The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

THE SHARE MARKETS. mitxTzaH Rtil 1, ays. 'AYS. Alib.r toitLte, Nottingham,. be tr E. JURcion krau as e s t r d Coubly Dowr W olverh amp.. gii en " r i I' e Valle, •litoe' l Lan, & Cheah Do '' ate 331. 68. 8d .. , 4 01, Birkenbd., uo, d ' l . Consolidated 144,' O ,IN. Caj e f '! 4 d •.• Cc i, h ftte illan and A~'°bgbua andHolyhead Belfast Janet . A and irj aM • _ own .. %tin Eaniskillen 1,...-etl; and Abe bci * i naction r. tits t I Now • • • ' 1° t . 1),„: • ti,N r4 rll Ce tr tunics • Wen, eitias , s bo, • I T A • alutree • D, a• do. • • & C shares b, l c -48 / 1 1re Zest ;' ll quart er , , 11 , 4 11 V est India Docks w est June. b..,Ql4bti,i,isest York. June. ..o14 .) not Glasgow olksz o .'“in • and Dundee and s outh p r dn. G.„ . es r p o t liZe rtbe " r m u• Stack 80 . ittivea C. • • • 444 i halres, Ilef°lTed p f d em , 6 Per et. Orktelenurelan era d and t mile ir extern • and r • arlhd e saet e i.'n • • 1 171.d re X . 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I% p 10% —ll 3c.d 9N -10 e• I=ol •• •i• —.. }yi 1 ate. 13 -13 % - % 1%- I%p, .. p. 133 - 135 .. -:: P .. --- .. P .. ...... 141 ... 143 2 -2% p• 11 -12 12 -12 hi %- % P 131 - 133 1 —3G dlB.l 4 434 4% —4% dis par 9X 1534 16 11 —l3 15% - 16% 83 -44 I 10 I 1 dia. Xorth Staffordshire, 21%• rortEroN. all 9 % -9% 16 16% 5 4 dlB. —d p. % - Nt P. %- % P• % % pm pm m.d. Y 11 I j 1 716 s tw i all • - .• 13%-3% b% 6 i IN —13% 5 i 5 d. 212 .... 36 2 , 1 ... —22 3 % X 9X lOU 10 17 3ti 3K .. .• 6 8 r4i - .._ Gl 4 db. 22% 23 12% 3‘ . .- 10 tig (Its. 7 3 % Business dc no to-day. IN 9% 10 [fi Xi 5 4% 5% 79X 79 [►3% 15 14%7 4% 19 X 100 8 6 8 S U N, Paid. Nominal Prices. Business donto_day. Anglo Californian .. •• • • P Asturian ...... • 15 • • Australian •• •••• • • • • 4 1% 235 arossa Range Brazilian Imp. (is. 5/. p ) 24% —• • Do. Cones and Culaba all .. —•• Do. St. John del Bey— 15 20% —2l 20% Cobre Copier • .... Copiapo ..... • • General.. •• . -• Mexican& S. American 9 334 434 Nt u veau Mande .....• — • • Real Del Monte, Unreg. % % Do. Black Debentures. • • —•• Do. Red Debentures • • —• • Santiago de Cuba IC% 4 —3% Tin Croft .... • • • • . ..... 7 8 United Mexican— ......128 28% 3 2 West Mariposa 1 1 % Agua Fria, 1% % ; Ave Maria, % JOINT STOCK ZANIES. ,Itutralasia all 38 39% 39% British North America.. 50 45 —46 Colonial .............. 25 10% —ll Commercial of London.. 20 25 -- 26% London Joint Stock .... 10 18% 17% 18 Loie4on and Westminster 20 28% 29% 29 % National Provincial Eng. 85 Da. New ........ •• .. 10 .- —• • National of Ireland .. • • 22% 18% 17% Oriental Bank Corporat. all 27 28% rrevincial of Ireland •• • • 25 42 —44 45% Do. New —•• • • .... all 15% 16% Union of Australia all 35 36% Do. New 2% 3 Union of London 10 14% 1535 Union of /Madrid • • SUSCEZZILSTEIOUS. Canada .............. 82% 48 49% Oen. Steam Navigation. 14 27% —2B x.d renin. & Oriental Steam. all 70 —72 Ditto ditto 10 15% -. 17 Royal Mail Steam ..•• .. 60 79% 89% 80% SO ,alfrElol7B. 48 49% 27% —2B x.d 70 —72 155( 17 79} 89% 80% SO )ceember. Ticket days for roes- Account days, 16th and 31st. is errors of the Official Lists, and I correspondents.] Ditto ditto 'Royal Mall Steam .. • • Settling days in the 4101 mth of I id 30th. itrle for tl Itereste teied shares. 15th ,n, (we cannot be answeral will not be influenced by i MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday closed flatly, and American and Surat in some cases were id. to 4d. per lb. lower. The sales were estimated at 4,000 hales, including 300 Pernam and Maranham at sid. to 64 d., and 1,500 Surat at 3d. to 30. per lb.—The Share Market was flat, and prices were declining. The following notarial act has been executed by Mr. Jams Capel, the chairman of the Committee of Spanish Bondholders, and puts on record the fact that the confis cation of the coupons is forced upon the creditors, they never having been consenting parties:— " London, Dec. 3, 1851. " On this day, the third of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, before me, John Sise Venn, of the city of London, public notary by Royal authority, duly admitted and sworn, personally came and appeared Jame Capel, E4q., of this City, acting as chairman of, and representing, the committee of Spanish bondholders in England, which said appearer declared to me, notary, that the committee for promoting the claims of the Spa nish bondholders, having, in furtherance of such object, addressed, amongst others, the following documents to the Spanish Government—that is to say, the acceptance by the bondholders, under protest, of the terms of the law of the let August teat, at a public meeting held on the 20th October last; the petition of the committee, ' dated 4th September last, for an amendment of the law for the settlement of the debt in favour of the coupons, so that they may be funded at their full nominal amount is the new Deferred Three per Cent. Stock; the me morial from Mr. Weisweiller, the agent of the bond holders, dated Madrid, the 11th Nov. last,—all which do cuments showing distinctly that the committee were op posed to the law of the Ist August last passed for the settle ment of the Spanish debt, inasmuch as by such law 50 per cent. or one-half of the overdue coupons are abso lutely confiscated, and the Spanish Government not having thought fit to lend a favourable ear or even to notice these several communications of the committee or the representatives, but, on the contrary, having, in defiance of the same, confirmed the said law of the let of August last in its original integrity, thereby leaving the committee no alternative but to submit to such arbitrary enactment or to decline all further agency in the matter; and the said committee, after mature consi deration, being of opinion that by adopting the latter course they should be compromising the interest of the bondholders have, under all circumstances, deemed it advisable to intervene in the conversion. But at the same time the committee cannot - do this without entering a solemn protest against the injustice of this confiscation, because there can be no reason shown why, even ad mitting the financial position of Spain prevent ing her employing at present any large amount of active means to the adjustment of these claims, still that such incapacity offers no argument whatever against these 50 per cent. of coupons being admitted as a deferred claim. Moreover, no debtor, whoever he may be, whether a private indivi dual, government, or nation, has a right to make a similar, or any deduction from the debt owing by him without the full consent of his creditors; and even where the necessity of the case compels his creditors to submit to some deduction or abatement of their just claims, justice and fairness always require that such deduction or abatement should be made by the debtor equally and in the same proportion on all debts due by him, of whatever denomination they may be, and which principle has not been maintained by the Spanish Government in the present instance. " Wherefor the said appearer, acting, as aforesaid, for and on behalf of the said committee of Spanish bond holders in England, for the reasons and considerations hereinbefore set forth, declares and protests, as I, the said notary, at his request, do hereby solemnly protest, against the said Spanish Government and all persons whom it may concern, by reason and on account of the Ist August last being considered as a final settlement of the claims of the holders of the bonds of the said Go vernment, but on the contrary reserving unto the said bondholders their undoubted right to continue urging their just claims until they shall obtain justice from the Spanish Government, it being distinctly understood that they do not in any manner relinquish their just claims. " This done and protested in triplicate in London, datum ut supra, in the presence of the undersigned wit- nesses:— "JAMES CAPEL, Chairman of the Committee of Spanish Bondholders in London. " Winesses, Ed, Jones, W. Powell. " Quod Attestor, Joss. S. VENN, Not. Pub." The Grain Market is heavier this morning. The steamer has arrived with the American mail. The mercantile news is favourable, money was easy, and stocks were firm and in good demand. Breadstuffs quiet and cotton steady. Ttcro aro 607,000 dollars in specie on board. The steamer Dee, with the West India and Mexican mails, has been telegraphed as being in sight, but we have no letters yet. She will probably