The Sun. — London, England, 1857-12-03 00:00:00

1 • , . THE SUN , LONDON, ~..,,, s . ~....... ~,...., ___ ._ --..--------- - MO g ii; y T er A .14.7, T r 7 7, ro ~..1.,..... A SI. 111 .ki. ISHAAI-1: DIARKZTS - This Day.) ___ _ ..,.."------ i _ LINES _LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. AND RAILWAYS. 1 Leasing Closing Prices Bust I Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. Companies. yesterday yssta CO ATIVIT. I . I 2.CIAL IN.TMLIGENCI3. einging Pr , c Business dons -- ----- ----- --- a. ( l RAILWAV• yesterday, yed -r lay. ghamsh. Ln.&N.W. 88 - 92 lril. , n 1 , St. 109 .13nek ...„ 0 ....._. 1 St. 100 Clydesdale •Tc •Caladon... 93 - 95 93 CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. - 7i -- - -s - 25 all Col•Stour Vy, . E.U.&E.O 12 -14 12s 10 eteaes. rsottne. Bost 2t. 100 E.Lin. g. 6 p. , Gt.Northn 128 - 132 & Eastn. June.... 43 - - F 5 The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday magi_s all E. Lin, 11. Sh. E. Count. 31 - 4 50 all Belfast & Ballymena 8 - B,' St. 100 Glas, narr. & , Caldonian felted a very heavy appearance, but prices were 134 all Btrmng. Wolvcrh. 6 Neils.Direet. witheet chasm ° . The sales ware estimated at 5,000 Stour Va11ey......... 62 -63 St. 100 Do. NOW Do. - ••• c, St. 100 Birk:alit& LalleBb , 6 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. G;. Westn. ... - ... 1331 ° 3 . The Railway Share Alerket nosed dull, and Cheshire Junet • --- •.- 50 all Hull & Selby. ir. & N.M. 101 - 106 106 values were maintained. 25 all Blackburn ... ...... ... 81 - 0s 25 i all Do. j Shares. Do- 25 all Myth & Tyne origins; 12/! all Do. 1 Shares. Do • - •.• The numerous failures on the Continent, and the .£25 (iss. at £15)... ... - ... 121' all Lon.&Greenw S.Eastern. 12 -13 monetary restrictions still in force, are making st. 100 Bristol & Exeter--. 84 - 86 ; all Do.Preferenee ,Do 23 - 24 great havoc among foreign houses esteblisLed in St• WO Caledonian-- ..... .. 76 1 20 - 761 764 6 1 6 1 St . 100 L on . Til., &S. P e to &Co B9 - 91 St. 100 Chester & liolyheaa 29 a- 31 this country. In Hamburg 20 failures are repoited 50 all C or k an d Bandon-. 7 - 9 10 , 91 Do. Bark. Sh. Do 1 - a c 5/ all Martch.Bxton. Lu..UN.W to have taken place in one day, and these must in- 20 all Cork, lack. & Pass. ••• - ••• 1 and Matlock & Midld 2 ,1 21 'Volvo the connections of those firms in Lendon and 20 all Cornwall 3 - 5 St. 100 Mdld. Bradfd. Midland._ 89 - 91 10 all I Da A. - •.. 64 51 Newmarket elsewhere. Yesterday two more suspensions were 10 8 Do. B - ••• I BuryE.G.spc. E. Count.. Id - 1p • announced , viz . l of Messrs. Mendes da. Costa and 50 '45 I Dublin&BelfastJune ... - ...d 50 1 all N.&Est.s p.c. Do Si - 56 25 all iDun P • &Aber, June. • 74 - • 8-', 50 1 all Do. 6 per ct.. Do ... Co., for about 350,0001; and of Messrs. Kieser and St. 100 ;East Anglian el' • 17 - 18 - 171 50 I all Do.Fixedsp.c Do 4" - ••• Co. for about 50,0001. Others are daily expected, 20 all Eastern Counties..... 511! - 55 554 i 25 : all IPrest. &Wyre L. &N. W ... - ... g . .,1 0 0 0 0 Eastern Union A•stk 42 - 44 1211 all I Do. / Shrs. A Do - ..• and before the end of the year a great deal of tom- ' • 27 -30 28 1 IDo. do. B. St. 100 Roystn.& Hit. Gt•Northnl26 - 130 - inertial distress is likely to ensue. Still, it is satis- 25 8/ iDo. New A ••• - •,- 10 ; all ,Shrews.& Her T. 13rassey 71 - 8 25 171 East Kent - 18 factory to notice that the d;fliculties of English 12 all 'S. Staffordsh.. M. Mclean 81 - 9 St. 100 ,East Lancashire - 90 89 50 all WearVal.g6pc Stk.&Dar. ... - ... fi rms are not causing so many disasters as might 20 all East Suffolk - .. 25 , all Do Do 3O - 32 have been expected. 10 4 Do. - ••• St. 100 , Wilts&Somrst ,Gt. Wes tn. ... - ... St. 100 Edinburah&Glasaow 59 - 60 Money is in active demand both in Lombard- .0 all ,Edinb. aldPeeble7s :•• - ... PREFERENCE SHARES street and at the Bank, the preparations for the 4th et. 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dunde , ZG - 28 274 7 _ 25 all Elyth and Tyno 10 I). (to - morrow bein on a lare scale. These payments 0) all , Forth and ClydeJunc. „•- ... ) g g St. 100 Furness ..... ........ ••• - ... c.pref. (issd.at 50/0 ... - ... will temporarily have the effect of locking up St. 100 'Glasgow & S.Westeru 88 - St. 100 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. 88 - 20 90 20 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares.. ... - ... a n immense sum of money, but upon its libera - 10 I all 'Great N. of Scotland 92 9 - 10 St. 100 Caledn. £lO 41 p. c. 90 - 95 92 1 ton i n St. 'lOO ,Great Northern 93 92 St. 100 Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c. ... - ... 103 a few days, the market will perhaps St. (100 Do., A. Stock - ... 91 become a trifle easier. The full rate of 10 St. 1100 Do., B. Stock - 122 121 61 all Cork &Bamlonsjp.c. ... - ... St. 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre) 97 - 99 98 64 all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J. 5} -• 64 per cent. is exacted in all cases, and the con- St. 100 ,Great Western. ...„: 51 - 511 51igili St. 100 E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. ... - - tinaance of failures prevents any marked improve- St. 100 Do. Str.V.R. gua.St 53 - 62 12 all Trisli South-Eastern. ••• - ••• St. 100 Do, do. Cls. B6p. c. 10 5 - 11 0 bent in credit. Foreign paper, and bills of the St. 100 Do. do. Cls. C7P. C. 10 8 - 1 15 5C all Lancaster &Carlisle. 72 - 76 St. 1.00 Plas.Co„Ex,sp.cNo.l 105 - 103 foreign firms here, are, in most iustances, looked 1611 141 Do., Thirds 7 -8 ; St. 100 Do. No. 2 1.02 - 105 : u pon with some suspicion, and the embarrassments 161 12 Do. New Thirds ... 7 - 8 St. 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St. 119 --122 St. 100 Lancash. &Yorkshin 91 - -911 911 1 90/ 11 20 all East Un. 0. 6p. c. ... - ... of these houses are consequently increased. But 16 6Do do. F 116 .. / - II • , . 8 5 all Do. 5/. 10 per cent. ... - ... t aking the general trade of the country, there are 3 1 Do., Wst. Riding Un. •••- • •• 10 all Do. 10/1 Debentr.Sh. ... - ... 2 u o i, all Do • Southport....... some indications of amendment, although up t 0... - ... St. all Do. do. 4 per cent._ ... - ... , all London & Blawa' 5} - 5a 5S the present moment, no revival of business worth st.l 100 Lond•Bright.drS.Cst 102 - 104 104 23 St. IGO East Lancash.6p.cts. ... - ... 5 all E.&W. York. J. sth, ... - ... Mentioning is a pp aren t . St. ,100 London &N. Wester) 95 - 95 95 1 i i 10 9 &En. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. ... - ... 20 ; all Do. Fifths Gold continues to be purchased by the Bank in 10 I all D0.,16/.Sh.,M&B r ••• - ••• St. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.e. 65 - 67 Moderate quantities, 25,0001. having been sent into 121' 5 Do. Eighths lld - /a 4 St. 100 Furness, sp. c ..... .. ... - ... St. 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 P.C. ... - „.. . 100 London & S.Weeteri 88 - 89 881 98; . i ts vaults yesterday. The remittance by the St. too Great Northn. 5 p.c. 116 -18 25 all LudndiTy. &Colerain. ••• - ••• St. 100 Do. sp. C. Redeem. Orinoco is about 300,000 1 ., and the chief portion 25 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk . --... at 10 p. c. prem.,,, 108 - 110 los -i 4 I b eing in silver, it will probably cause a little flat- St. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln 35 36 35 se 100 Do. 41 per cent..... 101 - 103 102 10 1 Metropolitan - ••• 100 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at C /less in the market for that metal. 10 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo'. p. C. prem. - 53 The market for English securities is firm ; arrangement ...... ••• - ••• , 10 all Gt.N.ofScot.lstPr( 9l - 111 St. 100 Midland .. ....... ..... 83 - 83 1 83 4 1 1 4 3 2 - 20 18 Gt. S& W. (Ireland) ... - ... Consols being 91i 5 for money, and 92 to 92i for St. 100 Do. Birming.&Derb , 57 - 59" 584 20 18 ,Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. . . - ... teeember. Business is quiet. 50 all Midland G.West.(lr. ••• - ••• 50 6 I Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.Spc . 