The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-26 00:00:00

'LI - - 73 1 7 7 4- 7; 'ELM▪ " XI& comi AliD COMMERCIAL pITIZLIGEN•OII CITY, Two o'CLooz. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily, and prices of all kinds were with ou t change. Th e 4,000 L 3 127. The Share Market was steady, at fu :1 prices. Advices from the foreign wool markets state that as Pesth there has been a good demand at firm prices, and medium, as well as fine sorts, have risen 2to 5 florins. From Breslau we learn that the price of the raw material has suffered a decline, and at Moscow there has been a good deal of activity in consequence of the shortness of the stock. Washed wools of fine quality realised 33 to 84 roubles, and middling kinds 29 to 32 roubles. At Chardow, during the October fair, the supply was about 21,000 poods, and, in consequence of the active demand, quotations had advanced. The Marseilles silk market is described in the advices as being dull, with a downward tendency in prices. At Milan, on the 15th inst., there was very little activity in this article, but an improvement in this respect was soon expected. Prices, however were 'well supported. The amount of bills drawn by the Hon. East India Company, on the three Presidencies of Ben gal, Madras, and Bombay, from the 9th to the 25th Nov., has been : On Bengal .. On Madras .. On Bombay X 15,481 4 4 5,986 5 0 250 0 0 • Total 22,077 9 4 The holders of Buenos Ayres Bonds are now holding a meeting, and the principal subject for consideration is the following plan which has been proposed by the Government of the Republic for the adjustment of this debt : In Payment of the interest in arrear to the date when the final settlement takes place , and for its entire amount, new B on d s w il l b e issued of 201. and 501. each, of large amounts, as may be convenient to the bond holders such bonds being entitled to interest from and after the year 1861, as follows : Prom 1861 to 1865 inclusive 1 per cent. per annum. Prom 1866 to 1870 ~ 1 4 If From 1871 and after 2 I ,A sinking fund being setapart from 1861 from the new bonds until their entire redemption of per cent. per annum (one half), or say the 200th part of the whole amount, or if more agreeable to the creditors, the Govern. meet propose that 3.4ths of the whole amount ,ef the arrears of interest (or 75 per cent.) only te recognised, issuing in payment of this °Om, bonds to bear interest as fellows : Pro m 1861 to 1865 inclusive, 1 per cent. per annum. Prom 1866 to 1870 „ 2 ~ From 1871 and after 3 ~ There still being set aside from 1861 as a sinking fund for P s uch new bonds ui.til their entire redemption, per cent. er annum ( one -h a lf) , or say the 200th part of the whole Munt. In any event the Government Buenos Ayres bill remain at liberty to apply to the redemption of the be w bonds, by means of public or private purchase, any "roll which it might find convenient at any period alter their issue, and even beforo said bonds commence gain jog any interest whatever. b l t' payment of the deficiency arising (36.0001 ), be can the s um ass i gned for the payment cf interest Le origin a l d e b t in 1857 and 1858, and what is esta- Zt°willed in the contract, there will also be issued, at a „ ti ng opportunity, new bonds er the same condi _,ung proposed for the payment of und the int rest due to nate . t,ney arrangement which may be settled upon the pre -leg bases will not take effect until after having been a pproved by the Lecialative Chambsrs, towards which en d ache G overnment of Buenos Ayres will cause it to be Pr nted to them as soon as concluded. The prospects of the general Money-market were .„ .. - " U sitterd to have improved so far as to justify the 'allectation that a reduction in the Bank mini rum Will soon be m a d e . Thi s i mpression stimu lates the upward movement in the Funds, and, 14 the same time, checks the demand for illortey, because parties defer obtaining more a ccommodation than they immediately require, itt the hope of procuring it, ere long, upon easier terms. At the same time the Lombard-street houses are charging within a fraction of the Beek rate for the negociation of GO days' bills, and 44 the Directors are likely to proceed in the treat cautious manner, the idea that a reduction be made at the sitting to-morrow is not shared 11 2. 13 7 the maj or it y o f t h ose interested in the course ", monetary events. The bullion has received 11(44 1 ,,, ,_ e very material a ddi t i ons, and the Reserve has 4 ,.` -u ablY also been augmented, but the de- J.. 11d for mon e y i s st ill act i ve, an d several la " or circumsta nces o f m i nor i mpor t ance w ill :ye to be carefully considered before the Directors 4 ; 11 be ind uce d to relax their restrictive policy. to day th e i nquiry for discounts is quieter, and quotations rather tend downwards. On the Stock c hange the d eman d f or mone y i s no t ver y active. The ra t es of " continuation " in the Stare liarket, h owever, are heavy, and for Con- L i h t he quotati on i s still I per cent. TliThe Funds are rather firmer, but speculation is et) and the real purchases are not very nume rof the ous ' During the next day or two the arrangement 7111 Foreign Stock and Railway Share Accounts occupy chief attention, and the Consol settle l'aent will also soon have to be effected. Consols for &elmey have been 93i 94 and 94i December to and ; and for January 94i- 95. The New Three per Cents. are marked 93 to 931, t „'lles Reduced 92 i 93, and Exchequer Bills Is. to ~a.. Premium; the Bonds are 98i 99. Bank Nock is 2151 to 2L7, and ludia Stock 225. ZaThere have been but few dealings in the Foreign k markets t o -d ay, and prices generally are un _tered. Turki s h 6 per Cents. for money brought , 3 and 94, and for th e account on the 16th ,"leeernber, 931 ; th e 4 per C ents, were 1001, 100 i. 'l'assian 5 per Cents. were dealt in at 106 i. Dutch 4 Per Cents. wer e 65 , an d the 4 per Cents. 961 9 6. 18tc_Teb,e f ollowing ar e th e nom i nal prices of Foreign ettliike 22i : - --Grenad a D e f erred Bonds, Gi 7 ; Mexi -3 I; Peruvian 41 per Cents 77 8 • ditto •, P o e ; r 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., Russian 94 li e p . er Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 4 per Neva 6 ; Spanish 3 Pnr CE:1118, 41i 2} ; ditto 4 it eferred, ; ditto Certificates, 55i ; to Passive, 6 In the Rail way Share Market this morning a 7 limited business has been reported, and with 17 s ,_", iie er two exceptions the quotations of most of the 0 1 ipal lines have undergone no material altera u from yesterday's closing rates. Caled o 1 5 ,.: . oved ; East L ancashire nian ira , 54 orth-Western, ; and G reat W estern . ; N, 10s. Great Northern de 'tined 10s. The French and Canadian lines have 440 exhibited a downward tendency. Great Central °f France declined 1/., and :1 3 iris and Lyons 103 -irand Trunk of Canada a nd Great Western Canada about 54. The East ludia lines rul of ed Steady. Joint-Stock Bank Sharesoasora have been rather Commercial of London, buoyant, Bank of Egypt, 411 (I. Union of Australia, b e i n t4 tiOnB ; London and Westredifata and Ottoman improved quo er, 11411 k, however, slightly declined. 111 Miscellaneous shares p r i ces ruled steady. C 71 Palace P re f erence Sharer; a dvanced n • - 3 ' 4t° Yal Mail St eam are quo t e d 66. .) and tea,r.ts. I R FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. ,c / ci/ List.) ustnelidone. (From the Off 215 17 alttswt Stock ..... ;)2",i i 2/ ~.. Per Cent. Reduced Annuities it.ber tient. Consols Annuities—. ........ ... 