The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET COMMEROIAL INTELLIGENOti. CITY, Two o'CLoci , . The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily, and prices of all descriptions were un altered. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales, 500 of which were taken by the exporters. The Railway Share Market closed buoyantly, at a considerable advance on the rates of Tuesday. Advices from St. Petersburg state that the Neva is covered with ice, and it is also reported that 200 vessels have been frozen in off Cronstadt, and will not be able to get away this winter. From Paris the accounts aro highly encouraging both as regards the aspect of monetary affairs and the movements on the Bourse. There is less pres sure for discounts, and the next monthly return of the Bauk of France, it is thought, will be very 1 : satisfactory. The advance in the Rentes yesterday was about per cent., and the values of Railway Shares materially improved. At the same time it e is mentioned that speculation is dull, and the en hancement i s so l e ly a tt r ib u t e d t o b ona f i de pur- 2 chases for investment. The arrival of the James Baines and the Light ii - ning from Victoria, which was announced this morning, has given much satisfaction to all parties !l interested in the course of monetary affairs, be cause 41 it will not only tend to increase confidence U here, but also render material assistance to the : French market. The amount brought by these Si vessels is about 1,254,1561., viz., 173,539 ounces of gold by the James Baines and 140,000 by it the Lightning. The Atlantic has also been reported from the United States, but her specie freight has not yet been stated. For several days t 6 past the withdrawals of gold from the Bank of g England h ave b een very limited, and as the re- 3 mittances by these ships will prevent any further 23 reduction in the stock of bullion at present, It although the greater part, it is supposed, will be 3t. purchased for transmission to the continent, there Is is some reason for anticipating that in this respect 121 future Bank Returns will be more favourable. 25 The last w ee k' s ra il wa y receipts, ascer t a i ne d up 25 to this day, are in round figures as under :-- it ISM 1855. 2 ' great Westernlo . £26,525 £24,229 10 North-Western South-Western Brighton 13,448 12,539 Midland South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 6,037 5,692 Lancaster and Carlisle Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 9,878 9,464 North London North Stafford Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverh 4,157 3,816 Shrewsbury and Chester West Hartlepool Edinburgh and Glasgow Glasgow and South-Western Grand Trunk of Canada Great Western of Canada 15,268 13,190 Northern of France 'The returns are very favourable, as they gene rally exhibit an augmentation in the receipts compared with those of the corresponding period (14855. The Directors of the Bank of England, at their sitting to-day, have made no alteration in their terms of discount. As the Lightning has arrived at Liverpool to-day, after the long interval that has elapsed since we had advices from the Colonies, we hope that every facility will be afforded by the Liverpool Post office so as to insure the early delivery of the mails to-morrow morning. The English Stock Market has been a shade flatter, but the transactions are numerous. At the commencement of business Consols were 931 for money, and 934 for account. In consequence of a few sales on account of the Greeks, and the rumour that the Bank will not lend on stock during the shutting, they have been rather lower, viz., 93/ I for money, and 931 for the 4th prox. Owing to the pause which has occurred in the up ward movement many p ar ti es w h o bought at owe pricc,s have be en i n d uce d to realise their P m fitse Paxchequer Bills remain at is. discount te India Bonds are 2s. premi um . Th e New Threes 9n and the Reduced 921 I. Bank Stock is 215 to 217 and India Stock 2261. Foreign securities are dull, but steady. Turkish &6 per Cents. are 92,1 f, and the 4 per Cent s . 100 i I, in g firm., though less bu o y an t th an yester d ay. xt ' ll 'ulian 4 per Cents. have been 95k, and Sar dinian 91, and Mexican Bonds are su pp or t e d a t 221 , iirazilian Bonds h ave b een mar k e d 100 f. Dutch 21 2 per Cents. are quoted 651, and the 6 Per Cents. 961 1. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, si 7 ; Mexi _r_an, 22 3 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 76 8 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 3 per C en t s ., 43 5 ; RUPAI* I 5 pe r Cents., 106 8 ; di tto 41 per Cent s ., 94 . 6 ; Spanish 3 I%Tew Defem e d, 2 3 per Cent s ., 4q ; ditto Passive, 6) i ; ditto Ce r tifi cates, 5/ ; ditto There hags been a rather active business transacte d in the Rail:way Share Market this morning. have, however, exhibited a downward prices tendenc tand most of the chief lines are quoted abouty' to per cent. lower than yesterday's closing rates. Caledonian, North-Western, South-Western and North British reeeded fully 6 s ; Great Northern and South-Eastern ; and North- Pastern perwick) 1/. Great Western, Midl and, Edinburgh., Perth, and Dundee, and one or two others hare been steady. The East Indian and Canadian lines have been well supported ; and the Principal Prench lines have shown an advance of about ss. to 10s. - - -- Joint Stock — Bank Shares have been inactive, but in one or two instances rather higher rates have been obtained. Bank of Australasia advanced lOs. London and County 10s., and Union of Australia, tic Miscellaneous shares are without any material alteration. Victoria Government 6 per cents, are 110, B RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Prom the Offictal List.) Brven..s done. Bank St oc k 3 Per Vent. Reduced Annuities t.Per Cent. Consols Annuities 3 i 3 i i i Long 3 per Cent. Annuities 14 92$ ong Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860._ . 2 13.16 Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 3 1.16 Ditto :30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7i India Stock 226 i India Bonds, ..{.:Inoo Ditto, under £ l OOO ..''''''''''''''''''''''' 9 p Consols f or Account .. .. '' - Exc hequer Bills 2d '' '''''''''' 931 .; ei1m10X................, ........ Ditto Bonds, 1853, 31 pe . r .. a3 . n .. i . ''''''' I d 3 P Ditto, 1'359 PRICES OF FOREIGN ill i ,ll.3ii . A....T..0911,Lic O'CLOCK. Brazilian Fonda, 5 per Cent. ... Mexican 3 per Cent ................... ............ - 7 1 Russian Bonds, 1522, £ St., 5 per Cent . .. .. .. .• 9 .____ - 1 Ditto 4 i t . per Cent. . ..................... 9% Bardinian Bonfqs, 5 per Cent. .. ............ _ Liao Account Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. MN Ditto Account Dutch Divhiends on the above nayshie in Lone, Exchange, per Cen';., 12 Guilders 65 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 96e i TWO O'CLOCK:. Con AnIP (Money) . 93i i Ditto (Account) 93i tl ----- The borough of Chesterfield is at present in an awk- Ward predicament, in consequence of being without a m ayor. O w i ng to a blunder committed in the borough, a thief magistrate cannot be elected until the 9th of next Novem her. ~.. afEe. It is in t en d ed to lay down a double line of rails on the ,-"If Vale Railway, t o accommodate the increasing cr The four Barons of tho Exchequer ye , terday finally decided that the decision of Baron Martin, in the , recent case tried before him, platreive to the "through ' ticket, taken by a person on the Great Northern Rail- W ay from London to Hull, was correct. A. rule for a I le*/ trial was refused. An extensive system of swindling has been discovered, and the persons implicated were 3resterday placed before Inandkr. Seeke r at the Southwark Police -court, and re ed. The old dodge of ordering goo of tradesmen obe sent home, and then getting possession of them without the money, is the course pursued. Mr. Morton, (.otedford.street, and Mr. Sackmore, of Baker -street, °f-t the a n in cu ,, tod are Charles Bond and h. wife Is s'a.r3b, Alfred retie-ell, y and hie wife JOIXIIII3II. ritE SUN, I.O.NDON, THURSDA Y Tilt s ;i ARE MARKETS (Tqls DAY.) RAIL Vv AYS. Paid . ilAn.wAys, Cloning Price yesterday. 