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in. • Ilk 0 . 1. i_ • • ' V a l` l : ‘ . . .I .: . .!. . P. - • . • • . • • . t ' • •• dip, - '•. 'A - RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LI V ERPOOL, DEC. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Transactions in the stock and share market have been dull, and prices are again quoted lower, as will be seen. by the following rates extracted from the authorised list :—Caledonian, 3413 • Eastern Counties, 13 3-16 ; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, 7 9-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 84 F T, ; London and North-Western, 1251, 6 ; Midland, 80 ; Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1 die. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 244, ; York and North Midland, 30, s ; Quebec and Richmond, 1 prem. ; Bo rough new 101. shares, 1 prem. MANCHESTER, DEC. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is a tolerable amount of business, but shares are not so firm as the sales would seem to indicate. The shares from the official list were :—Bir kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 6i di s . ; ditto, 20/. Share s , 2* die. ; Blackburn, No. 1, 7* ; Cale donian, 343, I, ; East Anglian N ew Preference (1848) 7 t Cent., 4 I Eastern Counties, 13 3-16 ; East Lancashire, ; Edinburgh and Glasgow Yorkshire, Edinburgh, Perth, and a ,, 1 114 ,.ee, 7i • Lancashire and 125 i • Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin- EaaZg e, ,, 3l -1 ; Midland Railway Consols, 10i ; South -York, v. 44 5, 11-16 ; Warrington and AltrinchL, I prem. ; 'Newcastle, and Berwick, 18g. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 21. STOCK. EXCUANGE.—The Railway Share market was quiet, and nothing was transacted on 'Change. In the course of the daY, however, Caledonians were bought at 69, and London and N orth-Western at 1264 for a distant nmrket. titigTOL, DEC. 21. STOCK ExCHAN4E.—T he day was very inac tive with little variation in Lionsquota. Bristol and Exe ter ere done at 106 i. THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE.-6IINDERLAND DEC. 20. —There are at present fitting out in this LAND, 20 new vessels, the aggregate tonnage of which amounts to 8,661 tons ; and upon the stocks in the building yards ggregate ton nearly a similar amount of vessels of an a nage. While the building of timber ships is so active in the Wear, iron shipbuilding is very brisk on the Tyne. One firm on the Tyne is launching a , i ron vessel, on an average, every month ; another is execu ting a large order for the Austrian Lloyds ; and the builders of the W. S. Lindsay have a vessel of 1,800 tons burden ready for launching, and have laid down the keels of three other large iron vessels. Last week an iron vessel was launched by Messrs. Toward, of St. Peter's, for Portugal ; and last spring, Messrs. Palmer, of Jar row, launched a large iron screw-collier, the William Hutt, for the General Screw Collier Company. Messrs. Smith, of Newcastle, have also launched a large timber paddle-steamer for the Demerara mail packet service ; and have a frigate on the stocks for the Sicilian Government. PETERBOROUGH ELECTION.---A petition from certain electors of Peterborough has been presented against the return of Mr. G. H. Whalley, who contested the repre sentation with Mr. Cornewall Lewis praying that re turn of the f ormer may be declared null and void, on the the gtound of bribery and corruption. 111INISTI2Y.-MEETING AT THE EARL OF .DERBY'S. Tie . meeting at Lord Derby's residence in Downing street on Monday, was very numerously attended by his stipporters in both Houses of Parliament, notwithstanding " many had left town after the late division. The Earl of Derby on entering the room was received with enthusiastic cheers, and when these had subsided, we understand he addressed the peers and commoners as sembled to the following effect, so far as we have been able to gather :—Having thanked them for the cordial and una nimous support he had received since he came into office, he proceeded to give a sketch of the state of parties at the time of his accession to power, and since he was at the head of the administration. He reminded them that when the Government of Lord John Russell had fallen to pieces, not by any external attack, but by; its own internal dis sensions and weakness, that noble lord had recommended to her Majesty to send for him (the Earl of Derby), he had little doubt, without any hope of his forming an admini stration ; and, being disappoidted in this, he at once as sembled the discordant materials of his defeated party in order to form an opposition to the Government which he had only just then recommended to the Queen. However, the Government held office, and carried on the necessary business of the country until the dissolution of parliament, and the sense of the country was taken upon the great question which then agitated the public mind. After the elections, it was found that about 310 members had been elected who would support the policy of the government, but of these two had been since lost by death, and two had ac cepted permanent offices, which left 306 who were still steady adherents of the government. On the late division there had voted with Ministers (pairs included) 300 mem bers. After the general election, finding himself in a mi nority of the whole house, he felt it to be his duty to yield to the verdict of the country on the question of protection ; but he still considered himself bound to persevere to hold office, and to meet parliament with a budget which, while it was framed on the principles which had then been acceded to, yet would have afforded some relief to the suffering classes. The party which supported him had done so with unparalleled unanimity on that occasion, and scarcely a man was absent except from unavoidable causes, and he appreciated the value of this unanimity, as he knew that many of his supporters must have felt much disappointment when they found that the hopes they had a right themselves to entertain from the govern ment, and which they in many instances held out to their constituents, could not be fulfilled. The noble earl added that he was proud to say that at no time was the great party he addressed more unanimous, and that never had they more confidence in their leaders, or been more determined to support the principles they professed than at that moment. The noble earl then went on to observe that after the division the other night he had tendered his resignation to her Majesty, who had been graciously pleased to accept it ; that he had not offered her Majesty any advice as to whom she was to con fide the task of forming a Ministry, but that she had sent for two noblemen, one of whom (Lord Lansdowne), being unwell, was unable to attend ; but the other (Lord Aber deen) had undertaken the trust confided to him, though how he was to perform it he (the Earl of Derby) was not aware. He had stated that at the opening of Par liament the number of those who honoured him with their confidence was about 310, or nearly one-half the house. There were also on the opposite side about 250 Whigs and Radicals, and about 50 gentlemen from the sister isle, whose only policy seemed to be to render every Government impossible. Then there was another party, numbering about 30, but including among them many gentlemen of ability and official experience. These gen tlemen professed to be Conservatives, and that there Was only one point of difference between them and the great party with whom they had at one time acted. This only difference having been removed, it was natural to suppose that these gentlemen, professing Conservative principles, would not give any opposition to a Conservative Government. He had calculated, therefore, on their sup port, and that Conservatism would have had an absolute and a strong majority, because in and out of Parliament, publicly and privately, they had declared that their only objection to a re-union with the great Conservative party, and to aiding him in the service of the nation, was the question of protection. Communications were said to have passed continually between these gentlemen and the Whigs, and the negotiations were, up to now, conducted through the intervention of a right hon. baronet—Sir J. Graham. Having briefly alluded to the debate on Mr. Villiers's mo tion, the noble earl said that, from the first day after the re -assembling of Parliament, it was apparent to him that all public questions had been sacrificed to personal feelings ; that the hostility which had previously prevailed had rather increased than diminished ; in fact, it became obvious that the followers of Sir Robert Peel had been making private arrangements with the Whigs to consolidate an opposition, and that nothing but the fall of the Govern ment would satisfy them. The real fact was, that it was no detail of the budget which had caused this banded oppo sition to the Government. The real question was, whether he (the Earl of Derby) should continue at the head of the administration, and his party remain in power, or not ? He was aware that he might have preserved office for a time by altering the budget ; but seeing that he would have humiliated himself and his party by holding office under sufferance from men whose object it was first to degrade and then to expel him from power, he submitted to the expulsion, but refused to consent to the degradation. This he was sure the gentlemen who honoured him with their support would no t t o l erate, and he therefore resigned without hesitation. (Cheers.) It now devolved on Lord Aberdeen to carry on the Government he had under taken to form ; though how, he (Lord Derby) was at a loss to conceive. He himself had been unable, even with the support of 310 members—nearly half the House of Commons—to carry on the Government, and it was really difficult to say how it could be done with a party not numbering 100, and united with two other parties, differ ing, or professing to differ, from them on almost every subject. The noble earl then proceeded to advert to a subject which was personal to himself, and which, he said, it was necessary he should do, as a misunderstanding on the subject seemed to have arisen from something he (Lord Derby) had said some short time since. It was true that were he to consult his own wishes, he would be glad to re tire into private life. He had many personal views and interests which an attendance on public affairs obliged him to neglect. After an acquaintance with official life for nearly 30 years, he confessed he could not come to the shock of political strife with the same freshness or enthu siasm that he formerly had, and if he