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

tau lY VIA. T COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shr. AND CITY, Two o'CLom. Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed with a heavy appear- E, *lice, but prices were without any material altera tion. The sales were estimated at 4,000 bales. St. The Railway Share Market cloSed with more ani- 2 5 illation, and values of all the leading stocks slightly 25 advanced. st. The failures which almost daily take place afford I St. abundant evidence of the general unsoundness o f % trade, and although the purifying process which it 20 is now undergoing may be ultimately attended by 20 satisfactory results, considerable inconvenience and 10 distress will be experienced in-the meantime. All 50 branches of business are prejudiced, and the longer St the present stringency continues, the greater must 20 be the injury inflicted. Such rates as 10, St. 11, or 12 per cent. cannot fail to repress 7 5 basiness, and although the Board of Trade 25 returns may show a steady expansion of our 2 1. "Commerce, they do not prove that it has been con- 10 ducted at remunerative rates. It may be safely g e. t i . "'erred, on the contrary, that the most disastrius t. losses have been incurred. These statistics exhibit 0 the extent of our trade, but afford no proof of its S e t prosperity. Amidst the devastation which the 10 money crisis is causing in all directions, there is s a: some consolation that the Parliamentary Session is drawing near, and that a full investigation into our St. currency laws will take place. The commerce of St. the country demands a reform, and even many of the 12 most stedfast supporters of Sir Robert Peel's Act N I are now disposed to admit that some modification 16i I absolutely necessary. Before the end of the St. Year it is feared that numerous failures will occur, 13 although -an easier feeling may prevail, and the 20 Position of the Bank may become stronger. When tli the St. price of the stock is duly considered, it is rather St. Surprising that more disasters 'have not occurred, 1 . 8 but it i s i mposs ibl e t o t e ll h ow man y more may yet ni be added to the list. The daily proceedings in the 25 Bankruptcy Court, and the numerous ins•Avencies 25 reported in the Gazette, demonstrate the power St. of the financial difficulties against which 10 the mercantile classes have to contend, but there is one point which is now attracting general ilt s attention, and that is the mischief which has been 50. caused by the vast facilities which the joint stock 25 banks have afforded those who have departed from I V th e legitimate course of trade and carried on ex- 50 tensive and speculative operations. Speculation 20 has been fed by the means thus obtained, while s t , st xled trade has not been sufficiently assisted. The 50 Prices of produce have been forced up to a t fictitious p o i n t an d the collapse has seriously ' aggravated the injury occasioned by the American St. P anic. , We trust that -if the money question St. fly discussed, that the present system of 2S„ 0 t. I st - stook banking will also be considered. The 25' amount of deposits which these institutions re- 50 ... e e_iye should in some measure be regulated by the St extent of their paid-up capital. Unlimited sums St. are 10 new received, and in several cases their depo- B ita are • - t han seven, . eight, and nine times more 20 i.." 4ll . thetr subscribed capital. The consequence 20 ~:_s .t hat with these immense means, the 10 it 'u la °_,t liberal advances are made in securities St. the . proceeds employed in . all kinds of impru -20 in credit, trading, and when there is the least reaction 10 !ri such as may be periodically expected, the St. Most distressing effects are produced. st. The stoppage of the Northumberland and Dur- " 'llea District Bank will, it is feared, be productive to severe distress in the North, and trade iu the 'various towns, wherein its branches are located, already very depressed, will be almost suspended. During the fortnight, ending yesterday, the an of hills drawn by the Hon. East India Company upon the" three presidencies was as tinder : On Bengal £3,167 10 6 On Madras On Bombay ... Total £4,475 1 3 The B an k Di rec t o r s h ave h e ld a prolonged dis cussion,Zand their meeting has not yet been ad ourun. 1 : 111 0 mark e t f or E ng li s h St oc k s i s very firm, and 10 slight symptoms of buoyancy are visible. This bal.- 5 proved tone has been produced by the statement 5 I,tlat the Bank has gained considerable strength 2 0_ E ti t liti n g the past week,' and . th at . the next balance- iu 20 :est will exhibit 1: material increase both in the _lO -Mee an d: rs geld. Money is , also in better supply, l t di ' d. -1:1 the Stock Exchange loans can be on allied at 4 to 6 per cent. The public also !To re bu Y i ng, and streculators are more dis- 1 8 tend °B ed to operate for a rise. All these circumstances to i m 18 90} 4 prove the market. Consols have been Z"I ii,_ and 90.1 4 for money. The account in IT" are 90/ i, 60-i- !, s and 90i f . They are now 170 ri 4 i and 903 i respectively. -elatx The New 3 per the - are 89 1 g and the Reduced, 89! g. Ex- 100 IncicLuer Bills are ? 3s. discount, the Bonds, 971, and 20 20 1a 33 °, ads 355. to 30s. discount. , 02 Foreignra, St oc k s are rather f i rmer, an d a moae- 20 C 'a business has been transacted. Turkish 6 per 17 I3 ents • are 88 88i ; ditto 4 per Cents. 97i 98 ; 20 eertz,ilian 5 per Cents., 99 i " Portuguese 3 per st 12g LI M) 43k • n u ' an 5 per Cents., 1051 ; Sardi ma„ , , sin 25 " 0 per Cents., 88f ; Spanish New Deferred, wo o e ;1 2 11 ta,. 