The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoc K. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed firmly, and prices of all descriptions of cotton were unchanged from the authorised quotations of Fri day. The sales were 6,000 bales, 500 for export, comprising 160 Ferman and Maranham at 6d. to ; 250 Bahia, 5 7 g d. to bbd. ; 250 Egyptian, bid. to Bd. ; 800 Surat, 3id. to 4id., and 100 Sea Isands, chiefly at is. per lb. In the Railway Share Market a firm feeling was manifested, and a good many transactions were reported. The advicos received from Geelong, Victoria, mention that the receipts of gold by escort from the 17th July to the 24th of September amounted to 225,119 ozs. from the eastern, and 244,942 ozs. from the western, gold fields. The obtainment of quartz was attracting much attention, but the in achn o ry in most cases was not sufficiently strong, and miners were unable to get it crushed, except in small quantities. In a great many in stances the quartz realised 5 ozs. per ton, but as the machine owners frequently asked 5/. per ton Rnd 40 per cent. on the gold obtained, a very small margin of profit remained. Commercial intelligence from Greece has come to hand, containing some interesting statistical in formation, showing the progress made by the people of that country in agricultural pursuits. The quantity of land under cultivation for grain crops has increased 20 per cent. during the last year, and the produce more than suffices for the wants of the people. The extent of the vineyards has increased sixfold in the district of Corinth within 28 years, and in the whole value, where only 40,000 stremmes (Greek acres) were laid out in 1830, there are now 380,000. Since 1833 upwards of 80 million dollars has been expended on the vine and olive plantations, and in the construction of useful works for agricultural purposes. Saturday was observed as a holiday on the Paris Bourse, in honour of the public entry into the city of the Imperial Guard, recently returned from the grimes. Accounts from Holland state that at a Cabinet Council held on the 27th instant, it was unani mously agreed to that the ♦arious measures for the regulation of the provincial imposts should be adopted, as framed by the House of Representa tives ; also, that the measure modifying the law of 1822, relative to distillation from grain, should become the law of the country, which will have the effect of lessening the consumption of grain for such purposes. _ _ _ The following are particulars of the Railway Calls falling due in January, 1856 Company. Date. Call. Amount. Blyth and Tyne 17... 2 0 0... 12,000 Bridport Colchester and Stour Valley 28... 210 0... 22,500 Great S. &W. of Ireland London, Tilbury& Southend 8... 1 5 0... 18,750 North-Eastern (Berwick) Ditto (Berwick Extension) 1... 1 5 0... 112,545 Paris, Caen, & Cherbourg 1... 2 0 0... 120,000 Stockport, Disley, and Whaley Bridge 37,500 Making a total 0f......... £514,275 There are also calls to be provided in January on the shares of the following lines, the amounts of which are not yet published :—Great Western Re duced 5 per Cents. ; London and South-Western 50/. ditto ; ditto, 401. ; Lyons and Geneva 3 per Cent. Loan, 1855 ; Paris and Orleans Bonds, 1855; Sambre and Meuse 101. Preference Shares ; and Western of France. The English Stock Market which opened steadily has since become weaker, and a further downward tendency in prices is apparent. No cause can be assigned for this flatness beyond the limited deal ing just now in all securities. Consols after being 88,i i have receded to 88} -a. Bank Stock is steady at 206. The New 3 per Cents aro 881 to S 9, and the Reduced 881 1. Exchequer Bills are lower, viz., 10s. to 4s. discount. India Bonds are like wise heavy. Most of the Foreign Securities are rather de pressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 1 per cent. lower, namely, 831 to 831. The New Scrip is heavy, at 3i discount. Brazilian 5 per'Cents. are quoted at 991, and the 41 per Cents. 901. Danish 3 per Cents. rule at 83, and Portuguese 4 per Cents. at 49. Dutch 4 per Cents. have receded to 94i and 941. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7; Mexican, 19i i ; Peruvian, 74 6 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 52 4 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 7 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 891 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40 is ; ditto Deferred, 20a 1 ; ditto Certificates, 41 ; ditto Passive, 71. The few transactions which have taken place in the Railway Share Market have been generally at previous quotations, but the market nevertheless has evinced some symptoms of weakness. Foreign lines are dull generally, but Dutch Rhenish have risen ss. to 10s. Great Western of Canada are steady. Mining shares are very quiet, and Bank of Lon don have risen 10s., but Canada Land Shares are ll 21. to 4/. lower. BRITISH FUNDS THUS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Front the Offscial List. ) rin-onea- done. . Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Rethtced Annuities New 3 per Cant. Annuities Long Annuities, expire stb Jan. 1860 — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6 15.16 Paths. Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 4 d Qoisols for Account B Bl h I t E xc hequer Bills, 21d. It £lOOO .... Y500 limn 8 7 11 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 36 per Cent 991 11 "PP 1559 991 PRICTE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOt K. i Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 996 Ditto New, 1852, 41 per Cent. Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 B3 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 4 per Cent — Ditto Account 49 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 4i p c Turkish Bonds, 6 par cent — Ditto for the Account B3l i Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account 36 d Dividends on the[above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Coat., 12 Guil — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates QUARTER PAST TWO. . 881 6 x d Consols LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Dec. 31.—Wind this day at noon, S. ; moderate breeze and cloudy. PORSMOUTH, Dec. 30, Wind W.S.W.—Arrived —Great Britain (s.s. tpt. 187), from Constantinople ; Calcutta (s.s. tpt. 195), Heligoland. CLYDE, Dee. 29.—Arrived—Lonisa Javet, from St, John, N.B. ; Wolfacove, Quebec; Koh-i-Noor, Demerara. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived.—SeTern, (s. t.), from Portsmouth ; South Western, (s.), Jersey; La Poule, Cherbourg. Sailed—lno, for Newport ; Sylph, (e.), London ; Ar gyll, (s.), Chsrenton. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. 'Wind S. Arrived.—Augusta, from Rio de la Hache ; Ariel, Now Orleans. The Wm. Hitchcock, to Liverpool, wag destroyed by lightning -In the 19th December. Crew taken off by the screw Parkhill (arrived), which was also struck by the electric's fluid, but damage not reported. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 29. Wind E.W. Arrived.—Pearl and Nancy, from Mazagan ; Tar, Ida, and Cuisachan, Callao ; Delphos, New Orleans ; Velocity, Alexandria ; Tiger, Surinam ; Juno, Alexandria. (111 BIIBMARINs AND BRITISH TELTWEAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.10 a.m. Wind S.S. W. 4 hours' ebb ; cloudy. Arrived, Dec. 30—Johnge Antie, from Worcum ; Alar, Teneriffe ; Unition, Havre ; City of Perth, Marstrand ; Poictiers (transport), Balaklam ; Egmond Aunze, Dieu Dial:. ; Agatha, St. Michael's. Sailed, Dec. 31—Erbegroozerherzog von Oldenberg, for Constantinople ; Craigavar, Cape of Good Hope ; Queen of the East, Constantinople. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m. Wind S.W. by S., fresh. Passed—Yerk Town, from New York, for London ; Paris and London, screw-steamer, from London, for Rouen ; Vice Roy, from Calcutta, for London. Several of the outward-bound preparing to weigh, REPRESENTATION OF HEREFORD.