The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

" deliciou „, dream," has to guess and wonder whether we shall get over the 4th of each month without the suffering and humiliation of vast in solvency ; to watch with sleepless vigilance the condition of the gold in the Bank coffers, to be racked- by hope and fear if the arrivals from Aus tralia bo delayed a week ; to be agonised by an east wird. All because wo persist in staking our existence on the possession of gold, and at the same time in supporting a law that renders it impossible we should permanently retain it. I say the law prevents the possibility of our keeping possession of the gold. Gold money and paper money will not for any length of time circulate together at equal values. There are two distinct values in the coin—the , egal tender value and the metallic value, and these 1 elo not coinciie, but vary inversely to each other. Thus, supposing a large quantity of metal to be taken up by the Mint to be coined and issued, the bullion would become scarcer and rise in value, While the legal tender would become more abun dant, fall in value. At Melbourne when coin had become very scarce, an ounce of coined gold actually commanded en ounce and a third of uncoined gold of equal fineness. While the monopoly we have assigned to gold raises its value as metal, the issue of legal tender paper, making legal tender more abundant, lowers the value of the legal tender. The price of the gold being fixed by the law which binds the Bank to take all the gold offered at 3/. 17s. 9d., and to pay it out at 3/ 17s. 10d., this alternation in value of money in, for a time, only indicated by the rise in value of all other articles. This rise stimulates large exports. The importer looks around for his returns, all commodities have risen. We are under no engagement to supply iron, lead, tin, or any other article at a fixed price, except gold. We thus bribe the foreigner to take our gold instead of our goods. The gold being gone the Bank is compelled to redace her issues of paper. Eight hundred private and joint-stock banks are instantly afflicted with the cramp, and seek to lock up the remaining money by increasing their reserves. Now, as unreduced debts cannot be paid by re duced money, this phasic of our system is equiva lent to a general decree of loss or insolvency against all who by commercial enterprise have been con tributing to the welfare of the country. Just at this moment the watchful Times advises caution, recommends all to limit their transactions, which means limiting employment, which is limiting the life of the labourer. It is equivalent to a proclae ation through the land, " Now get ye to the workhouse or to your graves." No other resource is left to the labourer thrown out of em ployment by this fatal system. Even the press, the tardigrade press generally, is beginning to inquire into a system which becomes daily more incompatible with the advances of com mercial civilisation. It is impossible much longer to bind industry and its complicated divisions of labour down to barter —nay, what is worse, to a monopoly of barter for gold. Free trade will not tolerate this bondage. The paper system, which the instincts and neces sities of the people have continually enlarged, can not longer be permitted to rest on the narrow basis of gold, rendered unstable both by the law and by the increased rapidity of communication with foreign States. A foreign loan or speculation, a short harvest, a telegraphic despatch, anything, in short, may, by causing a sudden exportation of gold, derange our whole commercial system. I scarcely need recall to your mind how frequent and fatal such panics have been, how fertile of insolvency, misery end crimes, and that in the depth of our ruin and the triumph of our prosperity the amount of our wealth was exactly the same, but disorganised by the failure of our monetary system. It will be well for the Times seriously to consider whether it will be be coming its rank and character to be the first to err, the last to learn, in a matter so deeply involving the interests of civilisation and humanity. It is a vulgar error, that the value of legal tender money depends on the obligation of the issuer to redeem it in gold, or to redeem it at all, or to give any security whatever. The value of wheat depends on the fact that it ministers to the great human necessity of satisfying hunger. The value of legal tender depends on its legal power of ministering to the equal human necessity of satisfying debt, and in both cases those values will vary exactly in proportion to their abun dance and scarcity relatively to the wants of man kind. To satisfy debt is the sole function of money and the sole element of its value. Money ought not to-be merchandise which can be melted and robbed of its vital function as the canceller of debt. Instead of " the promise to pay," which - appears so simple and definite to the 9 imes, it is payment which is more simple and definite still. The only problem to solve is to maintain it in such quanti ties as shall be in harmony with the just require ments of industry. What are the conditions we seek? The first and most sacred right we have to protect is that of the labourer to full employment. I have shown that increased money of neeessity increases employment and sustains prices. A sufficient issue of legal ten der money will give full employment to labour, producing the greatest amount of national wealth, and the money that produces the wealth will al ways be able to effect its distribution, securing the greatest amount of national happiness. In 1853, with abundance of legal tender money, labour was fully employed in every branch through out the kingdom ; all the classes you have enume rated were happy, prosperous, and contented. Every man was his own Chancellor of the Exchequer. The air was everywhere resonant with the music of gipsey parties of the labouring classes, there was joy and contentment throughout the land, and the workhouses were empty. The Bank of England, under the compulsion of the law, reduced its issues, and at the present moment the workhouses and gaols are altogether insufficient to contains the paupers and criminals ; our wealth and means of wealth being identically the same, the derange ment of .our monetary system alone disorganises every interest. The Times has fulfilled many a mission of humanity and justice ; I still hope it will look more deeply than it has hitherto done into this all-important question, and that it will enter its powerful protest against the happiness of the people being longer made the sport of an obsolete 'heory.