1 1 24 per Cents., 63i ; and ditto 4 per 20 Iqi• The 't• li • , St. stocks o...owing are the nominal prices of Foreign . can :-Grenada Deferred Bonds, sto 6 ; Men- 100 20 Peruvian per C ent s., ' --). Peru • 4i 75 76 • Per uditto 20 44.1 ants., --; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 20i 1 .,: l . 43 i ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 106 ; Ditto 4i 20i z''' Cents., 94 1- 96 • Spanish 3 per Cents., 401 41i ; 100 ditto Deferred; 2g 251. 100 100 The la to thi s last we e k 's railway receipts, ascertained up me day, are in round figures as under :- 1857. 1856. 20 Great Western '' v North-W estern Bouth.:. Western Mid and Bri land hton 12,961 12,782 20 South-East ern 32,272 29,492 Great Northern ~ _ 17,049 17,014 21,453 23,860 Lancashire and Yorkshire .. 18,828 21,343 Bristol and Exeter • 5,271 5,509 lifit Lancashire - 5 , 004 5,922 M anchester, Sheffield, $ Lincoln... 9,177 9,526 No rth-Eastern North . S tallard ' V 6,556 6,720 North Lend 2,290 2,063 Oxford, Worte,, & and Wolver ,... 4,006 3,942 West Hartlepool ' 3,249 3,204 Edinburgh Perth, and Dundee ... 3,208 3,093 Edinburgh Glasgow and Glasgow ........... 5,681 5,677 _c and South-Western 0 ottisb North-Eastern 3,432 3,267 Grand Trunk of Canada Greatr.. Wester n of Canada " 9,160 3,772 10,569 13,972 bee he Railway Share Market this morning has c ueert very inactivit, but an advance of about f per ; I t.' 111 „, aY be noti ced in the value of some of the chi e f ]roes. :. - North Western, Great Western, w - era Counties; North Eastern (Berwick), South estern.,_ Brigbion, and. Caledonian, each im /Pved 6 a. : .Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, ..._scliued ss. ,• and Great ' Northern about it. The t'..oreiga and Colonial undertakings were very quiet; Northern of France, and Paris and Lyons have tllghtly improved ; : , Great Western of Canada have advanced about ss; ; Great Indian Peninsular and East- Indian realise about former quotations. Mining Share's are neglected, and rates are quite nominal. ' .. . Joint -Stock Bank 'Shares are steady but quiet. London and W estm i nster advanced about 1/. - ; and Union of London 10s. In, the Miscettaneous Share Market there is no change - of importance to report, BRITISH /CrIsIDS THIS DAY AT ONE Ii'CLOO.K. (from he Official List.) Be/duets dote. $ ! :-'er Cent. Reduced Anunitice 39i 4 New tieThit llonsolo Anuaitiee 4 i a' 90 1 i e w :I par Cent. Annuities B9 d Lim Annuities. expire Cti Jan. 1 SM.. Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 li r Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 186 U 2 3-16 . . . 30 d I" 1 1. Monde, #,:lOvt; 30 35 d r.,:iitto, unde T 2,10(10 90i i 3 w Lois ter A eVontit . E s . .- ,1.,,T iling 'h-Cle. 81000 ' - - * ' * 3 d .... 0000000 .... 0000 ' el tb" . o ... 00000 . 1 d S..ii . . ..... 0 0 00000 000000000 0 0 • 000000000000000000 el Factiequeiii•••• 00000 -... onde, 1658, 3l per Cont ----• Ditto, iiii.9 riticas (v ;0.,: 00000000 ..... Braztuun 5 ''' r Cant , ‘ , 11EIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Portugueset nth.; .................. .....,;;:ili i 9 _ 9i . Ditto 1853, - 3 per C.t e it .. Russian Bonds, 12522, I: Si' .. * Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Oeiit. P" Cent"— 105 i SD , nish Be d• 3 eC .. .. . ...... '' ... 881 Ditto New D efe rred, 3 per .********** *** Turku.. ... , 914.1a, 6 per C ent : ********** 25 Ditto Account ** cent.,, ;* R .-- ; 7z in per ***** . ..... Onto Gunranteed. 4 Cent. .. .. ...... .l ' e 'Dtvidenda on the above pa;able . in. L 9 o B nd 7 O'n. Dutch Ex(friaw;c, 24 per etti . :- , 12 Guilders 631 Do, 4 iiitr Cent.. L'el acates• . ... . ... . ..... 9 64 • T WO O'CLOOE'v Conifs6, money ount„. VOS 4 THE SUN, LONDON, Tt-lURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1857. R This ai,v. RAILWAYS. Clnsine Pre( s yesterday. 41 - 5 8 - 82 624 - ••• „.. 81 - 94 82 - 84 751. - 75 29 - 31 7 - 9 ..• ---.- ..• 3 - 5 71 -8, 17 - 13 51 - 52 42 - 44 27 - 30 17 - 18 86 - 83 - ••• 57 7 -- 59 26 - ii 88 - 90 9 - 10 91 - 92 78 - 80 120 - 122 96 - 98 48 - 55 - 60 72 76 7 - F 7 ,) a 88i 89 1 11 a - 1 6 1 - 5 1 101 - 103 - 94 • lad •• 85 - 86 35 - 36 811 -81 i 54 - 56 ii - ii 54 - 57 31 - 34 46i - 47 91 - 92 2 - 21 47j - 4£4 78 - 79 92 - 95 4g - 4a 29 30 8 6d 102 104 21i 22 68 70 4 3 d 31 33 601 dl} 78 PO 12 14 8 6 d 9 11 36 38 •••• ••• 19i -- 204 7 - 9 2 :: .... 34 5i - 51 Easiness done Bt. this day, st. 25 Paid RAILWAYS. 10 1 Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June...... all Belfast & Ballymena. all Birmng. Wolverh St ou r Valley 1100 Birkonhd. Lancsh dr Cheshire Jim& all Blackburn all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) 100 Bristol dr Exeter....., 100 Caledonian. 100 Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black. & Pass all Cornwall all Dm A. 8 Do. B 45 DnblindtßelfastJunc.. all Dun. P. &Aber. June. 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties..... 100 EasternUnion,A, stk. 100 Do., do. B. 8. Do. New A 17i East Kent 100 East Lancashire all East Suffolk ..... 4 Do. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles._ 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dundee , all Forth and ClydeJunc. 100 Furness ... 100 (Glasgow di S. Western all 'Great N. of Scotland 100 Great Northern 100 IDo., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) 100 Great Western. 1.00 Do. Str.V.R. gna.St all Irish South-Eastern. all ILancaster &Carlisle. 144 Do., Thiris 12 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire• 6 Do., do. F £l6 I Do., Wet. Riding Un all Do. Southport...... all London dr Blackwall 100 Lond.Bright.&S.Cst 100 London &N. Wester , . all Do. Fifths all D0.,1Gt.5h.,M&8...C_ 5 Do. Eighths 100 London & S.Western all Lndndrry.diColeraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln. 1 Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement 100 Midland ...,........._ 100 Do. Binning.