The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

'7--- -7-72-----'-'--------- ------c---4- - ---7- 71: 11: - _,.., ...„ _ ?.110101.000000201205411551. do. . .7.* * 1 - : _ ___ . ..... THE 1 SUN, .A. LONDON, MON EY MARKET AND CIT 1 NEWS. SHARE NARK ET-(1 ESTERDAY). BRITISH POSSESSIONS. - 0 _ 4e -- Closing CITY, Two O'CLOCK. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. ' Paid. Price. Business done As usual on Christmas-day, the Bank, Stock . 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all - , Closing Business sta c Bom„Baroda&.Cent Lnd - Exchange, and all other places of business have Share I Railways.loo 984 99/ 100 done. ( Gu. 5 percent.. been closed. I Paid. ._-...._,- 18 Do Do. B all - - d 50 Belfast and Nor. Coun.' all '- 7 201 Buffalo andLaee Huron all 31 41 d 13.14 Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val. all 74 8 206 Do. New - - munsu FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. 25 myth and Tyne I all 1 - -, ~,, 10 Do. Preference ...... all 55 64 atlo ' Bristolliost,S laenadt,EanxdeNtleird..e...o 1 14 0 1 0 1 1 6 5 4 21 Buffalo,Brant&Godrich Ito , YESTERDAY. IOO 6p. ct. gds. Aug. 1, 1872 - - Bank Stock - - • 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ....... 25 . 00 t ;Caledonianllcco.:nala `Cornwell...... Bandon.. .. ...... _ 8 10 6 14 1001 1 10 ;Carmarthen &Cardigan all - - 100 Do. do. .1 une 1, 18:i 100 - - 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities - ) all 41 5 20 ;Cork, fil rock, & Passage all - - 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lima Os. - - New 3 per Cent. Annuities, ... . India Stock 10 Do. B 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 16 1 ad: Ditto 5 per Cent. all - - all - • • 20 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 75 - - 175 Demerara.. .. all - - Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent - A gets no div l been paid to B. 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c all 191 20 d 20 Mite 5 per Cent. 51 per Cent 25 Dun„Pertle& Ab. June.' all 101 11 20 Do. F Shares Ext..... all - - I 100 18 19 181 20 Do. Jubbulpore all - - Ditto. ........... 1021 3 2 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 98$ st East Anglian I 100 504 511 514 2 100 Do. 45 pO. Debentrs. all 98 100 Ditto ditto April, 1864 98$ 1 st Eastern Counties st ,Eastern Union, A stock' 100 47 50 100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864.. all 99 101 li:it • Bonds £I,OOO •) ' under e 1.000 - - stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 18 19 184 19 Consols Sro Account, Jan. 9 . 915 1 1 st East Suffolk , 100 - - I 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 53 58 56 8 ndia Stock for Account - st Edinburgh & Glasgow.. 100 88 90 100 Do. 2d. Pref. 6 per et.. all 40 50 at Edin., Perth, & Dundee' 100 284 294 29 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 28 32 32 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent 10 Forth & ClydeJunctionl all - - 100 Do. 7 percent. 1862 .. all 34 38 March. Jun 9. st Furness , 100 - - 100 Do. do. 1867 ~ all 27 60 Exchequer Bills, 1,000 2d.... 912 11 14 pm at Wasps. and S. Western , 100 97 99 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 27 30 Ditto £5OO .. - - 10 GreatNrthn of Scotland all - - stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.e. 100 995 100.) 101 1001 Ditto Small - - at Greet Northern.. •.. 1 100 1114 1121 113 121 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 10 1 4 d FOREIGN FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. st Do A stock 1 100 110 11l 1101 stock Gt. &niftiest India(Lim) at Do Bdo I 100 130 132 guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 984 994 YESTERDAY. st Gt. S. an W. of Ireland 100 101 103 20 Do, all Brazilian 5 per Cent - at Great Western 1 100 674 681 681 5 2(4 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 81 91 95 5 at Du Str Val gua. stock 100 55 58 201 Do. New .. ....... ... IS 114 114 Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860 ... . - - Buenos .Ayres 6 per Cent - st Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 105/ 1061 10 4 i 7 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all - - tlir. to Account - Mexican, 3 per Cent - st Lon., Bright ,& S. Coast 100 115 116 stock Madras guar., 41 p. c... 100 88 90 21 Ditto Acco nt .. 275 8744 1 1 at i.on., Chat., and Dover 100 44 46 stock Do. do. 5 per cent lOO 984 991 59 * at Lon. & North Western' 100 911 92 92 1 4 stock Do. 41 p. a. Extension 100 01 93 914 I Peruvian 41 per Cent - Ditto Account - 0 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.. - 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. all 911 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bads. 100 - - 20 Newßrunswick & Canda Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, and '6O 46 5 at )tan. , Shef., & Lincoln. 100 441 45 444 55 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7 Sardinian 5 per Cent. .. - 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all - - Class A Capital Share Ditto Account - - .. Do. do. Land d 0........ Spanish 3 per Cent .. - 10 Metropolitan 17564 6 61 20 Do. do. B Capital do. .. all 4 6 .. Do. do. Land do. - .... Ditto Account 6.4.0 Do New , .126. 127 128 7 8 alti I 1 2.14. If 31p p - Oude (Limited) ........ - - - Ditto New Deferred at Do Birming. & Derby, 100 97 99 stock Scinde .......... .0..: 100 1001 1014; 1014 2 Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded - - 20 Do. Punjaub .... Li E, 15 4d 1 d Turkish 6 per Cent. - 25 Do. 4 shares - - 20 Do. Do. ........ „,i2 ci all - -.f Ditto Account - - stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. 5,,2.1 100 95 100 Ditto New Loan - - 10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1$ i d Ditto Account - - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Newry & Armagh, d f 9 - - de f. Ditto £lOO Bonds - - 20 Algerian - - Ditto Guaranteed. 4 per Cent. l' enezuelan 3 per Cent - -p Dividends on the above payable in London. st Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 100 - - 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. 15 4 d 141 5 Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 till 6 pc. has been pdß 100 - - 5 Belgian East. Junction all 4 4 20 Beziers to Graissessac.. all - THREE O'CLOCK. at Do B stock lOO - - Carmeaux Mine at Rail 80 104 114 Consols, Money - - Ditto Account st Do Leeds lOO 55 56 564 4 20 Dutch Rhenish ........ 16 1 4 154 4 st Do York st Noeth London llOO 94 86 THE YANKEE ,SID KOF THE QUESTION. 10 Do new 5 - - 20 Grand Ens Guar. 6p. a all - - 20 Do. do. all - - -----40--. 19.16.4 North Staffordshire - - Scene : The Coffee-room of Radley's Adelphi Hotel, Liver- 10 N. and S• W. Junction• all 101 101 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. sirs... all 81 9 84 9 at Not. Gran. Rt. & Canal 100 88 DO 20 Italian Junction . ..... all - - pool. 10 Peebles all - - 20 Llerre & Turnhout .... all - - Mr. Nahum Q. Bounce, a Citizen of the Modern 20 Portsmouth - - 20 Lyons & Geneva ...... all - - 10 Rhymney - - Republic. st -coltish Central 20 Do. 6p. c. Pref......... all 20 21 Mr. Brown, a Briton. st s'eot N. E., Aber. stock' 100 37 39 16 Northern of France.... all 38 39 at Do Sc t. Mid. stock ' 100 95 97 - Brown-So you really believe that Lincoln will refuse to 10 Shrews.' and Welchpool all - 16 Do. New Shares ..... 15 - - 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 7 9 give up Slidell and Mason? at Shropshire Union 10, South Devon & Sheer, all - 20 t'aris,Lyons, & Mediter. ell 39 40 40 Bounce-Yes, sir ; unless they're hanged afore Russell's al , south Devon 100 36 39 20 Parts & 0r1ean5........ all 50 52 52 20 Recife &S. Fran. (Perm) despatch reaches Lyons, in which event, perhaps, our Pre- 25 S. Durham & Lana Un. all - - ' sident may tell your Ambassador to say, with his compli- B at t sSgulltthh Wales 100 751 751 100 C 5 67 ;rue. 7p. et. Urn...-. 17 54 44 f 20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 18.8. - - meats to the British Government, that they're welcome to at S. York. and River Dun 100 95 97 20 Royal Danish .......... all 11 13 5 Royal Swedish ....., .. all - - the rebels' corpses, if they'd like them. 20 staines,Wok„andWok. all 54 6 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all - - 25 Stockton & Darlington all 36 88 Brown-Come you're joking. We have suffered a gross 25 Do l3 78 p 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... all 64 7 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref..... all 81 94 outrage, and ask for simple redress. Is it possible that the 25 Do New, 1860 a a t t Taff Vale. . 100 - -.... President of the United States will persist wilfully and Do Pref. No. 1 - - 20 S.Aust &Lomb Venetia 16 i I knowingly in wrong ? 