The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

The Queen's Visit to Wolverhampton. WOLVERHA roN, Friday, The Queen has received an enthusiastic welcome here to-day. It is barely a week since her Majesty consented to honour the town with a visit, on the occasion of what is called " the inauguration" of the statue of the Prince Consort. There was thus brief ' time for preparation, but the municipal authorities and the townspeople together worked with a will, and worked with little ceasing. They have been re warded by a great day in the local annals, a day which, in spite of considerable difficulties and some anxiety for the public convenience and safety, had passed over so far with absolutely nothing to mar the general rejoicing. Shortly before 10 o'clock, the time appointed for the departure of the Royal train from Windsor, her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Helena, Prince Christian, the Princess Louise, and their suite, arrived at the Great Western station, Lord Derby being the Minister in attendance. Here they were received by Sir Daniel Gooch, chairman of the Great Western Railway, Capt. Balkeley, one of the directors, and Mr. Grierson, the general manager of the line, who accompanied the Royal party to and from their destination. The locomotive in use was " the Lord of the Isles," which was shown in the Exhibition of 1851, and still does good service on the Great Western. A brighter and more genial ' morning than that of to-day is not found in Nov. " Queen's weather" used to be a hackneyed phrase at most of the State visits paid by her Majesty ; and it was noticed as of good omen that on this, the first occasion of lateyears when the Queen has taken part in any public ceremonial, her Majesty's usual good fortune attended her. Avoiding Slough .sta tion, by passing through what is known as " the west curve," the Royal train passed rapidly through Reading, Pangbourne, and Didcot, reached Oxford (without stopping there) a few minutes after 11 o'clock, and only drew up at Banbury to take not breath but water. This point was reached at 11 35, three minutes before time. At all the other stations a few spectators were gathered, who could have enjoyed but little satisfaction for their trouble in going there. A speed of 50 miles an hour does not assist either those in motion or those at rest to identify features. From the train a crowd looks like a shifting figure in a kaleidoscope ; face and figure are alike blurred and indistinct. You hear a shout, which seems to die away as soon as heard ; and then you arein the open country, breath ing the fresh autumnal air and seeing the ploughman stop his plough, and groups of labourers here and there run to the hedge-side to give loyal greeting as they may. Banbury, 70 miles on the way, was the one favoured place selected for rest, and here the station was prettily decorated with flags and evergreens, and the platform was thronged with people. A guard of honour, of the local Rifle Volunteers, under the command of Capt. Cobb, saluted her Majesty as the train drew up, and the Lord high Steward of Banbury (Lord Saye and Sele), Col. North, M.P., the Recorder of Bunbury (Mr. A. Staveley the Mayor (Mx. Harrison), the Town Clerk (Mr. Munton), and the members of the Town Council, were among those upon the platform. No snore than five minutes were allowed for the stay here, but there was still time for the learned Recorder (who wore his robes as Doctor of Civil Law) to read the. following address :-- " To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's loyal subjects, the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Banbury, approach your Royal presence with unfeigned pleasure that we have obtained permission to address your Majesty words of welcome on your progress through this ancient borough. " We aro not unmindful that we have also the honour of welcoming with your Majesty their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian and the Princess Louise. "We do not venture to allude to the object of your Royal progress further than to express to your Majesty our loyal and deeply affectionate remembrance of him whose statue your Majesty is to-day to inaugurate, and our hope that that remembrance may long stimulate others to follow in the path of honour and virtue which he so highly adorned. "Above all do we welcome your Majesty's appearance on the occasion among your subjects, affording them the opportunity of showing their undeviating allegiance to your Majesty's person and to the throne and the institu tions of this realm. " Accept, gracious Sovereign, every wish which loyal and affectionate hearts can prompt for your happiness, and that in the hands of the Great Ruler of Events that life may be long continued which is so closely bound up with the hopes and wellbeing of your faithful people. Given under the corporate seal of the borough of Ban bury, this 30th day of November, anno Domini 186 G." To this her Majesty made a gracious reply :—" I am very much obliged for this address." An offer ing of Banbury cakes and flowers made by the little daughters of the Mayor was as graciously accepted, and then the train sped rapidly on, arriving at Birmingham at a quarter to 1 o'clock. The station here was thronged with people, but no stoppage was made, though the speed was slackened. Beyond Birmingham you enter at once the district known as " the Black Country," a region where Nature has been lavish of her mineral wealth, and the coal and iron which help to make England what it is have been stored side by side in bounteous profu sion. It is certainly not inviting, this Black Coun try, to the every-day tourist. The air is thick and heavy with the dense clouds of smoke belched forth from fiery furnaces and smelting works beyond count. There are works with all sorts of chimneys, but the thick smoke is everywhere. A n d the sur face of the soil reflects the cloud, for all along and the e line are heavy, sulle n mass e s of black shale and refuse from collieries wholly or par tially worked out. The eye seldom rests on a bit of green, smiling landscape a more comp lete contrast to the s • nag landscape of the Royal county can with difficulty be pictured. At night the air glows with light re flected from a thousand small craters, and the sleepy traveller who wakes up here as he is whirled along in the train may easily suppose for the moment, from sight, smell, and sound, that he is dreaming of some such region of torment and despair as old poets have imagined and portrayed. This is the " Black Country" through which the Royal train has passed —a district which, however unattractive to the eye, possesses the greatest interest to Englishmen as one of the busiest and most important among our seats of industry. From Birmingham to Wolverhampton the dis tance is about 12 miles, and in that short run the Great Western passes through Hockley, Soho, Handsworth, West Bromwich, Swan Village, Wed nesbury, Bradley, Bilston, and Priestfield—places of varying size, but all connected more or less with the two staple trades of iron production and coal winning. The special trains which have been run ning the whole forenoon on both the North Western and Great Western systems appear to have carried off to Wolverhampton the greater part of the adult male inhabitants, for the spectators are chiefly women and children. These make goodly show, however, along the entire route, and denote a teem ing population. They line the black banks of the railway, throng the heaps of coal refuse close by, and, in their absorbing wish to make the most of their time in seeing the Queen, sometimes forget to cheer till the train is gone, and seeing is no longer possible. here and there you see workmen fresh from forge or furnace, eager to see at least as much as their neighbours, but meaning apparently to go back to work. In most cases the animus rerertendi is our nmistakeably wanti n g. A co m p ose d l oo k, an d more orless clean faces, show that work is over for to-day at least. In fact, it is a general the whole district, and the population is divided not so much into those who work and those who don't as into those who go to the may possibly capital who