The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

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Black Debentures. 20 -21 33 - 3 4 % 6?;- 7% 13% - 14 3% -4% =-; Do. Red Debentures .. 6autiago de Cuba ...• •• Tin Croft ...• • • •• •• •• •• United Mexican.. ....•• West Mariposa •• •• •• arOINT 4 - 6%- 8 3 -2 1 - % /E IIIiNKS 38 -:?9% 46% - 49 --11 2G 18% - 17% 28% - 993. Its.tralasir..... • • • • • • • • British North America.. o'.ouial ...• •• •• •• •• •• of London.. London Joit.,t Stock .... Lon4on and Westraln3ter National Provincial Eng. National of Ireland Oriental Bank Corporat. Provincial of Ireland •• •• IS -17 V, 27 - 25% 43Y4 - 15h - If3N, 35 - 36% 3 - '4% - 15% Do. New .. • •••• • • • • (711:on of Atotralla .. • • Do. Nov .. ILTniJn of London Union 0 t .insistrld •• • • Canada • • .. •• • • Gen. Steam Navigation renln. & Oriental Steam all Ditto ditto 10 Royal Mail Steam .. • • Settling days In the month of l tered shares, 1.511 , end 30th. 1.73M0U5. 18 OK, 27% 28 72 —75 16N - 17 7914 8014 80}4 )ccember. Ticket days , or regL3- Account days. 16th and 3:st. ie errors of the Official Lists, and d correspondents.] IWe cannot be answen will not be influenced by able for tt intereste, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 4,000 bales. The market closed heavily ; prices of all kinds were in favour of buyers. The sales com prised about 3,000 American, at 50 Bahia, at 6d.; and 800 Surat, at 2-0. to 31d. per lb.—ln Railway Shares a fair business was dune, and the market closed better. The foreign advices are very encouraging still. All the Stock Markets of the Continent are rising, and hoarded capital is being brought forward for employ ment. Nut alone securities, but also produce of certain kinds is favourably influenced, silk having risen. The Overland Mail brings more favourable advices concerning trade in imports at Canton, but no improve ment is advised at Calcutta. The working of the cheap postage law in the United States under the first quarter, it is said, will show a reduction of 25 per cent. in the receipts of that office, compared with the same quarter of the year previous, under the former law. The gross receipts for the year 1850 were 5,352,571 dollars, and if the falling off should hold the same proportion as the first quarter through the entire y ear, the receipts this year will be less by over 1,348,000 dolls. than last. This will require an additional sum to be voted by Congress to make up the deficiency, the appropriation by the last Congress not near reaching the amount of the falling off. The Postmaeter• General, in his report last yt ar, antici pated that the contemplated reductions of postage would make the receipts fall below the expenditure, for four years, but probably he did not imagine that the deficiency would amount to one-fourth the receipts of the department. Under these circumstances, it is not probable that Congress will accede to the wiehee of those who desire to reduce the letter postage at once to a single cent, though it is said that some amendment will be recommended in regard to the postage on printed matter. The English Funds have been very variable, Consols having been up to 97, and since, upon speculative sales by a broker, whg, has recently acted very boldly in this way, down to 961. Present prices are 96} The feeling is very strongly in favour of a rise, notwithstanding the " banging" resorted to, as real holders will not sell in the face of advancing prices in Paris, the Five per Cents. in the Coulisses having been done at over 103 . The New Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents. have been 9Sk- to I, and the Three per Cents. 97k to East India Stock has been at 263 k. Ex chequer-bills are supported at 48s. to 51sepremium. Foreign Securities have been very buoyant generally. Spanish Three per Cents., however, have not been higher than 40k f. Peruvian Deferred are 46. Mexican Bonds have been at 261 k, and since as high as 26/ 4. Brazilian Stock is worth 93/. Sardinian Bonds have been at an advance to 84i and 85 and since down to 831. French Five per Cents. have been very well supported at 101 to 1011, with the ex change at 25k. Dutch Four per Cents. have been at 89k 4, and Danish Five per Cents. 102. Railway Shares have all been looking up, but are checked again by the reaction in the Funds. The settle ment of the Account has been going off satisfactorily, and much confidence is exhibited. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols for Opening, Jan. 16 ... 961 1 x div. BRITISH. FUN DS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( From the Official List.) 3 oor Csnt.Reduced 9 7 14% 3 per Cent. Consols Anne. New 3 , 4 per Cent. Anns. O BV( i LA Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7 I n dia Stock 263 1 , Do. Bonds, 10001 59 p Con.ols for Open in g , 97 6 3 / 4 ',V4 EKch , auar Bills 14d. 51 p 1,000 1 . >no/. ......... ........... 48 51 p Small .................. — 48 51 p ?RICE OF FOREIGN FU er NDS AT ONE O'CLOCIC. Brazilian Bonds, 5 p Cent Ditto, Small Danish Bonds 182 5, 3 per Cent Ditto, 5 per Cent Grenada, 1% per Cent. ......... 14g_, Mexican Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons 26 1 4 3 es Ditto Account ... Ditto, Small . .......... Peruvian Bonds, b per Cent Do. Deferred ...........• 46 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .8 4 1-A 5 4 1 / 4 3% opanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto Account ...... Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. 40 . i!4 Dividends on the above payable in London French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange ..................... 25f. 25c. Dutch VA, per Cent., 12 Guild ... 60 % Ditto 4 ear Cent. Certificates ... 89%34 LLOYD'S SHIPPING,(THIS DAY.) LONDON, DEC. 16.—Wind at noon S.W.,* light airs, and dull hazy weather. Yenstouru, DEC. 15.—The Eliza barque, of London, has been on shore on Hasborough Sand, but assisted off, making water. GLOUCESTER. --- Arrd. Agorna, St. John's , New Brunswick; Collina, Quebec; Ann M‘Lister, Falcon, Prince of Wales, Waterhen, and Promise, all ditto. SHIELDS, DEC. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Taranto, Dalhousie. 11AMBURGII, DEC. 12.—The Therese Henriette, hence for Vera Cruz, has put into Gluckstadt harbour, having been in contact with the Najade schooner, QUEBEC, Nov. 29.—The Lord George Bentinck is reported to be at anchor at Kamouraska, and cannot proceed. LYNN, DEC. 15.—Tho Budget barque, of and from Antwerp, for Liverpool, came on shore opposite No. 1 Battery, Dungeness, in a thick fog this morning; is very leaky, and is discharging. GRIMSBY, DEC. 15.—The Perseverance, Sunderland to Woodbridge, was run on shore near Donna Nook, last night, in a sinking state, having sprung a leak. L IVERP OOL, DEC. 15.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Cicely, Rio Ilache; Cruz, Primuro, Morocco; Anna Watson, Porto Novo, Africa; Scottish Maid, Callao; Philena, Charleston; S. V. Goven, Wilmington; Shackamarion, Philadelphia; Queen of the West, New York. Off port, Cores, Charleston; Columbine, Quebec. The Virginia, from hence, on shore on Cape Roman 24th Nov., got off with little damage, and arriied at Charleston. Sld. John S. de Wolf, Charleston; John Wallis, Singapore; Maria, Monte Video; Oscar 1., New Orleans; Olive, Mo bile; Guy Mannering, Now York. The Sophia Bar bidge, Quebec to this port, got into the ice off Riviere du Loup, and ha d her bows stove in. The Aberdeen and the Richard Jackson are both reported ashore at litinlOUrdAia, but the statement requires confirmation. DEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Pilot Fibh, Rio Janeiro for Ilamburgh. .Arrd. from the River, Retriever , A k y ab. The Maria brig, of Rostock, from Antwerp for Constantinople, has been got off the Godwin Sands without apparent damage. R A MSGATE, DEC. 15 . — T he Marie and Emelie, of and from Antwerp for New York, has got off the Godwin Sands. CARDIFF, DEC. 15.