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 - - 26 Southern of France.... all 255 265 20 S. East Po:dare - al 7 p ct. 4 - -- Bounce-Guess our President can't do no wrong. We 50 Ulster 25 Do 2O 24 34 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference.. all 91 10 won't let him. 12.10 Do Brown-Why, he must if he adopts the wrong done by at Vale of Neath , 100 80 65 20 Westsrn of Austria.... 6 - - Victoria sta. and Pim 1 100 - - - his officer. 20 Western of Switzerland all -- st Waterford & Kilkenny, 100 - - 6 Wiesbaden . - - Bounce-What officer and what wrong ? 50 Waterford & Limerick. I all - - 6 Do. 8 per cent Pref all - - 1 Brown-What wrong and what offic r ? Why, Wilkes, 20 West Cornwall all 54 6i 20 Zealand . all - - 20 West London - - and his monstrous act of piracy. The idea of taking envoys, 10 Do Ist class - - BRITISH. MINES. accredited to our neutral Government, out of our own neu- 20 Do 2d class - - - Alfred Coneols (Philack) - 3.2.10 4 1 i tral vessel, bound from one neutral port to another. Why at W. Hartlepool Hat&R , 100 - - st West Midland Oscsord; 100 46 47 20 British Iron - Clifford nil 32 35 the Confederates might just as well seize Mr. Adams or Mr. at Do Newpor I 100 43 45 43 - Devon G. Cone. (Taoist ) 1 360 370 st Do Hereford 100 89 91 Thurlow 'Weed, or any other Federal diplomatist or am- - East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 55 60 54 24 East Caradon '2.11.6 281 :Si 281 9 basssador, under just the same circumstances and on the LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. -E. WI Russel (Taviatk ) 7.4.0 24 34 same pretence. - Gam.&StAubyn(Gwene 551 18 20 - Great South Tolgus l7s 31 41 B ounce-Wal ? Paid. Leasing Closing Business Railways. - G.Wheal Alice (PhilaclO - - Brown-Well ? What would you expect us to do if they Co. s Price. Done. -G. Wheal Vor (IIelston) 40 6 7 refused to surrender them ? - - Grenville 6.8.6 11 11 Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.Wi . .. - Herod's-Foot 8.12 37 39 Bounce-Avenge the insult offered to the British flag Birkenhead lOO De.s , G.w z ,4 86 - Hingaton Downs 4.11.6 31 4 right slick. Histe the Union Jack alongside of the Stars Buckinghamshire.... 100 Do. - Lady Bertha Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do 53 54 •-• Margaret (tJny Lelant) 91 40 42 and Stripes, and proclaim war to the bowie-knife with Jeff Do. 51 per cent 100 Do. Davis. Do. 5 „ 100 Do. - North Frances (Mogan; 111 2 1 Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 - N.Wh'i Basset(Illo ;an) 1.14.0 21 31 Brown-Yes, but suppose we were already at war with Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E.O 63 65 - North Wheal Crotty .. 9. 1 8.9 It 21 Abe Lincoln. E. Lincolnsh. gepr c. 100 G'.North. 133 136 - Par Consols (St. Blazey) 11 7 8 Bounce-Wal, then you'd have North and South upon E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 45 20 Providence (Uny Leine) 10.6.7 38 40 Do. Woodbridge.... 100 - Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 1 1 1 you at once ; you'd be in a double-barrelled difficulty, and Gls.Barr.&Neils:Drct. 100 Cale . don. • : • . : - South Caradon(StCleer). 11 310 120 would have to fight your way out of the fix on both sides, or Do. new • - S. Cahn Brea (Illogan)..I 5.9.6 4 41 else knock under and cave right and left, Gloster Dean Forest all Gt. West .. .. 1 ;S. Dev.lron &Gen.,Lim.; all 1 1 Hull and eelby all Yk.N. Mid 110 112 - IS. Fran. (Illogan) 1 18.1ses 974 1024 110 Brown -In the meantime our flag has been insulted by Do. halves - Stray Park the North only. Haven't we as much right to demand reps- Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 193 198 10 Tin Croft I 9 71 85 ration from the North as you own we should from the South? - Vale of Towey (Carm ),130 eel 1 4 Loudon & Greenwich 100 S. Easter' , 61 63 61 Bounce-No doubt on it. You've a right to demand what Do. Preference - i West Basset (Illogan)..1 14 14 15 you please. What you're like to get's another concern. Lon.,Tilb.& Southend 100 Peto; &C 08385 81 5 - IW. Caradon (Liskeard)l 54860 48 - I West Scion Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolkl .. .. .. Brown-Well, but, my good sir, what do you call Slidell Do 0 per cent lOO Do. ....... .. - Wheal Basset (Mogan) 51 85 90: and Alison ? Belligerents or rebels ? Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& - Si 31 31 - Wheal Buller(ftedruth) 5 I 75 85 Bounce-Whichever you please, Sirree. Mid. Bradford Prefer- - Wheal Edward ( Cats .) 71 24 3 ence stock - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelanta l 1.7.2 i 41 5 5 Brown-Then let us say they are belligerents. They are Newmarkt, BuryE ) per cent... - Wheal Mary Ann (Men.)' 8 16 17 5. 5. 6. E Counts. par 1 p - Wheal Treiawney (Lis)! 7 16 17 therefore, as regards us, just what French enjoys would be Nrtr tn s ..tEa,tn. sp. c. all Do. - FO le le 1 SIN MINES. with respect to you in case England were at war with France. Do. 6 per cent..... all Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. Bounce-That's a fact. .. .. N. Eastn-Hartlepool li 0 N. E. Ber. .. .. 1 Son Accord Copper,Lim. 17.6 td fel 4 f Brown-Now then suppose a United States packet, Eng- North Western land and France being at war, sails, having two French Preston and Wyre. 1 all Lasie W & L.ils. I 43 45 5 DaLand and aleningCo. all 11 11 1 Clarendon Cons.MbiCo. I - if ii+. ambassadors on board, for New York, stsrting from some Do. 4 shares A. all Do. •-••.. . • • • 10 Cobre Copper all 35 S 7 Roystn.Hitch.& Shop. 100 Gt. North. 133 136 Copiapo l6 6 8 other equally neutral port, say Leghorn or Genoa ? 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 1 11 15 Bounce-Ge- ahead. Shrewsby & Hereford MO T Brassey 118 122 Do. Do. 20 General I all 23 24 Brown-The Frenchmen are under the protection of the South Staffordshire .. 100 Ln.&N.W .. . • Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West. 92 94 924 35 2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr.' 1 4 4 p 14 I American flag, are they not? Bounce-I calculate they air situated beneath the tootes Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brgtn 81 91 11 Kapunda (Limited) I 1 II p 3 Linares all 7 8 lary shade of the Star-spangled Banner. PREFERENCE SHARES. ;Lusitanian i llilariquica 1 2 e pr I all 1 4 4 Brown- Suppose, then, that Captain Snooks of the Royal Navy boards your ship, and takes them from under that Miami Railways. , Paid. Closing Business Prices. Done. 20 ;Pontoibaud Silver,Leadl , I Mining and Smelt... all 2 4 same bit of hunting. Is it a parallel case ? 5 'Port Philip 1 1 11 11 11 5 4 Bounce-On all fours. Just cut on, old hoar. * 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) , 10s. 4 fpm I Brown-If you will have it that the Southern Envoys 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. prof. issued at £5 .... all - - 38.2114 United Mexican ; ail 71 8 81 1 1 Worthing (Limited) ' all 4 4 are rebels, is rot their case exactly the same as that of st Bris. & Exet. 4p. c. st.. 100 93 95 I Do. . - 20 Do. shares 14 - - Smith O'Brien and Meagher would have been, if Meagher at Caledon. £lO, 45 p. cent. 100 - - and Smith O'Brien, during the Irish insurrection that st Do. quar. shares, No. 2 100 - - COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ended in the cabbage garden, had been seized by a British 6% Cork & Bandon, 5/ p. c. all - - - Can. Gov. 6 p.c..Ja. &J ulyi 20 Cornwall. 5 percent all 204 211 - 1877-9 I 100 105 108 1 106 74 cruis r, on board of one of your vessels which they had em- 61 Dun.Perthot Aber.Jun. all all - 6 - 61 • - Do 6p. cent, 100 - - barked in from Havre, carrying despatches from the Pro- 10 Do. Ist Class Pref - Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 1 100 - - st E. Angn. Class Asp. c lOO 101 103 • visional Government of Ballingarry to the Cabinet of- Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Ansel 100 104 107 st Do. Class B 6 per cent lOO 112 117 - Do. 6p. c.Mar. & Sept. ; 100 104 107 Washington? at Do. Class C 7 per cent lOO 110 115 - Do. 5 per cent : 100 94 06 954 764 C Bounce-Quite so. Wal? st K. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. I 100 10S 110 -- Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,IBBOI 100 106 108 at Do No. 2 100 106 108 - Do. 18901 100 106 108 Brown-I say, what would your Government have done st Do. new 6p.c. st lOO 123 125 124 -N. B.G ov. 6 p.c. J a.&July I 100 102 101 if one of cur officers had seized either the French bellige- at' Eastern Union, 4p. c- 100 81 83 - Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct., 100 - - St Do. sp. c. guar lOO - - rents or the Irish rebels ? - N. S.W. G oce sp. c., 1866 , 100 98 100 st Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares 100 111 113 - Do. sp. c.. 1871 to 1876' 100 97 99 1 ounce-Done ? Jerusalem ! What would they have at Do. 4p. c. guar. S.