think they see as much, with less making f or t h e nearest point t ro uble and outlay, by of the Royal route. Within the time fixed for the arrival at Wolver hampton, 10 minutes past 1 o'clock, the royal train drew up at the low-level station there, the Queen's arrival being made known to the crowds outside by the firing of a royal salute and the music of the Na tional Anthem. Fortunately, the platform afforded unusual space for the accommodation of visitors, some 800 of whom were admitted by tickets. Great pains had been taken by Mr. Tyrrell, the superin tendent of the Great Western, by Mr. Grant, the goods manager, Mr. Chapman, and other officials in decorating the station, which, grimy enough at other times, now looked as gay as flags and plants, artificial flowers, and evergreens could make it. The royal party on arriving were received by Lord Lich field, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, and the Countess of Lichfield, the Bishop of Lichfield, Major-General Garvock, commander of the Mid land district, the borough members (Mr. Villiers and Mr. Weguelin), the Mayor of Wolverhampton (Mr. Morris), the Recorder (Mr. J. Powell, Q.C.), the Town-clerk (Mr. E. J. Hayes), and some other gentlemen. The Mayor was here presented, and her Majesty having accepted from the Mayoress (Mrs. Morris) a handsome bouquet, no time was 1 ost in forming a procession. First came a troop of yeo manry under the command of Major Thorney croft ; then followed carriages containing the members of the Town Council, the Recorder, the Mayor, the borough members, and the Lord Lieutenant. Three open landaus drawn by four horses contained the royal party. In the first were Lord Crof ton, Major- General Sir T. Biddulph, K.C.8., and Lieut.-Col. Gordon, Equerry to Prince Christian ; the second contained the Countess of Caledon, Lady in Wait ing to her Majesty, Lady Susan Melville, Lady in Waiting to the Princess Christian, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Maid of Honour, and the Earl of Derby. In the third carriage was the Queen, the Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Louise, Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal, and Lieut.-General Grey, Equerry in Waiting, rode on each side of her Majesty's carriage, where the streets were wide enough to admit of this ; and a detach ment of the Bth Hussars served as escort. Between 2,000 and 3,000 people were admitted by tickets into the station yard and the approaches. At the entrance was erected an arch of coal firmly joined by mortar, with abutments of pig-iron. Picks, spades, and other implements of the collier's trade were so placed as to give relief to the material of the arch, which, though not a sightly object, was one very characteristic of the local industry. Just bey ond this was a coal trophy, some 30 feet high, formed of immense blocks of coal from Lord Dudley's pits, some of these blocks weighing nearly three tons. These two structures were built under the superin tendence of Mr. Baker, the inspector of coal mines for the district, and as about 100 tons of coal were used in forming them, it may be imagined that the labour was not slight. It is not far from the station to the market-place, where the statue has been erected, but the procession took a circuitous route of nearly three miles. This was necessary in order to obtain a sufficient area for the spectators. But it was also her Majesty's express desire that her route should be so arranged as to give the people, poor as well as rich, ample opportunities for showing their loyalty. And certainly nothing could exceed the enthusiasm and devotion displayed by the whole population, town and country, assembled in the streets. The colliers, the puddlers, and the forge• men from the iron districts, the workers iu metal, japan, papier-mache, and the hollow ware which have of late years been added to the staple trades of Wolverhampton, lined the barriers, and raised a mighty shout when the Royal carriages appeared in sight, renewing it again and again with a heartiness which could not be mistaken. Some of the streets are so narrow that there were fears of accident from the pressure of the crowd either before or after the passage of the procession. But those who thought the population of the Black Country, though well disposed and thoroughly loyal, might prove unruly in such a crowd were agreeably disappointed. Barriers were very properly erected along the whole line of procession ; but there was no attempt to break through them, and the orderly behaviour of the people, often under trying circumstances, showed that all were on their best behaviour. The arrangements made by the chief constable, Captain Segrave, and the military officers were well calculated to insure good order. Some 1,500 Volunteers were stationed at regular in tervals along the route. There was also available a body of 800 police, including 200 of the Metropoli tan force, under Mr. Superintendent Walker ; and the Yeomanry assisted in clearing the thoroughfares. The spirit of the people, however, was so admirable that these precautions were but little needed. The procession, after leaving the railway station, went through King-street, Queen-street, Dudley-street, Snow-hill, Cleveland-street, Salop-street, and Dar lington-street to the market-piece. Festoons of evergreens were hung on each side of the way along the whole route, and each house had made the most of its windows, or had thrown out balconies or erected stands and booths, the testing of which, in the interest of public safety, must have been a work of some labour to the town surveyor (Mr. Morgan) and his assistants. Of course, the show of banners and the varieties of mottoes and inscriptions were infinite. Some of the last gave a welcome to the Queen and Princesses, many alluded to the late Prince Consort, and Mr. Tennyson's lines " The silent father of the Kings to be " was frequently re peated. On one itninense banner, " The working men gave hearty welcome to their beloved Queen." Owing to the fineness of the weather, which allowed her Majesty to appear in an open carriage, and owing also to the length of the route and the narrow ness of most of the streets, every man, woman, and child must have had " a good look" at their Sove reign, and the consideration shown by the Queen in affording them this opportunity was evidently appreciated most thoroughly. Naturally the market-place, or " High Green," was the centre of attraction. The open slope of ground available here was not large, but it was pro bably made the most of. The treacherous weather of an English November made it, of course, indis pensable that the ceremony of unveiling the statue should be performed under cover, and should be witnessed under cover. A sort of amphitheatre was therefore constructed at the expense of the corpora tion, covered with canvas, and capable of seating over 2,000 people. Enclosed in this was the statue of the Prince Consort, and fronting this again, and also fro n ti ng the visitors in the amphitheatre, was a alparty small pavilion, d rape d w i t h cr i mson c l ot h , an d tastefully decoratedwhich , to the Queen and the Royal oy were conducted. Upon her Majesty's National n entrance all p resent rose d uncovered, a detach ment of the 39th Regiment al o giving A the salute, and a band playin g wore a black d ress trimmed Awith nthem. pe T a h n e d Queen edcfed with dark fur ; her bonnet was black, and beneath it she wore a white Ma r i e Stuart cap. The P rin cesses wore ordinary morning costuin Ch r i s tian wore a Colonel's uniform, andeOve.rePitrtindtlelice Order of the Garter. Her M a j esty bow e d re answ er to the cheering, and seemed profoundly impressed with the warmth of her reception. Just as the cheers were subsiding, and the business of the day was beginning , a v oi ce called out, " God bl ess the Queen !" and thereupon the popular enthusiasm broke forth afresh , and seemed irrepressible. P r i nce and Princess Christian were also heartily welcomed; and Lord Derby received a special round of ap plause. When all had taken their places a n d order was at last restored, the Bishop of Lichfield offered up the following prayer : " Almighty