The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-29 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The Management find it necessary to announce to their Patrons that it will be impossible for a few nights at Christ mas to perform Balfe's eminently successful Opera with the Grand Pantomime. The time in representation and scenic preparation required for a Ilarlequinade of such magnitude, renders this temporary suspension of the brilliant Opera im perative. Boxes and places will continue to be booked daily at the Box-office for its reproduction at an early date. Commence at Seven. Order carriages at half-past 11. THIS EVENING, Mr. Wm. Harrison's popular Operetta, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE : Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. H. Corri. After which, with entirely new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, BLUE BEARD; or, Harlequin and Freedom in her Island Home. Written by J. V. Bridgman , Esq. ; pro duced by Mr. Edwart Stirling ; embracing the chief panto mime talent of the day. A perfect galaxy of Clowns I Mr. Harry Boleno, Mr. Henry Payne, Mr. Hildyard, and the Lilliputians. Harlequins, Mr. Milano, Mr. F. Payne. Pantaloons Mr. Barnes, Mr. Tanner. Columbines Mme. Bolena, Miss Clara Morgan. Zelinski Family. 26 Ladies, Mr. 1Y : H. Payne, Mdlle. Lamou reux, Mdme. fierron, and Mons.Vandris. Gorgeous scenery, from the pencils of T. Grieve and Telbin, illustrating the moving, events of the year ; decorations, by Blamire, on a sca'e of magnitude and expenditure without parallel; fairy costumes, by Miss James and Mr. Coombes ; Eastern splendour, processions. marches, dancing, fun, and frolic, united to magical transformations by Sloman, pro ducing a combination of the grotesque and beautiful, recalling the golden days of pantomime for which Covent Garden stood alone and unapproached. — Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, commencing Saturday, Dee. 29, at Two o'clock. Conductor, Mr. Alfred 'Mellon. Stage Manager, Mr. Ed. Stirling.. Acting Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. arrison, Sole TO-NIGHT, Dec 29, MARRIAGE Lessees. OF GEORGETTE Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. IT, Corrle. To conclude with the Grand Christmas Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle gain and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, j dme.A Boleno and Clara Morgan. Sprites, the Zelinski Fantly. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, Scc. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mallon. Commence at Seven. THEATRF..-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. 3,Tr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Tony, I.umokin, Mr. Buckstone; Young Marlow, Mr. Howe; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling (her 4th appearance here). After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD ANT) HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. • Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. flares. THIS EVENING-, Dec. 29, ERNESTINE. Messrs. J. G. Shore, E. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; Mesdames Heath, Car lotta Leclerei, Weston, and Murray._ . . After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRITSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest. OYAL PRINCESS'S UTE ATRE.—Lessee and Managet,:, Mr. A. Harris. —A GRAND MO R N ING PER FORMANCL of th e Antomime, ROBINSON cßusoE ; or, Harlequin Friday and the King of the Carib bee Islands, on IIIOYDA.X, Dre.c. 31, commencing at Two o'clock. AI) P '..TEIV THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Pronriet,or and Manazer, Mr. Bent. Webster. TIIIS EVENIrjG, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, G. sep oy, Thorne. and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. After Witch, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boudeault, D. Fisher, "I't dinzton, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. 1 " 8 -e" . "les Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. 0371atterley. To., conclude with a new Burlesque Extravacranza, entitled I I LJE BEARD F.0)11 A NEW POINT OF HUE. esers. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, n. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Thorne. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charEm for bookinz. Private boxes, .£2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 45.: Front Circle Stalls, Es. ; Pit Stalls, 2a.; Pit, ls. Gd. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting iSlanv:er—Mr. Wm. Buillla. HEATRE -ROYAL LYCEUM, Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING THE HUSH TUTOR'. Dr. O'Toole, Mr. John Drew. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTABELLE : or, The Rose without a Thorn, showino, THE VISION OF "'A ROSE. ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE ➢IAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. Followed by the comic Drama, entitled HANDY ANDY. Messrs. Campbell, Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, Villiers, rutler, and John Drew; Mrs. J. :Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, Miss M. Ternan, and Miss Neville. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WE. BATTY. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled TRE LION CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World. " The Groupe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL HORSE •, or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy KinG., produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comic scenes Batty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and :Brandon Ledger. Harlequin Mr. Sylvester. - columbine Miss Ilariet Dalton. Pantaloon Mr. G. Perks. Clown Mr. James Cooke. Sprites—Messrs. Thorne, Lockhart, and Sons. Doors open at half-past ei, performance commence at 7. Box-offiCe open daily from 11 till 4 Stare Manager—Mr. W. 'WERT. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL. Open Every Evenin,2; at Seven. GEAND SELECTION ,, (First Time) from LA EMMA DEL REGIMEN TO (Donizetti), NORMA, SONNA3IBULA, and MARTHA. Principal Artistes Miss RUSSELL, Madame MARTA, Miss TYRRELL, Miss WILLIAMS, Mr. HENRY HERBERT, C. W. BERNARD, and Signor TIVOLI. Musical Director...., Mr. F. JONG TIM AN S. The Comic Department comprises Messrs. J. BLANCHARD, A. B. HOLLINGSWORTII, Master BARRY, G. W. FELL, CHARLEY Fox, and E. MARSHALL. The Fine Arts Gallery has been enriched by the addition of the late John Martin's three Grand Pictures—viz., " THE GREAT DAY of HIS WRATH," "THE PLAINS of HEAVEN," and " THE LAST JUDGMENT," on view until 1' ) o'clock at Night. IRE IV.EATI - 1 .13.3.—571.401 , P1CE, DEC. 29, 1860. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 32—highest since noon yesterday. 18—lowest this morning and .filuring the night. 28—this day at noon.! BAROME9ER-30.40; a rise of nearly an inch since yes terday. WIND—South-Easterly —rather fresh ; with bitter cold weather. HILT{ WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THia DAY.—Morning, 2h. 32m.—Afternoon, 2h. 52m, To-monlao - w.-Morning, 3h. 13m.