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

PM=w l 'w 26. after- elena, Told, rviee r. G. mded )litan the rails , is a tan. ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Affairs in th e di scount mar k e t l oo k m o re 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 frealy negotiated at 6/ per cent., but the commercial community anticipating cheaper money 4 t 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 h ave grea tly interfered With the trade of the past week, but the advices 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 diminution of orders noticeable for exportation. Two o'CLocic, At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Renter's telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 40c. Ifeavy. 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 911 i for money, and at 91-a it- for account. The holiday season is not yet over, and an immediate revival of activity .is scarcely expected. The New Threes are 911 1 ; the Reduced An 91i1 ; New 21 per Cents., 75 ; India 6 per Cents., 1061; ditto 4 per Cents., 1001 ; ditto En faced 5 per Cents., 1041 1 ; and Exchequer Bills, 9 2. 3s. dis. 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, 37; i; Spanish Passive, 361 i; ditto Certificates, 13i ; Cheek, 25f 26} ; Portu guese, 451 46k; and the Confederate Loan, 38 39. In the Railway Share Market the arrangements for the half-monthly settlement are now in progress. Prices generally exhibit no material variation, although, in soma instances, the charge for carrying ever has slightly advanced. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings generally maintain previous quotations. Bank 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—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 9ll 1 6 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l+ tlevir 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894... N ew 3 per Cent. Annuities — N ew 3* per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 I nuities, 30 yrs, expire eth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — nt. Ditto Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pee Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 loo+ Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent lo4+ 1 Ditto 5i per Cent DA; ditto April, 1864 —I , Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 zank Stock for Account Di Lt( Bonds .El,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO Consols for Account, Jan. 7.. . 911 1 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — 4xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 * 3 per Cent 9 3 die Ditto £5OO .. . die Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Bra Ditto 1859 .ii zilian 5 p er C en t • 991 Ditto, 18 39 and 1859 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-68-60 Ditto 1863 _ Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid Colombian Ayres 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 Scrip £l5 pd ‘;1113a, 6 per Cent. C hilian 6 per Cent. Ditt o 41 per C en t ~ D utch, 4 per Cent., 1863 - -u utch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12, Guilders .. ~.. D itto, LlOO Bond s ' 4 ' quador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent l3 _, Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — .14•Yptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Se con d I ssue - .. 100 Gre ek 5 per Cent - ) 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 26f 1 6 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons 121.111 ...Ditto Acco un t — Guatemala 5 per Cent. D itto Account - Italianl. 5 p er C en t.(M aremmana R a il wa y ) ..tetican 3 per Cent .... i v ' D itto Account — \.;-oorisb, Imperial 5 per Cent " 6 .,w Granada — Ditto 2 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — -uitt o 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) I , Ditto 3 per Cent. e nzvian 3per Cent. .. uitt e A ccount I)"itt° 41 per C en t., 1862 p l_ o edr nontese, 5 p er C en t., E x 25f — t tuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 • 481 Onto Account.. — D itto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7,'9 , '6O, 62,'3 491 Ditto Account Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid — 921 pin u.ssian. 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 p er C en t 1850 Ditto 1860 Ditto Account — Pith) 3 per Cent., 1859 D itto 5 per Cent, 1862 B9l 90 uardinian 6 per Cent S Dni Ditto Account .. 'Paush 3 per Cent tto Account — Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account — Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l3l 1 I Ditto Account — S wedish, 4 per Cent To • Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per dent. 1862 Ditt o Account 711 701 11 Ditto 6 p er c e !! .. Ditto G uarantee uta 1863 Ditto Debentures , 4 per Cent 7ll Venezuela 3 , 4 per Ct. , Oct., 1863 per cout. Ditto Account. ............. Ditto 6 per Cent.,1 . 8 . 62 -- Ditto Account .. ...... Dividends on the abc;e payable in London. Austrian, 6 per Cent.. - n , --a. 10 Florins. D Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f. utch2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto Account... Prench Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Ditto Account Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Se. 3d. paid — pm It alian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7 o} THREE O'CLOCK. C onsols Money 9la I Ditto Account .... 91 1 1 - . Liverpool Cotton Market-1 Ins Day. Market opens with more inquiry. Sales pro 44bly about 6,000 bales. Import s , °4BI Y nil. 45; previ• SHIPPING — This Day. . i ' c3 NDoN, Dec. 28.—Wind this day at noon—s -outh ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rath er Y LISIOUTH 27.—Wind W.—Arrived—Glenavon, 44 L Dec.* Londo n for Port Natal. G r i 4Ll torru, Dec. 27.