The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-12 00:00:00

The Attorney-General at Glouvster. Yesterday evening, at the Shire-hall, Gloucester, a public dinner was given to Sir John Rolt, M.P. the Attorney-General. The Duke of Beaufort oc cupied the chair. There were also present the Mar quis of Worcester, Earl Bathurst, Sir M. E. H. BeaCh, M.P., Mr. W. W. Beach, M.P., Mr. R. S. Holford, M.P., Mr. Schreiber, M.P., &c. The loyal toasts having been given and responded Sir GEORGE JEN , RSON proposed the toast of the evening. Sir Jo EIN BOLT, who was enthusiastically received, said, in reply, that from the bottom of his heart he thanked his friends for their corli d greeting. They all knew that he had been connected wit , i Glouces tershire since childhoo l, in a way somewhat humble, but not less dear on that acco ant. (Hear, hear.) His first ambition was, when he had surmounted the struggles of early life—the first years of an arduous profession—to plant himself among them. It was now 20 years since he began to realise those aspira tions, and from that time to the present his life had been before them. Ten years since they sent him as their representative to Parliament. Again and again they renewed that confidence in him, and through the course of events, without solicitation, he had become her Majesty's Attorney-General. (Cheers.) Their welcome to-night had not been given to him merely as an individual, neighbour, and friend, but they had associated his name with that of a position he filled as their representative in Par liament, with that office which he had now the honour to hold under the Crown. Their meeting, there fore, had somewhat of a political aspect, audit would be a sign of iweakness on his part were he to shirk the responsibility thereby thrown upon him. Never theless, this was not an occasion for entering into the details of political discussion, or to point out the details of measures it would in his opinionbe advisable to adopt or advisable to resist. Their object to-night, so far as politics were concerned, was to vindicate and assert their attachment to the broad principles of that Constitution to which in the main we o wed our prosperity as a nation—their attachment to that specific form of Government under which we lived. (Cheers.) It was wise sometimes to look to the foundations of the noblest and best constructed edi fices, and at the risk of talking platitndes and giving utterance to truisms, it was wise for the Conserva tives at least to examine the principles of that Con stitution which was said to confer liberty with out licence and equality of rights upon all. But among the friends and supporters in the Western Division of Gloucestershire there were some who refused to be enrolled in the ranks of the Conserva tive party ; there was, however, not one among them who had not the same attachment to the Con stitution and that specific form of Government to which he had referred— a limited monarchy ; in deed, it was due to all those who up to this time had been the main opponents of the Conservative party, in this country at least, to say that they pro fessed a profound attachment to that Constitution. The only difference between them and the Conser vative party was a difference of details. Into details he would not enter, but he asked every friend of the Constitution these questions—What did that com mon attachment to the Constitution involve ? and what were the duties which at this juncture it im posed upon them ? He would attempt a somewhat general answer to this somewhat general but most important question. It was a trite observation that the great difficulty with which every mixed form of Government, such as ours was, had to contend, was that it had to preserve the balance of the several powers of Government which it called into action, and to give to each a substantial and important part to play in the administration of affairs, without enervating or impeding the action of the general Government. (Hear, hear.) The absolute mo narchy, the pure oligarchy, the unchecked de mocracy, were alike free from difficulty ; more over, each power in itself was subject to this ob servation—that the freedom we had so long en joyed was in danger from the separate domination of either. (Hear, hear.) We in England had mas tered this difficulty. The several powers were so fairly balanced as to suggest a sort of self-adjusting power. There were former eras in our history when there might have been danger from the too great ascendancy of the Sovereign or of the aristocracy. But these dangers were past. Nobody saw any dan ger of that kind now. Aggression from the Sove reign or the House of Lords was not apprehended. If danger there was it was in another direction—the danger of the democratic element, which sought by force to exceed its just proportion of power. Ile felt he was approaching the great question of the day— the question of the redistribution of the powers of Government—the question of the reconstruction of thellouse of Commons and the representation of the people. (Hear, hear.) Certainly, however, he did not mean to say anything on this question. It was not within his province, nor was it his intention, to say what was the policy of Government at this junc ture—a policy of action, or a policy of inaction ; but he thought he was entitled to say, and he would say, that those who professed a common attachment to our Constitution should bear in mind what would be the effect of the course they took with respect to the increase of the democratic element. Of course, if the democratic element was swamped by the So vereign or the House of Lords, the just balance of a limited monarchy was necessarily disturbed ; but if, on the other hand, the democratic element by force acquired more than its just proportion of power, there could be no balance ; and the duty of every man at this juncture, whatever his party politics, was to regulate his judgment and form his action with reference to every proposal for organic changes of the Constitution by this consideration—what would be its effect upon the true character and united action and just influence of every branch of the Legiiature? That question, being faithfully and fearlessly put and honestly answered, he had no fear of the result. We had steered through greater troubles than any before us, the winds were still from heaven, and with the helm in the hands of a competent statesman our Constitution. would be preserved to the remotest generation. (Cheers.) This might be said to be vague—to give no test, but he begged to think otherwise. We were apt to take blessings as a matter of course. With out looking at the foundation or theprinciples which gave us those advantages, we were apt to forget them—to lose sight of them ; but if these principles could be steadily kept in mind, he felt perfectly satisfied it would be enough for the purpose if the desire was to steer a just and middle course. On the other hand he should be told—and really ad verse criticism spoke with candour—that these were the sentiments of men opposed to all improvement —of the sticklers for everything strictly loyal and constitutional--of the enemies of all progress ; but when anybody talked to him of progress he was apt to say, " What progress? in what direction ? by what road ?" Everything depended upon that. He might say that he was opposed to that progress which travelled in a circle, disturbing everybody and everthing in its course, and ending where it began. (Laughter and cheers.) Change for change sake he disliked. Ile was opposed to that progress, made up of spasmodic acts, or acts by fits and starts and which did not look carefully to the end to be reached, which did not consider the road by which to travel, and which rushed on a headlong course, heedless of the goal to be reached. But the progress that carefully sat down and first considered the object to be gained, that looked at the roads which the ancient landmarks of the Constitution pointed out, which