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

7111 ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. • CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Money continues in moderate demand fer com raercial purposes, and the quotations remains as before. The Agra aad United Service Bank have received t he felluwing telegram frcm Bombay : "Exchange —Bank Bills, 2s. 2 4 d. ; Rupee Paper unsaleable." About £105,000 in bar gold was taken into the B ank yesterday. In the f ore i gn exc h anges yester d ay a f ternoon there Was a slight downward movement iu several instanc es . Since Monday last the imports of specie have 411101 :111ted to £619,400, and the exports to £785,670, including £527,490 taken out to day by the Ceylon, Which left for Bombay. It appears that several inquiries for goods, espe eiallY in the woollen districts, have lately been made, Purporting to come from a firm at Copenhagen, and referring to a highly respectable house in that city. This is believed to be merely an attempt to obtain property from merchants and manufacturers on this side, and the house in question disclaims any favourable knowledge of the firm referring to them. The Bankers' Almanack, and Directory for 1864 contains a variety of useful matter, the information re specting the recent formation of banking esta blishments having largely increased its value as a Work of reference, Besides the ordinary banking and commercial retrospect, the annual chronology, the account of failed firms, there is a list of the directors of the principal joint-stock banks, the clance and credit companies, and the discount 4n dertakings. It is still edited by D. Morier Evans, l ' 4l o has had the superintendence of the volume s everal years. Two O'CLOCK. The market for the English Funds closed yes terday with a very heavy appearance, but rather m ere firmness is now exhibited, and Consols are 0. 4 9 1 for money, and 91i- for the account. Busi tees has been very quite. New Threes and Be ll:Iced are about 901 90 ; India 5 per Cents., 104 ft; do. 4 per Cents., 100 I; Exchequer Bills, lie. 1° •d; 7 8 .s. The Foreign Market opened with a very de pressed appearance, but a partial recovery has since occurred. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 I ; ditto Consolides, 464 s ; Mexican, 34 : 1 ,-, I; Week, 25 ! 26; Spanish Passive, 32f, 33k; Russian, 884 knd the Confederate Loan, 36 38. The share list of the Floating Dock Company bill close on Wednesday next, the 16th inst. The Present price is / 11- prem. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited, and prices have shown little change of importance. South Western have im proved 1-, and North Western I ; while North Eas tern (Berwick) have declined 4. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continue inactive at about former quotations. Bank arid Miseellaenous shares continue in mode rate request, and show little change of importance 111 values. Nik St BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. ock Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 1 , 1 1, ) ,er Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 90i Is.' per Cent. Annuities ;st ew 3 i per Cent. Annuities 6 dew 2} per Cent. Annuities '' A Per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 .. 400ities, 30 yrs, expire ith Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire .sth April, 1885. 4, , I) cii i_ a tto st ( o ß ck ed , I S B e 7 a 4 Telegraph), Aug. 1908. -Vtto 5 pei Cent. 1870 lo6k 1 .) 40 4 per Cent. 1888 looi 13!tto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. — lO3 b!, t to 5 per Cent l 't° 6i per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 ) 1 . :Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 ' l lk Stock for Account 1 ,-, 8 dis Ditto -0 Bonds 11,1. M t under £l,OOO l4 dis etlols for Account, Jan. 7 9lh i i'ila Sto c k for Account, 5 per C ent lO6l chequor Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cen t 7 7dis Ditt o £5OO .. 11 dis Ditto Small FO REIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Alistrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Iltazilian 5 per Cent Pitto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto, 839 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 ,0!tto 41 per Cent, eitto Scrip, 1863, 1.30 paid t l OB Ayres 6 per Cent (? , 11. I s tto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cub a) 6 per Cent ... 1014 "- t ,'". 4 ) 6 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. Di tto 6 p e r Cent. 1863 t 4- ', itto Guaranteed, 4 per C en t Octobian 6 Scrip £l5 pd . 444 h 4 per Cent., 1863 I,l)itto, Provisona Land Warrant ."Utch, 24 per Cent. Ex. 12, Guilders „13,s_itt0 Debentures, Ct., 4 per Oct., 1863 -t 'dor New Co ns olidated, 1 per Cent — qptian 7 per Cent 991 fit q u e itto, Second Issue jr) e . !K 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons • • — 251 i a 1, 1 "° Account •uitto Coupons .„bitto Account ........ 125 'lllatemala 5 per Cent. - Italptto Account — k 1 5' 46 per Cent.(Alaremmana Railway) 784 ex p .__ ~ / ,,, r . 4 per Cent t 4,14.0 Account 3la S 4 tle°tlBll Imperial 5 per Cent _ AGranada _ N i t ° 2 per Cent. — 1 ~,-to Deterred Per e . ll4 9 Land Warrants (Hectares) — Lit: t u 3 per Cent. .. 0 Account ... Ditto 49 9 u - per Cent., 1862 1 1 0 ,,, it tie Account — t o b"`querse 3 per Cent., 1853 tt ..._ Account.. bi b i t t r 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — b., 0 Account — h!'t o ) 1863 IttiVto Q e i ' - 'criP £l6 paid Ditty, 6 pe r Cent., 1822, £ St — D10;0 S o per Cent 1850 it 1860 — Dittob‘, 3 per Cent., 1859 ar( 1 1 !' 10 . 5 per Cent, 1862 ' b.tirnan 5 per Cent — t h 11;t0 Account N Dsh h 3 per Cent itto Aczount 53 •b'tto New Deferred itto Account ........ —Ditto Passive Ditto Account .. . ....... .:..:,.. 'Vanish Cert. of Coup not funded ilDitto Account wedish, 4 per Cent. - Ditto Account. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7l \ itt 0, £lOO Bonds ,'-ii . t',-c, 6 per Cent. 1862 li,uitto Account ) I z , t.tela 3 per Cent. 244 d i t ,to Account Ditto per Cent., 1862 554 t - `‘to Account '7 P ei bividends on the above payable in London. 974 4.,Part 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. e l O , ~, ~ ~ 611 ,_b i ,, , z per Cent., Ex. lz uull 99a •Ft„" ' O , 4 per Cent. Certifientes iciteg Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Italia,,tc, Account P D ''s per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — . itt o As „, 704 1ed,,,, , COMIL ... `4o4tese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — C o ~1 ! 018 , - Nt,„.._ TWO O'CLOCK. 905 1 4.ht t , -.......ey - Account 914 5 0' o ar (3. 11. D BOAT RACE,—The trial race of the best t i tt len of the University, previous to the selection \'''itt l. C) xford crew to contend in the forthcoming spring ov ert ' a nibridge, t oo k place on Thursday, th e 10 t h i nst., 4 t j\, he usual course , f rom Abingdon lasher t o th e Island kit th‘ ellenl • The cre ws were as follows :-1. E, B . • en, Magdalen ; 2 3 . T. B. Fenwick, Christ Church ; 4 ' I t. Co xe, Brasenose ; 4 . F. F. L am b er t, Corpus,; 7. • :I t. - D ' Pars on , T r i n it y ; 6. T. Wood, Pembrok e; t e4t; Parker, Univ;-reity ; 8. Pocklingten, Brasenose ; 1 1 41 ' 7t? l :it. B. Gardiner, Wadham. 1. C. P. Roberts, -"r ase fl , 0 . Harris, Brasenose ; 3. S. E. Illingworth, lioc c • -"e ; 4 . J. S. Warner, B MLA ; 5. R. Pound, Brase- . A.' ll . W. Godd ar d Exeter ; 7. F. Beachcroft, Exeter , '" ?.n hanae, Christ ' Church ; coxswain, J. E. bt .aw! "41ktlai Mr, S enhouse, against whose b oa t lz,n g odds o ad , had th e good fortune to o bt a i n the inside posithi very 1 11(1 8L e e quiv alent to t wo l e ' ngths, be Mr.Po c klington, however, s “"tr ef . W hat th e b est of the start, which advantage he did ~ r ved l° 4', as on, rounding the first turn, Mr.Senhouso d , 141 4 133 ' the station, drew up level. As the boats passed z' oft-"© h railway bridge Mr. Pocklingtou had acquired a th qt xa4; a length, which, in spine of a great effort on the 1 , 13 Y :h r i - Ir. Scu ll'll la increased to a length, .o witt h distance theet‘Ze was won. whole the th e 414 ' e 'W4B considered u to the average, although the win )t4 . 6 pat 4 1 4, it 7,, year was h ardly as good as the winning boat BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shark Railways Plud. Pride. Business done 100 Atianrio &Si Lawrence all 59 41 60 s k 1 Bom.,Barodakt.Cent Ind 100 I = 6 107 Gu. 5 per oent... 