The Sun. — London, England, 1852-12-27 00:00:00

ENT. The la" the O p' ast Weel muserueil t the h uge ' • a nd 11°t the old ig stria e q ter, t he was the ffing ilasc ,ord John the 'Diu — I Affa irs ' ton, who , . her 11'3' a of eat )l it, , epteo 41, svh°' , first Lau Tier berit of seer' )leswo t y e of ll rs rests. , o od, ' 0 preside s the ofee Sir JO the °° I. 0 , crbt h ° 'accepted ter. „„, st 1 3111 ' 1 of Vice' iye; su o grA D.°l° t o he ce l l ; tet ij i 'llovm r l, ivfaiestj from the fidget• orc:mio i djour nea out Fe' cCabine t. , " ieug tb. e l ived Sit 3,,sstle) 1 Russell ip duriDg accep ted a [e ll°'l' ,ro. Id a 1 ,0 ngt ' ern° i t, Sir fri, the ess ii , 1 of p° n cAlls .noble i Ill eet. • a esse-,o e h I•ora ship an wit h tj, J to °- e t° ity• ;he nei !e. ,he 014 I— ii t rbsil le k ,4" 'e wee" . oto" t3P pisr s4 , viOrlV ~ 25-~ ,g wi le f rili ; f g ell n i iaideo!" Cotlic e 113 , 06 er roo f inc e r e V ill e 'art , rt e el t i e 1 ' dine. in sric' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 27, 1852. 31. After Exchange hours the Three ' per Cents. were 44-g ; Deferred, 24 5-16 GERMANY. A letter from Berlin gives an account of a grand reception there on Sunday last of officers of the Prussian army by the Emperor of Austria. His Majesty addressed them as follows : "I am delighted, gentlemen, to see so large a number of the representatives of the Prussian army, which yes terday I had an opportunity of appreciating. The army of your august King has shown its fidelity and courage in times of difficulty. The spirit of loyalty and fidelity forms an indissoluble bond between all valiant armies. It is this spirit that unites my army with that of Prussia, and this is why I can here express to you my strong conviction, that the two armies, whatever events may occur, will be firm in the bonds of fidelity and strong fraternity." The same letter states that the King of Prussia will in his turn visit Vienna. A letter from Berlin of the 21st, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The Emperor of Austria left this city to-day at noon for Dresden, on his way to Vienna. The King, the Queen, and the high dig nitaries of the Court accompanied the Emperor to the railway station of Anhalt, where the officers of the garrison were in waiting to receive the royal party. The King of Hanover has returned to his States, and the Duke of Brunswick will leave this place to-morrow. The First Chamber adopted to day, by 75 votes to 13, the proposition of the Go vernment to convoke the Chambers only every two years. The bill for the suppression of the com munal lov of 1850 has been agreed to, with one amendment, by the committee to which it was referred. Nothing has transpired respecting the customs' negotiations with Austria. The absence of the French Ambassador at the soirée given by the Russian Ambassador, afforded matter for re mark. Count Charles de Hanach, brother of the Princess de Liegnitz, lately became a convert to the Protestant faith, at Naples ; he resides usually in Prussian Silesia." ITALY. Mgr. Garibaldi has received letters accrediting him in the quality of Pope's nuncio at the Court of the Emperor of the French. In its sitting of the 20th the Senate of Turin commenced the discussion of the articles of the Civil Marriage Bill. Marshal La Tour reminded. the Senate that it owed some respect to the declara tions of the Piedmontese bishops against the bill, and to a letter addressed by Pius IX. to King Victor Emmanuel, and published by the Bilancia of Milan. The Minister of Justice opposed this, declaring that the acts alluded to were arbitrary and deserving of no consideration, adding that the publication of the Pope's private letter was a most inexcusable abuse. The Chamber then proceeded to vote. To art. Ist, which declares " that the civil law considers matrimony solely in its relations with civil society, leaving the duties imposed by religion out of the question," M. Roberto d'Azeglio had moved the following amendment : " For those citizens who profess the religion of the State, the matrimonial contract shall not produce civil effects unless after the religious ceremony." This amendment, which would at once have done away with the principle of the bill, was rejected. The original article was afterwards put to the vote, and rejected by 39 votes to 38. This vote, which virtually rejects the whole bill, caused considerable astonishment, and was received with profound silence, and the sitting was adjourned. The _Risorgimento of Turin states that a pastoral letter of Monsignor Franzoni, the exiled Archbishop of Turin, a g ainst the law of m arriage, was read in all the churches of his diocese on the 19th. Prince de Casigliano, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tuscany, has officially announced to the Chargé d'A f faires of France at Florence the satisfaction with which the Grand Duke Leopold, Archduke of Austria, had learned the accession of his Imperial Majesty to the Throne. Fresh credentials are about to be sent to Prince Poniatowski. The proclamation of Napoleon 111., as Emperor of the French, was celebrated at Cagliari on the, 9th. M. Leon Fillet, the French consul in Sar dinia, had Te _Daum sung in the principal church on the occasion, at which the captain and officers of the Gomer steam-frigate, several of the French residents, the commandant of the garrison, and the staff were present. The cannon of t he fort replied by an equal number of guns to. the salutes of the Gomer. six months of the present year the custom-.' revenue was diminished by 16,559/. as compared with the corresponding period of 1851. The revenue and expenditure for 1852 are severally estimated at 101,0001. ; and the revenue of 1853, which will probably be collected under the altered tariff awaiting her Ma jesty's confirmation, at 96,000/: • The estimate of ex penditure for 1853 is therefore based on economical prin ciples, and amounts only to 95,000/. The probable surplus of revenue over expenditure being thus very small, his Excellency suggests that the only way to execute certain reproductive public works is to borrow money on the security of the revenue;and to appropriate 25,060/. per annum for a term of years to pay interest, and form a sinking fund to liquidate the principal. He therefore proposes to introduce bills for raising loans for the following specific purposes :-60,00 01 . for locomo tive railway from the city to Port Adelaide, 100,0001. ; for waterworks for Adelaide, 50,000/ ; for bridges over the principal watercourses of the colony ; 40,0001. for a tramway between Port Adelaide and Gawler Town. The entire liquidation of the colonial bonded debt of 85,000/., the opening up of the over land route to Mount Alexander, the means in pro gress for commencing the navigation of the Murray in November next, the improvements at Port Eliot and the Goolwa, the formation and improvement of various new shipping ports at different points of the seaboard of the colony, together with other topics, of no interest to English readers, are successively noticed. A gold field has just been discovered in this colony, within 23 miles of the capital. A claim to the reward of 1,0001., offered for the discovery of a profitable gold field, was made about a fortnight ago, and since then about 500 people have worked, or, rather, experimented, upon the ground, with varying success. The ground is swampy, and the weather having been very wet throughout the winter, quite up to the end of August, indeed, no thorough exploration could be attempted. All work hitherto done has been " surfacing," and some parties have collected a considerable amount of the precious metal in that way. The indications are very promising, but it will be impossible to de termine upon the richness or extent of the deposits until a few weeks of dry weather have enabled the diggers to penetrate to the rock, and analyse the lowest stratum. The Government has adopted the licensing system, and the regulations in use in the neigh bouring colonies, and has issued, up to this date, about 150 licences. The wiser portion of the colonists are already praying that no productive diggings may be found in South Australia. The arrival of the Chusan at Melbourne is regarded as an era in the history of