The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-25 00:00:00

THE. SUI 4, SON DON, TUESD t V ONE Y MA R, AND COMMERCIAL INTELLICITITO. :I'Pv . Two The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily, and, compareti with Friday's rates, prices of all kinds were unchanged. The sales were 6,000 bales. The Railway Share Market was steady, at an advance on Saturday's currency. In consequence of the boisterous state of the weather last night the foreign mails have been detained. &s the monetary crisis on the continent now appears to be subsiding the letters daily re ceived are perused with additional interest. Those to hand yesterday continued to represent the posi tion of the French money market as having im proved, and the opinion is entertained in many quarters that some of the recent restrictions imposed by the Bank will soon be removed. Confidence is increasing, the pressure for money is less severe, and. investments in the Rentes are made with freedom. The commercial interest are more s anguine, although trade continues quiet. Prom the other parts of the continent the ad vices are also encouraging, but the speculation in silver continues, and large quantities of that metal are arriving here. The Bank of Frankfort have lowered the rate of discount from 6 to 5 per Cent., but at Hamburg the quotation has advanced. The private accounts from most of the German markets mention that the increased ease was soon likely to influence the official terms of accommoda tion. With regard to the Money Market here favour able symptoms are still apparent. There is de cidedly less inquiry for discounts, and first class bills are negotiated under the Bank minimum. Gold continues to be sent into the national establishment, and this circumstance, of course, tends to increase confidence. As the 4th o f next month approaches, however, there will, no doubt, be a greater demand, and if the pay bent of the engagements then falling due, and the settlement of the accounts at the Stock Enchange, do not occasion renewed stringency, there is rea son toe believe that the Directors will speedily Modify their recent restrictive policy. Of the 350,0001. in Australian gold expected at the Bank of England yesterday, only about 18 0,0001. or 200,0001. were received. The re mainder, however, with a further amount estimated at 100,000/., will probably be delivered to-day. The enquiry for money on the Stock-Exchange has been very fluctuating.. On Friday 7 and 7i per cent: were paid for loans on Consols until to day, and some difEculiy was felt in procuring them at these rates ; but on Saturday the supply of capi tal sensibly increased, and employment could not be found for it, even on much easier terms. To day there is a recurrence of the pressure, and accom modation is sought for at 7 per cent. This cir cumstance, together with several others of minor importance, has produced a little weakness iu the e nnacl Market. A few sales have been made, and the f latness of the Relates yesterday h as a l so contri buted to cheek the buoyancy previously noticeable, a nd a decline of per cent, has taken place. Consols for money have been sold, and prices have receded to 93/ 94, but they are now 94 to 941, and the present quotation for the next account is 94i 'or k. January they have been 95 to 951, and 94i -- The New Three per Cents. are 933 k, and the Reduced 921 931. Exchequer Bills are 2s. to 4s. premium ; the Bonds 98i 99 ; and I ndia Bond s 2 s. prem. Bank Stock is 2151 In dia Stock 225. , and The Foreign Market is dull. Turkish 6 per Cents. have been 93-a 94, but the 4 per Cents. are firm at 101. Spanish Deferred have been dealt in at 231. Dutch 4 per Cents. 96i, Russian 4i cuts. 95/ 96, an d Mexican 22k. per The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonda, 6i 7 ; Mexi. ean, 22i 1; Peruvian 4J per Cents., 77 8 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 6 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 94 6; Spanish 3 per Cents., 411 21 ; ditto beferred, ' ; ditto Certificates, 6 ; ditto l'assie, be en Railway way Share Market this morning has the extent g ull, and a downward tendency in prices to Inuell.eoxttent of about k per cent. is perceptible l in ° }3.B ,t f. the principal lines. Chester and Ho yhead, Anglian, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dun d ee, , urre abut Western, N ort h - W estern, Mi dland, were 58. l ower ; Brighton, Lancashire and York.. _ h ire, Norfolk and South-Eastern, however, were a nd th acIY- e The G ee l ong an d M e lb ourne d ec li ned 55., ruled at q. Ca nadian about ss. The French lines e Joint Stook Bank miprev eruent; Shares have exhibited a slight Bank of Australasi, Bank, ' a nd Union o f 'A ustralia, being at a rather Ottoman enhanced rates. M. iscllaneou s Sh ares there is little alteration w notice, very few dealings being reported. FUNDS THIS D AY. —CLOSING PRICES. (From the Official List.) . it , sines, done. tank Stock ..................................... 215 i 3 Per Cent. lteGueed Annuities ....... 93 i2i 3k a per Cent. Consols .A.nneitie. ........ . New 3 per Cent-. Annuitiea ............•;'.,....... .. 93 i A Ne w , per Cent. Annuities .. ............. 77,i Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 18W —_ Vtto 3 ( 1 Years, expire stll April, 18 85... 174 18 India Stock ....................................... 225 Drt.:. itop.is, i.lOOO ............ .............. Ditto, under £1000...... 2 ....... ... Consols v chequer Bill s , 2id i'oi Account. ..................... ............ 3 p .... 91a 4 Ai £5BO • .......... . ............... 2 3 p ..................... . .................... 5 4p Small ... .., ... ........... 4 5 2 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent..,..... ..... 98,i 9 p D itto, 1859 981 9 Bra P RICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAY. zitian F nods, 5 per Cent. — , ditto Small 100 i illu ador New C onsol i dated ‘..l Ditto Provisional L an d Warrant .l A '-• Aleziean 3 per Cent in Ditto Account ..... .. Aussian Bonds, '0322, t St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 4i per Cent. .~, ISardinian Holy-is, 3 per .• Cent. ..• • • ....... •• bitto Account .............. . ..... $ panith Bowie, 3 per Cent . .............. TurkiDitto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. tll B inds, 6 p l / 4 r cent Ditto Account . • Ditto Guaranteed . . 4 .. per Cent. Ditto Account . ............................ Otridenis yn the Once . evame .n London. Dutch Exel'ange, 2k per Con';., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .......... THREE O'CLOCK. Consols (Money) ..................... 91 k Ditto (Dec em b er 4)...... . ...... . ........... 94 ' Co- ________„, AiMERCIAL AND GENERAL ASSURANCE COMPANY. -_ The claim of Mr. E. Evans of 2,3001., alleged to have been advanced to We company, is ordered by the chief clerk of the Master of the Rolls to stand over until the l ist of contributorice brought in by Mr. Tureuand and Messrs Galsvvorthy, his solicitors, is settled. The claim is objected to on the ground of the allegation that the di. rectors made use of it to declare dividends although no profits were made, and on the further ground that under the deed of settlement the directors lead uo power to orro w money. THE RECORDERSIIIP OP LONDON. —Mr. Russell G urney, it seems, is not to be the only candidate for the of London, itri Portant office of Recorder for the City Nyhich becomes vacant by the appointment of Mr. Stuart W ortley to the Solicitor-Generalship. Great efforts 9are being made by the friends of Mr. Samuel 'Warren, .0., to secure his return, and yesterday mornin q per. "os who profess to be intimately acquainted with the etate of feeling in the City spoke confidently of his chance eof success. Mr. Warren has the advantage of "Seat in the House of Commons, a great ?ualifi ation th e y yes of the London corporation, who a ways desire to e as their recorder a gentleman who can defend their interests in Parliament. Another gentleman, whose Dame was wh ispered about in various quarters -ay as a candidate fur the Recordership, but appa Y r e e s rat e l Without much authority,is Mr. Montague Chambers, 4 . ", and member for the borough of Greenwich.