The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLoCK. Affairs in the discount market look more pro mising, and the mercantile public are regarding the future with a more hopeful feeling. There is an abundant supply of money in the hands of the joint stock and private firms, and first-class three months' bills are freely negotiated at 6/ per cent., but the commercial community anticipating cheaper money at no very distant date, appear inclined only to operate for present purposes. The Ellora, which left yesterday (Sunday) for Bombay, took out £386,680, chiefly silver. As usual, the holidays have greatly interfered with the trade of the past week, but the advises from the manufacturing districts are, nevertheless, satisfactory, indicating that the improved condition of monetary affairs has encouraged manufacturers to regard the future with good anticipation. There were only a few transacticns, and prices were gene rally lower. In the woollen and hosiery districts of Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, and Leicester, an average business had been negotiated, and at Sheffield, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, there was no dimiuution of orders noticeable for exportation. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Renter's telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 40c. Heavy. ' There is very little business to-day in the market for Consols, speculators being disinclined to re sume operations on an extensive scale. Notwith standing the prevailing quietude, however, Con sols continue firm, viz., at 91f,- } for money, and at 91 d for account. The holiday season is not yet over, and an immediate revival of activity . is scarcely expected. The New Threes are 91i } ; the Reduced An nuities, 911 » ; New 2} per Cents., 75 ; India 5 per Cents., 106 f, ; ditto 4 per Cents., 1004; ditto En faced 5 per Cents., 1041 ; and Exchequer Bills, 9s. 3s. die. Foreign Stocks have not been very active, and the alterations in prices are unimportant. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 71 711 ; ditto Consolides, 484 ; Mexican, 371 1; Spanish Passive, 361 ; ditto Certificates, 131 4 ; Cheek, 251 26/ ; Portu guese, 45i 46k; and the Confederate Loan, 38 39. In the Rail way Share Market the arrangements for the half-monthly settlement are now in progress. Prices generally exhibit no material variation, although, in some instances, the charge for carrying over has slightly advanced. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings generally maintain previous quotations. 13ank Shares are in moderate request without material change to record in values. In the Miscellaneous Market the operations have been confined principally to a few of the new un dertakings, which have generally sustained former rates. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l} New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 .. Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock, 1871 Ditto 5 pei Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 ... 100 t Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 5} per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 —ll Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 — l3ank Stock for Account Ditto Bonds .El,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO . • •• Consols for Account, Jan. 7 9ll 1 Lidia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 dt 3 per Cent 9 3 dis Ditto £500 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-69 Dtto 3 Ditto Scr i p, 1863, L3O lB pai 6 86 d B uenos Ayres 6 per Cent _ C olombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Cuba, 6 per Cent. Chilian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 41 per Cent, — Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 ~..,.. Dutch, 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 . Guilders .. Ditto, £lOO Bonds — Equador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent l3 Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 261 4 6 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons l2l 111 Ditto Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. - Ditto Account — Italian b per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent .... Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Ditto 3 per Cent. Peruvian 3per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866,'7,'9, '6O, 62,'3 49/ Ditto Account — Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid — Pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 921 Ditto 41 per Cent 1850.. Ditto 1860 .. Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 B9} 90 Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account — Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account — Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account — Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l3l 4 4 Ditto Account — Swedish, 4 per Cent — Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Account ED i ii t to o Dittou C n e t nt. 1858 .. 70 691 Account r Ditto Account. 1862 Ditto 6Gtear Cent. 1863 71/- Ditt o D ee reed 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 Ilree, 4 Per Ct., Oct„ 1863 ~ 1862 Ditto 46:kpec:crOPICIu'e Cent., 1862 Ditto***************** :: Dividends on the*.abo.v.e..p.a.y.a.b.fe **** *** . Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ea.E1r,..!0 Florins. — London. Belgian 4 per Cent. Dutch2l per Cent., i lx : 2 " 12 Guil ******** Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates * * ****** -- Ditto Account.... French Rentes, 41 per Cent., ix. 25f — I iitto Account Ditto Scrip (1863) £4288. 3d. paid _ pin Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7Ol TWO O'CLOCIi. Consols, Money ... 9ll 1 Ditto Account .............. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market opens with more inquiry. Sales pro bably about 6,000 b a l es , I mpor ts, 45 ; previ ously nil. siaPPlNG—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 28,—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. .. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—Glenavon, from London for Port Natal. FALMOUTH, Dec. 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—JeasTs Grey, from Taganrog; Grace and Jane, from London for St. Kitt's. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 28—Panic, f r om Singapore — Frederick, f romKascoe ; Jane and Margaret, from Ostend—Dickey aim, from Algoa Bay—Emily, from Antwerp. DEAL, Monday Morning. Passed—Petrella, for Batavia—Ceres (schooner) for S wansea—Richard and William, for Cape Castle—Laura, for Lagos—Mizpah, for St Lucia—Princess Alexandra, for Smyrna —all from London—Circassian (ship), from the north, for west—Cassibalasus, from Shields, for Trieste. S a h il e ed o — ut, B va a r llo l n b a c , u s n t d ea . mer, Kelso, Seabreast, with nearly all the ha Relis e r from London to Belize , has been sup - Plied packe r , with an anchor and lo fathoms of chain, to replace O thers lost. Closing Business Share, l Railways. Paid. Price. done. 13.14. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 81 25 Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost.,Sleat.,andlilid.Co all 8 81 at Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian lOO 12) 121 1211 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cornwall all 6/ 7 A , ets no div 10 Do A „ / 4 c.p ~ 10 Do.B ` all been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 37 39 25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. all 16 17 et Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 06 08 at Glasg. and S. Western.! 100 107 109 st Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 49 50 491 et Ditto A stock at Ditto EastAnglian at 100 71 81 st GreatNorthot Scotland 100 at Great Northern lOO 125 127 at Do A stock st Do Bdo at Gt. S. an , 1 W. of Irelan, 100 97 99 at Great Western 100 641 611 64k at Do Str Val gua. stool, 100 at Lancashire & Yorkshire IGO 1114 1111 1111 st London and Illackwali 100 72 74 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 1071 HA, 108 st Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 43 44 at Lon. & North Western 100 1071 1071 1071 4 8 at Lon. & So . .th Western 100 101 102 et Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 491 504 501 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 121 Do # shares all at Metropolitan all 1111 1121 et Midland 6.4.0 Do New at Do Birming. & Derby 100 07 0 50 1, lid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 1 shares 25 Mid Kent ,, all 10 Do Cray Line at North British st Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 25 t 6 at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 1021 103 1021 26 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 d 4 st Do Lecda lOO 581 50/ et Do York st Do Carlisle lOO at orth London 10 Do New , 9.16.