The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-30 00:00:00

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC tiOo NI for Gentlemen. Remember, we wait for yon at NVANS' after the Covent-garden Pantomime and the The4treg. KLNAIIAN'S Ex H L IB U rrIO W N H I I B S iS KY. DUBLIN This celebrated Old IRIS 11 WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, Is. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London.; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WENDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red mil, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahau's LL Whisky." 11UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON ADVANCES MONEY on Personal Security, Bills of Sale, Freehold or beneficial Leasehold Property, without inquiry fee, or any deduction whatever, for periods of one, two, or three years, repayable weAly, monthly, or quarterly. Rills discounted. The greatest secrecy observed. Advances also made towards the Purchase of a House, repayable in 5, 10, or 15 years —Forms free on application, or receipt of a stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. THE FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART, under the especial patronage ot the QUEEN and ot the PRINCESS of WALES.—The opening of the NEW CLASS-ROO 1 will take place at 43, Queen -square, W.C., on WEDNESDAY EVEN LNG, 3d January, ISM when Pro fessor DONALDSON will deliver an ART ADDRESS. The chfiir will be taken at 7.30 by Professor Westmacott, RA. Admission free by tickets, to be had at the School. The -tudents' Exhibition, and a selec+ion of Engravings and Etchings from South Kensington, will be on view ; also on the 9th. sth, and 6th January, irozn.lo.to 4. T HE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). Capital subscribed, £.5,000,000. Paid up, X 500,000. CIIAIEMAN—JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq. MANAGERS. Henry 3. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. This Association makes ADVANCES upon approved Mer cantile and other Securities, and RECEIVES MONEY ON DEPOSIT at interest for short or lour periods. DEPOSITORS for periods of not less than Three Years may procure , . on application at the Of f ices, Dtbentures of the Association, bearine interest at 6 per cent. per annum, pay able quarterly by. Coupon " to bearer" attached. W. Q. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary. 27, Lombard-street, London, E.C. IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (Limited). NOTICE IS HERE BY GIVEN, that the THIRI:kORDI NAIty GENERAL 31,NETI G9t q i ni k upia§m§timi Li: ram - zit f1ir.1.6 au xve n, , - street, in tne City of London, on TUESDAY, the 23d day of January next, at One o'clock p.m. precisely, for the purpose of receiving the Resort of the Directors and Statement of Accounts, of declaring a Dividend, and for general purposes. By order of the Board, W. C. WINTERBOT PO3l, Secretary. 27. Lombard-street, London, Dec, 29, V6l. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the INTEREST, at the rate of +1 per cent. p r annum, will in future be PAID HA L ARLY, on the Ist January and Ist July. On MONDAY, the let January next, a proportionate Divi dend of the Interest accruing• since the 13th September last will be PAID at the Office of the Registrar of the Company, 27, Austin-friars. Provisional Scrip Certificates to bearer must be forwarded to the Registrar, at the above Office, in order that the divi dend warranty may be duly prepared. F. RITSO, Registrar. 27, Austin-friars, E.C. DR. CULVERWELL'S GRAND TURKISH BATHS, 3, Great Marlborough-street, 3 doors from Poland-street, Ladies every Monday. Gentlemen all other days, 2s. each ; 15, One Guinea. Also opposite the Post-office, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN _ILA EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is aci mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving, coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King-William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. HEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE. Being the only Sovereign and unfailing Remedy for Indi gestion, Constitution, Nervousness, Debility, Torpidity of the Liver, Headache, Biliousness, Despondency, Low Spirits, Coughs, Asthma, and Incipient Consumption. Full particulars sent to any address on receipt of two stamps, by Mr. KEARSLEY, 23, Kentish-town-road, Lon don, N.W. " Phe most efficacious remedy for those diseases extant, a boon to the afflicted."—Hedical Review. _ _ " This invaluable discovery has attatnel a world-wide cele brity, being of inestimable value, and most admirr,bly adapted to remove tho.e maladies which tend to embitter life, and shorten its duration."—So tlpel. "The unprecedented success of this remedy is without parallel ; this is demonstrated by the innumerable cares effected."—Medical Journal. KUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1802), is allowed by upwards of Two 11 ur.dred Medical Gentlemen to ~ e the most effective invention in the curative treatment of II ERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so otten hurtful in its .iffects, Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, whf.le the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the. truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, beine sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Fingle Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. Ed. Postage, 18 Bd. Au Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. dd. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John. White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELAST IC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CA PS, .Ire., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Vireaknt es and Swelling of lie Legs, Sprains, Sze. They are porous, I:ght in texture, ind inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. dd., 7s. dd., 109., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOIIS WHITE. Manufacturer. 92R. Piccadilly rrE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to Qv , 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected , rom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a tew of the most recent cases: F. v., aged it, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. A. F., aged 13, homeles, both parents dead. A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother .3.. I)., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. 0. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. 11. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents. M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for young girls, almost children, from the age of ts to 15, who have been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, , 5, Queen .street. Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co., Lombard-street. RUPTURES CURED BY CHANDLER'S NEW LEVER TRUSS. It has the following advantages : —No steel spring re quired round the body, is easily applied, does not chafe or excoriate the skin, admits of any kind of exercise being HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N. for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, o Out ast and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime under 10 years of age. President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., 111. P, VICE-PRESIDENTS. Stephen Cave, Esq., M:P. I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P. Henry E. Gurney, Esq. I Abel Smith, Esq., ALP. Samuel Morley, Esq. COMMITTEE, Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. H. M'Sorley. Mr. E. 11. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell. Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short. Mr. B. F. (ledge. Mr. Robert Sinclair. Mr. George Moore. Mr. E. J. Tabrum. Mr. Francis Lycett. Mr. R. T. Turnbull. Treasurer—W. 11. Winans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.O Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall East, S.W. Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard- street, E.C. The mode of admission to the youse is twofold, Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus' admitted are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till they are 11 years of age. With the view t o secure the election of the most deserving cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers. The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care fully investigated by the Committee, and with thin informa tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to those most eligible for free admission. This Home was opened in April, 1864. It was designed to take in the little ones whose charact r and circumstances disqualify the for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender age precludes their admission to the Rtfuges. Such are those who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are those who have been deserted by theirnatural protectors and left to beecome Idle wanderers. Such are those whose parents may have at one time or other received parish relief, and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who train their children in the same path. Such are those whose evil associations have already had their painful effect, and must lead them to a life of crime and misery. There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of age to 10. There is room for nearly 10.. and the Committee would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait for the necessary subscriptions. The Committee feel constrained to p'ead for those who cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they ask—ls it right to make a widow and her family paupers for tile because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs wild in the streets and is beyond her control? Is it kind to tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not fa 1p her to put one of them into a Home. but that they must ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the b - est we can for the little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it doing, to others as we would they should do unto us that when these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "inn away," none of us shou d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe them Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the other side, or else exclaiming " Am I my brother's keeper?" The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi dent from the police stet's' ics ' which show that in London alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too young to punish, though not too young to learn thebeginnings of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State. the Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour to make them useful members of society. The daily routine of the Institution presents all the fea tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals, their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement, and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every morning is devoted to schol work—reading, and writing, and cipherine, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional lessons in objects and other subjects. But they are also trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early period in life, earn their living by the sweat of their brow, they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after noons are occupied with va-mus industrial occupations making brown paper bags for bankers, and white I aper bags for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending the c'othes, &c. Some assist the master in the garden, digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing and sweeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots, knives, &c. In this way it 15 sought to fit them for an active working life. 2d. By payment of Is. a week, made quarterly in advance. All children must be under 10 years of age at tho time of admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any time as soon as approved by the Committee, Elections of children to be admitted free will take place as frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will admit, till the Home is full; they will then be held periodi cally Forms of application for the admission of children:may De Dad at the Seine, and of the Unwary Secretary, taken, and is imperceptible when worn. Prices —Sin4le, 10s. 6.1. and 215., postage Is. ; Double, 21s. and 425„ postage 25.; sent on receipt of post-office order and size round hips. Sure to fit. PILES, PROLAPSUS ANI, and UTERI instantly re lieved and ultimately cured by some entirely new and very ingenious appliances. Prices from 108. 6d., sent by post on receipt of size round hips. ELASTIC STO CKING S, KNEECAPS, SURGICAL BELTS, and appliances of every description, with all the latest improvements, and of the best quality, AT CONSIDERABLY REDUCED PRICES. ROUND SHOULDERS, STOOPING HABITS, and DEFORMITIES. cured by CHANDLER'S IMPROVED CHEST-EXPANDING BRACES, for both sexes, of all ages. They strengthen the voice and lungs, relieve indiges tion, and are especially recommended to children for assist ing the growth, and for promoting health and symmetry of figure. Price 10s. 6d. All the above instruments are highly recommended by the leading members of the medical profession. Illustrated Catalogues forwarded. MR. H. P. CHANDLER, Surgical Mechanician, 66, Berners-street, Oxford- street, London, W. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE. I)U BARRY'S delicioushealth-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARABICA, yields three times as much assimilating and strengthening nourishment as the best meat, and restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dvs: epsia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipa tiOn, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, hremorrholds, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the heed and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, erruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi tation, heartburn, headache, debility,dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most diges tible of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all DOmplaiats. We quote a few out of 132,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Breh an, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irritability, with a ner vous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleepless ness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Denies, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Waterford : I have derived much benefit from your excellent food.