51 - 6 25 all Do. j Shares . ...... .. ... - • ... St. 100 Do. con. red. 4/ p.c. 85 - 87 87 6 In the Foreign Market there is no material 100 I all Neweastle &Ca.rlisle. ••• - •.. St. 100 I Do. con. rod. 4p. c. 80 - 82 'Variation, but Turkish 6 per Cents. are higher, viz., 25 all Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 12 - 13 St. 100 Do, irred. 4 pe r tent. 80 - S 2 811 92 to 924. 50 9 Newry & Euniskillei ... - ... St. 100 Do sp. c. red. pref. 93 - 95 94 3 20 all Newry, Warreiapoini 8 all Do. BilTO. Pref. Sh 9 - 91 Railway Shares are generally at a slight advance. & Rostrevor ••• - ••• 10 all Do.ChesterBp.c.P.S. 151 - 16 St. 100 Norfolk- - 59 10 all Do. do. sp. c. d 0.... 91 - 9i 50 31 Northn. Counties Un 31 - 31 St. 1 00 Do. BirtO. Gua. Stk. 66 - 68 THE CRISIS IN DAM - BURG. St. 100 North British 4B - 49 471 1 8 265 all Do. Chesh. Gila. Sh. 17/ -18 j St. 100 North Devon, R.ail.d 13 3 / 4 all Do, do, do. 9l - 9i Dock Stock ..• -- ... 20 . al Do. do. do. 134 - 13 I IAMBURG, Nov. 30.-This is the settling day on St. 100 Do., A Stock ........ ••• - ... St. 1.00 Lan, & York. 6 pc.St. ... - ... our Stock Exchange. The settling went off pretty St. 100 Do., B Stock - ... St. 100 Lon. &B G. 5 pc. No.l ... - ... Well, f or th e f ew d e f au lt ers th a t were announce d St. 100 N. - Eastern-Berwick 1 , 2 -93,9321 i 4 3 S t. 100 D 0., P.,5 p.e. 5t . N 0. 2 ... - ... We re not • b u t important, nor their liabilities very large, 25 ' all iDo. do. Extension - ... St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. 132 - 137 25 I 161;Do do. G.N.E.Purch 2l - 2 , 21 St. 100 Do, do. sp. c., N 0 . ,/ 110 - 113 tn . the excitement on 'Change was dangerously 50 ' all }Do. Leeds - 51 501 50 St. 100 Lon. & N,W,, Coy. & h igh, as it transpired that a number of houses of St 100 ID o . Y or k BO -82 811 2 Neneaton sp. et... ... ••• general business were in difficulties, and that many St. 'lOO North London ..... - 93 St. 100 bon. & S.W. 7 perct. others Were on the point of suspending payment. 10 31.1 N. &S. Wqtn., Hamp late 3d Shares ... 150 - 155 j am far from wishing to create any alarm amongst I stead, and City Jn. 8- 9 124 all Londy.& Color.. Sh. ... - ... 20 i l 17/ worth Staffordshire 4j - 44 131 13 Your mercantile readers, but my duty as an iva- 12/ all Londy.&Ennis. 1 Sh. ... - ... 20 1 ' all North Western. - .. St. 100 M., S.,&L. 6p. Cent. ... - ... • Partial chronicler of events compels me to state the 10 ' all N. aS. Westrn. June .• • - ..: 6 I 41 Do. do. do. £6 ... .. / - $1 report generally current here to-day, that the St. 100 Oxford "Worcester d, St. 1100 - Do, do. 31 per cent. 60 - 65 alintber of houses at this moment in difficulties Wolverhampton 2B - 30 121 all Marypt. &Carl. 4 p.c. ... - ... a mounts to twenty-seven, with aggregate Ha- 20 116 Portsmouth 8- 6 d 121 all Do. 4/ per cent •• ... lions for the imposing sum of thirty-seven mil- 10Rhymney ••• - .•• 12; 101 Do. do. St. 100 Scottish Central ... ... 103 - 105 104 St. 100 ‘fid.Consol.6 p.c. St ... - • . 'lons of marks banco. It is to be hoped that this St. toil Scot. N.E.Abrdn.st 211 - 221 211 St. 100 Do. Con 129 - di. 1.294 304 statement is exaggerated, and indeed it is not St. 100 Shropshire Union,... 45 - 47 46 5/ St. 100 Do. 4/ p. c. Prof. St. 94 - 96 all unlikely, but still it is impossible to conceal the 10 6 Sitingbourne &Sheer 4 - 3 d St. 100 Do. L. &H. Pref, St. 84 - 26 50 100 fact that our merchants are in an awful state of ' South Devon. ...... ... 32 -34 33 10 all New.,Aber., &c., pr. St. 160 ! South Eastern. ..... ... 63 -63 A 621 danger and uncertainty. At the present moment 10 all 'D 43 - Sh 2 5 p.c.red. 5 p.c.pm. ... - ..• it would be invidious to give names, particularly as st. 100 South Wales.. ....... .. 78 -FO 791 9 x d 10 all Do. Perpet 6 pr, et 101 -10 i the dreadful list contains the names of three or four 20 all IS. Yorksh. River Dun 12 -14 :, 10 all Norf . k•Deb..4p.e.'Sh: ... - ••• St. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 ... - ... 20 10 IDo - 6 6 Of our first-rate houses, and many of them may yet st. 100 Do. 51 p.c. pf , 1847 ... - ... 20 all iStaines,Wels.,&Wek. 9 - 11 St. 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~ ,1847 ... - ... find means to get out of their difficulties without 25 all Stockton & Darling,. 36 - 38 S. 100 North British 99 - 101 the necessity of suspending payment, and copse- 25 15 1 Do. do., 1854 - ... - I qUent public exposure. Under these circumstances 25 5 I Do. do., "55 - ••• St. 100 N. E. Beres. 4 p.c.Prf.l 90 - 92 Your readers will not be surprised to learn that bills ... lei Stockton di tlartlepl ... - ... 17 Bf, Do. do. do l4 - 1 d Were not to be discounted to-day at any price, that St. 100 (Taff Vale,.., - ••. 20 13 Do. Leeds 6 pc.No.l ... - ... 110 sales could be effected in the produce market, St. 100 'Do. Prof., No. 1 ... - ... 25 22 Thames Hay. D. &R ••• - ... 121 9 Do. do. Qrs., 1848._ ... - .., . 25 10 Do. York H.& S. Pur. 1 and that the quotations of all descriptions of 20 all , Vale of Neath ... 204 - 201 20 all North Staffordshire.. 211 - 22; Government securities and shares in indus- 20 all Waterfd. & Kilkenny ... - ... St, 100 0.x., Wor. & Wolv. 6 trial undertakings are perfectly nominal. The rush 50 all Waterford&Limerick ... - ... p.c., Ist guar. ..... 103 - 111 110 1 t o obtain a d vances on p l e d ge o f curren t ar ti c l es o f 20 all ,West col nwall ••• ..• - ..• St . 100 ,Do. 6p.c. 2d gualf.. 99 - 101 101 100 merchandise (coffee, spelter, rice, cotton, &c.), St. 100 IDo. do. Debentr. St. ... - ... and Crystal Palace.. 7 3 - 9 I 'w hich the new committee of management are per- 8A ell Scot. Cent. New Pref. ~„ - ... 5 all Do. A 2 - 31 St. 100 I Sc.N.E.Aber.g.6p.e. 105 - 107 bitted to lend;on to the amount of fifteen millions 5 all Do. B - 5! Of 2 St. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. ... - ... .thnarks banco, is so unprecedentedly large, that 20 all :West London - ••• St. 100 Do. 00.31 p.c. pf. St. 65 - 70 le stun would be as a drop of water only in a 10 all I Do. First Class .. - ... 25 all South Devon 94 - 101 20 all I Do, Second Class._ ..„ - ... bucket, if the report is not greatly exaggerated ac -10 all ;Wrnbledon &Croydon ... - ... 10 all Do, fixed 4/ precut, ... ••• e4rdin g to which advances to the amoutt of more bor e than 400 millions of marks banco have been 141 E, 6 01 for. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. WO all Atian. and St. Law. ... -- ... 70 Ann.) of £1 Os, 6d. 21 - 22 St. 100 Do. 41 per cent ••• - ••• St. 100 Do. Fixed 41 p.c. Sh ... - ... Immediately after the breaking up of the burgher- 18 9 ; Bombay, Baroda, and I St. 100 Do. New 4; pr, cent ... - ... %chat% or council of citizens, convened for the 1 Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. 1 - i St. 100 S. Wales Gua. 4p, c. ... - ... purpose of sanctioning the financial operations 18 all IDo. - ••• proposed by the Senate, and which I described in 201 18 Buffalo & Lake c I d lu i r. ..8 -- fd 13 121 20 all S.Yorksh .4 p.c.Guar ,,, - ... 25 all Stock. &Dar., sp. e ... - ... my letter of Saturday last, the committee of ma- 100 100 ;Suff., Bret& oc . i. 1... - ... 25 19 Do, do, do. hagement for the execution of the measure was duly appointed and installed, consisting of Senator lialler and Senator Hayn as the two members nominated by the Senate from among their own body ; Mr. P. H. W. Grossmann, president of the fin mace department, and Mr. Robert Flor, mem .her of the same, as the two representatives of the Government treasury ; Mr. E. Albers as the no- 100 100 , 100 16 n.c.bds., 1 Aug., 72 , I Do. do., 1 July, '73; . 100 100 Do, do., 1 June '74 . . ... 20 2s, 'Calcutta and S. East. ..... --- •:: 2sild Central Oude (Lim.) . ••• 20 lOs Ceylon A shares I . 4 . -- 1 j 1/ 20 1 Do. B do, 174 all Demerara, 20 2s. Eastern Bengal ,100 East Indian - . • , '. - 4 "100 - 107 1061 7 ••- • • • St. la Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc. ... - ... 0 13 n RITISH MINES. 2 ... - 2112 Alfred Cons. (]'bilk,) ro _.- pil, 1 la .. 0 . 2 1 0 4 o ß o r n it d is u h ro cr (Cambrn.) 100 - 110 1 .. 0 . 