The Sun. — London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

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"' D 0- 1 a receis r ' the 2' . ed. at 5 6 ' r [eaths fr° l3l d at tb e )ar tiew Yore ashore ° ll ,, h, but 0' t the epor 1 for C 3 ,1;. l ad str'i'p off. slands, °,, >eon g 1 . 1 - xpediti°l3' et ian pac y at 0 9 il i e old. &Flaecl er le lia 001; 2 de Vi v e l ti e s t: [ware - , , 0 meingb a er e ne o is and t ° g hipg ot ? Bele el , of ir of n i t , ',is D v for io RubY„ oc e, le r vp , rs , ess Peea or pr o° to, villY L the hotior: broke ° ,4- i n the, - , and I ld "' ticl e l g in % 1— . 1 1 ; o utl e a rtiot., lost' w a ter . 4 iir re W 34 ,, t Of Ye rail- isit to 00° i dland Le Ca lPss? Pe ---e MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The leading country markets held on Saturday were but reolerately supplied with wheat, yet the demand ruled in active, and in some instances prices had a downward ten dency. There wai less inquiry for barley and malt. The oat trade was firm, at extreme rates. Beans, peas, and flour commanded very full prices. The latest advices from New York state that both grain and flour were in good requests on English account. Most of the continental markets have continued firm. Up to our market last week the arrivals of English grain were but moderate. From abroad we received 47,901 quarters of wheat, 5,430 barley, 15,823 oats, 2,015 bean', 2,684 peas, 60 tares, 3,903 linseed, 1,767 rapeseed, 37 mus tard seed, 592 sundry seeds, 6,358 sacks and 6,492 barrels of flour. _ _ . Fresh up to this morning's market, the arrivals of wheat from Essex, Bent, &c., coastwise, were very moderate, but in fair average condition. By land carriage, the re ceipts were small ; hence the show of samples of both red and white was limited. Owing, in a great measure, to several barrels of flour having come to hand from France, Spain, and Italy, buyers_purchased all kinds of English wheat with extreme cauti, and the demand was in a very inactive state, at prices barely equal to those of Monday last. For forward delivery very little was doing. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Millers almost generally restricted their purchases to retail quan tities. In the quotations, however, scarcely any change took place. Floating cargoes—the arrival of which from the westward continue small—were held at full prices, but the inquiry was by no means active. Fine English barley was scarce, and quite as dear as last week. Grind ing and distilling sorts met a dull inquiry, and were the turn in favour of buyers. We had a fair inquiry for malt, on former terms. Although the show of oats was moderate, the trade was dull, at last week's currency. The inquiry for all kinds of beans was firm, and prices well supported. White peas moved off slowly, at is. to 2s. per quarter less money. Grey and maple were quite as dear. Flour was in moderate request, at late currencies. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent. Red •• .. new 621 to 72s iMalt—Chevalier .. •• 68s to 73 jOats— Yorkshire and Ditt0............ old 62s 73a Ditto, White new 62s 78s Ditt0........ old 65s 80s Norfolk and Lin cioln, Red, old 59s 68s Ditto new ...... 593 66s Rye—Old ............ 00s 00s New .••• ........ 34s 38s Barley—Grinding..... 33s 353 Malting ......... 418 43s Chevalier.... ... 44s 48s Malt—Saffolkand Nor- __ Lincolnsh., Feed 23s 26s Potato ...... 27s 29s Yonghal and Cork Black. .. .. 22s 24s Cork, White . .. 23s 26s Scotch, Feed..... 248 27s Beans—Tick .. 40s 44s Pigeons. ....4ls 49s Peas—Grey . .. 40s 42s Map1e........... 45s 48s White... .. .. 504 58s Boilers ... .. 62s 66s f01k............ 56s 62s 8r0wn.•.••••........ 50s 57s Flour—Town-made... 70s 75s Suffolk .......... 53s 55s king - ston and Ware 61s 65s Stoats & Norfolk 54s 58s SMITHFIELD. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were good, viz., 7,712 head. During the corresponding period of 1852, we received 6,117 ; in 1851, 7,602 ; in 1850, 6,072 ; in 1849, 4,412 ; in 1848, 4,085 ; and in 1847, 4,950 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WERE. Sheep. 736 .. 158 .. From Beasts. Rotterdam' ll5 Ostend Hambnrgh l5 Dordt 9 Bromvershaven Tonningen 462 Amsterdam Bremen 143 Harlingen Toning 483 ... 882 New Diep 64 1,199 .. Kasko Laml)s. Calves. Pigs. ... 263 ... 61 129 175 TotiiL... 1,828 -. 5,203 -. The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1852 368 ... 5,110 ... ... 251 ... 88 1851 1,465 ... 5,707 ... ... 122 ... 308 1850 1,518 ... 4,168 ... ... 210 ... 178 1849 892 ... 3,268 ... ... 172 ... 140 1848 728 ... 3,283 ... ... 74 ... Letters from Holland state that several rather large pur chases of stock have been effected for the French markets. In Spain, nearly 4,000 beasts have been disposed of for the same destination. We were well supplied with foreign stock to-day, but its general quality was inferior. From our own grazing districts, the arrivals of beasts were rather on the increase, and in improved condition. The attendance of both town and country butchers being good, the beef trade ruled steady. In some instances, the medium breeds were 2d per 81bs higher than on this day se'nnight. Otherwise, the beef trade was firm, and last week's currency was well supported. The best Scots sole at 4s 4d per 81bs. The receipts from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire was 3,000 short horns. From all other quarters, the arrivals were very limited. With sheep we were seasonably well supplied, and their general weight improved to some extent. Prime breeds moved off steadily, at very full prices ; but most other breeds sold slowly, and last week's currency was barely supported. There was a good inquiry for calves, the supply of which was moderate, at prices fully equal to those of Friday. Pigs were in fair average supply, and moderate request, on former terms. Per Blbs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 to 2 10 Second quality.... 3 2 3 6 Prime large oxen 3 8 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 2 4 4 Inferior Sheep ...3 0 3 4 Second quality ...3 6 4 2 Prime crse.-wlled. 4 4 4 8 Pn s. d. s. d. *meSouthdown 410 5 0 Large crse. calves 3 6 4 2 Prime small d 0... 4 4 4 8 Large hogs 3 4 4 0 Small porkers 4 2 410 Sucklingcalves ..21 0 27 0 Quarter old pigs 20 0 26 0 TOTAL SIIPPLT. Beasts .. • • • • ........ 5,277 Sheep .•• • • .. • • ..........27,240 Calves.. ••..••••• • • • •• .. 262 Pigs .. ................ 3:0 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Nov. 8, 1852, and this day, Monday, Nov. 7, 1853. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Nov. 8, 1852.1N0v. 7,1853 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d 2 oto2 22 6t02 10 , 2 4 2 103 2 3 6 , 3 0 2 6 3 8 4 0 , 3 8 4 0 4 2 4 4 Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... Second quality ditto ... ... ... Prime large oxen ... ... ... ... Prime Scots, &c ... ... ... ... Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... Second quality ditto ... ... Prime coarse woolled ditto ... Prime Southdown ditto Large coarse calves Prime small ditto ... Large hogs ... ... Neat small porkers Sheep... ... Calves... ... Pigs ... ... 210 3 23 0 3 4 3 63 6 . 3 8 4 0 4 4 ▪ 4 2 4 64 10 • 2 6 3 63 6 • 3 8 4 0 4 4 • 210 3 63 4 . 3 8 310 4 2 ▪ 4,704 ▪ 25,500 ▪ 223 • 380 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 10, 1851.—Beasts, 5,282 ; sheep, 26,780 ; calves, 364 ; pigs, 510. Nov. 11, 1850.—Beasts, 3,744 ; sheep, 25,540; calves 149 ; pigs, 380. NEWGATE AND LEA.DENHALL. - The arrivals of country-killed meat up to these markets having fallen off, the general demand has ruled steady, and prices are well supported. Per Sibs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. I Beef, inferior 2 2 2 6 Mutton, Inferior Do., middling 2 8 3 2 Do. , Do., prime large 3 4 3 6 Do., prime. Do., do. small 3 8 310 Veal Pork, large 3 4 4 0 Pork, small s. d. a. d 2 8 3 ~3 4 ~4 2 .3 4 ~4 2 4 0 4 8 4 6 4 10 BOROUGH HOP. The hops are very scarce, and command the extreme rates of Monday last. Low qualities move off slowly, and are rather lower to purchase. The imports last week have amounted to 68 bales from Ghent, 183 ditto from Ostend, 193 from Hambnrgh, 610 from Antwerp, 5 from Dunkirk, and 17 from Rotterdam. The quotations are — New Mid and East Kent pockets, 151. Os to 201. Os ; new Weald of Kent ditto, 11/. Os to 131. 