Australia, commencing as it does a system of intercourse between the mother country and the colonies more speedy and regular than anything they have hitherto enjoyed. The South Australian people were not very well pleased that she did not pay them a visit in passing, but they console themselves by reflecting that when she left England the general opinion there had consigned Adelaide to all but irretrievable ruin. They do not fear to be overlooked again. The arrival of the Australian at Port Adelaide on Sunday morning last, the 29th ult., put them all in good humour once more. The Chusan is expected to call here in the course of a day or two on her return voyage ; and the Australian somewhere about the 25th inst. To have two opportunities of communicating with England by steamer in one month is truly a wonderful and bene ficial change in our circumstances. Like the winter of 1851, that just closing has been very wet and protracted. More rain has fallen during each of them than during any previous winter since the settlement of the colony, and the last winter has also been colder than any preceding one. A violent hail storm covered the earth with a white mantle on the 22d of July last, and revived in the minds of " old colonists " almost forgotten memories of their father land. It would seem that cultivation is producing a perceptible effect upon the seasons. The influx of gold dust into the colony continues to be large and steady. The overland escorts cannot make the trip so rapidly or regularl3 , as during the summer ; but they arrive on an average once in each three weeks, bringing from 25,000 to 30,000 ounces of gold; and a large but unascertained quantity is constantly coming in by ships. Prior to the end of July 88,792 ounces had been shipped for England, of the estimated value of 315, 3451. Up to yesterday, deposits had been made at the Assay-office, of gold to the amount of 286,675 ounces, exceeding in the colony a value of 1,021,2451. This immense increase of capital—immense as com pared with the circumstances of the colony—has caused a general rise of prices, and a slight diminu tion in the rate of interest. Few properties are in-the market, excepting those which have been purchased by speculators for resale, who are now realising handsome profits. Breadstuffs and provisions generally have been forced up to an unnatural price during the last fortnight by the assumed discovery of fields in the colony, but they are declining a little now. Good draught horses fetch from 201. to 301. each ; working bullocks and drays from 501. to 801. for dray and team ; sheep from 7s.' to 10s. each. The last sales of Barra shares were effected at 1271., without dividend ; no business has been done in other shares for many months. Money is offered at 10 per cent. on mortgage of freeholds ; and up to 20 per cent. on inferior securities. Gold dust realises from 70s. to 708. 3d. per ;ounce, unassayed. The present rates of exchange are as follow :—The Banks sell draughts on London at 31 per cent. discount at 30 days after sight; if under 20/. at par and sight. The banks purchase bills at 30 days at 7 per cent. discount—advancing against gold for shipment to 60s. per ounce. The banks sell draughts on the Eastern colonies at 5 per cent. premium, at sight up to 501.; above 50/. at 15 days. Purchase draughts on eastern colonies at par at 15 days. 50 50 50 25 50 40 25 25 St. St. St. St. LEICESTER-SQUARE SOUP KITCHEN.—On Christmas day a large number of unfortunate poor were regaled with a liberal dinner at the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen and Hospice. In the yard adjacent to the builling, a spacious marquee was erected for the occasion, the interior of which was appropriately and tastefully decorated vith flags, mot toes, holly, and other emblems of Christmas festivity. At one end of the marquee, a number of tables were arranged at which men, women, and children, to the number of about 2,500, were feasted during the day with a bountiful supply of the usual Christmas fare, consisting of roast beef, plum-pudding, a pint of porter, and 116. bread each. The remainder of the marquee was occupied with nume rous heaps of loaves, which, together with neat and pud ding and malt liquor, were given to out-door recipients, and for this purpose no fewer than 2,986 tickets were issued to as many families, entitling them each to 2 lbs. of roast beef without bone, 11b. plum-pudding, halfquartern loaf, and a pint of porter ; so that, taking the average of each family as consisting of four persons, the whole number thus charitably supplied with a Christmas dinner, in cluding those who dined at the Kitchen, was 13,794. Amongst many, other munificent donations to this charity, Lord Ward, in the course of the mornine, forwarded a cheque for 1001. The Duke of Cambridge furnished an ox ; the Earl of Darnley a sheep ; Sir. 3. V. Shelley, M.P., a sheep ; Sir J. Cathcart, a sheep. After the repast, the healths of the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Ward, and the rest of the benefactors, were drank. A large concourse of des titute poor was, of course, attracted to the neighbourhood; but, by means of barriers and a strong body of police, all were relieved with great regularity. FIRES. —Shortly after twelve o'clock on Christmas night a fire, which was nearly attended with a serious loss of life, occurred on the premises of Mr. H. Maybury, hairdresser and perfumer, No. 52, Wapping High-street. The unwelcome discovery was made by a police-constable of the K division, who, on passing the house, observed smoke pouring forth from the lower window shutters. He immediately gave an alarm, but some time elapsed before he could awake the inmates, and not until the flames had seized upon the staircase, thereby preventing any one from either ascending or descending by the regular means. The affrighted occupants of the house, with the exception of a female, managed to make their way through the dense volumes of smoke ; and having reached one of the back windows they happily effected a ca f e re t rea t. Th e f e male, however, made her appearance at one of the front windows, beseeching the parties below to fetch a ladder and rescue her. Three persons who were standing in the street, ap prehending that if she remaineclany longer in the building she must be burned to death, induced her to jump out, promising that they would catch her in their arms. She did as requested, but unfortunately took too great a leap, and fell upon the pavement, by which she was so much in jured as to be obliged to be removed to the hospital. The conflagration could not be subdued until everything in the premises, including furniture, vowing apparel, and fix tures, was c onsumed, and the bending all but destroyed. The total loss is coneiderabl e , and, unfortunately, Mr. Maybury was not insured. The origin of the misfortune is enveloped in obscurity.--A short time previously a fire happened in the premises of Mr. C. Holmes, a dairyman, No. 185, Union-street, Southvearlt. Is was caused by some defect in the kitchen flue, which set the ceiling joists on fire. The flames were finally extinguished, but not until considerable damage was done._ A fire also took place in the buildings of Mr. R. Stain, tinma,u and brazier, No. 6, Britannia-row, Lower-road, Islington. It was occasioned by a spark flying from a lighted caulk) upon the bedding in the second floor, which- set the furniture in a blaze. The fire was extinguished, but not lail the building was seriously injured, and a great deal of the furniture burned. Fortunately the sufferer was insured in the Sun Fire-office. —Another fire, which was well nigh being attended with the most disastrous results, took placo in the premises be longing to Mr. Charles Case, cab proprietor, Wood's-yard, 10 Old-street, St. Luke's. The flames originated, from some 25 cause not clearly ascertained, in the - provender stores over 10, the stabling, and owing to the quantity of hay, &c., in the 1.0.6 place the fire travelled with great rapidity. The engines of the London Brigade, from Whitecress-etreet, Watling- se. street, Jeffrey-svere, and more distantstations, succeeded 20 in getting the flames extinguished, but not until the stores 12 were partly burned out, the roof destroy e d, and the stabling damaged by water. Fortunately the horses and other live 5 stock escaped. The stock was insured is the Westminster St. Fire-office, and the premises were insures in the Imperial office. 