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

MONEY MARKET AND COMBIER,CIAL liII'ELLIGENOL. MIA, Two o'CLoox.. The Liverpool Cotton Market yeacrday closed Very tamely, but quite steadily, and prices of all kinds were unchanged since Friday. The sales 'were 6,000 bales, all to the trade, comprising 5,000 Americans ; 200 Bahia, 6d. to 6d. ; 200 Egyp ttan, 51d. to 7d. ; 500 Surat, 3V.to 4td. ; and 60 Sea Islands, 10d. to 131. per lb. In the Railway Share Market a slight advance took place, but the transactions were not numerous, and the market Closed quietly. Letters from the manufacturing districts give a rather more favourable account of trade, which at this period of the year is not usually very brisk. &t Manchester the principal factories are busy completing large orders of both cloth and yarn for the India Market ; and these have been in creased by the last advices from Calcutta per Over land Mail. There is a steady demand also for cloth raitable for the China market, chiefly shirtings, Prints, good T cloths, madapollams, and jaconets. At Halifax the prices of wools, both long and short, continue firm, and a brisk trade has been done in the former. Buyers of wool havenot been inclined to lay in heavy stocks, and latterly in the expectation that prices would decline, but in this they have been mistaken, and are now compelled to purchase at advanced rates. Manufacturers and spinners complain of the small remunerative rates obtained. for yarns and cloths, considering the high prices .they have to pay for the raw material. The at tendance of buyers at the Leeds cloth halls has been a little better, and a moderate amount of business has been done in winter cloths. There is to alteration in quotations. In consequence of the strong northerly gales the foreign mails have not yet come to hand, and se- Veral Australian ships due are, no doubt, prevented coming up Channel. By submarine telegraph the closing prices of the French 3 per Cents. are given at 64f. 90c. for money, and 64f. 10c. for the ac count, being a slight improvement on Monday's quotations. _ _ Trade at Paris is rather better this week in con sequence of the Bank of France becoming more libetal in its discounts. Manufacturers have been gradually lessening their stocks, and those of the retailers aro nearly exhausted, so that the demand for all kinds of merchandise suitable for the winter is remarkably brisk. Large orders are in hand on nglish account and the united States, and there is every probability of these increasing towards the close of the year. Money is pientiful amongst the Community, and purchasers operate with freedom for the coming festive season. The Grain Markets throughout Franoe show a ` further tendency to lower in prices, and it has been ascertained that last year's crop was not so deficient as interested parties represented it to be. Wheat has declined lf. per hectolitre and a half, and best quality of flour has been sold at IC4f. Per sack. Sugar still maintains its recent high quo tations, in consequence of the small stocks on hand. .4.dvices from the :Jape of Good Hope to the 191,11 October have come to hand, but very little com mercial intelligence is reported. Trade was rather dull, and a small number of ships was in the har bour. The copper mining companies in the colony ►ere progressing favourably ; and the attention of the colonists was being directed to the development of the mineral resources of the country. The Walter Hood, for Sydney, has put in at Portsmouth in a damaged state. She came into collision with the Bremen ship " Emigrant," off the Owers, and carried away her port bulwarks, atancheons, and part of her main rigging. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were generally steady for three months' bills, but on Amsterdam and Trieste there was a slight decline. In Mark Lane to-day firm rates are current, but the market is rather quiet. In the English Stock Market a further decline bas taken plate, owing to the renewed sales of savings' bank securities. These operations are Stated to be on account of the Chancellor of the Xxchequer, who has to provide for the dividends Which are due in January next. The fur ther issue of Exchequer Bills, for which power Was obtained last session, cannot be attempted Without an increase in the rate of interest, and the Chancellor is, therefore, supposed to be exercising his privilege of disposing of Savings' Banks stock, and replacing it with his bills or bonds. While th e sales continue the market will naturally con tinue heavy, and Consols, which opened at 881 f, have since been 881 1. The New Three per Cents. are 88i to 894, and the Reduced $B4 I. Exche quer Bills have fallen 35., viz., to 10s. and ss.dis count. The Bonds are quoted 93 to 98. Some flatness is observable in the market for foreign securities, and the dealings are not numer ous. Turkish 6 par Cents. have declined 4to f Per cent., having been 834 to 832, and 831 to 834. The New Scrip has receded to 3#, and 3i discount. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 1 per cent. lower, namely, 934. Spanish Securities ruled steady, the Deferred being 211, the Passive 74 and 7i, and the Certificates 4f. Danish Five pi r Cents. are 1011, Mexican 191, Peruvian 41 per Cents. 751, and the 3 per Cents. 53, being rather heavier. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stook s: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 64 to 7 ; Mexican, 194 to 19f ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto 4/ per Cents., 88 to 90 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 401 to 40f ; ditto Deferred, 21k to 211 ; ditto Certificates, 4 to 5 ; ditto Passive, 74 to 7i. The Mexican and South American Smelting Com pany have received advices from Chili. The dates from Hunandura. Works are to the 31st October. Smelting operations are proceeding favourably, and a cargo of copper and copper regulus was ready for th e first ship. The Lord Stanley arrived on the 22d with 900 tons of Welsh coal. The Najaden arrived on the 20th with a cargo of bricks and clay from Swansea, for the works. From Tongay works the dates are to the 12th October. Mr. Sinclair reports that No. 1 furnace is being rebuilt, and a roof is in progress over the furnace house. The receipts of ores during six months have been about 5,000 tons. The mole and tramroad are nearly finished. Dates from Caldera Works are to the 3d Nov. ; at that date the establishment was short of suiphuret ores, a vessel from Cahija being kept back by contrary winds, but the Saucy Jack had gone to Huasco to load. An ore station had been opened at Tiena Amarella, a station on the Copiapo Railway, sixty miles distant. News had arrived of the loss of the Carleton, fully insured, off the Falklands, with one thousand tons of coal on board ; no lives lost. The stock afloat has, however, been fully kept up. Dates from the Company's screw steamer Aisne are to the 31st o.ltober ; she had carried nearly 20,000 quintals of ores in the month to Hernandura. Railway Shares, although rather flatter, do net exhibit any general movement of importance. In one or two instances a decline of 1 per cent. is re corded, but the transactions are as limited as for some days past. Great Western of Canada are at rather fuller rates, but Paris and Lyons have de clined ss. ; the other foreign lines are neglected. Mining Shares have attracted very little atten tion. Banking Shares rule steady, and Canada Land have risen 11. to 21. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES , ( From the Oficial Liu. nueines, done. 8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities BBl New 3 per (lent. Annuities Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 3i India Bonus, XlOOO ...................... Ditto, under £lOOO Console ;or Account ..................... Exchequer Bi ll s, 24d.. £lOOO ............. I'soo ...................................... 4 Small • ....... ........ 8 3 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cant ........... 98 71 „ 1859 ...... 93 7i PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. 8 10 , BBi I, Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 —l Ditto 5 per Cent loli E qua dor Bonds Hex:loan 3 per Cent. . Ditto Account l9l • Ferttrian Bonds, 43 per Cent. Ditto Account 754 Ditto 3 per Cent . — Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 4 per Cent Ditto Account 5O Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 2 3 Ditto Pamir() 7 Spani , h Committee Cert. of Coup. wit fun 4i p c Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account 8 34 i i 4 Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cont. Venezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent — Ditto Deferred, 13 per Cent. Divideade on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchatuna, 2, nor Cent., 12 Gni] ihttc 4 :ei '-, ---... ',....-- • TiLABE - 0' GisuUK. Console Ditto far 00 Astpant Jon, 10 ~,,, Efai z d SHARE MARK] (THIS DAT.), :.. R ~ T W BiaLirart , (Cl(4t , rit: eTitto " this dv. tr&4. Nott.ng. Boat Eantn. Junct. 3,3! CAS", Al. ;al Wo3ve-11 ,tour VA,l'•• y , 22 - -3 3fi - 7i 8 A sick e tied. Lill - $t 16 ib -buit7l fo. Chot).. £5O slid Do., £2O ...... ...••• • all L , :yth iielsyns git,s £ZS (issd. at £4 .co Ertel .. 'h.() Caledonian. 61. 8 . cam. s.nd Ca algal: al. Chester 41 liolyhtLa: all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, &Pas 18 Cornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B 1 A Ciieff Junction.... 4g Duulin&BolfastJunc. 'l. ll Dun. P. 4 Ah .. Jr.c. ali Do. N 4 ,7 ...... • • 100 East Al friian 411 7astern .100 Past. TTuion, A SO 100 Do., B. 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The case of thesa prisoners, who, it will be reinem. breed, , carried on a most extensive business in the City of Lo don, as merchautF, and that Laving failed for a very urge amount, the two former prisoners absconded, and C kte was tried avd convicted of fraud in connection with ; ties bankruptcy, and sentenced to four years' penal servit tee. Gordon was subsequently tried and con victed , but upon a point of law that was removed, the convie tt on was quashed by the Court of Criminal Ap peal, 114 I it then became necessary to proceed with the other eh arges. The I )risoners Gordon and Davidson were charged upon arate indictments, with conspiracy to obtain large 6 llt is of money by means of false papers and sccu rities, ac d they were also charged with embezzling a portio.l , of their estate, with intent to defraud their cre ditors. The p risoner Cole was also charged with an offence of the lik .tt character, and likewise with conspiring with the other prisoners for the same object. The E est case proceeded with was a charges against the pris o ncrs Davidson and Gordon, of having embezzled three 5 3, 31. notes, part of their estate, after they had been ad edged bankrupts, and with intent to defraud their cr et litors. Mr. El dlantine and Mr. Poland conducted the prose cution. Mr. M. Chamber , , Q.C., and Mr. Parry de fended •Gc , rdon, and Mr. Sergeant Byles defended the other p rie. )ner, Davidson. The I ate cs of the case were nearly the same as those de posed t o on the former occasion, and it will therefore be unnecerisa ry to give a detail of the evidence on the pre sent oc' :at ion. The prisoners, as above stated, carried on a rat .st extensive business as merchants in Mincing lane, an they were also the proprietors of a distillery at West : Ham, in Essex. In the course of their business they we re in the habit of obtaining very large sums of money fr ore Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co., and other d ist ,cunt houses, by the deposit of warrants for goods, r din the end it turned out that a great number of these. ;securities were forged and utterly worthless, and in the month of June, 1854, the prisoners were evidently. , in a hopeless state of insolvency, and on the 21st oft hat month they were adjudged bankrupts, and a day was s ppeinted for them to appear before the Court of Bank rn ptcy and be examined relating to their affairs. Before t be day that was so fixed, however, the prisoners abscond et 1 , and before doing so they raised all the me int y that they c uld, and a portion of that money, oc nsisting of three 5001. notes, was the sum they were ntser charged with embezzling, it being alleged that