13s ; and new Sussex ditto, 101. ss. to 131. per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of English and Scotch potatoes are on the increase. The imports have amounted to 63 tons from Rouen, 52 bags from Bromvershaven, 28 cases from Gijon, 50 tons from Antwerp, 128 baskets from Rotterdam, 5 bags from Bremen, 4 cams from Hambro', 20 sacks from Lime rick, 914 sacks from Dublin, 6 ditto from Cork, and 555 ditto from Belfast. The demand is less active, as follows : --Shaws, 120 s tol4os ; regents, 160 s to 180 s ; foreign, 140 s to 160 s ; Irish, 120 s to 150 s per ton. WOOL. There has been rather more firmness in the biddings at the public sales within the last few days. In prices, how ever, no advance has taken place. Australian : —Clean sheep's, is 4d to is Sid ; clothing, is Gd to 2s 2d ; hog getts, is 1041 to 2s lid ; handwashed, is 5d to is 9d ; lambs, is 6d to 2s Od; mixed and broken, is 2d to is 4d ; pieces and locks, 9d to is 2d ; grease, 8d to ls. Port Philip—Clothing, is 6d to is lld ; sc oured, is 6d to ls lld ; handwashed, is 4d to is 9d ; lambs', is 5d to la 9d ; superior, 2s 2d ; mixed, 9d to is 4d ; slipe , is 2d to is 4d; grease, 8d to llid. Adelaide —Clothing, is 4d to is 6id ; handwashed, is 2 d to is 5d ; lambs', is Gd to is 9d ; skin, 10d to is Od ; grease, 8d to is Od. Van Diemen's Land—Clothing, is 4d to is 7id ; lambs', is 3d to is 8d ; mixed, is 2d to is 4d. Cape—Clean sheep?, is 2d to is 5d ; mixed, Bid to is per lb. A few parcels of foreign have sold at from 7d to is 10d per lb. Lastweek's imports were under 2,000 bales. SEEDS. The demand for linseed is very firm, and prices are well Ti ported. All other seeds are held at full quotations. Uakes move off steadily, at extreme rates. Tozoip,White, per bush. 18s to 21s Swede .. • • -20 s 23s Mustard, Brown 10s 13s White, new...... 14s 16s T 4 rel4Winter, new.... 7e 6d 8s 0d Spring Os Od Od 9anarY, per quarter 65a 70s Rye grass...... • • 2Bs 34s Clover,BedEng. (cwt ) 44a 64a White 4Bs 65a Foreign Bed...— 44s 62s White 51s 65s Trefoil, n0W.... l9a 24s Carraway . ....... 421 48s Coriander ...........• 10a 15s Hempseed, per quarter 33s 38s Linseed, Eng. Sowing.• 58s Cgs Crushing • . • ... .• 548 57s Baltic .• ........ 499 549 Odessa •• 50s 555 Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English . • . 91 lOs 10. 103 Foreign, per ton 910 s I 11 108 Rape Cakes, pr ton 610 s 61 lOs Rapeseed, New, prlst 3010 s 3210 s TALI Our market is exceedingly i todecline. To-day P.Y.C. cstls Od. Town tallow is fat, 3s 2d per 81bs. .ow. inactive, and prices continue in the spot is selling at 55s 9d 56s per cwt. net cash ; rough 1 1849. I 1850. I 1851. 1852. 11853, Steck this day ...... 42,735 I 46,590 I 69.876 f 32,696 29,131 1 ; 1 , 0 7 "Y . tf l O s ONd 3 38s Od r ra gs 3d Oc t l o t0 " 4 8 39 3 6 1 d 5 515 9d 0r —very last week .. 3,971 1,961 3,087 2,887 2,361 Ditto from June 1.... 39,295 41,316 41.586 39,024 48,231 _Arrivals last week.. 199 2,207 7,554 4,812 9,880 alttofrom June 1.... 56,467 :62,262 74,929 131,0; 5 54,047 1 116, of Town .. 396 6d 413 Od 396 64 433 Qd 696 Qd FOREIGN SUPPLY. ........ .1,756 Sheep .. •••• • • .. ........6,180 Ca1ve5,................. • 220 t SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. 1?102 7 AND GUNPOWDER ETER. EXPLOSION AT EX • The observance of the sth of November in Exeter has been distinguished by a fearful accident, and by proceed ings of Isn extraordinary character. For a number of years the , cathedral-yard, situated in the heart of the city, has been used to commemorate the day, and a large quantity . of rockets and an immense bonfire were con sumed for that purpose, the effigy of the Popebeing duly burnt. _During the last few years, however, the effigy burning bias not been confined to the Pope, but several local divines of the Church of England have been likewise burnt in effigy. The authorities, considering that these things wore carried too far last year, made a vigorous but unsuccessful effort to put them down. This year the dean and chapter, to whom the cathedral-yard belongs, issued notices threatening legal proceedings against all who either let off fireworks or assisted in lighting a bonfire in that place. The mayor, in order to carry out their wishiis,, engaged Mr. Cotton, the pyrotechnist to the Vauxhall-gardens, to give a grand display of fire works in :another part of the city, in order to draw the people from the yard. Notwithstanding all these pre cautions, however, Mr. Cotton's display was scarcely finished, wh en, shortly after nine o'clock, large bodies of men enter.ed the yard, and with cries of " We will have a bonfire," commenced letting off rockets to as great an extent as formerly. The wood for the bonfire was brought in to the city after dark ; but the police obtain ing knowledge of the fact, seized it, and deposited it in the yard of the White Hart Inn, South-street. Shortly aft erwards a number of men assembled and broke dowry the doors, and, in spite of the police, who were guarding the wood, carried the whole of it into the cathedral-yard, where the bonfire was quickly lighted, in defiance of both the civil and ecclesi astical authorities. During the evening several of the police were injured ; and one of the inspectors received a severe cut on his head. Many arrests took place, and the affair is likely to occupy the attention of the magis trates for !some time. The tumult, indeed, was at one time so great that it was rumoured the mayor intended calling out 'the military. Before these extraordinary proceedings commenced a fearful explosion occurred in High-street. It appears that two persons were engaged in loading rockets in the upper rooms of the house occupied by Mr. Osborn, when by some accident the powder ignited, and there being a quantity of combustible materials in the room, a terrific explosion was the result. The whole of the roof was blown off, and one of the boys was hurled into the air, and fell with much force through the skylight of an ad joining house. Although very seriously injured, his life is not despaired of. The house was quickly on fire, and as the West of England Bank is near, serious appre hensions were entertained as to its safety, but fortu nately the flames were subdued before they had ex tended beyond Mr. Osborn's house. LORD MAYOR'S DAY. The inauguration of the new Lord Mayor, Alderman Sidney, is to be celebrated on Wednesday next. No thing daunted by the inquiry of the commission now sitting, the corporation have decided on installing their new chief magistrate into office with nearly all the cere mony and pageantry of ancient date. The novel fea tures in the procession, in place of the traditional men in armour, or armed knights, will consist of a car, drawn by six horses, bearing the figure of Justice ; 18 heralds on horseback, attired in national costumes, bearing the standards of France, Turkey, Prussia, Italy, Russia, South America, China, India, North America, Spain, Austria, Greece, Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark, Persia, Belgium, and Sweden ; an Australian trophy, signifying the auriferous and pastoral character of the colonies, drawn by two oxen ; banner of Peace and Prosperity; implements of industry, borne by artists on horseback, two abreast ; and a car, drawn by nine horses, three abreast, bearing two figures, representing Peace and Prosperity. Mr. Sheriff Wallis is announced to appear in his private carriage ; while Alderman and Sheriff Wire will occupphis " full state chariot." The procession will leave Guildhall shortly after eleven o'clock, and, passing into Gresham-street, proceedidown Princes-street, Lombard-street, Fenchurch-street, Min cing -lane, Great Tower-street, Eastcheap, down Fish street-hill, past the Monument, along Thames-street, to Billingsgate-market, where his lordship, who is alderman of the ward, will embark on board the City barge. The interior of Guildhall has been fitted up for the banquet in the evening. Although Mr. Sheriff Wallis has been induced to take part in the procession, he will not be present at the banquet ' • the whole expense of the enter tainment will therefore fall on the new Lord Mayor and Alderman Wire. The Earl of Aberdeen (Premier) is staying at Argyll House until the Christmas recess, when his lordship, if public affairs will permit, will visit his ancestral seat, Haddo House, Aberdeenshire. The noble earl was obliged to decline the invitations of several of his noble friends to visit them in Scotland,. preferring his official residence in Downing-street. The Secretary at War (Mr. S. Herbert) intends re turning to town in the course of a few days for the dis charge of official business. THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.