—Wind N.W. — Arrive d— Jessie t ° l 3', from Taganrog; Grace and Jane, from London for (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) t Ar t ' GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. 4p) 11 ,'„. 1170 d, Dec. 28—Panic, from Singapore—Frederick, Sa m, i' as coe ; Jane and Margaret, from Ostend—Dickey r ° lll Algoa Bay—Emily, from Antwerp. DEAL, Monday Morning. N - : 8ed " -- Petrella, for Batavia—Ceres (schooner) for Cea—Richard and William, for Cape Castle—Laura, ,N'& °B —Mizpah, for St Lucia—Princess Alexandra, for '°lllZ' f " -- all from London—Circassian (ship), from the .°r w est—Cassibalasus, from Shields, for Trieste. 411 .'., "1-13allona, steamer, Kelso, .Seabreast, with nearly .._utward bound. Alier,yelise, packet, from London to Belize , has been sup °ttierjizotallt an anch or and 15 fathoms of chain, to replace SHARE 'his day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Paid. Closing Business Share' Railways. Price. done. 13.14. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 84 Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost.,Sleat.,andblid.Uo all 8 84 et Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian lOO 121 122 1214 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cornwall A gets no div ,„ 10 Do A ti 6p c.p an.hap 10 Do. B been paid to B. ) 3 " 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 37 39 25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. all 16 17 at Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 96 98 at Glasg. and S. Western. 100 107 109 et Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 49 50 491 at Ditto A stock et Ditto East Anglian at 100 7i 84 at GreatNorthot Scotland 100 at Great Northern lOO 127 128 1271 et Do A stock lOO 131 132 st Do 13 do at Gt. S. and W. of Ireland 100 97 99 at Great Western . at Do Str Val gua. stock 100 at Lancashire & Yorkshire 160 1114 1111 1114 at London and Blackwall 100 72 74 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 1074 1081 108 g at Lon., Chat., aid Dover 100 43 44 at Lon. & North Western 100 1071 1074 1074 4 8 at Lon. & Scr.th Western 100 101 102 et Man., Slid., & Lincoln. 100 50 51 504 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all in Do shares at Metropolitan all 1111 1121 112 at Midland 6.4.0 Do New at Do Birming. & Derby 100 99 101 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 1 shares 25 Mid Kest 10 Do Cray Line at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 25 46 et Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 1024 103 102) 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 d d at Do Leeds lOO 584 594 at Do York st Do Carlisle lOO at orth London 10 Do New 5 1 2 p 19.16.44 , T0rth Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 11 114 at Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 42 44 at Do Scot. Mid, stock lOO 98 100 10 Shrews. and Wekhpool all at Shropshire Union at South Devon lOO 32 83 at South Eastern st South Wales at S. York. and River Dun 100 97 89 20 staines,Wok.,andWok. all 91 104 25 Stockton & Darlington all 18 381 25 Do . 17 9 10 0 25 Do New, 1860 8 74 74 p at Taff Vale.. 100 158 160 10 Do B 8 5 51 r. 10 Do C 3 21 31 p 50 Ulster 25 Do 2O ——p 12.10 Do 54 at Vale of Neath at Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 170 175 at Waterford & Kilkenny 100 at West Cornwall lOO at W. Hartlepool Har.&R lOO at West Midland -Oxford 100 at Do Newport 100 st Do Hereford 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing 'hare Railways Paid. Price. Business don , 190 :ktiantio & ;•It Lawrenct all 60 a 60 Sk Bom.,Barodadt.Cent 100 1061 /076 Gu. 5 per cient— ...... 20 Do. New . ..... 8 6 1 p 20 Do. E. Shares 401 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 6 61 10 Do. Preference 13utralo,Brant o lzGodrieli (00 1.00 6 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 1871 100 at Clcutta.NS.Eastn.(Lin , ) 100 104 106 st Cape Town Dock Seri( 100 101 103 stock Eaatn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 108 109 • stook East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 107 108 'OB 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 15 lip 20 ' Do. do. II do. .. 15 11 lei stock Grand Trunk of Canada luu 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 73 75 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 59 61 100 Do. 2d Fret. Bonds.. all 65 67 100 Do. do. deterred...... all 50 63 100 Do. 3d P. ef. stock ... all 48 61 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 22 24 stook Gt.lndiaPentn.gua.sp.o. 100 ICB6 109/ 1081 20 Do. kiew gua. sp. 0. 12 14 lf 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 if lap stook Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1051 1061 1056 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 101 201 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 92 95 100 Do. 51 p. a. do. '77-8.... all 86 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 f fp 21 stook Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 106 107 stock Do. 43 p. c. Extension 100 100 101 stook Dc. 4* d 0........ 100 (76 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock slelb.Corp. is p. c. Buds. 100 50 Illelb. & Idobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. c. Hoeg. Bda. all 20 Newßrunswick Canda Class A. and B. all 3 6 N. Itl.C'da6 po Ist t bds 100 82 84 stock Soinde (100 106 107 stock Do. Delhi 4.z 100 106 107 zu Do. do ...t c. rjH 2 fp at Do. Punjaub .... a all 105/ 1064 Do. Du. ........ , , 100 s'ook Do. Indus. St. Flo.),,100 101 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. k.,an.bov. 6 p.c..) a. dz.) in) 1877-84 .......... 100 105 106 Do. 6p. c. Feb. dt Aue. 100 103 :05 —. Do. p.70.31ar.d; Sept. 100 i(3 1( 5 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 t 3 94 933 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 Cape G.Hope, 6p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 109 111 110 94 Do. 1890 100 109 111 - iDo. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 ;Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 1.8 110 1N..8.G0v. 6 p.c.JaatJuly 100 iO4 106 1051 6 I Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. 5p J., 188r 100 100 102 Du. sp. c.,18/1 to I;.:it 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 dzupwds 100 101 i 1026 102 I New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOO 105 107 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO ill 113 S.Aus 06p.0.1878.dz up lOO 111 113 112 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 Do. to 6 ma. An.tkOok.. 100 lO9 l 1104 1 110 93 BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 ' 6 1d ulifford Amalgamated — 34 3 5 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 560 670 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O f 3 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 52. 4d par East Caradon 2.14.6 27 28 East Carn Brea.... IE. W'l Russel (Tavistk ) 8.9.0 554 63 jGam.dzSt.Aubyn(Gwen 58 4 , 8 10 Great South Tolgus l7s 4 44 G. Wheal Vor (11elston) 40 12 13 Grenville . • 6.16.. 4 46 Elemd's-Foot • 8.12 87 39 Hingston Downs 4 . 18.0 21 3 5 Lady Bertha Margaret ( (hay Lelant 94 14 16 Marke Valley , — 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 21 lf I d New Setun l9l 90 100 • North Downs 26 14 11 N.WII '1 Basset (111ozan ; 3.1.0 24 3 North Wheal Crafty Par Consols (St. Blaze)) 20 Providenoe(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 94 South Caradon(St.Cleeri 11 415 425 S. Cain Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.18.9 60 65 IStray Park 30.17.6 28 30 5 famarSllvAt Lead Min 4l fin Croft 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) ll 91 101 W C' radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 • West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 51 85 90 Wheal Buller(l4edruth) 5 221 278 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott • Wheal Mary Ann (l'len ) 8 11/ 12 Wheal Deton 5Bl 150 160 1474 'vs Trefawney (Lis )' 7 21 22 Wheal Union 3.17 26 21 YREFEREN CE SHARES. Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent. stock, 94} Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 2, 110 North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, 10f PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS, Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf.. 104 London, Chatham, dm., Metrop. Ext., El, 6 per cent., 1011 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 3; Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 551 6 Nottingham and Grantham R. & G, 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 9 Bahia and San Francisco (Um.) gua. 7 per cent., 1813 Dutch Rhenish, 17i Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 14 FOREIGN MMES. Cobre Copper, 29 J L o o 2 . 9 ) i i ` ; St. John del Rey (lim.), 5 74 United Mexican (lim;, 6} Alliance Bank of S an T a oC L K ive ß rp tli atm S. 434 Ditto, new, 29 Anglo Austrian, 7 Bank of Egypt, 264 Brazilian and Portu eru ese Bank of Wales, lim„ ' lim 8 British and America n Exchange City, 109} ChConsolidat artered ed Bankßank of India, Australi a , an d Chi na, 374 7 Urn., 101 E as t London, Urn. , 74 g English, Scorch, and Australian Chartered, 23 English and Swedish, Um., 5} Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 31g imperial Ottoman, 184 17 i Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 44 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 49/ London and Colonial aim.), 71 _ London and Westminster, Poulity - , shl 4 74 L on don an ;Tif Stock, 374 London - African , 2 6} an d South rican, 1 London Merchant Bank, HIM nd. National Provincial of En,Ala 51 Lo ndon and Brazilian aim), Seinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (11M. 74 Union oi London, 404 British In MISCELLANEOUS. (i.Creiy::l:tiElnracroaPrpa:Y76llm., 21 limited, 6} English and Australian Copper, li 2 Gen. Credit and Financ e of Lonuon, lim., 6$ ItaliDanittlor,r6igpaetriocnen(Ctantaoln Ctha,vrocudre) redeem, Hudson's Bay, 12i g T rksti 0 1170, issued 90, . International Financial society , ii m., tn., gi i Joint• stock Discount, 61 London Financial Association, lina., 23z 9 and 10; for Money London District Telegraph (hen.), 11 " Natal Land and Colonization Company, R m., 51 e ro madras an fi lrrigatio n red it A an s s d oc C i a a n ti a o l n , , 3 1 1 im., 91 it National Discount Compiny, UM, 9; Oriental Gas (lira.), Ditto, new, I Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 79 Royal Mail steam, 76k 600ttiih Australian luyegitment, um., 116 THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, Day. any perceptible effect on the trade. In colonial wool very little is doing. 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. Turnip,White,p.busms to 148 Carraway . . 5wede.......... --s —8 Coriander l2s 168 Mustard, Brown .. 10.5 13s Hempseed, per qr 405 42s White, Tares, New 5s Od 58 6d Crushing 66s 7os Old per quarter -6 —a Baltic --9 —s Cs.nary, per quarter 58s 68s Odessa —s —s Rye grass, new 22s 24s Linseed Cake, p ton —a —s Clover, Red Eng., et. —s —s English £9 10s.C10 —s White Foreign Red.... 33s 46s Rape Cakes,p ton£6 Os £6 lOs White sos 64s Rapeseed, new,pr qr 61s 68s Trefoil, new 22s 26s MARK-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 force 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 413 Ditto, old 3Ba 108 Ditto, white, 1863 42s 48s Ditto, old 4os 47s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old 3Bs 401 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, Re— 33s Barley —Grinding 32s 263 283 Malting 2Bs 393 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 66s Chevalier 668 68s Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding lBs 22s Potato Youghal and Cork, black l6s 238 Cork, white l7s 24s Scotch, Feeding 203 233 Beans—Tick 3os 32s Pigeons, Peas—Grey . 