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. C. SALT. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For tho week ended Dec. 13;1855, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. 1 EARLEY. OATS. RTE. 1 BEANS. PEAS 831 Id 42i 5.1 23s 61 1 53 s 9d 523 31 50s 9d THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. WIIBAT. • BARLEY, OATS. RIE. BEANS. I, PEAS. Bls 41 40s 8d , 28s 4d 52e 7d 52e Od 51s 5d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 114,853; Barley. 128,143 ; Oats, 17,203 ; Rye, 301 ; Beans, 5,646; Peas, 2,653 warier& MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The trade ruled steady, at full prices. Bees, from 3s 6tl to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 48 10d; Pork, 3s 6d to 58 2d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOLITH4LL, Dec. ]2.—The supplies of stook were mode rate, and a steady business was transacted, as follows : Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 3e 6d to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s 10d to 5s 03; Perk, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. RONFORD, Dec. 12.—We had a good trade here to-day, at very full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to Ss 2d ; Mutton, 3s Id to 56 Od ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10(.. ; Pork, 3s 4d to is 10d per 81bs. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 224 to 28s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITEITIELD.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s to 61 Gs ; clover ditto, 4/ 15s to 71 Os ; and straw, 1/ 4s Od to 1/ 10s Od peT Trade firm. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadovr hay, 41 8s to 6/ 6s clover do.. 4 1 15s to 61 18s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 11 103 per load. A moderate supply, an •l a steady trade. Wilmon.B.Pist.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s to Cl Os; cloven do., 4/ 15s to 71 7s ; and straw, 11 4B to 1110 a per load Trade steady. LILLIESLEAL—The concluding Series of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland. Written by her self. 8 vols. The Athenceunt, in its notice of this in teresting book, says, " The concluding series of passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret iaitland, is, to our think ing, superior to the beginning, and this we take to be about the most satisfactory compliment we can pay the authoress. There is a vein of simple good sense and pious feeling running throughout for which no reader can fail to be the better." The war steam paddle-transport Telegraph arrived at Southampton on Tuesday. She is fitted up for convey ing about 60 officers, a few troops, and about 250 tons of light stores. She is remarkably fast, for although her tonnage is only 819 tons, her engines are 450-horse power, and she is admirably adapted to carry despatches, or for rapid transport of sick and wounded troops. THE NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH DocK.—A meeting of the Town Council of Tynemouth was held at Shields on Tuesday, when it was unanimously resolved to forward memorials to the Lords of the Admiralty and the River Tyne Commissioners in favour of the proposed North Shields and Tynemouth Dock. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--LIVERPOOL, Wednes day.—An accident, attended with fatal results, occurred on the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Railway, this morning. It appears that Mr. John Blaylock, late assistant overseer of the township of Tranmere, was about to proceed to Knutsford, to attend a funeral, by the 6.20 a.m. train, from Lime Kiln line, and when stepping into the carriage his foot slipped and the train passed over his bead, killing the unfortunate gentleman on the spot. The deceased was between GO and 70 years of age, and was highly respected in the neighbourhood where he resided. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 13 1855. IVIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed very firmly, and the prices of American and Surat were id. per lb. dearer, but all other kinds were unchanged in value. The sales were 8,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken on speculation. They comprised 200 Pernam and Maranham, 6d. to 6id. ; 150 Bahia, 6d. to 6id. ; 260 Egyptian, sid. to lid. ; and 1,200 Surat, 3id. to 4d. per lb. The Railway Share Market was steady, at about the currency of Tuesday. The letters received from the textile manufac turing districts do not report any improvement in the condition of trade ; and as the stocks are in creasing a downward movement in prices will most likely ensue. Wool and cotton have ruled rather firmer, but this has had no effect upon the current values of manufactures. In Manchester, stocks are limited of cloth and yarn, the supply of the latter having been reduced in consequence of the strike. Many of the mills are now working "short time," and the quotations are expected to advance. In the wool market, at Halifax, there has been more animation, and prices tend upwards. The state of affairs on the Paris Bourse continues unsettled, and buyers are not inclined to make large investments. Speculators for the fall in the railway market have it considerably under their , command, but many are afraid of Saturday next, which is settling day. Compared with the previous day's prices a further decline occurred yesterday in East of France, Lyons, Great Central, and Western, of 2f. 500. to sf. per share. Bank Stook is firm at the advanced quotations of last week, and continues to rise, while the shares of the Credit' Mobilier are still falling. In French Rentes a de cline of 50 centimes has taken place in the 4i per Cents. for money, and 30a. for the account ; and in the 3 per Cent. Stocks 15c. for money, while for the account no alteration has taken place. Telegraph accounts from Madrid state that the payment of the second quarter interest on the Na tional external debt will take place at Paris and London on the 15th inst. It is announced also that the Government of Mexico has suspended pay.; meat of the Spanish debt. Propositions are stated to have been made by the Grand Central Railway Company of France, relative to the Madrid and Saragossa Railway, which have been accepted. The subscriptions for the sum of 15 million florins allotted to the public, out of the proposed capital of the New Austrian Bank of Credit, con tinue to increase largely, and an enormous list is expected to accumlate at the close, on the 15th inst. It is stated that the subscribers both foreign and local are people in affluent