The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-01 00:00:00

ItOifEv mARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Stock Exchange has been closed by order of the committee, and a holiday generally observed. The Money Market is active, and the brokers evince a disinclination to take even the best short dated paper at less than the official minimum, and there are many who would not be surprised if a further advance were made on Thursday in the Bank rate to check the outflow of the precious metals. The adviees f rom most of the manufactur i ng dis tricts represent that the observance of the Christmas holidays has in a great measure caused a suspension of business operations during the past week ; cheerful tone, however, prevails in most depart ments. The Asia has arrived from America with £3,047. The amount of £50,000 in sovereigns was taken O ut of the Bank on Saturday afternoon for Alex andria, and £12,000 in bar gold for the continent. It has been announced that Mr. Crum Ewing, M.P., and Mr. Frederick Lubbock have joined the board of the Colonial Company. The directors of the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company (Limited) have received per Douro the following report, dated Morro Velho, November 29, 1865 :—Produce, second division of November, 10 da ys, 13,189 o it avas ; yield, 8.030 oitavas per ton. Continued deficiency in water power. Remittance received, 94,361 oitavas. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. SATURDAY. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. e Der Cent. Consols t Nee r , Jan. 9 Cent. Reduced B6- 3 per Cent B6i i New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 _ _ 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — o (Red Sea T e l egraph), Aug., 190 8 — EXch(Doquer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. 6 3 Do £5OO 6 3 £lOO and £2OO Do .A.cco B ank of. England Stock, 5 per Cent unt — INDIAN c, ORNMENT SECURITIES. Do Ac count " 111(11411 °toc GVE k, 10} p er Cent., April 1874 — D,.,°0.4 D . 5 per Cent. J u l y, 1870 per Cent , Oct. 1888 Do. Do. Certificate;s — Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — r , 5 Per Cent., Jan. 1872 ' il l 5 1 Per Cent., May 1879 _ Do. 4 D o. Bo per Cent , Aug. 1866 9Bi nds, £1, • 000 ui Do u n d er £1 000 —p — A YOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. u - ' 3lBt ri raz ilian 5 hit Bonds, 5 pe r C ent , 1859 — " per Cent Do. 4i- per Cent., 1852-58 -60 Do. 1863 — Do. Do A ccount 1865 — 74} 51 B D')• gyres.£2s paid Buenos 6er Cent _ .uo. Account P —Do 1 t Cbili a ' -er Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) n 4i per Cent Do. 3 per Cent _ Colombian 6 per Cent. _ Cuba, 6 per Cent. ba „ s hish 3 per Cent., 1825 1 -' O . 4 per Cent., 1863 D ' - ' O . per Cent, 1 773-77, £25 paid — 4114131 w). PrinPci alities D o Accou nt I kknador N ew Consolidated, 1 per Cent 7 s— E -uo., .Provision a l L and Warrant — gY P tl ah 7 per Cent _ Bonds ue ___ Do .£lOO Do. 1864 9lk Do £lOO Bonds Cheek 92 5 per Cents 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account •1 D Do. Acco. Cou ount pons truatemaia Peroent. 00 000000000000000000***** Do .£B6 paid o .... Do. 1839 and-1850••••••••••-....... Italian 5 per Cent 1865 Do scar Railway — DODo Scrip, £67i paid ~, 5 per Cent., 1864 _ "u•ellean 3 per Cent DO. Ac count 241 1864 — 13 ° 6 per Cent. Anglo-French D o zo_ French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — ntevidean 6 per Cont., £3O paid :=---. °°4B / 1 Imperial 5 per Cent tieW Granada Do 2 per Cent 0 Do Deferred D 1) Land W arran t s (H ec t ares ) _ ---% 6 a.er Cent, 1864 p ''''') Guaranteed, 4 per Cent _ ey;lvia 4} per Cent V s e. Account 4 ,.-;0 Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds D 043 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) _ p n 4 1 per Cent., 1862 I)oguese 3 per Cent., 1853 ,-, 3 Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, , .-,0. Account ~ ' 46i ' l4l ,s o ian 5 Per Cent., 1822, £ St — D ° -1- ' 4 i per Ceat. 1850 41 Per Cent., 1860 DO 3 Do,. pex Cent 1859 ",0 5 per Cent 1862 5 per Cent • .__lB64 B9 DOBardint 5 per Cent _ _ c., .4 ount P a illsh 3 Per Cent ...... Ditto accouut it A:owo_Deferred _ D e Paaajuvnet - _ Do. account , .... ************************** '; * 28 i th r o l Aeco Ce ua rt t *** Co-u•p•• • * ii•o•t-fu-nd;e;;d• ********* 8,,,,, e ,„ , Cent — uiaap, 4 per . ,_]:), . 0 . 4i per Cent. 1864 _ L ulinsh 6 per Cent 1854 Do Account ... • ; . -- 130 6 per Cent . 18 58 Ac c0unt..,......... ....................... D. Account .. e £lOO tond:. ft). li per Cent 6 per Cent. 1862 Do A ccount ... Do.ci.oo Botz ......................... 71i i i i Do o 56 per Cent, 1863 _ _ per Cent. 1865 DOS o r b, L „, Do ,a, ee Z t " paid ......... 42i 1 1-1 DO £1(0 Bands _ ,u l3 O. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed r e ezuela 3 per Cent. 5 A Dividends on th e a b ove payable in L on d on. peip4uatrias hi 133 r Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Dutch ;, 4 1 Per cent, Ex. 25f. • b4l I'er Cent., Ex. 12 Gull — Frencho%4 per Cent. Certificates — Italian Relates 3 per Cent. — •L'tuari 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Con sols for m oney TWO O'CLOCK. D O . Asc oluit, 87} 1 We have reason to believe that her Majesty has signified her intention to confer the Grand Cross of t he Bath, left vacant by the death of Lord Palmerston, On Sir Robert Peel. The circumstances under which this baar.h. of -- Royal favour is conveyed are peculiar. In the desire to make some acknowledgment of Sir Robert's en ergetic and effective assistance, the Government had already offered him a peerage ; but the right hon. gentle than, for the second time within fifteen years, courteously declined the proffered dignity ; preferring, as his father had done before him, to remain in that House of Parlia- Tent which is the real vantage-ground of political action. .m eta me reasons will scarcely apply to the present dis ezail:dn; W hich, although not in popular estimation so • is una ttended by the inconvenience of carryin g With: it any pr act i cal chae of position ; while it yet p 05 ,7,8h,8e08 , 7 , 8 h , 8 e 0 8 a ng cons iderable si gn ifi cance. Th e G ran d C ross is ofl In confer red upon c i v ili ans, un l ess th ey are already Wh o linnoble rank ; and we are not aware of any commoners o r h a a : tt L a llY hold it, except three or four, and they are, Precede 'eel; Cabinet Ministers. Nor do we recall any iii..... ,q nt of its bestowal on a statesman still so young as Robert Peel We , ' naereber qtlderstand that Mr. Edward Buller, the ba o , et for North Northamptonshire, is to be created a bit PLAGui`P O RTION OF LONDON AND THE CATTLE ConiraitteA e al 3 Doi final meeting of the Cattle Plague Pnrp os - nted by the corporation of London for the e of ende . •sanatoria for the t reatni eut 0, avouring to establish Saturday, at .cattle afflicted with the plague was held on i hg up i ts aft.,o M ansion -house, for the purpose of wind ofe 't)li red to i n ; s' The committee having in vain . nd . - est a b lia , , hee the Government to sanction the principle Poli e umg sanatoria in different districts of the metro aPatb' and. th h P o eti call b r posal having alsobeen regarded very nf 33:1°13 eY Was co 3- t he public, so far as the subscription October la-as,hh_heerned, the committee, at a meeting held in as ue ~, ', resolved that it was useless for them to act, it u,sBa2,vr_ ,as likely to result from their proceedings, an.! should be agreed e e tuu rtnheadt the ded uct money which. had been received. r eport ed ' Mr. Gibh after the necessary expenses had been e d „th at „ -s, the secretary to the committee., now 1 ,e50, .