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all It 111 at Scottish Central at 'Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 42 44 at Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 98 100 10 Shrews. and Welchpow all at Shropshire Union st South Devon... ..... st South Eastern at South Wales et 'S. York. and River Dun 100 97 19 20 Staines, Wok., and Wok all 91 101 25 Stockton & Darlington all 13 38, 25 Do l7 9 10 i., l 5 Do New, 1866 8 71 71 p at Taff Vale.. .... . 100 158 16u 10 Do B 8 5 61 10 Do C 3 21 31p 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do at Vale of Neath at Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 170 175 at Waterford & Kilkenny 100 at West Cornwall lOO at W. Hartlepool Ilar.&R lOO et West Midland -Oxford 100 et Do Newport 100 at Do Hereford 100 L fter- B ill ,th of Pon 3 111,1/ 5 walls It iS 6 stav tpla of , r oom ' inV eit the i n OP decal . Lich 19 as pect' ?A p e ": gre at as far t r tl' the) ? neWS- ► Logue• L t it I"' new 6° n other i n the be, 11 p a per B paper o not b 8 , also ; s paper r 1 83 ' ke out on closi. L refer' oleo i° a utiv 9 : st a te of ga les now s olo ,ugh a [ coe' no tion What 11 3e' sth 3 °° led la 'eject 3ssioag . e out , to jr' SHARE MARIO T S.— This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&S. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing , 'hart 100 - itlantio &St Lawienc( all 60 t 2 60 Sk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.— ..... 100 IC6O 1070 20 Do. New . ...... 8 1 p 20 Do. E. Shares... 7i O 1 p 201 Buffalo and Laae Huron all 6 6* 10 Do. Preference too 5 Butlalo,Brant,&Godrich 100 / 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1,1572 100 Do. do. July 1,157;-, 100 100 Do. do. Juue 1,1b74 100 at Cleutta.&S.Eastn.(l.ll,) 100 104 1011 st Cape Town Dock Scrii 100 101 103 stock Mastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 108 109 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 107 168 .08 20 Do. do. G Ext l5 I.*p 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand trunk of Canada luu 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 73 75 100 Do. do. deferred— all 53 61 100 Do. 2d Fret. Bonds all 65 67 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 53 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred all 22 1.4 stook GLlndiarenin.gua.sp.c lOO ICBO 109 i 1081 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0 l2 I lo 11, 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 1* if p stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 k 106 A 105& 20* Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 10* 20 Do. New . 18 11 10* 71 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 92 95 100 Do. 51 0 p. o. do. '77-8.. all 86 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 * stock Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 106 107 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 100 101 stock Dc.4t d 0........ 100 16 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. Bp. o. Mach, 100 50 llelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7 p.c. Slortg. Bds. alt 10 Newßounswick& Candu Class A. and B. all 3 5 N.lol.C'das po Ist pt bds 100 82 84 stock Seinde (100 106 107 stock Do. Delhi I ,14..; 100 It 6 107 20 Do. do . . E 2 f qp st Do. Punjaub S all 1051 14.,61 Do. Do. ........ , , 100 net De. rndus.St. Flo.) 100 101 lO3 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. op.c.J. &Jul; - 1877-S1 ..... 105 106 I Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 (03 105 Do. p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 i(3 1(5 Do.: p. c. Jan.&July. 100 13 94 931 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 cape G. Hope, 6p 6,187:', 100 106 108 Do.Ap &Oct, 1880, 100 109 111 110 91 Do. 189 L 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112. 114 ,Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 ' Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 103 Natal Gov. 6 per cent . 100 8 110 (N.ll.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.&J ul) 100 104 106 1051 6 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S. W. Gov. 5p 15,,, 100 100 102 Du. sp. c.,18/1 to 1 - ,./r 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1011 1021 102 1 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 105 107 ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 1:1 113 ,S.Aus G6p.c.1673.& up.. 100 111 113 112 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 Do. to 60.0. An.&Oot.. 100 109 i 1101 110 91 110 91 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id tAitlord Amalgamated.. 34 35 Deven G. Con.. (Tssist.) 1 560 670 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 t 8 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. 4d par East Caradon ... 2.14.6 27 28 East Cara Brea.... / 3.4.0 661 - E. W'lltussel(Tavistk ) , 8.9.0 551 51 IGam.aSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 581 8 10 Great South Tolgus 17s 4 41 I G. Wheal Vor (lielston) 40 12 13 Grenville 6.16. e 4 44 Herd's-Foot 8.12 87 39 Dingston Downs 4.18.0 21 3' Lady Bertha Margaret (LJny Lelant 95 14 16 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 21 15 5 d New Setun l9p 90 100 —• North Downs 25 14 15 N.Wh'i Basset(lllo;rau 3.1.0 2$ 3 North Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols (St. Blaze), 20 l'rovidenoe(Uny Lelia) 10.6.7 42 44 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 15 415 425 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.18.9 60 65 Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 5 I Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. 41 h I Tin Crott 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) ll 91 101 W radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 55 85 90 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 221 275 Wheal Kitty (G.Lelaut) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott I 3.0.8 1 11 • Wheal MaryAnnilden )1 8 114 12 Wheal neton 5Bl 150 160 1175 Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 21 22 - , Wheal Union 3.17 24 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 104 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL& Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 31 Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 55i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 17i Turin ana Savona, Ditto (all), 14 rOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., 63 6 i Cobre Copper, 29 United Mexican (lim;, 6} JOINT-STOCK BANKS. kV's. and United Service (lim.), 116 A.lllance Bank of Lonzon and Liverpool (UM.), 43} Ditto, new 2V A nglo Austrian, 7 Bank of Egypt, 2611 Brazilian and Portuguese lim., 8 Yank of Wales, lira., 9 City British and 7 American Exchange (Um.), 191 Consolidated Bank, lim. 71 datied Chartered Bank of Indi a, A us t r alia , and China, 37k 7 East London, lim., 7i 8 ' English, Soo; ch, and Australian Chartered, 23 English and Swedish lim. , 51 , European Bank, li m., 34 4 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 311 Imperial Ottoman, 181 t 7 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 49} London and Colonial (Um.), 7i London and Westminster, 80 1 London C an il d ar c te n r u e n d ty B. 5 Bank ,of i Australia, 7i 27 London 24 1 lira, 64 Merchant Bank, al of England. National Provinci . __ ln.., 53% and Delhi (lima, 7* Punjaub, London London Jointa n d S o S ti t t o e h k African, l7 l i eßeryitlin Union of London, 4i% MISCELLANEOUS. s L c o i n n d d o e, n and Brazilian ‘li ) . __ Berlin Water Works, lim., 9 1 Indian Tea, lim., 2k Discount (2 p l ion limited, 6a CryallV a r i n o s. P z ?", n or Y a a a' t io English and Australfan Copper, li 2 Gen. Crc dit