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Leasing Closing Business
Railways. raid' Co. S Price. ' Done.
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Birkenhead.
Buckingh ,mgnire..
Chester & Holyhead lOO Do 55 57
Do. 51 per cent 100 Do 126 128
Do. 5 „ 100 Do.
Clydesdale. Junction 100 Cledon llO3 105
Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.UAG.EI (8 70
E. Lincolnsh. gspr e. 100 Gt.l\4'grth.l 36 138
Gloster &Dean Fores all Gt. West.
Gt.Ea, tn. Newmarket
&c.,5 per cent lOO Gt.Eastn.
Do.E.U.Harwch. 4 p.c 100 D 0.......
Do.Wodbrg. Ex. 4 p.c log Do i
Hull and helby all Yk.N. Mid 111 113
Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 203 305 i
Lon. and Chat. Ext. B
6 per cent ... all Lon.&Cht 111 12
Do 41 per cent..... 100 Do. B7 89
Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all D 0........ .. ..
Do. New ShlB6l, 46p.c. all D 0........ 22 24
Do.Wn. Ext. A, 46 pc. all Do ..... ... 81 0
London & Greenwic 100 S. Eastern 84 66
Do. Preferen 6
Lon„Tilb.&S..y,thend 100 reto &Co B9 91
Lnd'dr. &Ennis. orig. 100
Do. A 100 Irish N.-
Do. B 100 Western. .
Do. Ci 100
Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk
Do 6 per cent lOO Do.
Mnc„Bxtn„& Matlock all LNW& M 4 41
Mid. Bradford Prefer-
ence stock
Nor.Dev.Rail & Dock lOO L.&S.W.
Do A stock
Do B stock lOO Jan.,1863.'
Do. Preference lOO
Northn.&Eastn. 5 p.c. all Gt. Eastn 67 69
Do. 6 per cent..... all Do ... .. ..
N. Eastn—Hartlepool 100 N. E. Ber. .. ..
North Western
Not. Gran. 111. & Cl. 100 Gt. North. 951 961 901
Preston and Wyre. 1 all L&N.Wa L. yk. 1 44 48
Do. 1 shares A. all Do. "•• . • • • • •
Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 Gt.North.' 136 138
Shrewsby & Hereford 100 L.&.W., N.W.. 136 137
Do. Do.
South Staffordshire lOO Ln.&N.W
West London, Cis A all W.Ln.Ex
Do do B all Ln&N.W.
Do do C all Mit.Wst.
Wilts and Somerset-1 100 Gt. West. 92 91 1
Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brgtn 81 g/

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Le Profits of each separate Year.

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'Kent Coast, 6 p.ct. pt. B
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per cent. 1858
Do. do. 4 per ct. 1860,
I Do. do. 4i per ct. 1861'
Do. do. 41 pe: et. 1861
6p.c.2d pf
Do, lidetrop. Ext 13,6 p.c.
Lon. &S.Vl'estern 41 p.c.
North British £lO Gua.'
Shares, 1861.. .....
DoEd,Prth,&D'dee,4"p c
Scottish Central4l p.c. I
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S.-Eastern 41 p.c. 1859..
Do. 5 p.c. June 1861 (rd.)
Do. 5 p.c. Aug. 1861 (rd.)
Stkton &PArlgtn. D,Pf
Do. ao.

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106 108

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103 105

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Borii_m„„,-.'4.&.Cent hit
9u. 5 per •

Do. ...New
Buffalo and Laxe Huron
Do. Preference ...• • •
Buffalo,Brant,lzGodrieb
6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
Do. do. July 1, 1873
Do. do. June 1, 18;1
Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (I,i, )I
Cape Town &Dock Suit
Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c
Nast Indian, gu. 5 p. c.
:Do. do. G Ext.....
Do. do. 11 do.
Grand Trunk of Canadf;
Do. 6 per cent. Prof..
Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et..
Do. 6 per et. Debentr.
Do. 7 per cent. 1862 ..
Do. do. 1867..
Do. do. 1872..
Gt.lndiaPentn.gua.sp.c.
Do. New gua. 5 p. 0...
Do. January, 1862 ..
Gt. South.of India(Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent.
Gt. W. of Canada Shares

Do. New .
Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt.
Do. NI p. c. do. '77-8....
Indian Branch Limited
Madras guar.. Gp. 0. ..
Do. 41 p. c. Extension
Dc.4, d 0........

