The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

'OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) if The opening of Parliament by her Majesty in person, even in ordinary times, is an event of im ! portance, but when it takes place under circum ' stances like those of the present time, it derives a vast additional interest, not only throughout the United Kingdom, but over the whole Continent. Shortly after 12 o'clock crowds of persons began to assemble in St. James's Park, and, despite a cold biting wind, proceeded to select the most eligible positions to view the Royal Procession as it pro ceeded from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. Whitehall and Parliament •street also bore a very animated appearance, the number of sight seers who lined either side o'L the streets being as numerous, if not more so, than on any former occasion. HOUSE OF LORDS. The doors of the House of Lords opened about twelve o'clock, and in a few minutes after the Peeresses, their daughters, and other privileged ladies began to arrive in quick succession. The appearance of the splendid apartment on State occasions is magnificent in the extreme ; in no eoun.try in the world can a similar scene be pre sented. The Peeresses on their arrival take their accustomed places on the benches de• Toted on usual occasions to the members of the house, and their splendid dresses relieve with great effect the massive grandeur of the building. In a few minutes after her Majesty arrived, the members of the House of Commons, in obedience to the Royal command, made their appearance at the bar, headed by the Speaker, and her Majesty then read the Royal Speech, which will be found another part of The Sun. HOUSE. OF COMMONS.—(nus DAY.) The Lower House met formally at half-past one o'clock, but for more than half an hour previously the members had begun to assemble. At half-past one the Speaker entered the house. There were then some 200 members present, who were about equally divided on both sides of the obamber. A few minutes after two o'clock the leaders of the house entered and took their seats among their colleagues. Shortly after there was a cry of " Black Rod," and the yeoman usher i mmediately afterwards appeared at the bar. Advancing towards the table, with the customary obeisances, he said—" Mr. Speaker,—The Queen commands this honourable house to attend her Majesty immediately in the House of Peers." SPEAKER, preceded by the Sergeant-at-Arms b eeaing the mace, thereupon immediately pro ceeded to the House of Lords, followed first by the Premier, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the rest of the members of the Government present. On the return of the SPEAKER, after an interval of about ten minutes, the sitting was suspended until a quarter to four o'clock. MONEY MARKET AND CITY IV ETVB. CITY, Two o'CLooK. The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days have been very inactive, lad the few transactions recorded in most of the T ea staples have been at about previous rates. have has b een d u ll, an d on l y mo d era t e t ransac ti ons lave taken place in sugar, coffee, and rice. There has been a fair inquiry for saltpetre, but few trans actions have taken place in oils and tallow, P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 595. 9d. per cwt. , In the Liv er pool Cotton Market yesterday business continued rather active, and prices were Well supported. The sales were 12,000 bales. No bullion operations of importance took place at the Bank of England yesterday. At the forthcoming meeting of the London and South Western Railway Company, a dividend will be proposed at the rate of 51-, per cent. per annum. The monthly liquidation of commercial engage ments having been completed, the money market is rather quieter. A flatter tone pervades the English Stock Market, Consols being 911 for money, and 92-a- i fnr Marsh_ Tha Miler securities, including the New Threes, Reduced Annnities, and Exchequer Bills are rather depressed. Foreign' Stocks are dull, and rather heavy. The transactions in the Railway Share Market have been limited, and the variations in prices are Unimportant Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mid lands, and South Easterns are a shade flatter. Brightons, and North-Eastern (Berwick), however • maintain their values. In the Foreign and Colonial Markets there is no material alteration to record in prices. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares are heavy at barely former quotations. T_HIS DAY'S iIIAIiKETS. HAY MARKETS. - -------- - B M/TRFIELD.-117eadow hay, £2 Os to £5 58 Od ; clover oth halos to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 18s per load. Y and straw were in slow request, at our quotations. CU MBERLAND..-- Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 58 ; clover, £3 lOs to £s s 15s Od ; and straw, £1 108 to £2 Os Per load, Trade inactive. W RITECHAPEL. Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 5s Od ; cl over, £3 lOs to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 18s P lead. A moderate demand. COLONIAL. t T74 k , —Only a limited amount of business has been rau sacted, and prices have remained steady. „, IT , cIAR--There has been a very limited inquiry, and the -- 'ngs have been restricted to a few small parcels for 111tuediate consumption. In the refined market dried goods have been in moderate request, at previous rates. t h e° PPßß.—The market has been quiet, and prices have ° lvil no material alteration. In the stocks out and com tred with those of the same period of the previous year, re is a falling off of about 800 tons. """ex .--There has been a very limited inquiry, and the -111 ,all business transacted has been at previous rates. „ 44rirpreRE.—No public sales have taken place during Lue last few da s and in the private market prices remain acted, and Unaltered. y _ T ALlow.—There has been very little business trans quotations remain steady. RES FOR 1861. rARY. Derby Spring l9 ,CH. Warwick Spring l9 Coventry Thirsk lB Doncaster Spring 23 Newmarket F 5 Bath 2l Manchester 22 Harpenden 24 Epsom 2B Share ) Paid Closing Business Railways.l Price. Done. RACING FIXT Linool n YEBR 13 6 Nottingham Spring MA 12 Liverpool spri ng 14 Shrevnibury .... Nort API hampton .......... 2 Crorton Park .......... 5 Epsom Spring .......... 11 Newmarket Craven ...... 15 Chester 'fork 14 Mahon Salisbury l6 16 LYCEUM THEA TRZ.—In consequence of the sudden indisposition of Mr. John Drew, the Irish comedian, the production of Mr. Lover's new drama, which was to have taken place last night, is for the present postponed, THE ROAD MURDER. ---The Western Daily Ex press of Saturday says that it was rumoured at Trowbridge on Friday that Mr. Kent had resigned his office of inspec tor of factories, and it is said that the Government will give him another situation, which will remove him from the scene of the event which has brought him and his family into such unenviable notoriety. It is said that the agricultural accounts from all followed en eouraging Parts of the United King dom havebehcaovnainegmbuecehn more owing to the recent frost . by the present dry weather. CONFERENCE ON CHURCH RATES.—A con f erence of the opponents of the church-rate system is to be held at, N orwich on Wednesday, to consider the present position of t , ll e question, with especial referencetothe y me b etin a ir g s o o fP ee nair -I,ament. Th e co nference will be followed 'oe evening. othing is more incontrovertibbleeentbnalonretphraotmooteudr ational importance and wealth have In short, all the IT I nventors than by any class of men. I°lprovement for our convenience and eo.mfo.rtn daarteinbgatfrtohme a state of barbarity to one of high civilisation, eattlaTacula.tive!esultsof inventive ingenuity; and in no in to time been b els this more clearly seen than in the history . of those n OutiFal inventions which have from time b'.olight to bear upon the science of Horology.. lat "r3 7 from the time of the Romans with their c ep.yudrra. °l' Water-clock, and Alfred with his candles, from ho Trace i its Flaßses and sun-dials down to that miracle of ingenuity Ihe Watch,' and see how improvement has succeeded 1112"elnent, until at last those now manufactured P3' .. ti;„„"son, of Ludgate-hill, London have been eharacte,r,is described as the ' perfeCtion of mechanism.' kt: ndr d.