The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-11 00:00:00

rrytil 13 of ervriso them king object MEM' tained reg u in co; idt ag Jnder might f a na e and uffx MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily, but not lower than on Wednesday. The sales were 6,000 bales, 1,000 for export and on speculation, including 200 Pernam and Maranham, 6d. to 64d. ; 100 Bahia, 6d. to 614. ; 400 Egyp tian, 51d. to 7d. ; and 300 Surat, 3d. to W. per lb. The Railway Share Market was steady, at a slight advance on Wednesday. The Colonial Produce Markets have continued very inactive, and the prices of most of the princi pal staples have tended downwards. Sugar has been taken in at public sales, holders being firm. Coffee has realised steady prices, but the coloury kinds of plantation have been 6d. cheaper. Tea has ruled exceedingly quiet, and also rice. In spices very little has been done, and pimento, cloves, and mace have receded. Cocoa and cotton have not attracted much attention. Cochineal is firm, and tallow steady. There has been little alteration this week in the prices of American Securities. The following are the current quotations, as given by Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co.:— GOYERNMIINT SECURITIES. Redeemable. Per Cent. 'United States 6 per Cent. .........1867-1868...104 United fitates 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...104 105 STATE SECURITIES. California 7 per Cent. Bonds lB7o— 75 77 Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 86 88 Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) 96 93 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk Bonds lB4l-1871... 43 45 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 16 18 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds... 1877... 78 80 Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 81i Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 86 88 CITY SEIURITIES. leston per Cent. Bords (Divers) 9O 92 Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85 New Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... 77 79 RAIL/SOAD BONDS. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible 1875... 73 74 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Sonde .......... 1860... 74 76 Michigan Central 8 ......Cen............ t. 1860... 92 94 /Taw York Central Cent., Convert 1864... 92 9 1 New York Central:l'6. per Cent., not Convertibl e 1833... 79 81 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist M0rt a........ . 1867... 9 8 10 0 New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort x~Yor 1883... 81 83 k and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 71 73 2 C . • York and E r i e 7 per C en t. Sinking Fund 1875... 79 81 Panama 7 per Cent., let Mortgage (Ster ling Bonds) not convertible 1859... 92 93* Ditto d itto 1864... 94 95 Pennsylvania Central 6 p. Cent., Ist Mort 1880... 81 86 , e 'Ex dividend. Accounts from the Paris Grain and Flour Mar kets state that there has been a further fall in prices. In flour, although sellers are not inclined to maintain the prices of last week, which ruled from 101 f. to 106 f. per sack, still they are anxious to sell at a reduction for inferior sorts ; consequently the choice quality of flour is at firm quotations, While other kinds are lower. Fine flour is bought by the retailers at 105 f. to 10Gf. per 157 kilos., and 2ds and 3Js from 98f. to 101 f. The factors declared the sales of yesterday to average only 97f. 9 30. per sack. In the Grain Market, at the open ing, wheat was quoted at 50c. and 75. per hectolitre, and a half less than previous sales, but subsequently there was a recovery, and bargains were closed at better rates ; however, the feeling that prices have a downward tendency was evident. Rye was very difficult of sale at a slight reduction ; and oats were offered at 50 centimes per 115 kilos. less for best sorts, and 1 franc less for inferior, without finding purchasers. Intelligence from the Vienna Bourse shows no Signs of improvement there in the Stock and Money Markets. The 5 per Cent. Metallies are k lower, and the 4& Stock is hea►y at 64. Old Bank Shares are down to 885, and New do. to 90. Shares of the New Credit Bank are in demand at 215, and Austrian Railway Shares rule at 193. Exchange on London 10.50, and on Paris 1291. Although no decided alteration has occurred in the condition of the English Stock Market this Morning the prices marked are rather weaker, and the speculative transactions are less extensive. / - 'er transfer there have been several transactions 11 1 Consols at 86k it ; but for the account the o itiotations have been dull at 86! I, which is about per cent, under yesterday's closing values. The New Threes have been 86i to 87i, and the Reduced 86a and 86i. Bank Stock is marked 2051 and 207. Exchequer Bills have improved 25., viz., to 6s. and 3s. discount. The New 30 Years' Annuity is 164. The Foreign Stock Market is tolerably steady, but the dealings aro contracted. Equador Bonds are firm at 5, and Mexican at 19k, but Peruvian Active rule flat at 74i to 741. Portuguese Four per Cents. are ± higher, namely, 45k. Business has been transacted in Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 851 to 86. Spanish Deferred have advanced to 211 and 22. Turkish Six per Cents. are dull at 101 to 801, and the New Scrip at 4/ discount. Dutch Bonds hare slightly receded, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. being 63, and the Pour per Cents. 94 to 94k. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bondi, 6l 7; Mexican, 19i ; Peruvian, 73 5 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 51 3; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 45 47 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 7 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 85 87 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 384 39 ; ditto Deferred, 21/ 22 ; ditto Certificates, 4-a ; ditto Passive, 6/ 7. The English Railway Shares are generally sup ported at the highest quotations of yesterday ; still there is an absence of animation. Foreign lines are dull, but firm, and East India are with out alteration. In the Miscellaneous Market firmer prices are current. Joint Stock Bank Shares are firm, and Mining Shares inactive. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. ( From the Ortcial List.) linginn. , done. Rank Stoek 3 per Cent.. Red - eced Annuities B6l i It per Cent Console Annisitiok New 3 per Cent. Annuities NOW 2h per Cent. Annuities 72 Lon g Annuities, expire sth Jan. IS6O — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lt Consols for Account (Feb. 7) 863 i Exchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO ... %tali . Ditto Bonds, 1858,3 h per Cent -- Ditto, ander £lOOO 961 Ditto, 1559 Ditto under £lOOO 97h PRIOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO( Ii Equador Bonds 111exican 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cont. Ditto Account 74} 1 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ceut., Con. 1841 Ditto 4 per Cent Ditto Account .... Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, i: St — Ditto 4i per Cent Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent Ditto Account . ........ .... ... .. 22 11 x d Turkish Bonds, (3 par cent — Ditto for the Account Boi i Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cont. Ditto Account ~, lond. 6! t'' above pay•hip 1p Leto,. Dutch Exchange, 2,1 per Cent., 12 Gun 63i x d Ditto 4 per Cont. Certificates TWO O'CLOCK. Console B6l sellers 5 5 20 10 20 5 30 IS TUE SILL TRADE.-At a meeting just held of the committee of the silk trade at the London Silk Condi tioning•house, it was stated that the accounts to the close of the year showed the quantity conditioned to have amounted to 1,656 bales, weighing 327,6281 b., being an increase of more than 90 per cent. on the total o f 1854. The larger proportion was for exportation, the ♦alue of the practice being fully appreciated by fo reign buyers. The amount conditioned in Lyons durs ing the past year was the largest ever known, being 39,219 bales, weighing 6 ,712,1131 b. At St. Etienne it was 8,577 bales, weighing 1,563,4851 b. LIVERPOOL DOCK BONDS.