& Derby all Midland G. West.(lr.) all Do. Shares all Newcastle &Carliele all Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 9 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor 100 31 Noi ',an. Counties Un 100 North British ...... 100 North Devon, Rail. & I Dock Stock . ..... 100 Do., A Stock 100 Do. ' B Stock ..... 100 N.Eastern— Berwick all Do. do. Extension 16i Do do. G.N.E.Purch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London .. .. 31.1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn 17i North Staffordshire all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. Juno 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 16 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 Scottish Central 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdn.St 100 Shropshire Union 6 Sitingbourne &Sheer. 103 South Devon 100 South Eastern all Do. 4i per 3 . Shares 100 South Wales • all S. Yorksh. River Dun 10 D 0......,.... .... all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & 15 Do. do., 1854 5 Do. do., 18K5 16i Stockton & Hartlepl 100 Taff Vale. 100 Do. Pref., No. 22 Thames Hay. D. &R. all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall.. all West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A all Do. B all West London all Do. First Class all Do. Second Class all I Wmbledon &Croydon BRITISH PO: all Atian. and St. Law. 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. all Do. 18 Buffalo di Lake Hur. 100 Buff., Brut& Godch. 100 6p. c.bds. , 1 Aug. , 1 72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 100 Do. do., 1 June, '74 2s. ' Calcutta and S. East. 2s6d 'Central Oude (Lim.) lOs Ceylon A stares 1 Do. B. do. „ all Demerara . 2s. Eastern Bengal 100 East Indian 15 Do. C Shares all Do.4A p. c. Buds. ,'57 all Do. do. do. '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent 100 Gd. Trunk. of Canada all Do. 6p. c. Deben all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. all Gt. Wostn. of Canada' lfiq Do. New all Do. Bds., payable '57 all Do. do., '76, p. all Do. d 0,,, '73, do. all Do. do., '73, without option all Madras, guar. 4A p. c all Do. do., 5 per c. 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exton. 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. se. lOude (Limited) 5 Seinde, guar. 5 per c ISI I !O I a ll Do FOR: all Antwrp & Rotterdam 18 Ardennes all Belgian East. Junct 1 16 Beziers to Graissessac all 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 & Fist . sp. c. p. all Lyons and Geneva ... all Lyons & Mediterran all Maria Antonia all Do. New all Namur Iz Liege all Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref all Northern of France all Norweg,ianTi ak. Prel all Paris awl Lyons all Paris and Orleans 7 Reeife & San Eras , (Namara.) g. 7 p. c 7i Rome and Frascati all Royal Danish all Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse all ')o. 5i per cent. prof, R a i Son wl Doe u .s t ts h Southern paen o rd f eer.s r ri.e c f e Fan., all W.& N. W. of France 6 Western of Austria... a all 1 l a l '',WWiees Wiesbaden of Do. b B a p d . en cent. Switzerlandpr e f all ;Zealand . ....... JOINT-S' all -18 t! 60 all , all I (Australasia . BankBB CBC a: soholfffi Colonial7BEl Egypt Bank LondonLt • C. :11 I• :: Commercial of 1.;a: Eng.Scot.daus.Cht. Lon. Ch. Bk of Aust Ditto New London and County Lnd.&E.Bnkng.Corp London Joint Stock. Lond.andWestminst, National Pro. of Eng. IDo. New ,National Bank I New South Wales Oriental Bank Corp Ottoman Bank Provinc al of Ireland Do. New South Australia Union of Australia Do. Now Union of London Unity Mutual . Westruilk of Loud' 111 10 22. all all 120 ISSESSIONS. 4 d parl 8 7 d ••• •.• ... - ••• i- 1 P - 1031 -- 104 Pi 18i -19 i 34j -- 35 66 -- 68 - 20 pi 17i -- 18 i 3k 2id, 100 - 105 100 - 105 99 -- 101 18 -- 19 20i -20 i 11 -- 1 d d * d p id = ip 5i - 5i o•••• i -- 1 .. -- ... 31— 41 6i 6 d 244 25 5~ - 5~ 2i - 3p 22i -23 i 18 - 181 34 -31 t 8 - 9 321 - 49 - 51 21 lid 13i - 151 5i -8) 7 -- 8 20i -- 21 8 -- 8i 241 -- 25 o. ".. ... BANKS. 76 78 6A 54c1 40 45 ••• --- ... ... ... d fi . 16i - 1711 Paid RAILWAYS. LOO 'Buckghamsh. LOO Clydesdale Jc. all Col.Stour Vy. LOO E. Lin. g. 6p. r• all I E. 100 Glas. Barr. di Neils. Direct. 100 Do. New all Glstr.&Dn.Fr all full & Selby all Do. i Shares all Do. Shares all Lon.&Greenw all Do.Proference 100 Lon. Til., &S. 94 Do.Bark. Sh. • all jMancli.Bxton. and Matlock 'lOO Mdld.Bradfd. 54 Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. all N.diEst.s p.c. all Do. 6 per ct.. all Do.Fixedsp.c all Prest. /.1 Wyre an I Do. 4 Shrs. 4 100 Royetn. & Hit. all Shrows.& Her all S. Staffordsh _ all WearVal.g6pe 5 all Do ;t. 100 !Wilte&Somrst PREF ERENI all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref.(issd.at 501.) 100 Bris.&Ex.4 P.C. St. 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares 100 Caledn. £lO 4i p. c 100 Ches. dg Ho. 5 P.C 100 Do. do. 5 per cent all Cork &Bandonsip.c all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J 100 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c 100 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c 100 Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l 100 Do. No. 2 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St all East Un., G. 6p. c. all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. all Do. do. 4 per cent 100 East Lanc.Ash.6p.cts all E.&W. York. J. sths 9 Min.& Gl. sp. c. Sh. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. 100 Furness, 5 p. c 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c 100 GreatNorthn. 5 p.c 100 Do. 5 pec. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem 100 Do. 4i per cent 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. all at.N. of Scot.let Pre 18 Gt. S &W. k 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. 