The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

rdoNE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INVELLIGENCa CITY, Two o'CLook Letters from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market on Saturday closed firmly, but without increased tightness. Compared with Friday's rates all kinds were unaltered. The sales amounted to 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 were taken by the speculators. The Railway Share Market mani fested a steady appearance, and prices were fully sustained. The state of trade in the Manufacturing towns is generally quiet, but the reduction in the minimum rate of discount by the Bank of England has occasioned more firmness. At Leeds the business of the past week is described as being limited, and confined principally to goods of the lower qualities. The manufacturers having laid in fresh stocks of wool, at the public sales, are riving fuller employment to the working classes, and the mills are now working longer hours. In Manchester there has been an improved demand, owing to the more favourable advices brought by the last Overland Mail, and shirtings are lid. to 3 d. per piece dearer. The Silk trade, during the Past month, is thus reviewed by Mr. II: W. Eaton : There has been little in the Market during November calling for particular notice. The deliveries have continued good, but We have had a dull heavy trade throughout, every one seeming anxious to buy as sparingly as possible. rices have, however, remained extremely steady. T he import's from China in the next two months Will doubtless be large; but as they will find manu facturers and throwsters most scantily supplied, it it fair to expect, in the absence of most other silks, 4 , good demand—consum e r s h av i ng wa it e d f or a better assortment than the present small stock aff . ords. Thi s i mpress i on is much strengthened by the increased operations during the last two days, b oth for home use and the continent. It must 440 be borne in mind that these expected imports I Q complete 50 per cent. of the total quantity to Great Britain of 70,000 bales. The letters just re ceived from China report the total settlements . he 45,000 bales, the shipments to Great Britain at 30,500 b a l es , a nd e lsewhere 5,000 b a l es . P r i ces 'ad advanced so as to have but little margin on t he• quotations from England. In Bengal silk the 1511 siness early in the month was very moderate, the bulk of the recent imports as in October being l bferior, and the pretensions of importers owing to t he high cost being far beyoid what can be afforded 1 f or• inch qVities, but more disposition being la tely shown 'to meet buyers, some sa l es h ave b een Ilffected. Anything really fine and good of the medium qualities sells readily at g oo d p r i ces . Ital ian silk has att r a c t e d a littl e more a tt en ti on, 4114 may be quoted ra th er fi rmer . I n B ru ti as an d Persians there is no alteration. )3 2be True Briton, from Melbourne, is announced nt the particulars of her specie freigtits are not • knOW/1. The Red Jacket and the William 0f °1 ..1 1 , are now also due, and i n th e course he Of next fortnight a further la rge supp l y 4,sa gold may b e ant i c i pated. As the ,reie requi remen t s o f t h e B ank of France seem li Tt'to h ave b een supplied, and speculation in °er is not likely to draw so much gold away as retofore, it may be supposed that the t r eater portion of futu re arr i va l s w ill b e re eiced in this cou n t r y. Th e a d v i ces f rom this morning state that monetary affairs Zntinue to improve, and the next Bank return, it 1 Wieged, will show an increase in coin and bul- r ~' o n in Paris and th e d epartments to 194,000,000 S taes. There is a quiet demand for money in Lombard iltreet to-day, and the rates for first qualities of b ins are rather easier. The Europa has arrived, with 560,000 dollars, / tom the United States. The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Austral 4teela was held this day, wh en th e di rectors expressed their resolution to continue the dividend at the Zte of 20 p er cen t. per annum, payable in April 6 ,M. The stat e o f th e co l ony was satisfactory. 4 as the next meeting the accounts will be presented Ual. The directors had invested the 200,0001. barantee fund. v2 lll einess at the Stock Exchange has commenced thi 4l quietly this week, and, owing to some spe etive sales, a temporary degree of weakness has Me apparent. Compared with the latest prices ee h r l el lt on Saturday a decline of to 1 per 01 4 has taken place, but as there is no ' 4V ourable event which justifies a lower range o e L lti llea, the flatness now prevailing 'is no doubt 11 4 : t emporary. An influential party of dealers i t e endeav o u re d t o d e p ress th e ma rket, and some ti o ," *Mailer operators for a rise have probably of .° ‘ their accounts, so as to make sure t tiz their profits, otherwise it is only i ll 10 conclude that th e t en d ency wou ld h ave b een t he, other direction, es p ec i a ll y as th e M oney 1 10 — 'ket is gradually improving. At the same time, 4 0 1P4 ver, the Transfer books being closed, there are 0 0 111 eney purchases to give support to the market. 1 ) 1 0 11 ela have been 93i 94, and 931 /. They are now Itt 9 3/ Special transfers of stock have b een habtiated at 941 The New Threes are 93i to 4 1 2 the Reduced 931 s. Exchequer Bills 4s. to ii; , ~Prenlium, and the Bonds 981, 99. Bank Stock 46 i, and India Stock 227. a the Foreign Market the principal feature is i hi ded fall in the Turkish 6 per Cents., which ce suffered f rom the same cause as Consol s , v i z ., Su li lative sales. They have been dealt in at 951, 941 i, and they are now about 95, 951. The h e ': cents. 102 1 . Spanish are flatter, the Threes .I.l — g 4 2 to 42k, and the Passive si. Russian Per Cents. are 961. ; Peruvian, 78 ; and Do. ' l et Cents. 55g. he 'hotf 0110w ing are the nominal prices of Foreign . er n Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i 7 ; Meal „l 22 1 I; Peruvian 41 per C en t s ., 76 8 ; ditto p er Cent s . , 54 6 ; P ortuguese 3 per Cents., 0 6 ; Russian 5 per C ents., 106 8 ; ditto 4 per t* , 9 5 7; Spanish 3 per Cents., 411 21 ; ditto Deferred, 231 24 ; ditt o Certificates, 61 . ; " t a° Passive 6 beenho Railw a y Sh are M ar k e t thi s morn i ng has influenced to some extent by the d e p ress i on in of t he English F un d s , an d t h e quo t a ti ons o f most tile prin c ip a l li nes have declined aboutk to 7 14 cent. ;in some instances rather more. East Vi i g l ian, Great N ort h ern, Great W estern, ,7ghton, North-W estern, and Midland were ' i lver by 10 s ., and Lancashire and Yorkshire by •tss. ; South-Eastern 53. dined 10s. ; Northern of 1' ; Paris a n d Ly ons de. France ss. ; Lombardo enetian 15s. ; G reat nadian lines were steadL y xe at f ormer quotations. urg ss. The um bo dealt Joint-stoc k Balk shares have b een very little in. Bank of Australasia h ave improved 81 in . 55., and Western Bank o f London 11. to 11. Bank of Egypt, Ottoman B an k , and Oriental — ‘ 4l c are steady. k iseellaneous shares are inactive. Can a d a G o _ li t P lel ent 6 per Cents. are at 114 ; South 4 .A.ustra s" Government 6 per Cents. 1011 ; Electri c Tele 'N; 96i ; and Crystal Palace 21. 11411711 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ON". O'CLOCK. (From the °ffielal List.) fiustnceb done. St Stock A Dor (I, 934 - N „ _ nt. Reduced Annuities Ne...,uent. Consols Annuitiew shut 'Ai i 144, - . 4 Per Cent. Annuities ...... 94 i 31 c ;" 4 Stock 227 11 8318 t or Account 93i 4 3P i x d `,9lequer Bills 24d. mow i 4 7 p i tls.ll 4,_ ........ :. ..... .. li tti " Bleds, 1P: , 3, 3i per Cent 983 9 1 / 4 ; 1 1" OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE; O'CLOCIF• •-411 Bonds 4ipe r Cent ' b at e bits Accoun t 7B 4 Lizo ?ger Cent. .. 55i I: 4ll4 bitt o 4 Pp e nTs n 122, E St., 5 per Cent — Plinih'. per , Cent. bit, B o nds. 3 per Cent liP i it i° 4 A p ee° ." ' t , rve .„Iti t , a il'i ti .n.tt - B onds, 6 per cent Diu ° A ,...cceuut bitt° ,i-uaranteed 4 per Cent. 0 Account ' 1021 Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. 