and I+l of London, UM, 6 1 --,s, Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavou ), II Hudson's Bay, 1241 ance Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, r r— issued 90, International Financial del.l B7o,Bocietey,liin.,ol Joint stock Discount, 64. London Financial Association, lim , ;23 London District Telegr ap h (1 m ,, ) , ii - y, lim., 51 Natal Land and Colonization Corn Madras Irrigation and Canal, 3Z Mercantile Credit Association, liro., gi and 10 4 for Money National Discount Company, lim., 9,1 Oriental Gas (lim.), .:, Ditto, new, i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, Is6a MARKETS—This Day. rIARK-LANE. The latest country markets held since our last have ruled quiet both for red and white wheats, at fully the late decline in prices. In descriptions of spring corn, sales have progressed slowly, yet no material change has taken place in the currency. Flour has met an inactive market, at late rates. Advices from New York state that a fair export business was passing in wheat and flour, at enhanced prices. On the Continent the trade generally is quiet. The arrivals of English grain to our market last week were moderately extensive. The imports from abroad amounted to 21,976 quarters of wheat, 10,007 barley, 9,804 oats, 838 beans, 1,202 peas, 22,762 linseed, 1,910 oilseeds, 220 sundry seeds, and 2,580 sacks of flour. Fresh up to Mark-lane to-day the arrivals of English wheat were small, but, owing to the holidays, there was a very moderate number of buyers in attendance. The con dition of the wheat was tolerably good. The trade, both for red and white qualities, was in a sluggish state, and factors, had they felt disposed to farce sales, would have been compelled to accept less money. Very little business was, however, transacted, and prices must be considered nominally the same as on Monday last. There was a moderate supply of foreign wheat on the stands. In all descriptions the transactions were on a limited scale, yet last Monday's quotations, were in most instances supported. The amount of business done in floating cargoes of grain was much restricted, at about previous rates. Owing to the large supplies on offer, and the heaviness in the trade in the country markets, the demand for all descriptions of barley was in a sluggish state, and late quo tations were barely supported. Even good and fine malt ing parcels were a dull inquiry. The market was well supplied with malt, and the trade ruled heavy at drooping prices. The supply of oats on offer was very moderate. The falling off in the supply was caused by the decreased im portations, the show of samples of home-grown produce being tolerably good. All descriptions were in slow re quest, at barely previous quotations. Beans, the supply of which was moderate, moved off slowly on moderate terms. Peas met a slow sale at late currencies, The market was but moderately supplied with samples. There was but little American flower on offer. The sup ply of home descriptions, however, was tolerably large, and the trade ruled quiet at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE, Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 38s to 41s Ditto, old 3Bs 4us Ditto, white, 1863 42s 48s Ditto, old 4os 47s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old 3Bs Sus Ditto, 1803 Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 26s 28s Malting 2Bs 393 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 66s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6OB 66s Chevalier 668 68s Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding lBs 22s Potato Youghal and Cork, black l6s 23s Cork, white l7B 24s Scotch, Feeding 2os 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, ' Peas—Grey Maple White 355 378 Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 308 Stockton and Norfolk 278 29s American, per barrel l9s 25s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market, to• day, was but moderately supplied with foreign stock, but the general quality of the sheep from Holland was good. _ _ From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up were limited, even for the time of year. Most breeds, however, cams to hand in good saleable condition. Some of the Scots and shorthorns were remarkably prime. Scots, crosses, Devons and the best shorthorns moved off freely, at an advance in the quotations, compared with Monday last, of 2d per Blbs. Otherwise, the beef trade was inactive ; nevertheless, prices were well supported, and a good clearance was effected. The highest value for Scots was 5s 2d per 81bs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire we received about 700 shorthorns ; from Norfolk and other parts of England, 950 Scots, crosses, &c. ; from Scot land, 160 Soots and crosses; and from Ireland 200 oxen and heifers. We were very scantily supplied with sheep ; but their quality was prime. All breeds commanded a steady sale, at fully last week's currency. The top figure for Downs was 6s per Blbs. Nearly the whole of the supply found buyers. Calves—the show of which was limited—met a dull in quiry, at late rates, viz., from 4s to 5s per Blbs. The pork trade was somewhat heavy, on former terms, which ranged from 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. s. d. a. d. a. d. a. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 8 4 0 I Primecrs-wool d 0.5 4 5 8 Second quality do. 4 2 4 6 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 10 6 0 Prime large oxen 4 3 5 0 Large orse. calves 4 0 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. 5 0 5 2 Prime small do 4 10 5 0 Urse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 6 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 8 5 2 Small porkers ..., 4 2 4 6 Suckling calves, 12s to 21s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 26s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ... FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 6lO Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs Cowe Sheep Calves ll7 Pigs. lBO The total imports of foreign stocK into London, last week, amounted to 3,521 head. In the corresponding week in 1862, we received 2,440—in 1861, 2,382—in 1860, 2,031 —in 1859-60, 1,163—in 1858, 8,550—in 1857, 782 head. any perceptible effect on the trade. In colonial wool very little is doing. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—Edward Bathurst, a tall, swarthy looking man, who gave the address of Frith street, St. Ann's, and was described as a gentleman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with obtaining the sum of £lO, the money of Mr. William Temple Cooper, chemist, of 26, Oxford-street, by false pretences. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough•street, prose cuted, and Mr. George Lewis, jun.,,appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Edward Lewis, in opening 'the case for the prosecu tion, said he appeared to prosecute the prisoner fer obtain ing the sum of £lO by means of a cheque on Messrs Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., the prisoner having no effects at the bank, and well knowing that he had not, as he had been written to by Mr. Robarts to that effect, and requesting him not to draw any more cheques on the bank, the letter to the prisoner being written prior to the draft of the cheque for £lO. There were heavy costs of a similar kind with respect to cheques on the same bank, and on the bank of Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co. Since the prisoner had obtained the money of Mr. Cooper, he had been arrested and made a bankrupt. He (Mr. Lewis) should bring some evidence before the court that day, and then ask that the prisoner be remanded. Mr. Paul Akers, assistant to Mr. Cooper, chemist, 26 Oxford-street, said that he had known the prisoner since July or August last, and he had been in the habit of mak ing small purchases at the shop, and having letters left there for him. About the 28th November last he called, and producing a cheque for £lO on Messrs. Roberts, Lub bock, and Co., dated 25th November, 1863, drawn by Edward Bathurst, payable to self, asked him to cash it. He (witness) did so. The cheque was afterwards returned by Messrs. Roberts, and Mr. Cooper subsequently applied for a summons, and as the prisoner did not appear, a war rant was applied for. In answer to Mr. George Lewis, the witness said the prisoner had sent a letter to Mr. Cooper saying that when he came to town he woul'l arrange the matter, but not to part with the cheque. Thomas Henry Allen, ledger keeper at Messrs. Robarts' bank, said the prisoner had opened an account at the bank about four or five months age, but since the 29th September last he had had no money at the bank. He (witness) had been present since the 29th September when some of the prispner's cheues had been paid and when tome of them had been returned. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Then his account was overdrawn? Witness—lt was, sir. In answer to Mr. George Lewis, jun., the witness said that prisoner's cheques were crossed, although there was nothing to meet them. He was not aware that the prisoner was distantly related to a nephew of one of the partners of the firm. Mr. George Lewis said that a Mr. Wilkinson, the person spoken of as being related to one of the partners, had written to the prisoner, stating that he would send him X2O, and against the prisoner drew the cheque. Mr. E. Lewis said he had a letter written by Mr. Robarts to Mr. Cooper, in which Mr. Robarts said the prisoner must have well known, in consequence of having been written to to that effect;that at the time he drew the cheque he had no effects at the bank. After some conversation, Mr. E. Lewis said he must ask for a remand, Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prisoner and take his own bail in £lOO, aid two sureties in £lOO each. Me. George Lewis asked that the priscner's own bail might be taken, as the amount was only £lO. Mr. E. Lewis said there were many other oases. Mr. Tyrwhitt declined to make any alteration in his decision. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LABI WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 125 .. 1165 ~, .. 61 .. 16 Harlingen •• • • 340 • • 537 • • --- • . 8 • • 1 Hamburg .... .. 640 .. ~ .. Amsterdam.... 10 .. 204 .. .. .. Medemblik ~ .. .. .. .. Bremen Vigo Nieu Diep Antwerp .. "-. • • '''' • • - • • -- 79 .. - .. 4 .. 2 Ostend _ • • Calais — • • • --- • • • • -- Dordt. .• • 75 • • 245 • • • • --- • • Boulogne.. — .. 16 .. .. .. -- Total 550 .. 2,886 66 .. 19 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1862.. 356 .. 1,881 203 1861 .. 407 .. L 965 10 1860 163 .. 1,759 .. 109 1859-60 176 '273 14 1858 49 .. 397 104 .. A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Dec, 29, 1862, and this day, Monday, Dec. 28, 1863. Per 81b. to sink the offal. Dec. 28, 1863. 3 Bto 4 0 42 4 6 48 5 0 50 5 2 40 4 6 48 5 2 54 5 8 510 6 0 00 0 0 40 4 8 4 10 5 0 36 4 0 42 4 6 2,460 9,530 112 220 )asts, 4,400 Dec. 29, Coarse and inferior b eas t s 3 4 1862 to 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 8 Prime Soots, &c. 4lO 5 0 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality dn. Prime coarse-woolled do 5 0 6 6 Prime Southdown do. Lambs Large coarse calves ..,, 4 0 4 8 Prime small do. .... Large hogs .. Neat small porkers 4 6 4 8 Beasts Sheep and lambs ..., 13,710 Calves Pigs ... 4O SUPPLIES OX SAlt, Dee. 30, 1861.—8 sheep, 18,920---calves, 132—pigs, 310. DEC. 31, 1860.—Beasts, 3,46 o—sheep, 16,500—calves, 56 pigs, 200. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL The supply of Meat on sale at these markets is mode rately large. On the whole, the trade rules firm, and prices ars eteadily supported. Per Slb. by the carcase. sdsd inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small d 0... 4 2 4 4 Large pork .. • . 3 6 3 10 Infetior mutton. 3 6 3 10 o d •e d Middling mutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do 4 6 4 8 Vaal Small pork 4 0 4 4 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Since we last wrote a very moderate business has been transacted in all kinds of hops. The supplies of produce on effer being, however, somewhat restricted, the quotations are well supported. The import last week amounted to 44 bales from Dunkirk, 91 Ostend, 50 Hamburg, 25 Rotter dam, 83 Antwerp, 126 Bremen, 30 Boulogne, and 20 bales from Calais. Mid and Bast Rents £5 Os to £9 Os per cwt. Weatd of Konts 4 108 to 6 6s , Sussex 'earlings Olds Belgian Bavarian 6 Ss to S OS American ...... BOROI:GH AND SPITALFIELDS. Full average supplies of potatoes continue to be received at these markets. In most qualities a fair business is doing, and very little chango has taken place in prices, when compared with last week. Yorkshire Regents Rocks Flukes Kent and Essex Regents Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 60s to 708 „ Rocks WOOL. The bu.sitieos doing both in Dawn and long English wools is very moderate. Holders, however, remain firm, and previous quotations are supported. The reduction in the Bank rate, owing to the holidays, has not, as yet, had SEEDS. The trade for canary seed is very firm, and the late ad vance in prices is fully supported. All other seeds, how ever, are a slow sale, yet no material change has taken place in their value compared with last week. Cakes are in slow request, at about stationary prices. rurnip,White,p.bus 11s to 14s Swede —s —s illustard, Brown los 13s White, Tares, New 5s Od 5s 6d Old per quarter - s —s Canary, per quarter 58s 683 ltye grass, new 22s 24s Clover, Red Eng., et. —s —s White Foreign Red 3Bs 40s White sos 643 Trefoil, new. 22s 25s Carraway .... 26s 28s Coriander l2s 16s H L i e l li s l ce p re s ud el in , ng.g. per so w qr i n g 6 4 76 0 2 : 4 s 7 2 ,, s 748 s Baltic —s —s Odessa —s —s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £9 lOs £lO —5 Foreign .t;9 lOs £lO 105 Rape Cakes,p ton.£6 Os £6 lOs Rapeseed, new,pr qr 018 68s TALLOW. The tallow trade is firm to-day, and prices have im proved. The quotation for P.Y.C. is 41s 6d pet cwt. on the spot. Town tallow, 42s Gd net cash. Rough fat, 21s per Sibs. Particulars, Stock this day.... Price of Y.C. .. 1 Delivery last week Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Price of Town .... 1859. 1850. 1861. 1862. 44,453 1 72.626 1.54,719 , 50,535 5759 a to'6osod to Is9d to '45631 to —s Od —s Od —s Od ) 45s 8d 1,101 :99 1,009' 985 45,987 53,957 82,725 48,543 327 58 t 2,582 1,085 81,359 93,489 80,683 65,769 59s 6d Ols Od 52s 9tl 46s 6d i 70,458 41e 6d to 1 oos Od 1,350 41,738 460 74,349 43s 0i MR. THACKERAYS DEATH. SPECTATOR:The great event of the week to England is the loss of her great satirist Mr. Thackeray, who died early on Dec. 24, in the 52d year of his age, of effusion on the brain, brought on, it is supposed, by violent sickness, to which he was periodically subject. Of a new novel promised by him to the Cornhill Magazine he had completed four numbers, and only two or three days before his death was showing his achievement to a friend in the most buoyant spirits. His death at the season which has so often been associated with his higher literary efforts strikes us with something of the same imaginative effect as those Christmas books themselves, in which the thin veil of superficial •gaiety was constantly blowing aside, and showing the graduated depths of darkness beneath. He is the founder of a school of satire of which he will rrobably be the only master, though he has already had many imi!ators. We do not wonder that he failed as a painter, for painting, which must select an effect visible in a single moment of time, gave no scope to the peculiar mobility of his genius. Ho delighted in varying indefinitely the expression visible on the face of his characters, so that before the contraction of the suffering nerve, or the sneer of the parted lips was distinctly visible, it was gone, and if you sought to recover the source of the im• pression it was seldom easy to do so. There was a strange mixture of pain and pathos i❑ all his pic tures; bitterness and tenderness mingled their tones in the laugh of the humorist, and there was some thing at once loving and fatalistic about the frequent gleams of his religious feeling. Tennyson has ex pressed the essence of his genius, though not of its highest temper, in the line— Out of that mood was born Self-scorn—and then laughter at that self •scorn. SATURDAY REVIEW.