The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

, , • THE S UN , LONDON , W IVONEY MARKET' Slit.AN F.; M A.Ri - aiITS-This Day.) . LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Shr. / raid, RAILWAYS. Leasing Closing Prices Business RAILWAYS. AI:TD Companies. esterday this day , COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. shr. Paid Fairways. Chitlins Prices Business dons -- yesterday. this day. ___--...--..---...-....----. St. 100 Buckghamsh. ..&N.W. 92 - 94 .---.40.--. St. 100 Clydesdale Jc. Calcdon... 95 - 97 I 21! 10 1 Amlw.•,. Nottng. Bost. 25 all ,Col.Stour Vy. E.U.dtE.O 12 - 14 • CITY, Two o'CLocK. & Eastn. June._ 5-r , 1 St. 100 E.Lin. g. 6 p a : Gt.Northn 128 - 132 Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton 50 all ' Belfast & Ballymen, 8 - 81 5 all E. Uu. H. Sh. E. Count. 3? - 4 131 I• 11 I Binung. Wolverh. al. St. 100 i Glas. Barr. 6t Calclonian, 2 Market yesterday manifested a steady appearance, Stour Va11ey......... 68 - 70 ' Neils.Dire,et. and prices of all kinds were fully maintained. The St, 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. di St. 100 Do. :• 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr Gt.Westn. .•. - ... sales we re estimated at 7,000 bales. The Railway Cheshire Junct 25 all Maclrburn .... .. . . - 9 1 50 all Hull & Selby. V. & N.M. 105 - 106 Share Market closed quietly, and values were 25 an Mirth & Tyue . original . 25 all Do. 1 Shares. Do Without any material alteration. £25 (ass. at £45)... .. - St. 100 Bristol & Exeter.... 85 -88 12 all Do. 1 Shares. Do - . 121 1 all Lon.diOreenw • .Eastern l2 - 13 ' its St. 100 aledo • 81 -8 5 81 20 all Do. Preference Do 23 -24 .4, Notwithstanding the a batement of the crisis St. 100 Lou. Lon. Til., &S. Peto &Co 92 - 94 effects are still exhibited in occasional failures, and St. 100 Chester & Holyhead 33 -- 35 341 10 ' 10 Do. Bark. Sh. Do / - Id all sil 1 C c o o r r k k, a ß n l d ae. .t ßandon.... pa . .7 . .....- . ! during the nt,xt two or three weeks several small 5° 20 1 si all Manch.Bxton. Ln.diN.W. firma will nc doubt be compelled to succumb. Two 20 all (Cornwall 3l -41 and Matlock & Midld. 21 -21 St. 100 Mdld.Bradfd. Midland... 90 - 91 Were announced yesterday, viz., Messrs. Hinton 10 all I Do. A - ... 50 10 458 : I D Do. B ..• -- ••• Brothers inthe Italian trade, and Messrs Lupton,BuryE.G.spe. E. Count.. par - 1p üblintlißelfa.stJunc. •-•- •-• 50 all Nofast.s p.c. Do 54 - tit; Hooton, and Co., war ehousemen, but the liabilities 25 all ( Dun. P. &Aber.June. 81 --8 1 50 all Do. 6 per ct.. D o .., - ... St. 100 (East A ng lian - 191 50 all Do.Fixedsp.c Do - are small. 20 . all 'Eastern Counties..... 58 1 - 59 1 59 1 it 25 all Prest. & Wyre L . &N. W. ... .., Increased ease is experienced in the Money St. 1100 EasternUnion,A.stk. 40 - 44 1.21 all Do. 1 Shrs..4 Do Market; but there is (Yood demand, in consequence St. 100 ;Do. do. B. . - ... St. 100 Roystn.&Hit. Gt. North 130 - 133 la 25 8i !Do. 'New 1 -- .. 10 all Shrews.& Her T. Brassey 71 - 7 of the preparations in progress for the heavy mass 25 l'7l , East Kent - 9 of commercial paper, due on the 4th proximo. The St• 100 (East Lancashire ...... 91 - 93 50 all WearVal.g6pc Stk.diDar. ... - ~, 20 all 'East Suffolk .. - ... 10 4 I Do. -- - - liquidation of annual accounts also stimulates the 25 all Do. St. 100 !Wilts&Somrst Gt.Westn B3 - 85 demand, but there is an abundant supply and St. 100 I EO inburgh dt Glasgow 62 - 64 611 . 0 all IFalinb. and Peebles... ••• - ••• PREFERENCE SHARES. the terms are easier, bills having been discounted -t. 100 'Edinb.Prth.diDunde, 30 - 31 as low as 6i and 7 per cent. A. further decline of 0 all i Forth and ClydeJunc. • . - ... 25 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (issel.at 50/4 - ... the minimum is therefore expected, but not until St. 100 (Furness ... .. ....... . . 7 - ::: St. 100 Brie. &Ex. 4 p.c. St. 89 - 91 St. 100 iflasgow & S.Western 8d - °I. after the January divide nds are p aid. The distri- 10 all ,Great N. of Scotland 9 ' -9 1 20 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares.. - ... 971 - 981 St. 100 Claledn..£lo 41 p. c. 94 - 96 4 balm St. of the interest on Consols will add to the st. 100 100 , IDoGreat A. Nrthern Stock ... . 85 - 87 83 St. 100 Ches. & Ho. 5 1 p.c. - ... easiness of the money -market, and promote invest- St. (100 iDo " .. St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent... - ... ~ B. Stock ..."" 122 - 124 64 all Cork &Bandon s lp.c. - St. ;100 IGt. Sth.&West.kire). 97 - 99 6 all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J. 6 - 6 1 Monts in public securit ies. The Bank of France have further reduced their SLIM() IDreuwestein. ...... 541 - ...r'4i 531 St. 1 100 'Do ctr V.R.gua.St 58 - 62 . ~. . St. 100 E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. - - Minimum rate of discount, viz., to 5 per cent., and 12 all ;Irish South-Eastern, •.• - ..- St. 100 Do. do. Cls. B Op. c. 105 - 110 St. 100 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c. 110 - 114 the accounts from Paris speak favourably of future 5C all (Lancaster &Carlisle. 76 - 79 St. 00 Eas.Co.Ex,sp.cNo.l 105 - 108 • 161 10, Do., Th1td5............ 71 - 85; prospects, although trade at the present moment is 161 12 Do. New Thirds ... 7/ - 8 1; , St. 00 Do. No. 2 ....... ..... 103 - 106 Very dull. St. 100 La.ncash. &Yorkshir• 93 . -94 931 3 St. 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St. 121 - 124 1.6 I 6 Do., do. F £l6 ... il - 1 20 all East Un.. G. 6p. c. - ... It has been announced that the half-yearly 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. - ... 3 1 1 Do., Wst. Riding Un. ... - • - dividend, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, for 20 ' all Do. Southport. - ... 10 all Do. 10/. Debentr.Sh. ... - ... St. all Do. do. 4 per cent... the half-year ending 31 s t December inst., on the 111 all London & Blackwal' 51 - 61 .. - ..• St. 100 East Lancash. 6 p.cts. ... - • St. 100 Cond. Bright. &S. Cst 106 - 107 Capital Stock of the Commercial Bank of Canada, St. 100 London &N. Wester , 971 - 98 9T4 5 all EakW. York. J. Stills ... - ... Will be paid by the London Joint Stock Bank on 30 all Do. Fifths . - ... 10 9 Edin. & GI. sp. c. Sit. ... -- ... 10 all Do. ,10/.Sh.,Mdsß„.e ... - •.. St. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. ... - ... and after Friday, the Ist of January. 121 5 Do. Eighths l- / d 4 St. 100 Furness, sp. c St. 100 Mae, & 5.W.G.5 p.c The Bonds of the State of Alabama, guaranteed St. 100 London & S.Weatere 951 - 961 St, 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c ll5 .- - -- i 7 -. 5 all rry. St. 100 Do. s p. c. Redeem. 1 Lndnd&Colerain. ... - ... by the Bank of Mobile, due on the Ist proximo, 25 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk • - ••• will be paid by the Uni on Bank of Lonclln. st. 100 Manch.Shef. &Linclr.. 401 - 4111 at 10 p. c. prem lO6 - 108 St. 100 Do. 41 per cent 97 - 99 The interest on the So uth Ausiralian Govern- 10 1 Metropolitan 10 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo' 60 - i'2 went Bonds will be paid on the Ist proximo, and i arrangement - -• p..e. prem. 10 all Gt.N .of Scot.lst Pr( - 101 also on the New South Wales Government Deben- St. 100 Midland - 91/ 20 18 Gt. S& W. (Ireland) ... - ... St. 100 Do Birraing &Deri. 64 - 65 tures. The half yearly dividends on the South 50 all Midland G.West.(lr. ••• - ••• 20 18 Do. 4 per c. Prof. St. ... - •• • Carolina are also advertised for payment on the 25 all Do. 1 Shares. ... - ~• 50 6Gt W.( 3.&H.Ex.spe 5i - 6 St. 100 Do. con. red. 41 p.c. 86 - 88 87 'CS) all Newcastle di Carlisle. ... - •.. same day. St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. C. 82 - 84 25 all Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 121 - 13 Dividends, at the rate of 8 and 5 per cent., 50 9 Newry & Enniskille. ... - ..• St. 100 Do. irred. 4 per lent. 82 - 84 St. 100 Do sp. c, rod. pref. 91 - 96 are declared by the Scottish Union Fire and Life 20 all Newry, Warren in' 8 all Do. Bina. Pref. Sh,. 91 - 91 & Rostrevor ... - ... Insurance Company, and the British Industrial it. 100 Norfolk_ - 62 10 all Do.ChesterBp.c.P.S. 156 - 16 Life Company respectively. . 50 31 Northn.Counties Un 31 10 all Do. do. sp. c. d 0.... 91 - .1 St. 100 North British The Market for Public Securities is under the St. 100 North Devon, Rail. & 26t all Do. Chosh. Gua. Sh. 171 - 18 13 3 / 4 all Do. do. do Bl - 9 influence of the speculator who was "declared" Dock Stock . ..... ...... ••• - •.. St. 100 Do., A Stock ........ ... - ..