—The Mary Taylor, of and for London from Newport, has put in leaky, and will dis charge. The Hellas Greek brig is on her beamends, and will till with the tide. THE REPRESENTATION OF WINDSOR. —Our readers will recollect that, in the month of February last, when our excellent and learned representative, the Right Hon. John Hatchell, was re-elected, on his appointment to the Attor ney-Generalship of Ireland, there was a very anxious at tempt, on the part of the Conservative leaders, to hand over the royal borough to the East India Company, by the return of Sir John Campbell, a son of one of the directors. Pla cards were issued requesti ng the free and indepe ndent elec tors to " reserve their vot es " fur a " C o nstitutional candi date," and the preliminaries for a sharp canvass were com pleted, when the nominee of Leadenliall-street refused to show at the hustings, and his pretensions were withdrawn. Within the last few days, we hear, that the "little bill" for professional assistance has bean forwarded to Sir John Campbell, who refuses to acknowledge his liability to the ex tent of a single farthing. The affair is likely to furnish an amusing case for one of the superior courts, and, in the mean time, will act as a sal u t ary warning to our local elec tioneering agents. Fishing for c a n did a t e s is sometimes as u nprofitable as it is exciting.— Windsor Eaprees. An explosion took place on Thursday :last at Messrs. Carr and Co.'s tile works, Secremeston, two miles from Berwick, on the right-hand side of the road, going south, and two of the workmen lost their lives in consequence. The alleged case of fraud, in the evasion of dock dues, by a respectable mercantile house in this town, is at present under investigation. We believe that the matter can be satisfactorily explained by the house in question. Liverpool 1:1131110:AS cor ',c-dby. 1 13 O. 2 8N STO' IS !‘. LONDON, MARKET N EWS.—(THIS DAY.) IsTAY .Ttrii.P.ILMITS. Sarmarraara—Mea.law , 2/ 12a to 3/ 15.; Clover ditto, 315 s a 0 4/ 6s 0J ; and Straw, 11 Oa to 11 6a per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. Meadow Bay, 21 13s to 31 16 , • Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 4s; and Straw, 11 Oa to 11 7s per load. Trade dull, at barely late ratee. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 3/ 15s; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 60 Od; and Straw, 11 03 to 1! 63 per load. Supply good, and trade dull. COLONIAM. SEGAL—The market for British Plantation was heavy at the close of last week. Sales 122 hhds, including 78 l3arbadoes. MAURITIUS.-5,000 bagswere only about one-third realised, in some instances at a further slight reduction; yellow, 30s to 355; and brown at 27s to 29s 6d. Of 6,000 bags Bengal offered, only about 500 sold, at low and uneven rates, while 550 bags Madras and 1,000 bags Penang were nearly all with drawn at nominal rates. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the Etst ar,d West India Docks was 1,265 hhds 70 tierces 135 barrels, there were taken for home eonminption 1,726 hhds 208 tres 650 barrels. The stock in the same places is 16,539 !Ids 2,180 tierces 3,980 barrels. COFFEE —The Market ruled heavy at the close of last week, but holders were firm, and ucarly the whole quantity brought to auction (100 casks 68 barrel., 280 begs Plantation, and 860 bags Native Ceylon) was withdrawn, the latter at 40s 6d per cwt. Native Ceylon since has been 39s to 40s 6d. Rime—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Ducks was 716 puns 61 hhds; there were taken fur home consumption 345 puns 10 litids, and ex ported 14 puns 31 hhds, The stuck in the Jame places is 14,773 puns 1,011 hhds. Eacaa—Of 9,500 bags pinky Maims offered at auction only 3,500 of the sound sold at 8s to 8s 61, being the previous value. SPlCES.—Nutmegs went 2d to 3d lower at the close of last week, from Is 8d to 3s 2d; Mace at is 94 to 2s 3d; 80 bags black Pepper realised 314 for unsifted Penang, and 69 bags white at 84 to 8d per lb. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 36s 61 per cwt. on the spot, and Town 39s 64 and dull. TEA.—The market has been dull, but not lower. COTTON.—Prices are about the same, but with very little doing. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Neptune, 120, Cap tain Goldsmith, shipped her lower masts to-day. The Birkenhead iron steam transport, Master- Commander Salmond, went out of harbour to-day, to lie at Spitbead until further orders. The Diligence naval transport arrived on Saturday with stores from the eastward. Rear-Admiral Dundas returned to London to-day. Saturday next is the day named for the departure of the Court from the Isle of Wight for Windsor. APPOINTMENTS. WooLwicu, DEc. 15.—Acting Assistant• Surgeon Francis Hardinge (1851) to the Tortoise store ship, at the Island of Ascension. Lieutenant W. 11. Hire (1841), Lieutenant E. Nares (1848), and Lieutenant F.T. Hamilton (1848), were each examined on two days of last week by Mr. Charles Atherton,.Chief Engineer at Woolwich Dock yard, on their completing a course of study of steam at the factory, and having passed satisfactorily they received their certificate. Lieutenant T. P. P. Barrow, who passed his ex amination about a week ago, after a course of study of steam at Woolwich factory, has been appointed agent in the transport service ; and it is said Lieute nant W. H. Hire, who passed on Friday last, is ap pointed First Lieutenant of the Fury steam-vessel, at Woolwich, but it has not as yet been officially an nounced. FURTHER SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. The public will learn with satisfaction that the next expedition to the Arctic regions, in 1852, in search of Sir John Franklin and the missing officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror discovery ships, will be made as efficient as possible ; and that, in ad dition to the Pioneer and Intrepid screw-steamers, employed in the recent expedition, the Phoenix, a much larger screw-steamer, of 260 horse-power, which was taken up from Woolwich to Deptford about a week ago, is ordered to be fitted and strengthened at the latter dockyard for service in the Polar seas. The excellent arrangement of sending three screw• steamers to Wellington Channel has been made in order to avoid similar delays to those experienced by the Pioneer and Intrepid steamers during the recent expedition, when they had to tow the Itesolute and Assistance sailing vessels. In the event of its being considered necessary to send sailing vessels with stores to the Arctic regions next spring, they will be entirely independent of the steamers, and the latter will only have to act in concert with each other. ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP D.z'EDALUS AT SAN FRANCISCO. __ We learn from an American journal that her Ma jesty's ship Da Talus, which was detached from the squadron in the Pacific, to communicate with the Plover in Bebring's Strait, arrived at San Francisco on the 221 of October, from Port Clarence, Behring's Strait, which she left on the Ist of that month. She brought as passengers Lieutenant Cooper and Dr. Simpson, of her Majesty's ship Plover, which vessel had returned to Port Clarence from the summer expedition, having been unable to penetrate farther north than 71 degrees, being three degrees short of their excursion last year. The Plover's consort, it is added, had not returned to her winter quarters at the sailing of the Dwialui, but this observation is evidently inaccurate, as the Plover has no consort. It must refer to the Enter prise, Captain Collinson, which would thus appear to have entered the ice. _ _ _ The following is the report of the Dscdalus : " Her Britannic Majesty's ship Dx ialus, Captain G. G. Wellesley, from Port Clarence, Behring's Strait, October 1, arrived in our harbour yesterday, and an chored at Sancilito. The Daedalus was dispatched from Valparaiso last spring, to visit the provision which is kept at Port Clarence as a depot and point of succour, in case either Sir John Franklin's expe dition, or the other vessels in search of him, should be obliged to quit their ships and take to their boats. The Daedalus arrived at the edge of the ice (which was then close to St. Lawrence Island) in the middle of June, where she fell in with a large fleet of whalers, principally American, waiting for an opening to pro ceed northward. There had been but little done in takicg whales this season, although large numbers of them had been seen in the Arctic Seas in the early part of the season. Most of the ships had gone south. Captain Wellesley thinks that all the vessels had passed the straits for the south before the Daedalus sailed. The summer season is later than usual, the first snow having fallen on the Ist October, the day the Daedalus sailed from Port Clarence." With respect to the recent losses in the American whaling fleet it appears that the vessels employed in that service are not intended to encounter ice, and are wholly unfitted for doing so, besides being, ge nerally speaking, very crazy, ill-found vessels. MISS POOLE'S BENEFIT.