God, who has t au g ht us in Thy Holy Word that the memory of the just is blessed, grant, we beseech Thee, that the memorial of Thy departed servant now set up in this place may be a remembrance of him for the good of us and of those who shall come after us. " We tray Theo that, as ho lived accor din g to Th y holy 'ndulgence, but will, not giving himself up to idleness or self-indulgence, employing his great abilities and his opportunities of his high station in promoting the true welfare of all classes of the peoplo in this land of his adoption, so the example of his unblemished and noble character and the virtues of an active and beneficent life may stir up many to seek Thy glory and the good of their fellow-creatures in the several stations to which Thy providence has called them. " We heartily thank Theo for the bright promise of life which through that honoured Prince thou hast been pleased to bestow upon this nation. We bow humbly before the inscrutable wisdom by which it was ordained that his sun should go down while it was yet day with Lim, and wo earnestly pray that both by Thy mercies and Thy judg ments we may be turned nearer to Thee, and may be led to walk more and more in Thy faith and fear. " Wo beseech Thee, 0 Lord, to pour upon our most gracious Queen and upon all her family the continual dew of Thy blessing. Give her that peace and those consolations which Thou alone canst give, and make her strong in Thy strength and happy in Thy favour. Endow her councillors with faithfulness and wisdom. Preserve her long to rule over a grateful people, and grant that there may be never hi which weo after beg in the n wanting in h er h ouse one to s i t upon the throne of this herae example. " kingdom All w to u and through the media tion of Jesus Christ our Lord. " Our Father, &c." The Recorder then read the following address : " To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLEET MAJESTY. " May it please y our lilajost y our Majesty's faithful subjects, the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Wolver hampton, crave permission to offer to your Majesty their }numble thanks for your Majesty's gracious condescension in thus honouring this borough with your Royal presence " The inhabitants of the surrounding districts, of every class and degree—unequal in their fortunes, but equal in their loyalty—also assemble here to-day to present their homage to your Majesty, our beloved and gracious Sove reign. " Inspired by feelings of profound devotion to your Ma, jesty's person, family, and throne, we presume to approach your Majesty, and each and all of us most heartily bid your Majesty welcome. " We ask your Majesty's permission to welcome also their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christi in and her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, whose affec tionate and dutiful attendance on your Majesty has ob tained for us the distinguished honour of the presence of their Royal Highnesses. " We pray that your Majesty will deign to honour with your gracious approval our earnest, though inadequate at tempt to testify our devotion to the memory of our late revered Prince, your Majesty's beloved and lamented con sort. We desire to-day, and in this place, to acknowledge and commemorate the debt of gratitude we owe to his Royal Highness. Dwelling iu a district of your Majesty's dominions where the resources of science are constantly required to dovelope the productions of nature and adapt them for the use and benefit of man—where art is ever striving to add grace and beauty to material form, and where the necessities of a vast industrial population de mand incessant efforts to ameliorate their physical condi tion, to educate their minds, and to teach them moral and religious truth—we have felt it to be our duty, as it has been our delight, to erect this statue of his Royal High ness, and thereby transmit to posterity a faithful represen tation of that illustrious Prince who, promoting science by his judicious patronage, and art by his enlightened precepts, also incited men to all works of Christian duty by the force of his beneficent example. " We now humbly pray your Majesty to unveil the statue, that henceforth your Majesty's loving subjects in this place may have ever present among them the image of the good Prince Consort, who, although prematurely taken away from us, still lives, and will ever live, in the imperishable remembrance of his virtues. " May God preserve your Majesty, and send your Ma jesty health, peace, and consolation. " Given under tho corporate seal of Wolverhampton this 30th day of November, 1866." _ _ _ The Mayor having presented a copy of the ad dress, which her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept, Lord Derby handed to the Queen a sword with which the " accolade" was bestowed on the kneeling Mayor, and he thereupon rose up Sir John Morris. The knighthood thus publicly conferred called forth fresh enthusiasm for the new honour paid to the town in the person of its chief magis trate. The following gentlemen were then presented to her Majesty :—Mr. Charles Villiers, M.P., Mr. Weguelin, M.P., the Recorder, the Town Clerk, the Clerk of the Peace (Mr. H. Underhill), the mover and seconder of the address (Aldermen Ironmonger and Fowler), and the Chairman and Vice-Clwirman of the Statue Subscription Com mittee (Aldermen G. L. Underhill and llawksford). ller Majesty then commanded that the statue should be unveiled, and the coverings being withdrawn disclosed a very effective equestrian statue, in bronze, of the late Prince Consort. A detailed description of the statue has already been published. it is enough now to say that as a work of art the statue is exceedingly creditable to the sculptor, Mr.Thorney croft, and that the likeness is undoubted. An in scription on the pedestal simply records the name and style, with the date of the Prince's birth and death. Her Majesty and the Princesses, attended by Mr. Thorneycroft, walked round the statue, and the Queen expressed her satisfaction with the entire work. Before leaving the pavilion her Majesty also de sired the Mayor to tell her subjects in Wolverhampton that she was greatly pleased with her reception and with the loyal feeling which bad been manifested. The procession then returned to the railway station in the same order, but by another route, passing through Skinner-street, School.street, Waterloo road, Stafford-street, Little Berry-street, Prince's street, and Queen-street. This route led through " the Irish quarter" of the town, in which there is a large Irish population. There had been some stupid whispers of a possible Fenian demon stration here ; but the loyalty of the poor people was as loud and apparently quite as sincere as in the other parts of the town, and their little display of ever greens and artificial flowers was in its way touch ing, for they evidently gave what they could afford, and gave it with right good will. Among the company assembled in the amphi theatre to witness the principal ceremony of the day were Lord Lichfield, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Bradford, Sir R. Peel, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Hon. A. Wrottes ley, Mr. S. Hill (Recorder of Banbury), Mr. Hart ley, Mr. Hill, and Major Thorneycroft. All those who could make their way to the railway station did so, in order to witness the Queen's departure. Several rooms in the station were fitted up as re freshment and retiring rooms for the Royal party, and the resources of the Great Western Railway Company were aided by Mr. S. Cartwright, Mr. Hartley, and other gentlemen, who lent pictures and furniture. The plants in the station, of which there were many hundreds, were furnished by Mr. Lowe, nurseryman, who also, provided the Queen's bouquet. At the station the Queen and their Royal Highnesses had luncheon, and when they came upon the platform to return to town, Lady Morris, in the name of the ladies of Wolverhampton, presented to the Princess Christian, in eirurnemoration of the Royal visit, a very elegant bracelet, with the word " Souvenir" in large diamond letters. The Princess accepted the gift, and in a few words expressed her