The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. ,JITY, Two o'CLoo The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday was S teady, and closed at the full prices of Friday. The sales were 9,000 bales, 4,000 on speculation. The Railway Share Market continued very firm, and the quotations of all leading stocks advanced. Reports upon the state of commerce throughout the principal French markets for raw produce have come to hand. The markets fur sugar are quiet, and prices have a downward tendency. At Havre foreign sugars have fallen a little. A sale of 486 cases of Havannah brought from 28f. 250. to 41f. 75 0. per 50 kilos. At Nantes and Bordeaux trans actions were almost suspended. Accounts received from the Antilles to the close of December state that sugars were extremely scarce there, and quoted on the plantations at 29f. to 35f. per 50 kilos. In coffee the demand has been very animated, and Prices are maintained. At Havre 5,100 sacks of Ceylon sold during the last fortnight brought from 115 f. to 118 f. per 50 kilogrammes ; 2,800 b ags of Java 124 f. to 127 f., 300 bags of Rio Janeiro 54f. to 61f., and 1,500 bags of Hayti 114 f. to 124 f. Trade at the Wine Halls has been gene -1.5113, dull, but the holders of large stocks are not Inclined to sell at a reduction. At Bordeaux good qualities of St. Vincent have sold at 572 f. per 912 litres, and inferior qualities of other brands at 350 f. St. Macaire, of 1853, has been in demand, and sold atsoof. per 912 litres. Caliors, of the first quality, la 950 f., and inferior 700 f., but not much in re quest. White wines generally are lower, but holders not inclined to sell. At Borey the spirit market• la quiet, and the usual sales for Paris consumption are limited. At Bordeaux, Languedoc sells at 150 f., and common beet-root spirit at 113 f. In the discount market the demand for money continues active and full rates are now current. The improved feeling in commercial circles engen dered by the prospects of an early peace has led t in an extension of business, and the preparations M aking for large transactions as the spring advances ! I: lay have, in some measure, occasioned the increased Inquiry for accommodation.. r, About 200,000/. of the gold brought by the t 'hatnpion of the Seas from Australia is stated to alLve been sent into the Bank of England, and the re maining 300,0001. will probably be taken for the ‘ Jo ntinent. The latest advices from Melbourne mentioned that several vesseli would shortly leave f or England, and the quantity of specie on board la expected to be large. After the regular hours of business yesterday 1 the4s3' English Funds were even more buoyant than 'J bad previously been, and the highest quota- I nne, then current, were the opening values this M° rning. Since then, however, the pressure for money tiv been felt with much severity, and loans upon Consols have been taken at 7to 8 Per Cent., while the "contango" has ruled at about per Cent. Consols for money after ha ing 911 have slightly receded to 911 i s , ? 'or the 7th proximo they have been 91i, I, and Blnce 04, The March quotations are about 912. T he new 3 per Cents. have been 924 to y, and the 44 duced 914 to 92. Bank Stock is 210 to 211, an a dvance of 1 per cent. ; and East India Sto c k h as be en done at 2191 to 222. Exchequer Bills are 6s. to 2 g., and India Bonds 2s. discount. Foreign Securitiesare mostly at enhanced values, Slid the dealings have been to a moderate extent. Turkish 6 per Cents. have risen being 92 to 92 4, and the 4 per Cents. are 1028 g, while for the a c count they have touched 1031. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 42, and the New Deferred 22 to 231, !inch is a slight improvement in both instances. Sardinian are firm at 884 to 89. Russian 5 per C o e nts. h ave a d vance d to 1 06 , an d t h e 4i per C ents. t ~ 92 i: Portuguese 4 per Cents. are 48, Peruvi an "IPer Cent s . 80, and the 3 per Cents. 56i. Mexican St ock is higher, viz., 201 2. Brazilian New 45 Per Cents. are 925, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 64a. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign S tocks;—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 74; Mexican, ; Peruvian, 80 82 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 57 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per nts., 101 104 ; ditto 45 per Ceuts., 91 93 ; Spanish ° Per Cents., 41.4 42 ; ditto Deferred, 23 1 ; ditto Ce rtificates, 6j ; ditto Passive, 4i 51. Very littl e movemen t h a s o cc urred in the qu o t a _ Lions of Railway Securities, and the highest rates ( . ) !Yesterday have generally been supported. Cale b.,Gre Northern, Great Western, Lanes ire and Yorkshire, and South Eastern, have all ri sen fully p er s h are . Th e F o r e i g n are d u ll, an d . Colonial rule firm. Mining Shares are at nominal values ; the Banks are inactive, sad the few dealings recorded in the b3lecellaneous market are at former rates. fiItITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONI, 'CLOCK. I Pron.. the (Virus/ tie , n..n - done. 3/341111c Stock 0 1 ueut Red , .ced Annuities... ...... .. 92 1... ic txir cent Console Annuities 2`r 3 oer opnt knnnities .. I.7 n g Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1850 .. i - "LC' 20 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859... 3} , tiC Ditto tock 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885... 1 6 11.15 9-16 a S "N Bonds. £lOllO . ... . - OM; under £lOOO ' o 4molit for Account ‘cluiner Rills, 2id elOqn £5OO small 6 " • `ltict OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO K k aznian "Bonds, 5 per Cent. — ,D itto New 1852, 4i per Cent. _ 1, izi can 3 per Cent. ' %, 111 vian B on d s , 44 per C en t. 1, Ditto 3 psr Cent . uguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 4 per Cent ,h D itto Account .... 4'llBsiati Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St lO5 2, D itto 4i per Cent : 4rdi nian Bongs, 5 per Cent. "lhuisn 13naids, :3 per i :out ... ............ t bit to Few Defmed, 3 per Cont. tirltitli Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto New scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account NI lividepos on v. e above w i th', ir t,,,,, .., /4 tCh P:ichango. per Cont., 12 Gull_ 6 613 e rllvian Dollar Bonds, 40 per Cent. G 2 TWO O'CLOCK. —•-• COn 4 01 R Ditto for Account Feb. 7 Two tioket-of-leave men have been lodged in the Southampton Gaol for robbery in that town. Another 'a l been apprehended at Romney, in Henta,. for bur 1/31arY at Redbridge in the same county. At Ringwood, RI Ham shir g e, a fellow just let out of Winchester Gaol has been p apprehended for highway robbery and attempt at murder. rft 'unic CUNARD MAIL STEAMSHIP CANADA. —LIVER- K - A OL, Jan. 28.—0 n her late outward passage to Halifax --73 a Boston the Canada encountered as severe weather ail it has ever been the lot of these vessels to meet with. Prom the ti me o r her departure, on the 22d of Dec., until her arrival at Halifax she met with nothing bt heavyheavygales o f wind, accompanied by showers of hail and """t• It i s much to the cre di t of her comman d er an d %Intel that this vessel held her way, notwithstanding toe tempest, alth oug h it i s scarce l y to b e won d ere d at Wen it is remembered that only once have these steam ere turned back during the 16 years or so they have tossed the Atlantic. The boats were swept from the davite blown into shivers by the violence of the wind, sad the bulwarks, fennel, and rigging bear evidence of th e severity of the storm, although on her arrival in Liverpool she presented but little appearance of the de reap compared with what was observable on her reach ing Boston. Sir George Simpeon and the passengers Presented Captain Lang with a valuable present, in con sideration of the seamanship he displayed and of hie for titude. THE MAlLS.—Sontbampton, Jan. 28.