The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

NIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoca. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed very tamely, but quite steadily, and prices of all kinds were unchanged since Friday. The salea Were 6,000 bales, all to the trade, comprising 5,000 Americans ; 200 Bahia, 60. to 60. ; 2jo Egyp tian, 52d. to 7d. ; 500 Surat, 3i. l.to 41d. ; and 60 Se a Islands, 10d. to 13.1. t ier lb. In the Railway Share Market a slight advance took place, but the transactions were nut numerous, and the market Closed quietly. _ . . Letters from the manufacturing districts give a rather more favourable account of trade, which at thin period of the year is not usually very brisk. At Manchester the principal factories are busy completing large orders of both cloth and yarn for the India Market ; and these have been in creased by the last advices from Calcutta per Over land Mail. There is a steady demand also for cloth suitable for the China market, chiefly shirtings, Prints, good T cloths, madapollams, and jaconets. At Halifax the prices of wools, both long and short, continue firm, and a brisk trade has been done lh the former. Buyers of wool have not been inclined to lay in heavy stocks, and latterly in the expectation that prices would decline, but in this they have been mistaken, and are now compelled to purchase at advanced rates. Manufacturers and spinners complain' of the small remunerative rates obtained for yarns and cloths, considering the high prices they have to pay for the raw material. The at tendance of buyers at the Leeds cloth halls has been a little better, and a moderate amount of business has been done in winter cloths. There is ho alteration in quotations. In consequence of the strong northerly gales the fc )reign mails have not yet come to hand, and se- Veral Australian ships due are, no doubt, prevented coming up. Channel. By submarine telegraph the %losing prices of the French 3 per Cents, are given sit 64f. 90c. for money, and 64f. 10c. for the ac count, being a slight improvement on Monday's qUotations. Trade at Paris is rather better this week in con sequence of the Bank of France becoming more liberal in its discounts. Manufacturers have been iradually lessening their stocks, and those of the teetailers are nearly exhausted, so that the demand tot all kinds of merchandise suitable for the winter . :'( 5 remarkably brisk. Large orders are in band on 491 oglish account and the United States, and there every probability of these increasing towards the lose of the year. Money is pientiful amongst the oromunity, and purchasers operate with freedom 4 )r the coming festive season. The Grain Markets throughout France show a , urther tendency to lower in prices, and it has eon ascertained that last year's crop was not so eficient as interested parties represented it to be. Vheat has declined if. per hectolitre and a half, 44 d best quality of flour has been sold at NC t i oLr sack. Sugar still maintains its recent high quo 14' tions, in consequence of the small stocks on hand. Advices from the ;lap of Good Hope to the 19th ctober have come to hand, but very little com l. Leroial intelligence is reported. Trade was rather nil, and a small number of ships was in the liar our, The copper mining companies iu the colony ere progressing favourably ; and the attention of le colonists was being directed to the development the mineral resources of the country. The Walter Hood, fur Sydney, has put in at i t ortsruouth in a damaged state. She came into with the Bremen ship " Emigrant," off to Owers, and carried away her port bulwarks, echeons, and part of her main rigging. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were leaerally steady for three months' bills, bat on 4tasterdam and Trieste there was a slight decline. In Mark Lane to-day firm rates are current, but t i ''e market is rather quiet. In the English Stock Market a further decline bib taken place, owing to the renewed sales of 4 w ings' 4 bank securities. These operations are ted to be on account of the Chancellor of the , xchequer, who has to provide for the dividends Which are due_ in January ,next. - The fur -1 her issue of Exchequer Bills, for which power l as obtained last session, cannot be attempted ' tithout an increase in the rate of interest, and the l hancellor is, therefore, supposed to bo exercising 'la privilege of disposing of Savings' Banks stock, ? 11 (1 replacing it with his bills or bonds. While he sales continue the market will naturally con ,‘ V oue heavy, and Consols, which opened at 883 ire since been 881 3. The New Three per Cents. 4 re 88k to 89k, and the Reduced 884 Bache , tiller Bills have fallen 35., viz., to 10s. and ss. dis lona. The Bonds are quoted 973 to 98. 1 . Some flatness is observable in the market for '" 4 „ ° reign securities, and the dealings are not numer tlB. Turkish 6 per Cents. have declined to ker cent., having been 83k to 833, and 831 to 83k. ,Vle New Scrip has receded to 31, and 3} ;Illeount. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 1 per cent. '°'Prer, namely, 93i. Spanish Securities ruled s teady, the Deferred being 211, th e P ass i ve 7i an d 4 11 and the Certificates 41. Danish Five p t r C e nt s . ; 1 :e 104, Mexican 193, Peruvian 44 per C e nts. 'pi, and the 3 per Cents. 53, being rather heavier. The following are the nominal prices of foreign st ocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ; 'texican, 194 to 191 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto C ents., per Cents., 52 to 54; Po rtuguese Four per Plits., 48 to 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; di tto 44 p e r C en t s ., 88 to 941 ; Spanish Three per 40k to 40;1 ; ditto Deferred, 21k to 21i ; ditto Certificates, 43 to 5 ; ditto Passive, 71 to 73. The Mexican and South American Smelting Com vaoy have received advices from Chili. The dates from ates Hunandura Works are to the 31st October. kelting operations are proceeding favourably, and 4 earge of copper and copper regu l us wa s r e ady for t he ,) first ship. The Lord Stanley arrived on the ''‘d with 900 tons of Welsh coal. The Najaden a rrived on the 20th with a cargo of bricks and ' 4 3' from Swansea, for the works. From Tongay le,"erks the d a tes are to the 12th October. M r . il luclair reports that No. 1 furnace is being rebuilt, ; 1 (1 a roof is in progress over the furnace house. , i 'oe receipts of ores donne six mouths have been 'uout 5,000 tons. The mole and trainroad are , early finished. Dates from Caldera Works are to , he 3d Nov.;at that date the establishment was k s hort of sulpt;uret ores, a vessel from Cabija being ept back by contrary winds, but the Saucy Jack 1 _ 4 ( 1 gone to Huasco to load. An ore station had ,"een opened at Tiena Amarella, a station on the ‘.opiap o Railway, sixty miles distant. News had I 41 lived of the loss of the Carleton, fully insured, the Falklands, with one thousand tons of coal 1 11 board ; .no lives lost. The stock afloat has, h owever, been fully kept up. Dates from th e ,;;ompany's screw steamer Anne are to the 31st u ctober ; she had carried nearly 20,000 quintals of ores in the month to Hernandura. Railway Shares, although rather flatter, do not e Xhibit any general movement of importance. In. ° lle or two instances a decline of 1 per cent. is re- Corded, but the transactions are as limited as for s ome days past. Great Western of Canada are at r ather fuller rates, but Paris and Lyons have de-, elined s s , ; the other foreign lines are neglected. 