„,, the total amount of money received was • laor a ti ea 07'1141 included a donation of £l,OOO by the car terent e i London and several other sums frora dif lneat trade hlDDlPatii b.. _ es and persons connected 'with the s ubscrib ed CarLdne Metropolis, the general public having expended, pri 13'' anything to the fund. The amount .£l6O Ilei Pally i formal resolution ,or about 1 0 n advertieing, was a little over Per cent. on the sum received ; and a retu m e d . T he Was Nailed that the money should be CD as then separat9d. SHARE MARKETS, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Sharei Railways. tsobtoi and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian. • • • • Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, A b.Junc .London, scrip Corti Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. st k. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northprn D.. A stock Do. B stock Do. 14. w. is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original D S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. .51.1d.—Ostord Do. Newport Do. Bereford....., L;nc;,shire Az Yorkshire L, ndon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Aletrop. Fx. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Do. New Do. Extension...... Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and St. John'tiW'd 11diand Do. £9 Share _ Birmin.. & Derby vi id Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E Do. Leeds ..... . Do. York Do. Carlisle ~.. Do. stock. & Darling. Do. 10. 1860-61 North London .. Do. do. 1864 I Do. to. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 4 :o. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon -outh E stern Staines, Wok., & Wok :Taff Vale Do. C Vale Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha 1 West Cornwill RITISH Atlan tic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per Do. E shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & N. E., lirn 1 at. e Town & Dock, Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben _al, gu., 5 dial East I. dia.', gu. 5 p.c. Do. Extension 14 rand Trunk ot Canad Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c • Do. Ist - ref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred .... Do. 2d Pr. . Bonds.. Do. do. deterred —.I Do. 3d Pref. stock.... Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pret. stock . Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 6 p. 0 Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D . per cent.... Do Great Wt a. of Canada.. D. New . Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 I 51 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. BLC'da, 6pc lstpf.bs Scinde ...... Do. Delhi Do. do t 4 Do. Punjaub „no.: Do.lndus p aid I Clos ing I Business ' P rice. done. v 3 95 27 128 94 96 13 15 4i 5i 68 72 i 0 72 121 112 Hi 42 43 72 61 1 2'1127 145 147 92 94 53) 59 38 40 33 37 6.1 'O5 1221 1:3 9J £2 102 101 37 39 50 b 2 MI 526 i 95 961 62 63 1373 128 33 Sr lf 101 10 123 123i l 13 93 95 57 59 7 29 1101 111 i 72 73 ; 104 i 1051 , 36 37 to 11 p 126 )28 2 2 p 2 2dp 75 76 11 12 148 15 66 68 112 114 54 56 1 74i 75i, 8 9 147 150 3 1p 102 104 49 51 ISSIONs 5,6) 102 103 id tp 61 61 10 11 75 80 99 101 65 70 ICO 103 102 102 1(3 104 par 6 u 34 35 87 89 65 68 55 60 56 58 50 55 47 50 42 46 34 36 34 35 103 IC4 36$ } 7 4 361 1 51 61 35 1011 -~ E~I P loti 104 lei 17 4 BO 3 /5 8s d 7 1 4d 1011 1024 93 95 89 91 63 45 82 81 )14 10t 1014 1024 : if 10, 102 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECU . British Columbia. 6 pert cent., Dec. 31,1872:—. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 g. c. Feb. & Aug Da. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1)0.5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 t)o.Apl.&Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-9 i Do. Jan. &July, 1890-9 I Do. 5 per cent. 15 Aprils and 15 Oct., 1600 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July -- Do. 1,78 Do. 1881, May :6, Nov, Do. 1895, Feb. dc Aug Natal • , ov. a per cent N.11.G0v.6 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 188 r. Do. 5 p.c. 18.1 to IB7r, Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189.2 , New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova So tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c Aus.Gov. 8 p,o 1868-11 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. ja & July Do. do, th pril & Oct BRITI Cam. Consol. hold, lira IChiverton Clifford A malgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake wal is East Bassett (Illogan) Nast Cara, ton Eas Cam Brea mast Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Love,' E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StA übyn(G wen. Gr. at L xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor i Helst si Grenville Herod's Foot .... Elingston i owns (Margaret Uny Lelant Marke Valley wyndy Iron Ore, lira New Sewn North Roskear .Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Whe4l Crotty Prosper linited Pr vidence UnyLvlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheil Fran. tlllogan ••3 1 a y Park . Tin Croft vvlgra and etc gan, lim West hassett (Mogan W. Caradon (L , skeard West C hi. rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton IWheal Trelawney (i:ii.l 96 98 94 95 94 96 82 89 81 83 101 103 104 106 104 105 105 107 90 92 10) 3C2 1(6 108 103 105 100 LOS 104 We 105 107 98 100 98 88 1 0 102 93 v 5 8) 81 103 105 84 85 10) 102 162 104 106 108 IC4 106 INES, 9 10 20 21 575 595 1 18 21 8} 9 5t 5f 3 4 14 15 3 3t 5 7 20 21 lo 2 3t 32} - 3* 31 4i 38 38 51 5f 5 7 4 4} 2e led 40 60 15 17 1 1 P 6 38 420 440 20 25 1 ,, 12 19 20 4 6 3 4 9 11 8J 85 190 200 95 ICO 112 i 3711 4 2121 2226 181 1f r• LthackatlGN (1E titiAttEn Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock, 91 Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pm., Ditto, 4i per cent, redeemable at 10 per cent., IC2k Great Western, 4 per cent irred • 81 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto, 4/ per cent, red., 100 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 p .r cent., 113 London Tilbury, and Southend, 103 Midland, Bradford fret. Stock, 110 i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Central Argentine, 31 Dutch Ithentsh, 23) Ditto (all), 28i 0-,-at Luxembourg, 10 Imperial Mexican, Urn., 5i Recite and San Francisco (Um.), gua. 7 per cent., I:s.i FOREIGN IRMO, Anglo-Brazilian Gold, limited, par Don Pedro, North bel Rey, if Scottish AustraPan, lim.. I St. John del Rey, lim., 49 71 BAN fo-. Agra and Masterman's, lira., 58 71 Alliance, lira. . 291 Anglo-Italian, lira., 10 Bank of British Columbia, 22 Bank of utago, lira., 84 City, 108 9, Colonial, Um., 44 Eng ish Joint Stock, lira., 11 Imperial Bank, lira.. 29, Imperial Ottoman, 131 Lap d:Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 41 London and River Hate. Ditto, issued at 1i pm., 1 4 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 231 London and South-Western, lira., Ditto, new. 2U Midland Bank, Urn., 201 New Zealand Bank corporation, lira., 1 )riental Banx Corporation. 