The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

MONEY MARKE AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoex. Letters from Liverpool mention that the Co`.- ton Market on Saturday closPd with much excite ment, at a slight advance on Friday's rates. The sales amounted to 20,000 bales, 3,000 of which were taken by th e ex p or t ers , and 10,000 by the specu lators. The Railway Share Market manifested an active appearance, aid closed at an ituprovement. The proposals made by the Chancellor of the • Exchequer, in his financial statement relative to the tea duties, has caused considerable exciteme nt among thetrade, and the meeting held this mein lug, the particulars of which appear in another column, was very numerously attendel. The feel ing manifested was one of indignation at the course pursued by the Government, after the assurance given that the duty should be reduced to th e extent origi nally stated immediately upon the cessation of war. It is contended that the present measure will benefit neither the merchant nor consumer. Besides which, in the present state of China, it is contended that encouragement ought to be given to shippers. The speeches made elicited general approbation, and it is hoped that the Chancellor will reconsider his intentions upon the subject. There continues to be a very active inquiry for discounts both in . Lombard-street and at the Bank of England, but the pressure is rather less severe, as the supply is ample at the current rates, and no fear is entertained of an advance. Although diffi cult to trace the source from whence this continu ous demand arises, there can be no question that it is fully explained by the immense trade which is being carried on. Contrasted with former periods, • the commerce of the country was seldom— perhaps never—in so flourishing a condition, for it is of a steady and bona fide character, and entirely free from unsafe speculation. The consequence is that although profits are diminished by the high quotations charged for dis count the merchants and others engaged therein are doing well, and the announcement of a mercan tile failure is an affair of rare occurrence. While caution thus continues to be exercised, a healthy state of business will be preserved, but from indica tions manifested in certain quarters there is a pro spect, in the case of money becoming cheaper, of an extension of speculative engagements. The drain of silver to the East will no doubt remain unabated, the advices by the overland mail, telegraphed from Trieste reporting little alteration in the Indian exchanges, while the money markets at Cal cutta and Bombay are represented as being even 3 :1010re unfavourable than before. Large shipments °f this metal, therefore, will still be made, while to China also, notwithstanding the slight decline in the exchange at Shanghai, remittances will be ef fected, as there is, and will be a large balance of trade to be discharged by English consignees. Silk and tea are coining forward very freely, which, for the most part, must be paid in silver, although our manufactures, to a small extent, may be ex ported in exchange. Under these circumstances gold is likely to be sent to the Continent, and in Proof of this it may be mentioned that not only has about 600,0001. of the 800,0001. recently re ceived from Australia been absorbed, but with orawals from the Bank have recommenced ; a `;Parcel of about 32,0001. having been taken away on Saturday. In the course of a few weeks, ho w ever, fresh supplies will arrive from the Antipodes, anti by this means the metallic reserves iii the na tional establishment may be maintained at a satis factory point. The annual mee ing of the Berlin Water Works Was held to-day ; Mr. G6shen in the chair. It ap peared from the report that the works were corn ' rojeted, and th a t • a l t h oug h no pro fit had attended this, it was exp ec t e d that a surplus would rema in over the expenditure of the current year in favour of the shareholders. As it was found advisable to earry the works further, a resolution was passed for issuing 60,000 of the company's 101. shares, at 5 per cent, discount, to the shareholders. Some symptoms of weakness have been appa rent in the English Stock Market to-day, but they result mainly from the disposition evinced to realise profits. There is thus a heavy tone, and accom panied therewith are various remarks in reference to the drain of gold, the continued dearness of money, &c., These adverse influences, however, previously !existed, but with a drooping market 'unfavourable views are generally expressed. All things considered the position of the market is firm, and there is no just cause for the establish runt of a lower range of prices, but of course this chiefly depends upon the nature of the speculative dealings. f Consols for transfer have been 93 I, for the account 931, then 93i sellers, and they are now about 931 4. The New 3 per Cents. are 94 to 941, and the Reduced 931 Bank Stock is 216 to 2171, and India Stock 220. India Bonds are 2s. discount. Since the above was written, the market has be come heavier, owing to some large sales. The changes in the Foreign Market have not been very numerous, the quotations on the whole having been steady. Turkish Six per Cents. are now about 942-1, and the 4 per Cents. 101 to 1.011, being heavy. Spanish Deferred were 241 ; Sardinian, 901 ; Russian 41 per Cents., 97 ; Peru vian 41 per Cents., 801 ; Dutch 21 per Cents., 65, and do. 4 per Cents., 981 f. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; Mexi can, 21i 221 ; Peruvian, 80 1 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55/ 561; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 6 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 108 10 2 • ditto 41 per Cents., 96 8; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40,E ; ditto New Deferred, 2.4- 1 ; ditto Certificates, 6,1 1 ; ditto Passive, 51 6. • The Railway Share Market has been influenced by the flatness of Consols, and prices generally may be quoted at about I per cent. decline upon previous prices. Caledonian have receded 10s. ; Eastern Counties, 55.; Great Northern, ss. to 10s. ; Great Western, ss. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 58. ; Bri g ht on , ss. ; IN - oith Western, ss. ; Midland, ; ss. North Eastern 'Berwick, 10s. ; and Sot tish North-Eastern, ss. Bristol and Exeter have advanced 55.; South-Western, ss. ; North British, Ss. ; and South Wales about 17. Paris and Lyons have been firm, but Dutch Rhenish , Great Luxembourg and Grand _ - _ Trunk of Canada have declined ss. British, Foreign and Colonial Mining Shares rule very dull, and prices show no material alteration. Very few transactions are reported in Joint Stock Bank or Miscellaneous Shares, and prices have ruled heavy. Union of Australia advanced about 55., and London Joint Stock declined ss. Canada Land Shares declined to 2/. London Gene ral Omnibus Company rule firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE , )'CLOC.I3.. (From the Official List:) r,non. dn. e Bank Stock 2lB 16 17i .3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93Z 3 per Cent Consols Annuities 93 ; i New 3 per Cent. Annuities 94A 4 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 2 k ' India Stock • India Bonds, £ lOOO .......... ........_ 220 Ditto, under £1000............ : Consols for Account ..... ...... .. 931 2 ', Exchequer Bills, 24d 21000 . £5OO 91211111...... ........ . PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK ' Brazilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. lO3 Peruvian Bonds 4 i per Cent Russian Bonds, 1622, £ St., 5 per Cent._ ' Ditto, 44 por Cent. . Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cm'. Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto Account 95 41 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ' Wends 0 , the above payable in Lon' 32 . French Rentes, 4 1 per Cent. ............ 94 f. 75 c. ex 25 f. 25 0. 2 Ditto 3 per Cent. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent., 12 Guilders 65 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .........•..• 98,i TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, money 93i i Ditto Account .......... 931 i 10 St. 10 St. 20 20 10 St. 18 20a, 100 100 • RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A fearful accident occurred Friday n i g h t on the North-Eastern Railway,near o n ' Shields. Th e axletree of one of the carriages broke, and in consequence the train was thrown completely across the li ne; a portion of the parapet wa s knocked d own, and the whole of the carriages narro w l y escaped being p re cipitated to th e groun d. Fortunately no one was 'severely injure ai led, b u t a number of passengers were A committee, consisting of 52 gentlemen, and embrac ing members of various religious bodies, has been formed in the vicinity of Litnehouse, for the purpose of bringing public opinio bear on the Government in regard to t h e necessity of d an inquiry being instituted into the doctrines and immoral practices of the Mormons in Great Britain and its settlements abroad. SCURRILOUS PUBLICATIONS. -0a Saturday, at the Judges' Ch . ambers, the proprietor and publisher of a • penny publication was brought before his lord s hip, on • a warrant granted upon a bill of his preferred against him by the Society for the Suppression of Vice indecent, and scur and uttering an obscene, for selling rilous publication. It was stated that this publication contained many gross libels on private individuals, and every person who sold it was liable to be iirosecuted. The prisoner's committal was therefore asked for under heavy bail. Mr. Justice Coleridg e sa id that, considering the nature of the publication, he should require two sureties in 1001. for the prisoner 's appearance to answer the indictment. He was then removed to prison in de fault of bail. It was intimated that the society intended to proceed against the vendors of all publications similar u character to the one in question, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16 1857, SHARE MARKETS—(This Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Saturday. Business done this day. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. [i RAILWAYS. Paid' Leasing Companies Ln.&N.W. 1 cialedon ... Gt.Northn E. Count. Caldonian. Closing Prices Saturday. itlumers. Paid !Arabs. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junc....... Belfast & Ballymena Birning. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......... Birkenhd. La.ncsh. & Cheshire Junct...... Blackburn Blyth & Tyno original .£25 (iss. at £45).... Bristol & Exeter...... Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall Ds. A Do. B Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dun. P. &Aber. Juno. East Anglian . ...... Eastern Counties..... Ea sternUnion,A. stk. 1D0.,. do. 4 100 all 100 Do. New A... East Kent . East Lancashire ...... East Suffolk Do. Edinburgh do Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dunde, Forth and Clyde June. Furness ..... Glasgow 6i S. Western ,Great N. of Scotland IGreat Northern ..„ Do., A. Stock ..,.. Do., B. Stock ..... Gt. Sth.&West.(lre. Great Western. ..... Do. Str.V.R. gua. Si Irish South-Eastern ( Lancaster &Carlisle. 'Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire Do., do. F. £l6 ... Do., Wst. Riding Un. Do. Southport. London & Blackwall Lond.Bright&S.Cst. London &N. Western IDo. Fifths Do. Eighths London dr S. Western Lndnarry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. do Ennisk. Manch.Shef. dthineln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland Do. Birming.& Derby Midland G. West.(lr.) Do. 2 Shares Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warreupoint & Rostrevor N0rf01k............ Northn. Counties Un 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 London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western.. N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot. N. E. Abrdo . St Shropshire Union Sitingbourne & Sheer South Devon South Eastern Do. 41 per c. Shares South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun D 0......... ............ Staines,Wok.,&Wok Stockton & Darling ' Do. do., 1854 De. do., 1855 Stockton & HartlepL Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. Thames Hay. D. &R Vale of Neath......... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London . Do. First Class.... Do. Second Class. I Wrabledon &CroydOii 1 BRITISH PG Atlan. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Con.Lad,guar. 5 P.C. Do. all 10i LOO 00 all all all all Buffalo & Lake Hur. Buff., Brnt.&Godch. p. ds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., 1 June, '74 Calcutta and S. East. Central Oude (Li tn. ) Ceylon A shares Do. B. do. Demerara Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares p c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do, '59, do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent Gd. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c. Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. Gt. Wcstn. of Canada Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, do. Do. do., '73, without] option O Madras, guar. 4 P.C. Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 41 p. c. Exten. Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c, Do. 4th Ex., do. Oude (Limited) Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do 44 - 4 ••• ''''" 8i - 9 C 6 - 68 8 - 93 - 95 64 - 64. 36 - 37 • •• ''"" • • •• • - - 11 19 - 20 91 - 10 40 - 41 28 - 30 , 7 - 6 96 - 93 55i - 56 34 : 35 95 - 97 7 - 8 93 - 94 78 - 80 124 - 126 111 - 113 63 - 68 64 - 66 69 7 3 6 7 PI 6 7 99 99 id - 7 .08 - 109 107 i- 108 21 -- 20, 1i - -- 01 10 1 10ii -- 1054 o• ..... ••• 361 7 - 36 83 -83 i 53 - 5i i• 7_ iii 54 56 3i 3id 41 42 86 87?; si 341 2i - 2i 19 - 20 63 - 61 98 - 102 4i - 413(1 74- 8 10 - 11 2T 281,s 106 108 26 27 50 51 2 lid 18 19 75 764 85 86 5 5 3d , l 2 14 40 42 icii iiii 7 - 9 2 - 3 5 - 51 ... -- 7 --- ISSESSIONS - lip 95 98 94 96 94 96 par p ..• -. .. i f - 14 .p .11 113 2 2ap 21i - 22 50 - 52 81 - 83 21 -21 i - 1 25 -25 i 2 - 3Ap 99 - 100 118 - 123 i 118 -12 i 108 110 19/ —20 t 21/ —22 f par 1 p 6 - .. - ... .11 - 2ip 95 64 3i i Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Je. Col.Stour Vy. g. 6 p.e ;E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. Now Glstr.&Dn.Fr 111111 dr Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lon. & Greenw IDo.Preference ILon. Til., &S. Do. Birk. Mancli.Bston. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Ness ;market BuryE.G.spc. N. &Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. dzWyre Do. Shrs. A Roystn. dr Hit. Shrews.& Her S. Staffordsh.. WearVal.g6pc Do. Wilts &Somrst 96 - 9 9 98 - 102 it - 13 134 - 137 3i- 41 109 - 111 12i -- 13 23 -- 24 107 -- 109 -- 1p 20 -- 2i 92 -- 94 . P 55 -- 7 kio -----iii ..• - ••• 9 - 94 li --- 33 88 - 90 SHARES. ei = ii Oi 7 - 99 "6.1 110 - 115 •.• ••• 12 - 12, Do.. Gt. Westn Y. Eti N.M, Do Do S. Eastern Do Peto &Co Do Lai. &N. W. dr blictld. Midland... E. Connt Do • Do Do L. &N . W Do Gt.Northia l T. Brassey' M. MCleanl Stk Do. Gt.W, PREFEREN , Blyth and Tyne 10 p c.pret (issd. at 50L Brie. & Ex. 4 p. c. St, Do. 4 per c. Shares., Caledn. £lO 4i p. c. Ches. & Ho. 5. p.c. Do. do. 5 per cent... Cork &Bandonsip.c. Dun.Pcrth.&,Aber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. 100 5 100 100 100 all Ea.C0.Ex,5p.c1;4 . 0. Do. No. 2 . • Do. New 6 pr. c St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent... East Laucasb .6 p.cts. E.&NT. York. J. sths Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. Ed .Prth. &Dun. 4 p.c Furness, 5 p. c....... Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c. Great Northn. 5 p.e. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. C. prem.... Do. 4i per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N . of Scot.lst Pre Ct. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt. W. (B. &IT .Ex.spc Do. con. red. 44 p.c. Do. con. rod. 4 p. c Do. irred. 