The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-07 00:00:00

Fay _MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. ALTERATION IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT. A reduction of per cent. has been made to-day in the minimum rate of discount at the Bank of England, the quotation having been adjusted at 3 per cent. This alteration has created no surprise, as it was fully expected, owing to the abundance of money, and the low terms upon which it has bees obtained in the general discount market. As first class bills can be negotiated at 2 1 ; per cent., it is doubtful whether the directors will derive any im mediate benefit from the change they have just made, but in the existing position of affairs a con tinuance of their previous regulations would have been inconsistent with the policy they usually adopt. In the bullion department of the Bank of Eng land there were no transactions of importance. The City of Manchester, which left yesterday for New York, took out only £l,OOO in specie. A circular has been issued by the directors of the Oriental and General Marine Insurance Company, stating that a sufficient amount of capital not hav ing been subscribed, they are unable to apply for a settlement. There was a considerable increase in the demand for cotton in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester day, and prices were firm. The sales were 15,000 bales. The Market for American Securities during the past week has shown increased depression. The following remarks are from the circular of Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite :—" Since our last we have had a dull market for American Securities in London, and the tone at the last shows no symptoms of improve ment. The correspondence between our Ambassa dor and Mr. Seward has caused an uneasy feeling, and in the present state of uncertainty heavy holders prefer to realise." Owing to the change announced in the minimum of the discount quotations, a proportionate reduc tion has been made in the allowance of interest for deposits. The joint-stock banks now offer only 2 per cent., while the private firms will give 2 per cent. for money on demand, and 21 per cent at 7 days notice. The market for Public Securities to-day has been ♦ery buoyant, owing to the rise which took place on the Paris Bourse yesterday, and the reduction in the minimum rate of discount at the Bank of England. Several speculative purchases having been made. Consols advanced 931 1 for transfer, and to 93: -1 for the sth pros., since then, however, a further improvement of 1 per cent. has taken place, the latest quotations being 931 1-, with demand for money, and 92fr - 1 ; ex div. for account. The New Threes are firm at 911 the Reduced at 91 1; Exchequer Bills, March, are at ss. prem; ditto, Stine, 17s. to 205., being steady. Bank Stock is flat at 2291 and 230; India ditto firm at 226; and ditto 5 per Cents. improved to 1051 Very little alteration has taken place in Foreign Securities, but a fair amount of business has been recorded. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 791 ; ditto, 1858, flat, at 671 ; and ditto £lOO Bonds remain at 70; Mexican at 271 28 ; and Spanish at 50; ditto passive have improved to 171 ; and ditto Certi ficates to 6-4-- 1 Venezuelan are steady at 221; but Italian are heavy at 67t. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :-..- 1861. 1360. Great Western North-Western South-Western Brighton 18,910 19,357 Midland South-Eastern Great Northern 29,730 27,531 Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 6,170 6,179 North-Eastern Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln North British 6,768 6,4 f 6 Great Southern and Western of Ireland 8,546 8,178 Edinburgh and Glasgow Glasgow and South-Western Grand Trunk of Canada Great 'Western of Canada These returns are, in some instances, of a rather more favourable character, although a falling off is still observable in the lines traversing the manu facturing districts, owing to the partial suspension of business operations. On the North-Western there is a decrease of £1,528 ; on the Brighton of .1:447 ; on the South-Eastern of £2,295 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £1,781 ; and on the North-Eastern of £2,139. The Great Western shows, an increase of £634 ; the South-Western of £1,026 ; the Midland of £1,061 ; the Great Northern of £2,199; the Edinburgh and Glasgow of £523 ; the Grand Trunk of Canada of £3,182 ; and the Great Western of Canada of £712. The operations in the Railway Share Market to-day were of a very limited character. A slight improvement, however, was apparent in the rates realised for several of the principal lines. Eastern counties advanced ss. ; Great Northern, 10s., and Midlands, 15s. Great Western have declined 55.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 55., and South Eastern, ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remained without any material-variation. Great Luxembourg, Grand Trunk of Canada, and Great Indian Peninsula re- Ceded about -, 1 - 3 to 1. _ For joint-stock bank and miscellaneous shares the inquiries were of the most limited character. London and Westminster declined 55., London and County improved 10s. Canada Land brought 106; Crystal Palace Stock, 35 to 351 ; and South Aus tralian Land, 331 to 331. The shares of the Roodee iron Ship-building Company were nominally quoted ; 1 ,, to -1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9lkl 3 per Cent.; Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities.. 9l± 1 a Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 9-16 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 Ditto 1859 Consols for Account, Dec. 5 March. June, Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d.... 5 17 20 Ditto £500 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian, 5 per Cent .... Ditto 41 per Cent, 1852 Equador New Consolid a t e d 15t Mexican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853, Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded Turkish 6 per Cent — Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds Venezuelan 3 per Cent 991 9 Ditto Account - -' Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Exchange 12 Gull. 64 ± 10itto Cjrtiticatcs, 4 per Cent... ' Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 67- TWO O'CLOC ;; • onsols Money Ditto Account, Dec. 5 92i i ex div. TILE PRICE OF GOLD . The quotation of goki -----.-- at Paris i s a b ou t 2 p e r mille prem.,and the short exchan ge es on London i s 25 . 5 J per £1 sterling. with the English Mint price of £ 3 about 3-10ths per cent. 17s. 10. per ounce for stand gold, it app ears th a t gold is dearerrdin London than in Paris. By advices and the short fr exchange o n Lon om g Hamburg th e of gold is .1 a 4 per mark, o ri n ce St a ndard gold at the Engli s h Mint Pace 13 . 7 1 Per .£1 sterlingi in Hamburg. i h - a 7e ls, therefore, about 2-10ths per cent dearer in London I,cNinhiLehondon for bills at The course of exchange at New Yor 00 days' sight is 1074 to 1071 per cent. ma , k ab in ows that the gyred with the Mint par between the two countries, whe n comP , the present exchange is against England. But, after for loss of interest and charges of transport, e present price leaves no profit on sending gold to the United States. A FRENCH BOAR.—For many years a wild boar of large size did great damage in the woods of Ch ev n a Loir-et-Cher, and all attempts to kill it had not only ;ailed but it had ripped up many of the dogs which attacked it. A few days back the Marquis de Vibraye got up a grand battue in the woods, and after a long chase the boar was shot dead. His weight was 3681b5. Large purchases of grain continue to be made at Odessa, but the arrivals in France lately have been so large that some wheat is about to be re-exported from Mar seilles to this country. THE GREAT RUNNING MATCH IN PARIS.—We are requested to state that M. Gambiere has paid and Cap tain IV. 11. Patten-Saunders receives the half-forfeit (2,500 f.) The extraordinary time in which the latter gentleman ac complished his two miles on Saturday completely paralyzed the betting, and M. Gambiere, at the advice of his friends, declared forfeit at 3 pan, on Wednesday. Share Railways. Belfast and Nor. Coun. Bir., col., and Str. Val myth and Tyne 111r5 'lel and Exet - :.r jCaledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan Cork and Bandon ;Cork, 11'rock, & Passage Cornwall !Do. A gets no Do B ti 6p c.p an.hasi, ' been paid to B. !Dublin St Belfast June. nun.,Perth,&Ab. June East A atrlian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do DoNw A, late E U ads East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin., Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness ... • • • tllasg. and S. Western. GreatNrthn of Scotland Great Northern . Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an IW. of Ireland Great Western ... Do Str Val g,ua. stock Irish South Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Eon., Bright.,& S. Coast Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen Man., Shef., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do I shares 3letropoli tan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid Gt. W. of Ireland Do shares 11Thl Kent CrPo ly Line. Newcastle and Carlisle Newry & Armagh, def. Newry, Virarnpt, &nos Norfolk North British Nor.Dev.RailitDk.stock Do A stk ; A recs no d till 6 pc. has been pdß Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York North London Do new North Staffords7tire N. and S. W. Junction. Nor. Gran. & Car al Peebles j 0 Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central ;t Scot. N. E., Aber. stock ;t Do Sort. Mid. stock 0 Shrews. and Welchpool ;t Shropshire Union 0 Sittin g bourne & Sheer ;t South South Devon • S. Durham & Lane. Un ;t 'South Eastern * • ;t ,South Wales it IS. York. and River Dun !O S taffies, Wok.,an dWok.l ;5 Stockton & Darlington 15 . Do 75/ 76 60 62 94 95 5 6 371 381 71 84 p 5 6 p Do New, 1660 Taff Vale. Do I'ref. No. 1 ThamesHavenDk&Rail Ulster Do 551 561 21 31 i d ip 84 87 12i 13 Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford Limerick West Cornwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxtord Do Newport Do Hereford: 51 Oi 48 GO 46 48 88 90 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Paid. Co.s Price. Done. _ Bedford and Bletchley all. Ln.&N.W .. .. Birkenhead lOO Da&G.W 54 86 Buckinghamshire lOO Do. Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do 53 54 Do. 54 per cent 100 Do. 122 124 1224 Do. 5 „ 1 00 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E.O 154 161 E. Lincolnsh. g6pr c. 100 Gr. North. 131 131 E.Union,llarw;cliShs all F.',Counts. 4 4 1 'I Do. Woodbridge.... 100 • • • • Gls.Bar, r.&NeilsD• et. 100 Caledon • • • • Do. new • 100 Do ... • • • • Gloater &Dean Forest all Gt. West. , 1 , - • Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 109 111 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle' 100 Ln.&N.W 197 200 199 74 London & Greenwich i 100 S. Eastern 60 6 2 Do. l'reference I 100 Do. Lon.,Tilb.& Southend; 100 Peto &Co Bl 86 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 1 100 Norfolk Do 6 per cent I 100 Do. Mrc.,Bxtzi.,& Matlock' all LNW& M 34 85 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx gua. 5 per cent... 5. 5. 6. , E Counts. par i p Northm&E a,-tn .sp. c. all Do. Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do. . Do. Fixed sp. 0.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 1(0 N. E. Ber. • . North Western Preston and Wyre. t all kriT i c r . 1 .. .. Do. 4 shares A. all Do. -•-- .. .. .. Roystn.llitch &Shep. 100 Gt. North. 131 133 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 120 125 Do. Do. South Staffordshire lOO Ln.&N.W .. .. Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 90 92 Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brgtn 84 9i PREFERENCE SHARES. Share l Railways. Price s. Paid.i Closing Business Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 pref. issued at L 5 Brls. & Fxet. 4 p. c. st Do. shares Caledon. £lO, 43 p. cent Do. guar. shares, 'co. 2 Cork & BanOon, 51 p. c. Cornwa'l. 5 per cent Dun. Perth, & Aber.Jun Do. ls., Class Pref E. Angn. Class A 5 p. c Do. Class B 6 per cent Do. Class C 7 per cent E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 Do No. 2 Do. new 6 p. c. st Eastern Un on, 4 p. c Do. 5 p. e. guar Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. & Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent Glas.& S.West. gu. 5 p.c Great Northern, 5 p. c D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c. pm Do. 41 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redmatsp.c.pm Gt. Nh. of Scot. Ist pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland) 4 per cent Great West. (Berks and Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 43 p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. ct Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref. Do. Birm. pref. shares Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. she Do. Chester 5 p.c. pf. shs Do. Birm. guar. stock Do. Chester guar. shares Do. do Do. do Lan. & Carl. 43 p.c. pref. Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock Do.Barnsl.st£3 2s 10dr c Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 41 p. c. (Blackb. pur. Lon.&Brig.sp.e.gu. No.l Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. 6 per cent. do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 44 per cent. da Do. 43 p. c. pref. shares' Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) Do. 4 p c.st.(diy.def.lll . 6s Do. 4 per cent. pref . Lon. Chat. &Doy. Do. West. Ex., B, 6 p. c. Do. bletrop. Ex. B, a p.c. Lon. & S. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. st, late 3d shares .... Do. 44 per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpl. anus of 2s 6d Londondy. & Cole. A shs Londony. & Ennis. 3 shs Man. sh. & Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent, ........ Do. redeem. C per cent... Maryport & Carl. 4 pr. c. Do. 41 per cent. ........ Midland Con. 6p. c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 43 p. C. pref. stock.. Do. 41 per cent. Leic. andllit4per ct. Nerfik. sp. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 51 p. c. Pref. st. 1847 Do.sWay.ValEx.stlBl7 "Sort British, 5 per cent. Do. New gua. per cent... Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs. I D o. do. do. IN N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. 1 1) )0 o . . 4 Gl p N r . . c t t l . 4 re p de o e t m . p a r b e l f e . Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. Do. York, H. & S. Purch. North Staffordshire.... Rhymney Guaranteed.. Scottish Central. new pf Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. c. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,g,ua.6p.c Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. A D o r I . n4 l F.s : s l ilpx x i e eoe d rdr6ic4 4l per cent South Eastern (Reading Do, Do. r;hpierre c4 e ne l n sntp p t t. e e r . cent South Wales, gua. 4 p. c. " 0 . do. 1859.. S. gua. SW o. ; m tkr.f id d( : & ;i t . l i kn Ae ps P .t ! zu. , : 6 l3.vp..g p ecu l • t i k i, ort 5 2d (to.. Do, B g : rs : • Do.Ne D wp o. Do. Yerpet.6 p. c. WI 18 66 Do, till 1569 [OO 102 all all all all 100 214 214 5 1 61 00 102 110 115 06 110 07 109 [Ol 103 23 125 80 82 110 112 89 91 79 81 [l4 116 [lO 112 [Ol 103 LO7 109 97 99 98 100 87 89 88 90 101 103 9 3 / 4 10 16 3 / 4 17 3 / 4 lot lot 74 76 20 20 10 10 4 15 15i .35 137 [l2 115 ,12 115 [36 138 [l2 115 [Ol 103 st 2a 6d 10s. 10 I. 0. 6. 100 100 100 100 8.13.4 100 100 100 100 100 100 [5O 155 [27 130 73 75 91 92 94 96 t 4 pm i dia par 11 113 134 14 [24 126 a tpm 65 70 I iPm 00 138 1100 102 k ii 09 111 .07 109 1 lipm 90 92 99 101 98 100 i die par }d dis *pm' 22 23 132 135 10 10 24 11 10 102 100 102 93 100 84 86 27 28 32 33 32 33 45 47 124 126 119 121 100 102 120 122 116 118 6.4.0 n. 16.4 12.10 SHARE MARKET-(THIS DAY). ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. • rail Closin g Business Price. done. 7i 8 5/ 6i 94 96 105 106 5 6 41 42 104 11 19 194 514 554 47 49 33 35 90 91 291 301 101 106 111 112 108 109 130 132 103 105 7oi 71 55 58 1051 106 57 59 115 117 45 47 90t 91} 93 94 10 11 45i 461 5 6 [274 128 It AP 99 101 8 Gd 62 64 62 63} 101 101 i id 58} 58 94 POI 91 90 41 47, 10i 10! 90 91 120 122 38 39 95 97 0 0 37 39 54t ; 1111 11 47 93 4 128} 1 i i 101 5V ; 90 8 4 381 751 I THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1861. LAW IN2ELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) STAINES V. STEWART AND OTHERS. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. This was a suit instituted to try the validity of a will made by Mr. Mathew Staines, deceased, and whether such will was legally revoked. Dr. Dean, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff, the only child and heir at law of the testator, who pleaded revocrtion, and Dr. Phillimore represented the defendant and the families who propounded the will. It appeared that the testator was about 72 years of age when he died at Bristol, in December last, and the will in dispute was executed in Oct., 1858, by which the family of the defendant Stewart was appointed residuary legatees. Ho had for some time assumed the name of Richard Broughton, assigning that his reason for doing so was to avoid being importuned about money matters by his son. In 1853 he formed the acquaintance of a German named Siebert, and he also contracted an intimacy with a person named Blohn, who was the sister-in-law of Siebert, and she lived with him until his decease, at which time he was a widower, having one child, who was the real party intimated in the suit. In the course of the evidence it was positively sworn that the testator had stated to Blohn and Siebert that he had been forced to make the will by Mr. Stewart, but that it was his intention to revoke it. Having obtained the document from Mr. Stewart, he tore it up in the presence of Blohn and Siebert, in September, 1860, and desired Blohn to burn the frag ments. She, however, refused to do so, fearful of unplea sant consequences, and the pieces were replaced in a box from where it had been taken. After the decease of the testator the will was found, and afterwards propounded by the defendants, Stewart and Jones, as the executors. Dr. Phillimore addressed the Court on the part of the defendants, contending that the will had been legally drawn up by Mr. Stewart. The learned gentleman, at the conclusion of his arguments, called a number of witnesses. The case had net concluded when we went to press. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Martin, Bram- well, and Channell,) ADAMS V. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Overend said this case was tried in Liverpool, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with £l5 damages, and he had to apply to the Court for a rule to set aside the verdict, on the ground that the damages were excessive. The defendants had, previous to the commencement of the trial, paid £lO into court, but the jury gave £5 in additiOn. The plaintiff was a dealer in earthenware, and the action was originally brought against the Midland Railway Com pany for the non-delivery of six crates of earthenware, which the plaintiff had sent to them from Chesterfield for conveyance to Limerick. Three of the crates were delivered at the proper time, but the other three did not at that time come to hand, and the plaintiff alleged that in consequence he had lost their sale. He went to Liverpool to make in quiry respecting the goods, which, however, ultimately arrived at their destination, but ho contended that, as the six crates did not arrive at ono time, the three that were detained became useless to him, and he sued for their value. The crates were addressed " A. L., to be left till called for," and it was contended that that was a good and proper direction, as goods of the plaintiff, had, with the same ad dress, reached their destination in duo course. The com pany resisted the demand,!as the three crates were delivered in a very short time after they were due, and made an offer to pay the plaintiff the expenses he had been put to by his journey to Liverpool and tack, but he refused such terms, and laid his expenses altogether at £5B. The result of the trial was that the jury gave a verdict against the company, and it was to set aside that decision that he made the present application to the court. Rule granted to show cause. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day). ROBBERY AT THE ALHAMBRA PALACE.—John Smith, a tall man, wearing a light coat, who refused his address, was charged with attempting to steal a watch, of the value of £6 Gs., from the person of Mr. William Joseph Kelly, who said ho was from Newcastle-on-Tyne, but was at pre sent staying at the Clarendon Hotel, Arundel-street, Strand. Mr. Lewis, jun., defended. Mr. Kelly said he was at the Alhambra the previous night, and while standing up looking at the performance he felt a tug at his watch, and saw it in the prisoner's hand, which he had placed under his arm. The prisoner tried to get away, but ho prevented him by pulling at the chain, which was still attached to the watch. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Mr. Kelly said the chain was also attached to his waistcoat. Mr. Lewis having put some questions to Mr. "Kelly, Ser geant Ward, 298 A, said he took the prisoner into custody at the entrance to the Alhambra. The prisoner refused his name and address, and on examining the watch ho found the bow had been twisted. Mr. Lewis said there were always large crowds at the Alhambra, and he thought, under the circumstances, the prosecutor might have made a mistake. The prisoner had instructed him to say that the hand prosecutor saw was somebody else's hand. Another circumstance in the case was that the watch was never severed from the chain. Mr. Tyrwhitt—lt appears to me that the ingenuity of the prisoner is equalled by the ingenuity of his advocate. I consider it an ingenious robbery, done by a clever fellow, who is defended by a clever counsel. Mr. Lewis said he understood the prosecutor wanted to go into the country, and there was no violence used. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner for a few days. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Paid. 51 61 70 75 65 70 65 70 5 a Closing Price. 55 CO 94 100; 41 41 d i id 19* 20 d 102 103 09 101 100 101 100 100 19i 20 60 62 50 53 34 36 40 43 32 34 32 34 99i 1001 $ a i 99 100 o 94 10 101 104 96 100 89 92 90 92 99 100 92 94 4 6 3 5 f 100 15 all 100 1 102 103 701 I I ,1 07 OU $ i d AILIVAYS. all all 134 all all Gi Gi 1 - - I) i pr a i 91 101 4 3i * 1 IP 23 21 81 0 8 fi 19i 20A 38 39 8 9 4'J 41 52 64 3i 3 (! 61 4 61 86 1 4 a 1 241L51 71 71 91 101 201 211 ES. Railways. iCtlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind, Gu. 5 per cent Do Do. Buffalo and Lase Huron Do. New Do. Preference ...... G odrich 16 p. Ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 18;3 Do. do. June 1, IK4 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Li , . ) Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim ) Cape Town ct Dock Seri) , Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c. ;emerara... stn. Bengal gu. 5 p East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext..... Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4a p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 Der cent. Pref.. At Do. 2a Pref. 6 per ct.. Do. 6 per ct. Debentr.' Do. 7 percent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lncliaPenin.gua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. c... IGt. South.of India (Litt) guaranteed 5 percent. Lc. do. of Canada Shares Do. New , Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. IDo. 54 p. o. do. '77 d 0... 'Do. 54 p. c. do. '7B d 0... Madras guar., 44 p. c... Do. do. 5 per cent .... Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. 5 Melb.Corp. 6 p. 0. Bnds. Newßrunswick t Candai Ry.&L and(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. ...... 'Dude (Limited) ........ iScinde .. •• • 4 IDo. Punjaub ff Do. Do. Do. Indus. St. Flo. 4g. Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. FOREIGN Algerian Antwerp S Rotterdam Ardennes • • • ilahatS.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac Carmeaux Mine & Rail Copiapo .......... • • • • . • Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Grand Ens Guar. 6 p. c Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout Lyons & Geneva Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France ' Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris, Lyons, & Mediter. Pali* & Orleans Recife & S. Fran. (Fern.) zua. 7 p. et. lim Riga I Royal Danish I Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Fret Sambre & Meuse Do. 51 per cent. Pref San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin Southern of France S. East Poangal 7 p ct West Flan_wro Do. 5i p. o. 'fleference W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden . . Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand Alfred Conso] British Iron BR iTIS Clifford ' Uevon U. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon ...... E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) Gam. & S t. Aubyn (Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Al td. (Phil ack' G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville Herod's-F00t.......