The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shr. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, and was well supplied, at the current rates of last week. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken by the speculators. The Railway Share Market mani fested an active appearance, and closed at a slight advance in prices. Th• commercial accounts from the Continent contain very little information of importance, but in some of the principal money markets rather more ease is reported. At Paris capi tal is in increased supply, but the Bank has not Yet been able to rescind any of its dis count regulations, and the stock of bullion continues to decline. The subject which excites most attention among capitalists and others at the present moment is the probability of the constitu tion of the Bank being modified. it is expected that the Council, at their sitting to-day, will take the proposed alterations into consideration, and a good deal of anxiety is felt for the result of their deliberation; but it is very unlikely that a decision on the subject will be arrived at immediately, as the question must necessarily involve protracted discussion. In the early part of the day there was an active demand for money in Lombard-street, for, not withstanding the easier state of the money market : a fear existed that the continued efflux of gold from the Bank might compel the Directors to add per cent to the minimum. After a brief sitting, however, the Court separated with out announcing auy change, and the in quiry immediately slackened. First-class bills are now again negeciable at a trifle below the official quotation, and the general tone of the dis count market is decidedly more favourable. The demand for gold to transmit to the Continent na turally causes apprehension, as the bullion in Threadneedle-street must have been seriously affected by the amounts recently withdrawn. Yesterday, about 5,0601. was sent away, and there la a prospect of the drain continuing for some time. The Market for English Securities is quiet, but the quotations have slightly improved since. The Bank Directors separated without announcing any alteration in the rates of discount. Business is 'very dull, both real and speculative. Con sols opened at 931 for money, and 93:/ for the account, but they have since been 93 i I, and 93 94 respectively. The New 3 Per Cents. have risen to 941 I, the Reduced 93i to 9 41, the Long Annuities 2 , and the 30 Years' do. 2 9.16 1. Bank Stock is heavy at 216, and East India Stock is 220. Exchequer Bills are steady at 2s. prem., and the Bonds are 98'4 991. Foreign Securities are generally very firm, but the transactions are confined to a few of the princi pal investments. Turkish 6 per Cents. are about 94i to 951, and the 4 per Cents. 1031. Spani3h Bonds are at nominal prices. Russian 41 per Cents. are 96k, and the Small Bonds are 97. Portuguese 3 per Cents. have been dealt in at 44 ; Guatemala, 58i ; and Mexican, 21g. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—.Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7 ; Mexi can, 211 i ; Peruvian, 78 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 5 ; Russian 6 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 95 7 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40 A ; ditto New Deferred, 23 i I ; ditto Certificates, 5i 6 ; ditto Passive, ii 6. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up t. this day., are in round figures as under :---__ _ 1856. £23,243 52,563 12,196 9,568 26,251 15,921 11,154 22,318 19,945 5,378 4,256 5,810 5,478 Great W es t ern 1857. £24016 North-W es t ern Booth-Western . 12,159 Brighton ........... 10,605 Midland ..... ...... 27,53 3 South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 5,176 Chester and Holyhead East Lancashire 6,056 Lancaster and Carlisle London General Omnibus Comp 10,904 North Stafford North London Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverh 3,624 3,352 Edinburgh and Glasgow ...... 5,007 4,537 Glasgow and South-Western Great Western of Canada 10,198 8,857 Northern of France The Railway Share Market has been rather firmer this morning, and, although only a moderate busi ness has been done, prices in several instances have undergone an improvement. Great . Northern im proved 55., Great Western 55., Brighton ss. to 10s., Midland 55., and North-Eastern York ss. South-Eastern were a shade lower. The French lines ruled steady, and Paris and Lyons, Great Northern, and Cextral of France were at previous values. East Indian have improved about 10s., and Grand Trunk of Canada Debentures ss, to 10s. Joint-stock Bank shares have been neglected. London Chartered of Australia have declined about 10!„, and London and County are ss. to 10s. better. Miscellaneous Shares are also rather firmer. Ca nada Gov ernment 6 per Cents. improved about ss. Crystal Palace, N ew S ou th W a l es D e b entures, dPeninsular and Oriental Steam brought previ ous rates. RILITIBH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ' (From the Qfctal Bank Stoc Pl:mines. done k 3 per Cent. Reduced AnuuWas 93k 41 8 rm. Cent Consols Annuities 9 3s New 3 per Cent. Annuities 941 t Loug Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... Ditto 30 Years, oxpiro stl Jan., 1860 23 9-16 bicliaStock 220 Consols for Account,,,,, Bzehotitler Rills, ''''''''' ""*".." 93i 1.000 - ,E5O O ''''''''''''' • ''''''' •.. .m 011............................... . . Ditto Bonds, ........... 2 P Ditto, ....... ' P er .......... ...... PRICES OF FOREIGN ...... .......... 99i'84- ' Guatemala Bonds, 5 pe r cent .. M e xican 3 per Cent. ..... .............. 58} Portuguese Bonds, 5 . per Cent., ......... :1 4 a Con, 1841 Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent .......... Russian Bonds, 1822 , £ St., .. .. Ditto, 4i per Cont. .......................... Ditto Sn.all ........................... ...... 97 Turkith Ronda, 6 per cent 94k Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends an the above payable In Lonficn. TWO O'CLOCK.. Commis, money 93 93t Ditto, Aoccat 5 St. 20i, WO 100 100 too LIVERPOOL, Jan. 21.—The United States' mail stea m , 5 ship Baltic s a il e d hence to-day for New York with seven ;() passengers, besides the usual mails. 20 THE VACANT OFFICE OF COMMON SERJEANT.—Yester- 8i day an influential meeting of the friends of Mr. Bodkin 10 was held at the Guildhall Coffee-house, to promote his 20 election to the vacant office of Common Serjeant. Sir 2 2 W. pp Magnay was in the chair, supported by several mem - t 0 bens of the corporation. It was stated by Mr. Millard that Mr. Montagu Chambers had declared himself not 20 to be a candidate for the office, and Mr. Bodkin having addressed the meeting a resolution was unanim ousl y Passed, pl e d g i ng the meeting to continue their exertions 40 to secure his election. 25 ROBEERT OF MAIL B AGS IN FRANCIL—The Indicateur 100 of Bordeaux sa ys •gt ztO in n been co this c ommitted, to the p re j u di ce o f th e p os t -o ffi ce of ig the city, Th e ve hi c l e which carries the mail b ags f rom 20 post - office toth e railway station at La Bastide set out at aboaufte9w nation in . o 'c lock at night, and arrived at its desti- w 0 200,000 f., minutes. The bas contained a sum of 100 other matters but ,t when opened to g allow the letters and 100 200,000 f. had °he sorted, it was discovered that the 20 mystery, disappeared. The matter remains a 20 A MAN A - - ..TTACKan ET WEASELS.