-- Stuart de Decies, Dromana, Cappoquin, county Waterford. Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, syder st-ne Rec'ory, near Fakenham, Norfolk.—ln all cases of in digestion, and particularly when the liver is more than usually affected, I consider it the best of all remedies. It re gulates the bile, and makes it flow in cases which would not admit of mercury in any shape, In short, a healthy flow of the bile is one of its earliest and best symptoms. Ton can make what use you please of this communication.— I am, gentlemen, James T. Campbell. Cure No. 52,422.—8 ridge House, Frimley, Surrey.—Thirty-three ye us' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, deafness, singing in the ears, constipation, debility ; shortness of breath, and cough, have been removed by your Revalenta Arabica. My lun,s, liver, s omach, head, and ears are all right, my hear ing perfect, and my recovery is a mar el to all my acquaint ances. —James Roberts, Timber Mer..hant. Cure No. 49,8 t 2. Of fifty years' indescrib Able agony from dyspepsia, new us /less, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sick ness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No 56,814.—Mr. Samuel Laxton,Leieester, of two years' dlarrrcea. The Food is sold in canisters. 11b., 2s 9d; 21b., 4s ed ; 21b., 215.; 241 b., 40s. Super-refined quality, ; lb., 6s; ; P.lb., 12s ; Mb., 225; 01b., 335. The 101 b., 21b., and 241 b. canisters, carriage free on receipt of Post-Office Order, by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, Tea Dealers, 8. King William-street ; likewise at 61 , Grace hurch- street ; 4, Cheapside, 49, Bishopsgate-street Within ; 63, • 50, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, t i pper Baker-street; "0:3, Tottenham-court-road; 96, Upper street, Islington, N. • Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close Brothers, 65 , Kigh-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's _Wood, London ; and all respectable Groceri and Chemiats.— 4 eivaro of opuilotia imitations. MR. MOENS' NEW NARRATIVE. Now ready, in 2 vols., with illustrations, 215., ENGLISH TRAVELLERS and ITALIAN BRIGANDS : A Narrative of Capture and Captivity. By W. C. J. MOENS. "Mr. Moena' book ought to be widely read. It is well and vividly written, and is intensely interesting. It gives us a thorough view of brigand life in Italy."—Star. Hurst and Blackett, IS, Great Marlborough-street. THE RED BOOK for 1866.—Just published, thoroughly revised, 55., or with an Appendix or Index of Names contained in the'l volume, 2s. in addition. the ROYAL KALENDA R. and COURT and CITX RBtASTER, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies; containing an improved and enlarged Peerage and Baronetage—The House of Commons, with the latest Alterations The Queen's Ministers - The Royal Households - Government :Departments Ambassadors, British and Foreign - Navy and Army—Law and Civil Officers—Ecclesiastical -Establish ments—Universitiee-,Literary, Scientific, and Religious' So . Coniinercid London : R. and A. Suttaby, No. 2, Amen-corner, and other proprietors. On the Ist of January, Second Series, No. 79, price One Shilling, T HE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL, CONTAINING THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. CONTENTS —Municipal Regulations affecting the Sale of Poisons—The Benevolent Fund—Pharmaceutical l eetin , r: Cod-Liver Drag•des ; Notes on the Preservation of the Oxide of Mercury Ointment ; Observations and Experiments on. the Physics of Filtratian—Meeting of Chemists at Notting ham—British Pharmaceutical Conterence —On the Growth and Preparation of Rhubarb in China—Examinations for Chemists in Business—Remarks on the Nomenclature and some Preparations of the British Pharmacopoeia—Sale of Quinine Wine—ls Chlorodyne subject to a Medicine Stamp? —The Saccharine of Cod-Liver Oil—A Chemist and Druggist fined for Illegally Selling Poison—Obituary : Mr. Sidney Applegate ; 31 r. Joseph Walker—Reviews : " A Guide t., the Treatment of Diseases of the Skin," Thomas Hunt, F.R.S. ; " The Fairy Tales of Science," John Cargill Brough. VOLUME VI., Second Series, may be had in cloth, as well as the Twenty-three preceding Volumes, price 12t London : John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington street. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart. Dublin: Fannin and Co. re not upon now e, and Flour LI peas barley at 31 at, 5s its, 2s N°. 22,944. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vole., rrillE CLYFFARDS OF CLYFFE. By the Author of "Lost Sir Massinp,berd," &c. • - " The Clyffards of Clyffe has very considerable merits. It is a very readable novel, written in a good style. The author can give excellent descriptions both of scenery and charac ter."—Saturday Review. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Published by J. Clements, Little Pulteney-street, price 7d., in cloth 13d., a New Work on the Teeth, entitled PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES FOR US. By A. ES KELL, Surgeon-Dentist, Grosvenor-street, W. •• The present may be looked upon in some measure as a popular supplement to the author's former work, •A Treatise on Dental Surgery ;' and should bo perused by those who are troubled with their teeth,"—Morning Advertiser, Aug. 31, 1865. Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, and may be had of all book-. sellers. WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY NOW? —That the FIERY CROSS has arrived, bringing some magnificent RAISOW CONGOUS of delicious flavour, and which may now be had, at a mere commission on the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, No. 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER, and Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits into the ear, not perceptible; the unpleasant sensation of sinning' noises in the head is entirely removed. It affords immediate relief to deaf persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at church and public assemblies. Every other kind of hearing instru ment.—Messrs. SOLOMON, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and 11 most usef ulinvention of the day, AGUA AM A RELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Bull Wharf, Ro therhithe, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous flui. , l, which gradually restores tne human hair to its pristine hue--no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ' - it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6i. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gognell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. ' l * -'2 '‘ fr ? r / e/ 4°''l ‘e 4 -• 7 ,` , ....m , ,,. -'''' 4 . , ,---, 7:•• ..:, . - - "i . V .. l, , \ t ..„, '' (~7 . ... 7 .1* ~ , k . Win •, . , 4 . ..-:., ~ f „c_-. tlf s ~..r, 1 .• . . . ... ~ . 'Sal .....- i, .„I t'rit i 4 , 1--, ie- ' ' 4 ) .) „,,,,....- fr IFV,R , _ ~ . ''. ...-.., 1 , , ~ jo i ,,, `.• - " „ t * j k ipi - ----- _,--. N ( oriv i , ~...v., 0,,, t ,.,,,, . 4 --- . ...1.#0....,,, ~,, ...- , k k? , , ,0 4,..... - -- . •-_, Abn • . • z,... ,-- '• '' -0 ~, ~,,,,,,- 7 - 0,., , ‘ nr,, ~ ,, ...,t _ o i ls 0 , , ,,„, tr . J . ,,,, ...n , R0 1 11 , 7 0 , ~.