The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-17 00:00:00

- • ' AND COMMERCIAL INTELLICT3NOM CITY, Two o:Locr:. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed with a very taw e feeling, without change in prices. The sales were 6,000 bales, 1,500 on speculation ; comprising 6,000 Egyptian, chiefly at 5d., 1,500 Surat 3id. to 4d., and 20 Sea Islands Is. to 2s. per lb. The Railway Share Market continued quiet, at a slight decline on Friday's prices. The Foreign Bourses continue to exhibit a great degree of uncertainty. At Paris, dealings in the Public Funds are becoming extensive, but the ten dency to rise is frequently checked by the number of sellers anxious to realise. Notwithstanding this, however, the Three per Cent. Routes ad ♦anced per cent. for the account on Saturday, and other Stocks were firm at equally improved rates. It was settling day in the Share Market, and, from the limited amount of transactions amongst speculators, the balances which changed hands were not heavy, and were paid with facility. Rail way Scrip ruled heavy with a downward tendency, in consequence of the weekly returns being less favourable. East of France Old Scrip fell 5f.; Lyons, 7f. 50c.; Mediterranean, 2f. 50c.; Midland, of. ; Grand Central, if. 25c. ; Beziers, 2f. 50c.; and Austrian Society rose if. The continental grain markets present a gene rally quiet aspect, with a tendency in prices to de cline, while the supplies keep pace with the de mand. At the Mediterranean ports the arrivals of wheat from the Danube and the coasts on the Black Sea continue to be regular, which prevents spy rise in prices, and at the principal ports of France and Belgium the large supplies of rye come to hand have lowered the prices of that description of grain. Accounts from Madrid announce that the com mission appointed by the Cortes to examine into the proposition of Count de Morny on behalf of the Grand Central Railway Company of France, to construct the line of railway from Madrid to Saragossa, has been accepted by them. The con struction of this line of railway will be one of the most advantageous to the Spanish agricultural population, inasmuch as it • will bring into the principal markets the produce of some of the finest lands in Spain, which have hitherto been only in a partial state of cultivation, in conse quence of the want of speedy and cheap means of conveyance. The New York accounts represent the stock market as being dull and heavy. Money continued in request, at full rates. The Corn Trade is heavy to-day, and the ten dency in prices is downwards. The progress of the new Russian Loan is being watched with considerable attention in Stock Ex change circles, as the circumstances under which its negotiation is attempted, and the influence it may exercise if obtained, upon the course of poli tical events, offer peculiar features for consi deration. It appears from the latest advices received from the Continent that it has already been dealt in for the " coming out." at 81, which would yield 6 per Cent. as :wear as possible pre suming the interest will he punctually paid. The bonds are of 500 roubles; taking the rouble, there fore, at2guilders Dutch currency, 1,0001 could be bild for 810. The half-yearly coupons are to bear interest at 23 601 or 47 20fl. per annum. With such an inducement as 6 per cent. it is very likely that the loan will obtain many subscribers, not so much from its present value, however, as from the probable enhancement which would be occasioned by the conclusion of a peace. The English Funds have decidedly improved in consequence of the reported mission of Count Es terhazy to St. Petersburg, for the purpose of sub mitting the bases of negotiations for peace. It is expected in some quarters that as the Russians have been successful at Kars, the proposals, with some modifications, may be entertained. Consols have'been 88/ to 89, and are now 89 to 891. The New 3 per Cents. have been 89} to 89k, and the Reduced 88/ to 891. Exchequer Bills are 7s to 3s discount. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ; Mexican, 19/ to 191 ; ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents., 45 to 47 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 88 to 9C Spanish Three per Cents., 39i to 40 ; ditto Deferred, 201 to 20i ; ditto Certificates, 4-4 to 4/ ; ditto Passive, 71- to 7i. A smaller business is being transacted in the Foreign Stock marked than for some time past, but the prices exhibit increased firmness. Turkish Bonds have risen 1 to / per cent., namely, 84i to 841. The New Scrip is per cent. better, being 3to 21 discount. Portuguese 4 per Cents. are 48, Brazilian 5 per Cents. 99k, and Spanish Passive 7i. Dutch 21 per Cents. are steady at 63k. The Railway Share Market is exceedingly in active, but the quotations have improved by sym pathy with the Funds. Great Western have risen about 55., North-Western 10s., and Midland 103. The foreign lines are mostly nominal. Great Western of Caiada rule firm. Some of the joint-stock banks are at fuller rates, but the Mining and miscellaneous shares were with out any particular alteration. Royal Mail Steam have risen about 10s. BRITISH FENDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES, (Prom the Otieial Lie. ) Rn.+rA4• dorm. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities,....... BBl 9k I per Cent. Consols Annuities Shut $9l New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 3 d Consols for Account BBk 91 Exchequer Bills, 2id. £10()0 ....H. ~........ 7 3 7 d £5OO 7 Finial! 5 2 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent 9B „ 1859 ~ ...... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. • Ditto Small - 99 Ditto New, 1852, 4. per Cent. Fquador Bouds Illexican 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent Ditto Account 53 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 4 per Cent Ditto Account Itiouish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 2L Ditto Passive Turkieh Bonds, ti per cent Ditto for the Account i Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account. Divtaseds on the al•oTo oayable in Landon Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Gull 63} THREE O'CLOCK. 43 Consols Ditto for the account Jan. 10 B9 i x d POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day. SOUTIINVARK. MURDEROUS ASSAULT WITII A CINDLESTICS.—Ca tharine Seabrook, a masculine female, Rag brought before Ntr. A'Beckett charged with committing a murderous assault on Sarah Bennett, by striking her on the head with a large brass candlestick, thereby inflicting a severe wound. The complainant, whose head was covered with ad hesive planter, said th a t s h e li ve d i n t h e same house with . the prisoner Little Surrey-street, Borough Road. On Saturday night the prisoner came home a little the worse for liquor, and asked for a light. Witness handed her one in a large brass candlestick, and was about to re-enter her room when the prisoner turned I.:And, and, making use of a dreadful oath, struck her on the head with the candlestick. In answer to the magistrate the prosecutrix said that they were both unfortunate females, and had known each other for some time, but had never had any altercation before. Mr. A'Beckett said it was a most murderous assault. He should fine the prisoner N., and in default of payment commit her to the House of Correction for two months with bard labour. To facilitate the progress in the Enfield rifle practice, 210 small targets have been painted on the wall of the parade-ground, Chatham, so that, in the event of the usual practice ground being wet or the weather incle ment, no impediment will be offered to the daily practice. tiettit ( 1 1.6 D A Y.; RAILWAYS. karc.~.a,'fr. 10104:!”, Plue, this day. this (lay, St 22 3 ,e 1 ,t or. - ,abg Niottog, and East::. Juno'. fast ist, WolveA itour Vality ark e and. Lane al.. Cheanire Cherh. & £5O and 225 Cnu Do., £20........... . !ttyth &Ty n 3 origina £25 (Wad. at £4(-) Bristol and Kxetor... Caledonian. 38 3' 76 8 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8. 79 - 81 55i - 55; Cann. and Ca , digan Chester & Holyhea,). Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, 4 Pas , i Cornwall Do. A 11 - - 12 ••• ...... ••• Do. B °lie Junction Dnolin &BelfastJunc. Dun. P. & Ab-.:. Joe. Do. Now. ...... East Anglian Eastern Counties E as t. A Bti Do., B. Stoitt.... Do., New A. East Kent East Lancashire ... 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I. - - ~~ 2~ •.• - ...p - !6 - 38 I 161 161 15Th 10. ..... 1311 281 x d 401 9& 5i x d ONDAY DECEMBER 17, 185 i#ThOPOLXTA (AVM Malt The Great Christmas Show.—(This Day. This was the day appointed for holding the Great Christmas Show of fat stock ; and the advantages of the removal of the trade of Smithfield to Copenhagen fields was never more apparent than on this occasion— the only one, in point of fact, since such, removal in which nearly the whole of the standings have been_fillcd, arising from the large unoccupied space generally noticed over and above the actual requirements of supply. This, however, we look upon not as an evil, but a positive ad. vantage, as was strikingly apparent this morning. As regards excitement, compared with many corresponding days in Smithfield, there was literally none, and the greatest order was observed both in the arrival and de parture of the stock—indeed it would be impossible to over-estimate the value of the market for an exhibition of this kind. From the past having been an unfavourable season for the rearing of fat beasts —as the supply of natural food has fallen considerably short of the demand, as prices have, consequently, ruled unusually high, and as the value of cakes and linseed has been from thirty to forty per cent. above the ordinary run of years, we fully expected to see a smaller number of really fat animals than usual ; but a careful considera tion of the supply brought forward does not justify our expectations. The wonders, and the names of the sales men to whom they were consigned, we have noticed below ; but we may here refer to the beasts in classes. The supply of short horns —both for number and quality its the aggregate—certainly stood first. Norfolk forward ed, perhaps, the best stock in this respect. Lincolnshire stood next ; but we had some very prime animals from other counties. The Herefords may be placed in the next category—and, possibly, if we compare the value of meat to the butcher, this stock 'night well claim the first class, because it had less superfluous fat upon it; —indeed the exhibition of that breed was remarkably good. As regards the Devons we have less scope for comment than usual. Thoagh very good, they did not come up to previous years. It is, however, very probable that the high value of live stock in the west of England has deterred many graziers from for warding their usual supplies. There were some re markably fine Welsh runts on sale ; and the show of Scots, both from Scotland and different parts of Eng land, was seldom equalled. We have now sketched out the general excellences of the pare breeds. We have done so from the conviction that they are deserving our first c6nsideration, because upon them the stamina of fat stock must always depend. It is, however, necessary that we should say a few words respecting the crossings. With a few exceptions they were deficient in weight and quality, consequently dear, both to the butcher and consumer ; and such has been the case for a long series of years, and no doubt it will continue to be so. Still, we find that a contemporary print has set forth the doctrine that the Smithfield Club ought to give large prizes to cross-breeds, simply because the latter are chiefly in the