9 94 31 3 i 4 8 / 1, -* 3 Der Cent. Annuities 2 13-16 /Lo Annuities expire sth Jan. 1860 e.%ilis [hock ... : ... ........ - 94 ale for Ace Bill ..... I°llecitter Bills, 24d. 1 4 p tlOOO ..... ..... ...... . F,tseo ..... .. ............. 6 p " r call .. : . : .. : ... .. .. ........... . ... . —itto Boi . (1; . 'lB5B, 3‘per Cevt. bit t o. is fs , ' ... 9£3 9 ........... .. ...... . ......... IIra, PR ICES OF FOREIGN' X DITDS THIS D.Y. ~ I'6 .'"1.11 Fonds, 5 per Cent. -ttivian Bonds 4i per Cent ..... ..... pDitto 3 per cent. ....... *•*.' ••• • ort Account .....• • ........... • -ThlgUeso Bonds, 5 per Cent., Col. IR4I It4u.l.tte 1853, 3 pe r Cent , ........ ..... 454 tin --a !' Ronde, 1 / 5 22, ~ St., 5 per Cent.... 105 i in, 1 Bouds, per .......... 8 0 , t it , 14 lkTew Deferred, 3 per Cent. ......... 23} T n'il, Cootraittee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5 t lital) t, nds r , „ ,t .... ........... 93 i Ibittit: okeeoun't D ecember 16. .............. S l 3s 4i Auaranteed, 4 per Cent Ditto c9euns, ..... ....................... . ; ...101f bou t , ~,' km "), ~• ••••• nhnx-p .. —.l-i f . .... Alt -'l°l-auge. 2i per Cent. 12 Guilders 65 ato 4 per Cent' vertiflo;tes' ............ . 96i i entl'Oß Morley) THR,SE O'CLO CK. .. 94k-.'.. Ditto (Doceriablr ............... '" * i p...... iii .1 94 St. 50 it. St. 20 f 0 100 l'Y) 20 100 20 20 20i .20i rilE SUN, LON niiN,• }3; li m ARFT 2 . , Ts —(This Day). RAILW tYS. AA n.wAys. Cioqina Prices this Jay. Business done this day LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS ;'01143au.2 Closing Prlea this day Nottng. Boat and Ea3tn. Junct... Balfa,t Ballymeruk. Bfrrning 7 1,7,-Averl7 :hour VAT ... dime:llld. Chestnro Chesh. & Birk. Do., do. ..... Blackburn ..... &Tynsorigine .£25 (issd. at .£4;.. Bristol and Exeter,. Caledonian Chester di Holyhea , Cork mod Banden. Cork, Black, Do. A • Do. B Dublin&BclfaetJuuc Don. P. es Aber,. Jnc. East Anglian Eastern Counties.. . East. Tnion, A. St De., B. Stock,.. Do., New East Kent Tom cashire Est Suffolk Do. Bilnburgh Wasp Elinb. and Peebles 'Editt.Prth &Duo& Forth & Clyde Jon 'Furness. (Glasgow & S. Westrn ;Great N. of Scotlnd Great Northern ..... Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stook Gt. Sth. IkWest.are.: Groat Western ..... Do. Stour Val. Rai Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern rome‘Rter Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds T.a.neash.audYorksh Da., Ws:. Riding Un Sont,hrort London & Blackwal Lond. Bright &S.Cst 'Loud. and N. Westn Do. Fifths D0.101.511..M&8...( 00. Eighths London andS. Westn. , Audr.drryaeolerain .mindrry.&Enniek lando.fithef.&Lincl , letropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo arrangement 111 , 11ana )o. Bizinng. &Derl trial. G. West. (Ire )o. lialf Shares._ , Twcastle & Carlisl dwpt.Aberg. &Hrf do-. Trey &Enniekill F ; awry , Warrenpo;tt tnci Itestrever.... iorfolk , Torthn.Corinties ITT North British • ;levoa Rail, F Dock Stock A Stock B Stock N.Eastern—BersO I do. e, xt43nsi o 7.; i• , .tio, Par, 00. Leeds... i) York... North .ALS.Wstrn.,firo , and City Jr. goeLbStafrordshiy. nrth Wastrn.JuL Wore, , fSL mot. . Rhymney Ott Scot. N E.Abnin St. Do. Soot. Bid. St irra TT,I SitinzbournekSheer. Devoe loath Eastern: , outh Wales ........ Irrksh. 4 Riv. 310. 4 . alne; Wok &W. ,. • • Stockton & Darl;ng 12, .0., do., 1854 3 Do., do., 1855 qcskten di Hartley t_M' Vale .......... VV )o. Pref., No. 1.... '2 rhanes Hay. D.& R all Vale of Neath .... . . ai Waterfd. & Kilkenn e.ll Taterford&Lime r i. all West C0rnw a 11..,,... all Yost End of Londot and Crystal Palace. all Do. A ......, ....... . , ....... . Do, B West London Do. First Class Do. Second Class., Wimblvin &C'rov 4-, loin tally • tsaroctn, an( Cen.lndia►, g. 5 p. c Do. Ceylon A shares Do. B. do Demerara Eastern Bengal 't9A Indian A and B, g. 5 p., Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D 0.4 p.c.13nd5.,'57 Do. do. do., '5O, do Melbournt I guar. 5 per cent... Gld. Trunk of Canada Do. Cert. of Deben. OM. into Stk. Do. CoLop. 6p. c., do qt. Jr. Pen. g. 5 p. c Do New, guar. 5 p. c Ott. Western of Causd Do. New Eds., payable '& Do. do., '76, p. '6O • s.a. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, withou , option... siadraP, guar. 46p.c Do. do., 5 p. c. Do. 4i p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c iciude, guar. 5 p. c Do t. Andrew's sn :AiebE.o ;Al 11 utworz)eatott rdhEi Ardennes .11 ~I,,zian Eastn. Junc, 6 4.,zierstn (rnipseses e Buff. & Lk. Hur, Cartneaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 2 )ntcl - , Rhenish , :astern of France 9 • ' , Tow _ Euphrates Valley Eur. In.Jn.'rel.Rail CeiAtral of Prat, e Great Luxembourg Italian Junction risk*. Conet . & Basle Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca & Pist. 5 p. c.p. Lyons and Genova '..yons ft Iliediterran liaria Antonia Do. do. New 4 amur Liege • Do. do., C p. c. Pref 'Ncrthern of France. Norwe7lanTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Recife & San. Fran., (Pernam.)g. 7 p. e. Rome and Frascati '!oyal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Mouse Do. & p. cent. Prof ontliern of France Heat Flanders Do. 5 per c. W. QG N. W. of Franc( Western of Austria West. of Switzerland, Wiesbaden ... Do. 8 per cent. Pref Zealand ZOINT-S'l . ol Inatralasin .. .. Bank of Egypt Bank of London i-tri. Col. lik.San. C lirithib, N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Anstralia, & China Cit y Colonial ......... . Commercial. of Load Eng.Soot.&AnsCht Lon& Chart. Ilk. of Ditto Now .. Australia London and Cou . . nty Lnd. &E. Dnkg. Cor p London Joint St ock . bond. & W es t m i nster National Pro.et E ng Do. New ..... National Bank .... ` ' Now South Wales Mental Fk. Corp, Ottoman Bank Provitcial of Ireland' Do. Now, R Ana B &Go t in Cc inztralia ; 1 0 "Rn..:111.". Unity Mutual_ Westieru .13k c f Loud COLONI AL. 4 - *es ••• 8k - 8] 17i - 1S - 16 12i - 13. 91 - 93 57i - 58. 36 - 38 sea ...... set- ••• "." . 94 - 174 - 184 9$ 35 - 37 24 - 26 7 - 5 80 - 82 53 - 55 •i - ii 93 - 95 7 - 8 .91 - 92 78 - 79 123 - 125 115 - 117 688 68! 63 - 72 . 5 ?; - 6 4 54 - 64 95i & 95i ea .... Gi LOS 110 101 —. 104 LW 1(16 34 1 d 81 - 81? 52 - 54 ~« -- .. .. -- .. 13i - 49 - 51 3i - 3•, 37i 38 .. - .. 84 . 85 - 4 3 - - -18 i 60 El 95 98 5} 51 6f 7, 10 11 28 29 02 104 24i - 255 68 70 47 48 14 ~. 1 17 '8 72i - 73 1 78 - 80' 5 - 34 - 2 - 1 14 16 83 40 • • • •••. 19 -19 S '• 7 ••• 6 8 2 4 6 bi •• • .... ... • -- ••• i 9 - 'ii = ii 221 - 14~.2p' 22 - 221 22 - 23 10} - 11 76 - 78 21 - 21$ - 24 -24 2k - 99 - 101 1 15 120 115 - 120 108 110 19/ - 21i - 22, - t 2 - 231 '.IC~IV . 6i - 7 - 14 i. - 2 p 5 5 - 324 - 13 - 104 3i- 4 , 4/ - 5i ...d 5 6ip ••• - ... 8A - 9:1 8 -- 84 191 -19 i , 37i -- 38 8 -- 9 51i - 52 4) -- 51 i - I pl ii - 19 81 91 —9} ••• Pin 4i 33 34 4 .111 99 101 . 63 - 65 •• • ."" "'' - 68 - 70 ... ..... ... is -- 1741 20 -20 i 19i -- 20 1 - 3p . .... ... ••11 ...• ... 111.. 1•1•11. ... 45 3 0 8 , - - 40 '4 lid 34 i s " -- 66 ~, 14 ..- 7 L lOd , a.. 5 d ahr, I'. 11 Bedford and Blet 2hley BnAghatash. 11 Col. Stour Vy. h.) E. Lin. g . .. 6 po. 11 E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Neil& Drzect Y. New...... 11 Giatr.& Du Fr all Hrtipl. Dk. Railway, 50 all Hull & Selby 25 all Do. Sharer. 12,# all Do. Sharer. 12i all Len.&Greenw 20 all Da.Preference St 100 Lon., 10 3i Do. Bark. Sh. St 1.055 Lowetitoft 4 per cent.. 0 Do. 6 per et. .11 Manch. Bxtn.. and Matlock Middles'bro' Redc.g 6 p.c. ' lifidld.Bradt , • Newmarket Bury E. M/1(- 6 11 N.dr Eat.s p.c. lI Do. 6 per et. dl Do. Fixeds p c di Prost. &IN yr ,ll Do. 4 Shrs. A )0 Roystn.S; Mt. Si Shef.lloth.an , Geoleg. 