—NO candidate has yet declared himself for the representation of Hereford, which, it is presn►led, will be rendered vacant through the bankruptcy of Sir R. Price ; but it is stated on autho rity that Mr. R. Biddulph, of Ledbury, who formerly represented Hereford in Parliament, will again offer him self to the elector. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. 3t,j100 2 a ,1 ;0 i an .n all it J 29i !2I 19 15 all h. 100 it. jioo 0 Mg. .0 all .0 6 8 .o 1 i 0 45 It. ilOO 3t. I 100 ?,5 7i 3t. 100 3t. 100 LO all ft. 100 it. 100 [0 all it. 100 it. 100 it. 100 it. DO ft. 100 .2 all OD all 61 141 .61 .1i ail It. 100 It. 00 01 5i !6 all 15 all R. 100 :5 all '2 B 82s , .0 1 it. 100 It. 100 i() all RAILWAYS. Asnbg./iottng. Bost and Rasta. Jnnct... Belfast & Pm. Hymens Binning. Wohrerh 6 Stour Valley Birkeand. Lanes).. Cheshire Junct Do. Chesil. di Birk £5O and £25 Cons Do., £2O Myth &Tyne original £25 (iesd. at .£45 ) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carta. and Cardigan Chester 4 Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, di Pass Cornwall De. A Do. B CiieC+ Junction Dn. lin&BelfastAinc Dun. P. & Aber. Joe Do. Nlw East Anglian Eastern Counties East. Union, A Sth De., B. Stoat Do., New I. East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles.., Edin. Prth & Dunde ,, Forth & Clyde Joni Furness Do. Extension Glasgow & S. West.. , Great N. of Scotlnd Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &'West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gun. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds . Do. Nov Thirds Le.neash.andVork eh D 3 .• Wst. Riding Un Liv.Crs . ny.&Southpt London & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S. Cst. Lond. and N. Westn, Do. Fifths D0.101.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths ~ London andS. Wostn. Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Col oral u Lndndrry. & Enntsk. Manch.Stief.&Linclr , Do. Shares, No. l Do., Man. & Lin. Un Metropolitan Midland Do. Birmng. &Derby Midld. G. West. (Ira.). Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warreupoint and Rostrovor .. Norfolk Northn.Connties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Pnroh Do. Leeds Do. York North London N.&S.Wstrn.,TTs.mp stead, and City ,In,. North Staffordshire., North Western Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Ox, Wore.. t,, Wolv eortraouth e Central, 3cottieliMidlan i. ';liropshire Un4on south Devon South Eastern ,ionth Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dur 1)o itainns, Wok. &Wok -tockton & Darlin itwikton d; linrtlepl. Taff Vale . Do. Pref., No. 1 IThaniea Flay. T).& R Ulyerstone & Lanes Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny WaterforddsLimeria West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A... ... Do. B !West London Wimblodn & Croydon Closing PTI sea , Saturday. 22 23 313 - 3i 7i - 8 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 79 - 81 54f 54 i 6 7 ii 5 - 4 63 - ..i 11 - 12 81- 8i 27 - 29 17 - 19 69 70 50i slj 9f 17 18 80 - 85 6 - 87i - 88,E 74 - 75 .19 - 121 ,02 - 104 52 -52 i, 70 - 75 6 - 7 6 - 7r 76i 774 - 64 93 - 95 94 - 94} - 1(11 - 84i - 8- 7 1 6i - 5i iii --- iiii -- d 63 / i / —64 i 36 38 5; 9/ - it 42 - 44 28 ... 29. 67 - 68 8 3 / 4 8,1 5 4 3 / 4 d 11 3 / 4 12 44i 45 3 / 4 92 97 - 8i 4t - 5i 22 - 24 LOI ICB 73 75 42 44 11 12 56. •57j 31A 31;6 3d 2d pat 33 - 85 ••• "." 19 ió .. • .. 4 - 6 FOREIGN. Antw,lT pktiltott• rdarn Do. 5 p.c. Chip. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes Belgian }taste'. June Bozi ern to GraieeceeW Bombay, Baroda, an i Central Inclia,Scrii Do. Demerara Dnten Rhenish Eastern of France Now Erie, Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. Extension.... Do, do do '59 do.. 'tad. Th of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence h Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben. , con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. p. e., do. Gt. Central of Fim', Indian Peninank, guar. 5 per cent.... Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions...... Groat Luxambourt Constituted Sharer Do. Obligations....... Gt. Western of Caned Shares Do. New Do. Bds., payable'67, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton Sc Toronto Do. 6 por cent. Lake Const. & Basle Um* and Tarnhout Lyons and Goneva Lyons & Moditerran Madras Do. Now Maria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ox interest) Northern of France Do .201. She Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bde (fmy. B. & Ams.Shs. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen—. ParisCaon & Chorbrg. Do Rene and Frascati Rouen and Havro , Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i p. cont. Prof, iScindo Do ISouthern of France ;St. Andrew's and Queboc (A).,. West Flanders Do b 4 per c. Prof_ Western of France Do Zealand JOINT-STO , Australasia .. Bank of London Bri, Col. Bk.&Ln. C. British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. link. of India, Australia, & China 0 City 5 Colonial 0 Commercial of Lond .11 Eng. Soot. & Ans. Cht dl Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto Now f,cpdon and County.. Lnd.&E. Bukg. Corp. London Joint Stock.. Lond. & Westminster National Pro.of Eng Do. New._ National of Irelaud New South Wales._ Oriental Bank of Corporation trGvincial of Ireland Lo. New Royal Anstraln.Bkg Ay Gold Imp Co Royal British South Australia Union of Australia Do. New ........... 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I RAILWAYS. shl.lr; St. li St II St. 10 5 al St. 10 ►ll Bedford and B 1 et zhloy Xi Buclrgliamsh. Clyde sdal e di Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. 10 E. !.in. n.. 6 pc. al E. Un. 11. Sli. Was. Barr. & Noll& Direct St. 100 Do. New...... 25 all GlatrAg Dn. Fr ill I Firtlpl. Dlc. bt Railway Al Hull & Selby .11 Do. Sharo. 11 Do. f Shares. al Lon.&Greenv 11 Do. Preference 0 Lon., Til., &S. 0 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. N) Do. 6 per ct. .11 Manch. %tn. and Matlock dl Middlosbro' & Redcar. Xi Midld.Bradfd if Newmarket Bury Exton ►ll N.&Est.sp.c. ►ll Do. 6 per ct. ►ll Do. Fixeds p 11 Prost. & Z'►y:e 11 Do. Shrs. A 0 Roystn.&Hit. Shet.Roth.and Gooleg. 5 p.c. 10 all Shrews. &Her. 12 9 S. Staffordsh. 50 all Wear Valloygr 6 per cent... all 25 S t, 1.1 * Do: Wilts&Ooinrßt PREFE: Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. BlythandTynolOpei c. pref. (issd. at 501) Brio. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. !Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO ,Chester & Holyhead Gunn 5i per cont LDo. do. Prof. No )o. do. Pcef. No. 2 Cork exßandonsp.e Dun.Prth .di Aber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh, Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cis. C 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. Do. No. 2 . Do. Now 6 r . c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 5/., 10 per cent. Do. IN. Debentr.Sh. ,Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lane ash. 6 p. cts &W. York. J. sthp mod, Pah. &Dun.4p.c Furness alas. & S. W. a. 5 P.C Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prom... i Do, 4.J, p. c Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at sp. c. pm... ... Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pre Gt. .S. AW. (Ireland) Do. 4 por a. Prqf. Sr Gt. Wostn. (Barks & cants Ex . 5 p. c) ' Do. con. red. 4i p.c. Dl. con. red. 4 p. a. Do. irred. 4p. C. Do. Birm, Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S Do. do. 5 p. e. do Do. Birm. Ow.. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. £2O 'Do. 6 p. a. Stock Lon. &Brigh. GO p.c Do. Pref., 5 p. a. St Do. New Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct Lon. & S.W. 7 per ct Londy. & Color. i Sh Londy. & Ennis. Si, Nan., Shot., & Lin New, £lO Do. ia Vlarypt .& Carl.4p a Do. 43 per cent Do Kid. Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Consol. Bristsl Rim. 6 per cent Do. 4A p. c. Pref. St Do. Pref. 4 per coo Do. 51. Prof. 4 p. c.. Ditto L. & 11. Pref. Si Norfolk Debenture . IDo.Pre. 4 p. c. Stoc Do. 5 p.c. Est Ds. 5i per ct pref IDo.Way.Val. 5 p. c 'North British N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P. Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c tNo.t Do. do. Quarters 4. , D o.York 11. & S. Pur. North Staffordshire.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c Do IL Pref. 101. Sh. .Scot. Cont. ,New Prof south Devon Do. fixed, 46 per con S. Eastern (Readinp Ann.) of £1 Os, 6d. Do. 4; per cent Do. Fixed 4A p c sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. o Do. to. 4A p. c S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. Stock & Dar. , 5 p. C. Do. do. Stock. & llartl. g. p. o. till July 1, '06' ;Wstertd. & Kilk.6 pc 00 I a] 50 I al 20' al St. 101 St. 101 St. (A) NI a 60 1 al St. 6} 5, 50 al 50 al 50 al 25 al 12' 3,7 St. ' 25 I 1 9R 04 at: 64 a; 64 pi - - • 10 al 20 al 10 a] bt. al St. RN 5 al 10 a] St. 101 20 11 St. 110 St. 10 St. 10 8 I al 10 al St 1.0 26 al 1311 a] 20 a] 12A al 12;, 11 St. 101 St. lOC 16 , . 0 5 al St. 10 28 - 30 ••• Fi 64 - • 47 - 50 128 - 132 1091 -- 110 2 -- 2{ 4A -4/ ~ ... ... 1i 1$ 20 - 22 les ''''''' ••• o.• '.. ... "i - ii) bi 5i ~. ••• 1 li 2 3 din— par fs = iii i i ... ••• i .... 11 ii - 2R 63 - 65 ••• - - iP 35 - 37 - 4 ". -• 151 16! 20 1 a, 1 al 1 al 50 al 20 35 21 30 al 20 1 St. a, 25 al 2 1 20 al 1 al 44 al 5 a' 1 a 3 al 5 1 15 ai 30 , 1: 1 i &I 28ii! IC 23-1 4 10i I 211 i 20 L 12 ! 25 . 11 20 al St. 10 SA al 25 al 10 1, 10 r a' 20 a] 20 a' 20 al 25 a 25 1. 12i a 3k 3 25 8 LON DON MONDAY EV NI N DECEMBER 31, 1855, I,lNlr,!i t(t.X Compans C Oilitlir rriaa, Saturday. yeater .ay. London & N. We-t. L. &N. W. iCaledon... E. Un. 92 - 94 - 98 f 3 .?: Gt.Nrtnn. E. Count. Caldonian. ••• ..... •• 'Do Gt. Westat Yk. Now. & Borw. Y. &NM Do 103 - 105 Do 3. Easton -.-- - 12i --13. Peto I; Co. lif6 - ii• 'Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midid. Stckton & Darlingt. Midland 21 - 2i - 91 n . Coun. E. Count. par 4p 1)5 57 [ Do Do... ...... 1 L. tz N. W. Do Gt Northn Lancash Yorksh. T. Brassoy M. MClean Stock t. Darlingt Do fio 1: 1.*:; • IS '''.. ••• 7i 8 a: 2i i id 31 81 83 'OtWi SH.LRIS. 107 - 109 104 - 106 90 - 92 92 - 94 15 - 16 5 i - 6i - f - I 11 - 12; ••• "" G 7 -- b 9 J 3 - 115 .05 - 107 99 -- 101 - 10 6 - 6A 85 - 87 77 - 79 75 - 80 91. - 9i 15 - 16} 9. - 10 66 - 83 17 - 18 81 - 9 13 -13 i d- tn. - 133 MINES. all !Aga. term . all Anglo Anstrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 6 Australian .1,1 Australian Cordillera 11,Ave Maria, 11 Baden (Gd. Duchy of 11 Bleenarvon Iron and Coal 4 British Iron 6 Brazilianlmp.(issued at pm.) 11 Do. Cocacs r Cuiabs .5 Do. St. John Dol Re 3 Clarendon Cons. Mitt, Co. of Jamaica ,11 Cobro Copper 1 Colonial Gold 611 Copper Min. of Eng. 611 Do. Prof. 7} p. cent .e Copiapo . Fortuna dl General.. 11 Gt.NuggetVoinßog. di Great Polgooth al Gt Wheal Vor United 11 Liberty 11 Linares I Lusitani an 611 al Now Granada 611 Nouveau Monde 611 Pontgiband Silver Load Min. k Smelt 1 Port Philip al Quartz Rock 611 'Rhynaney Iron al Do. Now 1.3 i Santiago de Cuba al South Australian all Do. Scrip Do. 10 per cent Prof 9 fin Croft ......... al United Mexican 11 Waller l West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia Yuba i PM Pal 59 8} MISCELLANEOII B . Australian Agricalt. Allah-min. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Canada Canada Gov. 6 p. ct Jan. ana July Crysta ) Palace Do. Preference Crystal Pal. of Francs Duston Iron Oro Eastern Steam En. &Aus Cop Sm Co ' Electric Telegraph Electric Teleg. of Ir. Gen. hen Sc Collier Gen. Steam Navigat. General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Sugai Magdalena St. Navig Niediteran. Elec. Tel. Mexiettn&S.Americn . Nat. Pat. Steam Fuoi Netherlands Land.... Do. Do. ...... Do. Sp cP iss at I el N. S. W. Coal di Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. New B. di N. S. Land N. B. Australasian... Nrth. of Europe Steam Oriental Gus Do. " New Shares " Peel Rr. Ld. Peninsular Orienta Do. New 7i B 1091 241 Portland Iron Co Royal Mail Steam Scot, Austral. Invest Ditto New South Austral. Land Submar. Tel. Scrip Do. Registered Trust& L. Co.U.Can QUA Dionou'll Idand x d ad a il :d 11 i ii MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. The leading country markets held on Saturday were ♦ery moderately supplied with wheat. The demand, how ever, was heavy, and prices were rather in favour of buyers. All spring corn was dull ar.d drooping. The latest advices from Now York state that over 900,000 quarters of grain and flour have been shipped from the American ports since the let September. The continental markets are dull and drooping. Very moderate supplies of English grain were received up to our market last week. The imports of foreign were 20,683 quarters of wheat, 1,531 barley, 7,131 beans, 7 peas, 13,526 linseed, 14,730 rapeseed, 33 mustard seed, 109 sundry seeds, 7,394 sacks, and 33,518 barrels of flour. BINVe had a full average supply of English wheat on sale to-day, in very middling condition. All kinds were exces sively dull in sale, and factors generally were willing to submit to a reduction of from ls. to 2s. per quarter, but, at that decline, there were very few buyers. A few picked samples were taken at fully Is. per quarter less money, but the remainder of the supply was unsold at the close of business. Foreign wheat was much depressed—indeed, we have no transactions to report in it, and the quotations were nominal. Floating cargoes of grain were dull and drooping. Barley meta most inactive sale, at 2s per quarter less money. Malt was dull, and lower to purchase. We had a very slow sale for oats, at Cd to is per quarter less money. Beans were very dull, and fully 2s per quarter lower than on Monday last. The sale for peas was heavy, and prices gave way quite 2s per quarter. Country flour was 2s per sack cheaper. American gave way is per barrel, and the top price of English fell 33, or to 72s per sack. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red ...• new 6is to 79a Ditto•••• .... old 72s 848 Ditto, White new 59s 848 Ditto.. •..... old 775 88a Norfolk And Lin coln, Red, old 735 84a Ditto new 62s 808 Rye—Old •••• •••• •••• — s New ............ 505 52s Barley—Grinding••• .. 368 463 Malting ...••.... 40i 42s . 443 45z, Malt—Suffolk and Nor- I Malt—Chevalier .. •• 80s to 82s late—Yorkshire and Lincolnsli.,Feed 25s 30s Potato ' Youghal and Cork Black. •• •• 25s 28s folk.• •• •• 74s 82s Brown..• ••.......• 64s • 70s SingstonandWare 780 80s Cork,Whlte.•• •• 26s 305 Sootch,Feed.•• .. 27s 345 Define—Tick ......... 40s 44s Pigeons ...... 51s Pens—Grey ........ •• 383 44$ Ma 10. - 14, 1,13 W rote. •••..• • . .. 48s 52s Boilers •....... •• 50s 51a Flour—Towu-mado. •• 70s 728 Suffolk .• .• .• •• 563 58s Stooktn &Norfolk 56$ 58s METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Very limited supplies of foreign stock arrived in the port of London last week—the total arrival being only 347 head. In the corresponding week in 1854 we received 1,410 ; in 1853, 1,802 ; in 1852, 2,568; and in 1851, 2,408 head. impowrs INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Harlingen Rotterdam 9O 100 .•• T0ta1.... 247 ... 100 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1854 621 ... 693 96 1853 405 1,678 ... 298 27 1852 3ll ... 1,867 ... 