—This accomplished and popular vocalist has announced her benefit, at the Surrey Theatre, for Thursday evening, the 18th inst., on which occasion she will sustain her favourite role in the Daughter of the Regiment ; and appear, for the first time, as Tom Tug, in the Waterman. The entertainments will also comprise a concert, in which the names of Mrs. A. Newton, Miss Messent, the Russian Brothers Becker, &c., are announced, so that with Borrani, Travers, Kuchler, and the fair beneficiare herself, a host of musical talent will signalise the occasion. There can be no doubt but that a crowded attendance will mark the high appreciation universally entertained of the merits of Miss Poole, whose . reputation, as one of the first of English singers has been confirmed by her brilliant success during the opera season of the present year at the Surrey Theatre. A BLOOMER IN A PREDICAMENT. —Yesterday evening, soon after four o'clock, a young woman, who had been imprisoned in Tothill-fields Prison for seven days for creating a disturbance in the streets, was released from her incarceration; and sailied forth from the portals of the pri son, as she entered, in full Bloomer costume. A mob of juveniles soon formed an escort to her—and as she proceeded through Westminster, every street she pas ed swelled the number of her followers till she arrived at the Broad Sanc tuary, where the crowd had become so numerous that she was compelled to take refuge in the Mitre and Dove public-house, at the corner of King• street, Parliament-street. The extensive estates in West Yorkshire of Lord Wharncliffe have recently been revalued, and in some in stances reductions of from 20 to 30 per cent. have been made in the rentals. " GAROTTE " ROBBERY BY CUILDREN.—At the Manchester Borough Court, on Monday, Mary Ann Welch and Mary O'Brien, neither of whom were more than four teen years old, were sent for trial at the sessions, for robbing Mary Mutch, a girl of the same age, at nearly seven o'clock on Sunday night, in Millgate. The prosecutrlx saw the prisoners come out of a dram-shop, and immediately afterwards one of them pushed against her. This made some money rattle in her rocket, and O'Brien soon after seized her by the throat and held her tightly, while Welch and another girl robbed her of Is. 7 1 /. 2 d., one of them holding her hands behind her back. the magistrate commented on the strangeness of the robbery, and its similarity to those now so common. At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Aus tralasia, held yesterday, a favourable statement was pre sented. In the absence of accounts, which it is not usual to submit at this period of the year, the chairman (Mr. Oliver Farrer) gave an outline of the progress of affairs, and alluded particularly to the gold discoveries in New South Wales, the recovery of the remaining portion of the debt due from the Bank of Australia, and the position of some old accounts, through which it was originally anticipated severe losses would have been incurred. These points, which constituted the grounds of discussion, were encouragingly received, as was also the intimation that the directors in April next in• tend to increase the yearly dividend upon the capital stock from 4 to 5 percent. FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An engineman named William Fletcher, employed at the Oakwellgate liery, Gateshead, met with a fatal accident on Wednesday morning last whilst preparing to take his breakfast. it apf eared that whilst the unfortunate man was endeavouring to reach his meal over a rope kept in motion by the engine, he slipped his foot, and fell upon the rope, by which he was forcibly drawn towards a wheel round which the rope was coiled, and so fearfully cru'hed that he almost instantly ex pired. lie has left a numerous family to lament his loss. At a coroner's inquest held on the following day by Mr. Favell the facts were inquired into, and a verdict of " Ac cidental Death" returned. TUESDAY EVENING, OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. We have received, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, our papers from Calcutta of November 7, Benabay, November 17, and China, Oetcber 30. Althoug'n the intelligence received is not of great importance, it possesses considerable interest. (From the Bombay Times of Nov. 17.) Susaarartsre--The events of the past fortnight, although they cannot be said to be very interesting, are still sufficiently so to attract the attention of those who have an interest in whatever concerns India. The state of alarm acid excitement which prevailed in Bombay in consequence cf the disturb ances that had occurred between the Mahomedan3 and Partees, has entirely subsided, and the most thorough tranquillity now prevails. The Calcutta papers of the 25th ult., w hick came to hand on Ole 31 instant, supply the particulars of a storm ex perienced there and off Diamond harbour on the 221 and 23 1 ultimo. The Powerful steam-tug/ Captain Smith, was driven on shore near Siive - Tree Pagoda, the commander's wife and two children having perishid. The light vessel Hope was bilged on Saugur Beach. Both these vessels have, however, been floated and towed up to Calcutta for repair. The Mary Ann and two or three other vessels were also ashore, but have since been got off; the Lahore, from the Mauritius, with returned emigrants, had been tugged off by a steamer. The P. and 0. Company's steamer Precursor went ashore at Cowcolly on her way down the river on the 22d. At the time she encountered the hurricane the Precursor was proceed ing to Aden and Suez with a large number of pas sengers. These together with the mails were trans ferred to the Erin, in which veasel they left on the 24th or 25th ult. The Precursor was subsequently towed off the bank and returned to Calcutta without having sustained any serious injury. Several native craft had foundered and gone ashore near Saugor, and many lives were lost in them. The only ships yet known to be actually wrecked are the Bengalee, outward bound, which was lost on Saugor Island, and the Scour field, inward bound, which was disabled and driven on the coast near Point Palmyras. In both cases the whole of the crews were saved. The semaphore below Diamond Harbour was much dam aged, three or four of the towers having been blown down. The Post-office at Kedgeree being also de stroyed by the hurricane, the communication with the mouth of the river was entirely suspended for two or three days. It is believed that Dhuleep Sing, the son of Runjeet Sing, will shortly pay a visit to England, where he will, doubtless, be lionised for a short time. The state of affairs at Gwalior, the capital of Scin diah's dominions, is again unsatisfactory. A force of 2000 men, under the immediate command of Briga dier General Sir Colin Campbell, marched out of Peshawur on the 25th ultimo to chastise the Mo mund; of Mitchnie a town to the north of that sta tion, and commanding one of the main roads into Affghanistan. The troops were provisioned for a week, in which time they were expected to bring these tribes into subjection. The latest accounts from the force are to the 30th ultiino, It had been occupied all the previous day in blowing up the Fort