`',MA Ererald. 4INGULAR ESCAPE Of A RAILWAY GIJAED.—A guard s oh the L ancashire and Yorkshire Railway a few wee_K_, ,I'lkok met with an accident which nearly cost him his b `ife • Re was travelling on an express train between 'reeton and Euxton Junction, and had got on the top of , hi s van, when his throat came suddenly in contact wish a te legraphic wire which crosses the line, and he 42n;fwail thrown of the carriage so as to alight on the end of ter between that and another carriage. Clieging a-1'11.: it:Pperate ti naciiy to the end of the van, he was ~,,_ after a short space of time to get into it again, at ;Tre he lay for a corpiderahle period much exhauited b. ,nearly i nsensible. On recovering a little, he found til:doands full of short hairs, which he had taken from of his hie chin. In fact, he' attributed the preservation Bend 8 1,4.6 Partly to a trick busby beard which he wore, ii,, cor e r Probably Dreyer ted his throat from bring h c , r e .elv ou by the telegraphic wire. A coiasiderable deal ,41 oftis beard bad been cut off, -ad El was a good di ne _„:urtneed by his fali, but after remaining only a ehort tn the sick list r, f the company, he bag been again able "utn e his duties. The same guard had been 4 ° 311. atnlT the train Only a few weeks before in a colli iing his Vie. Where 'he bad a narrow escape from KE T I SHARE MARKETS—(mis Day). uA_ILW kYS. Clo , lne Price thcs lay. 4 4 8i • 17 - 18 15 - 16 12 - 13 93 67 - 38 ... -... . ~N ~~ •~ ... ~ 9 i 16;' 174 18 9k vo 35 -- 37 24 26 7 - - : 5 80 - 82 - .. 53 - 55 34 - 34 ••• ..... 93 - 95 7 - 8 91 - 92 7r - 79 123 - 125 15 117 68 --- ES? 71 - 74 54 - 64 54 - 95 A_ 95 4 ~ ''''' ... 108 IC9 101 - 104,1 F, - g - .1 106 - 1061 34 - :35 1 - 4fi 80i - 8i 52 - 54 ..,MI ~ NMIII . , ii = 15 .. ~ 48 - 50 3A - ( 37i 38 • 64.1 83 -84 A - 41 3 - 2i 184 -18 i 59i COI 95 -98 5 i sid 61 —7, 10 11 28 29 62 104 24i 25 63 70 47 48 1i ... 1 1 7 18 7U - 72 79 y 89 5 3d 2 —1, 14 16 37 -- 39 "' ... - ... -"' ... --' ... ••• - ••• 19 - 196 el, • • • 6 - 8 2 ---. 4 5 - 54 ''. .•• ..... • •• ... ••• 8 - lh .11 : ij 22f - 22; 22 - 22?1 .00 ...... a • • 22 - 23 101 - 11 76 - 78 21i - 21 - li! 24 - 2 , 0 2i - 99 - 101 115 120 115 - 120 108 110 19i - 20. 21i - 22 fi * - 2 - Business done this dtky. 57 i 37 17; 9 1 i 81i 1 531 311 1 671 i 81 & 61 108 i 104 i 4 5$ 106/ 6 351 4i 81 801 I 1 51 3t. pm 20 Rt. 49i io St. 29 83 19} 18f 60 17 i no 80 22i 101 j 21i 41 5 24 St. 20 25 25 12i, 1 50 20 35 li i IN i 131 e 10 10 50 100 St. 1001 100 20 i 321 2 49 3 / 4 i 78 22 39i i 13 64; 31 4i 276 38 shr. Paid. Reitman. Leasig, Closing Prices Business Company. this day this day. SEEMED. •••••••M. 50 all Bedford and Loudon t Bletrhley N. Vl33t. St. 100 Buckgharash, L.&N.W. 96 98 St lik) Clydesdal.‘ Calcdon 98 102 2b all Col. Stour Vy. E. 13 & E.O 12 14 8.. 100 E. Lin. g. 6 pc. Gt. N min. 133 133 5 all E. lin. H. Sh. E. Count. 4 ... 4i St. 100 Alas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct .•. St. 1100 Do. New. Do ••• •.. 2. all Glstr..lsDa Fr Gt. Westn 100 all HAN. Dk. & Ys. Now. Railway... & Berw. 51 all Hull & Selby Y. &NM:. 106 108 25 all Do. Share: Do ••• ••• VI all Do. Shares. Do ••• 12/ all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern 12i 13 20 all Do.Prefereace Do 22i —23 St 100 Lon.. Til., &S. Pato &Co 108 112 10 3; Do. Bark. Sh. Do a 1 p St 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk ... St. 100 Do. 6 per ct. Do 5! all Manch. Bxtn. L.& . N. W and Matlock & Midld 2l —2l 5) all Middleebro' & Stckton & Redc.g 6 p.c. Darlingt. ... St. 100 Midld..tiradid Midland 9O 92 $Oll 6i 5i Newmarket - Bury E. G.spc En. Conn. p I 50 all N.& Est.s p. c. E. Count. 55 57 50 all Do. 6 per et. Do ••• •.• 50 all Do. Fixods pc Do 15 all Prost. &VP yr , L. &N.W 12 all Do. Shrs. ADo St. 100 Roystn.& Hit. GtNorthn 133 156 25 181 Shef.Roth.anii Lancash& G0010g.5 p.c. Yorkeh. 10 all Shrevrs.&Her. T.Brassey 71 R. 12 14 S. Stailordeh. M.MClean 31 —34 d 50 all Wear Valleygt Stockt. & 6 per cent_ Darlingt. ?5 all Do Do 33 24 St 100 Wilts&gomretliltWestn B9 91 PRE FE RENCE SHARES. all ' Blyth and Tyne 113 pei 1 c. prof. (issd.l.t 50/ 100 Brie. & Ex. 4p. c. 9.t 1 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... 1)0 Caledn. .ElO 41 p.c. 100 .(:hes.& Ec. Gn. 6 t pc 100 Do. do. Pref. 5 per c tll Cork ttßa.ndonslp.c all Du.a.,Prth .6rAber.J. 2 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B6p. c. 10) Do. do Cls. C7p. c. all Eas.Co.Ez,speNo. all Do. No. 2 . all Do. New 6 p. c. St all East Un., G. 6p. c all Do. 51., 10 per cant all Do. It/. Debentr.Sb all Do. do. 4 per cent 100 East Lancash..6p.et• all E. h:W. York. J. sth , 4 Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sh 1100 Ed. Prth.&Dun.4p.c 100 Furnen, sp. c 1100 01a3. h B.W. 0.5 p.c. 100 Great Northn. sp. c 'lOO Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem.. lOC, Da. 41 p. c 60 D 0.5 p. c., Red. at I p. c. pm all Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pre 100 Qt. S. &W. (Ireland 14 Do. 4par c. Prlf. S 6 Gt. W.(B.tll.Exspe 100 Do. con. red. 41 p.c. 100 Do. eon. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4p. c. 100 Do. sp. c. red. pref all Do. Birm. Pref. Si all Do. Chester Bp. c. p.;- all Do. do. 5 p. c. do. 100 Do. Birm. Qua. Stk all Do. Ches. Qua. Sh all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F.. 1 20 1100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock 100 Lon. &B. 0.5 pc. No.l l 100 Do. P., spc. St.No.2 100 Do. New Gnar.6 le. 100 Do. do. sr. c.,N0.9 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy . 4..1 Nuneaton 5 P. et... 1.00 1... m.& S.W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares ... all Lindy. & Coler. 1 Sh. ':11 Londy.& Ennis. . 11 10. 1at.,5.,& L. 6p. Cent 4i Do. do. do. 1.:6 100 Do. do. 34 per cent. all Warypt .&Carl.4p c all Do. 4A per cent 10' Do. do. 136 -- 115 - 6. """ .57 - • ''." 1100 Consol.6 p.c.St 1160 Con.Br.;:ir. 6p( ;100 Do. 1 p. c. Pref. F t 100 Ditto L. &H. Pref. St ' an I New., Aber., &c., pr. sp. c. red. 5 p.c.pm. 6 Do. Pcrpct. 6 pc t. with optn. till '66 all Morfir. Deb, 4 p.c. sh 100 Do. Pref. sp. c. St , c 100 Do. 5 pc. Ext.,lE46 100 D. siperc.pf ,1847 100 D0.Wv.V.6pc.,1847 100 North British 3, Do 7/. Preference ... 10u N. E. Bo rw, 4 p.e. §i Do. do. do lg (Do Leeds 6 p.e :No.l 9 Do. do. Qr F 1818— 10 IDo.YorkildiS. Fur. all (North Staffordihlre. 'IE:Wo,/zW., 6 pc.. 1100 Do. 6 p.c. Redeem. 1 all ,S3(n. Cent. ,New Prat 1100 Se.N.E. Abor.g6 pe 1 all Do. do., 7p c. pf. st. 400 D0.d0., 34 p.c. pf. st, all South Devon all Do. taxed,4i per cen 4 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4i per cent all Do. Fixed 4i p c sh 1100 3. Wales Gua. 4p. 0 100 D, - ;„ do. 4. p. c. all 3.Yorksho4p.e.Guar. all itock.& Dar., 6p. c. 15 Do. do. do all itock. & Hart'. R. E p. c. till July 1, '5 all Waterfd.az Kilk. 6p c 0 66 - - 98 - 5 -- 6 - 112 - 102 L 36 - 138 98 - 100 88 - !O 1 is ''"'' es. ... .... ••• iiiii :le4 92 - 94 - id 107 1.09 -''' ••• is~ i7~ 23 - 24 101 - 103 -10 i 1091 I Ell L 11& 11/ 27 -• 28 2 - 3 r 111 110 .•• 3 - 3i - - 1 -- S - .i 14 - 2 s't - 3i 17 - 19 P - in 54 - 5.6 30 - 35 25 - 14 - 16 - - 2 - 2i 7 - 7. 1a I g 10 21 - 93 5 - 7 21 - 2f - 2f 34 - 3i 3 - 4 a a i 56 7 26i 6 1131 141 I 6i - 7 14 - 14 - 2p! - I - -- 5i 32 - 331 9 1 - 104 -SP 4! - ••• '''' ••• 4i 9• 8 191 1 9 i 37 - 37 - 8 -- 9 51 1 -51 i, 43 -- 61 i - 1P 17 - 19 - 14 9 - 9i - 9} - p m 4$ - 44 33 - 34 lip BANKS. 90 - 101 1 - - 64 - 66 *et ''''' ". 1h , 3 d 68 —• 70 ••-• ••• 16i -- 14 20 -- 191 -- 20 ••.. -.... ... 1 -..- 3p ••• -- ... 45 38 :14 " 40 1 id 34 - 3/1 63 - 65 ,7 7 . 4 , 5a -• 'Paid ~AILWA IL i 9; t ,! , ....ulbg. ‘ , ..au Eastn. Janc , 0 1 al 1 ;i -iflg - , . L ;',7ll.l:vlarx I• • • 6 ii 41' ' W airraiiip;. olvere Stour Val) cy i ali Birkeild. Lanes}:. - . - itee,,itre Junel„ ri -0 D.). 4143314 ..t Birk ? all 1 1.1., do. ....... ..... 5 all Blackburn i i all !styr., a "rya, oz:gt; , £25 (issd. at S 4 100 ;Bristol and Exato , .. 11)0 , 'Jalec , oniam . 100 !Cork Cr Holyhead 1 all !Cork and Bandon 1 all Cork, Black, do Pc.s ' all Cornwall all D 9. A 8 Do. B 45 DablinaßolfastJurc all Dun. P. & Ab, , r. Jnc. . 