The Sun. — London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

)Cg• were Y Vfere ierioan ma rket aatiegf Lon don n 1 , 1 0 last n d ;iuni, i t - r , e r to ve e decr e ed lii t e y eir p er ye i er b et lo, 3s. to or, Is nal 11 11, MeV re/ Jr , 00 a °' Four -it t o 41, a l peruto ; 72. TP- rail wi ro s, tances fullY los mob,. rtir ind very cl — The 0r5e.,. 4. .d the anY t fl a t, t o ok /31 at 10s. ktf •, the Liver 1r parti ° a crflc%. sinewPl* 6P 6P 6P n ek O'CIN i___ , , s cr1 011 , 11 1; 9 4 ' ro e per bl os o cl 4 .,b0f Lorc ll3 '' die * 11 011 uar 31 3c11; * io l° of the been " a refeg e' 10 011 —.0a t° cb ere i :of l :l * pob 10 1411 ) pO. t• j,01 4 rae e at 3t 0 31e ' stOi rSq 0 0 s1r ral t to 01 0 eseto° 6 be& 0 ,1 rhef elci ;ll l : o ° stee l° 3 1 , r ‘ I° She ,6 bire' 001° 0 t fo. bo°' e 0 , e ,,S so y tb eilj he 16 for 8111 01; re re Ag ho 3 t or cull SPORTING NOTES. NOTHING NEW. The closing of the Betting Houses has been the only illlPwiant sporting incident of the week. The Steeple chases at Waltham excited no interest, and were profit able to few persons but the promoters of the meeting. T here Mr. Land had "it all his own way," winning e ver! race ; Groen too made his first appearance there after his di sgrace f u l ex hibiti on on The Screw at Epsom, and rode e very winner. Speculation on the Derby has been marked by no Movement of significance. The leading favourites—Au at and Kin g Tom—are k *mewl' at unsteady in the Market, b u t U m hostility of their opponents has not been .. I fficiently detorminto discourage their supporters. •0 animal from the outside division has yet been br ought into p r ominent notice, although the inquiries after several h orses in that class are daily becoming More frequent. The nominations made for the Great Northern Han ti.leaP, at York , have been partly published. From a list of them, I see that Friday, the horse that was 'hacked for the Chester Cup, on Thursday, is now called Aldford. Wolverhampton Steeplechases will take place on Tuesday next. Oscar and Bourton are the on l y animals backedfor it. The former, it is said, is intended, and is going for the money!" December 3. A FRESH MAN. 4160 POSED LEWISHAM AND .BROMLEY RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S lll )—We, the undersigned, directors of the South 'astern Railway Company, shall esteem it a favour if 1 01 1 will give the inclosed address the same pu blicit y y ou 'lame afforded to the circular of 'the secretary of that ,e_wnpany in your impression of this day.—We have the uonour to be, sir, your most obedient servants, CoUt3 CHILD, D. WARREN, JAMES BYNG. South-Eastern Railway, London Terminus, Dec. 2, 1853. TO THE PROPR lETORS OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. Gentlemen,--A circular from the secretary of this "mPany having this day been addressed to you, pre senting to your notice a list of schemes advertised in the Public papers :as about to be submitted to the considera t4on of Parliament in the ensuing session, which, if car lied into effect., will, in the view of the directors, in one Wa3 , or another affect your interests, and also informing You that notic e has been given by your directors for a lice of railway • from Lewisham to Bromley, we feel it to Do our duty t o inform you that we disapprove of this Measure for the following reasons, viz.:- 1. Because the proprietors, at the general meeting on the 17th Mar( thlast, having unanimously adopted a re solution (in 'which the directors most cheerfully ac quiesced), to the effect that, "with the view of con trolling any ft irther outlay of capital for additional lines, Works, or plat at requisite for the development of the re sources and traffic of the company, the directors, before incurring any further liability, do obtain the a pp roval of a general o r special general meeting of the proprie tors," the directors have no authority to proceed as they Promise. 2. Because the existing high price of money, labour, and railway niaterials of every description renders the Present period most unfavourable for the origination of new schemes. 3. Because in our opinion the proposed branch rail- Way would b e wholly unremunerative, and would not Prevent the construction of a much shorter line (to Serve the same district) from the locality of Sydenham, Which would have,. moreover, the advantage of three Metropolitan termini. 4. Because this measure, at a board meeting at which eight directors were present and voted, was only carried by the casting vote of the chairman, which is a clear Proof the board hat 3 no very strong opinion upon the Policy of its preceding ; and past experience of this and other railway proves that branch lines have, as a rule, been attended with loss.—We have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servants, CoLES CHILD, D. WARREN, JAMES BYNG. South-Eastern Railway, London Terminus, December 1, 1853. MIN7NG INTELLIGENCE. - (From, the Mining Journal of this day.) The Gold Mining Share Market has been very inac• two ; from day to day there have been a few trifling fluctuations, but on the whole the market is devoid of feature, being fairly supported in p rice, but very deficient an interest. It is reported that several companies are project e d f or th e p ur pose of working gold in the United Kingdom, to which of late so much attention has been awn ; it is well-known that deposits of that metal, eNiecially i n D e von and North Wa les, exist in connec tilPn with the copper mines o f those localities, but tab, they have been unable to be worked, owing to expensi ve modes of extraction ; it is p resumed, however, th a t th e improved machinery lately intro duced more especially that known as Bernan's patent, will enable the projectors to obtain the precious metal at a remunerative F .. .fit. Under the present phase of the Australian and Californian auvent...s, posed that the general public will be undis posed to subscribe to British adventures, until some positive returns are arrived at from those localities ; the accurate results of the trials of some of the Polti more and Agua Fria ores entered into on Monday last ; but, involving as the y do a tedious analysis, have not yet been published, and the report of Professor A nsted is looked forward to with great anxiety. Complaints are being uttered of the inertness of the directors of the Australian and Californian adventures. Mr. James Beaks. of Birmingham, a shareholder of the Lake Bathurst and Australian Freehold Companies, requests the co-operation of his brother shareholders to f(Tm a committee of investigation, for the purpose of requiring . the directors of these companies to give some account of their stewardship. Mr. H. Guedalla, of King's Arms. yard, states that in nearly every case means were em ployed by the directors of the several companies, " to rig the market," and justly complains that in many companies no meetings have been held or balance-sheets submitted of the accounts ; and when it is considered several of these associations have been two years formed it would appear that his remarks are perfectly justifiable. In fact, several of the companies on the Stock Ex change, according to his statement, are not a whit better than those on the non-official list ; he men tions eight companies in which he has a stake, these are the Australian Consols, Australian Mutual, Golden Mountain of Mariposa, Australian ehold, British Australian Gold, Great Nugget Ve F in, re West Granada, and New South Wales Gold ; he further states, that information can as little be obtained in the follow ing mines :—Lewis Hill Range, L'Aigle d'Or, Chartered Australian Land and Mining, Adelaide Land and Gold, Albion Gold, Ave Maria, Australian Cordillera, Lake Bathurst, and the London and Californian Gold Quartz- Crushing Company ;—and he has convened a public meeting on Thursday next, at the London Tavern, in order to decide what steps should be pursued. Letters have been received from other parties, all in the same spirit, but our space will not allow us to make any " corn rirtats upon them : suffice it to say, their nam e is Le gion." The Indian Queen has arrived with 38,992 ozs. of gold, of the value of 156,0001. ; she made the voyage out and home in six months and eleven days, being detained 23 days at Melbourne. By the overland mail, we learn that the Executive Council at Adelaide has voted 5001. to the discoverer of the Echunga diggings, as a stimulus to parties claiming the large reward of 1,0001. offered to him who discovered a gold field which would return 10,0001. the first two months it was in operation. The arrivals of gold were increas ing, the escort to Melbourne was bringing in from 8,000 to 10,000 ozs. per week ; at Ballarat one successful digger had obtained 2,000 ounces in the short space of three days. At Sydney gold was steady at 78s. per ounce ; the total shipments were 1,427,674 ozs., value about 5,710,6881. In Miscellaneous Shares, the market has been heavy. Two hundred and twenty-eight 301. shares in the Royal Santiago CoppEr Mining Company, forfeited for non-payment of calls, were sold, by auction, yesterday, for 1,2431. 