of Mitchnie and the villages surround. ing that place. Heaps of corn that lay stored in the houses of the Momund inhabitants were fired, and their goods and chattels thrown into the river. The Momunds were firing on our troops from a dis tance, but their shot fell short of the camp. No casualties on our side had been reported. Rumours are again rife that the Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan, the ruler of Caubul, is dead. This has been stated as a positive fact in some of the Mofussil papers, but we shall take leave to doubt it, until it is more authoritatively announced. It is said that a fearful scene of anarchy, civil broils, and all the horrors con comitant thereto, has commenced in Affghanistan. The Mahajuns (Hiudoo traders) with the rest of the peaceable inhabitants, are reported to be flying from the land, some into the districts under British rule. Two of the claimants to the succession are the Ameer's brother Sultan Mahomed, and his son Gholam Hyder. Another force is out on the frontier, from Kohat, under Captain Cuke. The object to be effected by it is to aid in the revenue settlement of the newly occu pied districts in the Bunaoo country, and up to the present time its march has been a very peaceful and pleasant progress. Recent accounts received from the provinces of Berar state that a fight had lately taken place there between the forces of a Zemindar named Naga Ram and those of another chief, whose name is not mentioned, in which affair about 50 men were killed, and as many wounded. Naga Ram's men were beaten. The opposite party consisted of about 600 Rohillas, and about 400 Goands, a tribe n , sidi4 chiefly in the Telangana eistriet. Nega Ram's troop. amounted to about 900, including 150 Seikhs, the rest being chiefly people of the neighbouring country. The Sikhs and 500 others of Nsga Ran, party were posted outside the fort, which is strongly situated at the village of Parwan. They were so posted to watch the Rohillas, on whose appearance, however, the 3 fled. The Rohillas advanced to the gate of the fort, burnt it, and entered, killing some of the defenders, and getting possession of Naga Ram's bead man. It is said the Rohillas were promised by their employer a present of eight thousand rupees if tbey could take the fort. Naga Ram is said to have escaped, having crossed the `Purdah river, and taken refuge in the Nagpore Raja's territory. Our relations with ,the B u rmese are in an unsatisfa c t ory s t ate , an d so me cor respondence has recently pass e d b e t ween the Gover nor- General and Commodore Lambert, the senior naval officer on the spot, on the subject of a visit pro posed to be made by the Commodore to Rangoon, for the purpose of obtaining redress for wrongs inflicted on British subjects there l and f o r securing better treatment for them in f u t ure. It i s b e li eve d th a t Lord Dalhousie has decid e d on try i ng diplomacy first on his Burman Maj es t y, and force a f terwar d s , it the former should pro ve unsuccess f u l . B rev et Captain James Gord on , o f the 59. h Regiment . Bengal Native Infant ry, has been di sm i sse d the service by the s en t ence of a cour t- mar ti a l, arising out of certain p ecuniary transact i ons o f a very questionable character with Messrs. Mackenzie, Lyall, and Co., of Calcutta. The sentence has been confirmed by his Excellency the Commander-in- Chief. A body of three hundred horsemen, supposed to be men of the Sheoranee Hills, made an attack on the post of the Punjaub I rregular Cavalry ( t h e sth or Fitzgerald's) on the 21st ult. at a place called Zufer khan-ke•Kote, just under the Sheoranee Hills, and taking them almost unawares cut several of them up. Five men were killed on the spot and several others severely wounded. The financial question betwixt the Nizam and the British Government has been sa tisfactorily settled, his Highness having at the twelfth hour opened his purse-string s and paid off the whole of his enormous debt to us. The Governor-General was expected at Mussooree on the 13th inst. He pro ceeds direct to Saharunpoor, and Roorkee, stopping two days at Dehra Dhoon. His Lordship and party were to have left Simla on the .5.11 in stant. The Commander-in• Chief and Lady Gomm intended leaving Simla on the following day. Lord Falkland returned to Bombay from the Mahabu leshwur Hills on the sth instant, accompanied by Mr. Goldsmid and Colonel Melvill, the Secretaries to Government in the Revenue and Military Depart ments. It is expected that his Lordship will remain at the Presidency for some months to come, and the Viscountess Falkland may be expected here in a few days. We regret to have to notice the death, at Poonah, on the Ist instant, of the Hon. IV. H. Lae saght, second son of Lord Lisle, late an ensign in her Majesty's 86th Foot. The deceased gentleman was about to return to England, but was suddenly cut off by an attack of liver complaint. Trade at Calcutta, both in imports and exports, is still very dull. The Money Market has undergone little alteration. Freights are very low, owing to the quantity of tonnage in port and expected. Exchange has risen, and is quoted at 2e. 1 3 .1., at 23.1i a 1., but little has been done in it. The Bom bay market tor imports is on the whole in a satisfac tory state. There is a considerable degree offirmness on the part of holders of cotton piece goods for the stock now held. Freight to Great Britain 2/. 103. to '2l. 17s. 6d. per ton. Exchange on London has advanced to - 2s. 13-d., at which first-class credit bills have been offered. SINDE. on ßegiment Native STJKKUR, Nov. 4 —The weather bas become much cooler of late, but sickness continues much the same. Infantry,Surgeon D. d D a a t v t i h e i s s , 7th ult. from fever. Mrs. Mayor, relict of the late Lieut. Mayor, commanding 15tBelooch battalion, di e d on th e 24th ult. stocftion the 22d the MISCELLANEA. A table showing the sickness, mortality, and inva liding i❑ her Mjesty's and the lion. Company's armies on the Madras establishment, from the Ist January, 150, to 31st March, 1851, appears in the Fort St. George Gazette. From this we gather that during the fifteen months there died of her Majesty's army 140, of which 16 were from cholera, and 233 were invalided, out of a total strength of 4 900 or thereabouts. This gives a per cent age in the former of three nearly, and in the latter of close on five. Of the European troops of the Company's army, numbering 6,900, there died, 133 —2 per cent., and invalided 129 —2 6 per cent. Of the Native army, 55,500 strong, 907 died-1.6 per cent., and invalided 1,211-2.2 per cent. nearly ; the deaths from cholera being 257—little short of one fifth of the whole. We should like to see returns of this sort published for the Bombay and Bengal armies. The Bengal Ilurkarn of the 4th instant supplies the followh g item of news :—" The following inti mation of a strange aed tragic occurrence was received by electric telegraph yesterday evening Message received from Pilot Maxon, of ship Hydery, that the ship Fawn has been taken by her crew, Captain Rogers and officers murdered.' We have since heard that the Fawn was found ashore on the Sambelungs in the Straits. Five of her crew had surrendered themselves or been seized at Singapore, and were in custody there. According to their report of the horrible business, the captain, officers, and male passengers were murdered on board ; the captain's wife and a lady passenger were then put into one of the quarter boats, which, while being lowered, was either accidentally or by intention overturned, and the ladies were drowned. The vessel was then scuttled and deserted by the crew. We hear that she was manned wholly or almost entirely by Malays." The following is a letter from Peshawur, October 26 :—" The w eather has continued very much the same, only a little more variable, and if anything hotter. Sickness amongst tho native regiments is still very severe indeed; upw rds of 200 sick in hos pital in some corps; and MO convalL scents out of hospital." DECEMPBEA 16, 1851. MILITARY. Casualties by death in the arrnles of India since the departure of the Mail on the 31 Nov. MADRAS.