The Sun. — London, England, 1857-02-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed rietly. Brazilian were id. per lb. dearer, and Friday' s Id. per lb. dearer when compared wit h brulay' s rates. The sales were est i ma t e d a t 8,000 b ales, 1,000 of which have been taken on specula tion. T he Railway Share Market was rather firmer, at unproved rates: 'al from Constantinople state that a g ood 'al of uncertainty prevailed on the subject of the Proposed State Bank, some doubt being exprersed Whether the guaranteed interest on the capital re quired would be granted by the Government. it Ne gotiations, however, were in progress, and was generally presumed that a favourable arrangement Would actually be effected. The letters received from Hamburg this morn -Ing state that the Money', Market there was abun dantly supplied, and 90 days' bills were easily ne gotiable at 3 3 / 4 per cent. Increased easiness is reported in the New York Money Market in the accounts by the steamer Ame rica, 7 per cent. being the allowance for loans on call, While the rates of discount had receded to 8 and 12 per cent. The last weekly return published by the City banks exhibited very few features of in terest. The loans and discounts had increased 23 4,014 dollars, and the specie was smaller by 3 21,030 dollars. Al'hough there is no alteration to report in the value o f di scount accommo d a ti on th ere i s de cidedly an improved feeling, which has been Partly stimulated by the favourable reduction ",hikted in the Army and Navy estimates. There is a disposition to look forward with increased cdnfid enc w ith regar d t o mone t ar y affairs, and the prospect of the arrivals of gold, being far in excess of the shipments to the Conti nent, has dissipated the fears lately aroused by the continuous drain. About 100,0001. of the toldgold b y the M orn i ng Li g ht was sent into by yesterday. The directors at the Weekly Court to-day have made no alteration in the rate of discount, and owing to the more satis factory position of things, scarcely any anxiety was evinced to ascertain the result of their deliberations. The upward movement in the value of the F unds so bas continued, the improvement this 25 morning being ito tl per cent. Of course 100 this movement has imparted animation to the 50 Izarket, and further speculations for a, rise have 20 b een effected. The anticipated contents of the st. financial statement have stimulated purchases, and 50 the appearance of the various markets is buoyant. sst.Co nsols for transfer were 93a 1, and have since been 93 8 i 94. For the account the quotations St., tt s have b een 94 to 941 941 /. The New 3 per Cents. ° .. are 94i i ; and the Reduced 931 to 941. Bank 25 Stock is 217. Exchequer Bills are par to 3s. gg premium; and the Bonds 981 i• St. The dealings in Foreign Stocks have not been St. lo ve ry numerous, b u t pr i ces h ave b een i n fluenced by the improvements in the value of Consols. Mexican 20 are at 211 22 . Spanish 3 per Cents. have a d vance d 10 to 401 I, an d the Committee ' s Certificates 6,i. st. Turkish 0 per Cents, are quoted 94k, I, 5, for moue 20 y, and 951 for the next account. The 4 per 10 Cents. rule firm at 1018 i ; Venezuela Deferred, st. 9 15 1 ; Dutch 21 pe r C en t s . 65/ ; an d th e 4 p er Cents. St. 10 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Mocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; Mexi can, 211 21. ; Peruvian, 77 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 64 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 5 ; Russian 6 per Cents., 108 10 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 95 7 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40 ; ditto New Deferred, 24 24i ; ditto Certificates, 6k ; ditto Passive, ti The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1857. 1856. 20 Great Western . £24,348 £23,885 20 North-Western Brighton 10,561 9,696 20 10 Midland South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 5,138 5,493 20 Chester and Holyhead Lancaster and Carlisle - Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 8,863 8,125 North Stafford 18 North London Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverh 3,738 3,298 18 Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury and Hereford Waterford and Limerick Glasgow and South• Western Great Western of Canada 7,694 8,161 100 Northern of France - 36,980 34,215 20 In the Railway Share Market the arrangements E for the half-monthly accounts have caused a con- 20 siderable business to be transacted, and higherrates 171 are current for most of the principal lines. Cale- SL donian improved 1/. ; Eastern Counties, ss. ; Great 20 Northern, N. ; Great Western, 1/. ; Lancashire 100 12 and Yorkshir e , 11. ; B r i g ht on , s s . ; North- Western, 20 U. ; South-Western, 1/. to 1/. 10s. ; St. North British, 15s. ; North Eastern Ber- 100 Wick, 1/, ; ditto York, U. ; and South-Eastern 20 -15 s to 1/. The French lines are inactive. 20, p„ Paris and Lyons have advanced about ss. ; Dutch 20 Rhenish, ss. ; and Great LuxemboUrg, ss. to 7s. o i 2 .6d. Great Western of Canada are also ss. higher, No and East Indian, 1/. to 1/. 10s. KO No business has been reported in British, or 20 Foreign, or Colonial Mining Shares, and prices 20 are unaltered. 20 Joint Stock Bank Shares have ruled dull. Lon- 20 20 don Chartered of Australia improved about ss. 20 20 Micellaneous 'Shares have been very inactive. 2 , National Discount Company have ruled. rather higher, and Peninsular and Oriental Steam ad- _ vanced about 15s. 10 20 BRITISH FIINDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY, (From the Offictal List:) _ _ rinsinesi dons Sank Stock 217 16 3 per Cent. Reduced Ann u it i e s......; "" ....... 94 3% 4% 3 per Cent . Consols Annuities iiBi4 New 3 per Cent. Annuities.......... 941 India Bonds, £lOOO ......... .; Ditto, under £ lOOO 2 Consols for Account . 94 p % 1 Bxchequer 24d £1.060 .... ...... par 3 3 P p Par }:680 En all Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent 9Bi 4 a Ditto, 1859 EPRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent . Do., New, 1829 and 1839, 5 per Cent — Ditto Account Ittexican 3 per Cent 22 li 22 Ditto Account ... Spanish floods, 3 per Cent. Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cot . Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6; Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent 95 4i 51 f Ditto Account 1 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ... . Ditto Account loli i Venezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent ............... D itto Deferred 1 a per Cent.. .. .. .... . ' 1 .6enOs 0, the above payable In Lon& n. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cenl., 12 Guilders 6N Ditto 4 per C en t. Certificates ............. 98 .. i THREE O'CLOCK , Consols, money Ditto, Account (March 5) 93i 4 " 9li i ACCIDENT TO THE BELGIAN GOVERN3IENT MAIL STEAMER. The Diainant, which Belg ian left ft Dover with the mails on Friday, at Government mail steam pocket 11 p.m., ransho ashor e to the eastward of (Mend on Satur day morning. got off in the course of two l hours, and reached () w ield at 8 a.m. This is the same , vessel that ran down last year. Fortunaterd Alfred Paget's fine new yacht i the weather was moderate, or ; the mails and passengers ould have bad a narrow PARLIAMENTARY PAPER escape. 11 log papers were issued yeetserlidNapy R ETURN%—The follow- li with France and Belgium ; :----Postal a arrangements 1! 