32s 313 Maple White 3ss 37s Boilers 358 37s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 308 Stockton and Norfolk. Va 20. American, per barrel 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, came to hand in good saleable condition. Some of the Scots and shorthorns were remarkably prime. Scots, crosses, Devons and the best sborthorns moved off freely, at an advance in the quotations, compared with Monday last, of 2d per 81bs. 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 Blbs. 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 Scots 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 81bs. The pork trade was somewhat heavy, on former terms, which ranged from 3s 6d to 4s 6d per Blbs. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. a. d. a. d. 8. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 8 4 0 Primeers-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 8 5 0 Largo orse. calves 4 0 4 8 Prime Scots, etc. 5 0 5 2 Prime small do 4 10 5 0 Ors°. & int. 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 26a each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 6lO Sheep and lambs Calves • •.• ••• •• 113 Pigs Beasts Cows — Sheep Calves 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. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LASI WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam 125 .. 1165 ~ 54 .. 16 Harlingen •• • • 340 • . 537 • . .. 8 1 Hamburg •• • • • • 640 • • . • • -- Amsterdam.. • . 10 • . 204 • • • • .. Medembhk Bremen . — .. Vigo — • • Nieu Diep .„ Antwerp • . Ostend ..... Calais •• •• •• Dordt. 75 245 Boulogne.. .. 16 .. '''''' • • - • • - • • -- 79 .. - .. 4 . . 2 • • - Total .... 650 .. 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 .. 1,965 .. • 10 .. 1860 163 .. 1,759 .. 109 .. 1859-60 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 tho offal. Dec. 29, Coarse and inferior bea s t s .... 3 4 1862 to 3 6 Second quality do Prime large oxen 4 2 4 8 Prime Scots, &c 4lO 5 0 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. .. 4 4 410 Prime coarse-woolled do 5 0 6 6 Prime Southdown do. .. 5 8 610 Lambs Large coarse calves Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 6 4 8 Beasts .. . 3,790 Sheep and lambs .... 13,710 Calves Dec. 28, 1863. 3 Bto 4 0 42 4 6 48 6 0 50 6 2 40 4 6 48 6 2 54 6 8 6 10 6 0 00 0 0 40 4 8 410 6 0 36 4 0 42 4 6 2,460 9,530 112 Pigs 270 i 220 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dec 3O, 1861.—Beasts, 4,400 — 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 are steadily supported. Per 81b. by the carcase. sd a d Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Nliddling 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 Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 10 tided Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do . 4 6 4 8 Vaal Small pork 4 0 4 4 Lamb . 0 0 0 0 BOROUGH HOP. Since we last wrote a very moderate business has been transacted in all kinds of hops. The supplies of produce on offer 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 East Kents £5 Os to £9 Os per cwt. Weald of Kents 4 lOs to 6 6s „ Sussex .... Yearlings .. 3 Os to 5 Os Olds Belgian .... Bavarian 5 5s to 8 Os „ American __— BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Full average supplies of potatoes continue to be received at these markets. In moat qualities a fair business is doing, and very little change has taken place in prices, when compared with last week. Yorkshire Regents Rocks Flukes Kent and Ess:x Regents Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents Rocks 75s to 85s per ton. 60s to 70s „ 90s to 100 s „ 70s to 80s „ 60s to 708 $t 50s to 608 . WOOL. The business doing both in Down 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 TALLOW. The tallow trade is firm to-day, and prices have im proved. The quotation for P.Y.C. is 41s 6d per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow, 42s 6d net cash. Rough fat, 21s per 81bs. Particulars. Stock this clay.. Price of Y,C. Delivery last week l Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Price of Town 1859. 1860. 1861. 1862. r 44,453 72.626 54.719 50.535 5759 a. to 60s OA to 51s9d tOss3d to —6 Od —s Od —s Od , 45s 6d 1,101 699 1,009 985 45,987 53,957 82,725 48,543 327 581 2,582 1,085 81,359 99.489 80.683 65,769 59s ad 61s Od 52s 9d , 46s 6d , POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PEETENCES.—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. Roberts, 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 !eft there for him. About the 28th November last he called, and producing a cheque for £lO on Messrs. Robarts, 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. Robarts, 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 would 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 prisoner's cheques had been paid and when some of them had been returned. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Then his account was overdrawn l' 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 MO, and against the prisoner drew the cheque. Mr. E. Lewis said he had a letter written by Mr. Roberts 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 or a remand, Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prisoner and take his own bail in £lOO, and two sureties in £lOO each. Mr. George Lewis asked that the prisoner's own bail might be taken, as the amount was only £lO. Mr. E. Lewis said there were many other cases. Mr. Tyrwhitt declined to make any alteration in his decision. THAMES. ATTEMPTED MURDER. —Samuel Ford, a dissipated and drunken ruffian, about 50 years of age, who has lost an eye, and gan 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. The prisoner, who is well known to the police, has bean frequently quarrelling with his wife. Ile 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 wife 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 Xi ng , 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 ♦ REPREBLIMENT-ROUSD-REEPER.