-11,tired Major A. Gordon, in Europa. BENGAL.--Retired Major 11, W. Leacock, in Europe. COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENCE. REPORT OF THE BOMBAY MARKETS FROM IST TO 15TH NOV. INCLUSIVE. THE MONEY MARKET.—The increased demand for money reported in our last still continues, but the banks have not yet raised their rates of interest on loans and discounts. Government securities have declined in price, and are dull at quotations; as also Bank Shares, in which only a limited amount of business has been done, with the exception of Oriental Bank Corporation Stock, which has advanced from 8 per cent. pm., as quoted in our last, to 15 per cent. pm., at which rate it is in demand. The Oriental, Commercial, and Agra Banks have eiven notice, that from the Ist of January next the rate of interest allowed on current deposit accounts will be reduced to 2 per cent. per annum, instead of 2f, to which it was raised on the opening of the Government Five per Cent. Loan in 1846. Exchange has risen since our last issue, but there has not been much doing in bills. Freights —There have been but few arrivals of late. but there are plenty of ships in the river, and not much demand for their tonnage; so thA their rates continuo very low. Present quotations as e to London—sugar, 21.; hides, 34; jute, 2L 10s.; shell lac and lac dye, 21, 101. to 31. Indigo—From the factory districts there is nothing new of importance, and it is still supposed that the crop will actually turn out about 120,000 =math, although it is difficult to arrive at positive facts even at this late pe riod of the season. CALCUTTA, Nov. B.—There is little change in com mercial affairs since yesterday. Exchange is still on the rise, and has gone up kd, or 1 1. for the atter packet. The harbour is still crowded with shipping, and numo rous arrivals may be looked for daily. A ship just in reports twenty vessels outside waiting for pilots. The following are announced this morning. —Newton, Gla diator, Nepaulese Ambassador, and Alliance. IMPORTS: Cotton Piece Goesls—Since the date of our last no fresh supplies have been received, which has induced a considerable degree of firmness on the part of holders for the stock now held, and a greater confidence exists among the natives, from whom there has been more in quiry of late, which for the present at least wo u ld m a k e it appear t hat any further fail in value is checked. Business has been done to a much smaller extent in the past fortnight than in that preceding it. Grey Shirting-40 in. All descriptions in inquiry but without any improvement in value, 45 in. in mode rate inquiry. Jaceonet—ln moderate request, but without improve ment in value. Maddapolams are still low in value, although a mode rate inquiry exists. Some large sales have been made. Domestic—All descriptions are in request, with a slight improvement in value. Long Cloth in moderate inquiry. T Cloth—Those under 61b. dull of sale; upwards of 61b. in good inquiry, with a slight advance. Bleached Shirting-66 reed and upwards in moderate inquiry; the lower qualities dull and depressed. Jacconet—Low, very dull and depressed ; medium qualities and upwards in request. Satin Spots little inquired after. Twills in no demand. Turkey Red—Plain cloth in slight demand. Twills very dull; for mulls little inquiry exists. Fancy Goods—Grey and bleached dhoties of fancy borders, lappet scarfs, and low lappets in inquiry ; bleached mulls, zebra and pine dresses, book muslin and Swiss lappets are all very dull. Cotton Yarn—Holders of mule continuing to show anxiety to realise, prices have again given way, up to 60s, 70e, and upwards remain nominal at quotations. Water 20s and 40s dull, 30s in request without change in value. Turkey Red dull, Orange in request. Woollens—There is still little or no demand for cloth, but we hear of a small sale of yellow list cloth having been made at Rs. 1 6-16th per yard. Metals—English and Swedish bar iron are both dull of sale, as is also square nail rod. Round in little in• quiry. Sheets and hoop both dull, prices being as be fore. Swedish steel in tubs in request. Faggots without change. Both pig and sheet lead are dull, without change in value. Spelter rather dull, and slightly declined in price. Tin plates without change. Copper—Sheathing in request; brazier's dull and fallen in value. Tiles without change, as is also South Ameri can copper. EXPORTS. Cotton Wool—Our market has been steady, and for the China market considerable purchases have been made. Opium of new crop arriving daily, quality pronounced good; prices have fallen to 1,065 rs. to 1,080 per chest. • Freight to Great Britain-21. 15s. to 21. 17s 6d. for London, 21. 103. to 21. 17s. 61. for Liverpool according to the class of vessel; for London only ono vessel is on the berth. for Liverpool there are two. To China the rate is is. 151 to 161 per candy ; a large ship has just been let at rs 151 per candy. Exchange on England has advanced to 23. ld., at which first class credit bills have been offered. On Calcutta 12 ens, premium, and on China rs. 222 to 223 per 100 dollars. CALCUTTA MARKETS. CALCUTTA, Nov. 7. The Government express, bringing London news up to Sept. the 24th, came in about noon on the 31st ult ; and the Oriental, with the bulk of the mail, arrived at her moorings on the evening of the Ist inst. Commer cial affairs had by no means improved. Prices of eolo nial produce had again receded, and difficulties to some extent were apprehended. Two or three failures amongst corn merchants had already taken place. In the manufacturing districts there was not much change. Prices of cotton piece goods and yarns suitable for India were well supported; and although the exports to this quarter had fallen off, as compared with the pre ceding months, they were still on a large scale, consi dering our overstocked position and the present low range of prices here. In our export market scarcely any change has taken place since our last; and transactions in October were on a very limited scale. Freights continue low. Ship ments of sugar were only 65,725 mds. in October; a smaller export than for many months past. Of silk piece goods, the quantity sent forward was very trifling, hardly 11,000 pieces, including all sorts. Raw silk also was only shipped to a small extent as compared with previous months. There has been very little doing in saltpetre for either Great Britain or France, but America has taken more than usual. Of rice there were no shipments to either Great Britain or France during the month of October ; but about 2,500 mds. have been passed since the Ist inst. for Great Britain. Mauritius continues to take pretty freely, and Bourbon has also been an extensive customer of late Hide shipments have fallen off considerably to all quar ters. Both shell lac and lac dye are attracting very little attention. The season for safflower is now almost over, and only a small quantity has been shipped of late. Lin seed and mustard seed have been, in good request for Great Britain and North America. Jute has been in fair request., but only a moderate quantity has gone for ward. Castor-oil shipments have continued on an ave rage scale, and prices here are tolerably well supported. A small parcel of cutch has been shipped to Great Bri tain within the last few days, but there was nothing done in it, in the month of October. Rum shipments have con tinned light. The eleventh opium sale of the season took place on the 27th ultimo, when prices went higher than appears to have been generally expected. From China our news comes down to the 28th Sep tember' at which time the drug was in good demand with moderate stocks. Pates was quoted 495 dolls., Bsaares 170 dolls., Marva 540 to 550 dolls., and Turkey 385 to 390 dolls. In Exchange quotations were six months' sight 49.81 d.; other paper 4s. 1 ld. to 4s. ll d. with documents. On India Company's accepted paper 225 per 100 dolls. Oriental Bank drawing at 226 per cent. on Bombay and Calcutta. Here the money market continues