1% 1 1 1°18 : (Money) — 0 4ccoulat rilE SUN, LONDON, MON DA SHARE MARKETS—(This Day). !C.A LW t YS. 3hr. !pat riAn,wArs. Clostrut Price Satur4ay. tinstness done this day Ambg. Not tng Janet .1 F Shining. Wolvevh. Stour li BirkeAhd. Cheshire Janet_ . 11 Do. Chosh. Biri. 11 Do., do. . .11 Blackburn J-1 myth &Tyntorigiva £25 (issd. at '.*:4! )0 Bristol and 11:xetei.. )0 Caledonian 10 Chester 4; Holyhead. 11 ( Cork and Bandor Cork, Black, ds Fas. 11 Cornwall ,11 Do. A 8 Do. B [5 DublindiDelfast•Jime 11 1 Dun. P. 43 Ahcr. Jne. ro iEast Anglian Eastern Counties i East. 17rinn, A St' 'l9s., B. Stock, Do., Now A..-- East Kent 10 7,asf Li.nce.shire :1 East Suffolk 4 Do. )(f Edinburgh dc Glasga 611 Edinb. and Peebles. !Edin.Prtb & Dnndt Ell Forth & Clyde Jun )0 Furness . ....... 10 Glasgow 4; S. Westrn a Great N. of Scotlua 10 Great Northern... 10 Do., A. Stock 10 Do., B. Stock 10 Qt Sth. ItWost.(lre) 10 6.4reat Western 10 `Do. Stour Val. Rai ! Qua. Stk dl i Irish South-Eastern 11 Lancaster & Owlish .4)1 Do., Thirds 2 Do. New Thirds Laucash.audYorksl Do., Wet. Riding tin dl Do. Southr_ort, 611 London & Blackw& )0 Lond.Bright&S.Cfn Lond. and N. Westn 1 1.6 Do. Fifths 5i D0.101.5h.,YA8...( Do. Eighths.... 9i - 4 50 311 a; , 1 I a; 8i 9 18i - 19 16,1 - 17, 13 - 14 27i a' 22 al 25 a] tE st. hi st. ill St. 11 92 - 94 5 94 60 39 40 • *s ".• 10 al .0 ".. ••• 50 '5 al St. 4101 .94 10. 184 - 94 91 37 - 39 26 - 28 dt. 25 I 1 St. 1101 20 a' 7 - 5 85 - 87 .3t. 10 55 35 - 37 St. li 91 - 96 7 - 70 90i - 914 76 - 78 120 125 113 115 70 - 70,1 3t. 111 sc. 11 St. ID qt. 111 60 65 i 6 1 16i 1; St. 1.01 70 - 74 5t 64 54 • 64 974 971 St. 10 3t. 10 20 11 61 - 7 111 - 112 [ON - 106.3 20; - 21 10; 11 108 100 LonclontindS. Wostn ►ll Lind ntirrytk Col orai 14 , Lndndrry. & Enni9lt )0 tanch.Shef. & Limb 1 Metropolitan 3t.11i , 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's Arrangement WI 3t. 10 50 AI &lidland 82 - 83 54 56 )0 )o. Birmn g. & Dort 11 Kidld, G. West. (Ire. .11 Do. Half Shares Vewcamtletz Carlisle iwpt.Aberg. Si iewry & Enniskille ll , Tevrry, Warrenpoini 3i - 20 I al and ifostrovor.., St, I If iorfolk 3 iorthn.Conn ties Un )0 North British )0 gth. Devon Rail & Dock Stock i)o., A Stock 50 52 34 Sid 30.,• 40 814 -85 i 4 3ia 3 } 18 191 61 62 96 —99 54 6f 10 29 30 04 106 27 - 29 69 71 48 50 ... 1 18 19 74 75 §O - 81 H 5 - 3 d 2 14 16 38 40 '"' ... 16. i : iii - ... 6 - 8 2 - 4 5 - 5i 7 - 9 1 - li .. - ... li - li 221 -23 i 2 ...., Zip 22i - 23 21i - 221 Ili - 12 78 - 80 21 —22 1 lap 24} 24/ 2R 24 99 100 117 122 117 122 109 111 201 -20 i 22j - 23 - 2i - 2 p 7 - 71 li --, 2 21 -•• 3ip i --- i P 51 5 4- 33i - 34/ 105 - 114 5 1 I PI - 6 6i - 7 p 10 —11 i 8i - 9 - 20 38i - 39} 8 - 9 54i -54 i 52 - 54 4 1 1 93 4 19# i 93 90i 764 6 124 69 i ti 971 61 7 1111 10/ 1051 6 6 5i li lUBi k 82i 1/ 39 / 1041 19j 20 19i 20 731 4 81 R - PI 18 - 20 94 - 10 9 - 9i pm 4i - 48 9i - 10 34i - 35 4 - BABIES. too 1O - lip 63 65 -- - I 124 12 24i 10 t 68 - 70 O. ..... .141. •• 174 - 17 20i- 211 20 -- 21 - •« '' co. 3 5 d 35 - 37 6Z ..._ 69 7 - 9 ~.--- WI 5 •3. 22; 5 8 6 121 i 38; 54 1 i3# 101 191 I 38 a d 144 1 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. , RAILWAYS. '0 •np:?.Tl Closing Prices Saturiay I Bedford and Blotchley Buckgharavit Clydes‘laie ;. Col. Stour Vy. E. Lin. j E. Un. H. S Glas. 32.rr. Neils. Direct Do. New Gistr.dsDn Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway_ .. Hull & Selby Do. Sharer. Do. Shares. Lon. & Greeuw Do.Prefereace Lon., Th., /(2 . . Do. Bark. Sh. Lowestoft .‘7 , . 4 per cent Do. 6 per ct Manch. Bate. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redc.g 6 p.c. Midld.nradt, Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.& Est.sp.c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fizeds p c Prest. & w yr- Do. Shrh. A Roystn.& Hit. Sher.Roth.an Gooleg. G p.c . Shrews. &Her S. Staffordsh Wear Valleygr 6 per cent_ Do. Wiltsklernrst London & N. We t.. L. &N. W. U &E.O Nrt,,o. E. Count. Csldouir.a. I ;0 all jlOO all 100 Do . . .... Gt. Wescn Yk. Now. & Berw. Y.&10, Do IE4. Eastort Do . Poto k 00, Do Norfoli Do L.& N. IV & Miclld, Stck ton & Darling}. Kid En. Conn. E. Count Do all all all 100 Do.. 97 - 98 98 102 11 - 13 133 13ti 4 4i iiii : 109 L. &N.'W Do Gt North., Lancash vorksh. T. Brassey M. MClean gto ekt. Darlint 121 - 13 221 - 231 10 -- 114 0 1P 21 21 90 - 92 55 - 57 132 -- 135 71 - 81 84 - 9 83 - 94 88 - 90 133# I 90 lotWr+stn. Business this day LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice Cresswell and a Common Jury.) PARRISH V. COLEMAN. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a farm( r, of Barking, against the defendant, an extensive and emi nent agricultural implement maker, .of Chelmsford, to recover damages for loss sustained by reason of the defendant having,supplied Lim within a machine that was useless. It appeared from evidence that in Jan. 1854, the plaintiff gave the defendant an order for a chaff-cutting and oat-bruising machine, to be paid for at the time of fixing. The machine was made and ready for fixing in July following, but the plaintiff not having a place fit for it ready, it was not fixed until the end of the year. Several applications were made for payment, and it was not till July, 1855, that a settlement took place, when the plaintiff gave the defendant a three months' bill, which, however, was dis.. honoured, and in February last he commenced proceed. ings against the defendant for damages on the grounds above alleged. Evidence was given by the plaintiff that the machine was to be of one-horse power, and that after he got it, and before he gave the bill, he complained to the defendant that it was useless being of greater power, and difficult of working, and be called practical men to prove that it was of too complicated a nature for general use. The defendant, however, denies] that there was to be any stipulations as to power, but that it was to be a machine that could be used with one horse, and that this was one that could be used with one or six horses, and such as he had supplied to numerous agriculturis , of the neighbourhood, who had used them with great success. All the cbmplaint the plaintiff had made to him was that the machine went hard, and he had informed the defendant that he was ready to do anything to that would make it work easy and give satisfaction. The learned judge having summed up, the jury retired to consider the verdict, and had not returned when our dispatch left. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE R. K. LANE. This bankrupt, described as of Argyll-street, Regent street, bill discounter, &c., to-day came up to pass his last examination, which had been adjourned on several occasions for the completion of the balance sheet, which is of a very voluminous nature. It commences Ist Jan., 1853, with au estimated balance (not realised), the debts being set down at 21,5001., assets 33,8001. The bank rupt had not kept any c‘sh book or ledger, and it had become necessary to raise a cash account from the bankrupt's diary and banker's book, and that account showed—receipts 97,4201., disburaementi 95,879/. ; and the deficiency was accounted for by unvouched expenses, &c. The losses had arisen from discounting and on share transactions in which the bankrupt had been en gaged, The assets consist of bills of costs and property, His Honour said that such an account could not be deemed satisfactory, but the question was whether a better could be obtained ? This was the sixth adjourn ment. Mr. Mason, for the assignees, did not oppose bank. rupt's passing, and he passed accordingly. Mr. Chidley appiied for an allowance to the bankrupt, and also for an accountant. The bankrupt had been indefatigable in assisting his assignees. His Honour said that so far he had behaved to their satisfaction, and was entitled to an allowance, but not for making out the accounts, the difficulties of which arose from the bankrupt not having kept proper books. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.) SOUTH WARK. RINGING THE CHANGES.—THE OLD DODGE.