„.. Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant) North Downs North Frances (Mogan) N. Wh' I Basset (1110 4an) North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Carm ) West Basset (Illogan) , W. Caradon (Liskeard)! West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 1 Wheal Buller (Redrutli)i WlRdi Edward (Cale.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.)! : Mica Trefawney (Lis.)' FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Lim 17.6 d id 20 grazil St..J. del Reyd .im 15 50} 51f 601 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. all 14 2 1 Clarendon Cons.MiuCo. ; 40 Cobre Copper all 34 36 C° plapo — 1 DunMoun.Crp.Ming.Co ail 1 1f 2 Fortuna 20 General all 23 24 2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 ft p 1} Kapunda (Limited) 1 ; tit p 3 Linares all 7 8 5 Lusitanian 2 t pr 1 Mariquica all 1 N.RhineCopotS.Aus.L 1 id 1 , 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Minin and Smelt all 2 4 5 Port .Philip 1 1 1/ 1 Scottish Austrin. (ra.) lOs. pr id 55.2.81 United Mexican all 71 8i 81 7 1 Worthing (Limited) all i I Do•• COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, Can. Gov. p.c.Ja...tJuly 1877-9 lOO 108 113 1081 Do 6p. cent.lBBo-2 100 - - Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 100 - - Do. 6p. c. Feb. 445 Auk. 100 107 109 Do. 6p. c. Mar. dz Sept. 100 107 109 Do. 5 per cent lOO 101 102 1011 -- Cape G.llope, 6 p c,lBBO 100 106 108 Do. 1890 100 107 108 - N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.lauly 100 108 109 1081 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. G or. sp. c.,1866, 100 98 100 Do. sp. c.. 1871 to 187( 100 98 99 Do. p.c., 1888 ,4z upwds 100 984 994 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO 108 i 109 i S. Au5,G6p.c.1878.4; up lOO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja..t.Julyl 100 Do. do. 6 p.c. ApAoct 1 100 'lO4/ 105 1041 1 / DOCKS. stock Commercial lOO stock I Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Alin lOO stock East and West India stock London lOO 63 65 64 stock St. Katharine. lOO 63 65 64 4 4 stook Southampton lOO stook ;Victoria .. ........ 20 I Do , New. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 Agra& United Service Bk 50 85 87 40 (Australasia all 59 61 60 ; 25 IBank of Egypt all 204 214 100 ,Ba•lk of London 20 Bank of Turkey 3 4 pr 50 British North American all 53 55 20 Chtd.Bank of India, ttc. all 191 60; 25 Ch. Mer. of In. Lon.& Ch. all 31 33 100 City 100 Colonial .. 25 38 40 10'11 Corn. Bank of Canada.. all 100 Commercial of London. 20 20 i Eng.. Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 161 171 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 24 244 20 Do. new lO 3 54 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 20 London and S.African -10 i pr 100 London & Westminster 20 70 72 704 100 Nat. Prov. of England 12 20 Do. new 50 National Bank ........ 25 2G New South Wales.— all 561 25 [ Orient. B. Corporation . all 49 tO 20 [Ottoman Bank 100 jProvincial of Ireland .. aaa1111 2 9111 5 — 2_157 2_5294 10 t Do. new all 25 ) !South Australia 25 lUnion of Australia 50 Union o 1 London 180 Unity Mutual.. ...... 511SCEGLANEOUS. ur Ang , o-Alexican Mint I all ' 15 16 1 22 0 1 : 5 0 00 0 A A A BDeu t o t r l l .s a a lßti n n r:a t t 7 i i ip . c iv c i ac T l n. l at e tAi l e M i . irg ( i l L rB ; Lis S i c2 m iu t i t t;d e a d d ) j ) 8255:00. cDßßo.ro&ip.t:Ci:s:ll(tiLnaA.giomm.fETieternelicAan(LLiarand.) all 4o 29 - 32 3 2 2 5 ; Canada Land f L . 7 a t n dp (Lim ) all 18 20 s i t o . C 1 Crystala n. I s I p a n a d a s e T e e (Lima . ..... .. l a n ai :1101: 1 81 0 55 7 1181760 3514108 e g d r . ) & c In t i . l t . l l - - 9 - - 11 s o t t: Do. po. 6 Preference pet.perpe . i: F a Deb. 100 106 1( 8 20 E . rn l eg n al d ti si Ship h i &i r p r A i g if uLsi • m. 100 106 1 pr 0 0.. I. 98 1 4; 03 st. Electric Telegra:pitohCelpdap)ne.ra 25 Do. New .... . .... ll5 15 Gen. Steam Navigat na 14 3- 3 - 5 1 G E 1 Do. 174 pct Preference all ' 5 Lou. District Tel. (Li m. ) 4 6 4 ,1 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all li ii 2 11 20 Madras Irr. and Can a l 1 - 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ) all 4 44 4 , 25 National Dis. Co. (Lim ) ; 5 Id . 20 Nerbu.Coal& Iron (Lim ) 5 14 It 10 Netherlands Land all 5 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis. all i ; 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiaLand 81 7 12 1 ig,B.Australasian (Lim.) all ; 1; 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 1 lt 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.). all 1; 1; 10 Orintl. In. Steam(Lim.) 10 5 6 St. PeelK.l nd.&3lin.(Lim) 100 47 50 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam all 69 71 50 Do. New 3O 11 13 20 R Etehiny dySenae&lnlr.loll.g.4ip.c. all l l 1 1 84 1 1 7 9 5 ; 50 all 4; 54 15 Do. New. -- 10 6 0 0 130 48 14 5 0 0 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip .a , 107. loya l s t. A M us a t i it l e n a v m .(Lim ) 25 South Australian Land al l ! 33 35 331 o ß . egiste d r o ed . ... 'all 4 6 1 10 Trust and Agency Ansi-J*lam( im s . 1" )1 tis 1 id 1 p Co. of Upr.Can. 5 Agency or 2 T ' t L L Co.Um ) 1 id pr 1 1 00 Do. r. do n . :d 100 UlinK.Dl.o°3lmLe'.4.l4Lti Business done 100 stk 18 204 204 100 I 100 100 17i 20 stock THAMES. THE ANCIENT GOLD WATCH.--Thomas Blake, alias " the Sneak," a cognomen not misplaced, for the prisoner appeared a sneaking looking fellow, and described as a cleaner, aged 21, was charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, value 20 guineas, the property of Frederick Yates, a bricklayer, of White's-rents, Limehouse. On the 15th of October last the prosecutor and the pri soner were lodging at the house of Mrs. Harriett Hugon, of No. 51, Ropemaker's-fields, Limehouse. They slept in the same room on the night of the 15th. The prisoner got up at an early hour on the morning of the 16th, and im mediately left the house. The prosecutor rose a few minutes afterwards and missed a gold watch, with small chain attached, which he had laid on a table in the room before he went to bed. The watch was an ancient one which the prosecutor's father gave him 12 years ago. It originally cost 20 guineas. The prisoner was not seen again until last night, and he was then met in Salmon-lane, Limehouse, by police-constable Smith, No. 76, who said, " I charge you with stealing a gold watch, the property of a young man in Ropemaker's-fields, Limehouse." The prisoner immediately said, "I am guilty." A bundle containing two shirts were found upon him, and he is strongly suspected to have stolen them from some house where ho had been lodging. Mrs. Hagen said the prisoner lodged in her house for three weeks, and that on the night of the 15th of October, he borrowed a shill* of her to buy food, and said he was out of work and in great distress. The prisoner was remanded for a week. THE WEATHER. PROBABLE BEFORE SATURDAY. North Britain E. to N. and N.W., gale; snow or rain. Ireland W. to N.E., strong to gale. East Coast W. to N.N.E., fresh; snowy. South England. W. to N., fresh ; showers. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. This Day, i 1 etween 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. L S. 9 a.m. -- Nairn 2915 41 40 S.E. 4 9 o. 7 Aberdeen-- i 29'19 43 41 N.N.W. 3 9 o.- 2 Leith 129.27 41 38 N.W. 2 9 0. 1 Berwick 129 . 24 41 40 W.S.W. 1 4b. 1 Arirossan Portrush Shields Galway 29'46 85 34 Calm 0 0 f. 0 Searborough 29'36 36 35 W.S.W. 2 1 b. 2 Liverpool 12942 40 39 S. 1 2 c. 1 Valentia. I 29'44 42 41 S.S.W. 2 4 5 Queenstown j 2944 39 38 N. 3 5 f. 1 Yarmouth 129•40 38 37 W. 3 1 in. 2 London I 294 J 40 38 W. S. W. 2 0 in. 0 Cover I 29'50 45 42 W 2 1 b. 1 Portsmouth I Portland 129 49 47 44 W. 1 5 C. 2 r e ly n tri za o n u ce th :: : 12 9 .46 143 41 N. W. 3 7 r. 2 W. 7 7 o. 2 EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10 deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E. Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true-- uot magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud (1 to 9). I. Initials :—b., blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ; f., fog. ' • h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0., overcast (dull) ; r., rein; s., snow; t., thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb -ince (1 to 9). FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Nov. 18. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. 18. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .... Nov. 