& - Do. p.c., 1888 &upwdel 100 96 93 98 71 done? Snakes I Laid an embargo on every British yes- s a t Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 p.c We - - - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. a t Furness 5 per cent lOO - - ster'ln', 1875 - -..... S v . A. O . G u s o , v G ( 6 1 p p . c a . 1 . B .l 7 a 3Lu u p t i 1 1100°0°0 10_ 7 3 105 = 105 sel in the American ports. Swept the British flag cuff the st Gias.& S'.West gu. 5 p.c. 100 - - st Great Northern, 5 p c.. 100 115 116 ocean. Bombarded Portsmouth, and then steamed up the at D 0.5 p.c.ltedm.lop.c. pm. 100 110 112 - Do. do. 6 p.c. ApetOct 1 100 102 104 103 1 21 31 Thames and laid London in ashes. Then, artsr havin' st Do. 41 p. c. do lOO 102 101 vindicated cur honour, granted peace on condition Palmer- st . Do,ep.c.Redrr.atsp.c.pm 100 107 109 ston begged for it on his marrowbones, consented to pay us 10 6t Gt. 6. Nh. of e cot. Ist pref. all - - stock ;Commercial I 100 t Sn. &W. (Ireland) - - double the cost of the war, and cede Canada, Australia, and 4 per cent lOO 27 99 stock I Do. 4 per CentPref.Mine 100 Ind r,.'y. 50 Great West. (Barks and stock i East and West India .. ' 100 123 125 stock (London ... .1 100 58 61 59 Hants Ext) 3 per cent 6 - - Brown-And why, then, shouldn't we do the like of all at Do. redeem. 44 p. et.... 100 08 100 100 stock ISt. Katharine... stock I Southampton I 100 59 62 100 - this to you? at Do. redeem. 4 p. et.... 100 88 90 stock 'Victoria .. ....... -. 100 198 100 98 st Do. irredeem. 4p. ct.... 100 89 91 Bounce-Because you can't. 20 1Do• New .__ - - -.1 2 118 pr st Do. sp. a redeem. pref. 100 102 101 Brown-You might experience a correspondingdifficulty. 8 `So. Birm. pref. shares.. all 94 10 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. But do you seriously hold that might is right ? 10 Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. sirs all 17 18 10 Do. Chester p c pf. shs all 101 11 100 Agra&UnitedService Bit 50 - - I pounce-We air a serious people. We air a thinkin' st Do. Birm. guar . . * ram's: 100 75 77 40 ;Australasia all I- - /w oe. There ain't no right as we owns to but what is 261 Do. Chester guar. shares all 20 20 25 I Bank of Egypt all 201 211 131 Do. do all 10 10 100 Beek of London 5O 62 64 voted Bitch by the majority of our free and independent 20 Do. do all 15 15 20 Bank of Turkey 3 * pr citizens in Cacus and Congress. We air the only free and 100 Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. pref 60 - - 50 , British North American all - - independent citizens on airth. Our will is law-inter- st Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock 100 136 138 136 at Do.Barnal.st£s 2810 d e 100 - 20 IChtd.Bank of India, &c. all 194 20 25 I Ch. Mer. of In. Lon./z Ch. all 11 33 national law and all other. Captain Wilkes is the great in • st Do. ap. c. (East Lane.. 100 - - terpreter of international law. Slidell and Mason had to st Do. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pur. 100 101 103 100 Colonial .. et I.on.mßrig.sp.c.gu.No.i 100 112 115 be took, right or wrong, and he took 'em. We say he was, st Do. 5 per cent Jlo,_ No 2 100 112 115 a5221001 7= - 2 -7 - - -4 20 right. We sir an almighty nation-an everlastin' people. at Do. 6 per cent. no 3OO 136 133 st Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 100 112 115 20 'Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all - - Don't preach consistency to Bitch as we. Our supreme at Do. 41 per cent. do lOO - - 20 Lon. Char.llkof Austral all 234 24 democracy ain't agoin' to be slaves to their own laws-don't Do. 41 p. c. pref. shares all - - at Do. 7 per cent prof. etk 100 152 153 you think it. st Do, 6 p.c. do(W.E &C.F.) 100 127 130 Brown -Well, you don't think small beer of yourselves, st D 0.4 p c.st(div.def.lll'6s 100 73 75 et Do. 4 per cent. pref .... 100 - - • And so, of cour , e, you consider war inevitable? e ll in i l nwtoi w , 11 vpDi ri d d. bane iliCounty la..ss....stii Accmism asoi Stockon,.ri nic satne: . r 336125 : 536 s d 3695 j 36: ii : 5 submit - at Lon.Chat&Dov.sp.c.pf. 100 90 92 91 100 fat. Prov. of England 12 • I Bounce-No, I don't. Your Government may lO Do. West. Ex., B, 6p. a all - - 20 'Do. new 50 :National Benk ........ 25 - - and eat dirt. I ehouldn't wonder if it was to. It won't be it Ira Metrop. Ex. ti, e p.c. 3 4 - - a Lon. &S. W., Coy. & 26 iNe s South Wa1e5...... all - - the first time, I realise. Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 100 111 113 25 , Orient. B. Corporation . all 49 SO 50 1 u think? st Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. 20 , Otto non Bank ... .. ... all 17 18 174 Brown-England will swallow any insult, yo at., late 3d shares .... 100 - 100 \ Provincial of Ireland . .. 25 - - Bounce-Rather than fight amost, I speculate. You at Do. 44 per cent - - t ot n h ,n e w r ti t ( % ) i u tilA a t, t .,uu, r ia a .st l I. :R ita:is: c . a.iitE .. e.. .. dL. .. ). A:sm a ll s:0 1 11 11 0. 1 - 3 - 8c:1 11- 9 38 i 122 1 05 0 05 , u D suonn o l . tit I Britishers du set a considerable valley on your lives ; your 2s 6d Do. (Prism. perpl. anns. of 2s 66 all - - sojers' and sailors' lives as well as your own. You don't 121 Londondy. & Cole. 1 shs all - - 50 Ifni . of London . l2 275 281 271 like riskin' them without you're forced to, slid you ain't at 124 Londony. & Ennis.istis all 131 14 . at Man. Sh. & Lin. S per ct. 100 124 126 1000 1 A A n t,; 4 a l :t "- ie l ' • all fond of losin' your money. Your aristocracy and cap 6 Do. £6 25 Au t i s a t n r a t ' l e i & i n t . Agricultural xican Mint .. al. 13e 141 44 1 11m1 talists has to vote your war taxes as well as to pay 'ere. at Do. 31 per cent. 5010 Berlin Water (Limited) a a ll l 9 l l 215 5 22 5 7 5 British American Land 40 lo A iScutmltu(lrdal) l 1 .. The majority of our virtuous citizens votes our wars, and 10 Do. redeem. 6 percent... 5 4 fpm 50 BALMag. Tel. A. (Lim.) all lays our taxes upon others as can afford 'em. We don't 125 Maryport & Carl. 4 pr. c. all .. „ 124 Do. 45 per cent. ... ..... all .. „ think nothin' of throwin' away millions of dollars or mil- st Midland Con. 6p C. stk. 100 .. „ ,• st Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c. 100 137 139 , lions of men. We know there'll be plenty of men left and 82 1 5 2 . 4 CanadaDoo Pref. el t , 7. a i n p d pe er pr - - 29 32 20 Do. 11,7p.c.t1111852 (Lim.) all plenty of dollars, and each on us ex; sets to be amongst the st Do. 41- p. c. pref. stock.. 100 102 104 6 Do. 45 per cent. 20 Do. C. (Limited) st Do.l,eic. andHit4Per et. 100 92 94 925 men, and to have his share of the dollars. Our molter is, at N.;rflk. sp. a Ex. 5t.1846 100 .• „all 102 103 "Go ahead, and devil take the hindmost." st Do. 54 1 ' CityC'lLTl-'-'GoL,,,ii 'DoootioDinnnnrng. a 0.1( Beo.tdddd.. 'so' Great .0000130A0t. innt inniNa. sumneanjtaaies. Commercial Scot.,k ottf of Au l n s. a London.dcal . . . all 174 174 174 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim. ret. at. 1847 100 .. .. sta Cop.Min.oEngs&Suilto• st Crystal 1 all Brown-As your troops said at Bull's Run. Well, but st Do.sWPa.vc.Vja)ll4.lx•st.lBl7 100 .. . all 15 1 7 my good Sir, do you entirely ignore conscience ? s at D IST(1 0 1: N t Bewrito.ita.,pseprecrencet,.2.t.. 1 0 0 0 0 10090 11111 109 st. Do. Preference Bounce-We do. It is the opinion of the moat remark. 10 Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. slue 5 1 11pm 64 100 105 1(7 do. do. all .. „ 20 Fe India Irrign. & Canal 1 02 -- able men in the United States that there ain't no sitch 10 Do. at Nth.Don.ltail.&Dck.Co. 5 .. • • et. Electric Telegraph thing. "Conscience is but a word that cowards use," as st N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. 100 .. .. the feller say in the play. " Our strong arms be our con- at Do. 4 zr; ct. redeemable 100 .. .. . i N. 00 99 101 st Do. . G.E.E 4p. et. pref 1 5 English & Aus. Copper. all - 1 -- 15 Gen. Steam Navigate ni 11 2- 3 science-swords cur law 1" Them's genuine American 17 Do. Berwick 4p. C. pref. 100 98 100 5 Lon. liistrict, No. 1 8. 13.4 4 dis par sent intents ; role grit. What was it the critter said besides P 20 Do. Leeds 6p. c. 1 Do: 174 p et, Preference all i 1 " Let's to 't poll-cr. ell ;if not to heaven, than hand in hand 12, Do. do. Quarters, 1818.. 13 . • • • 2 :2 0 000 5, 11; 1 eerei Netherlands ; Er. s e: lantrnear(ni.i Exton. n i.T r 25 Do. York, ti. &s. Parch. 9 . • ~ 20 North Staffordshire.... 10 Idis fpni to hell." We won't have conscience hinder our manifest destiny. 