- s __ . -.2 $ rr. 410 — 0 N(.. I t, ~,..... 1t,"',",,.. ......- -• . - • ‘ 0 4 1 ‘ 41 include 100 tons Garthsherrie, in lots, at $53 to $54, and 200 Glengarnock, at $52. A fair trade has been done in manufactured iron, at unchanged rates. LEAD was very quiet. Foreign pig was held at $lO 121-c. to $lO 25c., currency, without sales.' Bar, sheet, and pipe were jobbing at last quotations. PETROLEUM.—The market was heavy, and both crude and refined were lower. The sales were 6,500 bbls. at 41c. to 4ljc. for crude, on the spot, and deliverable in all this month and next ; 66c. to 66i-e. for refined, in bond, on the spot; 64-}c. to 65c. for December and January, and 83c. to 85c. for free. RlCE. — Rangoon was decidedly more active ; 12,000 bags Rangoon Bassein wore taken on private terns ; also 100 bags Rangoon in lots at 4c. to 41c. gold, in bond. We note &des of 30 tierces Carolina at 13c. to 134. c. WooL.—The market shows a trifle more activity. The least change for the better would be readily perceived, having been quiet so long. Some manufacturers running their stock very close have ventured into the market, to the astonishment of the trade ; and the effect thereof has been very agreeable to holders. Buyers, however, con tinue to have the advantage, and buy pretty much on their own terms, except when they meet with parties having full confidence in the future, and are not disposed to relax. The operations have been small, although there is more looking about. Sales about 250,000 lbs 'fleece, from 50e. to 55c. for medium Western grades, and 60c. to Gsc. for fine and in good condition ; 25,000 lbs. pulled superfine, 55c. to 60c. Nothing doing in California; 200 bales Cape 38c. to 40c. ; 150 bales unwashed Texas, partly damaged, on private terms; 100 bales fine Mestiza, 42c.; 13 do. South American pulled, 53c. ; 125 do. B. A. private ; 30,000 lbs. New Orleans, private ; 1,000 lbs. California fine, 40c. ; 22 bales do. common, 25c. ; 7,000 lbs. tub, 60c.; 98 bales pulled, bsc. to 70c. STATE OF TRADE. ~.--___ MANCHESTER, Dec. 29.—The general tone of the market has been one of quietness, with steady prices, but in shipping yarns we have had a very strong market, resulting in a fair amount of busi ness. It appears that many buyers of yarns have been holding back their orders, expecting that when the annual stocktaking of cotton took place in Liverpool the quantity would be found far in excess of the estimate, and cause a reaction in the prices of yarns here. When the result was tele graphed to-day, showing the excess to be only these parties- gave _ot_ 2-,000 bales, u-the.,ir orders freely, and the market closes very strong. In home trade yarns the market has been steady, with a moderate business doing, and prices without change since Tuesday. The rise in the Bank rate quieted the market yesterday, but the favourable stock taking at Liverpool appears to have counteracted the effect to-clay. In cloth, sellers say the rise in discounts has had the effect of checking operations, and has also prevented an advance in prices which had been anticipated to-day. Under these circum stances buyers have been rather unwilling to give out orders to any considerable extent. The market, however, has been exceedingly firm, prices being, so far as there is any alteration, in favour of the manufacturer. What inquiry exists has principally been for lots available for delivery at once, such lots being very scarce at present. Most holders are well cleared of stock. The market closes with but a mo derate business, but with extreme hardness in prices. LEEDS.—The following is the trade report of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, for the month of November :—•" Only a moderate amount of busi ness has been done in the woollen trade in the public markets. A considerable amount has been done in the warehouses, but more in anticipation of the spring trade than for immediate consumption, as is generally the case in the closing month of the year. Winter stocks have been very well cleared, and the prospects for the coining year are conse quently considered good. The manufacturers are well supplied with orders, and are very busy. The caps and ready-made clothing branches of business are in a satisfactory state, and are quite as well em ployed as is usual in December. Since the conclu sion of the public sales, the demand has continued unabated for most descriptions of colonial wools, and prices have an upward tendency. Good stapled wools, suitable for the Bradford trade, are extremely scarce. In English long wools the improved tone re ported last month has continued, and prices are very firm. There has been a brisk demand for flaxes of all sorts, and the market is very bare of good quali ties. Prices are somewhat higher, especially for fine qualities. The demand for tows is better, and prices are very firm.- The spinners are all fully employed, but orders, as is usual at this season, have only been given to a very limited extent. Prices of line yarns are very firm, but continue low in proportion to the prices paid for the raw material. Tow yarns are in better demand, and prices are a little harder. The thread trade is good, and an advance of price has been made. The makers of iron are well employed, and have as many orders in hand as is usual at this period of the year, and altogether the prospect for next year is good. The machine makers and the en gineer tool makers still continue to be busy, and both are full of orders. There is a fair demand for cut nails. The market for all descriptions of oil seeds con tinues very firm, and prices are fully supported. Stocks are very light light, and there is everything in favour of the present high rates ruling for the mainder of the season. Rape oil is in active de mand, and the prices obtained are higher than last month. There is a good home consumption for the time of the year of linseed oil, and the export de mand continues large, prices continuing very firm. Considering the prevalence of the cattle disease in this district, cakes are in good demand. Olive oils are using freely in Yorkshire, and rates are firm with an upward tendency. Prices abroad are much higher than here. The leather trade has on the whole been quiet. Heavy sole leather has been little inquired for. More business has been done in East India kips, and the demand for calf skins and offal has been brisk, and in the early part of the month a slight advance in price was realized. Prices of other classes are without change. The tan ners continue to be better employed. The shoo trade continues quiet, especially for export. The demand for paper has been quite equal to that usual at this season. Better descriptions of rags are in more request, and are rather dearer. The supply of beasts has been good. That of sheep has been below the average, especially during the latter half of the month. The restrictions on transport ren dered necessary by the cattle disease are one cause of this. Number shown (four markets) — beasts, 2,254 ; sheep, 10,340. The wheat trade has been dull and prices, after some slight fluctuations, remain about the same. There has been a fair de mand for barley, and finer sorts are a shade higher. The sales of oats and beans have not been large, and prices of each are lower." NOTTINGHAM, 29th.