steady. Rates of interest at the Bank of Bengal and other European quarters remain as last quoted. Government Securities stand at about former value. The share market is just about the same as before. Bank of Bengal shares are quoted Co.'s re. 2,250 to 2,275 premium. The profits of that establishment for the three month* ending 30th September equal to Co.'s re. 12 6.4* per cent. per annum. Agra (500 paid up) Co.'s rs. 485 to 490, at which there has been some demand. New Oriental Life Insurance Company (250 paid up) market price 250. Bonded warehouse shares are still quoted at rs. 200 to 210 each. There is no im provement in financial matters as yet amongst the Bazaar people; indeed two or three fresh failures wore reported during the last few days. The import market continues very bad, in some re spects even worse than at the departure of the last mail; prices of many clothes, particularly 40-inch low grey shirting', have receded in value. Stocks of all kinds of goods are very heavy, and considerable additions will be made daring the present month. From the upper pro vinces, the news is far from satisfactory. The chief towns are all well stocked with goods, which the holders can only realise at prices very similar to those at pre sent current in Calcutta. The sales in October were not large; but it must be borne in mind that nearly half the month was taken up in holidays. As mentioned above, 40 inch low gray shirtings are certainly lower in value than on the departure of the Overland Meil. White shirtings and indeed all sorts of bleached goods are dull of sale at former poor prices. Grey and white jaco nets are in very poor demand, and only saleable at down right cheap rates. Grey Madapollams of ordinary qua lity are selling at Co.'s Re. 1-6 0 to 1 7-0 per piece. Glasgow goods continue quite as dull as before, al though the season when there is usually more doing in them is now coming on. The sales of late, ineluding all sorts, have been extremely small. Mule twist remains at about our last quotations to a trifle lower for some Nos.; and there has been during the last week, more inquiry amongst Baz ear people. Sales have consequently been to a fair extent. Coloured yarns are doing as badly as before. Metals are of about late low value, except sheathing copper, which has been in more demand than of late. Lead is selling—Pig at sites vs. 5-8 per fy. rad.; Spelter at Ct. re. 5 11-0 to 5.12-0; and tin plates at Co ' 8 rs. 12-8 to 13.0 per box, Iron of all sorts con tinues very low in value. CHINA. (Fton-. the China of Oct. 9.) 'The American clipper ship Memnon, tua totally I,,st in Gropar Straits on tho 16th of Sep:em ber—crew saved; and the barque which had been deserted by her crew, WAS fallen in with off Bintang by tha Honourable East India Cow. pany's steamer Hooghly, and tow€d into Singapere. (Prom the 11fail of Oet. 16.) After our: last number was issued we received a report of an extensive fire at Canton on the night previous, which has destroyed, is is said, from two to five hundred houses, and from 50,0001. to 150,0001. worth of property. But so vague and various are the reports, bath as to the extent of the damage, and the nature of the property destroyed, that after a week a e cannot form a more precise estimate than that above given. From the Overland Friend of China of Oct. 30 ) In the China Sea there have been one or more severe typhoons, as experienced by her Majesty's ships Hastings and Sphynx, and the merchant vessel ifeloise, and others. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam-ship Pekin appears to have narrowly escaped destruction in the typhoon of the Ist and 2d inst., the Lascar crew having become panic-stricken, and hid them selves away. The health of troops in the garrison of Hong- Kong, as regards the aggregate number of sick in hospital, is somewhat on, a par with our last month's report—viz., 124 against 129. Of these, there are 79 of the 59th Regiment, against 93 of last month-24 of the Ceylon Rifles against 17—and 21 of the Ord • nance against 17; the prevalent disease being still bowel complaint. There have been four deaths, viz., two of the 59th, one of the Ordnance, and the other in the Ceylon Rifle Corps. In the month of October last year the total number of deaths was 18—the contrast is therefore most favourable. The occupa tion of the Mindru as a depot for convalescents has doubtless been a great means in the end attained. At present there are 78 men on board that vessel; two • thirds of whom, we are told, are fit for duty if re quired, and the remainder are rapidly recovering strength. The intelligence from, or rather about, the " re hellion in Kwang Si" continues to be of a very vague nature, and seems to excite little interest in Canton, whether amongst Chinese or foreigners. On Monday afternoon, the 20th of October, a fire broke out on board the Fort 'William, the receiving ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga tion Company, from the capsizing of a pot of an inflammable polishing nature. The flames spread with such rapidity to the poop, that the family of Captain Macqueen had barely time to escape below to the entering port on the gun deck, whence they were rescued by the boats of her Majesty's ship Hastings. By the united exertions of the officers and men of her Majesty's ships Hastings, Sphinx, Salamander, and Minden, United States sloop of war Marion, and Hon. E. I. Co.'s steamer Nemesis, the P. and 0. steamers Singapore, Sir Charles Forbes, and the H. and C. Hong-Kong (in readiness to tow in case of need), the fire was extinguished at a late hour, without having done much damage, except to the private effects of Captain Macqueen and his family, which being all in the poop cabins, were totally destroyed. The other property on board the vessel was not, as generally supposed, of great value. The destruction of the poop, forecastle, bul warks, and mast comprise nearly the entire injury done to the vessel. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Dates—Canton, Oct. 27 ; Shanghae, Oct. 18 ; and Amoy, Oct. 20, CANTON.—Business during the month has been pretty good, generally, but not so brisk as in the month pre vious. The august news, of lower prices for congou, caused a considerable check in exports ; but to the present date shipments of tea from all ports, are fully six millions i❑ excess of shipments at same period last year. SHANGLIAL—In cons( queuee of the immense number free-booting vessels hovering about the mouth of the of Yangtse Kiang, junks,for the north( rn provinces, have been atraid to proceed, and as a sequence have refrained from purchasing English goods, and the market fur them since last report has had a downward tendency; so much so, as regards cotton goods, that grey shirtiugs have been exported to Canton, where sales at reasonable prices can be effected to some extent. The August news had some t ffect on the tea market, but not very great, as shown in the quantity of tea exported during the month. AMOY.—Busizess at this port since last report has been unusually dull. MARSEILLES, DEC. 13. The Banshee, Captain Hosken, has entered the port this evening, at half-past six, with the India Mail, having performed the distance from Malta in 53 hours. The Bentinck was detained 24 hours at Malta, owing to bad weather. We continue tranquil at Marseilles. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, SUNDAY. Her Majesty, hi s Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Household, were pre sent at divine service at Whippingham Church yesterday morning. The Rev. T. Protheroe officiated. A deputation from the Trustees of Essex Turnpike Trust, consisting of Sir Jobn Wood, Messrs. Tower, Cox, Dixon, Fisher, Hobbs, Brewster, Tober, and Codd (Clerk to the Trustees), had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. Sir Gaspard Le Merchant had an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office, yesterday. Mr. Carrie, M.P., had also an interview with the Noble Earl. The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—the Bishop, of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pem broke, the .Re v. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G. W. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley, Secretary. Lord Monteagle transaoted business yesterday at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. Dispatches were sent cif yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope and Sierra Leone. NATAL.—A new weekly journal has appeared in Urban under the title of The Natal Times. It is very well printed, and although of small dimensions, appears to be an excellent medium for advertisements, judging from the number contained in its early impressions, of which the first five have just reached us. TEE BOILER EXPLOSION AT KINGSWOOD.—The inquest on the body -of the unfortunate man, Thomas Waller, killed by the dreadful boiler explosion at Kings wood, near Bristol, the particulars of which were fully de tailed in The Sun, was commenced yesterday by the coroner, Mr. W. Joyner Ellis, at the Tennis Court Tavern, Warmby. The only evidence gone into was as to the iden tity of the body, the coroner explaining that it would be necessary to adjourn the inquest, in order to give time for the Government to consider whether they would send down an inspector,to assist at the investigation. THE GEORGE STEPHENSON TESTIMONIAL..--A meeting of the committee of the George Stephenson Testi monial has just taken place-3,000/. has been raised. It has been decided that the statue shall be erected in the court yard at Euston station. This is said to be the place most consonant to the feelings of Mr. Robert Stephenson. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—We understand that a sermon will be preached in aid of the funds of this most excellent charity, on Sunday morning next, the 21st inst., at St. Helen's Church, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street, by the Rev. John Edmund Cox, M.A., F.S.A., the vicar. We hope the benevolent efforts of the Reverend Gentleman, who has so generously come forward on behalf of this so ciety, will be seconded by a crowded congregation, not only of the journeyman portion of the business (for the relief of whose brethren and their widows when overtaken by age and infirmity the society h as b een pr i ncipally founded), b ut also of master printers and all who are connected with or in . terested in the printi ng p ro f ess i on, as well as a kind and phi lanthropic public. The suspension of liessrs. L kie, Brothers, and Co., a respectable firm in the Their liabilities trade, was an nounced yesterday morning. to be between 30,000/. anAO liabilities are uneerateod have originated solely from the difficult The stoppage is said to culty property in Demerara, which there is, consequently, ich is, nevertheless, valuable, and of reatising certain may prove Y, a prospect that the ultimate liquida tion favourable. The accounts of the state of trade in the provinces during the past weekwhole, not unsatisfactory. At Manchester, are, upon the chester, after a slight recovery from the effects pro duced by the French revolution, the market has again gra dually declined, but at other manufacturing places business hascontinued active. The improvement at Nottingham is sus tained, and the promise fOr the spring, as regards the demand both for lace and hosiery, is said to be excellent. At Bir- 1 mingham there is no diminution of general employment, and the iron trade is steady. The Irish linen market has again shown much animation. LENGTH OF THE DAY.—That the day is longer or shorter as you go north or south of the equator is a fami liar fact to our readers. Off Cape Horn, 56 degrees south latitude, the days in mid-winter are about nine hours long. The longest day at London is sixteen hours and a half ; at Hamburgb, seventeen hours ; at St. Petersburgh, the longest day has eighteen hours and the shortest five ; at Tornea, in ahalf, and the longest day has twenty-one hours and and the shortest two hours and a half ; at S - intz b ergen, th e longest day is three mouths and a half. THE WEST OF IRELAND LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUR. have just read, with extraordinarj satisfac tion, the prelitoiaary prospecius of the above compauh as will as an account of the Proceedings of the committee before the President of the Board of Trade, as reported in your columns of Wednesday last. And it is with equ a satisfaction that I observe, by your comments on that meeting, that the laudable objects of the company are finding a supporter in your influential pen, a circumstance the public will be quite prepared for, knowing your readiness at all times to advocate every measure calculated to afford iractical and substantial aid to Ireland. For that good must result from sueh a company, well organized, and under prudent, skilful, and judicious management, few can doubt. • My avocation in life, both as a practical farmer and s a laud agent, has led me for many years to think deeply on the condition of agriculture, end without referring pE rticularly to Ireland, 1 have low , felt how grievously the full dtvel.pmeot of our landed resources ti!tv:- been retain, d by want of the Ldvantsge of com bined shill and capital in their management. And so far back as August, 1847, I published in a London weekly journi.l a letter, L' On the Expediency of Establishing Farming Conifanies with a wto 11w Improvement of Neglected .1 ands." And in which leiter, inter alia, the following obiervations were mad e :—" While cheerfully bearing testimony to the spirit e d cou r s e pursued by innumerable intelligent and enterprising farmers in every part of the empire, I cann o t s h u t my e y e s to the miserably defective and slov en l y farming visible in many localities ; a state of thing s arise g chie fl y • fr om that greatest of all nimpe diments toimprovement—want of capital in the occupier. Viewing this, then, as the districts, and applyingindiein main evil, and looking to want of skill in many as another, I have long thought that an effectual remedy might be found in the establishment of farming com panies, to take into their occupation lands . in various to i them all those improvements panics would unquestiuorjs,; which capital, Yb No b p y f e a d r , can s alone COM. mand and carry out. investment, such com certain than any railroad. No fear of domestic com petitors ` breaking up th • ell. lines ,' but a visible and tangible security always at hand in their stock and crops, and customers and store market to purchase their current constantly in the increased employment of the produce ; while the benefit that would be found poor would confer a cottager in the kingdom . • at the hearth of every bend the slightest difficulty obtitTor do I appre which to carry out the proposed schemring lands on such companies, prud en tl y and j udiciousl ; for under landowners would b e f oun d b ut too happyytoconducted, neglected properties in th e way of that imp rpout t eir which combined skill and ca pit a l would ensure. veni g h ad ent then as to management, a well se l ec t e d committee shareholders, assisted by lo ca l b a iliff s , with account ants of and clerks, would form an efficient suitable staff." d • n table staff." If, then, such companies were considered essential to the improvement of neglected lands in England i n 1847, how much more applicable are they to the pre sent impoverished condition of the agricultur e of western Ireland at this moment ; and I can conceive no greater blessing to the distressed population of that portion of the empire, and no safer employment of capital, than in the business-like objects of the "Land Investment Company" now about to be formed. One feature in its intended operations strikes me as especially valuable and important, the combixing hand in hand agriculture with manufacture. Each will thus support the other, and add immeasurably to the re sources and prosperity of both. And while the result will be a safe return for the capital employed, incal culable benefit will be felt, far and wide, in the locali ties in which these extensive ried on. That such a combination of