The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET COT-3M3 I IROLA.L Two ,I'CLo, The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday closed steadily, without alteration in prices. The sales were estimated at 6,000 hales. The Railway Share Market closed tirmly, at an improvement in quota tions generally. The Bank of England Return, completed for the Week ending last Saturday, is exceedingly favour able, the reserve of notes has been largely aug mented, and the bullion has received an addition of upwards of 200,000. As it is believed that 400,0001. to 450,0001. of the Australian arrivals have gone into the national establishment, the stock of the precious metals must now reach nearly ten millions and a quarter. The next re turn therefore will probably be still more satisfac tory, and if the position of the institution continues to improve an early reduction in the minimum terms of discount may be expected. Yesterday there was an a3tive inquiry for money, but this is attributable to the settlements on the Stock Ex change, and to preparations for the bills which will become due on the "fourth" proximo. The follow* table exhibits the principal items in the Bank Return, and the alterations they pre sent when compared with the previous balance- sheet : Active Circulation Decrease Bullion 9,397,636 Increase 3,263,571 Increase Public Deposits Increase Other Deposits Decrease Seven-Day and other Eills. 858,122 Decrease Government Securities Decrease Other Securities Decrease 4,218,055 Notes unemployed Rest ploy' Increase 611,240 The official return of the exports of the precious metals from the port of London for the week end ing Thursday last is as follows : SHARE MARKETS—(This Day). KAILW Gold Coin 91 Silver Specie ... 12,700 Oz'. 15 Om. 6 Cwt. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 62 7 ; Mexi can, 22! ; Peruvian 44 per Cents., 76 8 ; ditto t, 3 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 6 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto C I per Cents., 94 6; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41i ; ditto New Deferred, 23/ 4 ; ditto Certificates, 5 .1- ; ditto Passive, 6 A firm market has prevailed for English Securi- ' ties to-day, and the tendency in prices has been 11 Pwards. In the morning there was a slight ad- vance, but it was not maintained. There have been a few sales by parties who were desirous of securing their profits, but the transactions in the aggregate have been limited. Consols for transfer have been 941 and 94i, for the December account 94g and for January 95k .. The New Threes are 93 i the Reduced 931, 'J. Exchequer Bills 3s. to 6 s. premium, and the Bonds 981. Foreign Stocks have been very dull. In Turkish 6 per Cents. there have been numerous dealings at 93 to 96±. The latest quotations are 95, 3 f, 96 The 4 per Cents. have been 1021 1 ,1. Spanish 3 per Cents, have realised 42 ; Russian ‘0 per Cents. 95k, 96 ; Peruvian 76i, 7 7 ; and Mexican 22 to 22±. In, the Railway Share Market to-day an active business has been transacted, and almost all of the leading lines have exhibited a decided improve ment. Chester and Holyhead, East Anglian, Great Northern, Great Western, Norfolk, and South-Eastern improved 10s. ; North-Western, North-Eastern, York, Brighton, 15s. to 1/. ; and East Lancashire 2/. to 2/. 10s. The East Indian, French, and Canadian lines were also rather firmer. Joint-Stock Bank Shares have been dull, but prices ruled steady. In Miscellaneous Shares the transactions have been limited, and quotations in oue or two in stancea have improved. Electric Telegraph Com pany's Shares advanced 21., and Peninsular• and Oriental Steam 15s. -- - B arrisu FUNDS Tills , ' . )A'7 AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Tram the Official List.) Siginr.% et Otlfl. ,i Por Cont. Reduced Annuities .. : 931 4 3 i t P 5: Cent. Consols Antraities .......... LI6 V , 3 pot Cent. Annuities .... ............ - 03. 13 i India Bonds, £lOOO ...‘.. ................ ....• Ditto, under £ lOOO 3 P eonso ls tor Account 9ll i N I chequer Bills, 21d. £lOOO P5OO 5 3 p Rmall Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent.... (18 , i Ditto, 1359 RIMS OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Moxica,n 3 per Cent... reruvian Bonds 4; per Cent Russian, Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent. . . 9 5 } 6 'Pani h bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Toritith Ponds, 6 per cent — Ditto Amount Og i Si Gi s il i Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Dividends on the above oayabW in T., - , , doh TWO O'CLOCK. Consols (Money) Ditto Account Ditto Account (January) We understand that J. S. Stsek, Esq., of the Western s Circuit, Recorder of Winchester, has been appointed to 2 the Recorderebip of Exeter. rendered vacant by the _ Promotion of Mr. Sergeant Kiegiake to that of Bristol. THE SupeerawNrseTioN INIQUITY. —We last week re- corded the death of Mr. W. H. Miall, landing waiter at Southampton. This is another melancholy instance of the hardship of the superannuation-tax. Mr. Mia 11 had been in the service uproar le of 16 years, during t Which time he must have paid 2001. to the fund, which i s tow entirely lost to his family.—Civil Service Gazette. Tenders will be received by the Emigration Commis- 2 sinners on the 4th of Dec. for the biro of ships to pro ceed respectively to Sydney and Melbourne. There vessels must be ready to receive passengers between the I 20th and 81st of Jan. We (Glasgow Daily Mail) understand that one of the 1 ,000/. subscribers in this city to the Atlantic Telegraph enterprise is Mr. Thackeray, who presented his subscrip tion on Saturday. At the recent Schiller festival, at Leipsic, an oration ! Was delivered by Dr. Prutz, a professor of Halle, which Was so ardent and enthusiastic that it seemed to recall the sentiments of 1543. The police of Saxony were alarmed, and an intimation has been given that the Schiller Society will be dissolved if any more such speeches are made. Non W n EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday a special meeting of the shareholders of the above company was held at York; H. S. Thomson, Esq., the chairman, pre siding. The chairman asked the assent of the share holders, first, to an application to Parliament for power to construct a branch (12i miles long) from the Bishop Conside Auckland line to th e Ironworks The esti mated cost was 10,0001. per mile. This branch would open out a large coalfield, and also would be used for the conveyance of iron from the Conside Ironworks. He presented a calculation, according to which theproprie tors would obtain 7 per cent. for the outlay!on this work. The next question was with reference to the directors applying for power to amalgamate the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company with the North-Eastern Company in accordance with the agreement contained i n th e lease granted in 1843. He moved resolutions embodying these propositions, and Mr. Leeman, deputy chairntan, se conded the same. Mr. &mime, of Leeds, deprecated, in strong terms, the ruinous policy of making fresh additions to their capital in the present state of the money market. Re moved, as an amendment, "That no branches or extensions be allowed while money is worth more than the average dividend of this company." Mr. Gregson, of Newcastle, seconded the amendment, but the resolu tion was carried by a considerable majority. LENDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION RAIL WAY.—On Friday a general meeting of the shareholders of the above railway was held at the Great Northern Railway Station, Bradford. Edward Akroy d, Es q ., the chairman of the railway, presided. The reports sub mitted to the meeting stated that the quarter ending the 30th of September last presented, on comparison with the corresponding quarter of last year, an increase in passenger traffic of 4231. 13s. lid., and in goods traffic of 2981. 18s. Bd. Preparations were being made for de- veloping goods traffic on the Gilderscree branch, and the works on the Ardsley branch were proceeding satis factorily. There would be- no difficulty in cGuspleting this latter line so as to be opened simultaneously with the Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway, which it Joi ne d , an d w hi c h would form it s sout h ern o utlet. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was agreed to, aod a balance of 1741. ordered to be carried to the reserve fund, The receipts of the railway for the quarter ending the 30th of September have been, for l i ia ssengers, 3,7401. ; for goods, 2,3281. Several other r!sall items make up a total of 6,2261. The expenditure of the rail way f or th e quarter has b een a b out 2,6001., leaving a balance applicable for dividend of about 6201, rilE SUN, LONDON, SA FURDA EVENING, NOVEMBER 29 1856, i «. I s ;0 ~1 I I all 27 22 r.ll 25 all ! all 1100 it. 1101 it. 100 ;U all zl3 0 all .0 all .0 1 8 iu.n.wAra I.nd Ezstr.. Wolverb 3tour Valley DJ. °bosh. Wrk 01., do. Blackburn ...... „ t Ilyth &ryasortgtilt: £25 (iced. at .C4i; Bristol and Exeter.. Caledonian. Chester ds liolyheao. Cork and Bandon. Cork, Mack, &Pas. Cornwa l l Do. A Do. B Dub; in &BelfastJur c (Dnn. P. 4 Aber. Jnc. East Anglian Enetorn Countioe ;Fut. Union, A Sti Be B. Stock__ I 9 I Do., New A. East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk Do. I Ttdiaburgb (4lais -lEdinb. end Peoblos Ediu.Frtt &Drale Forth & Clyde Jun.: Furness Glasgow di S. Westru Great N. of Scotlnd. !Groat Northern IDo., A. Stock....„. Do., B. Stook. Gt. Ekh. iltWest.(ire ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rai Gna. St], Irish South-Fast:era Lancaster & Do., Thirds.. ...... Do. Now Thirds Lancash.andYc k Do., Wet. tin Do. Sonthr,ort Loudon & Blackwai) bond. Bright & S.Cst Load. and N. Westn LDo. Fifths 'Do.101.Sh.,1100„.(. Do. Eighth®,........ . 'LondonandS. We4trt Lndndrry,:seolcraint Lniadr7.Sz Ennink Anneh.Shetk Lined! Aetropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland )o.Birmng.&Derh 1, 116.1 d. G. West. (I re, )o. Half Shares 3 - 4,woastle & Carlisk iwpt.A.berg. &lirfd NTewry & Enniskille Warrenpo;nt And Ro3trevor , V . orfolk ........ orthnSionnties North British .1:11 Devon Rail X. Dock Stock 10., A Stock_ ,B Stock g.Eastern—Bores:k , o. do. Extenziol, J.do. 'a°. Leeds Ju. Ircrl• S`orth Lan,!ou ••.WPtrn.,i apt st'ad, au') City Statfordshi• -ort'_; Western. ,,, & S. Westrn. Jun K., 4x7orc., Vrol , .rts:aortth Rlgymney . . • atiA , ,Centr ,l Scot. N E.Abrda St, Do. boot. LlAri. St '4 , •••ol'oire IT,i SitingbourneUSheer. atv Dovou ionth Easthrn, 'oath Wales ~ 1 l rk ch. a: 11,1 v. Du, Cr,eF;;Vrok. &7'r; Siookton & Darling do., 1654 • Do:, do., 1855 , tcAton ihrtlep 7aff Valo • 10. Pref., No. I.— rhamoa Thy. D.& It. Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkcan , Vaterford&Liiaerc , West Cornwall VZIe,I; End of Londe: nnd. Crystal Palale. Do. A ....... Do. B West London Do. Ell st Class Do. Second Class,- COLONI 9 tsonibay, isarooa,am-i Cen.lndia, g. 5 p. e Do. Ceylon A shares Do. B. do leraerara Eastern Bengal gagt Indian A and B, g. 5 p. Do. Ex. C, gu. sp. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. D0.4l p.c.Bnds.,'s7 no. do. dc., '59, do Geelong t Molbourn( guar. 5 per cent GM. Trunk of Canada Do. Cart. of Dcben., con. into Stk. till'63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Tn. Pen. g. 5 p. c. Do New, guar. 5 p. c Dt.Western of Canad: Do. New Do. Bds., payable '5, Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, withou option.. . Vairam, guar. 4; p.c Do. do., 5 p. c. Do. 44 p. c. Exten Do. 3dEx., g. sp. c Scindo, guar. 5 p. c. D 0... St. Andrew's snd Quebec (Al.. Onging Prica• yesterday. 4 4i 8 IS - 19 16 - 17 13 - 14 91 - 93 58i f9.i 38 40 . w "" .. 6i -I ie 18 - 19 35 3 98 24 - 26 7 - 5 84 - E 8 51A - 55; 34i - 35, 93 - 95 7 - 91 - 92 78 - 79 123 125 115 117 E 9 70 63 - 72 - 64 - 64 97 . 97 Ci - 7 09 -• 11C 05i - 100 - 1 p - P 107 - 108 35 - 36 82 - 824 53 - 55 .41,1 ....." - 49 3i - 3 , 6 38 39 85 - 8G 41 4 a 3 - —• 2i tsA 19 601 61 95 98 10 11 28 29 03 1(5 25 25- G 8 70 48 49 1 1 17i IEO, 7 3 1 74' 73 80 3a 2 1 14 38 40 ••• ''''' is; = iisi 6 - 8 2 - 4 5 - 5i •o• .... ••• 7 _ 9 Ii ii -: ij 221 - 23 1.1 ... 2/p 22 -22 i ••• - ••• 21i -22 i 10i - 11. 76 - 78 21i - 21$ 1. 24+ - 24$ 2$ - 24 . 99 - 100 • 115 120 115 - 120 108 110 191 - 20 2 - I - 1 .3, 2 - 2,p, 85i 63 6 trUE,Elt.'. l ,l • ntrferpizii.,:tt, Arilemies ........ I Eastn. Junt if.,Tiers to GrtiRSOBS, c Buff. & Lk. Hur. Ry.l Cartaeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry )utch Rhenish itagtorn of Franc,;: ' , o. Now Euphrates Valley Eur. it, Central of Fray,. e , 4reat Luxembourg Italian Junction make Comm. & Basic Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca Pist. sp. c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons it Mediterran. (aria Antonia Do. de. New NTamur & Liege Do. do., C p. c. Prof grrthern of France. \TorwegianTrunkPre' Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Recife & San. Fran , (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c Rome and Frascati 'llya] Danish Royal Swedish sombre and Mouse Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Southern of France 17 ent Flanders ;no. 5A per c. Pref W. &N. W. of Franc Western of Austria %Nest. of Switzerland Wi eshadekn . Do. S per cent. Pref., Zealand ....... ...... JOINT-STO iiA.mtr.lasia ........... .8i! Bank of Egypt ...... i 0 Bank of London .... ai Bri. Col. Bk.SLLn. C. British N. Atuorir•an 6 Chartd. Bank of Aail 6 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Anstralia, 57 . , Chins Colonial 20 Commercial of Lon d. Sll Fing.. ( Act.&iktul.Cio . all Land. Mart. Bk. 01 A.ustralia. all Ditto Now ~ . 20 Lonicn and County.. 50 Lna.,,,cE.Bnkr;.Corp. 10 London Joint Stock.. 20 Loud. & Westminstot 35 National Pro.cr Eng 10 Do. Naw 22 National Bank all New South Walzta„, pP 'f)riental I.k, Corp., 15 Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland ail Do. Now D ............ 1 R .kus Bk O 1111 Zi' It: 4 - nth All stra' ia . An 'Unica of Anatrslic, 10 i 171,in , : of London 50 lUnity Mutual CR ' Western iin. t I Liond la —• 2 p 5} 51 -- 331 - 9* - 10* - 8P 3/ - 41 5 - Ji 5g sip Si - 8i - 19} - 37 -33 i 8 - 9 531 -53 i 50 -- 52 i - 3 PI 18 - 23 - 13 9 - 9,i 8 - 91 - pm 4i - 4 9i - 93 33 - - 14 BAPTICh. 100 - 102 , - 63 - 65 ~. - ..x 1A - Ad 6 -• 70 . 17 - 20 194 20 6 " ;V n 1 -- boo ° "" • I 38 -- 3 9 1 2d 35 37 65 - 6 7 7 - 8 11 8 d • 5 a p‘o Business done this day LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS RAILW VfS. I Lno Compans Closing Prices yesterday Business this day Bedtoid riAd 13letAley • Buckgbarn4t. Clydesdah , ,, , . Col. Stour Vy, 1 B. Lin. e. 6 pc. E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct D No Gistr.ds Dn Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. Railway... llull & Selby Do. Sham , . Do. Shares. Lon.&(.4roonw Do. Preference Lon., Til.„ l k. , S. Do. Bark. Sh. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont.. Do. 6 per ct. Mauch. Bstn. and Matlock Middleshro' &! Louden & N. Wept. L.&N.W. Cal ednn „ 96 - 98 98 - 102 12 - 14 133 - 13'3 4 ... 44 lE.Cr.&E.O lE. Count. Caldo nism. Do Gt. Irani Yk. Now. Borw. Y. &NM , Do Do 1107 - 109 I s. Emit= Do 121 - 13 221 - 231 110 - 114 rl 1) 'Pet,o &Co Do I Norfolk Do L.& N.W & Midid gtekton& l a init : n 2f - 21 Rode.g 6 p.c. Midld. Braitia Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.dg Est.s p. c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p c Proct. & w yr , ' Do. Stirs. A Roystn.it Shot.Roth.an.i G0010g.5 p.c. Shrews. &Her. S. Statiordsh. Wear Valloygr 6 per cent... D 0.... ......... 90 - 92 En. Conn. E. Count. D 0... Do p - i 55 - 57 L. & N.W Do ... - ... in - 135 Gt Northn tancash & Y.orksh, T. Brassey . Stockt. & Darlingt Do 7i - 81 3 - 341 33 - :i4 89 - 91 Wilts&F,'orurat GtWoritn. PREFERENCE SHARES. SlythandTyno lOpe , c. prof. (is6d.:lt SCI aria. & Ex. 4 p. 0. St 1- , Do. 4 p. c. Shares ( r !Aledn. £lO 41 P.C. ,hes.& flo.Gn. 54 IA Do. do. Pref. 5 per e. Cork dziLl'andonb4p.c. Dua.Prth . Aber. J. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. els. B 6 p. Do. do Cis. C 7 p. c. Has. Co.ES, spcNo. Do. No. E ••• ••• 94 - 96 4; - 5 1 6 - - 6i ..• .•. 