—There was a tolerable attend ance at our Exchange-hall to-day, and the demand for lace yarns was steady at nominally unaltered rates. The inquiry for hosiery yarns was moderate, and recent prices were supported. Silks about the same. There was not much doing in brown nets, and prices may be written the same as last week. The old dispute, whether lager beer is intoxicating or not, came up to the Troy courts the other day, and a witness swore that he drank 54 glasses of it one evening, and was still perfectly sober. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Consumption, and all nervous, bilious stomach, and liver complaints, in every stage, are only ag gravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless ; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarr hoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver com plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness' fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, oatarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, pal pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, s p a sms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit 01 tho stomach and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few.—Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frin7;ey Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spittinz of blood, liver derangement. and partial deaf ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure, kic,. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieu tenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No.49,B32. Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, const patio 1, flatu'ency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting—Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54,816. the Rev. James I'. 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LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS, Dentists, 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station. Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy, durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs., warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide " Lancet." Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand, London ; 15, Whitefriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas street, Scarbro'. Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the same name. AMERICA. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) (Per the Nova Scotian.) NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (Evening). Governor Jenkins was inaugurated as Governor of Georgia on the 14th December. In his address to the Legislature there is no conflict between the constitution of the United States and the constitu tion of the State of Georgia. The laws of the United States are supreme. The Governor then pays a handsome tribute to the conduct of the negroes during the war. He says that they must be thoroughly protected in their persons and pro perty, and have the right to enter the courts. They should be encouraged to work, and then they would be the best working class, and their late owners the best employers in the world. The Governor then reviewed the condition of the State institutions, and says for a time even the lightest taxes will prove burdensome ; but he thinks that in the end the people will not suffer. He concludes his address with an earnest prayer that God will help us all. At the close of the address Provisional Governor Johnson handed the great seal of the State of Georgia to Governor Jenkins, who took the oath of office, and was then declared by the President of the Senate the Governor of the State. The senti ments of the address were most cordially endorsed by the members of the State Legislature, which adjourns to-morrow. The Fenian Senate has adjourned, four of the senators have gone home; the rest are awaiting with Roberts the arrival of Stephens. The opposition to the French occupation of Mexico was making itself heard more decidedly both in and out of Congress. The New York Evening Post, in view of the fact that the French Government has lately been sending reinforcements to its army in Mexico, asks why the American Government does not send a fleet into the Gulf of Mexico ? It characterises the Emperor Napoleon as a " lying sneak," and assorts that it is " time for the United States to change entreaty for command" in reference to his Mexican operations. The New York Times denounces the Evening Post for its efforts to bring about a war be tween America and France. it deprecates any precipi tancy in the matter, and, while it expresses full confidence in the success of Ame rican arms should such an alterna tive arise, it urges that the Government should act up to the last hour in a pacific spirit, and with a sincere desire to avoid the dread arbitrament of arms. The decree of Juarez in which he announces his inten tion of continuing to exercise the functions of Executive of the Mexican Republic had been published. It is dated from EI Paso, November 8. Juarez states that although his presidential term has expired, as there has been no opportunity, in consequence of the disordered state of the country, to elect his successor, and as the Congress has invested him with extraordinary powers, he regards it as his duty to continue to act as President until such time as another election can be held. _ The split in the Fenian organisation at New York ap peared to be growing wider. An enthusiastic demonstra tion had been held at Chicago in favour of the " Senate" and " President" Roberts, as against the O'Mahony party. The Fenians :of the entire :west were reported to be generally in favour of the " Senate," but the New York City circles were still passing resolutions in favour of O'Mahony. The correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Fortress Monroe says : Some reason of most cogent nature is now, as lam authoritatively informed, causing Jefferson Davis to turn his attention snore especially than at any time heretofore to the concerns of his soul. His old clergyman of St. Paul's Church, in Richmond—the church which he attended during the war, and from which he made that mar vellously rapid exit on the last Sunday of his attendance there--has been allowed to spend a day with him. No criminal about to ba led to the gallows can receive more sedulous attention, or probably wiser religious counselling. The sacrament was administered to him, and everything done that could be, by his old religious teacher and advisor, through scriptural reading and prayer, to give him peace of mind and that cheerful, content, and resigna tion following the right kind of teaching and faith. During his imprisonment Mr. Davis's only religious adviser has been the post chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Chivvis, a most amiable and excellent man and worthy and devout clergyman. It was natural he should like to bo attended by his old pastor, and no ono will bo inclined, I am sure, to blame him for asking the privilege of his attendance upon him or find fault with the request being complied with. President Johnson has sent the following despatch to the Provisional Governor of Georgia:— Washington, December 11. J. Johnson, Provisional Governor. The Governor elect will be inaugurated, which will not interfere with the Provisional