15s.—an average price of 51. 7s. 6d. per share. From Russia, we learn that the mines belonging to the State have this year furnished to the Mint 1,457 ponds and 28 pounds of gold, representing a value of 19,902,338 roubles (79,609,352 f.), and 1,36 21 7 pouds of silver (4,979,524 f.), or in all 21,147,9 roubles (84,588,876 f.) A further rise in the price of some of the dividend mines has taken place this week, with a good business doing. In the Bullion Market, Mexican and South Americall an dollars, ss. ld. per oz. Bar silver containing gold, gold above 5 grains in the pound to be paid for, ss. 20. per oz. standard. Bar silver without gold, ss. per oz. st an dard. Bar gold, 77 5. 9d. per oz. standard. Spanish doubloons, 78s. 6d. per oz. Columbian oz.d bloons, 775. per oz. Fine c ake silver, ss. qd. per GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—SOIITHAMPTON, DEC. 2. —The Hyderabad, 815 tons, Captain Castles, left the docks this afternoon with 230 Government emigrants on board. She is bound for Adelaide, and will probably sail finally to - morr ow, being only detain ed for some Scotch emigrants, who are expected to arrive by train in the morning. The Hooghley, of 465 tons, is the next Government emigrant ship sailing hence. She will leave about the 10 th instant, for Portland Bay, and will be followed on the 30th inst. by the Persian, a fine ship of 1,004 tons, for Melbourne. This will make 35 Government ships and six private ships de -BPaChed from this port during the yea r . We have been f avoured with the sight of a drawing and model of a new tn for fitting up emigrant ships, proposed by Mr. R. A. Smith, the Government emigration officer at this 13 rt, which, if adopted, will, we believe, ma terially con ducetO the health and comfort of emigrants. Its c hief merits appear to consist in having all the people in fore bottom aft berths, instead of, as now athwart ships, the freely tbielettorn boards of all the berths to be removed during Whi s c t y, and tables being fixed to the same stanchions support the bed berths. This allows the air a , to circulate through the ship during the day, and 'riches from by having a curtain to fall down about 18 ' t ` l l ,_ ll s from each berth, allows of a comfortable space for emigrants to undress in, thus combing the healthful ness of the open berths of Government ships with the Privacy of enclosed cabins of private emigrant ships. . „M'y. Prng SUN, LONDO/4,.:SATURDAY_EVE DESTR UCTIVE FIRES AND MIRACULOUS' ESCAPE OF FIVE PERSONS. Yesterday morning the inhabitants of the Cambridge road, Mile-end, were aroused from their slumbers by the springing of rattles and a general cry of " Fire." It shr. was then found that a fire had occurred in the premises belonging to Mr. R. Davie s, oil and colourman, situate --- - at No. 11, in the before - nam ed thorou g hfare. The dis- S 0 rceivt. l covery was made by police c onstable 134 of the ed K 2 division, who in passing along his beat pe , smo ke issuing through the apertu res of the shop `l'l4 window-shutters. He at once knocked at the door, • and after some time succeeded in making the inmates, a consisting of five persona, sensible of their great danger. 27 They then made an attempt to descend by the stair- i case, but the turpentine in the stores at that mo ment became ignited, when the dense black smoke 22 r ose up in such clouds as near l y to suffocate them. 25 Having made for one of the windows, they were going St. to precipitate themselves into the street, when several St. persons called upon them to remain until the Royal So- 50 ciety's escape, which was on its road, could reach the 50 premises. At that instant a ladder was brought from 2 0 the railway arch, and the same having been raised in 20 front of the building, the whole of the five persons were 50 carried down without r eceiving any personal injury. The 25 fire escape arrived just as the persons were saved, and the engines of Mile end and Shoreditch parish attended, 25 25 followed by Mr. Fogo, the principal officer of the Lon don brigade (A district), and the engines from Jeffrey- is street, Wellclose-sqUare, and one from Watling-street 20 stations. By that time every room in the building St. was encircled in flame, and the fire was belching forth St. so furiously as to threaten the premises of Mr. Dobin- 2 Sts . son , next door. Fortunately, an abundant supply of water was obtained from the fire-mains of the East Lon- St. don Company, and the engines were forthwith set to 10 work, but the fi re had p reviously obtained too strong a St S . hold to be easi l y subdued, and the neighbourhood became 10 brilliantly illum inated. The firemen and parish engine- t . keepers kept to t heir work, and finally got the mastery St. over the fearful element, but not until the premises, St. and all they contained, were nearly destroyed. The St. origin of the fire is unknown. The persons who were St, present when the fire was first discovered were of opinion 12 that if they had had one of the fire-annihilators, and 50 a bucket of water at hand, that they could have 1 6 prevented the flames from extending beyond the St front shop, as they were enabled before the turps and 1194 oil took fire, to enter the premises and remove the gun powder 5.0 powder contained the rein. The water thrown from the engines upon the blazing turps had the contrary effect, ti and the spirits were entirely consumed. The sufferers 1( were partially insured. The premises of Mr. Dobinson, bootmaker, No. 12, in the same road, are also damaged 3 by water and removal, and much of the furniture was 21 broken by being has til y carried away. I( I t Yesterday afternoon , a fire ha pp ened on the premises of Mr. Decosta, waterproof clothing manufacturer, car rying on busines s at 72, Sun-street, Bishopsgate. It Z was caused, it is supposed, from a spark falling amongst some waterproof goods in one of the workshops on the 21 third floor. The engines of the London brigade were s soon in attendance, and the fire was subdued, but not until the workshop and its contents were very consider- S ably damaged by fire. Unfortunately the sufferer was S 5 not insured. In 2 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) k _6 LONDON, Dec. 3.—Wind this day at noon, N., variable and light, with fog .—The Marshall (s), which got in con tact with the Woodhouse off the Humber, had not arrived at Hull up to yesterday. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 2.—Sailed —Solent (a), for the West Indies. N.E. Arrived — Agne s, from POOLE, Dec. 2 . — Wi nd, St. John's, N.B. DARTMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Argen tina, from Odessa, &c., for Hull, leaky. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Wind, E. Arrived—Comet from Algoa Bay, for London, leaky. Sailed—Heellize Wille broders, for Singapore. STORNOWAY, Dec. I.—Arrived —lndian Princess, for Riga, for Londonderry, leaky Caroline, from Liverpool, for Stettin, leaky, &c. FALMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Wind, E. Arrived—Norfolk Hero, from London, for Trieste, to stop a leak. NEWPORT, ' Dec. 2.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Secret, from Gloucester, for New York. Sailed—Staines Castle, for Bahia ; Meteor, Wilmington ; Worthy of Devon, New York. LONDONDERRY, Dec. I.—Arrived. —Superior, from St. John's, N.B. Sailed—Creole, for New Orleans ; Albion, New York. SHIELDS, Dec. 2.—The Kate Evelyn, for the Mediter ranean, got in contact with a vessel in the harbour, and lost bowsprit, head, cutwater, &c. ELSINORE, Nov. 30.- The Semnos, St. Petersburg to Newcastle, was lost on the Chalk Grounds in the Gulf of Fnland, on the 12th inst. ; crew saved and landed here. The Thomas Rowell, of Shields, was ashore in the Gulf of Finland on the 26th inst. The Coneordia, from Copen hagea, has put in with damage from contact with Ontario, a vessel. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. I . —Wind, S. Arrive Callao. CNOORHAVArrived —North Star, Bombay, for Spool ; Jane Dalrymple St. John's, Newfoundland, with loss of maintopmast -Theul, foreyard, &c. WELLS, Dec. 2.—Victorine, St. Petersburg to Rouen, which got on shore yesterday, has come off with little apparent damage, and has commenc ed reloading. I HULL, Dec. 2.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Brutus, Quebec; Wolfscove, do. GRIMSBY, Dec. 2.—The Helen Maria, of Bath, St. John's, N. 8., to Hull, which got on shore at TheddlethorPe, was assisted off last night. PORTRUSH BAY.—Arrived —Aquatic, from the Clyde, for St. John's, N.B. HARTLEPOOL, Dec. 2.—SaileJ.—Cornelius Smit, for Hong Kong. PORTSMOUTH Dec. 2.—Wind E.S.E. Arrived.—Cato, trom .itiuurranut) ; Hampshire, ilmuou, leaky. Sailed.—Dinapore, Madras. SWANSEA, Dec. 2.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Demetrius , from Coquimbo. Sailed.—Blanche, Demerara; Adora, and Lady Ribon, Madeira. MELFORD, Dec. 2.—Wind, S. Arrived.