bring a good amount in specie. The remainder of the Overland Mail has just come in rid Southampton. The passport system is being most rigidly enforced as respects the Continent. No travellers can penetrate into Belgium or Germany, much less France, without sutanitting to all the vexations of olden times, and at Valenciennes the Belgian journals contained in the rail way carriage or post-office were seized, and even the passengers were compelled to deliver up those they had in their possession. Probably this will merely be a tem porary measure. It is perhaps not generally known that Amsterdam is still the seat of an Administration for nearly one hun dred thousand shares of the stock of the bank of the United States, or for about one-third of its capital, yet such an Administration, under the guardianship of three wealthy firms, does actually exist in that city, though its labours in the cause it represents have as yet not transpired. The heavy depreciation of the shares of that institu tion, the capital and profits of which on the Ist of No vember, 1837, amounted to nearly forty millions of dollars, has recently led to an investigation, not only into into the affairs of the bank, but also into e position of said Administration, and resulted in most extraordinary and highly important developments, which will be laid before a meeting of shareholders shortly to be convened in Amsterdam, and whereof due notice will be given to the English shareholders, whose attendance will be par ticularly requested. There is scarcely any excitement in the City to-day. The conflict in France is considered to be at an end, and there is a return of confidence. The remarkable buoyancy in the Paris Bourse is undoubtedly one cause of this, for those who reflect consider that the future task of government will bo most difficult and harassing, and that the exercise of undoubted patriotism on the part of Louis Napoleon is essential to consolidate the new order of things. The Stook Market is materially better to-day. Con sols have been done as high as 984, a rise of to -; 4 1 per cent. since Saturday, but are now 97i to 98 for Transfer, and 98 to for January. The Bears, who sold heavily last week, have been closing, and the continued influx of specie discourages them, but there was so much speculation for a rise before the French news came in, that we may yet have the account day, Thursday, rather against the Bulls, if real buyers do not take stock out of the market. Th e New Three•and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been 93 to 98: 4 1 , and the Three per Cents. 97i to -I The premium on Exche q uer-bills has been 48 s . to 515., and on India B onds 58s. to 61s. The Forei gn Securities are nearly all looking up. Mexican have tisen to 2.1 i I. Buenos Ayres Stock is 50. Spanish Five per Cents. are 20 1 , and Portu g uese Four per Cent s . 34. French Five per Cents. have been quoted 94 50, with the exchange at 25 30. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 59, and Danish Three per Cents. 74 t o 7 6. S ar di n ian Five per Cents. hare been 80 to', 81, ex di v id en d, a very different valu e to that borne last week. Railway Shares participate in the improvement in the Funds. Agua Fria Gold Mine are up to and pre mium. Ave Maria and West Mariposa about par. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. 97 ix 3 97 1 / ,' l 98 1 4 7 7 / 8 8 98 98% 93 'A 98% 61 p 61 p 58 58 p 98 1 A 77: i 8 98 e. 51 48 p 51 43 p 51 43 p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK, liraziiian Bends, 5 per Cent. .. Buenos Ayros Bonds, 6 per Cent. ..... 5O Danish Bends,lB2s, 3 per Cent. 74 76 Equador Bonds tv ,xican, 5 per Ct., ex Jan. Coupe Ditto, Account PRICES OF BRITIstI FUNDS 3 Der Cent. Rctinsed Anna. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities....,,,, New 34 per Cent. Alms— . Iruit's lion& ' 1,0001.. .. .. . Ditto under I,oool_ ..... 0 mole for Account ......... „ ......... Exchequer J,OOOl. 500 i. Smell, 48 p 48 p CLOSING nucEs. 24W T 1.1 E L 0 N 1) 0 N, Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent— 9O .Ditto, Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account Russian Bends Ditto, 4 1 ,4 per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 . Ditto, Account 20% Ditto, Passive — Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent.. ..... Exchange French 3 per Cent Exchange Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild 59 584 34 103 80 ex d. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY LONDON, DEC. B.—Wind at noon westerly, ligh breeze, fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Wind W.; 7, W.S.W.— Arrd. 11. MA Birkenhead, eastward—H.M.S. Retribution, and H.M.S. Sidon, Cape of Good Hope. Sld. Republic, South Seas. COWES, DEC. 6.—Wind S.W.—Pahne, Keoger, Boston, United States. HOLYHEAD, DEC. B.—(Per electric telegraph.)—The Robert Bradford barque,from Calcutta and Cape of Good Hope to Liverpool, is a total wreck near this place; master and eleven men drowned. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Tagus steamer, Con stantinople; Indus steamer, Alexandria. BRISTOL, DEC. 6.—Wind W.—Arrd. Sarah Maria Ann, Alexander, Patras. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. s.—Wind W.; 6, S.W., strong. —Arrd. Bermondsey, Manilla; Warrior, Maulmain ; Anne Watson, West Coast of Africa; Ellen, and Junior, Valparaiso; Chevered, Demerara; Cicely, Rio de la Hacbo; Amalia, Shippegan; Agenorea, Raffia Eposini, 'Taganrog; Rochdale, Odessa; Roberts, Trieste; Scot tish Maid, Windsor Castle, Callao; Severn, Galatz; Lmeria, Porto Rico. LIMERICK, DEC. s.—Arrd. Nicholas Smirk, Ismael. Sid. Giovanni, Leopoldi, Alexandria. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 6.—Wind W.; 7th S.W.—Arrd. Pet, Searle, St. Michael's; Anchoklose, Duchess of Lan caster, and Briton, Shanghai; Patna, Rorison, Canton; Blonde, Healey, Maulmai n; J u mn s , Johns, and Robert Putaford, King, Calcutta; Tara, Hamilton, Bombay; Jane, Old Calabar; Salacia, Bro wn , Callao; Patrioters, Norrie, Islay; Pickwick, Greaves, Arica; Kyle, Tiddy, Buenos Ayres; Irene, Downward, Rio Grande; Elizabeth Woad, Cowley, Porto Rico; Vestal, Larman, Parsbo rough, United States; Caledonia and Orpheus, Quebec; Achilles and Enmore, Alexandria; Effort, Wright. Patras; Petra, Bilboa; Hindoo, Fletcher, Calcutta; Olinda, Pernambuco; Taymonth Castle, Viscount Har dinge, Mimi(); Isabella, Antigua; Liverpool, Gardner, New York; Mobile. Briggs, St. John's, New Brunswick; Charles, Trolk, Trieste. Off port St. Croix, Nick Biddle, and Leonora. Sld. Pernama, Vaiparaiso; Em peror and Loodianab, Calcutta; Brazilian, Madras; Crusader, Buenos Ayres; Queen, Rio Janeiro; Cale donia, New Orleans ; Jane Henderson, Baltimore ; Ettropea steams'', New York. Bth—Arrd. 9A X , Cam bria steamer, Boston. DEAL,—Arrd. Champion, Palot, Monte Video; Charles, Fleming, Tobago; Patrick, Henry, Now Or leans; Eclipse, Madeira; Scandia, Alexandria; Actons, Trapp, St. Übes ' • Mary, Hedger, Swan River; George Dean, Spuring, Cape Coast Castle; Ballasara, Mason, San Francisco; Castle Lachlan, Bruce, Jamaica; Rome, Otis, New Orleans; Princess Victoria, Hooks, Alex andria. SR Stornaway, Bombay. FALMOUTH, DEC. 6, 7.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W.— Arrd. Morel, and Nadischola, Maulmain; Richard Cowie, Callao and Rio Janeiro; Pilot Fish, Rio Ja neiro; Lanturci, Matanzas; Paul Frederick, Alex andria; Antics, and Hylton Maid, ditto; Washington, Murray, Galatz. DOVER, DEC. 7.—Wind W.S.W. to S.W.—Arrd, Anna Magdalena, Elsinore; Caroline, Odessa; Othello ; and Phcenix, Memel. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-(MONDAY.) The leading country markets, held on Saturday, were well supplied with home-grown Wheats ; nevertheless, the demand ruled heavy, and, in some instances, prices advanced Is. per quarter. Foreign Wheats were held at extreme quotations. In Barley, the receipts of which were on the increase, very little was doing, on lower terms. Malt, however, was quite as dear. The Oat trade was tolerably firm. Both Beans and Peas rea lized higher rates. Indian Corn and Flour were in im- proved request. In the Baltic ports a steady business has been tran sacted of late for spring delivery. The Dutch markets continue firm, at higher rates. Most of those in France, owing to political excitement, :have been very inactive. In the United States both Wheat and Flour were firmer at the date of our last advises. Very moderate supplies of English grain were re ceived up from market last week. From abroad the imports were 5,956 quarters of Wheat, 2,055 Barley, 15,459 Oats, 2,379 Beans, 632 Peas, 1,375 Tares, 5,203 Linseed, 2,470 Rapeseed, and 129 sundry seeds. Fresh up to-day the receipts of Wheat from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk coastwise, were very moderate, but in excellent condition. By land carriage from Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, &c., the supply was tolerably good; but as a large portion bad been disposed of prior to arrival, the show of samples of both red and white was by no means large, On the whole the attendance of both town and country millers was rather numerous. Selected samples of both red and white Wheat of home produce moved off steadily at last Monday's advance in the quotations. In the middling and inferior kinds com paratively little business was transacted at late rates. Most of the offers on band to forward Wheats from the Midland counties, as also from the Essex coast, were at much higher prices, say 2s per quarter. Very little fresh Foreign Wheat was brought for ward, and that chiefly of low quality. At least two thirds of the Baltic imports, last week, wont direct to the millers. For fine heavy parcels we had a steady in quiry, at full prices; and all low kinds were considered quite as dear. Floating cargoes off the coast were inquired for on Dutch account. Polish Odessa changed hands at 32a 6d per quarter, inclusive of all charges. About 5,000 quarters of Indian Corn afloat was dis posed of at 26s 3d for Galati. With English Barley we were seasonably well sup plied, but the show of foreign samples were small. Good heavy parcels were scarce, and quite as dear. Grinding and distilling qualities met a dull inquiry. The Malt trade was firm, and last week's prices wore well supported in every instance. With Oats we were but moderately supplied; nevertheless, the trade was in a sluggish state, at about stationary prices. Beans met a very dull inquiry, at a decline in the quotations of Is. per quarter. Maple and grey Peas gave way is per quarter. White were scarce, and held at the late ad vances. We had a steady sale for all kinds of Flour, at full currencies. The nominal top price of the best town made was 37s per 2801bs. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Whqat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevaller.• •• • • 57s to Nis 365 to 40s Oats— Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 378 462 Lincolnsh., Feed. 175 208 Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red. •• .• 35s 40s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • .. 373 44s Black. .• Its 19s Irish, Bed ••••• • • • —3 —5 Cork, White . •• 17s 21e Ditto,White ••• • •• —s —s Scotch, Feed....• 20$ 25s Bye—Old 262 28s Beans—Tick ......... 270 315 N ew . ~ 263 24s Pige0n5.......... 29s 34s " .... 22s 245 Peas—Grey 285 31s Maple. • . .•• • • • 308 335 White. •• • • 30 8 31, ri c b c l 3 : i a — e l v t " i a n l r g i i e u r . di 3 27 1 : 3 2 4 9: Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers 45s 545 Flour—Town-made... 32s 375 Brown ' Suffolk •••.• • • • • • 28s 325 Kingston and Stocktn & Norfolk 28s 325 —". .r . 13 5 4 3 1 8 5 5 4 6 8 58 SEEDS. Most of the late arrival of Baltic and Black Sea Lin seed have been cleared off, at full prices, and several somewhat largo contracts have been entered into for spring shipment. In other seeds, very little is doing, at about stationary prices. Cakes command very little attention. Tundp,White, per bush. 6s to lOs Red and Green.. • . 8s Ile Mustard, Brown.. •• .. Is 8e White, new • • ....Gs Cd 7sod Tares,Winter 3s ed 4s Od Old • • • • • • • .......0s Od Os Od Canary, per quarter • . 36s 40s Bye grass...... • • 24s 30s Clover, lied Eng . (cwt.) 30s 40a White •• • • ...... 3is 44s Foreign lied.. •• .. 32s 40s IVhito •• .. 34s 42s Trefoil .. ••• • • ....... 18s 22s Duty was paid on the foll Clover Seed up to the 29th Carraway ............ 315 331 Coriander..,,..,.•••• 93 11s Ilempseed, per quarter 32s 355 Linseed, Eng. Sowing • • 60s 65s Crushing • • 46s 52s Baltic .......... 39s 46s Odessa Linseed Cake,pr.l,ooo— • • . 81 IN 10/ Oh Foreign, per ton 615 s 71 51 Rape Cakes, pr ton 4/ Os 4110 e Rapeseed, New, prist 211 03 2 310 e owing quantities of foreign ult.:- 1851. 1850. London Liverpool Hull SMITIMPX3CI.D. Notwithstanding that the weather had been somewhat severe of late in some parts of the continent, seasonably large supplies of Foreign Stock, in full average condi tion, have arrived in the port of London during the past week, the total imports having amounted to 6,593 head. During the corresponding period in 1850, we received 5,703; in 1849, 4,511; in 1848, 3,155; and in 1817, 1,913 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE FAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Antwerp Ostend Bremen lB ... 30 Dordt Nieu Diep Amsterdam 6l 400 „, Hamburgh Dunkirk Harlingen Rotterdam Total The yearly comparison of the weekly imports is as under:— Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1850 1,433 ... 3,675 ... ... 399 ... 1 36 1849 1848... 625 ... 2,432 —.— ... 96 ... 2 1847 258 ... 1,584 ... ... 71 According to the returns issued by the Board of Trade, the follov.ing are the imports into the United Kingdom during the month and ten months enclitic , Nov. s: Month ending Nov. 5, 10 Months ending Nov. 6, 1850. 1851. 1850. 1851. Oxen Cows Calves .. 1,462 Sheep 19,604 ... .. 28,412 103,677 142,668 Lambs ... 225 Pigs Toe actual numbers of foreign stock in to-day's market wire very modorace, end of middling quality. Consider i. o• that the great Christmas show wilt be held hero on M' o nday next, the arrivals of Beasts fresh up from our own gazing districts were comparatively small. There were, however, amongst them some well made vp Here- 34% ®'~/ 5~ Ink the offal. Per Blbs. tO _ I. d, to s. d. s. d. to s. d Inferior Beast!..... 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sheep •... 210 3 0 Second quality •• •• 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 8 Primo largo Oxen 3 0 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 10 4 0 Prime Beets •••• • 3 8 310 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Large coarse Calves 2 8 3 4 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 rrime small ditto .• 3 6 3 8 Large n 0 35 •••• • • 2 6 3 6 Suckling Calves •• 18 0 2i 0 Small Porkers ••• • 3 8 310 Lambs •• .• .• ••• • 0 0 0 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep, I Calves. I 23,900 243 FOREIGN Burn Y. B , ,asts. I Sheep, I Calves. I 658 3,090 203 A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market. on Monday, Dec. 9, 1850, and this day, Monday, Dec. 8, 1851. Beasts. 4,280 Per Elba., to sink the offals. Dec. 2, 1850. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts .... 2 4to 2 6 Second quality ditto ... 2 8 210 Prime large Oxen 3 0 3 6 Prime Scots, tic. 3 8 310 Coarse and inferior Sheep... 210 3 2 Second quality ditto ... " 3 4 3 6 Prime coarse-wooll e d ditt o 3 6 310 Prime Southdown ditto ... 4 0 4 2 Lambs... ... 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves ... 2 6 3 0 Prime small ditto ... 3 0 3 _6 Large Hogs .. 2 6 3 6 Small Porkers ... 3 8 4 0 Beasts ... 4,867 Sheep and Lambs 25,210 Calves ••• •• ••• ••. 17 Pigs. 410 P Dec. 8,1851. s. d. s. d. 2 4to 2 6 2 8 2 10 30 3 6 3 8 310 2 10 3 0 32 3 8 3 10 4 0 42 4 4 00 0 0 28 3 4 36 3 8 26 3 6 3 8 3 10 4,281 23,900 243 Pigs .. 3291 410 SUPPLIES ON SALE, • Die. 10, 1849. —Beasts, 3,610, Sheep and Lambs, 22,980; Calves, 101; Pigs, 234. DEC. 11, 1848.—Beasts, 5,912; Sheep and Lambs, 23,840 ; Calves, 124; Pigs, 200. 23M16 1 1TGAIL8 AND 3633.1333133,711.A.Li. Since Monday last about 12,000 carcases of meat have arrived from Scotland and various parts of England, chiefly by railway conveyance. Our markets, to-day, were but moderately supplied with meat killed in the metropolis; nevertheless, the demand was in a sluggish state, at but little alteration in prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to a. d. Beef, Inferior•••••• 2 0 2 2 Mutton,inferior •• mtddling ..•• 2 4 2 6 primelarge •• 2 8 210 prime •• • • -- I prime small .• 3 0 3 4 Pork, 1arge........ Veal .• s. d. to 6. d. 2 6 2Jo 36 3 6 3 8 310 24 8 6 3 8 310 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. No imports of foreign Potatoes took place last week; whilst the supplies of home growth received by land car riage, as well as coastwise, were not very extensive, though in excellent condition. Generally speaking, the demand is steady, and prices are well supported in every instance. Per Ton. Yorkih. Regents. 