10 Ithymney Guaranteed.. all 22 23 224 8 5 Scottish Central. new p 1 all .. . • all i t 2 1 Brown-Which is the place you last named, and you are st Scottish North-Eastern going there aS fa , t as you earn .34 p. e. pref. stock.... - all _ „ Thom - 0 - Well; we've got to whip you fust. at Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c 100 .. .. 100 Oriental . eerro l line. 1 nei r N. nk ., : le. aNL N vII Onn o (s; v i ir 1 ai a . si Brown-Into n cocked hat-if ou up catawampous. st Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 100 . • ~ Bounce-I tell you we shall chaw y you can. . 1 1 0 0 s. So D ut o h i D ,,i e x s e - o d n 4 , i.Ait)renr, centlOsl32 136 100 10 105 Meanwhile, I'm allfircd dry ; and whilst the_ Bird of Free -10. 6. South Eastern(Reading all .. ------.......----.------- dorn is a whettin' of his beak -let's liquor. _Dispatch. Ann., 1.0 6) all 231 24 155 %0 1 . at Do. 48 per cent PEDESTRIA NIIN. at Do, Fixed 45 per cent it 99 101 ----e"- ---- st South Wales, gua. 4p. c. 100 .. .. 50 Do. New 3O at Do. 44 per cent at D o st S. Yo.rkshirdeo,.4 20 Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.4lp.e. all N'S BELT. BRIGHTON AND BARKER FOR £25 A-SIDE AND THE CHAMPIOI st Do. 5 per cent. p. c. 18 2 5 u 9. a 1 1 00 00 . 85 . 8 .. 8 100 .. • • 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New all 18 19 17 19 all 5 6 20 & K i 1 Ir a q y g . u 6 a l e s . t c. k 100 Royal Mail Steam Shortly before four o'clock the men appeared on the Do. sp. c. gua. 13 . • • • 6 ° 46 4s ry at. Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lime 100 1 25 IR, ... ground at BromP f 4 ton but Barker (who, it was reported, s 5 Stock. &Dar. Dar. A 5 p. c.. all 274 281 I'a 1 aelcStnree(c3:redtLa:liasimetncilC:lnir.it.eatadaL((*((S.(n:et(TlTlLLnirLDditLi4t't:'lnealliii)eiaidieimmanil.dnull:...m):d..:• :),)'));: 1.1aaaaaaaaa0480111111110515400111111! 1493'1 4 1 6 6:-19 0 1-1 : 1 4° . , 1 : 111-11111-4°116: n e , , 4"5:1 8 : 9473: i 25 South Australian Land all Do. B 6 se c.. all 31 33 32 ea had hurt his foot) declined to run, because the belt had not 2s 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip air Do. C 6 p. c... all 31 33 been handed over to Mr. Roberts, proprietor of the grounds, 25 Imre 12112432 1 25 1 4 2 5 3 i 1 12 2 4 1 4 4 1 Do. do. Regastered all 4 I 1 5 1 i notwithstanding the latter . gentleman offered him a written at Watrfd at W. Mid.-Oxf 10 10 Trust ponr a o .ir a. n aa . c d earroiaaeo, Agency i:t.l Co.liLm d jp o )rei;ic: mai o n.a 1 ) 211 e II 1 6 1 p guarantee for the possession of the belt in the event of his winning, The matter is left in abeyance, and all bets are at oil. The meat agreeable part of the performance was, that the gate - money wad returned to those present. Do. 26 do st ;Do.Newport 5 p.c. axed, i 100 100 102 it Do. Perpet.6 p. c. pf. 1866 100 118 122 at i Do. till 18691 100 115 120 1 2 00.5 0 ur •n l: A . K i t u i ' L d 1 d pr FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 20 Algerian 4 1 T 5 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 65 61 20 Ardennes .... . - —p 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim..7 p.c l5 11 d 141 4 5 Belgian East. Junction all i t 20 Beziers to Graissessac all Carmeaux Mine & Rail 8C 101 11/ 100 Copiapo 30 Ditto Extension 20 Dutch Rhenish 20 Eastern of France 20 Grand Ras Guar. 6p. c all 20 Do. do. all 20 4reat Central of France all 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. shs all 81 9 fq 9 20 Italian Junction 20 Llerre & Turnhout 20 Lyons 45 Geneva, 20 Namur & Liege .... 20 Do. 6p. c. Pref. 16 Northern of France all 38 39 16 Do. New Shares l5 - 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 7 9 20 l'aria,Lyons, & Mediter. %II 39 40 40 20 Parts & Orleans.. 20 Recife &S. Fran. (fern ) gua. 7p. et. lira.-- 17 54 41 t 20 Riga & Dunaburg lB.B. 20 Royal Danish all 11 13 5 Royal Swedish ....., 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all 20 Sambre & Meuse 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref all 81 91 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c. 4 4 A 20 S.Aust &Lomb Venetin 16 4 4 .... 26 Southern of France all 251 265 20 S. East Portugal 7p t 4 84 West Flanciern .., all 61 7 10 Do. 51 p. c. Preference all 96 10 20 W. & N.W. of France 20 West'rn of Austria 6 20 Western of Switzerland all -- 6 Wiesbaden 6 Do. 8 por cent Pref all 20 Zealand - -- BRITISH. MINES. - Alfred Consols (Philack)3.2.lo f 1 20 British Iron Clifford nil 32 35 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 360 370 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 55 60 54 21 East Caradon 2.11.6 281 281 284 9 E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) 7.4.0 24 31 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 551 18 20 Great South Tolgus.... 17s 31 45 G.Wheal Alfa. (Philack) - G. Wheal Vor (IIelston) 40 6 7 Grenville 6.8.6 15 11 Herod's-Foot 8.12 37 39 Hingston Downs 4.11.6 35 3 -- Lady Bertha 4.- Margaret (tJny Lelant) 9i 40 42 North Downs 2l 44 51 North Frances (Mogan, 114 2 1 N.Wh'l Basset(Illo ;an) 1.14.0 21 31 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey) 14 7 8 20 Providence (Uny Lein.%) 10.6.7 38 40 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 1 4 1 South Caradon(St.Cleer) , 11 310 120 ,S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.9.6 4 41 1 S. Dev.lron &Gen.,Lim. all 5 1 S.Wheal Fran. (Illog - an) 1 18.1 4 .t; 974 1024 110 Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. 41 1 15 10 Tin Croft , 9 71 85 Vale of Towey (Carm ),13s 6d 5 1 i West Basset (Illogan) 114 14 15 W. Caradon (Liskeard)l 5 48 50 48 IWest Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 85 90: Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 I 75 85 Whcal Edward (Cals.) 74 24 3 1 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelanq , 1.7.2 44 5 4 Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) 8 16 17 Wheal Trelawney (LlB.)' 7 16 17 FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 Son Accord Copper,Lim 17.6 11c1 fd 4 f 20 Brazil St.J.del Rey,Lint 15 48 50 491 50 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. all 11 14 1 Clarendon Cons.MiaCo. I 4ii , +. 40 Cobre Copper all 35 S 7 Copiapo 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 1 11 14 2 Fortuna. 20 General I all 23 24 2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 5 5 p 11 1 I/ Kapunda (Limited) I 1 11 p 3 Linares all 7 8 5 ILusitanian 2 6 pr 1 'Mariquita all 1 i f 1 , N.RhineCopofS.Aus.L 4 4 td 20 i Pontcribaud Silver,Lead , 1 Mining and Smelt... ti all 2 4 5 Port Philip 1 11 If 11 1 5 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) i 10s. 1 fpm 25.211 United Mexican . ......' all 74 8 85 1 1 Worthing (Limit ed)....' all 1 4 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid. Leasing Closing Business Co. s Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln. &N. W i .. .. Birkenhead lOO D ..&G.W 4 86 Buckinghamshire lOO Do. Chester &II olyhead.. 100 Do 53 54 Do. 54 per cent 100 Do. Do. 5 „ 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U. &E.O 83 65 E. Lincolneb. gapr c. 100 G , .North. 133 136 E.Union,HarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 41 Do. Woodbridge... .1 100 • • • • Gls. Barr.&Neils.Drct., l 100 Caledon .. .. Do. new I 100 D 0........ .. .. Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. .. Hull and selby all Yk.N. Mid 110 112 Do. halves Do. quarters 1 all Do. .. .. . . .. .. Lancaster & Carlisle, 100 Ln.&N.W 193 198 Loudon & Greenwich' 100 S. Easterr 61 63 61 Do. Preference Lon.,Tilb.& Southend, 100 Peto &Co B3 85 81 5 Lowestoft g,na. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do 6 per cent lOO D 0....... .. .. Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& 1i 3 1 31 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx ) g-ua. 5 per sent... 5. 5. 6. E Counts. par 1 p Northn.4tEw=tn. sp. e. all Do. Do. 6 per cent. all Do. 66 Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 1 , 0 N. E. Ber .. .. North Western L&N.W Preston and Wyre. 1 all &L. yk. I 43 45 Do. 4 shares A. all Do. •-• • .. Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 Gt. North. 133 136 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 118 122 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset -100 Gt. West. 92 94 921 Si Wimbledn & Croydon, all L.&Brgtn 84 911 PREFERENCE SHARES. Sharei Railways. Paid. Closing Business Prices. Prices. Done. iCa V7 4 7 7 9 . 6 p.c..Ja. &J I 100 105 108 1 106 71 Do 6p. cent.lBBo-2I 100 Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 100 , Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Ava.l 1 00 1104 107 Do. 6p. Sept., 100 104 107 Do. 5 per cent lOO 94 06 95/ 761 6 -- Cape G.llope, 6p c,lBBOl 100 106 108 Do. 1890 100 106 108 B.G ov. 6 p.c. J a.