1 at Paris of Jan. 6 for carrying out the treaty oP f r ta c r ( Ch 30, 1856 ; treaty with the King of Siam ; convewith France on the subject of the Newfoundland fishery returns relative to I , pauper children ; annual report of lie ; Irish Ecclesiastical Commission. T HE WHITECIIAPEL IMPROVEMENTS A memorial l : been addressed to the Commissioners of Woods has and i Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildi Board of Works for the Whitechapel district,ngs' by the log of the inconvenience and loss to the parishes of m PiaSitit: Mary, Whitechapel • Christchurch, Spitalfields ; and the Liberty of Nortonlolgate, consequent on the contena- I plated improvements not being carried cut. The memo rial states that in consequence of the suspension, or non completion, of the line of street called Commercial -street into Shoreditch, and by allowing the present ground to remain unoccupied a great loss is occasioned to the seve ral parishes and places within the district. The memo- I rial prays that the street may be immediately finished, . , 'SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY l2 1857. SHARE MARKETh (This Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices ' this day. Business don e this day. Paid I RAILWAYS. 9 A.mbg. Nottng. Best. & Eastn. June all Belfast & Ballymena all Btrmng. Wolvorh. Stour Valley , 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire JuneL all Blackburn ....... all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) 100 l3ristol & Exeter , 100 Caledonian 100 Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon..,. all Cork, Black. & Pass all Cornwall all Ds. A 8 Do. B ......... 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc. all Dun. P. &Aber. June. 100 East Anglian . ..... all Eastern Counties 100 EasternUnion,A.stk . 1 00 Do., do. 8..... ....... 8i Do. New 176 East Kent ........... . 100 East Lancashire all East Suffolk 4 Do. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edinb.Prth.diDundee all Forth and Clyde June. 100 ,Furness ...... . 100 ,Glasgow & S.Western all Great N. of Scotland 100 ,Great Northern 100 .Do. A. Stook .., 100 !D0., , B. Stock ..... 100 ,Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) 100 ;Great Western.... 100 IDo. Str.V.R. gua.St all !Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle. 141,D0., Thirds... 12 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 6 Do., do. F. £l6 ... Do., Wst. Riding Un. all Do. Southport....... all London & Blaekwall 100 Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. 100 London &N. Western all Do. Fifths all D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 2i Do. Eighths 100 London & S.Western all Lndndrry.&Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shet&Lineln. 1 Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement 100 Midland 100 Do. Birming. & Derby all Midland G. West.(lr.) all De. Shares all !Newcastle &Carlisle all Newpt. Aberg.diHrfd 9 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint Rostrevor 100 Norfolk. 3i Northn.Counties Un 100 North British ...... 100 North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock ............ 100 Do., A Stock ......... 100 Do., B Stock ...... 100 N.Eastern - Berwick 23i Do. do. Extension ... 161iDo do. G.N.E.Purch. all 'Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London . . ... '3/.1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn 17i North Staffordshire., all North Western.. all N. &S. Westrn. June. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 16 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 Scottish Central 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdu. St 103 Shropshire Union 2 Sitingbourne &Sheer all South Devon 100 South Eastern all Do. 43 per c. Shares 100 South Wales.. 17 S. Yorksh. River Dun all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling 15 Do. do., 1854 3 Do. do., 1855 16i Stockton & Hartlepl 100 ITaff Vale 100 I l Do. Pref., No. 22 Thames Hay. D. &R. all , Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Watcrford&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 Wmbledon &Croydon BRITISH P, all Atlan. and St. Law. 9 Bombay, Biroda, and Cen.lud,guar. 5 p.c. all IDo. 10. Buffalo dr Lake Hur. .00 Buff. , Brnt. dr Go4ch. .00 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 J:10 Do. do., 1 Juue,'74 2s. Calcutta and S. East. !sld Cor.tral Oude (Lim.) lOs C.3ylon A shares 1 Do. B. do. all Demerara 2s. Eastern Bengal 100 East Indian 15 I Do. C Shares.. all D 0.42 p.e.Bnds.,'s7 all Do. do. do., '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent 00 Gd. Trunk. of Canada all Do. 6 p c, Deben all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c 4 Do. New. guar. sp. c all Gt. Wcstn. of Canada 8 Do. New all Do. Bds., payable '571 all Do. do., '76, p.'6o all Do. do., '73, do. all Do. do., '73, without option all IMadras, guar. 4, p.c all Do. do., 5 per c. 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exten. 5 Do. 3cl Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. ss. Oude (Limited) 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c 0 all Do FOR all Antwrp & Rotterdam 14 Ardennes... all Belgian East. Junct. 16 Be ziers to Graissessac all Carmeaux& Toulous , Coal Mines and Ry 12 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France all Do. New 2s. Euphrates Valley , 18 Gt. Central of France 17 Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction ...... all Lake Coust. & Bale all Lierre and Turnhout 6 Lombardo-Venetian all Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. all Lyons and Geneva ... all Lyons & Mediterran, all Maria Antonia all Do. New all Namur & Liege all Do. do. 6 p, c. Pref. all Northern of France.. all NorwegianTrnk.Prel iall Paris and Ly ons all Paris and Orleans 7 Reeife & San Fran , (Perham.) g. 7 p. c 7i Rome and Frascati all Royal Danish — all Royal Swedish all Sambre and Mouse le all "Do. 5. p er cent, p •.I t all South ern of France all West Fl an d ers . ..1e4.3. all Do. 5i p er c. Prof . . . all W.& N.W. of France 6 Western of Austria._ all West. of Switzerland all \Wiesbaden ............ all Do. Bp. cent. pref. all Zealand • .... JOINT-Si all Australasia 5 18i Bank of Egypt 50 i ß a nk of London D ;Bri. Col Bk.& Ln. Co 0 all'British N. American 0 6 ,C.Bk.of Ind.Au.&Ch 0 50 ,City O 25 ............. O 20 ICommercial of Lond. O all ;Eng. Scot. &Aus.Cht. 9 all ;Lon. Ch. Bk. of Aust. :0 all Ditto New ......... ... i 0 20 :London and County )0 50 Lnd.&E.Bnkng.Corp 50 10 London Joint Stock.. O 20 Lond.andWestmi nst. O 35 National Pro. of Eng. O 10 Do. New ............... O 22 National Bank ...... 9 all New South Wales .... 5 all ;Oriental Bank Corp. O 15 'Ott om an Bank ...... 9 25 ;Provincial of Ireland aa a l.ll l. l l, RSUoon'uji South h n s e.olf Australia...... a::* Cl-7. Australia,..... N ew 1° 'Union of London* • • • 12 : Unity Mutual . . 50 iWestru Bk.of Loud 8 - 9 C 5 - 57 8A - 9 93 - 95 641 -64 i 36 .- 37 ••• ..'. ••• 10 11 Isi 191 9f 10 40 44 29 31 8 - 6 96 - 93 55 7 Eti u = 35 94 - 96 7 - 8 93i - 94 78 - 80 123 - 125, 111 - 113 65} -68 i 64 - 66 69 - 7> - 7p 6 - 7 p 99 - 994 I - 6i - 7 107 a- 108 a 107 -- 107# 21 -- 21 . 10i -- 10 t $ 1 1071 -- 103 ii 7- i 83 -83 i 53 - 55 iii = iii 54 56 3i 3id 40. 41 86 87 31 31 21 2f 18A —19 e 61 62 98 102 4i 4Ad 74 -- 10 -- 11 27i -28 L, 106 - 108 25 - 26 49 - 51 ' 2 - 14 75 - 76 85 86 - 5 3:11 5 3d' t 2 14 40 42 161 ---- 204 7 2 - 5 - - 9 '"i -- 9 ISSESSIONS i - 1 PI li lip 195 98 94 96 94 96 par i p i - 1 4 pj .10 -- 112 2 -- 2ip 211 -21 j 48 - 52 81 - 83 21 -1211 - 1p 211 - 251, 24 - 3 pl 99 - 100 1 118 - 123 1118 - 123 1 108 110 191 20 21t 22 Par I p iP "ii :: 2E; IGN. 5i - 6 11 11 21 5 5 P£ — !p 32 91 1(4 par ip 41 4tp 61 d 66 29 j - 30; ~. "-- .•. 81 191 —19 i 36 37 9 91 54a —54 i 53 55 p..r - i P 1 18 - 20 I. -1„ gi - 8t 8 1 - gi - pm 41 - 4i 9i - 10 326 - 3,3 6 - lip ••• .--• . BANKS. 94- 96 i d IP 58 60 ••• ••• 4 a 65 - 67 14 18 --18 i 6 - M 37 38 i id's 6 ___62 7 - 9 . ••• il 9d 10 6 d LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Companies Ln. &N. W. Cal adon ... Closing Price° tles day. 96 - 99 98 - 102 11 - 13 133 - 136 - E.U. E.O Gt.Northnl E. Count. Caldonian. Do. clt.Wextu. Y. N.M Do Do. S. Eastern Do Poto &Co Do & Midld E. Count Do Do. Do. L. &A . W Do 16 --- if]: -- 13 23 -- 24 107 -- 109 -- 1 p 92 2 -- 94 - P 5(3 - 58 M T G . t :B m N r c ° a l i t e s h a ei Stk &Dar Do Gt.Westti 1132 - 1.3.6 - 6 1 - - ii 33 -- 3i 83 - 90 Paldj RAILWAYS. 