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

L N 0614, THURS DA V ~ r H ~ . E SUN LONDON, __ MONEY IVIARKET SHARE MARKETS (This Day.) LINES LEASED AT FIXED RE NTALS. 116.1,1 , Leasing Closing Prices Business ail RAILWAYS. Shr. ........., RAILWAYS. Companies yesterday. this day. IND heClosing rrices Basiness done _________, _______ _____ _---. th COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shr. raid RAILWAYS. yesterday. this day. St. 100 Buckghamsh. Ln.&N.W. 96 —99 — 4 ,—_ St. 100 Clydesdale Jc. claledon . . 98 102 DO---. - . --_ ........1•-•...1....MM..... ,h, CITY, Two o'CLocx. 121 931 Ambg. Nottng. Bost. 25 all ,Col•Stour Vy. E.U.dnE..O 11 —l3 & Eastn. Junes...... 4h —4; 41 A The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed 50 all Belfast & Ballymena •.. ••• St. 100 , E.Lin. g. 6 p.e Gt•Northn 133 136 5 all , E. Un. H. Sh. E. Count. 3 1 - 4i 0 quietly. Brazilian were gd. per lb. dearer, and j3i all Btrmng. Wolverh. & St. 100 jGlas. Barr. di Caldonian. I per lb. dearer when compared Stour Va11ey......... 81 -- 9 1 Neils. Direct. th Egyptian d. with St. 100 iD o. New Do. ••• ..• •• • • • • Friday's rates. The sales were estimated at 8,000 St ' 100 B C ir h k e e s nh hir d e . J La un n c c t s . h . .. . & .. ( 5 —67 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Gt.Westn. ... ••• it' - bales, 1,000 of which have been taken on specula- 25 all Blackburn g e 25 all Blyth & Tyne original 25 all IDo. 1 Shares. Do t tion. The Railway Share Market was rather firmer, £25 (iss. at £45).... ... ••• 121 all ,Do. 1 Shares. Do ' 0 at improved rates. St. 100 Bristol & Exeter...... 93 95 12 i all 'Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern l2l —l3 0 Accounts from Constantinople state that a good St. 100 Caledonian. 631 —64 64 20 all Do. Preference Do 23 —24 0 deal of uncertainty prevailed on the subject of the St. 100 'hester & Holyhead 35 . 36 50 all sork and Bandon.... ... ... St. 100 Lou. Til &S. Peto &Co. 108 110 ' 10 54.D0. Bark ' . Sh. Do i 1 p 6 ;re proposed State Bank, some doubt being expressed , 20 all Cork, Black. & Pass. ... ... 51 all Manch.Bxton. Ln.&N.W P" whether the guaranteed interest on the capital re- 20 all Cornwall — ••• and Matlock & Midld. 2i - 2 ag 10 all De. A • ••• St. 100 Mdld.Bra.dfd. Midland... 93 94 01 quired would be granted by the Government. Ne- • 10 8 Do. B . ........ ••••• ••• ---- •... 34 5i Newmarket gotiations, however, were in progress, and it was 50 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc. ... ...p BuryE.G.spc. E. Count.. i— t P Pm e 0 25 ' all Dun P &Aber, June 10A 11 generally presumed that a favourable arrangement •P. • • ' - 50 all N.&Est.s p.c. Do 56 8 St. 100 East Anglian ......... 181 19, 19 50 all Do. 6 per ct.. Do ... ip would actually,be effected. 20 all Eastern Counties..... 9 3 - 9i 91 . 50 all Do•Fixedsp.c Do ••• ••• ies The letters received from Hamburg this morn- St. 100 EasternUnion,A.stk. 40 44 25 all Prest. &Wyre L. &N. W ... ... ing state that the Money Market there was abuu- Do do. B 29 —3l 121 all Do. 1 Shrs. ADo t 1 81 Do. New A . ....... - ... ...... ...... ..• .. St. 100 Roystn.& Hit. 'Gt•Northn 132 135 '0 1 ecl i dantly supplied, and 90 days' bills were easily ne- 25 171 East Kent ...,....... 8 6 10 all Shrews.& Her T. Brassey ... ... le 1 gotiable at 31 per cent. St. 100 East Lancashire 96 —93 97 12 all S. Sta ff ordsh.. M. MClean • 9 91 Increased easiness is reported in the New York 20 all East Suffolk ........ ... ... 50 , all WearVal.g6pc Stk.&Dar. ... ••• a 1 10 4 Do. as. MA Iva i..1......,-.1. AS !'5ty ......., M 1 ..... • A% 1 2 s s t. m all Do. Wilts&Somrst Gt.Westn. 88 90 9 3 1 A.mbg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junes ...... all Belfast & Ballymena all Birrung. Wolverh. Stour Va11ey........ 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. do Cheshire Junct...... all Blackburn all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45).. 100 Bristol & Exeter.,. 100 Caledonian....... 100 Mester & Holyhead, all Cork and Bandon.... all Cork, Black. & Pass. all Cornwall -- all De. A. 8 Do. B 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc. all Dun. P. &Aber. June. 100 East Anglian ......... all Eastern Counties..... 100 gasternUnion,A. stk. 100 Do., do. 8............. 8i Do. New 17i East Kent ~...... 100 East Lancashire all East Suffolk ....... 4 Do. /00 Edinburgh & Glasgow all I Edinb. and Peebles... 100 ,Edinb.Prth.&Dunde , all ; Forth and Clyde June. 100 !Furness 100 ;Glasgow & S. Western all Great N. of Scotland 100 ,Great Northern 100 ,Do., A. Stock ...... 100 'Do., B. Stock ...... 100 GL Sth.&West.(lre.) 100 'Great Western. 100 Do. Str.V.R. gua. St all Irish South-Eastern all ! Lancaster & Carlisle. 141 Do., Thirds 12 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire! 6 Do., do. F. £l6 Do., Wst. Riding Un.' all Do. Southport. all London & Blackwall ,100 Loud. Bright. &S. Cst. 100 London &N. Western all Do. Fifths • all 1 D0.,16/.5h..M&8...0 2i Do. Eighths 100 London & S.Western all Lndndrry.&Colerainel all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.SheL&Lincln. 1 Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement 100 ' Midland ........ 'lOO IDo. Birming. & Derby all Midland G. West.(lr.) all De. Shares all Newcastle &Carlisle all Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 9 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor 100 Norfolk. 32 Northn.Counties Un 100 North British 100 North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock ........ 'lOO Do., A Stock 100 Do., B Stock 100 N.E...stern - Berwick 23 Do, do. Extension llii i Do do. G. N.E. Porch all 'Do. Leeds ,100 Do. York 'lOO North London 31.1 N. &S. Watn., Hamp stead, and City Jn 17i North Staffordshire all North Western .. all N. &S. Westrn. June. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 16 ,Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 'Scottish Central 100 ,Se ot. N.E.Abrdn. St 100 Shropshire Union 2 I l Sitingbourne &Sheer all :South Devon 100 ISouth Eastern all ;Do. 4i per c. Shares 100 !South Wales 17 'S. Yorksh. River Dun 7 Do. . all , Staines,Wok.,StWok. all Stockton & Darling 15 Do. do., 1854 3 Do do 18'J Increased easiness is reported in the New York Money Market in the accounts by the steamer Ame rica, 7 per cent, being the allowance for loans on call, while the rates of discount had receded to 8 and 12 per cent. The last weekly return published by the City banks exhibited very few features of in terest. The loans and discounts had increased 234,014 dollars, and the specie was smaller by 321,030 dollars. Al hough there is no alteration to report in the value of discount accommodation there is de cidedly an improved feeling, which has been partly stimulated by the favourable reduction exhibited in the Army and Navy e,timates. There is a disposition to look forward with increased confident with regard to monetary affairs, and the prospect of the arrivals of gold, being far in excess of the shipments to the Conti nent, has dissipated the fears lately aroused by the continuous drain. About 100,0001. of the gold by the Morning Light was sent into the Bank yesterday. The directors at the Weekly Court to-day have made no alteration in the rate of discount, and owing to the more satis factory position of things, scarcely any anxiety was evinced to ascertain the result of their deliberations. - 55. - 34 - 93 - 80 125 - 113 -68 i - 66 78 123 - 111 63 id 1 6i 7 107 -- 108 1061-- 1064 20i -21 i 10i -- 104 - $ 1 106/ -- 107# •• ••• - 35 The upward movement in the value of the Funds has continued, the improvement this morning being ±to per cent. Of course this movement has imparted animation to the market, and further speculations for a rise have been effected. The anticipated t contents of the financial statement have stimulated purchases, and the appearance of the various markets is buoyant. Consols for transfer were 93a I, and have since been 93a 194. For the account the quotations have been 94 to 94i 94± I. The New 3 per Cents. are 944 ; and the Reduced 931 to 941. Bank Stock is 217. Exchequer Bills are par to 3s. Premium ; and the - Bonds 984 if. • The dealings in Foreign Stocks have not been very numerous, but prices have been influenced by the improvements in the value of Consols. Mexican are at 211 22. Spanish 3 per Cents. have advanced t ° 40 4 , and the Committee's Certificates 61. Turkish 6 per Cents. are quoted 94k, 5, for money, and 95i for the next account. The 4 per Cents, rule firm at 1018 ; Venezuela Deferred, 15i ; Dutch 24 per Cents. 