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 18. via Marseilles Nov. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Nov. 10. via Marseilles Nov. 20. Lisbon Nov 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov. 10. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Newfoundland Nov. 13. Oporto and Vigo . Nov. 11. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet .. .. Nov. 13. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Nov. 6. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Nov. 10. Bahamas, via New York Nov. 21. Mexico .... Nov. 28. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, J Nov. 13. California,and British Columbia.. TRE POTATO CROP 12 IRELAND. The crop of this year (says the Northern Whaq) has been extensively infected by the old disease, but now that more accurate data exist for the formation of a correct estimate, it does not appear that the loss will, in any degree, reach the amount which the heralds of famine would have had the public to believe. Immense quantities of the gross produce are totally unfit for human food ; a large proportion of the balance will, however, be useful in cattle feeding; and it is:to be hoped that the portion unfit for any purpose will not exceed a moiety of the en tire produce of the potato lands. Prices are very high for the season, It is, therefore, evident that the consumer will more than share the loss with the grower. In olden times, and long before the destruc tive blight had seized on the national esculent, is. per hundredweight was often the market rate for excellent potatoes. Occasionally higher prices ruled, but more frequently still lower ones. In 1833, for instance, choice varieties, which had been ' earted seven or eight miles from the country, were sold in our market at the nominal rate of Bd. per cwt., or one penny for each stone of 141bs. The current rates this day will average 4s. the hundred, or about six times the price paid 28 years ago. A great alarm was raised some weeks since, and the cry of impending famine re-echoed from the west. That much suffering will be endured by the small farmers and eottiers in that portion of Ireland, there is no reason to doubt; but we trust that the iegitimate sources of relief will be fully adequate to meet the emergency. The landed proprietors— and especially those living at a distance from the scene of the disaster—have a duty to perform in this matter which we trust they will not fail in discharging. AN UNFORTUNATE SPOUSE'—At the petty ses sions, Dudley, on Monday last, John Bowen charged Jas. Wood, boat builder, with an assault. Complainant, who is a boatman, deposed that he lived at Netherton, and that he was on a journey from which he did not expect to return till Saturday last. He retarned, however, on Friday night, at ten minutes past eleven, and knocked at the door of his house. His wife was a long time coming, but a length ap peared in her night dross. Complainant told her to go back and put her clothes on, and she turned back accord ingly. Complainant then went to move the horse he had been riding on, and when be came back ho saw the defen dant running out of the house, holding his trousers on with one hand, while he carried his boots in the other. Com plainant went up to him, and inquited what he thought of himself. Defendant replied by striking him on the eye. Complainant was dragged into the garden, and then both his wife and her paramour grossly assaulted him. Com plainant also charged his wife, Caroline, with assaulting him in conjunction with Wood. She held him for ten minutes, while Wood struck him. Eventually, however, Bowen got into his house, and locked both his wife and Wood out. The Bench lined both defendants and costs ; or, in default, two months' hard labour each,— Wolverhampton Chronicle. Judging from their letters the mercantile com munity at St. Petersburg do not attach any importance to the University eineute. A trifling recovery had occurred in the rate of exchange ; but it is still as low as 34d. The weather was mild, and several large steamers had arrived. g A HIGH-SOITLED BEGGAR.—The other day a Yankee gave a beggar •woman a couple of cents. " Two cents 1" exclaimed she ; take them, back, sir : I asked for charity ; " I can't do anything with two cents." "My dear madam," said the polite donor, " I beg you will keep the cents, and give tb,egu tc, seine poor person." ROLLS COURT. (Before Sir J. Romilly, Master of the Rolls.) DAVESIES DE PONTES V. KENDAL.--FORD V. DAVESIES DE PONTES.-JUDGMENT. His Honour the Master of the Rolls, in delivering judg ment, said—The points which 1 have to decide in this case are very simple and very short; but the facts which raise these points, and which it will probably be necessary to state how they arose, constitute a case of the most singular and romantic character, as not likely to be found in any case of fiction. The points which I have to decide are, whether the execution of a power contained in a will, bearing date April 12, 1854, was or was not effectual; o whether the revocation of it by two deeds—one Aug. 24, 1854, and the other Sept. 29, 1854, was an effectual revocation of it; and whether these deeds were inoperative tr-d of non-effect. Now, I think it is essential to state an outline of the facts which relate to this question, and which are inseparable from the question, because the intentions of the parties, and the acts of the parties go far to support the validity of the deeds. It is admitted that the validity of the deeds depend on the intentions of the parties. It ap peared that the lady, at the age of 16, formed an attach ment with a French young gentleman, and in the year 1823 both of them vowed an everlasting attachment, and engaged to be married. She left Paris and came came over to this country, and her friends persuaded her that this was an idle attachment which she bad formed in Paris. In 1823 she married Mr. Dolphin, and in 1829, by way of family arrangement, he executed three deeds, in one of which he gave her the free income of the residue of his real and personal estate in England. She afterwards sepa rated from her husband, and lived a solitary life till 1853. She then returned to Paris and resumed her intimacy with the French gentleman which she had formed 30 years pre viously. She found that he was in a position of high rank —a general in the army. She wrote to him, and let him understand, by the tenor of her correspondence, that she wished a renewal of his friendship, and re ferred him to their former attachment. He was then a bachelor. An interview took place in the west of France. She raised £3OO on her husband's property, and did not conceal her desire to get quit of her husband and be the wife of the general. She was advised by a noble lord there to proceed to Scotland, and get her husband to reside there 40 days with a lady friend, and obtain a divorce against him in the Scotch court. He proceeded to Scotland with his paramour, and an action of divorce was instituted against him; and, in order to establish her pleas, a consi derable sum of money was paid down, and £3OO a year pro mised was the effect of this arrangement. Her husband was then in reduced circumstances. She had difficulty in taking the oath dt calumnia, that she did not directly or indirectly, by herself or friends, combine'or conspire to get up this action, but the oath was taken and the divorce obtained. She then went to France and married the gene ral, and executed a will in' his favour, giving him all her real and personal property. She afterwards executed a deed sole in favour of her trustees. The general was informed by his solicitor that the divorce in Scotland would not be acknowledged in England, and, as he was not legally mar -1 ried, he had no claim on her first husband's property. His Honour dismissed the first cause without costs, and all - ,wed Mr. Ford his costs in the second suit. His Honour said the lady had deserted the general and died in a con vent in France. SIR DAVID BREWSTER ON THE DARWIN THEORY. On Monday afternoon the winter session of the University of Edinburgh was publicly opened by the delivery of an introductory address by Principal Sir David Brewster, in the General Assembly Hall. The hall was crowded in every part, and the Prin cipal was received with applause as he entered the hall. In the course of his address he referred to Mr. Darwin's theory. Mr. Darwin, he said, has appealed to facts and principles in support of his theory, and, therefore, we must appeal to facts and principles for its refutation. He maintains :-1. That variations in species actually arise in the course of descent from a common progenitor. 