319 5 1851 451 1,196 155 A very limited supply of foreign stock was on sale hero to-day, and the show of Irish was confined to only 70 boasts, and the same number of sheep. The arrivals of home-fed beasts were in but middling condition. As the have disposed of their late extensive trade ruled brisk, at an advance in the on Monday last of quite 2d per Slbs. readily produced 5s per 81bs. From the Northern districts, we received 1,200 short horns ; from other parts of England, SOO of various breeds; and from Scotland, 250 horned and polled Scots. Notwithstanding that the supply of sheep was very limited, the mutton trade was heavy. In prices, how ever, no change took place. The best old Downs realised 5s per Slbs. Very few calves were in the market, and they sold briskly, at high quotations. The best calves produced 6s per 81bs. We had a moderate demand for pigs, at full quotations. The supply was limited. Per Bibs to sink the offals. e. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 6to 3 8 Second quality.... 3 10 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. 410 5 0 Inferior Sheep ~.3 4 3 6 Second quality ...3 8 4 2 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 6 TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ............. ..... 2,992 ticep .• • .• ..... • .. •• •• ..18,000 Calves .. • • •. • • 57 very moderate, and butchers generally purchases, tho beef quotations realised The priniost Scots d. s. d. Prime Southdown 4 8 5 0 ( Large erse. calves 410 5 6 Prime small d 0... 5 8 6 0 Largo hogs 3lO 4 4 Small porkers 4 6 5 Suckling calves..2l 0 30 0 ,Quarter old pigs. 22 0 28 0 LITERATURE. PROFESSOR WILSON'S WORKS. Noctes Ambrosiancc. By Professor Wilson. Vols. I. and 11. Blackwood and Sons. It is under the genial and competent editorship of his son-in-law, Professor Ferrier, that the writ ings of John Wilson are at length being republished collectively. They lead off with his glorious and ever-memorable "Noctes Ambrosiance "—among all his works incomparably the one upon which his fame will rest as upon its most broad, and solid, and enduring foundation. A volume is announced to appear quarterly, until the whole series of these remarkable and varied compositions shall have been completed. They will comprise our author's charming "Tales," his classical "Poems," his inimi table " Recreations," his exquisite " Essays," both critical and imaginative, and, together with these, his elevating and authoritative " Lectures on Moral Philosophy." Besides, of course, the not able introductory volumes of the collection, the four precious tomes, containing (for the first time, among us, in a separate form), the chef d'oeuvresof the great departed genius, the recognised magnum opus among his numerous masterpieces, the poetry, and the eloquence, and the humour of his immortal NOCTES AMBROSIANtE• How cordially this tardy reprint of the " Noctes" ought to be welcomed, every one must understand who can recall to mind their periodical issue years ago in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine, the Olympic throne of King Christopher, from which flashed the light nings of his wit, and pealed in many an awful volley the thunders of his denunciation. It is almost to be regretted, we cannot but think, that Professor Ferrier has enjoyed so perfect an appreciation of these extraordinary Dialogues, that he has cherished in their regard an admiration so complete, so earnest, and so unreservedly out spoken that he has not been able, for the life of him, to refrain from referring to them as they are here presented to the reader, in the fullness and entirety of their grand and colossal proportions, in language that can alone be designated, even when applied to the Nodes Ambrosiante—lauguago of the most extravagant hyperbole and of the most fla grant exaggerati , m_ It L. alien, speaking of the glorious Shepherd of the Noctes, the editor says of him that " in wisdom he equals the Socrates of Plato, in humour he surpasses the Fal staff of Shakspere," adding that " clear and prompt he might have stood up against Dr. Johnson in close and peremptory argument, fertile and copious he might have rivalled Burke in amplitude of declamation." Now, even when applied to that matchless creation the " Shepherd" of the Nodes Ambrosiance, we must protest against eulogiums such as these as against some wholly ab surd and preposterous fanfarronade. To say that the idealised Hogg of Professor Wilson equals the Socrates of Plato in wisdom and surpasses the Falstaff of Shakespere in humour, to talk of him as a disputant no less logical than Samuel Johnson, and no less rhetorical than Edmund Burke, is to talk sheer stark staring nonsense, nonsense altogether ludicrous and rhapsodical. Granted that the hero of the Noctes—for such the Shepherd unquestionably is even in the presence of North and Tickler—granted that the hero of the Noctes is really wonderful in many ways, wonderful in eloquence, in wit, in pathos, and in poetry, wonderful as a humorist, and as an imaginative improvisatore—yot to say of him that lie equals Plato and surpasses Shakspere, that he might compete with Johnson and rival Burke, were to give voice to the babblings of folly iq the accents of rhodomontade. Professor Wilson presented to the world, no doubt, the veritable apotheosis of Hogg, in that marvellous delineation of the Et trick Shepherd, which is the chief glory of his won derful Nodes Ambrosiance. Nevertheless, even the eminent genius displayed by him in the accomplish ment of this literary apotheosis cannot for an in stant be deemed any justification whatever of that mistaken homage on the part of Professor Ferrier, which has induced the latter to indulge in pompous panegyrics, wholly out-heroding Herod by their unjustifiable grandiloquence. Panegyrics spread ing out their windy proportions to the swollen but empty bulk of the mere puff preliminary. Of all men, Professor Wil son himself would have been indisputably the very one to whom expressions of this ultra-encomi astic kind would have been in life the most utterly repugnant. Of all works, the Nodes Ambrosiance constitute tke very one the most signally indepen dent, we might conjecture, of praises thus mon strously exaggerated. Let the intelligent reader of these two astonishing volumes forget, however, if lie can, the prefatory compliments to the dead, indulged in by Professor Ferrier with such miser ably bad taste, when standing, as it were, over the grave of the great genius recently departed—and it will be impossible not to acknowledge the judi cious skill with which (apart from that one blun der) Professor Ferrier has fulfilled the responsibi lities devolving upon him in the discharge of the grateful duties oeditorship. How pleasantly hepre pares the way for the uninitiated in the mysteriesof the Nodes, by identifying one after another the three masterly interlocutors ! After a perusal of the editor's delightful " Preface," every one may pro ceed with renewed satisfaction and whetted appe tite, to the enjoyment of " the feast of reason and the flow of soul," set forth for general refection in these memorable Forty-oho Edinburgh Nights' Entertainment. Seventy-ono nu tubers there were altogether as originally published at uncertain in tervals between the years 1822 and 1835, in Blackwood's Magazine. But of these no less than thirty have been judiciously sup pressed by the editor, as written by other and inferior contributors to Maga than Professor John Wilson, or at the best, as only partly aided here and there by the wit and wisdom of King Christopher. Already the United States had set the example years ago by a republication of the Noctes Ambrosiance, in two comprehensive editions, giving the whole seventy-one nights indiscrimi nately, the later of these two wholesale reprints hav ing been ingeniously edited by the late Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, the accomplished author of " Titian." Speaking f Dr. Mackenzie's American edition of the " Noctes," Professor Ferrier candidly acknow ledges that "in spite of some slips and a good many oversights—(mostly to be explained on the ground that it was impossible for him to be in possession of the requisite information)—it is on the whole credit able to the industry and good sense of that gentle man." High praise, indeed, as coming from the son in-law of