Yo: Fifth Extension.
3telb.Corp. R p. o. _finds
Melb. & Hobson's Bay.
Do. 7 p. c. &tor tg. Bds.
Newßrunswick t Candor

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N.Rl.C'da6 pc lst i bds
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Dutch Rhenish
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Eastern of France I
Grand Rus Guar. 6 p. e
Gt. Luxem., Con.
Italian Junction
Namur & Liege
Do. 6 p. c. Pref.
Northern of France
Do. New Shares

N.Rail. of BuenosAyres
Gua. 7 p c., Lim
Norwegian Trunk Pret
Ot'mn( Smyrna to Aidn)
Parts,Lyons, & Medi to
Paris & Orleans
Portuguese Rail. Royal
Recife & S. Fran. (Petit.)
gua. 7 p. ct. lira
Riga &
Royal Danish
Royal Swedish
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Sambre dz Meuse ..
Do. 5/ per cent. Pref
San Paulo, Um, g. 7 p. c.
S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin
S. East Portugal 7 p ct.
Southern of Prance....
Turin and Savona ....
West Ftanderti ..

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Australasia .
Bank of Egypt
Batik of London
British North American
Ch. Bk. of B. Columbia
Chtd.Bank of India, &c.
Ch. Mer. of In. hon.&
City
Colonial ..
Com. Bank of Canada
Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch
Gen. Bk .of Switzerland
llin'stan,China&Japan
Imperial Bank Limited
Lon.& Brazilian (Lim.)
Lon., B.Ayres&R.Plate
Lon. Char.Bkof Austral
London and County
London Joint Stock
London & Middlesex
London and S.Africau
London & Westminster
Metrop. & Provinl. Bnk.
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Bombay Gas Limited.
British American Land
B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.)
Do. 8,7p.e.t1111852 (Lim )
Canada Land
China & Japan Coast &
River Steam Naviga.
Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg.l
Do. Pref. 74 per cent.
Crystal Palace
Do. Preference
Do. 6 p et. Perpet. Deb.
E. Ind. Cotton Agency,
E.lndia & Lon. Ship A.
Do.
E.lndia frrign. & Canal
Electric Telegraph
EnDgol'isNhe&wAus. Copper.
Gen. Steam Navigati
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Do 17i p ct Preference
Indian Carrying- (Lim.)
Italian Irrigation Canal
Lon. District Tel. (Lim.),
L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.),
Lon. &
Madras hr. and Canal
Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim )
Do. 8 per cent, pref
National Dis. Co. (Lim )
Nerbu.Coal&lron
Netherlands Lant ,Bp.e.
N. Br.&NovaScotia Land
N.B.Australasian (Lim.'
Oriental Gas (Limited).
Do. New
Drina. In. Steam(Lim )
Ottoman Gas, Limited
Peelit.l.nd.&Min.(Li
Pen. & Oriental St( am
Do. New..._.......
Quebrada Land,Rail,&
Mining (Lim.)
Rh ymney Iron
Do.
Rio Janeiro City Impts.

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THE RUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,, DECEIVIRERI6, 1862.

LA W---THIS DAY.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
SLANDER- KOENIG V. RITCHIE.
Sir Filzroy Kelly this morning opened the case on the
part of the defendants. The learned gentleman was ad.
dressing the court when we went to press.
The case will not conclude to-day.

CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
THE WIDOW AND HER £BO.

