The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

Provisi9ns steady. Coffee and molasses quiet. Sugar very firm. NEW Youx, Feb. 5, Midnight. Washington official despatches regard the encounter off Charleston as greatly exaggerated by the rebels. They de clare that there has been no interruption of the blockade. and that no such assumption will be admitted by the Go vernment. A tele ii gram to-day from Fortress Monroe mentions the Ei s re ception there o f news f rom Ch ar l es t on of the 3d of si February, when that port was thoroughly blockaded, 2 , the Fed era l i ron dads then lying outs id e the wooden 1, Tes aels• The iron dads were not w.th the fleet when the 5 , attack is said to have been made. The Federal attack upon Charleston was momentarily ei e xpected on the 3d, and the official account was hourly awaited by the despatch boat when the Arabia left. si NEW YORK, FEB. 5, Evening. News received here from the city of Mexico, I Sie dated San. 4, states that the French were rapidly el advancing upon the capital. The French were also advancing upon Puebla. They bad reached and occupied a position near Acultzingo with 3,000 men and thirty pieces of artillery. Six thousand French troops with twenty-seven I ag guns had reached Tecomachalco. The French forces which cover Peyote were also 1.1 aivancing. ItONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CI. CY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Discounters are offering the mercantile com munity increased facilities, evidently in expectation Oa decline in the minimum quotation. The pro spect of an early reduction in the value of money, however, induced most persons merely to supply their immediate requirements, because by waiting a few days they may be enabled to negotiate their securities on easier terms, and the demand at present consequently continues quiet. Capi talists engaging in discount business are there fore unable to obtain much employment for their available resources, although they have already lowered their terms for the best bills to 41, and in exceptional cases to 41 per cent. Money is also getting cheaper on the Continent, the Bank of Amsterdam having, within the last few days, relaxed its regulations, while the improve ment in the situation f the Bank of France, and the favourable advises now received, indicate the probability of lower quotations being speedily h to announced in the Parisian market, The accounts from various manufacturing dis tricts for the past week are of a less satisfactory character. At Manchester both cloths and yarns have been in very limited request, and prices tende I downwards. In the woollen districts, viz., at Leeds, Iradford, Huddersfield, and Halifax, the chief Operations have been in spring goods at about pre- s vious rates. The hosiery and lace departments of 41 Leicester and No tingham have shown more anti vitY, while at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolver hampton there nas been little change of importance. rue dividend on the Peruvian 41 per Cent Bonds and Turkish 6 per Cent Loan of 1858 has been an nounced for payment. The traffic receipts of the Great Western Railway ea of Canada for the week ending the 30th ult., amounted to £13,019, against £10,633 last year. et, The Arabia, from New York, has brought £60,356, and the Cossack, from Lisbon, £1,375 in specie, Two O'CLOCK. The English Stock Market, which closed on Sat ur day with a very buoyhat appearance, is rather ' t : flatter to-day, consequent upon a few sales on behalf st! of speculators who, having bought at lower prices, were desirous of securing the profit within their ' reach. Consols are therefore 92t H, for money and 92i 93 for the account, but upon the whole affairs el present a favourable appearance, and the market must still be considered exceedingly firm. rho New 3 per Cent s. are firm at 921 93 ; the Reduced 4 - 1 at 92 t g ; Red Sea Telegraph Annuities, 2li, and India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1086. In the Foreign Market the dealings have been moderately athive, and prices, in most instances, have shown increased buoyancy ; Italian 5 per Cents., however, have declined to 69} I, owing to the ex- pected issue of a new loan. Egyptisn are firm at 1001; do., 2d issue, at 991 100; Greek Bonds have improved to 201; do., Coupons, are 9 1 ; Mexican Stock has advanced to 331 1, in consequenc-t of the More favourable advices trom the Republic; Portu guese New Loan is steady at 461 47k ; Russian do., 93 I; Spanish Passive, 264 1; do. Certificates, 9 / 10 ; i',irkish 6 per Cents., 1554, are buoyant at 90 1 ; do.. 1858, at 73/ 74; do., 1862, 701 71 ; and the Consoltdes, 414 42. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have continued mod e rately active, and prices exhibited, in most instances, a further short improvement. Great Western, Lancashire and lot kbbire, North Western, and South-Eastern, have improved 58.; And Great Eastern and Great Northern A Stock, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were without material variation. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian realise 23}; Sambre and Meuse, 11 1 .1 ; Great Luxembourg, 16 s ; Great Western of Canada improved to 131 4 ; and Grand Trunk of Canada to 214. East Indian was firm at 1061. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares co.tinued dull, but exhibited no marked variation in prices. London and Westminster realised 761 774 ; British and American Exchange improved to 114 4 ; and Alliance of London and Liverpool to 24-1-. South Australian Land was steady at 31 ; and Scottish Australian Investment at 140. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities •, tonnes, 30 yrs, qxpire ith Jan., 180 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21i India Stock 1) tto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Dia. 51 per Cent Consols for Account, March. 5 mita Stock for Account, 5 per Cent.. 10/4 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Chiliart 6 ocr Cent Ditto , I. per Cent, Egpptian 7 pet Cent lOO/ 100 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup .ns.. 2 , 4 Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada !•itte 2 pet Cent Ditto Deferred p„,ruvi,n 4i per Cent Ditto -_ 1862 Ditto Account..... Portuguese 3 per Cent.. , 1853 Ditto 1862 Ditto Scrip, £25 paid - Russian 5 per Cent., i 822, £ St. Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 921 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent Dit to Pnssive ........ Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ott to Account. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account.... . Ditto 6 p er C en t. 18.12 itto Account . Ve nezuela, 3 p e r Cent li an ditto 5 6 per Cent o , 1862 Divid e nd s . n the above payable in London. It t e p e er ,li C n e t nt 1861, Ex. 25f ditto A. -- . 69b a .. • • • • ,-, TWO ~.0" soIR Money t)itto Account 9:i 3 - — --- HONESTY REWARDED?—We have often had occ . .mion t o pu b ltsh acts of honesty perforated by parties i n h um b le life, and the following facts w ill s peak for themselves: —Yesterday, in one of the small refresh ment towers of the Cattle-market there was picked up Off the floor, by the person in charge, a pocket book with upwards of £lOO in it, and which was promptly delivered up. Shortly thereafter the loser (one of the dealers Wno had some time previously been in on business), called to see if he had dropped his pocket book and contents while he was in. When he had it restored to him, he remarked that he would see the person again. Upo n this becoming known to the other dealers, one of their number called for him to c tut- back and reward the party, when he very generously, but, reluctantly, rewarded her with the mxuaitioem stun 9128.—North .DritiVe Daily &mi. a the on off mt of Secre- Con ening I that o f the Ltil 60 oven' ' Itus° ester() led to dons' ats 01 ly for zcaue • fogs) ? i t the t theY at the ,urbed t 011C° t, con- wag leston )posed ck Oil 3, and -AA° Id witll ork (il irdin~ inter of 34 bang • wtral s g V P ' 01104. SHARE MARKETS—This Day share Railways. 