—Afternoon, 3h. 33m. li 1.3 Ott i•-•::4 , 4:L - s 1""" 5, r , Fait ....4.... t:.. !,..t . : 47: _,,5, , rntt" ~ ,, : o l '''f ...,', - --,ltte• ,- 'Ft THE SUN. LOND(a ) SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1860. The re-eSlablishment of PeaCe once more between the Chinese and ourselvefewas yesterday not inap prOpriately celebrated by n the 'firing of .the Park Guns, while we wrote _upon that rapid triumph achieved by the Allied Expedition. Since then the ofricials aespatches have been promptly given to the pubile Immediately , upon the Morrow of Mr. Loafs arrival i n e • t el 'country with the newly negotiated Treaty' l'lgued and sealed in Pekin itself by the two respective - Royal and Imperial Commis.. sioners, his Ilighnc's TSAI, Prince of I, uterine brother -of the Emperor. ILIEN FUNG, and his Excellency, the Earl of Her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador ExtrAerdir,tiry and Mini ster Plenipotentiary. These imPoTtuut d ocumen t s illustrating, iea a very remarkable manner, the course of events out at the seat of the late war at the opposite extremity of this hemisphere — documents .which will be. - round given in extenso in anothe r part of The Sun of this'evening—will amply repay perusal throughout, notwithstanding the formidable length to which they have, not much to our astonishment, extended. As yet, we can hardly realise the magnitude of the occurrences that have just now come to pass within the walls of the mighty and mysterious capital of China, and far and wide over the no less mysterious countryside in that great city's immediate neighbourhood. Posterity viewing these astonishing incidents from a distance of time more suitable in many ways for their ade quate appreciation, will turn with profound curiosity to the very records given in our impres eion of this evening, regarding them as historic nar ratives of an interest, in many particulars, wholly unparalleled. They - will hardly fail to marvel at the extraordinary respidity and completeness with which the mystery of China and the Chinese came at length to be solvel by the merest handful of resolute Europeans, atter the lapse of so many centuries in the previous history of the world, during which tibt, singular mystery remaining altogether inscrutable and impenetrable. It will • then be remembered, not without an enduring sense of surprise and admiration, how so small a force of Allied Englishmen and Frenchmen marched f ro m the shores of the Gulf of Pecheli—pausing but for a brief interval at Tiei-tsin—marched directly, during the autumn of 1860, upon that world-famous City of Pekin, that had never before, in the annals of the human race, been approached by a force of armed Europeans ! It will continue to be borne in recollection generations hence with wonder, and not without gratification, how that little army of Anglo-French warriors routed upon their march again and again, apparently over- , whelming masses of the Tartar cavalry, led by their most redoubtable leader the Prince SAN-KO LIN.siN, the Chinese Generalissimo. How at their nearer and nearer approach to the hitherto inviolable capital of the Empire, thereigning EMPEROR over four hundred million Chinese fled in terror from his palace of luxuries, fled panic stricken with the remnant of his defeated armies far away beyond the frontiers of China Proper, into the savage wilds of Tartary. Then will be read with hardly less profound emotion, with hardly less eager curiosity than that felt by ourselves the living contempo raries of the events related in them, those enthral ling records of Tartar craft and Tartar cruelty— penned by the few fortunate survivors from among the ntmber of the little band of European pri soners infamously entrapped by these Asiatic barbarians, the boasted conservators of a purely imaginary civilization. Conspicuous among these authentic narratives, pre-eminent amongst them in every particular will remain henceforth, we may rest perfectly well a ssured, the masterly document :written by her MAJESTY'S Consul, Mr. HARRY PARKES, that com plete and categorical document, for the prompt diffusion of which our columns of this evening lend their ready aid in extending its immediate circula tion. When examined carefully—as it deserves— Mr. PARKES's statement will be found to be in every way what it could have been wished, or what it could have been expected. It is full, detailed, and perspicuous. It forms at once the most lucid, the most reliable, and the most picturesque narrative of his ever memorable captivity. It illustrates, in a startling manner, as never certainly before has upon any occasion before been illustrated the whole idiocyn oracy of the Tartar character, the whole system of the Chinese Government. Nothing could be more clear and succinct than the account given by Mr. PARKES in the earlier portion of this lengthened History of his Captivity, the carefully detailed account there given by him of the incidents, mark ' ing the date of its commencement on Tuesday, the 18th of September. Every individual fact, every minute circumstance there related, tends to the com plete vindication of this good servant of the Crown, this singularly able, daring, and generous-hearted Englishman, from the base and, as we felt certain, they would prove the utterly groundless charges directed against him but little more than a week ago, by our chief morn ing contemporary. According to the Times of last week it was upon Mr. PARKES that devolved the responsibility of the occurrences of the 18th of September," those occurrences which resulted unhap pily in the seizure and subsequent death by torture of so many of our lamented fellow-countrymen. According to the irresistible evidence of actual facts now brought clearly under the observation of, us all, Mr. PARKES, on the contrary, upon the 18th of September, risked his life, his reputation everything in the endeavour to effect the liberation of his cunningly and lawlessly entrapped companions. It was to Mr. PARKES himself more over to his unflinching and unhesitating determi nation from first to last, while in the midst of the most frightful perils, and when weighed down body and soul by prolonged and apparently hopeless sufferings, it was to this brave and generous man's constancy, under Heaven, that Mr. LOCH and those others who were returned alive at last to the Allied Camp from the very jaws of destruction, may be said most truly to have owed their almost miraculous preservation. And now while we are closing these remarks of ours after our first eager perusal of these enthral ling documents, published elsewhere, in elucida tion of the closing incidents of the late extraor dinary War in China, we may revert with satisfaction to tilt formal Treaty of Peace, the arrival of which in England woke yesterday in the capital of our empire the exultant booming of our artillery. Brief though that Treaty is, number ing in all no more than Nine Articles, each in turn sententiously enough expressed, the im portance of it in every particular is almost, we might venture to assert, beyond the reach of exag geration. The date alone has its significance— " Done at Pekin, in the Court of the Board of Ceremonies, on the 24th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty !" Article I. expresses distinctly, on the part of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of CHINA, his MAJESTY'S " deep regret" at the occurrence of the ambuscade at the Talcu fortifica- tione. Article 11. decides that in accordance with a stipulation in the former treaty (that of 1858) " her Britannic MAJESTY'S representative will henceforward reside permanently or occasionally at Pekin," according to her Britannic MAJESTY'S I will and pleasure. Article 111. fixes the amount of the indemnity at the moderate sum of 8,000,000 taels, and not, as we had hoped (and as we can not now but regret that it is not) at 16,000,000. Article IV. provides for the opening to trade hence forth of the port of Tient-tsin. Article V. declares that perfect freedom in future is to be allowed for Coolie emigration. Article VI. announces the yield ing up to England of a certain portion of the town ship' of Cowloon. Article VII.