carefully ascertained the end to be gained, which, having looked at the growth and develop ment of the people, traced its progress by that growth and development, and not forcing or stimu lating development for either party or momentary purposes—to that progress, followed out to its end, regardless of all obstacles, he and the Conservative party were fixed. That progress, they said, should be their watchword, and they were prepared to go as far in it as he who went farthest. (Cheers.) He would illustrate the advan tages of such a constitution and such a policy by reference to the state of things in their own county. Their county was largely agricultural. Agriculture predominated. There were large estates and small patrimonies. Of the large estates some bad been long in the handii of historic families, others bore newer names. With regard to the smaller pa trimonies, some had been long enjoyed, and some! not. There were flourishing tenantries everywhere. In the midst of all this they had commercial enter prise and successful manufacture; seats of mineral wealth and enterprise, each and all the foundation of new fortunes and new families, infusing new blood into the service of the State, and creating new capi tal for the employment of industry, and, above all, a labouring population as free from sordid want and poverty as any population to be found in the coun try. Looking at this state of things he could not but admire the machinery that brought it about or made it possible, and, speaking without any class jealousy, which prevented the humblest in rank and the lowest in fortunes from rising, and from his own experience—and his experience did not stand alone --he could not but ask, should Clev not struggle to preserve a constitution which gave existence to cir cumstances so happy and pleasing ? The right hon. gentleman concluded by expressing his determina tion to cling to the constituency that had brought him so much honour. (Loud cheers.) Sir M. BEACH, M.P., afterwards proposed Lord Derby and the House of Lords, to which Earl Bathurst responded. Mr. W. Beach, M.P., re sponded to " Mr. Disraeli and the House of Com mons." The other toasts were local. The Late Gales. CORNWALL, Jan. 10. A large area of land in several parts of the county is still under water, and by the floods alone damage to the extent of some hundreds of pounds has been sustained. At Helston the inundation has been very serious ; a large portion of the town lies in a valley, through which runs a small river down to the sea, a distance of about 31 miles, but the sand blown up bythe gales forms a bar, through which the river is unable to forte its way, and consequently forms a sheet of water called the Looe Pool, about three miles long and half a mile wide. In cases of heavy rainfall this water rises rapidly and deluges the whole of the lower portion of the town, the only remedy for which is the rather formidable operation of cutting through the Looe Bar and allowing the water to escape into the sea. On Monday night the water rose to such an extent as to cause many houses to be flooded nearly up to the second story ; the town, moreover, was thrown into a state of darkness by the flooding of the gasworks. On Tuesday a large body of men collected together, and succeeded, after great labour, in cutting through the bar, when a magnificent sight was presented in the escape of the liberated waters coming in contact with the tremendous waves which were rolling in from the Atlantic. Although by this operation Helston has been relieved from most of the sur plus water, the town is still, in many parts, in a most deplorable plight. In the neighbour hood of St Austell the state of affairs is even more unsatisfactory in consequence of the large quan tity of water that covers the land. The river's banks will take - some time to be restored and made strong. Reports continue to come in of wrecks along the coast, and it is feared that a large bark, name unknown, has gone to pieces off Porthleaven, and that the whole of her crew, supposed to number more than a dozen, have perished. A vessel has also gone down near the Land's End. Leaving out of the question the crew just referred to, the list of persons drowned on the coast since Saturday morn ing comprises 15 persons. _ _ . SWANSEA, Thursday Evening. The Jane Hughes has been wrecked near Worms Head, on the Gower coast. One of the crew has arrived here and applied to the agent of the Ship wrecked Mariners' Society for relief. The vessel was bound from Whitehaven for Cardiff with iron ore. The captain has made no official report at the Swansea Custom-house of the loss of the vessel, and all that is known here is the intelligence furnished by the seaman above referred to, who states that the vessel is a total wreck, her bulwarks having been washed away. lie adds that he swam ashore with a rope, by means of which the whole of the crew were saved. All the effects belonging to the crew have been lost. The crew of the lifeboat sta- tioned at Ferryside, succeeded in rescuing Daniti James, mate, and Henry Haveson, seaman, from the wreck of the Gem, of Hull, which went ashore off Carmarthen Bar. The lifeboat had much diffi culty in approaching the wreck, and the two re scued men were clinging to the foremast, the only mast standing, the hull being completely under water. It appears the captain mistook Caldy for St. Ann's, and thought they were running into Milford. After striking, the ship almost immediately filled, and the crew lashed themselves to the crosstrees. Captain W. Taylor and his wife, and William M'Bride and Patrick M'Bride were drowned in their lashings during the night, and in the morning the survivors cut the lashings and allowed the bodies to fall, as they were_fearfully mangled. SHIELDS, Jan. 11. The schooner Hero, bound from Blyth for Dun dee, coal laden, left the former place on Wednes day, and she had got as far as the northward of the Fern Islands, when she encountered the N.E. gale which has been blowing on the Northumberland coast 48 hours. After struggling with it some time the master was obliged to put his ship about and run south. While off the Coquet Island the vessel ' sprung a leak, and it took all the crew to keep the pumps going. But as there was no chance of main taining the vessel afloat, or of the weather mode rating, the master determined to run the vessel ashore upon the sand to the south of Sunderland to try to save the lives of himself and crew. While off Souter Point the vessel fell in with the Renown, the master of which offered to tow the ship into the Tyne for £2OO, a bargain to which the master of the schooner agreed. A rope was given to the tug, but 'she had not been pulling at her more than a quarter of an hour when the master of the schooner shouted that his vessel was sinking, and the steamer came alongside, and dragged the hands, four in num ber, through the sea, with lines into the tug. They had not been ten minutes in the tug when the schooner went down. The crew were landed at the Tyne Sailors' Home here, where they have been kindly attended to, and they will be sent home by the Shipwrecked ;Mariners' Society. The schooner Mary, of Dundee, has also been brought into the Tyne with her decks swept, and otherwise injured. It is feared that some other small Scotch vessels which left the north-eastern ports a few hours before the gale came on upon Wednesday would have some difficulty in weathering out the night before last off the Northumberland coast. Some tug steamers belonging to the Tyne, which left the port before the gale came on, are not accounted for. The Lanercost tug got into Burlington Bay yesterday, I but the Perthshire and the Mariner had not been accounted for. The steam-tug Marco Polo, belong in, to Sunderland, was seen towing a dismasted schooner before the gale came on. The Dudley steamship, which arrived in the Tyne from Ham a burg yesterday, reports that she left on Sunday, and was obliged to take her departure before getting all her cargo