The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shr. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Accounts front Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed with a heavy appear (wee, but prices were without any material altera tion. The sales were estimated at 4,000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed with more ani ination, and values of all the leading stocks slightly advanced. The failures which almost daily take place afford abundant evidence of the general unsoundness of trade, and although the purifying process which it is now undergoing may be ultimately attended by satisfactory results, considerable inconvenience and distress will be experienced in the meantime. All branches of business are prejudiced, and the longer the present stringency continues, the greater must be the injury inflicted. Such rates as 10, 11, or 12 per cent. cannot fail to repress business, and although the Board of Trade returns may show a steady expansion of our commerce, they do not prove that it has been con ducted at remunerative rates. It may be safely averred, on the contrary, that the most disastrous losses have been incurred. These statistics exhibit the extent of our trade, but afford no proof of its prosperity. Amidst the devastation which the money crisis is causing in all directions, there is some consolation that the Parliamentary Session is drawin g near, and that a full investigation into our currency laws will take place. The commerce of the country demands a reform, and even many of the most stedfast supporters of Sir Robert Peel's Act are now disposed to admit that some modification a absolutely necessary. Before the end of the year it is feared that numerous failures will occur, although an easier feeling may prevail, and the position of the Bank may become stronger. When the price of the stock is duly considered, it is rather surprising that more disasters have not occurred, but it is impossible to tell how many more may yet be added to the list. The daily proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court, and the numerous insolvencies reported in the Gazette, demonstrate the power of the financial difficulties against which the mercantile classes have to contend, but there is one point which. is now attracting general attention, and that is the mischief which has been caused by the vast facilities which the joint stock banks have afforded those who have departed from the legitimate course of trade and carried on ex tensive and speculative operations. Speculation has been fed by the means thus obtained, while sound trade has not been sufficiently assisted. The prices of produce have been forced up to a fictitious point and the collapse has seriously aggravated the injury occasioned by the American panic. r We trust that if the money question 1 . 1 fully discussed, that the present system of Joint -stook banking will also be considered. The amount of deposits which these institutions re ceive should in some measure be regulated by the extent of their paid-up capital. Unlimited sums are now received, and in several cases their depo nte are seven, eight, and nine times more than their subscribed capital. The consequence is that with these immense means, the /nest liberal advances are made in securities and the proceeds employed in all kinds of impru dent trading, and when there :s the least reaction ul credit, such as may be periodically expected, the Most distressing effects are produced. The stoppage of the Northumberland and Dur ham District Bank will, it is feared, be productive of severe distress in the North, and trade in the Various towns, wherein its branches are located, already very depressed, will be almost suspended. During the fortnight, ending yesterday, the amount of hills drawn by the Hon. East India Company upon the three presidencies was as under : On Bengal On Madras On Bombay ... £3,167 10 6 697 19 6 609 11 3 Total £4,475 1 3 The Bank Directors have held a prolongel dis cussion, and their meeting has not yet been ad journed. The market for English Stocks is very firm, and Blight symptoms of buoyancy are visible. This im- 5 Proved tone has been produced by the statement 5 that the Bank has gained considerable strength 20 during the p ast week and that the next balance - 1 0 sheet will exhibit amaterial increase both in the totes and 20 10 gold. Money is also in better supply, 81114 on the Stock Exchange loans can be ob tained at 4 to 6 per cent. The public also Li -- T) are buying, and speculators are more dis- 18 Posed to operate for a rise. All these circum s t ances tend to improve the market. Consols have been 18 908 i, 904 I, and 901 4, for money. The account _ 20_! Prices are 90 8 I , 9og, 4, and 90i 11. They are now . 1 i ?,?, ",.., ( 4 i and 90g i respectively. The New 3 per ' ...ellte. are 891 1, and the Reduced, 891 1. Ex- lop chequer Bills are 3s. discount, the Bonds, 97i, and 20 I ndia Bonds 355. to 30s. discount. i 20 Foreign Stocks are rather firmer, and a mode rate busin ess k as b een t ransacte d. Turkish 6 per 2 17 ° , Cents, are 88 881; ditt o 4 per Cents. 971 98 ; 20 Brazilian 5 per Cents., 998 ; Portuguese 3 per st. Cents., 431 t; Russian 5 per Cents., 1051 ; Sardi - 120 4 „ :4 all 5 per Cents., 888 ; Spanish New Deferred, .99 45 ; Dutch 21 p er C en t s ., 63i ; an d ditto 4 per ' 20 Cents., 961. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign St. Stocks ;-Grenada Deferred Bonds, sto 6 ; Mexi- 100 c an, - ; Peruiian 4i per Cents., 75 76 ; ditto 20 3 per C en t s ., -- ; P or t uguese 3 per Cents., E, 42 1 43i ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 106 ; Ditto 4i 20? Per Cents., 94 96 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 401 414 ; 100 ditto Deferred„ 25 251. 100 The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up I ° 4 to this day, are in round figures as under 1857. 1856. 20 Great Western £26,383 £25,500 20 North-Western South-Western Brighton 12,965 12,782 20 Midland South-Eastern _ 17,049 17.014 20 Great Northern 21,453 23,860 - - Lancashire and Yorkshire 18,828 21,343 Bristol and Exeter 5,271 5,509 - Eat; Lancashire 5,004 5,922 10 Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincoln 9,177 9,526 20 North-Eastern 2C North Stafford North London Oxford, Worces. ) & and Wolver 4 ,006 8,942 2( West Hartlepool 3,249 3,204 2( Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Edinburgh and Glasgow 681 5,677 2( Glasgow and South-Western ...... 6,732 6,727 21 Scottish North-Eastern 3,432 3,267 t Grand Trunk of Canada tit Grt Western of Canada 10,569 13,972 i The Railway Share Market this morning has 2 beep. very inactive, but an advance of about i per cent. may be noticed in the value of some of the 2 chief lines. North Western, Great Western, ?, Eastern Counties, North Eastern (Berwick), South I Western, Brighton, and Caledonian, each im proved ss. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, ; declined ss. ' • and Great Northern about 1/. The ] Foreign and Colonial undertakings were very quiet ; Northern of France, and Paris and Lyons have slightly improved ; Great Western of Canada have advanced about ss. ; Great Indian Peninsular and East Indian realise about former quotations. Mining Shares are neglected, and rates are quite nominal. Joint-Stock Bank Shares are steady but quiet. London and Westminster advanced about 11. ; and Union of London 10s. In the Miscellaneous Share Market there is no change of importance to report. •BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY. ( From he Official List:l Business dose. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities :4 per Cent Consols nliiitins .. 9O iiati New 3 per Cent. Annuities B9l i d Loac Annuities, expire -3ti. Jan. 180 Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 1i Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 2 3-16 , Indih Hondo, £lOOO ............. .. ..... .... 