&July, 100 102 101 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct., 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 , 100 98 100 Do. sp. c.. 1871 to 1876' 100 97 99 Do. p.c., 1888 & upwcl9 l 100 96 93 98 7i Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. 0 ster7ing, 1875 lOO 103 105 105 S. Au5,G6p.c.1873.& up lOO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja. &July 100 - Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct, lOO 102 104 103 i 21 3i DOCKS. ittnnir I nmmprPial lOO I I THE I:SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECENtI3ER 25, 1861. vessels are generally at anchor, and where the mor ter vessels built during the Russian war now lie moored. Considerable difficulties have been expe rienced in preparing the foundations for the works on Bishop's-marsh, but the works in connexion with this battery will be finished and fully armed within two years. Up to the present time very little has been done towards the erection of the fort on Folly-point, but now that the most difficult portion of the operations have been accomplished, no time will be lost iu proceeding with the Folly-point battery. The Hannibal, 90, screw, Capt. A. Farquhar, was paid out of commission at Portsmouth yesterday. Her crew, the greater part of whom are continuous service men, have been granted a week's leave on shore. The Edgar, 89, screw, flagship of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., under orders for Lisbon, was de tained yesterday at Spithead by a court-martial held on board the Victory on one of the Edgar's petty officers, the particulars of which were of no public interest. Sne is expected to sail to-morrow. The Sutlej, 51, screw, fitting for commission at Portsmouth, has received her armament, and is now completing the equipment of her Armstrong battery. Her rigging is ratlined down, and her hull is re ceiving its final coat of outside paint. She is drawing now 20 feet water aft, and from her ap pearance as she lies in the steam basin, promises to be the handsomest auxiliary screw frigate in her Majesty's Navy. Her sails and provisions have yet to be put on board, and a good deal yet remains to be done in her internal stowage. The Severn, 51, 500 horse-power, screw frigate, is to be furnished with the proper armament from the stores at Chatham :—One 100 pounder Arm strong pivot gun, six 40-pounder Armstrongs, and fourteen 32-pounders, on her upper deck; and four 70-pounder Armstrongs, eight 8-inch guns each of 58 cwt., and eighteen 32-pounders on her main deck. The wooden model of Capt. C. Coles's cupola, de signed to prove the feasibility of working two guns within the interior of one cupola of a certain area, is being fixed by shipwrights (,n the deck of the Hazard, old sailing sleep, in the steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard. The steam transport Mauritius, having shipped her stores and passengers from Woolwich for Ame rica, as detailed in The Sun, went down the river by last night's tide for Greenhithe to adjust compasses for sea. A gang of seamen riggers were ordered to - go down from the dockyard this morning to assist in swinging the vessel so as to hasten her departure. Col, Low and Major Mayne, of the 4th Light Dragoons, will embark at Green hithe, and proceed in the Mauritius, having been appointed to organise the Canadian Militia. Capt. Shakerley, R.A., will also go on board at Green hithe, to join his battery,ordered to embark at Cork. In shipping the war stores care was taken to place the battery of Armstrong guns uppermost, so as to be available should any event occur during the voy age out to require their being called into action. Messrs. Clement Royds, Pierce G. Evans, and H. Bingham Wynyard have been nominated to naval cadetships. . . The Orlando, 50, screw-frigate, Captain Francis Scott, C. 8., left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday morn ing for the North American and West India station. It is said that she will call at Gibraltar. An additional number of workmen have been employed upon the Caledonia, iron-cased screw frigate, now building at Woolwieh, and which is in a forward state for launching. The following appointments were made at the Admiralty last evening:— Master—John Phillips, to the Vigilant, vice Mongan Samuel Braddon, to the Phoebe, vice Veitch. Engineer—F. Brockton, to the Vigilant. Assistant-Engineers—C. Jackson, acting first class, W. Hammond, second class, and J. Jenkins, acting second class, to the Vigilant. _ _ _ The Vigilant, screw steam-sloop, Commander Pike, shipped her screw propeller yesterday. She will be ready to be undocked about Friday next. A number of meta have already joined her. The barge Defiance, of Chester, waB yesterday brought alongside the anchor wharf at Chatham, and commenced discharging about 70 tons of angle iron, intended for the immense iron frigate Achilles, building in No. 2 dock. The iron was from the factory of Messrs. Mare and Co., of Blackwall. The Lee, 5, screw dispatch gun vessel, 80 horse power, having failed very signally in both her recent trial trips to the Maplin Sands, is ordered to be docked at Sheerness, in order to enable the officials to ascertain in what her defects consist, after which she is again to be taken out and tried. At her former trial trip scarcely nine knots an hour could be got out of her under the most favourable circumstanoes. The Snipe, 5, screw gun vessel, is ordered to be furnished with two 20-pounder Armstrongs in lieu of two 24-pounder howitzers. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have ordered the recall of all the men who have had one month's leave of absence, to join the Formidable, commanded by Capt. W.'G. Luard. Her Majesty's steam sloop Rapid, 11 guns, in basin at Woolwich under fitment for North A me riea, got her masts on an end and was partially rigged yesterday afternoon. A demand was made for her warrant officers. Naval Cadets nominated—Clement Royda Pierce, Ger vais Evans, and Henry Bingham C. Wynyard. THE ARM V. One hundred and twenty non-commissioned offi cers and men of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, detached for duty at DPptford dock and victualling yards, were yesterday ordered to return to the headquarters of their division to replace the detachment despatched to Mexico. A detachment of Royal Engineers, non commis sioned officers and privates. are under orders to embark on Saturday on board the screw steamer Victoria for Canada, where they will be employed in laying out 400 miles of telegraph for military purposes. The London Rifle Brigade has forwarded toMajor- General Eyre, commanding the Chatham district, a donation of £lO for distribution among the troops of that garrison. The detachment of non-commissioned officers and men of the Army Hospital Corps who have been placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness for embarkation for Canada have been medically in • speeted, and it is expected will leave Chatham about Friday next. The steam store ships Rhadamanthus and Dee ar rived at Woolwich yesterday from Portsmouth, con veying victualling stores for Deptford, and the launch, pinnace, and other boats for the Defence. The Rhadamanthus entered the fitting basin to land her stores last night. The Lyra, 7, screw, Commander Alexander, ar rived at Spithead on Monday morning from the Cape of Good Hope, last from Portland Roads,where she put in for shelter from the prevailing north-east gales on Wednesday evening, as already reported in The Sun. She is ordered to the eastward to be paid off, bat will be unable to proceed until the present breezes have greatly moderated. The Pandora, 6, screw, in the first-class reserve at Portsmouth, has been brought down the harbour and berthed alongside the dockyard, to complete her armament, &c., for sea. She is ordered to proceed round to Liverpool, and will be stationed in the Mersey for the protection of the port. The Devastation, 6, paddle, Commander M'Crea, ' arrived at Spithead feeate•?day morning & - i her way to the Pacific. The order for her further shipment of Armstrung guns at Spithead is cancelled. The Chanticleer 17, screw, Commander C. Stirling, remains on special duty, anchored off Osborne. The new temporary tiller for the Warrior iron frigate at Portsmouth was got aboard on Monday from the smiths' shop. It weighs 2 tons 5 cwt. The stated time for the completion of the Warrior's work at present has received a further extension, the end of the year being now named as the time. The clang and preparation for war are increasing daily in the dockyard, but the lion's share of the work is, to all appearance, taken by the Warrior and Black Prince, on which a