3.14. Sir.. Wol., and Str. Val k.. 5 tiiythe and Tyne. ! .0 Boat.,Sleat,and it Bristol and Exeter it Caledonian in Cork and Bandon 10 Cornwall 0 Do A I A , ets no diN l 0 Do. B ll 5p c.p an. h as been paid to B. i 0 Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. it !Edinburgh & Glasgow. it Glasg. and S. Western. it Great Eastern, Ord. stk ;t Ditto A stock it I Ditto East Anglian at it IGreatNorthot Scotland II Great Northern it Do A stock it Do B do it Gt. S. an W. of Ireland; It ;Great Western A I Do Str Val gua. stock' st 'Lancashire & Yorkshire st ;London and Blackwald 9t 'Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast! it Won., Chat., and Dover; st 'Lon. & North Western st 'Lon. & South Western it I Man., Slid., & Lincoln. S 0 'Maryport and Carlisle L 24 I Do 3 shares 0 ;Metropolitan it Midland 4. 0 Do New it Do Birming. & Derby i 0 ;Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 15 Do. y shares 15 ;Mid Kent l 0 Do Cray Line it ;North British it Edin., Perth, & Dundee it ;Nth. Eastern—Rerwin 15 Do, G.N.E. purchase it Do Leeds at Do York A I Do Carlisle.. ..... at North London to I Do New 16.4 North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. Junction st Scottish Central stScot N. E., Aber. stock lat Do Scot. Mid. stock 10 !Shrews. and Welchpool st Shropshire Union at South Devon st South Eastern st South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 20 I staines, Wok.,an dWo k. 25 ;Stockton & Darlington 25 ' 8 81 fit 7 88 VO 117 118 68 7 41 43 13 14 86 87 106 108 48 49 44 46 231 24i 1271 I'lB 130; 131, 136 138 104 05 67 (71 1091 110 754 114 il5 41 43 691 90T 100 101 45 46 13i 129 ‘29 IR 10 98 98 53 54 25b 264 102 1026 57 68 84 9P 128 130 111 1:4 16 16} 11} 111 119 121 46i 47 1 103 105 48 50 32 34 9711 98 68 70 10 , 105 61 71 384 39} 10 1. p 74 8 p 150 .52 5 21 hp 554 , t , 4 26 34 p 1! p 86 87 140 145 Do Do New, 1860 A Taff Vale.. ,0 Do B [0 Do C .0 Ulster 25 Do 30 Do st `iTale of Neatif it 'Victoria sta. and Pim st Waterford & Kilkenny ;t ;West Cornwall a . Hartlepool Har.&R It West Midland Oxiordl st Do Newportl 4t Do Hereford 29 31 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOvhS. faid.l Closing Business I Price. I done 41i 871 4 91 i II 211 12q i 134 I 103 2i 33 481 71 68 1 1 1 100 , 1 75 1144 fp 41 I 2 ui 1 104 1 1010 1 451 13# & i ii P BRITISH P 1811WaV6 !.antie AT St Lawren. Eqn.,Barodat.Cent h. f;u. 5 per cent....... )n V PIA' :0 Do. E. I-:tares— .ua tiutiato &it LaKe LI ur, [1 [ 0 Do. Preference 10 J ituflalo,Brant,&Godricl p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1, 7 !. /0 Do. do. July 1, 187:' , o. do. <Jun, 1, I • ;t I,•utta.kvS.l4:astri. st 'apeTown t Dock Sr. , ;ock Kastn. Bengal gu. 5 I, Da n ast gu. 5 p. 20 Do. do. 17,- Ext 20 Do. do. II do. : ;rand Trunk of'': n Ist . Bonds Do.. O. d ef erred ...... 1 Bon s.. 10 D d ter ed...... 3d P et. sto k Do. do. d i e r d.... Do. 4th Pref. s o k... •••• • O Do. au deferr d. c. iit.lndiareuku.gua.up O Do. New qua. 5 p. c.. O Do. January, 862 .. cl• it. South.of India(Lin. uaranteed 5 per cen 06 it. W. or Canada Shar, 04 Do. New 1 ( Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt 1, I )o. 56 r.. c. do. '77-8. . .0 Indian Branch Limited icb Madras ;mar., sp. c. lel- Do. 41 p. 0. Extensio , Eck r,c. 4 :0 Do. Fifth Extension, )sk c. Bt: i; Nlelb. & Hobson's Bay )0 Do. 7 p.o. 51orrg. Bth \ , t.w Br unowick Can , 3 class A en i B. N.ltl.C'da6 pc Ist pf bth A Scinde .......... , Do. Delhi " Do. do ..• •• 0 ZO Do. Punlaub 7, 3 et Do. Do. . •• •• ock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 44 46 34 38 95 37 SESSIONS. tO3 105 13 +3 71 71 99 101 92 -A II IP 12• 3. 96 97 92 4 52 53 , all 100 100 2 i; leo ,4, 3 6 83 45 ;( 5 106 1(4 104 iP P (3 104 98 100 rOLONIAI. 11 ( )V Ert.N NI E.N 1 , 1 11.1'1 I att.tiov. e p.c.J a a.l - 1877-44 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. &A ti 1 1 8 03 , t , 6 - Do. 6p. c.Mar.& Sep , iot 106 Ins - Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 101 90 97 - Do. 5 Inscribed stoci. 100 94 96 - cape G. Hope, 6p c,187: too ,0 , 1 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1884 100 112 114 Do. 189 401 , ! 13 !15 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891. 100 411 113 - 'Ceylon. N0v.1.61, 6 p 'o' - - M u ibus b per cent .. 100 110 IV. - Na a Gv. 8 per coat. 100 9 111 .t 5 - tao. Ip. c.Ap. & Oct 10 , - - N. S.W. G ov. 5 p c., 186. 101 103 101 1001 - Do. sp. c.,1871 to 187 , 101 100 101 - ! Do. d0.,1888 &upwd. 101 99 100 100 - ;New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 109 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. - ster;ing, 1875 to. 11!6 107 - ,Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 49 11. - IS. Aus Gtip.c.1876.& up. 100 'O9 111 - IVlct.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 107 109 - Do. to qa.e. An.Ar.Ont. too 41C Hob noi BRITISH MIN 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id *n - iinoro Amalgamated.. - ti 13 - Devon G. Conn. Javist. 1 525 635 540 - East Bassett (Illogsnl.. 30 48 50 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. id kp East Caradon ...... 'lll. ~ 6* 476 - East Carn Brea... 0 0 (1 102 / E. 45 7 '1 Russel (Tavistk. 7.19.0 1* 5 - am.&SLAubytnGwen.; 47 17 19 - treat South Tolgus.... 176 61 7 - 1. Wheal Vor (Holston 40 5i 6 - (Grenville. - 1 .1 50 52 - 'ling - Bton Downs 4 7.0 24 3 - Lady Bertha 51argaret. (tiny Lelant 33 ,0 - 51arke Valley.. 4 tlvndv Iron Oro (Lim O2 4da pr - New Setun .. 19: 135 145 - ,North Downs fi 2/ 31 Wh '4 BasePt(Illo ; at • 17' 3* 4 - •:orth Wheal Croity 2.4.1• 46 5 - ''ar Consols (6t. Blaze 16 b 6 10 Tovidence(Uny Lelni 10. t.. 1 13 - South Caradon(StCleer l ± i 395 4( 5 - i. Care Brea (111o9.;an) .5.15 0) 2* 2/ -• Wheal Fran. 114.1 9 876 02k Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead 'l4th t 1 1 1 } o l'in Cron 1154 160 1 6k - %Vest Basset (Illogan) l3 124 134 - W Caradon (Liskeard 5 33 35 West Seton %t - heal Basset (Mogan • I 75 80 heal Buller( itedruth 65 75 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelan ".0.6 70 8 i WhealLud ott 0 . heal Mary Ann (Men.. . 156 161 Wheal Seton 584 . 220 'A 41,16, , 7 I 1 7 1 8 Wheal Union 3.17 41 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 1.39 LINES LEASED A FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Car isle, I i2i f London and Chatham z per Cent., 94 FUR EIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Bahia and Sin Franc sco (lim.) gu.. 7 per cent., 211 Great Luxembourg, ie-k ,6 Sambre and Meuse, 11 San Panic run ), gua. 7 per cent., 9/ Ditto Cal), 2: Turin and Savona, 2} Ditto (all), l 7 FOREIGN MINES. Port Philip, 14 Scottish Australian, Yudanamutana 0 S. Auetridia JOI T-STOCK ANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Urn.), 24{ Aus , ralasia, 801 British and America❑ Excha ,, ge (Um.), 11} I Commercial Bank of ( an to a, 18 Eng., Sco ~ and Australian Chartered, 201 London and Westminster, 771 e l Oriental Bank Corporation, Ottoman Bank, 904 Ditto, new, 10 1t Standard of British South Africa (11m ), 10 Union of Australia, sli Union of England and France (lim.),:li f DOCKS. St. Katharine, 56 MISC EL L ANEOUS. Atlantic Royal Min Steam, 3 i North British Australasian, t Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Z?, 3 i Itoyai Mail Steam, 57 Scottish Australian Investment (Rm.), 140 'South Australian Land, 31 INDIAN FlNANCE . — Notvgitbstanding the inc re a se of the revenue of Indi a beyond that m of last affirm ye th ar a; to in in excess of the extent of £1,000,000, letters from consequence 0 , an increase in the expenditure India the estimates, there will be a d.ficiency on balance tween £300,00 and £loo,o'o. The mate r i a l pr os p the country im, however, so rapidly advancing that7iofy this i expected to be the last year of Indian deficiencies; and it i: nrcessary to obsery that the guarantees of the • ndian go vernment on account of railways and other public works, amounting to upwards of £2,000,000 per annum, are charged against revenue. Whenever Indian railways pay from their own earnings 5 per cent., this charge will cease, and assum ing an equilibrium in other respects, will leave a propor tionate s urplus to be applied to the extinction of debt, It is understood that a large sum will be applied during the present year to pay off the debentures which fall due in September and October nPxt.