circumstances. The , : New Bank Shares have risen to 117. On the Vienna Bourse, however, business was excessively dull, the public funds were declining, all kinds of shares were freely offered, with few buyers, and money was getting scarce again. It is evident that the recent improvement in the money market was but temporary, and the foreign exchanges are on the rise. On London it has advanced from 10.4 to 10.42, and on Paris from 1271 to 128. Favourable accounts have been received from Belgium of the improved traffic returns on the principal lines of railway. The receipts for the month of November, on the Antwerp and Ghent line amount to 50,472 fr. this year ; which com pared with the same month last year show an in crease of 6,899 fr., and that with 1853, is 4,346 fr. greater. Accounts from Stettin announce that the frost had set in there with such severity that the navi gation from thence to Swinemunde was declared to be entirely stopped. The question of constructing a canal to Kos tendje has been again on the tapis. The represen tations of the company formed to carry out the project have definitively settled with the authori ties at Constantinople, and everything has been signed and sealed to the satisfaction of all parties. In Public Securities there is very little anima tion, but the market now rul4s rather firmer than at the commencement of business. The reported surrender of Kars, and the increased inquiry for discount accommodation for the Turkish Loan instalment, due to-morrow, and that on the English, payable next Tuesday, have de pressed the quotations and limited specu lation. The latter cause of uneasiness may probably soon be removed, however, and many are now inclined to attach less importance to the intelligence from Kars than they did upon its arri val yesterday. Owing to an idea which gained some ground that the Bank of England would re duce the rate upon long dated bills, the Funds im proved, but as this step was not resolved upon at the directors' meeting they have again become rather flatter. Consols which had been 88i # rose to 88i and at one period were nearly buyers at the 84 hut they are DOW 881 New 3 per Cents. are 88 to 89, and the Reduced, 88 11. Exchequer Bills are 7s. to 3s. discount. The Foreign Securities have continued in a quiescent state, and the fluctuations in the quota tions have not generally been of importance. Turkish 6 per Cents., however, have advanced to 831 and 83-i, and foraccount the prices have reached 83i to 84. Nothing has been done in the New Scrip. Russian 5 per Cents. are 2 per cent. lower than on Tuesday, namely, 961. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are heavy at 98k, the New 5 per Cents. at 97/, and Danish 5 per Cents. at 101. Dutch Bonds rule steady, the 21 per Cents. being 63/, and the 4 per Cents. 94. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ; Mexican, 19 to I ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 44 to 46 ; Russian Five per Cents., 97 t 099 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 88 to 90; Spanish Three per Cents., 39i to ; ditto Passive, 7-1, to 7i ; ditto Deferred, 205 to ; ditto Certificates, 41 to 1. This is " ticket day" in the Railway Market, and the adjustment of the account is in progress. Money is dear, and the rates of " contango°' are in most cases heavy. Caledonian and North- Western are rather higher. Great Western of Canada have advanced about Foreign Shares are neglected. Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares are without alteration. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES, ( Pron•. the Official List. Busine( done. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ......•. B BB . per Cent Consols Annuities Shut , New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, expire stb Jan. 1860 -- Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6/ 5-16 India Stock Shut India Bonds, £lOOO .. Ditto, under £lOOO 3 6 2 rlon.ols ?or Account BS d Etehequer Bills, 24d. 21000 ••• 'Ruud] 2 6 Ditto Bonds, 1859 18 9 58, 3i per Cent 97i 8k 7i 8/ ~ 2, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto New, 5 per Cent., 1829 and 1839 97i Ditto 7 per Cent. (Matanza awl Sabanilla) 99 Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 — Ditto 5 per Cent 'lexicon 3 per Cent. Ditto Account l9a i Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 96; t Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..:...... l'urlubh Ronda, fi per cent B 3i ri-'4 Ditto for the Account . 83i i 4 34 i Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the account 34 rivideads on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cont., 12 Gull 63i Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 94 i THREE O'CLOCK, Consols ........................... .. Ditto for Account Jan. 10 DEATH Or JONES THE PUGILIST. —The prize fight which took place on Tuesday between Madden and Jones has terminated fatally. One of the principals in the affair, Jones, died yesterday morning, at Long Reach, from the injuries he received during the fight. THE PRESS AFLOAT.—A singular compliment is about to be paid to Mr. W. Russell, of the Times. The largest vessel ever built at West Hartlepool will shortly be launched from the yard of Mr. John Pile, a well-known shipbuilder, and will be called "The Times' Correspon dent," SUAVE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAI LWAYS. BAn.wias. Cliosing Prim this dAy. 22 - 3$ - 3$ .» - .. 7i 8 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 79 81 54i - b4i 11 - 12 ••• -- ••• .1 -__- :i6 11 - 19 84 81 27 - 29 17 - 19 64 504 - 514 - 91 164 - 174 77 - 79 6i - 7 88 - 89 71 73 120 122 102 104 50i 514 70 - lb - 6 - T 6 7r 761 - 774 - 64 94 96 93 941 11 1,11 1 3 I} 833 c6i 6 5 64 - 36 - 38 ••• "^" •• 7 42 - 45 28; ._ 29} 674 - 68 8k - 5 - 961 114 - 12 44i 454 92 -9T 8i - 4 - 54 22 - 24 00 102 72 74 42 44 11 12 57 58 31i —31 i 5 2d 34 - 36 4 - 6 Business dot 0 this day. 1 , 30 I kberken....., ..... gt,likrabg. Nottng. Bost landEastn. innet... all 13&..fast & Ballymetu. 411 Birming, Wolverh gtour Vali, y Lauesl.. Cheshire Jima all Do. Chola,. & Birk. £5O and £25 Cons 19 Do. • ....... all Myth origina £25 (issd. at £45, 100 Bristol and Exeter.- 1100 Caledonian Us. Cann. and Cardigan Chester es Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon,. all Cork, Black, at Pass 1S Cornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B ieff Junction 45 Du olin&BolfastJunc all Dun. P. & Aber, Jnc. all Do. Yr..? 100 East AL Tian 11 1 Eastern Counties.. 