indu s t ry , skill, and capital must lead to suc cess f u l results to those'em barked in it we have every reasonable ground to ex pect, especially as regards the agricultural branch of its operations. For what is it that has hitherto caused agriculture to advance less slowly in prosperity than most other branches of our national industry ? Be yond all question it is the isolated manner in which its labour and its capital have always been employed. Who ever heard of a firm of farmers, much less of a company ? No, the farmer fights his way single handed.; No multitude of counsellors—no partners to aid by their beads or their purses his operations ; but left solely to his own resources, be is deprived of those advantages in the prosecuting of his calling which combined intelligence and capital afford to others. See the strides that our other great branches of in dustry have made. Look at our shipping, our mining, our railroads, our manufactures, all carried on by the united skill and money of companies in some shape or other. For every firm may be called a company, and but very few of our leading concerns are to be found conducted single handed. Everything, therefore, in the shape of succ ess , may reasonably bo relied on from ae extensive practical combined operations of the " West of Ireland Land Investment Company," and I cannot too strom: recommend to the friends and well-wishers of ,at important but neglected section of the kingdom, to give every aid to an undertaking calculated to. pro duce such extensive good. I am, Sit, your'most obedient servant, ARTHUR OC revius BAKER. Wincanton, Dec. 12,1851. DARING HIGIIWAY ROBBERY.-A daring highway robbery, attended with great violence, was committed in the Meadows, near Nottingham, on Saturday night, at eight o'clock. John Knapp, a catt l e -j o bb er, o f Botte:ford, left Nottingham on his way to Wilford, having a considerable sum of money on his person : he purchased a pistol at one of the gunmakers in the town, and having charged it with ball imagined himself secure. When about half a mile from Nottingham, on a lonely pathway, he observed five men a little in advance of him. He had the pistol in his hand, and had taken the precaution to put it on the full-cock. Upon getting up to the men one of them saluted him, but in a moment he received a blow from behind from a life-pre server; he immediately drew the trigger, holding the pi s t o l at the head of the man in advance, who was striving to foetal hold of him; unfortunately the nipple broke off, and the robbers perceiving all danger from fire-arms to be passed, commenced beating the unfortunate jobber with life-preservers and other bludgeons. When rendered senseless they rifled his pockets of 211. in gold. Mr. Knapp, from the darkness of the night, was unable to recognise the faces of any of the robbers. He is now lying in a precarious state at the Talbot Inn, Nottingham. At Wandsworth Police-court, yesterday, James Leary, an Irish labourer, was placed at the dock before Mr. Hardwick, who sat for Mr. Beadcn, on a charge of cutting open the head of of Rachael Dean, his landlady, with an iron fire-shovel, and also her wrist, with the same weapon. He was also charged with committing assaults on two of the police who went to apprehend him, one of whom he attempted to strangle. Mr. Hardwick ordered the prisoner to pay 51., or be committed for two months for the assault on the woman, and committed hi m f or one month to hard labour for each assault on th e police, making an imprison ment of four months. LONDON TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. The third monthly meeting of this league was held yesterday evening in Exeter flail; Mr. John Cassell in the chair. There was a large attendance. Among those present were the Rev. W. N. Robinson, A.M., Messrs. G. Cruikshank, T. W. Kellogg, Richard Place, George E. Lomax, of Manchester, &c. Let ters were read from several ted not attend tem perance movement, regretting that they could withthe perso the demonstration. Among others from Father who, on account of his health, cou a d c n on ot nec undertake the jour neyalluded to the deleterious Buckingham, &c. The chairman to London; Mr. Rathbone, of Liverpool; Mr. Silk but he rejoiced to be able to state that, although the effects of intoxicating liquors upon the people of this country, popula tion of England had been steadily increasing, the ratio .of intoxicating liquors consumed in this country had not kept Dace with it, but, on the contrary, had considerably d ecreased. uring the ten years ended 1850, the decrease had been upwards of 2i millions of gallons of spirituous liquors, or, allowing for increase of population, 4i millions, as compared with the previous ten years. The consumption of malt during the same time had decreased 3 millions, or, allowing for increase of population, 4} millions of bushels. Notwith standing the increase in the number of foreigners who visited England during the existence of the Great Exhibition, he believed that there would be a diminution this year in the quantity of intoxicating liquors consumed of no less than between two and three millions of gallons as compared with 1850. Mr. Lomax, Mr. Kellogg, Mr. Cruikshank, and others, addressed the meeting. The commercial advises from New York by the Africa are very favourable, and confidence was as to the extent of business that would be transacted increas ing r the coming year. The further arrival °f r .' : would be sent from California, although the greater part '-': to England, had strengthened the money6oo,oool. market, and the best paper continued to I" discounted the week, the house ease at 7 per cent. There had been a failure large in lead. The being that of Cornell and C 0.,. - 31. .g e but, although the want of dates from San Franciso were e J.O ; the rainy season was still !ley) Ist of November. The are or - the most satisfactory and decided 1 Water interfered with m ining' yield in all districts a bo ut eleven quartz crushing machines', operations, the accounts of the kind. There were by s team, at work in the southern mines, mostly and eight i n There were differences of ones W ere in process of erection. propelled d he northern, and about fifty-nine additional ofrichness that would pay for crush believed that, with proper nsanagement, quartz ing, but some low as a halfpenny per pound 'would pay averaging even as opinion as to the degree well. av Twopence-halfpenny to fourpence per pound was what had been generally considered the lowest for profit. A dis covery of gold in considerable quantities was alleged to have been made on Queen Charlotte's Island, one of the British possessions north of Vancouver's Island. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 15 —The Ripon steamer, Captain Moresby, proceeded this morning on her e icial trial trip, as announced yesterday, ha v i ng on b oar d C a pt a in Corry, R.N., Captain Tinling, R.N., Captains Engledon and Soy, Mr. Penn, the engineer ; and Mr. Lamb, superintend ing engineer ot the Peninsular and Oriental Company. She proceeded down the river to Cowes Roads, and thence to the measured mile in Stok es B ay, which she performed rn min. 8 secs., equal to 11,726 knots per hour; engine' glne making 191 revoluti ons; and running the same a flood tide, back, she did the mile in 5 min. 30 secs. equal to 10,909 knots, giving an average o e f gain : 3tl7, a q uarter of a knot improvement on her Saturday's trial o f 1 6 g or indicator, per hour. She is fitted with the Patel:tour. She returned being an which showed a speed of Ili knots Per the expectations i w n h to ic d h o h ck ad a b t e 3 e 3 n o fo r r . m :4_ e , d h o a f v h in e g r 1 9 muPitiOxv.e....rn It is understood MARRIAGE OF LORD ents. nuptials of the Noble Lord with Countess of Warwick,theil not take place until the month the Hon. Miss Charteris w 1 that on account of the deatillito°f°Lord Brooke's mother, the of February next. --0 - .) 105 I v" )f el °° 01 1°1 ‘ a ge obsd' g. t , h 3 e ol ' I coo', kil ogo arY bl ! el ofid iv % 3 orle ° 0 0 - uO - ill 10 0 08A I) ,hO. It P.