The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

MONEY MARKETI AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed very firmly, and prices of American under SJ. were id. per lb., and from sd. to Gd., id. per lb. dearer than last week. Surats, Brazil, and Egyptian were 4d. per lb. higher. The sales were 10,000 bales, comprising 1,090 export and 1,500 on speculation, including 500 Pernarn and Maranham, 50. to 70. ; 100 Bahia, sd. ; 500 Egyptian, 5.0. to 91. d. ; 1,500 Surat, and 150 Sea Islands, 9d. to 10d.. per lb. The Railway Share Market was buoyant, at a slight advance. This has been rather a quieter week in the colo nial produce markets as regards the amount of business done ; but the excitement among the dealers in sugar has continued. A further ad vance of is. to 2s. has occurred, but holders have brought very little forward in anticipation of a further enhancement. Coffee has realised steady prices, but the inquiry has been limited. Not much business has been transacted in rice, and the tea market ruled rather dull. Rum has been in request at 2d. per gallon advance. Saltpetre was rather flatter, and spices have not attracted much attention. Hemp and flax have been firm, and tallow is GM. 6d. per cwt. for P.Y.C. on the spot. The public sales of wool are proceeding briskly, but without any noticeable alteration in the prices. Accounts from Constantinople, this week, men tion that th© high prices of the necessaries of life, which continue to increase, is being taken into serious consideration by the inhabitants of the city, especially foreign residents. The causes of the in creased priced, of course, are mainly consequent on the Russian war, but another cause of equal im portance is the high charges paid for the transport of food, fuel, and merchandise, the produce of Turkey, in consequence of the insufficiency of the present means of road communication throughout the ter ritory, and the advent of railway transit is looked forward to with interest by the people. Before the declaration of war in 1853, wheat was 15 to 20 piastres per kile, now it has risen to 70. A mea sure of barley, which formerly cost 5 piasters, fetches now 35. The price of rice is more than doubled, and other articles of consumption ruled very high. The continental Money Markets remain gene rally calm, with a very limited amount of business doing, excepting at Paris yesterday, where an im provement had taken place, and money was easier than during the last ten days. On the Paris Bourse, Rentes of the French 3 per Cents. rose 10 centimes, and maintained the advance with firm ness at the close. In the Share Market matters were also a little better, at the same time they remained without any important reaction. In the French grain and flour markets quotations were firm, with an upward tendency. The demand for fine flour in Paris was limited, and brought as much as 108 francs fur the best quality. Spanish and inferior sorts were sold at 105 to 106. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report the market for American Securities as quiet. During the week only a small amount of business has been done at the subjoined quotations : United States 6 per Cent. 1867-1868...106 STATE SECURITIES. Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bond) ... 91 93 Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ... 93 100 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 82 83 South Carolina 5 per Cent. Bonds (Baring,'o) 1858-1868... 95 97 Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ...1888... 84 85 RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 por Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible 1875... 71 73 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bonds 1860... 72 74 Michigan Central Bp. Cent., Convert ... 91 93 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort 1867... 98 100 gage New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage 1883... 82 84 N. York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 74 76 Pennsylvania Centre l 6 p. Cent., let Mort 1880... 87 89 The settlement of the account being effected, stock is found to be scarce, and as there is an in quiry on the part of the public for investment, the quotations tend upwards. The Bank of England return to be published this evening also is expected to be favourable. Consols, after being 88i have risen to 88i and 89 for money, while for the account they are 89k, an improve ment of to per cent. New 3 per Cents. are 88i and the Reduced 87i to 881. The Un funded Debt is 7s. to 3s. discount. A larger business is doing in Foreign Securities. Turkish 6 per Cents. advanced to 79/ and 80, and the New Scrip is 2i to 2i discount. Russian 41 per Cents, are 86, and Sardinian also 86, which, in the latter instance, is an advance of per cent. Granada Active Bonds have risen to 20, and the Deferred to 7i. Mexican Stock 19k, and Peru vian Active 65. Austrian 5 per Cents. are 821. Dutch 21 per Cents. are 63k, and Brazilian Small 100, The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i to 7 ; Mexican, 195 to ; Peruvian, 74 to '76 ; ditto Three Per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 20 to ; ditto Three per Cents., 3 8 to 5 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 44 ; ditto Pas live, 6 to 6i. Au improved feeling is apparent in the Railway Market,. and the advance in the Funds has pro duced a corresponding movement in prices. The North-Western are in most favour, and have risen fully 10s. to 155., while all other lines have likewise been higher. The Foreign still remain quiet, and the Canada firm. Mining Shares are quiet but firm. Joint Stock Banks are at former values, and Canada Land Shares are at 131. General Screw Steam and Peninsular and Oriental Steam are both 1/. 10s. higher. , EITISEI FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PIICES (Prom th,t Oficial List.) Business dons Bank Stook ... ... .- 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B5 A 71 Z fq 8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 88 88Z ;3 9 81 if New 3 p er C en t . A nnu i t i es India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 2 d 6 d Consols ;or Account .. 88j 91 8i Exchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO. Rmall Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent.... 98i i 1 Ditto 1859, PIP ... 984 $ / 4 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent......... Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. ... — Ditto Small lOO Ditto Now, 1852, 41 per Cent 934 2 Grenada Bonds, 1} per Cent. Grenada Bonds, Deferred 7h Mexican 3 per Cent. .. l9i Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent — Ditto for the account 75 Russian Bonds, 44 per Cent B6 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Now Deferred, 3 per Cont. Ditto for the account 2Ol 20 Ditto Passive Spani•li Committee Cert. of Coup. n-. 4 fun 4l i i Tarkibh Bonds, 6 per cent BO 791 Ditto for the Account 79 i i i Ditto Now Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account.... 2l i 4 Dividends on the above rosvablec in London. Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent. 10 Gu. £. 67i Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull 6.34 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 884 9 Ditto for lee ount MAILS. et ALTERATION IN TIME OP DESPATCH o r A —lnform a ti on h as b een received from the F ARMY liP e office that, durin g the ensuing winter, it wi ll be neces sary t o d espa t c h t h e F renc h M a il Packets, app oi nted to sail from Marseilles every Monday, before the arriv a l of the mail leaving London on the evening of the pre . v Saturday. Until further notice, therefore, the ord inary iou mails contai n i ng l etters f or t h e B r iti s h Forces or th e Transport Service, in Greece, Turkey and the Black Sea, or for the British Military Hospitals, will be despatched from London on the evenings of Monday and Friday, and supplementary mails on the mornings of Tuesday and Saturday. WELLS ELEOT/ON.— Captain Hedworth Hylton Jo liffe, the Conservative candidate for the vacant seat for this city, has issued a second address to the electors, in which he says :—" My canvass has even been more suc cessful than I had been led to expect. The promises of support which I have received are not only gratifying from their number, but also from the hearty earnestness with which they have been accorded. They leave no d - oubt - tt - LA the isstve of the corvine .contest roLv.t. 1.