-011 Saturday this an adversary was commemorated in the usual manner in the metropolis, and with considerable freedom in the suburbs. Of late years it has been the practice to borrow the form and lineaments of the doomed effigy from the most unpopular public characters of the day, and on Saturday Nicholas, Emperor and Auto crat of all the Russias, might be seen parodied in the chair which three years ago carried the like ness of Cardinal Wiseman. In the evening the police in the principal thoroughfares were considerably reinforced for the repression of the firework nuisance, but crackers and squibs were 'nevertheless heard in Regent-street, and several arrests were made. A serious explosion took place in Queen-street, Tower-hill. A pensioner named Callaghan, who keeps a small shop, had bought 71. 10s. worth of fireworks of different de scriptions ; and Mrs. Callaghan, in order to show one of her customers the manner in which squibs were let off, lighted one of them, the sparks from which fell upon her whole stock. The persons in the shop immediately made their escape, and the premises were in 'a few minutes in flames. A considerable amount of property was destroyed before the fire could be extinguished. PASSENGER-SHIPS' STORES.—In accordance with a suggestion on the part of the Customs' authorities, the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners have instructed their officers to affix an official seal or stamp on all packages of bonded or drawback stores opened by them in the course of their inspection of the stores and provisions of passenger-ships, and have caused one to be prepared and furnished to the emigration officers at Liverpool, Southampton, and Plymouth, as well as at the port of London, with directions to use it for the purpose desired and in the manner directed ; and, in order that the seal may be recognised by the proper offi cers of Customs, the Commissioners have caused impres sions of it to befurnished to them for that purpose. MUNICIPAL VACANCY IN THE WARD OF CHEAP.—Mr. Edward Watson, silversmith and jeweller, of 6, King street, Cheapside, died on Saturday, the 31st ult., at Brighton. He represented the ward of Cheap in the Court of Common Council for 22 years. His remains were interred on Saturday last in Bunhill-fields. The deputy of the ward, Eugenius Fenning, Esq., and four of the Common Councilmen, attended the funeral in a mourning coach, the beadle of the ward following in another vehicle, with the mace of office covered with black crape. The deceased was much respected. Most of the shops in the ward were closed during the whole of the interment. By this occurrence a vacancy has been occasioned in the ward of Cheap, but it is not ex pected that it will be filled up before the ensuing St. Thomas's Day. THE MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN LIVERPOOL, ---A numerous and highly influential meeting of the scientific and literary gentlemen of Liverpool, convened by the Mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., was held on Friday in the Council-chamber, at which resolutions were passed for the purpose of giving a suitable recep tion to the British Association, and committees ap pointed to carry out the objects of the meeting. We have no doubt, from the respectability and unanimity of the meeting, that the members of the British Association will, on their visit in September, 1854, receive a hearty and hospitable welcome from the inhabitants of "the greatest seaport in the world." LEEDS, Nov. 4.—We have no change to report in the state of the woollen cloth trade ; it continues in the same dull, inactive, and languid state it has been in during the last four or five weeks. The trade in the warehouses is dull ; the present is not , the shipping season, hence that branch of the trade is still, and those whose business is principally confined to supplying the wants of buyers who attend this market have been very quiet this week, as we are not aware that a single buyer of importance has been in the town. Tae country trade houses are circumstanced the best at present, but even they complain of their business being very much cur tailed. ROCHDALE.—We have had an extremely dull market, with very little business doing. The merchants are unwilling to purchase only at reduced prices. There is la decided fall in the price of wool, varying from lid. to 2d. per lb., and the manufacturers buy for im mediate use only. In the warehouses the country orders are much more limited than is usual in the beginning of November, . 218 THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1853. SITAR '.: MARKETS--(THIS DAY). BRITISH RAILWAYS. no 8i 20 20 50 25 100 100 all all all RAILWAYS. lAberdeen ....... Ambg. Nottng. & Pastn. Juno Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsb. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons Do., £2O. ........ Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian (£25 L & E. & L. & D.) Do., (£lB E. & H.) Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A. stk. Do., do. 8..... .. Do.NewA(lateTli — h:ds) East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb. Pith. &Dundee Forth and ClydeJunc. Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) Great Western Trielh South.Eader2 Lancaster &Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un. Leeds Northern : Liv. Crsby. &So utbpt. London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Loud. Bright & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,IG/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S. Western Do., £5O. ........ Do. £4O Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lincln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do. Shares Newcastle &Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extensions Newpt.Aberg.&lltfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.. Northn. Counties Un North British Closing Prices thLs day. 50 is St. 194 all all 100 100 20 -- 20 41 - 4i 9 - 10 13 - 11 31 16 - 18 5i - i 95 - 97 55 - 556 166 - 176 13 - 15 Basinesa done this day. 55 4i 61 a 5a 45 - 40 45i i i 7! - 100 - 42 34 all all 100 50 25 1.00 St. 41 - 31 3 t 12f -13 i 45 -- 48 32 -- 34 66 - 68 59 - 61 22 - ii 84i -85 i 60 - 62 128 - 130 102 - 104 81i - 824 100 - 100 174 17 87 -- 90 ' 11i --12Ap 65} —66 7A -- 6id 4t 4fd 13f -13 i 81 —8/ 4 Ipl —97 h 10:34 104 par 6 p 4 73 75 14 13 d 13 12 d 17i all 10 1 2.2 100 100 100 100 North Devon, Do., No. 2 Dc., A Deferred... Do., i B Guaranteed. N N . o sz rt s h . l li v o s n t u d o . . a . . p . stead, and City Jii.. North Staffordshire.. North Western.. N. & S.Westrn. Jane Nuneaton, Hinckley,' and Leicester Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Mi dland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. \Vesta Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herold Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do. A, B,C, &D, fully paid up at per cent. I South Devon 'South Eastern South Wales. S. Yorksh. River Dun Do. Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & Darling.. Stockton & Hartlepl. Taff Vale , Do. £lO shades IDo. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock' and Vale of Neath... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall.. West End of London and Crystal Palace West London 20 10 St. 25 25 St ' 20A - 2141 13 12j 13} 44 7 all 51a. 100 20 11i 100 Wmbledon &Croydou York Newctl. &Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland 61 - 621 33 - 35 53 55 d. par 44 4id 49 511 4 —3 d 29A —30 A 8 10 li - - 8 49 . 62 5 • sid 74 8 par 2 p 39 - 41 87 - 89 53 - - 55 61 - 63 55 65 21 lidis 15 17 7i— 8i 11 13 31 3d 15 - 17 624 - 63} 34 - 35 3 - 4 27 - '3O •.• 2i - 3 15, -15 i . . .. - 8 - 9 654 —66 i 9 —84 a 3i act 484 494 6687 83 4 62 129 103 81i 2i 2 pm 65 4 6a 4I A 14 - 8a i 9g 97 8 7i 104 i 4 74i 5 i 4 211 20i 1i 62 1i 21 1 i 29 30 i lli 12i lli 41 401 62 11 62 3g in 34' 64i 5i 7i 8 48} 9i . 9 St. 20 12 St 124 12 124 St. 15 8 10 10 25 10 1.0.1 100 100 100 6 100 17i li pm Pill 13i 141: 1 ; FOREIGN. 10 5 Antwrp &Rotterdam 24 —14 d 1 5 3 Belgian East. Junct. 