651 ; and the 4 per Cents. 98i, 82i - 82 53 - 55 iii = iii 54 56 90 34 41d , . ...... ... 10 20 20 84i —85 b 4i 3d 3 24 18 184 61 62 98 102 al0: i 00 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i 7 ; Mexi can, 211 n ; Peruvian, 77 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 43 5 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 108 10 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 95 7 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40 ; ditto New Deferred, 24, 24i ; ditto Certificates, 6k 1 ; ditto Passive, 4i -- 4d 74 - 8 10 -- 11 0- The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1857. Great Western North-Western Brighton 10,561 Midland South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern 21,669 Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 5,138 Chester and Holyhead 4743 Lancaster and Carlisle Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 8,863 North Staffard North London Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverh. 3,738 Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury and Hereford Waterford and Limerick 1856. £23,885 52,808 9,696 26,512 13,961 10,234 20,341 19,605 5,493 4,502 5,426 8,125 6,416 1,975 3,298 2,406 1,057 997 161 Lltockton & Hartlepl 100 Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 22 I Maims Hay. D. &R all !Vale of Neath all Waterfd. do Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall all West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A all Do. B all West London all Do. First C1a55...... all Do. Second Class... all Wmbledon &Croydon 27i - 28 106 108 24i —25 i 49 51 2 lid 17A IE4 74 751 Glasgow and South• Western Great Western of Canada Northern of France 5,965 7,694 36,980 5,522 8,161 34,215 In the Railway Share Market the arrangements for the half-monthly accounts have caused a con siderable business to be transacted, and higherrates are current for most of the principal lines. Cale donian improved 1/. ; Eastern Counties, ss. ; Great Northern, ss. ; Great Western, 11. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 11. ; Brighton, ss. ; North-Western, it. ; South-Western, it. to 1/. 10s. ; North British, 15s, ; North Eastern Ber wick, 1/. ; ditto York, 1/. ; acid South-Eastern 15s to 1/. The French lines are inactive. Paris and Lyons have advanced about ss. ; Dutch Rhenish, ss. ; and Great Luxembourg, ss. to 7s. 6d. Great Western of Canada are also ss. higher, and East Indian, 1/. to 1/. 108. WO bi° let . DO No business has been reported in British, or Foreign, or Colonial Mining Shares, and prices are unaltered. Joint Stock Bank Shares have ruled dull. Lon don Chartered of Australia improved about ss. Micellaneous Shares have been very inactive. National Discount Company have ruled rather higher, and Peninsular aid Oriental Steam ad vanced about 15s. BRITISH PI all Atlan. and St. Law. 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lncl,guar. 5 p. e. all Do. 104 Buffalo & Lake Hur. 100 Buff., Brnt. & Godeh. 100 6 p.e.bds.,l Aug.,12 1 Do. do., 1 July, '731 100 Do. do., 1 June, '74 2s. Calcutta and S. East. 2sld Ce2tral Oude (Lim.) 10s C3ylon A shares 1 Do. B. de. all Demerara 2s. Eastern Bengal 100 East Indian 15 Do. C Shares all D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 all Do. do. do., '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. ICO Gd. Trunk. of Canada all Do. 6p c. Deben all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. all Gt. Wostn. of Canada S Do. New all Do. Bds., payable '57 all Do. do., '76, p. '60... all Do. do., '73, d 0.... all Do. do., '73, without option all Madras, guar. 4i p.c all Do. do., 5 per C. 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exton. 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. ss. Oude (Limited) 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c all Do FOR: 844 —85 i 5 3cl 5 3d 12 14 39 41 i 19i ::: ioi 7 - 2 - 5 - _. . 7 - "9 IGN. 98i j 108 I 7i 107 6j 107} 7 351 5 82 i i f 4 1101 17 St. 101 12i a] ni al St. 10 St. 101 12i a] 12. 12 11 St. 101 St. 101 St. 101 St. 101 10 al 10 10 al St. 10( St. 10( St. 10( St. 10] St 10 17 20 1: 12i 1 25 1 20 St. 110 St. 10 8A a St 10 St. 10 St. 10' 25 al 10 al 1.0.6 al all AntwrOz Rotterdam 14 Ardennes all Belgian East. Junct. 16 Beziers to Graissessac all Carzteaux&Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry 12 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France all Do. New 2s. Euphrates Valley 18 Gt. Central of France 17 Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Junction all Lake Const. & Bale I all Lierre and Turnhout I 6 Lombardo-Venetian i all Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. all Lyons and Geneva all Lyons & Mediterran. all Maria Antonia . ) all Do. New ) all Namur & Liege ) all Do. do. 6p. C. Pref, 3 all Northern of France., () all NorwegianTrnk.Prel D all Paris and Lyons 0 all Paris and Orleans 0 7 Reeife & San Fran. (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c 0 7i Ronte and Frascati 0 all Royal Danish 5 all Royal Swedish 0 all Sambre and Meuse 0 all Do. 5i per cent. pref 0 all Southern of France. 8i all West Flanders 0 all Do. 5A per c. Pref "1 1 6 all West, 11WB .18 'Westerno. p l f V . °.cfeAuis.France Switzerlandtprarer.:. 6 all iWiesbadern :0 all Zealand.. 311.1T18R FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Offieuzl List.) Bank Stock . eualnate done 3 per °ant. _ R .• educ..• OOOOOed Annuities 000000000000000000000000000 0 217 3 per Cent. consols Ammeti New 3 per Cent. Annuities " 2t #414 Consols for Account OO ... ****************** '..t I i Exchequer Bills. 24(1 ********** '•••• —... £lOOO .......................... . .... Par 3 Small ............... par 3 p Ditto Bonds, 1858,34 p er Cent; ............. Par 3 p Ditto, 1659 PRIC ES OF .- FOREI G N FUNDS AT 4N Bg i ) ( y a k.; Lo( K Mexican 3 per Cent 22 ii Ditto Account Epanith Bonds, 3 per Cent. Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup, not fun 64 Turkish Bonds, 6 par cent 941 1 i Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account lOll 1 Yineznela Bonds, 41 per Cent Ditto Deferred, II per Cent.. r l3. )1: Wends on toe above ~ a v able n Lon ~ Dutch Exchange, 2 , per Cent ., 12 Guilders 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates TWO O'CLOCK. Consols,-money .............................. N, Ditto Account .............................. i --- ACCIDENT TO THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT MAIL. STEADIZR.—The Belgian Government mail steam-packet lla„1"ntt whichieft Dover with the m ails on Friday, at o ' in " r an Y morning. ashore to the eastward of Ostend on Satur da r dat 8 in This is the same She was got off is the course of two n ars, and'reached Ostend vessel that l etahat ran dow n Lord u 8. n Alfredl 3 ;get's fine new y acht the mails PARLIAMIursen and Fortunately the weather was moderate, or with Franc e lug papers we re passen ger s would have had a narrow escape. PAPERS AND RETURNS.--The follow- 1 and Bel yesterday :—Postal arrangements for carryi ng r the treaty of March 30, 1856 ; treaty subject of the Newfo undland • pauper children ;an ; convention with France on the b undland fishtry ; returns relative to 11 Commission. annual report of the Irish Ecclesiastical ' THE WRITEOHAPEL I rEMENTS.