The Sun. — London, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Robert Gardner, who called himself a compositor, was charged with assaulting a woman named Mary Brazier, living at 7, Lazenby-court, Long acre. The complainant stated that she was the wife of a cab man, and yesterday afternoon a young servant girl, named Ann Fox, was drinking tea at her house, when the defendant forced his way into the house and demanded to see her. Witness knew that the defendant had induced the girl to leave her situation under a promise of mar riage, and that he had been the cause of her spending all her money and pawning her clothes ; so she was deter mined to prevent his taking her away, Both witness and the girl resisted him—the latter declaring that she would have no more to say to him ; upon which the de fendant raised his arm and struck witness a severe blow in the eye, which knocked her down. He also used threatening language to Ann Fox. The defendant was drunk at the iime. _ . Ann Fox corroborated this statement, and said that she was to have been married on Saturday last to the defendant, who had caused the banns to be published, but, at the last moment, declined to fulfil his promise, although he had got her to leave her place, and had spent all her money. She had since learnt that the de fendant had been living for several years upon the pro stitution of young women. Mr. Henry—Did you consent to marry him without knowing anything about his character Witness—He was "recommended" to me by a young female friend in Lazenby-court. (Laughter.) Mr. Henry— Did he use any violence to you ? Witness replied that he threatened to stick her with a knife if she did not leave Mrs. Brazier's house and accompany him. Mr. Henry, after lecturing the girl upon the impru dence of her intended match, told the defendant that he had a great mind to send him to prison without the option of paying a fine, the fact of his being drunk being a very poor excuse for the violence of his conduct to wards the complainant. He must pay a five of 51., or be committed for six weeks in default.—The defendant was sent to prison. MANSION-HOUSE.— William Anderson, a person of very respectable appearance, aged about 30 years, who it was reported has been extensively engaged in business in the City for some time, was brought before the Lord Mayor in the custody of Forrester, the officer, upon the charge of having uttered a forged bill of exchange for 2,2501. Mr. Hobler attended for the defence. The prisoner kept his handkerchief to his face, and sobbed frequently during the investigation. Mr. Thomas Scurr Womersley said—l am a bill broker, in Lombard street-chambers, Clement's-lane; and belong to the firm of Womersley and B ur t. Y ester d ay at about two o'clock , the prisoner brought me the bill of exchange I produce for 2,2501., and asked me to discount it. I wished him to leave it for a short time. He did so, and left the office ; and I wen t an d ma d e i nqu i r i es about the bill at the office of Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Chapman, where I saw Mr. Chapman, with whom I left the bill. Mr. Chapman sent the bill back to me with intelligence th a t it was a f orgery, an d at a b out t h ree o'clock, or a little before, the prisoner returned. I then had possession of the bill, and knew that it was a for g!3l7. I told him that it was a forgery, and that I must give him in charge. He said that he could not under stand what we meant, and that he would go on to the acceptor's with me. I had the bill in my hand, but did not show it to him ofter I had received it from Mr. Chapman. I said it was useless to go to the gentleman whose acceptance the bill appeared to be, as they had seen the bill, and said that it was not their acceptance. He made no reply to that. Daniel Forrester, who had been sent for by Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Chapman, came in while the prisoner was waiting in the office, and I said I must give the prisoner in charge to Mr. Forres ter. Ido not recollect whether he made any observation upon the occaQion. He and Forrester then left the office to go to the prisoner's office to see, as I understood, what property might be there. The witness upon being asked, how he knew there was any property at the prisoner's office, said he imagined that such was the case, but not in consequence of any conversation he had had with the prisoner. I retained possession of the bill. I had given nothing for it. I did not discount it. lam quite sure the bill produced is the same bill the prisoner 'Rough to me, and which I gave to Mr. Chapman. I h ave 'not since had any conversa tion with the prisoner, nor have I seen him since, until I saw him in custody at the Mansion-house. I had pre viously discounted for the prisoner, and have bills still outstanding. I know his writing, and am of opinion that the endorsement of his name on the bill is his. The Lord Mayor—Do you believe that there is some thing wrong in the outstanding bills ? Witness—l have reason to believe that there is. They are not in our possession. _ _ The following is a copy of the bill of exchange : "B 2,165. "Calcutta, Oct. 4, 1853. "No. 620, exchange for 2.2501. "At ninety days after sight pay this first of exchange (second and third unpaid) to the order of Mr. J. Dupont the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds sterling value in account L. and S., which place to ac count as advised. " J. LE BRUN. " To Messrs. J. and C. Van Notton and Co., London. "Accepted 15th December, 1853, for two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, payable when due at Messrs. Martin and Co.—B. and C. Van Notten and Co. 660." The following letter, containing the delivery warrant for currants, copied below, was found in the possession of the prisoner. It was not addressed to any person : " Tuesday. " Dear Sir,---I have but this moment obtained the en closed. In course of the afternnon I will, if possible, come down and complete the other matters, but I can not promise, having much on hand. If lam not down at four o'clock I shall be obliged to postpone it until to morrow.—Believe me, yours truly, " Custom-house-quay. " W. B. ANDERSON. • Special security, "No. 12,968 warehouses, London, October 14, 1853. Warrant for 20 casks of currants, imported in the Coun tess of Lonsdale Little master, from Hambro', entered on the 3d October, 1853, by Van Notten and e liverable to W. B. Anderson, or their assigns, Co.,by en dorsement thereon, all charges payable. Mark Twenty casks currants. G. &B. . cwt. qrs. lbs. 1.20 361 0 5 "F. BLAKE, Warehouse-keeper. " JNO. SILVERLOCK, Superintendent. " Custom -house-quay Warrant," Indorsed, " Deliver the within-mentioned goods. "W. B. ANDERSON." Mr. Lambert Van Notten Pole, merchant, of Nos. and 3, Lime-street-square, City, said—l have one part ner, and we trade under the firm of J. and C. Van Not ten and Co. There is not a Mr. Van Notten in the firm. We bank at Messrs. Martin and Co.'s, and make our bills payable there. The acceptance to the bill of ex change produced is not in my writing, nor in that of my partner ; nor has it been written by my authority. I have never heard of any other firm of the same trading in London. The bill of exchange is entirely unknown to me, and so is the supposed drawer. Daniel Forrester, principal officer of the Aransion house, said—Yesterday afternoon, at about three o'clock, I was sent for to the house of Messrs..Overend, Gurney, and Chapman, and I saw Mr. Chapman. I then went, by his direction, with William Clarke to the office o f Messrs. Womersley and Burt, in Lornbard-street-chara ber3, Clements-lane. When I got there I was ushered into a room where the prisoner was by Mr. Womersley who said " This is Mr. Forrester, and I must give you in charge." I understood it was upon the subject o f some bill which had been forged, and the name of Van Notten was mentioned ; and whilst I was there, a Mr. Fries came in, and asked the prisoner for 1,6001. ; and the prisoner and Mr. Fries and Clarke and I went in a cab to Broad-street, where the prisoner said he expected the money was. The money not having arrived there, we went to Billiter-street, where the prisoner went up the staircase of No. 21, and turned short to the left, slammed the door, and went in and through another door, down another staircase, No. 22, and into the street. He had muttered a word or two to a gentleman into whose office he had turned, and he then suddenly started through the other door. I ran after him, and he was stopped at the corner of Mincing-lane. I found in his possession two Bank of England notes, the one for 2001. and the other for 100/: and the letter and warrant for the currants. The Lord Mayor—Do you believe the warrant relates to some other charge ? Witness—l do. I found a great many papers at his counting-house. Mr. Vallings, of the firm of Young and Vallings, at tended to watch the proceedings upon the part of Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Chapman, and stated that there were several other charges of a similar kind against the prisoner, one of them being to the amount of 3,050 t. Mr. Hobler applied to the Lord Mayor to allow his client, who, he said, had carried on business six or sevea Years in the City with a high character, to give in bail to appea r on the day of the second examination. The strongest opposition was made to the application to admit bail, and Th e 1- 1° rd Mayor said he could notfor a moment think of accept; -- t'g I,baiwhatever might be the amount pro posed, and h wvehrohlgh the character of the securities. The prisonoeZe was taken sobbing from the bar, and who never for a , ta oment uncovered any part of his f ace , wa s then remanded, and conveyed to prison in a cab. MA _RYLEBONE . ___ Fm n -- Brooke, a private i n th e 2d battalion of Grenadier Guards was brought up, charged with ha vin g st olen property to a considerableofficersamount belonging to officers of at St. John's - wood Barracks, e regiment stationed The prisoner was brought up from n aps , carpenter robbery was made out against him. He w u a's an , u ol a e : r a o s o e m o , f 1 by trade and had a workshop close to th eba a st where many of the officers of the regiment was Inuit deposited their property for security. Plate, &c., time to time. The articles consisted of silver spoons,efr°ln forks, &c., and after information had been give n i t police, the prisoner was taken into custody at Bath. In the room which he occupied were found numerou s articles which had been stolen. Some of them which had been pledged were produced and identified, and the prisoner, who, it is imagined, has robbed other officers of the regiment to the extent of nearly 4001. was remanded. EXTENSIVE LANDSLIP.