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares 101 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 6 61 10 Do. Preference 100 Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 10 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1871: 100 Do. do. July 1, 1870 100 100 1)0. do. June 1, 1b;1 100 at Clcutta.,irS.Eastn. (Lin 100 103 105 at Cape Town &Dock Seri! 100 101 103 stock Basin. Bengal gu. 6p. a "100 108 109 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1061 1071 1071 20 Do. do. G Ext lO / lip 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada luo 20 21 201 100 1)0. Ist Pr.e. Bonds all 72 74 73 100 Do. Co. deferred all 58 61 100 Do. 2cl Pref. Bonus all 66 69 67 100 Do. do. deerred all 50 53 100 Do. 3d P, ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 26 28 100 Do. do. deferred all 22 24 stock GLlndtaPentn.gua.sp.c 100 1(8 109 1081 1 20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 li 111. 20 Do. January, 1862.. 8 14 lip stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 106 201 Gt. W. En Canada Sharee. all 91 10 201 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 wlth't opt. all 92 95 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. .. all 86 88 10 Indian. Branch Limited 2 1 IP stock Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1001 1061 1061 6 stock Do. lt p. o. Extension 100 100 101 stock Dc. 14 d 0........ 100 16 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Melb.Corp. el p. c. Buds. 100 50 slelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7 p.c. 51ortg. Bds. all *0 Newßrunswiok a Canda Class A. and B. all S 5 N.Rl.C'da6 po bat 3 100 82 84 stork Soinde .......... (100 106 107 106 stock Do. Delhi 01.,; 100 105 11 6 su Do. do z 2 ip . et Do. Punjaub all 1044 1056 Do. Do. ...... . , Z 2 ). , lUO a onk Do. Indus. St. Flo. ) 100 101 103 , COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. k.,An.Gov. b p.c.J a&J u 1) 1877-81 ..... 100 103 105 Do. 6p. c. Feb. Aug. 100 102 iO4 Do. dp. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 102 101 Do. Sp. c. Jan.&.July. 100 91 93 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 Cape G.Rope, 6 p c,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct 1880 100 109 111 Do. 189( 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1678, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 1074 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 107 109 - N..ll.Gov.l3p.c.da.dr,July 100 104 106 I Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S. W. Gov. 5 p 1., 180, 100 100 102 99i Du. sp. c.,18r1 to 167 r 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 dzupwde 100 101 102 102 ,New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106 ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO la 113 iS.Aus G6p.c.1878.&up lOO 111 113 ,Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 107 109 Do. io 6 p.m AnAtOot.. 100 1081 1093 1 1091 9 BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 f Id ;Clifford Amalg - amated 33 84 Devon G. Cone. (Tavist ) 1 550 6 6 0 'East Bassett (Mogan). 30 t'7 60 1 ;East Clogau Gold Ltd 53. Icl 9arl 'East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 26 27 East Cam Brea. - E. Russel (Tavistk ) 8 9.0 4i 5 !GamASLAubyn(Gweu ; XBl 8 10 —.Great South Tolgus l7s 41 41 !G. Wheal Vor (lleiston, 40 114 124 ;Grenville 6.16. t 41 44 El em•d's-Foot 8.12 38 40 llingston Downs 4 . 18.0 14 21 Lady Bertha Margaret (4/fly Lelant, 94 14 16 Marke Valley.. 4 Nlyndy Iron Oro (Lim.) 21! 11 New Setun l9l 90 100 • North Downs 4 1 4 1 4 N.Wli'l Basset (111o4an 3.1.0 24 24 !North Wheal Crotty ['ar Consols (St. Blakey, -- 20 1 itovidenee (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 44 'South Caradon(St.Cleer) 11 405 115 S. Cant Brea (Mogan).— - I:i.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1 6 .9 60 65 'Stray Park 30.17.6 30 32 ritmar Silv.tt Lead 1/in 4l I fin Cron 9 18 19 West Basset (Mogan) l4 94 101 1W CI radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 West Setoa Wheat Basset (Mogan) 51 874 921 !Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 221 271 W heal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLuthott • Wheal MaryAnniLlem) 8 114 12 Wheal Cleton 584 116 ti 170 - , Wheal Treis.wney (1,18 ) 1 7 21 22 Wheal Union 1 3.17 21 3 SHARE 11.ARKETS,—This day. Share) Railways. Paid. 13.11. 1 Bir„ Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andblid.Co ' Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwell A gets no di \ Do A , in , • „ e.p Do. B • d t been pat to 11. Dublin Belfast June. Dun.,Perth4 Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. ) Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anc.r,lian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an t W. of Irelan, Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire Yorkshire London and filackwal, Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., sad Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So•.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares... Metropolitan Midland Do New 6.4.0 Do Binning. & Derby 311 d. Gt W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New • 'North Staffordshire IN. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock t 9.16.4, 12.10 8 84 8 8i 81 83 1174 1184 , 6i 7 38 10 16 17 94 96 107 109 49 50 45 47 71 83 124 126 130 13i 134 136 96 98 63i t 4 1081 1091 71 73 107 109 43 44 i 1051 1661; 101 102 47f 48f 11171 1121 1271 :281 12p 96 98 51i 623 24 46 101 101/ 58 58} 88 68i I Do Scot. 1111 d. stock.. Shrews. and Welohpoct (Shropshire Union .... South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok..andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1806 1 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R ' West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 119 •121 1 2 p n 78 It 11i 122 126 42 14 98 100 61 62 31a 32i 95i 06 97 19 91 101 a7l 372 9 10 t, 71 7y P 158 HU 5 61 t. 21 31 p ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Closing Business Price. done. 82} i 118 491 } 9 633 I 108 71 lOti 51 61 481; 111 a 12 123 7i 1011 1001 951 i 83 86 170 175 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 44 per cent. pf., 994 994 North /4:astern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent. rd., 931 4 North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, 10a PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, to., Illetrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 101 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 97 6i Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 56 per cent., 1151 Nottingham nd Chatham 44 per Cent., 911 and Grantham R. & C., 951 6} 5i Shrewsbury and Hereford, Ditto (x 7), 94 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Bahia and S am Francisco min.) gua . 7 per cent., - Copenhag,en, lim. 2k • Southern of Gr eat Luxembourg. 111 Paris, Lyo ns, and Medi terranean;37i San l'anio Franc e per cent., Si ua. 7 27/i FOREIGN MMES. Fortuna (lira.), Linares, 6) 7 Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 213 'United Mexican (lim;, l AUstralla (11m.), 21 wy V u a od n ra c a o h u aulin v g e u r (t E t k oefd sl . JOINT-STOCK BANKS, Alliance Agra andan n i k te o ci f S L e o r ri v 4 ic j e n (l an irn d .), L l i l v 3 e f rpo li ol (um), 441 Anglo Austrian, 7 ft East London, 7§ A ltr u il t is r lmperia latiaNsoiaril7lsAnerican. 49 of lim., 41 Land Mortgage Bank Imperiall BankOt tom ( . 1 ) r 171 13 London LLooinuaaoonn Caannhadarcctcoorul(iidntiyars(nsiikrio.lt, 7i Z Australia, 28 London Joint Stock, :36i London and Northern (lim.), 151 London and South American, London and Westminster, 78f Merchant Dank, lim. Mer cantile and Exch a nge. lim., 141 15 &nide, P unjaub, and Delhi Union of Australia, 5,„•-• Tinton of Ireland (lint.), 19 Union 01 Lon uou, 4U 34) 1 MISCELLANEOUS. British Indian Tea, lim., 3 2/ Discount Corporation, limited, 81 7 Esst India Irrigation and Canal 411 Egyptian Commercial an d Trading, lim., 31 Hudson' Gen. Cr( s Bay. dit andl24 Yinanco of Lonaon, lain., 61 International Financial Society, Lim 9 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavou r j, n, 1 870, issued 90, 86 Ditto, 6 per c,eut. Bonds, rede r Joint •stock Discount, London Financial Association, lim, , 23 „ London Gentral Omnibus Company,lir e 4 Natal Land and Colonization COmpany, iii rBse Oriental Inland Steam, lim., Peel River Land and Mineral, 48i And OEiental ..3tcani, SA I TIIE SUN, LO:\ DON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1863, LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). COURT OF DIVORCE. (Wore Sir. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) LIDSTONE V. LIDSTONE AND EDMUNDS. This was a suit instituted by the petitioner, a shipwright in Devonport dockyard, for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent. The charge was denied by both the respondent and co-respondent. Damages were laid at £5OO. _ . The petitioner was married in 1850, both parties being then very young, the respondent being on►y 17. After the marriage they went to live at Frankfort-street. In 1852 they left Plymouth, and went to live at East Dere ham, but returned again to Plymouth, where she contracted an intimacy with Mr. Edmunds, a solicitor practising at Plymouth, with whom it was alleged she had committed adultery. The respondent was a well educated girl, but the petitioner was rather illiterate. Quarrels ensued between them, owing to her intimacy with Mr. Edmunds, and, finally, she left her husband, and was afterwards found living in lodgings in Victoria-street, P►ymouth, where he constantly visited the respondent. John Carkect said he knew the parties both before and after marriage. They lived very happily together until the intimacy with Mr. Edmunds. After that she objected to her husband as a person unsuitable for her society. The learned Judge—What did she mean by that ? Witness—That he was uneducated. HA afterwards heard Mrs. Lidstone talk about a divorce, and she further said that after it was obtained ehe should be Mr. Edmunds's lawful wife. Mr. Lidstone he considered to be a respectable, upright man. His failing was over-kindness. Howard Davis, an undertaker, said he knew Mr. and Mrs. Lidstone, He recollected her leaving her husband's house in 1862; and in October of the same year he met her at Devonport-park. He asked her whether she had not been to Wales, and she replied " Yes, with Bob ;" and afterwards she asked him not to tell Mr. Lidstone. He asked her if she was living under the protection of Edmunds. She said no, but that he visited her of an evening. She did not say where ehe was living, but on another occasion he met her, and then followed her to No. 15, Victoria-street, New Passage, Stoke. He afterwards watched the house, and frequently saw Mr. Edmunds go there. He had seen Mrs. Lidstone let Mr. Edmunds out, and wish him good night, and further say she hoped he would not get wet. Mr. Chambers—Did she always say that? Witness—Only when it was raining. (Laughter.) Cross-examined by Mr. Huddlostone—When he was at home he lived in Scotland. He could write. Mr. Huddlestone—Have you any objection to write me two words ?—" possessed" and " Wednesday" for instance? Witness took up the pen and wrote the two words, spel • ling the first " pocessed" and the next " Wensday." Mr. Huddlestona (handing witness a letter and the paper upon which he had written the words)—ln the letter you wilt find the words spelled precisely the same way ; is, or is not, the letter, which is a fac simile of the words you have just penned, in your handwriting ? Witness—The letter is nit in my handwriting. That I swear. Mr. Chambers, Q.C., for the petitioner—l object to the witness being examined on the point. It is a piece of legerdemain to trick the witness. The letter is not in evidence. The Judge Ordinary—l think the witness can be asked whether the letter was written by him or not. (To witness) When you have thoroughly looked at the letter, tell the jury, upon your oath, whether it is in your handwriting or not. Witness—l swear I did not write that letter, and know nothing of it. Mr. Huddlestone—l now propcse to put the letter and the paper, en which the witness has written the two words, into the hands of the jury. Mr. Chambers objected'—The letter was not at present evidence, and it was merely a clever trick on the part of the learned counsel to attack the witness's credibility. A long discussion then followed, during which the word Wednesday was then marked in the Lotter and witness was asked whether he wrote it positively denied it. The learned Judge here, alter reading the letter, thought it very material to the case that the fact mentioned in the letter should be fully investigated, and with that view he thought the witness could be asked whether he wrote it or no. _ _ Mr. Huddlestone—Now, after cautioning you, I ask you deliberately whether you did not write that letter? Witness—l did not. The learned counsel again wished the letter to be placed before the jury, but the learned judge thought it better be deferred till all the matters connected with it were before the court. Mary Ann Wild, a domestic servant, at Mr. Williams's 15, Victoria• street, deposed to the visits of a gentleman to Mrs. Lidstone, whilst she was residing there. Mrs. Higgins said she resided at Ross, in Hereford. She recollected two persons coming to lodge at her house some weeks. He had since seen both Mr. Edmunds and Mrs. Lidstone, and was positive they were both the parties. Mr. Rundel, a solicitor, residing at Devonport. said the two preceding witnesses had seen Mr. Edmunds, while pro fessedly engaged in the County-court, at Devonport, and identified him as the gentleman who visited Mrs. Lidetone. Evidence was called for the respondent to show that Lidstone had invariably treated his wife with the greatest coldness aLd neglect. The case was proceeding when we went to press. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) A NEW POINT IN THE LAW OF MASTER AND SERVANT. -GARNHAM V. BOSS. This was an action to recover a sum of money actually earned as wages, and wages in lieu of notice. Plaintiff is a journeyman umbrella maker, and he had worked for de fendant. He found that he could better himself by going to another place, and in accordance with the rules of the trade give a week's notice. Upon this the defendant said he could go at once, but plaintiff worked until some period in the day, when he received peremptory orders to quit. His Honour—How do you say that you are entitled to a week's notice. Plaintiff—By the rules of the trade. Defendant's son— We make a special bargain in our house. When the men enter our service we point out that upon leaving theymust give us a week's notice, but we may discharge them at a moment. His Houour—That appears to be a very one-sided bar gain, but if the men chose to agree to it, of course 1 can say nothing. Plaintiff—But surely you know the men are entitled to the same consideration as the master. If a man leaves their service at a moment's notice they enforce the week, and the men ought to be able to do the same. Defendant—The rule is well understood in our house, and we consider that we are quite at liberty to make tales for our own protection. His Honour—Oh I certainly, but it does not seem to work very well so far as I can see. It appears that the moment a wan gives the customary notice the master can turn him out forthwith and deprive him of the week's money. The bargain is a legal one, but it is also a hard one. If, however, the men choose to agree to it, they cannot depart from it now. There is money paid into court, in addition to which plaintiff is entitled to recover for the time he actually worked (25.), and for that sum he will have a verdict. Verdict for plaintiff, only for the actual money earned. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 12.—Wind this day at noon—South- West ; light breeze, and fine weather. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 12 —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Palermo, screw steamer, from Scilly—Ellen Catherine, from Huelva —Lucy, from Riohibucto. PonTsmovnt, Dec. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady Milton, from Otago, N.Z. KINGROAD, Dec. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Red Coat, from the West Coast of Africa. CLYDE, Dec. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Acme, Cuth berts, and Empire, trom Quebec—Perseverance, from Montreal. RAMSGATE, Dec. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Kate Evelyn, from Hartlepool for Garrucha—assisted in with loss of stanchions, &o. DOVER, Dec. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Murillo, screw steamer, from London from Santander. CARDIFF, Dec. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Millo, from Marsala. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 11.—Wind N. WV.