„ 20 al Do. do. do l3l - 13 131 two days ago. This event has proved more serious St 10Ci Lan.& York. 6 pc. St ... - •.. St. 100 Do B Stock - ... than was at first imagined, an d, until the St. 100 N. Wastern ---Berwiel, 96 - 97 971 St. 100 D0.,P.,5p.e.5t.N0.2 ... - ... 25 all Do. do. Extension ... ... - . . St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 132 - 137 settlement, the quotations will no doubt con t inue 25 1C Do do. G.N.E.Purch. 2 - 1 . 4 . St. 100 Do. do. s p. c., N 0 .4 113 -- 116 variable- The party referred to refus e s to g ive u p 50 all Do Leeds - 51 St. 100 Lon. & N.W., Coy. 4s: his books, and thus it is difficul t t o close his en g a g e- St 100 Do. York 81 - 85 86 Nuneaton sr. ct... ... - ... St. 100 North London ....... 90 - 95 St. 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 p erct, meats, and whenever any of them are terminated 10 3/.1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp late 3d Shares ... 150 - 160 the market is immediately affected. The, fluctua- 20 I stead, and City Ju. ••• -• •• ! 171 worth Staffordshire 3a - ua 121 all Londy. & Color. ]Sh. ... - ... tion thus occasioned no doubt induces many of thel2i all Londy.&Ennis. 1 Sh. ... - ••• 20 all North Western speculators to retire from the market. Consols, 10 1 all N. &S. Westrn ...l - u . n . ; gi -- - 9 . St. 100 M., S.,&L. 6p. Cent. 114 - 117 6 41 ls o. do. do. L'6 ... .. 1 - 5 from 931 i, dropped to 93,11, and are now about St. 100 Oxford Worcester. di Wolverhampton.- 31 - 321 31 St. 100 Do. do. 31 per cent. 64 - C 6 9 3i i . The price for February is 934 941-. Thel2i all Marypt. itiCarl.4 p.c. ... - ... 20 16 ,Portsmouth lO - 8 d 12 all Do. 4i per cent . New 3 per Cents. have ranged from 93g to 94, 10 10 'Rhymney • - .• ' St. 100 Scottish Central .... 104 - 106 12a 101 Do. dO. and the Reduced from 931 to 94. Bank Stock is St. 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdn,St 24 - 26 25 St. 100 Aid.Consol. 6 p.c. St ... - •.. St. 100 Do.Con.Br.Bir.6 p.c l 3O - 131 131 217 to 219. Exchequer Bills are par to 3s. p re- St. 100 (Shro p shire Union-- 47 -49 ; - St. 100 Do. 41 p. c. Pref. St 95 -97 Minn; the Bonds 99i I, and India Bonds 20s. dis- 10 6 Sitingbourne4tSheer. 4- 3 . • ' .. St. 100 Do. L. &H. Pref. St B5 -- 87 50 100 South Devon 33 - 35 .. . ~... 10 -all New., Aber., &a., pr. count. St. 100 I South Eastern - 721 711 . ' - ' ,_ 5p c red. sp.c.pm. In the Foreign Market the transactions have 10 all !Do. 41 per:. Shares .. - . .. . : ' =.'. 10 .a - ll Do. Perpet. 6 in% ct. 104 --... 11 1 . i.oi . been limited and the prices are hen Turkish vy.St. 100 !South Wales 7Bl - 791 791 -... • X 0 10 .all, Norfk.Deb.4p.c.Sli '•"•• • ' ~ ' ' " St. l'OCr Do. sp. c. Ext. !SU ." . --* . •-• 20 all S. Yorksh. River Dun 12 -14 6 per Cents. are marked 9.71 i; Mexican, 201 / ; 20 10 '8- 6 d •-, ' - St.-1.00 00. 51 p.c. pf , 1847 ~.. -.. Brazilian 5 per Cents., 99 ; and Ditto 41 per Cents. 20 all IStaines,Wok.,&Wok. 9- 11 St. 100 Do.WV.V.Sp. ..,1847 ... - ... 25 all !Stockton & Darling 36 - 38 St. 100 Not ;,11 British 101 - 103 95 ; Spanish Committee Certificates are 5. 25 15 Do. do., 1854 - ... 731 Do. 71. Pre:'er3nce ...1 ... - The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 25 5 , Do. do., 1855 - . St. 103 N. E. Berw, 4 p.c.Prf.l 94 -96 Stocks :-Grenada Deferred Bonds, 56 ; Mexi- -- 17 .81 Do. do. do 1 - 1 161 Stockton & Hartlepl. ... - ... St. , 100 Taff Vale... ........... ... ... 20 13 ID.). Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 ... ... Can, 204 201 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 77 st. 100 Do. Pref., No. 1...... ... - ... 121 9 iDo. do. Qrs., 1848 ... - . 1 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., -- ; Portuguese 3 per '2 5 lO Do. York H.& S. Pur ll - id 25 22 Thames Hay. D. &rt. ... - ... 20 all Vale of Neath l9l - 201 20 1 ;Russian 5 per Cents, 106 108 ; 20 all North Staffordshire.. 211 - 226 Cents., 441 45 20 all Waterfd. & Kilke nn y ... - ... ' St. 100 Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 . ' do. ti per Cents 97 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 50 all Waterford&Limerick ... - ... • , p.c., Ist guar. ...... 112 ' - 114 1121 414 421 ; ditto Deferred, 261 i• 20 all West Cornwall .. St. 100 I Do. 6 - p, c. 2d guar.., 101 - 103 10 all West End of London St. 100 Do. do. Debentr. St. ... - ... A rather limited business has been reported in and Crystal Palace 7 - 9 the Railway Share Market this morning, and the 5 all Do. A - 34 84 all Scot. Cent • New Pref. .. - ... St. 100 Sc.N.E.Aber.g.6p.e. 110 - 112 transactions entered into have ' most instances 5 all Do. B - 6 20 all West London- St. 100 Do, do. 7 p.c. pf, St. 103 - 105 had reference to the settlement of the half-monthly 10 all Do. First Class .. s• ... - •.. St. 100 10. d 0.31 p.c. pf. St. 70 - 72 20 all Do. Second Class._ - •.• 25 all.. :.nth Devon 9 l - 104 accounts now in progress of liquidation. Prices 10 all Wmbledon&Croydon ::: - - 10 all sO. fixed 44 pr cent ... -.. .... -- ... generally have exhibited a slight improvement, the _ ' Le.; all S. Eastern (Reading BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Ann.) of £ 1 Os. 6d. 22 -22 a advance being about ±to 4 per cent. Eastern !till all I Atian and St. Law. 1 , . .... ... - St. 100 Do. Fixed 41 p.c. Sh 93 - 96 Counties and Lancashire and Yorkshire improved St. 100 Do , New 4 pr. cant ... - ... 18 9 I Bombay, Baroda, and I • 58 . ; Great Northern, North Western, Midland, Ceia.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. 'll - 11 St. 100 -. Wales Gua. 4p. c. ... - ... North-Eastern (Berwick), and South-Western, 18 all Do. - ••• 201 18 Buffalo & Lake Hur. 6 - 514 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar ... -. 103.; North British and South-Eastern, 1/. The 100 100 ( Buff.,Brnt.diGodch. l 1 80 - 85 25 all Stock. &Dar., sp. e. 26 - 28 Foreign and Colonial lines are inactive but 100 100 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 25 19 Do. do. do. Do. do., 1 July, '73 78 - 82 St. 100 Waterfd&Kilk. 6pc ... -.... ... prices are fully supported. Northern of France 100 100 Do. do., 1 June, '74 75 -80 ------_ - - :have advanced 103., Dutch Rhenish, 10s., and BRITISH MINES. 20 2s. Calcutta and S. ast. ... - ... Great Luxembourg, ss. Tile Colonial undertakings 20 2s6d Central Oude (Lim.), ... - ... ... '2112) Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 12 - 13 20 lOs Ceylon A shares ll - lip 20 14 British Iron - 7 also skew a slight improvement. Grand Trunk o f 20 1 Do. B. do. .. - .. ... 20 Condurow (Cambria.) 80 - 90 ' Canada have improved 1/. •; Great Western of 174 all Demerara. - 440 20 2s. Eastern Bengal -1 • i ... 271 Kist Basset (ifogan) 90 - 100 Canada, ss. ; and East Indian, 103. St. 100 East Indian 1101 - 1111 1114 ... 1456 Great South Tolgus.. 13 - 14 In Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares 120 15 Do. C Shares 2 - 24. ... 11/3 Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 4 - 5 • . 00 all D 0.44 p.e.Bnds '57 ... - ... 7s'Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 1 -- 14 little alteration has taken place in prices. 100 all Do. do. do. '59, do. ... -- ..... ... 13s Lady Bertha -1 - 20 all Geelong & Melbourne • ... 74 N. Frances (Mogan) 8 - 9 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE . i'CLOc i- guar. 5 per cent. ... 19 - 20 St. 100 Gd. Trunk. of Canada 48 ... ... N.W.Basset (Illogan) 11 - 1.2 100 20 all ai a l:: .o 1n. 6 Pe n , n e . . g 5 Deben...perc 2283 -53 48i 9 ... 6115 North Wheal Crofty 4- 5 Ifroin the - Officzal List.)... 11 Par. Cons, (St.Blaxy) 16 - 18 • Businesedoue.- - 8 22 5 1 83 ••• 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 4 - 5 Bank Stock . ... 217 19 20 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. 11 - 11 13 ... 6s. Sort. Cons. Min, Co. 1/ - 11 3 per Cent. keduced e , nullities - 261 20k ... 24 S. Camden (St. Cleer) 340 - 350 New 3 per Cent. Annuities' - 43a 201 10 Do. New - 1 d 121 8 ... 2S. Caen Brea (Illogn.) 31 - 41 ..toug Annuities, expire stti Jan. 1860.... 2 100 all Do. Ms., payable '57 ... - .., ... 19 S.W. Frances Illogn, 220 - 230 220 Ladle Bonds, 1:100 - 112 5 44 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. i - 1 Ooesols for Account - 112 10 9 Tin Croft 3 - 4 Exchequer hills, 20. 100 all Do. do., '73, without ••• 40 Un,Mines (Gwennap) . „ - . £IOOO 20 all Ma o d p ras tio i , n g p u . a c ti. 4 E i x p t . 0i e 1 .. 1 1 4 9 i ....,- 2; 101 - 103 ... 1256 V. of Towoy (Camar.) 4 - 1' 8,911 -. ..... • Fxchequer Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cont 99/ 1 20 all Do. do,, 5 per c. ... 211 - 224 ... 