The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

Eft' MARKET aJD COIVII‘IEE,OT 4.L INTELLIGENCL. CITY, Two o'Ceocic. Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday manifested a steady appearance, and prices of all kinds were fully maintained. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed quietly, and values were Without any material alteration. Notwithstanding the abatement of the crisis, its effects are still exhibited in occasional failures, and during the next two or three weeks several small Erma will nc doubt be compelled to succumb. Two Were announced yesterday, viz., Messrs. Hinton Brothers inthe Italian trade, and Messrs Lupton, tlooton, and Co., warehousemen, but the liabilities are small. Increased ease is experienced in the Money Market, but there is good demand, in consequence of the preparations in progress for the heavy mass of commercial paper, due on the 4th proximo. The liquidation of annual accounts also stimulates the demand, but there is an abundant supply and the terms are easier, bills having been discounted as low as 6i and '7 per cent. A further decline of the minimum is therefore expected, but not until after the January dividends are paid. The distri bution of the interest on Consols will add to the easiness of the money-market, and promote invest ments in public securities. The Bank of France have further reduced their Minimum rate of iliecount, viz., to 5 per cent., and the accounts from Paris speak favourably of future prospects, although trade at the present moment is very dull. It has been announced that the half-yearly dividend, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending 31st December inst., on the Capital Stock of the Commercial Bank of Canada, will be paid by the London Joint-Stock Bank on and after Friday, the Ist of January. The Bonds of the State of Alabama, guaranteed by the Bank of Mobile, duo on the Ist proximo, will be paid by the Union Bank of London. The interest on the South Australian Govern ment Bonds will be paid on the Ist proximo, and also on the New South Wales Government Deben tures. The half yearly dividends on the South Carolina are also advertised for payment on the same day. Dividends, at the rate of 8 and 5 per cent., are declared by the Scottish Union Fire and Life Insurance Company, and the British Industrial Life Company respectively. The Market for Public Securities is under the influence of the speculator who was " declared" two days ago. This event has proved more serious than was at first imagined, and, until the settlement, the quotations will no doubt continue variable- The party referred to refuses to give up his books, and thus it is difficult to close his engage ments, and whenever any of them are terminated the market is immediately affected. The fluctua tion thus occasioned no doubt induces many of the speculators to retire from the market. Consols, from 931 dropped to 93a and are now about 9 3i I. The price for February is 941 e The New 3 per Cents. have ranged from 93a to 94, - Wad the Reduced from 93i to 94. Bank Stock is 2 17 to 219. Exchequer Bills are par to 3s. pre mium, the Bonds 99± and India Bonds 20s. dis count. In the Foreign Market the transactions have been limited and the prices are heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents. are marked 9Th Mexican, 20i ; Brazilian 5 per Cents., 99 ; and Ditto 4i per Cents. 95 ; Spanish Committee Certificates are 5. • The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stooks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 6 ; Mexi can, 204 20i ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 77 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., ---; Portuguese 3 p er Cents., 44k 45i ; Russian 5 per Cents, 106 108 ; do. 4i per Cents., 97 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 414 424 ; ditto Deferred, 26k A. rather limited business has been rep orted in the Railway Share Market this morning, and the transaction entered into have in most instances had reference to the settlement of the half-monthly accounts now in progress of l iq uidation. Prices generally have exhibited a slight improvement, the advance being about to A per cent. Eastern Counties and Lancashire and Yorkshire improved 15 s. ; Great Northern, North Western, Midland, North-Eastern (Berwick), and South-Western, 10s. ; North British and South-Eastern, I/. The Foreign and Colonial lines are inactive but Prices are fully supported. Northern of France have advanced 10s., Dutch Rhenish, 10s., and Great Luxembourg, ss. Toe Colonial undertakings also skew a slight improvement. Grand Trunk of Canada have improved 1/. ; Great Western of Canada, ss. ; and East Indian, 10s. In Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares little alteration has taken place in prices. BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DA. ( From the Offimal Business done. Ihnk Stook S per t cut. Reduced Annnittee Now 3 per Cent. Annuities 9,3i 4 3a Long Annuities, expire stu Jan. 1860... 2 India Bonds Xlmou 20 d . ...... !... ..... ..... ..... ' Qitsols for Account Evlaequar Lillis, 24a. 21000 ..q nail Rxchaquer Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent 991 i Ditto, 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS —THIS DAY. Brannan 6 per Cont. Ditto Account 'Ditto 1852, 4i per Cent . Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 92 ,Milian Bonds, 6 per Cent lo2} Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 2oi L . Pernviar Bonds, 43 per Cent — Ditto Account 7M Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent ' 4s} * P ar di n ian Bona s, 5 per Cent. liiptnish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5 `Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent 97i 98i 7 Ditto Account 1011 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. PitlftEß O'CLOCK. 03i i a d Console account, Jan. 8 The Poi Bretonne, a French legitimist journal, is to be prosecuted for " false news," and its Paris corre spondent is inoluded in the indictment. THE HILL 07 M ON TILLETIIII.—The city of Paris is in treaty for the purchase (or rather, since an act of the Legislature would be necessary, the expropriation) of the bill of Montmartre. According to a plan already made by an eminent architect, a number of villanons houses which encumber that magnificent site are to be Pulled down, and one of the finest promenades in tbe world is to be laid out. The idea is certainly grand, but the execution of it involves the expenditure of ' many millions, and may perhaps be uphill work as much its the going round the new promenade will undoubt dly be. The Montmartre Hfll, in the caverns of which Caviler made many of his geological discoveries, is as hollow as an empty honeycomb ; it is continually crumbling away, and there are savans who calculate that it will fall in within a few years. A.ROH/SOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES —M. Leon Fallue, a few days ago, communicated to the Academy of Inscr i p . • tions and Belles-Lettres some curious discoveries which he had made at Epinay-sur-Seine, near St. Denis , of ves tiges of a Gallo-Roman village and burial plac e on the estate called Manoir dia Mont, the property of M. Cre nieux. While some workmen were digging a ditch M. Fallue observed traces of sarcophagi in plaster. He im mediately bid the men clear away the earth carefully, and thus succeeded in extricating eight of them entire, each of which contained a skeleton. Continuing his researches be discovered 10 yards below the surface of the soil a gallery eight yards in leegth by two in height and breadth From this gallery doors led to two lateral passages, each in the form of a Greek cross. At another spot, near the principal street of Epinay, he found a crypt, com posed of two gal'eries crossed by a third, the latter of which opens into a subterranean church, constructed of masonry of great antiquity. At a distance of two kilo metres from this, near the Chatea u de la Brichese cre, a large number of ancient graves were found• All th)pts and relics appear to belong to the Merovingian period. SAVINGS BANKs.