The Sun. — London, England, 1854-12-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AD COMMERCIAL IN'TELLmENCE. CITY, TW 0 O'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 500 American taken for export. The market closed steadily without alteration in prices. The sales comprised 4,700 American, 150 Pernam and Mar anham at Sid. to 61d., 20 Bahia at 6,1,d., 100 Egyp tian at old. to 6/d., and 1,000 Surat at 3id. to 41d. per lb. Railway Shares were firm. The corn trade is firm this morning at le. per qr. advance on wheat. The next India and China mail on the 19th inst., is to be taken out by the steamer Indus. The ship G-loriana has arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, with dates of Oct. 20. A very large mercantile failure had occurred there, by which, as we understand, some of our most important Man chester warehousemen suffer severely. The intelligence received from Nev York by the steamer Asia, mentions the important fact that heavy shipments of breadstuffs were being made to Liverpool, and so large were the quantities pur chased for the purpose, that freights to English ports had been advanced. On the Monday pre ceding the departure of the steamer, the shipments included 70,000 to 80 , 000 b ushels of grain, and 4,000 to 5,000 barrels of flo ur. The stock market continued irregular, but with a fair business doing. According to the last weekly return the City Banks showed a decrease in the deposits of 1,846,808, in the circulation of 159,446 dole., in the specie, of 604,549, and iu the discounts of 492,289 dole. The Russian Government has been arranging to obtain surgeons from the colleges, not only of the Czar's dominions, but, likewise of Germany, and frOra the latter country a great many students in medicine will proceed. Very active movements have been going on in Bessarabia, and Prince Paskiewitch and Gortschakoff were in constant communication. The project of law in Prussia prohibiting the cir culation of all foreign paper money in retail trans actions, had occasioned much discussion in Berlin, but it is not proposed that it shall come into ope ration until January 1856. On the Vienna Bourse the hopes of peace are stated to have become very strong since the re ported accession of Austria to the new treaty, and the note of Count Nesselrode offering to accept the four points. At the meeting of the Bank of Australia this day the following statement was read and passed : " 1. In pursuance of the course hitherto adopted at this period of the year, to give the proprietors a gene ral view of the progress of the business since the annual meeting, without entering into details or figures, the directors have to report that the accounts received since June exhibit a considerable increase in the operations of the bank in the colonies, and that the large rate of profit of the preceding year has been maintained, al though not, as then, arising from the purchase and ship ment of gold. "2. The directors have transmitted to the superin tendent instructions respecting the separate investment of the guarantee fund, the receipt of which has been re cently acknowledged ; and, although the increase in the business has temporarily delayed the completion of this important object, the proprietors may rest assured that it will be carried into effect at the earliest possible pe riod. "3. The latest advises mention that considerable mercantile pressure existed in Australia, but no loss of any importance had at that time fallen upon the Bank. " 4. The Directors are enabled to state, that the ac counts already in their possession, of the profits on the year's transactions, justify them in declaring their in tention of making an increase in the bonus next April of 10s., raising it to 565. per share ; which, together with the usual rate of dividend of 6 per cent., will make 4/. per share, being equivalent to 20 per cent per annum on the capital stock of the corporation." The English stock market is quieter, but prices have been at a further advances. Consols have been at 92g and since at 924 ± for the account with the dividend off. The New 3 per Cents. have been marked 91-a- to 92, and, the 3 per Cents. 91i to 91i. Bank Stock hal been firm at 209. Ex chequer Bills have remained at 3s. to 6s. premium. The Bonds have be en done at 99g 2. Foreign Stocks have been very dull. The Turkish Scrip is at 7 to 8 discount. Russian 4i per Cents. have realised 88. Mexican Stock is at 21i Dutch 4 per Cents. have been 92i, and Belgian 4!, 1 - per Cents. 91. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign tocks :—Grenado. Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi can, 211 to 21 ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 41 to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 96 to 98 ; ditto di per Cents., 86 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 19i to 19i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 39 to 39i ; ditto Certificates, 5i to 5i ; ditto Passive, 411 to 41. The railway meetings announced are the fol lowing : Company. Date. Place. 17 Caterham Dec. 20, King William-st. . 20 Great Central of France Great Luxembourg Ditto Lake Constance and Basle Dec. 27, St. Gall. 20 Northern of France West Flanders Deo. 23, 61, Moorgate-street. 100 Ditto The Railway Share Market has been at advanced 100 rates, and with about an average business doing. N Caledonian, Midland, North-Eastern, and Great 25 Western have been principally dealt in. Foreign 25 Shares have been in fair request, but not higher. The Mining Market i s heav y , the Joint-Stock 100 Banks are a shade higher, and the Steam Naviga- 100 tion. and Land Shares are about the same. 20 5 50 I a] 1.3 i '2,52 ll 25 31 St. 101 10 211 50 al 20 al 20 Il 10 1 50 4, 25 a] 15 a] St. 101 20 41 St. 10 st. I I, St. 11 1 St. ILI st. tic St 11. , St. l St. 1 St 1 st. I Ic St. 1( 1.2 1 & 50 1 al St:'l( 19i 1' 14 1 20 a 11A a St. 10 St. 10 20 1 10 St: tli 5 8 4 1 25 St. 11 B!2s St. 11 St. 11 50 25 100 St. 25 25 50 20 1' 20 al 50 I 50 I %1 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. 20 (From the O9cial List. ) 1 Business done Bank Stock ...... ......................... 209 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... ....... 91i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities ......... 9ll 2 1 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,1860 3-16 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO Consols for Account, 10th January India Stock for Account Exchequer Bills, 21000 ~.••••. ....... 3 2500 gras.ll .............. . .... Exchequer Bonds 1858, 34 per Cent. Ditto 1859, ~ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. B uenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent Mexican 3 p er Cent. 'Russian Bonds, 4i per Cent Turkish Scrip 6 per cent... Ditto for the Account ... .. . ...•• . •••• ==. A Otvidends on the above payable in London. Belgian Bonds 44 per Cent. ex. 25 fr Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull — Ditto 4 vor cent. ti ertifie,ates THREE O'CLOCK C0n5015.................................... -- Ditto, January Acc wmt ......... ... 911 2x d -----. —1 20 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-?TiIIS DAY.) we. LONDON, Dec. 11.—Wind this day at Noon, S.S.W. light breeze, with fine weather. DOVER, Dec. 10. —Wind, N. Arrived —Champagne, from Newport; Thalia, Newcastle , for Malaga, with damage to sails and bulwarks, having been in contact with a ship in the Downs. Sailed—lris, for Malaga. Put back—Dover (s), Ostend, with machinery out of order. OFF BON CHURCH, Dec.lo.—Cimbria, for Constantinople. FALMOUTH, Dee. 10.—Wind, N. Arrived—Sylph (s), from London, and left for Dublin. Put back—Venilia, • Liverpool. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 10.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived— Martha Jane, from Shields, and sailed for the Cape and Madras ; Lady Egli nton (s), Dublin • I. 0., Shields, for Constantinople, lea k y . Sailed—H.M.S. Heels., for the Eastward ; Cosmopolitan ( s.s.), the Crimea ; Magdalena (Ls.), ditto ; Cambria, Geelong ; H.M.S. Leopard, Black Sea ; Antinore, Constantinople. Cowes, Dec. N.N.W. Arrived—Albert, from London, for Falmouth, with damage, and three th of the crew washed overb oard. Sailed—Alma (s), for e Crimea ; Petrus, Antwerp. Wind, E. Sailed—Syren, for DARTMOUTH, Dec. 10.— HULL, Dec. 10.—Wind, Arrived—Quinnswell, from New York ; Frances Hayes, Quebec ; Puzzle, Terceira ; 'telegraph (s). Antwerp ; Jupiter (s), Gothenburg. Sailed Richard and Harriet, for Melbourne• CLYDE, Dec. 9.