—LIVERPOOL, Jan. 10.—At the weekly meeting of the dock committee held this day, it was stated that bonds, to the amount of 10,7401., had been taken up at the rate of 4 per cent. for periods of from three to five years. Bonds have been reduced to the amount of 33,730/. 10s., and 26,541/. 12s. Bd. have been paid off. From documents read, it appeared that during the year 1855, 13,351 vessels passed inwards and outwards through the Rock Channel, the number in 1854 being 14,513, showing a decrease of 1,162 by that channel. Through the Victoria, and other Omni:leis, the number of vessels which passed inwards and out wards during the year was 40,356, the number in 1854 being► by these channels, 37,143. 23 Si 2R SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Pahl. RuLwArs. Iberieen Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolvorh ,k Stour Valley Birk elhd. Lancet. Cheshire June+ Do. Chosh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons IDo., £20..... •••• I Myth & Tyn, origina , £25 (iscsd. at .C4F. Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Caren. and Cardigan Chester Is Holyhead. Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Do. A. i Do. B !Chaff Junction Duoli n&BelfastJunc. I Dnn. P. d; Aber. Jnc. iDo. NA.; East Auglian ;Eastern Counties.. East. - Tniou, A SU De., B. Stoat.— Do., New A. East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth Durdo , Forth & Clyde Jan:: Furness . ) Do . Extension Glasgow & S Won+ Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern ... Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire ) : Great Western I Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all jlrish South-Eastern. all i Lancaster & Carlisle 14i Do. ' Thirds 7 New Thirds 100 I Le.ne ash . and Y onkel , . tDo., Wirt. Riding Un. all I Liv. Ors ey. &Southpt all 'London & Blackwal 100 Lona. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Lond. and N. Westn. 16 ;Do. Fifths .Do.lol. Lih.,lll/03...0 24 Do. Eighths 100 London and S. Wotan. all tDo., £5O. all tlo .C4fl all I Lndndrry6l Coleraine all ILticindr7. & Ennisk. 100 I Maneh.Shef. k Lineln all ;Do. Sharss, No. I g2s. I Do., Man. & Lin. Un. . 1 31etropolitan 11dland Do. Birmng. & Derby 511d1d. G. West. (Ire, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen, Newry Warrenpoint , and Rostrevor ..I Norfolk Northn.Connties tin ( North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., i B Guarantee.' N. astern—Berwiel, Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. ?uroh Do. Leeds Do. York North London N.pzS.Wstrn.,lTiemi.- stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire.. 'North Western N. & S. West rn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley end Leicester Ox, Wore., fz Wolv i'ortsraouth Central Scottish Midland -liropshire Un'on oath Devon -loath Eastern 4 ,outh Wales Yrksh. e; Riv. Dun ,Do ;,sines, Wok. &Wok tockton k Darli v4c , ..,kton di Hmtlepl Call Vale 'Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. D.& R LTiverstone di Lancs Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Vaterford&Limeriek West Cornwall West Find of London and Crystal Palace Do. A . Do. B West London Wimbledn & Croydon C!floatria Moo yesterday. 22 23 3i - 3i 7i - 8 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 79 - 81 531 -54 j 10 - 12 ••• ''''' ••• 5 - 4 6i - 76 11 - 12 8 84 25 - 27 17 - 19 f 9 - 70 50 - 52 9f - 9i 19 - 20 80 - 85 6 - 7 tri 881 71 73 119 121 102 1.04 51i 1114 'lb T 5 5i 64 54 6i, 76 76i 5 6 93 94 931 94 14 Idi 4 = 11 1 $34 - S 5 8- 7 4 - ••• ........ ••• 23 - 23 i id 63 — -6.3 i 37 38 •M ~ •~• 9 -10 i - 14 42 - 44 28 ~. 29 664 -67 i 8 - 8 ,1 5 - 44- 12 - 124 44 45 92 -97 4t - 21 - 23 1.01 103 72 74 42 44 04 1.4 56 57 65 67 6 ;id 2(1 pay 33 - 35 ••• "." • •• "'. 18i 19 3 - 4i .. - ... 4 - 6 .. ...'' ... FOR EIGN. kntwerodz krat rrikxr; Do. 5 p.a. Oblga. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes •selgian Kastn. Jung Beziers to Grs.issussw Bombay , Baroda, an , Central India,Seril I Do. Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New igast Indian, g. 5 p. Do. Ey:,ensiou Mao. do. do., '59, do !Gd. Tk of CanadaA ie Do. St. Lawrence Atlantic do. De. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '0 Go. Comp. 6 p. c., do. C,elitral of Fran, IGt. Indian Poninsuln guar. 5 per cent. .., Do. New 5 per cout. Do. Extensions.... Great Luxembours Constituted Share# Do. Obligations Gt.WesternofCanad Shares Do. New Do. lids., payable's7, l with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '66 . Do. do., '76, p . Do. do., '73, without) option gamilton k Toronto Do. 6 per cent. lake Cond. & Basle Lierre and Turnhout Lyons and Genova Lyons dt Mediterran. Madras Do. New ............. Maria Antonia Do. do. New Mamnr Liege sit), interest) Do. (ex interest), Northern of France, D0.20/.Shs Do. 201. 3 p. 0 Bd i , (fmy.P... Ams.Shs. NorwegianTrmakPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds ...... Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen &Cherbrg.' D• Romo and Frasoat Ronon and Havre Royal Danish 'RoyalSwedigh Do. Obligations 'Sambre and Meuse._ Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. iScinde Do. Southern of France St. Andrew's midi Quebec (A) west Flanders Do per c. Pref Western of France Do Zealano 7i - 7i 3 3i 3 d I d 34 341 8; 9 4 P 21 —2l# 101 : 9t 14; -15 i 60 65 80 85 21 2ip 5} par -- ip Si l ` - 3i 2i - Si 241 -24 i 2i - 2ip 93 - 10• 115 - 120 116 - 120 104 106 23 - 24 110 - 115 --- ...d G - 181 - 19 7 9 - 3 4- 5 1 41 - 4 341 - •• , 1 - ' 7 44 - 44# ia 7- ii ... -- pm 184 194 la — 2 la 8 8 'i 2 il; ... ." -- pm ... .... ••• 3i - 4 iii z 2iii lsi 194' JOINT-SIY)GIi BANKS. Australasia Bank of London Col. lA.& Ln. G British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China City Colonial Commercial of Lond Eng. Scot. & &Au% Cht Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia Ditto New London and County Lnd. &E. Bnk g. Corp London Joint Stock Lond. & Westminster National Proof Eng Do. New. ......... • National of Ireland New South Oriental Bank of Corporation. ,terGvincial of Ireland ILo. New Royal Anstraln.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co , Royal British... south Australia Union of dnstrtlia Do. New ......„. — UII - 1011 Q. London 89 • 91 56 - 58 ii : i-ci .7 .4' •• ••• 16A 17 15i 151 3 1 .1 , 1 d ... - ... Par 2p ... ...... ... •H .. •• • ••• """ .. 37 - 39 37 - 38 51 - 53 v. -- ». ... - I.* 16 - 42: 73 - 7 0 8 9 30 g Si !thinness dor e 3 - ester lay. 100 100. 3i 100 lOn 21i 100 100 3i If 00 21 10 4 10 4i ell al) 17 all _ _ ~~1 "~ tip^ ".. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, . trIXED i.ENCA I.N CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) RAILW A YS. Lzuslak COmpanF C °situ , tricot yester tap . OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Martin:). SOUTHWARK. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT LONDON BRIDGE.—Sophia Bishop, a respectable-looking young female, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with attempting to commit suicide at London-bridge. THE HYDE PARK RIOTS.