30 d 'ditto, under 4000 . 30 35 d OeLsols fo r Account . Milli Et ahequer U 11: 8, 1 i da • ....... 3 7 d . .................... , i d is ~,d i .. ........... •.• ... Exchequer-. Bonds . . ... 6 d Ditto is tr , 9 . . 8 58,24 per Cent.... PRICES p Brazidan 5 r q ....0. 1 .. E .. th .. N .. F .. 1T — ND ..... 5 . - - T 9 H 7 11 DAY. e C on . ' Portuguese Bonds 5 Cent., Con. 1841 99i Ditto 1853, 3 per Ce P n e t . Ditto 1856, 3 per Cent: .g Per Cent losi Sardinian Bowls, 5 Per O p t ........ ... .... Bp nish do...ds, 3 per ( :'nt. . ......... .." 88 9 D'ttr New Deferred, 3 4(2t Ditto Account Turkish t;onds, ti per cent ............ 254 - Ditto Guaranteod, 4 per C en t . 88'71 Si .... 93 i Dividends on the above pavaile in London. Dutch Exchange, 2:1 per Cent., 12 Guilders 63 Do. 4 per Cent. Certi ficates - 7HREE O'CLOCK, Consols, money Ditto account (December 7) ,,,, St. St. St. 50 20 20 1.0 St. 0 25 100 25 50 20 20 20 10 St. THE SUN, LONDON, TITURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1857. SHARE DLARY..ETS—aIns Day. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. Business done this day. Lid I RAILWAYS. 10 Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Juno.... all Belfast & Ballymena all Btrmng. Wolverh. Stour Valley , 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct all Blackburn all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45)..., 100 Bristol & Exeter . 100 Caledonian 100 Chester dr Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black. & Pass all Cornwall all Da 1 8 Do. B 45 ,Dnblin&BelfastJunc all T)un. P. drAber.Jnnc 100 !East Anglian all (Eastern Counties 100 EasternUnion,A.stk ,'lOO Do. ' do. 8.... ...... 8i iDo. New A _ 17 East Kent ......... 100 East Lancashire all lEast Suffolk ..... 4 I Do. . 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edinb.Prth.diDundee all Forth and CrlydeJunc. 100 !Furness 100 Glasgow & S.Western all !Great N. of Scotland 100 IGreat Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) 100 :Great Western. 100 IDo. Str.V.R gua.St all llrish South-Eastern. all ,Lancaster & Carlisle. 144 , Thirds . 12 Do. New Thirds . 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 6 Do., do. F £l6 Do., Wet. Riding Un all Do. Southport. all London & Blackwall 100 Lond.Bright.dtS.Cst. 100 London &N. Western all Do. Fifths all Do. ,10/.Sh.,M&B_C 5 Do. Eighths 100 London & S.Western all Lndndrry.&Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shet&Lineln. 1 Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement 100 Midland ..... 100 Do. Birming. & Derby all Midland G. West.(lr.) all Do. Shares ... all Newcastle &Carlisle all Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 9 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint Rostrevor 100 Norfolk. 3. Northn. Counties Un 100 North British 100 North Devon, Rail. dr Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock 100 Do., B Stock 100 N. Eastern all Do. do. Extension 16iiDo do. G.N.E.Purch. all 'Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London 31.1 N. &S. Wstn., Ramp stead, and City Jn.. 171 North Staffordshire.. all North Western.. all N. &S. Westrn. June. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton..... 16 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 Scottish Central 10V Scot. N.E.Abrdn. St 100 IShropshire Union 6 ISitingbourne &Sheer 1.C3 jSouth Devon IC3 South Eastern all Do. 41 pen. Sares L. 3 South Wales.— all S. Yorksh. River Dun 10 Do.. all IStaines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling 15 Do. do., 1854 5 Do. do., 1855 16i Stockton & Hartlepl 100 (Taff Vale 100 IDo. Pref., No. 22 Thames Hay. D. &R. all !Vale of Neath all IWaterfcl. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall. all West End of London and Crystal Palace all I Do. A all Do. B all ' West London all Do. First Class_ all Do. Second Class all Wmbledon&Croydon, BRITISH POI all Atian. and. St. Law. 9 Bombay, Baroda, and I Cen.lnd,guar. sp. c. f d pail all Do. 18 Buffalo & Lake Him 100 Buff. , Brnt. dt Godch. 100 6p. c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73, 100 Do. do., 1 June, '741 2s. Calcutta and S. East. 2s6d Central Oude (Lim.) lOs Ceylon A shares 1 Do. B. do all Demerara. 2s. Eastern Bengal .00 East Indian 15 Do. C Shares all D 0.4/ p.c.Bnds.,'s7 all Do. do. do. '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. 18i 19} 00 Gd. Trunk. of Canada 34/ 352 all Do. 6p. c. Deben 66 68 I all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pert. 20/ 20, 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. / all 10t. Westn. of Canada 174 18 ,4 10/ Do. New all IDo. Bds., payable '57 all do., '76, p.'6o all Do. do., '73, do. all Do. do., '73, without option all 1 Madras, guar. 4/ p.c all I Do. do., 5 per c 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exten. 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do ss. Oude (Limited) 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c all, Do 8 7d }... 1 = fr 103 :j i -104 i P ••• ...°. 1 100 - 105 ,100 - 105 99 -- 101 18 -- 19 201 -- 20:1 16 1 d h d p d— p id. -- fp all ' Antwrp & Rotterdam 18 Ardennes all Belgian East. Junet 16 Beziers to Graissessae all i Carmeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry 12 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France all Do. New 2s. Euphrates Valley 18 Gt, Central of France all Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction all Lake Const. & Bale all Lierre and Turnhout 6 Lombardo-Venetian all Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. all Lyons and Geneva all Lyons & Mediterran. all Maria Antonia all Do. New all Namur & Liege all Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref all Northern of France all NorwegianTrnk. Prof all Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans 7 Reeife & San Fran , (Perham.) g. 7 p. C. 7i Rome and Frascati...all Royal Danish all Royal Swedish all Sambro and Meuse all ')o. 5i per cent. pref all Southern of France , 1 all West Flanders all IDo. 5 . 4 per c. Pref • all W.4z N.W. of France 6 Western of Austria all (West. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden all Do. 8p • cent. pref. all Zealand JOINT-STOI (Australasia Bank of Egypt IBank of London Bri. Col. Bk.& Ln. Co British N. Am er i can rC.Bk.of Ind.Au.&Ch City _ _ Colonial Commercial of Loud Eng.Scot.&Aus.Cht Lon. Ch . Bk. of Aust Ditto New London and County Limil.&E.Bnkng.Corp London Joint Stock. Lond.andWestminst, National Pro. of Eng. Do. New National Bank New South Wales Oriental Bank Corp. Ottoman Bank Provinc al of Ireland; Do. Nw.. R . Ans. e B. &G • Im.o o I South Australia ' Union of Australia ► Do. Now ......... . Union of London Unity Mutual , Nostro It of Lona 5h - 5t • - .. i - 1. 6 — 64 i 24A 25 ii = iii ii -3. p 2Z - 23 6 - 7 18 - 183 34 - 343 8 - 9 32} - 323 49 -51 i 21 - 10 “: ii) 134 -- 4 -- 1 7 -- 8 204 -- 21 8 -- 8i 244 -- 25 .. - •• BANKS. 76 78 6i sd, 40 45 ••• •• . ... ... d ••• ••• ••• ••••• • • 17 - 1 . 74 16 - 174 41. - 5i 8 - 82 62i - 63; ••• -- ..., si -- 91 83 - 85 74i - 75- 29 - 31 7 - 9 ••• --- ••• 3 - 5 7§ - 8 17 - 18 52 - 53 42 - 44 27 - 30 17 - 18 86 - 83 57 - 59 26 - 27 88 - 90 9 - 10 90 - 92 77 - 79 120 - 122 96 - 98 48i .= 49 55. - 60 72 - 76 7 - 8 p 7 - 8 p 88i - 89 i - - i ....... ... 51 - 53 102 - 104 I - 94, lid 1 c! 85i —86 i 34: 36 81i - 81 54 - 56 12 - 13 54 - 57 31 - 31 -- 47 91: 92 2i - 2i 4,4 - 78 - 79 92 - 95 *ig I - ii 29 30 8 6d 102 104 21i —221 i 68 70 4 3 d 31 33 60i —61 i 78 PO 12 14 8— 6 d 9 11 36 38 f6i 7 - 9 - 5 SSESSIONS. Paid) RAILWAYS. LOO Bnckghamsh. LOO Clydesdale Jc. all Col.Stour Vy. LOO . E.Lin. g. 6 p.e, all E. Un. H. Sh. 100 Glas. Barr. & Neils.Diroct. 100 Do. New all Glstr.