hands of a certain class of graziers. We need scarcely point out to the practical man the extreme absurdity of such a theory ; but we deem it right to warn the consumes not to be led away by such vapid nonsense, which has been evidently eon. cocted to produce discontent where none ought to exist. The amount of stock brought by the various railways was very large, yet it arrived in excellent condition, and it mist be satisfactory to learn that scarcely any traces of disea,e were noticed amongst either the beasts or sheep. The annexed return shows the number of beasts shown, and the prices obtained for them on the great days in Smithfield in the last fifteen years : Year. Beasts shown. Prices. R. d. s. d. IMO 1841 1842 1813 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1819 1850 1851 1852 - 2 8 to 4 0 1853 1851 Last week's imports of foreign stook into Loudon were moderato the total supply amounting to 4,732 head. In the corresponding week in 1854 we received 3,999; in 1553, 6,316 ; in 1852, 4,436 ; in 1851, 4,277 ; in 1850, 5,124 ; in 1849, 2,333 ; and in 1845, 3,656 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WSIIU. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Harlingen itotturdarn 223 ... 501 ... ... 39 ... Dordt 23 ... ... ••• ••• Ha.rnburgh 37 ... Amsterdam B2 ... 1,709 ... ... ••• Antwerp Total ... 859 3,555 ~ 238 The yearly comparison of 'weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. 'samba. Calves. Pigs. 1854 1,130 2,593 269 7 1853 1,136 e,698 462 2V 1852 235 3,782 419 1851 607 3,155 363 ... 152 The show of foreign stock to•deay was smal l ) and i n very middling conlition. From eur own grazing districts we received the fol lowing cupplies of beasts :—West of England, 500 ; Norfolk and Suffolk, 700 ; Lincolnehire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, 3,800 3,000 from the latter counties being conveyed by the London and North. Western Railway. From Ireland, 350 ; and from Scot land 850 beasts came to hand. Thus it will be seen that the arrivals were very large ; and we may observe that, taking into consideration their weight, the total supply as a whole, has never been equalled. The greatness of supply bad a depressing influence upon the demand ; indeed the trade was heavy. A few very inferior beasts sold at from ss. 2d. to, in some instances, 54. 4d. per Sibs. ; but the general top figure for beef wav very little over ss. per 81bs., and sales progressed slowly at those quotations. On the stand of Mr. Robert Morgan we noticed a remarkably fine show of beasts, the property of Messrs. Martin, Livingstone, Knowles, Cooper, Milne, Mitchell, and Thompson, Scotch graziers— of Messrs. Cook, Thomas, Cooper, liewson, Lincolnshire —of Messrs. Feltowe, Leeds, Farrar, &c., Norfolk. Mr. Morgan had also a flee collection from other counties. Mr. Maid well had on offer a wonderful collection of beasts forwarded by Mr. William WCombie, of Tilly four, Aberdeenshire. This eminent grazier has for many years past furnished a foe collection of Scots for the great market. The number here today was 40, and certainly they were the admiration of all present. Mr. Vorley had also a good show of beasts, chiefly the property of Messrs. Alartin, Stoddard, and Philips, of Scotland. Other salesmen had fine collections, and we may state that the beasts shown b y Messrs. Giblett and Gurrier, belonging to Messrs. Milne, Stewart, and Shepherd, of Scotland, were reatarkably fine. There was a full average supply of sheep in the mar ket, and many of them were of great weight. The trade was very inactive, and sales were with difficulty effected at last week's prices. Some of the Leicesters, Glouces ter., &c., sold tolerably well ; but small breeds were ne glected. The highest quotation was 5s per Sibs. Messrs. weall had on sale Several pens of very fine sheep, the property of F. Wittingstall, E sq., of Langley-Bury, Herts, and of Mr. Rowland, of Onslow. They found buyers at high rates. Messrs. Giblett and Gurrier exhibited some fine Downs belonging to Lord Walsieghais, Lord Radnor, and Mr. Joseph Carwar (line, o f Herefordshire—several prime Glou ces t er . , th e property of Messrs. Garne, "ewer, Northleach), and Mr. Craddock ; and 40 very fine wethers sent by J. H. Langton, Esq. Mr. Eland showed a very good supply of Lincoln& We were very moderately supplied with calves. The priruest sold as high as 6d. per 8 lbs.; but inferior quali ties were a slow sale. The pork trade was dull, but we have no change to notice on prices. For Ms to sink the ofrala. s. d. s. d•! s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 Bto 3 10 ; Pr imeSonthdown 4 8 5 0 S econ d q uality.... 4 0 4 4 1 1 .a!ge erne, cal ve , 410 5 4 Prime largo oxen 4 6 4 10 i firinie small do 5 6 6 0 P r i me Soots, die. 5 0 5 ;Large hogs 310 4 4 luforiorSheep ...3 4 3 6(Stuall porkers 4 6 5 6 S'ecoud q uality ...3 8 4 2.Suckling calves. 33 0 30 0 Prime erse ,wlled.4 4 4 6,Quarter old pigs.:3 n 28 0 Torsi. SUPPLY. 1 F 08.41011 WPM. Beasts •• • ..... 7.000 Beasts.. 90 ••• ....25 500 Sheep ••• • 2 3heep • .•• .• • ...... • " • 200 Ca1ve5,...... go 310 •—•••. •• •• • A s t a t e ment and comparison of the suppli es and priees of fat stock exhibited an d said in Smithfield Cattle Market, on M on d a y, Dee. ls, 1854, and in the Metropolitan Market this day, Monday, Dec, 17, 1855. Per 81bs, to sink the °Tale. Dec, 18, 1854.1D0c.17,1855 e. d. s. d. s. d Coarse and infori?r boasts ... 36t0 3 E,3 Bto3 10 Second quality ditto 310 4 14 0 4 4 Prime largo oxen ..• 4 & 4 10!1 6 410 Prime 4C 5 0 5 I's 0 5 2 Cotu•se and inferior sheep ... 3 8 3 113 4 3 6 6 0 20nd quality ditto ... ... 4 0 4 4 3 8 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 6 4 10 1 4 4 4 G Primo Southdown ditto ... 5 0 5 2,4 8 5 0 Lambs ••• ••• ••• •.• ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Large course calves 4 2 5 0,4 10 5 4 Prime small ditto... 