couple of hundred men make but little perceptible progress. It will be an excel lent thing for the other work in the yard when both ships are got fairly away to sea. The gunboats in the first-class reserve at Ports mouth are ordered away to the following stations, for the protection of the coasts and harbours, in the event of war with America :—The Highlander, to Kingstown; Escort, Blazer, and Rose, to the coast of Ireland ; and the Amelia and Raven to Greenock. They will be commanded by lieutenants from her Majesty's ships Victory, Asia, St. Vincent, and Ex cellent, and manned bv crews told off from the same ships—all of whom have been named for service in the boats for some time past under the " gunboat flotilla" regulations. The second•class gunboats at Portsmouth have been taken in hand to be brought forward as first-class reserve at the port. Operations for completing the chain of fortifica tions and batteries now being constructed on either side of the entrance to the Medway, near its con fluence with the Thames, for the better protection of the two important naval establishments at Chat ham and Sheerness, still continue to be carried on with the utmost vigour. Notwithstanding the nu merous difficulties experienced in the progress of the undertaking, in consequence of the treacherous and shifting nature of the soil on which the princi pal fortifications are to be erected, these have now been entirely surmounted * , and the piles on which the substructure will be wised have been securely driven to the required depth. The greatest pro gress has, however, been made with the massive semi-circular battery at Garrison-point, the founda tion of which is now almost entirely completed. This battery is, perhaps, the most important of the entire series intended to be erected between the Nore and Chatham, as no ship attempting to enter the Medway will be able to escape its range of fire. As the heavy granite walls which will pro tect this battery are now about to be erected the - whole may fairly be expected to be completed during the ensuing year. According to the pre sent plan this formidable tower—for such it really will be—will mount a powerful armament of 65 guns, chiefly Armstrongs, of the very heaviest calibre, ranging between the 40-pounders, 70- pounders, 100-pounders, and even 200-pounders, if those of the latter description are finished for use by the time the fort is completed. Nearly opposite Garrison-point but rather higher up the river, on the opposite shore, two other equally formidable batteries are beginning to rise on the Isle of Grain. These batteries, the erection of which is bang pushed forward with the greatest energy, will mount as formidable an armament as those on the opposite side of the river. The batteries now building, in conjunction with those already exist ing, will securely guard the entire approach to the Medway, which will be protected by the two bat teries on the Isle of Grain, on the north ; the bastions and batteries now existing at Sheerness, on the south; and Vie almost impregnable fort at Garrison Point. Slidaid, however, a hostile ship succeed in accomplishing the almost impossible feat of passing the guns of the batteries named, it would still have to encounter after rounding the headland of Darnet ness the batteries of Folly-point, and Bishop's marsh, a short distance below Chatham dockyard, the guns of which will be so mounted as by their fire to rake the ship fore and aft. The selection of the headland at Bishop's-marsh for a battery is most judicious, the position effectually protecting the entrance to Yantlett-creek, in which a squadron of ROYAL ARTILLERY FOR CANADA.—Major 7, C. Child's 7th battery of the 10th Brigade Royal Ar tillery, with Second Captain Brown, Lieutenants Harman, King, F. Galloway, and C. J. M. Pro thers, are under orders to leave the garrison on Friday next, and proceed by rail tvay to Liver pool, for embarkation on board the steamship Canada, for Halifax. The H battery of the 4th Brigade is under orders to embark at the Royal Arsenal-pier for Canada during the present week. The battery comprises the following officers.viz. : Captain H. A. Smith, Second Captain W. J. Hall, Lieutenants E. H. Wickham, A. H. Maclean, and E. Clayton. A WINTER CAMP A IGN IN THE CON. FEDERATE ,NTATES. A Southern journal, the Richmond Enquirer, of the 2d inst., has the following timely remarks on the prospects of a winter campaign in the Confede- rate States:— One of the greatest of popular delusions is that of supposing winter campaigning at the South to be a feasible thing. The North have had to aban- don many fallacious notions and to sustain many chastening disappointments since the beginning of the war ; but this idea of making long marches through the South in midwinter is one which they still cling to with great fondness, and which is des- tined to lead them into much grief. It has been said that "going into winter quarters" is an obso• lete and exploded idea in Europe, and perhaps it is so in these modern times, when the roads over that whole continent have come to excel the best streets of American cities in fineness and excellence. Per- haps it is so in densely populated Europe, where every square mile of territory has provisions for a regiment, and where a thorough system of agricul ture can supply a moderate army with provisions at every step of its progress. The necessity of " going into winter quarters" has ceased in Europe only be cause their roads have been brought to perfection, their population has become denser, and their agri culture has rendered every acre of surface prolific of human and animal food. But very different is the case on this continent. A winter campaign in the North would be far more practicable than at the South ; compared with those of Europe, their roads are indifferent ; but the continual frost of winter renders them as firm as a pavement. The winter, too, is more intensely cold than at the South ; but the low temperature is continuous, and there is the constant dryness of atmosphere, which freezing weather produces ; con tinuous ice and frost are far more propitious to army health and transportation than alternate rains, snows, thaws, and freezes, &c. Invasion of the North in Nk inter, therefore, would be comparatively a feasible performance, rendered more so by the more dense population and the more general distri bution of food and supplies over the whole surface of territory. In all these respects the case of the South is different. The Northerners are destined to encounter much more in a Southern winter campaign than they dream of in their philosophy. The agricultural in dustry- of our section is employed in the production of food to but a partial extent. Our great staples of cotton and tobacco employ two-thirds of our labour. Few planters are in the habit of raising more than their own consumption of food, except in the districts unadapted to cotton and tobacco. Take the South as a whole, leaving Kentucky and Missouri, I and it does not more than produce its own food. To invade the South is not, therefore, to invade a country dotted all over with magazines of provi sions. The invading army must bring along and carry with its entire supplies both of rations and forage. What the difficulty of doing this in a coun try where the weather is always soft, and almost constant rains keep the roads in a state more fit for navigation than travel, was experienced by the English during the Crimean war, when, at a dis tance of only 30 miles from abundantly stored ma gazines on the Black Sea, their army was starving. The invasion of the South must be made, if at all, by land, over the deep limestone mud in Western Virginia and Kentucky, or the bottomless loams of the Mississippi Valley. In no part of those regions of country are the roods passable in rainy weather after the waggons and artillery of a single brigade have gone over them. The tort a and city residents of the North, who speak so flippantly of invading the Southern States, have little idea of the obstacles which bad country roads interpose against the movements of an army. In no part of the South, except where Southern treachery has let them in, have the enemy succeeded in pene• trating 25 miles into oar borders with their armies during eight months of the driest weather and best roads of the year. We think it hardly probable that they will do much better during the season of rains and mud, wh en th e highways are absolutely impassable. But the deep, boggy roads are not the only obstacles to oppose an invader. The climate of the South during winter is greatly more unfavourable to the health of green troops than even during the fever months of