The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKPTI AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is still an active demand for diicount ac commodation, and full rates are required for all descriptions of mercantile bills. An impression prevails in some quarters that an advance in the minimum of the Bank of England will be speedily announced. A dividend at the rate of 8 per cent., and a bonus of 16s, per share, have been declared by the directors of the National Bank. The next drawing for bills of exchange on India will take place on the 4th proximo, to the amount of £600,000. The Asia Minor Comp .ny is a new undertaking, formed for the purpose of encouraging the growth of cotton in the country which bears the title of the association. The nominal capital has been fixed at £500,000, but only one•fifth of that amount is to comprise the first issue in shares of £lO each. The promoters are connected with the manufacture of cotton in that country, and have already proved, by a satisfactory test, the capabilities of the country, and the desire of the cultivators to improve the quality of their crops. Asia Minor is spoken of as being peculiarly adapted for the production of the plant, as containing abundance of free labour, and possessing a ready means of transit by railway and otherwise to Smyrna, which is within 15 days' steam communication with Liverpool. The direc tors do not intend to engage directly in the culti vation of cotton, but by means of agencies in the interior to stimulate and offer assistance to those desirous of extending the culture of the plant. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan has, moreover, inti mated his intention to encourage the growth of cotton in his empire, and has consequently remitted certain taxes on the lands. The company anticipate to find abundant remuneration from making ad vances to cultivators, from the purchase of cotton, and from the introduction of machinery for clean ing and baling the material. _ The directors of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company have announced their intention of receiving subscriptions for 1,500,000 dols. 7 per cent. mortgage bonds on the line. The capital is required to complete the construction of the even aion to Cincinnati. Pending this new line the com pany are using, at a rental, a portion of the Little Miami Railroad, and the accounts published show that the revenue is in excess of the expenditure, and the amount required to pay the interest, &c. on the new loan. These bonds are a first charge on the income of the company, and the interest and prin cipal are payable in London at a fixed rate of ex change of 4s. per dollar, yielding about 81 per cent. to the investor,besides the premium on redemption, which is rather more than lt per cent. per annum on the 30 years which the bonds have to ran. The London and Midilesex Bank held its first ordinary meeting to-day, for the purpose of ap proving the appointment of Mr. George Cooper, the professional auditor to the establishment. After a few remarks from the chairman, the appointment was agreed to. Two O'CLOCK. A recovery of 1 per cent. from the depreciated quotations, current yesterday afternoon, has taken place in the English Stock Market to-day, Consols being 9214 for money, and 921 1, for the account. The New Three per Cents. and Reduced are steady at 921 1; Exchequer Bills have declined to 2s. dis. and par. Bank Stock is 235 and 237; and India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 1. In Foreign Securities the transactions have been of a moderate character, and prices in some in stances have shown less firmness. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are steady at 86/ ; do., 1858, 701 71 ; do., 1862, 661 1; and the Consolides, 401 1 ; Egyptian are 961 97 ; do., 2d issue, 96 ; the New Peruvian Loan has declined to 861 871 ; Portuguese do. is heavy at 461 ; Russian do., at 951 1; Spanish have been very depressed, dealings having taken place at 25Z and 261; and the Certificates are 9i. Business in the Railway Share Market continued dull, the preparations for the half-monthly settle ment occupying the chief attention of the dealers and speculators. A heavy tone, however, has pre. Tailed. Caledonians, Great Westerns, London, Chatham, and Dover, North Westerns, and South Easterns have declined 55.; Midlands, 10s.; and Brighton, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without change of importance. HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK. ADVANCE IN THE BANK RATE OF DISCOUNT. The Bank of England authorities have this day advanced the rate of discount from 4 to 5 per cent. The measure has not created so much surprise, although it has been adopted on Wednesday instead of the usual court day, Thursday, because it was generally perceived that the efflux of bullion was of such a character as to necessitate a restric tive policy. Within the last few days the with drawals have been of magnitude, and there was every prospect of their continuance, owing to the situation of affairs in Paris, and the directors have done quite right in the course they have adopted. The private discount firma will now allow 4 per cent. for money at call, and 44 per cent. with seven days' notice of withdrawal. The Joint Stock Banks will only give 4 per cent. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 237 5 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92} i New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent lO5l } Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 100 i Ditto ditto April, 1864 Mt Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under 21,000.. Consols for Account, Feb. 5 921 i Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2} per Cent par 2 dis 2 par FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Equador New Consolidated l6/ Egpptian 7 per Cent 96! 7 Ditto, Second Issue Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 72 Mexican 3 per Cent New Granada 2 per Cent Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 13 1 Peruvian 4i per Cent. Ditto 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 46/ 1 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 B6} Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent~ 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. 691 O 'CLOCK. Consols, Money TWO 92 Ditto Account 1 i 92}i Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Short. 11 15 Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam _ 11 17i 11 11 25 42i 25 47i Antwerp — 25 42} 25 471 Brussels Ramburgh — 13 6I 13 7 P ar i s Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 119 Mi Vi enna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin — Madrid . . • • Cadiz Leghorn Milan .. . . Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto 48 491 48 49i 25 60 25 67t 25 621 25 67/ 25 621 25 70 25 621 25 70 25 65 25 70 25 65 25 70 52j 621 521 §2l HEALTH OF LONDON.—The weekly return of the Registrar-General shows that the number of deaths in London registered in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,426. The average number in corresponding weeks of ten years 1853.62 is, with a correction for increase of popu lation, 1,483. Thedeaths in last week were, therefore, less by 57 than they would have been if the average rate of mor tality towards the end of January had ruled. The births in last week exceeded the deaths by 660. SHARE MARKETS—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOeI Railwaye. •fiir.. Wol., and Str. Val Plytlie and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMidAJo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A oets no div -•- Do. Ap c.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth o t Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do I Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock !Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh t. , & S. Coast 'Lon., Chat., and Dover !Lon. & North Western ILon. & Sonth Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares 3retropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Nfld. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, Sr Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle... North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok., an dWok. Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do LU Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 11 Paid.' Closiing Prce. 8 84 (4 7 86 88 116 116 ei 7 41 43 13 14 86 87 105 107 96 47 92 44 23} 244 128 129 132 133 136 138 104 106 sei fel 109 i 109 f 72 73 116 118 411 421 974 08 162 i 1(31 41 41i 121 121 128 129 q 97 99 53 53i 255 264 995 100 -d 57 58 84 881 128 130 111 1:8 1 15 p 165 165 11 11 118 120 48 49 104 106 47 49 33 34 90 90} 68 70 101 304 8 7 184 394 10 106 p 71 71 p 149 151 41 51 • 21 n 554 Mi 6 26 3 4p ids p 87 90 140 145 29 31 42 44 34 36 94 26 Business done 1143 15 13* II 64 i I loak 117 16 Cl{ 974 I 1031 2} In i f 1271 S Share' 13.14 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all — 65 - 67 - di, I Bom.,Baroda&Cent Ind ion 105 106 105 Gu. 5 per oent. 20 Do. New 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 4 1 54 4 1 10 Do. Preference .... . all 71 8 1 too Bufralo,Brant&Godric . h 1 , 1 , 80 83 ( 6 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1872 100 75 76 100 Do. do. June 1, 184 100 73 76 st Clcutta.&S.Eastn. ; 100 104 106 st Cape Town & Dock Scril 100 11 , 4 109 i 1081 9 stock Eastn. Bengal go. sp. ( 100 106 107 106 s stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1061 1(.71 1064 1 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 5 1 11p 2 0 Do. do. H do. .. 5 6 fP 51 stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 21 22 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 74 76 73/ 100 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. all 84 66 100 Do. 6 per at. Debentr. all 33 35 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 48 52 100 Do. do. 1867 .. all 33 25 1 00 Do. do. 1872.. all 33 35 stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 1051 1061 1051 6 20 Do. New gua. sp. C... 12 1 p 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 1 11 P stock Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent 100 104 106 201 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 121 121 121 201 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 99 101 100 Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.... all 92 04 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 l)p 34 f 4 stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 103 108 1025 stock Do. 41 p. 0. Extension 100 97 99 stock Dc. 4A d 0........ 100 93 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 Stook Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 53 1 00 Do. 7p. o. Hoeg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswiok ct Candi, Class A Capital Share all 3 5 2 0 Do. do. B Capital d 0... all 3 5 N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist rds 100 83 65 atom Soinde .......... (100 1(11 1064 st I Do. Delhi 1 Do. do ' „,z 2 j fp 2 0 Do. Punjaub C 15 p et Do. Do. , , leo 104 105 stock Do. Indus. St. PIK ) kior. 99 101 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEC U RITI Es. Can.Lior. p.c.Ja &J uly 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 'lO6 108 108 Do. 6p. o.Mar.& Sept 100 106 108 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 1 1 61 961 Do. 5 Inscribed stook: 100 113 95 Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873, 100 10 i 110 Do.Ap &Oct 188(Y 100 112 114 Do. 1890! 100 112 114 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891..1 100 111 113 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p 100 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&July: 100 104 105 MI Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct., 100 N. S.W. G OW. 5 p c.,18661 100 100 101 Do. sp. 04871 to 1876 , 100 991 1001 Do. d0.,1888 &upwde' 100 99 100 994 New Zealand 6p. cent.: 100 109 111 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c.i sterling, 1875 lOO 1051 1061 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 109 111 S. Aus G6p.c.1876.& up lOO 109 111 - Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July' 100 107 109 Do. in .1 p.a. An.&ont.. 100 110 1101 1091 10 BRITISH MINES. 2 i Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 par 1p - inford Amalgamated — 24 26 Devon G. Cone. aavist , 1 515 525 East Bassett (Mogan) 3O 51 63 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 55. p /p East Caradon ..... 81 491 49 East Carn Brea... 1.0.0 115 12 E. WlRuasel (Tavistk.' 7.19.0 Si 7 Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen.) 57, 18 20 Great South Tolg - us l7s 6 61 G. Wheal Vor (Helstons 40 6 61 Grenville... 6.15.1 5 51 Herod's-Foot 5.12 50 52 11 ingston Downs 4.7.0 21 31 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant J„ 33 40 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 21 Ids pr New Setun l9l 140 150 North Downs 2i 21 3 N. Wh '1 Basset (Illo.(an i. 17.0 20 11 Vorth Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey b 6 10 Providence(Uny Lelut.) 10.0.7 1 43 South Caradon(StCleer) 11 400 410 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 21 2/ ?Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.1-.9 871 921 Stray Park 28.9. 4! 48 5 Tamar SUVA Lead Min 4l 10 Tin Croft 9 141 41 xd West Basset (Illogan) ll 13 14 W Oaradon (Liskeard) 5 31 33 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan; 51 75 60 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 60 65 Wheal Kitty (11.Lelant) 2.0.6 71 81 WhealLud ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 155 164 Wheal Seton 5Bl r4O 260 wheal Treiawney (Lie ) 7 161 6 171 Wheal Union 3 .13 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great vorthern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. prem., 106 k Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pref , 101 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 21 LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. Clydesdale Junction, 105 London and Chatham 41 per Cent., 94 3 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 7, Belgian Eastern Junction, 1 Great Luxembourg, 141 San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 91 / FOREIGN MINES. Mariquita, ; Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lim.),:f St. John del Rey (iim.), 551 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 3g JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 244 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 211 City, 92 Eng., Scot., and Australian Chartered, 211 1 London and Brazilian (lira.), 31* London Chartered Bank of Australia, 261 London and Colonial (lim.), 31 London and County, 38 9 London Joint Stock, 31i London and South African, 25 London and Westminster, 7:i 8) 791 Ottoman Bank, new, 81 South Australia, 3h 1 Standard of British South Africa (Um ), 10 Union of London, 321 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 31a Engli London n h ujiaG a nanre Janeiro ren A orda u clo s io t t Australian mt a tab n piur C ssot ! eao p mmm e er,pn, Company .), 11 Ithyinney Iron, 19, RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863. Fxßir Lincoln ..............26 LCIi. Doncaster Spring ......16 Warwick Spring ........ 18 Northampton .......... 24 Croaton Park .......,..27 Nottingham Spring 3 Derby Spring . Liverpool Spring lO Shrewsbury l2 APRIL. Newmarket Craven.. 6 Liverpool Hunt C1ub....10 Durham . 6 I Think . .14 Knighton Llanboidy .. .. 7 Newmarket F. S 20 Catterick Bridge. . 8 York Spring .... 28 Ab erg avenny .... 9 Salisbury Chester 5 Bath ................. , 12 Marlborough l4 Harpenden Ju: Y. Epsom l9 Radcliffe 25 Manchester 27 Ascot ............. . .... 2 Newton ................ 10 Hampton .............. 10 Odiham ................ 16 Beverley. ...........17 'NE. Bibury Club 17 I Stockbridge lB Chelmsford 23 I Newcastle 23 Carlisle ... $ ~,30 rARY. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1861 LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir Cresswell Cresswell.) DAVIES V. DAVIES AND HUGHES. This was a suit instituted by the husband against his wife for dissolution of marriage. It appeared that the parties were married at St. George's, Wolverhampton, in 1843, and they then both entered the service of a gentleman named Freeland, at Cosforth, in Staffordshire. The marriage was a secret one, and it was only on the occasion of a quarrel that the fact was disclosed to a person named Thomas Nicholls, a gardener, in the ser vice of the same gentleman. After the quarrel the husband left Cosforth to seek other employment, and during his absence the respondent became familiar with Hughes, who succeeded her husband in his situation. They had been seen " clipping and kissing" each other, but nothing further. Mrs. Davies and Hughes afterwards left Cosforth, and the next he saw of them was at Wolverhampton. When he met Hughes ho asked him how the " missus" was, meaning Mrs. Davis, and he said she was very well. They were then living at that place as husband and wife. A gentle man named Rosier, of Bedford-place, London, said the petitioner had been in the service of his father for 16 or 17 years, and it was only lately that he had mentioned the fact that he was martied, lie had holidays to go into the country to see his friends, but he never asked for leave of absence to visit his wife during the whole of the time he had been in London. The Judge Ordinary said it was a case requiring grave consideration. As the matter at present stood, it seemed as if the petitioner had voluntarily separated from his wife en the understanding that he was going to try to better his situa tion. That took place nearly 20 years agc, and there was nothing to show that during that time he made the slightest effort to see his wife. Under all the circumstances he would reserve his decision for the present. lULNES V. MILNES AND EARP. This was a suit also for dissolution of marriage instituted by the husband. The parties were married at Nottingham in 18.56, and lived happily for about four years. The separation took place in 1860. Mrs. Davis, a person residing at Newnham terrace, Lambeth, said Mrs. Milnes, whom she knew as Mrs. Earp, occupied apartments in her house for some time with a person whom she thought was her husband, On one occasion a gentleman named Jordan called to serve a paper (the citation) on Mrs. Milnes, when she took it. He also said he had one for Mr. Earp, when Mrs. Milnes told him she would take him to where he would see him. Mr. Jordan produced a photo graph of Mrs, Milnes, when she took it out of his hand and broke it to pieces, stamped upon it on the floor, and said, if her husband was there she would serve him the same. She also said when the business (meaning the petition for di vorce) was over Earp and her intended to get married, A question arose as to the identity of the person named in the citation being Mrs. Milnes, but after some difficulty, the fact was established to the satisfaction of his lordship who granted a decree nisi. HAVILAND V. HAVILAND. This was a suit instituted by the wife for a dissolution of marriage. The parties were married in 1848 at Leamington, from whence they proceeded to Ventnor. On coming to London they went to live in Cambridge-square, Hyde-park. Mr. Haviland was at this time a lieutenant in the 62d Regiment. The separation took place in 1865, in consequence of Mrs. Haviland discovering an improper intimacy between her husband and Mrs. Desborough, who resided at Chelsea. The petitioner, when she became aware of the circum stance, accused Captain Haviland of the fact; when he packed up his trnnk, put a ring on her finger, and went away. Mrs. Haviland went to Boulogne after this, but left word that apartments would be prepared for him; but he never came, and from that day down to the present Mrs. Haviland had never seen her husband. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A. BROTHER.—James Smith, alias Donovan, a determined looking young man, and who appeared in the dock without coat or waistcoat, was charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Catherine Hawkins, his married sister, with a knife, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prosecutrix, a young woman, whose head was en veloped in bandages, said—l live at 24, Tower-street, and am a married woman, but I am living apart from my hus band at present. I am staying with my mother. Yesterday morning, about 8 o'clock, the prisoner, who is my brother, came in and began ill-using my mother because she had a shilling he wanted. He then began beating my mother, and got her on the floor and jumped upon her. I begged of the prisoner not to ill .use my mother, and seeing that her mouth was bleeding I ran for assistance and called " Police." As soon as I did so the prisoner ran away up Tower-street. In about two hours he came back, I then being in bed, when he said, "You--, I'll do for you for trying to give me in charge this morning." He then seized a knife off the table, and stabbed me in the temple with it. I then called for the police, but before they came ho ran away a second time. I was covered with blood, and was taken to the Charing-cross Hospital in a oab. Mr. Tyrwhitt—You have your arm bandaged, did he cut that also? Prosecutrix—No, sir. The doctor said a leader in my arm had burst in consequence of the wound on my head. Mr. Tyrwhitt—How long was it before the constable came ? Prosecutrix—ln about ten minutes. I did not remain at the hospital, but after my wound was dressed I went home. When he came home again in the evening I got a constable and gave him in charge. Once before he stabbed me. Mr. Tyrwhitt—When Prosecutrix--About a twelvemonth ago, in Shorts-gar dens. He then stabbed me in the shoulder. Ido not wish to hurt him. I only want to be protected from him. Mrs. Ann Donovan, a widow, living at 24, Tower-street, said—The prisoner is my son and the prosecutrix my daughter. My son works, and I wish him to be kept quiet Mr. Tyrwhitt—What did he inflict the wound with? Witness—l was not in the room when he used the knife. When he ill-used me I was intoxicated, and don't know what he did, but I recollect that he knocked me down and jumped upon me. Oh yes, I recollect that. I don't wish to punish him, but I want him to "run loose," provided he behaves himself. He quarrelled with me about a shilling, William Walters, 143 F, said—At half-past eight yes terday evening, I was called to 24, Tower -street, and there saw the prosecutrix, and she said that she had been stabbed by her brother, the prisoner, and she gave him into custody. The prisoner was at that time lying on the bed and the prosecutrix had her head bandaged, and also her arm. I took the prisoner to the station. This knife was brought to the station by the constable who was called in in the morning (a knife with blood in it was produced). Mr. Tyrwhitt—You had better keep the knife just as it is. Constable—The prisoner said that he was very drunk at the time, and recollected nothing about it. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall commit you for trial. I have no doubt your sister and mother would like nothing to be done with you out of kindness, but 1 am determined there shall be. Mr. Tyrwhitt, after the depositions had been signed, , aid —Prosecutrix, I would advise you to go to and remain at the hospital, as there is evidently danger in the wound. Prosecutrix—l would rather go home, sir. The mother of the prisoner here fell down on the floor of the court, having fainted, and was carried out by some of the officers. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. A very large supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. Both red and white qualities, however, moved off slowly, at Monday's currency. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was tolerably extensive. In all descriptions sales progressed slowly, on former terms. Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, at late rates. Malting barley ruled firm, at extreme currencies. In grinding and distilling qualities a limited business was transacted, at the late decline in their value. Malt was in slow demand, yet prices were supported. Oate, the supply of which was very moderate, ruled firm, at extreme rates. In the value of beans and peas no alteration took place, but the inquiry for them was far from active. The flour trade, on the whole, was steady, at late cur rencies, US THIS WEEK. Whe .arley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English...." LI 250 550 280:1 I,lBo_ 1ri5h.......... 1 _ . Foreign...