalo and Lakelluron Do. New Buffalo, Bran t. &Godrich 6 p. ct. lads. 1 MI T ., 1872 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 Clcutta.B6S.Esstrn.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. 6 p. c Do. C Shares Do. E Shares sit 20 201 6,100; 100 190 17i 20 Stock Do. Jubbulpore D 0.44 p.e. Bds. pay.' S 9 G eelong& Mel.gue.s p. e. Geelong Corporation 6 Sto. I Stock too per cent. Birds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B Do. 6 per cent. Pref' Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New, gua.s per cent Do. do 20 1 WI 100 100 100 100 G t.S.of Ind.Lina.—Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt.W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with opt. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. ''3 without opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 41 p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent. Do. 4f p. c. Extension Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c Do. Fourth do. Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds Newßrunswick&Can da. Ry. &L and(Lim.)g.6pc Class ACapi S hare . . Do. do. Land do Do. do. B. Capital do Do. do. Land do INorthoflndia Tramroad Limited, Scrip Oude (Limited) Scinde 4'o Do. Do. New Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. Flo. Stock St. Andrews & Que rrinidad(Limited) 8119 all fd p 1 41 all 16 I 1 oo 1 V i ci 7 1 8 i 13 12 d 87 92 81 88 83 85 par i P 'lOO 100 1. 3.0. 2a. 6d. 2 all 5 100 all 1p d par 1041 1051 - -PI all all 1 100 1 00 all 100 all 18 18i 34 33 75 77 91 93 105 107 par i p -par p 1c 17 31 3 d 106 108 406 108 104 106 99 100 18 181 20 201 19 19i d par d par } all all all all all all 2 101 4 3dl / kej 4 l lace A Scrip 58. 115 all 5 5 1 4 , 211 21t par I dl p, 4 d par d p 105} 5 i 37 61 761 914 loci 7 41 16-f Oi THIS DAY'S MARKETS. I P CORN EXCHANGE Most of the country markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat ; nevertheless, all kinds moved off slowly, and previous rates were barely supported. Barley, oats, andbeans were in steady request, at full prices. In other produce very little was doing. Throughout the continent wheat and other articles have been held at full quotations, but the business doing for export has not increased. In the United States both wheat and flour have been held at full prices. Only limited supplies of home-grown produce arrived up to our market last week. The imports arammted to 10,498 quarters of wheat, 6,910 barley, 4,230 oats, 790 rye, 1,655 beans, 240 tares, 10,105 linseed, 4,329 rapeseed, 50 mustard seed, 3,583 sundry seeds, 1,459 hogsheads and 1,683 barrels of flour. The supply of wheat received fresh up, to-day, from Essex and Kent, was very moderate, and the arrivals from all other quarters were limited. Notwithstanding that the show of samples of bo.th red and white was small, the de mand for all kinds, owing to a thin attendance of both town and country millers, ruled very inactive, and, in some instances, prices were is per quarter lower than on Monday last. The show of foreign wheat was seasonably extensive, and the business done in all kinds was limited. In prices, how • ever, no change took place. The demand for floating cargoes was less active, at late rates. We had a good consumptive demand for barley, and, in some instances, medium qualities of malting were is per quarter dearer. There was very little doing in malt, at the late decline in value. The oat trade was firm, arising from short arrivals, and prices advanced 6d to is per quarter. Beans changed hands steadily, at is per quarter more money. For peas there was an improved inquiry, at fully late rates. The flour trade was less active. In prices, however, no change took place. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, .new 3Bs to 45s Ditto, old Ditto, white, new 42s 495 Ditto, old —s =s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old 3Bs 45s Ditto, new. 3Bs 46s Rye—Old — s —s New 32s 36s Barley—Grinding...., 24s 30s Malting Chevalier 3Bs 41s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingston and Ware 565 668 Chevalier Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 2lB 28s Potato 278 32s Youghal and Cork, black .. 22s 25s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 24s 27s Beans—Tick -- Pigeons Peas—Grey Maple., Whi'e Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk ... Stockton and Norfolk 38s 41s 40s 43s 40s 43s 40s 44s 41s - 44s 388 40s 30s 32s 29s 338 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock isito London last week were 2,563 head. In the corresponding week in 1858 we received 541; in 1857, 1,237 ; in 1856, 1,105 ; in 1855, 2,371; in 1854, 1,996; in 1853, 3,954; and in 1851, head. LAW'INTELLIGENCE.- , -( THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. • (Before the Lord Chancellor and Lords Jiistices.) APPEAL.