The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-09 00:00:00

MONEY MaitKET AND CITY NE Ws. CITY, Two o'CLocK. There has been a moderate amount of business transacted in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last three or four days, but in most instances prices have shown considerable firm ness. Tea has been dealt in to a limited extent, and sugars are in fair requst for home consumption, at fully late values. For the better qualities of coffee the inquiries have been moderately active, and full prices have been obtained for Plantation Ceylon. Rice has not been much inquired for, and the few sales effected were at previous rates. The demand or currants has slightly diminished, but Valencia aisins continue to be actively sought for, and realise remunerative quotations. Saltpetre has een in better demand, refined qualities having shown an upward movement in prices. Tallow, however, continues inactive, at barely previous rates. Although the demand for money has slightly abated, the rates charged for ar!commodation con tinue firm, and very little business is transacted below 2i per cent. The applications at the Bank are less numerous, but it is probable that resumed activity will be reported during the next two or three weeks. The New York from America has arrived this Morning with a small quantity of specie, viz., £l,OBO, and advices to the 26th ultimo, which state that the money market remained without any alteration, and business continued dull. The stock market, however, exhibited a very active appear ance, and a considerable improvement has been apparent i❑ prices. Telegraphic advices from Paris report an increase in the bullion at the Bank of France, and a decrease in the bills discounted during the month ending yesterday. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday rather less activity prevailed, and American descriptions were Id. per lb. lower. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed quietly, and prices had a downward tendency. There were no bullion operations at the Bank of England yesterday. Rather more demand prevails for silver, and bars are firm at ss. 2d. per oz. standard. The Royal Mail steamer Avon, which leaves to-day for the Brazils, will take out £43,800 in gold, and £9,500 in silver, makin g a total of £53,300. Notice has been given that the transfer books of the London and Westminster Bank will be closed from the Ist to the 23d proximo, and of the Regent's Canal Company from the 19th inst. to the sth of January, in order to prepare for the dividends. Continued firmness is reported in the market for Erglish Securities, and in the other departments of the Stock Exchange quotations are steadily main tained. Consols are 95 96, being now quoted "ex-dividend." Business is still exceedingly quiet, ae the speculators are limiting their operations; and as the transfer books are now closed, there are very few investments to enliven the market. The steady rise in the Paris Bourse, however, promotes an upward tendency. The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are steady, at 951 96. The New India Loan Stock has improved to 104 a. tong Annuities are firmer, at 17i. Exchequer Bills remain at 275. to 30s. prem. _ _ _ Rather more activity prevails in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices tend upwards. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 78 to 781 ; ditto New, 66 to 661; and the 4 per Cents. have improved to 104; ; Brazilian 5 per Cents. to 103 ; and Spanish 3 Per Cents. to 451 1 ; ditto Deferred is steady at 33: ; Mach 21 per Cents. remain at 641 ; Venezuelan 2 1 per Cents. at 2 ; Russian 41 per Cents. at 10 01 101 ; ditto 3 per Cents. at 661 ; and the Scrip at 1 discount ; :Mexican is flat, at 227,. The Ocean Marine Insurance Company's shares are steady at 1I premium. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., give the following ILS the price of American Securities ;-- Redeemable. Prices. IT,llited States 6 per Cents 1867-1868 -- •Lio. 6 per Cent Bonds ~J!t labama 5 per Cent. Bonds — 7 5 7 7 J k....entueky 6 per Cent. Bonds . 1868-72 92 94 al,_eryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds 9 4 96 • • at assaehusetts 5 per Cent. Str. Bond s .. 101 102 " 1110 6 per Cent. Stock 1856 97 98 P ennsylvania 5 per Ct. Stock. 831 P ennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 85 87 Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. Divers 82 84 Virg! •nl • a 6 per Cent. Bonds ZVirginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 1883 84 86 4ioeton. 5 per Cent. St. Bonds Ill inois Central 7 per Cent. . Il linois Central 6 per Cent. . hinois . Central 7 per Cont (Freelands) ?. shares, 60 dols. paid R'e lligan Central 8 per Cent. , . do. shares s"'elv York Central 6 per Ct , btot convertible . "ew York Central 7 per Ct , 013 :vertible, from June 15, 1857_59 V• do. sh ares "",w York and Erie, 7 per Ct , D rnOrtZage .1 1 . * dO• shares ew York and Erie 7 per Ct., x e ntivertiblo ew,► York a n d Erie, 7 per Ct , "king fund kin 1875 a na 7 per Ct., Ist mort • I) gage Str. Bonds, not cony.. 1859 °. 0 , Ist. do. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have n to a fair extent, and prices have shown a fur ',Ter slight advance, Eastern Counties, Midland, South -Eastern ; have advanced ss. ; Bristol and le ter, 10s. ; Great Western, 15s. ; and Great No rthern and Vale of Neath, £1 ; Caledonian , Isi end Wolverhampton Eastern (Berwick), and Oxford, Worcester, Wolverhampton have declined ss. 111 : 4 te Foreign and Colonial undertakings have h a° shown more fi rmness. Lombardo-Venetian e v e improved to 121 ; Pernambuco, to 111 12 ; I ; ti g Bahia an d S a n Francisco, to 41 41; Grand 1 % ; 11 r 1 k of C ana d a have advanced to 39 39,-; ; Great 1 es tern of Canada, to 13',-; 131; East Indian, to io a and 1031 ; and Great Indian Penirsula, to ° °l 1001- . Joi nt - Stock B an k a nd Miscellaneous Shares re- O in Moderately active, at about previous rates. e: 111 sh Bank are 181; London and County, 32 ;' leralian A gr i cu lt ur al, 34 to 341 ; and Red Sea graph , 151. 1875 77 79 1875 75 78 1860 83 90 38 37 dis 1569 79 81 35 40 1883 18G4 93 95 73 75 60 63 9 11 1883 • A 1 ., „. TIRITISTI FUNDS--CLOSING 171 16 1 5 7S. l i ,„ - ': 9,eet Reduced Annuities t4, -- „,.: ,suent. Consols Annuities 1. 0 ; 4 Per Cent. Annuities Dii:fokn nu ) r pities, expire sth Jan., 1860 t Years, expire sth April, 1885 174 Shut "°4 Sto • Shut Ditt o ` - '•k bit to , 1859, 5 per Cent. De bentures, 18,58 97 D itto Ditto, 1859 961 11 bitt 11° Ticis £l,OOO (~,. ' 1 " 1 0er , tl,OOO } ,.. 1 ;els for Account (Jan. 10) Ditto Rills, £l,OOO, I.ld .. 27 30 ° m all, I}d. tittte!OREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Ditto ir,, 5 per Cent. 4 i Per Cent. 18.52 Ditt o 4.511 6 ,,,, ° 4 1 per Cent. 1858 biti B AYres, 6 per Cent . ..... ale xia ° Account it: 443 Per Cent. . — F e..,ru v i t l n Ae, e i e ant _ Ditt o '2 Per Cent _ b ;tt e a per Cent 1t,,A".‘0 Account .. 7o+ 70 b1:Ittl, 18 22, £ St., 5 per Cent _ tliir 41 Per Cent. '4, 13 0 , 3 Per Cent 1859 R 1 8 • .9 di • °I II), /31 4 41 " , 6 Cent ~, o s,„ „ per Paii„ 4 , - !tu I) *('' ' Per Cent, Illi t to A reeun 11 N o 1 . —itt o A Deferred, 3 per Cent. 11 ,kieh'p e eelant "ila 4 -uitt, ' A ' Per Cent I)y, - , N'-‘eeconr,t As. tt o 4 _ w oi Lnan .1) 14,-, c , v 7 int b ou t , A td•ranteed, 4 per Cent. oh 'reeuut bietzt,t:c'l4ll2l Per Cent .. 28 Aceoutt Alliiieil hivid ads on the above payable in London. Rzcli tt e rtge, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent... 61+ 11 °1!"11R THREE O'CLOCK. , Money 1-iitto Accoun.t . (Jan. 10) .. 9 S 5+ 96 x d 'th, r;el.14:1 0 4: 2 1 , 1 t f l i °11 se journals announce that Marshal de the ~ wife had left for Paris. The Marshal is to • rh4t for tb. the committee established at the Ministry of IN ) S t ih -e defence of the coasts of France. retershurg exchange has been gradually 4 ,47 h lik e i v ":itlg chiefly to Government support, and it teNej.,ll ge still higher. There are rumours of fresh m . p,,, e athild a u etween the Russian . Government and Messrs. rzn 4e 4 t atul it is presumed that if these are correct the 1761111 0 e further &Antic.' fnr dirstevinr. 'HARE MARKET S.