107 - 112 97 - 102 4 4p - ut - 12} Do. New 6 p. a. St East Un., G. 6 p. c Do. 51., 0 per cant Do. IN. Dcbentr.Sh. I Do. do. 4 per cont East Lancash.6p.et E.4W. York. J. sth. Gl. 5 p.c. sh Ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c. FurnesF, 5 p. c Glas. S.W. G. 5 p. c Great Northu. 5 p. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem... Do. 4 ) 2 p. c 1 1)0.5 p. c., Red. at f I p. c. pm... ..... I (R.N. of Scot. I st (t. S. 4t W. (Ireland Do. 4per a. Pr:4. S W.(ll.4cH.F.xspc Do. con. reel. 4i p.c. De.con. red. 4 p. c Do, irred. 4p. c. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref Do. Birm. Pref. Sri Do. Chester 8 p. ,Do„ do. 5 p. c. do Do. Firm. Gua. Stir Do. Ches. Gus. Sh Do. do. do •.. 75 - 77 ii = Ifi 109 - 111 103 - 105 61 - 63 9/ - 10 i 6 - fi 93 - 95 86 - 88 99 101 10 - 106 16 - 171 10 - 106 72 - 74 196 - 20 9i - 104 141 - 154 -11 i3B 141 Do. do. do LE.u. &York. F. 120 Do. 6 p. c. Stock lon. &B. G. 5 pc.No.l iio. P., spo. St.No.2 Do. NOW Guar.6 D. • Do. do. 5 p. c.,N0.4 fxra. &N. W., Cm 7.1 umeat on 5 p. ct... L3u.S6 S.W. 7 per et late 3d Shares L )ndy. & Coler. A Sh. Londy.& Lnnie. Sh p. Cent IDo. do. do. . 133 - 141 115 - 117 ••• - ... 157 - 15) - $ 1) 66 - 73 do. 34 per cent. Yfarypt .&Carl.4p o Do. 4A per cent i)o. do. Consol .6 p.c....5t Do. Con.Br.ir. 6pc Do. 41 p. c. Pref. t Ditto L. & 11. Pref. St New., Aber., &c., pr. p. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 p ct. with optn. till '66 Norfk. Deb, 4 p.c. eh Do. Pref. 5 p. c. St. , c Do. 5 pc. Ext.,1846 Do. 5i per c.pf ,1847 Do. Wv. V.5pc.,1847 North Br Welt Do 71. Preference Y. E. Pe rw, 4 p.c. 1". Do. do. d 0......... ... Do , Leeds 6 p.c :No.] Do. do. Qre.,1848 Do.Yerkif.& S. Pur , North Staffordshire., 03c, Wo, &W., 6 pc De. 6 p.c. Redeem 0301. Cent. ,New Pref Se .N.E. Aber. g 6pc 1)o. d0.,7 p.c. pf. st. Do. do., 3i p.c. pf. et South Devon Do. fixed,4i per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4?; per cent Do. Fixed 4i p c sh 1 S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c , Do. do. 43 . 4 p. c S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar 'itock.& Dar., 5 p. c Do. do: do, Stock. & Hartl. g. 5, p. a. till July 1,'561 Waterfd. & Kilk. 6 p c 137 - 139 98 - 100 88 - I *** *** 1 - li! LO2 -104 92 94 li i d .. .... 0 •• • i ".. id 103 jG - i' '23 - 24 101 -103 19i - 104 27 - 28 2 - 3p ••• ••• 3 -3; MINES. 10a all ! A.nglo Californian ... ••• 20 7 ' knstrplian / 1 1 all IBaden (Gd. Duchy of) ... „. 60 all Blsonar. Iron & Coal ... .. 20 14 British Iron • 6 8 35 `Alt l.trazilianimp.(iEsned ,at E 5 pm.) 30 all 'Do. Comes & Cuitba 3: —• 3/ 20 15 Do. St. John Delßey 16 18 1 1 A Clarendon Cons. Min - Co. of Jamaica P IP I 40 all Cobra Copper c_ , 55 ...., 57 5 I, l i Colonial Gold . ... St. 25 all Do. Prof. 7 t p. cent 25 27 13 15 V. COpiapo. ... ' 1 id a ll Copper Min. of Eng 30 35 2 all For tuna ...... , 20 all General •• 1 •• • $ 41 all Great Polgooth. . , 2 gg•etVeinßcg. • f 4. 1 all Liberty .............. 3 all f•inares. ................ 7: 71 5 a a l l i l ° G t t . W l:jr heal Vor Unite , 5 1t Lusitanian ld p 1 1 s'.l Mariquita i 8 1 all New Granada — i 1 I all Nouveau Monde I 2 1 all I Po ar n t tg p i h .S il il ip ... •••. At Le.ll,lin 8 --1 5 , 1 , Port 1 all Quartz Rock •—• ••• 50 all Rhymney Iron 2l 2 3 15 all Do. New 5 7 30 15i Santiago de Cuba__ 2f —2/ . Cs. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 2a 23 1 all South Australian..... ... ••• 3_ all Do. Scrip ..• --- ••• 1 all Do. 10 per cent Pref ... ... ... 4 t Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. -- 1 10 9 Tin Croft . . 31 3 28t all United Mexican 3/ 4 4 1 all Waller 1 all West Mariposa it 4 1 12s. Worthing Mining- ofi Australis . ! ... ‘. we __ MISCBLLANEOUEL -- 25 19 kustralizm Zgricalt. 25 27 10 ol Australn. Royal Mail ... ... 10 all fOaidin Water Works 51 51 50 40 Brit. American Land ... 100 3i' Canada ll7 122 121 20 St. (;0 cl.oo.6p.e.Jan&jtily 113/ 1141 114 St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug ... -- ••• St' WO Do.6p c. Mar & Sept ~. ... 5 - , ...ii Crystal Palace 2l 21 5 all Da. Preference rit 51 4 a'.l Crystal Pal. of France ... ••• 1 Duston Iron Ore 20 1 5 4 %astern Ste St. 100 - Electric Telegraph 95 97 961 81 1 all Electric Toleg. of Ir ... • • 5 all En.4Aus Cop Sin Co 11 lt 2510 ail s N. , / a e : t l . i tc r Discount a c nE i l Bs e ° C a . 25 all Gen. Ir Sc Col (lira.) .. 1 ••• 5 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. • .• --- 11 all General Screw Steam 6 6 4 6 4 20: 5 London Discount 4- all Lond. Gen. Omnibus .31 n 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig .. .. 10 all kfoxican&S,Amerien. 3 ;:l1 25 1 Do. New ... 10 5 Netherlands Land._ 1 1} Do. I : 9 i all Do . po. 8 p 5 1 Do. Do. •••••• lid —HO 100 80 New B. Zs N.S. Land 15 ot. Tel. 1.. d. lel8(4.1 ii :60p ... .., N.S.W. Gov. sp.c.D. ... _ .. 1 all N. E. Australasian._ _ 4 ' 20 174, NT ill. Of EUTOpeStaktn 34 i id 1 all Oriental Gas 1 11 I 2s. Do. "New Shares" P IPm 13 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Mliarl• 23 4 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 68 50 70 50 10 Do. New 4t 54 15i, 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest ll I i 1 all Ditto New ll —1: 25 all South Austral. Land 35 37 1 al: Sabmar. Tel. Scrip t 1 1 all Do. Registered 1 1 20 5 Cruste , L.Co.U.Can „. .., , 100 ISt Van Diemen's Land Ib} 74 164 .., .. V.01,5P.0.1051 Jul) . .... '..t.' " ~.. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Ref4e Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE STRAHAN, PAUL, AND CO. A petition was presented in this case as to the pay• meat out of Court, but was agreed to without discussion. IN RE PILLEY. This bankrupt was described as of Aldermanbury, tailor, and his examination had been adjourned, the accounts being unsaMactory. 3:lr. Macpherson now tendered a new balance-sheet, and a further adjournment was taken for two months. POLICE lIITELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) TIIAMES. EXTENSIVE AND DARING ROBBERY. —John Edwards, a carman, aged 28, of No. 10, Green Bank, Wapping, and Heary Gay Tor, 20, of Middle Grove-street, St. George•in-the-East, who have been in custody a fort night, were brought up on remand, charged with stealing two horses, a van, 1 hogshead of sugar, and 1 puncheon of treacle, value 150/. Mr. Charles Young, for the prosecution, said the pri soner Edwards was in the employ of a respectable town carman, and that on the morning of Saturday the Bth inst. he was sent with his master's team to land a hogshead of sugar and a puncheon, which he was to deliver at a wharf at London-bridge, to be shipped on board a Hull steamer. The hogshead of sugar, 17 cwt., was received into the prosecutor's van in Denmark street, and the puncheon of rum in the Back-road, St. Georges-in-the-East. The prisoner Edwards drove his horses and van towards Cable-street, where he pulled up and went into a coffee-shop. In his absence some one got into the van• and drove away. The horses and van were found the same night in Sheppard-street, Bromley, near the Widow's Son public-bouse. The hogshead of sugar and the puncheon of rum had been taken out of the van, and had not since been recovered. Edwards absented h imself for a week, when he returned to Mr. Butler, his master's foreman, and said he had been walk ing about the streets, night and day, since the robbery was committed. He was given into custody, and Gay lor was apprehended the same day. It would be proved that the prisoners were known to each other, and that Gaylor, who had formerly been a carman, and was con nected with another daring van robbery of a similar cha racter some time ago, was in Capel-street near the coffee shop which Edwards entered on the day of the robbery. The property had not yet been recovered. The prisoners were again remanded for a week. MARKET NEWS.—(This ray.) COVENT - ARDEIT. Fair average supplies of prc she trade ruled steady, as fol: (duce were on sale to-day, and Lows : FRE Pine apples,per lb. 3s Od to Cs Colonta I do., es,. Os Od to 030 d Grapes, per lb is Od to 4s 03 Foreign do Os Od to Os Od Melons, each 3s Od to 5s Od Peaches, p. d0z..., 3s to bsOd Nectarines, do. 2s Cd to Ss 03 Apples, p. h. sv. 3s Od to Ss Cd Pears, per doz. Os Od to Os o,i Oranges, per 100..3s Gd to Os Lemons, p. doz. Os 8d to is 3d Apricots,p. doz. 2s Od to Gs Od Cherries, per lb. Os to Os Odi VEGET. Filberts, per 1b...104 to is 3d Cobs., p. 100 lbs. 110 s to s Almond; p. lb. Os Od to Os Od Walnuts, per 100 Gd to is Od Figs, per doz is to 3s Od Strawberries, per pottic Od to Od Gooseberries, per half sieve ....Os Od to Os Od Currants, p. do. Os Od to Os Od Plums, per do. 2s Od to 5s Od Green gages, do. 4s Od to 7s Od i Raspberries, p. potl. Od to Od 'ARLES. Shallots, per lb.. ..... 