The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

Ni 4.1.1.14 7ll 77 r • A r r AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLock. Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily, and values con tinue to decline. The sales were estimated at 2,000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed flatly, and at a considerab!e decline in prices. The Bank of England weakly return, which is completed to Wednesday last, exhibits some re- Insrkable features, and it is evident that the strain 11 1 3 on the resources of the establishment has been exceedingly severe. Acting in conformity with the Treasury letter, the authorities have issued 2 , 0 00,000/. more notes, and an equal amount of Government Securities has been transferred from the Banking to the opposite side of the Issue department. The Bank have also sold stock to the extent of 1,000,0001., and the other securities have a ccumulated to the amount of four millions ; the total now being upwards of 30,000,0001. The Reserve of Notes, through the over-issues, has in creased, and the decline in the bullion has not been 13 , 1 t) important as was expected. During the last zew days about three-quarters of a million is under stood to have been sold to the authorities, so that h eir position is now supposed to be stronger than at the date of their account. The principal items, and the ch a nges they present, are as subjoined : Activ e Circulation Increase 6,484,096 Decrease Rest P Increase 4 ° ll o Deposits Ir c. ease Other D er p s ,t s Increase Seven-Da,y and other Bills 829,544 Decrease 6 Government &curlles ,407,134 Decrease Other Securities Increase "t4I ()tee unemployed 190,475 Increase The official return of the exports of precious tnetaLs from the port of London for the week end ing Thursday last was as follows : Gold Coin Boulogne ... 4,500 Ozs. Bars Belgium ... 2,000 „ f ff ••• Boulogne ... 12,630 „ Silver Co i n A rise took place yesterday afternoon in the rates of continental exchange. The failure was announced yesterday of Messrs. ` l. • R. Thomson and Co., in the Cape trade, with liabilities estimated at 300,0001. The asset!, how ever, will probably yield a surplus. The Maricet for English Securities appears rather buoyant, notwithstanding the Bank return and the difficulty experienced in obtaining accom -I,Zodation. Some satisfaction has been produced 0 1 1 the arri va l o f th e P ers ia, and a good. deal Curiosity has been felt to ascertain what gr tieunt of specie she has on board. A mode rate business has been done, but specula- O n i 8 quiet. Consols for money were 891 893- tand 89i N. For the account they were 90 to t) i and ON- 1. The present quotations are 89 i , a nd 90 to 90i respectively. The New Three per Ce „" I ltS• are 88/ ; the Reduced, 88.1 89 ; Ex "equer Bills, 14s. discount ; the Bonds, 98 i ; and India Bonds, 455. to 355. discount. Bank Stock 214. Rather a large business has been done in Foreign 'toeks, and prices are well maintained. Turkish n Per Cents. are 872 88 ; ditto 4 per Cents, 97l ; B razilia n 3 per Cents., 41 1; ditto Deferr ed, 251 ; 5 per Cents., 982 ; Chilian 6 per Cents., ; Danish 5 per Cents., 102 ; Mexican 3 per 188 i ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 752 ; Por- Por tuguese 3 per Cents., 431 ; Russian 5 per Cent s., 2, 2 106 ; Sardinian 5 per Cents., 89 ; and Dutch Cents., 95k. Sto c k e ß f°ll "ring are the nominal prices of Foreign eau i,,, :— " C 'renada Deferred Bonds, 5i to 6 ; Mexi -7Per-cileL;s Peruvian per Cents., 74 76 ; ditto 4 —— ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., „ 76 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 106 ; Ditto 4i p e r Cents., 94 96 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 404 41 ; ditto New Deferred, 25 251. In the Railway Share Market this morning the t ransactions have been unimportant. Adecline of about per cent., however, is apparent upon some ' 3f the chief undertakings. North-Western, South western, Midland, and North-Eastern (York), de clined ss. ; Great Western, 1 0 s. ; and Scott'sh c entrals, l , 15 s . N o rth British improved about ss. 0 Poreig n an d C o l on ial lines are steady. Grand Tr unk of Canada advanced 55., and East Indian Abou t s s. Paris and Orleans realised 5 1 . 4 . ;ons Mining Shares were very quiet, at former quota- J oint -Sto c k B an k Sh ares were d ea lt i n to a mo ieLat.o extent, b u t ex hibi te d no i mpor t an t altera tion values. ' , lithe Mi sce ll aneous Market, Royal Ma i l S team l 'ea.usd 54 to 541. zit [TISEI F UNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. (.From :he Offictal List;) Businees done. ks,,nk Stock 214 8 per . 884 i 9 ,i , ,erlt. Reduced Annuities sq -4 i 90 tt er uent Ucnsols t.nwaities 834 I i .14. 4'4 ' 3° 3 Per Cent. Annuities i• ew 2ui per Cent. Annuities lAula Stock .......... ram% Bonds .. ..... ......... .......... .. . ...... . 45 35 d eotsols for Account .. . . 901,. i Ex.•••••,r;,r 'tins, 417 /31000 1,.50t, .... ...•.. 8 n all.. .......... : ....... ......: . : . .......' .. : Rxchequer 80nd5...1858. . 3 . A ...... Cent 9q Ditto, .0.459 ' ' P 971 ......... ••.. ................. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. Brazilian 98i . 5 per Cent. 0 till - lOl ark %ncls. 6 per Cent . Danish Bonds, 3 pet Cent 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent , " lO2 l ieca l 3 per Cent . lB3 a Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Co IL Ditto Account 7EI Portuguese Bonds, 5 Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent en ~ C t Con. 1841 ,i -3 a Russian Bends, 1622, St, , 5 per Cen; - ,.... 103.3 6 f_hrdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. : ermiliFil Routis 't ' t b;tto Account par i_pl . 41 Ditto New Deferred 3 per Cent. ..t Ditto Account ' -.l' ritthb Itonds, 874 8 t, pi.r cent 974 Ditto Guaranteed 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 24 p er Cent , ex. 25 francs Do. 4a per Cent.. ' ex. 25 francs... . E.. 8.9 i Cotsols, TWO O'OLO 0 money 90 i Consols account Ilia Excellency Couat Chreptowitch is expected to leave the residence of the Russian Legation in a few clays for St. Petersburg. The Duchess of Atholl has left the St. George's Rotel, to take her tura as lady in waiting on her Ma jesty. Lord Fluntiogfield has left the St. George's Hotel for Tieveningham-hall, Su ff olk. - - The Earl of Lonsdale, who has been detained in town Some weeks by indisposition, is now much better, and i►ble to take oc_t•door exercise. The EarloflTolen has joined the Countess and Lady Maria Forester at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. The Countess (Dowager) Somers has left town for I "lnei to visit the Earl and Countess Somers, who have arrived there from a tour in Greece. Lord and Lady Brougham arrived in town a few days Z i a n s ee ', fr °ro Brougham Hall. The noble and learned lord ship since left town for his chateau at Cannes. Her lady inpardemains in town. Stuart tn d e C.LI Rothesav has left town to visit the RE,rt., w s h `. -- ; ' w ager) of Hardwicke, at Tittenhanger, Btaying, e the Countess (Dowager) of Caledon is also ivlitots.—The • days has been ni T r Ting share mar k e t f or th e last few The demand hae heave than for some weeks past. shares, the rise or fallencti of chiefly for small speculative occupation mid profit to thlesd. per share in which gives mines are also inquired after, e . alers. G ood progress i ve stocks, which are lik e l y to 1,:e0 reference to dividend Unprecedented drop in the standard by the almost Ic itlrstanding the amount of businessrd last week. Not 14Arket is in rather a peculiar doing, the ' l .l erY slight circumstances affect pricesPossiThe and `() dealers not like tot crrase their stock hi the Present state . of I .i "eY matt! rs, and the appearance of sell 411 ' 1 1 fir I , quotations and wide • erg is the t1 1 „ 4. o%er marvins, so that o h t ' 4 who must all have to do Po at a sacrifice ; whilst Poste other hand, a demand hr shares nauses a tem' e c ie,!' rise, and a diff er ence be w'-en buying an d se ll ing c reel f as much as 11. on 101. shares. W e h ave tt i l li ee 4 - , Y heard of a t ransa ction in any of the large di v id en d . 