27 1 D El e s v t .G ß t a . s C se n t sl i s i r og a a v n .) ) 430 90 ...._-- 1 4 00 50 ••• 1456 Great South Tolgus l3l - 14/ t a Ylee of the board of seniors (Oberalten) ; and 120 115 Do. C Shares 1 -11 p llia Grt W Alfrd.(Philk.) 4 1 - 5 ••• • , • • Messrs, C. C. Craseman and J. C. Sale 00 all Do.4i p.c.Buds.,'s7 ... - ... ••• 7$ Grt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 1 -- 2 14 ( t he latter a pattner in the eminent firm of 100 all Do. do. do. '59, do. ... - ... ••• 13s Lady Bertha - 11 20 all Geelong & M'elbournel , 71 N. Frances (Illogan) 8 - 10 8/ 9 ) 3 "ars. Haller, Sohle, and Co.), as members of the guar. 5 per cent.... 19} - 191 191 ..... ... N.W.Basset (Illogan) 111 - 121 12 ..,"rd of Commerce. These gentlemen have ever St. 100 Gd. Trunk. orCanadal 38 - 40 :491 81 1 9 6115 North Wheal Crofty 41 - 5 ••. sines been indefatigable in their exertions, and by 100 all IGt. Do. 6p. c. Deben... 72 - 75 72 / 3 1/ Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 19 - 20 20 all Gt. In. Pen, g. 5 pore. 21 - 211 211 1 ... 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 4 - 5 the ir united efforts have already drawn up and 20 4 iDo. New. guar. 5 p.c. 1 - 1 p ••• . Os, Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 11 - 2 th ey Tliahed their regulations, and given notice that 201 all Gt. Westn. of Canada 181 - 181 181 1 i ** 2' S. Caraclon (St. Cleer) 335 - 345 ca were prepared to commence business this day 20/ ]O4 l Do. New 2 S. Cara Brea (Illogn.) 4 - 5 ••• l' e ! t en O'clock, and receive sealed offers from appli- 100 all iDo. Bds., payable '57 ... - ... 100 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O lO3 - 108 . 19 S.W. Frances(llloan.) 220 - 230 4at s desirous of obtaining loans on the deposit of all !D0.73, do. - 108 mer chandise, Government securities, and railroad 100 100 all Do. do., '73, without .. 5 44 ram. S. &L.Min:Co. i - 4 1 10 9 Tin Croft Pri ority shares. ... 40 Un.Minee (Gwennap) ... - ... • It option leo - 102 ... 1256 V. of Towey (Camar.) $ - i has been permitted to transpire that the 20 all 'Madras, guar. 41 p.c 18 - 20 ... 14 W. Basset (Illogan).. 22 - 23 4 2 1 ° 1 11:1t of silver now in possession of the bank is 20 all I Do, do., 5 per c.. • , 201 -21 j ... 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.) 100 - 110 more 4. 20 10 i l Do. 41 p. c. Eaten ; 1 - 1 a 91 6 'lan, forty millions of marks banco.... 54 Wh. Basset (Illogan). 160 - 170 20 5 I Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c.' id - 1p 51 ... 5 WIL Buller (Rdruth). 280 - 290 20 5 Do. 4th Ex., do 1d - i p ... 5/ Wh. Edward(Calstck) ' 7 - 74 71 6/ COMMERCIAL FAILURES. 20 se. Oude (Limited) , . ... 1/ 7s 'Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) 16 - 18 161 20 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per el id - 1 - ip •• ..., 8 Wh.Ma.Ann(Menht.) 48 -- 50 49 20 all Do Atr i a suspension has been announced of Messrs. 4/ Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 23 - 25 • ' l ldes Da. Costa and Co., an old established firm FOREIGN. FOREIGN MINEB. it ' t he West India trade. Their liabilities are Asti- 10 ' all Ant wip &Rotterdam 54 - 61 61 t t i ed at 350,000/ and the prospects of liquida s3 20 18 Ardennes ••• -- •.• 20 7A 'Australian - 4 r , will be partly contingent upon the realisation 5 all Belgian East. Junet. 1- 1 1 10s, Bon Accord Cop. (IL) ad - par 1 -t produce and the collections from acceptances of 20 16 Beziers to Graissessac •• -- 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued °the • ••• • r suspended houses. Annexed is the circular 6 all ,Carmeaux&Toulouse at £5 pm) - 2 issu e d : 1 Coal Mines and Ry. 4 - 41 30 all Do. Comes & Cuiada ... - ... 20 12 iDutch Rhenish - 5/a 74 i 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 1.1 - 13 "6, Finsbury-chambers, London-wall, Dec. 2. 1 1 Clarendon Con. Min. si lt i . 20 all Eastern of France - 251 th at . 8 with extreme regret we have to inform you Co. of Jamaica 20 all Do. New - ••• in consequence of the large amount for which we are 40 all Cobre Copper 39 - 41 381 9 • li nia upon bills that we have discounted and hold on 20 2s. Euphrates Valley ... ... - .., 20 18 Gt. Central of France ... - ... ••• 16 Copiapo - 12 1 all Dun Mountain Cop• 41 ,"°us firms who have recently fallen, and also from 20 all Great Luxembourg... 51 - 64 Isola of the failure of some of our West 16 4 Italian Junction .. - ... per Mining Co. ... id - I}a 2 all Fortuna - '...`eola and other correspondents, we are compelled to 20 all Lake Const. & Bale ~. - ... • 20 all General - 15 14/ sn aPend our payments. 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ... - ..d 3 all Linares - 84 "We have requested Messrs. J. E. Coleman and Co. 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 3/ -3 . 1 p 91 5 11 Lusitanian - id the accountants , to place a statement of our affairs before 5 all Lucca di Pist.sp.c.p. ... -.. You, and they have ' arranged so to do at a meeting to be 20 all Lyons and Geneva .., 24 - 25 1 all Mari nits - i 1 all New Granada co2o all Lyons & Mediterran. ... - ... 4 - I asened on Tuesday, the 15th inst., at the Guildhall 1 all Noveau Monde all Maria Ante -, ' - ••• eeffee.house, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon punctually, ..• - •.• 20 all Pont. Sil.LcUitt. ck Smlt • 5 - 6 at which . - •.• 5 1 Port Philip A__ c Ca we have respectfully to request your a tten- 20 all Namur & Liege - 71 ••• - ••• a ; and in the meantime we shall do all in our 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref lBl -19 T 30 161 Santiago de Cuba ... 11 - 2 284 all United Mexican 3l - 34 31 4 434 Power to facilitate measures which we think desirable 16 all Northern of France.. 35 -35 j 35 for the protection of the interests of our creditors, and 10 all NorwegianTrak.Pref 8 - 9 ar e, MISCELLANEOUS. " Your obedient servants, 20 all Paris and Lyons 331 - 331 331 4 - "MENDES DA COSTA AND CO." 20 all Paris and Orleans.... a 9 - 51 1000 900 Atlantic Tel. (Lim., . . - ... The fail ure h as b een announc e d also of Messrs. 20 7 Recife & San Fran., 25 19 ! Australian Agricult. 22 -23 and Co., a German mercantile house, with 10 71 Kieser Roma and 7p. c. 21 -11 d 7 10 all Australn. Royal Mail ..„ - ... 1 I liabilities for about 50,000/. Their circular is as Frascati.... .•• - • a. 10 all 'Berlin Waterworks,. 4 - 5 I 20 all Royal Danish l3l - 151 1 10 2 'Do. New iss. at 5/. d ... - . follows :- 5 all Royal Swedish - 4 c 4 50 40 (Brit. American Land 30 - 35 "22, Billiter.street Dec 2 "It is with the deepest regret we have to inform ' You 20 all Sambre and Meuse_ 61 - 61 2 1 8 0 0 „, all all l Souther n '3 viT o e s t ie ro cent, p n i c •e e f 2 7 04 ___.- 21 8 100 321 Canada llB - 125 121 2 that, in consequence of the failure of our correspondents w. fk ,N F 2. lu pwe n r de c r: Prof . 4 8 1 -..... 4 St. 100 Do•Go.6pc.Jan&July 105 - 107 1051 6 St. all 'Copper Min. of Eng. 27 - 32 abroad we are under the necessity of suspending pay- 10 all Do. r 1 !I ,Western Of A of u 25 all Do. Pref. 71 p. cent. 23 - 25 5 all Crystal Palace ll - 11 nient. 20 20 all 6 "We have placed our books in the bandsof Mr. - 26 5 all Do, Preference - 4 F st ra ria nce , 25 4 all ,Crystal Pad. of France ... _ ... G. H. Jay, of Old Jewry Chambers, who will prepare a 20 all -West, of Switzerland '" - ... 20 all 'Eastern Steam .. ••• statement of our affairs, which shall be submitted to our 6 all , Wiesbaden ...... "-- ... St. 100 lElectricTelegraph - 105 creditors on the earliest possib:e day. 6 all I Do,S P. cent. prsef: ... - ... 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel, „.. - . 20 all ' Zealand., • ... ''' "Trustiug to receive in the interim your kind for-....... .. ..... ..„ - ... 5 all En.,kAust•Cop.SmCo 1 - 11- 11 di T ,ot - n STOC I K BSO BAN__ K B5 S. 85 4 5 34 10 I.os. , Eur. & Ind. Jan. Tel. ... - ... bearance, "We are, your obedient servants, "KIESER AND CO. 1 1002 40 a a IS I BO I 4 I IpB A . A 1 l a nn f 11 a oo j l aff JOINT-STOCK 9 all Eur.aAm.Stm.(lim.) 41 - 54 20 all Gen. Ir.Se„ Col4lim.) ... - ... Messrs. Carr, Jotting, and Co., who stopped on 15 14 'Gen. Steam Naviaat. ... - ... the 24th ult. for about 300,0001„ have addressed 20 al B l ic ß . r ß it k is . h of N in . dA.Amleirlecanh ::: I. : 4 .. d 141 40 -45 20 5 London Discount ' ... 