The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-04 00:00:00

NOWT ;by sta ; by I of ;, so [stilt Hips too, aids 1 on Idle that ' the and ia luite yes' vard o y the mani monk', vhose mtifi° noWII tILS# 1. 4. ;h the pas; ;CS of ueno ° loned , 0,110 ;UlT l3n Naz ar 536, f Utica' a , g d had ,ccorcl . hideg prove d art obo prices [IEO IIIS e COI' Coff e° refu s ' bri sl . Dc' ed the vv es .0_ Til e 00 re ° 80 re° rates' Le sa le° Itatiooo SO rei' 300' share ° ' lg . the lows ,629; t h e thre e 066 ; ZiONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocI. Owing to the eouralorci!d engagements due to day, the 4th, there has been rather more inquiry for discount aecomrooda,tion, but the Money .Market has nevertheless remained in a quiet and easy position, owing to the continued abundance of floating capital. There were no bullion operations of public im portance at the Bank of England yesterday. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon Were generally rather higher. Gold is now about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. _ The Magdalena has arrived from the Brazils with £44,000 in specie. The dividend warrants on New Granada Bonds are announced for payment, and the half-year's interest on the Mantanzas and Sabanilla Ltiilroad Bonds will be payable on and after the 10th inst. A call of 53. per share has been made by the directors of the Taranaki Steel Iron Company to be paid before the 26th inst. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday business was extremely dull, and prices were very irregular. The sales :vere barely 2,000 bales. It "Lranspired yesterday afternoon that Messrs. Fairhead and Son, seedsmen, had suspended pay ment, but the amount of their indebtedness is com- piratively small. The Teutonia, which left to-day for New York, took £6,000 in specie. The half-yearly meeting of the African Steam Ship Company has been held to-day—Mr. P. D. Hadan in the chair. The report, which was adopted, stated that the amount brought down to the credit of the revenue account was £7,621, and it was there fore agreed that the usual dividend of 7s Od per share, free of income tax, should be declared for the half year ending 31st October, 1861. This payment, which is at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, will absorb £4,816 ; and it was resolved that £2,000 of the balance should be transferred from the revenue account to the fund set aside for the purpose of covering the lons sustained by the sale of the Hope, in addition to the amount already written off for 119 that purpose by the directors from the profits of the half-year. The market for Public Securities to-day has been in a very variable state, owing in some mea sure to the operation of the settlement which is now in active progress. At first the quotations appeared favourable, but upon a pressure of sales a decline took place. Consols for transfer were 901 1, then receded to 90. 1, at which they now remain. For the January account they are 901 The New Threes and the Reduced are flat at 911 a, Exche quer Bills, March, at I3s. prem., ditto June, are firm at 14s. to 18s. prem., India 5 per Cent. Stock is 1021. Foreign Securities have exhibited considerable fluctuation ; on the whole, however, business has been dull. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 78 to 79; ditto, 1858, have been dealt in at 69 and 671, and are now quoted 671 681; Mexican have been 271, but have since declined to 2q 4 ; Spanish Bonds have been particularly depressed, the 3 per Cents. being fully 1 per cent. lower, viz., 50 ; the De ferred have receded to 41-a- 42 ; Italian 5 per Cents. to 87i ; and Venezuelan to 211 22. In the Railway Share Market increased heaviness has prevailed, and the dealings have been of a limited character. Great Westerns, and North Eastern (Berwick), have declined 55.; Eastern Counties, Great Northern, Brighton, South Eastern, and Midlands, 10s. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 15s. ; and Caledonian, Ll. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been heavy. Sambre and Meuse have declined to 6‘a ; and Great Luxembourg to tit ; Grand Trunk of Canada 18 ; East Indian 1001-; and Great Indian Peninsula to 991 100. Joint Stock. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con tinue inactive, at barely previous rates. London Joint Stock realise 331 ; Australian Agricultural, 27* ; Peel River Land, 48 to 481 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 701. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 Ol i a 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 99 aiiii Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Rh Jan. 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l India Stock ri4,,, 51,02. ( 1 ,....- inog 4 1 Q Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. 97 Ditto 51 per Cent .. lO3 Consols for Account, Dec. 5 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent March. Juno. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 18 14 Ditto £5OO .. 13 18 14 Ditto Small — 18 14 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent ' Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860 .... Chilian 6 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent. Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St — Ditto 3 per Cent. 1839 .. 59 Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred . Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. — Ditto Account 7B Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. - Venezuelan 3 per Cent Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Gull — '.litt., Certificates, 4 Der Cent... Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 674 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account COURSE OF EX , 3HANGE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam 12 12 25 60 25 60 13 9 25 32 25 62 25 62 119 14 40 14 40 33i Ditto Rotterdam — 12 _ Antwerp. Brussels 25 52 liamb urg h — 13 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 118; Vienna Trieste Petersb ur gh — 33! Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples . Palerwa Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro _ New York - Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) .... per oz. £3 17 9 ~ 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) ..... .... " South A mer i can D ou bl oons 48# 48f 25 67} 25 67f 25 671 39a 118 4 118; 52 52k 481 48 25 75 25 72. 25 72 39i 1181 119 52} 52a THE TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELD, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your paper of to-day, in allusion to t he diabolical outrage perpetrated in my warehouse, I find my name is mentioned in error. Instead of -Pattison, it ought to be " Alex. Paterson." I en close my card, and remain, sir, yours respectfully, ALEX. PATERSON. New George-street, Sheffield, Dec, 2, 1861. IRON-CASED SHIPS.--Our Warriors, and Black Princes, and Royal Alfreds, are virtually line-of-battle ships—the only line-of-battle ships, probably, that will be thought of five or ten years hellos. We cannot well send them to protect our foreign commerce, or to quiet our troubles in Japan, or New Zealand, or Mexico; nor could, we even afford to keep many of them cruising for a year or two along the coasts of the United States, if our cousins should demand our hostile services. These are purposes for which frigates, corvettes, sloops, brigs, despatch ves sels, and gunboats are required ; and, unfortunately, all the vessels of these classes which we at present possess and are building, are as combustible as those timber line- Of-battle ships which we have for ever superseded. Hero, then, is a further reconstruction of our navy to be made, as great and as inevitable as any we have made hitherto. Every month's delay in applying the iron-cased principle to the smaller ships that we build, will add to our financial difficulties sooner or later. Every unprotected wooden ship that we launch, is another added to a fleet already virtually condemned ; and the sure result of building such vessels will be an extraordinary demand hereafter for millions of money to repair another great deficiency occasioned by neglect,—" Cornhill Magazine" for .De ember. Share Railways. 