4p. 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. Gus. Stk all Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh all Do. do. do al Do. do. do 100 Lan.& York. 6pc. St 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No.l 100 D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 100 Do. New Guar. °p.c. . 100 Do. do. sp. c., No. 4. 100 Lon. &N. W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 perct late 3d Shares all Londy.& Color. iSh all Londy. &Ennis. i Sh 100 M., S.,&L. 6p. Cent 4i Do. do. do. £6 ... 100 Do. do. 3i per cent all Marypt. di Carl. 4 p.c all Do. 44 per cent 104 Do. do. 100 Hid. Consol. 6 p.c. St 100 50. Con. Br.l3ir. 6 p.c 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St 100 Do. L. &H. Pref. St all New.,Aber., &c., pr 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c.pm all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct all ISTorfk.Deb.4 p.c. ,A 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 100 Do. 5i p.c. p 1 ,1847 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~ ,1847 100 North Britis)i 3d Do. 71. Preference _I 100 N. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf. fli Do. do. do 13 !Do. Leeds 6 pc. No.l 9 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 10 Do. York H.& S. Pur all North Staffordshire 100 Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar ' 100 Do. 6p. c. 2d guar._ 100 Do. de. Debeutr. St. all Scot. Cent. New Pref. 100 Sc.N. E. Aber. g.6p. c. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pi. St. 100 Do. d 0.32 p.c. pr. St all South Devon all Do. fixed 4i pr cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.l of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4.1 per cent 100 Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh. 100 Do. New 4j pr. cent 100 S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. 100 o. do. 44 p. c all S.Yorksli.4p.c.Guar. all Stock. &Dar., sp. c. 19 Do. do. do. ,101 Watorfd& Kilk. 6 pc. Leasing ilomptuiles, Closing Prices yesterday Ln. &N. W. Caledon E.U. &E.O C4t.Northn E. Count. Caldonian. 90 - 92 93 - 95 12 - 14 127 - 130 3} - 3i Gt.Westn. V. & N.M Do ••• ....". Iliji - 106 S. Eastern Do 12 13 22i. —23 i 89 91 1 ad Peto &Co Do La. dr N. W. do Midld. 2 2i l - 89 - 91 E. Count.. id IP 54 56 Do Do Do li.diN.W. Do Gt.Northn 125 130 T. Brassey 7 8 M. MClean 8 i 9 Stk4Dar. Do 3O 32 Gt.Westn SHAMES. ... - ••• 89 - 91 ... - ••• 90 - 95 5t 7 -: 64 105 - 110 108 - 115 104 - 107 102 - 105 119 - 122 • • • .."" • •• ••• - ••• 65 - 67 1113 115 107 109 100 -102 60 - 62 10 - 10 .5i- 6 84 -- 86 80 -- 82 81 -- 83 94 -- 96 9 -- 94 15i -- 91 -- 9i 66 -- 68 17i -- 18 9/ 9t 13/ -- 13 130 - 135 1.10 -113. 1155 - 160 i - iP 60 - 63 128 - 130 93 - 95 83 - 85 ••• - • ••• 10 11 98 = 166 88 90 1;d 1 - 4(1 21i - 220 106 - 108 98 - 1C 3 rot = 166 65 - 70 9; - 10 21 - 22 BRITISH MINES. '2112 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 1 Dev. Gt. Cusls. (Tay.) 271 East Basset (Rogan) 1486 Great South a'olgus 1113 G rt. W. Alfrd. (Philk.) 7 Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 13s Lady Bertha 7i N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Basset (Illogan) 6/15 North Wheal Crofty 1i Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 2i 2 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S. Cana Brea (Illogn.) 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn.) 4i ram. S. &L. Min. Co, 9 Tin Croft 40 GIL Mines (Gwennap 1286 V. of Towoy (Camar. 14 W. Basset (Mogan). 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd. 5i Wh. Basset (Illogan). 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 5i Wh. Edward(Calstck) 117 s Wh. Kitty (U. Limit: 8 WIL Ma. Ann (Menht. 4. Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 20 5 30 281 14 -- 15 5 -- 7 100 -- 1.10 430 -- 450 90 -- 100 13/ -14 i 41 -- 54 1 - - 2' 1 - 11 10 - 11. 12 - 13 19 20 54 11 2a 335 345 4i 230 —24 U 1 3 4 22. - 2:3 100 - 110 170 - 180 295 - 31 0 7 - 7i 17 - 18 49 - 51- 1 23 - . 25 MINES. i d par li 2 ... - ••• 11 - 13 ••• 39 -- 41 10 - 12 id P 13 id 15 7i - 4cl ••• .... ••• 5 - 6 1- 2 3f - 3f FOREIGN 78 Australian 1 10s. Bon Accord Cop. (IL) 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm) all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. - Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper 16 Copiapo all Duu Mountain t. per Mining Co all Fortuna all General all Linares 1 Lusitanian all Mariquita all New Granada all Noveau Monde all Pont.Sil.LdM.&Smlt 1 Port Philip 16i Santiago do Cubs all United Mexican MISCELLANEOUS. 900 Atlantic Tel. (Lim. ) 19 Australian Agiieult. all Australn. Royal Mail all i ßerlin Water Works.. 2 iDo. Now iss • at 51. d 40 Brit. AmeriCan Land; 10 324 Canada It. 100 ,Do.Go.6pc.JanSauly ;t, all Copper Min. of Eng. 15 all 'Do. Pref. 7s p. cent 5 all Crystal Palace 5 all Do. Preference 4 all Crystal Pal. of France MI all !Eastern Steam .00 'ElectricTelegraph all Electric Tel. of Irel all En.&Aust.Cop.SmCo 10s. Eur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. all iEur.&Am.Stm.(lim,) .111 GOD, Ir. Sc. Col.(lim.) 14 I Gen. Steam Navigat. 5 London Discount all , Lond. Gen. Omnibus 10 ,Magdalena St, Navig. all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 81 Do. Extension Teleg. all Mexican& S.Americn 5 ' Nat. Discount Co 6 'Netherlands Land all Do. Do. all Do.B p.c.Pf.iss.at ld 2 Do. Do. 80 New B. &N. S. Land 100 N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. all N. B. Australasian... all Nrth.ofEuropoSteam all Oriental Gas 10s. Do New Shares all Peelhr. Id. (St Minrl • all Peninsular & Oriental 10 Do. New . all Rhymney Iron 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest. 103 S. Ans. Gov. 6 p.e.bds. all South Austral. Land all Submarine Tel. Scrip all Do. Registered 5 Truk Ln. Co. Up. Can 281 Vau•Diemon'n 50 50 50 100 20 - 22 4 - 5 30 - 35 110 - 120 107 - 108 27 - 32 23 - 25 14 - 14 3f - 4 6i 100 ••• 1 11 --.. ... 