—The death of Mr. Macke ray, in the height of his popularity, is a calamity which will not indeed affect any public interest, but which yet will be widely felt. This generation is not strong in humourists ; but to those few whom we do possess belongs the credit of having given refinement and delicacy to an art in which those qualities were n.)t formerly conspicuous. Mr. Thackeray was one of the best examples of a school of which the popularity has been enormous, and which has done no slender service in raising the character and establishing the purity of English literature. EXAMINER.—Mr. Thackeray was found dead in his bed on Thursday morning. Sudden as the loss of Peel, or of Talfourd, or of Lord Macaulay, whose death saddened the Christmas holidays three years ago—sudden also as other recent deaths of able men who laboured worthily in the world's eye, but whose calling did not bring them so near as that of a fore most novelist to the world's heart, has been this new cause of public grief. For a few days past Mr. Thackeray had been slightly unwell; yet he was about among his friends, and he was out even on Wednesday evening. But when called at about 9 o'clock on Thursday morning he was found dead in his bed, with placid face, having apparently died without suffering pain. Mr. Thackeray's age was but 52, and he seemed a man large, vigorous, cheerful, with yet a quarter of a century of life in him. There were some parts of his character that never felt the touch of his years, and these were ten derly remembered yesterday at many a Christmas fireside. There was to the last in him the sensibi lity of a child's generous heart that time had not sheathed against light touches of pleasure and pain. His sympathy was prompt and keen, but the same quick feeling made him also over sensitive to the small annoyances that men usually learn to take for granted as but one form of the friction that belongs to movements of all kinds. He was sensitive to his sensitiveness, and did in his writings what thou sands of men do in their lives, shrouded an over tender heart in a transparent vale of cynicism. Often he seemed to his readers to be trifling or nervous ly obtruding himself into his story when he was but shrinking from the full discovery of his own simple intensity of feeling. - -- Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The moot searching investigation has been made by the Lords of the Admiralty into all the circumstances attending the Confederate privateer Rappahannock, formerly her Majesty's screw gunvessel Victor, 6, 350-horse power, at tached to the Chatham Steam Reserve squadron. The cor respondence which has taken place between the officials of the dockyards and the Board of Admiralty has been con ducted, and is still being carried on, with the greatest possible secrecy, but during the last few days some important cir• cumstances have become known with respect to the transaction. The result of the investigation which has taken place has been to entirely exonerate the officials at Chatham Dockyard from having, in the remotest degree, been connected with the illegal proceedings, as their respon sibility ceased the moment that weed wes sold out of the Steam Reserve, and the order was received from the Admi ralty for her to pass into the hands of the parties by w h om she was purchased. From inquiries since instituted, it would seem that the Victor was purchased by a London firm, trading, as would now appear, under an assumed name, and that several of the Government mechanics, if not under the express orders, at all events with the cognisance, of cer tain of the officials, were illegally allowed to be employed in assisting to equip the vessel, several of the number, con nected, it is asserted, chiefly with the engineer department, proceeded from Sheerness dockyard to Calais on board the Victor when she escaped from the Nore. The whole of the hands who were proved to have taken any part in the breach of the neutrality laws by [wasting in the equipment of the Rappahannock, as well as the men who proceeded to Calais with that vessel, have been dismissed from Sheerness dock yard, estensibly for being absent from their duty w i t h out leave, but in reality for the part .hey were proved to have taken in the matter. The conduct of certain of the dockyard officials, who, there is reason to believe, allowed themselves to become implicated in the fitting out of the Victor after she had ceased to be a Government vessel, is now under the consideration of the Admiralty, and a rumour was current at Chatham yesterday that two of the number, both of whom hold responsible offices in Sheerness dockyard,would becalled on to resign their appointments to avoid their dismissal from her Majesty's service. With regard to the other vessels attached to the Chatham Steam Reserve which are ordered to be sold out of the service, such precautions are directed to be taken that no apprehension need be entertained of any of the number falling into hands of persons who will use theta ro as to again violate the neutrality laws. In addition to the wooden screw steamers the names of which have been ordered to be struck off the list of vessels to be constructed at Chatham dockyard, Admiralty directions have been received for the name of the Pomona, 61-gun frigate, to be removed from the list of new ships to be built of Chatham. Her Majesty's 17-gun steam sloop Mutine, Commander William Graham, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from the South Pacific, to be stripped and paid out of commission. The Mutine has been six months on the passage home, and touched at Mazatlan, San Blas, Panama,Valparaiso,rounded Cape Horn, touched at Rio, and thence proeeeded to Spit head, where she arrived on the 24th instant; She landed a valuable freight of specie and bars of silver from Valparaiso at Rio. The Mutine was fitted out and commissioned at Woolwich by Commander Graham in October, 1859, and has fulfilled her full term of commiseion. The ship has been remarkably healthy. The whale of her officers, with the exception of Second Lieut. Peard, who died in crossing the Line, and one assistant-surgeon who was removed, have all returned to Woolwich. On account of the peculiarly high state of discipline and cleanliness which the ship displayed on her arrival, two-thirds of the officers and crew have teen granted three days' leave of absence, a most unusual cir cumstance, as in ordinary cases no one is permitted to leave the ship while under orders to pay off. Commander Lysaght, in the unavoidable absence of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Nicol son, who is suffering from a severe attack of erysipelas, will inspect the ship and muster the crew under arms, prepara tory to her discharging stores and dismantling. A circular memorandum addressed to the army less l !7 promulgated by the Field-Marshal Commanding-insu: in concurrence with the Secretary of State for War, with instructions for sergeant-cooks. n The a o n d e d e re I n , c a e r r s y t e I n: o u r e t r hases h arrived r r L i v o e r d d a ande mCo u o r h v e , L Master fr om e w n i p l o l reload rtan d Devonpurt, laden with returned war storfoefer pvo from the Tower es ith 1,200 arm-chests Portsmouth. r r i i o c d t o w f i s l e l r s v h i c ri e r y I :ae j The command of the Chatham come vacant by the retirement of Major- G-eneral 11. Eyre, on the completion Millis five years' rumoured in military circles at Chatham that the command of that important station will be given to Major-General the Hon. A. Gordon, C. 8., at P resent commanding the second Infantry brigade at the Curragh, where ho holds the rank of brigalier-general. Dlajor- General Got don served on the Quartermaster -General's staff throughout the Crimean war, and subsequently held the command of the camp at Col chester, WADLIKE RELIC OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. —A curious and richly -ornamented sword, through the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Whately and Mr. Aliso? of Cheltenham, has been recently exhibited before the Society of Arelaologists. The sword, which is an An drea Ferrara blade, was said to have b e l onge d to the Duke of Monmouth,by whew it was left at Sedgmoor. 