4 percent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester 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.l D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N. W. , Coy. ct, Nuneaton 5 p. ct... Lon. & S.W. 7 per ct. late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. Ph Londy.&Ennis. 511, S.,&L. 6 p. Cent. Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 3i per cent. Marypt. k Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4i per cent Do. do. Consol.6 p.c. St. Do. Con .Br.Bir. 6 p.c. D.. 44 p. c. Pref. St Do. L. &11. Pref. St New., Aber. , &c., pr 5 p. c.red. 5 p. e. pm Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et Norf k D eb. 4 p.c. Sh Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 54 p.c. pf., 1847 D0.Wv.V.5p.c.,1847 North British Do. 71. Preference N. E. Berw. 4 p. e. Prf Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6pe No.l Do. do. Qrs., 1848, Do. York H.& S. Pur. North Staffordshire Ox.,Wor. & Wolv. 6 s r s D P ec o o : . N e t Ec p l e . s An e t . tb g u . 2 eNr d a r e; t p . p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. Do. do.3i p.c. pf. St South Devon Do. fixed 4i pr cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d Do. 44 per cent Do. Fixed 46 p.c. Sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 46 p. c S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., sp. C Do. do. do. Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p.c. till July 1, '56 Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc. BRITIS H Alfred Cons. (Philk.. , British Iron Condurow (Cambru.) Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) Great South Tolgus Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) Lady Bertha N. Frances (Illogan) N. W. Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) Porkellis U. (Wend.) ,Sort. Cons Min. Co IS. Caradon (St. Cleer' S. Carn Brea Minn., S. W. Frances(lllogn. !Tam. S. & L. Min. Co Tin Croft lUn.Mines (G wonnap V. of Towcy (Camar. jW. Basset (Iflo-;.in)., IW. Caradon (Liskrd. Wh. Basset (Illogan. Wh. Buller (Rdruth. Wh. Edward(Calstk. I WIL Kitty (U. Lint. I Wh.Ma. Ann(Menht. 'Vh. Trelawney (Lis. FOREIGN MINES. FOREIGN. 20 7 Australian 10 all A atwrp &Rotterdam 511 61 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued 20 14 Ardennes. at £5 pm) 5 all Belgian East. Junct. •li ii 30 all Do. Cocaes dr Cuiada 3 3t 20 16 Reziers to Graissessac 2i 3AP 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 17 —l9 6 all Carmcaux&Toulouse 1 A Clarendon Con. Min. Coal Mines and Ry. 5 51 Co. of Jamaica } p 20 12 Dutch Rhenish n i , a p 121 40 all Cobre Copper 55 —57 20 all Eastern of France ... at 3i 16 Copiapo 20 all Do. New 20 2s. Euphrates Valley ... par i 20 all General 20 18 Gt. Central of France 41 3 all Linares 20 17 Great Luxembourg... 6 6 2 61 i 5 11 Lusitanian 1G 4 Italian Junction • ••• 1 all Mariquita -- 20 all Lake Const. & Bale ... ... 1 all New Granada 20 all Liorre and Turnhout ... ...d 1 all Novean Monde 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 6} — 61 p all Pont.Sil.Ldlff. dr Smlt 8 10 5 all Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. ... ... 5 1 Port Philip 20 all Lyons and Geneva ... 29i 303 30 151 Santiago de Cuba - ii 20 all Lyons & Mediterran. ... ... I 1 all south Australian 33A all Maria Antonia 1 all Do. 10 p. c. Pref..... . ... 10 all Do. New *4o ....'. ••• 28i all United Mexican 4 41 41 20 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Prof I9A 20 MISCELLANEOUS. 16 all Northern of France 36} 37} 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 9 94 25 19 Australian Agricult. 22 23 20 all Paris and Lyons 55 55} 541 10 all Aastraln. Royal Mail ... ... 20 all Paris and Orleans 53 55 10 all Berlin Water Works.. 41 51 20 7 Recife dr San Fran, 50 40 Brit. American Land 40 45 10 (Pernam.) g. 7p. c. , i d --i p 100 32 1 Canada 7i Rome and Frascati... ... -• St. 100 Do.Go.6pc.Jan&July uoi 111 110 b i 20 all R o y a l D an i sh lB 20 2 5 0 aallll St al bre Sw an ea d is A h leus 84 -- 81 1 St. 100 Do. 6 p.e.Feb.&Aug. ... ... St. 100 D 0.6 p.c. Mar.&Sept. ... ... St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 33 37 10 all '30.54 percent. prof. e Pt 25 all Do, Prof. 7t p. cent. 26 28 West Flanders..,,, France .. pm 20 all Southern 8i all 5 all Crystal Palace 2.1 2isa 2i 5 all. Do. Preference 1.2 :11 , .. ,s,. Western s . rrf A z , sf..r France i .. e . a.f . c . ,. . 3 4 2: 1 4 7... .1 4 0 4 4 4 all Cryttal Pal. of France ... ... 20 6 1 i Duston Iron Ore •• ••• 20 all !West. of Switze la ..• - 3. ' 20 18 Eastern Steam ••• ••• 6 all Wiesbaden • r nd -* I S O t 5llO . 100 aa:lls . E pDNN l ceo. e ew. c ßi t rieTcle g r a p h . 6 all Do. Bp. cent. ** '''•'' ... ... 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel . • ... 20 all Zealand '' -1 1' • -•—• • • 5 all En.citAust.Cop.SmCo .11 —li '''''' • ''''' ••• ... 10 10s. Eur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. ... ••• 25 all Gen. Ir. Sc. Col.(lim.) ... ••• JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. . ! ••• io all Australasia...l .=.7.-.-.765—--------- 20 5 London Discount id 4 all Loud. Gen, Omnibus 4 41 4 25 184 Rank of Egypt ...... id 97 100 50 Bank' of London .. -.. 58 -- e.n Pa 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... -- ... 40 all Bri.Col Bk.& Ln. Co. ... s'y 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. ... ••• 50 all British N. American . ..... ••• 10 all Mexican& S America 24 3 4 20 6 C.Bk.of Ind.Au.&Ch it i...d 25 5 Nat. Discount C 0.... 4 iP x d 100 50 City 66 68 25 5 Do. Now 521100010? St. 1 anaa01111 5 10:1111.4 D N D Netherlands andsLa n d . , . 100 25 Colonial ••• 100 20 Commercial of Lond. ... __. . c . .PLiss.at Id. 3 4 -- 4 44 20 all Eng. Scot.daus.Cht. 181 1 84 20 all Lon. Ch. Bk.of Aust. 18A 19 New B i A e l w i & i ii s sd t N i h. • a. Shares 01 8 a. .e . i s ] 1. Oriental i .nuli. Land . . G . :4 3.2 4: —11 : 1 . 6 : 8 : 2 50 0 a 2 l O l Ditto l, o nd 0 New e a l l .. .. C . . 0 . u . . n . . t . y . 1 , . 8 . 1 .... 1 .. 8 . / 100 50 Lud.&E.Bnkng.Corp ... ... ND E .oNeilo..n. tiS. Oriental un DW . stolaf:llE:u Gas l o . p s e: t e e: . •;A -- :Acl 10060 10 20 LLoonuddo.annJAnetstSmtoicnski: ::: ::: 32 i iP 100 20 3 10 5 National Pro. ......0 .. f . E .. n .. g . : ::: —__ • ::: 79 50 224 National Bank ...... ... = i . 6 50 10 Do. New 3 4p 134 20 all New South Wales .... 47 50 all Rhymney Iron 15 all Do. New 2 2 0 5 s l l 5 l Or ient al o 6 -- 8 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 64 -..., ttomanßaßanknk C orp. 3? 37 4 ---- IL 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... 1. all Scot. Austral. Invest. 14 66 1 all Do. New 1 1 10 all Do. New. .. . ........... ..• - 5 1 R.Aus.B.&G.Im.Co. ~. ... rt. 100 S. Aus. Gov. 6p. c. bds. 25 all South Austral. Land ii _--- 3 7 25 all South Australia...... •___•• "' 25 all Union of Australia_ 60 —62 60i 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip ..... 1 ••• 24 Do. Now 7 9 1 all Do. Registered 20 5 Trust&Ln.Co.l.T.Can — 1 5 0 10 - Union of London .... ... ••• ••• . . 100 28A Van Diemen's Land 14 1 . 6 100 50 Unity Mutual ..,. ..... 11 9 d St. .1.69 V,C4o,6p.chn, 4 July . ... 10 0 50 , Westra 13k.0f liond.. 10 -- 0 0 _ 11,9 MARKET NEWS. — (This Lay.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of wheat on sale in most of the country markets held on Saturday were only moderate, yet the demand was in a sluggish state, and prices were barely sup ported. Fine barley was somewhat firmer, but not dearer. Other kinds were rather dull. In the value of other arti cles very little change took place. In the value of grain in most of the continental markets very little change has taken place of late. The American advices come flat. Up to our market last week the arrivals of English grain were limited. The imports from abroad amounted to 4,140 quarters of wheat, 530 barley, 3,613 oats, 2,248 beans, 3 peas, 47 tares, 4,470 linseed, 2,910 rapeseed, 3 mnstardseed, 1,080 sundry seeds, and 21,896 barrels of flour. The quantity of English wheat received fresh up this morning, coastwise and by land-carriage, was very mode rate, and, for the most part, much out of condition. The attendance of millers was rather on the increase, and there was a better f ee li ng i n t h e deman d f or g ood and fine par cels at pri ces equa l to Monday last. D am p and otherwise inferior parcels moved off slowly, but we have no change to notice in the quotations. Millers, generally, hold very light stocks oll.wheat for the time of year. We were somewhat extensively supplied with most kinds of foreign wheat, in which about an average business was transacted, at last week's quotations. In floating cargoes of grain very little was doing. Fine malting barley was in pteady request, at full prices. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off slowly, on former terms. We have to notice no improvements in the malt trade. The currencies rule the same as on this day week. The show of oats was only moderate. The trade may be considered steady, on former teimr. _ _ We had a dull ;ale for beans, at a decline in the quota• ions of le per quarter. - - - White peas were very dul Grey and Maple qualities rill There was a fair inquiry for CURRENCY PER IM Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red .... new 545 to 66a Ditto— old —s —a Ditto, White new 573 73s Ditt0........ old —s —a Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old —s —s Ditto new •••• •• 52s 63s eye —Old .......• •••• --3 11, and 18 per quarter lower, led at full prices. _ _ flour at laet week's currency. LPERIAL MEASURE._ ------ Malt—Cheyaller .• .. 76s to 793 Oats— Yorkshire and Lineolnsk.,Feed 21s 255 Potato. YOUghal and Cork 81ack....• .. 19.1 22a Cork. White ..... 2h 26s ficoteh, Feed... •• 26s 29s EMl—Tick •• .• 35s ' Pigeons .... 40- 465 Fees—Grey •• •..36s 39s Maple..• •• •• •• •• 395 40s White........... 37s 395 . Loiters •• •• 305 40; .5 7 7 Suffolk 41e 44s Btoektn & Norfolk 42s 45s - - New •• •• • • •• a • • • 33s Birloy—Grindlng ..• • • 31s 33 ' Malting ......... 36s 383 . 405 Malt--SaffolkandNor- folk •• • • • 67s 778' Brown .... •• •• 63s 64s KJ agstoa and Ware 7i 78s METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were but moderate—the total supply being 1,016 head. In the corresponding week in 1856 we received 621 ; in 1855, 370 ; in 1854, 3,8 4 ; in 1853, 3,617 ; in 1852, 1,899; and in 1851, 2,229 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST walla. ... - ... 28 ... - ... 15 ... - From Ostend Harlingen 403 Oporto Rotterdam— 13 ... 115 Schiedam Corunna~ Antwerp l3 Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 7 ... ... 43 ... --- -" ... -- - ... - ... 160 ... T0ta1.... 651 ... 122 ... ___ ... 243 ... The yearly comparison of weekly Imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1856 433 ... 12 ... ___ ... 176 ... 1855 214 ... ... ... 155 ... -- 1854 1,011 ... 2 , 327 ... -- ... 491 ... 5 1853 475 ... 2,842 ~. - ... 289 ... 9 1852 430 ... 1 , 260 ~. ___ ... 200 ... 9 1851 475 ... 1,484 ~. _ ... 263 ... 7 The good ; s b h u o t w th o a f t f o o f breigeanactsalavnd sh eep calves he e r e e p , to-day, was . seasonably From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up, to-day, were only mo derate; b u t th e i r genera l quality was very prime. For the primest breeds there was a fair demand at prices quite equal to Monday last— the best Scots selling at 5s per Blbs ; otherwise, the trade was less active, and, in some instances, prices were a shade in favour of buyers. The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire, amounted to abort 2,000 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of England 300 of various breeds; from Scotland 350 Sects, and from Ireland 120 oxen. We were again very scantily supplied with sheep, but their general quality was prime. There was increased firmness in the mutton trade, and prices may be considered 2d per 81bs higher than on this day se'nnight. Our top quotation for Downs is now 5s 81 per 81bs ; but some very prime lots went at even higher quotations. Calves were in moderate supply, and fair request, atlast week's currency. The highest price was 5s Gd per Blbs. In pigs only a limited business was transacted. Prices, however, were supported. Per Bibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.I N. d. s. d Interior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6lPrimeSouthdown 5 6 5 8 Second quality.... 3 8 4 Colekrge use. calves 310 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 &Prime small do 5 2 5 6 Prime Scots, dm. 410 5 O)Large hogs Inferior Sheep _4 2 4 6Small porker, 3eoond quality ...4 8 4 10Suckling calves-23 0 30 0 Prime orse.-wlled.s 0 5 2/Quarter old pige.2l 0 28 TOTAL 111IIPPLT. VOZZION /IMPLY. Beasts .. ••• • .. ..... 3.541 Beasts.... .• •• •• ••.. . 450 Sheep . . Sheep ... ... 200 Calves • •• •• •• .. 70 Calves. • • .... . • 30 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and Sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Feb. 18, 1856, tad this day, Moßday, Feb. 16, 1857._ Per Bibs, to sink the °Vs. Feb. 18, 1856. Y0b.16, 1057 a. d. ~ d. ts. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior boasts ... 3 oto 3 L ; 3 I to 2 6 Second quality ditto ... 3 4 3 8,3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen ... ... 310 I 414 2 4 8 Prime Scots, dm „, 4 6 4 8 1 5 10 5 0 Coarse and inferior sheep ... 0 0 3 4,4 2 4 6 Second quality ditto ... 3 6 3 1014 8 410 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 0 4 4,5 0 5 2 Prime Southdown ditto 4 6 4 1015 6 5 8 Lambs 0 0 010 0 0 0 Large coarse calves 4 8 6 4p 10 5 0 Prime small ditto ..„ s 6 6 015 2 5 6 Large hogs 3 6 4 2 3 4 4 kleat small porkers 4 4 410 4 6 5 2 Beasts... 3,985 3,511 Sheep ..„ 19,370 15,910 Calves... ..„ ..„ ... 33 70 Figs 205 180 SUPPLIES ON Sams, Feb. 19, 1855.—Beasts, 3,651; sheer, 19,110; calves, 85; pigs, 250. February 20, 1851.—Beasts, 4,93 ; shoe?, 22,410 ; calves, 235 ; pigs, 310. --- NEWGA.TE AND LEADENTIALL. The supplies of meat on sale here, slaughtered in the metropolis, are very moderate, but we continue to receive extensive arrivals from the Continent , . Generally speak ing, the demand is steady at our quotations. Per Bibs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling...A 6 3 10 Do. prime large 4 0 4 2 Do., do. small 4 4 4 6 Pork, large 3 8 4 4 e. d. e. 4 Mutton, Infelor 3 6 3 10 Do., middling 4 0 4 4 Do., prime... ... . 4 6 4 8 Veal 3 10 5 0 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. There is a steady, but by no moans extensive business doing in good and fine hops, at full quotations. In oth kinds very little is passing. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 153 to 51 12a ; Weald of Kents. 3i 5s to 51 Os ; Sussex, 313 s to 41 Os ; Worcester, 414 s to 515 s ; yearlings, 1110 s to 3115 e. por cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last fair supplies of potatoes have come to hand coastwise and by railway. For most kinds the demand is steady, at full quotations. The imports last week were 467 bags, from Schiedam; 40 from Belfast; baskets, from Rotterdam; and 8 sacks from Limerick. York Regents, 100 s to 130 s per ton ; Kent and Essex do., 100 s to 130 s ; Scotch do., 95s to 120 e ; do. cups, 90s to 1003 ; Middlings, 65s to 755; Lincolas, 90s to 105 s ; Blues, 90s to 105 s. WOOL. As the public sales of colonial wool will be commenced on Thursday week, there is very little business doing in our market, yet holders generally refuse to sell except at an advance of from id to 2d per lb. Last week's imports were 674ba1es from Hobart Town, 401 from Melbourne, 170 from the Cape ' 872 from Sydney, 83 f rom Dunkirk, and 177 bags from Hambro'. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down tegs, is 7d to is Ed ; half-bred hoggets, is 6,1 to is 7d ; Kent fleeces, is 5 d to is 6 d • Down ewe s , i s 5d t o is wool, 104 to 1s 24 per lb. iced ; ster fla fi n ee n c e e l s w , 1 00 8 1, 4 disto2dftsesids; combing skins, is 6d And blanket : 6 31 ; t, o Leicester 5 and p r i ces are well sup ported. nd s e emedasrealise extreme quo t a ti o ns. SEEDS. P L ° i L n it s ien ee cis C e l e c aß ak i: e p s ien ar ßa e lne q dn u d iet, on former terms, but rape cakes 5s per ton dearer. Tarnip.White,per bush. 20e to 21s Swede •• 203 21s Mustard, 8r0wn...... 20s 225 White, new...... 103 12s Tares, Winter, new.... 53 Gd 63 Od Carraway . 