- An extensive landslip, carry ing away a whole field, has just occurred on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, now constructing near Devizes, together with an occupation bridge, owing to the immense superincumbent weight of the embankment, which has, it is stated, at great expense been made and re-made. CONVICTION FOR WIFE-MURDER AT LEITH. At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Mon day last, William Cumming, seaman, was convicted of the murder of his wife, by repeated assaults and bar barous treatment. The judges on the bench were the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lord Cockburn, and Lord Handyside. The Solicitor- General (Mr. Craufurd) conducted the prosecution. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. He was 55 years of age, had served in the East India Company, from whom, it was said, he had a pension, and he had married the deceased on his return home, five or six years ago. The first witness called was Janet Selkirk, or Hunter, who resided with Thomas Danskin, seaman, next door to the prisoner. She deposed, on the night of Saturday the 22d of October, she was awakened by loud cries of "murder," and recognised Mrs. Cumming's voice. Next day she went to see her. She found her marked all about the face. One of her ears were sore swelled, and blood was oozing from it. Witneas asked what was the mat ter with her. She said she had been very sorely beaten by her husband. She said she was much pained about the left breast, which was all bruised and discoloured. She said her husband done it all. On the Monday the deceased was very weak and ill, but the prisoner was going about furious with drink. She was 'worse on the Tuesday, and all the day he was going about drinking and quarrelling. He was so furious tha t witness was glad to get out of the way. On Tuesday night, or early on Wednesday morning, witness was again startled from her sleep in the middle of the night with the cries of " murder." She said to Mrs. Danskin, " that's Mrs. Cumming's cries if she's alive." She knew her voice. The cries were " murder, murder, murde r ," i n l ou d scr eams, [thrice over. Witn&s propo se d t o Th omas Danskin to rise and go in. He said " no," for he was ill with his knee at the time. Sh e was a f ra id t o go i n alone. In the morning she went to Mrs. Cumming, be tween 9 and 10 o'clock. She found her lying across the bed, with her head to the back and her feet lying in the front. Sho was not able to speak. She assisted her out of bed, and took o ff h er d ayc l o th e' , an d pu t h er to b e d again. She did not seem conscious of what was done to her. On the W e d nes d ay a ft ernoon , w it ness saw Cum ming at the mo u th o f th e c l ose carr yi ng a b un dl e i n his hand, as if going away on kis journey. He gave three hurrahs, and waved his hat on going away. The de ceased was a quiet and sober woman. Mary Smith, or Danskin, wife of Thomas Danskin, visited Mrs. Cumming on the Sunday morning. Saw her ear was swelled and bloody, and her right elbow all blue. She showed witness that all her body was much bruised, and quite discoloured. Witness asked her how she got those bruises. She said " You needna' ask ;it was William that did it." She also said he had been looking for a razor to cut her throat ; for he was deter mined to have her life. She was quite sober. She said he had been the worse for drink, and had " yoked" on her because she would not rise to light a candle. She said he had struck her very severely with a stick, Heard Mrs. Cumming's cries of "Murder" on the Wednesday morning, but was afraid to go to her, and her husband was unable. On the Wednesday she found deceased unable to speak, and apparently insensible from the in• juries she had sustained. Marion Danskin, a diminutive girl of 14, corroborated a considerable part of the evidence, and said, that on the Tuesday afternoon, while she was washing Mrs. Cum - • nung s teathings and doing little household services, the prisoner, who after tea had gone to bed, .where his wife was, suddenly wakened, after sleeping some time, and rose on his knees in the bed and knocked her out of it. He cursed and swore, and said he would do for her. She said, " William, do not 'hash' me the way you are doing, for you'll be hanged, and I would not wish you to be banged for me." On her getting up off the fluor, he took up the pillow and slapped her on the head ; her head came against the floor with the blow. He next took her by the ankles and dragged her across the floor, and then trampled and " brizzed" (pressed on her breast with bis knees. He also took a stick and struck her twice on the shoulder and side. Witness was afraid he would strike her to, and ran out. Outside the door she heard sounds as if he was beating her again. She went back the next morning at 9 o'clock. The prisoner opened the door to her. The deceased was then lying across the bed, with her head over the deal board at the foot, and her feet hanging in front. She had more clothes on than she had the night before. She was lying above the bedclothes and he went to bed again under the bedclothes. She was lying very quiet. Prisoner told witness to ask her if she had any money, She shook her head. He then rose and took lOs from her pocket, and gave witness half-a-crown to get a pint of ale and some spirits. When she came back he wanted his wife take a glass of spirits, and he said if she would not take it he would knock her brains out. She flung the whisky behind her, but she had to tell him that she took it, for fright. He asked witness if she took it, and she had to say " Yes." He left her a shilling, and said that was to keep her all her days. He said he was going home to his wife and his three children in India. Ann Burgess, or Wilson, residing in Edinburgh, remem bered visiting Mrs. Cumming, with Mary Macpherson, on Sunday evening, the 23d of October. Cumming and an artilleryman were in the house. She was in bed. She said she was ill owing to his blows. He was squaring with his stick, and fencing with the Artilleryman. He evidently had been drinking, but was not drunk. She had 161 x or seven marks on her body altogether. Mary Macpherson said, " Cumming, you've done for her now." He said, " Devil afear of her ; she'll see two or three of us out yet." Witness said to her, "If I was you, I would leave him ;" but she said, What can Ido I" She added, " But you'll hear of me to-mor row, for he'll finish me quite off to night." She asked me to come back again to-morrow to see her. There was no appearance of drink about her. She said he came in late ; and, as he could not get a light, he pulled her out of bed, and pressed on her breast with his knees, and had broken three of her ribs. She said he had broken some of the furniture, and struck her with some of the bits that he broken. She kissed witness on leaving, and grasped her hand several times. She seemed much frightened. The prisoner was in high spirits, and seemed agreeable with her. They went down to see her again on the Monday evening. She was out of bed, and was putting on her gown to go out with him. She had a very wild appearance, delirious and "raised-like," and they were astonished to find her out of bed. She did not have the appearance of drink. Witness was sent for, and went down on the 6th of November. She saw fresh wounds on her body then—one on her cheek, one on her forehead, and one on her arm. The deceased was unable to recognise her. _ _ Adam Mackay, sergeant-major, Leith police, deponed to deceased coming to the police-office on the Tuesday night, shortly after 11, and saying she had been locked out by her husband. She said he had beaten her, and she was injured in various parts of her body, but she did not wish to make any complaint of him. Witness sent an officer with her to try to get in, but they failed, and came back. Witness on leaving the office for the night, left her in the protection of the constable in charge, but it seemed she had gone away again soon after. Daniel Campbell, labourer, deponed to finding Mrs. Cumming lying on the stairs when he came home from work about midnight on Tuesday. She said, " It's me, Dannie ; he's locked me out." Witness told his mother, but she told him not to interfere. Some time after the prisoner rapped at their door, and asked them to carry his wife up the stairs, which his brother John rose and did. James Grant, superintendent of the Leith police, ap• prehended the prisoner on the Ist of November, and charged him with assaulting his wife to the danger of her life. He said he had struck her with his open hand, but with nothing else. The Lord Justice-Clerk expressed his surprise that the poor woman, coming to the police-office in such a weak state, was allowed to go away and to stagger home with out any one to protect her. In almost every instance wives would not make complaint against their husbands, but