2. That many of these variations are an improvement on the original stock. 3. That, by a continual natural selection, from among these improved specimens, occasioned by a strup:le for life, the most vigorous individuals become the progenitors of the next generation. 4. That there is a power in nature everywhere affecting this selection. Naturalists of high authority have followed Mr. Darwin through all his arguments, and have shown in the clearest manner that his theory is inconsistent with the very facts upon which he has rested it. It is out of my sphere, and yours also, to discuss this ques tion as one of natural history; but even in this aspect of it, we may allow that species do admit of great variations, and may, by new methods of feeding and culture, rise to a higher scale, and yet deny that there is any evidence even of one species of the same genus having passed into another, and still less that the fish have passed into fowl, or birds into beasts, or quadrupeds into man. We have absolute proof, indeed, of this immutability of species, whether we search for it in historic or geo logical times. The cat and dog embalmed in Egypt four thousand Years ago are the same as the cat and dog of the present day ; and in the fossil remains of the pre-Adamite ages there is not the slightest proof of any variations in the successive inhabi tants of the earth. Mr. Darwin himself admits, to use his own words, " that this is the most obvious and grave objection to his theory ;" but yet he con jectures that rocks still undiscovered, and myriads of years older than the Cambrian or azoic strata, may still bear testimony to his views. When such strata with such indications are discovered, when the instinct lof the elephant shall have expanded into reason, and the chatter of the parrot have its climax in speech, the brutes that perish. we may then c l a i m ki n d re d with 20i 20i 100 100 100 stock stock stock 20 stock stock) 1001 61 19; 40/ 100 991 921 18.8. alt all all all all 5.610 ail 261 13s Ccl I 2 27 32 365 375 67 72 20 261 2} 3 11 13 4i 5 5 Si 1/ 11 32} 331 41 4i A -40 42 91 41 2A BA 3/ 14 1/ 7i 8i 42 44 fl 20 300 4} 42 ICO 105 28 30 11 if 6 6i f 1 14} 15f 39 41 290 SOO 80 85 75 65 it 2 b 6 134 144 114 154 ,LITERATURE. The Alps ; or, Sketcher of .Iffe and Nature in the Mountains. By H. Berlepsch. Translated by the Rev. Leslie Stephen, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. With 17 Plates from designs by Emil Rittmeyer. Longman. The numerous excellent works that have recently appeared on the Alps have familiarised the English public with all details of that magnificent land of which they are the pride and ornament. This work before us is a very admirable one, and is the production of a superior mind. It brings before us very important statements relative to the fabric of the Alps, and hence beyond the charm of adventu rous narrative, and the interest which attaches to eloquent descriptions of glorious scenery, there re mains for the studious and scientific reader a sub ject for conjecture and reflection in these learned dissertations. We meet with the following striking description at the commencement of the book:— There are but few men who know the real and full majesty of the fabric of the Alps. It unveils itself least of all where the broad military roads stretch over passes and mountain "saddles," or where the trivial employments of daily life are swarming round the footstools of this wonder of creation. You must penetrate into the secrets of the hidden world of the mountains, into the solitude of the closed gorges and valleys, where man's power of cultivation sinks powerless as he comprehends the weakness of his efforts against the majesty of Nature in the Alps. You must climb above the ruins of a primeval world, and press through labyrinths of glacier and wastes of ice into the temple sanctuary where it strikes: up freely and boldly into the skies betore your wearied eyes. Then you will encounter the indescribable splendour of the Alpine world in all its vastness till you are ready to sink under the thought of its awfulness ; and when you have recovered from your first impression, when in sight of the gigantic masses, you have opened your heart, and prepared it to receive still nobler revelations, then question boldly those mausoleums of immemorial time ; ask them what band raised them from the depths of eternal darkness into the kingdom of light ; consult the rocky leaves of this stone chronicle for the history of their creation and the end of their existence. The vast dead masses will become alive for you, and a view will open to you into the endless cycle of eternity. The Alps stretch in a vast semicircle through Southern Europe, a limb of that colossal skeleton of the earth which under the name of the Pyrenees, Appennine, Tschar Dagh, and Haemus, gives internal support to the Spanish Italian, and Grecian peninsulas, as they stretch out into the Mediterranean Sea. There in different epochs followed elevations and depressions, repeated floods and even deposits, till at last the fiery products of the great melting furnaces of the earth's interior burst through these manifold super imposed layers. One very striking chapter is that which relates to the Landslip at Golddau, and the dwellers at home will find it difficult to realise the possibility of such occurrences. It is thus forcibly depicted : "A storm in the ocean, a mountain spitting fire, the blaze of primeval forests in America, the simoom in the desert, may all chill a man's blood in his veins ; but no storm in the open sea when the sailor sees de struction in a thousand watery graves, no breaking forth of a volcano towards Heaven, no burning of the American forest, can create greater hor ror than that fearful moment when the moun taineer calls to his wife, children, and neigh bours to run, for the mountain is coming." Among the anecdotes recorded of the miraculous escapes of various persons during this fearful calamity there is a very exciting one mentioned of the preservation of a child five years old, and her attendant, a young girl. They were buried a day and a night in the fallen house. After some time each becomes aware of the presence of the other. They compare their positions. Fran cisca, the girl, is in total darkness and fancied the end of the world had come. Marianne, the child, is lying on her back, and cannot move, but sees through a strip of darkness something green. Francisca thinks it is a look into Paradise. Sud denly they hear the sound of the curfew, which rings at eight from the Steinberg. They had many more weary hours to wait before deliver ance came, but both were recovered to life and liberty. Not so the mother and two younger children, who were in the same dwelling and suffocated by the falling ruins. There is a plate of " The Ban Forest," and an account of its nature. " The primeval forest of the Alps comes down to our day, as a fragment of past times, and many of the trees centuries old were once witnesses of great deeds ennobled in legend." It is stated that one naturally associates the term primeval forest with America. But the Alpine forests only bear affinity with those of the New World inasmuch as they are untouched by . the hand of man. The tropical forest is rich in plants of various colours, the Alpine is monotonous and dark-hued. The one is called "an uninterrupted jubilee of resurrection, the everlasting Easter in the kingdom of plants, every where the process of dissolution is concealed under the rich luxurious foliage of the young shining after-growth and the happiness of eternal youth seems to prevail, the Alpine forest is a quiet field of the dead ; one of those melancholy dark places of natural corruption, where life and destruc tion come into immediate contact and reciproca tion." " Alpine Roses" is a pleasing passage, and to suit the lovers of legendary lore there is a story connected with their brilliancy and bloom of a faithful lover and a cruel maiden. The Alps, it is said, have given a new poetic beauty to the rose, for it is amongst them that:the rose blooms without a thorn. This unbelieving age will rejoice to find another proverb contradicted in the charming _Rosa. Alpina. Our interest is increased in this lovely plant by the knowledge that