• .• 11,550 1 8,870 1,150 1 470 Rack- 8,70 bale BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in cur market is very moderate, yet prices are steadily supported. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand, on the whole, rules steady, as follows :—Beef from 2e 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d Co 4s 2d ; veal, 35 6d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 38 4d to 4s 4d per Sibs, by the carcase. Owing to the unfavourable state of the weather for the past few weeks the operations of the Royal Engineers employed in the woods adjoining Upnor Castle, Chatham, in making gabions and fascines for the Royal Engineer establishment, have been much retarded. Orders have accordingly been given for the men employed on that duty to work in the woods from 8 a.m. till 3 30 p.m. without returning to barracks for dinner, which will be provided for them on their return at the latter hour. An unusu ally large quantity of gabions and fascines will be required during the approaching summer. THE SPRING HANDICAPS. ACCEPTANCES FOR Yrs st lb Asteroid .. 5 9 4 Caller Ou .. 5 8 6 Buckstone .. 4 8 6 Knutsford .. 5 8 2 Cowley .. .. 5 8 0 Ben Webster .. 6 S 0 Zetland .. 4 8 0 Bellman .. 5 8 0 Carisbrook.. .. 4 8 0 Dulcibella .. 6 7 12 Avalanche.. .. 6 7 12 Bally Edmond .. 5 7 12 King of Kent .. 5 710 Flexmore .. 4 7 9 Hartington .. 4 7 9 Camerino .. 5 7 8 Gardener .. .. 5 7 6 The Knave .. 4 7 6 Cbere Arnie .. 6 7 5 Henham Lass .. 5 7 5 Pisarro (late Duko Rollo .. 4 7 5 Dusk .. .. 4 7 4 Stradella .. 4 7 4 Fits-Avon.. C 7 4 Earl of Surrey .. 4 7 2 Uorse .. 4 7 2 Haddington .. 7 2 Viscount Brignall.. 5 7 0 Queen of Spain .. 4 7 0 Barbadoes 4 6 12 Catch 'em Alive .. 4 6 10 Kill or Cure .. 4 6 10 Victor .. 4 6 10 Roman Bee .. 3 6 10 Dalesman. .. 4 6 8 Jealousy .. a 6 8 Bernice .. .. 5 6 7 Freeholder .. 4 6 5 Killigrew .. a 6 4 The Brewer .. a 6 4 The Plover 3 6 3 Le Marechal .. 3 6 2 Valentine .., 3 6 2 Liston .. 3 6 2 THE CHESTER CUP. Yrs st lb Canace .. 3 6 2 Port Royal .. 3 6 2 Brother to Scent .. 3 6 0 Erin -go-Bragh 3 6 0 Mainstay 3 6 0 Forester .. 4 6 0 Physician • . a 6 0 Real Jam .. 4 6 0 M. Philippe .. a 6 0 Bohemia .. 3 5 13 Glenochty colt .. 3 512 Double X .. 3 5 12 Donne Canne .. 4 5 12 Emily di Lona .. 4 512 Weatherspy .. 3 5 12 Barchettina .. 3 5 12 Dunkeld 3 5 12 Count Cavour .. 3 510 Lady Fauconberg.. 3 5 10 Black Deer .. 3 5 10 Monitor .. 3 5 10 Dr. Syntax .. 3 5 10 Glanco colt .. 3 5 10 Dualla .. 3 5 8 Ernest .. .. 3 5 8 Lady Superior .. 3 5 8 Conical .. 3 5 8 Alcestis .. 3 5 8 Lufra .. 3 5 8 Anfield .. 3 5 8 Luscinia 3 5 7 Fantail 3 5 7 Middlewatch .. 3 5 7 Amelia .. 3 5 7 Jack of Hearts .. 3 5 7 Contralto .. 3 5 7 Venison .. 3 5 7 Chaff .. 3 5 7 Serf .• 3 5 7 Canzonette .. 3 5 7 Muffler .. 3 5 7 King of Italy .. 3 5 7 Voluptus .. 3 5 7 Laertes .. 3 5 7 Lady of the Isles.. 3 5 7 LINCOLN SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25. The Lincolnshire Handicap. One mile. Age st lb.l Suburban 6 8 12' Joey Jones Libellous The Monk 6 8 2 Maggiore Lord Stanley 4 7 12 Michel Grove Charles Fox 4 7 11 Knight of the Bath 4 7 10 , Miss Livingstone 4 7 10 Lopcatcher Churchman Henham Lass Peignor 4 7 6 Flash in the Pen a 7 5 Ethel 4 7 5 NI. Philippe Everlasting Conundrum_ 5 7 3 Gleam Prologue .••••• 4 7 2 Hubert Weatherwise Squire Percy ... • 5 7 0 Misfortune .. , 4 7 0 The Norman Tithonius Court Martial Adventurer The Grand Steeplechai Age at lb Jealousy Maritana Romeo Yaller Gal a 10 12 Jerusalem ..... The Dane a 10 10 Sinking Fund i 'oubtful Avalanche a 10 4 Satellite .... Ravenstonedale Northern Light Heads or Tails Light of other Days a 10 2 Lincoln Cockatoo Cuirassier _ Age st lb Rupture Remunerator une 5 6 13 ri Manrico 4 6 12 Drumstick 4 6 10 Paresseuse Engineer, by Volti geur Golden Drop 3 6 8 Honest Tom 3 6 6 Comet Alcibiades 3 6 5 Oakapple Revolver Souveraine Sea Nymph 3 6 0 Safeguard 3 5 13 Fontenoy Antar 3 5 12 Invasion Dualla Refuge Mrs. Somerville Lady Maria Dinah filly .. 3 5 10 Jenny Wren 3 5 9 True Heart Douche Westrvinster 3 5 7 Hypermnestra Lee. About four miles. Age st lb Chester Mary Ann a 10 0 Muhum in Pervo a 10 0 Remedium Pineapple Countess Wilful .... Mutineer Magician Broomstick .. a 9 2 Climax Discrepancy .. a 9 2 Cherokee I a 9 2 Cheery Chap a 9 2 Birdbolt a 9 2 Canteen a 9 0 Confidence 6 9 0 BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY. The only investment we saw made on Chester Cup was on Anfield, about whom 500 to 15 was taken. For Liver pool Steeple Chase, 100 to 6 each was taken about Master Bagot and Avalanche; but at the close 100 to 6 was the current offer on the field. For the Derby there was an evident wish to lay against Saccharometer, although no higher offer was made than 100 to 9. Carnival appeared friendless. 2,000 to 60 was taken about King of Utopia. Very little was done on Waterloo Cup: 100 to 8 was offered against Mr. Spinks' and 100 to 7 against Mr. Wor rail's nominations, but those figures did not suit the backers. Closing prioes : _ LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 100 to 6 agat Avalanche (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Master Bagot (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Anatis (offered) 20 to 1 agat Tho Dane (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Jealousy (offered) CILESTDIL CUP. 20 to 1 on the field—offered 25 to 1 bar one—offered 33 to 1 agst Anfield (taken) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 11 to 1 agat Saccharometer (offered) 100 to 8 agst Hospodar (offered) 25 to 1 agst Carnival (offered) 30 to 1 agst Jarniooton (offered) 33 to 1 agst King of Utopia (taken) 50 to 1 agst Cairncastle (taken) 50 to 1 agst Glenochty colt (taken) 50 to 1 agst Avenger (offered) 100 to 1 agst Bright Cloud (taken) 100 to 1 agst Trojanus (taken) 100 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken) There is no change in the betting on the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes. WATERLOO CUE. 100 to 7 agst Mr. Spinks' nomination —wanted 100 to 6 agst Mr. Worrall's nomination —wanted 100 to 6 agst Mr. Blackstock's nomination—offered 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gibson's nomination—tk and offrd 100 to 3 agst Mr. Knowles' nomination —offered 100 to 3 agst Mr. Hammond's nomination—offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. Hayward's nomination —taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Lawton's nomination —taken, CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY• TWO THOUSAND. 100 to 30 on the field (offered) 300 to 15 agst Pratique (taken) CHESTER CUE. 500 to 200 agst the 3-yr-olds (taken) THE DERBY. 2500 to 50 agst Glenochty colt (taken) GUNPOWDER v. RAIN• The Geographische Mittheilungen of Petermann contains several curious communications concern ing the influence of the concussion produced in the atmosphere by discharges of artillery and musketry upon the weather. Among them is one from Mr. Lewis, one of the editors of Silliman's Journal, who distinctly rejects the popular idea that clouds are dispersed by the roar of artillery, and contends that a brisk cannonade is often fol lowed by a pelting shower. Thus, in October, 1825, the salvos which were fired on the occasion of the inauguration of the Eris canal were followed by torrents of rain; and several other instances are adduced, in which discharges of artillery caused the condensation of equeous vapour in the atmosphere, and a subsequent violent shower either on the same day or en the day after. It is well known that the battle of Solferino was interrupted for a while by a most copious fall of rain. In July, 1861, M'Clellan's army had to fight for four successive days, and every evening closed with a heavy shower. The first battle of Bull's Run was fought on the 21st June of that year, and the 22d turned out to be a rainy day. Another correspondent, M. S chropter, of Buda, states that on the 4th May, 1849, the citadel of that place, defended by 84 guns of heavy calibre, was attacked by a suitable power of artillery. The weather, which had been extremely fine for several weeks past on that day became cloudy, and a driz zling rain fell, which lasted from midnight until morning. TLe sky then remained clear until the 17th, when a violent storm broke out, that nearly coincided with a bombardment which lasted six hours. But after this storm the weather became fair again, and not even the storming of the fortress was followed by a drop of rain. This single nega tive result, however, does not entirely, as a third correspondent rightly observes, disprove the opinion that rain may be called forth at will by a loud can nonade; and if this were true, the effects of a pro longed drought might be considerably mitigated. FRENCH MEDIATION IN AMERICA.