4iti ci arid lower quotations are generally given.— "ournai of this day. TITE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER. 21, 185'7. ,SHATA DILA "R, tOLTS— 'nis Day. RAILWAYS. Closing Pr-co this clay. Business done this day. RAILWAYS• Arabg. Nottug. Boat, dz Eastn. June..... Belfast &llyrnar Thrmng. Wolvorh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. Cheshire Juba— Blackburn ..... Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45)... Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. 'Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass. 'Cornwall.. Do. A Do. B Dublin&Belfast.Tianc Dun. P. diA'oer. June. East Anglian . ..... all ;Eastern Counties 100 :EasternUnion,A.stk 100 'Do. ' do. B ........ 8} 'Do. New A East Kent ....„.... 100 East Lancashire all East Suffolk ...... 4' Do. 100 Ed inburgh dr Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles_ 100 Edinb.Prth.drDunde , all Forth and ClydeJunc. 100 Furness ... . ...... . 100 Glasgow dr S.Westerr all 'Great N. of Scotland !100 Great Northern 1100 Do., A. Stock 1100 I Do. , B. Stock ..... 'lOO Gt. Sth.&West.(lre. I 100 'GreatWestern. 1100 Do. Str.V.R gua. St all Irish South-Easterr. all Lancaster dr Carlisle. 144 Do Ph: utP 12 I Do. New Thirds 100 Lance sh. dr York shir I 6 Do., do. F A:l6 Do., Wet. Riding tin all Do. So nth pt,rt. _ _ London dr Blackwal Loud. Brig,lit. dt S. Cst London & N. Wester Do. Fifths Do. JO/. Sh.,YAB C Do. Eighths London & S. Wbater Lndndrry. &Colerain, Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Sb of. &Lineln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland ..... Do. Birming. Li Derby Midland G. West.(lr. ) Do. Shares Newcastle Ei Carlisle.. Newpt.Aberg.&llrfd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.. l'. , Tortlin.Contities Un North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock ............ Do., A Stock .. Do., B Stock ......... N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension ... Do do. G.N.E.Purch. Do. Leeds IDo. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western.. .11 N. &S. Westrn. June /0 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton .0 Portsmouth - .0 Rhvmney 10 Scottish Central ... ) Scot. N.E. Abrdn. St O Shropshire Union 6 Siti ngbourne &Sheer. 10 South Devon ..... ;0 South Eastern 11 'Do 43 Pent . Shares South - Wales Yorksh. Riper Dun .0 Do. Lll ;Staines,Wok.,&Wok. 11 Stockton & Darlin;.. 5 Do. do., 1854 5 Do. do., 1.85 6;, Stockton & Hartlepl 0 Taff Vale ;0 Do. Pref., No. ;2 Thames Hay. D. &R. dl (Vale of Neath 11 !Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford &Limeri all West Coinwall.. all ;West End of London and Crystal Palace 11 Do. A 611 Do. B al West London 11 I Do. First Class A Do. Second Class all iWmbledon&Croydon 4i - KA 8 -8?, 62A - 63 -9, 82 - 84 731 - 7C. 29 - 31' 7 - 9 3 - 5 7i - 18 52 - 53 42 - 44 28 - 30 17 - 18 87 - 89 57 Ei 26 - 27 88 - 90 9 - 10 92 - 93 79 - 81 121. - 123 96 - 98 47i - 48 55 - 60 72 - 76 7 -8; 7 - 8 89 - 89. 5} - 02 - 103 934 - 94 lid id 81 85 35 1 16 81 - 81 rA - 56 i i = 13 56 - 58 3i - 3j 46 47 - 91 24 - 2i 47 1 - 48, 774 - 78, 92 - 95 **4 = ii ... " ... 28 29 8 6d 101 - 103 214 -22 i 68 - 70 - 23 3t - 33 601 - 61 78 FO 12 14 8 G d 9 11 37 39 i 6 i = 203 7 - 9 2/ - 3i - BRITISH POSSESSIONS. all Atian. and St. Law. 9 i Bombay, Baroda, and •• Cen Ind guar. 5p c , • 11 iDo. 8 !Buffalo & Lake Hur 0 Buff., Brnt. & Godch 0 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'724 Do. do., 1 July, '73 1 0 Do. do., 1 June,'74 :s.lCalcutta and S. East. 6d'Central Oude (Lim.) Os Ceylon A shares 1 Do. B. do. .11 Demerara. s.lEastern Bengal 100 , East Indian 5 Do. C Shares 11 Do. , q p.c.Bnds.,'s7 dl Do. do. do., '59, do. all ,Geelong dr Melbourne! guar. 6 per cent...., Gd• Trunk. of Canada 1 Do. 6p. c. Doben 1 In. Pen. g. 5 pert 4 IDo. New. guar. 5 p.c 11 .Gt. Wcstn. of Canada N I Do. New Al Do. Bds., payable '57 1 ill Do, do., '76, p. '6O 11 Do. do., '73, do ! 11 Do. do., '73, without option .11 ,Madras, guar. 4. p.c .11 I Do. do., 5 per c. 0 I Do. 44 p. c. Exten. 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. 5 I Do. 4th Ex., do. !Oude (Limited) 5 I.Scinde, guar. 5 per c 20 I all I Do 20 a : 20 20 11 20 20 20 5 20 1 L 20 I 11 20 20 a, 20 a] 20 21 20 a, 20 a] 20 5 al 20 a] 20 al 33i a] 20 al 20 al 20 al 20 a' 20 ' 10 7 2J al 20 I a] 10 al 20 al 8i al 10 20 20 20 d par 8— 7 d ••• ---• •.• i --- 1 r $ - 103 - 101 A 19 -- 20 35 -- 37 66 -- 68 20i -20 j P 17i -17 i 3i -- 2idi 1 1C0 - 103 1.00 - 105 99 101 18 19 204 20 14 1 d ad- par d par• = fp FOREIGN. 11 Antwrp & Rotterdam .8 Ardennes 11 Belgian East. Junct. .6 , Beziers to Graissessac 11 ( Carmeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. .2 !Dutch Rhenish Xll Eastern of France dl Do. New • !s. Euphrates Valley Gt. Central of France a Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction al Lake Const. & Bale Lierre and Turnhout 6 Lombardo-Venetian al Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. 11 Lyons and Geneva 11 Lyons & Mediterran. 11 Maria Ante - szla tl I Do. New Lll 'Namur & Liege dl Do. do. 6p. c. Pref Northern of France., NorwegianTrnk. Prel ,11 Paris and Lyons ,Paris and Orleans Recife & San Fran., (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c, Rums and Frascati,,, Royal Danish Royal Swedish 11 \Sambre and Meuse 11 Do. 5i per cent. pref 11 Southern of Franco 11 West Flanders..... all [Do. 5* per c. Prof all W.<1.1 N.W. of France 6 [Western of Austria._ all West, of Switzerland all Wiesbaden . all Do. Bp. cent. prof. Zeal and ........ JOINT-STOI all Australasia 18i P.ank of Egypt ..... 50 !Bank of L on d on ... . all Bri. Col. 8k.0.z Ln. Co all British N. American 8 , C.l3k. of Ind. Au.titCh 50 City 25 ,Cclonial 20 ,Commercial of Lona all lEng.Scot.&Aus.Cht all ,Lon. Ch. Bk. of Aust all ,Ditto New 20 ILondon and County 50 ILnd.&E.Bnkng.Corp 10 , L on don Joint Stock. 20 LoncLanclWestminst, 35 National Pro. of Eng. 10 Do. New National Bank all Now South Wales , all jOriental Bank Corp. 20 10ttomsn Bank ...... !Provinc al d Ireland, all Do. New 1 Aus.l3. &G. Im. Co all ;South Australia all lUnion of Australia 24 , D0. N ew Id :Union of London 50 ['Unity Mutual Wootrußk of Lond 5i - 6 i - 1 4 - 41 6i - 6i 241 - 25 .•• - .. i 5.i - 5 ii - 2p ii -- 24 6?i - 7 181 - 18 34 - 341 8 - 9 32 - 32; 49 - 51 21 lidl 13 A i - - 114 6 - 61' 7 - 8 201 - 21.1 4/ - 5 8 - 81 241 - 25 irMI ••• a BANKS. - 5 d 40 45 gi - d -- 62 L. 16i - 17 ••• '-' ... 34 - 3g - ~• - ••• 31 -33 47 - 49 6 - 7 .•• ••• ...d . ...d INES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. Leasing ;Companies. Closing Prices this day IBuckgnamsh. ;Clydesdale Jc. ;Col.Stour Vy., g. 6 p.e 'E. Un. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do New Glstr.&Dn.Fr [lull & Selby,, 1)o. Shares, Do. 1 Shares. Lou. di Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark, Sh, IVlanch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld, Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. NALEst.S P.C. Do. 6 per ct Do. Fixed sp.c Prost. & Wyre Do. 1. 2 Shrs. Roystn.& Hit. IShrews.& Her S. Staffordsh WearVal.g6pc Do Wilts dzSornrgt 90 92 93 95 12 14 127 130 3a— 4 la - 1.156 12 13 22? —2 3 ti 89 91 1 §d 21 2} 88 90 id AP 54 56 125 - 130 7i - 8 81 - 9 •.. - ••• 1 30 - 32 -- - I &N. W. Caledon... E.U.&E.O Gt. Northn E. Count. ICaldonian. Do G t. Westn V. & N.M Do S Eastern Do Peto &Co Do &N. W. & Midid. 'didland... E. Count Do Do L. dxls. W Do Gt. Northo T. Brassey MCloar Stk. &Dar Do CR.Westn PREFERENCE SHARES. 25 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (issd.at 501.) St. 100 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. 89 91 20 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares ... St. 100 Caledn. £lO 40 p. c 90 95 St. 100 Ches. & Ho. 5) p.c St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent ... 6; all Cork &Bandonsop.e 6; all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J 51 —6; St. 100 E. Anglian Cls. ASh St. 100 Do. do. Cis. B Op. c 106 112 St. 100 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c 110 120 St. 100 Eas.Co.Ex,sp.cNo.l 104 107 St. 100 Do. No. 2 lO2 105 1031 St. 