50 !Feßast and Nor. Conn. 13.14 ,Bir., Wol.. and Str. Val 25 'Myth and Tyne 10 IBost.,Sleat.,andllid.k.'o st BriE.tol and Exeter st 'Caledonian 10 'Carmarthen & Cardigan 50 .Cork and Bandon 20 Cork, Birock, & Passage 20 :Cornwall A 10 Do. A 10 ! Do. B gets no div an.has ( been paid to B. 50 ;Dublin & Belfast June. 25 ! nun.,Perth,& June. at 'East A ngli an at Inistern Counties .. st l E as t e rn Union, A stock lat Do Bdo do 25 ! DoNw A. late E U ads at !East Suffolk at !Edinburgh & Glasgow. at !Ellin., Perth, & Dundee 10 Forth & Clyde Junction' at :Furness at Glas and S. Western. 10 1G reat . Nrtlin of Scotland at Gre tt Northern lat Do A stock at I Do Is do at jGt. S. an W. of Ireland. at 'Great Western st Do Str Val gaa. stock 12 !Irish South Eastern ! at Lancashire & Yorkshire! st I L on don and Illackwall! st ILon., Bright.,& S. Coast at ;Lon., Chat., and Dover . st !Lon. & North Western: at ILon. & South Western 25 IL'derry & Coleraine 25 ;L'clerry & Enniskillen.l st I Man., Shef., & Lincoln.l 50 !Maryport and Carlisle.; 12 t I Do # shal es 10 I Metropolitan • ; st I Midland 1.4.0 Do Ne .v st Do Birming% & Derby 50; Mid Gt. W. of Ireland 25 I Do. 4 , shares 25 I Mid Kent 10 I Do Cray Line .00 INewca , tle and Carlisle! 10 ;Newry & Armagh, def.! 20 INewry, Warnpt, & Ros at 'Norfolk st North British st Nor.Dev.ltail&Dk.stock' st Do A stk ; A revs no d till 6 pc. has been pdl3 l 100 st !Do B stock at ,Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 25 ' Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 at Do Leeds 1 100 at Do York : 100 at North London 10 Do new ! 5 ,16.1 North Staffordshire ! 174 10 N. and S. W. Junction ; all at Not. G,•an. Rl. & Canal 100 10 Peebles ! all 20 Portsmouth I all 10 Rhymney at Scottish Central ! 100 at Scot. N. E., Aber. stock 100 at Do Sc t. Mid. sock 1 100 10 I Shrews. and Welchpool all at ;Shropshire Union 100 10 ISitti n gbourne & Sheen! all st ;S ou th Devon ! 100 25 IS. Durham & Lane. Un all st ;South Eastern st South Wales - 100 at S. York. and River Dun 1 0 0 I Staines,Wok.,andWok.. all 5 &ockton & Darlington; all 15 1)o 15 Do New, 1860 I 5 it Taff Vale. 100 ;t Do Pref. No. 1 ' 100 15 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 i 0 Ulster ; all 15 Do 2O AO Do at Vale of Neath LO Victoria sta. and Pim ! all at Watertbrd & Kilkenny 100 50 Water i ord & Limerick all 20 West Cornwall ! all 20 West London ! all tO Do lat class I all 20 Do 2d class ! all W. Ilarblepool Har. & R.' 100 West Midland Oxiord 100 Do Newpor' 100 Do Hereford 100 all 2.14. 100 all all all all all LINES LEASED AT FIXED RE: Paid Leasing Co. s Closing Price. RaihvayE. Bedford and Bletchley Birkenhead Buckinghamshire Chester & 11olyhead Do. 51per cent Do. 5 „ Clydesdale Junction Colchester, Stour Val. E. Lincoln:ill. ,cr A pr c. E.Union,HarwichShs Do. Woodbridge.— Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct. Do. new Gloster &Dean Forest,' Hull and z-elby Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster k Carlislei Loudon Greenwichi Do. Preference Lon.,Tilb.& Southend Lowestoft gua. 4 p c Do A per cent Mnc.,Tixtn.,& Matlock Mid. Bradford Prefer- ence stock Newmarkr, BuryEx 1 gua. 5 per cent... Northn..oo,•tn. SD. e Do. c per cent. .... Do. Fixed 5 p. c.... N. Eastn—Hartlepool l North 'Western Preston and Wyro. Do. A shares A. Roystn. II itch. Shep. Shrewsby& Hereford Do. Ito. South Staffordshitp Wilts and Somerset Wimbledu Croydon, Ln.&N.IV D Do. Do Do. Do. Caledon. E. U.,tE.O Gr. North. E,Counts. Caledon Do. Gt. West. Yk.N. Mid Do. Do. 1.n.& N. W I S. Easterr Do. J'eto & Co 'Norfolk Do. LN.SYSL Midland E Counts. Do. I uo. Do. N. E. Ber Midland L&N.W Do. • • L.Yk. • • Gt. North ., T Brassey Ln.&N.W Gt. West. L.,tßrgtn F 4 F 6 93 95 53 54 122 124 112 114 101 103 133 4 136 41 95 200 61 63 12 117 85 87 3a 32 91 96 par p I 65 57 151 16 43 45 133 136 118 122 1 91 93 8i 94 Business Done. PREFERENCE SHARES. Closing Business Share ] Railways. Paid. Prices. Done. !Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at £5 Brie. & Exet. 4 p.O. st Do. shares Caledon. £lO, 41 p. cent Do. guar. shares, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. ,Cornwall. 5 percent Dun. Perth, & Aber.Jun Do. Ist , Class Pref E. Anln. Class A. 5 p. c Do. Class B 6 per cent Do. Class C 7 per cent E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No.l Do No. 2 Do. new 6p. c. st Eastern Union, 4 p. c Do. 5 p. C. guar Edln.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. & Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c Great Northern, 5 p. c D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c. pm Do. 46 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redmatsp.c.pm Gt. NIL of -cot. Ist. pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland) 4 per cent Great West. (Berke and Ilants Ext) 5 per cent Do: redeem. 44 p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. et Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. e. redeem. pref. '3o. Birm. pref. shares Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. shs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs Do. firm. guar. stock Do. Chester guar. shares Do. do Do. do Lan. & Carl. 41 p.c. pref Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Do.Barnal.stZi 2s 10d e Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pur Lon.&Brig.spAgu. No.l Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. 6 per cent. do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 44 per cent. do Do. 44 p. c. pref. shares Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do( W.E.&C.P.) Do. 4 p c. st. (div.def.lll'6s Do. 4 per cent. pref . Lon.Chat.&Dov. Do. West. Ex., B, 6 p. c. 1 , 0. Metrop. Ex. ti, np.o. Lon. & S. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & s.West. 7p. cent. st, late 3d shares Do. 48 per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpl. anus of 28 6d Londondy. & Cole. / shs .ondony. & Ennis. 1 she Man. &h. & Lin. G per et. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. . Do. redeem. 6 per cent... Mary port & Carl. 4 pr. c. Do. 4i per cent . Midland Con. 6 p. c. stk. Do. Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock.. Do. 4/ per cent . ..... Dor o.Leic. and Hit4r ct. ilk. 5 p. c. Ex. st. pe 1846 p. c. Pref. at. 1847 Do.sWay.ValEkst 1817 Nort British, 5 per cent D D o o N i 3 eo Bor. u gu n a. d. og p .. e p r r e e t n a t hd . . 08 .. Do. Nth.Dvn.llail.&Dek.C o. N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Dn. 41pr. ct. redeemable Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pref. Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. Do. York, 14. & S. Pure'. North Staffordshire.... lthymney Guaranteed. . Stott' sh Central. new pi Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p c Do. 7 p. c. pret. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 G) Do. 4\ per cent Do, Fixed 41 per cent Solidi Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 41 per cent Do. do. 1859 Do. 5 per cent. S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua. Do. 5 p. c. gua. Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B G p. c Do. C 6 p. c, Watrtd & Kilkny, 6 p. c. W. Mid.-Oxf Ist gua stk Do. 2d do. Do. Newport 5 p.c. pf.red. Do. Perpet.6 p. c. pf. 1866 Do. till 18691 93 95 ail 214 6 61 01 103 ,12 117 LlO 111 ,07 109 LOG 103 L 23 123 81 83 111 113 89 91 tO 82 114 116 110 112 102 104 107 100 27 99 98 100 88 90 89 91 102 101 9 10 17 18 10} 11 75 77 201 201 101 10 151151 136 133 102 104 112 115 112 115 1:36 139 112 115 150 155 127 130 73 75 91 93 .11 113 131 14 1 124 125 I #l* 65 70 I IPro [37 139 [O2 104 92 94 109 111 107 109 1 lipm 99 101 98 100 4 dis par I lls i pm 224 231 132 130 10 10i 24 100 102 99 101 Os 100 85 88 27 28 1 32 33 32 33 42 45 123 125 121 123 100 102 120 123 118 120 89 soi IN 112 SITAR E MARKET-THIS DAY ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 71 8 6 6i 93 (J 5 10'2 104 Closing B us i n ess s P a id. price. done, A 1; 2la I I ro: 5 6 42 43 111 111 18i 104 51 1 152 i 47 50 33 35 90 92 29 30 101 106 112 113 111 112 130 132 102 104 08 681 55 58 105} 1051 55 57 116 117 47 49 011 92 93i 941 9 11 44 45 6i 1261 127 08 1i 100 lip 62 E 4 G 3 64 991 991 Ad p 66i 671 88i 881 91 96 5 41 cl lot 101 89 91 121 1?6 39 41 97 99 451 461 36 38 74/ 751 85 87 95 97 51 8 37 39 B,p 41 51 pl 55}.`61 21 3} i dip 83 86 12i 13 46 48 43 46 89 91 13* 20 100 st Od 1b.6 1121 I I 8 ill 68111 i 8 101 5 116 81 81 91i i s' 441 I i 1261 6 1i P TALS. THE SUN, LONDON, f) NE iD .4X EVEN INGri, DEOE Vt 3 ‘J] ;1., 4, 1861. _ DON RA E S.