9A Arabg. NottAA Boa and Esstn. Janet all Belfast & llalymena sli Binning. Wolvorh. Stour Va11ey...... Birk e.dhd. Lanesh. , Cheshire Junct all 'Do. Chosh. 4 Birk., all Do., do all Blackburn all Rlytb &Tyne original ,£25 (issd. at .£45 'lOO 'Bristol and Exeter.. 100 Caledonian. 100 Chester do Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.. all Cork, Black, d< Pas, all 'Cornwall all I Do. A 8 Do. B Dublincirßelfast.inne all Dun. P. Jnc 100 East Auglis.n ........ . all Eastern Counties 100 East. Union, A Bt] 10u 80., B. 5t0ck... ... Si Do., New ..... East Kent 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh dt Clasps all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin. Pri.ll .4 Dun de, all Forth & Clyde Jan • 100 !Furness all I Do. Extension....... all Great N. of Scotl n d 100 (Great Northern 'lOO Do., A. Stock.. 100 Do., B. Stock '1)0 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.; 100 Great Western 100 Do. Storm Val. Rai Gum. 5tk..... all [rish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisl , 14i Do., Third 5....... .... 12 Do. New Thirds,,,,,, 100 Lancash.andirorksl D)., Ws t, Riding IN all Do. South; ort all London & Blackwall 1 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cs' 100 Lond. and N. West! 16 Do. Fifth s ....... . 2 Do. Eighths ....... 100 f London andS. Wes ia, . all ' Lndndrry4Colorain. sil Lndndrry. & Banish 100 Afanch.Bhof.kLinch , 325. Do., Man. & Lin. Un 1 Ifetropolitan 1 Do. JL. Ricardo' arrangement 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. & Derb all Vidld. G. West. (Ire all Do. Half Sh ares ., 311 Newcastle & Carlish all Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfe 8 Itswry &Enniskills all Newry, Warrenpoin and Rostrevor.. l LOG 'iorfolk 3i lorthn.Conntles Un 100 North British..._. 100 yth. Devon Rail. Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock 100 Do., B Stock 100 S.Eastern—Berwi , l 233 :)o. do. Extension 16 Do.do. ?Tirol) all Do. Leed5...... ..... 100 Do. York,., 100 North London ..... 311 E S.Wstrn.,llam: stead, and City ',.714 North Staffordebir,. al North Western._ all N. &S. Westrn. Jun , ton Tom, j t WoIN 14 ort month ........ 9 Rbymney 1 0 i.oottigh Central.. 10) Scot. N. E. Abrdn St. 10t: Do. Scot. Mid. St too il , ropshire Uni,b 2 SitingbournekSheer. a!1 iontn Devon ...... 10( 3oath Eastern....... 100 south Wales ........ ;. Yrksh. d< Riv. Dn , ')o. . all S ai•nes, Wok. &Wol al' Stockton & Darling 14 Do., do., 1854,,,, 3 Do., do., 1855.,,,,, -tv.licten Hartlep 'aff Vale.... )0 'o. Pref., No.. 1 ?2 rl,ames Hay. D.& R all Vale of heath...... Watorfd. & Kilkenn: all gaterforddsLimoric', all West Cornwall,. all Best End of Londoi and Cryetal Palace. all Do. A.. . all Do. B all West London. all Do. Filet Class . all Do. Second Class._ all Wimbledn&Croydoa all A.ntwerp&Rott. rdbm 10 Ardennes, all Belgian Eastn. June 16 !3eziere to Graisseasse 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lndia, g. 5 p. c all Do. 10i Buff. & Lk. Hur. Ry all Canacaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. Ms. Ceylon A shares_ 1 Do. B. do all Demerara 12 nutoh Rhenish all Eastern of France 19 no. New 2s. Eastern Bengal ... all East Indian A and B, a. 6 p. c. 5 Do. Ex. C, gu. sp. c all Do. do. D, gu. sp. c. all Do .4 p. c. Buds ,'57 all Do. do. do., '59, do 2s. Euphrates Valley 10s. Eur.&ln.Jn.Tel.Rail all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent... all Cid. Trunk of Canada all Do. Cert. of Deben, con. into Stk. CUT: . nil Do.Conap. Cp. c., do 18 Gt. Central of Fran e all Qt. In. Pen. g. P. c. 2 Do New, g uar. s p„ c 16 Great Luxembourg all Gt.liVe.aternof Canada, 8 Do. New„ all all Do. 13ds., Paya bl e ' 5l Do. do., '76, P. '6O•. all Doall. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, without option... ............. 4 Italian Juncti all 0n...-. all Lake Contd. & Ba s l s Lierre and Turnhout 6 Lombardo Venetian. all Lucca dr Pist. sp. c.p. 15 Lyons and Genova all Lyons ca MeJiterran all VI adras , gu ar. 4 p.c all Do. do., sp. ... 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exton 5 Do. 3clEx., g. 5 p all Maria Antonia ... all Do, do. Now ....... all Namur di Liege..... all Do. do.,Prof all Northern of France. 1 all NorwegianTrunkPre 1 all Paris and Lyons... all Paris and O rle ans..... .] 5 Recife & San. Prem.,' (Perham.) g. 7 P. c. 5 Rome and Frascati.. a ll royal Danish ........ . all Royal Swedish ... all inmbre and Meuse.. all Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. 5 icindo, guar. sp. c. all D 0... .................. a ll southern of France.. 18 qt. Andrew's an(' Quebec .... . all .gest Flanders...,... r.ll Do. SA per c. Pref._ 11 & N. W. of Franc( 6 Western of Austria... , 6 6 West. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden all Do. Sper cent Pref All Zoaland 4 - 4J 8f 17 - 18 15 - 16 12 - 13 91 - 93 57i -57 j 35 - 37 •.• ""' .. 9 4 - 104 16 1 - 174 35 - 24 - 26 7 - 5 82 - 84 53 - 55 iii = iii 8 - Si 91 - 92 78 - 80 123 -- 125 115 - 117 66 663. 71 74 5 1 64 ei 94i 95 , gla .... . g 1 (07 6 IC9 101 - 104.3 1 f p - 0 p d 1054 - 106 34 35 - 80f - 53 -. 55 ' . N ... 14 - 15 48 ao 3 4 s 38 39 ••• ... ... 82i - 83 5 - 2 18 —18 it 59 *o 95 —9B Si 6f - 10 - 11 28 - 30 •• tO2 104 21f 25 68 70 46 - 48 16 1+ 16i 71f 71 1 78 80 5 3d 2 —1, 14 16 39 • • 19 -- 196 4i - 5 6 - 8 2 - 4 5 - 64 • • ...... .., 7 7 'i 6 - 7 I}-2p •••• • •.• .'"'' •• . § ....' 1 p 4i -- 5 1-1 - li 1 - lv 33 - 33 .9 - 10 22 - 1 211 - 22, -.•-- • i •. it - P 23 - 23. 10i - 11 76 - 78 3 - , 21a - 21i 3i 4 - 5 241 -24 i 99 - 2 - 101 ip 115 - 120 115 ". 120 108 110 .- - ... ••• - ...( 1 7A - 86 21i 22j par 4 s , • p' •• 8 - 19} -1 9 i 3 7i - 374 0 -- 9 49 tioZ 51i par i pi 17 yó - 1h 94 ••• .... Pm 4Z .." 8 ---. 4/ - 9i 33 t - 34 4 - lii JOINT•STOOK. BANJO. 98 -- 100 2i - 2d 64 -- 66 ••.• ''' .... 68 -• 70 17i 19)1 - 20! 19 - 20 1 - 3p ... ...d ••• ".-. ... ••• ''''' eve ..• 45 :14 38 40 3 i "7 lid 3 6 62 64 6j 76 1 ••• 6 0. d, Business done this day LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS I' :shr. 11.% RAILWAYS. I LOASII- Di4am. •r,0,-.. 1 Pusiuess I Compan , . yesterd:r. I this Gay al, Bedford and London & t' St n ClB'allyiedektegs3dhhasleullY„ll. N .... C L a .k l . c il d We o .W n st .. —9B ... 96 98-- 102 2 5 all Col. Stour Vy. E. CJ &LC 12 14 S .jlOO E. Lin. g.cp c , 1131t.Nrtrn. 133 134 5 all E. Un. H. Sh. E. Count. 4 43 St. 100 Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct St. 100 Do. Now Do 25 all Glstr.dtDa Fr Gt. Vrestn 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway & Berw. 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &NMi 106 108 25 all Do. 3 Shares. Do 12i. all Do. 1 Shares. Do •• ••• 121 all Lon.&Greenw Easton 123 —l3 20 all Do.Preferonce Do 22. 233 St 100 Lon.. Til. , &S. Pet° &Co 108 112 1091 10 31 Do. Bark. Sh. Do 3 1 p St 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk ... St. 100 Do. 6 per ct. Do •.. all Manch. Bxtr.. L.107.W and Matlock & Midld. 21 21 tO all Middlesbn , ' Stekton & Redc.g 6 p.c. Darlingt. St. 100 Midld.itraa r. Midland 9O 92 903 61 51 Newmarket Bury E. G.spc En. Conn. p 1 50 all NA; Est.sp.c. E. Count. 55 57 50 all Do. 6 per ct. Do 50 all Do. Fixeds pc Do 25 all Prost. & Vvyrp L. 123 all Do. 3 Shrs. A Do ...... ••• ••• St 100 Roystn.& Hit. GtNorthr 133 136 25 181 Shof. Roth.an Lancash & Goole g. 5 p.c Yorksh. .„ 10 all Shrews.&Her T.Brassey 71 81 11! 101 S. Staflordsh. M.llClean 31 —31 d SO all WoarValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt. all Do Do 33 24 St 100 WiltE. , eemrst .GltWestn 190 92 PREFERENCE SHARES. - ... - 100 4; - 5 6 -6; 107 -- 112 97 - 102 I P - IP Ilf - 121 ••• ...... .I. • •11. ..... ~ ... ..... 11l •••• '"' a, ••• ."'. •• ii - i• ••• •• 118 09 - 115 .03 - 101 61 - 62 10 - .» ...... 6 6. 