on board, as the ice was beginning to stop the navigation in the Elbe. The captain states that the weather i❑ the North Sea had been very stormy, and that the vessel was gunnel in and out of the water during the entire passage. The 'Fyne is crowded with wind-bound vessels. The frost was extremely keen to-day, and there is some snow, but there is an appearance of more settled weather, though the sea is still very high. The wrecks of the Megl►ee and Cora, of Whitstable, have been sold, and to give an idea how they have been broken up by the gale it may be stated that all that remained of them put together only realised £2 10s. exclusive ' of stores. As was expected, nearly all the small Scotch schooners which sailed from the Tyne on Wednesday have met with some accident. The Robert and Betsey, bound for Aberdeen,is wrecked at Hartlepool, and her crew, who had a narrow escape for their lives, were saved by the lifeboat. The Archer, bound to Dundee, has been taken into the same place in a crippled state. EDINBUIiGII, Jail. 10. On Thursday the Egbertus, a Dutch schooner, was run ashore between East and West Wemyss, on the Fifeshire coast. The master and crew were taken off, along with the master's wife and child. They had been tossing about for 28 days and were very much exhausted. The cargo of oats wm. expected to be recovered, though the ship was breaking up. On Wednesday a fishing boat, attempting to run from Newhaven to the securer harbour of Leith, was capsized in the heavy sea, and those on board, four young fishermen, were drowned. The accident was seen from the shore. JERSEY, Thursday. The Channel Islands have suffered great incon venience during the storm which has raged for the past few days. The mail packet service has been interrupted, so that the islands were without any news from England for four days—viz., from Sa turday to Wednesday. The mail packet Brittany, which should have left Southampton on Monday at midnight, due in Jersey at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, did not leave her port, in consequence of the weather, until 7 a.m. on Tuesday, and was then obliged to bring up off Lymington until 9 o'clock at night. After a tedious passa;fe she reached Jersey at 11 45 a.m. on Wednesday, with her gangways knocked in and some of her stanchions started. The mail via Weymouth, due yesterday (Wednesday), did not arrive, the mail packet Brighton, Capt. Brache, not being able to leave port on account of the severity of the gale. Considerable damage was done to the shipping in the harbour by the gale. A new bark, the Virgilia, which was being towed into the har bour on Monday afternoon drifted into the rocks in consequence of the breaking of the tow-rope. Her anchors were thrown out, and she rode safely, but during the night the gale drove her across St. Aubin's Bay, high up the beach, near to Millbrook, whence it will be difficult to remove her. A seaman named William Cowley, belonging to the steamer Esk, trading between London and the islands, was blown over the quay at Guernsey on Saturday night during the gale, and drowned. 'THE SUN, LONDO.N, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 186'7 Naval and Military Intelligence• VALETTA, Jan. 6.—Lord C. Paget, taking ad vantage of the departure of the Caradoc to fetch Capt. Clarke, director of Admiralty Works, left in her on Tuesday last for Naples, where he is likely to meet with Mr. Gladstone, Sir G. Grey, and others of his old colleagues who are at present sojourning in Italy. The Caradoc, bearing the flag of the naval Commander-in-Chief, returned at 9 o'clock this evening. It is understood he had hastened to return as his services may soon be wanted for the investi ture of the Viceroy of Egypt as Grand Cross of the Bath, and it is, I understand, the wish of the Queen that the ceremony should be performed by the pre sent naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterra nean. It will be rendered as grand and imposing as possible, and for this purpose a squadron of British ships of war will assemble at Alexandria, for which place of rendezvous several vessels have already taken their departure. The Endymion, 21, screw frigate, Capt. C. Wake, left on the 2d inst. for Alex andria, and the Resistance left on the 3d for the Piraeus, to relieve the Arethusa, 35, screw frigate, Capt. R. J. Macdonald, which, it is rumoured, will proceed to Alexandria to await his lordship's arrival. The Cruiser, 5, screw sloop, Commander M. Singer, has sailed for Beyrout, to relieve the Racer, 14, Com mander L. Brine; both these vessels, it is probable, will form part of the complimentary squadron. H.M.S. Cossack, 20, Capt. R. D. White, left Malta harbour on the 3d inst. for Spithead and Sheerness to be paid off. The Prussian screw corvette Gazelle, 28, left on the Ist inst. for Naples, and the screw gunboat Blitz, 4, of the same nation, left on the same day for the Piraeus and Constantinople. The United States' screw corvette Canandaigua, 9, Capt. H. Upshur, has received orders to join Ad miral Goldsborough, whose flagship, the Colorado, is at anchor at Nice. The greatest cordiality has prevailed between her officers and crew and those of her Majesty's ships and the regiments in garrison, and hospitalities have been exchanged. She leaves on the Bth inst. A party of naval officers, consist ing of Commander Fairfax, Commander Hopkins, Lieut. Kennedy, and Mr. Brown, R.N., took their departure on New Year's-day in the cutter yacht Melita, of 24 tons, to shoot hares, woodcocks, deer, and wild boars on the Albanian coast. A court martial assembled on the 31st ult., on board her Majesty's ship Hibernia, to try Mr. Purkis, assist.- engineer, first-class, of her Majesty's ship Psyche, on the fallowing charge :—Returning - ,, , on board iu a partial state of intoxication, creating a disturbance on the upper deck, and conducting himself in a dis respectful manner towards Mr. Fleitzel, his superior officer. Capt. Hilyer, C. 8., commanding her Majesty's ship Resistance, presided, and Mr. H. 11. Shanks, secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, offi ciated as judge-advocate. The accused was found guilty, but in consideration of his previoT high character was only sentenced to be severely repri manded and dismissed his ship. The Court having been dissolved, re-assembled to try another assist.- engineer, first-class, Mr. Blackwood, of the Caradoc, on a charge of drunkenness, which being fully proved, he was sentenced to be dismissed from her Ma jesty's service. The Roman Catholic Arch bishop of Malta entertained Sir Henry Storks at dinner on the 31st ult., and the Governor gave a return dinner on the 3d instant, to the Arch bishop. Lady Clarence Paget gave a splendid ball on the evening of the 31st ult. Among the guests were the officers of the American sloop Canandaigua and the Prussian war vessels Gazelle and Blitz. The Governor has issued invitations for balls at. the Palace on the 10th of January and the 6th of February. The folloA ing appointments have been made by the Commander-in-Chief :—Lieut. Nuthall, of the Resistance, to the Victoria, as addi tional Lieut. ; Mr. George Watson, engineer-in charge in thayrian, to the Psyche, recommissioned ; Mr.J.W. Nott, engineer, additional of the Victoria, to the Tyrian, as engineer in charge, vice Watson ; Mr. E. J. Behenna, second master; Mr. W. Wyvil, en gineer ; and Mr. J. Wright (b), engineer, all addi tional, of the Victoria, to the Psyche. On the 4th inst. two Government notices were issued reducing the quarantine on arrivals from Sicily with foul bills of health from 21 to 15 days, and intimating that the quarantine on arrivals from the same island with clean bills of health shall remain as notified on 27th December last--that is to say, seven days. The other notice referred to the importation of cattle, and directed that cattle arriving at this island from the regency of Tunis, or from Algiers, be admitted in free pratique. The Orontes, iron troopship, Capt. H. Phelps, in