—(This Day). THE PROSPECTS (IF PEACE. ) Closing ! Price. l'Faid, }Business done BY ELECTRIC TTILEGRAPR , STAND PLATE. The increased distrust yesterday of the prospects of peace seemed to tai;e in a very considerable degree from the fear that even if the present offence were repaired some new one would be immediately contrived by the party in the Northern States who are determined to force us into hostilities. As far as the prospect of a settlement of the immediate difficulty is concerned the indications are by no means hopeless, since they show that a strong and most influential section of the Cabinet are believed to be in favour of temperate counsels. It is also to be borne in mind that the mob now so eager f..n. aggression are stimulated almost entirely by the money that is being scattered among them, that their tone would change immediately if there were any difficulty on the question of pay, and that this difficulty will arise immediately. The Associated Banks have been led to promise Mr. Chase the third instalment of the £31,000,000 loan, on an assurance from that gentleman that the foreign relations of the country were never in a better position, The breaking up of this delusion will cause them to draw back, and indeed render it impossible for them, even if they had the will, to render further assistance, and, as the money is urgently required, this consummation would at once hamper every operation of the Government. Moreover, from statements which appear to have been current at New York, it seems that an application has been or is about to be made to the leading capitalists of London and Paris with a view of ascertaining how much they would be willing to advance to' the American banks on a deposit of United States' securities, and as the answer to this will, of course, be " not a shilling," the salutary influences other wise coming into play will be proportionably assisted.— Times' City Article. 98 99 Corkscrew Yorkee 3 Slasher.. 41 41 d Five ran. :6 7 77 68 '73 67 ;2 94 5 The races are run one hour and a quarter later, on account of the frost. LA TV INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.) COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Or "inary and a Special Jury.) DOOLSN V. LEIGH. This was a suit instituted by the plaintiff, Mary Doolan, for the purpose of etablishing the validity of a will exe cuted by her mother, Mrs. Mary Leigh, an aged lady, who died at Bristol in 1861. The will was disputed by the son of the testator, who pleaded that the document was made under undue influence. Dr. PhilErnore, Q.C„ for the plaintiff, stated that the testatrix was an aged lady in comfortable circumstances, having two annuities, and the interest arising from £1,200, which she had the power of disposing of, and which formed the subject of the will in dispute. A previous will to the one disputed bad been executed, by which the testatrix bad left her property to her three children in equal proportions, but this document was cancelled by another, drawn up by Mr. Gregory, by which she left the whole of her property to her daughter, with whom she had been living some time, as she thought that what she had done during her lifetime for her two sons had been sufficient. The sur viving son, Nathaniel, disputed the present will, and to ob tain probate of which the present suit was instituted. The following witnesses were then called : Sarah Bidder said—l reside at Bristol. In Nov., 1858, I was in the service of Mrs. Leigh, and continued so until the time of her death in 1861. Mrs. Leigh told me that what she had she intended to leave to her daughter, and she wished it was a great deal more. Mrs. Leigh said she was very glad the business of signing her will was done. The testatrix told me she was very much annoyed that she had been said by some of her relatives to be childish. Cross-examined—Mr. Gregory used to call nearly every day. I don't know that Mr. Gregory was engaged to be married to Mrs. Doolan, but I suspected so from the con duct of the parties. Mrs. Mary Doolan—l am p'aintiff in this cause. I am the daughter of the testator. I had a brother George; he died in Oct., 1858. I have another brother living, Nathaniel. I married the son of Colonel Doolan. I went to live on Durdham Downs in 1848. After ray brother George's death, my mother came of her own accord to live entirely with me. She came in Nov., 1858, and did so down to the time of her death. I am acquainted with Mr. Gregory, of Bristol. While any mother was living, he was in the habit of visiting me. I was engaged to him and I stillcontinue so. At that time he was my mother's solicitor. I recollect Mr. Gregory seeing my mother in 1858. When the subject of the will was being talked about I left the room. Somewhere about this time Mrs. George Leigh called. My mother received her very coldly, and I recollect Mrs. George, during the conversation, told my mother she was foolish and childish, which very much offended her. Mr. Clerk and Mr. Gregory were afterwards sent for in order to sign a new will in my favour. My mother was at this time in a perfectly sane and sound state of mind. COMPANY. Cross-examined—My mother was very fond of her son George. I have been engaged to Mr. Gregory for a num - ber of years. Twelve or 13 or 14 years if you like. I was not intimate with Mr. Gregory during my husband's life time. I was living with my mother when 1 first became acquainted with him. My mother knew of the engagement There were various reasons why the marriage did not take place. I should have lost some of my property had I mar ried. I cannot tell when my marriage will come off, as everthiug is uncertain in this world. The amount I should loose by marriage would be £lOO. Mr. Gregory was next examined. His evidence was to the effect that the testatrix, when she signed her will was in a perfectly sound and sane state of mind. [The case was proceeding when we went to press.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day). MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A SCENE IN THE HAY➢IARKET.—NIGHT HOUSES. — Julius Tennesen, of 9, York-ten ace, St. John's-wood, was charged with breaking a table, at the Turkish Divan, in the Haymarket; also with committing several assaults. Mr. Matthew Tho arias, landlord of the Turkish Divan, 53, Haymarket, said the prisoner came into his house, with some others, at 5 that morning, and asked for some coffee, and shortly after got fighting with another person. Some of the persons were a lit le drunk, and some were " sen sible." He told the prisoner to leave, and the police then came in. During the fighting some plates and chairs were broken. _ ----- Sergeant Silverton,l6 C, said that bearing a disturbance at the house, he went there and saw about a dozen persons standing in the room. Ho asked the prisoner to leave, and after the prisoner had knocked a constable down he knocked him (the sergeant.) down. (The sergeant is a tall, power ful man.) He (the sergeant) observed some broken things about the place. Mr. Knox said it was by no means clear to him that the prisoner did the damage, and if a person kept such a house as the Divan, and encouraged disorderly persons there at 5 in the morning, he must take the consequences. Lees, 241 A, then proved being assaulted by the prisoner. Mr. John Henry Fuller, traveller to Messrs. Palmer and Pulbrook, Tower-street, corroborated the police. Prisoner said he was insulted in the room, and sifter having struck a person he fell on the table and broke the things. The keeper of the house seized him as did the police, who nearly strangled him, and all he did was to try and flee himself. _ Mr. Knox—The fact is you young gentlemen think it a trifling matter to assault the police. Prisoner—l was not drunk. _ . Mr. Knox—l could almost, if the expression is properly understood, wished you had been. If you, Mr. Thomas, keep a house and h tve disorderly persons there, and damage is done, that is your affair. Inspector Webb—The complainant has other houses, and they are kept open till six in the morning, and the other in habitants are driven from the place in consequence of their quietude being destroyed. Mr. Knox (to the prisonAr)—l hope what I am going to do will be a warn ng to you. Nothing can be more dis gusting than to see a young gentleman like you in the dock under such circumstances. I shall fine you £5 for each assault on the police, or £lO, and in default two months. 66,708 16,471 TILTS DA I'S SHIPPING. The Earl and Countess Spencer are about to entertain a succession of visitors at Altborpe Park, North amptonshire. _ The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere and family leave Bridgewater House to••day for Burwood House, Surrey. The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craves arrived in town on Saturday from visiting the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at Gorhambury. The Co utess and the Ladies Craven have since left town for Ashdown© Park, Berks. AMERICAN OUTRAGE ON THE FRENCH FLAG.