17 LORD EGLINTON'S LAST APPOINTMINT.—The selec- 25 tion of Mr. O'Leary as the successor of Dr. O'Toole in the Vice-presidency of the Queen's College in the west, and which was received with so much approbation in Dublin, has evoked a perfect hurricane of wrath at the seat of the learned gentleman's future labours. Had 40 Galway been shaken by an earthquake, the shock could 100 scarcely surpass the "sensation ' created by this, Lord 100 Eglinton's latest act of Ministerial patronage. The 100 Galway Packet contains an ai Lick extending to two mortal columns of type, every sentence of which breathes fire and brimstone upon the head of the devoted Viceroy, 26 whose conduct is held up in marked and unfavourable contrast with. the principles which guided the late Sir 5( Robert Peel in his disposal of the Royal Professorships 5( of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh. Nay, even 10( Lord Clarendon is said to have " discarded all considers- 10( tions of patronage, and conferred those offices solely ac- 2( cording to merit." ALARMING ACCIDENT.—On the morning of Friday the skeleton rafters for the new iron roof of the passenger ni station at the Junction Railway, Arbroath, extending in length to about 100 feet, fell with a tremendous crash. The persons at the station had a miraculous escape. Mr. Allan, the station-master, was, however, struck on the head by one of the rafters, and, though not dangerously, he is severely injured. One of the wooden sheds was 2 completely smashed. The accident may be partly 2 ascribed to the very tempestuous weather and the want . of the diagonal braces to the erection, which the work- E men were about to put up.—Edinburgh, Courant. TEE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Paid I RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. 100 Aberdeen .. ....“... 8 Ambg. Noting. Bost & Eastn. June...... all Birmng. Wolverh. Stour Valley 28 Birkenhd. Lanes. Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesil. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons 184 Do., £20.. 100 Bristol & Exeter 100 Caledonian. all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction all Do. New ...... all East Anglian (i . 25 L. & E. & L. & D.) all Do., (£lB E. & H.) all Eastern Counties all Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 6 Do., do. all Do., B. & C. 100 East Lancashire ._ all East & West Ind. Dk. & Birming. June 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 Eclinb.Prth.&Dundee 100 Glasgow & S.Western 100 Great Northern Stk 100 Do., 1 A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock all Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 100 Great Western., ... 11 Ireh South-Easters. all Lancaster & Carlisle.. 11i Do., Third 5..... ....... 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 15 Do., Fifths 11i Do., Wst. Riding Un all Leeds Northern .. all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt. all London & Blackwall 3 Lend. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. 'lOO London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 100 London & S.Western 421 Do., 34 Do. , £4O. ...... all Lndndrry.&Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef. &Lincln. 48 Do., Man. &Lin. Un. 100 Midland 100 Do. Birming. tberby 47.1 Midland G.West.(lr.) 176 Do. a Shares ... all Newcastle &Carlisle 100 Newmarket 14 Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd 74 Newry & Enniskillea all - Newry Warrenpoint & Bostrevor 100 Norfolk.. ....... all Do., New ....... 31 Northn. Counties Un. 100 North British 13 North Devon, No.l 61 Do., No. 2.. .... all Do., 1 A Deferred_ .- 5 Do., 1 B Guaranteed 176 North Staffordshire all North Western 86 N. & S.Westrn. lune. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central 'lOO Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. &N. Wcatn Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby. & Herefd all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all Do. Halves, do. 20 Do. Oswestry 66 Shropshire Union . . ... Do., A.B.C.&D.fuliy paid up at p. c. all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun 5 Do. 16t Stockton & Hartlepl. 19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ..... 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny' all Waterford&Limerick' 13 West C0rnwa11........ all West London. 1 Woodford..... 100 York Newctl. & Berw. 20 Do. Extensions. . 10 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 100 York &N. 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Co_ idi 1 all Mariquita.. ... * P l 4 10 Mexican&S.'Americn. 41 44 1 all New Granada — 4 p 1$ 1 all Nouveau Monde 2l —24 p 3 1 all Port Philip 4—2i p 3 4 • 1 all Quartz Rock — 4 p 50 all Rhymme Iron 24 26 254 90 104 Santiago de Cuba 8 9 1 all South Australian — 4 p 14 10 7 Tin Croft 284 all United Mexican 9 94 1 all West Mariposa. $ 14 1 all Tuba . — P MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult. 278 272 285 324 Canada — ... [279 282 275 St. all Copper Miners of Eng ... [2BO 278 25 all Do. Preference — 5 5 Crystal Palace — 44 5 20 1 Eastern Steam — 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 100 50 General Screw Steam ... 20 24 Irish Beetroot Sugar 10 2 Netherlands Land — 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... 90 SO 100 60 Royal Mail Steam .' . 25 25 South Austral. Land .. 52 50 55 53 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization 100 284 Van Diemen's Land ... ... 21 1 1 Submar. Telegraph Bleak House. Part X. By Charles Dickens. Instead of saying " the plot thickens," now that we have reached the thirty-second chapter of " Bleak House," we may declare with truth that the incidents have become involved in a confusion ap parently inextricable. Joe is ill. He has wandered down into the country, far from Tom-all-alone's. He has been cared for under the ever-hospitable roof of Mr. Jarndyce. He has mysteriously disap peared. Charley has caught a fever from him—has been at death's door—has recovered. Simulta neously with the restoration of her little maid to health, dear Esther Summerson has sickened ; and now we leave her saying to her attendant sadly, " Come and sit beside me for a little while, and touch me with your hand. For I cannot see you, Charley • I am blind." Caddy i s m arried to Prince Turveydrop—prior to which ceremony Peepy bit the bridegroom ! Krook, the Lord Chancellor of the Rag-and-Bottle Warehouse is dead—has " gone off "in spontaneous combustion. The chapter iu which the latter occurrence is described is one of the most frightfully powerful passages even Charles Dickens has ever penned. It reads like a fragment from one of the French Romancists. It smacks of the hideous vigour of the Feuilleton. It savours of de Balzac in a moment of distraught imagination. As you turn over the pages a vague horror comes over you—you shudder as at the approach of some detestable and evil phantom. Yet the men whose actions you are watching, whose conversation you are listening to—in whose nameless dread you partici pate—are the homeliest of the homely, common, matter-of-fact, every-day kind of people—a lawyer's clerk, ascrivener, and a law stationer. Mr. Snagsby, pausing at Nightfall in Cook's Court to gossip with Mr. Weevle, then lounging at the open-door of Krook's house, where he is a lodger, remarks (with a sniff), that the air tastes " rather greasy." Mr. Weevle opines that " it is chops at the Sol's Arms" —to which conjecture Mr. Snagsby replies that, if so, he " don't think—not to put too fine a point upon it—that they were quite fresh when they were shown the gridiron." Ultimately, the two coincide in the opinion, that " it's a tainting sort of weather." And all this while Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins are holding their evening " confab," and. while little Swills at the Sol's Arms is " sentimentally adjuring his friends and patrons to Listen, listen, listen, Tew the wa-ter-Fall!" Late on—in fact, towards mid night—Mr. Weevle entertains (if one may so ex press it at that ghostly hour, and under those peculiarly