—[Benson's Illustrated PaMphlet, post-free, two Lus, is descriptive of every coriitruction of Watch now . "Watches safe by post to all paha of the kingdom.] ""-- .. ~.. t.., .. SHARE .31ARKET.-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHAi ES A RPRWRyS. Paid. S'D STOCKS. Closing I Business Pride. i Done. all all 100 all .ISeitast anti Ballymena !lir., Wol , and Str. Val. . !Birk., La.. and Ch June, ; Myth and Tyne Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co !Bristol and Exeter 'Caledonian Carina r tlu n & Cardigan Cork and Bannon Cork, 1 Arock., A - ,Passag€ ;Do A (A Cornwall .... gets no div., ID o Il ; until 6pc peran.l hasheenl d.toß; !Dublin & Belfast June.' 'Dun., Perth, &Ab. June !East Anglian !Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock' Do do B do Do NW A, late EU3/Is ; Fast Suffolk lEdinbunrh & Glasgow I jF.din. Perth, & Dundee I Forth & Clyde Junction Furness j Glasg. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland !GreatNorthern Do do A stock Do do P, do Gt. S. & W. of Ireland I, Great Western Do Str Val zna. stock Irish South-eastern I Laneashire & Yorkahir' London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.. .E S Coast Lund., Chat., and Dover Lond. At Nth. Westerns Lund. & sth. Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry Ennismllen Man. AO. & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do do shares Metropolitan ,Midland Do new.... 1.4.0. Do lairming,. Derby 100 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all Do shares Mid Kent all Do, Cray Line all ewca , tle and C arlisle all Newry & Armagh, def 9 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all Norfolk.. North British ... 100 Nor.Dev.Rail&Dic.staau 100 D , A stk ; A recs nod. until 6pchas beenpd.B 100 Do B stock Nth. Eastern—.Berwick 100 Dodo, O.N.E. purchase 16 13 4 Do Leeds .............. 100 Do York 1 100 'North London Do new I 5 North Staffordshire.... 174 N. and S. W. Junction.. all Not. 47, Grantham Rail.. 11 Fzebles Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stocki 100 Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO Shropshire Union lOO Sittingbourne & Sheer. all South Devon 100 Nt hn. Counties Union S.-Durham h Lane. TJn 22i South Eastern South Wales IS. York. and River Dun 100 [Staines, Wok,. and V,Tokl all Stockton 8: Darlington all Do do j 11 De New (ISM) 3 Taff Vale Do Prof. No 1 lOO ThamesifavenDk&Rail 22 Ulster Do Do 2 Vale of Neath I 100 Victoria Sta. and Pim I all Watertord.lt Kilkenny' 100 Waterford C Limerick • all West Cornwall all West London all Do let class all Do 2d class .. ! all Westliartlepool Ffarbrl and Rail ! 100 West Midland--Oxfordl 100 Do. Newport' 100 Do. Hereford' 100 Si 81 70 81 ei 7 99 101 9T98 8 84 154 164 51 52 37 39 26 28 SA E 4, 261 274 113 115 113 114 105 107 132 131 111/ 1124 721 Mk 61 64 1164 117 61 64 114 115 48 50 1601 101 i 94 95 113} 107 61 1721 1 a 21 3} 116 i 17 * IE4 101 100/ 11 901 134 41 3f P 9 11 53 54 33 lid 133} 134 105 107 7 6d 52 54 65f G6l LO6 105,1 p p 601 41 l + 93 931 100 103 t/ 2} - 1 101 8 8/ 114 116 334 .144 86 88J 48 50 6 7 39 El 81 /1 6 4 60 62 85 90 4 7 42 43 104 114- D 6 6i pi 51 561 2 3 p 66 69 p 11* 111 6 6i 46i 47i 41 45 82 81 PREFERENCE SHARES. ' Blythe and Tyng 10 per! c. pref. (issued at £s' [lris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock Do. do. do. Shares l c. Caledon £10,41 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 5i p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent un.Perth&Aber.Jun o Ist Class Pref E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c i Do. do. Class B 6 p.c Do. do.Class x .5 p C7 c p. io z i . .. i E. Coon. Do. do. No. 2 Do. New Opel ct. stook. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. guar... Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares Do. 4 p. c Rim. S. & D. Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. ,Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. Greht Northern, 5 p. et. Vo.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm I Do. 41 p. c. do. do. , Do .rop c refim 511 o.2'im Itxt: IV ti. O *.scotici. ist pf. 1 f Gt. Sn. & IV (rrelanoi) 9 ) p. et. pref. stock Great West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. et Co. I'tedeemable,44 p.ct I Do. Redeemable. 4 p. ct iDo Irredeemable, do ,Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares 1 (t. W. Ches. 8 p.c. ptsh Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birmg.guar. stock I Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. ,Lan. & Carl. 41 p c. pref ILan.&York 6 p. c. stock ,Do.Barnsl.st.Cs 3s 10d pc' I Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon.& Brig. 5 pe.gu. No.l Do. 5 p. c No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Do. do. 41 per cen , . Do. do. 41 p. c. shares Do. 7 p. et. Pret. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.def.til '65) 'Do. 4 per cent. Pref .T.on. Chat. and Dover f - Do. W. A rceiv. no div I Ex.A tiDi pcispd on , I Do. B B. & Brout ex. I Do. Metropolitan Ex B Lon. and N.W. Cov. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct Lon. & S.W, 7 p. ct. stock Do. 41t per cent . Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns.' of 2s. 6d....,.,..._ ~ Londondy. t Cole. sh. l Londony. & Ennis. sh. gan,Sh. &Lin. 6 per et. D0..£8 stool: Do. 31 per cent 10 Do. redeem. 6 percent 124 :`,laryport & Car., 4p. c 12g Do. 44 per cent stock Mid. Con. 6 p a stock stock Do.Con.Bris. Bin 6 p.c stock Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock 8 Do. with option till 1860 stock !Do. Lela & flit. pref. at. stock 'Norfik 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1848 stock !Do. p. c. Pref. do. 1 8 47 stock Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 stock North British, 5 p. o. stock !Do. New, gua. 5 p. c 101 , Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. abs 10 t I Do. do. do. stock Nth. Dev. Rail. & Dck.Co. stock N-East.Cons.Pret. 4p. c., stock Do. 44 p c. redeemable ! stock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref.' 17 ; Do. do. do 20 !Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 12i , Do. do. Quarters, 1848 15 , Do. York, • . &S. Purch. 10 North Staffordshire 10 Ifthymney Guaranteed. 8} ;Scottish Central, new p 1 stock (Scottish North-Eastern I 3f p. e. pref. stook. stock 1 Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c. stock Do. 7p. e. pref. stool. 10s, South Devon, Ann. lOs. 10 ! Do. Fixed 4} per cent. 1.0.6 !South Eastern (Reading ! Ann., 1.0.6) stout Do. 44 per cent. stock ! Do. Fixed '4 p.c. let is. stock ' , oath Wales, gua.4 p.c. stock Do. 44 per cent stock Po. 5 per cent: stock 'S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua. 25 Stock. & Par. A 5 p. 25 ! Do. 13 6 per cent.... 25 , Do. C 6 percent.... stock , Wa trfd & liilkny, 6 p. stock W.Mid-OxflstGuastl stock Do. 2d do stook Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. stock Do.Perpet. 6p. c. pf 1866 stock I Do. till 1869, Ist is. 12i Do. do. 2d is. 101 103 204 214 6 64 99 101 112 115 106 108 110 112 108 110 124 126 76 80 112 114 116 118 112 114 108 101 85 87 98 100 99 101 89 91 90 92 101 103 10 105 175 185 104 11 78 78 05 215 101 101 155 16 135 137 113 116 113 116 135 140 113 116 101 103 150 153 128 131 ,'0 73 87 89 11(3 118 1150 155 14 14a 125 130 61 71 4 11111 124 136 102 104 95 97 111 113 IC9 111 I 1 p 91 93 101 103 102 104 i 6P idip 22 23 133 136 10i 11 23 24 102 104 1 1R 104 91 93 1100 102 85 88 271 286 52 334 32 336 45 48 124 126 120 124 100 102 123 126 116 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. , n ,,. Leasing Closing Business "'" Co. s. Price. Done. RearFd and Bletch ley, Bsckingli funshire .. • • Chester & Holyhead.. Do. do. 5a per cent.; Do. do. 5 per cent.. Clydesdale Jnction.., Colchester, Stour Val. E.Lincoln shire,o".6 E.Union,Harwic - h Slis Do. Woodbridge • • • Gls.Barr.& Neils,Drct. Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest, Hartlpool.Dck.