4 , Mining Shares have attracted very little atten tion. Banking Shares rule steady, and Canada Land have risen 1/. to 2/. lIITI3H FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. ( Non, the Official L") Busines done. 4i .Per Cont. Reduced Anunitias,..... B 3l i I W 3 per Cent. Annuities l '?obg Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 3 3 `lutia Bonds, .0.060 r , Ditto, under £lOOO . 8 10 'ensols for Account BBi i Exchequer Bills, 20. £lOOO •-• ..... ......... 8 10 5 Small Ditto Bonds, IRSB, 3i per Cent 9B 7i 1859 /0 98 7f Ib jtICIE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'OLO' B. Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 ~,Ditto 5 per Cent gelican 3 per Cent. ... )., Ditto Account . 4 "ernvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. Ditto Account 7si Ditto 3 per Cent — QDitto Account ......... . ......... 12 is PI Bouds, 3 per 'Cent .. . .......... .... Ditto Yew Deferred, 3 per Cent. h Ditto Passive rotqui•h Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4f p e • tirkiLli Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account B 3t i i Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Nvidemis on the above payable in London. 40 teh Exchange, 2 . i per Cent., 12 Gu11... ,•_j Cent. Certiflea',es 933 TWO - O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for the mount 881 MOM THE SON, LONDONI WEDNESDAY fr, mi Jll4O. DECEMBER 19 185'S a4a.wvi.. Leunk CompEtn Cosin rnu s yester lay. London kl N. Wel s's L. &N. 1i Calodon... E. Un. E. C..... flt..Nirtho. E. Count. ,CaldonOvo. 92 - F 4 94 - 98 131 133 Gt. Wela;:r. Yk. New. Y. & N Do. 105 S. Eastti Do.. Peto & Co iii --:. El' Ii • ~ 115 Norfolk Do L.& N. W k Stekton Ai Darlingt. Midland 2f - 2i 7 A. r En. Conn. E. Count. pa i 55 b 7 D 0......... Do • .. Do GtNorthn Lancash Yorkah. T. Braasey M. MClean Stockt. Darlingt 1)0 ....' ••• 128 - 132 3 ; ..... 2ti 30 - 31 80 - 85 B.IIAR 6.1. 107 -- 109 104 106 RO - 1)2 93 - 95 15 - 15 • e• .-..... •.• Ei = ii - P - ••,, ..... ••• • • • ..."' -. 57 - 50 1 113 - 115 105 107 99 101 par 9i - 91 6 Svn 87 78 82 78 82 94 9i 15i 164 9$ 10 66 64 17 18 84 9 124 134 id 130 132 ••• ..... ••• • •• .... ••• ... - -PI • •• so* 12* 12t i;' j ... - ... ••• .... 131 - 133 91 - 93 11 - 1k 4 - ••• ..." ••• 97 - 99 83 - CIO 21 - 31 ~• id Sell ..... es• 93 - 96 13 - 14 id - pat 21i - 226 92 - 94 Si - Si ... ..".. or. ••• - .• i - lip' 'it -: Sid 241 i 7i i 58i i ".. - &ENTA. T. ti,,Faness this day 1:31 2?-, CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS : D AY.) (Before Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr.;JusticetColeridge.) At the sitting of the court, Daniel Mitche 6l Davidson, Como Win. Gordon, and Joseph, Windle •Cole, were placed at the bar to plead to a number of ui lictments, charging theta with conspiring together to of itain large sums of money. The case of these prisoners, who, it will be remem bered, csrried on a must extensive business :in the City of London, as merchants, and that having fa riled for a very large amount, the two former prisoners :absconded, and Cole was tried and convicted of fraud in -connection with his bankruptcy, and sentenced to four 3 rears' penal servittta e. Gordon was subsequently tried. and con victed, but upon a point of law that was re m oved, the conviction was quashed by the Court of Criminal Ap peal, wad it then became necessary to proceocil with the other charges. The prisoners Gordon and Davidson wwei chirged upon separate indictments, with conspiracy to obtain large slams of money by means of false papers. and secu rities, and they were also charged with embezzling a portion, of their estate, with intent to defraud. their cre ditors. The prisoner Cole was also charged with an offence of the like character, and likewise with conspiring with the other prisoners for the same object. The :first case proceeded with was a charges against the prisoners Davidson and Gordon, of having embezzled three 5100/. notes, part of their estate, after they had been ad judged bankrupts, and with intent to defraud their creditors. Mr. .Ballantine and Mr. Poland conducted the prose cution. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Parry de fended Gordon, and Mr. Sergeant Byles defended the other 1 irisoner, Davidson. The facts of the case were nearly the same as those de posed to on the former occasion, and it will therefore be nnnece ssary to give a detail of the evidence on the pre sent occasion. The prisoners, as above stated, carried on a most extensive business as merchants in Mincing lane, a,n.d they were also the proprietors of a distillery at West Ham, in Essex. In the course of their business they were in the habit of obtaining very large sums of money from Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co., and other discount houses, by the deposit of warrants for goods, and in the end it turned out that a great number of these securities were forged and utterly woithless, and in the month of June, 1854, the prisoners were evidently in a hopeless state of insolvency, and on the 21st of that month they were adjudged bankrupts, and a day was appointed for them to appear before the Court of Bankruptcy and be examined relating to their affairs. Before the day that was so fixed, however, the prisoners absconded, and before doing so they raised all the money that they oould, and a portion of that money, consisting of three 5001. notes, was the sum they were now charged with embezzling, it being alleged that this money, by reason of their bankruptcy, was the property of their creditors. It was proved that the pri soners had travelled about to different parts of the Con tinent pursued by an officer, and at length they arrived at Malta, which place they were obliged to leave through the influence of the authorities, and upon their arrival in this country they were taken into custody. The prin cipal evidence brought to support the present charge was, that, on the 17th June, the prisoners sold a large quan tity of spirits to Messrs. Grimsby and Co., Messrs. Nicholson and Co., Messrs. Hunck and Co., and several acceptances which they immediately discounted, and a cheque for 5001., which was changed, and the pri soners absconded on the 2 Ist. The evidence extended to very considerable length, and the case was likely to occupy the Court until a late hour of the day. POLICE INTRuJGENCE—(This Day.) SOUTHWARK. ATTEXPTID SIIICIDE.