—The Nord o f yesterday says that M. Drouyn de Lhuys has addressed a note to the French Ministers at St. Petersburg, London, Vienna, and Berlin, instructing them to sound these Courts upon the fitness, not of me di a ti on , b u t of s i m pl e counsels which might be given to the belligerent parties at W as hi ng ton and Richmond, advising them to name commissioners charged to examine, with or without an armistice, upon what bases an ar rangemen t m ight be made with the Yi O V of putting an end to the calamitous war. MR. KINGLAKE ON NAPOLEON 111. The Times' Opinion of the Exceeding Malignity of this Attack. Now comes a very remarkable part of this very remark able book. For some purpose which we cannot divine,with motives quite above or below conjecture, Mr. Kinglake stops short in his interesting narrative of the events of July, 1853. He suddenly considers it "necessary to glance at the operations of a small knot of middle-aged men, who, in the winter of 1851, were pushing their fortunes in Paris." If the book were a great epic we could understand the episo dical pieces which recorded the bravery of some Diomed or the baseness of a Thersites. But it is a history of the transac tions which led to the Russian War. It is,indeed, impossible to read this interpolation without admiration for the power of the writer. Erinnys and all the Furies accompany him through every page, the lash and the flaying-knife, the scorpion's sting, the angry tooth, the nail, irony, sarcasm, invective are used with unsparing, indiscriminating strength. But it strikes us that this exhibition of power and poetical rage belongs to another drama, or that it at one time was intended to appear alone, and that it has been incorporated here by a great mistake. If anything is to be deduced from the splendid fragment it is this—that the Emperor Louis Napoleon, feeling his want of status after the coup d'etat in 1851, prepared the war of 1851 as a means of stabilitating his throne, and of humiliating the Czar, who refused to fraternise with his ill-sprung Power. To that end he ca joled England, hoodwinked Ministers, statesmen, Parlia ment, and people, moulded them like wax to his purpose, and finally succeeded in securing for himself and his posi tion the ineffably great support which the friendship of Queen Victoria and the entente eordiale between England and his Government must inevitably confer. And what manner of man was he who did all this—who overcame the cold jealousy of a proud and ancient race—who broke in on the guarded friendship of our gravest diplomatists—who wrapped Great Britain in the folds of an entangling alli ance—who alienated our rulers from their natural allies, and led them far away from safe traditional paths ? Mr. Kinglake describes him. And, if the description be true, surely two great nations were never so befooled, never before has Fortune been so blind, never has France been so degraded, never has England been such a miserable dupe, and never have our great statesmen in council exhibited such unmitigated foolishness. A man of blank, wooden looks, of opaque features, with the bearing and countenance of a weaver oppressed by long hours of mono tonous indoor• work, which makes the body stoop and keeps the eye downcast, turning a greenish hue in moments of danger, with a sluggish flow of ideas, of dull intellect, pass ing the hours of a studious youth and the prime of a thoughtful manhood in contriving how to apply stratagem to the science of jurisprudence—with just enough of daring to lead him into dangerous enterprises, and without the nerve to behave well in or get well out of them—nay, it is more than insinuated by Mr. Kinglake, a coward in the presence of an enemy such is the man who, ho says, succeeded in thoroughly conquering the pre judices and allaying the antipathies of the wisest and best men of England after the perpetration of the most atrocious and fiendish crimes. This is not our language ; it is but a most meagre reflex of the tremendous sentences in which Mr. Kinglake has exacted vengeance for some wrong done to his country, to humanity—or to himself. What the Emperor Napoleon 111. did in France is not so much to us as what, according to Mr. Kinglake, one so ill gifted did with us in England. It may tend to raise suspicions respecting the impartiality of our his torian's estimate of the character of the man who now fills such a place in the eye of Europe—and who will probably go down to posterity without Mr. Kinglake's stigma—that the satirist does not, in his sketch of the last days of the Republic of 1848, say one word of the evils which afflicted France and appalled society and property. He is, indeed, obliged to confess that the army, the great body of the working men, the clergy, and some of the noblest intel lects in France accepted the coup d'etat with thankfulness, as a measure necessary to save the country from socialism and anarchy. But they are not France. They do no re present Mr. Kinglake's France, at least. It is not .►ur intention to be the apologists of the Emperor Napoleon. We did not disguise our horror of the scenes which occurred in Paris after the 2d of December. We do not accept success as a divinity. Our honest sympa thies cannot be with a rule which interferes with free speech and crushes the liberty of the press. But the Em peror has proved himself to be no vulgar, incapable impos tor; to the outward eye, and before the world, he fills well the Imperial robes he has won. Surely it is a libel to say that the man who stood unmoved amid the bombs of the assassin is a poltroon, as it is unworthy of Mr. Kinglake to measure the quality of the Emperor's daring in the battle field by the losses inflicted on his escort in the crowning victory of Solferino. It is especially unworthy of Mr. Kinglake to do this, be , cause he represents Lord Raglan and his Staff at the Alma as being exposed to a fire--nay, to a cannonade, a bombard ment—deliberate, well-aimed, long-continued, so powerful that, had it been brought to bear, he declares, on the English line, "it might have maimed it in a vital part of the field I" For three pages we have an elaborate description of the storm of shot and shell which was directed, as we are assured, from " a great number of guns," against the Head-quarters Staff, conspicuous by the white flowing plumes of the officers. Shells, "sometimes in a black flight, exploding nearly at the same moment, or briskly, one after another, right and left, and all around," fol lowed the round shot, and whenever Lord Raglan and Staff were obliged to cross the road " they rode at it briskly as at a leap, and spanned it with one or two strides, thus leaving the prepared storm of shells to burst a little behind them." Of course the slaughter among the Staff was dreadful in such a fiery furnace of battle, and the wonder is how a man escaped from an "effort of the Russian artillery against Lord Raglan and the group surrounding him, which lasted a long time, and was carried on upon a scale better propor tioned to the destruction of a whole division." But Provi dence protected them, as it guarded the Emperor at Solferino. Not one of the Stall was scratched, nor had oae of them a hair of his head singed. As an introduction to the history of the coup d'etat, after the metaphysical and personal sketches of the