4 i - li 2} 2 d 3i 3i 2i - 2ii - 2 - 3 2 - 3 11 - 116 16 - 18 ••• ••••• ••• "" id i —i i p li 2 72 74 5 6 p 21 —23 ••• - •• 1 -1, 30 - 33 B - i i - i ••• - - •" -- 94 Rnsiness this day LAW INT. This Day.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Priul, at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Common Jury.) BOYD AND WIFR V. STRANGWA.YR-7IIRIOUS DRIVING. This was an action brought by the plaintiff., poor persons, residing in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, to recover damages in compensation for a serious injury indicted 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 his 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 bad 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, at d 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. Mr. 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 Shee, 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 compensation, by endeavouring to cast doubts on his identity, when he did not dare to put himself into the witness-box and face 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 had been 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 Prim:, at Westminster, before Mr. Baron Bramwell and a Common Jury.) COVIRILL V. HUDSON.-CURIOUS CASE OF TRESPASS AND OBSTRUCTION. The plaintiff in this case is an old man, residing in Warwickshire, and the defendant is Captain Hudson, the Governor of the Queen's Prison ; and the action was brought to recover damages for a trespass, and for illegally preventing the plaintiff admission to the prison after he had been discharged out of custody. The damages were laid at 1001. It appeared from the evide❑ce adduced on the part of the plaintiff and defendant that in 1844 he was taken on a ea ea in conse quence of difficulties he got into with some parish officers in Warwickehire 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 Hospitul 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 gathering all the old rags, bones, string, broken crockery, &c., procured in the prison dust-bins, and allowing them to accumulate in his sleeping-room ; in 1853, and on many frequent occasions, 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 rooai with the best portion and least offensive portion of the rubbish. As the plaintiff would not get rid - of the 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 obstruction, 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, end returned a verdict for the defendant, in which the learned judge concurred. • COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) TUE ROYAL RBITISII • Ilia 7XA4,(INATION MKET- MO or THE DIRECTORS. To-day was appointed fur the last examination of the directors of the Royal British Bank. Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, asked for an adjourn ment until after the trial, which is expected to take place io ,February next. Mr. Freehfield did not oppose an adjournment, but complained that the parties who had been prosecuted had not had the required facilities of reference t) 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 Merin% Gillot, Hurst, and Butt, who bad only been directorsior one month before the failure of the bank, applied that they should he allowed to pass, as they had filed their accounts and were not included in the indictment. Mr. Linklater said that Mr. Lee, the official assignee, had not had time t o go through the acco u n ts, and there fore an adjournment must take place ; but those gentle men had rendered great assistance an d d on e everything in their power to giv e i n f ormation . TUB 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 than the 2s. 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 March next. FATAL RAILWAY AcsIDENT.—A ship's carpenter, named Frederick Jones, was on Monday night knocked down and run over by an engine on the Preston and Wyre Railway, at Fleetwood. The deceased was cross ing the line at the time of the accident, and though the engine-driver took every means to prevent the casualty, the deceased seemed so confused that he was unable to move, and was killed a'moet instantaneously, lie belonged to Pre ston, was 63 years of age, and has left a widow and six children to deplore his loss. IMPROYOUNTs IN. PARIS. —Th e butchers' stalls, in the Carle des Prouvairea, are about to be abolished, in consequence of the opening of the pavilions of the Cen tral Markets. The construction was erected towards the end o* the First Empire, and a block of houses was pulled down to make room for it. The temporary sheds , in the Rue Train ee, o pp osite the church of St. Enstache,r ahaveare those abandoned,beenthesale of and are to h e demolished, as e for fish, constructed three years ago r n tbe site of the old butt er - market. The stowbuildi ng c onstructed five years ago, in which butter is sold by w holesale, is likewise to be pulled down. T HE ELECTIONS IN BARDINIA.