if the case had been taken up at this point by the police, and the man apprehended, the murder might have been prevented. Mr. Grant stated that he had only heard of the case on the Thursday, but the sergeant-major in waiting at the time had had long experience in police matters. She had remained a short time in the office, and, on going away, she was advised to go somewhere else, for shelter for the night. The l eprisoner, son wife in his d ec l arat i ons, a d m i tted having his hand on t h e S aturday even i ng, a r t \ ,ithe h knew nothi ng o f t h e severe injuries, struck but a histhat v which she must have got, he said, whenouto drinking.oaTuFsday evening. Ile asse rted tha t she was given t Two witnesses w ere call ed for the defence--John i Campbell, who had heard a fall o n the stairs, which he he supposed to be Dire. Cumming, some timebeforefrohme (witness) carried her up to her house at the prisoner's request, and the Sub - Insp ector of South Leith, who de posed to giving, and afterward s cuttin g off, aliment the deceased bcause of her intemperance. The Solicitor-General addressed the jury for the p ro . secution, and Mr. John Grahame for the panel. The Lord Justice-Clerk, in reviewing the case, re. marked, that it was lamentable that the poor woman was allowed to leave the police-office alone, and that no means were adopted to provide a place of safety for her, as proper measures on the part of the police might have prevented the fatal event. The deceased, he said, ap peared to have been a quiet, gentle, and industrious woman, and, during the period to which the evidence related there was no evidence of her drinking ; but whether she had been given to drink or not it was high time that a jury should sternly lay aside such considera tions when they found women beaten to death in the shocking manner that had of late been disclosed in seve ral cases in Scotland. The jury, after brief deliberation, unanimously re turned a verdict of guilty of murder as libelled. The Lord Justice-Clerk passed sentence on the pri soner of execution at Edinburgh, on Monday, the 9th of January next. In discharging the jury, he intimated that their verdict had the full assent and unhesitating concurrence of the Court. The prisoner then said, in a firm tone—" Will you allow me to speak, my lord' I have been at sea for 40 years, and for 25 years have served Government (mean ing the East India Company) faithfully, and have done my duty as a man. Though the sentence of death has been passed upon me, I can assure you that I did it with in intention of committing murder. lam innocent of that ; and I trust the Lord will have mercy on me." The Lord Justice-Clerk addressed him, and said— " 'William Cumming, you may rely on it that your best hope is not to cherish such feelings, but to humble your self before Almighty God, t o acknowledge your guilt, and to implore, by fervent and instant prayer, that mercy which you hope to obtain. Shut not your mind against the influenc es o f Conviction by any hopes of above all, s h ut not your mind by mis takenof your guilt on this occasion. " pard o n notions; nd, The prisoner was then removed, and the Court ad journed. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1853, CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. On Tuesday a court was held—Mr. Deputy Peacock, occupied the chair. THE FLEET DITCH. Mr. G. YONGE, of No. 1, Crescent-place, Blackfriars, attended for the purpose of complaining of a nuisance which had existed for some months, by reason of a hole having been opened in front of his house into the Fleet ditch, from which a most offensive smell arose. In, ad dition to this there was a wooden box made, which in a great measure covered his house from public view, and in it was a door through which the workmen entered, the pavement around it being covered with bricks and other materials, and resembling the yard of a brickJayer or timber merchant. Some months had elapsed since any carriage had been able to approach his door, and the value of his premises had been very greatly deem-wed, on account of the several sources of annoyance to which he had been and was still subjected. Mr. HEYWOOD said he had only to admit the truth of everything that Mr. Yonge had stated, and to say that the annoyance complained of was perfectly unavoid able. He believed, however, that such extensive and trouble some works had never been carried on with so little pub lic inconvenience, and although it was true that Mr. Yonge could not get up to his door, it was necessary that the materials should be placed as near as possible to the hole that had been opened into the Fleet-ditch. He was exceedingly sorry that any inconvenience should be: ex perienced by the inhabitants of the district, by reason of the works in course of erection, but feared it must con tinue for a long time to come. Deputy HOLT said the place which was now so seri ously complained of was in his ward, and his attention had been called to it by Dr. Macquinney and another medical gentleman. He (Deputy Holt) had descended the hole, and entered the Fleet sewer, accompanied by the medical officer and the surveyor, and after having examined for himself in respect to the necessity for the continuance of the inconvenience complained of, had soon become convinced that it must be endured for some time. In his judgment it was quite impossible that a more easy course of effecting an improvement of the Fleet-ditch could be adopted. Mr. HEvwoon—Such a work was never _carried on before ; the hole is three feet square, and hundreds of thousands of people have passed the spot without knew ingthat anything in the subterranean world was going on. Deputy HOLT suggested that the matter should go to a view, in order to ascertain whether the nuisance could be mitigated, if not entirely removed. (Hear, hear.) The foundations were giving way, and unless the works in progress were executed, the whole of the houses. in Bridge-street and Crescent-place would be falling dawn. Mr. YoNGE thanked the court for their courtesy in listening to his complaint, and the matter was referred to the General Purposes Committee to view and report. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's .Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday, the total number of deaths registered in London was 1,358. Increased coldness of the weather has acted unfavourably on the public health during recent weeks, and the present re turn shows that its effect, an advanced rate of mortality, has not abated. In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1843-52, the average number of deaths was 1,210, which, if raised in proportion to inorease of population, becomes 1,331. The 1,358 deaths of last week show an excess of 27 on the calculated amount. Zymotic diseases are in the aggregate scarcely snore fatal than usual, but the mortality of hooping-cough is high, 64 children having died from it. Small-pox was fatal in only 3 cases, measles in 39, scarlatina in 33, croup in 10, typhus in 56, diarrhcea in 27. The number of deaths from cholera was 11. Fatal cases arising from diseases of the respiratory organs amount to 319, whilst the corrected average of ten corresponding weeks is 299. In this class bronchitis was most fatal, numbering 163 ; pneumonia carried off 121 persons, nearly all children ; asthma 20, laYingitis 4. The deaths from phthisis were 144. The following are the cases of oholera that were regis tered in the week : WEST DISTRICTS. Population, 376,427. Deaths from , cholera 3. Kensington—St. Paul, Hammersmith. —At 5, Wil liams•terrace, on 16th October, the son of a shoemaker, aged 18 months, "exhaustion caused by cholera." In quest. St. George, Hanover-square--Hanover-square.—At 1, Pollen-street, on 9th December, the daughter of a coffee-house keeper, aged 4 weeks. "English cholera." Westminster—St. Margaret.—At the Westminster Hospital, on 12th December, a labourer, aged 53 years, " bronchitis, choleric (4 days)." NORTH DISTRICTS. Population, 490,396. Deaths from • Cholera, 4. Islington—West.-- , -At London Fever Hospital, on 12th December, a married woman, an ironer, aged 35 years, "cholera, primary sy m pt oms (6 d ays ), co ll apse (about 12 hours)." In hospital 10 hours. Mr. Watts, the registrar, states :—" She was admitted as a tramp into Islington Workhouse on the previous evening, suf fering from diarrhcea ; the resident medical officer pre scribed, when, on the following morning, extremities be came blue and cold, tongue blue, eyes sunk,tpulse almost imperceptible ; stimulants were administered ; at about I p.m. collapse occurred. She was immediately conveyed to London Fever Hospital, which has appropriated soine wards for cholera cases ; she was then blue and pulseless; on means being used, pulse returned for a short period, but patient speedily relapsed, from which she never re covered, and expired at 12 the same night." CENTRAL DISTRICTS. Population, 393,256. Deaths from cholera; none. EAST DISTRICTS. Population, 485,522. Deaths from BURIAL OF THE DEAD. Deputy LoTT inquired whether the regulations isaued by Lord Palmerston had been forwarded to the court officially ? He wished to remonstrate against any of those rules. If they were carried out no cemetery would bo adequate to the requirements of any locality. The CLERK stated that the regulations had not been officially communicated. Deputy LOTT—When the rules are officially announced I shall suggest to the commission that the carrying out of a portion of them should be remonstrated against, be cause it will be impossible for any cemetery to comply with them. Every body is to have one grave, which is to be closed for 16 years in some cases, and 26 in others. In point of fact it will be impossible for more than one person ever to be buried in one grave. GAS COMPANIES. A letter was read from the Secretary of the City of London Gas Company, in which the report lately made to the company by Dr. Letheby, respecting the compa rative illuminatin g power of the Central G as C onsumers ' Company and the City of London is thus referred to : .. "As the statement respecting the gas of this company has been made officially to your honourable court, and through you circulated by the press, the committee trust that you will give equal publicity to this positive denial of the truth of the statement as relates to the gas of this company, as the committee are prepared to provo upon oath, if necessary." The letter concluded with a repetition of the request that the City of London Gas Company's committee might be furnished with a copy of the daily record of Dr. Letheby's test of their gas. A motion favourable to this request was carried. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OP SEWERS. A court was held on Tuesday at the office, in Greek street—Mr. R. Jebb in the chair. The SECRETARY reported the available balance in hand to be 49,369/. 16s. District sewer rates of 6d. in the pound were made on the following districts :—Western division of Westmin ster sewers, Spitalfields, &c., level, Hackney-brook level, Hermitage-street level, Lower Wapping level, Poplar and Blackwall district. The SECRETARY read the draft of a petition to the House of Commons, praying that a bill for the formation of a pumping station for the purposes of drainage at Deptford, and of which plans had been deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of Kent, might pass into a law. The petition was agreed to, and the official seal was ordered to be attached preparatory to presentation. Mr. HENRY, secretary to the Imperial Gaslight and Ceke Company, with other officials connected with the company, appeared before the court, pursuant to sum mons, to show cause why they had, without permission, broken into the sewers of the commissioners. A. report was presented by Mr. Roe, the engineer, setting forth that the men in the employ of the gas com pany had, without any previous notice, eut through three arches of the Hackney-btyok sewers, to lay in their pipes in the crown of thoehes, and continuing them in the line of their drain. They had so materially interfered with them in some places that they would re quire to be rebuilt. He advised that proceedings should be taken against the company. A further report was presented from Mr. Pulley, the clerk of the Hackney union, complaining of the great nuisance experienced by the poor, in consequence or the present open state of the drains in that neighbour. hood. Mr. HENRY, on being called upon, said the report was quite true, but it had arisen through an omission on their part to give notice. He did not mean to say that it was the fault of the contractor, for he had been urged to proceed with this work with all possible haste, and the giving the necessary notice had been forgotten. They should be most happy to put themselves into the hands of the commissioners to make reparation, and the contractor was quite ready to do all in his power. The court considered the explanation satisfactory, and the matter dropped. The other I;iisiness transacted was of no public in terest. STATE OF TRADE. (Front the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) MANCHESTER, Dec. 20.—The untoward events that have happened in the Euxine, with the political mis givings which the retirement of Lord Palmerston has occasioned, are undoubtedly operating as restraints upon business ; and yet we had sore further indications to-day of that tendency to an improvement —slow and hesitating as it is—which has latterly been showing itself in our market. The German houses are indeed kept back from operating, in any but a retail fashion, by the season of the year and the state of the rivers. But the India and the Levant merchants are purchasing suitable goods and yarns ; and even for China some little business has been ventured upon. For some other distant quarters, too, there are transactions in progress of limited amount. The home consumers of yarns are still buying ; and the home dealers in goods are now call ing upon the manufacturers and agents. After all, how ever, great caution characterises the proceedings of buyers ; and, without a caution, what we have said above may easily be construed as indicative of greater amend ment than has been realised. ROCHDALE, Dec. 19.--We have had a rather slack at tendance of buyers in the market to-day, and a very limited amount of business transacted. In wool there is little change,; the manufacturers buy for immediate use only, but prices keep very firm. This is generally con sidered the last market in the year, as there is little doing till the new market, which is held the first Monday after old Christmas-day. HALIFAX, Dec. 17.—1 f there be any change notice able to-day in our piece hall, it is that there has been a little more demand for light mixtures of low quality. For lastings there is scarcely any inquiry. Higher rates have been obtained for some descriptions of yarn, but the general disposition seems to be not to operate to any extent. There is not so much doing in wool, and another advance has been established. HUDDERSFIELD, Dec. 20.—Since last Tuesday, busi ness in the warehouses has generally been good, consi dering the tires of the year ; and a considerable quan , tity of finished woollens and waistcoatings have changed hands. In the Cloth Hall and the manufacturers' shops to-day, the demand has not been so brisk as the close of last week would have led one to suppose ; but it has quite as lately.aai l s e d brisk weekT h a e s that of n whaa sr a d ny given tend marketen way,c yandof whichb prices ehea been s b\bv u eeh c eei c nne e h e cih d pue e ril d by a tone of firmness which the state of the wool market is likely to uphold, for some time at least, if we m ay judge from present appearances. During the week and to-day a good business has been done by the woolstaplers. DEPLORABLE FATALITY.—It is rarely that we have to record an accident of so painful a natur e as one that oc curred at Devonport on Friday night, when a young man was suffocated under very extraordinary circum stances. It appeared that Isaac Jewels, a young man, the deceased, arrived from London at Devonp or t on Friday, and on that evening he fell in company with a young woman, named Sarah Bundle, who induced the unfortunate young man to accompany her to a house i n Francis-alley, where he retired to bed with her. On the following morning the woman found him lying by her side dead. A surgeon, Mr. Baldy, was called in, and on examination of the deceased it was ascertained that he had lain with his face on the pillow, and the pressure of his body on his chest so cumbered his lungs that they had no room to play, and suffocation ensued. This very awful event has occasioned the most poignant grief to the respectable family with whom the deceased was con nected. An inquest was held on the body, and the jury had no difficulty in arriving at a decision as to the cause of death,—Plymouth Mail. Cholera, 5. Whitechapel—Whitechapel North.—At the work house, from 8, Slaters-court, on the 14th December, a labourer, aged 54 years, " premonitory diarrhcea (2 days), cholera (2 days), consecutive fever (4 days)." Whitechapel—Aldgate.—At 8, Green-yard, Blue anchor-yard, Whiteehapel, on the sth Dacember, a female, aged 30 years, " cholera (30 hours)." Stepney—Shadwell.—At 9, Leading-street, Shadwell, on 9th December, the daughter of a brickmaker, aged 2 years and nine months, " diarrhoea (1 day), cholera (12 hours)." Stepney—Ratcliffe.—At 1, Blacksmith's-arms-court, on 12th November, the wife of a labourer, aged 35 years, " natural death from cholera." Inquest. _ _ Poplar—Poplar.—On board the American barque Brunette, lying in the West India Dock, on 12th De cember, a mariner aged 30 years, " diarrhoea (6 hours), cholera (8 hours)." SOUTH DISTRICTS. Population, 616,635. Deaths from cholera, 2 Bermondsey—St. James.—At 3, Nutkin's-corner, on 9th December, the widow of a painter, aged 85 years, " cholera (12 hours from commencement)." Greenwich--St. Paul, Deptford.—At 20, Stanhope street, on 15th December, the widow of a shoemaker, aged 60 years, " cholera (3 days), diarrhea (a month)." The following cases are selected from the returns :—At the London Hospital, on 10th December, a male pauper, aged 15 years, from Spitalfields, died of " gangrene of the feet from exposure, tetanus (30 hours)." At Ken nington, a boy, aged 7 months, died from a piece of bone becoming lodged in the windpipe. Tracheotomy was performed. At 3, Ravensbourne-terrace, Lewisham, on 12th December, an engineer, aged 23 yearg, died of "dothinenteria (18 days), rupture of intestine, perionitis (3 days)." In the subdistrict of St. John, Marylebone, at 28, North-bank, on 16th December, a retired cheese monger, died of old age," having attained his hundredth year on the day previous to his death. Mr. Ancell, the medical attendant, writes as follows :—" Mr. Rose, the deceased, was born in the county town of Nairn, North Britain ; had general good health ; came from Scotland at 22 or 23 years of age, and made his own way in the world. He was a tradesman in the Strand about 54 years, and had retired from business 174 years, during the last 6 of which he resided in North-bank, Regent's-park. When in business he very rarely took recreation, beyond a walk in the country on a Sunday afternoon. His faculties wire wandering only for a day or two before his death. Gradually increasing feebleness of circulation, with fail ure of the digestive functions, preceded the final break up. He was always a sober man, an early riser, and lived very plainly." Last week the birth of 771 boys and 786 girls, in all 1,557 children,lwere registered in London. In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1,413. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.512 inches. The mean temperature of the week was 32.7 deg., which is 7.3 deg. below the average of the same week in 33 years. On Friday, "a painfully cold day," the mean daily temperature fell 13 deg. below the average of the same day ; and on four other days it was 8 degs. or 9 degs. below it. The mean dew point temperature was 29.4 degs. The wind blew for the most part from the northeast. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 17 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l5l Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 47 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration 319 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &e. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Mu._cles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations .............................................. 2 1 Premature Birth and Debility 5l Atrophy 29 Old Age Sudden l2 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 3.1 Causes not specified DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths i❑ corre- Deatl - s Enumerated. spending week in the 1851. 011852. Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393;256 East Districts 485,522 .....,, 220 South Districts Totals Ma1e5....................................... 723 Females .................................... 635 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females 771 788 Total . 1,;57 MUNIFICENT LIBERALITY OF MR. PETO, M.P.— Mr. Peto has placed 2,0001. annually at the disposal of the Baptist Missionary Society for the next seven years. EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED.— The accesion of a new partner to the firm of Messrs. Partridge and Oakey, was celebrated a few days ago, by a soiree, given by the principals, in John-street school-room, Edgeware road, to the assistants and operatives employed in their Paternoster-row, Edgeware-road, and Oxford Mews es tablishments. The Rev. R. H. Herschell, occupied the chair, supported by several reverend, literary, and com mercial gentlemen, among whom were the Revs. W. H. Rule and J.T.Patteson, the editor of Tait's Magazine, Pro fessor Masson, of Harrow, &o. The proceedings com menced with an abundant and elegant cold collation sup plied by Masters, the contractor to the Crystal Palace. The health of the Queen was then given by the chairman, and the company united in singing the National Anthem. A series of appropriate toasts and speeches followed, in creasing in interest as the evening drew to its close. The toast of the ovening—" Messrs. Partridge, Okey, and Co.—was responded to, on the call of the chairman, by T. Sercombe, Esq., late of Exeter, the new partner. He expressed the pleasure with which he contemplated the new relation into which he had entered, the con fidence he entertained of the integrity and religious principle of those with whom he had become associated, and his earnest desire to promote the welfare or the operatives. The manly, genial, and Christian tone of his address appeared to be warmly appreciated. Messrs. Partridge, Oakey, and other gentlemen, also addressed the company, and at a late hour the proceedings termi nated ; all present being evidently convinced that the re mark of one of the speakers was well worthy of atten tion by all principals of business houses, that " knives and forks " would be found no mean specific against the prevalence of strikes. Eighty-two persons were present. [ADVERTISEMENT.] ---The Earl of Aldborough and Hol loway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miraculous medicine after every other means had failed. See ex tract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Holloway. Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach, which all the most eminent of the faculty at home and all over the Continent had not been able to effect —nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBO ROUGH." These wonderful pills will cure any disorders of the liver or stomach.—Sold also Hollow a y' s o i n t ment, at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London and by all medicine venders throughout the kingdom MURDER AT YORK. On Tuesday evening a very shocking murder was per petrated in York. Mr. John Hall, of Swainton New Inn, near Scarbro', was at York, attending the great Christmas horse show. On Tuesday evening, between five and six o'clock, being in liquor, he fell into the com pany of two loose girls, who induced him to accompany them to the King's Staith, a dark, lonely place, near the river Ouse. A little before six o'clock a man named Sargent saw Mr. Hall with these two girls, who were shoving him about with a view, it is supposed, of robbing him, he having about 501. in his possession. He en deavoured to beat the girls off, 'but was so much intoxi• cated as to be unable to do so. Sargent shouted to the girls, "let the poor man go." but they took no notice further than to laugh at him, and they persisted in their attack upon Mr.. Hall until they forced him gra dually down to the water's edge, when one of them gave him a shove, and he fell backwardsway off the Staith into the water. Sargent immediately procured assistance, and an oar was held out to the drowning man, but, on account of the state he was in, he was quite unable to help himself, and he sunk, and was sucked in under a vessel lying close by the spot where he was knocked into the water. The river was dragged for about two hours afterwards, when the body was drawn from the water, and conveyed to a public-house in the neighbourhood, where it was found that if the girls had intended robbing the deceased, they had not accom plished their object, as there was taken from his pockets six Si. notes, 19 sovereigns, ss. 6d. in silver, and some copper. As soon as the girls had pushed the deceased into the water, they ran off; and from a description given of them by Sargent, Isabella Campbell, of Ber wick-upon-Tweed, and Caroline Nicholson, of Middle Water-lane, York, were shortly afterwards apprehended not far from the scene of the catastrophe ; they having just emerged from a dram-shop. Yesterday, at noon, the prisoners were brought up for examination before the magistrates at the Guildhall, when the above facts were given in evidence, and the girls were remanded. SIIIPPIIVG INTELLIGENCE. NOTICE TO MARINERS. LIGHTS ON THE RIVER ELBE.-NEW LIGHT AT RUGELBAAK, AND CHANGES IN THE OTHER LIGHTS. The following changer in the lights on the Elbe will take place about the end of the month : I.—NEUWERK FIXED LIGHT. The low light on the island of Newerk, at the entrance of the River Elbe, is intended to be screened, so as not to be seen by a vessel when it is between the bearings of S. by W. and SW. by S.; or when she is between the buoy No. 5 (V) and the buoy F, which carries a vane off Neuwerk Island. The intention of this arrangement is to apprise vessels coming up the river, that they are entering the nar row and dangerous part of the channel, and that it would be prudent, therefore, to anchor. If, however, they per sist in standing on, as soon as the light re-appears they they should alter the course from S.E. by E. to E. by S., and oven E., in order to allow for the indraft of the Eitzen Lock, which is strong from first to half flood. 2.—KUGELBAAK FIXED LIGHT. At Kugelbaak, on the Ball Beacon, a Fixed Light is to be established, which will be visible between the bearings of S.E. by S. and S.W., or from the buoy J. to the buoy L. or 4 NI. 10 (X.) A vessel coming up the river, on open ing this light, being thus apprised that she is to the east ward of the buoy, I should immediately alter her course to S.E., or S.E, or half S., until the Kugelbaak and Cux haven Lights are in one about S. by E. half E., and steer directly for them till she shoals the water to six or four fathoms, according as it is high or low water. She may then take up a S.E. or S.E. by S. course, so as to bring Cuxhaven Light on her starboard bow. When she has passed the buoy L. she will lose sight of the Kugelbaak Light, and be in 8 or 10 fathoms from aS. by E. course, will clear all the shoals up to anchorage of Cuxhaven. 3.—CUXHAVEN LIGHT, when seen from the lower part of the river, will appear as a flashing light, and will thus be distinguished from the fixed light of Kugelbaak. TIME BALL AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Time Ball attached to the Cape Observatory, not being generally visible by the shipping on the eastern side of Table Bay, owing to the intervention of buildings, another has been established at the opposite side of the Bay. It stands on the Lion's Rump, and commenced work on the 14th of last October. The observer should note the time by the chronometer, when this ball begins to fall, and by subtracting one second from that time, he will have the moment to one o'clock p.m. by mean time, at the Cape Observatory. The Cap Observatory stands in lat. 32 deg. 56 min. 3 secs. 18 deg. 28 min. 45 secs., or 1 h. 12 min. 55 secs. E. of Greenwich. CUSTOM HOUSE, DEC. 21. ENTERED INWARDS.—Tho Amalie., from Calma ; Mary and Emily, Memel ; Ontario, Callao ; Maria Augusta, Stockholm ; Marie, Aarhuus ; Eleanore Sophie, Dantzic ; Ferret, Gravelines ; Justine, Bordeaux ; Margaretha Louise, Memel • Paca, Helsingbourg ; Li von i a , Ri ga ; Venus, Rostock% Pandora, Saguenay ; Hebe, Seville ; Atalanta, Antwerp ; Alliance, Leer ; Joven Soresita, San Sebastian ; Union, Antwerp ; Enterprise, Archangel ; Deto Brodre, Sackejoborg. ENT.hatED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Navigator, for Barbadoes ; Henrietta, Arendal ; Gode Moder, Laur vig ; Corsair's Bride, Colombo ; Julia, Dunkirk ; Governor M`Donald, Bathurst, R.G. ; David, Aslenee ; John and Sarah, Dunkirk ; James Gibbs, Bombay ; American Eagle, New York ; Augusta, Geelong, &c. ; Annechiena, Rotter dam ; Agnes, Jamaica. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Hobo, for Seville ; Atalanta, Antwerp ; Union, do. ; Alliance, Leer ; Joven Tereseta, San Sebastian ; Triton, Leer ; Harlequin, Sydney ; Elizabeth, Dunkirk ; Felix, Pernambuco ; Am stet, Sydney; Emigrant, Geelong; Jane, Barbadoes ; Albatross, Dunkirk. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21. The Eleanora, from Arica, for this port, has arrived at Queenstown, with a cargo of copper ore ; out 136 days. The ship Fanny, hence to Africa, was in contact with the Elbana (s), in Kingston harbour, and lost stancheons, bulwarks, &c. The Pt llok, hence to Apalachicola, with a cargo of salt and coals, put into Queenstown, with mainmast head and bowsprit sprung, main and tnizen topmasts, &c., gone ; eight of the crew disabled. The Leon, from Rejeujede, for this port, has put into Beanmaris. Off Port—The Jos. Cunard, the Lotty Sleigh, and the Venus. Sailed—The Sultana, for Valparaiso ; the Geo. A. Hop ley, for Charleston ; the Vanguard, for New York. ANTWERP, Dec. 20.—The Daniel, of and for this port, from St. Jago de Cuba, touched on the Florida Reefs, Nov. 27, and put into Charleston, on Dec. 4, with a bad leak, and loss of rudder. She has thrown part of cargo over board. HARTLEPOOL, Dec. 20.—During a heavy gale from S.S.E. yesterday „evening, the followinc , vessels were stranded near this port, on the aa,rids :—Th e Good Intent (schooner), of Brixton • Pilgrim (brig), of Newc as tl e ; A c h sa h (b r i g ), o f this pod; Jubilee (brigantine), of Jersey ; also a foreign brig, called the Johan, and a Danish sloop. PIRCEIIS, Dec. 7.—The Lord Collingwood, Barcelona to Odessa, drove on shore on the rocks near Pyll, coast of Ne groponto, in a gale, 2d inst., and has a hole in her side. One man drowned. QUEBEC, Dec. 3.—Tho Breadalbano, for Penarth Roads, is ashore at Point-au-Pan. The Volante, Montreal to the Clyde, ran on shore coming down, but got off, and is dis charging, being very much cut by the ice. The Clarence (brig), of and from St. John's, N. 8., to Dublin, which was abandoned prior to the ?Ist September in lat. 47 N., long. 33 W., was passed Dec. 14, in lat. 43 N., and long. 18 W., with only mainmast and part of bow sprit standing, by the Tartar, arrived at Plymouth. A derelict, without any masts standing, with " Frown" on her stern, was passed in lat. 43 N., long. 11 W., by her Majesty's ship Scorpio*. (Mem.—See paragraph respecting the Brown, abandoned from Quebec to Sunderland, about fits► November.) VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Macassar, from London to Adelaide, S. A., Oct. 31, lat. 7 N.,long. 21 W. The ritish vessel, with Marryatt's pendant, No. 961, Nov. 1, lat. 7 N., long. 21 W. The Luna (brig), of and from St. John, N. 8., Nov. 12, lat. 45 N., long. 36 W. The Agamemnon, of Clyde, from Picton to Liverpool, Nov. 21, lat. 45 N., long. 58 W. The Aspharte, from London to California, Dec. 7, lat. 47 N., long. 10 W. The Bounday, from Liverpool to Port Philip, Sept. 18, lat. 3 N., long. 20 W. The Cadet, from London to Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, same day. The Josiah Bradley, from Liverpool to New Orleans, Nov. 20, lat. 29 N.,long. 24 W. The Hermann, f St. Thomas's, from St. Domingo to Bremen, Nov. 28, lat. 36 N., long. 52 W. The Patriarch, from Bombay to London, Oct. 10, lai. 34 S., long. 2 E. The Triton, from Penang to Bremen, Oct. 17, lat. 35 S., long. 17 E. . _ 'A° Orient, from Pondicherry to Marseilles, Oct. 28, lat. 17 S., long. 5 W. Th 6 Castle Eden, Nov. 11, lat. 6 N., long. 23 W. The Bangalore, from Glasgow, Nov. 13, lat. 7 N., long. El W. The Apolline, Dec. 15, lat. 46 N., long. 12 W. THE CANCER HOSPITAL—This institution for meet ing one of the most painful afflictions to which poor human nature is subject, was established in 1851, in Cannon-row, Parliament -street, with provision for in-door patients at Bromton, and already it has given proof that it well deserve a wide and en larged support. There is fair ground to conclude from the report before us, that in a great num ber of cases life has been saved, which must have been sacrificed if the sure and steady progress of this cruel disease had not been checked by the skilful hand which this institution timely stretched forth. Nearly 400 per sons were under treatment in the course of the year, either as in or out-patients, and of these only 15 died, the disease probably having gone so far as to be beyond human aid ; and of the remainder, 319 of whom were females, a great proportion have been sent back rejoic ing to their families. Probably the public is little aware of the extent to which this fearful malady prevails, but an idea may be formed of it from the fact stated by the Registrar-general, that in the year 1852, it slew 936 persons in the London districts alone, and six years ago a return showed that the deaths from it in the whole kingdom in the 10 months amounted to 4,586. There are many of the poor, we have no doubt, suffering from it at this time in Essex, and their richer neighbours will thank us for bringing under their notice an institution, through which they can effectually aid them, and by their contributions join in the Christian and philanthropic work damaging human woe.7o4einwford Chronicle. PRICES OF SHARES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. Prom the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRI LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEM. JOINT-STOCK BANKS . [DAY EVENTING :BER 20. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - ----.- £ s. d. £ a. S. Anstralasia........... 61. per eent. 40 0 0 'all 81% British North American 6t. per Cent. R 50 0 0 „ 64 Commercial of London. 6/ per cent. 1100 0 0" . 20 0 0 - Colonial .............. 31. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0. 0 - lonian .......... .... 61. per cent. '25 0 0 25 0 0 - Lond. Char. Bk. ofAus. - . 20 0 0 210 0 - London and County .. 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 31% Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 38% London Jointßtoek ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 27% Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New......... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 ail - National of Ireland.... 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Nat. Provnclal of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New ...... .• 1 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Oriental Bank Corpora. 121. p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all 47 South Australia .. .... 8,, p. ct.& bs. 25 0 0 ft 46% Union of Australia.- • 400. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 75 Ditto - 210 0 - Union of London ..... 81. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Union of Madrid ..... 1 - 40 0 0 all - INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per , . of Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. I X s. d. Albion .......... •• .. 31. 10s. 1:00 0 0 50 0 0 95 Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 143. 6d.bs. 100 0 0 11 0 0 26 Ditto 31prine ....... 61. p.c.& bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Anchor .............. 6 per cent. 5 0 0 1 0 0 - Alas Angus Life ........... 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 23 British Commercial .. 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 5 1 0 7% C'e.icl.Med.& Gen. Life spr ct. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20% CounLy .............. 41. 107 0 0 10 0 0 125 Crown .............. 169.6 d 0 0 50 0 20% Eag, , e Equity and Law...... 434 per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 6 Ea, opean Life ...... ... 15s. 20 0 0 all 20% General ............ .. - 5 0 0 Globe lS 61. per cent. Stock. .. 14 5 4 Guardian ............ 51. per cent. 100 0 0 45 0 0 59% Imperial Fire - .... 12/. per cent, 500 0 0 50 0 0 3 7 5 Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... 1. sh. & be. 100 0 0 20 0 0 62 Law Fire . 25.& 29, bs. 100 0 0 210 0 4% Law Life... .. ........ - 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Legal and General Life -.. 50 0 0 2 0 0 6 1 ,4 London Fire London -hip.. - Marine . 15s.per share 100 0 0 18 0 0 - Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 454. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 ' 314 Minerva ........ -.. sp. ci. & be. 20 0 0 2 0 0 6 Monarch - 5 0 0 1 0 0 20s. 6cl National Loan Fund.. 51. pee cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% Palladium Lite . Pelican .... •• •• • • .. • • - - - 45 Parents - - - 186 Professional Life.- .. 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 . % P i.viuent Life - Rock Lite .. .. Royal Exchance .... • • 6/. p ct. & be. Stock, all 210 Sun "ire 6l 10s. - f 1 -- Ditto Life ll 10s - , • 65 United Kingdom .. - ' 0 4i. p. ct & bs. 20 0 0 4 Ol - Universal Life ... ... • • V. ss. per sh. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Victoria Life ...... • • 51. tier cent - I 412 6 i - 10 0 0 I 4 12 6 BRIDGES. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Haugerford.... • • .... 12 iouthwark .......... 100 0 0 Ditto New of 7% p.c. 70s. per cent 1 50 0 0 Waterloo ..... .... •• •• 1 100 0 0 5 k W Ditto Old Ann. of . 11. 12s. 60 0 0 60 0 0 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11.035. Od. i4O 0 0 40 0 0 Vauxhall ............ 11. 