-t, Y. favour." The writ has not arrived, but the nomina tion is expected to take place in the course of the ensuing Week 20 20 10 10 5 5 20 10 4 725. SHARE MARKE TS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. UATLif ATI, k atbg. Nottng. Boot. and Basta Junct tiel Cast titour :'alit Birk e.xud. Laninil.. 6 C'n.esidre Janet )o. Ch&i. & Pak., £5O and Cons Do., £20... •• &Tykaoriginal £25 (ie,sd. tit £45•.: Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cann. and Cardigan Chester & Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pas, Cornwall Do. A Do. B Wel - Junction )uoliii&Belfastjunc Dun. P. & Aber. Jnc Do. Nrw East Auglian Eastern Counties East. onion, A Sti Ds., B. Stovo Do., New A East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh&Glasgo - A Edinb. and Peebles,. Edin. Prth & Dundee Forth & Clyde Jun Furness. Do. Extension.. Glasgow At B. W e gte, ' Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern • Do., A. Stock Do., B. 5t0ck....., Gt. Stb. &West.(lre Great Western Do. "tour Val. Rai' Gua. Stk. . Irish South-Easton Lancaster & IDo., Thirds.. Do. New Thirds LAT: cash. audYorksh • Da., Wet. Riding Liv.Crefoy.&Southpt London & Blackwl ILond.Bright&S.Cst iLcuel. and N. Wostr. 7.lftlis ........... • D0,,10?.. London and S. Wertz Do., ,Rsii Do., xe.o Ludt z drrF& Coleraine Ludndrri.&.Ennisk. Manch.f.fh cf. alt Limb Do. Shares, No. 3 {) , s., Man. k Un Metropolitan Midland Do. Birinng. &Derk mild. G. West. (Ire, Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aborg. & Newry & Enuiskillo Newry Warreupoini. and Rostrovor. Norfolk Nortl n. Counties 11n. North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferral Do., A B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Leeds Do. York North London N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamr stead, and City Jn,. North Staffordshire.. North Western 5. SE S. Westin. June Nuneaton, Hinckley d Leicester Ox, Wore.. tai Wolv Ports-Liouth 8, o .fish Central,.... Scottish Midland Shropshire Union south Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. k Riv. Do Staines, Wok. &Wok tockton & Darlin StoAton & Hutlepl Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. P.& R. Ulvorstone & Lanes Vale of Neath Waterfl & Kat:lll2T Waterford' Limerid West Cornwall West Zn 4 of London and Crystal Palace Do. A . . Do. B . ..... West London. Wimble an &Croydou itiloslnv Meal this day. 23 - 2 3i - 4 •N " •' 74 - 7i 16 - 15 13 - 14? 9 - 8 85 - 87 58 - 58, 11 - 12 5 - 6 8; - 811 23 - 30 18 - 20 68 - 69 - 51 - 164 - 172 74 - 76 6 - Gj 87 - 88 72 - 74 119 - !' 1 100 - 102 51 A- 51:0 70 - 15 6 - 7 6 - 7 r 75i 764 6i 94 -, 96 24 95} id 1 86 87 9 8 8 7 21 - 22 4 id 6I 6 - ii 36 38 •N ' •• ..4 ..... O. ..• 1 13 il - i 6 25A ... 26,3 68 - 69 8k 73(1 5 — 4 6 d 116 12 446 456 92 97 8 . - ii 41 - 54 23 - 25 101 73 75 42 44 11. 12 57 —58 i 31 32 5 3d 2d par ii - 35 18; Di 3 - 4 18 20 4 - 6 FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Do. sp. c. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes Belgian Eastn. Juno Boziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda,aV antral India,Scrii• Do. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of Franco Do. Now East Indian, g. 5 p. c _ . Do. Extension Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of Caned a.A ie Do. St. Lawrence Et Atlantic do. ..... Do. Cert. of Debon con. into Stk. till '6: l Do.,Comp. 6 p. c., do. ,Gt.Ceutralof France Gt. Indian Peninsula gear. 5 per cent. Do: Now 5 per cent Po, Extensions...... Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares . Do. New Do. Bds., payable's7, l with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56... Do. do., '76, p. '60... Df,. do., '73, without. option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 por cent. Lake (joust. & Basle Lierre and Turnhout Lyons and Geneva Lyons 41 Mediterran. i!iadras Do. Now IMaria Antonia Do. do. Now i Namur & Liege ( orith interoat) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.20/. She Do. 207. 3 p. a Bde (fniy.B. dg Anis. Shs. NorwogianTrunkPre y Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Ronan...—. ParisCaeu dti Cherbrg. Do Rome and Frascati Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Mouse Do. 5i p. cont. 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C.LH.A., otherwise Goliali O'Grady - Gabagan, Major in the Honourable East India Company's Service, Commanding Irregular Hoi!se Ahmed nnggar, whom we can fancy, by the way, hob nobbing in the shades with Parolles, and Pistol, and Bobadil, and Bombastes, and Mimchausen— eating fire by the chaldron and chewing leeks by the waggon-load. In the freshened memory of all which wonders about Gahagan, and Stubbs, and Cox, and Molony, and Titmarsh— after many a hearty laugh of unaffected apprecia tion—we close this book, thankful to the kindly and sportive hand from which its contents origi nally emanated: as we do so wafting a benison of gratitude across the broad bosom of the Atlantic in the track of the author of " Vanity Fair" and " The Newcomes," our wise and witty, clear sighted, gentle - hearted William Makepiece Thackeray. Miscellanies : Prose and Verse.. By W. M. Thackeray. Vol. I. Bradbury and Evans. It was a happy thought, the celebration of the close of Mr. Thackeray's Masterpiece by the publi cation in a collective form of his hitherto scattered Miscellanies. Scarcely has our great novelist brought to a conclusion his exquisite story of "The Newcomes"—one of those remarkable novels of a century in which we have as the Quarterly aptly remarks in the language of armlet, " the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure " when there issues from the press the first of the four volumes wherein are to be comprised the mis cellaneous productions contributed during past years by the author of " Vanity Fair" to the pages of our periodical literature. Writings these prove to be, for the most part, penned by Mr. Thackeray before he had given evidence of those extraordinary powers which have placed him very recently in the foremost rank among our contemporary Great Men of Letters. Until the appearance of " Vanity Fair" not any one among us could have had the smallest notion of the genius lying dormant (com paratively speaking) in the heart and brain of that gay, genial, humorous, delightful writer who had been scribbling away so industriously for so long a time in so many different publications, so often so vary pleasantly, but so seldom until then rising at all above the level of the talents of his clever and motley collaborateurs. No sooner, however, had we got tolerably well advanced in the "story with out a hero " than we all of us felt at once that after all this was no common man; that hitherto we had failed to recognise the true height and depth of his capacities ; that at any rate, to say the least of it, ho himself must have only just then for the first time hit upon the right vein in his intellect, that vein which Las since proved to be so rich in the gold of wit and the silver of satire, and in all those other pre cious products of the ore of genius, racy of the soil from which they come, and since then run into so many moulds of grace, or beauty, or grotesqueness, and stamped with the timbre of a genuine and authoritative originality. Mr. Thackeray, from the date of his writing this initial chapter of his first great work, became a Creator in the realms of Fiction—poet in the true sense of the word—a recognised chief in the phalanx of our national literature. He came before us in a new form—no longer as a raree-showman fingering the wires of the puppets dancing behind the tiny footlights and under the arch of the miniature proscenium, or causing the parti-coloured shadows of the baker, and the devil, and the little old woman, and good master Punchinello, to glide across the white sheets (of paper) according to the movement of the slides in his magic -lantern—rather now it seemed as some potent magician of the ink-horn, surrounded by the spirits he had summoned into being at the beck of a simple wand enough, the waving of a wizard goosequill. Another Prospero, attended by his dainty Ariel, and his loathsome Caliban, and