The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-16 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. A quieter tone prevails in the money market to day, but there is no particular alteration. _ At the Bank of England, yesterday afternoon, there were no bullion operations of importance. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ordered the 12,500 new shares of the Bank of Bri tlBh Columbia to be quoted in the daily list. Notice has been given that in future the half- Yearly interest on the Metropolitan District Railway Company will be payable on the Ist of January and the Ist of July in each year. On Monday, the Ist of January next, a proportionate dividend of the interest accruing since the 13th of _ September I ' 6l l be paid at the office of the registrar of the company, 27, Austin-friars. The Central Argentine Railway Company have fade a call of £2 per share (making £lO 10s. per s hare called up), payable on or before the 15th of January, at the Consolidated Bank, Fenchurch- Btreet. The movements of the precious metals during the week have been on a rather extensive scale. The I ports have amounted to about £300,678, while the exports have been to the extent of £587,253. Two o'CLoCK. According to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cents French Rentes were quoted at 68f. 45e. _ _ . Dulness is the prevailing feature of the Foreign Stock Market, and prices are a shade lower. Mexi- Can, 24f 1 ; ditto New, 221, ; Greek, 151 t 4 ; Spanish Passive, 27+ f ; Certificates, 141 i ; Italian, 65* ; the Confederate Loan, 78 ; and Brazilian Scrip, 11 1 prem. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 86/ 87f ; Exchequer Bills, 6 3 dis ; Bank Stock, 247 8 ; India 5 per Cent. Stock, 1870 1021 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced 1011 4 ; ditto 5f per Cent. Debentures, - - - An improvement has taken place on the American Stack Market. United States Government 5-20 fonds are 651 I ; Erie shares, 58f 59 ; and Illinois, 81 82. Business in the Railway Share Market has re mained very quiet, and a further decline has taken Place in values. Great Western have receded £1 10 a. ; South Eastern, ; and Midland and Metro politan, each ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little Variation as regards prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat, and in several instances show increased depression. Alli ance are dealt in at 281 29 ; London and South Western, at 20; Oriental, at 50}; Overend, Gurney, and Co., at 204 21; and London Financial, at 20k a ; Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Mort gage Bonds are quoted 1 11 prem. ; Colonial Com- Pally, 1 11 prem. ; the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (old) shares,, 313+ prem. ex all ; and the new issue, 3i 31 prem. ; the St. Saviour's Wharf Company (Limited) shares, 1 11 prem. ; the Lon -4,0n Steam Towing Company, 11 2 prem. ; Charles 4 4afatte and Co., 2 21 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Der Cent. Consols a Do. Account, Jan. 9 ,Per Cent. Reduced B6/ 7} New 3 per Cent B6/ if oew 2/ per Cent. Jan. 1894 — A Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — 4 31nuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April BB s — L , Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 - 4 zchequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. 6 3 Do. £5OO — Do £lOO and £2OO B atik of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 'lldian Stock, loi per Cent., AprillB74 — Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do, 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5/ per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 9B/ Do. Bonds, £l,OOO l5 Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. tirustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 azilian 5 per Cent Do. 4 Cent 1852-58-60 i. per 67/ _ 10 . ' 1863 Do. 1865 /3 Do. Scrip, £25 paid tieno s Ayres 6 per Cent Oh 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 'laillan 4i per Cent Do. 3 per Cent C° l ombian 6 per Cent. I , ll ba, per Cent. "anish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 t , bo. 5 per Cent, 1773-77, £25 paid — altubian Principalities 00 Account - % l lador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do Provisional Land Warrant t '' g'i ptian 7 per Cent 92; ' r i s e., Second Issue 92 Do £lOO Bonds 92f Do. 1864 — u bo £lOO Bonds l 'ye s ek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 4 -0. Account a- , 0. Coupons L uo. Account mtl atemala 5 per Cent. — DO £B6 paid — 1 ,:bo. 1839 and 1850 Ilan 5 per Cent, 1865 ~,-'-'O. Account 4.10. Maremmana Railway — 1) ,,o Scrip, £67i paid DO 5 per Cent., 1864 — oXican 3 pe r Cent ° O . Account Do 1864 per Cent. Anglo-French 1( 10 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — o titevidean 6; per Cent., £3O paid — N ° o rish Imperial 5 per Cent e Nr Granada DO 1-;0 er ent h Deferred 3: 1 ' 0 Land Warrants (Hectares) D 6 per Cent, 1864 — p: 0 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — 'tovian 4i per Cent 1 2 0 . Account ' l , O Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds — ""° 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Dc 4i per Cent., 1862 11: 10 Account — Pllguese 3 per Cent., 1853 h ° per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, I t -'O. Aceount Itssia n 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — D e 4 Cent. per 1850 1), I Pe- J. 41. per Cent., 1860 ,'-'0 pei Cent. 1859 '-'0 5 per Cent. 1862 BBi I % "0 5 per Cent. 1864 krelini an 5 per Cent g 3:l ° Account 'rish 3 per Cent Ate account 431 D 0 New Deferred — 0 Account — O 0 Passive — e r n Account r ° ish Cert. of Coup not funded — ti Account l4! Ddish 4 per Cent. — L . , . 0 - 4i per Cent. 1864 gush 6 per Cent. 1854 D 0 Account ~'0 6 per Cent. 1858 V, O Account ', O £lOO Bonds ;', O . li per Cent — 0 6 p er C en t. 1862 DaAccount 7lk 2k 1 XlOO Bonds 721 i ii per 0 Cent., 1863 — D° 5 per Cent. 1865 — e Scrip, £35 paid 1) 0 Account D° £1(0 Bands YD 4 per Cent. Guaranteed looi eznela 3 per Cent. D ° Account 0 6 Per Cent., 1862 (). Account 4 ,484, 4 Dividends on the above payable in London. cm,"t 4 o, 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins ~,r44, 4i- per cent., Ex. 25f. F ' eh ,- 13 n ffr pot. Out., Ex. 12 Gull — j r 'Per Cent. Certificates — t lel l Re 34, nt es per Cent. — Do43' Per Cen.;lB6l, Ex. 25f. Account TWO O'CLOCK e s,sileols for money ...... 'o•ll.c2ount, Ar r T T N et • U OLMAN HUNT has nearly completed cill k ,, lite s; the first, "Dolce far Niente" is a three. 4 ekt,,;,, er length life-size figure of a ladyin modern costume, lo si delong in a chair, i leaning back, her fingers nter -111,-44, her h a i r loose upon her shoulders, a book lying 'it ° l l l l her knee ; her feeexpressive of pleasant thoughts, Aitt)Qinisite fidelity and feeling for beauty. The second Ye 41 813, Mornin g P ra y er ," re p resen t s a g i r l of some 17 4 , 4 d '. t , al lding, or half-kneeling, 'by the side of her bed, 40 111 7 'us act of prayer, before the days duties begin. tlang sunlight fills the room with bright and glowing QAbi a „ l . l : :l is enhanced by its peculiar, cool shadows. It is 11 (itt r i I Picture, says a weekly contemporary, in truer than its atmospheric effect, nothing an the action of the figure. two SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. I P-is"! Closing 1 Business Price. done. lsrie►tol anti Exeter Caledonian. Cambrian.. ..... Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.June &London, t crip Certi 93 95 124 25 94 96 13 15 4i 51 138 72 71 73 Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern ar. A stock Do. B stock Do. N ew, is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n D . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. M id.