—Eliza Robson, from Newport, for Madeira, with damage, from contact with the Yankee Blade (American). (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, SATURDAY, 10 A.M CUSTOMS RETURN. Wind N.W. ; tide, one hours' ebb. No arrivals. DEAL, SATURDAY, 9.35 A.Di Wind S., light, and fine. Passed—Cheshire, for Port Adelaide ; Agrippina, for Ceylon ; Agra (s s) , for Cardiff—all from London; Chris tina, from Copenhagen, for Melbourne. Passed in Tow—City of Benares, from Calcutta, for London. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) 2020 COVENT GARDEN. For the time of year, the supplies of fruit and vegetables were large, and an average business was transacted in ~, zu i them, at our quotations. ICO FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3 s Od to 6s Od each ; 20 ditto colonial, is Od to is 3d each ; hot-house grapes, 5 2s Od to ss; foreign ditto, 8d to is Gd per lb; apples, 4s to 8s per bush.; pears, is to 3s per dozen ; lemons, 20 is Od to 2s'; oranges, 4s Od to 9s per 100 ; almonds, 2s 10 to 3s perlb. ,• Barcelona nuts, 20s per bush.; cob-nuts, 95s to 5 11.0 s per 1001bs. ; chesnuts, 8s to 203 per bushel ; filbert., 5 90s to 105 s per 100 lbs ; walnuts, 8d to is 6d per 100 ; 10 peaches, is to 5s ; nectarines, 2s ton 7s ; apricots, is to 20 3s per dozen ; figs, is to 2s per dozen • damsons, 2s 6d to 20 3s 6d per half sieve ; melons, is to 3s Od' each. 33i Brussels sprouts, 10 VEGETABLES Cabbages, 9d to is Gd. to 2s Od per half sieve ; cau liflowers, 4d to 6 d each ; 20 greens, is Gd to 3s Od per doz. bunches ; red cabbages, 2s to 20 5s Od per dozen ; potatoes, i.Bos to 160 s per ton turnips, 2s Od to 3s Od • carrots, 4s Od to 6s Od. per dozen 20 bunches ; cucumbers, ds 2d to Os 6d each ; celery, 9d to 16 ls Gel per bundle ; spinach; is Gd to 2s Od per sieve ; 20 er bushel ; Spanish ditt o, is to 3s onions, Gs Od to lOs O d p per doz. ; leeks, ld to 2 d pe r bunch ; shall 3s ots dtoSd ;; 20 G 10 garlic, Gd to 8d per lb ; endive, 2s 2d to Oh per score small salad, 2d to 3d per punnet; horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od 40 per bundle ; mushrooms, Os 9d to is 6d per pottle• parsley, 20 20 3s Od to 3 s 6d p er dozen bunches ; beet, is Od to is Gd per dozen ; cabbage lettuces, Gd to 8 d pe r score ; 20 hands ; artichokes , 3s to 5s per dozen ; sorrel, Gd to is I 20 10, per half sieve. 20 NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. 20 Turkeys, 5s to 9s 6d; Geese, 4s 6d to Is 6d each ; Ducks 5 2s Od to 2s 9d; tame Rabbits, 10d to is 6d ; wild ditto, 8d 20 to is 6d ; Pigeons, 5d to 8d each; roasting Pigs, Os to Os Od 10 each; Surrey Fowls, 5s Od to 9s Od ; ditto Chickens, Os Od 20 to Os Oct; barn-door Fowls, is 9d to 3s Od per couple; 20 Capons, 3s to ss;Od : Chickens, is 6d to 2s 3d per couple ; 20 Pheasants, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; Partridges, is 3d to is 9d; Hares, 20 2s 6(1 to 3s 6d; Leverets, 3s Od to 5s Od; Woodcocks, 2s 6d 8. to 3s 6(1; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 6d; Snipes, 9d to is 6d; Teal, 20 6d to 9d; wild Ducks, is 3d to 2s Od. ; Widgeons, 9d to 20 is Od; and Plovers, 6d to is each. English Eggs, 9s Od to 1G lOs Od; French ditto, 6s Oct to 7s Od per 120 ; Ostend fresh 20 butter lls 6d. to 12s 6d, and English 12s to 14s per 12 lbs. 20 BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 3s 04 to 15s ; Brills, is 04 to 5s each ; Salmon Trout, is to is 4d per lb; Cod Fish, , 2s Od to 7s Od ; Soles, 4d to is 6d per pair ; Eels, 64 to 8d per lb ; Lobsters, 6d to is 6d ; Crabs, 6d to 2s 3d ; Whitings, is to 5s Od per doz.; Doreys, is Od to ss; Mullets, is to 2s 64 each ; Common Oysters, 10s Od to 16s Od; Natives, 40s Od to 50s Od per bsh ; Mackerel, 30s to 00s per 100 ; Smelts, lsOd to 3s pr doz.; Skate, 6d. to Od per lb; Shrimps, ls 6d to 2s 64 per gallon; Bloaters, 8s 6d to 10s 6cl per 100 • 2 Fresh Herrings 5s Od to Os 04 per 100 ; Haddocks , 3s to 7s per doz. ; 4d to is each ; Carp, 2s 04 per brace ; Tench, 2s 04 to Os 04 per brace ; Gurnets, 44 to is Od. each ; Halibut, 64 per lb. ; Salt Fish, 2d to 54 per lb. ; Prawns, 2s 04 to 4s Od per lb. ; Flounders, is to is 6d per dozen ; Sturgeon, 64 per lb.; Pike 6d per lb. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from lid to 11*1; of household ditto, 92d to 102 d per 4lb loaf. NEWPORT. Beef from 3s Od to o 4s 2d mutton, '3B 4d to 4s 8d ; veal, 39 6d W to 4s 8d ; pk, 38 2d to 4s 10d per Blbs. HITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 38 4d to Veal, 3s 6d to 4 s 8 d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 4s 10d. per Blbs. by the carcase. HIDES AND SKINS. • • Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 22d to 21d; 641 b to 721 b, to Od; 721 b to 801 b, 20 to 3d ; 801 b to 881 b, 3il to 3id ; BSlb to 961 b, 30 to 3Ad; 961 b to 1041 h, 30 to 3P ; 104th to 1121 b 3d to 40. Horse hides, Gs Gd to Os Od; calf soiled , light, 2s 6d to 3 s Gd; ditto, full, Gs Od to Os O d ; p s heep, Gs Gd to 7s 9cl;` Kents, 5s 3d to Gs 3d; Ilalf-breds, 5s 3d to 6s 3d ; Downs, 4s Od to 5s Od. HAY MARKETS. S MI THFIELD.--Aleadow hay, 2/ 12s to 5 / 12s ; clover ditt o , 4/ Os to 6 / 6 s ; and str aw, 1/ 14s to 2/ 2s p e r load. Trade rather dull. CUMBEILLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 51 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ N to 6/ Gs ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 21 3s per load. A. full average supply, and a sluggish demand. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 5/ 12s ; clover I ditto, 4/ Os to 6 / 10s ; and straw, 1/ 126 to 2/ 2s per load. u pply good, and trade rather d ull. SITAR MARKETS-(THIS DAY), BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices yesterday. raid RAILwAYs. 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Bost. dr, Eastn. June. all Belfast & Ballymena all Birmng, Violverli. dal Stour Valley... .... 28 Birkenla. Lancsh. it Cheshire Junct.. all Do. Chesh. & £5O & £25 Cons IS4 Do., £20.•••••-••••••• 30 Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at ,Z 45) LOCI Bristol & Exe LOO Caledonian. .. . ... all Ch e ster & Holyhe ad all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black. & Pass 10 Cornwall 45 Dublin&BelfastJunz all Dundee Perth &Aber- deeu Junction .... all Do. New all East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.)..... all Do., (£lB E. & H.).. all !Eastern Counties..... 100 EasternUnion,A. st 100 Do., do. 8.... • • • 81 iDo.NewA(laterih — ir . ds) 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 31 Edinh. and Peebles_ 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dunde . 1 Forth and ClydeJunc. 100 Glasgow &S. Western' 100 Great Northern Stk 100 Do., A. Stock 1100 Do., B. Stock 1100 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) 100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster &Carlisle 11i Do., Thirds ....... 100 Lancasu. &Yorkshire 171 Do., Fifths 11 Do., Wet. Riding Un. all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Soutbpt. all London & Blackwall 81 Loud. Tab. & Sthend. 100 Lond.Bright&S.Cst. 100 London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 2. Do. Eighths 100 London & S.Western 421 Do., £5O 34 Do. £40... .. . .... all Landrry.&Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln. 4i Do., Man. &Lin. Un. 100 Midland ...... ... 100 Do. Birming.& Derby 471 Midland G.West.(lr.) 171 Do. 1 Shares ... .. . all N ewca stle &Carlisle.. 1100 Newmarket. ...... ..... 5 Do. Bury Extensions 171 Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd 71 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor 100 N0rf01k...... 31 Northn. Counties Un 400 North British .. ... •.• 16 North Devon, No.l ill Do., No. 2.. .... all De., 1 A Deferred \ 8 Do., 1 B Guaranteed all North London ......... 1.1 N.& S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn., 17 North Staffordshire.. all North Western........ 10 N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley,' and Leicester 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 2.2 Portsmouth 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. &N. Westn Guaranteed Stock 10 Shrewsby. & Herefd all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) all Do. Halves, d 0........ all Do. Oswestry ..... 61 Shropshire Union .. , ~. Do. A, B,C, &D, fully' paid up at per cent all South Devon LOO South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh. River .un 5 D 0.... ... ... .. ...... 2.2 Staines ,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling 16i Stockton & Hartlepl. 100 Taff Vale 8 Do. £lO shades 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 20 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ....., ... 17 Vale of Neath......... all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterforcl&Limerick r iro v n gr o i n Pal nee .. 14 West Cornwall.. ... ... 1 West End of London Wimbledon &Croydon s a l ll s. w ir in ' eS ' b t 100 York Newctl. &Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 116 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 00 York &N. Midland 6 Antwrp &Rotterdam 3 Belgian East. Junct. 