11 20 8 Beziers to Graissessac 3 1 d ... Central of Italy 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin 13 14 171 all Demerara 20 10 Dijon and Besnon ll - 2 2 P 20 8 Dutch Rhenish 20 all East Indian 3l -- 3 iP 20 2 Do, Extension p P 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula — 11 P 20 10 Gd. Junct. of France 2.1 2 p 10 Gd. Trunk, of Canada Shrs. and Bonds 3l - ata 20 8 Gt. Central of France B p 201 201 Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares 2 lid Do. bonds(l i55.)1857 Do. bonds (2 i55.)1873 201 101 Hamilton & Toronto ... 1: 0 all Do. 6 per cent 20 5 Lake Const. & Basle 5 4 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. — id 20 15 Lu 10 13 Do.exembourg (Railway) 6 - 1 6 1 5 6 / 61 5 2Do la -- la 5 3 Do. (Canal) — 10 5 Do. 6p. cent. pref. id 4p 544 20 12 Lyons & Mediterran. 20 101 Madras ll l, 33/ 29 Maria Antonia 10 10 Do. New 20 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest 7l 8 71. 20 all Do. (ex interest) — 16 all Northern of France 344 —34 a 14 1 20 all Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs ] -. 13 10 all NorwegianTrnk. Pre; 7a 8i 20 10 Paris and Lyons l6l —164 p 40 40 Do. bonds 20 all Paris and Orleans 20 all Paris and Rouen 4O —42 41 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 371 —37 i 1 1 20 4 ParisCaen&Cherbrg. - 2 4 p 104 104 Quebec & Richmond 3 1 d 20 all Rouen and Havre 20 9 Royal Danish ld par 5 2 Royal Swedish l/ d 20 all Sambre and Meuse B4 9 9 1 81 9 10 6 Do. 51 per cent. pref. 20 2 S.E. of France - par 20 6 Southern of France , A 4 p 20 6 St. Andrews &Quebec 20 2s. Upper India Scrip 8i all West Flanders 4 41 20 10 Do. 54 per c. Pref , ...d 20 10 Western of France 74 SiP 1G 4 West. of Switzerland 11 ld 20 2 Wiesbaden 20 12 iZealana .... 34 3 d all all 10i 100 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 107 i MINES. 1 all Agna Fria .- . p 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold d ... par [Os. all Anglo Californian * d— par 10 2 Australasian lf d 20 6 Australian 3i 3.4 4 44 1 all Australian Cordillera 4 d 1 all Australian Freehold. . d 1 all Ave Maria § 2 d 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) I dis— par 50 all Blrenarvon Iron and Coal 1 all British Austrin. Gold d 20 13.5 British Iron 7 9 35 244 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm 64— 7 7. 74 61 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cniada 24 3 20 15 Do. St. John Delßey 36 38 1 4 Carsona's Creek id par 40 all Cobre Copper 4l 43 424 5 1 Colonial Gold 4 ... 15 Copiapo. l.ll 121 St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 55 65 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. 5 7pxd 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co. 21c 3 d 20 all General l - —l6 2 all Gt.NuggetVeinScrp # d • $p 24 2 Do. Registered 34 all Great Polgooth 24 2 d 1 all Lake Bathurst — d 1 all Liberty 4 d 3 all Linares . ll ... 13 12 1 all Lond.&Ca/iforn.Gold Quartz Crush. Co — 1 all Mariquita .. ... id par 10 9 Mexican&S.A.merien. 64 7 61 1 all New Granada is - par 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co ... 1 all Nouveau Monde ip 14 20 all Pontgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 5 1 Port Philip — 1 all Quartz Rock * ( 1— par 50 all Rhymney iron 8 30 15 15 Do. New — 30 ll Santiago de Cuba 4 5 4?; 1 all South Australian..., d 10 7 Tin Croft . 284 all United Mexican 34 3 i 3 1 all Waller — d 1 all West Granada 1 all West Mariposa 4 (I 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia 1 all Ynba 4 d POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1854. KELLY AND COMPANY. It is something wonderful to observe, year after year, in this remarkable volume, the steady advance of improvement on improvement. Manifest though this advance has undoubtedly been hitherto, it has never been so conspicuously displayed as in the present instance, that of its fifty-fifth annual pub lication. It evidences more than ever the perfect ing consequences of unremitting application and of a protracted experience. It reveals this in the union of many excellences until now deemed in capable of combination in a work purporting to supply the public with a really complete and accu rate London Directory. Already the Messrs. Kelly and Company had actually distanced the most en terprising of their competitors. They have now ren deredit preposterous for any other compiler to dream of emulating their,extraordinary enterprise. It is by no means our intention to enter into the merits of a controversy which has latterly been carried on not without occasional displays of asperity and of petulance, through the medium of pamphlets, broadsheets, and advertisements. Considering the contention to be, as the imperturbable Q'Trigger phrases it, " a very pretty quarrel as it stands," we cannot consider ourselves called upon in any way to decide between the claims of the prominent disputants. Nevertheless, it must be admitted, promptly, candidly, and without the smal lest circumlocution, that, whatever the situa tion at this moment of the contest here intimated whether, to employ an expres sion now generally recognised as idiomatic, it may, perhaps, in several particulars, be six on one side and half-a-dozen on the other, six on the side of F. Kelly and half-a-dozen on the side of F. Watkins—it must, we repeat, promptly, candidly, and without the smallest circumlocution, be ad mitted that the community has long since pro nounced its verdict with some degree of significance. Everybody recognises to whom has been awarded the palm of popularity. Scarcely any unprejudiced observer but perceives at a glance which work is the one allowed on all hands to be au thoritative. It is with Kelly's Post-office Lon don Directory only in a degree proportioned to its magnitude and comprehensiveness, as it is with manyanother favourite compendium of information. • Precisely, for example, as the continental tourist, at every emergency consults " Murray's hand books"—precisely as the railway traveller turns to his " Bradshaw"—precisely as " Dod" is invariably recognised as the surest guide to both houses of the Imperial Parliament—the masses are accus tomed to revert for intelligence in regard to all that concerns the metropolis, not here to one and there to another authority, but habitually, and under all circumstances, to what may be designated without exaggeration, as at once the Dod, the Murray, and the Bradshaw of the English capital—Frederick Kelly's " Post-office London Directory." In this the proprietor of the Post-office Directory is only reaping the reward of pertinacious industry, unflagging enterprise, and indomitable perseverance. A well-sustained effort of upwards of half a century's duration, has in this manner rewarded with unexampled success the meritorious toils of the originator. Insomuch that the wealthiest, if not the most populous among the chief cities of the earth, has in this ex traordinaiy volume a kindred index and an appropriate repiesentative. London, in faci;, is here displayed for the ap preciation, it may be of remote races, and even one might conjecture of some distant genera tion, in all its present power, vastness, and en terprise. Its pride and its riches, the varied avocations of its inhabitants, the extent of its streets, the multiplicity of its productions, the continuousness of its traffic, the unexampled im portance of its political position, and the unparal leled diversity and magnitude of its commercial operations are here clearly and succinctly portrayed under a series of suggestive and significant depart ments. A dreamer, long ago associated with this journal, once favoured such as might happen to delight in similarly fantastic visions of a possible futurity, with an account of " London in a Thousand Years," such an account at least as might be afforded through a vague poetic description. The ingenious Mr. Roche would hardly, however, have ventured, we may conjecture, to indulge in those sinister anticipations as to the fate of our metropolis, as to its gradual decline and ultimate decadence, had he been enabled in his eccentric pre visions to turn over the phantom pages of the " Post-office Directory for 1854," the work here distinguished by its fifty-fifth annual publication. He would scarcely have indulged so readily in the vagaries of his morbid and lugubrious imagination. He would hardly have ventured to foresee so very distinctly the grass sprouting luxuriantly from the chinks of the city pavement, the ivy mantling the ruins of St. Paul's, the reeds clustering among the broken arches of London Bridge, and those other signs of decay and solitude, through the delineation of which he anticipated, by so many years, Mr. Macaulay's memorable pen-and-ink vignette, in, perhaps, the most eloquent of his " Essays" in the Edinburgh. Briefly let us avow that, in poring over this extraordinary volume of more than 2,400 pages, closely printed and compactly arranged— the extraordinary volume epitomising the capital of England, as it is at this period, in the middle of the nineteenth century—we cannot, for an instant, conceive, except as the dimmest of all hypothetical entities, the existence of that scarcely pc3sible New Zealander. To sympathise with us in,our hopeful anticipations as to the protracted prosperity of our metropolis, it is only necessary to corm for a while the various sections of this surprising compilation. JOINT-STOCK. BANKS. 