—Ann Curl, a middle-aged female of rather decent appearance, was brought before Mr. Combo charged with taking a quantity of laudanum with intent to commit suicide. Police Constable 229 M said that about twelve o'clock on Saturday night he was on duty in the Borough, and while proceeding from Wellington-street to the Borough Market he perceived the prisoner lying on the steps apparently asleep. He endeavoured to rouse her up, but she was quite insensible. He immediately pro cured assistance and conveyed her to the station-house, when she partially recovered before the fire, and in a faint voice said she was dying as she had taken poison. By direction of the Inspector on duty he conveyed her to St. Thomas's Hospital, where the stomach pump was used and a large quantity of laudanum ejected from the stomach. She was extremely ill afterwards, and had remained in the hospital until yesterday when he went and took her into custody. Mr. Combo asked the prisoner what was the cause of her attempting to destroy herself ? _ _ She replied that she had been entirely deserted by her friends, and had no home to go to ; in fact distress drove her to commit the act. Mr. Combo asked her whether she bad any relations in London I She replied that she had not, and she bad no one to help her. Mr. Combo asked the constable whether he had ascer tained anything about her ? The constable said that he had had no opportunity of finding anything• about her, as she refused to give any information respecting herself. Mr. Combe asked whether he knew where she got the laudanum ? The constable replied that he did not, as she had not a farthing about her. From her manner, he believed slie was not in her right senses. - Mr. Combe remanded her to Horsemonger-lane Gaol for a week, where she would be attended by a medical gentleman, who would be able to ascertain her real s t ate of mind. In the meantime the constable would be able to make some inquiries about her. THAMES. , SHAMEFUL ROBBERY OF 'A SAILOR.—Two well•known and desperate female thieves who are well known to the police, and wh o gave theirnames Caroline Layton and Mary Bearis, w ere b roug ht b e f ore Mr. Ingham charged with stealing a sil ver wa t c h, a h at, two si lk handker chiefs, and some money, from the person of John Irwin, a mariner, who will leave England on a long voyage to morrow. The prisoners have been respectively i n custody for plundering outward bound seamen, relying on the im possibility of their victims remaining on shore to prose cute. On Monday night the prosecutor fell in with the prisoners in Shadwell, and they fastened themselves upon him, and asked him to treat them. He took them to a public-house, at the corne r of King Davillane, Shad well, and gave them liquor, and they afterwards enticed him to a house in 131 negate-fields, Shadwell. Being overpowered with fatigu e an d t h e li q uor he had drunk be lay down on a bed, and Beavis immediately took his hat, which contained two silk h a ndkerchiefs, and left the room. He was about to follow when Layton assured him that her companion was only joking and would soon return. Soon afterwards Layton contrived to detach his silver watch from the guard to which it was attached and half opened the room door. The prosecu tor hived out of bed, and Layton rushed out of the room. The seaman was unable to follow ber, and she, got away with the watch. The sailor dressed himself and left the house as early as possible, and procured the assistance of Pulice-Sergeant Willoughby, 22 K, who re turned to the house, but was unable to meet with the pri soners. Last night the Sergeant again went to the house and found both prisoners in the room where the robbery was committed. The sailor at once identified thew. Nothing was found upon them. The prisoners denied all knowledge of the prosecutor and the robbery, and said there were two other women in the house who could prove they were not at home on Monday night. Willoughby—l directed the two women to attend, and they have not done so. Mr. Ingham directed the police to inquire after the prosecutor's watch, and remanded the prisoners until to-morrow week. Irwin—l shall sail to-morrow, sir, for Balakl ava , an d cannot attend. Mr. Ingham —Very well ; if you are not here next week I must discharge these women. Leave your ad dress and the description of the watch with the police, and they will endeavour to find it for you. Willoughby—The house where the robbery was com mitted, in Bluegate-fields, is a most infamous brothel. Three other sailors were robbed there on Monday night, and another was plundered of aim. in the same house last night. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). ST. PANCRAS BURIAL BOARD. -+ Yesterday, at a meeting of the parochial authorities of St. Pancras —B. J. E. Wright, Ebq., in the chair—Mr. Ferrer, senior churchwardt m, called the attentien of the board to a rumour that wirer) a poor woman, named Knight, went to the Finohlley Cemetery t. - ) see ber child interred a few days ago, 'there was no grave prepared for it. In reply to questions put to Mr. C. Greene, the clerk to the burial boarl, that off wial 'stated tbat due notice had been sent to Mr. Kissic k, the superintendent of the ground, to prepare the grateen3 necessary. The undertaker, upon be ing called before the board, stated that upon the hear ieJs arriving at the cemetery with eight adults and six Dr seven children, there was or) , one grave dug. TL e consequence was that the poor woman Knight d:d no( see her child buried. There were several others lef; on the ground until graves could be dug hr thew. The Churchwarden (Fa rrer) said that such gross neglect was very disgraceful. It was really heartrend ing ; here was a poor wocr►a n most anxious to pay the last tribute of affection to a beloved child, and she was prevented doing so by the most culpable, neglect. It was no wonder that the ce'lletery did not answer, it this was a specimen of the man ver in which the burial board conducted their business. This was not the first com plaint of the sort which 1 , 41 d been made, and it really became the duty of the dire etors to see that more respect was paid to the remains of the poor. He was sorry to say that it was also true the tit the bereaved woman, who bore an excellent character,, fell from the hearse on her return, and sustained a sev we injury on her head. It was ultimately resolv ed to refer the matter to the burial board, Mr. Wellby, one of its members, under taking that the matter she old be immediately inquired into. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Closing Pecca ye sterda 22 - ',3 31 - 74 8 16 9 79 h 1 55 5, :1 54 6. 76 111, 12 81 81 27 29 17 • 19 - 70 50i -51 i 9f - 164 - 17. 77 - 79 6i - 7 F 9 89 74 - 76 1 20 122 102 ;04 52/ • E2i 52 54 70 - 75 6 7 6 7 771 77i 94 -• 98 -94 i 1(.1 Rd' 85i - P6i 71 - 6 5 f is 64 -64 i 36 • 38 ~ 1~ 41. 43 1 4 ,8§ 294, 67 • 6g Si 8 5 - 4A I.li 42 . 44h 45 92 - 8a 81- 4i 22 - 24 00 102 72 74 42 4 11 2 56i 574 31 31i 5 3d 2d pa► ••• '''' •” .'" 19 2O .4. 1 'i A5f'.161.,6 e:Ose this day. R.EN' }“.Zia , rIJAA. kl,erteen. Nottng. Bov, ani - Eszt.. trim+ , rraing, '‘A ve - our Vsi z, e n. Chefu. PAL* '; 7 c l"- tiO -c!25 C , Do., X 20..— ..... t - t SE. i; t £25 ogo. -7 i 91.01 Vxet, Cabvionisn. - ; 'am_ snti en.• (aro Obester & Holy ('.ork ;sod. Rsutl , Y. , . Al: Cork, Black, & !S all Do. A Do. B. Ci jog Junction.... • at, ono. P. & A . Joe Do. Naw,... Dud glian.. : . F.astern Conntirs. 7ninii, A. St' De., B. StitmE... Do., New East Kent f , :ast Lancashire Edinburgh& Glasgo Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth & Dur Vorth & Clyde Jens Furness Do. Extension Glasgow &S. WPM , Great N. of Scotlnd.l Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.are ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Ran Gua. Stk .. Irish South-Eas kern. Lancaster & Carlis'.e Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds, Leacash.andYorkls Do., W et. Riding Un Liv. Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwai Loud. Bright & S.Cst. iLond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths D0.101.6h.,2d&8...0 Do. Eighths London andS. West n. Do., .£&; Do., .C4O Lundrrye.; Col ern Ludndrq. & Enn'.33 , Manch.Shef.& Do. Shares ; No, Ma, k TAri, Tl, Metropolitan Mullane. Birmng. & Der• Midld. G. West. (111 , half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. & firf Newry & Eimiskil)- Nowr) Warrenp;,i• lid Itobtrev Or. -Corrolk Northn.Cozaties North ~ north Devon. No 'SO., No. 2 0., A A Deferrer . ... Do , B (irusrant:, '4.Es/dorm—Bor.+ f ) 0 . do. gatenttion 11.,.do,(1.N.E,I>nre‘ Do. Leo& 00. York. \Torts). 4tead, and City Jr... 'sr ort}i Stafford/111i , '4orth - 4. it S. WeAtTn. Jun , Yune3.tor, Rifle§t.••. ~nd Leicoet•;r.. ._ W OTC. , W 43entra ▪ ~ttish Midland . nropshire Um 011 'onto Devon Soatb Eastern South Wales • Yrksh. dt My. DIM 1)0 Staines, Wok & Wok _ _ teekton 8t Darli Sto*ten do Hartlepl . Taff Vale . Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. P.& R. Ulverstone & Lance Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeri els West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palma Do. A Do. B . ..... •• ••• ••• West London. Wimbledn St Croydon ntwerp&Ftott• ,r; Do. 5 p.s. Oblgs. eon. in Sh. at par till 'el Ardennes ....... ....... Belgian nista. Jane. Bezi erg to Oral ssessa.. Bombay, Baroda, an Central India,Serb Do. ................ Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c Do. Esteiiiion Do. do. do., '59, do.. Gd. mot CanadaAi t 4 Do. St. Lawrence Pe Atlantic do. .... • Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till 'R.' )o. Comp 6 p c do Gt. Central of Fran Gt Indian Poninfirals' guar. 5 per cent... I ) 0. New per cent ExtensSone. Great IA xemboury Constituted. Shares Do. Obligations Ot.Westernof Cans 4 ql , aree Do. New Du. ilkla., pay:o)l6's7, with option till '55. Do. do.. 'B2, p. 'St; Do. do., '76, p. '6O Dn. do., '73. witkon Option.... Hamilton & Torm.th Th;:o. 6 por cent. TAlt, Coniit 'lll,l 'lmo and Turnhout 'Ayoub And Gent ve Lyons Morlitert , c , q's,(lrns 0 Ins New. Maria An Leni Do. do. Nor NT%Tour tSa Lies , eri' nterest).... Do. (e= i nteroet)... Northern of France . D 0.201. She. no. 201. 3 p. o Bd, (fmy. B. & Anis. Shs. NorwegianTrank.Pre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds . Paris and Orleans.,., Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen 61 Cherbrg, Do Rome and Frascati Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations .... Sambre and Meuse... Do. 5 p. cent. Pref &Me Do Southern of Frame St. Andrew's and Quebec (A). ..... West Flanders Do 54 per c. Pref.,, Weatern of France Do Zealand :GR. 7t - 8 .•• ..".. • •• 3 • 24 3 2jd par 1 id 35 35} 9 10 p 20& -21 i 9 8 • 16 17 62 67 82 87 3i - 3IP 5 — 5 l id I 3} - 3 24 - 3 24 244 2 - 98 - 100 115 - 11' , 116 -•- 120 104 107 '-' l 4 23, 112 - 117 G 181 9 2 3 441 4 451 - L 2 L 26 6 - 7I 45 - 45 i 6 = is, ••• --- ••• ... - pu, 18i -- 194 2# -- 2 i 84 -- 84 ••• i •- """' IP ••• .w - pm 3i - 4 4 iii - 30 18 - 19 as tralamh Bank of London tiri. Col. Bk.& La. C. l‘ritish N. American Chartd. Bank of Aein Ohrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China City .. 9l • 93 57 - 59 ii : I'd 64 -. 66 Colonial Commercial of Loud g. Sc ot. & Atm Cht Lond. Chan. Bk. to Instral is riitto New lendrn and County. Lnd.&E. Bn* - '. Corp. London Joiu , Stock bond. & Westminste , National Pro.of Bug Do. Wow.. ......... National of Irclaod New South Walee Oriental Bank of Corporation. ert.yincial of Ireland bo. New Royal Anstraln.Bkg Rz qn , d Trap Co.. , Royal British °. '' ... par 2-1; IMO ....... • 0111.0 - 38 - 40 38 - 39 53 - 54 simml ... •••• ••• " n. W ~ .ti. R:.:a:2i;;lia !, 'picas air Instralir... I.Do• tieNs ***** liQll 0: IMAM 4 - 6 • 4,! 73 • 7. 1 8 - 9 80 ei JOINT-STOCR BiNKS. 16417 . 16 17 3} CORN EXCEIANC4E. To day's market was but moderately supplied with all kinds of English wheat. For even the finest q ua liti es th e demand ruled very inactive, but we have no change to notice in the prices of Monday. Nearly 8,000 quarters of foreign wheat h ave come i n. The demand for that grain was heavy, and the quotations were nominally unaltered. Barley and malt were in moderate supply and heavy re quest at barely late rates. A large supply of oats was in the market, and th e de mand was heavy, at barely late rates. Beans, peas, and flour ~old at barely Monday'sNuota tions. Wheat. 1,740 ♦RRIVALA THIS Oats. I rionr. 2,C,90 , 2,270 850 630 2,430 .1 13 ' 040 14030 brs /ridh • • I u) Fore,'la . 5 — BORO UGH HOP. We hare a moderate demand for fine hops, at full quo. Wiens. Inferior kinds area slow sale. mil T ECEIAPEL. The supplies were larftv, :ma a full average business was now. 3a tU to 4e tuuttou, Js 4d to 4a 6d; veal, 3a ad to 5s 44 ; pork, 3s 6d to 5s 2d per lq the carom RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AR?) SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending; Dec. 15, 1855 Corresponding week last yeas • 10,745 11 7 Total of the half-year to this; date, 1855 378,644 1 11 Total of the half-year to thin date, 1.854 366,878 17 10 LONDON AND SOUTH-EA 6 TERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending D, NI. 15, 1853 £15,053 6 5 Corresponding week last ye: u • 13,463 16 10 increase. in 1855 .... GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WMSTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffie re turn for the week ending DE*•. 15, 1855 £5,623 19 9 Corresponding week last yes r 5,114 3 3 in crease in 1855.. 2514 16 6 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) LONDON, Dec. 19.—Wind this day at noon, E., fresh breeze and fine frosty IV eather. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 18.-- Wind E.S.E., blowing hard —Arrived—Merchants Own, from Charleston, for Havre ; Emigrant, New York, for Bremen, with head and stem started, bowsprit sprung, &c., from contact with the Wal ter Hood, from London, fn. Sydney, N.S.W., arrived here with bulwarks and stancheons damaged. Sailed— Margaretha, for Bahia. (PER ELECTRIC) TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived.—Oak, from Cork ; Belle, Aberdeen. Sailed.—Maria, for Tyre; SJuth-Western, (s.), Jer sey ; Duke of Cornwall, (s.), London. The fine clipper-ship Virginia, bound from Hamburg, for San Francisco, brought up in Southampton waters, having been ashore; she will go into the large graving dock for examination to-morrow. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived.—Orontes, from Constantinople; Sebastopol, Quebec. Off.—Excelsior, from New York; S. Charles, New Or leans; Mercury, Prince Edward's Island. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 17. Wind S.E. Arrived.—General Hewett, from Callao ; Canvass Back, Baltimore; Cognath Mendelli, Alexandria. HOLYHEAD, Dee. 18. Wind S.E. Arrived.—Sabina, from Dunkirk ; White Mouse, Africa; Capricorn, Havre ; Catherine, Nantes ; Peaguse, Bor deaux. WARRENPOINT, Dec. 17. Wind W. Arrived.—Eliza, from St. John's, N.B. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday. 9.51 a.m. Wind E. ; tide, last hour's flood ; weather fine and frosty. Arrived, Dec. 19. --Challenge, from Prince Edward's VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Jenny Pitts, for Rio Janeiro, Dec. 1, 39 N., 24 W. North Star (ship), outward bound, Nov. 4, 13 N., 27 W, Adelaide (brig), outward bound, Nov. 20, 37 N., 34 W. Ocean, from Liverpool to Newfoundland, 49 N., 24 W. H. J. Woolley, from Callao to Queenstown, 51. N., sup. plied with water. Rosario, for Pernambuco, Dec. 2, 49 N. 12 W. H.M.S. Caesar, for Queenstown, Dec. 10 , 51 N., 8 W. Mary Ann (Dutch ship), Nov. 4, 9 N., 28 W. W. H. Thurley (American ship), Nov. 6, 11 N., 28 W. Mary Wood (barque). Nov. 11. 22 N., 24 W. Chevalier, Nov. 14, 27 N. 38 W. C.4ezustuß (Dutch barquey;Nov. 21, 34 N., 36 W. Roe, from Africa to Liverpool, Nov. 30, 47 N., 27 W.— crew sick, and supplied with two men. Henry Clay, from Liverpool to New York, Dee. 7, 27 N., SO W. Saucy Jack (s.), for Queenstown, Nov. 20, 38 N., 10 W. Euxine, bound S., Dec. 11, 50 N.,10 W. North Fleet, Dec. 3, 38 N., 10 E. Eveline, same day. Queen (s.s.), Dec. 4, 38 N., 6 E. City of London, Nov. 28, off the Isle of Tenedos. Gironde (s.s.), same day. Great Republic, Nov. 29, off the Isle of St. George. Ewen (s.s. tpt.), Nov. 30, 36 N., 20 E. Crimea (brig), bound E., off Tariffe. Arethusa, bound E., same day. Egyptian (s.s.). Dec. 13, 41 N., 10 W. Evening Star, from London to Melbourne, 7 N., 23 W. Dorothea, of London, for Rio Janeiro, Dec. 11, 48 N., 9 W. Margaret, of and from Halifax to Liverpool, N0v.28, 45 N., 17 W. Thrombin Castle, from Shields to Arica , Oct. 2, 59 S., 76 W. Fanny S. Paley, from New Orleans to Liverpool, Oct. 16, off Salt Key Bank. Wilbur Fisk, from New Orleans to Liverpool, Oct. 18, off Mantino Reef. Sardinian, from Savannah to Liverpool, Oct. 19, 33 N., 78 W. Eliza Bowell, from New Orleans to Liverpool, Nov. 16, off Key West. Geo. A. Hopley, from Charleston to Liverpool, Nov. 25, 34 N., 73 W. The Genoa Gazette announces that on the 11th a French steamer entered the port of La Spezia, on her way to Marseilles with a prize, having captured a Russian vessel off Leghorn, sailing under Tuscan colours. CLYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Tuesday, Dec. 18.—Admilisions on payment, 788 ; ditto, by sea son tickets, 229 ; total visitors, 1,017. Corresponding day last year, 1,215. METROPOLIS' MANAGEMENT ACT.—The vestrymen of the parish of St. Mary Abbott's, Kensiraton, at their meeting, on the 12th inst., elected Mr. Wm. Hawkes, of No. 8, Lansdowne-terrace, a member of the Metropo litan Board of Works. THE VINTAGE IN PORTUGAL—According to the Coin merrio, a respectable Oporto paper, all the worst antici pations of the vintage of the Alto Douro this year will be realised. A list is given of 45 cultivators, possessing 68 vineyards, and their produce for 1855 is compared with that of the average of former years. The result is 386 Pipes against 5,156. Taking this:las a guide for esti mating the whole production, it is presumed that it will not this year exceed 7i per cent. of the average quantity. EXPENSIVE PROCESS IN A COUNTY COURT AGAINST A FRIENDLY SOCIETY.—A case has just been decided, the first under the Friendly Societies Act of the 18th and 19th Victoria, cap. 63, which shows the expensive pro cess under the new act. The plaintiff had been removed, for alleged transgression of one of the rules, but the County Cour'; .Tudge ordered him to here-admitted, and the society to pay the costs, The costs were 101. 12s. 2d. MR. EDWARD OLIVER'S AFFAIRS.—We understand that the statement which has been going the round of the papers to the effect that Mr. Oliver's estate will only pay 2s. 6d. in the pound is perfectly erroneous. The creditors have already received a dividend of 2s. 6tl. in the pound ; and, in addition, we may remark that all vessels belonging to the estate already sold, and pur chased with his (Mr. Oliver's) bills at 103. in the pound, were purchased with a banker's guarantee to return 2s. 6d. in the pound, if the estate pays 7s. 6d., and ss. if it pays ss. in the pound. There is also to be taken into con sideration the fact that the freights earning by the ves sels in the Government employment in the Black Sea have yet to be handed over to the trustees. In addition to this, there are also several ships belonging to the estate yet unsold.—Manchester Gnardian. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.--A farmer, named Guscott, who resided in the neighbour hood of Exeter, was apprehended a few days ago at Plymouth on a charge of stealing a number of sheep from his neighbour. While in custody he made an attempt on his life by cutting his throat and stabbing himself in the side, but the injuries were not fatal. On Fri day he was conveyed to Exeter for examination before the magistrates, and when between the Starcross and St. Thomas's stations of the South Devon Railway he suddenly broke away from the constable, and had nearly succeeded in jumping out of the window of the rail way carriage, but was fortunately caught by the legs, and held securely until the train arrived at St. Thomas's station, whence he was conveyed to the Devon County Gaol. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY OE CANADA.—Sir Allan M‘Nab, the Prime Minister of Canada, inade the follow ing remarks on the railway, at a dinner given to him at Hamilton, on the 29th ult., on the presentation of a ser vice of plate, for his successful exertions to secure the charter of the Great Western Railway, so ably presided over by Geo rge W . B urton, Esq,, Sir Allan's old politi cal opponent, viz..—" I would remark that I happened to be associated with gentlemen of great enterprise and activity in our endeavours to accomplish this great work- I feel satisfied that by our united efforts we have accomplished a road which is second to none in the pro vince, if in the world, and I do feel proud that I was one of the number who have so happily succeeded, and though we had to encounter much opposition and many difficulties, that road has become a great fact, and there it is before you • and it has, I am fully convinced, con ferred a great benefit upon this city, and upon the pro vince at large.'.: THE BILLETING SYSTE:if. MEE' LUNG OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS IN ST. PANCRAS. Yesterday afternoon an adjourned meeting of the Li cense,d Victuallers of St. Pancras was held at Mr. Suter's, the Pilnce of Wales, Hera - mod-street, Camden-t own , f or the !impose of organising a deputation of the trade to wait upon Lord Pannsure, 'her Majesty's Minister of War,, - with a view to representing the hardships under which the trade suffer with regard to the present billet ing system. ilI r. D. PATTLF., of the Queen's Arms, Queen's-road, Cam den-town, having taken the chair, remarked that the : , Licensed Victuallers were highly taxed to the house duty; as well as having to pay an additional malt duty, which was, to all intents and purposes, a war tax. To him alone it made a differerce of at least 2001. a-year, to meet; which he was not able to increa, , e, the price of any article he sold. For this reason he felt that the trade were, entitled to the best consideration of the Govern ment. (Hear, hear.) DL , . PARSONS proposed that a deputation be appointed to wait u pon Lord Pantnure, and lay before his lordship the :iardships of "Lich they complained. ETARBERT seconded the motion. M:r. QUINTON, of the King's Arms, King-street, in supporting the resolution, stated that he had four men billeted on him for forty nights and three for sixty nights, which during three months cost him upwards of 6/. It was a hardship that no trade could support ; in addition to which the system, as regarded the men themselves, was most objecionable. Being highly taxed already, it was impossible that the trade, in its present position of affa,',rs, could continue to pay these heavy imposts. 