were certain that the government of the country was entrusted to an Adminis tration in whom he had confidence, and who he believed would uphold the interests of the nation, he would gladly retire from public affairs ; but he saw that the time might not be distant when this country might require the ener gies of all who valued her institutions to stand in their defence ; and while he was honoured by the confidence of the great party who stood around him, he never would desert them; whatever might be the inconvenience to himself, he would be found ready to contribute all he could to the defence of those principles which they all deemed essential to the welfare of the coon- try. (Hear, hear, hear.) He conceived that in the for mation of a Ministry, Lord Aberdeen reckoned on a for bearance of that party to whom the gentlemen who were to compose the government had not shown any ; and he hoped that, uninfluenced by pique or resentment, if the new Government brought forward truly Conservative mea sures, it would receive, if he could not say the cordial, at least the sincere support of his party ; but if the Govern ment about to be formed should not bring forward Con servative measures—if, influenced by the men with whom they were now associated, they brought forward demo cratic measures, the great Conservative party should in re member office, that, eve n ou t of they had im mense in fluence the country, and that they should use that influence •to stop the downward course the Government would be urged to pursue. They should confide in their leaders and in one another, and preserve that unanimity which would be wanting to their opponents, composed as they must be of heterogeneous materials. Thus they would be enabled successfully to defend and preserve the institutions of this great country. The noble earl con eluded by thanking the peers and commoners present for their cordial support. It might be the last time he addressed them as Minister, but whether it were or not, it would ever be to him a source of proud feeling to have been honoured by the confidence of such a party. The Earl of DELAWARR then briefly addressed the noble earl, and expressed the gratitude of the gentlemen as sembled for the declaration he had made of his intention to continue in the leadership of the Conservative party, and for the independent and patriotic course he had adopted in the present important crisis. The meeting then separated. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY—DEC. 2. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.) IN RE JAMES HOLMES. This case, part heard yesterday, was to-day resumed. Mr. Reed submitted that the whole of the bankrupt's debts with Messrs. Kerr and Scott, of St. Paul's-church yard, contracted since 1848, were contracted by false pretences, and on the same pretence he had obtained forbearance of all his debts. The ground of the false pretence was a statement drawn up iia 1848, and sub mitted to the creditors, wherein the bankrupt showed himself to owe 20,3001., and to have assets worth 4,2001., with leases worth 12,0001., which were mort gaged for 6,000/. This would show a dividend equal to 10s. in the pound, which the creditors agreed to accept. Now, it appeared, that the debts were 1,500/. more than he had represented. The difference was certainly not great in so large a sum, but after the bankrupt had agreed to pay 10s. in the pound by six in stalments, amounting to 13,323/., he had actually paid 16,124/. His present balance-sheet showed that while he owed 2,100/. to Lawrence Levy in 1848, he had paid him 15s. in the pound while professing to pay only 10s. In other words, he had paid a sum of 300/., given Levy a bonus of 200/., and paid 1,0001. on the composition. A creditor, named Price, also received 250/. more than the amount of the composition. Though, in 1848, Mr. Scott had warned the bankrupt against continuing his dealings with Levy, and other money lenders, he had continued to do so, without entering his trans actions in his monthly accounts, which were shown to Messrs. Kerr and Scott, to whom also he had stated that he had got rid of that class of liabilities. In 1851, he placed before them a balance-sheet, showing a surplus of 41/. There again Price and Levy were omitted from the list of creditors ; and he had, at a sub sequent period, shortly before the bankruptcy, admitted to Mr. Parrington, the accountant, that debts amounting to 5,618/. were omitted from that statement, and 900/. of assets improperly included. Had Messrs. Kerr and Scott known this, they would have discontinued to trust him. Things went on thus till July last, when the bankrupt having an acceptance due for 498/. in favour of Messrs. Kerr and Scott, and being unable to meet it, obtained funds from them for the express purpose, but nevertheless failed to meet the bill. From an examina tion of his banking book, it appeared that after that time he paid into his banker's upwards of 2,000/., while cheques were drawn against this payable to " Self" and "Selves," and which were found to have gone into the hands of Price and Levy. On one loan, from a person named Elliott, he had paid 60 per cent. Mr. Strangwayes, for M. Jourdan, of Paris, a creditor for 1,274 , opposed, on the ground that the bankrupt Lad, in July last, induced M. Jourdan to make him an advance in bills, for the purpose of protecting two of his acceptances in favour of M. Jourdan, which he was un able to meet ; the desired advance, in a bill for 100/., was sent, but the acceptances were not taken up. M. Jourdan wrote to the bankrupt, requesting him to return the acceptance, but he refused to do so, and said he would apply it to take up an acceptance for 751. due at the end of the month. This, also, he had failed to do, and M. Jourdan had to take up this bill as well as the other two. It was further objected that the bankrupt had 25 shawls of M. Jourdan's for sale, worth 179/. 10s., on commission, and that he had carried them into his own stock. When he was asked for them, it appeared he had deposited them with Messrs. Eyles, Evans, and Co., of Ludgate-hill, to procure the forbearance of the debt. There was no entry in the bankrupt's books as to this transaction. The bankrupt, in examination by Mr. Lawrence, mid he had been occasionally in the habit of buying goods on sale or return, and had kept them, if they met his ap probation, without communicating with the vendor be fore he took them into stock. He had had large trans actions with Jordan ; he was one of the persons by whom the bankrupt had lost money prior to 1848 ; the loss was 600/. or 700/. He had since gone on dealing with him; they had been in the habit of exchanging ac ceptances from time to time to a very large amount. He had begun business in Regent-street in 1830, and had had traded advantageously up to 1840. Jourdan had drawn on him for the shawls referred to. Se batard joined him as a partner in 1840 ; he had paid his way up to 1848. Immediately he had called his creditors, got time and ultimately paid 20s. in the pound. The proximate cause of their insol vency in 1848, was losses sustained by the houses of Robert and Benjamin Brown, and Robertson and Co. He gave no instructions for the omission of an entry. In the statement of his affairs he had also omitted a transac tion in indigo, which he held as security, not for a busi ness transaction. Since 1848 had never concealed from Mr. Scott his transactions with money lenders. Mr. Scott saw his cash book, and might have inferred from the entries that 3,000/. or 4,000/. could not be raised without having recourse to those persons. The entries of " Self" did not all apply to Levy. The regular returns at the end of the month would not meet the payments. Had never withheld his books from Mr. Scott or any of his creditors. He had borrowed continually from Messrs. Kerr and Scott. As to the omission of 5,168/., that was a mistake on the part of Mr. Parrington. 1,897/., of this amount, was entered in his sundry cash loans. A debt of 750/. to Mr. Cocken was omitted through a mistake of the clerk. His bankers would not overpay his account as they had hitherto done. That he had 3,0001. of debts which were pressing him (alluding to Price's and Levy's bills), which he could have bought up at 10s. in the pound. At that time he mentioned he had 3,000/. of debts. He proposed that a cash-clerk should be sent into the house and take all proceeds. The loan of 478/. was reduced by his paper 350/. During the month of July, Scott trusted him 1,200/., and 800/. or 900/., and at previous months, some 2,000/. or 3,000/. He was speaking of Kerr and Scott. This year he had been extremely pressed, and parties who promisednot to hand in cheques had done so. Mr. Lawrence submitted that previous to 1848 the bankrupt, who had borne an irreproachable character, had been very successful in trade, and the arrangement of 1848 was his ruin. It had not been proved that the balance-sheet he then produced was wilfully untrue in any particular. Certain creditors had been omitted it was true; but they had bided their time till the trader was again on his legs, and then pounced upon him and made their own terms. Any one who looked at the ba lance-sheet of '4B would see that it was impossible Mr. Holmes could pay a composition of 10s. in the pound. He was, in fact, mortgaging his future exertions to make up the deficiency, and the creditors had no right to urge against him that he was struggling with insolvency since 1848. Mr. Scott, seeing entries in the books of cash to and from "self," and the bankrupt's refusing to tell from whom he was borrowing, ought to have ex cited suspicion that he was borrowing,money at a usurious interest. When a man once got into the hands of money lenders he seemed to be the victim of an infatuation which drove him into still deeper and deeper difficulties. The amount of interest thus paid was upwards of 3,000/. ; the law expenses were heavy, and his time and energies had been wasted in fruitless efforts to raise the means. He had anticipated much from the Exhi bition, and it was well known that the season of the Exhibition had been very disadvantageous to the Lon don trade. In 1851, Mr. Holmes was clearly insolvent, as shown by the balance-sheet then made out, to the amount of 2,000/. or 3,000/., and had Mr. Holmes told the truth, that he was further involved 5,000/. to money lend ers, it would have been seen that he was much worse. He (Mr. Lawrence) submitted that it had not been proved that the bankrupt had wilfully misappropriated a sum of 478/., which had been paid him in cheques by Messrs. Scott, to meet a partner's particular bill. There was not the slightest fraud or false pretence in contracting the (iebts ; consequently the case could not come within the penal clause. The case of M. Jourdan was satisfactorily explained ; the books had been well kept. Mr. Law rence did not ask for an immediate certificate being given to Mr. Holmes, but he confidently contended tha there was no fraud or false pretence in the case. His Honour deferred judgment. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Dec. 21. 'Before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant-Judge.) THE FRACAS BETWEEN THE HON. BUTLER JOHNSTONE, M.P. AND MR. OLIVERIA, M.P. Shortly after the grand jury had been discharged, and luring the trial of a case, Mr. Huddlestone said—My Lord, perhaps I may be permitted to take this opportunity to trespass on your time for a few moments, to make an application to the court. I believe the grand jury has been discharged, and I have to apply on the part of the Hon. Mr. Butler Johnstone, that the recognisances of himself and his two friends, Lord Drumlanrig and Mr. Stirling, may be discharged. Mr. Johnstone was bound over to appear at this session to answer a charge of assault, but the matter I believe I can say, has been amicably arranged privately through the intervention of mutual friends of both parties, in a satisfactory manner. The Assistant-Judge granted the application, and said—l am very glad to hear that this is so, for that is the manner in which gentlemen ought always to arrange such differences. This is as it ought to be between gen tlemen ; the sooner it is done, and the more privately, the better. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, DEC. 20. CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Talfourd.) Alfred Waddington, aged 20, was charged with the wilful murder of his female illegitimate child, at Sheffield, on the 18th of August last. Mr. Boothby and Mr. West appeared for the prosecu tion, and Mr. Overend defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner, who is a workman at Sheffield, had courted a young woman, whom he had known from childhood, named Sarah Slater, who was in employment at th e M essrs . Butchers, Sheffield manu facturers. She was a woman of great personal attrac tions, and attended the reading class at the Lyceum, in Sheffield, for the purpose of educating herself. The re sult, however, of the prisoner's intercourse, was the birth of a female child, which, at the time of its death, was above 18 months old. The prisoner had often entreated ,_e c Y o a u ln_ig woman to marry him, which she resisted until in his hisidchparoraveidteera steady Sarah Slater pro.cured an order of affiliation on the pri ld, soner, by which he was compelled to pay 2s. a week for its maintenance. The child was kept at Sarah Slater's payment of the 28 a week and .the prisoner having become in arrear inm o t t h h e e r ' s p , issued against him on the 13th . of Au ' gu a st su la m st m , otnoscowmas pel him to pay the m on , The prisoner, it appeared, had at the time the impre y s . • his mind that Sarah Slater had become the mistress of so;ir.irel nrichnamed e n c l i al4 art O h n a the night of the 18th of Augusta Barlow took the child out for a walk between seven and eight o'clock, and went as far as some brick-kilns at the bottom of Sylvester-street, in Sheffield. Here she was - met by the prisoner, who said that he would take the child a " ta, ta." Martha Barlow refused, saying that she was going to take the child to bed, but the prisoner took it in his arms and walked away with it. That night Sarah Slater had gone to the Lyceum to read, and about eight I o'clock the prisoner put his head into the room and called her out, saying that she was wanted ; and upon her going out the prisoner said to her, " Where hast thou left thy child? Who hast thou left it with ?" She replied that she had left it with Martha Barlow ; upon which he said, " She has fallen off a wall and broken her neck ; if thou wants to see it alive, thou must come with me directly." She then said, " Oh, surely not ;" and imme diately the prisoner took a knife out of his pocket, which had blood on it, and said, "This is thy child's blood ; I have murdered it ;" and at the same time showed her some blood on the back of his hand. Upon which Sarah Slater said, " Surely to the Lord thou halt not hurt the child ?" to which he replied, "I have." She then ran down towards the Music-hall, and he ran after her, and when he came up with her he said, "Come with me and I will take thee to the child." She then went into Ayre-lane, followed by tke prisoner. She asked him how he could hurt the child, upon which he fell on his knees and said, ."1 declare to God I have not hurt the child." He then got up and said to her, " Will thou follow thy child ?" She said, " Yes, I will go any where for the child." He then said, "I have placed it where nobody can get at it but myself. Before I let it be a slave under anybody, I will murder it." He then said that he had left the child at Caroline Wainwright's. Sarah Slater answered, "If you have left it there, she will take it home." Upon which the prisoner looked in her face and said, "Aye, but it is not there." He then told her that if she did not follow him, he would go and kill it. Upon which she followed the prisoner into Jessop-street, which, being a bye street, she said that she would go no further ..with him, but would go to her mother's. The prisoner then said, " Thou canst either save thy child or kill it ;" and he then seized her by the waist and tried to stab her in the side with the knife. She, however, escaped, and ran down Sylver-street, he following her, and having caught her by the dress, h e tried to cut her throat ; but she held her head down, so that he could not cut it in front, and he then tried to cut her on the back of her neck. She cried out "Murder," and held her hands up to the back of her neck, and one of her hands was severely cut, and the other slightly. As she was crying out murder, a boy named Henry was passing by, who told the prisoner to leave her alone ; but seeing the knife in the prisoner's hand, he cried out "Murder" also, and threw a penny at the prisoner. Upon this the prisoner left her, and she ran home to h er mother's, and, on asking for the child, it was not there. In May last the prisoner had assaulted her, and she had complained to the magistrates, and she had told him that if he did not pay the affiliation money he would have to go to Wakefield gaol. Besides this, the prisoner had threatened repeatedly that he would kill her, and that he would " blow her brains out, and play Rush with her," A witness, named Sarah Dobson, said that she was at the Lyceum when the prisoner called out Sarah Slater, upon which she went out afterwards, and met the prisoner, and asked him where Sarah Slater was. He said that he had murdered her, and, showing his hands, said, " This is her blood." He then gave her a cut across the face with a knife he held in his hand, and she then ran away, having a gash across her nose. On the morning of the 19th of August the prisoner went up to a watchman named Henry Soen, and told him to take him into custody, and put on the handcuffs, at the same time holding out both his hands, and saying that he had cut his child's head off with a knife. Upon this the watchman took him to the station-house, where Superintendent Jackson asked him if he was brought there for arrears of bastardy. The prisoner answered, "No, he had done something worse, that would take him to York and hang him ; that he wished the superintendent to go to Cutter wood, where he would find the body ; that he had killed it with a shoemaker's knife, which he had thrown into the river." The watchman and Inspector Rogers went to the wood, where they found the body, and on attempt ing to raise it by the head, the head came off, and the body rolled down the embankment. There was much blood on the spot where the child was found. Sarah Slater identified the body of the child ; and in the river, as described by the prisoner, the knife was found. In the morning the prisoner said to Superintendent Raynor that he wished his father to be sent for, and that he wished it to be known how the woman Slater had treated. him. He said that she had gone to London with a gen tleman ; and on her return he said, "Art thou going to be a rich man's w—e ?" and she replied, " that she would sooner be a rich man's mistress than a poor man's wife." He then said to Raynor, " I was very much attached to her, and I loved my child. I can't think what could possess me to murder my child ; I wish it had been Sarah ;" Raynor said, " This amounts to a confession of your guilt, do you wish to have it stated ?" He an swered, " It is-well known that I have done it, and I wish to meet it fair." Mr. Roper, a medical man, stated that the child's head had been severed from the body with a sharp knife. On cross-examination he said that there was a disease called homicidal monomania, and that those who laboured under it wished to destroy those whom they most loved. And this disease would sometimes remain long dormant, and then become suddenly developed. The prisoner had formerly received an injury on the side of the head, which might, from its causing a deposit under the bone, occasion an irritability and excitability of mind; he had, however, conversed with the prisoner and considered him perfectly sane. Sarah Slater was here recalled, and said that she had gone up to London last year with her uncle and aunt to see the Exhibition, and that she had never kept com pany with any man but the prisoner. Mr. Overend addressed the jury for the prisoner, and contended that the prisoner's conduct could be attributed only to insanity. The calling out Sarah Slater from the public-room after he had done the deed, and exhibiting his bloody hands, his wild conversation, and the attack upon Sarah Dobson, and then his giving himself up into custody, all showed that he had been labouring under monomania--the idea which possessed him that his mis tress was faithless to him being a mere fiction of the brain. His Lordship, in summing up, quoted the decision of the judges in MacNaughten's case, as to what amount of insanity would amount to an excuse for the prisoner. It was not because the prisoner had committed a great crime that, he must be presumed to be insane. The question was, whether the prisoner when he committed the crime was the victim of mental disease which pre vented him, at the time he was committing it, from being conscious of the consequences of the act he was com mitting, and from knowing that he was doing wrong. But if from some passion of jealousy or revenge, slaugh terous thoughts had possessed the prisoner, he was bound to tell them, with