—A memorial has been addressed to t h e Forests, Land Revenues. missioners of Woods and Board of Works for the whit Works, and Buildings, by the ing of the inconvenience and l oss to the parishes of St. district, complain- Mary, Whitechapel • Christcchurch, Spitalfields ; and the quent on the contem- Liberty of Norton-f'olgatei;einognse carried out. The memo plated improverbents not pension, or non rial states that in consequence of the completion, of the line of street called C ommercial-street into Shoroditch, and by allowing th e present ghreourandantoo_ remain unoccupied a great loss is Occasi one d to the seve ralti parishes and places within the district, T resolved t o rial prays that the street may u e i mmediately finish e d, NEw DOCK IN GLASGOW. — It is finall y proceed with the construction of the so side do c k. The accommodation which it will a ff ord forei gn to u - ping renders its early completion a matter of greetp a u b b i l p ic . 11 MPOrtan oe. II 0 1 all 15 I I.Bi O all O all O 6 O 50 5.1 - 6 it - ii 24 - 3ip 5 64 par —}p 32 —32 A 9i —10 i 'par 4 —41 p 6 6 ... - ... 6 -61 p ..• - ... 29i - 301, 8 - 8# 19 - 19 9 36i - 94 - 37 54i 53 - 55 par i p 18 - 20 - 1 1 8 - 8i 8i - 8 - Pm - 44 94 - 10 - 324 334 -14 P 5i JOINT-STOI BANKS. lAutria sia > Bank of Egypt Bank of London * " IBri. Col Bk.& Ln ißritish N. American * C.Bk.of Ind.Au.tkch City \Colonial Commercial of Lond Eng. Scot.daus•Cht Lon. Ch, Bk.of Aust Ditto New ;London and County Lnd.&E.Bnloag. Corp London Joint Stock ILond.andWestm inst. National Pro. of Eng. Do. New ............... National Bank ...... New South Wales , Oriental Bank Corp. Ont.otorimnacnialßoafnk .Irel.an• d. Do. New ............... R.Aus,B.&G.lna•Co. , S ou th Australia...... Union of Australia... IDo. New . ............... Union of London ..., •• iC uity Mutual .. ....... 11 9 .. Westrn Bk. of Lond. • 10 6 d 94 96 4 d par 56 58 a 65 - 67 2 0 all 20 all 50 20 100 5 0 50 10 100 20 St. 11, st. to St. 101 20 a] 25 at 25 1J 124 a 6 22 i 0) all 5 all 0 15 18 i -- 1 9 18 -- 188, xd & b b 51 361 —37 i 1i idia 10 25 all 5 1 n all t 5 all ••• 60 a 7 - 9 Australian Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm) Do. Comes di Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Clarendon Con. MM. Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper Copia po Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Marigaita New Granada Novean Monde Pont.Sil.LdM.dz Set Port Philip Santiago de Cuba south Australian Do. Scrip Do. 10 p. c. Pref. United Mexican x d MISCEL - 60 1 xd id Australian Agricult. Australis. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Canada Do. Go. 6pc. Jan&July Do. 6 p.c.Feb.&Aug. D 0.6 p.c. Mar.&Sept. Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 70 p. cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Crystal Pal, of France Duston Iron Ore Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Electric Tel. of Irel. En.&Aust.Cop.SmCo . Eur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. Gen. Ir. Sc. Col.(lim.) Gen. Steam Navigat. London Discount Loud. Gen. Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig. Mediteran. Elec. Tel.' Mexican & S. America Nat. Discount C 0.... Do. New Netherlands Land._ Do. Do. Do. 8 p c.Pf. iss. at Id. Do. Do, New B. &N. S. Land N. S. W. Gov. 5 p. c. D. N. B. Australasian Nrth.ofEuropeSteam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl Peninsular & Oriental Do. New Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest. Do. New S. Aus. Gov. 6 p. c. bds. South Austral. Land Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered Trust&Ln. Co. U .Can Van Diemen's Land V. Go, 6p.cJan. July' 110 i i 51 I 3/ #d SO 100 all 174 all i l a t — par 2 i GG 13 34d ii Pi 50 50 50 15 100 23 - 63 - 1 1 t -__ 35 - 1 - 14 4p 25 • • ISBESSIONS, - .P lip 95 98 94 96 94 96 par—gyp i - 14 pl 109 - 111 1i - 2p 211 -- 21 48 -- 52 81 -- 83 20& -- 211 21 — i -25 n 2g - 2ip 99 -- 100 118 -- 123 -- 123 108 110 19:1 20 211 22 i par i iP it - 2ip PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 11 St 11 St. 1.1 St 11 St. li St. 1 1 100 10 a 1 St. 101 20 1 50 St. 101 10 25 15 20 all all all all 31 Bly th and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (issd.at 501.) 0 Brig. &Ex. 4 P.C. St. 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares Caledn. £lO 4A p. c. 0 Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c. )0 Do. do. 5 per cent ill Cork &Bandon 56p.c. ill Dun.Perth.&Aber.J. 2 E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. )0 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. )0 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c. dl Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l al Do. No. 2 ill Do. New 6 pr. c. St ill East lln., G. 6p. c al Do. 51., 10 per cent Xll Do. 101. Debentr.Sh ill Do. do. 4 per cent )0 East Lauc ash .6 p . cts ill E.&W. York. J. sths 5 Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. )0 Ed.Prth.&Dun. 4p.c. 0 Furness, sp. c )0 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c 10 Great Northn. 5 p.c )0 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem )0 Do. 46 per cent i 0 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. ill Gt.N.ofScot.lstPre )0 Gt. S &W. (Ireland) L 5 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. 6 Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc )0 Do. con. red. 46 p.c. )0 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. )0 Do. irred. 4 percent. )0 Do 5 p. c. red. pref. ill Do. Birm. Pref. Sh ill Do. Chester Bp. c.P. S Do. do. 5 p. c. )0 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk. ill Do. Chesh, Gua. Sh. ill Do. do. do. ill Do. do. do )0 Lan. & York. 6 pc. St X) Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No.l D0.,P., 5 p. c.St.No.2 )0 Do. New Guar. 6p. e. )0 Do. do. sp. c., No. 4 )0 Lon. & N.W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct )0 Lon. & S.W. 7 per ct late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. ASh al Londy.&Ennis. 6 Sh )0 M., S., &L. 6p. Cent 46 Do. do. do. £6 K) Do. do. 3i per cent. 11 Marypt. ti Carl. 4 p.c. ill Do. 46 per cent 06 Do. do. 10 Mid. C onsol. 6 p.c. St 10 Do.Con.Br.Bif.6p.e )0 D. 4i p. c. Pre' S )0 Do. L. &H. Pref. Si, ill New.,Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c. red, 5 p.c. pm. 8 Do. Peipet. 6 pr. ct. 11 Norf lc. D eb. 4 /3. c. Sh. 0 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1846 0 Do. 56 p.c. pr., 1847 10 D0.Wv.V.5P.c., 1847 10 North British . ...... 36 71. Preference 10 N. E. Berw. 4p. c. Prf. 81 Do. do. do .3 Do. Leeds 6 pc.o. 1 9 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 [0 Do. York /1.& S. Pur al North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar. )0 Do. 6p. c. 2d guar ill Scot. Cent. New Pref 10 Sc.N.E.Aber.g.Gp.e )0 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. S 4 )1 Do. d0.3? - , p.c. pf. St ill South Devon 11 Do. fixed 46 pr cent al S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 10 Do. 4a per cent 11 Do. Fixed 4a p.c. Sh 10 S. Wales Gua. 4p. c /0 Do. 00. 4a p. c kll S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar 01 Stock. &Dar., 513. c s , .5 Do. do. do. ill Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p.c. till Ju'y 1, '56 611 Waterfd&Kilk. 6 pc. oi --- 94 96 -- 98 44 - 5 5.1 - 64 Ilia ------ 11-5 - - 12 - 12; ..• - in io 118 - 120 1112 - 114 1103 - 105 62 - 64 9i - 104 6 - 93 - 95 83 -- 85 99 -- 101 10 -- 10} 10 1 - 10 - 75 -- 77 19i - 20 - -10 J 14t -- 154 134 -- 136 136 - 136 114 - 117 1159 - 161 A - 65 - 68iP 137 - 139 90 - 101 89 - 91 •" -- ••• li - lip ••• '''''' liiii - 105 b 9 5 it icl 1 - 1111 - 113 113 -- 116 105 -- 110 65 -- 70 16i -17 i 234 -- 244 103 -- 105 104 -- 101 27 - 28$ 2 -- 3p - ii- .1 -- - ii MINES. 21} -22 A 7i -- 84 L 55 -- 165 160 -- 480 )5i -- 161 11 -- 12 6 -- - 137 - 1. - 19 - 21 35 - 36 61 - 6i 24 - 2i 9 - 10 1$ - 340 - 350 7 - 8 345 - 355 - 1i 4 - 4$ 220 250 35i -36 i 1521 - 157$ 300 - 310 270 - no 41- 154 16$ 146 - 48 19 - 21 hiINEI3. lob / - li li - 2 13 - St 16 - 18 1371 i p 55 57 12 14 I icl 71 id p I _ ... - ••• 8 --- 10 - •• ; 2 2i -- ... -- .. 3i - 4 BOTTS. 21i - 22A1 • 4i - 51 40 - 45 131 - 138 1 1.10 - 110} 33 37 26 28 24 2ixd 51 54 ••• -- ••• 94 - 96 - ii = ii i - 3 - 4 2i - - 3i IP 1 BRITISH 2/ 12 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 14 British Iron 20 i Condurow (Cambrn.) 1 Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 14s Great Sough Tolg is 10/ 3!Grt.W.Alfrd.(P:: l lk.) iGrt.W. Vor (llelstn.) 