&Dn.Fr all Hull do Selby all Do. Shares all Do. I Shares all ILon.;SrGreenwl all Do. Preference 100 Lon. Til., 94 Do. Buk.Sh. all iManch.Baton. and Matlock 100 Mdld.Bradfd. l 5j Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. all NazEst.s p.c. all Do. 6 per ct.. all Do. Fixed sp. c all Prest. dzWyre all Do. Shrs. A 100 Roystn. & Hit. all Shrews. & Her all S. Staffordsh all ,WearVal.g6pe 5 all Do .. R. :100 ,Wilts&Sornrqt Leasing !ompanies. Ln.&N.W. Caledon ... E.U.esE.O Gt.Northn E. Count. Caldonian., tt.Westu. & N.M., S. Eastern 'Do 1 Peto & Co. Do Ln.dxN.W W & Midld Midland IE. Count.. IDe 1 IDo ... ..... 1 Do L. &N. W Do TC43s, M. . I, .B;r d i , l a p i s e t o a s a h cy: Do , IGOVestn. PREF ERENI all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (ised.at 501.) 100 Brie. & Ex. 4 p. e. St. 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares 100 Caledn. £lO 4i p. c 100 Ches. & Ho. 5 p.c 100 Do. do. 5 per cent ! all Cork &Bandons ip.c all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J 1.00 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c 100 Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c 100 Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l 100 Do. No. 2 100 Do. Now 6 pr. c. St all East Un., G. 6p. c. all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 10/. Debentr.Sh., all Do. do. 4 per cent ' 100 East Lancash.6 p.cts all E.&W. York. J. sths l 9 Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. 100 Furness, 5 p. c 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c 100 Groat Northn. 5 p.c 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem 100 Do. 4i per cent 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. all Gt.N. of Scot .Ist Pm 18 Gt. S &W. (Ireland) 18 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. 6 Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc 100 Do. con. red. 4i p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4 per lent. 100 Do sp. c. red. pref. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c. P. S all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh all Do. do. do al Do. do. do 100 Lan. & York. 6 pc. St 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No. 1 100 Do. ,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 100 Do. do. sp. c., N 0.4 100 Lon. & N.W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 per et.' 26 13A 20 St. St. 1 12 121 late 3d Shares all Londy.dt Color. ;Sh all Londy.&Ennis. Sh 100 M., S.,&L. 6P. Cent 4i Do. do. do. £6 100 Do. do. 31 per cent. all Marypt. & Carl. 4 p.c. all Do. 4i per cent 10i o. do. 100 Pilid.Consol.6 p.c. St 100 o. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c 100 Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St 100 Do. L. dal. Pref. St all New.,Aber.. &c., pr 5 p.c.red. sp.c.pm all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct all Norfk.Deb.4 p.c. Sh 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 100 Do. 5i p.c. pf , 1847 100 D0.Wv.V.5p..,1847 100 North British 25 10 1.0.6 20 25 25 St. 3i Do. 71. Preference 100 N. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Pri. £4i Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 9 Do. dn. Qrs., 1848_ 10 Do. York H. &S. Pur. all North Staffordshire 100 Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., lot guar 100 Do. p. e. 2d guar._ 100 Do. do. Deoentr. St. all Scot. Cent. New Pref. 100 I Sc.N.E.Alaer.g.6p.c. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. 100 o. d 0.3 p.c. pf. St all South Devon all Do. fixed 4i pr cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 o. 44 per cent 100 Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh 100 Do. New 4j pr. cell' 100 S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c 100 Do. do. 44 p. c all S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar all Stock. &Dar., sp. c 19 Do. do. do. - ,1O %lead& Kilk. 6pc BRITISH V 1 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) : 1 Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 274 East Basset (Ili ogan) 1466 Great South Tolgus 11/ 3 Grt. W. Alfrd.(Philk.) 7; Grt. W. Vor (llelstn.) 136 Lady Bertha 76 N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Basset (Illogan) 6115 North Wheal Crofty 1i Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) 9 Porkeilis U. (Wend.) 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 24 S. Caradon (St. Cleer 2 S. Cara Brea (Mop. 19 S.W. Frances( lllo g n. 44 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 U n.Mines (Gwennap) 1.256 V. of Towey (Camay.) 14 W. Basset (Illogan) 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd ) 51 1 Wh. Basset (Illogan) 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth) 54 Wh, Edward(Calstek 1176 Wh. Kitty (U. Liant 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. 414 Wh. Trelawney (Lis. FOREIGN Australian ........... Bon Accord Cep. y Brazilianlmp.(issuad at £5 pm) Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica Co bre Copper Copiapo Dun Mountain Cop per Mining Ce. Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada Novean Monde Pont. Sil.LdM. & Smit Port Philip Santiago do Cuba United Mexican O 7l 1 105. 5 27 11 i a I Al! 1 I all 2 all :0 all 3 all 5 1i 1 all 1 all 1 all 20 all 5 1 0 1 16i1 :8i all Closing Prices this day 90 - 92 93 - 95 12 - 14 127 - 130 4 -3/ ••• ••• Lot -- 106 12 —l3 224 234 89 91 1 go 24 91 2i - 89 - id 54 1 1i8 - 130 7i - 8 8- 9 30 - 32 SHAKES. 6 = ii ei; 1. - a'i 4 105 - 108 - 104 - 102 - 119 - ii : 67 iô 108 - 110 100 - 102 60 - 62 10 -10 i 5i -- 6 84 -- 86 80 -- 82 81 -- 83 92 -- 94 9 -- 15i -- -14 9 1 -- 9 i 66 -- 68 17i -- 18 91 -- 9i 131 -13 i, 130 - 138 .110 - 113 - 160 ... ••• - - 11P 60 - 63 128 - 130 93 - 95 83 - 85 ill 1: 11 98 - 100 88 90 lt lid - 1 - 41 21A - 220 (106 - 103 98 - 100 104-106 05 - 70 0i - 10 21 - 22 MINES. 14 -- 15 6 -- 7 100 -- 110 430 -- 450 90 -- 100 13i -- 141 41 -- 54 1 - - 2 - 1 - 11 10 - 11 12 - 13 4i - 5 19 - 20 4A. - 5. 11- - 2i 335 - 345 4i - 5i 230 - 240 - 1 3 - 4 ••• - ••• 22- i A - 23 100 - 110 170 - 180 295 - 310 7 - '4 17 - 18 49 - 51 2 3 - 25 MINES. t s .1 41 P ra. li 2 ... •-- ••• 11 -. 13 39 ii " 10 12 Id d i d i 13 15 , 7i - 8 1 ji r ..• ••• 5 -- 6 - 2 3i - 33 MISCELLANEOUS. N:1(1 900 Atlantis Tel. (Lim.) !ol alll9 lA A u u e s t t ral ra i n an A y g a iiic u nl a t il ,f) all Berlin Water Works LO 2 'Do. New iss. at 51. d 50 40 (Brit. American Land )0 _326,Canada_ t. 100 It. all 5 all 5 all 5 all 'Do.Go.6pc.JanStJuly ,Copper Min. of Eng. IDo. Pref. 7 3 p. cent, Crystal Palace Do. Preference 4 all 20 all A. 100 1 all 5 all 10 108. 9 all 20 ‘ll 15 L 4 20 5 4 all 20 10 10 all 10 8i 10 all 25 5 10 6 10 all 5 all 'Crystal Pal, of France Eastern Steam .Electric Telegraph !Electric Tel. of Irel. En.&Aust.Cop.SmCol lEur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. l &A.m.Stm.(lisa.) !Gen. Ir. Se. Col.(11m.) Gen. Steam Navigat. ,London Discount Loud. Gen. Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig. !Mediteran. Elec. Tel. Do. Extension Telef. Mexican& S.Americn Nat. Discount Co Netherlands Land Do. Do. Do. 8 p.c.Pf.iss. at I. d Do. Do. New B. &N. S. Land N. S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. N. B. Australasian... Nrth.of EuropeSteam,' Oriental Gas I. Do New Shares Peelßr. Ld. & Minrl Peninsular & Oriental Do. New , Rhymney Iron itoyal Mail Steam scot. Austral. Invest. IS. Au% Gov. 6 p.c.bds. South Austral. Land Submarine Tel. Scrip ) l Registered p ! True. Ln. Co. Up. Can. Van Diemen's Land.. 20 -- 29 .• --- ••• 4 •-•• 6 30 -- 110 -- 107 -- 27 - 23 - 3 11 -. .. . 9e - - ••• -. 1 il = 31 - ••• "". •• • ." 23 - 1 - 35 120 108 32 25 li 16 - - i hd 1t 72 21 - 1071 1 7 .