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Merlin, from alifax. Sailed—Queen of the Isles, fur Sydney, N.S.W. ; Priam, Uelbourne : Ambassador, Havannah ; Mary, Ma tanzas ; Eliza, Boston. -- ArISTRALIA.—Further advic es have been received from 15000 Adelaide, South Australia, regarding the navigation of 100 the River Murray. It appears that the steamer Lady Augusta, towing the two ba r g es Eureka and Wakool, 20 nad reached Wellington with valuable cargoes of wool 50 from stations on the river, and had again started upwards 20 on another trip. In the upper Murray district there 25 was much less water than during last year, owing to the usual floods n o t h av i ng ye t c ome down. Ca p tain Cadell, 101 S itzhis stea mer M el b ourne, h a d en tered the ri ver from 5 e sea , and afterw ar d s crossed the bar outwards for Port Elliot, 'where h e t oo k i n goods and we nt in a second 25 time in saf e placed a su l icie lt is add e d th a t the legislative bod y had 25 beaming eava nt suu , on the estimates for surveying, 50 s great rig loadillg marks at the sea mouth, ~, ---- --- - SIIAWE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) ILAJ L*AYb. ld4 RtlLwlll. !Closing Price' 1 this day. Business dons this day. 10 .Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junet .11 Belfast & Ballymena 11 Birming. Wolverh. Stour Va11ey........ 91 Birke,nhd. Lanesh. Cheshire Juliet .11 Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and L'2s Cons. .9 I Do., £20... . •', i 0 I Blyth & Tyne engine! £25 (issd. at £45 Bristol and Exeter 0 `:lalailoi i an. ......... .s. Cat marthen and Car digan ................. .11 Chester ell olyhoad J 1 Cork and Bandon.. 31 Cork, Black, di Pass 6 C3rnwall .............. Orion' Junction bo Dublin Stficlfitst , JuN c al Dundee Perth &Abet Aeon Janetiou.... .11 Do. New ...... 10 East Anrzlian 11 Eastern Counties KT Eastern Union, A Stock .00 DO., B. Stock 8 Do., New A. ...... .. East Lancashire Edinburgh &Glasgow' 9 Ediub. and Peebles 10 Edin.Prth &Dundee 1 Port]] & Clyde June. 10 Glasgow &S. Weston , /0 Great Northern , 10 Do., A. Stock 10 Do., B. Stock 10 t. Sth. &West.(lre :, 10 'rent Western Xl Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk 611 Irish South-Eastern 611 Lancaster k Carlisle 4i Do., Thirds 4 Do. Now Thirds 10 Laneash.andYorksh .96 Do., Fifths Ll 4 Do., Wst. Riding Un Lll Liv.Crsby.StSoutlipt di London & Blackwal )0 Lond. Might kS.Cst )0 Loud. and N. Wostn, .2 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lol. Sh.,Mkß , 2 Do. Eighths )0 London and S. Westn Do., £5O 4 Do., £4O ll Lnndrry4l Coleraine 11 Ludndrry. & Ennisk. 0 Vilancb.Shef.& Litwin 14, „Do., Man. & Lin. Un 0 Midland 0 Do. Birmng. &Derby' !Aidld. G. West. (Ire,)l 24 F Do. Half Shares 611 Newcastle & Carlisle 5i Newmkt.BuryExten L9l, Nwpt.Aberg.&llrfd S Newry & Enniskillen Lll Newry Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor :Norfolk Northn.Connties Un 30 North British ........ all 4 North Devon, No. 1 all Do., N0.•2 all no., , 1 2 A Deferred all Do., B Guarantee 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Porch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 1 .11 North London . Do. New £lO I.E. N.O.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn. L 7 North StaffordshiN, , all North Western......, al N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester .00 Oxford, Worcester, Si Wolverhampton 6 Portsmouth IV Scottish Central ..... C Scottish Midland ,II shrewsby. & Herefd. I Shropshire Union ... Do. A, B, C,& D,full2. paid up at per ocw Lll South Devon Soatl. Eastern South Wales Yrksh. & Riv. Dui 5 Do 8 itaines, Wok SLIVoI; 11 tockton & Darlin... j 3 itockton & Hartlepl. .00' ratf Vale 0 Do. £lO shares L oo Do. Pref., No. 1 21 'Mimes Haven Doc and Ritilway all Vale of Neath all Watered. & Kilkenn:v all Araterford&Limericl 18 West Cornwall _3 West End of London :tnrl Crystal Palace all IWest London ,111 s. WinThloan &Croydor all Antwerp&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziers to Graissossae 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India. Scrip Central of Italy , all Demerara 14 Dijon and Besancon 10 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East 1ndian... : ........ 2 Do. Extension..... all Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible...... all Do. do. do., '59, do.. 10 Gd. Junct. of France 126 Gd. Tk of Canadait is. all y IDo. do all Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. all Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. Now 5 per cent. all, Gt. Western of Cana& Shares all Do. Bds., payablo's7, with option till '55 all Ds. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, without I option all Flamilten & Toronto all Do. 6 per crnt. 11 Lake Conit. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations • 10 Lyons and Geneva . 12 Lyons & Mediterrax , ,16?„Niadras 2 -IDo.New 3L A Maria Antonia till Do. do. Now 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and ErepteliueS guar. 3R p. S. & red. at 221/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 all Do. 201. 3 p. e Bds. (fmy.B. & Ams.Shs ) all NorwegianTrunkPrel 14 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg all Rouen and Havre 20 Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse I all Do. 54 p. cent. Prel ) 10 Southern of France.. I 14 St, Andrew's and Quebec (A) 3i all West Flanders ....o.f._ all Do 5 i per c. Pr 3 12 Wester n of France , D 11 West. of Switzerland 6 all Wiesbaden ...... • 0 20 Zealand ............ • JOINT-STOI all I Australasia ......... all British Colonial Bank -- — andiean CompanY all British N. American 5 Marta. Bank of Asia 2 pinta. Bilk. of India, Australia, k China 25 Ailonial 20 Commercial of Lond 16 English Scottish and Australian all Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Loud. Sr, Westminster i 5 National Provincial, of England 1 10 Do. New 22, National of Ireland all New South Wales._ all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Aurtraln.Bkg k Gold Imp Co all .oath Australia all ' Union of Australia.... 2i Do. 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SO - I'd " 3i 3 d 201 - 21 35 - 40 38 - 40 41 - 43 67 - 69 ... .Lami ,v 4 79 st 80 ;. iloo 6-.k~ ~Li 10 20 40 20 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1854. 11) 11 --. 1 frit ts" 1 • SUN OFFICE, Sevcn o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) DERBY. 9to 1 agst Gam'lus Esuriens (taken) 12 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (takeu) 13 to 1 agst St. Hubert (taken) 15 to 1 agst Oulston (taken) 20 to 1 agst Wild Dayrell'(taken) 28 to 1 agst Polydore (taken) 40 to 1 agst Affghan (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Rambling Katie (taken) THE LOSS OF THE PRINCE. We have been favoured by the Admiralty with a copy of the following communication : BALAKLAVA, Nov. 15. ' To S. L. O'Beirne, Esq., Secretary, General Screw Steam-Shipping Company. Sin,—lt becomes my painful duty, as the only surviving officer of the Company's steam-vessel Prince, to submit to your notice the following statement of facts relative to the total loss of that vessel, which occurred yesterday, the 14th instant, at 9.30 a.m., about three cables' length east ward of the entrance to Balaklava Harbour. While lying at anchor in 25 fathoms water, with two anchors down, about half a mile from the shore, the wind blowing a terrific hurricane from the S. and W., No. 16 transport fouled us, doing us some damage, and we were obliged to cut away 'all masts. About 9 a.m. the port cable parted, all hands being on deck at the time. Endeavoured to steam ahead, but on, account of some of the wreck being foul of the screw, were unable to do so. About five minutes afterwards the starboard cable parted, and the ship drifted in rapidly towards the rocks. Captain Goodall, who had been on deck from the commencement of the gale, called all hands aft, and with Captain Baynton, R.N., transport agent, pulled off their coats, Cap tain Goodall at the same time saying—" Now, my lads, I've done the best I cax for you, every man must try and save himself. About 9.15 a.m. the ship touched the rocks, and owing, to the great force of wind and severe sea setting in at that time, in fifteen minutes after not a vestige of her was to be seen. After thumping about five or six times the ship broke in halves, about amid ships, and I jumped out of the mizen chains on part of the wreck, and being about ten minutes in the water was washed ashore. I did not see Capt. Baynton or Capt. Goodall after the ship struck. Every person seemed very cool and collected under such awful circumstances. After remaining upon the rocks about five hours, with six of the crew of the Prince, we were hauled up by par ties from the Medway, Trent, Tonning, and Harbinger (who had been engaged all day, with life buoys and lines, endeavouring to save lives) over an almost perpendicular cliff of ' about 250 feet in height. Out of upwards of 30 vessels anchored in this place only three rode the gale out with masts standing, and I believe about 10 were lost entirely. I have omitted to mention the praiseworthy conduct of some men in a life• boat which I have since learnt to be the Avon's, under the charge of Mr. Hammond, second officer of that vessel, who went out in the severe part of the gale to render assistance. At Captain Beale's kind request I have joined the Harbinger for the present, where I wait the Company's further or ders.