— Capt. Guichon, of the French merchant brig Jules et Marie, just arrived at Havre, reports that, on the 3d of November when about 20 miles N. of the light-house of Matanzas, he was boarded and overhauled by the American frigate San Jacinto, in addition to which considerable damage was done to his vessel by the frigate running into her, and carrying away her masts. The San Jacinto fired a gun to bring the brig to, but hoisted no colours. The brig showed the French flag. Immediately on reaching Matanzas, Captain Guichon reported what had taken place to the French Con sul, and drew up a protest against what had been done, setting forth the circumstances of the incident, and de claring that he had been required to show his papers, &c. The brig was bound from Liverpool to Matanzas with a cargo of coal. THE COURT OF CHANCERY,---There are nine ap peals and two causes set down for hearing before the Lord Chancellor and the Lord& Justices for the fittings after Michaelmas Term; there are 66 causes, &c., before the Master of the Rolls; 38 before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. T. Kindersley, of which two are special cases ; 75 before Vice- Chancellor Sir J. Stuart; and 119 before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood, of which five are special cases. Saturday, Dec. 21, is the last day of the sittings. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The Curators of the patronage of the University of Edinburgh have elected Mr. George Ross, advocate, to the chair of Scots Law, vacant by the death of Professor More. The Faculty of Advocates lately exercised the privilege of presenting to the Curators two candidates to choose from, and the Curators, acting on precedent, took the first name on the list. The University - Commissioners have lamed an ordinance fixing the salaries to be paid to the Professors, and regulating the application of the University revenues and Parliamentary grants in the increase of salaries, for which the class fees are inadequate. The emoluments of the Principal are fixed at £7OO, chiefly derived from the Parliamentary grant. The highest emoluments are those of the Professor of Ana tomy, whose salary consists only of fees, which are esti mated at £1,900, the sum of £2OO being given out of the University fund for class expenses. The next highest salary is that attached to the chair of Chemistry, the revenues of which are estimated at £1,301, besides £2OO for class assistance and expenses. Most of the salaries, however, range from £6OO to £BOO ; but there is ono, the Professor ship of Agriculture, as low as £l5O, chiefly derived from endowment. There are 31 professorships in the University, besides the office of Principal. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.--Business is quite at a stand in this market. Since the outrage committed on the Trent operations h .ve been entirely suspended, excepting some speculators' lots, which have been offered at exceedingly low prices. Spin ners and manufacturers do not attempt to press sales; the general feeling seems to be to wait for some definite news as to the intentions of the Isorthern States Government: FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SYEAN •- - The annual meeting of this company was also held yesterday, Mr. B. Wilcox, M.P., in the chair, when the report was adopted and a dividend de clared of 3 per cent., together with a distribution of 3t out of the underwriting account, making a total of 61 per cent., free of income-tax. It was stated that since the last report four unserviceable or small ships have been disposed of, while orders are now being executed for three large iron steamers. The Mooltan, the last new steamer, which had been fitted with superheating apparatus and other mechanical improvements for the saving of coal, has made two trips between Southampton and Alexandria, and has attained a highly satisfactory rate of speed with a consumption of only half the ordinary quantity of fuel. This result is of the more importance owing to the always heavy ex penditure for coal, as much as £BOO,OOO having been spent for this item in one year. The whole service, including that with Australia, has been worked with efficiency and punctuality during the past twelvemonths, and no casualties have occurred, although the aggregate distance an nually traversed by the company's ships exceeds 1,260,000 miles. The commercial operations of the year have been generally encouraging. The ordinary revenue has been well maintained, but a diminution is shown in the total receipts, a failing off having taken place in the necessarily fluctuating revenue from the carriage of specie. Annexed is a list of the company's fleet, in addition to which there are three screw steamers build ing, of a total of 6,400 tons and 1,300-horse power, and eight transport store and coal ships, of 10,277 tons, making a total of 83,385 tons and 17,771 horse power : Tons. H-p. Service. 1 Simla, s 2,440 630 Calcutta and Suez 2 Columbian, a 2,352 500 Suez, Bombay, and China 3 Mooltan, a.. 2,257 400 Southampton & Alexandria 4 Bengal, a .. 2,185 465 Calcutta and s.uez _ . 5 Colombo, s.. 2,127 450 Ditto 6 Nubia, 5.... 2,095 450 Ditto 7 Ceylon, s .. 2,020 450 Southampton & Alexandria 8 Nemesis, s.. 2,018 600 Calcutta and Suez 9 Hindostan, p 2,017 520 Ditto 10 Pera, s .... 2,014 450 Southampton & Alexandria 11 China, s., 2,010 400 Suez, Bombay, and China 12 Candia, s .. 1,982 450 Calcutta and Suez 13 Indus, p.... 1,950 450 Southampton & Alexandria 14 Malta, s . 1,942 500 Calcutta and Suez 15 Orissa, 5.... 1,646 300 Suez, Bombay, and China 16 Massilia, p 1,640 400 Marseilles and Alexandria 17 Jeddo, s 1,632 450 Suez, Bombay, and China 18 Delta, p 1,618 400 Southampton & Alexandria 19 Behar, s 1,003 300 Suez, Bombay, and China 20 Ellora, 5.... 1,573 300 Southampton & Alexandria 21 Emeu, 5.... 1,538 300 Suez, Bombay, and China 22 Salsette, s 1 491 400 Ceylon and Sydney 23 &mares, s.. 1,491 400 Ditto 24 Pottinger, p 1,350 450 Suez, Bombay, and China 25 Northam,s.. 1,330 400 Ceylon and Sydney 26 Ottawa, s .. 1,274 200 Suez, Bombay, and China 27 Singapore, p 1,190 470 Ditto 28 Ganges, p.. 1,190 470 Ditto 29 Bombay, s.. 1,186 275 Ditto 30 Madra, s.. 1,185 275 Ditto 31 Pekin, p.... 1,182 400 Ditto 32 Euxino, p .. 1,165 400 Marseilles and Alexandria 33 Sultan, 5.... 1,124 210 Ditto 34 Norna, s .... 969 230 Suez and Mauritius 35 Valetta, p 832 260 Marseilles and Alexandria 36 Cadiz, s 816 220 China coast 37 Aden, s .... 812 210 Litto 38 Nepaul, a .. 796 200 Suez and Mauritius 39 Tagus, p.... 782 286 Peninsular 40 Vectis, p.... 751 260 Marseilles and Alexandria 41 Azoff, s .... 700 180 China coast 42 Formosa, s.. 675 155 Chartered to French Govt. 43 Alhambra, a 612 140 Peninsular _ . Granada, s.. SGI 160 Chartered to Fr.nch Govt. Shanghai, s 546 100 Ditto Union, 5.... 340 60 Red Sea Lighthouse Service Mazagon,p.. 86 45 Bombay Harbour Ripon, p.... 1,583 450 Under repair LONDON, Dcc. 4.—Wind this day at neon—South- Easterly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, with sharp frost. FALmouTn, Dec. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sadler, from Rio Janeiro. Pourrsmoram, Dec. 3 —Wind S.E.—Sailed—Eastern Romance, for Algoa Bay. SWANSEA, Dec. 3.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Florence, for Cuba. LAMLASH, Dec. 3.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Thalatta, for Melbourne. CHATHAM, Dec. 3 —Wind E.—Arrived—lon, from Quebec. RAMSGATE, Dec. 3.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Geromino, for Ilavannah. BELFAST, Dec. 2.—Wiud S.W.—Sailed—Lois, for New York. Orr PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 3.—Arrived—Frank Boult, from New York. FLEETWOOD, Dec. 3.—Wind S.—Arrived—Leon, from Quebec. P ( BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. The Teutonia steamer, which sails for New York to-day, takes £6,000 from England, and 16,000 f. from Havre. Arrived—Mary Ann, from Sunderland ; Celt, steamer, from Madeira; Mermaid, from Cowes; Atalanta, steamer, from Guernsey. No sailings. (BY SUBMARINE .A ND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 3—Jane and Mary, from Terceira; Alfrina ton, from Algoa Bay; Edith, from Rouen; Pi ovidenec, from Gravelines. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed —Alnah, from London, for Swansea ; Industrie, from the Northward, for the Westward. Sailed (in tow) —Royal Albert, for London. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 13, Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena, . Jan. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Dec. —.— via Marseilles Dec. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .... Dec. j 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 2. via Marseilles Dec. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec 11. via Marseilles Dec. 5. Lisbon Dec. 11, Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 2. via Marseilles Dec. 5. Newfoundland Dec. 11. Oporto and Vigo Dec. 11. U. S. and British N. Amorica, by Brit. packet Dec. 5. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet Dec. 5. W.C. of Africa, Madeira , and Tenerife Dec. 10. Bahamas, via New York Dec. 19 ....Dec. 30. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru , 1 Dec. 14. California,and British Columbia.. The Governor-General of Algeria has, by a deci sion dated from Tlemcen, relieved the Echo, of Oran, and the Seybouse, of Bona, from a first warning given to them in August last, and has done so for the reason that, since the warnings were given, those journals have, in their ar ticles, observed propriety and moderation, and also to show that his intention is to allow the local press all the liberty compatible with order, moral prosperity, and public tran quillity, Railways. ____ 10 , .1. Ilan. - lo 473:: ,F - .t 1...wr: nee' , j Bum.,Bat otia. - ..Cent Ind I Gu. 5 per cent.. 18 Do Do. B 104 Buffalo and Laxe Huron 10.1 Do. New 10 Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 16 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 )0 Do. do. July 1, 1872 )0 1)0. do. J uno 1, 18:1 5 cleatta.k,S.Eastn.(l,i: 10 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.; 10 Cape Town & Dock Scri) 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 174 'Demerara.. 20 lEastn. Bengal gu. sp. f :ock East Indian, go. 5 p. c. 20 I Do. F Shares Ext..... 20 Do. Jubbulpore 00 Do. 44 p c. Debentrs 00 Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 00 Do. 18'•5-1870 Lock Grand Trunk of Canada Ou Do. 6 per cent. Pref 00 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct 00 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr 00 Do. 7 per cont. 1862 00 Do. do. 1867 00 Do. do. 1872 ock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp c 20 Do. New gua. 5 p. c ock Gt. South.of India (Li tn; guaranteed 5 per cent. 20 Do. do. 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares 204 Do. New .. 00 Do. 6 •,,.c '73 with't opt 00 j Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 do 00 1D0.5.1 p. c. do. '7B do ock Nlarlras guar., 44 p. c ock Do. do. 5 per cent— ock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 20 Do. 5 ock nelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnde.l 20 Newßrunswick 65 Canda Ry.6zLand(Lim.)g.6pc, Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land do 20 IDo. do. B Capital do .. Do. do. Land do. Oude (Limited) took Scinde 20 Do. Punjaub .... gti 20 j Do. Du. ........ d ci l ock Do. Indus. St. Flo. ?„ , :;.1 10 Trinidad (Lint.) Scrip.. 100 all all all all id 191 201 d 100) 101! 95 101 100 101 100 101 18 20 55 00 50 53 30 33 34 38 28 32 28 32 991 1001 1 d 981 991 81 91 11l 111 3 96 87 90 88 92 98i 991 9L 93 5 7 4 6 101 102 id id 97 93 4 I 1 /100 15 all 100 1 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. :0 Algerian • .0 AntWQrl) .Sz Rotterdam !O Ardennes •• • • • !O Bah.&S.Fran..Li m. 7 p.c. 5 Belgian EaA. Junction :0 , Beziers to Graissessac CarmeauxMine & Rail 10 Cupiapo ..... •• • • i 0 Ditto Extension .... !CI Dutch Rhenish ........ :0 Eastern of France .... !CI Grand Rue Guar. 6p. !O Do. :0 Great Central of France ; 0 (4t.Lu io x J e u m n . c , t Co n n. 0 Italian Lierrc & Turnhout .... !O Lyons & Geneva ...... !,0 Namur & Liege ........ [0 Do. 6p. c. Pref. ........ i 6 ;Northern of France.... 16 Do. New Shares tO !Norwegian Trunk Pref. ,[0 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. 20 Paris & 0r1ean5........ 10 5 Recife & S. Fran. (Pern.) ,gtia. 7 p. ct. [0 Riga. & 20 Royal Dani5h.......... 5 lloyal Swedish 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... 10 Do. 5 per cent. Pref..... 20 San Paulo, lira, a. 7p. c. 20 S.Aust &Lomb Venetin' 20 Southern of France.... 20 S. East Portugal 7 p ct. 8j West Flanderr, 10 Do. p. c. Preference.. 20 W. & N.W. of France .. 20 Westrrn of Austria.... 20 Westurn of Switzerland; 6 Wiesbaden 6 Do. 8 per cent Pref.... 20 Zeal and .• BRTTI , A lfreii Consols (Philack)! British Iron Clifford Devon G. Con, (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) I East Caradon ,• E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) 'Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen Great South Tolgus G.Wheal (Phi lack IG. Wheal Vor (Efelston) !Grenville Ilerod's-Foot Ilingston Downs !Lady Bertha 'Margaret (Guy Lel ant) North Downs N ,North Nsh, F 1 Braars p,est ((ilhlo n og a au;l North Wheal Crotty I Par Consols (St. Bla7ey) ; Providence (Uny Leint.)' ,Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 'South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan'. Stray Park Tamar Silv.dz Lead Min.l Tin Croft !Vale of Towev (Carm )i West Basset (illogan) 1 'W. Caradon (Liskeard) l West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) ,Wheal Buller ( Redruth) Witt At Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.). !Wheal Treir_wney (Lis.); - 18.8. all all all all all all all all all 3.2.101 2.11.6 7.4.0 551 170 40 6.8.6 8.12 4.11.61 9 7 2 11,E 1 14.0 9.18.9 14 10.6.7 1 11 5.9. G CI 64 —T) d 10i 11i all 4 3i i par 22 Z 3 Sf 81 20 21 381 391 27 12. 9 13s 6d 6 8 3)4 404 52 54 41311 13 15 6i 7 I fit 91 25 t 6 61 7 94 10 20 21 ES. 1 2 30 34 3f5 175 co 65 27 27i 3 34 16 :8 4 4i X -40 42 51 51 2i $4 31 31 11 2 7 B 41 43 33) "50 4 9 i a 85 95 321 1,1 If 71 8 13" 14" 52 5f WO SOO - 61 85 5 75 85 ( 71 I 21 3i 1.7.2 : 5 6 r. 8 16 17 li 7 158 16i V 0 RiN MIN ES. Ben A mord Copper,Lim. Brazil St.J.del Rey,Lim Do. Land and Mini ng,Co. Clarendon Conaillineo. 10 ICobre Copper ICopiapo 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming Co 2 'Fortuna. 20 ;General 2 :Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr K apunda (Limited) 3 Linares 5 Lusitanian 1 Mari qui ra 1 N. Rhin eCopotS.Aus. L 20 I'ontgibaud Silver,Lead , Mining and Smelt... 5 Port Philip 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) e 1.2.81 United Mexican 1 Worthing (Limited) Do all 1 10s. all all t id Id 30 61 1f 2 dig. 36 28 6 8 1 If 11 23 23 24 i i P i lA P 7 8 I I pr 2- i i id 2 4 11 11 id 71 81 8 7 81 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES C . 1 ' 3 ) 80 . ( 37 779 6 6 p P l e c ' e j ::lB7o l - Y 2l ll 100 1°/) 1 Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-1 100 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Auta,.' 100 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 Do. 5 Der cent , 100 leape G. dope, 6 p c, 18 1880 , 100 Do. 001 100 IN.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.&July' 100 Do. Bn. c.An. & Oct. 100 IN. S.W. Gov. 5 ). c.. 18681 100 Do. 5 p. c.. 1371 to 187 C, 100 Do. p.c., 1858 &upwdil 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. steriln,v, 1875. lOO S. Aus,G6p.c.lB7a&up i 100 ,Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July, 100 Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct 1 100 ICO 105 100 105 100 104 90 91 107 110 107 110 1(0 1!)4 98 100 08 99 97 99 too lot qC2i 1031 92 4 97 i 1021 2 DOCKS. stock Commercial lOO stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min lOO stock East and West India stock Londo- stock St. Katharine... lOO 02 64 stock Southampton lOO - stock Victoria 20 Do New. -_.--_. ,...1 2 14 pr JOINT-STOCK BANKS. . 100 Agra&Unitenervice Bk 50 85 87 1 40 I Aus ;Talas' a all CO 62 I 25 Bank of Egypt all 201 211 100 Balk of London ... • • 20 Bank of Turkey 3 1 pr 50 British North American all 53 56 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 191 2 , 1 191 25 Ch. Mer. of In. Loft& Ch. all 31 S 3 100 City ... 50 74 76 100 Colonial ........ .• • 25 90.11 Coin. Bank of Cana da.. all 100 Commercial of London. 20 20 I Eng.. Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 171 18 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 I Lou. Char.Bkof Austral all 255 26 20 Do. new lO 41 5 19/ 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 20 London and S. Ai rican lO f 5 d 100 London Sr Westminster 20 70 71 100 Vat. Prov. of England 42 • 20 Do. new „.. .. ••.. , l2 50 National ßank 25 Ne v South Wales.