-HAVILAND T. MORTIBOY. This is an appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Sir John Steuart. Mr. Maims, Q.C., and another appeared for the appellant ; Mr. Rolt, Q.C., and another appeared for the respondent, trustee or executor under a marriage settlement. The contention depends on the validity of the marriage of the late John Shepherd, George-street, Euston-square, London, and Mary Shepherd. The allegation: is that Mary Shepherd was previously married at St. Pancras Church, in 1824, to James Masters, pianoforte maker, then alive, but since dead. All the parties are now dead. At the sitting of the Court this morning Mr. Haviland, one of tho plaintiffs in the case, was orally examined on oath, in court, by Mr. Malins, and cross-examined by Mr. Rolt. From her evidence, it appeared that she did not 'know of the previous marriage of Mrs. Shepherd with , Mr. Masters, and that she was only informed of it after the death of all the parties by the respondent, Mr. Montiboy, jeweller, sending her a num ber of old love letters, 40 years old, some bills, and a certi ficate of Mrs. Shepherd's marriage with Mr. Masters at St. Pancras Church. Anne Hawkins, servant to Mrs. Shepherd, then a widow, deposed that she remembers Mrs. Shepherd telling her that before she married Mr. Shepherd she had been previ ously married to Mr. Masters ; that she loved and lived better with Masters than Shepherd; that she only married Shepherd for his property. Mary Shepherd, servant to the late Mrs. Mary Shepherd, at present servant to Dr. Phillimore, was under examina tion when our reporter left. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romily.) CASE V. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. The argument in this part-heard motion for decree was resumed this morning. Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., and Mr. Speed appeared for the plaintiff. - The Solicitor-General (Sir Hugh MacAlmot Cairns, Q.C.) and Mr. Pearson were for the defendants. The contention, is, whether the plaintiff is entitled to navigate the Coventry Canal by patent steamboats of a new construction, of Mr. Renshaw's invention, 70 feet long from stem to stern, 3 feet 11 inches from gunwale to keel—rate of speed from 2 to 3, 3 to 4, and 5 miles an hour, to carry coal from Moreley Colliery to London by the Coventry, Ashley, and Regent's-canals, free of wave, surge, or wash, more than an ordinary canal-boat or barge, and which does no injury whatever to the banks of the canal. It is probable that the arguments will continue all day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Crompton, and Mr. Justice Hill.) _ lIUGHES V. LADY DINORBEN-LIBEL. In this case an action was brought by the plaintiff, a nephew of the late Lord Dinorben, to recover compensation in damages against Lady Dinorben, for libellous letters alleged to have been written by her ladyship, and com plained of by the plaintiff as calculated to prove prejudicial to his prospects and interests in life. The case was tried before Lord Campbell and a special jury, at Guildhall, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, costs being taken, by consent of the learned counsel on both sides, at 40s. The libels were contained in two letters, dated in July, 1852, and alleged by the plaintiff to have been written by Lady Dinorben, the first being - addressed and sent to the lath Lord Ravensworth, and the second to the present pos sessor of the title. At the time the letters were written Mr. Hughes was paying his addresses to the daughter of the present Lord Ravensworth, whom he had since married. During the last term a rule, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial granted, having been obtained by Mr. Macaulay, on behalf of Lady Dinorben, and the Attorney-General Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Bovill, and Mr. Honeyman, now showed cause against the rule, and contended that there was no ground, in their opinion, for disturbing the verdict. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam Antwerp — . . ---- • • • . 48 • • Total 4Ol 1,881 275 6 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 858 65 .. 291 .. .. 185 .. .857 377 .. 644 .. .. 216 .. [856 565 . . 563 . . .. 187 .. • 855 857 .. 1,300 . . . . 212 .. 2 854 767 .. 1,007 .. .. 197 .. 25 853 537 .. 2,873 .. —.. 539 .. 5 . . To-day's market was scantily supplied with foreign stock, the general quality of which was tolerably good. Fresh up this morning from our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts were seasonably extensive as to number, and in fair average condition. The attendance of buyers was limited, and all breeds of beasts met a heavy inquiry at Thursday's reduction in the quotations of 4d per 81bs., the top price for Scots being 4s 10d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 1,850 Scots and short horns; from other parts of England 1,000 various breeds ; from Scotland 400 Scots ; and from Ireland 150 oxen, &c. We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with sheep, the quality of which was good. The mutton trade was in a most inactive state, and, in some instances, prices were 2d per 81bs lower than on this day se'nnight. The' extreme value of the primest Downs was 5s per 81bs. The supply of calves was very limited, and the veal trade ruled steady at very full prices, 5s 2d per Blbs having been realised for superior calves. There was a moderate inqu rency. The supply was limit iry for pigs at last week's cur- Per Blbs. to 1 s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 2 3 4 ;ink the offal. s. d. s. d. Prime crs-wool d 0.4 6 4 8 Pine. S' thdown do. 4 10 5 0 Large crse. calves 3 8 4 6 Prime small do 4 8 5 2 Large hogs 3 3 3 6 Small porkers ; and quarter-old store pigs, Second quality do. 3 Prime large oxen, 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0 2 4 6 8410 43 8 Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Suckling calves, 17s to 21s 17s to 225. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 4,100 Beasts . 300 Sheeps 19,800 Sheep Calves 9B Calves 6O Pigs 430 !Pigs A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Jan. 18, 1858, and this day, Monday, Jan. 17, 1859. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Jan. 18, 1858. Jan. 17, 1859. a d. s. d. a. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . . 3 2to 3 4 3 2.t0 3 4 Second quality ditto . ~ Prime hirge oxen 4 0 4 21 Prime Scots, &c. . . 4 4 4 6 Coarse and inferior sheep , . 3 4 3 8 Second quality ditto • . 310 4 0 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . . 4 2 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto . 410 6 4 Lambs I 4 2 4.8 3 4 3 10 4 6 4 10 0 0 Large coarse calves . . . Prime small ditto Large hogs Neat small porkers . . . Beasts Sheep and lambs . . Calves 3 8 4 8 1 3 13 8 4 6 4 10 3 8 4 4 4 8 6 0 0 0 4 6 5 2 3 6 4 2 3,905 18,959 100 - - Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Jan. 19, 1857.---Beasts, 4,072; sheep and lambs, 16,420 ; calves, 61; pigs, 320. Jan. 21, 1856.—Beasts, 3,775; sheep and lambs, 20,330; calves, 71; pigs, 460. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since our last report only moderate supplies of London killed meat have been on offer; but the arrivals from our various districts, as well as from Scotland, have been ex tensive. To-day the trade generally is inactive, at our quotations. Per 81bs. by the Carcass. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beef 3 oto 3 4 Mid. d 0..... 3 6to 3 8 Pm.largedo. 3 10 to 4 0 Do. small do. 4 2to 4 4 Large pork.. 3 oto 3 8 Infr. Mutton. Mid. do Prime do. Veal Small pork s. d. s. d. 3 2 t,o 3 6 3 Bto 4 2 4 4to 4 6 3 4to 4 6 3 10 to 4 2 BOROUGH HOP. There is an increased business doing in good and find coloury new hops, and, in some instances, prices hive an upward tendency. Other kinds are a slow inquiry, at late rates. Mid and East Kent pockets 84s to 126 s per cwt. Weald of Kent do 62s to 6Ss Sussex do 48s to 65s „ BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Rather large supplies of potatoes continue to reach us, coastwise and by railway, in fair average condition. Since Monday last the imports have amounted to 400 tons from Rouen, 83 tons from Dunkirk, and 104 tons from Antwerp. The trade generally is very inactive, as follows : York Regents, 80s to 1008 per ton; Kent and Essex, 80s to 85s ; Scotch, 70s to 85s ; do. Cups, 50s to 65s ; Foreign, 50s to 60's. WOOL MARKET. English wool is in good request at fully the late advance in the quotations. The supply on offer is limited. In foreign and colonial qualities a steady business is doing at extreme rates. Last week's imports were only 14 bales from the' Cape. SEEDS. The transactions in linseed have been only moderate ; nevertheless late rates have been well supported. Rapeseed fully maintains last week's prices. Red cloverseed is in request, at full quotations ; but white seed continues ne glected. Linseed cakes are the turn dearer. Turnip,White,p.bus.l2s to 14s Swede Mustard, Brown lOB 13s White, new l2s 15s Tares,Winter,new 14s0d 16s Od Old —s —8 Canary, per quarter 648 68s Rye grass, new 22s 28s Clover, Red En,,cr., et. .50s 58s White - s6s 70s Foreign Red.— 48s 56s White 50s 68s Trefoil, new. 2os 22s Carraway 4os to 43s Coriander l2s 14s Hempseed, per qr 38s 42s Linseed,Eng.sowing 68s .70s Crushing Baltic —s — s Odessa Linseed Cake, p. ton -- English 9 10s 10 lOs Foreign, p ton 9 2s. 6d 10 15s Rape Cakes,p. ton 5 lOs 610 s Rapeseed, p. qr.— . 648 688 .LLOW, air average business has been and prices have had an upward . on the spot is selling at 53s per ; rough, 2s 101 d per 81bs. Since Monday last a ff transacted .in our market, tendency. To-day P.Y.O cwt, ; town tallow, 52s 6d 1855. 111858. 1857. 1858. 1859. Price of Y.C. Stock this day.... 34,806 21,973 13,441 27,020 28,671 57s Od to 58s 3d t 618 9d to 548 Od to 538 Od —s Od --a Ocl —s Od Od —8 Od Delivery last week 1,417 - 4 1,451 2,099 2,411 2,320 Ditto from June 1 52,900 80,692 81,428 73,191 70,885 Arrivals last week 1,660 2,050 856 1,100 189 Ditto from June 1 51,706 56,123 76,089 87,099 87,987 Price of Town .... 51s Od 56s 6d 628 ed 555 9d 559 Od [The ease was proceding when we went to press.] COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) PYSON V. WESTROPE AND OTHERS. This case came on as a question of costs, and whether they ' ought to be borne by Capt. Westrope, who had contested the will of the testator, a wealthy farmer in the isle of Ely, and the real question was whether the testator had been unduly coerced to execute the will and two codicils while in a state of mind totally unfit for such a proceeding. The will was also contested by Mr. Culling, one of the executors and legatees, and also by the heir-at-law, but on the trial, after the case had occupied a considerable time, the Attorney- General and Mr. O'Malley, who appeared for the separate litigants, and finding from the evidence that the codicifs and will could not be successfully resisted, they accordingly withdrew from further opposition, and a decree in favour of the validity of the will and codicils, with costs, was granted ; and the question now at issue was, whether there should be a joint