—The trial of William Bewley was resumed this mornift, at 10 o'clock. Mr. Clerk appeared to conduct the prosecution ; Mr. Parry and Mr. Metcalfe were counsel for the defendant. Mr. Wm. Floyd, the prosecutor, upon the first count of the indictment, stated that he was in the park about 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the let of July, and while he was standing near the iron railings the defendant, who is a sergeant of the D division of police, ordered him to stand back. He told him he was unable to do so on account of the crowd behind him, upon which, according to hie evidence, the defendant exclaimed to his men " Come on," and without any provocation attacked him with his staff, and beat him severely upon the shoulder and arias. He expressed himself to he positive that the defendant was the man who assaulted him, and he said that he tact him in Wignsore-street a few days afterwards, and recognised him immediately. James Vassey, the second person who was represented to have been assaulted, swore positively that the de fendant assaulted him without any provocation ; but is cross-examination he gave a very unsatisfactory account of himself, and admitted that he had been oonvicted of getting drunk and assaulting the police, and that he had undergone two sentences of fourteen days' hard labour. Police-constable 268 M said that about 12 o'clock last evening he was on duty at the Surrey side of the London-bridge, when he saw the prisoner rush down the steps leading to the water. He immediately followed her and seized hold of her clothes as she was in the act of plunging into the river. He then with assistance se cured her, and took her to the station-house. Mr. C,;tnbe asked whether she was know❑ ? The mistress of the prisoner here stepped forward and said she could not account for the girl attempting to commit suicide, as she was generally well conducted. Yesterday she left the house after having a slight quarrel, and she hears nothing more of her until the con stable came and told her she was locked up. The prisoner said she very much regretted having at tempted to commit such a rash act, but she pro m i se d not to repeat it, if his worship would allow her to be dis charged. Her mistress said she would take her back and attend to her carefully if she was discharged. Mr. Combo accordingly ordered her to be delivered up to her mistress. Mr. Bodkin, upon hearing these facts, said he should withdraw the count of the indictment that referred to this witness. The counsel for the defendant said he was instructed that the prosecutor was mistaken as to his identity, and he believed he should be able to satisfy them that he was not the man who assaulted the prosecutor. The defendant himself was knocked down by a portion of a hurdle that was thrown at him from the crowd, and the only time that anything that could be construed into an act of violence committed by him was when he rushed into the crowd to endeavour to apprehend the man who had assaulted him, but this happened at a to tally different spot to the place spoken of by the prose cutor. _ _ A great number of witnesses, many of whom were constables who were under Use orders of the defendant, were examined, and they swore positively that he did not commit an assault upon any one. Several persons, who had come forward voluntarily from reading the evidence that was given before the Commissioners, also daposed to the same facts. The defendant received a most excellent character. It appeared that he had been twelve years in the police, and that he had, on acoount of his being considered a discreet officer, been employed at races and various places of public amusements to preserve order, and no complaint had ever been made against him. The learned Judge, in summing up, expressed his opinion that there had been a mistake in the mattter, and the jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Charles Medgett, who was convicted on the previous day of assaulting Mr. Stevens, was then brought up for judgment, and sentenced to be imprisoned for nine months. LORD JOHN RUSSEILL ON RAGGED S( HOOLS. GLOUCESTER, Thursday Evening.--Lord John Russell paid a visit to Gloucester to-day. After visiting the Ragged School here, and examining the pupils, 160 in number, and also inspecting the industrial farm con- nected with it, his lordship presided at a public meet ing held at the Shire Hall. There was a very crowded attendance. On the platform were Mr. Price, ➢T.P. ; Mr. E. Holland, M.P. ; Mr. S. Bowley, Mr. Baker, of the Hardwicke Reformatory School, &c. Lord J. RUSSELL, on taking the chair, addressed the meeting at some length. He said that the only danger which he saw in connection with these schools was, not that they would give too much education, but that classes would be admitted to the benefit of gratuitous education who had the means of paying for it. If care, however, were taken that none should have the benefit of these schools but those who were unable to pay for the edu cation of their children, much good might be effected through their means. Of late years more attention had been bestowed on educational subjects than formerly. We were now enabled with small means to obtain clothing and furniture which might have been envied by the richest in the land three or four centuries ago. Yet in this age of civilisation, and in a country justly proud of what the labour, the skill, the ingenuity, and the science of man bad accomplished, we found that in the midst of society—in London, close by the dwellings of the highest and the noblest of the land—in the cities where our great manufactures flourished, and in the towns supplied with every convenience of life, there were persons in the lowest class of society, and in a country which traded with the countries of the whole world, knowing nothing of geography ; in a country boasting of its history and its constitution, knowing nothing of that history or that constitution ; more than all, in a country where the light of the gospel was spread around, knowing nothing of the truths of religion—(hear, hear) —ignorant even of the name of God and of Christ. He pointed to the reports of the chaplains of gaols and inspectors of prisons in proof of this, and asked— How, then, came this about ? There were and must be some in every populous community who, owing to the competition of labour, sold the work of their limbs at so cheap a rate that they could only afford just sufficient food for their daily sustenance. This unfortunately must be the condition of a great portion of the com rnunity. But what could be done to remedy this state of things ? They could not prevent this competition. They could not say, that if one person' sold his labour for so much, another person, being on the brink of star vation, should not offer his labour for something lower. (Hear, hear.) Neither could society pretend to keep in a state of comfort all those classes, Such an attempt would only involve in one common ruin the prosperous and industrious and the poor and needy. An attempt was made some time ago, on the part of the government of France, to provide laws to be passed by every other civilised nation, to enact that every class of commerce should produce a certain quantity of produce and no more—that so much of cotton goods, so much of woollen goods, and so much of other produce, should be made, and no more—and that every country should enter into a league with those who called themselves the " regenerators of mankind," in order to fix this arbitrary rule. There could be nothing more absurd, nothing more extravagant, than this ; and its absurdity and extravagance were so patent that the originators of the project were obliged to renounce it. But if they were unable to do anythin g by which these classes could obtain greater means and live in more comfort, they could take care to furnish the means by which their children could be instructed, by which they could learn the common things of life, and obtain a fair elementary knowledge, and by which the influence of the truths of religion might reach their hearts. (Hear, hear.) When this was done, if the children could stay long enough at the school, there was reason to hope that they would be sufficiently instructed to earn at least a larger re muneration for their labour than otherwise they could do. They would learn to have more foresight, not to spend their money extravagantly or intemperately, but by the use of their faculties to consider how they could improve their mental and bodily powers. Having learnt some trade, they would be in a better position than their parents were before them. If they could accomplish these things, they would not have to lament that there existed a class of persons among them who were as barbarous, as far as knowledge was concerned, as those who lived in the dark ages—to whom Christianity was never preached, nor the arts ever im parted. (Applause.) By these means th e i ns tit u ti on o f ragged schools might improve society, not by any vague speculation, not by holding out any theory of the regene• ration of mankind, but by that plain, practical, patient daily work which God had ordained to be the lot of man, and by which alone they might hope that improvement would be effected. (Cheers.) His lordship concluded by expressing a hope that the Gloucester Industrial [tagged School would not be allowed to languish for want of support. The mee ting was also addressed by Mr. W. P. Price, M.P., Mr. E. Holland, M.P., Mr. S. Bowley, Mr. Baker (of the Hardwicke Reformatory), and other gen tlemen, and several resolutions were passed. London N. We‘t L.