80s to 75s Ditto Shaws —s to s Lincoln. Regents 70s to 80s Scotch Regents 70s to 75s Ditto Cups Ditto Blues Ditto Dahlias Common Whites —s to —s Newcastle & Ber wick Regents 7ss to 80s Kentish Red Kid. —a to Per Ton Wisbeach &Cam bridge I Kent Regents 6ss to 83s Essex Regents 6ss to 85s Essex Shaws Kent Shaws 6ss to 70s Kent & Essx. Mid. —s to —s French (nominal). 65s to 70s German ditto Dutch Whites , —sto —s Chats . —s to s BOROUGH HOP MARKET. Our market still continues firm for all kinds of new Hops, at prices fully equal to those obtained last week. The show of samples is very moderate. Yearlings com mand rather more attention. New Sussex Pockets, 51 12s to 6110 s; New Kent, 6l 8s to 81; Golding, Mid, and East Kent, 91 to 121 ss; Yearlings, 41 15s to 51 10s; Old Olds, 1110 s to 41. per cwt. WOOZ. Last week's imports of Wool were good, viz., 43 bales from Rotterdam, 5 from Antwerp, 61 from Hamburgh, 716 from Taganrog, 38 from Leghorn, 67 from Smyrna, 36 from Havre, 135 from the Cape, 21 from Alexandria, and 1,000 from Sydney. The private contract market is well supplied. Selected English qualities are in fair request, at full prices. In other kinds very little is doing. TALLOW. Although a fair average business has been transacted in Tallow since Monday last—the deliveries having amounted to 3,219 casks—the demand is far from active, at about stationary prices. To-day new P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 375, and old 36s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow 36s 6d to 37s per cwt. net cash; rough Fat, 25 per 81bs. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1 1851. - - -.- -- Reck this day ...... 11,662 32,507 1 44,715 56,621 71,31 Price of Y. C. .... 46s 6d 44s 6d 38s Od 37s ad to 37s Od t to Os Oki to 0s 0d to 39s Od 37s 6d to Os Od Delivery last week .. 2,485 2,144 2,950 2,502 3,219 Ditto from June 1.... 51,506 55,061 50,197 49,484 54,299 Arrivals last week - 41 1,061 7,128 . 521 3,918 Ditto from June 1 ... 55,061 80,036 73,439 80.461 89,082 Price of Town ...... 49s 65 463 6d 41s id 39s 6d 39s 6d CONCLI7DING STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPED AT ST. PETERSBURGH. 1851. 1880. 1849. 848. 1847. --- - - Total at the close of Casks. Casks. i Casks. Casks. Casks. the navigation.... 103,461 119,246 1118,369 129,504 131,864 - --. 1 --- - London ••••• . • • • • 73,101 64,136 50,139 70,517 60,820 Liverpool ........ 14,9 Bristol .•••• • • • .. 3,183 b,6 1 2 4 3 1 160215 17,890 14,748 15,182 OtherEnglishports 5,341 8,958 1 3 , 545 14,733 10,946 Ireland •.••- • • • • 1 ,2 14 5,588 4,451 ,1 -- 51 - 2,947 4,906 4,110 6,483 Scotland ••,. • • • • :1,191 4,3 3 6 5,849 9,767 9,837 Germany •...• • • • 4,353 12,216 14,580 9, 164 14,776 France •....... .. _ 3,675 7,341 623, 8,97 8 --- --- - --- --- ----"! 103,461 119,216 118,369 129,504 131,864 CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) IN RE THE ST. GEORGE'S STEAM PACKET COMPANY, EX PARTE CROPPER.-JUDGMENT. The further arguments in this part-heard case, which is an appeal from the Court below, were resumed and concluded this morning. His Lordship, after going through the case at great length stated that he was of trohipgai right, tnhd t h cho a ea t : tle ujd dz tgh i n s ei i r on of the e C e h p a el e i l o i n ° , r stiw3ads EXCHEQUER. -(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied during the morning in trying the case of " Spencer v Curtis," which was an actio❑ by a surveyor and engineer against a provisional committee man for 6651., the balance of an account alleged to be duo for surveying a railway from Gravesend to Tun bridge and Brighton, which was but ultimately abandoned. The trial pprroteiesteeddtoinlalsStias,con siderable time. The case of " Miller v. Alderman Sslomons, M.P.," stands next on the list, and, if not adjourned by agree ment until to-morrow, will probably come on some time during the afternoon.; M A.R LBRO' - STREET-(TiIIS DAY.) ROBBERY IN AN OHINIBUS.—Mary Jones and Jane Wilson, two pickpockets, who are well known to the police, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Hardwick, charged with robbing a la d y, 1 - named Norris, of her purse, containing four sovereigns and other money, while in an omnibus. Lindon, a detective officer, belonging to the Great Western Railway Company, stated that on Saturday evening, about seven o'clo c k, on the arrival of the third class train at Paddington, h e saw the two pr i soners , , whom he recognised as suspicious characters, mixing with the passengers on the platform. Having on a pre vious occasion put them off the platform ho watched them, and all of a sudden he missed them, and on look ing about he saw them get into a Charing-cross omnibus. He then went to the conductor, and told him to keep his eye upon the prisoners, as they were bad characters. George Bowers said he was conductor of a Great- Western Railway omnibus, which runs from the rail way to Charing-cross. On Saturday evening, about seven o'clock, the prisoners got into his omnibus, and in consequence of what last witness had communicated to him, he kept a sharp eye upon the prisoners and the other passengers, and when ho arrived in Oxford-street the prisoners got out. Ho directed a lad to follow them and then inquired of the passengers if they had lost anything. A lady said he bad lost her purse. Wit ness then went after the prisoners and stopped them, and told them he wanted them. Th ey exclaimed, " Good God! what tor." Ho told them a lady had lost her purse, and they were suspected of taking it. He then saw Jones try to pass something which felt to him like a purse to the prisoner Wilson, and he heard her say, " Here, it, take it, be quick." Wilson tried to take the purse, and in doing so she let it fall to the ground. He then saw it was a purse, and a boy picked it up and handed it to him. The prosecutrix then came up and identified the purse as her property. The prisoners were then given in charge. Mary Ann Norris, a wido w lad y , said—About seven o'clock Saturday evening she arrived at t h e Padding tonstation the third-class train and go t i nto a by Charing-cross omnibus. The prisoner Jones sat by her side, and the prisoner Wilson sat o pposite. On arriving in Oxford-street she was spo ken to b y the conductor, and immediately afterwards she missed her purse. The ono produced corresponded with the one she lost, mad the contents are the same. Former convictions having been proved against the prisoners, they were committed for trial. fords, D evoni, and Blurt horns. Notwithstanding tha the attendance of both town and country butchers was by no moans extensive, and that the weather bad become mild for the time of year, the Beef trade ruled steady at last week's advance in the quotations. The primest Sots realised 3s 8d to 3s 10d per 81bs, and a good clearance was effected. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, we received 2,800 short horns; from other parts of England, 500 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c., and from Scotland, 220 horned and polled Scots. Although the number of Sheep was somewhat larger than that exhibited on this day so'nnight; the Mato's trade was steady, though by no means active, at un altered currencies. The top figure for the best old Downs was was 4s 4d per 81bs. Calves, the supply of of which was moderately extensive, moved off slowly, and late rates were with difficulty supported. In Pigs comparatively little business was transacted at our quotations. 51 p HONDA ‘l' - - 7 - 1 F . , V r 1 - 4: N LONDON, BRIGHTON, A D N SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. Traffic—Week ending Dec. 6,1851 , £7,088 12 7 Traffic—Week ending Dec. 7, 1850 7 ,841 15 5 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 803,680 11 7 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 ... 276,248 8 2 Total number of Passengers—Week ending Dec. t, 1851 ... 44,282 Passengers ... ••• --£ 5 , 798 14 7 Goods ... ... 