& Ilull and Selby Do. i; Shares Do. Shares Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c. London & Greenwich Do. Preference ...... Lepe.,Tilby.& Soul end. Lowestoft, elm. 4 p.ct. Do. 6 per cent........ manc.,lluxtn. & Mid. Bradford Prefer-1 ence Stock Newma.rkt..BuryE x ) ! guaranteed 5 p. c. $ Northn.& Eastn. 5 p. c. Do. do. 6 per cent .... Do. Fixed 5 per cent., North Western ...... Prestos and Wyre. 1 11 ereford Shrewsbrya Do. DO. D it(litt S ti t .i a fi e t s A ell.„ Shep .l Wiz* edon,a yd Routh a s il t a d ir s o o r in, d s er i r i o i s r e e t n.: Ln&S'.lr ILn &NAV 98 100 Do. Do. 125 127 Do. ll3 115 .Caledonin 102 104 C 154 16} Gt. North. 135 137 lE.Counts.l 4t 44 Caledon in ~Do. pt. West rYk.N.Miir Yk.N. Md. Do. ; Do. ;Ln..t N. 1 .• !S. East. Do. I Peto Ac Co rLorfolk Do. Vir&M; Midland E.Counts' :D0....... ILAL& NW & L.Ylc. 3 Da .. Gt.Norii;. T.Braseeyi ...... Ai`Clean.. Gt. West. I L.dt Brgtn stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 2s. 6d, 12} 12i stock _ 100 5. 5 1031 i 64 9314 86 IWI ;111 113 207 210 61 63 115 120 85 61 3} 3} 97 99 i 4P 56 58 15} 151! 1136 137 1103 lcgs 791 it BRITISH POSSESSIONS. .LITERATURE. Railways. Paid. Closing Price. Business done Carthage and her Remains. By Dr. N. Davis, F.R.G.S., etc. Bentley. This work amply fulfils the promise of its title page, of " being an account of the excavations and researches on the Site of the Phosnician metropolis, in Africa, and other adjacent places, conducted under the auspices of her Majesty's Government." There is hardly any more interesting class of lite ' rature than that which pertains to the mighty cities of old, and all that relates to their pristine splendour, and in some measure brings before us out of the dust of ages, traces of their glories and remnants of their past days of magnificence. The author of this book has evidently entered on his task in earnest, for nothing but real desire to succeed could have carried him through the arduous undertaking, and inspired him to persevere, when hope so often seemed extinct. After presenting his readers with a very instructive account of this famous city, in which he asserts his opinion that Carthage was the " Tarshish of the sacred writers," Dr. Davis expresses his opinions concerning the gigantic work before him in these words : "A more intimate acquaintance with the site and remains of Carthage tended to produce in me the conviction that much of her former greatness was only hid from the eye, by an accumulation of earth, gradually deposited, and that these deposits have contributed to form the colossal towers of the city of Dido. To resuscitate, at least, a portion of her remains, now became my vehement desire, for I thoroughly repudiated the often-repeated assertion of poets and historians, that the very ruins of the capital of this once mighty empire had disappeared, sticon periers ruiner)." Perhaps the part of the volume that excites in the highest degree our interest, and claims most espe cially our admiration, is that which relates the " first discovery" of hidden treasures. There are few few pr ou d er momen t s i n a an he reach es the g l or i ous goa l r l e i a fe t , er th t a r n ium w p h h en s, which his prescience has seen f rom a f ar , b u t w hi c h man's life, others have denied his chance of attaining. He thus speaks of—" The great difficulties connected with excavating at Carthage will be estimated from the fact that I toiled most assiduously, with from forty to fifty men, for nearly three months, without realising anything worth the labour of a single day. It is vain to continue,' some of my men often said, for unless you are satisfied with the fragments we dig up, there is no chance of coming upon something better' A gratuitous comment upon the saying of wiser men, that the very ruins of Carthage have disappeared. Apparently, however, this seems true ; for when we read of the greatness, the strength, and magnificence of this once famous city, and compare those descriptions with the paucity of the visble remains we may well con clude that the very ruins of Carthage have disap peared. My own conviction, notwithstanding this, was that patience and perseverance wilt succeed in bringing to light some important, and even valu able relics of antiquity. My plan of operations was to mark out a certain number of narrow trenches, and set my men to work. I then either walked or rode over the ruins in search of eligible localities for future investigations. Sometimes I was accompanied in these little excursions by two or three men, with whose aid I was enabled to come to an immediate decision as to the value of particular places to which my attention had been directed." In the extracts that are sub joined there is a striking instance of the dis appointment that often waits on success in the crumbling of the mosaic at the moment of its being raised. Dr. Davis exhibited a deter mination that was equal to his perseverance when, through the interference of a Minister, Mohammed Pasha, drew back from his previous engagement, and prohibited the further progress of the works. In this dilemma Dr. Davis proceeded to the palace, and refused to quit it till the order was rescinded. His resolute bearing won the day, and the plans were carried out as before arranged. There is a curious account given of the manner in which the author was taken in by the fabulous narrative of a wonderful skeleton of extraordinary size. When be went to seek out the truth-for himself he found that the tale was an invention ; in the account he tells us of the grounds he had for placing any re liance on the statement. In some of the chapters there is a description of the religion of the Carthaginians and of the fearful custom of human immolation. This portion of the volume furnishes very desirable information. There is also much to attract notice in the sketch of the temples of foreign deities ; and the ramblEs over ruined cities is again a sug gestive subject for the attention. It is difficult in a circumscribed space to do justice to a work which has so many points of attraction, and which presents such stores of entertaining and interesting knowledge, alike to the literary as to the scientific world. This chronicle of the Researches into the Remains of Carthage wilt doubtless be welcomed with approval, and all who peruse its pages will agree that the author has displayed the true English spirit of perseverance which has so often led our countrymen into danger, but which seldom or never sees them defeated, whether their task is to excavate the colossal temples of antiquity, or to discover a passage among the Polar seas, where Atlantic & St Lawrence / Bom.,Barodak.Cent Joe (4u. 5 per cent.. .. Do, Do. Buffalo and LaKe I - furor. Do. New . ...~ 75 77 914 021 16 161 d 41 b d Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,BrantAGodriel) 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1. 187: Do. do. June 1, 1874 Cleutta..vS.Eastn. (Lim Cape, Eastn.Proy. (Lim: Cape Town .c;, Dock Scripp, Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c !Demerara.. I Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c, !East Indian, gu. 5 p. eil Do. F Shares Ext..... Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4i p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. isr,s 1870 Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et Do. 6 per et. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 G t. In diaPenln.gua.sp.e Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. do. 6 7 75 80 67 72 65 70 i pr Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76, with opt, till '6O . ..... Do. do. '73 till Do. do. '73 without opt. Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 d 0... Do. 5i p. c. do. ';8 d 0... Madras, guar., 44 p. c.. Do. do. 5 per cent..... Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. Fourth d 0........! Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. Newßrunswick lc Canda Ity.4tLand(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share Po. do. Land do.. Do. do. B Capital do Do. do. Land do. Oude (Limited) •••••••• { Scinde .......... A 4 Do. Punjaub .... is 6 Do. Do. ........ ct 9 I Do. Indus. St. Flo. 4g , Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip " Winter barricades the realms of frost." Dr. Davis may be congratulated for the signal suc cess of his noble endeavours to rescue from oblivion the superb relics of one of the great cities of the past. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5. 1861. _ have been expected to mingle with men, but the insepar able attribute of invisibility which appertains to the Deity prevented Phosnician theologians from giving him a visible representation, and hence his temple in Tyre, though highly revered, had no statue of him, and his priests, who were to be found in every colony, in reality taught the people to worship and to sacrifice to an unknown God. * The chief blemish in the religion of Carthage was the system of human sacrifices; but even this diabolical rite could not, with consistency, be condemned by Pagan Rome or Pagan Greece, since they were guilty of equarcruelties. Did not the Lacethemonians yearly offer human sacrifices to their Diana, for which Lycurgus afterwards substituted flagellation ? In the first ages of the Roman Republic, too, human victims were annually immolated, according to law, and it was not till the year 657 that the Senate made a decree to abolish the custom. Notwithstanding this, we find that two individuals were slain as victims, with the usual solemnities, in the Campus Martins, by the pontiff and flamen of Mars, in the time of Julius Cassar, 50 years after the senatorial prohibition. We also know that Au gustus, after he had compelled L. Antoninus to surrender at Perusia, ordered, according to Suetonius, 300 of the senators and equites who had sided with Antony to be sacrificed as victims on the altar of Julius Caesar. Sex. Pompoius in like manner threw into the sea not only horses but also men, alive, as victims to Neptune, whose son he professed to be. And so late as the time of the Emperor Aurelius (A.D. 270) an immolation of 100 knights took place." FOREIGN Antwerp & Rotterdam Ardennes . Bah. &S.Fran Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Ca , - - neaux Mine ez Rail Copiapo Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ........ Eastern of France .... Grand Rus. Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs... Italian Junction ...... Lierre ez Turnhout .... Lyons (t Geneva ...... Namur & Liege ........ Do. 6 p. c. Pref. ........ Northern of France....' Do. New Shares ...... Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris Lyons, & Mediter. IParis'& Recife S. Fran. (Pern.) gua. i p. ct. 1im...... Riga & Dunaburg...... Royal Dani5h.......... Royal Swedish ........ Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse ...:.. Do. 5i per cent. Pref....; San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c. S. Aust. &Lomb Venetin Southern of France.... S. East Portugar7 p et. West Flanderii Do. 5a p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France West , rn of Austria Weskrn of Switzerland Wiesbaden .... Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand BRTTTSI Alfred Consols (Philack) !British Iron Clifford 1 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) East Bassett (Illogan) : East Caradon IE. WI Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Alßi. (Philack) .G. Wheal Vor (llelston) Grenville Herod's-Foot. llingstoß Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant) North Downs North Frances (Illogan)1 N. Wh'l Basset (1110 .; an) 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. (Illogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv. & Lead Min Tin Croft Vale of Toney (Carm.)' West Basset (Illogan).. W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Illog - an) Wheal Buller (Redruth), Wheal Edward (Cals.) 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S 100 all 100 all all all all 5 28 it 13i 1.4 i 30 32 41 4 35 37 18 20 13 15 234 24 304 31i 101 IC3 31 31 11 1 11 11 21 3 11 1j I I 31 NT 48 51 71 73 11 13 184 174 p 1 5 7 :19: 6 47 49 125 135 33 35 6 7 1 t I_ 4 log li li d 1 pr 21 2 d 97 98 97 98 99i 1001 23 24 74 76 6) 65 44 46 50 55 42 47 42 47 94 95 lid 11 d 21 2 d Ili vi 91 sh 90 95 92 96 93 96 89 12 83 85 91 92 85 87 2 Iso 5 7 5 7 96} 971 k 211 211 91 98 cl, "AYS. 5* 5f - " 11 1 11 12 3i 311 3} 2i. 23 24 64 6, 71 8 19 20 874 384 8 9 36 37 54 56 3i 31 51 51 81 Ay 11 d 11 d 191 201 5i 8 9 0 gi 21i 22i THE WRECK. Or ANCIENT GLORIES. The greatness and glory of Carthage have passed away ; her majestic edifices have perished; the din of mirth and of joy have long since ceased within her ruined walls, and the very enemies who sought her destruction have disap peared. The grave and lazy Arabs stroll over the remains of her once sumptuous buildings, which have become the abode of the hymna and the jackal, The solemn silence which pervaded her shattered ruins, hitherto only inter rupted by the howling of wild boasts, the shrill blast of the wind, or by the rude and unmelodious songs of the Bedouin ploughman and shepherd, are now changed for the sound of excavating tools Entombed relics of great Carthage are disinterred, vestiges of a once mighty empire are brought to light, and nations which have been brought into existence during the long interval—during the lapse of ages, which have become mighty and .powerful, and succeeded to the position which the Phoenician Republic once occupied—have now an opportunity of learning a pro fitable lesson which the fate of that once powerful State presents to them. To avoid that destiny they must seek to avoid her errors and failings, otherwise their fall and their ruin will not only be doubly merited, but they will lack that sympathy which, for want of having an example before her, is so readily extended to the empire of Dido. The excavations attracted the attention not only of the literary world, but of the speculative also. Means for turning the ruins of Carthage to account were not want ing, and a very prominent feature for successful. specula tion presented itself the famous aqueduct. . . . . . At the time we took our sketches of the aqueduct, French labourers were busily engaged in blasting, and pulling down portions of the masonry on the banks of the Mitzana, preparatory to building a bridge across the river. A few days after our visit to the spot the noble pillar to the right in our sketch, and on the right bank of the Mitzana, was to submit to the same destiny. The destruction of such a work borders upon sacrilege, particularly so as the object assigned is to obtain stones for the bridge ; whereas, within a hundred yards of the river there are materials in abund ance for the purpose, from the fallen portions of the aqueduct. But the Government take no interest in this magnificent relic of antiquity ; and the contractor, who studies economy and looks after his profits, is permitted to act according to his own pleasure. The Son of Baba Ali, the Moslem antiquarian, was with us at the very time we visited this spot, and, though by no means very bright, made on this occasion the following remark :—" You Naaarines surprise me. When you see us Moslems destroy ing any of the works of the johala (pagans), you are as angry with us as if you saw us commit murder; but here you come deliberately to break down this chancy. (aque duct), which is so beautiful that I doubt whether, with all your wisdom and knowledge, you could build it up again. If injuring the work of ages gone by is wrong in us, why is it not also wrong in you ?" This was, of course, ad dressed to me as representing the whole of Christendom; and for the honour of Christendom I told Sadek that we considered such an act even more barbarous in Europeans than in Moslems ; that, unfortunately, Christians, like Moslems, were often induced, from a love of gain, to com mit acts which, under other circumstances, they would deprecate ; that the intelligent portion of Christians would highly disapprove of such Vandalism, whereas among Moslems it was almost universally sanctioned. . THE GIGANTIC SKELETON. I resolved to visit Sidy Daoud, the ancient Misua, to verify a current report of the existence of tombs of giants in that locality. Only a few days previous a Greek, named