•• - 1 - 30 a - A - -- 74 6p 23 110 115 107 105 122 Business this day Int bition SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock. AUSTRALIA. By the arrival of the mail steamer Emeu, we have received letters and papers dated Sept. 10. (From the Sydney Empire.) .. Our gold fields are progressing steadily, except in localities where the floods have interfered with the operations of the digger. No new discoveries have been made, but the yield has been main tained. A gentleman from Adelong called upon us yesterday with specimens of the quartz from that place. He describes the quartz reef as being more than two miles long, and richly impregnated with gold throughout. He says that Belman's party had excavated at the time he left upwards of 100 tons of quartz of an average richness with the specimens he pro duced, every piece of which was interfused with the precious metal. The loose washing stuff ob tained alongside of the reef yielded about 16 oz. to the cart-load. The population at our diggings still remains r.i markably orderly, though a deep conviction is ge nerally felt that the mining interest has been little cared for by the Government. About the middle of Julyy a mob of some 50 or 60 minors ' at the Buckland diggings, within the colony of Victoria, but close to our own border, after meeting to consider the matter, forcibly ex pelledthe Chinese, numbering many hundreds, from the ground. It was estimated that property be longing to the Chinese of the value of 8,0001. to 10,0001. was destroyed. The tents were all burned, and considerable violence used in the expulsion. Pursuant to a despatch from the Secretary of State, the coinage of the Sydney Miut was pro claimed by Sir Henry Barkly a legal tender in Vic toria on the 20th July. Public meetings have been held at Bathurst and other towns in the Western interior to petition for a better means of communication across the Blue Mountains. The road has been nearly destroyed by the long-continued heavy rains. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. :Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Common Jury.) NOTD AND WIFE V. STRANGWATES—NURIOUS DRIVING. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, poor persons, residing in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, to recover damages in compensation for a serious injury inflicted on the wife, through the reckless driving of the defendant, a carman, carrying on business with his mother, at 2, Hunt-street, Mile-end New Town. It ap peared from the evidence for the plaintiff, that about half-past 10 o'clock on the night of the 2d of April last, that hie wife, who is a shoebinder, was crossing High street, Whitechapel, when she was knocked down by the defendant, driving a horse and cart at a furious rate along the street. He did not stop to ascertain the mis chief he had done, but accelerated his speed. A police man, who witnessed the accident, followed the defendant in a cab, but he lost sight of him at Mile-end-gate The poor woman, when taken up, was conveyed to the Lon don Hospital, where she was examined, and it was found she had four ribs fractured on the left tide, and five on the right side. Her shoulder was dislocated, and she received other injuries. She suffered very much, and remained in the hospital between three and four weeks. About two o'clock in the morning the policeman above-mentioned saw the defendant in his cart re turning to the City, but so drunk that he was unable to take proper care of it, and he took him into custody and locked him up. The medical gen tleman who attended the plaintiff's wife at the hospital gave it as his opinion that her lungs were prematurely injured. _ _ - . kr. Sergeant Thomas, who cross-examined the witness for the defendant, as to his identity, declined to call him or any evidence for the defence, and suggested to Mr. Sergeant SLee, who appeared for the plaintiff, that the case should go to the jury without their addressing the jury, which was acceded to. The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up the case, said that a great deal of time had been wasted in cross-exa mining the plaintiff's witness, to persuade the jury that he was not the man who did the mischief. It was no extenuation of con duct, the defendant instructing his counsel to deprive this poor woman of oompeusatton, by endeavouring to cast doubts on his identity, when be did not dare to put himself int) the witness-box and fees the jury. If there was any foundation for believing he was not the man who committed the injuries, he should come forward and pledge his oath to that fact. It bad beep proved that he was driving a restive horse without any regard to the lives and limbs of the public. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 251. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sitttings at Nisi Print!, at Westminster, before Mr. Baron Bramwell and a Common Jury.) GOTERILL V. HUDSON.-CURIOUS CASH OP TRESPASS AND OBSTRUCTION . The plaintiff in this case is an old man, residing in Warwickshire, and the defendant is Captain Hudson, plaintiff admission to the Governor of th e Q ueen ' s Prison ; and the action was brought to recover d ams ges for a trespass, and for illegally p revent i ng the laintiff the prison aft er h e had b een discharged out of custody. The damages were laid at 1001. It appeared from theevidence adduced on the part of the plaintiff and defendant that in 1841 he was taken on a ca set in cones. quence of difficulties he got into with some parish officers in Warwickshire relative to an illegal distress. He remained in prison from that time till this year, when, through the kindness of the defendant, he was liberated by the payment of 201. to Christ's Hospital for that purpose. During the time the plaintiff was in prison he acted as servant to the better class prisoners, and ap peared well satisfied with his incarceration. He had the habit of ga th er i ng all the o ld rags, bones, string, broken crocke r y, &e, pr o cu r ed in the prison dust - bins , and allowing them to accumulate in his slee p in g -ro o m ; in 1853, and o n many frequent oc casions, he was remon strated with relative to it, and ordered to destroy or remove all the offensive parts of the rubbish that were likely to engender disease. He declined, and he was removed to another room with the beat portion and least offensive portion of the rubbish. As the plaintiff would not get rid of tho refuse it was destroyed by the Govern ment. After he got out of prison he applied for admission to see a prisoner, who he stated owed him some money, but the Governor re fused him admission ; and it was on this obktiuction, which it was said was contrary to the rules, that that part of the action was founded. The jury, however, before the completion of the evi dence for the defence, stopped the case, and returned a verdict for the defendant, in which the learned judge concurred. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Corarainioner Holroyd.) TER ROYAL BRITISH BANG.—LAST EXAMINATION MEET ING OF THE DIRECTORS. To-day was appointed for the Lust examination of the directors of the Royal British Bank. Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, asked for an adjourn. me nt until after the trial, which is expected to take place in February next. Mr. Freshfield did not oppose an adjournment, but complained that the parties who had been prosecuted had not had the required facilities of reference to the books. Mr. Linkiater said that the assignees were exceedingly anxious that Mr. Freshfield's clients should have the fullest opportunity of referring to the books and docu ments under proper supervision. After some discussion his Honour said that such facili ties ought to be afforded. Mr. Mason, on behalf of Messrs. Gillot, Hurst, and Butt, who had only been directors for one month before the failure of the bank, applied that they should be allowed pa ss, as they had filed th e i r accoun t s and were n Mr. Linkla ter said that; Mr. L ee , th e o ffi c i a l a ssignee, ot included to in the indictment. had not had time to go through the accounts, and there fore an adjournment must take place ; but those gentle men had rendered great assistance and done everything in their power to give information. THE DIVIDEND. —Mr. Linklater said that as respected the dividend he was enabled to state that there was a prospect of an immediate disposal of the Welsh mines, when a dividend would be declared, although it might be something less then the 21. in the pound, as there were some proceedings pending in Chancery, but which would not delay the distribution of the dividend. He also said that the management with the shareholders was proceeding most satisfactorily. The examination was then adjourned till the 6th t March next. POLICE I' INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.) WESTMINSTER. ALUM= GROSS CIITRAGE. —Esmond William Edmon son, a young man, was charged with the following out rageous behaviour. James Pryer, an old gentleman afflicted with asthma, who keeps a cigar shop at Parkside, Knightsbridge, stated that he and his son, who were both ill, were sit Ling in the parlour next to the shop last night, when the defendant and two other men entered the shop, and de fendant, in a load tone, swore and demanded a light. Complainant told him to take one, upon which he again swore, and after repeating his request for the light, said he wanted some cigars. Seeing the other two men with him, complainant was at first nfraid to go out, but as de fendant continued in the shop, he ultimately did, upon which the defendant struck him a violent blow on the chest. Complainant's son then came out, when, without the least provocation, defendant struck bim a violent blow on the mouth. Mr. Arnold- -Was defendant drunk Both complainants said they believed not. Police-constable 120 B said, that seeing a crowd of persons assembled he went to the spot, and outside the shop saw the defendant rash upon the father and son, and strike them both. The eon's mouth was streaming with blood. Defendant was sober. The accused's account of the transaction was that he asked for a light, when he was told to take it, upon which he and his friends asked for some cigars, when the old gentleman told him, from the parlour, that if he did not go be would come out and punch his head. Mr. Arnold—What, because you wanted to purchase cigars Defendant -Yes. Mr. Arnold—lt is rather an odd way, if your account is correct, of carrying on the trade of a tobacconist. Defendant continued his statement, in which he alleged that, after the threat, he challenged the old man to come out, when the son made his appearance and struok a blow at him, which he (defendant) returned, but he never touched the senior complainant. Defendant called his two friends in support of the statement, but their evidence was strangely au variance with the testimony of the policeman. Mr. Arnold said that he would leave a jury to decide upon the conflicting testimony, whatever his notion might be. Defendant was remanded upon bail, in order that the depositions may be prepared for trial. THAMES. IMPORTANT TO OMNIBUS PROPRIETORS AND THE PUBLIC.—Mr. Thomas Schrier, omnibus proprietor, was summoned before Mr. Selfe, and appeared in court at 12 o'clock at awn this . day, after the disposal of thenight charges, to answer a charge of stopping longer than was necessary to set down and take up passengers. Police-constable Gray, No. 328 K, proved that the defendant's omnibus stopped at the Black Swan, High. street, Bow, to receive passengers before starting, for 8 minutes, and Inspector Eine, of the K division, said it was likely to cause an obstruction, and that the defen dant was competing with the London General Omnibus Company, and was fined on two summonses of a 'similar nature last week by Mr. Yardley, and two of the oppo site company's drivers were fined by Mr. Yardley on the same day, for a like offence. There were sometimes three omnibus running up and down the Mile-end and Bow roads at one time, the defendant's omnibus in the middle, one before, and one behind. Me. Selfe said that was the nursing !system, as it was called, and ♦ery unfair. He had in his mind's eye the Elephant and Castle, the York and Albany Tavern, the Royal Oak, Westbourne-grove, the Green Man, Oxford street, and other places where omnibuses did start from. It had been the custom from time immemorial for coaches to start from inns and public-houses. It was more an advantage to the public than otherwise. Loitering on a journey should be avoided by all means, but there should be some time allowed for an omnibus to stop at the starting point, though he thought eight ininute,, unless it was in a wide road, too much. He dismissed the summons, because the accuser ought to have been summoned, and he advised the defendant not to stop so long again. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 26.—Wind this day at noon, N.E.; moderate breeze, and hazy, with rain. DEAL, Nov. 26.—Wind E.N.E. Arrived John Mathie, from Penang ; John Henry, Madras, with loss of anchor and chain. Sailed—Juno, Gallo ; Maize, Colon ; Yldefonse, Bilboa. QUBENSTOWN, Nov. 24.—Wind E.N.E--Arrived— James Chester from Callao for Chester. Sailed—Xaupa, for Barbadoes ; G. W. Hall, Beaufort, U.S. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind S.E. to N.—Arrived Aliva Jordan, from Chinehas. (PER ELECTRIC, TELEGRAPN.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday, 10 a.m. Wind N.B. • rain. Arrived—Alliance , steamer, from Havre; Ranger, steamer, London ; Despatch, teamer, Jersey. Sailed—Petropolis, stm., for Brazils ; Courier, steamer, Jersey ; Havre, steamer, Havre ; L'Etoilo, Carenton ; Ranger, steamer, Dublin. LIVBRPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind S.E. Arrived—British Queen, from Antigua ; Chaas, Savan nah ; British Queen, screw steamer, Havre; Albanian, screw steamer, Palermo. Sailed— Empire State, for New York ; Rita, (s.s.), San tander ; EAward Stanly, New Orleans ; ➢on Francisco, and Politena, Ilo.vannah. DUBLIN. Nov. 24. Wind N.N.E. Arrived—Spiridione, from Ibrail. KING6ITOWN, Nov. 25. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Demfrieshire, from Savanill; The Duke, Odessa ; Phoenix, Quebec. QIIMENXTOWIT, Nov. 21. Wind E.N.E. Off—James Chester, from Callao. (ET SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH) GRAVESEND, Thursday, '9.30 a.m. Wind S.W. ; tide three hours' ebb; cloudy and light. Arrived, Nov. 25—Acorn, from Algoa Bay. Arrived, Nov. 26—Martha Kay, from Odessa • Zephyr, Helsingborg • Brigand, Dantsic ; Provileuce and Lionne, Gro.velines ; Isabella and Jane, Guernsey ; Albion, Riga ; Sophia, Gottenburg; Fortitude, Memel ; Moselle, screw steamer, Rotterdam. Sailed, Nov. 26.—Clarissa, for Melbourne; Elbe, steamer, Hamburg. DIAL, Thursday, 9 a.m. Wind E.N.E., fresh, with rain. Anchored—John Mat thin, from Penang, for London ; John Henry, from Madras, for London, with loss of anchor and chain. Sailed --Himalaya outward bound ; Juno, for Point de Gallo; Yldefonso, Bilboa ; Maize, Colon. MARKET NEWB.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended Nov. 26, 1857, made up from the Re turns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT I BARLEY I OATS 1 RYE BEANS PEAS 51s 3d 39s 10d 24s ld 35s 2d 43s 9d 43s 31 THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. WHEAT EARLEY I OATS 1 'MI I BEANS PHAS 53s 6d 425 2d 25s 3d 35s lld i 45s 2d 44s 3d ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 94,088; barley, 83,594; oats, 11,887; rye, 66 ; beans, 4,484 ; peas, 1,743 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NIWGATE AND LRADENHALL.—The trade was generally in a sluggish state, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4e 4d; Mutton, 3s Od to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; Pork, 3s 6d to 5a 4d per 81bs by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Nov. 25.—The supply of fat stock on sale in to-day's market was tolerably good, and the trade ruled heavy, at our quotations :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s Od to 4s 8:1 ; Pork, 4s Od to 5a Od per Sibs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Nov. 25.