93 95 86 88 86 88 99 - 101 10 100 164 171 1 104 71 73 194 20, 14 4 4 15 4 4 id L 37 -- 139 M ~ N~ i35-137' 115 - 117 1157 - ~ ""'" • •• Il• ..... • • • 66 - 70 r• .... •• • ~ ... L 36 - 138 98 - 100 88 - 1 - li; .• •• '. ••• .. -.... ... [O2 -104 92 - 94 1} - ... id 1167 2 jO9 --... see '"' ••• '''' ••• 60 - 65 15t -16 i ..... ”• 23 - 24 .00 - 102 9i - 104 "'' ••• ... ••• 27 -- 28 2 - 3p All Blythauu'r)ne c. pref. (issd. at 501 100 Brim. & Ex. 4p. c. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... 1 100 Caledn. £lO 4i pc. 100 Ohes. &Ho. an. 5 t pt ail Do. do. Pref. No. 2. all Do. do. Pref. No. 2. all Cork 4Bandons3p.c all Dua.Prth .4 Aber.J., 2 & Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B6p. c. 1.00 Do. do Cis. C7p. c. all Has. Co.Ex, speNo. all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c. Si all east tin., G. 6 p. c all Do. 61., 10 per cent all Do. 101. Debontr.Sh. all Do. do. 4 per cent 100 East Lancash.6p.cts all York. J. sth% 4 Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sh MO Ed. Prth. kThin.42.c 100 Furness, sp. c. 10) & S. W. (1.5 p.c. 100 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. sp. a. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prom. 100 Do. , q p.c 60 De.s p. c., Red. at p. c. pm, all Gt.N. of Scot.lat Pre 100 Gt. S. &W. (Ireland 14 Do. 4per o. Prif. S 6 Ot.W.(B.&H.Exspc •• LOO Do.con. red. 4t p.c. 1. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4p. c. 100 Do. sp. c. red. pref all Do. Birm. Prof. all Do. Chester Bp. c.P.F. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do., 100 Do. Birm, Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Qua. Sh.. all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F i2o 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock 100 Lon.&B. G. 5 pc.No.l 100 Do. P., spe, St.No.2 100 Do. New Guar.6 n. 100 Do. do. sp. c.,N0.4 100 Lon. &N. W Coy. . Nuneaton 5 p. ct... 100 Len.St S. W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares ... all bendy. & Color. Sll, all i tsondy. & Ennis. Sh 100 L. , 6 p. Cent' 44 Do. do. do. £6 ... 100 Do. do. 34 per cent. all !darypt .&Carl.4 p o all Do. 4.A per cent 10. i Do. do. 100 ISid.Consol.6 p.c.St 100 Do. Con.BrXr. 6pr 101 De. 4i p. c. Pref. St 100 Ditto L. &H. Pref. St . New Aber drc pr. all " *, • 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. 6 Do. Perpet. 6 p et. with optn. till '66 all Norfir. Deb, 4 p.c. ah 100 Do.Pref.4. 0. Stec 100 Do. 5 pc. Eat.,1846 100 De. 54perc.pf ,1847 100 D0.Wv.V.5pe.,1847 100 North British 'lOO NT. E. Perw, 4 p.c P. 83 Do. do. do. 13 Do Leeds 6 p.c 0.N0.1 9 Do. do. QrE.,1848... 10 Do.Yorkll.& S. Pur. all North Staffordshire , 100 Ox, Wo, fi pc 100 Do. 6 p.c. Redeem all Scoi. Cent. ,Now Pref 100 ISe.N.E. Abor. g 6 pc all 'Do. d0.,7 p.c. pf. st. 100 D0.d0., 36 p.c. pf. st 1 all South Devon all Do. fixed,44 percent ' all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 1100 Do. 4? . ., per cent all Do. Fixed 4i p c sh , 100 S. Wales Gua. 4p. 0 100 Do. do. 4i p. c all S.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar all Stock.& Dar., sp. c 15 Do. do. do 24 all Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p. c. till July 1, '56 5 all Waterfd. & Kilk. 6p c 77 20 21, 36 21i 30 I 1 2 0 2 MINES. all Agna Fria ...... all A.nglo Californian 7 Australian all !Baden (Gd. Duchy of) all i Blamar. Iron & °ea , 14 British Iron 26 Brazi lianlmp. (issued at 1-.:5 pm.) all I Do. Comes & Culab4 15 'Do. St. John Del Re) Clarendon Cons. Min ' Co. of Jamaica,..... all Cobre Copper , 1 Colonial Gold all Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Prof. 7. p. cent 1l ,Copiapo all 'Fortuna all Genctal all Gt.NuggetVeinßeg 4.1 all Groat Polgooth 5 all Gt Wheal Vor Unitei 1 all Liberty 3 all Linares 5 Lusitanian 1 all Mariquita J. all Now Granada 1 all Nouveau Monde all Pontgi.Si 1. & Le. Min 1 iPort Philip all Quartz Rock all llthymney Iron all iDo. Now 151 Santiago de Cuba... 6s. ISort. Cons, Min. Co. all ISouth Australian..,,, all Do. Scrip all iDo. 10 per cent Pref 4. Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 9 Tin Cr0ft.........,. all United Mexica all Waller .......... all West Maripos;.• 12 s. Worthing Mining of Australia . ...... ' MISI 19 Anetralian all A nstraln. Royal Mail' all Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 3 C dada 00 06p.e. Jan&,; nly 100 100 Do p.c., Fob & A ug Do. 6p c. Mar & Sept al l Cryst a l Palace.. all D o. Prefer ence all Crystal Pal.of France Duston Iron Ore 15. Easte too Ele rn Steam ctric Telegraph all Electric Toleg. of Jr. all En.diA ns Cop Sin Co 14 all Gen. Jr Sc Col Win.) Gen. St en nk Nay gat. all Gonoral Screw Steam all Lond. Gon. Om us 10 Magdal ena St. Navig all ltediteran. Elec. Tel. all Mexican&S.Americe. 5 Nat. Discount Co 1 Do. New ••• 5 Netherland s •• ud all Do. Do .. 3 Do. 8 pcPiesatl d 80 New Ti. dr. N. S. Laud N. S,W. Gov. sp. c. D. all N. B. Australasian 174 Nrth.olEuropeSteam all Oriental Ga 5......,.., 2s. Do. "New Shares" all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. all Peninsular& Oriental 10 Do. New 60 Royal Mail Steam AU Scot. Austral. Invest all Ditto New all South At stral.Land al: Buhr:tar. Tel. Sorir al Do. Registered 5 Trilmt,4 co.u.c.• 2q Van Diemen's Laud 1.1 Vii hlt i P• "1Y •• - ••• •if - lf 5 - 7 1 1 -2/ 3fr - 31 18 - 26 54 - 56 30 35 25 27 14 16 id 1 : 1 j - 2j 7 - 7i A - 10 21. - 23 - 7 2} --21 2B ..• - ••• 31 - 3i 3i - 4 ••• ••• if ''' i 'E01713. 26 - 28 113 - 118 113 - 113. .. 11 ii sf bi ••• ".."' ••ft 93 -.. 95 1 - i• 6 3#- 3, 21 10 - a 4 1 „ P 1 ..... Ad 18 f2'" lA 2icl 1 P i 6 2i _ 213 P 70 66 54 68P id _ 1 3 35 37 1 16 16 IN 31 al 5J it. St. all lAu mtrailaal ... 18 Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London all itri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C al' British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 6 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Anstralia, & China 50 City 25 Colonial 20 CA4matnercial of Lond ' ail Flog.Seot.&Ans.Cht all Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia,,.. all Ditto New ..... . 20 London and C'o nnt 50 laid. k 10 London Jolla Stock 30 London and Paris 20 Loud. & Westminster 35 National Proof Eng 10 Do. New .. 223 National B ank """".... all New South Waled all Oriental Bk. Corp 15 Ottoman Bank Zo Provincial of Ireland all Do. Now 1 All 6 B &Go Ira Cc 3ont . ! Australia I all Onioa of 2.l2Fitralit Do. Now 10 ITT)ion of t, Western 13k 4f Lone vv. , ..... 19 i FOREIGN. 22f f I 25 37L 15 30 511 1 2t4 9} 1 1 57i i 34 i 91 i I I v 2 I 7B' 50 124 65, 61 6, 6 $ i 107 i 103 i 4 3i 106 54 344 i 804 i 80 i 38 !*() St. 2u 50 82 St 19 181 St St . St. S 18& 59 i 16 i 71i St. 10 10 St. St. St. at. 25' 20 Elk, St. 8} St. EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 1856 SHREWSBURY RACES.—{This Day.) (BY BLECTRIO TELEORAPIL) Plausible Baroda Leamington Octavia Agra 601. PLATE. STEWARDS' CUP. Eleven ran. COPELA.ND NURSERY HANDICAP. M. Dobler' Nina ran. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, Justices Wightman, Coleridge, and Erle.) THE QUEEN V. THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER IN INSOLVENCY, Sir F. Thesiger moved fora mandamus against Mr. Law, Chief Commissioner in Insolvency, commanding him to make an order for the payment of the surplus of aninsolvent's estate, under the 92d section of the Ist and 2d Victoria, chap. 110, which enacts that in any case where a surplus remains after discharging in full an insolvent's estate, it shall be lawful for the Court, od application duly made, to order that all such property so remaining shall be vested in the person whose debts have been so discharged, or his exe cutors, administrators, or assigns. The insolvent, in this case, was a person named George William Dyson ; he became an insolvent, and on Bth July, 1850, after he bad filed his schedule, be sold "all other his estate and effects to a Mr. Cooke for 3,0001." After paying the insolvent's debts, a surplus remained of about 4,0001., and the insolvent, subsequently to executing the deed to Cooke, petitioned the Court a second time. The Chief. Commissioner proposed to dispose of the surplus by appropriating it towards the liquidation of the debts under the second insolvency, which was objected to by Cooke, and a writ of prohibition had been obtained from the Lord Chancellor to restrain the Chief Commis sioner from disposing of the insolvent's estate other than under the first insolvency. Lord Campbell—You contend that the order referred to is a ministerial act and that the Chief Commissioner has no judicial discretion in the case, and that it is im perative on him to make the order. Sir F. Thessiger—Yes. The Chief Commissioner has refused to make any order with regard to the sum. Lord Campbell—Take a rule. Rule granted accordingly. THE GOLD ROBBERY ON THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. Since the examination of Agar, the detective officers, Thornton and Smith, is whose hands the case is, have been actively prosecuting their inquiries, and it is ex pected that they will be in a position in the future ex aminations to corroborate Agar, cot only in the main facts, but the whole of his details. The cabmen who conveyed Pierce and Agar night'y to the station before the robbery took place will be produced, as well as the cabman who drove them there on the night of the rob bery, and the cabman who on the Morning following took them to Paddington, and thhn to Euston-square, and also the chambermaid who showed Agar to the bed room in the public-house in the Borcugh under the pre text of washing his hands, but in reality to take an im pression in wax of the keys of the iron safe which Tester brought to him. With respect to the manner in which Fanny Kay be came acquainted with the robbery, it appears that though her suspicions were aroused at the time, the actions of Agar and Pierce were so guarded that she could not ascertain what they were engaged about, and although they answered her inquiries as to what they were doing when they were engaged in melting the gold, by telling her " leather apron weaving" (a cant term for " mind l your own business") the circumstances remained fresh in her memory, and it was not until Ag4r was convicted for forgery and uttering, and after she visited him, in company with Pier ce ' s w if e , a t P en t onv ille prison, that informed she was of the gold robbery by Mrs. Pierce. Possessed with that knowledge, it would have been thought that Pierce would have acted towards her and her child in a more friendly spirit, and not have risked, by his conduct, the probability of her betraying him. The threat used by Mr. Lewis at the last examination, that he would have Fanny Kay watched to her house because she refused, by the advice of Mr. Bodkin, to state her residence, has been so far baffled by the pro secution, and they have taken means to effectually pre vent her being tampered with between the present time and that of the trial of the prisoners. THE EUP7RATES VA bLEY RAILWAY Mr. Andrew, the chairman, and Sir John M'Neill, the engineer-in -chief of the Euphrates Valley Railway Company, had an interview yesterday with his Excellency M.___Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador. General Chesney and Sir John M`l4eill, having com pleted the preliminary survey of the first section of the proposed Euphrates Valley Railway, viz., from Seleucia to Aleppo, and made a general examination of the country ,between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates, the General returned to Constantinople to complete the negotiations for the firman, while Sir John M`Neill has arrived in this country, having left a portion of the en gineering staff to make detailed surveys. Sir John reports that there is every facility for making a harbour in the vicinity of the ancient port of Seleucia, near the mouth of the Orontes, and that the country via Antioch, Mlles, and Ailam, to Aleppo, presents no engineering difficulty, and that the railway may be con structed for 8,000/. or 9,0001. per mile. By making a detour a rich settled country, dotted over with towns and villages, is accommodated, and branch lines will he unnecessary. A large traffic is in existence. According to the toll-books, at a bridge on the Orontes, more than 1,200 laden camels' and horses passed per diem. The charge for the conveyance of goods from Aleppo to Alexandretta was 8/. per ton, but the usual rate is 31.155. The price of oats at Aleppo in October last was 18s. per quarter, and at Antioch, about 40 miles distance, 27e. per quarter. Besides being the most important portion of the railway, from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, the section from Seleucia to Aleppo is in itself a complete work, having a port at one end and the chief emporium of Mesopotamia at the other, to which the traffic from India, Bagdad, &c., converges. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. ',Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Alderson, Bramwell, and Watson.) ARINGUREN V. SCHOLPIELD AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a Spaniard, to recover a sum of 7901., the amount of a bill of e x. change which the defendant had accidentally thrown into the fire and destroyed, under the belief that it was a piece of waste paper. A rale was obtained at Cham bers, before Mr. Justice Crowder, staying proceedings, in the case, the defendants being willing to pay the amount, on the plaintiff giving them security, as an indemnity against their being sued by any other per son on the bill. Mr. Manisty having shown cause against the rule, Mr. Burney supported the rule. The plaintiff was anxious to try the case. The rule obtained stayed the proceedings in the case because the plaintiff, being a Spaniard, was unable to give the required security, and in effect he was prevented from recover ing the amount. Already three months' time had been lost, whereas the plaintiff might have gone to trial and obtained a verdict. The Court made the rule absolute, giving at the same time the defendant two days to plead. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.) SOUTHWARK. CAUTION TO PrILICANS. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT SHILLINGS.—John, Mayes, a middle-aged, dirty-looking man, was brought before Mr. Burnham, charged with uttering two counterfeit shillings at the Rose public house, Snows-fields, Bermondsey. Henry Ballard, barman at the above house, which is held by Mr. Joseph Carter, stated that on the pre vious evening the prisoner came in and asked.for a pint of porter and a screw of tobacco, for which he tendered a shilling, which witness examined and found to be a counterfeit. He bent it and threw it back to the prisoner, who then asked to be trusted. Witness told him he could not trust, and as Mrs. Carter was coming from the bar parlour he bolted out of the house. Mrs. Carter then asked witness if that man had tendered a bad shilling. He told her ,he bad, when she said he ought to be given into custody. Witness then went after him, and saw him leave another public. house close by, which he entered, and ascertained that he had unsuccessfully tendered one there. Witness again went atter him and gave him into custody. On the way to the station he saw him drop a shilling in the gutter, which he picked up, and believed to be the one tendered to him. Elizabeth Carter, the landlady of the Rose public house, said she knew the prisoner. On Tuesday evening he came into her house and was served by her with a pint of half-and•half. He gave her a shilling, and she banded him the change. She had some suspicion of the coin as it felt so smooth, consequently she placed it by itself on one side. On the following day she carefully examined it and ascertained it to be a counterfeit. That same evening she was sitting in the bar parlour when she saw the prisoner throw something down which the bar- man said was a bad one, and then the prisoner left the house. She went to the bar and asked her servant whether the man who had left