100 East Angll-n all Eastern Counties.. , 100 fi , ,,st. Union, A. St 100 Be., B. Stock : 18i Do, N6W A , 17,5 East Kent 100 ;e,ast Lancashire al East Suffolk 4 D 0... ;1 ~ .'t GOO Edinburgh lasgo 1 all Edinb. and Peebles. 1100 Fain. Prt'a &D av do. 1 all ' Folth & Clyde Jun.! 100 isrnoss . / 100 Glasgow &S. Westrn all Great N. of Scotlnd 100 !Great Northern ..... 100 Do., A. 5t0ck....... i"0 De„ E. Stoc..k. ...... . 1)0 Gt. E.; tll ..5 - .. Wes t,(lre. ) ' 100 Great Ik , cstcria ...... . 100 r).. , . Stour Val. Ra, Gun. Stk.. all r [rich Slnth-Flasterz. ) all fanc%ster & Carlis! , 141 Do., Thirds! 12 Do. New Thirds ;• 1.00 Laneash.audYorksh I Do., Wet. aiding Un I all Do. South/ or t all London & BlackwaY • 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cst • 100 Lon,d. and N. Westn 16 Do. Fifths Do.lo/.1311.01&B ( 2i Do. Eighths 10C LondonandS. Westn. all timindrry&Uolcrain( all Lndndrry. & Ennisk 10:1 4 .fanch.Ref. Linolr 1 Aetropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement... 100 :00 1lirmlig.& Derb:, all G. West. (Ire all )o. Half Shares zll 'T,.; Ireantleti Carlisle all Vwpt.Aberg. gewry & Enniskille .11 gewry i Warrenpoint t vi ttostrevor sTorfolk .....nn.. 3 orthn.Coties 100 „North British 100 th Devon Rail Dock Stock wo Jo., A Stock 100 B Stock .... N.Eardern—Dsrwi , 2B s-o. do. - Extension 16 G.N.E. 4.1 Do. Leeds 00 )o. York 100 north _Loudon it 1, ~ &S.Wstrn.,llam et Td, and City 7! 7 , 10 cth Staffordohir 4orth Western all .& S. W6strn.Jun St St. sr St. St. 10 7 V0r0., & 14 .r 9 Rhymney _ (. ott,o, 1.0 - ) Scot. N E.Abrdn St LOt Do. Soot. Mid. St 00 , rtahiPa TTr 2 3itinzbournetSheer, al south Devoe, gCrath Eatito3rra .00 , outh Wules Yrkab. 4c iciv. lin I to.. 10 it St. ajnem, Wok. &Wo Stockton & Darling 12? ) k 'O. do., 1854 3 Do., do., 1855 3tockten I.lnrticp raff Valo ...... Pref., No, 1.... 22 names hay, D.& R. All Vals of Neatli ..... al Watorfd. & Kilkenn all WaterforddrLitrierie', all West C0rnwa11...... all Test End of Londol and Cryctal raii:koT all Do. A an Do. 8...., ..... all West Londa a . all Do. Fiist all Do. Second Class.. all Wimbledn&Crov4,,l 9 nomtpay tsar° 0.2., au , g. 5 p. c 11 Do. 10s. Ceylon A shares 1 Do. B. do 2u 5 i 0 cAu, a 1. )emeram 2s. Eastern Bengal..l .-- al) .talt Indiar, A and B, g. 5 Do. Ez. C, gu. sp. c all Do. do. D, gu. sp. c. all D 0.4 , ,, p.c.Bnds.,'s' all "►o. do. do., 'SP, do. all Geelong Melbourn , guar. 5 per cent. all Gd. Trun't of Cana& all Do. Cert. of Debcr con, tit° Stk. till% l Do, Comp.6p,c.,dc all at. IT% PeT). g, sp. e 2 Do New, guar. sp. c it.Wvstorno 'C./alma 8 Do. NOW f 10.1115,, payable '5! )c. do., '76, p. An fie. do., '73 do. • Do. do.„ '73 wit,hou option.. all VI-dri guar. 4t p c all Do. do., sp. C. 10 Do. 44 p. c. Exton 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp. c 5 icir.ide, guar. sp. c all Do 3t. i' , udrovieu anc Queb,r, YOB,: 011 '1 atwerni:R.7,tt rdsm la Ardennes all ielgian Etqtn. June 16 I,ziers tnGritiARPREI, 10? Buff: & Lk. Hur. Ry. Carmeaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry 12 ' Rhenish all pastern of Franca 19 NOW 2s. Euphrates Valley ... Eur. s.ln.Ju.Tel.Rail. 18 it. Central of Frank e 16 treat Luxembourg-. 4 Italian Junction...... all l.c.kt Collet, & Bast, all Lierre and Turnhout 6 Lombardo Venetian. all Lucca 61Pist. sp. e.p. 15 Lyons and Geneva all Lyons at Mediterran. a ll Ifaria Antonia t o Do. do. New al. caranr ea Liege all Do. do,, Cp. c. Prof as Northern of France. all t'forwegianTrtinkPre' all Paris and. Lyons all Paris and Orleans 5 Recifo & San. Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c, Rome and Frascati all Royal Danisl , ...... all Royal Swedish all Sambre and Mouse_ all Do. 5 p. cent. Pref. all 3ontbern of Franco an 'Vest Flanders all Do. 15A per c. Prof all W. &N.W. of Franc( 6 Westernof Austria._ all West:. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden . 10 7 20 8?, 10 20 all Do. Bper eent.Prof all Zealani .JOINT-9' all kastralaaia 18;„ Bank of E g ypt 50 Bank of London aU liri. Col. iik.StLn. C all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 6 Chvtd..B7:k. of Australia, & China 25 50 City .... . • . 20 Commt,reial . all Erig.s2eot. &Ans.Cht all Loud. Mart. Bk. oil Au stralia. all Ditto New. 20 Loulon and Count y 00 Lna. &E. Bnk-g. Corp 1C London Joint Stock 20 i ,ond. & We2trilinstei 4latiorml Pro.ct Eng 10 Do. New ....... .. 22' Nation,sl Bank t ‘ll Now South Wales ali Yiriental Fk. Corp 15 Ottoman Bank Provioil of Irel an d ..n ' • ............ . . all Unit.d of .A.n5., 4 r7111a 2 Do. Now ....a., Wn r i jO7, r,fLondon 50 Unity Mutual 40 50 25 20 6Q J ►Yoetern J3k t f Low' 7 - COLONIAL. [Mi. MINES. all ! iuolo Californian 7 ' 4uBtralian all 3mden (CA.Duchy of, all Blamar. Iron & Coa' 14 British Iron 26 jI Brazilianlmp.(iesnod at £5 pm.) all Do. COC?C3 & Culab: 15 Do. St. John Dalßey 43i arondon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica all °Are Copper Colonial Gold all Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Pref. 7 p. cent 1€ Copiapo all trortuna all Oenczal all at.iinggetVeinßog ail Groat Polgooth all at Wheal Vor Unite ! all Liberty all Linares 1i Lusitanian . all Mariquita all New Granada all Nouveau Monde all Pontgi.Sil.& Le. Min 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron all Do. New Ibi Santiago de Cuba.—. 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. all South Australian all Do. Scrip. all Do. 10 per cent Prof 4A Tam. S. &L. Min. Co 5 Pin Croft all [lnitqd Mexican all Waller all Weat Mariposa 12s, Worthing Mining of Australia 19 I a ustralian Agri=lt. .11 A.ustraln. Royal Mail all Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 32i Canada,... 00 C. Go.6p.e. Jan&,lnly 100 Do. 6 p. c. F e b & A ug 1 00 Do. 6p c. Mar & all Crystal Sept all Do. Preference all Crystal Pal. of Franc Duston Iron O re 151 Eastern Steam. 100 Electric Telegraph all Electric Teleg. of Ir, all En. &Aus Cop Sm Co all Gen. Ir Sc Col (lim.) 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. all General Screw Steam 5 London Discount „. all Lond. Gon. Omnibus 10 Magdalena St. Navig all Mediteran. Elec. Tel, all Mexican&S.Amerien. 5 Nat. Discount Co. 1 Do. New 5 Netherlands Land. al', Do. Do. 3 Do. 8 perissatld 1 Do. 80 New B. &N. S. Land ... N. S.W. Go v. sp. c. D. all N. B. Australasian._ 17 Nrth. of E u rope Ste arc ali Oriental Gas 2s. Do. "New Shares" all Peel Rr. Ld. & all Peninsular& Oriental 10 Do. New 60 Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest all Ditto New all South aad al: Submar. Tel, Scrip all Do. Registered......,, 5 ' t rust& L. Co.U.emn. 28i Van Diemen's Land „, • V•ol•6l).o.Jantauly 'BOUB. 25 - 27 - 5} - 5i 117 -- 122 il3i 54 - ... .... ... in -- 9.7 i - 1 ..6 - 7 -•- ... 3 i - 3A 3 si 3 . cl e 4d. 15 4,0 fi 3 i — gd 1 - ji - IP 2i 2i 68 70 4} 66 68 14 -- 14 • 1 , , 35 37 1 1 ltti ; EVENING, NO VEMB ER 25 LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This E ty.) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lords Justices.) LEE v. AITCHISON—THE ROYAL BFX g!LISEI BANK. Mr. Rolt applied for the postponement of the , .hearing of the appeal in this case from the decision deliv4 red by Vice-Chancellor Kindereley yesterday, on the grow id that if the arguments were opened to-day they could not be finished, and it was uncertain whether their I( ►rdships would sit to-morrow. Sir F. Kelly said he wished their lordships we Rill fix a certain day for the hearing of the appeal. II e did not wish it to be left in doubt when the appeal would .come on. After a short consultation amongst the learned ',lunge], Lord Justice Knight Bruce said the hearing of: the ap. peal would stand over until to-morrow week. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyci.) IN RE THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. To-day was appointed for hearing his Honour's (recision as to the form of the balance-sheet which the (Erectors would be required to furnish, and copies of the pnaposed form had been given to Mr. Read and Mr. Mason, vs ho ap peared for them. Mr. Read objected to the account extending from 1819 to 1856, and said that if it began so far back as 1849, no director but Mr. Esdaile could sign the balance-sheet,. He proposed that every director should attach his signat , ure to a statement of affairs at the time of the aiijudicatios a, and that the balance-sheet should be filed by Mr. Esdaile some what after the form proposed, omitting only such (Retails as appeared in the statement of affairs. The ()thier di rectors, he thought, might adopt the half-yearly b:►.lance sheet as it stood, as it would save immense trouble. His Honour thought the form should stand, but that the directors should only sign for the time of their direc torship, and that they should have the option or filing distinct balance sheets from the time they became directors. Mr. Mason observed that the accounts of the Bank were regularly balanced and laid before the director's each morning, and his clients would adopt those of the morning on which they became directors, and then proceed to show where the assets had been over estimated. The error of the Bank throughout appeared to have been over-entimat- ing their assets. The learned Commissioner said—A form of balance sheet, distinct from the statement to the official assignee, would be required. These directors had little to do with the deficiency, but were equally interested in the general statement of affairs, and they would, therefore, alkali a detailed account during their directorship. The form was then agreed to. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE BAINBRIDGE AND DELL.-ADJOURNMENT SIVE DIE. ALLEGED CONCEALMENT OF PROPERTY. These bankrupts were described as of Southwark-bridge road, boot and shoe manufacturers, and to-day was ap pointed for their last examination. Mr. Turner appeared for the assignees to oppose the bankrupts passing; Mr. Beard, from the office of Mr. Buchanan, for Bainbridge ; and Mr. 'Warrand for Dell. Mr. Turner saiu that in this care the bankrupts had only been in business for about five months, and now owed to creditors 2,7511., and the assets were only 61. 4s. 6d., and during that time they had obtained leather from one credi tor, a Mr. Smith, to the amount of 1,3001., and nothing like an account of their trading could be given, almost the whole of the items being unvouched, and the books given up could not be considered the genuine books of the firm. Bainbridge himself absconded to America, but subse quently returned and surrendered. He submitted that it was a case in which the bankrupts should be adjourned sine die. His Honour said they could never pass on the present accounts. Bainbridge was examined, and said that he went to America partly on pleasure, and partly to see whether he should like to settle there, but he returned to England and found that he had been made bankrupt. He did not know they wore in difficulties when ho left, and he sup posed the stock had been used up. His Honour—Have they given any account of stock bought and sold, and profit and loss ? Mr. Bell, the official assignee —Nu ; they have not. His Honour—Then I will not pass them till they have, and shall adjourn them without day, with protection for a month. Mr. Beard asked his Honour to direct the assignees to state in writing what they required. Mr. Turner said that if they required more than what the learned commissioner had directed, he would give notice within a week. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) FORGERY. Robert Charles Wyatt, aged 19, a clerk, pleaded guilty to a charge of feloniously forging and uttering two orders for the payment of 2501. and 91., with intent to de fraud the London and Westminster Bank. The Common Sergeant sentenced the prisoner to four years' penal servitude. ROBBING AN EMPLOYER. Frederick, Huggins, labourer, aged 17, was cbarged with stealing 7 paper boxes and 43 neck ties, value 4/. 175., the property of Richard Hellaby, of Huggin lane, City, his master. Mr. Cooper prosecuted, and detailed the circumstances of the robbery to the jury, which were very simple and not worth publishing. Mr. Lilly defended the prisoner, and made a very powerful and ingenious defence, laying much stress on his youth acd this being the first time be had ever been charged with such an offence. He called several wit nesses who gave the prisoner an excellent character. The Common Sergeant summed up, and The jury found the prisoner guilty, and strongly recommended him to mercy on account of the excellent character he had received. The Common Sergeant sentenced him to 6 months' imprisonment with hard labour. ARSON. Charles Butler, labourer, 25 years of age was charged with feloniously setting fire to the dwelling-house of Mr. %V. Read, he bud other persons being therein. In a second count the prisoner was charged with intending to injure the said NV. Read, and in a third count with in tent to commit a burglary. No learned counsel appeared for the prosecution, and the prisoner was undefended. It appeared from the evidence of Phillips, a policeman, that on the night of the 13th of October, he was watch ing in a barn near the prosecutor's house, 16, Warwick. place, Peckham. It was a foggy night, and his attention was attracted by a light at 2 o'clock, in the direction of the prosecutor's house. He went there and found the prisoner. He apprehended him, and on taking him to the police station hetried to escape. At the station the pri soner was searched, and on him was found a clasp knife very greasy. The policeman, after charging the pri soner, returned to the prosecutor's house and ex amined the premises. He then found that one of the shutters had been burnt in order to facilitate its be ing cut through with a knife such as that found on the prisoner. There were a number of chippings strewed about on the ground under the window. He also found a piece of candle near the same place. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was mar ried a few weeks previous to the 13th Oct., and that having on that day had a few words with " th e m i s . sus "he left his home. He thought he had got into a field to lie down for the night, but he afterwards found it was the prosecutor's garden. He picked the knife up in the garden, and ho had not been there five minutes when the policeman apprehended him. The Common Sergeant having summed up, The jury found the prisoner guilty on the first count. The Common Sergeant then directed sentence of death to be recorded against the prisoner, and directed that a communication should be made to the Home Secretary as to what punishment should be inflicted on the prisoner. Sentence of death was accordingly recorded against him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) SOUTHWARK. ROBBERY BY A TICKET-OF-LEAVE CONVICT. --- G eorge White, an ill-looking young fellow, who has only within the last few days received his ticket-of-leave from Govern ment, having been transported for seven years, was b rought 1e nearly pushed prisoner and np in the custody of Kin aham, 507 A, charg e d w i th the following daring robbery : Willi a m Lister, a la€l in the employ of Mr. Pulley, butcher, Black:more-street, Borough, stated that on th e previous evening he was carrying a tray of mo a t on h i s shoulders to leave at the h ouses of different customers. a W no h t i h le er h r e u w ah a e s d out plss oingf od an an dojutcourt, him down. He then saw the prisoner snatch a l arge p i ece Dodson, the baker and ,h Bof beef off the tray and run away with it. Wit ness pur sued him and saw him drop it , and a minute or two after wards he saw him in custody. The prisoner here denied having taken the beef. The reason he ran was because he saw other persons running. Police constable 507 A said he took the prisoner into custody, and on searching him found a ticket -of-leave in his pocket, which certified that the prisoner was tried in was liberated on the 16th of the prosant month. The prisoner replied that his ticket of leave was dated the 10th instant, but he was not liberated until the 15th. Mr. Combo—What, only out of prison a few days, after suffering six years' penal servitude, and then commi . :, a paltry robbery. What are you ? Prisoner —Nothing at all, sir. However, I deny having stolen the beef. Mr. Combs was not at all surprised at the numerous burglaries and garrotte robberies being committed daily all over the metropolis, when such characters were allowed liberty with tickets of leave. In the present instance the liberated convict immediately returned to his old practices without even making an attempt to gain an honest liveli hood. lie should commit him to Newgate for trial, and be hoped the julge who tried him would particularly notice his ticket of leave. MARLBOROUGH STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF STEALING VALUABLE BOOKS.