—Arrived—Premier, from Newfoundland. (BY ➢IAGNETIC TELEGRAM.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived—William Walker, from Archangel. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed—Asia, screw steamer, from Sunderland, for Cal cutta—Cid, screw steamer, for Bilboa, and Tivy, schooner, for Falmouth, both from London—Scotland, ship, from the North, for the West. R tble D y, me STANFORD'S niednßltosronWeochyki:ohzhrt o2vfs. O SA SALE ,— Mr. Lena,E„ last bona fi de bidder, has claimed the yearling filly, that tin k a sd a do t ‘ h vn e ; 0 is ti l d i 07t h e e m s b l — wh i‘ ie i h r. w N as aY kn i 7n tunity of explaining rigachetetihtistroutuitn ppeared in our contemporaries, as to Captain White hav e in a sa le. Captain White did nOtabcitdedf for Mr. Naylor at the single lot for Mr. Naylor, nmr did the latter hid, directly ora tiho el‘ .1-,siOtr. Sloth,a. or indirectly, for either Cambuscan or Archimedes, as represented,—Sport i4 Gazette. SUICIDE BY A GREENIVICLI PENSIONER.—Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, yesterday held an in quest at the Admiral Hardy Tavern, Greenwich, into the circumstances attending the death of William Day, a pen sioner of Greenwich Hospital. The evidence proved that the deceased had been drinking for several days, and was apparently suffering from the effects of intemperance. He was admitted to the infirmary of the hospital, where he committed suicide by cutting his threat with a sharp knife in a most determined manner. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity, which was induced by habits of in temperance. LITERATURE. Barbara's History. By Amelia B. Edwar3s, author of ",..My Brother's, Wife," &c. Three Vols. Hurst and 'Blaokett. When the interest of a story is concentrated upon one or two individuals, it generally gains in inten sity. " Barbara's History" belongs to the class that. Mr. Disraeli has called Psychological novels, novels in which the emotions of one heart and the develop ment of one individuality, occupy the chief atten tion of both writer and reader. In portraying to us the development of her own character and the vivid emotions of her excitable nature, Barbara has been very successful, but the story of which she is the heroine is singularly improbable, and the hero of 'the tale, Hugh Farquhar—Farquhar of Broomhill —is one of those paragons of perfection, an impos sibility, such as assuredly never stopped out of the pages of a romance. He takes a rifle from the hands of one of the German free-shooters, "the best rifle-men in the world except those of the Tyrol," and fires two bullets in succession into the centre of the target until the amazed marksmen exclaim "He is Tell come back again !" He borrows a guitar from a wandering musician, and sings a ballad of his own composition to the delighted wonder of all hearers. He gives six thousand pounds for a Paul Veronese. He travels through Europe with black rippoo as his avant courier, engaging in advance the best rooms at every hotel, and ordering in advance recherche dishes to suit the fastidious palate of this fashionable Crichton. Added to which oar wonder fully romantic hero has "a mystery in his house"— an Italian lady secreted behind a secret panel, to the dismay and distraction of the hero's wife, who is herself notwithstanding the object of her husband's idolatrous affection ! We have said enough, and more than enough, to corroborate our assertion that " Barbara's History" is, to say the least of it, some what improbable, and the character of her lover in our matter-of-fact opinion somewhat (almost) im possible! Barbara herself very simply and tenderly reveals to us the trials and troubles of her young heart. In the opening chapter she exclaims— When I teas young ! They are but four words; ani yet, at the very commencement of what must prove a labour of many months, they have power to arrest my pen, and blind my eyes with unaccustomed tears. Tears partaking both of joy and sorrow ; such tears as those through which we all look back to childhood and its half forgotten story, Oh, happy time I so islanded in the still waters of memory ; so remote, an d ye t so near; so strange, yet so familiar! Come back once more—come back, though never so briefly, and light these my pages with the pale sunshine of a faded spring. lam answered. A pleasant calm steals upon me; and, as one might step aside from the troubled streets, to linger awhile in the quite sanctuary of a wayside church, so I now turn from.tne eager present, tread the dim aisles of the past, sigh over the inscriptions graven on one or two dusky tablets, and begin with the recollections of infancy this narrative of my life. Barbara's childhood is lonely and isolated. Her first happy experience is her visit to her great-aunt Mrs. ,SAndyshaft, a strong-minded country lady, who delights in agriculture and farming, and more especially in pigs ! Here is Barbara's introduction to these new acquaintances— _ " There they are 1" said she, with grim satisfaction. " There they are 1" There they were, indeed pigs of all sizes, ages, and tempers. Black pigs, white pigs, spotted pigs, little pigs, big pigs, fat pigs, lean pigs, pigs with curly tails, and pigs with no tails at all. Quiet enough till we came into the yard, they no sooner beheld my aunt's green bonnet than they broke into the most appalling chorus imaginable, and dame rushing up to us with an alacrity that soon brought the whip into service, and sent some of them shrieking away. But to see them fed was the great sight—to watch the perpe tual replenishment of the great round troughs—the circles of tails, uplifted and quivering with excitement—the play ful disturbances that broke out now and then among the younger members of the company, and the friendly bites, flights, and scuffles that diversified the graver interests of the performance. Meanwhile, my aunt stalked about with her whip in her hand ; inspected the condition of the sties, and the quality of the food; rated the farm-servants ; discussed the question of bean-meal and pea-meal; gave orders that one youthful family should have their noses ringed; con demned two haples, porkers of middle growth to solitary confinement—and ended by taking me round to visit a very fierce dowager in an adjoining yard, who had the evening before presented society with no less than fifteen little ones, as black as jet, and not much bigger than kittens. Having dismissed the pigs, we went into the stables ; aad then round to the bullock yard ; and, atter teat, went a long way off to a clover-field lying on the slope of a hill, where we saw the sheep and the little white lambs all feeding and gambolling about, to the number of three hundred and more. And throughout all this ramble, my aunt's vigilant eyes were on everything and everybody. Nothing escaped her; and not a servant on all the land but started into activity at her approach, and seemed to regard her not only with respect, but with some degree of terror. The next scene of our heroine's history is a German lady's college, where her education is completed, and where her taste for painting is developed. Barbara becomes an artist, and wi ns t h e pr i ze - me d a l f rom the hands of the Grand. Duke of a German princi pality. Many years of Barbara's life are passed abroad. The authoress portrays the southern landscape with a glowing pencil. Here is a glimpse of some of the heroine's wanderings in what she calls her— satisfied, very considerably to popularize it. The authoress has advanced from a consideration of " the general" in " Female Life in Prison"—to a con sideration of " the particular" in these very dread ful bat also very affecting " Memoirs of Jane Cameron." The Female Convict, so entitled, has her wretched history recounted thus mercifully under a pseudonym. Dates and localities are also here transformed—as a kindly shelter of the poor creature referred to from the chance of identification. Otherwise th e narra ti ve i s , f r om first to last, miserably veracious. It so assumes to ne. And wo needs must credit the validity of the claim thus put forth. The work has a purpose. It undertakes to show, and indeed we may essert at once that it does quite comprehensibly demon state that "the poor and ignorant are led into crime and are in innumerable instances taught to regard it as simply a business, the evil nature of which is to them not apparent." Nor is this all —for the thread of the