5t Scinde, Punjaub. and Delhi. I m., 81 Ditto, issued at 2 pm., lied Union of London, 541 2d.ISCELLANEOI . IB. Attintic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., / Australian Agricultural, 2e Ceylon Company, 10* City of Moscow Gas, lim., 5* City dfices, litn., Credit Fonder and Mubilier of England. 8 1 Crystal Pa►.ace, Egyptian_ Corn and Trading, 2* Fore-kit:vet Warehouse, lira., 11* Buds%n's Bay, 161 Impr.ridl Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 7} International Financial "ociety, lim., 6 * J oint Stock Discount, iim., 89 London Financial Asaociatton, lim., 191 North British A ustr lasian, 57 Overend, Gurney, and Co.. Hum, £li Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, Jim., 61 Ditto (all), 4* Peninsula and Oriental steam, 74 Trust and Agency 01 Australasia, lim., 2i Universal Marine, Insurance, lim., 41 Warrant Finance, Dm, 71 OXFORD AND THE GREAT WESTERN WORKS.-- A rumour has been very prevalent in Oxford during the past week, that the Great Western carriage manufactory will not after all be brought to Oxford, but will be removed to Swindon, which is considered a much more eligible situation. 100 1, 0 100 le 0 100 too 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 3} 100 all 100 100 100 16.13.4 OSSE SIT M THE SUN, Loisr,oN, MONDAY EVENING, JAMTARY 1, lE€6. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. NEW YORK, DN. 19 (Evening). The House of Representatives has adopted a re solution endorsing the Secretary of the Treasury's views regarding the contraction of the currency. The Judiciary Committee have resolved to report upon Mr. Farnsworth's resolution providing for the constitutional amendment and repudiating the rebel debt. Mr. Thadeus Stevens has made a speech in the House on reconstruction, in which he advocated territorial government for the Southern States until the constitution could be so amended as to secure perpetual ascendancy to the Union party, and recommended that the basis of con gressional membership be changed to the actual votes. He further desired that an export duty of 10c. per pound should be imposed upon cotton, and that the rebel debt should be repudiated before the South is readmitted. M. Montholon, the French ambassador, is sojourn ing in New York. It is rumoured that the resolu tions on Mexican affairs introduced in Congress are so offensive to him that he will not return to Wash ington until after receiving instructions from the Emperor N apoleon. The Fenian President, Roberts, has counter manded O'Mahoney's order convoking the Fenian Congress for January. President Johnson has sent a message to the Senate, accompanied by reports from General Grant and Carl Schurz upon the condition of the Southern States. Mr. Johnson declares that the rebellion is suppressed, and that the people are yielding obedience to the laws of the Federal Go vernment with more willingness and greater prompti tude than under the circumstances could reasonably have been anticipated. Mr. Johnson continues :- - "The prospect of affairs is more promising than could well have been expected. Sectional animosity is surely and rapidly merging into a better spirit. National representation, connected with a proper system of taxation, will result in the harmonious restoration of the relations of the States to the Union." Gen. Grant reports that he is satisfied that think ing men in the South accept the present situation in good faith, and regard slavery and secession as for ever settled by the arbitrament of arms. He re commends the presence of small garrisons, mostly of white troops, in the interior of the South, where . there are many freedmen. No force is necessary elsewhere except on the sea coast and in the forts. The South desires to return to self government within the ' Union as soon as pos sible, but while reconstructing requires Govern ment protection. The freedman's mind is not yet disabused of the idea that he has the right to live without care or provision for the future, the effect of which is idleness and accumulation in camps and cities. Freedmen require for a few years, not only laws for their protection, but the fostering care of those on whom they can rely for counsel. He therefore recommends the continuation of the Freedmen's Bureau in A modified form, that is to say, by partially incorpo rating it with the military department. The report of Carl Schurz was delayed too long to be read in the Senate. Senator Sumner denounced President Johnson's message as resembling the whitewashing message of Franklin Pierce with regard to the Kansas atroci ties. Mr. Sumner was hereupon rebuked by several senators. The House of Representatives has passed an amendment prohibiting the payment of the rebel debt. , California has ratified the constitutional amend ment. The Government has arrested Captain Semmes. Yesterday in the Senate Mr. Sumner reiterated his remarks that President Johnson's message was an attempt to whitewash the South, and read ex tracts from letters and papers showing the Southerners to be strongly disloyal and constantly perpetrating outrages against freedmen. The Provisional Governors of Alabama and Georgia have been removed, and the governors elect have assumed office. Mr. Seward has officially announced that three fourths of the States having ratified the constitu tional amendment abolishing slavery ; it is now valid as part of the Federal Constitution. A resolution has been introduced in the House, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, declaring that the United States ought never to recognise any Government imposed upon any nation on the American continent by European arms. The House has adopted a resolution asking the President for information concerning the steps taken by Maximilian, or any European Power, to obtain from the Federal Government the recognition of the Mexican empire, and also asking what corre spondence or what action of the Federal Govern ment has taken place. In response to a request of the House' for information concerning Maxmilian's decree es tablishing peonage, Mr. Seward has furnished the opinion of Attorney-General Speed and the accompanying correspondence, which are now in the hands of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Speed's opinion, which declared that the result of decree was to re-establish slavery, was forwarded with other relevant matter to the American Minister in Paris, who called the attention of M Drouyn de l'Huys to the subject. The French Jovernment has not yet replied. A New York evening paper publishes a rumour that M. Montholon, previous to Mr. Johnson issu ing his Message, had assured Mr. Seward that the French troops would withdraw from Mexico in a short time. Mr. Johnson's Message was in conse quence modified on the Mexican question. This rumour is partially credited in well-informed French circles. According to the New York Herald's Washington correspondence, the Mexican Estafette states that 1,000 Zouaves en route to reinforce General Bazaire had been landed at Martinique, where they revolted, with cries of " Death to the Emperor I Vive la Republique !" The garrison endeavoured to restore order, but many were killed on both sides. Four hundred of the Zouaves on their arrival at the city of Mexico were disarmed, and ordered to be court martialled. [The basis of this is, no doubt, the riot and fight which took place at Martinique between the Zouaves, who wanted more shore liberty, and the marines who were sent to bring thorn to bar racks. A full report of