whatever feelings of compassion they might regard the act done, there could be no question whatever that the crime of murder was committed. The jury retired for about an hour, and returned with a verdict of guilty. The prisoner having been asked why the sentence of death should not be passed upon him according to law, His Lordship, who was deeply affected, then put on the black cap, and said : Alfred Waddington, it is unneces sary for me to say a word with regard to the nature of the crime for which you are now to receive the last judg ment of the law, because I perceive that almost as soon as it was committed—as soon as the guilty passion of jealousy and revenge which urged you to take away the life of your innocent child had cooled—that you imme diately awakened to a sense of the dreadful guilt you have incurred, and then sought to relieve yourself from unavailing anguish by giving yourself up into the hands of justice. I hope, therefore, that you are prepared to use for your everlasting advantage those few days which remain to you in this life. I trust that you will so em ploy them that you will implore that pardon which is held out to all, and seek that salvation which all of us need, and which may yet be extended even to you. As you will have, through the f ew rema i n i ng days of your life, the assistance of a minister of religion, who will en deavour to afford you the consolation you require, I can only now pray that the Divine blessing may follow his endeavours. To me it remains but to pass upon you the last sentence of the law, which is, that you be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead, and that your body be buried within the precints of the gaol, and may Almighty God have mercy upon your soul. The wretched man appeared quite stupified during the passing of the sentence, and after being handcuffed was removed from the bar. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET.—Teremiah, Donovan, a tall muscular fellow, was brought up for final examination before Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with a murderous as sault upon his wife, whereby her lire had been seriously endangered. On the night of the 22d ult., as police-constable Bendell H 217, was proceeding round his beat, his atten tion was attracted by repeated cries of "Murder," from one of the houses in Princes-street, Spitalfields, and on making his way to a room on the first floor, he found the prisoner's wife supported in the arms of two of the lodgers, with both her eyes closed up and frightfully contused, and bleeding profusely from a dangerous wound over the left temple. Having ascertained that the in juries had been inflicted by the prisoner, who had locked himself in an adjoining room, the constable immediately forced open the door and took him into custody, and the injured woman was at once removed to the hospital, -where she continued for the first fortnight in such a state of extreme danger, that her life was despaired of, and although she was now in a condition to attend to give evidence, she still remained an in-patient of the hospital, and a considerable time must elapse before she recovered from the effect of the injuries she had received. The prisoner's wife was led forward by the officer and placed in a chair, but although she was evidently in such a state of debility and suffering that she was unable to support herself even in a sitting position without assist ance, she declined for some time to furnish any account of the transaction, and exhibited a pertinacious determi nation to shield her brutal husband from the consequences of his savage conduct towards her. After a good deal of prevarication and evasion, she at length admitted that the prisoner had dragged her out' of bed and knocked her down, but she positively denied that he either kicked or jumped upon her, and declared that she had previously provoked him to such a degree that she fully deserved all she had received. were to send the case for trial, that his unfortunate wife, who was the principal witness against him, would at once abandon the prosecution, and he had therefore no other alternative than to deal summarily with the mat ter, and should order the prisoner to pay a penalty of 51., or to be committed for two months to the House of Correction, at the e::piration of which period he must also put in substantial bail to keep the peace for the next six months. THAMES.— William Bedward, described as a jour neyman cheesemonger, who has been for the last fortnight out on bail, appeared before Mr. Yardley, charged with an attempt to murder his wife on the morning of Tues day, the 7th inst. Mary Bedward, a delicate-looking woman, who has just been discharged from the London Hospital, seemed pale and faint, and was accommodated with a chair. Her right eye and the side of her face were greatly dis figured fitim the effect of severe blows. She stated that she had been living at 8, James-street, Limehouse, was married about ten years ; that her husband was in the habit of being out very late, and frequently came home intoxicated and ill-used her. On the night in question he came home about two o'clock ; she had sat up for him, and had a mutton chop cooked for his supper, which see placed before him. Not satisfied with the quantity he threw a large jug of water on the fire, blew out the candle, and commenced a furious attack on his wife. He struck her with his clenched fist in the face, grasped her throat with both hands, pushed her down I on the floor, and beat her face against the boards, se verely injuring her jaws and loosening her teeth. She screamed murder," and begged of him not to strike her any more. He answered, " You devil, I'll finish you now ; I'll die for you." As she endeavoured to pacify the children he struck the bedstead, l and broke the front of the roof, with which he again struck her, knocked her down, and beat her unmerci fully about the head, face, and arms, after which he again seized her by the throat with both hands, and she believed she would have been strangled had not the officer broken in the door, and saved her life. She be came so confused and stupified from the effects of the blows that she broke the windows and cut her hands with the glass, by which she lost a great deal of blood. Police-constable Scales, 249 K, stated that, being on duty, in James-street, about two o'clock in the morn ing, he heard cries of "murder" proceeding from No. 8. He rapped, and demanded admittance, but could get no answer. The screams were renewed, and he broke in the door. He found the woman lying on the floor covered with blood, and the prisoner standing near her. He took him to the station house, and had the woman conveyed to the London Hospital. The prisoner, who is a savage looking fellow, offered no defence. Mr. Yardley committed him for trial at the next Mid dlesex Sessions. He was informed that bail would be accepted, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each. Bail was not forthcoming, and the prisoner was removed in the van. Mr. Yardley ordered the poor woman a sovereign from the poor-box, and told her to make application to him again after the trial of her husband. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 10. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Wyndham Moreton Dyer, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Mobile. Prisoner : She knows very well that she tore my shirt when I catched hold of her, and she would never have come here at all but for the doctor and the policeman, who wanted to make a county job of it. The wife : 'And that's nothing but the blessed truth. I don't want p 3 hurt him at all, for he's a good husband. Mr. D'Eyncourt said it, was perfectly manifest, if ho THE SUN', LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1852. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—Stocks in the principal ports of Europe on the Ist of the month were 167,900 tons, against 191,200 in 1851, and 144,550 in 1850 at the same period. There has been a greater disposition here on the part of home dealers to operate in Colonial, and prices have improved, though larger parcels were offered for sale. The gazette average price ruling higher by 3s per cwt. Arrivals to all the ports have been 55,000 tons less than last year, and there is an increase in deliveries for all purposes of 54,000, with a decrease in stock of 45,000. West India met with a good demand from both refiners and grocers, the rates obtained being 6d to is above those current from the late lowest point. Purchases since last Tuesday have been 2,100 hhds., &c., low to fine brown at 31s to 335 yel low 33s 6d, refining 32s 6d to 375, and crystalised Barba does 35s to 39s 6d per cwt. Stock of West Indies is 4,100 tons less than last year. To-day there was an extensive demand for West India sugar, both for grocery and re fining purposes ; an advance of 6d per cwt. was also ob tained, and on the part of merchants there is much con fidence. Operations amounted to 900 hhds., &c., includ ing at auction 435 hhds. Barbadoes, which realised fully previous valuations ; fine yellow went at 38s to 38s 6d, middling to good 35s 6d to 375, and ordinary 34s to 35s per cu L. REFlNED.—Purchases have been on a large scale in re fined Sugar for home consumption, and there is a further improvement in prices, although production does not de crease. Sales of brown lumps have been made at 44s 6cl, tittlers, common to fine 45s to 495, double 505 to 51s, Ham bro' Loaves 45s 6d to 50s, double 51s to 525, and standard lumps 46s per cwt. Wet lumps have been in excellent re quest at 42s to 435, and fine 43s 6d to 41s. Of Foreign re fined imports have been light, and likely so to remain. A brisker sale exists for Bastards, brown at 26s to 31s, and yellow 32s to 34. In Pieces purchases are important, low to middling 35s to 38s, and good to fine 38s Gd to 41s Gd. In Dutch many purchases have been made at 24s to 27s 6d ; extra 58s to 28s 6d. Belgian has been sold to a fair extent 24s to 28s. Treacle is in good request for export at 15s to 15s 6d, Bastards 21s to 225, wet lumps and pieces 24s to 28s. A brisk demand exists for Loaves, and prices have an upward tendency.—Turkey 1 to 5i lbs sells at 42s to 45s ; Hambro, 6 to 15 lbs 33s to 35s ; Tittlers, 22 to 30 lbs 32s : Prussian, 40 to 45 lbs 30s to 30s 6d ; Dutch made Loaves, 6 to 10 lbs 31s 6d to 32s ; and Belgian, 29s to 29s 6d per cwt. To-day Refined Sugar was much in demand for home trade purposes, and rates closed with firmness, sup ply being limited. The value of brown lumps is 44s 6d. to 465, and low to fine grocery 45s to 48s per cut. Several buyers of Crushed Sugar for exportation at former terms. MAURITIUS.