3s6dLady Bertha 7? N. Frances (Illoaan) N.W.Risset (Illogan) / 16 Nort% Waeal Crotty 14 Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 3s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co ti S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 2 S. Cam Brea (Illogn. .9 S.W. Franees(lllogn., Tam. S. St L. Min. Co. Tin Cr•ft Un.Mines (Gwennap' 112 s 6 V. of Towey (Camay.' 1.6 Basset (Illogan). 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd. 5i Wh. Basset (Illogan. 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth. Si IWh. Edward(Calstk. 7slWh. Kitty (U. Lint. IWh. Ma. Ann(Menht. 4 IWh. Trelawney (Lis. 5 4. 10 9 .1 8 FOKEIGN EVi v N I - N(4 l tIEBRUARY 1 1 ;857. OUNDLE RACES.—(This Day). LrI'ERATURt. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SELLING STEEPLECHASE. VIA.SSON'S ESSAYS, Honeycomb.. The Squire.. Essays, Biographical and Ciitriccel chiefly on English Poets. By David Masson, A.M. Cam ,bridge t IVlaemillan and Company. A collection of ten charining and remarkable papers - illustrative 'of our national literature. Illus trative of the literature bf this country—from th e age of Queen Victoria to that of, QUECII Elizabeth. It is consequently a group of biographical •and critical essays, , having a pert n symmetry and compl( tenesa of slesignin the midSt of its apparently 'straggling, diversified, and miscellaneous charae-z teristics Severalbf these little-treatises upon poets and poetry will 2-be recognised by the reader as effusions living pleasantly enough in his recollec tion froth their original and "rarely anonymous ap pearance. For Mr: Masson's work, after all, is _nothing more nor less than a Selection from writ ingS contributed •by him dining . the last dozen years orso to one or other of our leading monthly and quarterly periodicals. The elab rate analy tical criticism upon " Shakspere and Gathe, ' for example, came before the world in 1852 as an article in the B r iti s h Q uar t er l y Ifev i ew f or Novem ber. The singularly graceful descriptive chap ter relating to " Milt on ' s Y out h" appeared during the same year in the N o rth B r i t i s h Review for February. The "Three Devils"—meaning Lu ther's Evil Spirit, Milton's Satin, and Goethe's Mephistopheles—made their first startling appa rition together in Fraser's -1111gazine. ."Drs den and the Literature of the Restoration" formed the theme of another of cur author's brilliant and ornate British Quarterly cri ticisms. " Dean •Swift" another suggest ed by a reprint of Scott's "Life" and the first : issue of Thackeray's "Lectures," The n ex t E ssa y iu the series, by far the most noticeable of theca all, we shall revert to, presently. Let us spesk of it simply now as an enthralling " Story of 'the Year 1770," originally printed in three pic!uresque in stalments in the pages of . the Dublin University Magazine. Subsequently we "come upon another notable excerpt from the North British Review, in the form of an article upon the poetry of" Words worth." Upon another explanatory of " Scottish. Influence in British Literature." Upon another— curiously remarkable for_ its evidence at once of taste and acumendelineative of certaiu " : Theories of Poetry." And, lastly, upon a third reprint from the British Quarterly, -relating to the genius d's played in the prose and verse of "De Quincey," the eloquent, eccentric, and far-famed Opium-Ester. Such in brief are the constituent portions of this very readable volume from the pen of David Mae son, A.M., the learned and accomplished Professor of English Literature as;University College, Landon In the course of his succinct but sufficient Prefatory Note, our author remarks that " had the selection been large enough to represent the- entire_ series of compositions from wbich . it is taken," he would have preferred arranging the papers in the exact order of time in which they made their appearance. As it is, he adds—" The Essays chosen having been such as from their character might most aptly, go together in:the same volume, it has been deemed best to arrange them in the historical order of the , matters "to` which they refer." And so it falls out, as already intimated, that the-work—such as it is =constitutes in a manner a sort of a critical survey _of English Literature from the Elizabethan epoch downwards to the present generation. A compre hensive series of views illustrative of the literary annals. of Great Britain—beginning with the times of Shakspere, and so passing down the Stream of -Years through the days of Milton, and Dryden, and Swift, and Chatterton, and ordsworth, to those of our own immediate contsinporaries. - Chatterton ! That is the one conspicuous featur a of the work under notice," to which we have as yet only alluded incidentally. That is the Essay, Bio graphical and Critical, of which we have only spoken, according to its second title, as the " Story of the Year 1770," originally published in the pages of the Dublin University. Published in those pages, in three parts, subdivided into chap ters, in the July, August, and October numbers of 1851, the year of the memorable Hyde-park Exhi bition. A considerable portion of this Ws:ly, Mr. Masson tells us in his Prefatory Notr, "is now published for the first time ;" and •he adds, " A certain difference will be observed between this paper and the others, both as regards the extent of space allotted to it—[the article in ques' ion spread ing over no less than 168 pages, from p. 178 to p: 345]—and as regards the manner of the literary treatment." Observing very justly in regard to it by way of conclusion, that ". iu some respects this portion of the VOlume - departs from the typical cha racter of the Essay, and approaches, that of a minia : tune. Biography." Observing this, we repeat, very justly. -For the rather elaborated memorial paper up,on Chatterton into which the " Story of 1770" has been expanded would be defined much less ac curately, if, spoken of merely as a critical essay, than as what it actually is, a species (if we may so term it) of foreshortettedbiography. It is very charming, very : readable, very graceful as a memoir of the Boy- Poet. But after all, if viewed as a biography, if viewed as a mere " miniature biography" of Chat terton, it cannot be regarded, we conceive, as in any way satisfactory. Any more than Dix's ac count of the same woful tale (beginning with Genius and ending with Suicide) can be regarded as satis factory. , Any more, for that matter, than Gre gory's all but stereotyped "Life of Chatterton"— written _originally for the Biographia Britannica reprinted soon afterwards in a separate form, and prefixed' without a single emendation, how ever trivial, to Southey and Cottle's 3 vol. edition, Bvo., of the Works of the " marvellous boy—the sleepless soul that perished in his pride," published in 1803 by the Messrs. Longmans and Company. Abbreviated though this most affecting story of the Life and Death of the Boy-Bard has been under the hand of Mr. Masson, it may yet take rank, we conceive, with the ampler and more pretentious memoirs of the_same career by John Dix and George Gregory. Certainly it is far above the miserable little catch-penny " Life," by one Davis—occa sionally to be picked up for a few pence upon the London Book-stalls, having on its frontispiece an odious caricature of some imaginary face of Chatterton, with, literally, a white " choker" ga rotted about the throat, and the eyes goggling ',over the check-bones like those of an idiot under going the process of strangulation. Mr. Masson's Essay, we repeat, is as far beyond this miserable thing of a " Life" by one John Davis, as the eru dition of old Jacob Bryant is above the ignorance of the Rev.. Dr. Maitland ! This last-mentioned personage being, we must inform our readers, the author, of a very slashing three-and-sixpenny pamph let, issued from the press a week or two back at Rivingtons. • "Chatterton : an Essay" —it is entitled. -And it isa production avowedly given to the world just now, because of the recent appear : - ance in a new and more elaborated form of Mr. Masson's scholarly and picturesque Essay, entitled " A story of