—The Penin- Pular an d O r i en t a l Company's steam-ship Madrid, Capt ook, sailed this afternoon with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar ; 36 passengers, 41n oug whom are Viscou n t Villa Nova, Dr. Barbeir, 411 d Captains Falconer and Lair viz., ; 1 4,7171. in specie— viz., for Lisbon 11,5821., Cadiz 3,1351, and a full gene ral cargo. The Sultan, Captain Evan's, with the home ,Nlitard portion of the Peninsular mail, is expected about sh ip to arrive 8d proxitno. The Peru, Captain they is the next with the heavy portion of lndia, China, and Alediterranean ma il s . In consequence of the acci aent which occurred to the Perils machinery on the out r4lrard voyag e , as well as her detent i on at Lisbon, owing rrtthe severity of the quarantine regulation s at that , the a rr i va l of this ship is not ex ected until about the leth January. The Ave, Captain Field, will sail for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandris, with the outward k‘ohrtion of the India, China, and Mediterranean mails. v ir :_lloyal Mail Company's steamship Atrato, Captain The ,;_ 6 .3', with the West India, Mexican, and Pacific p, , ,,'7 ; „ Is expected about Wednesday or Thursday next. these u i " 8 preparing to convey porta on the ith prozimo. the outward mails to 1100 100 DC 100 'lOO 110 3i 100 all l.0( 1 21i 15 MO 100 :3/ Is 1.6< 110 all 3 a i 1 all RAmwaro; all all all 1.81 100 1(X) 100 all St. 20 St. 15 'lOO [OO ill All 20 St. St. St. Eit. fit. Bt. St. Bt. 1 ,00 Ail 100 St. 16i 5 St. 10 Do. £6 all Warypt.&Carl.4 p all Do. 41 par cont 101 Do .00 kticl. Consol.6 .04 Do. Con. Br.K r.l3p, 00 ;Do. 4i p. c. Pref. S all Do. Pref. 43 . per co all ;Do. 5L Pr.:-f. 4p. c.. 100 Ditto L.& H. Prof. t Now., Aber., &c., pr. f 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c. prn. Norfolk Debentn, [OO ;Do. Prof. 4p. a. St ck LOO *Do. 5 p. c. Eat 00 ;Do. 51 per et.pref. 00 ,Do. Way. Val. 5 p. e .00 North British 00 N. E. Rem, 4 p.c P 7- Do. do. do Do Le,eclso p.c ;No. IN. do. Quarters ;Do.lrorkll.& Pur. , North Sts.ffordshiro. Ox, W0,, , t,W.1E/ 3 pr Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. ;Scot. Cent. ,Now Pr& , 'South Devon, Do. fixed, 4i pm. con' IS. Eastern (Readi Ann.) of £1 O. CH_ Do. 4i per cont ,Do. Fixed 4i p c sh S. Wales Qua. 4 p, c IDo. do. 4. p. c.... S. Yorksh.4 p. c.Guar. St k &D oc ar.,5 p. c. Do. do. do. 'Stock. & Hartl. g. E 1 P.O. till July 1, 'SA ;Watertd. & Kilk. 0 pc FO It RIGS. 10 I 611 a ntworpdet.yrt: tr 81 40 40 , Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. „ I in Sh.atpartill'64 ps;r 2 pL 20 10 Ardennes • 1 1 5 1 ' Seig ar. Ma,tn. .Lune 34 21 10 14 ere toGra'6B,'esa 3 2 ( 18 4. rlornbay, Baroda, an :I.3ntrallndia.Scri 1 p x in 18 all Do. ( 7 Detuorara 20 11 P.hcnish .. 4 r gasteria of France 36 361 36j 20 13 Do. New lO —l2 20 all ' gast Indian, g. sp. 22/ —22 21 15 Do. t 4 l7tPnaior,„ 11 11p 10.) all D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 l i n ~ do. 5, 14, 41‘ . 20 16 Gee one ne guar. 5 per c nt. 30 a' I Do., Lon. allot., do. ... — • 25 20 Gd. Tk. of Cans , lA 10 9 101 25 Do. 100 80 Do. Cert. of Deben, eon. into Stk. till's 64 68 100 s Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 83 88 1 4 Gt. Central of Fran 33 4 t 20 all Gt. Indian Poninsn , 201 -- 204 2 02 26 :4 Great Lnxembottr, Constituted Shams' 5 5 54 1 1 4 all Do. Obligationq... . 3 31 zin 20 11 Do, re-is. forftd. 20? all Gt•Westernofeannea 251 26/ 26 51 Do. New 34 341 9 1(1() all Do. iVls., payable's7, with option till '55 9B • 100 100 all I Do, do., '62, p. '56 100 I a l l ;Do. do., '76, p.'6o 122 127 IPO all 1 1). - ,. do., '73, without option lO6 108 tO) allllamilton & Toront , 25 26 I 1.00 all Do. 6 per cent. 20 17 'Lake COWL hL Bash 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ...d 5 all I Lucca t Piot. sp. c.p ran 20 16 Lyons and Genova 20 14 ',Lyons 4s 11.foditerran — 'R all INlsdras, guar. 4 p.c 181 —l9 / 20 10 IDs. Now 0., sp. c 4 - 1 20 5 Do. 4i p. c. Eaten. 1d 44 31i all IMaria Antonia .„. 10 11 I Do. do. New £0 ell Namur ds Liego (.yla Interest) 5l 6 10 all Do. (ox interest)... 5 5 i 16 all Northern of France. 36 861 20 all Do.2ol.Shs l2 12i 121 ,;(! all 00. 201. 3p. o Bdr (fmy.R.&Aros.Shm. • 10 lorwegianTrunkPre" 7 8 20 all Paris and Lyons 47 47: 40 all Ditto Rands 10 all Paris And Orleans 47 4 10 5 Rome and Frasoati — 20 all Royal vanish l9 20 5 all Royal Swedish..... 14 21 2 1 4 all Do. Obligations A.ll Sambre and Meuse 9 9j 94 1.c.) all Do. 51 p vent Pref 5 Scind , , guar. 5 p. e ll 20 all Do •" all Southern o f Fr a zee 1 ;1.31. 10 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A).,. ••• ••• 31 all West Flanders 3l 4 (0 all jDo 54 Per c. Prof., ••• 20 18 IW.&N. W. of France 31 32 20 All West. of Switzerland ... 6 all Wiesbaden ••• . 10 i all '?' , '" l,9 ald ..... - 20 all 9A ; all 20 1 20 25 25 1.26 Leaaink. Compan% London Si N. Woed.. L.StN.W. ICaWon._ I E. Un. E. C Gt. Nrthn E. Count CsMontan Do Gt. Mom Yk. Now. l & Berw. Y. &N Do Do IS. Emden Closin 4 Mur yester lay, 'oto St Co. INorfolk, !Do L.& N.W tic Midld. Stektonk Darlingt. Coun. E. Count. Do Do - L. & N. W Do Gt Northn Lancash k Yorkuh. ;T. Brassey Mclean Stockt. & Darlingt Do 93 - 95 94 - 98 ••• .... flrtW( PR E FE It ILNI berdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. 0. ~. Do. Debentures itlythandTyno lOpe, a. prof. (issd. at 50/ Brie. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO rles.&Tio. Gu. 5i pc Do. do. Prof. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Bandonsip.e Dun.Prth .& Aber..l E. Anglian Cis. ASh Do. do. Cle. B 6 p. c Do. do Cls. C 7p. c Eas.Co.Ex,speNo. Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. c. St, East Un., G. 6 p. C. Do. Si., 10 ner cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent... East Laneash. 6 wets R. kW. York. J. sth. Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sh, Ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness Glas. &5.W.G.5 p.c I Grett Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. o. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem. Do. 4i p. De. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. At sp. c. pm... . . Gt.N. of Scot. let Pre Gt. S. VA'. (Ireland', Do. 4per a. Prof. S W.(B.IOEL, Fxspc Do. con. red. 4. p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Dr, irred, 4p. c. Do. 5 p. c. red. prof. Do. do. do. Do. Birm. Pref. 'Th Do. Chester 8 p. e. P 9 De. do. 5 p. c. d 0... Do. Birm. Qua. Stit Do. Ches. Qua. Sh.. Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. & York. F. £2 Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lon.&Brigh. G. 5 p.c. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. •Do New Quar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Lon. &N. W., Coy. tt. Nune.aton 5 p. ct Lot 2.& S.W. 7 per ct Londy. & Color. Sh. Lowly. & Ennis. S L.,Now,le/ - IE6 13 - 231 - 24 110 - 115 24 - 2i 91 - S 3 56 -- o7 ... .... ... 134 = 133 74 - 8 3 - 41 Business thts any. 31 - 32 83 - 85 - ostn. d 11A.8.M. 109 - 111 107 -. 109 80 - 85 92 - P. 4 93 - 95 15 - 16 s~ e# -- 3 - 11 - , r l Ai 61 - 63 ••• - .15 - 117 108 110 102 - 104 in 9 10 ... 6 - 6A SR - 78 - SO 7; - 80 95 • 100 9i - 9i -16 - 161 91 104 69 - 71 18 -19 9 - fl - 131 -- 14; 1 -i" 133 135 • ea • se .r ... -- ...pl 1161 i - i • •••,,,,,. .". ••• - 135 93 - - 1 4 - 4} •..• ••• - 99 - 101 90 - 92 5 - 5i .• --- 1 id 4•• ''... ... 13i - id pa. 221 -22 i 94 - 91 9i - 9i • e. P p, 111.} 31i 2 135 41 ••• •.• 21 - 211 MINES. 1 all .nglo Austrln. Gold ••• 10s - all Anglo Californian 20 68 kustralian 1 all Australian Cordiller - 1 I all tiro Maria •• ••• 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of 50 i all Blmnar. Iron & Cos' 20 14 British Iron 4 6 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issned at £5 pm.) 30 all Do. Comes r Cuiabs 1 .2f 20 15 Do. St. John Del Ray 27 29 Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica * ip 4) all Cobre Copper 6B 72 5 1 Colonial Gold — St. all Copper Min. of Ens: 34 37 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. oeuv 25 27 ... j 1C Copiapo 2 14 Fortuna. 20 i all Genc.al l4 16 1 all Gt.NngzetVeinlteg — 44 all Great Polanoth . 