The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. • CITY, Two O'CLOCK The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed steadily, and, compared with the rates current on Friday, prices of all kinds were without alteration. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales. The Railway Share Market was quiet, and prices were rather lower. The accounts received from the manufacturing districts in the North of England generally repre ent the business of the past week as being satis otcry. There does not appear to have been much activity, but full prices have been maintained for most kinds of manufactures. At Manchester opera tions are still contracted, in consequence of the high rates current for cotton, and the continued upward movement. On this account, therefore, the aggre gate transactions have not been numerous, but, owing to the increasing supplies of the raw mate rial, an early reaction is not deemed improbable. At Nottingham there is not much alteration to report, but fuller prices are demanded, and the inquiry for most articles is quiet. In Leeds a good deal of animation has prevailed, and at Bradford a considerable business has been done in the worsted department. The manufacturers are fully em ployed, notwithstanding the enhanced value of cotton and wool. From Birmingham we learn that the demand for iron is rather brisk, both for home use and for exportation. The advices from New York per steamer Europa described the money market in that city as being more stringent than at the date when the previous mail left. The latest Banks Returnshows a consi derable augmentation in the loans and discounts, with a material falling off in the specie. Until the spring trade is over no relief is anticipated, and in the meantime the commercial community are coin- Polled to pay high rates for discount accommodation. The meeting of the Union Bank of Australia has just been held. The business passed off satisfac torily, a dividend of 10 per cent. for the half year (at 20 per cent, per annum) being declared, out of the profits of the half-year, amounting to 90,5281. ls. sd. The report was very cheering as to the future prospects of the trade of the colony, and the affairs of the bank were stated to be in a satisfactory condition. The reserve fund was now 200,000/. After some discussion the report was adopted. An important meeting of merchants, brokers, and others is now in progress at the London Tavern, to effect an alteration in the law respecting delivery orders, warrants, bills of lading, &c., in consequence of the late decision in the ca se of Kingsford v. Merry. Baron Rothschild was in the chair. A memorial to the Government was adopted for an alteration in the law. Although full rates are current, the demand for discount is not quite so active, but this pause is no doubt only temporary, as the requirements of the commercial community are increasing. The inquiry for silver is very brisk, and in order to effect extensive purchases on the Continent large quantities of gold are leaving for France, dm. On Saturday 80,0001. was sent from the Bank to that country ; and, in the absence of Australian arrivals, these shipments must be tell ing rather seriously on the stock of the precious metals at the national establishment. Although tie aspect of the Money Market is by no means encouraging, and little inclination is evinced to enter into speculative operations, the value of the English Funds remains without any change of importance. There is certainly a downward tendency, and prices are i f per cent, lower than on Saturday, but no vio lent f luctuations occur, and the appearance of the market is quiet. Sales of stock have been made for delivery to-morrow, which has no doubt contributed to render the market heavy and unsettled, but the aggregate transactions are exceedingly limited. Consols for transfer have been 931 and they are now about 93i 1. For the account dealings have been recorded at 93i I. The New 3 per Cents. are 94 to 94i, the Reduced 931 and _Exchequer Bonds 981 to 99. The Bills are 2s. discount to 2s. premium. Bank Stook is marked 216 to 218, and India Stock 220 to 221. The Foreign Market is very dull. Turkish 6 per Cents. are dull at about 941 to 95, and the 4 per Cents. are nominally quiet. Spanish New De ferred are 231 ; Dutch 21 per Cents. 642 ; Guate mala Bonds, 60 ; Chilian 6 per Cents., 104 ; and Buenos Ayres, 83k. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7 ; Mexi can, 211 1 ; Peruvian, 78 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 58 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 5 ; Russiau 6 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 95 7 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40 1 ; ditto New Deferred, 23i 24 ; ditto Certificates, 51 6 ; ditto Passive, 61 6, A very limited amount of business has been transacted in Railway Securities this morning, and in most instances a decline of about / to i per Cent. may be noticed on the values of the principal l ines. Caledonian declined ss. ; Great Western, 10 8. to 15s. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, ss. ; and North Eastern Berwick, ss. North-Western, riglaton, and South Wales, maintained about previous values. The French lines have been rather depressed, Paris and Lyons having declined 58 . to 10s., Great Luxembourg receded 55., and Dutch Rhenish ss. The Canadian lines rule ra ther lower, Grand Trunk of Canada being 51 to 62 ; Great Western, 24a i. East Indian are steady, and Scinde are quoted 7i. Joint -Stock Bank Shares are dull, and prices have generally receded, with the exception of Union of Au s t ra li a, which have improved about ios In Miscellaneous Shares the Electric Tele graph, London General Om nibus Company, Peel River, and C rystal palace maintain previous quo tations. BRITISH FUNDS TRIG DAY 4TT DNB O'CLOCK. (From the o.lActai List.) ....................... 218 16 Bank Stock . . . ... ..... o,enp, don e 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ............. New 3 per Cent. Annuities ....................... 0 ' 4 3 1' Now 24 per Cent. Annuities ........................ VB 4 4 India Stock Consols tor Account 221 2093 i Exchequer Bills, 24d £l000 £5OO . Smell Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONR O'CLOCK Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. Milian Bonds, 6 per Cent lO4 Guatemala Bonds, 5 per cent Spsninh Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Defer r ed, 3 per Cent. Turkish Bonds, 6 p er cen t 95 Ditto Account nividen" on the Above nayable in Lenora. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Coat., 12 Guilders 64i TWO O'CLOCK. Console, rconey 93i Ditto Account • 931 I Mr. Lumley, who has been in Paris a few days, has left f or Italy to conclude some important engagements for the ensuing season at her Majesty's Theatre. TIIIi M AILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 17.