this. money, by reason of their bankruptcy, was the propert3 , of their creditors. It was proved that the pri soners l sad travelled about to different parts of the Con tinent Istrrsued by an officer, and at length they arrived at Mal ta, which place they were obliged to leave through the infl tioac of the authorities, and upon their arrival in this ccnintry they were taken into custody. The prin cipal ev nd ence brought to support the present charge was, that, on. the 17th Jane, the prisoners sold a large quan tity of spirits to Messrs. Grimsby and Co., Messrs. Nichol ion and Co., Messrs. liunck and Co., and several acceptances which they immediately discounted, and a c sauque for 5001., which was changed, and the pri soners rib sconded on the 21st. The evidence extended to very considerable length, and the case was likely to occupy the Court until a late hour of. the day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.) THE BILLETING SYSTEZ MEETING OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS IN ST. PANCRAS. Yesterday afternoon an adjourned meeting of the Li censed Victuallers of St. Pancras was held at Mr. Suter's the Prince of Here - iced-street, Camden-t own, f or the purpose of orjani.deg a deputatien of the trade to wait upon Leal P,ustuure, her Majesty's Minister of War, with a view to representing the hardships ueder which the trade suffer with regard to the preseet billet ing system. Mr. D. PATTI.; of the Queen's Arms, Queen's-road, Camden-town, having taken the chair, remarked that the Licensed Victuallers were highly taxed to the house duty, as well as having to pF:y an additional mat duty, which was, to all intents and purposes, a war tax. To him alone it made a difference of at least 2001. a-year, to meet which he was not able to increase the price of any article he sold. For this reason he felt that the trade were entitled to the best consideration of the Govern ment. (near, hear.) Mr. PARSONS proposed that a deputation be appointed to wait upon Lord Panmure, and lay before his lordship the hardships of which they complained. Mr. HARBERT seconded the motion. Mr. QUINTON, of the King's Arms, King-street, in supporting the resolution, stated that he had four men billeted on him for forty nights and three for sixty nights, which during three months cost him upwards of 61. It was a hardship that no trade could support ; in addition to which the system, as regarded the men themselves, was most objectionable. Being highly taxed already, it was impossible that the trade, in its preeent position of affairs, could continue to pay these heavy imposts. Mr. WHARTON made a similar statement, and com plained bitterly of the highly indecent and insolent con duct of the men billeted upon him. They used the most disgusting language, and annoyed every person in the house. Mr. HARBERT had paid out several men who had been billeted upon him, but no sooner bad he done so than he had three more sent to him for 36 nights. Oa looking over the books at head-quarters he found that some of the men whom he had accommodated belonged to another district. Mr. Prickett, Mr. Wharton, Mr. Sugden, Mr. Suter, and other members, having addressed the meeting, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Suter, seconded by Mr. Wharton, that a memorial be prepared for the sig nature of the trade, and the secretary was requested to write to Lord Ebrington, requesting his lordship to in troduce the deputation, and also to communicate with Lord Pairmure, asking his lordship ttr fix an early day to receive the deputation. A. vote of thanks to the chairman coneuded the business. SOUTHWARK. ATT 11EPTID SIIIOIDN.—Aura Curl, a middle-aged female of rather decent appearance, was brought before Mr. Gambe charged with taking a quantity of laudanum with intent to commit suicide. Police Constable 229 M said that about twelve o'clock on Saturday night he was on duty in the Borough, and While proceeding from Wellington -street to the Borough Market he perceived the prisoner lying on the steps apparently asleep. He endeavoured to rouse her up, but she was quite insensible. He immediately pro cured assistance and conveyed her to the station-house, whoa she partially recovered before the fire, and in a faint voice said she was dying as she had taken poison. By direetion of the Inspector on duty he conveyed her to St. Thomas's Hospital, where the stomach pump was used aad a large quantity of laudanum ejected from the stomach. She was extremely ill afterwards, and had remained in the hospital until yesterday when he went and took her into custody. Mr. Candle asked the prisoner what WAS the cause of her attempting to destroy herself I She replied that she had been entirety deserted by her friends, and had no home to go to ; in fact distress drove her to commit the act. Mr. Combo sesked her whether abe had any relations in London ? She replied that she had not, and she bad ISO one to help her. Mr. Combe asked the constable whether he had ascer tained anything about her ? The constable said that he had had no opportunity of ending anything about her, as she refused to give any information respecting herself. Mr. Combo asked whether he knew where she got the laudanum ? The constable replied that he did not, as she bad not a farthing about her. From her manner, he believed she was not in her right sense , . Mr. Combe remanded her to Horsemonger-lane Gaol for a week, where she would be attended by a medical gentleman, who would be able to ascertain her real state of mind. In the meanti:no the constable would be able to make some inquiries about her. THAMES. - SHAIIIIICL ROZBERY OP A. SAILOR.