Andrea Cateconi, stated to me in the presence of Dr. Merritt, the American Consul, that he had opened one of these tombs, and found in it a skeleton which measured 12 feet in length. It was one of the most awful sights, he said, he ever beheld. Tho diameter of the head must have been nearly two feet, and the teeth were at least an inch in length. He recom• mended me to a certain Rais Machloof, who he asserted aided him in opening the tomb, and knew where similar ones were to be found. The reader may smile at my cre dulity ; but, without appealing to the authority of the sacred writers, let me.remind him that antiquity authorises such a belief. Plutarch, in his Life of Sertarius, states that when that general took the town of Tingis, ho broke open the sepulchre of Antseus, a giant of Phoenician origin, and adds—" But how great was his surprise when he beheld a body 60 cubits long." He immediately offered sacrifices, and closed up the tomb, which added greatly to the respect and reputation it had before. Antiquity does not only favour such a belief, but there are ancient remains which appear to corroborate it. We have in the island of Sardinia the " Sspolture de is Gigantes,"'varying from 15 to 36 feet in length, from three to six in width, and the same in depth, with immense flat stones resting on them as a cover ing. My friend the archaeologist Canon Spano is at this time occupied in making researches among these gigantic tombs, and I doubt not but we shall, ere long, have the result of his exertions in his learned periodical, " The Bulletino Areheologico Sardo." ON TUE RELIGION OF THE GARTHAGENIANS. The knowledge we possess of their idols does not tend to raise the Phcsnician art of sculpture very high if we compare these with those of Greece and Rome ; but then t the rude and uncouth specimens which have survived the demolition of their hostile successors, and the devastat ing effects of time, are merely specimens which corroborate that there was a design and an intention to give them those forms and those shapes. They are far from b e t ra yi ng th e i r ignorance of sculpture, and this is amply proved by kin dred arts, in which they have not only equalled but sur passed contemporary civilised nations. The Divine Legis lator's prohibition Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image„ &c., had evidently reached them, and an evasive compliance seems to have been the result. Mel caroth. was tile king of the earth,' and as such might' UN7ORESEEN DIFFICULTIES. Each side of the mosaic was ornamented by two trees (perhaps the lotus or silphium) placed in a vase, the top of which met in a circular ornament. To the right we found the lower tree perfect, as well as the ornament ; of the upper tree, a portion of the top alone was left. A piece about three feet square, was marked out, through which they sawed to a depth of about two feet. They then cleared the earth beneath the cement, supporting the top with stones. to prevent it from breaking down. Two days were employed in this operation, and late in the evening of the second day the piece was ready for removal. The requisite force of Arabs was immediately called, every step was taken in the preparatory arrangements. The command to lift' was given, but was no sooner obeyed than the whole crumbled to pieces. BULWER'S LIBRARY EDITION. Twenty-eight years have elapsed since Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (then Mr. Lytton Bulwer) began writing in Rome his great historical romance of Rienzi. An extension of his Italian tour at that period, however, (1. .e in 1833) having conducted him as far as aples, shortly after the opening chapters of " Rienzi" had been committed to paper, the young novelist found it imperative upon him to yield himself captive to another fancy then exercising over him a superior and, indeed at the moment, a wholly irresistible fascination: Loiter ing spell-bound among the subterranean ruins of Herculaneum and its sister city, Bulwer forsook for a while the medieval "epoch of the "Last of the Tribunes," for the earlier and classic period of the "Last Days of Pompeii." Irene and Nina -paled for an interval before Nydia and lone—the latter being revealed in the lurid glare of that most stu• pendous and appalling irruption of a burning mountain ever told of in this world's history. When, however, the love of Glaucus and the lust of Arbaces had been, both of them, duly commemo rated in the great prose poem, penned by our English Boccaccio, the earlier allurements afforded to him by the remembrance of the life and death of Cola di Rienzi, the last of the great Roman Tribunes, revived—and the interrupted narrative of that resplendent and pathetic catas trophe was, in due course, and with the customary speed of that swift-moving pen of genius com pleted. The success of " Rienzi" as an historical romance was complete and triumphant. It put the confirmatory seal to Bulwer's already recorded and recognised reputation. As his previous works had been announced upon successive title page as by the "Author of Eugene Aram," and as prior to " Eugene Aram" they had been described as the effusions of the " Author of Pelham," so soon after the appearance of this thenceforth famous masterpiece of historic-fiction—its suc cessors were for a long while designated upon subsequent title-pages, from the same hand, as by the " Author of Rienzi." And now after pass ing through numerous reprints in editions of all kinds, here cheap, here costly, after having been translated like so many of its companions, born from this prolific and variously gifted genius, now after nearly one entire generation has passed since its original appearance—(it has already been remarked here that eight and twenty years have sped by since its young author began to write the opening pages of the narrative)—" Rienzi" comes forth yet once more in the fifteenth and sixteenth volumes of this noblest edition of all, the exquisite Library Edition of the Novels, Tales, and Romances of Sir Bulwer Lytton, published by the Messrs. Black wood and Sons, of London and Edinburgh. Tne work has come so long since to be appreciated, far and wide, as a recognised classic among English Fictions that we may here content ourselves with making this simple announcement. The Greatest of all the Plantagenet:. An Historical Sketch. Bentley. The long and eventful reign of King Edward the First has always occupied a prominent place in our national history. Intervening between the uncertain and powerless tenure of the sceptre by Henry the Third, and the brief and disastrous reign of his son, Edward of Caernarvon ; remark able for his subjugation of the principality and his fierce contests with the Scotch; comspicuous alike for his vigorous and able internal government and for his valour and ability in the field, it is not sur prising that the name of the first Edward has always been esteemed as one of the most eminent of our monarchs. The writer of the volume before us subscribes himself from the outset his most enthu siastic and unqualified 4upporter. He considers that scanty justice has been done to the greatness of his personal qualities and the brilliant events of his reign, and he ascribes this to the fact that all our later, and better, historians have been Scotchmen, and as such were not likely to render honour due to one who bears on his tomb the words " Scotorum Ilfalleus." All this bas possibly . some truth. The firm hand of Edward held the reins of power with steady and consistent grasp in a tumultuous and disorganised state of affairs. No Simon de Montfort presumed to rear his head in his day. The finances judiciously and fairly apportioned balanced the expenses, and the debts and difficulties, the royal alternations of munificence and solicitation that had disgraced his father's days, were heard of no more. The arms of England were held in fear, and the arbitration of her just and puissant monarch was continually in request. But when we are told that almost every act in the long life of this king was admirable, or at worst blameless ; when his oppo nents are denounced in tote; when the customs of the age afford