— Oxiord Do. Newport Do. Hereford. Lancashire& Yorkshire L.:nden and Blackwell Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast Lon., Chat„ and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan.... Do. New 113 115 42 i 3 7 8 '27 t2B 197 198 92 94 61 614 604 61 41 13 15 40 'Ol 'O5 122 1216 88 90 103 101 36 38 50 12 125 k 326 911 97 61, 63 186 137 3 Sip 1 4 al. 1031 104 Do Extension Metropolitan District. Do do. do . Do. and St. John' sW' d Mid and Do. £9 Share 1221 1231 1 1 131 93 95 Do, liirmin . & Derby ‘iid Rent North British _ _ _ Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... E 8 59 7 29 110 111 70} 71, 103 104 Do. stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire • N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Soot. N. E . Aber. stock 1)0. Scot, Mid. stook Shropshire Union South Devon -ouch E. stern sitaines, Wok., & Wok' Taff Vale Do. C Vale ot Neath 36 87 10 It p 126 128 2 2.p 2 Lip 73i 741 11 12 148 15) 66 68 112 114 55 67 76k 76! 8 . 9 148 150 3 }p 101 104 Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha ,West Cornwall 49 61 BRITISH P Atlantic & St. Lawrence Bora., Baroda, gu. 5 . per cent.. ...... 'I Do. shares Buffalo J 6 Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & B. E., Um Jane Town & Dock, gn Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pt East. Benzal, gn. ' 5 do East lutlfp, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Eitasiori Grand Trunkot Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist ►'ref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock— Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do - Great Wes. of Canada i Do. New .. Do. 6 p. a. Bds. pay. 1873 tio. 51 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.a Do. 41 do Do. 44 do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 8 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. If 1. C' da, 6pc Ist pf.ba Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub + o Do.lndus St. Flo '4" ,SIONS. 59 61 102 103 Id tp 6 6 10 11 75 80 99 101 65 70 101 103 102 103 103 104 i IP 30 31 88 90 68 68 55 60 56 58 60 55 45 48 40 44 32 34 31 33 103 IC4 S ~P~ i 1 P 1014 1021 16} 17 4 30 1 , 3 15 8i !7 1 #d 10111 102# 94 96 89 91 64 66 82 84 1 114 1021 101) 102 10t 102 100 [lOO 2 100 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECU . British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Dec. 31,1672.... ' Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja..Sz July] 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1)0. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 pc. inscribed sk Cape (~]lope, 6 p.c. 1873 cio.Apl.&Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9. Do. Jan.&July, 1690-9 , Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1-78 Do. 1882, May 15, Nov. Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal 'iov. o per cent N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&Jul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 lye., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 187(^ 1 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189z' New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. C. S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-1 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, April & Oct 190 100 100 0 100 100 96 98 94 96 94 96 82 8t 81 S 3 104 106 104 106 194 106 195 107 90 92 10) 1(2 106 ILB 103 105 - itto LOS 104 106 1' 6 103 96 99 96 :Ai 1 0 IG2 93 95 8) 31 103 105 84 85 101 102 103 104 106 108 105 106 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. Consol. Cold, lim 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 22 221 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 575 595 Drake walls 2.1.0 1/ East Bassett (Illogan) 291 18 20 East Cara don 2.14.6 81 9.1 East Earn Brea 34 51 54 Nast Grenville 2.14.0 3 36 East Gunnislake 8.3.6 1 1 East Loved 3.9.0 13 15 E. WI Russell (Tavistk 10.8.0 3 ), Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 5 7 4 Groat L4xey, limited all 21 22 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 11 2 Great Wheal Busy 14.9.6 33 4 G. Wheal Vor (Helst.io 11. i 34 35 Grenville 8.18.0 34 41 Herod's Foot 8.10.0 30 38 Elingston Downs 5.10.6 51 54 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 5 7 Marke Valley 4.10.6 34 41 4 31.wyndy iron Ore, Urn 24 26 14d New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan 4.4.0 4 15 North Wheal Crotty Prosper United 7.1.6 Pr Nidence Uny Lalant 10.6.7 38 40 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 420 440 South Condurrow 3.2.0 if 11 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 20 25 stray Park 35.15.6 10 12 Tin Croft 9 19 20 5 Vigra and Clugan, lim all 5 7 -- West liassett (II togaa 16 3 4 W. Caradon (L‘skeard 9 9 11 West Chiverton ll 771 823 West Seton 471 190 200 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 95 1( 0 Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 25 27 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 4 6 Wheal Seton 5Bl 2 1 5 225 —. Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 7 18i 101 105} 4 f rttErEILEN (IN bliAltEb. Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pf., 100 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4} per:cent. pi., Ditto, 5 p r cent., 97 Midland A and B pt, 1(6 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S London Tilbury, and Southend, 102} FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco k li.a.) gua. 7 per Cent., 191 Dutch Rhenish, 231 Great Luxembourg, Isi San Paulo, limn., ua. 6 per cent., 17/ West Flanders, 7i FOREIGN MINER. Cape Copper, Urn.. 13 Frontino and Bolivia Gold, Urn., 21 Panulcillo Copper, ltm., Washoe Gold, lim., 7} DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 84 BANKS. Alliance, lira., 281 Anglo Austrian, 61 Australasia, 70, Bank of Egypt, 30 City,:lo9 Chartered ger. of India. London, and China, 47 East London, Um., 41 English Joint Stock, lirn., 101 English. Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21 European Bank, Rm., 12/ Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilrn., Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 17/ Ditto. new, 17 Imperial Ottoman, 14/ Land'Hortgage Bank 01 India, lira.. 41 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lira., 141 London and Brazilian aim.), 49 London and County, 791 London Joint Stock, 501 London Chartered Bang of Australia, 231 London and South African.. 17 London and South-Western, lira., 191 Ditto, new, 20 London and ►► estminster. 97 Oriental Balla Corporation. 511 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., 7j Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. llm.. 5 1 Standard of British South Africa, Ditto, issued at G pm., 5 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 21 1 Berlin Water Works, Um., 101 Boy, bay Gas, lim. ' 51 Ceylon Company, 101 Company of African Merchants, lira., 31 Credit Fonder and Mobilier of Englana, 9 Cry s p t t l io i l a i l s a s c u e e , Egyptian Com and Trading, lira., 2 4 d m it i t a prem., of which X 2 is to p a y , 31 English and Scottish Marine, lira., 4 Fore-street Warehouse, Urn., 11/ Gen. Credit and Finance of London. BM.. 6 1 Hudson's Bay, lei .7 Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 71 Indian Carrying, lira., 1 Joint Stock Discount. Um., 9 London Financial Association. lira, 201 National Discount i ompany. 