narrative, while affording a clue to the mystery of temptation, leads the practical philanthropist on, thereby, to the detection of what ought, in truth, to constitute the first endeavour made by him in order to bring about the criminal's reclamation. The unfortunate, here called by the name of Jane Cameron, it should be said, at once, is before the close of the book, veritably reclaimed. She dies, but dies penitent. Transformed from a heinous offeuder, from a thief and a prostitute, into a repentant sinner, who enacts, in her later years, the humble part of an honest and virtuous domestic, Jane Cameron, as we read of her here, at the ter mination of her adventures, in and out of prison, remains (we are told) "to the last a good servant and a faithful friend. She died," it is Added by the authoress, " truly penitent for all past sins, and truly thankful for all the mercies which had been vouchsafed to her. This was the last new s of Jane Cameron the last and the beat." Having quoted which simple, but most touching comment upon the poor Female Convict's life and death, we may say at once confidently enough that—although the history of Jane Cameron is at times very frightful indeed as a revelation of the filthiest depravity, and of the most utter abandonment, it may, in the recollection of her death, be regarded at any rate with some sentiments of consolation, even at its end of actual satisfaction. Born and bred in Croiley's Land, in that swarming and festering backslum of the vast and populous city of Glasgow, called the New Vennel, Jane becomes at a very tender age, indeed, one of the 240,000 children who are known to be given up to a life of theft in the various towns and cities of the United Kingdom, One of that little infant army of 240,000 thieving children! The fact that there is fully that number of young criminals scattered among our population is unde niable. It is proved beyond a doubt by reliable statistics. And—one of that youthful swarm, one of that childish host of the depraved to the number of 240,000 in all, one of those ill-fated little ones, not brought up, as Charles Lamb has it, but dragged up, is Jane Cameron! When a mere toddle of five or six she is—what shall we call it P—a confirmed cadger. At twelve she has as her " cash"—a boy of fourteen. When, herself, barely but fifteen she is already a mother. "I didna think muckle o' the wee bairn the first nicht," she says, " but on the second day I luved it awfully !" Ah, the poor soul ! but her " wee bairn" dies, and therewith " dies out with the child she had loved," the little spark of her own better nature! Her first fall had come to her from that source of evil to so many children elsewhere than in the purlieus of the Glasgow Vennel—the dancing saloons! The low penny dancing saloons called in the squallid Glasgie Life— THE SKEELS I Entrance to these dancing " skeels" is generally by an unlighted close, up a common stair to a large room on the first floor. The door of this room—on which "Dancing here" is legibly inscribed—is kept by a scowling individual —probably the proprietor of the establishment—who receives the pennies of his young patrons, unlocks the door, admits them, and locks them in. In this room, lighted by gas or candles according to the taste or means of the proprietors, a hundred or a hundred and fifty are speedily assembled —ranged around the room on forms placed against the wall. They are of all ages from the boy and girl of seven or eight years old to the men and women of two or three and twenty, but the majority are girls and boys averaging from 12 to 15 years. The boys are chiefly apprentices or young thieves ; the girls are of the usual poor class—more than usually poor perhaps—three fourths of them without shoes and stockings, and all of them bonnetless, as is usual amongst the Scotch girls. The boys are several degrees removed from clean, but the "lassies," as they are generally termed, are, without an exception, bright-faced, glossy-haired damsels, who have evidently been at r o ordinary pains to render themselves attractive and presentable. Here and there is evident a little effort at finery in the shape of a pair of ear-rings, or a necklace of sham coral, and their poor and scanty gar ments are in many cases destitute of any signs of ragged-. The master of the ceremonies, carrying a fiddle or kit under his arm—occasionally bag-pipes are substituted for the violin—calls out the dance. In all cases a Scotch dance of the simplest character is chosen ; the dancers are arranged, music is struck up, and the festivity begins with a hideous clatter of thick soles and heels from the masculine portion, and a soft pattering of naked feet from the majority of the feminine. There is much setting to partners, and an infinitude of solo performances, winding up with the usual twirling and twisting common to Scotch dances in general ; and in the midst of all this heat and dust and bustle, the man sits perched above his scholars, fiddling rapidly, and glaring at them like the evil genius of the place. They are all known to him—every face is familiar. To the elder girls, who may have encouraged strangers there, ho is friendly and fatherly and watchful; h e knows that before the evening is out the strangers will probably be robbed, and there will be an uproar, and it may be necessary for some kind friend to turn the gas out or knock the candles over, and leave the entire company to grope their way down the com mon stair into the close—or the man at the door, who is a prize-fighter by profession, will be called in to keep order, silence the remonstrants or turn them out of the room. As a rule, the proprietor objects to robbery in the " skeel" itself, and has a room on the other side of the landing where such things may be conducted with greater ease and save the " eked" from falling into disrepute. Night after night, in these Scotch cities, still goes on this hideous revelry ; still are attracted girls and boys from their homes, still are enguiphed the heedless youth of both sexes. Many innocent children of poor, even respectable, parents are lured hither to imbibe a love for dancing and bad company. The ap prentice robs to get here, the girl begs in the street, or thieves her way to admittance ; step by stop to ruin surely and swiftly proceed these untaught, uncared-for children, and they are past hope, and have left all childhood behind them, at an age that is horrible to dwell upon. Deprived of her infant child by death (a death for the child itself perhaps very merciful) Jane Cameron becomes a confirmed and harduned criminal of the very worst class. Her adventures are numerous and most affecting. She suffers frequent imprisonment, at the last for a series of years, during which g h e passes through the system of a reformatory charac ter in vogue at Millbank and at Brixton. Fortunately the eventual result of this probationary period, proves to be most bene ficial. When released she relapses. But her reclamation is at length completely efficacious. It is beyond the Atlantic, while still in service as a good and honest domestic, that she breathes her last, this poor repentant creature of whom we have read here at times, no doubt, with loathing, bat at length with an overmastering pity. Several of the minor characters flitting before us as we read this work—individuals with whom Jane Cameron comes into contact during the chequered period of her most woful history—are very cleverly depicted: amongst them Mary Loggie " the friend" —Vann': Jack, Jane's boy-"Cush " — poor growling 11 "-v ble the kind-hearted matmaker—and even that trrihas Black Barney, Jane's older " Cush," when fairly gone out into the world as a. vv"la„, Black Barney, who is so fierce an d forraidablo to others, , though to her ever all gentle ness! The work as a whole is eminently well w orth having been w_ritteu, and—now that it is wr itten — eminently worth also being read. Foul and dark though the path it leads us thrcunh, th ere are light and purity shining brightly upon us at the close. The Children's Friend. Illustrated. One Vol. pp. 192. Seeley, Jackson, and Ila.iiiday. . This is a charming gift-book for the young. It abounds with short, pleasing, and instructive tales, welt adapted to point a moral for the juvenile ap precia • don. Teaching by ex lln i 1 - )e is at once the vi..e. eticable ; code mos t easy and the must ; ns t r uction. The story ofnaughty "Kitty," ink - 'ad to sa y 4t 1 - p l ease".