5 p.c. al Shrews.&Hcr LO/ S. Stailordsh al Wear Valloygz 6 per 11 Do Wiltse.,'omrst iUaL IVAI el. 15C, I a St. ;15 St 1.4 25 al 5 a; Si. St. .E .)..j 10.; St. S i a 5) i al St. 10 6i 5, 60 I a] 50 al 120, t: St. 10 25 I 10 al 12 10 60 al 26 I a: St 101 rioudou N. We3t. L. 8/Itif.W Gated on._ 1 tJ. C E. Count. Crldoni.zz. Do Gt. WaS`.l3 n. New.' & Berw. 1 7 .&NZ1 Do Do S. te.stort Do Mato .& Co 'Do ZZOrfi.:lll.., D 0......... L.& N. W. & Midld %Aeon Darlingt. En. Conn. E. Count. Co Do L. & N.W Do iGtNorthn Lancash& Yorksh. T. Brassey 11.MCiean Stockt. Darlingt Do latWeetn. 96 - 98 98 - 102 12 - 14 133 - 136 4 ... 4i IQ6 - It's 12j - iR 224 2'4 1 108 - 112 1 p 1 •M ...... O.( 2i - 2i 90 - 92 r - I 55 - 57 132 - 135 ..• - 74 - 81 34 - 33 - 34 39 - 91 PREFERENCE SHARES. 25 all Blyth and Tyne lOpei c. pref. (isEd.q.t 59Z Si. 100 Eris. & Ex. 4p.c. St 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares... St. 1 0 0 Calecin. £lO 4i pc. St. 100 pOlieg. &130. en. 5,! . pc tit. 100 Do. do. Pref. 5 per e. 6:4 811 Cork dißandonbtp.e, f i all Dun.Prth ~dt Aber. J. 10 2 F.. Anglian els. ASb St. 100 Do. do. els. B6p. c. St. 100 Do. do CM. C7p. c. fi all Eas.Co.E.r, speNo. tt all Do. No. 2 10 all Do. Ne w 6 p. a. St 20 all East Un., G. 6p. c 5 all Do. 51., 10 per emt 10 all Do. IN. Debentr.Sl: Bt. all Do. do. 4 per cent St. 100 East Lancadh.6p.ets 5 all E. leW. York. J. sth 10 4 Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sb St. 100 Ed. Prth.RtDun.4p.e St. 100 Furnese, sp. c St. 100 Gllas. & S.W.G. 6 p.e St. 100 Groat Northn. sp. c St. 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prom. , I Do. 4} p.c Do. sp. c., Rod. at I 6 :48 ••• ---. •• 4 i -. 5 6 -4-' 6, 107 - 112 97 . - 102 61) - OP 11i - 12 j ... -- ••• .... .. • .• .'"" .. 7 ••• ••• .16 - 118 109 - 111 103 - 105 1 01t.N. of Scot.htert )r) Qt. (Ireland .4 Do. 4per o. Prof, Fi c. Ver.( Do. con. 1 ed. 1 p.c. _JO 'll. con. red. 4p. c too Do. irrO. 4p. c. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref Do. Rirm. Prof. S:1 i 0 I al St. IM 61 - 63 10 - 10! St. ilOl 6 - 6 93 - 95 St. 10 8 al 10 al 10 al St to 2 z a t, 20 86 - 88 99 • 101 10 - 10. ' 164 - 17 1 10 - 10 72 - 74' 1 94 - 20 9i - 10.] 141 - 154 - L 37 139 11 Do.ChesterBp.c.Ki-. ,11 Do. do. 5 p. e. do. Do.l3irm. Gut— Stir 61) Do. Ches. Gua. sh. 00, do. do 31 Do. do. do TAIL & York. F. 20 10 Do. 6 p. c. Stook St. ilk St. lu St. 10., St. 10' Sr. Ile St. IV lio.u.Sz:b. G. 5 pc. No.l )0 Do. P., spo, St.No.2 10 Do. New Gnar.6 D. Do. do. 5 p. e.,N0.4 f_eni.OT. W., Coy. z, Cuneat on 5 p. ct L S. W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares 611 L Indy. & Color. ASh 11 bondy.& Enr ie. Sh .0; li., g.,& L. 6 p. Cent 4 Do. do. do. £6 ... )0 'lo. do. 3f per cent. 611 Ifarypt.&Carl.4 p o .11 no. 4A per cent .0 uo. do. Consol.6 p.c.St If) ) 0 , non.llr.Nr. 6pc 10 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. E t 10 Ditto L. &H. Prof. St i Now., Abar., dre., pr. c 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. 6 Do. Perpet. 6 p ct. with opts. till '66 10 all Norfk. Deb, 4 p.c. sh St. 100 Do. Prof. sp.c. St St. 100 Do. 5 pc. Ext.,1846 St. 100 Di>. 5 per c. ,1847 St. 100 Do. Wv. V. 6 pc.,1.847 St. 100 North British 7 33 Do 7/. Preference St. 10u N. E. Perw, 4 p.0..e. 85 Do, do. do 20 13 Do, Leeds 6 p.c 12} 9 Do. do. Qre.,1848.,, 25 10 Do.Yorkil.Et G. Per. 20 all North Staffordshire.. St. 100 I oc, Woo. - .W., 6 pc... St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Redeem. 8* all Soot. Cont. ,Now Prof St. 100 Sc.N.E. Aber. g 6 pc 5 all Do. d0.,7 p.c. pf. st. St. 100 Do. do., 3A p.c. pf. st. 25 all South Devon..,. 10 all , •e .... ... 136 -13 R 115 - 117 ... ..". ...• 157 - 15) I`2l a: 124 t: St. 11 .. - ... -►~ St. 10 12. al 12. a] 12 11 St. 10 St. , St. 0 St. I 0: 10 all 10 - 70 136 -133 98 - 100 88 - 1 - li 102 -IC4 92 —94 1k d 14 : 108 16 -- 17! too. tixedoli per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4 per cent I Do. Fixed 4i pc sh ) 3. Wales Gus.. 4p, c ) Dq. do. 4l p. c S.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar ill 3tock.& Dar., sp. c .5 Do. do. do ill stock. & Hartl. g. 5 P. c. till July 1, .5e ill Waterfd. Kilk. 6p c St. 10i 10 al St. 101 St. 101 20 a' 25 a 23 - 24 101 - 103 9i - 101 25 1 11 12ii E 4: 27 -• 28 2 - 3p 3 3e MINES. 10a all I ...oglo Californian 20 7 1 1 1 all Baden (Gd• Duchy of; 50 all Blemar. Iron & Goa' 20 14 British Iron 6 8 35 269 Braziiianlmp.(irsued at 25 pm.) 80 all Do. Comes t , Calmly, 3 20 15 Do. St. John Delßey 17 19 1 9 Clarendon Cons. Min. Co. of Jamaica p 40 all dobre Copper ..... 55 57 561 6 5I 19 Oolonial Gold . • ••• . R all sill oCoppero. Prof. M 79 pot: cent ug 3 21 0 53 ... Copiapo 2 all Fortuna — 201 11 Genual .• •" 1 all Gt.NuggetVeinßeg — 6 45,1 allall Greathl: Wheal g v o o o 1 all Liberty 3 all Linares r til Unite l 2: 7d - 2 7 : p $ n a - 10 2 5 6 111 ) allaar'll;l9 PortPL . 4:1 o c 'ea n :urvi t ivt av g l p (i i na h . rl S. anati MondeGranada e. Mn . 8 1 all Quarts Rock • ••• 50 all Ethymney Iron 2l 23 15 all Do. New 5 7 30 151 Santiago de Cuba 2l 21 Gs. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 29 21 • 1 all South Australian..... 1 all Do. Scrip... 1 all Do. 10 per cent Pref ... 49 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 1-- 19 10 9 l'in Croft ...... . • 3 1 — 3 l 289 all United Mexican 3l 4 1 all Waller ••• ••• 1 all West Mariposa 1 12s Worthing Mining of Australia . " 4, MISCELLANEOUS. 25 19 tustrallen Agriendt. 25 27 10 al lustraln. Royal Mail 10 all Berlin Water Works 51 5} 50 40 Brit. American Land ... Guaoda.tip.e..TanSatily 1 11 1 3 7 9 122 I s o t o . • 4 re s S t t sl. . 1 1 :0 0: 14 EaDEDD D Es .80041: 6 ;tor ocu . ef e lsse. TT . irmta. P eo:ioanna e ee ni b ic.goe.r l en Aug Cp.:ot 1 .519 .1 : 9 1 25 3 : 9 1 6 4 9 112 rn n. 5 All Crystal Palace..,-,,, • 29• 2$ 4 all Crystal Pal. of Frauee 20• • 1 l a s ll I° s a ° l; 25 all Gen. Ir Sc Col (lim.) ••• ••• 11 all General Screw Stea m —__, 21 4 025 a 11541 Gen,io un Steam Loudon o . n G3 3 n i . s 20 10 Magdale na St. Navig • 31 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel • . 1; 10 all Mexiwn&S.Amerien. 3 Si 25 5 Nat. Discount Co 25 1 Do. New 10 5 Netherlands Land..:: 1 10 all Do. D o . , 5 3 Do. 8 pcP i ss atl d 5 1 Do. D 024 ld " 100 80 New B. do N.S. Land 15 -- 20 N.S.W. Gov.sp.c.D. 1 all N. B. Australasian._ 20 17 Nrth.cfEuropeSteam 39 —2. d 1 all Oriental Gas 1 1 2s. Do. "New Shares" p 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Miurl. 21 —21 pm 50 all Peninsul ar & O r i en t a l 68 —69 i 50 10 Do. New 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 Scot. Aust ra l. I nvest . 11 11 1 all Ditto New ll 25t all South Austral. Land 35 37 1 at filnlainar. Tel. Scrip... 1 '- 1 all - Do. Registered 1 • 20 100 28 5 9 . V P r a u n s t i r e 4 m . t en' ij s ad I it . a 169 YlllV(h.6p 4.1 hat 4 ••• lie 0 • t, 1100 100 an 1100 10j 8 174 100' al. 4 100 100 all 100 100 1100 100 100 130 100 100 100 all all 100 100 .00 ill .00 all 10s. 1 all 2s. :111 al i all all all 92 1 57i i 8 37 6 811 80§ 34i 4 GS i l i 8 / 94i 5 i 108 i 9 1031 41 31 106 i 341 5 Rea 1 a 54 59/ 60i 171 71/ 3 24 3i 21 80 79i 00.1 b 274 8 7 qt. Ili 100 1 WEDNESDAY EVE\IN G, NOVEMBER 26 1856 liusiness this day COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN BE HOUGHTON. 1091 LAW iNTELLIGENCE.