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship Orinoco, Captain Sawyer, sailed to-day, with the West Indian mails, 92 passengers, specie (v alue 16,0001.), j ewelry (value 2,4001.), and a full cargo. Th e P en i nsular and Oriental Company's with steams the hip Tagus, C aptain Chri,tian, also left to-day, mails for Vi go, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, twe nty-four p assengers (13 first-class, 10 second, and one deck), s p ec i e for Cadiz (value 2,910/.), and a general leaves on the cargo of merchandi se . Th e P era, C apt. s o y, 20th, with t h e outward Indian mail ; and the Azof,le ave Captain the Skottowe, h av i ng comp l eted repairs, is to on same day for B om b ay , t o take up her inter-coloni a l Brooks, with the heav s tation. Th e I n d us, Captain left Malta at noon on y malls, of th e Indian ails, ected here about the 20th portion 10 th inst., an d may b e ex- J 21 0, with the Peninsular mails st. Th e Alhambra. Capt. y , may be looked for about the 24th. The Ava, Capt. G. Steinson, which left this port in September, arrived at Calcutta in 77 days from this, all safe ; this vessel is employed in conveying the mails between Caloutta and Suhez.edThe Peniesular and have pure theas steamer the Canadian Oriental Company Steam Navigation Companytl Calcutta Ottawa, of 1,200 tons, to be placed on here from and Suez line, and she will be brought round shortly for the purpose of fitting. The screw steamer Harbinger, Mr.• 14 indsay, of tlie Harbinger, recen tly bought General Screw C om p an y, for the Cape li ne, left here for London this afternoon: 20 LI, St. 7t. 20 20 20 L 7 20 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA EVENING, JANUARY 19 1857 CHARLES MACKAY'S NEW POEMS. MARKET NEWS.— ( 'nis lay ) Under Green Leaves. By Charles Mackay. G. Routledge and Company. Another volume of verse Isy Charles Mackay— another collection of those graceful fugitive pieces which have made his name so pleasantly familiar to us all. Who will not welcome this little book with all imaginable cordiality and cheerfulness ? And none the less cheerfully, and none the less cordially, because of that strange rumour just now beginning to be whispered about in literary circles, to the effect that the writer of these Charming lyrics, the poet of "E g eria" and the " Salamandrine," meditates venturing very soon upon a lecturing tour through the United States of America, in the footsteps of W. M. Thackeray. Whenever Charles Mackay may venture across the Atlantic upon this new enterprise, he may count upon carrying with him the good-wishes and God-speed of many a warm heart left behind him in old Eugland. And none the less securely, " we guess," may he " calculate" upon securing to himself a most genial reception at the hands of brother Jonathan--with whom his many brilliant, and some of them glorious, " Songs" are, if possible, more popular even than among ourselves. His " Ballads," his Lyrics," his " Voices from the Crowd," his " Voices from the Moun tain," in fact, every one of his miscellaneous poetical productions havin g contr ib ute d f rag ments of me lody long since ringing familiarly like " household words" under th e roo f b eams o f t h a t va st scattered family, whose m o th er - tongue i s no o th e r than our grand, old, composite, nervous, manly Anglo- Saxon language. A language echoing like a won drous rebeck across the Atlantic in the songs of Mackay and of L ong f e ll ow ! The title select e d by our popular songster for his new poems—{Hi s " P oems ' generally, by the way, being the theme, we un d erstan d , o f hi s project e d Lectures and R ea di ngs i n t h e U n it e d S ta t es }— w ill prove alluring enough with the majority of his read ers we conjecture : being in every respect, to say the least of it, sufficiently refreshing I " Under Green Leaves"—a collection of short poems advisedly grouped together under that suggestive heading—. having been every one of them, it is intimated, composed, literally and actually, " under green leaves," in the sweet fresh air, among the verdure of one or otker of the many lovely suburbs clustering (north, south, east, west) about this groat smoky Babel of London. Refreshingly welcome then, say we, must every volume of verse, so called, and so written, by Charles Mackay, be to every man who has been "long in city pent," so long pent, that he pants at last for a breath of fresh air, and a sight of the green fields, and of the green boughs, and of the blue open heavens. And here—through this book—he may see them all, and drink deep draughts of that same fresh air fragrant with the perfume of the country—as through an opened lattice ! Apart, however, from the allurement visible on the title-page, there is the 'witching charm of an old old friend from Shakspere in the form of that little golden scrap of a quotation : " Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither !" Hearken, however, to our modern songster himself as he thus " tunes his throat" to " the sweet bird's note" in such a lyric as the following TILL ME NO MORE. Tell me no more amid these silent mountains, Beneath these green leaves, musical with song, Lull'd by the whisper of these upland fountains, The old unvarying tale of guilt and wrong. Leave me alone one day, with Nature's beauty— One day—one night—an alien to my care : The needful rest will nerve nay soul to duty, And give me strength to struggle and to bear. If it be true that love is born to sorrow, That Hope deceives, and Friendship fades away-- Let the sad wisdom slumber till to-morrow, Nor stand between me and this summer-day. If I am free to dive in Truth's deep ocean, I will be free to linger on the shore, To watch the billows in their wild commotion, And hear far off their melancholy roar. Pearls for the diver battling with the billows ! Pearls for his mournful pomp, and lonely pride!— , For me, this day, a harp upon the willows, And flowers fresh-gather'd by the water's side. Or, again, where he thus questions himself in a sylvan mood of reverie as to the— FAIREST AND DEAREST. Who shall be fairest? Who shall be rarest? Who shall be first in the songs that we sing ? She who is kindest, When Fortune is blindest, Bearing through winter the blooms of the spring; Charm of our gladness, Friend of our sadness, Angel of Life, when its pleasures take wing ! She shall be fairest, She shall be rarest, She shall be first in the songs that we sing 1 Who shall be nearest, Noblest, and deare3t. Named but with hon our and p ride evermore ? .He, the undaunted, Whose banne^ is planted On Glory's high ramparts and battlements hoar; Fearless of danger, To falsehood a stranger, Looking not back while there's Duty before ! He shall be nearest, He shall be dearest, • He shall be first in our hearts evermore ! About the finest thing in the whole volume, to our thinking, is the poem solemnly entitled " Storm Approaching"—nineteen thrilling and impressive stanzas, written in a grand and almost awful tone of mingled warning and exhortation. Here are a few of these stanzas—the eloquence and passion of which will be readily recognised We live in a time of sorrow, A time of doubt and storm, When the thunder-clouds hang heavy, And the air is thick and warm ; When the far-off lightnings g ather On the verge of the darkening !Icy, And the birds of the air, fear - st ricken, To nest and cover fly : Look up ! ye drowsy people, There's desolation nigh. CORN EXCHANGE. Most of the country markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat, in which only a limited business was doing, and inferior parcels were rather cheaper. Barley was in good request, at very full prices. In the value of other articles very little change took place. The continental markets have been tolerably firm for all kinds of produce. The American advices bring a dull sale for both wheat and flour. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were but moderate. The imports from abroad were 12,749 qrs of wheat, 12,231 barley, 17,752 oats, 1316 beans, 335 peas, 120 tares, 1,880 linseed, 10,970 rapeseed, 2,303 sundry seeds, 184 sacks and 4,607 barrels of flour. The supply of English wheat in to-day's market, received coastwise and by land carriage, was very moderate, yet the bulk of the samples, considering the prevailing damp wea ther, were in fair condition. Selected qualities of both red and white were, in most instances, disposed of at last Mon day's quotations ; but middling and inferior kinds ruled very dull, and, in some cases, prices were the turn in favour of buyers. At the close of the market a large por tion of the supply was unsold, although factors would have taken is. to 2s. less money to effect a clearance. We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Although the demand ruled extremely inactive, importers were firm in their demands, and in the few sales effected, last week's currency was supported. Floating cargoes of grain realised former terms. We were well supplied with both English and foreign barley. The trade was much loss active than last week, yet prices were well supported, except grinding sorts, which gave way is per quarter. There was a dull inquiry for malt, yet prices wero steady. The show of oats was on the increase, nevertheless, the oat trade ruled firm at full quotations. Both beans and peas were in fair supply, and steady re quest at fully late rates. We had a dull trade for flour at barely last week's prices. Norfolk qualities were offering at is per 2801bs. less money. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red .. •• now 535 to 673 Ditto— • .... old —a —a Ditto, White new 563 74e Ditt0........ old —s —a :Norfolk and Lin coln, Rod, old —s —3 Ditto new •• 525 G 53 aye —Old •••• •• —e —a , Now ............ 3ss 425, Barley—Grinding... 31e 33a Malting . •• ..•• 36s 383 "Ohevalier•—• . . 42s 528 alt—Snfrolkand Nor folk •• .• •• 873 773 Brown 63s 613 Kingston sndWare 76a 78e Malt—Chevalier .. •• 76s to 79s Oats Yorkshire and Lincolntik., Feed 21s 25s Potato Youghal !tad Cprk Black. ... •.• ISs 22 Cork, White ..... 21; 26s Scotch, Feed •• • . 26s 29s Beans—Tlck ... ••.• .• 34s 35s Pigeons .. • 40• 43‘ Peas—Grey ...• ...... 363 393 Maple . ........ • . 40s 41s ...39s 42s Boilers .........40s 43 , Flour—Town-made... 58s 60s Suffolk .. ...• •• .. 42s 43s Stooktn & Diortolk 42s 431 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Very limited supplies of foreign stock arrived in the port of London last week—the total import being only 1,237 head. In the corresponding week in 1856 we re ceived 1,105 ; in 1855, 2,371 ; in 1854, 1,996 ; in 1853, 3,951; in 1852, 1,508; and in 1851, 2,668 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WENN. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Rotterdam lOl ... 451 ... ... 115 ... Flarlingen Antwerp T0ta1.... 377 ... 644 ... ... 216 ... The yearly comparison of weekly Imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1856 555 ... 563 ... ... 187 ... 1855 857 ... 1,300 ~. ... 212 ... 2 1854 767 ... 1,007 ... -- ... 197 ... 25 1853 537 ... 2,873 ... - ... 539 ... 5 1852 289 ... 1,631 ... ... 2' , 8 ... 1851 4lO ... 1,918 ... ... 297 ... 53 There was a very limited show of foreign stock in our market to-day ; but the arrivals of beasts from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, were season ably good, and a full average quality. Owing, chiefly, to the mildness of the weather, the beef trade was heavy, and prices, compared with Monday last, declined fully 2d per 81bs, the extreme value of the best Scots not exceeding 5s per Slbs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,750 Scots and short-horns ; from other parts of England, 3)0 of various breeds ; from Scotland, 450 Scots, and from Ireland, 130 oxen. We had a very limited show of all breeds of sheep, but their general weight and condition were good. The mut- ton trade was brisk, at a further advance in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. The best old Downs realised 5s 6d per Sibs. Very few calves were in the market, and the veal trade ruled brisk, at an improvement in prices of 4d per 81bs. The best calves were worth 6s per Sibs. Pigs were in moderate supply, and fair request, at last week's quotations. Per Bibs to sink the offal. a. d. a. d.i Ulterior Beasts.... 3 4 to 3 61 Second qnality....3 8 4 Ol Prime large oxen 4 4 4 8i Prime Scots, dm 5 10 5 I Enforior Sheep ...4 0 4 4 Second quality ...4 6 4 10' Prime erse.-wlled.s 0 5 2, TOTAL SUPPLY. Boasts . 3heep s. d. d. IPrimeSonthdown 5 4 5 6 I..*,rge ergo. calves 4 4 5 6 IPrime small do 6 $ 6 0 ;Largo hogs .Small porkers 4 6 5 2 'Suckling ealveg 23 0 30 0 Quarter old pigs 22 0 28 0 FOREIGN 81/PPL7. 8ea5t5....... . . SOS Sheep A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Groat Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, Jan. 21, 1856, and this day, Monday, Jan. 19, 1857. Per Sibs, to sink the offals. Jan. 21, 1856. s. d. s. d. , Coarse And inferior beasts 2 10 to 3 0 Second quality ditto ... 3 2 3 6 1 Prime largo oxen ... 3 8 4 0 Prime Scots, &c „. 4 2 4 6 Coarse and inferior sheep 210 3 2 Second quality ditto ... ... 3 4 3 S Prime coarse woollod ditto 310 4 2 Primo Southdown ditto 4 4 4 8 Lambs 0 0 0 Largo coarse calves 4 2 410 Prime small ditto i e 5 6 1 Large hogs 3 8 4 2 Neat small porkers 4 4 5 0 Beasts_ 3,775 Sheep ... 20,330 Calves_ ... 71 g Pis „, ,„ 460 'Jan.l9, 1857 Is. d. a. d. 11 4to 3 6 ;13 8 4 0 1 1 4 4 4 8 15 10 5 0 1,4 0 4 4 114 6 4 5 2 1.5 4 5 6 10 0 0 0 1,4 4 5 6 ;5 8 6 0 1 1 3 f 4 4 14 6 5 2 4,072 15,420 Kneel down in the dust and ashes Kneel down, ye high and great. Who call yourselves the bulwarks SIIPPLINS ON SALE, Jan. 22, 1855.—Beasts, 3,161 sheep, 21,310 ; calves, 32 ; pigs, 315. January 23, 1854.—Beasts, 4,513; sheep, 17,249 ; calvep, 61 ; pigs, 243. Or fathers of the State, And clear your sleepy vision From selfishness and scorn, And mingle with the people, To learn what they have borne — Their suffering and their sadness, Toiling forlorn, forlorn Awake ! awake ! ye sleepers, There's danger over all, When the strong shall be sorely shaken, W A he n n d t t o h w e e w rs ea o k n s t h h a e ll hi go il -ttoopthste wallandin g Shall topple at a word, And the principles of ages Shall b 3 question'd with the sword, And the heart's blood of the nations Like fountains shall be pour'd. When a fierce and a searchin,, Spirit Shall stalk o'er the startlaearth, And make great Thrones the playthings Of his madness or his mirth ; When ancient creeds and systems, In the fury of his breath, Shall whirl like the leaves of Autumn, When the north wind belloweth— And drift away unheeded, To the deep, deep seas of death. The first large rain-drops patter, The low wind moans and sings— Awake, ere the tempest gather, Rulers, and priests, and kings ! Ere the thunder-clouds aro open'd, That wall and flank the sky; Ere the whirlwind leaves its caverns, And the shafts of vengeance fly— Look up ! ye drowsy people, There's desolation nigh ! Enough, however, in the way of extract. The book must speak for itself—it tvi/t speak for itself—tor Charles Mackay's poems ever command an audience to say the least of them—respectful, observant, and interested. An audience that will not fail to listen for a while