8 Beziers to Graissessae ... Central of Italy all Charleroi & Erquelin all Demerara . 10 Dijon and Besnon 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 2 Do. Extension all di. Indian Peninsula) 10 Gd. Junct. of France 10 Gd. Trunk. of Canada Shrs. and 80nd5.... 8 Gt. Central of France 20 Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares ......- 13;.bonds(1 i55.)1857 Do. bonds (2 i55.)187 3 104 Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent x. 5 Lake Const. & Basle 4 Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. ...... 15 Luexembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do 3 Do. (Canal) 5 Do. 6p. cent. pref. 12 Lyons & Mediterran 104 Madras 29 Maria Antonia 10 Do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry. all Namur & Liege (with interest all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France. all Do. 20/. 3 p. c. Bds. [fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.l all NorwegianTrnk.Prefi 10 Paris and Lyons 40 Do. bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 Paris Caen& Cherbrg 10,1 Quebec & Richmond all Rouen and Havre 9 Royal Danish 2 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse_ 6 Do. 5i per cent. pref. 2 S.E. of France 6 Southern of France 6 St. Andrews &Quebec' 2s. Upper India Scrip all West Flanders 10 Do. 5A per c. Pref 10 Western of France 4 West. of Switzerland' 2 Wiesbaden 112 Zealand. FOREIGN. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. Leasing Compares. Closing Prices I Business yesterday. thus lb r.I Fatal ;t. 100 03 all >t. 100 ;scan $ all :5 all )0 all 'OO all 5 all .2 all 21 all all M. 100 ;t. 100 5A all Bedford and Bletchley ..., 1 Buckghamsh Clydesdale Jc E.Lincoln. gr 6 p. cent Glas. Barr. dt Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.SzDn.Fr, Hrtlpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. 1 Shares Lon. &Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent, Do. 6 per ct Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Middlesbro' do Redcar. . Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp. c 'Pre st. &Wyse 'Do. Shares.. Roystn.&Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g . 5. p. S. Staftordsh.. WearValleygr , 6 per cent po lWilts&Souirst I Ln.&N.W. L. &N.W. Caledon... Gt.Northn Caldonian. Do Gt.Westn Yk. New & Berw Y.&N.Md Do Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk Do......... & Midld. Stckton Darlingt. Midland... E. Count.. Do ......... Do. ..... L. &Is . W. &Ln& Yk D 0...... ... Gt.Northn D 0......... Lancash. & Yorksh MrMClean Stockt. & Darling Do IGt.Westa. l LOI - 103 51 - 52 L 43 - 146 __ 104 116 54 - 66 26i - 27 i 134 - 25 - 26 93 - 95 --- --- --- 2i - 3 .. - 49 - 101 60 - 62 142 - 145 142 - 145 • d "2 lid\ 30i -31 i 98 -- 100 5 i 100 ID Aberdeen.. ...... 100 Do., No. 2,7 p. c 30 Myth & Tyne 10 per ct. pref. (iss. atX5O) 100 Bristol & Exeter 4pr cent., stock... 5 o. Do., shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester (SE Holyhead Guar. 5} per cent 61 Cork&Bandonsip.c all DundeePerth&Aber- deeu Junction all EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent all Do. (E 5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (i:.7 17e) 7p. et all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do., No. 2 all Do., New 6 p. c. St all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent all Do. £lO Debon. Sh 10e EastLancash. 6 p.cts. all East & West Yorksh Junction Fifths, all Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 4 per cent ..... ..... 100 Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent.... 100 Great Northr 5 p.c. 100 Do. sp. c.,Redeem., at 10 p. c. pram._ 10 Do. 4 percent. Scrip 4 Gt.N. of Scot. ,lstPref all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... 2 Do. 4 per ct. pref. St. 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c.)., 100 Do. con. & red. 4i p.el 100 Do. do. 4 per cent 100 Do. irredeem. 4 p. c 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O, 100 Do., 6 p. c., Stock 13 Leeds Nn. 6p. c. No. 1 9 Do. Quarters, 1848 100 London and. Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. o 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St all Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 . 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c 100 Loud. & N. W., Coy & Nun., 5 per cent 5 London & S.Western, Con. Thirds 126 Londonderry& Coler iShares .. ....... all Loudy. & Ennis. i Sh, all Nanch.,Shef., dr Lin.,l i Shares, No. 1 all Do. Now, £lO ..... 3 Do., £6 all Dfarypt.&Carl. 4p. c all Do. 42 per cent. 10iDo ...... ............... 100 Hid. ConsoL 6 p.c. St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 4i per cent. 6 Norfolk Debent. Sh., 100 Norfolk Extension 100 Do. Pref. Si per ct 100 Do. Way. val. 5 p c 100 North British . ........ all North Staffordshire.. WO Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6 p... 15 Do. ... all Scot. Cm.,. N e w Pref all Shrews& Birm. N. G all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon Do. New ..... . all S. Eastern (Reading Ann. ,) of £1 Os.6d. all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Gaar. 3 Waterfd.SzKilk. 6 p. c. 100 York Newcastle and , Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref. 5 Do 10 York& N • Midland H S. Pluch Agua Fria Anglo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd.Dachy of) Blienarvon Iron and Coal British Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes & Cniada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Cobr® Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7 p. cent. English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co. (General Gt.NuggetVeinSerp Do. Registered Polgooth. Lake Bathurst.. . ;Liberty Linares Loud. &Californ Quartz Crush. Co.. Mariquita Mexican&S.Amerien New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co , Nouveau Moude Poutgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba... South Australian... Tin Croft .......... United Mexican Waller West Granada West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia Yuba JOINT-STOC Australasia British Colonial Bank BANKS. 8 - 3 - ---- 85 and Loan Company British N. American Chitd. Bnk.of India, Austral. , and China Chrtd. Bnk. of Asia Colonial Commercial of Loud English Scottish and Australian Chrtd London Chrtd. Bnk. of Australia London and County London Joint Stock Lond.andWestmitst. National Provincial of England ......... Do, New National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank Cor poration Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn. Bkg and Gold Imp. cb South Australia Union of Australia Do. New. Union of London Union of Madrid 5 5 )0 25 )0 20 30 10 :0 i 15 i 0 10 10 20 )0 35 O \ all . % all LO all 5 1 5 25 5 all 5 5 15 171 !O 12 I . LO 8 [0 21 $0 381', 5 1 25 20 25 15 1 1 15 14 20 18 20 7 . 20 6 1 all 10 4 2 1 .. ••• id tells J dY' 11 - - 1 p 48 - 50 i d — par ii - 7 5 74 - 8i ... - • MISCEL Aubin until and Iron Aus t ra lian Agricult. lAustralsn.Pcific•Mail lAustraln. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works trit. American Land Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co Canada Company Crystal Palace Do. New Crystal Pal. of France Eastern Steam.— ... • Electric Telegraph (A) Do. (B).. El ec tric Tel of Irel Gen. SteamNavigat General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Sugar Magdalena St. Navig. Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel Netherlands Land N. S. W. Coal & Inter- Stem. Nay. Co N. B. Australasian Do. New Nrth .of Europe Steam Peel Rr. Id. & Minrl. Peninsular & Oriental Do. do. Portland Iron Co Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest. South Austral. Land Submarine Telegraph k Van Diemen's Laud 'EOITS ••• --- •:,,• 40 --- 4 2 6 = io - 2 •- • p 1 11 * - li 17 - 19 12 - 14 61 i ••• - ••• li 0 it - IP 1 all 1 i 20 10 5 all 50 all 50 25 2 all 100 6 0 j all 25 25 all 100 284 I•• .... IP ••• i -li- 1P 35 -- 37 id -- par 14i -15 i ANOTHER FIRE AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE Yesterday afternoon considerable confusion prevailed in the neighbourhood of Pall-mall, by a report being raised that the Theatre Royal Haymarket had taken fire. Messengers were instantly despatched to the four quarters of London to fetch the engines. In a very few minutes a general turn-out of the brigade engines took place, and on the firemen arriving at the theatre, they found a large sheet of flame rising from apparently the roof, but upon ascending to the top of the theatre, they found that the flames were proceeding from the kitchen chimney of that part of the property where the terrible explosion happened a few days since, when two men were so fearfully burned. By throwing buckets of water down the chimney the firemen, after some trouble got the fire extinguished, no material damage being done. Several thousand persons lined the Haymarket, all of whom apprehended that this favourite place of amuse ment would be destroyed. ~ - ... 