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St 119 122 1181 20 all East Un., G. 6P. c. 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. ... 10 all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. St. all Do. do. 4 per cent._ St. 100 EastLancash.6p.cts. 5 all E.&W. York. J. sths 10 9 Edin.&ol. sp. c. Sh. St. 100 Ed.Prtb.&Dun.4p.c. 65 67 St. 100 Furness, 5 p. c St. 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c , St. 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c 113 115 St. 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem 107 109 St. 100 Do. 40 per cent ..... 100 102 100 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5, p. c. prem. 10 all Gt.N.ofScot.lstPrc 10 10? 20 18 Gt. S& W. (Ireland) 20 18 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. 50 6 Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc 51 6 St. 100 Do. con. red. 40 p.c. 84 86 St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 80 -- 82 St. 100 Do. irred. 4 per tent. 81 83 St. 100 Do sp. c. red. pref. 94 96 8 all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh 9 10 all I o.ChesterBp.c.P.S l5l 16?, 10 all Do. do. sp.c. do 9l Pb, St. 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk 66 68 26i all Do. Cbesh. Gua. Sh l7l 181 13A all Do. do. do Bl 9 # 20 . al Do. do. do l3; 13,1 St. 100 Lan.& York. 6 pc.St — St. 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No.l St. 100 D0.,P.,5p.c.5t.N0.2 St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. 130 135 St . 1 100 1)o. do. sp. c., N 0.4 111 113 111 St. 100 Lon. & N.W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct — St. 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares 121 all Loudy. & Color. a Sh — 120 all Londy. &Ennis. i Sh St. 100 H., S.,&L. 6p. Cont ... 6 41 Do. do. do. £6 33 , St. 100 Do. do. 3,1 per cont. 60 €3 12,4 all Nlarypt. & Carl. 4 p.c. 12 all Do. 40 per cent ••• ••• 120 10:3 Do. do. St. 100 'Wid.Consol.6p.e. St . . St. 100 Do.Con.Br.Bir. 6 p.c l2B St. 100 Do. 40 p. c. Pref. St 93 95 95 St. 100 Do. L. &H. Pref. St B3 85 10 all New.,Aber., &c., pr 5 p.c.red. sp.c.pm 10 all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et lO 11 10 all Norf k .Deb. 4p.c. Sh — St. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 ... St. 100 Do. 50 p.c. pf , 1847 ... St. 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. -.,1847 St. 100 North British 9B 100 100 7 34 Do. 71. Preference St. 100 N. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf.l 89 91 17 £q Do. do. do ll I; 20 13 IDo. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 121 9 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 25 10 Do. York H.& S. Pur 1 20 all North Staffordshire 2ll 220 St. 100 Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar. 106 103 St. 100 Do, 6p. c. 2d guar 9B 100 St. 100 Do. do. Debentr. St ... 83 all Scot. Ceut.New Pref .. St. 100 Se.N.E.AI er.g.6p.c lOl 106 St. 100 o. do. 7 p.c. pf. St — St. 100 Do. d 0.30 p.c. pf. St 65 70 25 all outh Devon 9 —10 i 10 all o. fixed 40 pr cent -0.6 all N.. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Oa. 6d. 21 22 St. 100 Do. 44 per cent ••• St. 100 Do. Fixed 40 p.c. St. 100 Do. New 40 pr. cent St. 100 S. Wales Gua. 4 p. 82 St. 100 11 o. do. 40 p. c.• ••• 20 all S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar. 261 25 all Stock. &Dar., sp. c. 25 19 Do. do. do. St. 101 Waterfd& Kilk. 6 r ••• ••• BRITISH MINES. Alfred Cons. (Philk.) British Iron ... Condurow (Cambrn.) D ev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) East Basset (II ogan) Great South ~olgus °(.l rt. W. Alfrd. (Fhilk.) Grt. W. Vor (llelstn.) Lady Bertha N. Frances (Illogan) N. W. Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crotty Par. Cons. (St.Blax - y) Porkellis U. (Wend.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co. S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogn.) S.W. Fi a.nces(lllogn. ) Pam. S. &L„Min. Co Tin Croft Un.Mines (Gwennap) V. of Towcy (Camar.) W. Basset (Illogan).. W. Caradon (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Illogan). Wh. Buller (Rdruth). Wh. Edward(Calstck) Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht.) Wh. Trelawney (Lis. )1 151 - 16:1 6 - 7 100 - 110 430 - 450 90 - 100 - 4i -5; - 3i 1 - 10 - 11 12 - 13 5 - 5A 19 - 26 - 53 2 - 335 - 345 5 - 230 - 240 - 3 - 4 $ - 224 - 23? 100 - 110' 170 - 180 295 - 310 71 - 17 - 18 49 - 51 23 - 25 FOREIGN lAustralian Bon Accord Cop. (li.)' Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm) Do. Cocaes Qz Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica Co bre Copper Copiapo Dun Mountain Cop- per Mining Co. Fortuna General i.••• ,Linares , Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada Novcau Monde Pont. Sil.LdM. & Smli Port Philip Santiago do Cuba United Mexican MINES. 4 d par li 2 11 - 13 39 41 10 12 id P id 14 15 7/ - 81 id A - ••• --- .., 5 - 6 li - 2 311 - 3i Atlantic Tel. (Lim.) Australian Agricult. Australn, Royal Mail I Berlin Water Works Do. Now iss, at 51. d Brit. American Land Canada Do. Go. 6pe. Jan&July Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7 p. cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference !Crystal Pal, of France Eastern 5team........ Electric Telegraph ... lElectric Tel, of 'rel. 'En. &Aust.Cop.SmCo !Eur. & Ind. Jan. Tel, Eur.&Am.Stm.(lim.) 'Gen. Ir. Sc. Col.(lim.) !Gen. Steam Navigat. London Discount Loud. Gen. Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig. IMediteran. Elec. Tel, I Do . Extension Teleg. ;Mexican& S.Americn (Nat, Discount C 0.... (Netherlands IDo. Do. Do.B p.c.Pf.iss.at Id. Do. Do. New B &N. S. Land N. S. W. Gov.s p. c. D. N. B. Australasian... Nrth.ofEuropeSteam Oriental Gas ........ Do New Share s Ld. & Peninsular 4 Oriental Do. New Rhymney Iron I.oyai Mail Steam Icot. Austral. Invest S. Aus, Gov. 6 p.c.bds South Austral. Land 'Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered Trus.Ln.Co. Up. Can. Vanylometen Laud,. MISCELLANEOUS. ii 1 ii • . •• -- 4 - 5 30 -- 35 110 -- 120 107 -- 108 27 -- 32 23 -- 25 31. - 4 97 - 65 ••• - .. i .ii -. l - 6 = C ••• ••• 2.; 2 d 31— 3g, 23 2 3 2 3 Pd 16 18 a 4 5 5i id 4 2 2 P 72 1 72 74 5 6 p 21 —23 ••• - ••• 1 - 11 30 - 33 1 -- i ••• ••• 1 8 i : 94. Business this day LAW INTELLIGENCE.--kThis Day.) COURT OF WIANU ERY. THE REDPATH FRAUDS. (Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices.)'; THE PREFERENCE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE GREAT NORTH ERN RAILWAY.-REDPATH'S FRAUDS,---HENRT V. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in this case, which was an appeal from a decree of Vice Chancellor Wood, made on the 24th of August last, during the long vcca- tion. The proceedings arose out cf the frauds of Leopold Redpath, who, it will be recollected, during a series of years fraudulently falsified the share books of the company, and appropriated for his own purposes a sum exceeding 200,0001. In consequence of these hands it became necessary to ascertain which of the fends of the company should make good the defalca- tions occasioned thereby. The sum of 243,923/. se. Bd. was the net revenue applicable for dividends for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1856. At that time, however, the forgery of stock by Redpath had been discovered, and as it was very difficult to distinguish the valid stock from the forged, no dividend could safely be paid, and as the holders of the forged stock appeared to have purchased it bona fide and for value the company determined to apply to Parliament for an act to render the Ppurious stock valid, and to authorise the payment of dividends thereon. The adoption of this course was recommended by the directors in their report to the company of the 4th of March, and the directors then added that they could not take upon themselves to propose or support any bill which should throw any portion of the loss upon the preference shareholders. The directors also introduced into Parliament a bill re orygnising as valid the spurious stock, and authorising the purchase of an equal amount of stock out of capital which the existing acts of the company still authorised them to