4d to Gd Horseraddish, p. bun. 2s to as Parsley, per do. 2d to 4d Celery, per do Os Pd to 2s Od Beet, per doz. is Od to 24 Od Parsnips, per do. is Od to Os Small salad, p. pun. 2d to Gd nuchrooms, p. potl. is to is Gd Artichokes, each 4a to 8d Cab. lettuces, per score Os 93 to is 3d Endive, per do.. ls Od to 2s Od Radishes, per doz. hands is to 2s Od Tomatoes, p. hf.sv. 4s to Os 0(1 Walnuts per 100...0s 8d to 1s Chilies, per 1001 s Od to is Gd Capsicums, per 1001 s Od to 2s Rhubarb, p. bundle Od to Od Asparagus, per 100 Os Od to Os Sea kail, per pun. Os Od to Os Greens, per doz. bunches gd to 2s Od Cabbages, per doz.9d to is 6d Savoy do., p. do. ls Od to 2s 6d Cauliflowers, do.ls Od to 330 d Brocoli, per do. Os 9d to is Od Old potatoes, per ton Os to Os New do., per d0....65s to 120 s Peas, per quart ...9d to is Od Turnips, per bunch 2d to 43 Carrots, per bunch 4d to Gd Cucumbers, each 2d to is 03 Garlic, per 1b......4d to Os Gd Spinach, p. sieve 2s Gd to 4s Od Sorrel, per sieve Od to Os. Brussels sprouts, per do 3s Od to 4s Od French beans, p d 0.03 0..1 to N Old onions, p. bus. 5s 6,1 to 7a . , 1 New do., per bunch Od to O& Leeks, per do id to 2d NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkey Poults, 5s 0,1 to 7s Od ; Geese, 5s to (is Gd each ; Ducks, 28 Od to 2e 6d ; tame rabbits, Os to Os 01 each ; wild do., 18 to is Gd. ; Pigeons, 5(1 to 8d each ; large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os ; middling ' 2e Od to 3s O 1; Chickens, is Gd to 2s 3d ; Capons, 3s Gd to 4s Gd ; Hares, 2s 61 to 3s 6,1; Grouse, 2s Gd to 28 91 each ; Pheasants, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; Partridges, is 3d to is 9d ; Guinea Fowls, is 9d to 3s 01 ; Roasting pigs, Os Od to 8s Od. each. Ostend fresh butter, 12s to 13s Od ; English do., 128 0(1 to 15s Gd per dozen 11s. ' • English eggs, 9s Gd to 10s ; French do., 7a to 8s Od per 120; Leverets, Os Od to Os each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 101 to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal, 3s Gd to 43 6d; pork, 33 81 to 53 2d per 81b3., by the car case. WI{ITECHAPEL. Beef from 2:3 8d to 4s 4(1 ; mutton, 3s 41 to 4s sa ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s Qd ; pork, 3s 10d to 53 4d per Sibs., by the car case. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 61 to 20s ; Brills, is Od to 103 each ; Salmon, Os Od to Os Od per lb ; Cod Fish, 2s 01 to 10s each; Soles, 3d to is 3d per pair ; Eels, 8d to is per lb ; Lobsters, Gd to 2s 6d ; Crabs, Gd to 2s Gd ; Whitings, 3s Od to Gs per doz. ; Common Oysters, 12s to 163 ; Natives, 50s to —s per bsh. ; Mackerel, 30s to s per 100 ; Smelts, Os Gd to 2s 6d per doz.; Skate, Gd to Od per lb; Shrimps, is 6d to 2s 6d per gallon ; Bloaters, 5s Od to 8s 01 per 100 ; Fresh Herrings, 4s to 03 per MO ; Scotch do., ; Sprats, Os Od to Os 01 pei bushel ; Doreys, is Od to 103 each ; Haddocks, 4s to 12s per doz. ; Pike, Od ; Sturgeon, 61 per lb ; Prawns, 5s Od to Os; Mullets, Gd to 2s 6d. each ; Plaice, 4d to is each ; Halibut ed per lb ; Flounders, is Gd to 2s 01 per doz. ; salt fish, 01 per lb. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 9d to 91d ; of household ditto, 7id to B!,d per 4 lb loaf. lIIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 5616 to 6416, 4jd to 41d; Glib to 721 b, 4id sd; 721 b to 801 b, 5d to ; 801 b to 881 b, 5d to sid ; 88 to 961 b, 5d to 6d ; 9616 to 1041 b, 6d to Gid ; 1041 b to 1121 b, 6id to 7d ; upwards, —d to —d ; horse hides, 8s odto Os Od ; Calf skins, light, 3s 01 to 4s Od ; ditto full, 9s Od to Os Od; Polled Sheep, 7s Od to Gs Od ; Bents, 5s 6d to 6s Gd; Half-breds, 5s Gd to Gs Gil Downs, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Shearlings, Os Od ; Lambs, Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 108 to 418 s ; clover do., 3/ lOs to bl 8s; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load. A moderate supply and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 21 12s to 4/ Ss ; clover do., 3/ ICs to 51 53 ; and. straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load. Both hay and straw sold slowly, at barely late rates. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 4/ 5s ; clover do., 31 lOs to 5: 10s; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ N per load. A fair average supply and a sluggish trade. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 29.—Wind this day at noon, N.W.; light breeze and fine clear frosty weather. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Wind E.N.E. to E.—Arrived —William Wallace, from Shields, for Gibraltar, with loss of bowsprit and cutwater, covering-board split, and one man lost overboard, from collision with a brig off Shore ham on the 27th inst. Sailed—Balakiava, for Sydney, N.S.W. ; Abyssinian, the Cape of Good Hope; Northum berland, New York. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Wind E.N.E,—Arrived—John Bartlett, from Singapore, for Bremen. FALMOUTH, Nov. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cosmos, from Calingapatam. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 28.—The wreck of the Silas Wright floated off and was near the New Brighton station. The wreck of a vessel of about 200 tons, on her beam ends. was pasEed on the 19th Nov., by the Blackburn, arrived here from Calcutta. BRIDLINGTON, Nov. 28.—Dining a heavy gale on the night of the 25th iust., at Yarmouth, a three masted schooner, painted black, with white quarter boards and round stern, is feared to have foundered. SOUTIITHAMPTON, Nov. 28 . — Sailed—Constitution (s.), for New York. WATERFORD, Nov. 27.—Wind N.W. by W.—Arrived —Ellen, from Trinidad. G LOUCESTER, Nov. 2. B . — .Arrived.—Alabama, frow New York. YARMOUTH, Nov. 28.-- The brig Adler, of and from Hamburg, for Liverpool, is ou shore north of Winterton ; she will partly dischargo to be got off. SWANSEA, Oct. 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Geraldine, from Caldera ; Pearl, Cuba. (pER ELEO T I: I Ii v I I O m T p I' O L o r , R S A at i Vay Morning. Wind N. Arrived—Dane, screw steamer, from Gibraltar; Douro, screw steamer, Oporto. Sailed—Titania , f or Palma ; G eneral Wyndham, Syd - Duzetapndta: .A.kyab e,lllelb ; oie ; Sir Rob er t Pe e l, New Starlight, Africa ; Emma Good wei York; nyn, ; m Gibraltar ; Catherine, Lisbon ; Margaret Jane, Genoa ; Luck, Lisbon ; Jenny Lind, Lisbon. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 27. Wind N.W. Arrived—Margaret, from Callao ; Aurora, Demerara ; Ore Aurelius, Smyrna. WATERFORD, Nov. 27. Wind W. Arrived—Ellen, from Trinidad. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday, 10.12 a.m. Wind variable ; one hour's flood; fresh and fine. Arrived, Nov. 28 Lambourn and Ebenezer, from Guernsey ; Rival, Algoa Bay. Arrived, Nov. '29—Dover, from Gravelines. DEAL, Saturday, 10.5 a.m. Wind moderate. Passed, Nov. 23—prudwig Auguste, from London, for . from Algoa Bay, for London ; Hendrick Jan, from Bata v ia , for Rotterdam Hammond, for London. Sesvialiliee:i_Jßantlembitlieorarnicae,William At the - Insolvents' Court yesterday Mr. Commissioner Phillips directed that the . debt of an Odd F e ll ows ' s ociety, of which Hales the giant was treasurer when he was landlord of the Craven Arms, should be paid in full before the other creditors were thought of ; thus settling the point whether, by a recent act of Parliament, such societies were entitled to priority. A company is in course of formation for runnitg om nibuses between Charing•cross and the Post-ofUety a nd other similar distances, at a fare of twopence. THE RECORDERSHIP OF THE CITY OF LONDON. This afternoon a Court of Aldermen was held at the Guildhall—the Lord Mayor in the chair—to receive a communication from the Hon. Stuart Wortley, her Majesty's Solicitor-General, relative to his resignation of the office of Recorder. The letter, which stated the acceptance of office under Government by the hon. and learned gentleman was read, and it also announced his desire to place the office of recorder in the hands of the court. - A discussion took place relative to the acceptance of the hon. and learned gentleman's resignation at once, by which much inconvenience would arise to the numerous suitors in the Lord Mayor's Court. A motion was then made that the letter be received and entered on the minutes of the court, to which an amendment was moved, that the resignation of the Recorder be accepted, but which, on a division, was lost, two only voting for it. The motion for the acceptance of the letter, and that it be entered on the minutes of the court, was then agreed to. Notice of motion was then given that the Court do proceed to the election of a Recorder at its next sitting ; and also that the thanks of the Court be given to the Hon. S. Wortley for the admirable manner in which he had discharged the duties of Recorder. The LORD MAYOR stated that as the Common Ser geant would be engaged very much till tke appointment of a recorder, it was necessary that an asses4or should be appointed to the Lord Mayor's Court, and he (the Lord Mayor) therefore moved that the next senior officer, Mr. Prendergast, should be so appointed. This did not appear to meet with the approval of the Court, and the Town-Clerk was asked and consented to act as such till the appointment of a new recorder. The Court then broke up. Naval and Military Intelligence. The volunteers from the depot of the 40th Regiment, at Chatham Barracks, having been accepted, they will proceed to join the regiments into which they have volunteered as soon as the necessary arrangements for their removal from the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, have been completed. The 26th company of the Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. G. E. L. Walker, R.E., will leave the head-quarters of that establishment at - Crompton Barracks, Chatham, this morning, for Gravesend, where they will embark on board the Appellee, for Bermuda. The 33d company of the Royal Engineers are expecting an order to proceed to Halifax. An Admiralty order arrived at Sheerness yesterday, di recting that the fittings of the floating battery Trusty, which had been placed between decks preparatory to the experiments that were to have taken place at Shoeburyness, should be taken out, and, further, that all the stores which had been sent on board to equip her for that purpose should be returned into store at the yard. This order is being carried out by Captain Edward P. Halsted, of the Edinburgh. Commander Lloyd, with a party of seamen and carpenter's crew of that ship, was engaged during yes terday dismantling and returning her stores, and she is to be returned to her former moorings. The experiments, therefore, will not take place at present. The Chasseur screw steam floating factory vessel arrived at Sheerness yesterday, and is placed under the orders of Captain Edward P. Halsted, of the Edinburgh. The Chasseur is to be made available for the repairs of the machinery of the steam squadron of reserve at Sheerness until the Volcano marine engine steam factory can be sent thither. The assistant engineers belonging to the steam squadron of reserve are to be called upon to carry out any repairs or alterations found necessary by Captain Halsted, and the present superintendent engineer, Mr. Pearce, for the steam squadron of reserve. The screw steam gun-vessel Roebuck, of 350-horse power, in temporary command of Master-Cammander Allen, of the Admiralty yacht Vivid, having embarked stores, is ordered to be hauled out of Woolwich basin to-day, and will sail immediately for Portsmouth. The steam transport Clarendon, 900 tons burden, arrived at Woolwich on Thursday evening from Balaklava, laden with 28 32-pounder guns, 60 tanks, and 150 tons of provi sions, which she is to discharge at the Arsenal. The hired schooner Elizabeth Thomas sailed yesterday morning from Woolwich, laden with Government stores for Dublin. A contract vessel, the Prince of Wales, hauled alongside the Arsenal wharf at Woolwich, yesterday morning, for the purpose of shipping gun carriages, platforms, for Portsmouth. THE NEW BISHOP OF RIPON. Lord Melbourne exclaimed on one occasion that " he was sure the bishops died on purpose to plague him." By the trouble which the vacancy of Ripon has given to Lord Palmerston he must have been forcibly reminded of this exclamation. More than two months have been occupied by the con sideration of this question. It was at the end of Septem ber that we ventured on a caution with reference to an appointment which seemed very undesirable and yet very probable. Wo are aware of a letter, written from a certain deanery in the west of England, which stated that the Premier's letter, offering the bishop.ic, was hourly expected to arrive. We could only attribute the influence exerted in favour of this very reverend gentleman to the senior member of the Cabinet, inasmuch as it was in educational matters that the dean was eminent. In this department his knowledge was great, but in the higher qualifications for a bishopric he was lamentably de ficient. The chair might almost as reasonably have been offered to Sir Benjamin Brodie or Sir Edwin Landseer, both great men in their way, but both unknown as theolo gians. A little consideration showed Lord Palmerston the prac tical absurdity of such a choice, and we heard no more of the dean. The University of Cambridge was next scruti nised, and for two or three weeks it seemed likely that either a popular head of one of the smaller colleges or one of the divinity professors would be selected. Gradually, however, these became " dissolving views." The Nor risian Professor, the last of the three, dropped out of sight about ten days since. Then the very natural and proper principal was again remembered, that the spiritual ruler of the west riding bishopric should be one who had known something of town work and of large parish management. Three of the best of the London clergy were brought under the Premier's notice by different friends, who had personal knowledge of their qualifications. On this day weak Mr. Dale was considered to stand first on the list. And we incline to believe that had the bishopric been regarded merely as a reward for past services none would have been considered to have a higher claim than the laborious vicar of St. Pancras. But the diocese of Ripon is a post of hard duty, and Mr. Dale, though not sixty years of age, bears the outward appearance of a man of more advanced years. For the Church's sake, therefore, and for the well-being of the populous diocese of Ripon, it was judged expedient to select a man possessing the vigonr of middle ago. Mr. Bickersteth, the present rector of St. Giles's parish, became, therefore, the final choice. He is the nephew of the late Lord Langdale, being the son of the late Rev. John Bickersteth, the rector of Sapcote. He has been for about 14 years a laborious and successful parish priest. His first post was at Reading, , from whence he was sum moned to take the incumbency of a new church at Clap ham. His labours in that place were so highly appreciated that it was only with much diffiulty that he could be per suaded to accept the rectory of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. In this last parish ho has shown during the last four or five year s eminent administrative talent, united with the higher qualifications of a Christian pastor. It is not to be denied that Lord Palmerston's Church appointments present the most favourable aspect of his Premiership. To have placed four such men as Mr. Vil liers, Mr. Baring, Dr. Tait, and Mr. Bickersteth upon the episcopal bench within a single year, is a circumstance scarcely to be paralleled in the history of any statesman of modern days. And when the future historian shall un dertake the task of estimating the merits and defects of Lord Palmerston's Administration, there will be at least one point on which the impartial chronicler will find it impossible to avoid awarding to him the mead of warm and decided praise.