Governor. You will receive instructions in a few days with regard to being relieved. Why can't you elect a senator? I would issue no commissions to members of Congress ; leave that for the incoming Governor. We are under obligations to you for the noble, efficient, and patriotic manner in which you have discharged the duties of Provisional Governor, and you will be sustained by the Government. ANDREW JOHNSON, President. The New York Tribune says : The trial of Commodore Craven for not attacking the Stonewall with the Niagara and Sacramento at Corunna, has had a curious termination. The court—of which Vice- Admiral Farragut was president, and which included three rear-admirals, Commodore Winslow, and Captain Molancthon Smith—adjudged him guilty, in "a degree," of the charges, and sentenced kim to be suspended from I duty on limo pay for two years. Who Secretary of the Navy sent back this finding to the court for revision, whereupon they found him guilty, and re•awarded the same punishment. Mr. Welles reviews the findings at considerable length as inconsistent with the facts, contra dictory, and unaccountable, and winds up by setting all the proceedings aside and releasing Commodore Craven from arrest. On the question of the actual culpability of the accused, the Secretary says it is impossible, from the action of the court, to arrive at an opinion. In the House of Representatives, on the motion of Mr. Stephens, of Pennsylvania, the resolution providing for a joint committee to examine into the condition of the late so-called Confederate States, as returned from the Senate with amendments, was concurred in. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says:— Those who expected a fight in tho House to-day on the amended re-construction resolution were very much dis- - _ appointed when Mr. Stevens arose and blandly moved to concur in the amendments. This was speedily done, with out even calling for a division on the subject, the Demo crats hardly manifesting even enough interest to vote. The resolution is now perfected, and being concurrent, it will not, according to precedents hitherto established, bo sent to the President for his approval, although there is a constitutional provision which provides that all resolutions, whether joint or concurrent, of the two Houses, must be approved by the Executive. In the United States Senate a resolution had been in troduced instructing the Committee of Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of applying the eight-hour system of labour to Government employds. In the House of Representatives a resolution was in tro duced authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to pur- chase a suitable site for a custom-house and warehouse in Jersey city, and making an appropriation for the erection of the building. A resolution was passed declaring that treason against the United States Government is a crime and ought to be punished A proposition was adopted (th6 - 53nate concurring) to adjourn for the holidays from the 20th December to the )th January. Mr. Mont. Gibbs, United States Revenue Agent, family, are sojourning :at :the Hotel de Holland, Paris, for the winter. Josiah Pearce, an American who is interested in a railway stock contract, recently obtained by Messrs. Winans Brothers from the Russian Government, has, we learn, been made a Knight of the Russian Empire. Mrs. Ellen Kay Blunt is at Frankfort-on-the- Maine, giving recitations from works of the English and American poets. Mr. Cyprus W. Field, of New York, has arrived in London, and is staying at the Palace Hotel. Major-General Schofield has gone into winter quarters at Paris. Mrs. Judge Pierpont, of New York, and her family have taken up their re..idence in Paris for the winter. Mrs. Fahnstock, wife of the senior partner of the banking house of Jay, Cook, and Co., of New York, ac companied by her family, are stopping at Paris for the winter. Major General Franklin has accepted the Pre sidency of Colt Arms Company, Hartford, Conn., and en tered upon its duties. Advices from St. John, N. 8., apprise us of the death of Chief Justice Parker, who was one of the most highly and deservedly respected public men in that pro vince. Gurley, the assassin of Gen. M'Cook, was elected Sheriff of the Madison county, Alabama, not long since. Advices from Nassau, N. P., announce the pre sence of the rebel Jubal A. Early in that place, where he is residing for the present, and is engaged in writing a history of his campaigns. Mr. Townsend Harris, late United States Minister to Japan, has presented to General Grant a magni ficent sword of honor received from the Tycoon. General Banks, at a serenade, lately at Washing ton, commended the President's message. General Hooker is seriously ill, at Burlington, Vermont. Brigadier General Martindale has been breveted Major-General. Generals Butler, Dix, Croxton, and Ketchum have resigned. Ex-President Pierce was recently confirmed at St. Paul's Church, Concord, N. 11. . . Daniel L. Gibbons, U. S. Treasury Agent at Mobile, has committed suicide. General Logan is in Washington, but has not yet indicated his intention about the Mexican mission. General Butler is preparing a reply to General Grant's Report. The widow of Stonewall Jackson, now residing in Virginia, is reported to be in a destitute condition. A Miss Mitchell has been made Professor of Astronomy in a New York college. Geo. H. Magruder, of Virginia, who was Chief of Ordnance of the Navy Department at the breaking out of the rebellion, and was dismissed on account of his dis loyalty, has applied to the President to revoke the order of dismissal so as to permit him to resign, thus placing himself within the pale of pardon. J. R. Thompson, formerly editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, is living in England in straitened cir cumstances, and is said to be contributing translations from the German for Blackwood's Magazine. Mrs. Wirz indignantly denies the story that she tried to poison her husband while kissing him, and swears to what she says. Memphis had only 26,000 population in 1860, but now claims 60,000 or 70,000. Gen. Carl Schurz has been engaged as a Wash ington correspondent of the New York Tribune. Nebraska is growing fast, and has 50,000 inhabi tants now—twice as many as Nevada or Colorado, now both states. T. Buchanan Read, who has been to New Or leans, painting General Sheridan and his war-horse, has left that city for Cincinnati, where ho will finish the work. It is reported that Gen. Dan Sickles, the present •: commander of the Department of South Carolina, will : succeed the late Preston King. as Collector of the port of New York. Robert Tyler, son of the late President, who came South at the beginning of the war, and held an im portant position in the Confederate Treasury Department, was pardoned by Pxesident Johnson a few days since. The President's Conservative friends, in Wash ington, openly declare that Ex-Speaker Colfax's speech is in direct opposition to his policy, and asserts that the President is in favor of the admission of Southern members to Congress without the test oath. It appears from the census reports that the popu lation of the various Indian tribes in the United States and the Territories is 307,842. During the late war there were 5,400 in the