5 2 5 8,5 6 6 0 L a rgo hogs ... 3 4 4 2;3 10 4 4 seat small porkers ... 4 4 4 B'4 6 5 0 Beasts._ ... 3,133 7,000 Sheep ... ... 17,100 25,500 Calves... ..„ _ 133 200 Pigs .•• 305 310 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dec. 19, ISs3.—Beasts, 3,560; sheep, 19,950; calves, 69; pigs, 255. December 20, 1852.-13 easts, 2,776; sheep, 15,170; calves, 192 ; pigs, 259. trb -sott wit SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. r i'ATTERSALL'S.—(This Evening.) CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 30 agst Coroner (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 7to 2 agst Fly-by-Night (taken) DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Ellington (taken) 17 to 1 agst Rogerthorpe (taken) 40 to 1 agst Sugar Plum WOLVERHAMPTON RACES (This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) MAIDEN PLATE. California Midhope Four ran. SELLING STAKES. Little Tow Lady-in• Waiting..... Four ran. SHORT'S HANDICAP. Prince's Mixture Six ran. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.) The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty this afternoon : Lieutenant Lord Edward Henry Cecil has been ap• pointed Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Dundas in the Duke of Wellington. PAYMASTER. Thomas. Ellard, to the Nile. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. There was a slight improvement in the demand for wheat in most of the country markets held on Saturday. In prices very little change took place. All kinds of spring corn sold heavily, and the quotations were somewhat drooping. Most of the continental markets have been dull and lower, although the supplies on sale have been very moderate. Very large supplies of grain and flour continue to be shipped from the American ports. Only moderate quantities of home produce were received up to our market last week. The imports were 10,010 quarters of wheat, 1,550 barley, 19,9 i 8 oats, 2,3;35 beans, 195 peas, 519 tares, 11,821 linseed, 9,491 rapeseed, 15( mustard • eed, 404 sundry seeds, 1,060 sacks and 15,484 barrels of flour. We had a moderate supply Of English wheat in to•day's market. The trade with alt kinds was exceedingly inac tive. A few samples of fine Essex realised about last Mon day's prices, but all other kinds were is to 2s per quarter cheaper, and a clearance was not effected. Foreign wheat, the supply of which was but moderate, ruled heavy, and the quotations were almost nominal. Fine malting barley realised last week's quotations ; but grinding and distilling sorts were heavy, and is pe r quarter lower. The malt trade was very dull, at the late decline. We were heavily supplied with oats. Old qualities sold at late quotations, bat new samples gave way 6d to is per quarter. Beans were exceedingly heavy, and fully 2s per quarter lower. Grey peas gave way is per quarter. No change in white. Flour moved off slowly, and country marks were rather easier to purchase. CURRENCY PE% IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex t Kent. Red •• .. new 51. to 79s MM....—. old 73. 84. Ditto, White new 59s 14411 Ditt0........ old 77s 90. ATorfolk and Lin coin, lied, old 788 414 s Ditto new ...••• 624 80. Lye—Old ............ —2 —s Now •••••••••••• IsOs 152 s Raloy—Orlnding.•••• 37s 425 , Malting ......... 40e 44s . . 441 46si Milt—SuffolkandNer folk • • •• •• 741 82s grown. •• •• .......... Git 703 kinastonandWare 78 , - 803 Stalt—C hevaller • • • • 485 to 125 Oats Yorkshire and Lineolnsa., Feed 255 305 Potato .. • 27s 141 Tougha4 and Cork flack. 2.5 s 211 Cork. White 263 30s eoteh. Feed. • • 27, 345 Roans—Tick 40s 461 Pigeons ....44• 535 Peas—Grey 405 445 Maple. White... .. Boilers ......... Als Ylonr—Town-made... 74s 75. Suffolk . • ........ 5Ss 3tooktn & Norfolk 58s 60s NEWGITE AND LEADENHAIL. Over 37,000 carcases of meat, including 200 fram the oontinont, arrived Rp to these markets lust week from the provinces. To-day the general show is extensive, and a full average business is doing, as follows : Poi: Sibs by carcaso. s. d. s. d. e. d. s. (1. inferior 3 4 3 6 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middlinm 3 8 4 0 Do., middling ..... 3 S 4 0 Do. prime largo 4 2 4 4 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Do , do. 5ma11....4 K 4 8 1 Veal 3 8 5 0 Pork, largo 3 10 4 4 Pork, small 4 6 6 4 BOROUGH HOP. Selected hops are is moderate request, at full quota tions, but all other kinds are ♦ery dull. The imports of foreign hops into London last week were 138 bales from Hambarg, 43 from Rotterdam, and 1 from Ostend. Mid and East Bent pockets, 31 100 to 61 Os per owt ; Woald of Bent, 31154 to 4115 s ; Sussex, al Os to 4/10a. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last the arrivals of potatoes, coastwise and by railway, have been very liberal, and 2,500 tens have arrived from Scotland. The imports front the Con tinent hare amounted to about 100 tone. Although a steady business is doing, last week's prices are barely sup ported. York Regents, 90a to 110 s ; Essex and Kent, do., 75• a to 9:a ; scotch 40a to 05s ; per ton. WOOL. Thera is still a fair demand for moat kinds of Englisk wool, and prices are well supported. In foreign and colonial qualities scarcely any business is doing. Last week's imports were 6 bales from Leghorn, 1,600, from Sydney, 90 from Mogadore, 91 from Callao, 100 from Bombay, 1,496 from Algoa Bay, 140 from Hambnrg, 70 from Naples, 150 from' Trieste, 24 from Alexandria, and 9, from the Cape. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down toga, is ld to is 3d ; half-bred hoggets, is ld to is 2d ; do. wethers, is Od to is id ; Kent, fleeces, is ld to Is 10; combing akin, 10d to is ld ; Down ewes, is ld to is 141: Le;oester fleeces, lid to is Old; flannel wool, is Id to is 2d ; blanket wool, 9J to la Od per lb. aTrefoil is in gooi request, a seed ♦ery little is doing, but aid cakes command extreme Turnip,wnite, per bush. 223 to 256 EDS. Ind the tarn dearer. In elorer t holders are firm. Linseed rater. cArraway (new) ...... 