—Mary Ann Hayward, a woman about 30 years of age, was before Mr. Burcham, charged with attempting to defraud Mr. Harding, a baker, out of a shilling under the fol- lowing artful circumstances. William Shillinghurst, a klurneyman baker, in the employ of the prosecutor, said he was in the shop on Saturday evening with his mistress, when he saw the prisoner come in and ask for half a quartern loaf. Mrs. Harding served her, and the prisoner handed her half-a crown. Witness was standing clean to the counter, and he distinctly saw Mrs. Harding hand her taco good shillings and two pence. The prisoner took them up, and after changing one of the shillings for a counterfeit, she threw it on the counter asking it to be changed for two sixpences. Mrs. Harding refused to change it, when the prisoner said she had given her a bad shilling, and she was determined to have a good one for it. Witness perceiving her dodge, slipped round the counter and seized up the counterfeit shilling, which she marked, and secured the prisoner until a constable came in, when Mrs. Harding gave her into custody. Mr. Burcham said he should remand her until Satur day next, for the attendance of the solicitor of the Mint, who, he had no doubt, knew something of her. THAMES. SHAMEFUL &SEERY OF A PORTUGUESE SAILOR.— William, Brown, an Irishman who is well known in the neighbourhood of the St. Katherine's Dock, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a large and massive gold ring, with an engraving of an idol and two elephants upon it, and &re rupees, from Augustus Riviere, a man of colour. The prosecutor, a little man, who gave his evidence in the Portuguese language, and also spoke the Hindostanee tongue, said that he came from Rangoon to Bremen in a ship in which be acted in the capacity of cook. The captain mulcted him of a great part of his wages, and sent bim away from Bremen in a steamer. He arrived ,in London yesterday (Sun day) evening. He was in a street near the Royal Mint, when the prisoner looked at the gold ring on his finger, and asked him to sell it. He took the ring from his finger, and the prisoner immediately snatched it from him and knocked him down, and then rifled his pockets, and took five rupees from him. He got up and pursued the prisoner, who turned round and knocked hint down again, and ran away. Charles Price, a young man residing in Norwich court, Upper East Smithfield, said he heard a noise last night about 9 o'clock, and on going out caw the pro secutor in Noate's-buildings, looking about him. The prisoner was concealed behind some barrels. He called for the police, and the prisoner ran away. The prosecutor and the witness both followed the prisoner, who turned opposite the guard-house of the Royal Mint, and knocked down the prosecutor. The prisoner again ran away, and was stopped by a police. man. Police•sergeant Griffin, 3 K said he stopped the prisoner as he was running, and the prosecutor imme diately afterwards came up and made signs he had been robbed of his ring and money. On the way to the station•house the prisoner took a ring produced from his pocket and handed it to witness. The prosecutor identified the gold ring produced, and said it cost him 25 rupees in Rangoon. Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for trial. NEW CATTLE MARKET.—The Great Western Railway Company propose to establish a fortnightly market at Swindon solely for cattle, the object being to establish a large central depot for the numerous cattle districts which have been opened up by their various lines, espe cially from Ireland and South Wales. LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS. —There was a tim e w h en Lin coin's Inn-fields was probably the handsomest square in the whole metropolis ; but for much more than a hun dred years it has continued without a suitable access from any surrounding quarter, although for the same period of time, this inconvenience has been complained of ; as will be seen in the followi n g e xtract from the St. .T a me s' sChr r o e n e i t e , le iro from the end 0f ses rom June 6toP r , 1761 :—" A plan for a new street , le - street to Temple bar, is actually concerting, which as been a thing long wanted, as the at/vales to Lincoln's Inn-square are so extremely bad. It is also said, that in order to make it complete, Turnstile will be Ntidened, so as to admit of carriages passing."--Notee and, ettertes. THE FRENOHMAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN.—A French man seems gratified at an opportunity of being polite— an Englishman, to regret the trouble that it casts An Englishman tereCati tired after the third bow, and looks Vexed, sullen, or impatient ; the Frenchman's desire to please seems to strengthen by habit. His back is India-rubber, his tams caoutchouc, his hat-brim is metallic, and looks never shabbier for repeated handling. His courtesy at the first meeting does not imply eternal friendship, yet is al sincere as the cold cautious bend of an Englishman. John Bull, if he can, considers it a clear gain to slip round a corner and escape shaking hands ; Monsieur waits 10 minutes at the caf6 door in hope of meeting a friend. HERNE-BAY,---Mr. Hustwit, carpenter to the Herne. bay Pier Company, while at work beneath the pier, a few days ago, picked up a packet of papers, tied together with a tarred twine, which appeared to have) een in the water B ,ome time, and "sanded." The pier -master, on finding,contain documents belonging to som e ships it to _ war, immediately placed them in the hands of Lieut. Coppin, at the Coastguard-station, when, upon further examination, they were found to be papers belonging to ran less than 15 vessels of war, among which were the Wellington, Waterloo, and Victory. Hew they came to be taken so little care of, or who consigned them to the custody of Neptune, at present remains a mystery. 1 They were forwarded to the Admiralty.—Kentiot, ob. nor, :)0., B Stock . 25 25 Ii a. . . )0 N. Taistorn—Be - ''''' k )o. do. Extension 6! )o.do.G.N.E.:i' nrcL di CI). Leeds to -3? ao sl to al ilo. York 10 Korth L0nd0n...., 1 , N. &S.Watrn.,Ham , stead, and City Jn. .7 !forth Staffordabir, forth Western. ill IV. S. Westrn.Ju-12—, lt a' ix., Wore., & Wolv , rtzraouth ........ 9 I Rhymney . ottieh Central y) Scot. N E.Abrdn St. H Do. Scot. Mid. St , 4,-..,,nghire 2 SitinabournekSheer. 61 iouth Devon 3outh Eastern _.. south Wales Yrksh. & Riv. Da , 'flo 611 •Paines,Wok.Wo' Stockton & Darling 121 Do., do., 1854 3 Do., do., 1855 it: 3toekten & Muller faff Vale .• •• ;o. Prof., No. 1 ),2 flames Hay. D.& It, ill Vale of Neath all Waterfd. i Kilkenn:. all Waterford&Limer;c'• all West Cornwall xll Nest End of Londoz and Crystal Palace. all Do. A ....... all IDo. B West London..., dl Do. Fig st Class ►ll Do. Second Class._ Wimblecl n &Croy, (8 al 9 .ouabay o riarodhond Cen.lndia, g. 5 p. c 20 10s. Ceylon A shares,. 20 1 Do. B. do i7~~ .11 I iemerarn 201 21 1.00 al [OO al 20 al s. I Eastern Bengal 11 'Beast Indian A and B, g.5p.. 5 Do. Ex. C, gu. sp. c .11 Do. do. D, gu. sp. c. .11 Do.4i p.c.Bnds.,'s7 .11 90. do. do., '59, dn 11 Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent... al Gd. Trunk of Canada .11 00. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till'6:- Do. Comp. 6 p. c., de. ►ll Gt. In. Pen. g. sp. c. 2 Do New, guar. sp. c .11 Gt.WesternofCanada 8 Do. New :11 00. Bds., payable 's`4 :11 Do. do., '76, p. '60.. Do. do., '73 do. :11 Do. do., '73, without option ►ll Madras, guar. 4i p.c ill Do. do., sp. c. LO Do. 4i p. c. Eaten 5 Do. 3dEx., g. sp. c 5 Scinde, guar. sp. c 11 Do St. Andrew's and Quebec (A). 25 al DO al LOO 61 20 al 20 ! 20i id 206 LOO - 9.1 100 al 100 al 100 al 20 I al 20 al 20 I 20 I 11 20 11 Mt! 11 6 al 20 1 20 al FOR: 11 Intiverp&ltett,rds 13:1 0 Ardennes al Belgian Es.stu. Juno 6 Reziers to Grtiss-ssse 0 ; 1 , Buff. & Lk. Hur, 611 Caruteaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. .2 )nteh Rhenish .11 Eastern of France [9 no. )Jew 8 kit. Central of Fran , e L 6 rlre a t Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction ►ll Lake Conat. & Basic; all Lierre and Turnhout !s• (Euphrates Valley 20 `2l 10 1( tu 11 20 1 , 10 20 iP• 20 6 5 al i Lombardo Venetian. ai Lucca do Pist. sp. c.p. .5 Lyons and Geneva ... 3 NI -a-i ►ll Lione is Mediterran. ►li Maria Antonia ►ll Do. do. New to 1 -.