40 all Australasia 75 77 77 6 40 all British Colonial Bank ... ... and Loan Company 50 all British N. American ... ... 60 20 2 Chrtd. Buk.of India, Austral. and China 4d Idis 25 5 Chrtd. Bilk. of Asia. 13 ldis 100 25 Colonial 100 20 Commercial of Lond ... ... 20 10 English Scottish and Australian Chrtd l3 1(1 8L; 9 20 15 London Chrtd. Bnk of Australia i 1p 15/ 164 50 20 London and County ... ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 100 20 Lond.andWestminst .... ... 100 35 National Provincial of England 20 10 Do. New — ••• 50 223 National of Ireland ... ... 20 all New South Wales 25 all Oriental Bank Coy poration 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 49 10 all Do. New — ... 5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg and Gold Imp. Co 4d— par 25 25 South Australia — ... 25 all Union of Australia 74 76 75 41 23 Do. New 7:l Si 50 10 Union of London 40 all Union of Madrid MISCELLANEOUS. 5 5 Aubin Coal and Iron ... ... 25 174 Australian Agricult. 42 -- 44 43 2i 31 21 20 14 Australsn.Pcific.3l3.il ... ... 10 8 .Australn. Royal Mail ... _ ... 3 i 10 24 Berlin Water Works ... ____ 50 3838 rit. American Land 58 62 5 31 Brit. & Coln. Smelts. and Reduction Co ... _ ... 100 324 Canada Company ... _ ... 5 5 Crystal Palace l— 11 p 6/ 1 5 13 Do. New I i 2 4 20 2 3 E C r y a s t s e t Crystal P s al t e . o ai n f F . ra . ..n . . ce . ... . : .... L . .. . 25 20 Electric Telegraph(A) 17 i:6 25 15 Do. (B) l2 14 1 1 Electric Tel. of HO ... ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... _ ... 20 18 General Screw Steam ... ... 131 20 74 Irish Beetroot Sugar „. ____ ... 20 6 Magdalena St. Navig. ... _ ... 1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel ... _ 10 4 Netherlands Land l4 Ad 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter- Stem. Nay. Co ... ... 1 all N. B. Australasian i il,p iv} 1 3 Do. New ... ... 20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeStsam . -..• ... & i 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. Minrl. --/ par 51 /3 50 all Peninsular & Oriental ... ... 50 25 Do. 2 all Portland Iron Co ••• --- ••• 100 60 Royal Mail Steam .. • - 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest l4 lip 25 25 South Austral. Land 36 38 37 l all Submarine Telegraph ... . . 100 284 Van Diemen's Land 15 16 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. _ m L o easing Closing Prices Business t.; pans. this day. this day. 50 all Bedford and Ln.&N.W. Bletchley St. 100 Buckghamsh L. &N.W. 99 101 50 all Cl7desdaleJe Caledon... 49 51 152 St. 100 E.Lincoln. gr 6p. cent ... . Gt.Northn 140 145 25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct. ••• ••• 25 all Do. New Do . . •• • 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Rt.Westn 3O 32 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New Railway & Berw.. ••• 50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 108 109 108 25 all Do. i Shares Do 54 55 12 all Do. 1 Shares. Do — 27, 12 all Lon.4Greenw S.Eastern —14 A-20 -20 all Do. Preference Do 24A-256 ad z d St. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent.,. Norfolk St. 100 Do. 6 per ct... Do N all Maneh•Batou. Ln.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 2/ 3 50 all Middlesbro' & Stckton & Redcar 100 all Midld.Bmdfd Midland... 98 100 99 100 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c., E. Count.. 60 62 61i 50 all Do. 6 per et. Do 50 all Do.Fixedsp.e Do .. . 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &Is. W &Ln& Yk 12i 12 Do. Shares. Do St. 100 Roystn.&Hit. Gt.Northn 140 145 141 St. 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do l4O 145 140 25 18g Shef. Roth. & Lancash.& Goole g.5.p.c Yorksh d 12 94 S. Staffordsh.. MrMClean 2 l Ad 50 all i WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent Darling 25 all Do.. Do 3o} '3li 31k St. 100 Wilts&Somrst (R.Westu 97 91 99 It will be perceived thereupon, aca glance, how many securities for that prolongation of pre eminence are compacted together in this sur vey of the complicated systm of society, as it actually is in London nowadays. The British metropolis being here revealed under its several departments : its political authority in the " Official Directory" its enormous dimensions in the " Street Directory"—its abounding wealth in the " Commercial Directory"—its industrial activity in the " Trades' Directory"—its contending inte rests in the " Law Directory"—its luxurious re finement, its gaiety, and its splendour in the " Court Directory"—its importance as an arena for ambition in the " Parliamentary Directory"—its incessant and almost bewildering pertinacity of oc cupation in the " Postal Directory"—its monetary strength in the " Banking Directory"—its ceaseless and wonderful activity in the " Conveyance Di rectory." Out of the apparently unavoidable con fusion consequent . upon the diversity of tha t sub jects thus requiring to be catalogued, we find on a careful examination of the portly volume under notice, that there has been evolved a really admir able lucidity of arrangement. The advantage thereby secured has been one, of course, remark able for its gradual and perceptible development. Year by year the work has in this manner appre ciably ripened. It has so ripened, indeed, in that particular, that in its present issue for 1854 — namely, as already observed upon the occasion of its fifty-fifth annual publication, " The Post-office London Directory" constitutes adetailed account of the whole of the inhabitants of our gigantic metropo lis, so classified. in streets, and trades, and appropriate departments that almost any name may with the utmost facility be found when required. Added to which the information here compacted together is brought down to the very latest period practicable before the day of publication. It should he remem bered, in reference to this merit of the compilation, that a singular variety of difficulties has to be en countered by those engaged in the minute and punctilious labours of revision. It must especially be borne in recollection, for example, how perpe tual are the fluctuations observable in this mass of every day, every hour, by d ea th , b y t wo millions of human beings crowded t oge th er i n , ek o ' r by promotion. Upon all these changest the capital of G reat Britai n — fluctuations caus e d of the " Post-office Di rec t ory " are l aw l l e es d to keep a watch of unw i n ki ng l y v i g i lant observation —ready, compilers removals, or up to the latest moment, to interpolate all kinds of unexp ec t e d emen d at i ons. In illustration of this, it will be only necessary to refer to the following particulars—namely, to the r i e e t a o r r d y n C e o Court t " D R i i a n t s p er . t l io 9 n 62 of in the t n il a e and again J. M at P SOD, J ., . . 5 p. 2030 and 2037 in the Parliamentary Directory, as well as the insertion at p. 45 of the Official Direc tory, of the names of the Charitable Trust Commis sioners, besides that of " John Parker," at among the numbers of the Privy Councillors, although it was only as recently as in the Gazette of the 25th ultimo that there was any official noti fication of those appointments. Thus ex ttno disce omnes—down to the end of the chapter, the production is benefitted by the latest in formation received from different directions in discriminately up, so to speak, to the eleventh hour and three-quarters prior to the moment of publication. Nevertheless, it must neeessaili.lny_su? happen occasionally, in spite of the te d most_.lePrcelatndi precautions, that errors are committed there in consequence of the recent na t u re of some among the alterat ions kind requiring to be in fact, notified. Casualties o f this , a work of this pecu may be pronounced, i l n er u for i navoidable. Where liar description, altog ether nstance, that two fore it cannot be surprising,ok place which to towards the or three changes n the Prison Department, close of October I manner specified at p. 57 of the are in no man h. h Official Directory. Everyt thine however that can PROBABLE OFFICIAL INQUIRY AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE.-It is stated that preparations are being made at the Chief-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, for the accommodation of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the best mode of providing for the increased and increasing amount of business in this department of the public service, and with the view of obtaining infor mation as to the practicability of carrying out a modi fied rate of ocean postage. It is also said that the inquiry will embrace an investigation into the existing modus operandi of the office. Further particulars have not yet transpired, with the exception of the 12th of the present month being named for the commencement of the inquiry. be effected is effected by the promptitude of those entrusted with the responsible and em barrassing task of minute emendation. Another 'meritorious peculiarity of the Post-office London Directory is in a particular manner deserving of consideration. It is the circumstance that while the whole of the present edition, an edition not far short of 10,000 copies altogether, was being printed off, the numerous indices scattered through the volume were compiled and incorporated with the undertaking. A single instance of the benefit accruing to the publicfrom this arrangement will be sufficient to point out the extent of the advantage to the appre ciation of the least observant—as where it may be remarked that the Trades' Index from p. 1725 to p. 1737 will be found to refer to every trade specified between p. 1289 and p. 1724 in the Trades' Directory. Besides which, it is observable that in this same Directory (the Trades' Directory), fo r 1854, no l ess th a n about s i xty new trade headings have been classified —and this, of course, in consequence of certain new articles of commerce which have only very re cently been introduced : ex. gr. Railway Wheel Makers, Railway Strap Bag and Belt Makers, Rail way Woven Badge Makers, cum cceteris paribus. A u improvement of a differentkmdis especiallynotieeable by the way in the Court and Street Directories, where in will be found distinguished by their respective initials, as F.R.S., or F.S.A., or F.G.S., or F.R.G.S., the members and associates of the dif ferent scientific and other institutions. A com prehensive catalogue, moreover, of the beneficed and officiating clergymen and Dissenting minis ters, with their churches and chapels, and private residences will be found at p. 2142, this list having been judiciously comprised for the new year among th e diff erent s e c ti ons o f th e C i ty Directory. It is by no means astonishing that with these and other remarkable additions, too nu merous to be here specified seriatim, the work has ex tended considerably beyond its customary dimensions. So considerably, indeed, as to have advanced from 138 t o 151 s' heets constituting anincrease of 208 p ages additional. Notwith standing which, a n d notwithstanding the en laiged volume for 1854 bei ng pr i nte d w i th ent i rely new type, it is creditable to the enterprise of the proprietor that the work is issued to the public at no extra cost whatsoever. According to the satis factory 'explanation of the prospectus accompany ing the volume, it i would appear that the last-men tioned circumstance s attributable to the advancing popularity of the " Post-office Directory" and to ' its rapidly increasing circulation. It m a y b e observed, before closing our notice of this remark able volume for 1854, that reference to its contents will be found to have been greatly facilitated by a simple but very ingenious contrivance ink brands upon the edges of the leaves, indicating, when the book is closed, the particular portion in which may be found any department th a t m ay chance to be required — Assurance, Banking, City, Official, Postal, Street, Trades, Law, Court, Commercial, Conveyance, or Parliamentary. Further comment upon the work were unnecessary. Panegyric would be superfluous. Having analysed the nature of this remarkable enterprise ; having intimated the diversity of the facts accumulated in these 2400 pages double co lumned, and closely printed ; having defined to some extent at least the scope of the under taking, the accuracy of it s i n f orma ti on , an d the lucidity of its arrangement—leave we with out further comment this miracle of laborious compilation, the reflex of London, the epitome of the wealth, the power, and the grandeur of the world's metropolis. LITERATURE. CRUIKSHA.NK'S FAIRY LIBRARY. Hop o' my Thumb and the Seven League Boots. Edited and Illustrated by George Cruikshank. D. Bottle. Glorious news for the Nursery ! A Fairy Li brary edited and illustrated by George Cruikshank ! Why, that simple announcement sounds like the most pretentious of all puffs preliminary. Wel come, therefore, must we accord perforce to this new adventure of our Hogarth of the etching needle. From the specimen before us we cannot but augur admirably as to its successful develop ment. " Hop o' my Thumb" gives promise of marshalling a long and gorgeous procession—a procession of the inimitable heroes of the romance of childhood. The dainty little mannikin heralds the way, we cannot but conjecture, to an extended succession of the worthies of the fables of infancy, the inhabitants of the beautiful fairyland of youth. After he has passed by, we 'shall expect to see trooping before us, in rapid sequence—Jack with the speckled seedling of the magic Bean-stalk— Tom (named like Hop o' my) Thumb, peeping out of the crust of the royal pasty—Jack there doubt able Giantkiller, trailing at his heels the cadaverous head of the grizzly Blunderbore ! Together with a protracted series of similar phantasies—familiar to us all as "household words"—the golden nug gets picked up by each in the familiar diggings of dreamland—the shells, and pebbles, and pre cious stones washed on shore with us at our first landing on the terra firma of existence. What ever the charm of the dear old stories in their original simplicity, when unadorned by the blazon ries of illustration—those charms are enhanced by the pencil of Cruikshank to a delectable and scarcely resistible fascination. If we could ever feel disposed to question the accuracy of the poet's dic tum, that " men are but children of a larger growth," we must acknowledge our doubts in the matter, dissipated by our sense of the attractions compacted into the thirty pages of this delightful little gem of a publication. Grandfather White head was never more of a child, with his pocketful of toys and playthings, than the man (we don't care who he may be) who turns over these leaves of " Hop o' my Thumb," edited and illustrated by George Cruikshank. Supposing him (the reader) b be the veriest curmudgeon imaginable, we would augur that, before he puts dow , ii the first volumette of the " Fairy Library,, the down-turned corners of his sardonic mouth will be twisted up into a grin, that the corrugations of his brow will be smoothed away into a beaming hilarity of countenance, and that for once in a way he will think lovingly of the good old days of his boyhood—somewhat as we may suppose old Ebenezer Scrooge did in the phantom school room of the second stave of " The Christmas Carol," when he cried out, " Why, it's Ali Baba ! It's dear old honest All Baba ! Yes, yes, I know. One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left hero all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that. Poor boy ! And Valen tine," said Scrooge, " and his wild brother Orson there they go ! And what's his name who was put down in his drawers asleep, at the gate of Damascus ; don't you see him ! And the Sultan's groom turned upside down by the genii ; there he is upon his head ! Serve him right. I'm glad of it. What business had he to be married to the Princess." Precisely as it was with Ebenezer Scrooge it is with us in glancing over these