raise. When this bill was laid before Lord Redesdale, as the chairman of committees in the House of Lords, be insisted that the loss should be paid out of revenue, and within a limited time, and objected to the creation of fresh capital. Subsequently, on the 12tb of March, a general meeting of the company was held, and it was then resolved, after considerable di,cussion, "That no dividend be declared: but that this meeting eaDaiders it desirable that the balance of 243,923/. ss. Bd., mentioned in the directors' report, should be applied to meet the losses caused by Itedpatb, referred to in the directors' report, and that the directors be and are hereby requested and authorised so to apply the paid balance when and in such a manner as they may con sider most beneficial to the company," An amended bill was thereupon introduced into parliament, which, like the first, made valid the spurious stock, and required the directors to apply the .above-neen- Coned net balance of: revenue, and any monies to be received by the company from Redpath's estate, in paying the expenses occasioned by his frauds, and in purchasing from time to time stock to the amount of that forged, and forthwith cancelling the same ; and as to any surplus that might remain, to apply the same, as far as it would extend, in payments in order to the different classes of the preference shareholders for the dividends to which they would have been entitled if tl:•e said net revenue had been apportioned as dividend at the general meeting of the 12th March. By the 139th standing order of the House of Commons it is provided that "no railway company shall be authorised to alter the terms of any preference or priority of interest or dividend which shall have been granted by such com pany, in pursuance of, or which may have been con firmed by, any previous act of parliament, or which may otherwise be lawfully subsisting, unless the committee on the bill report that such alteration ought to be allowed, with the reasons on which their opinion is founded, together with the number of preference shareholders who have assented to or dissented from such alteration." The bill was introduced into Par liament without reference to this standing order, as a bill which did not by its provisions affect to deal with any right of preference shareholders. There being some doubt, however, whether the bill might not indirectly be held to have that effect, the preference shareholders appeared before the select committee of the House of Commons, and endeavoured, although without success, to have a clause introduced expressly recognising their rights. Upon the bill going to the House of Lords, where ao such standing order exists, the directors, appa rently thinking that something to authorise the confis cation of the rights of the preference shareholders ought to appear on the face of the bill, proposed, after the latter had again failed to procure the insertion of an express clause in their favour, to add to Clause 3, which directs the application of any possible surplus, as already men tioned, the words : " and thereupon the said sum of 243,9231. ss. Bd. shall be considered t have been duly di vided among all classes of shareholders in the company.' This audition was opposed on the third reading, but on a division wascarried by the majority of 53 to 7. It was, bow ever,objected to in the House of Commoas,and the bill was returned by them to the Lords, the reason stated for their disagreeing to the amendment being " because the saii: amendment, if adopted, would decide a question of law in dispute between the preference and ordinary shareholders of the Great Northern Railway Company, which ought to be left to the decision of a court of law." The Lords thereupon did not insist upon their amend ment, and the bill as it now stands passed. Under these circumstances the present suit was instituted. The plaintiffs are the holders of an aggregate amount of 135,0001. of the four descriptions of preference stock issued by the company. The first description of Great Northern Railway pr e f erence shares are 5 per cen t. perpetual, and were issued under the provisions o the Great Northern Railway Acts Amendment Act of 1849, which empowered the company, with the assent of three-fifths of the votes at any general meeting, to guarantee dividends not ex ceeding 7 per cent. per annum, in preference to the payment thereof on ordinary shares. The next descrip tion of preference shares are 5 per cent,, redeemable at a premium of 5 per cent., issued under the authority of the Great Northern Railway Act No. 1, 1851, which enabled the company to raise 750,0001. for completing the railway by new shares, on which the company, with the assent of three-fifths of the ♦otes at a general meet ing, might guarantee the payment of dividends not ex ceeding 7 per cent. per annum, in preference to the payment of dividends on the ordinary shares of the com pany. The third description of preference shares was issued under the Great Northern Railway Company'blncrease of Capital Act, 1853, by which the company was authorised to raise 750,0001. by the creation of new shares, bearing and receiving dividends at 4i per cent. per annum in pre ference to the payment of dividends on the ordinary shares of the company, redeemable at six months' notice on payment of 10 per ceLt. premium. The last pre ference shares were issued under the Great Northern Railway Act, 1855, whereby the company were authorised to raise the further sum of 1,000,0001. by shares, the holders of which should be entitled to fixed dividends at 5 per cent. per annum, in preference to the payment of dividends on the ordinary shares. The certificates of all these shares referred to the acts of Parliament under which they were created. The object of the suit was to obtain a declaration that the plaintiffs and other pre ference shareholders were entitled, before any dividends should be paid to the ordinary shareholders, to be paid full dividends from the 30th of June, 1856. The bill also sought to restrain the company by injunction from declaring or paying dividends to the ordinary share holders, without regard to such right of the plaintiffs and the other holders of preference stock. The Vice- Chancellor held in effect ',bat the plaintiffs and other holders of preference stock were entitled to be paid divi dends out of the profits realised by the company, from the 30th of June, 1856, before any payment of dividends to the holders of the ordinary original stock—the A stock or the B stock—out of such profits, and that a per petual injunction be issued to restrain the defendantsfrom d t ci c aing ith or paying y gany dividend on the ordi nary or i g i na l kregard to the rights of the prefe rence s t oc k s e o : w p t a in holders to be paid in priority their dividends from the 30th of June, 1856. The Vice - Chancellor also de. clared that the 3d section of the act of 1857 was cumula• tive, by way of security for , and not iu substituti on o fy such preference dividends. The company were a l so or dered to pay the plaintiffs' costs. \ The comp an y on beh dalfecoiio of the ordinary shareholders, now app ea l e d f rom this His lordship having, at great length, gone through the whole of the acts constituting the company, and also those empowering the declaration of dividends, said he was of opinion that the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor,. in favour of the preference shareholders, must boaffirmcd The appeal was therefore dismissed with costs. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco before Lord Campbell and Justices Coleridge and Wightman.) THR ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-THE QUEEN V. ESDAILE AND OTHERS. This morning was a ppointed for h ear i ng the argu e meats of counsel relative to the rule obtained by the above defendants against the Attorney-General, for par ticulars relied on to prove the charges of conspiracy and fraud preferred against them. The Court was densely crowded. Mr. Dallas, the American Minister, was accommodated with a seat on the bench. Sir F, Thehiger, Mr. Serpant Ballantine, Mr, Wolaby, and Mr. H. Browne were counsel for the Crown. S:1 F. Kelly, Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Bovine, Q.C., and about a dozen other learned gentlemen appeare/: on the part of tie defendants. Sir F. Thesiger said he appeared to show cause against several rules that had been obtained against the defendants in this court, but before doing so he explained the absence of the Solicitor-Generalin the case, that it might not be considered he was neglecting hie duties. During the time of the vacancy of the office he (Sir F . Thesiger) was applied to by the Government to prose cute, to which he consented, and he assumed the respon sibility of advising the proceedings. When the karnc Solicitor-General received his appointment, bp found him (Sir F. Tneeiger) in his present po sition, and he very handsomely declined to in terfere. The learned counsel then proceeded to show cause against 15 rules that had been obtained by the de fendant, which might be consolidated and regarded as one for the purpose of their lordships' consideration. They, however, varied in tome respects, and it was necessary therefore to distinguish between them. Four of the rules were obtained on behalf of Mr. Stapleton, M.P., Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Cameron, and Mr. M'Leod, and were very large indeed, requiring the prosecution to supply them is writing with particulars of the specific offences intended to be charged against them under each of these counts ; then there were also four rules to show cause why they should not be furnished with particulars, in writing, of the specific statements of the charges to be relied on under the 2d, 4th, 6th, 3th, 9th, 10th, and 11th counts, and one confining the particulars to what was called the even counts, including the 12th count, par ticulars of which had been ordered by Mr. Justice Crompton. The learned counsel then proceeded to argue that the counts in the indictment were sufficiently explicit, and it was for the Court to say whether or no the counts were of a sufficiently explicit character to give the defendants a adequate knowledge of the offences they would have to answer on the day of trial. After a lengtkened argument in which Mr. Sergeant Baliantine, Mr. 11. Brown, S r Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Sergeant Shee, and Mr. Edwin James took part, the counsel for the prosecution, on the intima tion of the Court, consented to abandon the general counts in the indictment, and to furnish the defendants with the particulars of the overt acts to be relied on at the trial, and not to give evidence on any other of which notice had not been given. Sir F. Kelly, on the part of Mr. Stapleton, applied for additional particulars with reference to the balance sheet stated to be falsified, particularly with reference to an item of 810,2041. o.=. id. for convertible securities, &c., &c., without which he would be unable to answer the charge. A similar application far particulars was made en the part of Mr. Cameron by Mr. Digby Seymour. The Court were unanimously of opinion that the fur nishing of particulars should be left to the discretion of the prosecution, observing that the accounts referred to had been supplied by the defendants. Application re fused. Further proceedings were stayed till Wednesday, when the particulars in reference to the indictments are to be furnished, that the trial might take place at the after term of the sittings at Guildhall, MARY LEB ONE RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the ratepayers of Marylebone, members and friends of the Parochial Association of No. 5, or Bryanston Ward, took place on Thursday evening, at Mr. Podm , re's, the Sayrnour Arms, Seymour-place, Bryanston-square, for the purpose of celebrating and consolidating local self-government principles in the representation of the ward in the vestry of St. Maryle• bone. Mr. Thos. Potter, the old and long-tried Marylebone reformer, presided, and Mr. Edmunds occupied the vice chair. Be was supported by Mr. Churchwarden Soden, Charles Carr, Brooks, Houghton, Cooke, Kitchen, Cock, Major Davis, Mr. D'lffanger, sen., and other re presentatives of the ward and influential ratepayers. The Csainmear, in proposing the toast of the evening, dwelt at some length on the struggles which the trades men of Marylebone had to get rid of the old selects and to secure the principles of boa! government, as esta blished by Hobhouse's Act. (Hear.) The ward system of the Metropolis Act bad dissevered that powerful asso ciation for public objects, which brmerly existed ; hut at the same time he hoped that they should all unite iv one man to send such men only into the vestry of Marylebone as would maintain inviolate the constite tional principle of the right of Englishmen to manage their own affairs. Mr. D'IFFINGER, sen., responded for the vestry of Marylebone. Mr. CARR proposed " The Vice-Chairman," and " The Health of the Chairman." " Mr. Churchwarden Soden," " The Public Press," and other toasts having been given, the proceedings ter minated. MARKET NEW Day.) COVENT 1 The supplies generally wen steady, at our quotations : GARDEN. 7e moderate, and the trade is FEZ Pine apples, per lb. 4s Od to Cs Colonial do., ea. Os Od to Os Od Grapes, per 1b......2s Od to 4s Foreign do Os Od to Os Od Melons, each is Od to 4s Od Peaches, p. doz. 3s to 6s Od Nectarines, do. ...4s to 53 Od Apples, p. h. sv. is Od to 2s 6d Pears, per doz ...is to 4s Od Oranges, per 100.20 s to 24s Lemons, p. doz. is Od. to 2s Od Apricots,p. doz. OsOd to Os Od Cherries, per lb. Os to Os Od lIT. Filberts, per 100 lb 30s to 35s Cobs., p. 100 lbs. Os to Os Almonds, p. lb. Os Od to 10d Walnuts, per 100 is to 3s Od Figs, per doz Os to Os Od Strawberries, per pottle Gooseberries, per half sieve ....Os Od to Os Od Currants, p. h. sv. Os 01 to Os Plums, per do. Os Od to Os Od Green gages, per b.sv.Os to Os Raspberries, p.potl. Od to Od VEGET, Greens, p. doz. bun. 2s to 3s Gd Cabbages, do. is 6d to 2s Od Savoy do.,p. do. Os OdtoOs Od Cauliflowers, do.2s Od to 4s Od Brocoli, p. bun. Os 6d to ls Od Potatoes, per ton 90 . i to 160 s New do., per cwt. OsOd to Os Peas, per h siev Os Od to Os Od Turnips, per bunch 2d to 4d Carrots, per bunch... 4d to 6(3 Cucumbers ' each 6d to Os 9d Garlic, per lb 6d to Os 8d Sorrel, per sieve Od to 0:;1 Spinach, p. d0...1s Od to 2s 6d Brussels sprouts, per half do is Od to 3s Od Onions, p. bush Os Od to Os Od New do., per bunch Od to Od French beans, per 'ABLEb. Shallots, per lb. Gd to 8d Florseraddish, p. b. Is6d to 4s Parsley, per do. 2d to 4d Celery, per do Os bd to is 6d Beet, per doz. is Od to 2s Od Parsnips, per do. Os to Os Od Small salad, p. pun. 2d to 3d Mushrooms,p.ptl.ls6dto2s 6d Artichokes, each 6d to 8d Lettuces, par scr. ls Gd to 2s Endive, per doz. is to is 6d Radishes, p.d.bun. is to Is6d Tomatoes, per hsv.3s to 48 Od Walnuts per 100 ...0d to Od Chillies, per 100 Os Od to Os Od Capsicums, per 100 Os Od to Os I Rhubarb, p. bun. Od to Od I Asparagus, per 100 Os Od to Os Seakail, perpun .0s Od to Os Od half-sieve ..: 2s Od to 3s Od Turnip greens, per Leeks, per do 2(1 to 3d I bush Os Od. to Os Od NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 5s Od to Os Od ; Poults, 5s Od to 7s Od; Geese, 5s Od to 8s Od each ; Goslings, 5s Od to 83 Od ; Duck lings, 2s 3d to 3s Od ; tame rabbits, is 3d to is 91 each ; wild do., 8d to is 2d ; Pigeons, 61 to is each ; large Surrey Fowls, 53 to Os; barn-door do., 38 6d to 580 d ; Chick ens, 4s Od to 63 01 per couple; Capons, Os Oil to Os; Hares, 2s 01 to 3s Od ; Grouse, 2s 01 to 31 Od each ; Pheasants, 33 01 to 4s Od ; Partridges, is Gd to 2s 3d ; Woodcocks, 2a 6d to 3s ; Snipes, is to is 61; Teal, Os 9d to 18 3d; Wild Ducks, is 6LI to 2s 3d; Widgeons, is 01 to is 61; Plovers, Gd to Os 9(1 each ; Guinea Fowls, Os Od to Os ; Roasting pigs, 53 Od to 108 Od each. Ostend fresh butter, —s to —s Od ; English do., is 2d to is 4d per lb. ; English eggs, lOs Od to 138 01; French do., Os Od to 11a 01 per 120; Leverets, 23 Od to 3s Od each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 6d ; lamb, Os al to Os Od ; veal, 3s 2d to 4s 4d; pork, 3s 8d to 5s 4d per 81bs., by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s Oil to 4a 6d ; lamb, Oa Od to Os Od ; veal, 39 4d to 4s 4d ; pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s Gd to 203 ; Brills, 2s Od to 103 each; Salmon, Os Od to Os Od per lb ; Cod Fish, 2s 61 to 15s each ; Sole., 4d to 2s 6d per pair ; Trout, Os Od to Od per lb ; Lobsters, 6d to 3s Od; Crabs, 6d to 2s 6d; Whitings, 38 Od to 12s per doz. ; Common Oysters, IGs to 20s ; Natives, —s to s'ls per bsh. ; Mackerel, 40s to Os per 100 ; Smelts, 150 d to 3s Gd per doz.; Skate, 6d to Od per lb; Shrimps, Os Od to Os Od per gallon ; Bloaters, 4s Od to 8s Od per 100 ; Fresh Herrings, 83 Od to Os per 100 ; Scotch do., Od ; Sprats, Os Od to Os Od per bushel; Doreys, 2s Od to lOs each ; Haddocks, 43 to 12s pet doz. ; Pike, 6d ; Sturgeon, 6d per lb ; Prawns, 5s Od to Os; Mullets, Os Gd to is 6d each; Plaice, Od to Os each; Halibut, Gd per lb ; Flounders, is Od to is 6d per doz. ; salt fish, Od per lb ; Eels, 8d to Is ; Carp, is to 5s ; Tench, is to 5s per brace; Garnets, Od to Os. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7d to BAd ; of household ditto, 6d to 7d per 4 lb loaf. HIDES AND SKINS Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 4/ to —d; 641 b to 721 b, 44d to 4FI ; 721 b to SOlb, 4/d to 4;d; SOIb to 831 b, ‘hd to 4id ; 881 b to 961 b, 4id to 5d ; 9616 to 1041 b, 5d to —d ; 1041 b to 1121 b, 5d to 50 ; upwards, —d to —d ; horse hides, lls Od to —s Od ; Calf skins, light, 3s 0,1 to 5s Od ; ditto full, Ss Gd to Os Od ; Polled Sheep, 5s Od to 6s 6d ; Kents, 3s 9d to 4s 6d; Half-breds, 3s 9d to 4s Gd; Downs, 3s 2d to 3s Gd ; Lambs Os to Os 0,1 ; Shearlings, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SurrarlELD.—Meadow hay, 2l lOs to 4/ Os; clover, 31 10s to 51 Os; and straw, 115 s to 1/ 101 per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 21 8s to 41 Os ; clover, 31 8s to 5/ Os ; and straw, 11 4s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 8s to 41 Os ; clover, 31 8s to 51 Os ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 11 9s per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. }'EMBEZZLEMENT OF 1,000/. BY A POOR-BATECOLLEC. TOR.—yesterday, at Birmingham, a man named Henry Gibbs, for many years one of the poor-rate collectors of the parish, was brought before the magistrates on the charge of embezzling 1,000/.. the moneys of the guardians. A remand was applied for, without any particulars being stated ; but it is understood that the prisoner's defalcations were discovered on Thursday by Mr. Hunt, the district auditor. Finding that detec tion was inevitable, Gibbs admitted that he had appropriated moneys to his own use, and a further examination showed defalcations to the amount stated, These extend over two years. Virg SECOND. UNSUCCESSFUL ATTIMPT TO LAUNCH THE LEVIATHAN. A mechanic writes to a contemporary as follows : —ln my letter of the 7th inst. I was bold enough , o say, " Whether Mr. Brunel waits for the spring tides of next month, or w k e th er h e wa it s f or t he Greek Kalends, I do not believe he will be able to force the Great Eastern down her present ways into the water." Anticipating the tides of next month, and having tried in vain to force the Leviathan down her ways whi!e they were under water, he tried to move the great monster ship yesterday while the upper part of her ways was dry. He sum eled by his hydraulic presses in thrusting back the piles and hard solid earth by which their reaction was sought to be prevente3, without caus ing the Leviathan to budge a single inch. All the manual labour he brought to bear on his numerous windlasses removed yesterday from the lighters on the river to a firm basis in the ship-yard, failed to produce the slightest effect. He then tried his stationary engine, at the rear of the bow of the ship, only to break his cables, as he did on the previous trial. _ _ Now, what kept the Leviathan so snug in her cradles, as yourreporter facetiously observes ? Fric tion—the friction of iron on iron. Mr. Brunel has committed the gross mechanical blunder of creating he same retarding force between the surfaces of the cradles and the ways as he made use of for checking her progress down those ways shoald her velocity have proved too great. His mind seems haunted with one idea—all his arrangements are very per- Feet, only in one direction—and that is to prevent the great Leviathan giving him the slip and rushing into the water. Yet when he removes every impediment, when he applies all the force he can muster, hydraulic, manual, and steam, the vicious jade refuses to budge one inch. What keeps her back ? She rests ou a hill ; why don't she side down ? Simply because that uncommonly useful mechanical retirder, fric tion, won't let her. The experiments of yesterday and the 3d instant prove most satisfactorily that Hr. Brunel's new-fangled mode of launching ships is a great failure. I believe her builder, Mr. Scott Russell, would have had her in the water long ago had the matter been left to him. I need not point out her builder, however, as I think any other shipbuilder would have accomplished the launch as well. The shareholders have the consolation of knowing, however, that their engineer, by two costly experiments, has proved the magnitude of the force of friction even on an incline of one in twelve, when flat iron surfaces are made to slide on a sharp ridged surface. The cost of these two experiment, it is to be hoped, will be fairly stated when the ac counts of the Great Eastern Company are next audited, as they will afford an interesting feature of the next great work on shipbuilding and naval architecture. We have bean told that the pressure per square foot of the Duke of Wellington on the ways by which she was launched was considerably less than that of the Leviathan on her ways. That launch was accomplished successfully without danger, be cause the old well-tried and established method of launching was had recourse to. _ Your reporter states that bad wood been made to slide on wood the ways would have fired—at least that this is the opinion of scientific gentlemen. I marvel where they got their science. If anything can be learnt from the experiments of one Count Rumford, who was a man of science, it is this—that almost the only plan of procuring an unlimited supply of heat is the friction of dry surfaces of metal on ene an other. Mr. Brunel, I believe, has taken the best means he could devise to fire his ways, and I fancy he was rather afraid of it in his expert firemen on board the ship. I hope, sir, that the principles of friction will be a little better understood than they were before Mr. Brunel's two costly experiments. A YOUNG LADY'S ADVENTURE. The following incident is related by a corre spondent of the Cheltenham Examiner of Wednes day :—" On a cold, thick foggy day last week my bailiff and a neighbour, walking home from market on the old turnpike road, overtook a ladylike, well dressed young wom +n, quite alone, silently travel ling the same way. They passed on, but observed that the forlorn one kept a few paces behind them. They continued for about two miles walking on, but without speaking to the stranger. At length the neighbour came to his residence and left his friend, who walked on towards the farm. It ap peared extraordinary to see a young lady cents miles from a town, on a lonely road, in a dense fog, at seven o'clock in the evening in November, and out of kindness he asked her where . she was going. The poor thing answered, Ido not know.' Why, where did you come from 1" " Oh, from —.' " What, so far off as that 1' ' Yes, I have been walking all day, and have had nothing to eat. Oh, lam very unhappy P At this time they had. '-arrived at my ledge , the bailiff, feeling the impropriety of leaving a beautiful and lad) like young creature in her exposed condi tion, and knowing there was a spare bed there, called to the housekeeper and explained the case, when the good Samaritan at once took the wan derer in, made tea for her, prepared her a bed, and treated her like her own child. It soon became known in the house, and other supervision was in stituted, and an arrangement made that in the morning two poor but respectable women should accompany the young lady to her home, a distance of 12 or 14 miles. They did so, and on arriving at the mansion of the young lady's parents, after a four hours' walk, a piece of dry bread and cheese and ls. to each woman was sent from the drawing room. The coachman had been riding about all night in different directions in search of the young lady ; the footman had been all over the village, the whole neighbourhood uneasy and anxious, and the restoration of the lost sheep was valued at 25., as a reward for two poor women walking nearly 30 miles, and in the most affectionate manner taking care of an interesting fellow-creature, who might, but for that very kindness, have been lost to her family for ever." The Count Reverden has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, St. James's. The Viscount and Viscountess Villamille have left the same establishment for Paris. LONG'S llOTEL.