acknowledgments. The return journey began at a quarter to four, and the Royal train, stopping at Banbury as before, arrived at Windsor in exactly three hours. At four o'clock a luncheon was given in the Corn Exchange, Sir J. Morris presiding. The Earl and Countess of Lichfield, the Earl of Ilarrowby, the Earl of Dart mouth, Mr. Villiers, M.P., Mr. Weguelin, M.P., Major-General Sir J. Garvock, and Major Anson were among the guests. Several congratulatory toasts were given, and the Mayor's health was pro posed by Lord Lichfield. At night there was a gene ral illumination, on a scale altogether unprecedented in Wolverhampton. The magnificent devices, pro vided by the Messrs. J. Defries, of London,, shone out with the greatest splendour, and fully supported the high reputation the firm have secured in illumi native displays at all great public rejoicings in all parts of the world. It is estimated that aquarter of a million people witnessed the Royal visit, but other accounts place the number much higher. All must admit that Wolverhampton has acquitted her self worthily in the reception she has given to the Queen ; and the capital of the Black Country has shown itself by no means so black as it has been painted. Queen Isabella, of Spain, is about to pay Lisbon a visit, leaving her own dominions in a state of misrule, to which, fortunately for civilisation, few countries of Europe in this century have yet been reduced. With liberty annihilated, with person and property at the absolute disposal of irrespon sible rulers, with gaols crammed with political pri soners, with ships freighted with innocent men in a worse than negro slaves torn from their homes in Africa, exiles to be transported to a deadly tropical climate —her Majesty, with her conscience at ease, proceeds on her Royal tour through the country she has desolated, to be received with all honours by her Royal cousins of the neighbouring kingdom. In Spain we will soon have a fine sample of the depths to which a nation will sink under the bigoted sway of priests and the tyranny of a mili tary usurpation. Mr. William Miller, who was appointed chief cashier of the Bank of England on the retirement of Mr. Matthew Marshall in 1861, died yesterday morning, at the ago of 57. Mr. Miller, who entered the service of the Bank in 1829, has long suffered from a complication of disorders, including asthma, but the immediate cause of his death was bronchitis. " [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Stomach, Liver, and Bowels.—ln all painful affections of the stomach, and disordered action of the liver and bowels, one single trial of these pills will demonstrate that they possess regulating► and renovating powers in a high degree. They speedily restore the appetite, lessen the unpleasant distention of the abdomen, and so prevent inflammation of the bowels, and other serious abdominal ailments. flolloway's pills afford the greatest comfort to the dyspeptic invalid without ha rassing or weakening the most sensitive constitution, or interfering materially with the ordinary studies, pleasures, or pursuits. The simplicity and efficiency of this treat ment has evoked the gratitude of all classes in both hemi spheres, and commanded a sale for those purifying pills unprecedented in medical history. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1866. A STORY OF REVENGE AND CRIME. Captain Sladden, who was an East India captain, 28 years ago married a young wife in England, and came to Canada with a view of bettering his for tune, although he was then in receipt of an annuity of £6OO per annum. This annuity, which came through his mother, was to cease at the time of his death, and some portion of it was to revert to his children from his mother at the time of her death, and she was then considerably advanced in years. After reaching Canada the captain settled near Windsor and there died. His wife had born him three children, two of whom subsequently died, one after being married six years and the other in in fancy. One girl, Sarah Jane Sladden, grew up to be ten years of age, but in the meantime her mother had been married to a man named White, who had a sister named Hannah, a virago of the first water. The result of this union was one child, a boy, who grew up to be three and a half years of age before the beginning of this chapter of family history, and a daughter, a year or so older. Hannah White, then a spinster, was staying at the house of her brother, and was well treated there, the famil3 having in the meantime removed to Sandwich. One morning Mrs. White came to this city to do some marketing, leaving her sister-in-law in charge of the house. During her absence Hannah White took the two children, Sarah Jane Sladden, her niece by marriage, a girl 10 years of age, and her nephew, Joseph H. White, a child three and a half years of age, and left with them for parts unknown. The mother, on her return, found out her loss, and was for a time inconsolable over it. She advertised in the principal newspapers in the country, set detectives to work, and did everything her means would permit of to find out the whereabouts of her children, but with out success. Time passed on, and the mother gave up in despair, after travelling throughout the coun try for three or four years in search of her lost dar lings. In 1860, by some means she learned that the woman who had stolen her children was in De troit, and she took measures to have her arrested. Her efforts were rewarded with partial success, and after a tedious law-suit she got back the boy, but could net get any trace of her daughter, who had gone with her grandmother under the follow ing circumstances :—After abducting the children, it appeared that H anna h Whit e t o ok them to Ver non county, Wis., and there was married to a man named Allen. Thi s mar riage was consum mated in Bad Axe, in the above county, and she lived there some time, keeping the children with her. Some years ago the daughter Sarah, who had grown up, learned the whereabouts of her mother, and addressed a letter to her at London, C.W. This letter was received, and an answer re turned, to the effect that her mother would come after her and take her home. Mrs. Allen inter cepted this letter, and calling on her niece (who meanwhile, on account of ill-treatment, had left her aunt and gone to work for a farmer named Wilson, near Liberty Pole, in the same county), drew out the letter and pretended to read it. But instead of giving the contents as they were, she made up a story to the effect that Sarah's mother was dead, and desired her daughter to remain with her (the aunt). Mrs. Allen had, during the interval, visited her father, who resided in another part of the State, and induced him to leave his wife, after settling a certain sum of money on Mrs. White, her stepmother. Mrs. White got the children and started to go South with them, but on the way White, sen., who was the father of tke second husband of the former Mrs. Sladden (who, by the way, has since married a third husband, Mr. Menzis), attacked the woman, and, after a fight, got the boy. White then came to Detroit with the boy, and, as related above, he was finally given up to his mother. The girl went with Mrs. White, it is supposed, to Cincinnati. White, the grandfather of the children, came in 1864 to Mrs. White's (nee Sladden) house, and, after many expressions of con trition; was received into the family. While there he attempted to abduct the boy again, but was un successful, and left to return to his own daughter's house in the city, the woman having taken up her residence here, and having obtained a promi nent position in a leading church, from which she was afterwards expelled as being as arrant hypo crite. Thus far the case was very much mixed up, owing to the intermarriages, and no mo tive could be assigned for the abduction but a spirit of revenge. But since there has been discovered that the girl Sarah has a legacy amounting to about $3,000 in this country, and is sole heir to a consi derable amount of property in England. This pro perty has been accumulating for a long time, in fact ev3r since the death of Capt: Sladden, and she has in law the full right of it. Several gentlemen of the city have taken the matter in hand, and having re cently got a slight clue to the whereabouts of the long lost girl, have communicated with the police will ferret out this Airs. Menzis, who a co u ni th p o l r i i c t a i t e e s d o f a fi C a i i n r e i t n o n t a i t l i e , e a n n d d . lost her children, resides at 402, Macuinb-street, in this city, with her husband and daughter, and has never until recently, though born in affluent cir cumstances, had the means to have the matter thoroughly investigated.