ghastly circumstances,) his friend and intimate, Mr. Guppy, in his apartment. Talking there together in whispers about the subject of their appointment—the obtaining of certain papers from old Krook—the soots begin to fall as if the chimney was on fire swarming down on the table, on their clothes stuff, as Mr. Guppy evpresses it, that " won't blow off, but smears like black fat !" It gets too close for them. They throw open the window in hopes of getting a mouthful of air. Sitting on the window ledge, William Guppy plays with the sill, tapping it, clasping it, and measuring it with his hand, until he suddenly cries out, " What, in the Devil's name, is this?" And there upon his fingers—" a thick yel low liquor defiles them, - Which is offensive to the touch and sight, and. more offensive to the smell— a stagnant sickening oil, with some natural repul sion in it that makes them both shudder." They examine it yet more closely, they bring the candle to the window—and " here, from the corner it slowly drips and creeps away down the bricks ; here, lies in a little thick nauseous pool." It is horrid. Krook is below in his room among the rags and bottles, where he has been closeted for hours with his cat, the gin bottle, and the coveted manuscripts. At last the stipu lated hour arrives—twelve o'clock strikes. Tomy Weevle creeps down stairs according to the plan of the appointment. He comes swiftly back, having been clearly enough dreadfully frightened. William Guppy joins him after a word or two of incoherent explanation, and the two descend toge ther, " more dead than alive," and, pushing open the door of the back shop, find nothing living but • the cat, snarling—" not at them, but at something on the ground before the fire." What is this something ?—" is it the cinder of a small charred and broken log of wood, sprinkled with white ashes, or is it coal ?" It is Krook, who has died. the most horrible of deaths, "inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself," that of spontaneous combustion. This is merely a faint epitome of the chapter—a chapter constituting one of the most hideously powerful of descriptions. Turn we with pleasure to a previous portion of the narrative—to that where Mr. Skimpole after displaying the most abominable heartlessness, sits down to the piano, sings a ballad " apropos of our young friend "—" quite exquisitely." Com pensating for the solitary etching in the last num ber, Phiz has in this three capital illustrations. Two doubts force themselves at this crisis in the story upon our mind,—What has become of Joe ? and have the MSS. in the possession of Krook been really destroyed ? Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. By the Eail Of Belfast. Longman. A series of lectures on the above theme was delivered in the Music Hall, Belfast, in the month of March, 1852, for the benefit of the library fund. of the local " Working Classes Association," by the Earl of Belfast. These lectures are now, with some alterations and additions, published in a small volume appropriately dedicated to the Earl of Carlisle, whose benevolent labours as a public lecturer, Lord Belfast apparently seeks to emulate. In introducing his criticisms, his Lordship mo destly remarks that his intention was not to throw new light upon the immortal works that formed the theme of his discourses ; he desired only to arouse his hearers to a sense of their beauties, and. to give them, at the same time, just so much of an insight into the character and habits of the man as would lend an additional interest to the produc tions of the poet. The poets of the present cen tury have been selected by Lord Belfast because, in his opinion, their writings come nearer home to ' our hearts and minds than those of their predecessors. In evidence of his meaning, he quotes Longfellow's charming lines— " Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the old grand masters, Not from the bards sublime ; Read from some humbler poet Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start." The Lectures are thus divided : Lecture I. Poetical Literature at the close of the last century, Coleridge, Kirke White, Wordsworth. Lecture ll.—Moore, Keats, Scott. Lecture 111. Byron, Shelley, James, and Horace Smith, Hood, Barham. Lecture IV.—Southey, Crabbe, Campbell. Conclusion. These lectures are suggested by no spirit of criti cism—they breathe throughout a genial love for the poets and their poetry ; and Lord Belfast, feel ing thus warmly and reverently himself, is anxious, by this introduction to some of their beauties, to tempt his hearers and readers to study for themselves the " Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century." In many of his Lordship's opinions we entirely agree, and most cordially do we sympathise with the spirit in which the whole work is conceived.' To add to its attractions, it is illustrated by many fragmentary quotations, and, sometimes, an entire poem. is given ;—thus, when speaking of Campbell, Lord Belfast reads the " Exile of Erin" to his hearers, because his book, " whether from long habit, or by way of rep roach at the possibility of its being omitted, persi sts in opening at the place." Ancient and Modern Colours, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time, with their Chemical an d Artistical .Properties. By William Linton. Longmans. The best definition of this volume (which is de dicated to Prince Albert, the President of the Great Exhibition) is given in the words of its intro duction. It professes to unite the ancient CO.. lours which are recorded in history w i t h those which have been revealed by the re searches and investigations of travellers and men of science. Among the contributors to our stock of knowledge on this subject, si r H ump h re y Davy stands pre-eminent, more e s p ec i a lly i n re ference to the colours of the Roman period • w hilst the er.. ca vations prosecuted in A ssyria and 'Egypt, by Layard, Rawlinson, Botta, Wilkinson, and other eminent antiquarians, assisted by chemical ex aminations, have "extended. our acquaintance with colouring matters to the remotest periods." The various colours, ancient and modern, are here enu merated and described in a - manner at once concise and comprehensive, and, i n s ome instances, are further explained by interesting notes. To the artist and the chemist the collection will be most valuable. THE WEATHER IN IRELAND. --A storm of very extra. ordinary violence commenced on Christmas morning, about half-past one o'clock, and continued to rage until four, when the wind in some degree abated. The gale blew in terrific gusts chiefly from the west, shaking the strongest houses, and causing considerable damage in the destruction' of chimneys, roofs, &c. It is to be feared that serious disasters have occurred in the Chan nel, as the storm came on with suddenness, and at once assumed tremendous force. In Kingstown, Dalkey, and for many miles around Dublin, the tempest prevailed and caused much alarm. Since the destructive hurri cane in January, 1839, there has not been so awful a storm as the present, which has followed upon the wet test and most inclement winter for many a year• OVERLAND__ MAIL. We have received the following telegraphic dis patch in anticipation of the overland mail " TRIESTE, DEC. 25. " The steamer Egitto arrived this morning. " Lord Frederick Fitzclarence and General Somerset had reached Bombay. "No further progress had been made in the Burmese war. It was reported that General God win had been recalled, but the rumour required confirmation. " The health of the troops was excellent. " The north-west frontier was in disorder, and a force had been dispatched to the disturbed dis tricts. " General Fraser had resigned the Residency at Hyderabad, and would probably be succeeded by Colonel New." AMERICA. The Europa, which sailed from New York on the 15th inst., arrived in the Mersey at a very late hour last night. She brought 66 passengers. Stocks at the sailing of the packet had expe rienced a fall of ± per cent. This arrival brings in specie 274,000 dols. Western Canal flour was sold at 5 dols. i 0 cents to 5 dols. 62 cents per barrel. Freights remained unchanged at the steamer's departure. To Liverpool the freight of flour was 3s. 9d. per