—Frotn the Turin papers we glean the following statistics concerning the new chamber :—lt contains 55 noblemen, 33 of whom belong to the right ; 45 corninanders and knights ; 90 barristers, including 3 professors of the universities ; 15 8 priests ; 16 officers of the magistrates b ; a l e 2 kers ; and . • ors not belonging to S proles ti physicians ; ; tw o the faculty of law.. army The priests all belong to the ultra snit in general the liberals have comparatively party, apper to comparatively bad the worst of it i n these elections, al though they i• till command a majority. A HUSBAND cI IAAGED WITH POISONING MS WIFE A. master carter, named John Gay, was charged yes terday before Mr. Mansfield, the stipendiary magistrate to Poison h is w if e . The with is 55 , a t t h t attempting wife's 49, It was stated that the at Liverpool, s g complainant bad been taking medicine for some days, and that on Saturday last her daughter by a former husband saw Gay go into the bedroom, take some white powder from a paper, and put it into his wife's medicine bottle; and that on Monday, after taking some of the medicine, Mrs. Gay was sick, and felt very unwell. She told a police inspector, who called about some lead that had been stolen . , that she had b een i ll, and he too k the bottle away with him, and gave it to a surgeon to analyse it. Mrs. Gay, who was called, stated that she and liar husband quarrelled on Sunday, but she did not believe that her husband had attempted to poison her. Mrs. Gay's daughter, on being called, reso l u t e l y re f use d to say anything against the prisoner, who, she said, was as good to her as if he was her own father. An officer who had charge of her stated that she had not been tampered with, but had refused to a a y any thi ng s i nce her first statement a bout seei ng the prisoner put the powder into the bottle. The prisoner declared his in nocence, and Mr. Mansfield remanded this as yet unin telligible ease for a week. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.) WESTMINSTER. ALLEGED GROSS OUTRAGE —Esmond William Edmon eon, 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 Parks*, Knightsbridge, stated that he and his son, who were both ill, were sit ting in the parlour next to the shop last night, when the defendant and two other men entered the shop, and de fendant, in a loud tone, swore and demanded a light, Complainant to'd 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 afraid to go out, but as de fendant continued in the shop, be 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 him a violent blow on the mouth. Mr. Arnold. -Was defendant drunk I 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 Iran-action 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 he 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 struck 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 OMNIBI7B PROPRIETORS AND THE PUBLIC.—Mr. Thomas Schrier, omnibus proprietor, was summoned before Mr. Selfe; and 'appeared in court at 12 o'clock at noon this day, after the disposal of the night cbarges, 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 th? Black Swan, Higb street, Bow, to receive passenge,rs before starting, for 8 minutes, and Inspector E lis, of the K division, said it was likely to cause an obstruction, and that the defen daut 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 midel I, one before, and one behind. Me. Selfe said that was the nursing 'system, as it was called, and very unfair. He had in his mind's eye the Elephant and Castle, the York and Albany Tavern, the Royal Oak, Westbourne-grovs, 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 morean 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 minutes, 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, Nor. 26.—Wind E.N.E. Arrived—John Mathie, from Penang; John Henry, Madras, with loss of anchor and chain. Sailed—Juno, Galle; Maize, Colon ; Yldefonse, Bilboa. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 24.—Wind E.N.E—Arrived— James Chester, from Callao for Chester. Sailed—Xaupa, for Barhadoes ; G. W. Hall, Beaufort, U.S. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26. Wind S.E. to N.—Arrived Aliva Jordan, from Chinchas. (PEN ELPOTHIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday, 10 a.m. Wind N.E. ; rain. Arrived—Alliance , steamer, from Havre; Ranger, steamer, London ; Despatch, :temper, Jersey. Sailed—Petropolis, stm., for Brazils ; Courier, steamer, Jersey; Havre, steamer, Havre; L'Etoile, Carenton; Ranger, steamer, Dublin. LrVgRPOOL, 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, (ex), San tander ; Edward Stanly, New Orleans ; Don Francisco, and Politena, Havannah. DUBLIN, Nov. 24. Wind N.N.E. Arrived—Spiridione, from Ibrail. KINGSTOWN, Nov. 25. Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Damfrieshire, from Savanill; The Dake, Odessa; Phcenix, Quebec. QUICENSTOWIT, N.Y 24. Wind E.N.E. Off—James Chester, from Callao. (it 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, Helsirrgborg ; Brigand, Dantsic ; Provileuce and Lionne, Gravelines ; Isabella and Jane, Guernsey ; Albion, Riga; Sophia, Gottenburg; Fortitude, Memel ; Moselle, screw steamer, Rotterdam. Sailed, Nov. 26.--Clarissa, for Melbourne; Elbe, steamer, Hamburg. DEAL, Thursday, 9 a.m. Wind B.N.E. fresh, with rain. Anchored—John Matthie. from Penang, for London ; John Henry, from Madras, for London, with loss of anchor and chain. Sailed—Himalaya, outward bound • Juno, for Point de Galle; Yldefonso, Bilboa ; Maize, Colon. MARKET NEW B.—(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 iu the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT I BARLEY OATS I RYE BEANS 1 PEAS 51s 3d 393 10d 24s ld 35s 2d 43s 9d 43s 3d THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. WHEAT BARLEY 1 OATS I RYB I BEANS I PEAS 53s Cid 42s 2d 255 3d 35s lid i 45s 2d 44s 3d ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 94,088; barley, 83,594; oats, 11,837; rye, 66 ; beaus, 4,484 ; peas, 1,743 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NRWHATE AND LEADENHALL.