2,189 18 0 Total... £7,988 12 7 Total miles open, 1851, 173 1 4 ; ditto, 1850, 17114. London Terminus, Dec. 8, 1851. Mr. James Bacon, the son of Mr. Bacon, Q.C., has been appointed secretary of causes to the Master o f the Rolls in the room of Mr. Murray, appointed Clerk of Records and Writs. I) E C E E R 8 LI r rEHATURE. FIVE TO TWO. A Comedy in Three Acts Hy the Author of " Three to One." London: John Hearne, Strand. Such is the title of a smartly written piece, which contains abundant matter of amusement, at the same time avoiding all vulgarity. The plot is simple, but clever ; the time but a day ; the place an hotel ; and the author is not encumbered by too many actors. Yet, with slight materials, he has constructed an agreeable whole. The story runs thus :—Two mar ried ladies, with husbands in India, stay a few days at an hotel in Wales, where they allow themselves to be taken for widows, and as such Mrs. Hill Cod lies and Mrs. APTiffin are courted by five gentlemen, who contrive to fall in love with a precipitancy that is really quite alarming, and certainly dissipate all ideas we had formed as to the slowness with which such affairs are regulated now-a • days. Considering that Sir Hugh Jubbins, a retired trades man, Mr. Sergeant Flummery, a britfless lawyer, Mr. A'Cute, a gentleman and widower, and Major Semple, with his young sub, Cornet-a-Piston, are all ready to pop the question after six days' acquaint ance. The characters of Jobbins and Flummery are well worked out ; both appear eager to get a wife like Clara M‘Tiffin, who will do them credit and replenish their coffers ; for they have not only slain the husbands, but imagine their widows to be wealthy. The Cornet is a fair sample of a dragoon sub. The Major is wonderfully well up in his Latin, after six-and-thirty years' absence from Sandhurst. Mr. A'Cute, who is very sharp, is made a go-between by Jobbins and Flummery, and, in fact, if the Lady Clara had been single, be would have effec tually played his part, seeing he neutralizes the attempts of the other two towards gaining her affec tions, very cleverly. The ladies at length agree to give themselves away by lot. Just as the first lots are drawn, their husbands arrive ; the gentlemen are dismayed at eeeiog themselves hoaxed, but A'Cute saves his credit by pretending to have been in the secret. Such is the outline of this agreeable jeu d'esprit, which may serve to wile away an hour very pleasantly. THE MAGAZINES. FRASER. " Gastronomy and Civilization," with which Fraser opens this month, proves that the writer of it must be " a fellow of infinite wit," an antiquarian, a scholar, and in every sense of the word a man of taste :" we hope soon to meet him again, and would suggest to him as a subject a Biography of Petronius ; such a work, as illustrative of the social manners of the Romans under the empire, is much ne e d e d. I n th e next article we ha ve , i n the shape of review of the recently published edition of " Sebastian Bach's Six Motetts in Score," a history of the progress of choral music in England within the last fifteen years. Captain Digby Grand continues his " Autobio graphy ;" and the series of " Papers on Edmund Burke" is concluded. The second chapter of the " History of the Hungarian War" brings down the narrative of events to the 11 th September, the day on which the Ban Jellachich, at the head of 40,000, crossed the Drava and invaded Hungary, devastat ing the country along the whole line of his march. The historian describes the perfidy of the Austrian Camarilla throughout the whole of the negotiations with Hungary, but we are surprised that no allusion is made to the very particular and intimate relations which were known to have for years existed between Baron Joseph Jellachich and the Camarilla, and which showed to all those who were at all conversant with these relations that the appointment of Baron Joseph Jellachich as Batt of Croatia was but the first overt act of the intrigue which ended in the forced abdica tion of the Emperor Ferdinand and the elevation to the throne of the son of the Archduchess Sophia. The treason of Latour is clearly proved; he through out kept up communications with the rebel Ban, and in his capacity of Secretarylat War issued such orders as would, if acted on, have secured the defeat of that cause of which he was the sworn servant and minister; and yet this man, whose base treachery merited the most severe punishment, who was at once a spy and a traitor, is now represented by the reactionaries as a martyr;forsooth—ex uno disco omnes—none of the so called martyrs of obscurantism have any more claim to the title than has Latour. 'We have also several reviews in this month's Fraser. BENTLEY. The opening paper on " Recent Travellers in the 'East" is illustrated by a portrait of Lieutenant the !Hon. Frederick Walpole, R.N. ; in this paper we find some interesting extracts, describing the manners of the Anasyrii, together with a well-told narrative of a visit to Layard at Nineveh. " The Correspon dence of Count de La Marck" is continued. The Count gives us in this instalment some pleasant gossip about the court and courtiers of Marie An toinette when that court was at its zenith. Mr. Cole continues his valuable notes on the Cape and the Kafirs. lle thus describes the latter : "The Kafirs can scarcely be said to have any religion at all. The North American Indian has his Great Spirit; the Negro his Fetish; the Hottentot his Grass hopper; but the Kafir has literally no idea of a Supreme Being or a future state. "And yet it appears impossible for the human mind to be entirely destitute of any notions of supernatural or spiritual influences. And so the Kafir is credulous in regard to a dozen of the absurdest superstitions. He has his rain -makers,' his ' doctors,' and his ' prophets' ing impostors, in whom be puts full faith. Does a long drought occur, which threatens to wither up his scanty crop of meelies and Kafir corn—his hope and trust aro in the rain-maker. This solemn humbug, who is, perhaps, some keen observer of natural phenomena, and can guess through such observations the period about which rain may be expected, tells the listening booby who consults him, to perform certain ceremonies (any absurdity he chooses to invent), and thcn that he shall have rain at such a time. If his prophecy is cor rect—or rather, I am wrong to call it prophecy, for the rain-maker professes to cause the rain himself—he is regarded with awe and reverence. If the rain fails to appear when ho commands it, he is clever enough to impute it to some error or misdeed on the part of the suppliant. _ _ ;' - Does disease break out among the cattle? The doctor' is called in; and though ho may often enough effect a cure through very natural means, he is wise enough to impute it to witchcraft on his own part. Does an unfortunate I Air lose some of his herd? The doctor again is consulted and tells who has stolen them: not that he is often, if ever4right; but his decision is final. The man whom he pronounces guilty must reinstate the missing number, or, in some cases, be mulcted of all the cattle he possesses. When a liutir, therefore, has a great desire fur his neighbour's cattle, be bas only to present a bribe to the doctor, who will give such a diei sion as will band over hi s h erds to the b r il er . This is a style of app ropr i at i on, under the semblance of justice, constantly adopted by th e c hi e f s th emse lves against their subjects. "Prophets are more rare—which is strange, seeing that nothing is easier than prophesying. The language used by these mysterious gentry, in all ages and all countries, is so exquisitely ambiguous, so plastically framed to meet almost any contingency, and so perfectly uncertain in all the details of chronology and locality, that I can scarcely imagine any prophecy to have been ever uttered that may not have been fulfilled a dozen times. Yet Kafir prophets are by no means numerous. I perceive, however, that a very ambitious one has sprung up lately, who has made rather a bad shot for a start, having ventured to prophesy, that when the war should begin between the Kafirs and the English, the latter would be turned into all sorts of vegetable and animal productions, leaving the colony free for the Kafirs to inhabit. This worthy man is evidently a novice in his art, and although ho has endeavoured to back out of his mistake, by saying that the Kafirs spoilt his prophecy by firing the first shot, I fear this ' dodge' vtill hardly avail him in the eyes of his compatriots. I have no doubt, however, that he has gained the end desired— namely, the commencement of a war. " I have been considerably amused by seeing it gravely asserted in the English papers, and even in one or two Cape ones, that the present war differs from all former ones, in being a religious one'—as if this prophet was any thing more than a tool in the hands of Saadilli, or that the latter placed one iota more of confidence in his pro phecies than the Archbishop of Canterbury would have done. Ho only wanted an excuse and a pretext for at tacking the colony, and he adopted tho very lame one of a prophecy." lie proposes to adopt strong measures for the putting an end to the Kafir war. England, as ho properly observes, cannot submit for ever to have a set of rob bers on her frontier, ready to rob and murder her sons ; and he proposes, therefore, to treat them as robbers and murderers should be treated—to work all Kafirs taken with arms in their hands in chain gangs on: the public roads, and to take possession of Kafirland, and apportion it among British subjects,Tso as to force the Kafirs to work for their living. His description of his adventures in the back settlements of South Africa is very amusing. The other papers in Bentley are above the usual magazine average. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. In the number for the present month we take our leave of "Maurice Tierney," who concludes his ca reer by winning "the gold chain and the wooden leg," the loss of a limb being accompanied by high promotion and royal favour • and, above all, by the h an d o f t h e fair and wealthy Mademoiselle D'Estelles. The autobio grapher, in conclusion, announces to his readers that anyone wishing to know more about the " per sonnel" of himself or his bride has but to look at David's picture of the great Emperor a marriage. 4' There they will find, in the lefthand corner, partly concealed behind the G ran d D u k e de Berg, an officer of the Guides, supporting on his arm l a f y t o h ung and very beautiful girl, herself a bride. lady's looks are turned with more intereste young n ou h n e g r companion than upon the gorgeous spectacle, re . member that she is but a few omarried. If the soldier carry himself with thatless f martial vigo_ur n o o r t grace, pray bear in mind cork legs had attained the perfection to which later skill had brought them." And so endeth the adventurous career of the gallant Maurice, with whom we have spent many a pleasant half-hour. Of more solid character are the 1 papf•rs " Hanns's Life of Chaltners-," and the " Present state of Geology," the latter especially worthy the reader's attention, as curtly but clearly showing what that noble science really is, how it has been occa sionally misapplied, and how it may operate in the transactions of the world. In the eulogium bestowed upon "Mccarthy's Poems," our former expressions relative to that talented writer testify that vve coin cide. The political article is devoted to a considera tion of the "Paps] Aggression" as handled in Arch bishop IVhately's charge, in Lord Monteagle's tricky letter to that prelate, and in Mr. Napier's argumenta tive reply to the letter of his Lordship. "Divination, \Vitchraft, and Mesmerism," is one of the most ex traordinary and interesting contributions that has ever appeared in the pages of any periodical. Lastly, we find a collection of appropriate lays, in "Christmas with our own Poets," with a genial introduction by Jonathan Fleko Slingsby, among which our fa vourites are, "The Irish Emigrant's Mother" and " Father Time and his Children." The present number of the Dublin University Iliagazine is in ferior to no former one, and the magazine itself fairly compotes with the proudest in the literary field. COLBURN S UNITED SERVICE. The valuable history, by Mr. Horace St. John, of " British Conquests in _lndia" is completed in the present number of the United Service ; we hope to see this admirable work published separately—it is a work of authority on the subject. The work of General Yusuf on " War in Africa" is continued ; this is a most valuable work, and we recommend it to the attentive consideration of the authorities of the War Department and of the Colonies. It should be the hand-hook of every officer who is likely to be employed in the Kafir war ; the same tactics which have suoceeded in the north of Africa against the Arabs will succeed Equally well in South Africa against the Kafirs. The other papers in this number I are worth an attentive perusal. THE GENTLEMAN'S. The portrait of the late W. Wyon, RA., which illustrates the present number, is an admirable like ness of the great medallist, and the accompanying biography is replete with interesting anecdotes of the various notabilities with whom he came in con tact during the course of his career. Mr. Harvill continues his very interesting series on Ulrick Von Hutten ; he is now approaching the most important part of the biography—viz , that which relates to the rise of the peasant war in Germany, of which war Ulrick Von liutten was one of the main instigators. We have a kindly written review of Carlyle's Lire of Sterling, and a most amusing notice of Sir George Head's recently published translation of Apulcius, besides the usual notes of the month. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING. SATURDAY. The Puppy Stakes. De.cidicg Course Mr. lingge's bk b Tendresse bl Mr. Holmes na bk b Bedlam Bess, and won the stakes. Tho All-Aged Stakes. Third Ties—Dunkeld bt Rushlight, Jester bt Exhibi tor. Deciding Course—Mr. Dibede's bk d Dunkeld bt Mr. Inskip's r d Jester, and won the stakes. The Exning Puppy Stskcs. Second Tics—Mopsus bt Madame, Britannia bt Delig h, Deciding Course—Mr. Holmes na Mopsus bt Mr. Buck worth's Britannia, and won the stakes. The Rutland Stakes were won by &quire, and the Newmarket Stakes by Jeannette. SPORTING NO TES. No. CLXI. THE WOLVERIIAMPTON MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The success which attended my efforts at the ate Warwick and Leamington meeting was of so first rate a character that I think I may say, without vanity, I have overcome what is considered an insurmountable difficulty by the various racing prognosticators, namely, that of selecting the winners of steeplechases and hurdle races, in three cases out of four. My selection for the principal steeplechase, Oscar, won in the easiest style imaginable; this to a groat extent is to be accounted for by the ground b e i ng i n the condition exactly suited to him. The Marquis of Waterford's game old son of Economist, Lord George, ran into exactly the position I awarded him; and Victress was, where I predicted sho would be, in close attendance. Wolverhampton sports a tolerable bill of fare, to be decided to morrow. The line of country over which the steeplechases will be run is, with one exception, probably the best for this sort of work in England. There will bo thirty-five leaps and a good run in of nearly a quarter of a mile. The first race of the day will close and name to Mr. Walker, at the Talbot Hotel, this evening, between five and eight; it is a sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 20 added. The second race is the Wolverhampton Steeplechase, a Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each, h ft, and only sif declared, with 100 added, nearly four miles. Ac cording to the latest accounts the field will consist of Lucy Neale,Vainhope, Colu m b us, Th urgarton,Victrese, The Young-'un, Do Ginkle, Carrig, Hardwick, and, per haps Tally-ho; the Cripple is also in the neighbourhood. Thus it will be perceived that the field will probably embrace, from the number of horses in the vicinity, fully three-fourths of the acceptances, a specimen of successful handicapping or management in the sporting bloods of this manufacturing town not often to be met with else where. Peter Simple figures among the acceptances at a favourable weight, but as the money does not seem to be on him, I must on this occasion desert my simple friend. Lucy Neale, I think, will in this essay, being in first-rate farm, prove that she is good enough to be in the enviable position of premier at the finish of the race, without Mr. W. Vevers may make her spurt a vainhope. Columbus, I conceive, has no chance whatever, and Half -and-Half must be content to figure in the rear if he starts, which is dubi ous. Thurgarton, though lightly weighted, has his superiors here, consequently will not show to much ad vantage. Viotress, I anticipate, will be somewhere at the heal of the ruck, and the fancy horse, De Ginkle, dead beat at the finale. The favourite of the public, and to some extent of th e s t a bl e, M r. Palmer ' s Young-'un, with only 9st 101 b upon kis back, if gifted with a rea