—The trade was heavy, and prices were barely supported :—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 4s Od. to 53 2d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 10d ; Pcrk, 4s 4d to 5s Od per 81bs ; Suckling Calves, 16s to 24s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 10s to 41 Os; clover, 31 10s to 51 Os; and straw, 116 s to 11 10 s per load. Trade dull. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2115 s to 41 Os ; clover, 3110 s to 41 15s ; and straw, 11 6s to 11 108 per load. A fair average supply, and a moderate demand. Si WlOlis ITtiooHstPOlC3L.;—abine:dsotwrawh7l,l2/6110stoto114110Oss p ; er th) lo Y a s d r' Supply tolerably good. SI/RIOTS POACHINQ AITIRAT.—On Friday night, the 13th instant, a desperate e ncounter with poachers 00 curred in the woods at Sheriffhales, beloeging to the Duke of Sutherland. Between nine and ten o'clock, a keeper, named Henry Oakley, and four watchers, were on duty in the Cover, when they came into collision with a peg of poachers, numbering about 30. Oakley'll dog seized one of the gang, and Oakley at the same time seized another, who escaped his grasp, and made off. Oakley followed in close pursuit, came np with hive at the hedge bank, and struck at him with a stick, where upon the fugitive made a stab at Oakley with some sharp bayonet-like instrument, inflicting a serious wound below the heart. Hunt, a wa tcher, then came up and struck the polcher a sever e blow, whereupon the remainder of the gang, came to his assistance and succeeded in res cuing hies. They then tamed the attack onlOakley who was down on the ground. Fortunately he was armed with a loaded pistol, which he had strength left to fire off at his cowardly assailants, who scampered off. Oakley was then conveyed home, where he now lies in a very precarious state. The keeper's dog was stabbed in many places. It is believed they had a horse and cart with them, and that they came frora the neighbour hood of Wolverhampton.—Shreusbury Journal. THE SIIICIDI AT STITNNT.—INqussT.—An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Muria Lewis, the young woman who destroyed herself, and nearly occa sioned the death of her child, by oxalic acid, as reported in The Sun of Monday last. The deceased, who resided at the house of her sister and brother-in-law, 1, Union street, Stepney, was in distress of various k 4 inds. She worked at a sewing -machine, and, as she was a new hand, could only earn 2s. a- week. She had been deserted by the father of her child two years ago, and had re cently been keeping company with a young man, with whom, on the day before her death, she had had a quar rel, on account of a cloak which his father suspected she had taken from the house, but which was subsequently found there. The jury returned a verdict of temporary isEanity. The child is now cut of danger. RAILWAY HOSTILITIES AT MANCHESTER. ! THE LATE The disruption of the working agreements be tween the London and North-Western and Man chester and Sheffield Railway Companies threatens to involve legal and parliamentary proceedings of a serious and protracted character. lie fact became publicly known yesterday that the London and North-Western Company had placed a couple of city policemen at the junction of the South Junc tion and Altrincham line with their own, to pre vent passengers from getting out of the trains of the latter company on to the London-road station, under pain of prosecution. A lady travelling over the South Junction line yesterday morning to London-road station, on alighting to cross the station and change carriages for Stockport, was stopped by these policemen, and compelled to give her name and address before she could ob tain egress from the South Junction terminus, and when she had given her name and address she was informed that she would be prosecuted for tres pass. To understand this strange proceeding to wards the public, it is necessary to go into some few particulars regarding the construction and management of the South Junction and Altrincham line. The line was constructed in 1846, and com mences at Bowden, Cheshire, 8 miles west of Man chester, and forms a junction with the London and North-Western line at London road station, Man chester. The cost was 788,0001. The entire shares were held by the North-Western and Sheffield Companies and the Earl of Ellesmere, but the latter subsequently sold his share, and the capital is now held in equal portions by the two railway companies named. It is under their joint management, each company appointing three of their own directors to the board, and this board nominate one of the direc tors of each company alternately, for a fortnight at a time, to act as chairman. The line belonging jointly to the two companies, it will be naturally asked why one of them should UD dertaketo obstruct the traffic To understand this it is necessary to explain that a new line commencing at Garston Docks, near Li verpool, and passing through Warrington and Lymm in Cheshire forms a junction with the Al trincham line at Timperley between Bowdon and. Manchester. The traffic over this line and the Al trincham line is worked by the Sheffield Company, and has been for the last 18 months, and it is to obstruct thisportion of their trafficthat the proceed ings alluded to have been instituted by the North Western board. About a fortnight ago they set 200 men at workto rip up the platform at London-road where passengers from Warrington, Altrincham, and other places west of Manchester were set down, and they have now formed a siding for empty carriages where it stood, on crossing which any passenger is warned that he will be prosecuted for trespass. Their claim for doing this is founded on the belief that at the time of the construction of the South Junction and Altrincham line the latter com pany neglected to get a formal transfer of the land at the point of junction from the London and North- Western Company. Upon this point application will be made to Parliament to define the rights of each company, and in the meantime proceedings are taking in Chancery to stay the obstruction. An other quarrel between the North-Western Com pany and the Sheffield Company arise out of the rights of the latter to a joint occupancy of the London-road station itself. The London-road station was originally built by the North-Western Company for the joint use of the two companies, and the Sheffield Company have used it for 17 years under an agreement by which they were made tenants in perpetuity, the agreement being made binding by parliamentary powers. In all expenses since the Sheffieldwere made joint tenants for alter ations of the station, the latter have joined. But a few years back a working agreement was made be tween the two companies, by which, for the sake of economy, the traffic of the station was workod by the North- Western Co., the latter company appoint ing the booking-clerks, porters, and other servants. This agreement was made only from year to year, and terminable by either company on three months' notice. The arrangement was made in 1854, and in June, 1857, when the rupture occurred between the two companies, and the Sheffield, in conjunc tion with the Great Northern, commenced a com petition for the London traffic, notice was given to tire North-Western for the termination of the joint working of the station at the end of three month,. In fact, the Sheffield Company claims to be placed in their former position as joint tenants of the station. This the North-Western Company have hitherto refused ; and on this ground as well as on the rights of the South Junction line, proceedings are taking in equity, until Parliament can be appealed to to define the rights of each company in the station.