--not by any means, as will be seen at a glance, the least important of the Nine—asserts in two pithy paragraphs, firstly —" It is agreed that the provisions of the treaty of 1858, except in so far as these are modified by the present convention, shall without delay come into operation as soon as the ratifications of the treaty aforesaid shall have been exchanged"—and se condly, "It is further agreed that no separate ratification of the present convention shall be ne cessary, but that it shall take effect from the date of its s i gna t ure, an d b e equa ll y bi n di ng w i th the treaty " above mentioned on the high con t rac ti ng parties. Article VIII. provides for the publica tion of the terms of the treaty by order of the EM PEROR of China throughout the whole of the vast extent of his Imperial dominions. Article IX., relat ing to the withdrawal of our forces from China when a ll the essential terms of this Treaty shall have been duly carried out. And so drops the diplomatic Pekin" on the p art of the Emperor curtain upon wha t has now tut t wo mont h s ago been " done at H EIN -F LI NG by the Prince of 1, MAJESTY'S brother and Imperial Commissioner, and on the , part of Queen V IC TORIA by the E ar l of ELGIN her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador and Pleni- potentiary. Can 'anything liberal come from Austria? is a questicii we naturally ask as each of the successive docuroints issued by the Government have followed each other. In every one hitherto some pitfall for religious and political liberty has been quickly detected, and the Protestant Chu; cl 2, and Hungary, and the minor provinces of the empire, have not been backward to point it out, and to decline to move in the path to which they were invited. The circumstances of the hour might make all tempo rarily pretty safe, but the circumstances of some future hour might show that confidence was weak ness and ruin. We have now the full text before us of the circular of the new Minister of the Interior, Baron SCHMERLING, and what shall we say to it ? It seems ungenerous to be for ever distrusting. Its spirit is unquestionably a great advance upon that of the former documents which have appeared since the battle of Solferino ; but if we think of it in comparison with anything which could be thought of before that event, it looks as if " a change had indeed come over the spirit of the dream" in Austria. The Revolution, so far as it has gone in Italy, is really not more wonderful than the issue of such a manifesto as that which has just been published by the Government of Austria. What is perhaps most remarkable is the almost entire dropping of the language of paternalism for that of confidence in the capacity and good feeling of the people. Thus, at the very beginning, the EMPEROR for the first time speaks to his subjects as full-grown men :—" His Majesty confides to the matured intelligence of his people the prosperous development and consolidation of the institutions which contain in themselves the guarantee of a free movement." In the same spirit " the public rights of the people," and " the spontaneous activity of the people," as the source of material wealth, are distinctly asserted; and numerous are the expressions of the same stamp. This revolution,' in Austrian State language, should indicate some thing more than a mere verbal reform. One would think that even an Austrian Government could hardly be so demented as to adopt the very words of constitutionalism and freedom when intending to build up despotism. Such language is itself a training of the people to the very opposite system. Two years ago an editor, writing in this style, would have written his next paper in a prison. The Press will, no doubt, continue to receive hints and advice which it will not dare to overlook, yet the language of the circular respecting this terror of tyrants is that of a trustful appeal, not of warning—" As regards the press, which he must consider one of the most powerful instruments for the propagation of knowledge, and of the sentiments which form the bases of sound instruction, the arrangement made is that all preventive intervention shall cease. It is only justice to acknowledge that in * many difficult circumstances the press has zealously and ably defended the cause of the country; during the war the last year especially, it happily combined a patriotic attitude with prudence. this experience is of a nature to inspire confidence, and the confidence which the Government has resolved to plaee in the press will contribute, I hope, to maintain it in that path of moderation, of unimpassioned, cool, and rational judgment, of pro priety, and also to fill it with that noble pride to which its mission of enlightening millions gives it the right to aspire. The consciousness of inde pendence will at the same time imbue it with the sentiment that it alone is re sponsible, and to a greater degree than ever, both for the substance and the form, and this sentiment will preserve it from all excesses." What editor, after such an appeal, could refuse to put the best construction on the acts of the con fiding Government ? Baron SCHMERLING is a thorough German, in regard to the length and semi-philosophical cast of his sentences; but, unless the circumlocution be meant to mislead, the avowal is as clear as liberal mysti cism could make it, that Austria is to become a con stitutional Power. Here is a pleasant Christmas riddle for our readers, but we may hope that the meaning is good :—" Austria has entered with all her integral parts, equally, and in the same man ner, into the rank of those European States which have found in participation, reposing on the oldest historical foundations, and regulated by the public right of all the people, the means of elevating her self to that high power which constitutes the fun damental condition of material prosperity and intellectual impulse, the inviolability of the law and of international consideration, as well as of the patriotic pride which not only excites the brave sons of the country to acts of courageous heroism, but also gives increased strength to the occupations of peace." 'The constitutionalism of Austria is, however, perhaps necessarily, to be a federal one. The advantage of nationalities being strictly respected, and their development fostered in their own way, is so strongly asserted, as to suggest whether the divide et:inzpera was not in the mind of the writer. One gr, eat advance is made upon the Diploma. According ;fa that the classes only— nobility, clergy, burghers, and peasants—were to be represented ; this is to be superseded by the repre sentations of interests and direct election; the for mer scheme, had, indeed, met; with universal censure. The composition of the fede: :al council—the Reichs rath—will be a very important affair. In regard to this we are told that its construction on a libe ral basis is necessary, as a consequence of the liberalising of the provincial councils. "It must, therefore, not only be allowed the initiative and publicity of its deliberations, but it will also be necesssary for it to be appointed, leaving aside the proposition of the provincial States, by the direct election of those States, an .d for it to obtain by the number of its members the consideration and moral weight necessary fo) the high functions as signed to it." It is said that its members arc to be increased to about 300. It is from the Reichsrath that an anxious eye is cast on Hungary. Hunga rian mistrust seems to be deprecated on the double ground of the determinat ion fully to respect the rights of nationalities, and of the large powers to be accorded to the Reichsrifich, in which the Hun '7-rictris must have a very 'considerable number of representatives. Yet the nat ieEal rights of Hungary undeniably clash with merging her highest poll tical functions in a federai! coancil. Nothing can be more certain than that 31ungary is legally, and was de facto till 1849, an independent kingdom. _ . That her union with the other Austrian provinces, except the partes annexce wa s wholly personal; that her Diet must vote the tau: .es an number of sol• diers, and that Austria could not, without leave, introduce even a German reg iment into the country. How such natural rights, now firmly demanded back by the Hungarians, a in be surrendered to a Federal Council, is not 'easy to see. Baron SCHMERLING seems bent on. showing to the Hun- garians such a very Tiber, 11 and constitutional Austria that, smitten with the love