The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-16 00:00:00

TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT of the DIRECTORS of the COMMERCIAL BANK of LON DON, for the Half-year ending December 31, 1861. At a HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Share h o lders, held at the Banking-house, Lotiibury, on TUESDAY, the 15th January, 1860. DIRECTORS. MARK HUNTER, Esq., Chairman. John Alfred Chowne, Esq. Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P. Jam es Clay, Esq., M.P. Robert Stacey Price, Esq. G eor ge Clive, Esq., M.P. Iverbert Taylor, Esq. Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. William Jackson, Esq., M.P. I Thomas Winkworth, Esq. MANAGER—Mr. Alfred Richard Cutbill. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Upton, Upton, and Johnson, and Messrs. Norris and Son. Present—Thirty-five Proprietors. The advertisement calling the meeting was read, and after wards the following REPORT. The Directors present the balance-sheet for the half-year last passed, which the proprietors will see exhibits a net un appropriated profit of £17,109115. ld., after providing for bad and doubtful debts, and paying all the charges of manage ment. This enables the Board to declare a dividend at the rate of £8 per cent. per annum, on the paid-up capital of the Com pany for the six months ending on the 31st of last December, free of income-tax. The balance of £517 ss. sd. will then remain, after allowing £4,592 ss. Bd. for rebate on bills not yet due, to be carried to the credit of the current half-year. The dividend will be in course of payment on and after the 28th inst. Jan. 15, 1861. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON. BALANCE-SHEET TO DEC. 31, 1860. Dn. Capital subscribed .............. £1,500,000 Capital paid-up, £2O each on 15,000 shares.... £300,000 0 0 Guarantee .. 75,000 0 0 Balances due to the customers of the pa . 908,624 15 4 Balance of undivided profit, 38th June, 1860 ...... •.•• • • • - £551 2 0 Net profit for the half-year end ing 31st Dec., MO, atter pay ing income tax and deducting all charges and expenses, and making provision for bad and doubtful debts. ...... ......... 16,558 9 1 Balance carried down 17,109 11 1 £1,300,734 6 5 CR. Cash in the bank and at call, at the Bank of England, Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and Government Securities 191,138 16 11 Bills ei mounted, loans on stock, and other se strong-room, fittings, and furniture (premises held on lease) 1,106,595 9 6 3,000 0 0 £1,300,734 6 5 Dividend at the rate of XS per cent. per an num, for the half-year ending 31st Dec., 1890.... ............. Rebate of interest on current bills carried to 4,592 profit and loss new acc0unt.......... ...... 6 8 Balance carried to next half-year........ 217,109 11 1 Balance brought down The Report and Balance-sheet having' been read, it was resolved "That the Report and Balance-sheet just read be approved, printed, and circulated amongst the Proprietors." The Chairman, John Alfred Chowne, Esq., on the part of the Directors, declared a dividend on the paid-up capital of the Company at the rate of £8 per cent. per annum for the past half year, free from income tax, payable on and after 3londay, the 28th instant. Resolved —That the thanks of this Meeting be presented oChairman and Directors for their attention to the affairs the bank during the past half-year. Resolved—That the thanks of the shareholders be given to the Manager, Mr. Cutbill, and the other officers of the bank. JOIN ALFRED CIIOWNE, Chairman. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON.- The Directors HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a DIVIDEND on the paid-up Capital of the Company, at the rate of 28 per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending 31st Dec., 11360, free from income tax, will be PAYABLE at the Banking House, in Lothbury, on and after MONDAY, the 28th inst. By order of the Board, A. R. CUTBILL, Manager. — Dated Jan. 15, 1861. BOY AL ENGLISH OPERA COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. TOTS EVENING, Mellon's Opra of VICTORINE. Miss Louisa Fyne, Miss Thirlwall. Mr e . H. Corr e, Mr. H. Haigh, Mr. A. St. Albyn, and Mr. G. Hornastle. quin With the Grand Pantomime , BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. Bolen°, Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, Messrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Boleno and Clara Morgan. Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. Lamoureux, &c. Conductor—Mr: Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. T HEATIO.4I-RO TAT., HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone. — WITS EVEN NO the performance. will sonimProme with (by desir - ) SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss ffardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone. Alter which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cols, and Fanny Wright. _ Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with THE CORSIC A N BROTHERS. Messrs. Eechter, Harris, Meadows, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Murray. After which. a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King' of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will appear. Clown. Mr. A. F. Forrest. THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. Sole Lessee and Directress. Madame CELESTE. Last Week of Mr. John Drew's Engagement. TRTS EVENING, a new Drama, entitled Tur, IRISH EMIGRANT. Messrs. G. Vw J Johnstone T. Lyon, Forrester, and John Drew ; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart, and Mrs. J. Rouse. After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comic Extravaganza, CRYSTA BELLE or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing . THE VIM . ° \T OF A ROS}. ITS FADING AT EVE, AND THE 3IAY-BLOOM OF TIIE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS TITAN ONE. Larry Hoolagan, Mr. John Drew. A DELP TYT, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. PA p•nrriPtor and Mansur/T. Mr. Beni WARter. . _ THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J. L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucle/lult, D. Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs.." L. Toole, P. Bedford. C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and F. Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 6. No charge for booking . . Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, .El. Orchestra Stalls, as. ; Baloony, 45.: Front Circle Stalls, le. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6 d. ; Amp hitheatre. is ; Gallery, ed. Aotitur Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. A STLEY'S ROYAL APHITHEATRE.- ..AL M Proprietor and Manager, Mr. WM. RATTY. `Last Four Nights of the Wondrously Trained Lions. A Grand Juvenile Fete will take place on Friday, Jan. 8, commencing at two o'clock with the Pantomime, concluding with the Lions. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled THE LION CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World. " The Groupe of Performing . Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and Bri' ish Artistes. Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime. for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUiN AND THE. WONDERFUL HORSE ; or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery. by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comic scenes Tlatty's Prize Equestrian garlequinade, and the celebrated Old Rob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. Doors open at half-Fast 8, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. ArraT. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY -HALL PANTOMIME "THE ENCHANTED HASH," EVERY EVENING. ENTERTAINING PEOPLE. Mr. MARSHALL and Mr. BELL. GOOD TEOPLE. Wildrose,l Fairies, with the usual worn- Mr. Marshall Primrose, plishments. Mr. Bell. COMMON PEOPLE. Farmer Thickhead (a husbandman, with a Wife and Child, who make a fool of him) lir. Bell. Giles Gosling (the mysterious Orphan, who runs after every miss, and afterwards Ilarlequin)llr. Marshall. D a me Thickhead (who havin.• worn out the breeches, takes to Pantaloons) . .Mr. Bell. D o lly (the b ell of t he village, which Giles in tends to ring the—changes to Columbine).. Mr. Marshall. RAD PEOPLE. Howl e yg.rowi ey, Demons of the blackest dy e 1 Mr. Marshall G row leyhOWleY, and brightest Magenta. j Mr. Bell. COMIC PEOPLE. Harlequin.. ......... Columbine Clown Pantaloon... ............. ..• • ... Mr. P. BELL. Scene, CANTERBURY (that's) !TALL ! Time A.D. 1861, at hall-past nine. Mr. B. A pack of nonsense ! Mr. M. 11'hat We want — Mr. B. Pooh ! pooh I The idea! a Pantomime played by two NEW BRIDGE OVER THE THAMES.--It is pro posed to construct a new bridge over the Thames from Kew to Brentford, and to make a road in connexion with it in the parishes of Isleworth and Ealing. The Great Western Railway and Brentford Railway are to subscribe to the undertaEng. It is to be a toll bridge. M. FECHTER, THE ACTOR.—M. FECHTER, the actor, some time ago took on lease, at 3,000 f. a year, an apartment on the ground-floor of the house, No. 20, rue de Navarin. At the back of the house is a garden, part of which was specially reserved for M. Fechter, the rest being for the use of the other occupiers. On Saturday M. Fechter brought an action before the Civil Tribunal against his landlord, M. Mirsbel-Chamband, to have the lease declared null and void, on the ground that a large tree which stood i n his garden when he hired the apartment had been cut down, as had also a quantity of shrubs, and the consequence was that he wan deprived of the pleasure of studying his parts beneath the tree, and was, moreover, exposed in his rooms to the inconvenient glare of the sun. The landlord, in reply, after expressing surprise that the actor should have been in the habit of studying his parts beneath a tree, said he had cut down the tree in compliance with the general wish of the occupiers, and after communicating with Mrs.. Fechter, who made no objection. He ridiculed the idea of any one complaining of having too much sun and light in Paris, and said that the real reason why Fechter wished to be relieved of his lease was that he had obtained a long engagement in England, and did not like to pay rent for am apartment in Paris which he would not occupy. The tribunal, however, held that the grievances of Fechter were legitimate, declared the lease at en ond : aged Ordered the laufllord to pay him 300f.—Galignant. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE, THIS DAL—Morning, sh. 10m.—Afternoon, sh. 25m. To-mounow.-Morning, sh. 42m.—Afternoon, sh. 59m. WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, JAN. 16, 11i61. THEB7I[OMZTEI3., IN THE SRAM'. 30—highest since noon yesterday. 22—lowest this morning and during the Bight. 26—this day at noon. BAEOMBTER-30.20. WIND—North -Easterly — fresh; with bitter cold weather, but fine and sunshiny withal. f - 6 1 1- , _..,. ,56 - oi 2 . j ~. ...:. '•?-- ~., 's , ';',', — .v. .4 ... . r.-. ' b ri% 1, , : ~ i , i l' • l'l i,) N 6 F 6 11 4 ' - - --.4--',...., IRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1861. the future, if not actually "fall to the ground," at any rate meet with some disastrous interruption to the recently restored tranquility. The very docu ment published in our columns this evening, the very document the heading of which we have here but just now specified, is a reminder, and a very vivid and startling reminder it is, moreover, of the difficulties not only likely but absolutely certain to impede the path of Mr. BRUCE in his future dealings with the Chinese Government. His position under the happiest circumstances could not possibly be other than cne of peculiar difficulty out in China—namely, as the representative of the British Go vernment at the Court of a Prince ruling a race hitherto, in all past ages, found to have been so wholly impracticable. But how much must not that difficulty be enhanced when it is borne in mind that the QUEEN'S Ambassador is accreditted there to the Court of China—to the Court of the Chinese—while there are two RICHARDS not merely in the field, but also in the Palace ! When there are " the powers that be," it is true, at Pekin ! But when there are also none the less indubitably " the powers that be" at Nankin in like manner ! ! There is the Tartar dynasty enstalled in the person of HIEN TUNG in the former. And there is the Taeping Dynasty installed in the latter (that is in Nankin), in the person of the redoubtable leader of the Revolution. Between the two, who is to decide ? Not Europeans certainly. The decision pending now for a dozen years past, and still altogether unsettled--rests principally with the Chinese themselves. While the Western Powers are insisting, as they have been insisting now for a good many months past, upon the loyal adhe rence of Europe to the principles of non- interven tion—it were hardly reasonable to expect them to violate those same identical principles in the far-off land of that great Chinese Empire where the Tartars and the Teel ings have been, during years and years past, struggling fiercely for the mastery. It would be a monstrous inconsistency if we allowed ourselves in any way whatever to be dragged into this gigantic internecine conflict. .And far more even than that —it would be a monstrous folly into the bargain if we permitted our diplomacy or our armaments to be lured into a course so wholly and entirely preposterous. True, doubtless, that we have but just now entered into a pacific agreement with the representative of the ancient, or at any rate, the so-called ancient dynasty, that of the intruding Tartars. But then it cannot at the same time but be borne also in mind that there are something like sympathetic chords vibrating (however faintly and obscurely—still vibrating) between the Taeping rebels (also, it should be said, so-called) who—no matter (for the argument now before us) how partially—have certainly obtained in some mysterious manner, to say the very least of it, dim glimmerings and vague scintillations of a belief in Christianity. Our policy under these reallyextraordinary circumstances, ought obviously to be what we cannot but rest assured they will be, if a diplomatist of such sagacity as Lord ELGIN is to be allowed any voice in the future regulation of our proceedings out in tlaat quarter of the globe—a policy holding us entirely aloof from the civil war yet waging between the so-called Usurping Dynasty and the so-called Ancient Dynasty, between the Tartars and the Taepings, between the Imperial forces directed from Pekin and from Nankin, the Chinese Moscow and the Chinese St. Petersburg. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, lAN. 16, 1881. There is but one party in England on the sub ject of personal slavery. We may hope there is but one party in Canada also. The popular feeling is at least as strong there as here ; the meetings held on the subject of ANDERSON'S committal, and the memorial to the Home Government suffi ciently prove that. If there be any indifference in a few hearts, or any crotchets in a few minds through which a fugitive slave would be allowed to be reclaimed without emotion, or as a ques tion of dry law, this is but parallel with what we have at home in the persons of retired West India attorneys, or planters, and their immediate connec tions, and possibly here and there a legal stoic. The latter, however, we imagine are very rare. Our law yers are not believers in personal bondage. The writ of habeas corpus is one of their boasts. The decision therefore of the Queen's Bench yesterday will be received in every part of England with the same pleasure which it gave to every individual in court. Our readers will of course observe that it is not a legal settlement of the question of ANDERSON'S extradition. Whether he be legally in custody for that purpose is the issue to be tried when the brave fugitive arrives in this country. The only point decided yesterday was that the Queen's Courts at Westminster have so far concurrent jurisdiction with the Courts in Canada that they can order the production before them of any person detained in custody, to decide whether or not he is lawfully deprived of his liberty. The broad principle contended for was, in the language of the law books, that " the QUEEN ought to have an account why any of her subjects are imprisoned." And it would appear that any of her MAJESTY'S Courts in Westminster have power to demand this aceount, and had the Queen's Bench application failed, it would have been open to Mr. JAMES to have appealed to tne other Courts in succession. The precedents appeared to bear all of them in the same direction, though it must be confessed none applied directly to Canada in its present circum stances of real independence. The Lord Chief Justice, however, and his brother judges held that the power to issue a writ of _Habeas Corpus to any part of the QUEEN'S dominions, had existed from the earliest times, and been exercised to the latest, and that as it had never been taken away by any distinct enactment, the Court had no discretion to refuse the writ. We are quite aware of the danger of straining law to meet a popular demand ; but our judges feel this even more strongly than we do, and we may be assured that had they not clearly seen that analogy was not strongly in favour of the demand they would not for a moment have hearkened to it. They would have left the wrong to find a remedy by diplomacy or other means, rather than have granted redress illegally. What seemed to weigh most with the Lord Chief Justice was the danger of trenching on Canadian indepenndence, a feeling we must honour, as much as solicitude for the liberty of poor ANDERSON. It strikes us, however, that this will be a good case on which to raise the question whether the QUEEN'S Courts shall retain the power or not. It is obvious, as we have already remarked, that the object of the writ is popular now in Canada. It will attain an end which all there desire should now be attained. It cannot well, therefore create any in Canada as being an act hostile to the sentiments of the Canadian people. It is not the levying of a duty or the imposition of a tax which they have united to resist— it is the exercise of a little used power to redress a wrong at which all Toronto is indignant. At the worst it only bears some resemblance to the interference of the Lords last year, when the Commons had wronged the exchequer by repealing a tax it could not spare. The Lords had the power to forbid its repeal, and they used it; though under notice that the thing must not be repeated. In the same way, as the Canadians in all they have received or asked. have never had independence of of this mode of action of the QUEEN'S courts con ferred on them, they will accept it now, when used for an object in accordance with their wishes; and, if they do not wish the power to remain, if they think it capable of abuse, it will be for them to ask its abrogation by an explicit act of Parliament. At first sight, it certainly appears to us that our lovers of liberty in the colonies, while they remain in connection with the British Crown, will be slow to wish for the abrogation of any power, local or imperial, which has for its object the personal liberty of the subject. :In any case, ANDERSON is perfectly safe. The surrender under the Extradition Act must have been through the Governor, and it cannot be con ceived that our Government would have permitted that of Canada to deliver up the fugitive. The appeal also to the higher court in Canada might be successful ; it might hold that the appeal would lie, and that the man was unlawfully in custody. But in this country there can be no doubt what the judgment would be. Our judges would, we ima gine, be unanimous as to the meaning of the treaty. They would not in this be biassed by their English predilections ; but, the more we reflect on the more we feel satisfied that the two Canadian judges misapplied the treaty, and quite unintentionally, foisted into it a crime which the English author of the treaty would assuredly have rather held to be a virtue —the crime of killing a man who attempted tokidnap you. The wonder with every one seems to be how the words of the treaty could have been applied as they were. The statement is, so far, as clear as it well can be, that the crime of the man whose extradition is required would not have been the crime charged on him if committed in Canada itself, Notoriously it is not so. ANDERSON'S killing DIGGES in Canada would not only have been no crime, but rather a duty to himself, his family, and society. Let kidnappers be stabbed, says the common law written on the heart of every British subject in Canada as well as in Middlesex. Yes, but DIGGES was acting according to the law of Missouri. So much the worse for DIGGES and Missouri. If States can become confederations of kidnappers, that is no reason why other honest and free States should recognise the kidnappers' laws as laws of public justice, acting under them as a justification, and resisting those who so acted, as a crime. The laws themselves are the cr i me . W e can know n o thi ng of th em . A treaty between us and the States respecting critniAal PtreAces can relate only , , to those a things which it was known at the time ' both pa rties regarded as such. This single considera tion to our minds is decisive. Lord ASHBURToN never • dreamed of anything done by a fugitive from slaver y, necessary to his escape, as being a crime. The 1 kmerican negotiators well.knew this. Murder, then fore, in the treaty could only mean what both sides c onsidered t obe murder, and we question whe ther eve.l the Government of Missouri would have the hardiho of 1 to say that our Plenipotentiary would have regarchlti ANDERSON'S act as