100 Buckghamsh 100 Clydesdale Je. all Col .Stour Vy 100 g. 6 p.e all E. Uri. H. Sh. 100 ,Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. 100 Do. Nqw all 'Glstr.&Dn.Fr all Hull & Selby all • 2 'Do. Shares. i all 'Do. i Shares. all Lou. & Greenw all Do. Preference 100 ,Lon. Til., &S. 5.1iD0. Bark. Sh. all IManch.Bxton. and Matloek 100 Mdld. Bradfd. 51 Newmarket 13uryE.G.5pe. all NALEst.S p.c. all Do. 6 per ct all Do. Fixed sp.c all Prest. & Wyre all Do. Shrs. A 100 IRoystn.&Hit. all Shrews.& Her all S. Staffordsh all WearVal.g6pc all Do.. 100 Wilts &Sornrst PREFERENCE SHARES. all IBlyth 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 41 p. c. 100 Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent all Cork &I3andonslp.e all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J 2 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c 100 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c all Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 pr. c. St all East Un., G. 6 p. c all Do. 5/., 10 per cent all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent 00 East Lancash .6 p.cts all E.&W. York. J. sths 5 Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. 100 Earners, sp. c 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem.: 100 Do. 41 per cent 60 'Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. C. prem. all Gt.N.ofScot.lstPre 100 Gt. S &W. (Ireland) 15 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. 6 Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc 100 Do. con. red. 41 p. c. 100 Do. con, red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4 percent. 100 Do 5 p. c. red. pref. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c.P. S all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Chesil. Gua. Sh all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 100 Lan. & York. 6 pc. St 100 Lou. &B. G. 5p c. No.l 100 Do. ,P., sp. c. St. No. 2 100 Do. Now Guar. 6 p.c. 100 Do. do. sp. c., No. 4 100 Lou. & N.W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. et 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 peret late 3d Shares all Londy.& Color. ISh all Londy.&Ennis. ISh 100 M., S., &L. 6p. Cent. 41 Do. do. do. £6 100 Do. do. 34 per cent. all Marypt. a Carl. 4 p.c. all Do. 41 per cent 10. 1 , Do. do. 100 Mid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. 100 Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c. 100 Do. 41 p. c. Pref. St. 100 Do. L. &11. Pref. St. all New.,Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c.red. 5 p. c. pm. 8 Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. all Nlorf k.Deb. 4 p.c. Sh. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 100 Do. 54 p.c. pf., 1847 100 Do.W - v.V.5p.c., 1847 100 North British 31 D. 71. Preference ... 100 N. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf. 84 Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 pc. No.l 9 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 10 Do. York H.& S. Par all North Staffordshire 100 Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar.... 100 Do. 6p. c. 2d guar ! all Scot. Cent. New Pref. 100 Se.N. Aber.g. 6p. e. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. 100 Do. d 0.34 p.c. pf. St all South Devon all Do. fixed 44 pr cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 44 per cent all Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Sh 100 S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c 100 Do. do. 44 p. c all S.Yorksh,4 p.c.Guar all Stock. &Dar., sp. c 15 Do do. do. all Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p.c. till Ju'y 1,,'56, all Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc. I 92 -- 94 56 1 - 7_ oi 4i - 5 5 - 110 - 115 A - - 12 - 123 ii L i 118-T lió 112 - 114 103 - 105 62 - 64 9i - 10.1 6 - 93 - 95 83 -- 85 99 -101' 10 -- 14 -- 17i1 10 -- 10. 75 -- 77 - 19!. 9i -- 10; 141 -- 151 134 -- 136 136 - 139 114 - 117 159 - 161 i - 65 - 68iP 137 - 139 99 - 101 89 - 91 1 - EP .•• --- 103 - 105 92 94 11 id ••• 1 .•-••• 11l - 113 1113 - 116 [lO5 - 110 65 - 70 17 - 18 23i -- 244 103 -- 105 10i -- 103 271 - 284 2 -- 3p ..• 1 - - • 3 • i 2 BRITISH 2112 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 14 : British Iron 20 ',Conduraw (Cambrn.) 1 IDev. Gt. Cnsis. (Tay.) 14s • Great South Tolgus 10/ 3G rt. W. Alfrd. (Philk.) 7 IGrt.W. Vor (llelstn.) Bs6d Lady Bertha 7i N. Frances (Illogan) ... N. W. Basset (Illogan) 6/ 15 North Wheal Crofty 1 Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 2. S. Caradon (St. Cleer 2 S. Cam Brea (Illogn. 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn. 44 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 Un.Mines (Gwennap) 1.2 s 6V. of Towcy (Camar.: 1 W. Basset (Illogan)., 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd. I Wh. Basset (Mogan.' 5 , Wh. Buller (Rdruth. 5i Wh. Edward(Calstk. 7sWh. Kitty (U. Lint. 8 IW h. Ma. Ann(Menht. Wh. Trelawney (Lis. FOttEIGN 7 Australian 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 via) all Do. Cocaos 6t Cuiada 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 4 Clarendon Con. MM. Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper 16 Copiapo all Fortuna all General all Linares 1 Lusitanian all Mariquita all New Granada all Noveau Mondo all Pont. Sit. LdM. dt Smlt 1 Port Philip 15i Santiago de Cuba all south Australian all Do. Scrip all Do. 10 p. c. Prof , all United Mexican MISCEL Australian Agricult. lAustraln. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Canada Do.Go.6pc.Jan&July Do. 6 p.c.Feb.&Aug. D 0.6 p.c. Mar.&Sept. Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 71 p. cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Crystal Pal. of France Duston Iron Ore Eastern 5team........ Electric Telegraph ... Electric Tel. of Irel. Eu. &Aust.Cop.SmCo Ear, & Ind.Jetn. Tel. Gen. Ir.Sc, Col.(lim.) Gen, Steam Navigat. London Discount ... Loud, Gen, Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig. Mediteran. Elec, Tel. Mexican& S America Nat. Discount C 0.... Do, New I Netherlands De. Do. Do.B p c.Ptiss.at ld. Do. Do. New B. &N. S. Land N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. N. B. Australasian Nrth.ofEuropeSteam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares Peelßr. Ld. & Miurl Peniusular & Oriental Do. New Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam._ Scot. Austral. Invest. Do. New S. Aus. Gov. 6 p.c.bds. South Austral. Laud Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered Trust&Ln. Co. U.Can Van Diemen's Laud V, 0,0, 6p i cJAD, July, MINES. 221 74 -- 8i [55 -- 165 460 -- 480 15i -- 161 11 -- 12 5i -- 61 -- 1 19 -- 21 35 -- 36 61 -- 6i 24 -- 2i 9 -- 10 1$ -- 340 -- 350 7i -- 81 345 -- 355 11 - 11 - 1 -- 41 220 250 351 -- 361 1 155 -- 156 1300 -- 310 1270 -- 290 ) 41 -- 44 17 -- 19 46 -- 48 19 -- 21 AUNE. - - 2 3 - 3t 17 - 19 55 57 12 11 i id - ii 8 1 id p i : 1 i : iv) "i 7- - ii ii = ii ,ANEOUS. 