6 --- 4i -- 4R -- 6 P 1i -- 10 IfP 13' -- 144 20i -- 21 3 - 3# iii. = iii 109 -1111 - IP si 8i ... - •• m __.- 95 - 95 - Lb - 101 100 100 par 142 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 i'l \ all :-, all 181\ 2 9il SO all ;51 all it. 1100 55 i 16 St. 20 12i pm 1 St. 66'1 i 50 9i 98 12 1021 11 121 12, 25 621 i 301 11 I 10 101 i 1 11 5 11 Hall all hi. all 1.0 2 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 50 all 1 all !CI 13.5 Z 24i - I. ILO all 5 all 5 all !O I all 2 all 3al all 1 all 3 all 1 all 1 all 0 9 1 all 1 all 1 1 all ;0 I all 1 I il 0 all .5 15 1 all [0 7 !8i all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 12s. 1 I all ING, DECEMBER 3, 185 3, PUfTCITS Pi OR 1354. TRADE AND NAVIGATION RETURNf-% 1 THE CORP Illustrated by John Leech and. John Tenniel. Punch-office. It was a fortunate thing for Punch, that imme diately on the retirement of the incomparable Richard Doyle—the celebrant of " Ye Manners and ye Customs of ye Englishe," and the immortaliser of " Messrs. Brown Jones, and Robinson'—the proprietors secur e d in John Tenniel an illustrator worthy of being the colleague of that inimitable artist of the leech-bottle. Of the really remark able . ability of Tenniel as a h um ourist, we take his linnungs in the new specimen of Punch's Pocket Book (for 1854) as conc l us i ve a tt es t a tion. Testi mony of this may be found in the sketches of the Queen and P r i nce Alb er t r iding on the Lion and the Uni corn ! i n Goer and Magog angling for Turtl e ! I n Fi e ld Marshal Punch sur veying his army in battle array f rom a n eminence, lin his capacity as Commander. in-Chief ! In a fly of a numskull client entangled in the network of the law and seized incontinently th ere i n b y a sp id ero us barrister ! In a wonderfully comical group of Punch (again ! like Mr. Spenlow) in the aspect of a leer ing Assyrian Lion, viewed by a yokel of a British Lion with spindle ancles and a smock frock ! In a goblin drollery of .Punch armed cap-it-pie bestrid ing a heraldic griffin—the griffin, by the way, intensely prancant ! Punch (again !) kissing a barmaid—himself clad in the costume of a thea trical postilion ! And finally, an exquisitely-absurd representation of Punch in his character as a father rushing wildlyint o -the nursery to chastise a cluster of fractious infant Punches ! Leech's principal contribu tion to the Pocket Book is, as formerly, the coloured frontispiece. This time, "Topsy Turvy, or our Anti podes"—Regent-street in Australia ! A party of ruffian gold-diggers waited upon by members of what we have been hitherto wont to call the supe rior classes of civilised society ! One cut-throat bawling, " Now, then, you master of arts, look sharp with that pale ale !" Another yelling, " Hello, there, you intellectual being, where the doose are my highlows ?" Besides these, Leech has some capital little sketches in the second part of the Pocket Book as embellishments to a very indifferent jumble of prose and metrical contribu tions of a ludicrous character. Punch contrives, of course, as usual, to render his merry little " Pocket Book" useful as an Alniamack, and mingles with his fun (both pictorial and. literary) a mass of sound business information. LOSS OF A HULL STEAM-SHIP AND UNE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY LIVES. On Thursday afternoon a rumour was very current in the town of Hull, that the Marshall, a steam screw-ship of 300 tons, belonging to the Elbe Humber Steam Na vigation Company, and trading between Hull and Ham burgh, was lost, with a large number of souls on board. The Marshall left Hamburgh on Saturday evening last, and the Elbe on Sunday. She had on board a large and valuable cargo, and upwards of 150 emigrants, besides her crew, about 18 in number. She should, in the or dinary course of events, have arrived in Hull on Monday evening, but up to 3 p.m. on Friday she had not made her appearance. On Wednesday one of her boats was picked up in the North Sea by a fishing•smack, named the Flirt, and it has been brought to Hull and landed. The crew of the barque NV oodhouse, Captain Gatgens, from Stockholm, state that between ten and eleven o'clock on Monday night last, the weather at the time being very thick and the night very dark, a screw steamer came in collision with their vessel near the New sand Float, just as she was making for the Humber. They further state that they hailed the steamer, and asked her name, but no reply was given ; and it is there fore supposed that she must have gone down head fore most, and that the passengers, who would be in their berths below at the time of the collision. have all met with a watery grave. The steamer first struck the Woodhouse on the bow, and then, swinging round, caught her on the stern. In making some repairs im mediately after the collision, a young man, named Ed ward Burn belonging to the Woodhouse, fell overboard, and was drowned. It is reported that the crew of a Prussian vessel, which has arrived at Hull, had heard on Monday night cries of distress from a vessel at sea. At the time men tioned, between ten and eleven o'clock, the Prussian had a narrow escape from collision with a paddle-wheel steam-ship from the south. THE LATE COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY. The collision which took place on the London and North-Western Railway, on Thursday, between two ex press trains, near Berkhampstead, proves to have been much more serious in its character and results than has already been stated or was anticipated. The 9 a.m. express train out left the Euston station at its proper time, consisting of the engine, two first class and one second-class carriages, and two breaks. Nothing occurred to attract notice till the train arrived in the Northchurch tunnel, between Berkhampstead and Tring, when the driver fancied there was an unusual motion, and immediately on emerging from the tunnel, where there is an ascent of the line, the crank axle of the engine broke, and the engine ran for several hun dred yards, rearing up, with its foremost wheels corn pletely off the line. This circumstance rendered i extremely difficult fin the drivc, b. 0h.6 .ir L., .e.-- He had scarcely done so when the engine left the down line, and dashed across up the bank, throw ing the two first-class carriages and the guard's break-van across the up line. In this break was the unfortunate guard Blaney, and in the first-class carriages were a number of gentlemen who were going down to the vicinity of Aylesbury, to attend the meet of Baron Rothschild's hounds. The latter fortunately escaped with but a few slight contusions. At the time of the accident to the down express, which occurred about a quarter to ten o'clock, the 7.30 up express train from Birmingham had left Tring, and although every precau tion was taken to stop its progress, the steam upon her 1 engine was so great that it was impossible to stop its speed before itcame into collisionwith the alreadydisabled express train lying on the up line. The poor guard of the down ex press, Blaney, was no doubt killed by the first accident, as the attention of the hunting gentlemen was attracted by groans proceeding from the foremost break ; they were in the act of removing him therefrom when the whistle of the up coming express warned them of their danger, and they had to run to save their own lives. In an instant the collision took place. The first-class carriages and - the break-van already thrown over, wet e shattered to pieces, and the carriages, as well as the passengers, in the up express-train sustained a violent shock ; but, singular to relate, although both engines were thrown off the line, the drivers and stokers escaped with but very slight injuries. The guard of the down-train, Blaney, was, soon after the collision, discovered amongst the debris of the break frightfully mutilated and quite dead. His body was conveyed to the Crooked Billet, at Northchurch, where it awaits an inquest. Nothing of any consequence happened to the passengers of the down express, but many of those who were in the up train suffered severely in the shape of cuts and contu sions by the collision, and two or three are so seriously injured about the head and face, that they were obliged to be conveyed to the Swan Hotel, at Berkhampstead, where they remain at present under medical treatment. It appears that Mr. H. P. Bruyeres, the General Superintendent of the line, was on the spot imme diately after the accident, as be happened to be tra velling down by the train immediately following the express, leaving Euston at half-past nine. He imme diately issued orders to stop the traffic both up and down, but considerable delay ensued in communicating what had happened to the London Terminus, in consequence of the telegraph being broken by the accident. A large number of workmen were, however, in the course of the morning despatched to the scene of the disaster, and in three or four hours after their arrival the line was cleared. The report yesterday was, that the injured passengers were progressing favourably. The inquest on the guard, Blaney, is appointed to take p lace at eleven o'clock this (Saturday) forenoon. The official trade and navigation returns for the month ending Nov. 5, have been issued. The declared value of some of the principal exports, compared with that for the same articles during the cor responding month of last year, was as follows :- 1852. 