2 11.1 the following communication to their creditors, and 40 all !Bri. Col. Bk.d.:Ln. Co. 4 all ;Loud. Gen. 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That was an observation. by Brigham Young, to the effect that his intention was Un altered unless he tAiould get another revelation to the contrary, which he was sure he should not.' _ " The result has certainly justified the Prophet's confidence. No such revelation had been received by him up to October 5, on which date aces were committed under his direction which cannot fail to end in bloodshed. On that day the two regi ments of infantry and the artillery and ordnance batteries wore encamped on Ham's Fork, which branches from Black Fork, which is a fork of Green River. The two nearest supply trains were but a few miles distant from Green River, on the east bank, and about 30 miles from Colonel Alexander's camp. The next on the road had advanced about 20 miles west from Pacific Springs, which rise at a short distance beyond the South Pass. About 11 o'clock at night three trains were surprised and seized by parties of Mormons, their contents exa mined, and what was worth pillaging was stolen and the remainder destroyed by fire. Each train consisted of 26 waggons, and belonged to the num ber sent out by Messrs. Russell and Waddell, of Leavenworth City, contractors for the transporta tion of stores to the army and for the supply of beef cattle. The teamsters made no resistance, and were unharmed. These Mormon bands are understood to be under the command of Bill' Hickman, although it is rumoured that Heber C. Kimball attends them. They are all well mounted and armed, each man Icing provided with a Californian horse, and with a rifle, and from one to three revo!vers. Hickman is supposed to have directed the proceedings near Pa cific Springs, while a man named Locksmith com manded near Green River. " Immediately upon the receipt of thenews of this attack Col. Alexander sent Capt. Marcy, of the sth Infantry, with five companies, back to Green River. He arrived, however, only in time to take charge of the cattle of the trains which the Mormons had left, with the polite request that the troops would fatten them ever winter, when they would be in good con dition for Mormon eating in the spring. Another of their jeux d'esprit was a remark to the teamsters that they • had only burnt the waggons this t me, but would be likely to burn the waggoners the next.' Col. Alexander also sent despatches to Brevet.-Col. Smith, from whoa • am writing, and Captain Marcy sent by an'. ' essenger a circular letter to the trains on the road, advising them, for the sake of safety, to place themselves under Colonel Smith's protection. Both express men were intercepted by the Mormons, but, as nothing suspicious was found on their persons, and it did not appear on what errand they were bound, they were released. The one from Col. Alexander, perceiving that it was im possible to avoid arrest, destroyed the despatches to Col. Smith, according to his instructions, and we aro ignorant of their contents. The other brought Capt. Marcy's circular safely through in the too of his mocassin. " We know, however, in the absence of the offi cial despatches, that Capt. Marcy has rejoined Col. Alexander, and that the entire force has moved to the north along Bear River towards Soda Springs, where it will probably await the arrival of the re maining supply trains, the sutlers' trains of the sth and 10th Infantry, and of Col. Smith's battalion. The reasons for this movement do not appear by a glance at the map to a person unacquainted minutely with the conformation of the country and the cha racter of the climate. The direct road to Salt Lake City, passing Fort Bridger, Medicine Butte, and the Needl-s, which Col. Alexander has abandoned, is possibly by this time impassable to waggons or artillery on account of the weather. The season, which has been uncommonly favourable up to the beginning of October, has resumed its natural severity. Ice has formed in our buckets every morning but one since we left Fort Laramie. The northern slopes of the mountains are completely whitened with a covering which will not melt tilllBsB, and even the southern slopes are powdered scantily with snow, of which there was a fall on Saturday night that chilled our road on Sunday and Monday, and has muddied it to-day. Tho Mormons have probably burnt the grass along that entire route, and obstructed the defiles in which it abounds in such a manner that only artillery could clear them. But if the army concentrates at Soda Springs it will have betore it a road along a valley, open, it is said, even at midwinter, direct to Salt Lake City. I know of no chart which exhibits all the lines of road on which these movements will be made ; and, indeed, I am unable to gather from our guides such informa tion as to trace them accurately on Captain Stans bury's map, which is the largest chart of his country that I possess ; but I believe them to be sub stanti illy these :—The direct route from California to the States crosses the Wabsatch Mountains far to the north of the Salt Lake City, and continues almost due east to its junction with the main road to that city, which passes Fort Bridger, and then runs on through the South Pass dividing, however, near Ham's Fork into three branches, which cross the Green River and unite beyond the Big Sandy. From one or the other of these branches a road leads up into Oregon towards Fort Hall, passing Soda Springs, from which there is a cut off into a road direct from Fort Hall to Salt Lake City. It is over these latter roads and the cut-off that Col. Alexander's march will be directed. " The Mormons who intercepted the express men told them they had a force of 700 men scattered along through the mountains as far east as the Devil's Gate, through o which the Sweetwater flows, m about 200 mil es f ro is a dismantled Fort Laramie, and near which some of the logs omen mail station, at a fire from of which we warmed our feet not a week ago. But this must be a gr oss exaggera tion.the traiNnseitheexte.ee of the 100 parties which number,an burntis difficult to conceiv e how a force of even that strength could have • gamed the rear of the army unobserved. It is a fact, however, that ever since the Mormon s settled on Salt Lake they have been assiduous in collecting information concerning the topography of the country, and many of their leaders understand it as thoroughly as the most experienced mountain guide. The em ployment of a great part of their young men in herding cattle has made them acquainted with every little stream and kanyon,' and inured them to the saddle. It is these young men, and these almost solely, who constitute the element of Mor mon military force from which there is danger to be apprehended. They possess the ability, if they have tho will, to carry on an annoying guerilla warfare, sweeping down from mountain passes upon single travellers and unprotected trains. " I am unable to make an estimate of the amount of stores destroyed by them in their foray of Oct. 5. The original amount intended for the Utah expedition was an eight months' supply for 2,500 men, and each train was assigned a propor tion of all the articles to be transported, including even Ordnance stores. Whether different arrange ments were made when it was thought necessary to leave the 2d Dragoons with Governor Walker in Kansas I am not aware. At any rate, it is the general impression that the loss of so great a quantity of provisions as the 72 waggons must have contained would necessitate a movement towards Salt Lake Valley, were not such a move ment on other accounts a consequence of their de struction. The season will forbid the transmission of any further supplies of troops from the east than are now far on their way. Whether Col. Sumnet's co mmand has returned from its pursuit of the Che yennes to the Arkanias ; whether Col. Cook is marching his dragoons towards us to fill out so far as is now possible