—Tbe annual returns made by the savings banks in the eastern counties exhibit generally satisfactory results, and show either that the benefits of such institutions ere more appreciated by those for whom they were intended, or that the condition of the working classes bas enabled them to gradually extend their de posits. In the Cambridge Bank 500 new accounts have been opened during the year ending Nov. 20, and only 340 have been withdrawn. In the Sleaford Bank the deposits received have been 9,488/. 6s. 10d., while the sums paid to depositors, including interest, have amounted to 8,4111. 14s. 3d. At 13)40d there bas been an increase of 1,082 depositors during the last ten years, and of 6,2091. 2s. Id. in the amount deposited At Louth during the past year 299 new depositors have opened accounts, 11,1161. Bs. 11d, have been deposited, and 9,8171, 8,4 t3d. withdrawn. • TILE SUN, - LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, pr 3 HARZ M Va s s—,This Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Trios' this day. 5 - 8 - 68 - 70 ••• -• •... 9/ - 9i 86 - 88 84A -81 i 33 - ..- 35 7 - 9 . • .• --..- •• 3 - 4i ... .... ... g }- , 18i -19 i 59 - 60 40 - 44 29 - 31 17 - 18 91 - 93 7 eq 30 -- 31. 89 - 91' 9 - 9A 97A -98 A 84 - 86 122 - 124 97 - 99 54j -54 i 58 - 62 77 - 80 7i -8,; 7i - 94 - 94, 5i 4 Jos 108 98 - 98; d 95A 96; 40i - ii 91 - 91 : 61 - 65 iii = ii 61. - 63 3 - 34 51 - 52 y 7 - 98; 2 - 53. - 54 8t - 85 90 - 95 - al = ii = "6 31 32 10 8 d, 104 - 106 24 - 26 47 - 49 4 - 3 33 - 35 714 - 724 78i 79 13 15 8 6d 9 11 36 38 19i -- 20& 7 - 9 3 - 3A 5. 1 - 6 iSSESSIONS. lA - 11 6 - 50 1 82 - 86 80 - 83 78 - 82 ••• ••• la -- :i - 1 111 - 112 2 - 2 bl 19 - 20 49 - 51 83 - 85 214 -22 ii 11 - 1I 20 -20 ii 108 - 112 108 - 112 101 103 19 204 21i 226 1 p 11 ldp ii = iip 61 - 613 ••• - ... 1 - lf - 41 3 - 21 271 - 27 ''''. ••• ii - q ••• ••• •.• - 5 i - sip 2G : 27; - 19 - 20: 38 - 38. 7 - Si 341 - 34. 53 - 55 i - Ipi 1 . 4" i - 163 - 8 - 8 1 22 - 22 - 5 - 9 263 - 273 RlumAza. .A.rebg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June.... Belfast & Ballyroen , Birmng. Wolverh. c‘i Stour Valley 'Birkenhd. Laoacsh. Cheshire Juliet-- Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45)..., Bristol & Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall De. At Do. B. Dublin&Belfast June. Dun. P. &Aber.Junc.' ,East Anglian ...... Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union,A. stk. Do., do. B. Do. New A ••• •••••••. East Kent ••• East Lancashire ,East Suffolk ....... Do. (Edinburgh & Glasgow jEdinb. and Peebles._ 'Edinb.Prth.&Dunde. - IForth and Clyde June. 'Furness Glasgow dr S. Western Great N. of Scotland IGreat Northern Do A. Stock Do. , B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West(lre) I Great Western. IDo. Str.V.R. gua. St (Irish South-Eastern I Lancaster do Carlisle. Do., Thivis Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshir , Do., do. F £l6 Do., Wst. Riding Un. Do. Soutbpat. London di Blackwall Lond.Bright. &S. Cst London & N. Wester Do. Fifths ...... Do. ,1Cd.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London do S. We tern Ludndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. 4 Ennisk. Manch.Shef.dtLincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo' , arrangement Midland Do. Binning. & Derb Midland G. West.(lr. Do. Shares . Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry rs Euniskiller Newry, Warrenpoin 4 & Rostrevor Norfolk.. Northn. Counties Ern North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock Do., A Stock ......... Do., B Stock ...... N. Eastern —Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E.Purch Do Leeds Do. York North Loudon N. & S. Wstn., Ramp stead, and City North Staffordshire. North Western. N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot. N.E.Abrdn.St Shropshire Union Sitingbourne &Sheer South Devon South Eastern ... I Do. 4i per:. Shares South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun Do Staines,Wok.,&Wok.l Stockton & Do. do., 1854 Do. do., LEM Stockton dr Hartlepl Taff Vale Do. Prof s , Nq. 1 Thames Ray. D. &R Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeri ck West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wmbledon&Croydon BRITISH PI Atian. and St. Law. IBoinbay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. IDo. Buffalo & Lake Hur. Buff., Brnt. & 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72l Do. do., 1 July, '731 Do, do., 1 June, '74' C a l c utta and S. East. Central Oudo (Lim.) Ceylon A shares Do. B. do. Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do .4 p. e. Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do. Geelong di elbonrne guar. 5 per cent. iGd. Trunk. of Canada, Do. 6 p. e. Deben I Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pore Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Wostn. of Cauada Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, do. Do. do., '73, without I option IMadras, guar. 4 p. c Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 4i p. c. Eaten. Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. ' 1 Do. 4th Ex do _ _ l Oude (Limited) iScindo, guar. 5 per c ; Do all Antwrp &Rotterdam' 18 Ardennes all Belgian East. Junct 16 Be ziers to Graissessac all Carmeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry 12 Dutch Rhenish all lEastern of France all Do. Now 2s. Euphrates Valley 18 Gt. Central of France all Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction all Lake Const. & Bale all Lierre and Turnhout 6 Lombardo-Venetian all Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. all Lyons and Geneva all Lyons Sr, Mediterran all Maria Antonia all Do. New all Namnr & Liege all Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref all Northern of France all NorwegianTruk. Prof all Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans 7 Recife di San Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. 7i Rome and Frssesti, all Royal Danish all Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse._ all ")o. 5i per cent. pref. all Southern of France all West Flanders all Do. 5 per C. Pref all W.diN.W. of France 6 Western of Austria all We=t. of Switzerland all W tell aden all Do. Bp. cent. prof. all ,Zealand JOINT-STOCK BANKS• all Australasia 181 Bank of Egypt 50 !Bank of London all ! Brit. Col. Bk.& Ln. Co all ;British N. American 8 IC.Rk.of 50 City 25 !Colonial ;Commercial of Loud.' Eng. Scot_ 4./ _Cut Cat ~.• Loll Ch . l3k .ofA a bt ,Ditto New • 'London and County Dad .drE.Bnkng.Corp London Joint Stock. Lond.andWestminst, National Pro. of Eng. Do. New National Bank New South Wales Oriental Bank Corp !Ottoman Bank IlProvine al of Ireland I Do ' New ! R. At s. B.& G. Im . Co South Australia. }Union of Australia ,'Do. New [Union of London Unity Mutual WootrOk of Loud 81 - 83 3 2 d 43 47 56 -- 60 IF; :: i." 4 17i lati 44 - 46 31 - 33 18} - 19 33 -- 35 49 - 51 ...d it* "" PO Business done this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paid! Leasing Companies. Closing Prices this day Business this day RAILWAYS. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. Col.Stour Vy. E.Lm. g. 6 p.c E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. 1 Shares Lon. & Green Do.Preferenco Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. D N, p rp 00 e a .. sEt6 Fixed. s pa, t.s p. ewr serpt . c . cc . Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shrews. it Her ,S. Staffordsh WearVal.g6pc Do i Wilts &Somrst 92 - 94 95 - 97 12 - 14 130 - 134 3i-- 4 los ••• 12 13 ••• 23 —24 92 94 i f d 90 9 1 par ip 55 57 130 - 133 71 - - 91 31 - 32 83 - 85 ',E SHARES. Ln.