11 21 5 all Gt Wheal Vor United I. • id 1 all Liberty . - 3 all Linares 6l 71 5 11 Lusitanian 1 all 'dariquits. 4 1 all New Granada — 1 all Nouveau Monde 10 all Pontgi•Sil. & Le. Min l3 15 5 1 Port Philip 1 all Quartz Rock — 550 all Rhymney Iron 2O 22 z d 15 all Do. New 6 - 8 X d 30 134 Santiago de Cuba.. 31 -- 3} ... 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 1 all loutb Australian.. 1 all Do. Scrip. 1 Do. 10 per cent Prof 44 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 10 9im Croft. .... , . 4t —4} 2811 all United Mexican . 3i 44 1 all Waller * 1 all West Mariposa. ..... 1 12s Worthing Mining o; Australia -•-• • , 1 25 19 Australian Agricalt. 26 27 20 10 -.11 Aug train. Royal Mail 1U all Berlin Water Works 68 74 50 40 Brit. American Lan. 47 50 49 100 32 s Canada l3l 136 1110 On. 6 p.c. Jan k ;al) ! 1081 108} St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug 108 110 St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Mar & Sept 108 110 4.1 ystal Palace. 2f —2s 24 5 all Do. PreferenCe 54 4 all Crystal Pal. of Franc. 1 4 Ouston Tron Ore 20 13 Eastern Steam . .• 25 5 all E all Ele c tr i c n. rAu s TCe Telegraph... r S a m p 20 18 2 1 2 1 14 1 all lillectric Teleg. of Ir. ... 5 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigs.t. 18 all General Screw Stes.n, 15 4 20 10 Irish Beetroot Snga; •—• 20 10 Magdalena St. Navin 10 all Ilediteran. Elec. Tel. 8 10 10 9 Aexican&S,Americn 58 6 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fun 10 5 Netherlands Land.... 1 18 10 all Do. Do. 5 2 Do. SpcP iss at 1 d 4 id 100 80 New B. Land 18 22 1 all N. B. Australasian.., 20 15 Nrth.criEuropeStearn 1 all Oriental Gas I 1 2s. Do. " New Shares" all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 2i 21 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 6 50 10 Do. New ..• ...p 2 all Portland Iron Co ... 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 14 11 1 Ditto New — iID 25 all South Anstrs.l.l.anci 258 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip 20 all Do. Registered_ -••• 1' 5 Trust& L.Co.U.Can. 100 28i Van l)ism.rn'a taw 16 16i V.QQl6l ) ,GATalgaillY eve M woo EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. (This Day.) The adjourned meeting of the shareholders of this company was held this day, for the purpose of hearing the result of the poll demanded upon the motion of Mr. Goodson, to the effect that the labours of the committee of investigation should cease. 133 135 I The chair was taken by Mr. Waddington. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he would read the result of the poll. The numbers were as follows : JOINT-STOOI BANK& --------- 7s-i ------------- '0 1 'll 4 astral% . ~. . , 92 . y 4 100 . 50 Bank of London - 64 40 ali isri. Col. isk.&Ln. C . ...., .. i 0 al British N. American ..c1 . _ . • 25 5 Chart'. Bank of A• ls, t 4 -, i p 20 4 Clirtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China ... ._. ... 4 100 50 City ... ... - . 69 100 25 Colonial.... .. .. - ... 100 20 Commercial of - .... 20 all Rug.Scot.SattiS.C ll4 l 7. -- 18 1T 20 all bond. Chart, Bk. of Australia - 18 20 5 Ditto - New .. ... . 50 20 Lendon andConnty.• ... - 100 50 ,Lud.k.E.Bnkg. Corp. • - 2P 50 1.0 !London Joint Stock. ... - 100 20 iLond. & Westminster ... - ••• 100 35 !National Pro.of Eng .. -•- 20 10 ;Do. Now . . ... -- 50 22i !National of Irelaud ... - 20 all !New South Wales,. „ 39 - 41 40 25 all 'Oriental Bank Of 1 Corporation. 4O .-- 42 100 25 TrGvincial of Iceland 51 - 53 10 all ! Do. NOW .4. ..... . 5 1 Royal Australn.Bk & Gold Imp, - .. 100 50 !Royal British ..... 25 all 'South Australia 37 •-• 39 . 25 all Union of Australia- 73 - 75 73 1 I- NIDo. Nei . .. .. 60 101IInion of Ecndon ii, 28 b $0 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAIL wars. Closing Prime yesterday 24 26 3i 41 7f " 5i 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 83 56 brk ••• ..... *gr. 4 2 6i - -- 13 9 94 25 27 13 -- 20 73 74 50 - 52 - 22 - 23 80 -- 85 6 -- 7 94i -95 i 7i -- 80 ,124 - 126 104 - /06 571 ,- 57/ ) 54 56 72 - 77 6 - 8 6 • 8 80i - 81 6i 6$ 99 - 101 98i 99 id id pat t 87 P 8 7 6 6 5 ... ...... OH zs} 25 69 - Id 69 40 42 .- -- 44 - 46 30i 31t 73 - 74 - 64 4i - 31 13i • 44 43} 494 7i 7 d 4t 5k 22 - 24 103 105 73 75 41 46 '2 '3 60i —61 i 67 69 5 3rl 2d Pe' 34 - 36 ••• .... ••• ."" 19 -- 20 3a--• 4t 4 ---‘ 6 rnbg 'Mot tng. Boat 3n i Eastn. Jnnot iii :artF:all,-ruen -qrroinge. Wolve rh .itour Valley l lirkeihd. LanceL. Cheshire Juuct 00. Cheli. et Birk. £5O and £25 Cons Do., X 20..... Tilyth ST,Tyn £25 (issd. at XV Bristol and Exeter - jalodonian .......... learrn. and Cardigst , Chester dr Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, da Cornwall Do. A. . ••1 8 I De. B LEI iCrie Junction..... tt; DLb:inesßelfastJtine 01 ;Duo. P. & Abor. Jnc. )0 East Avgllnn 11 'Eastern Counties. )0 ' 'Winn, A Ent B. Stcrott.... 3 iDo., New A..... .0 I East Kent Aat L xacashire Edint.urghei Glaagn • Mini). and Peebles Prth & Durd, ' , 'orth St Clyde Jon: Furnes3 Do. Extension.. iGlaszow & W. a t 'Great N. of Scotlnd. Uroat Northern . .C)o., A. Stock ')6.,, B. Stool' [ .4t..Sth.Bo.Vost.(lre.) i.7reat - Western Do. Stour VAL Rag Qua. Stk !Irish South-Eastern. Taneagter & Carlisle iDo., Thirds , De. - N Now Thirds ...Aneash an dYorks:. ( r)o. ' Wst. rAv.Crsby . &Southpt London & Blackwell 'Jon& Bright &S.Cst.. bond. and N. Westn no. Fifths Do.IOl. ,M&8...0 Do. Eighth 5,.......... London andS. Wostn. Do., Z 56 Do., LIM I..q.indrrytt Colerain .nd:tdrr:". & Ennisk. Av.nch.Shef.& Line! ~ Ar tin. 1T Astropolitan Aidiand ....... , u. &Derb G. West. (Ira galf Shares i'lwoastle & Iwpt.Aberg. & Err'. ow ry & En niskille Te wry Warrenpoin tad Rostrevor..... lorfolk ........ 'Tort lin.Couttties North British n.v.n & Dock Stock io.„‘. Stock , 10., B Stock Do., B Guarantee-1 N. Eastern—Berwic Do. do. Extension 'Do.do. G.N.E. ?tiroh Do. Leeds IDo. York INorth London N.BtS.Wstrn.,Haml stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshir North Western.... ,, .' N. S. West rn. Jun . e Nuneaton, Hinekl,,y and ()x, Wore.. , t ,rt.)ctooth ott Zsh Co atraf Scottish Midland -:nropshire Uri south Devon iorth Eastern south Wales Yrksh. do Riv. Da, 1)0 .... cl.A•ne., Wok. SLWOI , Stockton t Darli :a.ten to liratlep' ra.tr Vale .. . 'Th. Pref., No. 1. ^"lrnes 'lay. P.& R. I tflverstono d; Lanes Vele of Neath...,...... Waterfd. & fUlkenn3 Waterfor IdsLimer,l West C0rnwa11....., ,. West End of London and Crystal Palace.. Do. A Do. B ,Wed Londou... Wimbledn & Cropi ny Business done this day 57 I THE SON, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1956; A VOICE FROM A FARMER ON THE GAME LAWS. What sound-minded man Can look upon certain species of injustice, and not at the same time fear that the seeds. of disunion are sown by the partiality of certain law s, which have arisen from the indifference of legislators in altering laws in conformityto present times and requir e meats, unless the requirements happen to suit the wan is of the influential and potential in the governmental d a partment ? As if it were of no consequence about the country ; no consequence about the majority ; neither of the intelli gent nor the morally good ; nor of the industrially im portant body of this country; a few, a clique in favour, however self-elect, are enabled to perpetuate laws which are inappropriate to the day in which we live, and are infamous and highly injurious in their effect upon the grand staple of the country ; calculated to destroy the feelings of patriotism that would otherwise reign in every man's breast. To such an extent is this practised, that even famine staring us in the face did not seem to awaken any appre hension of danger either to themselves or the country. Who can witness the present price of broad amongst the commercial and manufacturing and generally labour ing people of this country, and not think that the farmers are getting the best of it just now ? And yet this is not the ca-e. The farmers have increased incumbrances, which I shall presently prove, and the