216 - 226' 4i - 5i 40 - 45 136 - 141 1 110 - 1104 33 37 26 28 2 2ixd 51 5i 95 = 97 .. ••• li li 4 = 4 .2i --• ii I P 11 3 4 3k 4h id iPal 3 11 Ad par -- 66 6 3 4p 23 —25 6 8 63 65, 35 - ii i - 1 t -- 1 14 - 16 ID 7 . ... Business this day. LITERATURE. MASSON'S ESSAYS• Essays, Biographical and Critical : chiefly on English Poets. By David Masson, A.M. Cam bridge : Macmillan and Company. A collection of ten charming and remarkable papers illustrative of our national literature. Illus trative of the literature of this country—from the age of Queen Victoria to that of Queen Elizabeth. It is consequently a g rou p of biographical and critical essays, having a certain symmetry and completeness of desig,n'in the midst of its apparently straggling, diversified, and miscellaneous charac teristics. Several of these little treatises upon poets and poetry will be recognised by the reader as effusions living pleasantly enough in his recollec tion from their original and purely anonymous ap pearance. For Mr. Masson's work, after all, is nothing more no r l ess th an a selection from writ ings contributed by him during the last dozen years or so to one or other of our leading monthly and quarterly peri o di ca l s . The elaborate .a.naly out appeared for Nove mber. analy tical criticism upo n " Sh a k s pere and Goethe," for example, cam e b e f ore th e world in 1 852 as an article in the British ilton ,s Quarterly yh to m The singularly graceful descriptive chapter. relating same year in the N or th British Review for during the February. The "Three Devils" —meaning Lu ther's Evil Spirit, Milton's Satan, and . G-oethe's . Mephistopheles—made their first startli n g appa rition together in Fraser's .7.ffegazinc• " Dry den and the Lit era t ure, of the Rest oration" formed the the me o f another of our author's brilliant and ornate British Quarterly cri ticisms. " Dean Swift" a nother suggest ed by a reprint of Scott's " Life" and the first issue of Thackeray's "L ec t ure s." The next Essay in the series, by far the most noticeable of them all, we shall revert to, presently. Let us speak of it simply now as an enthralling " Story of the Year 1770," originally printed in three picturesque in stalments in the pages of the Dublin University Magazine. Subsequently we come upon another notable excerpt from the North British Review, in the form of an article upon the poetry of " Words worth." Upon another explanatory of " Scottish Influence in British Literature." Upon another — curiously remarkable for its evidence at once of taste and acumen--delineative of certain " Theories of Poetry." And, lastly, upon a third reprint front the British Quarterly, relating to the genius dis played in the prose and verse of "De Quincey," the eloquent, eccentric, and far-famed Opium-Eater. Such in brief are the constituent portions of this very readable volume from the pen of David Mas son, A.M., the learned and accomplished Professor of English Literature at University College, London. In the course of his succinct but sufficient Prefatory Note, our author remarks that " had the selection been large enough to represent the entire series of compositions from which it is taken," he would have preferred arranging the papers in the exact order of time in which they made their appearance. As it is, he adds—" The Essays chosen having been such as from their character might most aptly g o together in the same volume, it has been d e em e d best to arrange them in the historical order of the matters to which they refer." And so it falls out, as already intimated, that the work—such as it is —constitutes in a manner a sort of a critical survey of English Literature from the Elizabethan epoch downwards to the present generation. A compre hensive series of views illustrative of the literary annals of Great Britain—beginning with th e times of Shakspere, and so passing down the Stream of Years through the days of Milton, and Dryden, and Swift, and Chatterton, and W or d sw o r th, t o those of our own immediate centemporaries. Chatterton ! That is the one conspicuous feature of the work under notice, to which we have as yet only alluded incidentally. That is the E ssa y, Bio graphical and Critical, of whi▪ ch we h a ve only spoken, according to its second ti▪ tle, as the " Story of the Year 1770," originally p u bli s h e d i n the pages of the Dublin University. Published in those pages, in three parts, subdivided into chap ters, in the July, August, and October numbers of 1851, the year of the memorable Hyde-park Exhi bition. A considerable portion of this Essay, Mr. Masson tells us in his Prefatory Note, "is now published for the first time ;" and he adds, " A certain difference will be observed between this paper and the others, both as regards the extent of space allotted to it—[the article in question spread ing over no less than 168 pages, from p. 178 to p. 345]—and as regards the manner of the literary treatment." Observing very justly in regard to it by way of conclusion, that iu some respects this portion of the Volume departs from the typical cha racter of the Essay, and approaches that of a mi▪ nia ture Biography." Observing this, we repeat, very justly. For the rather elaborated memorial paper upon Chatterton into which the " Story of 1770" has been expanded would be defined much less ac curately, if spoken of merelyas a critical essay, than as what it actually is, a species (if we may so term it) of foreshortened biography. It is very charming, very readable, very graceful as a memoir of the Boy- Poet. But after all, if viewed as a biography, if viewed as a mere " miniature biography" of Chat terton, it cannot be regarded, we conceive, as in any way satisfactory. Any more than Dix's ac count of the same woful tale (beginning with Genius and ending with Suicide) can be regarded as satis factory. Any more, for that matter, th an Gre gory's all but stereotyped "Life of Chatterton written originally for the Biographia Britannica, reprinted soon afterwards in a se parate form, and prefixed without a single emendation, how ever trivial, to Southey and Cottle's 3 vol. edi▪ tion, Bvo., of the Works of the "marvellous boy-:---the sleepless soul that perished in his pride," published in 1803 by the Messrs. Longmans and Company. Abbreviated though this most affecting story of the i Life and Death of the Boy-Bard has been under the hand of Mr. Masson, it may yet take rank, we conceive, with the ampler and more pretentious memoirs of the same career by John Dix and George Gregory. Certainly it is far a bove the miserable little catch-penny " Life," by one Davis—occa sionallyi to be picked up for a few pence upon the London Book-stalls, having on ts . frontispiece an odious caricature of some imaginary face of Chatterton, with, literally, a white " choker" ga rotted about the throat, and the eyes goggling over the check-bones like those of an idiot under going the process of strangulation. Mr. Masson's Essay, we repeat, is as far beyond this miserable thing of a " Life" by one John Davis, as the eru dition of old Jacob Bryant is above the ignorance of the Rev. Dr. Maitland ! This last-mentioned _ personage being, we must inform our readers, the author of a very slashi ng th ree -and-sixpenny pamph let, issued from the press a week or two back at Rivingtons. " Chatterton : an Essay" —it is e ntitled. A in And it is a p ro d uc ti on avowedly given to the world just now, b ecause o f the recent appear ance a new and more e l a b ora t e d f orm o f Mr. Masson's scholarly and picturesque Essay, entitled "A. story of the ye ar 177 0. " H ow any one in spired ecclesiastics and like the s.A. Rev. could u 0 S. with any sentim en t o f Ch r i s ti an charitable nite. m ss, how above D ve .D all . an , I., deliberately pen an Essay such as this one d upon Chatterton, we must protest at once altogether passes our comprehension. Consider, for a mo ment, what it literally is. It is a harsh, a cruel, and even let us say at once, in one word—a brutal attack upon the memory of a poor ..boy who died nearly eighty-seven years ago in London, notori ously and undeniably by an act of self-murder, to which he was driven by the phrenzy of despair and _ the pangs of absolute starvation ! And it is the 3 , l . l ) p to (af p t u er blic scorn, ridicule, and memory of this poor boy that .all Dt these eMaitland eighty-sevennow ? Because of any new facts he fresh light he can throw deliberatelyyreprobationearsilave gone holds vv bh y f p a r n o y blem involved in the once can adduce—because of any grand discoveries he y and Chatterton ? ushastpoor