—Morning Herald. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Nov. 28. The market has shown no improvement since Tues day, and the operations in cloth continue to be on a small scale, but prices are mostly well supported. In some eases manufacturers have been willing to take rather easier terms, but stocks are low, and prices leave too little margin of profit to give the buyer much advan tage. There is some accumulation in the Stock of long cloths, but only such as a fair demand would remove in a few day.. Narrow T cloths of low weights are in re quest. In domestics there is no change, but some little progress has been made in limiting production by an in creased resort to short time. Printing cloths are quiet, and in shirting cloths prices are rather unsatisfactory owing to the limited demand. The yarn market is still flat, and buyers are operating with much caution in the present drooping state of the market for the raw material. Doubled yarns, from No. 40 upwards, are still in good request, and very full rates are given for early delivery. In most other kinds of twist the buyer has a slight ad vantage. For linen goods of most kinds, Messrs. Richardson, Tee, and Co. remark in their weekly circular of this day :—" The demand continues active, and prices are generally sustained, while some of the lower class of Scotch goods, whioh are difficult to get woven, have again risen su price, although they were relatively dear, compared with the better kinds, prior to the last ad vance. Goods suited to the American trade are in re quest, and the home trade houses are operating with confidence at present prices for the spring trade. The markets are exceedingly firm, and stocks are everywhere low." The private letters from Paris yesterday are encourag inc,r. Since the last return the bullion in the Bank has experienced an increase of 800,000/. About 520,0001. of this has been received within the past three days in consequence of the purchases of Australian gold in London, but there was a general tendency towards an influx not only at the Paris establishment but at the branches. The existence of Prince Gortschakoffs circular affords matter of dispute to two or three highly polemical journals of Brussels. Th e I nde p enda nce maintains the affirmative, the _Nord the negative proposition. The question is only one of words. Both admit that the Prince has transmitted to the representatives of Russia abroad a document on the subject of Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents, in which the union of a congress tis insisted on. Whether it is called a circular or a memorandum matters little. LITERARY GOSSIP, NOVEMBER, 1856. Christmas Books appear to be at a discount. Not the glimmering hope of one from any masterhand ! Yet time was, and not so very long ago either, when the approach of December gave promise of a shower of parti-coloured five shilling volumes of rare attraction, as surely as of "cakes and ale," of holly and of misletoe. No premonitory advertisement cheers us now with a prospect of a fairy burlesque about Prince Bulbo and the Magic Ring, by W. M. Thackeray, or of another marvellous Carol in Prose by our incomparable Dickens. Meanwhile, how ever, we are consoled, on one hand, by a long che rished hope that London may yet, in due course, be entertained by a repetition of the Four Lectures on the Four Georges by Michelangelo—of the "bar nacles," not of the brush and chisel—Titmarsb, not Buonarotti ! And on the other, in addition to the monthly instalments of " Little Dorrit," have a delightful foretaste, through advertise ment, of a fresh batch of winter night's tales, in regard, this season, not to the Holly Tree Inn, but to the Boat's crew . of the Golden Mary, cast away on the high seas, and wonderfully preserved from shipwreck ! Hug g ing our knees, like poor old Mag g y, we l ean forward — open eyed, open eared, with a rub of the hands and a smack of the lips, eager to catch the first syllable-- our appetite whetted by the relish of anticipation ! In lieu of his old drolleries of the " Comie Almauack," there comes to us from the hand of George Cruikahank, a shrewd acid little pamphlet, in which he reveals, oddly enough, through the quaint woodcut of the title page —how it comes to pass that the " Bubble" Company (The General Industry Life and Fire Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society) blown out of a few dirty soap suds by one J. W. Howell, came to be —Burst !' It is a characteristic warning enough from the hand of one of our great living moralists —(for Hogarth with his master-brush was after all not one jot more of a moralist, in his way, than Cruikshank has been, in his, with his master-pencil) —wholesome and welcome beyond all words of ours can express in this - age of Bubble Blowing, Swindling, Roguery, and Enabenlement. Scarcely has Mrs. Browning emerged once more from her Florentine retreat with a grand, new, golden, glorious ;poem in nine books—" Aurora Leigh" (about which wo shall have to say more anon, elsewhere)—when Mr. Procter charms us anew into attention by the announcement of cer tain forthcoming " Dramatic Scenes" never before published. Pleasant tidings for all those who appreciate—and who does not ?—the poetic and, in many respects, the essentially dramatic genius of Barry Cornwall. Another and a not less popular, though a much younger poet—the poet of a later generation—Dr. Charles Mackay, pipes a sylvan prelude to his now book of songs by the mere utterance of its sweet, suggestive title—" Under Green Leaves." It is the promise, that title, as of the warblisg of a nightingale. Another poetic Charles, the 11,3 v. Charles Kingsley, one of the most prolific and remarkable writers of the age, 'wakens our expectation by intimating that there is now in active preparation in the press a new volume of verses from his pen of glamour, classically entitled " Andromeda." Sir William Napier's introductory volumes (vols. I. and II.) of the History of his heroic brother Sir Charles Napier—the Great Sir Charles Napier, the Sir Charles Napier—the Conqueror of Scinde, the Administrator of Scinde, the Hero of Meanee—are looked forward to, just now, with the most eager cu riosity. Nobody doubts but that such a writer upon such a subject, must perforce result in render ing the groundwork in its way a masterpiece of military biography. Less than this could hardly be expected now, in the fullness of his rare intel lectual powers, in the ripened vigour of his virile and rhetorical style, from the immortal historian of the great war in the Peninsula ! It is as if Tacitus were to have undertaken the biography of Hannibal. Only that then the annalist would have lacked what is not lacking here, the inspirit ing incentive of the most ardent fraternal appre- Lation. A young adventurer simultaneously in the fields of art and letters—one certain of the kindliest wel come if only for his dear father's sake—Thomas Hood the Younger (" Hood's Own"—Son)—is to present to the English public this season his maiden work as Author and Artist—a gift-book seasonably published, and called alliteratively "Pen and Pen cil Pictures." The collective republication of the winter season, beyond all others, facile princeps, without any manner of doubt, is the one an nouuced to appear in six shilling monthly vo lumes, by Messrs. Chapman and Hall—the Com plete Works, re-edited and revised, of Thomas Car lyle : great as the historian of the French Revolu tion, greater as the analyst of the genius of Goethe, greatest of all as the biographer of Oliver Cromwell. Conspicuous among the magazine announce ments, on the other band, is that of a new sarial story, to begin upon the Ist of January, in Frazer's Magazine, a tale entitled "The Interpreter," and written by Major Whyte Mellville, the young sol dier-novelist, who is to Regina what Col. Hamley is to Maga, one of the most lively and original among all her recent contributors. THE HOLY PLACES. The Moniteur publishes the following letter from Jerusalem, dated the Bth of November : "The finnan and vizierial letter which concede to France the ground which forms the site of the ancient church of St. Anne arrived at Jerusalem on the 29th Oct. Three days afterwards, on the Ist Nov.