-( THIS DAY.) Share 12.10 Amberg., Notting. Rost. and Eastern junction Beira:A and Ballymenz Bir., Wol., and 6tr.Val fir.. and Ch. June !Blackburn IBlyth and Tyne Rust. Slefd. & Mid. Coun Bristol and Exeter ;Caledonian (Cork and Bandon !Carmarthen & Cardigan; Cork, Blkruck,&Passage! !Cornwall (I ei 8 84 774 784 114 124 Stock Stock R 7 100 102 021 03 ibip.c.per an. ll 1100 hasheen 50 Dublin andßelfast June. g o o : 1,3 A roves. no div.' 25 Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc. Stock .East Anglian Stock l Eastern Counties Stock Eastern Union A, Stook Stock Do. do. B Stock, 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds); 20 East Suffolk 10 Do Stock 'Edinburg and Glasgow I Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee 10 Firth & Clyde Junction Stock : Furness Stock Glasgow & South Westn 10 !Great North of Scotland Stock Great Northern Stock I Do. do. A Stool - Stock I Do. do. Tt Stock Stock t. South. & Wstn.(lreld) Stock Great Western Stock IDo.Str.Vl.ltail Gua.Stk 12 !Trish South Eastern StocklLancaster and Carlisle 164 :Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds Stock, Lancashire & Yorkshirei Stock L ondon and Blackwall. Stock' Lon... Brighton kS.Coast; 25 'Lond. Chat. and Dover; Stock , London & North Westn 124 Do. Eighths Stock 'London& South-Westn 25 iL'derry & Coleraine 25 ,L'derry & Enniskillen Stock Man., Shef., & Lincoln 10 !Metropolitan Stook Midland Stock Do. Birming. & Derby 50 !Mid. Gt. NVest. (Ireland)! 25 jDo. 4 Shares 100 'Newcastle and Carlisle , 25 New., Aber., & Herefd: 10 :Newry & Armagh (ief.) 20 Newry, Warpt., & Kos StocklNorfolk 50 North. Counties Union Stock .North British Stock 'Nor.Dev.RaiL&Dk. Stk Stock Do.A Stk.— Arec.no dlv until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß Stock' Do. B Stock Stock North-Eastn.—Berwick 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase : Stock Do. Leeds Stock ID°. York Stock North London 20 North Staffordshire 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolter 10 !Peebles 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney Stock' Scottish Central Stock!Scoth. N. E., Aber. Stock Stock ; Do. Scottish Mid. Stock Stock:Shropshire Union 10 ISittingbourne & Sheer Stock !South Devon Stock 'South-Eastern Stock !South Wales Stock !SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun 20 !Staines, Wok., & Wok 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 I Do. do. 1855 25 Do. do. 1858 Stockton & I.lartlepool Stock'Taff Vale Stock, Do. Preference, No. 1 25 IThamesHavenDk&Rail 50 'Ulster 25 Do. 12 10 , Do. Stock Vale of Neath 10 Victoria Station & Pimi Stock Waterford & Kilkenny! 50 ,Waterford & Limerick: 20 West' Cornwall 10 W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal I 5 iDo.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to 1 1 31 5 Do. B 20 West London 10 Do. Ist Class 20 IDo. 2d Class all 100 31 100 100 161 100 100 1} 100 91 100 all all all all all all all all 6 7 71 81 In 144 504 574 38 40 27 20 80 fl 30 31 98 99 W 5 107 91 95 132 134 1112 tl4 67} 67t 1 55 60 201 205 I 16 1740 16 1740 99 100 65 67 113 114 13 H PR 98i I (I 97 PS , S 9 37 38 'lOBllOBl 80 88 101 I 1! 57 59 3} Id 611 6lf 941 95 1 114' 48 48 78 181, 'lO6 108 4 n 81 91 36 38 a 81 14 16 271 271 82 84 47 48 34 24 d 43 45 81 814 n 74 62 64 6 8 354 364 53f 544 if 2 p d par, 62 65 6 61 3k 31 7 4 'REFERENCE S' Share; Railways. Paid. ARIC ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing Mildness Railways. Paid. price. C} 101 Mt i I 57 I 1061 9 q# s l 334 1121 671 6 71 1 081 1 971 f 8 lost 1 Oil I 95 41 4R 78* MI a 271 1 441 4 811 i Closing Businais I Price. Done. 96 98 LO2 103 54 0 100 102 112 115 105 108 112 114 111 113 127 129 83 85 109 111 90 92 75 70 [l5 117 [lB 120 [l2 114 [C6 108 86 88 98 99 96 100 F 9 91 91 93 102 101 9} 10} 17 18 10 10 75 78 194 20 91 10 14 f lb 139 141 25 !Blythe and Tyne 1C per Sik: l ßr c i . s P . & re l. f :x (i e s t s . u 4 e p d .ct a lt 4 o s c o k ) 1 20 Do. do. do. Shares tool Caledon 210, 41 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 61 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent 61 , Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun Stock; E.Angn. Class A 7& spc Stock' Do. do. Class B 6 pc Stock Do. do. Class C 7 pc Stoe E. Coun. Ex. 5 p et. No.l Stoc Do. do N 0.2 Stool Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. Stock Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares Stock; Do. 4 p.c. gua. S. &D. Stock ; Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Stock; Fumes , : 5 per cent .... 1 Stock Gla.s. &S ' West... , a. 5 pc. I Stock, Great. Northern, 5 p. et.: Stock; Do. 5 peßedm.,lop.c.pm, Stock' Do. 41 p. c. do. do. 100 1D0.5p.c. Redm.,s pc. pm 10 qt. Nli. of Scothi, Ist pf Stock 1 Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) 4! p. ct. pref. Stock Great West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct Do. Redeemable, 41 p ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p. ct. Redeem. Pref ; Do. Birm. Pref. Shares) I Gt. West. Chem. 8 p.c.pf ; shares I Do. do. sp. et. pref I Do. B I Irming. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.sharesl Do. do. do ; Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.e. stock; Do.Barnsl.St£s 3810dpci Lon.&Brig.spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ...No. 2 ; Do. New gua., 6 p. et Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 I DO. do. 41 per c. shares Lond. Chat. and Dover Lon.& N:W.Cov.&Nun- eaton, 5 p. et. ' 1.013. &S. W, 7 p.ct. stock,' 1 late 3d shares I Londondy & Cole, 4 Fills. Londondy.& Ennis 1 sh. Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6 p. ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 Der cent. Do. redeem. 6 per cent liaryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent Do. Mid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock . Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.tip.ct. Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock.. Do. with option till 1860. I Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. st.l Newport,Aber,&e.pret.sl p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. n m 1 Do. Perpet. 6 p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.e.shares Do. 5 p. c. Ext.Stoek,lB46 Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way.Val.Plx.sklB47 North British, 5 per cent Do. New. gua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.& D , k.Co.i N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deh.; Do. Consol. Prcf. 4 p. c.; Do. Tierwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 .10. York, 11. & S. Porch. 'North Staffordshire ox.wr. & Wol. ape.. Ist g, Do. redeem., 2d gua ; IDo. Irredeem., 2 , 1 gua.j Ilthymney Guaranteed.) Scottish Central. new m Scottish North-Eastern; 31 per c. pref. stock .... I Do.Aberdeen.gua.6 pm! Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock.; South Devon, Ann. 10s.! Do. Fixed 41 percent.; South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6.) Do .41 per cent Do:Fixed 41 p.c. Ist is ;South Wales, glut. 4 p.c.. Do. 41 per cent I S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gun Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.e Do. B 6 per cent Do. C 6 per cent. Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 percent.- 26. 13k 20 Stock Stock Stock Stock, Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock! Stock)Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock) Stock' Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock Stock LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paid. Leasing Closing! Business • Co.'s. Price. I Done. Bedford and Bletchley l all La & N.W, Buckinghamshire ' 100 Ln & N.W Chester & Holyhead 100 Do. Do. do. 54 p. ct , 100 Do. Do. - do. sp. ct. , 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledonin Colchester, Stour Val , all C E.Lincolushireg.6p.o 100 Gt. North. E Union,HurwichShs all E.Counts. Do. Woodbridge 100 Gls.Barr.&Nells,Drct 100 Cal Bonin Do. New lOO Do. Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. West. ' H artlpool.Dck.&Rall. all Yk.N. & Br Hull and Selby Do. 4 Shares all Do. Do.l Shares all Do. Loudon&Greenwich . 100 S. East Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&SOut end. 100 Peto &Co Lowestoft, gua. 4p. et. 100 Norfolk Do. 0 per cent lOO Do. If ne.,Buxtn.