— WELL-MERITED PUNISHMENT..-William Hienthurst, a youth about 17 years of age, was charged W i th the tam ing disgraceful outrage : Duaernay Martinali, a German refreshment-honse keeper in the Fulham-road, 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 turbance, 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 call e d hi m " a old German," and defendant threw a ston e a t his head, which struck him in the face and injured hi m cons i derably. Defendant said he did not throw the ston e un til after the complain ant Comp lan Complainant had t was a li out ed of , hisn d h positively denied that he in any way touched the defendant. TT a irrecalled, shop and push e d hi m. lie merely endow voured to persuade them to go away. Ile had to complain of a serious nuisance occasioned by defendant and his com panions. They were in front of his shop every S un d ay abusing him, throwing things into his sh o p, and annoying him in his business. Ho 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 good boy to him. Mr. Selfe—He does not teem to be a good boy to others, if I may judge of his conduct on this occasion. Sebastian Bathurst said ho was present, and defendant when he threw the ston e . was never touched by comp l a i nant, but merely spoken to, M r. s e ff e —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 fendant for 14 days to hard labour. Dr, Pakenharn, the dean 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, covering 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 Ceateothus Americanus—the Ncw 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 popular beverage must have tried the patriotism of our great grandmothers, but others report more favourably of its qualities. ECEAIBER 28, 1863. MR. THACKERAY'S DEATH. 70,458 41s 6d to 00s Od 1,350 41,738 .460 74,349 43s 03 Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The most 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 vessel was 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 whom 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 assisting 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 without leave, but in reality for the part they were proved to ha ve 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 be called 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 them so 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 Bias, Panama, Valparaiso,rounded Cape Horn, touched at Rio, and thence proceeded 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 commission. The ship has been remarkably healthy. The whole 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 has been promulgated by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-ChT t, in concurrence with the Secretary of State for War, with instructions for sergeant-cooks. The Ordnance steam storeship Lord Panmure, Master Commander Harry M oore , h as arrived at Woolwich from Devonport, lad en w ith returne d war stores, and will reload from the Tower w ith 1,200 arm -chests for Devonport and Portsmouth. The command of the Chatham district will shortly E All be come vacant by the retirement of M a j o r . Ge f n s e eT i vice H. on the completion is five years' p eriod It rumoured in military circles at Chatham Major - General the command is amand of that important station will be g iven to . the Hon. A. Gordon, C. 8., at pre sent commanding the second Infantry brigade at the Curragh, where he holds the rank of brigs tier-general. Major- General Gordon served on th e Quartermaster-General's staff throughout the Crimean war and subsequently held the command of the camp a t Col ' chester, WARLIKE RELIC OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. —A. curious and richly-ornamented sword, through the kindness of the Rev. Mr. Whately and Mr. Allsop of Cheltenham, has been recently exhibited before the Society of Areha3ologists. The sword, which is an Andrea Ferrara blade, was said to have belonged to the Duke of Monmouth, by whom it was left at Sedgroor. SPECTATOR.—The great event of the week to England is the loss of her great satirist Mr. Thackeray, who died early on Dcc. 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 whicb. 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 probably be the only master, though be has already had many imitators. We do not wonder that he failed as a painter, for painting, which must select an effect visible in a single moment of time, ga ve no scope to the peculiar mobility of his genius. He 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 in 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. Thacke 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 not 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 dm fore most novelist to the world's heart, has been this new cause of public grief. For a few days past Mr. Thackeray bad 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 be 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 belonizs to movements of all kinds. He was sensitive to his sensitiveness, and did in bis 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 nervously obtruding himself into his story when he Was but shrinking from the full discovery of his oven s i mple intensity of feeling. 