his.abominable Sycorax. " Vanity Fair"—the first of the wierd circles traced out by his wand of power (the pen) showed us within its circumference a crowd of new and extraordinary existences. Among them Becky Sharp, the clever and dotes table—Rawdon Crawley, with the tender, human heart in the body of a callous blackleg—William Dobbin, honest dunce with the gentle nature and the splay feet—the Most Honourable the Marquis of Steyne, the living satyr of the book, clad in the trappings of a patrician, and animated by the soul of a blackguard—these, with their throng of strange companions, carrying us to Russell-square, and Park-lane, and Crawley-court, and the field of Waterloo, to London, and Brussels, and Chelten • ham. " Pendennis" we remember, of course, as the next of these same weird circles—the one which brought us acquainted with the coxcomb Arthur, and the tuft-hunting Major, and the gentle mo ther, and the sweet cousin, and drunk old Costi gan, and vulgar little Foker, the brewer's son, and the beautiful Fotheringay, and the pretty detes table Blanche Amory (a sort of Becky Sharp be dizened in gauze and crinoline), and queer rusty Bows, the love-sick fiddler, and that glorious ace of trumps George Warrington. Lastly, have we not watched the shifting groups in that amplest and most deftly defined circle amongst them all, the one bringing under our observation and within reach of our familiar knowledge the very respect able family of " The Newccmes," together with the mob of their many friends and acquaintances ? An enumeration of their mere names will be suffi cient, so fresh are they all just now in the popular recollection—Ethel, Clive, Barnes, Hobson, Sir Brian, Lady Anne, and, beyond all, Colonel Thomas Ne weome (noblest of the noble creations of the genius of Mr. Thackeray), together with whom are remem bered J . J., and F. 8., and Miss Honeyman, and the Rev. Charles, and Sherrick, and Madame De Florae, and Jack Belsize, and the Marquis of Farintesh, and the Prince de Moncontour, and with these and many others, including Rosa, mid Clara, and Lady Kew, and drs. Mackenzie, the dear old familiar faces of Laura, and George Warrington, and Arthur Pendennis. Between whiles, too, since the days of " Vanity Fair," have we not had, un der the guidance of Mr. Thackeray, in "Esmond," a glimpse, and that, moreover, a very wonderful glimpse, at the style of society as it must have ap peared in the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, a hundred and fifty years gone by ? Be sides having a peep at the phantom features of our incomparable humourists of the last cen tury—Fielding, and Addison, and Steele, and Swift, and divers other contemporary votaries of Momus, and tributaries of prose and verse to Pas quin on his pedestal ? Now that the more memo rable of the literary enterprises of Mr. Thackeray have been crowned by his magnum opus, of " The Neweomes," it. is well that we should be afforded the luxury of marking the growth of our author's genius, of estimating the altitude which his intel lectual poWers have attained since the time when we laughed over his pa g es idly and lightly as over those of some merely ephemeral feuilletonist. That luxury is now thoroughly enjoyable through the medium of this first delightful volume of his " Miscellanies." Three others are to follow in due season ; so that by the time this varied and amusing collection of hitherto scattered writings shall have been completed, we shall have revived our acquaintance with all those motley noms de plume which have been in turns the masks and dominoes of William Thackeray. Yellowplush Fitzboodle —Fat Contributor Bashi-bazouk Snob—Jeames—Policeman X—Molony of Kil ballymolony—and above all our comical old friend with the moon-face and the barnacles, hight Michael Angelo Titmarsh. Gathered together from all sorts of well-known and out-of-the-way periodicals, these four volumes of " Miscellanies : Prose and Terse : by W. M. Thackeray," will supply us in a great measure, cream skimmed from the via lactea of our popular periodicals stretching across the firmament of con temporary literature —from the Times, and Punch, and Fraser, and many other daily, weekly, and monthly publications of note, not forgetting, be sides these, let us hope, ono or two brilliant papers contributed by the same industrious hand to the more ponderous pages of the Quarterly. To volume one of this attractive collection of "Miscellanies" we are indebted for a complete assemblage of the lyrical productions of our eminent satirist, including, among them, besides, seventeen " Ballads," and two ' •Love Songs made Ea,sy,"andfour"GermanDitties," and one "Imitation of Horace," and four metri cal scraps from the portfolio of Titmarsh, under the title of " An old Friend with a new Face," the five famous " poems" of the Malony of Kilbaliy molony, and the nine wonderful " Ballads of Policeman X," followed by the half-jocose, half pathetic copy of verses, entitled " The End of the Play," appended to one of the liveliest of Mr. Thackeray's Christmas books. Shall we confess it ? —however—these verses appear to us, for the most part, very unworthy indeed of Mr. Thackeray. Tapidist of all vapid, vulgar doggrel, for example, to our thinking, are the preposterous ballads of Policeman X ! Whether we turn to " The Wofle New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown," or to " The Three (dreary) Christmas Waits," or to the " Ballad of Eliza Davis," or to " The Lament able Ballad of the Foundling of Shoreditch." Their only fun seems to us to consist in the absur dities of certain elliptic freaks of orthography. Bettor than which—vastly—is the wonderful spell ing of the Oirish brogue in the lays of the great Malony of Kilballymolony. Oirish-English as astonishingly delightful in its way as the won drous French-English of Monsieur Paul de Florae, Prince de Moncontour ! After these forty-three ;metrical effusions come the forty six chapters of the wise and witty " Book of Snobs," followed in their turn by the nine " Tre mendous Adventures of Major Gahagan ""—the entire volume being completed by the horrid record of " The Fatal Boots," and the laughable memoranda jotted down in " Cox's Diary." The last-mentioned jeu d' esprit recounting the ludi crous solecisms perpetrated by Coxe Tuggeridge Coxe, of Portland-place and Tuggeridgeville, Surrey, Esquire, during the brief interval of triumph when he was something grander than a hair-dresser of Oxford-market: the detest able memorial of the " Fatal Boots," presenting to the reader various passages in the history of Bob Stubbs of the North Bungay Fencibles, otherwise Lord Cornwallis, the most abominable little wretch ever blessed with a pair of knock-knees, ditto of eyes atrociously squinting, together with hair of an emnistakeable earrotty red, and a heart more a dirty little bit of leather than a wholesome human organ, capable of being the receptacle of any o the hoblez emotions or affections, As to Villette. By Currey Bell. A New Edition. - Smith, Elder, and Co. • Charlotte Bronte's three celebrated stories are now published in a popular form, each. complete in a single volume—" Jane Eyre "—" Shirley"—and " Villette." The last in its new shape has but just made its welcome appearance. Through this edi tion many fresh admirers of Currer Bell may be tempted to enlarge their imaginary acquaintance in the realms of fairyland by taking into their hearts, or rather embalming in their memories, fresh existences like thrifty, prying, unscrupulous Madame Beck—good, handsome, yellow-h a i re d lion-headed Dr. John—quiet, plain, observant Lucy Suowe—giddy, pretty, empty-headed Ge nevra Fansh awe—beautiful, quaint, elf-like Pauliva (Lb Baiaompierre—beyond all, the lean, bright-eyed, passionate Monsieur Paul Emanuel, with his black hair glistening like a raven's wing, and his cigar burning redly in the twilight, and his shabby coat flapping in the wind as he moves about the garden with the great watering -pot, wa t e ring hi s bloved flowers, followed everywhere by the little pit-pat of the tiny dog that loves him almost as well as the watchful Lucy, hi i away there in the dim background ! Life-like forms they all are, moving before us about that green Belgian landscape, or among the staid gray houses of queer old tranquil Villette. We.turn the pages of the tale now with somewhat different emotionefrom those experienced when the first edition of the work was published and perused. Since then the writer of "Jane Eyre," and " Shirley," and " Villette,” has herself passed away from the scene like a tale that is told, and praise and blame must alike in, her regard, sound now only in the dull cold ear of death. Three works alone she wrote, if we except her share of the " Poems" issued from the press some few years back by those three strange sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, as they called themselves—who have all in this brief interval appeared and disappeared so mysteriously. Peace to their manes ! One, at least, among their number has left us in that clever, morbid, enthralling novel of " Jane Eyre," a work that will live, and mostly for the sake of which the readers of Currer Bell still bear " Shirley' and " Villette" in somewhat vivid remembrance. The Double Marriage. By Mrs. La Touche. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a story that displays skill and ingenuity ; the spirit that pervades it is melancholy, although not of a morbid tendency. The point of the narra tive is that of a double marriage contracted by Sir Geoffrey Willoughby. The perpetrator of this wickedness never appears on the scene, he is in India, and little is said of him. Una de resei, the daughter of Lady Camolin, was the ill-fated second wife ; she is the heroine, and a most interesting one, from her grace, her gentleness, and goodness. She had no one to instruct her youth in the best knowledge, or fortify her mind for life's trials. She had to sustain unaided the severest sufferings as a wife and a mother, with only her own s e n s e of right to uphold her, and - her own f a ith t o b e h er hguidinHeero mother daughter's was marrying lyand pro wl, proud she ad insisted n her as she thought, and Una, who was easily guided, and innocent and ignorant of the wicked world, con sented. After four years spent in India she re turned to England with her son, for the benefit of her health. Then her real troubles began. In India she had suffered greatly, but when again at home she felt all the keenness of the pain of parting that hung over her. Too late she found what she had forfeited, a life of peace, for what 1 1 It needed not imagination to pourtray, or a nervous fancy to picture ; too well she knew what was before her. Una is here called a martyr, and she seemed to lay claim to the name, for she suffered in silence with patience and prayer. The tale of Dora Fleming, the first wife, is ingeniously interwoven with the course of events ; and the climax of the confu sion, when the news of Sir Geoffrey's death is sent by electric telegraph on board the vessel bound for India, in which the two unfortunate victims were about to sail, is a most exciting passage, and is told with feeling and force. After so many scenes of agony and hours of weary anxiety and suspense it is but a natural termination to see Una consigned to an early grave. It has been said that sorrow does not kill, but that is the sorrow spread over a lifetime, with glimpses of light and intervals of rest. The sorrow that was laid on Una was crush ing and overwhelming ; it was not in human nature to revive after a youth so overcast, and summer was not to succeed to a blighted spring. There were painful family scenes to add to the other miseries, and through all Una was herself calm and composed. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, is written of the spirit whose guiding influence informed and inspired our heroine, and Una left behind her to linger in the memory of her friends a vision of their past agency and a promise of their future fulfil ment. Of those who surrounded her no such words could be spoken. Her brother Alan was an instance of reckless self-indulgence and ungoverned passion • his career was st orm y , and his end awful. No interest can be felt for him, and it is only when his path intersects that of Florence that regret is felt for him. It seems cruel to see so fair a course overshadowed by so dark a destiny. Camolin, the elder brother, was very different, but he is not so often met with ; he is reserved, and delicate health rendered him still more a contrast to his eager and impetuous brother. Lady Camolin is a decided sketch, and her grief at the end of her brilliant son in so disgraceful a man ner, and with so awful a deed, is truly described. Arthur Winton is an extraordinary character, but he is not interesting, from his fitful variations and inconsistent conduct. Mary Stanfield is a relief, in her simplicity and steadfastness, to the more showy but unsubstantial personages around her. The conclusion is calm after all the storms, and with the exception of Winton and Florence being united, which destroys the illusion of his devoted attach ment, it is satisfactory. A striking instance of the difference of adverse dispositions is shown in Una and Dora—one all impatience and violence, the ether serene and dignified. All the sympathy is enlisted on the side of Una, while Dora, with all her wrongs, scarcely gains pity. The painful is inseparably connected with a subject like the one before us, but it is divested of its horrors by the pre sence of one so exalted and superior as the heroine. She is eminently calculated to adorn any position, and to render interesting any narrative of facts and combination of fiction. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—.(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 9.—Wind this day at noon. S.E. light breeze and fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived — H.m.s Sanspariol and four gun - boat s, from the Baltic ; Protector : London, for Demerara. COWES, Nov. I.—Wind S.Tir.—Arrived—Theodor, from Callao. Yettmorrn, Nov. B. The Earl Grey, hence to New. castle, got on the Knoll , but is expected off. ( PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. ) S OUT HAMPTON, Friday Mornin g . Arrived—Adroit, from R ouen ; Sylph (a.), L on d on . Sailed—Experiment, for Portsmouth ; Catharine Jane, Stutdorland ; Sylph (s.), Dublin. L I VERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind, S. Arrived—New York racket, from Quebec ; Joseph, Ostend. Th e H ampton , Humphreys, from Shields, for N ow York, was fallen in with at 11 a.m. on the 27th of Oct , in lat. 48 N., long. 13 W., in a sinking state, and cre w taken off by the 'Windermere, arrived here from Bh:ip pon. The Hampton foundered at 4 p.m. QUIPINSTOWN, Nov. 7. Lady Fitzherbert, m;d Herafordshire sad Culloden, for Malta, with rruariiirlietrdiuect:ll:allenge, from Callao ; troops. DUBLIN, Nov. 8. Wind W.S.W. Arrived—Gambia, from Havre. WindABINB ITISH (B S Y . ; 13 ti t i ß d g e alir3uAt"l2:RlflB \e'v:efitsol'nter".C.s)oaa.sriti. of Arrived, Nov. B.—Gloarn, from the Africa ; Architect, Canton ; Providence, Cossack, and Progress, Guernsey ' ; Fortuna, Skive. Arrived, 9th —Kensington, from New York ; Orego n, Quebec ; Spheroid, St. Vincent ; Jallo.war, Akyab. Sailed—London, for Gothenburg. DEAL, Friday, 9.55 Wind, S.W. by S. ; light. A letter from Constantinople, of the 29th, in the Con: etiAtt:rincl, says :—" A singular rcpor', is current here. It is mid that the Sultan has manifested an intention to visit Paris and London in the spring, and that he has Already made hits wits l,4 l kn.9wn to the Grand Vizir." NOVEM BER 9, 13'4, 6) 4; 1 4.) 4 ;.' 1 .°PA ~54Z A 15 . ''tNg' '0 . 4, Air.. I ry *At?: 4 Z±tt : A s - ..7.:1Z, - . - - SUN OFFICE', Seven, o'clock. "`;, LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 3. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Viscountess Chewton to bo one of the Bedchamber Women in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Mrs. Boothby, resigaed. FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 8. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Augustus Henry Lemonius as Consul at Liverpool; Mr. Alfred Fox as Vice-Consul at Falmouth ; Mr. Arnstein Van der Bergh as Vice-Consul at Portsmouth ; Mr. John Jones as Vice- Consul at Gloucester ; Mr. Henry Anthony Brightmann as Vice-Consul at North Shields ; and Mr. Robert Henderson as Vise-Consul at Glasgow, for his Majesty the Emperor of Austria. WHITEHALL, Nov. 6. The Queen has boon pleased to appoint Jag. Campbell, Esq., one of hor Majesty's Counsel, to be the Third Charity Commissioner for England and Wales, in the room of the Rev. Richard Jones, deceased. NEW WRITS. The Gazette of this evening contains two notices that the Speaker will issue his warrant, at the end of fourteen days, for the election of a member for the county of Meath, in the room of the late Frederick Lucas, Esq., and for the borough of Armagh, in the room of the late Ross Stephen son Moore, Esq. PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL-CHAMBER, SOMERSET-HOUSE, Nov. G. The names of those who have been this day nominated by the Council of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to serve the office of Shei iff of the county of Cornwall : Sir William Berkeley Call, of Whiteford, Bart. Thomas Graham Graham, of Peuquite, Esq. Sir Henry Onslow, of Hengar, Bart. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov. 9. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Acting Consul-General in Egypt, enclosing copy of a communication addressed to him by the Egyptian Government, stating that the duties on merchandise imported into Egypt from Darfur and the White River, and intended for exportation, have been re duced to three per cost., payable at the place of landing. It is necessary, however, that on passing Assonan, such merchandise should receive the Custom-house mark, in order to prove its being intended for exportation. Goods imported into Egypt and destined for the com merce of the countries in question, are placed on the same footing as if imported for consumption in Egypt. Goods imported into Egypt from provinces under the Egyptian Government, and situated beyond Assonan, will be exempt from duty at the Custom-house of Assonan, and regarded as the produce and manufactures of Egypt. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Nov 9. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General in Egypt, reputing that the Mahnieudieh Canal will be closed fur cleansing from the Ist February, 18;6. WAR OFFICE, Nov. 9. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Gurds—Lieutenant J. W. J. Gifford, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, without purchase. 7th Dragoon Guards—Capt. C. W. Thompson to be Major, by purchase, vice Walker, promoted, by purchase, to an Unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy ; Lieutenant J. W. Wetherall to be Captain, by purchase, vice Thompson; Cornet J. W. M. Walker to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wetherall. Ist Dragoons—Cornet H. F. Johnson, from the Bth Light Dragoons, to bo Cornet, without purchase, vice Robertson, promoted. Bth Light Dragoons—Henry Frank Johnson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Reilly, promoted. 12th Light Dragoons—Cornet F. Jones, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Gifford, appointed to the 3d Dra goon Guards. Royal Artillery—Captain Edward Price to be Lieute nant-Colonel, vice Dupuis, removed as a General Officer; Second Captain Neville Saltren Keats Bayley to be Cap tain, vice Price; Lieutenant Trevor Charles Molony to be Second Captain, vice Bayly ; Captain James William Domville to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Williams, re moved as a General Officer; Brevet-Major George Bar stow to be Captain, vice Doraville; Lieutenant Andrew Noble to be Second Captain, vice Barstow ; Brevet-Colonel Henry Poole to be Colonel, vice Otway, retired on full. pay; Brevet-Major Edwin Wodehouse, C. 8., to be Lieute nant-Colonel, vice Poole ; Second Captain George Leslie to be Captain, vice Wodehouse ; Lieutenant Henry Low ' ther Balfour to be Second Captain, vice Leslie. Royal Engineers—Brevet-Colonel Henry Powell Wulff to be Colonel, vice James Gordon, retired on full pay ; Captain Roger Stewart Beatson to bo Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Wulff; Second Captain Valentine Thomas Mairis to be Captain, vice Beatson ; Lieutenant Francis Horatio De Vere to be Second Captain, vice Mairis. 2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Grimston to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fleming, who retires. 3d Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign F. Morley, vice P o p e , appointed Adjutant of the Invalid Depot, at Chatham ; Ensigns R. B. Leathern, E. Gregg, H. Parnell, and S. H. Heywood. 7th Foot—Ensign H. E. W. Rumbold to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Coney, promoted. 14th Foot—Erratum in Gazette of 26th October, 1855 for Lieutenant Henry Augustus Burton, from the Nor thumberland Militia, to be Ensign, withoat purchase, vice Mansergh, read Lieutenant Henry Augustus Burton, from the Royal North Lincoln Militia, to be Ensign, &c. 16th Foot—Ensign S. G. C. Hogge to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Parker, deceased ; George Street, Gent., to bo Ensign, without purchase, vice Hogge. 17th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase— Lieutenant A. R. Fowler, from the Cape Mounted Rifle men Ensign F. IT. Hartwell. ISth Foot—Lieutenant John Canavan, from, the 52d Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Ward, who resigns. 11 th Foot—Tho proper designation of Captain Farring ton is Donald, and not Donald Macleod, as previously stated. 22d Foot—Stephen Winthorp, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dean, promoted. 29th Foot—Ensigu Edward Gorton to be Lieu. tenant, by purchase, vice Fitzgerald, who retires. Erratum in the Gazette of Nov. 2, 1855—For Sergeant- Major John James Bailey to be Quartermaster, vice Walsh, deceased, read Ensign John James Bailey to be Quartermaster, &e. 31st Foot—Lieutenant G. F. Herbert to ho Captain, without purchase, vice Attree, killed in action ; Ensign H. P. Deane to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Herbert ; Ensign Richard Maybury, from the Kerry Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Deane. 33d Foot—Ensign H. E. G. Crosse to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carr, promoted. The commission of En. sign and Adjutant George Toseland, to be antedated to the 15th August. 44th Foot—Lieutenant F. J. Hercy to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Begbie, who retires. 46th Foot—Gerald Andrew Agnew, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Morland, promoted ; Henry Ainslie Whitmore, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Agnew, appointed to the 90th Foot. 48th Foot—Edmund Hall, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. - 50th Foot—Henry Evelyn Woodville Preston, Gent., to be En s i gn , b y purc h ase, vice Burnand, promoted in the Coldstream Guards. 52d Foot—Ensign William Atkinson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Canavan, promoted in the 18th Foot. 56th Foot—Second Lieutenant H. E. Watson, from the Ceylon Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without pur chase. 60th Foot—Arthur Tafnell, Gent., to be Ensign, with out purchase. Gil FeOlLLieutenant J. H. H. Gaminell, from the 22d Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Barclay, who re tires. 76th Foot—Mortimer James Macdonald, Gent., to 13s Ensign, by purchase, vice Acton, promoted. 77th Foot—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieut. E. M. Lo ng , v i ce Parker, killed in action ; Lieut. G. B. Morgan, vice Knight, died of his wounds ; Lieut. George Carden, vice Brevet-Major Hackett, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant, 6th October, 1854. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign W. J. Wanklyn, vice Long ; Ensign H. M. Beugough, vice Morgan ; Ensign R. A. Rising, vice Carden; Ensign B. H. Browne, vice Ennis, who resigns. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Lieut. C. P. Sto ne , f rom t h e Cavan Militia, vice Wanklyn ; En sign W. N. Whi tty, from the Queen's County Militia, vice Bengough ; John Wordsworth, Gent., vice Browne; H. R. Bate, Gent., vice Rising. 88th Foot—Ensign H. M. Gilby to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Browne, promoted. 89th Foot—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—En sign J. Dunn, vice Longfield, dec3ased; Ensign W. N. Manners, vice Dunn, whose promotion, without purchase, on 23d October, 1855, has been cancelled. To be Ensign, without purchase—Lieutenant Francis Warburton, from the 2d Warwick Militia, vice Manners ; the promotion of Captain Leslie Skynner to a Majority, without purchase, to be antedated to 27th March, 1855, but not to carry back pay. bOth Foot—Ensign G. A. Agnew, from the 46th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase. 91st Foot—Captain J. T. Ling, from half-pay unat tached, to bo Captain, vice Middlemore, who exchanges. 