—Two well-known and desperate female thieves, who are well known to the police, and who gave their names Caroline Layton and Mary BC051:8, were brought before Mr. Ingham charged with stealing a silver watch, a bat, two silk handker ohiefo, and some money, from the person of John Irwin, a mariner, who will leave E ng l an d on a long voyage to morrow. prisoners have been respectively The in custody for plundering outward bound seamen, relying on the im possibility of their victims remaining on shore to prose sae. On Monday night the prosecutor fell in with the prisoners in Shadwell, and they fastened themselves upon him, and asked him to treat them. He took them to a public-house, at the corner of King David lane, Shadwell, and gave them liquor, and they afterwards enticed him to a house in Bluegate-fields, Shadwell. Being overpowered with fatigue and the liquor he had drunk he lay down on a bed, and Beavis immediately took his hat, which contained two silk handkerchiefs, and left the room. He was about to follow when Layton assured him that her companion was only joking and would soon return. Soon afterwards Layton contrived to detach his silver watch from the guard to which it was attached and half opened the r)om door. The prosecu tor leaped out of bed, and Layton rushed out of the room. The seaman was unable to follow her, and she got away with the watch. The sailor dressed himself and left the house as early as possible, and procured the assistance of Police-Sergeant Willoughby, 22 K, who re turned to the house, but was unable to meet with the pri. soners. Last night the Sergeant again went to the house and found both prisoners in the room where the robbery was committed. The sailor at once identified them. Nothing was found upon them. The prisoners denied all knowledge of the prosecutor and the robbery, and said there were two other women in the house who could prove they were not at home on Monday night. Willoughby—l directed the two women to attend, and they have not done so. Mr. Ingham directed the police to inquire after the prosecutor's watch, and remanded the prisoners until to-morrow week. Irwin—l shall sail to-morrow, sir, for Balak lava, and cannot attend. Mr. Ingham —Very well Of you are not here next week I must discharge these women. Leave your ad dress and the description of the wateh with the police, and they will endeavour to find it for you. Willoughby—The house where the robbery was com mitted, in Bluegate-fields, is a most infamous brothel. Three other sailors were robbed there on Monday night, and another was plundered of 301, in the same house last night. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. To day's market was but moderately supplied with all kinds of English wheat. For even the finest qualities the demand ruled very inactive, but we have no cha nge t o notice in the prices of Monday. Nearly 8,000 qua rters of foreign wheat have come in. The demand for that grain was heavy, and the quotations were nominally unaltered. Barley and malt were in moderate supply and heavy re. quest at barely late rates. A large supply of oats waa in the market, and the de mand was heavy, at barely late rates. Beans, pear,and flour sold at barely Monday'eNuota tious. Wheat. 1,740 ARRIVALS TIIIS VTRZ. Barley. I Malt. 21 , 911 2,170 Oates. Floor . 650 630 2,430 13,040 —ele• 1 4030 brs tngihsh •• irish •• •• Foreign 3 7 .740 I - BOROIJGH HOP. We hale a moderate demand for fine hope, at full quo tations. Inferior kinds are a slow salo. WIIITECHAPEL. T'-.3 en pplies were and a fad) okyrr.-irr , higine , l WAS u u lu4, a IOiIOW6 frola 33 6d to 4s ou ; 33 4d to 4 s 6d ; veal, 38 8d to 68 4d ; pork, 33 6(1 to 53 2d per tabs by the carcase. ,tgmfk.g tt J.,. on ma, OFFICE, Six o'Clock. ANOTHER VICTORY BY OM e] PACHA. MAPS EILLES, WEDNESDAY. By advices from Copal antinople, just received, we learn that, after a bai4 e, Omer Pacha had taken possession of Khoni,, which is five-and-a-half leagues from Kutais. He found in the plr►o 3 twelve thousand furs. Ho had pushed on tc, the banks of the Rion, and had made preparations -to attack Kutais. RU's SIA. The Vienna :Medical Gazette learns from War saw that Dr. Oppolzer h as received every attention from those attached tot e person of the Viceroy. He was met by one of the, Prince's Adjutants on the frontiers, and is lodged in the Palace. The diagnosis of the famous physicians is, that Prince Paskewitsch is suffering from a cauic erous ulcer is the stomach (perforirendes Magen- g eschwur). His prognostic isftbe more unfavoura t le, because a carbuncle of the size of a man's fist ihas formed near the spine. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Dec. 16.---Those Austrians who, being of au age to render n ail itary service, intentionally maim themselves, are to be severely punished, and then employed in the ha ggage train or in the mili tary hospitals. The Archbishop of Vienna, as sisted by four priests, has made a draft of a law relative to marriages, b'ut no lawyer was consulted on the matter. The draft must be submitted to Jhe Imperial Governm it before it can become the as.v of the land, but no one doubts that it will be approved. When the Empress avpeared in the Opera, after her recent misadventur 9, she was received with great enthusiasm by th.e audience. NAVAL INTELLI GENCE.—(This Day.) ADIVIRAT."I.:Y, WEDNESDAY EVENING. An erroneous impres in to be entertained (probably arising from the publication of an imperfect document), with respect to the ex al nination which is to be held at Portsmouth on the 23d day of January next, fur the purpose of testing the qualifica tions of thirty young gentlemen who have been nominated by the Bon,rel of Admiralty as candidates for Naval Cadetships. The examination is of course confined to those who ha,ve been nominated. The following appointment has been made at the Admiralty this afternoon : • LIFTE'TENANT. His Royal Highness It):riceo Erne3t of Leiningen the Alagicienne. ST. PANCRAS BURIAL BOARD. Yesterday, at a meeting of the parochial authorities of St. Pancras—B. J. E. Wright, Big., in the chair—Mr. Farrer, senior church warden, called the attention of the board to a rumour that when a poor woman, named Knight, went to the Fiuchley Cemetery to see her child interred a few days age, there was no grave prepared for it. In reply to questions put to Mr. C. Greene, the clerk to the burial board, that official stated that due notice had been sent to Mr. Kiwiick, the superintendent of the ground, to prepare the graves necessary. The undertaker, upon being called before the board, stated that upon the hearses arriving at the cemetery with eight adults and six or seven children, there was only one grave dug. The consequence was that the poor woman Knight did not see her child buried. There were several others left. on the ground until graves could be du.