order for the payment of the costs, or whether they should be wholly paid by Mr. Westrope or the heir-at-law. rf Dr. Deane appeared for the heir-at-law, and contended that the present was not a case in which the heir-at-law should be called upon to pay the costs, and, on the other hand, that, as Mr. Westrope commenced the litigation, he ought to be ordered to pay the expenses of such a proceed ing.. Mr. O'Malley appeared for Mr. Westrope, and argued that as his client had acted only in a bona fide manner, and did not question the decision of the court, he should not be called upon to pay the expenses of the suit. Dr. Twiss was heard in support and reply on the rule ob tained by him to alter the decree as to payment of costs. Judgment postponed. MARCHMONT V. MARCHMONT. Mr. Sergeant Pigott, on the part of Mrs. Marchmont, applied to his lordship to pronounce a decree of judicial separation, in accordance with the verdict of the jury. His Lordship decreed accordingly. Mr. Sergeant Pigott—l have another question to sub mit to your lordship; it is whether the Court will grant any other relief to Mrs. Marchmont. The Judge Ordinary—Oh, no; the lady has got plenty of money. Mr. Sergeant Pigott--I was induced to ask the question, as Mr. Marchmont continues to occupy the house which, with its contents, belongs to Mrs. Marchmont. Costs ought to be given against him so as to induce him to give-up pos session. The Judge Ordinary —If he continues to occupy the promises against the will of the oWner, ho can be ejected. It was expected that the case of Jeffrey v. Jeffrey would be - resumed this morning, but the Judge Ordinary was occupied at the time of our going to press disposing of a great number of applications fixed for to-day. SATURDAY, JAN. 15. JEFFREYS V. JEFFREYS. This was a testamentary suit, but the solo question in controversy was whether or not a marriage had been con tracted so long ago as 1811. It appeared that at the beginning of the present century there lived at a village called Ecclefechan, in Dumfries shire, two families named Jeffreys and Bell. Mr. Jeffreys had a son George, and Mr. Bell a daughter, Clarinda. The young people were schoolfellows together. Their intimacy ripened into an attachment which it would be shown termi nated in marriage. Jeffreys, who was at first a journeyman stockiAgmaker, had an ambition to become a doctor of medi cine ; and as the first step in his metamorphosis he went to Dumfries, and took up his abode with a druggist. Clarinda Bell also came to Dumfries, having been apprenticed by her father to a pastrycook, named Drinkwater. On the 24th of July, 1811, Jeffreys invited his sweetheart, who was then in her 23d year, to meet him at the Globe Tavern to be married. She accordingly went to the Globe, at Dumfries, accompanied by Miss Drink.- water, and there, in the presence of three or four witnesses, the parties mutually acknowledged each other to be husband and wife. A certificate was drawn up, signed by those present, and given to the bride ; after which the new mar ried couple returned to Miss Drinkwater's,whore they passed the night. The next morning they went to Mr. Bell's, and told him that they were married. Mr. Bell was at first displeased ; but having been shown the certificate, he agreed to let the parties live with him. They coha bited there till 1816 ; and during that time Jeffreys went on several whale-fishing expeditions, in the capacity of a kind of surgeon. At this period he was wretchedly poor, and his outfit was provided for him by his father-in-law. Three children were the fruit of the union—a son, John, who was born in May, 1812, and died at the ago of 11 years ; another son, Robert, born in September, 1814 ; and a third, James, born in July, 1815. In 1816 amedie,al practitioner, named Bland, died at a neighbouring village called the Flosh ; and Jeffreys, thinking that an opening was thus made for him, started business in the surgical line. Shortly afterwards he sent for his wife, and they cohabited for some time at the Flosh. Jeffreys, however, got into pecu niary difficulties, which brought him into Annan Gaol. His wife visited him while he was in prison; and when the hour for shutting up arrived, the turnkey told her she must go away; but her husband said she was his wife, and she was allowed to remain with him all night. In the next year, having obtained his discharge, he went again to Eccle fechan—then to Dumfries, and then on more whaling ex peditions. In 1820 he took out his diploma. Afterwards he seemed, as the phrase was, to have "gone under" for a considerable period. In fact he did not appear again till the year 1331. He had had some quarrels with his wife on account of the laxity of his principles at Flosh and some other places, and the parties having agreed to separate, Jeffreys went away from the neighbourhood. Mr. Bell afterwards became embarrassed, and was obliged to part with his farm. In 1831 he was living at Hull, and there he met a Scotch drover, who told him he had seen his son in-law at a place called Keelby, in Lincolnshire, where he was thriving in the exercise of his profession. Bell lost no time in seeking an interview, in which he threatened Jef , freys with proceedings to compel him to receive his wife. Jeffreys told him that such a step would be his ruin, as he had stated himself to be