& Matk all LN W&M Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock Newmarkt..BuryF.x 5 0: lil.Counts guarantce 1 5 p. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. ell Do. Do. 410. 6 per cent all Do. Fise , l 5 per cent :1 1 l 5 1in iti . land North Western ...... N Preston and Wyvo. all & L.Yk. j Do. 4 Shares A. all Do. Roystn,Hitob.,& Shep 100 Gt. North. Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 T Brassoy Do. Do. 1 .... South Staffordshire .. all M‘Clean Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West Wimbledon& Croydn. all 'L.&-lirgtn 93 100.1 k r 66 58 14 141' 138 140 100 JOS P A 104 93 95 l; 71 Bi DOCKS. _ __ _ . Closing 1 Business Share Dooks. 1 raid rec .. ____Done. 1 Stock Commercial lOO • SteckiDo4pereent.Pref .Min. 100 StocklEast and Wcst India lOO --' 66 StocklLondon lOO Stock,St. Katharine , 100 , 100 100 100 100 100 100 I 100 ilel 106 Stack Southampton I Stook Victoria . ' - 1 IN D) New ....paseimum.! 99 100 I 44 4q 123 12A 113 115 103 105 10 17 139 141 41 41 1110 112 51 56 115 120 V 0 P 8 2f If 13.14 -Sto,l Stock I Stock Stock Stock Stock all 1 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 100 THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1859. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share! Railways. lAtlantic & St Lavereni Leased at 8 per cent.., 13om.,Baroda&Cent.Ind Du. 5 percent o. Addit. Capital. A Do. Do. Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. 1 Aiur., 18;2 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn. Lim. Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Central Oude (Limited) Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c Demerara Eastern 13engal.gu.5p.c East Indian, zu. 5 p. c Do. F Shares Ext 20f 20i 10 100 I 100 190 174 20 S took Do. Jubbulpore p.c. Nis. pay.'s9 Do. •la p. c. Debentrs. Geelong& Melbourne • . Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pret Do. 6 per cent. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 18 62 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 G t. Ind i a Pen in.gna.sp.e I Do. New, gua.s per cent Gt.S.ot Ind. Lim.—Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt.W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with ept. till '6O Do. do. '73 till 'GO Do. do. '73 without opt Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do 'Madras, guar., 4i p. c Do. do. S per cent Do. VI p. c. Extension Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c Do. Fourth do. Do. do. Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds Newßrunswick&Canda. Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc Class ACapitl.share Do. do. Land do Do. do. B. Capital do Do. do. Land do Oude (Limited) Scinde j Do. New Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. Flo. W.' St. Andrews & Quebec A Trinidad(Limited) Scrip sto. Stock i 100 Stock all all all }l9O 100 1 28.6 d, 71 all all a'l all }lOO RU 100 6 110 an all 100 118 1 /8 ss. } all 15 5 all 'gnaw:ea dolle Pfd Closing 82 84 984 99 4 174 171, d 44 bid i 6} 1 'par I p 1. 3 0. 11 lia fa 103 103} par id par Id 831 981 91 1031 3 1 1001 100 101 20 21 381 394 921 931 70 72 82 E 4 73 75 70 72 100 i 1001 1 d I id 131 13, 7 61d 98 102 98 102 98 102 92 95 90 94 99 101 92 Y 6 1 i d 39i 4 9 91 - -d I'ol 1001 11 - --d in 200 i i d par i id id par 13j ! 191 20 4j 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TRIS DA Y. ) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury.) PBNIIALLOWS V. THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD-SHIPPING CASE, This case was resumed this morning, andwas proceeding when wo went to press. Before Mr. Baron Bramwell and a Special Jury, at WITHERS V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY -ACCIDENT. This was one of several actions brought against the de fendants for injuries sustained by passengers on their line on the Right of the 13th of August, 1857, during a terrific. thunder-storm, accompanied by rain, which flooded the line. The question is whether the culverts, &c., were sufficient. The case is expected to last some days. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) GITISON V. GARNETT. It will be remembered that this case came before his Honour on sth December last to vary the Chief Clerk's certificate, and the question then raised was whether the alleged mortgagee of a debt of £2BO was entitled to claim it as against the administrators of the testator's estate in respect of the title deeds of the property deposited in his hands by the testator as a security for payment of that sum. It appeared that Mr. Aitken had full credit for the money advanced by him in respect of the bill transactions with the testator. The case now came before his Honour to be ad justed on the minutes. After hearing Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., Mr. Lloyd, Q.C., and Mr. Turner in the cause, His Honour, the Master of the Rolls, ordered—let, that the title deeds deposited be delivered up to the executors ; 2d, that the sum of £293 be paid into Court out of the rents of the real estate, or the proceeds of the sale on other assets ; and, 3d, that the costs of all parties be paid out of the estate. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cromwell and a Special Jury.) sturrEn AND SKIPPER. T. BODKIN AND OTHERS.- DISPUTED WILL. This caso, which is likely to last for some time, was pro ceeding when wo went to press. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) A WITNESS ON THE WRONG SIDE.-HAMILTON V. FARLOW. This was a case which had been adjourned at defen dant's instance to obtain evidence as to the value of cer tain clock movements detained by defendant. The first witness called by defendant was an auctioneer and appraiser. Two perfect clock movements and a por tion of a third were handed to him, and he valued thorn at £2. To rebut this testimony Mr. Buchanan called a watchmaker, who valued the movements at £lO 103. They were made by one of the first Parisian manufacturers. Defendant then said he had subpoenaed a watchmaker, and a gentleman who said he had had forty years' expe rience. The witness with great deliberation proceeded to examine ono of the movements. Defendant—Now, what is the value of that clock move ment ? Witness—Four guineas. (Laughter.) Mr. Buchanan—l won't ask you anything. His Honour—Upon the evidence plaintiff is entitled to a judgment for LW with costs. During the progress of this case his Honour complained bitterly of the apparatus used in warming and cooling the court. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. In several cases which have come before the court during the sitting of the present judge his Honour has at groat length explained Acts of Parliament, and gone into the principles of evidence. His Honour's patience appears now to have worn out, and he will not from the Ist January next take so much trouble. Some of the suitors would cer tainly try the patience of Job. POLICE IN7'ELL.TGENCR-(T.HIS,DAY.) MARLBOROUGII-STREET. A TRIP TO RICIIMOND.—AN AWKWARD POSITION.-- Mr. William Alfred Horsley, of Denmark-hill, auctioneer, and Mr. Edmund Taylor Cockerel!, oil merchant, 8, Peck ham-grove, were charged with being drunk and incapable, and damaging a cab, No. 3,647. The defendant Cockerell's face was covered with very ugly bruises. Fish, 331 A, said about 12 the previous night he saw the defendants in charge of a cabriolet, Horsley driving, and Cockerell asleep inside. The cabriolet was drawn up at the time to the kerb, and a cab-driver, named Downes, badge 4,312, complained that his cab had been damaged by the defendants—one of his spokes being broken, and five others damaged. Inspector Holden, of the C division, said the defendants had been to Richmond, and had brought two . females back with them to town, and the poor girls had not got a half penny to take them back. The defendant Cockerell called him "a - fool," and said he should say the same in court. Ire also used very bad language. He believed they had settled the damage, and were greatly intoxicated at the time. The defendants both expressed their sorrow. The chief clerk reminded Mr. Bingham that Cockerel' (judging from his appearance) had suffered a good deal. Mr. Bingham said he had no doubt they both felt dis graced, being respectable men, and Cockerell's face was much damaged. It was a shocking position to be in. Fined 20s. each. TITA'ATES. RIOTOUS CONDUCT OF THE RETURNED SOLDIERS FROM INDIA..