—thato f the - who objeih, „ 8., _ , Meta, Who iov t : W 1 11 `r "New-yeu'o gift"—and il HALCYON DAYS. broad and beautiful valley Rich sloping vines " combed How like a painting of Turner's it . opens before us, this out upon the hillsides" skirt the mountains on either hand; sometimes divided from the road by flats of emerald meadow, and sometimes trailing their ripe fruits within reach of the passing wayfarer. Behind us, the stupendous precipices of the Gemmi still tower into sight; and in advance, far as we can see, the valley is bounded right and left by the Vallaisan Alps, which mingle their snow-peaks with the gathering cumuli, and fade away to air. Midway along the shadowy vista rise two steep and solitary hills, each crowned, like a Roman victor, with its mural coronet of ruins. A glorious landscape, so stately with poplars, so garlanded with vines, so thoroughly Italian in its beauty, that it might well be on the other side of the Alps, for any difference that the eye can see ! Thus, as we go forward through the plain, passing villages, and towns, and vineyards where the merry vintage is at its height, the scene becomes more and more Italian. In Sierra, through which 'ur postilions rattle at full speed, the houses are high and dilapidated, with arcades running along the basement stories, and It a li an s i gns an d names above the doors. In Sion there are Capuchins at the cor ners of the streets; and sullen, handsome women, who throw up their windows, and lean out to look at us, in true Italian fashion. Even the farm-houses scattered all about the valley are stuccoed white, or built of stone ; with loggias on the roof, and sometimes a trellised vine before the door. We it would seem, in the very heart of th e grape dis aretrict now,.Here are vineyards in the valley, vineyards on the hillsides, vineyards down to the road on either hand ! From Borne the harvest has already been gathered —some are still heavy with white and purple fruit--and some are filled with gay groups of vintagers, sunburnt as the soil. By and by we come upon a long procession of carts, all laden with high wooden cans of grapes ; then upon an open shed, where some five or six swarthy fe l lows, armed with short poles, are mashing the red fruit; then upon a coup l e of grave shovel - hatted A bbes, and stalwart friar, wh o prints the dusty road w ith the firm impress of hi s sandalled foot at each impatient s tride. Then come mor e farms, more villages, more Wains oxen-drawn, I I Laden with g rapes, and dropping rosy Wine ;" and presently we pass a blind beggar ta 1-,tting -Y a roadside cross, who asks charity in the n ame of the Bles sed Mary. Thus the day wanes, and , towa rds afternoon, we reach a famous vineyard of the Muscat grape, where the vi gnerons load our carriage with armfuls of the perfumed fr uit. Here eve r t a h n e d co j t u ta tt g in es g a e t a e ye m s, or a e nd tha i n ngotso Italian, with with tiled r oo f s , Indian corn festooned and se bands we of hear the about the upper easements. Here, also, the wild peaks of the Diablerets come into sight — g rim sentinels of the legen dary Inferno of the Vallais an p easant. chimingA ndnoofwt,haoschtahpeeisbuennssfianr westward,ks e away, vin tagers trudging wearily home; and still the long road lies before us, bordered by tremulous poplars, dusty, direct, in terminable as ever! The loges of Barbara and Hugh are very f ee li ng l y described. There are many scenes O. I, passionate tenderness whiCli will touch the hearts of the romatitic, but the conduct of both hero and heroine is so wildly improbable that the story, as a whole, 1055 a much of its effect, while isolated portions reveal great grti'Aie power. r---- - " — "'" Menzoirs of Jane aoner(;:q. fe i nalc Convict. B y a Pr ison Matron, Author ot j ' Female Life in Prison." In Two Volumes: iturst and Blackett. . As interesting as a romance, as p ,: . -tureEque as a melodt -.ul na, as ' • a discourse From the lips of some impressivt, as .. Prue lips gifted pulpit orator, this a ewer ..rue tale" of the lif e an d d ea th of a Female Cenviut will, while it at on ce en h ances an d in a man ner con firms the Writer's hu.,,,,5,,,__. reputation both as a moralist and as a "' , vArlsln t. r ,a ' ----ul trioteoVer, we ate perfectly well nese. many others of a kindred character, will effect more good in the nursery and school-room than a hun dred sermons, nr moldings without end. The volume is prettily illustrated, and contains many easy hymns and poems. The Comic News Christmas Box. Edited by Henry I. Byron. Maddick and Pottage. Capital news for the boys and girls—for all those young people who like the good things of this life, and among those good things one of the best of all, a good innocent hearty laugh ! Capital news, that is, in the mere announcement of this large-sized four • penny Christmas-box, in which, like a store ofcandied citron peel, and muscatol raisins,and sugar and spice, and all that's nice, as tho nursery song has it, there may be found by all those who care to .peculate to the extent of that little rough-edged fourpenny bit, all sorts of comicalities in prose and verse and woodcut illustrations. Among these—a collection of rhymed nonsense, written by Charles Matthews ! An account of a tripe supper, by W. Brough. A Plutonic Dream, by Edmund Yates. A chapter on The Smiths, by Sterling Coyne. One on The Browns, by Arthur Sketchley. - fhe Editor' s d es c r iption of Christmas in a Chop-house And—plentifully scattered through the letterpress —comic illustrations by Bennett, Brunton, and M.C onne ll . P er h a p s th e b es t a mong these illustrations , i s th e f ron ti s pi ece , in which the bright young f ace of the Byron of Burlesquelooks laughingly d own upon the holiday-loving children. As abou t t h e very worst of u th ” e i i s ter i‘ a i ry con tributions to the " Christmas Bx Sothern's wretchedly feeble j o k e (if i t really be a joke !) about Lord Dundre ary and t h e Hair Dresser. Our onl ya m ere upon which e fe te whimsicality, must Mr. S uthern' be s better self Th-th-that's wong !" Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market firm. Sales about 5,000 bales. MARKETS —This Day. COVENT GARDEN• The supply of fruit on sale in to-day's market was sea sonably good, and the show of most kinds of vegetables was large. Generally speaking the demand ruled steady, as follows : e. d. e. d. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 4 0 to 10 0 Foreign do 1 0 to 2 0 Melons ... Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 o Apples, per hi -sv. 2 fi to 4 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100..3 6 to 8 0 Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 7 61 Gooseberries hf sveo 0 to 0 U Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 s. d, s d Mulberries, prpt..o 9to 1 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, pun() oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 0 9to 1 0 Walnuts, per 10 0 1 oto 2 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0 Peache5.......... 0 oto 0 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per d 0... 0 oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. • Greens, dz bunch 4 oto 4 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8 Cabbages, pr doz 0 10 to 1 3 Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 6 Bad ditto 1 6to 3 0! Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 Savoy do., pr dz. 0 10 to 1 9 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 9 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 2 61 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli, per bus. 0 oto 0 0 ; Parsnips, per do. 0 oto o 0 Potatoes, per ton GO oto 110 0 I Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr lb ..0 oto 0 0 s Mushrooms.p ptl. 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 0 to 2 6 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots,pr do 4 6to 5 61 Cos lett, score .. 0 10 to 1 3 Cucumbers 0 oto 0 01 Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 I Radishes, dz finds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, n.