171 Overend, Gurney, and Co.. lim., 21 201 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 73i Royal Mail Stearn, 1 04 Upper Assam Tea (all), lira., Ditto (a11),1 4 Warrant Finance, Um., 71 OSSE, all 100 6 all all 100 100 100 all 100 100 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 180. Destructive Fire this Day. This morning, about four o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises in the occupation of Messrs. King and Co., printers, Savoy-street, Strand. The print ing-offices were of a very extensive description, and filled with a valuable stock and machines of a very superior description. ,The alarm was raised by Henry Stacey, who saw the fire first making its appearance beneath the front entrance. In a mo ment or two after the 'alarm was given two of the men, who were then engaged at work on the upper floor, made their appearance at the windows, im ploring help. A man named Mahony had the pre sence of mind to run to the fire-escape station on the outbreak of the fire, and by the fortunate arrival of the machine the lives of the two men were saved. The stock of printing'materials, &c., were entirely destroyed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A WIFE CHARGED WITH STABBING HER HUSBAND —Ellen Bennett was charged before Mr. Knox with the following assault on her husband, Thomas Bennett, a tailor, living at 7, Tower-street, Seven Dials. The prosecutor said that about 11 o'clock the previous night his wife came home, and a few words took place between th,em,•and she seized a poker with the intention of striking him. The poker was taken from her, and she then seized the tongs, and on them being taken from her, she stabbed him in the face, near the eye, either with a key or a pair of scissors. To escape from any further violence at her hands, he jumped out of the window. A constable came up and he told him what had occurred, and afterwards gave his wife into custody. Police-constable Stiles, 168 C, said the prosecutor came up to him in Tower-street last night, and told him that he• had been stabbed in the eye by a woman. He went to No. 7, Tower-street, but the room door was refused to be opened by the persons inside, and he had therefore to break it open. He took the prisoner into custody and all the persons in the room—the persons the prose cutor stated to have taken the poker and tongs from the prisoner, who said they knew nothing about the matter. The prisoner said she went home and her husband abused her, and she struck him with a key which she had in her hand at the time. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner, and ordered summonses to be issued for the attendance of the persons who were in the room at the time the assault took place ; consenting, however, to take bail for the prisoner. The Insurrection in Jamaica• The Debt of the United States. The following statement pertaining to the debt and re sources of the United States of America was prepared and read at a large and influential meeting of bankers and others at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, on the 14th September last, by J. F. D. LANIER, of New York, a banker of great experience in the finances of America, and in the confidence of the Treasury Department at Washington. Although the statement of American finance made by Mr. LANIER extends only to the end of August last, his exhibit is so plainly and intelligibly written, and presents so clear a view of the financial condition of the United States, that we cannot resist the inclination to publish it in our columns:— The amount of the public debt of the United States of America on the Ist day of August last was about two thousand seven hundred and twenty millions of dollars, of which $1,108,000,000 is payable in gold, $1,053,000,000 in the legal currency of the country. Tho most careful and liberal estimate of the Fiscal Department of the Government fixes the ultimate war debt at three thousand millions of dollars. • The immediate resources of the Government for the year dosing the 30th of June last were from customs, internal revenue, &e., $318,251,589 10c., of which $82,000,000 was in gold from customs. The estimated receipts for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1866, is : Dols. From customs, in coin . Internal revenue 300,000,000 Lands and miscellaneous Making a total of 396,000,000 The annual charge of this fund, estimating the interest on $3,000.000,000 of debt, cannot exceed $165,000,000, leaving an excess of revenue for other purposes of $231,000,000. The above estimate was made in June last. Since that period, such has been the rapid increase of customs that receipts from that source are more likely to reach $130,000,000 instead of $80,000,000. This is accounted for iu pan from the fact that the South was swept bare of every sort of goods during the war —its working machines, its railroads and their rolling stock, its steamboat; &c., were all in good part destroyed, all that was left to it were its staple crops. But as it is now proved to possess these in heavy quantities they will enable it to supply itself with everything else. The imports of cotton to New York from the South prior to the 28th of August last averaged twenty thousand bales a week. It follows that there must be a corresponding export of goods and machinery to the South. Business at New York and throughout the great West, at last date, was active beyond precedent. There is little doubt but the exports of the staples of all sections of the country during the same time will more than equal in value the imports. The Debt of Great Britain at the close of the French war in 1816 was $4,205,000,000, and has only since that time been reduced $250,000,000, and was a charge of $2lB 20c. per head on her total population, and an encumbrance on the total wealth of the nation of 40 4-10ths per cent. Since the battle of Waterloo her wealth has grown at a slow but steadily-increasing rate, from 20 per cent. in the first to 41 per cent. in the last ten years, thereby reducing the burden of the debt from 40 4-10ths per cent. on the national wealth to but 12 per cent. now. The census of 1860 shows the wealth of the loyal States at $10,766,000,000, and the products of the year at $2,780,000,000, or 26 1-Bth per cent. of the capital. , The wealth of the loyal States increased in ten years from 1850 to 1860 at the rate of 126 per cent., or 8i- per cent per annum. _ . Assuming these amounts and rates as a basis we have in June, 1865, a wealth of $16,112,000,000, and an annual product of $4,318,000,000. The increase of the wealth and production of the States which have been in rebellion for the same period was even greater than this. These rates of production and accumulation will perhaps astound European statisticians, and may challenge the wonder of those among us who borrow their economic doctrines and ideas from Trasatlantic authorities, but we can speak with absolute assurance from our census, and are fully warranted in taking them as a basis of estimate of the immediate future. In 1833 the wealth of Great Britain was estimated at $17,200,000,000. But our own figures depend in no degree or respect upon the estimate of exports. A decennial appraisement of the property and products of the nation by the Census Bureau give us the facts of our situation and rate of progress to be relied on. Taking the results of the Census Bureau for the last decade the following will be the results as the national wealth and resources : In 1870 the wealth will be . In 1880 48,236,000,000 In 1881 51;5100000 reducing the rate of interest on the $3,000,000,000 to 1 27-100ths per cent. on the national wealth. The burden of interest upon the public debt is here cal culated down to the rate of the increase of wealth in the last decade immediately before the rebellion commenced. Is this the measure of advancement for the next 16 years ? Let us see. In the last decade nine of our North Western States and Territories grew upon the valuations of 1850 fully 4111 per cent. from $452,500,000 to $1,862,000,000. Four new territories which had not been reported in 1850 were valued in 1860 at $98,000,000, and the still newer ones, Dakota, Novado., Colorado, Arizonia, and Idaho, are not valued at all. These last are among the richest in the precious meths, and are rapidly rising into equality of product with Cali fornia