—Wm. Hamilton, one of the soldiers who were die oharged in India, and Patrick Cunningham, were charged before Mr. Yardley with the following riotous conduct at the Pier Hotel, Brunswick-pier, Blackwall. Sergeant Modern, K 28, stated that about 10 o'clock last night he was called to a disturbance which took place at the Pier Hotel. He got there with four other constables, when he found a scene of great confusion. There were nearly 100 soldiers in various parts of the house, and there were about 30 lying down speechlessly drunk. Several of the men had possession of the bar and were helping them solves, while others were fighting with each other. Mr. Yardley inquired where the prisoner came from ? Roach, the gaoler, said that about 500 had on that day (yesterday) arrived in the East India Docks from India, 250 of whom were paid off. Mr. Yardley—Aro they the men who discharged them selves in India ? Roach—They are, sir. The Sergeant added that prisoner broke a table, and with the legs of it ho smashed glasses and everything ho came near. He also assaulted several persons, and struck the landlord. Witness and the constables with him succeeded in clearing the house of the men, who again entered. Witness was eventually compelled to vend for assistance, on the arrival of which they succeeded in keeping order. As soon as a reinforcement of police arrived the prisoner was taken into custody. The prisoner said that ho was drunk, and did not know what he was doing. Mr. Yardley observed that this was a bad commencement after their arrival in London. lie was fined 300., or 14 days. Nearly similar evidence was given against the other pri soner, who was fined 6s. 6d., or four days. There were above a dozen who were charged with being drunk and incapable. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Dec. 9.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. moderate breezo andifine. PouTsmount, Dec. 8. Wind, S.S.E.—Arrived-- Holstein, from Bahia for Hamburg ; H.M.S. Conqueror, from Portland; H.M.S. Weser, from Sheerness. S.E. - --Arrived—Caroline, ------- Pi - Amount, Dec. 8. —Wind, from London for Bombay. 33forCardiffMoulmeinr8 T o lf or , , Nr out h . W fro in m d, ri, S io .E nt .: v ATTl ide V o ed ; S .E.—.Arrived—Ruben, '; th pL e eee C v.a a 7a p ' e t—t of Good Hope. Sailed—H.M.S. fromfNroiQli from NEWPORT, Dec. B.—Sailed—Denma r k, for St. Thomas. PILL, Dec. B.—Wind, S.E. — Arrived—Trade Wind, from St. John's, N.B. DARTMOUTH, Dec. B.—Wind, from Taganrog for Dover, leaky, with pumps choked. A boat, marked " Flora, of Torquay," has been picked up to the westward. A vessel of that name, belonging to Tor quay, has been given up as lost. LEITH, Dec. B.—Arrived—Mouse, from Rio Grande ; Simon, from St. John's, N.B. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind E. Ariied- 1 31iss, from St. Malo ; Forest Queen, from Guernsey",; Atalanta, steaaier, from Jersey; New York, steamer, from New York; Duke of Cornwall, steamer, from London ; John Miller, from Cardiff; Palla s , from Glasgow. Sailed —Contender, for Seaham ; Duke of Cornwall, steamer, for Dublin; L'Etoile, for Carentan ; Argyll, steamer, tor Carentan ; Nonpareil, for St. Mali, LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind S.E. Arrived—Oporto, from Villa Nava The Africa, screw steamer, put back yesterday from Mil ford, where she discharged her cargo. 817BMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRA.PIO GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Wind E. ; tide, second hours' flood ; wea th er, fi ne. Arrived, Dec. —Nancy, from Antwerp; Lucy, Alliance, and Shamrock, from Guernsey; Wave, from Jersey; Sam mon. from Gravelines ; Shuttle, from Barbadoes ; John Robinson, from Riga ; Kloolad, from M ess i na ; from Guernsey ; Foronia, from Quebec ; Eliza Blagden, from Rotterdam ; Ircturtes, from Riga; Condor, from Rouen. Sailed, Dec. 9—Stadt Dordrecht, for Dordt ; Oscar, for Melbourne; Derwentwater, for Wellington. DEAL, Friday Morning. Wind E.S. ; moderate. Passed, Dec. R—Eliza, for Leghorn ; Illustrious, for New Orleans—both from London; Oscar, Jerhard, and Charoque —all from London, for Pert Phillip; Peri, for St. Michael's; Thracin, for Madras—both from London. Anchored, Deo. 9.—George Canning, from Loudon, for Madras, FLOWERS AND TREES. BY ELIZA COOK. (Written expressly for the Odd Fellows' Magazine). Who amongst us does not love flowers, trees, and grass ? We have only to cast our eyes around on the varied paths of life, and ample evidence will be afforded that there is an immortal influence in " The pomp of groves and garniture of fields." Mankind has ever revelled in the scent of the blossoms and shadow of the boughs, and ever will. The tawny savage of the backwoods strides over the wide prairie's purple bells, and gazes on the pine giants of his native forests with an ex ulting, although an indefinite joy. The ducal master of Chatsworth breathes among his choice exotics, and treads daintily beneath the branches of his ancestral oaks and beeches with in finite pride and pleasure: The same instinct dwells in each bosom—though one is girded by the ribbon of the Bath, and graced with the star of blazing gems ; and the other is swathed in the buffalo's skin and chequered .with the red tatoo. They both love flowers and trees. The infinite and the beautiful erects its altar alike in the hearts of the Indian Pawnee and the English peer. Most of us have our earliest recollections asso ciated with " buttercups and daisies," cowslip hells, and palm branches. The " Field of the Cloth of Gold" that saw the meeting of Harry of England and Francis of France, bore no such extatic hearts and bounding limbs as Old Farley's meadow did when ho allowed some dozen town-born children —myself included—the free range of it in full buttercup season. What a memorable day it was ! The meridian sun was blazing awa y i n cloudless glory. The scarlet poppies along the hawthorn hedge banks seemed to have breathed their opium into the wings of young Zephyrus, and put a stop to his gadding for the day. The 13 , ,es had been so thirsty that they had drank too much red clover wine, for they blundered against each other, and staggered and tumbled about with aimless indecision of place and purpose, and evidently did not know a corn cockel from a dandelion. We heard a couple of them attempting to hum some snatch of melody— but the incoherent style of their performance left a doubt as to whether they intended it for " Jolly companions" or "We won't go home till morning." The barn cat had found a shady spot in the ro mantic recess of a dilapidated pig -sty—so completely overcome by the heat that two audacious kittens were uninterruptedly playing at scratch-cradle with her tail, passing it frdm one to the other in the most intricate lines and angles imaginable. The cows and ducks had been in the pond since sunrise, and appeared thoroughly determined to pursue the hydropathic system until sunset. Every thing was dry and dusty, or bright and burning. Old Farley expressed an opinion at the meadow gate that it. would be "too hot" for us; but our rush in a body—such as never tried a pit entrance on Edmund Kean's benefit nights, soon rendered that opinion null and void—away we went, like the starters for the Derby, and the gorgeous yellow prairie was attacked with an onslaught that few blossoms, save the immortal buttercup, could pro voke. _ _ How we danced, and jumped, and leaped about that beautiful field—now screaming with delight over a lot of brazen ox-eyed daisies, and pulling up handfulls of them at a clutch—roots and all ; then shouting over a patch of sweet scented bind-weed, and then flying off to seize the tall fox-gloves, rather out of reach on the banks. Any rational looker-on would have imagined us to be com pounded of the greyhound and the grasshopper — such lithe activity—such uncaleulating gymnastics were . displayed. What boughs we pulled of horn beam and dogrose—what bundles of ferns and dodder-grass—what armfulls of sorrel, until, utterly exhausted, we flung ourselves down under the lop elms, with countenances that amalgamated the de licate tints of a postman's coat and an over-ripe pickling cabbage, and with elfin tresses and excited skins that no Rowland's Macassar or Kalydor could have made decently presentable. 