-i al vamur & Liege al Do. do., 6p. c. Pref. al Northern of France. al NorwegianTinnkPref al Paris and Lyons ill Paris and Orleans 5 Recife & San. Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. N Rome and Frascati 1 ii Royal Danish al Royal Swedish al Sambre and Meuse._ 01 Do. gl p. cent. Prof. 5.11 ionthern of France vest Flanders 5.11 Do. 5 per c. Pref F dl W. &N. W. of France 6 Western of Austria all West. of Switzerland, all Wiesbaden all Do. 8 per cent. Pref. all Zl.ls.no TAINT-STO I knstralasn. ............ Bank of Egypt ...... Bank of London COLONI AL 11 liri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C. ; I ritish N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 6 Until. Bull. of India, Anetrala,, & Chinn i 0 City ........ :5 Colonial, Commercial . of Loud 1.14 Eng.Scot.&Ans.Cht Lond. Chart. 111, - .. of Australis._ . ill Ditt o New w London rind Connty iO Lnd.&E. Bnkg. Corp, LO London Joint Stock IO Loud. & Westminster) National Pro.cf Eng ID Do. Naw ........... 12 - National Bank ill New South Wales..., i ll Oriental Fk. Corp L 5 Ottoman Bank ' co Provincial of Ireland ill Do. Now 1 114;;TLAtUAN-6.k81214Et1t iM it....C:. ,11 of A.uatrAlla 2i l Do. Now rTni6n fini‘lon 0 Unity Mutual iQ Western Jsk cf Loud :GN. Yl~.i~r"E. ,ENVY dliAttEo. 100 5 too 100 100 ~il 100 100 luo 100 100 St. St. st. St. St. 20 12i 25 20 Bt. BlythandTyne 10pb c. prof, (issd.:tt 507 . . Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. Si Do. 4 p. c. Shares .. Oaledn. £lO 4i p.c. ;hes. & flo. Gn. :,!‘ ne Do. do. Pref. 5 per e. Cork &Banclonslp.c Dita.Prth ..St A.bor,J Z. Anglian Cls. A SI: Do. de. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Ole. C 7 p. c. ElB.oo.Er.,speNo. Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. c. list Un., G. 6 p. Do. 51., 10 per con Do. 101. Dobentr.Sh . Do. do. 4 per cent.. East Lancre , h 6p. ct E. fz.W. York. J. sth, & Gl. 5 p.c. sh Ed. Prth.&Don.4p.e FurnesF, 5 p. c. Olas. &S. W. C 4 .6 P.° Great Northn. 5 p. Do. 5 p. o. Redeem. a 4 tll p. C p.c C. prem. Do. Do. sp. c., Red. at 1 p. c. pm... ..... Gt.N. of Scot. 1 st Yr, Gt. S. &W. (Ireland Do. 4 per c. Pnf. S Gt. W.(B. x,tH.Esspc Do. con. red. 4i p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. 0 Do. irred. 4p. C. • Do. 5 p. c. rod. pref Do. Birm, Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. . Do. do. 5 p. c. do. I Do. Birm. One. Stk Do. Ches. Gus. Sh.. Do. do. do 95 - 97 • .... •• 4! - 5 6 - 6. 107 - 112 103 108 * it 4 2 - 124 ••• 75 - 77 17 - 119 109 -. 111 103 - 105 61 - 63 9i - 10; 6 - ti 94 - 96 87 - 89 99 101 10 - 104 16 - 17' 10 - 10, 73 - 75 194 - 20 9i - 10; 141 - 154 - .37 139 Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. 20 Do. 6 p. a. Stock Lon. &B. Ci.s pe.No.l Do. P., spc. St.No.2 Do. New fausr.6 n. Do. do. 5 p. c.,N0.4 Lon. &N. W., Coy. .1 Nuneaton 5 p. et... Lon.tz S.W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares L .ndy. & Cofer. Sh. Londy.&Ennis.iSh n.,5.,k L. 6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 3i per cent. larypt.& Carl. 4 p o Do. 4# per cent Do. do. Consol.6 Do. Cou.Br.!iir. 5 pi Do. 4i p. c. Pref. t Ditto L. & H. Pref. St New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. e. red. 5 p.c. Pm. Do. Perpet. 6 p ct.l with optn. till '66 Norfk. Deb, 4 p.c. sh Do. Pref. 5 p.c. St a Do. 5 pa. Ext.,1846 Do. 54perc.pf ,1847 D0.Rfv.V.5p0.,1847 North British Do 7/. Preference N. E. Pecw, 4 p.0..P. Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c r.Ne.l Do. do. Qr 0.,1848... Do.YorkilA S. Per. North Staffordshire. 0x,W0 0 k,W.,6 Do. 6 p.c. Redeem. ,Scot. Cent. ,New Pref Sc.N.E. Abor.g 6 pe Do. d0.,7 p.c. pf. st. 'D0.d0.,3 . `, p.c. pf. et. South Devon.. 140 - 143 117 - 119 10", i 44 100 100 100 100 100 .11 1 1157 - 159 - OP 66 - 70 136 - 133 98 - 100 88 - tO 1 - li 1102 -104 Do. flied, 4i per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent Do. Pfxid 4i p c sh. 3. Wales Gna. 4 p. 0. Do. do. 4i p. c S.Yorksh.4p.c.Gnar. Stock. & Dar., 5 p. c. Do. do. do . Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p. c. till Jnly 1,'56 Wuterfd.&K.ilk.6pc 92 94 li Idi i - #4 1107 - 108 ii - 18 23 - 24 101 - 103 10 - 10} 100 i 27i -. 28! 2 - 3p 1384 99i 2-1. - 3i MINES. LOs all IA Anglo Californian 20 7 I.\ nstralian — 1 1 all 'Radon (Gd. Duchy of) SO all Blasnar. Iron & Coal 20 14 British Iron 7 8 35 261 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm.) 30 all Do. Cocaos Culab•:l 31. 3i 31 20 15 Do. St. John Del Roy' 16 18 161 I 1 Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica 4 13 40 all Cobra Copper 5 1/ Colonial Gold — 25 St. a la Cop Dooo p. p ipa e p r oof M . 7i p.d c E e n n g t 3 12 0 3 31,75 2 I all Fortuna • — Ic l ••• 20 ; all Genialeg. — 41111 all a ° G t r ' e N at ug P g o e l 8 4 5 31 I I aas Gull r, i t urrte Wheal ys 5i 11 Lusitanian ld P 1 all Mariquita .. . ...... ..••• $ 1 all New Granada I 1 all Nouveau Mondo _ 1 21 all Pontgi•Sil.& Le. Min. 8 le 5 1 Port Philip — ..• 1 all Quartz Rock .•• 50 all Rhymney Iron 2l 23 15 all Do. New 5 7 30 1.5 i Santiago de Cuba.: 24 2i 2 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 2l 24 2 1 all South Australian — 1 all Do. Scrip 1 all Do. 10 per cent Pref .. 41 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 14 10 9 Tin Croft 34 - 3i 28/ all United Mexican 3l 4 1 all Waller 1 all West Mariposa . 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia . — hiISCELLANEOIIIS. 25 19 Instrallan ••...grieult. 25 27 26 4 10 .11 Australis ; - Royal Mail . —lO all slorlin •—'Water Works '5l . 0 40 American Land 100 3 2 r; ant w a. 117 - 122 St. 00 o .oo.6p.c.Jan&jttly 1131 ---114 113 j 14 St. lejo D e. 6 pc. Feb & Aug ... ••• St. 10 0 Do. 6p c. M ar & Sept ... 5 41 .aatlill Eastern a r luye y setee s ttorranil l op P lSTai a :oesi a naoo c mgif e o..or e 24 5 all Do. Preference....., 64 6 t 20 f 1 all Electric St. 100 Electric Telegrapl: 9 .6 98 96/ 5 all En.&Aus Cop Sm CO 11 1/ 25 all Gen. Ir Sc Col (lim.) 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 11 all General 6cr9w Steam 5 i 61 20 5 Loudon Disc ount 4 all Lond. Gen. Omnibus 3i 3 / 1. 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all Kediteran. Elec. Tel. g _ 10 10 all INlexican&S.Ame r i en. 3 25 5 Nat. Discount Co 2 - 25 1 Do. New •••• lap 6i .........,. . p 14- 10 G Netherlands Land 11 10 all Do. Do - 41 5 3 De. 8p c P iss at 1 d 5 1 Do. Do. 100 80 New 13. &N, u. Land 15 1 all N. B. Australasian,,, 1 2 20 171 Nrth.ofEuropeSteani 1 34 _ 1 all Oriental Gas. —1/ 1 2s. Do. "New Shares" p p 5 all Peel Rr. Ld.& Mint 2 $ 2 i PID 50 all Poninstimr& Oriental 70 71 50 10 Do. New 5 6 p 100 50 Royal Mart Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest ll - 1 1 all Ditto N ew • - 14 25 all South Austral.:Land 36 38 1, aE Submar. Tel. Scrip 3 1 1 all Do. Registered.. 20 5 "'rust& L.P.- " 1 • 100 281 Van Fstn• .... Didmen's Land lbi 16 Y,C--%62,a,..faatau4 vEN YN G, DECEMBER 8 1856 MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. The country markets held on Saturday were, for the most part, very moderately yupplied with wheat, in which a fair average business was transacted, on rather higher terms. Most kinds of barley moved off steadily, at ex treme rates. Oats, beans, peas, and flour were tolerably firm. The continental markets continue dull. In prices, how ever, no material change has taken place. Steady ship ments of produce continue to be made from America. Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English grain were moderate. From abroad we received 25,532 quarters of.wheat, 8,72 t barley, 50,307 oats, 3,339 beans, 725 peas, 60 tares, 5,783 linseed, 7,410 rapeseeds, 2,340 sundry seeds, 1,438 sacks and 12,711 barrels of flour. The quantity of wheat received fresh up to our market to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, from Essex, Kent, Sze-, was only moderate, and, owing to the return of mild damp weather, in very middling condition. The attend ance of millers was rather limited, and the demand for most kinds of wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state. Compared with Monday last, however, no quotable change took place in prices. At the clone of business, most of the inferior samples were unsold. We had an extensive show of foreign wheat. For home consumption only a moderate business was passing in it ; nevertheless, holders were very firm, and late rates were supported, Floating cargoes of grain were in request, both for Spain and Portugal, and Kubanka wheats sold as high as 72 per quarter. The supply of barley was rather extensive. Fine malting samples sold at full prices, but inferior kinds ruled rather dull, at barely late rates. Malt, the show of which was moderate, was in fair re. quest, at last week's currency. ' _ . There was a very large supply of foreign oats in the market. Good heavy qualities were steady, at late rates. Damp samples hung on hand. _ _ _ Beans were dull, and prices were a shade lower—viz., ls, per quarter. Peaa realised is beneath previous rates, and the demand was rather heavy. The flour trade was rather dull, but not cheaper. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Rod new 494 to 633 Ditto • • • • .... old —s Ditto, White new 54s 72s Ditto ...• .... old —s —s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old —s —a Ditto new •• 49s 65s iye—Old • • New .. • • garley—Grinding .• • •• 34s 388( Malting Chevalier.. •• • • 42s 48s 5/tit—Suffolk and Nor- • f01k...... • • Brown •• .. •• ....•• •• 63s 6131 Kingston and Ware 761 78s Halt—Chevalier .... 76, to 77 Oats Yorkshire and Lineolnsk.,P'eed 23s 25 , Potato Youghal andeork Black •• .. 20s 22 Cork, White ... .. 24s - 27, Scotnh,Feed.•• .• 24s 29, Beans—Tick •. •• .. 38s 40, Pigeons .... 40 43. Peas—Grey •• •• 36s 39s Map1e........... 40s 42. White......... ..40s 42• Boilers .........41s 43. Flour—Town-made... 58s 60s Suffolk 45s 483 Moelan 8r Norfolk 45s 48s LTTLE MARKET. ign stock into London were ad. In the corresponding 5; in 1854, 5,831 ; in 1853, 1, 3,628; and in 1850, 5,731 METROPOLITAN C Last week's imports of forei very moderate, viz., 3,518 h( week in 1855 we received 4,541 4,795; in 1852, 4,869; in 185 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WREN. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Rotterdam 212 -. 1,053 -.-. 128 Ostend Tonning ...... 61 -. 19 .- Harlingen Nieu 10 ". 77 -. Sledeniblik....- 79 1,123 .. - 19ordt ll ... 51 _. -- Antwerp ." Schiedam 6 ... - _ 46 - 5 9 ... - ... ... - T0ta1.... 596 ... 2,769 ... 183 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs L 855 791 3,649 98 7 1854 1,098 4,461 ... 274 .853 lBB „, 3,655 128 _ 24 Advices from the north of Europe state that many of the usual shipping ports are new frozen up ; consequently decreased importations of stock may now be calculated upon. The immense increase in the value of stock through out Spain renders shipments to this country very doubtful. In France both beasts and sheep are still high in price. Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with all kinds of foreign stock, for which the demand was by no means active. _ _ Fresh up from our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts were rather limited for the time of year. The general quality of the stock was tolerably good. Although the attendance of buyers was moderately extensive the beef trade ruled inactive, and, in most instances, prices were 2d per 81b. lower than on this (Iv se'nnight. The top figure for the best lots was 4s 10d per Blbs., and a fair clearance was effected. We were scantily supplied with all breeds of sheep, and the mutton trade was firm, at fully last Monday's quota. tions. The best old Downs produced 5s 2d per 81bs. The supply of calves was limited, yet the veal trade ruled heavy, at a decline of 2d per 81bs. In pigs very little wes doing, at barely late rates. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire, we received 2,C03 shorthorns ; from other parts of Englynd, NO of various breeds ; from Scotland, 350 Scots ; and from Ireland, 400 oxen. The great Christmas market will be held here on Mon day next. Per 81135 to sink the Orals. s. d. s. d. (nferlor Benete....2 10 to 3 2 iecend quality.... 3 4 3 8 Prime large oxen 310 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 3 410 (nferiorSheep ...3 6 310 4econd quality ...4 0 4 4 Prime crse.-wlled.4 6 4 8 TOTAL SUPPLY. s. 4. . • . tPrimeSonthdown 5 0 5 2 lokrgo ores. calves 3/0 4 6 Prime small d 0... 4 8 5 2 Large hogs 3 8 4 4 Small porkers ... 4 6 5 2 Suckling calves.. 23 0 30 0 Quarter old pigs.2l 0 28 0 FOBEIGN SUPPLY. Seaga Sheep ..........18,120 Sheep .. !aim ..•• • .• 122 Calves.. •.• •• ..•• •• •• 69 • • • Pip • • A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Dec. 10, 1855, and this day, Monday, Dec. 8, 1856. Per Sibs, to sink the offals. Dec. 10, 1855. Dec. 8, 1856. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... 3 Bto 3 10 2 10 to 3 2 Second quality ditto ... 4 0 4 4'3 4 3 S Prime large oxen ... 4 6 4103 10 4 6 Prime Scots, &c „. ... 5 0 5 2 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 4 3 6 3 6 310 Second quality ditto ... ... 3 8 4 2 4 0 4 4 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 4 46 4 6 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto ... 4 8 5 o's 0 5 2 Lambs ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Large coarse calves 4 0 4 83 10 4 6 Prime small ditto ... 410 5 2 4 8 5 2 Large hogs ... 310 4 4 3 8 4 4 goat small porkers 4 6 5 0 4 6 5 2 Beasts... 4,388 4,480 Sheep ... 22,880 18,120 Calves... 135 122 220 SUPPLIES oN SALE, Dec. 11, 1854.—Beasts, 6,181; shoe! , 22,820; calves, 107; pigs, 240. December 12, 1853.—Beasts, 7,037; sheep, 25,830 ; calves, 213; pigs, 295. NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALt. The markets continue to be well supplied with nearly all kinds of meat. Generally speaking, a full average is doing, as follows : Per Bibs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. tee% interior 2 62 10 Do., middliug 3 0 3 6 Do. prime large 3 8 4 0 Do., do. small 4 2 4 6 Pork, largo 3 8 4 4 s. d. e. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 3 8 4 10 Perk, small 4 8 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. The show of hops is good, yet the demand is steady, and prices are well suppotted. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 10s to 5/ 15s ; Weald of Sent, 3/ 5s to 41145; Sussex, 310 s to 3/ 16s. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Coastwise and by land carriage, the arrivals of potatoes have not been extensive since Monday last. The imports have amounted to 1 sack from Jersey, 11 from Emden, 3 bags from Leer, 4 from Tonning, 6q from Rotterdam, 5 from Harburg, mid 6 baskets from Hamburg. The trade is steady at full pricl3. York Regents, 100 s to 1105 per ton ; Kent ad Essex do., Ns to 1038 ; Scotch do., 80s to ; ditto c n ups 10)8 to 1053 ; middlings, 50s to 60s ; Linco.Ne, 90s to 100:3; blues, EO3 to 003. WOOL. Since the close 'of the public sales the private con.' market, under the influence of easier rates of discount, 13,7 8 ruled firm at extreme rates. Many holders are not sellers at present quotations. Last week's imports were 2,519 bales from Algoa. Bay, 333 from the Cape, 800 from Sydney, 581 from Bombay, 2) from Hamburg, and 23 from Mogadore. The following are the current rates of English wool :- Down tegs, is 5(1 to is s:ld ; Down ewes, is 3d to is 4d . half-bred hogs, Is 4d to is 5d ; half-bred wethers, is 3d to is 3id ; Kent fleeces, is 3id to is 4d ; Leicester do., is 3d to ls 4cl ; flannel wool lld to ls 4d ; blanket wool, 93. to is 211 combing skins, , lld to is 23 ; and old skin, is 4d to is 6d per lb. SEEDS. We have on ly a moderate business doing in seeds gene rally. I n prices, however, very little chan g e has taken place. Black Sea linseed is selling at 61s 6,1 to 62s 6d ' • .P e tersburg moorshank, 46 s t o 60s ; East Indian rapeseed, 61s to 65s per quarter. TurniP,White, per bash. 205 to 2151 Swede .. •• • • ...• —5 —s 41:18t&Tel, Brown ••• • •• 16s 22s White, new.• •• .. 105 13s Tares,Winter,new....ss Od 5s 6d Canary, per quarter .• 701 608 Rye grass (new) • • •• 24s 285 Clover,RedEng . (cwt.) —s —s White •• • • .... •• —s —s Foreign Red...... —s —s White" •• —5 —s Trefoil, new •. • • •—5 —8 Carraway ....... .•• .. 40s 42s Coriander .•••.• .• .