&N.W. Caledon E. Un. E. C Gt.Nrton IE. Count Do at\Tem Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &Nril Do Do . Easton ;Pato k Co. Norfolk Do L.&N.W & Midld Stckton & Darlingt. Midland lEn.Coun. E. Count , Do Do L. &N.W 1 Do GtNortho Lancash & Yorksh. T. Brassey MClean gtockt. & Darlingt Do I GtWo 'eetn. PREFERENI Aberdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 Blythandrynelepe: c. pref. (issd.atso/ , ; tits. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. o. 4 p. c. Sharos Caledonian £lO `:poster & Holyhead Guar. 5 per cent . Do. do. Prof. No. 2., [Do. do: Pref. No. 2 Cork ezliandons I ,p.c. un.Prth . dr Aber. J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cls. C 7p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 o. No. 2 . o. New 6 p. e. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 5i., 10 per cent. Do. 161. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent ast Lancask. 6 p. cts E. kW. York. J. sths Ed Prth.&Dun.4p.c Furness Glas. & S.W. G. 5 p.c. Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem... Do. 41 p. c De. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm. Gt.N. of Scot. lat Pre Gt. S. -kW. (Ireland) Do. 4por c. Prof. St Gt. Wostn. (Berke & Hants Ex . S p. o) Do. con. rod. 4,} p.c Do. eon. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4p. C. Do. Birai. Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S. De. do. 5 p. c. do o. Birm. Gua. Stk o. Ches. Gua. Sh Do. do, do Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. £2O Do. 6 P. c. Stock Lon.&Brigh. G. 5 p.c ~ o. Pref., 5 p. C. St: o. New Onn.r.6 p. c, Do. do. 5 per cont..: Lon.&N. W., Coy. di Nuneaton 5 p. ct Lon.& S.W. 7 per et Londy. & Color. i Sh. Londy. & Ennis. i Sh. Man., Shof., & Lin, . - New, £lO Do. £8 ‘fitrypt.S;Carl.4p )o. 4i per cent - Kid. Do Consol.6 p.e St Do. Consol. Bristol Birm. 6 per cent. ,Do. 41 p. c. Pref. St i Do. Pref. 4; per cer , IDo. 5/. Pref. 4 p. c 'Ditto L. St li. Pref. Si Norfolk Debenture . Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Sto•• Do. 5 p.c. Eat 'De. 51 per et. pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c. North British 1. E. Berw, 4 p.o P. do. do - Do Leeds p.c Do. do. Quartors 4 Do.Yorkil.& g. Por North Staffordshiro., Dxford,Worcester,R Welverh.£ls, 6 p.c Do R. Prof. 101. Sh. Scot. Cent. , New Pret South Devon Do. fixed, 4 i per cetti S Eastern (ReadiN Ann.) of Li Os. 6d, Do. 4 1 ,: per cent Do. Fixed 4i p s sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. o Do. do. 4i p. c S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar Stock. & Dar., 5 p. c Do. do. do, Stock. & Ilartl. g. p. c. till July 1,'56 'Watcrtd. Fc Bilk. 6 p c 92 - 94 94 - 98 .32 - 134 .C 4 - 105 iii = 13• .03 - no 24 - 26 88 - tO ed AP 55 109 .... ••• 130 - 123 7* - 8 3i - 211 30 - 31 81 - 83 SHARES. 106 - 110 104 - 106 90 - 92 91 - 93 15 - 16 ... -" ... = 1 1. 11 i - GO - 62 1i . 2 - 114 105 - 107 98 - 100 9 - 10 6 6A 84 86 77 79 77 79 15 164 94 10 66 63 17 18 8 i 9 13 —13 i 1 id 132 134 ••• -.. 13 - 13 131 - 133 91 - 93 - 4 - 46 98 - 100 87 - 8i 2i - * 4 i -. 13 - - 21t - 221 92 - 94 8 i - 91 • .. "" r p ---• 1 ... --- 2a -- MINES. 1 all Ague. Fria . 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold ... ... 10e all Anglo Californian ... i 20 6 kustralian 1 all Instralian Cordillera ... ... 1 all %No Maria, — ... 1 , all aden (Gd. Duchy of; ... ... 50 all henarvon Iron and Coal . — ... 20 14 British Iron 4 6 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issued at 4;5 pm.) D 3O all Do. Cocaes Sr Cuiaba 2 2 4 20 15 0, St. John Delßey 27 29 28 x d 1 A Clarendon Cone. Min, Co. of Jamaica 4d ip 10 all Cobre Copper 65 69 5 1 olonial Gold — ... St. all copper Min. of Eng 34 37 25 all 'I o. Pref. 73 p. oent 23 25 1C Copiapo l9 20 2,1 A r ortuna i —Ad 20 all it eneral l4 —l6 1 all lt.lcuggotVeinßeg 41 ail Great Polvooth 5 all Gt Wheal Vor United 1 - , 3d 1 all iberty * - II 3 all Linares 6l 7 5 11 Lusitanian -- i ; 1 all Mariquita 1 all NOW Granada 1 all NoUveau Monde i 20 all Pontgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 10 12 5 1 Port Philip 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all Rhymney Iron 2O 42 a d 15 all Do. New 6 8 x a 30 13i Santiago de Cuba 4 43 1 all South Australian O, i 1 all Do. Scrip a - a 1 , i Do. 10 per cent Pref ... ... 10 i 9 Pin Croft 4 43 283 all United Mexican 3l 4i 1 all Waller 1 A 1 all West Mariposa i i 1 12s. Wortking Mining of Australia 1 all Yuba • -- woo • MISCELLANEOD b. 25 19 Australian Agricult. 26 28 10 all Aug t.raln. Royal Mail ... ... 10 . 83 Berlin Water Works 63 73 50 10 Brit. American Land' 47 50 100 .423 Canada.. l2O 125 St. WO Canada Gov. 6p. et Jan. and ..sly lO5 106 1051 1 5 all Crystal Palace 2 21 5 5 Do. Preference ~,. 4i 4 4 all Crystal Pal. of France .., ... 1 0 Duston Iron Ore ... ... 20 11 Eastern Steam . 5 all En.&Aus Cop Sm Co 1 1i 25 24 Electric Telegraph 2O 21 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir ... ••• 5 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier ..• ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ••• ... 27 1Z all General Screw Steam ... „. 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugal ... ... 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig ... - ... 10 all Meditoran. Elec. Tel. 8 10 10 9 MexicanSLS.Americn. 5/ 5i 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuei ~ . .:. 10 5 Netherlands Land 1 1A 10 all Do. Do. 5 1 Do. 8p c P iss at I d i— id 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. . ... 100 80 Now B. &N. S. Land 18 22 1 all N. P. Australasian... i i 20 15 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... 1 all Oriental Gas i 11, 1 2s. Do. " New Shares " ... ... i. , all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 2 21 21 50 all Peninsular& Orienta 63 65 50 10 Do. Now 2 all Portland Iron Co ... 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest l3 li 1 3 Ditto New 1 p 1 all South Austral. Land 34 — , 36 34 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip $ _ i 90 all Do. Registered 0 ... 6. 1 1 5 Trust& L. co.u.Can. . . ..... , 6 100128 , Van Dionlen'il Laud ,15 1 f 15i 105 j inione6s yester lay. MARYLEBONE. NARROW ESCAPE OF A CABMAN AND HIFI FARR.— This day, Robert White, a cab driver in the employment of Mr. Collins, cal, proprietor, was charged before Mr. Long with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself and his cab. Policeman S 209 stated that about one o'clonk this morning he was on Haverstock•hill, when his attention was called to the prisoner's cab, which he found turned over on its side. The horse was laying on the road, and the prisoner was under it. Witness observed that the prisoner was so intoxicated as to be utterly incapable of taking care of his cab, and he was also informed that he had run against a gentleman's carriage, which caused his vehicle to be upset. Mr. Long asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge ! The prisoner replied that he took up two gentlemen in Parliament-street, and drove then to Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead. He then received front them three half-quarterns of rum, which completely overpowered Mr. Fell, chief clerk, asked if the gentlemen were in the cab when it was upset ? The prisoner replied that they were, and that they tumbled out on the road. Mr. Fell—What became of them ? Prisoner—Oh ! they went away, and I lost my fare. I could not control my horse as it went down Haver stock-hill, and the cab came in collision with a gentle man's carriage. Mr. Fell—lt is fortunate the gentlemen were not hurt. Mr. Long having remarked that it was a most serious offence for a cab-driver to be intoxicated while in charge of his cab, The prisoner was fined 20e., or in default of payment 14 days' imprisonment in the House of Correction. ASSAULT ON THE POLlCE.