— , This Day.) This bankrupt was described as of Friday-street, and late of Adelaide, &0., and to-day was appointed for the certificate meeting. The balance-shoet commences January 1854, with a capital of 11,5871. ; debtor to creditors, 24,8311. ; to ditto on account of other parties, 18,067/. ; liabilities on consignments, 11 6511. ; ditto on account of J. T. Tay lor, Sydney, 15,1591. ; ditto on bills receivable, 11,1141.; creditor by good debts, 1,6501. ; doubtful, estimated to realise, at .ss. in the pound, 2691. ; due from J. T. Taylor, 5,4201. ; property given up to the official assignee, 9811.; property at Adelaide, 1,0001. ; ditto in hands of credi tors, 3,6821. ; ditto on joint account, 2,1151. ; losses, 29;985/. An adjourntueat was taken tiii the 10th of December, as an arrangement was pending between the assignees and Messrs. Inglis and Wakefield. IN RE PREBBLE. This bankrupt was described as of Ramsgate, plum ber, and to-day was appointed for choice of assignees. Mr. Beard, from the office of Mr. Buchanan, appeared for the petitioning creditor, and assignees were chosen. then decamped, but a constable fortunately came up and tank the prisoner into custody. After the prisoner let go his hold witness followed him and did not lose sight of him until he. was secured by the constable. Police-constable 463 A said he was on duty in the Borough shortly before one o'clock on Sunday morning., the 16th instant, when he heard cries of raurder and police proceed from Redcross-street. He immediately ran to the spot, and saw the prisoner running towards him, followed by the prosecutor, who called out " Stop him, that man has nearly murdered me, and his corn paniona have robbed me of all my money." Witness stor ped him, and then he perceived that the prosecutor was nearly exhausted. There were sounds of other per- sons running in another direction, but they made their I escape. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said the prose cutor must be mistaken as to his identity. He never had anything to do with the robbery. Evidence having been given that the prisoner was a convicted thief the magistrate committed him to Newgate for trial. IN RE LOSE. This bankrupt was described as of Crieklewood, Mid dlesex, builder, and to-day was appointed for choice o; assignees. From the preliminary statement of Messrs. Butler and Cumming, it appears that bankrupt owes to credi tors 5,3301.; to ditto holding security, 3,7501. Creditor —By property mortgages, 6,1201,; good debts, 21. 18s. 6d,; doubtful, 691. IN RE CLAY WORTH. This bankrupt was described as of Gracecburch - street, poulterer, and to-day came up for his certificate, sup ported by Mr. Phelp, Backlersbury. Mr. Chidley, for the assignees, did not oppose, and his Honour granted an linmediate certificate of the second class. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Barons Alderson and Watson.) Throughout the day the city was enveloped in a dense fog, and lights bad to be used in the Court. The dull flickering light of the oil lamps used in this Court— "the light of other days"—has the niost dismal effect possible, and the Court presents mere the appearance of a " chamber of horrors," or a court fit for the deeds of the Holy Inquisition than an English court of justice. It is high time it should be remedied. POST LETTER STEALING. Henry Nethercott, 42, hair-dresser, pleaded guilty to stealing a letter containing a half-sovereign, one sixpence, and four penny postage stamps, the property of the Postmaster-General. Four years' penal servitude. ESCAPED PRISONER. Samuel Summers, 21, shoemaker, was charged with feloniously escaping from the custody of one Thomas Brown, a police officer, who was conveying him to Springfield gaol, iu the county of Essex, pursuant to an order of the Central Criminal Court. It appeared that the prisoner was tried in the spring of 1854, convicted, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The officer, after the prisoner's convic tion, proceeded with him by the Eastern Counties Rail way to Springfield gaol. When at the Chelmsf,rd station the prisoner made a bolt from the officer, darted down the station stairs, and got clear off. Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the prisoner, addressed their lordships in mitigation of the prisoner's conduct, and stated that since the prisoner's escape he had been suppertiug himself by honest labour. It was owing to the kindness of one of the prisoner's " friends" that he was apprehended on this charge. Out of spite he gave information to a policeman of his whereabouts, and he was in consequence apprehended. Mr. Baron Alderson said that it was not surprising in a youth of 13 years of age escaping from custody with a twelvemonths' sentence hanging ovtir him. It was the duty of the officer who had him in charge to prevent his escape, and therefore he should not pass a very heavy sentence on him for it. He sentenced him to 13 months' imprisonment, which was giving him a month for the offence of which lie now stood. convicted. UTTERING A FORGED NOTE. Robert ilawkins, 55 years of age, a respectable look ing man, described in the calendar as a labourer, was indicted for uttering a forged 5/. Bank of England note. Mr. Gifford, who appeared for the prosecution, briefly stated the far t s of the charge to the jury : The prisoner with the forged note in his possession met a man in Molyneux-street named 13enjatinin Goose, who had formerly been employed in a stable yard in the neighbourhood. The prisoner entered into conversation with Goose, expressed the satisfaction it gave him at meeting an old friend, and asked him to have something to drink, remarking that he had only a Si. mote in his possession, and that as he was unknown in. the neigh bourhood he was afraid lie should have some difficulty in getting it changed. The prisoner and Goose went into a public•house, and there the prisoner• wrote the name of Benjamin Goose and his address on it. Mr. Baron Alderson—Then he wrote a false name on the note. (Laughter.) _ . The learned counsel said no. It was the right name and address. They were unable to get the note cashed 4 that pub lic-house, and they then visited another ke,pt by Mr. Edmunds, in Brown-street, where Goose being known change was obtained for the note. They had some brandy and water and then separated. Shortly after wards the note was found to be a forgery, and a police sergeant was sent for and apprehended the priLsoner, who is well known as a horse clipper. The prEsoner's ac count of the affair to the police when appreb,ended was that he accidently met a man named Ned Fay, who was a stranger to him, at the corner of Stairord-street, Lisson-grove, who offered him a shilling to get the note cashed. On the policeman apprehending him, and whilst conveying him to the police station, the prisoner was asked if he knew Ned Foy, a man s respected of having uttered forged notes. He said "no," but almost immediately after he said "I think I had better tell the truth. Ido know Ned Foy, and I had the note from him." Foy had not been taken into custody oa this charge, but he had been since committed: for three months for an assault. The note was pro red to ,be a forgery. The prisoner, in his defence, said he received the note from Ned Foy to get it changed, not knowing it was a forgery. He had always borne a good character, and had never been in such an unfortunate position before. He had no witnesses to call. Mr. Baron Alderson, in summing up to the jury, said the question for their consideration was whether the prisoner uttered the note, believing it to be a forgery. The jury immediately found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Baron Alderson said that no doubt the prisoner was a tool in the hands of others, from his not being trusted with more than one note at a time , . He sea tenced him to four years' penal servitude. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. At half-past 11 o'clock the learned judge had gone through the list of prisoners for trial to-day, and there was no further business to proceed with. The grand jury not having returned any bills this morning, Air. Baron Alderson sent the officer of the court to the grand jury to tell them, "that it was a disgrace in a boat race to be buuipecl—(laughter) —and that they had had to day's start of us." MR ASSASSINATION IN PARLIAMENT NTREET. Marley, who stands charged with the witful murder of Cope, in Parliament-street, will be tried on. Friday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Crhis Day.) SOUTIIWARK. DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY IN THE ROICOUGII.—John Dower, a powerful-looking man, was brought up for final examination, charged with being concerned with two others in violently assaulting Peter Conslan, and robbing him of a purse containing seven shillings and a woollen neckcloth, in Red Cross-street, St. Saviour's. The prosecutor stated that he was a gardener, em ployed by a gentleman at Penge Conamoa. On Satur day evening, the 10th instant, he came up by the rail way to see some friends near the Brieklayers' Arms station. He remained there rather late, and hurried down to the terminus at London-bridge with a view of catching the last train. However, he was too late, it being past twelve o'clock. After that he took a walk to look after a lodging, when he met a man who came up to him and asked him whether ha wanted some thing to drink. He replied that he did, and that man took him into Red Cross-street and said that he could get him anything he liked there. Witness pulled out his purse and gave him a shilling. Just at that moment three men rushed upon him. The prisoner was one of them, and he laid hold of him by the throat uutil the others rifled his pockets. The prisoner grasped his throat so tight that he really thought he meant to murder him. However, he made a powerful effort and got loose, when he called out murder and police. The ruffian _t•! I) trb 424 ttto SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock, GREAT SCULLERT RACE BETWEEN KELLY AND BUTTLE—(This Day). (BY ELECTRIC TELKIRAPII.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DEFEAT OF THE NORWICH CHAMPION. NORWICH, WEDNESDAY. The great contest between Kelly and Buttle was finally settled to-day. At the hour appointed, each man, accompanied by his backers and friends, took their stations, and a capital start was effected. Both exerted them selves to the utmost. Kelly to maintain the well earned triumph he achieved in London, and Battle to re gain the laurels he had lost when he was defeated by Kelly in the late match on the Thames. For some time it was a neck and neck race, and it was difficult to perceive which of the men had the greatest advantage. At one time it was thought that Battle would ultimately prove the victor, from the cir cumstance that he possessed a better knowledge of the course than his London opponent, but as both men neared the winning point the superiority of Kelly gradually became apparent. Bottle struggled manfully throughout the whole of the distance, but he was competed to succumb to the superior prowess of Kelly, who won the match by about three boats' lengths. At the termination of the contest the victory Kelly had secured was loudly cheered by his friends, and the long-disputed question of tite invincibility of Buttle's prowess was set at rest. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather the banks of the river were crowded with spectators. The postponement of the contest yesterday seemed evidently to have increased the curiosity of the visitors, and it was some considerable time before those who had not witnessed the termination of the match, could be made to believe that their champion Bottle, who had never be fore been defeated " in his own river," had been van quished by a "Londoner." Kelly was decidedly the favourite amongst the metro politians ; but Battle had numerous admirers in his own locality, and his success was looked upon by them as a " certainty." NORWICH, TUESDAY. The second heat of the great match between Kelly, of the Thames, and Buttle, of the Norwich river, was to come off this day (Tuesday), between Surlingham and the upper part of our river. Some doubts had been expressed yesterday whether the heat would not be postponed, in consequence of a dispute relative to the course and the distance—Kelly wishing to avoid certain tortuous reaches, and being desirous of shorten• ing the distance-4i miles. Neither of these intended departures from agreement were sanctioned by Battle or his friends, who were desirous that the long course should be pulled, and the strength and aptitude of both men fairly tried. This morning, however, two courses were laid down as follows—a toss to be made, and the winner to choose his ground : T, H. Palmer and J. Britcher, on the part of A. Buttle ; and P. Jones and J. Phillips, on the part of H. Kelly, agree to decide by toss whether the start for Kelly and Buttle's race shall take place at the Grease house, Piumstead, or at the Six-mile Staithe reach, as near the post where Lett and Buttle started as possible. If the race start from the Grease-house, to finish just below Winitlingham Ferry ; if from the Six-mile Staithe, to fitaish at the upper end of the New Cut. The right of choice was won by Kelly's friends, who chose the line from Six-mile Staithe to the upper portion of the New Cut. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather thou. sands went to Thorpe to witness this great struggle, in carriages, on horseback, and on foot ; but there were very few boats on the stream. There has been great discussion both as to the distance and ground, on the part of the friends of Kelly, who neither liked the one nor the other. However, at half-past twelve, both men went to Surlingham, and at one o'clock were ready to enter their boats. But the umpire, Mr. Owen Diver, did not appear. When, however, he did arrive from Norwich, from whence he had brought a number of spectators, he announced that he could not stay, having chartered a steamer from Yarmouth to Norwich and back, and was under the necessity of returning by a given hour. The consequence was, that there being no boat in readiness to accompany the competitors with another umpire, the match was necessarily postponed until to-morrow (Wednesday), at twelve o'clock, when the match is announced as certainly to come off. Thou sands, therefore, who had been in anxious expectation all• day, in spite of hail, rain, blow, and snow, returned disappointed and wet, and not a little, and deservedly, angry. POSTPONEMENT OF IPSWICH RACES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Steeplechases are postponed until the 3d of December, the snow falling heavily. WINDSOR RACES. HANDICIP STEEPLECHASE.—The following horses have paid forfeit :—Little Charley, Odiham, Rebecca, Clown, and Empress. ARRIVED.—Cervus, Spinster, and Pickpocket. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 6to 1 agst Loyala (taken) 6to 1 agst Lambourne (taken) 7to 1 agst Lord of the Hills (taken) 7to 1 agst Drummer (taken) 3to 1 agst Mr. Howard's lot (taken) DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Blink Bonny (taken) 14 to 1 agst Loyola (taken) 16 to 1 agst Tournament (taken) 25 to 1 agst MD. (taken) 25 to 1 agst Saunterer (taken) 25 to 1 agst Lady Hawthorn (taken) 25 to 1 agst Zuyder Zee (taken) 30 to 1 agst Saunterer (taken). LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 26.