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London, England, 1862-01-02 00:00:00

press too much upon them, as it was now half-past
fon:. o'ciccl;-.
Sir H. Cairns said he would stop at once, as this
would be a good place for doing so, and he would
resume his address on the following morning.

POLICE INTELLIc'ENCE.—.Tan. 1.

GUILDHALL.—AIderman Humphery, on tak-
ing his seat on the bench, called our reporter's
attention to the following extraordinary prophecy
which appeared in " Zadkiel's Almanac for 1861,"
in reference to his late Royal Highness the Prince
Consort :—The full moon nearest to the ingress of
the sun in Aries is 2h. 12m. p.m., 26th March,
1861. This lunation is remarkable, because the
same sign ascends as at the ingress, and very nearly
the same degree. Again we find Saturn retrograde
in the ascendant, and Jupiter in the twelfth, with
Mars again fiercely burning in the tenth house.
Some very pugnacious feelings are displayed by the
ruling Powers. The revenue fails, and turmoil arises
on that question. A royal marriage is now indicated
by Venus, lady of the tenth house, being in exact
sextile aspect to Mss. Mercury, in the eighth, pro
motes much mortality during the spring amongst
children, and many deaths by catarrhs, coughs, and
asthma. The stationary position of Saturn in the
third degree of Virgo in May, following upon this
lunation, will be very evil for all persons born on or
near the 26th of August ; among the sufferers I
regret to see the worthy Prince Consort of these
realms. Let such persons pay scrupulous attention
to health. Some singular calamity for London is
threatened about the Ist of August, when Saturn
comes to square off Uranus in this figure. it may
be by tumults or the death of numbers by fall of
some building, &c. The evil will be sudden and
singular."

COUN2BY MARICL26.

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NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—DEc. 31.
To-day's market was quite of a holiday character, and
both buyers and sellers held off for the issue of the Ameri-
can question. Wheat firm.

HULL—DEc. 31.
Arrivals of wheat have been rather small this week, and
consist mostly of Baltic shipments per steamer. At our
market to-day there was but a limited business done.
English wheat sold slowly at barely last week's currency,
and foreign rather firm.
Wheat.... Old white per qr. s4s Od to 58s Od
Old red ),
New white .. 71
New red ....
K
Dantzic, onb , Ac. old white 63s Od to 67s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 62s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red . , 60s Od to 62s Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 50s Od to 52s Od
Barley.... English malting 3ss Od to 39s Od
Grinding
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish
Grinding 3os Od to 31s Od
Oats English, old
Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2}d to 13d
Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 08131 d
Swedish and Danish .. 08121 d to osl3d
Beans ....English, old, per qr, 4Bs Od to 50s Od
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick
Egyptian 3Bs Od to 40s Od
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares .... Spring
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 15 0 to £lO 10 0
Foreign 8 5 oto 9 0 0
Rape cakes 517 6to 6 0 0
Bones 5 5 oto 510

COAL N
(Prioes of Coal per Ton a'

LARKET.

s. d.
Bate's West Hartley.. 15 3
Carway and Duftryn
Malting
Do. Anthracite 21 6
Wylam
.16 6
Davison's West Hart-
ley
Burnhope Gas 14 0
ranfield Moor 13 6
llolywell 16 6
walker Primrose 13 3
Byass's Bebside West

the close of the market
a. a
Grey's West Hartley..l6
Bell's Primrose ......14 0

Walls End.
Hartlepool....
Whitworth 14 6
Trimdon Hartlepool —l7 6
Thorpe .. ..17 3
Haswell lB 3
South Hartlepool 16 9
North Pelion.. .. l5 0
South Hetton ..18 3
Harton l6 9
Brr.ddyll's Hetton 17 6
West Hartley 16 3
, 51; sold, 36.

Hartley l6 6
Lambert's West Hart-

ley
16 3
Ships at marke

FOREIGN MAIL PACEL'T Lls2'.

MAILS DUE.

-
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Jan. 18.
via Marseilles ... J an. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4.
Cape of Uood Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena., Jan. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jan. 2.
via Marseilles Jan. —.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton .....
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 2..
via Marseilles Jan. —.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 10.
via Marseilles Jan. 4.
Lisbon
Jan. 1.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 2.
Newfoundland via Marseilles Jan. —.
Jan. 8
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 2.
--by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet,Jan. 1.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Jan. 10.
Bahamas, via New York .... Jan. 16.
Mexico
....Dec. 30.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, jMc 30
California,and British Columbia.• •

SIR JAMES FERGIISSON.—We regret to state that
Sir James Fergusson, M.P., has sustained an accident while
hunting, his horse having inflicted a severe wound upon his
head, and that the hon. baronet is temporarily incapacitated
from the discharge of public business. His friends in Ayr-
shire will be glad to learn that his injuries are not of such a
nature as to confine him much longer to his room,—Ayr-
shire Express.

THE WEATHER:— Gaignanisays:—At six o'clock
yesterday morning the thermometer of M. Chevallier stood
at
.3 7-10ths below zero Centigrade (25 1-3 d Fahrenheit)
and at noon 1 5-10ths above zero C. (344 F.) The ice on
the large lake in the Bois de Boulegne was yesterday
thronged with skaters, and among them were many ele-
gantly dressed ladies. A number of the fair sex were also
seen gliding along in small sledges of various forms, orna-
mented with much taste.

ANNUAL RETURN OF THE STOCK OF COTTON IN
LIVERPOOL.—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31.—The returns of the
stock of cotton in hand in this port, up to the 31st Decem-
ber, have just been published. From these figures the
actual stock of cotton in hand turns out to be about
90,0 0 bales in excess of the estimated. Of this excess
74,000 bales are American. This is partly accounted for by
large quantity resold here by spinners. The following is
the stock in hand—American : Sea Island, 7,031; Stained
ditto, 32 ; Upland Bowed, 81,690 ; Mobile, 48,869 ; New
Orleans, 141,688—total American, 279,310. Other Coun-
tries : Pernam and Paraiba, 11,893 ; Bahia and Maceio,
13,480 ; Maranham, 1,880 ; Egyptian, 9,492 ; West India,
328; Carthagena, 11 ; Surat, 295,000; Madras, 11,139;
African, 32—grand total, 622,595 bales.
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MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--A frightful
murder has just been committed at a lonely village, called
Graigwen, about two miles from Llanfair, and eight from
Welshpool. Tt appears that some men with a thrashing
machine happened to be passing- along the road on Monday
evening, and were attracted by the singular proceedings of
a man named Ismael Jones, and called the attention of Mr.
Thomas, surgeon, of Llanfair, who just then came up on
horseback, to the man's movements. Jones had a rope
around his neck, and seemed to be trying to hang himself to
the bough of a tree, when they prevented his accomplishing
his object. On nearing the house Mr. Thomas perceived
the body of a woman, with her skull cleft in two, lying on
the ground. Jones confessed that it was his wife, and that
he had cut her head open with a spade which was near, and
intended to hang himself. He was speedily secured and
conveyed to Montgomery Gaol. The inquest was formally
opened on Wednesday, and adjourned to Saturday.