100 Past. Union, A SO 100 De., B. Stot,t 84, Do., New A 73 East Kent 100 l'ast Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgo all Edinb. and Peebles 010 Edin. Prth & Durtdise 9 rorth & Clyde Jrn all Furness all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow BLS. West , , all Great N. of Scotlnd. l 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock 1)0 Gt. Sth. &Mesta:T. ), 100 Great Western I Do. Stour Val Rai, Gua. Stir all Irish :louth-Ester , ; Ili Lancaster & Carl is' c 'Ai Do., Thirds 7 Do. Now Thirds 00 Lancash.andYorks' , pa.. wilt. aiding Un. all L17. - Orsby.&SouthJA all Loudon & Blackwa? .O 0 Lona. Bright & S.Cs 00 Lond. and N. Wef tn. 16 Du. Fifths 5i Ino.lol. 8 •CI bo, Itighths , 100 hondonandS, Westt s 7. Do., .£5; .... .t 8 Do. £Y6.. ililiadndrrydt Col era ‘ll Lndudrr".& Entrlall 100 Mauch.Shef. & Linel all Do. Shares, No. 425. Mao. &Lin. ITr, 1 Metropolitan 100 Midland 100 I to. liirning.&Derl , all Midld. G. West.(lre all Do. Half Shares sll Newcastle & Carlisle all Nwpt..Aberg. &11rfd 8 Newry & Enniskillei all Newry Warrenpoint and itostrovor 160 Norfolk 3 Northn.ConntiesUn 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 ail Do., No. 2 all Do., A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed 100 N. Eastern—Berwic" 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do .do. G.N.E.7turch al Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London 3 . 4 &S.Wstrn.,Hamr stead, and City Jn.. 17A North Staffordshir. , .. al. North Western all N. &S. Westrn. Juno Nuneaton, Hinckley mud Leicester.. on )x, Wore., k Woly 8 Ports:aonth 00 o.,i;ish Central .0 . Scottish Midland... .00 4hropshire Un'on a!) South Devon South Eastern all South Wales 1.!" , S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 14 Staines, Wok. &Wok a'l tockton & Darn , . 16 it4. , ..kton di Hrrtlepl rafr Vale r)o. Pref., No. 1.. 21 ' 1 ; Hay. P.& R, Cilverstone & Lanes. sOl Vale of all. Waterfd. & Kilkenny all 'A'nterford&Limeri{•k all West Cornwall. 8 , Viet End of London and Crystal Palam. all Do. A 3 Do. B CI I West London... sll ( wimbledn Croydon FOR KIGN. kr,twmr!.V.tott rtan 40 Do. 5 p.e. Obigs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 10 Ardennes ......... ....• ,eigian 6,a4u. Jun. 10 :3•eziers to Gra'ss-ssA 4. nombay , Baroda, an rl , 3ntral Tud;a.,Seri all Do. , 611 nemerara 11 I)ntel , A.ll Eastern of Franoe 10 no. New all 1 Itaat Indian, g. 5 P. , ' LO Do. 11 r)o. do. do., '59, do.. 20 Gd. 'a of CanadaA iY 11 1)0. St. Lawrenne Atlantic do. 70 00. Cert. of Deben, con. into Stk, all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 10 Gt. Celitral of Fran all at Indian Peninsuls guar. 5 per cent... 1 1, 0. New 5 per cent 2 Po. Extensions... 13 Great Luxembour, Constitutod Shart*., all Do. Obligations... all gt.WestornofCanacl ghstres 56 Do. Now.. Do. lids., payablo's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p.'56 all Do. do., '76, p. all DG. do., '73, without option all ilamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 17 Lake Coust. & Basle all Liorre and Turnhout 10 Lyons and Geneva 14 Lyons & Moditerran all Madras 10 Do. New all Maria Antonia all Do. do. New all Namur & Liege ( /Atli Interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do.2ol.Shs all Do. 201. 3 p. o Bds (fmy.B. & Ams. She. all NorweglanTrunkPre' 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Ronan... 16 ParisCacn & Cherbrg. all Do 5 Rome and Frascati.. all Rouen and Haire..... all Royal Danish 5 Royal Swedish all Do. Obligations .... all Sambre and Manse... all Do. Si p. cent. Pref. ss. Scinde all D 0... all Southern of Frame 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), r.l! West Flanders all Do 6i per c. Pref 18 Western of France_ all Do,. .. dl Z& bland c )1 NT- 7i - 8 3 2 i.l 2i 24't par 344 -35 9 lo p 283 21 a 93 - 8 i 15i - 163 60 65 80 - 85 2 -31 p 5 51 id - - iP 3i -3/ 2i - 3 231 - 241 - 2ip 98 - 100 115 - 111 116 - 120 104 107 224 -23 i 112 - 117 .. 6 ...d i 7pl }-163 f P 7 9 2 3 1 4 C 1 3 - 851 12 - rli .. 4 1 I I 44 - 45 43 - 48 ... --- prci 18 3 / 4 - 19 3 / 4 21 - 2 3 / 4 81 i - 2i - - it ••• ... - pm 31 - 4 - 30 18 lo '} ~INKa 91 54 - 56 1~ .. ~~d •611 .. i 3 is 16 17 4 3d ..• - •.• par -- 2p ... .'" ... • 41 , • ... - ••• 37 - 39 38 - 39 53 - 54 40 - 42 73 r 75 8 9 80 ki 81 f.ll AtralmiF „.. 50 Bank of London - , sri. Col. A.& Ln. C , ritigh N. American 5 flhartd. Bank of Asi' Chrtd. Brl. of India, Australia, & China 50 City ,„ .„ 25 Colonlal 20 Commercial of Loud 41 1 Eng. Scot.& A.ns. Cht. all Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 nitto Now 20 I.endon and County, D 50 Lnd.&E.Bnkg.Corp. it, London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Pro.of Eng. 10 Do. New. 22i National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 rrovincial of Ireland all Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co 0 50 Royal British i all south Australia all Union of Australia 20 Do. Now .. . ... 10 Union 9: London n. itlXK.ki • • EN EkTLIVLY4 I.4t4sia ilempan C °Ring ic , S this Qt'. Bedford and Blot .Ibley Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Je. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Bin. tr. 6 pc E. Un. H. Sh. Was. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.4 Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. t Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. Grecnw Do. Preference Lon.,Til.,&S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. ,Ranch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Rodcar Midld.Bradid Newmarket Bury Eaten N.& Est.b p.c Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prost. & yre Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shof.Roth.and Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. &Her. S. Staffordsh. 