—Daily News. THE MODEL WIFE IN 1857. (From Punch.) She dwells in fair Belgravia's halls, Sweet Fashion's peerless Queen, An all her soul, in fetes and balls, Is in her Crinoline. Her " jupon," like the Nassau globe, Cremorne did nightly see, Flaunts its inflated gauzy robe, Or swirls tempestuously. And thus expanding more and more, She fluctuates in her walk, Sub Cuing Swan and Edgar's corps With undulating talk. She names a time, with kindling eye, When, soaring through the air, Sweet maids, balloon-like, up shall fly, To call in Cloud-land-square. When Pam, in peg-top breeks array'd, Shall Dizzy take to see The realm of fogs whose mists pervade His speech at Aylesbury. When airy Dowagers shall skim Upborne on hoops of steel, Quiring to old-eyed cherubim In an " Excelsior'' reel When Hyde Park dames aloft shall glow In surging skirts and frills, Leaving poor manhood here below To cash their little bills. Her husband's purse is small—but no ! What though her form be slim — Her japon still expands, -and oh ! The difference to him ! EMBEZ2LEMENT.—A yeung man named Josiah Foot, 18 years of age, ccmipying a situation in the light dues department of the Customs at Southampton, wa, yester day placed at; the bar before the borough magistrates, charged with embtezling 1701., the moneys of her Mej -sty. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday. ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS IN PIEDMONT. The Turin papers contain au announcement that the Post-ofbee authorities there have just made arrangements " to afford the vublic ready means of procuring, by way of subscrip tion, and at a moderate cost, the most ii fluential periodi cal publications printed in London." A list of the prin cipal daily and weekly London newspapers, such as the Times, Daily News, Sun, and others—with the price at which they may respectively be obtained by subscription for three months, six months, or a twelvemonth, in• 'eluding the cost of postage and delivery, is officially published ; and it is iptimated that subscriptions may be received at every post-office, in return for which the newspapers will be supplied free of all other charges. DEPORTATION O➢' PADPERS.—The Belfast journals bitterly complain of the number of Irish paupers now arriving e❑ the quays of that town from England and Scotland. The Belfast Mercxry says:—"The deportation of paupers from England and Scotland to Belfast still continues, and the prebability is, the number of destitute creatures who are thus transmitted here will be con siderably on the increase this winter. It appears that during the last six or seven weeks, commencing with the Ist of October, and ending the 19th instant, betwen 200 and 300 people received temporally relief from the hands of Captain M‘Bride. If these people had not been aided in their distressed circumstances it is difficult to say how many of them would have remained a burden on the Bel fast Union, but it is exceedingly likely that many of them would even now be in our workhouse, as the poor law requires that immediate relief shall be administered in all cases of destitution. Of the cases relieved by Captain )f'Bride we shall particularise a few, as the facts regard ing them are worthy of notice. One man was sent here by the parochial authorities of Manchester, after hav ing lived in Manchester for a period of 25 years. He was sent back to Liverpool. Fourteen of the po.ir people, though belonging to Dublin, were landed at Belfast, and here abandoned, without a farthing to sup port them. Capt. M‘Bride forwarded them to Dublin. In one day 10 destitute creatures arrived from Glasgow, having been deported from EdinburA, and four out of the nuenber were sent back to Glasgow. Of the four there was one man who had lived 32 years in Scotland ; and the three others were women, and had lived 24, 46, and 14 years respectively in that country. ARREST 07 ♦ SHARPER.—The gendarmes of Angers received information a few days ago that a stranger to the town was hawkingjewellery about for sale, at a price below its real value. They found that he was lodging ie an hotel under the name of Duprat, and they called WI him to produoe his passport ; he at once presented one which purported to have been given by the French Con sul-Genera at Barcelona, and which bore numerous visas. But tho gendarmes saw that it was forged, and they arrested the man. They afterwards discovered that hfs real name was Vincent, and that he bad been condemned by default to ten years' hard labour , for a robbery of jewellery, committed at Limoges. His effects at the hotel were seized, and amongst them were found a number of false passports in various languages, books such as hawkers of jewellery are re quired to keep, bearing visas and stamps of mayors and commissaries of police, seals and stamps of several coun tries, and one of the Prefecture of Police at Paris ; about 50,000 f. worth cf jewellery, a large quantity of male and female attire, and lastly, a collection of tools for engraving seals and stamps. As the man is au en graver by trade, it is considered very probable that he has himself engraved the stamps and seals, From the large stock of articles seized, it was thought that he must have accomplices,—and as the day after his arrest, two persons, strangers to the town, called to ask for him, they were arrested, though they pretended that they had only called because they had heard he had found a dog which they had 108% TRANGFORD. (From the Times.) This nobleman, who previous to his elevation to the peerage was better known in public life by his patronymic of the Hon. George Sydney Smythe, M.P., died on Monday last at Bradgate-park, near' Leicester, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, in his 40th year, having been born in April,lBlB, at Stockholm, during his father's embassy there. Lord Strangford was educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge, and filled the office of Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from January to July, 1846. He was first elected to a seat in Parliament for Canterbury in 1840 or 1841, on the retirement of Lord Albert Cor:iyng ham, now Lord Londesborough, and continued with others to represent that city as a Liberal Con servative, so-called, down to the general election of July, 1852, when, with Sir William Somerville and Colonel Romilly, he was beaten in the contest which then ensued. The deceased nobleman was the seventh Viscount Strangford, and only sub ceded to the title so recently as the 29th of May, 1855, on the death of his father. With the bulk of the Peel party h e even t ua ll y gave i n his adhe sion to the principle of free-trade, though in Feb., 1842, he spoke and voted against Mr. Villiers's motion for a total repeal of the Corn Laws. He defended the Maynooth Grant, and spoke against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Like his father, who acquired some credit by his English version of the smaller poems of Camoens, he was an au th or , an d published "Historic Fancies," and numerous fugi tive contributions to the annuals of the day. He had also some reputation as a political journalist; but was, perhaps better known to fame in his earlier Parliamentary career for his connection with what was called the "Young England" party some 12 or 14 years ago, of which he and Lord John Manners may be said to have been the principal disciples, if not the leaders. His style of speaking in the House was characterised by much smartness and originality, which always commanded the attention, if it did not influence the judgment of that assem bly ; but he spoke seldom, and at last so rarely did he take any part in the debates that he came almost to be forgotten as a public man. After his shwa tion to the peerage he took no share in the discus sions of the Upper House. It will be recollected that in May, 1852, the name of the deceased Tiscount, with that of Col. Romilly, was brought more pro minently than perhaps agreeably before the public in connection with a duel which they fought in the vicinity of Weybridge, arising