421 44s Coriander.. .• • • ...... ttt4 3 , s liorapeeed, per eparter 54s GOs Linseed, Eng.iowing•• --s —s , Crushing •....... 78s Sss •• —4 —4 Odessa •••••••• —s s, Linseed Cake, pr. tom— s English •• ...141 lOs 15 , Os s Forelgn,per ton 13 , 10 s 14'1011 i l ltape Cakes, pr ton 71 10s 8 Os 3 Rapeseed, Now, pr gr.. 40s 94r Swede .. • • .... • • —1 —s tit/Lard, 8r0wn...... 12s 21s White, new—. Se lls rtres,Winter, new.... 6s 6d 7s 6d 01d•..... —8 Canary, per quarter .. 634 6is Rye grim— •• •• •• 24e 30 Otover,ltedEng.(cwt.) —a —a White .• .• ...... —a, Foreign Red.. •• •• White.... Trefoil, new•••••• •• •• -5 —Ai —5 —5 40s 463 TALLOW. Since our last report only a moderate business has bees transacted in this market, and prices have fluctuated to some extent. To-day the demand is inactive, and P.Y.C., on the spot, is quoted at 68s to 68s 3d par ewt, Town Tallow, 66s nett cash. 1852. 1853. c 4,401 149,54% 46.12$ f 32,837 19,141 36• 9 1 to, 16g 02 1 551 91u) 64s 31 t. 68r Oct —r 0.1 ;to —s 0.:4 57s Od —s Id >to 68. 11 3.198 2,123 1,260 1,914 2,281 (0,568 69,211 59,336 j 48,532 74.739 128 i 2,852 5,245 i 1,211 2,412 99,509 614,161 ; 82,143 42,149 46,165 395.62 474 82 58: 01 ! 655 61 67s Ort IA51; 1854, 1865. Stock this day ..... Price of Y. C Delivery last week . • Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Jranel.... Price of Town .. SIR COLIN CAMPBELL AND THE jr. PRESENTATION OF GLASGOW. A number of gentlemen, says the Glasgow Herald, represented by our townsm : sn, Mr. D. Al`Corkin dale, deeming that Sir Coli n. Campbell might ap propriately be elected for Glasgow in the event of a dissolution, wrote on the , subject to the gallant General, who replied as follows : " United Service Club, Pall-mall, London, December 7, 1855. " Sir, —I have the honour tt t acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d Nov ember, desiring to be in formed whether, in the event! of m y, visit to England being prolonged, and a dissolut don of Parliament taking place, I would allow myself to he nominated to represent the city of Glasgow in Puha. nent. In answer to this —to me very flattering and die \e - inguished mark of consi deration on the part of those tentlemen of the city of Glasgow whose wishes you bar a conveyed to me in terms which I feel cannot he justified by any merits of my own —I beg to inform you that I in .tend leaving this country for my post in the Crimea in a.. few days, but that I am most deeply sensible of the high honour contemplated by the gentl emen w h ose sentimen to you represent, which I request you will expre-s to the m. At the same time I would add, that, as from the a; ;o of fifteen I have devoted my best energies to the prof :scion of a soldier, I have had no time to give to the con) ideration of those subjects in which the prosperity of so ; ;rest a commercial city as Glasgow is concerned. I therefore feel that I could not do justice to the position whit 11 I might obtain through the good opinion of its elector) r, and I therefore purpose, as long as it pleases the Almighty to give me health and strength, to persevere in a orofession to which Tam ardently attached and devote 1. Under these circum stances, I beg respectfully t. r decline the honour pro posed.—l have the honour to be, sir, your very faithful and obliged servant, (Signe' 1) " C. Caldrura,." LITIIRATT7.ItI by Gii*Atbsiti narttati us:43-Ruii44. edition: 2 volumes. Chapman and - Ball. It positively distresses us to find these exquisite " poems" by Elizabeth Browning only in a third edition, while Pollock's dreary, long-winded howl about the " Course of Time" is running glibly through a twentieth or thirtieth, earning for itself at last the right to be substantially stereotyped. A fact like this says but little indeed for the taste of our. generation. It betrays on the part of our book-purchasers an extraordinary obliquity of judgment. It reveals the utter folly of our ever regarding what is called popularity, in the vulgar sense of the word, as a genuine criterion of merit. It demonstrates the absurdity of ever looking to the public at large for the evidences of literary dis crimination. Elizabeth Barrett Browning we take to be about the first of our lettered Englishwomen. Yet the Poems of this Sappho of the Anglo-Saxons are only now printing in a third, while " The Course of Time" is already iu a twenty-second, and " The Omnipresence of the Deity" actually in a twenty-eighth edition ! "So the world wags." However, even the timbre of a " third edition" upon the title-page of volumes as replete with in trinsic excellence of the very highest order as are indisputably the two volumes here happily sub mitted to us for re-examination, comes to us 1 as a very welcome, though, to our thinking, under the circumstances, as a wholly inadequate or rather an odiously disproportionate token that the poems of Mrs. Browning are in some manner at least appreciated. Considerably worthier of ad miration, as expressions of a highly political and imaginative intellect, than the " Poems " of either Letitia Landon or Felicia Hemans, these remark able effusions of the genius of Elizabeth Barrett Browning—effusions sometimes charming by their dulcifluous beauty—at others inspiriting by their nervous and forceful eloquence, assume for them selves, we cannot but think, the very loftiest rank 1 among the more treasured of those minor, or mis cellaneous, or as they are called for want of some better term, simply ." fugitive pieces," constituting the vast aggregate of our national wealth in versifi cation. Precisely as we should declare of Eliza Cook and Charles Mackay, that they aro beyond all question incomparably the greatest of the