— William Kortright, 133, Cambridge-street, Ec cleston•square, and Beresford Augustus Christmas, of the same address, were brought before Mr. Boadon, charged with stealing, at Brampton -park, Huntingdonshire, a quantity of valuable books, the property of Lady Olivia Sparrow. A great number of books were produced in court, some of them of the greatest rarity and very little known but to bibliopolists. Amongst them were an ele gant copy of the "Eustratii in Aristotle," formerly be longing to Francis the First, and a copy of " Prynne's Re cords," with the royal arms embossed on the cover. There was also a manuscript Bible of great value. The first witness called was Mr. Toovey, book seller, No. 177, Piccadilly, who produced " Prynnes Records" and the " Eustratii in Aristotle," of the latter there being only one other copy extant, and stated that yesterday afternoon, the prisoner, Kortright, entered his shop and offered the books produced for sale, as also several other books which he had got in a cab at the door. Ho examined the books, and seeing from their titles that they were of great rarity and very valuable, he questioned the prisoner about them. Prisoner said he had purchased them abroad, and that the books were above price, especially the Eustratii, there being only one other copy in existence, and that was in the possession of Lord Gosport. He told the prisoner to call again, and he would think the matter over. Between his first and second calling Lord Gosport came in, and witness showed the books to his lordship, who knew the books as soon as he saw them, and named them without even opening them, as also other books which ho had at the same time. His lordship told witness that no one was at liberty to sell the books, as they were heir-looms. His lordship then said he would go out and seek advice on the matter; and, in the meantime, Kortright came again, and he then gave him ten guineas for the books for the purpose of retaining them. This was only in part pay ment. At this juncture his lordship returned, and he then told him what he had done. Witness then told the prisoner he must explain the matter further before he could deal with him. Kortright said the owner of the books was in a cab at the door, and introduced the pri soner Christmas to them. As soon as Christmas entered the shop he told him to explain the matter to his lordship They left the room, and the prisoner remained in conver• cation with his lordship. He had preYiously had dealings with Christmas. Lord Gosport said he never was more surprised than when he saw the books produced lying on the counter in Mr. Toovey's shop; and on hearing from Mr. Toovey that they had been offered for sale, he went out, and havirg secured the services of a detective officer, went back to Mr. Toovey's, where he saw one of the prisoners with " Prynne's Records" under his arm. The other prisoner had the other book. His lordship then fetched in the officer, and told the prisoners no one had the power of selling the books. Christmas then took his lordship into the back shop and begged he would be lenient with.him. He told him he had no power to be so as he had a duty to perform. The prisoner then told him he became acquainted with a grandson of Lady Olivia Sparrow's, and by that means he had access to the house. Ho asked him if the name of Elliott, given by him to Mr. Toovey, was his correct name. Prisoner said it was not. His lordship subsequently went down to Brampton Hall, and he found the books produced were missing from the library. His lordship had known them from his childhood. Mr. Beadon (to the prisoners)—Have you any question to ask of his lordship. P►isoners—No, your worship ; the evidence has beau very truly stated. - Mr. Boadon—Then I shall remand you for a week. MAIMPIT NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY IIIARKETS. SMITEIFIELD.—Areadow hay, 2/ 103 to V. 103 ; clover do. 31 lOs to 5/ 103; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 9s per load Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 103 to 41 12s; clover do., 31 10s to 51 lOs ; and. straw, 11 53 to 11 103 per load. A fair demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4/ lOs ; clover do., 3/ lOs to 5110 s; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lOs per load. Trado heavy. COLONIAL. TEA..—The market has been very quiet, and the busi ness transacted of a very limited character, at about pre vious prices. A few parcels of the new description called Moning have realised 2s dd per lb. for the finest qualities. SUGAR.—The high rates demanded by holders has tended to confine transactions to only immediate wants, and the few parcels disposed of realised fully previous quotations, and were taken chiefly for home consumption. Owing to the reduced stocks in second hands prices are not expected to be lower for some time to come. In the refined market a rise of about is per cwt. has taken place. COFFEE.—There has been rather more inquiry for both foreign and colonial descriptions for exportation, and prices have slightly improved Native Ceylon choice qua lities realise 52s 6d to 51s, and fine plantation 59s to 61s ; superior qualities 66s to 80s per cwt. RlCE.—There continues to be a good demand, and fully former prices are realised for all qualities. RI:JAL—Not much business has been done, butquotations rule very high. Leewards, 2s 2il to 23 3d; Demerara, 2s 7d to 2s 8d per proof gallon. TALLow.—There has been a very buoyant market, and prices have exhibited an upward tendency. P.Y.C. on the spot, 58s to 58s 3d per cwt. July, 135), and transported for seven years, and th a t h e _ _ Mr. Combo said ho was surprised that such a character should have been allowed a ticket-of-leave. From the do cument handed to him by the constable it appeared that his sentence would have expired in a few months ; besid es that he perceived a piece of parchment attached to it, giv ing him a character. The latter set forth that "George White's conduct was rather good on the public works, but indifferent in the prison." Now, he should have thought that sufficient for the authorities to have detained him until the expiration of his sentence, and not send such a character loose on the world with a ticket-of-leave. lib asked the prisoner when he was liberated from Portland Prison ? LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON', Nov. 2G.—Wind this day at noon. N. There has been a sudden change in the weather. Yesterday it was exceedingly mild with the wind at W., and last night it rained heavily. This morning there was a frost, and now it is fine clear weather, with the wind from the north ward and very cold. The barque Albion, of London, tim ber laden, waterlogged and abandoned with hack broken, was passed on the 21st inst., Haustatman light bearing E.N.E., distant 40 miles, by the Ossian (s.s.), arrived in the river from St. Petersburg. DARTMOUT2I, Nov. 24.—Wind N.W.—Off the port —Lark, from London, for Padstow. to stop a leak. FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind W.N. W.—Off the port— Mary Robinson, from Calcutta. The barque Clymene, for Savannah, was spoken on the 31st Oct., having on board the crew of the American ship Colonel Cutts, from London and Cardiff, for New Orleans. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 21.—Arrived—Madrid (s.), from Gibraltar, Sze. CowEs, Nov. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived—Orient, from Rio Janeiro; Helios Louisa, with bowel stove and loss of bowsprit. HAMBURG, Nov. 24.—The Hermes, from London to this port, has been totally lost in the Tills, in the Elbe; crew landed at Cuxhaven. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning Wind N.E. Off—City of Mobile, Webster, and Neptune, from New York ; Eleanor and Fanny S. Porley, St. John's, N. 8.; Empress, for Baltimore; Athlone, Madras; Patna, Wham poa ; Othello, Alexandria. HOLYHEAD, Nov. 21. Wind N.W. Arrived—Hermes, from Alexandria. I QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 22. Wind W.N.W. Off—Jessie, from St. Andrew's. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.50 a.m. Wind N., strong ; tide 2i hours' ebb; weather fresh and fine. Sailed, Nov. 25.—Paris and London, steamer, for Paris. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.39 a.m. Wind N., strong. Passed—Eglantine, from the north, for Bordeaux ; Cice• rone, InTerkeithing, Malaga. We understand Miss Rothschild, eldest daughter of Baron and Baroness Lionel Rothschild, is shortly to be married to Baron Alphonse Rothschild, son of Baron C. Rothschild, of Paris. We are glad to hear that very favourable tidings of the progress of Viscount Ebrington to convalescence were received at Castle Hill of late. The Atalanta steamer, which was in collision with the steam-ship Sultan, will be ready for sea this evening. The Atalanta rans between Southampton and the Channel Islands as a cargo vessel. SUICIDE BY DISEMBOWELLING. —lt is our painful duty to announce the death, by his own hands, of Mr. Benjamin Jones, one of the oldest and most respectable citizens of Petersburg. The dreadful act was committed early yesterday morning by means of a razor, with which Mr. Jones disembowelled himself. Drs. Withers and Brodnax, the family physicians of the deceased, were sent for by those who first discovered his situation, and with other physicians, were soon in attendance. But, although Mr. Jones was alive when they reached his house, he died immediately after the wounds were sewed up by Dr. Brodnax. The deceased bad recently a severe spell of illness, and, although he had rallied from it, he laboured under great depression of spirits. R e wa s 73 years of age.—Petersburg (Virginia) Intelligencer. 1 8 5 G. I REDUCTION OF THE PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX. Last right a public meeting, called by the association recently formed fir the reduction of this lax from 16d. to 7d. in the pound, was held at the London Tavern, Sir J. Duke, M.P., presiding. The large room was densely crowded during the proceedings. On the platform were a large number of the committee and various influential gentlemen of the city who have taken a leading part in the movement. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, observed that the present large attendance showed the deep inte rest felt in this important subject. In his place in Parlie ruent he had always endeavoured to support a distinction between a tax upon income and a tax upon property, and, indeed, bedid not remember ever having heard thet proposition denied even by her Majesty's Ministers. On the contrary, they had always simply stated that there were other circumstances which rendered an alteration of the tax impossible. He believed, however, that if the people would call upon their representatives in the House of Commons to tell the Government that the tax must be altered the Government would, somehow or other, find the means of complying with their wishes. The question was one in which the great constituency of the city of London was particularly interested, and be was glad to have the opportunity of rendering any assiitance in his power in promoting the object which they had in view. It could not be just that the man who by diligence and attention to business earned just sufficient to main tain his family in comfortable circumstances should be treated in the same manner as a person who possessed real property, and could lay his head upon his pillow every night with the certainty o f finding something at hand to support his family the next day. He did not object to the income tax so much on the ground of its inquisitorial character as upon the broad ground of its injustice. He trusted that his views would coin cide with those of the meeting generally, and he as sured them of his readiness to do everything in his power to give effect to their wishes. (Cheers.) Mr. Alderman SIDNET then moved the following rem lution " That the present enormous charge of 16d. in the pound evied on income is, from the mode of its assessment, most oppressive and unjust; and, as the understanding at the time of passing the acts of Parliament by which the tax was increased was that they were to continue in force for one year after the termination of the war, and no longer, this meeting is of opinion that those acts of Parliament ought to be repealed from and after the sth April next." He congratulated the chairman on the position which he occupied at that meeting. As one of the members for the city of London he only showed a proper appreciation of the trust reposed in him by attending large meetings of his constituency on political matters of this kind, in order to make himself acquainted with their wishes, so as to be enabled to advocate their views in his place in Parliament. He (Mr. Alderman Sidney) hoped that in taking part in the proceedings he should not be accused of acting in anything like a querulous or disloyal spirit. Speaking for himself and for the majority of the meeting he believed he might safely say that they had never shown a desire to exhibit disloyalty on the one hand, or dissatisfaction with those intrusted with the confidence of the Sovereign on the other. In the City of London of late years no attempt had been made to perplex her Majesty's Government unnecessarily, but he was sure that the people of London and of England felt at the present moment that they were justified in coming for ward to arrest oppression and injustice. The meeting bad been called together to consider the operation of the income tax. That tax had now been laid upon the peo ple for a period of 14 years. At the termination of the war in 1816 the income tax was so strongly felt to be op pressive that the Government of that day recommended its entire repeal, and from the year 1816 to the year 1842, though we tad various Administrations, not one of them had thought it right or expedient to lay anything upon the shoulders of the people in the shape of property or income tax. In 1842 Sir Robert Peel, one of the cleverest statesmen who had ever wielded the destinies of this country, was at the head of affairs, and, putting it upon the ground of expediency, and as a temporary necessity, he asked the people to submit to a three years' income tax, so as to enable the revenue to reboun drone the fiscal alterations which he was then about to submit to Parlia ment. In that year, namely, 1842, several hundred ar ticles affecting the manufacturing and commercial into rests were either totally relieved or greatly modified in the duty placed upon them, which was thought to be a great public boon. In the same year the manufacturing prosperity of the country was at a low ebb, disturbances had taken place in Manchester and the neighbourhood, and it was a matter of great anxiety with the Ministry and Parliament how to prevent a recurrence of disasters which had been most destructive to the country. It was therefore proposed to reimpose an income tax. Sir Robert Peel defended the measure, not upon the ground ' of the justice of the tax, because ho confessed that it was unequal in its pressure and in its operation ; but he told Parliament that it was only for a temporary purpose. A tax of 7d. in the pound wasthen imposed for three year 4, but in 1845, instead of keeping his word, Sir Robert Peel found further necessities for continuing the tax. It must not, however, be forgotten that from 1842 to 1845 Sir Robert Peel had introduced great and popular measur6s, and that not only had he relieved the trading and mann facterine interests to an amazing extent, but that he had instructed the tax collectors in the country to re spect the returns made by individuals, and not to raise an objecting voice except in eases where there were good grounds for believing that the returns given in did not correspond with the actual incomes enjoyed. In 1845 the tax was continued, but many other duties were taken off, the tariff was lightened, and the country ap peared satisfied with the tax for three years more. In 1818 there was another Ministry in office, and Sir C. Wood, who was then the Chancellor of the Exchequer, admired the working of the