absorbed—while they hear sung to them in well-known accents the griefs of "Hornyhand," the excuses of " Shackaback," lyrical pieces about "The Cobbler " and about "The Musician," about " Cracklethorn " and about " Lullingsvrorth," about " Gideon Gray , and " Castle Athelstone." Flaws there are in these verses, easily distinguish able, here and there, as we turn them over casu ally—the book being in no respect, of course, that great world's wonder, "one entire and perfect chry solite." Bat we care not in its instance to point them out—X.le work coming before us in no respect with any very grandiose pretensions. It is musi cal, genial, and unaffected. And, therefore, only to be thought of in a kindred mood to that in which Wordsworth called to mind the bed of daf fodils moving in the breeze : when he spoke of them thus tenderly in the mere remembrance—. " And still my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils !" And so, too, in a mood as tender and as natural, and occasionally with the " tears in his voice," Charles Mackay--crowning himself with a fresh bay-wreath—sings to us UNDER GREEN LEAVES 1 THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Reports of the deputation of shareholders appointed at the last half yearly meeting, held at Bristol in August last, and of the directors in reply, from which it appears that the deputation and the directors hold opposite views with regard to the management of the company's affairs. It will therefore be the business of the shareholders to decide the points in dispute at the ensuing half-yearly meeting. The result of the efforts of the deputation of shareholders is stated in the following sentence in their report :—" The committee regret to report the failure of all their efforts to bring about, in conference with the directors, any alterations in the constitution of this board," DOCK WARRANTS. KINGSFORD AND SWINFORD v. MERRY. MEETING THIS DAY. This afternoon a meeting of the leading capitali.4s, bankers, merchants, and traders of the City of London, convened by the association for promoting the interests of the traders of the port of London, was held at the London Tavern, Bishop gate-street, to consider the pre sent state of the law with respect to the pledges of goods as lately laid down in the Court of Exchequer, in the case of Kingsford and Swinford v. Merry, the particu lars of which were so fully stated in Saturday's Sun. Baron Rothschild, M.P., in the chair. The meeting was numerously attended. Amongst them were—Alderma❑ Sir J. Duke, M.P., Mr. Crawford, Mr. Crregson, M.P Mr. John Hall, Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. James Cook, Mr. Weguelin (Governor of the Bank of England), Mr. Gasiiott, G. Seovell, A. Hastie, &c., The following resolutions were unanimously agreed That the decision of the Court of Error, in the case of Kingsford and Swinford v. Merry, appears to this meeting to involve a principle which is calculated to render the recognised and well-understood course and practice of trade insecure and uncertain, and to destroy confidence in delivery orders, warrants, bills of lading, and other mer cantile documents essential to the safe transaction of busi ness and development of trade, and that immediate action for remedying this evil be desirable. That a committee, consisting of Baron Rothschild, Messrs. Gassiot, Gregson, Hall, G. Scovell, A. Hastie, Cowie, James Cook,' Moffatt, Crawford, Hodgson, and Frances, with power to add to their number, be appointed to confer with the Government, in the view of procuring, by legislative enactment, suc h a f u ll an d i m mediate settle. ment of the state of the law as shall be calculated to afford due security to the negotiations of trade, and to protect tha Lona fide holder of those commercial documents, which, both by the custem of trade and the necessities of coal merue, are recognised as obligatory among merchants. A committee was then appointed, after which thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting ter. ' minated. SHARE MARKETS—(This Day.) KA.II,W Ys. AaIL WA TS. Cloqins Prico4 Saturday. ttnainess done this day Eh•. j. Arabg, Nor_thg. r cwt and Rasta. Jr.21:1 Belrl,st Eallymtr, Binning. Wolverb Stour Vali. y 13irkenhd. Lancet. 6 Cheshire Junct..... Do. Chesh. & Birk., Do., do. Blackburn Blyth &Tyne origi..a £25 (issd. at £4: ( Bristol and. Mzete , Calerto an. Chester & flolyheed ( Cork and Ihr.doa Cork, Rack, &Pas , Cornwall. Do. A Do. B 'Dnblin6lßelfastJunc Dun. P. da Aber. Joe. East Au 311 an Eastern Counties Esst. Tinton ' A Stl Be., B. Stock. Do., New East Kent East Lfincashire East Suffolk Do. Edintnirei di I ;law, Edinb. and Peebles }Min. Prth as DUIVit Forth & Clyde Jan • Furness. I Glasgow 'ix S. Westrn Great N. of Seotind Great Northern Do., A. Stock --- Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster lit Carlisle Do. Thirds.. Do. - New Thirds Lsneash. andYorkPh Do., Wet. aiding I.ln Do. Sonthrort London k Blackwal 1 Lond. Bright &S.Cst Lond. sead N. Westn 'Do. Fifths 1D0.101.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London end S. Westn Lndiadrry& Coleraine findndrry. & Enniek. Wanch.Mief.&Lincln Wetropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland )o. Birmng. & Derb, Ifidld. G. West. (Ire, , Do. Half Shares isweastle dt Carlislr Nwpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry at Enniskille Newry, Warrenpoini and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Counties Un North British Nth. Devon Rail & Dock Stock )0., A Stock Do. B Stock /.isstern—Borwi, k )0. do. Extension 'Do.do.G.N.E.?nrol , Do. Leeds Do. York Worth London ste▪ ad, and City Jn. lorth Staffordshire forth Western ▪ & S. Westrn. June )x., Wore., & Wolv. Joe-enrol:lth Rhymney '.:sottish Central Scot. N E.Abrdn St. Do. Soot. Mid. St SitinzbournekShecr. +Datil Devon ,South Eastern... ..... .1 south Wales 4. Yrksh. tt Riv. Da, )0 -iaines, Wok. &We' Stockton & Derilng Do., do., 1t;54 Do., do., 1855 itoeiten di Hartlop Lab Vale . )o. Pref., No. 1...., rhamee Hay. D.& R, Vale of Neath IWaterfd. Kilkenn WaterforddcLimeric: West Cornwall__ :Vest End of Londoi and Crystal Palace. Do. A . Do. 8.. 1 West London__ Do. First Class Do. Second Class... Wimbledn kfOrov.lon COLO , sombay, rsaroctft,.nd Cen.lndia, g. 5 p. c Do. 'Ceylon A shares._ Do. B. do ►emerara Eastern Bengal &tat Indian A and B, g• 5 1 3 . Do. Ex. C, gu. 5 p. c Do. do. D, gu. 5 p. c. Do.li p.c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do Geelong k Melbourne guar. 5 per gent—. Gd. Trunk of Canada Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till'6:3 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. (It. In. Pen. g. 5 p. e. Do New, guar. 5 p. c Gt. Western of Canada Do. Now Do. Bde., payable '57 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73 do. Do. do., '73, without, option Siadras, guar. 4 p.c Do. do., 5 p. 0. Do. 44 p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. 5 p. c •cindo, guar. 5 p. c Do ISt. Andrew's and Quebec (A) trait. tntwerp&Rott Ard.onnes .3olgian Eastn. June Deziors to Graissess,c ,Buff. & Lk. Hur. Ry. 'Carmeaux & Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish eastern of France N. New Euphrates Valley Lit. Central of Fran( e cheat Luxembourg Italian Junction Lake Collet. & Basle Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian. Lucca & Pist. 5 p. c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons is Mediterran. Maria Antonia Do. do. New sif tmnr di Liege Do. do., 6 P. c. Pref Northern of France. NorwegianTrunkPre` Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Recife & San. Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c. Rome and Frascati, 'Royal Danish Royal Swedish iambre and Menge, 1 Do. 5i p. cent. Pref ionthern of France Vest Flanders,.,,, Do. 54 per c. Pref._ `v. &N. W. of Franc, Western of Austria West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do. Sper eent.pref 1 &stand .............. 1 fOINT.g'. kustraluis .............. Bank of Egypt Bank of London CoL Bk.& Ln. C. Britiih N. Amorican Marti". Bank of Anis Chrtd. Bok. of India, Australia, & China City 'Colonial Commorcial of Lond Eng. Scot. &Aus.Cht Lond. Mart. Bk. of Austrats Ditto Now London sad County Lnd.&E.Bnk g. Corp London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminster National Pro.ef Eng Do. New National Bank New South Wales ! Oriental Rk. Corp Ottoman Bank erovincia. of Ireland Uo. Now , Aus B kGo I na c o ionth Au3tralin 'Unica of ituttralla.. Do. New union of &maw. Unity Muzual Western ik of Lond 4i :5 E 4 9 19i -- 20 174 -- 18 13 1 - 14 - 94 61i 62 37 38 .» 19 - 20 9i - 40 - 42 28 - 30 7 - 5 Si - 95 53i - 5* - ... 34i - 3N 94 - 96 7 - 8 92 - 93 76 - 78 [22 124 11 113 66 66! 60 65 6$ - 72 5 - 6 5 6 96 963 - 112 -- 114 106 1061 201 - 211 104 - 101 - Id 106; - 1071 33i 34 821 - 63 - 55 .. ""' 14! 61 - 53 36 - 39 4O .. . ... 84 - 85 - 30' 3 - 2{ 18i - 181 60 61 98 - 102 it - 8 - 8i 10 it 27i - 286 LOS 108 254 -26 A 71 73 49 11 1i ... 14 174 18 744 75 841 - 85 5 3d 3 2 14 16 38 • 40 •" ... - ... i6i : 254 - ... . 000 - ... 6 - 8 2 - 4 4i - 51 ... - - . AL. i - 1 1 = ii 103 - 110 11.. 2p ••• 21i - 22 51 - 53 82 - 83 20i - 21 1p 241 - 25 21 - Zip 99 - 100 118 123 11S - 123 108 110 19j 19 21 22 d p 2 ip aGN. 6 6, 13 - 2ip. 2 pl 4 5 d par 33 9. —10 i par 4 p • • 4 41 6 - 6lp 16; 7 - 8 181 - 19, 37. - 38 8 - 91 541 - 55 53 - 55 k a P! 16 20 1 11 8* 9 8i 91 — an 41 41 9* 10 34 35 ISA.NX b. 61 -..- 63 4 ( 1 -- i d 69 -- 71 to. '''' ••. i - 18 18i - 18 18! •. -"' ••• .„. .... ••• . . -- ... ..... `"' N• ••• - ..• 49 - 51 38 - 39 1/ 101 .. - .. 35 - 37 63 - 65 7 - 9 11 8 d $ a ; 6d LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ! Fs 1. RAILWAYS. all all all all . all all 100 all all all 100 181 LeastA Company, London & N. West. L. &N. W. Calodon... &E.O Gt. N rthn. l E. Count. ,Caldonian.l Gt. Wenn Yk. New. & Borw. Y.&NMG ;Do ...... Do 8. Eastc•::: Do Poto $t Co I Do Norfolk ,Do L.& N. W & Midid. 9tekton & Darlingt. Midland.. En. Conn. E. Count. 'Do 'Do L. &N.W Do GtNortkn Lancash& Yorksh. T. Brassey M.llClos.n Stockt. k Darlingt. Do GtWeatn Closing Prices Saturday. 96 - 98 98 - 102 11 - 13 133 -- 135 4 4i ••• '"' ... - *** 109 - 111 12i - 13 23 -21 108 - 110 2i - 2i i - 93 56 - 58 ... ......' ... 132 -- iiii • •• ...... ••• - 9 - ..• - ••• 33 - 34 88 - 91 IDo ~ PREFERENCE SHARRS. BlythandTyne 10per a. pref. (issd. at 501) Brim. Rt Ex. 4 p. c. St . Do. 4 p. C. Shares Caledn. £lO 4i p.c. Chos. Ho. an. 5A pc Do. do. Pref. 5 poi• C. Cork &Bandons p.c. Dua.Prth .41 Aber. J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6 p, c. Do. do Cis. C 7 p. c. Sas. Co. Ea , spc No . Do. No. 2 - Do. New 6 p. o. St . Emit ITn., G. 6 p. c Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debontr.Sh, Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lama4h. 6 p.ots &W. York..f. sthf, Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. eh Ed. Prth. &Dun. 4 p.c Furness, 5 p. c. Glee. & S. W. G. 5 p. c. Great Northn. 6 p. c Do. 5 p. 0. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem. Do. 4i p. c D 0.5 p. c., Red. at E p. c. Pm Gt.N. of Scot. let Pre Gt. S. &W. (Ireland; Do. 4per 0. Prof. S Gt. W.(B. &H. Exspo Do. con. red. 4 p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irrer' C. Do. sp. . red. prof Do. Birm. Pref. Sh.. . Do. Chester 8 p. Do. do. 5 p. c. d 0. .. Do. Birm. Qua. Stk Do. Ches. Qua. Sh.. Do. do. do Do. do. de Lan. &York. F. X 2 Do. 6 P. 0. Stock L0n.&13. G.5pc.N0.1 Do. P., spc. St.No.2 De. New Onar.6 p.. Do. do. 5 p. c.,No. 4 Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. 0t... Lon. & S. W. 7 per ot late 3d Shares & Color. Sh Londy. & Ennis. Sh W.,5..& L„6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £6 ... Do. do. 3} per cent. Warypt .& Carl. 4 p o Do. 4 per oent Do. do. Consol.6 p.o.St Do. Con.Br.Bir. 6pc Do. 4i p. c. Prof. • t Ditto L. & H. Pref. St New., Aber., dm, pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 p ct. with optn. till '66 Norfk. Deb, 4 p.c. sh Do. Pref. 5 p. c. St , e Do. 5 pc. Ext.,1846 D. 5i per c.pf.,1847 Do. We. pe.,1847 North British Do 7/. Preference N. E. Berw, 4 p.a. P. Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.0..N0.1 Do. do. Qr5.,1848 Do.Yorkß.& S. Pur North Staffordshire 1 0x,W0,&W., 6 pc.., Do. 6 p.c. Redeem. Soot. Cent. ,New Prof Sc .N. E. A.bor. g 6 pe Do. d0.,7 p. c. pf. st. D0.d0., 3i p.c. pf. et South Devon io ii 4; - 5 6 - 108 - 112 i iP * - iP i 2 - 124 ... '.... 11411 - 76, 118 2 120 [lO - 112 .02 - 104 62 - 64 9i - 10, ••• "" 6 - 6 93 - 95 83 - 85 98 109 10 - 101 16 - 171 10 - 10, 73 - 75 191 - 20, 9i - 10,1 141 - 154 .37 139 ~ '.. .•• 139 - 142 118 - 120 157 - 159 63 i - 70 ... '''' 137 - 139 98 - 100 89 - 91 Do. 9xed,4i per cent 9. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent Do. Fixed 4i p c eh 3. Wales Gus. 4 p. C Do. do. 4i p. S.Yorksh.4p.e.Gnar Rock.& Dar., 5 p. c Do. do. do & Hartl. g. 5 p. e. till July 1, '56 Ri'aterfd. & Kilk. 6 pa 1 - li; • 1.. '''' •e • ... ''' ... 1103 =165 93 —95 Idl ... - ... lizci —lO9 - l l.. 113 -6 105 - 110 163 23 - 24 102 - 10 10i - 101 27~- 28i 2 - 3p 3 = il MINES. 108 all lAnglo Californian ... ... 20 7 ' Australian 1 li 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) ... „, 60 all Bltenar. Iron & Coal .., .., 20 14 British Iron 74 84 35 264 Brazilianlmp.(issued at E 5 pm.) 30 all Do. Cocaes .N: finish; 3 34 20 15 Do. St. Jclin Del Rey 16 18 1 4 Clarendon. Cons. Kin, Co. of J ,maica p in 40 all Cobre Copper . 57 59 57 5 14 Colonial Gold — ••• St. all Copper Min. of Eng 30 35 25 all Do. Prof. 74 p. cent 25 27 ... 1C Copiapo. l3 15 2 all Fortuna i id 20 all General — ••• 1 all Gt • NnggetVeinßeg 1 4 41 all Great Polgooth. i 4 5 all Gt Wheal Vor Unite-1 54 6 1 all Liberty 3 all Linares. 8 84 5 14 Lusitanian . ld 44 1 all Nfariquita — 1 1 all Now Granada 1 all Nouveau Monde - i 2) all Pontgi.Sil. & Le. Min 8 10 5 1 Port Philip 1 all Quartz Rock — ... 50 all Rhymney Iron ...... 15 all Do. New 7 9 30 1151 Santiago de Cuba 3 34 ... 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 14 11 1 all South Australian ... ... 1 all Do. Scrip . • ... 1 I all Do. 10 per cent Prof ... ~. ... 44 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 1 10 9 Fin Croft 3l 4 1 284 all United Mexican 34 4 1 all Waller 1 all West Mariposa it 1 1 12s. Worthing Mining of) Australia 1 ... -- MISCELLANEOUS. 25 19 , nstransu Agricnit. 22 24 10 .11 kustraln. Royal Mail .. —1/ 10 all -lerlin Water Works 5; 51 50 40 irit. American Land 40 - 45 100 3e. i Canada l3l - 131 St. 10 ,3. 0 co. 6p.c. Janacjnly 110 1104 110} 1 St. 100 Do. 6 p.c. Feb St Aug ... ... St. 100 Do. 6p c. Mar & Sept .., 5 all Crystal Palace 24 21 5 all Do. Preference 5ll 5 1 1. 51 4 all Crystal Pal. of France ... .„. I 4 Duston Iron Ore ... ... 