of her, they are to surrender the funda mental rights of their Diet and kingdom, just tha t there may be such a thing as a powerful and ur ►ited Austrian Empire. It is to be feared—hoped, 1 . re should rather say— ,hat the Hungarians will :stand to their colours. Both the faithless Hapsbur, gs and the selfish and conceited German bureau ;:rats are wholly un worthy of confidence, exce - pt as they are' kept in fear. Hungary for the Hungarians is the only security for a free Hungai T. What becomes of Austria is of no earthly cone tequence. She has been the pest of Europe this many a year; to cut her to pieces and to liberalise her fragments is the best thing which can be done wi; - ,h her. The final re §ult would probably be a united Germany, of THE • SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1860. which Austria was one province ; and a strong and free Hungary, to which all the eastern pro- vinces would rally. There can be little doubt that Baron SCHMER LING is very much hampered in his action by such a colleague as Count IticussEßo and others ; but what he has offered both in regard to political con cessions and the public administration of justice, is so much that he is entitled to say that " A long distance will have been travelled in the path of political progress when the things which at this moment I recommend to your attention shall have been carried into effect—shall have become part of the people's habits." It will be so, but there will be a long distance to travel still. Trial by jury, and possibly a Habeas Corpus Act, are not part of the programme, though the latter appears to be pointed at in one passage. Publicity in trials and oral examinations are great advances; but, when we think of a genuine patriot in the hands of Austrian judges, we feel the unspeakable value of an institution which compels tie Crown to submit to the judgment of his peers the question of a man's innocence or guilt. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint Captain Wm. P. Cust to be one of her royal highness's equerries. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have been unable to meat at Trentham this Christmas, owing to the Duchess being confined by a aevire cold at Roseneath Dumbartonshire. The Earl and Countess of Warwick and family, who came to town for a few days siye from Warwick Cas tle, leave shortly for Torquay. The marriage of Lord Delamere with Miss Augusta Seymour, daughter of Sir Hamilton Seymour, was solemnised on Thursday, at St, James's, by the Rev. Pitt Cholmondeley. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Th 2 Buckley Serenaders well maintain their ground, and on Wednesday were hon oured with overflowing audiences. Anna Maria Jones ap pears to be an immense favourite, whilst " A little more Cyder" brings down a perfect hurricane of applause. Mr. G. Buckley is the test bones we have ever seen, and his solo from the opera of " Zampa" must be heard to be appre ciated. The entertainment is brought to a close by a plan tation festival dance entitled " Dixies' Land," the comica lities of which are irresistible, and the audiences never leave excepting'in the best of humour. SSRIOUS CASE OF STABBING.-011 Thursday night two men, engaged in a cab-yard at Kennington, quarrelled whilst in a state of intoxication, when one of the mon, named Nash, stabbed the other in the neck. The wounded man was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he now lies in a very dangerous state. SNOW-BALLING.—A gentleman named Carley, residing at Albmy-street, Clerkenwell, was so violently assaulted by snowballs that a fall ensued, and his collar• bone was broken. One of the offenders, named Woodhouse, is in custody. ROBBING A COMRADE.—At Woolwich, yester day, a marine named Greig, was committed for trial for robbing a comrade of a sovereign, and Beesley, a private of the 21 Battalion Military Train, remanded on a charge of uttering counterfeit coin. BURGLARIES AT CIMISTMAS.—john Smith and Hester Tarling, well known thieves, were yesterday re manded for a week by Mr. Coombe, the magistrate of the Southwark police-court, for having in their possession, a quantity of boots and shoes supposed to be the proceeds of a burglary committed on Christmas-day. STEALING A POLICEMAN'S UNlFORM.—Yester day, John Green was sent to prison for having in his pos session a constable's uniform which had been stolen. Green said he had been promised 2d. to carry the bundle a short distance. CELEBRATING CllRlSTMAff.—Frederick Vyner was yesterday sent to prisen for two months by Mr. D'Eyn court, for refusing to pay £1 155., the value of glass broken by him at a public-house in the Bagnigge-wells-road. COUNT TELEKI.—The Nord refers to the capital condemnation pronounced against Count Teleki for the part he took in trying to deliver his country. Giving him up to the Austrian police was therefore wantonly consign ing him to the scaffold ; but the Nord is of opinion that the various Governments and public opinion will defend the Count. It says :—" Public opinion is now a power which the strongest Governments cannot brave with impunity; much less those which, like Austria, are every day com pelled to make further concessions to it. If, however, the Austrian Government should think of executing the sen tence pronounced against Count Teleki ten years ago, it would precipitate the issue which a kind of fatality seems to be preparing for the difficulties which beset it." The shares of the Labuan Coal Company expe rienced a considerable advance yesterday, advices having been received confirming the favourable opinion of the mines, and stating that any quantity of coal can be pro cured at cheap rates. The agent writes :—" I quite agree with the original statement of Mr.-Smith, the mining en gineer, that the colliery will prove an extraordinarily lucrative adventure, and will supply the whole East with coal." The prospects of the undertaking are also consi dered to have been much benefited :by the conclusion of peace with China, and the consequent probability of a greatly extended trade. Advices from Christiania state that the traffic of the Norwegian Trunk Railway, of which one-half the capital is held in England, is steadily recovering from the check caused by the disastrous floods in the spring, and that the current receipts now show an increase over the corresponding period . of 1859, which was the best year since the line has been opened. To meet the last payment of 5 per cent. preference interest the receipts were 5,000 dole. short, but this deficiency has since been fully made up. The accounts from Vienna describe a great increase of distrust. The notification that the dividends on the national loan, which are bound to be paid in silver, will be arbitrarily met in paper at the exchange of 140, has pro duced a very bad effect, and there are also rumours of a forced loan of £3,000,000 being in contemplation. The introduction of a forced paper currency in Venetia is like wise talked of, with the double view, perhaps, of relieving immediate wants, and of causing loss to fall upon the people in case of any revolutionary movement. PRICE OF AGRICULTURAL STOCK.—SOme fat wother sheep were exhibited in Watford-market last week and sold to the butchers in the neighbourhood, several at six guineas each ; they were under twenty-two months old, bred and fed by Mr. Scdgwick, of Cash.io-bridge Farm, from Southdown ewes (Mr. Rigden's breed) by Oxford shire Down tups. RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE.—This morning eight pauper girls, who had been inmates of the City of London Union ever since they were infants, were brought before Mr. Selfe, at the Thames Poliee-court, charged with riotous conduct in the house. The magistrate commented strongly on their ungrateful conduct, and sent them to prison for 10 days. Yesterday the inmates of Camberwell-house, Dr. Paul's Lunatic Asylum, celebrated the festive season in a very joyous manner. Cakes, nuts, and lemonade were served, and the farce of " Box and Cox" was performed before them. Their enjoyment was very great. The music had a peculiar happy effect. Snowballing in the Tuileries gardens,was carried on to such an extent on Christmas. day that it became necessary to send for troops to protect the public. A parcel of young scamps systematically assailed every well-dressed person, particularly ladies who wore bonnets worth spoiling. One young man, supposed to be an Englishman, used his cane in self-defence, and a regular row was the Gongs quence. Many bear-skin caps belonging to the grenadier guards who came to restore order were seen rolling about in the snow. The troops were unarmed, and could do little, but ultimately a body of urgent: de viae cleared the gardens and arrested several of the snowballcrs. THE LATE COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND RAIL WAY.—Since the collision which took place on Monday last on the Midland Railway near to the Nottingham sta tion, between the Derby and Leicester trains, one of the sufferers named Wm. Lyl , o, who was in the employ of the company's contractor for loading timber, has died of con cussion of the brain. An inquest has been held upon the body, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." The jury also, from the evidence adduced, considered that no blame rested with the company's servants, inasmuch as the driver of the Leicester train appeared to have used every exertion to stop his train, but was prevented from doing so, owing to the slippery state of the rails. PORTLAND, Dec. 27.—During a terrific storm of wind, snow, and sleet from the south-east, last evening, a large vessel called the Erina, laden with timber from Sweden for Bristol, was wrecked on the outer breakwater at Portland. It appears from the statement of the crew that during the , worst part of the storm, about 5 30 p.m., the breakwater and the light at its outer extremity were seen close at hand, and in a few minutes afterwards the ship was dashed against the timber staging of th e b rea k wa t er and shortly-became a total wreck. The crow, with the excel:. tion of the pilot, were saved by means of a rope thrown to them by the lightkeeper, who was fortunately at hand when the catastrophe took place. The poor fellow drowned was a Cowes pilet. It is believed he had previously been seriously hurt by the falling of a spar, which may account for his not being saved. The damage done to the staging is very considerable and will take some time to repair. The wreck, after breaking up, was carried by the wind and tide round the end of the breakwater and was strewn along the beach, on the western side of the harbour, for some distance. Another' vessel called the Harriet, of Hull, was wrecked about the same time on the beach, near Weymouth. All hands wore saved. If the weather moderates this vessel may ba got off, MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Some unfavourable changes are shown in the Bank of England return completed to the 26th December. The bullion, owing to the continued shipments of specie to the United States, has been diminished by about half a million, and there is a de crease in the reserve of notes to a considerable extent. The active demand for money usual at the close of the year has caused an increase of over half a million in the Other Securities. The Public De posits, owing to the payment of official salaries, show a slight falling off; but there is an increase in the Private 'Deposits of about a quarter of a million sterling. In the other items of the balance sheet there are no changes requiring special notice. Subjoined are the particulars : Active Circulation Decrease Bullion Decrease Rest Increase : Public Deposits • • .. Decrease Other. Deposits • • • • Increase .. Seven Day and other Bills .. Decrease .. Government Securities .. Other Securities .. Increase .. .. Notes Unemployed .. Decrease .. .. .. Z 19,644,500 53,595 .. 12,798,119 .. 533,151 3,194.424 10,098 .. 7,361,356 .. 23,485 .. 11,972,295 .. 212,475 .. 610,189 • • 41,862 .. 9,540,273 No alteration. .. 20,522,372 .. 636,782 .. 6,924,075 422,425 No change of importance was exhibited in the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon. A call of £2 per share, amounting to £BO,OOO, is due on Monday, the 31st inst., on the North British Border Union Guaranteed £lO Railway Shares. Continued activity is reported in the general discount market, and the quotations exhibit in creased firmness. A fair amount of business was recorded in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were well supported. The sales were 12,000 bales. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been aboat £376,800, and the exports £844,000. The Royal Mail steamship America, which left Liverpool to-day for Halifax and Boston, took £162,603 in specie. The market for Public Securities to-day has presented an unfavourable appearance, Consols having receded to 92t i. Monetary affairs are exerting an adverse influence, the specnlators being encouraged to effect sales, owing to the in creased firmness of the discount market and the flow of gold to America. The New Threes and the Reduced receded to 92i; India 6 per Cent. Enfaced Paper to 95; but Exchequer Bills were firmer at 3s. dis. par. Foreign Securities were in fair request, but prices were depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 70i to 71/ ; ditto New 561 to 57/ ; Spanish have receded to 50i 4 ; Mexican to 21-a I-, and Buenos Ayres, to 96 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents. were firm at 981 to 991; ditto 4/ per Cents. at 86a. Business in the Railway Share Market has con tinued very dull, and the few dealings recorded show a further slight decline in values. Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Midland have receded 55.; Caledonian, London, Chatham, and Dover, North-Western, and West Midland 10s. The Foreign lines exhibited little change of im portance in values. South Austrian and Lombardo- Venetian, however, realised 121. In the Colonial Market Grand Trunk of Canada declined ss. to 10s., and East Indian advanced as. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con tinued inactive, at previous quotations. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92 New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock .. Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent ' Ditto I per Cent Consols for Account, Jan. 10 India Stock for Account Ditto 5 per Cent. for Aecount lo] Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid Ditto £5OO 3 dig Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent .. 98! 9i Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860 B6/ Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Mexican 3 per Cent 2l Spanish 3 per Cent Turkish 6 per Cent .. 70{ Ditto Account . 