service of the Government. The lumber received at Chicago so far this season amounts to 557,675,000, over 100,000,000 more than during the previous year. The Farmers' Bank of Kentucky, having lost $60,000 by the Morgan raids in June, 1864, sued W. J. Witherspoon, a returned Morgan officer, attached his land, and got judgment from a circuit for the whole sunrre appeals the case. An ocffier has been despatched to the battle-fields in the Shenandoah Valley by the War Department, to look after the proper interment of the Union troops who fell in the many engagements in that vacinity during the war. It is understood that a cemetery will be laid out in the valley. It is not proper to address the President as " Your Excellency," as some do. In the Convention that framed the National Constitution this title was proposed, but was rejected at the instance of Benjamin Franklin, who pro posed to insert immediately after, "And that the Vice- President shall be His Most Superfluous Highness !" It is reported that the Fenian " Head Centre" of Quebec has absconded with the money of the Fenian Fund in his possession. $26,000,000 have been paid during the war to procure exemption from drafts. The Baltimore Catholic Mirror says that the col lection taken up in the different Catholic churches of Mary land, for the relief of Southern families made destitute by the war, may be said to be now complete, and to reach a sum a little short of $12,000. Of this amount we understand that about $6,000 have already been distributed—principally in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina., Florida, and Mississippi. In parcelling out the money differences of religion have in no instance been considered. The applicant had only to have his or her necessities properly vouchsafed for to be come a recipient of the fund. The new bridge about to be suspended over the Ohio river, at Cincinnati, will be the longest structure of the kind in the world, being more than 2,000 ft. longer than over the Niagara river, and 540 ft. longer than the Menai bridge, England. Its total span will be 1,057 ft. The Memphis Appeal says r.—During the history of Memphis there has never been a. time when the spirit of public improvement was so manifest as at the present. On every hand we see evidences of it, and, as an illustration, it is estimated that there are at 'least 900 houses in the course of construction at present. "The scarcity of mecha nics is sadly felt. In consequence the most extravagant , prices are offered to workmen and Ineo clanks as an induce- CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS, New designs, for the Drawing-room, either for Gas or Candle. T DEFRIES and S 0 NS, ti• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, an 1 Dining-room, consisting of a new and e.egant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, , eautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, arc., in Italian, Alabast Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate tt,e interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GROLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr.TENNANT,F.G.S., at 149. Strand. President—His (grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. !LG. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the lire', to estab lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, Is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and t t_racies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 5,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of containing several `hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. _ Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas terman, sq , Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; HArrles and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W Iliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co Berners-street ;I. Barned and C 5 . Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD SMITH. Secretary. lAILOBS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and 11°,11E, Hampstead. Offices, 77, CornhilL PATRON—The QUEEN. _ __TRUSTEES. Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, I The Rev. Canon Champneys R.N. I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. TREASURERS. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq. This Institution is designed to supply a great national want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in the Royal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines. It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic service, and provides a home free of expense for former inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the temptations they might otherwise be exposed to. The Committee earnestly APPEAL, for CONTRIBU TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the recent storms and loss of life at sea, ands o enable them eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000 sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those who may perish by war. Subscriptions thantaully received by the bankers, Messrs Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre tary, at the Caws, No. 77, Cornhill. B. SWEETJNG, Hon. See, CHARLES LiA5/1, sea. PRICE 4d., STAMPED sd. mont for their labor, while it is impossible for any other contractors to secure their services at all. During the war 329,000 rebel prisoners were cap turod. The number of Union prisoners captured was 157,000. The floating debt of the War Department is stated at 8300,000 7 000. . Great gold discoveries have recently.been made in Victoria, Oregon. A large quantity of rebel money has recently been captured in North Carolina. During the war, while the Americans at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, were anxiously looking out for news from the United States, a large clipper arrived from Said Francisco, and on being boarded by the news boat, the only reply of the captain was, "'That there was a great row in the United States, but he didn't learn the par ticulars." In eight counties of California, including San Francisco and Sacramento, there are 2,886 colored resi dents, who own property valued at $1,165,985. Twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy immigrants were landed at New York during the month of November, this year, of whoni thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy-nine were Germans. From January 1 to November 30, of this year, one hundred and eighty eight thousand two hundred and four immigrants altoge ther arrived in New York, seventy-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-six of them being Germans. Recent New Orleans papers represent busin'ess in a flourishing condition. improvements were being pushed ahead in all directions. Houses were being built, renovated, and repaired throughout the city. Wharves were being erected at all the river landings, and at no time has a greater number of first-class steamers, both from the ocean and rivers, been lying in the stream and at the levees. The authorities of the Catholic Church are very explicit in their ~o nclmrnittionr - jaf the Yenans. Bishop , - Daggon, of Chicago, has instructed the clergy to refus'e Christian burial to such of them as die in membership with that society. The New York Times has been enlarged to the size of the London