upon ty a n d e c o op — i t b i Nothing of the sort ! Simply, literally, actually t y ee tvuoatnsh hadtohr authorship real littlea o l fS the eonpPoeu poems nothinges for this one very insufficient. reason that Dr. Mait land has somehow eleo:tlaolgtastcebaoo g lu o t t into Iris head the whimsiCal Chatterton a t l h t e old crotchet t d li toh at awt ß i attributed to Rowley. Dr . . Maitland swallows aftnr whateveral l a t n o d with out the smallest hesitation whatever the whole of that nonsensical farrago of absurdity—purporting to be a copy from an unauthenticated pencilled repel:et of the Coroner's InqueSt upon the body of Chatterton—contributed to "Notes and Queries" on the sth of February, 1853, b y M r. G l itch, the pos sessor of "the innumerable (sic 1) newspaper and magazinecuttings which belonged to Mr. Hazlewood. ,_ An unauthenticated pen cilled report of the inquest, crammed with the most egregious blunders proving to our mind, beyond the shad ow o f a doubt, - the glaring fact of its being altogether a monstrous fa brication. Stating, for example, that the inquest was held on " Friday, th e 27th of August, 1770," when the 27th of Augnk+. - that year fell on a Monday ! Calling the house where Chatterton died, in Brooke-street, "No 17 • " , when it was, on the contrary, " No. 4!” Omitting all mention of either Mary Foster or 'William laanisley as wit nesses giving evidence upon the occasion before the co roner—when the fact th a t t h ose w itnesses did give such evidence (as well as the other fact that the house was No. 4) w a s 44 proved" by the inquiries made as to the whol e o f those occurrences as near to the actual time when they transpired as the year 1780—inquiries then instituted personally by the Rev. Sir Herbert C ro ft, B ar t., the author of "Love and Madness.,, But while Dr. Maitland, be it observed, can listen with respectful credulity to the wok-and-bull story put, forward in AT*4 and Queries by Mr. Gutch, of Worcester, a cock and-bull story taken from the pencilled rub bish of the Lord-Knows-Who —aids sane inge nious Dr. Maitland, who is all the while so very terto u , scurrilous virtually in l a ri e s k a n ts leedogf e t s h e ms d el i c 2 l n b o r o a y n C ee ha i t n regard to the credibility and, in point of fact, also in regard to the very origin of Sir Herbert Croft's " Love and Madness:" which he nevertheless quotes from abundantly, and at one part flippantly stigmatises (p. 96) as "a silly and discreditable book." As a significant token, however, of the profound knowledge of the Chatterton Question which this very sensible and sagacious Dr. Maitland brings to bear upon it, with a view to its elucida i ion—take bis reference in " Note 7," p. 97, to that incidental remark made by Robert Southey iu his letter to John May, Nov. 23d, 1802—" I have taken no notice of Croft." To which Dr. Maitland naively appends this confession of ignorance on his own part, saying "I should like to know what Southey meant by that little parenthetical notice of Sir Herbert Croft." Icdesd ? With such flagrant ignorance, anent the mere outlines of the Chatterton Controversy, as this innocent avowal testifies—perhaps it might have been as well, Dr. Maitland, had you been a little less dogmatical upon the question at issue, had you ben a little less arrogant in tone, a little less insolent in the depreciation of the moral and intellectual powers of one, in regard to whom you only know things— obviously—by halves ! Southey's reference to Croft, in that latter written on the 23d of Nov., 1802, to Mr. May, we can very easily explain to the bewildered mind of Dr. Maitland. Shortly after the beginning of the present century, Southey designed to aid Chatterton's sister (Mrs. Newton) and her daughter, by editing a collected edition of the Boy-Poet's writings. To which end he published certain " Proposals, &c.," in the pages of the Monthly Magazine ; in these pro • posals explaining sundry proceedings on the part of Sir Herbert Croft, not very creditable to that Rev. Baronet. Croft was at the time resident in Copen hagen. Nevertheless he heard,of this in due course, through the kind offices, no doubt, of some of those " d—d good-natured friends" Sheridan describes as ever ready to make us all acquainted with something said or done to our disadvantage. Where fore, in " rage and resentment untameable," he issued a pamphlet in defence of himself against the accusations contained in the " Proposals &c." in a then recent number of the Monthly Magazine. Croft exclaiming in this pamphlet, among other similar things—" I cannot be expected by any man of honour or feeling to descend to answer a scurri lous person, signing himself Robert Southey !" Upon which, Joseph Cottle Ins remarked rather humorously—" yet he is answering him !" That—we take it—is the meaning of Southey's writing to May, 23d November, 1802, " I have taken no notice of Croft"—signify ing to his friend that be has taken no notice of this pamphlet, written by Croft at Copenhagen, in reply to the " Proposals, &c.," in the Monthly Magazine. If Dr. Maitland cares to examine the matter more in detail, he will find his curiosity may be readily satisfied by turning to Southey's " Life and Correspondence," vol. ii., p. 186, and to Cottle's " Recollections of Coleridge, &c.," vol. i., p. 266. Enough , however --he whole of this most illogical and bungling argument, put forward by Dr. Mait land in his egregiously preposterous pamphlet about Chatterton,* says as much for the ascerbity of the author of that pamphlet, and as little for his astuteness, as the " Story of 1770" speaks well for the clear mind and the gentle heart of Mr. Masson. Shame to the one ! Honour to the other ! Chatterton could he note either—might laugh -to scorn the perverse vituperation of his assailant, and exult in the genial sympathies of one of the latest and one of the ablest of his appreciators. Whatever may be said to the contrary, the glory of Rowley is Chatterton's glory—the fabricated " originals'' (so to designate them) now preserve I in the British Museum, are the certificates of his literary fame and the testimonials of his poetical reputation. If he has been depreciated by Dean Mulles, and jeered at by Mr. Bryant, and (eighty seven years after he has been dead and buried) scurrilously assailed in regard to his moral and intellectual character by Dr. Maitland—Chatter ton has been applauded by Dr. Johnson ! He has been eulogised by Shelley ! He has been lamented by Coleridge—commended by Scott—respectfully edited by Southey—mentioned with all honour by Campbell, with all admiration by Byron, with all grace by Wordsworth, with all tenderness of feel ing by James Montgomery. Malone, and Tyr whitt, and Warton, and other great critics of the last as well as of the present century have paid their homage to his genius. John Keats inscribed to his memory his mai.len poem of " Hyperion." Al fred de Vigny has selected his career as the theme of an eloquent romance and of a pathetic drama. David Masson has thrown over the recollection of his life and death, of his genius and of bii sufferings, the vivifying glow of a sympathetic imagination. following morning, upon his attempting to dispose of a portion of it, he was followed to my ware house, where the remainder of it was found. Iwu thereupon taken into custody and placed in Brecon Gaol, from which I ' escaped. Giffar d—Did you not go to Saward in 1844 land ask him a question about the title to som e land that y ou h ad in Australia I—l did, and he drew out a case for the opinion of counsel. Cross-examination continued.