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd,) 100 - 1101 Ditto, 1959 . - • - 155 IPRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 20 20 10 Do. 4 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. ' 14 - 1 . p ... 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 280 - 290 Brawaian 5 per Cent.... - ... 51• Wh. Edward(Calstck) 61 - 71 7 , Ditto Account l Oude (Limited) ... ... 1/70 Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) 14 ._ 16 Ditto 1852, 44 per Cent. - 21 P .... 8 Wh.Ma.Ann(Menht.) 45 - 48 201 20 . Do all I ." - _, 44 Wh. Trelawney(Lis.) 23 - 25 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account lipauish Committee Cert. of Coup, not fun. 5 FOREIGN. FOREIGN MINES. Turkish Bonds, 6 par cent 971 1 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam' 68 - 63 20 1 1 7 0 4 s . ITen t A r t ia o u rdCop.(li.) / I d -- p i er Ditto Account 9 Bl 20 18 Ardennes Dividends on the above payable in London. 5 all Belgian East. Junct .l = i' 1 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued . TWO O'CLOCK. 20 16 Beziers to Graissessac ... - u3O all Doa.tClc ae pms ) ds C iada •, - .. 93A x d 6 all Carineaux&roulouse 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 10 -. ii Consols for account - ..--------.----. 20 12 Dutch Rhenish - 4 , 4 1 0 al i l ... 16 Copiapo ClarendoncCobra l.eoilclfooup Mountain Jamaicate Mining Co. Con.. Min. .. . 38 . i. .1 a E it.; .2;id 20 all Eastern of France ... 27 - 271 inin am Cop• -39 20 all Do. New The Cape Town Railway and Dock Company have 20 2s. Euphrates Valley - received intelligence of the arrival of their engineer, Mr. ••• 20 18 Gt., Central of France ::: - ... W. G. Brounger, at the Cape, on Oct. 29th, by the mail 1 2 :1 Fortuna Dupner 20 all Great Luxembourg... 71 - 7a 7i i gteamer Dane. 10 4 Italian Junction The Poi Bretonne, a French legitimist journal,. is to 20 all Lake Const. & Bale ... - • 20 all General -. 14 - 16 he prosecuted for "false news," and its Paris corre- 20 all Lierre and Turnhout . , - ...d 3 all Linares spendent is included in the indictment. 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 5 . 1 -51 p 111 51/ Lusitanian - 9 Tsui HILL om MONTMARTRE.-The city Of Paris is in 5 all Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. ... - . 1 all Mariquita - id treaty f or the purchase (or rather, sines an act of the 20 all Lyons and Geneva... 26 - 2 . 7 1 all New Granada - Legislature would be necessary, the expropriation ) of the hill of Manta) 20 an Lyons & Mediterra.n. m - ... 334 all Maria Antonia made by an eminent ar trea.rchA2o all Pont. Sil.LclM. di Smlt 4 - ... architect to a plan already 10 all Do. New - ". 5 1 Port Philip I-- isi houses which encumber that ni , 20 all Namur & Liege - 81 30 16/ Santiago de Cuba .. ..i* -- *** pulled down, and one of the fine s t an a number . of villanous 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. 191 - 20 284 all United Mexican • 4 - : i 6 . p e r e . n m t e s n it s e de a s re in to tb be e 16 all Northern of France., 38 - 331 world is to be laid out. The idea is certainly grand, 1:6: 50 al soo :A A ßriu tl .st a t. o .A ti l o : T .ei e l l t:e .Ei La m m. . a:ila 3.0 10 all NorwegianTrtik.Pref 71 - 84 25 19 Anstralian Ml A S gr C ic7t. 251 but the execution of it involves the expenditure of 20 all Paris and Lyons 341 - 344 0 ..._= 7 : .. :4 25 many millions and 11300 ! 1 a 300 1 22 1 4 Be r ID Canada oo r .. I G i N n oe. W 6wp a ci t e. e sj r .a W an : rf in i. s . dy . . .4 . -- ..5 . as the going round may the n e perhaps uphill be work as much 20 all Paris and Orleans 52 - 54 promenade will undoubt. dly 20 7 Recife & San Fran., 1114 - -_- bi- The Montmartre Hill, in the caverns of which (Pernam.) g. 7P. c. 4 -- i P envier made many of his hollow as an empty h 111 -16 if geological discoveries, is as 10 71 Rome and Frascati ... - ... 20 all Royal Danish 5 455 t. a aleall u ll i Crystal ;Crystalp e Preference I . M p aa i li n .a . c of e Eng. honeycomb ; it is continually •• -- .. crumbling away, and there are ratans who calculate 5 all Royal Swedish i- i that it will fall in within a few 20 all Sambre and Meuse._ 71 - 25 all .Do. Pref. 76 p. cent. 12318 ..... 112132.2525 w years. ARCBMOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES -M, Leon Fallue, a few days ago , communicated to the Academy of Tnsc rip- 10 8; all Do. 51 per cent. prof. 74 - 8 1114 20 all Southern of France 22 - 221 21/ 41 - 5 all West Flanders tions and Belles-Lettres some curious discoveries which ' 10 all Do. 54 per c. Prof • 81 - 9 ofFrance . 1 .. 4 --- la he had made at Epinay-sue-Seine, E Ea le s e te tri ni eT B e te le a g Ea raph 16 i34 : 4 08 near St. Denis, of vas- 20 all W. & N.W. , of France 261 - 271 tiges of a Gallo - Roman village aid burial place on the 20 6 ' Western of Austria... ... - ••• estate called Manoir du Mont, the property of M. Cre- 20 all I We-t. of Switzerland .. -- ... St. 20 laicloi 108 While While some workmen were di,iging a ditch M. 6 all I Wiestaden 1 % 8 11 . E E u n t ..di . & A u i s n t d . C . j o e p t . li S . Fallue observed traces of sarcophagi in plaster. He im- 1 all Electric Tel, of het. . . .6 , all I 140 p. cent. pref. ... - ... mediately bid the men clear away the earth earefully, and 20 I all ; Zealand .. .-___ __ _ -__•l•___---- 10 m T C el ° li --- 17-6. thus succeeded in extricating eight of them entire, each 9 all Eur.&AlieStra.(lim.) 5 - 51 of which contain ed a skeleton. Continuin g his researches JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 20 e ll 'Gen. Ir • Sc. Col.(lim.) .. - be discovered 10 y ards below the surface of the soil a - 10 all !Australasia 1 81 20 5 'London Discount ... 11 11i - 83 814 15 14 'Oen. Steam Navigat. ..: - ... gallery eight yards in lee g th b y two in height and breadth 125 181 I Bank of Egypt I 3 - 2 d -- From this gallery doors led to two lateral passages, each 100 50 Bank; of London 43 -- 47 4 all !Loud, Gen. Omnibus 31 -3i in the form of a Greek cross. At another spot, near 40 all IBri.Col.lllc..&Ln. Co. ... - •• 20 10 ' Magdalena St. Navig. ... - the principal street of EpinflY, be found a crypt, tom- 50 all 'British N. American -- • ... 20 8 'C.Bk of Ind.A d l c ''' ...d 10 all IMediteran. Elec. Tel. ... - ••• 10 ' ... , 86 Do. Extension Teleg. ... - .• posed of two gal'eries crossed by a third, the latter of 100 50 'City . 11. h •• • - 9 56 - 60 10 all ,Mexican&S.Americn ..,. - • ; which opens into a subterranean church, constructed of 100 25 Colonial - .. 25 5 !Nat, Discount C 0... 11.- 11i masonry of great antiquity. At a distance of two kilo- 100 20 ;Commercial of Lend ... - .., 10 6 !Netherlands Land... a --11 metres irons this, n ear the Chateau de la Briche, a large 20 all i Eng.Seot&Aus.Cat. 1.8 - 181 10 all 'Do. Do. - 3 All these c r yp ts 20 all Lon. Ch. Bk.of A abt. 17/ - 181 5 all Do.B p.c.Pf.iss.at 1 d 2l - 3 number of ancient graves wer e found• and relics appear to belong to the Meroving ian p eriod. 20 all Ditto New 5 2 Do. Do. • 11 - 1 d [ADVERTISZMENT ] il - olloway's Ointment and Plll.l 50 20 'London and County .. - ... 100 80 Now B. &N. S. Land 16 - 18 have been placed by the common consent of mankind at ... 50 Liel.dtE.Thakng.Corp - .., St. 100 N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. 95 -9796 i 10 'Lo n don J oin tst - 50 ,. ... Stock. - ... 281 1 all N. B. Australasian... 3 - if the head of internal remedies. Tbey thousands save : 100 20 ILond.andWestminst. ... - ... 46 annually from falling a sacrifice to dyspep sia ,d t•2O all Nrth.ofEuropeSteara ... - -ysee_ery, 1 . - vx) 35 'National Pro. of Eng. „, - ... .• diarhcea constipation l i v er 1 all Oriental Gas , , complaints, &c., a fact at- i2O 10 Do. New .. -.. 1 10s, Do New Shares P tested by myriads of witnesses. No sufferer from 091 National Bank 50 „„, ... -- ... 5 all Peelltr. Ld. di Minrl. 21 - A 2# scorbutic affection has ever failed t o experience relief 20 all ' New South Wales 44 -46 5 0 1 all Peninsular & Oriental 72 -- 74 from them. General weakness and debility, the pre- 25 all Orientali Bank Corp. 32 - 34 50 10 Do. New monitors of vital decay, are replaced with • 20 'Ottoman Bank ...... 181 - 19 5 - 6 p vi and 120 1 • 50 all Rhyroney Iron healthy action in every organ throughoutal of Ireland ... - . the entire 'lOO 25 Irrovinc .. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 5l - 56 system by the restorative and exhilirating influence ID S w •-- *** of 10 'all , 0. 0 ............... ... 1 all Scot. Austral.lnvest. 11 -1/ ' this life-sustaining vegetable preparation.-Sold by all I 5 1 IR.Aus.B.