the year 1770." How any, one in spired with any sentiment of Christian charitable ness how aboveSll an ecclesiastic like the Rev. S. R. Maitland, D.D.,. F.R.S., and F.S. A., could 'deliberately pen an.,Essay such as this one upon Chatterton, we must protest at once altogether passes our comprehension. Consider, for a mo ment, what it literally is. It is.a harsh, a cruel, and even; let us say at once, - in one.word—a brutal attack upon the memory.of a poor boy who died . nearly eighty-seven years ago in London, notori ously and undeniably by an act of self-murder, to which. he was driven by the pbrenzy .of despair and the pangs of absolute starvation I And it is the memory of this poor boy that Dr. Maitland now deliberately holds up (after all these eighty-seven years have gone' by) to public scorn, ridicule, eta reprobation 1 Why ? Because of any new facts he can adduce—because of any grand discoveries he has made—because of any fresh light he can throw upon the philological problem involved in the once stormy contest about Rowley and Chatterton ? Nothing of the sort I Simply, literally, actually for this one very insufficient reason that Dr. Mait land has somehow got into his head the whimsical old crotchet that Rowley was the real Simon Pure after all, and that Chatterton had little or nothing whatever to do with the authorship of the poems attributed to Rowley. Dr. Maitland swallows with out the smallest hesitation whatever the whole of that nonsensical farrago of absurdity—purporting to be a copy from an unauthenticattd pencilled report of the Coroner's Inquest upon the body of Chatterton--contributed to "Notes and Queries" on the sth of February, 1853, by Mr. Gutch, the possessor of "the innumerable (sic !) newspaper and magazine cuttings which belonged to Mr. Hazlewood." An unauthenticated pen cilled report of the _ inquest,, crammed with the most . egregious blunders proving to our mired, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the glaring fact of its being altogether a monstrous fa brication. Stating, for example, that the inquest was held on " Friday, the 27th of August, irro," when the 27th of August in that year fell on a Monday ! Calling the house -where Chatterton died, in Brooke-street, , " No. 17,'" , when it was,- on the contrary, " No. 4p' Omitting all mention of - either Mary Foster or William Hamsley as wit nesses giving evidence upon the occasion before the coroner—when the fact that those witnesses did give such evidence (as well as the other fact that the house was No. 4) was "proved" by the inquiries made as to the whole of those occurrences as near to the actual time when they transpired as the year 1789—inquiries then instituted personally by the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, Bart., the author of "Loie and Madness." But while Dr. Maitlan d; be it observed, can listen with respectful creduliay to the cook-and-bull story put forward in Notes Five ran. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.) IN RE WEBB. Adjournment sine die without protection. Thia bank rupt was described as of Pods wood, timber merchant, and to-day was appointed for his last examination, which bad been adjourned in consequence of the accounts being unsatisfactory. Mr. Bagley, for the assignees, opposed the bankiupt's Passing. He said that the first balance-sheet was so unsatisfactory that the bankrupt was ordere 1 to file an amended balance-sheet, together with an account of certain bill transactions of a very suspicious nature. An amended balance-sheet had been filed, but the two accounts were so greatly at variance that no dependence could be placed on either, but the bankrupt had not kept any books to enable the assignees to investigate them, and as there was no estates they were unwilling to incur any further expense ; the bankrupt had not furnished any account of the bills. There was also another very suspici ous circumstance; the bankrupt alleged that he had made a settlement on his wife, but t're solicitor who was the attesting witness had since died, and his so❑ and the managing clerk denied that it had ever been drawn in their aim, and both believed that the signature was not that of the deceased. Under the circumstances he (Ur. Bagley) applied for an adjournment sine die. The Bankrupt persisted that the signature was genuine. His Honour said that any other accounts would be mere moonshine. He should therefore adjourn the case sine die without protection. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. MEETING THIS DAY. The half-yearly ordinary meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held this afternoon, at the Waterloo Station, Waterloo-road. Mr. W._J. Chaplin, M.P., in the chair. The report and statement of accounts, which have already appeared in The Sun, were taken as read. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the meetingon the agree able change of figures relative to the dividend since June 30, 1850. Then he had to propose a dividend of 3 per cent., and now 3, making 6 per cent, on the year. The passenger traffic was very satisfactory, and out of 76 stations only 6 had experienced any diminution of receipts, and that only to the aggregate amount of 1661. He then referred to the auticable state of fed ing existing with this and the other railways except the South-Eastern Railway, respecting their branch from Reigate to Reading. The returns showed that the traffic on the line would be satisfactory, whether in peace or war, and congratulated the shareholders on their work ing expenses being as low as that of any company. He called attention to the present mode of assessing rail ways to local rates, and said that those rates amounted to about 10 per cent, on the profits, which, with 7 per cent. income tax, and a sum of 8,5001. paid in stamps for transfers, &C., made a deduction from the profits of 27 per cent. The hon. gentleman then called attention to the ten schemes of railways before Parliament likely to affect this company. He had much pleasure in informing them that the Great Western Railway Company had nothing to do with the Southampton and Salisbury scheme. He made that statemhnt on a communication made by Lord Barrington, the chairman of the South Western Cem by mov i ng t h e a d op ti on o f Company, to some of the Directors of R line,ai Railway concludedthe report. (Hear, hear.) this Mr. TITE, M.P., seconded the motion, and said that he regretted they were again compelled to fight the battle of the gauges, and considered that the opposition should be entrusted confidently to the directors. They had arrived at a time of prosperity when some thing might be done to benefit the porters and railway guards by increasing their income. He thought they should begin at the top, for the directors were not properly paid, and descend in the scale, increasing each of their officers' and servants' salaries. They only gave the porters 16s. a week, and took from them every other Sunday. Their wages were reduced is. in 1848, and as the times had changed, to the prejudice of the poor man, at least the is. should be restored. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ASHMORE called the attention of the meeting to the large sums paid fur law charges. For the last three and a half years the company had, paid—in Dec., 1853, the sum of 25,7411. ; in 1854, 10,625/. ; in 1855, 6,9631.; and In the last half-year, 7,0751. He would rather give the solicitor 1,5001. a-year, and allow him to practise, than pay him according to the present mode. (Hear.) He would move a resolution, after the adoption of the report, to the above effect, the salary to include every thing except charges out of pocket. and Parliamentary agencies, Mr. Bircham to pay his own clerks out of that sum. Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE said that the servants were now receiving adequate salaries ; he had lately been gradually increasing their salaries. The porters com menced with 165., and advanced yearly, with clothes in addition, and as a proof` of the porters being well paid, the directors were p es t ere d out of their lives for applica tions to fill such situ a ti on s, and woe betide the director who belonged to a b oroug h.