-- all 25 Orient. B. Corporation . all 49 51 20 Otto nan Bank ... .. . 100 Provincial of Ireland 10 Do. new 25 South Australia .. 25 Union of Australia 50 Una , of London 1 00 Unit) Mutual.. 6O —• M ISCELLANIOUS. 10 Anglo. NI t.xican Mint .. 1 all 145 151 10 Atlantic E l. Ml. Stm (1c1)1 all 1 2 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all 25 Australian Agricultural 19 ?6 28 271 10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 5 55 4 ! 50 British American Land 40 50 B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lint) all 29 32 20 Do. 8,7p.c.t1111852 (Lint) all 18 20 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 9 11 321 Canada Land all ICO 105 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lint all - at. Cop.slin.ofEng.&S m lt g all --- 7.- 25 Do. Pref. 71 per cent. st. Crystal Palace st. Do. Preference st. Do. 8p ct. Perpet. Deb lOO 107 109 20 E.lndia liTign. & Canal 1 id ipm at. Electric Telegraph 25 Do. New l5 5 English & Aus. Copper all 3 21 15 Gen. Steam Navigate in 14 -- 1 Great Ship Limited) all 1 1 1 Do' 171 pct Preference all i I 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 45 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all 15 14 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 2 21 31 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim) all 4 .5 25 National Di s. Co. (Lint , . 5 4 sd, 4: 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) 5 1% I d 10 Netherlands Land all 5 Do.S p.e.Pref..iss.atl die all #1 ; / 100 N. Br.&NovaScotiaLand 81 10 15 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all 111 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 14 1 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.). all 1; 11 10 Orintl. In. Stcam(Lim.) 10 61 75 7 1 at. Peelß.Lucl.&Min.(Lim) 100 47 50 484 8 50 E'en. & Oriental Steam all 70 72 701 50 Do. New 3O 11 13 20 Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.4lp.e. all 175 181 50 Rhymney Iron all 17 19 15 Do. New all 5 6 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 47 49 st. Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lim ) 100 130 140 25 South Australian Land all 32 84 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip all 1 Do. do. Registered 10 Do. .. ' 10 Trust and Agency of Austrlasia (lim)lst is. 1 pr 1 p 20 Tr.& Ln.Co. of Upr.Can. 5 i /1 i 5 11. K'dom Tel. Co. (lim.) 1 ld pr 100 911 DlCllea'a (And ~. 284 9 10 ioo} 100 091 81 i 61 II 5 4 i 18} MR. BRIGIII, ON POPUL.IIZ EDUC,I7IOIV. Last evening, tlle prizes awarded in the classes connected with the Roe - :dale Working Men's Education Institute were dist , ibuted by Mr. John Bright, M.P., in the Public Hall. The Mayor (J. T. Fagan, Esq.) presided. The Maio:,, introducing Mr. Bright to the meeting, al luded to a speech made by the hon. putleman many years ago, and stated that the remarks which then fell from the lips of Mr. Bright had a considerable effect in stimulating him to exerti,n. Mr. BRIGHT, who was loudly cheered said : —The Mayor has put me into a great difficulty, because he has re minded me of a speech which I had entirely forgotten, but which appears to have had some good effect upon his mind ; and he challenges me to be as successful to night. (Laughter.) I, as many who are here know, probably, am expected to take rather a prominent part to-morrow night in this hall. It has been somewhat of an inconvenience to me to come down here to-night at oil; but I was requested to come for the purpose of giving the prizes awarded to scholars in this institution, and I was not wil ling to absent myself from a duty which, if it involves some responsibility, at any rate confers great pleasure. I am rather ashamed to say that until a very short time ago 1 had not even heard of the existence of this institution, It argues a great deal for my neglect of what is going on in the town in which I live, and shows how much I have been absorbed in matters connected rather with affairs at a dis tance. But when some gentlemen called on me and asked me to come to this meeting, I put several questions with re gard to their institution, and I found that there were about it features which had peculiar attractions to me. I found, for example, that the institution was a very modest one—that it was not at all pretentious ; not at all ostentatious; that it was modest and humble, but earnest and useful in its character. I found further that to a very large extent it was self-supporting, and self-working; that it did not depend upon great lists of patrons, nor did it come before the public for any very considerable subscrip tions; but that there were payments from those who re ceived its benefits, and that those payments went a consi derable way towards defraying its expenses. (Hear, hear.) I found further that the institution proposed to give really useful instruction, adapted to the class of persons who are connected with it; that it did not aspire immediately to make persons wise in classical literature and ab • struso science, but that it contented itself at present with those things which Mr. Molesworth has so well described as forming the bases and only foussdationof any considerable progress in education—reading, writing, and arithmetic, grammar, and geography. Well, I have great respect for all those, except for grammar. (Laughter.) If there is any lad here who is engaged in learning grammar, I will undertake to say that he will say it is the very driest and most unpleasant study that anybody ever put himself to. (Laughter.) When I was at school, which is a long time ago, we learned a grammar written by a gentleman who was, I believe, a member of the religious society to which I belong, and who was a native of the United States of America—Lindley Murray. Lindley Murray's grammar had a great reputation then, and for anything I know has so yet ; but if it has, I pity the lads that have to learn it as I had to learn it—(laughter)—for as far as I recollect —and no doubt it is but a cloudy sort of recollection that I have—there were no end of rues and no end of examples—rules within rules and exceptions of all kinds ; and I have now a feeling of the utter confusion of my mind in endeavouring to understand all the rules of Lindley Murray's Grammar. (Laughter.) My opinion is that grammar may be very easily learned without all that, and that it is very difficult for any person who reads well-written books, and understands them, not to acquire a very competent knowledge of grammar without finding it necessary to learn all the rules in that celebrated but un happy book. (Laughter.) But leaving grammar, and com ing to reading, and writing, and arithmetic, and geography, although they are what rrqs.'?e called " the basis of educa tion," yet if a man can read 011, and write well, and un derstands figures well, there. Li no kind of position almost, that is net special and seientaq. 3, which he is not competent to fill. And reading now i 7 a different thing from what it was a few years ago. In the days of our fathers and grand fathers, if a man did learn to read, there was comparatively very little for him to read. Books were far more expensive --the circle of literature was far more contracted—a man had not the wide and varied field of interest, instruction, and de light, which is now placed before us by the wonders of type and the printing press. If a man in those days could write, it was not easy to carry on correspondence with friends at a distance, for those whose means were very limited ; for the price of postage was very considerable. I believe that the number of letters has increased about sevenfold in this country since the time when the postage was reduced to one penny; and there can be no doubt that if the working classes of this country wore as capable of writing as they ought to be, the number of letters in all probability would be double and treble what it is. For whereas you find in the houses of many persons, the postman every morning deposits a handful of letters—and I hope that this may hardly or never happen to any of you, for I scarcely know any greater inconvenience, seeing that letters have gene rally to be answered—(laughter)—but if he brought only a letter a week to the houses of all the working men of this country, from children, or parents, or brothers, sisters, or friends at a