51. ,70 10 3 22 WATER-WORKS, Name of Company. Dividend 1 Amount per of Paid. I Price, Annum. Share. COAL MAR: Prices of Coal per ton at t s. d. Huddle W. Hartley 26 6 Hasting's Hartley 26 (I Hol ywell . Old Adairs 25 6 Redhengh Main. 24 0 Tanfield Moor Bntes 25 6, West Hartley 27 01 Wallsend, &c. Wyland (unsereened) 24 Killingsworth E. 26 Northumberland 3O 0 Bell's Primrose 25 0 Northumbezland E. 26 6 Eden Main .33 0 Ships at market 3 RAIL WA Y SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 2L h STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opene d ri te, this morning with an improved feeling, but o n the o r tion of unfavourable polit.cal news we had a suddense ear tion, and closed very flat, at r a t es s li g htly below il ) yor' rent yesterday :—Caledonian, 283 ; L anca shire an d 26i; shire, 683 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln' 1 Midland, 64i ; North British, 8a ; South East ern Dover, 194. MANCHESTER, DEC. 2L 0 41 ' STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business to-day has bee l _ l tr but_prices opened at an a d vance , th oug h.th e y vie ceding rates. The sales were :—Caledonian, 28i em Counties, 13i ; East Lancashire, 16 1 1-16 4 , 0 0 11 1 shire and Yorkshi re , 65ii ; London and North' 'Olt" 1045 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 251 ; Railway Consols, 645 ; South-Eastern, 19 5-16. BRISTOL, DEC. 21. -a v.'s STOCK EXCHANGE.—The b us i ness transacted Wag - g but prices firm. Bristol and Exeters were done at 9 9 ; land Stock, 644. East London Grand Junction .... • • ' C. per cat. Kent ...... ... •• • • • • . ' 41. p er ca t. Lambeth ...... •• • . 1 New River Company 2l. 10s. Southwark & Vauxhall , 5!. per cnt. West Middlesex •••• s. d. I s. d. Stock. 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 SEABORNE MAILS. ...yr.o,iver uompany.. 1 21. 105. - .0.- iiite, , p 0 614 Southwark &Vauxhall , si. per cut. 100 0 0 - - .8.-9-3, (N signifies that the mails are sent from the Gener.. - West Middlesex •••• - 5/.los. pr ct. - 11 1 oy the night-and Mby the morning -dispatch.] ----""' • DOCKS. 0 a•• e/I'%,i, Dividend Day when made up From what ;1: Amount COUNTRIES. in General Post- P or t Name of Company , per . of Paid. Price. . Office, London.* Dispatched. F fi _..Y. ---- se , Annum. Share. - Ee l ' -- --- - America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool ••• £ s. d. £ s. d. America (by United Sts. e 2l Commercial - •••• •. • • 41. pr cent. Stock. I Stock. - packet) ..........N Dec. 27 ...... - - Liverpool ... D e '''' East and West India.. 61. pr rent. Stock. - - America (by U States I f 3 r De e ' East Country 2os. per eh . - - - packet) ..........N ••.• .. .... Southarcili- 0 ' 1 London .•.•.• • • • • • 51. pr cent. Stock. - - Australia (via South- , , Ditto Bonds - •••• • • 41. per cent. - - - ampton) ..........MJan. 4..•• .. • • .... Southampton e .sc - . $0 St. Katharine 4 per cent. Stock. - - Ditto (via Marseilles) N'Jan. 8.. - outhamptort ...... •• IL 12s per c . 50 0050 0 0 - Ditto (via Cape of Good ne lt " Victoria ...... ••-- • . . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 60 0 - Hope) .... .. •. • . ..N Feb. 4. • ..... Africa (West Coast) ..Nl23d of th month .. Plymouth .. g O . 0 CANALS. • Alexandria.... .. .. - NlB, 9, 24, &30of m . Dover .. •• • •I';„, i . 4 Alexandria .. .... .. - 31 1 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton , ,r,. 1 Bahamas ... - ... ... Alll7th of the month Soathamptot i •I T y Names of 0, Divide,a Names of zi Dividend Belgium .......... ..N.Da11y............ Dover .... • • I li ` ,1 6 Companies. per ' Price. Companies. a 1 - Price. Brazil ............: ..M;9th of the month.. !So' uthamptot i q, a _ n , 1 6 . c% Annum. rc , - -- -- , Cape of Good Hope ..Nll4tit of the month I Plymouth L . ' £ £ i ' Cape of Good Hope ..Nll4th of the month.,Southampton, _., I A shtn &Oldh 98 71. p, et. 168 Macclesfield . 100 21. 10s. 56 Cape de Verds ......N ?th of the month..lPlymouth • ''"' 0 , Barnsley •• • • 160 - - Neat -•• • • 100 16s. - 1 Ceylon (see India) 1 1 .. sol• 51 , Brknk&Ahrg 150 4'. 8214 Oxford.. •• • • 100 13'. n 0 Ceylon ............ ..ICll4th of the month i Plymout 1 p. Birmingham 40 .'t, - P ea k F orest. 78 51 Os. 97 Channel Isles .. .. .. ..NlMon „Wed. ; &F, id. , SouthamP i on j.v.!_„, I Coventry.. • • 100 251. 200 Regent's -.. ao ,7. 17 Chili- ..... ........M 2d & 17th o f mon thlS ou th amp too J..' Derby •• • • leo 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 11. les. 66 China (see India) O3O mistnre&Chs 69 2% p. ct - Semrset Coal 140, - - Constantinople • ......N 7,8,17,21,&270fm. Dover .... ...De -1 4 Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton J^'' eat' GrandJunctn 100 4'. o:. et. 68% Do.LkFdat 121 - - Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 tif. pr, ct, - stow &wore 1 40 1 281 410 cont. of Europe IVI & NlTwice daily ...... Dover ~, „., TN IC Surrey 100 2'. 103. 50 Shrewsbury.. 251 - Egypt (see India) , 1,,,,,, 11 . Grand Union 100 11. Os. 12% Stourbrldge.. ;45 201. 290 France ........ M& N Twice daily...-. Dover ... .• - ic Ii Kennt & Avn 39 6s. 04. 63¢ Severn and' ' 26 21. 24 • . m . Gibraltar --- .. -14'4, 7, 17, 20, 27 ofm. SouthamP km '" Lancaster . 100 . - - Wyeßail. j Greece (see India) 1,,,, a Leeds &Livrp 100 951. bs4 Warwick &? Greytown .......... 3112nd & 17th of m on . SoutbamPlonr 7.l Leicester .... 100 1 51, 67 Birming. 3 100 3/. 25 Hamburgh ..........NlTuesday & Friday London -•• •1 ..,1 g f, Leicstr &Nth 83. 41. 44 Warwick & - 1 1 , Havannah .......... M.2nd of the month Southampton J.• 1.6 wen. 6 L •ughborogh 142 701. 550 Napton...l 100, 1 "`' 19 Holland .......... MI Wednesday & Sat. London ... ••i„, 1 M ‘nmouthsh, 100' - I - Worcstr & / 1 , Honduras ..........Mll7th of the month. Southampton S . gl Mntgmeryshlloo - 1 - liming. i 78 1 •,•• 30 % India (viaSouthampt.)Ml4th & 20th of mon. Southampton P et , 9 0 'Dee 9 MeltnAlwbrylloo - ' - Wilts & Brks - 1 10s. Od. 7 India (via Marseilles)M Bth& 24th of month Dover ....., es , I lonian Isles (see India) l 7, 17, & 27 of mon Dover .• • • " ~ 1 , ?,, co d ,' Ireland ........3f & NjTwiee daily ...... Holyhead • •,. „, lo GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Lisbon.. ...... .. .. .. M l 7, 9, 17, &28 of in. Southampton ‘ :;', 1 6 Madeira ... ... --Al 9th of the month Southampton,J p ee, 0 Dividend Amount Nl Nf ai ad t e a ir ( a see .. l . n . a . h;; .... N 23d of month ..., Plymouth " I D- Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. 1 cc.° Annum. Share. Malta .. - 1 £ s. d. £ s. d. Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month Plymouth .• 1, NT .,, °f :1 British •••••• .. •• - - - - - - Mexico .... .. Ditto Provincial .• • • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 2*2 Naples .. . ....AT bthlsth2sthormon. Dover .... • it...„ ,1 i e Brighton ---•• • • • . 51. 2O 0020 0 0 15 New Gran • ada •. ::....Ml2d tio 17th of month Southampton o_r ee rik City of London ...... 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 132,1 L Continental (3cl Cals.).- 41. New Zealand.. ... ... IBy private ship .. Various port' u li e - . il 75 0 0 43 10 0 67 li Papal states ..........N l sthlsth2sthollnon. Dover ..... • D e c ,! 4 6 Equitable-. •• •• .. •• •• 501. 50 0 0 all 26 Peninsula ... •. • ....M 7thl7th2BthOftrion. Southampton v i . a " I, Great Central.- -• • • 71 per cent. 'lO 0 0 10 0 0 12 . .••• • Af 2d & 27th of mon Southampton ""--.. V liO' ' i Imperial ...• .......• 31. & bonus. 50 0 0 all 86 Port Natal ..........N 14th of the month Ply - moutl6 .• es ,9 Independent ......... 61. 40 0 0 ,f 46 Sicily ..............N sthl s th2sthofmon,ll3over .... • • D e. 1f - 100 o - Tunany ...........N,sthlsth2stholmon.lDover .• • • •' ,. /( 4 0. 1 , Do., Parl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 I, 25 Venezuela ... ...AI 2d 8o 17th of monthlSonthamptonr phoa s i x ... „ ........ 341. per cent. 50 0 0 49 0 0 27% Van Diemen's L • an - O (vac Ratcliff .... . ....... 51. 100 0090 0 0 73 Australia) .. ....... I, 1 United General ••• • • • 11. ao o 0 o all 21% West Indies .. .. .. M2d So litho: month Southampton Westminster Chartered 51. per cent, 50 0 •• 40 , ,al l .l . Ditto, New in n 7 .14 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. . _ Dividend ' Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. X s. d. Bank of Scotland .. - 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 185/ 0 r 'ritish Linen Company Si. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2121 0 Caledonian Bank •• •• • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 03 . 16s City of •41aseow Bank Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 1 0 iI/ Os lydesdale Bank •• •• Si. per cent. 20 0 0 10 012 5s - lornmercial Bank •• 71. per cent. 5 0 9 0 100 0 190/ Ps Eastern 8ank.....• •• 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 11/ 05 Ellnh.&Glasgow .. •• 31. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 41. 13a Exchange Bnk of Scot.. - 100 0 0 31 0 6s. t.d National Bank .....• 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 16/ 10 :s:orthof Scotland Bank 56.pereent. 20 0 0 2 1 0 41. 7s ROyalßank ofScotl. .. hi. per cent. DO 0 0 100 0 1321 s Cnion Bank of Scot. • • 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 921 5a Western Bank •• -- - 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 72' 5s Alliance Fire and Life.. 8% /.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 24/10s British Guarantee .... - 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 1/. 2 , Caledonian Fire loser. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 26/ 0d Cite of Glasgow Life- 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 41. 5 Colonial Life ......... 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 41. 15s Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. percent. 100 0 0 15 0 25110. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 81. percent. 80 0 0 2 I 6 4/. 5s Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 1 04 . 15. National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 1.1. 13 North British Insur... 41. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 :36/ 6 Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 . 1 0 1/. 14q tandard Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 17/ O s United Dep. Assurance 51. per ceM. 10 0 0 1 0 Os 6 s 41 MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. She: e. - - £ s. d. I £ s. O. Assam Tea .......... 3 7 . 50 0 0 1 20 0 0 - ikuctien Mart • . •'. •• • • 21. ss. 50 0 0 - - Australian Avriculturi 1/. 11s. 6d. 100 . 0 0 17 10 0 467 is Australian Trust .... Si. per cent. - 25 0 0 - Australian Royal Mail Si. 10 (I 0 8 0 0 2% % nglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - British American Land 15s. - 38 10 0 76 Canada ... •......... 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 77 Do. 5 per cent Bonds Si. per cent. - - - Ditto, 6 per cent. • • 61. per cent. - - 115 City Navigation Bonds 31 per cent. - - - Electric Telegraph (A) - 25 0 0 20 0 0 - Ditt0.....• .... (B) - 25 0 0 15 0 0 - Equitable Reversieury 51 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Ditto New ......... - 150 0 0 12 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p.ct. 15 0 0 14 0 0 274 Hudson's 8ay...... •. - Stock. - - Hungerford ...... -.. 21. 10s. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - London Institution ... - - - - London Reversionary 51. per cent. 15 0 0 15 0 0 - Russell Institution•• •• - l2 10 0 Price's Patent C and. Co. 101. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 27 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Royal Mail Steam.... 41, p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 - South Australian... •• 5/.per cent. 15 0 0 211 0 0 40 Trust and Loan Comp. of Ulmer Canada..., . - - [ADVERTISEMENT.]-Fifty thousand Cures have been effected by Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food, without medicine, inconvenience, or expense (as it saves fifty times its cost in otherremedies).—"Twenty-five years nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I had suffered great misery, and which no medi cine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. Reeves, Pool Anthony, Tiverton." " Eight years' dys pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually removed by Du Barry's delicious food in a very short time. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Flavel, Rid lington Rectory, Norfolk." "Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's excellent food. Alexs. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen.” Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomittings, has been removed by Du Barry's excellent food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near Diss, Norfolk." Copies of testi monials of 50,000 cures (including those of Lord Stuart de Decies, Major-General Thomas King, Drs. Ure, Shorland, and H arve y (g ra tis). In canisters, with full instructions, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4 s. 6 d. ; 51 b., 11e. ; 121 b., 225. ; super-refined, 51b., 225. ; 101 b., 333. The 101 b. and 121 b. carriage free. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London; also, Fortnum, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly. • When any of these dates on a Sunday, the I" - dispatched on the following day with the exception of the *cl od Southampton), and the Malt a , both o f w hi c h w i ll b e diSP3' day preceding. t Oi l ALARMING RAILWAY ACOIDRNT.— An aCCiue -n O D n most extensive and dangerous character occurred 7 ,„,„ Exeter and Crediton Rail wa y on M on d ay n ight' 1 14 . ,/, line branches off f rom th e B r i sto l and Exeter fro: at a place called Cowley-bridge, about two ieee , tlivv , Exeter, and runs thenc e a di s t ance o f li tt l e mere eight mile s t o C re dit on , w h ere t h e wor k s a _ P' in progress for carrying it on to BarnstsPi e b ' c oOr course for almost th e w h o l e o f th e di stance is t i iritt a valley, watered by a river, which, at Cowiel„. joins the r i ver E xe . Th e dreadfully he3tles'.o which fell during the whole of Sunday and' caused all the streams in the ne i g hbour rise with a rapidity unknown for many Y e3— beg:,, towards the evening of Monday the Via te r r vedi''J, to rise over the rails, a short distance from `' . .,fos'', ; and swept forward with so much force that it vi i 7 ret iiiP o f utterly impossible to run over the line between s i o or e to r and Newton, a d i st ance o f a b ou t 4 miles. t',ll,:eter this state of things, the 6.35 p. m. t ra i n l e ft P" g ers, he Crediton, and p rocee d e d as usua l w i t h t h e pa ss up , Newton station, when, finding the line blocke d et engine was reverse d, an d proceeded back tovraratoes e ro It had not go ne f ar , h owever, b efore the earth itibecijoi ported the rail s gave way, an d the engine was t e Tebtef of in the mud. Th e f r i g ht o f t h e passengers wasile;ties by the darkness of the night and the rushing s ri es A , e the waters, which swept by with great force. 01 1,ricti tion was used by the officials to extricate the ,`",Tt if e 'v Horses were procured as quickly as possible, ii ip At ite great difficulty, and the passengers were ? li t, . n ) •,, , drawn back to Newton, but not till after mid l 'gter rain all this time fell in torrents, and the roc r i tinued to rise and pour down the valley with in o vi oti force. In one place, near Crediton, the , o rer washed completely off, and we re see n scattereu_ er ej adjoining meado w . Th e w h o l e o f the rails .w cige , swept off between New-bridge and CowleP hri the abutments of the f ormer s t ruc ture were gprets. or jured by the washin g awa y o f th e embank it iV or traffic over the line i s accor di ng ly stopped, a% IA j e d, expected that it will be rest or ed for some ti - idera t u h n ih a n te I y is ,none passenger s the of themore surprising, nature of the ground wh ere the accident OCC III =Cle B ri er n i 7 wt sil e P.C°7 t ß h i oe c k nw n i e tf l he l BIRTHS. 0 OF A SOY. •,, P On the 15th inst. at Jersey, the wife of 01 01 " to o :o f ll 2d . Alfred iil C ' ao r ß t a r e b b i , In E e n s q t ..', M. D . On the 17th inst ,at Pelham-house, Poole, 3 : )°r88 O . kaait' b doe ° the the R A aw m ul tra. p if in TE d it ee . , in wife of W. S R. Hodson, Esq., Commandant f of Guides, and Assistant-Commissione r. cio u-scl tv ' M On the 18th instat 25 G d treet Oor ~ , Or on-s f , , , the wife of George d'Olier Gowan, Esq. MARRIED. A t Jol iti V 01 ----$ On the 19th of October, at St. Luke's Chur ~...,e ht po m S er dur, India, Captain G. E. Holmes , 72d Itet joug" Native Infantry, to Charlotte Elizabeth, eldg e oleo, of Brigadier N. Penny, C. 8., and A.D. C. tf Ber ks,,J.; r ro On the 20th inst., at Hungerford Churcrinu,stals&ea' Thensted, Esq., late second officer H. lif• ' tam 4•A'' Leone, to Frederica, daughter of the late CeP ter, J.P. for the county of Middlesex. • t ° DIED. a On the 18th inst., at Caledonia -place, atellbelPt° 33d year of his age, William Edwards, in H.M. 17th Regiment of Feot. ed 14, daughter At Bermuda, Fanny Ann Cockburn, ag ote r, of Captain William Henry- Jervis R.N. ce ydanch e t St. On the ISth inst., at 1, ApsieY-terf,s ..clerit . John Stirling, Esq., of Eldershaw, lata '--- r , 10 0' Andrew's, Fife. t.street, ut„&slif, On the 20th inst., at 18A, M-arga re o f the .A square, Frederick George Boddy, Esq ., Somerset-house. 101100, LONDON : Printed and Published V Mtritniraa 204 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TO 8111$2',,'"": 4;00 Strand, in the Precinct of the Srlt.dt: Middlenz.. Thuradsty, Dovesilor. r), Ar_v• COUNTRY MARKETS. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW DECEMBER 20. There was a large supply. of straw of all,descriptiOßS the market. The prices were as follow : Oat straw, from 8s Od to 9s Od per kemp to 531 e of 1 6 s toll l tron ; wheat do. 7s Od to 8s Od ; barley do. , 4s 6d ba Hay from lato 12d ; new ditto,. Od to Od per stout. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—DV. 20. h There were in the market to-day, 54 sacks oat a® " weighing 2801bs imperial, which sold thus :-2. St 2 30 at 2/. is Od, and 22 at 2/. Os. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—DEG. 1:9• 1 0 There were in the market to-day 108 bags, oatmeal, ~.. of barleynral, and 2 of pot-barley. Sales were quic' d The top price of oatmeal same as on last market day, l'l r the second also the same. Barleymeal is up on th° wet price. Pot-barley is 2s down on the top price since market. nm'ra. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. .- I oj imperial Barleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, per ditto 32 93 5s Od 3 2 7 8:s 9c ocl 377: °O l —s Od —s Od ---5 Od Pot-barley, per ditto NEWCASTLE—DEC. 20. rs de' There was a good inquiry for wheat, but holds of ill manding, and in many cases obtaining, an advance ,„ore on Saturday's rates, checked business. Barley in demand. Pease scarce. Oats unaltered. LEEDS, DEC. 20. (1 25 Wheat was gradually creeping up, and advance- 0 qr. for new and fresh o ld w h ea t, holders insist in g Da % Per advance. Barley and beans brought more inoneh were is dearer. Other articles fully as dear. '.-DEC. 21. Le close of the market :—.• .3 e. Bell ......................... Belmont ............... . .... • . Lamb ton .............. . .... . ;1 9 , Lumley ..................... -1; 34 Peusher .................... 34 P1ummer............ .... '0 • Russell's Hetton •••••• .. ; . '35 Stewart's .......... ... , ...... 31 cordon ..................... rWitton Park ..........••.. 34 'Watney's Anthracite ..•••. 38 Aberanain Merthyr •••• - i7 Gwaen Cae GUrVren ..... ,Perkins' Anthracite ..... :2 1 Sold 29. • 7 - m: 4 " . ?or E? te,' ~ i 1 alittup 3 0th 0 Ile Pi Ined Pi the he me .oe t, to the r C11"-4Dita vrin h be qtr 21 st -........__ ?ells °! th e Mit p ol Of th e ' tep ris , uth e ; ct •,_ :4 4 . ~..., Th, l IA L An ne cli ne tht'e