—l am, &c., (Signed) H. G. F. COTGRAVE, Late Midshipman, Prince. THE MURDER IN FITZROY-SQUARE CORONER'S INQUEST—(THIS DAY). This afternoon, at two o'clock, Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Goat and Compasses, New-road, upon the bodies of the deceased men, George Moore and Charles Collard. The case excited the most intense interest, and lung before the hour for the jury assembling the house was thronged, and several hundreds were assembled in the street outside and also about the immediate scene of the examination. The evidence was nearly a recapitu lation of that given before the magistrate. The only fresh evidence given was that of Mr. William Moore, of Great Marylebone-street, a tallow chandler, who identified the body of the deceased George Moore as that of his brother. His age was 60. He was mar ried. The servant girl, Bennet, was about to give her evi dence of a man who was present at the time her master was shot. Mr. Wakley said—We are now about to inquire about a person who is not present. Mr. Herring, the solicitor, who appeared for the ac cusel Emanuel Barthelemy, said that he had this morn ing seen the accused, and the accused was most anxious that he should be before this jury, as there wore circum stances that, if explained, would create a different lip. pression to that which had gone abroad. Inspector Checkley provedithe identity of the other deceased, Charles Collard. The nurse, Jane Anderson, proved that the last-named deceased died upon Saturday evening, at a quarter past eight, having been about 24 hours in the hospital. The medical avidence as to the cause of death having been given, At the request of the jury, the inquest was adjourned, in order that they might wait open Lord Palmerston to endeavour to prevail upon his lordship to allow the accused to be brought up for the purpose of identifica- tion. The inquest was adjourned until Thursday, at eleven o'clock. Mr. Smith O'Brien has gone to Brussels, where, it is said, he intends to reside with his family. We kayo great reason to doubt the truth of the report that Prussia has adhered to, much less signed, the Aus trian Treaty. Indeed, if we are rightly informed, the treaty has not yet been formally communicated to the Court of Berlin. - . r Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, already the conductor of his own magazine and the New Monthly, has taken Bentley's Miscellany under his direction. Mr: Thomas Stanbridge has been appointed town clerk of Birmingham, in room of Mr. William Morgan resigned, The salary is 1,0001. per annum. A new tragedy, called The Gladiator of Ravenna, no long ago anonymously produced at Vienna, and which was received there with the utmost enthusiasm, proves to owe its patronage to Herr von Weber, a son of the cones poser of Der Freyschutz. EMIGRATION. —The Emigration Commissioners have advertised fur vessels to proceed respectively to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, each to be ready for passengers between the 25th of January and the 2d of February inclusive, as may hereafter be determined. A NEW CEMETERY. —A. prospectus has been issued if the London and Western Districts Cemetery Company, with a capital of 50,0001. in Si. shares. The site which has been sanctioned by the Home-office is at Park-hill, leleworth, and comprises about 60 acres, with access by road, railway, river, and canal. A medal will be promptly issued to the troops serving in the Crimea. The medal will be given to all those who have served in any part of the present campaign. A clasp will be added for the Alma and one for Laker man. The regiments engaged are to " have en their colours and appo intments the words "Crimea," Alma,* and "'lawman." T HE PARIS EXHIBITION. —At Barcelona, Reus, Tar ragona, 'Valencia, and Alicante arrangements are being made for conveying persons to and from Paris during the Exhibition, and maintaining them there for eight or fiifteen days for a fixed sum. INCREASED CONSUMPTION OF TEA.-011 Saturday a Parliamentary paper was published, from which it ap pears,lBs2 theth a t quantityin th e ten o f e months a e n t e red d d f e o d r t h h o e m s e t le c o N n s o u v u ra p t b i e o r n , w as 47,122,97 9 lbs. ; in 1853, 49,800,547 lbs. ; and la the present year, 51,461,318 lbs. A NEW MANUFACTORY. —We understand that a com pany of German gentlemen will shortly commence an extensive factory at the west.end of this borough for the pur pose of manufacturing German wools of every va riety.—Sunderland Times. PHILADELPHIA. —A great impression has been pro. duced here by the stoppage of Reeves, Buck, and Co., the largest iron manufacturers in Pennsylvania. The liabilities of the house are stated at different amounts, from 9.00,000/. to 300,0001., while their nominal assets are represented to reach from 300,000/. to 600,0001. PRINTERS STRIKE.—The printers of Nashville are on a strike. They demand thirty•five cents per thousand _ ems, which the proprietors refuse to give. MARYLEBONE ELECTION. —Yesterday a telegraphic despatch was received from Sir Charles Napier, consents ing to his nomination for this borough. In the telegra phic despatch he announces his political creed thus : " War to the knife with Russia—extensive reform— vete by ballot—shorter Parliaments—and general edu cation." He also states that he and his squadron of five ships have been detained in the Great Belt by heavy gales. SRASONABLE SUPPLIE4 FOR OUR SOLDIRRS IN TiS EAST.—Two young ladies of Do %vials, Glamorganshire, the Misses Evans, daughters of Mr. John Evans, have in a most praiseworthy manner forwarded for the use of the wounded, &c., in the East 5,793 yards of linen ban dages, 108 yards of flannel ditto, 34 linen, and 23 flannel shirts, made by themselves. Three hundred and eighteen Polish non-commissioned officers and soldiers have accepted the offer made by the French Government to the Rutsian prisoners quartered i n th e Isle of Aix, to enrol themselves in a foreign legion to fight against Russia. `Fr are told on good authority that by this time (Dec. 9) ench reinforcements to the extent of 30,000 men must have arrived in the Crimea. The French army there will speedily be 80,000 strong. It is not intended to form any more divisions (the 9th Division is the last), but the " Cadres" will be filled up so as to augment the army to the strength we have stated, THE GREAT CIIDISTMAS CATTLE MARKET. This being the day appointed for holding the Great Christmas Cattle Show, the usual bustle and excitement invariably witnessed on this occasion were apparent at an early hour. The great difficulties experienced during nearly the whole of the present year in rearing adequate supplies of what may be termed fat stock far this and other markets, and the unusually bad condition in which the beasts have come to hand during the past six months —indeed, we may state that fully two-thirds exhibited here since the latter end of June have been beneath the middle quality—led many parties to conclude that there would be a groat comparative deficiency in the supply for Christmas consumption. Although there were some defi ciencies to which we shall presently allude, the show, taken as a whole, was a very good one, and kept up its long-established character. In bringing the leading breeds under particular notice, we may observe that the changes in the mode of exhibition in the show yard in Baker-street, have been productive of a great amount of benefit, because they are keeping pure blood amongst our stony, and thereby enabling us to fall back upon a reserve—in the event of cross- bred animals becoming deteriorated—the value of which can scarcely be estimated. To-day's market strongly illustrated these remarks. In former years, we have been accustomed to witness a good supply of beasts from the west ef