young Louis Napoleon and his studies, all written in the same spirit, the historian of the Invasion of the Crimea ". considers it necessary" to give full and detailed accounts of the Prince's attempts to overthrow the Government at Boulogne and Strasbourg, and reiterates his charge of something worse than want of personal courage. Mr. Kinglake drags into this narrative, in the rudest manner an English gentleman can do it in words, the associates, the Ministers, and agents in the coup d'etat, and introduces us with scant courtesy to " Fialin dit Per signy," Fleury, Morny, Maupas, Magnan, and St. Arnaud, whom Mr. Kinglake seems to think it very clever to call " formerly Le Roy" all through this part of his book. To none of them does he deign even an " M.," and what he says of them had better be left unrepeated here. This chap ter, no doubt, was written long ago, and has been since re touched and polished again and again, still it is as sharp as the serpent's tooth. One hundred and thirteen pages, or nearly one-fourth of the whole of the first volume, which purport to be an account of the " transactions which brought on the war of 1854-5," • are occupied in this ruthless on slaught on the Emperor of the French, his early associates, and the men of the 2d of December and 4th of December, 1851. At the close of this long chapter, wherein—every line abounding—are fullest traces of a labour of love in his work, he attempts to justify the digression by the remark that the policy of France was moulded by the personal exigencies of its new ruler and his friends. But he fails entirely to show that any change took place after the coup d'etat in the general principles on which France had uni formly acted with respect to the Latin Church and the Eastern question. Although in 1853 the army, the clergy, the working classes—" the poople"—of Fr...a woro pro foundly content, Mr. Kinglake says that at this time the tranquillity of Europe " portended gaol and ill-usage and death" to the Emperor Napoleon I So he labours to prove that the language, which he admits to be temperate, just, and moderate, of the Emperor in the Courts of Europe was but a cloak to his design to engage England in naval, movements tending to provoke war. But, when the Turks in a panic flew to the representatives of England and France, the latter ordered their respective fleets to repair to the Levant. The English Admiral did not come. The French Admiral obeyed the summons. If we are to read history by the light of events which have occurred, and adopt Mr. Kinglake's summary (page 344) of the Emperor's acts, there might be some reason for maintaining that he showed greater foresight than his ally, and that the adop tion of his plans might have prevented the naval disaster at Sinope, which attached a certain disgrace to our arms and rendered war inevitable. TURIN, JAN. 22.—Signor Rattazzi is at the Lake of Como, where, it is said, he does not occupy him self oyermuch with political matters. The Marquis Gual • terio left to-day for Genoa, where he will occupy the office of prefect, left vacant by the departure of the Marquis d'Afllitto to Naples. The Marquis Gualterio is from the Marches. In 1848 he followed Charles Albert in the Lom bardy campaign, and afterwards wrote an excellent work upon the Italian revolutions, Baron Iticasoli appointed him Prefect of Perugia, but from this post be was recalled by Rattazzi, who did not like the somewhat unfavourable manner in which he had b een s poken of in the wor k j ust alluded alluded to. Parliament definitively opens on b Financial questions will be the order of the day, and will politics will be shelved as much as possible. Th is course with pretty general favour out of doors.nE U NINFLAMMABLE LADIES' DRESSES. --A meet writer i s n i m p a l e c b o u n t t e e ff m ee p t ( u ) r a a i ry says P remedy b e en cleaned in the u sual manner, mix a handful of aga i ns t er t m he it ign m i e tion to of off la 'e d r ies a ' dresses. When the dr ess has Icloir tohnissbaeltfoirne wrwaterwringing i o n r g s t a starch water, out. The two virtues —th a t o f preserving lt s will c olours and making the dress perf ec tl y non inflammable. The objection to sulphate o f ammonia or tung state of soda is their tendency both to perish colours and fabrics. Any family can in two minutes test my receipt, and should it be found to possess the virtue I claim for it, then a cheap, simple, and effectual remedy will be provided a gainst a repetition of these terrible fire accidents. LITERATURE. Roba di Roma. By William W. Story. 2 vole. Chapman and Hall. There are probably few moce striking contrasts existing in modern social states than between the civilisation of Rome and That of America. They represent the opposite extremes of idealism and practical life, of beauty and utility, of venerable age and reckless enterprising youth. The atmos phere which reigns in the one is the dreamy twilight of the realm of art; in the other, the hard, cold morning of worldly experience. Among the po pulation of the one we find a faith which its enemies assert partakes of superstition ; among that of the other a matter-of-fact tone of thought which its antagonists declare to arise from want of principle- At first sight, then, it would seem that there could be little sympathy between such opposing systems, that the citizs3us of the one could hardly do justice to the other, and that any description of Rome from the pen of an American, or of the great New World from an inhabitant of the Eternal City would hardly be a faithful and friendly portrait. That such need not always be the case is, however, apparent from the two goodly volumes before us. Mr. Story, an American by birth and education, has under taken to set forth " Roba di Roma," or, in other words, "everything from rubbish and riff-raff to the most exquisite product of art and nature." And this promise he fulfils, taking us from the crowded cafe to the desolate Campagna, now bidding us pause to examine the wonderful ruin of the Colosseum, and now leading us through the dark and dismal streets of the Ghetto ; showing us alike the smiling beauty of the Italian May and the gay doings of the vintage. We listen with him to the clamour of the beggars and the piping strains of the Pifferari ; we stand to look at the games of Morra or Pallone, which have come down from the days of the Pharoahe and the Caesars, and join the anxious crowd awaiting the drawing of the lottery. We smile at the bon mots of Pasquin, and sigh over the recollections of the stern and cruel "good old times," which he points out to us. It is a book which could only have been written by one thoroughly conversant with Rome and Romish ways ; who had himself lingered in the markets or watched the fountains playing; had mixed freely with its people, and habitually spoken its language. A genuine love for the ancient city is another quali fication possessed by the writer. Even its very dirt is sacred in his eyes, and more than once he attacks those lovers of modern cleanliness and order who would repair its ruins and whitewash its many coloured walls. " The Romantic," he says, " will not consort with the monotonous—Nature is not neat—poetry is not formal—and Rome is not clean." The great marvels of Rome have all been described a myriad times, and every traveller knows what he is expected to see and to admire. "Every English man carries a Murray for information, and a Byron for sentiment, and finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step. All the pub lic and private life and history of the ancient Romans, from Romulus to Constantine or Julius the Apostle (as he is sometimes called) is perfectly well known. But the common life of the modern Romans, the games, customs, and habits of the people, the everyday of To-day, has been only touched upon here and there, sometimes with spirit and accuracy, as by Charles Macfarlane, sometimes with grace, as by Hans Christian Andersen, and sometimes with great ignorance as by Jones, Brown, and Robinson, who see through the eyes of their courier, and the spectacles of their prejudices." A residence of