the original programme of the army of Utah, which was disturbed by Governor Walker's schemes iu Kansas ; or whether General Harney, Col. Johnson, Governor Cumming, or any of the n ew territorial officials, are on their way west, we are not informed, for the most recent ad vices we have received from the east extend no later than to Sept. 1. Ignorant as we are of what may have occurred during the last 20 days, it is impos sible for us to fix the responsibility for the delay, so accurately as yourselves, upon those to whom it belongs; but some one is certainly to blame for the fact, that of the 2,500 men originally destined to the expedition hardly 1,400 are now available, and for the other fact, that of all the newly-appointed territorial officials only one to my knowledge (Chief Justice Eckels) is anywhere near his post of duty. Mr. Morrell, the Postmaster of Salt Lake City, who was appointed by President Pierce last year, but whose commission was stolen from the ma il, is also au exception. He is encamped near the South Pass. and will place his waggons under Colonel Smith's protection to-morrow. " This news of the actual rising of the Mormons in arms cannot surprise you more than it does those on the scene of action. The presence of Dr. Bern hisel with Captain Van Vliet on his journey to the States seemed of itself an offset to all the threaten ing mess ages of which the latter was the bearer. It seemed incredible that the Mormons should have the assurance to send a delegate to Washington to uphold them in Congress, when they were in ac tual artntd rebellion. That they have been excited to a forcible outbreak only by the grossest misre presentations I cannot doubt. As an instance of these, I may specify one which is by no means the most absurd. When the general orders from the head-quarters of the army for Utah for the estab lishment of three new posts in the territory reached • Salt Lake City, the circumstance that they were to be ' double ration posts' excited the utmost indig nation. Sappws'ng it meant that all the garrisons as well as the commanding officers, were to draw double ratims ' laughable as it may appear, it is a fact that they believed that the extra ration was to be furnished to each soldier to enable him to marry and support a wife, of course, he would seduce from among them. Captain Van Vliet found this illu sion universally prevalent. " In consideration of the journey of Dr. Thrnm hisel to Washington, while affairs are in such a con dition among his constituency, I feel bound to send you the following information concet fling the mode of his election, for the accuracy of which I do net vouch—for it is not of my personal knowledge— but for which I send you privately nay authority. It has been stated to me that on the Sunday before the day fixed by law for the election, Brigham Young rose in the Bowery, where an audience of several thouFands was collected, and spoke substan tially to this effect : " Brethren, to-morrow, you know, is the day to vote for delegate to Congress, so the law says. But I don't see why to•day isn't just as holy, and why we shouldn't take a vote to-day. Brother Bernhisel, brethren, has done well enough in Con gress, though nobody's of much use there, and if it's worth while to send anybody to Washington I guess we might as well send him back ; if he can't do 113 any good, he won't do us any harm. So all you that are in favour of sending Brother Bernhisel back will please rise.' " Accordingly the whole audience rose. The next day at the election but few votes were cast and those all for Dr. Bernhisel, it being felt to be use less to oppose him, although he is said to be very unpopular in Salt Lake City. If Ido Dr. Bern hisel any wrong by this narration, I am sure you will be willing to correct anything which he shall prove to be inaccurate. " As another item which I have neglected to in sert in its proper connexion, it is reported that the Mormons have taken prisoners two men belonging to Dr. Magraw's party, who were sent on business towards Salt Lake City." - - - THE INDIAN MUTINIES. We have been favoured with the following gra• phic account of a public execution in India : " Ahmedabad, Oct. 26 "I have just returned from the cairn eye-witnessing of a sight of which not many months ago it would have sickened me even to hear. I shall never see such ano ther, nor you ever see such an one at all ; and, as all scenes have their profit, I will fix it while the details are fresh. "You know, generally, what I am going to describe. It is the result of more than a week's continuous court martial, iii which 18 men were sentenced to death. They suffered this morning. "I rode down at 5, and day dawned as I cantered along. I know nothing so sad as that slow drawing on of the sunrise which is to be the signal for an execution. There were many groups of natives moving towards the parade ground, which is four miles from the city, and every now and then a carriage with the lamps 80114. " When I reached the ground the bugles were only sounding, and there was little to be seen but the gallows with 10 nooses, and the miserable prisoners seated in a double row in front of it. I rode slowly past them, and could see no signs of emotion, except that one or two were very pale. "The regiment in which the mutiny occurred was the first to cake up its ground, opposite to the garows. The other native regiment drew up at right-ang ea to it, and the English regiments, behind the gallows, com pleted the third Fide of a square. Between them were four guns. At the fourth side were drawn up five guns, pointing outward, across the flat level. To these the sentenced men were to be bound. The area of the equare was now covered with mounted officers, a few civilians, the General, and his staff. "The whole 18 prisoners were marched before the native regiments and their offence and sentence road in a clear voice, which reached all spectators. This over, the last terrible preparations were commenced. '•Tlie 10 mounted to their places on the drop, and stood there white and shadowy against the pale sky, but firm and quiet, their faces hidden in white caps. .A firing party of 12 moved up the spot within 20 yards of the place where I stood, facing outwards, as the guns did, but behind them, further back into the square. The three men who were to be shot were placed in front, and fearfully near them, not more than 12 paces from the muzzles of the muskets. They knelt down, their eyes were bandaged, and their bands tied. Meanwhile the doomed five had been marched to the five fatal guns. Tney were bound by the arms to the wheels, but their legs were free, and the end man—the only one whom I could entirely see from my place on the flank—leaned his back against the muzzle, as loungers lean against a mantelpiece. "I fixed my eyes intently on that man, not 50 yards away, and in a moment the signal was given. There was a roar, and the whizzing of a bullet, far away from the firing party ; a bank of white smoke, and a jet and shower of black fragments, sharp and clear, which leaped and bounded in the air ; this and a fearful sound from the spectator=, and the reality so far exceeded all pre , vious fancy that it was intolerable ; then a dead stdlness. " I walked straight to the scattered and smoking floor before the guns. I came first to an arm, torn off above the elbow, the fist clinched, the bone projecting several inches, bare. Then the ground sown with red grisly fragments, then a black-haired bead and the other arm still held together. This was the man I had watched ; close by lay the lower half of the body of the next, tc.ro quite in two, and long coils of entrails twined •o the ground. Then a long cloth in which one had been dressed rolled open like a floor-cloth and on fire. Oue man lay in a complete and shattered heap, all but the arnie ; the legs were straddled wide apart, and the smashed body on the middle of them ; the spine exposed ; the head lay close by too. The last body was that of a native officer, who was the arch fiend of the . mutiny ; he was a short man, with a cruel face. His head had been cut clean