21. r. WHARTON made a similar statement, and corn plahled bitterly of the highly indecent and insolent con duct of the men billeted upon him. They used the most disgusting language, and annoyed every person in the house. Mr. HARBERT had paid out several men who had been billeted upon him, but no sooner had he done so than he had three more sent to him for 36 nights. On looking over the books at head-quart<•rs he found that some of the men whom he had accommodated belonged to another district. Mr. Prickett, Mr. Wharton, Mr. Sugden, Mr. Suter, and other members, having addressed the meeting, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Suter, seconded by Mr. Wharton, that a memorial be prepared for the sig nature of the trade, and the secretary was requested to write to Lord Ebrington, requesting his lordship to in troduce the deputation, and also to communicate with Lord Panmure, asking his lordship to fix an early day to receive the deputation. A vote of thanks to tho chairman concluded the bueines3. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, DEC. 18. In cotton cloth a more active demand has been expe rienced, but higher prices have been asked, and the busi ness transacted, though considerable, has not been large. The advices from China are considered very favourable, both as regards exchanges and the prospects of business, and shippers have been inquiring actively for the better makes of 40-inch skirtings, including 60, 64, and 66 reed cloths. Manufacturers, however, have asked as much as lid., and in some eases 3d. per piece advance, and this has checked the business. Printers, also, have been active buyers of cloth suited to the home markets. For India the business clone was not so large as ex pected, but souse considerable orders were in the market, the execution of which has been prevented by higher rates being demanded. In addition to more cheering accounts from foreign markets, an easier state of the money-market and the rumours of peace (though not much credited) have had an effect in producing a better feeling. Men of considerable experience regard affairs as in a much better position than for some time past, though the complaints from manufacturers and spinners of unremunerative prices are still very numerous. There has been less business in yarns, both by shippers and cn account of manufacturers, but no change in prices. The suspension of a large spinner and manufacturer at Firwood, near Middleton (Ur. James Cheetham), was mentioned on the Exchange, and took people a good deal by surprise. The amount of liabilities was so variously stated that it will be better to avoid giving the rumours on that head. The meeting of creditors is called for Friday. It is feared that the stoppage will bring dewn one or two smaller manufacturers who were connected with the concern. LEEDS, DEO. 18. There has been a fair amount of business done in the cloth-halls this morning, taking into account the season of the year. The tone of the woollen trade is at least firm, with some signs of improvement. Some of the manufacturing villages !ri the neighbourhood have just received an accession of work in the shape of orders for from 12,000 to 15,000 ends of Spanish stripes for the China and India trade, which has for some time b3en but slack. The news from America hrs given a little impe tus to the houses engaged in the export trade to that laud, and they are beginning to give out orders. Wool con tinues firm in price, and there is no great disposition to sell. By order of the trustees public announcement was made i❑ the Colourci Cloth-hall during the time the market was held to-day that, in consequence of next Tuesday being Christmas-day, the market will be held on Wednesday in next week, instead of Tuesday. The report of to-day's Huddersfield cloth market is again of o aatisiNctory enaraeter. ri better feeling ap peared to prevail, and a tolerable amount of steel mix tures, unions, and other goods changed hands. Job lots at reduced prices were in demand. Wool was steady in price. STRAND THEATRE. This little theatre, in imitation of its many larger rivals, provides a pantomime for its holiday patrons. Jerrold's " Black Eyed Susan" gives the subject, which is here called, Black Eyed Sue, or All in the Downs and Davy Jones' Locl:er. The author of the opening scenes is Mr. F. Talfourd, whose brilliant success in Gomm, Shylock, Macbeth, Alccstes, and many other extravagrn zas and burlesques, is a sufficient guarantee of the good ness and point of the dialogue. The opening scene in troduces us to the realms of Davy Jones, who appears presiding over his locker in the depths of ocean, and lamenting that " For full six weeks, I've reckoned up by Cocker, No Tar has come to Davy Jones' Locker. Indeed now I deliberately reflect, There's really nought worth speaking of been wrecked Since the renewal of the present war Except the 3t of my good fiiend the Czar, Who, as a means to kea them from his foes all, Has kindly sent them down for my disposal." A ship is wrecked, and Davy's imps speedily dispose of the drowned seamen in the locker. Hatchet, one of the sufferers, to prolong his own existence, promisel to encompass the death of William, who has offended Davy by saving the ship and crow, of which he forms one. The next scene introduces us to Susan in her cottage, a lovely black-eyed damsel, who thus bemoans her fate— " William, not yet from sea, oh, dear ! oh, dear ! He's boatswain there while I'm left tenant hero." The cruel uncle, in answer to Susan's appeal for time, only replies— " Dy tears my purpose isn't to be shaken, And gammon, Ma'am, you'll find won't save your bacon." William, a la T. P. Cooke, returns and finds his Sue rather too attractive to the Captain, and in revenge cute off his superior officer's pigtail, Susan exclaiming— " Leave me, an officer should be taught betterer, Who harms a female in distress, et cetera." A coral grot introduces us to a pretty collection of Fea nym ph s and Britannia, who are visited by Rumour, rather a valuable character, with a hundred tongues, who informs them, inter (dig, of Wil'iam's dilemma, and secures their aid. William's farewell of his messmates and approaching execution, somewhat ludicrously treat-d, leads us to the transformation scene, which is marvellously complicated and gorgeous for so small a house. The Harlequinade introduces Mr. Ricket's, from Dublin, as Clown, Mr. French as Harlequin, Mr. Priorson, an old hand, as Pantaloon, and the gay and graceful Mdlle. Hinrade as Columbine. The comic scenes are replete with smart and practical hits at the follies of the day. The scenery, by Mr. 11. Saunders, is equal to that of more pretentious rivals. A novel