fault does not lie with them, but it lies with those who eat more game than bread, and who have not to pay for the food of their game, which they legally steal, with the rise of corn ; who are insane enough to raise the price of every man's loaf rather than allow an alteration of laws which oppress the needy and the commercial world equally with the farmer. No casual observer can form an idea of the injury and r serious damage game laws inflict upon the country ; the bad feeling they engendel, and the insult they convey to the intelligence of the day. This law, which might have been consistent in Edward the First's time, that part of it, at least, which applied to being taken with vert or venison, was properly punishable, because those animals ran generally in the parks of the feudal lords, and are even now kept and maintained by the preserver, as are the sheep by the farmer ; but what can we think of the act extending to wild birds, especially wild vermin (vermes fvri), which other countries recognise as such, and laugh- at eur timid Obsequiousness to our vermin lords, who, by the bye, are fast being replaced by the cockney sportsman, who has no consideration whatever for the grower of corn, and considers, by his 201. or 101, a year for shooting privilege, that he is already a lord, if he can only get money enough to buy a fustian or velvet coat, by which he is enabled to call Jack of all work a keeper ? Of all tyrants, God deliver us from these petty tyrants, that are strutting out in the country now in such overwhelming numbers, that little boys can no longer gather nuts, as of old, without being called poachers, and are ferociously driven away from the in nocent gathering of God's gifts by velvet coats armed with guns and bludgeons, so ordered by their cockney masters, tinkers or printers. In Banstead one of the mushroom pseudo-lords, by some mere chance, happened to be left 500 acres of land, which really seems to have bereft him of common fellow feeling ; his vermin are so unfairly bred that it has be come a farce to cultivate the land for corn with any ex pectation of profit. I have not even had my seed back on many occasions, and yet Mr. Judge Russell Gurney tells me there is no law for recovery of damages done by game, whether many or a few. So there being no law and no honour amongst such bashaw vermin -breeders, why, we must raise the price of bread, because we can't grow the crops of corn the country and th e l a b o urer have a right to expect. Now, I should like to ask why there is no law for re covery ? Why this injustice upon the whole industrial nation I know I shall receive the,old backed phrase ology, "You take your farm upon such terms, and it is your own fault." Now, the Ilobson's choice we get is like the choice of torture that once rent the walls of the bastile ; you shall be put upon the rack, or be broken upon the wheel ; you take life upon such terms ; it is your own fault. Why do you live ? This specious arguing won't do for this day ; it is an insult to the day in which we live. The reason why I call this specious is, because there is no solid reasoning in such an answer applied to this subject, whetherperfas et nefcts. Farms are not like houses —cannot be built and manufactured to our hand, where our friends and pleasurable associations surround es ; neither can we get them carved to our ideality as we should like ; and when we have at 14. st found one in most respects to suit ns, we find out the shooting has been let for years before us, and leased foryears to come. It is the only farm we can get answering our require nsents in every other respect. Now, I say, then, we are not free to choose. It is that farm, or, perhaps, ruin ; for I have known men ruined in waiting for farms, hav ing spent their all they had to go in with, having left their farms because of unfair game preserves that nearly ruined them before. Now, I say, until we can prove there is freedom of choice--full and sufficient choice—one has no right to say it is your own fault because you have take% the only farm you could get. The next answer I shall be met with is, " Yon would have to pay more rent, and the landlord has a right to take the shooting for himself if he choose charging you less rental." Now, you would have to pay more rent, I am told ; and to give you all the benefit of this argument, what would that root he in addition to the present ? I will tell you of a manor for sporting of about 2,000 acres, which is let for 181. per annum. Now this would amount to 22. d. per acre. I say, don't you think us farmers can afford that, as well as these cockney vermin -breeders, who send the result of their day's sport to the poulterers of London, which server to pay for the velvet coat of their sai-disout keeper? I know of another shooting lease of about 1,500 acres, let to four Londoners, who have the use of the, parson's house, upon the condition the parson shoots jointly with them ; however, the par son takes the liberty of shooting them, forestalling their days of arrival, leaving nothing for them but the par son's code of morality to fire at. Now if we could only turn out a parson on Paostead Downs with his gun iu his hands, what a boon it would be to the poor who like cheap bread. The argument that the landlord has a right to take the shooting for himself, and do as he likes with his own property, can be answered satisfactorily enough by ana logy. Owning other property than laud property gives no right of injuring your neighbour. The owner of horses has no right to let his horses destroy his neiohbaurs' crops simply because the horses are his property, and he has a right to do as he likes with his own property. The owner of a gun has no right to shoot a man be cause the gun is his own property ; neither has a land lord a right to reserve sporting to himself, the effect of which is to eat his neighbour's and tenant's crops, from which the entire country suffers, simply because the land is his own property. All other property is circumscribed by laws that are found beneficial to the common good. C.-Irtaioly the land of England is not a small matter, that the legislator should overlook a provision that shall have a tendency to bring about a more abundant and uniform production of the food we all eat. Fifty pounds per year for 1,500 acres would be about Bd, per acre, an amount merely nominal, though much more tha❑ the former ; so it is a mere delusion to talk of paying an increased rental that would injure the far mer. I will be bound to say that let the farmer pay ac cording to the present rentals of shooting throughout the country, and shoot himself, the game itself would pay the sporting rents twice over. I3ut the great advantage would be the national one ; the increase of produce that would arise from the abolition of game laws on the land now in cultivation, would be one-eighth. Of the land that would come into cultivation, now thrown oat of cultivation, one-sixteenth more, together, mak ing three-sixteenths of the entire produce of the country destroyed directly and indirectly by game preserves now made legal. This game-law savours touch of the old nullontempusoceurit regi law which once dis graced this country ; the game laws never ought to have survived the extinction of nullion. tempos, for if it were seen then it was an act of injustice to yield the right claim to the king reigning, and that. no length of pos session should avail against royal claim, how comes it that a right of claim is denied to the farmer who has to feed and keep game, and hie fathers did it before him for hundreds of years, so if they are not absolutely his, whose are they ? Why the Lords of the land retain the power which they denied to their sovereign, and say . _ nit/ita n?, tempus occurit domino, or vi y lord—a pretty farce this for the nineteenth century. And yet this farce is played in real life to the disgrace of this land. The game preserver will try to say they keep the game, but as every farmer knows to his sorrow this is not true ; no answer need be adduced. Who ultimately suffers for all this ? Not altogether the farmer, for he rises the price of corn, according to produce ; the burden then falls upon labour, and the employers of labour ; and I am enabled to prove, when I have sufficient space, that directly and indirectly the loss on cereal crops is one-fourth of the entire crops of the country ; besides the loss on turnips and Swedes, and other esculent crops, on which game are most destruc tive. _ _ _ --.