a bachelor ; and so, after some discussion, they came to terms, Jeffreys giving his father in-law £5O. On another occasion he gave him £lOO, and had also made several presents to his sons, who paid him visits from time to time. Mrs. Jeffreys went to see him in 1839, but though they did not agree very well, and Mrs. Jeffreys returned from Keelby on the same day, he made her various small allowances during the remainder of his life. Mr. Bell died in 1843, but his son-in-law sur vived till the 31st of October, 1857, when he expired rather suddenly at Harrowgate, leaving property to the amount of between £2,000 and £3,000. Before his death he had ex pressed his determination to make his sons his heirs, but he made no will. In support of Dr. Phillimore's statement on Saturday Mrs. Jeffreys was examined at some length. She was cross examined by Mr. K. Macaulay, Q.C., and excited some 'amusement by .the air of determined hostility which she opposed to the questioning of the learned counsel. Mr. Malcolm Kerr, a member of the Scotch bar, proved that such a proceeding as had been sworn to by the witnesses of the signing of the certificate (which was produced) would constitute a valid marriage according 'to the law of Scot land. Other evidence was likewise produced to show that Mrs. Jeffreys was the wife of the deceased by habit and repute. Mr. Macaulay, on behalf of the next of kin, commented on the strong improbability of circumstances which had been sworn to as surrounding the alleged marriage. But for the document which had been put forward as a certificate the fact of the marriage would stand on very doubtful grounds ; and as for the question of habit and repute, he should pro duce ample evidence to show that there had been no such uniform and consistent repute as was required to impart the character of marriage to a connexion between two parties whose union had not been regularly solemnised. Coming back to the alleged certificate, he was instructed, that it had never been heard of till it was produced in the court. That circumstance was not in favour of the parties who brought it forward. He should be able to show that there had never been in Dumfries any " Bailie Thomas Smith," which was one of the signatures appended to the certificate. Thero was, however, William Smith, who seemed to be the party intended. There was also this singular fact. The alleged wife stated that her first child was born about eight or nine months after her marriage, which, if it had ever taken place at all, must have been on the 24th of January, 1811. The period at which a first child was born after its mother's marriage was a matter about which it was almost impossible for her to make any mistake ; but he had in his hand the register of the son John's birth, which seemed quite inconsistent with the witness's statement. It was as follows :—" Births and Baptisms in 1813. John William Jeffrey, acknowledged son of George Jeffrey and Clarinda Bell, born 15, baptised Nov. 15." He was informed that this was the manner in which it was usual in Scotland to enter the births of illegitimate children whose paternity was acknowledged. The deceased, it would also be shown, had always repudiated anything like a marriage with Cla rinda Bell, and no attempt to establish one had been made during his lifetime. At this stage of the proceedings the court rose. COURT OF BANKRUPTCYr (Before Mr. Registrar Winslow, for Mr. Commissioner Gouiburn.) IN RE A. ROLFE. This bankrupt was described as of Dorrington-street, Clerkenwell, timber merchant, and to-day was appointed for his last examination. Tho balance-sheet, by Messrs. Hunt Brothers, extends from Jan. to Nov., 1858, and shows debtor to creditors, £3,559; to creditors holding security, £1,379; profits, £1,255 ; surplus, Jan. 1858, £143. Creditor, by good debts, £1,098 17 ; doubtful, £214 ; property surrendered, £1,703 ; ditto, held by creditors, £1,227; trade expenses, £856; house ditto, £62 3s. 11d.; cash balance, £167; losses, £948; liabilities, £1,026. The bankrupt passed his examination. IN RE MONUMENT. This bankrupt was described as of the Britannia Tavern, City-road, on accounts by Messrs. Hart Brothers. Debtor to creditors, £1,534; to creditors holding security, £1,047 ; creditors, good debts, £l6 16s. ; property, £1,102; cash, £304. IN RE DAVIDSON AND GORDON. These bankrupts, having given notice of appeal against the decision of Mr. Commissioner Goulburn on the question of certificate, an order wa4 made that the bankrupts should deposit £4O each to meet the costs. MAYOR'S COURT. (Before the Registrar.) ELLIOTT V. WEBB.-NON-ATTENDANCE TO JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. Mr. Perry, from Mr. Buchanan's, of Basinghall-street, appeared for the plaintiff, and pressed for a committal in this judgment summons. The action had been brought upon a tailor's bill, and plaintiff recovered a verdict. He (defendant) had not complied with all the orders of the Court. A person who attended for defendant said he was so ill that he was unable to attend ; but Mr. Perry remarked that he could call a witness to prove that defendant was at business on Thursday last. Registrar—You see he has paid some of the costs. But I am not satisfied with his non-attendance to-day. How ever, I will make a commitment for 20 days, to lie in the office 14 days, and if he complies with my further order it will not be issued. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. ALLEGED DEFALCATIONS BY A LATE CLERK OF THE SHERIFFS' COURT.—Joseph Hudson, late a clerk in the City Sheriffs' Court, was brought, up before Alderman Carroll in custody of R. Packman, City detective, charged with being a defaulter in his accounts to the extent of nearly £2OO. The officer proved the apprehension of the prisoner in the Lea-bridge-road on Saturday evening. Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, attended for the prisoner, who appeared much dejected. A remand was applied for by the officer, and the prisoner was removed. BRITISH MMES. raiA 1 Closing 1 Business ''' Price. Done. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—CHARGING SOLDIERS WITH ROBBERY.--Joseph Pace, an elderly man, described as a teacher of languages, of 36, Old Compton-street, Soho, was charged with assaulting two constables, Watson, 135, and Robinson, 48 C, under the following circumstances : The prisoner is the same person who some time since ap peared at this court, charging two soldiers under very sin gular circumstances with stealing his gold watch, and for which•they were convicted at the sessions, and sentenced to Rine months' imprisonment, and it will be seen by the fol lowing statement that he again charged two other soldiers with a similar offence! Watson, 135 C, said that he was going along Portland street, at eleven on Saturday night, when he heard some one shouting loudly for the police. He went to the spot and saw the prisoner flourishing a stick, and saying he had been robbed of his watch by two soldiers. Seeing he had his watch in his pocket he waited till the soldiers came, they being 200 yards behind, and on telling them what the pri soner said, they said they had never spoken to the man. On requesting him to go away, he struck him several blows with his fist. In answer to Mr. Beadon, the constable said the soldiers were going to the barracks at the time. He told the pri soner that he could not take the men for stealing his watch as he had it in his pocket. He made no answer but then struck him. Robinson, 48 C, said he was on duty at the station when the prisoner was brought in. He said they were all dirty beasts who had brought him there. He suddenly jumped up and gave him a violent kick on the lower part of his person, and behaved more like a wild beast than a man. The prisoner denied that he had ever charged the soldiers, and said it was all false, but admitted he called for the police. Watson said the prisoner had assaulted him also in the lobby of the court. Mr. Beadon remanded the prisoner that inquiries might be made—the two soldiers who are now undergoing their imprisonment having keen convicted on his testimony, their defence being that he wanted to behave improperly to them, and gave them the watch. THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—John Carr, a gentlemanly looking young man, a clerk, who gave his address, Mar garet-street, Poplar, and who is very respectably connected, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with an offence under the Vagrant Act, to wit, insulting two young ladies named Harrison, residing with their parents, in Totton street, Stepney. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, defended the prisoner. Mr. Francis George Harrison, ship-joiner, of No. 36, Totton-street, stated that he gave the prisoner into custody on Saturday night for insulting his daughters. He told him what his children said of him, and said, "You rascal, you have been insulting my children." The prisoner—l hope you will forgive me. I think I must be mad. The prisoner's clothes were in disorder, and convinced him of the truth of what his children had said. --- Miss Eliza Harrison and Emily Sarah Harrison, the daughters of the last witness, aged 10 and 12, deposed to the offensive conduct of the prisoner in Belgrave-street, Stepney, on Saturday evening, when he improperly exposed the back of his person to them. Mr. Young would admit the prisoner had committed the offence charged against' him. The young man was subject to aberration of intellect, owing to his mother, when sh e was pregnant with him, having been frightened. Mr. Yardley must say this offence was more like a ressed . freak of madness than anything else, but it must be su pp Mr. Bowkett, a surgeon, and a brother of the prisoner, both deposed to eccentricities and absence of mind on the part of the prisoner, who had also particular views relating to food, and did not take sufficient food to fill out the mus cular system. The prisoner also studied too much. Mr. James Guy, a pilot, met the prisoner a short time before he committed the offence now charged against hi m , and ho looked vacant and stupid. Mr. Yardley said the whole of the evidence tended to negative the intention to insult the girls in the - words of the Act of Parliament. The act was done in a fit of ab sence of mind. He should, therefore, discharge the pri soner, but he must recommend his friends and relatives to look well after him. ! MANNING THE NAVY, (From the Daily .21reics.) The first fortnight of the New Year has been filled by.a rapid succession of events, all of which painfully teach us how little security we have against the outbreak of an European war. From day to