—lt was al ways part of my scheme to represent myself as a respect able man. I did represent myself as a colonial trader, and I was on e . I had land Mr. Burge was the counsel whosaeopiinaioAnuwstLal. ob tained by Saward. That was not the first ocoa sion upon which Saward and I had met. I was not in England when Markham was tried. When I heard that he had been innocently conv i cted, An derson, Saward, Atwell, a man named Thomas Smith, and myself, met and subscribed a sovereign each for his wife. The 5/. was given to Atwell to leave for her at a public-house, the landlord of which has since told me that he gave her the mo ney. I reasoned with Anderson for not trying to get Markham acquitted, upon which Seward said that " that wouldn't do, as he (Anderson) might draw himself into it." (Sensation.) I knew Ed ward Agar (the approver in the late bullion rob bery case) through Saward, with whom I first be came acquainted about 25 or 26 years ago. He was always known as " Jem, the penman." I do not want to make myself appear better than I am, but Saward was known for years after I first became acquainted with him to be carrying skeleton keys through the city for a gang of burglars when they wanted them for a night. I cannot say that I cor rupted Saward. (Laughter.) I was in England when Agar was tried. Saward told me that he was in the habit of selling gold for Agar. Re-examined by Mr. Mullins--I arrived in Eng land on the 26th of May, 1856. From 1853 or 1854 to that time I was in the colonies. Saward had known me several years previous to my being confined in Brecon Gaol: Saward introduced - me to Agar, to whom I sold a crape shawl which I had brought with me from the colonies. Saward told me I must trust Agar for the amount of the shawl, and I did so. In 1844 I met Alexander Frazer at Saward's chambers, 4 Hare-court, Temple.. This closed the evidence for the prosecution. The Lord Mayor, after giving the prisoners the usual caution, asked them whether they had any thing to say in answer to the charge ? Anderson—No. Saward—l am not guilty of the charge. The prisoners were then fully committe I for trial. !HE POPE AND HIS CHAPLAIN-MAJOR. ROME, Feb. s.—lt is rare for any long period to go by without affording some fresh example of the Pope's benevolence and generosity towards the in digent classes of his subjects. An amusing instance of his Holiness's accessibility took place at the Vati can a few days ago, when a little boy presented him self in the outer ante-chamber of the apostolic apart ment', and begged to be admitted to the presence of the Pontiff. It may he imagined with what surprise this request was received by the palace servants, and how they endeavoured to make the child unders' and the incongruity of his demand. Whilst the affair was under discussion, a cameriere segreto of his Holiness passed through the ante-chamber, and having the curiosity to learn what was the matter referred it, as a good joke, to the Pope himself. Pio Nono, how ever, gave orders for the child to be admitted to his presence, and having questioned him as to the reason of his wishing for an audience, heard that the boy had an earnest desire to study, but that his parents, unable to procure him the necessary books, always put him off with an assurance that the Pope would buy them for him. To effect the realisation of this promise the boy had made the best of his way to the Vatican, and promptly informed his Holiness that the works indispensable for the pro secution of his studies would cost fifty-three pauls. The Pope directed the cameriere segreto to give him two dollars (twenty pauls), but the boy said that he could not buy his Looks with that, so his Holiness 'benevolently took out two gold coins of five dollars each and pre sented them to the enraptured child, who forthwith made off towards the bookseller's shop, followed by an officer of the Pope's household, who had ordets to observe his movement'. Being in formed tdat the boy bad really appropriated the re quired money to the purchase of books, and that he had consigned the remainder to his mother, the Pope took an interest in him and allotted a monthly sum for his education in the career of letters to which he seemed so much attached. Another less edifying but not less amusing anecdote has been ' current in Rome for the last few days, at the ex pense of the chaplain-major of the Pope's army. It appears that this . prelate, being dissatisfied with the conduct of an officer in the foreign regiment, threat ened to have him cashiered, unless certain relations he maintained were discontinued. Theresentment of the officer, however, whether real orimaginary, gave rise to some subiequent misgivings in the pre late's breast, which the recent attacks upon code siastical dignitaries were by no means calculated to" soothe. Meanwhile the officer, having become ac quainted at Forli with a nobleman of that town, Count Gaddi, a relation of the Pope, who is now in Rome, and enjoys ,a certain degree of influence, begged his good offices to appease the wrath of Monsignor Tizzani, the chaplain-major. The count, although unacquainted with the prelate, promised to call upon him for the desired purpose, but re quested to be informed at what hour he was most likely to find him disengaged. This the officer undertook to discover, and going to the chaplain's residence for that purpose, gave five pauls to one of the servants, requesting him to give admittance to a gentleman who would call about two o'clock, and who wished to speak with the prelate on urgent business, Monsignor Tizzani, being informed of this cir cumstance by his zealous servant, conceived great alarm, and felt sure that some emissary of the officer's vengeance, or some ferocious follower of Verger's example, was seeking an audience for homicidal purposes. He therefore prudently sum moned to his aid a sergeant of gendarmes, who pro posed to lie in wait with some of his men during the visit to prevent 'any aggressiye act on the part of the visitor ; but the cautious prelate sagaciously supposing that a blow with a poignard would be sooner received than prevented, declined adopting that plan, and intimated that the sergeant himself bad better assume the prelatical gown for the nonce, and give audience in his name to the mysterious visitor. The valorous gendarme philosophically complied—" cedant arena toga," was the motto acted upon • his uniform disappeared under the purple robe, his moustaches were hidden in an ample wrapper, under pretence of suffering from a violent toothache ; and the room being darkened with curtains, the unconscious Count Gaddi was admitted. Having exposed. the case and requested the prelate's indulgence for his friend, the Count waited for a reply, which', of course, the gendarme, who expected an assault rather than a petition, was not prepared to give in a very explicit form, and the prelate, who was anxiously listening to the conversation from an adjoining door, cut matters short by sending a ser vant to say that dinner was ready, at which an nouncement the sham monsignor started up, and the count withdrew, much surprised at his mumbling voice and strange uncertainty o f manner. It was only on his complaining to Car dinal Bofondi of his want of success that the meta morphosis was discovered, for the cardinal sent his own secretary to interc ede with monsir, who at once confessed his own alarm and the stratagem h e had used to avoid the supposed dangerous inter view. All Rome is laughing at this adventure, an d Monsignor Tizzani amongst the rest ; but the Pope is said to be doubly displeased—first, at his relation being considered a perilous visitor ; and next, at a gendarme being so unceremoniously in ducted into Monday morningntoprelatieal he garb. t Oa customary solemnity of Candlemas olin e sblessed t oo t splendidly k place at St, Peter's, when his H adorned distributed th em t o the members doorfn e the d tapers, Sacred College, and the and ecclesiastical autho rities,_diplomatistsand foreigners whose religion qualifies them for the reception of the pre sent. Queen Christina, with her family and suite, assisted as usual in a royal box. Piince Orsini, Marquis Ferraioli, and Signor Jacobini have b een d e p u t e d by the provinci al coun cil of Rome and Comarca, t o present their g rateful. thanks to his Holiness, in the name ofPePrt.' vince, for his generous gift o f twelve .seudi to alleviate the distres s of the inhabita nt s of the thousand ntf the neighbouring villages, w h o are . still suffering from the partial failure o f the improvingwine Marina, in which w the roa The d to money has been devotederk the indigent labourers of io crop. that district ar e judiciously employed.