off, but the muscles of the neck had contracted round the throat like a frill. His face was half upturned and calm, the eyes shut. I saw no expression of pain on any of thew. What had been his body lay on its face, the legs as usual not shattered, lint all the flesh torn like cloth from a sharp a , ee in the hollow of the back, off and off, till it merged in one mangled heap. "IL turned next to the three who bad been shot. One bad been struck in the hart, and only bowed slowly over on his face. Toe others had been pistolled after wards through the head. All I think, however, had been badly hit, as all were prostrate when I ran forward to the guns. " And only now—there was so much more terrible — did I look up to the ten white figures slowly swinging and revolving over this scene of blood. I hope they died quickly, but the ropes were very short. " The troops immediately matched off, and I rode home at speed, and when I dismounted the dogs came and licked my feet." THE CAPTURE OF THE RAJAH OF ASSAM. The following letter describes the manner in which Captain Lowther captured the liajah of Assam, thereby avoiding the massacre of Europeans in that country : " September. " You will have heard era now of the capture of the Rajah .f Assam, which your humble servant effected as follows : " The colonel sent me in hothaste with my Ghoorkas, and early the next morning we dropped down in boats towards Debrooga, reaching that station the second day, about the same time the colonel sending to ask the other outposts for the Ghoorkas and hill men, sending Hiadustanees to relieve them all, and thus give us a small trustworthy body of troops in case of extremities and disasters. " My plan was to take away the bulk of the artillery pieces from the native company of local gunners, with ammunition, &0., many a those men (Hindostanees) having been heard to talk seditiously in the bazaars ; next, to secure our own regimental magazine, and manage, in case of an emeute, that our men (Rifler) should be in safe possession of all access to it ; next, to shut up all the treasure and private property in the fortified square in the civil station, plackiug a picked guard over it ; next, to seize the King, who was at the bottom of the plot, surprising him suddenly, and taking all his treasure and papers, and sending him away a State prisoner towards Calcutta, ; next, to have a body of picked men so as to act at instant notice. "In communication with the Political at Seubsaugor (rifle map) I engaged to meet him on the night of the 9:h at a particular mouth of the river below, he leaving on the night of the Bth, by boat', dropping down the stream, the distance of 40 miles. At length I and my riflemen rounded a nook, and were glad to find the Political, with a few armed police, all ready to meet us, my large boat taking them and canoes with the police in tow, and by the bright moonlight we dropped down softly and pleasantly to No wghur Ghaut, a distance of 16 miles, reaching it about 11 p.m, We had some trouble in keeping clear and hiding ourselves from the observation of the large fishing villages we had to pass, but our good fortune took us past unnoticed, and we landed unseen in the tall grass jungle, on the brink of a morass, such as only Assain contains, mosquitoes almost darken ing the moonlight ; not a word allowed to ',be spoken, and scouts sent out to search the jungle for the elephants sent out previously for transport of men over the impassable tracts ; soon found these, commenced our march ; the moon became obscured and a storm of wind and rain set in ; all around us a swamp, which obliged us to load the elephants vary lightly, and deposit our selves occasionally on dry spots and high patches, while the elephant.' went to and fro to lift the men across the quagmires and waters. Twice my large elephant sank down, so as to wet his ears and my feet togetht r, and each step was attended by the most noxious effluvia, arising from the decomposed vegetable matter at that season, while myriads of musquitoes swarmed around us. On an island we met the native chie of police, our principal informer of the plot, who had been sent out as if on his dutier, looking after our postal arrangements of the province. We held a council, and then all moved on quietly again. For tunately, we had now only a mile or two of that horrible march, or man and beast must have knocked up, the wind and rain increasing. " We soon fortunately came on to a raised causeway, in pretty good repair, dry and smooth, and I rested my men for awhile. What with broken bridges and other impediments to night travelling we did not reach the ' Royal town till half-an-hour before daybreak, the sky delightfully black, and the rain a very waterspout, both of which had the beneficial effect of quieting the noisy cur 4 tihio.l infest the purlieus of eve!) , Indian locality.. A final consultation was held in sight of the Royal den, arms examined and loaded, and every preparation made for the finishing blow ; the stout little Gh3orkaA grin ning with delight a 3 they examined the sheaths cf their hookeries, or war knives, to see whether they were within "We passed unnoticed along a straggling suburb, and suddenly turning a corner I was told by my guide that I stood within the Royal premises, told off my men rapidly, and formed them into parties, so as cmpletely to surround and cover every outlet ar.d carrier : The main party, consisting mostly of my own particular sharpshooters and bodygu rd i watched the front ; another towards th e t own, there to arrest an educated Bengalee, agent to the conepiratore • another party moved to the rear and cut off escape to wards the tiwn ; while nay friend the Political crept quietly past some outhouses with his police, and under the palace walls awaited my signal for opening the ball. " Before long the ominous barking of a disturbed cur in the direction of the party sent after the Prime Minis. ter proclaimed no time was to be lost, and off I went towards the guard shed in front of the palace, my per sonal sharpshooters following at the double. The noise of course awoke the iloeping guard, and as they started up from their slumbers I caught one firmly by the throat; the little Ghoorka next me felled with a butt end blow another of them while they were getting tto arms, 1 having strictly forbidden my men to fire until obliged ; the remainder, as we rushed in, took to flight, and my eager party wished to fire on them, which I prevented, not considering such valiant game worth pow der and shot. In the darknessand confusion no means 01 entrance could at onco be found. My police guide, how ever, having been often in the palace, knew every room in it, and, thrusting himself in at the doer, acted ferret to perfection, and by dint of activity soon brought me into the presence of the King, who, though young in years, is old in sin ; he refused to surrender or admit any one,—a resolutien which cooled instanter on my calling my men to set fire to the palace, and he then with a bad grace delivered up to me his state sword. A shout from tLe'opposite doors proclaimed an entry there. The Queen Mother and the rest of the fenia'e Royalty and attendants were seized while trying to •leseend on that side. Then came a chorus of shouting and sting gling, and bawling for lights and assistance ; at last, a lamp being procured, we pr eieded to examine the palace; we wandered in dark passages and cells, while I mounted a guard at every door. The air being con fined and heated within the Royal residence, I sat out side until after daybreak, and then proceeded to rum , maga for papers and letters ; several boxes of these we appropriated, and counted out his treasure, all in gold vessels and ingots ; we found a quantity of arms, spiked some guns, one of them of Freuch make ; all day we were bard at work, searching rind translating papers. The Prime Minister was found at his house, fast asleep. In the heat of the afternoon we went to his residence in the town, and by dint of keeping fans going over us carried out a thorough search. We did not get as many of his papers as we wanted, he having