dock at Portsmouth, and preparing for foreign troop service, had her hull below the water line examined and reported upon yesterday by the officials of the yard. The Orontes has been eight months out of dock, and the greater part of this time has been on foreign service ; but her bottom plates are now nearly as clean as when she was first put out of dock prior to her last trip. She is paid over below the water line with the Admiralty, or Hay's preventive and anti-fouling composition. A portion of the plating just below the water-line has been slightly indented by rubbing against some wharf, or iron troop boat --such as is made use of at Ascension for the embar kation and disembarkation of troops ; but the da mage is but slight, and can readily be repaired, and without any loss of time in dock. The Orontes is under orders to sail from Portsmouth for the Cape, China, and Japan about the 23d inst., and will call at western ports on her way down channel. Sixteen naval engineersand 96 stokers are ordered to embark on board her on the 21st inst. from the Ports mouth Steam Reserve for passage to China. They will be at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief on that station, for service in gunboats and other vessels. Tier Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya was put through a trial of her machinery and speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay, yesterday, on the com pletion of her repairs, alterations, and refit for further troop service on re-commission. Commander Wells, H.M.S. Asia, was in charge of the ship, and the trial was conducted by Messrs. Ward and Murdock, Chief Inspectors of Machinery Afloat, of the Steam Fac tory and Reserve ; and Mr. Brain, Assistant-Mas ter Shipwright. Six runs were made over the mea sured mile with the ship drawing 18ft. lin. of water forward and 20ft. aft, the mean speed of the ship being 13.637 knots. A full circle was turned to port in 9min: 3sec., and to starboard in 9min. 32sec. The machinery worked satisfactorily, and the Himalaya returned to Portsmouth harbour to complete the necessary measures for immediate commission. It is reported that Capt. Shute B. Piers will now eon- mission the Himalaya, and not Capt. T. B. Leth bridge, at present commanding the screw troopship Simoom, from foreign service, as was first arranged by the Admiralty. The Barrosa, 20, screw corvette, Capt. 11. Boys, whose arrival at Spithead from Japanese waters was announced in The Sun of yesterday, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning for Sheerness, to dis mantle and pay out of commission. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. H. D. Hickley, to the Ad venture, recommissioned; Commander R. M. Blom field, to the Canopus; Lieut. F. A. Gardner, to the Lord Clyde ; Lieat.H. J. Clanchy, to the Octavia, additional, for disposal ; Lieut. J. M. Morris, to the Formidable ; R. 11. C. Hebden and Wm. K. Fox, second masters, to the Princess Royal, additional ; H. G. S. Baker, midshipman, to the Charybdis ; E. Ponsonby, midshipman, to the Racoon ; A. Crosbie, M.D., a.,s:st.-surg., tj Haslar Hospital ; W. And r son (b), assist.-surg., to the Impregnable, for the Squirrel ; D. M'lver, M.D., assist.-surg., to the Wizard ; J. Carlisle, chief engineer, to the Charyb dis ; H. Pitt and IL Findlay, engineers, to the Vic toria ; D. Millar and A. Reid, engineers, to the Charybdis ; E. Fisher, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Victoria ; and R. M. Rodgers, first-class assist. engineer, to the Charybdis. RAILWAY IN rELLIGENCE. _ - MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE The report of the directors of this company states that the accounts for the past half-year show a total revenue from all sources of £593,346, a total expen diture of £251,236, and a balance of net profits of £342,110, whichovith the balance of £1,486, brought forward from the previous half-year, made a total sum of £343,596 available for iuterestand dividend. With regard to a special item of available revenue not included in the above, the report states that in the year 1854 a contract was made in the interest and on behalf of the company by four of thedirectors with the Birley "Vale Coal Company for a supply of coal for sale on the line, at fixed prices, the Birley Vale Company undertaking to lay out a large capital in sinking new pits upon the railway. For the se curity of the directors committed to this contract, which could not legally be entered into by the com pany, an addition was made to the contract price of the coal of Is. per ton, and carried to a separate account. The amount was invested in securities, which had now been realised, and there stood at this date to the credit of that account £17,861, which the directors now recommended the proprietors to carry to the credit of net revenue. The debenture and other interest chargeable against the revenue of the half-year amounted to £81,411, the canal an nuities to £14,142, the dividends on the various classes of preference stock and shares to £104,698, and the South Yorkshire interest and dividends to £64,477, making a total charge against the above net balance of £264,728, leaving a balance of £78,868, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of £3 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the company, carrying forward the large balance of £12,982 to the next account. The dues,wharf age, &c. , at Grimsby Docks amounted , during the half-year, on a tonnage of 424,913 tons, , to £6,138, against 401,378 tons and £6,598, show ing an increase of 23,535 tons and a decrease of £460 as compared with the corresponding half of 1865. The company's share of the net profits of the South Junction Railway amounted to £9,496, as against £11,032 in the corresponding period of last year. The working expenses in the past half year amounted to £229,119, against £215,603 in the same half of 1865, showing an increase of £13,516, chiefly in the locomotive and traffic expenses. The expenditure on capital account during the half-year amounted to £248,280, of which £75,670 was for contributions to joint lines, £145,753 for works and stations, and £8,988 for rolling stock. This was exclusive of the ‘Vest Riding and Grimsby issue of ordinary stock. The Trent, Ancholme, and Grimsby Railway was opened on Oct. 1 last for local traffic. The amount of £472,500 of the consolidated stock of the company was issued to the proprietors of the West Riding and Grimsby undertaking, 281 miles, in purchase of one-half of their interest therein (the Great Northern Company taking the other half), in accordance with the Transfer Act, 1866. This com pany's proportion of the net revenue earned by the West Riding line was 14,623, for the half-year, or £2 per cent. per annum on the £472,500 of stock which might be considered satisfactory as a commencement. The persistent efforts made by an organised party of speculators to depreciate all railway property by the circulation of unfounded reports, in the opinion of the directors, required that the fullest explana tions between directors and proprietors should be exchanged at the earliest possible dates, and that railway boards should set an example of moderation and prudence by discouraging for the time all new outlay of capital, thereby giving to the railway sys tem that period of rest which alone was required in order to raise dividends to their maximu m amount. All uncertainties as to priorities or the ri g ht s o f dif ferent byashareholders generally should b e rendered simple declaration i n an act of Parliament of the actual capital o f each classes impossible of com pany, in its proper order as at the mo men t ra i sed, and as authorised to be augmented. If ra i lway boards would follow these simple rul es , an d i f Par liament,after the lessons of last year, would dis courage the waste of national resources in under takings not likely to be remunerative, that portion of the railway system which was intrinsically sound and solid property would again take its proper rank in the public estimation. The capital account showed that £11,983,269 had been expended, in cluding £720,780 during the past half-year, leaving a balance of £205,326. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Westminster chambers, Victoria-street; Mr. IV. Lee., M.P., in the chair. Mr. E. Bellamy, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the revenue account for the six months ending Dec. 31 admitted of the payment of the same dividend as that of preceding half-year— namely, 31 per cent., or at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. The very large outlay recently in curred by the Brighton, the Great Western, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Companies in making the new approaches to the Victoria station, both north and south of the Thames, and in widen ing the bridge and the approaching connection of the Victoria Station with a station to the Metropo litan District Railway were calculated to place the maximum aggregate rental of £33,125, commencing on the Ist of April next, in the highest class of free hold ground rents. The directors were taking steps debenture stock, an d they had c to place the rem a i n d er of the perpetual 4f per cent. a security would b e readily taken up. Th e di rectors congratulated the prop r i etors t h a t d ur ing a period of unexampled commercial distress an d o f es p ec i a l distrust in all descriptions of railway property, the position of their undertaking and the price of the stock had remained unchanged. The capital account showed that £481,426 had been expended, leaving a balance of £13,337. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 31st of December showed that the rentals amo un t e d to £15,270, and the balance from the p rece di ng half-year to I,Bss—total, £17,125. Th e i nterest on loans an d pre f erence shares and e x p enses amounted to £6 , 455 , l eav i ng a balance of £10,669. A company has been formed at Montreal, in cluding large capitalists, who intend to apply to Parliament during its next session to dam the river St. Lawrence at La Chine Rapids for the purpose of obtaining hydraulic power. The capital proposed by the company is to be $2,000,000. LADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Pills. Winterly Drawbacks.—Whence fogs spring or whither they retire it is not our present purpose to explain ; Ivo desire to point out how their ill effects on the human frame can be neu tralised. The blood must be freed from superfluous carbon and mephitic taints by some purifying medicine like Hol loway's Pills, which not only thoroughly cleanse the circu lation, but adjust in every organ the defects imposed upon it by that fluid when it has become foul or sluggish. These pills prevent stagnation, congestion, and are the bust regu lators stud preservatives against internal inflammations, irritations, and'ulcerations ; while expelling morbid matters from the system, th e y coo l i t b y t h e i r g ently aperient ac tion, and strengthen it by their tonic virtues! Miscellaneous American News. On Dec. 15 a delegation of loyal Alabamians called upon Mr. Stevens. They urged the entire overthrow of the present ex-rebel State Govern ment, and declared that any reconstruction that did not provide for the protection of Union men, black and white, and enforce to some extent the Con fiscation Act, and reimburse Union men for the property taken from them by the re bels, was a virtual surrender of the victors to the conquered, and an abawlonment of the only friends that the Union has had, or now has, in the South. Mr. Stevens informed them that he should again press his bill for confiscation, and sent the delegates to sea certain Senators, whom he thought prevented the realisation of their desires, which he pronounced to be just and according to the law of nations. A bill is being prepared in Congress to provide for the purchase and working of all the distilleries in the country by the Government. It is said that twenty millions of dollars will pay for all the property now used in the lawful manufacture of ardent spirits. Two years ago there was one hundred million gallons of whisky made and con sumed, the annual tax on which, if all paid to the Government, would be two hundred millions of dollars, whereas there is now received less than twenty millions from the whole. The South is filled with illicit stills, an enormous quantity of liquor is being made, and good brands put upon it, and then it is sent North for sale. The tax upon this reputed good liquor if properly collected would be nearly enough to pay the interest on the National Debt. There are four hundred and three vessels laid up at the port of Chicago for the winter, including three steamers, nineteen propellers, thirty-five tugs, forty-eight barques, eighteen brigs, and twenty-nine schooners. The great cities of the kingdom may be thus ar ranged according to their rates of mortality during the past year. To 1,000 persons living the deaths in Birmingham were 24, Hull 24, Bristol 25, Edinburgh 27, Sheffield 28, Dublin 28, Salford 29, Gasgow 30, Manchester 32, Newcastle-on-Tyne 32, Leeds 33, Liverpool 42. The mortality was lower than it was in the year 1E65 in Manchester, Salford, Birming ham, Hull, Edinburgh, Glasgow; and higher in Leeds, Bristol, Dublin, Liverpool. Cholera was excessively fatal in Liverpool. The following is the latest intelligence from Cali fornia :—" San Francisco, Dec. 19.—The taxable property returned in San Francisco during the months of September and October have paid an internal revenue of $1,600,000. Negotiations are pending for the introduction from China by the new mail steamship line of a large force of labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad. The steamer Constellation, for Panama, sailed to-day with $1,061,700 in treasure, of which $870,000 is for New York account. A shock of earthquake was felt at Sacramento about 3 o'clock this morning. Some persons report a shock here some time pre vious. A meeting of the stockholders, to perfect an organisation to construct the railroad from Sa cramento to the Colorado River, was called yester day. The leading mining stocks are generally weak : Belcher, $137 ; Savage, $1,980 ; Empire Mill, $l9O ; Chellar, $2OO ; Gould and Curry, $690 ; Ophir, $lBB. In the cases of the assessors of the fifteen counties indicted for making returns to Avery instead of Bigler, the United States Dis trict Judge yesterday fixed the bail in each case at $1,500, allowing it to be given before any State magistrate, thus avoiding the necessity of the per sonal attendance of the assessors here. The sur veyor's and engineer's reports brought here recently for the projected railroad between Guadalajara and Lake - Chapelle, Mexico, a distance of 14 leagues, is under the charter obtained from Maximilian last year. It is thought the Imperial Government will sanction the enterprise. The receipts . of the Treasury from the Interior during the present month is $9,000,000. The money market grows easier. Leading bankers quote corn drafts on Atlantic cities at 21 per cent. ; currency drafts 2 per cent. premium on gold ; tele graphic transfers, 21 per cent. ; English exchange, 481 d. Eastern butter is quoted at 31c. Mining stocks generally closed weak. Gould and Curry, $7,30 ; Savage, $1,375 ; Imperial, $1,40 ; Yellow Jac*et, $1,165 ; Chollar Potosi, $2,16. Legal ten ders, 72. A Washington correspondent of the Anti-Slavery Standard calls the members of the Senate to account for the frequent allusions in the debates to Mr, Sumner's recent marriage. "In no other legislative assemblage in the world," says the correspondent, " would such an allusion be tolerated." This point is well taken. The New York World considers that " It is indecorous, even insulting, for Senators to " ' chaff' each other, after the manner of bar-room tipplers, touching so delicate a matter as marriage. The Senate ought to be an assemblage of gentle- men." NEW ORLEANS, December 21.