murder ; and, if so, there is an nnd of the matter. But, even if this were disputed, it would be only a case of ambiguous language in a treaty to be settled by a fresh con vention. There is, however, no ambiguity. Ac cording to the laws of Canada, killing a kidnapper is not murder, it is justifiable homicide—the desert of every kidnapper; tend ANDERSON deserves the Victoria Cross, not the kidnappers' slow fire. Sir FRANCIS BARING, i t will be perceived, has written a very sensible corn munication to his con stituents at Portsmouth,in reference to the prospects of Reform in this now rapidly on-coming session of Parliament. His views upon the subject, we repeat, are eminently sensible throughout ; they are admirably well considered; and—alas ! that, having said this, we should be compelled to add, as we nevertheless can alone add in logical sequence —they are views fraught with anything rather than with encouragement. What occurred in regard to Reform in 1860, he candidly avows that he anticipates will be repeated now in 1861. The indifference manifested in the House of Commons last year to the insisting upon any grand and comprehensive measure for the rearrangement of our representative system from its foundations upwards, he believes to have been entertained upon the same question out of it. Not that either within or without Parliament he conceives, for an instant, that there is discernible anywhere the slightest evidence of antagonism to that cause which it has long since been matter of noto riety that almost every man of any note whatever has more or less earnestly advocated. Nay, Sir FRANCIS observes very admirably, because with the fullest reason, that " Public Men" generally have, upon this Reform question, in a truly remark able manner " concurred" (that is the cant phrase of the hour politically—a phrase surely without which Parliamentary debate must altogether cease and determine) have in a most exceptional way, we might even go so far as to say. in a wholly unparalleled way, " concurred"—namely, in recog nising, if not its necessity, at any rate its expedi ency. As far back as 1848, he reminds the electors of Portsmouth, and through them the electors of all the other constituencies throughout the United Kingdom, Lord JOHN, himself one of the Dii majores of Reform, if not its recognised JUPITER TONANS, bad admitted the necessity of a new and sweeping alteration. But the mere mention of the year in which Lord JOHN thus broke away at last from the temporary trammels of Finality, is a vivid reminder enough of the inopportuneness, so to speak, of his ac knowledgment. " The Times were out of joint. 0 cursed spite 1"-- not that " Ever he was born to set it right"— but that Anybody was called upon to do so, at that period of turmoil and revolution all over Christen dom. " Sir ROBERT," adds the right hon. mem ' ber for Portsmouth, "concurred [concurred again !] in that view "—so that Lord JOHN, as leader of the Liberals, saw the " ehiefest " man upon the side of the Conservatives (though one no longer their Leader, Friend, Guide, and Philosopher) coinciding entirely with him upon this vital part of the policy of the noble lord's Government. " The Administrations," adds Sir FRANCIS BARING, summing up the whole coincidence of all the different parties and sections of parties together, in respect to the universally admitted necessity of Reform, " the Administrations of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, of Lord ABERDEEN, of Lord DERBY, of Lord PALMERSTON, have, in turn, proposed Bills, differing, indeed, the one from the other, but all calculated to effect a large increase in the number of electors." Nay, the right hon. baronet says further, upon the subject of this extraordinary Unanimity—" I do not recollect a single leading member of the House of Commons who has recorded his dissent from this view"—or who, in other words, he might have said, has re frained from avowing his formal recognition of its perfect reasonableness. Yet is spite of all this apparently auspicious unanimity, there was, as Sir FRANCIS intimates with painful truth, a general disinclination—there has been this dis inclination—there is this disinclination still—to face the question manfully, to argue it out into a perfected enactment. This—with the Govern. ment all Reformers ! This—with the Opposition all Reformers ! With Reformers below the gang way, to the right and to the left of Mr. Speaker ! And with Reformers all over the land, in every shire, in every town, in every parish—electors and non-electors, all Reformers ! " Is it necessary," asks Sir FRANCIS BARING, within view of this ano malous unanimity, in advocating reform, and yet also in treating it with obvious indifference—" Is it necessary, then, that all action and improve ment shall cease ? Are we to wait until pressure in a moment of excitement shall force the question on the decision of the House ? " And he answers his own query immediately, and in the manner following :—" I think not, and shall be prepared to support such partial extensions of the suffrage as may not bo inconsistent with a fair representation of the different interests, not as a settle ment, but as steps in the right road, appa rently slower, but less likely to create alarm." "I may be told," says the member for Portsmouth in continuation, " that this is bit-by bit reform,' and probably those who are most anxious fore great change will be most hostile to such a course. But a nickname is not an argument." Admirably put —" a nickname is not an argument !" Would that the truth of this wise apophthegm could but have been recognised two or three years ago, when one of the very best portions of Mr.DisRAELI's elastic and expansive Reform Bill was foolishly and most frivo louslyset aside because somebody,with a shallowaffec tation of wit, dubbed that portion of it the section of the " Fancy Franchises." Let the House of Com mons—let the English people, be wiser in future. And if we cannot contrive, somehow or another, to obtain a large and comprehensive measure of Reform, let us, in the name of common sense, con tent ourselves with getting it piecemeal or—Bit by-bit ! Elsewhere will be found a portentous document addressed to the Earl of ELGIN by "LEE, the Faithful King Chung Wang and Commander-in- Chief of the Imperial Forces of the Taeping Teen Kok Dynasty." This communication having been addressed to her MAJESTY'S Ambassador Extra ordinary out in China immediately after the conclusion of peace between the Allies and the Emperor HEIN FUNG, head of the Tartar Dynasty! Between the Tartars and the Taepings, as between the two stools of the proverb, it will be well if European diplomacy does no.t in the lase of AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The Cunard steamer Jura, from New York, on the 3d inst., has arrived. President Buchanan was about to send to Con gress his answer to South Carolina. He refuses the demands of the Commission, and informs them that he not only intends to collect the revenue and exe cute the laws, but also to defend the property of the United States with all the force at his command. Two war steamers were to be despatched to Charles ton. It was rumoured that all the important posts in the south would be immediately reinforced. The militia of