—Detroit Post, Nov. 6, Fashions for December, (From Le Follet) As winter costumes make their appearance, short dresses are seen to be more and more in favour ; in fact, for walking dress the trained skirts may be said to be quite out of date, they are reserved for in-doors or carriage wear. We should be sorry to have to tell of their total disappearance ; but, so capricious a mistress is Fashion, that it may yet be our duty, as her faithful chroniclers, to give even that proof of her proverbial fickleness. There is still a talk of short dresses for full dress, but of that we hesitate to speak as likely to be general. We must again repeat that black is extremely in vogue—comparatively one seeslittle else out of doors; and certainly, worn as it most frequently is, over a skirt of a lively colour, nothing can be more becom ing or lady-like. Even for the long dresses worn when making ceremonious calls, black velvet, moire, or satin predominate. The fourreau, alias upper skirt, with a high or low body, continues very fashionable. A new style of dress called "La Polo nais" is very neat for morning wear, being simply an underskirt of plain cachmire, or woollen mate rial, and upper skirt and casque of the same, in a deeper shade, merely festooned round. It is generally supposed that broche silks or satins will be worn this season. The crinolines being so much smaller, material that will hang in thick and graceful folds is more than ever likely to meet with success. . There is much questioning as to what make of body is adopted with the short dresses. The prin cipal rule observed by all good artistes is to adopt the style to the individual figure, that which may suit one being, perhaps, very unbecoming to another; but wo may just mention two or three makes in vogue—the small corset and epaulettes matching the tunic, with high body and long sleeves like the un der-skirt ; also high body forming with the tunic the style called "Princesse," the long sleeves match ing the under-skirt ; and again the veste with sleeves open and hanging— thesame material as the tunic, and underneath, the waistcoat, with long t i ght sleeves like the lower skirt. Though the skirts are not very much trimmed, we cannot say the same of the bodies. Pasemen terie is made in endless variety, and of great ele gance ; for instance, the plaques a la h u s sarde, with a thick plait or cord, ending in aiguilettes Oriental plaques, worked with crescents ; p la q u es • mandarines, with tassels in profusion ; guides formed of a thick plait, ornamented with jet beads, and ending off in plaques to match. Also the Chinese guides, of quite an original style, as their name im plies. Another fantasie is the giant button in mother-of-pearl, for in-door vestes, the diameter of which is not less than four inches. Narrow fur trimmings are again worn : and muffs of cloth or velvet like the dress, with two bands of fur, are still used, though they cannot be said to hold the same rank as the muffs entirely of fur. There is a new galon made, called fur-galon, an imitation of black or brown Astracan, from about 10 to 14 inches in width, which is used as a trim ming for woollen morning dresses. It meets with success, making a little variation from the bead trimmings, of which some may begin to be slightly tired. It is certainly suitable to the season of the year, harmonising well with velvet or passementerie buttons, &c. Some bias galons are made with edgings of white beads, and also plaits of red, bor dered with a fringe of long pendants of jet. For evening toilette we can affirm that lace will be one of the most admired trimmings ; beads, if not altogether, will, in a great measure, give place to flowers. Icotwithstanding our general remarks have been unusually long, we have a charming list of model toilettes for our readers this month, the fir.t being A black poult-de-soie robe, " Empire" make. The bottom of the skirt is scalloped, the trimming being formed of a narrow guipure, with a cut jet bead placed in the centre of each slallop. Upper skirt of violet taffetas, with a flounce put on in very deep plaits. Pardessus of violet velvet, forming a pep lum at the sides, the back and front scalloped ; the whole richly trimmed with medallions, and fringe of jet. A dress of Pekin satine, the satin stripe being orange colour and that of taffetas brown. The skirt is trained, and has a cord round the bottom. Up each seam an insertion of guipure and white beads. High body, with guipure marking all the seams and round the sleeves, where it is finished off by epaulettes of beads. The back seams of the sleeves are ornamented with pearl buttons. A toilette, the underskirt of green and black striped taffetas, the upper of plain green. The plain skirt is looped up with ornaments of black velvet and jet clous. The striped skirt has trimmings of velvet and jet up the sides. With similar orna ments a kind of basquine is formed at the back, fastened to the band, which matches. High body, and plain sleeves with epaulettes, all trimmed en suite with the skirt. A dress of black velveteen. Short skirt, bordered with an elegant passementerie of jet., looped up at the sides by a patte of passementerie. Corslet and epaulettes, either trimmed or made entirely with passementerie. Plain high body and long sleeves. Underskirt of striped maize and black satin, the stripes being about one inch wide. Peplum (with high body), of black faille, or very thick taffetas, bordered round with a narrow band of Astracan, which is carried up the seams at the side. Skirt of sky-blue taffetas, or cashmere. A plaiting formed of hollow plaits, alternating plain pieces of the same width, with a row of jet pendants heading it, is placed round the bottom. Blue sleeves. Black velvet dress, short skirt, trimmed round with a passementerie cord. Veste and sleeves—of the style called moyen-age, or of the middle-ages— trimmed with passementerie. Underskirt of violet moire trimmed with two bias pieces of• velvet, worked with beads. Long tight sleeves of moire, also trimmed with pattes of velvet and beads. A short dress of cloth, colour called " Bismarck" —a very pretty shade of a kind of golden brown. This robe is composed of a short underskirt, trimmed with a row of lozenge-shaped ornaments of velvet of a deeper shade than the dress. Peplum of the cloth bordered with velvet. Peplum of black taffetas over a red plaid poplin skirt. Paletot-sac of mole-drab cloth trimmed with Astracan. Robe " Princesse," of Mexico-blue knickerbocker. Short skirt, scalloped round, and piped with black velvet. Petticoat of the same material. Robe of brown poplin, scalloped round, and trimmed with a galon of cut jet beads. This skirt is cut en fourreau, the seams piped, and is worn over a blue cashmere skirt, which is trimmed with a flounce put on deep plaits. Tight sleeves of blue, with galon like that on the skirt. Robe of mouse-coloured poult de soie. Skirt cut on the bias, and with a train trimmed with a black velvet ribbon, edged with milk-white beads, which is placed in festoons near the bottom ; a straight row of the same being put on below. Similar trim ming on the body and sleeves. A taffetas antique—new shade of green—trimmed with a very artistic arrangement of jet beads, form. ing foliage on leaves cut in satin. Dinner or visiting-dress of black gros-grain. Up each side of the skirt are three rows of flat bows of pearl-grey satin, edged with thick piping of black satin. These bows, which commence at the waist, form three long trains, enlarging towards the bottom, and are attached one to the other by plisses of grey satin piped with black. Very wide sleeves, lined with grey satin, and caught up with bows. Quite plain body, trimmed also with bows. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—As forty-eight Lours still remain before the assembling of the London artisans for the De monstration of Monday, we would suggest that the leaders of the movement should employ the time in considering the details of the day's intended proceed ings, in order that the whole may pass off with as little public inconvenience as possible. In such matters it is difficult for even experienced persons to foresee what course events may take. We know not how many may. be drawn together to witness the proceedings, at what hour they will come, in what positions they will post themselves, nor can we.clearly - figure to ourselves the aspect of any par ticular point in the route at the time the great army of working m en is passing. We c an ' on ly judge of the operations which their Marshals and Superintendents undertake to direct by what we know of the evolutions of armies under strict discip line, and commanded by officers whose study for years has been the movement of large masses of men. But, with the remembrance of several re views, both British and foreign, on our minds, we would ask Mr. Potter and his colleagues to consider what length of time will be occupied by 200,000 men in passing through Marlborough-gate ; and, supposing the head of the Pro cess i on t o qu it the Mall at a certain hour, how long afterwards the end of it is likely to be gathered round the platforms in Beaufort-grounds. Of course, we take the com mittee's own estimate of the number expected. They have declared that 200,000 and upwards will be present in Procession, and there is every proba bility that the estimate is not too large. If the num bers fall greatly short of this, and the gathering is numerically small, our observati ons w ill no t a pply ; but, assuming that this great multitude will be concentrated in the Park at 11 o'clock on Mon day morning, we would submit that the leaders should take every precauti on aga i ns t con fu s ion, and guide themselves by the advice of those who have been accustomed to deal with large masses. As to the time which a body of men on the march takes to defile past a particular spot, even when the way is kept open for them, the experience of our readers who have witnessed military displays will suffice. Totake the familiar instance of the Brighton review. - The 20,000 men who are brought together on that occasion always take more than an hour to march past any point in the town. The Continental armies, with their quicker step, are somewhat more prompt in their movements, yet we doubt whether 100,000 Frenchmen would take less than four hours to march past a certain spot in Paris, even though they had the broad Boulevard to themselves. Now, the leaders of this Demonstration propose to bring together- 200,000 men through the various entrances of St. James's Park ou a narrow slip of open ground, and then to cause them to defile through a single gate which lies opposite to the centre of the Mall, and which must be approached by the vast assemblage in two converging streams. When they have made their way through this narrow passage, they are to turn to the right s and march needlessly along Pall-mall, then up Waterloo-place, then west ward again, along Piccadilly, and so along Knights bridge and the Brompton-road to their place of des tination. When we spoke of this distance as nearly four miles we underrated it. It is exactly three miles from Hyde Park Corner to St. John's Church, Ful ham, and Beaufort-house is somewhat further on ; the distance from Marlborough-gate to Hyde Park Corner by the circuit of Waterloo place is over a mile and a half—so that this enormous mass of people is to be marched nearly five miles in a proces sion so narrow that it can pass through a Park Gate and thread the crowded streets of London. How long is it expected that this march will endure? Is it not likely that the greater part of the assemblage will fail to reach Walharn-green till dusk, if they reach it at all ? When large bodies of troops are con centrated, the commanders always take care that they shall advance by different routes, and not form an interminable line. Nothing shows lack of, capa city in a General more than bringing up his forces by a:single road, so that the vau is sent into action hours before the main body, and it may be, a whole day before the rear. The Marshals of the P roces sion might learn something from the practice of a campaign. If they are resolved on a preliminary gathering in St. James's Park, instead of ordering the processions to march to Beaufort-house at once by various routes from their various quarters of the metropolis, at any rate let them not persist in marching their whole army of working men through the narrow defile of Marlborough-gate and then losing their time by parading Pall-mall and Picca dilly. There are two roads which lead with com parative directness to Brompton. One is by Con stitution-hill and Knightsbridge, the other by Buckingham-gate, Pimlico, Chelsea. Why should not both these be utilised ? By such an expedient not only would the crowding and confusion be diminished by the separation of the artisans into two processions, but the distance wouid be materi ally diminished, and the conclusion of the proceed ings at a reasonable hour rendered less impossible. The Reformers should remember that they will have crowding enough in a later part of their march. Why they should have refused Primrose-hill, which is an open space, accessible by, many broad paths, and chosen Beaufort-house, which must be ap proached by the narrow defiles of the Fulham-road and of Walham-green we cannot conceive. The road by which Beaufort-grounds must be ap proached is as narrow and tortuous as a country lane, which, indeed, it was before London stretched its ranges of brick and mortar in that direction and made the place a populous suburb. A good deal of management will be required to keep the way clear for the last half mile, and it is there, as well as in the early part of the journey, that delay and con.; fusion may be anticipated. The earlier the proces sion arrives at this spot, the greater leisure will it have for defili ag along the narrow way, and there is thus an additional reason for wasting no time in empty pa rade at the West-end. We would also submit that it would be as well to make proper entrances to the ground. We know not if it is intended that all the 200,000 shall march through the front gate. If so, the mass of the people will be entering at about the time that, according to the stipulations, the grounds are to be cleared. We have t'iought it our duty to suggest these matters to the consideration of the committee, who have not only assumed the respon sibility of conducting their own people safely, but have been willing to take in hand the guardianship of the metropolis. It is because we cannot avoid seeing in their published programme evidence that they hardly understand the difficulty of the task they have undertaken that we venture with due deference to offer them counsel. • American Financial. NEW - YoRK, Saturday, Nov. 17. Instead of the long-anticipated rise, so long predicted by the " bulls," there has been a rather general and signifi cant decline in every department. Railway stocks made most progress in this downward movement. The "bears" have helped the decline and weak holders for the rise. The New York Central has fallen 10 per cent., Erie 5, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 8, Chicago and North- Western 4, and Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 3. The "bulls" are now loud in their assertions that the de cline has reached its limit, and are buying for a rise ; while the " bears" are equally certain that the decline has only begun. That it should have progressed thus far in the face of a money market, still extremely easy and favourable to speculation, isa fact of ample significance. It is a demon stration that "inflation prices" will quickly subside with the inflation which has caused or permitted them ; and as the volume of paper money in the country has reached its largest, and must