The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-23 00:00:00

IVIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE i2ITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily, and prices of American were id. per lb. lower than on last Friday ; all other sorts were without change. The sales were 5,000 bales, one half of which were American (all taken by the trade) ; 15U Pernam and Maranham, sid. to 6id. ; 150 Egyptian, 60. to 7d. ; and 2,000 Surats, 3id. to 4id. per lb. The Railway Share Market opened dull at a general decline, but on the announcement of the breaking up of the Bank parlour without any advance in the rates of discount there was a rally, and prices closed at about Wednesday's rates. The Colonial Produce. Market this week has again been exceedingly quiet, and the values have tended downwards. Sugar has been very little inquired for, and at the public sale a small quan tity only has been offered. The West India de scriptions have receded 2s. to 3s. per cwt., and the same fall may be noticed in East India kinds. Foreign has generally maintained full rates. For coffee there has been a steady demand, but without any alterations in the quotations. Holders of rice have asked rather higher prices, and busi ness has been checked to some extent in conse quence. Rum has ruled firm. The public sale of tea proceeded without animation, and the green sold at rather lower rates without reserve. Salt petre has been dull, and also cotton. Spices have generally commanded former currencies, and mace has risen ld. per lb. For hemp and flax there has been a fair demand, and tallow has been supported, P.Y.C. being 71s. per cwt. on the spot. The Continental Bourses, with the exception of Paris, continue in a dull and uncertain state, and are not likely to improve in Germany should the new Russian loan, said to have been effected, be privately negotiated on their Stock Markets. At Vienna the 5 per Cents. rule a shade lower than previously, and the New Loan about f cheaper. Exchange on London is the same, and on Paris has risen to 1311. The Prussian 4 per Cents. on the Berlin Bourse are quoted at 97, and the 4i per Cents. of 1854 at 108. At Frankfort the 4i Stock rules at 56k, and exchange on London is 1181. Spanish 3 per Cents. at Madrid mark 34.30, and New Stock 20.30. On the Paris Bourse a further advance of about 15 centimes took place yesterday in French 3 per Cent. Rentes. The market opened With great boyancy, and they at one time rose above 66f., closing with firmness at 5 centimes less. . From Vienna we learn that the New General Bank of Credit will be opened to subscribers from the 10th to the 15th December, and also that the amount of Stock laid apart for the public shall be 15 millions of florins, instead of 10, as at first an nounced. Former news are confirmed in that city, that the Austrian Government have thought seri ously of organising a staff to establish an Exhibi tion at Vienna in 1859. The Minister of Com merce is stated to have already named a commission for this purpose, and that plans of the intended Palace of Industry are in progress of execution. Accounts from Sardinia give the financial state ment of the extraordinary expenditure for the army in the East, and the probable expenses of the War establishment during 1856. The amount for the ensuing year is estimated at 43 million francs, of which England is expected to pay 25 millions, showing a deficiency in the war budget of 18 mil lions. The .Minister of Finance, Count Cavour, proposes to add that sum to the accumulated deficit of preceding years, making in all 30 mil lions, and meet it by a loan. Before leaving with the King of Sardinia, on his visit to France and England, that minister produced an elaborate statement concerning the contemplated reforms in the Customs department, boards of trade, and public imposts. From Belgian we learn that the mode of employ ing the proposed grant of 1,500,000 francs, for the benefit of the poor and working classes in distress, Will be employing the able-bodied in constructing public works. There is a good inquiry for discount accommo dation owing to the payment of the instalment on the Turkish Loan to-day, but it had, no doubt, in several cases been liquidated in anticipation by those who wished to obtain possession of the stock When it ruled at a fair premium. There is au upward tendency in the market for English Stocks, owing to an impression that peace will soon be restored, and much importance is attached to the probability of Sweden joining the Western Powers. Consols for money are 884 and for account 884 to 89, but there is very little speculation going on. The New 3 per Cents. are 88 k, and the Reduced 87ft • Bank Stock is 209. Exchequer Bills 12s. to Bs. discount, and India Bonds ss. discount. Turkish bonds are buoyant, the 6 per Cents. having advanced to 804 and 81, and the New Scrip to 31 and 3 discount. Russian 5 per Cents. are 96. Peruvian 44 per Cents. are heavy, being 741. Mexican Stock is 19k to 194, being ± per cent. higher, and Equador remains firm at 5. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are marked 100, and the Small Bonds 99. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 64 to 7 ; Mexican, 19± 4 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 94 to 96 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88; Spanish New Deferred, 19f to A; ditto Three per Cents., 38.1 to 1 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 4 4 ; ditto Pas sive, 5- 11 to 6-8. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during the week there has been no revival of business in American Securities ; that the few transactions which have taken place have been at lower prices ; and that the quotations are for the most part nominal. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. United States 6 per Cent. Bonds.. Redeemable. Per Cent. .... 1868...1061 1071 STATE SECURITIES. California. 7 per Cent. Bonds 1870... 78 Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 90 Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ... 97 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds ' 877 ... 80 Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds ...1886... 85 Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ...1888... 82 RAILROAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible 1875— 68 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Bonds 1860... 71 New York Central 6 per Cent., not Convertible 1833... 80 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort gage 1883... 81 N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund 1875... 76 Pennsylvania Central 6 p. Cent., Ist Mort 1880... 86 Although the transactions in Railway Shares were not large, the quotations show an advance as compared with yesterday's closing rates. The prin cipal business in the North-Western which are about per cent. better. In the Foreign Market the Northern of France have risen 3, but the other lines are inactive. - Mining Shares are nominally without alteration. London and Westminster Bank Shares are rather derrer. Barrusa FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE, 'CLOCK. (Prom the Official List. Minim', tion , Bank Stock 3 t er Cent. Reduced Annuities.,,...,. •... vi i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities BB New 3 per Cont. Annuities long AUntlitie9, Expire sth Jan., 1860 BBi 8a 8 Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 18 59 3 3-16 / Ditto 30 Years, Expire s th Jan. ,186 0 3l In Ua Bonds, £lOOO go isois /or Account BBi 9 gi E (chequer Bills, 2id. £IOOO Small .... ............ .. ltchequer Bonds 1 858 , 3 i per Cent..., 981 Ditt o 1859, P P ... 