20 18 Eastern Steam — • St. 100 Electric Telegraph B3 •••• 91 90 I all Electric Teleg. of Ir ... 5 all Eu.dtAus Cop Sm Co 14 11 25 all Gen. Ir Sc Col (lim.) ... ... 15 14 Gon. Steam Navigat. ... Nswetwrai.. Sha r e s " 11 all General Screw Steam 6; 61 20 5 London Discount 4 all bond. Gen. Omnibus 34 31 31 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig ... ... 10 all Aeditoran. Elec. Tel. .. - ... , 10 all klexieankS.Amerion. 3 :i 1 3 25 5 Nat. Discount Co i - psl 25 5 Do. New - p 54 10 5 Netherlands Land 1 4 10 all Do. Do. Do. 8p c P iss at 1 d 3i 4p 2 1°°5 5 0 184):714 New B. &N. S. Land ... •• • .. 50 . 1 aillll N e .S ne . in W nt: „ l Gov. sp. c. D. .. 5 1 Do. IP . 1 2s. o A r f . E ll : i n t d r pr o . so s i l a s e . S: a t e i li n a ' r m . : 4d . 3 1 all NDN Peel r:t. Bil R .. " 1a I 4 . i I 11 . l 2l. . d a G rB as tlrienti:l67 6 —... P 9 Pm 5 1 0 10 ,11 s e D o o t .. A . N u e zi -21 24 100 60 Royal Mail S;;;;;r7 4 : . 4 , . 5 p 1 all Ditto New ll 1 2 , 2 35 6 all South Austral:L an d ..... 37 1 al: Stibmar. Tel. Scrip i 1 1 al D). Re , ;istered., i 1 20 :-, 't`rimpt , 1,. Co. 11. Cokri. .. .. I ... 1.54 Van Diemen's Land 45 ' j 47 „, „ VW ).6p.c.Jim&July ... .. 2 ~. Business this day NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL. The supplies of meat on sale here slaughtered in London are very moderate for the time of year ; but rather large quantities have come to hand from Scotland and the pro vinces. The trade generally is steady, as follows : Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. a. d. a. d. n. 4 Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Mutton, Inferior 3 6 310 Do., middliug 3 6 310 Do., middling 4 0 4 4 Do. prime large.. 4 0 4 4 Do., prime 4 6 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 6 4 10 Veal 3 8 4 10 Pork, large 3 8 4 4 Pork, small 4 8 5 4 BOROUGH HOP. There is a moderate demand for nearly all kinds of hops, at last week's quotations. The imports have been 7 bales from Rotterdam. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 5s to 51 12s ; Weald of Kent, 31 3s to 41 10s; Sussex, 31 Os to 3115 s ; yearlings, 1/ lOs to 31 57. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. About average time-of-year supplies of potatoes have come to band since Monday last, coastwise and by railway. The imports have been 21 sacks from Limerick, 60 tons from Weener, and 83 tons and 5) bags from Rotterdam. The demand is tolerably firm, as follows : ' York Regents, 90s to 120 s per ton; Kent and Essex do., 90s to 120 s ; Lincolns, 70s to 100 s ; Scotch do., 90s to 115 s ; Do., reds, 80s to 90s Irish whites, 70s to 80s ; Germans, 70s to 80s. WOOL. Our market generally continues veil firm as to price; but the business doing in it, owing to the high value of money, is by no means extensive. Last week's imports were, from Hamburg 11 bales, Constantinople 237, the Cape 596, Ostend 11, Taganrog 1,318, Leghorn 16, and Algoa Bay 1,268. The following are the current rates of English wool :- Down tegs, is 50 to is 6 d ; Down ewes, is 3.d to is 5d ; half-bred hogs, is 4id to is 5d ; half-bred wethers, is 3;d to is 4d ; Bent fleeces, is 4d to is 5d ' • Leicester do., is 4d to is 5d ; combing skins, is to is 4 d ; blanket wool, 10d to is 2d ; flannel wool, lld to is 3d ; and old skin, is 5d to la 6Ad per lb. SEEDS. The stocks of linseed are getting short, and imports con tinue scanty. The demand is firm, and prices are well supported. Linseed cakes are in better request, at extreme quotations. Rape and oilseeds meet a ready sale, at full prices. Turnip•White,per bush. 20s to 21g swede • • •... 205 21s tangsrd, Brown ••• • .• 203 225 White, new ••• • .. lOs 12s Tares, Winter, new.... 6 s 6d 6s Od Canary, per quarter .. 68s 74s aye grass (new) .• •• .. 24s 34s flover,Rod Eng. (cwt.) 6!s 76s White •• ••••• • • • 688 803 Foreign lied.. •• •• 68s 758 White •• • • 68s 803 Trefoil, new.. ••.• • • 288 3 'Carraway .• 441 4Gs coriander •• .• •• 22s 24s il'empseed,per quarter 42s 445 Linseed, Eng.:iowing.. 681 70s Crushing s6s 64s Baltic •• ass 60s Odessa .........• 62s 62s 6d (AnsoedCake, pr. ton— Itnglish —.lOl 0, 10 lOs F oreign, porton 1010■ 11/15a Rape or..lakea, per ton 51 lOs 61 10 Rapest , ei, pr qr. ...... 82a 64a TALLOW. Our market continues very firm, anti prices rule higher than on Monday last. To-day, P.Y.0., on the spot, is sell ing at 618 6d to 62s per cwt, and 61s 6d for March deli very. Rough fat 3s 4d per 81bs. 1853. 1854. 185,5• 1856. 1857. .1_ 13,641 61s 9d to Od j 2,09 81,428 856 78,089 628 6d Stock this day Price of Y. C Delivery last week .. Ditto from June 1.... krrivals last week.. Ditto from June! Price of Town 43,748 1 45a 6tt to —a 01 2,045 68,444 1,528 71,564 47a 31 41,245 623 2d to —3 MI 2,365 70,063 269 87,936 64q Oct 34.806 21.973 578 Oato 588 Od to 8 Od " 1,451 1,417 80,692 62,900 1,700 2,050 51706 .56,123 518 Od 58S 6d The waters of the Seine fell yesterday tokli metres at the scale of the Pont Royal. Mr. Balfe, the popular comp os er, is at present in Paris, and has been laid up by an a ttack of bronchiti s , but he is now convalescient. He ie, it is stat ed, engaged on the composition of a new o p era on an 'Dogma' subject. THE LATE DOUBLE MURDER LT WALWORTH. ADDITIONAL AND EXTRAORDINARY PAR TICULARS. Inspector Young, with one or two officers of the L division, are actively pursuing their inquiries, and using every possible effort to unravel the extraordinary mys teries and strong suspicion which surround the shocking murder of the two children in Four Acre-street, Wel worth, but have not yet arrived at any satisfactory result beyond the very strong suspicion that the unfor tunate mother is net the actual perpetrator of the fearful crime. There is one circumstance that strikes them as somewhat extraordinary, and that is, that though Bacon, the father of the children, returned to town on Wed. nesday morning, it was not until the Friday night fol lowing he said anything about the alleged robbery of money, watch, and suit of clothes, though he had fre• quent oppor unities to do so; and that the accounts he then and subsequently gave were most unsatisfactory and conflicting. In the course of his inquiries, Inspector Young had found that, though representing he had 71. by him, Bacon had applied for assistance to his brother-in-law in the country, and that he sent 145.; and the fact is ad mitted by Bacon himself without any satisfactory reason. It was further ascertained that in July last Bacon had been tried at the Lincoln Assizes, on a charge of arson in setting fire to his house at Stamford in that county, but was acquitted, and subsequently re ceived 2801. from the insurance company. Tiae most startling circumstances connected with the affair 'remains to be told. From facts communi cated to the officers it appears that the mother of Bacon had a life interest in some house property in the town of Stamford, and that on her death the property passed into the possession of her son, subject to a few legacies to relatives. About 17 or 18 months ago the mother was invited to, and did dine with her son on a Sunday, and soon after dinner complained of severe cramps in the stomach, which continued to her death, which took place on Monday night or early on Tuesday morning. The medical man who attended her gave it as his opinion that death had been caused by a "cram) in the stomach," and having given a certificate to this effect the body was in terred without