England ; in other words, the number ef Dovol2B has formed a heavy portion of the arrivals. To-day, that breed reached us to an ex tent seldom before witnessed, and of weight and quality which surprised the most experienced breeders. This we look upon as one of the results arising from placing the Devons as the first-class beasts in the show-yard. To show the strength of the supply, we may observe that there co uld not have been less than 1,609 pure Devons on sale many of them weighing from 180 to 200 stones, and very few under 150 stones of 8 lbs. The prices realised for this particular breed we re nearly on a par with those obtained correspondingi H n e t r h e e fords.i Ts week in 1853. We now come to the po rtion of the supply was, if anything, far superior, taking weight, condition, and quality into consideration, to most former seasons. Many of the beasts were of enormous weight; indeed numbers of them were superior to any shown in the second-class in the yard last week. The high prices paid for this particular breed dur ing the whole of the present year, and the almost total ab sence of disease amongst it, have operated as a great pre ventive to the breeders, whose gains have greatly exceeded almost any former season. But we have yet to enlarge upon another portion ef this great exhibition, viz., the shorthorns. From nearly all parts of England, but more particularly from Lincoln shire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Norfolk — noble, well-proportioned, and bulky animals reached us. The value of this portion of the supply it would be inspos sible to estimate ; and we congratulate the feeders in having forwarded so splendid an addition to the aggre gate numbers. This breed has certainly lost none of its excellent points from being placed in the third class by the Smithfield Club, and here we would remark that the heavy breeds of beasts have this season failed to come up to their accustomed weight front reasons already explained. More than the usual number of wonderfully fine Scots bred in England and Scotland were in the market. In our *pinion they formed one of the most interesting features, notwithstanding their colour, and, when we consider the great value of this breed—indeed a more valuable one does not exist—we are led to the practical conclusion that it has never received fair play at the hands of the Smith field Club. If the committee can point out to us a supe rior class of beasts we will at once admit that we are wrong, but not before. As regards the various other breeds shown this morning no may intimate that they did not exhibit any points worthy of particular observation. However the show in this respect was a good one. There was about an average supply of foreign stock in the market, but its general con dition was very inferior. Ind it is a remarkable fact that little or no improvement has taken place in it since the passing of the present tariff laws, notwithstanding that we have paid the Dutch graziers high prices for both beasts and sheep. Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were 5,831 head. In the corresponding week in 1853 we received 4,795; in 1852, 4,869 ; in 1851, 3,628 ; in 1850, 5,734 ) in 1849, 3,720 ; in 1848, 3,155; and in 1847, 1,913 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEIL Front Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs, ffilmburgh.-.- 102 203 -.— ... -- Harlingen ...- 322' -. 1,462 -. 5 R o tt er dam 562 -. 1,083 -.-. 256 -. lsrieu Mop-- 42 -. 312 -. Amsterdam 22 401 .- Dm.dt 47 -. Ostend --- ••• 10 ... - .-- .. • - Total ... 1,098 4,461 ... 274 ... It is supposed that nearly five thousand of the beasts were brought into London by the various railways. Allowing nearly one hundred miles fur each beast to travel, it would require nearly six hundred engines to draw this immense bucolic supply to the Metropolis. The companies generally made the most perfect arrangements to for ward the stock, and great credit is due to them for the promptitude with ' which they met this heavy demand upon their locomoti►e power. The City authorities exerted themselves to provide space for the supply, yet a large portion of the beasts was placed in some of the adja cent streets. The evil of the want of adequate accommo dation will no longer be felt, as the trade of this market will be removed next month to'Copenhagen-fields. The fellovring are the numbers of beasts exhibited, and the prices obtained for them, on the great days during the past fifteen years : Beasts shown. 5,074 3,528 4,500 4,541 4,510 5,713 . 5,326 5,470 • 4,282 • 5,942 • 5,765 • 6,341. • 6,103 • 6,271 7,037 Prices. 3s 4d to 5s Od 4s 4d 5s 8d 33 2 43433 : i , 48 8 0064 1 45 43 454 : 8i °B 4 B6BB da d aaac 38 4d 4s 8d 3 8 4d 4s 6d 3s Od 3s 10d 28 81 48 24 2s 81 43 Od 3 ,2 d its 10d Per Bibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.) Inferior Beasts.... 3 Gto 3 8' S ec ond quality.... 3 10 4 6 1 Prime large oxen 4 8 410 prime Scots, &e. 5 0 5 4 Inferior Sheep ...3 S 310 Second quality ...4 0 4 4 Prime crse.-wlled.4 6 410 TOTAL supp Lr. BeiLats ..•• •• •• •• .• •• •• •• 4,181 Ca1va5;.•...... •• •• •••,.. 107 11 , 155 ***** •• • •• .••• ?40 Although we have described the beasts as of excellent quality, it must be understood that the total number in the market was not equal to the supply exhibited at the same period in 1853, neither was the aggregate show to prime in quality, arising from numerous low breeds, brought forward. The present arrivals may be this referred to : Mr. Robert Morgan exhibited some first-rate stock, the property of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The same gentleman showed some wonderfully fine short horns be longing to Mr. Robert Cook, Mr. W. Themes, and Mr. W. Goodall, Lincolnshire graziers ; Mr. Thomas Feltome, R. Leeds, and Mr. Alday, residing in Norfolk ; and Scots from Mr. Millie, Mr. Martin, Mr. Cooper, and other gra ziers in Scotland. Mr. D. Maidwell exhibited 40 extraor dinary Scots, bred by Mr. MacCombie, of Tilley, from Aberdeenshire. These Scots were decidedly the best in the market. Mr. D.Borley showed some good Scots, forwarded by Mr. iltenborough, of Brabrook, Northamptoishire, and from Mr. Marti* sad Mr. Knowles, of Aberdeenshire ; also some prime short horns from Mr. Wright, of Tring, Norfolk. Mr. Dixon brought forward some very fine short horns, the property of the Marquis of Exeter ; short horns, fed by Mr. Thomas, of Holbeach Marsh, Lincolnshire ; Herefords, bred by Mr. Marshall, near Banbury; and short horns, the property of Mr. J. Little, of Whittlesea. Messrs. Giblottand Gurrier showedso.very fine Scots, belonging to Mr. W. Mile, of Aberdeenshire; also several lots, the pro perty of Messrs. Stuart, Sheppard, Martin, Knowles, and others, together with 80 Spanish oxen. As regards the beef trade, we may observe that, owing to the probable state of the weather, and the large atten' dance of country butchers, many of whom purchased ex' tensively, it was decidedly firm, and prices were on the advance. A few very superior Sects realised ss. Bd. per 8141., and the general top figure for beef was ss. 4d., at which a good clearance was effected. Notwithstanding that the supply of sheep was not to say very superior, there were some remarkably fine animals on sale. Messrs. Weal exhibited 70 prime Downs, fed by his Boyal Highness Prince Albert; 56 Downs, the property of E. F. Whittingstale, Esq., of Langley Bury, Herta; and 100 Gloucester ewes, belonging to R. Rowland, Esq., of Creslow. Messrs. Weal haa also primp sheep from numerous graziers. Mr. Eland exhibited 50 superior Lincolns, belonging to Mr. llernley and ethers. Mr. W. Gurrier showed 20 heavy Cotswolds, the property of Mr. W. Hewer, of Northleach. These animals realised from 41.105. to 6/. each. Also 15 Coltswolds forwarded frees Wiltshire, and which ranged at 51. per head. We had a good demand for all kinds of sheep, and, in most instances, prices advanced 2d. per 8 lbs. A few very superior Downs sold at ss. 4d., and the general top figure was ss. 2d. per 8 lbs. The show of calves was limited, and the veal trade ruled steady at last Monday's prices. The highest figure was ss. Gd. per 8 lbs. Pigs were in fair average supply and moderate request, at our quotations. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, aid Northampton shire wo received 2,000 short-horns ; from Norfolk and Suffolk, 800 Scots, Herefords, &c. ; from other parts of England, 2,000 of various kinds; and from Scotland, 600 horned and polled Scots. S. d. s d. IPrimeSouthdowu 5 0 2 ILarge crso. calves 4, 0 410 Primo small d 0... 