—Josepit , Pitcher, a young man, was charged with assaulting Police Constable Goslin S 289. The evidence showed that about half-past two o'clock that morning there was a sham fight at the corner of the New Road. All left except the prisoner, who gave him several blows on the chest. Mr. Long said that the police must be protected as they had ♦ery arduous and heavy duties to perform. The prisoner was fined 205., or in default 14 days' imprisonment. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). CORN EXCHANGE. The quantity of English wheat on sale in to-day's mar ket was very moderato. Good dry samples moved off steadily, at fully Monday's prices ; but inferior kinds met a slow inquiry, at that day's currency. The quantity of foreign wheat in the market was limited, and the demand was rather firm, at full quotations. Floating cargoes were steady. There was a fair inquiry for barley, at full quotations, but malt was very dull. The supply of foreign oats was large, yet the oat trade ruled steady, at late rates. Beans and peas were very dull, but the flour trade was steady. ARRIVALS TlllB WB/111. Wheat. Barley. Malt. 2,095 3,880 4 . 416 / tnglish Irish •• Foreign 3 ; 1,130 Oats. 6 . Flour, 190 20,540 — bn: METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of beasts on offer to-day was very moderate, yet the demand for all breeds was heavy, at Monday's de cline in the quotations. We were rather scantily supplied with sheep, in which only a limited business was tran sacted, at barely stationary prices. Calves, the supply of which was good, moved off heavily, at a decline of 4d per Sibs. The demand for pigs was rather heavy, at late rates. Mitch cows wore dull, at from 141. to 191 each, includ ing their small calf. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. di s. d. s 4. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 PiimeSonthdown 4 8 5 0 Second quality.... 3 8 4 0 Large crse. calves 4 6 5 2 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime small do 5 4 5 8 Primo Scots, cite. 4 8 410 Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 6 1 Small porkers Second quality ...3 8 4 ' 2,Suckling calves 22 0 29 0 Prime crse.-wiled.4 4 4 6 Quarter old pigs 21 0 28 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. i FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .................. 1,050 Beas4B•• .. •• •• .... •• •••• • 200 Sheep ..... ...... ........ 2,850 Sheen ...• .• • ............ 404 Calves .................. 240 Calves.... •. ••.. • • ...... .. 185 NEWGATE AND Each kind of meat sold sic Per Bibs by LEADENHALL. )wly, as follows : the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 4 Do., middling 1 6 3 8 Do. prime large 3 10 4 0 Do , do. small 4 2 4 4 Fork, large 3 10 4 4 B. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Veal 4 0 5 0 1 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. Although the supply of hops is very extensive, the de mand is steady, and prices are well supported. This week's imports aro 15 bales from Boulogne, and 110 ditto from Antwerp. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 15s to 61 lOs per cwt ; Weald of Kent, 31 lOs to 5/ Os ; Sussex, 31 5s to 41 15s. COLONIAL. TEA. —At the public sale of this article full prices were realised. Common Congou, 94cl to 90 ; young Hyson, Id to 'ad per lb. SUGAR.—There has been little disposition shown by purchasers to make investments, although lower terms were offered by holders. Barbadoes low greyish to good white yellow, 45s Gd to 19s ; crystalised Demerara low middling to fine bright, 45s Gd to 51s ; Martinique good to fine yellow, 47s to 50s ; Mauritius low blacks, 32s Gd to 33s ; good grocery, 42s to 47s 6d ; Mayotte middling to fine soft brown, 40s to 41s per cwt. No transactions have taken place in either Bengal or Bahia. In the refined market no business whatever is reported as having taken place. COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon has realised steady prices. Fine to fine fine ord, 53s to 625; low mid to mid, 62s Gd to 61s. 6d ; pea berry, 63s to 65s ; and triage, 48s to 57s 6d per cwt. Native Ceylon has been quiet ; ordinary, 50s to 525; good ordinary, 535; and blacks, at 23s to 26s per cwt. Bahia, 42s to 45s for ordinary to good ordinary. Coco,&.—Tho market for this article continues dull, and but few sales have taken place ; Bahia has been sold at 4Ss to 50s per cwt. RICE. A small business has been done at lower prices ; ordinary pinky sold at 13s Gd •, Bengal 16e to 163 6d, and low broken Bengal at 13s to 14s 6d per cwt. small parcel of Mauritius has been sold at 2s sd, and strong Demerara realised 3s per proof gallon. SAGO.—There has been a steady demand for this article, although prices have slightly receded; middling to good sold for 29a per cwt. SPICES.—A brisker demand has been exhibited for Pi mento, and prices have advanced about Is Sd per lb ; fine 1 small bright brought 4id, and mid and good mid rather coarse, 40 to 4id ; ordinary coarse mixed, 44d to 4kd per lb. Pepper—Singapore white brought 7d to Bd. Nut megs— Ordinary small to good bold brown is lid to 3s 2d, ordinary shrivelled kind, is 4d to 1s 5d per lb. Cloves— Zanzibar ordinary to fair dark; shd to sjd per lb. Mace —good mid 2s 4d to 2s sd, and mid 2s to 2s 2tl per lb. SALTPETRE has been dull ; Bengal, 91 to 9 lb fine crystal sold at 335, ditto 7 lb refraction brought 32s Gd per cwt. COCHINEAL.—The market has been steady. Tenoriffe silvers, 3s Gd to 3s 1C1d; blanks, 3s 10d to 4s ld per lb. TALLow.—The market has shown greater firmneas. P.Y.C. on the spot 68s to 681 3d, and spring delivery G7s 3d per cwt. THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT.—A dispute is pending at Liverpool of some importance to the shipping inte rest. The lawful exercise of the powers of Receivers of the Droits of the Admiralty has on many occasions been doubted, and a question has arisen with that functionary at Liverpool, under the following circumstances, the point to be solved being the perplexing one of what is a wreck within the meaning of the 17th and 18th of Victoria in the Merchant Marine Act :—A vessel named the Pied-ner was dropping her anchor, to wait the tide for docking, when the chain parted. Boatmen from shore were working at the time on board, and the mas ter contracted with them to lift and restore the chain and anchor for 16/. Upon their being raised and brOught alongside the Receiver of Droits prohibited their deli very except upon an order signed by him, and a deposit of 161. with 1/. 10s. fees. The deposit and fees were paid, and the chain and cable restored, but no order, it is said, was ever signed by the Receiver. The owner ship was never disputed, and the questions contested are—was this a wreck, and was the Receiver entitled to any fees ? Mr. M'Culloch says a wreck is usually un• derstood to mean any ship or goods driven ashore or found floating at sea in an unmanageable c ondition ; but that, according to the legal sense of th e word in Eng land, it is assumed a " wreck" must have come to land, since when at sea it is distinguished by the barbarous appellations of flotsam, jetsam, and lagan. In the pre sent case it is insisted none of these terms are applicable, as the cable parted in the river, and not at sea or in a roadstead, awl may be said never for a moment to have been out of cognisance. The Board of Trade have considered the matter of sufficient consequence to send down an officer to inquire specially into the circumstances, and the decision is locked for with interest both by merchants and under writers. Many complaints are made of the Marine Act in consequence of the vexatious exactions for which it is used as a pretext. The Government, however, are ad mitted to have shown every disposition to investigate and remedy these evils. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. —(This Day.) LoNroN, Jan. 11.