—On Wednesday 2 2, last, a labourer natnneedallogarth, while proceeding along r i m the turnpike road fa r t he village of Smailbolm, was 0 — set upon by twelv e ut• creatures. At first he ob- I ' o 6 served them emerge out e s f e they dry stone dyk es and when 100 he was within 50 yards Zit rde towards him in a body. He armed himself 20 cudgel," and Le onawaid the approacha " grievous crab-tree 50 close to him, despite 25 They came leisurely , an d whert of the assailants. 20 the menacing attitude he assumedt,wnoine of their number 20 attacked him in front, and made or thr ee i ne ff ectual 100 attempts to fasten their teeth in his r d ; but, by 10 the active me of hie weapon, fiv e o f the nine Were ki lle the other four escaped. By this time thre e o f 25 them bad v.% behind him, and clung tenaciou s l y t nally su ff e r in g themselves to be kill e d rathlesr than re- 50 legs, ad- 25 lease their hold. Of the attacking for ce he suceociedlia 110 destroying eight.--AVSO Aka. 1 SHARE MARKETS — (This Day.) KA.ELW Yes. ? Paid WA TS. ti 9 A.mbg. Nottng. Bort ) and &An. Jun Gt.. ) all 3olfast 2 Ballymena 3i' a'T Sinning. Wolverh Stour I all Birkeand. Law:Bk Cheshire Junct... ri 0' Do. Chesh. d; Birk. ! I all Do., do. all Blackburn i all Blyth &Tyneorigifax £25 (issd. at .£4' 100 Bristol and Exeter.. '• ! 1 0 0 Ca1ed0nian........ .,.. . 100 Chester & Holyhead I all !Cork and Bandon . all Cork, Black, A Pas all Cornwall all Do. A . 8 Do. B 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dun. P. A Aber. Jnc. ▪ 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties . .100 East. Union, A St • 10 'Do., B. Stock... Ri Do., New 17. , . East Kent 'lOO !East Lancashire i !East Suffolk ... 4 Do, 100 lEdinburgb &Glasg ! all !Edinb. and Peebles ' llO lEdin.Prth &Dund , all Forth & Clyde Jan 100 i Furness 100 !Glasgow & S. Westrn all Great N. of Scotlnd 100 Great Northern 100 'Do., A. Stock _ 100 Do., B. Stock 1)0 Gt. Sth. &West.are ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rai Gua. Stk all !Irish South-Eastern all ;Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds 12 {Do. New Thirds 100 LAncash.andYorksl: Do., Wst. Riding Un. all Do. Southport all!London & Blaokwall 100 !Lond.Bright&S.Ost 100 iLond. and N. West,* 16 :Do. Fifths 54 D0.10f.5h.,1f&8...0 2A Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Westn all faadndrry&Coleraine all Lndndrry.& Ennisk. 100 Kanch.Shef.ALincln 1 Nietropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo'. arrangement 00 Midland 100 Birmng. & Dee all Ntidld. G. West. (Ire all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carnal( all Nwpt.Aberg. &Hr f. Si Newry &Enniskillr all Newry, Warrenpoint And Rostrevor.... I , K) Norfolk 3 ' , orthn.Counties tTn I'lo Forth British 100 Nth Devon Rail & Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock 100 )o. B Stock 'OO N.iastern—Berwi '233 1)o. do. Extension D0d0.16 G.N.E. ?nrel, all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London 3 , 1 N.,AS.Wstrn.,Ham staid, and City Jn.. North Staffordshir at North Western . all ` 7 , &S. Westrn. Jun Wore., A Wolv 14 e,rtsmouth 10 Rhymney . ••• ottish Central to l Scot. N.E.Abrdn St. t. Do. Soot. Mid. St 1011 S 1 -opahire Uni , on 2 SitingbourneASheer. a loutu Devon South Eastern... 1 00 south Wales 7 4. Yrksh. & Riy. D a all i sines, Wok. &Wo • Stockton & Darting 12. A, Do., do., 1854 3' Do., do., 1855 ;tosktion A Hartley I - u; Nit Vale , trio .)0. Pref., No. 1 22 Name!' Hay. D.& R all Vale of Neath sli Waterfd. & Kilkenn: • Naterford&Limericl. all West C0rnwa11....... all Test End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A all Do. B el, West London • all Do. Fiist Class . all Do. Second Class... .11 Wimbled- !rnv COLONIAL. 9 tin m b a y , Baroda,,,uo I Con. India, g. sp. c all Do. 10s. Ceylon A shares 1 Do. B. do all , smerars 2s. Eastern Bengal ... . all Cast Indian A and r g. s P. 5 Do. Ex. C, gu. sp. c all Do. do. D, gu. sp. c. all D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 all Do. do. do., '59, dc all Geelong k Melbourne guar. 5 per sent. 100 tid. Trunk of Caned all Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. all Gt. In. Pen. g. Gp. c. 2 Do New, guar. sp. c all Gt. Western of Canad 8 Do. New all Do. Bds., payable '5/ all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73 do. all Do. do., '73, withou. option all Madras, guar. 4+ip.c all Do. do., sp. c. 10 Do. 4i p. c. Eaten 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp. c 5 Scinde, guar. 5 p. c all Do 18 St. Andrew's and Quebec, (A) teUlt. Antwerp&Rott , 10 Ardennes all Belgian Eastn. Juno 16 Reziers to Graissessse 10 Buff. & Lk. Hui. Ry. all Carineaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 12 I )etch Rhenish all ?Astern of France all New 2s. Euphrates Valley 10s. Eur.On.Ju.TeLltail., 18 Qt. Central of Fran , s' 16 Great Luxembourg... 4 Italian Junction all Lake Conet. & Basle all Lierre and Turnhout 6 'Lombardo Venetian. all ILucea 5c Pist. sp. c.p. 15 Ilayons and Geneva all Gyons Mediterran. all Siaria Antonia all Do. do. New al , "Tarnur 4 Liege all Do. do., Cp. c. Pref. all Northern of Francs all Norweg ianTrunkPre all Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans 5 Recife & San. Fran , (Pernam.) g. 7 P. c. 7i Rome and Frascati ali Royal Danish ..... all Royal Swedish all Sambre and Mouse all Do. 5i p. cent. Pref all Southern of Franca ii 'Meat Flanders all Do. 54 per c. Prof., all , v. 4N. W. of France 6 Western of Austria all West. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden all Do. 8 per eent.Pref all Zealand J OINT-B'lY all Anetr i ,Th 18i Bank of Egyp ":****** 50 Bank of Londo t n * ell Bri. Col. iikdan..o 1.1 . British N. American. Chartd. Bank of Ash 6 artd. Bnk. of India, Australia, la China 50 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of bond %.11 Eng.Scot.StAns.Cht all Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia all Ditto Now 20 London and County 50 Und. &E. Bnk g . Corp. 1.0 Loudon Joint Stock 20 Lond. Westminster 3F , National Pro.of Bug 10 Do. New ........... 226 National Bank ...... all New South Waist.... all (Oriental Bk. Corp... 15 Ottoman Bank ...... Provincial of Ireland all Do. New ............... 1 R Aus B AcGo Im Co South Australia all UniGn of Australia 2lro. New 10 Union of London 50 Unity Mutual "- 5 ( 4 Wagtail Bk of Loud Closinz Price, yesterday. 4i 4 Ei 9 19i -- 20 17 18. 13! 14 92 - 61 - 61, 37 - 38 ... - Of - 184 -19 A 91 91 41. 43 28 30 7 - $ - 9 53 5s 34i - 35 94 - 96 7 - 8 911 - 92 76 - 78 L 23 - 125 11 113 65i 61 72 • 6 5 6 96 96 ••• " 4 ° ••• 61 - 7 112 114 106 106: 20i -- 21; 101. •-• 101 f • 106 i; -107 i, E2# - 821 63 - 65 ,« "" i4 t 51 53 3i . iid 39 40 i•• . M• 83i - 4t 31-1 3 2i 18} 181 59 601 9s 102 8 - 8 i 10 - 11 27i - 284. [O6 108 25t 266 71 73 49 tl 2 ... 17i 1 8 74 74 85 5 5 8 d 3 2 14 16 38 40 19i - 20} o• ••• 6 8 2 - 4 41 -5; ~. ~- .. .. - ... i : ' 9 i - 1 1 ------ ii 108 - 110 P .. - ... 21i - 22 50 - 52 82 - 83 2li - 21 24f - 24 - 2ip 99 - 100 118 123 1111 - 123 108 110 19t -19 i 216 - 22 - P P P 2 - ip • • • ..... ... CAN . ii - i• 14 24p 1 1.! - 4i 5 - d 325 - 33 9 105 par p 4 - 45 5/ - 6 .6 - 6ip io a 36; - S 18 i 1 -194 i 37 - 3 8 - 91 541 - 55 54 -- 56 } a P li 2O - 1_ - li 8i - 9' 81 - 91 41 - 4} 94 - 10 34 - 35 4 - lip HALNKh 94 - - d 60 62 1 . A d 69 - 18 -18 i 18i - 18 17 - 1841 - .., •. • ""'" •• • i • """ • ••• •••• , OM 49 - 51 37 - 39 it lid •••• .• ••• am. ••• 34 - 36 63 - 7 - 9 11 9 a ; m 6 d Business done this day. 10 St. LO St. 3t. t. St. 23 11, gt. 66i 6 1134 4 13 10G1 I 0 St. St. St. I L 2 1 12) St.l St. 10 10 St. St. St. St. 1081 10 L 0.6 100 100 all all 15 all LOB a, 20 7 1 al 50 al 20 1, 30 al 20 1 40 al 5 1 Eit. l a 25 1 al 2 I a, 20 al 1 al 1 ; al ski , ; 1 1, al tOil Ji: 11r 91 10 3 i 19} 33i I MISCEL . 25 1! 10 . 10 al ) 00 3 St. A 5 i al .1 I al 25 a] 15 11 al 20 20 11 10 %1 10 al 25 , 25 10 10 & 20 I l' xd . 