—All Saints Day —the French Consul, accompanied by the Governor, Kiamil-Pasha, and by all the Mussulman and Christian members of the Council of the province, proceeded to the ancient sanctuary, and solemnly declared that it was taken possession of in the name of the Emperor, to re erect it from its ruins, and to restore it to the Christian worship. After this ceremony, and after the keys of the Holy Place had been publicly placed in the hands of the representatives of France, the judicial autho- rities, in presence of all assembled, and aided by the members of the Consulate, proceeded to mark the boundary of the new French property, which the French Consul had immediately enclosed. "This events has filled with joy all the Christians'of the Holy City, who bless the name of France and her august Sovereign. The Mussnlmen themselves, who moreover entertain a great respect for the name of the Virgin Mary, and who look upon the church of St. Anne as a venerated spot, did not display any dissatis_ faction at a concession which they c,msider a mark of gratitude of their Sovereign for the great services ren dered recently by France to their country. "Until the new consecration of the church of St. Anne only short masses will be celebrated there on por table altars within the sanctuary itself of the church. This morning the French Consul, accompanied by all the member. 3 of the Consulate, attended the two first masses, which were held for their Majesties the Emperor and Empress." REPRFSENTATIOS OF SOUTII,4mPTON. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. A. rumour, to the effect that Mr. James, one of the Liberal candidates for the representation of this borough, had retired in favour of Mr. Weguelin, the governor of the Bank of England, has been freely circulated to-day. This, however, is quite at variance with the truth, a communication having been received from Mr. James to-day to the effect that he is determined to go to the poll. A meeting of Mr. James's friends (upwards of 100) was held this evening at his committee-room, when it was made known that the canvass in his favour was pro- gressing in a most satisfactory manner. A deputation from the London shipwrights have visited this town to induce the Southampton shipwrights to vote for Mr. James, who defended the former in their late legal contests. Meeting of the electors in the large electoral ward of St. Mary's have been addressed with success for the last two nights by the adherents of Mr. James. Mr. Weguelin's friends and supporters are using every exertions to forward his interests. The friends of the Hon. E. Butler are watching with some degree of interest the split on the Liberal side. It is reported that when the new street on the south side of the Thames is completed, St. Thomas's Hospital will become part of the large railway terminus at Lon don -bridge. Yesterday afternoon (Friday) a frightful accident occurred, which terminated fatally, to Mrs. Mary Cassey, aged 48 years, of Lant-street, Borough. She was cross ing the road, near St. George's Church, when she was knocked down by a waggon, which passed over her. She was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, and died shortly after admission. m R O YAL sn.v Brr e R ue i d s e a ret ß a n ti N d K. —T that the HE professionaIANTICIPATED C gentlemen o tro I . engaged in endeavouring to come to a compromise of the contest between the officers and parties appointed j under the two utisdietions have been in close conference as to the conditions on which the consolisation of the proceedings should take place ; and it is the preva ilin g belief that the p ropose d arrangement will be settled before the lapse of many days. The nature of the arrangement is, that Mr. Harding, the official manager, shall hand over to Mr. Lee, the official assignee, all the assets in band, for the purpose of distribution amen; the creditors. Mr. Harding, the official manager, it is understood, will continue to discharge the duties more properly belonging to his office. Se will settle the amount of contributories, decide on the amount of call which it is necessary should be made on the shareholders, and take the requisite stops for enforcing payment of those calls. It is estimated that the assets of the bank will realise about 83. in the pound, and this sum will be distributed by Mr. Lee ; the remaining 125., to be called up from the shareholders, it is understood, will be dis tributed by Mr, Harding,—.2lforninviddvertiscr. At a meeti ng o f t h e S out h A ustra li an Copper Com. pang, held yester d ay a f ternoon, i t wa s agreed to reorganise the undertaking and to provide a limited amount of capital to carry on the works, the latest ad. vices being regarded as favourable. We have received a copy of the Caledonian Mercury of yesterday, containing a long account of a public meeting held on Thursday night, in Bdinbergh, in favour of the proposed monument en the Abbey Craig, Stirling, to the memory of Sir Wiliam Wallace. Resolutions in accordance with the project were unanimously agreed to. We shall give an extended report on Monday, The Rev. Daniel Aloore, the incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell, wa s this day elected to the Golden Lectureship by a majority of one—the num adopted bers being 19 for Mr. M oore and 18 for Mr. Ca p e 1 Molyneux. with av eregard lately adopted lI NCLAII IED DIVIDENDS. —The Ban k of England, in c an on e c x u e r e r l e l n ee ce t a w e i d thth the considerate course Government, h eg ato un claimed dividends. B y Act of Parliament all sto ck on which the dividends remain unclaimed for ten years is transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, but in performing this process the Bank now address a communication to the parties in. terested, acquainting them that their names appear in the Bank books, and that if they will take measures to establish any claim they may have, all proper assistance will be afforded them. Formerly books containing the names of every person holding stock on which the dividends had been unclaimed for ten years used to be published at stated intervals, but they offered great facilities for fraud, and after the celebrated Fletcher forgeries they were discontinued. Since that period some method has been wanting to prevent the State from t a king undue advantage of cases of accidental neglect, arid the present plan appears in this respect to afford everything that could be desired. ACCIDENT IN WATERLOO.ROAD.—An accident of a very serious nature occurred last night in the Waterloo road. The ca rt i age o f M r. Hawes, of Montague House, Russell-square, in which were two daughters of that g , :ntleruan, was proceeding over Waterloo -bridge at a steady space. On reaching the Surrey side of the water the horses took fright, and galloped furiously for some distance down the r e ad. Nearly facing the railway ter. 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G9i 70 110 11 1061 i i li 1071 8 7i 8 35 G 51 82i g j} 74j i a 80 79i 100 [(1 1100 no 100 100 100 100 t 2 121 St. St. all 1100 1100 1100 100 140 25 10 1.0.6 22} 5 1 i 1161 1371 8i 981 ri' 92bitton SUN OFFICE,7:SIx o'Clock. ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLISH REVOLUTION.