1863. THAMES. ATTEMPTED MURDER. —Samuel Ford, a dissipated and drunken ruffian, about 50 years of age, who has lost an eye, and san only see imperfectly with the other, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with attempting to murder a girl named Catherine Mahoney, by cutting her throat with a razor. Tile prisoner, who is well known to the police, has bean frequently quarrelling with his wife. He has often beat her; and on one occasion he threw her on the fire in his room, and she was severely burnt. On Saturday night the girl Mahoney was invited to sleep in the dwelling of the Fords, at No. 2, Burton-entry, White Horse-street, Ratcliff; a short distance from Stepney Old Church. The prisoner and his Fife and daughter slept in the only bed they possessed, the girl Mahoney was lying on the floor at the foot of the bed. Yesterday morning the prisoner and his wife began quarrelling in bed, and he beat her in a savage manner. The woman and her daughter left their bed and rushed out of the house. The girl Mahoney remained in the room The prisoner, who was in a very infuriated state, armed himself ;with a razor, and attacked the girl in the dark, believing it was his wife, and drew the razor across her throat, inflicting a deep wound. A fearful scream from the girl revealed to him that she was not the person on whom he had determined to wreak his vengeance. He left her, and the police were summoned. Robert Thimbleby, a police constable, No, 119 K, caused the wounded girl to be removed to the London Hospital, and took the prisoner into custody. He trembled excessively, and while dressing himself put the boot belonging to the left leg on the right one. He was reminded of his mistake by the constable, and said he did not know what he was about. He was asked for the razor with which he had cut the girl's throat. He denied all knowledge of it. Thimbleby made an immediate search for the instrument, and found it in a box under some clothes and papers. There were stains of blood on the razor. Those stains were quite fresh. A certificate from Mr. George King, house surgeon in the London Hospital, Was produced. It stated that Catherine Mahoney had received a severe incised wound on the neck, and could not be removed at present. Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner for a week. WESTMINSTER. OUTRAGE UPON A REPRESRMENT-ROUSE-SEEPER.— WELL-MERITED PUNISHMENT. --William Hienthurst, a youth about 17 years of age, was charged with the follow ing disiraceful outrage : Daaernay Martinali, a German refreshment-house keeper in the Fulham•read, who was the complainant. ex hibited a laceration on the bridge of the nose and a black eye. He said that yesterday afternoon the defendant and some other boys came in front of his shop, made a great dis turb.nce, and threw dirt and other things into the shop. He went to the door and desired them to go away and not annoy him in his business, where they called him "a old German," and defendant threw a stone at his head, which struck him in the face and injured him considerably. Defendant said he did not throw the stone until after the complainant had come out of his shop and pushed him. Complainant was recalled, and positively denied that be in any way touched the defendant. He merely endea• voured to persuade them to go away. He had to complain of a serious nuisance occasioned by defendant and his com pall • ions They were in front of his s h op ever y S un d a y abusing him, throwing things into his shop, and annoying him in his business. He had never given to them any offence, and there was no reason for the annoyance. Defendant's father stood forward, and said he was a very goad boy to him. Mr. Selfe—He does hot seem to be a good boy to others, if I may judge of his conduct on this occasion. Sebastian Bathurst said he Was present s and defendant was never totiched by complainant, but merely spoken to, when he threw the stone. Mr. Selfe—This is a very disgraceful and unprovoked act, and I shall endeavour to stop this abominable and cowardly practice of throwing stones. I shall Commit de• fentiant for 14 days to hard labour. D r , Pakenhatn, the clean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, died on. Friday night, after a short illness, in his 76th year. THE TEA PLANT HAD BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE UNITED STATES, Cov ering a large area of land in the central parts of Pennsylvania, and a company having been organised for the sale, Professor Dana has examined a plant shown him as a specimen, and states it to be the well known Ceanothus A ln6r icanus--the New Jersey Tea-plant the leaves of which were used for this purpose at the be ginning of American revolution. Some consider that this substitute for the popu!ar beverage must have tried the patriotism of cur great grandmothers, but others report more favourably of its qualities, A MAN WITHOUT A COITNTRY, A curious article has been published in the Atlantis /Monthly, giving dates, names of officials and vessels of war, as if intended to be taken as literal fact. It is a history of Philip Nolan, who is described as having been, in 1805, a lieutenant in the United States army, and who became im plicated with Burr in some of his schemes of " treason." Nolan was tried by court-martial, found guilty, and when asked if he had anything to say why he had not been faithful to the United States, he replied, " the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again." The court-martial, it is said, took him at his word, and sentenced him to be henceforth a man with_ out a country. The authorities at Washington approved the sentence, and, immediately after, Nolan was trans potted to a Government vessel hound on a long cruise. From that time up to the hour of his death—s period of nearly 60 years—the United States became to him as if thty never had existed. Whenever the vessel upon which he was embarked approached this country he was trans ferred to one outward bound. The name of the United States was never mentioned in his hearing. All books and papers, before going to hint, were carefully examined, and every allusion_ to this country completely removed. Be was so surrounded that under no circumstance was any thing relating to the United States mentioned in his hear ing. During his last sickness, and a few hours before his death, his physician, in obedience to his ut gent entreaties, gave him a summary of the changes which occurred from 18 07 down to May, 1863, during all which time not one syllable relative to this country had ever reached him. He is stated to have died on the United States corvette Levant on the 11th of May of the present year. "I tell y ou," says the doctor, "it was a hard thing to condense the history of half a century into that talk with a sick man. And I do not now know what I told him—of emigration and the means of it ; of steamboats and raihoads and tele graphs; of inventions, and books, and literature; of the colleges and West Point, and the Naval School ; but with the queerest interruptions that ever you heard. You see it was Robinson Crusoe asking all the accumulated ques tions of 56 years. I told him everything I coull think of that would show him th e grandeur o f hi s co untry and of its prosperity, but I could not make up my mouth to tell him a word about this infernal rebellion. And he drank it in, and enjoyed it as I cannot tell you. He grew more and more s i lent, yet I never thought he was tired or faint. I gave him a glass of water, but he just wet his lips, and told me not to go away. Then he asked me to bring the Presbyterian Book of Public Prayer' which lay there, and said with a smil e i t would open at the right place, and s o it did. There was his double red mark down the page, and I knelt down and read, and he re peated with me,—' For ourselves and our country, o gra cious God, we thank Thee, t hat, notwithstanding our mani fold transgressions of Thy holy laws, Thou haat continued to us Thy marvellous kindness,' and so on to the end of that thanksgiving. Then he turned to the end of the same book, and I read the words more familiar to me, Most heartily we beseech Thee with Thy favour to behold an bless Thy servant, the President of the United States, and all others in authority,' and the rest of the Episcopal collect. Dan forth,' said he, I have repeated those prayers night and morning; it is now 65 years.' And then he said he would go to sleep. He bent me down over him and kissed me. I thought he was tired and would sleep. I knew he was happy, and I wanted him to be alone. But in an hour, when the doctor went is gently, he found Nolan had breathed his life away. We looked in his Bible, and there was a slip of paper, written, ' Bury me in the sea—it has been my home, and I love it. But will not some one set up a stone for my memory at Fort Adams or at Orleans, that my disgrace may not be more than I ought to bear Say on it—ln memory of Philip Nolan, lieutenant in the army of the United States. He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.' " SECOND EDITIC►N. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXTU JANTJ) I RES FOR 1864. ARY. 1 Manchester FEB Harrow Chelmsford Spring LUARY. Lincoln Hungerford LCII. Warwick Spring Durham 2B Northampton 29 Catterick 3O Nottingham Spring 1 Decby Spring 3 Liverpool Shrewsbury D on caster Spring Croxton-Park 1 Edinburgh Spring .. 2 Abergavenny Thirsk 5 LIL. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spring 25 Chester York Spring :-ali.bury .. 12 Bath Manchester Harpenden *• • • 20 24 Epsom Ascot .. 7 I 15 Hampton Newton Odiham Bibury Ju: rNE I Stockbridge Chelmsford 2B Newcastle-on-Tyne Woroest,r (Summer) Ipswich rLY. Nottingham Stamford l4 Winchester l9 Southampton 2O I Goodwood Newmarket July 5 Carlisle .. . 12 Abingdon 13 Liverpool July 14 Pontefract AU I Bright= .. 2 Brighton Club Lewes ............ h ea ding Egham Oxtord .. 18 York August 23 SE PT. UST. Plymouth Derby 3O Lichfield 3O Stocktcn .... Devon and Exeter Lichfield Weymouth Warwick .September 6 Leicester.. Doncaster Brecon .. 19 IBM Richmond Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn Newmarket First October 27 -- OCT , Northallorton 6 Newmarket Second Oct lO IBER. Gloucester Newmarket Houghton 24 NOVEMBER. Shrewsbury Autumn STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864. FEBRUARY. 2 1 Birmingham . ... 15 Carmarthen Harrow 16 Cambridge l2 MARctr. Grand Military (Rugby Hunt) .. l4 APRIL. Abergavenny .. NOVEMBER. Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts., 1863. 1862 Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2 ,1 40 A 1.811 Belfast and Coulity Down 49 49 64! 69 ' . Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,255 6 1 :2 8 0 ° ° . 2 Bristol and Exeter 121% 1214 6,324 ° ,„.,,,,c Caledon i an 231% 0 241 4% 17, 00 ';'; Cockerniouth& Workington.• 84 8 1 3 52 29 9 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 120 152 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6% • 61 370 29) Cork and Youghal .. 324 3 ? i 1,35 0 1 . 223 Cornwall 5 61 !,it 218 2 17 Deeside l7 •.‘ 1, 441 1,464 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 : 3 1,604 1.750 750 1311bli 23 n and Drogheda 75 105 Dublin and Meath 7,284079 1.405 911 164 Dub. &Wicklow and Wex id. 6.987 Edinburgh and kilasgow Furness, &c ...•, ... .. - Glaigow & SoUth-Western • • lri 614 30,261 27,117 Gt. Esetern,Nrik.,&E.Union-• 1 1 : 851 33,262 29,2.1 Great Northern ... .. 1.818 Great North of Scotland Li t - Neftlin. dc Westin. (Ira ). • 37 3% 329 7,774 8, 5 , 2 'it Southn, & Westn.arlud.). Great Western ........ ...._f_.,.. 86 % 801 1,026 876 Inverness &Aberdeen o:!`_‘:.•' 1191 - 1,098 Invernear & Perth Jan . . t . i . u . . . 145 145 Irish IN ort B.Westerilie ....... 4i2 325% 3 1 51 24 3 1 ,677 Lancashire & Toliu; ' . ....... 241 241 1 1.614 Limerick and Bilvie" 264 261 ~5 4A 148 Limerick and Foynes....,::::: 464 461 a,, 174 Llanelly ......... ,:v e ,,• te i ii ..„ 12041 1179% 99, 4 1 8 5 98 517 92,023 London & North- w d Blackwall ....... 61 61 1,662 1,583! LINI4PI2 AnSoutb-yirestern ... 450! 441,1 21,2.: 18.963 London & „,..-,,,, ii S. Coast .. 2011 2411 Loud , righ" - al * Dover.. 72% --2 15,854 17,071 - 54 tropolitan EZ4ellBlOll 10 London, C alha , , 72% 4,479 3we 5i 875 17 ° I,l)oumd7Jobu_cirir,* Southend •• 42%. 1 4 1• 1333 f 5 1 ,&Litleolnsh ~ 239 4 ' 2 % - ' o ' 4. 910 Planate &AltrinCham 4 239 1 16,f153 1 1,057 P lane" ' aj Carlisle - 9 i 9% 1,233 , gao Baryport and 28 28 1,455 ."-- Metropolitan slidland (incl. N.-Western) gidlandGt.Westn. of hind 64311 6-14 1 4 i ; 6 923 g 6 416941°6 bionkland •• • 259% 192 ~:6 57 1.5 , 5 Illonmouthsh. Rail. & C 1 71* 71% ; 675 . 2,465 ana ~ 44 44 North British, Edi n., Perth and Dundee . 0,755 10.835 ST-Eastern and Stock.i . b . a . r . L . 1409154 10 4 711 1 5 1:35 938 4 5 3 1 :0 2 51 North London ... North Staffords hire 25C41 241 8,833 7,964 Oswestry and Newton... Rhypney l9 19 950 854 2,134 2,043 St. Helen's Canal & Railway .j 8 5 9 2 5,!1.4 4,703 Scottish Central , . 0 % 4,310 4.64,8 Scottish North.-iern.......:▪ 138 'i' ;i 4 6:8 351 Somerset and Dor s ties South Devon ..... • " 2 sod 19,388 18,070 ...... • w... ~,,, 0 South -Eastern Tali Vale -‘,4 ..... 51 2,019 1,812 Ulster ..... . Vale of vi v o . . ....... • Vale of Neat h. • •_• Waterford and ....lkenny __ A 1,141 1,03 7:38 716 Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall ..... r• • • • ;;a•ii ▪ • 2 74 52 2 3,705 3.192 W.llextlepool Ilal cv i , 552 461 Irhavenxieatoir,ti Eg . r.n . n . .. .. 173 137 945 636 Wilitehaven ! L RV 1 .11;1178;jUn.. •35 3 5 932 75) 114"itelic- en S'Ol'Co Lori JAI. A.:ll°tl:e'ir-pilaultd° Kotte.rdata , Austrian; .. • . 14 iern....) ",/ unction 26* 204 332 214 Belgia n - " as o da, & Len. Inelis, 185% 167% 2,46/ 2,004 Bombay, r_ Buffalo and Lake Iluron 161% 161% 2.996 1,908 ' 189 189 5,360 4,172 Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish loBt VS% 3,910 3,659 Eastern Bengal - - - Eas tern of France 1167 1081 L 8, 947 52,927 East Indian - - , Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 21,822 21,556 Great Indian Peninsula 538% 495 5,068 5,379 Great Luxembourg 134 134 3,8 07 3 , 977 Great Southern of India i treat Western of Canada 315 315 12,975 12,873 i 4adrid,SaragOtasa&Alicaut., 659 490 14,710 13,714 Railways. 1863. 1862. TURK Ey, Constantinople letters and journals to the :17th have been received, but their contents are no t of much interest. The Minister of Marine has i:saueci an order that henceforward a system of messcs, on the English plan, is to be organised far the of kers of the Turkish navy, both afi)at and ashore_ SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK. THE FEDERAL EXECUTION. ALTONA, Dec. 25 (Evening), The Federal eivii Commissioners have issued a proclamation stating that Altoria will be their seat for the transaction of but-iness. The reports hitherto sent to Herr von Picea at Copenhagen are hence forth to be forwzrded to the ccmmiesioners. Przyers are to be put up in the churches only for the Government, its eounciilors, and servants. The Danish troops leave Neamunster to•.day. Duke Frederick has been proclaimed in Pinne berg, Elmshorn, and Gluckstadt. A meeting of deputies from all parts of the country is to be held at Elmshorn on Sunday. Editors of Newspapers. The statistics of the last Decennial Census show that in 1861 there were 1,673 persons engaged in literature in the capacities of authors, editors, and writers. Of these 1,528 were men, and 145 women. Bearing in mind the great spread of education in Great Britain during tho past ten years, it is remarkable, says the Atheneum, that the above numbers should differ but slightly from similar returns in 1851, At that period the numbers professing to be engaged in literature were 1,501 males and 109 females. As may be expec ted, of the 1,673 persons recorded in 1851 as living by the profession of literature, more than one-half (795) reside in the Metropolitan district. There is nothing to prevent Mr. Cobden, remarks the if he pl eases, the example London news to the o.sfa tthos e urdify e ß h e e v ie ie e w f: p fr ir or ts imitating,whosupply American papers. He is at liberty to publish the names of the persons whom he knows or guesses to be the editors, the contributors, and the correspondents of the Ti mes. He may glean or invent facts illustrating their private life, and Way describe, if they have ever had the pleasure of dining f in the same company with him, the kind of wine they pre laetr,oannd the dishes to which they are partial. It is by rove irritating veil of i of this sort