—(General Sher man is the guest of General Sheridan. A salute was fired this morning in honour of Gene ral Sherman by United States artillery. He remains until the reception of despatches from Washing ion in answer to those sent by him last night. He is almost immediately to proceed to Washington, his mission to Mexico, as Minister Campbell's advising agent, having been fulfilled. Minister Campbell will probably reach New Orleans on Sunday morning. General Sherman and Minister Campbell will undoubtedly both proceed after the exchange of despatches with the Washington Gover ment, on board the Sysquehanna. The Susque hanna is anchored off the bar. The General Land Office has just prepared a patent in favour of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, containing 42,000 acres. The patent is preceded by a beautiful miniature map of the United States, handsomely coloured, exhibiting all the States and territories with great distinctness, as also the line of the Pacific Railroad from the Valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. The Hon. T. J. Coffey cannot leave his cases in the Supreme Court to go to Europe for the Govern ment, and J. S. Redfield, of Lexington, Massa chusetts, having been tendered the mission, has telegraphed his acceptance. He was once the Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, but of late years has been practising law at or near Boston. He will go out at once, and take charge of all the United States litigation in Europe. There are now in the Government arsenals of the United States 250,000,000 rounds of cartridges for small arms, worth five and a quarter millions of dollars, and 900,000,000 of percussion caps, worth 800,000 dollars. The Ordnance Department hav ing decided to change the calibre of small arms and dispense with percussion caps these will be nearly a total loss to the Government. There is also in store 86,000,000 pounds of lead, worth seven and a half millions of dollars, and nearly $l,OOO worth of nitre. The New York World informs us that while General Butler was there he was incessant in his efforts to prevail upon Congress to impeach the President. He conducted his movements in a man ner that would produce as much of a tragic effect as possible. He occupied the rooms at the Kirkwood House which Andrew Johnson occupied at the time of the assassination. Closeted in these quarters, he spent his time, not :otherwise taken up, in drawing up articles of impeachment. No doubt he imagined the spirits would communicate with him and .reveal some extraordinary fact in regard to the assassination which would materially assist him in his - work. But in this it is presumed that he has been disap pointed, for he felt there somewhat out of humour at the hesitancy of the Senate to take up his impeachment idea. Neither the spirits nor the walls of the rooms revealed sufficient facts for him to convince the Senate of the necessity of adopt ing his scheme. His tragic flourish was all for nothing. Mr. Elliott, of the Montana Post, is the fortu nate possessor of a remarkable fossil, which was accidentally discovered by some miners in Bivin's Gulch, Montana, and for which Mr. Elliott has already refused $l,OOO. It is a molar tooth taken from a fragment of jawbone sft. in length, and weighing 571 b. The tooth itself weighs 31b., and is described as of " curious configuration, not unlike a cluster of fog beavers' olaws oygrlying each Qther, It is believed in Denver City to be the largest fossil of the kind yet discovered. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Dec. 24. _ __ To-morrow being Christmas-day will be a holiday, and little business will be transacted during the week. In deed we have had a dull time of i` for some weeks past. Gold has fallen heavily, as I expected It opened to-day at 1331 and closed at 134; a fall of e than 4 since I last wrote to you. The demand for money is loss active. On call it is at from 6to 7 per cent. The Bank statement is more favour able than expected, and shows no unusual changes. In last week's report there was an error, ono bank having given the gross instead of the net deposits. These deposits show a reduction of over $4,000,000, but a part of this sum can be thus accounted for. The wants of the people at this season account for the withdrawal : and the sum is considered small. Stocks opened heavy and lower upon th 3 acliv3 11t., but w , .re in b otter deloand after the bank statement was made, and at advancing prices. The favourite of the day was Michigan Southern, which sold at 82f North-Western shares were very active, at steadily advancing prices, the common closing at 441, and the Preferred at 831. Govern ment stocks wore steady upon the gold-bearing issues, and higher on the 7.305. As compared with the morning Board of Saturday, the active shares are all higher. Western Union rose 11, Quicksilver 1, New York Central 11, Reading 4 7 Michigan Southern 21, Milwaukee and St. Paul 11, Illinois Central 1, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 1, North-Western Common 1, do. Preferred 2, Rock Island 1, and Fort Wayne 1. After the call the market was strong, and stocks in demand. Later in the day prices wore very strong, with a large demand to cover short contracts. The last prices were :—New York Central, lot to 1091 ; Erie, 68 to 684; Reading, 1041 to 1044 ; Michigan Southern, 824; Cleveland and Pittsburgh, 86 to 86k ; Rock Island, 1031 to 103} ; North-Western, 441 to 434; North-Western Preferred, 83} to 831; Fort Wayne, 1054 to 1051. The following shows the condition of the New , York City Banks this week and last : Dec. 15. Dec. 22. Loans $258,452,330 $258,255,514 Dec. $196,816 Specie 13,991,200 13,231,917 Dec. 759,283 Circulation 31,797,655 32,433,429 Inc. 655,774 Deposits 206,458,271 202,029,877 Dec. 4,428,394 Legal Tenders 63,994,309 64,816,962 Inc. 822,653 Leading houses ask 1094 for 60-days Sterling. We quote—Prime Bankers', 60 days, 108} to 1094 ; do., sight, 109/ to 110 ; Paris, long, 5.16; to 5.15 ; do., short, 5.134 ; Antwerp, 5.21 f to 5.20; Swiss, 5.21 f to 5.20; Hamburg, 36} ; Amsterdam, 411 to 411 ; Frankfort, 41f to 411 ; Bremen, 78/ to 79 ; Berlin, 721. Exports (exclusive of specie) from New York to foreign ports for the week ending December 24, 1866. Total, $3,254,610. . , The trade of last week closed with a steady feeling. During the late interim of improved activity agents have seized the opportunity for selling out a part of their accu mulations at a brief concession, and there is consequently less appearance of an anxiety to realise, and more appa rent firmness. flow far this will be sustained must de pend chiefly upon the tone with which the spring demand opens and the period at which it sets in. For the re mainder of the year little business is likely to be trans acted, firms being engaged in making up their annual accounts and taking account of stocks. (Glenn and Co.'s Weekly Circular.) In the fulfilment of our promise made last week, we now reopen the discussion on the merits of Secretary M'Cul loch and his Financial Administratibn. As we expected, the defenders of the Secretary, heautua now les have replied to our arguments urging t happily grow i ng sma ll e r by degrees a h n the an of U su y rplu s ; did sell a large amount of gold, and t gold, by st a ti ng th a t Mr. M'Culloch h "onceupon aon the same premium statement is perfectly true. But what same almost immediately afterwards at w ad e v re an t c h e e d,which s ocircum stancesn,s a a b s e w en ee d:r a i a n d g hPurtesotadee,nwt when a hn i - t Li N ni o s w tra , t t i h o e n re jus h t a o s was not desirable for the Government to part with its specie. The Secretary, of course, sold a large amount, over $30,000,000, th a t ver y wee k. Had he not done so, he would have lost his reputation for consistency: consistent blundering we m ean . It was the eventful week following the now hi s t or i ca l Bl ac k F r id a y. The great house of Overend, Gurney, and Co., had just gone down