98i PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'OLCY K, Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cont. .. lOO • Ditto Small 99 Einador Bonds Ii sxican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account l9/ i Pe -uvian Bonds, 44 per Cent- .......... .. - Ditto for the account' 741 a tssian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent, £St 96 lip ,nish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto Nt w Deferred, 3 per Cent. Tm kinh Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account BOl fi 1 Ditto New scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the account 3i 3 Dlvldends on the above parable in London. latch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull — Ditto 4 por Cent. Certificates HALF-PAST T WO. Console Ditto for Accou n t D ec AMaRICAN ACTING.— O n the evening when the no 3 s of the fall of Sebastopol reached Richmond, Virginia, J. H. Taylor was playing Hamlet ; and in the last scow-, when he exclaimed — Oh ! I die. Horatio ; The potent poison quite o'ercomes my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England," a spectator cried out, " Die away, old boss ; Bebasio pol is taken I"—New York Herald. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILNAYN Aberdeen Ambg. Nottug. Bost. and Eastn. Junct Belfast & Ballymena Birming. Wolverb Stour Va11ey........ Birk (Lend. Lancet.. & Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., .220 myth & Tyne original I £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter... Ca1ed0nian.........:.. Caren. and Ow digan Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Do. A Do. B Chief Junction DmilindzßelfastJunc Dun. P. & Aber.. Jnc Do. N< - v ...... East Ac :Oan Eastern Counties... East. ;•Tuion, A Bth Do., I, Stovt...., Do., New A East Kent East "Aancashire Edinburgh & Glasgou Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth & Dund-e Forth & Clyde Jr n Furness Do. Extension Glasgow &S. West • 2 Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern .... Do., A. Stock Do., B. 5t0ck........ Gt. Sth. &West.(lre Great Western Do, Stour Val. Rail Gna. Stk Irish South-EaE.terh Lancaster & Carl is e Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds Laneash. and - York e , h wet. ;tiding 17n all iLi v. Craby .N.Southpt all London & filackwai! 00 lona. Bright & S.Cst 00 'Lend. and N. Wegtri. 16 Do. Fifths ...... 9 DG.IOI. E.Sti . Jit&B, C 21 Do. Eighths . 100 London andS. Woetn. }7:: Do., £5O. . ;8 Do., 240 all Lndndrry & Colon Jae , all Ludndrry. & Enn'.3l( 00 Manch.Shef. k Linde all Do. Shares, No. A2s. Lin, Du I Metropolitan 100 Midland 'o. Bit-rung. & - Derl, idhl.4l. West. (I re. Do. Half Shares..., Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. Newry &Enniskill Newry Warrenpeiri and Rostrevor Norfolk ........ Northn.Counties Un, North British... . North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 i>o., A A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. ?arch Co. Leeds Do. York North London % , .&S.Wstrn.,ll"am. - stead, and City Jn,. North Staffordshire... North Western N . & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester.. , )r, Wore., Wolv. r'ortsraouth f o .fish Central icottish Midland Thropshire Un'on south Devon 3oath Eastern south Wales 3. Yrksh. 6t Riv. Dun DO 4taines, Wok &Wok tockton k Darli & firatlepl l'aff Vale Prof., No. r-inaes flay. P.& R. Ulverstone & Lanes Vale ‘ii Neath... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterfor I&Limeri , •k West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A .. . Do. B West L0nd0n...... .... Wirnbledu&Croydon FOR: I,dif! t t • Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. eon. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes ieig;an kaitu. i3oziers to Graissoss:,., t3embay, , Baroda, an. Do. beTnerars I Rhenish Eastern of Franc. , [ DO. New Fast Indian, g. 5 p. no. EFtenai or, .., Do. do. do., '59, do.. Gd. Tk of Canada A Do. St. Lawrence Atlanta do. . Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till '6 l Po. Comp. 6p. c., do. Gt. Central of Fran (It Indian Peninßni , guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 por cent r)o. Extensions... great Luxembour , Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Cit.WesternofCansd Shares Do. New Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56 .. Do. do., '76, p. '6O Dr,. do., '73, without option llanillton It Toronto Do. 6 por cent. hake Conet. & Basle Lierre and Turnhout Lyons and Geneva Lyons dg Idediterran Niadras Do. Nevi Niaria Antonia Do. do. New Namur dg Liegy interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D 0.201. Shs. Do. 201.3 p. Mr (fmy.B.dr Ams.Shs. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bouds • Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Ronan... PArisClaen (St Cherbrg. Do 1 Rome and‘Frascati Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations .... Sambre and Meuse_ Do. 5 p. cent. Pref Scindo Do Southern of Franoe St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), West Flanders Do 5 per c. Prof Western of France_ Do. Zealand JOIN T-STOI lATotrabssis Bank of London 11 c o l. Bk.&Ln. C. 11 rtritish N. American 5 'arid. Bank of Asia 4 Ohrtd. Btk. of India, Australia, & Chins 0 City 5 Colonial., 0 Commercial . ********* 11 Eng.Scot.&A.tmckt. Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australis.,,, 5 Ditto New ........... y. D London and New.,. D Lnd. &E. Bak g• Corp. London Joint Stock. 0 Lond. & Westminster 5 National Pro.of Eng.! 0 Do. New,• 2: 1 National of Irelaud. Il u ori N c e o w ern S p i rl u a t t h ißoa 7 nn a k lea. o . f 5 Provincial of Ireland 11 Do. New ..........••••• 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co Royal British South Australia Onion of Australia DO. Ns* .. ... Union Q f London (Olosiva Prief's yesterday. 31 - 31 sob 74 - 7i 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 80 - 85 55} -- 56 . - 11 12 5 - 6 11 - 12 8i - 8i 27 - 29 17 -- 19 67 - 68 49 - 51 9+ - 93 16i - 176 - 79 - 19 -- 103 501 7 p 75 - 4 1 d4l, 7 -21 i - ii 34 -- 38 - 45 _. 27 • 684 - 8 (1 - 44(1 - 12 45i - 97 - 8 - 54 -- 104 74 44 12 574 311 - 3(l' pal - 35 19 21 4 6 IGN. 7a 7a 4 - 2d par --- 4 .. -... ... 1 1 - 351 --- 351 9-•10p 21 11. - 10 14 - 15 60 65 go - 85 3} -- 3iP 5 iP 3 3 / 4 - Si 2i - 3 214 22 6 - 1 p, 98 - 'Co 101 JOB 106 -- 111 100 102 21 - 22 101 - 103 5 -16 i 7 9 2 - 3 4 - 4i - 5 34i - 35ji 111 -12 j ••• - . 45 - 454 6 - ... --- • • • ••• - pw ig 20 2i 2id 271 8 1 = i'l, ••• ••• ••• pm -. i - 4 .. - 4 29i - 30 18 - 19 BANKS. 90 54 - 56 1 d 15f -16 s; 1S -- 19 2 -- 1d - • •- 36 :. 38 39 - 40 52 - 54 ••• '' M. ••• '''' sr ig 41 . 71 - 73 8 9 so a $1 ;.Ice nessdo: e this day. 7,', 100 100 100 all all till all 8 all 3 2 100 all all 100 3, AY too a' 1 all 1) 40 I ‘0 1005 0 40 60 25 20 100 51 100 2J 100 21 20 *I 20 a: 20 50 100 50 1 1 100 2 100 3 20 1 50 2' 20 a 25 a 100 2 10 A. 7 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY Ilt,VA4lNtrin NOVEMBER 23 1855. LIN ES SED 7` FIXED KENTALs. ~IIi87AYi8• L:astn, Compam. CtOfilllß MCP y ester lay. Bedford and BI etchloy Buckghanish. Clydesdale at Col. Stour Vy Sud. and Hal E. bin. tr. 6 pc E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.dt Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Seiby Do. Shares. Do. f Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lon.,Til.,&S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Eaten N.& Est.s p. c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & y:e Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth.and Gooleg.s p.a. Shrews. &Her. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wiltsk,.tomrst Lonsicn N. Weq. &N.W. Caledon... E. Un. Gt.Nrtnn. E. Count. ,Caldonian. Do Gt. Went Yk. New & Bcrw Y. &N M Do Ea sten Do Peto kw Co. Norfolk Do L. & N. W & Midld. Stckton Darliugt. En. Conn. E. Count. D 0.,. Do L. &N.W. Do ...... ... Gt Northn Laneash & Yorksh. T. Brassey M. Mclean Stockt. & Darlingt Do ~~~tWi PREFEREN , Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. 0 Myth and Tyne 10 pci c. pref. (issd. xt 501 Brig. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhea4' Guar. 5i per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Bandonsip.c Dun.Prth .dr Aber. J T. 3. Anglian Cis. A Sh )o. do. Cis. B 6 p. c )o. do Cls. C 7 p. c N. astern Count'e s Ex tension, 5 p. c. No 1 (10. No. 2 f)o. New 6 p. c. St past Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 ner cent. Do. 10/. Delientr.Sll. Do. do. 4 per cent.,. ! 4 1ast Lancash. 6 p.ct- F.Sr.W. York. J. stln , FKI Prth.tiDnn.4p,c Furnees (1 as. & S.W. G. 5 p. c. Great Nortlin. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prom. .)o. p. c Do. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red dt 5 p. c. pm... Gt. N. of Scot. let Pre Gt. S. ..1: 1 N. (Ireland) Do. 4per c. Prqf. Westn. (Perks 1 Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do. eon. red. 4 # p.c. Do. eon. red. 4 p. e Do. irred. Do. Rirm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. e.P.S. Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Man. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh I Do. do. do I Do. do. do can. &York. F. EV Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lon. &Brigh (4.5 p.c. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. e. Do. do. 5 per cent Lon.&N. W., Cot. Nuneaton 5 p. ct (on.& S.W. 7 per c% Londy. & Color. Londy. & Ennis.. Sh Nian., Shot., & in New, £lO Do. £6 Aarypt.&Carl.4 p Do. 4i per cent Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Consol. Bristol ! Pirm. 6 per cent. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. Sc ,Do. Pref. 4 pea. cen Do. 5/. Prt.f. 4 p. c Ditto L. & H. Pref. St Norfolk Debenture too. Prof. 4 p. c. Stoo 'Do. 5 p.c. Ext IDo. 5i per ct. pref. Do.Wav,. Val. 5 p c ;North British N. E. Perw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c c.N0.1 Da. do. Quarters 4 Do. York & Pur North Staffordshire. Oxford, Worcester, Wolverh.Xls,ep., , Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. Scot. Cent. ,New Pre South Devon Do, fixed, 4i per con+ S. Eastern (Readin: Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent..... I Do. Fixed 4i p c sh. I S Wales Gua. 4p. c. !Do. do. 4i p. C.... S.Yorksll.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Dar. ,5 p c. Do. do. do Stock. & Hard. g. 5 p. c. till July 1, '56 I , \ l 9.terfd. & Kilk . 6 p c Agna Fria knglo Austrlia. Golo Anglo Californian Australian ~nstralian Cordillera Ave Maria 3ade,n (Gd. Duchy of) Rlmnarvon Iron and Coal 3ritish Iron. 3razilianlmp.(imer , at 25 pm.) _ _ Do. Comes & Cniab • Do, St. John Del Roy cllarendon Cons. Min, Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper ~ t'3olonial Gold Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. 7i p. cent Clopiapo. Fortuna. I leneral at.Nugg 3tVeittßog. Great Polrooth at Wheal Vor United Liberty Linares Lusitanian Ifariquita ••• Now Granada Nouveau Monde Pontgibaud Silve, Load Min. & Port Philip 4uartz RoCk Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba south Australian Do. Scrip Do. 10 per cent Pre tin Croft ... ...... United Mexican Waller West Mariposa Worthing Mining o' Australia I Yuba MISCELLA. Australian Agricult. Ane,raln. Royal Mail Berlin Water Wiorks grit. American Law Canada Canada Gov. 6 p. ct Jan. and July Crystal Palace Do. Preference Crystal Pal. of Franc. Duston Tron Ore Eastern Steam En. &Ins Cop Sm Co Electric Telegraph... Electric Teleg. of It . Gen. Iron Se Collier 'len. Steam Navigat. General Screw Stoat [rich Beetroot S-,..ga Magdalena St. Navin , vlediteran. Elec. Tel Aexican&S Americn Nat. Pat. Steam Fue Netherlands Laud.... Do. Do. Do. 8 p c P iss at 1 d N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. New B. & N. S. Land N. B Australasian Nrth etEuropeStaan Orientll Gas Do. " New Shares" Peel Rr. TA. & M inr . Peninsular& Orients Do. New Pord nd Iron C 0..... Royal Steam Scot. Austral. Inv st. Ditto Now South Austrql:Lao Submar. Tel. Scrip., itevistemo rrust L.Co.U.Can. VAU Die tutufv Land Bummess ihta day. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices o Appeal.) EX-PARTE BARCLAY, PERKINS, AND CO.-IN RE GAREN, A BANKRUPT.- JUDGMENT. The Lord Chancellor gave judgment this morning in this bankrupt petition, which was argued before them a short time since, upon appeal from the judgment of Mr. Commissioner Fane. The question in this case is one of great importance to brewers, licensed victuallers, and persons generally embarking in trade, who have to ex pend their capital in fitting up premises in order to enable them to carry on their business. In the present case Gawen, the bankrupt, had a leasehold interest in a pub lic-house called "The Crown," in Kent-street, in the Borough, and also in four houses adjoining. Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., the eminent brewers, supplied the house with beer, and Gawen having got considerably into their debt, he deposited the lease of his houses with them to secure that debt, and any further advances they might make to him. The memorandum made on the deposit of that lease was to the effect that it was intended to operate as an equitable mortgage of the houses and their appurtenances, and of the fixtures to the said pre raises belonging. Gawen made various improvements on the premises, and laid out on them a conside rable sum of money, and the question for the decision of the Court was, Ga wen having become a bankrupt, whether the improvements and additions he had made to the premises were to be considered as goods and chattels in !the order and disposition of the bankrupt under the 125th section of the Bankrupt Law Consoli dation Act. On the case coming before Mr. Commis sioner Fane, he decided th a t th e i m p rove ments and ad ditions made to the premises by the bankrupt were to be considered as goods and chattels in his order and disposition, and that therefore they passed to his assig nees. From this decision Messrs. Barclay and Perkins appealed to the Lords Justices, and their lordships thinking the question one of great importance expressed their 'wish that the matter might be argued before all the Judges of Appeal. The case was argued before the full Court, and the Lord Chancellor this morning gave the judgment ; and after going at considerable length into the facts of the case, stated the clear opinion of the whole Court to be that the fixtures and improvements were not goods and chattelf in the order and disposition of the bankrupt. The decision of Mr. Commissioner Fane must therefore be reversed. QUEEN'S BENCH. :Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Erie.) THE QUEEN V. THE MAIDSTONE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., moved for a rule calling on the Local Board of Health of Maidstone to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding them to make such sewers in the town as were necessary for the effectual draining of the district for the purposes of the Public Health Act. The board, though formed by a considerable minority of the persons empowered to elect the members, was legally constituted. They had levied rates, and had plans made with reference to the drainage of the town, but nothing had been done by them to remedy the defects complained of, and some of the members had stated they would not entertain the question, and the consequence was that the public health suffered. Lord Campbell said if the board had considered the question, the Court had not the power to review it and compel the board to make a drain on any single applica tion. It was for the board to say if certain sewers were or were not necessary. Had they refused to consider the question the Court might compel then to do that. Mr. Bramwell said he was unable to state whether the board had or had not considered the necessity of making the drains in question, but read from his in structions that several of the members of the board had stated they would not construct any drains unless com pelled to do