7oi Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, ex dir. 92/ WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of his Grace the Most Noble Charles Gordon, Duke of Richmond and Lennox, Earl of March and Darnley, Baron Settrington and Methuen, and Duke d'Aubigny, in France, K.G., P.C., of Gordon Castle, N. 8., Goodwood Park, Sussex, and of Portland-place, bears date the 19th of July, 1850, and is very brief. His grace has appointed his son the Earl of March and Darnley, now Duke of Richmond and Lennox, sole executor, to whore. probate was granted on the 17th of December by her Ma jesty's principal registry. The personalty was sworn under £120,000. The dispositions contained in the will are to the following effect :—His grace directs that all books and family pictures, both ancient and modern, con tained in Gordon Castle, be held in trust as " heirship movables" according to the law of Scotland. The books, plate, and family pictures contained at his grace's seat, Goodwood, and at his town mansion, Portland-place, be held in trust as heirlooms. His grace then devises and bequeaths the whole of his property, real and personal, to his son and successor, the present duke. This contains the whole substance of the will, there being no other bequest whatever. The attesting witnesses thereto are Messrs. M. S. and F. G. Davidson, solicitors. His grace died at his residence, 61, Portland-place, on October 21, aged 70. The will of Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., M.P. for Southwark, of Merchistoun Hall, Hordean, Hants, and Albemarle • street, Piccadilly, dated the 4th of Dec. 1848, was proved in the London Court of Probate on the 12th of Dec., by his daughter, Eloisa Fanny Harriet Jodrell, and her hus band, the Rev. Henry Jodrell, M.A:, chaplain to the Duke of Leeds, and rector of Gislekare, Suffolk, two of the execu tors ; power reserved to the Right lion. Francis Lord Napier, of Thirlstane, Scotland. The personalty was sworn under £30,000. Sir Charles disposes of his estate, real and personal, to his daughter for her life, and after her decease to her husband, the Rev. Henry Jodrell; and on the death of the last survivor of them the estates are to devolve to their eldest son on the express condition of his assuming the name of Napier, together with the arms and crest of the family. The witnesses to the will are C. B. Hibbard, solicitor, and J. C. Chandler, his clerk. There is a codicil so recently executed as 1855 in Sir Charles's own handwriting. This instrument gives an annuity of £lOO, together with the Admiral's residence, Albemarle-street, and the furniture contained therein, to Mrs. Charles Wilkins, which annuity and bequest on her decease are to"descend to her children. This codicil is witnessed by Captain G. T. Gordon, R.N., and J. W. Onard, Paymaster, R.N. Sir Charles died on the 6th of November last, aged 74. This gallant Admiral, who was so eminent in his profession, was decorated with several foreign orders and titles. _ The will of his Excellency Sir Henry George Ward, G.C.M.G., Governor of Madras, formerly Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon, bears date in 1839, at Gilston Park, Hertford. The executors nomi nated are his relict, Emily Lady Ward, and her 'brother, Rear-Admiral C. H. Swinburne, who have both renounced the grant of probate, whereupon letters of administration, with the will annexed, were taken out on the 17th of December in the London Court by Swinburne Ward, Esq., the testator's son. The personalty in this county was sworn under L 5,000. Sir Henry died on the 2d of October last. Tho dispositions of the will are confined to a few sentences, giving the whole of the property to his wife, Emily Lady Ward, for her own use absolutely. Sir Henry was well known for his distinguished services as a diplomatist and attache, and as a member of the House of Commons; and, previously to his appointment as Governor to the Presidencies of Madras and Ceylon, he had held the office of Secretary to the Board of Athol ralty.—lllustrated News. THE SYLPIIIDE SCANDAL.—Mr. W. J. Grandy, Second Master of her Majesty's ship Himalaya, and son of Captain J. S. W. Grandy, R.N., commanding the Marquis of Downshire's ship SylphPe, yesterday waited upon our Portsmouth correspondent and handed to him for his in spection letters received from Captain Grandy, dated on board the Sylphide in the Bay of Naples on the 18th and 19th inst. These letters contained nothing beyond what a gentleman might be expected to write to his family in England while absent in foreign parts. The dates of the letters themselves are the best proofs which' can be given of the falsehood of the scandal which has obtained such circulation. — Times. THE WEATTIER.-011 Thursday the Tyne had a singular appearance off Newcastle quay and Gateshead. It was entirely frozen over from the Tyne bridge to the bottom of the quay, forming a very fine sheet of ice. Hun dud of persons were upon the ice, skating and sliding, and in the afternoon it appeared as if all the quay .side brokers and merchants had taken to .the ice, and were disporting themselves as if they were boys again. A tent was erected in the middle of the river, from which refreshments were dispensed. It is 35 years since the Tyne was frozen over. The river is entirely blocked up down to the low end of the Long Reach. At Fill Point, St. Laurence, and some other parts of the river, an immense mass of ice is accumulated. Above Tyne-bridge the river is entirely covered with ice. A fleet of light collier vessels has arrived in the Tyne. Fortunately, the entrances to the Tyne and Northumber land Docks are open, so that there will be no impediment to their loading, as all the colliery railways are working. , SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHAttES AND STOCKS. I raid. ' Closing I Badness Price. Done. Share! Railways. 13.14 stock stock stock stock stock 6.4.0. gtock stock 50 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Belfast and Ballymena Wol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June Blackburn Blyth and Tyne Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan Cork and Bandon Cork. Blrock., .trassage Cornwall Do „ (A gets no div "Do B until 6pc peran 11 asb e ti. toB Dublin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth, &Ab. June East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock) Do do B do Do Nw A, late EU3ds. East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasg. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great North ern Do do A stock Do do B do Gt. S. & W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock' Trish South-eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Load., Chat., and Dover Lond. &Nth. Western Load. & Stli. Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man. Shef. & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle.. Do do shares.... Metropolitan Midland Do new Do uirming. & Derby hid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do 4 shares " Mid 19.16.4 stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock stom stock stock stock stock Do, Cray Line Newcastle and C trlisle Newry & Armagh, def Newry, Warnpt. Ros Norfolk.. hn. Counties Union.. North British Nor.Dev.it ail &Dt.stock 13 - tA stk ; A reef; no d. until 6pchas beenpd.B Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do do , C.N.E. purchase Do Leeds • • • • • • Do York North London Do new North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. & Grantham Rail rzebl es _. • • • • Portsmouth Shymn ay .. • • • _ Scoltish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittingbourne k Meer. South Devon • • South Eastern • • South Wales .... • . • • • • S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Tr ok Stockton & Darlington all 100 34 100 100 100 100 100 16 13 4 100 100 100 f? 81 81 83 111 12 6} 7 99 101 97} 971 6 6i Do do Taff Vale . ..... .... • • • Do Pref. No 1 ThamesHavenDk&Ral Ulster .............•- Do .. • • • . ..... Do . • Vale of Neath Victoria Sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Cornwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class .. Westilartlepool riarbr 8 81 16 17 531 541 37 39 26 28 'and P.all West Midland—Oxford Do. Newport Do. - Hereford 7 6d 54 56 651 68 105 1054 p 1p 64 45 95 954 100 102 97i i 1074 133 741 n 2 11 -,. ..4 81 115 117 34} 34} 87 89 50 52 6 424 (34 87} 881 62 64 78 80 6 424 434 11 114 p! 551 564 2 301 d 67 69 ' 11f 11/ 6 6i 1191 1 631 3 51 9511021 2 1 1/ 531 4 136 2 p 105 I P 64} 95$ 49 51 42 44 83 85 43 871 8 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share! _Railways. Closing Business Paid price. Done. stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 2s. 6d. 124 124 stock stock 12 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issrsed at £5O Brie. & Exet.4 p.ntstock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £10,41 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 'Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. ,Cornwall. 