&N.W. Caledon... E.U.dgE.O Gt. Northn E. Count. Caldonian. Gt. Westn. Y & N.M Do Do S. Eastern Do 'Pet° &Co, Do rte,. &N. W. ds Midld. Midland... E. Count Do Do L. & A . W Do Gt. Northli T. Brassoy M. MCI ean Stk.&Dar ' Do Gt.Westn PREF ERENI Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (ised. at 501.) Brie. StEx.4 p.c. St. Do. 4 per c. Shares... Caledn. £lO 4 pc. Ches. & Ho. 5i p c. Do. do. 5 per cent... Cork &Bandons ip.c. Dun. Perth. &Aber.J. E. Anglian Cis. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c. Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 pr. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., lA per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. I o. do. 4 per cent... East Lancash.6p.cts. E.&W. York. J. sths Edin.& Gl. 5 p. c. Sh. Ed.Pr th.&Dun.4p.c. Furness, 5 p. c Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c Groat Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. Do. 4i per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N . of Scotia Pr( Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt W. (B. &H Ex.spc Do. con. red. 4i p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per tent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do.Chcster Bp. c. P. S Do, do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesil. Gua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No. 1 Do. P., 5 p.c. St. No. 2 Do. New Guar. 613. c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N. W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 r. ct... Lon. & S. W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. i Sh Londy.kEnnis. i Sh ~ S., &L. 6 p. Cent o. do. do. £6 ... Do. do. 31 per cont Marypt. ft Carl. 4 p.c Do. 4i por cent Do. do. Kid. Consol. 6p. c. St. Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 4A p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &H .Pref. St. New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p.c.rod. 5 p.c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct. Norf k. D eb. 4 p.c. Sh. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 5A p.c. pf , 1847 Do. Wv.V.sp. ~ ,1847 North British Do. 71. Preference I N.B. Berw. 4 p. c.Prf Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do.Yorkil.& S. Pur North Staffordshire so Ox., W i or t . g eg ua W r . olv. 6 Do. 6 ' p. c. 2d guar Do, do. Debeatr. St Scot. Ceut.New Pref Sc.N.E.Aher.g.6p.c Do, do. 7 p.c. pf. St Do. d0.:3 p.c. pf. St " uth Devon Do. fixed 44 pr cent. S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh Do. New 4i pr. cent S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. Do. do. 4A p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., 5 p. C Do. do. do. ... IWaterfd&Kilk. 6 pc. BRITISH Alfred Cons. (Philk.) British Iron Condurow (Cambria.) Dev. Gt. Cns (Tay.) East Basset (Illogan) Great South Tolgus G rt. W. Alfrd. (Philk. ) Grt. W. Vor (Helstn.) Lady Bertha N. Frances (Illogan) N. W.Basset (Mogan) North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) Po: kepis U. (Wend.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co. S. Caradon (St. Clear)'' S. Cam Brea (Moo.) S.W. Frances(lllogn. ) Tam. S. & L. Min. Co Tin Croft Un.Mines (Gwennap V. of Towoy (Camar. W. Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Illogan). Wh. Buller (Rdruth). Wh. Edward (Calatck) Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. ) Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) FOREIGN Australian Bon Accord Cop. (IL ) Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm) Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica Cobra Copper Copiapo Dun Mountain Cop per Mining Co. Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Mariquita Now Granada Novean Monde Pont.Sil.LdM.& Snalt Port Philip Santiago de Cuba United Mexican 89 - 91 oi = i.,1 ••• -- ••• 6 -. 61 105 - 110 110 - 114 105 - 108 103 - 106 121 - 124 115 - il7 106 - 108 97 - 99 60 - 62 9-1 - 104 -- 6 86 -- 88 81 -- 83 81 -- 83 94 -- 96 91 -- 91 154 16!, 91 -- 91 67 1 -- 6 17i -- 9 ltA 8 -- 1 131 -- 13 132 - 137 114 - 117 1150 no llt - 117 - it 64 - 66 130 - 131 95 - 97 85 - 87 il!pi 1141 - 103 95 97 1 d 1 - 41 214 - 112 - 114 101 - 103 110 -- 112 103 -- 105 70 -- 72 1 9i -10 i 22 - 94 - 96 93 - 96 26 - 28 MINES. 12 - 13 5 - 7 80 - 90 420 - 440 85 - 95 13 - 14 4 - 5 1 - - 1 8 - 9 11 - 12 4 - 5 16 - 18 4 - 5 340 - 350 3i - 220 - 23) - 1 3 - 4 - 1 21 - 22 100 -110 k 145 - 155 280 - 290 - 7i 14 - 16 44 - 46 23 - 25 MINES. d par 11 21 10 - 11 38 39 11 12 i d p ia 14 p id 14 16 8i 9i 14 id *ii = isi li - 2 3 # - 41 MISCELLANEOI7S. Atlantic Tel. (Lim.) Australian Agricult.' Australn. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works 'Do. Now iss. at 51. d Brit. American Lam Canada Do.Go.6pc.Jan&July Copper Min. of Eng. IDo. Pref. 7§ p. cent Crystal Palace 'Do. Preference !Crystal Pal, of Prance! (Eastern 5team........ I Bloc tric Telegraph 'Electric Tel. of Irel 'En. &Aust. Cop.SmCo Eur. & lud.Jetn. Tel. ;Eur. &Am. Stm,(lim.) Gen. Ir. Sc. Col.(lim.) :Gen. Steam Navigat. London Discount Lond. Gen. Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig. I Moditeran. Elec. Tel. IDo. Extension Tele& Mexican& S.Americn Nat. Discount Co.._ INetherlands Land 'Do. Do. Do.B p.c.PLies.at ld. Do. Do. Now B. &N. S. Land N. S. W. Gov. 5 p. c. D. N. B. Australasian... Nrtli.ofEuropeStoam riental Gas o New Shares Pee Mr . Ld. & Minrl Peninsular & Oriental Do. New ithymney Iron Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest S. Aus, Gov. 6 p.e.bds South Austral. Land Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered True. Ln. Co. Up. Can Van Dionaen'n Land ••• - ••• 25 - 26 ••• - .•• 4 - 5 30 - 35 120 - 125 IIIA - 112 27 - 32 23 - 25 1/ - 1A 4- 4 !i6i Z- . iiii •••i li - .. l 5--5 i - .11 rd 3d - - 2 4 3 4 16 - 18 95 - 97 8 - 1 P ie 2i 21 72 74 5 6p 20 —22 54 56 11 33 - 35 1 7:- i ••• ..-.. ••• I 9 .--. 11. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. OMNIBUS ROBBERY.—Mary Wilkinson, a respectably dressed female, with a child in her arms, was oharged with picking the pocket of Mary Ann Stevens, in one of the Wellington omnibuses. Mr. Lewis, jun., defended the prisoner. The proseoutrix deposed that yesterday afternoon she got into a Wellington omnibus in Shoreditch ; the prisoner sat next to her. Whilst riding along, she felt the prisoner's hand by her side, and on examining her pocket she found her purse open and her silver, from 6s. to 75., gone. She found her dress had been cut. She thought the prisoner passed something to another female who left the 'bee, but she did not like to give her into custody, fearing she should be mistaken. Police-constable 466 said that when he apprehended the prisoner she declared her innocence. t She was taken to the station-house and searched. Only one shilling, three sixpences, and three half-pence were found on her. The omnibus was also searched, but nothing was found there. She gave her addres—Charles-street, Hackney road, but no one in the street knew anything of her. Mr. Lewis said that the facts negatived the supposition that she committed the robbery. The omnibus was full of ladies revelling in an amplitude of crinoline, and some one else was as likely to have committed the robbery as the prisoner. The Lord Mayor said he should remand her. Mr. Lewis said he hoped his lordship would not do it. There was no evidence against her. The Lord Mayor—But she gave a wrong address, and her husband was not forthcoming, as he bad promised. Mr. Lewis said his lordship appeared to be relying on collateral facts. It did not matter what she was, there was no proof that she committed the robbery. The Lord Mayor—Where is her husband. I should like to hear what he has to say. Mr. Lewis—No doubt ; but I don't think he will attsnd. The Lord Mayor—l have no doubt of it. I shall remand her till Friday to make further inquiries about her. Mr. Lewis—Will you take bail ? The Lord Mayor—No. The prisoner was then remanded. GUIL [HALL. ASSAULTING THE PULP:M.