-11/oney Market Review. To iovest a mu rriere ,, s lth 'vet charm of hods and mind is, in the language of Sydney Smith, to "gild the g allows, and raise up spleudid absolutions in LAYOUT 9f being hanged," ..imineA.k don• all 13! i 34 it THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 1.6, 1863. MARKETS—Tbis Day. bag- from Rotterdam, 100 tons from Dunkirk, 100 tons from Caen, and 120 tons from Rouen. Yorkshire Regents loos to 130 s per ton. Do. Flukes Do. Rocks Kent and Essex Regents l2os to 140 s ~ Scotch Regents .. 1008 to 130 s ~ Do. Rocks Bos to 90s „ Dunbar Regents Foreign sss to 70s I) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LINCOLN HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Hubert (taken) 12 to 1 agst Sea Nymph (taken) 12 to 1 agst Libellous (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. Bto 1 agst Satellite (taken) 12 to 1 agst Jealousy (taken) 20 to 1 agst Shropshire (taken) 40 to 1 agst Medora (taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MMES. 10 to 1 agst Croagh Patrick (taken) 12 to 1 apt Grimston (taken) 16 to 1 bar two (offered) CHESTER CEP. 20 to 1 agst Stradella (taken) 33 to 1 agst Zetland (taken) 33 to 1 agst Caller Ott (taken) THE DERBY. 2.5 to 1 agst Automaton (taken freely) BETTING AT MANCHESTER-SATURDAY. We had a very quiet day. For the Liverpool Steeple chase Satellite continues in great request, all the 7's to 1 that could be obtained were taken. 9to 2 was offered on the field for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, and there was an offer to take 6 to 1 against Hospodar, which was not re sponded to. 14 to 1 was freely offered against him for the Derby. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 10 to 1 agat Hubert (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE, 7to 1 apt Satellite (taken freely) 25 to 1 agst Lincoln (taken) 100 to 3 agst Arbury (wanted) THE DERBY. 14 to 1 agst Hospodar (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Michael Scott (wanted) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 9to 2on the field (offered) 9to 1 agst Michael Scott (offered) ROYAL LETTERS. THE TYCOON OP JAPAN TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. [Translation.] With sincere respect we address your Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. Since our exalted subjects Midzouno Chykgo no Kami, Nagou Gemba no Kami, Moonye Sinano no Kami, Hory Oribe no Kami, Iwase Higo no Kami, and Tsuda Hanzabro, by our directions, came to an agreement with your Envoy Plenipotentiary, the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, relative to friendship and commerce, and concluded a treaty in the city of Yeddo, the intercourse between the two kingdoms has increased from day to day. Wherefore we despatch herewith Takenouchy Simodzouke no Kami, our Foreign Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary, Machudaira Yvami no Kami, our Minister Plenipotentiary, Kiogok Noto no Kami, our Minister Plenipotentiary, &c., to your kingdom, in order to as,ure you of our sincerely friendly feelings. We have especially chosen and nominated the three persons above mentioned, and we therefore request your Majesty to trust them, and to receive them with kindness. We take this opportunity to express our friendly disposi tion, and at the same time to wish your Majesty happiness and prosperity in your kingdom. The day, 12th month, Ist year of Buncaw. (Signed) MINAXOTO YEMOCHY. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN TO THE TYCOON OP JAPAN. VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to the most high, mighty, and glorious Prince his Imperial and Royal Majesty the Tycoon of Japan, our brother and cousin, greeting. Most high and mighty Prince I—We have to acquaint your Imperial Majesty that Takenoouchy Simodzouke no Kami, Machudaira Yvami no Kami, and Kiogok Noto no Kami, the eminent personages whom you accredited as your Envoys to our Court, arrived in England a short time ago. It has been to us a source of regret that, as we are now residing in a distant part of our dominions in st.ict retirement in consequence of severe domestic afflic tion, we have been unay.,idably precluded from receiving your envoys in person. The letter with which your Impe rial Majesty intrusted them was, however, at our desire, delivered by thi m to our Principal Secretary of State for Pot eign Affairs, and was by him transmitted to us, In thanking your Imperial Majesty for that letter, we de sire to express to you our gratification at the visit of your Envoys to this country. They have, by our command, been received and treated with the utmost attention and respect. We trust that the time they have spent in England has been passed in a manner agreeable and profitable to them selves, and that they will report to your Imperial Majesty the friendly reception which has been given to them by our Government, and by tae British people generally. It is due to them that we should assure your Imperial Majesty that their language and conduct during their stay in our domi nions have been such as to merit our approbation; and we, therefore, feel pleasure in recommending them to your favour. We embrace this opportunity to assure you of the sincere desire which we entertain for the prosperity of the country which Providence has placed under your rule, and our earnest wishes that the friendly and commercial intercourse which has been happily established between Great Britain and Japan may increase and flourish, and more than fulfil every expectation of the benefits to be derived from the re cent treaty. And so, with our cordial wishes for your Imperial Ma jesty's happiness, and the long continuance of your life and reign, we recommend you to the protection of the Almighty. Given at our Court at Balmoral, the 31st day of May, in. the year of our Lord 1862, and in the 25th year of our reign Your Imperial Majesty's affectionate sister and cousin, (Signed) VICTORIA R. (Countersigned) RussELL, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. A dividend of 5 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of this company is proposed to be declared for the past half year. SOUTH WALES. The dividend on ti;;;r4ii;ar;;;cl;,iifter payment of the debenture charges, will be at the rate of £3 58. per annum for Dec. 311ast, leaving .£676. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. At the half•yoarly meeting of this company. held on Friday at the London Tavern, Mr. ANDERSON moved an amendment to the report, viz. —" That the report of the directors be received and adopted only in so far as regarded the payment of the dividend of 3i per cent. per annum, and the consolidation of stock." A poll was demanded, the result of which will be declared on Tuesday. MARK LANE. The supply of wheat on sale in the country markets, held on Saturday, was very moder at e . Selected samples moved off steadily at full quotations; but for inferior pro duce the inquiry was much restricted. Malting barley continued in request at extreme rates. Oats, beans, and peas fairly supported late currencies, whilst in flour the transactions were to a moderate extent on former terms. On the :ontinent the wheat trade is slow, but in spring rather more firmness has been observed. Advices from New York state that wheat, flour, and maize were in good demand at enhanced rates. Up to our market last week the arrivals of English grain were small. The imports from abroad amounted to 14,662 quarters of wheat, 24,114 barley, 5,517 oats, 5,947 beans, 917 peas, 5,084 tares, 3,199 linseed, 3,499 rapeseed, 1,119 sundry, 258 sacks, and 11,630 barrels of flour. An increased, but by no means extensive, supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market, in somewhat improved condition. There were several samples on