so. Lord Campbell said the statement referred to might have been made by the parties over their ale for what the Court knew to the contrary. The Court was will ing to assist in putting such an important act as this into effect. He was afraid there were leagues formed in certain towns to prevent its application to the districts, and the Court would be happy to assist in defeating them. The rule could not be granted on the present state of the case, but the Court would allow the appli cation to be again made on other facts. Rule refused. THE GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT. The grand jury empannelled on the sitting of this Court to investigate any criminal charges that might be preferred before them came into court this morning, and were formally discharged by Mr. Justice Coleridge. The Foreman of the Grand Jury then read the follow ing presentment:—"The jury, of which we are mem bers, beg humbly to present to the Court the opinion that such juries as these, of which they have this day formed a part, are summoned to appear to this Court for purposes altogether needless, and that, in fact, the days are past since they were of real benefit to the coun• try ; and they believe that, if the Court abstained from summoning such juries, unless in cases of necessity, they would be much more satisfactory to the community liable to serve on juries ; and to such cases as would (if any) probably come before them could with greater pro priety be decided by a preliminary examination before a magistrate and tried in the ordinary course. Humbly hoping your lordships will be pleased to receive this our petition of the grand jury of which I am a member—l am, &c., " JOHN FLETCHER." Lord Campbell said the summoning of a grand jury on the sittings of this Court had regularly taken place in accordance with the laws from time immemorial, and it was a. matter in which the Court had no discretionary power. The Legislature alone could absolve them from discharging the duties. It had very often occurred that grand juries summoned had had important duties to per form, indictments for high treason having been preferred before them, and it was of importance both to th• Crown and the people that in the event of any complaints arising they might be speedily investigated and decided. Happily such capes were now of rare occurrence, and he bad much pleasure in congratulating them on the light ness of their labours. The jury then withdrew. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day.) SOUTHWARK. ROBBERY OF FOREIGN HlDES.—Three young fellows, named Marney, Morris, and Mahoney were bro u g ht be fore Mr. Combe for fi na l exam i na tion, charged with stealing four foreign cow hides from Pickle Herring Wharf, Tooley-street. William Sitwell, foreman in the employ of Messrs. Margetson and Son, White's-grounds, Bermondsey, said that on Tuesday morning week, about eleven o'clock, Marney came to him and asked him whether be would purchase any seals. Witness replied that at present they did not want any. Marney then said be had four cow hides which be wanted to sell, at the same time asking what he would give fir them. Witness having some suspicion about him told him he roust see the hides before he could say anything about the price. Marney then went away and witness immediately communicated with the police, and a constable attended and remained about the premises. About twenty minutes afterwards Marney and Mahoney came to the warehou se, each carrying two raw cow hides. He examined them and found marks on two of them, which induced him to be lieve they had been stolen from some wharf re eently. They were foreign bides, and worth thirty shillings each. The constable came in while he was examining them, and took Marny and Mahoney into custody. Morris, who was waiting outside, was also secured. William Hobbs, the foreman at pickle Herring Wharf, said that on the Monday and Tuesday they were unloading hides from a vessel just arrived from South America. The prisoners were not employed at the wharf, neither had they any business there. The hides iu question were stolen from the place on Monday even ing, as he had missed four, and they bore the marks of the shipper. Henry Hunt, 34 M, said he received information from the witness Sitwell, and went to Messrs. Margetson's warehouse, where he took all the prisoners into custody. Marny and Mahoney said Morris had picked up the hides under the archway of the railway, and had given them to them to sell. Mr. Combo said it was not likely that any one could find such valuable property under the arch of a railway. He should commit each of them to three months' hard labour under the new Criminal Justice Act. WESTMINSTER. ROBBERY THROUGH STARVATION.—AN EXTRAORDI NARY REQUEST.—A nn, Stevens, a thinly-clad, miserable looking old woman, was charged with stealing half a pound of bacon. The prisoner went to a cheesemonger's in Ebury-street last evening, and, thinking she was un observed, took the bacon and placed it under her shawl. She was, however, seen to commit the theft, and given into custody. Mr. Broughton (to the prisoner)—What have you to say I Prisoner—l did it through starvation. Mr. Broughton—Have you applied to the parish Prisoner—Yes, often ; but they will do nothing for me. Mr. Broughton—What reason do they assign ? Prisoner—They give none ; but they leave me to lie about the streets and starve. I am in a wretched con dition. Mr. Broughton—You look so. I believe you are; but still you must not steal. I shall commit you for fourteen days. Prisoner—l have a particular favour to ask of your worship. e it it ? 21 days. Prisoner —O, —ayWdohamtaiks Mr. Broughton—WhY Prisoner—Because I shall get some meat then, but I shan't if its only fourteen, for I have not tasted a morsel of meat for a month. Mr. Broughton good naturedly complied with her re quest, and she was accordingly committed for 21 days. THAMES. FEMALE HIGHWAY ROBBERS.—Mary Ann Williams, a pale-faced girl, about 17 or 18 y ears of age, was brought before Mr. Ingham, c harged with steali ng a s il ver watch and gold chain from the person of John Everett, a young man residing at No. 32, Church-lane, Limebouse. The prosecutor is afflicted with paralysis, and has been so from his birth, and incapable of making any resistance. His father is a sailm a' boarding-house keeper, and last night he was going through a new neighbourhood in Poplar when be was accosted by the prisoner and another female near the Hero of Waterloo public house. They commenced talking to him, and he tried to shun them. They mocked his infirmities, and one got behind him and the other in front and hustled him. He tried to get away from them, but they would not let him, and the prisoner suddenly snatched his watch and carried it away, guard and all. He tried to seize the prisoner, who handed the watch to her companion, and shoved him down. The woman then ran away. He pursued them and ca;led out as well as he couid for the police, and a constable came up and took the prisoner into custody. The other woman got away with his watch and chain. The value of both was above 51. Mr. Ingham asked if the unfortunate young man was quite sane ? George Windeat, a police-constable, No. 98 K, said that Everett was palsied from his birth, and he always expressed himself imperfectly ; but his father, a respect able man, said his son was an invalid, but of perfectly sound mind. He knew the young man a long time, and he never knew him to do wrong. Witness apprehended the prisoner at 9 o'clock last night, in Gough-street, Ilr. Ingham said it was a most cruel robbery, and remanded the prisoner till Thursday next. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. Coastwise and by land carriage the arrivals of English wheat fresh up to-day were very limited, and the show of samples was small. For all kinds we had a slow inquiry, at Monday's quotations. Rather over 6,030 quarters of wheat have arrived from abroad, but chiefly from New York. All descriptions met a dull inquiry, and the cur rencies were almost nominal. Floating cargoes were quite as dear as on Monday. There was a steady business doing in malting and other kin is of barley, at full currencies. Malt was in fair supply and steady request, on former terms. We were well supplied with foreign oats. On the whole ihe oat trade was steady, at full prices. Beans, peas, and flour as on Monday. ARRIVALS THIS WRRII. Barley. Malt. 3,890 .1 2,17 0 Wheat. 2,140 ;neigh .. Irish .... Foreign 1 1 ' 6 630 i I - Oats. I Flow. 770 1,360 25,330 j 6,410br1 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Although the supply of beasts in to-day's market was very moderate, and mostly in low condition, the beef trade ruled heavy, at barely Monday's quotations. We were but scantily supplied with sheep, which moved off steadily at fully late rates. The best Downs readily produced ss. per 81bs. We had rather a large supply of calves in the market, and the 'real trade ruled heavy, at a decline of from 6d to 8d per 81bs. Pigs sold slowly on former terms. Mulch cows were dull, at from 141. to 191. each, including their small calf. Per 811,9 to sink the offals. s. d. s. s. d. s d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 6to 3 BlPrimeSonthdown 4 8 5 0 Second quality.... 3 10 4 2i Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8 Prime small do 4 4 4 8 Prime Scots, dm. 410 5 0 Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 6 i Small porkers 4 6 5 C Second quality ...3 8 4 2 ; Suckling calves 23 0 30 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 6,Quartor old pigs 22 0 28 0 TOTAL 111UPPLI.. 105EiGN SUPPLY. 1 - Beasts .. Sheep ................... 3,300 I Sheep .. •••••• .. .. • • ...... 620 Calves . ..... ............ 440 Calve5...". ) Pigs•—• .•.• .•.•.•.• •••• •• -- Piga •••••••••••••••••••• 500 LEADENHALL. here to-day, as follows : the carcasd. NEWGA.TE AND We had a moderate trade 1 Per 81bs by B. d. s. d. I s. d. s. Beef, interior 3 2 3 6 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 310 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime large .4 0 4 2 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 De c , do. small ....4 4 4 6 Veal 3 6 4 4 Pork, large ,3 10 4 4 1 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. Owing to the large amount of duty as officially declared, and to the extensive show of samples, our market is heavy, as follows :—Mid and East Kent pockets, 80s to 120 s per cwt ; Weald of Kent, 70s to 95s ; Sussex, 65s to COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales wont off heavily, and prices re ceded to a small extent !on most descriptions, particularly gunpowder, which went at 2d per lb cheaper. Common congcu since the sale may be quoted at 9/d to 90 per lb. SUGAR.—The market opened on' Tuesday at the full prices of the previous week, but with a quiet appearance ; it has since become very dull, no disposition being shown to purchase, as importers were not disposed to accept less money; consequently little or no business has been trans acted. Mauritius bought in at yesterday's sale have been s )1d at the buying-in prices. Java sold by private contract at 54s for No. 8. Martinique fair grocery 58s 6d. Mauritius good brown to good greyish yellow 60s to 645. HAvannak good brown bought in at full rates; good brown, 59s to 60s; middling to coloury yellow, 633 6d to 655, duty 15s; low to good florette 64s Gd to 66s Gd, duty 17s 6d per cwt. Bengal was Offered and sold at about 2s to 2s 6d de cline on the grainy kinds; Cossipore middling to good yel low, 61s to 65s ; middling to fine yellow Mauritius kind, 63s to 67s ; and middling to fine white Benares, 66s to 68s per cwt. In the refined market there has been a little more inquiry, and prices remain firm. Brown lumps sold at 71s 6cl to 72s per cwt. 164 hogsheads West India sold about 2s to 3s under the late highest point of the market. COFFEE.—The market has been steady, and prices re. mained firm. Plantation Ceylon, fine ordinary small greyish to good middling bold colory 57s 6,1 to 61s, pea berry 61s to 71s, and triage 50s to 575. Good ordinary Native Ceylon brought 55e 6d to 56s per cwt. Mocha, good large berry, 80s 6d to 8?s; short berry, 75s to 78s per cwt. RICE.—The market has been firm, but owing to the small quantity offered little business has been done. Ben gal good middling 17s 3d to 18s; Java, 29s to 325; Caro lina. No. 2,39 s 6d. Patna scarce, fine sold for 183 6d to 24s 6d per cwt. SPICES. —Pimento, good ordinary coarse and stalky sold at qd. Mace has been dearer, good pale 2s Bd, middling 2s sd, and damp and wormy is 9d to 2s 5d per lb. Nut megs have been steady. Penang small to good boll brown `ls 9d to 3s sd, shrivelled is 7d to is 9d per lb. Ginger— Malabar middling bold sold at 45s to 465, and rather wormy 35s to 36s per cwt. Popper.—There has been more ingairy for black. Singapore white middling to small 7d per lb. SALTPETRE.—Madras 34lbs refraction sold at 28s. Bombay middling grey refraction Mil to 21:1 26s to 26s Gd, ordinary brown 21s. Bengal 11 to 11/ sold at 365. COCHINEAL has been firmer, and more business was done in this article. Teneriffe silvers 3s 7d to 3s 9d, and blacks 3s 10d to 4s 2d per lb ; Honduras silvers 3s 9d to 3s 10,1 ; Mexican silvers, 3s 4d to 3s 5d ; blacks 3s 7d to 3s 10d per lb. RUlL—There has not been much done in this article, the market having been very quiet. Madras on the spot 3s, good middling Jamaica 4s lid, and Calcutta 2s 10d per proof gallon. TALLOW.—The market has been flat and a decline of fully is has taken place. P.Y.C. onthe spat 70s 6,1 to 71s, and for the spring 70s per cwt. GREEN FRI:HT.—More inpairy exists, a sscond cargo of oranges ex Pomona from Fayol has arrived at Bristol, a portion of which sent by railway to London, sold by Keeling and Hunt, realise prices equal to former sale. The first cargo of Messina lemons is at hand. The stock of all descriptions of nuts being considerably less than last year holders aro firm in price. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 23.—Wind this day at noon, W. ; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind Mortar-vessel Cupid, from Birkenhead, in tow; H.M.Str. Lizard, eastward. FALMOUTH, - Nov. 22.—Wind variable.—Off the porL— Poi t Glasgow and noslin Castle, from Quebec. CROMER, Nov. 22.—The schooner Morgen, from Copen hagen to Harwich, got on th 6 Lemmon yesterday, arid settled int o deep wat3r ; crew saved and landed here, ex cept the master, who refused to leave and was in conse quence drowned. - - - ----- LOWESTOTT, Nov. 22.—The Paca, of Copenhagen, from London, for Sunderland, grounded ou the Holm Saud, but was assisted off and brought into harbour. ELSINORE, Nov. 18.—The Caroline, of and for Greifs wald, was in contact with the Arnold, of Stralsund, from Scotland, for Stettin. (PIM ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived —Laura and Clara, from Sunderland; Star, from Jersey. Sailed—Sylph, steamer, for Dublin ; Blue Jacket, for Hamburg; Waters and Ally, for Sunderland. Wind N.E. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Arrivod--tondon, from Marseilles. Sailed—Lord Nelson, for Lima; Truth, for Antwerp. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.51 a.m. Wind S.W. ; tide, two hours' flood ; weather fine. Arrived, Nov. 22.—Dorre, from Gottenborg. Nov. 23.—Gip s y, f rom Havre ; Victoria, New York ; Caroline, Cephalonia. - Sailed—Retriever, for Fernando Po; Earl of Eglinton, for Calcutta. DEAL, Friday, 9.36 a.m. Wind W.S.W., light. Anchored— Land o' Cakes, for Melbourne : Frederick, Bardiff; Comet, Madeira ; Prospero, St. Michael's ; Jover Capita, Cadiz ; Navigatenr, Havre ; Fanny Buck, New Orleans ; Eugenia, Constantinople ; Attivo, Naples ; Con fidence, for Malta—all from London. EXPECTED LARGE ARRIVAL OF SPECIE BROM THE WEST INDIES.