50 1 , 100 6 , 1 11 1 al 25 al ott 1 ,1 _ ,ustrailan dgrieu,L. 1 luatraln. Royal Mu] 11 ' erlin Water Work, 0 I;rit. American Lan.l Canada 1. Go p.c. Jan&jaly 10 Do. 6 p.c. Feb & Aug )0 D it Crystal Palace. ,11 Do. Preference 1:1 •irystal Pal.of France Duston Iron Ore 2k) 18 Eastern Steam gloctric Telegraph 11 Electric Teleg. of Ir 11 21n. dams Cop Sm Co 11 Gon. Ir Sc Col (lim.) 4 Gen. Stems Navigat. 11 General Screw Steam 5 London Discount 11 Lond. Gen. Omnibus .0 Magdalena St. Navig Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 11 I ,le sic:mita, America: 5 Nat. Discount Co 6 Do. New ... 5 Netherlands Land._ kll Do. Do. 6 I 3 o).BpcPissatld Do. Do. • New B. & N.S. Land N.S.W. Gov. sp.c. D. 11 N. B. .A.iatralaaian Nrth.of Europe Steam 11 Oriental Gas !s. Do. "New Shares" al Peel Rr. Ld. k Minrl. ill Peninsular& Oriental LO Do. New 50 Boys '"tii Steam ill Scot. ~kr.r4al. Invest. i al Ditto tier al Sout'a A nstral.Land Snbmar. Tel. Scrip Do. Registered__ 5 Trusts 1 •.Co.U.l)kn. i Van Diomen's Land V,ol.6p.c.Jamlanl7 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. we,s omn:=l, 1 Closing Prices i yesterday. Bedford amd Blot:Vey Buckghameh. Clydesuale e. Col. Sto Vy. E. Lin. '.G T. E. Uu. Glas. barr. Neils. Direct Do. New....... GlstrA Dn Fr Hrtlpl. Dk Railway__ Hull & Selby Do. Share 2. Do. Shares. Lon.& Greenw Do. Preference Lou., Tn., & S. Do. Bark. Sh. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Batn. and Matlock Middiesbro' Az. 96 98 -- 102 11 - 13 133 --• 136 4 4i ui i.i la 23 -24 107 - 109 4 i P 2i 2a Retic.g 6 p.c. Bradt : Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.& Est.s p. c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixe(ls p c Prest. & 1 4, y: Do.. Shr3. A Roystn.& Shef.Roth.an Gooleg.sp.c. Shrews. &H er S. Staflordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 p.n. cent Do Wiltsk;omrst 93 5$ - 58 132 135 - • 9 33 34 8$ -- 98 PREFERENCE 9HAREa, BlythandTyne 'Opel a. pref. °Bed. at 501, Brio. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledn. £lO 4i p.a. i r 'Thes.& Elo. au. 5s pc Do. do. Pref. 5 per e. Cork &Bandonbip.e. Dua.Prth .& Aber.J. Anglian Cis. ASh Do. do. Cis. B 6 p. Do. do Cis. C 7 p. c. Co. Ex, spc No. Do. No. 2. Do. New S p. o. St Rest Un., G. 6 p. c Do. 51., 10 per cent Do. 101. Dobontr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent. cast Lanca9h 6p. FL kW. York. J. sth, Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sh Rd. Prth. AcD un.4 p.e. Furness, 5 p. Glee. & S. W. 4.5 P.C. Groat Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. o. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem. .. Do. 4S . p.c Do. sp. c., Red. at f• Gt.N. of Scot. 1 st Pr, Gt, S. &W. (Ireland Do. 4per o. Prof. S Gt. W.(B.ol.Exspc Do. con. red. 4 p.c. Do. eon.' • 4p. c Do. irr - C. Do. 5 p. 6 pref Do. Birm. Let. Sh Do. Chester Bp. c.P. . Do. do. 5 p. c. do. Do. Birm, Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. de ......... Lan. &York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock Lon. &B. €1.5 pc. No.l Do. P., 5p e. St.No.2 Do. New Guar.6 u. Do. do. 5 p. c.,Ne.4 Lon. &N. W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct... Lon. & S.W. 7 per c+ late 3d Shares L Indy. & Coler. A Sh. Londy. & Ennis.: - 113 11.,5.,& L. 6p. ;ent Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 34 per cent. Warypt .& Carl. 4 p Do. 4A per cent Do. do. Consol.6 p.c St 'to. Con.Br.Tiir. 6r Do. 4i p. c. Pref. -t Ditto L. & H. Pref. St New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. e. red. 5 p.c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 p ct. with optn. till '66 Norfk. Deb, 4 p.c. sh Do. Pref. 5 p. o. St .e Do. 5 pc. Ext.,1846 N. 5i per c.pf.,1847 Do. Wv. V.6pc.,1847 North British Do 71. Preference Nl. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P. Do. do. do. Do Leeds 6 p.c :No.l Do. do. Qre..1848... Do.Yorkm& S. Por. North Staffordshire.. De. 6 p.c. Redeem. Soot. Cent.. New Pref Sc.N.E. Aber. g 6 pe Do. do., 7 p.c. pf. et. D0.d0., 3h p.o. pf. st. South Devon. Do. fixed,46 per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4; 1 ,, per cent Do. Fixed 4i p a sh S Wales Gua. 4p. 0 Do. do. 4i p. e.... S.Yorkoh.4p.c.Guar. Stock. & Der., 5 p. c. Do; do. do Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p. a. till July 1, '56 Waterfd. do Bilk. 6 p c 96 - 98 -- 5 6 tio i iP f - it , 12 -12 j ... ••• 7 16. 1118 120 112 - 113 102 - 104 63 - 65 91 - 104 6 - 6 . 93 - 95 83 83 98 101 le 101 161 —17 s 10 10N 74 7 19i 20 , 91 10} 141 154 :ii -- 139 139 - 142 118 - 120 .« - ._ 157 - 159 Ca 70 137 - 139 98 - 100 89 - 81 1 - li 103 -103 95 d 1 I is fibi 109 113 -- 116 103 -- 110 i'6i = i;i' 23 - 24 102 - 165 10i 101 ii 4 - 28 J, 2 - 3 p - I -- ri - ii 1 - 3 - 33 16 - 18 r - ip 55 - 57 31 35 25 27 13 -• 15 f id - i : i* ..• - 6 ••• .. 8 8i is I -- 1 i - I. 23 - 25 7 - 9 2i - 3 11 - li 1 3i - • 4i - 4 •••a•••- ••• '" a ... MINKS. al Anglo Californian ' Australian al Baden (Gd.Dnchy of , 11 Bloanar. Iron & now .4 British Iron !66 Brazilianlmp.(issnod at £5 rro.) 11 Do. Coe Cuiab3 .5 Do. St. - Del Rey 6 Clarendo' is. Min Co. of .1.1:Au& al Cobro Copper Colonial Go'..A al Copper Min. of Eng ill Do. Prof. 7. p. cent lE Copiapo al Fortuna dl General 11 Gt.NuggetVoinßog dl Great Polgooth al Gt Wheal Vor United al Liberty 11 Linares. Lusitanian 11 Nfariquita. al New Granada 11 Nouveau Monde 11 Pontgi.Sil.& Le. Min 1 Port Philip 11 Quartz Rock. 11 Bliymney Iron II Do. New 5i Santiago de Cuba.. s. Sort. Cone. Min. Co. 11 South Australian 11 Do. Scrip .11 Do. 10 per cent Prof :4 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 9 Fin Croft ......... 11 United Mexican `1 Waller West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia ...... ',OllB. 22 - 24 5i .6 40 46 131 134 tlO 1 LOi 5f 5i Si - 91 - 14 it 4 - - 6 ( 1 ' 3i - 3i P 4 31 4p id ip 3 d Ii- !4 - 6 2 17 - 6 4 5 p i 4 lt io 35 37 1 15 17 --• Blaine% this day London rz N. West. L.&N.W. Caledon... U. &EX Gt.Nrt tak. E. Count. CaldoniAm. at. Resta Yk. New.' & Berw. Y. &NM., Do Do 1 8. &stem Do Peto & Co Do 'Norfolk Do L.& N. W Igtckton ! Dmlingt. !Midisu En. Conn. E. Count. Do Do Do GtNortho Lancashtz Yorksh. T. Bra.ssoy hf.MClean Stockt. k D&rlingt. Do Gtßesta Do , 100 10 I all 1(X) I all 1100 all all all all all 100 all all all 100 181 100 5 .100 100 all all all an all 100 100 100 10, 100 100 } _ LAW INTELLIGENCE.—{This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE CHARLES JAMES MARE.-IMPORTANT QUESTION AS TO THE RIGHTS OF CREDITORS. This was an application that Mr. Peter Roll should re tain two sums, one of 16,0.00/., and another of 11,0001., as mortgagee of the bankrupt's shipbuilding-yard, plant, &c., at Orchard-yard, Blackwall, he holding a mortgage to secure the sum of 30,000/. The application was opposed by the Commercial Bank, who are the second mortgagees —they did not object to Mr. Rolt having the 16,0001., but did oppose his receiving the 11,0001. The assignees consi dered Mr. Roll entitled to the whole 27,000/. balance of the purchase-money paid by Mr. Roll for the yard. Without going into the merits of the case, it was agreed that Mr. Rolt should be allowed to retain 16,0001., and the balance of 11,0001. should be deposited in the Bank in the names of Mr. Lee, official assignee, and Mr. Mark Hunter, one of the trade assignees, without prejudice to the rights of any of the parties. Lawrance stated that the assets would be about 50,000/. They had had many adverse circumstances to deal with, among others the high price of labour. The assignees had been compelled to send to the outports for artisans, who made their 61. per week instead of their 30s. per week as heretofore. The assignees were memorialising the Government that some allowance should be made to them, as some of their losses had arisen from the abrupt termination of the war, and they submitVd they should not suffer from losses which had arisen solely by the acts of the Government. Mr. Lawrance further applied that there should be a private sittting to examine Captain White, and the appli cation was granted. An application that Arr. Dyer, a creditor, should be paid in full for goods supplied the evening before the filing the petition for private arrangement was refused. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Emma Hart, a good-looking, respectably attired young woman, a Native of Folborn, a village near Cambridge, was brought before Mr. Beadon,, charged with attempting to commit suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine, Hyde Park. The accused, who betrayed considerable distress of manner, and was evidently suffering from a mind ill at ease, was accommodated with a seat in the dock, during the investigation into the circumstances attending her p case._ - Police constable 619, A, stated that about 11 o'clock on the previous c;ay he was on duty near the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, when his attention was attracted to the defendant and another female, now in court, both of whom appeared to be in the greatest grief and distress of mind. The defendant was crying very much, and on his going up and inquiring the cause of their trouble, the prisoner's friend informed him that the defendant, who was her niece, intended to drown herself, and begged of him to prevent her. The accused, as soon as she heard this, made a rush towards the water. He caught hold of her, and told her he would prevent her from drowning herself, at least for that day, by taking her to the station•house, which he did. Mr. Beadon (to the prisoner)—What made you at tempt this dreadful rash act Prisoner—That is my business. I shall not tell any one. Mr. Beadon—ls her aunt in court ? The defendant's aunt, a decent young woman, here stepped forward, and in reply to Mr. Beadon said her unfortunate niece had been seduced, under a promise of marriage, by a soldier belonging to the Royal Horse Guards Blue. The consequences were the loss of her situation, and the subsequent birth of a child. The sol dier deserted her, and left both her and her child in the greatest distress. He had since refused to see either her or the child, or to render them the least assistance. The child was now at home with her parents, and this, together with the soldier's base conduct, and her being out of a situation, no doubt preyed upon her mind. Mr. Beadon, to defendant—Do you not think that it would be much better to go home at once to your parents, where your child is ? It would be much better than giving way to despondency. Has the soldier ever given you money for the child ? Defendant—Yes, sir ; but I never told any one of it. He gave me a sovereign, and that was all. I will not go home. My parents cannot keep my child, much more myself, who am out of place (she here burst into a flood of tears, and refused to answer any more questions for some time), At last she told Mr. Beadon that she had contemplated suicide for more than a week, and was fully determined to carry it into effect the first opportunity. Mr. Beadon said at present it appeared to him that it was useless to remonstrate with her in her preeit state of mind, and having kindly admonished her on the sinfulness of such an act, he directed her to be taken to Saint George's Workhouse, to be taken proper care of till her parents could be communicated with. THAMES. WNFOUNDED CHARGE OF FELONY. - Mr. Richard Pawley, aged 25, and described in the police-sbeet as a seaman, of No. 10, Albert -street, Shadwell, and late chief mate of the ship Rapid, was brought before Mr. Yardley in charge of Crosby, a city police-constable, No. 551. He was accused with stealing the cargo book and log-book of the Rapid. Mr. Edward John Williams, the owner of the Rapid, and his officers were at No. 20, Billiter-square, City, and his residence, Coborn-terrace, Bow. The prisoner was chief officer of the ship Rapid, which arrived in this port on Sunday last, and was discharged soon after the arrival of the ship for misconduct. The prisoner took with him the cargo-book and the log-book. Mr. Yardley—He was chief mate ? Mr. Williams—Yes, sir, he was. The prisoner—l was in command of the ship after the captain left her, and brought her into dock. Mr. Williams—There was a Trinity-house pilot on board as well. The prisoner—Yes, to navigate the ship up the river. I was commanding officer, and I took home the ship's papers for security, as I did my clothes. Mr. Yardley —There is not the slightest pretence whatever for preferring this charge of felony. I don't know, as commanding officer, w hether the prisoner w as not entitled to the log-book and cargo-book for the pur• pose of safe custody. Be that as it may, there is not the slightest pretence for charging the prisoner with felony. Mr. Williams—l wish to ask your•advice. Mr. Tardley—You tenet seek advice of your attorney. I don't sit here to give advice. SOUTHWARK. UNGRATEFUL ROBBERL—EmiIy Moss, rather a good looking female, was brought up in custody, charged with stealing a valuable gold watch from the house of Jane Beaver, at No. 73, Great Suffolk-street, Southwark. The prosecutrix deposed that she had known the pri soner six or seven years at Manchester, and had fre quently accosted her while in London. On the 22d of October last, shortly before 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner called at her house, when she told her she was going to Manchester that evening, and that she would carry any message she liked to send. Witness, having brothers and sisters there, thanked her, and went out of the room to get a letter. On her return in a few minutes she perceived the prisoner had gone, and, on looking in the table-drawer, she missed her watch. The latter was Safe there when the prisoner entered the room, as she asked what time it WAS and looked at it. As soon as she discovered her loss witness went in search of the prisoner but could gain no tidings of her until the previous day, when she gave her into custody. A detective officer of the L division said he had the prisoner's husband in custody for being concerned in the robbery, and he was under remand from Lambeth Police Court until Monday next. ~..._... Mrs. Beaver said that the prisoner's husband was an engineer* aid worked for some time with her husband, but she was not aware that he had anything to do with her watcb. The prisoner here exclaimed that he knew nothing of it. She alone was the offending party. The magistrate said that it appeared to him to be a y, and h e s h ou ld reman d t h e eery u one ng ru r n a t t ieful r until Tuest bw yn r eat, when her husband will have undergone another examination at the Lambeth Police Court. ALARMING ILLNESS OE' BARON ALDERSON.—We re• gret to state that Baron Alderson's illness kas assumed a very serious and alarming character ; indeed, it is of such a nature that his lordship can never be expected to return to the di s c h arge of his judicial duties. The learned judge was in the first instance attacked with determination of blood to the head, buy; at the com mencement of the present week he became much better and strong hopes were entei tained of his ultimate recovery ; but since that time he has bad an attack of paralysis, which has affected his lower extremities and pletely as being insensible , and as lying in a state of total tendered him com powerless. He is described exhaustion. Baron Alderson was appointed vocation judge, but it has now been arranged that Mr. Justice Coleridge shall take that duty, and Mr. Sergeant Chained will be placed on the commission for tbo Home Circuit at the forthcoming assizes, in the place of Mr. Justice Coleridge. It is not generally known that Baron Alderson is a very distinguished mathema tician. He was senior wrangler at Cambridge in 1810, four years after the present Lord Chief Baron achieved that high honour. pa 12j xd 99 1041 61 1 1101 10 CATHERINE HAYES'S CONCERTS. 