out of a speech made by Lord Strangford a short time previously at Canterbury, in which he alleged that Colonel Romilly had entered into a cabal, or made use of some unfair means, for the purpose of injuring him in the estimation of the electors of that city. Colonel Romilly considered that the allegation, the truth of which he denied, and some other expres sions in the speech far exceeded the license of a political contest, and called on Lord Strangford (then Mr. Smythe) to retract them, which he re fused to do. A hostile meeting followed and an exchange of shots, in which no harm was done to either. A few months afterwards Lord Strangford lost his seat for Canterbury, and with that event his political life may be sail to have terminated. (Front the Morning Hintld.) The Right Hon. George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe, seventh viscount Strang ford in the Irish peerage, who died at Bradgate park, the seat of the Earl of Stamford, near Lei cester, on the 23d inst., in his 40th year, as re corded in our columns yesterday, was a nobleman who formerly gave high promise of celebrity both in the literary and the political world, in which his fither, the sixth viscount—the translator of Ca moans, and many years our ambassador at the courts of Constantinople, Lisbon, Stockholm, and St. Petersburgh—shone so conspicuously. The peer whose decease we have now to chronicle was far better known to our readers, and we may add, to fame also, as the author of " Historic Fan cies." He was born at Stockholm during his father's embassy there, April 16, 1818, and was the elder of the three sons of the sixth viscount, by Ellen, youngest daughter of the late Sir Thomas Burke, Bart., of Marble-hill, county Galway, and widow of Nicholas Browne, Esq., of Mount Hazel', in the same county. He was educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1840. Early in the following year he was elected M.P. for Canterbury, and during the last few months of Sir Robert Peel's administration in 1846 held the post of Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He succeeded to the title and estates, as sixth viscount, on his father's death in May, 1855 ; but since his accessian to the peerage he had taken no part in public affairs. His lord ship was a grandee of Portugal of the first class, and held a seat in the House of Peers as Lord Pen shurst—a title which, as we learn from Hardwicke's " Annual Biography," was &le en by the sixth lord in eider to mark his descent from the wife of the 111.4 Lord Sttangford, daughter of Robert Sydney, Earl of Leices'er, to whom Penshurst Castle be longed, and neice of the memorable Philip Sydney. It was only about a month ago that his lordship was married to Margaret, daughter of J. K. Len nox, Esq. Lord Strangford's only surviving sister is the wife of H. J. Baillie, Esq., M.P. for Inver ness-shire • and the Irish and English peerages have devolved on his lordship's only surviving brother, the Hon. Percy Ellen Frederick William Sydney Smythe, born in 1825, who was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and has held, we be lieve, ono or two diplomatic appointments. A subscription has been opened in Paris in favour of the st:ff:rers tiy the dreadful fever whic:i has been for some time past desolating Lisbon. WORKING MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION.—The annual meet . ng of this association took place last night, is the Spafields Lecture-hall, Exmouth-el-net, Clerkenwell, Mr. Hanbury, M.P., in the chair. Addresses were delivered by the chairman, the Rev. Dr. Weir, and other gentlemen, and the secretary read a report from the committee of management. It appears that the association was established about 12 months ago for the promotion of religious and mental improvement among working-men. The means by which the members pro• pose to effect that object are Bible classes and devo tienal meetings, classes fcr mutual improvement, lee. tures, and a readdig-room and library. The operations of the association also embrace the distribution of tracts. Or , e grand feature of the movement is that it was begun and is carried on by working-men, and, although the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Chichester, Sir E. N. Buxton, M.P., and other distinguished personages, were stated to be patrons of the institution, it did not appear that they took any part its its management. At present the association is a purely local one, being confined to Clerkeneell, but, as was stated by the chairman, hopes are entertained that in course of time its operations may extend over the whole metropolis, or at least that it may lead to the establishment of similar societies in the different metropolitan districts. Hitherto it has been attended with marked success. The Bible classes and de votional meetings have drawn together a considerable number of working men ; the lectures have heel exceed inely popular, while the class fer instractioa in writing and arithmetic has proved increasingly attractive. The funds of the association are in good condition, but the library is still very small, and perhaps the movement could not be assisted in a more effective manner than by donations of books. ABSCONDING OF THE SECRETARY OP THE BLACKBURN PHILANTHROPIC BURIAL SOClETT.—Coksiderable excite ment was caused in Blackburn on Monday by the rumour, which proved correct, that Alexander Emmett, secretary to the Blackburn Philanthropic Burial Society, had absconded, taking with him a considerable sum of money belonging to the society. Mr. Townley, the pre. sident, called a meeting of the board of directors, and Messrs. Eaves and Whittle (the auditors), and the true. tees, arranged for the future conduct of the society. Se far the defalcation has been found to exceed 1001. Emmett had drawn the money on the previous Wed nesday, and had neglected to pay the money ever to the treasurer. On Thursday he went to Manchester, and on Friday wrote to an officer of the society saying that he would be engaged on the society's business in Manchester up to Saturday night. On Sunday, however, he did not even make his appearance, but his wife re ceived a note from him, dated and posted at Glasgow, in which he stated that he was about to proceed to Port Natal, and that should any attempt be made to capture him he should use his "revolver. ' A. meeting of the board of directors was held on Monday night, when Messrs. E. Whittle and W. Eaves were appointed joint secretaries pro tem, and ordered to investigate the books, and report thereon at a subsequent early meeting. The society extends to Darwin, Accrington, Clitheroe, Hae lingden' and all the neighbouring towns, and has upwards of 60,000 members. The funds of the society are deposited with the Liverpool and Manchester District Banking Company. The loss will not affect the stability of the society. A warrant has been issued for the ap• prehension of the delinquent. FORGED POST-OFFICE °RMS.—The Courtier du Gard contains the following :—" A short time since a respectably dressed man presented himself at the Post-office at Luuel, and asked for the register of money orders, which he said was charged to carry to the inspector -general, who had just arrived at the house of the mayor. The post mistress was deceived by the plausible address of her visitor, and without hesitation gave him the book, which was afterwards restored to her minus about 40 of the leaves. A few days ago, at Nismes, an individual called at the shop of a watch. maker, named Nordoff, and said he wanted to buy a number of watches for a brother, who had just set up in business in a neighbouring tow n, and selected a regular assortment of watches. When the bill was made out, the purchaser drew from p o cket -book a post•office order for 1,000 fr., which said had been drawn out, h h i e s payable to M. 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