• 263 30s liempseed, per quarter 48s 52s Linseed, Eng.iowing • • 62$ 64s Crashing •• • • .... 52s 60s Baltic •••• .. • ..• 503 60s Odessa ••• • .• 62s 62a 6d Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English • • —.lOl Ss Ili Os Foreign, per ton 101 11/ lOs ea i i ßape Cakes, per ton 51 15s 61 188s5s 4litspeseed, pr 868 TALLOW. Since Monday last there has been much less activity in the demand for tallow, and prices have ruled as 6d shoade lower. To-day P.Y.C. on the sp ot is selling at 58 t 58s 9d, and for delivery to the 31st of March nett 57s c ash ,•d to 58s 6d per cwt. Town tallow , 58s per cwt. rough fat, 3s 2d per 81bs 1852. 1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. 33.577 18,960 6456dt0 66s 6d to —s Od 674 Od 2,011 2,751 43,618 72,508 1,376 688 41,175 43,753 654 ed , 57s Od Stock this day Price of Y. C Delivery last week .. Ditto from June 1.. .. Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Junel Price of Town 46.819 46404t0 --s Od 3,269 57,16 6 1,296 65,309 493 31 42,140 1 55s 9d re 560 Od 1,347 58,667 ' 11,16 5 76,300 Od 19,626 58s 6d Ito 53c 9d 2,719 69,629 6,414 72,278 605 ad LITERATURE. Art and Nature, at How and Abroad. By George W. Thornbury. Hurst and Blackett, Great Marlborough-street. As usual at this season, we have heaps of books lying en our table for trial and judgment ; and we have taken up work after work in hopes of meeting with something to cheer and expand our wintry, gas-dried brain. The first was a ponderous tome on "Political Economy," the second, on " Eliptic Integrals ;" the third, on " Spherical Conic Sec tions ;" the fourth, a fashionable Novel, redolent of a diabolically wicked young lord, and an emeti cally weak young lady ; the fifth, a fashionable Poem, teeming w i t h a tt em pt s to give the Pandean pipes the importance of au archangel's trumpet, and affording numerous directions touching the most romantic way to Hanwell, via Parnassus. The sixth, was on the " Trigonometry of the Parabola," the removal of which exposed a tumid pamphlet on "Chancery Cases." Under the influence of a touch of the bile, a first class chilblain, and a foggy, freezy atmosphere, we conscientiously abstained from discussing any of these books ; feeling that however beneficial and just it may be for a critic to exercise the rod, he has no right to use it when saturated w ith th e pungent pickle of his individual and private concocting— whether that pickle be formed of the subtle poisons of mental malice, or the sharp drastics of physical irritability ; so we were about to vacate the chair of office when one of Caxton's Satanic retinue, guiltless of soap and water as the walls of Newgate, made his appearance, swiftly and silently placed Mr. Thonsbury's volumes be fore us, and flitted, in a style that proved him fully competent to " double" the parts of Caliban an d Ariel. We glanced into the pages with a dogged sort of indifference, but were roused from our apathy by the first sentences we lighted on, and we -lipped into the various chapters with as much re freshing sense of enjoyment as a bird of the desert experiences when it bathes and laves in the g ushin g tide of unexpected waters. The contents of Mr. Thornbury's work are the result of tramping-artist tours, and, allowing for a not unpleasant degree of Claude Loraine colouring, a more charming set of tinted etchings have seldom been presented to the public portfolio. The author has taken rapid sketches on his thumb nail, and worked them into genial and graphic pictures. " Beggars," as treated by his pencil, though in a prominent foreground, are most agreeable company, winning our sympathy and admiration, whether we will or no. He delineates "Fountains," with a free and sparkling touch ; from t he limpid stream that murmurs in the gorgeous Alhambra, and the crystal dribble from the lion's mouth in the Roman market place, to the trickling run in the Temple Gardens ; flinging, however, a denouncing shadow on the Trafalgar-square absur dities. He gives us outlines of French and Eng lish manners, without offending the self - love of either Frog or Bull. He introduces us in a most judicious manner to " The Schools of Painting," pointing out their separate characteristics with earnest ability. He handles " Cromwell in Long acre" historically and daintily ; and his " Forty Winks in the Colosseum" will induce no looker-on to participate in the drowsy indulgence. His starry bit on " Fire Flowers" is brilliantly amusing and sedately suggestive ; and "Nature in Old Bal lads," " Five Cities," " The Witchery of London," and numerous other chapters, are as entertaining as instructive. But lat us take a sample colour or two from his palette, though we are aware that we shall not do justice to his charming sketches by picking out a solitary cerulean light or neutral shadow. There is some truth in this Observe London, its houses jostling each other, no space even round its cathedral, its dense noisome alleys and its choked up river, that is the city of trade. Observe Paris with its fountains and arches, its hugepublic gardens, that is the city of the people of public spirit and national vanity. Pride is rich, and content with private reality, vanity must have every building an altar to its own glory. Pride is the idol of London, vanity of Paris. Two or three Wellingtons, Sir Robert Peel, a king or two, a duke, and a queen, are almost all that London can set against all the records of national glory that adorn the city of the Seine. And in this also : Like most Englishmen, I have been educated in a pro per horror of foreigners as a race. I looked upon one as something between A bravo of Venice, a black-legged bil liard marker, and the Wandering Jew. They never wore shirts, or wore them too much, objected, on principle, to washing, eat with their knives, played at cards night and day, were fond of stabbing you, lived on frogs and oil, and were, the whole pack of them, infidels, duellists, and swindlers. Those who were not counts, were barons ; they wore massy thumb rings of uncertain gold, on un doubtedly dirty fingers, hated the English, smoked, and wore beards. In spite of this, lam ashamed to say I like them ; and have found the French intelligent and pulite, the Germans hearty and honest. • • • • • • English politeness to be seen in full bloom, requires fine weather, a holiday, a full purse, and contentment. French sentimental politeness blossoms in the roughest weather. At a great railway station English travellers taking re freshment, are mere cattle feeding, trampling and goring each other to get to the manger. French voyageurs are noisy, and hustling, but still smiling and considerate. The two hungers have a different character one is that of a northern, sharp air, eager, and a little wolfish ; the other anxious but discursive, and choice. A hot sun takes off the keen edge of appetite, drives you to Nebuchadnezzar salads and playful experiments with :Tice and saueo. Hogartt comes under the brush of his disciple, and a most interesting portrait is produced. Mr. Thornbury says : Hogarth was what Johnson would call a good hater, but he had heart enough to like a joke, and to love chil dren. There is no great harm in a man who can do that. He was the greatest physiognomist that ever lived, yet he never heard of the scienca. Civilised life leaves certain marks by which men may be read. The coppersmith has green teeth, the shoemaker large knuckles, the cobbler black thumbs, the groom a straddling gait, and the sailor a rolling walk. All these, and some million other traits, Hogarth knew. He seems to me always to paint as Juve nal wrote, in a fever of honest indignation, the scene is acting below under his window. His pictures are healthy bitter tonics that brace and strengthen our moral feeling. His world is no barley-sugar and fairy world, but a dim, terrible spot poised between earth and heaven. Over his rivals, and even over Reynolds, of whom it is said he was envious, he had one great advantage. He en graved his own pictures, roughly but boldly, perpetually adding not merely touches but thoughts. Other pictures strayed in saloons, his crept into inns and cottages. His works teem with characters of his own day—Pitt