—Wind this day at noon, N. ; strong breeze and fine frosty weather. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 10 . —Wind N.E.--Arrived.--Aren a, from Jamaica ; , Pillau, f o r Bo s t on • Earl Grey, Lisette London, for Geel on g , and proceeded for Southampton ; H.M.S.'s Falcon and Vixen, eastward. FALMOUTH, Jam. 10.—Wind E.N.E., strong breezes. — Arrived—Earl of Devon, from Laguna and Penzance ; Maria Moller Port-au-Prin ce , f or H am b urg . S a il e d— Aracaya (p,), Aros.de, Esperance, and Buona Mensa, for Pernambuco. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—The wreck of an hermophrodite brig, of about 200 tons, waterlogged and abandoned, fore mast painted white, fore-yardblack, about 12 feet of main having a break a ft, with th e d ec k se t i n it, ma st standing, the galley abaft the Maill-nlaSt, a billet figure-head, stem moulding heavily gilded on a black ground, Was passed, 12th Dec., in lat. 37. long, 51. (PER ELECITRIo TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. krr i ve d—Maria and Elizabeth, from Sunderland. Sailed—Ann, for Newport. LrrEisrooL, Friday Morning. ~ ... Wind N.E. Arrived—Countesa of Liverpool, from Hamburg ; For- tuna, Africa. O ff—B e llcarrig, for Akyab. QVRENVOWN, Jan. 9. Wind E. Arrived—Carl and Ernma, and Eliza Robinson, from Al exan dria ; ll Arcangeli, Gal WATERFORD, Jan. 8. Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Friends, from Santander ; Mary, Moulmein. DUBLIN, Jan. 10. Wind E.N.B. Arrivod—Cerouas anti Baldur, from Svendborg. (BY SUBMARINE ANTE BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.41 a.m. Wind N.N.E. ' • tide, last h o ur's flood ; fine and frosty. Arrived, Jan. 10—Shelali, from Marstrand. Arrived, Jan. 11—Spray, from Grunstad ; Anna Eliza beth, Bogense ; Danneborg, Helsingborg ; Mary Ann, Pa lau ; Briton, Gottenborg. A violent epidemic disease amongst cattle is at pre. sent committing great ravages in the east of Prussia and in the Grand Duchy of Posen. The government has take❑ measures to establish a sanitary cordon to prevent its spreading, and has despatched several veterinary sur geons to the spot. 70 69i 10 St. 20 50 12: 12: St. St. 20 1.2 25 20 all all .00 .00 100 100 [lOO r 100 [lOO 100 too 1100 PiPi 12 Pm Pm THE METEOR. The Courrier du Barre of the Bth inst., has the following : " Yesterday, at a few minutes before 5 o'clock, a long train of fire, taking, by its undulations, the form of a serpent, was visible in the heavens, which it lit up the more vividly as daylight was on the wane. This track of fire took a direction from north-west to south-east, and at the moment its head, which had the appearance of a ball of fire of the diameter of a shell of about ten inches, appeared to approach the ground, a loud explo sion was heard, and for nearly 20 minutes a pale light spread over the atmosphere, accompanied by a transpa rent and light smoke, which gradually disappeared with out any sulphurous smell reaching the persons best placed to observe this beautiful meteorological pheno menon. " We have questioned a number of persons who, like ourselves, witnessed this apparition, and who all fancied they saw the globe of fire fall at a short distance from where they stood. One of our friends who was return ing from Cape de la neve assures us that the explosion took place far out at sea, and this version is corroborated by other testimony from persons whose occupation had led them to the sea-shore. "If an aerolite fell from the meteor after its explo sion, it will be very difficult, we think, to ascertain where it fell. Some idea may be formed of the elevation at which it appeared from the fact that it was seen at Rouen at the same hour as at our town." The Journal dc _Rouen of the Bth of January thus describes the apparition : "A most rare meteorological phenomenon appeared in the atmosphere of our town about 5 o'clock yesterday evening. At that hour a globe of fire about the size of a man's head appeared darting, along at great speed in a direction fcorn north-west to south-east, when it was seen to fall. It was especially observed that in its pas- sage through the heavens the globe in question shot out sparks of fire which, formed a luminous tail, which did not disappear for at least 20 minutes after the principal body of the meteor. The curious electrical phenomenon which we have just described was witnessed once before, it will be remembered, at Rouen, some years since, on a summer's evening." The meteor was seen at Ramsgate. The Borough compter was sold by auction on Wed nesday last. Major Phillips, of the Royal Artillery, died on Tues day last at Bath. Lieutenant J. Green (1809) has been nominated to the out pension at Greenwich. LORD MILTOWN'S ESTATES.—The produce of the two days' sale has been 101,3501. THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME.—A very interesting lec tore upon "The Importance of Time ' was delivered, on Wednesday evening, by Mr. Grant, before the young men of Messrs. J. F. Pawson and Co.'s establishment. Previous to the lecture prayer was offered by Mr. Tucker, and at the conclusion a doxology was sung. The rate for money in the Stock Exchange yesterday on short loans was 5 per cent., but in the arrangement of the account there was at one time some pressure, aed in occasional instances dealers were obliged to pay as much as 7 per cent. To carry on their operations till February. The general charge, however, up to that period was at the rate of 5i per cent. The Paris letters describe continued firmness in the rate of exchange consequent upon the demand for bills on Loudon to pay for the recent large purchase of Mexi can silver for the Bank of France. The transactions on the Bourse are limited, owing to the principal banking firms being unwilling to operate during the present state of suspense, and the speculators, therefore, it is stated, have command of the market. RlGA.—Letters from Riga yesterday reach to the 3d inst., and describe a continuance of the Baltic navigation in consequence of the unusual state of the weather. Altogether seven vessels had arrived at that port laden with salt, and several more were expected. The tem perature, however, had just become colder, and there were now five degrees of frost. GENERAL SCREW STEAM COMPANY.—A special meet ing of the General Screw Steam Company took place yesterday, at which a resolution was passed authorising the directors to apply for a supplemental or additional charter to confirm the payment of 21. per share made to the proprietors, to convert the shares of the company into shares of 181. each. It was also agreed to allow the introduction of a clause authorising the reduction of the shares from time to time by repayments, if the same be necessary, provided the operation shall not bring them below 51. each. The discussion generally related to the future prospects of the undertaking, but, as it was a spe cial meeting, no information could be afforded. In quiries made respecting the opening of negotiations with the Government for the rechartering of steamers were consequently not replied to. CANADA.—The advices from Canada brought by the New York steamer on Wednesday furnish another illustration of the reckless course of trading which was pursued by many houses in that colony until the facilities for credit were arrested by the war. Messrs. Cuvillier and Co., of Montreal, who suspended some months back for 116,913/., have issued a circular stating that the first estimate of their assets was much too favourable, and that they now do not show a divi dend of 3s. in the pound. They add that, with the assi:tanee of friends, they are able to make an offer of 3s. in three half-yearly instalments of ls, each. CASE OF PALMER, THE SURGEON, OF RUGELEY.