Edward Wood, dust contractor, was for feloni-
ously receiving a sum of money, well knowing it to have
been stolen. He was also indicted for the larceny.
From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutrix, Mrs.
Stiddolph, a widow, residing at Bermondsey, vrhere she
carried on the business of a confectioner, and being in pos-
session of a considerable sum of money, £BO, she placed it
for security under the fender in her bedroom. By some
means or other it got removed t) within the grate, and the
servant girl one morning shoveled the two pieces of cloth
in which the money was wrapped up in into the
ashes, and threw it into the dust-hole. A short time
before the money was so accidentally disposed of a
large quantity of almonds, which had become useless
to Mrs. Stiddolph, had also been consigned to the same place,
and the dust collector's cart having arrived, the men were
called in to cart the refuse from the house. The ashes were
taken to the prisoner's premises, and there left, and the
peculiarity of the heap was marked by the immense quantity
of almonds it contained. After the ashes were on the pri-
soner's premisee a lad informed him that one of the men
had discovered a lot of money in the dust. He then went
to them, and they gave him £l5 as his share of the disco-
very. Some time after inquiry was made by Mrs. Stid-
dolph relative to the money, and the fact that a quantity of
worthless almonds was also mentioned as being in the dust
which was taken front her house, which it was also said
contained the £BO which, with the exception of one sove-
reign, consisted entirely of half sovereigns. The prisoner,
it was afterwards discovered, had paid £9 lls. 6d. to
the parochial authorities, and also £2 10s. for
some clover, amongst which was one of a very peculiar de-
scription, and to which the prosecutrix swore as her pro-
perty. On inquiry being made, the prisoner denied the
finding of the money, but he afterwards said that some
coin had been discovered by the men, and that, according
to the practice of the yard, the men gave him a half of the
found money—viz„ £l5.

The prisoner was then taken into custody, and as he was
being conveyed to the station-house he told the constable
that when any money was found it was always divided
between himself and the men. Notes, he said, were fre-
quently found; and with respect to the money in question,
he said one of the boys told him that £45 had been found
amongst the dust in the yard, and that he had received £l5,
which he had paid away. He had given £9 lls. 6d. to
Mr. Riches, and £2 10s. for some clover, and the rest he
had advanced to his men, which he was to deduct on the
following Saturday.

A statement made at the police •court by the prisoner was
also put in and read ; it stated that the money was found
amongst the dust collected, and that he received 415 as his
share. When he was first spoken to about the money he
denied all knowledge of it ; but he afterwards made an offer
to repay the prosecutrix all he had received from the men.
Tho Jury were of opinion that the prisoner was guilty
of receiving the money, and that he did not give himself
any trouble to find out the owner.

The Common Sergeant—Do you mean to say that when
the prisoner put the money into
his pocket he reasonably
believed the owner could be found ?
The Foreman—Yes, my lord.

The Common Sergeant—The property then was stolen.
You must now say whether the prisoner received the money
under circumstances that induced him to belitve it had been
stolen.

The Foreman—We find him guilty of receiving the
money, well knowing that the owner could be found, but
we strongly recommend him to mercy.
The Common Sergeant—Will you say whether you are
of opinion that the prisoner believed that he had a right to
the property found as his perquisites P
The Foreman—We think so.

The Common Sergeant, in passing sentence, told the pri-
soner he had been found guilty of a very serious offence;
but at the same time, he must admit, it was under very
peculiar circumstances. He thought it could not be too gene-
rally known that such as plate, j ewels, or money did not belong
to parties finding them, but that they were bound to tako
the best means in their power to discover the owner. Under
all the facts of the case, he thought he might safely in the
present instance pass a light sentence, but he did not mean
by that to mark his opinion as to a person appropriating
money, as had been described. • He thought the prisoner
laboured under some idea that he was entitled to the pro-
perty ; and, as he had before remarked, the case was some-
what peculiar, he should sentence him to two months' im-
prisonment in the House of Correction.