'Well do we remember the tea and fruit we had that day — what delicious broad and butter, so moist and fresh —what luxurious cream, so white and thick — what heaps of strawberries, real Elton pines— what baskets of cherries, true black hearts, which added vastly to the complexional beauty of our faces—what pottles of raspberries, rill pulp and perfume—and how we did cat—city aldermen would have been ashamed of us ; and how well do we remember that the tables and chairs in old Farley's big parlour were covered with our gathered spoils, for the revelling joy of a fruit feast could not exclude our demonstrative admiration for the lovely " nosegays" we had crillected. This heap of marsh-mallows was prominently held up to notice, and that lot of feather-grass claimed distinct praise. 'rho bunches of buttercups and daisies were gigantic and countless, and the branches of nut-trees and silver-ash afforded no mean resem• blance to the celebrated march of Birnam Wood. How carefully we tied them up—how zealously we guarded them on our way to town--how we loved those sweet and simple things—and how innocent and happy were those days, when green leaves and wild flowers formed a paradise for us, with no Worse serpent to ruin its character than a mother's gentle reprimand for bringing home such a " lot of rub bish ;" and yet we have seen that mother quite as great an idolator of them as we were, only in a more subdued style of worship ; and many a time have discovered her cherishing some of the lot of rubbish with fresh water, and arranging them with tasteful hands. We meet on Sunday morning idlers by the dozens, strolling through the streets of our great city. Let us just glance at them. We see a brawny dray man who has evidently forgotten to shave himself, and not been too particular as to the set of his neck-tie. Ho has on the same rough, tough, dirty, thick, blanket-sort of jerkin in which he let down innumberable butts of " Barclay's best" into dingy cellars during the week ; but in a button hole of the said jerkin there is a splendid carnation. He has consumed some seconds of time in placing it safely and conspicuously, and walks slowly on, eyeing it every now and then with great self-satis , faction ; and his satisfaction is not unglued, for, while observing his warm appreciation of the really exquisite blossom, we feel a degree of pride also that one of a class who had the courage to pelt Haynau, the woman-whipper, should love flowers. A little further, and we encounter a grimy son of Vulcan, who is carrying off a large bunch of all sorts, beginning with old man and ending with prince's feathers ; he says his "little Polly, who ain't over well, likes the smell on 'em ;" whether the smell may be very beneficial to the young suf ferer Ave will not inquire, but the tendency to love flowers claims our admiration under any circum stances. A lank pale woman has spent an extra vagant halfpenny on a dozen brilliant sweet-peas, which she declares " will keep beautiful for a whole week, with plenty of water. A charity boy has picked up a bit of double-stock, and, with earnest endeavour, fixes it above his badge of poverty—and then as earnestly bends his head to try and get a whiff of its odorous breath. There, at that stall yonder, are a decent man and tidy wife, who have suddenly discovered that they have an " odd penny" out of the shoulder of mutton which the man carries in a flag basket, in immediate conjunction with a monster cabbage—and it is as suddenly ima g ined that the odd money cannot be better laid out than in one of those tempting clusters of roses, as they happen to be just " a penny a lot ;" and away the couple go, to gladden the eyes of their young Tommy and Nancy with the sight of real, smelling, lovely roses. Aye ! ye children Of toil ; ye " love flowers." We loiter on, and down a close iron-railed area we - see a goodly number of half-dead plants, with their brown leaves supported - by green sti cks, in pots of extreme brunette complexion, some of which plants' are so totally devoid of " character" in their, foliage that their "order" is a mystery. These are the. especial and treasured property of the cook, who isnever known to abuse her favourite tabby, a match less mouser—save when he surreptitiously nibbles at the white pinks; she has serious thoughts ofrubbing them. with mustard, to deter him from the indul gence, having tried pepper without any success. In the balcony of the drawing room above we perceive snow camelias and gorgeous cactuses and oleanders standing up in their rich china vases, in attractive splendid magnificence. They belong to the young heiress, who tends thein daily with her own deli cate and jewelled fingers, and who dispensed as decided and vulgar a box on the ear of her juvenile sister, for destroying the bud of a matchless arum, as could hare been bestowed by the most unrefined of exasperated young ladies. It is plain that those above and those below "love flowers." The old red night-capped cobbler, who labours continually in a tubbed-up shed at the corner of a street in oar neighbourhood, has a beloved idol by his side in the shape of a pot of mignionette ; sown by himself, watered by himself, put in the sun shine by himself, and carefully preserved from all the incidental damage likely -to ensue in such ' limited space. Wel suspect that the tubbed-up shed, with its abominable effiuvia of horse-hide and stronger wax ends, is rendered a degree more cheerful to the eyes and senses of the poor inhabi tant by the presence of that pot of mignionette. The old cobbler, though he is accused of making too frequent "morning calls" at the adjacent " Cow and. Compasses," " loves flowers." As for " gardens," they are as old as Paradise it self—and we see the original occupation of the " old Adam" peeping out still when the over-fed, gold-surfeited citizen betakes hiniself to a detached villa, " within twenty miles of London,' and two of a railway statical," where he puddles and pokes with his sp4clQ owl rake, in his loose jacket, and FOREIGN RAILWAYS• Antwerp & Rotterdam Ardennes Bah. &S.Fran.,Lim.7p.e BelOan East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac Carmeaux Mine & hail Coplabo Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish . Eastern of France Euphrates Valley Grand Rus. Guar .5 p.c Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian Lyons and Geneva Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur and Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref Paris,l.yons, and Medit Paris and Orleans Recife& S. Fran. (Perm) gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) Rita and Dunaburg Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref. Sambre and Meuse Do. 51 per cent. Pref. Southern of France West Flanders Do. 51 p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref all all all all all all all all all all 41 4f i r 21 2t 1 id 5 4f d 26 27 —P 7i 7} 21 20 3 181 527801 — P A 10 37} 370 56 68 Ili 1 d 51 7 sk 9 1 21 22 5 f 9 i 1 10 23 24 COLONIAL GO` E: Share Securities. Can.Gov.6 p.e J a. & July Do. 6 p.c.Fb.&Aug. Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep.l N. 8.G0v.6 p.c. Ja. &July Do. 6 p.c. Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. sp. a. Deb.' D0.5p.cen.1871 to 1976' Do.sp.cen.lBBB and up NovaScotiaGov.6 p.c. SZ.' Deb. redeemable, 1875 _ Aus.Gt.6pcJank.July Viet•Gov.6n.c..T an &July Do. do. April & Oct. MISCELL. Anglo-Mexican Mint Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Australian Royal Mail. Berlin Water Works British American Land Brit. & Irish Mag. Tel. A. I Do. B, 7 p. c. till 1862 Do. C Canada Land ' Chan. Islands Tel.(Lim ) ICop.Min.otEng.&Smitg 1 Do. Preference 7i per ct Crystal Palace. ,Do. Preference Do. 6 p. c. Pcrpet. Deb, Electric Telegraph Do. New t Eng. A Aust. Cop. St.Co Gen. Steam Navigation., :Great Ship (Limited) 1 Indian & Aust. Telegr 1 London District T elegr ' !London Discount Lon d.Gen. Omnibus Co.! Madras Dr. and Canal Mediter. Electric Teleg.l Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) ational Discount Co Netherlands Land Do 8 p.c.Pref.,iss.at 1 die. .11r.