5 per cent... Dun.Perth&Aber Tun. . lE.Anrm.Class A 7 &sp.c. Do. do. Class B 6 p.c.... Do. do. Class C 7 p.c.... E. Coun. Ex. 5 p. c. No. 11 'Do. do. No. 9 Do. New 6 per ct. stook.' Eastern Union,4 per et.i Do. 5 per cent. guar...l Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares' Do. 4 p. c gua. S. & D. Ed'in. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c.' Furness, 5 per cent las.SE S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. Great Northern, 5 p. ct. Do.sp.e.Redm., 10 p.c.pm Do. 41 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotid. Ist pf. Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) 4 p. ct. pref. stock Great West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. et Co. lledeemable,4l p.ct Do. Redeemable. 4 p. et: Do Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Dirm. Pref. Shares Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.e.ptsh Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birmg.guar. stock Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock Do.Barnsl.st£s 3s 10d p, Do. 6 per c. (E..Lan.) Lon. & Brig. 5 pc.gu. No.l Do. 5 p. c No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. c. Do. do. 5 p.c No. 4 'Ho. do. 41 per cenf Do. do. 41 p. c. shares.. Do. Ip. et. Pref. stock. Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P.) Do.4p.e.S.(div.dettil '65) Lon. Chat. and Dover.. Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. et Lon. & S.W, 7 p. et,. stoc Do. 4), per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpl anus of 2s. 6d. . Londondy. & Cole.. sh. Londony. & Ennis. 1 sh.f I%lan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 101 10 stock stock stock 8k stock all 1 100 stock stock 10s, 1.0.6 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stook stook stock stock 12i 101 103 204 21i 6 61 99 101 112 115 106 108 110 112 108 110 124 126 c too. 3 per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cen l'.raryport & ear., 4 p. c. Do. 41 per cent..., Mid. Con. 6 p a. stort : Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 4/ p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. Norfik sp. 0. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 'North British, 5 p. a Do. New, gua. 5 p. a Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs Do. do. do. Nth.Dev.Rail. & Dck.Co. N-East.Cons. Pref. 4 p. c. Do. Berwick, 4 p.a. Pref. Do. do. do Do. Leeds, 6 p. e. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, -. &S. Parch North Staffordshire... Rhymney Guarantee . Scottish Central, new p Scottish North-Easte 3 p. C. pref. stook... Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p,. Do. 7 p. C. pref. stoc South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 41 per cen South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 4i per cent lOO Do. Fixed 41 p.c. Ist is lOO a South Wales, gua. 4p. c lOO Do. 41 per cent. lOO S.-Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua. 100 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c all Do. B 6 Der cent all Do. C 6 per cent all Watrfd & iiilkny, 6p. c lOO W.:111d -Oxf Ist Gua st 100 Do. 2d do 100 Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red 100 Do.Perpet. 6p.c.pf 18 100 Do. till 1869, Ist is. 100 Do. do. 2d is. 71 914 1024 14 100 100 100 all all 112 114 90 az 116 119 112 114 104 106 86 88 98 100 96 100 89 91 90 92 101 103 94 10 174 18i 194 11 76 78 20 2: 10 10i 154 15; 137 139 116 118 116 118 138 143 116 118 103 105 [53 156 [3O 134 09 71 90 92 [l6 118 50 155 13 14 i 70 7 2 I IP, !37 139 .01 103 95 97 12 114 1 10 111 liP 93 95 102 104 P ip 23 24P i P 122 121 130 133 14 11 231 241 101 103 101 103 CO 92 99 101 85 88 271 28# 32 33 32 334 45 48 124 126 1123 125 100 102 123 126 116 119 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 87 89 29 29i 116 118 111 112 107 108 1132 134. 111 113 741 741 61 64 [l9 120 82 64 [l7 119 50 12 101/ 102 k 95 86 8 10 53 55 3i 24d 1351 130 108 110 fiedtord and Bletcniey Backinghtmshire Chester & Holyhead.. Do. do, 5i per cent. Do. do. 5 per cent i Clydesdale Junction.. Colchester, Stour Val. E.Lincolnshire,f.r.6 p.c. E.Union,Harwich Shs Do. Woodbridge Gle.Barr.4sNeils,Drct. all 4 Ln & N.IV 100 Ln &N.W 98 100 100 Do. 53 531 100 Do. 125 127 100 Do. 113 115 100 Caledonin 102 104 all E.U.&B C 16 17 100 Gt. North. 135 137 all E.Counts. l 4} 100 100 Cl i ledonin 100 Do . all Gt. lfes . t. all Yk.N.&l3r all Yk.N. Md. all Do. ..... . all IDa 100 100 IS. Last... 100 Pa . . .... 100 Peto do Co 100 Norfolk .. 100 Do. all ,LNW&H 100 'Midland '5. 5 6 E.Counts all !D0..... all frDo. .... all Do. . ..... all Midland. al l L& Nyir & L.Yk. all Do. 100 . 100 T.Brasse y all 3 1`61e . an . 100 Gt. West. all L.& Brgtn Do. New ... ...... . Gloster& Dean Forest Ilartipool.Dck.& Hull and Selby . . Do. Shares ....... Do. Shares ....... Lanc.& Carl. g - ua.s p.c. London & Greenwich Do. Preference ...... Soutend. LOwestott, gua. Do. (3 per cent .... Mane , Buxtn. do Matk. Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock..... Newmarkt.,BuryEx . guaranteed 5 p. c. Northnie Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent .. • • Do. Fixed 5 per cent. North Western ...... Preston and Wyre. Do. Stares .......A. Roystn. Hitch., Rc Sheol Shrewsbrylt Hereford; Do. Do. • South Staffordshire .. Wilts and Somerset.. Wimbledon a CrOydn Railways. p aid. l Leasing Closing' Business Co.'s. Price. Done. !110 112 '2OB 212 61 6,3 115 120 92 94 31 31 97 09 i ip, 55 67 15 15i1 1135 137 1 104 106 I P 1 lot 11* 91 93 71 al' Closing Business Sh a re Docks. Paid. Price. Done. i ________________ Rock k7onimercial lOO stock o. 4 pe r (1) (ient.Pref.Min. 100 West India stock East and stock London 100 .-", stock St. K a th arine.. lOO stock Southampton lOO stoek Victoria .. ........ llOO 101 103 20 Dui Now ....woes 1 i I JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra&UnitedService Bk Australasia Bank of Egypt ; Bank of London ... •• •• Bank of Turkey British North American Chtd.Bank of India, &c. Ch.ller. of In. Lon.& Ch. City Colonial ....... ........ . ,Corn. Bank of Canada.. !Commercial of London. ,Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. ;Gen. Bk .of Switzerland (Lon. Char.Bkof Austral (London and County .. (London Joint Stock .. I Londen & Westminster (Nat. Prov. of England . ,Do. new .. • !National Bank New South Wales.- IDo. new 'Orient. B. Corporation . 'Ottoman Bank . Provincial of Ireland . ,Do. new ...... ...... South Australia Union of Australia Union of London !Unity Mutual.. ...... 83 A 5 72 74 21 22 60 b 2 14 1 22i 23 34 36 70 72 39 41 21 22 15f 16 23 23i 1 34 361 47 48 185 19 43 45 26 27 "MENT SECU 1112 117 i.lll 113 1.11 113 104 j 1 081 109} 1001 1011 1 101 102 100 101 !109 110 lon 100 1 i !OLONIAL GOVER Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. & July 100 Do. 6p. cent. 1879 100 Do. 6p. cent. 1880 100 Do. 6p. cent. 1882 100 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. DO Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 Do. 5 per cent lOO Do. • Scrip B2 N.B.G ov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 Do. 6p. c. Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 100 Do. sp. c., 1871 to 1876 100 Do. 5 p.c.,1888 & upwds 100 !Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. I sterling, 1875 lOO S.Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.1878 &up lOO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap. &Oct. 100 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint (Atlantic Tel. (Limited) lAustralian Agricultural ,Berlin Water (Limited)' 'British American Land' B.&LMag. Tel. A. (Lim)' Do. 8,7p.c.t1111852 (Lim.) Do. C. (Limited) 'Canada Land ,Chan Islands Tel. (Lim.); Cop. Min.ofEng.&Smltg. Do. Pref. 74 per cent. ; Crystal Palace Do. Preference Do. 6 p. c. I'ei pet. Deben ( Electric Telegraph Do. New English & Aus. Copper Gen. Steam Navigati m Great Ship Limited) Do. 174 p ct Preference Lon. District Tel. (Lim.)( ,London Discount (Lim.)i IL.