&G.Im.Co. ... - ... St. 100 S.Aus, Gov.6p.c.bds •-.- ... Medicine vendors throughout the world, at Professor 1 25 all 'South Australia ......✓- 33 - 33 25 ell South Austral. Land 33 - 3i • - Hollowsy's Establishments, 244, Strand, London , I 25 all I Union of Australia... 49 - 51 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip 1 • and 88, Maiden-lane, New York; by A. Stampa, Con- ... 24 Do. New ............... ... - ... 1 all Do. Registered stantinople A. Guidicy, Smyrna; and E. Muir, 50 10 Union of L0nd0n ........ - ... 120 5 Trus.Ln.Co.Up.Can .„ - Malta. 1(0 50 UuityMutual ........ I ... •"" ...d I 1.00 284 Van Diemou'l Laud 9 --. n . i 100 •Q Weetrnßls of Loud,' 1114 ri eft a - . . • .- , LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30,_ 1857. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE• OMNIBUS ROBBERY.—Mary Wilkinson, a respectably dressed female, with a child in her arms, was charged with picking the pocket of Mary Ann Stevens, in one of the Wellington omnibuses. _ Mr. Lewis, jun., defended the prisoner. The prosecutrix deposed that yesterday afternoon she got into a Wellington omnibus in Shoreditch ; the prisoner eat next to her. Whilst riding along, she felt the prisoner's hand by her side, and on examining her pocket she found her purse open and her silver, from 6s. to 75., gone. She found her dress had been cut. She thought the prisoner passed something to another female who left the 'bus, but she did not like to give her into custody, fearing she should be mistaken. Police-constable 466 said that when he apprehended the prisoner she declared her innocence. :She was taken to the station-house and searched. Only one shilling, three sixpences, and three half-pence were found on her. The omnibus was also searched, but nothing was found there. She gave her addres—Charles-street, Hackney road, but no one in the street knew anything of her. Mr. Lewis said that the facts negatived the supposition that she committed the robbery. The omnibus was full of ladies revelling in an amplitude of crinoline, and some one else was as likely to have committed the robbery as the prisoner. The Lord Mayor said he should remand her. Mr. Lewis said he hoped his lordship would not do it. There was no evidence against her. _ _ The Lord Mayor—But she gave a wrong address, and her husband was not forthcoming, as he had promised. Mr. Lewis said his lordship appeared to be relying on collateral facts. It did not matter what she was, there was no proof that she committed the robbery. The Lord Mayor—Where is her husband. I should like to hear what he has to say. Mr. Lewis—No doubt ; but I don't think he will attsnd. The Lord Mayor—l have no doubt of it. I shall remand her till Friday to make further inquiries about her. _ _ Mr. Lewis—Will you take bail ? The Lord Mayor—No. Tne prisoner was then remanded. GUILPHALL. • ASSAULTING THE PoLion.—Sarah Hart was charged before Mr. Alderman Cubitt with assaulting the police. Police-constal , le 322 deposed that yesterday afternoon he was called on by another policeman to remove the prisoner from Shoemaker-row. She was drunk, and causing an obstruction on the pathway, with a basket of fish. She refused to move on when requestad, and on his endeavouring to get her away she struck bum in the face with her fist and made his mouth bleed. She also scratched his face. He was obliged to have the assistance of another constable to bring her to the station in con sequence of the violence of her conduct, On the way she kicked him several times and attempted to bite her. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that she struck the policeman beoause he kicked her two or three times in the back. _ _ Alderman Cubitt—Has she been here before I Springate (the gaoler)—Yes, your worship. Prisoner—l am sorry to say I have, but it sban't happen again. Mr. Alderman Cabitt sentenced her to 21 days with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. TN& ATTEMPTED MURDER IN WEETMINETER. — John Butler, a labourer, was this morning placed at the bar, charged with being concerned with his father (now in the House of Detention), in an attempt to murder or otherwise inflict grievous bodily harm upon Cornelius Shane. Evidence was given to the fallowing effect :—The prisoner and his father, labourers at the Chartered Gas Works, lives at No. 9, St. Anne's-lane, Great Peter street, where the injured man also occupies a room. On Monday night, there having been some previous alter cation between the parties, when prosecutor returned home, Butler the elder, accompanied by the prisoner, followed him up stairs into his room, when having locked the door they declared they had got him now, and the elder Butler proceeded to inflict the most atrocious assault upon him. How many wounds were given there was no evidence to show, save that his nose had been entirely slit up with a knife, and that adhesive plaster covered other portions of his countenance, which was wofully disfigured. The evidence against the prisoner is that he used threats upon the stairs, that he brandished a salver at the time, and was present with his father when the injuries were inflicted. It was also shown that the daughter of Shane, fearing what wou!d befal her father, kissed the prisoner, and putting her hand into his entreated him to be peaceable, just before the attack was made. Prisoner said he was not in the room at the time, and was about to enter into a lengthened defence, when Mr. Paynter intimated that as, in all probability, he would be committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial, he had bet.er for the present reserve what he had to say, as it might be given in evidence against him upon his trial. Prisoner was remanded for a week. THAMES. oAN iMPCIDENT Timm—John Green, a boldlking - youth of 17, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charge d attempting to steal money frau a till. Mary Ann Ward, servant to Mrs. Eliza Hinspelwoed, shopkeeper, of No. 5, Queen-street, Tower.hill, said she heard the rattling of money in the till of her miss• tress's shop, and upon going there saw the prisoner, who must have crept into the shop on all four..., leaning over the connter with his hand in the till. It was full of money, which he dropped when she made her ap pearance. She asked him what he wanted, to which he replied that he wanted a p enn y egg. She called the police, and gave the priso ner into custody. Roche, the gaoler of thicotirt, said the prisoner was a most incorrigible young thief, who went about pilfering whatever be could lay hi s hods on, and he had been three times summarily co n victed. Mr. Selfe asked the prisoner w hat business he had in The prisoner—l went to buy the shop a penny egg for my P o lice-constable Hoare, 178 FL supper. not a farthing in his pocket en he was apprehended. said the prisoner had The prisoner—l lost the penny on my way to the shop. Mr. Selfe—You are a moa t hardened young thief. I have seen you here before under nearly similar circum stances. The prisoner—l works hard for my living. Mr. Selfe--No you don't • :you are a thief , and if you are brought bore again I will, co mmit you for trial. You are sentenced to three m on ths' imprisonment with hard labour. LLOYD'S Smpppw.—(This Day.) LONDON, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon, N.W. calm with fog. DEAL, Dec. 30.—Wi n d calm. —Arrived — From the river, Blenheim, for M a d ras Salamanca, Kurrachee. DARTMOUTH, Dec. 29. —Wind calm—Sailed—Ostrect, for Dominica. CARDIFF, Dec. 29.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Albyla, for Havana. SWANSEA, Dec.29.—Wind E . N•E. —Sailed Josephine, for Messina. BELFAST, Dec. 25.—Wi n d S.W.—Arrived—Damond, from Miramichi. SCILLY, Deo. 28.—wi n d W.N.W. Sailed—Elionore Sophie, for Port-au-P r i nce. OFF SCILLY, Dec. 25.—Arrived—Morlin, from Messina, for Hull. QuEENSTOWN, Dec. 28,—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Assalto, from St. John's, Newfoundland. LEITH, Deo. 2 6.—Arrived—Pomons, from St. John's ; Douglas Castle, Callao, SUNDERLAND, Dec. 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—Euehans, from St. Malo. LONDON, Dec. 30.—The Ala, sailed from Philadelphia, on the 12th of September, for London, and has not since keen heard nf. ANTWERP, Dee. 30.—The report that the Fortuna (Sar dinian vessel), loading at St. Domingo, for Marseilles and Genoa, had been fired at by the insurgents and sank has been confirmed. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Wind E., almost calm ; hazy. Arrived— Agenoria, John Watson, Sherwood Ranger, Edward, Rapid, William Skinner, and Sanderford—all from Sunderland ; Foyle, steamer, from London. Sailed—Gipsy, for Llanelly ; Foyle, steamer, for Dublin. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind S.W. Arrived—Royal Victoria, from Charleston ; Herald of the Morning, Callao ; Johan Wilhelmina, Baltimore; Douglas, Prince Edward's Island Emma, Sia7rna Helios, and Gondar, Charleston ; Fr o lio. St. Michael's. Sailed—Sunbeam, for Gibraltar • Hendeka Bartina, Rio Janeiro ; Hannah, Bahia ; Minolta , Pernambuco ; Augus tine, Madras ; Mystery, (R.), Monte Video ; Zwel Gebrav dors, Gyen ; Miranda, Hayti; Vesuvia, Malta. MARKET NEWS. —(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat was on offer in to-day's market. The demand , however, ruled very in active, at about Monday's qu o t a ti ons . This week's imports of for e i gn w h ea t are 8,310 quarters. Fine dry samples realised full pr i ces; b u t low and mid ling qualities met a dull inqui r y. There was a fair inquiry for fine malting barley, at ex treme rates; but grinding and distilling sorts were a slow sale. _ _ No change took place in the value of malt. Oats were in moderate supply and fair request, at full quotations. Beans, peas, and flour were dull, but not cheaper. ARRIVALS TIIIS WEEK. Wheat, 1 1 Barley. k Malt. 1 Oats. 790 i 2,310 2,150 1 220 600 2,190 sks 2,300 1190 Ns Flour. 660 English Irish Foreign..... I 8,310 I 3,350 BOROUG There is only a moderate but hops. Prices, however, rule al El HOP. .siness doing in all kinds of bout stationary. WHITECIIAPEL. The trade generally ruled steady, at full quotations : —Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s it lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 48 6d ; Po*, 3s 8d to 5e 2d per Blbs by the mow, LITERATURE. A Woman's Thoughts about Women. By the Author of " John Halifax, Gentleman," &e. Hurst and Blackett. This is a very excellent and thoughtful work, by a writer who has attained a high degree of cele brity, addressed chiefly to the single of her own sex, offering them some reflections and suggestions on subjects of the greatest importance. She does not attempt to advise, so much as to sugges, to bring before them some of those great moral and vital truths which single women, without great capacities or unusual education, are very likely to forget. Her book is written in a frank and fearless spirit, earnest in purpose and prac tical in tone. Some of the " Thoughts" appeared originally in " Chambera's Journal," but it is well they have been issued in a col lected form, as it gives them an opportunity of being more widely circulated, and they are more likely to be useful than in fragmentary papers. She takes twelve subjects in succession, connected with female social life, and foremost among them she places the necessity of " Something to Do." On the subject of the common waste of time among single women of the middle classes she says, with force and truth : "And so their whole energies are devoted to the massacre of old Time. They prick him to death with crochet and embroidery needles ; strum him deaf with piano and harp playing--not music ; cut him up with morning visitors, or leave his carcase in ten-minute parcels at every friend's' house they can think of. Finally, they dance him defunct at all sort of unnatural hours ; and then, rejoicing in the excellent excuse, smother him in sleep for a third of the following day. Thus he dies, a slow, inoffensive, perfectly natural death ; and they will never recognise his murder till, on the con fines of this world, or from the unknown shores of the next, the question meets them, What have you done with Time r —Time, the only mortal gift bestowed equally on every living soul, and, excepting the soul, the only mortal loss which is totally irretrievable. "Yet this great sin, this irredeemable loss, in many women arises from pure ignorance. Men are taught as a matter of business to recognise the value of time, to apportion and employ it : women rarely or never. The most of them have no definite appreciation of the article as a tangible divisible commodity at all. They would laugh at a mantua-maker who cut up a dress-length into trimmings, and then expected to make out of two yards of silk a full skirt. Yet that the same laws of propor tion should apply to time and its measurements—that yon cannot dawdle away a whble forenoon, and then attempt to cram into the afternoon the entire business of the day—that every minute's unpanctuality constitutes a debt or a theft (lucky, indeed, if you yourself are the only party robbed or made creditor thereof): these slight facts rarely seem to cross the feminine imagina tion. "It is not their fault ; they have never been accus tomed to business.' They hear that with men time is money; but it never strikes them that the same com modity, equally theirs, is to them not money, perhaps, but life—life in its highest form and noblest uses—life bestowed upon every human being, distinctly and indi vidually, without reference to any other being, and for which every one of us, married or unmarried, woman as well as man, will assuredly be held accountable before God. " My young-lady friends, of from seventeen upwards, your time, and the use of it, is as essential to you as to any father or brother of you all. You are accountable for it just as much as be is. If you waste it, you waste not only your substance, but your very souls—not that which is your own, but your Maker'a. "Ay, there the core of the matter lies. From the hour that honest Adam and Eve were put into the garden, not—as I once heard some sensible preacher observe—" not to be idle in it, but to dress it and to keep it," the Father of all has never put one man or one woman into this world without giving each something to do there, in it and for it : some visible, tangible work, to be left behind them when they die." The duties of a mistress of a household are also considered at length, and the chapters on " Female Friendships and Gossip" may give some useful hints to the thoughtless. The last chapter is called " Women Growing Old," and iu it the writer boldly faces the inevitable certainty that most turn away from as a hopeless subject. She draws a pleasant picture of what an " Old Maid" may be. " Yes, if women could only believe it, there is a won derful beauty even in growing old. The charm of expres sion arising from softened temper or ripened intellect, often amply atones for the loss of form and colouring ; and, consequently, to those who never could boast either of these latter, years give much more than they take a way. A sensitive person often requires half a lifetime to get thoroughly used to this corporeal machine, to attain a wholesome indifference both to its defects and perfections, and to learn at last, what nobody would acquire from any teacher but experience, that it is the mind alone which is 01 any consequence ; that with a good temper, since rity, and a moderate stock of brains—or even the two former only—any sort of body can in time be made use ful, respectable, and agreeable, as a travelling-dress for the soul. Many a one, who was absolutely plain in youth, thus grows pleasant and well-looking in declining in iyears.nd: who You t p i 1 p h . a u r i d y l e y , y e vue .ugly findy in a p n r bo so d n y af n t o . r t u m g i l d y d le life. "So with the character. If a woman is ever so be wise or sensible, the chances are that she will have become so somewhere between thirty and forty. Her natural - good qualities will have developed ; her evil ones will have either been partly subdued, or have over grown her like rampant weeds; for, however we may talk about people being ' not a whit altered just the same as ever '—not one of us is, or can be, for long together, exactly the same ; no more than that the body we carry with us is the identical body we were born with, or the one we supposed ours seven years ago. Therein, as in our spiritual self which inhabits it, goes on a perpetual change and renewal : if this ceased, the result would be, not permanence, but corruption. In moral and mental, as well as physical growth, it is impossible to remain stationary ; if we do not advance, we retrograde. Talk of too late to im prove'--'too old to learn,' &c. ! Idle words ! A human being should be improving every day of a life time ; and will probably have to go on learning through out all the ages of immortality." Further on, she speaks, in conclusion, of the loneliness that so many dread as the companion of their old age. Even for this prospect she has a word of comfort. " Yet there is a solitude which old