this affair has already been given.] Mr. George Brown has resigned his seat in the Canadian Cabinet. The Etna has arrived out. COMMERCIAL. .NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (Evening.) Money abundant. Gold, 146. Exchange on London, 160; on Paris, 3.534. Stocks very firm. New York Centrals, 95i ; Illinois, 133 ; Eris , „ 96i ; Five-Twenty Bonds, 1021. Cotton very firm. Middling Upland, 51.52. Flour, wheat, and corn slightly firmer. Provisions advancing. Coffee steady. Sugar heavy. Molasses steady. Petro leum dull ; crude, 40/ ; refilled, 65k. MEXICO. NEW YORK, Dec. 19. Advices received here from Vera Cruz to the 6th inst. state that 600 French troops arrived there on the 2d, and were immediately despatched to the field. Maximilian has extended for 15 days from Nov. 29 the time in which Republicans laying down their arms will be amnestied ; and has also ordered a draft for the army throughout Mexico. The Empress reached Merida, in Yucatan, on the 23d ult., and was enthusiastically received. The friends of Ortega have issued a manifesto denying Juarez the constitutional right to re-elect himself President, and declaring Ortega to be the rightful President. Despatches from New Orleans assert that the French officers at Matamoras generally anticipated war with the United States. The Royal Mail steamship Asia, from Boston and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 1.30 p.m. to-day (Sunday) with $15,208 in specie and 48 passengers. She landed 93 sacks of mails and six passengers, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. — This Day, MARKETS—This Day. THAMES. NEW. YEAR'S-DAY IN THE EAST.—There were only ten drunken charges from the K or Stepney division, and four from the Hor Whitechapel division, this day. Inspector Honey, of the A reserve, attached to the K division, and Inspector Dendy, of the H division, said the last night of the old year and the morning of the new year were re markably quiet, and that there was a great improvement in the conduct of the working classes of the district. Mr. Honey and Mr. Dendy are old and experienced officers, and their opinions are entitled to respect. Seven of the ten drunkards, who were simply drunk and incapable, were discharged ; three others, who were drunk and disorderly, were fined ss. each. FENIANISM.—T wo Irishmen, named Thomas Farrell and Michael Butler, are in custody on a charge of Feni auism—in other words, with endeavouring to seduce a soldier of the 6th Carabineers, stationed in Kensington Barracks, from his allegiance to his Queen and country. The prisoners were apprehended in Whitechapel last night. They have engaged Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, to de fend them. They will be charged with treason-felony. When our reporter despatched his messenger with this report the soldier, who will be the principal witness against them, had not arrived, and there is no doubt that an attempt will be made by some scoundrels among the Fenians to prevent him reaching the court. The case will not be taken until the other night charges are dis posed of. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. a - TlMES.—Sanguine as we have now good reason to be from repeated illustrations of the buoyancy of the Revenue, the Quarterly Returns still con tinue to surpass our utmost expectations. The net result of a comparison between the Returns before us and those of the corresponding periods in last year exhibits, of course, a decrease, in consequence of the heavy reductions of taxation in the last Budget ; but this decrease is surprisingly below what might have been expected, and will offer the most gratifying disappointment to Mr. Glad ston's calculations. He remitted taxation to the extent of five millions in the financial year, and he estimated the probable recovery, in conse quence of increased consumption, at a million and a quarter, so that the decrease which he antici pated on the whole year was £3,778,000. This would give a decrease for nine months of £2,833,500. Instead of this, the actual decrease for those nine months is but £1,116,958, or not very much more than a third of what was anticipated. Upon the quarter the result is even more remarkable, the actual decrease being but £62,181, against an average estimated decrease of £944,500. Lastly, taking the whole year 1865 as compared with 1864, the decrease is less than a million. Such results, while to a considerable extent they may be attri buted to the skilful management of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, must be due in a far larger de gree to an extraordinary prosperity in the nation at large; and they justify the most ample con gratulations upon our entering on the new year. We have reason to anticipate that this remark able prosperity will be continued during the ensuing quarter, and, if so, Mr. Gladstone's task next session will be scarcely less agreeable than it was last year. The loss which he anticipated on the whole year was, as we have said, £3,800,000, while the actual loss during the last nine months has been little more than a million. If the next quarter be but proportionately favourable, we can hardly fail to find ourselves in the receipt of two millions more than we anticipated. It will be an easy task to reduce taxation, and when we consider what an immense increase in the comforts of the poor must be represented by that additional ten million pounds of tea of which we have spoken, we may well rejoice at any further opportunity of pursuing the same beneficent policy. HERALD.—Whatever else comes of the manner in which the Government has seen fit to deal with the rebellion in Jamaica, we know with certainty that it will entail upon us considerable expense and no little public inconvenience. Sir Henry Storks has been fetched home from Malta in hot haste, and Mr. Russell Gurney has been suddenly summoned from his comfortable quarters at Guildhall, to be come for some weeks or months a member of the Royal commission to inquire into the state of Stoney Gut and the murders at Morant Bay. We doubt not that adequate provision has been made for the discharge of the governor's duties at Malta, and we believe that the Court of Alder men were engaged for some time on Saturday in arranging for the conduct of the civic judicial business in the absence of their Recorder. To the constitution of the commission no one can take exception, and if the Ministry have done well in issuing it we do not know that they could possibly have chosen men betTer fitted for the work, or more certain to command the confidence of the country, than those who will leave Southampton to-morrow morning. But this little point precedent is just that on which, as we believe, the law officers of the Crown feel a most uncomfortable amount of uncertainty in the present and a painful degree of apprehension for the future. They have hastily jumped to the conclusion that the Queen can do anything and everything in all parts of her dominions. They have yielded to the de mands of the Anti-Slavery Society, and have ap parently trusted to the dicta of that active but not learned body for guidance on a question of great and grave importance, whether as a matter of con stitutional principle or of colonial policy. Of course, under these circumstances, no one need be surprised to hear that the blind have led the blind with the usual results, and that we are likely to have in