had tendered any bad money, and on his replying in the affirmative she sent him after the prisoner. Witness produced the shilling which she took of the prisoner, and it seemed to have been cast in the same mould with the other. ... Mr. Burnham remanded the prisoner until Saturday for the attendance of the Mint solicitor, as he thought it a case for him to take up. There oould be no doubt of the character of the prisoner. M ARLBOROUGH -STREET. DESPERATE ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—John Hag• gerty, a rufanly looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Bingham with violently assaulting Goddard, 302 A, under the following circumstances. The constable, whose head was dreadfully cut and bruised, stated that on the previous night he was at the top of Crown street, Soho, when he saw the prisoner carrying a bag with something heavy in it, on his shoulder. He followed him to a marine store shop in the same street into which he went, and taking a lot of lead from the bag placed it in the scale. Witness entered she shop and asked prisoner where he got the lead from. The prisoner pretended to know nothing about the lead he had put in the scale, and said he was about buying some lead, and not selling any. Witness told him lead was not sold that way, and taxed him with stealing it. The prisoner again denied all knowledge of the lead, and at that mo ment the shopkeeper came out and said he was about buying it of the prisoner when he (the officer) came in. Witness then took the prisoner into custody, with the lead produced, weighing 521b5., in his posses. sion. On the way to the station-house the prisoner became very violent, and swore he would not go to the station. He then kicked witness in a dangerous part of his person, and felled him to the ground, and while he was lying on the pavement he kicked him again about the head and face, and nearly knocked out one of his eyes. At length, after a desperate strug g l e , h e sue , ceeded conveying him to the station-house. Mr. Charles Field, the owner of several houses in Dudley-street, identified the lead as having been stolen from the roof of one of his houses. The prisoner denied the charge of stealing the lead, but admitted striking the officer in self-defence. Mr. Bingham committed the prisoner for two months for stealing the lead, and n month in addition for the assault on the constable. The Hullah concerts commenced last n i ght at St. Martin's Hall. Handel's " Israel in Egypt"was per formed. There was a very crowded att en d ance. A fatal accident occurred yesterday on the Eastern Counties Railway. ili.' man named Joiner was killed by being jammed between the buffers of two carriages. ' pres as btmerta:lnne w etn a o s li seen t o step name of Wilson, Las been apprehended,. tried, and The Ifartlepool Custom-house robber, a man of the sen tenced to four years' penal servitude. Edinburgh. Between FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN PAILWAY. —Yesterday morning, shortly . after . nine o'elock, a man was knocked down and killed instantaneously on the r nseY and GreatSouth iotern, bs e N yyt o ha r e t n h dd e o r w n Railwayn e Southgate x line in front of the train, and was knocked down. The train was at once pulled up, and the guard, upon pro ceeding back, found that the man was cut and battered about so much that it was impossible to recognise his features. It is stated that a boy observ e d the person loitering ab ou t the line for some time yest er d ay morning, line looking up and down the as if for one of the trains. Information has been forwarded to the coroner, and an offieial inquiry will take place today. DUTT ON TEA. Various rumours having been circulated that it was doubtful if the Government intended to reduce the duty on tea from ls. 9d. to is. 3d. before April, 1858, and the question 'being of great importance 'to the trade, an inquiry has been addressed to the Board of Customs, to which the following reply has been received : ___ " Custom House, Nov. 17, 1856. " Sir, I am directed by the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs to acquaint you, in reply to your ap- plication of the 11th inst., that the reduction of duty on tea from is. 9d. to ls. 3d. per lb., will take place on the 6th April, 1857.-1 am, sir, your obedient servant, " W. MACLEAN. "To S. Sampson, Esq., 18, Little Tower street." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 20.—Wind this day at noon, W.; light airs and hazy. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N.N.W. to W,N .W —Sailed—Eastern Monarch, for Bombay ; H.M.S. Ra leigh, India; H.M.S.'s Vuloan, Mersey, and Covenanter, the Cape of Good Hope. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N.—Arrived—Midlo thian, from Cardiff, for Callao, bore up to stop a leak. FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N. GRIMSBY, Nov. 19.—Wind N.—Arrived—John T we zell, from Blyth, with loss of bowsprit, jib-boom, and mach damage to bows and stem, having been run into on the 17th inst., off Flamborough Head;by the ship Mo narch, of London. __ ABI/RYSTWITM, Nov. 19.—Wind W.— Arrived—Buttus, from Quebec. BRAUMARIN, Nov. 19.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived— Avon, from Quebec. YARMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Arrived—George Rolfe, from St. John's, N.B. LYNN, Nov. 19.—The iron Collier Lydia foundered on the Yorkshire coast, being leaky ; crew landed here. CRONSTADT, Nov. 10.—The Margaret, hence to Hall, got on shore near Krasnaga Kjorka on the 6th inst., and is full of water; crew saved. The Andreas has been cut through by the ice, and is leaky. BREMEN, Nov. 15.—The Johanna, of this port, from Iquique to Falmouth, in entering the River Plate was to• tally lost off Cape Cerro, on the 26th Sept. ; crew saved and landed at Monte Video. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning Wind N.E. Arrived—Matilda Wattenbach, from Calcutta; Iverige, River Congo ; Braganza, Oporto ; Glenalva, Bombay ; Lady Ebrington, Arica. Sailed—Herald of the Morning, for Melbourne. The James Baines may be expected up to-morrow. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 18. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Mary Ann, from Rabat; Village Girl, Alex andria. Sailed—Native Lass, for Coast of Africa. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thumiety, 9.58 a.m. Wind W. ; tide threo hours' ebb ; cloudy. Arrived, Nov. 20.--Olinda, from Cronstadt ; Waverley, Colombo ; Essex, Boulogne ; Eliza Hanson, Malmo ; ' Eutalia Gravelines ; Richard, Helsinborg ; Dolphin, St. Petersburg. _ _ Sailed, Nov. 20.—Ellen, for Jamaica ; Arabella, Hobart Town ; Hohenzollern, Copenhagen. DEAL, Thursday, 9.48 a.m. Wind, N.W. by W. ; fresh, and hazy. Anchored—Omar Pasha, from Sydney, London ; Ala - crity, London, Cape of Good Hope. Passed—Caringorm, from Anger, for London. A HINT TO BROKERS.--The recent practices of Rob son and Redpath in the respective transfer departments of the Crystal Palace Company and the Great Northern Railway, as well as those of Carpentier and Grelet at Paris, necessitate seme expression of opinion as to the nature of the indirect facilities that seem to exiit for the officers of public companies to gamble in stocks or sizeres to any extent they may think proper. Usually the ini pression has been that if a broker in the Stock• Exchange were to conduct speculative operations of magnitude on behalf of persons known to occupy situations of trust at a limited income it would be in opposition to all the principles recognised by that establishment as essential for the general security, but it is quite evident that transactions must have been long carried on for Robson and Redpath without such inquiries being made as the nature of their position should have suggested. Not the slightest fact has transpired to create an idea that any persons with whom they had dealings in this way have intentionally abetted them, but the reproach of great laxity cannot be avoided. As a palliation it may be urged that if the directors of the companies, who must have been fully cognisant of the general habits of their servants, did not think them such as to call for explanation, it was hardly to be expected that other per sons should exercise extraordinary vigilance. It may be hoped, however, that the experience now gained will lead to more caution, and that the Committee of the Stock Exchange will intimate that for the future any similar instances of carelessness will be made a subject of strict investigation. — Timm. LOUGHREA—MALICIOUS °UTILISE AN) INCENDIARIqM, Nov. 15.