&NovaSeotiaLand .B.Au stralasian (Lim > dental Gas Do. New Shares Orient!. In. Steam, A Ditto B Ditto C Peel Myer Land & 'Pen. & Oriental Steam. 'Do. New IRed Sea & Ind. Telegr Rhymney Iron Do. New _ _ 100 Royal Mail Steam Stock Scot.Austrln.Tn7.(Llm ) 25 South Australian Land 1 Submarine Teleg. Scrip 1 Do. do 'Registered SO 1 7r.k. 1.n.C0.0i trpr. Can 100 IVan Diemen's Land BRITIS. MINES. Closing Business Share Mines. Paid. Price. Done. Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.1 0 4/ 51 20 British Iron Clifford Devon G. ConalTavist ) 1 135 445 Kast. Bassett (Mogan) 3O 1224 1274 East Caradon E. WI IttlEo (Tavistk ) 7.4.0 104 11 Gam.&St.Aubyn(G wen ) 511 624 65 64 Great South Tolgus ' 17s 131 14 G.Wheal Alfd.(Phillack) 12.4.2 1 11 —G. Wheal Vor,(Helston ) 91 11 4 4 } Grenville 3 Herod's-Foot 8 22 23 Hingston Downs 4.3.6 41 41 Lady Bertha Margaret (uny Lelant) 9l 44 46 North Downs North France s ' Mogan) 10 5 64 North Wheal Crony 7.9.4 9 101 N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) 5 5 64 Par Consols (St. Blazy). 14 9 10 20 Providence (tiny Lelnt) 10.6.7 45 47 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 10s 6 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 11 250 260 Sorth C. Brea( Mogan). 2 21 23 S WhealFran.(lllogan) 18.18.9 165 175 -- Stray Park 18.18.0 194 204 5 Tarnar Silver and Lead Mining Co 44 2 1 31 51 10 Tin Croft 9 5 51 Vale of Towey (Caren ) 12s 6d & West Basset (lllogan) l4 18 19 West Seton W. Caradon (Liskeard). 10 70 7 5 Wheal Basset (Mogan). 54 180 190 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 1074 11 1 1 123 Wheal Edward (Cale.).. 6 1 . Wheal muff. Lelant) 1.7.2 12 , 13 Wh'l MaryAnn(Meithe) 8 34 36 45'11'1 Trelawney,(Lisk.) 41 29 30 FOREIGN MINES .20 Australian 1 Bon AocordCopper,Lim l ss par 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £sp ) 2 73 20 Do.St.Johndelftey,Lim l5 174 18 11191 5 Do. Land and MiningCo all -- 1 Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. of Jamaica 40 Cobra Copper alt 47 49 471 '9 Copiepo l6 7 8i 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 2 Fortuna 20 General all 24 20 3 Linares all 10 114 5 Lusilanian 1 Mariq u it a all 1 1 N. RhineCop.of S.Ans.L ifs. 3 P 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt all 6 7 5 Port Philip 1 1 1 1 scottish A ustr aln. (L.)... 100 i d par 28.2.81'United Mexican all 14 11 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Share Joint-Stock Banks. !Paid. CPlosing rize. I Done' 100 Agra&UnitedServiceßk 50 71 73 40 Australasia all 81 83 25 Bank of Egypt all 21 22 , 100 Pink of London 5O 50 52 511 1 40 Brit. Col. Ilk. & LoanCo all 50 British North American all - 20 Chtd. Bank of India.& , 18 * d 25 Ch.Mer.ot In. Lon.&Ch. all -- 100 City 5O 100 Colonial 20.11 Coln. Bank of Canada all 100 Commercial of Landon 2O 10 20 20 Eng , Soot., & Aus. Ch all 173 173 20 Gen Bk. of Switzerland all 20 Lon Char.Bk.otAustral. all 233 2 3 3 32 50 London and County 20 50 Lontiou Joint Stock 100 London &Westminster 2O 100 Nat. Prov. of England 35 20 Do. new lO • 50 National Bank 25 20 New South Wales 25' Orient .Bk. Corporation all - , 20 Ottoman Bank all 174 I 18 18 100 provincial of Ireland 10 Do. New - 25 South Australia 25 Union of Australia all 50 Union of London l2 291 80 100 Unity Mutual lO rz MENT SECTJR. Paid. Closing Prices. 116 117 113 115 113 115 111 k 112 k 1014 101 101 102 1014 102 111 112 112 114 Ino no; [TIES. 14 15 IRO 210 33 35 I 5 35 37 19 21 14 15 105 108 8 9 234 244 11. I/ 5 5} 100 102 105 107 par ll 1 11 I I I I r 4e Be 1 f hie iiit 54 st; 79 81 11 13 22 24 6 7 151 53 1 120 130 36 38 1 1 14 15 1000 Stock' Stock' Stock 14• 1181 5 [Ol I 1404 41 1.03} 10 Stock 50 50 20 10 11 121 120 I 03 70 4P 139 141 102 104 P 1 91 95 1.0 11 ig i 2 11l 113 109 111 91 93 97 99 1 1 $p ^ iP 23 24 [24 120 125 130 117 120 7:1 76 [2O 122 10 11 231 24 103 104 102 104 84 87 28 29 33 34 34 33i 67 69 121 1 2 111 12 Business D•ne. net 1101 f 341 4 1 4 1 1 finds more exciting interest in grubbing up a few weed:., or planting a row of seedlings, than he ever experienced while cashing a heavy bill for Messrs. Needham and Co. We happen to know an elderly gentleman who is a thorough representative of this numerous and increasing race. He has given up his smoke-dried, wall-surrounded house in Bedford-square, and en sconced himself in a rural villa, 12 miles from town, with charmirg French windows opening to mossy lawns, sparkling flower beds, mazy shrubberies, and a kitchen plot in the distance, large enough to supply the graniverous demands of the Reform Club. llis wife has confidentially info/14d us that his temper is not nearly so irritable since he has taken to " doing a little gardening," and that his attacks of gout and indigestion are much lighter. Her confidence also enlightened us as to the stan 3ard roses being extremely expensive— that the "Duchess of Sutherland" (a fine imposing blossom, certainly) and the Imperial Blush (very scarce) cost as much as her last new dress ; and that, at a random estimate, the cabbages averageil sixpence per head, and the carrots threepence per tail, to say nothing of the unknown quantity of money sunk ina pet pinery and a choice vinery. We were lingering about in his immediate vicinity the other morning with a pet volume of Leigh H ant in our hand, when we heard the groom rapidly advance on the old gentleman's " whereabouts:" "The phieton is ready, sir," said John to his civic master ; but the master was hoeing away at an ob stinate dock-root, and perfectly oblivious of Thread needle-street and " Bradshaw." The old gentle man had. managed to " mess" the bottom of his trousers pretty considerably; his hands must be washed—his boots must be changed — his face is very moist and florid, owing to the inveterate ob stinacy of the dock-root; and, after a rapid sum ming up of his condition, he arrives at the wise conclusion that he cannot go by that train. "I shall go by the half-past one, John," says the civic master; and he again applied himself vigorously to the dock-root,, which he at longth conquered. Elated with the feat, he stood for a few moments gazing on the annihilated weed with mingled triumph and delight in his somewhat purple countenance, and conceived a sudden fancy for clearing a conti guous herb-bed of " that nasty chickweed," setting to at the work as though his reputation depended on its performance. John came again, but the elderly gentleman had found another most impera tive demand on his attention, and his opinion was decidedly expressed that it was " too late to be of a - Ay use in town," and he should not want the phx ton. Ho toiled on, in a state of intense heat and activity, until he was compelled to obey tne dinner bell, and sat down to his fish and chicken with a full conviction that he had materially added to the high state of cultivation so generally observed by those who visited his adored " garden," while the head gardener expressed a strong private opinion that " master generally did more harm than good." Happy delusion ! It is pleasant to see the primitive digging and delving tendency of childhood return in men, when all that Fortune can bestow and all that Ambition can achieve has served but to teach that it is possible to have " too much of a good thing," and that a bit of grass plot and a rood or two of earth may take us as nigh to heaven as a banker's counter. Not far distant from our friend's villa, is a low mud-walled cottage, with a tiny patch of ground attached, probably about thirty feet by fifty; but the tiny patch is crammed with nas turtiums, rockets, sweet-williams, larkspurs, hen and•chicken daisies, scarlet runners, honeysuckle, apple trees, currant bushes, and Flora and Pomona know best what. It is a perfect floral kaleidoscope; and it is suspected that the civic gentleman covets a slip of that wonderful jasmine which runs over the old wooden porch. The rich merchant and the poor peasant both " love flowers." Gardens are pleasant places. They were so when under the classical patronage of Semiramis and Alcinous, and they form charming, attractive " green spots" in the world's arid choking waste in these modern days, past and present, bearing the patronymics of Ranelagh, Vauxhall, Versailles, Tuileries, Kew, Rosherville, Kensington, or Cre morne. There is something refreshing in the very word " garden." Whether the style be Italian or Dutch, it is of little consequence as far as the gene ral impulse of humanity is coneerned. We admit that we prefer to ramble where nature and art keep up a becoming family feeling of union—yet, when we find ourselves shut up with perfect Euclidian right lines and angles, and peacocks cut out of the box trees, whose only merit is that they do not scream—yet, we say we cannot quarrel with the pace they disfigure. We feel that a " gardeii'was intended, and that is enough to sanc tify the most atrocious bad taste. " Flowers and sweet green leaves" are among the most prominent of the "beautiful and undying," and we reverently recognise them as the silent minister of God's un fathomable power, and the unceasing shrines of man's instinctive homage. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'-YESTP.RD A very thin attendance. For the Derby, Umpire was nominally - at Sto 1. The subjoined scanty list of quota tions comprise all the business transacted : THE DERBY. Bto 1 agst Umpire 12 to 1 agst Thormanby (taken) 12 to 1 agst Nutbourne (taken) 100 to 8 agst Buccaneer (offered) 13 to 1 agst The Wizard (take 14 to 1) 33 to 1 agst Upperhand (taken) 60 to 1 agst Restes (taken) 1000 to 12 agst Brassey (taken) FOALS OF 1859.—0ne thousand three hundred and flfty eight foals have been bred this season. Of these 681 are colts, and 677 fillies. 1.1118 DAY'S MARKETS: CORN EXCHANGE. To -clay's market was again very moderately supplied with English wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, but the general condition of the samples was tolerably good. Fine qualities were hold at full prices, but the demand for them ruled inactive. Inferior parcels moved off heavily at Monday's currency. We were well supplied with most kinds of foreign wheat. Buyers evinced no desire to operate, and the trade was consequently heavy at late rates. In floating cargoes from the westward very little was passing. There was a fair demand for malting barley at previous currencies. Grinding and distilling sorts were heavy at the late decline. We have to report a slow sale for malt at Monday's prices. Oats—the supply of which was moderate—moved off slowly, but we have no change to notice in their value. Beans, peas, and flour were dull at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK Wheat. Barley Malt. Bnglish 1,320 3,140 1 2,790 Irish Foreign 5,060 13,510 I Oath Flour. 430 j 1,110 2,250 4,070 40 aka 100 his. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Fair average supplies of meat are on offer to-day, and the demand generally rules steady at our quotations. Per Blbs. by the Carcass. s. d. e, u. Inferior Beef 2 Bto 2 10 d 0..... 3 oto 3 4 Pm.largedo. 3 6to 4 0 i Do. small do. 4 2to 4 6 ' Large pork .. 3 6to 4 2 s. d. s. d. Infr. Mutton. 3 2to 3 6 Mid. do 3 Bto 4 0 Prime do. 4 4to 4 6 Veal 3 Bto 4 6 Small pork BOROUGH HOP. Nearly all kinds of now hops still continue in steady re quest, at very full prices. Fine yearlings are firm ; but other qualities are a slow inquiry. New Mid and East Kent .... 84s to 147 s per cwt. Weald of Kent 56s to 77s ~ Sussex... 52s to 66s ~ COLONIAL. TEA.—The inquiry on the part of the trade has been rather brisker, and prices have been tolerably well sup ported. SUGARS.—A moderate amount'of business has been trans acted, and previous rates have been well maintained, par ticularly for British West India. In the Refined Market there.la a steady seasonable demand, at fully late rates. OFFEE.—For Plantation Ceylon there has been a fair inquiry, and fine qualities have realised full values ; other descriptions were also in.good demand, at former prices. Rica.—The market has been quiet, and prices have shown no material variation. FRUIT.—The demand for currants has not been quite so active, but Valencia raisins have been dealt in to some ex tent, at steady prices. SALTPETRE.—More activity has prevailed, and firmer prices have been current for the finer qualities. TatLow.—The dealings have been limited, and prices have ruled in buyers' favour. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 55s to 65s 3d, and close of the year 54s 9d per cwt. FRUlT.—Arrivals of all kinds are large from St. Michael, Lisbon, and Seville; some cargoes of the former, sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, went 2s per package loser. Lemons sustain their value; Barcelona nuts, ls Per bag easier; black Spanish without alteration, and a short stock. The accounts from all the orange-growing countries are favourable as regards an abundant supply this season. Cumous DISCOVERY.—A Roman villa, with its bathing establishment has just been discovered at Mack wilier (Bas-Rhin). The principal building which has been laid open forms a rect ang l e o f a b ou t 1,300 yards. Among the objects which have been found ate slabs of marble and pophyry of different sizes, and highly polished. the in tenor of the bathing establishment contains works in sculp ture and stucco of considerable beauty ; the fragments of the walls are enamelled or painted in oil, red and blue pre dominating. The existence of all the parts of a complete bathing establishment has been clearly made out—the hypo caustum, the caldarium, the tepidarium, the frigidarium, ' the apodysterium, and the cella unguentaria—nothing is wanting. There have also been found pieces of mirror, some small toilette pots of fine form and workmanship, the capital of a column, &C. • An -Imperial decree ;promotes M. Jules Sandau, member of the French Academy, and librarian at the Mazarine Library, to the function's of deputy-consetvator of the same establishment. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. LONDON GfIZETTE-(THIS EVENING). FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 30. Tho Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Rutherford Alcoa, Esq., now her Maj esty' s Consul-General in Japan, to be :her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Mini,ter Plenipotentiary and Consul-General in Japan. COMMISSION SIGNED BY TIIE QUEEN. 2d or Eastcrn Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Wm. Hardt ment, Gent., to be Quartermaster. COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. County of Argyll—To be Deputy Lieutenants—The Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Morton ; Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, Bart. ; Sir Angus Campbell, Bart. ; John Malcolm, Donald Maclaine, Alexander Maclean. Richard Dmnistoun Campbell, Chas. Morrison, Archibald Douglas, Archibald Campbell, Alex ander Finlay, M.P., Colin George Campbell, Colonel Thos. Pall, Captain S. M. Eddington, Robert M‘Fie, Duncan Campbell, Donald Patrick Campbell, Thomas Wm. Murray Allen, John Campbell, James Forsyth, Farquhar Campbell, and James Dolgleish. Esquires. Kent :Militia .11,gilnent of Artillery—llenry Barham Scoones, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Denne, pro moted. KeLt Volunteer files, 2d Subdivision—The Right Hon. Charles Ste , ,vort. Viscount Hardinge tzi be Lieutenant; Henry Dorien Streatteild, Esq.. to be Ensign. Ist Subdivision of Sussex Rifle - Volunteers—Captain Pipon to be Lieutenant; Charles &rase S. Dickins, to be Ensign. Ist Sutherland Rifle Volunteers—Major Charles Samuel Weston to be Captain. 2d Sutherland Rifle Volunteers—William Sutherland Fraser, Esq., to be Captain. 3d Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—The Right Hon. George John Warren, Lord Vernon, to be Captain ; tha Hon. Augustus Henry Vernon to bo Lieutenant; Chas. Edward Boothby, Esq.. to be Ensign ; David Forbes, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Surgeon. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Matthew John Alfred Gosact, Gent., to be Lieutenant. Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers, Ist Subdivision (Tewkesbury)—James Primatt Sergeant, Gent., to be Lieutenant; George Howard Banaster, Gent., to be En sign. The London Scottish Rifle Volunteer Corps—The Hon. Francis Charteris, M.P., commonly called Lord Elcho, to be Major. 4th Regiment of West York Militia—Lieutenant Ed war.' Wilkes Wand to bo Captain, vice James Ormerod Hepworth, who retires. MEMORANDUM.