1853. Beer and Ale —_. £35,724 Coals and cram 101,079 ...... 124,758 Cotton manufactures 1,460,483 Cotton yarn Earthenware 83,641 ...... 102,960 Haberdashery and millinery 122,471 Hardware and cutlery Linen manufactures Linen yarn Machinery 152,281 Metsli. Silk manufactures Silk thrown Soap Wool 47,915 ...... 31,513 Woollen manufactures Woollen yarn The comparison of imports for the ten months is as under : _ _ --- - - 1852. 1853. Oxen no. 3 3,3 4 8 ...... 41,135 Sheep no. 170,931 Wheat qrs. 2,414,949 Barley qrs. 524,653 Oats q rs. 911,940 Flour cwt. 3,481,274 Coffee lbs. 45,232,859 Cocoa lbs. 5 , 537,010 .. ... 6,788,403 Flax cwt. 1,042,596 Currants cwt. 231,272 _ _ _ ___ __ 691 Guano tons 113,951 ... •• . 88,691 Hemp cwt. 840,328 Oil, palm cw t . 80,719 ...... 141,016 Potatoes cwt• 290,738 ...... 924,494 Bacon, pork, and beef cwt . ' 480,664 Silk, raw lbs. 4,197,766 ...... 4,669,495 Rum proof gallons 4,600,646 Brandy proof gallons 2,533,264 ...... 3,909,481 Geneva proof gallons 14.6,374 Timber l oa d s 1,632,609 1,556,788 -...,,‘,, .lbs. 15,948,125 24653,171 _ e :PAO, gallons. 4, , 7G7,538 8,535,248 cwt. _6,688,204 7,375,042 ,•• • ••• -.. •, • •• ...... 0 2 - 121 -1: 6i- 7! 94 - 10 Ipar •• • --. .39 - i - 94 - A 6 - 23 - LO4 - i - 9i - 16 - par 21 -- 19 - 95 4} id I d —... d 2i ..._ I _ _ 11 - 8 - 2i - 3- id 44 — I Ili 62 2} - 14 - i ;P ! 106 1p 16ip 104 14 4P 244 20 ,„ Tobacco.. Wino Cotton d t l em practiceel w h o o f medicine, and received cert ificates to p ractise, on Thurs day December 1, 1853 :—Charles Slater Adams, Wed nesbury, Staffordshire ; William Roberts, Mynyddy- Gof, Anglesea; William Henry Ludlow, Leir, Leicester. shire. In our report of the proceedings of the Metropolitan and General Freehold Land Society, yesterday, the number of rights to choose allotments should have been about 800, and those the society had marked off, by supplying them with land valued at 15,0001., to about 600. The capital of this flourishing society amounts to olose upon 100,0001. SUSPECTED MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—On the even ing of Monday the 21st instant, a man in the prime of life, named M'Donald, holding a sma ll f arm in the parish of 'St. Fergus, near Peterhead, left his home to proceed on some business to the blacksmith's shop, d i g , h Tw t, hite h h i n s aex fr td ie ism n c d hn s arrn n gine a dg tu h ra pei l s l tw y onl b sb e fy ca nu m hnid e s situated at some little dista nce , an d as he did not gde t a n d e about in sa a m h e i fi m e u l . return ly alarmed in side, by a bullet from which, it was evident, he had come by his death. It was at first conjectured that ho had committed suicide, but when tidings of the event reached Peterhead, the agent of the Northern Insurance Com pany there—in which office M'Donald's life had be insured for 500/.—was led to suspect, from the 7cir cumstance that the insurance had not been effected. M`Donald himself, but by another person, a pflillenifoul residing in St. Fergus, that there had been,„ m uch play in the matter. This suspicion was p n'' that the life strengthened when it was ascertained.lesame per of the unfortunate man was insuredby I e third, the Cale son in a second o ffi ce for 5001., and in t the term insured donian, for 1,000/. ; and further,tha De year, and that for in this latter office was only:/ e : p i in the course the period of the policy ' w rt date, and, consequently, of a few days from the p - resee twelve months the pre if M'Donald survived Phu. wou ld be lost money. mium paid on the l'°who d i scovered the dead ma n Moreover, t h e p a rties inion that, from the positi on began to express an :ly ing, and the way that the in which the body e lit was next to impossible that the shot had taken e ff e en fired by M`Donald himself. The pisto l could hav e the been c oncerned of Peterhead, on the char g e of hav ing h d in the death of the deceased.—Edin bur94 °°" lug rant. , .... ..,,,,- Sheep's wool lbs. 70,336038 The total declared value of all the exports amounted to 6,168,0261., which, as compared with the like month of last year, shows an increase of 1,312,360/. THE WAR IN TIIE EAST. (From the Times.) By the latest intelligence from the banks of the Danube, we are informed that the Turks made an ad vance from Kalafat on the 25th ult., and constructed a large intrenched camp at a point about 12 miles distant from the river, in the direction of Krajova. Nothing can better illustrate the uncertainty of the reports from these parts than the announcement now made. For some days past we have been positively assured that the retirement of the Turks from Oltenitza had been fol. lowed by the evacuation of all their posts on the left bank of the stream, and, though it was admitted at first that Kalafat formed an exception, and was still held by a detachment of the Ottoman army, we are told no later than Tuesday last, that this position had also been partially abandoned, that 8,000 of its garrison had re crossed the Danube to Widdin, and that the Turks were undoubtedly concerting a general retreat to Bulgaria. This retreat is now converted into an advance, and, so far is Omer Pasha from designing to evacuate Wallachia that he has marched, it is said, some distance up the country, and has established a fortified camp capable of holding three times the number of his force which was so successful at Oltenitza. Though we have reason to believe in the authenticity of this latter statement, it is no more than prudent to reserve our conclusions for a time ; but, if the intelli gence before us is correct, it certainly discloses inten tions on the part of the Turks of very material impor tance. It is true that the advance of 12 miles is not considerable, and that the construction of a camp might appear to indicate designs rather of passive than of ac tive operations. Still, if the plans of the Turkish com mander involved nothing more than the mere mainte nance of a position near Lesser Wallachia, it is difficult to see how his new camp could offer much improvement on the strong and convenient post which he already occupied at Kalafat ; and in any case it is clear that he neither intends to remain inactive, nor to retire altoge ther before the assembling forces f Prince Gortschakoff. At some future time we shall probably learn more dis tinctly with what motives both Turks and Rus sians have continued so long without any material movement in this part of the principalities. Accord ing to the best of our information, strong divisions of the two armies must have confronted each other at Kalafat and Krajova ever since the close of October, whereas, excepting some accidental skirmishing at the first passage of the river, we have heard of no operation in this quarter until the present movement. General Dannenberg, who at one time commanded the Russian force between Kraj ova and Slatina, left, we are told, to assist at the attack on Oltenitza, but it does not appear that he took with him any considerable body of troops, and it is certainly remarkable both that the Turks at Kalafat should have abstained from attempting any diversion during the protracted conflicts at Oltenitza and Giurgevo, and that the Russians, after acquiring 3I length the ascendancy at the two latter points, should have directed no operations against Kalafat. Now, however, if our intelligence is trustworthy, affairs in these parts seem to be undergoing a change, and we must needs conclude that the advance from Kalafat is preliminary to some operations of a more de cisive character. This much, at any rate, is plain, that not only the war, but the campaign, is to be prosecuted without intermission, anu 'e C ua. j , ~..