excuse for the royal acts, but none for those of his adversaries ; when the struggle of a nation for independence is stigmatised as treason, and William Wallace is compared to Nana Sahib (only indeed the comparison is held too good for him), then indeed we hold the writer for an extravagant partisan, who is not only wanting in the first requisite of an historian—unbiassed impartiality— but plain common sense, likewise. With regard to the opening years of Edward's career there is less ground for censure. The strife and trouble which attended his later years met him in the threshold of life. His father, involved in the dispute with Simon de Montfort, was totally incapable of com peting with his powerful enemy either in the council chamber or the field of battle. His son's more vigorous head and hand extricated him from his difficulties, and left him nominally victor of that field to which he had been brought a prisoner. But it was when he himself ascended the throne that Edward's great qualities as governor were manifested. He is styled in the pages before us "the first English King," and the writer quotes the graphic language of our late historian to describe the characteristics of this era. One feature in Edward's reign which renders it remarkable in our days is the assembling of Par liaments :•—" From the very first," says our author, " he associated the people with himself in the work of legislation ; and accordingly now, for the first time, do these all-important words appear on the statute-book of England :—' These be the Acts of King Edward, made at Westminster, at the first Parliament general after his coronation, by his council and by the assent of archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, and all the commonalty of the realm thither summoned.' " The Statute of Westminster, which, Lord Campbell asserts deserves the name of a code rather than an Act of Parliament, is another evidenee of the legislative ability of him who has been styled "The English Justinian." His encouragement of constitutional assemblies is especially commendable in so powerful and strong willed a monarch, and his enunciation of the doc trine, that. " What concerns all, should by all be approved ; and that common dangers should be met by remedies provided in common," is the expression of the fundamental principle of our Constitution. It is, therefore, manifestly unfair, as the writer main tains, to regard only the wars of later years as a sample of Edward's reign. He complains that most historians have done this, fixing their eyes chiefly on the invasion of Scotland, and his contest with the two earls, regardless of the fact that Edward had reigned nearly a quarter of a century before either event took place. He observes that one might as well begin the reign of George 111. with the French Revolution, or the life of the Duke of Wellington with his opposition to the Reform Bill. Of course, in all withtransactions o_ the Welsh, the King was the impersonation t ahe u t clemency and gentleness, and the massacre p e u i s f ace bards a total fiction. We hav e for a discussion of these points, b ut pass on to the author's u ncomprorail Edward's Scottish en defence of policy. rj g udiced as he o . had shown himself in manys hi other points, and enthusiastic as wa s admiration , „ we must confess for the "hammer of S cotlana, that his treatment of this question surprised us. His argument is that Edward, as Lord Paramount of Scotland, bad a right to fealty and allegianee, and that, if withheld, he had a right to exact it by force of arms, and consequently all who opposed him were traitors, and merited the penalty of high treason. We have no duubt that King Francis 11. regards Garibaldi as a very treasonable individual, and probably the Emperor of Austria considers Kossuth a rebellious subject ; but that is not ex actly the light in which they are looked upon here, although a comparison of the " Knight of Ellerslie" with the Italian and Hungarian patriots might be more appropriate than a parallel with Nana Sahib. We will allow the autnor to make this extraordinary simile in his own words : " Of his reception in England we may form some idea by figuring to :ourselves how the Nana Sahib would be received were he conducted across India into Calcutta, or were he brought to London. Yet this comparison fails, for the atrocities of Nana Sahib were altogether trivial compared with those of Wallace. The Indian leader was stained with the guilt of one massacre, the Scotch with the guilt of many. The Nana had slain his hundreds, Wallace his thousands,—each being the slaughterer of helpless women and children. He was carried through England a chained prisoner to his doom. He arrived in London on the 22d of August, 1305, ' great numbers of men and women,' says Stowe, ' wondering upon him.' He was not lodged in any prison, nor was any lengthened proceeding entered into. His chief crime,—the savage desolation of the northern counties, was a matter of universal notoriety ; nor did he for a moment deny it." We have seld om me t w i t h a more unjust and par tial statement than the sk e t c h o f Willi am W allace given in these pages. The comparison with one whom the write r j us tl y ca ll s " the butcher of Cawn pore," is made not once, but many times. His military efforts are transformed into the leadership of a band of ruffians and outlaws. It is only sur prising how this disorderly assembly suddenly find themselves fit to encounter, on any terms, the orga nised armies of England. The persistence with which he asserts Edward's marvellous lenity and mercy to the Scotch is only paralleled by his pic ture of a brave and unfortunate patriot as a " cri minal" and a " murderer," and his attempted pallia tion of the refinement of cruelty which condemned a woman to imprisonment in a cage during years, for the offence of placing the crown on his oppo nent's head. This_ treatment of the Countess of Buchan, and the cruelty of Wallace's sentence, are quietly disposed of by this ready advocate by an allusion to the manners of the time. But if the rough and stern customs of the age are to be allowed to plead any excuse for such barbarity, it is simply absurd to stigmatise Wallace's incursions into the northern counties as ruthless massacres. It is with regret that we see a work, which is ably and carefully written in most parts, and relates to an important period of our history, depreciated by such unreasoning prejudice. Still, the volume will reward the reader, as it gives a clear and succinct account of the actions and occurrences of a length ened and eventful reign. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company have resolved to recommend to the proprietors, at the general meet ing on the 14th inst., that the dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1860, be at the rate of £5 ss. per cent. per annum on the ordi nary capital of the company. PROJECTED RAILWAYS IN THE CITY. Mr. Haywood, engineer and surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, in his report to the Improvement Committee of the Commission upon the projects of railway companies, applying for powers to construct works within the city, states that he has made a general examination, of the plans of the various railway and other com panies who seek powers during the ensuing session of Parliament to enter and execute works within the city of London. The projects are as follows : —l, the Metropolitan Railway, extension to Finsbury-circus ; 2, the Finsbury-circus Railway Station, with approaches ; 3, the Eastern Counties and Finsbury Railway; 4, the Metropolitan Rail way Improvements ; 5, the East London Railway ; 6, the North London (Branch to City) Railway ; 7, the West-end and City RailwaylB, the Charing cross Railway, City Terminus ; 9, Os Thames Em bankment. With regard to the Metropolitan Railway Exten sion to Finsbury-circus, after leaving the proposed new meat market at Smithfield, the line proceeds at the northern side of Long-lane, crossing beneath Charterhouse-street and Aldersgate -street,Redcross street, Whitecross-street, Milton-street, and Moor lane, then at the back of the property