with a crash that shook to its very centre the whole commercial world; money was 10 per cent., and not to be had even at that —the Bank of England for the first time in its history refusing to loan money on Consols, and gold was leaving this country for the Continent at the rate of nearly a mil lion a day—into the thick and constantly deepening gloom that hung over London but one ray of immediate relief penetrated. It came from America, and to that country every banker and merchant who had any inflnence there sent imperative messages for gold ; instant and large ship ments of the precious metals for Europe of course followed. Had Secretary M'Culloch been anything of a financier he never would have sold the large amount of gold he did to the Loudon bankers—gold they were obliged to have, and only;too glad to get it at any price--$139, when he could just as easily have sold it for 5160, at which price it advanced immediately after he had done selling. We repeat with emphasis, at no time, before or since that eventful week, would the gold premium not have rapidly declined under free and legitimate sales by the Treasury Department. There are two things, and but two, that re gulate the price of gold the world all over: they are supply and demand, and public confidence. No one who has visited America during the past year can have any doubt whatever of the perfect confidence displayed by all classes in the legal tender-money of the country, viz., greenbacks and National Bank notes, secured as the latter are by do- Posits with the Government of United States Bonds, to something more than the amount of notes issued by the said banks; and yet the Secretariltuagines that a return to specie payments would cause a run on the banks for gold, and another run on the Government for specie in exchange for greenbacks. But why should there be ? Good redeemable paper money is always preferred in busi ness to gold and silver. It is not so bulky, is more conve nient for exchanges, and so long as people know it is con vertible, and have entire confidence in it, as we have shown they have in America, they never desire, as a general rule, gold and silver for their notes, which fact we humbly think wholly removes the Secretary's imagi nary danger of a collapse, when specie payments are resumed. Now as to supply and demand, it is a notorious fact, that the foreign exchanges are now, and have been for three-fourths of the time in the last year, in favour of America, showing a balance of trade against Europe —and there would have been no shipments of gold at all from America during that time, had it not been that the Phila delphia Mint charges nearly one per cent. for coining gold dust, silver, and bullion ; whereas the English Mint charges nothing—(the latter institution, very properly pays its ex penses from the alloy introduced in the money it coins), and yet the Finance Minister that insists upon keeping up this absurd charge on home coinage, thereby driving large amounts of gold and silver out of the country, has the reputation, in certain quarters, of being a great financier. Bat notwithstanding this drainage, the mines on the Pacific Slope are yielding so abundantly that at the present time it is estimated there is in circulation, and in the vaults of the Government and the banks $300,000,000 gold and silver; but at least ono half of this sum is now entirely unavail able, it being locked up by Secretary M.LCulloch and other misers. Were specie payments re sumed to-morrow all of this gold and silver would immediately circulate as money, thereby increasing the circulation of the country by just so much ; and also im mediately ease the money market throughout the United States by bringing down prices to such a standard that it would take very much less -money to do the business of the country than is required at the present time. Gold is the life-blood of a nation, and to stop its free circulation, as Secretary M'Culloch purposes to do until the Ist July, 1868, is more than folly—it is a species of ignorant treason, for which removal from office would be a punish ment far too small. The amount of gold held by the banks and Sub-Treasury at New York is now $100,000,000, quite enough to redeem all the National Bank notes that would in any emergency be pressed for redemption ; for there aro less than E,, , O , ),000,000 of such notes issued, while greenbacks are so.largely hoarded, and public faith in them is so great that no one would think of converting them into gold ; and if some were so con verted there is quite gold enough constantly coming in from custom duties to do it. In specie-paying times in America, before the late war, the Sub-Treasury and New York Bank usually held an average of $30,000,000 specie, then the paper money of the country was about one-third what it is now ; but there is more than three times the gold now held in New York there was then, besides the wants of the country for paper currency are much greater on account of growth in population, higher prices, &c. ; and far less amounts of notes in proportion could now be gathered in for making runs on the banks. Money is not idle in America, and but very little could for any length of time be spared from the legitimate channels of commerce and business for any such base purpose as breaking the national banks. If these banks were in such danger, by clubbing together they could easily support each other when any of the 1,300 (which is the number of national banks in America) were assailed. Especially is this the case when nearly every national bank note is now redeemable either in New York, Boston, or Philadelphia, where all the specie of the Atlantic States is held. But did Secretary M'Cul:och really wish to ruin the national banks, he could not go about doing it in a more summary manner than by contracting the greenback currency, or the legal tender money of the country, and at the same time continue issuing more notes to the banks ; for as the latter are now only redeemable by the former, it follows that the decrease of greenbacks and increase of the bank notes must soon lead to bankruptcy nearly every national bank in the United States. Yet this is the very policy the Secretary of the Treasury proposes and vigorously urges. We maintain, notwithstanding the voluminous argu ments of Mr. M'Culloch and the American newspapers in his interests, that the amount of paper money in circula tion has but ysry little to do with the premium on gold ; and history certainly proves the truth of our assertion. In 1816, shortly after Waterloo, paper money in England was nearly on a par with gold; but in 1819, after a contrac- • tion of paper money had taken place, gold rose to about 40 prem., though there was far less notes in circulation then than in 1816. In Scotland, a century ago, no one scarcely ever saw any gold or silvermoney at all, because there was next to none in the country ; yet there was a large amount of paper money in circulation, and, what is more, none of it was at a discount. Again, the pre sent and, in our judgment, wise policy of the Bank of France pursues, viz., of issuing notes without limitation as the wants of the country require, contracting the same as trade languishes and money becomes idle and cheap, surely most conclusively proves how erroneous Mr. M'Culloch's views are on this question ; for the Bank of France issue and contract their notes regardless of the amount of specie held in their vaults, and yet French bank notes are never at a discount, or, more correctly spo:('-iug, have not been at a discount for many years,-:---and yet neither Euglaud, Scotland, nor France are gold-producing countries like America. Why, take the history of Secretary M'Culloch's own administration of American finance—then gold fell from 240 to 127 within a few weeks about one year-and-a-half ago, and yet there were more notes in circulation when the premium was 27 than when it was 140. Again, about a year ago the price of gold in New York was 135. The