been told by his correspondents to destroy all letters after reading them. " At sunset I carried off my prisoners over the same bad ground by which we had so stealthily arrived. We were followed by about 2,000 infuriated Mucisulrnans, crying, praying, and prostrating themselves to the object of their lingering hope of rebellion (the Rajah), but we drove them off. "A mile or two out an individualTuddenly appeared, and in a loud and powerful voice chanted either• a me nace to ua or a warning to the King. I could only catch .one word, u hich signified down country ;' hence I suspect he was conveying advice to the captive, whom I kept well alongside of me, with an intimation I would blow his head off if he attempted any tricks cr created any disturbance. We arrived at 10 p.m. at the ghant whence we started on the previous night, weary and hun gry with a vengeance. I put my prisoner on board my large boat, alongside of my bed, and next morning started him off under a choice guard, with loaded arm, towards Calcutta with written instructions. Everybody in Assam was in a fever of aulety and excitement until the news arrived that I had captured the leader of the conspiracy, and the dark and stormy night on which I carried out the measure caused many sleepless nights to the expectant party of well-wishers. We are not yet rid of traitors ; two or three of our native officers are deeply implicated, as also a native doctor and a number of Sepoys in both the Artillery Company and my Rifles ; they are well watched and waited upon by the Ghoorkas, who have proved themselves faithful to us everywhere, and are eager to distinguish them selves. Three days hence, we find by the papers dia. covered, was the appointed time for the outbreak, and of course the massacre of all the Europeans in Assam ; but I fully expect that my counterplot has proved far too heavy a blow to their abominable schemes ; disap• p , iintment and diegnst are written legibly on their hideous faces at my sudden swoop on their machinations. I cannot cease to thank God I have averted so much bloodshed." TIIB RELIEF OF LIIOKNOW. (From The Waverley.) Where is the arch of splendour, Where is the minstrel hand, Shall fitting honour render To Havelock and his band I Nay, they need no such glory, They need no triumph arch ; Their fame lives in their story— Lives in their desperate march. The ancient British spirit Still keeps its lofty place; Our warriors inherit The valour of their race. Climate and toil may tire, And sickness do its part, But cannot quench tho firo Of a truo British heart. On, on they pressed together, The tropic suu o'erhead, As if their Scottish heather Were 'neath their martial tread. None needed to remind them Their labours were not o'er ; Nine victories behind them, Yet foemen still before. And what though thrice outnumbered, Though every step a grave, Their spirit never slumbered, Urged by the hope to save. And to each bravo defender Let us give honour due ; 'Worthy the aid they render, Those gallant hearts and true. But yet a grateful nation Its debt of tears shall pay, And thoughts of lamentation Must mar cur joy to-day. Remember, 'midst our mourning, They fell as heroes fall ; Duty their beacon burning, While Glory wove their pall. Nor in the hour of triumph Leave we their names untold, The martyrs' noble army Has gathered to its fold. For coming generations Shall toll of what has been, And tears of many nations Shall keep their memories green. Their due award then giving, Crown each devoted head With laurel for the living, And amaranth for the dead. And Britain, 'midst her weeping For those that come no more, Joys that her sons are keeping The place she won of yore. And, half in consolation For all her noble ones, She calls on every nation To greet her warrior sons, Some praises may be louder— Some chaplets be more gay; But few wear laurels prouder Than Britain gives to-day. THE WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND. GLASGOW, DEC. 2. The meeting of the shareholders of the Western Bank was held to-day—Mr. James Dunlop, the senior director, in the chair. About 400 were present from all parts of the country. It was resolved to register the company under the Joint-Stock Banking Companies Act of 1857. The CHAIRMAN said that the best endeavours of the directors had been thwarted by the late manager, who disregarded their express instructions and gave great advnucers to unworthy persons. The directors in their report said their chances of resuming business were lessened by the provincial agents going over to the Edin burgh banks. The agents who had already seceded re present 2,000,000 of deposits, and agents representing 1,000,000 more were in the act of seceding. The Interim MANAGER read a financial statement, showing that on the 9th of Nov. last the assets were 10,627,8241. ; the liabilities were 8,911,2321., leaving an apparent surplus of 1,715,8921, Up to that time the known and undoubted losses were 800,0001. It would depend upon the course to be taken in the realising and the commercial state of the country to determine what additional losses might accrue. A. committee of shareholders was appointed to go over th e books along with the directors, and report to an aajourned meeting on the 17th of De,cember. A proposal was made to resuscitate the bank, hut it could not, in the meantime, be entertained. REPRESENTATION OF PAISLEY. —Mr. Leveson Gower .and Mr. Lamont are not to be left to carry on a two .banded contest, it would appear. A. movement was got -up on Monday in Paisley for the purpose of electing _Mr. Crum Ewieg in his absence, and his friends speak - with confidence of a successful issue to their agitation. L'ANGELIER.-Mr. A. Pringle transmitted last week 'the sum of 891 9s. U. to Madame L'Angelier at Jtraey, being the proceeds of a subscription raised to make good, so far, the pecuniary loss sustained by her from the 'death of her son, who was in the habit of contributing to her support from his salary.— Glasgow Herald. THE LATE COURT MARTIAL AT PORTSMOUTH. A. Court Martial was last week held at Ports mouth, which painfully recalls to recollection the wry worst periods of our naval service. The facts of the case are, as usual on such occasions., some what imperfectly reported, but enough appears to show that a great and scandalous wrong has been done, which ought not to be permitted to r: st where the Admiralty has left it, in the simple pirate re primand of the offender. Ti:e poisoner was Mr. Hugo Beaumont Burnaby, Frat Lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Juno, which tras recently !dinned from the. Pacific and Aus tralia, and the prosecutor was Captain S. C. Fre mantle, his commanding officer. The ohm gei on which Lieutenant Burnlby was brought by Cap 7 tain Fremantle to trial were : 1. For having on the 27th of March,lBs6. liiinself with contempt to - ,vgids Captain S. C. Fremantle Li commanding officer, by performing an impertinent and provoking action atter receiving from Lis command ing officer instructions relative to certain visitors then on board the Enid chip, and by procrastinating the de parture of the said vimitors, he having been previously warned and perfect-y aware uf his commanding officer's at xiety tn have the chip cleared of strangers and pre pared for the duties of the ftllo wing morning. 2. For havin t r,- on or about the 2nd of June, 1856, behaved himself with disrespect to - wards his command ing, officer by going iota his cabin with a frivolous grievance, and attempting to enter into altercation with, and to criticise the conduct of his commanding officer in a manner unbecoming a junior officer, with reference to a I ainted handkerchief, and to his own duties as a senior lieutenant of the ship. 3. For having, on or about the 11th of January, 1857, behaved in a wanner uubecomiug the charaett r of an oifictr by breaking hie patrol. _ . 