—SaIes of fine and superior yellow made at 36s to 38s, middling to good 33s 6d to 35s 6d, common 32s 6d to 335, fine brown 31s 6d to 32s 6d, middling to good 28s to 31s, low 26s 6d to 27s 6d, common to fine refining 32s to 375, grainy yellow 35s to 41s, white 42s to 445, and brown 33s to 34s 6d per cw L. This afternoon there was a further increase in demand for Mauritius sugar. At auc tion 4800 bags went at full rates, and at a small advance for best grocery and refining sorts. The terms obtained were for fine yellow 36s to 395, low to good 33s to 35s 6d, fine brown 32s to 32s 6d, ord to good 28s to 31s 6d, and common to fine grey 33 to 375. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon a brisk demand was expe rienced for Madras sugar. The public sales of 7640 bags went at full prices, and all sold—grainy white at 41s to 44s 6d, yellow ditto 35s to 40s for ordinary to fine, at 34s to 39s for grocery, good soft brown 28s to 28s 6d, ordinary to middling yellow 28s 6d to 30s 6d per cwt. FOREIGN.—An increased demand has been experienced for duty paid parcels of foreign sugar ; and in some cases the rates obtained are rather above those cm-rent previously. Of Porto Rico 406 hhds and 102 brls at auction were dis posed of—fine yellow at 39s to 41s, mid to good 35s 6d to to 38s 6d, low 34s to 35s ; 760 chts yellow Havannah, low to mid 34s 6d to 37s ; 567 damaged Pernambuco low to fair brown 28s 6d to 30s, and yellow ditto 33s to 34s 6d. Floating cargoes are wanted both for the home and foreign markets, but some advance being required prevented busi ness of the least moment. Prices for brown Havannah rule at 20s to 20s 6d for number 9 and 10, yellow 21s to 24s 6d for I.oi to 16; one cargo has been sold at 23s 3d, consist ing of 950 chts ; and for a port in the United Kingdom. The value of brown Bahia is 18s to 18s Gd, white 20s to 22s 6d, brown Pernambuco 17s 3d to 18s, and white Havannah 27s 6d to 28s 6d per cwt. Prices are sustained at the markets on the Continent, but only a limited demand exists, still. larger parcels are not on offer. To-day a greater desire was eainced to operate in Foreign Sugar, and stiffer rates were obtained. Privately 8,003 bags Manilla sold at 30s. 6d to 31s for unclayed brown, and some parcels yellow Havannah at 35s to 39s 6d per cw L. None was offered at auction. MOLASSES.—Are much wanted, and supply being limited, previous improved rates are well supported. Sales of Antigua made at 16s 6d to 17s, Demerara 15s 6d, other sorts West India 14s 6d to 15s ; Cuba and Porto Rico wanted at 15s 6d to 16s 6d, Bengal and Mauritius 13s 6d to 14s. Stock of Molasses is 3,030 tons less than last year, and deliveries are 1,000 greater. A good demand for Ta marinds ; West India 23s to 425, and East India 9s to 12s. Prices are firm for honey Narbonne at 55s to 655, Cuba 36s to 40s; and Jamaica at 38s to 50s per cwt. The supply keeps small of all sorts. COFFEE.—To-clay there was again a reluctance to operate in Mocha, and prices declined ls to 2s per cwt. Native Ceylon is held for previous terms, and at which there are not buy ers. At public sale the sound of 1,137 bags was taken in 47s for good ordinary, damaged selling at 41s to 45s 6d for third to first class. In plantation little was done privately, still there is no decline, supply keeping on a small scale. For other sorts of coffee there is a quiet market. At pub lic sale 214 bags washed Rio were sold at 49s to 50s 6d, and 90 hf-frzls Mysore at 47s for good ordinary. TEA.—The rates taken for low to good sound common are 10d to 10Ad, rather blackish leaf to blackish leaf lld to ls, strong to Pekoe sorts is id to is Bd, and of the new crop is 9d to 2s 2d. Pouchong is held for 8d to 90 ; but less is doing. Souchong is not cheaper, but there is now a quiet market, especially for inferior. Prices for fine and good rule at is 4d to 2s, common to mid 10d to is 3d. In green transactions have been of little importance, and some holders are inclined to accept rather lower rates, the ord. sorts being most neglected. Prices rule as follow :—Low to middling Hyson is 2d to is sd, good to fine is 6d to 2s 10d, choice, 3s to 3s 4cl, young Hyson Canton 10d to ls, Hyson kind is 2d to is Bd, fine to superior is 9d to 2s 3d, Twankay 10d to is id, Gunpowder Canton 10d to is id, Hyson kind is 2d to 2s 10d, fine 3s to 3s 6d, Imperial Can ton is to is 2d, Hyson is 3d to 2s Od, and Hyson skin 8d to 9d. Flowery Pekoe has been purchased with caution, still the currency is unchanged—low to mid. selling at is 4d to is Bd, good to fine is 9d to 3s Bd. In Caper sales have been trifling, in boxes 10d to is id, and scented is to is 7d. RlCE.—Although supply is more plentiful of East India, and demand has become limited for all purposes, yet lower rates are not accepted. At auction 1,090 bags Madras were sold at lOs 6d to lbs for pinkey ; 7,200 bags Coringa taken in at 11 to its 6d ; 7,480 bags Arracan, 103 6d ; 4,049 bags Java, lOs to 10s 6d, and a few lots fine white, 13s to 14s per cwt. To-day there was no public sale of rice, and little was done privately. The rates taken for mid and good white Bengal are Ils 6d to 12s per cwL. INDlGO.—Several purchases have been made in East India both for the home and foreign markets—the rates obtained are generally 2d per lb above last quarterly sales, and on the part of holders much firmness exists. Stock is 2,030 chests smaller than last year, and deliveries are 5,500 larger. Spanish is held for fully former terms, and a fair business has been done ; Guatemala, Flores at 5s 3d to 5s sd, Sobres 4s 3d to 5s 2d, and Cortes 2s 8d to 4s 2d, Stock is 1,446 serons, and at same time last year 444. The Indigo market is decidedly in a favourable position. COCHINEAL.—To-day there was more desire to operate in Cochineal in consequence of unfavourable accounts rela tive to the crop, but business was much interfered with, in consequence of an advance of 2d per lb. being demanded. At auction 430 bags were taken in ; Teneriffe silvers at 3s 10d to 4s, and black 4s 2d to 4s 6d per pound. OILS.—A more steady sale exists for Cod at 331. lOs to 341., and market is firm. Seal attracts little notice, and is more plentiful ; pale can be obtained at 351. 5s to 351. 10s, and other sorts 321. to 341. 15s. In consequence of a scanty supply of Southern, buyers are compelled to pay 351. to 381. for common to fine. The market is dull for Sperm, and larger parcels being on offer, there is a reduction, 841. lOs to 861. having been accepted for fair to fine, and for Head matter, 86/. to 87/. Purchases in Palm have been limited, and largerparcels being on offer, rates keep on the decline, ruling at 31s to 33s 6d to 40s fine. Cocoa Nut is cheaper, limited parcels having been sold ; Cochin at 38s 6d to 40s, Ceylon 37s 6d to 38s 6d, and Sydney 35s to 375. Several parcels have been brought forward. In Olive Oil import ant purchases have been made, the upward movement con tinuing—Galipoli is 601. to 61/., and other sorts 561. to 581. per tun. A large business has been concluded in Rape seed Oil, brown at 34s to 34s 6d, pale 35s 6d to 365, and foreign 36s to 375. The value of Lard Oil is 42s to 60s. TALLOW.—OnIy limited transactions have taken place in Russian on the spot since our last report, and there were sellers on Saturday of Y.C. at 45s to 45s 3d per cwt. Few buyers are to be met with for delivery in the spring, and 44s 6d to 45s is the value. Town melted is more abun dant, and there is a decline, 45s Gd having been accepted for cash. Other sorts have not been offered more freely for sale, but demand having much fallen off a reduction is apparent. Of 440 casks Australian at auction a small part only sold, beef fair and good at 42s to 435, and mutton from 44s 6d. to 465. Tallow still much dearer than last year, but stock is 16,000 cks. larger. Since Saturday the demand for tallow has much improved, and there is an ad vance; fine Y.C. on the spot, and for delivery in the spring selling at 46s 3d to 46s 9d. FRUlT.—Further reduced prices having been accepted for Valencia raisins caused an active demand at 42s to 445, and tender 32s to 41s, but supply is plentiful. Only moderate purchases in Denis, with sellers at 33s to 355. The value of red Smyrna is 445 to 455, Eleme 47s to 50s, Sultanas 62s to 68s, Muscatels 64s to 90s, and demand is limited. Prices are lower for figs, but a good deal has been done. Turkey pulled 36s to 70s, Greek 32s to 355. Currants are not much required, and holders are disposed to sell ; old at 42s to 70s, new 21s to 655. French plums wanted at 90s to 955, and imperial cartons at 100 s to 200 s. A slow sale for almonds; Jordan at 81 to 131, and Barbary 48s to 51s. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The market continues to present a lively appearance for Leeward Island rum, and there is a further advance, sales having been made at is lid to 2s per gallon proof. A large demand prevails for East India, and prices are is 10d to is 10id proof. In Demerara purchases have been of importance, at the ad vanced terms of 2s 7d to 2s lld for 30 to 40 per cent. over proof ; indeed some parties will not accept these terms. Some business has been done in Havannah at is 8d to is 9d proof. Stock of rum now varies little from last year ; whereas deliveries are much larger. Orders for brandy have decreased, and there is a reduction, although supply is not larger. Sales of Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1851 made at 7s id to 7s 3d, 1850 ditto 7s 2d to 7s 4d, 1849 ditto 7s 6d to 7s. &l, older 7s 10d to 8s 4d, low to mid qualities 6s to 6s 10d. Geneva has been pur chased with caution at 2s 3d to 2s 4d, and fine 2s 8d to 3s. Prices continue firm for British made spirit, there being numerous buyers at 9s 9d cash ; gin 22 under proof 8s 4d, and ditto at 88 10d per gallon. COCOA.—West India is not to be obtained at a further reduction, and none has been submitted to public sale this week, but privately purchases have been limited. Trinidad, fine red, at 40s to 44s ; middling to good, 35s to 39s • low, 33s 6d to 34s 6d ; gre y, f rom 30 s t o 33s ; and Grenada, 30s to 375. Consumption is yet favourable, but stock, com pared with last year, shows an excess of 6,000 bags, and in prices little difference exists. Foreign has been purchased with caution—Bahia, at 24s to 25s ; Para, 26s 6d to 27s 6d ; and Guayquil, 35s to 365. Stock is much the same as last year. _ SlueEs.—Pimento is not much required, and there being a more plentiful supply, prices have declined gd to id per lb. The public sales of 1,600 bags went at sid to 51d for good middling to good, and at 41d to 5d for low middling to middling. Cloves continue to be wanted, and are not in larger sup ly — sales privately o f P enang, at lid to is id; Amboyna, lid to 8d ; and Bourbon, 6id to 64. Ginger attracts little attention either for the home or foreign, but the currency is maintained in consequence of a limited quantity on offer. Numummi Vu DEO. 14. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Bridges Taylor, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul for Den mark and the °resound. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint George Harris, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul-General in the Lombardo-Venetian States and the Austrian terri tories on the Adriatic. DEC. 16. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint George Camaingßa,ckhouse, Esq., to be her Majesty's Judge in the Mixed Court established at the Havana, under the Treaty of the 28th of June ,1835, between Great Britain and Spain, for the abolition of the Slave Trade, in the room of James Kennedy, Esq., retired. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 20. The Queen has been pleased to' approve of Mr. Jolm Greig as Consul at the Cape of Good Hope for the Sublime Ottoman Porte. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 21. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Adam Murray Alexander, Esq., to be Second Puisne Judge of the Colony of British Guiana. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. Major William Lewis Grant to be Deputy-Lieutenant; James Scott Walker, Esq., late a Captain in th e 88th Re giment of Foot, to b e Captain of a Company, vice Collard, deceased, Dec. 18. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Berkshire. Robt. Gibson, Esq.,ito be Deputy-Lieutenant • the Hon. George William Barrington to be D e p u ty-Li e utenant, Dec. 15. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Mid-Lothian. The Right Hon. Henry Viscount Melville, K.C.8., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec. 6. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire. Berwickshire, &c., Regiment of North British Militia— Wyville Thomas Charles Thomson, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hood, deceased, Dec. 16. BANKRUPTS. Jules Artigues, general merchant, Mark-lane, to surren der, Jan. 7, at eleven, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall chambers ; Brewer, Philpot-lane. Frederick William Thomas, auctioneer, Leadenhall street, Dec. 29, and Jan. 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Cole, Leaden hall-street. Thomas Manley, dealer in wool, Exeter, Dec. 29, at one, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirt zel, official assignee, Exeter; Turner, Exeter. William Bate, butcher, Camelford, Cornwall, Dec. 29, at one, and Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; King, Camelford ; Stog don, Exeter. Fletcher Pearson, painter, Liverpool, Jan. 5 and 31, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, offi cial assignee, Liverpool ; Payne, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. Titcomb, Highgate, butcher, Jan. 13, at half-past eleven —I. Bryant, Victoria-grove, Stoke Newington, builder, Jan. 13, at twelve —R. Tamsett, W oo l w i c h, K en t , builder, Jan. 13, at half-past twelve. In the Country. T . Burnip, N e wcastle-upon-Tyne, draper, Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Hymers, Gateshead, D ur h am, i nnkeeper, 3-5 d., any day after Dec. 22, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. R. Lisburne, N ewcastle-upon-Tyne, bookseller, ls. 7d., on new proofs, any day after Dec. 23, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. J. Wright, Wheelton, Lancashire, calico printer, 1 15-16 d., on Tuesday, Jan. 4, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Burt, J. Burt, jun., and W. T. Watson, commission agents, Manchester, 1 1 1-16 d., eon Tuesday, Jan. 4, or any subsequent Tuesday, betv een eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. R. Dilkea. W a rrington, licensed victualler, 6s. id., on Tuesday, Jan. 4, or any subsequent Tuesday, 'between ele ven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. G. Chadfield, Manchest er , pl as t erer an d painter, ls. Oid., on Tuesday, Dec. 28, or any succeeding Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. _ _ NOTICES 0? CERTIFICATES. At the Coutt, Basinghall-street. N. Cobb, Colchester, Essex, auctioneer, Jan. 20, at half past eleven — J. Keeley aid E. Williams, Fleet-street, tail ors, Jan. 13, at eleven —J. Heathwaite, vent-garden, cheesemon g4r, J an. 13, at el New-street, Co.even. In the Country. It. P. Stevens, Liverps o l, shipowner, Jan. 11, at eleven at the Court, Liverpool—J. Guest, Burslem, Staffordshire, at the Coirt, Birmingham. victualler, Jan. 15, at tee, CERTIFICATES GRANTED. T. Delf and N. Trubner, Paternoster-row, booksellers, certificates of the first class—J. Bell, Ludgate-hill, tailor, surgeon, certificate of th c second class — J. St revens, Ber mceortnidfis:ayt.e.waolif, the sewn( class—D . Sparks, Cirencester, sailrnaker certificate of the second class— T. Meeson, Fenchurch-sireet, coal merchant, certificate of the third class — J. a Holmes, Sunderland, timber mer chant, certificate of the third class—.H. G. Quilter, Bir mingham,months from Dec. 16-4, Ri c h ards, Birmingham, grocer certificate , of gr theocer'certificate of the third class, aftr six third class, a ft er s i x months fron;Dec.l6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. P. Todd and N. Turner, Wheelton, Lancashire, gold thread-manufacturers—R. Rostron, J. H. Mainnell, T. Dutton, and M. M. Rook er , Rio de Janeiro and Bahia (so far as regards J. H. M‘Kinnelll—A. Robertson, D. J. and J. and J. R . F leming, Liverpoo l , s hi p b ro k ers— G. b G e w Byers, Manchester, horse dealers--T. Jones and J. Jones, Manchester, wine and spirit - dealers— M. Brown, R. Ingham, and S. Newberry, Read Holme, Lancashire, cotton Robertson, manufacturers (so far as regards S. Newberry)—J. Jervi s an d H . J erv i s , B r istol, tea-d ea l ers pic ture-dealer—J. licowarth, T. Howarth, and H. Howarth, llolshaw Moor, Lancashire, cotton cloth-manufacturers—. R. Long, sen., 11 „.---.• 11 :0W11, Elizabeth Davies, and Elizabeth M. Smith, New Bond-streat, Brown, -mni e ffit's Grange Cheshire, salt proprietors—W. Dawkins an J. Dawkins, Bread-street, Cheapside, ware housemen—G. C. Xeader and C. Foot, Idol-lane, wine merchants—W. Toscell and M. Tossell, Tottenham-green chrstianaWnd. A W . al ehri lers st a i n an d , C. Douglas, and Wandsworth, ironmongers—D. Rowbotham and H. a nd C. o:eraenhd:t.s: K. Carson ' _C, Prichard, sen., Rowbotham, Bedwprth, Warwickshire, ribbon manufac turers—J,Birmingham, gold- A sn : e t hrYss—twAitanh, 4rBal and E. Briefly, Rochdale, dyers—J. Hughes and R. James, Prichard, jun. Portman-street,druapphersol—steAre.rs Jack __ _____....... INSOIVENT PETITIONERS. John Vaugh an , Josephus W. P rocter, Kingston-upon -H u ll Charles D. Lan g l ey, Kingston - upon -H u ll, portrait painter George Thompson, Xi n c.. e t on - u pon-Hull, innkeeper James Abrah am , Alve g toke, Chap e l C arn arvon, grocer Thomas Donnelly, Sheffield, gr ocer Thomas Oakes, Sheaf:ld Hants, beer shopkeeper 'Th Samuel Colenso, Penzance, painter Hillier Gibbons, Rochester SCOTOS SEQUESTRATION. R. Rutherford, Jedburgh, farmer, to meet within the Spread Eagle .nn, .fedburgh, Dec. 27, and Jan. 22, at two. [ADVERTISEMENT.)—Holloway's Ointment and Pills, the most Effectual Remedies ever kno-wn for Gout and Rheumatism.—Extract of a letter from Mr. Thomas Wyborn, druggist, Eton, dated April 26, 1852.—" To Professor Holloway. Sir, —A case has lately come under my notice which I think should be publicly known. It is that of a poor man who suffered so dread fully from chronic rheumatism that ha lost the use of one side, and endured incessant pain. He was under different medical treatment, and at Wes bninster Hospital the faculty pronounced him incurable. ; however this was not the case, fo r by your Ointrr t ent and Pills he has been restored to health and strength." Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Ho] loway's establish- ment, 244 Strand, London. PRICES OF SHAMS. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From, the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21. JOINT-Sr6CK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, I per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. Australasia........... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 . 83% British North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 Commercial of London. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 30 Colonial ........ . ..... 31. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 lonian ........ 61. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 Lond. Char. of Au. 20 0 0 2 1 0 5% London and County .. 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 35 London Joint Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 10% Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 47% Ditto, N ew..... .• • . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 National of Ireland.... 41. per cent. 50 0 22 1 0 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 Ditto, ew ... •• • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 Oriental Bank Corpora. 81. p. ct. & be. 25 0 0 25 0 38 South Australia .. .• .. 1 6/. p. ct. & bs. 25 0 0 25 0 50 Union of Australia..., 61. p. ct.& 43. 25 0 0 25 0 73% Ditto 6l. per cent. 2 1 0 Union of London ..... 1 71. par cent. 50 0 0 10 0 Union of Madrid ... 40 0 0 40 0 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. • Albion' X 8. d. X s. d. .......... •• .. SI. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86 Alliance Brit. and For. 71.145. 6d.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 23% Ditto Marine . ..... . 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 '0 0 48 Anchor - Atlas • A rgus Life.......... • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 - British Commercial .. 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 50 0 7 Ciericl.3led.& Gen. Life spr ct.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 2034 County ............ - 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 120 Crown .............. 148. 50 0 0 50 0 17% Eagle •-• ss. 50 0 0 • 5 0 0 7% Equity and Law...... 4 34 per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 5% European Life .. 15s. 20 0 0 All paid. 14 General .... •• • • .... - 5 0 0 „ 5% Globe •••..• •• .. 61. per cent. Stock. 151 Guardian .......... • • Si. per cent 100 0 0 45 0 0 60 Imperial Fire.. -•• • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 (I 0 256 Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0010 0 0 1914 Indemnity Marine.... 11.1 h. & Ms. 100 0 0 20 0 0 55 Law Fire . .......... 