distance, it would be an object of great in terest to them, and I have no doubt that the total number of letters passing through the post would be doubled. With regard to arithmetic, everybody knows that there is nothing that -is a greater stumbling block to any working man who has otherwise a chance of improving his position, than the fact that he does not know figures and cannot do the sim plest sum. It is a constant difficulty to those who have mills or workshops, and a largo number of persons in their employment : they want ass overlooker, or to some office filling with 55., 10s. or 15s. a week more wages than the ordinary run of the place ; and I have known many a man who might have filled Buell a situation and improved his position wonderfully in the world, if he had only had a moderate knowledge of the science of arithmetic. (Hear, hear.) Then I come to the question of geography. That is not so essential, but it is calculated to give equal plea sure with the others. I am sorry to say that of late years peo ple have learned a great deal of geography by the disastrous conflicts that have been going on in various parts of the world. We learned a great deal a few years ago of Turkey and of some parts of Russia, during the Russian war ; a year or two ago wo learned a great deal about Italy, be cause there was an Italian war; and I suppose now people are learning a good deal about America, on account of the calamitous events which are taking place there. But there is one other point in which geography is of great interest to men in this country—and that is, with regard to the ques tion of emigration. I want no man t cross the ocean and establish himself in another land who finds a path open to him here; but millions have left this country, and have left other parts of Europe, and have found their position grea , ly improved. Many have gone in total ignorance. They have put themselves on hoard of ship, they paid their passage money, and were transported they knew not to what point of the compass; but they landed in Canada, or in the United States, or in Australia, and probably have done ex ceedingly well. But it is of great consequence that working men should know something of the geography and the condition of their own country, as well as that of countries abroad. During the last two or three years, as you all know, in this neighbourhood labour has been extremely scarce—wages, as compared with 20 years ago, have been very high, but it has been extremely difficult to get any work done, or to keep machinery going. But at the very same time there are multitudes of people in the south of England, strong labouring men, fathers of families, work ing all day in the open air on a farm, and getting. their Os. or 12s. a week, and with their children getting almost no - thing. If men down in one of these counties would know accurately where Lancashire was and where Yorkshire was, very likely some of them might find their way here —doing no harm to the population here, but doing great good to the population he might leave, because if there were rather less labour than there is, wages there in all probability would rise, and there would be some greater equality between the condition of labour in various parts of the country. Going on with this institu tion. I suppose that modest and humble as it is, it has a little ambition in it, and aspires to something more. I sus pect that there is in this institution probably the germ of what may hereafter become a respectable and useful Mechanics' Institution for this town. (Hear.) In Hud dersfield, in Wakefield, and in many other towns in this district, there are admirable institutions of that kind. About three months ago I was passing through Haslingden, and seeing a very commodious and handsome building, I ven tured in. I found very soon the person who had the manage ment of it, and he introduced me to the whole affair. He explained to me the classes that existed ; he showed me their reading room, their maps, and everything else; so that they have in Haslingden, with far less of population and of wealth than we have here, an admirable institution, far excee ding anything of the kind th at to my knowledge has ever existed in this town. I do not see any reas on why in this town we should n ot have an institution a d s good as that of any o t her town (hoar, hear)bi— a:i perhaps when those . calamitous tahnroduguhn ,cis o o i r w fo h rt ic a h w e e ta a m re es en w te l r s i i n ch g w e are now just wading into, s h a ll have passed awa y , there may be more s p irit on the part of those who can give, and by some combined and general effort we may do something for our town in this respect. (Applause.) But I would not have anybody to suppose that we are actually in a state of darkness, because that would be a great mistake. (Hear, hear.) There is one institution in this town which, as you know, has done a great deal in the way, not so much of the education of the young, as in providing reading and the means of informa tion for those who are grown up —I allude to the readies g rooms opened by the Co-operative Society, commonly called the " The Store." About two months ago, a gentle man was down here from London. He is engaged in one of the Government offices, and has taken a great interest in co operative societies. He came over to Rochdale, satii me, and asked me if I would take him and show him what had been done here in respect to these societies. We went to the shop in T, ad• lane, and amongst other places we in • spected the reading room and library. I forgot now the number of their books, but it is something considerable -3,000 or 4,000. But there was a card hanging on the wall with a list of all the newspapers, magazines, reviews, IT! periodicals of every kind, which were t ak e n in. The gent 0 man looked at this list with amazunm - t. He stood r::acl them over, and at last, as we came out, he said, " Well, I believe there is a better and a more extensive selection of periodicals down on that card, as taken in in this reading room of your working men in Rochdale than there is belong ing to the Athenaeum Club in London." Now, the Athe nreum is a club of which a great many Mere' y persons are members, and it is said to have, I believe, the best library of any club in London ; it devotes some hundreds a year from its funds to keep up its library, and to the supply, of course, of those periodicals for the use of its members. If you go in, it is so quiet and literary looking that, unless you have been to college yourselves, you feel almost alarmed at getting into such a presence ; yet this gentleman, a member of that club, declared that at the Store in Toad lane there was a better and greater selection of periodicals supi lied than there was in that famed and literary club — so that I may claim that we are not altogether in darkness here. (Applause.) Mr. Molesworth ventured upon some topics which some people may think are forcien to an occasion like this: but they are not foreign. He referred to the necessity of all men, and a ll classes of people, understanding their interests, not only in respect to their private plans and employments, but also in respect to their public duties as citizens. At the present time, what can be more unfortunate than our position. The position of you who live upon wages must always be mere precarious than that; of those men who live upon trade, or upon capital employed in some business ; because, although your income is steady under ordinary circumstances, and does not vary much so long as it is continued at all, yet want of health, an accident, or your employers meeting with some misfortune or sever: e in trade—any of these things may stop a working man's in come, may bring him almost at once to difficulty, and, per haps, penury. It seems to me that we are at a time just now when everybody in this district ought to learn, and will Marie, that which he ought to have learned a long time ago.. No doubt the middle classes, who have more political power —though they have not much directly ; no doubt the cotton spinners and merchants of this district, if they could have known ten years ago that this exact state of things which they now all see would have arisen, no doubt they would have done very many things which they have not done; and no doubt if three years ago every workman in this country had known the certainty—as certain as any thing in the future can be—that after three years nearly all the mills of Lanca shire would