—On Wednesday last, in the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy, Palmer, the surgeon, charged with the mur der at Rugeley of Mr. Cook, by the administration of slow poison, was declare I a bankrupt. The petitioning creditor, upon whose application the fiat was issued, is Mr. Spittle, of West Bromwich, his debt consisting of money lent. Mr. Brown, of Bilston, is the solicitor for the bankruptcy. The adjudication will be disputed, and the bankruptcy in no way interferes with the sale of the bankrupt's stud, which is appointed to take place at Tattersall's on Monday next. On inquiry, it is ascer tained that no attorney of Birmingham was ever em ployed as an agent for the Midland Counties Assurance Offioo. PROPOSED PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS IN MANCHESTER. A resolution was passed by the Manchester Town Council on Wednesday, on the motion of Mr. Alderman Barnes, seconded by Mr. Alderman Hey wood, to the effect that a great public as well as private advantage would he secured if the privilege were granted of transferring Government securities, and receiving the dividends thereon in that city, and in all other towns in which a branch of the Bank of England has been established ; and it was determined to memorialise the Government on the subject. TRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS. WOLVER HAMPTON, Wednesday.—The first quarterly meeting of the iron trade was held at Walsall yesterday, and the second in this town to-day. At the former, which is attended chiefly by saddlers' ironmongers and hardware manufacturers, the attendance was good, and accounts were generally settled satisfactorily. The attendance to day at Wolverhampton was numerous, but business was represented to be as not over brisk ; some orders were however received in town this morning by the Baltic, from the United States. Lord Ward has issued a cir cular, in which he fixes the price of his best cold blast pigs at 51. 12s. 6d., and it is expected that other makers will follow his example. Rates of manufactured iron are nominally the same as last quoted. In consequence of a proposed advance in the rates for the carriage of iron ore from Worcestershire into South Staffordshire, the London and North-Western Railway have advanced their freightages to the level of those charged by the canal companies ; and those ironworks which have rail way sidings will be more particularly affected by the proposed advance, as they will be charged 11d, per ton in excess of those who have no siding accommodation, and take deliveries at railway wharves or stations. The new rules for the regulation of coal mines are already unpopular among all parties and excite general discontent. IRON MASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.—BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The third of the meetings of the ironmasters of this district for the current quarter was held here this afternoon. The attendance was large, but the trade was again somewhat quiet. There was, how ever, a fair amount of business done, although there was some hanging back on the part of consumers, wbo do not require iron for immediate use. The principal makers are understood to be tolerably well supplied with orders, and as soon as commercial concerns fairly settle down there may be expected to be more of a flush of orders. Pig-iron was reported to-day to be a shade flatter, and purchases were said to have been effected at a lower quotation, but this seems to have been chiefly in respect of inferior qualities, all the better kinds still li commanding what are regarded as the trade prices. It should be stated, too, that although this meeting was somewhat (lull the tone was good, and all the principal members of the trade are agreed in opinion that there is no probability of prices receding, the more especially as all raw materials maintain their prices. For tin plates there is a brisk demand ; the price is quoted from 345. to 355. per box. THE IRON AND COAL TRADE.—The usual quarterly meeting of the iron trade will be holden this week, and there is no doubt that the prices fixed upon at the Preliminary meeting held on the 27th 1 ulti mo,o/., will be and sheets adhered to, namely, bars, 91., hoops, ies feared that a ill, per ton. It is by some part further advance may be c onsidered necessary, and this, they hope, will be avoided. With iron at a re munerating price, fluctuations are best avoided. They derange the regular course of orders which are received from the Continent, and eventually bring on a reaction. A middle course is the best suited at all times to the general interests of the trade. It often happens that some difference of opinion exists as to the propriety of declaring an advance at times like the present, when the demand is good; but the majority of iron-masters appear to be of opinion that we must wait till spring arrives, to see what orders come in from the United States and other places, before the trade will be justified in ad ' vancing the price. It must be confessed that the rela tive position of the producers of pig iron and the manu facturers of malleable iron differs materially to what it did a few years ago ; the margin of profits of the latter has been very much narrowed owing to the high rates demanded for pig iron, coupled with the high price of fuel and the rise in wages. The demand for coal is brisk, and the price firmly maintained. Good ironstone, the produce of the district, is eagerly sought after, and naturally advances with the price of pigs. Great ac tivity is manifested by the colliery proprietors to carry into effect the requirements of the late Act of Parlia ment to prevent accidents in collieries, and Mr. Brough, the newly-appointed Government Inspector of Mines for the district, has given notice that it Will become hie bounden duty to enforce the penalties of the act in all cases where the law is not strictly carried out. The spe cial rules regulating the conduct of the men are now in force, and we hope the employer and employed will unite in carrying out the provisions of the act, which are for the mutual benefit of each.—Welverhanipten Chronicle. ~_ _ .-;--~- LITERATURE. The Business Mau's Note Book for the Year 1856. Edinburgh : James Hogg. In addition to a calendar and diary, there will be found in this well got-up pocket companion an invaluable repository of facts and statistics neces sary to be known by men of business, together with a variety of information calculated to be more or less useful to every one interested in the ope rations of commerce, and the progress of industry and enterprise both at home and abroad. Any thing more comprehensive and complete in its way we do not remember to have seen, its contents being rather the well-digested essence of many books, reports, &c., than such as might reason ably be anticipated in one. To give the reader a notion of their variety, we may mention that the index occupies ten pages. Under such circumstances, it were absurd to attempt to furnish a digest ; all we shall do, therefore, after stating that the work is one which no intelligent member of the mercantile community, or individual connec t e d w i t h th e agricultural, the shipping, or th e t ra di ng i nterest, will fail to recognise as a welcome boon, is to no tice a few of its contents, which have more parti cularly caught our eye ; and, first, we must notice the maps, excellent in their way, and five in num ber. These consist of, Ist, A coloured map of all the telegraphic lines of Europe. 2d. A statistical map of England and Wales, in colour, with descrip tive letterpress. 3d. A like map of Scotland and Ireland, in both of which the rank of each county in area of square mile s , in gross population and density of population, is represented by figures. 