many years in Rome has enabled our author to undertake the office of cicerone, not to the wonders of art, but to the routine of everyday existence, and to combat the hasty conclusions which strangers, especially English and American, are so ready to arrive at after a slight and super ficial acquaintance with Rome and its people. With these objectsbefore him it was to be expected that Mr. Story's work should be somewhat diffuse. We think, however, it might have been judiciously curtailed. He might with advantage have kept to the matter in hand, the Rome of the present day, and have spared us the catalogue of the crimes o the unworthy aspirants to the Papal dignity. It was not to be expected either that the religion of Rome would be otherwise than antagonistic to an American, yet we warn Catholic readers that they will often have something to forgive in his lan guage. We must regret also a want of reverence in his tone, which will jar upon Protestants also, but this is possibly the result of a semi -humorous style which occasionally degenerates into flippancy. The author expresses at the outset his hope that he shall not be dull—a hope that is fulfilled—but we must admit that he is sometimes diffuse. He is thoroughly well versed in Roman history, ancient and modern, sacred and profane. He can tell us when giraffes were first brought into the amphi theatre of the Colosseum, what long processions laid the stately dead in the chambers of the Mausoleum of Augustus; how the Arch of Titus, and the Baths of Caracalla slowly raised their imposing structures— how successive Emperors persecuted the miserable Jews, and crushed them back into the narrow streets of the Ghetto. Of this singular colony he speaks as follows : THE GHETTO. Let us pass round this gigantic hulk that towers and glooms over the low, miserable houses near it, and we are into the Ghetto. We have entered, appropriate enough, into the Piazza del Pianto—the Place of Weeping—for sorrow and tears have been the heritage of the children of Israel ever since their splendid city was destroyed and they were scattered to the four winds of heaven. On the very spot where we now stand, or within a short distance from it, this Roman colony of Jews have lived for more than 18 centuries, despised and degraded—the pariahs of Europe and the Church. Through all the sad vicissitudes of these ages of ignominy, here they have clung with a pertinacity which is unaccountable. No savagery of persecution has been able to drive them away from the place where they have suffered most. Enslaved, and thrown to the wild beasts of the arena as sport for the imperial populace, out lawed and denied all intercourse with Christians by the Popes, branded with infamy, oppressed by cruel laws, irri tated by constant insults, banned from the city, and crowded in wretched and unwholesome houses, they have hovered about Rome as moths round the lamp that burns them, and are now the oldest unbroken colony of Jews in Europe. Close by the side of the P a p al Church, which claims to have been instituted by Christ, the Jewish Church, dedi cated to Jehovah, has stationed itself, and maintained the law of Moses with unflinching faith. Persuasions and threats have been tried on it in vain, Under the unre mitted burden of their woes, the Jews have obstinately re sisted conversion, and on the ruins of the Pagan temples, and within the precincts of the city dedicated to Jove, the two churches of Moses and Peter have held their hostile camps. Of the beggars of Rome we have a lengthened his tory, beginning, as in duty bound, with Beppo, king of the confraternity. This interesting indi vidual deliberately selected his profession in youth, being incapacitated from active exertion by lame ness. He has now amassed a comfortable fortune, and rides home at night on his donkey. His throne is on the upper step of the Scale di Spagna, close to the Trinita di Monti. The country festal are grand harvests for Beppo and his tribe, who out strip all visitors. BEGGARS AT A PETS, As you reach the gates of the town, thlthroz sidebe mt the furious. There are scores of beggars how far the town road, screaming in chorus. No wretched, m maimed cripple be from the city, there is not a of your acquaintance, not onernotart,hneootlda r s a tu g m ge p d s b w a h re o n h w a h ve o dodged you round a Roman ca through the public squares has levied toll for his passage a privileged ro bber w h o has shut up for you. a pleasant or waylaid ydu a t an interesting church, b u t h e is sur e to be there. How i they got there i s as i nexplicable as how the app les got i nto the dumplings in Peter Pindar's poem . But at the first ring of a feels-bell th e y start up r from under-ground (those who are legless getting only half -way up), like Roderick Dhu's men, and level their c rutches at you as the others did their arrows. An Eng lish lady, a short time since, after wintering at Rome, went to take the baths of Lucca in the summer. On going out for a walk, on the first morning after he: arrival, whom should she meet but King Beppo, whom she had just left in Rome I Ile had come with the rest of the nobility for recreation and bathing, and of course had brought his profession with him, The charities of the Roman Government are large, says the author, but the money is not always ad ministered to the best advantage. There are hos pitals of many kinds, besides establishments for the care of orphans and for the provision of young girls. He speaks warmly of the good qualities of the 'cellars, and by no means shares the depre ciating prejudice which he affirms to be so common among visitors who know little of the people t hey condemn. He represents them as a, prudent and abstemious people, and angrily refutes the charges of unhealthiness which foroignere bring against his beloved Rome, by bidding them do at Rome as the Romans de—live temperately and regularly, avoid heats and chills, and keep their windows closed at night to avoid the miasma from the Campegna. They are. es we all know, a cheerful people ; suicide is a thing almost unknown ; and one of their great amuse ments--in fact, almost a necessity of life to them— is the theatre. They are good actors, being en tirely devoid of exaggeration and pretence. Of course, as the theatre is in such dernand among citizens who are by no means remarkable for wealth, it is indispensable that prices should be low, and that such is the case is proved by the ,:keoom panying picture of— AN ITALIAN THEATRE. The boxes areill-furnished, with common straw-bottomed. chairs without arms, sometimes a mirror, and generally a velvet cushion in front on which to rest the elbow or arm or to place the lorgnette ; no carpets are on the brick fleece, which, in the winter sea, , n, numb one's feet with cold. One of the servant, of the theatre, however, always comes to the box to offer footsto At, for the use of which he asks a few baioceki. But comfort is trot an Italian word, nor au Italian thing; and if you are dissatisfied and begin to grumble at the desolat e an d cold palehi, and contrast it with the cushioned and carpeted ones at home, please to pause and count the cost of that comfort, and remember that here you pay three sixpences and there a guinea to hear the same singers. I was never so struck by this as once on coming from Italy into Franc ). I had just been hearing the " Trovatore" sung by the troupe, in which were Beau for whom it was w r itt en; and carde, Pence, and Goggi, when the season came on in Paris nearly the same com pany were advertised to sing the same opera there. I w as inclined to hear them again, but after having heard them six months before for three pauls, I experienced a decided sense of unwillingness to pay ten francs for identically the same singing, merely because my seat was an arm-chair well-padded and covered with velvet. So, too, after for years purchasing the privilege of listening to Ristori and Salvini for two pauls and a half, or a shilling English, I rebelled in London against paying half a guinea far the same thing; the chair in this case being scarcely more comfortable, and the house much