itself, but have no report in our estimates. The Government still holds in the Great West and North West 950,000,000 of• acres of land undisposed of, which are now, at the conclusion of the war, to come rapidly into market, and what is much more to the purpose, though worth a thousand millions to the Treasury in purchase money, will, after the example of those settled and improved since 1850, rise in taxable value at an average rate of 455 per cent., and in twenty years' increase about thirty times the cash value of the property of their occupants ; and if every dollar received from the sales of the public domain shall be bestowed on these new States by the Federal Government, in donations to their internal improvements and educational purposes, the taxable wealth and the result ing resources in these new States will be only thereby in creased in manifold proportion to the investment. The United States Government owns an area of about ono million of square miles of territory, literally stocked with gold, silver, precious stones, marble, gypsum, salt, iron, quicksilver, asphaltum, coal, copper, and lead, asking only an amount of labor relatively equal to that expended on California to yield $400,000,000 per annum in gold and silver alone, and in other minerals, which will be mined as soon as transportation is provided, at least half that sum, and these things are not merely in the possibility of the future. They are near enough to answer the exigencies of our condition. A population now of 30 millions which, during the last half-century has doubled its numbers every twenty-three and a-half years with all the industrial energies and apparatus of the age at command, animated by the spirit of adventure and spurred on by the faith and hope which works wonders, will be found sufficient for the achievement of greater things than we shall need or dare predict. But, great as the promise is in those exhaustless sources of natural wealth, our reliance is not alone or even chiefly in the wilderness of the new world. The States called the older of the sisterhood did in the last census decade increase their wealth vastly more in amount, and but little less in percentage than the compara tively new ones. . . . . Ohio first settled 77 years ago, appreciated in ten years 136 per cent., but New Jersey and Connecticut, both for two centuries under culture, enhanced their wealth in as great proportion for the same time, and Pennsylvania made an increase of 96 per cent. upon her large capital of $722,000,000. The rebellion being now suppressed it is proper to include the wealth and income of the States which were in rebel lion as a part of the resources of the Union. Their wealth in 1860, as shown ;)y the Census Bureau, was $3,467,000,000. In the five years from 1855 to 1860 they doubled their products. Those States can be restored now in less time, and then advanced upon at the like rate, for they are soon to set forward in a career of prosperity, unparalleled in past ex perience. The rebellion has disencumbered them of an incubus. They have at command all that the temperate climate affords with the semi-tropical added. They lack nothing but the population, enterprise, and diversified industry of free institutions, and these are brought to them by the new order of things. We say again give us but twenty years to realize the promise of our money and conditions, and the United States will stand ready with a population of 60 millions, and a wealth of not less than 60,000 millions of dollars to meet the current burden and discharge the total debt of the nation. England with half this amount of wealth now feels that her still larger debt has dwindled from 40 to 15 per cent. of her property. Ours then would stand at but 5 per cent. of our capital though undiminished in amount in all that period. An additional source of revenue will probably be created by Congress in. the shape of an export duty on cotton, tobacco, and other staples of the reconstructed WIMP ; for which we have the command of the world's market, and can be made to pay from 60 millions dollars to 100 millions dollars per year , without detriment to our public interest. The public debt of the States is held almost entirely by its own citizens, not over 300 millions being held abroad. It is held by all classes, rich and poor, for investment, by Banks, Life and Fire Insurance Companies, Orphan Courts, &c., tradesmen, small farmers, mechanics and laborers, in sums as low as 50 dollars. It is preferred to any other security. No loan of any other Government is so universally diffused among its own citizens. This is an important fact, and would of itself insure its payment. It is the purpose bf the present Secretary- of the Treasury to bring about specie payment at the earliest practical day consistent with the condition of the coun try. It is quite probable that early in the coming year there will be a considerable reduction in the amount of irre deemable paper in circulation, which will go on until the country will gradually fall back into the good old way of paying in coin. - - It is a mistake to suppose that the Northern States have been exhausted or impoverished by the four years of war. The most convincing proof of the contrary is that they have been able to supply to their Government the proceeds of industry represented by a present debt of 52,700,000,000, and that the whole of this debt thus far has been taken up at home. , The Government of tho United States has not sold or negotiated directly or indirectly a dollar of its securities in Europe, and of the whole amount now outstanding not over 6300,000,000 has found its way to foreign countries through the ordinary channels of trade. The condition of all classes in the loyal States had sen sibly improved since the war begun. The causes are obvious. The Government demand has given a prodigious impulse to manufactures in the North, and to agriculture in the West, so that at the end of the war the North finds itself with strength undiminished, re sources increased, prepared to grapple with the burden of taxation. Large as the debt is growing out of the rebellion good results will more than compensate. We are more united, more prosperous and stronger than wo were or should have been. We have abolished the curse of human slavery. The faith of the nation is pledged for the discharge of all its obligations. Its people have passed through a wonderful experience of their financial ability, from hope to confidence, and the cautious moderation of our calcula tions shows that early and easily the national debt can be paid. RACING FIXT JAN Manchester FEBR Lincolu MAI Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring AP] Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Chelmsford Spring IL Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring TRES FOR 1866. GARY. JUT Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 I Jul Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon t Reading AUG Brighton , 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham 14 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPT] Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Canterbvry lB 'ARY. OCTI Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curmgh Nottingham Spring 2; C H. Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B ,IL. T hirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Chester Curragh 24 .Y. Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer 29 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Huugerford Newcastle on-Tyno 26 Curragh 26 Worcester LY. Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon UST." York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter ..... Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 28 Weymouth 3O NOVE: MBER. Richmond Monmouth Manchester Autumn 24 Newmarket Ist October 26 Walsall BER. Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester E,BER. Linenln Liverpool BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 14. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Dec. 14. Dec. 7. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation .. 875,567,525 864,683,325 Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 6,754,362 74 7,519,014 44 Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 155,570,908 19 161,917,580 55 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 832,271 75 856,864 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months 1,427,623 17- 1,427,623 17 surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries Total Dec. 14. Der. 7. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due 329,435,280 81 '323,350,554 36 Do. branch banks 321,073,185 315,254,796 Advances on deposit of bullion 13,684,300 13,990,100 Do. branch banks 8,494,700 9,375,300 Do. on French Public Securities 13,143,400 13,308,000 Do. by branch banks 7,505,300 7,998,400 Do. on railway shares and debentures 1). branch.banks 19,526,780 19,396,780 Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisees (Law, June 9 i 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment 2,410,262 86 2,393,453 21 Sundries Total 1,410,426,870 80 1,402,684,09 06 Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) RoULAND. ENGLISH CONSISTENCY. —The New York Herald says :—English journalists are proverbially unable to see any injustice or any shadow of wrong in the acts of England toward other countries ; but the same worthy persons have microscopic eyes for the acts of other nations that seem in the remotest degree to trench on the interests of John Bull. This blindness on the one hand and wonderful keensightedness on the other have never been so forcibly illustrated as by the comments of the London press on two recent occurrences. The re lease of John Mitchell by President Johnson was declared by part of that press to be an unfriendly act toward Groat Britain. And why ? Mitchell was a Fenian ; the Fenians demanded his release, and it was given. His release was the recognition of an organisation whose object is to pro mote hostilities against England, and even an encourage ment of those dist ur b ers . Th us t h e re l ease o f thi s poor devil from prison was scarcely less than an act of hostility, and no "thoroughly friendly government would thus run the risk of offending a great nation by consorting on terms of amity with its bitterest enemies." Ho ! ho ! John, are you there ? Who consorted on terms of amity with our bitter enemies the other day ? Who managed their cotton loans and came down with his cash? Who built, manned, and equipped their pirate cruisers? You did it all, John, and are not you thoroughly friendly toward us ? Do you not even consider your generous natures wronged if we hint some little doubts now and then your friendliness. Thus we see how the English regard the release from prison of a single Irishman, who, per haps, belongs to the organisation that probably will some day make an attempt against English rule in Ireland. This is one side of the ease. A few days ago the English authorities had in custody the officers and crew of a pirate ship that had for six months burned American vessels on the high seas. There was no contingency, no doubt, of the hostility of these men to us. It was not probable that they might attempt an injury ; they had already done their utmost. But the English authorities set them all free at once, and John Bull raises his eyebrows at us and wonders that we should think he could do otherwise—wonders if we supposed he was to play policeman on our account. Chappuis' registered whist-marker, for long or short, is now ready. Fancy card, is. the pair ; leather, 3s. 6d.; fancy wood, ss. 6d. Wholesale and retail of P. E. Chappuis, the registree, 69, Fleet-street, and of all wholesale and retail booksellers, stationers, and fancy dealers. N.B.—lt is pronounced the best marker out. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—By advices received this day from a gentle man acting for me in 61. Vincent, I am requested to insure my sugar works, &c., in that island, if not already insured. It is discouraging for a West India resident or proprietor to reflect that Governor Eyre's prompt and successful putting down of the late insurrection in Jamaica, and whici, backed up at home, would have given us some sort of security in that and other islands, has been neutralised by the exertions of the negro-worshipper at lume, as the following extract from my correspondett's letter leads me to believe : ‘. l There have been slfficient indications lately that mischief is brewing inthat island. Quashie has been indulging in placards, giving minute directions as to how Kingston is to be fired and plundered. And a wonderful document Pas been posted in the Leeward district,, stating the nunbcr of fighting men, the reserves, &c." An eligible opportunity now offers to any and all negro-worshippers to accompany me to St. Vin cent, West Indies, ox the 18th inst., when, should they (thanks to Mr. Eyre) fail to see the negro giving vent to his peculiar idiosyncracies—vide Times on the late Wit India riots—it will afford me much pleasure to introduce them to their black brethren in that island, who—l will not gainsay them—are, I believe, in almost all respects their equals. Year obedient servant, Dec. 14, 1865. J. M. H. THE PRICE OF CURRANTS. TO THE E)ITOR OF THE SUN. Sin, —The letter cf " Celto-Greek," which ap peared in your columns on the 9th inst., drew my attention to the present price of - currants in Eng land. I have made inquiries, and find that in Lan cashire, and other poor but populous districts, cur rants are in great demand, mothers of families, as " Celto-Greek" suggested, making them a means of supplementing the scarcity caused by the high price of butchers' meat. But the present price of currants —4d. to 6d. per lb.—is really too high for ,the working classes. I have made minute inquiries in the proper quarters, and fnd that the import duty charged on currants is at iresent equivalent to 40s. Is not so high an impost upon an article of such general consumption in thi3 country contrary to the spirit of free trade ? And is it not the bounden duty of the Legislature to remove every impedi ment that stands between the people and the cheap enjoyment of what has become a traditional article of English fare at this season, and which, in the present state of the meat riarket, would add so ma terially to the comfort o! many poor families ?—I remain, Sir, your obediert servant, ECONOMIST. STATE 0? TRADE. MANCHESTER, Dec. 11.—Shipping yarns have been quiet to-day since the arrival of American commercial advices, but very strong. With spinners under heavy contracts, spme of them deeply en gaged for weeks forward, there is a strong feeling among many producers that high prices will be maintained. So far as could be ascertained there has been no giving way among shipping spinners. In home trade yarns ther€ has been a steady mar ket, but with rather less business doing. There has been very little change in prices. The finer counts of yarn are the scarcer, and there seems to be a good demand for them, and they are difficult to purchase for immediate delivery. The cloth market was more sensibly affected by the China's advices than that for yarns. It entirely checked the advance of prices, and led to operations to-day being almost sus pended. There is, however, very little disposition, on the other hand, to make any concession in prices. Manufacturers are generally so well engaged, and there is such an entire absence of stocks, that, as we can see, the depression amounts to very little in actual reduction of prices. Makers are more eager now to accept the offers placed before them earlier in the week, but they show no disposition to tempt business by lowe ring their quotations. Although we close with but a small business, there is no great general change, or apprehension of a great fall in values. Both at Liverpool and in this market we close with less actual depression than was expected in the morning, when the steamer's news first came to hand. CARDIFF, 14th.