95th Foot—Ensign C. E. Fisher, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Garrard, promoted. 97th Foot.--To be Lieutenants without purchase—En sign john Wright Shaw, vice M`Gregor, killed in action ; Ensign D. J. D. Safford, vice Goodenough, died of his wounds. To be Ensigns without purchase—Ensign Robert Thompson, from the Monaghan Militia, vice Shaw ; Ste phen William Sewell, Gent., vice Safford. 98th Foot—Ensign W. Blackett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Farrington, promoted in the 19th Foot ; Edward Frank Gregory, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Blackett. Rifle Brigade—Arthur Ruck Keene, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Ensign D. Mackenzie to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Fowler, appointed to the 17th Foot ; Quartermaster William Simkin to be En sign, without purchase; Serjeant-Major Thomas Argent to be Quartermaster, vice Simkin, appointed Ensign. Royal Canadian Rifles—The surname of the Ensign ap pointed on 23d October, 1855, is Onion, and not Onian, as previously stated. St. Helena Regiment—Ensign Henry Taylor to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Cornwell, deceased. TURKISH CONTINGENT.—Sir Edward Graham, Bart., to have the local rank, in Turkey, of Assistant-Commissary of the First Class. BRITISH GERMAN LEGION. Ist Light Infantry--Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Adolph von Hacko to be Lieut.-Colonel Commandant, vice Murray, resigned. 3,1 Light Infantry—Major Wm. Gordon Cameron to be Lieut.-Colonel Commandant. 4th Light Infantry—John Hambly Humfroy,foarnmattarlty; of the British Auxiliary Legion, to be Major Commandant; W to be a 8 8 8 i tt e t r l s e r , m D a o j u o g r l . as Scott, formerly of the 51 st Li g ht Infantry, Mackenna,lst Ligh formerly tDragooonfs the--T oAbusetrCiaonrnieintsp—To Henry Bayne, Wm. Henry Clipperton. HOSPITAL STAFF. —Acting Asai stant his a-S ppoint men Ht. W . . urgeon Bellew has been permitted to resig UNATTACHED. Major 0. P. B. Walker, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase. And DroYet-Lieut..Colouel Drxudo 5 5 . Director-General of the Land Transport Corps, to be pro moted to the substantive rank of Major. Captain and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel William West Tur ner, 7th Foot, to be promoted to the substantive rank of Major, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 6th Oct., 1851. To be Captains without purchase, in consideration of having completed 20 years' full-pay service, 10 of which as Staff Officers of Pensioners Lieut. John Annesley Hickson, half-pay, 31st Foot. Lieut. John Lawson, half-pay, unattached. Lieut. Henry Langhorne Thompson to be transferred from the 6Sth Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, to be a Captain in the Royal Army, in consideration of bis sex - - vicm under Major-General Williams, in the defence of Kars. STAFF.—George Follenio to be Captain and Brigade Major of British German Legion. BREVET. Colonel Charles Otway, - (Tn retired full-pay list of the Royal Artillery, to be Major-General, the rank being ho norary may. Major Walter Colquhoun Grant, late of the Mounted Staff Corps, to have the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Turkey while attached to the Staff of the Turkish Con tint;ent. Captain Edward J. Ellerman, of the 98th Regiment , being attached to the British German Legion, to have the rank of Major, while so employed. The names of the undermentioned Officers were omitted in t Brevet• of the 2d inst., v:z. :—To be Lieutenant- Colomels in the Army— Captain and Brevet-Major S. B. Gordon, Royal Artiliery ; Captain and Brevet-Major Hon ourable E. T. Gage, Royal Artillery. To be Major in the Army—Captain Edward Gilling Maynard, 88th Foot. MENORANDA.—Brevet-Colonel J. M. Savage, on half pay of the Royal Artillery, has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission, he being about to become a settler in Canada. The appointment of Acting Assistant-Surgeon G. F. Hire to the Osmanli Irregular Cavalry, to bear date 14th Oct., in lieu of 26th Oct., as previously stated. The surname of the Captain appointed to the Local Rank in Turkey, on 16th Aug., is Stevenson, and not Stephenson, as previously stated. The Christian names of Captain Spalding, appointed to Local Rank in Turkey, on 16th Aug., are Warner Reeve. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 6. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant Ambrose Wolrige to be First Lieutenant and Quartermaster. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. County of Kinross—Thomas Bruce, Esq., David Syme, Esq., to be Deputy•Lieutmants. County of Lanark—Alexander Dundas Ross. Cochrane Wishart Bairn°, Esq., Allan Elliot Lockhart, Esq., Robt. Montoith, Esq., William Leighton, Esq., to be Deputy- Lieutona.nts. let Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Adjutant Arthur Aug. Longniore to servo with the rank of Captain. 2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Adjutant Francis Wm. Johnstone to serve with the rank of Captain; Dunlop hay, Gent., to be Ensign ; John Johnstone, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Stuart, resigned. The Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry— Henry Lnshington Phillips, Gent., to be Cornet, - two Nicholls, promoted. Kent Militia Regiment of Artillery—Richard John Som mers, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Ellison, pro moted. _ e Militia Artillery—Charles Elphinstone Rennie, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant. sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid dlesex Militia.—Ensign Charles Seaton to be Lieutenant, vice Knox, appointed to the 90th Regiment. Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment of Renfrew !Militia — Duncan Macfarlane, Assistant-Surgeon, to be Ensign ; W. F. L. Gompertz to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Macfarlane, resigned. 3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— William Mathias, Esq., late Major in the 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Bentham, resigned ; Ensign Frederick Beasley to be Lieu tenant, vice Reade, appointed to the Line. BANKRUPTS. Alfred Twelvetrees, blacking and ink manufacturer, Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, to surrender Nov. 20 and Dec. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basingliall-street ; Ashley, Old Jewry. William Barkar, brewer, Hampstead-road, N0v.19 and Dec. 18, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court; Chidley, Gresham-street ; Mayhey, Argyle-place, Regent-street. Thomas Walker, innkeeper, Keighley, Yorkshire, Nov. 23, and Dec. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Terry and Watson, Brad ford ;Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Matthew Craig Norbury, joiner and builder, Chorlton upon-Medlock, Lancashire, Nov. 22, and Dec. 13, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester • Slater, Manchester. Charles Henry Paul Raw lings, timber merchant and ironmonger, Mile-end, Portsea, Nov. 23 and Dec. 22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assig nee, Aldermanbury ; Pownall, Son, and Cross, Staple inn • Edgcombe, Portsea, Henry Wylde, music seller, New Cavendish-street, Nov. 21 and Dec. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Chappell, Golden-square. George Parsons, brassfounder, Birmingham, Nov. 22 and Dec. 20, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Corks, Birmingham ; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham. Anne Staveley, bookseller, Nottingham, Nov. 27 and Dec. 18, at half-past ten, at Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham; Deverill, Nottingham. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 3d day of Nov., 1855. IBBDE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ........ 24,741,320 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities ...... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 10,741,320 Silver bu11i0n........ - £24,741,320 £24,711,320 AIA./tSEIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the Bth day of Nov., 18 °AIITMENT. Proprietors' capi tat .. 14,553,000 Rest ..... 3,178,169 Public deposit C. (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say _ _ Government securities pncludg.Doad Weight 10,201,276 Other securities ...... 18,355,54 S Notes • • .• .......... 4,644,40 Gold and silver coin.. 558,314 lug's Banks, and DiviilendlAccounts) 3,3 . 9,981 Other deposits ...... 11,691,200 Seven I)ay and other Bills ........ 964,250 £33,759,603 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Datod the Bth day of Nov., 1855. £33,751,603 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Nov. 6, 1855, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Groat Britain : From the British Possessions in America 37s. Sid. ,COURSE OF EXCHANOE.—Tnis DAT. Amsterdam ............ 11 17% Ditto, three months .. 11 15% Rotterdam ............ 11 19.% Antwerp .............. 25 6231 Brussels .... • ......... 25 62% Elamburgh ............ 13 931 Pari5........ ........ 25 43 Ditto, three months .. 25 773 Marseilles ............. 25 b 0 Bourdeaux Gibraltar •• •• •• •• Leghorn .. . 30 15 Genoa ••...... 25 t•2;4 Aiilan Venice •• ...... Naples . . 45 Palenno 132 1 .' 2 Messina Lisbon ......... •• . 52 4, Oporto ................ 53 !3 Rio Janeiro ...... •• Frankfort-on Maine.... 120% Berlin 11 32 Trie5te........••••.... 11 34 Petersburg ............ 33% Buenos Ayres ..... — New York,6o days' sight Philadelphia PRICES or BITLIICN, PER OZ. Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid Cadiz .......... ..... .. Barcelona •• •• .• •..4 • • Seville.. •• .. ........ Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 1134 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Silver in bars ...... 0 0 0 INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. (From the Gazette of this Evening.) Convention between her Majesty and the ,King of Prussia, additional to the Convention concluded at Berlin, May 13, 1846, for the Establishment of In ternational Copyright, Signed at London, in the English and German Languages, June 14, 1855. [Ratifications exchanged at London, August 13, 1855.] Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part, and his Ma jesty the King of Prussia, as well in his own name as in that of his Majesty the King of Saxony, his Royal High ness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, his Royal High ness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, his Royal High ness the Duke of Brunswick, his Royal Highness the Duke of Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen, his Royal Highness the Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, his Serene Highness the Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, his Serene High ness the Prince of Schwarsburg-Sondershausen, his Serene Highness the Prince of Reuss (elder branch), and his Serene Highness the Prince of Reuss (younger branch,) on the other part, being desirous of extending the scope of the Convention which was concluded betweeen their said is toMajesties at Berlin on th e 13th o f M ay , 1846, for the re % procal[protecti on o f copyr i g ht, h ave reso l v ed to conclude an an additional C onven ti on f or th a t purpose, a named as their respe c tive Pl e nipotentiaries ; thatn _ sa y: d o m of onourableßaroll Hyde reor g o Cef Her Majesty the Queen of the United H King , Great Britain and Ireland, the Right William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, dom, a Member of llindon, a P eer o f the United Kin g able Privy Council, her Britannic Majesty's Order of the Garter, Knight Knight of the Most Noble Honourable Order of the Most Honour Grand Cross of the Most Majesty's Principal Secretary of Bath, her Britannic:and the Right lionoui. State for Foreign BAaffroaniretanley of Alderley, a Peer able Edward John, a Member of her Britannic of the United Kingdom,TT onrale Privy Council, and Presi- Majesty's Most CommitteeHonourable o f Privy Council for Affairs of dent of the Plantations . Trade and Foreign And his Majesty the King of ' Prussia, his Privy Coun cillorlain Albert Cou n t of B to Knighternbtorff and Chamberlain, ~ Envoy Extraordinary anaM iif.ter Plenipotentiary her Britannic Ma j est y , Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle, and of the Orde rs f or Civil Merit of t h e Bava r i a n Crown, of St. Ja nuar i us of the Two S j e ili e s, and of St. Stanislaus of R uss i a, Knight Com mander of the Order of Christ of Portugal ; Who, after having communicated to each other their re spective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : ARTICLE I. It is agreed that all books, prints, and drawings pub lished within the dominions of any other State that has concluded or may conclude, or which has acceded or may accede to, a Copyright Convention with Great Britain, than, if exported from Prussia, Saxony, Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , Br unswick, Anhalt-Dessau-Cothen, Anhalt-Bernburg , Sehwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershau o sen, c r Re uss , be consider e d, f or th e p ur poses of this_ Conven tion, to have b een expor t e d f rom th e country f their publication, ARTICLE . The protection granted by thell C o nvention which was concluded between the High Vontrauthag Parties on ..., •--, 13th. of May, 1815, to orijnal works, is extended to trmslations ; it Ling, however, eloa.rly understocd that, tho intention of the present Article is simply to pr tect a translator in respect Of his own translation, and that it is not intended to confer upon the first trans!ator of any work the exclusive light of translating thab work, except in the case and to the extent pro. vided for in the following Article. , ARTICLE The author of any work published in either of tho two countries, who may choose to reserve the right of translating it, shall, until the expiration of five years from the date of the first publication of the translation thereof authorized by him, be, in the following cases, entitled to protection from the publication in the other country of any translation of such work not so autho rized by him : _ _ Sec. - 1. If the original work shall have been registered and deposited in the one county within three months after its first publication in the other. Sec. 2. If the author has notified on the title-page of his work his intention to reserve the right of transla ting it. Sec. 3. Provided always, that at least a part of the authorized translation shall have appeared within a year after the registration and deposit of the original, and that the whole shall have been published within three years after the date of such deposit. Seo. 4. And provided that the publication of the translation shall take placo within one of the two coun tries, and that it shall be registered and deposited in cmformity with the stipulations of Article 11. of the Convention of the 13th of May, 1846. With regard to works which are published in parts, it will be sufficient if the declaration of the author that he reserves the right of trauslation shall appear in the first part. But with reference to the period of five years, limited by this Article for the exercise of the ex clusive right of translation, each part shall be treated as a separate work, and each part shall be registered and deposited in the one country within three months after its first publication in the other. ARTICLE IV. The stipulations of the preceding articles shall also be applicable to the representation of dramatic works, and to the performance of musical compositions, in so far as the laws of each of the two countries are or shall be applicable in this respect to dramatic and musical works first publicly represented or performed therein. In order, lhowever, to entitle the author to legal protection in regard to the translation of a dramatic work, such translation must appear within three months after the registration and deposit of the original. It is understood that the protection stipulated by the present article is not intended to prohibit fair imitations, or adaptations of dramatic works to the stage in Eng land and Prussia respectively, but is only meant to pre vent piratical translations. The question whether a work is an imitation or a pi. racy, shall in all