more close and stuffy. As a contrast to these gayer passages, we will cite our author's description of— THE ARA CCELT. It was here that Romulus, in the gray dawning of Rome,. built the temple of Jupiter Feretrius. Here the spolia °pima were deposited. Here the triumphal processions of the Emperors and generals waded. Here the victors paused before making their vows until, from the Mamertine pri sons below, the message came to announce that their noblest prisoner and victim, while the clang of their tri umph and his defeat rose ringing in his ears as the pro cession ascended the steps, had expiated with death the crime of being the enemy of Rome. Over these very steps, nineteen centuries ago, the first great Cesar climbed on his knees after his first triumph, At their base, Rienzi, "last of the Roman tribunes," fell. And, if the tradition of the Church is to be trusted, it was on the site of the present high altar that Augustus erected the "Ara prime genito Dei," to commemorate the Delphic prophecy of the coming of our Saviour. Standing on a spot s) thronged with memories, the dullest imagination takes fire. The forms and scenes of the past rise from their graves and pass before us, and the actual and visionary are mingled together in strange poetic confusion. Truly, as Walpole says, "our memory sees more than our eyes in this country." The work of an author who thoroughly identifies himself with his subject is always interesting, and when the subject is one of such world-wide inte rest it cannot fail to be doubly so. Notwithstand ing the defects we have alluded to, the book is fall of attraction from its life-like sketches of a fasci nating people, while the writer combines, in a singular degree, the enthusiasm of an artist with the keen observation of a quick-witted American. THE REBELLION IN CHINA. (From the London Gazette of last Evening. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 27. The following despatch has been received by Earl Rus sell from the British V ice-Consul at Shanghae : British Consulate, Shanghae, Nov. 19, 1862. My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose for your lord ship's information a copy of my despatch addressed to the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce.—l have, &c., JOHN MARKHAM, Vice-Consul in Charge. The Right Hon. Earl Russell, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c. VICTORY GAINED BYCOMBINEDFORCES Or IMPERIALISTS AND BURGOVINE'S FORCES British Consulate, Shangahe, Nov. 19, 1862. have the honour to inform you that a large force of rebels left Soochow, Hangchow, and Hoochow, heading by the Ting Wang, Mu Wang, and Ha Wang, for the purpose of attempting the recapture of Kanding and Tsingpo, and take if possible Sung Keong, Shanghae, and Paushun. They were to have assembled at Na-zing and thence marched in three separate divisions on the abovenamed enterprise. Information being received that a large portion of this force had already reached Wangdo, between Tsingpo and Kanding, the Governor of the Province marched against them from this city in per son, and Colonel Burg ov i no w ith a f or c o of some 1,500 dis ciplined Chinese, simultaneously left Sung Keong for Tsingpo. Both parties fell in with the rebel force on the 16th inst., and after a hard fight of some hours the main body of rebels were dislodged from their position in a strong stockade by Colonel Burgovine's Artillery, and the whole force was utterly routed with immense loss. The Ting Wong was drowned, the Mu Wang badly wounded. and an extraordinary number of Chiefs killed and taken prisoners, the rebels having incautiously trusted to a floating bridge, which gave way at the first rush for escape. What with killed, prisoners, and deserters (chiefly the last), 10,000 only are said to have got away, and the Chinese authorities express their confidence that this vic tory will have the effect of keeping the 30 miles round Shanghae free from rebels for some time to come. Col. Burgovine's men are said to have behaved extremely well, and to have shown great confidence in their officers. Their loss was trifling.—l have, &c., (Signed) JOHN MARKHAM, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul in Charge. The Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, C. 8,, &c. LONDON GAZETTE—Yesterday. WHITEHALL, JAN. 26. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Pascoe Grenfell Hill, 8.A., to the rectory of Saint Edmund the King and Martyr with Saint Nicholas Aeons, in the city and diocese of London, void by the death of the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne. - - - of f l t T h E e Ll C A ona L m L i , tt J e k e N o . f 2 p 6 r . ivy The ßO A R R ig D ht OF TRADE, t ß he AD L E er , d r Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch f r o m h e r Majesty's Acting Conseil-General in Peru enclosing a trans lation of a decree of the Peruvian Government extending to Britieh vessels of less than 200 tons burden the privilege of national treatment, as regard s p or t, li g ht, t onnage , pil o t, and quarantine dues. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Hamburg, enclosing a copy of an ordinance recently passed by the Senate of Hamburg, modifying, in various respects, the customs laws of that State. The principal alterations effected are,- 1. Goods in transit, whether the property of citizens or imported on account of foreigners, may pass free of cus toms' duty. 2. The abolition of customs' duties on mohair yarn, mohair wool, slates, cement-stones, tufa stones, and the fat of whales, seals, and walruses, for burning. 3. Ships wholly laden with rice, salt, or herrings, are _. to pay only half tonnage duty (viz., lid. per ton .b;ag lish). tare exemp lasts t from 4. Ships arriving or departing in belle s tonnage duty, em from burden (180 tonss. E S hnigplsi not English), , an exceedingdtakin g 6o no pminileorzialla e exempted pilotage duty. of September next, equally with tn continue till the end t. P ra,-MALL, Jtx. 27. The above alterations came into force on the lst inst., and the other elkleanz Customs' regula ions. ;P e n Fl o l f t' Flie notinctuivs.. -Whioh appeared in te of 9th January, 1863 : Gazet BREVET. In con W ti A nu ll a The pro motion of Lieuten an t -C o l one l J ames M e t ca lf e , C.B , B engal Infantry, to the honorary rank of Colonel, and of Major Frederick Johnston, Bengal Infantry, to that of Lieutenant-Colonel, which appeared in the Gazette of 25th March, 1862, has been cancelled, in consequence of these officers having been inadvertently included in the list of those officers retired on full-pay of her Ma lestY a Indian Forces, retirement. as entitled to honorary rank on BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. James Peters, late of Grosvenor Hotel, Pimlico BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of any importance which appear in the Gazette : John Russell Tarrant, cabinetmaker, Portsea Thomas Scamell, innkeeper, Twyford, Hants John Paul, grocer, Liverpool James Meays, innkeeper, Conigsbrough, Yorkshire William Tarte, lead merchant, Westminster Henry Fiveash, hotelkeeper, Aldersgate•street Jacob Prime, farmer, Essex John Browne, farmer, Denbigh George Thomas 'Watkins, licensed victualler, Bristol John Cumming, merchant, Loadenhallstreet 'William W. Purr, ironmonger, Stowmarkot, Suffolk Isaac Dockeray, inb eeper, Brigham, Cumberland Edward Marshall, w heelwright, Heighington, Lincoln SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. A. and A. Allan, hotel keepers, Glasgow. Thomas Frier, manufacturer, Galashiels John Robb and James Robb, merchants, Aberdeen James Rinnison, ironmonger. Dundee ILFRACOMBE.—An exciting scene took place at Ilfracombe during the late gale. A ship was carried against the chief promenade, the Capstan-hill, in the sight of a large number of spectators, and was dashed to pieces. Fortu nately the crew were saved, although in a very exhausted state. :In. 11, ;e- sor ,he ICT ►ry Ire iry Lnd ien ris i of lies are awn ons rm, and ire, Le on- Itly the lay ow riet ace •cd, her aed d a 6.4.0 19.16.4 56 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 $7 6} 96}