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. ; light airs and foggy. There has been a fall of snow this morning. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed—Lord of the Isles, for Hong Kong. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 25. Wind N. W, Arrived- - Louisa Sophia, from Canton. LYTHAM, Nov. 25.—The British Token, of and from Dundalk, was totally wrecked on the Crusader Bank, near Blackpool ; 1 boy drowned. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 25.—Sailed—Clyde (s.), for the West Indies. BELFAST, Nov. 24.—Sailed—Jame Guthrie, for New York. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 24.—The barque Emily, of Mary port, was spoken, on the 7th Oct., with a jury mast, in 20. S. 30. W. RARIVICH, Nov. 25.—A large brig is on the Gunfleet Sand, with loss of fore and mainmast, &c., the sea break ing heavily over her ; none of the crew visible, but three smacks alongside. MALTA, Nov. 18.—The Undaunted, from Alexandria, arrived yesterday in a sinking state. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.I LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S.E. Arrived—Patma, from Whampoa; Eleanor, SL John's, N.B. ; Seal, Rangoon ; Rhondda, Ma,ceio ; Enterprise, Porto Rico ; Georgia, Savannah ; Othello, Alexandria ; Empress, Baltimore; Nonpareil, Philadelphia; City of Mobile and Webster, New York; Fanny S. Parley, St. John's, N.B. ; Pacific, Pictou ; Algiers , Miramichi ; Sirina, Hamburg ; Union, St. John's, N.B. Sailed—Queen, for Havre • Eliza Fox, St. Michael's ; Henry Holman, Malta ; Blondeli, Alexandria ; Heinrich, St. Thomas ; Recovery, Alicante; Atlantic, New York. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 24. Wind N.W. Arrived—Favourite, from Miramichi ; Corinthia, Moul mein ; Glenshee, Callao ; California, Ship Island ;• Sea Nymph, Buenos Ayres ; Canada, Queboc. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 9.52 a.m. Wind N. W.`; three hours' flood ; raining. Sailed.—City of Nantes, for Nantes; Colorado, Calcutta; Testa, steamer, Oporto. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.46 a.m. Wind S.S.W., fresh with rain. Sailed.—John Taylor, Mary Robinson, and Lion, for London, in tow ; Clarendon (screw s t eamer ), A ma zon, Niger, and Phoenician, with all the homeward bound for the river. Sea Nymph proceeded to 4arnsgate to trim her cargo. The Providence, of LLSiveSrpPOooKl, EfoNr Rio Janeiro,lTH. in lat. 49 N. The Medway, fr om London for Melbourne Oct . 7, in lat, 5 N., lon g . 25 W. Nov. IG, The Colonist, of Liverpool, Nov.l, in lat. 30 N., long. 30 W. ov. The barque Sonora, third distinguishing pendant, No. 568, steering eastward, Aug. 23, in lat. 3 3 ., long. 107 E. The Ohi o , f rom Shields for Havannah, Nov. 2, with loss of jibboona, having been in contact, in lat. 47, long. 10. The ship Black b Swan, s teering S.E., Sept. 13, in lat. 39 S., long. 65 W. The Maria, from Tobago for London, N0v..11, in lat 48 N, long 25 W. The John Robinson, from Shields for Shanghai, Aug. 25, in the Straits of Sunda. BANK DISCOUNT. The question now occupying attention is whe • ther the Bank of England will immediately reduce their rate of interest to 6 per cent. An impression is generally entertained that the step should be adopted without delay. Since the publication of the last Gazette return many persons have been dis posed to consider that the advance to 7 per cent. was not justified by the position of the Bank accounts ; and, although the majority of prudent persons do not join in that opinion, since the heavy appearance of the foreign exchanges, the absence of recovery in Paris, the further rise in the price of silver at Shanghai, and the doubts regarding the overdue Australian vessels, afforded at that time every stimulus to increased caution, there is now a total change of prosp ec t on eac h point, except as rega r d s the Eastern exchanges, for which we must wait the next mail from China. In all parts of the continent the rate of discount is from I. to 14 per cent. below that of the Bank of England, and in this state of affairs our traders are necessarily at the disadvantage of competing with rivals who can work with cheaper capital. The entire industry of the country is thus affected, and hence prompt action is indispensable. No one supposes that if the James Baines and the Lightning had arrived a fortnight back, and 400,0001. of their gold had been taken to the Bank, the movement to 7 per cent. would ever have been resolved upon; and these supplies having now been received matters should be restored to the point at which they would then have been allowed to re main. It may be 'urged that if the Bank were to defer a reduction it would not materially affect com mercial interests, since, if there was inherently a downward tendency in the money market, the other establishments would soon lower their rates, and the result would be simply that the Bank would have no custom. But this argument would be in correct. The amounts falling due at the Bank are so heavy, and will he so much increased by the re ventte payments towards the end of the quarter, that they will virtually have the command of the market in their own hands. They are therefore bound to act urou a broad view of the legitimate wants of the country ; and it is the more important that there should be no hesitation in this respect, since it is desirable for the public to rely that, while under the Bank Charter Act there is no escape from such wholesome and instantaneous pressure as may be necessary for the general safety, the relief is equally certain as soon as that pressure has answered its object.—Times City Article. THE "MONITBUR" AND THE ENGLISH PRESS, (From, the New Fork herald.) We publish an article from the Paris Moniteur, re flecting on the course lately pursued by the English press in reference to France ' and the reply of th e Lon don Times. It seems that the Emperor, who long since resorted to the defensive meastad of excluding the London juurnals from the French capital, finds that this precaution will not suffice, and desires to operate against them at home. It will be remembered that he did so once before, shortly after the coup d'etat, and so far succeeded as to excite a good deal of animosity against the Times among the mercantile classes of Eng land. We apprehend that he will not be as fortunate this time. Though the Morning Post has been directed to give a semi-approval to the course of the MOniteur, it stands alone in the press. The Times and the lower organs of opinion not only express no contrition, but indulge in reflections marked by unusual severity with regard to the Emperor and his Cabinet. Two truths are made p'ainly apparent by this business :—The one, that the French Government has reached the point where factitious progress ceases and reaction begins ; the other, that railroads, telegraphs, and the other agents of rapid communication. are rendering a despotic thraldom of speech and thought utterly impossible. All that the best friends of the Emperor urge on his behalf is, that he has improved Paris, stimulated trade and expenditure, carried a great war to a successful close, and maintained himseli.on the throne for a third of a generation. What little credit the last-mentioned exploit reflects is his due ; but it must he remembered that no man of courage was ever overthrown by a revolution ire Paris. The victims of revolution have all been pol troons or imbeciles. For the rest, Napoleon 111. has achieved all his other claims to glory by discounting the future. He has constantly' mortgaged years to come in order