—(This Day.) To-day, being the 26th anniversary of the Polish Revolution of 1830, the Polish Exiles attended the funeral service, which was performed by the Rev. Emeritus Podolski at the R)inan Catholic Chapel, Sutton-street, Soho, for their countrymen who fell in that and other national struggles. Later in the day, a meeting was held in commemora tion of this event at Sussex-chambers, Duke-street, St. James's. Colonel B. WIERCINSKI was called to the chair, and observed :—lt is now for the 25th time that we ,meet in exile to celebrate the anniversary of the great national event which proved to the astonished Europe for the fourth time, that though half a century had elapsed since the first partition of Poland, yet she rose in 1830 more powerful than at any previous occasion ; this proves that our nationality cannot be annihilated, even by the combined action of the three more powerful monsters that took pars in the great crime of the partition. Gen tlemen, although thousands of cannons are pointed at us, although three millions of spies, employees eat into the vitals of Poland, and although two millions of army encircles and presses upon her. yet she lives gigantic in the heart of her true sons. Persecutions, confiscation, banishment, imprisonment, bayonet, lance, cannon. Siberian mines, knouts, and executions employed ; yet in s pit e against us for 84 years, have not quelled, h ave no t oafnnithhiilaaterdemtahrekablPeolfiashnt, many patriotism persons have be e n persuaded to think that Poland is no more because she has not shown any great signs of her life during the late war. Now, I take this opportunity to explain this appa. rent contradiction to the great fact which I just announced. The Allied Powers, upon the retirement of the Rus sians from before Silistria, have not followed the Czar's army into Podolia, and the Allied fleet has not gone in the first place to the Baltic, with the object of counte nancing a Polish movement, but all the chief power was directed towards the Crimea and the Black Sea. This false direction proved to Poland that the Allies did not think of attacking Russia through Poland, and that, therefore, we should be abandoned were we to originate a movement in our own country, and that Poland ran a great chance of being abandoned again. Under these circumstances the Poles were justified in not increasing uselessly the number of their sacrifices. Major GINLIIUD then moved the first resolution : ." That the Polish exiles, ever faithful to the cause which has called Poland to arms 26 years ago, continue, and will never cease to protest before Europe against the partition and oppression of their country by the three despo tic powers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and are ready whenever a proper time arrives to shed the last drop of their blood for her national independence ; but they also protest against ,the cause of Poland, resting as it does on the most incontrovertible principles of international law, being mixed up with questions of internal Government on which opinions are much divided, and which have uo immediate relation to the question at issue between the Polish nation and the.partitioning powers." Captain R. CLIODASIEWIEZ seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Major C. SZOLCZEWSKI moved the second "'That in spite of the disappointment which the conclu sion of the recent war has spread among the Polish exiles, they feel in duty bound gratefully to acknowledge the employment of Poles, however late, nudes the name of Cossacks of the Sultan, by the British Government, as part of the English contingents, and they bag to express their thanks to the British nation for the asylum and hospitality afforded to them, as well as to the British press, and to the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland for their sympathy with the Polish cause, in ad vocating the immutable truth, that without the re-estab lishment of an independaut Poland, no peace, civilisation, and liberty can be secured to Europe." lie said time and circum , tances have no, thinned our numbers, the ,conjunctures of the moment are so little favourable to us, and our hopes for the future are so vague, that we cannot claim for this meeting the same political weight as formerly; yet, to hearts far and near throbbing with disappointment, there is always some consolation that we have assembled on this our national aenivs.rsary in the discharge of a patriotic duty. Brothers, though once more hope has dawned upon us, and once more it has sat in gloom, we do not despair, but L wait and are ready ; and should ever again the heart-stirring words resound, Polish exiles, your country wants you ; come to the battle !—should ever another day come, when arms are put into our hands, to combat the enemy of our country, we will seize them with the same alacrity as we evinced last year, in responding to the call of England, hoping that we may not again be made to lay them down before we have had an opportunity of using them. We, whose hearts, for years, have been pants ing for the hour of deliverance, cannot be expected to approve of the hesitation and diplomatic subtleties which during the recent war have so long de ferred an appeal to the Poles, nor can we whose every hope is bound up with the destruction of despotism, that weighs like an incubus on the best energies of Europe, be expected to admire the policy which stopped short of this achievement when success was all but certain. But, however, grieved and disappointed, we can appreciate even the tardy call of the Poles by the British Govern ment under the name of the Cossacks of the Sultan, to form a part of the valiant English army in the recent war, and no political errors or features can make us forget the debt of gratitude we owe to the members of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, whose noble and unremitting efforts in our behalf are above praise—to the British Press, the palladium of English liberty, for the defence of our just rights ; and, above all, to the British nation, that affords a shelter to every exile, and which, amidst the gloom of almost universal despotism and oppression, stands there a living wit ness that liberty, is not merely a name, and that in the light of her presence, prosperity and well being are developed, which can never flourish in the murky atmosphere of political slavery, however many artificial means may be employed to raise a crop which the soil refuses to boar. In other places some of our countrymen may possibly, on this very day, be heard confounding lilngland with the despotic and oppressive governments of the worlq, because she does not make herself the champion of all revolutionists in all coun tries. But we have never participated in the revo lutionary mania of a few deluded individuals among the Poles, whose aberrations have afforded our enemies a pretext for identifying our cause with that of commu ' nista and socialists, and other visionary and unruly spirits of the world, and we would be distinctly under stood, as disclaiming all participation in the thoughts and feelings of those who, unwittingly, taking their cue from the very enemies they are so anxious to combat, by their accusations and imputations, tend to spread hatred and distrust of England. On the contrary, England the home of liberty, the land of progress and self-government, ought to rally the hopes and the sympathies of all oppressed nations, and when she sees the tower of strength these sympathies have built up for her—when she learns that in the hearts of the peoples she has allies whose fidelity, based upon attachment to the same ideas and the same objects, will be secure against the waverings of personal am l b i a t t i o n length and understand political th am tshe h a a y s hope that mission she in Europe as well as in America and Australia—that she is called upon not, only to plant the tree of liberty in the virgin soil of new worlds, but also to help the nations to root out the weeds that impede its growth in the more cultivated territories of the old, and that, though she may leave the former task to the individual enterprise of her sons, for the latter she needs the arm of her Imperial Government ; and that not only justice and humanity, but also self-interest de mands that she should not wield it in this cause. For great and mighty as she is, Britain cannot stand alone against the world, and the despots may for a while seek her friendship, as a counterpoise against each other. When they no longer fear each other, the time will have come for a coalition against her who must ever be a stumbling block in their path. Lieutenant JULIUS WitibucKi seconded the resolution, which also was carried unanimously. Severalafter other Pole s a dd resse d t h e mee ti n g, which separated, Passing a vote of thanks to the Chair man. 100 i all an 100 100 1 14 9 >t. 1 to 100 100 100 20 97i 4 50 61i 2 25 6 22j i 77' 21 5 f 24A I 104 a 99 lli i 538 i 1 9 i l i 9 Fart,.