living song writers of England—so we should unquestion ably assert of Elizabeth Browning and Alfred Tennyson, that each is facile princeps among the few other poets of the present generation. Eliza beth Barrett Browning, indeed, is to our mind more than this, taking the most elevated post among the more gifted of her sex, not merely in the present, but in all past generations. Her fame, however, does not in any way rest, to our thinking, upon her more ela borated compositions —upon thel " Poet's Vision," or the "Poet's Tow "—upon " The Seraphim," or " The Drama of Exile "—upoa her noble versions of either "The Lament for Adonis," of Bion, or the " Prometheus Bound" of schylus. Neither for that matter can she be considered to rely in any considerable degree fur future remembrance upon her numerous, and some of them very admirable sonnets—Petrarch having secured to himself in some wholly mysterious and altogether bewildering manner the rather enigma ticsl and indeed scarcely comprehensible privilege of possessing immortal fame by right of his reputation simply and exclusively as a son neteer ! What Mrs. Browning will be remembered for hereafter may be discerned, we conjecture, even elsewhere than. in her " Romance of the Swan's Nest," or her " Romance of the Ganges"—elso where even than in her "Rhyme of the Duchess May," or her "Lay of the Brown Rosary"—in her more brief and less pretentious poems, the " poems of our choice" in her tender ditty of " Bertha in the Lane," in her lovely ballad of the "Lady Geraldine's Courtship," in her passionate "Cry of the Human," and her most touching " Cry of the Children," in her loyal " Crowned and Wedded" befitting the courtly muse of a laureate, and her pathetic " Crowned and Buried" noblest among the many noble tributes offered to the shade of the Great Emperor and King, Napoleon. Wonderful guaran tees, too, of the permanence of the renown won by the witching music of this exquisite songstress, are discoverable, few will fail to acknowledge, in her dainty dream of " The Lost Bower," in her marvellous fiction of " The Deserted Garden," in her memorable conceit of " Hector in the Garden," in her delicious apostrophy to " A Dead Rose," in that loveliest of all her lovely outpourings of melody and grief, and allur ing passion, and irresistible tenderness—her match less poem entitled " Catarina to Camoeus." These are among the nobler sureties of the future fame of Elizabeth Barrett Browning—as they are among the readiest passports to present admiration. I t is especially remarkable, however, that even these masterly effusions of the genius f Mrs. Browning are still, in the " third edition," blurred by the old blemishes, by which their grace and symm e t r y were originally disfigured. This, too, in spite of the writer's avowal, at page viii. of Vol. 1., that " the author has done her best to remedy the over sights and defects of the former revision !" It is scarcely comprehensible, after this, how it comes to pass that we still find " Catarina to OilMOOliS" jarring upon our ears with such abominable rhymes as for example—(st. 2.) " bowers" and "yours," as (st. 14.) " flowitiga" and "poems," as (st. 15.) " praying" and "away in," as (at. 19.) " future" and "suitor." While in "The Cry of the Chil dren" our senses are still horrified with rhymes like (st. 4.) " stilled in" and "children," as (st. 11.) " heaven" and "unbelieving," or again as (at. 12.) " before you" and "glory," and " unretriev ingly" and "heavenly." Villainously bad rhymes, however, are the arch-fault of Mrs. Browning, a crime against taste, in her instance, altogether in comprehensible. Abominable, too, in its way is the dreary iteration indulged in by her at times as in the case of the wearisome "Toll slowly"—" Toll slowly"—"Toll slowly" repeated again, and again, and yet again, in the interminable " Rhyme of the Duchess May." Mrs. Browning, we may likewise observe, evinces a curious delight in—what shall we say ? how possibly can we express it I—dimly idealising wholly inaudible sounds I Can it be forgotten I for example how the very first of her " Poems," not, of course, in regard to their merit, but in reference simply to their arrangement, the first poem in the first volume, i. e., the "Drama of Exile," closes with that wonderful intimation — "There is a sound through the silence as of the falling tears of an angel !" Again, have we not in " Bertha in the Lane" that amazing avowal, at the 22d stanza : "And I answered coldly, too, When you %net me at the door; And I only heard the dew Dripping front me to the fioor 1" Bettor than this, though of a similar kind, that exquisite sentence occurring a little earlier in the same poem : " And the Silence, as it stood In the Glory's golden flood, Audibly did bud—did bud." If we desired, however, to shadow forth by a mingle quotation the many rare and noble characteristics of the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning we should adduce some such passage as the fellow ing—a pa. , •sage to us of solemn harmony and ex quisite and pathetic beauty. " Crowned and Buried"—it is an apostrophe to the Modern Sesos tris : " Napoleon !