44s 468 C oriander •• .• ....... 228 240 Hernpseed,per c . parter 428 443 Linseed, Eng.iorring •. 711 73s Crushing 71s 733 Baltio .......... —s —s Odessa ......... 70s 70s Gd Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English .. ...10110s 10115 s Woreign, porton 9110' 11, 103 RaPe Cakes, per ton 51 15s 61 15s Rapeseed, pr qr, 82s 841 •• •..• —s —s Canary, per quarter •• 703 76s Rye grass (new)•• •• •. 24s 345, Clont,RedEng.(cWt.) 50s 90 , 1 White •• • • • • 658 84s 1 Foreign Bed.. •• .. 681 76s White.... 1.88 803 Trefoil, new.. • • 28s 32s -- -_.. TALLOW. The price of tallow continues steady, at 68/ per cwt on the spot, and to the 31st March ; while there are sellers at 57s Gd for delivery in April, May, and J une . We have more inquiry for the end of the year, at 54e 9d per cwt. Town Tallow 66s nett cash. Rough fat, 3s 7d per 81bs. 1853. 1854. 1855. 1856. Stock this day ...... 39,335 45°0dto ?rice of Y. C . , • —s 04 Delivery last week 2,013 Ditto from June 1.... I 76,746 Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Junel.... I 74,447 Price of T01TU.... 464 61 t e 63 26 62 9 8 05 9 d2 5 - 6387 : 61 1; 16 ; 1,480 2,081 77,438 60,932 275 17 6 1'0,775 62,092 63: 3d bs 3 od 1857. 23,117 10,172 60s Od to 68s Od 00 to —sod 937 1, 839 83,947 88,502 582 1,489 60,522 81,694 534 61 671 Oct SPORTING NOTES. A NOTE OF PREPARATION. "Up and doing" is now the rallying cry of the betting fraternity. Turfites will begin their regular work with the Lincoln Spring Meeting, which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday next ; and, unless Jack Frost suddenly steps in again to spoil sport, they will not have a seven days' interval of leisure until the thick fogs and short days of November bring another racing season to a termination. The campaign seems likely to be opened under the most favourable auspices, and there is every prospect of its being brought to a satisfactory and a suc cessful conclusion. In the aggregate the nominations for the stakes which have recently closed may be advan tageously compared with those of any former years, whilst the "shortcomings" exhibited at certain meetings are not sufficiently striking to excite apprehensions of a diminished supply of sport. The old-established gather ings, with the exception of those at Newmarket, main tain their usual attractions unimpaired, whilst new items of interest have been imported into their programmes. In the different training quarters all is bustle and activity. Heath and moor, down and wold are thronged with sheeted regiments of " terrible high-bred cattle," in active preparation for their ipring, engagements. The work goes on merrily, especially in the South, where the horses have not been long and frequently stopped in their work. To those animals which are the most forward in their preparation will fall most of the early spring prizes— " fitness," and not merit, invariably regulating the re sults of races during the fist three months of the year. Four races per day are set for decision at Lincoln, the Two-yrs-old Stakes and the Steeplechase being the at tractions on Wednesday, and the " legitimate" Handi cap and the Hurdle Races being the most important " features" on Thursday's list. To-morrow, when I shall, doubtless, have received advises as to the arrived aed intended horses, I will enter into a discussion of the probabilities, Speculation on coming events has been marked by few incidents of importance. The knocking out of Black Swan for the Liverpool Steeplechase, and the undimi nished opposition arrayed against Blink Bonny for the Derby, have perhaps been the principal investments at the Corner. " Turf topics" are scanty enough at pre sent, and nothing new has occupied the gossips in turf circles. The American horses, which have done merely walking exercise, are about to quit Newmarket tempora rily for Houghton. Down, near Stockbridge. Our turfites alo vc.6,. J r ci n a a taste of their quality, but the favourable impression which they mane ou in this country was not very deep or lasting. Jonathan may lick our steam-engines, or beat us in a race across the Atlantic, but he will not be able to whip our thoroughbreds, and beat them across the Flat. When the English and American horses do meet, however, they will meet in the true spirit of "generous emula tion." To explain the unsteadiness of Blink Bonny in the market a report has been current, to the effect that she has been recently tried and found wanting. In fact, it is said that she was "put through the mill" with Strath• naver and others, and that Strathnaver turned out the best of the bunch ! Some colour was given to this re port by the fact of Strathnaver's being backed at an outside price at Tattersall's on Thursday last. February 16. A FRESH MAN. Business this cisx. TERRIBLE INCIDENT AT MILAN. The following comes to us in a private letter from Milan : "MILAN, FEE. 10. " A terrible event occurred a few days since at Mantua._ A young man hissed a prima donna in one of the theatres. An Austrian officer called in a commissary of police to silence the malcontent. The latter, in receiving a warning from the formidable functionary, thought the safest thing he could do was to get out of the way, and he quietly left the theatre. But the officer, following him, inSulted him, and proposed to fight. A meeting was ar ranged for the day after the morrow, but in the meanwhile the relatives of the young man applied to the military commandant of Mantua, and begged him not to permit a repetition of the scandal which occurred two months ago, when an Austrian officer nearly killed a Lombard citizen. The commandant in consequence of this request sent the challenger out of the town. But yesterday, an Austrian cap tain, a friend of the officer who had been sent away, happening to meet the young Italian in a cafe, rushed upon him in a paroxysm of fury, accused him of being the cause of his friend's banishment, and drawing his sword cut his head clean off at one blow. This news rapidly spread through the town, and caused immense agitation. Groups werespeedily formed in the streets, the shops were closed, 'the troops were called out, and marched up and down the town all the night. A little more and the state of siege and martial law would have been proclaimed." Letters from Milan' of Feb. 14 confirm the state ment of an Austrian officer having cut off a young man's head in a cafe, and say further that fights took place afterwa r d s between other officers and citizens, and that more blood was shed. SIR JOHN FRANKLINS EXPEDITION. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times : Sir,—l lose no time in noticing the report given in the Times and other papers of to-day by Captain Sherard Osborn in reference to Sir John Franklin's expedition, and to mention that no information bearing upon this important subject has reached this house in an official or private shape, and that, in the opinion of persons acquainted with the Indian country, it is only one of those vague ru mours which have been current there fiorn time to time, upon which no reliance can be placed, and probably arises from Indians having seen one of Anderson's own encampments on or near the Back River, but not near its moutb, because the Indians, as far as is known to the Hudson's Bay Company, never approach within 200 or 300 miles of it, i. e. —the mouth of the river. Sir George Simpson, whose name is particularly mentioned by Captain Osborn, will be in London next week, and will no doubt personally contradict the absurd charge made in Captain Osborn's com munication. I am, sir, your obedient servant, W. G. SMITH, Secretary. Hudson's Bay-house, Feb. 14. THE NEW PROPOSED DUTIES. The following are the duties, upon sugar and tea, as proposed to be enacted : SUGAR-411E CWT. Present Duty. _ There -1857-8. 1858-9. 1R59-60. after. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 18 4 16 8 15 0 13 4 16 0 14 7 13 2 11 8 13 10 12 9 11 8 10 6 12 8 11 8 10 7 9 6 5047 4 2 3 9 TEA-TUB LB. Tea INCOME AND PROPERTY TAX-PER R. 01407 0 7 0 7 £ s. d. Refined 1 0 0 White 0 17 6 Yellow Brown Molasses 0 5 4 1 0 It is said in the green-rooms—and we imagine with good foundation—that Mrs. Nisbett's return to the stage may be shortly looked for. Mr. C. Kean, it is said, intends to quit the stage in 1859. His last season at the Princess's Theatre is ex pected to realise a profit of 10,0001. In consequence of the decease of Mr. Richard Smith, brother to Mr. Albert Smith, the Egyptian Hall will ba closed all this week. DINNER TO MR. ROGERS, THE COMEDIAN.—It is said to be the intention of certain theatrical gentlemen to get up a dinner to Mr. James Rogers, to be given on ash Wednesday. The tickets are to be 13s. 4d. each. Young John Henry Cooke, the talented equestrian of Astley's, has returned from America, where his won derful feat of the "Leap of the Bridge," created an un precedented sensation. He is announced for this per formance during the week. MME. GRIST IN THE PROVINCES.—Mme. Grisi is now engaged in an operatic tour In the provinces, under the direction of Mr. Beale. She has been performing at Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c., with almost un paralleled success. DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT.—The question of dramatic copyright of French authors is about to be submitted to the Court of Chancery. Mr. C. Meade intends pro ceeding against Mr. Payne, of the Strand Theatre, if he should produce a piece, entitled "Poverty and Pride " (which he intends to perform this evening). Several ma. nagers have entered into a subscription to defray the expenses of the defence. The annual grand ball given by the .enterprising pro. prietor of the Canterbury Hall, Mr. C. Morton, takes place on Wednesday next. Preparations for the occa sion have been going on for some time. The splendid ball has been tastefully embellished, a numerous band has been engaged, and a supper of the most recherche de scription is to be provided. The arrangements of the ballroom have been confided to Mr. Frampton. That there will be a large attendance there cannot be a doubt. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 25th ult., in the Constitutionnel, says :—Several accounts have been given relative to splendid presents made here to the Countess of Morny, but they are all completely unfounded. The Emperor and Empress have not made any present, pro perly so called, to the young Princess Troubetskoy. The only mark of attention which has been paid to her by the Imperial family was to send her at the moment of her marriage the picture of the Empress in diamonds—an elegant decoration, which is highly valued at St. Peters burg. As for the magnificent present G f diamonds from the count, there is not a word of truth in it. Everything at the marriage was conducted in the most simple man ner," 16i 14i1 161 12 St. ,100 3 I i 20 all 111 1 all St. 100 St. 100 20 all 10 all 12a 2; St. 100 25 all 25 I all St. 'lOO 10 1 10 1 I. St. 100 St. 100 50 all , 25 all 100 all 25 all 50 9 20 all St. 'lOO 501 33 St. 100 St. 100 98i 9i [oBf 1051 xd ,1256 'estn. 'in - i 6 118 - 120 [l2 - 114 .04 - 106 62 - 64 9 - 10, 6 - fi 93 - 95' 83 - 85 - 99 -- 101 101! 10 -- 17 ; 107 -- 10; 75 -- 77 19A -- 20: 91 -- 10 14' -- 15 .34 -- 136 - 139 - 117 - 158 ..• - ••• A - il 65 - 68 .*• ... .. 34 - 136 99 - 101 89 - 91 •• - ••• li - lip .03 7- 105 gi ih _ idl i I. •id os - 109 .14 - 118 .05 - 110 65 - 70 17 - 18 23i -24 i .00 - 103 - iii - 3 284 2 - p 3 - 3} MINES. 21 -- 22 61 -- 74 155 -- 165 160 -- 480 15i -- 161 11 -- 12 51 -- 61 1 -- le 18 -- 20 35 -- 36 2 1 1 --21 9 10 1$ -- 340 -- 350 8 310 --350 11 -- 14 4 -- 44 230 250 35i -- 364 155 -- 165 295 -- 395 270 -- 290 41 -- 44 17 -- 19 46 -- 48 19 -- 21 Pm 56a LITERATURE. Westminster Review.—Under the quaint and somewhat questionable heading of " Wordliness and Other-Worldliness," we have a sparkling, but bitter and otherwise exceptionable article on the poet Young. Much of the criticiPm is unimpeach able ; but the apparent motive of the onslaught, together w;th occasional bits of flagrant irreverence, mar the reader's satisfaction in the perusal. "No man," we are told, " can be better fitted (than Young) for an Established Church. He personifies completely her nice balance of temporalities and spiritualities. He is equally impressed with the momentousness of death and of burial fees—he languishes at once for immortal life and for " livinge"—h e h as a f erv id attach ment to patrons in general, but on the whole prefers the Almighty . . To a clay compounded chiefly of the worldling and the rhe tnrician there is added a real spark of Promethean fire. He will one day clothe his apostrophes and objurgations, his astronomical religion, and his charnel-house morality in lasiinz verse, which will stand like a Juggernaut made of gold and jewels, at mice magnificent and repulsive. Towards the conclusion a contrast is presented between him and the poet Cowper—the sum of which is as follows : —" In Young we have the type of that deficient human sympathy, that impiety towards the present and visible which flies for its motives, its sanctities, and its religion to the remote, the vague, and the unknown. In Cowper we have the type of that genuine lova which cherishes things in- proportion to their nearness, and feels its reverence grow in proportion to the intimacy of its knowledge." Enough has been adduced to show the scope and tendency of the article. Au able paper on the " Capabilities and Disabilities of Women" is suc ceeded by a gloomy article on -" English Law : its Oppression and Confusion:" The writer offers little hope of real and substantial improvement until the people are better represented in Par liament, small and very slow reforms being, in his opinion, all that at present it is any use to ask for. The description given of the existing state of the liw and the progress made towards reform is anyth'ng but grateful to one's feeling Of nationality, and, what is more, to one's sense of justice. The " State of Parties in Italy since 1848" is the sub ject of one of 'the most vigorous articles in the number. The writer foresees, sooner or later, a renewal of the struggle between right and injustice in Italy; designates indifference to the issue as " atheism," and asserting that we have never grasped the Italian question in its unity; essays ",to obtain from a brief survey of facts and docu ments, too_ little known, ingirtht into it." The profound sacredness attaching to the idea of nationality being demonstrated, it is said—" In Italy all these sacred instincts and realities of race, language, and cherishedtraditions were perhaps more ruthlessly violated than in any other country in Europe by the treaties of an, which our Govern ment has recently agreed, with the despotic Go vernments of Europe, to respect." Proof of this having been given, "the natural result, we are told, was seen first in a latmt, then iu an open struggle on the part of the populations the Treaties of Vienna divided ln spite of Governmental maps, Lombards, Romans, Tuscans, Neapolitans, and Sicilians continue to feel that they are but part of an indestructible whole—the Italian people. The prophecy of Dante, Petrarch, and Machiavelli will be fulfilled, for the idea of Dante lives in the hearts of twenty-six millions of Italians suffering under a common tyranny, and united by a common martyrdom. They seek to become, and they will not rest till they do become, a compact whole, and bear their just weight in the scale of Europe. Napoleon comprehended this, and de clared at St. Helena that " unity of man ners, of language, of literature, must at a future, more or less remote, end in, bring ing her inhabitants under one government." There is an idea at work. No local remedies, no fractionary improvements or partial reforms will consequently avail. "In England, from not un derstanding this idea, we have imagined Italy di vided into a variety of parties, but, in fact, the Italians know that there are two—the Party of Action, or the National Patty, and the Moderate Party. . . . A glance