that the inquiring American strives to allay the curiosity of his countrymen, and to strip off the anonymous journalism. Mr. Cobden might i w ' t w to all this, an d yet the would be, we think him. Ih s e e r s eare ay eertain minor annoyances take no noti ce of to which every man may be subject who adheres to a course of conduct prov e d to be, country at large. I t is ?n the whole, beneficial to the highly desirable to have no more duels, but it is very a rm horsewhipped by a annoying that a little man who is pub liclyand more animated mohdeefuOrfegaetting redress than bringing man should have no quicker f m or y a sensitivepolice court. In the same his way it triumphant maybeh a e r n d e that his name in full coward and a libellous scoundrel, and al/ his wickedness shall be revealedn in the Morning Star. But an editor must learn to bear journaliststhis, because it is when it has for the public good that anonymous on. And, practically it is proved that found out that a thing is desirable, can carry it out. The disuse of duelling mighthave led to in tolerable arrogance on the part of bullies no ion of fitting punishment, or to nervous men shrinking in fear fully from the imputation of screening the-ir fear ing. Pain politic dislike of duelling. This has not happened, b der a generally society, s h '•u 1d go society, seeing that if either of these risks becameecause common, duelling could not fall into disuse, deter mined mined that neither the bully should bully with impunity, nor the nervous have cause to feel ashamed. The bully was simply cut in society, and the nervous men encouraged, and there was an end of the whole difficulty. In the same way, anonymous journalism exposes the criticised to be wrongly attacked from personal motives, and the critic to be wrongly suspected of saying secretly what they would not dare to say openly. Society in a great. measure reme dies both these evils. If public men are treated unjustly by a newspaper, if the language used about them is scurril ous, if the opinions advocated are manifestly thote of a small clique, or are determined by private considerations, society condemns the journal to obscurity. It sinks out of circulation in the educated and governing classes, and de rives a precarious support from those to whom such language is palatable. If, on the other hand, the anonymous journalist or editor is wrongfully denounced, even in the columns of the Morning Star, no great notice is taken of it, and the world of newspaper readers is content to take its own measure of the honesty and ability of the articles it studies. The next time the editor of the Times is threatened with an exposure of his real name and address by an in furiated popalar orator, we hope that he will resolutely abide the coming of this mighty stroke of fate, and we will venture to prophesy he will survive it. There was a time, says the London Review, when the English aristocracy affected a disdain for newspaper writers and editors, Bat sounder and more generous views prevail. Men of letters now receive a gracious welcome into the best society ; and the journals to whose responsible managers every good house is open, offer the brightest examples of the self-respect, good faith, and courtesy which belong to good society. The revolution in modern journalism has effected an im mense change in the relative positions of public speakers and public writers. In the days of Pitt and Fox states men gave the tone to journalists. In the present day the newspaper instructs the statesman. It drags to light h abuses, collects opinions from practical men, winnodwsht the chaff from the wheat, points the way to reform, an f hands the question over to the statesma n when it is ripe or logi'la tion. The public orator, when backed by the press, may b, He laboured said to be irresistible ; but unless he is aided by the n ews . alpthombees.listene 1 to by Mr. paper writer, Cobden is himself an illustration of this "modern inatanee.:, he has little power over public opinion, to His demolishcareer thean c agitatorbr n iaw the public as the press took up the cause of free trade ; and sh;asnheadbetwg he knew the battle was won whenathe 7,. — 2l /C8 came out and declared the League to Russian "great faet . ,, Mr, Cob den's opinions against the war were quite as strong much his sentiments be - - as against the Corn-laws. Yet he incurred so unpopu laity, and were held t so un patriotic, that he was obliged to retire from the West Riding, and his headquarters lieutenan t s were beaten in the of free trade. lie is an energetic and persistent advocate of Parlia mentary Reform, the extension of the suffrage, the cut ting down o f the estim ates, the impolicy of constructing fortifications, the advantage of giving small freeholds to labouring men, and the Policy of conceding de wand, however unreasonable and humiliating , th at ma y be made by the these topics he feels strongly. season and out of se Federal Government. The Yime4 every "Upon all R e urges them in reports his speeches with as" ' ill-requited fidelity and minuteness. or menacing, Scrupulous but and reverberated his Free-trade speeches to the furthest But the powerful voice that enforced, echoed, confines of Civilisation, has in these latter days been silent but is himself struck by the thunder of Olympus. Ile has measured himself against t he d es. f l ised iac n i e . w i s i pap l er n writer, g- The orator wields no longer the bolts of Jove, and has received a fall. I make no way with the presel,lainncdtpt:eblic op " in Y io i n cB is thereeL'arne dead aaiest g There never w him a s a time in the histor y of mankind when the newspaper editor and newspaper writers had more occa sion to magnify their office. The life of modern intellect is becoming more and more determined to the daily newa• papers. As the Sir Isaac Newton was on her way to Al bany o n the night of the s th, with ab ove 160 p assen g ers on. board, w h e n a terrific explosion occurred,---the bottom of one of the boilers was thrown out, the fire hurled through the v entilator into the lower cabin, and the vessel inextin guishably fired. Six or seven persons were killed, but. all the rest were rescued. The New York Times describes the scene as one of great confusion ;—" When the burning coals came down the ventilator into the lower cabin, they scattered in all directions. One gentleman, lifting a cup of coffee to his mouth, was struck and burnt on his hand. Another had his coffee thrown boiling over his face by a. red-hot coal alighting into the cup. A lady h ad her clothes set on fire. About one-third of the pas sengers were women and children, and the most hide a e e t r e a k l n e y d there f th scribable terror reigned. The wildest wrillh,Mo:o:enhs mouth to ear that the boat was sinkivg, and a scene of heart-rending agony occurred. wore cool, breve men on board, frantic women and shamed the cowardly mesu , and thus e saved many who would have recklessl y guards and thrown themselves overboard but it r equiredto othe the greatest courage thamenmadiasseyellvofe-fspossession. to u p revent the t i h n e to lad th y e pa w s a sen t P er r g . e ere lti ma te d: most w m i i l n cl u etffeso fearfultis e t r o r e t t s h h u e r l o t :i mplosion the entire midships was in flames. The passengers had, fortunately, nearly all rush ed aft. A guardian ang e l was at hand—the steamer Daniel; S. Miller, of Coxeacle, commanded by Captain John S mith:. —ever honoured b e hi s name—with t h re barges in tow., He set hraimnsuepli to to the starboard t starobsoaavrde the quarters, passen nigaerds.e f as t, and at once The ladies and children were first passed on board. Several cowardly men tried to crowd in advance of them, but were summarily thrust back by the brave spirits who sought to rescue. Selatlness had an ex.emplificaion on this occasion- one man had tour life-preservers on his person. There were a number of valuable horses on board. One escaped and swam to Fort Washington, and was captured by the policemen of Capt. Wilson's precinct." Tt Mena► paid, rvice nded ,litaa the aart o tions Pre . the i 11: 10.. !DOW ;ated oi iS• Iduli t that mbli° pu b- Dic ed wore o per, e vet arg e ' 1 / (11' p pea r )liSb ." and i s bed SO' tra ce t.N•