and Handel, Pope and Garrick ; he has Figg, the prize-fighter, and even Whitfield. To realise his popularity, we must imagine a painter, with the satirical power of Pope and the fun of Leech. His scenes are London scenes, and the actors were the spectators' own friends. All were amused, of whatever age or rank. His mind was like a forest pool, to which the lion and the wild bird came together to drink. As he flew at all follies, so he struck at all professions , from a quack doctor and h yp o critical priest, down to brutal drovers and cruel shoe-blacks. His pathos is rare, but deep. When he sheds a tear, it moves us, because it is a tear sullenly and reluctantly shed by a strong man. There are always children to calm his crowds, and his deepest vice has some touch of innocence to keep up our faith in the possibility of goodness. His madman laughs, but the nurses sorrow ; his idle apprentice curses, bat the broken hearted mother weeps. When the sea of beggary and vice seethes and roars about the wretched praying man in the hangman's cart, there is one woman to shed tears on his coffin, the only mourner among ten thousand yelling devils. For mere fun, was there ever anything so deafening and uproarious as the scene of the "Enraged Musician?' the dustman bawls, the milk-woman screams, the ballad singer yells, and the child cries, the drummer drums, the pewterer hammers, the paviors thump, in the distance bells are ringing, while cats squeal from the roof-top ' s. No wonder the musician, with f i ngers in his ears, pulls up the window and roars out loud for peace. Hogarth's minute touches of humour aro innumerable. What can be more admirable than his " Ten Command ments," with the crack running through them, the poor box with a cobweb over the slit, the miser's shoes soled with pieces of the cover of a Bible, and his poor poet's scheme for paying the national debt. Few things are more felicitous than his speculator's complicated machine, all wheels and pullies for drawing a cork, and the starved cat looking wistfully for food in the open plate-chest. Hogarth's works will laugh at the flight of centuries, and set centuries of men laughing. A picture has one advantage over a book. It appeals not to the head, which is of one nation only, but to the eye, that speaks all lan guages. These works cannot grow old while man has the old heart, and the old way of loving and hating. Hogarth has had no imitators, because , he was iniuti 'e • ho had no predec essors, therefore, he was original. tan. He tar.,' •olit us all, painters or not, one lesson, that seeing deeply on,' a g e is to know all ages. Of Hogarth alone of said , tt e was t painters, it I.2aY be a always ha in h never earnest, always mon in onous good ' never wearisom. • , lish. of Zaddon Hall" takes us dream humour, always En t , times of velvet-mantled , of tapestried arris and halls and Lincoln " The Battery ily back to the legendai,' page and portals bell -espy P s secret of e d antle red Green. We can fancy such a IZledleY picture as this when Haddon was in its palmy state : Those were days when there were shotaiOgs over ale stoups, downstairs and up-stairs, songs and claw our, and waiting-women are dancing to the tabor, with Ned Onaffle t h e groom, and Will Martingale the huntsman, and al; the house is busy with feasting. Three dead bucks have jot been chosen for the spit, and the biggest cask of September is deliberately broaching, and red-faced cooks are p eering into smoking pots, and serving -m en are curling their hair and fitting roses t• their shoes, and even Bob the odd boy, is washing his face in the fountain, where t hei sultan peacock stares and nods at hiaa from the marble urn of flowers opposite. There are horses tramp ling in the court yard, and grooms hissing at their wo rk, and Lady Alice is putting on her blue and silver, intending to-night to be as she always is, " queen of hearts." The old lord is at bawls with the chaplain, who is quarrelling and quoting Scripture; and the young lord is trying his new cross-bow with Robert the falconer at the Dove cot, just by the Mews ; and Will the warrener is snaring rabbits in the sand-pit, and Jack his boy setting a mole - trap , made of springy hizel. Those who luxuriate in a prime " Savannah or bowl '' 0 € " Bird's-eye" will think our author a capital fellow thus to give a " silver lining" to his " Smoke Clouds" : In spite of all the awful examples —the man at Gay's who wasopened, and found t o resemble, internally, clean flue ; in spite of the y outh at Camden Town,h wo • in from a poisonous puff entering his gaping epiglo ttis t e at spite of the respecta individual fell down aa Wilitechapol, and rail ble a ' yard of clay who ' through his s larynx ; we think there may be much comfort in " the pipe of peace." From the feathered calumet smoked in the wigwam of the Pawnee brave to the dudheen glowing in the White boy's lurking-place — from the narghileh of the Kurdish chief to the bubble bubble of the Hindoo rajah, there is but a step. The hag of St. Giles's th rus t s a bl ac k cu tty between her shrivelled lips, and the Mbaican lady orna ments her rosy month with the, alas ! too transitory ciga retto (delicious and fondling diminutive). The pipe barna sweetly in the black tent of the Arab, and lights the dim cabin of the pirate of the Levant. It is kindled by the Russian wolf-hunter, and its black ashes spot the white snows of the Jungfrau. There is something almost religious in this universality. Every pipe is a censer in which we burnt fragrant incense to propitiate the great azure devil. This Indian herb is soul-soothing, dream-inspiring—it cheers and not inebri ates— delicious as opium, it is more harmless, and no less vision-giving. But tobacco has something to say for itself. The plant. of God s earth are not given alone to blight and kill. Every poison is a medicine to some animal or Ana*. Prussia acid heals, and arsenic soothes. Tobacco is a sas h , aperient, detergent, expectorant, and diuretic. It abates the cholic, and moderates the agonies of spasmodic asthma. It stimulates the kidneys and diminishes dropsy. The juice cleanses ulcers and is useful in cutaneous diseases. It is given extensively in epilepsy, and has been used to ad vantage in cases of lock jaw and hydrophobia. It is actually the base of one of the best cosmetics—the Balm of Columbia; it cures the m ange in d ogs, an d kill s the blight on plants. A benevolent man, who proves his wish to save time by throwing it away on foolish calculations, has discovered that, in 411 years, a snuff-taker devotes 24 months to blow ing his nose. In the same time he has also spent, we have calculated, 18 months in putting on his stockings and pull ing them off again. He proves that "snuff-takers form a large portion of the inmates of all lunatic asylums !--but so do greengrocers and costermongers. The history of smoking is brief. It was invented by savages, as the saw and the lyre were. Sir Francis Drake brought the leaf first to Europe, in 1560, and Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the practice of smoking it about 1584. But long before this, Jean Nicot, the French ambassador in Portugal, had carried it to France, and taught Marie de Medicis to take it in snuff. From Nicot it derives its bo tanical designation, Nicotiana; and its alias, tobacco, comes from the indian name of the island Tobago. That wonder ful people, the Chinese, however, seem to have always smoked tobacco; and the Irish are known to have used some herbs possessing similar properties, a dudheen being, it is said, inserted in the helmet of an old monument of one of their early kings. Raleigh smoked in his dungeon in the Tower while the headsman was grinding his axe. King James detested the " loathsome thing," and so did his luckless son ; but Cromwell loved his pipe, and dic tated his despatches to Milton over some fine birniog Trinidado, or pleasant smelling Nicotine. Perhaps the most surprising thing in literature is that no mention of tobacco is found in all Shakspere, although the earlier Spenser mentions it several times, and the later Ben Jonson actually founded plays upon the prac