to diminish and conceal the necessities of the present time. His war, his expenditure at Paris, hi s extensive payments to keep down the price of bread, the magnificence of his Court, have all been paid for on credit. When ordinary credit failed him he re sorted to extraordinary measures. He stimulated a speculative fever ; he licensed a Credit Mobilier ; he gambled himself and led others to gamble on the Bourse. These means procured him what he wanted—money, but it was at a cost which it is frightful to contemplate. The day for the redemption of these bills due on posterity is coming sooner than was expected ; the bank threatens suspension ; money is 5 per cent. a-month ; railroads bankers, mer chants aro breaking ; the ' whole edifice is menaced with precipitate ruin. This is the turning point in the financial fortunes of the Emperor. Like Niek Biddle, he is resorting to all kinds of desperate expe dients to save himself; but like that notorious fiancier he does so with very little faith indeed in their efficacy. It is more gratifying to look at the other view of the case—the one iu which it illustrates the impotency of despotism to fetter thought. One would have supposed the French Government able to despise journals published in a foreign country and in a foreign tongue. It seems not : it was found necessary to exclude not only the journals of London, but not unfrequently our own as well. But even this tyrannical measure does not appear to meet the case. The Moniteur calls for more protection. These English newspapers, published abroad, in a language which not one Frenchmen out of a thousand can read, and strictly prohibited from entering France are still so powerful that the Emperor intimates his inability to go vern his empire according to its best interests if they are not silenced. This is the plain inference from the lan guage of thellioniteur in reference to the alliance. Could there be a more startlicg proof of the incompetency of despotisms to crush truth ? We must, indeed, expect some folly in France at this time. That por tion of the French people of which we hear in the papers, has never been remarkable fer common sense. Just now all the leading men of France are involved, more or less, in these financial schemes which are on the eve of de struction. A little delirium on their part is only what we might naturally expect. It is confidently stated, in well-informed circles at Cambridge, that Lord Palmerston's choice of the new Bishop of Ripon lies between two Divinity Professors at that University—Mr. Selwyn, Lady Margaret's Pro fessor, and Mr. E. H. Browne, Norrisian Professor. The copper smelters have issued a notice announcing that the prices of copper have been advanced as follows : —Manufactured, 13d. per lb. ; tough cake and tile, 117/. per ton ; best selected, 1201. per ton ; sheathing, 111 d. per lb. • The Transatlantic Company's steamer Turin arrived at Genoa on the 10th, having made a most prosperous voyage from Portsmouth in eight days and' 20 hours.— Corriere Mercantile. LETTERS FOR PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL.—The Postmas ter-General gave notice yesterday that ship mails would be made up in the General Post-office on the 14th prox. for Lisbon, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro, to be forwarded from Southampton by the Teutonia, a steamer of 2,500 tons burden. MONEY ORDER OFFICES,—On the Ist Dec. the follow ing alterations will be made :—England-1. Money order offices will be opened at St. Clements, Oxfordshire; Fawley, Hants ; Hornsea, Yorkshire ; Market Laving ton, Wiltshire ; Orford, Suffolk ; Troedyrhiew, Glamor ganshire ; Weimer, Kent. Ireland-2. A money order office will be opened at Ballyclare, Antrim. Scotland 3. A money order office will be opened at Strathaven, Lanarkshire. 4. The money order office at Dundas vale, Glasgow, will be transferred to the office at Cow caddens in that city.—By command of the Postmaster- General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.—G-eneral PoSt office, Nov. 21. MEDICAL REFORll.—Yesterday a deputation of the Medical Reform Committee of the Mett opolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association, consisting of Sir C. Hastings (chairman), Dr. G. Webster, Dr. Lan kester, Mr. Nunneley (Leeds), Mr. Stedman (Guildford), Dr. Wynter, and Dr. Henry, had an interview with the Hon. the President of the Board of Health, on the sub ject of medical reform. TUE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—The petitioning credi tor under the bankruptcy of the Royal British Bank has written a long letter against the remarks of a corre spondent signing himself "One of the Public," insetted on Monday. It throws, however, no new light on the case, and is characterised by the tone which seems to animate all the parties in this deplorable controversy. The main points on which the writer insists are, that there is no "conflict of jurisdictions" calculated to affect the legal reputation of the country ; that the collection and distribution of the assets will involve far less ex pense in Bankruptcy than in Chancery ; and that what have been termed the "meritorious " exertions of %Ir. Harding, in collecting within a few weeks sufficient to pay 20 per cent., have not really involved the exercise e ither of labour or skill, since the amounts were almost all ready to be handed to hint,—Times. 93 6 133 7 115 LI lERATURE. Lives of the Queens of Scotland. By Agnes Strick land. Vol. VI. Wm. Blackwood and Sons. So abundant have been the materials newly brought to light by the researches of Miss Agnes Strickland among the " treasures of antiquity" laid up with dust a nd cobwebs among the old archives of Scotland, relating to Mary Stuart, that the original design of this very remarkable serial work has appreciably expanded under its author's hand —insomuch so that it still requires another (a seventh) volume for its ultimate completion. A • circumstance this rather matter for exultation than for disappointment. It signalises, we cannot but conceive rather significantly, the importance, and elaboration, and general completeness of this, the latest and greatest of all the many biographies of the beautiful and unfortunate Queen of Scots—the heroine as we may call her of what lights up as with the glamour of some tragical fairy tale the stern and grimly annals of Caledonia. Already, with these last two or three volumes of the " Lives of the Queens of Scotland" b e f ore us—we recogn i se i n Agnes Strickland the most genial and appreciative, and yet, at the same time, the most truthful and uncompromising, among all the historians of the reign of this lovely, love-lorn., love-lost Sovereign. Mary Stuart as queen, as wife, as mother, as wo man—Mary, in all her weakness of will and in all her strength of endurance—Mary, as she shone • forth in her short-lived pomp, and as she appeared afterwards in her protracted sufferings —in all her various characters, iu all her awful and do u bly awful, because sudden and rapid, alternations of fortune—is here, in the masterly memorial of her career, pourtrayed so vividly and so touchingly that it is impossible for this most phlegmatic to do otherwise them hang over the narrative, carnal on ward with it in its flow by the strong force of a scarcely resistible fascination. Miss Strick land " bath her will "—for she fairly " holds 'as with her glittering eye" spell-bound, like the marriage guest before the " Ancient Marinere." Already, up to the close of the last (the fifth) volume, she had recounted to us most of Mary Stuart's memorable and