1863. A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. A curious article has been published in the Atlantic 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 itn 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 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 ported to a Government vessel bound on a long cruise. From that time up to the hour of his death—a period of nearly 60 years—the United States became to him as if they 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 b ooks and papers, before going to him, were carefully examined, and every allusion to this country completely removed. R e 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 urgent entreaties, gave him a summary of the changes which occurred from 1807 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 Levitt' , t on th e 11th of May of the present year. " I tell Yon, says the doctor, "it was a hard thing to condense the history of half a century into that talk with a sick man. And Ido 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 the grandeur of his country 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 te ll you. He grew more and more silent, 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 smile it would Open at the right place, and so it did. There was his double red mark dower the page, and I knelt down and read, and he re.. peated with me,—' For ourselves and our country, 0 gra cious God, we thank Thee, that, notwithstanding our mani fold transgressions of Thy holy laws, Thou hest 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 anc: 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 t 55 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 in 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 1 1 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.' General Lytle on Terms of Peace. A correspondent of the Macon (George) Telegraph writes from Northern Alabama an account of several inter views which he had with Gen. Lytle previous to the battle of Chicamauga, in which he fell. He says As Gen. Lytle was a quasi acquaintance, and a most accomplished gentleman and soldier, and, withal, having this headquar ters on my farm, I availed myself of his invitation to visit him daily, and had much free and unembarassed conver sation with him touching the war and its prospects. He, in common with the whole army, seemed to entertain a strange unvavering faith, amounting to fanaticism, that they would march unobstructed to the centre of Georgia, and crush the rebellion before winter, 'and thus all their anxiety was about the escape of Bragg, with out relieving the tedium of the wearisome march by the excitement of battle. Disgusted with this constant explosion of bombast, I said--' Gentlemen, restrain your boasting till you get beyond the shadow of yonder mountain, and I pro mise you some of the hardest fighting of this war, or of any war upon this continent.' Lytle asked why I said so. You declare, mating no secret, that you go to subjugate and rob of all their property. and subject to the Africans, a race of proud white men, noted for their pride of character,' I replied ; 'and can you expect they will not fight you, men, women, and children ? Make the case your own, and woul you not say, if we skulk or fly, if these hold their peace, the very stones will cry out, and call from their sepulchres the old fathers in their grave-clothes to drive back the invader ? Hereafter you have fought on the fron tiers under the guns of your forts and gunboats, where. half the population were your friends—now you invade a united people, burning with intense hatred towards you, made so by the savage brutality of this war. I can have no hand in it, but depend upon it fight awaits you, and final defeat.' Lytle replied, ' All this can and will be overcome by numbers. We shall be backed by 15,000 me n yet, beyond the Ohio, and we can and will put down this rebellion, no matter what it costs. We have been fighting too long, as you say, on the frontier ; we shalt hereafter strike at the centre, the heart of the rebellion, and that is Georgia. We will make Chattanooga our base to operate upon the cotton States, and so make short work of it.' Well, grant for the sake of argument, you subjugate the South and free the. negroes, and restore the Union—what sort of a Union will you have ?' said I. 'Did you ever know a grown-up white man whipped into a union and love with his enemy ? Would not such a union only breed rebellion ?' Colonel Harrison, of Ohio, promptly said, ' If they are still rebellious we will kill them." And may you not expect that their sons will avenge their death ?' I asked. 'We will kill them too, and replace them with loyal Africans,' was the reply. ' General Lytle,' said I, • this abolition war cannot be congenial to your nature; you are descended from an ancient Caro lina family. You cannot wish to see the Southern people exterminated." Nor do I,' he replied, if they will cease to trample on the flag and return to the Union." Both sides have vindicated their honour and courage,' I added; you are the strongest, therefore propo sitions of settlement should come from your side. Let your Congress annul Lincoln's Abolition Proclamation, and guarantee to the South security of person and property, and propose to them to return under the compromise proposed by the Southern Commissioners at Washington in 1860, and rejected by the Northern Congress, and stop this sui cidal war.' Your leaders repudiated that compromise then, and would not receive it now; they are for total and eternal separation, and we are just as determined that this war shall be eternal, if necessary to prevent it,' he replied. I am, and ever have been, a Democratic, and nineteen-twentieths of every brigade are Demo crats, but no follower of that miserable demageofmutee, Vallandigham. We are not Abolitionists. believe the those traitors as bad as you can. negro was created for slavery, and for nothing else, ela ls' trial, man of intelligence who doubts this after s,ooo ie y a e fool and the seems to me a fanatic or fool. Old Ab t e hem_ and yet about many things--negro equaiity among was t e right.rmasters fight Your a o u s r ; I hold as a war measure, his proclamationi Thie foolish, and slaves feed the rebel armies, while tl t i rc e , any