hencefoith decrease, the tendency of prices will be to find their normal level, and all the efforts of speculators can at the most effect but a momentary retar dation of this inevitable course of things. The disbursements from the Treasury in payment of the 5-20 Coupons has at last had their effect on gold The sum issued by the Treasury daily is sufficient to meet the de mand for customs. Gold has receded to 143 f. Afr. M'Cul loch has retired all the ten millions of dollars of greenbacks authorised by Congress within six months from April 12; and he takes up the four millions allowed to be withdrawn monthly since, and will continue to do so. lt appears likely that ho will ask for enlarged powers, next session, in this direction. The daily receipts from internal revenue are now be tween $600,0Q0 and $700,000. The disbursements of the Treasury, on account of the war, navy, and interior de partments, last week, were respectively $514,942, $152,697, and $295,370—t0ta1, $1,263,009. The redemption of frac tional currency, last week, amounted to $248,300, while $560,500 was 'received from the printing bureau, and $336,535 were shipped to national banks and depositories. (From L. P. Morton and Co.'s Circular.) NEW YOUK, Nov. 17. The money market retains the increased firmness of rates noted in our . lasfadvices. The banks of the South and the West are drawing upon their balances in this City, and the loanable resources of our banks consequently ex hibit a partial contraction. On demand loans the rate is to 6 per cent. ; and'on discounts of prime paper, 6 to 7 per cent. In the stockmarket "speculation has taken a sharp down ward turn, and large operations by combinations have produced an average decline of 5 per cent. on railroad stocks. Erio shares have sold down from 86 to 771, and close at 771 to 78, Illinois Central has fluctuated between 124 and 122, and doses at 122. United States Securities have shown less activity ; and, in sympathy with the fall in railroad securities, prices have slightly declined. The price of gold-bearing bonds has also been affected by a partial decline in the premium on gold. Five-Twenties of 1882 close at 1091; and Conso lidated do. (new issue of 1865) at 108} to 109. State Stocks have been less-active. Missouri 6's have reacted from the speculative advance of last week—the price having fructuated between 89 and 864, and closing at 87 to 874. Tennesse 6's, 1890, closed at 92 bid ; Virginia 6's, 61 to 62 ; North Carolina 6's, 79 to 80. The increased supply of Gold has facilitated speculation for a• decline in the premium, and the price has fallen about 4 points during the week, closing at 1424. Foreign exchange has been dull and weak. Banker's 60 days Sterling closes at 1084 to 109 ; 3 days do., 1094 to 1094 ; Francs, 60 dais, 5.174 to 5.164 ; do. short date, 5.134. Cotton has ruled weak and dull, under improved ad vices from the South as to the prospects of the supply, and in sympathy with the fall in Gold. Mid. Uplands closes 33 to 334 cents. FOREIGN QUOTATIONS. Nov. 16. Nov. 9. London commercial lO 7l 108 107 1 1084 4 109+ Do. bankers' long lOBl 109 109 10y- Do. bankers' short sight lO9, 1091 110 not Paris sixty days 5174 516-1 5164 515 Do. short sight 5134 5134 5124 Antwerp 5214 520 520 5164 1. Hamburg 36f 361 36 1 , 36 Amsterdam Frankfort - 07^ ,5,.. Bremen Berlin 72f 72i- 724 724 COTTON QUOTATIONS. (Nov. 16th, p.m.) Uplands. Mobile. N. O. &Ts . . Good Ordinary Low Middling 3l to 33 to 33 to Middling Good Middling MOVEIIgNTS OF SPECIE AT NEW YORK. . ___ IMPARTS. From California,Nov. 10 Foreign, week ending Nov. 10 Import for last week $1,116,412 P re viously from Califor n i a 35,701,436 Previously from Foreign Ports 8,461,738 Total sinco January Ist 545,279,586 EXPORTS. For week ending November 10 $1,037,850 Previously • 55,931,823 Since January 1.. Same time 1865 .. $56,969,673 25,552,301 (From E. F. &ztterthwaite and _Co.'s Weekly Circular, November 28.) Per "Australasian," our latest advises from New Ycrk aro to the 14th inst. ; they report a fair demand for Go vernment Stocks, the 1863 issue if 5-20's being most in demand for export. The market for Railroad Stocks was irregular; New York Central on the week, showed a de cline of $7 ; Chic4go and North Western $5 ; and Michigan Central $3 ; other descriptions were comparatively steady. Railroads were in request, at full rates. Money had shown a tendency to increased stiugency, but at latest dates was again easier. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. An objection having been taken early in the spring of this year to the legality of the Act of Consolidation of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, and a verdict against the Company being obtained at nisi prim, which verdict was reversed on June 29th, on appeal to a higher court; it is with great satisfaction that ive are no* able to 'state that the question is finally set at rest by the decision of the Supreme qourt of Pennsylvania, deliveied at Pittsburgh on the 18th ult., by Chief Justice Woodward. In giving the judgment, which the learned Chief Justice did at con siderable length, he says : "Having decided in the quo warra . Tzto sued out by the Attorney-General against the Atlantic and Great Westein Railway Company, that the agreement and Act of Conso lidation, bearing date the 19th of August, 1865, and entered into by the several railway companies therein named, was a valid and legal instrument which, upon being filed with the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the pro visions of the Act of Assembly of 24th of March, 1865, constituted the said Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company a body corporate within the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it is neither necessary nor proper now, at the snit'of private parties, to enter again into the question of the corporate existence, de jure, of the said Railway Company. Having been called upon by the proper repre sentative of the supreme power of the State to show by what authority it claims and exercises corporate franchises ; and such title as it exhibited having been sanctioned and approved by this Court, not only all private parties, but the State itself, is concluded thereby; and henceforth it is to be taken and regarded as a railroad company, created by, and existieg under, the laws of the commonwealth." In conclusion, he observes—" And now, whilst a mul titude of subjects that wore pressed into the argument of the present case have been pretermitted, we have passed judgment upon all the questions raised by the assignment of errors, and have thus sufficiently explained and justi fied the grounds of the decree which we entered at our adjourned term, at Wilkesbarre, in June last. "If any point in that decree need further explanation it hasreference to Scott, whose bill was dismissed, not only because, as a private suitor, he had no right to question the corporate existence of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, but because he is really not a Stock holder in the consolidated company, and therefore had no right to file a Stockholder's bill. "It appears that he was the owner of twelve shares of the capital stock of the original Pennsylvania corporation, under the name of 'the Great Western Railroad Company of Pennsylvania. As such ho had a right under the eighth section of the Consolidation Act of 24th March, 1865, to convert his stock into the stock of the consolidated company, or to have an appraisement made of its value, and to be paid his damages or the value of his stock. But having never converted his stock into that of the consoli dated company, he has no footing in court for a stock holder's bill against the said Company ; and, therefore, lasi bill was dismissed." TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR OCTOBER. Miles open. 1866. 1865. Increase. Decrease. - 8 Erie ERRATUM.