—Two millions and a half of dollars left the city of Mexico on the 18th of October, per con ducta, for Vera Cruz—the greater part of which may be expected at Southampton by the next West India mail steam-ship, due at that port on the Ist proximo. Letters from Rome mention that the Rev. Mr. Tal bot, whose name has been repeatedly mentioned as one likely to be raised to high spiritual office in the Roman Catholic Church in England, has been appointed by the Pope to proceed to America, to regulate some affairs between the Transatlantic bishops and the Holy See. A FORTUNATE PURCHASE.—The Northern Ensign says that in the year 1838, Mr. James Malcolm, of Olrig, Caithness, bought half an acre of ground in the town of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, for the sum of 401., and sold the same in 1852 for 12,0001. ; and in another purchase of a similar amount he realised much more. This almost incredible rise in the valve of land is entirely owing to the discovery of gold in Victoria. CUTTING A POLICEMAN'S NOSE OFF. —At the policc• court, Liverpool, on Wednesday morning, an ill -looking fellow, named William Kelly, was charged with cutting and wounding police•officer 704. It appeared that on the previous evening the officei was taking the prisoner to the Bridewell for being drunk and disorderly, when the ruffian drew a claspknife from his pocket, and, f a r i o m m i t g h e a e b n l o d w o f a his t h i nose s o f s a e c . e u , wutainhealcfamaen to o in t c h h e officer's assistance, when K ell y endeavoured to stab him. He cut through hi s coat sleeve, but it did not, fortunately, extend further. The p risoner, after a fierce l e ns t p el to a r b S o struggle, was :odged in Bridewell. 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SOUS. 25i -26 ii •• - ••• 7 - 7i ao = 135 [O7 - 108 2 - 24 4i - 41 - 17 - 18 ••• •• 8 - 10 51 - 64 il li 2 3 * dim— par i - I i : ii i . - ii . • • """ • •• • • • • •• lf - - gP - ft - Z. la 92i dis 1071 i LITERATURE. The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. A New Edition in One Volume. By John Forster. Bradbury and Evans. Heartily glad are we to welcome in this goodly volume a popular reprint of Mr. Forster's "Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith " a charming biography, which has gradually expanded into one of the nobler classics of our national literature. The original edition, published in the spring of 1848, was literally the merest rough draft or out line sketch of what became six years afterwards a finished masterpiece. Goldsmith's memoirs bad been previously written by other admirers, but never before so completely and satisfactorily. Mr. Prior had prosed about the poet to the dreariest extent imaginable—drawing his portrait somewhat as Traddles would have done had he tried, namely, as the veriest scarecrow of a skeleton. Mr. Irving again had more recently romanced to his heart's content, and for that matter let us confess to our own also, about the "Captain in Lace," and dear " Little Comedy " and the " Jessamy Bride," until ho had so contrived under the influence of this same delightful romancing that our sympathies embraced at last the whole pleasant family of the Hornecks, for the sake of a grateful remembrance of their affectionate regard for Olive r G o ld sm ith. Scattered lights, too, had been thrown upon the same comparatively brief but very memorable ex istence by other writers, such as Percy, and Cooke, and Boswell, and Davis, and Glover, and Hawkins —Percy, for example, through the suggestive but inadequate "memoir" prefixed to the Miscellaneous Writings, and Cooke through his interesting but fragmentary papers in the European Magazine. It was left for Mr. Forster, however, to distance every one of his competitors, Washington Irving inclusively, by the production of those two masterly volume, issued immediately at the commencement of 1854—volumes which the original edition of 1848 may be said to have prematurely fore shadowed, and of which the present popular reprint of 1855 may be accurately enough described as the ingenious and comprehensive abridgment. Hence forth Forster will be regarded as pre-eminently the biographer of " Goldsmith"—precisely as Southey was of " Nelson," and Mackintosh of "More," and Cavendish of " Wolsey," and Johnson of "Savage," and Boswell (in his turn) of "John son." Companion classics upon our bookshelves from this time forth, indeed, must now be ranged together side by side—the last mentioned and the first mentioned—Boswell's Johnson and Forster's Goldsmith. Higher praise than this we know not, but praise it is to which Mr. Forster appears to us to be eminently well entitled. His portrait of our glorious dramatist-poet-novelist, as here ' pencilled in every lineament with such exquisite delicacy and diKrimination, must be accepted as altogether more valuable and life-like of its kind than even the famous painting by which Sir Joshua has perpetuated upon canvas the familiar and be loved features of the author of She Stoops to Con quer, and of The Deserted [Tillage, and of The Vicar of Wakefield. Reynolds drew the form ; Forster has, so to speak, literally callotyped not merely the form, but with it the intellect, the character, the living and breathing iudividdality. Reading the four books of this enthralling memorial, we seem to follow poor Oliver—stepping, close at Ins heels, iu his warm broad footprints. Beginning with his birth, on the 10th of November, 1728, we track the chequered progress of that " strange eventful history" to the very moment of its hero's death, at a quarter to five o'clock on that sad Mon day morning, the 4th of April, 1774. A space of 45 years and five months—the last decade of which has proved so very memorable in the annals of our popular literature. The pathway worn by the weary feet of Goldsmith iu that memorable pil grimage—from the cradle, at Pallasmore, the little Irish village on the banks of the river Inny, in the county of Longford, to the grave in the Temple, commemorated soon afterwards by the marble monument in the Abbey at Westminster—devious though it was throughout, and obscure at its coin mencent, has here been traced, almost step by step, with a loving pertinacity of research, very admirable to witness. It has been described too by the hand of Mr. Forster in characters we believe to be (so far as anything like this can be predicated of any bio graphy in our language) imperishable. Oliver's schooldays, at the knees of Elizabeth Delap, learn ing his letters from a horn-hook, or at the desk tf Thomas Byrne, dogs'earing his grammar and dic tionary—Oliver's holidays, listening to the songs of blind old Carolan, or dancing a pas seal at uncle John's merrymaking— Oliver's advance from school to college, from the Academy at Elphin to the Dublin University—Oliver as he was from 1728 to 1757, from nothing to twenty-nine : here is the whole story recounted in Book One, shewing us the un- friended adventurer in his various situations, as I sizar, as student, as traveller, as apothecary's journeyman as tutor, as poor physician ! The sizar in his red cap and his coarse black gown with out sleeves—carrying dishes into the fellows' hall and writing ditties on the sly for ragged ballad singers ! The student decked out in claret-coloured cloth and sky-blue'Aballoon—straddling home on the lean barrel of Fiddleback ! The traveller in rusty garments—warbling his way on the flute through Holland, France, Germany, Italy, Swit zerland ! The apothecary's journeyman dingier still and footsore from his long wanderings—trund ling the pestle and rolling the bolus, and mixing the blackdraugbt ! The tutor, dingiest of all, and heartsore at length as well as footsore—grinding the propria gum maribus and the pothooks into the youth at .Peckham-rye ! The threadbare Physician, in a suit of green and gold miserably tarnished—holding his three-corner hat adroitly over a patch in the rusty velvet ! So much for the motley figure cut by poor Oliver Goldsmith in these introductory chapters descriptive of his life and adventures! Chapters conducting us to Book Two—where he is author by compulsion : writing for Griffith's Monthly Review, and for Hamilton's Critical Review, penning at thirty a I ife of Vol taire, and at thirty-one an Inquiry into Polite Learning ! Afterwards leading us to Book Three— where he is author by choice : writing in the Bee, and the Busy Body, editing the Lady's Magazine, and penning The Citizen of the W °rid, scribbling the Memoirs of Beau Nash, and the nursery tale of Goody Two Shoes—sulnequently giving to the world, at thirty-six, THE TRAVELLER, at thirty-eight TIIE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, at forty " The Good natured Man," at forty-two THE DESERTED VIL LAGE, at forty-three "The Haunch of Venison, ' and at forty-five SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and " Retaliation." Book Four—revealing him to us as Dramatist, and Novelist, and Pcet, as the friend of Reynolds, and Burke, and Johnson. Such is the drift of this remarkable biography—carrying us with it not merely through the " Life," but also through the " Times" of Oliver Goldsmith. Nobly has Mr. Foster acquitted himself, from first to last, in this self-imposed labour—obviously to him a very labour of love—the labour, that is, of commemorating in adequate terms the most memo rable of Johnson's literary contemporaries. It is observable that Goldsmith's biographer has reason, during the course of his narrative, to speak (page 215) of the well-known charges of plagi arism from Percy's Reliques directed against the writer of the exquisite ballad of Edwin and Angelina. Is Mr. Forster himself unconscious mean while that he himself has here inadvertently allowed a plagiarism of a rather glaring kind to flaw the symmetry of the fourteen lines of his " Dedication I" Unquestionably we regard him as so unconscious. Yet the plagiarism to which we are now compelled perforce to direct attention is altogether as indisputable as we are satisfied it is entirely unintentional. Briefly, however, to ex plain—Mr. Forster writes in the graceful dedica tion of his book to Charles Dickens : " Genius anditsre;;;;;ebriefly told . : A liberal nature and a niggard__ .d?om , &C. ,, A difficult journey to a splendid t omb, While, years ago, Coleridge wrote as the eleventh on Chatterton" verse of his celebrated " Mon n ody our readers will, —what ? Mr. Forster doubtless, be the most m on ody by Samuel of startled when he finds, on reference to that n in every complete edi tion Coleridge, as given that eleventh. verse rune ' tion of his "Poems," t actually thus— " A prodigal naturean and a niggard doom." m So liable is eve r y who reads much and writes un k n owingly, and th a t, more much to plagiarise y ti m e when he is committi ng his ideas to over , at the more very the most conscientio us cre d ence Pe in his owpna-scr r upulous originality. It may be re membered by some how Lord By ron, hi mse lf n c h ar ged with a like offen ce , jocularly repu diatedcfte th e notion of any bl ame b e i ng evolved from the accusation, by declaring that every such iapsus calami must be regarded as a tribute to the excellence of an author's memory as being of once well stored and retentive ! Enough, how ever—the present unconscious vibration of a chord in the well-stored 'Ltd retentive memory of Mr. Forster having now been directly traced to that thrilling and sonorous verse of Coleridge—the second line of this sonnet-dedication of Goldsmith's " Life " to Dickens will either have to be re -written altogether, or, aft er th e su b st i tut i on o f " prodigal" for "liberal," exp li c i t l y marked by i nverte d comma! bon as nn avowed quota ti on. A ny way , we 7 no account ha ve th e sonne t i n question eiloinin WS we from the se p ages, regar di ng th e dedication , ana . affec. ° id u nate do, as the n o bl e t r ib u t e of auearnest tionate friend s hip. A memorial of u genius, this So true ) 150 ex quisite biography is, indeed, so 0l 04en t ; e complete in itself as a life-history, that wo close its pages reluctantly, and even let us add unaffectedly, with a sense of grateful admiration. Henceforth may John Forster exult in the knowledge that he has associated his own name inextricably with that of dear old Oliver Goldsmith. THE STRIKE AT MANCHESTER. The only change in the situation is, that the operatives of Messrs. Pooley and Co. Bradford-strret, who had ao • cepted the r e ducti on offered by the employers, but who had reported at a public meeting that they were earning higher wages, have been persuaded to strike. They gave notice, yesterday morning, to their employers, that they I would cease working in 14 days, if the original prices were not restored to them. The third weekly meeting of the factory operatives on strike and their friends was held in the People's Insti tute on Wednesday, but was of a less interesting cha• racter than those that had preceded it. The SECRETARY opened the business by again caution ing the operatives out of work to be cautious in their walks (or processions) through the streets, to be peace able, and neither give insults nor take notice of insults from other people. They had with them at present a greater amount of public sympathy than turnouts ever had before, and they ought to be careful to preserve it. He then read the reply of the masters to the memorial of the committee, and commented upon it, but disclaimed any intention to give a reply. The reply, he said, would come from the committee, after due consideration and care in drawing it up. He took credit for the operatives that, by their own temperate course in addressing their employers, they had elicited from them an answer charac terised by a tone of moderation which was unusual, and which contrasted strongly with the spirit in which Mr. Kennedy had personally treated them, when he threw the memorial into the fire and refused to entertain it. Their memorial bad evidently made an opening between the men and their employers that might lead to a favour able issue. It was not well that in any establishment there should be ill feeling on one side, and scorn, tyranny, and neglect on the other, and he hoped, from the tone of the masters' statement now pub lished, they might look forward to better days. (Ap plause.) In this statement the masters said they could not give the prices they were now paying un less the prices paid by the masters in other towns were brought up to the same standard. But this was new language. Did the masters recollect 1853, when the operatives of Preston struck against the wealthiest mill owners in Lancashire there, who were paying the lowest prices of any masters in the district 1 They then said that the question was not one of wages, but whether the masters should be masters in their own establish. ments ; and they, the masters of Manchester, then en tered into a combination and subscribed money, not to help the turnouts, but to help the masters of Preston to crush their own workpeople. (Cheers.) Such was the conduct of the men who now talked of bringing wages at Manchester down to the standard of other towns, unless the wages of other towns could be brought up to the Manchester standard. He concluded by moving that, notwithstanding the statement of the masters to the effect that a reduction of prices was the only alter native, the operatives on strike still adhere to their first suggestion, that short time was the better remedy, and that they promise to do ail they can to induce short time in other districts. This resolution was seconded and carried. The SECRETARY said another resolution had been pre. pared, pledging the operatives to resist any reduction in their wages, and to use all legitimate means for obtain ing sympathy and support from the public to enable them to carry out that resistance. He thought, how ever, as their reply to the masters' address had not yet been drawn up, this resolution had better be withheld for the present. A communication from the Barbers' Society was read, promising their support to the men on strike, but ex pressing a hope that the operatives who wished to sup port their own prices would not patronise the halfpenny shops. (Applause and laughter.) The SECRETARY—The meeting laughs, but it is no laughing matter. They are quite right. (Hear, hear.) An OPERATIVE said the workmen at Messrs. Pooley's mill had just held a shop meeting, and wished to state the result. 