means to prevent this is legitima • and dispersed a halliathsiestrtehbaetl u w e h t e a n nd our shallarmbey put d w o i c w k n e d a , t a n w d h u a n t j e t: s e t t ! fl e a e b a l e t re a b e e d l i t o h n e a re rm ac y h , ed l a th m e f h e e r a t r h t e o L f Ta t i h e e n r a e e be i l t la w on a , s 13 se but Southtthheereis ta be e e a invited peace n b e a r c beak a o t n l e t y h i e a g t er with s y a o r u ra p e a r or rebels." e 8. A PATENT FOR THE USE OF ARSENIOUS ACID as a mordant for the now familiar coal-tar dyes, has been taken out b y Mr. Perkin. The printed or d ye d goo d s such e colours. i are fixed by steam in g , and wash ed in the Usual manner to separa te the excess. It is remarkable th at the compound im p ort ant ends, both in the production 0 f arsenic s an h showed ed s fixationom e ofthese [. I DIE BIRKENHEAD RAM S .. lir vli e are informed on u ndoubted authority th at the Messrs. Laird have received several bona fid e off themselves and all the ere for their celebrated iron• clad rams from friendly have ould rest of the world. Messrs. Laird Powers who ail, at peace with the ed construction po s it ive lyit w ould declared that the vessels ate not for sale; thus se em that they have no desire to shirk the respons i bility a proving that they took the order for of the ship s in the first instance from pat ties whose connection w i t : e i t h e r one or the other of the Americ an belligerents it will be difficu lt, if not impossible, to show, The last offer for the purchase of the "rams ~ was refused only in the early - part of this week.—Army and 2 - avy Gazette. GENE RAL 111EAGHER. —Accordin g to the follow ing extract from the BostoraPilet, the reported cap ture of General Meagher by the Confederates was without foundation :—" We are pleased to learn that the statement published on the 7th instant, that General Thomas Francis M eag her was captu red by the rebels, during the recent movement of the Army of the Potomac, is entirely false. He was on a visit to the remnant of his old Irish Brigade the advance upon the enemy was d dor ere , and, as might be expected from his previous carter, which has been remarkable for undaunted courage and l p uck, he went with them into the front of danger—but he was not taken prisoner. He returned with them across the Rapidan, and is now the guest Corcoran, at Fairfax Court-house. Isis r e c ep tion of Genera l Gby hi s l old comrades and brother generals, throughout the entire army, is said to have been most cordial and enthusiastic. Editors of Newspapers, The statistics of the last Decennial Census show that in 861 there were 1,673 persons engaged in literature in the capacities of authors, editors, and writers. Of these 1,52.8 were men, and 145 women. Bearing in mind the great spread of education in Great Britain during the past ten: years, it.is remarkable, says the Atheneum, that the above numbers should differ but slightly from similar returns la 1851, At that period the numbers professing to be engaged in literature were 1,501 males and 109 females. As may b& expected, of the 1,673 persons recorded in 1861 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 Saturday Review, from imitating, if he pleases, the example of those choice spirits who supply London news to the 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 Times. He may glean or invent facts illustrating their private life, an• . may describe, if they have ever had the pleasure of dining in the same company with him, the kind of wine they pre fer, and the dishes to which they are partial. It is by reve• lations of this sort that the inquiring American strives to allay the curiosity of his countrymen, and to strip off the irritating veil of anonymous journalism. Mr. Cobden might do all this, and yet the wisest way would be, we think, to take no notice of him. There are certain minor annoyances to which every man may be subject who adheres to a course a but t it large.ie very It annoying is n 0 y h i ng of conduct prov e d t o b e, on the whole, beneficial to the country highly desirable a esir li a t ia tl l e e mtoahnave who is no more duels, pub licly horsewhipped by a big man should have no quicker and more animated mode of getting redress than bringing his triumphant enemy before a police court. In the seine way it may be hard for a sensitive man to be told that he is a coward and a libellous scoundrel, and that his name in full and all his wickedness shall be revealed in the Morning Star. But an editor must learn to bear this, because it is for the public good that anonymous journalism sh, uld go on. And, practically it is proved that society, when it has found out that a thing is desirable, can generally manage to carry it out. The disuse of duelling might have led to in tolerable arrogance on the part of bullies no longer in fear of fitting punishment, or to nervous men shrinking pain fully from the imputation of screening their fear under a politic dislike of duelling. This has not happened, because society, seeing that if either of these risks becam e common, duelling could not fall into disuse, deter mined that neither the bully should bully with impu n i ty, 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 t he same and they would way, anonymous journalism exposes the criticised to be the critic to language ted a u r s e e d manifestly about not dare to say openly. Society in a great be wrongly wrongly a attacked aek ed suspectedfrom e f saying personal secretly. what Measure reme dies both these evils. If public men aretrtehaetmedtiheunoss if t g h t e ha j ed ournal to obscurity. It sinks out of small clique, or are determined by :cejuuserrftillay private considerations, governing classes, and de rives circulation a u ll e lti newspap e r, t t et a i ewh ob o n es l n e pd i ° . a n ePl i t