income tax so much that he modestly proposed to double it. The consequence was that meetings were held throughout the country, protests were made, petitions were seat to Parliament, and in the end Sir Charles withdrew his proposition, and simply proposed the continuance of the tax for another year at 7d. In 1849 Parliament consented to swallow the tax for three more years, and in 1852 Mr. Gladstone endea vour to make its working more equal, and showed that it could be repealed altogether in 1860, when the long annuities fell in. We had thus had the tax for 14 years, and we were to have it by statute for four years longer. In the interim we had had a war with Russia, and he had no doubt the general feeling was that that war was eise and necessary. (Cheers.) Indeed that feeling had been shown by the readiness with which the country had submitted to an increased taxation amounting to some thing like 30,000,0001. per annum fur the last two years. (Hear, hear.) He thought that the opinion of the people, when expressed at such meetings as this, ought to be re spected, and he believed it was their unanimous opinion that the income tax wae unjust and oppressive ; nor was it equal in its operation, inasmuch as it did not affect the owners of realised property in the same degree as those whose incomes were derived from trades and pro fessions. It affected to an immense extent the middle classes of society, and if it affected them only in pro portion to the actual amount of the income they realised he thought he should scarcely oppose it. It was, how ever, because it operated upon the few that he stood there to denounce it. He did not speak theoretically, with a view of catching the popular feeling at a meeting of that kind, but he was enabled to state of his own knowledge that just in proportion as a man was struggling with adverse circumstances, so in proportion was he oppressed doubly, trebly, and quadruply by the tax assessor in regard to the income tax. (Hear, hear.) Sir R. Peel promised that the tax should be levied justly, with every consideration to the honest and hardworking ratepayers. But what class was it from which the as sessora of income tax were chosen ? Mostly from the class of retired tradesmen —men, he did not hesitate to say, most unfitted for the office. They were paid, too, in proportion to the return made to the assessment, and men who had only filled obscure positions were all at once remunerated by an income of 6,0001. or 7,0001. a-year for carrying out a system of espionage into the private affairs of the people a t l arge . (Ch eers .) Leaving the question of injustice, he considered that, in a moral point of view alone, the present system was wrong. When the people assented without a murmur to the increased taxation in order to carry on the war, it was promised by the Government that the double income tax should cease in April next, and therefore the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by extending the time to 1858, committed a gross breach of faith. In conclusion, he said if the ma jority of the meeting considered the income tax unjust and obnoxious, and that the mode of its collection was by a system of espionage, encouraged by the Govern ment, they would declare to their representative their intention to raise their voices unanimously against its continuance. As a citizen of London he would not vote for any member of Parliament who would not endeavour to procure its remission. (Cheers.) Mr. T. S. GORING seconded the resolution, observing that he had been for some time endeavouring to rouse the public to a proper sense of the grievance under which they all laboured. No one grudged his share of the taxation imposed in order to release trade from re striction ; and not only that, but when it was increased on account of the war they did not object to it. But peace bad returned, and with it they had a right to ex pect the blessings of peace ; and one of the principal of those blessings was a relief from financial burdens. (Cheers.) He did not object to the principle of direct taxation, and was opposed to exemptions in the abstract. The practical grievance under which they labou re d was the war-tax, the removal of which would be a substan tial relief, and would not preclude them from considering any further relief with respect to the original t ax, or in quiring into the manner in which it was levied. Look ing at the position of the country, they could not expect to obtain relief from the whole tax, but they had a posi tive claim on the Government for the remittance of the additional impost. That was what th ey must first en deavour to obtain. They bad a di s ti nct and positive pledge from the Ministry that the tax should cease on the conclusion of war, but th ey h a d taken advantage o f a miserable quibble, for to all intents and purposes the moment the treaty of Paris was s i gned it took effect, and had it not happened that Russia and Turkey had been so distant the ratifications would have been exchanged long before they actually were, and in such case the tax mast have been remitted n ex t A pril. (Cheers.) S uc h a breach of faith as had been committed by Government would not be tolerated a moment in a private contract. The Government bad insisted, like Shylock, upon its bond, its po un d of flesh, and it would, he hoped, find that, like Shylock, it would be put out of court. At the same time, the country, on its part, had tacitly pro mised that the original tax should remain till 1860, and if they wanted the Government to keep faith with the people for the remission of the war-tax in 185 . 6 they must keep f a ith w i th it as to t h e rema i n d er . This being the state of things , what hopes were there that th e y would succeed ? At the end of the last peace the G . o- In 1814 the war-tax was taken off and position. In and the nation were in the same relativ reim posed on the escape t after a distinct pledge that it should cease the nix y of Napoleon from Elba inilBls, with of assessment, or a total repeal of it upon trades and professions." This resolution, which was seconded by Mr. G. CLARKE, was also carried unanimously. Resolutions were then agreed to with a view of pre- paring concurrent petitions to Parliament, and forming district associations in connexion with th• present in all the large towns of England. Mr. Alterman Sidney was elected treasurer of the society, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings, LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE PEERAGE. (Prom the Morning Advertiser.) We have deferred for some days adverting to the feelers which have recently been put forth in the journals in the interest of the Bedford family, relative to the reception of Lord John Russell into the Palmerston Ministry, and his contemporaneous elevation to the peerage. We have hitherto been silent on the point until the journals in question had exhausted all they had to say on the subject. We presume they have nothing more to advance in favour of the two honours which they suggest should be simultaneously paid to his lordship. Let us now pronounce our deliverance. If the friends of Lord John are bent on pitchforking the noble lord into the Upper House, we have no ob jection. On the contrary, if that be their wish, we say "So be it." He will be as well there as any where else. Though not possessing the shadow of a chance of re-election for the city, he would, no doubt, in virtue of the family influence of the house of Bedford, get smuggled into the House of Commons for some place or other ; and in the Lords he will be rather more harmless than in the Commons. So far we acquiesce in the wishes of the persona! .riends of the noble Lord. But his reception into he Ministry is quite another matter. Lord Pal merston, we trust, will resolutely and successfully resist all attempts on the part of the families— the Bedfords, the Sutherlands, and the Devon shires—to force the quondam Home Secretary into his Government. If he do not, he is ruined as the First, Minister of the Crown. Were Lord John only an encumbrance in the Cabinet—ware he simply, from his Finality predilections or de plorably defective judgment, a mere drag-chain on the onward progress