4. For hiving, on or about the 15th of January, 1857, acted iu violation of the general printed instruc tions and the cuitotu of the service by forwarding to his c urtmanding officer a retnonstrance upon urjustifiable grounds, addressed to the Commander-in-Cnief in a covering letter unnecessarily hasty and dictatorial. The occasion out of which the first charge arose seems to have been one of those entertainments oa board the Juno, by which British officers endeavour to repay the courtesies and civilities they rec , :ive from British colonists when in colonial ports. The Juno's visitors, among whom were several ladies, were being regaled by a nautical theatrical repre sentation, when the evening's amtpements were cut short by Captain - Fremantle ordering the ship t 3 be cleared. Lieut. Burnaby executed this ex traordinaryand sudden order with all the speed that attention and consideration for the ladies permitted —so ratioli so, that there is no imputation against him that the Captain's directions in this respect, however unnecessary and disagreeable, were not obeyed as became the first lieutenant of the ship. The order wa3 given by Captain Fremantle in his own cabin, when only himself and Lieut. Burnaby were present ; and Captain Fremantle charges the lieutenant with contempt towards his commanding officer " by performing an impertinent and provok ing argon." What the alleged action was, is neither state 1, nor did it appear on the trial. Lieut. Burnaby, however, pledged his honour as an officer and a gentleman to the court martial that he committed no act of impropriety ; and he is, we shall see, entitled to full credence. 'This occurrence took place on the 27th March, 1856. On this pretence Captain Fremantle imme diately placed his first lieutenant under arrest; and in arrest Lieut. Burnaby remained until the 234 November, 1857, when he appeared a prisoner before the court martial assembled on board the St. Vincent,- in Portsmouth harbour. During these eighteen month, when Liebt. Burnaby was suspended from the performance of his duties, held up to the odium of his ship and brother officers, and deprived of personal freedom, Captain Fre mantle' managed to get up three other charges against h:m, all of a frivolous and vexatious kind ; and on these four charges he was brought to trial. Of course Captain Fremantle was, or. ought to have been, the principal witness. Ho had preferred the charges, and presented himself as prosecutor before the court martial. On being directed by the President to state to the Court what he knew about the charges, the following extraordinary and pain ful scene took place Captain Fremantle —I know nothing. I am prepared, sir, with your perm4sion, to abandon this prosecution. I am prepared to indemnify the prisoner by " corporeal pains." The Court at this point stopped the prosecutor and eleared the cabin. On its being re-opened, The President said—The Court bas been cleared to give you time to consider. Yoil have been sworn, &o. The prosecutor replied— I feel myself totally unable at the present time to collect my ideas to give the required evidence as to matters which transpired so long ago ; I feel so impressed that my views of the service have been mistaken and wrong. President—Captain Fremantle, you are there as a witness and must answer a plain question. Captain Fremantle—There is a confusion in my head, and I cannot proceed. President—Respecting what has been said about the views ? Captain Fremantle—l feel so confused that I cannot attempt to recount upon oath with any degree of fidelity, and agreeably to the words of the oath, what transpired so long ago. I request the president will allow me to sit down. The Court hero informed Captain Fremantle that in consequence of his statement of his inability to give evi dence he might retire and give evidence " by and by , " when the Court had examined the other witnesses. The ewe proceeded, other witnesses were called, but the anticipated "by and by" did not come rcund, Captain Fremantle preserved the silence he thus inaugurated, and Lieut. Burnaby was com pelled to make his defence without hearing the pro secutor utter one word against him. He made it with complete success, and, so far as it was possible, he supported his own personal statement with evi dence. The result was the following finding by the Court Martial : The Ciurt acquits the prisoner, and further expresses its opirlion that the evidence before it doss not show sufficieat grounds for preferring such charges against the 2AI Lieutenant, some of which are of so serious a nature. And this was all ! Out of the Juno, under Captain Fremantle's command, two other Courts Martial have been hold " on officers," the report stated, " who had long Leen imprisoned iu their cabins, as it were, and suspended front all duty, and nearly from inter course with their messmates." One of those charges also came to nothing, and the other ended only in a reprimand. " But," added the reporter representing the naval feeling and experience of Portsmouth, "it is questionable whether the captain, whois so power fully connected, will receive any censure from the A dm iial ty." No doubt powerful conne,:t oits have great' influence at the Admiralty, as when, for example, the Honourable Captain Pelham was the other day made a Lord of that precious Board, he was in stantly succeeded in the command of the Blenheim by the Honourable Captain Hastings—but there is a decency which not even " powerful connections" can venture to trespass ; and in the case of Captain Fiemantle, which outrivals any of the deeds de scribed by Smollett in "Roderick Random," the Admiralty has actually ventured to " reprimand" this mut. of '' powerful connections." The public, with whom such connections have no influence, will probtbly think that for such an offence as Captain Fremantle committed a repri mand is a wholly insufficient punishment ; and the public in so thinking will come to a perfectly sound conclusion. Because of his family influence the command of one of her Majesty's ships on a dis tant station was entrusted to Captain Fremantle, and knowing how powerful at the Admiralty that influence was, he appears to have very grossly abused the power and authority confided to him. He appears to have rendered the lives of his officers insupportable by a long course of vexatious tyranny; for a -period of eighteen months he degraded, insulted, confined, and punished his First Lieute nant ; at the end of that period he brought charges against him which, if substantiated, might have led to his dismissal from the Queen's service in a manner that would have consigned that officer to disgrace, if not ruin and destruction ; finally, when called on to prove those charges, he was paralysed by a sense of his utter inability to do so, his spirit sunk within him, and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. There, before ea court of officers of rank and reputation, stood Cap tain Fremantle, when called on to establish his case, unable to say one word in support of his own accusation ; admitting and confessing th a t h e cou ld not prove one tittl of the imputations lie had framed, and on whichhealsfkeodufvoircateCdocilarlt;Mmnartiaitaolr! and, in the agony of ase-c offering, with abject and incoherent humiliation, prisoner in t the t wr o as there ever before, the by corporeal of _ course pa n in a s va l'; history, anything half so bad ? Can there possibly be anything worse ? Yet for this unparalleled offence, commit ed by a man who has " powerful connections," all the punishment that the Admi ralty—all that Sir Cuarles Wood, at the head of the naval service of this great maritime country— has thought proper to inflict, is a "re p rimand," and even that " r eprimand" is privately, almost secretly administered to Capt. Fremantle. This, we undertake to tell the Admiralty, is not justice, or anything like justice ; and the public will only see in it another and a more audacious example of that detestable spirit of favouritism at the Admi ralty which disgusts a noble profession and injures the British Navy.—Daily News. Am_ngst the passengers on board the steam( r Tamar which is now on her voya,oe to Southampton from Alexandria with the gold and mails taken to Suez from Australia by the steamer Simla, is Sir William Beckett, late Chief Justice of Melbourne, and Lady Beckett.