—Sarah Hart was charged before Mr. Allerman Oubitt with assaulting the police. Police-constable 322 deposed that yesterday afternoon he was called on by another policeman to remove the prisoner from Shoemaker-row. She was drunk, and causing an obstruction on the pathway, with a basket of fish. She refused to move on when requested, and on his endeavouring to get her away she struck hp") in the face with her fist and made his mouth bleed. She also scratched his face. He was obliged to have the assistance of another constable to bring her to the station in con sequence of the violence of her conduct, On the way she kicked him several times and attempted to bite her. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that she struck the policeman because he kicked her two or three times in the back. Alderman Cubitt—Has she been here before Springate (the gaoler)--Yea, your worship. Prisoner—l am sorry to say I have, but it shan't happen again. Mr. Alderman Cubitt sentenced her to 21 days with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. TIIN ATTEMPTED MURDER IN WEIrMINSTER. — John Butler, a labourer, was this morning placed at the bar, charged with being concerned with his father (now in th• House of Detention), in an attempt to murder or otherwise inflict grievous bodily harm upon Cornelius Shane. Evidence was given to the following effect :—The prisoner and his father, labourers at the Chartered Gas Works, lives at No. 9, St. Anne's-lane, Great Peter street, where the injured man also occupies a room. On Monday night, there having been some previous alter cation between the parties, when prosecutor returned home, Butler the elder, accompanied by the prisoner, followed him up stairs into his room, when having looked the door they deolared they had got him now, and the elder Butler proceeded to isfliet the most atrocious assault upon him. How many wounds were given there was no evidence to show, save tlat his nose had been entirely slit up with a knife, and that adhesive plaster covered other portions of his countenance, which was wof ally disfigured. The evidence against the prisoner is that he used threats upon the stairs, that he brandished a salver at the time, and was prssent with his father when the injuries were inflicted. It was also shown that the daughter of Shane, fearing what woutd befal her father, kissed the prisoner, and putting her hand into his entreated him to be peaceable, jut before the attack was made. Prisoner said he WAR not in the room at the time, and was about to enter into a lengthened defence, when Mr. Poynter intimated that as, in all probability, he would be committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial, he had bet' er for the present reserve what he had to say, as it might be given in evidence against him upon his trial. Prisoner was remanded for a week. THAMES. AN lIMIDENT TknEF.—Joho Given, a bola-looking youth of 17, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with attempting to steal money from a till. Mary Ann Ward, servait to Mrs. Elisa Hinspelwood, shopkeeper, of No. 5, queen -street, Tower-hill, said she heard the rattling of money in the till of her mis tress's shop, and upon going there saw the prisoner, who must have crept into the shop on all fours, leaning over the eonnter with his hand in the till. It was full of money, which he droped when she made her ap pearance. She asked Lim what he wanted, to which he replied that he wanted a penny egg. She called the police, and gave the prisoner into custody. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was a most incorrigible ylung thef, who went about pilfering whatever he could lay his hands on, and he had been three times summarily convicted. Mr. Selfe asked the prisoner what business he had in the shop I The prisoner —I Wen t to buy a penny egg for my supper. Police-constable Hoare :78 H, said the prisoner had not a farthing in hi s p oc k et w hen he was apprehended, The prisoner —I l os t t h e penny on my way to the shop. Mr. Selfe—You are a mu st hardened young thief. I have seen you here before wader nearly similar circum stances. Mr. Selfe-..N 0 y ou The prisoner —I wor k s b ir d for my living. are brought her e aga i n I ITV co mmit you for trial. Y litt are sentenced to th ree mont h s ' imprisonment with hard d on ' t; you are a thief, and if you labour. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This D►ay.) LONDON, Dec. d this day at noon, N.W. calm with fog. DEAL, Dec. 30.--Wind calm.--Arrived—From the river, Blenheim, for Madras,. Salamanca Kurrachee. DARTMOUTH, Dec. 29 . Wind calm2Sailed—Ostreat, for Dominica. CARDIFF, Dec. 29.—wi n a IsT.W.—Sailed—Albyla, for Havana, Swaisa, Dec. 29.--Wi n i E.N.E. —Sailed---Josephine, for Messina. BELFAST, Deo. 25.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Damond, from Miramichi. SCILLY, Dec. 28.--Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Elionore Sophie, for Port-an-Prince. Orr SCILLY, Dec. 25. Arrived—Merlin, from Messina, for Hull. QUEZNEITOWN. Deo. 28.—Wind Assalto, from St. J o h n ' s, Newfoun dl an d. LEITH, Dec. 26 . —Arrived—Pomona, from St. John's; Douglas Castle, C a ll ao, S.W.—Arrived— SUNDICRLAND, Deo. 28. Wind W.—Arrived—Enohans, from St. Malo. LONDON, Dec. 30.--The Ala, sailed from Philadelphia, on the 12th of September, for London, and has not since been heard of. ANTWERP, dinisu vessel), l oa di ng at St. Dom i ngo, f or M arse ill e s and Dec. 30.—Th e repor t th a t the Fortuna (Sar- Genoa, had been fired at by the insurgents and sank has been confirmed. (BY ELECTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Wind E., almost calm ; hazy. Arrived—Agenoria, John Watson Sherwood Ranger, Edward, Rapid, William Skinner, and Sanderford—all from Sunderland ; Foyle, steamer , from London. Sailed—Gipsy, f or Lla,nelly ; F o y' le, steamer, for Dublin. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S.W. Arrived—Royal Victoria, from Charleston; Herald of the Morning, Callao ; Johan Wilhelmina, Baltimore ; Douglas, Prince Edward's Island ; Emma, Smyrna ; Helios, and Gondar, Charleston ; Frolio, St. Michael's. Sailed—Sunbeam, for Gibraltar • Flendeka Bartina, Rio Janeiro ; Hannah, Bahia ; Minalta Pernambuco ; Angus. tine, Madras ; Mystery, (s.), M on t e Video ; Zwel Gebro ders, Gyon ; Miranda, Hay ti ; Vesuvia, Malta. MARKET NEWS,—(This Day.) A very limited supply CORN EXCHANGE. of E ng li s h w heat was on offer in to-day's market. The d eman d , h owev er, ruled veryin active, at about Monday's quotations. tions. This week's imports of f ore i gn w h ea t a re 8,310 quarters. Fine dry samples realised full prices; but low and mid ling qualities met a dull inquiry. There was a fair inquiry f or fi ne ma lting barley, at ex treme rates; but grinding and distilling sorts were a slow sale. No change took place in the value of malt. Q atl were in moderate sup p l y an d f a ir request, at full quotations. Beans, peas, and flour were dull, but not cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS vim's. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. 790 I 2,310 2,150 I 220 600 2,190 eke 2,300 1,190 Ws Flour: 660 English Irish Foreign. 