cases be decided by the courts of jus tice of the respective countries, according to the laws in force in each. ARTICLE V. Notwithstanding the stipulations of Article I of the Convention of the 13th of May, 1846, and of Article II of the present additional Convention, Articles ex tracted froth newspapers or periodicals published in either of the two countries, may be republished or translated in the newspapers or periodicals of the other country, provided the source from whence such articles are taken be acknowledged. Nevertheless, this permission shall not be construed to authorise the republication or translation in one of the two countries, of articles from newspapers or pe, riodinals published in the other country, the authors of which shall have notified in a conspicuous manner in the journal ..or periodical in which such articles have ap. peered, that they forbid the republication thereof. This last stipulation shall not, however, apply to articles of political discussion. ARTICLE VI. The present additional Convention shall come into operation as soon as possible after the exchange of the ratifications thereof. Due notice shall be given be forehand in each country by the Government of that country, of the day which may be fixed upon for its so coming into operation s and its stipulations shall apply only to works published after that day. ARTICLE VII. The present additional Convention shall have the same duration as the Convention of the 13th of May, 1846. It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London as soon as may be within two months from the date of signature. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done at London, the fourteenth day June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive. (L.S.) CLARkNDON. (L.S.) STANLEY OF ALDERLEY. (L.S.) BERNSTORFF. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day. The following appointments have been made at th• Admiralty this day : Master—John Way, to the Horatio ; Second• Maste— r D. Switzer, to the Sampson ; Midshpman—D. M. Anderson, to the Polyphemus. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat has been re ceived up to onr market this week, coastwise and by land carriage, and the show of samples to-day was trifling. All kinds wore in fair request, and the finest parcels were the turn in favour of sellers. The imports of foreign wheat have been under 3,000 quarters. The amount of business doing was very limited, yet Monday's currency was freely supported. Floating cargoes were in rogue it, at extreme quotations. The barley trade was very firm, and the finest malting qualities wore held on higher terms. Malt sold steadily, at full prices. There was a slow sale for oats, and the quotations were with difficulty supported. Beans, peas, and flour realised full prices. ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. I Malt. Oats. Fionr. Criglish .. 1,450 1,770 1 830 530 960 Irish ...• I 8,850 Foreign } , 2,930 7 --115,090 139153k5. —brig. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended Nov. 8, 1855, made up from the Returns of Os Inspectors in the different. Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WTIEAT. I BARLEY. ( OATS. I BY BEANO. PEAS. 80s 3d 393 01 ,' 28s ad 51s 3d 503 s!s 21 THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. RYE. BEANS. PEA!. 77s 81 1 383 01 28s 41 , 503 21 50s Ocl 46, 3I QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 1 9 0,367 ; Barley, 72,3641 ; Oats, 14,397 ; Rye, 916 ; Beans, 4,903 ; Peas, 2,718 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Although the supply of beasts on sale in to-day's market was very moderate and in low condition, the beef trade ruled heavy, at barely Monday's prices. We were very scantily supplied with sheep, yet all breeds moved off slowly, and the late improvement in the quotations was with difficulty supported. Calves were in short supply, and heavy* request, at, a decline of 2d per Ens. Pigs realised previous rates. Mileh Cows were very dull, e,t from 141. to 191. each, in• eluding their small calf. Per Sibs to sink the offals. o. d. s. d.' Inferior Beasts.... 3 6t o 3 8 Second quality.... 3 10 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 S Prime Scots, &c. 410 5 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 4, Prime crse.-wlled.4 6 4 8, e. d. H. d. Southdown 410 5 2 'Large crse. calves 3 8 4 4 Prima small do 4 6 5 2 Large hogs Small porkers 4 6 5 C Suckling calves 24 0 30 0 Quarter old pigs 23 0 28 0 FOREIGN RUFFLE. sio Sheep 200 •• • Calves..• • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• TOTAL OUPPLT. [feasts .................. 1,100 Sheep .. ..... ...... • ..• .. 3,6,50 Calves .. •• .. ... .. 290 Figs .. ..... ......... .... 300 ilgs.•• •• • • •• • • BOROUGH HOP. There is a very slow sale for all kinds of hops, yet scarcely any change has taken place in the quotations. The duty has advanced to 380,0001. The imports this week are 98 bales from Rotterdam, and CA; from Hambro'. Mid and East Rents, 75s to 120 s ; 'Weald of Rent, 703 - l - oo s . Sussex, 70e to 94s per ord. COLONIAL. m arket has been steady, but not active, and TEA. — market opened with great excitement, and of business had been large a mount done. Considerable prices remained the the Ramo as last week. ° ciimes of cargoes afloat, and lying in Frond ports, are islatod to have been made. The advance in most kinds has keen f rom 6s to 8s per cwt. W es t I ndia, owing to the s u joa ll quantity on show, few sales took place. White Havannah sold at 645, duty paid. Manilla Muscovado 31s 3d per cwt. Mauritius sold readily at 45 to 5s advance, l ow grey to good middling yellow 60s 6cl to 635, low to find brown 58s Gd to 59s Gd, low black to low foxy brown 45s 6d to 503 Ed, and low to good grainy grey y e ll ow GOs to 665. Porto Rico and yellow 59s Gd to 655. Cossepo re , good and fine rey yellow 65s to 683, good yellow 62s to 635. The Refined Market is 3s to 4s dearer, brown lump. 67a to 703, and good grocery 703 to 73s per cwt. Havannah on the spot sold at 63s to 65s per cwt. Manilla Muscovado to arrive realised 465, and clayed 53s per cwt. Java to arrive from Holland sold at 60s for No. 13 on the consolidated rate. Madras to arrive sold yesterday at 475. COFFER.—There was a steady demand, and prices have remained without material alteration. Plantation Ceylon flue fin e or d t o m id 59 s to 6 65. There h as been nior.°, en. to quiry for native C e yl on , w hi c h f oun d b u y ers at 49 s ba 503. RICE.—The market remained steady, and E h b ro ught the same as last wek, except in Bengal ! M 16e 6d 15s 9d to 16s 91 for d good mid to good bo s ic!,. A cargo of for good mid white, and pinky Madras 1 0 5 .cr 0 Arracan has been sold, but prices kept ° r gallon has taken Rum.—A further advance of 2 t d i.i ne ess has been done. place, alai a large amount of b at 3s to 3s ld, fine Proof leewards pale and brow rico ruled Jamaica has been sold at has been dull of sale. Singapore bad from 4 s Demerara 4d 3 u s p l w d ar p d i s -e . ofs, s str ari ong icia SPICES.—Pepper — T good request at 5d to Sid per lb. to 61d, Pimento was in White sold is 2d per s parcels have been sold at 37s to 37s SALTPETRE. under 6 per cent refraction, and at a later 11.1;lower, Penang 7ad, qualities brought 433 per cwt. AL 8113.3 k Hominras sold at 4B lid to 5s 7d; Cocall" -- 35dto 3s ;blacks, 3s 1 d silver, s p 6 e d ri f o o d r q tb u o al s i s ti m o_s e 0 to 4s per Mexica n lb ; Toren Ife gi v er, 3. 8d to 3 1 9d ; and blacks, 3s 10d to 4s id per lb. TALLOW. —A considerable rise in prices has taken place, and as the demand was good, a further advance is not un likely. P.Y.C. 67s 6d on the spot ; 68s Gd for spring deli very. A largo business was done in common rosin at 66s 6d per cwt. GREEN FRUIT.—The arrivals are limited, owing to the contrary winds. Some parcels Messina lemons via Liver pool, sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, brought!' Blacic high figure, owing to the want of the article. better Spanish nuts may be quoted is per brl ants business doing in Brazil, being the cheapest artial° 1G viNriDg at Rant, 100 100 7) 2 WO ilOO all all LOG LOG 31 2i 100 47A 3 00 all all 20 20 20 100 25 25 20i 100 20 20 20 20 31i 10 20 16 20 zo 40 100, 40 ! 50 25 ! 20 MT 50 all all 100 100 100 20 20 86 i 63i 11 45 58 31e i 5 i i 4 31 101 i 32/ a 47 I=