the course of the new year an entirely new comedy of errors—a reproduction of " All in the Wrong" on a large scale, which will make all the actors in the piece look sufficiently silly. We do not forget that the Act of Indemnity, like all other acts of the Colo nial Legislature, requires the Royal assent, and it may be said that until this is given the Gover nor cannot • claim the benefit of his legisla tive absolution. We grant that this is so, but this only brings us to a fresh diffi culty. A commission like that just appointed has no power to examine witnesses on oath unless that power be given by act of Parliament. As no such enabling act has been passed it follows that the evidence taken will be a mass of mere hearsay, unless the Colonial Legislature comes to the rescue of those whose very presence in the island is an insult and a disparagement to it. Practically, the commissioners will have to go cap in hand to Governor Eyre and his Parliament with some such story as this :—" We have come out here to inquire into matters which you have already investi gated, to inform ourselves at second-hand of oc currences which have taken place under your eyes. We know that you have already con sidered the subject, and passed your opinion on it ; that we have come here through the action of a section of English politieians whose legislation has injured your property, who have for years scoffed at your sufferings, and who, ever since they knew of your recent peril, have belied your character, impugned your motives, and held you up to execration as the basest and most cruel of man kind. Therefore we come to you and say, Give us power to administer an oath, that we may examine witnesses anxious to make out a case against you. Enable us to sit with something like the ordinary authority of a court of justice, that those who desire your detriment may marshal their forces to the best advantage, and then, while of your personal impartiality you may feel assured, you will feel equally certain that those who have assailed you in England will make the most and the worst of anything their sable proteges may say against you." The answer of the colonists to such a request certainly may be favourable, but we do not think that the Government has any right to calculate upon such an eventuality. Yet, unless they do so, the Ministry will be responsible for having put the Crown into a false position by sending a tribunal of eminent gentlemen to the other hemisphere, charged with a commission which may at the very beginning of its labours be rendered almost nugatory, through its unavoidable depend ence upon aid which can only be rendered by that very Assembly, whose most solemn acts are brought into undeserved discredit by its appointment. A COLUMBINE BURNT TO DEATH.—Daring the performance of the pantomime on Thursday night at the Sunderland Theatre a fearful accident occurred, which has unhappily been attended with fatal results. It appears that the jets at the wings of the stage are supplied with gas from an indiarubber tube, but the tube having been caught by the foot of some one while making an exit the supply was prevented, and the lights consequently went out. The gasman applied a lighted taper almost im mediately, thinking they had been blown out ; but the gas which had been issuing from the disconnected tube at once exploded, and the flames, springing up some feet, caught the dress of Miss Ricardo, the columbine, as she flit ed by, and she was instantly in flames. She shrieked and rushed on in the middle of the scene, where her father was playing as clown, but was thrown down by one of the stage carpenters. Mr. Bell, the lessee, rushed from his pri vate box, and his top coat was pulled off and wrapped round the poor girl, and the flames were beaten out. A number of the audience clambered from the pit to the stage while the fearful scene was going on, but they ultimately, resumed their seats, and the performance proceeded. Medi cal assistance was at once procured, and the poor girl was, conveyed to her father's lodgings in Blandford-street, where the three medical gentlemen who were called to at tend her held out hopes that in a few days she would be able to resume her duties; but this, however, proved an erroneous impression, for she died on Friday afternoon from the shock her system had sustained. Mr. Ricardo, the clown, was much burnt on his left hand in endeavour ing to save her. MARK-LANE. In the country markets held on Saturday only a mode rate business was transacted in wheat. Both red and white qualities, however, changed hands at late prices. Fine barley ruled firm, at full currencies. Other articles moved off slowly, at late rates. On the Continent the corn trade generally is quiet, at previous quotations. Advices from New York state that a fair business was passing in wheat and flour for ship ments to Great Britain. Very moderate supplies of English grain were received up to our market last week. The imports from abroad amounted to 5,015 qrs- of wheat, 5,372 barley, 24,312 oats, 1,A50 beans, 1,191, 36 tares, 25,688 linsed, 12,354 rapeseed, 6,879, maize 230, sundry seeds 831 sacks, and 2,664 brls of flour. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate, and the general condi tion of the produce was poor. For good and fine dry samples there was a fair but by no means active inquiry and previous quotations are steadily supported. For in ferior wheat the trade was dull, and had sales boon forced factors would have been compelled to accept less money. The quotations, however, were without quotable change from Friday last. • About an average supply'of foreign wheat was on the stands. The amount of busitiess transacted was very moderate In prices no alteration took place as compared with last week. . Floating cargoes of grain in but moderate request, at • late rates. For malt there was a limited inquiry, at late rates. Oats were in moderate supply, and steady request, at full currencies. Beans were in very moderate supply, and the trade fer them ruled firm, at full prices. There was a moderate supply of barley on offer. Good and fine malting qualities moved off steadily, at full prices, otherwise the barley trade was quiet, at previous quota tions. Peas changed hands at quite previous quotations. The market was but moderately supplied. Flour was in but moderate request, at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red,l new, per qr. 39s to 46s Do., old 46s 51s Do., white, old s4s 59s Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s Do., new —s —s Talavera, new s2s 60s Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 33s 40s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown _ .......... _ Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 66s Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 20s Potato Youghal and Cork, black l9s Cork, white 2ls Scotch, Feeding . 20s Beaus—Tick' 39s Pigeons .... 42s Peas—Grey, new Maple White Boilers Fl our —T own -made, per 2801 b 43s Suffolk 32s Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel 26s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of foreign stock in our market to-day was only moderate, but in somewhat improved condition. Sales progressed steadily, and the quotations had an up ward tendency. For the time of year, the arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts, as well as from Ireland and Scotland, were tolerably good. The quality of the Eng lish and Irish stock was only middling, but the supply from Scotland was in first rate condition. All breeds com manded a steady sale, at an advance in the quotations of fully 2d per 81b. The general top figure was 5s 4d per 81b. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire we received 1,800 short-horns, &c. ; from Norfolk, 400 short-horns; from other parts of England, 250 various breeds ; from Scotland, 459 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 250 oxen, cows, and heifers. There was about an average number of sheep in the pens for the season. The condition of most breeds was good. The demand was somewhat active, at an improve ment in value of id per 81bs. The best Downs realised 6s 8d per 81bs. . The few calves on offer were readily disposed of at higher rates. The highest figure was 5s per 81bs. Pigs, the supply of which was very moderate, moved off slowly, but at full pricis —viz., from 4s to 5s per 81bs. Per 81b to sink the offal. s ds d s ds d Crse.& inf. beasts... 3 4 3 10 Pme ors-wool sheep 5 8 6 2 Second quality do ..4 0 4 6 Prime a'thaown c 0.6 4 6 8 Prime large oxen ..4 8 5 0 La - ge coarse calvcs.4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, Lc....5 2 5 4 Pnme small d0......4 8 5 o Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 0 4 8 Large hogs .4 4 6 Second quality do ..4 1 5 6 Small porkers 4 8 5 0 Lamb....os Od to 0 , Od. Suckling calves,ll9s to 218 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 298 t) 34a each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts ... 3,530 Beasts 521 Cows. — Cows. Sheep 1%150 Sheep 7,920 Calves 313 Ca yes 323 rigs 320 Pigs The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week amounted to 5,682 head. In the corresponding week in 1865, we received 5,174; in 1863-4, 3,321; in 1863, 1,559; in 1862, 3,164; in 1861, 1,118; and in 1860 1,852 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Amsterdam - ... - ... """*. ... ... Antwerp 5 2915 14 ... Boulogne l7 ... 84 Bremen Copenhagen.— Dordt. Calais.. Dunkirk Gothenburg — ••• Hamburg — ... Harlingen 6l Medemblik Ostend ... Rotterdam 27 ••• Tonning Stockholm ... 92 ... 7 ... 58 338 - 7 ... -- 945 - ... 16 ... 23 Total The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1865 1863-4 1450 ... 2,692 ... ... 317 ... 58 1863 ... 368 ... - A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Jan. 2, 1865, and this day, Monday, Jan. 1, 1866. ... Per 81bs. to sink the offal. Jau. 2, 1865. Jan. 1, 1866. sdsds d s d. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 Bto 4 4 3 4t03 10 Second quality do. Prime large oxen 5 0 5 2 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do 5lO 6 0 6 4 6 8 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 4 5 0 4 0 4 6 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers - Beasts 3,163 7,530 Sheep 15,350 24,810 Calves ___ Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Jan. 4, 1864.—Beasts, 4,130 — sheep, 17,060—calves, 170—pigs, 430. Jan. 5, 1863—Boasts, 4,480 —sheep, 17,600—calves, 160 —pigs, 290. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these markets. Good and prime qualities are firm at fully late rates, other wise the trade rules quiet. Per Blb by the caroase. sd s d Inferior beef 3 0 3 4 Middling do. 3 6 4 0 Prime large do 4 2 4 4 Prime small do 4 4 4 6 Large pork 3 8 4 8 Lamb, Os ol sd s d Inferior mutton.. ••3 6 4 Middling mutton 4 2 4 6 Prime do 4 8 5 0 Veal 3 10 4 48 5 2 Small pork Id to Os Od. BOROUGH. HOP. - - A fair business is passing in our market, and prices of all kinds of hops rule firm. Fine hops are in request at ex treme rates. The imports into London last week amounted to 179 bales from Boulogne, 57 Dunkirk, 53 Calais, 196 Hamburg, 58 Ostend, 50 Antwerp, 2 Bremen,-and 1,100 bundles from Rotterdam. New Mid and East Kents Bos to 190 s per cwt. New Weald of Kents New Sussex Yearlings 9ss to 135 s „ WOOL Both for home-grown and colonial wool the market has ruled quiet since our last report. The advance iu the Bank rate to 7 per cent. has had the effect of curtailing transac tions; nevertheless, prices rule tolerably firm, and without material change from last week. Last week's import was about 1,000 bales, chiefly from the Cape of Good Hope. Current prices of English wool per lb. ad s d Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 9 110 Half-bred do lll 2 0 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 8 1 9 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing - Combing SEEDS. Linseed and rapeseed were in but moderate request, at about late rates. In agricultural seeds next to nothing was doing, prices, therefore, must be considered nominal. There was a fair demand for cakes, on former terms. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. These markets are well supplied with potatoes, forwhich 1126 I 93' 62i 1381 4 8 123 k a I 94 3a 110 11 5 A 751 5 1 41 ITir:9c the trade is dull at barely late rates. The imports into London last week were quite unimportant. Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. 4os to 70s „ Yorkshire do 6os to 80s „ „ Flukes Bos to 100 s „ 77 Rocks 50s to 70s „ TALLOW. The tallow 'market is quiet today at about previous quotations. P.Y.C. is selling at 48s 3d to 48s 6d per cwt. on the pot. Town tallow is worth 48s 3d net cash. Rough fat 2s 6d per 81bs. Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. Stock this day 54,625 70,062 57,850 48,860 Price of Y.C. —s Od 42s Od —s Od 48s 6d Delivery last week 1,358 1,386 1,746 1,337 Ditto from June 1 49,901 43,124 55,420 G 8,633 Arrival last week Ditto from June 1 66,217 75,339 68,249 58,010 Price of Town The Speech of the Queen of Spain. The following is the full text of the speech de livered by the Queen of Spain at the opening of the Cortes on the 27th ult., a summary of which has already been received by telegraph : Senators and Deputies,—The opening of the C ortes of the kingdom has at all times been a happy event for the Spanish monarchy_ Animated by this thought, I always come with deep satisfaction to inaugurate your legislative labours, both because I have to associate myself with public satisfaction at the prosperity of the nation, and to ask counsel and assistance from you in its difficulties. My desire for peace has not sufficed to prevent the outbreak of hostilities against the republic of Chili, which has obstinately refused to make honourable reparation for the insults offered to Spain duri,ng her difficulties with Peru. My Government will in due course give you an account of the progress of the war, and of any negotiations to which it may give rise. Our relations with other Powers continue to be friendly. Various reasons, based upon the perma nent interests and sentiments of the nation, have induced me to recognise the kingdom of Italy. This recognition has not weakened my feelings of deep respect and cordial attachment towards th e common father of the faithful, nor diminished my firm resolve to watch over the rights of the Holy See: Constant in my desire to respect the independence of the American States, founded on the ancient colonies of Spain, I have concluded. a treaty of peace and recognition with the republic of San Salvador. The crisis which, from various causes, oppresses our commercial cities, increases the embarrassments of the treasury; and although the public revenues are recovering from the acci dental decline they had