on the northern side of Fore-street and to the west side of Finsbury, about 120 feet north of London-wall. The total ar, , a scheduled within the city is about 14 acres. The number of public places of all deno minations to be passed under, stopped up, appro priated, or interfered with, is 40. The railway is proposed to be in a tunnel throughout its entire length. The Finsbury-circus railway station, with op. proaches, is designed iu connexion with the Metro politan Railway Extension and the Eastern Counties and Finsbury Railway. It is to provide the station accommolation for both of those rail ways, and form the connecting line between them. The property scheduled includes nearly the whole which lies between Finsbury-pavement, South place, Eldon-street, and Broad-street-buildings, New Broad-street, to within a few feet of London wall; that at the back of London-wall from New Broad-street to Blomfield street, and the whole of London-wall as far as to Finsbury-pavement, and the northern side of Fore-street as far as to Moor lane; the eastern side of Moor-lane up to New Union-street. The area scheduled is about 201 acres. The public ways interfered with are 20 iu number. The approaches comprehend a new street 60 feet wide, from Bartholomew-lane to London wall, and a cross street leading out of it and running into Moorgate-street near to Great Swan alley. The area scheduled is four acres and three quarters. The public ways interfered with are 14 in number. The Eastern Counties and Finsbury Railway is proposed to branch out from the Eastern Counties Railway at Arundel-street, Bethnal-green, and pro ceed, crossing Brick-lane, New Commercial-street, and entering the city by crossing beneath Bishops gate-street; thence, crossing Primrose-street, Skin ner-street, Sun-street, Half-Moon-street, it joins the Metropolitan Railway at the Circus station before described. Improved approaches are included in this project. The property scheduled includes nearly the whole which lies between Broad.street buildings, Blomfield-street, London-wall, and the northern portion of Broad-street. The total area is about 111- acres. The number of public ways interfered with is 29. The line is to be in a tunnel throughout. The Metropolitan Railway Improvements.—By this Bill it is proposed to give the Metropolitan Railway Company power to take additional lands, to widen portions of the line, and run a loop line to Smithfie:d Meat-market. The loop leaves the main line in Victoria street, and proceeds at the back of West-street, and then enters the area of the proposed new market. It is to be in a tunnel. The area of the property scheduled is three and a quarter acres. The number of public ways inter fered with is five. The East London Railway is a project for making a railway from New Broad-street to the River Thames, close to the Irongate Wharf ; it in cludes three branches. At New Broad-street it joins the proposed Eastern Counties and Fins bury Extension Railway; it crosses Bishopsgate street into Idoundsditch, running down the centre of that street and of the Minories, until at Swan-street, where, striking off slightly to the east, and going beneath the Black wall Railway, across Royal Mint-street, and Little Tower-hill, to the St. Katharine's Dock warehouses, the whole length of one large stack of which it traverses, it terminates about 150 feet from the Irongate-stairs and the eastern entrance to the Tower of London. The first branch leaves the line at Aldgate, and passes with a curve to the goods depot of the London and North-Western Railway Company in Haydon-square. The second branch leaves the main line at Haydon-square, and termi nates at the goods depot of the Great Northern Railway on the south side of the Biackwall Rail way. The third branch leaves the line by Swan street, and proceeds to the warehouses belonging to the Victoria (London) Dock Company. The whole 3 of those railways are to pass through tunri 3 P 7 lB . area scheduled is about 10! acres , places are interfered with. an d public The North London Railway rail way from Liver- to City) L is a project for constructing pool-street, in the city la,ondon, to the North London Railway at Kingsland. The junction is to be made with the North London Railway, near Dalston-lane, then to be carried nearly parallel with Kingsland-road; it goes over Old-street-road, en t e rs the city at P ri mrose-street, crosses Skinner street, Sun-street, to Broad-street-buildings, to its terminus on the northern side of Liverpool-street: The total area scheduled within the city is about five a cres, and the number of public ways inter fered with is eleven. Its entire length within the city is to be carried on a viaduct. The West-end and City Railway is to commence at Regent-circus, Piccadilly, and terminate at the proposed Smithfield Meat market. After leaving the Circus, it proceeds by Coventry-street, Oran bourn-street, L ong - acr e, and prom, Queen-street, keeping entirely in the line of public way. At Great Qucen-street it crosses into Holborn, thence continuing along the line of public way, it enters the city at Holborn-bars ;at Leather-lane, turning slightly northwards, it goes under Hatton-garden and over Victoria-street to the New Meat-market. 100 100 100 all 234 4 i 62 lf 94; 5 4f 111 f 100 I all {lOO 10 all 100 1 ,ATL . all all all all all 13 if 311 301 •-ii.44;-Mi, • 484 , , - ..".,.:7.., -- From Regent-circus to Union-court, Holborn, I ilia railway is intended to pass through a tunnel ep to Field-lane, then to be carried over Field-lane end Victoria-street by d viaduct at fifteen feet clear in height; it is to pass and go over Fox and K not court, beneath John's -court, which is to be raised twelve feet, and thence in a tunnel to the market‘ The area scheduled in the city is about four acres, and the numberof publ s places interfered with is yen. The Cha ring -cross Railway (City terminus) is a project for making a junction with the Charing.: cross Railway, near to Redeross—arect, Southwark thence i crossing th e r i ver Thames near to the steel yard n Upper Thames -street, and terminating at Cannon-street, close by Turn wheel lane. It will be on a viaduct. Th e area scheduled is 44- acres; the, public ways to be interfered with are nine. The Thames Embank men t i s designed to fulfil threeimportant objects—firstly, to serve as a line of public highway between the points named ; secondly, to enable a ra il way to be constructed upon its line up to New Bridge -street ; thirdly, to serve as a line for constructing the low Level in tercepting sewer, now projected to becarried along the Strand and Fleet -street. The embankment, with its road and railway, is intended to commence at the eastern side of Westminster-bridg e , and be carried until within a short distance of Blacktriat s bridge, entirely in the bed of the river. The road way is prolaosed to be close to the river, the rail way nearest to the existing wharfs. At Blacktriars bridge the roadway is to terminate by junction with Chatham-place, while the railway is to proceed over Chatham - place and join the London, Dover, and Chatham Extension. The area scheduled within the city is 2,1 acres, and about 13 acres of river shore fronting the city line of wharfage. The public ways to be interfered with are 14. In conclusi on , th e report states that. the mag nitude and variety of the projects in the present year nearly approach those of the year 1846. The area scheduled is 72 acres, of which 20 acres are public way ; and the area of the property threatened with demolition is about 52-4- acyes. The number of public ways to be appro priated, stopped up, altered or interfered with, is about 160. With the exception of the North Lon don Railway Branch and the Charing-cross Rail way City Terminus Branch, the whole of the pro jected lines are to be in tunnels. The magnitude of the schemes (several millions' o u tl a y i s contem plated), and the limited time which has elapsed since the plans were deposited, preclude the possi bility of an investigation of them. The whole are worthy of the closest consideration, and the import_ ante of some it is almost impossible to overrate. - a