Times, and is now the largest daily paper in the United States. Thurlow Weed has become one of the editors, and his political experience and saga city will be of much value to the paper, which is edited with ability and discretion. The other metropolitan papers now look small besides the Times, and they will not be easy till they have expanded to the same dimen sions, which is an expensive operation at the present high prices of paper. _ _ - The Supreme Court of New York is considering a singularly complicated divorce case. Some time ago, John L. Phelps was divorced from his wife on the ground of adultery with Armand F. Peugnet, vice-consul of France at Cincinnati. Afterwards the lady broke off her acquaintance with Peugnet, and was re-married to Phelps on promise of good behavior. Again Peugnet seduced and drew her away, and again Mr. Phelps obtained a divorce. Peugnet then married her, but now demands a legal separation, on the ground that the marriage was of no validity in law. Mrs. Phelps-Peugnet must be rather perplexed as to her identity by this times Rev. Dr. Barnes, a Methodist clergyman, 80 years old, was recently arrested at Philadelphia for mar rying a couple who were under age. While the jury were out, deciding how to dispose of him, the old man died from a sudden attack of vertigo. _ A sweet nut for the gossips : Anna Dickinson is soon to be married to a New York journalist and and widower, to whom she has been privately engaged for four years. He encouraged her in her oratorical aspi rations, and to him she ascribes all her success. At New York, the prices of butchers' meat, ex cept pork, are about 25 per cent. higher than last year at this time. Pork is ten per cent. lower. Poultry is gene rally lower ; butter is five to ten per cent. a pound less ; fish ara somewhat cheaper, and potatoes and cabbages are twenty-five per cent. lower. Fully 25,000 bales of cotton have been stolen from the Government in Tennessee and Mississippi. _ _ . A proposition for shortening the Mississippi river some 1,200 miles by means of dams and canals has been laid before the Governor of Mississippi. Fine specimens of gold have been found among the borings of several oil wells in the Dunkard Creek (Pa.) regions. The Tennessee House of Representatives have tabled the bill allowing negro testimony in the courts, by a vote of 30 to 27. It is said the Mississippi rebels threaten to make raids upon the Unionists of Southern Tennessee. Gov. Brownlow has been called upon to protect his people. A Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian deputatton is on the way to Washington. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Dee. 15.—The stock market developed in creased strength and activity to-day, under which thebear element sensibly weakened. At the early session of the open board New York Central sold at 961; Erie, 931 ; Hudson River, 1081. ; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 924; Cleve land and Toledo 1081; Rock Island, 107 ; Fort Wayne, 1051 ; Schuylkill C0a1,131. Maraposaproferred,2o. At the first regu lar board there was a general advance of prices. New York Central closed * higher than at the second board yester day, Erie 1, Reading 4, Michigan Southern I, Cleveland and Pittsburg I, North-Western 1, preferred 1, Rock Island 11, Fort Wayne 1, Ohio and Mississippi certificates 1. Hudson River, Toledo, and Quicksilver were unchanged. There was some inquiry for city railway stocks, and 64 was bid for Second Avenue. Government securities were dull but firm, and Five-twenties of the old issue advanced 1, Ten-forties Seven-thirty notes were steady. The gold market was strong during the early part of the day, but afterwards heavy. The opening price was 1461 followed by an advance to 1461, and a decline at the close to 1461. Loans were made flat or by paying one per cent. interest on the currency. The importations of dry goods at this port during the week ending December 14 compare as follows with those of the previous week : 7-, ,--Dec. Consumption. Pkgs. Value. Pkgs Value. Manufactures of w001...1,140 5466,472 1,488 5638,340 Manufactures of cotton. 743 231,948 1,258 395,649 Manufactures of silk ... 251 248,704 302 297,790 Manufactures of flax ...1,263 284,953 1,367 368,144 Miscellaneous .. 218 77,570 473 176,480 Total 3,615 $1,304,647 4,888 $1,875,403 Withdrawals. Manufactures of wool 89 $35,256 122 $55,558 Manufactures of cotton. 106 34,794 106 35,368 Manufactures of silk 4l 57,259 48 67,389 Manufactures of flax 112 32,062 106 35,860 Miscellaneous Total 351 $160,764 401 $197,308 Warehoused. Manufactures of wool 517 $238,018 848 $389,318 Manufactures of cotton 603 200,067 677 241,046 Manufactures of silk Manufactures of flax Miscellaneous 2B 16,948 27 19,979 Total 1,629 $584,155 2,313 $1,002,145 COTTON.—A fair demand prevailed, though the market was not quite so strong at the close, and holders were free sellers, and in some instances considerable anxiety was manifested to secure a- market for speculation lots. The sales comprise 3,050 bales at our quotations, as fol lows : Upland. Florida. Mobile. N.O.&T. Ordinary Middling Good middling 5l 52 52 53 The sales of cotton by auction passed off with consider able animation ; the attendance was good, and very full prices were generally obtained. The cotton was sold for Government accounts by order of Simeon and Draper,lTnited States Cotton Agents. The condition was reported to be good, though not perfect. The sale comprised 3,181 bales, at the following prices:-2,406 bales Memphis cotton at 53c. for middling fair, 511 c. for strictly middling, 45c. to 461 c. for good ordinary, 41c. to 411-c. for ordinary, 37c. for low ordinary, 201 c. to 311 c. for pickings,!and 411 c. to 431 c. for rebaledi; 658 bales New Orleans cotton at 53c. for mid dling fair, 501 e, for strictly middling, 471 c. for low mid dling, 45ic. for good ordinary, 424 c. for ordinary, 38c. for low ordinary, 191 c. for pickings, and 421. to 42c. for re baled ; 117 bales Florida cotton at 49c. for low middling, 46c. for good ordinary, 441 c. for ordinary, 391 c. for low or dinary, 33c. for pickings, and 401 c. for rebaled ; also 7 bags Sea Island at 59c. The terms of the sales were net cash, payable in currency. FREIGHTS were quiet, but unchanged for grain. Cotton offered freely, and rates were rather better. The engage ments were :-To Liverpool, 1,500 bales cotton, at 5-16 d. to Id.; 7,000 bushels corn, at 51d., in bags; 50 hhds. tallow, at 17s. 6d. ; 50 do. tobacco, at 30s. ; per steamer, 300 bales cotton, at Id. to Id. ; 21,000 bushels wheat; at 61d. To London, 500 bhds. petroleum, at 6s. 3d. To Antwerp, 1,000 hhds. petroleum, at ss. 6d. to ss. 9d. The charters are :-A brig to Marseilles, petroleum, at 6s. 6d. ; one to Cork, for orders, at 6s. 6d., if to the Continent, 7s. ; a ship to Belfast, grain, at ss. 3d., and flour at 2s. 6d. ; a bark from Baltimore to Belfast, corn, at 7s. 3d. ; a brig to Pernambuco and Bahia, 95c. to $1; a brig to Charleston, private. Inox.—Pig has boen rather quiet, and prices slightly favored the purchasers for both American and Scotch. The sales were 400 tons No. 3 grey to mottled American, for present delivery, at $3B 25c. No. 1 was held at from $49 to $53, as to time of delivery. 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