suffered, it is necessary to reform some imposts in order to augment the re ceipts of the treasury, and to introduce strict economy in the public expenditure, so as to effect within a brief period a real equilibrium of the budget. The extinction or prompt liquidation of old debts, the reduction of the floating debt to its natural limits by gradually diminishing the balance in favour of the Bank of Deposit, and other mea sures projected by my Government relative to credit and the utilisation of the still considerable mass of national property, will form the subject of several bills which will be laid before you with the budget and the general accounts of the state. The develop ment of the productive, intellectual, and material forces of the country is the true means of augment ing the resources of the Treasury ; other means must be regarded as artificial, and only proper for periods of transition. The amelioration of the law upon public education, by extending primary instruc tion, and propagating sciences useful to agriculture and industry ; the facilitation of works for turning to Use the water of rivers which now run from barren dis tricts to the sea in pure waste ; the assurance to the proprietor of the fruits of his capital and labour; the diminution of the restrictions upon chose indus trial pursuits which, like that of mining, are still subject to oppressive regulations and centralisation ; and the multiplication of means of communication bringing with it trade and consumption—all this will give a stimulant and fresh outlets to production, and will found upon the development of public wealth a more agreeable future for our finance. The realisation of these projects will be facilitated by the bills which my Government will propose to you, and which your wisdom and patriotism will complete and perfect. By uniting individual acti vity with the collective impulse of deputations and municipalities, the progressive advance of the improvements demanded by modern civilisa tion will be more rapid. This union of forces can only be effected by vivifying the spirit of municipal liberty, which has never died out in the different kingdoms which formed the Spanish monarchy, and by concentrating itself in the real interests of the local administration, by the aid of laws which will place it in harmony with the law regulating the government and administra tion of the provinces. Even were it not demanded by the general interests of the nation and the par ticular interests of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, the colonial provinces would still be jus tified in expecting that the reforms required by each according to its condition should not be deferred. My Government will submit to you a bill for effi caciously punishing the slave trade in our Antilles, while they will also prepare, after the consideration indispensably due, special laws for governing them in accordance with the constitution of the monarchy. The prompt and regular administration of justice is the guarantee of civil and political rights and the firmest basis of the principle of authority. Upon this point there is a necessity universally felt for new laws of organisation for the tribunals, legal proce dure and appeal in criminal matters, which the Go vernment contemplates submitting for your conside ration. The army, by its fidelity and discipline, merits my constant esteem and that of the nation, as also the navy, Which, in the distant regions of the Pacific, defends the interests of the ceuntry and the honour of our flag. Public tranquillity, disturbed some time since at Lerida and Saragossa on account of the octroi tariffs, was re-established by the inter vention of the military authorities and the troops. The rioters were brought before the competent tri bunals, and order maintained in all the towns of the monarchy. Happily the sad experience of revolutions has taught the various social classes that labour is the source of virtue and welfare for individuals ; that the increase of national produc tion is with modern nations an incontestable proof of their power and greatness, and that labour and production cannot develope themselves where order and liberty do not co-exist. My government, actuated by these principles, and without being disquieted by the incessant activity of political par ties, is confident of surmounting all difficulties, by keeping within a legal sphere, and acting in con and legitimately cert with national opini on trul y represented in the senate and congress. A policy tolerant without being weak, capable of repressing disorder without cruelty , and which, upon every occasion, will have the firmness and the will to realise its intentions, is the only one that can smooth the difficult path of perfection and progress which individuals and nations are called to follow. If we all keep solely in viev the public interest, take national opinion as our guide, respect for law as our rule of conduct, and constantly invoke the name of God, there will never fail, so at least I trust, that cordial understanding between the powers of the State which will consolidate tran quillity, assure present progress, and prepare happy and prosperous times for new generations. BATH SAVINGS-BANK.—The certified accounts of this bank to the 20th November last show that at that date there were 9,934 depositors, the aggregate amount of the balances of whose accounts was £336,624 lls. 2d. The assets consist of £384,822 15s. 2d. in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, on general account, and £5,81713s Bd. on surplus account, and £1,990 Os. 6d. in treasurer's hand on banking account, making a total of £342,630 9s. 4d. RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. —The extension of the Tendring Hundred line from Wivenhoe to Weeley is expected to be opened for traffic next week, but the Camp extension to St. Boto]ph's, with the new central station for Colchester, will probably re -main closed till February 1, in consequence of the Board of Trade requirements as to some more comprehensive ar rangement of signals than had been provided at the Hythe junction of the Great Eastern not being likely to be-com pleted before that date. The Lynn and Sutton line has been inspected by Captain Tyler on the part of the Board of Trade. The gallant captain suggested a few alterations as regards signals, &c., but, upon the whole, the line mot his approval. Traffic) is expected to be commenced in a week or two. The District of Columbia. (From the Boston Journal.) The altered condition of things in the city of Washi ng _ ton and "the District," now, from the palmy days cif slavery and Democracy, must be most striking. Aw a y back in the past to 1800, when John Randolph of Virginia considered it one of the privileges of the chivalry of that day to "take the wall" of Yankee members and indulge his fierce sarcasm in debate at their expense, and down to the last day and hour of 'Metal, slavery was dominant, in tolerant, and insolent. It gave its own characteristic tone to society, in-all its grades, from the White House to . the hovel. There was little pretence to fashion outsid e it s charmed circle. It prevailed equally at the Capitol, in the Departments, in the churches, at the hotels, anti at private mansions. The wisest, most learned and loveliest from the great and powerful North were sometimes patronised, more frequently barely tolerated. Being