—Coprespor, dent of Daily ~'ews. —GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND.—Lad night d Lodge of Emergen c y was h e ld at the Freemasons'a Gal Tavern, for tho purpose of proceeding with t h e a rrears of business. Present the M.W. the G.M. Grand T. the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland in the c hair, the R i g ht Ron. Lord Panmure, Viscount Goderioh, kn. question, as After the orders of the day bad been dispose d of, a lengthened discussion ensued on the ve xede the power of to whether Grand Lodge should adjourning the quarterly commu nica tions. hieffeet, as also did a Pan mure opposed a resolution to this assu Lord number of other brethren, on to a ground that it was not vote of want of cone- Necessary ; it was tantamount e such a power. The re deuce in the G.M. to and Grand Lodge was then Adjourned. i solution was negatived, and the 10' 20 20, 20 125 108 1 71 107 61 li 107 i 7 i 821 f i 0 st. 20 50 351 5 20 35 5/ xd & b 60i 1 =a xd 15 ' 19 1.0 all [0 all 50 40 10 32 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 it. 100 it. all 35 all 5 all 5 all 4 all 1 o 1 - 8 It. WO 1 all 5 all LO 10a, 15 all L 5 14 4 all ?,0 10 10 all LO all 25 5 25 5 10 5 10 all 5 all 5 1 10 80 >t. 100 1 all !O 17 1 all 1 ss . 5 all 50 all '0 10 i 0 all L 5 all )0 60 1 all 1 all t. 100 25 all 1 all 1 all 20 5 00 28 St. 100 ' 1 221 11 2 a d 11i i 6t 1104 i —and those of Venice, by land under the great General Carlo Zeno, and by water under the great Admiral Vittorio Pisani. At first everything ap peared to threaten the latter (Venice) with destruc tion ; but, as our author says most strikingly in the very preamble of his nal rative, " The hour of her desperation was the dawn of her deliverance." How it proved to be so " The Dead Bridal" relates—and relates, to our mind, much more attractively than it does the loves and lives of Bianca the heroine and Giulio the hero, of Hodge of the Hill, or of that myste rious personage who, much more than Giulio, appears to be the real - hero of the story—proving, in the end, " three gentlemen at once," as Mrs. Malaprop says, "like Cerbermi" —Messer Giro lamo Mole, otherwise the Sieur Jacques de la Mole, otherwise the Greek Doctor Demetrius ; the att••action of the "Dead Bridal" being iti revival of certain grand historical recollections. ME FRAUDS ON THE CITY BANKS. The Dead Bridal. A Venetian Tale of the Fourteenth Century. Ry Jonathan Freke Slingsby. Ward and Lock. A historical romance, this is, which may be de scribed correctly, we believe, as a cheap reprint from a cheap periodical. Yet a reprint though it is, it is one entitled, we conceive, to some particu lar notice of this kind, if only in consideration cif the abilities displayed elsewhere by its writer, as well as in consideration, also, in a very especial manner, of the new field that writer has here, by one bold venture, opened up to the English imagi nation. In Jonathan Freke Slingsby will be re cognised at once the gay and sparkling writer, until very recently the assiduous and accomplished editor, of the Dublin University Magazine. An editor who occupied in that position, with honour I to himself and credit to his organ, the post once held by the vivacious and vigorous hand of our delightful friend Harry Lorrequer ! A writer, moreover (J. F. Slingsby, to wit), who has for a long while past shone refulgently among the con tributors to the Dublin, University Magazine as a sort of a North-Ingoldsby-Feuilletonist ! Equally clever in prose and verse, in mingled lyrics and criticisms—riant and sunshiny throughout. Here i this Venetian romance of the 14th Century, called " The Dead Bridal" a glaringly mis nomer, by the way, as the story proves— the quondam editor , the perennial contri butor to the Dublin University Magazine, comes before us, as it were, under the light of a new phase of his manifold and multifarious intellectual accomplishments. He evidences, in the tale before us, a remarkable familiarity with the old Italian Chronicles. He shows himself to be eminently well read in a somewhat recondite branch of Eu ropean literature. He evinces a ready sympathy for the times of which he writes, and an intimate acquaintance with its customs and costumee its picturesque aspect, and its peculiarly medieval associations. Yet, as a romaucist, we cannot induce ourselves to believe that, in this, his Venetian story of the "Dead Bridal," its author has in any way done himself justice. As a historical romancist —as a Creator of Life under the ribs of Death-- we cannot but feel that the writer of these twenty one chapters, has been somehow trammelled, that his fancy hag, in its restricted compass, been, in a measure, " cabined, cribbed, con fined." We prefer to regard the tale less as a work done, than as the forerunner of a much better work to be done. An historical romance —(let us suppose, relating to the same epoch, an epoch to English Story Tellers perf.ctly new and unhackneyed)—a novel born from the Italian annals, having an ampler scope ani a wider signifi cance. We cannot for an instant accept the " Dead Bridal" as a token 0f..a1l that the gay and gifted Slingsby can do in the way of historically romanc ng. We are fain to look upon it, now t Jat we have carefully read it through from Preface to Con clusion, as the predecessor of some other production (kindred in design), evidencing more ripened powers and a more mellowed imagination. Scattered up and down the work, here immediately under our notice, are various descriptions, however , enti tled to considerable praise, if only by reason of their very animated completeness. Take, for example, the passage, picturesquely delineative of the " The Venetians did.not fail to secure, like the other following Condottieri : - states of Italy, the services of the Condottieri, one band of which, consisting of a hundred lances, and four hun dred infantry, were commanded by Roberto Recanati, and another, chiefly English, by an English knight of the name of Choke. Groups of these soldiers were now to be seen from every quarter of Europe ; English archers, with their long bows ; Germans, with their ponderous and unwieldy arblasts and bolts tipped with heads of square steel ; and with them were men with the huge shield called the pavison, which was held before the archer to protect him while he discharged his mis sile ; there, too, were the men-at-arms, with the lance and the sword, clothed partially in plate armour, which was just then superseding the chain mail. Most of these were whiling away the tediousness of this period of inaction by playing at dice and more, and various other games, or chatting over the adventures of the wars in which they had been engaged, with all the gay non chalance of men whose trade is arms, and whose country is the land that for the time hires their services." The particular crisis of Venetian History described in "The Dead Bridal" is that known to the readers of Italian History as the period of the War of the Chioggia. The belligerents being the Genoese and the Venetians. The Doge of the Hour being old Andrea Contarini. The warriors of Genoa fightin g successively under Luciano Doria and Pietro Doria Chatterton : an Essay. By the Rev. S. R. Maitland, D.D., F.R.S. and F.S.A. Fp. 110. London ; Rivixg. tone; 1857. James Anderson and James Townsend Saward, who have been repeatedly examined upon charges of extensive forgery upon many of the first bank ing houses of the City, were brought before the Lord Mayor for final examination. Mr.' Muliens, solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for Protection from Forgeries and Frauds, again attended for the prosecution. Mr. Giffard appeared for Saward ; Anderson was not repre sented by a legal adviser. Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, proceeded to read the voluminous depositions of nearly 60 witnesses, which consumed nearly the whole of the day, at the conclusion of which Atwell, one of the appro vers, and who has recently been sentenced to transportation for life upon a charge of forgery, was called into the witness-box, and upon cross examination by Mr. Giffard said—Previous to my present sentence of transportation for life I was in business in Booth-street, Spitalfields. That was about three years ago. I never forged in my life. I was in the "public line" in Booth -street ; that is I was a licensed victualler. Mr. Giffard—Tn your examination in chief you use the word " business." To what business did you allude ? Witness—To forge and get money. Saward was to forge ;he was a professor of forgery. The word "business" meant forging. Mr. Giffard—When did you first begin the busi ness of forging ?—I never began it all, not my own Bell*. Mr. Giffard—You mein that you never traced the forged instrument with your own pen l—No. Mr. Giffard—You are now under sentence of transportation for life, are you not ?—Yes. Mr. Giffard-r-Were you innocent or guilty of the crime laid to your charge ? Witness—l was innocent of the charge brought against me. I was charged with forging and ut tering. Mr. Giffard--You were not guilty of either charge ? Witness—l was guilty as being an accessory. Mr. Giffard—Do you remember Markham being tried ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Giffard—You knew that he was innocent, did you not ?_ Witness--Yes, I did. (Sensation.) Mr. Giffard—Was he tried with a brother of yours ? - Witness—Yes he was. Mr. Gitrard—You knew that your brother was guilty. Witness- = Yes I knew my brother was guilty. Mr. Gifford—When did you take to dishonesty as a means of livelihood ? Witness-1 don't know that I have taken to that at all ? Mr. Giffard—Were you ever committed upon any other charge than that one for which you are now undegoing a sentence of transportation for life ? Witne3s—Yes, that was about three years back ; since I came out of business. Mr. Giffard—Was that the first criminal offence of which you had been guilty ? Witness—Ob, I don't know about that. It was the first time I was found out. "No catchy, no havy." (Laughter.) Examination continued—l was for a time in the fur trade. I first met Hardwicke in Farringdon market about seven or eight months back. I did not know that Hardwicke was going to make dis closures to the Bank authorities till I was spoken to upon the subject by Mr. Mullens. I went by the 'name of Hawkes when I was a publican. I have known Hardwicke pass by the name of Ralph in the country. In London he passed as Thomas Hardwicke, and also as Thomas Salt Hardwicke. Re-examined by Mr. Mullens—l went by the name of Atwood at Yarmouth. When I employed Mr. Turner, the solicitor, I used the name of Hunter. Mr. Lewis was my attorney at my trial, and I first ccanmunicated to him the transactions of which I hive given evidence. You (Mr. Mullens) and Mr. Lewis afterwards called to see me. I never had anything to do with forged cheques be fore I became acquainted with Saward. William Salt Hardwicke, who was convicted with Atwell, and who is also under sentence of transpor tation for life, was then called into the box and cross-examined. Mr. Giffard—ls William Salt Hardwicke the only name by which you have gone ? Witness—To the best of my knowledge at the present time it is. My position has been such, as you must be aware, that I have been obliged to change my name. I have gone by the name of William Salt. I was married in that name. Mr Giffard—Did you ever go by the name of Parish ? Witness—Never. Mr. Giffard—ls this the first time that you have turned Queen's evidence ? Witness—Yes. I never transported a man nor was the cause of his being transported ; but if you look at this li>t you will find the names of 11 men who have been transported by your client, Mr. Saward. The witness handed a paper to the learned coun sel of which the following is a copy : " James Allen, life ; John Douglas, 20 years ; Henry Bradbury, 21 years; Thomas Ford, 1 year ; William Wilkinson, 10 years ; Nash, 10 years ; Agar, life ; William Hardwicke, life ; Henry Atwell, life ; J. Anderson, for trial ; Markham, 4 years (the last man innocent)." Mr. Giffard—Do you know Mr. Thomas Cooper Witness—l do not. [Mr. Cooper was a witness who described himself as a retired trade man with no settled place of abode, and who said he was at the King's Arms public-house, in Bishopsgate churchyard, on a cer tain day in June last, when he saw Hardwicke there ; and he added that he had known Saward years ago as a "man about town." When Mr. Cooper was called to-day he did not answer.] Mr. Giffard—Did not Mr. Cooper converse with you upon the subject of what you bad for dinner on the day when he said he saw you ? Witness—l recollect a man being brought to me in an adjoining room for the purpose of kientifying me, but I did not know his name. He did tell me what I had for dinner at the King's Arms, and I told him it was all right. He had a black eye, and appeared to me when he was here to be in a state of intoxication. He certainly mustihave been drink ing ; he was talking very wild. Mr. Giffard—You say you never went by the name of Parish ?—No ; I should consider that too beggarly a name to go by. (Laughter.) Mr. Giffard—Now, tell me the names by which you have gone.—l have already answered that question. Mr. Giffard—Answer it again.—William salt Hardwicke. Mr. Giffard—Any other ?—I do not recollect. Mr. Giffard—Will you swear that ? Witness—l now recollect that I have passed in he name of Jenkins. I saved a girl's life at Hull, and on that occasion gave the name of Jenkins. The girl fell into the Humber, and I saved her from drowning. Mr. Giffard—Now, was it as Jenkins ar as Hard wicke that you were under a charge of burglary at Brecon ?—No, it was Salt. Mr. Giffard—ln what name were you trans ported at Plymouth Witness—William Salt , a lias Hardwicke. When I was ordered to be transported and made my escape from Brecon (Gaol, Saward was perfectly aware that I was innocent, although I suffered for it. saward—l didn't know you at that time. Witness—Yes you .did. I had nothing to 1 with the burglary which I was charged wi th - having committed. The stolen property was found on my .premises. I went down [there by Saward's advice. _ Mr. Giffard—Then, of that offence of which you were found guilty you were innocent ? Witness—l went down by the advice of Saward and a man named Alexander Fraser, to see that a person named Walter White had proper profes sional assistance to defend him upon a charge of burglary. White was tried and acquitted. On . our road home he stopped at a tree, from a hole in which he took the produce of the burgl4o3.r which he he had been tried for. The property consisted of watches and silver plate. He wished 101. of me upon the produce I declined to let him have it. me to show him some place i! deposit the property. take it to a strange place, . n_ 'llion I allowed him to put it \ warehouse of which I meld p tola ry o f th e bu e rgt_ r 9 d of He e V o g l, a ' l ' ~1,1 saidi in:did not h e co.-- like to borrow He fter some per.sua a " ci to a an iron safe in a into On the 4i - 124 k 98 j 40} a 1103 17 21i 25 10i 51 5 12A 64 d St. 8 10 10 25 10 1.0.6 1 1 1 28, 101 i 62 3i 137 9; ~ 5a i