-1, .r. , b.o, when Prince Gortschakoff's reserves have come up, of a grand attack upon the Ottoman positions in Lesser Wallachia. What may be the result of this conflict can, of course, be only conjectured, but, from the details of the battle of Oltenitza, which have at length reached us in a well-authenticated shape from eye-witnesses of the engagement, it is impossible not to infer that the Russians may encounter a most for midable opposition. We now know that a force of at least 8,000 Russians was repulsed with serious loss by some 3,000 or 4,000 intrenched Turks. The stories of the bayonet-charges and the close fighting of the troops prove to be pure fabrications. Our correspondent, whose account of the battle we published on Wednes day, says that the Russians could never get within 100 yards of the Turkish works, and Omer Pasha himself, in his well-written official despatch to the Ottoman govern ment, describes the enemy only as "advancing with cool ness and resolution almost to the brink of of the trench." But this, though it does not quite prove that Turks are a match for the Russians in the qualities demanded for the manoeuvres of a pitched battle, prove, at any rate, that Omer Pasha can take up such positions as are invin cible against double his numbers under Prince Gorts chakoff. These very tactics he seems now to be pursu ing in Lesser Wallachia. As further evidence of the unremitting energy with which hostilities are continued, we receive a succession of interesting reports from Giurgevo. This, it will be remembered, is the fort opposite that of Rustchuk, and the only point at which the Turks, at the opening of the campaign, failed to accomplish the passage of the Danube. They never, however, entirely relinquished the attempt, but maintained themselves for some time on an island in the stream, half-way between the two forts. This positions the Russian repeatedly and at last successfully attacked ; but on the 21st ult., as we are informed, the Turks recovered the island and held it, in spite of two distinct assaults, until tho 24th, when the Russians once more got possession of it. The desperate fighting at this point indicates that both parties foresee events in which its importance would be extreme. Whether the Turks desire to secure the position for an attack still contemplated upon Giurjevo and Bucharest, or whether ' as is perhaps more likely, the Russians wished t i estab lish at this point an available communication with the right bank, we do not stop to conjecture, but in either case it is plain that no intermission of hostilities is at present probable. This, in fact, unless an armistice can be imposed upon the combatants by the mediation of independent Powers, is the conclusion to which all the intelligence of the last few days unavoidably conducts us. " whole of the Polish army"—th a t i s to say, of the The the Russian force g quartered in that p ar t o f t h e Imperial do reported to be u n d er or d ers for the Principalities,inonlas cir cumstance which mu s t necessarily betoken onthe part of the Czar a reso l u ti on of continuing the war to extre mities, since months must elapse before troops ad vancing from the Polish provinces could be available for operations on the Danube, On the other side, al though no considerable Turkish reserves are known to exist, the army of Omer P as h a has suffered a s y et but little from the campaign ; it is flushed with unexpected success, and, if the Russian reserves now on the nificchh experi ence ence any such decimations as those to w exposed, it is Gortschakoff's division is said to have possibily that the disparity betw forces, even some time hence, y than the results of former P gested. We cannot, indeed that the quality of the Tu ficiently approved, nor a conclusion as that known power of the with that Omer Pasha 100 prospects, atri al the test of have argued e.e positio tile pl, . depriv that he in . be considerablybeen belligerent less Pla'ence would have sly: , excoenr:ider, upon the whole, k'ish troops has yet been suf dor we see how to reconcile such their ultimate success with the of their empire ; but it is obvious with some confidence on his own tends to bring these chances to 1 rt of the Porte, while it would have :0, r s A om il eemvaics;tiln°gns o o f r Wsoalmleacphaiacifimc clotheidgist- Russians of any ~, - the state of war ; advancebiumtmtehdisiaep retexett the r r` j of ' the Danube, is evidence that Tagugrkr-s.attoiwn-ards Kri . ova coupled with their activity alon g the whole me we are only yet at the beginning of the Wallachian ca mpaign. ---....---- _ _ ..„ .... ~. SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION.--Sir W. E. C. : Hartopp, Bart., the High Sheriff, has fixed Saturday n ext, the 3d inst., fo r the election of a representative for the southern division of the county of Warwick, a vacancy having occ urred by the elevation of the late mem ber, Lord Brooke, to the peerage, by the title of the Earl of Warwick. The only candidate at present in the field is M r. Evel y n P. Shirle y , on the Conserva tive interest, and there appears to be every probability that he will be returned unopposed. ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS. Wo OLW ICII, DEC. 2. —One serjeant, three corporals, and six privates of this c orps are under orders to embark for a Au stralia, where they are to be employed passage to Au. Mint established in that country, as coiners in the The non- co mmissioned officers and private s have been selected fo r this special service owing to th e i r i ntelligence and duct, and have for several months past been employed ledge of th e art n°ll'in acquiring a thorough know -1 ° 1 country. Coining the current coin of this T LONDON. . ( Frain the Morning Chronicle.) An act of Parliament, passed five centuries ago, after stating in its preamble that the "errors, defaults, and misprisions notoriously used in the City of London, for de fault of good governance, by the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Al dermen, could not be inquired nor found by people of the same city," proceeded to enact that the corporation should forthwith amend its behaviour, under penalty of fines for the first and second default, and of disfranchisement for the third. Provision was further made that "it should be begun to inquire upon them at St. Michael next comin g , so that, if they did not afford due redress , it should be in quired of their defaults by inquests of people of foreign counties," which " foreign counties" the statute then enu merates. Surrey, however, is not mentioned, which is somewhat singular, especially as Sussex has a place in the list. The omission may perhaps be partially accounted for by the fact that the only portion of the metropolis which then existed on the Surrey side of the river, being (as it still is) in an anomalous species of vassalage to the City, could not supply an independent tribunal ; whilst the rural parts of the county had not at that period at tained any great commercial importance. On the connec tion existing between London and Southwark we now pro pose to make a few remarks, leaving those who are so in clined to speculate on the possibility of some analogy being discoverable between the errors, defaults, and mispri sions" of the fourteenth century and those of the nine teenth, as well as the difference between an inquiry before the Commissioners of Edward 111. and those of her pre- sent Majesty. The suzerainty enjoyed by the City over the Borough, originally established by a charter of Edward 1., and con firmed in several succeeding reigns, was extended to its present limits by Edward Vl.—who, in consideration of a sum of 6471. 2s. ld., added to the former grant a convey ance of all the property of the Crown situate within the borough (excepting certain specified tenements) together " with the lordship and borough late the possession of the Archbishop of Canterbury." For 500 marks more, seig niorial rights and a considerable extent of legal jurisdiction were also conceded ; and the powers which the corporation thus acquired by bargain and sale—on terms which were fair enough, according to the estimate of the times in which the transaction took place—have not been suffered to become obsolete by non-user. Mr. Pocock, one of the speakers at the meeting of the inhabitants of Southwark on Friday last, states that he has resided in the borough more than fifty years, and has been repeatedly summoned, by the Lord Mayor's precept, to serve on grand and petty fu ries ; and ano ther g entleman complains that he and his ne ighbours are required to attend Corporation Courts, only " to be told that there is no business for them to do, and that they may quietly retire to discharge their own," but that they are nevertheless fined if they disobey the man date. From a third s peaker, we learn that the City has disposed of the meterage of the borough "in what they call office s "—a purely technical term, which, when em ployed in connection . with coal and corn duties, may be said to derive its signification from the Latin verb offeio, " to obstruct or annoy"— and that it has mono p olised the entire csntrol of th e river, in which the inhabitants of the southern shore have an equal interest with the citi zens. A member of the medical profession, who also attended the meeting, dwelt on a grievance of a dif ferent character—stating that the governing body had wholly neglected the duty of cleansing streets and im proving drainage, as well as of taking other precautions against infectious disease. The complaint, though by no m eans unfounded, was, perhaps, i n one respec t , -somewhat unre asonable—for " charity begins at home," and the pa trons of Smithfield cannot be expected to act with any great zeal in the removal of nuisances. It is true that, by au old statute of Henry VII., the slaughter of cattle with in the walls of London was forbidden, as a practice " al lowed