act drop, dedicated to the Ppirit of the age, is au other feature introduced by Mr. Payne. INJURY TO FRENaII PAINTINGS BY FIRE. The distribution of the prizes and medals awarded to the pupil s o f t h e I mperial Schoo l o f the Beaux Arts,the Paris, du r i ng t h e year 1854 - 5 5, w hich took place in Amphithe a t re d es E tu d es o f that establishment,lo Was k iu the marked by a sa d di sas t er . At about nine o morning, o ne o f th e pip e s of the catori t Th , place, hadin the grand amphitheat re , w h er e the sitting WA S o e take become red hot, and bad set fire to the estrade prepared for the ceremony. Fortunately spreading far, but theeY l the flames were per ceived in time to prevent their estrade, chairs, liahnegw g , and flags were consumed, and the paintings on by M. Delaroche, injured. It the wall, was in consequence ot this accident that the distribution took place in the Amphitheatre des Etudes. At the commencement of the proceedings M. Fould, Minister of State, referring to the fire, expressed himself as follows : " Gentlemen, —Before having the honour of opening this sitting, I wished to assure myself of the amount of damage inflicted on the fine work of one of the heads of this school, and I am happy to state that the hemi-cycle of Df. Delaroche has not been seriously injured by the fire which broke out in the course of the morning." Unfortunately there is too much reason to believe that M. Fould was too sanguine, and that Paul Delaroche's great work has received irreparable damage. We read in the account of the accident given iu the .Dcbats:— " The flames, which spread rapidly in all directions, attacked principally M. Delaroche's fine paintings, which are in great part destroyed. Th e cement which kept the stones together is destroyed, the stucco which covered the surface of the painting is all in lumps from the heat, the colours have run in such a quantity that they form a hard surface at the bottom of the wall so strong as not to be removed by hard robbing. In short, with the ex ception of the sectio n con t a i n i ng t h e portra it of Rubens, where the colours are preserved, M. Delaroche's work is completely disfigured. We shall probably have occa sion to return to the subject of this, perhaps, irreparable misfortune ; but we could not refrain from at once ex pressing those poignant regrets, which will be shared by every loYer of art.". -100 700 100 100 10 100 100 100 i all all 100 100 1 1 00 ,rut 1 () ,tuo Inc 100 KU tit i 7 all all ,• 3,11 1%11 101 100 all 8$ FREFE Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. C. Blyth andlyne 1 Opei o. prof. (issd.at 50Z Brii. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Calodonian £lO Chester & Holyhese' Guar. 5i per cent Do. do. Pref. 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It would be unfair, however, to his memo ry, to consider- him merely as th friend of min dieting; 'f e lled in every b ran ch of hu man e achievement and hum, in as. e consid !rale, .ainment ho had in his own distinction in various ways. As a p s eethes name we lon sue to occupy an em i nen t place upon tho catalog : le c,,ssica! English writers—as a literary' critic, a! a e connoi sseur i n art, and more especially in p: atin g , men have b een , his equals. For half a cow ry, L home was the centre of literary society, aud . tl le ch ie f pee, of Mr. Rogerse Inv not so much in gath.ezete ;round hisLable men who had already achieved emit tepee ae in etreteeine forth a help ing hand to friendle, is -went. Wheresee ee discerned ability and power in a title new to the teiem e el e struggles of London 1; fe, it was his delight le introduce his young client to tho so whom he might one lay hope to equal. The courtesy :in consideration of thel,ost soon drew forth the same qua ;lities in his guests. Many a , man now living can ream mber that on a Saturday night he went to bed an unle sown lad, thinking of the cele brated men of his time ie 4 a person thinks who has only read about them, and can Sunday walked home from the hospitable house of Mr.. Rogers encouraged to persevere in his task by the bees 'V good wishes and friendly syrn pathy of those who i lad. heretofore appeared to him almost as inhabitants c es.nother world. Great injustice indeed should we do to . the memory of Samuel Rogers, if in the few remarks ei tei venture to offer upon his cha racter we did not give the E7Bt place to his boundless and unassuming charity, of which his unvarying kind 110_s to literary men at LI se outset of their career was but a single form. Were el us the proper place to recount histories of this Fee/ we .could tell many a tale of forlorn and well-nigh hopeless; wretchedness relieved by his hand. It was not necessary with him, as with costive philanthropists, that e lisery should have what is called a "claim" upon him, in order to bring him to the garret where it lay pie rink. He had seen mention of it in the police report..,, or in the public journals he had heard it spoke's i of at the dinner-table of a friend. No remark: issued from his: ips at the time; he heard it as though be heard it:not; but the neat day betimes It e might have been seen in person examining into th e truth of the representation, and, it need were, afforc lv ag relief with no sparing bane. All this was dine wither if; ostentation and without boast. No living 1113t1 can pret etid to say that this was his prac tice throughout his win dee life, for he has worn out three or four generations of r oen ; but it would be strange in deed if the youth and r as nhood of Rogers had in this re spect been materially di fßerent from his protracted old age. The biography of Sam net Rogers would involve the history of Europe since C leorgo 111., then in the bloom of youth, declared to his subjects that "he gloried in the name of Briton." It is now well-nigh a quarter of a century since that Monier-eh was carried to his grave in extreme age, worn out th mental and bodily disease. Let us take the most n otable historic drama of the cen tury 1 7 9 3-1815—the ris e, decline, and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. This was but an episode in the l;te of Samuel Rogers. He reze a young man of some standing in the world, fully of an age to appreciate the meaning and importance of the a-vent, when the States-General were assembled in France . If we remember right, he actually was present in Paris at or about the time, and may have heard with ;'e da own ears Mirabeau hurling defiance at the Court, and seen Denton and Robespierre whispering to each otheer that their time was net yet come. Let us go back teo other events as standards of achneasurement. As th es war of the French Revolution and that against Napol eon Bonaparte were episodes in the ripe manhood, so \VP k; the American war an episode in the boyhood of Roge; He was of an age to appre ciate the grandeur, if not the political meaning of evente, when Rodney won his ni veal victories and when Generel Elliot successfully defers led Gibraltar. He could remem ber our differences with our American colonies and the battles of Bunker's Hill, Brandywine, and German Town, as well as a man now his manhood can remember the three glorious days of July and the Polish insurreetion To have lived in the days rx