the gifted wsiter of the " Noctes," and the authorised editor of the revised and authentic edi tion, here at length put forward by the Messrs. Black wood themselves. At length, in this goodly reprint of Professor Wilson's glorious Noctes, extending as we have seen to no less than forty-one altogether, we are permanently placed in pc,: session of the cream of the whole of the immortal Dialogues— not with a mere selection from them, but with everything essentially constituting the great work hitherto known and henceforth to be more clearly than ever recognised as the "Noctes Ambrosiance." Everybody remembers, of course, that the three principal interlocutors in these same renowned Dialogues were Christopher North, Timothy Tickler, and the Ettrick Shepherd. Everybody, however, is not so distinctly acquainted with the fact that while North meant John Wilson himself, and the Shepherd, James Hogg, author of "The Queen's 'Wake " and " Kilmeny," Tickler typifyed in a no less wonderful manner one Robert Sym, Writer to the Signet, born in 1750, and who died in 1844, at the patriarchal aged of 94. The character of Mr. Sym was of course slightly idealised in the person of Mr. Tickler, as that of Professor Wilson was in some respects dwarfed and in others expanded in the imaginary shape of Mr. North, the ever glo rious, and terrible, and loveable, and ini mitable Christopher. But with Hogg it was very different indeed—the prototype being immeasurably sur passed by the ideal counterpart. As we have already expressed it, James Hogg, noble original though he undoubtedly was in the flesh, enjoyed a veritable apotheosis in the Ettrick Shepherd of the Ifoctes Ambrosiance. The Shepherd of the Noctes, indeed, may well be described by Professor Ferrier as " one of the finest and most finished creations which dramatic genius ever called into existence." It is in every particular a perfect masterpiece. In wit, in humour, in grace, in tenderness, in elo quence, in poetry of feeling and of description, the Shepherd of the Noctes is altogether won derful. Whether he is describing " Tic Doloureux " with an irresistible ridiculous ness worthy of the creator of Pantagruel, or solilo quising about clocks and fiddles, mirrors, sofas, and kitchen chairs—he is everywhere, in all moods, in all phases, without an atom of exaggeration, be it said, entirely incomparable. Li s ten to him dis coursing in the cool sea-water at Portobello, swal lowing brine by the gallon in the wash of the steam-boat, gasping bet ween w hiles— ,, Em—hem —umph—humph—who o — w hoo—whurr whurr —while Ticklers spluttering in herrachvacherach" the same surge-sw e ll h ar d by—" Whsy—whsy— whsy hugh—whugh—slaugh—shugh—ptsugh— i prgugh !" Hear him fieering at the said Tickler across the st eam o f the whisky jug, fragrant with lemons a n d su g a r, saccharine and acidulated like his o wn W i s e banter ; or hearken to him as he beards the leonine North even while within roach of the sweep of his formidable crutch, telling him—" there's nae denyin' that when you either skaitch or feenish aff, after your ain manner, there's few hauus like Christopher North, either ancient or modern : but excuse me, sir, for sayin', that a b ou t the tenth tummler or sae, oh, sir, you are tiresome, tiresome." Everywhere, in any mood, in any phase, the Shepherd is, we repeat, delicious, inimitable, incomparable. Ambrose's Tavern, situ ated in the street or lane of Gabriel's-road, in the ancient city of Edinburgh, was in truth the ecene of many a gay symposium for John Wilson, and Robert Sym, and James Hogg, and their com panions, but the veritable "Ambrosial' Nights," in which Tickler, and North, and the Shepherd shone forth resplendently must be looked for, not in Ga briel's-road, but in Blackwood's Magazine. Repro duced for the delight of after times in these noble volumes, the "Noctes Ambrosianm " of Professor Wilson will not fail to sustain some of the loftier and rarer attributes of his splendid and in many respects heroic reputation. MR. DICKENS' NEW STORY. Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens. No. 11. Bradbury and Evans. _ A wonderfully clever number is this second in stalment of Mr. Dickens's new story of " Little Dorrit"—a number so replete with " good things" as almost to dissipate our remembrance of the four chapters given to the world a month ago by way of introduction. We obtain at last something better than a merely tantalising glimpse of Little Dorrit, the heroine of the tale. We learn all about her birth and parentage. We discover in her home the old debtors' prison of the Marshalsea—in her father the Father of the Marshalsea—in herself the Child of the Marshalsea. Amy, otherwise Little Dorrit, proves to be a tiny woman, some twenty-two years of age, who goes out for so many hours a day to gain a few shillings by needlework. The youngest of the family, she is, nevertheless, its chief guide, sup port, and protector. The stay of her old white headed father William Dorrit, better known by the name, style, and title of the Father of the Mar shalsea ! The successor to her poor dead mother— being, in fact, a strange kind of second mother to her elder sister Fanny, who is a ballet-dancer, and to her luckless brother Tip, who is an unmitigated scape grace and an irredeemable ne'erdoweel. Another member of the Dorrit family there is in the person of old William Dorrit's brother Frederick—tle shabby, ruined, broken-down uncle of Amy, Tip, and Fanny, himself a clariouet player in th© orchestra of.the very theatre in which - the last-mentioned is permanently engaged as a danseusc. Here is Mr. Dickens's wonderful description of old Frederick Dorrit, the orchestral player of the clarionet. " Ho stooped a good deal, and plodded along in a slow preoccupied manner, which made the bustling London thoroughfares no very safe resort for him. He was dirtily and meanly dressed, in a threadbare coat, once blue, reach ing to his ankles and buttoned to his chin, whore it vanished iu the pale ghost of a velvet collar. A piece of red cloth with which that phantom had been stiffened is its lifetime was now laid bare, and poked itself up, at the back of the old man's neck, into a confusion of grey hair and rusty stock and buckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off. A greasy hat it was, and a napless ; impending over his eyes, cracked and crumpled at the bi itn, and with a wisp of pocket handkerchief dangling out below it. His trowsers were so long and loose, and his shoes so clumsy and large, that he shuffled like an elephant ; though how much of this was gait, and how much trailing cloth and leather, no one could have told. Under one arm he carried a limp and worn-out case, containing some wind instru ment ; in the same hand he had a pennyworth of snuff iu a little packet of whitey-brown paper, from which he slowly comforted his poor old blue nose with a lengthened out pinch, as Arthur elenman looked at him." It is honest Arthur Clennam who hunts up the family of the Dorrits, and finds them, as we have seen, located in the ancient debtors' prison of the Marshalsea. William Dorrit having been there years and years, uutil he has come to be its Father—the condition of his three children being kept a secret from him to the last, whether it be as to Fanny's dancing of nights at the theatre, or as to Tip's being a prisoner like himself, or as to Amy's beingau industrious little needlewoman. An inkling is afforded us, through the suspicious of Arthur Clennam, that the misery to which these luckless Dorrits have been reduced is in reality traceable to his own father and mother long years ago, and that upon him devolves the responsibility of some noteable expiation. Whether his mysterious con jectures be true or false the plot has yet to reveal during the process of its development. As yet we are left, like him, merely to vague conjectures, or at best to shrewd suspicions. The