—Arrivals : Count Westphosley and and Count Arnaud de Jeanti West, from Paris ; Sir Humphrey de Trafford, Bart., from Trafford Park ; Mr. William Norris and Rev. Wm. Bird, from Norfolk ; Mr. John Blundell ; Mr. Maynard Colchester, from Glouchezter ; Count Jaroszynski, Mr. George Dew burst ; and Mr. J. A. Taylor and Mr. W. Taylor, from Mousley Court. SIR JAMES BROOKE.—Letters received in N, riolk state that Sir James Brooke of Sarawak is about to visit this country. Borneo was tranquil. RELIEF TO THE HOMEWARD BOUND.—The following is a copy of a letter received at Lloyd's yesterday morning :—" Admiralty, 19 November, 1857. Sir, — I am commanded by my Lords' Commissionerd of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, that the undermentioned vessels have been ordered to pro ceed from the ports stated against their names to cruise in the chops of the Channel, for the purpose of assisting the homeward-bound trade :—From Portsmouth, the Sea Lark ; Devonport, the Nautilus; Cork, the Wizsrd ; ditto, the Adone.—Signed B. OSBORNE. Captain G. A. Halsterl, R.N., secretary, Lloyd's." REDUCTION OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.—Rumours of this event bave been current for some time, and have been contradicted by several German papers. A Vienra telegram, of November 18, states that the reduction has been officially sanctioned, and a Vienna letter of Nov. 15, in the Cologne Gazette says : --" The Emperor order.id the reduction of the army in an autograph letter, dated October 27, addressed to the Archduke William, who is charged with the execution of this important measure It is certain that all the central divisions of infantry wi!l be suppressed, and that considerable re luctioras will b, made in the cavalry and artillery. It is not vet known whether the depot hattsLons will be reduced." • VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The Foreign Department : The Con sul-Generalship of Venice has become vacant by the death of Mr. G. Harris ; salary, 7001. Government Emigration Commission : A vacancy has occurred in the Permanent Extra Class by the resignation of Mr. Fry. General Post-office : A vacancy in the Circulation Department has occurred by the death of Mr. Wm. J. Plant. Customs : Mr. J. S. Chase has been appointed a clerk at London Docks ; Mr. F. Johnson has been appointed a weigher at Liverpool ; Mr. G. Reynolds has been promoted from second to first clerk at Weymouth. Mr. P. lll`Dowe.ll has been promoted from assistant tidosurveyor at Newport to be tidesurveyor at Roselare, Wexford. Inland Revenue Department—Excise Branch: Messrs. A. Malley, Collector of Sligo ; Wm. Knagge, Collector of Bath ; and R. Flamank. Collector of Staf ford, have retired from the service. New South Wales : Mr. R. Jones has been appointed a member of the Exe cutive Council, Sydney ; the lion. C. Cowper has been appointed Colonial Secretary and Registrar of Records of New South Wales ; the Hon. James Martin has been appointed Attorney-General of Now South Wales ; the Hon. Richard Jones has been appointed Colonial Trea. serer and Collector of Internal Revenue of New South \Vales ; the Hon. Terence Aubrey Murray has been appointed Secretary for Lands and Public Works ; the Hon. Alfred James Peter Lutwyche has been appointed Solicitor-General of New South Wales. Canada :—Mr. Eleazer David David, of Montreal, has been appointed Registrar and Treasurer of the Trieity House of Mon treal, in the room of Mr. James Holmes, resigned ; Mr. Joseph Amable Hervieux, of St. Jerotne:rrn,as been ap pointedroomof M R-g r. is j tr o a sp r e f i o i r L t a h , e lia county e of i g T e d ; e l„\ b i e r n . e vc, , in illiam s nthe Gurd, of the township of Moore, has been appointed a Landing waiter and Searcher in her Majesty's Customs. — Civil Service Gazette. ERRATA.—A mistake occurred in our impression of Thursday last of a gun accident to Mr. Gray, in which Lamb's Conduit-street was mentioned instead of Cork street, Burlington Gardens. 1.1 all St. 100 St. 100 20 all 10 ' all 12 5 : 100 25 all 25 all St. 100 10 1 10 1 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 25 all 100 all 25 , all 50 9 20 all Et. 100 50 3 1 St. 100 - St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 25 all 25 10, 50 all St 100 St. LOO 10 ,31.1 20 1 1' 20 al 101 a] St. 110! 20 li 10 11 St. 10( st. 10t St. ,10( 50 101 St. lei 20 & 20 1 25 I a; 25 1 1 St. 10i St. 1G 25 2` 20 a] 20 a; 5 al 5 a] 20 a] 10 a 18 al 100 - 11 100 11 .00 lii 20 I 20 1 20 j 174 St. 120 00 I ai 100 a; 20 St. 41 100 20 20 20t, 20i 100 100 100 100 5A 102 1 2 93i i 5581 i 3 1 soi 25 10 L 0.61 1n 12i 25 41 40 20i 1.9. Do . LITERATURE. The Lady of Wynne. 13y .he Author of " Mer garet and her Bridesmaids," &c. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. The numerous admirers of those fascinating wake, " Woman's Devotion," and " Margaret and her Bridesmaids," will welcome these volumes, which are worthy of the gifted author of their pre decessors. Yet, although equal in ability, and pos sessing the same attractive style, it is to be ques tioned if this story has the same interest, in consequence of the peculiarity of the plot. Lady Maria is an odious woman, and notwithstanding the skill with which she is pourtr:tyed, the passages in which she appears are necessarily painful, and jar upon the feelings. Selina, her daughter, is very well described to us as an instance of what over strained sensibility will produce. It is satisfactory to find her removed from the dominion of her mother, who had been guilty of such cruel treat ment towards her. Uriel, the heroine, is a delight ful character, and interests from first to last, as she is revealed to notice by the vivid light and with the impassioned force of geni us. There is afreshness and novelty in all the incidents concerning, her, she was born at sea in a storm, and might have exclaimed, in the words of the song— " The waves were white, and red the morn, The noisy hour when I was born, And never was heard such an outcry wild As welcomed to lite the ocean child." The raging tempest was synonymous of Uriel's voyage of life, in which she was continually "drift ing among the breakers," and in which there were innumerable shoals and quicksands. The old fashioned, kind hearted Doctor Blaize, who hailed the advent of the heroine, is one of the most worthy of the personages here met with. His after-meet ing with his beloved charge, is very pleasing, and most ingeniously arranged. The happy years " Nellie," as she was familiarly called, spent at the cottage were a blessing to her. The lull and calm refreshed herspirits, and renewed her strength for the on-coming strife and struggle. Her position in the house of the lady of Glynne was a strange one, and nothing but the greatest self-control, and the highest endeavour's could have carried her safely I through the work, and conducted that work to a glorious termination. The author of this novel has a thorough knowledge of human nature, which is here and there made manifest in a striking manner. Mr. and Mrs. Grant, for instance, are admirable specimens of self-sufficiency and bigotry. They, and they alone, must be in the right, as if they had