age feels to be as natural and satisfying as that rest which seems such an irksomeness to youth, but which gradually grows into the best blessing of our lives ; aid there is another soli tude, so full of peace and hope, that it is like Jacob's sleep in the wilderness, at the foot of the ladder of angels. All things are less dreadful than they seem.' And it may be that the extreme loneliness which, viewed afar off, appears to an unmarried woman as one of the saddest of inevitable results of her lot, shall by that time have lost all its pain, and be regarded but as a quiet, dreamy hour between the lights f when the day's work is done, and we lean back, closing our eyes, to think ib all over before we finally go to rest, or to look forward, in faith and hope, unto the coming morning. ,4" A finished life—a life which has made the best of all the materials granted to it, and through which, be its web dark or bright, its pattern clear or clouded, can now be traced plainly the hand of the Great Designer; surely this is worth living for 'I And though at its end it may be somewhat lonely ; though a servant's and not a daughter's arm may guide the failing step ; though most likely it will be strangers only who come about the that husband n o o ve h r ns t b h a e nd po e o v r er w k it i h s e s r e e d d , a d n y d ing dr b a e w d, t c h lo e se s t h h r e ou e d ye k s breast where no child's head has ever lain ' • still, such a life is not to be pitied, for it is a completed life. It has fulfilled its appointed course, and returns to the Giver of all breath, pure as he gave it. Nor will Ha forget it when He counteth up His jewels." The work will well repay perusal, from the sim plicity and clearness of its style, and the sense and moderation with which it is written ; but it is intended for a higher purpose than • the mere occupation of a leisure hour, and such it will, no doubt, iu some measure, fulfil ; teaching the desultory and careless the pressing importance of the time they are wasting, warning the indiffe rent and worldly of the realities of life and death, and speaking a word of encouragement to the lonely and unaided workers in the hi e ,hways of humanity and suffering. The Ragged School Union Magazine. Partridge and Co. The importance and efficacy of Ragged Schools as a means of educating and elevating the lowest classes is now generally admitted. They obtained a footing in the most distant localities, and their numbers hare increased at a rate that has surprised their projectors. While the question of national education is being discussed with the deliberation common to State questions, it is well for the poor and neglected children who will one day form no inconsiderable part of our adult population, that there are those who devote themselves to searching themout iu their wretched homes, to bestow on them the blessing of plain moral and religious instruction and to train them for some respectable employ ment. Those who are interested in this truly be nevolent undertaking will find much to gratify them and arrest their attention in thi3 volume. The Original and Selected Papers en various social subjects, the reports of meetings, and the statistics of the schools and their teachers are full of interest. We trust that this work will be the means of inducing many to aid the promoters of these praiseworthy institutions. Our Children's Magazine. Partridge and Co. This excellent little volume is issued by the Ragged School Union for the children attending those schools. It is suited, however, to any child, especially for those of the poorer classes, giving them sketches of natural history, poetry, stories of public buildings, lives of the English Kings, little sermons, girls' pages of instruction in housework, and numerous woodcuts. Two or three songs, words and music, are also added, It is a very ac- I F,eptable anit instructive Iniscell4ny fur little I people. The J.:etters of a Betrothed. Longman. This litt'ie volume consists of a series of letters supposed t o be written by a young lady during the period of her engagement to and separation from her,fiancer. They are written with simplicity anu feeling, anal in a manner that reflects ci edit on tie heart and head of the writer, whether they are real or fictitious. A visit to Paris is pleasantly chronicled, and the volume shows many traces of good taste and right feeling. ZIIL REWMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS IN AMERICA. (From, the Amy York Herald.) This week, if Providence endows our bankers and merchants with common prudence, will inau gurate the revival of American trade from the re vulsion of 1857. Our city banks, the other State bank ,- , the Boston and Newhaven banks, and ge nerally all the banks which suspended specie pay ments, with the exception of the Pennsylvania banks and a few others, have now returned to their old system of paying all their liabilities in specie, when required to do so. The 250,000,000 of specie wt,ich are in the country amply suffice for the basis of a sound currency; indeed it may be as well to re peat, as we are taking leave of the subject, that our bank suspension was a mere ephemeral accident, un warranted by any radical unsoundness in the banks, uncalled for by any radical decline in our com merce, and simply caused by a monetary outburst of panic occasioned by a breakdown in the railway system and stimulated by au unusually sudden and severe contraction on the part of the banks. It is well also to place on record once more, for the guidance of the future student of history that during the whole GO days that the suspension has lasted specie has never been at 1 per cent. premium, nor our city notes at 1 per cent. dis count. In the every-day traffic of life no incon venience whatever has been caused to the public by the suspension. So much for the past ; now for the future. We are beginning business with an unusual plethora of specie in the banks ; those of this city, for instance, holding twice their usual quota. Under ordinary circumstances, as the cotton crop is coming for ward, our city banks would count on holding from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 from this date to May next ; but, perhaps, the demand for money in Europe may falsify this calculation. Still, as trade is being generally curtailed, it is not likely that any want of specie can possibly be felt in this city for months to come. Ten millions of gold, in decently prosperous and quiet times, are quite enough for our banks to hold. It will require very powerful effort to reduce the average during the next six months below 15. _ _ The country as a whole is richer than it has ever been before. The cotton crop is large, and prices, though declining, are highly remunerative. The crop of breadstuffs is universally bountiful. Of our two great staples, breadstuffs and cotton, we hold more than we perhaps ever did before at the corresponding date. A calculation pub lished in Saturday's Herald went to show that there had been sent forward for shipment this year over 30,000,000 less cotton and breadstuffs than were sent forward up to the same date last year ; in other words, that th• planters and farmers held 30,000,000 more of their produce than they held in the middle of December, 1856. We should regard this calculation as extremely moderate. The amount of cotton and breadstuffs held back by the producers is in all probability larger than this, considering the great difficulties which the revulsion has thrown in the way of transmitting produce. It would not be surprising if it was found that farmers and planters held 50,000,000 more of their produce at this time than they did 12 months ago. By so much, then, is the country richer. In a day or two the last of the shipments of bread stuffs from the interior, which have been unusually bountiful during the past few days, will cease, leaving a nest egg for the farmer to send on in the spring. So of the cotton. The movements of the cotton market in Europe and the disorganisation of the exchanges have induced a number of planters to hold back their crop, which will come ou in the spring, and create a re source which the country has seldom had befcre. Nor has the general disruption of all business of a speculative character been less conducive to the general wealth. Within the past three or four months no man has emba' ked in a rash enterprise ; no money has been locked up in new schemes of any kind ; all undertakings of a speculative charac ter, including many unprofitable manufactures, mines, and other enterprises which our great