2s & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 4 Law Life ........ .. „ - 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 Legal, and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 554 London Fire .... •• .. 10s. & be. 25 0 0 12 10 0 2846 London Ship • • ... .• .. 108. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 28% Marine.. ..... ••• lss.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 18 Med. Invlid&Gen.Life 4541. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 Minerva ...•.•,•„„ ip. et. & bs. 20 0 0 20 0 6 Monarch ............ 5 0 0 1 0 0 20S. Stational Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2% Pelican •••••• - - - 45 P•wanix ...• .. ...... - - - 173 Professional Life 5l. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 % Provident Life ll. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 40 Rock Life.... •• • . Royal Exchange 6l. p.ct. & bs. Stock. all 236 lan Fire ......• • • - „ 211 Ditte Life . • •• - 55 United Kingdom , 'niversal Life.... .• • • 21.55. per i.h. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 Victoria Life • ...• • • 51. per cent. - 412 6 5 % BRIDGES. Dividend Amount Name of Camper y. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. A. Ilungerford- ........ - A. a. d. 11. 4. - - 12 iouthwrk ........ - 100 0 0 ..., - Ditto Nw of 7 p.c. 703. per cent. 50 0 0 .- 16 Waterloo .. .. ~r te. .. - - 100 0 0 - 3% Ditto Old Ann , ofBl. 21. B s . Od. - 60 0 0 244 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 21.25. Od. - 40 0 0 21% Tanahall- -•- Av. 21. 70 10 3 , - 20 WATE R-WORKS. Dividonu Amoun t Name of Company. per of Paid. Pr ce. Annum. Share. ------ -- _____ £ s. d. X 8. d. East London. .... 61. per cut. Stock. - 1241( 2 Grand Janction ...... 41. per cut. 50 0 0 - 69 Kent-- -.• •• •..... 41. per cut. 100 0 0 - 84 Lambeth .....• •• • ... - 100 0 0 - - New River Company.. 21. 10s. -- - 60 Southwark & Vauxhall 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - 90 Vert MithticAex .. .... 61. Os. pr cot. - 110 DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. Commercial .........• A 3. d. A s. d. 41. pr cent. Stock. - East and West ncl.a... 6%1. pr cent. Stock. - - - East Country ....• ... 20s. per oh. 100 0 0 - London ... •• .• ... . • 51. pr cent. Stock. - - - Ditto 80nd5.... •• • • 41. per cent. - - - St. Katharine .... •• • . 4 per cent. Stock. - - •• I •mthampton ........ 1/. per cent.. 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 Victoria ..• ........ - 20 0 0 20 0 2 CANALS. Names of i !Dividend ',,,,_ll'mes of g Di v id en d! Companies. A Price. per Companies. aA npnet..l p er Price. sc Annum. so .0 £ Ashtn& Oldh 98 71. p. et. 140 Macclesfield. lot 21.105. 50 Barnsley •• • • 160 Neatk .• • • 100 161. 11rknk&Abrg 150 51,, 8214,040 rd.. •• • • 100 131. 135 Birmingham 40 41. 105% 'Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. 70 Coventry.... 100 251. AO Regent's •• • • 33 1L Os. 10 Derby ••• • • 100 6/. 63 Rochdale...• 65 21. 42 Ellarnre&Chs 69 2% p. ct. 33% Semrset Coal 150 (lrandJunctn 100 3/. pr. ct. 51% D o.Lk Fd St 2 Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 61, pr. ct. 12 13tffrEl&Wore 140 281 . 405 Grand Surrey 100 21. 10s. Shrewsbury.. 25 '.rand Union 100' 11. 10s. 24 Stourbrldge.. 145! 201. 290 Kennt & Avu 39 6s. 04. 7% Severa andl Lancaster . 100 Wye Rall. i 26 ; 1 21 'o •s • 23 Leeds&Livrp 100 251. 512% Warwick& } E. °feaster ..•• 1001 51. 66 Rirming , j 100 i 41. 40 Leicstr&Nth 83 41. 44% Warwick&l 1 Loughboreat 149 701. 510 Napton. .$ I " 31 ' 28 Monmouthsh 1001 Worcstr in !it 78, 31. 33 Mntgorysb 1001 i Bi rm i ng. MeltnMwbry 100 , Wilts & BrklP lOs 03. 711 32, 3: IN Od. GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES tlividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- - British •• •• X. s • d. a. d. • • • • •• •• Ditto Provincial.... 11. Bs. 20 0 0 90 0 0 2216 Brighton •• •• •• •• •• 51. 20 0 0 20 0 0 16 Gay of London 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 125 Continental (2dCap.) 4/. 75 0 0 43 10 0 75 Equitable.. ...... •• 500. 50 0 0 50 0 0 26 Great Central' 10 per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 14% Imperial 31. & bonus. 50 0 0 50 0 0 87 Independent ....... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Do., Par!. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 Phomix 3 1 1,1. per cent. 50 0 0 49 0 0 26 ltatcliff •••••.• •• • • • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 - United General ll. 50 0 0 80 0 0 92 Westminster Chartered 51. per cent, 50 0 0 50 0 0 373¢ Ditto. New .... • • 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 614 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. Bank of Scotland 0 0 100 0 0 190/. 9 British Linen Company 81. p er cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 /121. 0 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10/18s Clydesdale Bank -• •• •• 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13 , Os Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 1831 0 Eastern Bank •••••• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10/* 0 Edinb.lkGlasgow Bank 31. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 4/. 936 Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 100 0 0 31 5 0 9s. Od National Bank 634 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 161 Is North of Scotland Bank 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 31. 5.s Boyalßank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 11s7110 Unionßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 93/. Os Westcrn Bank 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 721 5s Alliance Firs and Life 8361. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 21112 s British Guarantee Caledonian Fire Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 241. Od City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41. 15s Colonial Life 44 3L l. Os Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 631 7 6 Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 31. 17/ National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 141 North British Incur CI. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 351. Os Scottish Union Insruce 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 33 , .6d Standard Life ...... • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 121 lOs United Dep.Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 21s. 6d * Ex Dividend. MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Nam. of Company. per of P a id . Price, Annum. Share. .... --- ---- S. . Z. 1. d. e. 4. Assam Tea .• ...• .... 50 0020 0 0 10% kection Mart•• •• .. • • 21. Si. 50 0 0 35 Australian Agriculturl 12. 100 0035 0 0 258 Australian Trust .. • • 6/. per cent. 85 0 0 —' Australian Roya Mail 10 0 0 20 0 5U Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10 1 . 10 0 0 10 0 0 24 British American Land 153. 38 10 0 Canada ... •• .. .•• .. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 52 Do. 5 per cent Bonds Si. per cent. —.— Ditto, 6pr ct. Bonds 61, percent. 116% City Navigation Bonds 3i p er cent. 97 Electric Telegraph (A) 25 0020 0 0 21% Ditto.. •••• • • • • (19 25 0 0 7 113 0 7% Equitable Reversienry 51 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 1 7% Ditto New ......., 50 0010 0 0 Gen. Revers. & inveat. 5 p.c.&bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p. ct. 15 0014 0 0 2£4.i Hudson's Bay ...... .. _ Stock. 220 Hungerford •••• •• •• .. 21 . 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 London Institution ... — 7 B 15 0 5 London Reversionary 51. per cent. 15 0015 0 0 15 Russell Institution.... 12 10 0 Price's Patent Cand. Co. 101. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 25 Reversionary Int. Soc. 451. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106 Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 80 South Australian ....• 51. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 48 Trust and Loan Comp. of Upper Canada- :z ..„ 20 0 0, 3 0 0 3 0 0 THE NEW NOVEL, "BROOMIIILL ; OR, THE COUNTY BEAUTIES."—There has been already much excitement raised about this tale, and great efforts, we believe, are made to discover who the authoress may be—for most assuredly a " lady is in the case,"—and one, too who per fectly understands the habits of fashionable society in the country as well as the customs of the metropolitan West-end salons and boudoirs. The story relates to the fortunes of two sisters, one of whom marries from incli nation, whilst the other weds a man whom she does not love, becaue the person on whom she had set her affec tions is unworthy of her. Out of these circumstances, occurring in the higher circles of fashion, is woven a most agreeable tale. The incidents are wrought out with a delicacy of feeling which does infinite credit to the tastes and sentiments of the authoress.—Messenger. THE SCHOONER FAVOURITE.—There appears but little doubt now that this unfortunate vessel is totally lost, having sailed from this port for Sydney on the 9th of May last, and no intelligence having been received of her. A correct list of her crew and passengers never having been given to the public, to some of whom it may be of consequence, we subjoin one, taken from the list given by the master to the water-police previous to sailing : Passengers—Cabin—Sir M. 'Chapman, Mr, Montague Featherstone, Captain Rersopp, Lieutenant Fitzgerald, Mr. Peppers, Mr. J. M. Smythe, Mr. E. Campbell, Mr. Woollaston, Mr. Shipley, an d Miss Fry. Steera._ Charles Phillips, George M ance ll, Josh. Lydall. Thomas Stericker, master ; Willi am H arper , mate • J. Evans, Munroe, P. Davis, and Th omas H edrington, searnen. steward, Thomas Dougl ass , coo k ; H enry e cuff Georg Melbourne Argue, Aug. 16. COUNT_RY' - 114ARKETS. LIVERPOOL. - DEO. 21. tow A nt t a h n i d s day's coun t m ry ar b k n e y t o t ra he , re an w d a a s ani f o a d ir er a a t t t e en b d u a s n i c o e v.4 o s l l ; , done in wheat and flour for consumption at about Fri of of prices, being 1d per 701 b, and 6d per barrel over tnto 0/of this day week. Oats and oatmeal met with a v e l. s ood sale, and the latter article, both on the spot and for Pi s o d delivery, was decidedly easier to buy. Barley, b e n! 1r peas were without change either in value or deirn on ee, dian corn on the spot was held for 6d per quarter, esSieg but floating cargoes could h ave b e en bought %ons, IPSWICH—DEc._2I. frog The condition of th e w h ea t s still remains so 10— ' hest the long conti nuance o f we t wea th er , th a t the sale of w per was not brisk, and th e p r i ces mus t b e quoted a shi ll t iu s fek• Paß q n r ea . arls i e n favour of the buyers, as compared with las , :lc' at and oats advanceas againof l rather sPiemr n oill• ro Q --- 301 PER QUARTER. 