it only blooms in its in digenous sphere. It seems like the fabled amaranth that it will not bear removal. " A free child of the hills, it will only bloom in its 'own home, where it is nearer to heaven than to man, and can breathe full draughts of the pure air of heaven. It is the most charming symbol of maidenly purity and inno cence. Weather and storm, heat and frost, rain and snow, all the attacks of nature it can bear with good cheer and courage, only too happy when it gets a friendly ray of light. Only at the touch of man's hand it trembles and loses its colour, for that brings it death. With surprising speed it changes its clear transparent purple-gold into a bluish tinge, and no one has seen Alpine roses in their full splen dour who has not seen them blooming on the slopes of rocks. " The Chesnut Woods " is a beautiful des cription of these grand creationsof the forest, " the noblest foliage-trees of the southern Alpine land." It is curious to note how valuable is the timber of the chestnut. " Venice, the sea-ruling town of the Doges, rich, smiling Genoa the mighty docks of England built their meat ships of war; and com merce of chestnut wood, because it is not liable to the attacks of worms and the destructive boring pholads, the mighty framework of beams at West minster-hall, in London, the roof-beams of many of the noblest cathedrals of France and Spain are made from the timber of our noble tree, and are still as strong and uninjured as they were five hun dred years ago." After perusing the account of thunderstorms, waterfalls, &c., we come upon a curious relation regarding red snow, of which there are extensive regions found by travellers in the high Alps. Another danger of this perilous clime is the " avalanche," which is treated of here ; and also there is a plate that represents its full horror in having buried a victim in the grand and glorious winding-sheet of everlasting snow. " Chalet Life in the Alps" is most interesting to peruse, and one loves to linger over the accounts of the dwellers in those still places. There is a plate of the "Forest Chapel," which is very suggestive, and worship seems peculiarly appropriate in a spot where — "Nature itself it seems would raise A minster to her Maker's praise," " The Goat Boy " is a very amusing sketch, also the 1 "Wild Haycutter," the "Wildheuer." Then we find an account of an Alpine feast, " Alpstuckete." " Tim ber Fellers and Floaters" describe an amusing re presentation of the destruction of the forests. " Chamois Hunters" again attract notice, and there is an illustration of the feats performed by those daring men. " Village Life in the Mountains" is the last subject mentioned, and it is a most appro priate one to conclude a work like the present, being " The life itself of the villagers in these great her mitages of central Europe. Amid the extreme of still-life and solitude, few spots surpass Rofner Hoff, in the Tyrol. Four brothers live together ; they are shut out like Robinson Crusoes, and ".Win ter, at this height of over 6,000 feet above the sea, divides them for near half a year from their next neighbours." This book is well calculated to attract and interest all who desire a really instruc tive work that brings before us, ill formmost andsuggestive in eloquent o f a I t ecou.language,nt ri detai l s es o f a E o f o roonpe descriptivee o The e the philosoper has . poet has sung of its dmilisircovaelrtssheidn there undying hiet s traveller v mysteries er e, d and jen. elaborate treatises. It is er . lights to wander to gain fresh ideas of the Creator's might in the study and contemplation of it s su blimity and beauty. It i s to be considered certain that this admirable work will meet with the reception that it merits, and in many a circle of delighted listeners inform and instruct and a t he ma A g l n p i i fi n c e en l a c n e , o rr f ho s s o e n , song majesty whose story, harp o y f live enable them to see for themselves its wonders will enjoy renewing their acquaintance with its scenery, and those who can never go there may rejoice at finding it pictured for them in these glowing descriptions, animated accounts, and eloquent delineations. We commend this bril liant volume to the earnest attention of all lovers of the picturesque, admirers of naturo's grandeur and seekers after desirable information, ably told and agreeably furnished. Subjoined are somo illustrations of interest. Here is a picture of SUNDAY IN THE ALPINE SOLITUDE. Sunday in mountain villages has something very elevating and selonin. It is as if all naturo kept holiday. The same wondrous acoustic walls which give back the tone of the Alp horn with such magicfmodulation, repeat also tho sound of bells in the Alpine villages with indo scribablo beauty. The sound seems to lose its metall!o , tone NA takes a deeper, wanner fuluelag, such 82 peculiar to crystal bells of glass. To hear the church bell ring from a rather lofty point above an. Alpine town, on a clear summer morning, as the calling and answering bells send their notes far and wide over valley and gorge, and the whole landscape round listens in blissful peace to the tones; belongs to the best enjoyments which the mountain world can give to the receiving spirit. The congregations in their country dress stream up out of every corner, from the dark ravines, and down from the brown timber chalets, over the spring green meadows. Such is Sunday—it is a real feast, and mole impressive than in towns; and when church is over, those who h ave l ately lost a clear member of their family wander to the g raves, and adorn them with freshly plucked Alpine roses, or deck the simple black cross with a wreath of unmortelles, rosemary, and cloves. THE GOAT Ecor. The goat boys show no less thought, courage, persever ance, and skill when one of their beasts has lost itself, or verjuckt, z.e., sprung on to a rocky ledge, from which it can neither get forward or backward, for wherever they are enticed by a spot of green, the goats and sheep scramble, see mere strips of grass below them, and spring from ledge to ledge, often a fathom in depth, till they cannot get any further. Then the boy who looks after them has to release the imprisoned animal. Our illustration shows such a moment. That is the tough, unyielding nature of a genuine goat-boy. Beast and boy look as if they had been cast in one piece. The eagles are hovering above, attracted by the anxious cry of the goat, which, if the boy had not released it, they would have driven with their wings over the cliffs, and have preyed upon. If they were to come near the boy would lot himself be crushed in the abyss before he would let go the goat. A charge of small shot in his back would not make the obstinate, stiff-necked lad quit his hold. THE PERILS OF THE WILD HA.Y.CITTTERS. Yes it is, indeed, a wretched life, a toilsome day's work, full of deprivations, fighting against wind and weather, always with one foot on the border between life and death. For only those slopes of grass in the mountains which are almost inaccessible become places for wild hay, generally high above the forest region, that is, at a height of 6,000 feet and upwards; inasmuch as, from their steep inclina tion, they can be approached neither by goats nor sheep, much less by h eav y cattle, or perhaps it may be quiteim paacticable to approach them with a herd. Here, where at the utmost the spring of the sure-footed chamois may find hold enough, man vent ures t o come i n hi s fight for sub sistence ; here he finds winter fodder for the beasts which supports him and his family ; and, as the Bible prophesies the hard lot of the workman, in the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread, we might add, in the case of the wild hay cutter, as reward for your toil and contempt of death, thou shalt drink milk, for there are places for wild hay where the audacious venturer cannot take his crampons off the whole day, because he has to drive them into the ground at every step. THE EURIA.L IN THE ALPS. And when the small quiet life of Alpine solitude has passed, when the body is given back to the earth whence it came, a very peculiar impression is made upon us by the last solemn duty. Down in the country where all the neighbours live close together, and have grouped their houses round the village church, there (if we do not attend to special country customs) burial is almost everywhere alike. It is different in the Alps, where, an hcur from the common resting-place, the