—The steam coal trade is mode rately active, the proprietors being fairly off for orders. There is every prospect of a larger business being done, and many are making preparations to meet the expected increased demand. There is not any change to note in house coal, the supply and demand continuing about the same as last week ; but as winter has aow really set in merchants' orders are naturally expected to increase. Several of the large iron companies have commenced to ship coal, and consequently the means of supply are at present larger than th€y were. 'The iron trade is not so active as was expected, the trade with America being still characterised by irregularity ; and the entire closing of the Baltic trade has also influenced the market. There is a fair amount of business doing in rails ; and, although there is no great improvement to note in plates, a slight in crease has been evinced in the demand. Pig iron realises full current quotations without difficulty. NOTTINGHAM, 15th.—At our Exchange-hall to; day there was a tolerable attendance, and the demand for lace yarns was firm, at the extreme rates of Tuesday.. Hosiery yarns a steady sale, and quite as dear. Silks and spun silks maintain full prices. There was a slow demand for brown nets, and prices remain without material variation. In mosquito nets there is a fair amount of business doing for the time of the year. Liverpool Cotton Market—This ray. Markct opens firmer. Sales probably 10,000 bales or more. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF NAPOLEON THE FIRST. —To prevent the publication being discontinued the Emperor has guaranteed the expenses by placing the necessary funds at the disposal of Prince Napoleon. THE EMPEROR'S TRIP TO ALGIERS has given birth to a magnificent gift-book, just published by M. Plon, under the title of " Voyage de S. M. Napoleon 111. en Algeri6," the engravings by M. Danjon, and the letterpress descriptions by M. Florion Pharaoh. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam sloop Spiteful, Com mander A. W. D. Fletcher, ordered back to Woolwich from Portsmouth at the suggestion of the Shipwright Depart ment there, in consequence of a long list of defects sent in by the ship's carpenter, has undergone the process of caulk ing, and having been surveyed throughout by Mr. J. C. B. Crossland, Assistant-Constructor of the Navy, and a party of officials from the Board of Admiralty, has been pro nounced seaworthy. The ship is consequently again or dered to sail for her destination. She left her moorings yesterday alongside the Hebe hulk, and went down to the coal brig, under orders to leave Woolwich to-day for Ply mouth on the way to Brazil, to relieve and take up her station there. Commodore Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., superin tendent of the dockyard at Woolwich, yesterday received a communication from Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, informing him that, in justice to the departmental officials of the yard, he had much pleasure in acquainting him that he was fully satisfied with the result of the official survey of the ship, and he fully exonerated him from the imputation of negligence which had been imputed to them with reference to the Spiteful. A very interesting statement of the value of the taxable property of Georgia in the commencement of the war of the rebellion and at the present time is given, show ing that the State sacrificed more than half her wealth in the vain effort to dissolve the Union. When the war on the government was begun the lands, houses, slaves, mer chandise, stocks, and other possessions of the people of Georgia aggregated a value of over 840 millions of dollars. The heaviest single item of loss to the Georgians was in the emancipation of their 486,000 slaves, valued at about 1941 million dollars. LADTERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Pills. The Ready Remedy.—When winter sets in the human constitution undergoes many trial; from some of which disease will spring unless the blood, repelled from the surface of the body, find organs capable of receiving it and secretions adapted to consume it. This preservative power is ad mirably displayed by proper doses of Holloway's pills,which relieve the liver, kidneys, andbowels from undue conges tion by immediately augmenting their secretions, and so diverting any surplus quantity of blood from a situation when its continued presence must be mischievous. With these pills, and an attentive perusal of their accompanying directions, neither great judgment nor much experience is required to conduct even the delicate through the trying time of winter. THAMES. STEALING MONEY FROM A CART. —B enj amin Palmer, a young man well-known as the associate of thieves, and who has been several times in cus tody, was charged with stealing the sum of £57 15s. 9d. in Bank of England notes, gold, and silver, from a box in a cart belonging to the well-known firm of Knight and Sons, soap-makers, Old Gravel lane, St. George-in-the-East. In the early part of September last, William Blanks, the prosecutor's carman, was out with their horse and van, delivering goods and receiving monies for them, and the above sum was deposited in a box in the cart. He left the horse and cart for a short time in Ratcliff-highway, and, upon his return the money was gone. In consequence of in formation a police-constable named Henry Ford ham, No. 197 H took the prisoner into custody a few days ago, and upon charging him with taking Messrs. Knight's cash, he said, " Well, I did help another man to take it." Elizabeth Campbell, a young woman, said the prisoner had been paying his addresses to her, and he promised to marry her. Some time ago, but she did not know when, he gave her £4, and she bought him a shirt, coat, and waistcoat, and returned him £2 10s. of the money. She did not know when he gave her the money. Police-constable John Law, No. 659 A, said the prisoner was tried for felony and acquitted on Jan. 30 last, and was acquitted in consequence of the prosecutor being intoxicated. The prisoner denied having used the words attri buted to him by Fordham. He never confessed that he hoped another man to commit the robbery. The prisoner was committed for trial at the next Middlesex Sessions. A DESPERATE AND UNREFORMED THIEF.