The salient and most important feature(orre indeed ,which, if realized, may be expected materially to influence the future distribution of metropolitan traffic) is the convergence of the whole of the schemes to the commercial centre ; the extension of the Metropoli tan and Eastern Counties Railway to Finsbury cireus, and the placing of the city terminus of the Charing-cross Railway in Cannon-street, and that of the North London Railway in Broad street, will enable a large portion of the metropolitan popula tion as well as those from the country to enter and leave the city, or pass threugh it to either of its suburbs, with a certainty as to time and comfort to which they have long been unaccustomed; and perform journeys speedily which the present state of the main thoroughfares is daily making more difficult and vexatious. Mr. Haywood also states that on the advantage of a Thames em bankment having a railway throughout the length, and a roadway for traffic of all classes 80 feet in width, it is needless to dilate. For full 30 years this project has been before the public, and although most men of engineering eminence have agreed in the expediency of its execution, yet hitherto the want of funds, together with local trade opposition, have been sufficient to prevent its realisation, and, if it should be shortly carried out, it will owe that completion as much to the fact of its affording means of obviating the public incon venience which the construction of the Northern Low Level Intercepting Sewer will otherwise cause the public, as to any other advantage inherent in the embankment scheme itself. The construction of some of the railways will necessitate the occupation of large streets for some months and excava tion throughout their entire length; many other streets, now having a fair amount of traffic, will apparently disappear altogether from the city map, giving place to the structures erected for railway purposes, or to new buildings for the general pur poses of commerce which will replace them ; and it is scarcely too much to say, that the existing plan of sewerage of a considerabll portion of the city must be destroyed and miNs of sewers be reconstructeci a As in previous instances also, all the companies appear to contemplate the absorpti on of large areas of public way for their own advantage. It seemed at present needful that the Commission should dissent from the whole, so as to obtain the locus standi for negotiation, or . opposition, should that ultimately be found requisite. THE FINAIV CI AL 8 ITU.eITION OF ER.411 CE. (From the Money Market Review.) We have confined ourselves to the consideration of the financial pressure put upon us by America. But we are also pressed upon another side—namely, from France. In many quarters the fear of what France may do, in order to make our capital avail able for her extrication from her pressing difficul ties, is greater than the fear of what America can do. France is nearer at hand. The bulk of the exchange business, not merely between the Conti nent and England, but between the Continent, England, and America—in short, the bulk of the exchange business of the world—is conducted through London and Paris. There are many ways of attracting capital temporarily to a loca lity where it is urgently wanted, as long as these great financial ramifications exist. Houses on the Continent can either sell securities here, and draw money from us ; or buy up the bills ou this country existing on the Continent ; or, thirdly, they can create such paper to a large amount, send it over here for discount, and get gold from us. The Bank of France has before now put this power into operation, to our great inconve nience. It may, if pressed, do so again. It has lost fully £8,000,000 sterling of gold within five months. This fact attests sufficiently the serions character of the drain upon it. It is urged in some quarters that the present is a time for hope ; that the rise in the rate of discount of the Bank of France to 7 per cent.—a point equal to our own—denotes a return to correct principles ; and that a check will soon be given to the foreign drain. But those who entertain this view seem to lose sight of the fact that the financial errors committed by France—her extravagance and undue greediness for foreign investments—date from years back, whilst her adoption of a sounder policy is of very recent occur rence. She has been engaged for years in sowing the seeds of difficulty, and has delayed reformation until a time when, owing to the occurrence of a very de ficient harvest, it was impossible to continue in the old path any longer. The combination of adverse circumstances being now serious it will probably be found that even the rise in the value of money in France to 7 per cent. will not speedily arrest the draught upon her specie reserves. There is another circumstance which, as we have before pointed out, promotes the efflux of gold from the French Bank, and practically counteracts the remedial steps which it has adopted. We allude to the error—the complete violation of banking principles—which is involved in the Bank's per mitting the note circulation to expand at the very time when the specie upon which the notes nota'' based, is being drained away. The B.ek does curtail its note issues by restricting itsdislcto tess, u d n e through a weak fear of troubling trade. not not call in notes by throwing ovuatnra securi ties, upon which it has made advances, because it om panies, whose c nally, it does not fears to embarrass the raiolwayFi f o c i : fl in g in the loans which, works must be kept adopt the expedient o securities, p ce ofthe be ß eause to i d t has o so wouldmad eo t n h r o g w o . deoryn the entes--- the Government are mor v,.ne.oll'We hear shrewd observers ex a matter upon the fact that, whilst the rate of midly tract comfort discount at the Bank of France is 7 per cent., the I best bills are negotiable in Paris, in the open market, as low as 5 per cent. But this m ere l y illustrates the way in which, by the expansion. of its note circulation, the Bank permits the lat;) re strictive action to be rendered of no avail. The Bank of France is now casting about in every part of Europe for the means of relief. Cb aracterii tically, it is seeking rather for a palliative than for a real remedy. It does not take the best mea sures for correcting the foreign drain, but is en deavouring to convert its silver into gold, in order that it may be able to go on paying it away. It is silver—inknown to Bbeelgniou, Germanyw m buyinggold—probably with and other places. According to a rumour circulated yesterday, it is negotiating with the Bank of Russia, with a view to procure a million sterling of gold against a like amount of silver. If these endeavours be successful, the French Bank may still maintain its ground, and give us breathing time to recover from the strain to which we are now subject to America. But, in the contrary event there will be no alterna tive but that of a suspension of specie payments by the Bank of France, Lamentable t hough the effects of such a step would be upon th e best inte rests of the country, we have too good an opinion of the ingenuity of the Government and its scribes not to believe that it would be shown— .en paper — to be one of the best possible steps for the advance-: ment of the empire, and for the carrying out o I f those " missionary" ideas which have ong pve a stumbling-block in its path, and a seri ous obstacle to tranquillity in every neighbouring titat en a too rate not tone ther lade and the arty 4se- )ro - ries e of om and n of )nal rent ces -352, 1 of rial rere is a !led Lery ium rom ) be 00 6 0 o 0 00 and any Ina- ) be cot- 3ry Lnd ,rts Sin ,1 ~4~~ 4harel 13.14 stock stock stock stock stock 6.4.0. stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 10 19.16.4 stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock le stock stock stock stock stock 100 100 100 all all 6 61 at 6 1031 share I7i 20 stook 100 100 100 100 stock stock stoek 20 stock stock stook IUo stk I 18 204 204 10 100 20. 20 100 1000 321 10 stock 25 stock stock 11) stock stock 100 stook 481} 9