-. Say, for round numbers, the produce of the country is sixteen millions ; one-fourth added to that would en- able England to grow all her produce for the country, and the drain of gold would not be so frequently pro ducing panics. In other words, the labouring man, losing one-fourth of the produce of the country, is paying ac tually 2d. per quarcern more for his bread on account of game-laws ; this is reversing the order of things, to the shame of the rich---this igthe poor man keeping the rich, instead of the rich keeping the poor, or allowing the in dustrious to keep themselves ; every mouthful of - bread reminding him of unjust oppression in a country that boasts of its constitution. If exercise be necessary for any, it is necessary for all, to the exclusion of none ; and if that be the reser vation which the law upholds, why, in all seriousness, I advise the renewal of athletic galies. Consult Peter Parley, who teaches how to bring every muscle into active strength—let every man become a gymnast — when, to the cockney's delight, he will find an absolute cure for indigestion ; whilst walking after game only brings one set of muscles into play, causing fatigue some. times, without physical benefit. Hunting is conducted in a much more respectable way. The farmer has little to complain of these sportsmen ; and act as gentlemen of th e hunters pay compensation , land ought. A FARMER. NEW SOVTII WALES BALNE.—The report of the Bank of New South Wale; for the half-year ending the 30th of September, 1555, shows a net profit of 61,821., which, with a balance in band of 6,059/., made a divisible total of 67,341/. Of this sum 50,0001. was appropriated for a dividlnd at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum, and 9,059/. to the reserve fund (now amounting to 100,0001.), leaving a balance of 8,252?. for the ecinalise.tien of turo 004104.4• FOR THE AMENDMENT. Personal votes l6O £277,340 Votes 4,111 Proxies AGAINST THE AMENDMENT. Personal votes 5OB £695,980 Proxies MAJORITY FOR THE AMENDMENT. Proprietors, ... 29 Stock, £524,740 Votes, 5,421 The amendment was therefore carried. The announcement was received with sheers and hisses, amidst which three or four speakers attempted to address the meeting. Votes 11,710 ... 3,994 Mr. Sergeant GAZELLE moved that the votes be printed. A SHAREHOLDER, one of the scrutineers, objected to the printing of the ♦otes. Such a proceeding would be attended with no good result. Mr. BALL then addressed the meeting, and main tained that although the motion of Mr. Goodson bad been carried, which was adverse to the continuance of the labours of the Committee of Investigation, yet the result of the polling would be regarded by the great body of the public as a great moral triumph. The result had been obtained by the most questionable means, for out of 18,000 proxies which had been issued by the chair man, only about a little more than a third had been returned to him. When it was suggested at the com mittee to issue proxies, a question arose as to the de sirableness of such a proceeding. Personally he (Mr Ball) did not wish that proxies should be issued, but it was ultimately decided that they should be seat forth. The time was so long delayed before they were delivered that that fact accounted in some measure for the triumph of the Chairman's party. Why, on the last day of application, when the return of the proxies would have been too late, the committee received no less than 200 applications ; and, had the proxies been issued by the Committee of Investigation at a proper time, they would have had a majority of at least 3 to 1. It would be impossible to destroy the feeling that had been created amongst the great body of the shareholders. Money had brought about the result. (Hear, and confu sion.) The same course of corruption that was pursued at the election of every rotten borough had been re sorted to to obtain the desired result. Everything that could be done had been done, and the result was a tem- porary triumph. The speaker then proceeded to defend the Committee of Investigation from the charge of garbling the evidence, and concluded by asking Mr. Lloyd whether the meeting at which it was determined the Secretary should be taken was legal or not. Mr. LLOYD said be had well considered the question, and he felt the requisition calling the meeting was per fectly proper. The business transacted was within the terms of the notice, as was also both the amendment and the resolution. (Hear, hear, cheers, and confusion.) Mr. HELPS here addressed the meeting, an d was pro ceeding to draw the attention of the shareholders to the evidence taken before - the Committee of Investigation, when The CHAIRMAN said the hon. proprietor was evidently out of order. Mr. Hntirs then put the original motion. (Confusion.) A SHAREHOLDER said the proceedings of the day were certainly no triumph. They certainly were not to rein state Mr. Waddington—(cries of "yes," "no," "hear," and confusion)—but were merely intended to tide them Over till the half•yearly meeting, when they would make a clean sweep—(cheers and confusion)—and unani mously reverse the triumph of to-day. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Lovn advocated the printing of the votes. Pub. licity, be said, was the soul of business, and it was but ust that one partner should know what the other was doing. The question of expense was idle. There would be no expense attending the printing of the votes, be- cause every shareholder wishing for a copy would pay for it, and thus the charge would be borne by the share holders and not by the company. He then alluded to the bills affecting this company that it was intended to bring before Parliament, and strongly advised every shareholder to inform himself of each one before the meeting in February, as it was most important :er the interests of the company that they should do so. Mr. COBBOLD said the few remarks he should offer to the meeting would occupy but a brief space of time. The hon. proprietor then preeeeded to allude to the passing of some acts of Parliament relative to the East Suffolk Railway, amidst marks of great impatience, and cries of "Question, question, time," and much confUMOD. A. SIIAIZEHOLDER said be believed the question before ,he meeting was the printing of the Totes. The CHAIRMAN said the hon. proprietor was quite in order. Mr. COBBOLD resumed his speech, but such was the confusion that he very shortly resumed his seat, wishing the votes taken at the poll would be printed. A SHAREHOLDER hoped that between this meeting and the half-yearly one in February they would keep a strict eye upon their chairman. If at that meeting it was found that he bad done right, why then they ought to re-elect him ; if the contrary, why then turn him out. The CHAIRMAN said as far as he was personally concerned he bad not the slightest objection to the printing of the result of the poll ; and as to those who had done hips the honour to vote for him, they would glory in their names being printed. (Loud applause.) His opponents bad said that his majority consisted of the votes of ladies and ladies maids. All he could say was, the proxies before being sent out were not submitted to him (Mr. Waddington), and, therefore, the gentleman who made the assertion must evidently have been canvassing amongst the par ties be had named or he never could have made the statement he had done. (Cheers and laughter.) All he knew about the parties who had voted for him was that the largest proprietor in the company—one holding upwards of 70,0001.