barrel. Freight of cotton to Liverpool, 5-16. to ird. per pound. Californian news had arrived to November 16. In Mexico, as had been previously anticipated, revolution was rife. Tampico was in possession of the insurgents. Two battles had been fought, both of them in favour of the insurgents. In the American Congress nothing of import ance. AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. By the clipper ship Marco Tolo, Captain Forbes, we have advices from Melbourne to the 11th of October. The Marco Polo sailed from Liverpool on the outward passage on the 4th of July, and made her run in 68 days ; she sailed from Mel bourne on her return on the 11th of October, and has thus made the voyage out and home in the un precedented space of five months and 21 days. The screw steamer Australian sailed from Mel bourne for England, with the mails and 156,0001. of gold, 11 days before the Marco Polo ; she had arrived at Adelaide, and was to leave that port on the 4th of October, with an addition of 65,000 oz. of gold dust. The Marco Polo passed Bank's Straits on the 12th of October • on the 17th sighted the Falkland Islands, thence - Co Cape Horn, which she sighted the 3d of November. Had fine weather. The sth of November passed Staten Island • the 19th of December passed a longboat painted ;tone colour, with a red riband and black gunwale ; same time saw a bark apparently abandoned, showed blue lights, and fired six 'rockets, but receiving no answering signal, proceeded. The longboat hailed from Leith, the name of the ship she belonged to commenced with the letter L. The floods on the Turon had not subsided suffici ently to allow the proprietors to commence opera tions with any degree of spirit. The mines shoived no symptoms of e xhaustion, but, on the contrary, every week announced the discovery of some new locality containing gold. On Church-hill, in dry diggings, some claims had yielded, while others barely paid expenses. At Tambourara the yield continued good not withstanding the difficulty arising from a super abundance o water. At Tuena many parties were making from 60 to 70 ounces per week. The num ber of miners was increasing, and success appeared pretty general. Major's-creek diggers were realis ing well. The accounts from Bingara are contradictory ; some personshadbeen exceedingly successful, whilst others were disappointed. Not less than 30,000 persons had arrived at Forest-creek in a fortnight, many of them from the Bendigo diggings. This influx was occasioned by the discovery of at Moonlight Flat, a gully about a mile and three-quarters from Forest-creek, which had proved richer than any previous. Every consumable article was rising at Forest creek ; oats were selling at from 3/. ss. to 31. 10s. per bushel ; flour, 141. to 15/. per bag ; and sugar, is. 6d. to ls. 9d. per lb. ; for stools and cradles ex traordinary prices were asked. At Sydney exchange on London was as fol lows :-Draughts against gold 10 per cent. ; dis count by the Bank of New South Wales, on an ad vance of 40s. The total amount of gold shipped from Sydn to the 2d of October was 2,474,6271. The escort' from Braidwood had brought in 489 ounces ; from Azalrun, 260 ounces ; Bell-creek, 50 ounces ; Goul burne, 12 ounces 2 • Sofola, 102 ounces ; Bathurst , 47 ounces ; and Nass, 45 ounces. At Melbourne hay was selling from 161. to 181. per ton ; Hamburgh butter, at is. lid per lb. ; bacon at ls. Id. per lb ; Glocester cheese, at ls. 6d. per lb ; tobacco, 3s. sd. per lb. ; silver watches, 41. 2s. 6d. ; serge shirts, 375. per dozen ; axes, 3s. 3d. each ; draught-horses, from 701. to 90/. ; drays and harness, from 821. to 1301. • working bullocks from 171. to 35 1 . per pair ; much cows, from 41. to 81. Adelaide advices of the 4th of October state that there had been great excitement in the market that day. Numerous orders had arrived from Melbourne. The price of flour at the opening of the market was 26/. ; it rose to 301., and at the close was at 291. Most of the expired licences to work at the Echunga diggings, near Adelaide, had been re newed and many fresh ones taken. The number of diggers amounted to about 500. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The Moniteur publishes the following decree : "Napoleon, by the grace of God and the national will, Emperor of the French, to all present and to come, greeting : " Looking to Art. 4 of the Senatus Consultunt of November 7, ratified by the plebiscite of the 21st and 22d of the same month, according to which it ap pertains to us to regulate, by an organic decree addressed to the Senate, the order of succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family, in case we should not leave any direct heir, legitimate or adopted : " Whilst hoping that we shall be permitted to realise the wishes of the country, and to contract, under Divine protection, an alliance which will allow us to ave direct heirs : " Being, however, unwilling that the throne, erected by the grace of God and the national will, should be left vacant through default of a successor designated by us : "Decree as follows : " Art. 1. In case of our leaving no direct heir, legi- timate or adopted, " Our well-beloved uncle Jerome Napoleon Bona parte, and his descendants, direct and legitimate, the issue of his marriage with the Princess Catherine of Wur temberg, from male to male, by order of primogeniture, to the perpetual exclusion of the females, are appointed to succeed us. " Art. 2. The present decree, invested with the seal of the State, shall be carried to the Senate by our Minis ter of State, to be deposited in its archives. " Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, this 18th day of December, 1852. " NAPO LEO (Signed) N. (Countersigned) "ACHILLE FOULD, Minister of State." A letter from Paris, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that the French Government has received from Cadiz long details of an outrage on the French Consul at Rabat, in Morocco. He had arrived at Cadiz, says the correspondent, after striking the consular flag at Rabat, where his life had been for several days in danger from a turbulent mob, and the absence of any protection on the part of the authori ties. The captain of a French ship of war had come to his aid with an armed force, but the turbulence of the mob increased, and he felt it prudent to fly. M. Lamieussens, French consul at Santo-Do mingo, fell a victim on Nov. 9 to an attack of yel low fever. M. Baez, the President of the Domini can Republic, scarcely quitted his bed-side during his illness, and afterwards acted as chief mourner at the funeral, which was conducted with great pomp, the troops, clergy, and principal functionaries being present. The funeral service was performed in the cathedral, and during its continuance dis charges of musketry and a salute of nine cannon shots were heard. Finally, a decree of the Presi dent ordered that masses for the repose of the soul of the deceased should be said in all the churches throughout the Republic. THE CONTINENT. SPAIN. Accounts have arrived from Madrid, dated the 19th instant. Clamor Publico comments upon the circular of the Minister of the Interior to the tNEw _ ll THEATRE AT NOTTINGHAM.—A scheme has gove rnors of the provinces. It expresses its con h:_ , set on foot in Nottingham for the erection of a new viction that the course pursued b y the new minis copp• The estimated "cost is between 5 , 0 001. and t ry i s no t of a nature to restore calm to the public 7 01. 01.' which sum it is proposed to raise in shares of A i re _ . e.,ach. A considerable number of the shares have 'rid. The only effectual mode of doing this says the Clamor Publico, would be to announce that the , 4 ' l Y been subscribed for. b e T R . RID DEATH.—An Irish lad of the name of Samuel I Government had abandoned all the projects for 't "Ills, aged 10 years, went with his parents last week, I changes in the Constitution. M. Bravo Murillo tw ° gat . her coal on the cinder tip at Cyfarthfa, near Nanty- and M. Bordiu, the ex-Minister of thelnterior, b urr l l l . 2M , when, shocking to relate, he sunk into the left Madrid on the 18th for France. f ro _ing cinders, and his flesh was absolutely dropping Madrid 'Bourse.