sonable allowance of steeplechasing locomotion, ought to be at the least one of the first three, if they cannot get him past the post first; of which last mancaavre I enter tain considerable doubts. M'lon is not likely to come to the scratch. Carrig, who has been a great pot during the last week at the list houses, is weighted delightfully, and if aught is to bo gathered from his - performances in Ireland, and his present appearance and condition, he will be a dangerous rival to the best of them, but I fancy no winner. Little Hardwick will run game from cud to end, but I almost fancy that the length of the course and its peculiar na ture will not suit his racing (polities; he will, however, run well, and must not be despised. Tally-hu'a vrciAht is so very light that it must give him a respectable chance, but as he is somewhat slow at his work occa sionally, I think it will be au ineffectual case this time of " Tally-ho I hark forward!" Chatter-box, the Screw, and the Cripple form a lively trio, which may be sent to the right -about at once. Having glanced at the lot, throwing Peter Simple over for the reason be fore mentioned, I must award the leading positions to Lucy Neale, Vainhope, The Young-'un, Carrig, and Hardwick, expecting to see Luca NE ALE and Vain hope (if meant) in the leading positions, with the Young-'l4n second or third, Hardwick and Carrig in the next two places. The Free Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 sous, each, with 40 added, about two miles, will moat probably be contested by the following:—Cogia, Little Queen, Peter, Half-and-Half, Sir Alexander, Tally-ho, Gehenna, Warwick, and perhaps another or two. The great pot of the early part of last week, Warwick, though weighted at 83t 121 b, in my opinion will not be first, although he may be up. Tally-ho here, if ever he had a chance, has got it now, having only 9st 81b upon his back; if any outsider does the deed this is the nag. Sir Alexander I don't faucy will finish satisfactorily. Peter in some little force at Manchester came with a slight rush on Saturday, advancing several points in the odds ; all the money invested on him, however, I take it is gone to the dogs. LITTLE QUEEN and HALF-AND-HALF, together with TALLT-HO shall be my leading trio; and if Little Queen misses the mark, commend mo to the next in order of succession; Gehenna, Warwick, and Peter run ning home in company in the immediate rear of the before-named trio. Betting this morning uncommonly brisk on the Wol verhampton Steeple Chase, at the following prices: -4 to 1 agst Young-'un, taken-5 to 1 agst Lucy Neale -sto 1 agst Carrig, taken-8 to 1 agst Vainhope-8 to 1 agst llardwick, taken-8 and 7to 1 agst De Ginkle I taken. Hurdle Race-5 to 2 agst Littl e Q ueen, 3to taken freely-4 to 1 agst Warwick-9 to 2 agat Peter, s'to 1 taken. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Dec. 8, 1851. The Rev. J. E. Gladstone has been delivering a series of Sunday evening lectures at the Episcopal Chapel, Long-acre. On Sunday evening last he gave an animated discourse upon " Tractarianism is Popery, and must be ex pelled." In the course of the lecture the learned divine stated that he had attended the service of the Church of St. Barnabas, in order that he might deal with facts. He Was unsparing in his censure of those Tractarian clergymen who remain as traitors in the Church, and lamented the fearful culpability of the bishop of this diocese in allowing the iser vice to be so p a pi st i cally conducted in a church su bject to authority. LIBERALITY OP HER MAJE 9 i 200 alai" ship France, from Antwerp to New York, some days since grants and a full cargo, arrived at this po rt i i sio 0 i with an un known a damaged state, having been in u c nd necessary to land known ship in the channel. It was f lore, and her Majes . ty the passengers and lodge them on TY.—The thAmerican hearing of the circumstance, rations should be issued to each p e estimation which every true it be possible to add t° the beloved Sovereign, such to g ut —_ or ,nz h Englishman entertains for have that e ff ect. P was pleased to t t o h eorrdeexrpetnh expense. .dai li f nerosity must undoubtedly Times. LonD JOHN RUSSE LL.—The s g u ll y ! le H ft o c n h . es id ha O rn rd . John Richmond Park, f Parliament, with exception of official r.u.s—eilTahnedfßami Lodge, P until the meeting o His Lordship and family intend • to Downing-street. Russell, with Lady visits s holidays with . his Grace the Duke of lace on Saturday last for Pembroke pass the Christmas Veaford, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. CLIANCELLORSIIIF OF TIIE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. —A correspondent informs Its that it is very probable that the Earl of Derby may be elected Chancellor Of the Lauv er . sity of Dublin.—Herald, _lsr 4...,,,., ..,..,, r „,..,..,- ----,..,-_-, ~....,,,-,....„.„:.-_,-... k- - ii.:, , -- . .7., _,,, i<4 THE RI VER PLATE. r:ity CAPITULATION OF ORIBE, ORIENTAL. AND TERIIINA TION OF THE WAR IN THE IiNSTPA Her Majesty's sloop Fly, which left Rio de Janeiro on the 22d October, brings a portio n of the River Plate letters, that had arrived by the Brazilian mail steamer, Paquete do Sul. Our correspondence from Monte Video is dated 12th October. The siege of Monte Video has terminated. Oribe has capitulated. The Argentine troops have joined Urquiza. There is not within the territories of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay a single man who obeys th e orders of Rosas. The war is concluded—and the liberation of Monte Video has been accomplished withourbloodshed. The victorious forces of Urquiza will be directed against Roses in Buenos Ayres. This intelligence confirms the news brought by her Majesty's ship Geyser. On the morning of the Bth October General Urquiza announced to the Oriental Government that the terms of capitulation were ar ranged, and that the war was brought to a conclusion —that the Argentine soldiers (which were the only troops that remained with Oribe) had been offered the option of delivering up their Arms, or of joining the ranks of General Urquiza, in order to take a part in the intended campaign against General Roses, the pretended supreme chief of the Argentine Confede ration, and that this latter alternative had be es eagerly accepted by all of them. Thus the aggres. sive power of Rosas has disappeared from the Banda Oriental, which no longer contains a single soldier under his comman d , or th a t o f hi s c i-d evant lieutenant Oribe. The remaining terms of the capitulation had not been made public ; but we believe the following conditions may be tpribe, per ftaker/ as allthentlC :—The ac's of ormesi durin the eight-and-a-half years of his oc ,a a s r , e , a i t i o d b ; e w ith consideredth e e 10 b3 t 7 i - o t n he of Or a i l e l cupation urin e Cerrito, and command of the besieging wentmadern Govern by him of houses, land s , ss zc n (- grants are to be annulled and of no effe c t. " which The other acts chiefly refer to civil admin - t• - • n g ta ra l n G ts ove is ration in the part of the country then under his control, an d t h • their legalization is a matter of public convenience IE fiscal administra tion, as regards acts past, i s also t o be confirmed—the goods in entrepot at the Buceo ar the Custom•house cf Monte vide e o to be transferred to fore delivered to the consignees are 7 to an be d those hereto having paid duty. The port of the nace considered b li e s abandoned, and this measure had been alre°adliyas t o into effect, no shipping having been allowed- car ri edtod. charge there since the announcement of the ' l i" pito a tion. The trade is transferred to Monte Video Oribe was to remain, at any rate for the presentet , at Generals Monte Vi Urquiza and his person al arzon. G safety bein g guar t d an b y The other Argentine officers had been received on board her Majesty's corvette Tweed, lying off the port. The position of the British Admiral had been gravely compromised by the intemperance of th e commander of this ship. Lord Francis J. Russell had, contrary to the standing orders, landed an arm e d force at the Buceo, to protect the Argentine officers on their embarkation. This unfortunate step w as taken before hostilities had ceased between the belli gerent parties. Cabrera, the Canaryman, a notorious assassin (who was employed by Oribe to take the life of the amiable and accomplished Dr. Florencio Varela, chief editor of the Commercio dcl Plcda, and