con sumers of wealth in good times carried on, have been suspended, and the money that would have been appropriated to them has been saved. Busi ness generally is in process of liquidation. Here are most assuredly substantial reasons for anticipating a revival of solid prosperity. We may add to these that the bulk of the losses which have been occasioned by the revulsion will fall, not on us, but upon the manufacturers of England and France and the capitalists of Europe. When our people fail it is the foreigners who surfer; we keep the goods, they lose their money. It is not a very flattering reflection to one's national pride ; but it is a fact, and deserves mention of the commercial prospects. We begin business, then, with an unusual amount of gold in the banks, with an unusual accumulation of produce in the country, with less entanglements in the way of speculative enterprises than we ever had before, and with fewer insolvent concerns and deeply indebted houses than we perhaps ever had to carry along. It rests in a great measure, with the banks of this city to decide whether these seeds of prosperity shall bring forth good fruit or no. Eight months ago we warned the the city banks that they were nursing a day of wrath for themselves and for the public by sending their means to foster the insane and miserable gambling in railway stocks which was prevalent in Wall-street. The fulfilment of the prophecy is not likely to be readily forgiven. But the error may be repeated, and if it is the same result will unerringly follow. However safe the operation of lending on railway stocks may appear, it is a practice pregnant with panics and ruin to circles far beyond its immediate range ; if our city banks begin again to lend right and left on these speculative securities the panic of October will prove the first of a series. It is likewise in the power of the banks to effect much towards solidifying the commerce of the country by discouraging long paper. Four months ought to be the longest date known for mer cantile paper ; three are ample in most cases. The fatal liberty convoyed to the borrower, under a system of six or eight months paper, is enough of itself to account for periodical revulsions. A sound discretion will naturally be exercised by the banks in the selection of paper for discount ; on this head it may simply be observed that, however gratifying the general commercial prospect may be, the pri vate condition of the old commercial houses is by no means reassuring, and will not be till March is passed. We have ninety days of anxiety before us ; and till they are passed young houses which have come into lite since the crash of October will prove the safest concerns in the country. THE 3IABQUASAS ISLANDS. A letter in the Moniteur de la Flotte from Taio- Hae, one of the Marquesas Islands, says :-- "The Pers6verante fri g ate, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Lugeol, arrived in this port on the 16th of August. The admiral found the French post well pro visioned, and living on the most friendly terms with the different tribes of the island, with the exception of that called the Taipi-Vahi. That turbulent tribe had been the terror of all the others, from its ferocity and obsti nate adherence to the old customs of human sacrifices and cannibalism. Lieutenant Rosenzweig, of the French navy, who commands the schooner Kamehanieha, sta tioned at this port, had, at great personal danger, seve ral times gone to she tribe, accompanied by an inter preter, to endeavour to persuade them to give over these propensities. Re received from them evasive promises, but their insincerity was soon apparent, for soon after, only a short time before the arrival of the frigate, some armed men of the tribe entered on the territory of the French mission, and having seized two young girls, killed them with the design of offering them as a sacr ifi ce to the manes of their late chief. Two officers of the Perseverante were sent off by the admiral to require the guilty parties to be given up, and to signify to the chiefs and the grand priest that they must cease their human sacrifices, and come on board the frigate to give an assurance that they would do so. This mission being unsuccessful, the admiral assembled the chiefs of the other tribes, who unanimously agreed, if supported by the French forces, to march against the cannibals. That course was deoided on, and an expedition was organised, of which the admiral took the command in person. The French force, consisting of seamen from the frigate, and accompanied by the warriors of the united tribes, pro ceeded through the forest to the territory of the Taipi- Vahi, who fled in all directions, attempting uo resist ance, until they reached their last village, where they maae a slight but ineffectual stand. All the villages of the tribe were burnt. On the following day, just as the admiral was about to return, a party of the hostile tribe came without being seen to within gunshct of the place "where the admiral and his officers were collected, and fired several shots, but, fortunately, without effect. They were immediately pursued and put to flight, and the expedition then returned to the port. It is hoped that the lesson which they have received will induce this tribe to alter their conduct for the future." The dividend, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, for tke half year ending the 31st inst., on the capital stock of the Commormal Bank of Canada, will be paid by the London Joint• Stock Bank LETTERS ifßoAr (Froinf4 Ibiza' Correspondent.} SHANGHAI, OCT. 17. REASONS ALLEGED FOR THE PAUCITY OF BRITISH EXPORTS, The reasons u4ually alleged are-1, that the Chinese I,re not easily induced to adopt foreign fashions ; 2, that the Chinese are a manufacturing people; 3, the dis turbances caused by the rebtlliou ; 4, the exac:ions of the Chinese Custom-houses. All these difficulties exist, but they are individually much over-estimated, and they are in the aggregate quite insufficient to account for the phenomenon. Ist, That the Chinese are not easily induced to adopt foreign Lishious. This is true only to a very partial extent. You can't wake a China woman wear a Crau bourne-street bonnet, nor a Coolie wear a pair of Stuart plaid trousers ; they are even so bigoted as to nnisider chat their narrow cottons, 10 inches broad, are more conveniently made into the'm garments ttan your wide "mgcloths. They do not like your flimsy cottons ; I have seen them take thera between their fists, and rub the dressin g out. At Ni .ngpo th e Chi nese can b u y th e best gray shirtin gs ac 56. a-yard, and they yet prefer to pay ?d. a-yard for y horsie-mac e co tt on c l o th not quite the width. But this is not b ecause they are insensible to the superior fineness of th e English texture ; it is because home-madethey a nnot cloth h r i d s i) -4 f o th b r u ic y e thethe sßubristtiasnbeemaatnedriawl.ill last The a Chinaman for at least two y ears .- The British calico washed in Chinese fashion, by beating between stones, would wear out in six weeks. Depend upon it that a Chinaman is of all human creatures th e most shrewdin all matters of economy ; provide him with a cheaper and eetter thing than he can make at home and he will buy it. But you must give him what he wants. If Yung A'Lung, the tailor of Caiiton, were to send a circular to the Deputy-L;,eutenants of England, telling them that he had sent to Englar.d rich mandarin dresses much handsomer than the stiff clothes which they wear on grand occasions, and inviting them to go to Court a la Chinoise, we should scarcely think that Yung A'Lung had made a wise or profitable consignment. Yung A'Lung is not such a fool. lie sends us cheap gold lace of the proper width and quality. Surely Manchester can produce a piece of strong thick cotton cloth 10 or 12 inches wide and put it down at Shanghai at less than dd. a yard? At this moment narrow thick calicoes, which one of tLe Hong Kong houses hal toe wit to order from Eng land, are selling at very remunerative prices. There is also some trade doing in cotton brocades, made in imitation of the Chinese silk brocade.', of the same flowered pattern, and dyed to the same colours. These are laid down at Shanghai at 3i taels ; they there readily fetch 5 taels ; and I am told that the Chinese merchants find a ready market for them up in the tea country at 13 taels. No doubt if the mandarins find this out there will be a tremendous squeeze upon the Chinaman's profit of 8 taels somewhere. But it is a mistake to suppose that the Chinese are not foudof