Columbia was to be reorganised. A commander has been recommended by General Scott. Mr. Macintire, of New York, had been nominated Collector at the port of Charleston. The revenue would be collected by a cutter. It was reported that the Government fortifica tions and arsenals had been seized in North Carolina and Georgia. The warlike preparations continued in South Carolina. In the New York State Legislature a resolution had been passed authorising the Governor to tender to the National Administration 10,000 militia, to put down the insurrection in the South. Advices from Havannah were to the 30th of December. The late issue of Treasury notes had failed to afford relief, and had not been generally received by the merchants. NEW YORK,, JAN. 3. The New York money-market is easy, at 7 per cent. for first-class paper. Sterling exchange, 104 to 105. Stocks opened at an advance of 2to 3 per cent., and closed firm, bnt less excited. The following were the latest quotations :-- New York Centrals, 783 ; Erie, 40 ; Illinois, 78i. Cotton buoyant; middling upland, 121, 121. Breadstuffs firm. Flour—State and Western had advanced 5c to 10c. Provisions steady. Freights quiet. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 2. Sales of cotton to-day 18,000 bales. Middling, 11Ic to 12c. Freights for cotton to Liverpool, 11-16.' His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Wurtem burg arrived at the Clarendon Hotel last evening from the Continent. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer have left New Lodge on a visit to Mr. Har court and Frances Countess Waldegrave, at Nuneham Park, Oxon. The Duchess of Buccleuch will leave Belgravc square in a few days for Dalkeith Palace, in order to be present at the wedding of Lady Florence Lase°lles and Lieut.-Colonel Cust. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith remain in town. The Marquis and Marchioness de Beauforte have left the Brucswiek Hotel, Jermyn• street, for Paris. The Earl and Countess of Hopetoun left town yesterday for Holywell Hall, near Stamford. The Earl of Shelburne left Lansdowne House yesterday for Bowood. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will return to Cambridge House about the 24th inst. from Broadlands. Viscountess Jocelyn's children have so far recovered as to be considered out of danger. Lady Frederick Beutinek and Mrs. Lane Fox leave town this week for Brighton. The Ladies Lascelles leave town in a few days for Dalkeith Palace. The marriage of Lady Florence Las celles with Lieutenant-Colonel Cust is postponed from the 29th to the 31st inst. Lady Caroline Nee ld has arrived in town from visiting the Earl of Shaftesbury at St. Gilea's, Dorset. The Baron Wilde and Lady Mary Wilde have arrived at their residence in Grafton-street, from a tour of visits. Lady Molesworth has left town on a visit to Lord Broughton, at Tedworth House, near Marlborough. GASLIGHTS IN RAILWAY TRAINS.—A very suc cessful effort has been made on the East Lancashire section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to light the car riages of a passenger train with gas. The invention is Mr. Newell's (the inventor of continuous railway brakes), and the gas is kept in a flexible rec,eiver in the guard's van. From the van iron tubes carry the gas over the tops of the carriages, the connexion between the pipes on each car riage being made of flexible tubing. From the pipes over the tops of carriages short suspenders drop into each com partment of the carriages, to which are attached neat brackets, wad glass globes. Thus a flood of light, by which I asseagers may read comfortably, is obtained, and con siderable warmth is imparted by the lamps, whilst all foul air cseapel 14rough the roof. • LATEST NEWSI (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Moniteur, in its bulletin of today, says : " The report of the formation of a fourth regi ment of Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard is an nounced." MADRID, JAN. 15. The Prince of Asturias is suffering from a severe sore throat. The Correspondencia A utografa denies the reports current of a dissolution of the Cortes, and of a modification of the Ministry. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 15. The Berlingske Tidende states that the works in the navy yard are being carried on as energeti cally as the state of the weather will permit. The same journal states that Government is about to publish a provisional law calling out 4,000 sailors. TURIN, JAN. 16. Another French vessel will leave Gaeta imme diately, and one single vessel of the French fleet is to remain there until the expiration of the armistice. It is not true as stated in a telegram dated Rome 14th inst., and originating with the Paris La Presse that General Cialdini had refused to suspend the siege works during the armistice, The works are suspended on both sides. GAETA, JAN. 11. The firing has been suspended on both sides until the 19th inst. The belligerents are only allowed to repair damages. VIENNA, SAN. 15. The Austrian Gazette says :—" During the last few days Russia has repeatedly despatched notes to Paris declaring her determination not to acknow ledge the blockade of Gaeta by sea under any circumstances.'i In the political circles of Vienna it is said that King Francis 11. has written a letter to the Em peror of Austria, in which he declares his firm resolve to continue the defence of Gaeta to the utmost. ROME, JAN. 13. The reactionary movement in the Marches has been suppressed, but is on the increase in the Abruzzi, under the influence of Count Trapani. General Rivira has been sent to cause a rising of the people in Calabria. Political manifestations continue to take place in the theatres in Rome. The Dowager Queen of Naples and the partisans of King Francis 11. have been thrown into a state of great consternation at the news of the departure of the French fleet from Gaeta. The Pope is said to be much gratified with the results which will accrue to the Catholic Church from the success of the allied armies in China, and also with the secession of the Bulgarians to Catholicism. The Papal Zouaves have left for the frontiers, but will be entirely unsupported. MARSEILLES, JAN. 12. According to news received from Rome to the 12th instant, a popular liberal manifestation had taken place in the Apollo Theatre. PESTH, lAN. 15. The committee of the comitat of Neutra has re solved on the following programme, namely :—" A responsible Ministry for Hungary ; a Hungarian Diet, elected on the basis of the law of 1848; the removal of all, except Hungarian troops from Hun gary ; the Hungarian troops to take an oath of fidelity to the Constitution of 1848; reorganisation of the National Guard, and finally a request to be made to Government that a liberal constitution may be granted to the other Crown lands of Aus tria." CATTARO, JAN. 14. There is a report current here that on the 9th instant 2,000 Montenegrins made a sudden attack upon the town of Sputz, on the Albanian frontiers, and arrived as far as the gates of the fortress, ivhere they were repulsed with great loss. PARIS, JAN. 15. The Patrie says : " It is reported that the garrisons of Malta and Corfu have been increased to twice their former strength, and that the English authorities intend organising militia at these places. It is also said that the English squadron in the Mediter ranean is to be reinforced." BERNE, JAN. 15. The leave of absence granted to the Marquis de Turgot, the French Ambassador, has been prolonged for three months. Notwithstanding the denial given by the Aloni teur to the reports of the resignation of M. Thou venel, letters received here from Paris assert that the French Minister of Foreign Affairs will shortly retire from office. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 15. Prince Alfred arrived here this afternoon by express train, and was received with great cheer ing. His royal highness wil,l embark to•morrow on board the St. George, 90, screw, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, which is bound for the North American station. MADRID, JAN. 14. The Moors have declared that they are pre pared to pay a further instalment of 40,000,000 reals. The Government has proposed measures for causing a decrease in the emigration to America. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.IS. The Russian steamer Alexander 11., with a cargo of fruit, 17 days from Messina, and bound to Copenhagen, put in here this evening short of coals. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 15.—The market at the commence ment of business showed an upward tendency, but a telegraph from London announcing a slight de cline in Consols, prices again receded to about those of yesterday. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 15c; Mobilier, 657 f 50c; Orleans, 1,362 f 50c; Northern, 951 f 25c; Mediterranean, 896 f 25c; Austrian, 465 f; Lombard, 463 f. 75c. The follow ing were the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 96 50 Credit Fancier 935 Do. end month.... 96 50 Belgian 4 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 05 Roman Bank Shares 2875 —; Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 645 —; Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 642 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans,. 1360 .. 1355 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 893 75 .. 893 75 Geneva.. Southern 502 60 502 50 Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard ....mtg 460 460 SIR FRANCIS B 4RING ON PARLIzI- iIIENT.dR,Y REFORM. The following address has been issued by the Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring to the electors of the borough of Portsmouth : " The meeting of Parliament is near at hand, and I am anxious to communicate with you on the present state of the reform question. I have adopted this mode as the most direct and the most conve nient. With many others in 1859 I entertained a sanguine expectation that an effective measure of reform would have passed last session. We all know how entirely these expectations have been disappointed. The failure has not been occasioned by any combined or violent opposition. Far from it. Public men concur in a remarkable degree as to the expediency of a considerable alteration of the franchise. In 1848 Lord J. Russell admitted the necessity of a change. The late Sir Robert Peel, it is known, concurred in that view. The ad ministrations of Lord John Russell, of Lord Aber deen, of Lord Derby, of Lord Palmerston, have, in . turn, proposed bills, differing, indeed, the one from the other, but all calculated to effect a large increase in thenumber of electors. I do not recollect a single leading member of the House of Commons who has recorded his dissent from this view. But though there was no active opposition, there appeared in the majority of the house the greatest disinclina tion to face the question—a determination to post • pone any decision—and doubts and hesitation which even party ties could not overcome. This, I know, is attributed to the fear of the dissolution which would follow the passing of a Reform Bill. In all human affairs there will be an admixture of per sonal considerations. I am not a disciple of the school which attributes every action of public men to mean and selfish motives. But were these feel ings confined to the House of Commons ? It is difficult to estimate correctly public opinion, but, as far as my opportunities enable me to judge, I believe the opinion out of doors' is not very different from that within.' There exists, I should say, no hostility to all reform—no unwillingness to relax the provisions of the Reform Bill of Lord Grey, but among large classes a strong disinclina tion to any sudden and great change—serious alarm at the effect of any sweeping measure. I recognise no general approbation of any of the plans proposed either by Government or others ; and I believe the withdrawal of the bill last session was as accept able to the general public as it was to the majority of the House of Commons. The public mind, I speak it with regret, is not prepared for any exten sive measure. I shall gladly find that lam mis taken in this opinion ; for no man is more persuaded that the change must ultimately take place—no man is more convinced of the risk of leaving the settlement to a time of struggle and excitement. But we have to deal with the circumstances as they are. The Government have the best means of ascertaining what prospect there is of carrying a Reform Bill next session. I am, as you will sup pose, utterly ignorant of their intentions. If they expect to succeed and bring forward a measure I shall give it, as before, a general sup port. But my hopes of its passing are not san guine. The result of 1861 will, I fear, be similar to that of 1860. If there is no fair prospect of success I hope no proposal will be made. A repetition of what passed last year will neither be creditable to the legis lature, beneficial to the general interests of the country, nor favourable to the cause of reform itself. Is it necessary, then, that all action and improvement should cease ? Are we to wait until pressure in a moment of excitement shall force the question on the decision of the house ? I think not, and shall be prepared to support such partial extensions of the suffrage as may not be inconsistent with a fair representation of the diffe rent interests, not as a settlement, but as steps in the right road, apparently slower, but less likely to create alarm. I may be told that this is bit by bit reform,' and probably those who are most anxious for great change will be most hostile to such a course. But a nickname is not an argument, and we must not be led astray by the precedent of 1830. At that time a large measure was absolutely neces say, and its boldness contributed to its safety. It was wise, too, when the measure was passed, to refuse for a time to re-open the question by partial alterations. But great changes are not in them selves good, and, looking back, I think the refusal to amend was enforced too long. It would have been more fortunate if Parliament had earlier con sented to extend the franchise, and had done it gradually. It were good that men, in their inno vations, would follow the example of time itself, which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' I will trouble you no further. Had I seen among the numerous speeches delivered since the close of the session any which took a view in which I agreed, I should gladly have been silent ; but as this has not been the case, I must ask you to bear with