• for them. The Churchwarden (Farrer) said that such gross neglect was very disgraceful. It was really heartrend ing ; here was a poor woman most anxious to pay the last tribute of affection to a beloved child, and she was prevented doing so by the most culpable neglect. It was no wonder that the cemetery did not answer, if this was a specimen of the manner in which the burial board conducted their business. This was nob the firet com plaint of the sort which bad been made, and it really became the duty of the directors to see that more respect was paid to the remains of the poor. He was sorry to say that it was also true that the bereaved woman, who bore an excellent character, fell from the hearse on her return, and sustained a severe injury on her head. It was ultimately resolved to refer the matter to the burial board, Mr. Wellby, one of its members, under• taking that the matter should be immediately inquired into. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending] Doe. 15, 1855 £10,636 3 6 Corresponding week last year 10,745 11 7 Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 378,644 15 11 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 366,878 17 10 LONDON AND SOUTH-BASTBRN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Dec. 15, 1855 ‘15,053 6 5 Corresponding week last year 13,469 16 10 IncremeeinlBss ... £4,588 9 7 GLASGOW AID SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffie re turn for the week ending Deo. 15, 1855 £5,623 19 9 aarresponding week last year 5,111 3 3 Jvaxsa,se in 1855 8514 16 6 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) Lowpox, Doe. 19.—Wind this day at noon, E., fresh breeze and fine frosty weather. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 18.—Wind E.S.E., blowing! hard —Arrived—Merchants Own, from Charleston, for Havre ; Emigrant, New York, for Bremen, with head and stein started, bowsprit sprung, &c., from contact with the Wal ter Flood, from London, for Sydney, N.S.W., arrived here with bulwarks and stancheona damaged. Sailed-- Arle.rgaretha, for Bahia. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON. Wednesday Morning. Arrived.—Oak, from Cork ; Belle, Aberdeen. Sailed.—Maria, for Tyne ; South-Western, (s.), Jer sey ; Duke of Cornwall, (I.), London. The fine clipper-ship Virginia, bound from Hamburg, for San Francisco, brought up in Southampton waters, having been ashore; she will go into the large graving dock for examination to-morrow. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived.—Orontes, from Constantinople; Sebastopol, Quebec. Off.—Excelsior, from New York; S. Charles, New Or leans ; Mercury, Prince Edward's Island. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 17. Wind S.E. Arrived.—General Hewett, from Callao ; Canvass Back, Baltimore ; Cognath Mendelli, Alexaniria. HOLYHEAD, Dee. 18. Wind S.E. Arrived.—Sabina, from Dunkirk ; White Mouse, Africa; Capricorn, Havre ; Catherine, Nantes ; Peaguse, Bor deaux. WINIENPOINT, Dec. 17. Wind W. Arrived.—Bliza, from St. John's, N.B. (BT SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 9.51 a.m. Wind E. ; tide, last hour's flood ; weather fine and frosty. Arri Ted, Dec. 19. —Challenge, from Prince Edward's Island. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Jenny Pitts, fur Rio Janeiro, Deo. 1, 39 N., 24 W. North Star (ship), outward bound , Nov. 4, 13 N., 27 W. Adelaide (brig), outward bound, Nov. 20, 37 N., 34 W. Ocean, from Liverpool to Newfoundland, 49 N., 2 4 W. H. J. Woolley, from Callao to Queenstown, 51 N., sup. plied with water. Rosario, for Pernamhuco, Deo. 2, 49 N., 12 W. Ca3sar, for Queenstown, Dec. 10, 51 N., 8 W. Mary Ann (Dutch ship), Nov. 4, 9 N., 28 W. W. H. Tburley (American ship), Nov. 6, 11 N., 28 W. Mary Wood (barque), Nov. 11, 22 N., 24 W. Chevalier, Nov. 14, 27 N., 33 W. Gezustus (Dutch barque), Nov. 21, 31 N., 36 NV. Roe, from Africa to Liverpool, Nov. 30, 47 N., 27 W.— crew sick, and supplied with two men. Henry Clay, from Liverpool to New York, Dec. 7, 27 N., 50 W. Saucy Jack (I.), for Queenstown, Nov. 20, 38 N., 10 W. Euxine, bound S., Dec. 11, 50 N., 10 W. North Fleet, Dec. 3, 38 N. , 10 E. Eveline, came day. Queen (s.s.), Dec. 4, 38 N., 6 E. City of London, Nov. 28, off the Isle of Tenedos. Gironde (9.5.), same day. Grout Republic, Nov. 29, off the Isle of St. Georg e. Etrien (so:. tpt.) , N ov. 30, 36 N., 20 E. Crimea (brig), bound E., off Tariff". Arethusa, bound E., same day. Egyptian (s. s .). D ec . 13, 41 N., 10 W. Evening Star, from London to I,lelbourne, 7 N., 23 W. Dorothea, of London, for Rio Janeiro, Deo. 11, 48 N., 9 W. Margaret, of and from Halifax to Liverpool, N0v.23, 45 N., 17 W. Dunrobin Castle, from Shields to Arica, Oet. 2, 59 S., 76 W. Fanny S. Paley, from New Orleans to Liverpool, Oct. 16. off Salt Key Bank. Fi•lz, from New Orleans to Liverpool, Oct. 18, off Mautino Reef. Sardinian, from Savannah to Liverpool, Oct, 19, 32 N., 78 R. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, DEC. 18. In cotton cloth a more active demand has been expe rienced, but higher prices have been asked, and the busi ness transacted, though considerable, has not been large. The advices from China are considered very favourable, both as regards exchanges and the prospects of business, and shippers hare been inquiring actively for the better makes of 40-inch shirtiege, including 60, 64, and 66 reed cloths. Manufacturers, however, have asked as much as lid., and in seine cases 3d. per piece advance, and this has checked the business. Printers, also, have been active buyers of cloth suited to the home markets. For India the business done was not so large as ex pected, but some considerable orders were in the market, the execution of which has been prevented by higher rates being demanded. In addition to more cheering accounts from foreign markets, an easier state of the money-market aid the rumours of peace (though not much credited) have had no effect in producing a better feeling. !sl en of considerable experience regard affairs R 8 in a much