— Samuel Ramford, a stout and rough-looking lad, aged 16 years, was charged with stealing a bladder of lard, valued at 45., from the shop of Mr. Gib bons, a cheesemonger and grocer, No. 1, Rose lane, Ratcliff. A. cabman saw the prisoner leave two other boys at the shop door, enter the shop, and come out with a bladder of lard. The thief was immediately secured, the property having been identified. The prisoner, who roared loudly, said he would never do so again. Other boys made him thieve. He implored of the magistrate to send him on board a man- of-war. The magistrate—Thieves are not accepted on board m en-of:war. The mother of the prisoner said he was a good boy when at school ; and on being asked what school, she said it was in the country, and the magistrate sent him there. The magistrate—You mean he was sent to a reformatory school, and has come out unreformed. He is now committed for trial. After the gaoler removed the prisoner a great uproar was heard. The prisoner raved, and called out murder and help, and resisted being taken to a cell. Roche, the gaoler, called for assistance, and the other ()Seers rushed into the gaoler's room, and, after a severe struggle, secured the young ruffian. The mother of the prisoner, called out " Your worship," they are ill-using my poor boy. The magistrate—No one will dare do that here. No prisoner in our custody is ill-used, but he shall be locked up and go to prison. MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The marketis fairly supplied with fruit and vegetables. The trade is tolerably active, as follows : FRUIT—Pine apples, 7s to 8s; hot house grapes, 2s Gd to 6s ; foreign do, 9d to 2s Od ; filberts, 1s Gd to 2s Od per lb ; apples, 2s Od to 3s 6d per half sieve; new oranges, 3s 6d to 8s; lemons, 3s 6d to 7s• walnuts, 1s to 2s per 100. VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, is 6d to 2s Od; white do., 6d to is Od; Savoys, 6d to is Od ; celery, 8d to is 9d ; horseradish, is to 2s Od per doz heads ; greens, 2s to 2s 6d ; turnips, is 6d to 2s Od ; carrots, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; onions, is 6d to 2s ; brocoli, 4s to 6s per doz bunches ; Brussels sprouts, is 3d to 1s 9d per half sieve ; seakale, 2s to 8s per punnet. POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s Od to 12s Od ; geese, 4s to 7s 6d ; ducks, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; tame rabbits, is Od to 2s Od; wild do., is to is 4d; pigeons, 8d to is each; pheasants, 2s 9d to 3s 3d ; partridges, is 3d to 2s 3d; hares, 2s 9d to 3s 6d ; Surrey fowls, lOs to 12s Od ; do. chickens, 6s to 9s Od ; barn door fowls, 4s to 6s Od per couple. English eggs, 14s oo 16s ; French do., lOs Od to 12s Od per 100 ; Ostend fresh butter, is 2d to is 6d ; English is 5d to is 7d per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Soles, is to 3s 6d per pair ; cod, 2s 6d to 15s ; brill, 2s to lOs ; mullets, is to 3s ; doreys, 1s to lOs each ; turbot, 2s Od to 20s each; whitings, 4s to 12s ; haddocks, 4s to 20s ; smelts, 1s 6d per dozen ; fresh herrings, Bs.; mackerel, 50s per 120. Salmon, 3s per lb. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d ; veal, 4s 03 to 5s Od; and pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. WHIT ECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od; and pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7d. to Bd. ; of household ditto, sjd. to qd. per 4lbs. loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides 56 to 64 lbs, 3d to 31d. ; 64 to 72 lbs, 3d to 3id ; 72 to 801bs, 3id to 4d ; 80 to 881bs., 4d to 41d ; 88 to 961b5., 4d to 41d ; 96 to 1041b5., lid. to qd. ; 104 to 1121b5., 4jd to sd. Horse hides, 9s to lOs Od ; calf skins (light), 2s to 4s ; full, 68 6d ; polled sheep, lls Od to 15s Od ; half-breds, lOs to lls 6d ; downs, 7s to 8s 3d. HAY SMrrmlELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 lOs; clove; £5 10s to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 Os per load. Trade heavy. CUMEERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 12s Od; clove; £5 10s to £6 15s Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. Demand inactive. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 4s to £5 lOs ; clover, £5 10s to £6 10s Od; and straw, £ll6s to £2 Os per load. A slow trade. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d. Walls End Haswell... 22 0 Heugh Hall 2l 3 Buddle'sWestHartley 19 0 South Kelloe Pittington l9 6 Hartlepool New Belmont Caradoc 2l 3 East Hartlepool Carway and Duffryn Walls End Gosforth 20 6 Malting 24 0 Cassop Hetton 22 0 Acorn Close 2O 6 Tees Tanfield Moor Butes 16 3 Hastings Hartley l9 3 Kepler Grange 2O 9 Pensher Primrose ... 20 ' 6 Cowpen Hartley Russell's Hetton Ships at market, 69 ; sold, 53. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold a t Pies is about 1 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-IGths per cent. dearer in Parig than in London. 421 i ,9 1 9 Si 121 1244 ; 5 964 6:4 130 1211 21 72} 104 741 4 I'3j 31i I } 331 3 103} } ,rriEs. a..h.....• RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE: The products of the North-West aro now taxed beyond all reason for the want of more means of transit to the Atlantic seaboard. Freights are so high that but a small margin is left for the producer. Hence every object which is likely to afford increased facilities for our grain, beef, and pork to reach the seaboard will be regarded with special favor by the Western public. Our readers will perhaps notice that Sir Morton Peto and the managers of the Atlantic and Great Western Rail way have leased the Morris and Essex Railroad in New Jersey,. and the Catawissa and connecting roa d s i n Penn sylvanfa,.and that they will as soon as possible relay these roads, make the gauge six feet, and form a direct line from St. Louis to New York. It is part of the pro gramme of Sir Morton and his friends to extend their six feet gauge from Cleveland or from some other point in Ohio to Chicago. This scheme will doubtless be realized within two or three years, and we shall have a new and magnificent line to N ew Y or k . Our products will go to that city without ch ange o f cars, thus avoiding all cause for delay and the expense and trouble of transship ment. The opening of this through line will force the conso lidation of competing lines, and thereby increase their facilities for doing the business of the West. Every body knows th:it the petty exactions and the disgusting meanness of railway managers increase in the direct ratio of the smallness of the interests which they unfortunately for the public may be atle to control. As soon as and ' even before Sir Morton Peto's road reaches this city, the Michigan Southern will be obliged to buy out or consoli date with the several short lines between Toledo and Buf falo, and if this cannot be done, to extend its line along the south shore till it unites its interest with the Erie and the New York Central Railways. This, thing is inevitable, and a very few years will see it accom plished. There is now a sort of arrangement by which a line of freight cars is tun directly , through by the South Shore to Boston and New York. To meet this competition the Canada Great Western Road have ordered the iron to lay an extra rail between Detroit and Niagara Bridge, and will make their gauge, now live feet, correspond with that of the Michigan and New York Central Roads within the next twelve or eighteen months. This arrangement, by which cars can be loaded with freight and sent through to the seaboard without breaking bulk, will greatly in crease the capacity and efficiency of this always popular line. But if possible the most important work soon, we trust, to be accomplished is the extension of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada from Sarnia to this city. The leading managers of this road are doing all they can to open their great line, at the earliest possible day to this city. Practically the road is of little advantage to the West, for, in the winter especially, it must rely upon two of our Eastern lines for all the freight the road gets, and they have usually more than they can do. For the shipment of provisions directly to Europe, the opening of the Grand Trunk, with its five feet gauge, to this city will be of the greatest possible importance. The English capitalists who own it have ample means to put on all the rolling stock the trade may at any time demand, and extending directly to Portland, the amount of business it can do and the relief it will furnish to the trade of the city are prac tically without limit. Let, therefore, our merchants and producers take courage. The rail ways Eastward will soon add largely to their facilities of transit. The next thing in order will be the building of the Ontario and Georgia Bay and the Niagara ship canals. Speed the day. We extract the following from the Missouri Democrat of Nov. 28th _ _ "We hail with satisfaction the advent of every new enter prise for