1 (Frontthe Cork Reporter, of Tan. 20.) The first of these two concerts same off on last evening at the Athenaeum. Every part of the house was densely crowded, and the brilliant hall sparkled with the richly dressed and splendid com pany with which it was filled. Never did greater enthusiasm, even upon her first presentation after her long absence abroad, hail the appearance of our prima donna. The audience were carried away by a furore which can seldom be excited here save by the effect of first-rate talent. In her rendering of such ballads as "Aileen Mavourneen," one of the many admirable compositions of by far the most original and effective composer of the day in Irish melodies, our fellow-townsman, Alexander D. , Roche, her pathos, true expression of sentiment, and perfect intonation yield an effect which cannot be surpassed. It is her triumph in such instances as this, appealing equally to the untaught and educated ear, which have secured for Miss Hayes such wide an d varied popularity. It must be al most superfluous to say that in the several opera tic pieces,`concerted or solo, which she performed, her wonderful flexibility of voice, great compass and true tone, insured the highest success. Signor Millardi possesses a full rich tenor, and in the Bel Adoratu, and other pieces in which he performed, he was received with great favour and acclamation, which were well deserved. Mdlle. Corelli displayed 1 a very rich contralto with good effect in giving Donizetti's "In questo simplice, and Greame's " Over the Sea." In the bu f fo parts from " D on Pasquale" and "Il Barbier e ," Signor Lablache w a s as usual eminently successful ; his complete com mand of the musical science, added to his. bonhom rnie and ease in the expression of the naive or humorous passages, which he renders, half-acting, half in the more staid style of the concert singer, insured him a most successful reception. The accompaniments and some solos—amongst them a most difficult and elaborate variation upon corn e gentil, were performed by Mr. Osborne with admi rable strictness and execution. Upon the whole the concert was most successful ; all the arrange ments were such as to insure the comfort of the audience, and provide them with every facility of enjoying the rare musical treat which the pro gramme of the evening afforded. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) LONDON, Jan. 22.—Wind this day at noon N.W.— Light breeze. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrive4l—H.M.S. Retribution, from Portsmouth, for the Mediterranean. FALMOUTH, Jai. 21.—Wind variable.—Arrived—Cha mois, from Pernambuco ; Panope, London, for Pernam buco. Sailed—Princess Alice, for Melbourne. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 22.—Sailed—Azoff (s.), for Cal cutt a. TORBAY, Jan. 21.—Arrived.—Germania, from Dundee, for St. Jago de Cuba. Sailed—All the windbonnd. HARWICH, Jan. 21.—The Jane, of Alnworth, has put in leaky, having been on shore on the West Rocks. WELLS, Jan. 21.—A brig, belonging to Sunderland, is on shore near Blakeney. LrvintPoor,, Jan. 21.—A derelict, apparently a British schooner, timber laden, of about 200 tons, painted cream colour inside, not long abandoned, was fallen in with on the 28th Dec., in lat. 39 long 64. MILFORD, Jan. 21.—Wind N. W. Arrived Ails, from Bombay, for Liverpool, leaky. DOUGLAS, I.M. Jan. 20.—The schooner Eclipse, from Dublin for Whit ehaven, was totally lost this morning on the rocks off Grondle, three miles north of this place; crew saved. WEST HARTLEPOOL, Jan. 21.—Wind Perla, for St. Thomas. HULL, Jan. 21.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Engen, for Bombay MONTROSE, Jan. 20.—The schooner Wilhelmina, of Ny sted, was in collision off the Bell Rock, with the brig Ga lathea, of Copenhagen, hence to Leith, and sunk ; crew saved. The latter has put back with loss of bowsprit. ELSINORE, Jan. B.—The Aurora, of Dundee, from Riga to Kirkcaldy, which went on shore at Hornbeck and was sold, has been got off and towed in here. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Good Intent, from Cadiz ; Princess Victoria, Maranhata ; Braganza, screw steamer, Lisbon ; Funa, Oporto ; Normandy, New Orleans. Sailed—Arequipa, for Bahia ; Ellen, Maranham ; Sharon, Mobile ; Yorkshire, New York ; Cambria, Pernambuco ; Windermere, and Maria, Lisbon; Rosamond, Bahia; Ma rion, Antigua; Eloisa, Calcutta; Clio, St. Michael's; S. Crawell, New York ' • James S. Bozart, Mobil e ; P ru d ence , Alicante ; Inez, Charleston ; Skipwith, Newfoundland; Punch, Messina. QUEENSTOWN, Tan. 20. Wind S.W. Arrived—Confiance, from Lisbon ; Esther and Sophia, Laguna. KINGSTOWN, Jan. 21. Wind N.W. Arrived—Mary Sweet, from Oporto. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND. Thursday, 9.40 a.m. Wind W. ; tide high water, hazy and light. Arrived, Jan. 21—Maltilds, from Guernsey ; Matrons, Marseilles; B. L. Harriman, Callao; Shealteal, Guernsey. Sailed—Priscilla, for Lago ; Grand Trio, Port Philip. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN for the week ended Jan. 22, 1866, made up from the Returns of II 0 Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Weis per Imperial Quarter. WVEAT. ) BAXLEY. ) OATS. ATE. AN.. ride. 59,4 d 45s 71 23s 41 I 405 2d 40s 51 39s fid TAE THROUGH BOOKING SYSTEM BE TWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA. In our last number we announced that a sys tem had been organised, by which passengers, whether first, second, or third classes, can be con veyed from most of the principal ports of Europe to any part of Canada, or to the leading cities of the United States. We are now in a condition to state the exact arrangements which have been made for effecting this purpose. They seem to be of the simplest, yet of the most complete, character. We will take the case of an emigrant, who, having arrived at his port of embarkation, has decided upon taking his passage to Quebec, and thence proceeding by the Grand Trunk Rail way to his destination in the Far West, which for the present we will assume to be Chicago. The agent of the ship will, for one payment, issue him a ticket, in which will be included the passage money across the Atlantic and the railway fare to his destination. One-half of the ticket will be given up to the captain or purser of the ship before he lands, and on presenting the other to the passenger and emigration agent of the Grand Trunk Railway at Quebec, who will be waiting on his arrival, it will be exchanged for a railway ticket. By arrangements made with about 30 railway com panies, that ticket will pass the holder to any place on the American continent to which he has paid his fare. To enable the passenger and emigration agent a t Quebec to know what passengers he may expect, the agents at the different European outports are, as soon as each vessel sails, to advise the central office of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in London of the names of the passengers in her wlio have through tickets, their class, and the destina tion of each person. These particulars having been registered in the London office will be despatched to Quebec by the weekly steamer, so that the agent will not only