—was not a lady. (Loud cheers.) Another of his opponents had stated that if you throw pitch some of it would sure to stick. He felt sure the meeting would that day see who had thrown the pitch. ( Hear, and confusion.) Mr. Ball had talked about right and justice. Let that gentleman look upon his report and his (Mr. Waddington's) answer, he would there find right and justice on his (Mr. Waddington's) side against calumny and misrepresentation. (Loud applause.) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to defend himself from the allegations of the committee amidst much confusion and noise, and resumed his seat, de claring that it was hinted it was intended to have Par liamentary inquiry into the whole circumstances con nected with the Eastern Counties Railway. If so, his con duct would be found to have been upright, honest, and just. A long and angry altercation here arose between Mr. Waddington and Mr. Ball, relative to the production of a certain letter, which one gentleman asserted he had re ceived, and the other that he bad never written. The meeting shortly afterwards adjourned. THE RUGELEY MURDERS. An application will be made in the course of the day to the Court of Queen's Beach for a certiorari to remove the trial of William Palmer for murder m fro a m de, S b t u aff t Stafford ho into that court. Up to the time of our despatch leaving Westminsterpeto b e able t Halo ub Hall no motion it in o otionhadbeen urlate edition. Some little excitement was manifested in the course of th e d a y. A larger number of persons than usual visited the court daring a ebeen mademorning,theat an early hour anticipating of t h ea PPlication would h the day. CITY BANK-INCREASE OF CAPITAL. MEETING THIS DAY. At a special general meeting of the proprietors of the City Bank, numerously attended, held at the London Tavern to-day—Sir Robert Carden, chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair—the directors were authorised to increase the capital to the extent of 7,000 shares of 1001. each. The chairman stated that the di rectors would exercise the power so conferred in such a way and at such times as the interest of the bank should dictate. The heirs of the late Earl Cornwallis have presented the Rev. J. W. Holdsworth, M.A.., Magdalen College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Linton, Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas King. The steam-ship Great Britain, having been again taken up by Government, is being refitted and repaired, to be made available for the conveyance of troops. She will sail from Liverpool on the 9th of February, with abotit 1,100 troops for Malta. The screw steamer Sarah Sands is also being refitted at Liverpool for thetrauspert service. HINTS CONSTABULARY.—Prince Albert inspected the Hants Constabulary at Aldershott yesterday, under the command of Captain Harris. His Royal Highness ad mired the appearance of the men, as likewise the con dition of their horses. His Royal Highness afterwards went round the huts, stables, stores, &c., the whole of which mot with laic approval. 95 i 80 79 57i 81 98i 9 8j 15} 884 694 9 73 i L ITERATURE. Gilbert Massenger. By Holme Lee, author of " Thorney Hall" and "Maude Talbot." Smith, Elder, and Co. The introductory passages of this story are shrouded by a solemn gloom, which suits well with its mournful nat ure throughout, and is in accord ance with its depth of feeling and sentiment. The training of the young Gilbert Mes senger his early days was well caculated to fit him for life's struggles. He could have found few situations less congenial than the residence of his austere aunt ; yet, being of a hardy nature, he did not sink under the dangerous treatment. "He grew and strengthened with as much vigour as the rug ged thorn will do in a bleak and moorland waste." It was a happy day for Gilbert when he was eman cipated from his aunt's management, and sent to the grammar school of Ashton•le-Forde. Not that he was a favourite there, or that he took much delight in the affairs of the place ; but he was at liberty to think for himself. He was styled "Th e I Man of Ir on " b y hi s sc h oo l mates from his imper turbability. The accounts of his progress are in teresting ; and the striking contrast between him and the young Noel Forester is an effective feature in the story. Noel was the only son of rich parents, and the indulged life of a favourite child formed a painful dissimilitude to Gilbert as he reflected on his harsh and unkind treatment. It chanced that in one of their sports Noel was nearly drowned, when Gilbert hastened to the rescue. From being rivals they became friend s a ft er t hi s event, and Gilbert was invited to spend some time at Lang hope Tower, the residence of Mr. Forester. This latter gentleman, grateful for the preservation of his son, and interested in Gilbert's intelligence, was anxious to befriend him, but circumstances prevented the youth availing hinaself of what might have been of substantial service to him. The long antagonism that had existed between Gertrude Massonger and her nephew at last reached a climax. On his return from a visit to Lang hope, Miss Messenger announced her . inten tion of her nephew's commencing to prepare for the ministry. This Gilbert refused, be felt un qualified for the task, and he possessed sufficient discrimination to be aware of the unworthiness of assuming a sacred charge when not fitted. Besides his aunt had made religion distasteful to him, as a child, she had dwelt on its terrors, and represented its judgments, till now when arrived at years of discretion, the impression remained when the fear had vanished. With good intentions Gertrude had done great harm. He whose childhood had shrunk from the terrors of the law, could not go forth in manhood to preach the gospel of love. After a stormy altercation Gilbert departed at night from the dreary place where ho had passed so many dark days. Now commenced a now era ; he began life again, the former things were passed away like a dream; after the restraint of his childhood, the bard study of his boyhood, he went forth in youth free as air, with no tie to bind him, and after all his scholastic attainments he was going to seek to live by the labour of his hands. This change was wel comed by him, however, for any toil or trouble seemed nothing, in comparison to the sense of free dom that was his. "He was prepared to work hard, and live hard." He was fortunate in being engaged by a considerate man, one who appreciated him, and also he interested in his behalf the good offices of the clergyman of the parish, a most worthy and excellent man. He invited the young outcast to the rectory, where the companionship of Helen, his grand-daughter, was an agreeable dis traction, and the kindness shown to Gilbert by Mr. Leigh and his employer raised his spirits. Altogether he did not find the first step in his fitful pilgrimage so difficult, or so arduous as it is generally represented. The pleasant time passed soon enough, the engineer moved away, and Gil bert with him. The peaceful village was exchanged for the crowded city, and the good clergyman was left, never to be seen again. Yet the good deeds of the just live after them, and, though apparently unheeded then, his counsels and his maxims were rooted in the mind of Gilbert, to be developed in after days of trial, and to become a blessing to his blighted life, long after he who uttered them in hope had slept with the holy dead. Some years are then passed over, and we see Gilbert Massenger, after their flight, sobered and saddened ; his had been no royal road to renown—lie had worked arduously, and yet even then he had not achieved any great success. It is remarked that it is an interesting study to trace the careers of those who fight the battle of life " in their rude natural armour of talent and energy," and to see them " come in conquerors." Yet not to all is the crown of victory, it is truly said. Titus Gilbert's kind