4. A I;ke statistical map of the United States, the rank of each State, instead of county, being repre sented as above. sth. A valuable distance map of ocean routes. The tables of population, exports, imports, &c., of the British Colonies, with other infor mation respecting them, could not be overlooked; nor the " statistical notices of the Governments of the world," including their expenditure and debts, the extent and organisation of their military and naval forces, &c. (as gathered and translated from the " Almanack de Gotha "), and the tables showing " how Prussia profits by the war." The statistics of international electric telegraph communication (in which are shown the stations in England and Scotland, and the hours when open), of railways (dividends and all), of gas companies (incorporated by Act of Parliament, showing the rates of cubic feet, the amount of paid-up capital, the rate of last dividend, and the price of coal in their vicinity)--- none of these could escape observation any more than the inch measure and the calendar by which the date of the first day of the month is discovered on the back, and the metallic circle inside, which so admirably serves as a calendar, and, if pre served, will do so for the current half century. But jam, stns. We have said enou g h t o g i ve our business and our political readers a longing for the book, which they will do well to gratify. THE SPECTATOR. The monthly supplement published by our weekly contemporary the Spectator, for the pre. sent January, contains some extremely valuable statistical information, in addition to a considerable portion of interesting literary criticism. The " Statistics of Money, Produce, Manufactures, and Trade" for 1855 are, under each head, presented with great accuracy and completeness, and will be found a safe and serviceable compendium of refe rence upon many prominent points of monetary and commercial importance. The literary depart ment is principally devoted to a review of "Napo leon's Confidential Correspondence with his Brother Joseph," the former King of Spain, which has been recently published by Murray—a work of which the reviewer well observes : " To the student of history or of human character it is full of deep in terest—to the politician, and still more to the military man, it is a book of profound instruction —to the politician, of what in a great measure to avoid—to the soldier, of what to master till the principles enunciated become a portion of his mind." Bohn's edition of the works of Addison ; Wilberforce's " Brazil ; " Ernest Jones's new volume of poetry, " The Emperor's Vigil, and the Waves and the War;" and "Fergnson's Illustrated Handbook of Architecture," are likewise handled in an acute and impartial spirit ; whilst seve ral works of minor note, and the last batch of periodicals, have their due share of notice. Now that Parliament is almost on the eve of reassembling, the "Spectator Supplement" will, for some time to come, derive additional importance and value from its monthly summary of the debates in both Houses of the Legislature. This feature must of itself render it a most welcome companion to the general reader. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, JAN. 10. A moderate business only was done in the cloth market this morning, and buyers appeared disposed to operate quite as cautiously as on Tuesday. Yet a quiet demand from time to time, and sometimes on ether than market days, clears off what accumulations of stock may have begun to take place, and prices are mostly steady. Yesterday it is understood that a considerable quantity of cloth was purchased for export. The low stocks with which we have commenced the year give sellers a great advantage. The pa , t year will be a remarkable cue in the history of the cotton trade (remark Messrs. John Ponder and Co. in their Overland Circular, via Mar seilles, published yesterday), as, notwithstandilog the war in which we are engaged, the consequent dear and stringent state of the money market, the high price of grain and almost every article of produce (a combination rarely continuing long), stocks of cotton goods have been kept down. Tuis has been caused by the determination of producers not to accumulate, and the consequence has been to them a most remunerative trade. They may pos sibly soon derive some benefit from the losses thus sus tained, as the low prices which have been current have no doubt forced goods into new channels, and developed a trade that is likely to go on increas ing." In sbirtings the demand of the last month has been good for the better qualities of 40-inch, and of 45 and 54-inch cloths, all of which are realising fall prices; In printing cloths the low descriptions are most in de mand. In yarns there is only a moderate business, and prices aro slightly against sellers seeking customers. NOTTINGHAM, JAN. 10. In the hosiery trade there has been a good deal doing, and in many departments the trade is brisk. We cannot report so favourably of the lace trade, the transactions for the new year being as yet very few and unimportant. There are some buyers from the conti nent in the market, who have not yet operated 'to any extent. It is probable that the present war will have the effect of opening a market for our manufactures in Asia Minor and elsewhere, in which places we have not heretofore been in connection. We have no alteration to report in the price of yarns. THE LOSS OF THE TRANSPORT SHIP BARRACKPORE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 31.—TheBarrackpore (French transport), Capt. Louttit, of London, was 1 ost of the island of Marmora on the night of the 14th inst. The ship was laden with hay for the French army, and about 9 o'clock, while under 3 close-reefed topsails, strong gales from the north-eastward, with thick snow showers, she was driven on the east part of the island of Marmora. So thick was the weather that within 20 minutes of first seeing the land the ship was among the breakers. From the first moment there was no hope of saving the ship, and the captain states that had they been a ship's length ahead or astern of the spot on which she struck, all or the greater part of the crew must have perished with her, there being nothing but stee p crags with deep water the sea tumbling in like mountains. Fortunately, th e ship went upon a kind o f point or ridge. She al most immediately filled. The wainmast was then cut away, which fell on the point (before th e s hip h ee l e d over to seaward) , and by it all hands got safely on shore. Th e y just succeeded in getting a footing on the crags, and there had to stand till daylight, when part of the crew ventured on board th e wrec k, an d f oun d her fast going to pieces ; they, :nevertheless, managed to save a few clothes on the starboard side of the poop and forecastle, but could not get a pound of provisions of any kind. In the afternoon the gale and sea in creased again, and the ship parted—the pieces spread. ing in all directions around the cliff. They had no means of communicating or getting away from the island until Friday the 21st., when her Majesty's steamer Oberon came and took them off, as also the crew of the Talavera, an English transport, which had been wrecked on another part of the island. The inhabitants of the island are represented to have treated the crew of the Barrackpore most barbarously. After the Oberon had landed the crews at the Dardanelles, the British Consul, with some Turkish police, and the captains of the Tala vera and Barrackpore, returned to make prisoners of the ringleaders. LORD ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE. —We regret to learn gave ho that the favourable change which Adolphus Fitzclarence recovering from his pes of Lord very seri ous illness has not continued. On Wednesday the noble and gallant invalid was pronounced to be not so well as on the preceding day. Dr. Bright and the other medical gentlemen in attendance on his Lordship ha d a consultation after see ing their patient, and at the close of their delibera tion the following bulletin was issued for the infor mation of the numerous inquiring friends of his Lord ship :—" Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has passed a rest less night, but has had several hours' refreshing sleep this morning, and was in all respects as well as yester dy.-2 o'clock, p.m., Jan. 10." her M a j es t y an d hi s Royal Highness Prince Albert sent by telegraphyester day morning from Windsor Castle to learn the state of his Lordship. At halt-past 10 last night, Dr. Bright and his lordship's other medical advisers met at Lord Adolphus's residence at St. James's Palace, and another consultation was held. 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