at the late insurrections, in different parts of the Peninsula, and at the leaders who have arisen out of such insurrections will show that all have consciously or unconsciously tended to the realisation of the great idea, the unity of Italy." The National party, it is said, is eminently the party of the people, while the Mode rate party is composed, of those who, despairing of ithe Italians being able to free themselves and 'vindicate their right to a national existence in the face of Europe, seek to obtain through diplomacy, from the Governments of Europe, gradual administrative reform, and a slow and partial amelioration of the tyranny under which Italy now writhes. The treachery of Charles Albert to the great Italian cause is forcibly ex hibited in a retrospect of the war of independence, and the fact, that after such experience of the consequences of putting their trust in princes, the moderate party in Italy should still preach to the people, that their hope is in the king of Piedmont, is said not to be surprising. "We have seen that they are men without grasp of intellect, without first principles to guide them." Another quota tion, and we are done ; it relates both to the pre se nf and the future. "There is in Italy a visible progressive movement, and it is especially evident since the Crimean war,. towards the national party. It counts among its ranks the working classes of the cities all over Italy, and almost all the young, men who fought in Lombardy, Venice, Rome, and Sicily in 1847, 1848, and 1849. One thing is certain, that as hatred and abhorrence of Austria is the dominant idea` of every true Italian heart, whenever the National Party shall raise its flag for action even the great bulk of Piedmontese will cease all talk of opportunity and diplomatic arrangements, rally round the tricolor standard, and forget aliminor differences in the universal cry of " Fuori de Barbari." Among the remaining contributions may be noticed an elaborate article on the proposed ." Revision of the English Bible," and another of more immediate interest, if not of greater importance, on " Herat and the Persian war." The writer is of opinion, and undertakes to show an invasion of India by Persia is far from im practicable, and asserts that one fundamental axiom ought regulate all our policy in Persia —to wit, that the day will come when she will combine with Russia in molesting us there. He recommends our establishing ourselves in Candahar, the real key of India, and which, according to the best living authorities, could be reached at present by an invading army from the frontiers of Georgia with but little difficulty. Candahar, to be sure, belongs to the Affghans, but a little diplomacy might put it in our possession—that failing, it is said we would b 3 justified in taking it by force, the welfare of a few ..A.ffghans being as nothing to that of the millions of India. The National Review. An excellent number—tile best indeed we have seen of this newly-established review. To variety is added the positive merit of judicious selection, - and a quiet power and comprehensiveness of grasp have been brought to bear on some of the subjects but too seldom met with in our periodical literature. The most noticeable article is one on "William Wordsworth," which opens the number. The writer manifests a subtle and masterly apprehension of the ge!iius of the poet, and a judicial impartiality in setting forth his defects and merits. In order nsion of Wordsworth's matter, we to the compre.LP are told "it is absolutely necessary to understand his manner first. There is no poet who gives to his theme so perfectly ne:7 a birth as Wordsworth. Not indeed that he discerns and revivifies the natural life which is in it but he creates a new thing altogether—namely, tie life of thought which it has the power to generate it; his own brooding imagination. Thus he uses huma2 sorrow, for ex ample, as an influence to stir up his ovn meditative spirit till it loses its own nature, and beCtallos-- " 'Sorrow that is not sorrow, but deliglif, And miserable love, that is not pain To hear of, for the glory that redounds Therefrom to human kind and what we are.' It is this strange transmuting power which his meditative spirit exercises over all earthly and human themes, that gives to Wordsworth's poems the intense air of solitude which everywhere per vades them. He is the most solitary of poets. . . In solitude only could they have originated, and in solitude only can they be perfectly enjoyed. . . . Natural rays of feeling are refracted the moment they enter Wordsworth's imagination. It is na the theme acting on the man that you see, but the man acting on the theme." Going back a little, we find this brief description of the poet's mind. "It was in substance that of a ' plain' En g lishman, though steeped in. the dim light - of cons tant meditation, and gifted w ith though narrow imaginative forces" The piercing le article, however, is of too continuous a character for brief extracts to do justice to its merits, or those of its subject. A paper on " The Relations _ of Art to Religion" appears to have - Rust inian inspiration. the title of a clever article, ties of that eccentric Belated. The chief of faculty of simultaneous ment," his offspring t being Spurgeon and his they dered, not however Popularity"in the exact results his likely to approve. ~i , been N vritten under ~alzac in Pantoutles" is author in which the peculiari th are gra/. thically pre ese is an " instinctive s conception an d embodi created rot that„ they may calculati % Nir i l are ef....d. idl3: . fai t is he precise spirit (1 r l "t n are more sympathetic adw ... t " The Literature o. 'teaui upping" DuPPliefi an entertaining paper, Nv _eye tile result not a humiliating expose of this moat extra. vagant "bit of humbug." The remaining articles include " Latham and Grimm on the Ethnology of Germany," " The Credit Mobilier, and Banking Companies in France," " Strains and Germ an Hellenism," and "The Slave Empire of the West." The writer of the last holds forth but little hope of the extinction of slavery in the United States, and in pointing out the duties of this country, expresses the wish that our Indian authorities may stimulate to the utmost the growth of cotton in the Past, so as to relax the tension of production, and the rush into fresh fields in the tropical states of America, and to sat fres the moral sympathies of .our m er cantile classe s a t h ome from an oppressive rick, procity With the planters' interest. To which w add a cordial—. Amen MR. WARREN,Ard.Toivi---VIE INCOME TAX. E ' On Saturday afternoon last, a meeting on the subject of the income tax w as h e l d at t Hall, Midhurst, the High Bailiff i n the chair,°wllkt. which Mr. Warren attended, and addressed i i i; constituents for upwards of an hour, in a spee c h which was listened to throughout with the deepe s t' attention. He was the first person to communi cate the intelligence in the borough that the ' , W ar : Ninepence" had fallen—an announcement which . was welcomed with great cheering. Re stated that he had been in his place in the House till it-. rose on the preceding evening, and had listened with painful attention to the elaborate and pro• tracted statement of the Chancellor of the Ex= chequer—who had consumed three mortal hours before he came to the only point of interest to his • eager auditory—the war ninepence—which was then announced to have been at last surrendered to the unanimous demand of public opinion. But that surrender had been greatly accelerated, if not, occasioned, by the determined attitude assumed by the Earl of Derby, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Glad. atone ; and Mr. Warren commented in very feeling terms on the absence of any allusion in the Queen's Speech, to the patience and magnanimity with - which the people had borne the enormous burdens of the war taxation. After explaining the nature" of Mr. GladstOne's comprehensive and final settle. ment of the income tax question in 1853, in order to extinguish that intolerable