citizen of this world enters eter nity. The way which he went every Sunday to church while alive his corpse has now to go in its narrow house of boards for the last time. It is hard to carry him so far down. Then if it is summer the son places his father's or mother's coffin on a small narrow car, harnesses whatever he has in his stable, a horse or a cow, in front of it, and so bears the earthly remains to the valley. Wherever the mournful procession comes the people run out, pray aloud, " Our Father," or join the procession ; and if winter has cast his mantle of snow over mountain and valley, the sleigh has to do its last service for the dead The coffin is firmly tied on, a strong, - powerful man, with two Alpen stocks under his arms, places himself in front, guides it with his feet, and starts down with the corpse in rapid flight to the valley. Love, the Greatest Enchantment : The Sorceries of' Sin : The Devotion of the Cross. From the Spanish of Calderon. By Denis Florence Mac- Carthy. With Introduction, Notes, and the Spanish Text. Longman. This accomplished Irish poet claims the distinc tion of having been the first who presented to the English public a complete version of any of the plays of the great Spanish dramatist. It is now some years since he published two volumes of translations, which met with a favourable reception. In rendering those plays into our tongue, however, Mr. M'Carthy did not attempt to represent in Eng lish verse the peculiarities of the Spanish metre• In preparing the volume before us greater leisure and increased confidence have induced him to imi tate closely the rhythm of the Spanish text, not withstanding the great difficulties which such an underta.king presents to the English writer. As the peculiarity of the asonance, which is its distinc tive feature, may not be known to many readers, we subjoin the following passage from the pre face : The peculiar feature of this translation is its rigid adhe rence to the metres of the original, and particularly to that especial Spanish one, the asonante vowel rhyme, of which but a few scattered specimens exist in English, and these rather as samples of what our language was incapable of producing to any considerable extent, than of what it could achieve. This metre is so very peculiar, and so opposed to anything that has the semblance of rhyme in English, that I have known several persons who were able to read in the original a romance, and who, notwithstanding, never per ceived the delicate and most elaborate form of versification they had been enjoying until their attention was drawn to it. When once seen or heard, however, the discovery is hailed with delight, and we look or listen for the ever recur ring similarity of cadence or construction, 'the manifold wild chimes' of the Spanish atonance, with pleasure and surprise. The numerous examples of it throughout this volume will show the reader what it is more clearly perhaps than any explanation, and yet some definition of it may not be inappropriate in this place. "The Spanish asonante," says the late Lord Holland, " is a word which resembles another in the vowel on which the last accent falls, as well as the vowel or vowels which follow it ; but every conso nant after the accented vowel must be different from that in the corresponding syllable. Thus, toss and amor, orilla and delira, alamo and paxaro, are all asonantes." This defini tion, though perhaps a little too limited for the boundless variety and freedom of the asonante, may be considered tolerably satisfactory. . . . In English, from the compa rative weakness of the vowel sounds, from the rare possi bility of combining them, and, what is still more, from their perpetual variation in quantity, an ythi ng like produc ing the same effect as in the Spanish is impossible ; yet this ghost of a rhyme, as Dean Trench calls it, is better than none at all, and 1 have found that an inflexible determina tion to reproduce it at whatever trouble, even though with imperfect success, enables the translator more closely to render the meaning of the original, and saves him from the danger of being tempted into diffuseness by the facilities of expansion, which even the unrhymed trochaic, without the asonante, too readily supplies. It can easily be imagined that to render so peculiar a metre into English verse has been no easy task; but Mr. M'Carthy has done so with very great success, and his example may encourage other translators, by proving to them that a faithful ad herence to the original text is by no means incom patible with free and flowing English. He has , submitted himself to a severe test, and one that a less faithful translator would have cause to dread by printing the Spanish by the side of the English, and thus any departure from the text of his author could be easily detected. The dramas he has selected are peculiar ones. The first and longest in the volume—" Love, the Greatest Enchantment" —refers to the ancient legend of Circe and Ulysses. In the opening passages there is a striking resem blance to the first scene of The Tempest, which is, the translator considers, quite accidental. If so, it is certainly very singular. The second piece In the volume is one of the autos, or religious mystical plays, which are completely u nknown be yond the circle of those familiar withthe original. " With the exception of the scenes introduced into Dean Trench's analysis of The Great Theatre of the World, not a single line of these remarkable dramas has ever been previously presented in English verse. Writers in reviews and magazines have oc casionally drawn attention to a few of the secular dramas of Calderon ; but the Autos, the most won derful of all his productions, and the only ones (with but two exceptions) which the great poet himself thought worthy of his revision, have been passed over, I may say, in almost utter silence." In this remarkable production the dramatis personce are no longer men and women, but impersonations of intangible things. Man indeed is prominent as the hero, and so to speak the scene of the play, for Sin, Flattery, and all the several senses exert their influence upon him, resisted only by the warning voice of the Understanding. This piece, the S orceries of Sin, is also founded on the story of Ulysses and. Circe, and some of the opening pass ag es are almost precisely similar. The drama of the Devotion of the wonderful Cross d h has been n terribletruly tragedy. b D Its ya pm Dean ro Trench,prominent a t feature is one w h i ch revolts the reader, an d a g l oom y horror reigns over it. "In English and French Literature," says the transl a t or i n spea ki ng of this play, " few writers have ever referred to Calderon without praising the poetical power and beauty of this drama, and condemning it as ' the very sublime of Antinomianism.' Like many other celebrated literary works, however,it has been more frequently referred to than read, and many writers have, either through carelessness or wilful hostility needlessly misrepresented and exaggerated its de fects." Sismondi is one of these inaccurate critics, and Boutewek falls into the mistake of calling it an Auto, not understanding, says Mr. M'Carthy, the marked difference betwoen a religious DRAMA and. an Auto. The Sorceries of Sin which we have alluded to above, is properly an auto, which it will be seen is entirely distinct in its character from a play representing human actions or agencies. Those who wish to familiarise themselves with these and other peculiarities of the Spanish drama cannot do bettor than follow Mr. M'Carthy's guidance through this beautiful and interesting volume. _ - i p 6Ll b a6 r n o g u ag bales.a i h t o , LARGE ARRIVALS OF EAST INDIA COTTON IN LIVERPOOL.—During the last few days thorn have been some large arrivals of East India cotton in the Mersey. On Tuesday there were no fewer than fivo large ships posted as having arrived from Bombay, having on board 25,461 bales of cotton. The names of the respective vessels, t o _ are :--The City of Agra, with 4,751 bales ; the East, w ith bales;ast India cotton now at sea, according to late 694 bales, against 55,812 bales for the cor- , gether with the th n e uom andt a b g e o r t, o h f with l ) E al u e s 4ro o , 9 : 91 c yo o d t o t onn, bales; e r i a c t ii h th sh e 6 asa, with6v i quantitieso c 9 .3 s, b ,4 a a, l rs e oe s f ; 135 , The Langdale made the voyage home in 93 d days. 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