offer, however, of indifferent quality. Selected parcels moved off slowly, yet last Monday's quota tions were steadily supported ; otherwise, the trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. There was a good supply of foreign wheat on the stands, with a fair proportion of produce from Dantzic. Of Rus sian, Egyptian, and American qualities the supply was somewhat extensive, and sales progressed slowly, but with oat leading to any quotable change in prices, compared with Monday last. Floating Cargoes of grain were in fair average request at full currencies. The supply of English barley on offer was tolerably large. Malting and seed qualities were inquired for at ex treme rates. Other descriptions, owing to the large import of foreign last week, viz., 24,000 qrs., met a slow sale, and for low-conditioned parcels, of which a considerable por tion of the supply consisted, rather lower prides were accepted. Although the arrival of malt into London last week was very large, the supply exhibited for sale, to-day, was by no means extensive. The trade, however, ruled quiet, at late rates. _ _ _ With oats the market was scantily supplied. Good and fine English and Scotch qualities realised very full prices. The best foreign parcels fully maintained their value; otherwise, the demand ruled heavy, at late quotations. Beans were in fair supply, and slow request, on former terms. The supply of peas was small. All kinds supported last Monday's currency ; but tie inquiry was far from active. Barrel flour moved off slowly, at late rates. in town and country made qualities a limited business was trans acted; nevertheless, prices were supported. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new Ditto, old 4Bs 548 Ditto, white, new 478 534 Ditto, old 503 57s .Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s - 8 Ditto, new Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 26s 358 Malting, new Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk sos 668 Brown Kingstown and Ware Ms 708 Chevalier 668 258 Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding. 20s 25s Potato Youghal and Cork, black .. 188 25s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 22s 268 Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey, new Maple White, new 4os 4 s Boilers 4ls 42s Flour—Town-made Suffolk 348 38s Stockton and Norfolk METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of foreign beasts and calves on offer in to day's market was sea-onably good, and foreign sheep limited. Sales progressed slowly, and the quotations were with difficulty supported. From our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, the arrival of beasts fresh up this morning was moderately extensive, and in full average condition. The attendance of buyers was far from numerous, and all breeds of breasts moved oft slowly. Prime Scots, crosses, short horns, 841., mostly supported last Monday's prices ; otherwise, the quotations had a drooping tendency. The extreme value of the best Scots, &c., did not exceed 4s 10d, and short horns 4s 6d per Blbs. The receipts of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, comprised 2,100 Scots, short horns, and crosses, from other parts of England, 650 various breeds; fr m Scotland. 500 Scots and crosses ; and, from Ireland, 150 oxen and heifers. Although the supply of sheep was very 'limited, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state; nevertheless, the currencies were well supported. Ihe best Downs and half breeds changed hands at 6s per Blbs, There was a slight improvement in the condition of most breeds. Lambs, the supply of which was moderate, were a slow sale, at from 7s to 7s 4d per 81bs. We haN e to report a dull inquiry for calves, at Thursday's decline in the quotations, of 2d per Blbs. The top figure was 6e 4d per 81bs. Pigs changed hands slowly, at about stationary prices. Per Slb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. a. d. a. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 61Priraecrs-wool d 0.5 0 5 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.s 8 6 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Largo arse. calves 4 2 4 10 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 6 0 6 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 OlLarge hogs 3 8 4 4 Second quality do. 4 24 10 Small porkers , 4 6 4 8 Suckling calves, lis to 20a ; and quarter-old store pigs, 203 to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs .... Cows Sheep .. 15,760 Calves figs 3lO A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices o fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, Feb. 17, 1862, and this day, Monday, Feb. 16, 1863. Per 81b. to sink tho offal. Feb. 17, Feb. 16, 1862. 1863. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4to 3 6 3 4to 3 6 Second quality do Yrime large oxen 4 4 4 6 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c 4 8 410 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do .. 4 2 4 6 4 2 410 Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 5 2 6 0 6 6 Prime Southdown do. Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 4 4 8 4 6 4 8 Beasts Sheep 16,410 14,780 Calves '' 89 166 Pigs 255 270 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Feb lB, 1851.—Beasts, 3,600 sh• ep, 19,150—calves, 147—pigs, 340 FEE. 20, 1860.—Beasts, 3,B9o—sheep, 18,510—calves, 91—pigs, 210. The total imparts of foreign stocK into London, last week, amounted to 2,458 head. In the corresponding week in 186!, we received 837—in 1861, 3.691—in 1810, 1,953 —in 1859, 2,645—in 1858, 495—in 1857, 1,208 head. IMPORTS INTO LOr.J.A.a., LAS WEEK. Prom Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam 225 .. 573 . • 306 .. 4 Harlingen 324 .. 4 .. .. 7 .. Hamburgh 1 .. 920 .. . 13 .. Boulogne. . • --- • • • • Mediniblik .. Vigo NieweDiep Amsterdam — Antwerp .. 05tend......... , Corunna rarril .• • • • Twining — • II .... • • "... • • ... • • - • • - • • 65 • • --- • • - • . 26 • • Total .. .. 550 1,497 407 .. 4 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1862 475 126 .. .. 236 IMI 2,682 .. .. 206 1860 378 .. 1,233 .• 295 .. 47 1859 4BO .. 2,006 .. 159 1858 lBB .. 105 .. 202 , NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. The arrivals of meat from Scotland continue on a fair average scale, from other quarters the supply is moderate. Generally speaking, the demand rules active, yet prices are supported. Per Slb. by the carcase. sd sd sdsd [nferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2 diddling do. .. 32 3 6 Prime do .. 44 4 6 ['rime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork ...• 4 4 4 8 Large pork 310 4 2 Lamb . Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in hops is by no rneang extensive. Good and fine English, as well as continental and American qualities mov e off steadily, and their value is well nsive. sup ported. Other kinds command very little attention, yet Brem s e u n s , se a x nd . ........ bases from N .. prices are unchanged. Last week's import was only mo derate, as fo.lows :—.4 bales from Havre, 27 Antwerp, 175 Boulogne, 42 Rotterdam, 29 Ostend, 127 Hamburg, 183 American.... 8 7 41 8 to 105 s Belgianß vari 9os to 120 s 7 7 Mid and East Rents Weald of Rents 7 Y Bo:Fi rk t o . 140 s ~ 180 s per cwt. 70s to 86s 7 7 7 7 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Large supplies of h,mao grown potatoes have been on sale here since we last reported, and from foreign ports a moderate quantity has cone to hand. The trade, almost generally is dull, and in some instances rather lower prices kayo ben accepted, Lad week 'N upped Rraollated to 112 WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool, being the first series far the present year, are announced to commence on Thurs day, the 26th inst. The arrivals up to Saturday last tom prised—Sidney, 2,830 bales; Port Philip, 17,702; Tas mania, 519; Adelaide, 820; Cape, 11,200; New Zealand, 265—total, 33,336 bales. It is asserted that, with about 10,000 bales left over from last sales, and an anticipated import of 25,000 bales, the total quantity of wool to be offered at these auctions will amount to nearly 70,000 bales. Since we last wrote, the trade bath for home-grown and colonial produce has ruled quiet, and the quotations have had a drooping tendency. Current Prices of Wool—Eng.