this explana tion, for you have a right to know my opinions, and I am as anxious as ever to retain your confidence." THE BRUTAL MURDER AT DUNDRY. Yesterday Mr. Bruges Fry, the coronerfor North Somerset, resumed his inquest at Dundry on the body of Sarah Waterman, an aged woman, who met her death by violence in a lonely cottage at Dundry on the 9th inst., when her husband was murderously assaulted. _ _ _ _ , At the late inquest evidence was tendered to show that the murder was committed by two brothers named Charles and Matthew Wedmore, and various articles which had been stolen from the cottage were traced to their possession. At the present hearing some new and interesting evidence was tendered. No doubt the fellows' object in commit ting the crime was to possess themselves of the savings of the unfortunate old pair, and whichwere supposed to be considerable. The only booty, how ever, was ss. or 6s. in money and some trifling articles. Yesterday Mr. Thomas Waterman said—l am a farmer at Glastonbury. Deceased was my aunt. On hearing of the murder I came to Dundry, and received from my uncle, Geo. Waterman, a parcel containing, as he informed me, nearly 100 sove• reigns, which I will see invested for him. Mr. Shorland, the surgeon, gave the result of his post mortem examination. Mr. T. Waterman was recalled, and said the money was found under a stone, and not under lock. George Waterman's Peninsular medal, with three bars, was found in a small book in a drawer. John Keevil was called to trace the movements of the prisoner Charles previous to the commission of the crime. He said on the Ist of January Charles Wedmore came to him dressed as a soldier belonging to the Marine Artillery, and said " I am a stranger about here, and I have missed my way, and seeing a light here I thought I would make my way to it • do you know any one about here by the name of George Waterman, and an other by the name of Wedmore ? Witness said " I know them very well, for Wedmore works occasionally as a gardener for my master, the Rev. Mr. Boutflower." The prisoner was then in liquor, but witness took him to old Waterman's cottage. The witness knocked at the door, which was fas tened, and the deceased from within asked," Who's there ?" and witness replied, " It is John, the old policeman." The old people knew him well, as he had often called upon them. The old lady said, " I know your voice, or I should not open the door." Charles Wedmore and witness then went in, and the latter said, " Mrs. Waterman, here's a soldier come to see you." She replied, " I don't know him." Then the witness said, "I believe he is a relation of yours." She gave them cider and bread and cheese, and subsequently told prisoner that his uncle, George Waterman, was not at home, but that pri soner must come again and spend a day with them before he returned to his regiment, which he said was lying at Portsmouth. Witness next brought prisoner's brother to him. In conversation witness told the prisoner Charles that his brother - William had bought a house of his uncle some time previously. It appeared that the prisoners obtained admit tance to Waterman's cottage by using the same sentence that Keevil used on the occasion above alluded to. Other witnesses having deposed that on the night of the murder both prisoners were seen at an inn within 250 yards of the cottage, and that the shirts worn by the prisoners a day after the murder were stained with blood, The Coroner carefully summed up all the evi dence, and The Jury immediately returned an unanimous verdict of " Wilful murder against Matthew and Charles Wedmore," and the coroner made out his warrant accordingly; Matthew Wedmore is a lumper on the Bristol Quay. THE ITALIAN NAVT.—Letters from Naples state that a fusion of the Sardinian and Neapolitan marine ser vice has at length begun to take place. The frigate Gari baldi, hitherto entirely officered and manned by Neapoli tans, has received on board 100 Sardinian marines, under the command of Signor Luigi, an officer in the North Italian service, and is to proceed to Mola di Gaeta to join the rest of the fleet there. - - THE RECENT MURDERS IN IRELAND.—lnquests have been commenced on the recent murders in Sligo and Monaghan. In the former case three persons, against whom there are understood to be very slight grounds of suspicion, have been arrested in addition to the man Phibbs. The evidence, as far as we have received it, has not as yet seri ously inculpated the latter. Three persons have been arrested for the murder of the brothers Shaw in Monaghan, and, meancholy to relate, two of them are very near rela tions of the murdered men—one being their brother, and 'the other their nephew. REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURE. Forty additional members of the House of Com mons have subscribed the appeal to Lord Palmer ston in favour of a reduction of expenditure which appeared in our columns last week. For our part, we see no reason why it should not be signed by one-half of that assembly ; and if closely pressed, we really know not why it should not be endorsed by the other half. Those who are at heart most in favour of high estimates could not do better than make this waive offering to frugality ; and those who differ from one another on every conceivable detail of reduction may nevert h e l ess concur in taking this one step together Put plainly, the case amounts to this, that seventy-two millions in time of peace is more than anybody likes to have levied in the shape of taxation, and more than anybody cares to defend in the lump as indispensable. It 15 something to bring people to s a y so uno ji a t u an d in a clear and audible voice, on the eve of the legisla tive session ; and as furnishing an unexceptionable text from which to preach remission and retrench ment, the address to the Premier is very well in its way. But after all, everything must depend on the wisdom and force of the preacher. Moving dis courses we may have, and no lack, from all manner of gifted and giftless tongues, whereof no visible fruit whatever will in all likelihood come. The nett result of national economy sought to be achieved must depend in the main on the judgment and skill of the Minister whose business it will be to turn the prevalent feeling to account; to take the general profession of repentance for what it is worth, and no more; to test its sincerity by practical proofs as far as it will bear, and no farther. Any mistake on this head would be sure to provoke renewed relaxation of the national purse-strirgs, and to postpone effective economy till what might prove less convenient season. It is in the .coup d'ccil that the genius of the financier is shown, as much as that of the painter. Anybody can make a sug gestion, or present an object or point of view worthy of study. He who is entrusted with the task of combining and harmonising all must be left a generous discretion as to what he will put promi nently forward, what he will but lightly touch, and what he will omit altogether. If when it is finished his design does not satisfy us, we may reject it and call in another pencil to our aid ; but we repeat that in a question of comprehensive financial reform it is the Chancellor of the Exchequer to whom the duty belongs of summing up, and leaving