5 0 5 6 Large hogs 3 4 4 2 Small porkors 4 4 5 0 Suckliugealves ..22 0 29 0 'Quarter old pigs 21 0 28 0 FOREIGN BUYFLY Beasts . 1,135 Sheep .. •• • ..... •• •• 2,620 Calvee..•• •• •• •••• •• •• 67 . ..... A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on M on d a y, Dec. 12, 1853, and this day, Monday, Dec. 11, 1854. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Dec. 12, 1853.1Dec.11,1854. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2to 3 4 1 3 6to 3 8 Second quality ditto ... 3 6 3 10,3 10 4 6 Prime large oxen ... ... 4 0 4 6,4 S 410 Prime Scots, esc 4 8 4 105 0 5 4 Coarse and inferior sheep ... 3 0 3 4'3 8 310 Second quality ditto ... ... 3 6 4 4;4 0 4 4 Prime coarse woofed ditto ... 4 6 4 1014 6 410 Prime Southdown ditto 5 0 6 2,5 0 5 2 Lambs ..• ••• ••• ••• 0 0 0 010 0 0 0 Large coarse calves ... 4 0 4 6'4 0 410 Prime small ditto ... ... 4 8 5 05 0 5 6 Large hogs ... 3 4 4 oi3 4 4 2 Neat small porkers ... 4 2 4 10'4 4 5 0 Beasts... 7 ,037 6,181 Sheep ••• ••• ••• ••• 2,5,830 22,820 Calves.— ... 253 107 Pigs 295 , 24 0 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dec. 13, 1852.—Beasts; 6,271; sheer, 20,570 ; calves, 220; pigs, 310. December 15,1851.—Beasts, 6,103; sheep, 23,420; calves, 74 ; pigs, 482. CORN EXCHANGE. About an average business was transacted in wheat in most of the country markets held on Saturday. In prices no material change took place. Barley and malt were very dull, and rather easier to purchase. Oats, beans, peas, and flour commanded very little attention. Advices from New York to the 28th tilt, state that no change had taken place in the grain markets. O❑ the continent, the business doing in wheat for shipment to England has been limited. The arrivals of home-produce up to our market last week were very moderate. From abroad we received 5,258 quarters of wheat, 6,846 oats, 9,743 beans, 472 peas, 328 tares, 6,059 linseed, 5,283 sacks and 1,415 barrels of flour. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to this morning's market, coastwise and by land carriage, were on a moderate scale, and in but middling condition. On the whole the stands exhibited rather a limited number of samples of both red and white, especially of the latter. Notwith standing that the attendance of millers was not to say ex tensive, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home pro duce ruled steady, at an improvement in the quotations obtained on Monday last of is. per quarter. At that amount of advance nearly or quite the whole of the supply was cleared off. The show of foreign wheat was but moderate. Good heavy qualities were in fair request, and, in some in stances, is per quarter dearer than on this day se'enuight. Low and middling parcels sold slowly on former terms. We had very little inquiry for floating cargoes of grain. Holders, however, were very firm in their demands. The show of barley was smaller than for some weeks past. However, the trade rulid heavy, and prices were barely supported. 1 The malt trade was very dull, and the quotations were rather easier. The supply of eats was rather exteasive, whilst the de mand ruled heavy at 6d to is per quarter beneath last Monday's currency. Large supplies of foreign beans being on offer that de scription of produce was heavy, and is per quarter lower. Peas met a dull inquiry. at is per quarter less money. There was rather more doing in flour on former terms. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. '!Met —Chevalier .... 71s to 738 Date Yorkshire and Llncolnsh. t reed 275 205 Potato ...... •• •. 285 32. Youghal aaclCork 81ack....... 25s 295 Cork, White ..... 27s 31; Seotch,Feed.•• .. 28s 31s Beans—Tiek ......... 41s 45s Pigeons ...... .... 45s 50s Peas—Grey .......... 375 40s Map1e........... 41s 42s White.•• .... •• .. 46s 48s Boilers .......... 48s 511 Flour—Town-made... 685 73s Suffolk •• •• •• •• •. 545 62s Stooktn & Norfolk 54s 56s 69A 70A 541 4 204 71 701 f 721 31 2/ 1061 5 1001 991 1 1 . 60 24 594 29i 20 19t 42 68? t $ $9 231 Wheat—Essex & Kent. Red .... new 70s to 835 ...... old 74s 8I a Ditto Ditto, White new 79s 865 Ditt0........ old 78s 88s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 66s 76a Ditto new •• 65s 715 Rye—Old •••• •••• •••• --6 jitivr ........ •• •• 42s 47s Barley—Grinding.•• 325 34a Malting ..... 33s 365 Chevalier— •• .•• 375 38s galt--SaffolkandNor . f01k............ 62s 67s Brown.•• •• •• 56s COs HingetonandWare 685 70s NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Very large supplies of country-killed meat have been received up to these markets since Monday last, and the show of each kind slaughtered in the metropolis is season ably good, thougk deficient in quality. The general de mand is in a sluggish state, as follows : Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d.' •a. d. I. d. Beef, interior 3 0 3 4 Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 8 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do., middling 310 4 2 Do., prime large .3 10 4 • Do., prime 4 4 4 6 Do., do. 5ma11....4 2 4 6 1 Veal 3 6 4 10 Pork, large 30 3 Pork, small 310 4 6 BOROUGH HOP. Fine new hops are very scarce, and selling at full quota tions. Other kinds are dull in sale, at barely late rates. Last week's imports of foreign hops into London were ex tensive, ♦is., 13 bales from Dunkirk, 8 from Calais, 22 from Havre, 1,944 from New York, 1 from Boulogne, 194 from Hamburg, 248 from Rotterdam, 779 from Ostend, and 305 from Antwerp. Mid and East Kent pockets, 151 108 to 211 Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 141 14s to 16110 s ; Sussex ditto, 141 Os to 15110 s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Coastwise and by railway the receipts of potatoes during the week have been on a fair average scale. The imports have amounted to only 12 bags from Hambro', 3 baskets from Harlingen, 6 hampers, 8 baskets, 2 bagafrom Rotter dam, 8 sacks from Dublin, 10 bags from Limerick, and 70 bags from Belfast. The general demand is steady, as follows :—Scotch reds, 105 s to 110 s .; do. Regents, 105 s to 1203; York Regents, 105 s to 125 s ; Lincolnshire do., 95s to 115 s ; other kinds, 90s to 105 s per ten. WOOL. Since Monday last so little business has been transacted in our market that the quotations have ruled nominal. The imports have amounted to 650 bales from Melbourne, 500 from Hobart Town, 153 from Buenos Ayres, 9 from Leghorn, 2,500 from Sydney, 232 from Alexandria, and 93 bags from Hambro'. The following are the current rates of English wool : Southdown hoggets, is Od to is Id ; Southdown ewes, is Od to is Odd ; half-bred wethers. is Oil to Os Od ; half-bred hoggs, is 0,1 to 13 ; Kent fleeces,ls ld to is lld ; Leicester fleeces, is Od to is 0;(1 ; flannel wool, 10d to is ld ; blanket wool, 9d to is 1d ; and combing skins, Os Od to Os Od per lb. SEEDS. There has been a moderato inquiry for clover seed, at about stationary prices. Linseed and rapeseed move off freely, at extreme quotations. Cakes are quite as dear as last week. In other articles very little is doing.* Turnip,White, per bush. 2 is to 25‘ Swede, • • .• 24s 38s Austard, Brown.• ...• As tOs White, now • • .• 10, Tares. Winter, new.... 1 I s 12s Old .• • • • • •• Os OdOs Od Canary, per quarter .. 443 583 Rye grass • • •• •• 241 28s Clover,RedEng. (Mt.) —s White • • • • .. . • •• s —a 'Foreign Red.. • • • • —s White...• —s Trefoil, new 16s 203 CarraWity .• .. •••• • • .• 369 40 s Coriander •• • • .... •• • • 16s lss Hempseed, per quarter 408 448 'Linseed, Eng.iowing • • 66s 688 Crushing •. • 62s 64s Baltic •• • • ...• .. 581 62s Odessa ..........631 65s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English 111 lls 146 10b Forelgn,per ton 11103 121 10s Rape Cakes, pr ton 6101 6' 103 Rapeseed, New,prlst 30' lOs 3110 s TALLOW. Our market has ruled heavy since Monday last, and prices have given way is per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 6is 6d ; and for the end of the year 64s 9(1 per cwt. Town tallow, 63s Od per cwt. net cash. Rough fat, 3s 6d. 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853: 1854. Stock this da .. •... 56,152 68,451 48.819 42,140 33.577 r 37s Od 36s 94 •.o 46s Od 'o 5 5 s 9d i4e Gd to Price of Y. C. ••" / to 37 , 6d —s Od —s Od to i6s Od Delivery last week • • 2,254 3,156 3.329 1,347 2,011 Ditto from June 1.... 51,73 4 57,455 57.118 58,067 43,618 Arrivals last week.. 1.785 290 1,926 11.165 1,376 Ditto from Junel .... 