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Shortly after three o'clock this afternoon a deplorable accident took place upon the ornamental water in St James's-park—the thin surface of ice suddenly breaking away, and some ten or twelve unfortunates being in ■tantly immersed. Through the stupidity of the by standers, or the negligence of the Humane Society's arrangements, at least two unhappy creatures have perished. One Society's man alone was visible on the spot, armed with his drag, calling almost frantically to these on the bank " For God's sake " to push off the float, as "every minute might cost a life." Several seconds how ever elapsed between each haul for the wretched crea— tures, as slowly, one by one the solitary d ragsman brought them to the surfacd. In this manner eight per sons were brought to land. Six were immediately con veyed to the marquee of the society, which was erected on the usual spot, and the remedies ap plied. One only of the number was found to be in danger, and after some time had been occupied in applying friction to the body life was found to be extinct. The deceased lad was very respect ably attired, but nothing whatever could be learned as to his place of residence. Two other individuals were . get out of the water and conveyed to the hospital, and on arrival there it was found that one of these, a lad about 14 years of ago was also dead. At the time of our reporter leaving the spot where the • melancholy accident took place nearly opposite the State Paper-office five in dividuals were in bed in the marquee, in a fair way of recovery. It is supposed that three or four bodies are at present under the ice. One of the boys that was unfortunately drowned, pre vious to his disappearance under the water, called out to his companion, who was also in the water, saying, "Good bye, Joe ; I don't suppose they'll get me out." He had scarcely uttered these words before he sauk to rise no more. It appears to us first of all, grievous cruelty that the boys and idlers should be allowed to go at all upon the ice when in its present brittle condition ; and, secondly, a monstrous inhumanity that one or two officials of the Humane Society should alone be present on the spot in case of any casualty. TATTERSALL'S.—(This Evening.) NO BETTING. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lords Justices of Appeal.) BAKER V. BAKER.-JUDGMENT. Their Lordships gave judgment this morning in this case, which came before them upon appeal from the de cision of the Master of the Rolls, by which he declared that, upon the true construction of the will of a gentle man named George Baker, his widow was entitled out of his estate to an annuity of 2001. before the testator's mother and sister took anything. The testator by his will appointed his elder brother, the plaintiff, a trustee for all the property he possessed in trust to sell it, and out of the proceeds to pay to his widow an annuity of 2001. as long as she should live or remain his widow, and upon her death or second marriage it was to be equally divided among his brothers and an only sister. The property Wai not sufficient to pay the annuity to the widow, and in this state of circumstances it was contended that the true construction of the will must be to create the relation of tenant for life and remain der man, and not that of annuitant and residuary legatee. The Master of the Rolls held that the widow was entitled to be paid her annuity before any other member of the testator's family took any interest in the fund, and from that decision the brothers and sister of the testator appealed. The Lord JUstice Knight Bruce was of opinion that the judgment of the Master of the Rolls was correct, and that the appeal ought to be dismissed. The Lord Justice Turner was of a contrary opinion. The result of this difference is that the judgment of the Master of the Rolls is affirmed. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Campbell and a Special Jury.) GOODHALL AND ANOTHER V. HYDE AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, trier ()bents and sugar factors, carrying on business in _the City, against the defendants, underwriters at Lloyd's, to recover damages on the average loss on two poli cies of insurance on a cargo of sugar, shipped in the Queen Bee at Bahia, for delivery at any port in Europe. The policies of insurance were in the usual terms, free from damage or loss to the extent of S per cent. Previous to the arrival of the ship, the plaintiffs sold the cargo through a London merchant to the Netherland sugar Refinery at Amsterdam, for 7,486/. 9s. 3d., exclusive of freight. On the voyage the ship encountered bad weather, and a portion of the cargo was washed out of the vessel. At Amster dam, the deficiency of the cargo was ascertained to be 19 per cent. from all circumstances, 12 per cent. of it damaged by cater. The present action was brought to assess the real amount of damage for which the defendants were liable. The Jary had not returned their verdict when we went to press. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. DEWES V. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an at torney residing at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and also deputy clerk of the county court and clerk to the divisional jus tices of Leicester and Derby, to recover damages of the defendants for injuries received on their railway. It appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff and his wife arrived at Leicester on the 2d January, on their WAY to London, and had to wait there some time in consequence of the up express train being late. An accident bad occurred that night on the railway between Ullathorpe and Rugby, whereby a horse-box had been thrown across the rails, which, not being removed by the time the express train came up, ran into it with con siderable violence. The collision threw the plaintiff and his wife forward, and by the rebound the plaintiff had come in contact with the back of the carriage, c tusing considerable concussion of the brain. Mrs. Dawes also received considerable injury. All the bones in her stays were broken, and her knee was so much injured that sbe had Lem unable to kneel since. After some considerable delay the train proceeded to Rugby, when they were visited by a medical gentleman named Dickinson. He did not call on them the follow ing day, and they proceeded on Co town by the three o'clock train, when, being unable to transact his business, from the injuries the plaintiff had received, they returned to their homes. Since that time the plain tiff had suffered considerably. He was unable to attend to business or suffer the least noise. The defendants did not dispute the accident, or the injuries received by the plaintiff, and the question was the assessment of damages. The jury hal not returned their verdict when our parcel was despatched. COMMON PLEAS. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury.) WELLS AND WISE V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a per son in humble circumstances, to recover damages from the defendants for injuries received by his wile, from the alleged neglect of the company's servants. It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff's wife that she went to the Paddington station on the sth July, to inquire for several packages that had been forwarded to her by rail. Whilst there, she accompanied the clerk and a porter to one of the warehouses to look for the articles, and then stepped on to what she afterwards discovered was an " hydraulic lift," used for conveying goods up and down from one floor to the other, which immediately commenced ascending, and in her fright she screamed out and jumped off, and severely injured her leg aid side. Medical and other evidence was called, who proved the nature of the injuries received by Mrs. Wells, and her confinement to her house for many weeks. She was not now entirely recovered, and she would always feel the consequences of the injuries from exertion. The defence was, that the accident complained of did not arise from the neglect of the defendants' servants, but the conduct of Mrs. Wells. When the clerk and porter went with her to the warehouse, she was directed to stand on the " hydraulic lift," and was placcl be tween them to be taken to the upper rooms of the warehouse in search of the articles ; at the same time being told not to feel alarmed, as all was safe. AE soon, however, as the "lift" began to move, Mrs. Marks was frightened and jumped off the " lift," whereby she received the injuries complained of. .. - - The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages 51. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.; SOUTHWARK. A !igALTLTING THE POLlCE.—Daniel Driscoll, a ruffianly looking fellow, who has been several times convicted for committing serious and cowardly assaults on the police, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett charged as follows : Police Constable 101 M said he was on duty in Tooley•street about eleven o'clock last night when he saw the prisoner drunk and disorderly, and collecting a mob in the street. He went up to him and told him to go home quietly, when he made use of an oath and re fused. Perceiving that he was making more noise he told him he must take him to the station house, when he struck him several times, and would have hurt him had not another constable come to his assistance. Mr. A Beckett fined him 10s. or seven days' imprison• meat. 1.& . 5 5 10 ?f) 20 1.8 ?0 t 6 20 z 0 10 20 10 20 8g 7i 51i I I 1 9 3 i i i i 63j$ 45 41 109 A A 2A 4i 21 201 LITERATURE. THE NEW STORY. Zaidee. A Romance. By Margaret Oliphant. 3 vols. Blackwood and Sons. MARGARET OLIPHANT must henceforth take high rank among our female novelists. Her exquisite romance of Zaidee is the corner-stone of her re putation. It is to her what "Mary Barton" was to Mrs. Gaskell, what " Emilia Wyndham " was to Mrs. Marsh, what " The Head of the Family" was to Dinah Mulock, what "Jane Eyre" was to peer Charlotte Bronte—her undoubted master piece. Zaidee, we take it, is, after all, even more than this. It is as essentially a picture of the times we live in, as formerly was that which, some ten or fifteen years ago, Mrs. Charles Gore pre sented to view through the wit and sparkle of her "Mrs. Armitage," or as clever, vigorous Mrs. Trollope revealed, in her way, through her famous " Widow Barnaby," the vulgar, bouuceable, and self-sufficient. Nay —we might even venture to observe of 'Zaidee that it is no less distinctly the opening of a new vein in the literature of imagi nation, that is quite as much the' commencement of a novel school in prose fiction as shone forth once upon a time in the " Florence M`Carthy" of Sydney Morgan, or more obviously still in the " Eve lina" of Fanny Burney, or yet again, in a stranger region of romance, in the "Mysteries of Udolpho," conjured up by the grimly genius of Anne Rad cliffe. " Zaidee," however, romance though it avows itself to be, is at the same time so true, so fresh, so sweet from first to last as a representa tion of the world about us nowadays—so per fectly, so accurately, so distinctly does it portray the various phases of the social state in England during this feverish core of the nineteenth cen tury—central point in an age of steam engines and electric telegraphs—that we conceive it to be altogether, as such, beyond the reach of imita tion. The delightful genius of the writer wo our selves were among the first to recognise. We can recal to mind with pleasure the cordial greeting accorded by us to her earlier contributions to the pages of our glorious Blackwood, the magazine of magazines. Having tried her "'prentice hand" so deftly in the minor stories of "Katie Stewart," of " John Rintoul," and of " The Quiet Heart," our authoress at length adventured upon the more daring project of producing a three-volumed romance to appear originally under the shadow of the perennial thistle-branch, em bowering in its thicket of coral berries and eme rald leaves the hooded effigy of rare old Geordie Buchanan. A hazardous enterprise enough, coming before the world, as "Zaidee" was thus compelled to do, in formidable association with some of the most remarkable and brilliant serial tales of the present generation. " Zaidee" fol lowed, in other words, to speak more plainly, im mediately in the track of that memorable proces sion which had swept by, month after month, in the motley creations constituting the glory of such consummate works of art as " The Caxtons" and " Ten Thousand a Year." Especially must the danger of all such contrasts be admitted when it is borne in recollection how very recently what must be regarded as in many respects the most extraordinary fiction of our times, the master work of a master-genius, " THE Novel," par ex celle ace, of Sir Bulwer Lytton, had but just com pleted in Maga the revelation of so much wisdom, and wit, and pathos, and humour, and poetry, and imagination. Yet, coming as it did almost immediately after "My Novel," Mrs. Oliphant's charming romance of "Zaidee" is so much of a success, is so far from a failure, that we do not hesitate to proclaim it at once a new triumph for Blackwood' s Maya and (so far as our author's writings have yet proceeded) the crown of her reputation. Mrs. Oliphant wo have for seine length of time re garded as altogether unapproachable as a painter of scenery fresh and sparkling with the dews of heaven. Under her hands a little bit of hedgerow glittering with raindrops grows forth from the page, a "thing of beauty" to be lingered over by the reader and studied microscopically, as it were, with a loving and wondering admiration. The pencil of the artist brings out every detail with such a wondrous witchery of verisimilitude —every freak and stain of the lichen scrawled about the gnarled old root of the hawthorn iu the thicket, every emerald feather of the moss among the grass blades, every water-bead twinkling from the point of a twig into a bulbous raindrop— hero and there may be a cowslip budding out among the mouldering leaves of the last autumn, or a glimpse caught of the deep, delicious, odorous