-sy. 0 oto 6 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 6to 2 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz ban 0 oto 0 0I Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0 Spinach 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 6 Turnip radishes 0 oto 0 01 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 () POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s Od to 9s Od ; geese, 55 Od to 7s Od each ; goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 2s ad ; ducklings, Os Od to Os Od; rabbits, is Od to is 9 d each; wild do., 9d to is 2d • pigeons, OS 6d to Os 10d each; Surrey fowls, 7s Od to fis Od ; chickens, 5s Od to 103 Od ; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each ; pheasants, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; partridges, is 4d to 2s Od ; woodcocks, 2s to 2s 6d; snipes, 9d to Os Od; teal, Os 9d to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to is 6d ; widgeons, Os Od to is Od ,• plovers, Os 9d to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, lld to Is Od ; English, Is to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 12s Od to 14s Od ; French do., 8s Od to 10s 6d per 100 ; leverets, is Gd to 2s Od ; grouse, 2s Od to 2s 6d. BILLING SGATE. Salmon, Os Od to Os Od ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ; prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb. ; turbots, 8s Od to 30s ; cod, os Od to 20a Od ; brills, 2s Od to 6s Od ; doreys, 5s Od to 6s Od ; mullets, O Gd to is 6d ; lobsters, is to 4s Od; crabs, 64 to 3s Od ; plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each ; soles, is to 3s Od per pair ; common oysters, lOs to 15s ; natives, 60s to 63s per bushel ; whitings. 4s Od to Os • haddooks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, Os per 100 ; fresh herrings, Gs to Ss per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s 61 to 4s Sd ; veal, 38 10d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per Bibs by the carcase. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 10d to 4s 8 t ; and lamb, Os Od to Os Od per 81bs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 6fd to 7d, of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 21d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3td ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3id ; 801 b to 881 b, 31c1 to 4d ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 4id ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 5d ; 1041 b to 1121 b, 4id to s}d. Horse hides, 9s Od to lie Od ; calf skins, light, 2s Gd to 4s Od ; full, 7s Gd to Os Od ; polled sheep, 108 Od to 12s Od ; half-breds, 8s Od to 9s 3d ; Downs, Gs Od to 7s 6d; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; sheaiiings, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, 6s to £1 12s per load. Trade dull. _ _ _ CUMBERLAND: —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4l2s 6d ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, 116 s to £1 12s per load. Supply moderate. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od; clover, £4 Os to £5 1080 d ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 12s per load. A slow trade. LIVERPOOL—Friday. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—Arrived (10th) : Contra (s.s.), trom Oporto—Annie Laurie, from Newfoundland — Mario Francisco, from Marianople. Ilth : Lord Elgin, from Demerara—Clarissa Currier, from Quebec—James M'Queen, from Alexandria—Monitor, from Quebec— ' Stromboli (s.s.), from Havre—Eliza, from Girgenti—Eliza O'Keefe, from Tabasco—Margaret Dean, from Demerara —Etta, from Quebec. No railings. STOCK MARKET.—SaIes today . Caledonian Stock, 117 i t ; Great Eastern, 491 a ; Great Western Stock, 634 644 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 1081 10 9 k ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 106 107; London and North-Western, 1061 I ; ditto Shropshire Union, 53 54; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,•47l 45k; Metro politan, 112 113 ; Midland Stock, 1271 1281 ; North British Stock, 52 521 ; North-Eastern (York) „ a pical Stock, 8888} ; ditto Carlisle Stock, 130 131; North Staffo 77 77/ Rain-Eastern; St. Helens Railway and Ca nal, 101 103 ; he Nv d e e G Flour was generally neg n : k. 931 96; W est Yorkshire, 421 43i ; ns 25 25i. Wh it e haven and Fur es,but thinly attended CORN MARKET.—The m arket was to-day by buyers. T he tone was gat, and the demand for wheat unsually limited, lected, an a t a decline o ds f l 0 3 rw l e o ebru 4 a I d t l v joyni quotathout alte- lower on the week. Fine Irish oats had a restricted sale at , ra tion in value . Indian corn was heavy, and any husin'-'S about former rates. Egyptian done was at a reduction of 63 per quarter on the Week. C OT TON —The demand has continued on a moderate scale throughout the week, but as the apprehensions diminished of a have further rise in the Bank r ate, prices h h a rdened, a nd q uotations may be made generally .1d per lb. higher than on Friday last. E uy- ti b p ans have request, with an advance from th been in fair made las t week of id to i d Per lb,e lowest sales qualit i es , little or no chan gl in the medium in the better kinds. As regards Brazil, Macero may lower; Pernams and Maranha be quoted id to fd rn in consequence of the moderate 4, Fd to Id per lb. dearer, of East Indian are readily supply. The better classes the other kinds being saleable at Id per lb. advance , may be quoted id l essquired for. Bengal and Scin de per lb th export. Spec u l ators h lb. higher, with more inquiry for 11,370, the sales of th ay? taken 5,160 bales, an d exporters ket to-day was st e week being 32,220 bales. m The ar- ea , ly, and the sales amounted to 6,00 0 bales, and 3,000 for speculation and export. A pR l4 n. v E CoW's FREAK.—TIAis Warn ing a good dell , excitement was caused in Oaford-street under th e following circumstances :—Mr. Cockerel' d-so, f the Queen's W Arms, corner of ardour-street ld Club Cattle Oxfor treet, ' vi'll',* purchased a prize cow a t the Smithfie 111 show, which he intend ed to exhibi Andat his house , The animal was sent home this morning, placed in front cf the bar, where it was intended it shotild stand. No sooner was it driven to its allotted place than all its previous docility left it, probably the fumes of the spirits having got, into its head, And it dashed its feet through `glass ooring an d bolted ou t of the house, sn2ashing the plate door, and making its way up Derners-street. A number of persons who had collected went in pursuit, and brought the animal b : ck ; and i t was again taken into the house only to renew ai4nSaibdridtri:reVrieoaitetldceca,lfoofrdiatmbargook.e t another last plate-glass ii to r estrain it s fu were oless, it S rerta A nd taken , aw ay. 7 w\M mudiub a ll etlortg ydoor, FRUIT. LONDON GAZETTE,—Last Evening, At the Court of Windsor, the Bth day 'of Decerv,b er, Council. Thi s d a y hi s R o y a l Hi g hn ess th e I'rinc of 1863, p r e sen t, th e Q ueen ' s M os t Exc e ll en t M a j esty Wales was, by her Majesty's command, introduced into the Privy Council, where his Royal Highness took hie place at the upper end of the Board. At the Court at Windsor, the Bth day of December, 1863, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Right Hon. Sir William Gibson Craig, Bart., the Lord Clerk Register and Keeper of the Signet in Scotland, was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his seat at the Board accordingly. W AR - OFFIOE, Duc. 11. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of George Frederick Edmonstone, EN. % late Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Westt rn Provinvas of Bengal, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights &ion - Boarders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Robert West Hervey, of the Bombay Staff Corps, sometime General Superintendent for the suppression of C a l n as zd or ina c r o y in - Member parns 01, the C T i b r u li gg p ee ivi a s n io d n 1 0 ) t aco th it e yy h o ir t : said Most Honourable Court. FOREIGN OFFICE, vac 9. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Philip I,Vofielaouse Currie, Esq., o f t h e Foreign-,,taco, to be an vice while employed abroad. in her Maje s t y ' 8 Diplom at i c oer . Th e Queen has also been graciously pleased to appo i nt n - ollice, to be an Acting Third Secretary in her Majesty' Thomas Henry Sanderson, Esq., of the l'orei, Ssrvice while employed abroad.tic The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Francis Ing of urt n as m S. D W utto Consul in Australia for his M a j esty the E.