in few noble cities and towns, or none withi n Chris tendom, where tra vellin g men have laboured," lest it should "engender sickness, to the destruction of " the people ;" but the penalties which that act imposed—viz., xij pence for an ox, and viij pence for a cow or other beast, killed in violation of its provisions—have since been re placed by a table of tolls, more advantageous to the go verning body, if not to those over whom their jurisdiction extends. Probably, there is no part of the metropolis which so much requires improvement as Southwark ; but there are reasons which render it very improbable that the corporation, as at present constituted, will be inc d line to co ntribute for such purposes any large portion of the vast funds at its disposal. We have already referred to the manner in which the Borough became, in a certain sense, the property of the City ; and, at first, the corporation practically recog nised the principle that property has its duties as well as its rights. Before the close of the year in which the grant from Edward VI. was obtained, an alderman for the ward of Bridge-Without took his seat with the representatives of the other districts ; and, according to Stowe, South wark at one period sent deputies to the Common Couueil. In course of time, however, Bridge Without was restricted to certain houses at the foot of old London-bridge ; and on the erection of a new bridge, with no houses in the corres ponding position, Bridge Without became a sinecure, much resembling those ancient dignities against which we find Consumpta per mare marked in our Clergy Lists. The agent of destruction was, in the present case, not the sea, but the river ; and although the constituency was swal lowed up, we are not aware that theinfluence and patronage belonging to the office suffered any similar catastrophe. To Bridge Without each senior Alderman in his turn may re tire whenever a vacancy occurs, and may enjoy that repose which digestive powers impaired in the public service have a right to demand. The inhabitants of Southwark not unnaturally feel themselves somewhat aggrieved by the position in which they are placed. They entertain a very reasonable objec tion to taxation without representation ; and they fairly inquire why their own borough should be " left behind in the march of improvement,' now that Manchester and Birmingham have obtained municipal institutions. On the question whether they ought to seek an entire dissolution of partnership with the City, or a maintenance of the pre sent connection with a more just and equal distribution of power, there was some difference of opinion in the meet ing ; but the majority were of opinion that the latter al ternative would be the more desirable. The attendance, however, was not sufficiently large to render the resolution which was ultimately passed a decided indication of the puouc Jesus % ...., 11... 1).-••••.11171. • ,nel +Ma is searCeiV tO be regretted, since, in the present stage of he inquuT, use great object is to ascertain facts, leaving for subsequent consideration the legislative measures which it may be de sirable to adopt. On one point only we can speak without hesitation. Everything that appears to be, in the language of the day, a "sham" must be thoroughly sifted, and either converted into a reality, or altogether got rid of. Inquest men—to take an example from the evidence on Friday--- must no longer be compelled to waste their time in attending purely formal meetings. As matters stand, they are bound to assist in maintaining the Queen's peace, but the police re lieve them of that trouble. They are required to see that the common ground of the city is not encroached upon, but there is a salaried surveyor far more competent to deal with such matters. They are enjoined to examine weights and measures, but there is an inspector paid to do the work. And lastly, they are directed to prevent those who are not freemen from opening shops in the city ' • but this, so far as it is done at all, is done by the Court of Aldermen and the ward beadles. Navigation Committees, again, must not in future consist of twenty persons, " none of whom have any knowledge of the river beyond what they have picked up as committee-men ;" and the salaries of officers —or their fees, if it be necessary to retain a mode of pay hitochpathy ment so objectionable—must be honestly proportioned to pricethe which of they the can service s affor w d , pi n ac o e t e, to cr th to e e Tor re th n e d ir er the influence which they possess with the dispensers of patronage. We hope that the corporation will cordially co-operate in effecting ref orms so o b v i ous l y expe di en t ; and we observed with pleasure the resolution recently agreed to by the Court of Alderman, in . man, in which they express their desire to assist the inquiry now proceeding, and their willingness to supply " all the documents and information in their power." By acting in accordance with this deter mination they will best discharge their duty to the public, whilst they will secure a favourable consideration for such evidence as it may be in their power to produce. LOSS OF A. VESSEL AND CREW. —The schooner Prim rose, of Lossiemouth, belonging to Messrs. R. Brander and John Maconachie, left London on the 24th of Sep tember last, in ballast, bound for the Baltic. She has never since been heard of ; and it is feared that the ves sel, with all on board, must have perishe td in the eqTheui noctial gales of the 25th and 29th Sepmber. crew consisted of Captain Thomas Mason, who has loft a widow and three children ; George Garvock, mate, who has left a wife and two children ; Alex. Martin, widower, aged eighteen, belonging to Dundee, who has left a young family ; James Barron, aged nineteen, only son and chief sup -7liurghead ; and a e s t a i O l o g r i , b c port young man whose name is unknown—in all six souls. e ld e t s t of so w n id o o f w J i3 am arers°nOgijlvyam, The captain, the mate, and James Barron belonged to Lossiemouth. Considerable sensation has been excited by the melancholy diaster ; and much sympathy is felt for the relatives and families of the unfortunate sufferers. The crew was composed of a set of very sober well-con ducted young men ; and Captain Mason was universally valued and esteemed for his experience and e d ci uprig ency ht as a seaman, as well as for his s conduct. The Primrose was an excellent vessel, built at n e Spey i 1851, and was therefore comparatively new. We regret to say that she w as onl y partially insured.— Elgin Courier. ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.--The inquest on the body of the unfortunate engine-driver, Thos. Simpson, who was killed on Tuesday morning last by the overturning of the down mail-train on the line the Naas cutting, between this place and Gatcombe,at was brought to a close at a late hour on Thursday, The principal witness examined was the stoker to aY. The train, William Chapman, who deposed that the mall proceeded safely past the Gatcombe station, t the train diately on entering the Naas cutting th °ll ' and inane. over from the left side, and fell en its s idee engine turned of rails. Witness found himself in a mom e nt on the up line ground, but he escaped with a bruise thrown to the train consisted of engine, tend ise on the head, The tender, an d carriages. There were only nine three passenger As soon as he came to himself, gem in the train. train came up, and they 1 , the two guards of the they found him lying looked for the deceased. At last, they under travelling the tender. The train was at its usual man, and was quite p sober. The deceased was a steady when asked t o give a reason er. The witnesses generally , the frost a n d w for the slip, attributed it to eweather. The slip was describe d as about thirty yards t i quantity of n length and ten in depth, an d the earth moved was about 400 tons. The soil was loose With__marl, and rock peeped out in places. Several witnesses had through the cutting day, and passed saw nothing to excite suspicion. The Jury ultimately returned a verdict of accidental death, at the same time they appended to the verdict a recommenda tion to the South Wales Railway Company to have the cuttings on the line watched. Three days before this fatal occurrence, a large piece of rook fell from another cutting (near Chepstow) on to the linhi e, but tr wain s as luckily observed immediately , and an approa ching topped while it was removed. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF COTTON W .—t the Liverpool police court, on Wednesday, John oods, a warehouse man, and Ann Hindle, were committed for trial for ob taining 43 bales of cotton, value from about 4501., upon fraudulent representations. Athe manufacturer from Old ham, named Bentley, bought cotton, and w also brought up, but there being no evidence to connect him with the fraud, ke was discharged. e rfere seen their dtbo . ki ~~ 48i 8 3 4 i a 2i - I 10 • id 71 - - i par 31 9 5 Par 46 iP 12 3 d i 16 10 6 d 7 3i