—years ago, and that great word Compact of human breath in hate and dread And exultation, skied us overhead— An atmosphere whose lightning was the sword Scathing the cedars of the world—drawn down In burnings, by the metal of a crown. Napoleon I Nations, while they cursed that name, Shook at their own curse ; and while others bore Its sound, as of a trumpet, on before, Brass frouted legions justified its fame And dying men, on trampled battle-sods, Near their last silence, uttered it for God's. Napoleon ! Sages, with high forehead drooped, Did use it fora problem : children small Leapt up to greet it, as at manhood's call : Priests blessed it from their altars overstooped By meek-eyed Christe,—and widows with a moan Spake it, when questioned why they sate alone. That name consumed the silence of the snows In Alpine keeping, holy and cloud-hid,— The mimic eagle s dared what Nature's did, And over-rushed her m ountainous repose In search of ey eriss ; and the Egyptian river Mingled the same word with its grand ' For ever.' That name was shouted near the pyramidal Nilotic tombs, whose muminied habitants, Packed to humanity's significance, Motioned it back with stillness. Shouts as idle As hireling artists work of myrrh and spice Which swathed last glories round the Ptolemies. The world's face changed to hear it. Kingly men Came down, in chidden babes' bewilderment. Frora autocrat places—each content With sprinkled ashes for anointing ;—tbtin The people laughed or wondered for the nonce To see one throne a composite of thrones. Napoleon ! even the torrid vastitude Of India felt in throbbings of the air That name which scattered by disastrous blare All Europe's bound-liees,—drawn afrteili in blra• Napoleon—from the Russias, west to Spain 1 J And Austria trembled-- till ye heard her chain. And Germany was 'ware—and Italy Oblivious of old fames—her laurel-locked, Higla-ghosted Cwsars passing uninvoLed, -- Did crumble her own ruins with her knee, To serve a newer.—Ay ! but Frenchmen cast A future from them nobler than her pig." Hearken again to the voice of the Pythoness, chanting anew the glory and the woe of the Great Conqueror ! " Napoleon ! 'twas a high name lifted high ! It met at last God's Lhuuder sent to clear' ::" tt4 1 .1 , " OtW itetiOnaitwanti r 'ring hlytitublittis Anti il‘tit kii , P4fiti this Ail) crf aupri,rn© this of e.4-64'4., was And kings crept out again to feel the sun. The kings crept out—the peoples sate at home, And finding the long-invocated peace A pall embroidered with worn images Of rights divine, too scant to cover doom Such as they suffered,—cursed the corn that grew Rankly, to bitter bread, on Waterlo), A deep gloom centred in the deep repose— The nations stood up mute to count their dead— And he who owned the NAufs which vibrated Through silence,—trusting to his noblest foes When earth was all too grey for chiva'ry, Died of their mercies 'mid the desert sea. Again, upon the same great theme, her voice it lifted up as with the passionate grief of a Cassan dra : singing of the Dead— () wild St. Helen ! very still she kept him, With a green willow for all pyramid,— Which stirred a little if the low wird did, A little more, if pilgrims overvrept him Disparting the lithe boughs to see the clay Which seemed to cover his for judgment day Nay, not so long !—France kept her old affection As deeply as the sepulchre the corse, Until dilated by such love's remorse To a new angel of the resurrection, She cried, Behold, thou England ! I would have The dead whereof thou wottest, from that grave. And England answered in the courtesy Which, ancient foes turned lovers, may befit,— ' Take back thy dead ! and when thou buriest it, Throw in all former strifes 'twixt thee and me.' Amen, mine England ! 'tis a courteous claim— But ask a little room too . . . for thy shame ! Because it was not well, it was well, Nor tuneful with thy lofty•chanted part Among the Oceanides,—tbat Heart To bind and bare and vex with vulture fell. I would, my noble England men might seek All crimson stains upon thy breast—not cheek I would that hostile fleets bad scarred this bay, Instead of the lone ship which waited moored Untily thy princely purpose was assured, Then left a shadow—hot to pass away— Not for to-night's moon, nor to-morrow's sun ! Green watching hills, ye witnessed what was done !" Pronouncing thus, in fine, the oracular dictum, of poesy upon the fame of this later demigod, th. " Crowned and Buried"— NAPOLEON. "Blood fell like dew beneath his sunrise—sooth ! But glittered dew-like in the covenanted Meridian light. He was a despot—granted ! But the apr oc of his autocratic mouth Said ye i' the people's French : he magnified The image of the freedom he denied. And if they asked for rights, he made reply `Ye have my glory l'—and so, drawing round theta His ample purple, glorified and bound them In an embrace that seemed identity. He ruled them like a tyrant—tree ! but none Were ruled like slaves : each felt Napoleon. I do not praise this man : the man was flawed For Adam—much more Christ !—his knee, unbent-- His hand, unclean—his aspiration, punt With a sword-sweep :--pshaw !—but since he hal - The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave. I think this nation's tears thus pured together, Worthier than shouts ; I think this funeral Grander than crownings, tigough a Pope bless all ; I think this grave strniger than thrones. But whether The c , owned Napleoo or the buried clay Be better, I disc,rn n,.t—Angels may." So, with that wild strain of a melody most beautiful and most affecting still vibrating upon the chords of our remembrance, let us close these brief and inadequate words of reference to the writings of a true woman, and a poet no less genuine and illus trious. Honour to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whose name—as that of Mary Somerville, is the boast of her sex in the scientific annals of our generation—is preeminent among the living glories of our English literature ! LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Campbell. MEAGER V. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by the survivors o a gentleman named Meager, to recover damages from the defendants, in consequence of the death of that gentle man from an accident of the defendants' railway. Mr. Lush, who appeared for the plaintiff, said he was instructed to take a verdict, by consent in this case, for 1,900/. The action bad been brought under late Act of Parliament, giving parties power to sue for compensation, on the death of their relatives, from ac cidents on railways. The suns in question would be divided, 9001. to the widow, and 500/. to each of the deceased's two children. Lord Campbell said he was happy to find the Eastern Counties Railway had come forward in so handsome manner, and agreed to a verdict, which was an example worthy to be followed by a'! other railway companies. In former times, when coach accidents occurred, an many of the passengers were killed, the proprietors greatly rejoiced that the state of the law was such as prevented the survivors from bringing actions against them for damages. The passing of the Act in question had remedied that evil, and he was happy to say that it had been found to work extremely well. Verdict for the plaintiff. Damages 1,9001. ROLLS COURT. CANDLER V. V ILLETT .-J CD G3I ENT ..--DEFAULTING SOLICITOR AND EXECUTOR. The Master of the Rolls gave judgment this morning in this case, which came before him in the nature of an appeal, from the certificate of his Honour's chief clerk He considered that his chief clerk had come to a correc conclusion on both paints, and entered his certificate to stand. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY. The December session of the above court was opened this morning by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Right Honmerahle the Recorder, Aldermen Sir C. Marshall and Sir R. W. Girder', Mr. Sheriff Kennedy, Mr. Sheriff Rose, Mr. Ueder-Sheriff Stone, and Mr. Under• Sheriff Rose, &c., &c. The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 65 prisoners. The Recorder, in his charge to the grad jury, con gratulated them upon the' fact that owing to the short period that had elapsed since the last session the calendar was unusually light, and that their labour's would consequently not be of very lengthened duration. The most serious case in the calendar was a charge against an unfortunate woman named M'Niell, for the murder of two of her children by cutting their throats. There appeared to be no doubt that she bad committed the act, and it appeared that she had previously been a most kind and affectionate mother, and there seemed to be no doubt that at the time she committed the fats deed she was not in a sound state of mind. The grand jury, however, could not consider that matter, but it would he their duty to find the bill for . murder, and then be question of the state of mind of the prisoner would another ould be investigated by the petty jury There f re h w av n i i r n ig gl a at t boh t e e u m mr. p ed te ui d tn t d o ap iag a rd re e d r od prisonerunder some three of this cahveer againstal childreno a, thatw o m h t a y h n e delusion of mind,tharneed tehfathewrhileehisidurffeenr,inganfrdomtwito ofshe went out with them were found struggling in the river at Chelsea, and were taken out, but the third, he believed, had never since been heard of. The evidence appeared to him at present to be very slight against the prisoner; but, if the grand jury should consider it was sufficient to justify further inquiry, they would be justified in find ing the bill. There was another case of a rather on. usual character, in which two prisoners, father and son, were charged with the crime of abduction. By a spe cial Act of Parliament the act of taking any young girl from the custody of her parents, with the intention of marrying her or of obtaining her property, was made felony, but the present case he believed would assume the shape of a charge of nesdeameanour, and to support that charge it was only necessary to prove that the par ties had taken a girl under sixteen from the custody of her parents without their consent ; and it was not neee wary to prove any object or motive in the present case He believed it would appear that the girl in ques tion was entitled to an income of 701. or SOL a year at the death of a relation, and it seemed that she had gone away willingly, and there was reason to believe that although she was only thirteen years of age she had cohabited with one of the defen dants. His lordship then informed the grand jury that be believed that bills would be preferred at the present session against those policemen who were allegceedastoiebnavoef made use of unnecessary violence upou t_ id h t e b o at although. the disturbances in Hyd,park, and En h g e ' s :trates, yet then, there had been no inquiry by had hi c h il e e h i e l a ( t v h e e r y Recorder} investigationerder) b rn a i e l m a her : a Commission, nd,i by the evidence that would their His d l u er ty dsli to ip, fin in d charges were made r h a e te thought be laid before thern,rtiiutoLswayoc"cludsebde. bills against the erl'naa t ig h di a s t t had sprung u th P iet s concluding right te ea operated very unfairly upon jUrt3 a them of the privilege to which his and which he Lion a t observations, parties considered i on p o fr active . clic' ti entitled of being made acquainted with the tphrei y :e r r s ; and biiciY deprived to charges that they would be called upon to answer. It appeared to be the practice to commit a prisoner upon one charge only, and to return the depositions upon tit* charge, but when the session came on the officers in structed the officials of the court to prefer other indict ments for offences of a totally distinct character, a nd they represented that this course was adopted uuderr the direction of the magistrates who committed the prisoner. He could hardly think thi s was th e case, but the prac tice had certainly ext en d e d, an d it had the effect rt to Ipre venting the pris o n ers f rom k now i n g whatchhaarvgeei joan. w they were committed upon or winch they (. ser, and repeated c omplaints were made e of hop . magistrates course t trateswoo which be al con siderluded. The i t u h ( e j ed.propriety of pone \ terms in i the The grand jury then retired. 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