storied pages of the " Fairy Library," illu minated into even more than their wonted lustre by the light of the pictorial additions from the hand of our incomparable and inexhaus tible George Cruikshank. There the " old familiar faces" flit by, one after another, and not only faces but figures, and many of them genuine " figures of fun," too —conjured again before us by the wizard skill of the congenial illustrator. It is not extra vagant to say that a fresh interest is imparted to these fairy legends, by the exquisite fancy and the ingenious inventiveness of the etching needle of Cruikshank. We say this, however, exclusively in commendation of the artist's labours in the present instance as an illustrator. For honestly we would venture to whisper in his ears that we have a grim little crow to pluck with him in reference to his conduct as editor of "Hop o' my Thumb." As conscientious critics, we can't for the life of us countenance the liberties taken here and there i by our daring innovator with that text which he should have deemed sacred from any such presump tuous tampering with its integrity. Temperance is all very well, vegetarianism, in theory, respect your really delightful, and we cannot but re r s e l d brave at least, is enthusiasm about the former, merr spoken,- large-hearted George CruikshankinYurse3ery!legßenudt it can scarcely be tolerated that f t o diffusion nfor o e should be rendered the vehicle for f such crotchets, and for their mtoo rieefftelicetul him for the enter ment. Indebted as wo are t _ from the press so cannot conceive prise which has poured for ft w 0 many bewitching cirtisi °ns ' Thumb is the appropriate place that "Hop o' for an eulogistimeyalThisioomi to its excellent publisher, allusion the remark (p. 25) as, where the editor ventures was very fond of storT . about puhli ~.haedpablir. that fat Seven League had read r " ea li d ttl a e lion a boo Boots, in capit r a e l a b d o in o g i: seller and worthy man, Mr. David Bogue, of ree- 86, Fl ee t-street." Nay , veteran and enthusiastic F traders though we are, we of anpar t' even i n th a t ticular admit t h e propriet allusion at page 29 to the admission of forei gn corn duty free, which must inevitably be distasteful to the agriculturists in bib and tucker, th e boy .farmers, or juvenile protectionists. Enough of this, however—we have entered our stately of the protest against the rash inter polationseditor in the original text of " Hop o' my Thumb" —ahem !— an d now turn we w i t h a genial air t o the six etchings from his hand in his other capacity as illustrator. The title-page is the epitome of it 11 a —the hovel above, with the five brothers slumbering in a row, while Hop is vigi lantly observant at tlic edge of the coverlid—the - forest below, where the six are lost by their natural parents on either hand the PREFERENCE SHARES Aberdeen . Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Blyth & Tyne 10 per ct. pref. (iss. at£so) Bristol & Exeter 4 pr cent., stock.... o_. Do., shares !Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5z per cent... Cork &Bandon 5 i p. c. Dundee Perth&Aber dean Junction....... EastA nglian (Z 3 10s) 6 per cent. Do: (25) 7 per cent.. Do. (27175) 7 p ct.. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent Do. £lO Deben. Sh EastLancash. 6 pets East & West Yorksh Junction Fifths Edinb.Prth.diDundee 4 per cent. Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent Great Northr 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c.,Redeem., at 10 p. c. pram Do. 4A percent. Scrip Gt.N. of Scot. ,lst Pref Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths Do. 4 per ct. pref. St Gt. Westn. (Becks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Do. con. & red. 4i p.c Do. do. 4 per cent Do. irredeem. 4 p. c Lan. & York. F. £2O, Do., 6 p. c., Stock Leeds Nn. 6p. c. No. 1 Do. Quarters, 1848 London andlßrighton Guaranteed 5 p. 0 Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 . Do. New Guar. 6p.c. Loud. & N. W., Coy. & Nun., 5 per cent. London & S. Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coler. Shares Londy. & Ennis. Sh Manch. ,Shef. , & Lin., Shares, No. 1 Do. Now, £lO Do., £6 ...... Harypt. &Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 44 per cent Do Hid. Conga 6 p. c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol di Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 44 per cent Norfolk Debent. Sh Norfolk Extension Do. Pref. bi per et Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolyerh. £15,6p. c Do Scot. Cell., New Pref. Shrews& Birm. N. G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 08.6 d. S.Yorksh.4p.c.Gnar. Waterfd. c. York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.e.Pref Do York& N. Midland H. & S. Parch ,• - ..• ys ._ cool 6 -- 61 31 -- 4 4 -- 51 - 1 lf 1.1) 13i -- 14 20 - 22 3 - 3i 0118 - 120 108 - 110 i - PI 8 - 8. 6i 7 99 101 95 100 95 100 id par 139 141 ~ - ... 2 - 3p 12i - - 77; • 9 -4 g 139 141 I id . - ... 22 - 24 104 -10 G i - 1 1, 9a 10, 16} -17. 1 1 p 9 - '(IL • 12 - 14 Par - 1- 23/ - 24 . 19 - 20 9G - 99 - 4 id purl gantic boots constituting as a pair the most appropriate supporters. There the Ogre, as he appeared when about to swallow Hop at a gulp—with a mouth so gluttonously cavernous ! There the said giant, ricochetting in his creaky boots high up in the clouds, bound after bound over the mountains ! There Hop relieving him of the same boots in which the Ogre sleeps profoundly with a snore that (looking at the picture) is all but audible ! There a triple etching in one, showing the escape from the wood, the escape from the Giant, and the arrival at home ! And, lastly, a limning of Hop, in hisultimate glory, presenting the seven-league boots to the King —_a Lilliputian bowing by the side of the bowing boots of Brob dignag. Everything in all this —more were scarcely possible in this respect, to our mind at least, by way of panegyric—is worthy of the droll and graceful pencil of George Cruikshank-. Lazarine. Translated from the French by Frances Langan. C. Dolman. A charming little storyinculcaTtive of good is this domestic history of " Lazarine." The heroine of the tale exemplifies in her life the blessedness of duty once understood, and when understood re ligiously fulfilled. As intimated in the dedication to a private friend, "as a testimony of respect and gratitude," the volume is a translation from the French—a translation which introduces the Eng lish reader to the pleasant group of imaginary beings there collected together : among them Count St. Arnould, honest old William, his daugh ter Veronica, naughty little Valerie, and, above all, the kindly but at first mistaken Lazarine. An exquisitely appropriate motto from " Proverbs" appears upon the title-page :—" Many daughters have gathered together riches : thou hast surpassed them all : favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain : the woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised." Beautiful words, which aptly indicate the moral of this ingenious narrative—an effusion at once of the heart and of the imagination. The New Stamps.—Tilsley's Treatise on the Stamp L a ws. New - edition. - Stevens and Norton. It is not our habit to pass in review the literary productions of members of the legal profession on subjects within their ordinary practice, and we should not, therefore, make any reference to the new edition of the work by the Assistant-Solicitor of Inland Revenue, just issued, had not our atten tion been directed to that portion which relates to the new bill and receipt stamps. Anything au thentic upon this subject the public will be glad at this juncture to make themselves acquainted with ; and, although in a work not intended for popular reading, little can be expected that will be useful to the general public, yet, in the absence of more detailed information, we gladly avail our selves of such as we can glean, and, therdore, ex tract the following, under the head of " Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes :" "The stamp duties on promissory notes remain un touched by the recent acts, with one exception noticed under that head ; but an important alteration has been made in the duties on certain bills of exchancre. "By the 16 and 17 Vic., c. 69, the duties on all drafts or orders for the payment of money to the bearer or to order on demand, are repealed, and a duty of one penny is imposed, in