--Three per Cents., 44i ; De ja,r;u his bones ! It is not long since a female was birai- ferred, 24 7-16 ; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 101. 'Y burnt to death. Exchange upon London, 50 80 ; upon Paris, sth, TURKEY. A dispatch from Vienna of the 21st says :—" The news, which the Constantinople mail brings us, state that the Bourse was still continuing. Jobbing was increasing in spite of the prohibition of the Government. The difficult affair of the protec torate of the sanctuaries has entered on a new phase of tergiversation. A recent decision is more favourable to the Greeks, that is to say, to the protectorate of Russia, whereas the preceding de cision was more favourable to the French pro tectorate." ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. During the first quarter of the present year 6,298 persons, chiefly adult males, the flower of the labouring population, left this colony by sea, attracted by the gold fields of the neighbouring settlements. In the same period about 4,000 persons, as nearly as can be ascer tained, left the province by land, making together a loss of population during the quarter of upwards of 10,000 souls—the entire population of the colony being only 67,000. During the preceding quarter, the last of 1851, the loss had been very considerable, though not so great as in the first three months of 1852, when the gold fever was at its height. The second quarter of the present year exhibited a decided reaction in this respect. The number of persons who left by sea between the Ist of April and the 30th of June was 2,268, and by land about 800 ; scarcely more than one-fourth of the depar tures of the previous quarter. A comparison of arrivals during the same periods will complete the evidence of reaction. During the first quarter 2,872 persons arrived in the colony by sea, and none by lan d ; durin g the second quarter 4,928 persons arrived by sea, and, probably, 1,000 overland. In the first quarter the colony lost at least 7,000 people; in the second it gained at least 3,000. The same restorative process has been going on since in an increasing ratio, but in the absence of official returns it would be unwise to particularise. At first sight it is somewhat startling to find that, notwithstanding the vast reduction of the productive classes, the exportation of colonial produce was larger during the first half of this year than during any previous six months of colonial existence. By comparison of a few items with the cor responding period of 1851 this will be very clearly seen. Wheat and flour, to the amount of 27,0361. 10s., were exported during the first half of 1851, while during the first half of 1852 the value of exports of the same com modities was 55,997/. 125., showing, in this one item alone, an excess in favour of the latter period of 29,000/., exclusive of the new outlet formed by the opening of the Overland route, along which an unknown quantity of produce (estimated 50,0001. value) has flowed during the latter period against nothing during the former term. No butter or Cheese were exported during the first half of 1851 ; during the first half of 1852 butter and cheese, the produce of the colony, to the value of 4,6841. Bs., have been shipped away. The export of oats has risen from 6L to 3,7381. 10s. ; of barley, from 61. to 2,064/. ; of animals, from 981. to 2,310/. ; of bacon and hams, from nothing to 9091. ; of fresh fruits, from nothing to 2471. ; of hides and leather, from 1201. to 1,1661. Without further detail, it may suffice to say, that the exports by sea have increased from 358,1391., the declared value for the first six months of 1851, to 464,8701. 10s. during the corresponding period of this present year. The re-exportation of imported goods has increased in a much greater. ratio ; but as this affords no criterion of general prosperity, excepting in connexion with the fact that the merchants of this colony have reaped very handsome profits from these transac tions, it will be unnecessary to go into details. The total exports from January to June of 1851 were valued at 378,2591. ; the total exports during the corresponding term of this year amounted to 730,474/. 19s. 7d. After making every deduction for some amount of capital stock included in this total—carts and drays for instance—as well as allowing for the consumption of colonial produce out of the colony by people who ordinarily would have consumed the same at home, it must be apparent that the community of 60,000 persons that can produce and export in six months, under the pressure of adverse cir cumstances, no less than half a million's worth of com modities, exhibits no lack or vigour or paucity of re sources. An exemplification of the improved financial position of the colony is afforded by a comparison of the banking returns of the 26th of July with those of the 26th of January in this year. At the earlier period the deposits in the three banks—the Bank of South Aus tralia, and the Adelaide branches of the Bank of Austra lasia and of the Union Bank of Australia—amounted to 211,0071.105. 9d. They have increased to 451,9111. 7s. 9d. The notes in circulation have risen from 84,6051. 10s. to 233,0251. The stock of gold in coin and bullion has increased from 97,6001. 15s. 3d. to 524,7611. Bs. 6d.; and in the same space of time the amount of paper under discount has diminished from 606,826/. 10s. 6d. to 387,0481.175. 4d. The figures will tell their own tale without comment or explanation. Burra Burra shares are up to 1281. cash. Interest of money ranges from 121 to 20 per cent., according to the security offered. Gold dust is selling at 68s. 6d. to 695. per ounce ; but the supply is very limited, owing to a general desire on the part of holders to deposit in the Assaye-office. Sovereigns command a premium of 4 per cent. On the Ist Sept. the Lieut.-Governor, Sir Henry Young, opened the third session of the first elective Le gislative Assembly. The second session was a very short one, held in January last, when the council was hastily convened, and in one day passed the Bullion Act, the only purpose of the sitting. Thus it is that the third session is opened within 13 months of the election of the council. His Excellency's address is a very able docu ment, practical in its suggestions and conciliatory in its tone. It opens with a reference to the social and finan cial derangement occasioned by the gold discoveries in Victoria—a mere refererce, however, because the noto riety of the facts rendered it unnecessary to go into mi nute detail. His Excellency goes on to state that, in consequence of this derangement the revenue of 1851 fell short of that of 1850 ; and that during the first 31 - 32 6i - 7 10i -- 11 7 -- 61 d 21 .08 21 - 3 - 11,06 - li 67.1 23 - ihr I Paid 0 1 all *4l all *I all Wi all 104 all it. 100 i 0 all it. 100 ;5 1 all ;5* 1 all ',5 I all )0 I all 0 all 15 all 2 all A all !.0 all NI) all !O all 5 all ;5 I all ;t: 100 ;t. 100 ;5 18i 5l all A. 100 2 Z4RKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) • 'fi e 0 4 CORN EXCHANGE. ~,,q the country markets held last week were but '4,"',,' 4 3 1 * supplied with wheat, yet the demand 'for all 3 ' l ,e€l heavy, and prices had a downward tendency. id i a lLeY sold steadily at full currencies ; but grinding beans, sorts, including malt, met a dull inquiry. l'h e ~e, n B? peas, and flour, ruled about stationary. 44 1 7 beet advices from New York state that only a li t_ 'fulness was doing in grain and flour. Most of the Zental markets have been firm for all articles. . k - Irlng last week, the arrivals of English grain up to our ,i, t e b , coastwise, were very moderate. From abroad we 0 . '4 1 3,431 quarters of wheat, 6,210 barley, 14,782 ~,,11_ Pees, 250 linseed, 850 rapeseed, 120 mustard seed, 4,`wcY sorts, 520 sacks and 5,760 barrels of flour. *. t ,'" .ll P to-day the arrivals of English wheat, coastwise, i i i ,',esex and Kent, were very limited, and much out of '"oh. From the east coast the receipts were trifling, i ii r'l fine parcels came to hand by land. carriage. Not :4ll(ling that, the show of samples of both red and was trifling ; the demand, owing chiefly to the hell 'l,4) „, w as in a very inactive state. However, most of the t , e4 t. qualities were taken at last week's currency ; but j ,;' (l middling kinds were, in some instances, is per y 7 lower than on Monday last, and a total clearance \r".th difficulty effected. . 