of the Governments that, though bad enough, might be got over. But there are no bounds to his ambition ; while his mind, in the pursuit of an object on which it has been set, is as restless and uncontrollable as the sea. lie would never be at ease until he had supplanted Lord Pal merston in the Premiership. That is the nature of the man ; and no more can he change it than the leopard can change its spots. With L or d J o h n i n the Ministry, Lord Palmerston would never have a moment's peace. He never would feel secure of his position. Why then should Lord Palmerston be so simple as even to entertain the idea of again receiving Lord John into his Cabinet ? To d 3 so would be a piece of consummate folly. It would be official suicide. Lord Palmerston never stood higher in public estimation than he does at this moment ; nor was his position as Premier ever more secure. Why then gratuitously introduce an element into his Administration which, before long, would inevitably prove his ruin ? Even already a man so shrewd as Lord Palmer ston cannot have failed to discern indications of the most unequivocal kind that Lord John Russell's friends contemplate his speedily superseding p the e - ship, and that they only regard his admission into present head of the Government in the remi r the Cabinet as the first step towards that end. They plainly state—and thereby betray the cloven foot —that Lord Palmerston's day is nearly done ; that Lord John Russell is ten years younger than h e ; and that the ex-Home Secretary alone would be a fit successor of Lord Palmerston. This is actually stated, in so many words, by a journal which first suggested Lord John's re-introduction into the Cabinet, and which may be regarded as the organ of the Bedford family.. We therefore warn Lord Palmerston against the folly which some of Lord John's friends say he i s half inclined to commit. We are unwilling to be lieve the representations made to us on this point by the friends of him who would have sold not only England but all Europe to Rus s i a, at the Congress of Vienna in 1855. Perhaps no greater weakness can be detected in the character of Lord Palmer ston than his belief that Lord John Russell is still a man of some political importance. He is nothing of the kind. He is a perfect cipher ; or if he be good for anything, it is only for weakening what ever Ministry he may chance to be connected with. We put the question to Lord Palmerston, whether he has ever found any difficulty in carrying on the government of the country since Lord John ceased to be connect e d w i th it ? If the Premier will be but plain and candid in answering the question, he will unhesitatingly say, that so far from the exclu sion of Lord John from the Cabinet being an ob stacle to the satisfactory conduct of public affairs, it has, on the contrary, eminently contributed to the smooth-sailing of the vessel of the State under his presidency at the helm. Should Lord Palmerston entertain over tures that may be made to him by the friends of the Noble Member for the City o f toLondo t n o , nl any tender him a seat in the Cabinet, he will Minister liny jeopardise his own position a s the of the Queen ; but he will not his overthrow. pathy of the people in the event o fo th e subject, and There will be but one evn l3 4 l a ni ve the sym that will be, that he tripped up by Lord h Lor d Palmerston, it has enough of his quondam might be supposed, dfneeselirnvgesonto have his heels Palmerston was expelled, in for any more. Lord give the atter Secretaryship by Lord 1851, from the Foreign d not colleague already, and as could not be expected-fsewish repeatingthe game, as regards an opportunity of _Palmerston who counsel him to receive the Premiership.vend John ; we hope he on L o o efi rd meanto may de this—that those are not his real friends, be Lord John back into h is M inistry. He ought to feel thankful that circumstances occurred when they who they may,. they did, to give him a happy riddance of the ex- Home Secretary. ARRANGEMENTS FOR FORWARDING MAILS TO CANADA any particular route or by any particular line of —Letters for Canada, unless s p ec i ally addressed to be . will in future b e forwarded, as a rule, by the mail-packet, wh e th er British or, Canadian, which may despatched f rom this Ecounfry after they are pfip se ora n sset t btytkeebd.sThe British • packets le a v e Liverpool every Saturday, and th e C anadian packets are appo inte d t • sail from that p ort once a month during the. winter season, commenci ng on Wednesday, the 26th instant. The rates of p os t age chargeable on letters, 4tsl, by thee* two lines of packet, will remain as heretofore.—By command of the Postmaster General, ROWLAND HILL = , Secretary.—General Post-office, Noy, 21 the war, But upon the declaration of peace the Mini ter proposed an income-tax at the rate of 5 per cent and when the country rose up against it the reply of ti. Government was that, though they had pledged then! seives not to continue a war-tax, they were not pledge: to abstain from imposing an income-tax as a peace-taei They then proposed to exempt all persons possessin: incomes under 1501. a-year, but, that also being defeatee: the Ministry were obliged to give way. History shove them that if they acted energetically no Governmeo; could withstand the expressed desire of the people. He hoped, therefore, that this movement would be goner. ally taken up throughout the country, and if it were there was little doubt thatthe required concession would be made. Oa the whole he thought that no reduction of present duties would give such immediate relief to the people at large as that of the additional income-tax, im posed for the support of the war. (Cheers.) Dr. JOHN WATTS said that, although agreeing in the main points of the arguments used by the previous speakers, there were some upon which he differed. Re should be very glad to see the unjust mode of taxing the people remedied, and that professional persons who ob• tained a livelihood by the labour of their hands or brain were not placed i❑ the same position as men whose in. come was derived almost entirely from causes which would remain whether they were alive or dead. The property and inceme-tax last year was about 16.000,0001. and assessed taxes 3,000,0001., so, of the 54,000,0001: which comprised the general peace taxation of the country there still remained 35,000,000/. to be raised. by indirect taxation. The Customs' duties did not properly represent the indirect taxation, beams something like 22 per cent. was added to these during the transit of the goods from the importer to the consumer. The Excise daties also pressed ♦ery much upon the labouring classes, because they had a tendency to diminish the production. Theynow proposed to remove 8,000,000/. of direct taxes, whereas, if they directed their efforts to the removal of 8,000,000/. O f indirect taxation in the shape of duties, allowing for the increase to which he had alluded, the amount of relief actually afforded would be 10,000,0001. By removing the income tax they would render it necessary for the Government to raise 45,000,0001. of indirect taxation. Dr. Watts continued to speak at some length amid much interruption, the meeting evidently disagreeing with his observation on the expediency of procuring ti remission of the import duties. A. good deal of discussion followed, the speakers taking widely different views as to the expediency of the tatal repeal of the tax, when The CHAIRMAN pointed out the advisability of con fining their efforts to a practical object. The resolution on being put was carried unanimously. Mr. W. COLE then moved the following resolution : " That the present system of levying the income tax, by taxing precarious and permanent income alike, is mani festly unjust, and leads to a general and systematic evasion ; that the despotic and inquisitorial mode of assessment is repugnant to the feelings of Englishmen, and has been submitted to from time to time under the impression that the tax was only for a temporary pur pose ; and this meeting hereby pledges itself to use every legitimate means to obtain either a more equitable adjustment of the tax, and an improvement in the mode