8,310 I 3,350 BOROUGH HOP. There is only a moderate business doing in all kinds of hops. Prices, however, rule about stationary. WHITECHAPEL. The trade generally ruled steady, at full quota tions —Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 6d ; mu tt on , 3 s 4d to is 10d . lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 10d to is 6d ; pork,; 3s 8d to 5s 2d per Siba by the mow, This is a very excellent and thoughtful work, by a writer who has attained a high degree of cele brity, addressed chiefly to the single of her own sex, offering them some reflections and suggestions on subjects of the greatest importance. She does not attempt to advise, so much as to suggest, to bring before them some of those great moral and vital truths which single women, without great capacities or unusual education, are very likely to forget. Her book is written in a frank and fearless spirit, earnest in purpose and prac tical in tone. Some of the " Thoughts" appeared originally in " Chamber4's Journal," but it is well they have been issued in a col lected form, as it gives them an opportunity of being more widely circulated, and they are more likely to be useful than in fragmentary papers. She takes twelve subjects in succession, connected with female social life, and foremost among them she places the necessity of " Something to Do." On the subject of the common waste of time among single women of the middle classes sho says, with force and truth : "And so their whole energies are devoted to the massacre of old Time. They prick him to death with oroebet and embroidery needles ; strum him deaf with piano and harp playing- -not music ; cut him up with morning visitors, or leave his carcase in ten-minute parcels at every ' friend's' house they can think of. Finally, they dance bins defunct at all sort of unnatural hours ; and then, rejoicing in the excellent excuse, smother him in sleep for a third of the following day. Thus he dies, a slow, inoffensive, perfectly natural death; and they will never recognise his murder till, on the con fines of this world, or from the unknown shores of the next, the question meets them, ' What have you done with Time r —Time, the only mortal gift bestlwed squally on every living soul, and, excepting the soul, the only mortal loss which is totally irretrievable. " Yet this great sin, this irredeemable loss, in many women arises from pure ignorance. Men are taught as a matter of business to recognise the value of time, to apportion and employ it : women rarely or never. The most of them have no definite appreciation of the article as a tangible divisible commodity at all. They would laugh at a mantua-maker who cut up a dress-length into trimmings, and then expected to make out of two yards of silk a full skirt. Yet that the same laws of propor tion should apply to time and its measurements—that you cannot dawdle away a whole forenoon, and then attempt to cram into the afternoon the entire business of the day—that every minute's unpenctuality constitutes a debt or a theft (lucky, indeed, if you yourself are the only party robbed or made creditor thereof): these slight facts rarely seem to cross the feminine imagina tion. "It is not their fault ; they have never been accus tomed to business.' They bear that with men time is money ;' but it never strikes them that the same com modity, equally theirs, is to them not money, perhaps, but life—life i❑ its highest form and noblest uses—life bestowed upon every human being, distinctly and indi vidually, without reference to any other being, and for which every one of us, married or unmarried, woman as well as man, will assuredly be held accountable before God. " My young-lady friends, of from seventeen upwards, your time, and the use of it, is as essential to you as to any father or brother of you all. You are accountable for it just as much as he iv. If you waste it, you waste not only your substance, but your very souls—not that which is your own, but your Maker's. " Ay, there the core of the matter lies. From the hour that honest Adam and Eve were put into the garden, not—as I once heard some sensible preacher observe—" not to be idle in it, but to dress it and to keep it," the Father of all eau never put one man or one woman into this world without giving each something to do there, in it and for it : some ♦isible, tangible work, to be left behind them when they die." The duties of a mistress of a household are also considered at length, and the chapters ou "Female Friendships and Gossip" may give some useful hints to the thoughtless. The last chapter is called " Women Growing Old," and iu it the writer boldly faces the inevitable certainty that most turn away from as a hopeless subject. She draws a pleasant picture of what an " Old Maid" may be. "Yes, if women could only believe it, there is a won derful beauty even in grog ing old. The charm of expres sion arising from softened temper or ripened intellect, often amply atones for the loss of form and colouring ; and, consequently, to those who never could boast either of these latter, years give much more than they take away. A sensitive person often requires half a lifetime to get thoroughly used to this corporeal machine, to attain a wholesome indifference both to its defects and perfections, and to learn at last, what nobody would acquire from any teacher but experience, that it is the wind alone which is 01 any consequence ; tbat with a good temper, since rity, and a moderate stock of brains—or even the two former only—any sort of body can in time be made use ful, respectable, and agreeable, as a travelling-dress for the soul. Many a one, who was absolutely plain in youth, thus grows pleasant and well-looking in declining Yon hardly ever find anybody, not ugly in wind, who is repulsively ugly in person atter middle life. "So with the character. If a woman is ever so be wise or sensible, the chances are that she will have become so somewhere between thirty and forty. Her natural good qualities will have developed ; her evil ones will have either been partly subdued, or have over grown her like rampant weeds; for, however we may talk about people being not a whit altered just the same as ever '—not one of us is, or can be, for long together, exactly the same ; no more than that the body we carry with us it the identical body we were born with, or the one we supposed ours seven years ago. Therein, as in our spiritual self which inhabits it, goes on a perpetual change and renewal : if this ceased, the result would be, not permanence, but corruption. In moral and mental, as well as physical growth, it is impossible to remain stationary ; if we do not advance, we retrograde. Talk of 'too late to im prove'--'too old to learn,' . &c. ! Idle words 1 A human being should be improving every day of a life time ; and will probably have to go on learning through out all the ages of immortality." Further on, she speaks, in conclusion, of the loneliness that so many dread as the companion of their old age. Even for this prospect she has a word of comfort. " Yet there is a solitude which old age feels to be as natural and satisfying as that rest which seems such an irksomeness to youth, but which gradually grows into the best blessing of our lives ; aid there is another soli tude, so full of peace and hope, that it is like Jacob's sleep in the wilderness, at the foot of the ladder of angels. . All things are less dreadful than they seem.' - • - And it may be that the extreme loneliness which, viewed afar off, appears to an unmarried woman as one of the saddest of inevitable results of her lot, shall by that time have lost all its pain, and be regarded but as a quiet, dreamy hour 6 between the lights ;' when the day's work is done, and we lean back, closing our eyes, to think it all over before we finally go to rest, or to look forward, in faith and hope, unto the coming morning. A finished life—a life which his made the best of all the materials granted to it, and through which, be its web dark or bright, its pattern clear or clouded, cAn now be traced plainly the hand of the Great Designer; surely this is worth living for ? And though at its end it may be somewhat lonely ; though a servant's and not a daughter's arm may guide the failing step • though most likely it will be strang ers onl y who come ;bout the dying bed, close the eyes that no husband ever kissed, and draw the shroud kindly over the poor withered breast where no child's head has ever lain ' • still, such a life is not to be pitied, for it i