—0 n Thursday night last, or early yesterday morning, one of the houses out of which the tenantry were ejected on the above estate this time twelve months was most wantonly and maliciously set on fire by some person or persons as yet unknown ; and from the deter mination of the perpetrators to carry out their designs, together with the solitude of the place, the entire roof was consumed, and fell in between the walls of the house, totally destroying the entire building. Previ ous to the eviction of the tenants last November this now demolished house was in the possession of one John Quin (there being two of that name), and was given by Mrs, Blake to a man named Glenane, who, refusing to join in the general work carried ou against her last year, had an outrage committed on himself by having his haggard in jured and a shot fired into his window. This Glenane occupied the house partly with his own, and was just about to remove the remainder of his furniture there, which the foregoing event prevents. A police party from this town nightly patrol that road nearly as far as the village of Kilreekle, when they meet the Gurlymadden station of police also on duty. But it is conjectured whoever committed the outrage watched the favourable opportunity of the police being gone out of view. Mrs. Blake, who yesterday evening had only arrived from Dublin, sent this day a despatch into town here to have the affair represented at the next special sessions, to be held here on the 28th instant, but she has been advised not to mind adopting such steps. There is another feature in the affair which is but fair to make mention of—that very few, if any, of the ejected tenants are now upon the property, se that it would be doubly desirous to discover, by reward, or otherwise, who the parties are who are thus irritating a naturally well-disposed woman against other important persons on the estate, insulting the majesty of the law of the land, and stigmatising the character of a hitherto peaceable county.-Bounderis News Letter. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following district order has been promulgated on the retirement of Lieut.-Colonel Dalgety from the ap pointment of Assistant•Quarterma,ter-General at Ports mouth : " Adjutant-General's•office, Portsmouth, Oct. 30. " Lieut.-Colonel Dalgety's present state of health, in jured through the heavy and incessant labour consequent upon the embarkation of troops for the Crimea, being su c h as to prevent his return to the district as Assistant-Quar termaster-General, the Major-General takes leave of him with sincere regret at the loss of so able and zealous an officer, of one by whom the duties of the department were so thoroughly understood, and who continued at his post even when urged by the Major-General himself to lay up for a while. " By order of the Major-General commanding. A. " A A. NELSON, Major, _ " Deputy- Assistant-Adj utant-General." The following circular memorandum relative to the Medical Staff Corps has been addressed to the officers commanding regiments and depots of cavalry and in fan'ry at home and reginAnts serving in the Mediter ranean : "Horse Guards, Nov. 10. " Commandin g officers of regiments are hereby directed to furnish returns to this department of men of their regi ments not over two years' service, who may be considered eligible for service in the Medical Staff Corps; and be will ing to be transferred thereto. "They must be able to read and write well, and be of regular steady habits, good temper, and possessed of a kindly disposition. " By command. " G. A. WETIIERALL, Adjutant-Goneral." The annexed memorandum has been issued in a ge neral order : " Horse Guards, Nov. 7. " His Royal Highness the General Commanding in- Chief publishes, for the information of tha officers of the army, in reference to the Memorandum No. 624, dated " Hors' Guards, July 27, 1853,' the annexed copy of a letter from the Colonial Department, by which it a pp ears that the cout of of the waste lands in the Australian colo nies, and the power of making regulations for the disposal of them (with the exception of Western Australia and New Zealand, as before notified), is now vested in the local Legislatures. " All applications, therefore, for grants of land from officers resident in thcsa colonies must henceforth be made to the local authorities. " By command of his Royal Highness the General " Commanding-in• Chief. " G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General." " Downing-street, Sept. 18. " Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 10th init., I am direoted by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to request that you will state to his Royal Highness the General Command ing-in -Chief, that in all the Australian colonies, with the exception of Western Australia, the control of the waste lands and the power of making regulations for the disposal of them, is now vested in the local Legislatures, and that in all requests from officers resident in the colonies the Secretary of State can only suggest an application to the local authorities.—l hare, &c., "F. ELLIOT. " Major-General Sir Charles Yorke, 8.C.8., &c." Her Majesty's ship Raleigh, SO, sailing frigate, Com modore the Hon. H. Keppt.l, C. 8., left Spithead yester day afternoon for the East India and China station. Her Majesty's steam frigate Shannon, 51, Captain W. Peel, C. 8., left Spith ea d y es t er d a y afternoon for the west ward. Her Majesty's steam troopship Vulcan, Commander Furneaux, left Spithead yesterday afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope, with German Legionaries. The Covenanter freight ship sailed from Spithead yes terday for the Cape of Good Hope with a body of the British German Legion on board. The Eastern Monarch Indianian sailed from Spithead for Bombay yesterday. Arrangements have been made to retain in the dock until completed the Caledonia, seamen's hospital ship, fitting out at Woolwich fur the purpose of replacing the Dreadnought, in consequence of the facility of access which this arrangement affords to the numerous artisans employed therein. A "STRANGE LORD." A young man of the name of John Lowes or Lowis, ' who, we believe, is a native of Wetheral, and who is supposed to be a; ticket-of-leave convict, stole two young bullocks, on Friday night, out of a field on the North Scough farm. Lewes has been in the neighbourhoods of Penrith and Wigton during the last ten months. On Saturday morning he sold the bullocks to a dealer, tell ing him that they belonged to Mr. Bawstead, of King Harry, to whom he said he was head man. After becoming possessed of the money, the first thing he did was to go to the shop of Mr. A tkinson, draper, where he purchased a new su it o f black clothes for 3/. 