(Laughter.) Mr. PUN HARD sa id that with the exception of the dividend there was nothing in the rep ort for congratu lation. This report, he thought , w ould have a serious , effect on the market. He asked to be informed what was the actual liability of the company to capital. Mr. CLOSE (A.uditor) said that the accounts showed - it, with the exception of 9,0001. Mr. PUNCHARD said that the accounts did not show the actual amount of the capital by 200,0001. Mr. HOYES (auditor) said that Mr. Punchard was in error, and nothing could be put forward more plain than the capital account in the statements of accounts. The auditors would have much pleasure in going through the account with any shareholder. The capital account was exceedingly clear ; and the books were kept with perfect accuracy. Mr. UzIEL LI explained that a discrepancy appeared to exist in the capital account of 65,0001., owing to the abandonment of certain land and lines that had caused their power to call up capital to lapse. [We shall give the continuation in our last edition.] cold Quotes by Mr. Gutch, of Worcester, a cock- -and those of Venice, by land wide e - the great and-hull story taken from the pencilled rub- General Carlo Zeno,, and by water,under the g rea t 'Ash of the Lord-Knows-Who-.this same inge- ' Admiral Vittorio Pisani. At firaevirrything ap t:lir:MS Dr.. Maitland, who is all the while so j peared to threaten the latter (Venice) with destruc very scurrilous in his abuse of the dead boy Chat- tion ; but, as' our author says most strikingly in terton,_ :virtually acknowledges his ignorance in the very preamble of his narrative, "The hour of regard .: to the;credibility and, in point of fact; i her desperation was the dawn of her deliverance." also in regard to the very origin of Sir Herbert How it proved to be so " The Dead Bridal" Croft's." Love and Madness:" which he ne vert heless relates—and relates, to our mind , ranch 'more quotes from abundantly, an d a t on e part flippantly I attractively than it does the loves and lives stigmhtises (p. 96) as "a silly and discreditable of Bianca the heroine and Giulio the hero, book." , - Aca significant token, ,however, of the ;of Hodge o f th e Hill, or o f that my - ate-- profound k now l e d ge o f the. Ch a tt e rton Question ! rious personage who, much more' than Giulio, which this v e ry sensible and sagacious Dr. Maitland ; appears to be the real - hero of the story—proving, Malaprop says, brings to bear upon it, with & view to its clucida- in. the end, " three gentlemen at once," as Mrs. tion—take: Lis reference, in "Note 7," - p. 97; to " like Cerberus" ;—:24sser Giro that incidental remark made by Robert Southey lir lamo Mole, otherwise the Sien' Jaakues de la his letter to John May, Nov. 23d 1802—" I have Mol e, o th erwise the Greek Doctor Demetrius ; taken no notice of Croft." To which Dr. Maitland the attraction of the "Dead Bridal" being its itetiNely appends this confession of ignorance on his revival of certain grand hiStorical recollections. own part, saying "I should like to know what Southey meant by that little parenthetical notice of _Sir Herbert Croft." Indeed ? With such flagrant ignorance, anent the mere outlines of the Chattettun Controversy, as this innocent avowal testifies—perhaps it 'night have been as well, Dr. Maitland, had you been a little less dogmatical upon the question at issue, had you bien a little lees arrogant in tone,. a little less insolent in the depreciation of the moral and intellectual powers of one, in r-gard to whom you only know things— obviously—by , halves I Southey's reference to Croft, in that letter written on the 23d of Nov., 1802, to Mr. May, we can very easily explain to The bewildercd mind of Dr. Maitland. Shortly after the beginning of the present century, Southey designed to aid Chatterton 's sister (Mrs. Newton) and her daughter, by editing a collected edition of the Boy-Poet's writings. To which end he publiehtrd certain " Proposals, &e.," iu the pages of the Monthly Magazine ; iu these pro • posals expitining sundry proceedings on the part of Sir Herbert Croft, not very creditable to that Rev. BarObet. Croft was at the time resident in Copen hagen. Nevertheless he heard of this in due course, through the kind offices, no doubt, of some of those " d—d good-natured friends" Sheridan describes as ever ready to make us all acquainted with something said or done to our disadvantage. Where fore, in " rage and resentment untameable," be issued a pamphlet in defence of himself against th• accusations contained in the " Proposals, &c." in a then recent number of the Monthly Magazine. Croft exclaiming -in this pamphlet, among other similar things- 7 " I cannot be expected by any man of honour or feeling to descend to answer a scurri lous person, signing himself Robsit Southey !" Upon . which,. Joseph Cottle has remarked rather humorously—" yet he is answering him I" ' That—we take it—is the meaning of Southey's writing to May, 23d November, 1802, "I have taken no notice of Croft"—signify ing to his friend that he has taken no notice of this pamphlet, written by Croft at Copenhagen, in reply to the " Proposals, &c.," in the Monthly Magazine. If Dr. Maitland cares to, examine the • matter more in detail, he will find his curiosity' may be readily satisfied by turning to Southey's " Life and Correspondence," vol. ii., p. 186, and to Cottle's " Recollections of Coleridge, lac.,"p. 266. Enough, however he whole of this most illogical and bungling argument, put forward by Dr. Mait land in his egregiously preposterous pamphlet about Chttterton,*, says as much for the ascerbity of the author of that pamphlet, and as little for his astuteness, as the "Story of 1770" speaks well for the clear mind and the gentle heart of Mr. Masson. Shame to the one ! Honour to the other ! Chatterton —could he note either—might laugh to scorn the perverse vituperation of his assailant, and exult in the genial sympathies of one of the latest and one of the ablest of his appreciators. THE POPE AND HIS CHAPLAIN-MAJOR. • ROME, Feb. 5 .—lt is rare for any long period to go by without affording some fresh example-of the Pope's benevolence and generosity towards the in digent classes of his subjects. An amusing instance of his Holiness's accessibility took place at the. Vati can a few days ago, when a little boy presented him self in the outer ante-chamber of the apostoliwapart ment and begged to be admitted to the presence of the Pontiff. It may be imagined with what surprise this request was received by the palace servants, and how they endeavoured to make the child understand the incongruity of his demand. Whilst the affair was under discussion, a cameriere segreto of his Holiness passed through the ante-chamber, and having the curiosity to learn what was the matter, referiedit, as a good joke, to the Pope himself. Pio None, how ever, gave orders for the child to be admitted.to his presence, and having questioned him as to the reason of his wishing for an audience, heard that the boy had an earnest desire to study, but that his parents, unable to procure him the necessary books, always put him off with an assurance that the Pope would buy them for him. To effect the realisation of this promise the boy had made thebest of his way to the Vatican, and promptly informed his Holiness that the works indispensable for the pro secution of his studies would cost fif. y s three pauls. The Pope directed the cameriere segreto to give him two dollars (twenty pauls,, but the boy said that he could not buy. his books with that, so his Holiness benevolently took out two gold coins of fire dollars each acid pre sented them to the enraptured child,' who forthwith made off towards the bookseller's shop, followed by an officer of the Pope's household, who had orders to observe his movement 4. Being in formed tdat the boy bad really appropriated the re quired money to the purchase of books, and that he had consigned the remainder to his mother, the Pope took an interest in him