62,246 89,372 65,309 76,9.0 41,175 Price of T0wa...... 394 64 39s 6d 493 3d sgs 01 65s 61 -6. REPRESENTATION Or EAST GLOCESTERSHIRL—No reply has yet been received from Mr. Holford, who has been solicited by the Conservatives to come for ward for the vacant seat, and who is still upon the Continent ' • but an address has been put for ward by Mr. J. Curtis Hayward, the chairman of the Conservative committee, in which he says, Mr. Holford's "high character, and his well-known prin. ciples, are a sufficient guarantee to the electors of the division, that he would most satisfactorily represent then in Parliament." The Hon. Grantley Berkeley has also addressed the electors, promising to go to the poll, on the supposition that the electors wish to return " a representative who will be firm to Lord Derby, or any other Minister whose measures will mete to every class in her Majesty's dominions a fair share of those blessings which are not blessings shared in universally." LrvEnron, Dec. 9.—The Royal mail steamer Ame rica, Lang commander, sailed for Halifax and Boston to-day with 150 passengers, including Rear-Admiral Bruce, who goes out to take command of the Pacific fleet. The South American paddle steamer, Captain - Haram, sails to-morrow, with about 50 passengers River and the mails for Lisbon, Madeira, Brazils, and the Plate. The screw steamer Hydasp4, late Lusitania, sailed to-day for Marseilles, having been purchased from the South American and General Steam-ship Company, by the French Iraper ial Company, to run between a ny, by and Balaklava. TER GUAYMAS ArrAlß.—ln that portion of the nar rative of the affair at Guayamas between the French and the Mexicans, Doctor Pigne-Dupuytren states positively that Mr. Calvo, the Consul of France, said to the French assembled about his house—" Surrender to me your arms, and I promise you the lives of all shall be safe, and that of Count de Raousset likewise." • He further states that there are twenty people ready to swear before God that he used these words.—Sam Francisco Herald, Oct. 29. THE SECRETARYSHIP TO THE POOR-LAW BOARD.—The statement which we published two or three days ago, on the authority of a contemporary, that Mr. Hayward, Q.C,, succeeds Lord Courtenay as Secretary to the Peor-law Board, is, we believe, well founded ; and the appointment will be viewed with just and general satis faction by all who are acquainted with the peculiar qua lifications of that learned gentleman for the important anti responsible post in question. His juridical and general acquirements have been abundantly proved by his writings, and by his eighteen years editorship of the Last Magazine; and we know that he has, for many years, paid a p ersevering attention to the administra tion of the poor laws, and that he has written fully, a bly, and on sound principles, upon nearly every sub ject connected with it. In the course of a public in quiry which lie conducted in Dublin, in 1847, his duty led him to examine *personally into the condition of the poor of that city ; and his report exhibits a complete and thorough acquaintance with all the leading sanitary questions which bear on the well-being of the humbler classes. From all that we know of the high character, sound judgment, and enlightened views both of the Pre sident of the Poor-law Board and of his new coadjutor, we are satisfied that those gentlemen will most cordially and efficiently co-operate in the business of that im portant department which Mr. Baines has fbr several years, p? obly and successfully muniuintered !TABLES OF THE TRADE NAVIGATIO N O F T HE J PROVINCE OF CANADA FOR THE YEAR 1853. (Prom the Quebec Chronicle.) Such is the title of a large volume of 486 pages, pre sented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of his Excellency the Governor-General, and bearing the signature of the late Inspector-General. The volume, it. is stated, is compiled from official returns. Viewed in the light of information furnished by the Executive Government to the Houses of Parliament, and through them to the people at large this ♦olume is a very impor tant one. It forms the balance sheet of our Import and Export Trade. It is our own statement of this trade put thus in an official and conspicuous manner before the world. It shows the sources from whence taxes to the amount of 1,028,6761. 15s. 7d., during the fiscal year of 1853, have been derived. Commencing with the class of dutiable articles, which presents itself first in order in the " Summary Statement of Imports" we will take a cursory glance at the principal articles from which the larger amounts of revenue have been derived. Promi nent among this first class of - articles, subject to a speci fic as well as an ad valorem duty, stands the article of Haw Sugar. Hero we find 282,220 cwt. ; value, 251,919/. ; duty, 107,6921. ; that is, the sugar consumed by the working man at two meals of three, to sweeten his coffee in the morning and his tea in the evening, is taxed 40 per cent., or for every shilling's worth he con sumes he pays sd. taxes to the Inspector-General. Next comes the article of Tea. Hero are 5,292,3551b5. ; value, 390,105/. ; duty, 70,814/., which show that this article of every day's consumption, " the cup which cheers, yet inebriates not," is taxed 18 per cent., or 2d. on the shilling. Next in importan ce comes Molasses, an article of healthful luxury to the working classes. Here we find 1,406,525 gallons; value 53,371/. ; duty, 19,128/., or 36 per cent. ; that is, 4d. on the shilling is paid in taxes for each shilling's worth consumed. Next comes Wine of all kinds. Here are 358,471 gal lons ; value, 51,332/. ; duty, 24,306/., or nearly 47 per cent., or sd. on the shilling. Now, take up Spirits and Strong Waters. Brandy, for instance, shows 147,828 gallons; value 34,891/. ; duty, 23,506/., or 67 pe r cent. Gin shows 129,273 gallons ; value, 12,942/. ; duty, 16,163/., or nearly 125 per cent. That is, brandy is taxed Bd, on the shilling, and the taxes on gin amount to more than the original cost of the article itself by 25 per cent. The consumption of imported whisky ex ceeds in quantity nearly that of all the other strong liquors put together. We have whisky, 324,074 gal lons ; value, 24,453/. ; duty, 7,1071., while brandy, gin, and rum put together, show 341,858 gallons. Turn ing up to page 466 of the book of tables, we find the "Inland Revenue Department" shows that 2,728,692 gallons of proof spirits, the produce of 1,390 stills, have been manufactured in the produce during the year 1853. Deducting 14,485 gallons exported, there re• main for consumption in the province 2,714,207 gal lons, of our own production, which, added to oar import, show a total of 3,038,281 gallons of whisky remaining for consumption. We leave the advocates of the Maine Law and their opponents to deduce what conclusions they please from these figures, but we wish respectfully to suggest to the Inspector- General the policy, nay, tke necessity, of reducing the present duty of 47 per cent. levied on wine. Increase the consumption of wine, and you pro tanto decrease the consumption of these noxious alcoholic liquors. The total value of the articles subject to a specific as well as an ad valorem duty, entered for consumption during 18.53, was 1,042,7911.; duty, 331,153/., or nearly 32 per cent. Now, while we admit that on some of the articles included in this class we would gladly see a higher rate of duty levied, because we consider their consumption noxious to the publio health and morals, yet we firmly believe that the duties on many of the articles, namely, raw sugar, green coffee, molasses, tea, and wine, ought to be lessened considerably, and in such a way that the poor as well ai the rich man should reap the benefit somewhat proportionably. We consider that the total abolition of the ad valorem duty would benefit the rich man more than the poor man. Abolish the ad valorem duty on wine for instance ' • then the poor man who requires a bottle of wine for his sick wife or child atiust pay the same duty per gallon on wine which costs him at the rate of 10s. per gallon, as will the rich man or the epicure, who guzzles his daily quantum of crusty port or sparkling champagne, which costs 255. a gal lon. The tax would be more equalised by being levied on the value only. This, it may be said, would open the doer to fraud ; impose, then, a discriminating duty, which would be a happy mean between the two ex tremes. The 2d class, or 30 per cents, preserved spices, maccaroni, fruit, dried and undried, might be ad mitted at a much lower rate of duty, and at the sane time increase, not decrease, the revenue. The reci procity act will admit dried and undried fruits, the growth and produce of the United States, free of duty, but this will be very limited in operation, as apples and peaches are perhaps the only fruits the United States produced in any quantity for exportation. By reducing the duties on the above-mentioned articles, the consump tion of these healthful luxuries in our northern climate would be much increased. 