195., which were sent after him to Mr. Robertshaw'e, the Castle beer-house at Penrith, he having left Carlisle on the Saturday evening by the train for the former place. He had also purchased at Carlisle two or three gold rings, and a fine long gold chain. On Sunday he made a tour to Tills water lake with some Penrith young men, where hespeat the afternoon in a larkish m anner . O n Monday morning he hired a fine spanking grey hunter at the New Crown Hotel, and was one of the field of sportsmen with the Eamont harriers, and cleared all that he came at. On Wednesday he did the like mounted on the same steed. As early as 6 o'clock on Friday morning he again en• gaged his favourite hunter, and dressed in first-rate hunting style, having on top boots and spurs, yellow buckskin breeches, light coloured waistcoat, neat dark jacket, jockey shape, yellow leather gloves, one of which he had not on, in order to display two gold rings on his left hand, a gold chain round his neck, a good whip, a cigar in his mouth, and thus equipped be started off in high glee to the hunt on Broadfield, near fiesket, where he was surmised to be some "strange lord," and he was considered to be the most plucky and best rider in the numerous field. After the hunt, instead of returning to Penrith with his horse he rode down to Carlisle, where he remained, we believe,_ at the Newcastle Railw a y sta tion hotel over night. Oa Friday evening the police at Penrith received information of the robbery ; suspicion immediately fell upon the "strange lord ;" and Inspec tor Robinson, who surmised his whereabouts to be at or in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, was on Saturday after noon despatched by the evening train in search of him, but on arriving he found that the "strange lord" had left Carlisle about 20 ,minutes before the arrival of the train. The officer being thus foiled in his pursuit, and their not being another train for Penrith till evening, be did not reach that place till after 6 o'clock. The "strange lord" arrived at Penrith between 6 and 7 o'clock contrary to the expectation of many, who felt confident that hehao gone off with the spanking hunter. A policeman bad been set to take him in the Crown yard, Vnt was absent on other business when Lowes rode in. On dimounting, he told Vickers, the head ostler, that he would just step over the way to Pattinson's, the British Queen beer house, where he had his other clothes, and change his dress, and would presently return and pay the two days' hire for the hunter. Vickers, hbwever, knowing that the polioe had been inquiring after him, followed him to Pattinson's, but before he got there Mrs. P. bad informed the "strange lord " that the police had been inquiring after him. He changed his clothes, and told Vickers that he would go with him to the Crown Hotel and pay Mr. Dixon for the horse hire himself. Both proceeded over the street and down the yard, and Vickers, in high glee, stepped up tke step into the house, but the "strange lord" did not follow him as he expected ; he deliberately walked through the passage into the street, and thus made his escape. Vickers, on looking about for his man, found that he was not there. Search was made for him by the police all over the town and some neighbouring villages, but he was not again heard of till Sunday morn ing, when, it is said, he called at Delemain, the residence of E. W. Hassell, Esq., and asked the gardener for a job in his line. He bad breakfast there, and very soon left. Although information of the robbery and a description of the thief have been diffused both far and near, he has not been heard of since last Sunday morning.—Carlisle Patriot. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended Nov. 20, 1886, made np from the Returns of th e Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. EYE. ` NM SEA. I IMAM. 64A 4d ( 468 71 26s 21 41s 7d 478 31 43s 2d TFIE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGR. WHEAT. f BARLEY. I OATS. I R I E. BEANS. PEAS. 65s 51 458 4d f 26s 5d I 40s 91 46s 4d 44s 5d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 109,848 ; Barley, 98,0 0 : Oats, 14,399; Rye, 189 ; Beans 5,210; Peas, 3,298 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. IfEWGATE AND LRADENHALL. - Each kind of meat sold steadily, at full prices. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Pork, 3s 6d to 5s 4d per BIS, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Nov: 19.—The supplies of stock in to-day's market were moderate. and the trade generally ruled from 3s 4d to 4s &l; Mutton 3s steady, as follows :— Beef," $d to 5s 0d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s - 10, 4 ; Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per Ms, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Nov. 19.—We had a fair demand for all kinds of stock, at full quotations. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s Od to 6s Od; Perk, 3s 8d to 5s 4d per Blbs. Quarter-old store pigs, 21s to 275. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4/ 10s ' • clover d o ., ;3/ 10s to 5/ 103 ; and straw, h 4s to 1/ Os per load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 4/ 103 ; clover do., 3/ lOs to 5/ 10s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 12 lOs per load. x'cade d all. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2l lOs to 4/ 103 ; clover do. 3l 103 to 5/ 10s; and straw, 1/ 4s t o 11 O s per l oa d. Al ;low trade. GUANO ISLAND IN -mg TACIFIC.—The American Guano Company has again d espa tch:ebeen lan ag ent to the secret guano isl a nd i n t h e P acif i c, with instructions to load a vessel, an d arrangements have u :ade with the Panama Railroad Company to forward the same at at the r a t e o f f dole, per ton. In case o f s uede such as i s ant i c i pated, it is thought this . the channel for route will los ,year from the island to Panama, voya"e future importations, as vessels oan nuke three e g', ployed, compared says the .1 ournal of Commerce, New York ; and an inferior class of v i :se: t e elagclealolf a k o t e o n r e t ra h t e with such as would kos recilliL e- n Fn .. voyage round Cape Horn. The agent goes I *'l an d is cisco with means to procure a su itaiik: vesse., 1 , I !nude, directed -ente pto roceed thence to the Sandwie.: - s - 1 • where he is to take on board the necessary implea,.. already provided, and ship a crew of 20 Sanakse, selected by Dr. Judd, whose son is to accompany the‘l t. expediti on . The o ffi cers in the company are not in the , right.., least discouraged by what transpi re d i n con nection with 1 transactio... Commodore Merriam's visit to the guano islands. i has left a width, &WREN DEATH OF DIR. BOGVE, THE PCIBUSHER.— We regret to have to announce the sudden death of Mr. David Bogue the well-known publisher, of St. Bride's passage, Fleet-street. The event was entirely uniooked for, the deceased gentleman not having suffered front any prer.. -,onitory indisposition. On Tuesd a y M r . B ogue was in the City, transacOng his usual business. On the evening of that day he was at home with his family at his residence in Camden-town, and retired to rest in his accustomed health az d spirits. About 8 o'clock yesterday morning he consplained of a sudden sense of suffocation, almost immediately afterwards became m t to I speechless, and in two or three minutes had exist. The deceased was for many Year' with Mr. Tilt, at whose retit ement on the he ted for the his alone, and was greatilv rebel:he in P artnership ' marked all his 'ess and straightforwardne - s 0 7 45 years of age, an d Mr. Bogus was abort "r and five children. LITERATURE. Cornelius Agrippa. By Henry Morley, author of " Palissy the Potter," di . c. 2 vols. Chapman and Hall. There is something melancholy in the moral of these memoirs. They record the life azid fortunes of a scholar who declared the Vanity of Arts and Sciences, of a courtier who bitterly confessed how vain are the promises of kings, of a theologian who was twice excommunicated by his Church, of one who had the courage to save the life of a supposed witch, and has yet been contemned for professing magic. With vast and varied stores of learning, good birth and position, an honourable nature and affectionate disposition, Cornelius Agrippa died penniless, disgraced, and forsaken, an exile, and a wanderer. His life commenced under favourable auspices. He was born at Cologne, in 1486, his full title being Henry Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim, but he only retained the two names by which he is best known. His family had been for many generations in the service of the house of Austria, and