• fish—Middle hogpts, is 101 d to is llid ; do. wethers, is 87id to is 9sd; half-bled hoggets, is 9d to is 10d, Down is 8d to Is 9d; do. ewes, is 7d to is 8d; oombing shin, is sid to is 7d; carding do., 3d to is sd; head do., 10d to is Id ; noils, is Id to is 10d; broker, is Id to is 3d per lb. Scotch—Laid Highland, 17s to 18s ; white do., 19s to 21; laid Cheviot, 20s to 265; laid cross, is to 21s; white Cheviot, 34s to 40s per 241bs. IDS. Good and fine cloverseed and rapeseed, are in fair aN otherwise the seed trade is qu at barely late rates. Turnip, W hite,p. bus 11s to 14s Swede —s —s Mustard, Brown 9s 12s White, Tares, New 7s 6d 8s 6d Old per quarter - s —s Canary, per quarter 46s 52s Rye grass, new s —s Clover, lied Eng., ct. 45s 72s White _ _ and trefoil, including linseed rerage request at full prices, iet. Cakes are a dull inquiry Carraway 26s 278 Coriander 165 188 Elerapseed, per qr 428 44s Linseed,Eng.sowing 728 7 0 ..5 Crushing Baltic Odessa Linseed Cake, p ton —s —8 English ...... £lO OsXlO Foreign...... tOs 410 Os £ll Os Rape Cakes,pton.£6 Os £2 15s Rapeseed, new,pr qr 678 686 Foreign Red 42s 55s White 688 7.is Trefoil, new 26s Hs TALLOW. UThe tallow trade is somewhat firmer to-day. St. Peters burg Y.C. is quoted at 44s per cwt. on the spot, 44s 3d for March, 44s 6d for April to June, and 46s 3d for the last three months' delivery. Rough eat, 2s 4d per 81b. 1859.1 lB5O. 1801. 1 1862. 1863. - Stock this day.... 21,042 34,823 71.109 45.527 47.215 i 256.1 to l 6os 66 to 60501 to ,46 5 3 d to 44s Cd to Price of Y.C. -s Od —8 Od —s Od —8 06 —a Od Delivery last week 1,579 1,557 1,468 ~83 1,675 Ditto from June 1 80,602 64,.21 63,434 95,157 62,412 Arrivals last wee 547 181 572 175 Ditto from June 1 93,079 86.087 107,449 83.853 71,322 Price of Town .... 548 .d 61s 9d 60s 3d 48s 6d 468 6d POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day. MANSION-HOUSE, DISEASED MEAT.—Thomas Hewitt, of Wisbeach, at. tended before the Lord Mayor, in obedience to a summons charging him with sending a quantity of meat to Leaden hall-market, in a state quite unfit for human food. Mr. Wylde said—l am inspector of slaughter-houses and sanitary inspector attached to Leadenhall and Whitechapel meat markets, and on the 2d of February I went into the shop of Mr. Fitters, in Leadenhall-market, very early, and had my attention drawn to two quarters of beef which had been sent up from the country for sale. I instantly seized the meat as totally unfit for human food. The ribs were highly inflamed, and the whole smelled strongly of physic. I afterwards went to Wisb ach and saw the defendant. I told him I was an officer from London, .nd also the charge against him . Re said he had bought the animal for £2 of a person named Baxter, but when he slaughtered it did not think it at all unfit for human food. I afterwards went to the shop of Mr. Jefferys and found the other half of the beast. It was in quite as bad a state as the other. A por tion of the outer skin had been taken off, and hot fat had been rubbed over it to give it a better appearance. The Lord Mayor—That was to make the meat look well. Dr. Letheby of Finsbury-square, s ►id on the 2d of Feb. I examined some meat submitted to me by the last wit ness. It was very wet, quite free from fat, and had a strong odour of physic, which I found pervaded the entire sub stance of the meat I analysed it and extracted the mixture from it, but lam unable io say what it is. The animal had evidently died or been slaughtered when at the point of death. Inflammation of the lungs would have produced the effect 1 have described. The meat was quite unfit for human food. The evidence of disease had been removed from the outside skin, and the hot fat which had been spread over it was to disguise the fact. John Chamberlain, farmer in Wisbeach, said—l sold an ox alive to Mr. Robert Baxter, who is a licensed slaughterer. It was what is termed "hooved" on the 14th. It was attended by a veterinary surgeon from the 13th to the 21st of Jan., and had physic each day. It gradually got worse, and on the 22d the doctor gave it up. I sold the animal to Mr. Baxter, hide and body, for 30s. It was quite grievous to see the poor animal, so I sold it to the slaughterer. It was suffering from chronic, lung disease. I did not sell the animal for human food. It was quite unfit for human food. In good health the animal would be worth £l6. Robert Baxter, horse slaughterer, said—l know the de fendant I sold him an ox which I had bought from Mr. Chamberlain. I purchased it for cats' meat. I would not have eaten any of the bullock myself. Cross-examined, I went to defendant and told him I had got a goodish bullock, and that I had no means of boiling it down, owing to my copper being out of repair. He bought the animal. If it was ever so much diseased it was worth the money f gave for it. Mr. Davis, one of the authorities of Leadenhall-market, said, as soon as the meat was discovered to be in a decom posed state the salesmen themselves called the attention of the officers to the meat. Mr. Page said, whoever dressed the meat must have known it to be diseased. Mr. Baylis, solicitor for the Commissioners of Sewers, said he was instructed to ask that the defendant might be committed for trial. The Lord Mayor said that was his determination, but he would admit the defendant to bail. WES I'MINSTER. A DESPERATE GANG or THIEVES.—TWO fellows of the most forbidding appearance, wearing dirty flannel jackets, who gave the names of Henry Charters and John Dislaun, were placed at the bar charged with being concerned in the following most disgraceful felony : Elisabeth Burnham, of 35, Medway-street, Horsoferry road, Westminster, said—At 10 last Saturday night I was standing in Tothill-street, Westminster, with a friend, when the prisoner Chatt ers c r ossed over to m e, and m y triend having said that he was about to make a grab at my shawl, I moved away. Directly after I saw Chatters steal two watches. Mr. Selfe--How did he ste them ? Witness—They were in a shop window, and he broke it. He dashed his elbow through the window, and having made a large hole put his hand in and took out two silver watches. He then ran away with them, followed by the other prisoner and several more. Mr. Selfe•—Who were the others I' Witness—A. band of six more besides themselves, who were lurking about the place. Mr. Selfe—Had you seen the two prisoners together before the robbery ? Witness—Yes They were on the other side of the way walking just befor3, when Chatters crossed over, and directly after the robbery they ran away together. Mr. Selfe—Are you positive they are the men ? Witness—Quite positive. Mary Anne Hewett—l was with my friend, the last wit ness, and saw them do it. They were going to steal my friend's shawl bef.re that. William Sprinks, 253 A—l heard an alarm given, and followed the prisoners, who were running. As they crossed Victoria-street Chatters dropped one of the watches. I still pursued, and took him into custody. Emmanuel Davis, 234 A—l saw the two prisoners together shortly before the robbery. There were six more standing about with them. Prisoners were remanded. SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, Feb. 16 —Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; light breeze and very fine weather, with frost. FORTSMOUTH, Feb. 15,—Wind E.—Arrived—Charles Henry, from Antwerp for Manilla, leaky. Sailed—Ra veneworth, for Singapore, after repairing ; her Majesty's ship Himalaya, for the Cape of Good Hope. HARTLEPOOL, Feb. 14.—Wind for Gilboa. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 15—Vivid, from Abbeville; Albert, from Dunkirk. Arrived, Feb. 16—Fyenoord, from Rotterdam. Sailed, Feb. 16—Fenzel, for Shanghai; Jubilee, for Shanghai. DmA.L, Monday Morning. Passed, Feb. 15—Rose, from London for Algoa Bay; Donna Sol, from London for Santander • D e rmosa de 'I raskern, from London for Vera Cruz ; Freedom, of Dart mouth, from the north for the west ; J. R. Mosle, from London for New York ; Brenda, screw steamer, from Lon don for Malta; Zingari, screw steamer, from London for Bordeaux; Eugenia, from London for Cherbourg. Passed, Feb. 16—Rochambeau, from London for St. John's. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT PORDELL ,COLLIERY. —A dreadful accident occurred on S aturday at F or d e ll C o lliery, near Dunfermline. A young woman was look ing down some of the pits, when she lost her balance and fell in. From the depth of the pit shaft, she must have been k lied before she reached the bottom. Shortly after the accident a search was made, and the body found lite rally smashed to fragments. Mr. John u , rt Mal i s about to publish a yulume op, " Utilitarianism." LONDON AND BLACKWALL. The report states that the directors are enabled to provide a dividend for the six months upon £110,831 4i per cent, preference stock, and a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per anuum upon £1,459,050 ordinary stock, making a total £33,120 and leaving £997 to be carried torward. MID-KENT. The directors state in their report that the revenue ac count shows a disposable balance of £2,051, out of which they recommend a dividend of 2} per cent., making 4i per cent, for the year 1862. NORTH-DEVON. The directors have declared a dividend at the rate of 16s. Bd. per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock, leaving a balance of £6O. VALE F NEATEk. The directors propose a dividend at the rate of 3} per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £662 for the next account. BLYTH AND TYNE. The directors recommend the payment of the following dividends, viz. :—At the rate of 10 per cent. per annum on the original preference shares, 91 per cent. on the ordinary and extension shares, and 5 per cent, on the A and B pre ference shares. The works on the branch to Newcastle are progressing, and a portion of that line will be opened for coal traffic before the Ist of May next. EDINBURGH AND BATHGATE. At the half-yearly meeting the usual dividend of 68, per share was declared. MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY. The traffic receipts on this company's line, six miles in length, amounted for the four weeks ending the 18th of December last to £4,703, and for the corresponding period of 1861 to £6,004, showing a decrease of £1,301, ARRIVAL OF THE CONFEDERATE CRUISER SUMTER. AT LIVERPOOL.—The celebrated Confederate cruiser Sumter, now named the Gibraltar, arrived at Liverpool on Friday night. She was convoyed out of Gibraltar harbour by one of her Majesty's ships. The 111ovimento of Genoa publishes two procla mations by Garibaldi, one addressed to the people of Eng land, calling on them to break with Russia and.osidthteh e to Polish Revolution; the other to the P oles, inform' nogg to that the Italians will be in the wrong if they their assistance. ' Do-nothing Policy, do Speaking of the Premier s the Saturday B says of . Lord eview he is in the posi extenuation, but really r ather omt no taste for unneces. h of siy—Palmerston—in t s i a o r u y of r epaanirsl lgQ i ng tenant, an d has ME2ZOFA.UTIS CIIINESE.—Dr. Russell, of May pooch, writes, t hat the only address in the nature nrm on in Chines e ever s p oken in Europe was delive red ( b if y a 6 N t ez zufauti, on oc casion of a S p iritual Retr eat to th ; hinese students of the Propaganda. Among the auto graphs inserted in the new issue of the " Life" (p, 368), is „ Tory pretty 'specimen of tus Chinon writing. LITERATURE, THE THEFT OF £1,145 ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RA ILWAY.—At the New Bailey, on Friday, Ralph Wignell, a guard in the employ of the above company, residing at Miles Platting, and Joseph Bond, a clogger, carrying on business in Woodward-street, With ington, were charged with being concerned in stealing £1,145 from a train on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail way. Mr. Edward Young said he was a clerk in the trea surer's office of the Lancashire and Railway Company. On Dec. 24 he made up the cash to pay the wages of the com pany's servants in the Yorkshire district. He placed the money in small boxes, each of which had the name of the station for which it was intended marked on the cover. ' These boxes were locked, and were placed in large cheats. There were five chests, each containing about 13 cash boxes. The cash boxes were taken from the cashier's office, and witness saw them given into the charge of the prisoner Wignell, who was the guard of the train by which the money was to be conveyed. Subsequently three cash boxes, containing £1,145 19s. 2f d. were missed. Charles Howell said he was a guard in the employ of the company. On Deo. 24 he was guard of the train which left Liverpool at 2 30 p.m. via Heywood for Rochdale, where it joined the Manchester train. At Rochdale he received into his van three chests, containing the money to pay the company's servants, but he did not open them. When he arrived at North Dean he missed eight cash boxes, but it was subse quently ascertained that five of them had gone on the wrong branch. As soon as he missed the cash boxes he gave information at the stations for which they were in tended. Two of the missing cash boxes were intended for Wakefield, and the other for Mirfield. Mary Storey said the prisoner Bond was her brother-in-law. At half-past 9 on the night of the 24th Dec., she was at Bond's house, and while she was there Bond came in at the back door. He and his wife went up stairs together, where they remained about 20 minutes. She heard the sound of money rattling for about a quarter of an hour. After they came down stairs she left. At 2 o'clock in the morning the prisoners and Mrs. Bond came to her house. Wignell was tipsy, and as she was going to be married that morning he gave her a sovereign as a wedding gift. She was married late in the morning, and after she came back from church she went to Bond's house. Wignell was still there. He sent out for something to drink. He also gave her another sovereign, which she handed to Mrs. Bond. Wignell said he gave it to her because he liked her. Since Christmas Bond had bought a quantity of furniture. Witness had seen Wignell at Bond's house twice. One of Wignell's children was stopping with Bond.—Mr. Trafford said there was quite sufficient evidence adduced to justify a remand, and the prisoners were accordingly remanded to Monday. THE WINTER IN AMERICA.—The Montreal Ga zette says :—A winter so violent was never known here before. The weather-wise say we are going to have no severe cold this winter. They tell us we are going to have an English winter, and for the same reason, namely, that the Gulf stream of the Atlantic Ocean has taken a change of course, and thus has influenced our Climate in the manner we notice, and at which we are all surprised. The codfish I have left their usual places of resort, it is said, and gone to cooler places, and that is the reason we have heard of 'poor catches.' Then, again, what is the reason of so many seals coming up to Montreal, and amusing the citizens by disporting themselves in open places in the ice ? It has been suggested to us that they have found it rather warm in their usual homes this winter, and have come this way in search of adventures and cooler weather; in the discovery of the latter they find themselves mistaken, and will probably take themselves off again." To this the Quebec Gazette adds—" In Portland on Wednesday, the dust was flying as thick as on any summer's day. In Montreal it rained heavily on Thursday and Friday, the temperature on the afternoon of the latter day being like that of May." At New York the Tribune tells,us the weather is indescribable. At one time it is all fog, mud, and mess ; then the mud freezes up, and the skating ponds ditto. This continues for a cou p le of days ; then comes a little snow, a little sleet, a little drizzle, s and rain, and much mud, and a great deal of discomfort, and more expected for the next two days. There has no t been a week at a time this winter that plough ing could not have been done in all the country around New York, and since the commencement of the season the Tribune says there has been no sleighing within fifty miles of the city. In Maine and Vermont the maple trees have been tapped and sugar made. In New Hampshire, Mr. Charles Shipley, about a fortnight ago, found a chickadee's nest on land near his premises, with three fresh eggs in it. The Saginaw Republican says no snow has fallen in the Saginaw region, and the lumbermen are idle. The Green Bay Advocate of the Bth pronounces .this a most extraor dinary season, the river free from ice, and everything in the logging way was at a standhill for the want of snow, The Denver City .Commonwealth speaks of the winter as no winter at all. In Illinois up to the .middle of January the farmers continued to plough, and the Erie Canal has been navigable a great part of the time through November, December, and part of January." SCOTCHING THE SNAKE.