s a completed life. It has fulfilled its appointed course, and returns to the Giver of all breath, pure as he gave it. Nor will He forget it when He counteth np His jewels." The work will well repay perusal, from the sim plicity and clearness of its style, and the sense and moderation with which it is written ; but it is intended for a higher purpose than the mere occupation of a leisure hour, and such it will, no doubt, iu some measure, fulfil ; teaching the desultory and careless the pressing importance of the time they are wasting, warning the indiffe rent and worldly of the realities of life and death, and speaking a word of encouragement to the lonely and unaided workers in the highways of humanity and suffering. The Bagged School Union .3fagarine. Partridge and Co. The importance and efficacy of Ragged Schools as a means of educating and elevating the lowest classes is now generally admitted. They obtained a footing in the most distant localities, and their numbers have increased at a rate that has surprised their projectors. While the question of national education is being discussed with the deliberation common to State questions, it is well for the poor and neglected children who will one day form no inconsiderable part of our adult population, that there are those who devote themselves to searching them out in their wretched homes, to bestow on them the blessing of plain moral and religious instruction and to train them for some respectable employ ment. Those who are interested in this truly be nevolent undertaking will find much to gratify them and arrest their attention in this volume. The Original and Selected Papers on various social subjects, the reports of meetings, and the statistics of the schools and their teachers are full of interest. We trust that this work will be the means of inducing many to aid the promoters of these praiseworthy institutions. Our Children's Magazine. Partridge and Co. - - - This excellent little volume is issued by the Ragged School Union for the children attending those schools. It is suited, however, to any child, especially for those of the poorer classes, giving them sketches of natural history, poetry, stories of public buildings, lives of the English Kings, little sermons, girls' pages of instruction in housework, and numerous woodcuts. Two or three songs, words and music, are also added. It is a very ac- 50 20 20 10 all all all all 20 ! alll 11 all St. 100 St. 100 20 all 10 all 1.2 i 5 St. 100 :5 all 25 all St. 100 10 1 10 ; 1 100 100 all all 20 20 10 St. fall 1100 16i 100 . 100 all all all all 97i 7 8 7i 79f x d 1111 12 DECEMBER 30, 1851 LITERATURE. .1 Woman's Thoughts about Women. ty the Author of " John Halifix, Gan airman," fie. • Hurst and Blackett. This little volume consists of a series of letters supposed to be written by a young lady during the period of her engagement to and separation from her fiance. They are written with simplicity and feeling, and in a manner that reflects credit ou the heart and head of the writer, whether they are real or fictitious. A visit to Paris is pleasantly chronicled, and the volume shows many traces of good taste and right feeling. ME RESUMPTION OP SPECIE PAYMENTS IN AMERICA. (From the i\ew York Herald.) This week, if Providence endows our bankers and merchants with common prudence, will inau gurate the revival of American trade from the re vulsion of 1857. Our city banks, the other State bank, the Boston and Newhaven banks, and ge nerally all the banks which suspended specie pay ments, with the exception of the Pennsylvania banks and a few others, have now returned to their old system of paying all their liabilities in specie, when required to do so. The 250,000,000 of specie which are in the country amply suffice for the basis of a sound currency; indeed it may be as well to re peat, as wo are taking leave of the subject, that our bank suspension was a mere ephemeral accident, un warranted by any radical unsoundness in the banks, uncalled for by any radical decline in our com merce, and simply caused by a monetary outburst of panic occasioned by a breakdown in the railway system and stimulated by au unusually sudden and severe contraction on the part of the banks. It is well also to place on record once more, for the guidance of the future student of history that during the whole 60 days that the suspension has lasted specie has never been at 1 per cent. premium, nor our city notes at 1 per cent. dis count. In the every-day traffic of life no incon venience whatever has been caused to the public by the suspension. So much for the past ; now for the future. We are beginning business with an unusual plethora of specie in the banks ; those of this city, for instance, holding twice their usual quota. Under ordinary circumstances, as the cotton crop is coming for ward, our city banks would count on holding from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 from this date to May next ; but, perhaps, the demand for money iu Europe may falsify this calculation. Still, as trade is being generally curtailed, it is not likely that any want of specie can possibly be felt in this city for months to come. Ten millions of gold, in decently prosperous and quiet times, are quite enough for our banks to hold. It will require very powerful effort to reduce the average during the next six months below 15. _ _ - The country as a whole is richer than it has ever been before. The cotton crop is large, and price., though declining, are highly remunerative. The crop of breadstuffs is universally bountiful. Of our two great staples, breadstuffs and cotton, we hold more than we perhaps ever did before at the corresponding date. A calculation pub lisheii in Saturday's Herald went to show that there had been sent for ward for shipment this year over 30,000,000 less cotton and breadstuffs than were sent forward up to the same date last year ; in other words, that the planters and farmers held 30,000,000 more of their produce than they held in the middle of December, 1856. We should regard this calculation as extremely moderate. The amount of cotton and breadstuffs hold back by the producers is in all probability larger than this, considering the great difficulties which the revulsion has thrown in the way of transmitting produce. It would not be surprising if it was found that farmers and planters held 50,000,000 more of their produce at this time than they did 12 months ago. By so much, then, is the country richer. IR a day or two the last of the shipments of bread stuffs from the interior, which have been unusually bountiful during the past few days, will cease, leaving a nest egg for the farmer to send on in the spring. So of the cotton. The movements of the cotton market in Europe and the disorganisation of the exchanges have induced a number of planters to hold back their crop, which will come ou in the spring, and create a re source which the country has seldom had before. Nor has the general disruption of all business of a speculative character been less conducive to the general wealth. Within the past three or four months no man has embaL ked in a rash enterprise ; no money has been locked up in new schemes of any kind ; all undertakings of a speculative charac ter, including many unprofitable manufactures, mines, and other enterprises which our groat con sumers of wealth in good times carried on, have been suspended, and the money that would have been appropriated to them has been saved. Busi ness generally is in process of liquidation. Here are most assuredly substantial reasons for anticipating a revival of soli 1 prosperity. We may add to these that the balk of the lu - sse which have been occasioned by the revulsion will fall, not on us, but upon the manufacturers of England and France and the capitalists of Europe. When our people fail it is the foreigners who suffer; we keep the