friend, who had eagerly assisted him at the first outset, was called away as everything seemed to prosper and promise around him. " Most of us can call to mind some friend who departed out of our sight at the begin ning of our journey. When we were coming to the heat of the day, we have been called upon to pass by a grave. Perhaps when nearing the end of our journey, and looking back, we may espy it quiet, and holy, in the green laml: of the past, and wish, wearily wish, that we too had been eased of our burden, instead of tramping on until the night is at hand, and we still far from God's Inn of Peace." " All along the way we have come there rise these mounds of warning, yet none speaks to us so forcibly as that made among the spring flowers, while the dew of morning was still sparkling on every leaf." On renewing our acquaintance with Gilbert, we find him returning to his native place ; but ho was again unfortunate—it seemed destined that he should not be recognised at home. He brought a plan for improving and draining some waste land in the neighbourhood ; but the wise heads of Ashton-le-Forde were not favourable to the march of mind, and what they did with yes terday would content them with to-day. Gilbert made an attempt to sea his aunt, but overheard her refuse, and hurried away. He was not to depart utterly friendless, however, for he made the acquaint ance of William Grahame, the brother of the Doctor who presided over the Grammar School. By this latter gentleman also, Gilbert was warmly welcomed, and the conclusion of their conference was, that he went to London with William Grahame, who determined to find him enployinent ; a new prospect was thus opened for our hero, and while his new friend procured him occupation that he earnestly desired, his home likewise afforded a charm and au attraction. The niece of Mr. Grahame's who enlivened his house, was the Helen of early days, the grand-daughter of the clergyman, Mr. Leigh, who had befriended Gilbert when first going out in the world alone. The intercourse was soon renewed, and the visits to Norwood became bright periods in the life of the aspirant. For a brief space all seemed to smile on his path ; he had achieved some desirable employment, he had se cured a willing and able friend, and for the first time in his life he seemed to claim kindred with human instincts, and to bow at the shrine of earthly affections. This was the one smooth road that he mob with in his rugged pilgrimage, but this soon ended, and lie found the after dulness more intolerable. It was ten times more dark and desolate to continue the desert march in sober real ity after his fancy had seen it crowned in beauty, and its wilderness blossoming as the rose. The state in which Gilbert found himself upon return ing to his aunt's house, and finding her laid a corpse before him, to teach him in death the lesson it had been denied her in life to inculcate was an awful ens. He found out that it was not from coldness, or hardness of heart that hie aunt had become so stern and forbidding ; it was from the struggles of her mind in early life to fulfil the dictates of duty. From being passionate she had appeared frozen. It was her painful lot to discover that there was madness in her family, and from that hour she never smiled again. She had been engaged, Gilbe rt learnt, to his old friend William Grahain° but she would not see him again. wish not to She i s determinedher to perpetuate the race of m:sery; ietxre, but he enable her nephew to emulate her ainpi left her when too young to comprehend the cloud that hung ever him. Nov he recognised histhatupheld to encourage i r ir e a la g t e lo o n r through a l o ng life with no support her, and he but nerved and incited t o go and do likewise. but a mind like hi s cou ld not rest after receiving such a shock, and h e cou l d not, lik e Gertrude, bury himself in the routine of daily life and the observance of simple duties. He re nounced all ties that bound him to England, and h e went forth a wanderer. He sought out the woods of the wild West, where only those had penetrated who were solitudeseekin g le himself. They were " mighty hunters," who, from the depths of their et erna l forests, looked forth with contempt en the trammels of the world's restraints, and eschewed conventional forms and usages. Here in this majestic solitude the man of iron, as his schoolfellows had termed him, found a con genial home ; it was a city of refuge to his vigorous mind and resolute character. For nearly twenty years he remained there, and a solemn satisfaction now usurped the place of his former discontent. He made inquiries of home at last, and the result was that he returned, and after a strange and out cast noontide he spent the evening of his days in the circles of his friends. There were some painful and startling changes to get over. Helen Grahame was now married to Noel Forester, his old ri val, and. their family was flourishing an d prospering, all united iu welcoming back the wanderer. The sight of Helen's son, whom she bad sent with his father to invite Gilbert to their house, dispelled the illusion that had hung over him •so many years. "He passed from the old dream-land of .svreet memories to the clear TiTiol- tlaig74 of to' ---...,.,.......,.......,......„..../W day." He had at one time entertained the ides that the hereditary curse! to which his father had fallen a victim would descend upon him, but the calm of the forest life, and the mastery over his own passions had at last sobered and tempered his dangerous excitement. In his peaceful retreat near Ashton he was another being, he could now enjoy social pleasures and interest himself in the concerns of his fellow-creatures and rejoice that ho had been given inward peace. It may be sug gested by sonic) that Gilbert would have led a more useful life in England following the pursuits in which he so much excelled, and cultivating the glorious talents that were given to him. This is possible, but only those who are tempted know what it is to resist, and it way enough for him to subdue himself. To those whe consider the victory over self more noble than the capture of kingdoms, the cause in which lie fought, and the spirit which made him conqueror at last, will not be considered unworthy of all those years of t rava il . They will recognise the power which has portrayed the career of Gilbert Mas3enger, the Principles which are therein apparent, and the bright example shown. " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime," is insei ibed on the title-page, and the same ides is infused into the work. THE SUPPOSED MURDER BY POISON. THE SEARCH FOR THE BODY. During the whole of Saturday the search for the body of the man John Monaghan, said to have been poisoned by his son and two accomplices, and which is interred in the burial-ground of St. Wilfred's Roman Catholic Chapel, Hulme, was continued without success. Five excavators were employed at the work, and grave after grave was opened and its contents examined, but with out the discovery of the coffin which contains the bed./ of Monaghan. Mr. Timperley, the undertaker, is peed. tire that there was a zinc plate oa the eo;; n, having up on it the name of the deceased and the date of his inter ment, but he has been present in the graveyard durint the excavations, and could identify the coffin, which km made himself, even if the plate should have been take* off or accidently separated from it. The coffin is sot a parish coffin. The men employed at the work did not cease their labours till dark on Saturday evening, and they had then been employed 24 days in the search. The want of success which has attended their labours up to the present moment has given some colour to a very improbable conjecture that the alleged priso ners removed the body from the grave after its interment. It is said that the system of burying in the common graves in St. Wilfrid's churchyard has been to open a grave of sufficient width to hold two or thrra coffins