Secretary soon after suddenly drew in and cancelled $50,000,000 greenbacks; the money market was much disturbed, and so was the price of gold —for, contrary to Mr. M'Culloch's theory of contraction, gold very soon afterwards advanced 15 per cent. to 150, and remained there some time. •We repeat that it is supply and demand and public confidence that regulate the price of gold, and not the amount of paper-money in circulation. ;From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, January 9.) The last advices from New York by the Cuba are to the 24th ult. They report an active demand for money, and a fall in nearly all descriptions of stock. Governments on the week were about one per cent. lower, and railroads from two to eight per cent. under previous week's quota tions, with the exception i ef Cleveland and Toledo, which had advanced $5. Staix d Vbcks were also flatter, Georgia alone showing an advance. Gold continued to decline. In the London market for American Securities there has been an average amount of businps during the past week. United States 5.20's of the earlier issue were at one time taken as high as 731 7 and looked strong at that price, but the unfavourable political intelligence from Washington has had a depressing effect, and they close 72/ to 1, or about / per cent. lower than this day week. Eries have been neglected, but for Illinois Central there has been an active demand at advancing rates, touching 821 to 2, but from that pointthey have reacted, and leave off 801 to 811 only. Erie Third Mortgage are last quoted 65 to 68, and Pennsylvania Sterling Second Mortgage 89 to 91. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures at one time ad vanced to 55 to 57, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds to 42, but leave off weaker; the former being 51 to 53, and the latter 40 to 41. The detailed report of the New York Central Railroad has come to hand during the week, and fully confirms the figures which we gave in our last. To pursue the com parison of the annual statements for 1856 and 1866 it appears that, besides regular payments of dividends and important additions to the track and buildings, there has been an increase to the rolling stock of 67 locomotive engines, 114 passenger cars, and 2,278 baggage, freight, and gravel cars, which cannot have cost the company less than $4,000,000, and thus added to the permanent value of the road and its appurtenances. This large addition has been provided for entirely out of the earnings of the line, so that it cannot create surprise that, during the past year, the working expenses have been charged 75 per cent. of the gross receipts. On analysing the accounts, it will be found that of this 33 per cent. only was the actual cost of " operating the road," while 42 per cent. was expended in "repairs of machinery" and "maintaning roadway and real estate." The contrast between the system prevailing in this country and that on which American railroads generally are conducted is well exemplified by the New York Central, and while we err by constant enlargement of capital account, it is, perhaps, hardly just to stock holders to make such important improvements out of revenue. COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY. The wheat trade to day is firm, at last Friday's prices, with a steady consumptive demand. Fine barley fully as dear. Beans and oats unaltered. LINCOLN.-FRIDAY. New white wheat, 60s to 70s ; new red, 59s to 63s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 49s to 51s per qr ; grinding, 26s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, 24s to 345. Beans, 483 to 50s per 38 stone. DERBY-FRIDAY. Now white wheat, 60s to 68s ; old red, 65s to 68s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 44s to 48s per qr. ; grinding, 37s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 278 to 298; old, 298 to 31s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 52s • new , 46s to 503 per 38 stone. LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. At this day's market there was a fair attendance of buyers, but the business done was not extensive. Wheat was in limited request, but fully as dear. Flour was more inquired for, and about 6d per sack dearer. Oats metwith a fair sale, and prime mealing brought id. per 451 b. more money. Oatmeal remained without change in value. In barley and peas there was no change to note, but beans were 6d to is per qr. lower. Indian corn, with very little offering, fully maintained its value, mixed bringing 42s 6d. per 4801 b, and white 41s 6d to 428 6d. S TAMF ORD—FRIDAY. New white wheat, 64s to 68s ; red do., 58s to 62s per 86 stone. Barley, malting, 44s to 50s; grinding, 27s to 35s 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. Thero was only a small supply of wheat in good con dition, and all such was soon sold at fully last week's prices. Soft and inferior kinds were difficult to dispose of. Both malting and grinding barleys were rather higher in price, as were also old beans. White wheat, 8s Od to 9s Od per bushel ; red, Gs 6d to 8s Od; beans, 7s 3d to 7s 9d; oats, 26s to 32s per qr ; barley I 34s to 42s Od. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. • s. d. Lambert's W.Hartley 16 9 Walls End Haswell 23 3 Hetton Lyons ........ 20 9 Caradoe 22 6 Tees Heugh Hall 22 0 South Hartlepool 22 0 Tunstall Ships at market, 25—sold, 8. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &ustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton...... Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Brazil and Capa Verde, by British paoket Feb. 1. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. ..!8. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 11 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 13. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles ... Jan. 7 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 13. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 13. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseille a . Jan. 19. gewfoundland ••• Jan. 16. Portage Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet. Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Curk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Jan. It. West Coaat of Africa, Madeira, and Teneri ire .„ . F e b. West Indies and Paola?, (ex.lupt li.tua.uas and .....Jan. 14. BahanA.t, via New York. Jan. 1 Cuba and Mexioo Bermuda., via Halifax Jan. 16. Births. BABINGTON—On the 10th inst., at Langley, Bucks, the wife of Thomas IL Babington, of a son. HARDY—On the 11th inst., at 11, Belsize-park, Hampstead, the wife of W. R. Hardy, Esq., of a daughter. MACKAY—On the 10th inst., at Inverloith House, Edin burgh, the wife of Captain A. Forbes Mackay, 92d Gor don Highlanders, of a son. RIDLEY-0 n tho 10th inst., at Worthing, the wife of the Rev. 0. M. Ridley, of twin daughters. Marriages. CLIVE—FEILDING —At St. Luke's, Chelsea, Charles M. B• Clive, of Whitfield, county Hereford, to Lady Katherine Feilding, youngest sister of the Earl of Denbigh. WETHERED—PEEL—On the 10th inst., at St. Mary's/ Folkestone, Lawrence W. Wethered, Esq., of Great Marlow, Bucks, to Catherine Anne, widow of Edmund Y. Peel, Esq. Deaths. CAVENDISH—On the 9th inst., at Densworth, Sussex, Lady Caroline Cavendish, aged 69. FARBER—On the 11th inst., at 3, Gloucester-terrace, Re; gent's-park, Cecilia, relict of the late T. Farrer, Esq., of 66, Lincoln's-inn-fields, aged 74. GRAYLING—On the 9th inst., at Tracey Cottage, Victoria" park, Mr. Edward L. Grayling, aged 59. IlEnNE—On the 10th inst., at Hampstead-lane, Highgate, Mr. Ebenezer Herne, aged 74. KING—On the 9th inst., at Brighton, Vim. John King, Major, formerly of the 21st Royal Fusiliers, aged 67. VINCENT—On tho Bth inst., at 6, Old Palace-yard, Mr. W. N. Vincent, aged 61. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN DILICW B of No. 112, Strand, Painter at Tfiz. Surf 011ioe, No. 0 2 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the colthfij ° I Middlesex,—,turday, January 1507,