'The SECRETARY said it had not been intended to go into that business till the next meeting, but he might as well now announce that the hands at Pooley's mills' had agreed to strike, and would give the requisite notice next morning. Ile hoped, however, that the business would be settled before that notice had expired, so that the operatives at Pooley's would not have occasion to cease work. Thera was one other shop working at lower prices, and that was the large mill of the Oxford road Twist Company. The bands had submitted to a seduction there, and Mr. Cooke, one of the firm, was so proud of his success in reducing them that he bad boasted of it at Messrs. Kennedy's mill, and said his workpeo ple were perfectly satisfied. That was a fair challenge to the operatives on strike to fetch those hands out if they could, and it remained to be seen what could be done. (Cheers.) A vote of Vianks and three cheers were given to Pooley's hands, and it was announced that the operatives of Messrs. Simpson and Thompson, whose notice expired on the previous night, had agreed to work another week on the old terms, so that their strike would be postponed till next Tuesday. The meeting was then adjourned till next Wednesday. TEM ARMY OF OMER DACHA. The army of Omer Paella, with which he has now commence,' his great operation?. against the Caucasian army of Russia contists according to reliable information of not quite 36,000 men. About 15,000 of these aro stationed in Batouni. S tokuin-Kaleh and Redoubt- Kaleh. It was with 20,000 of his best troops that the Siroar forced the passage of the Ingour. With respect to the Sirdar's operations in the valley of the Ingour, all we know is from the short report of Ferhad Pacha, the chief of the Turkish staff, with the exception of the well known telegraphic despatch. This latter officer occu pies, with 12 regiments of infantry and 4 regiments of cavalry, the main road from Redoubt-Kaleh to Kutais. Omer Pacha's attack was made from Soukum-Kaleh against the Russian position on the Ingour ; yet in reality it is Ferhad Paella's diversion from the road along the left bank of the Ingour that has compelled the Russians to retreat from there, and fall back on the heights of Kutais. By his advance along that road, Ferhad Pacha covers the further movements of Omer Paella, who has two smaller rivers to cross yet, before he can effect his junction with Ferhad Pacha. Accounts differ respecting the strength of the Russians near Kuteis ; but we learn that Prince Be. butoff is hastily collecting there his rest rues, that he may be able to make head once more againet the enemy in the defiles of Kutais. The latest accounts received from Constantinople give out that Omer Pacha has also brought up his reserves, and the opinion prevalent in Stambeul was, that a i,econil ergagement will take place near Santredi, where the roads meet that run from Kutais to Redoubt-Kaleh and Shefke'il.—Cologne Gazette. It is notorious that the inaj. , r part of the officers on Omer Pasha's staff consist of Magyar refugees. Weppler, once a cavalry captain in the Austrian arm), who is a mest efficient officer, a cousin of Ordnance-master Hay na.u, was appointed only the other day to the command of the cavalry corps. He arrived at Soukum Kaleh on the 23d October, accompanied by Runic' Pacha, one of the Seraskier's aides-de-camp. The last-named officer brought to the Sirdar orders to advance forthwith on Mingrelia, because scouts had reported, in agreement with certain secret reports regularly sent to the Porte from General Mouravieff's head-quarters, that Omer Dacha would meet with no serious r e sistance, and would find capital winter quarters in Mingrelia. It is said that the Porte has kept up a constant communication since the outbreak of the war with various officers of Polish extraction who are stationed at the Russian_ /lad quarters in Warsaw, in the Crimea, and before liar • Augsburg Gazette. Sporting Intelligence. TATTERSALL'S—THURSDAY. Scarcely twenty subscribers dropped in, and the busi ness traneacted was too insignificant to require notice. AQUATICS. 401.—Rowing matches, at this time FikoIARTCII BETWEEN HENRY WHITE AND like angel visits, few and far between; th such a s there are of ern are of a first•rate character. but The neighbourhood of Wapping furnished one of these JAMES FI--_,, N orich for speed, and good and perfect rowing, could o f the B° u season, a r e bar diy be surpassed. The race was from Charlton Pier to the Tunnel Pier, a distance of nearly seven miles ; bct owing to the earliness of high water, they had but little tide under them. White, of Mill's-stairs, 'Ber mondsey, was well ump i red by Mr. Alexander Grace, who, in consequence of his knowledge of such matters, has been chosen manager of the Bermondsey Regatta fee seven successive years, while Finnis, of Wapping, wag attended by Mr. Thomas Knott, and Captain Styles, of the Perseverance, was referee. The above-named boat had been chartered to accompany the race, and was densely crowded by the friends of both men, while the shores were well lined with spectators. Finnis was the favourite at 6to 4. White having won the choice of station, took the Middlesex side, and at 12 o'clock a good start was effected in gallant s both men keeping together for a considerable distance e.y a ; but after 20 or 30 strokes, White drew in advance 0 a t e n v ; era few boat's length or so. In a short time a , u Wapping hero again took the lead, d e leading to Green strokes passed his opponent. The came very intense. Finnis continu ed . they were abso wicb, where White again came uf , t i d e. i But here the Intel) , scull and scull for Owl]: been pulling began to xcitement now be , terrific pace at which they thou thong he rowed in a most tell against Finnis, ; whouistanced by his opponent, and above Deptford Dockyard. and reached the winning desperate manner, eventually White continued most deafening cheers ; but not less goal amidst the „„ w hose backers, although some of man, to the losing considerable sum upon him, were almost them had lost a determined and ontgineedin .r:oawl:iitntgle, by the plucky manner in compensated • wh i c h t heir favourite had rowed. F AT AL SOMNAMBULISM.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Charles St. Clair Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, received information of the death of Mr. Francis Bailey, under the following circumstances :—The unfortunate gentleman was in the habit of walking in his sleep. The other night he opened his bed-room window, got out, and fell a depth of from 20 to 30 feet. He was picked up by a police-constable in a state of insensibility, and taken to St. G eorge ' s H osp i tal. E very a tt en tion wax paid him, but be expired shortly after his admission. he 'l he 'the the illy ery the ha rely out day by vas 5 5 10 10 4• 10 4 20 LOU 2O WO 20 Ifi 20 zo 50 63 H 2i 211 i 48 i i 61 10 St. St. 10 St. 20 50 St. St. St. St. tO 5 Bt. 25 100 1 20 wo all all 2 100 100 100 all Iln 100 'on 1(X) 100 10u 100 100 100 103 all .11 All 10! 100 100 TnCt PrO x a ad