—We learn from the Scotsman that a newspaper proprietor has been denied a deacon's office in the Crieff Free Church on the ground of having suffered unchaste and quackizlirretiosnie; ments to be inserted in his paper. This decisi(T .srav g ed ex to at a meeting of the elders, the tracts" (whatever that m a yln the interests appeal to the Presbytery mean,hteenrd proprietorga ve notice of of Christianity as well as of Athhuocsae p o s f al coz l n l izer: common-sense, Punch sincerely trusts that tepif be only knew it ; would use the proper law phrase Scot tish friends in resy7'ing tbiswdivlelrtiplseettraseertappthlyatthcieubareekalts exist-jaw de ) It is mainly by a words.) • an d thrive, and ever y n ewspaper admitting these un cleanly puffs d lies abets the filthy trickeries by which d oc t o rs live. Mr. Funch regrets to say that there shama lecertain English journals defiled in the same wa y, and be would vastly like to see their pro• prietors tabooed not merely from all deaconships, but from all decent dwellings, so long as they permit the publication of quack pufferies, such as in no decent dwelling ought ever to be found. Lunch thanks his Scotch friends heartily for having Scotched the snake, and he will rejoice to hear that so far as concerns Crieff, the Auchterarder Presbytery do their best to kill ft.—Punch. BARON LIEBIG.—An admirable medallion of Liebig has just been issued in Munich. The like ness is perfect. Every detail of the face is reproduced with care and fineness of workmanship incredible on so small a scale and such low relief, while the general expression is not weakened by two literal copying. English admirers of the celebrated chemist may be glad of the opportunity of procuring a cheap and portable likeness; casts of the medal lion are to be had for rather less than 3e. each at Cate' "Litterarische Anatalt," Verner's Pride. By Mrs. Henry Wood, Author of "East Lynne," " Mrs. Haliburton's Troubles," See. 3 vols. Bradbury and Evans. The authoress of this work has become one of our moat famous novelists. Her great success is chiefly owing to her accurate descriptions of life. It is se do m that we meet with such faithful representations of men and manners as in these works, and it is to be questioned if, in this peculiar branch of her vocation, she could be surpassed. This book is not pleasing in its narrative portion, since it con cerns a set of characters who are quite beyond the pale of sympathy, with but one or two ex ceptions. It gains upon us, however, as we pro ceed, and when the interest reaches its height, the reader is borne along irresistibly to the close. Sybilla's character is singularly well drawn. We see before us an extremely selfish woman. Sel fishness is the root of her nature, the mainspring of her actions, and the desire of her heart. This sin is one of the most obnoxious to the better feelings of human nature, and hence it is with almost a sensation of satisfaction that we see her unworthy objects frustrated, and her mean wishes fall short of their accomplishments. It is a strik ing instance of retributive justice when she is turned out of Verner's Pride. She had married twice, with the sole object of becoming mistress of that fair domain. She had outraged the first principles of an honest and honourable nature, her secret wishes that h er by openly declaring first husband might prove to be alive, and come back to ciaim her, so that, at any rate, she might keep the property. All went against her. She was turned out. Lionel bore the shock with equa nimity ; he was grieved, but looked not on riches and worldly goods as the only end of existence. He was a man who thought them the adjuncts of life, not its essentials. Sybilla fretted herself into her grave ; and such was her conduct, that her death must have been a relief to all connected with her. Another person who received a terrible warning from this catastrophe was Dr. West. This unprincipled man had insisted on his daughter marrying Frederick, because he had been witness to the will which had bequeathed to him the estate instead of Lionel. Then, when he found that there was a codicil which restored the property to its rightful heir, he had contrived to possess himself of the document. He met with a series of rebukes for his crimes. First of all, he lost the codicil, and then, after the death of Frederick, Sybilla married Lionel, who took possession of Verner's Pride under the belief that both the brothers Massingbird had died in Austra lia. The elder one, Sohn, however, was not dead, and returned to claim his rights. If Dr. West could have produced the codicil he might have still kept his daughter in possession ; but as it was, she was turned out to die. In her last moments she sent a message to her father telling him that this sad reverse had killed her. Little did she know it was all her father's doings. Dr. West had a heavy burden to bear, which was the more bitter as he had brought it upon himself by wilfully and profanely tampering with things beyond his ken. No one ever took the regulation of affairs out of the hands of Providence without rueing the day he commit ted the grievous error. Had Dr. West let things alone they would re illy have been for the best as regarded Sybilla's worldly interest; and if they had not, she would never have missed a grandeur she did not know of by experience. Another mis take, the root of all similar actions, is making such splendour and wealth the one thing needful in life. Riches gained by tampering with wills never prosper even in this world. Their doom seems written on their face, and the la: gest fortunes gained by doubtful means are squandered away before the astonished sight of men. Dr. West and his daughter might well reflect when too late on their impotent desires, and acknowledge the falsity of their hopes and the sin of their wishes. It has been truly written,— " In all your plans of future life be wise, lie builds too low who builds beneath the skies." Truly was this axiom carried out in the life and death of this guilty pair. As a contrast to the glare and glitter of the youngest daughter, the two elder ones really merit regard. Poor, simple well meaning creatures, who passed a dull, uncared-for existence, they were honest and upright, and did the best they could with their small means. "Jan" Verner, the brother of Lionel, is a very quaint cha racter. There is something very refreshing in his open, honest style after the subterfuges of some and .he wilful deceit of others. His scorn of appear- antes and his contempt of the frippery of fashion, exaggerated as they are, gain our sympathy when we see such fearful evidences of the errors they may lead their votaries to commit when they are indis criminately sought after, and madly worshipped. The liberality with which he gave out of his small means was a reproof to the stinginess of some around him. Frederick Massingbird is the villain of the piece. He is early removed from the stage, which is a good thing, but the evil he