-sth Regiment of West York Militia— Her Majesty has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Major Charles Cooley Craven. 3d Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers—James Erskine Patterson, Esq., to be Captain; David Stewart Littlejohn, Esq., to be First Lieutenant ; John Sanderson Norrie, Esq., to be Second Lieutenant. 4th Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers—Alexander Jeffer son Buist, Esq., to be Captain; John Leadbetter, Esq., to be First Lieutenant; William Craig Thomson, Esq., to be Second Lieutenant. Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers-4th Company—James Atty, late Major 2d Warwick Militia, formerly 52d Regi ment of Foot, to be Captain ; George Charles Benn, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Theodore Mayo Wratislawto be Ensign. Bth Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—William Stevenson, Esq., to be Captain; Alexander Skene, Esq., to be Lieute nant ; Charles LyallGrant, Esq., to be Ensign. City of Edinburgh. Rifle Corps—Sir George Home, Bart., to be Captain ; William Alexander Laurie, Esq., to be Captain ; John Hay Athol Macdonald, Esq., to be Captain ; John Morrison, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Samuel Somer ville, Gent., to be Lieutenant; William Frederick Ken more, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Archibald Smith, Gent., to be Ensign; Thomas Harigad Douglas, Gent., to be En sign; Robert Michael Ballantyne, Gent., to be Ensign. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act ith and Sth Victoria, eap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 7th day of November, 1659: IQFiJF Dr.r ARTMENT. Notes issued £30,713,815 Government Debt £11,015,1 1 0 Other Smitri t ies ! Gold Coin & Bullion 16,208,815 Silver Bullion .... X 30,743,815 1'30,743,815 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal Rest Public Deposits (in eluding Exehe ver, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- EPARTMENT. Government Secti rides (including Dead WeiglitAn- nuity) .£10,925,157 Other Securities 19,350.511 Notes Gold and Silver Coin 608,000 counts) 5108,215 Other Deposits 13,111,361 Sevrn Day and other Bills .... 79'2,422 £40,537,37 M. X 40,537,378 ARSTIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated Dec. 8, 1859. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the 6th day of Dec., 1859, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Per rat. From the British possessions in America 21s 11Id Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius l7s fld Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 17s 914 Average price of the foregoing 22s BANKRUPTS. William Henry Hendry, coal merchant, Milton-next- Gravesend, to suircnder Dec. 22, at one, and Jan. 19, at .twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edward Barris, tailor, Folkestone, Dec. 21, at two, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles Morey, builder, Southsea, Southampton, Dec. 24 and Jan. 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. James Crocker, hosier, Nottingham, Dec. 20 an d J an. 12, at half-past eleven, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. James Richard William John Pollard Woodward, dealer in poultry, Oundle, Northamptonshire, Dec. 21, at half past twelve, and Jan, 18, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. William Knight, eowkeeper, Portobello-terrace, Ken sington-park, Dec. 19, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tristram Powning, grocer, Truro, Dec. 23 and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court. Wi!liam and Samuel Dickins and Co., woollen drapers, Liverpool, Dec. 22, at eleven, and Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Maximillian Gutkind, merchant, Noble-street, City, Dee. 21, at half-past two, and Jan:lB, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Frederick William Thomas, commission agent, Water lane, City, Dec. 16 and Jan. 18, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Moses Nelson, slater, Dunoon. James Shaw Lang, publisher, Glasgow. Thomas Hall, grocer, Perth. Gorge Clem attorney, late of Oldham, now of Glasgow. William Hume, wino merchant, Gl:sgow. Thomas Lee. shipowner, Edinburgh. John Gray, Stewartfield, Broxburn. Jhhn Riddell, victualler, Glasgow. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY. Amsterdam Ditto liotterd am — 11 151 11 15j ,l twerp Brussels — 25 224 26 30_ .. Short 25 _73/4 13 6} _5 12t 3 Months. 25 30 25 32 25 3 , 5 - 2.5_ _37i liamburgh Paris Marseilles . Frankfort on Maine Vicuna Trieste Petersburgh Madrid Cadi7 — 4ul ou Leg Genoa 25 40 25 45 Naples Palermo — 121 121 i Messina —12 l 121 Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York — • • •• Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. L 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars "•,, 0 0 0 Silvpr in Bars (Standard) ~ 0 5 1 THE GREAT Srrir COMPANY.—Surprise and great dissatisfacti(in are expressed by some of the shareholders of this company at the alleged intention of the directors to move an adjournment of the meeting fixed for next week, so as to postpone all explanations for another month. Looking at the statements in circulation regarding their mutual dissensions and recriminations, and the financial difficulties of the concern, it was to have been supposed they would have insisted on an opportunity of meeting their constituents without the needless delay of a single day. It is urged, consequently, by persons interested, that there should be a full attendance on the 15th. If any motion, however, is intended to be discussed, it will be neeeesary, that three days' clear notice should be siven. OLD BROWN ON HIS TIIIAL. —OId Brown thought only of freeing as many .negroes as he could reach; and he attempted it in a wild sort of way, from which anybody whom he had consulted would have augured nothing but failure and destruction. Destruction to hid own life will apparently be the result. He is sentenced to death; and will probably become a martyr, idolised by all negroes. But a failure his scheme is not. This is partly owing to his hav ing appli9til an unexpected test to the security of a slave bolding society, under the circumstances of the time ; and more perhaps to the influence of his personal bearing on all witnesses. At first he was with difficulty preserved from death at the hands of the citizens, thmtgh he lay on the grotind wounded. By degrees one citizen after another became late rested in what he said, and inquisitive about whathe thought. In a few hours the great work was done—he had opened a new world t' a whole community. The governor, honour able senators, chief citizens of every class, approached the old yeoman with deference, with gentl - mess, with over whelming interest. They ceased to reproach him, and per haps.to pity him ; and people out of doors began to think them bewitch( d. All this was because of the great disc , • very he had been the occasion of their making. What was this dismwry,? It was that a robust-minded yeoman, a God-fearing man, reared in the primitive of course of Bible study, who was pare from worldly aims, actually believed the personal freedom of men of any race a cause worth living and dying for. Under the coerced press, and the restricted preaching and literature of the slave State , such a notion had never found entrance to the understanding of the citizens, who had fancied all abolitionists to be thieves and cowards. Old Brown's devotAness to his cause, and his indifference to his own fate, at once fascinated every 'generous-minded man who came near him. His new ad mirers would have deferred his trial till he could obtain. counsel of his own choice, and till he had somewhat re covered from his wounds—wounds in the head, which at times impaired his memory ; but the frightened community would hear of no delay, a nd Old Brown was carried on his ,bed i n to court. My readers have probably seen some 'account of the trial, and have registered in their minds his short speech on receiving his sentence of death. Ale voice and manner of that speech will no more be forgotten on the spot than the matter and the words,—Once a Week. all the but alit 100 all all all S 2S 4; 4 1 1 37 1 10611 11 1