better position than for some time pa't, though the complaints from manufacturers and spinners of unremunerative prices are still very numerous. There has been less business in yarre , , both by shippers and on account of manufacturers, but no change in prices. The suspension of a large spinner and manufacturer at Firwood, near Middleton (!Ir. James Cheetbam), was mentioned on the Exchange, and took people a good deal by surprise. The amount of liabilities was so variously stated that it will be better to avoid giving the rumours on that head. The meeting of creditors is called for Friday. It is feared that the stoppage will bring down one or two smaller manufacturers who were connected with the concern. LEEDS, DEL 18. There has been a fair amount of business done in the cloth-halls this morning, taking into account the season of the year. The tone of the woollen trade is at least firm, with some signs of improvement. Some of the manufacturing villages in the neighbourhood have just received en accession of work in the shape of orders for from 12,000 to 15,000 ends of Spanish stripes for the Chin► and India trade, which has for some time been but slack. The news from America has given a little impe tus to the houses engaged in the export trade to that land, and they are beginning to give out orders. Wool con• tinues firm in price, and there is no great disposition to sell. By order of the trustees public announcement wag made in the Coloured Cloth-hall during the time the market was held to-day that, in consequence of next Tuesday being Christmas-day, the market will be held on Wednesday in next week, instead of Tuesday. The report of to-day's Huddersfield cloth market is again of a satisfactory character. A better feeling ap peared to prevail, and a tolerable amount of steel mix tures, unions, and other goods changed hands. Job lots at reduced prices were in demand. Wool was steady in price. STRAND THEATRE. This little theatre, in imitation of its many larger rivals, provides a pantomime for its holiday patrons. Jerrold's " Black Eyed Susan" gives the subject, which is here called, Black lyed Sue, or All in the Downs and Davy Jones' Locker. The author of the opening scenes is Mr. F. Tallourd, whose brilliant success in Ganem, Shylock, Macbeth, Alcestft, and many other extravagan z:is and burlesques, is a sufficient guarantee of the good ness and point of the dialogue. The opening scene in troduces us to the realms of Davy Jones, who appears presiding over his locker in the depths of ocean, and lamenting that " For full six weeks, I've reckoned up by Cocker, No Tar has come to Davy Jones' Locker. Indeed now I deliberately reflect, There's really nought worth speaking of been wrecked Since the renewal of the present war Except the flcst of my good friend the Czar, Who, as a means to keep th em f rom hi s foes all, Has kindly sent them down for my dispose]." A ship is wrecked, and Davy's imps speedily dispose of the drowned seamen in the locker. Hatchet, one of the sufferers, to prolong his own existence, promises to encompass the death of William, who has offended Davy by saving the ship and crew, of which he forms one. The next scene introduces us to Susan in her cottage, a lovely black-eyed damsel, who thus berncans her fate— " William, not. yet from sea, oh, dear ! oh, dear ! He's boatswain there while I'm left tenant here." The cruel uncle, in answer to Susan's appeal for time, only replies— " By tears my purpose isn't to bo shaken, And gammon, Ma'am, you'll find won't save your bacon." William, a la T. P. Cooke, returns and finds his Sue rather too attractive to the Captain, and in revenge cuts off his superior officer's pigta►l, Susan exclaiming— " Leave me, an °Meer should be taught betterer, Who harms a female in distress, et cetera." A coral grot introduces us to a pretty collection of sea nymphs and Britannia, who are visited by Rumour, rather a valuable character, with a hundred tongues, who informs them, inter alia, of William's dilemma, and secures their aid. William's farewell of his messmates and approaching execution, somewhat ludicrously treated, leads us to the transformation scene, which is marvellously complicated and gorgeous for so small a house. The Harlequinade introduces Mr. Ricketts, from Dublin, as Clown, Mr. French as Harlequin, Mr. Priorson, an old hand, as Pantaloon, and the gay and gracaful Mdlle. Hinrade as Columbine. The comic scenes are replete with smart and practical hits at the follies of the day. The scenery, by Mr. H. Saunders, is equal to that of moil(' pretentious rivals. A novel act drop, dedicated to the spirit of the age, is an other feature introduced by Mr. Payne. INJURY TO FRENCIi PAINTINGS BY FIRE. The distribution of the prizes and medals awarded to the pupils of the ImperialSchoo I o f the Beaux Arts, Paris 1 • urmg the year 1554,55, which took place in the Amphitheatre des Etudes of that establishment, was marked by a sad disaster. At about nine o'clock in the morning, one of the pipes of the calorifere, in the grand amphitheatre, where the sitting was to take place, had become red hot, and had set fire to the estrade prepared for the ceremony. Fortunately the flames were per ceived in time to prevent their spreading far, but the estrade, chairs, hanging, and fligs were consumed, and the paintings on the wall, by M. Delaroche, injured. It was in consequence of this accident that the distribution took place in the Amphitheatre des Etudes. At the commencement of the proceedings M. FouW, Minister of State, referring to the fire, expressed himself as follows : Gentlernen,—Before having the honour of opening this sitting, I wished to assure myself of the amount of dan2a,ge inflicted on the fine work of one of the lends of this school, and I am happy to state that the hemi-cycle 1e of M. Delaroche has not bee n seriously injured by the fire which broke out in the course of the morning. ' Unfortunately there is too much reason to belies that M. Fould was too sanguine, and that Paul Delaroche's great work has received irreparable damage. We read in the account of the accident given in the Ddiate : " The flames, which spread rapidly in all di rec ti ons, attacked priLcipally M. Delaroche's fine paintings, which are in great part destroyed. The cement which kept the stones together is destroyed, the stucco which covered the surface of the painting is all in lumps from the heat, the colours have run in such a quantity that they form a hard surface at the bottom of the wall so strong as not to be removed by bard rubbing. In short, with the ex caption of the section containing the portrait of Rubens, where the colours are preserved, M. Delaroche's work is completely disSgured. 