his first entry into life was in the capacity of secretary to Maximilian the First, Emperor of Germany. He was employed by him on several missions, one of which, an adven turous exploit of his own planning, nearly caused his death in Catalonia. On another occasion he was despatched to the court of Henry VIII., but this was some years later. He tra velled about France and Germany, studying deeply languages, sciences, and various branches of learn ing, but most especially directing his energies to questions of theology and philosophy. It was at this time that, unfortunately for himself, he wrote those three books of Occult Philosophy, or the practice of Magic, upon which his enemies founded their accusations. He was afterwards sent by the Emperor to take part in the Italian War, wa s taken prisoner by the Swiss, but w as subsequently released ; and, obtaining a scholarship, settled at Casale and engaged himself in war and study. One of the many disappointed wishes of Agrippa's life was to found a settled home where he and his family might enjoy their domestic happiness un molested. His early love of courts and adven tures was soon echausted, and, having married a wife to whom he was much attached, he wished for nothing better than to obtain some position which would afford him independ ence, and where he could pursue his favourite studies unmolested. A succession of accidents broke up each establishment that he formed. In this instance the battle of Marignano interfered. He lost his manuscripts, and by the victory of the French was reduced to beggary. For many sub sequent years his life tells the same tale ; a long and weary waiting on the favour of princes, re ceiving flattering promises and valuable appoint ments, but never his rightful salary, constantly besieging his patron and iniuential friends with a family of young children to provide for, his misfor tunes were varied by his constant theological dis putes. These, indeed, were in a greatpart the source of his other troubles. He received the offer of the post of Physician to the Queen-Mother of France, and gladly accepted it. • At the Court of Francis I. he met with honour and consideration, but no salary. After some time the Queen commis sioned him to exercise his astrological knowledge for her. He expressed his vexation in a letter to his friend the Seneschal of Lyons, regretting that the Queen-Mother could find kiln no more worthy employment. This letter was imprudently shown to the Queen, and deeply offended her. The unfortunate physician made another mistake in prophesying the success of Bour bon. Louisa of Savoy, ambitious, avaricious, and unscrupulous, was slow to forgive an affront. Finding himself left to starve, Agrippa resolved to leave France, but could obtain neither passports nor funds. After many miserable months, he at length contrived to get his family in safety to Ant werp. There he tried the patronage of another monarch, Charles the Fifth, and, as usual, obtained a place, but no pension. As usual, too, he gave offence, the bitterness of his many disappoint ments escaping in his chief work " On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences." This offended both the Emperor and the monks, with whom he had al ready many quarrels. His complaints unheeded, his works attacked, his name branded, he escaped from threatened execution. to France, where be was imprisoned by Francis for his quarrel with the Queen-mother. Finally, on the intercession of a few friends, he was released. Penniless and home less he was taken into the house of a gentleman at Grenoble to die, being only in the forty-ninth year of his age. Truly he had earned the right to say all learning was vanity ! He was buried in a convent of the Dominicans, and a bitter and unchristian epitaph testified to the endur ing malice of his enemies. He left a family of young children, but their fate is unknown. His was not a character formed for success. Always free spoken, giving his opinion freely on men and things in an age when truth was dangerous, and suffering persecution for his opi nions, and yet not openly embracing the party to which he really belonged, he stood as it were be iween the two great opposing currents of the day —resisting both, combining with neither. What wonder that he suffered wreck ? What his bio grapher calls a defect of judgment prevented him from leaving his own church ; thus he lost the sup port of the Reformers, while his open war on the corruptions of the monks aroused their vengeance. " All the neglect and contumely that he was con demned to bear while living—even all the power of the calumny by which his memory has until this day been overwhelmed, are traceable to the one cause : that in the momentous struggle of his age he laboured very righteously and bravely, but alone. He was a solitary knight in the great battle, and unluckily the side on which he called himself a combatant was that against which he dealt all his blows." Not the least interesting portion of the work to the scholar will be the summary of Agrippa's famous work on the "Uncertainty and Vanity of Sciences and Arts." In speaking of it the author observes, "The wide range of study shown in the whole work it was not possible to represent within these limits. Agrippa had tried nearly every art that he found wanting—a courtier in Austria, a soldier in Italy, a theologian at Dole, a lawyer at Metz, a physician in Switzerland, an ex perimenterin optics and mechanics, a deeper se.archer than perhaps any other man ofhisage into the philoso phy of thean th ci e en se t o s r ; ot s s t o u f de th n o t aolohftheemCisateb, ter amla,ae of sworn possessor of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages, and among tongues, of fFrenh Italian, Spanish, and English. net of his own German n taiso was not a reviler from without, but only, but modern H a satirist from within, of the unt , ertainties and. varieties of the imperfect art and science of his neithermight he takefame, for n nor fortune, motto of nor good his essay day." After attaining all this learning, which y w i h t ie t r e l r words—" Nihil sc i re f e li c i ss i ma viet h t b ou g e ht b a .t This life forms the last of a series. M r . M or l ey purposed name,writing the lives of three scholars of the same age, but differing in countr y, character, and fortune. Bernard Palissy, the Potter of Saintes, unknown and unheeded in his life, yet now the most regarded of the three. Jerome Carden, the Italian physioian and mathematician, who attained honours, wealth, and dignities, now little known or heeded • and Cornelius A gr i ppa , persecu t e d an d suffering during his career, and since frequently stigmatised as necromancer and magician. These three lives, of the French peasant, the Italian of the middle class, and the German of noble birth, display in three different aspects the life of a scholar in the sixteenth century. The series is now complete. The last biography will not perhaps be . 6 so popular as its predecessors, as its author kitaaa boldly forward in support done who has bee: . gdis paraged and traduced, but it is not less interest i n g . The remarkable career, that premised achieved so s h o ura lit a t n le, h readso andso bitter expectations, e n_ a t , ,h isa e . tale of human suffering an d fruitless appointed life and melancholy death itleesinstructive or that few lives of that epoch are mor cause to thank students of the present have f goodff acco mplishing his f s or e ndeavour, reav sa o u ur, more impressive in their mournful Mr. Morley for so successfully, u_ disinterring the lives arduous undertaking, and disinterring scholars from and writings of these thrae tt _ reality. The had hidden them. At , he h. i; h a w m h e i c t h i m t her that centuries it s acquired for himself thedon done dustthem o r d u b si b en i r v t h h. ce beefint field c :d f literature, and dia. a standing-Place " - Id ea in a favourable light. 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