know, much in advance of the ship's arrival, the exact number of passengers he may expect by her, but will have also bad ample time to prepare their railway tickets. He and his staff will personally superintend their landing and the clearing of their luggage at the Custom House. This accomplished, they will be conducted to the railway station which is alongside the landing jetty at Quebec. There the passengers will find refresh ment rooms provided, with every accommodation and description of food suited for each class, and those of the emigrant class will be protected from the extortion and villanies to which they are now subjected at every landing port on the American continent. The railway distance between Quebec and Mon treal is 168 miles. There will be one intermediate stoppage of an hour's duration, for refreshment, a similar one at Montreal, and the same at distances varying from 100 to 120 miles throughout the entire journey. Including these stoppages, the running time of the emigrant trains is fixed at 20 miles an hour, and as the distance between Quebec and Chicago is about 1,007 miles, the time occupied in the journey will be less than 2i days. Last year emigrants could not have completed one fourth of that journey in the same time by the St. Lawrence steam-boats. The Canadian system of railways ceases at De troit, 730 miles from Quebec. When the Victoria Bridge is completed the same cars (each capable of comfortably accommodating 80 passengers, and each fitted with a female waiting-room) will unin terruptedly traverse that distance. Until that period arrives, the connection between the opposite banks of the St. Lawrence at Montreal will be maintained by powerful steam ferry boats. On reaching Detroit the passengers will be con wigned by the emigration officer of the Grand Trunk Company (who will have had previous intimation of their coming, by telegraph) to the Central Mi chigan Railway Company, which leads direct from Detroit to Chicago, through the state of Michigan in the United States. At Chicago they will be met by another agent of the Grand Trunk Company, specially appointed for the purpose, who will for ward all those persona whose tickets entitle them to go to St. Louis or to the other important towns on the Mississippi. It must be remembered that all these arrange ments are carried out on the responsibility of the Grand Trunk Company, which affords a protection that emigrants have never had a chance of obtain ing up to the present time. The fare of the emigrant passenger between Quebec and Chicago will be 11.175. sterling. Each adult is allowed 1501 b. of luggage free, and for all surplus there is a very reduced scale of charge. Children under twelve pay half fares, and have an allowance of 751bs of luggage free. Children under three, in company with their parents, travel free. Precisely the same arrangements have been estab lished for emigrants and others who make the sea passage to Portland or to Boston. The former city is one of the termini of the Grand Trunk Railway. It is 292 miles from Montreal, and is consequently 124 miles further from Chicago than Quebec. Boston is 105 miles from Portland, with which it is connected by railway and an extremely well con ducted line of steam ships. As both these ports are open during the winter emigration can be as actively carried on, if desired, at that period of the year, by means of these ports and by the Grand Trunk Railway, as during the open navigation of the St. Lawrence. It may be as well to state that Mr. Webster is the emigration agent of the Grand Trunk Railway Company at Quebec, Mr. Miller of Portland, and Mr. Brooks, at Boston.—Canadian News, Jan. 1. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY. BANK AMALGAMATION. Tie Tipperary Free Press of yesterday announces that by the authority of Government the Carrick on-Suir, Clonmel, Thurles, and Cashel National Banks of Ireland have now been amalgamated with the National Bank, so that those establishments have merged into and become identical with that society, and all the customers of those branches will now have th e secur ity o f th e cap it a l an d th e liability of the National Bank for all their engage ments. REVERSE OF FORTUNE. A paragragh under this bead, which appeared a few weeks since, has had the effect of obtaining a small appointment for poor Mr. F. P. Dwyer, for merly private secretary to the late Daniel O'Con nell. The salary is, indeed, trifling, but sufficient to save him from the disgrace and mis er y o f spend ing the remnant of his life as an inmate of one of the Dublin workhouses. THE SIX WEEKS' AVEICAGE. WHEAT. i EARLEY. I OATS. RE E. I— SHAWN. PEAR. 59s 51 445. 3d f 233 10d I 40s Od 42d Od 40s 6d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 103,358 ; Barley, 98,323 ; Oats, 15,251 ; Rye, 117 ; Beanr, 6,131 ; Peas, 2,531 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2110 s to 41 Os ; clover do., 31 lOs to 51 ss; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ Os per load. Affair demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 41 4s ; clover do., 31 los to 51 Os ; and straw, 114 s to 11. Os per load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs tc 41 4s ; clover do., 3/ lOs to 51 5s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 11 Os per load. Supply good. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATN AND LEADENHA.LL.—Beef, from 3s 4d to 48 6d ; Mutton, 3s Bdto 48 10d; Veal, 4s Od to 5a 4d ; Pork, 3s 8d to 58 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. Trade steady. SOUTHALL, Jan. 21.—We had a fair trade here to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 3s 10d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 4s Od to 58 2d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMEGED, Jan. 14.—The beef trade was heavy, on easier terms ; otherwise, the demand ruled brisk. Beef, from 3s 8d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 48 Od to 5s 6d ; Veal, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; Pcrk, 4s Od to 5s 041 per 81bs. Quarter-old store pigs, —8 to —s each. SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Mendelssohn's Athalie and Rossini's Stabst Mater are to be performed at Exe. ter-hall to-morrow (Friday) evening. The performers will be Madame Clara Novell°, Madame Lemmens (late Miss Sherrington), and Miss Dolby, with M:. Phelps as the speaker of the interlocutory ♦erses ; whilst the Stabat Mater, which has never yet been given by the society, is to be sung by Madame Novtllo, Miss Dolby, Mr, Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti. ST. MARTIN'S HALL.—The performance of Elijah, an oratorio which is now as well known as The Messiah, affords very little room for remark. As produced last evening, under the direction of Mr. Hullah, its execution was on the whole praiseworthy. It is full of difficulties ; and the greatest difficulty of all is to find a performer competent to sustain the part of the Prophet. It is no disparagement to Mr. Thomas, who is an oratorio singk r of much merit, to say that in this character he is not in his element. Mr. Sims Reeves and diss Dolby, as usual, sang admirably, but their parts, though full of beauties, are of subordinate importance. The choruses had evi dently been carefully rehearsed ; and the points of har mony, often of excessive intricacy, were taken up with considerable firmness. The audience was crowded, a thing which never fails to be the case whenever and wherever Mendelssohn's chef d'cruvre is announced. CATHERINE HAYEEL—THE MATHEW TESTIMONIAL.