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It would be unfair, however, to his memory, to consider him merely as the friend of men distinguished in every branch of human achievement and human attainment ; he had in his own person attained considerable distinction in various ways. As a poet his name will continue to occupy an eminent place upon the catalogu e o f c l ass i cal Engl i sh wr i ters — as a literary critic, as a judicious connoisseur in art, and more especially in p a i nt i ng, few men have been his equals. For half a century, too, his home was the centre of literary society, and the chi e f pr id e of Mr. Rogers lay not so much in gathering r oun d h i s table men who had already achieved eminence as in stretchin g forth a help ing hand to friendless merit. Wherever he discerned ability and power in a youth new to the turmoils and struggles of London life, it was his delight to introduce his young client to those whom he might one day Lope to equal. The courtesy and consideration of the host soon drew forth the same qualities in his guests. Ma n y a , man now living can remember that on a Saturday ni g h t he went to bed an unknown lad, thinking of the cele brated men of his time as a person thinks who has only read about them, and on Sunday walked home from the hospitable house of Mr. Rogers encouraged to persevere in his task by the hearty good wishes and friendly syni pathy of those, who had heretofore appeared tg? him injustice indeed as inhabitants of a no th er wor ld. G rea t indeed should we do to the memory of Samuel Rogers, if in the few remarks we venture to offer upon his dia meter we did not give the first place to his boundless and unassuming charity, of which his unvarying kind ness to literary men at the outset of their career was but a single form. Were this the proper place to recount hi:toiies of this kind we could tell many a tale of forlorn and well nigh hopeless wretchedness relieved by his band. It was not necessary with him, as with costive philanthropists, that misery should have what is called a "claim" upon him, in order to bring hial to the garret where it lay pining. He had seen mention of it in the police reports, or in the public journals he had heard it spoken of at the dinner-table of a friend. No rennlrk issued from his 1 ips at the time; he heard it as though he heard it not; but the next day betimes he might have been seen in person examining into the truth of the representation, and, it need were, affording relief with no sparing hand. All this was den. without ostentation and without boast. No living man can pretend to say that this was his prac tice throughout his whole life, for be has worn out three or four generations of men ; but it would be strange in deed if the youth and manhood of Rogers had in this re spect been materially different from his protracted old age. _ _ - The biography of Samuel Rogers would involve the history of Eui ope since George 111., then in the bloom of youth, declared to his subjects that "he g loried in the mass of Briton." It is now well-nigh a quarter of a century since that Monarch was carried to his grave in extreme age, worn out with mental and bodily disease. Let us take the most notable historic drama of the cen tury 17P3-1815 the rise, decline, and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. This was but an episode in the life of Samuel Rogers. He was a young man of some standing in the world, fully of an age to appreciate the meaning and importance of the event, when the States-General were assembled in France. If we remember right, he actually was present in Paris at or about the time, and may have heard with his own ears Mirabeau hurling defiance at the Court, and seen Danton and Robespierre whispering to each other that their time was not yet come. Let us go back to other events as standards of acimeasurement. As the war of the French Revolution and that against Napoleon Bonaparte were episodes in the ripe manhood, so was the American war an episode in the boyhood of Rogers. He was of an age to appre ciate the grandear, if not the political meaning of events, when Rodney won his naval victories and when General Elliot successfully defended Gibraltar. He could remem ber our differences with our American colonies and the battles of Bunker's Hill, Brandywine, and German Town, as well as a man now in manhood can remember the throe glorious days cf July and the Polish insurrection. To have lived in the days of General Washington, and to have heard discussions as is the propriety of admitting the independence of the North American Provinces, and to have been alive but yesterday, seems well-nigh an im possibility ; but such was the case of Samuel Rogers. When he opened his eyes upon the world that great and powerful country which is now known as the United. States of North America was but an insignificant depend ence of the mother country—a something not so im portant as the Antilles, even in their forlorn condition, are at the present moment. They were just rising to be somewhat of a little more significance than the " planta tions" to which Defoe smuggled off the troublesome characters in his fictitious tales. They now constitute one of the most powerful States in the comity of nations. Let us take another test—that of our Indian empire. But three or four years before the birth of the subject of these remarks Colonel Clive fought the battle of Plassy and laid the foundation of it. He lived through the government of India by Warren Hastings, and, being in London at the time, could well understand the discus sions which took place upon the subject of the