blue of some rath eialet half hidden among the gloom of the overshadowing bramble. Descriptive fragments like those we allude to, as abounding in the effusions of our authoress, fall from her pen as wonderfully true to the natural prototypes therein represented, as the magic pig ments fall from the brush of Mr. Hunt the water colourist in depicting, say for the nonce, every thin silken straw in a bird's nest, or every deli cate splotch and speckle on the warm, smooth, oval eggs within it ! Apart, however, from these subordinate merits of accuracy in her descriptions, Margaret Oliphant possesses a combination of rare and enviable faculties, faculties rare and enviable as those of a teller of new tales, or as those of a creator of new characters. How admirably, for example, has she not already revealed these high capacities as a writer of fiction in those three charming minor tales of hers already enumerated. In " Katie Stewart," in " John Rintoul," in "The Quiet Heart." Best of all, howbeit, in her latest work, in this exquisite romance of hers, very recently brought to so happy and effective a conclusion. How she realises to us all the am ple and varied scenery amidst which the enthral ling incidents of the romance of "Zaidee" are seen to transpire. Whether this may chance to be upon the windy welds of Cheshire, or among the dingy area-railings or dingier house fronts of Bloomsbury—among the quaint old streets of Ulm, under the midiieval shadow of its cathe dral, or among the gravel paths and flowery lawns of pleasant suburban Twickenham. How ingeniously, too, does she not weave together the complicated threads of the plot, making up the weft and the woof of its varied and picturesque embroidery ! The plot, whose ample range may perhaps be here most clearly indicated by the enumeration of what might be aptly termed its salient epochs—the discovery of the scorched and tobacco-scented will of ghostly old grandfather Vivian—the flight of Zaidee—her residence in London—her removal to the continent—her do mestication once more upon the banks of the Thames—and her ultimate journey northwards to Yivian Castle, followed, after so many troubles, by the cheering, crowning, culminating revelation. Admirable no less in the delineation of her scenes than in the arrangement of the dra matic incidents of her narrative, Mrs. Oliphant wins from us, as we read, many a golden opinion, by reason of the exquisite skill with whichshe brings vividly before the mind's ey e, on the instant, whatever lOcality she undertakes to por tray. What life, for example , she throws into her sketch of the Squire's house up yonder, variously spoken of throughout the story as the Grange, as the Uplands, or as Briarford A familiar scene to us as we close the book, to be classed somewhat (though not quite, after all) in the same category with the " dear old Yatton" of "Ten Thousand a Year." How magically, too, our authoress vivifies, so to speak, when she so pleases —a drawing-room say, with a mirror reflecting all the colour and movement of those who chance to be in the apartment—or a grass-plot with the milk-white blossoms drifting down upon it every now and then from the waving boughs of an au tumnal acacia ! As to the characters introduced in " Zaidee," what a gallery of portraits they present to our contemplation ! How life-like most of them ! What living, breathing, speak ing realities ! The heroine herself changing so strangely iu those seven distressful years of conceal ment, from the little brown Zaidee Vivian to the lovely and stately Elizabeth Cumberland. Grouped around her at intervals the numerous contrasting families depicted in the progressive advance of her adventures—the Vivians, the Powises, the Greens, the Disbrowes, the Cumberlands. Deli cate, proud, gentle Mrs. Vivian, the fairy god mot] eir s with her cluster of D ome cliii.4•l4._ Philip, last seen as the bronzed bead of the house —Percy, ultimately known as the great author—. Elizibeth, the beautiful wife of Captain Morton —Margaret, in the end, espoused to Sir David Powis—Sophy, in her turn, the partner of Par son Burlington. Besides these, how many othersaro there permanently photographed, one would almost fancy, upon the tablets of our recollection. Good-na tured, lumbering Sylvo Burtonshaw, dreaming about his half-savage frield Mansfield, down in the shrubbery there, where his presence is still indicated by the faint blue curl of his cigar smoke! Ridiculous Mr. Cumberland, with his crotchets of scienc, and his breves of art, and his demisemi quavers of philanthropy ! Amiable and debili tated Mrs. Cumberland, with her unaccountable daughter—half frank, half suspicious—Mary, the pride and pet of excellent, thrifty Aunt Burtonshaw. Poor lackadaisical An gelina Green, with her Edwin of the manse, the Rev. John, with the accustomed quarto bulging out his lank black coat-tails I And so on through the whole ample catalogue. As to the blemishes of .the book they are, to our thinking, in style none—in the arrangement of the plot, or, to speak otherwise, in regard to the incidents, two. Firstly, we cannot but consider as a decided flaw the second discovery by Zaidee of other dying injunctions penned by the evil but re pentant hand of old grandfather Vivian—aflaw and a very huge•one we deem it by reason of its extra vagant and, as it happens, altogether unnecessary, improbability. The writing in question being de tected in another old book, encountered this time, however, at Ulm, instead of, as in the previous instance, at the Grange in Cheshire--and proving actually, after all is said and done, to exercise no influence whatever upon the events of the story, so that it might really as lief never have been found by Zaidee in the uncertain keep. ing of the travelled old Welchwoman num bered amongst the servitors of the Cum berlands. The other incident, more trivial of its kind than the one just mentioned, an incident, nevertheless, to our mind constituting scarcely less of a disfigurement, is the absurd in troduction (in the unavoidable absence by death of Serino) of that queer, odd, unaccountable ap parition of a strange greyhound, nobody knows whene3 or whose, by the needless advent of which Snarley Yow, or phantom dog of the romance, the pathos of the final discovery of Zaidee Vivian is almost entirely frittered away in a sense of the simply ridiculous. Nevertheless to the narrow compass of these two faults, flaws, blemishes, or whatever they may be most aptly designated, tie shadow of a shade of blame from us is, in regard to this delightful romance, entirely restricted. A romance of exceeding