in power and dispensing the patronage of the Government from o ne decade to another, it was all potent, and Northern affiliated politicians, with a baseness truly humiliating, aped it, deferred to it, and accepted the social status it conferred upon them, their families, and their constituents. Such was the omnipotence of Southern leaders and politicians that the army, navy, revenue service, and all the Depart ments and bureaus at Washington, and the foreign mis sions and consulates, were literally monopolised by their sons, nephews, and friends. If an appointment was be stowed upon a Northerner it was in payment of his political obsequiousness, and usually through the condescension of one of these oligarchs. The prison pen for human cattle, and the auction block with its fetters and whips, and gangs of slaves in transitu, coupled together like a drove of mules,' was to bo seen any day. Such justice as was dispensed then from the Supreme Court of the United States, down to the police sessions, was in its interest, and, equally with everything else, dominated by it. It seems but yesterday since Senators Sumner, and Wilson, and Hale, and Wade, and Trumbull were coolly left off from any place upon the principal Senate committees, because they did not " belong to any healthy political organisation." When treason, so long in the bud, flowered, and brought forth its natural fruit, with what affectedly mournful pride did these eminent scions of a patriarchal institution pronounce their rhetorical valedictions and go, like so many Judases, to their own place. Behold, how changed! Slavery is abolished in the dis trict ; the auction block is gone ; there are no handcuffed gangs of chattels ; a Chase sits in the place of a Taney ; free speech is heard at the capitol and the hotels ; the freo air of the North has thoroughly ventilated and purified the social and moral atmosphere ; Northern senators and representatives give tone to thought and speech ; their wives set the fashions ; the " boys in blue" have tramp, tramped every yard of the ten miles square until not a traitor dared wag his tongue in the streets. Strange as it may seem, there are people at the North who lament those " good old times," and would be over joyed to welcome the times, the men and fashions of those days back again—nearly as much so as the men of those halcyon days themselves, if they could suddenly be re stored to their old haunts, with all their former prestige and power. But they cannot be gratified. The loyal people will take good care that the old regime does not return. Washington now, with a great increase in popu lation since 1860, is possessed by new men with new ideas. It will become a metropolis worthy of a mighty nation, disenthmlled and regenerated from centre to circumference. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Jan. I.—Wind this day at noon—South. Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Albona, from Rio Grande ; Florida, screw steamer, from New Or leans. Sailed—Kangaroo, screw steamer, for New York; Charles, for Monte Video. CARDIFF, Dec. 30.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Frankfort ) screw steamer, for Charente. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Can dance, from Rio Janeiro for Cowes. HOLYHEAD, Dec. 31.—Wind SM.—Arrive d—liindoo, from Liverpcol for Africa. WATERFORD, Dec. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bestif, from Sulina. KINGROAD, Dec. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mary Fry,.from Calcutta. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Han nah, from Cardiff for Para. MILFORD, Dec. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Queen of the Mersey, from Liverpool for Melbourne, leaky, and w ith other damage. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 31.—Arrived—Damo, steamer, roan Brazils. FALMOUTH, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Theodore Voss, from Taganrog. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Vonns, from Buenos Ayres. SUNDERLAND, Dec. 27.—Wind S.W.—Sailed - Jane Frances, for Kingston. LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. . _ _ Arrived, Dec. 31—Criteria, from St. Michael's; Asphodel, from Mauritius ; Caldera, from Colombo ; Unicorn, from Singapore. Arrived, Jan. I.—Zephyr, steamer, from Rotterdam Eagle, from Madras ; Ems, steamer, from Caen. DEAL, Monday Morning. No arrivals. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. JANUARY. Manchester 1 FEBRUARY. Lincoln 2O MA: Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring Nottingham Spring 27 ,CH. Croxton Park IG Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B Newmarket Craven 2 Durham 2 Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Chelmsford Spring _ _ ! I Thirsk lO ! Epsom Spring i Newmarket Ist Spring l6 i 1 Chester ) 1 Curragh 24 :AY. Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 ._: Liverpool Beverley , ,0 Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 2(3 Curragh '26 Worcester Y. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading AUG • - Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon UST. Brighton v 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham l4 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter 28 Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 2B Weymouth 3O SEPT] Warwick September 4 CluTagh Leicester 6 Doncaster Canterbury lB MBER. Richmond Monmouth Manchester Autumn 24 Newmarket Ist October 26 Walsall 2 OCTI Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester NOVE Lincoln Liverpool 13SIBER. Sbrewsbury I Leamington Hunt ll Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. Jan. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27, Paikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton . _ India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Jan. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. It. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 5 Mauritius,*via Southampton Jan. 11. Ditto, via Marseilles. Jan. 5. Newfoundland "', •„ Jan. 17. Portugal •• .... . Ditto, by private ship to . .L.i.5.b.0.n..............• •• • •"n 4. United Mates and British North America, by Bri tish packet ........................ • . • ........ ....Lat. 3 . Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp. ton . ........... Ditto, via Curk ................. ... Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Jan. s. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife Jan. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, Jan. —. and Mexico .............. .. 74u. —. Cuba and Mexico Jan. 11. Bahamas, via New 1' ork. Bermuda, ditto °au. 17. --•-.• The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 / 4 per mills pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.12 3 / 4 per .£1 sterling. On comparing. these rates with the English Mint price of £1 17s. load. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-itths per cent. dearer in Paria than in London. By advle:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.4.1 per £1 stall o . Standard gold at the Englibh Mint price is, therc`bre, at about the same price in London and 11 amburg. IBER. I 0, 'CI he l bf rcle oil' e nrl nitlil P 3 r acts' 100 et 20 '4031 10 100 I luo 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 2 100 {lOO 2.1.0 2.11. t, 31 2.:4.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8. 101 i 33 2i