3d class, or 20 per cents. The duties on this class will undergo considerable al teration by the reciprocity act, in fact theywill be nearly all abolished; 19,0001. out of 32,000/., the total value imported, comes to us from the United States. 4th class, or 12. per cents. The total of this class shows a value of 5,121,173/. ; duty, 640,1461., or 62 per cent. on the whole amount of duties levied on imports. The largest item of this class is cottons ; value, 1,315,6861. ; duty, 164,461/. Next come Woollens ; value, 1,254,2561.; duty, 155,7821. Next Iron and Hardware; value, 648,720/., duty, 81,090/. Next Silks ; value, 350,330/. ; duty, 45 011/. We notice what are termed " Unenumer,,ted Articles" among this class, showing a value of 354,058/. ; duty, 44,257/. What these unenume rated articles are the tables do not tell ; nevertheless we consider the amount sufficiently large to make it desira ble, nay, necessary, that these articles should be specified at least in part. The articles at present, paying 121 per cent. which it would be desirable to admit at a lower rate of duty are, we would suggest, thread and yarns of all kinds, oils, except linseed oil, paints and colours, starch, wrought spikes, and wrought nails, drugs and medicines, cider, earthenware, glassware, curled hai r, and manufacturers of hair, such as hair seating for cabi net-makers, varnish, writing ink, bees' wax, honey, arrow-root, sago, glue, sze. There are many more arti cles, we have no doubt, which it would be desirable to add to the above, but as the " unenumerated articles " are not specified, we cannot particularise them. In a young and growing country like Canada some amount of protection is required in order to foster domestic manufactures, or at least those manufactures which tend to create industrial enterprite and develope the latent re sources of the country. Experience has proved that a duty of 124 per cent. is a sufficient protection for this purpose. Those articles which it would be desirable, nay, even necessary, to tax as being the sources from whence the public revenue is derived, we would reduce to say 10 per cent., or not lower than 7{ l per cent., The former rate, 10 per cent., we deem sufficiently high for purposes of revenue. We think the feeling of the country is not in favour of imposing a protective duty on 5,121,173/. out of 7,551,381/. the total of dutiable goods entered during 1853. IE,We will now take up the sth and last class of dutiable articles, namely, " Articles paying 2i per cent." Here we have, value, 1,296,8951.: duty, 32,422/. By a regular gradation of decrease it would be supposed that, if the duty imposed on the articles composing this class were decreased, it might be reasonably expected that such articles would be placed among the "free goods." There are some articles of this class we consider which ought to be allowed to enter into consumption free of duty. But they are few in number, we are of opinion. Coal and coke, which cannot be procured too cheap, for our river steamers, our manufacturing establishments, and for the domestic hearth, these articles are of the number. Very many of the articles we would wish to see reduced to the nominal duty of 1 per cent. ad valorem. All materials for shipbuilding purposes should be reduced to the lowest rate of duty. This lowest rate we would make 1 per cent. Anchors, chains, copper and 'yellow metal, sailcloth, rope y arn s, sheathing felts, prep ared rigging, pitch, t a r, resin, flax, hemp, tow, pig iron, hoop irop i , sheet iron, pipe clay , palm, pine and cocoa nut , treenails, bunting, and likely some other articles These h do not suggest themselv es j ust at this moment ; all we would desire to see reduced to 1 per cent. ad valorem. The Free Goods we deem to be pretty numerous al ready, and we confess we have no particalar desire to s ee them increased. These suggestions ,which would be found pretty general in their results, we have made in a rather hurried manner, with the view of preparing public opinion for the canvassing of the changes in our present tariff, which changes all parties seem to think absolutely necessary. We shall again resume the sub ject, and go somewhat further into our relation with the different countries, including of course the United King dom in our remarks. The tables before us form a very useful, we should say a very necessary, expes6 of the trade of the province, got up too at considerable ex pense and trouble. The information they contain should be as correct as possible. If the statements which these tables contain have been found necessary for statistical purposes, for the information and guidance •f the Mi nister of Trade and Navigation, for the information and guidance of the commercial interest in the province, and for the purpose of being a text-book of our imports and exports, for the mother country and the world, surely it is important, nay necessary, that these o fficial data should be correct, or nearly so. Their correctness will much depend on the capacities of the compilers of the the official returns from the different ports throughout province. Their correctness will depend mtoreerhaps on th e ca p ac ity of the official who is immedia:lyacharged with• the superintendence of this depar e tre t head quarters. Now although not altogether matters of this kind we submit with fihduep-doefteerdenucep to n these official tables, that some of the fig outs are given featly incorrect. If different heads of imports are g the values under each of these dsihffoeureldnt!,etadhienggsisvhenoulliti be correct. If not correct theey 159 the total value ef car petsall. Let us explain : a r t rpoavgince during tho year 1853 is imported into the stated at 4,0651. No there is no merchant connected with the Dry G . sethrade but will shake his head and laugh outright. at thesu eaerstBaBte6Tent as that. Hamilton 377/. only imported cal. importing during 4 pets to the value of 981. s. 11d. ! 'Absurd. Montreal a Kingston se em to have imported all the carpets used in the province ; surely this is incorrect. Take-the heading of clocks and watches : Toronto imported not a single clock or watch during,lBs3 ! Can it be that our friend the "clockmaker" has smuggled them all across the frontier Again take clothes ready made : surely the value of these articles imported into Montreal during 1853 exceeds 8201. lie. 4d. Torontolwith her total imports only one-third as large as those of Montreal im ported 6,7501. of the same articles; there is something wrong and very absurd here indeed. There is another dabs called "Fancy Goode," . While Toronto imported 8,7771., Hamilton imported only 1571., and some other ports none at all. The value of the " Hosiery" imported by the whole province amounts to only 3,5161. 4s. 10d.; surely this is ridiculous. Why, we know a merchant of Belleville (a third-class port in Upper Canada) who imported fully that value of this article alone. On turning over the next page to "Hosiery" we find Bel leville put down for 4,5231. of haberdashery, or more than what the remainder of the province imported alto gether. What luxurious and independent folks they mast be is Toronto. Of the jewellery and plate imported into the province Toronto alone imported 20,8331. out of 39,860/., while they monopolise the lace goods alto gether, say 2,5961. out of 2,753/., said to be imported by the whole province. But it is not in jewellery and plate and lace only that the Torontonians beat the remainder of the province; they excel in music it a pp ears , o f 33,7091: Musical instruments imported by the province, they glen. imported 25,0191. Really they are a happy people these Torontonians; they don't care a fig for time, at least so i says the "General St atement of Im p or ts." We notice that of the " unenuiner ated articles" paying 12 per cent. Montreal alone is put down at 190,1331., or Toon" than one-half of the value put down for the whole pro vince, for these articles. The proportion which the im ports of Quebec hear to those of Montreal is about 1 to 3 or 1,141,594/. to 3,351,5391.; yet the unenumerated articles for these ports show a proportion of about 1 to 28, or Quebec 6,91 9 1., and Montreal 199,132/. Quebec, 18th November, 1854. A. B. C. LITERATURE. Four Years at th. Court of Henry VIII. 2 vols. Smith, Elder, and Co. • These volumes contain the