received supernatural knowledge, as if they had beheld celestial visions, or as if the gates of Paradise themselves could only open at their touch. Very different wens Mr. and Mrs. Bernard, who were true labourers in their May ter's vineyard, and who, in their lives and actions, "Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." The Lady of Glynne has many merits; it is sus• tained by lofty principle, and rendered attractive by considerable talents, whle the freedom and freshness of its style, invest it with a charm and a grace, and the tone of deep feeling with which it is pervaded, declares its spirit to be that of the true and the genuine. Rides and Reveries of Mr. .zEsop Smith. Edited by Peter Query (Martin F. Tupper). Hurst and Blackett. Many readers are already familiar with these essays, from their having appeared in the pages of the Dublin University Magazine ; but they are here presented in a concise form, with several additions. They are the production of the talented author of "Proverbial Philosophy," whose former work ob tained so large a share of public favour. They possess a quaint originality, and display consi derable knowledge on an immense variety of topics. The style is vigorous in many parts, and in all it is flowing and unconstrained. The thought ful and studious who desire to dwell upon subjects of importance, and weigh well the causes of effects, instead of being merely sati,fied to behold the re sults produced by such effects, will delight in this volume, wherein is displayed a correct judgment in most things, and an independent spirit which shrinks not from boldly avowing its honest convic tions. It is not every one who cares for such writings, but for those who appreciate them an in tellectual garner-house is here provided, stored with the harvests of no barren soils. The purport and tenour of these compositions are well illus trated by the following observations on galloping : " Sometimes rashness is the truest wisdom ; see Clive and Lake and Gough and Napier passim: and when it's no use considering because things must be done, give them their heads. " That same independent daring and dashing spirit of galloping is in old .ZEiop's very blood and bones ; to be a wild Arab, free as the air he breathes—to court rather than shun the report of eccentricity, simply be cause it leaves him so much the freer to do as he likes— to be one of the incompreheasibles of society, licensed to have his own way and to speak his own word—to leap your ditches of etiquette, break your fences of usuality, 4nd make a dash at the current truth of any sort when and, as fast as he wills—that's the same spirit which my gal lopping Brenda infuses into me when she makes me an exulting Bashi-Bazouk I " The subjoining remarks on self-knowledge are very striking, and contain assertions that are verified by the experience of every day : " Seldom, seldom inleed, few and far between are Truth's domiciliary visits to some folks : 'and rarer far than swan's song, the scarce heard murmurs of that an gel's tongue. There are people, Peter, the most unplea sant, censorious, and annoying iu the world, who have no idea that they are not general favourites with all folks; there are men intolerably mean, who would be astonished to hear they are not specially laudable for liberality ; women, of exasperating tempers, who verily believe themselves most gracious and desirable ' • and even children, Peter, as our little Jenny there knows, who suppose themselves infallible judges of every knotty point." The " Coursing Canzonets," as the verses which were written in the saddle are termed, are some of them very pleasing. They are spirited, and flow in a lively strain, and are brilliant or humorous as the subject may suggest. It was the crowning pleasure and darling pastime of .sop to be mounted on his horse at an early hour— " With glad and grateful tongue to join The lark at his matin hymn." His wanderings are now over, but there may be many who now and hereafter will hold them in remembrance, and regard the reveries of the rides with a favourable glance. THE VICTORIA CROSS. (From the Gazette of last evening.) WAR OFFICE, Nov. 18. The Queen has (seen graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the Decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers and Non-Commissioned Officer of her Majesty's Army, who have been recom mended to her Majesty for that Decoration, in accord ance with the rules laid down in her Majesty's Warrant of the 29th of January, 1856, on accaunt of Acts of Bravery performed by them befeore the enemy during the late War, as recorded against their several names, viz. : 17th Lancers—Quartermaster Sergeant John Farrell, for having remained, amidst a shower of shot and shell, with Captain Webb, who was severely wounded, and whom he and Sergeant-Major Berryman had carried as far as the pain of his wounds would allow, until a 4tretcher was procured, when he assisted the Sergeant nAjor and a private of the 13th Dragoons (Malone), to carry that officer off the field. This took place on the 25th October, 1351, after the charge at the battle of tiaklara, in which Farrell's horse was killed under --- Military Train, 3.1 Battalion—Ensign and Adjutant James Craig (late Sergeant Scots Fusilier Guards)— For having volunteered, and personaly collected other volunteers to go out under a heavy fire of grape and small arms, on the night of the 6th September, 1855, when in the right advanced sap, in front of the Redan, to look for Captain Buckley, Scots Fusilier Guards, who was supposed to be wounded. Sergeant Craig brought in, with the assistance of a drummer, the body of that officer, whom he found dead—in the performance of which act be was wounded. Military Train, sth Battalion—Lieut. George Symons (late Sergeant, Royal Artillery) , f or cons p icuous g allantr y , on the 18th October, 1851, in h avin g volunteered to un mask the embrasures of a five-gun battery in the advanced Right Attack, and when so employed, under a terrific fire, which the enemy commenced immediately on the opening of the first embrasure, and increased on the unmasking of each additional one ; in having overcome the great diffi culty of uncovering the last, by boldly mounting the parapet, and throwing down the sand-bags, when a shell Sylvester,me u t for A. s g s o i tnagn out,t - Surgeon onthe W s il t l h ia from the enemy burst, and wounded hi m severe l y. S m e )te n m e b tl e rY r 1555, under a heavy fire, i n front Thomas 23d Reg of the fifth parallel, th parallel Right Attack, to a spot near the Redan, where Lieut. and Adjutant Dyneley was }sing, mortally wounded, and for dressing his woun d s i n that dangerous and exposed situation. N.B.—This officer was mentioned, iu General Sir James si rupson's Despatch of the 18th Sept., 1855, for coura g ehis in • going to the front, un d er a heavy fire , to Al' sist the wounded. THE Two MEN K ILLED BY THE B REAKI NG OF MACIII. VERY.—INQUEST.—An ii.quest was held yesterday at Greenwich on the bodies of the two men killed by the breaking of a travelling crane in Messrs. Humphrey's 'a r 'torY• The particulate have already appeared in The Sun. A verdict of accidental death was returned . TESTIMONIAL TO VALOUR. --Amongst the soldiers who received at the hands of her Majesty the Victoria cross, as a reward for distinguished services, was George Walters, formerly a sergeant in the 49th Regiment, but who at the time of the diatr i butien was a constable is the R division of me t r opolitan police. The cross wag awarded to Walters for having, at the risk of his own life, saved the life of General Adams before Sebastopol. A few days since Walters, who has been appointed a foreman at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, received from Mrs. Adams a handsome gold watch, with a suitable Punt of his gallant bravery inscription, as an acknowled gment in raving the life of her husband. 73i 4 54 i 92 . 48 7a 891 3 i I e4l 5 35i 3 46i 7 91 2g i 48 1011 bog 1 1031 34 5 1.6 k 20 1 27.3 14x6 111~ 7 13H 6115 9 Gs. 11/ r is 50 50 50 100 1 St. Paid ; 100 all all all all 'lOO 54 all 60 all 100 13i 6 95 3i 51i 4 31 1