developing the commerce and productions of the West, and harmonizing the interests of our people both East and West. We are for a liberal system of internal improvements—the building of a network of railroads centring at St. Louis, and diverging toward all points of the compass. We want easy and cheap transportation for our goods, wares, and merchandise, and every movement looking to this result should be sustained and encouraged. "In this connection we would commend the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. As a through line to New York it forms a desideratum the importance of which has long been felt. Travellers from Cincinnati eastward are enthu siastic in their commendations of this railway. Scarcely a traveller returns from the East since its establishment who is not loud in praising it as the most expeditious and comfortable means of getting from Cincinnati to New York. If our readers adopt this route eastward they will undoubtedly avail themselves of it in returning. The road bed itself is in splendid condition, giving a smooth and easy motion to the cars ; the rolling stock is all new, and the spacious cars are built with every modern appliance for safety and comfort. The sleeping-cars are models of luxurious ease, rivalling in their elegant finish, perfect ven tilation, superb curtains, and sofas by day and finer couches by night, the best drawing-rooms in the country. Better than all these mechanical contrivances to make travel easy and pleasant, the Company have been either very fortunate or very provident in securing first-class conductors and employes, who seem to be very vigilant and faithful in their duties, and courteous to all classes of passengers. The line of the road from Salamanca to Cin cinnati, in Western New Yolk, is through one of the finest districts of country in America, and the whole journey from Cincinnati to New York by this route, taking the Erie Railway at Salamanca, is a pleasant recreation, instead of weariness and toilsome endurance." COURSE OF EXOJIANGE-Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 18 Ditto 3 Months. 12 li 12 2 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 45 25 55 Brussels Hamburg Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine Vienna, Trieste Petersburgh Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan 13 9i 13 9f Short 25 10 25 17* 3 Months. 25 37f 25 47* 25 40 25 474 1201 121 10 00 10 95 10 90 10 95 30 304 6 28 6 284 464 47* 474 48 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 25 57i 25 62t 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 Oporto Lisbon QUEEN EMMA.—A little volume has been pub lished by Messrs. Day and Son under the title of " Queen Emma : a Narrative of the Object of her Mission to England," the style of which, says the Reader, is amus ingly grandiloquent, approaching to bathos, in passages like the following : "It is no mere wish to stare at a royal personage that impels such crowds of Queen Victoria's subjects to go and see this other Queen." Dr. Frapff, the African missionary, in the published Gorman text of his book of travels, is fond of introducing his readers to " their majesties and the princesses" of the queer places governed by sovereigns who show their affinity to Adam by never having changed the style of their dress from that which he and Eve adopted. THE BURNING OF COLUMBIA.—Mr. John S. Pres ton writes from Fenton's Hotel to the Times to vindicate the truthfulness of the Times correspondent's story of the burning of Columbia by Gen. Sherman's army. He says : —" I could fill your columns with details of atrocities un paralleled in Christian history, which of my own know ledge were perpetrated in Columbia and its neighbourhood by the soldiery of Sherman, with his knowledge, and under the orders of his officers ; but I cannot ask you to publish things which the delicacy of your correspondent forbade his writing, They are known to a God of truth and jus tice, and will be judged of in His day of vengeance. lam constrained to ask you to publish this note and the ex tracts' solely by a desire that some truth may be preserved in the records of my suffering country ; and, further, to refute an imputation against General Hampton, who is my friend and kinsman, and was my superior officer." "An Englishwoman," writing to the same paper, and who states that she lived in Georgia at the time of General Sherman's visit to Columbia, says her friends' house in Columbia " Was set on fire three times during the night, and was saved by being taken as the head-quarters of General Howard. He caused the drunken soldiers to be turned out the ground-floor ou the nflo arrivalor of the the house, General they had snatched the watch from h er s id e, an d ro bb e d h er of all plate, spirits, and everythi ng th ey cou ld fi n d upon h e d ci s aNN.v- e e d r e the going family from upstairs w further insult. The kitchens, negro houses, dre., in the yard were burnt d own, an d mu l es stolen. General Sherman and his officers advised several of the Savannah ladies not to go into South Carolina. They had treated Georgia leniently, they said, but their instructions respecting South Carolina were very different. Those persons who have seen North Georgia since the war may learn what is meant by being treated leniently. From Macon to Chat tanooga, in the track of Sherman's army, hardly a house is standing. Every two or three miles you come upon a burnt homestead ; generally the brick chimney-stacks re main, and you see traces of fences round what were for merly cultivated fields. I noticed that wo travelled 35 miles from Atlanta before we came upon a single sign of cultivation ; it was a small even patch, and we travelled far before we saw another; all was utter desolation. I say nothing of the accounts I have heard from the re fugees, often turned out without time to save even their clothing and necessaries —helpless women and children, for the men were away in the service. There is also i n the families of the planters of Georgia the same feeling of excessive depression that your correspondent observes in South Carolina. I have beard them say often since the surrender, What we have undergone hitherto is nothing; our sufferings have now to begin.' I must say that the circumstances which occurred each week, from Lee's sur render in April until August, when I left Georgia, were calculated to increase that depression, and underlying all was the strong conviction that the ne groes have concerted an insurrection to take place early in 1866. Those only who understand the negro character can fully appreciate the horrors of such an anticipation." THE ATLANTIC -CABLE.—Several hundred miles of the core, or interior portion, of the new Atlantic tele graph cabl e aro now fully completed. The Great Eastern is chartered to go to sea in June of 1866, for the double purpose of laying an entirely new cable and of raising the broken end t o th e 1,100 miles of cable l aid this year, so as to splice additional cables thereto, and thus, if successful, furnish to the public a second means of communication. This. 1,100 miles of submerged cable is ascertained to be in the most perfect order by daily tests taken from the time it broke, and still continued " daily. The buoys at the end of it are washe d away. But this," writes Mr. Saward, "is of no consequence, as they were intended only for a temporary pur pose, the spot for gra P n e lli ng have been laid down for solar observations, so that a good navigator can at any time sail to within half a mile of the broken cable." The total assessed valuation of - New Orleans is $98,788,335—a decrease of four and a half mullions since last year. ;'s g? at nd 3 y, eft the 3n) eft ne, sh red ro sly of re- was !ith hat ave for his l of [eft -der tns. 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