en h l nri ;1 educated on t h e rives a precarious support from anodther hand, the anonY"..ll! those to whom such language J 'ournalist or editor is the columns of the Morning c honest and abili e ty -tar, • is taken of no great notice denounced, even in Lou it, and the world of nevvspaper readers is content to take its own measure of the studies. The next time the editor - 71 is threatened with an exposure of his re e al editor of t d h a ddress by an in furiated popular orator, nhineeanthat he will resolutely abide the coming of this 7e"stroke of fate, and we will venture to prophesy he mighty . it. nofesthe articles it he will survive it. There was a time, says the Lond o n Review, when the English aristocracy affected a disdain for newspaper writers and editors, But sounder and more generous views prevail. Me n of letters now receive a gracious welcome into the best society ; and th e 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 mo dern journalism h as e ff ec t e d an im mense change in the relative positions of public speakers and public writers. In the d ays of Pitt and Fox states men gave the tone to journalists, In the present day the ne wspaper instracts the statesman. It d rags t o li g ht a b uses , co ll ec ts opinions from practical m en , w i nnows th e c h a ff from the w h ea t, points the way t o re f orm, an d h an d s t h e ques t i on over to the statesman when it is ripe for legisla tion. The public orator, when b ac k e d b y th e p ress , may b e sa id t o be irresistible ; but unless he is aided by the news- ;per writer, he has little power over public opinion. 11r. Cobden is himself an illustration of this " modern instance." toH i d s e c m a r o e l i e s r h a t e h a e n c a o g r i n t t l a o h w r s; a s had lie began twop t ha s ob e e s . listened He la bu too ed by the public as the press took up the cause of free trade ; and he knew the battle was won when the limes cane out and declared the League to be a " great fact." Mr. Cob den's opinions against the Russian war were quite as strong as against the Corn-laws. Yet he incurred so much unpop-a -1 Irity, and his sentiments were held to be so unpatrioticy that he was obliged to retire from the West Hiding, and hi s lieutenants were beaten in th e h ea d quarters of free e tr e a u d t e.. He is an energetic and p ers i s t en t advocate of Parlia mentary Reform, the ext e n s i on o f the rtrra ting down of the estimates, the impolicy of constructing fortifications, the advantage of giving small freeholds to labouring men, and the policy of conceding every de mand, however unreasonable and humiliating, that may be made by the Federal Government. Up on all these topics he feels strongly, He urges them in season and out of season. The speeches with scrup u l ous but Times re p or ts his minuteness. But th e ill -requited fidelity and powerful voice that enforced, e choed, and reverberated his Free -trade speeches to the furthest confines of civilisation, has in these latter days been silent or menacing. The orator wields no longer the bolts of Jove, but is himself struck by the thunder of Olympus. He has measured himself against the despised newspaper writer, and has received a fall. .Hine aka laeltrymee l He can make no way with the press, and public opinion is therefore dead against him. There never was a time in the history of mankind when the newspaper editor and newspaper writers had more occa sion to magnify their office. The life of modern intellect is becomi ng more and more determined to the daily news• papers. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. TURKEY, _ -- Constantinople letters and journals to the 17;11 have been received, but their contents are not of much interest. The Minister of Marine has issued an order that henceforward a system of messes, on the English plan, is to be organised far the officers of the Turkish navy, both afloat and ashore. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. TATTERSALL'S—Mrs EVENING. As usual at this festive season the rooms were very thinly attended—in fact, business seemed entirely a discount. Prices, therefore, remained unaltered. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. JANUARY. Manchester FEB Harrow ......... ..... Chelmsford Sprin g 16 1 'IIARY. Lincoln Hungerford .cu. MA: Nottingha m Spring .... 1 Derby Spring, ......... 3 Liverpool ............ 8 Shrewsbury .......... 10 Doncaster Spring . ... 14 Warwick Spring ...... 16 Durham ... 28 Northampton Catterick .. 30 Croxton-park ..... AP: 1 Edinburgh Spring 2 Abergavenny b Thirsk 5 Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spring 25 Chester York Spring Salisbury . 12 Bath Manchester •Harpenden 2O Epsom .. 7 I Stockbridge ......... . 23 Ascot .. 15 I Chelmsford .... 28 ........ Hampton 15 Newcastle -on-Tyne .... 28 Newton 21 Worcester (Summer) .. 30 Odiham Bibu ry Newma r k et July RILY. Carlisle 6 Nottingham . ......... 19 5 Stamford .............. 14 Abingdon . . .... Liverpool july SouthaMpten.... ....... 20 ...... Pont efract AUGUST. 25 Brighton .............. 2 Plymouth 30 Brighton Club ........ 4 Derby 30? Lewes ................ 5 Lichfield 30 Reading .............. 11 Stocktcn Egham .............. 16 Devon and Exeter .... 3 3 g YOxford ................ 18 Lichfield ork August .......... 23 SEFTE Weymouth ... 1 Warwick ,September..; 6 Leicester 8 Doncaster '9 Brecon ?~IBEIt, Richmond Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn New marketFir s t October 27 OCTOBER, Northallerton G I Glo ucester Newmarket Second Oct. 10 Newtuar k e ........... is NOVEMBER. t Roughto n .. 24 Shrewsbury Autumn .............. 14 ar. luta tions Pre. the me- nosT ated lolis. dmit that abli- litan nib aced aore iper, •ated aver krge f ndi pear lish— and Shed. Bill h of NI a 1, as 35. ilea tovr Mme ha kseS ion bat ;a ire. di we lg, ice 7al eW ~~