an inquest or any judicial investigation. Recent events, however, have given rise to various surmises on the part of the inhabitants of Stamford and its vicinity on the subject, and it is said to be the intention of the authorities there to have the body of Mrs. Bacon exhumed, in order that it may be carefully examined, and the contents of the stomach and bowels submitted to the necessary scientific tests, and an inquest held on it. There is another matter connected with this mysterious affair, and one that is not the least, as exciting the strong suspicion of the officers in favouring the belief that the dreadful crime had been committed on the Sunday night ; and that is, the fact that during the whale of Monday the neighbours next door, though generally annoyed by the screams of the children, did not hear a single cry ; on the contrary, they describe the place as perfectly silent and free from noise. Inspector Young has proceeded to Stamford to prose cute his inquiry there, and it is hoped, from the perseverance and intelligence of that officer, that he will be able, by the next examination of Mrs. Bacon, to throw some light on the mysterious affair. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Jan. 19.—Wind at noon N.W.—Light airs, and hazy weather. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 18. —Wind W.S. W.—Arrived—Ger sion, from Copenhagen, for St. Croix; Ada, London, for Faro, leaky ; H.M.S. Devastation, the westward. Sailed —Spirit of the Age, for Shanghai. PLYMOUTEI, Jan. 18.—Wind W. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 18.—Sailed—Orinoco (s.), for St. Thomas. SWANSISA, Jan. 13.—Wind N.W.—Sailod—Allies, for the Cape of Good Hope. DOVER, Jan. 18.--A brig, bottom up, supposed to be foreign, is off the port in tow of a steam tug, and is entan • gled with some of the wrecks of the harbour of refuge. CARDIFF, Jan. 18.—Sailed—Johanna Jacoba, for Rio Janeiro ; Undine, Bahia. PooLE, Jan. 18.—The Spark, of Prince Edward's Is land, from Liverpool, got ou the Hook Sand, but canoe off after throwing part of cargo overboard. LOWESTOFT, Jan. 18.—The Darlington, of and from Shields, for London, which got on shore on the sth inst., has been assisted off and brought in leaky. HARWICH, Jan. 19.—The Robert Watson has been got off. SLIGO, Jan. 18.—The schooner Rob the Ranter, for Li- verpool, is on the rock at the entrance of Bullina Rives. REDCAR, Jan. 18.—Part of the deck of a vessel, sup posedNoi wegian, with windlass in the old style, has come on shore. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind N.W. Arrived—Nauphante, from Maceio and Pernambuco ; Sea Bird, Wallace, United States ; Thos. Young, Alexan dria ; Ida, Venice ; Calpe, Seville ; Jane, Rotterdam ; Earl of Derby, Bonny. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 17. Wind S.W. Arrived—Ramelia, from Trieste. WATERFORD, Jan. 17. Win:l W.S.W. Sailed—Elizabeth, for St. John's, Newf,undland. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TEL GRAVESEND, Monday. 10.10 a.m. Wind W. ; threo•quarters ebb; weather cloudy. Arrived, Jan. 18.—Culder, from Madras ' • Mary Forrest, Gottenburg ; English Maid, Mogador ; Echo, Callao ; Luna, Emden ; Guadalete, Cadiz ; Queen, Rouon ; Lucy, Rio do la nacho; Rival, Philadelphia; Quickstep, Now York. Arrived, Jan. 19.—DroRuda, from Guernsey; Johanna Jacoba, Patras ; Vaucleuse, New York. Sailed, Jan. 19.—Antipodus, for Madras; Irene, Cape of Good Hope. DEAL, Monday, 9.56 a.m. Wind N.N.W., moderate. Passed in tow.— City of Bristol. from Singapore, for London; Mimosa, from China, for London ; Portia, from London, for Plymouth ; Jewan, from London, for Salonica. Sailed.—W. Hammond, for Barbadoes ; Auckland, for Bordeaux. HILARY TERM, 1857. Public examination of the students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's•inn Hall, on the Bth, 9th, and 10th days of January, 1857. The Council of Legal Education have awarded to A Studentship of fifty William Ritchie, Esq., guineas per annum, to Student of the Mid. Temple, continue for a period of three years. Certificate of honour of the first class. George Alfred Marten, Esq., Student of thelnner Temple, Richard Copley Christie, Esq., Student of Lincoln's-inn, John Edwards, Esq., Student of Lincoln's-inn, John Robbins, Esq., Student of the Inner Temple, , By order of the Colin( Council (SiChambers,gned) Certificates that they have satisfactorily paused a public exami nation. BETHELL, Chairman, 'in, Jan. 15. A rnfiedition of the Weekly Registe r (p u bli s h ed this 4‘ There is no truth w h atever in the annou rn ent by theT i of this day o f th e d eath of mo o n u g r ) th says _ nce T the Rightßev. Dr. Grant, , Bishop o f S out h wark. His lordship Th e racing lotteries which have b een extens i vely car redon i s quite wall.iu Newcastle for several y ears h ave b een stopped by an order from the Home Secretary. A. professional beggar, named Page, died in Norwich last week, and no less a sum than 3001. was discovered in his lodgings by the police. Peter Lougnan and Timothy Kelly, convicted of the murder of a French seaman, at Alderney, and now lying in Guernsey gaol, have been reprieved during her Majesty's pleasure. It is now stated that the amount of specie to be de spatched by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Pera on the 20th will be about 360,0001. The Emigration Commissioners have advertised for vessels to carry emigrants to Sydney and Adelaide, to be ready for passengers between the 3d and 10th of March, as may be hereafter determined. A. letter from Parma of the Bth, in the Risorgi motto of Turin, announces that the Austrians are to quit the duchy in February. 1100 100 100 10.1 ion; 100 at all 100 100 7 /2 all all all all all all all all all all . '"". St. Z 100 66 51 96 W 6i 106 113 f i i 82 iiiii St. St. St. 100 100 100 100 St. St. st. St. Eit. 10 10 al} 21i 52 1 2i 100 5 I , ►o 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 rm i Pa 93 i 2 in LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—MORE SHAREHOLDER is i3UI3IONED This morning several more shareholdere were eum• moped, but the cases were heard in a private room. THE CLAIMS OF NEW SHAREHOLDERS TO PROVE ON Tall GROUND OF FRAUD. His Honour proceeded to hear claims to prove mad• by several shareholders under the supplemental charter. Mr. Mellish appeared for the claimants, and said that he now proposed to proceed with a new case. His Honour said there was one left unfinished on the last occasion. Mr. Mellish said he was not prepared to go on with that at present, and thought it snore convenient to go on with a new case. His Honour asked if that Was abandoned ? Mr. Mellish replied in the negative, and said that the two ewes were so men alike in the general features that he should not trouble the Court with any address, but call Mr. Marsh to state his own case. Mr. Marsh then stated that he was a paymaster in the Royal Navy, and during 1851 and 1852 he was in. duced, in consequence of seeing several notices in the newspapers, holding out advantages to shareholders to call at the offices of the bank in Tokenho.use-yard, and there he saw Mr. Cameron, the general manager, and he (Mr. Marsh) told him he was anxious to inveet a sum of money, not as a speculation, but as a per. manent investment for the benefit of his children, and Cameron said he could not select a better in. vestment. Witness subsequently