abreast, and the coffins were packed into it, at the sides as well as centre, the hole being kept unfit: d, with a covering of scaffold planks, until a sufficient atm ber of bodies had been interred to fill it. The graveya r d is surrounded by a wall eight feet high, but towards Clarendon -street there is a large hole through it,by which access could at all times be obtained, so that such an en terprise as the removal of the body would present very few difficulties ; but, ina much as there was no suspi cion of poisoning entertained at the time of the old man's death, there seems little or no inducement to make such an attempt, and by the risk of discovery of the body after its removal, invite an accusation of murder, which apparently would not otherwise have been preferred. It may be a less unlikely conjecture that the coffin plate has been removed, in the hope thereby of destroying the identity of the remains of the deceased, but this chance appears to be guarded against by having the coffin maker on the spot, who could recognise it with out the plate. The search will be continued till the body is found, or it is proved that it is not in the grave yard, and this (Monday) morning it is the intention of Mr. Bradlaugh, the prosecuting solicitor, to confer with Mr. Herford, the coroner, with the view to settiAg a body of excavators to work in the search. This wrmid have to be done by employing some contractor, wire has a number of such workmen in his employ, to dig tip the graveyard. As the precise spot pointed out by Mrs. King, the daughter of the deceased, and by Mr. Timper ley, the undertaker, has been examined in vain, the ex cavations will have to become more general. They have been regarded with much anxiety by the relatives and friends of deceased persons who are interred in the burial-ground, and it is much to be lamented that there is no sufficient land-mark by which the grave can be re cognised from its fellows, and the natural feelings of survivors spared the outrage which is offered to them, The place has been watched unceasingly by the p01i , ,,1 8 in Mr. Superintendent Leary's division, since the °pox*, tions commenced, and we shall he glad if this day's arch should terminate them.—Manchester Guardian of MK," day. The body of John Monaghan, who is snpposed to have been poisoned for the sake of recovering the amount for which his life had been insured, was discovered yeeter day afternoon in St. Wilfred's graveyard, after a search of five days, during which many other bodies bad bee* exhumed. The inquest was to be opened this morning, but as a post mortent exz.t..nination will have to be made, and a chyrnical analysis of tfre.contents of the stomach, the most material portion of the evidence will probabty not be ready for some days to come. RAILWAY REFul'ilf. LivenrooL, Atonday.—Tbis day, at one o'clock, a meeting of railway shareholders was held in the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange-buildings, the object being to get a reform in the management of railways. Mr. HEYWORTS, M.P., presided, and in opening the proceedings said any one who had embarked in railway speculations since the commencement of such undertak ing's must have seen that there were crying evils mime. where, the result of which had been the depreciation et' some of the finest property, and the shareholders had lost much of that profit they were entitled to by the eta barkat:on of their capital. He alluded strongly to the branch lines that had been created, nearly all of which tended to draw off the legitimate traffic from the arterial lines; and after some further observations urging a re• form in the railway system, he called upon Mr. Malins, of London, to address the meetin.r. The latter gentle man at come length dwelt upon the enormous amount of money invested in railway property, and comparing the ♦alue of English lines with the French ones, ho said that on the let of June, 1855, 31 British railways, which had cost 124,000,0001., were worth in the market only 89,000,0001. ; while 13 French railways, which cost 31,000,0001., were worth G 0,000,000/. He dwelt upon the apathy evinced by shareholders in looking after the interests of the companies in which they had in vested money. He also argued that the capital and revenue should be kept entirely separate, so that the directors should not be permitted to take the capital to make up a dividend. Other gentlemen spoke upon the subject, and it was at length resolved to form a provi sional committee, having for its object the best means of remedying the evils to which allusion had been made, and to operate with the council in London. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Jan. 28.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.; moderate breeze and fine clear weather, with frost. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 2'.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— Frey, from Callao ; Eberhard, New Orleans, for Brennen. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—Maria, from Newcastle, for New York, leaky; H.M.S. Forret, West Coast of Africa. The Ochtertyre, arrived here to day from Alexandria, reports that while lying to in 37 N. 1 W., in company with a brig and a barque, the wind suddenly veered for S W. to N., with a heavy squall and thick mist, when the brig, which had painted ports and suppose , ' to be English, is supposed to have foundered. FALMOUTH, Jan. 28.—Wind variable.—Arrived — George, from Cardiff, for Civita Vecchia, leaky. Sailed — Eureka, for Now York ; Regina, Sierra Leone. Off the port--South Esk, from Buenos Ayre3. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Sourat3tProN, Tuesday Morning. ' Arrived—Firefly, from Swansea; Wonder, steamer, and Jolly, Jersey. Sailed—Deepateb,stenmer , for Torsey; Atalanta, (steamer Havre ; Clara, Newport ; C o rsair, Sunderland; C ons t aa : tine, Shields. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Itternin* by N. Arrived_Robert Kelly, from New York ; Allies, St. G. Tyler, for New Orleans ; Pioneer, New York. QUEENSTOWN, Jai. 27. Wind N.W. Arrived—Sail:lml Morley, jun., and Deademena, from New Orleans ; Staley and Gambia, Callao. DUBLIN, Jan. 2S, Wind N.W. Arrived —Atalanta and Victor, front St. John's, New Brunswick; Regina, Athens. MOLTIINAD, Jan. 2S. Wind N.W. Arrived—Trafalgar, from Demerara, for Maryport. BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 14.55 a.ra. Wind N.W.; tide, three and a half hours' ebb; weathers fine and frosty. Arrived, Jan. 29—Julia, from the Cape of Good H.p'• Sailed, 29th—Symmetry, from Ceylon. DEAL, Tuesday, 93G mai Wind N.W. ; fine. Anchored—Black Friar, from Moreton Bay, for London. Passed—Nautilus, from London, for St. Kitt's. Sailed—The Norma, from Sunderland, for New York ; Wilhelm Kestre, Sunderland, New York; Lisbon, New- castle, Constantinople ; Plancias, Newcastle, Con s t an ti. nople ; Maria Joseph, Newcastle, Cette ; Alma, N ew . castle, Westward ; Naiad, Newcastle, Barcelona ; Values Sunderland, Charente; _Robinson, Hartleposl, Ihy rt Condor, Leith, Messina. ROYAL COLLEGE Or SURGEONS.—The following gen tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, were a dmitted of th e College at the meeting of t he Court o f Examiners on the 25th inst. Messrs., —Thomas Miles, Islingt on ; Edmund Lloyd, Ri c hmond, Surrey ; Eugene Francis O'Leary, army ; w. Joyce, Blackfordley, Leicester ; S. D. Hine, Not tinehaiin ; G. C. B. Hart, Bristol • D. Shelswell, Shen ington, near Banbury, Oxon ; A. T. M'Gowan, New Galloway, Scotland ; AI. T. Masters, Canterbury ; H. Gibbons, Wolverhampton ; R. cotes, Cerne Abbas, Dor setshire ; Charles C. Blades, Tattershall, Lincolnshire ; H. Penfold, army ; P. W. Freshfield, Ilarrich ; and F. A. Oakes, army. At the same meeting of the court Mews. E. Pearce and J. F. Pritchard passed their cxa initiations for naval surgeons. These gentlemen had previously been admitted members of the college, their diplomas bearing date respectively June t, NA end kill Me _ too 25 ao 20