translations of the despatches of Sebastian Giustinian, the Venetian Ambassador at the English Court in the time of Henry the Eighth. They extend from 1515 to 1519, and are addressed to the Signory of Venice. The private reports of an ambassador at a foreign court would at no time be devoid of interest, for they give perhaps a clearer view of the private affairs of kings and courts than any other form of history. Those now before us, of course, acquire an additional value from their antiquity. It will be seen from the following extract from the intro duction, by the translator, Mr. Rawdon Brown, that it is somewhat unusual to find so complete a chain of letters of that date " When the translator fret ventured to entertain the hope that a selection of the papers which had furnished so much amusement to himself might possess some interest for the public, he did not hesitate in fixing his choice on the despatches of Giustinian. "It is so much more difficult, in proportion to the remoteness of the period, to picture to the imagination its manners, motives ' and modes of thinking , that contemporary letters full of the hopes, the fears, and the reports of the day, acquire a vast additional interest by their antiquity. And as they become more interesting, unfortunately they are also more scarce ; no unbroken series of letters, such as the Giustinian cot.. respondence from 1515 to 1519, has hitherto appeared in print, whether written from London or any ether capital. "The discovery of the Giustinian correspondence is recent. In the year 1843, the noble Girolamo Contarini bequeathed to the library of St. Mark his family collection of books and - MSS. ; amongst their contents was a bulky folio volume to which my attention was first drawn by Signor Giovanni Battista Lorenzi, one of the officers of St. Mark's library, to whose zeal we owe the catalogue of theContariai legacy, and of the museum of the ' Marciana,' and to whose accurate knowledge the frequenters of that institution are indebted for sp much information. The paper is of the same manufac ture, and bears the same water-stark as that on which was written the letter of Henry VII. previously described. . The volume contains 226 letters, copies of those addressed by Sebastian Giustinian to the Signory during his. English embassy. They are transcribed by his secretary—himself a man of some note in 'Venetian annals. The copy is dated 1515 to 1519 ; it is headed according to the pious form of the day 'ln nomine Domini,' and is thus attested by the transcriber at the end " Nicelaus Sagnainns fideliter exemplavit.'" "As 'the entire collection is too large for publication, the translator has endeavoured to select such letters and parts of letters as seem most likely to interest, by their graphic touches and lively notices of the events of ON day, or by their bearings on English history and literature." The translator observes on the singularity of the fact that so many of the official documents and state papers of the Signory of Venice should have found their way to flats pub lic. A Government so famous for the mys tery that enshrouded all their manoeuvres and the occult nature of their actions, one would have naturally supposed would have preserved all State papers in impenetrable secrecy. " Before trans mitting the official documents to the Government it seems to have been the general practice," says the translator, "to retain a copy for the family library or muniment room of the ambassador him self, and thence, or perhaps from the notes of some one who heard them read in the Senate and com mitted their substance to paper, these reports not unfrequently, even in early times, found their way to the public." So early as the sixteenth century some of these diplomatic fragments were printed and sold in the Venetian territory. The trans lator has prefixed to the work a preliminary ac count of the Giustirnan family, and the early career of the ambassador, whose despatches relate to a period when so many celebrities flour ished. It is only to he regretted they do not ex tend a little further. The chivalrous Francis 1., his ambitious mother Louisa of Savoy, and the gentle Queen Claude, the powerful Emperor Charles V., Henry the Eighth himself, his two sisters, Mar garet of Scotland and Mary of France, Catharine of Arragon, Sir Thomas More, and Wolsey, then just made a cardinal, are among those who figure in these pages. Those desirous of studying the secret intricacies of courts and cabinets will find these volumes afford them peculiar facilities of becoming acquainted with the details of the policy of that eventful period ; while their value as a work of antiquity, as well as their authenticity, render them especially fitted for a book of reference. The House of Baby ; or, Our Lady of Darkness. 3 vols. Chapman and Hall. This is a most melancholy story. The style is superior, and the description of characters and events powerfully and feelingly given. The point of the story turns on madness--a sombre and appal ing subject ; but it is divested of its horrors, and shorn of its misery, in a great measure, by the pe culiar manner in which the dreadful fact is made known to us. A thrilling interest and a touching tenderness is evinced for those unhappy ones suf fering under the greatest calamity to which "flesh is heir," instead of the abhorrence, the loathing, and the terror generally manifested by the world at large. Margaret Hastings, the heroi of n s e, is a bean of - a n impersonationstrength tenderness of heart and generosity of mind; c ; h w a i r t a h eter, disposition, she combined firmness and gentleness to no ordinary degree. Her presence seemed like a beam of light ; in the darkened house o f the sufferers she was as an angel visitant, exorcising the evil spirit that haunted the family of Baby. She gave sip to their service the whole of her life. In childhood she was their playmate, iu youth their companion, and through all the long years that intervened to old age she was their friend, their assistant, their nurse, their guide. Without her there could have been no breaks in the cloud, no lull in the tempest, and no respite from the fell destroyer. But, with the blessing of Heaven, she contrived to make the home of afflic tion at times happy, and always peaceful. Instead of being a confirmed lunatic in a wretched asylum, Arundel Raby was at times a shining ligh t i n the world ; he distanced hi s competitors iu his generation, and the sor his waking life more real, more earnest " than that of others. The trials of Margaret were g reat, and seemed not n a and insupportabl e to many, yet she f flinched not in herself-iTmhpeoseexdpelariboonuore. ofShehad nothing to hope fo r. . d rea t m he s st ai d progress o genera tions, the letahrenimngalaodfyskshilnletd.oupthtyhseicwiainldse, of better things ; but Margaret had faith, not a mere shadowy belief, or vague trust, but firm, un shaken confidence --t faith that " could move mountains " was hers pre-eminently. Her work was prosperous in its way ; she was the visible in strument of amelioration to the lot of the sufferers. In the course of the work many interesting persons are met with ; a degree of artistic skill is shown in their description, such as is not often faund in romances of the day. Those who prefer the corn positions which have thought and deep feeling for their distinguishing characteristics will be satisfied with " The House of Baby." The style is not that of m or bid me lancholy , and the tone is not despondin g or repining. The ruling passion, the pervading spirit, are courage and con stancy —courage in a warfare with the powers of darkness, that arme d war riors might have shrunk from, and constancy to trust in Providence through dangers and sufferings that eclipse those ordeals for which others have wora the hero's or the martyr's crown. The house of Rabe, with its ministering spirit, Margaret Hastings, never aimed 1 at concealment or subterfuge, and a useful warning they thus conveyed to their fellow-mortals ; they acknowledged that theirs was the bitter in the cup of life, theirs was to be the burden and heat of the day, o thers more favoured might Lave the evening hours and the lighter portion. " Keen March winds anti. soft April showers" alternated their existence ; the flowers and fruitage were reserved for a future land of promise, and a distant home of rest. these sublime reflections a sharper sting , then death's was removed, and the victory WU WO 4 I over a darker night than that of the grave. 20} i 4i 93i 61i lli i 83} 32 754 5 13 53 2i 3 i i 2k 6 1 i 34i 12k i 20i i