be working two, three, and four days a week, with the possibility of some of them being stopped altoge ther, the probability is that every man, except the most reckless and profligate—and they are a very small minority —every man would have endeavoured to have saved some of his income during the last few years so as to help to lacer him through the storm which was coming and which is now unhappily upon us. Everybody who knew anything at all of the matter knew that some time or other there would be a catastrophe in the United States. They did not know it would come in this shape, but they knew it would come in some shape or some way. Everybody knew who knew anything on this topic that there was a country, a country under the sway of the British Crown, which was abund intly capable of supplying any deficiency which might thus arise in the supply of the raw material for our manufactures from the United States of America. Yet scarcely any single thing has been done during the whole of this time to enable us to make up from India that which we can now find no longer, and perhaps may not obtain for years to come from the United States. Men passed on, saying, "We have always had cotton, and cotton will always come somehow ; it will only be a question of paying so much more for it." But things will not always come just as heedless and reckless men like; but some great calamity comes. We are now threatened with great suffering to the industrial classes of our popula tion, and great suffering to men carrying on their businesses, owing principally to the neglect of those precautions which instruction and thought, and forethought would have ena bled them to adopt. I never consider this question of edu cation without looking at the wonderful scenes of strife which the world is almost continually affording us—strife in, our own localities, social strife, strife between those who work and those who employ, strife on all kinds of subjects, but on that particularly of our social relations, causing immense embarrassments and great sufferings. Then, if we look abroad over the world we find strife of a more disastrous and of a more sanguinary character. I know not how all this is to be avoided ; but if it be in the intention of Heaven that all this shall cease, it can only cease, in my mind, from the increasing instruction, thought fulness, and morality of the people of this country. (Cheers.) THE POST-OFFICE TUBKISEE BATH. A very elegant and spacious suit of rooms have been fitted and opened by Dr. Culverwell, of Great Marlborough street, at 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, as Turkish Baths, and in order to place the luxury within the means of the public generally, a very moderate fee of admission is charged. Everything that the most refined taste could prompt has been executed in order to secure the greatest comfort and convenience to those patronising the new establishment, in addition to which properly qualified medical gentlemen aro in attendance during all hours of the day. The most timid person, therefore, need have no fear of inconvenience, as the attention paid to all is of the most satisfactory descrip tion. Like all unfamiliar theories the Turkish Bath has met with the most obstinate opposition, but gradually it has so gained ground and popularity that its necessity has at length been universally acknowledged as a powerful sanitary agent. The efficacy of the Turkish bath has been generally admitted ; and as a positive luxury, cheap, easily accessible, and, what very few luxuries are, not morely in nocent, but highly beneficial, it is a great preservative to health. The enjoyment of the Turkish bath is hardly realisable by the imagination of those who are strangers to it. The perfect, harmonious, and healthy action of every organ, the complete balance of overy function of the body, the bracing of the nerves, and elasticity of the whole frame, produce a most delicious elevation of the spirits. Thus, though the whole system receives an impetus that restores it to more than its wonted vigour, the stimulus is healthy, because perfectly natural and the result of a wholesome operation, instead of the effect of an artificial and deleterious agent. Some express an apprehension that the heat of the air in the earlier stages of the bath may be found unpleasant, but they have only to try the experiment to be practically con vinced to the contrary. Moreover, persons unacquainted with chemistry are prone to judge of heat by figures which mark the temperature on their thermometer, without taking into consideration the medium by which that degree of heat is lodged. But there is all the difference in the world between hot air and hot water, and although water at 115 deg. of heat would be nearly insupportable, yet air heated to nearly double that temperature could be sup ported in a Turkish bath. Both as a curative agent and a most refined luxury, therefore, the value of the Turkish Bath is inestimable, and in establishing such in the very centre of the metropolis Dr. Culverwell has greatly added to the many benefits he has already conferred, as a skilful physician, on suffering humanity. To those who have not yet experienced the pleasant and delightful effects of a Turkish Bath we advise a speedy visit to the new and ele gant establishment ; and to those who are familiar with the health-restoring operation we recommend those just opened by Dr. Culverwell, feeling satisfied that the attention they will receive will merit their entire approbation. "Without doubt, one of the greatest luxuries in life is the Turkish Bath ; and in no place in the metropolis can .that luxury be obtained in greater perfection than at the Oriental Bath, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand, opposite the General Post-office. THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh arrivals of English wheat to this morning's market were very moderate. For all descriptions the trade was very firm, but buyers were indisposed to operate at any advance on Monday's currencies. The quotations, gene rally speaking, were without material alteration. Holders of foreign wheat were very firm in their demands, and American parcels were held at further enhanced rates. Other descriptions were fully as dear as on Monday. Floating cargoes of grain were in steady request, and prices were fully supported. All kinds of barley were a dull inquiry, and prices had a downward tendency Malt changed hands to a limited extent, on former terms. Oats, the supply of which was very moderate, moved off steadily, at full prices. Beans and peas were in slow reqaest, yet no change t ok place in their value. O. Flour. I,ito 890 420 SO 450 sack , * The flour trade was firm, and in seine instances the cur. rencies had an upward tenden c y . ( ' Irish.. ........ WAhIteRtIVALsTIiIsWEEK. Oats. Barley. Malt. Foraig-n•••••• .• 17,600 700 5,160 sks. 10,710 brls. BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in hops is confined to actual wants ; prices, however, rule firm. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat is somewhat extensive, and the trade rules inactive, as follows : Beef from 2s 4d to 4s Od ; mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; veal, Gd to 4s 6d ; and pork. 3s Gd to 4s Bcl per Blbs. THE METROPOLITAN DEBTORS' PRISON. -0a Monday the gaolers of the Metropolitan Debtors' Prisons made their second monthly returns under the new law. The prisons present a different appearance to what they some time back, and it is anticip ated that in progress of time but few need to remain in prison for debt before hear ing. The power of arrest in execution is co ntinued, but the facilities afforded to get ou t of p rison makes this sojourn of very short duration. T he p resent number in Whitecross street Prison is 104, and of that number 14 were County Court commitments, leaving 90 "Sheriffs'," When the first return was made there were 180 Sheriffs' and 19 County C our t cases. In Horsemonger-lane Gaol there are only 12 " Sheriffs" and about 8 County Court commitments, which commitments do not come under the new law. The only other prison for debt in the metropolis is the Queen's Prison, where the number is under 100. Besides the pri- Foners discharged by the Registrars, many inmates took the hint and arranged with the detaining creditors and thus avoided being made bankrupt. se al is of ig he ho pt rs, ,loy atest Laced. wiles h the and ibe it and 100 100 100 100 8.13.4 5 6 62i 3 9Pi 56i 88i 751 q 65i