day the probabilities of actual bloodshed fluctuate, or seem to do so, as news of this resolution or that tendency of some autocrat is transmitted by the telegraph. Thus the reported determintion of the Sultan to confirm the choice of the Servian people removes for the moment complications which threatened to bring the antagenism of some of the Great Powcrs of Europe to a crisis. But substan tially the gravity of the situation remains. The ominous meaning - of the celebrated New-year's Speech has not been explained away ; and the words of King Victor Emmanuel are fermenting in Italian minds. When, besides this, we hear of actual movements and counter-movements of colPs d'arinee, of fortresses provisioned, and arsenals re plenished, and we know that the commencement of hostilities may be precipitated by the merest accident, is it strange that Englishmen are asking questions concerning the state of our own belli gerent establishments ? Maintaining strenuously, in common with the whole press, the duty of our Government to observe a strict neutrality, we believe there is the soundest reason in the universally expressed desire of our countrymen that the naval force of Great Britain should be upheld at a strength adequate to any emergency that may arise. There is no doubt much activity at this moment displayed at our principal dockyards and arsenals. The authorities, giving a tardy heed to the reiterated admonitions of the press, are at last bestirring themselves in earnest; we are promised a Channel Fleet which shall be something more than a name, and we may reason ably expect, should ample time be allowed, that a magnificent array of ships will be ready to take the sea, if crews only can be provided for them. England, with her vast resources, can always com mand at a few months' notice vessels to any requi. site extent, but the rub will be how to man them. A commission appointed last session to investigate this matter, has just concluded its inquiries, and we hope before long to be in a position to lay before our readers the results of its deliberations. The great bane has hitherto been that insane prac tice of paying off a ship's company as soon as, by practice and discipline, they have been brought to the highest possible efficiency. A vessel is commis sioned, by dint of great exertion, but frequently not without a delay of many weeks, a raw crew is obtained. She sails for the Mediterranean, the Pacific, or the East India stations. After an absence of three years, during which that rough and un trained company have been rendered proficient in all the duties that can be required of men-of-war's men, have above all learnt to know and confide in. each other—the ship is ordered home, and is paid off—her gallant crew are dispersed, never to meet again, many of them possibly never to serve more on board a British vessel, and the labour of years is thus utterly thrown away. How so senseless a custom ever came to be tole rated it is difficult to conceive ; still more unac countable is the fact that this is the routine which has been in vogue almost from time. immemorial. What would be thought of an individual who should devote himself exclusively fora long period to the production of a chronometer, in regulating which whole months should be anxiously passed, but who, when his task was accomplished, and after absolute accuracy had been attained, should set to work deliberately to demolish the object of all his toil and solicitude, and to consign its materials to the melting pot P Yet this has been precisely the irrational course we have been pursuing, with this additional variation, that the costly materials we have so sedulously collected and then dispersed have been in too many instances eagerly obtained by the agents of foreign Powers, and drafted, at higher wages than we thought proper to pay, into their ships, possibly some day or other to serve against us; for it is an incontrovertible fact that on board many American men-of-war there are Eng lish sailors, now naturalised subjects of their adopted country, and consequently lost for ever to the land which gave them birth. Let us turn for a moment to the other side of the Channel, and see how these matters are managed there. The vulgar notion, too prevalent in England, is, that a Frenchman can never by any process be made into a sailor, and that nothing need ever on that account be apprehended from France in the event of a future war. Had she suffered matters to have remained in the state they were from 1815 to 1820 that might be so ; but let any one with a com petent knowledge of nautical matters make a tour of inspection through the French dockyards, visit ing in succession Cherbourg ' Brest, L'Orie n t, Rochefort, and Toulon, and if he can a man of a thoughtful turn he will find ample matter for re flection, possibly for astonishment. In England at the present moment there are not probably a dozen people who possess any reliable information as to the real state and connition of the French Navy and Arsenals. Many of the statements which have lately appeared, more especially those extracted from a Leipsic periodical, are in many particulars ludicrously incorrect; nor are the public generally likely to be much better informed, so long as the French Government continues to prevent by every means in its power, the