tice. Ben describes hie gallants smoking on the stage, and sending their pages for a light. He describes theta learn ing smoking tricks of distinct professors ; and one of hie best characters, Abel Drugger, is a tobacconist. He has jokes on the shape of pipes ; though Shakspere, equally fall of the manners of his age, is quite silent. Was it some feeling of conventional propriety ? Yet he who drew Pie• tol, the alehouse bully, Falstaff, the wit at the ordinary. and Sir Andrew Agnecheek, the creature of the court, could have had no such scruple. We leave the question to puzzle future ages of antiquarians, thinking it quite enough for a man to ask a difficult question without being coal• pelled to answer it. _ We could go on extracting with prodigal free dom, but we are obliged to content ourselves and our readers with only two or three more crayon scraps from "The Englander's Note-book" : The genii granted Hassan two wishes ; the first was to know the future ; his second, to forget what he had known. To look too long and intently on any of the three faces of time, the past, the present, or the future, is to grow mad. A sneer is the easiest mode I know of asserting s supe riority over the rest of mankind. For a pretty woman to wear too many jewels, is as foolish as to put three feet of gilt frame to one foot of picture. We shake hands with Mr. Thornbury in a spirit of impulsive sympathy and grateful obligation ; inasmuch that our bilious indication has materially subsided ; our ferocious chilblain offers less tempta tion to volunteer the Tarantula dance ; and the atmosphere appears to have a positive gleam of sunlight playing about the tallest chimney-pots. We conclude by avowing that the man or woman who is not somewhat wiser and happier after look ing on these cabinet pictures of " Art and Nature, need never evince any anxiety to be " entered on our list of friends." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Dec. B.—Wind this day at noon. S.W. ; fresh gale. It has blown a heavy gale for the laat two days. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 7.—Wind S.W.—lt blew a heavy gale all last night and this morning, with tremendoni squalls. The Cruizer drove on the beach and is dicharging. MARGATE, Dec. 7.—Wind W.S.W., strong gale.— Off the port—Cynthia, from Rio Janeiro ; Henry Duncan, Quebec. SWANSEA. Dec. 7.—Wind W.S.W.—It blew a complete 'hurricane all last night and this morning, but it is new (6 p.m.) more moderate. Thebarque Richardsons, of and for this port, from Coquimbo, went on shore and remains. PILL, Dec. 7.—The Swedish barque Andrees drove foul of the Alexander Edmonds, from Quebec, and lost mizen mast. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. B. Wind S.W.—Arrived—North Briton, from Quebec. _ _ YOUGHAL, - Dec. 7.—The schooner Margaret, of Cardi gan, drove ashore in Ardmore Bay and went to pieces ; four of the crew saved. (PEE ELECTRIC TELEGIAAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind S.W. Arrived —Annapolis, from Baltimore.; E. A. Bonnard, Callao. Bailed—ltalian, steamer, for Havre. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.0 a.m. Wind, W.S•W. ; tide high water; fresh. Arrived, Dec. 7.—Alice Jane, from Genoa ; Countess of Yarborough, Odessa ; Island Queen and Snake, St. Michael's ; Prosperity, St. Übe's ; Julia, Shanghai ; Foara, Terceira ; Turk, Rouen ; Berrys, Cape of Good. Hope ; Red Rose, Colombo ; Neptune, Coringo ; Louisa, Chincha Islands ; Jassy, Oporto ; Charlotte, Terceira ; George, Genoa ; Norwegueesa, Bilboa ; Mary Ridley, Bimlipatam ; Alise, St. Michael's ; Ocean, Guernsey ; Spray, Guernsey. Sailed, 7th.—Aurora, (s.), for Harlingen; Patrick Henry, New York ; Scorpion, Corfu. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m. Wind S.W., strong. Passed—Thames, from Rio Grande. Anchored, 7th—Queen, (s.), from London, for Lisbon ; Loire, (s.s.), London, for the westward. Anchored, Bth—Princess Royal, from Venice, for London. ---------- REFORMATORY FOB LEEDS.—The committee appointed some time ago to take steps to establish a Juvenile Re. formatory for the borough of Leeds have determined to erect the building upon a site at Add, about four miles from the town, and subscriptions have been commenced for defraying the necessary expenses. THE STOWE ESTATES.—That part of the Stowe pro. perty called the Sackville estate, which has been twice WednesdayL meeting offered by public sale, and which consists of the Castle Farm te isi ra.ndvseormeeenothfeerruilearnlyds o a f n d To h w o o u s s s e t s e , r, h has ü b t e 7 0 : T o l o d f held in w l a a li st, when Parliament was proposed and agreed Northampton, fouorkfEtsThte.ssEnKcolrsfauB2.o37l,sAoo legislature to pass an act prohibitingagreed to, A letter from Dr. Hodgkin was read, the injurious e ff ects to the human constitu juvenile street t h orrai e p j enyee u V titt v inin e ts E ggi s m s e t t r e l ooh yl k : tit h no a S i p r . t i oco n n pr F o r d id u a ce y d m b o y rn s i m ng ok t iz e to w b a a s cco. one of the densest fogs atga dale otuhtahtam l a sted pton nearly e ver known wh hours there. rs w noon it began to blow hard, and the On Friday and Saturday Early wind increased in the f o t or fore noon little intermission. intense fury. The dam age The wind blew chiefly FORGING A RAILWAY PAM—LITE . nights the wind blew with from the W W done there was but trifling. y,on remand from the previ ous travelled from London to Liver George Nash, who describes himself as a reporter for railway newspapers, was charged at the police court to day, Liverpool onw R e t :P hk o e, 0 L i : London withn d oh Dec .r6l. baying North-Western Railway with a forged pass. The case was proved, a n d h e was or d ere d to pay the fare, 2/. 55., and was also conv i cte d i n th e penalty of 4 0 s. a nd costs, or c to be committed for two months. LI E OOL, Dec. 6.—The British and North Ameri- Rp V --- can ,Royal M a il steams hip America saile d from this port to-day for Boston, with a full cargo and 59 passengers. The Baitic, for New York, sails on Wednesday next, and the Europa (which may be expected to arrive to 'morrow or Monday) will take her departure for the same port on Saturday. The Gipsy Bride, a fine clipper ship. belongi n g to the Liverpool line withck e 0 ts, will sail ' hence for Melbourne , o n Monday, 3O pger and a large cargo. s r of the Exchequer has appoi n te d Mr . Th e Chancello Drummond his private secre tary, in the room of Sir Bart., who goes to the Board Al exan der Duff GordoThe Royal Commissioners to in of Inland Reven ue. cpteiruteaustml prr.oHce.dwur.e‘ovfalttheeurixtpzeitoerr E xc hequer, to act as sk:Bo s oh e fbas c s r erv e m ta ue r rn y .ifi t c o en th tl e y Hon. Edwin Berkeley Portman has courtsquire e f into l e w toe e p e r; aoTpfhpeointment as private secretary to the c o o f ra t m he iss C io ort ti .,, na tion the whole of hi p s uie c instrec - - r F eisr liv isgtn e Ce :7 l2 ) n e s rs iss tan i°l l e i r h o a g f t B P M f u o r b .:S t . h b e ee p p o u srh r k p as o n. presented to rawie _ collection of paintings and 0 , disapprov ing irrespon boards sible managenam it by like the trustees of the Bri his quietly collection studying tish Museum ant I National Gallery, has made it a con tiou in art. Mr. Sheepshanks, dition that the re sponsibility for his collection must rest .11 1te th fo a r t with an individual Minister—the Minister for Education. Mr. Sheepsbarkke considers that a crowded thoroughfare the neighbourhok Id of its present locality at Kensington. He is willing tha t the pictures, &c., should be lent to i e s u not o t b eg o s s u t i i tpault must works be kept in those provincial tr. awns which prbvide suitable places to exhibit them. Up , on these conditions, which we believe Lord Palmerston h as cordially accepted on behalf of the Government, Mr. Stioepshanks has signified his readiness to hand over immediately the whole of his very fine col lection, which is espeoially rich in the best works of Mulready, Landseer, and Leslie, and contains fine examples of the principal modern British painters in oil. The value of the collection may be estimated at about 60,0001.