27s to p dg r re o .a v re ed sr.c i ar n eqeulyaliatyny, abnedasnosldatresiriet. Wheat, red (old) 44s to 52s Barley, grinding ..• ~. 0 30 Ditto (new) 00s to 00s Oats .................. Ditto, white (new) 48s to 56s Peas ...... " 0 011 ............ 000 to t° 0 0 Di to (old) 00$ Barley, malting AVERAGES POR THI WEEK ENDING DES. 18, 1852. Wheat 3 Barley ,159 305 64 Oats 43 d Beans Peas HULL—Dzo. 21 To-day our farmers brought a fa . ir supply 11 1: 11 , almost entirely new, and the bulk in tender ord r e r e ' s h 0 1 0 was difficult to sell even at a decline of is ; whil e ir ensr' h good conditioned samples were ready sale for w oo, at the f ,g ore igs , rates of this day week. A moderate enquiry of which our stocks are now much reduced. 01 1 1 : i tsi ll , however, a little pause in th e t ra d e w hich is - ;16 3 after the late excitement, and is a very usual eeew,,,, 100 this season of th e y ear . With the new year Ive Dj ,7' e tt S'"„ for a resumpti on o f ac ti ve opera ti ons. B ar ley, w— ne sts ' he been neglected, owing to the uncertainty upon t • istrl , of the Malt Tax, is likely, with the change of 311 - with - attract more attention. Oat s are th e t ur n dearer , . t hey' 11 I disposition to speculate. Beans and Peas nisin, t eiitteL' value, but the mild wea th er c h ec k s th e sa l e of " 7 c es Only a limited busin ess p ass i ng i n Li nsee d, but P i l e con' unaltered, and small stocks only in the P0rt..,r e .5.4 0 , 14 0 sumption of Cakes is rather affected by the 11111 ; of but a limited sale is not unusual towards the e1°, 5 ,,,1".es year. Nothing doing in Rapeseed, but Rap e,,'" - ge fl.w ) dearer, on a continued demand for feeding. -D°ll - our quotations. The following are the present prices of grain 8 8 Wheat, English, red 49 to 53 Ditto white 5O to 54 Dantzic and Konigs berg 5O to 56 Pomeranian and Ham burgh Danish, Holstein, and Frieslaud 44 to 47 Russian and Odessa 40 to 45 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland Ditto Russian l7 to 20 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 27 to 28 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 37 to 42 oa Peas, gray and black 00;63 Linseed, Black Sea 44 to • 6O Ditto Petersburgh ..• Ditto Riga and Arch . ,. to iD ange1............. Ditto Konigsberg 40 to i 6 Memel .......... ..... per 000 Lins. c., Hull 91 155 Od t ° l 100 Ditto fine for. 91 Os to 01 00 Ditto inf. for 80 150 t ° „,,/ 00 Rapeseed 261 lOs to - 4' 10 9 Rape cakes lo 2s 6d t° Tares, English ...... 0 04 Ditto foreign .. .... 00s t ° o/ Oki Guano 4/ 7 1 t ° 6 , i Bones 100 5 to I°',/ Rye Meal .................. DUBLIN—DEc. 17. nd t o 0,1 White wheat, 26s Od to 31s Od ; re d ditt o , 25s pe sea barley, 12s 6d to 15s 6d ; oats, lOs Od to lls 9d ; 21s Od to 23s per brl ; oatmeal, lls Od to 12s 6d ; t.,e. I flour, 14s 6d to 18s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 31s 6d to per 480 lbs. CORK-DEC. 20. Curre,, l l o . oo o .25s 9d to 27s Od Os Od-- - .248 Od to 258 9d 2 ~25s 9d to 26 s 63}25 8 9d---° de' ~00s Od to OOs Od 148 Od to 14s 4d i R aO. 00s Od to OOs Od 14 8 3d- - +" 0• 0s Od to OOs Od 1• 3s Od to 008 Od Os Od lOs Od to 108 6d • do. 106 Ditto lOs 6d t o lOs Bd }. 10 8 5d 224 Ditto lOs 8d to lls Od Oct' 138 Pigs 23s Od t o 36 s 6d 35 s Od per $ Quantity sold at the highest prices -°' :-- f ' ° 4 barrels white wh ea t ; 12 re d ; 17 b ar l ey ; 0 w- oats ; 4 pigs. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last wee— . 11)' Wheat, 1,357. Barl e y, 1,865. B ere, 0 . Oats ' Pigs, 955. Brit 33 White wheat. 92 Red wheat 53 Ditto Ditto 106 Barley Ditto Ditto 9 Bere 529 Oats PRICES OF BUTTER. 5,171 CANT. CI7RREN cr • First quality 895 First quality ............. Second quality Third quality 7 Fourth quality Fifth quality 6ss Fifth quality ............. Sixth quality s4s Sixth quality....... Return of cattle sold for week ending Dec. 1 8 Pigs, 628. Sheep, 146. Cows, 180. o e; CORR. -Flour—First, 15s Od to 16s Od ; extra, t seconds, 14s Od to 15 s Od; households, 11 5 Od to 13s ', 20 9 4 ; 8s Od to lOs per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, e s sa to oatmeal, 10s 6d to lls; w h ea t mea l , ll s to H s 6d Per to Indian corn, Si 2s 6d to 81 7 s 6d per t on. Bran, 51 ' 2s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers, 22s Od to 35s Od ; 295 ; dealers, 32s Od to 40s Od ; average, Os per ton. 6t pd Farmers, 18s Od to 25s Od ; average, 215 ; dealers, OOs Od; average, Os. per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf , 'oo ° Od ; househoaditto, 61d to Od per 41b.—Fresh butte , peer , lld per lb. Eggs, 6s 8d to 6s 10d per hundred. ges t " - '4( lt f, 41dto 7d ; mutton, 5d t o 61d; veal, 4d to 6d ; e ic 'oas`, Od ; bacon, 6d to 7d ; sa usages, 5d per lb . —Fi s h, Ne i to 00' land, 91. lOs to 101 O s p er t on ; S cotc h herr i ngs, 240 00 1 Red, do., OOs per brl.—P o t a t oes, w hi te, 8 d to 9cl; 01 , 14 lld to 12d.—Coals, Newport, 2ls ; Lydney, 21s ; 1100;g Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 o.p. 68 Od per imperial g.°'"-Hides, market, 22s to 28 s ; Salted, 24s to 30s per esv t ' i o. skins, 3icl per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 31. P er o. I# Fleece wool, 15s to 16s per stone.—Hemp, 37/. t e „„,./ ton—Timber, Memel, Si. 10 s ; re d p i ne, 3 /. 10s; Ye's' 3/. Os. per ton; deals, 101. to 181. per hunched. COURSE OF EXCHANGE-YESTERDAY' .. 40 Amsterdam ............ 11 17 Gibraltar ....... ••••• •• 3 0 0 Ditto, three months .. 11 18 Leghorn ..... ••••• •• 0 _ Rotterdam .. - Antwerp ... . •.. .... 25 30 Milan .......... .... • ''''t 1 4 Brussels Hamburgh Altona ................ -- Palermo ....... ••• • • " OA Paris.. ....... n •••• • • '• li Ditto, three months . • 25 27% Lisbon ...... •••• • • •• g" Marseilles. .. 25 32% Oporto ........ •••• • • '• •'' Bourdeaux .......... • • Rio Janeiro .... ..... •• • •"' Frankfort - on• Maine .... 119% Buenos Ay res .• • • ••' Benin . • ........... •• • New York, 60 days' ta bt .' Vienna . . . 11 24 Philadelphia •• •' 01 Trieste ........ ••..••.. 11 27 PRICES OF nur,rdoritL 1,,, 7 0 Petersburgh............ 38% Foreign Gold in Bars ,7 •7 ) O I S Madrid .... ........ 50% Portugal Gold Coln .• 0 4 l o Cadiz. ...... 50% Mexican Dollars .. • • 0 0 1 0 • • •• New Dollars .... •• 0 6 Silver in bars • —. Barcelona.. Seville ....., SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mane are sent from the General F °l by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] ____.-- viro Day when made ttp From what COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port Office, London. Dispatched. 9 6 America (byßrit.pack.N Dec. 24.......... Liverpool America (by United Sts. 44 packet) Dec. 28 .......... Liverpool ... N C. America (by U Steep packet) N Dec. 22 .......... Southampton pee' Australia (via South ampton) TA 20th of each month Southampton 1 4 0 , 8° . • 1 Ditto (via Marseilles N 24th o f th e month Dover ...• • • *Ditto (via Cape of Good ° Rope) . N2d of February.... Plymouth •• gag. nit Africa (West Coast) —II 23rd of the month. Plymouth •• e e. • Alexandria* N 19th&30th o: mon. Dover • . • • • • g a ll,' Belgium . ..... N Daily . ...... Dover ..... • 1 ; 1° Brazil .. M 9th of the month.. Southampton 'L. 11 Buenos Ayres ........3f 9th of the month.. Southampton Jr,. 1, California .. • 'd & 17th of month Southampton ',lie, ee. n ICape of Good Hope ..N 14thof the month. CouthamPt°n Cape de Verds 1 4thof the month Southampton — ,, e c. Constantinople*......N 7 th l 7th27thof mo. Dover .. .• • • Dee. 1 Central America 'nd & 17th of mon. Southampton J ,r . a 1 11 ' Channel Isles ........N Mon.Wed.Bz.Friday Southampton ~.„ 1 .01 31 & 17th ormonth •:outhampton peed' France ... . M& N Twice daily Dover • • D e. 9 s 4l t• Greece* ..... .......N 7thl7th27th ofi non. Dover .. •• • • ,aes. , 4l. Hol a n d rgh Tuesday & Frida London ..• • • 1, - , 9 1,; 31 Wednesday & Sa t London ..... Honduras ........ N 17th of the month Southampton pee. Ireland ........M &"N Twice daily Holyhead •• • ;, e c. 24 India (vfaSouthampt.)sl 2nth of the month. Southampton India (via Marseill es ) N Bth& 24th ' of month Dover • • d••• India (via Cape of Good ~,, 2 6 H0pe)...... ...... .M 14th o f th e month.. Southampton ... 1) 17., • 9 6 Mauritius 14th of the month.. Southampton 1-I° `' Mediterranean (via D ec . , 4{ Southampton ......M 20th of themonth , Southamp ton 3-0.1 Ditto (via Marseilles).l4 Qth& 24th ofmontb Dover!.... • • 1 Mexico 7nd of the month. Southampton . 111 : Madeira 9th&23dofthe mon. Southampton X"' 7 th,t7th,l9th,27th. 2 6 Malta*. •••• • • • ? &30th of the month Dover .. Dee : Naples* ..N sthlhth2sthofrnon. Dover goc_ . Papal States*........N s th l sth2sthofmon 96 Peninsula .. .. 2 7 d th & 17 1 t 7 h t 2 h 7th f o m fm on o th n S z o on u tz th am am p p t t o o n n;A: 44 Tuscany* vWaenstnlinedmicesm.3,....an..d. (see Australia) 1 "' 2d & 17th of month Southampton i . Au•tralla) ........ 0 1 100 5 * The mails for Australia via the Cape of Good Hope are tile of on the 2d of every alternate month. Th ose made up 00 1 Do and 24th of each month via Southampton and Marseilles ; grip sailing vessels at present from Singapore, but nex t y e ar tbe , l eab sent in steamers. * The mails to those countries thus mar k ed ( C) are conv e French packet to Marseilles. t Malls are also made up on the 2d o f every alterna te 10°11 Ip tli I the Cape of Good Hope. BIRTHS. OP A SON. 0 1 l ion° On the 16th inst., a t Carton, Maynooth, the gar of Kildare. OF A DAUGHTER. Of On the 18th inst., at Chatham Barracks, Capt. J. S. Wood, 13th Prince Albert's Light Major of Brigade of Chatham Garrison. On the 16th inst., at M Denmark E -p p la . ce Char 1, berll :1 re o William, fourth son of th e l a t e Geom Par Es tere , lau gh H. Priory, Peckh am , to Ilephzibah, youngest Dodson, Esq., of Albert-square, Claphani-roo DIED. . _. the A O On the 17th i ns t., a t D u ffi e ld-h a ll , D er bystar e ' 0 . of J. B. Crompton, Esq. lace, Vs° On the 21 s t i ns t., a t th e C o tt age , C a d o gan-P . street, T. Richter, aged 76. Pu blll3l treet, _ ~ On the 17th inst., at 21, North Frederick - s ~.„.0 psi J. Doherty, Esq., Q.C., father of the north-western LONDON : Printed and Publi s h e d by 31 - 171 1 -.- - YO -ff of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tice Sun ohe u uti Strand, in the Precinct o f th e S av oy, in h e Middlesex, Wednesday, December 22,1552' 7! d I :Q4 : m y jostot entit] It o follow BoaN, 2 ] Cto ' lt her of a nd /II 41 14/ 2 , 1 ,0852• t. .. 44 duly ‘ " I 1111 1 0 t a en tin 1 7 51 x1rni h h tlY di i ern,7, o enasi ner tip4llernian th eir him ilhf ,t; , thori , k7i,denloot,! 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