—The trade was generally in a sluggish state, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s Od to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4a 6d; Pork, 3a 6d to 5s 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 heaTy, at our quotations :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s Od to 43 8d; Pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81bs, 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 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 10d ; Pcrk, 4s 4d to' 5s Od per 81bs ; Suckling Calves, 16s to 24s each. HAY MARKETS. SmrutriELD.—Meadow hay, 2i 10s to 4/ Os; clover, 3/ lOs to 51 Os; and straw, 1/ Os to 1/ 104 per load. Trade dull. CIIIIBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2115 s to 4/ Os; clover, 3110 s to 41 15s ; and straw, 11 Gs to 11 103 per load. A fair average supply, and a moderate demand. WHITEOHA.PEL.—Meadow hay, 21103 to 4/ Os ; clover, 81103 to 5i 03 ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 11 10s per load Supply tolerably good: • SIIRIOIN POACHING APPEAL—On Friday night, the 13th instant, a desperate encounter with poachers oo curred in the woods at Sheriffhales, belonging 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 gang of poachers, numbering about 30. Oakley'e dog seized one of the gang, and Oakley at the same time seized another, who escaped bis grasp, and made off. Oakley followed in close pursuit, came up with bins at the hedge bank, and struck at him with a stick, where upon the fugitive made a stab at Oakley with cone sharp bayonet-like instrument, inflicting a serious wound below the heart. Hunt, a watcher, then came up and struck the po,cher a severe blow, whereupon the remainder of the gang, came to his assistance and succeeded in res cuing him. They then turned the attack otlOakley 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 front the neighbo nr hood of Wolverhampton.—Shrewsbury Journal., TriE SUICIDE AT STEPNEY.—INQUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Maria Lewis, tloe rung woman who destroyed herself, and nearly occa - sioued the death of her child, by oxalic acid, as reported in The Sum of Monday last. The deceased, who resides: at the house of her sister and brother-in-law, 41, Uni on street, Stepney, was in distress of various kinds. She worked at a sewing -machine, and, as she was a new band, could only earn 2s. a-week. She bad 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 inuanity. The child is now out of danger. RAILWAY 'HOSTILITIES AT MANCHESTER. i THE LATE The disruption of the working agreements be tween the L , .ndon and North-Western and Man chester and Sheffield Railway Companies threatens to involve l ega l an d parliamentary 'proceedings of a serio as and protracted character. Ile 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 pasiengera 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 regard:lige the construction and management of the South Junction and Altriucham 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 ender 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 undertake to 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- tlincham line is worked by the Sheffield Company, and has been for the last 18 months, and it is to obstruct thisportion of their traffic that the proceed ings alluded to have been instituted by the North Western board. About a fortnight ago they sat 200 men at workto rip up the platform at London-road where passengers from Warrington, Altrinchaw, and other places west of Manchester were set down, and they have now formed a siding for empty carriages where. it stbod, on crossing which any passenger is warned that he will be prosecuted for trespass. Their clam'! 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 Lond in-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 Sheffield were 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 worked 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 the North-Western for the termination of the joint working of the station at the end of three months. 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 bo appealed to to define the rights of each company in the station.—Daily News. THE MODEL WIFE IN 1857. (Prom 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 expaniing more and more, She fluctuates in - ber walk, Sub Wing Swan and Edgar's corps With undulating talk. She names a time, with kindling eye, When, soaring through tho air, Sweet maids, balloon-like, up shall fly, To call in bldud-land-squa - re. When Pam, in peg-top breaks array'), Shalt 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, Quiriug to old-eyed cherubim In an " Excelsior" reel ! When Hyde Park dames aloft shall glow In surging skirts and frills, Leaving poor manhood hole below To cash their little bills. Her husband's purse is small—but no ! What though her form be slim — Her jupon still expands, -and oh ! The difference to him EMBEZZLEMENT.—A young man named Josiah Foo 18 years of age, occupying a situation in the light dues department of the Customs at Southampton, wa+ yester day placed at the bar before the borosgh magistrates, charged with embezzling 1701., the moneys of her Majesty. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday. ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS IN PIEDMONT. —The Turin papers contain an announcement that the Post-office authorities there have just made arrangements " to afford the public 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 cluding the cost of postage and delivery, is officially published ; and it is intimated that subscriptions may be received at every post-office,in return for which the newspa p e rs will be supplied ree of all other charges. DErOBTATION OF PAIIPERS.