chapter on Family Affairs introducing us again to the abominable Jeremiah Fliutwinch, of the cut-down aspect, and to Arthur's grim old grey-headed mother, who looks for all the world, when seated at her desk, with her two hands laid out separately upon it, and the tall cabinet towering before her, " as if she were performing on a dumb church organ." The upshot of this chapter is that Arthur and his mother become more than ever estranged ; the former seceding from the business to make way, as it proves, for the admission into the house of a new partner, in the person of the horrible old "cut-down" Jeremiah Flintwineh. The chap ter following introduces us to the Marshalsea, and makes us acquainted with William Dorrit, its Father—taking us there (among other times) " at certain constitutional moments when somebody came from some Office to go through some form_ of overlooking something, which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about"—wandering round the prison " while this somebody pre tended to do his something, and made a reality of walking out again when he hadn't dune i t—neatly," says Mr. Dickens, with his wise, droll, satiric ban ter, " neatly epitomising the administration of most of the public affairs in our right little, tight little, island." Here—in the old Marshalsea Pri son, an evil spoe happily now no longer to be found in London—we are brought face to face with a sot of extraordinarily life-like characters, who are pre sented to us one after another in a series of mar vellous portraitures. There is, for example, Bob the benevolent Turnkey, who becomes the god father of Little Amy Dorrit, talking to her tenderly about the green fields " over there," full of flowers, buttercups, and daisies, and dandelions, "and all manner of games"—and speaking of her father as having played a piano in the Marshal's house—" like one o'clock—beau tiful !" Then there is the Doctor of the Marshal sea, once upon a time surgeon of a passenger ship, who is discovered first of all as one of " two hoarse, puffy, red-faced personages, seated at a ricketty table, in a wretched, ill-smelling little room, playing at all-fours, smoking pipes and drinking brandy"— the Doctor's friend (one of the two) being " in the positive degree of hoarseness, puffiness, redf iced ness, all-fours, tobacco, dirt, and brandy," the Doc tor himself being in the comparative—" hoarser, puffier, more redfaced, more all-foury, tobaccoer, dirtier, and brandier !" Here, however, is his portrait entire : " The doctor wag amazingly shabby, in a t orn and darned rough- weather sea-jacket, out at elbows and oninently short of button-3 (he had in his time the experienced surgeon car ried by a passenger ship), the dirtiest white trowsers con ceivable by mortal man, carpet slipprs, and no visible linen. Childbod?' said the doctor. 'l'm the boy !' 'With that the doctor took a comb from the chimaey-piece and stuck his hair upright—which appeared to be his way of washing himself—produced a professional chest or case, of most abject appearance, from the cupboard where his cup and saucer and coals were, settled his ch , n in the frowsy wrap per round his neck, and became a ghastly medical scare crow." Besides the Doctor there is Mrs. Bangham, Char woman and Messenger to the Marshalsea, who, as years roll on, ultimately goes very wrong indeed, being " found oftener than usual comatose on pave ments, with her basket of purchases spilt, and the change of her clients' ninepence short These are the personages who assist at the entrance of poor Little Amy Dorrit into the world—Bob as god-father, Mrs. Bangham as Nurse, and the Doctor as Accoucheur. It is as successor to Mrs. Bangham in her capacity as Messenger that Tip first of all makes his appearance, executing his commissions in a knowing manlier, and " becoming of the prison prisenous and of the streets streety.' In the next chapter we learn how it comes to pass that Little Dorrit gets her sister Fanny in structed in opera dancing by an insolvent dancing master, who takes " a matter of two weeks to set to his creditors, lead off, turn the Commissioners, and right and left back to his professional pursuits." And how it was that Uncle Frederick, coming to be ruined by his brother William, showed no further sense of the calamitythan "leaving off washing him self when the shock was announced and never taking to that luxury any more"—resorting at last, as we have shown, for support, to playing a clarionot, as dirty ai himself, in a small Theatre Orchestra. Here, however, is an example of Charles Dickens in his happiest style, as now, once mor e, s hining forthin this seco nd number of "Little Dorrit." It is the exquisite description given by him of the first interview between the Turnkey, and the poor Debtor who ultimately becomes Father of the Marshalsea : "He was a shy, retiring man ; well-looking, though in an effeminate style; with a mild voice, curling hair, and irresolute hands—rings upon the fingers in those days-- which nervously wandered to his trembling lip a hundred times, in the first half-hour of his acquaintance with the jail. His principal anxiety was about his wife. " Do you think, sir," he asked the turnkey, " that she will be very much shocked, if she should come to the gate to-morrow morning ?" " The turnkey gave it as the reoult of his experience that some of 'em was and some of 'em wasn't. In general, more no than yes. What like is she, you see?' he philo sophically asked : that's what it hinges on.' " She is very delicate and inexperienced indeed.' " That,' said the turnkey, is ages her.' " 'She is so little used to go out alone,' said the debtor, that I am at a loss to think how she will ever make her way here, if she walks.' " P'raps,' quoth the turnkey, • `she'll take a ackney coach. . - " Perhaps.' The irresolute fingers went to the trem bling lip. I hope she w ill. She may not think of it.' " Or p'raps,' said the turnkey, o ffering his suggestions from the top of his well-worn wooden stool, as he might have offered them to a child for whose weakness ho felt a compassion, p'raps she'll get her brother, or her sister, to come along with her. " " She has no brother nor sister.' " Niece, netwousin,serwant, young 'oontan, gremgrocer —Dash it ! One or another on'ern,' said the turnkey, re. pudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions. I fear—l hope it is not against the rules—that she will brine , the children.' _ _ " "'The children?' said the turnkey, And the rules Why, lord set you up like a corner pin, we've a reg'lar playgiound o' children here. Children ? Why, we swarm with 'ens. How many a you got ?' "`Two,' said the debtor, lifting his irresolute hand to his lip again, and turning into the prison. " Tae turnkey followed him with his eyes. And you another,' he observed to himself, which makes three on you. And your wife another, I'll lay a crown. Which makes four on you. And another coming, I'll lay half-a crown. Which'll will make five on you. And I'll go an other seven and sixpence to name which is the helplessest, the unborn baby or you.'" As a marvellous companion-sketch to which, we must, perforce, give that other little scene in which William Dorrit, old and white-headed now, the Father of the Marshalsea, is" tipped" in coppers by a Plasterer " One afternoon he had been doing the honours of the place to a rather large party of collegians, who happened to be going out, when, as he was coming back, he encoun tered one from the poor side who had been taken in execu tion for a small sum a week before, had ' settled' in the course of that afternoon, and was going out too. The man was a mere plasterer, in his working dress ; had hie wife with him, and a bundle ; and was in high spirits. "' God bless you, sir,' he said in passing. " And you,' benignantly returned the Father of the Marshalsea. " They were pretty far divided, g oing their several way s , when the plasterer called out, ' say !