lieu, upon every such draft or order for the payment of money of any amount. "And it is provided, that all documents or writings usually termed letters of credit, or whereby any person to whom any such document or writing is, or is intended to be delivered or sent, shall be entitled, or be intended to be entitled to have credit with, or in account with, or to draw upon any other person for, or to receive from such other person any sum of money therein mentioned, shall be deemed and taken to be bills, drafts, or orders for the payment of money within the intent and mean big of that Act, and of any Act or Acts relating to the stamp duties on bills, drafts, or orders, and be charge able with the stamp duties imposed thereby. "The exemption in favour of cheques on bankers re mains as before. These cheques are drafts payable to hearer on demand ; but every such cheque, to entitle it to the exemption, must be issued within fifteen miles of the place of business of the hanker upon whom it is drawn ; the place where it is issued being correctly specified ; and the date that of the day on which it is issued, or some previous day. Unstamped cheques thus drawn and issued may circulate at any place, how ever distant. "It was well known that a practice prevailed of issu ing cheques beyond the prescribed distance, involving th'e drawer, and the banker knowingly paying any such cheque, in a penalty of 1001., and the party receiving it in payment or as a security, in a penalty of 201.; and one reason for the reduction of the duty to an almost nominal amount, was, to enable persons, at a trifli ng expense, to conform to the s t r i c t l aw ; and by the means of adhesive stamps to do so with greater convenience ; thus at the same time not only avoiding liabilities in themselves and others, but putting 'forth good and valid documents, available to any persons into whose hands they may intentionally be placed. It will be observed, that such cheques wherever issued may, if stamped with this duty, be made payable to order ; the banker, how ever, is relieved from proving the indorsement. "All drafts or orders, whatever form they may assume, payable on demand to bearer, or to order, and stamped with the new duty, are subject to all the incidents of ordinary bills of exchange, and may therefore be trans ferred or negotiated ; and a receipt for the contents in dorsed upon any such draft, when paid, requires no stamp. "Another inducement for substituting a duty of this amount was the hope of putting an end to the irregular system of issuing unstamped letters of credit. Docu ments falline , within this description are unquestionably bills of exchange ; and the Court of Common Pleas has, as will presently be seen, somewhat recently so decided ; but seeing that the practice of issuing them without stamps had become general, and that their illegality was a point not commonly believed, it was not thought pro per by the authorities to interfere with them whilst the late duties existed, and until some enactment specially declaring them to be chargeable had passed the Legisla ture ; the case now, however, assumes a different aspect, and the law will dOubtless be rigidly enforced. "Three rates of duties are chargeable on drafts or orders, viz.:— " On drafts or orders for the payment of any sum of money to the bearer, or to order on demand. "On drafts or orders for the payment to the bearer or to order otherwise than on demand, but not exceeding two months after date, or sixty days after sight, of money amounting to 40s. or upwards. "And or► drafts or orders for the payment to the bearer or to order at any time exceeding either of the periods last-mentioned, amounting to 40s. or upwards. " A draft in general terms, not specifying any time of payment, is payable on demand ; and a draft not made payable to bearer or to order, is, if delivered to the payee or to any person in his behalf, chargeable with the same duty, according to its tenor, as if made payable to bearer or to order. "Letters of credit are for the most part not transfer able ; and it is well that all under 51. should be so ; it being unlawful to issue any negotiable bill of exchange for a sum under 205.; and all negotiable or transferable bills for 20s. or upwards, and less than 51. being re quired to be issued, and endorsed with certain forma lities ; that is to say—the name and residence of the person to whom or to whose order any such bill is pay able, must be specified ; it must bear date before or on the day of drawing or issuing, and not after ; it must be made payable within twenty-one days after date, and not be transferable or negotiable after the time litnited for payment ; every indorsement must be made within the same time. and bear date on the day it is made, and specify the name and residence of•the indorsee ; and the signing of the bill and every indorsement must be at tested. " It will be noticed that no stamp duty is chargeable on drafts for sums not amounting to 405., except under the late act, which imposes the duty o f one penny on drafts coming within the terms specified, whatever the amount may be.",, " PROMISSORY NOTES. of charge ahragvee endernlade no I t O . ~ It i 4 desirable to refer to this head merely to oh tieus onndeprrotdrelepisohssoeiratyeadnienctehil.3t • alteration of th l e Bs su o bj a e n c d t o l serve that I t e h s e pe A ct c in ts 4 in a manner to affect, n 0 doubt exten sively, of Exchange have been dealt with by the 16 and 17 Vict., c. 59, sively, the practical opeyations.relatmg to them ; and the association between bills and notes is so intimate as to give rise to a belief that the same law a esiv mustbeen eoe nnetag auda e. neces sarily extend to both. "The obserrv.tion that noneatletesrmateiositi the - receipt stamp 1 n the reh 5 5 Geo. dn 111., c. i i i i fi i cz tly i o d n u . c. 184, is an exemption from accounted for on demand, with the words added t.ropecibeiteipatisfecfmOo,urith interest, see Promissohandsry N o of te. any , banker, On n r e .. ferring to that head it will be found that receipts for money depositedin the h an d s o f any b an k er, wh i ch shall contain an?:ar shall b agreement romisso sy or memorandum importing head that interest no e te p s a w id ith fo in r th tl e ie me m a o n n in e g y, 0 f ar t e he to be deemed p Act. No reference is mad e i n th e 16 an d 17 Vict., C. 59, to this had of promissory t note, but an exemptio n will b e found, under he head Receipt, of receipts given for money deposited in the hands of any banker to be ac counted for, whether with interest or not ; and as such receipts were, before, chargeable with duty as promissory notes and not as receipts, the intention of the Legislature was to extend the exemption to the promissory note duty. " RECEIPTS. "The whole of the duties on receipts have been re pealed by the 16 and 17 Vict., cap. 59, and one uniform duty of a penny has been granted, in lieu, upon all receipts for money amounting to 2/. or upwards. This duty of one penny is not extended to any document that was not chargeable before, whether by reason of any express exemption or otherwise ; but besides the ex emption of bankers' receipts for money deposited with them to be accounted for with interest, there has been added (by the 16 and 17 Vict., C. 63, s. 9) to the pre vious exemptions that of receipts for „ land tax, assessed taxes, and property and income tax. Lord John Russell comes to Cheshana-place to-day from Pembroke Lodge, to attend the Cabinet Council. The noble lord, during his recent retirement at the Duke of Argyll's romantic seat at Roseneath, is understood to have been much occupied with preparing his new Re form Bill, for which abundant statistics were furnished him and which ministers intend to introdUce to Parlia ment soon after the commencement of the session, TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) SEFTON HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Candlewick (t). 9to 1 agst Little Fawn (t). 9to 1 agst Lough Bawn (taken). LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 4to 1 agst Oscar (taken). DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Dervish (14 to 1 taken freely)_ 22 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman (taken). 50 to 1 agst Middlesex (to some money). 50 to 1 agst Game Lass colt (taken). 50 to 1 agst Star of Surrey (taken). 50 to 1 agst Phaeton (taken). 50 to 1 agst Meteora (taken).