publication, not only of any Navy List, but of every document calculated to throw any light upon matters connected with its marine. As one instance among many of the inaccuracies which may be disseminated by those who, without authentic statistical information, venture to write authoritatively upon this subject, we may cite the statement put, forth in the columns of a distin guished contemporary on Wednesday last, to the effect that " in 1856 seven additional line-of-battle ships were floated : of these the Imperial and the Alexandre were new, and of 900 and 800-horse power respectively ; while the Louis Quatorze, the Tage, the Duguay Trouin, the Donawerth were converted, and fitted with engines, varying in horse power from 600 to 450." Now, the Imperial was in a very incomplete state in 1858, and the Alexandre is, we believe, still on the stocks at Rochefort, her state as regards com pletion being officially indicated last 'January in 24ths by the numbers 22.60. The Louis Quatorze is a•vessel whose keel was laid down in 1811, she having been launched in 1840; the Tage, com menced in 1834, was launched in 1847 ; the Duguay Trouin and the Donawerth in 1854; and the Duguesclin, begun in 1823, was launched in 1848. Again, we are informed that the Ville de Paris, of 600-horse power, and the St. Louis, of 450, were launched in 1857, the fact being that the first was launched on the sth Oct., 1850, and the other on the 25th April, 1854. It is not, however, so much the number of the ships composing the navy of France that is so im portant, as the admirable system she has of late years adopted for manning them. It would occupy a greater space than we have at present at our disposal to describe fully the details ; suffice it therefore to say, that the whole maritime population of the country is registered upon what is termed the " Inscription ;" that every man, so long as his name remai ns th ereon , i s liable to be called upon under particular emergencies to serve on board the fleet. Annual levies arc drafted from these in proportion to the shins at the time in commission. The total numbers on the inscriptiou at the present time may be assumed at 170,000, while that of the sailors afloat on board ships actually commissioned is about 60,000. Thus the country has always a vast disposable reserve independently of the Equi- pages de Ligne, which now nearly equals the whole of the crews on service in the navy. Other corps might be enumerated, showing an aggregate of about 100,000 men, available at a few days', if not a few hours', notice. The contrast arising from a comparison of our own reserves with those of our present allies is neither gratifying nor satisfactory. It is surely incumbent on our " authorities" to take warning while there is yet time, and, not neglecting the construction of an adequate fleet, to bestow the most anxious care and thought upon the fittest means of manning it before the hour of need arrives. No country in the world can boast of such materials as we have at our command. It will surely, then, be matter of ineffable disgrace if we continue to neglect the t day of he means Eantgnd , s greatestolaurdisi)osalf iorieepd.roviding against Government are now in p ossession of the report of Lord High Comm issioner Gladstone on the state o f the l on i a n Islands and the Br itish Protectora te. The despatch arrived a few days ba ck, and formed a v ery material item of the disbussion at the Cabinet Council on 'Wednesday. Nothing has transpired to indicate definitely the conclusions AND r n to which Mr. Gladstone ha s arrived, but there is animpres sion that they have rather disappointed several members of the BS CASE.--A dreadful affair, which is at present shroud e d i n mys t ery , connec t e d i. with the death of a woman a t R a df or d (a village adjoining HORRlBLE GovGovernment.—Court e n t D . C u m r t Tso /E aiti Nottingham), is being investigated before Mr. Coroner Swann. From the particulars which have already trans pired it appears that on Wednesday night last a man and his wife named Welch (both Irish), were hectic' by the neighbours to quarrel, the woman shrieking out "Murder." Shortly after this the husband left the house and did not return home till about four o'clock on the following morn ing, when he states that he found the door fastened. II then asked a policeman to assist him in effecting an entrance The door was forced open and a horrible spectacle presented itself. His wife lay upon the hearth quite dead, her clothes having been consumed by fire, and she having been to all appearance burnt to death. The body was immediately removed, and an inquisition held the same evening, but adjourned in order to allow time for a post mortem exami nation, and there being a doubt on the minds of the jury as to how the deceased met her death, whether by violence or otherwise. The adjourned inquest will be held on Tuesday. Share 12.10 13.14 Stoel Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stool; Stock Stock 10 Stock Stocks Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 16f 16 13 4 Stock 11.6.3 11.6.3 Stock Stock 12 3 / 4 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 50 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stocks Stock Stock Stock Stock 10 Stock Stock Stock Stock 1 Stock 25 Stock Stock Stock' all all all 15s. all all `~