tax in 1860, and com menting sarcastically on the sudden and precipitate reduction of the estimates, which yet required to be rigorously scrutinised, with a view to its fur-. ther reduction ; and pointing out that by inflicting the sevenpenny tax for the next three years , Mr. Gladstone's compact had been violated—Mr. War ren proceeded to denounce the income tax with great vigour, as totally indefensible, except as a desperate remedy ror a irevi...6 ai.,..., ne spoke of its original imposition in 1842, professedly for three years only, as very strongly savouring of misrepresentation and bad faith, having regard to • the then declared object of simply enabling Sir Robert Peel to place the fiscal and commer- • cial policy of the country, by a prodigious effort, on a new footing, which would admit of the speedy extinction of.the tax. Mr. Warren painted an affecting picture of the anxiety and privation occasioned to the earners of limited and precarious :. incomes—the comforts and conveniences of which. they were despoiled—the opportunities and advan tages which they were forced to undergo, while it was "in vain to rise up early, to sit up late, and eat the bread of sorrow." He said that all those classes suffered alike—professional men, traders, farme - s, merchants—the energies of all were cruelly .. cramped, and those energies all the while " perish- ing in the using." How many of intellect, of . genius, of virtuous - patience, high principle, and resolute fortitude had been palsied and driven to desperation by this cruel and unjust tax I " And while," said the honourable and learned member, " the Chancellor of the Exchequer looks compla cently at his sixteen millions—the produce of his income tax—l regard it, very differently, as a sick ening exponent of an immense mass of silent suf fering—of heart-wrung anguish on the one hand, and on the other of enormous frauds. The income, tax is at once breaking the spirit and corrupting the morals of the middle classes, on whom it owe-' rates with so tremendous and relentless a pressure. It wounds their honest pride, it tempts into uncon scientiousness. The exposure of private affairs which it entails is insufferable : a man's most criti cal condition is revealed, it may be, to his next-door neighbour and rival. In fact, this tax comprises every characteristic of a vicious tax—it is unjust, it is oppressive, it is inquisitorial, it is inconsistent with the free spirit of Englishmen, and the voice - of the country is calling out to it—begone l" Mr. Warren then entered into a general explanation of the Budget, and said that he had no doubt it would on Monday be subjected to a thorough and un sparing criticism, in which (as we understood the ' honourable and learned gentleman) he might him= telf take part, only for his reluctance to speak too frequently in the House. At the close of his ad dress, which was received with loud demonstrations of applause, several resolutions were passed oot demnatory of the income tax ; and the meetingr which was a very influential one, and unanimous= its condemnation of the income tax, and oordial thanks to their member for his promptness.ifizt coming down to announce the abolition of 4tie " war ninepence"—broke up, after a vote of thahke to the High Bailiff. • THE WIDOW ALLSOP. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SEN. Sir,—l shall feel obliged, if you will, at your earliest convenience, give me a place in your paper for this letter, it concerning a matter of public in terest. On the 10th inst. you published [in our report from the police court] a letter from Eliza Allsop, the consequence of which was that a large number of letters have been sent to me containing money for her. At the time 1 mentioned Mrs. Allsop's case to your reporter an officer had been sent to her resi dence, and I was much impressed in her favour ; but I have since had good reason to believe that I have been greatly deceived, and an attempt has been made in your police reports to stop any more of these letters ; but this having failed, as they continue to come from all parts of the country,, I shall feel greatly obliged. if you will allow me to take this mode of requesting that no more money or letters may be sent for Mrs. Allsop. I reserve all the money, together with the letters, for' the present, and when the case is completed the ptiblic, through you, shall be informed of the result. . . But there is connected with the subject a Matter that has pained me much. I allude to the attacks that have been made in some papers upon his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and it is belonging to truth and justice that they should be contra dicted as soon as possib'e. I have reason to know that his !Royal Highness distributes his charities with a liberal hand ; but surely he would not be doing his duty to the public if he were to distribute with an indiscriminating hand ; and. I know also that Mrs. Allsop petitioned as early se 1946, and that according to the directions raid down for "the invariable guidance of those intrusted with the distribution of the charity of the Queen and the Primo, Mrs. Allsop's case appearing to be one de rerving assistance was inquired into in 1848, and her petition was reported upon by the Mendicity Society, for whose valuable aid in the recommen dation of deserving cases and the detection of . in'. position the advisers of- the Prince are under great obligation. This petition was the first of a series of begging letters which has continued ever since. The Mendicity Society made a long report in 1848, which states, among other matters, " That she is living in a common lodging-house, and de b eg whether, g,w after ie ' h s t h h the Thenfollows a very bad r i v A e s n( h i en r o s w u , p s p i o r, rt l e a n p t i ir le el al y t f To r h o y na ou accountl systematicallyt t : 0 11l of her r result h pursues,"abio' this inquiry, it was not the imperative duty of the Prince to refuse to attend t o her many and reputed begging letters. But I wishing to give her every chance, am al .lowing her to prove, if she can, that s h e ever h a d rah v sons under the circumstances she states. In he ", ,netition to the Prince there is no mention of any .o ,ns killed at Cahill ; nor is there an y men tion, in her cetition to the Que en , o f any sons i n th e Crimea.. And I have communicated with several ym known her for years, cler b oen who have but who never hearkl of these sons. Can there of duty Highness is to be a doubt, sir, as to the line to be purse ad in this case ? and yet his Royal_ am w see be attacked for the course h.._ take. Surely t a 'ae authors of these attacks ill how untrue and unjust they are. Pray, sir, excri 'se the length o f this letter. b c dient se 1 have the ho at'ur t o be y our o B arGIiTON rvant,. It • B' 1 bone, Feb. 1 4 . Police-court, nu.vf_,—__ --__ a dded to the Royal Commis. Baron Martin has L'e t , S ta t u te and Common Law 1, sion for Inquiry into . . r 6 . , A s size, in the room of Baron C our ts, and the Courtsl; commissioners meet every Alderson, deceased. residft ley of Chief Justioe Lord Saturday, under aeveiyence, at d to decide upon the sub Campbell,. I.ll.')oeaurrs. Though th ey have come to no deci jeet of their . the number of jut Iges in the common law .ion respecting d toed that the present judicia l staff to it is nu ers pilot be safely reduced. The bua. , ness of the assize I's ca • diminished. In 1 3 more likely to be increased tin. a much aol delivery three t we are likely to have a general g. file , exa mined seve. t inges a year. The law commission ha v e , he the authori. rat of the judges, and are about to exam e h s ter, Birming ties and representatives of Leeds, Malic— as a,izes held is ham, &c., who are it 1149126 to have the . those places. all 100 all 100 17i all all 100 68i 551 41 1 87 6i 634 3 10i 9i 4'L 93i i 79 St. 100 St. 123 13 123 St. 17 20 12:1 25 20 25 10 1.0.6 j 100 54 20 5 10 St. 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 103 100 103 3i IC3 [2/12 14s 10/ 3 IBs6d! 16/151 11l 7s; 100 i ,138 22 li id