beauty and freshness it . is to us—this charming three-volumed tale of "Zaidee" —another rare and most acceptable addition to the already ample treasures of our imaginative literature. Journal of the Statistical Society of Lon,dore. Parker and Son. A choice number of this valuable repository of facts, containing matter of general interest, which the judicious reader may turn to good account. From the numerous contributions there may be selected for notice three, via., " Effect of the War on Russian Produce," " The Mining Resources of France, 1841 to 1852," a nd "On our National Strength," to which may be added, "Juvenile Delinquency ; its Principal Causes, and Proposed Cure, as adopted in the Glasgow Reformatory Schools." One general conclusion arrived at by the enlightened governor challenging our all but entire concurrence—to wit, " that the law of love and kindness, combined with intellectual and moral training, never fails in reclaiming youthful offend ers, and making them useful members of society." With respect to the inquiry into " The Effect of the War on Russia " the following are among the results :—First, " that since the outbreak of War, the exports of produce from Russia have dimi nished to a greater extent than the general imports of such articles into England ;" and, secondly, that while importation from other quarters will prevent the English consumer from suffering from very high prices, the injuries to Russia prouced by the blockade must necessarily be severe. " The Mining Resources of France" are shown to have been undergoing a slow but steady development. " Our National Strength" is, it would appear, in creasing faster than our numbers. This startling result is arrived at by taking into consideration the number of persons in the middle age of life, and of the inr'ffectives on account of age, and, contrasting them with previous periods. What facts for sanitary reforms tha tin Surrey the average duration of life is 45 years, while in Manchester and Liverpool it is only 25 years, and that if the full period of existence were attained by all, that prolongation would be tanta mount to doubling the population ! We shall wake out of our national sleep -,orne day and reflect with horror on the consequences of our prolonged lethargy in connection with sanitary matters. Other facts are worthy of special notice. The po pulation, we are told, is now younger than it would he by the natural standard—younger probably in England and Scotland than in auy country in Europe. This is regarded as favourable to pro gress. The extremes of density, it Seems, are 18 individuals to a square mile in the district of Bell ingham, Northumberland, and 187,751 in ther3- gistration district of East London. In the rura districts, strange to tell, there are very few more living now than in 1801. Finally, not more than one-third of the population is self-supporting, and the majority of us live only about two-fifths of the years others attain to, or two-fifths of our appointed time ! the Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. By Thomas Moore, F.L.S. Bradbury and Evans. The present, or part, contains illustra tions of some exceedingly beautiful specimens of ferns, including Lastrea dilatata collina, L. dilatata naua, Lastrea fcenisecii, and Lastrea oreopteris. With what extreme fidelity these aro rendered by Mr. Henry Bradbury, by means of the new pro cess of nature printing, it were impossible t o con vey too flattering an idea. So mi nu t e ly i s th e tracing and so vividly is the colouring of the vari ous genera reproduced, that no collection of dried specimens can vie with the ill us t ra ti ons w hich have appeared in effect. The work, in brief, may be described as a hortus siccus, to which Nature herself has contributed the type of her handiwork and Art the impression clothed with an amaranthine verdure. The editing has been confided to Pro fessor Lindley, and the result, we have no hesita tion in saying, will be a work of unparalleled ex cellence, just the sort of thing we have dreamt of, but never hoped to witness. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Dee. 13.—Wind this day at noon, Iff.W., moderate breeze and sharp frost. P onT smovrx, Dee.l2.—Wind W., calm and fog.—Ar. rived—H.M.S. Vnican, from Malta, &e.. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Wonder, steamer, !row Jersey; Argo, Lianelly; Atalanta, steamer, Havre. Sailed—lmperador, screw steam-transport, for Deptford; Sandwich Bay, Cardiff ; Alliance, steamer, Havre; De spatch, steamer, Jersey. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning, Wind N. Sailed—Rose, for Seville ; Arcadia, screw-steamer, Con stantinoplo ; Bon Accord, Balaklava ; Water Witch, Buenos Ayres ; Zouave, Alexandretta ; Jumiatta, Trieste, snake, St. Michael's. (BT SUBMARINE AN]) BRITISH TELE( RAM) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.48 a.m. Wind W. ; tide last hour's ebb ; weather frosty. Arrived—Netts Elizabeth, from Nykobing ; 'William, Antwerp. DHAL, Thursday, 9.22 a.m. Wind N.W., light; hazy. Anchored—Mary Hounsell, from London, for Halifax; ' Ellen, from London, for Liverpool • Margaret Dundas, from Sunderland, for Mauritius ; Came, from Neirom. fur Carthagena ; Zabrik a, f rom Sunderland, for Trinidad. ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—There are 82 more at. torneys to be admitted in the the forthcoming Hilary Term, the usual notices to that n umber having been given. Colonel Count Orloff, of the Russian engineers, who lost an eye at the siege of Silistria, has just arrived a Vienna, on his way to Italy, with his mothe and a German physician. The Liege journals mention as a remarkable fact, that on the 15th inst. not a single death was declared in that t o wn, out of a population of 85,000 inhabitants. DIE Cosmos IN IRON Snirs.—lt is said that the diffi culty hitherto experienced with the compass in iron ships has been removed by a discovery of Mr. J. M. Hyde, of the Cumberland Ironworks, Bristol, who contrives that the compass shall be placed in a neutral position, where the magnetism of the iron in the after part of the ship is balanced. PRICE OP WIEEAT A CENTURY AGA—Quoting from an old work published 100 years ago, we find that in the year 1775 wheat was ?Os. to 225., barley 12s. to 14s. oats 105. to 135., and beans 17e. to 19s. per quarter What would our farmers think of such prices in the pre sent day ? The bridge of boats over the Rhine, at gentx, was removed on the 3d, as large masses of ioe had begun to drift down the river. 100 100 100 20 12 20 St. St all all 103 100 all all all 1.00 18 all 24 all all 68 6