the issue to the jury by whose verdict we are to abide. Meanwhile two methods of proceeding are advo• cated with a view of bringing public opinion to bear upon the cogitative faculty of our Finance Minister and his colleagues. According to one theory, " More is to be done by choking up the fountains than by buffeting against the full stream of extravagance :" and the meaning of this admoni tion, so far as it is explained by its authors, is, that we should look to administrative reform of the Ad miralty and War-office rather than to any curtail ment or limitation of votes in Committee of Ways and Means. The alternative doctrine goes deeper into the matter, and, rejecting the notion that the bronze mouths of the official fountains in Pall-mall and Whitehall are the real sources whence the pro digal torrent flows, they urge the necessity of dry ing up a portion of the stream, if its wasteful tide be really thought too large. It is certainly not easy to controvert the force of this line of argument. So long as the Treasury has seventy-two millions to spend, spent they are tolerably certain to be. Administrative reforms are excellent well in their way ; and we would not be understood as mutter ing a word in deprecation or in depreciation of them. But after classes B, C, and Dof permanent or supernumerary clerks have been cut down to the rates named in Treasury Minutes as adequate for the payment of those who come within the catego ries of 0, P, and Q respectively, and after parti tions shall have been broken through and extra staircases cut off at the expense of so many thou sand pounds, for the sake of economising 30s. a. week to a half-employed messenger —and when hot water pipes have been put upon improved principles to save ordinary fires, and steel pens have been contracted for by the million to avoid the scanda lous waste of quills —we greatly fear that we shall find it impossible to congratulate anybody upon the immediate advantage of the change, save the fortunate contractors who may have been favoured by the departments with the execution of the busi ness. Besoms, to the rescue ! Let not a spider's web escape. We despise not the day of small things, and shall duly note and acknowledge every sinecure sofa and unthrifty Turkey rug that is bundled out and sold for what it will bring to the second-hand furniture shop. But when all has been said and done, we have a painful misgiving that our Seventy-Two enemies in the shape of millions sterling of taxes will not look appreciably less than they do now. There are indeed branches of the Civil Service that might be cut down to 1 some purpose, as well as the War-office and Admi ralty. But so long as the question of Ways and Means is postponed to that of Supply, and so long as the comforts and pleasures of those who impose popular burthens are stinted or lavish just in pro portion to the total amount of money voted each year, we cannot help feeling a dismal pe rsuas i o n that the governing orders will provide for them selves, or rather that they will make us provide for them. The more taxes laid on, the better for them and the worse for us. Chan ge . an d chop it, refit and remodel it, combine and divide it, however you will, this is about the upshot of the whole matter. If the House of Commons, or, as we like to speak moderately, if one half of the House of Commons were practically and directly responsible to the-people, through the medium of independent constituencies, for the votes they give in Commit tee of Ways and Means, there would soon cease to be too much voted i n C omm i ttee of Supply ; for th• best of all possible reasons, that there would not be anything to throw away. And this is one reason, perhaps —we might say it is the o ne great reason— why so large a proportion of both Houses object to Electoral Reform. They understand perfectly that it means Economical Reform, the thing of all others most abhorrent to luxurious and listless sensi bilities. If the people at large are content, therefore, with Seventy-Two millions of taxes (besides the cost of collection) in time of peace, or if, being discon tented therewith, they only want to be indulged in a good general grumble, they will leave the matter where the appeal to Lord Palmerston leaves it. The friends of frugality threaten the Premier with their displeasure if he does not prepare to retrench; but as they do not condescend to particulars, the gallant and gay Lothario of legislation will proba bly make them a very handsome reply, in which he will say that he "entirely agrees with them, and that all they have said shall have the best conside ration of her Majes ty's Go vernment with a view to curtail all superfluities of expenditure, and relieve the industry of the country—in a certain sense." Just so ; and when a deputation shall have received this highly characteristic and eminently patriotic, answer, and the same shall have been sent for pub lication to all the newspapers, we shall discover that we are uncommonly near the point at which we began. Then will come the practical question, what is to be done, and how to do it ? At present we are about the preface : very respectful, proper, tantalisingly vague, and philosophically general. Only let it be borne in mind that as fair words pro verbiall7 furnish no condiment to food which is hard to digest, so gen e r a l a d mon iti ons to economise do not produce the remission of taxes.—Daily News. THIS DAY'S MARIiETS.. CORN EXCHANGE. Owing to the continuance of severe weather, the arrivals of English grain up to this morning's market were wholly confined to parcels by land-carriage, and were to an un usually limited extent. Scarcely any business was trans acted either in red or white qualities, and prices ruled next to nominal. The imports of foreign wheat have been much restricted. All kinds were in limited request, yet, compared with Mon day, there is no alteration to report in the quotations. Floating cargoes of grain were held at full currencies, but the business doing in them was very limited. Fine malting barley changed hands to a moderate ex tent, otherwise the trade ruled heavy at late rates. All kinds of malt were a dull sale, but prices were sup ported. • Oats were tolerably firm in value, but there was less ac tivity in the demand for all qualities. Beans and peas steadily maintained previous currencies. The flour trade was firm at full quotations. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Fl our . 250 140 220 Irish — 1,000 , Foreign 4,430 1,720 1 410 sacks 8.930 Ms. BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a firm market for both old and new hops, and late rates are well supported. Very few foreign parcels are on sale. WHITECHAPEL. Full average supplies of meat are on sale here, and the trade generally rules inactive, as follows : Beef, 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 5s Od ; veal, 40 Od 5s Od ; pork, 3s led to 58 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. General de Garlach, aide-de-camp of the late King of Prussia, and one of his Majesty's most intimate friends, has quickly followed his sovereign to the grave. He caught a violent cold at the royal funeral, which brought on erysipelas iu the head, and he died at Potsdam in WI evegi D g of the 10th, go Was 71 yearn of age.