committed lived after him. He had been concerned in a nefa farious transaction before he left, and the commital of it had been imputed to Lionel. Hence it was that old Mr. Verner had altered his will in favour of his stepson, instead of leaving the property to its rightful heir, his nephew. Lionel had a double claim, as it happened ; his father having been older than his uncle, but the original proprietor had favoured his second son to the ex clusion of his grandchild, Lionel's father being dead. Some might suggest that this entanglement of claims and relationships is too complicated for real life, and indeed these confusions may not often occur, but the merit is the same in the picturing of scenes and delineation of characters. It is not when walking in the beaten track along the cool, sequestered vale of life that the passions of men are roused,to their full fury, or their prejudices enabled to mar their own fortunes and stand in the way of other's advancement; sin does not intrude with its deadly snares, the tempter does not whisper of earthly gains to be had by stratagem, and worldly benefits that wait upon the craft of the cunning or the wile of the destroyer. Yet if the absence of these dangers preveits the occasion of trial, neither does it afford scope for the exercise of the grander qualities of human nature. It is also in such con flicts that the good shines forth, and he who has overcome can alone wear the conqueror's crown. Thus, when the novelist would relate a stirring nar rative, and present us with a glowing transcript of life, he must talee for subject one of those exciting passages of existence where men and women, under the influence of excitement, and wou nd u their up y the pressure of circumstances, "em alternateto o evil spirits and as if they were now possess ed by b and anon led on by the guidance o f their guardian angels. The authoress has chosen an appropriate sphere for the exercise of such qualities, since no thing c an for so long a time inflame and irritate a number of perso ns as the tenure of au estate, or the posses3ion of a large property. There is no sacred warning more ignored from the cradle to the grave than the one which reminds the heirs of mortality that they brought nothing into the world, neither can they carry anything out. They persist in getting and hoarding, or, foiling that, throw con science to the winds, and attempt to obtain by fraudulent means the opulence they cannot secure in the ordinary way. " Verner's Pride" is a first rate novel in its breadth of outline and brilliancj of description. lts exciting events, its spirited scenes, and its vivid details, all contribute to its triumph as a whole. The style is always natural, whoever appears on the scene. Whether the actors are on the village green or in the gilded saloon, they are all most apt representations of real life. It is l u i n w n h e o • cessary to predict a success for this work, a study attentively a novel by its au thoress s ° will be sure of the result. The intere st it awakens and the admiration it excites in the minds of its readers must infallibly tend to the renown of the writer, while they herald the we lcome reception of the work wherever s kill in construction of no ordinary kind, or a ready appreciation of character which few posses s can arouse attention or win regard. Per haps this work may not be among the most bril liant, but it is certainly worthy to rank with its predecessors, and will prove an object of attraction to many lovers of fiction weary of the monotony of the daily romances prepared for their perusal, THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT, Mr. Stuart, the South Australian explorer, has returned to the capital of that colony, after being absent on an ex ploring expedition for upwards of 12 months. He has suc cessfully accomplished the object of his journey, and brought the whole of his party back in good health. On the late expedition the party, after leaving the depot at Newcastle Water—the farthest point attained in 1861— once more encountered the dense scrub which turned back the explorers on that occasion. This scrubby country, however, does not seem to have been found so formidable as it appeared in the previou s year. He met with abundance of water, and after six weeks' labour suc ceeded in escaping from the scrub on its northern side. Its breadth, apparently, wsa not more than eighty or a hundred miles, for the party emerged from it in lat. 16 deg. 40 min. and immediately four d themselves in a country de scribed as admirably adapted for pastoral and agricultural settlement. An open ironbark forest presented itself, and the whole appearance of the land indicated that it was of an auriferous character. In lat. 16 deg. 50 min, almost on the very verge of the scrub, Stuart came upon the head waters of a large river, and following it, and others which he subsequently came upon, seawards, ho at last reached the shores of Van Dieman's Gulf, on the extreme northern coast, and not far from the abandoned settlement of Port Essington. There on a promontory, from which the Arafura Sea was seen, Stuart planted a flag, as he had be fore done on Central Mount Stuart, and his mission so far achieved, commenced his journey homewards. His return occupied about four months and a half, and thus the con tinent has been crossed and recrossed within a year. It is not clear whether the rivers described by Stuart as large and navigable are those already laid down in the maps, or whether some of them at least are not new discoveries. We have it now, however, on the authority of three explorers, that the country north of the scrub of the 16th and 17th parallels of latitude is a good land, desirable for settlement. Though some of the vegetation was of a tropical character, Stuart reports that less heat was experienced as the South Australian border was left behind, and the " hot winds" of that colony altogether ceased. The border land of the neighbouring colony, indeed, he describes as the least favourable to settlement of any he passed through. The successive discoveries reported within the year now near its end leave little more for the explorer to do in Australia. Stuart's track intersects the country from south to north in its centre. The whole of the country to the east of it is now known, crossed as it is in every direction by the lines followed by Burke and Wills, Walker, Landsborough, M'Kinlay,and the earlier explorers. On the west Gregory has followed the Victoria to its source, and later explorers, from Western Australia, have all but united the settlement with the head waters of that river, while Eyre has connected Adelaide and Albany by the coast line. There is nothing left, therefore, to excite the curiosity of the geographer, excepting the wide expanse between the eastern boundary of Western Austra lia and Stuart's Track. Enterprising parties of settlers from Swan River settlement are gradually diminishing the area of this unknown land. So far as they have yet penetrated it, they have found it grassed and wooded, and not unfur nished with water. It is not improbable, indeed, that the utterly inhospitable country reported by Eyre as lying along the shore of the great Bight will yet be found limited to a narrow belt—just as the great central desert has resolved itself into some barren and stony land near Cooper's Creek, embraced almost entirely within the already settled districts' Australia, es we now know it, is vastly different from the Australia of the geographers ten years ago. All that we have since discovered has enhanced the value of this great continent as a nursing mother of colonies—of nations in me to come.---Melbourne „Argus. Lay. , all fo r in r of les -11 3 at ,11 to Ling mer 3 of :une mer der, 'ronk low. trade d in Lcolti ens, the Dept, ends tsed. will Con :9MI . seen amer off arm t the eces )yed. [ay tout , haS Lange York otton ches s COM" A one 1 the aboat aboat )deral d one •e. two where )orted .efore, y the Con- 3 dis at u° 'pertly 1 five ;, but )nottl° tously ) f the wenty Fwd. iO5& 616 5* 1081