-. DUWNING-STREET, DEC. 10. Theng it Qoen tteg has been pleased to appoint Th omas W illiam o a . THE PRINCE OF Kinder, Esq., to be Master of the Mint for the colony of WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBER, BUCKINGHAM GATE, DEC. 10. The names of those who have been nominated by the Council of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to serve the office of Sheriff of the county of Cornwall : John Michael Williams, of Caerhayes Castle, Esq, Thomas Simon Bolitho, of Penalvern, Esq. Day Perry Le Grice, of Trereiffe, Esq. WAR OPFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 11. Honourable Artillery Company of London—Lieutenant Henry Goodeve towra to be Captain—Ensign Moss Defries to be Lieutenant—Ensign Robert Helsham to be Lieutes nt—Sergeant Edward Montague Nelson to be Second Lieutenant—Sergeant John Pope Cox to be Cornet —Sergeant Henry Howard Hayward to be Ensign—Ser geant Henry Jervis Alfred to be Ensign. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the rasignation of the commissions held respectively by Lieutenant Richard Dawes and Ensign Fletcher C. Norton. BANKRIIP T S rr thoTr h aon e tne f e o a l ie l n theroAwina Gazetted following are : h h e o7 o m nl a y k b er a , n L kr e u ed p s ts of commercial im p Charles Fox, sailmaker, Hull William Findon, carpenter, Birmingham Samuel Saunders, jeweller, Birmingham John E, Fortescue, Butcher, Lichfield Thomas Maine, cheesemonger, Clapham Henry T. Drew, boot manufacturer, Islington William Furze, carpenter, Hampstead-road. Richard Tidy, jun , mealnaan, Dorking M. E. Manchin, inspector of watches. Holborn Henry Cope, auctioneer St. I Thomas Rogers, jun., linen draper, Islington Charles Beaumont, builder, INlile-end Samuel Jones Skinner, cow dealer, Kenningion-road BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Josiah Brandon wine merchant Jertnyn-street SCOTCH BANKRUP:C.S, d emo n, farmer, Tullibardine Cottage, Perthshire J. Hen Thomas purves, Kemesburgh, Butesbire Tire, jaasn s e . ,b, s il it it h e , h, chkoslmaikthe,epGelra,s Dgouwndee Thomas DI 'Laren, farmer, Auchterarder Course of the Exchange•-Yesterday. - Short. 11 17/ 11 18} A ms terdam ........ Ditto 3 Mouth!, 12 Ot. 12 o$ Rotterdam 7.... 2 1 . 2 5 70 °i 2 1 5 2 75 ( Brussels 4 Antwerp 25 70 25 75 _ 13 tit 13 9 Ham burgh Short. 25 30 25 35 Paris Ditt o ..... 25 70 25 75 Marseilles Frankfort on Maine —'• 12 40 12 b 0 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin —.— Madrid Cadiz Leghorn — 590 25 974 Milan — 25 921 25 971 Genoa .-- 25 90 25 Naples Palermo —. 25 921 25 971 Messina — 25 92/ 25 9 7t Lisbon 52/ —52 k Oporto — .521 521 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z...... £ 3 17 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doublons MR. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA has written, an nouncing his safe arrival in America. A short time ago the drivers engaged in search ing the pool where the Royal Charter broke up four years ago, came upon a very rich store of gold. They found in the same spot, in the course of a few da y s, about £1,200 in sovereigns and a bar of pure gold, weighing 911 b., which was br, ught up to London this week. The treasure was far from being exhausted when the storm came on and put a stop to the diving operations for the season. Messrs. Giggs, Bright, and Co. the owners of the vessel, sold, about a year ago, to some persons in Anglesey all claim to the treasure found en the spot, and it is said that the specu lation has already paid 300 or 400 per cent. profit, although the cost of working it is very considerable. CAPTURE OF A LIVERPOOL THIEF.-00 the 13th of August, 1862, a robbery was committed in the middle of the day at the office of M r. S. Hughes, Duke street, Liverpool. A clerk, named Lewis, said a man came into the office and struck him a violent blow on the head with a blunt instrument, rendering him insensible. On an examination of the premises, a bag containing £2lO was missed. The surgeon who attended Lewis found that his skull had been nearly fractured by the blow. The police, however, were afterwards led to doubt Lewis's state ment, and he was taken in to custody, and subsequently a fortnight 1113.3 sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. It was also ascertained that a man named Thomas Thomas, who was living at a fashionable hotel in Covent-garden, was m th i i m s e h d o t t l e p l, sent to in the u ni t : a t matter. ru A to L t ,ovnhdooNllvas detective very indignantwa s at such a charge, but offered to treat the officer to a vim _ he was this half-and-half. While the officer was drinking T he "f rtinsonL.ivHerepowor then wja takene habit of- t a go , ewshceanpeidt,waanscldwisaesovneoretahetharadt of t w il a l s ab in ou th t for letters at the Post-efiice in Fleet-street, London.calling was arrested, and in spite of his indignation before the magistrates Wednesday night. timesafelyloand ere he strived on LIFE IN A COUNTRY HOUSE. p rota the eve of g d e I st sent the 12th nf August in the forth, S e ptember eve r y where else, hu ndredsand of the Ist of assem bl e frequent parties, many of of country houses with out visitors till t he be ginning of Which are scarcely the following London sea son. The custom is mainly confined to the British Isles; for, though i t i s highly a ppr eciated by the French, Bel gians, and others, the law r elative dwarf to the division of pro pertyprevent it from ever the majority of fortunes as to social system; and th e figuring conspicuously as part of theft which it indicates e amount of wealth and prosperity at the style in whi ch us must be enormous, looki n g entertainment i things are done. No house whe re months can b e is, the order of the autumn and winter kept going with a less income tha n £lO,OOO a-year. The - different degrees to which thing s are well or ill done de pen d s chiefly upon whether the host or hostess (Whichever happens to reign) is 6' understanding" and zealous, or the reverse. The scale aimed awaries but little anywhere Smaller fortunes of say £4,000 or £5,000 a Year ) simply entertain fewer people , and less often ; but everybody gives the same num ber of dishes for dinner, and champagne each day; everywhere there The arriages drive people out, keepers in readiness, are. h it is true, exceptional cases, but they are rare. beholds dis — hi . a bachelor, on going to dress for dinner, 1 I le ni" self reflected on every side in vast sheets of looking glass, ing glass, by the light of no fewer than 18 was ing r candles, and at p r ivate sittoom which K-- each marrie d couple bass is brilliantly illuminated both at the dit fal io l of day,h and again when the party breaks up at night or t principal newspaper s are provided for their e s p ecial use, and even not forgo tten ; but what can astonish postage envel o p es are , 13 days first-rate cover-shooting can be at a place where . h f ou d t ,' had without going over an mc o gr n 'awe P—Co)ithal Atagazine. ORKSII TUE GREAT FIRE ON THE Y IRE WOLD S . —The following are additional particulars respecting the incendiary fire which occurred cn Tuesday night, and continued burning the greater part of Wednesday, upon 1 the farm of Mr. T. Green, of Rook , htle, in the Yorks hire- Wold district. The stockyard contained nine largeco p i n g s ____,,e,ogularly-shaped stacks, common on the Wo those, two of wheat, ono of burley, and 0110 of oats 146. Of cousumed—the remaining five being saved by are entirely the Molten firemen, who continued to work the efforts of loss of corn and straw is roughly put do wn up to no on. The £1,600, the property destroyed b eing ii at 41 .200 to fell on two men who had been at 14 .11(1. Suspicion short time before the tire, and Pr:lkt, r. Green's• to beg a them to the Wold village, 'Wel\ ' constable Farrah traced bonded them in a lodging erthorpe, where he appre hou ' men who have served as farm"' 'l'llo pr isoners are young engaged since Martinmas. ,- ezvnte, but have not been William and John hall , lilard .lly gave the names of ton, and arc brothers, v l, of ht John-street, Barlkig- Wolds iu starch of e l - iEy elate they tore travelling th 9 Reol:dale. ' r , _ m. 11 Ploytheut, and admit, having bee n at Motion to..hiorl. isonei es aro expected to be examined at Severai Paris journals that remark t h e 3feinoria n I.ll . plo?itatio .i-e was altogether in error in announcing that t' • .k't 'c rag 01 Holland had made his consort to join the U, -tigress su b or di nate to the accep E. ot 0 - it' PM , `• " -pereir Napoleon's proposal, bye it t.le ~..- ,_ ,,g •IQ yi .., • t ~ ..,1,.,a It 444 knell ttdoostd, #.