—In our last we inadvertently reversed the Illinois Central traffic receipts for the years 1865 and 1866; the latter year should have shown an increase over 1865, instead of a decrease of $2,394. We have to report a large amount of business in United States Government Bonds in the London Market during the past week. At one time the. 5-20 Bonds of the 1862 issue were quoted to as high as 70i to 71, but from this point there has been areaction, owing to higherpremium on Gold in New York for the last two or three days, and they close 69i to 70i, or about a quarter per cent. under quota tions of this day week. The 1865 issue, after touching 70, remain without al teration, viz., 691 to 1 ; they, •as well as the 1864 issue, are now officially quoted in the Stock Exchange Daily List. Railroad Shares oil lower quotations from New York have declined two per cent. Illinois Central have been almost a dead letter, but in Eries there have been some pur chasers at the reduced rates, to fill " bear " accounts. At lantic and Great Western Debentures are one per cent. lower, and the Consolidated Bonds, after being quoted 431 to 44, close 401 to 41. OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS FOR THE WE-BK.—United States 6 per Cent.s.2o Bonds, 1882 : Thursday, 701 1 70i; Friday", 701 4 ; Saturday, 701 1 ; Monday, 701 f 1 ; TuesdaY, 701 f I ; Wednesday, 70 691. Virginia 5 per Cent. Sterl tug Bonds : Thursday, —. Virginia 6 per Cent. Dollar Bonds: Thursday, —; Friday, —; Saturday, —; Tuesday, —; Wednesday, 69. Atlan. and Gt. Westn. (N. T. Sect.) Ist Mrt. Bonds, 188( : Friday, —; Monday, —; Wednesday, —. A.tlan. and Gt. Westn. 2nd Mrt. Bonds, 1881: Friday, 73; Monday, —. Atlan. and Gt. Westn. (Penns. Sect.) Ist Mort Bonds, 1877: Thursday, —; Friday, ; Wednesday, —. Atlantic and Great Western (Pennsyl vanian Section) 2nd Mrt. Bonds, 1882: Thursday, -- Saturday, —; Wednesday, Atlan. and Great Western Consolidated Bonds, 1895; Thursday, 431 41 8 1 Friday, 431143113; Saturday, 4212314; Monday, 41124 1 ; Tuesday, 411 21 11; Wednesday, 41 1 401. Erie Shares, 8100, all paid: Thursday, ; Friday, 50 ; Satur day, 481 8 ; Monday, 48 71; Tuesday, 48 71; Wednesday 474.7. Erie Shares, 6 percent. Convertible Bonds : Thursday", 681; Monday,—; Tuesday, —; Wednesday, Illinois Central 6 per Cent. Bonds of 1875: Thursday, —; Tuesday, —. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Bonds of 1875 : Thursday, ; Monday, 671 ; Tues day, 671. Illinois Central Shares, all paid : Thursday, 781; Friday, 781 ; Saturday, ; Monday 7 7 1 Tuesday,. 77f ; Wednesday, —. Michigan Central 8 per cent. Convertible, 1869: Thursday, —. Panama Rail road, 2nd Mort. 7 per cent, 1865: Friday, —. Philadelph ia and Erie First Mortgage, 1881: Thursday, 75 ; Fri day, 75; Monday, —; Wednesday, —. Philadelphi a and Erie First Mortgage, 1881, with option to be paid le Philadelphia: Friday, —; Wednesday, 74. Pennsylvani a Second Mortgage Sterling Bonds, 1875: Monday, —.— (Glenn and Co.'s Weekly Circular.) LONDON, Nov. 30. The market for. American securities in London for the last week has been active; and a large business has been transacted, but there has been no advance ; and, on th e week, 5.20's at 701 are 1 per cent. lower; Eries at 46 are 4 per cent. lower ; and Illinois Central at 77 are 11 Per cent. below what they were this day week; while Atlantic and Great Western Certificates have fallen 5 per cent.; the Consolidated Bonds aro firm at 40 to 41. As the American Congress meet on Monday next, American secu rities will very soon unquestionably be influenced, either up or down, by its action and policy. Yesterday being Thanksgiving Day in America, there are no quotations from New York by Atlantic Telegraph this morning. The closing price for gold, November 28th, was 1411. COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. Wheat is is to 2s lower than on Friday last, but sale are not pressed to any extent. Barley met with a golf trade, and prices is lower. In beans and oats there W 5 no material alteration. LINCOLN.—FnmAY. Wheat was in fair request, and prices were is lower than last week. Barley was not much sought after, an d last week's prices were only obtained fcr finest qualities• A moderate show of oats, and prices quite as high. Bean s a small show, at advancing prices. New white wheat, 58s to 65s ; new red, 50s to 58s per 3 6 stone. Barley for malting, 42s to 49s per qr ; g rinding/ 34s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, 22s to 325. Beans, 48s t 0 50s per 58 stone. LIVERPOOL.-FRIDAY. We had a moderate attendance at our market to-dal and wheat was in moderate demand, at 2d to 3d per 1001 decline. Flour sells slowly, from 6cl to is per sack a n , barrel lower than last week's prices. Indian corn sluggian Oats id to id per bushel lower. Oatmeal slow. 1 30 ' quiet, and rather easier. DERBY—FRIDAY. 36 New white wheat, 62s to 66s ; old red, 56s to 61s per stone. Barley for malting,tl4s to 48s per qr. ; grii n b' 37s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 27s to 295; old, 2 9 s t ° .3 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 528; new, 468 to 50 per 38 stone. S TAMF ORD—FRIDAY. New white wheat, 56s to 608 ; red do., 52s to 56s per 86 stone. Barley, malti ng , 42 s t o 48 s; gr i n di ng, 34 s to 08 ' per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 28s; old, 28s to 32s per 24 stone Beans, 52s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. RIPON-FRIDAY. There was a better supply of grain at market to-dal' and the demand was nct so brisk. Wheat ls per qr. lob; than last week. Malting barley was fully as dear. Ot ll6 grain as before. White wheat, 8s Od to 9s Od per bushel ; red, Gs 6d to 83 3d ; beans, 7s 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 268 to 32s per qr ; barley' 35s to 43s Od. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. 0. d. Lambert's W.Hartley 17 6 Walls End Hetton ... 23 (3 ' Bradyell's Hetton 22 0 Hetton Lyons ........ 20 i' Wylam l7 0 Tees 18 0 Acorn Close 2l 0 Buddle'sWestHartley 0 Walls Endllaswell 23 0 East Wylam l6 3 East Hartlepool Hartlepool n 0 Kelloe James Walker Primrose l4 6 South Moor Pelton 0 West Hartley Ships at market, 42—sold, 35. THE PROPOSED RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER TO MERSEY.—At the meeting of the Mersey Dock Board Ye B.l terday a letter was read from Mr. Alexander Lynn, t he acting engineer for Mr. Fowler, who has had ucder sideration the proposition to construct a railway tonn e , under the Mersey, stating that the projectors had dec ided to abandon the scheme for the present session. The reaso n assigned. for this decision is the great depression in rail ways and the startling commercial disclosures in the wet cantile world. The projectors believe it more prudent t° delay for a year, believing that the scheme will not suffer, but rather gain thereby. . Births. CHARLEMONT—On the 24th ult., the Countess of Char ir moot, prematurely, of-a daughter, stillborn. *GOUGH—On the 27th ult., tho wife of Thomas Gough, Doctors'-commons, of a son. LOCKHART—On the 28th ult., at 15, Sunderland-terra of Westbourne-park, the wife of D. E. Lockhart, Es+ , " a daughter. PARKES —0 u the 16th at H.B.l§L's Legation, Y° l r s , hams, Japan, the wife of Sept.,Sir H. S. Parkes, .K.O.ito °` 5011. Marriages. CATIICART—BOLTON—On the 28th ult., at the Holy TODitio Church, Wensley, Colonel the Hon. A. M. Cathcart Jean Mary, only daughter of th%Lord Bolton.; BOURSE—LIDDIARD--On the 29th ult , at St. P au l'. Church, Deptford, Thomas James, the . eldest sou of Bourne, of 484, Oxford-street, Bloomsbury, to Cath eri l third daughter of Joseph Liddiard, of 423, New CO' street. Deaths. ANGELL—On the 28th ult., at Abbey Lodge, CheriSei, Surrey, Samuel Angell, Esq., aged 67. MILES—On the 28th ult., at Pangbourne Rectory, 1 3 ° r° Jonathan Miles, Esq., aged 71. . F. MILDMAY—On the 29th,ult., at 46, Berkeley-square, .r.• Mildmay, Esq., aged 40. MANNERS—On the 29th ult., at Send Lodge, Surrey, Gre° ' P. Manners, Esq., aged 77. , PECK On the 30th ult., at 10, Aberdeen-pug', bury, G. Peckett, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, aged 6 „. TYLDEN—On the 29th ult., at Tunbridge-wells, Ditii°' Gen. J. Tylden, R.A. London : Printed tad Published by WILLIAM AND/10 - al, of No. 112, Strand, Pi inter at 'Paz SUN °Woe, No. I' Strand, in :he Precinct of the Savly , in the CountY ° 141adleeez.—Saturday, December 1, 180. # ifizt ; l Ti IN A. This oN I)lthlin Pr It ig iome. 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