Western fashions. In going through the house of the richest merchant in Ningpo I was surprised to notice that, except in the servants' rooms, there was not a bit of Ningpo furniture in the house. The furniture was all of Chinese manufacture, but it was of simple fashion, without a mandarin, or a dragon, or a piece of inlaid ivory about it. An English knife is a most acceptable present to a Chinaman, and a telescope is a treasure to covet through a life. He loves cherry brandy and de lights in champagne, and many a Shantung man comes out smart on New Year's-day in a camlet coat (of Chinese fashion) and brass buttons from Birmingham. But why insist upon a Chinaman changing his habits to become your customer? Every morning throughout the Chinese empire there are 300,000,000 of blue cotton breeches drawn over human legs. Men, women, and children alike wear them. They are loose and shapeless. There are not five different patterns and five different sizes all through the empire. My Coolie says that his cost him 200 cash, hut that he is obliged to have a thick quilted pair in the winter, which cost him 1,000 cash. Here is scope for Manchester energy 1 2. The Chinese are a manufacturing people—This is not true in the sense in which it is used. Of course, they obtain a produce by hand labour, and so did Adam when he delved and Eve when she spun. But in a competitive sense the Chinese have no manufactures. Their hand. loom is a miserable thing. Their shuttles pass to and fro at a very languid pace. They can produce small re sults ,ith great ingenuity. There is a working weaver who imitates with wonderful art ell our English ribands and fringes, and who is kept in constant employ by Eu ropean ladies to match English fabrics. English ladies who wear out their father's horses and carriages and the patience of politeshopmen in matching twopenny ribands f , r dear country friends would find him invaluable. But he could not produce 20 yards of silk at any reasonable price. China is not a manufacturing nation, whatever she may become when her intercourse with the West is perfect and her enormous coalfields opened. She has at present a happier destiny than the factory and the forge. " Bella gerent alii, red to felix Austria nubs." To manufacture is our necessity, to produce is China's privilege. Be it our humble task to work up her produce into fabrics; to supply local deficiencies in her favourite food, and to clothe with blue integuments the nether portions of her teeming people. This is the true interest of the two counties, and any little gentle compulsion tending thither wards will be to the ultimate good of both. 3. The disturbances caused by the rebellion.—This is a really important difficulty, and must be in some way removed. I hope our commercial men do not propose to themselves to postpone active business in China until the roads shall be macadamised, gaslights established in every city, and rural police walk up and down the banks of every canal. China always has been and always must be a country o f f r equent revolutions, secret societies, and powerful robbers. In all forner times, whenever some great event lights up for a moment the historic gloom in which the common people live and suffer, we find all these influences strongly working. Chinese so oiety then comes out like tbat of a drop of stagnant water seen through a microscope. Water lions are de. vouring the smaller ugly things, which in their turn are feeding upon the still smaller fry, and thus downwards to infinity. In 1224 years China, so famed in the West for the solidity of her institutions, has undergone 15 changes of dynasty. So ancient is this curse of turmoil tnat the oldest known vase, attributed by Chi. nese writers to a period long before the birth of Christ, bears upon it as an inscription an aspiration for " Ten thousand years' rest from violence and troubles." The founder of the Ming dynasty in 1368 was a servant at a Buddhist monastery, who joined a vagrant band of ma. rauders. Whenever anything occurs of historic import. ance we always find that some bandit had a hand in it. The land was always full of them. When the Tartars possessed themselves of China one of these bandit chiefs had just possessed himself of Pekin, and the last of the Ming race had just hung himself. In 1635 the interior contained eight separate rebel armies, each with its leader, its set of grievances, and its appetite for plunder. It was a pirate who drove the Dutch out of Fermosa ; the son of a "celebrated pirate" who helped the Can tonese to defend their city against the Tartars ; and it is a pirate who the other day destroyed the Portuguese piratical fleet at Ningpo. In all ages and at all times China has been coasted by pirates and traversed by bands of robbers. SAVINGS BANKS.—The annual returns made by the savings banks in the eastern counties exhibit generally satisfactory results, and show either that the benefits of such institutions are more appreciated by those for whom they were intended, or that the condition of the working classes has enabled them to gradually extend their de posits. In the Cambridge Bank 500 new accounts have been opened during the year ending Nov. 20, and only 340 have been withdrawn. In the Sleaford Bank the deposits received have been 9,4881. 6s. 10d., while the sums paid to depositors, including interest, have amounted to• 8,4111. 14e. 3d. At Boated there has been an increase of 1,082 depositors during the last ten years, and of 6,2091. 2s. ld. in the amount deposited At Louth during the past year 299 new depositors have opened accounts, 11,1161. Bs. 11d. have been deposited, and 9,817/. ss. 3d. withdrawn. SHOCKING MURDER AT OVIER-DARWEN.—On Sunday evening an unprovoked act of violence was committed by Adam Berwick upon John Marsden, both of Over- Damen, near' Blackburn ' which resulted in the death of the victim in less than 24 hours afterwards. The deceased was a powerloom weaver at Mr. Walmeley'e, and about 46 years of age; Beswiok is a collier at the Satiny Bank Pit. Both the men were neighbour., living at a place called " the Sands," in Red Earth Mount. For some time past an angry feeling had subsisted between them, owing to a dispute respecting some poultry. On Sunday evening Marsden (the de ceased) had occasion to pass Beswick's dwelling, as he was proceeding to his own home, when his infu riated foe rushed out armed with a poker, and dealt him a blow upon the head which felled him to the ground senseless. Berwick left his victim in that condition, and quietly walked bank to his own house. The deceased was conveyed home, and Mr. Wraith, surgeon, called in to attend him. The poor fellow, however, was in a dying state. and all efforts to rtlease him were unavailing. On Monday evening, at half-past five o'clock, he expired, leaving bebtua him a wife and a large family. On Monday morning, after the occurrence had been bruited abroad, Beswick was taken into custody by police -sergeant Atkinson, and brought before Mr. Shorrock, magistrate. He appeared much dejected in spirit, anti during the brief examina. tion he fainted. He was remanded till Wednesday (this day), when he will be brought before the county justices at Blackburn. This deplorable affair has cam(' the A greatest o sensation e s i n p e t c h t e h t a o s w n b e a e n n d p n r e e i s g e h n b t o e u d ri try ° tie Rev. H. Hinxman to the Rev. William Blood , A M in the shape of a beautiful pocket communion service. . * The rev, gentleman has also received a handsome present from Lady Morley, in memory of hie preservation from the wreck of the Amazon. The Minister of Commerce in Prussia has charged a commission of scientific men and engineers to ascertain what inconvenience may Le caused b y atmospheric influ ences in the transmission of telegraphic despatches, and to propose a remedy. tio T nn il: i oFirtmoNoculidayS,neve TRAM—The Paris Oonstitu. in an article signed "P. Dubois," throws off the mask on this subject ; boldly defends the system which the French Government have adopted of purchasing negroes on the coast of Africa and carrying them to compulsory service in the French Antilles ; argues that in no other manner can prosperity be restored to them ; and ridicules the opposition of the Eng li s h philanthropists. From this manifestation on the part of the leading Government print of France, the deplorable inference is that Lord Clarendon's re monstrances have utterly failed, and that the revival of the African slave trade by the Emperor of the French will be persevered in. What will Lord Palmerston say nowt—Daily Noes.