goods, they lose their money. It is not a very flattering reflection to one's national pride ; but it is a fact, and deserves mention of the commercial prospects. We begin business, then, with an unusual amount of gold in the banks, with an unusual accumulation of produce in the country, with less entanglements in the way of speculative enterprises than we ever had before, and with fewer insolvent concerns and deeply indebted houses than we perhaps ever had to carry along. It rests in a great measure, with the banks of this city to decide whether these seeds of prosperity shall bring forth good fruit or no. Eight months ago we warned the the city banks that they were nursing a day of wrath for themselves and for the public by sending their means to foster the insane and miserable gambling in railway stocks which was prevalent in Wall-street. The fulfilment of the prophecy is not likely to be readily forgiven. But the error may be repeated, and if it is the same result will unerringly follow. However safe the operation of lending on railway stocks may appear, it is a practice pregnant with panics and ruin to circles far beyond its immediate range ; if our city banks begin again to lend right and left on these speculative securities the panic of October will prove the first of a series. It is likewise in the power of the banks to effect much towards solidifying the commerce of the country by discouraging long paper. Four months ought to be the longest date known for mer cantile paper ; three are ample in most cases. Tho fatal liberty convoyed to the borrower, under a system of six or eight months paper, is enough of itself to account for periodical revulsions. A sound discretion will naturaLy be exercised by the banks in the selection of paper for discount ; on this head it may simply be observed that, however gratifying the general commercial prospect may be, the pri vate condition of the old commercial houses is by no means reassuring, and will not be till March is passed. We have ninety days of anxiety before us ; and till they are passed young houses which have come into lite since the crash of October will prove the safest concerns in the country. .0 44 , ft , • : 34b*itnit cen' e nable and instructive miscellany for little people. The Letters of a Betrothed. Longman. THE MARQUkSAS ISLANDS. A letter in the Moniteur de la Flotte from Tajo- Hae, one of the Marquesas Islands, says : " The Pers6vdrante frigate, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Lageol, arrived in this port on the 16th of August. The admiral found the French post well pro visioned, and living on the most friendly terms with the different tribes of the island, with the exception of that called the Taipi-Vahi. That turbulent tribe had been the terror of all the others, from its ferocity and obsti nate adherence to the old customs of human sacrifices and cannibalism. Lieutenant Rosenzweig, of the French davy, who commands the schooner Kamehameha, sta tioned at this port, had, at great personal danger, seve ral times gone to the tribe, accompanied by an inter preter, to endeavour to persuade them to give over these propensities. lie received from them evasive promises, but their insincerity was soon apparent, for soon after, only a short time before the arrival of the frigate, some armed men of the tribe entered on the territory of the French mission, and having seized two young girls, killed them with the design of offering them as a sacrifice to the manes of their late chief. Two officers of the Perseveranto were sent off by the admiral to require the guilty parties to be given up, and to signify to the chiefs and the grand priest that they must cease their human sacrifices, and come on board the frigate to give an assurance that they would do so. This mission being unsuccessful, the admiral assembled the chiefs of the other tribes, who unanimously agreed, if supported by the French forces, to march against the cannibals. That course was decided on, and an expedition was organised, of which the admiral took the command in person. The French force, consisting of seamen from the frigate, and accompanied by the warriors of the united tribes, pro ceeded through the forest to the territory of the Taipi- Vahi, who fled in all directions, attempting no resist ance, until they reached their last village, where they mace a slight but ineffectual stand. All the villages of the tribe were burnt. On the following day, just as the admiral was about to return, a party of the hostile tribe came without being seen to within gunshot of the place where the admiral and his officers were collected, and fired several shots, but, fortunately, without effect. They were immediately pursued and put to flight, and the expedition then returned to the port. It is hoped that the lessen which they have received will induce this tribe to alter their conduct for the future." The dividend, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, for the half year ending the 31st inst., on the capital otook of the Commercial Bank of Canada, will be pa id by the London Joint• Stock Bank SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. NAVAL APPOINTLYIENTS.—(This Day.) The following appointments were made this afternoon at the Admiralty Masters—W. J. B. Hilliard, to the Royal Wiliam C. J. A. Noddall, to the Figgard. ...4ssistatt-Surgeon—Crott G. Symons, to the Viper. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, DEC. 28. It will be remembered that the city of Hamburg, before obtaining a recent loan of 10,000,000 marks banco from the Austrian Government Bank, made unsuccessful attempts to obtain an advance from Prussia and Saxony. The circumstance that pro bably contributed most of all to produce willing ness on the part of the Austrian Bank to part with an article so much in demand everywhere as silver was the happy state in which that institution found itself at the time, of not being required to honour its notes with a corresponding value in coin ; while to the Government itself (and we are given to under stand that the Emperor himself was among the fore most •to suggest it) doubtless the opportunity of gaining some popularity in Germany presented con siderable attraction—the more so as the two North German States were losing ground a little in popu lar feeling by their unwillingness to come forward. It was probably with the amiable motive of spoil ing the joy felt by the recipient of the loan and the pride felt by the lender, as well as of setting itself right in the eyes of Germany, that the Prussian Government recently thought it desirable to publish a despatch forwarded by Baron Von Manteuffel to Herr Von Kamptz, the representa tive of Prussia at Hamburg, which contained an expose of the motives that had withheld the Prus sian Government from according the aid required. Consistently with the self-protecting, timidly cautious course the Prussian Government took in the Hamburg matter, it has declined also to assist the city of Lubeck with a loan of 600,000 thalers ; the amount has, however, since been obtained with out [much difficulty from the wealthy money mer chants of Hamburg. The Government has also refused, on two occasions, the importunate request of the :corporate merchants of this place for a spe cial and temporary modification of the bankrupt law with respect to houses in difficulties, bnt whose assets show a fair and reasonable chance of paying 20s. in the pouud.l The evident object of the Minis ter of Commerce is not only to repress all over speculation, but to compel all traders to keep not only within, but very far within, their real means, which, considering that the capital at the command of Prussian commerce is rather scanty, is by no means favourable to the rapid development of com merce and industry. UNITED ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS. The adjourned meeting of this