and allotted a monthly sum for his education in the career of letters to which he seemed so much attached. Another less edifying but not less amusing anecdote has been current in Rome for the last few days, at the ex pense of the chaplain - major of the Po p e's arm y . I t - appears that this prelate, being dissatisied with the conduct of an officer in the foreignre . gimeut, threat ened to have him cashiered, unlesve3rtain relations he maintained were discontinued. The resentment of the officer, however, whether real orimaginary, gave rise to some subsequent misgivings in the pre late's breast, which the recent attacks upon eccle siastical dignitaries were by no means calculated to soothe. Meanwhile the officer, having become ac quainted at Forli with a nobleman of that town, Count Gaddi, a relation of the Pope, who is now in Rome and enjoys a certain degree of influence, begged his good offices to appease the wrath of Monsignor Tizzani, the chaplain-major. The count, although unacquainted with the prelate, promised to call upon him for the desired purpose, but re quested to be informed at what hoar he was most likely to find him disengaged. This the officer undertook to d'scover, and going to the chaplain's residence for that purpose, gave five pauls to one of the servants, requesting him to give admittance to a gentleman who would call about two o'clock, and who wished to speak with the prelate on urgent business, Monsignor Tizzani, being informed of this cir cumstance by his zealous servant, conceived great alarm, and felt sure that some emissary of the officer's vengeance, or some ferocious follower of Verger's example, was seeking au audience for homicidal purposes. He therefore prudently sum moned to his aid a sergeant of gendarmes, who pro posed to lie iu wait with some of his men during the visit to prevent any aggressive act on the part of the visitor ; but the cautious prelate sagaciously supposing that a blow with a poignard would be sooner received than prevented, declined adopting that plan, and. intimated , that the sergeant himself had better assume the prelatical gown for the nonce, and give audience in his name . to the mysterious visitor. The valorous gendarme philosophically complied—" cedant arena togce," was the motto acted upon ; his uniform disappeared under the purple robe, his moustaches were hidden in an ample wrapper, under pretence of suffering from a violent toothache • and the room being darkened with curtains, the unconscious Count Gaddi was admitted. Having exposed the requested he eoii t nt w h e a i p te r d e a f t o e r 's a indulge reply n w c h e i f e o h r , e i raieesn his d a , n d t of course, the gendarme, who expe3ted an assault rather than a petition, was not prepared to give in a very explicit form, and the prelate, who was anxiously listening to the conversation from an adjoining door, cut matters short by sending a ser vant to say that dinner was .ready, at which an nouncement the sham monsignor started up, and the count withdrew, much surprised at his mumbling voice and strange uncertainty of manner. It was only on his complaining to Car dinal Bofondi of his want of success that the meta morphosis was discovered, for the cardinal sent his own secretary to intercede with monsignor, who at once confessed his own alarm and the stratagem he had used to avoid the supposed dangerous inter view. All Rome is laughing at this adventure, and Monsignor Tizzani amongst the rest ; but the Pope is said to be doubly displeased—first, at his relation being considered a perilous visitor; and next, at a gendarme being so unceremoniously in ducted into prelatical garb. On Monday morning the customary solemnity of Candlemas took place at St. Peter's, when his Holiness blessed the splendidly adorned tapers, and distributed them to the members of the Sacred. College, the civil, military, and ecclesiastical autho rities, and the diplomatists and foreigners whose religion qualifies them for the reception of the pre sent. Queen Christina, with her family and suite, assisted as usual in a royal box. Piince Orsini, Marquis Ferraioli, and Signor Jacobini have been deputed by the provincial coun cil of Rome and Comarca to present their grateful thanks to his Holiness, in the name of the pro vince, for his generous gift of twelve thousand scudi to alleviate the distress of the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages, who are still suffering from the partial failure of the wine crop. The money has been devoted to improving the road to Marina, in which work the indigent labourers of that district are judiciously employed.—Correspon dent of Daily News. Whatever may be said to the contrary,' the glory of Rowl4 is Chatterton's glory—the fabricated " original" (so to designate them) now preserved in the British Museum, are the certificates of his literary fame and the testimonials of his poetical reputation. If he has been depreciated by Dean Mulles, and jeered at by Mr. Bryant, and (eighty seven years after he has been dead and buried) scurrilously assailed in regard to his moral and intellectual character by Dr. Maitland—Chatter ton has been applauded by Dr. Johnson ! He has been eulogised by Shelley He has been lamented by Coleridge— , commended. by Scott—respectfully edited by Southey,-mentioned with all honour by Canipbell, with all admiration by Byron, with all grace by . Wordsworth, with all tenderness of feel ing by James . Montgomerf t , Malone, and Tyrwhitt, and Warton, and: ooer, great, critics of the last as well as of the present century have paid their ho M age to" his genius. _ Sohn Keats inscribed to 'hismemory his maiden poem of `,4yperion." Al fred de Vigny has selected his career as the theme of an eloquent romance and of a pathetic drama. David Masson has tbrowi over the recollection of his life and death, of his genius and of his sufferings, the vivifying glow of a sympathetic imagination. The Dead Bridal. A Venetian, Tale of the Fourteenth Century. Ry Jonathan Freko Slingsby. Ward and L.ck. , A historical romance, this is, which may be de scribed correctly, we believe, as a cheap reprint from a cheap periodical. Yet a reprint though it is, it is one entitled, we conceive, to some particu lar notice of this kind, if only in consideration of the abilities displayed elsewhere by its writer, as well as in consideration, also, in a very especial manner; of the new field that writer has here, by one bold venture, opened up to the English imagi nation. Tn Jonathan Freke Slingsby will be re cognised at once the gay and sparkling writer, until" very recently the assiduous and accomplished editor, of the Dublin University Magazine. An editor who oectipied in that position, with honour to himself and credit to his organ, the post once held by the vivacious . and vigorous baud of our delightful friend Harry Lorrequer ! A writer, moreover (J. F..Blingsby, to wit), who has for a long, while past shone refulgently among the con tributors to the Dublin Universtty Magazine as a sort of a North-Ingoldsby-Fettilletonist I Equally clever in prose and verse, in mingled lyrics and criticisms—riani and sunshiny throughout. Here is this Venetian romance of the 14th Century, called " The Dead Bridal" a glaringly mis nomer, by the way, as the story proves— the quondam editor, the perennial contri butor to the Dublin University Magazine, comes before iv, as it were, under the light of a new phase of his manifold and multifarious intellectual accomplishments. He evidences, in the tale before us, a reinsrkable familiarity with the old Italian Ch ro nicles. He shows himself to be eminently well read in a somewhat recondite branch of Eu ropean. literature. He evinces a ready sympathy , for the times of w hich he writes, and an intimate acquaintance with its customs and costumes, its plcturesque aspect, and its peculiarly mediaeval associations. Yet, as a romancist, we cannot induce ourselves to believe that, in this, his Venetian story of the "Dead Bridal," its author has in any *ay done himself justice. As a historical romancist —as a Creator of Life under the ribs of Death — we cannot but feel that the writer of these twenty one chapters, has been somehow ibraramelled, that his fancy has, in its• restricted compass, -been, in a measure, " cabined, cribbed, con fined." We prefer to regard the tale less as a work done, than as the forerunner of a much -better work to be done. An historical romance . 