6. 4' l l'elerou s offers came to hand from the Midland dis c° to forward wheats; but the amount of business doing w.!erY trifling. hit foreign wheat we were again very moderately 1 sup y - ' All kinds met a dull sale, but we have no actual `t° notice in the quotations. eating cargoes of foreign wheat, beans, and Indian were neglected, yet we cannot call them cheaper. The r tlli als of lat e h ave been small. e show of both English and foreign barley was larger , t for many weeks past. Fine malting sportsls sold at ;Illotations ; but grinding and distilling command literY little attention. tea e had a dull inquiry for all kinds of malt, at late ' lt ' [e were but moderately supplied with oats. On the ' the trade ruled steady, and late rates were well trted. , 4411 was only a moderate inquiry for beans, yet prices tteady. l l eae scarcely - any transactions took place. However, lc* Were very firm. c',... demand for both English and foreign flour was 7, Yet the quotations were supported: CURRENCY FEB IMPERIAL MEASURE. , " 441 —Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier .... 61s to 63s b i „ tied .... new 41s to 48. Oats Yorkshire and b i ,`„,'°••_•__ ..• .. old 46s 59s Lincolnsh., Feed 16s 22s N.'. White new 45s 53s Potato ..•....... 211 24! '°• •• .... old bls 62s Yonghal and Cork N orfolk and Lin- Black. —.. 163 24s bi," 111 , Red, old 481 53s Cork, White ..... 16s 255 i,6, w, new. ...... 276 47s Scotch, Feed..... 21s 256 L' 4 • •......... 31s 32s Beans—Tick ......... 33* 35s t '',..• ••• • • • ...... 31s *35 Pigeons .... 36 403 f t :,..ktrinding..... 26s 28s Peas—Grey ..• • • .. .. 31. 35 , Ch‘ lll 2 •••.• .. 31s 31s Maple. •••• • — .. 33F 36s At,,,' , llier .......33 • 6 35 ; White... •• •• •.. .. 33 - 37 11 ffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••. .. .. 36. 41s ' o lk 54s 581 IFI ur Town-made. — 4 I s 46 rOw n ••• • • • ..... 46s 525 Suffolk .... .... 32s 3 s it t IlEtston and Ware 53s 60s • Stockta & Norfolk 32s Rs SMITHFIELD. !fi e imports of foreign stock into London, last week, ,ked very moderate—they having been confined to 2,711 ;44 During the Bailie period in 1851 they amounted to in 1850, 1,325 ; in 1849, 78 1 ; in 1848 , 892 ; and ik„ -17 , 2,013 head. ??, IMPORTS L'iTO LONDON LAST WEEK. 1,1 44 '4 _ Beasts. Sheep. Lamb; Calves. Pigs. I :7 t ' e e' l am ttt(l°Qll"'' 42 ... 59 ... -- ••• 203 ... 817 343 .. 237 ... 760 ... - .. - ~ - 250 ... T otal . 304 ... 2,157 ... - Yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 0'" .... ... 401 2,343 332 18 ....... 184 945 ... 186 ... ....... 396 224 ... 161 ....... 61 820 ... ... 10 ... 1 - , t ....... 341 ... 1,653 ... 19 ... itiVaY's market was very scantily supplied with each kf e 2f foreign stock, the general quality of which wad VI . kor. V I. the time of year, the supply of home and Scotch-fed q t 1 . 8 ,.0n. offer this morning , was good, and in full average Notwithstanding that large quantities of meat yep ought forward in Newgate and Leadenhall, the R E D tide here ruled steady, and last Monday's prices were VllPported. The primest Scots sold readily at 4s per 1 ,110 111 Lincolnshire, Leceistershire, and Northampton 81a d, 300, We receivHe reforded 1,200 s short horns ; vo fro ns, m &0., an other pdartsfrom of hand, 380 h horned and runts polled 'De Scots. for arrivals of sheep being very moderate , the d emand ITela IN 'kat des cr iption of stock was steady, and last week's 1 k k4 ., e3r was freely maintained. Prime old Downs sold 1 11, 1 3' at 5s per 81bs. ki eri e a Supply of calves was extensive ; whilst the veal trade k last. prices were fully 2d per Blbs lower than °Tulay The highest value of the best veal was /). la 2d per 81bs. 1 6t e i g 4 Were in good supply, and heavy request, at barely rates. 14. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 4 8 410 Large crse. calves 2 6 3 6 Prime small do 3 8 4 2 Large hogs 210 3 6 Smallporkers 3 8 310 Suckling calves 19 0 23 0 Quarter old pigs 18- 0 22 0 Per 81bs by the carcase , d. s. pVor Beasts ...2 Bto 2 1 quality ...3 0 3 2 Ih e large oxen 3 4 3 6 Il if nl ? Scots, dre. 3 8 4 0 R: o l Ler sheep ...3 6 3 8 I \i tt , ll4 . quality ..3 10 4 2 e eoarse-wid.4 4 4 6 ‘, TOTAL SUPPLY. V C R " 9,500 Sheep ga m l9O I Calves k • :tement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat k _ek exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market , on °May A Dec. 29, 1851, and this day, Monday, Dec. 27, ~852. FOILEIG - N SUPPLY, 398 1,110 169 Per 81ba, to sink the offals. Dec. 29, 1851. Dec. 27, 1852 a. d. a. d. s. d. a. d. 2 6to 2 102 Bto 2 10 ... 3 0 3 2 3 0 3 2 ... 3 4 3 63 4 3 6 . 3 8 310 3 8 4 0 3 23 6 3 8 arse and inferior beasts l'i. °ll4 quality ditto 1), i l lle large oxen I' , ' ) le Scots , &c ..,o ... 3 8 ... 3 4 ... 4 0 ... 4 4 ... 3 2 ... 3 10 ... 2 8 ... 3 10 k 3e _ -, and inferior sheep . 11 a quality ditto .. .. 3103 10 4 2 N,l l`riZe coarse woolled ditto .. 4 2 1 4 4 4 6 1,4 4 e Southdown ditto .. 46 4 8 410 p rii r coarse calves ... .. 3 82 6 3 6 L e small ditto ... ... .. 4 2 3 8 4 2 kt 'Tg e hogs 3 82 10 3 6 • " '•• •• • '' 4 0 3 8 3 10 small porkers a.. •• • 2 Beasts 846 2,271 Sheep ... ... ... ... ... 14,590 9,500 Calves._ ... ... •... a .. ... 214 190 240 210 Pigs Ru l ,_ 1 ,5 2t . 1ES ON SALE, Dec. 30, 1850.—Beasts, 3,169 ; sheep, u: , calves, 127 ; pigs, 360. Dl,e • 31, 1849.—Beasts, 3,089; sheep, 16 , 620 ; calves , 69 ; ) 135. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. I t ß ather extensive supplies of meat, left over from lasi 11", were on sale to-day, in very middling conditio n et ' , e general demand ruled heavy, and prices we re not z'Perted. Per 81bs by the carcase. beet r. d. s. d. D o inferior 22 2 4 middling 2 6 2 8 b o * , prime large 2 10 3 0 sm P°l k, do ll large 2 6 2 10 s. d. •. d Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 C Do.,middling 3 8 4 2 Do., prime 4 2 4 4 Veal 2 6 4 0 Pork, small 3 0 4 0 SEEDS. t„ i llgeed. still continues •in good request, at very full ,es• East India is quoted at 51 a to 528 ; Petersbur g h, ua, ox. warehouse. Floating cargoes of C alcutta have ali , zed 52s 6d ; and Black Sea, for outport delivery, 535. ie litta, for shipment, has realized 52s ; and Petersburgh, 8 s Per quarter. All other articles are quite as dear as last T 4 L -18 , e d• - I).White, per bush. 85 to lls 11.._° ,7 ede .. • • ...... 105 12s .4 tard, Brown.. • • 7, ' 8 White, new ••••.. 78 od 10s new.... 45 64 Bso4 t en s .......... NOdOs Od ltp: r Y. Per quarter • • 37s 418' Flo Tress •• • 28s 34s ver. Red Eng . (cwt.) 388 hos White 385 sosl Foreign Red.. •• .. 388 fins .• 375 49s new White 215 2531 Carraway, new .. •• .. 389 418 Coriander, new .. • • 109 12s Hempseed, per quarter 32s 35s Linseed, Eng.Aowing• • 589 60s Crushing •••••• •• 471 a2s Baltic ••• • • 478 50s Odessa ••••• • • • • • 484 52s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English . 91 04 ,0 Os Foreign, per ton 8 1 105 101 5s Rape Cakes, pr ton 4/ 15s Si Os liapeseed,Now, prlst 23 1 0 s 25108 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. tbastvirise and per railway the arrivals of potatoes con moderate, ancl in very midd li ng condition. The lad week were 22 tons from Hambro', 104 from Dun -120 from Rouen, 93 from Calais, and 70 from Grave -41:8. The demand is far from brisk, as follows :—York gents, 85s to 135 s per ton ; Lincolnshire ditto , 75 s to 110 s ; , ' ut ell ditto, 80s to 100 s ; Ditto Reds, 75s to 90s ; French -.464 , 753 to 95 s; Dutch, 60s to 755. BOROUGH HOP. fa , ,illee our last report a very limited business has been acted in all kinds of hops , at barely stationary prices. )417; `,;.aticl East Kent pockets, 90 s to 155 s per cwt. ; Weald 'Lent, 90s to 108 s per cwt. ; Sussex, 81s to 100 s per cwt. WOOL MARKET. t Trreat inactivity prevails in the market for foreign and ° llia]. wool ; yet importers generally are firm, and the etlqations are supported. English wools move off steadily, 14 1111 prices. The imports into London last week were „,,...bales from Hambro', 30 from Leghorn, 55 from Trieste, "'A) fro m Syd ne y, and 1,675 from Dielbourne. TALLOW. T he demand for all kinds of tallow is heavy, and prices I lk : given way to some extent. To-day, T.Y.C. on the 1:17 la sellin at nothing to 45s 3d per cwt. For forward deli , uext to is doing. Town tallow, 45s per cwt, ash; rough fat, 2s 6id per 81bs. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. 13to ck 14 141 day nee of y 425 Od 38s 6d to ns Od to Vs 9cl ,5s Od to D ell Y. • 1 • 00= Od tOs Od 00s td to 37.0( 45s 3d I)i tt v o OrY last week .• 1,718 1,538 2,196 2,262 1,569 front June 1 6',228 56,576 56,890 62,825 60,810 b i T t :als last week f rcal June 1 87,436 78,293 83,670 90,551 68,504 •• -of Town 45. Od 42s Od 39s 6d 393 6d 47s 3d PREFEREN 100 Aberdeen 5 all Do., No. 2,7 p. c... 3t. 103 Bristol & Exeter 4p. cent. Stock .......... .),0 5 Do. 4p. C. Shares ... - it. 100 Caledonian 15 all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5. per cent... 61 31 Cork &Bandon 5i p.c. 64 all Dundee Perth&Aber-, deen Junction all EastAn glian (X 3 10s) 6 per cent all Do. (25) 7 per cent.. 2 Do. (£7l7s) 7p. ct.. all astern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do., No. 2 all Do., New 6p. c. St.. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... all Do., £lO Deben. Sh. 100 EastLancash. 6 p.cts. all East&WestYorkshire Junction, Fifths..... all Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 100 Glasgow & S.Westere guar. 5 per cent.... 100 Great Northn. 5 P.C. 100 Do. sp. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... 6 Gt. Westn. (Berko & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.)..' 100 Great Western, fixed 4i per cent. 6 Lancash. & Yorksh., F. £20........ ....... . 100 Do., 6p. c., Stock... 13 Leeds Northern, 6p. cent., No. 1 ..... 17 Do., No. 2 5 Do., No. 3 ...... ....... 9 Do. , Quarters, 1848. 100 London and'Brighton Guarar teed 5 p. c... 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 100 Lon.&N.West.Cov.& Nun., 5 p. c. Stock. 5 London &S. Western, Con. Thirds 10 Londonderry& Coler.l Shares ....... . all Lonelndry. & Ennisk. all ganch.,Shef., & Lin., i Shares, No. 1...... all Do. New, £10......... 3 Do., all Marypt.&Carl. 4p. c. all Do. 4 per cent......, BiDo ......... ........ 100 Mid. Consol. 6p. c. * St 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Pref. 4i per cent. all Norfolk Extension... all Do. Guar. 5i per ct.. all Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent .. „ ... 100 North British all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c 9 Do all Shrewsbury & Birm New Guaranteed all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W.Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 1 Do. New ; all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of El Os.6d. 100 Do. 42 per cent all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all Stock.& Hartl. Guar sp. c. till 1 Ju1y,1856 3 Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pre l 5 Do.. 10 York& N. Midland H. & S. Purch ' Leasing RAILWAYS. C'ompans, Bedford and Bletchley Birm. Oxid. guarantee Do. withoutgr Birm.Wolv. & Dudley guar. Do.wthtguaz. Buckghamsh . Clydesdale Jc. E. Lineoln. gr. 6 p. cent Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Glas. Barr. & Neilsn.Direct Do. New 1 Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. Sham Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct Manc'.Bxton and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar NEdld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp.c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do.Fixedsp.c Prest. & Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn.&Hit. Do. Shepth . St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.e S. Staffordsh Wear Valley gr 6 per cent Do 'Wilts &Somrstl London & N. West. Gt.Westn Do Do Do L. &N.W Caledon Gt.Notrhn Gt. Westu. Caledon Do Yk. New & Berw Y.&N.1.1d Do Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do Ln. & Midld. Stckton & Darlingt. Midland... E. Count Do L. &N. W &Lu&Yk Do Gt.Northn Do Lancaah.& Yorksh MrMClean • Stockt. & Darling ,Do Gt.Westn Closing Prices this day. 30 - 31 29i -30 i 30 -- 31 29 - 30 LO9 - 111 54 56 L 49 - 151 33 - 34 ... --. ... 112 • 56 - 27 - 14 - 25i - 114 57 28 14):, 26i 19a 20 23 25 3 ..... 31 107 -- 64 -- 66 150 - 152 150 - 152 i i d 1054 - 106 FOREIGN. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(71118 DAY.) LONDON, Dec. 27.—Wind at Noon, S.W., fresh breeze, and fine dry weather. It blew a very heavy gale of wind last night until about four o'clock this morning, when it moderated. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 26.—Wind, W. to S.W. Put back —Vebelia, Port Philip. MlLFORD.—Arrived — Manila , , Liverpool for Valparaiso, leaky. WHITEHAVEN. Dec. 26.—The Cariboo and the Jane have been totally wrecked here ; crew saved. FLEETWOOD, Dec, 26. Tho Denison of and from Liver pool for Antigua, is on shore and full of water; crew (ex cept two boys missing) saved. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 25.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Had dington (s), Alexandria ; Harlinger (s), Cape of Good Hope. WATERFORD, Dec. 25.—The Zante packet, from Trieste, is on shore, and expected off. CAPE TOWN, Nov. 20.—The Sivea ' Hartlepool to Co lombo, was totally wrecked here Nov. lo . MARGATE, Dec. 26.—The Maria, Dunkirk to London, has been on the Foreness Rock. DEAL, Dec. 26.—Wind, W.S.W., fresh. Arrived— Moro Castle , St. John's, N.B. ; Harmony, Batavia, for ' Rotterdam • Cherokee, Valparaiso ; Louisa, Bahia ; Hein rich. New Orleans, for Bremen ; American Eagle, New York. COWES, Dec. 26.—The Jeannette, Hartlepool to Ceylon, has put back with loss of bowsprit, fore and main masts, &c., from contact with a large English passenger ship. , PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 26.—The Elizabeth and Sarah, from Sunderland, makes some water, having been on shore. WARRENPOINT, Dec. 26.—The Nueva Curmer, Havana Hamburgh, is on shore on Dundrum Bay. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 25.—Wind, W. Arrived—Amy Anne, Quebec ; Arlington, Charleston ; Advice, Monte Video ; Europa, Rio Janeiro; Janet, Alexandria; Paragon, Smyrna; Ismyr, Hamburgh ; Tyro, Lisbon, with loss of sails. 26. Arrived— Washington, Mobile ; Marco Polo, Australia ; Susan G. Owen, Charleston ; Lochiel, Miramichi ; Hero, Charente; Two Anthonys, Holland; Lord George Bentinck; Montreal; Catherine, Demerara ; Medea, Galatz ; Star; Marseilles. Off the Port—Conway, Florida' Commodore, Mogul, and Deton. Put back—Rubicon, Rio Janeiro ; Conway, New Orleans. A large vessel, with her bilge above water, and a quantity of floating wreck, were passed on the 21st about 14 miles north of St. Bee's Head. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—The Constitution, from Liverpool, lost mainmast and four men overboard in a gale on the 20th ult in lat. 51 N., long. 12 W. The British bark Industry, timber laden, and abandoned, was found on the Bth inst. in lat. 36, long. 64. CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—At the High Court ed of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Thursday, a pensioner, nam George Christie, belonging to Aberdeen, was charged with the murder of an aged widow, named Ross, and her grandchild, a boy of about five years of age, at Sunny bank, Kittybrewster, near Aberdeen, on the 4th of October last. The deceased woman lived with her grandchild in a humble cottage, and supported herself by selling the milk of her cows. She was generally be lieved to be possessed of some money, and the motive that led to the crimes with which the prisoner w as charged was evidently the desire to gain possession of it. No less than nine wounds, any of which would probably have caused death, were f ou nd on the body of the poor woman, while the skull of the child was completely laid open. A purse with a small sum of money, as well as a gold ring belonging to Mrs. Ross, were found in Chris ties possession when apprehended, and he had previously been seen in the neighbourhood. The jury, without hesitation, pronounced a verdict of Guilty, and the Lord Justice Clerk appointed him to be executed at Aberdeen on the lath of January. Business done this day. 6 1 i 7 1 I Business this day. IAY) in the in th e 26 , „ Fro f fi°: ,e Prr le e at the Goo d yffo . roi g ; ocifv )3 1 1,' si e . - 4 ov e " r ib e ) 08 iDir 1 0 I.IJ , off ,ro' w 1! 1 it I