body took place yester. day in the Lecture-room of the Society of Arts, but was very scantily attended. Mr. Tait, the president, occupied the chair, and a very interesting lecture was delivered by Mr. Richard Bithell, president of the North Buck inghamshire and West Bedfordshire Association of British Teachers, "On the Objects Sought by Associa tion among Schoolmasters." The audience, however, was so small, that the subject, though an important one, did not necessarily receive that attention to which it was entitled. A short discussion ensued, after which the thanks of the Association was unanimously voted to Mr. Bithell for his kindness in delivering the lecture. A second lecture, "On Political or Social Economy as a Branch of Education," was next delivered by Mr. Thomas Champion, after which the proceedings were adjourned to seven o'clock. In the evening, the chair was tak:n by H. Cole, Esq., who was surrounded by a numerous audience, among whom we recognised the Rev. Dr. Pogg , , Principal of New Brightln College ; Dr. Hodgson, of Manchester ; Wm. Ellis, Esq., founder of the Birkbeck Schools ; the Rev. Wm. Rogers, Mr. W. M. Williams, of the Mid land Institute, Birmingham ; Mr. M`Leod, of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea; Mr. J. R. Langler, of the Wesleyan Normal College, Westminster ; Mr. Coghlan, of the Home and Colonial School Society ; Mr. Drew, of Homerton College, &c., &c. The essay, for which a prize of 251. was given, "Oa the Best Means of Making the Schoolmaster's Function more Efficient than it has hitherto been in Preventing Misery and Crime," was then read by the writer, and from which we give the following extract : " Our question was—' What are the best means for making the schoolmaster's function more efficient than it has hitherto been in preventing misery and crime ?' "The remarks, proposed as an answer to this question, may be briefly summed up thus :—By the schoolmaster making himself better acquainted with the causes of these evils, in their first beginnings especially, by work ing into the minds of his boys the conviction of the duties devolving upon them, by training them in habits corres ponding with those convictions, and by imparting know ledge calculated to enable them to act up to their con victions. " It need scarcely be said that the subject is not thought hereby to be exhausted, or that the sketcues of lessons that have been adventured pretend to be nothing more than skeletons, depending for their value upon the living teacher. " There will not be wanting objections to the pro posal to attempt this kind of teaching and training. 'To do this we must neglect other things,' is one common objection. Be it so, if necessary, unless those other things' can be shown to be of greater or of equal im portance. What amount of other things' can compen sate for habits of idleness, dishonesty, and ex t ravagance —for passions unchecked and a mind unstored with the knowledge necessary to the performance of the great duties of life ; and that this knowledge and these habits do not come spontaneously is a matter of experience. But it is worthy of remark that this objection comes only from those who have not tried the experiment. Those who have seem to be convinced, that so far from tending to displace, it becomes more efficient when incorporated with the general work of the school, and that it gives life and meaning to this work. " Another objection is, 'there is not timeto do it per. fectly, the children do not remain long enough at school.' Well, then, do it imperfectly; do it as far as you can. No one will say that a little honesty, industry, economy or even knowledge of this kind, is a very bad thing. ' That teacher must do his work very badly who sees a boy leave his school even after a three months' stay with out some useful thoughts, some good resolves, and some insight into the duties of his future career. " If the time be short, why then work the harder, and perhaps you will find in this effort and this direction of it, the means of detaining the boy longer in a school where himself and his parents will feel he is gaining something worth making a sacrifice to obtain. " Whether by incorporating productive labour with the school work, it is possible in somecases to retain the children longer at school, or more efficiently to cultivate the industrial qualities, is a question that perhaps de serves more attention than has yet been given to it. "It is strongly insisted upon by some, that owing to peculiar organisation, certain individuals are predis posed to particular vices, and that this predisposition requires particular attention. It is a fact, that in some cases, children under the influence of bad example, very early acquire habits which will need the greatest attention for their cure. Now, if the first case be a true one, still for all p rac ti ca l pur poses the two cases may be looked upon as one. Both call for special attention—to the work of prevention is added that of cure, to some extent, in both cases. Care ful watching for the display of the bad habit, constant checking of it, kindly encouragement whenever improve merit is attempted, these are the means called for. "Perhaps, in the first case, the aid of the physician may be sometimes necessary. Jut, be it as it may, there is nothing in all this to dissuade from effort, but, on the contrary, all to urge to increased exertion. If, indeed, it be true that in every mind there is a predisposition to evil, the lesson still is work I strive I the more earnestly for the difficulties that stand opposed. "Such, then, is the work, and now a word in coneln. sion upon the orkman. How much depends upon him . It is not enough that he has plans and theories, in any quantity, stored in his head ; he must be devoted to hi work, fully aware of the diffi culties he has to overcome, well acquainted with the implements he is using, tho roughly alive to the immense importance of the results he is aiming at, full of love for the tender beings under his charge, and of faith in the efficacy of his mission ; enthusiastic, and willing to be spent in his work, and, if necessary, to find his whole reward in the consciousness of being the means of moulding the children committed to him into good, useful, and happy men. When such are the men to whom the teaching and training of the young is committed, we may hope for results till the* impossible." A friendly discussion then took place, after which th thanks of the association were given to the writer of the essay, and the proceedings terminated. A testimonial of respect has been presented by the Rev. H. Hinxman to the Rev. William Blood, A.M., in the shape of a beautiful pocket communion service. The rev, gentleman has also received a handsome present from Lady Morley, in memory of hie the wreck of the Amazon. preservation from mm m e r e c n e n d ong in Pru ssia e r h s commission of scienti fi c The Minister of 0 in as to ch a a sc rg er e t d ain a what inconvenience may be caused by atmospheric influ ences in the transmission of telegraphic despatches, and to propose a remedy. THE FRENCH SLA;II TBA.DIL—The Paris Constitu. tionnel of M on d ay , i n An article signed "P. Dubois," throws off the mask on this subject ; boldly defends the system which the French Government have adopted of negroes on the coast of Africa and carrying purchasing them to compulsory service in the French Antilles ; argues that in no other manner can prosperity be , res t o red to them • and ridicules the opposition of the Eng li s h philanthropists. From this manifestation ex the part of the leading Government print of France, t he deplorable inference is that Lord Clarendon's re monstrances have utterly failed, and that the revival of the African slave trade by the Emperor of the French will be persevered in. 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