—sir r and came back to him. " It ant much,' said the plasterer, pitting a little pile 1 1 of halfpence in his hand, ' but it's well meant., " The Father of the Marshalsea had never been offered tribute in copper yet. His children often had, and with his perfect acquiescence it had gone into the common purse, to buy meat that he had eaten, and drink that he had drunk ; but fustian splashed with white lime, bestow• ing halfpence on him, front to front, was new. " ' How dare you!' he said to the man, and feebly burst into tears. " The plasterer turned him towards the wall, that his faco might not be seen ; and the action was so delicate, and the man was so penetrated with repentance, and asked pardon so honestly, that he could make him no less ackno lodgment than, ' I know you meant it kindly. Say no more.' " Bless your soul, sir,' urged the plasterer, I did in. deed. I'd do more byyon than the rest of 'em do, I fancy.' " What would you do?' he asked. 'l'd come back to ace you, after I was let out.' " Give me the money again,' said the other, eagerly, and I'll keep it, and never spend it. Thank you for it, thank you! I shall see yen again ?' " If I live a week you shall.' "They shook hands and parted. The collegians assini• bled in Symposium in the Snuggery that night, marvelled what had happened to their Father ; he walked so late in the shadows of the yard, and seemed se downcast." Enough—the whole of this marvellous picture of prison-life is painfully true to nature, the marvellous picture here painted in magic colours by the master hand of our inimitable Boz—a hand that has never drawn more wondrous ambiances of reality than these same peopled scenes of the ancient debtors' prison of the Marshalsea. THE AMERICAN CLEARING-HOUSE SYSTEM. (From, the United States' Economist.) The following description is by Mr. George D. Oman, the manager : "At the hour of 10 a.m. all the banks, members of the association, 48 in number, are represented at the clearing-house by two clerks—one a settling clerk, the other a specie clerk, or porter. The settling clerks bring with them their statement, which shows first the amount of the receipts of the bank which they represent up to the close of the business of the previous day ; secondly, the amount which has been added from tho morning remittances ; and lastly, the total amount which they bring to the clearing-house for exchange, being the amount of the first two items united. They also bring a ticket, which informs us of the amount sent in by the bank which they represent, and which amount we cre dit them with. Their statement has a column in which the amounts to be received are to be entered. The specie clerk or porter of each bank brings with him a statement of the amount which the bank he represent sends in against each of the other banks, and he also brings the money, made up in parcels, with a slip upon the top, stating the amount of each item of exchange, and the total or footing of whole sari to be delivered to each bank. His statement has a bank column headed ' received by.' At ten o'clock all the clerks are called to their places, the settling clerks upon the inside of the counter, which is built in the form of an oval ; and the porters upon the outside, all the banks being arranged numerically, in the order of age, upon the counter, and each assigned a space, which, divided off, separates them from each other. The porters bring their money so arranged that the top exchange is the one for the bank next them on the right, and the last exchange the one for the bank next to their position on the left. " At a signal from the manager each porter at the hour of 10 precisely moves to the right, delivering to the first bank next on his right the exchange which he has for them, and receiving the receipts of their settling clerk for it, who is careful to see that the exchange he receives agrees with the amount written on the statement of the porter of the bank from whom lie receives it, and thus the porters proceed until they have made the circuit of the room, and delivered to each bank the exchange they brought against them, and received their receipts there for, which brings them back to the point of starting (their own desk), with all their exchanges delivered and receipted for. This is done by es in five minutes. The ex changes for each bank are thus brought into the hands of their settling clerk, who proceeds to enter theca to the credit of each bank, after which ho calls them back with his porter, and then foots his receipts, ascertaining the ainmant which he has received and the result of the ex change, which either makes his bank debtor to or credi tor with the clearing-house ; the porter then returns home with his receipts, carrying the information of the result of the exchange of his principals, who know by a quarter-past 10 o'clock rem. their position for the day, either as debtor or creditor bank. The settling clerk then prepares a ticket for the clearing-house, which states the amount he brought, and his balance either as a debtor or a creditor. From these tickets, and those before-named as being brought by the settling clerks when they come to the clearing-house, the entries upon the clearing-house proof are made, and at half-past 10 o'clock a.m., the result announced. Among so many clerks it of course seldom happens that a proof is made at the first announcement, some errors being almost sure to be made. For the detection of these errors the small check tickets are used. You will notice that the proof is based upon the settling clerk's statements, and that it is assume-I that the accounts stated on them are correct. You will also perceive that two amounts upon the state mene of each settling clerk must be finis(' upon ti.a statement of every other bank belongin to the aseocia tinn, so that in order to assure their agreement it is re quired of each settling clerk that he shall make out a set of tickets from his statement, stating the amount which by it he has sent against every other bank. After deli vering those tickets he proceeds to check those which he has received, and by them reconciles the entry which he has made ; and if the proof is not thus made, the differ ence must be in footing, which is found by di rect i ng t h e clerks to exchange statements an I to examine each other's footings. This, of course, detects the errors. "A system of fines is connected with the system, 45 minutes being allowed for a proof, all errors found after that time being fined and reported to their banks. This insures care upon their part, and we usually make the proof within the time allowed. Connected with the clearing-house is a bank selected for a deposit bank, the Bank of America acting for the association in that ca pacity. In this bank any bank deposits such an amount of coin as it may see fit, t a king from them a certificate of deposit i n amoun ts of 500 , $ $l,OOO, ss,ooo,and $lO,OOO, certifying that they have received and hold such amounts as a special deposit payable to the order of any of the associated banks, and that they hold such amounts in holds in this way $6,500,000. These certificates are trust as a special deposit. The bank of America now k the settlement of balances. At one o'clock all which are debtor come to the clearing-house tu hs ee db banns nri and pay in these certificates, and in bills and change for sums less than 5500 clear the balance against them. At t ri ll-past one the debtor banks having paid their balances ~nd taken a receipt for them, the creditor banks, by their porters, receive the balances due them, giving a receipt therefor, and at two o'clock the settlement is made. This is a brief description of the business of each day. The direct results of the above are as follows— viz., the bringing of 48 balances into one, and the set tlement of such balances ; the saving of a vast number , of entries and postings, and of much time and labour for cashiers, tellers, and porters ; the perfect independ ence of all banks of each other, and the facilities af , lorded by the accounts of the clearing-house for esti mating the standing and management of all the other banks belonging to the association ; the transportation of specie in the payment of balances, and many ether benefits of the same character. The indirect benefits are fully equal to the direct, but as they will suggest themselves to you I will riot speak of them. It is suffi r cient to say that the system is perfectly satisfactory to the banks of this city, and that it tends to promotesound banking, and that its success here has been perfect, and is as satisfactory to the banks as to the public." The planet S a t urn i s a f i ne o bj e ct at present in the evening. At first it is in the east, moving towards the south, and is the largest star in that part of t he heavens. About midnight it is di rec tly south, and through a good telescope it is singularly beautiful. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO Sin GEORGE GRET.—We are sorry to learn that the Right Hon. Sir George Grey has met with an accident whilst hunting. The right ,hon. baronet left town on Thursday evening for Coleshill park, Berkshire, on a visit to the Earl of Radnor, with the intention of enjoying a few days' hunting in that neighbourhood. The Home Secretary, on Friday, at tended the meeting of the Old Berkshire (Mr. Morrell's) Hounds, at Buscott-park, and in the midst of the eh4se the right hon. baronet's horse fell, and threw Sir Geor ge with great force on his right arm. We regret to say that on being lifted from the ground, it was found that the right hos. baronet had sustained a serious i n j ur y by breaking the bone of his right arm just above the wrist. The right hon. baronet was instantly conveyed to the Earl of Radnor's seat, when medical a id wa s soon ob. tained, and the broken bone set with very trifling delay. It affords us much pleasure to add that up to Saturday the right hon. baronet was going on very well, and it is fully believed that no danger is likely to ensue, all symptoms being extremely favourable. Sir George Grey remains at Coleshill-park for the present, and, if no `worse, will be in town on Thursday ne xt to a ssist in the deliberations at the Cabinet Council to be held that day FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts.. Sheejs 861 Calves..•• •• •• •• .• •• •• •• Plgs •• • • • • " A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Jan. 1, 1855, and in the Metropolitan Market this day, Monday, Dec. 31, 1855. Per Sibs, to sink the offals. Jan. 1, 1855.'Dec.31,1835. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. 3 4 to 3 63 6to 3 S 3 8 4 43 10 4 2 4 6 4 8:i 4 4 8 4 10 5 0i 10 5 0 3 8 3 103 4 3 6 4 0 4 43 8 4 2 4 6 4 10'4 4 4 6 5 0 5 24 8 5 0 0 0 0 010 0 0 0 410 5 6, 410 5 6 5 8 6 0:5 8 6 0 3 0 4 O J :3 10 4 4 4 2 4 6 4 6 5 0 4,202 I 2,992 Coarse and inferior beasts Second quality ditto Primo largo oxen ... Prime Scots, die ... Coarse and inferior sheep ... Second quality ditto Prime coarse woollcd ditto Prime Southdown ditto Largo coarse calves Primo small ditto Large hogs Nest small porkers Beasts._ ... ... ... ... .._ _. Sheep ... ... ... ... ... 2:1,600 Calves... ... ... ... ... ... 113 18,000 57 Pigs ..„ 290 I 360 Surniss o SALE, Jan. 2, 1851.—Beasts, 4,032 ; shoe, , 22,430; calves, 1(;0; pigs, 310. January 3, 1853.—Beasts, 4,621 ; sheep, 21,69) ; calves, 181 ; pigs, 205. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL. Although the supplies of both town and country killed meat on sale hero are but moderate the trade generally is inactive, as follows : Per• Blbs by tbe carcase. s. d. s. d. e. d. A. d. Beef, interior 3 2 3 4 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 Do., middling 3 6 3 S Do., middling ..... 3 8 4 0 Do. prime )arme 3 10 4 0 ) Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Do , do. 2 4 4 Veal 3 10 5 0 Pork, large 3 10 4 4 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. We have a moderate demand for prime hops at full quotations. In other kinds very little is doing on former terms. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 5s to Cl Os per cwt ; Weald of Kent, 31 Os to 4/ 15s ; Sussex, 21 16s to 41 10s. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of potatoes have rather increased of late but a poi tion of them have come to hand in very middling condition. Most kinds move off slowly, as follows :—York Regents, 1003 to llOs ; Kent and Essex, do., 90s to 100 s ; Scotch do., SOs to 90s; do. cups, SOs to 90 ; middlings, 664 to 655; blues, 80s to 90s ; Lincolus, 803 to 90s por ton. WOOL. The transactions in English - wool since our last report have been very moderate, yet holders firm, and the quota tions are supported. In foreign and colonial samples so little is doing that prices aro nominal. The imports have been 41 bales from Marseilles, 35 from Ostend, 37 from Paris, 821 from Algoa Bay, 15 from Albany, 626 from Bombay, and 120 from Geelong. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down tegs, is ld to is 3d ; half-bred hoggets, is ld to is 2d ; do. wailers, is Od to is ld ; lient, fleeces, is ld to is lid; combing skin, 10d to Is ld ; Down owes, is ld to is ; Leicester fleeces, lld to is ()Id; flannel wool, is Od to is 2d ; blanket wool, 9d tols Od per lb. SEE' DS. There is very littlo business prices we have no change to n, quotations. Turntp,weite,per bush. 22s to 2551 I doing in seeds generally. In totico. Cakes are held at full - Swede .. • • ...... —3 Mustard, 8r0wn••...• 128 208 `•Thite, now •••• .. 88 lls Tares,Wlnter, new.. 6s 6d 78 6d Carraway (new) • • • • .. 42s 41s Coriander • • • • • • • • 263 3's liempseed, per quarter 544 605 Linseed, Eng• Sowing —s s Crushing .• • • • • 788 F 45 Baltic . • • • .. • • .. —s —s Odessa • • • Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English ...141 10s 15 Os Foreign,por ton 13/ lOs I Ms Rape Cakes, pr ton 71 lOs 8 Os Rapeseed, Now, pr qr.. 10s 948 Canary, per quarter •• 633 688 Rye grass ••••••• • • • • • 248 30s elover,RedEng. (cwt.) 68s 803, White •• • • • • 735 90s 1 Foreign Red.. • • 628 723 1 White• •.• 70s 858 1 Trefoil, now.. •••• .. • • 408 4631 TALLOW. Although very little business is doing in our market, prices are steadily supported. The trade generally are short of stock. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling as 6Ss Gd per cwt. Rough fat, 3s 7d per Sibs. 1851. 1852. 1853. 1854. I 1855. Stock this day 61,925 47,135 42.256 35,781 I 19,895 3669dt0 45sOL 59% o 6 dd —s 0 1 i to 6486,( to . d iv to 68s 6 o d e Pricepelorfy Y l . as C t 1. g oa to 45s 2,417 1,416 2,057 832 639 Ditto from June 1.... 65,242 62,226 63,682 48,011 76,885 Arrivals last week.. 132 229 10 3,908 856 Ditto from Junel.... 90,693 68,733 82,623 :47,792 49,066 price of Town 39s fid 47s 3d 61s Od Gss 6cl 67s 9d THE Loss of THE FAITH STEAMER.—An inquiry is THE LOSS Or THE F._ STEAMER.—An inquiry is about to be instituted into the loss of the Faith screw steam-ship, which foundered in the Channel off the Isle of Wight during the gale of last Sunday morning. She had been purchased by the Turkish Government of the African Steam Navigation Company, and was on her way to Constantinople with stores. THE CASE OF DR. VAUGLlAN.—Appl;cation was on Saturday made to Mr. Baron Platt, at his private resi denee, to rescind the order he had previously made for removing the proceedings against Dr. Vaughan by the churchwardens of St. Matthew, Brixton, from the Cen tral Criminal Court into the Court of Queen's Bench. The affidavits on each side were submitted to the judge, but he was not attended by counsel. Mr. Baron Platt said he had carefully considered the fresh affidavits which had been made in this case, and he had come to the conclusion that his former decision was wrong. 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