—The Belfast journals bitterly complain of the number of Irish paupers now arriving en the quays of that town from England and Scotland. The Belfast Mercury 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 LA of October, and ending the 19th instant, betwen 200 and 300 people received temporary relief from the bands of Captain Msßride. If these people bad 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 M`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. Re was sent back to Liverpool. Fourteen of the poor 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 departed from Edinburgh, and four out of the number 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 OF A SHARPER. —The gendarmes of Angers received information a few days ago that a strange? to the town was hawking jewellery about for sale, at a price below its real value. They found that he was lodging in an hotel under the name of Duprat, and they called on him to produoe his paisport ; be at once presented one which purported to have been given by the French Con sul-Genera. at Barcelona, and which bore numerous visas. But the gendarmes saw that it was forged, and they arrested the man. They afterwards discovered that hfs real name was Vincent, and that he had 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 iu 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 of jewellery, a large quantity 01 stale and female attire, and lastly, a collection of tools r engraving seals and stamps. As the man is an en gr aver by trade, it is considered very probable that he h ai l 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 h they were arrested, though they pretended that th ey had only called because they had hoard he had fon u.d I dog which rhos 11a4 iWits RAN GFOR, D. (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, 1 M.P., died on Monday last at 13radeate-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 Conyng , ham ' now Lord Londesborongb, 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 suc ceded to the title so recently as the 29th of May, 1855, on the deaths of his father. With the bulk of the Peel party he eventually gave in his adhe sion to the principle of free-trade, though in Feb., 1842, he spoke and voted against Mr. Villiers's mol ion 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 author, and 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 eleva 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 Viscount, 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 Ronsilly 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 be 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 sai i to have terminated. (Front the Morning Herald.) 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 father, the sixth viscount—the translator of Ca nteens, 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 Hazell, in the same county. He was educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1840. Early iu 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 accession 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 coo en by the sixth lord in or der to mark his descent from the wife of the first Lord Strangford, daughter of Robert Sydney, Earl of Leicester, 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 hi-other, the Hon. Percy Ellen Frederick William Sydney Smythe, born in 1825, who was educated a t, Merton College, Oxford, and has held, we be lieve, one or two diplomatic appointments. A subscription has been opened in Paris in favour of the suffirers by the dreadful fever which has been for some time past desolating Lisbon. WORKING MEN'S CHRISTIAN UNION.—The annual meetng of this association took place last night, in the Spatields Lecture-hall, Exmouth-street, 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 pr ,motion 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 tional meetings, classes fur mutual improvement, lee; tures, and a reading-room and library. The operations of the association also embrace the distribution of tracts. One 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 in its management. At present the association is a purely local one, being confined to Clerkenwell, 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 wurking men ; the lectures have bees exceed ingly popular, while the class ter instrnctioa 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 co Jld not be aseistod in a more effective manner than by donations of books. ABSCONDING OF THE SECRETARY OF THE BLACKBURN PHILANTHROPIC BURIAL SOClETY.—Coasiderable 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 trus 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 over to the treasurer. On Thursday ho went to Manchester, and on Friday wrote to an officer of the society saying that be would be engaged on the society's business in Manchester up to Saturday night. Oa 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 proton., and ordered to investigate the books, and report thereon at a subsequent early meeting. The society extends to Darwin, Accrington, Clitheroe, Has lingden, and all the neighbouring towns, and has u p w a r ds of 60,000 members. The funds of the society ate 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 preheroston of the delinquent. FORGED POST-OFFICE ORDERS.---The Cottil je2' dti Gard short time since arespectabl y-oonifi c e o ye n e t o a r idanetsr dressed , t ria h ews e ushnei f edc o i fol h lowing n i n n sc la g : i presented da — wskesd A e hfaor h rg i e m dt h e t e eo l f carry r e a t g e t t h et e or P of o m st 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 Nistnew, an individual called at the shop of a watcle. maker, named Nordoff, and said be wanted to buy a number of watches for a brother, who had just a regular stset u u p l i a n r business in a neighbouring town , and selected ooket-book a post-office the purchaser drew from his p i assortment of watches. 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