called again at the Bank, and there he saw Mr. Paddison, who pro laced the charter, and particularly drew his attention to the 71st section, and said he could not possibly lose more than one-fourth. (The 71st section provides that the directors shall be compelled to call a meeting of shareholders, and leave it to them to determine whether the affair shall be wound up.) He at the same time stated that there was a reserve fund of some thousands. In March, 1853, he forwarded 8001. as a deposit upon 20 shares, for which he had got a receipt. He then proceeded to state that he went to the Baltic in the Hogue, when a general power of attorney was sent out for him to sign, authorising Mr. Cameron to sign the supplemental charter for him, and iu return ho received the certificates for the deposits. The case was proceeding when we went to press. IN DE LEOPOLD REDPATH. This bankrupt was described as a dealer in shares, of Chester-terrace, Hyde-park, and was sentenced to trans portation for life a few days since. This was the day appointed for the last examination, and the bankrupt was brought up in the custody of the Governor of New gate, and was accommodated iu a private room. Proofs were being received, and it is most likely that the bankrupt will not be examined. The examination was adjourned, no accounts having been filed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAUTION TO TAILORL—IIIPUDENT ROBBERY.—John York, a dealer in wadding, was brought before Mr. Beadon, charged with stealing two coats, value 3!., the property of Messrs. Cowling and Lawrence, tailors, 63, Maddox-street, Regent-street. Alexander Alleu, foreman to the prosecutors, stated that on Saturday evening he was engaged at the rear of the shop when the prisoner entered the place and asked if he wanted any wadding. Witness looked up and saw the prisoner, who had a large bag in his hand and a bundle of wadding strung across his shoulder, but before he could give him any answer he (prisoner) immediately left the shop. This excited his suspicions, and he fol lowed him and brought him back. He then searched the prisoner's bag, and at the bottom, under several bundles of wadding, he found the two coats produced belonging to his employers. On the theft being die• oovered, the prisoner said he knew nothing at all about the coats ; they must have tumbled into his bag by accident. A policeman was then sent for, and the prisoner given into custody. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. Mr. Beadon said the prisoner had been guilty of one of the most impudent robberies he ever heard of, and committed hint to the House of Correction for three months. A. batch of women of the lowest description were charged with breaking the windows at St. Martin's workhouse, where they had applied to be admitted as casual paupers on the previous night, but in consequence of all the wards being full they were rejected. They became dreadfuly abusive, and eventually broke 200 panes of glass. They were then taken up. Committed for a month each. On leaving the Court they assailed the magistrate with the most frightful language ima• ginable. SOUTHWARK. COMMITTAL OF AN OLD SHOP - L/FTER.—,Tana Bird, A woman about 30 years of age, who has just come out of the House of Correction at Holloway after suffering 12 month,' imprisonment for shoplifting in the City, waa brought before Mr. Burcham charged with stealing a piece of plaid, value Hs., from the shop of Mr. Thomas Ackerman, linendraper, No. 40, New-cut, Lambeth. The prosecutor stated that on Thursday afternoon, shortly after tour o'clock, the prisoner came into the shop and examined several pieces of printed calico for dresses, and near the doorway at that time were a num ber of plaids with tickets on them. Witness had own sion to go to the other end of the shop to serve another customer, and when he returned to the counter he missed the prisoner and a piece of plaid from the doorway. A. few minutes after wards she was brought back to his shop with the plaid in her possession. Police-constable 181 L said he was on duty in the New-cut shortly after four on Saturday afternoon, when be met the prisoner coming from the prosecutor's shop with the piece of plaid under her arm, with the end dragging on the ground. He called her attention to that, and told her she was spoiling it, when she thanked him, and was about to go down Collingwood-street when he received information that she had stolen the plaid from Mr. Ackerman's shop. He accordingiy stopped her and took her back, when she was given jut° custody. Mr. Burcham asked what waa known of her. John Baker, city policeman No. 255, said that the prisoner was tried at the January sessions of the Central Criminal Court in 1356 for shop-lifting, when she was convicted and sentenced to twelve months' hard labour at Holloway. There was at that time a former convic tion proved against her for shop-lifting. The prisoner, who said she had been out of prison two days, and was in want of food, was again committed for trial. THAMES. CONTIOTION OF A WELL-KNOWN THIEF FOR " UN LAWFUL POSSESSION."—WiIIiam Cennett, aged 30, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing a pair of trousers from the shop of Mr. Bernard Strelitzky, a foreigner, of No. 3, Ebenezer-place, Vest India-road. It appeared that the prisoner snatched three pairs of t i nh the ) r e City. c Mr t l trousers, which were ex p osed for sale near the sho p door, and dropped two of them. He was pursued, and. a pair of cloth trou sers taken from him. It was sta ted by inspector Smithm h fur a asked on the p ot f the prisoner i s K o n divisione robberyr f that a t the c prisoner had been sev eral times convicted, and had been ina• prison . ed s for aife ls The prisoner—Yes, air ; that is correct enough. Mr. Selfe sentenced the prisoner to two months' im prisonment and hard labuur, for the " unlawful posses sion " of the trousers. ANOTHER CONVICTION FOR " UNLAWFUL POSSES. 61 0N. " —Michael Mitchell, aged 30, a well-known thief, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing a watch from the person of a Frenchman named Latest, in the Duke of Sussex public-house, in Rosemary-lane, Whitechapel. On New Year's-day the prosecutor went into the Duke of Sussex public-house to obtain some refresh• merit, and the prisoner entered into conversation with Lim, and suddenly made a snatch at his watch and ran away with it. Kelly, 130 H, received information of the robbery, but did not meet with the prisoner until last night, and then took him into custody. The prisoner then emptied something out of a little bottle. It could not be aster• tained what liquid there was in the bottle. Mr. Selfe asked if the prisoner was known. Prisoner—Yes, sir ; 1 have been in trouble once before. Mr. Selfe—What was that for ? Prisoner —I don't know. It was such a long time ago. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was a convicted thief. Mr. Selfe (to the prisoner)—l have no doubt you stole the watch. I sentence you to two months' imprison- ment for possessing it unlawfully. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARBIAGE.—On Saturday an application was made to the Court of Queen's Bench to reduce the damages-3,oool. —given to the plaintiff in the case of Smith v. Woodfine• The application wag refused. too 100 100 20 20 100 50 100 100 20 50 all all all all 109 j 16i 941 i 1071 0 4! 3$ ti 64 !