General Washington, and to have hoard discussions as to the propriety of admitting the independence of the North American Provinces, and to have been alive but yesearday, seams well-nigh an possibility ; but such was the case of Samuel Rogers. When he opened his eyes upon the world that great and powerful country which is now known as the United States of North America WZ3 but an insignificant depend. ence of the mother county—a something not so im portant as the Antilles, even in their forlorn condition, are at the present moment.. They were just rising to be somewhat of a little more :significance than the " planta tions" to which Deice smuggled off the troublesome characters in his fictitious tales. They now constitute one of the most powerful States in the comity of nations. Let us take another test--that of our Indian empire. But three or four years bef are the birth of the subject of these remarks Colonel Clive fought the battle of Plassy and laid the foundation of it. He lived through the government of India by Warren Hastings, and, being in London at the time, could well understand the discus sions which took place upon the subject of the India Bill. The battle of Assay° efound him a man forty years of mg.. Ile was in lull posetcasion of his faculties when Lords Hardinge and Gough won their victories in North-Western India, but the other day. It would be superfluous to lay before our readers any contrast be tween the dates of other political events at which this remarkable man must have assisted, at least as an intsl ligent spectator. Let them carry their minds to the drive of Wilkes and the Duke of Grafton, and remember but tie mere names of the statesmen who have administered the affairs of the country from that time to the present, and they will have present to their recollection a list of the associates and friends of the late Mr. Roger:. As might be expected, his more intimate associations were natu rally with the leading men cef the Liberal party, but such was his courtesy of temper and of manner that he was received upon a friendly footing even by those wire whom he was known to differ on points of political pri? ciple. A mere politician he never was at any period 45 his career. It is, however, to the literary history of the century we must mainly look for a correct appreciation c f Rogers's career. He not only outlived two or three ge nerations of men, but two or three literary styles. The Poet of Memory, as he he.t been celled, must not be rashly judged by the modern student, whose taste has been partly exalted, partly vuigerimed, by the perform • ances of later writers;—we are speaking of a contemn perery of Dr. Johnson. Rogers must have been a young man, some 20 years old, when the great lexicographer di( 3, and therefore a great portion of Johnson's writ ings must have been to him contemporary literature. Let those who are inclined to cae a at the gentler; inspirations of Rogers think for a moment upon what English poetry was between the deaths of Goldsmith and Johnson and the appearatice of Walter Scott's first great poem. Cowper redeerre the solitary waste from absolute condemnation as the most unfortunate epoch in our literature. Rogers no doubt formed his style upon earlier models, but ha was no servile copyist ;—he could feel, without any teie dency to apish imitation, the beauties of such authors t e Dryden and Pope. The poem by which his name pie principally known to the public will always remain as among the classical pieces of English literature, wl tele some of his smaller poems will never cease to bane , in the memory of men while the English language i 3 on ler stood. This, however, is not the proper place for en ter ing upon any critical disquisition as to the litera-y m•ar:ts of the remark a bl e man who has just term i na t e d hi s Long career. Our intention reaches no further than to call attention to the remarkable duration of li f is life, a e n ied .cr La pay a tribute of respect to the memory m o ark a ah m le points considered . 3 - richly deserved it. A . mon i g in the hi ni s a r n l y ree re r, wh;cle may be ment i one d that of a literary fhis life he ?t hy banker a wee y that during the greater portiono man, the fact should be perticroar must have been b banker in the c;tyof London. It trao rd i n a ry . prudence, a position, n,lo t o f wisdom,nt ell intellectual and social qualities, o same man who wes thef , ie fi n n d a lyr e iv: of i t thß Byursoknis,sWonoradusd worth, and S cott, talked finance Peel upon terms, exchanged bet 9/2 s tB with Tall e y. r , and equal rind of f-fend of all th e em i nent men o a f nd reen y of the indigent and miserable who flourished and suffered during three parts of a century. Such a man was Samuel Rogers. Mr. Rogers was born in the year 1762, and had there fore attained the venerable age of 93. In 1787, after completing a course of travel, h e pu bli s h e d hi s " O de to Superstition," and other poems ; and five years later appeared the " Pleasures of Memory," by which his fame as a poet was established. In 1798 he publish e d his "Epistle to a F r i en d," an d o th er poems ; 1814, his " Vision of Col um b us an d J acque li ne ;" in "Human Life ;" and in 1822, the filet pert of " Italy," on the illustration and printing of which 10 , 0 00/. is said to have been spent. 111 r . R ogers ' s h orse in St. James'. - place is a per:ect teeeeury of att. The pictures a amongst the best of their class, and though few i n num ber are said to have cost 6,0001. ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER, SAVINGS•BINS. -- Th e savings -bank which V 73.9 opened in the Vestry-room of St. James's parish last April has met with great success.. From the time of its commencement to the present date. a period of eight months, it has opened 413 accounts'. and receiv e d d epos i ts to the amount o f 2,262/. 6s. 2d - an extent of business that far exceeds that done at fink. by many of the savings-banks which are now among the largest in England. The president oftmhiess in it banki: the Earl o f Ell esm ere, and among the names those of of Earl Lon ad ( hi. ' of short being e b. rebvi g, r list of vice-presidents are the Earl of Aberdeen, and the PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation . of gold at Pari s premium lfint (according g3r last aboutwh l ic h t , h 4 a e t ‘ , 1 ; . 131 5 7 . .72, for it per f et o lsh l tce l n: o hnE w ialdnl s naeggr t edl h i s a ah t gt gold gs i i s pvo a ens b serf o L t lot n Ot h p laa e ks r te. cent, f 2 d s ea 2 r 7 e r ; in Paris than in London. By advises from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per mire exchangef o rstdar at d H go ata ld, gives an exchange of 13.4:4 ; an d , burg on London at short being 13.4., it follows that gold is 0.18 per cent, dearer in 11 anabl.%•g than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1081 per cent., and, the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nomi nally 1.08 per cent, against England ; but, after making allowance for charges of transport and difference of in terest, the present rate leaves no profit on the tranernis- Pion of gold either way between tlie t!O COlUtaith - '~ 20 5 tO 18 20:3 1114 t 100 100 100 20 20 20 50 100 50 100 100 20 66 SOi 1i 15i