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) , Madras Irr. and Canal I Mediter. Electric Teleg. Med. Eaten. Tel. (Lim. National Dis. Co. (Lim.) Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim Netherlands Land Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis. N. BrANovaScotiaLandi N.B.Australasian (Lim.); Oriental Gas (Limited). Do. New Shares (Lim.) . Orintl.ln.Steam(Lim.)A Ditto B. Ditto C Peelit.Lnd.&3lin.(Lim.: I Pen. & Oriental Steam . Do. New RedSea&lnd.Tel.g.4lp , Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam ! !Scot. Austin. Inv. (Lim' South Australian Lan übmarine Tel. Scrip o. do. Registered I Do. do. 1 r. & Ln. Co,ofUpr.Can ; Van Diemen 'a Land , 13 14 29 31 41 5} 35 37 18 20 13 15 110 113 234 24i 301 314 100 1, 2 107 109 93 96 24 1 21 3 t' I n 1 4 1 It a 2/ 2 4 If lk 3 2, it i i 1 ii pr i 1 47 60 71 73 12 14 17 18 p 17 19 5 6 47 49 136 141 33 35 51 7 1 t 100: 9 10 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. I Closing' Share Railways. Paid. p r i o z BuMuudone 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence -- sai 77 80 '.."--.------ f Rom.,Baroda&.Cent Lnd stk 100 925 935 G. 5 per cen t ...... .. .... .1i 18 D o , l6 15 15 d 205 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 45 I+lll 5 • 45 5 201 Do. New - - 10 I Do. Preference - . all 65 7 00 f rßuffalo,Brant&Godria 100 75 SO - 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 187 100 Do. do. July 1. 187. 100 67 72 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 5 70 5 Clcutta.&S.F.astn. (Lim• 3 d pr 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s. - - 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 5 11 11 d 29 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. a 75 15 5 d 175 Demerara all - - 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 10 25 15 d stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 98 99 981 1 20 Do. F Shares Ext all - - 20 Do. Jubbulpore all - - 100 Do. 45 pc. Debentrs all 985 995 100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864 all 1005 101 20 Geelong & Melbourne all - - stock Geelong Corporation • per cent. Bonds - - stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 23 24 235 5 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 75 80 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 46 50 49 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 100 Do. do. 1867 all 50 54 100 Do. do. 1872 all 48 52 stock Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c lOO 95 96 955 . 6 20 Do. New g - ,ua. sp. c 8 15d 5 d 20 Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. all 25 156 205 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 11 115 11. 205 Do. New 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with a t o t . i.ll 73 ' 100 Do. do. ° till '6O all 95 100 100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 93 96 100 Do. 55 p. c. do. '77 do all 90 53 stock Madras, guar.. 45 p. c lOO 83 85 stock Do. do. 5 per cent stock Do. 45 p. c. Extension 100 86 87 20 Do. Fourth clo l5 15 15 d 135 20 Do. do all - - stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds lOO - - 20 Newßranswick & Canda .. Do. do. Land - do.. - 20 0. do. B Capital do all 5 7 0. do. Land do. 20 Oude (Limited) - - Ry. &Land(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share all 95 100 all 5 7 stock ,Scinde .......... d (..; 100 975 985 20 I Do. Punjaub .... ,_ • *3 g 10 251 151 20 Do. Do. ........ .7i 0 all - - d sic,* o. Indus. St. Flo. • ? c „," 100 92 94 20 LAndrews & Quebec A 18 - - {' 10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip 1 5 5 d FOREIGN RAILWAYS. ...... 10 ,Antwerp & Rotterdami all 51 54 $5 20 rdennes .... ...... - - 20 ah.ctS.Fran...Lim.7 p.c lO 15 15 4 5 ;Belgian East. Junction all 5 1 20 Bezlers to Graissessac all - - 6 Cw - neaux Mine & Rail all 105 115 100 ,Copiapo ........& all - - 10 I Ditto Extension 20 (Dutch Rhenish 20 ,Eastern of France 20 Grand Rue. Guar. 6p. a 6 - - 20 Do. do. all - - 20 Great Central of Fran • all - - 20 tGt. Luxem., Con. she... all 65 7 20 !Italian Junction - - 20 Lake Constance & Bale all - - 20 I Lierre & Turnhout - - 20 'Lyons & Geneva, . . all - - 335 Maria Antonia ........ all - - 10 Do. New ...... ........ all - - 20 [Namur & Liege ........ all 75 75 20 Do. 6p. a. Pref......... all 195 205 16 Northern of France.... all 285 395 16 , Do. New Shares ..... 15 - - 10 'Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 75 15 20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. all 355 365 20 P:,ris & Orleans... .... all 54 56 20 f Recife & S. Fran. (Peru. i i gua. 7p. ct. 1im......1 13 35 25d 91 ' 20 (Riga tic Dunaburg .. l4 - - 10 ,Rome & Frascati - .... all - - 20 Royal Dani5h.......... all - - 5 Royal Swedish . . - - 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all - - 20 Sambre & Meuse 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref all 85 Ai 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c 2 1 t d 20 IS.Aust. &Lomb Venetin 12 14 1 1 d 125 20 Southern of France all 20 2 t 85 West Flanders 10 ,Do. 5 1 { p. c. Preference.. all 9 9 20 W. & N.W. of France .. all 21 22 23 ;Western of Austria • • 6 - - 20 IWestern of Switzerland all - _ 6 'Wiesbaden ... .. . . .... all - ._6 Do. 8 per cent. 'Pref.... all _ - 20 Zealand .. ............ all - - ilesbaden Do. 8 per cent. Pref.... Zealand . • BRITISH MINES. Share' Mines. P a id . / Closing I Business 1 - IT" . " ----- ' Allred Consols (P i aok)2.11.10 33 4 20 }British Iron .......... 16 1 2 !Clifford ........ . ...... nil 205 215 'Devon G. Cons. (Pavia.) 1 410 420 'East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 114 118 East Caradon .. . . E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) 7.4.0 101 11l I Gam.& St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 541 26 28 Great South Tolgus.... 17s 9 9# - G.Wheal Alfa. (Philack) 12.13.9 1 13 —G. Wheal Vor (Helston) 94 14 1 4 iGrenville . Herod's-Foot 8.12 32 34 illingston Downs 4.10.6 31 31 M ar Lady Bertha ...- garet (Uny Lelant) 93 54 56 'North Downs 24 31 41 North Frances (Mogan) 111 4 5 N.ITII'I Basrat(Illo ,an) 15s 4 5 !North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) 11 94 11 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 45 47 Sort ridge Cons. Min. Co. 14s 1 13 :South Ca cm don(St.Cleer) 11 300 310 S. Carn Brea (illogan) 3l 24 31 1 S. Dev.lron &Gen., Lim all 1 1 f S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.1.4.5' 115 155 Stray Park 21.18.0 49 51 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 941 2 5# 3 21 10 'Tin Croit sf !Vale of Towey (Carm.) as 6d 1 3 West Basset (Illo,gan) I 1/ 17 18 W. Caradon (Liskeard) 5 76 78 West Soton , Wheal Basset (Mogan) 53 1171 la 3 Filen! Buller (Redruth 5 160 170 Wheal Edward (Cals.) 12 11 13 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant 1.7.2 17 18 ' Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) 8 20 22 Wheal Tretawney (Lis. 51 17 19 FOREIGN MINES. 20 I Australian 1 BonAccordCopper,Lim lss 1 d 1 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at .g i p.' 271 2 24 20 Do.St.Johndel Rey,Lim 15 281 29 5 Do. Land and Miningeo. all 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo. 1 ( 1 1 9 . 40 Cobre Copper all 43 45 Copiapo l6 8 10 1 DunMoun.Co icma p n . l 3l t in .i g ... ..C :: e ail ' 4 1 2 Fortuna. 20 General all 21 23 2 Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 par i i P 1 3 4 I Li a n p a u r n es da (Limited) 5 Lusi tan lan, al l i 9 1 1 1 1 83 P 2 p /P all 1 # 1 !Mariquira 20 1 • 5 Pdrt Philip . . 1 Scottish Austen. (L.) 10!;. ** a R a il 1# 2 PN ° M . Rn I ti n gi i i tri n be ; C' and l°Pd 81 S ISv m . eA e r u l . L t s .. e . ia . d. 12 '3 a. .1 6d ; 5 4 : : 11 1 1 19s. 25 , 151 iiw Un o i r t pt e ho d in 5i g er ii i - _ _ 100 stooki 100 all all all all ,ITIES. V 100 100 20 . 11 100 10 1 1000 stock stock stock stock ;took 21 8 Ifn i the alsc h as Ti coll) tatt hoc ti e d , 8018, ki lls ex aB ex ce ttrael Ti folio T di et th e Th e N Ntitl f or den klet Arc te I 1