who effected his cruel purposes by stabbing him at the door of his printing. office, on the 20th of March, 1848), hasbeen made prisoner, and will, it is to be hoped, suffer the punishment due to his many crimes. A general holiday was proclaimed in Monte Video on the Bth, which was to last till the 13th of October, and during which no business whatsoever was to be transacted. The price of doubloons in Buenos Ayres, on the 10th, was 317 dollars each. DEATH OF THE EARL OF SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE. We have to record the death of this venerable noble man, who expired on the 4th inst , at his seat, Charlton, near Malmesbury, county of Wilts, aged 75. The Noble Lord was always distinguished for the peculiarity of his attire, as he generally assumed that of a second-rate farmer. Tho deceased peer, Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffulk and Berkshire, Viscount Andover, and Baron Howard, in the peerage of England, was the son of John, fifteenth earl, by the daughter of John Gaskartb, Esq. He married in January, 1803, the Hon. Eli zabeth Jane Dutton, eldest daughter of James, first Lord Sherborne, and by that lady, who died in 1836, he had issue 10 children, including a son, Viscount Ando ver, born in 1804, who succeeds to the titles and estates. Another son, the Hon. James Kenneth Howard, M.P., is married to a daughter of the Marquis of Lansdowne. Lord Suffolk was Colonel of the Wilts Militia. He suc ceeded his father in the title, &c., in 1820. In politics the deceased was a Liberal, and took great interest in agricultural pursuits, though not a Protectionist. This title was created in 1603, and the first holder, a distin guished naval commander in the time of Elizabeth, was son of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk, who was be headed in 1572. He was first summoned to Parlia ment as Lord Howard de Walden. and became Lord High Treasurer of England and K.G. His second son was created Earl of Berkshire, and the course of events subsequently united the two titles. The first Earl, it should have been added, was one of the number of per sons employed in the search about the houses of Parlia ment, which resulted in the arrest of Guy Fawkes. Some of our journalists describe this family as Roman Catholics, such not being the case. The name of Howard formerly had a very Catholic sound in England, but now matters have changed. Even the Duke of Norfolk has withdrawn from the ancient faith. The Howard. pre sent a numerous array in the peerage, the name being ennobled in the titles of Norfolk, Effingham, Carlisle, Wicklow, Suffolk, Howard de Walden. The name of Ellis has latterly been adopted in connexion with the latter. EXTENSIVE REVENUE SEIZURE.—At Worship street, on Saturday, two rather respectable-looking young men, named Jesse Carr and George Bloomfield, were charged with an offence against the revenue laws, under the follow ing circumstances : —They had arrived at the Shoreditch Railway terminus by a train from Essex, and were just leav ing it, one of them carrying a carpet-bag and the other a basket, when Vanstone, an officer et inland revenue, who had bsen on the look out for them, asked them what their bag and basket contained? They replied, "Nothing parti cular," but in the bag he found a tin case and a bladder, each containing a gallon of spirits, and in the basket there were two bladders, containing similar quantities, the whole being British, and more than 50 per cent. above proof. Having delivered into custody the two prisoners, who strongly asserted that they had been entrapped by other I arties, the officer, from what Le learned from them, pro ceeded to Romfurd, where he obtained possession of other quantities of spirits at Carr's residence, and then posting off to a place seven miles beyond Rumford, he discovered on the premises of an apparently respectable person a distillery fitted up for the manufacture upon a very extensive scale, with stills then in full operation, the whole of which he, of course, seized. The defendants Carr and Bloomfield having assured the magistrate that they were led into the offence charged against them, and the officer having expressed his belief of the truth of their statement, inasmuch as throegh their information he had been enabled to make the seizure referred to above, they were fined 10s. each and discharged. number of workm en h ave anin ha s ; a STATUE OE ACHILLE I : e . e — n Fe engaged g several h e da b y a s se past of thea 1 southern side of the statue of Achilles, in Hyde-park, in laying down an immense slab, which is said to ha ve b een a prominent object u t o form inscription trative approach to to in theth e Great Exhibition, on this slab, in further honour o f th e D u k e, but been colossal the words w p ords are not allowed to be copied, suc h great secrecy s x ta h t i u b e it . ion l being observed that a large canvass tarpauling is fixed round the statue to exclude all strangers, and it is generally under stood some slight ceremony will be observed whoa it is A G t erna th an a opened to the public, which will be in a few days. G of Ez a m s s er ri mon Cli d u e u li c v u ered ul yest L er o d N ay no at i cr—he Catholic Chapel, Great St. Thomas Apostle, C' • con iC cl ß us w ion City in cele bration of the forty-second anniversary of its o • , g Car dinal Wiseman, after some remarks on the mean p n en e in-, of the present chapel, announced to the congregatn that the R. demptorist ,Fathers, who have the careof this mission, lion immediately callapon them to subscribe to the erec tion of a new German church, which should be worthy of their religion and country. The Cardinal said that the plan was projected, and he hoped that th • ea_ e next time he addr ad them it would be iu a new and be tiful church. The site of this church is not yet decided all but it is Ma to be in upon, Whitechapel, which • P opulation. contains a large German slated, GENERAL E LECTION.--STOuzronr.- -1 ! 1 the on unquestionable authority', that a large hVVrde?'ermined liberal electors of this important boroug h ~, eminent merchant of on requesting James Watts, Esc!, an its representation at Manchester, to become a candidate Watts is an energetic, the next general election. r_._ il t l iteformer—a strenuous ad straightforward, and c onsistent h franchise, and also to the vocate to the extension 0 • f n t among the people, and the sub general diffusion of educati t o er for the gaoler. He is highly sub stitution of the schoolmas ter by all classes in the thickly-inha bited and respect ed a ldistrict in which he resides. bited and infinenta E TON COLLEGE. TRH CHRISTMAS VACATION.-- T ues d a y next, t On home. 0 n Thursday, the 9th inst., the sixth and fifth f orm O pp idans go Collegers the 11th inst. th e Lowe and leave. The schools w ill nominally OoPidans o p e n on Monday, the 12th of January, 1852, b e i ng Plough Monday. On Saturday, the 17th of January, the C o ll egera and Lower Opp daps return to Eten. The l ower division Oppidans return on Tuesday, th e 20 t h of January. The middle and upper division return on Thursday, the 22d of form January, a d nd on Saturday, the 24th of J anuary, the sixth iembled. Oppians return, w u hen the wh ole school will ha v e - FALL OF Two WAREHOUSES IN THE CITY.--Early yesterday forenoon an alarming accident took place in Can non-street West, City, by the falling of two new buildings, situate at the corner of Bush-lane, opposite St. Swithin's Church. The buildings, which were of considerable extent, , were in a line of the improvements going on in that locality. They had just been erected by Mr. Alderman Lawrence, the builder ; And the proprietors, Messrs. Prichard and Price, u p h olsterers, were t o take possession about Christmas. What remains of th e buildings excites much surprise. The entire roof, a p o i n t ed one, some sixty or seventy feet 10n g. h en' remains d walls. suspended, as it appears, on the back andable The accident i s suppose d to have been ron girder. occasioned by the breaking of an iron i _ DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM - Sillp EunorA.—On S a t ur d a y f o renoon at half-past ten, the British North American Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captai n Lott, left the Mersey for Now York direct, with an average complement of passengers for th e season, a full cargo, and the usual mails for the United State. and the British N o . viticea. OS ' OP $ 0 tila Jo-