-- The most distinguished of living Irishwomen has testi fied her respect for the memory of the Apostle of Tem perance—the most eminent of her Irish contemporaries— by contributing A/, to the monument by which it is proposed to perpetuate his name in this city. She has thus shown her sympathy with the popular feeling, and proved that she has not lost in the brilliancy of her great success, or in her prolonged absence in other lands, any of the warm generosity of the Irish heart. The announce ment of this contribution at the meeting on yesterday was received with the warmest demonstrations of popular respect for the gifted lady from whom it came.—Cork Reporter. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—A new oomedy is in rehearsal at this theatre, written by Mr. Palsgrave Simpson. It is in three acts, and the dramatis personaa have been entrusted to Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Young, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Vincent, Miss Oliver, Miss Mason, and Mrs. Selby. Reports from the greenroom are divided as to its merits, which is a good sign for the piec e . H a d the greenroom been unanimous in its favour we might have confidently anticipated a failure, and if the green room bad been unanimous in its condemnation a great public success had been anticipated. It is a very re markable thing that actors and actresses are the worst judges of the literary merits of a dramatic piece, and the reason of this is that they only look at one particular character, and by that character form their estimate of the whole piece. Another reason is that the reading of a piece in the greenroom conveys hardly any impression upon that select auditory of what the piece on the stage will be, for in truth they are mostly occupied during such reading by thoughts and conjectures as to how the piece will be cast, and whether they individually will ave a good part in it. THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—One half of the electric tele graph cable, which is destined to connect iralentia Bay vith Newfoundland, is now in course of construction at Cardiff. The makers are Messrs. Kuper and Co., tele graph wire -makers, of London and Bute Docks. Their is portion of th e ca bl e i s 1,260 m il e s in length, and it to be completed by June nest. MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. — T he expe nse of the management of the public debt was in the year ended M a r c h, 67,3221., aid to the Bank of v , after dedu c t ing 60,000/. for composition for stamp duty, and 120,0001. out of the profits of the circulating des partment. THE ATTACK ON CANTON. A letter from St. Petersburg of the Sth, in the Debats, says :—_ "The news of the attack on Canton by the Eng- I lish fleet has produced a considerable sensation here. It appears certain that depots of goods be longing to Russian merchants have been burnt, and that their loss of property has been consider able. This act, which is perfectly unjustifiable, and for which no serious motive can be assigned, is regarded here as the prelude to the conquest which the English propose to themselves to make of the Island of Chusan. The Russian Government is perfectly aware of the intentions of the English, and of all the plans which they meditate in China, and for which purpose they have been for some years past very quietly increasing their naval foie() on that station, until they have now a very formid able feet there. All the intrigues carried on by English agents with a view to ruin the important commercial relations which the Russian merchants carry on with China through the town of Kiachta are well known at St. Petersburg. It does not unfrequently happen that large quantities of tea into Russia the finest qualities thus imported by land Russia are purchased by English houses and sent jealousy the London. It is well known with what the English watch the progress of the Russian mi litary and commercial establishments on the river Amur, where we already touch, by the south of Si beria for a distance of more than 400 kilometres (250 miles), on the Chinese frontier. All the tri angle between that part of Siberia and the Amur, and of which Nicolaieff has been designed by the Emperor to be the new capital, may now be consi dered as definitively belonging to the Russian em pire. The intelligent men who were sent some years ago into those distant countries have so well secured Russian domination there that all commer cial affairs with the Chinese provinces may be said to be exclusively in the hands of Russian mer chants. The anxiety of the English to dislodge the Russians from these countries may be thus readily conceived, but they will have the more difficulty in effecting their purpose that the diffe rent Russian military establishments along the Amur are becoming every Ely more and more formidable. It may be also remembered that the English made a fruitless attempt, in 1855, to penetrate with their squadron into this river, the mouth of which has been since so well fortified that it would now cost immense efforts and sacrifices to force this new Cronstadt with vessels of war." A PUNISH VENT FUR BURGLARS AN-S GA ROTTBRS. (From the Edinburgh i3cho, of Jan. 10, --....—.-- This day Japhet Crooks alias Si r Peter Stran g er 1729 ) stood on the Pillory an hour at Charing-cross, after which a chair was brought up, and he bei , ngseated therein, the hangman, with a . s urgeons instru ment, somewhat resembling a sicllose e, cut off, pur suant to his sentence, one ear cto his hed, which he held up for the view of an infinite nostrils number of spectators, and while the surgeon was dressing it, and stopping the blood, the other was in any cut off, and held . in the same manner, after which degree the hangman with a pair of mars slit up hi s and seared them with a red hot iron ; of those ' operations none seemed to affect him ' like that of burning. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon, a little before 3 o'clock, a Lancashire and Yorkshire C o mpany's railway engine was standing at Sough sta tion, Over Darwen, with a ballast-train attached, while another train was passing, when the boiler burst, forcing out about a foot of the firebox, so as to knock the driver, Daniell Greenwood, off the engine. He was afterwards found on the side of the line quite dead. The guard, Henry Young, was also seriously scalded, and died a few hours afterwards. The stoker was under the engine, and escaped injury. Both of the unfortunate men were members of the excellent i ns u ra nce company in con nexion with the company, and ;,he widow and two children left by Greenwood will he entitled to 501., while the widow and two children of Henry Young will be entitled to 371. 