summer. The peculiarity of Southern winters is their sudden, ex treme, and frequent changes of temperature—their almost constant dampness, and their great quan tities of rain, whic'l are the very conditions that tell most hurtfully upon the health of troops. Used to the dry, bracing weather of the Northern winters, and the tight rooms and hot stoves of their Northern homes, the Yankee soldiers will find our Southern climate more severe and trying than they could be induced to believe before actual trial. It is a source of felicitation with the South that their foe has taken it into his head to conduct a winter campaign against her. We venture to predict that, if persisted in, it wilt prove one of the most disas trous campaigns to the invader that can be found on record. The invasion of the South overland, we make bold to say, is a thing impossible. The only chance of the enemy to injure or annoy us before spring will be by coming down the Mississippi in boats, and by keeping up a system of naval assaults upon weak points along the seaboard. We have little fear of their getting down the river; and their naval squads can accomplish little else than now and then a piece of successful thieving. As to a second battle at Manassas, it is scarcely practicable for the enemy to get his army that tar forward un opposed. They would be whipped without firing a gun if required to stand still and wait for supplies, It is given out that M'Clellan intends to conduct the war chiefly with artillery. If his strength be fore Manassas consists mainly in that arm, there is no possibility of a fight, for besides the difficulty of getting a multitude of cannon over 20 miles of deep mud, the ground is too soft to admit of using them in battle. Although it has often been attempted, the South has never been successfully invaded at any season, and it is not to be supposed that the impos sible feat will be performed now in the very worst season that could be chosen for the purpose. The enemy might, with much better chance of success, brave the fevers which protect us in summer than the impassable roads and pluro-pneumonia which protect us more effectually in winter. COLONEL FULLER ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS. On Thursday evening Colonel Fuller, a gentleman well known as a journalist in America, delivered a lecture on the present state of affairs on the Western Continent. The large room at St. James's Hall was taken for this purpose, but the attendance was very small in proportion to the ample space at command. There were, however, several persons of high sta tion and influence present, and the audience may be said to have made up in " quality" for what it cer tainly lacked in quantity, Mr. Yancy, one of the Southern Commissioners, was among Colonel Ful ler's hearers. The chair was taken by Dr. Charles Mlekay, who entreated a patient hearing for Col. Fuller, and said that, so far as he understood the purpose of that gentleman, it was to state facts within his own experience and observation. Colonel Fuller introduced his remarks by saying .hat the Trent affair had turned attention forcibly :o the subject of disruption between the Northern and Southern States of America. He bad watched the progress of events on both sides of the line of separation ; but he approached his theme literally in fear and trembling, and felt that he must begin with a personal explanation —nay, an apology—for attempting to discuss so difficult and dangerous a question. He was an American citizen—a native of the North; a native of New England ; of a place near that rock where the little band of emigrants landed from the Mayflower in the memorable win ter of 1620. He had lived i❑ friendship with Web ster—had stood by him when he died at Marshfield, and had seen him laid " In his sepulchre there by the sea." Since the destruction of Jerusalem was foretold by the inspired seer he did not think that words more prophetic had ever been uttered than those which Webster had employed in looking forward to the present period of disorganisation among the con stituent pirts of the American republic. That re public had been accepted as a type of good govern ment and national stability. Pus had been chanted in its praise, and Longfellow, its laureate, had thus apostrophised it : Thou, too, -64i1 on, 0 ship of ,tate ; Sail on, 0 Union, strong and groat I Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate." As a journalist of long standing, he could not be ac cured of Southern predilections. He had belonged to a party called in derision the " Union-savers," who followed 'Webster and Clay as their guiding lights, and looked upon Fillmore, Everett, and other lesser orbs, with admiration. In Congress and out of Con gress this party had laboured to avert secession. Colonel Fuller then proceeded to review the posi tion of affairs as it now appeared. There were 20,000,000 of people on one side and 10,000,000 on another, the South asserting a right which the North denied. On the point of abstract right he had little to say. Enough to know that the people of the South believed in that right, and fully proved their faith by their works. (Cheers and hisses.) A Wain statement of a fact ought not to give offence. It was his purpose to give a candid record of past events. The causes of disruption he considered to lie deep, and to extend far back into the past. In the first place the American system was an anomaly. It was inconsistent with its principles, an absurdity in terms, and a contradiction in fact. In a coerced Union the very spirit of all union departed and was lost. He looked back for the cause of the present conflict to the deed of the 41 pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower. Those men had thought to ar range all matters of future government after their own narrow ideal. While the North, however, had ' been settled by Puritans, the South had been planted by Cavaliers ; and in this radical fact were the seeds of perpetual antagonism. The Puritans were they who had slaughtered Indians, hanged Quakers, burnt Baptists, burnt witches, got rich in the slave trade, and then turned abolitionists. (Laughter, and sounds of disapprobation.) He did not wish to impeach his ancestors. The Pilgrim Fathers had among them men of heroic nature; but there was an original and radical difference between them and the people who colonised the South. This difference was one partly of climate. The wines of different countries did not vary more than their in habitants. Look at France and England, only separated by a narrow channel of salt water. On 1, one side was a nation, sparkling, piquant, volatile; on the other a people steady, sturdy, substantial. As there were temperate, tropical, and frigid zones of the earth, so were there corresponding distinc tions of the human race. Even had the origin of American citizens been the same, 200 years of diverse occupation and ways of life would have placed a bar between them. The North worked hard to gain wealth; the South led a dolcefar niente existence, eating their bread in the sweat, not of their own brows, but the brows of their negroes. The policy of the opposing sections was as distinct as their customs. The North was for protection to manufactural interests; the South leant to free trade. (Interruption, and cries of Free Trade in Negroes.) The South demanded free trade for their agricultural produce. (Renewed disturbance, in the midst of which the chairman rose and said that no discussion had been invited ; and that it was not a practice among Englishmen to get up a warm con troversy in the presence of ladies.) It was true that the democratic party had just one plank of free trade in their political platform, which saved it from goi ng to pieces. The severance of the American Union was attributable in one word, to absolutism. Abso lutism had e.tused the war, and secession preci pitated it. It was not the principle of abolition that the Lincoln administration advocated. They opposed the acquisition of fresh states—why ? Simply because there would be more votes against tariff laws, navigation laws, end various other laws enacted solely for the benefit of the North. As to the freedom of negroes, that was not much thought about. The true social abolitionists were insigni ficant in number. South Carolina,ato fearstate for herwhich, from geographical position, had little the silks of France, and the rnanufac u . re g negroes, had been first to secede, becauset she wanted pay fo h r with her o cotton. Engl a n d,wwehriecht there would still be the at the highest market price, hseheNwoortuhidto top 3 ever slay© same cause of war. The question of slavery could not be disposed of by the sentimentalism of Exeter Hall, or by fictitious Uncle Toms and impossible little Topsys. As for the North, it had only abo lihed the institution when it had ceased to pay. It would be for the future to decide whether this con flict was a rebellion or a revolution. George Wash ington was a rebel chief till he had led the North to liberty. Colonel Fuller indulged in some discur sive remarks condemnatory of unrestricted suffrage, such as is conceded as a right to " the swarms of paupers, convicts, refugees, and adventurers who swell that tide of emigration to New York, which, like the Propontis, knows no ebb." He concluded by indicating reasons for a separation of North and South, but said he left the end to be drawn from the logic of events. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. The Roman correspondent of the Morning Post, under date Dec. 12, tells the following strange story :—On Nov. 10, 1860, there arrived at the Hotel de l'Europe, in this city, a gentleman and lady coming from Naples, who engaged apartments, and gm - 0 their names as Mr. Kenriek and Miss Gray, his stepdaughter. The gentleman was a hale, elderly man, and the young lady handsome and of a fine figure. He was 62 years of age and she 28. Shortly after their arrival an English officer from Naples, who had just left Garibaldi's British Brigade there, joined them at the Hotel de l'Europe, and after spending a fortnight in Rome with them, left for Florence. After this officer's departure Mr. Kenrick and Miss Gray lived a very retired life in the Hotel, where they were as economical as the style of the establishment allowed ; but after three months residence in it without their ever asking for a bill, the English proprietress of the hotel, Mrs. Melga, gave instructions to her secretary to send them in their account. Mr. Kenrick repaired to the secre tary's office on the following day with the money required, but he stated that, as the last remittance he had received from England was not of the amount he had expected, he should be glad to defer the pay ment of his bill a little longer, if not inconvenient. The secretary made no difficulty, and the credit was _ _ renewed for some time longer, Mr. Kenrick con tinually saying that he was expecting remittances from England, and that he was surprised and indig nant at the remissness of his relations. After several months had elapsed, Mrs. Melga was advised to apply through a solicitor in London to Mr. Ken- rick's family, or to their legal adviser, and through the communications which ensued sbe became ac- quainted with the following history of her guests. Mr. Kenrick belonged to a most respectable Welsh family, but he had £0 little talent for the adminis- tration of his own property that he had squandered nearly £lOO,OOO, leaving his wife dependent upon the will of her father, a very rich man, who, how ever, on his death, left her only £5,000 instead of the bulk of his property, as had been expected. Mr. Ken. rick, becoming bankrupt, left England and went to Lyons, where he speculated in silk, and became partner in a manufactoty, but with no success, as after six years' residence in that city the firm was declared insolvent, and he, disgusted apparently with commercial undertakings, left France to join Garibaldi's legion, which was then besieging Capua. It appears that Mr. Kenrick on this occa sion again ,fell in with Miss Gray, a misguided young lady, although belonging to a respectable family, with whom he had previously been inti- mate in Eng'and. How or why she was atNaples is not clearly ~pecified, but sbe immediately joined Mr. Kenrick there, and came on with him to Rome, as already stated, but on account of this liaison, Mr. Kenrick's usual remittances from his wife's rela tions were suspended, and Mrs. Melga was in formed that no money would be furnished to him until he should return to England and alone. Mrs. Melga offered to supply him with the sum necessary to reach England, and to send a person to see him safely there, provided his rels tians would guarantee the payment of his liabilities to her ; but they declined this proposition, and a subsequent appeal made by Mrs. Melga to Mr. Kenrick's daughter, Mrs. Robert Roy, the wife of a wealthy clergyman, living near Boston,in Lincoln shire, in behalf of her father, remain unanswered. In this way matters went on until the month of August in the present year, and Mr. Kenrick and Miss Gray felt that, with no prospect of being able to pay their bill, their stay at the hotel must bo brought to a close. .An arrangement was made by which their trunks and passport were left in Mrs. Melga's possession, whilst they went to take a tem porary lodging in a little country osteria or tavern, about two miles from Rome, on the Monte Mario road, opposite the church of St. Onafrio, where they lived in the most economical manner. Mrs. Melga drove out to see this unfortunate couple seve ral times, continuing to supply them with money as their slender supply became exhausted, but without receiving any letters or prospect of succour from England. Mr. Kenrick was very much dejected at his position, but Miss Gray affected to be indifferent about it, saying, as she looked down from the lofty eminence they had selected for their place of refuge upon the Tiber windit, g below, " When we cannot get on any longer, we shall tie ourselves together, and plunge into that river." Mr. Kenriek said if he could get to Naples he wt's certain of obtaining as sistance or employment amongst his friends and acquaintances there, mentioning at the same time some of the principal English residents, with whom ha said he was intimate. Mrs. Melga, on due reflec tion, determined to aid Mr. Kenrick in effecting this change of scene. Mr. Kenrick, however, had. much exaggerated the availability of his connections in Naples, so that he and Miss Gray would have been in abject beggary had not Mrs. Melga once more come to their aid by sending them a letter of recommendation to a rich merchant of Naples (Mr. Pitken), who supplied them with money, and became answerable for their board and lodging at Mrs. Corby's English boarding house on the Riviera di Chiaja, whilst he set on foot a subscription among his own friends to form a fund. with which to enable Mr. Kenrick and Miss Gray to return to England, such being the course recom mended to them by everyone. It was in this state that Mrs. Melga found matters when she went to Naples to visit her married daughter there, about the 20th of November last. Complaints were made to her, on the one hand, of the obstinacy of her proteges in refusing to go to England, whilst they, on the other hand, complained of the cruelty of sending them back like paupers against their ex press wish. On the evening of the 25th of Novem ber Mr. Kenriek and Miss Gray called on Mrs. Melga, the son-in-law of the latter and a Neapolitan gentleman being present at the interview, which lasted from eight to ten. Mrs. Melga, urged Mr. Kenrick to adopt the plan suggested to him, as from his age and his ignorance of the Italian lan guage it would be impossible for him to find em ployment in Naples. Mr. Kenrick appeared at last to acquiesce, but Miss Gray strenuously opposed from beginning to end the return to England. This 'infortunate couple then left Mrs. Melga—Mr. Ken rick thanking her warmly for all she had done. From what subsequently transpired they must have gone directly to the public gardens of the Villa Reale, on the sea-shore, where, the cafe being still open, they took a glass of rum or rosolio. They then climbed over the low wall of the villa, where a semi-circular space overlooking the sea is furnished with stone seats, and descended on the beach, where round,and her, Mr. Kenriek ankles, and filled Miss Gray it ire t t i n e with , with sand is shirt, his wai stcoat, and ahnd stones, Miss Gray supp l y in g the nec essary tied the rw dressaist effecting the s ame purpose b e y oa fi t. l s li i n te g ve tl s ie w bsom of i ve . s together round the waist with their s trings and tap es from her own dress. The y then t i e d themselves pocket handkerchiefs, and deliberately lay down to die in the sea, which at that point is not more than t w o or three feet deep. They had tie resolution to endure suffocation, and their corpses were seen in the transparent water next morning at daybreak by a fisherman, who, having apprised the authori ties, measures were taken to establish their identity, and after a post-mortem examination, to show whether they had taken poison also or not, they were interred in the English burying ground, Mrs. Melga's son-in-law taking upon himself the last offices of charity towards the unfortunate deceased. lIM