India Bill. The battle of Assays found him a man forty years of age. He was in full possession of his faculties when Lords Hardinge and Gough won their victories in North-Western India, but the other day. It would be superfluous to lay before our readers any contrast be tween the dates of other political events at which this remarkable man must have assisted, at least as an intel ligent spectator. Let them carry their minds to the days of Wilkes and the Duke of Grafton, and remember but the mere names of the statesmen who have administered the affairs of the country from that time to the present, and they will have present to their recollection a list of the associates and friends of the late Mr. Rogers. As might be expected, his more intimate associations were natu rally with the leading men of the Liberal party, but such was his courtesy of temper and of manner that he was received upon a friendly footing even by those with whom he was known to differ on points of political prin ciple. A mere politician he never was at any period of his career. It is, however, to the literary history of the century we must mainly look for a correct appreciation of Rogers's career. He not only outlived two or three go nerations of men, but two or three literary styles. The Poet of Memory, as he has been called, must not ho rashly judged by the modern student, whose to-te has been partly exalted, partly vulgarised, by the perform ances of later writers ;—we are speaking of a contem porary of Dr. Johnson. Rogers inutrt have been a young man, some 20 years old, when the great lexicographtr died, and therefore a great portion of Johnson's writ ings must have been to him contemporary literature. Let those who are inclined to cavil at the gentler inspirations of Rogers think for a moment upon what English poetry was between the deaths of Goldsmith and Johnson and the appearance of Walter Scott's first great poem. Cowper redeems the solitary waste from absolute condemnation as the most. unfortunate epoch in our literature. Rogers n) doubt formed his style upon earlier models, but he was no servile copyist ;—he could feel, without any ten dency to apish imitation, the beauties of such authors as Dryden and Pope. The poem by which his name is principally known to the public will always remain as among the classical pieces of English literature, while some of his smaller poems will never cease to hang in the memory of men while the English language is under stood. This, however, is not the proper place for enter ing upon any critical disquisition as to the literary merits of the remarkable man who has just terminated his long career. Our intention reaches no further than to call attention to the remarkable duration of his life, and t o o pay a tribut e o f respec t t o the memory of a a ble man on who richly s 7h richly deserved it. Among the many rem , a c rk onsider P ed as which may be mentioned in that of a literary ma n, the fact that during the greater portion o flis life he was a wealthy his should i career be Particularised ofw ißsclyormo,n,tbwratortdhse. of and banker in the cityof London. It must have been intellectualbyan ex. traordinary combination of position, ly an r d iva o l f social qualitih*eae,woafs prudence, and same man a a n nd w Scott, talked finance with Huskisson and Peel upon equal terms, exchanged bon ewes with Talley raud, and was the friend of all the emi nen t men and o f many of the indigent and miser a bl e w h o flourished and suffered dining three parts of a century. Such a nd , man W 53 Samuel Rogers. Mr. Rogers was born in the year 1762, and bad there fore attained the venerable age of 93. In 1787, after completing a course of travel, he published his " Ode to Superstition," and other p oems ; an d fi ve years l ater appeared the " Pleasures of Memory," by which his fares as a poet was established. In 1798 he published , his " Epistle to a Fri en d," an d other poems ; in 1814 his " Vision of Columbus and Jacqueline ;" in 1819, " Human Life ;" and in 1822, the first part of " Italy," on the. illustration and printing of which 10,0001. is said to have been spent. Mr. Rogers's house in St. James's place is a perfect treasury of att. The pictures are amongst the best of their class, and th oug h f ew i n num• her are said to have cost 6,0001. ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER, SAVINGS•EANK. — The savings•bank which was opened in the Vestry-room of St. James's parish last April has met with great success. From the time of its commencement to the present date a period of eight months, it has o p en ed 413 accounts, sod recei ve d'd eposifi to the amou nt of 2, 2621. 6s. 2d ; an extent of business that far exceeds that done at first by many of the savings-banks which are now among in the it the isolflopth_oefEa_rl London,o fD Derby, largest in El E le n s g m la er n e d ; a n T d he am pr o e j : g ide t n h t e cf na t m ln e s s bank is f PRICE or GOLD.—The quotation . of gold at Paris i s the lis t Earl ov i o e f ° .P resi Aberdeen,ents a a i r 4d e i those English Mint price of 31. I I d about 4 per Bailie premium (accordirrgto_tire last tariff), which, at the -• • p ear s tandard gold, gives an exchange of 25'27 ; e at Paris on London at s h ort being Ronudnee the eor exchange 25 . 22#, it follows that gold is about 0 . 18 per cent, dearer in Paris than in Lond . on. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 420 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17e. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, g i v es an exchange of 13.48 ; and, th e exchange at Hams burg on London at short being 13.4 ? 2 , it follows that gold is 0.13 per cent, dearer in Hamburg than in London: The course of exchange at New York on London fo bills at 60 days' eight is about 108/ per cent., and, the par c; exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nom i nally 1.03 per cent. against England • but, after making allowance for charges of transport and di fferen ce of in terest, the pres en t ra t e l eaves no pro fit on the transmis sion of gold either Wa y b e t ween kite two countries, -~--, - 81 6 101 i 584 1 OS 304 16/ 15/ ----~ I_ Q"