10d. THE BISHOPRIC OF CORK. The Venerable William Fitzgerald, Archdeacon of Kildare and rector of Monkstown, hai been ap pointed by the Lord. Lieutenant to the Bishopric of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. The new Bishop, who was private chaplain to Archbishop Whately, was believed to be a sup porter of the national system of education, but since the Archbishop's secession from the Board it is reported that Dr. Fitzgerald's views have also undergone some modification upon the education question. THE CASE OF ALICIA RACE. (From the Times.) The Court of Queen's Bench has decided in the case of Alicia Race that in the absence of express stipulations in the father's will the child must be delivered up to her mother. We cannot venture to impugn the decision, although in this case the rule of law appears to act with extraordinary hard ship. There cannot be a moment's doubt that the intention of the dead father was that his children should be brought up in the faith which he himself held. If equity could have been brought in to decide upon the question, Alicia Race would have been left in the Protestant school at Hampstead. The am is told in a few words. A Sergeant of Marines, a Protestant—Lauman Race by birth—is killed before Petropaulovski. A few days before his death he leaves the guardianship of his children to his wife, who was a Roman Catholic. The Romanist opinions of the wife must have been of an ex tremely moderate kind, since she consented, to marry a Protestant without any ante-nuptial stipu lations as to the form of religious belief in which the children were to be brought up.. Sergeant Race, however, being himself a Protestant and a religious man, as is proved by the letter which he wrote to his wife a day or two before he was killed in action, left her guardian of the two children. During his lifetime he had brought them up in the Protestant faith—he had taken them to Protestant places of worship—he had taught them Protestant prayers ; and to this course of religious training the Romanist mother had not offered any objection. Well, the father dies before Petropaulovski, leaving it as an injunction upon the mother that his two children should be brought up in the " fear of the Lord." For eight months after the news of her husband's death had been re ceived in England his widow took the two children to a Protestant place of worship. That was 'the manner in which she interpreted the wishes of her dead husband while the first grief for his loss was fresh upon her. Time, however, wore on, and as sorrow oozed out Romanism crept in. The priests of her own faith got around her, and persuaded her that it was necessary for the salvation of her children, and for her own, that first the boy and then the girl should be removed from the schools to which they had been sent under the auspices of the Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund. She applied for the delivery of her son, a lad under 12 years of age, and her request was in stantly complied with, as the boy himself made no opposition to the claim. The persons, however, who had interested themselves in her case informed the mother that they could do nothing for the boy unless the little girl too—the child of 10 years of age—was also removed from the taint of Protes tant instruction. Alicia Race refused to return to her mother to be educated in the tenets of the Roman Church. This was the point which was brought before the Queen's Bench. Lord Campbell has decided that the law of England in such a case affirms the guardianship of the surviving parent. There can be no doubt that Sergeant Race was a Protestant, that during his lifetime .he had brought up his children as Protestants, and that his wish was that after his death his children should be brought up as Protestants. So far there is no dispute. The counsel on both sides -are agreed about the facts. The only question' is whether, upon the general rule that the guardianship in suchi.a case reverts to the surviving parent, Alicia Race must be handed over to the custody of her mother. We fear it cannot be helped. However hardly the law may operate in this individual case, it is necessary for the wellbeing of society that the widow should have the guardianship of the chil dren up to a certain age, saving in cases of gross immorality or unfitness. Had Sergeant Race left particular directions that his children should be brought up as Protestants, no doubt the guardian would have been bound to follow his injunctions. This, however, the sergeant neglected to do, and consequently he has left his unfortunate offspring exposed to the machinations of the Quirk, Gammon, and Snap of Rome. We deplore such a result, but, if the law of the land be as it is laid down by Lord Campbell, we do not see how its application can be avoided. Greater inconveniences would follow from the misapplication of a general rule than from its unfortunate incidence in a parti calar instance. the case of Alicia Race is just the case of a person who is garotted—of a shopkeeper who is swindled—of an orphan cheated out of his inheritance by an informality in a deed. If there be informality in the indictment, or in the deed, the criminal must escape, and the orphan must suffer. The fact is that Sergeant Race neglected to draw his will properly, and the Romanist priests have hit the blot. We should regret to write anything which would weaken the power of parental authority over the child, and no doubt, however hardly it may apply in his parti cular instance, the child must endure the conse quences of the parent's neglect. The rule of Eng lish law appears to be, that until the age of 14 years the parent or guardian, not the Roman priest or Protestant clergyman, must have th• custody, moral and physical, of the child. The decision of the Queen's Bench is an anti-Papist decision-- that is, it is in favour of the parent, and against the priest. The rule, as we trust, will be remem bered in all future cases when the parts are as signed to different performers. Meanwhile Alicia► Race is to be handed over to the Roman advisers of her mother ; and, although we have little con• fidence in the logical powers and theological learn ing of a child of such tender years, it is to be hoped that affection for the memory of her dead father may carry the poor child through the four years of trial which are before her. DREADFUL AFFRAY WITH POACHERS AT BYTHE. - - ---wa,- - A conflict with poachers occurred at Hythe, be tween 2 and 3 o'clock on the morning of Sunday last, in which two men were so injured that their lives are despaired of. James Dean, a gamekeeper Cad lands, heard the report of a gun in Stanswood •u the estate of Mr. A. B. Drummond, of Cad wonheomof h t e he e na nd h ea a v d o a u l r o e n d , to st a r r u r g e g st le ; copse. Tle iuunediately got up, took a large mastiff and one which the latter b with him, and went to the spot. lie there dis asistanwcae The keeper fell, but had strength enough left to get to the assistance throughco with theyver resisted,e d the two k t h e e p men,e l a e r n t side. dog who had attacked one of the sofshthote . men and take its muzzle off. The other poacher immediately made off, but the doh seized him by the arm and shoulder, and dragged him to the ground. The poacher began to shriek for mercy, calling out that his name was Blow, and that he would surrender if Dean would take the dog off. The keeper, though exhausted from loss of blood, crawled to the rescue, and released the poacher from his dan gerous situation, but the dog burst away again, bringing the poacher to the ground. Once more the keeper muzzled the dog, and released the poor wretch, who by this time was reduced to a worse state than Dean himself. Assistance very shortly came, the keeper was taken home, and a surgem was sent for ; but before his wounds could be dressed a second summons arrived from the poacher Blow. Both were in a very precarious state. Dean was shot completely through the side, and it was doubtful whether ho would survive. The poacher Blow was frightfully mangled about the head, face, and arms—more injured, if possible, than Dean. A man named Arnold has been arrested on a charge of aiding Blow. —Southamp ton Free _Press. CHIEF CONSTABLE FOR KENT.—At a special meeting of the magistrates of the western division of the county of Kent, Capt. Buxton, of Brenchley, who is also one of the county magistrates, was elected to the office of chief constable of the county constabulary, under the act of Parliament enforcing the establishm ent of a ru r al police throughout the kingdom. if tore were 66 candidates for the appointment. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA B. 9i i 107 i 2 5i EYE NI JANUARY 22 1857