pathetic viscissitudes. She had related how the auspicious marriage of the young Princess with the Dauphin on the 24th of April, 1558, and her elevation to the Gallic throne on the 10th of July in the year following, as the spouse of Francis 11., had been followed up by the calamitous event of her early widowhood ca the 10th of December, 1560, when her Scottish lords thronged over to her to lay at her feet the homage of their loyal sympathy—when, as Aytoun has recently sung so charmingly, they saw her in those— • . . " Bygone days A widow, yet a child, Within the fields of sunny France When Heaven and fortune smiled." Later on, has she not been revealed to us most vividly flitting across this historic camera of Agnes Strickland—the wife of Henry the Lord Darnley, on the 27th of July, 1565 his widow on the 10th of February, 1567—the wife of Bothwell a very little more than three mouths afterwards, namely, on the 15th of the ensuing month of May —outraged on the 9th of March, 1566, by the murder of Rizzio by Darnley, and, on the 10th of February, 1567, already mentioned, by the murder of Darnley by Bothwell —carried off by the latter assassin to Dunbar on the 24th April, 1567, and ultimately, after his downfall and flight at Carbury, incarcerated on the 16th of June, 1567, in the romantic and insulated castle of Lochleven. Volume the sixth, in continuation of this most sorrowful and changeful history, carries the narra tive onwards from the period of that famcu impri sonment down to the time when her fourth mar riage (her projected nuptials with the Duke of Nor folk) appeared for a while to have been successfully negotiated. Tenderly betrothed to Norfolk—that final claimant of the hand won successively to such disastrous ends by Francis, by Darnley, by Bothwell—Mary Stuart passes again from our view for an interval, at the 388th page of this 7th volume of the "Lives of the Queens of Scotland"—only to appear again before us for another and fatal interval in the seventh and last instalment of the work, in which we shall hear told in due course that sorrowful tale of tears and blood, the tale of her mock trial and of her cruel execution. As a frontispiece to the present volume we have (re duced by Gourlay Steell) an engraved copy of the lovely original portrait of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, presented by herself to her deliverer, George Douglas, and the veritable original of which is to this day preserved in the collection of the Earl of Morton atDalmahoy ! As thepicturesque vignette, we have a sketch designed by the same living artist, representing the romantic incident of Queen Mary's Escape from Lochleven. While a very curious woodcut at p. 32 (also taken, like the frontispiece, from a reduced drawing by Gourlay Steell) gives us the ingeniously elaborated "Pictorial Tapestry" worked by Queen Mary and her companions —a historic piece of needlework originally produced at Lochleven and still preserved at Dalmahoy. Apart from these most acceptable glimpses of the original " Portrait" and the original "Tapestry"—glimpses afforded to Miss Strickland, and through Miss Strickland to her readers, by the generous courtesy of George Sholto Douglas, 18th Earl of Morton— the descendant of the chivalrous deliverer of Mary Queen of Scots from her island prison has permitted these remarkable annals of Mary Stuart's reign to be further " glorified" and illuminated" by the new and hitherto undreamt-of materials placed at the disposal of Agnes Strickland, the latest, and, as we here very earnestly reiterate, incomparably the greatest, of all Mary Stuart's biographers. Materials hitherto lying perdu among the family archives of the Douglases in their ancient domain in Midlothian. Conspicuous, of course, among the events recounted by Miss Strickland in her narra tive of the notable interval embraced between Mary's imprisonment at Lochleven and her formal betrothal to the Duke of Norfolk—namely, from the summer of 1567 to that of 1569—are those of the infant James Vl.'s Coronation ; of Moray's Re gency ; of Bothwell's escape to Norway ; of Mary's dangerous illness ; of her flight from Lochleven, and of her triumphal entry into the Castle of Ha milton. Followed by the defeat of her troops at Langside, by her perverse courting of danger when, quitting Scotland for ever, she embarked on board a common fishing boat for England, to land at Workington, to be carried to Cockermouth, thence to Carlisle, thence to Lowther, thence to Bolton, thence to Tutbury, and thence again to Wingfield. Preparatory to the last " scene of all in this event ful history," when, sans power, sans pomp, sans crown, sans throne, sans everything, she reached at length the climax of her prolonged miseries upon the scaffold, where she " died the death" with the calmness, if not with the angelic purity, of a saint, by the cruel blow of a pitiless and brutal decapita tion. The record of which deed of blood—the foulest stain upon the magnificent escutcheon of Elizabeth—remains yet to be given to the world, as we doubt not it will be given to the world, in words of fire and accents of pathos befitting such tragic annals, words and accents such as have already rained down upon the historic scrolls of England and Scotland from the lips of Agnes Strickland -= as with the pearls and precious stones dropping in spoken showers from the mouth of the magical Arabian Princess. --- Law Magazine and Review. The Code Napoleon and the laws of England are the principle subject of an interesting and some ry humiliating comparison, England being quite in the rear of the French and other nations of the continent in the expression of our scientific principles, and the orderly and systematic arrange ment of details. A paper " On Reform in the Law of Savings Bauks," another " On the present state of Doctors' CJnimons," and a third, perhaps tne most ambitious in the number, on " G o vernment by Party, o r Organisation (in relation to a ton and L tw)," are well worthy of perusal by lay men. Be s id es th e a b ove w ill b e f o und Nationalarticles (c on the First Provincial Meeting, of the ~ Reformatory Union," " Legal Education," catioont "The Appellate Jurisdiction of th© " Dismissals from the Army,,, ll °/ u p se a pers of die Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law," and " Lord Cockbu e r f il a Letter from Lord 's Reminiscences, Brougham to the Earl together with "An Extrfac t ßadnor" (on the slow nature. i an d the usual variety of of a profession al progress of legal reform), FIVE HUNDRED POUND 3 STOLEN BY A LETTER CAL RIER.-00 Monday, at the Manchester Police -court so, y ri b a ad te James Ingram, a Letter-carrier, waa committed for trial for stealing a bank post bill for 4601. and eight 5 51. notes. A letter containing the money was found . him. He admitted that he and another letter - carrier g old sci at Paris is to steal a number of letters, a n d had intended to resign, bat before dei g n PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of t a h rr e a ir n about 6 per mills premium, and the short arranged contents. London is 25 . 20 per 11. sterling. On exchange on rates with the English Mint price of Comparing these ounce for standard gold, it a 3/. 17s. 100. per nearly s.loths per cent. dearer in Paris that gold is don. By advises from Hamburg the Paris than in Lon per marls, and the short exchangeg price of gold is 424 on London is 13'3 per 1/. s terling. Standard o•old i s therefore nearly 6..1.0t ) at the English Mint price, H a mburg than in London. 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