7 --(let us suppose, relating to the same epoch, an epoch to English Story Tellers perfectly ..new and unhackneyed)—a novel born from the Italian annals, having an ampler scope and a wider signifi cance. We cannot for.an instant accept the " Dead Bridal" as a token of all that the gay and. gifted Slingsby can do in the way of historically romanc ng. We are fain to look upon it, now that we have carefully read it through from Preface to Con clusion, as the predecessor of some other production (kindred in design), evidencing more ripened powers and a more mellowed imagination. Scattered up and down the work, here immediately under oour notiee, are various descriptions, howev er, entitle d o considerable praise, if only by reason of them e 1 v t e he animatel completeness. Take, "ai of the following passage, picturesque l y delineative Condottieri like the other "The Venet'ans did not o f l il thet. secure, Condottieri, one band states of Italy, the serv ices hun dred infantry, were cowl] b of which, consisting ofahaurindtedblyanitc/ratnod four t E n glish, yan Engl . ish knight of with their Groups of these soldiers were now the e d naa n m e e th o e f r, Ch c o h k ie e fl . y atorobbeers7ewnithfrotieheierveloryngqhuoarwteer; of Europe ponderous and unwieldy arblasts and bolts tipped with h ea d s of s quare steel ; and with them were men with the h u ge s hield called the pavison, which was held before the a rcher to protect him while he discharged his die. sale ; there, too, were the men-at-arms, with the lance whiling superseding ng a w ay the thee ttediousness chain ieus evmee neo m etriol a e; snail. and the sword, clothed partially in plate armour, which o o t h i e n r a g c a ti m on es, b o y r p e l h ay at in ti g ng a o t v d er ic t e he anj tnohafi Most twhagesejuwsetreth; in ,Which they had been engaged, with all the gay noL • chalance of men whose trade is arms, and e h ie o e s e e:!tountry is Thethe land particular that e fo r r is t i h s e o t f i mveehnierte Venetian e n ir . set History in "The Dead Bridal" is that is known to the readers vhopaesrewtiroiaouoidiss of Italian History the described as period of the War of the Chioggia. The belligerents being the Genoese and the Venetian s . Th e D oge o f th e H our being old Andrea Contarini. The warriors of Genoa fighting successively under Luciano Doria alld Pietro Dona * Chatterton : an Essay. By the Rev. S. R• M aitland ' D.D., F.R.S. and F.S.A. Pp. 110. London : tons: 1857. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) Li t t t r o e u e z T and Feb.fine c I r — w vir e t n h d e r . LONDON, Feb. 12. —Wi nd th i s day at noon N . W .— 1 W. S. W.—Arrived Java, from Rangoon, with part of crew sick. MILFORD, Feb. 10.—Wind W.—Arrived—Ayrshire, from Belize ; Solace, Savannah, with loss of bulwarks, both for Pembroke Dock. conic, Fab. 10.—Wind W.—Sailed—Marion, for Bar. badoeß. PETERHEAD, Feb. 10.—Wind S.—Arrived—Resolution, from Greenland. LIVERPOOL, ,Feb. 11.—The Franklin King, from N ew York to Liverpool, was abandoned on the 10th Jan., dis abled in the gale of the 4th ; crow taken off by the Celia, arrived at New York. S WANSEA , Feb. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Edward Herber, from Coquimbo. Sailed.—jane, for Valparaiso ; Unrestricted, Rio Janeiro. SHIELDS, Feb. 11.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Atkinson, for Ceylon. NEW YoRE, Jan. 27.—the Irene, of Aden, from Liver. pool, for this port, encountered the gale of the 18th off Fore Island Light, drifted to the south of Barnegat Inlet, was afterwards driven off the coast, became covered with ice, and ultimately went on shore near Moriches Long Island. She is covered with ice to the tops ; crew saved more or less frost bitten. last hour' s e bb ; f res h and f i ne. (BY SUBMARINE AND B RITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.58 a.m. from St. Michael's ; Queen, Bordeaux ; Edgar A.theline, Singapore. Arrived, 12th — St. Fort, from S ev ill e; S ara h Lyo, Surinam. Sailed, 12th—Sir E. Bank s , f or Calais ; R. M. Mills, Adelaide ; Britannia, Cadi a ; Gladiolus, Sydney ; Wind W. Arrived, .I b l y th N —lkancy D awson, Kiel mansegge, steamer, —amburg ; Sir R. Peel, steamer, Dunkirk; Teresa, Bremen; Congo, Launceston: DEAL, Thursday, 9.50 a.m. Wind N.W. by W. ; mod era t e, and fine. (PER ELECTT‘IO TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning Wind W.N.W. Arrived—Thames, from St. John's, N.B. • Walter Baine, Macao ; Rowena, St. John's, N.B. ; Restless, Zante ; Hortense, Loraine ; Italian, screw steamer, Havre; Rosife, Nantes. Sailed—American - Union, f or N ew Y or k ; Alma, New Zealand. QiJEENSTOWN, Feb. 10, Wind S.W. Arrived— John Moulmein ; Advan e c a e r a vnearlernai from Janeiro m au; Mauritius. Mitchell, m DUBLIN, Feb. 11. Wind W. Arrived—Creole, from C Z. KINGSTOWN, Feb. 11 Wiid W. s a iled—.Anglisia Louise, for Rouen --INGSWis:--Todd and MGregor, of order to proceed immediately with the construction . of two first-class steam-ships for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-ship Company. i h L a DzL e.ived an Glasgow,Cr MARKET NEWS.—(This ray.) CORN EXCHANGE._ A G a9 E 3 . 64 GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF' BRIVISTeCORN For the week ended Feb. 12, 1856, made up from the Returns of t► e Inspectors la the different Cities and Towns in England and wal. per Imperial Quarter. WBEAT. issatosr. BEANO. PEAR. I 383 18d 511:EA611x. B 4 A 5 :1, 9 E 1 ; 111 . 11 1 821°303:AATTWS:11EEIIK31:43RTAIII-Eitii BEANS. PEAR. 583 31 453 6 1 233 5d 383 103 40; 8d 39 8d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST wFwic Wheat, 91 , 420; Barley, 79,977 ; Oats, 16,341; are 53. 6,976; Peas, 2,348 quarters. ' Beam, MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATI AND LEADENHALL.—The trade generally is steady as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4610 d; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 49 oa to 58 2d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Feb. 11.—The supplies of each kind of stock in to-day's market were very moderate, and the trade gene rally ruled firm, at fully last week's quotations. Beef, from 3s Gd to 4s 101 ; Mutton, 4s 01 to 5s Gd ; Veal, 43 Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s Od to 5s 0d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ItomFoßD, Feb. 11.—Oar market was firm, as follows : Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 8d ; Ve al, 4s Od to 5s Od ; P cr k , 4 s Od to 4s 10d per 81bs. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow h, 2i lOs to 4 / Os ; clover do., 3/ 10s to 51 5 3 ; and straw 11 4s to 1 / 8s P ar load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow 2/ 15s to 41 4s ; clover hay , do., 31 lOs to 5/ 08 ; and straw , 11 48 to 11. 9s per load, Trade firm. 21 lOs to 4 1 Os ; clover WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow 113Y 'l/ 4s to 1 / Ss do., 3/ 10s to 51 5s ; an d straw, per load. I Trade dull. - FRIEMASONR4.—GBAND LODGE OP ENGLAND.--Last was held at the grorofthe E mergency ati P o r f es Z eri et t la t o li d e purpose of proceeding with night Fteeiu a a s o G n s r!in Grand Tavern,L od business. the i lS n l l W he . the G.M. Lord Pannoure, Viscount Galeria, &O. the arrears Her,fn. After the orders of the day had been disposed of, a R th i e gh lig i lit n. l eng thened discussion ensued on the vexed question, as to whether Grand Lodge should assume the power of adjourning the quarterly communications. Lord Pan mare opposed a resolution to this effect, as also did a number of other brethren, on theground that it was not necessary ; it was tantamount to a vote of want of confi dence in the G.M. to assume such a power. The re. solution was negatived, and the Grand Lodge was the- I adjourned.