NEW COURT.
(Before Commissioner Kerr.)

Frederic Leighton Clift, 25, basket maker, was indicted
for unlawfully being at largo before term of penal servi-
tude, to which he had been sentenced, had expired.
Mr. Clerk and Mr. Besley prosecuted, and Mr. Kemp
defended the prisoner, who pleaded guilty.
It will be recollected that the prisoner was one of two
brothers, named Clift, feather dealers, residing at Peck-
ham, who were about two years ago indicted for and found
guilty of setting fire to their premises, with intent ;o defraud
the Globe Insurance Company of the money for which he
had insured his property. They were convicted and sen-
tenced to 10 years' penal servitude, but previous to the
prisoner's being sent out of the country he was transmitted
to Milibank Penitentiary to undergo the probationary part
of his sentence. A short time after his entering the Pent"'
tentiary he contrived to effect his escape therefrom with an-
other prisoner, and remained at large until he was taken
into custody on another charge, viz., for forging and utter•
ing a bill for £44, with intent to defraud. -
The Commissioner sentenced the prisoner to 16 years
penal servitude.

POLICE---THIS DAY•

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Soho, was charged with threatening
AN UNIAPPY PAIR.—THREATENING A WIFE.—WIII.
Norris, a pattern card marker 55, New Compton-street,
his wife Mary Ann,
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the complainant,"a respectable•looking young
woman, and said that the parties had only been married
two years, and for some time past the defendant had
threatened his wife with great inhumanity, the sole cause
for it being because his wife was in the family-way. The
defendant had told his wife that he would not strike her,
but that because she was about to give birth to a child
he would, by his conduct to her, put her in her grave
in three months. Last January the wife, through the
defendant's ill-usage, had been delivered of a dead
child, instruments being used. He (Mr. Lewis) would call
the wife and then ask the Magistrate to show the defendant
that if men would act like brutes to their wives they would
be punished.

The wife then deposed that her husband had for some
time ill-used her, but had latterly said that he would not
strike her ; but he was in the habit of violently shaking her,
and said that he did not like children or the idea of her
having them.

711 E NAVY.

MARKETS---TIIIS DAY.

The defendant said he never remembered using any
threats.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said they had better live apart.
The defendant said he did not wish to live apart.
Mr. Lewis observed that they could not live together.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the defendant was a poor cowardly
fellow to harass his wife in her then condition. He should
make the defendant find one bail to keep the peace to his
wife for three months, and he would tell him that he con-
sidered him a poor miserable fellow.

SPOR7ING INTELLIGENCE.

TATIERSALLS'—LAST EVENING.
THE DERBY.
15 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
9to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
12 to 1 agst Hospodar (offered)
33 to 1 agst Carnival (taken)
33 to 1 agst 'Melrose (taken)
50 to 1 agst Taje (taken)
50 to 1 agst Pratique (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Giles the First (taken)
1090 to 10 agst Overstone (taken)

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

LONDON, Dec. 16.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather.
OFF DOVER, Dec. 15.—Arrived—Centurion, from Syd-
ney, N.S.W.
DARTMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hen-
rietta, from Helsingfors, for Rio Janeiro, with jibboom
broken.

PLYMOUTH, Dec, I.s.—Wind S,—Arrivel—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Emerald, from Gibraltar; Lady Melviile, from
FALMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Falkland,
from Moulmein.
fLoornselyodnn,
eyfo.r Melbourne ; Mary Sheppard, from London,

frm ~Ds.ec. 16.—Arrived—Jura, screw steamer,
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Go
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($Y MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
A r
rd
Arrived
; Willkomman, from Riga; John Pickard, from
Teaser and Countess Leicester, from Guernsey;
Rope Isabella, from Rio Janeiro ;
--oPe and Mathilda, from
ottenburg.iv
Groningen
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed--Earl of Hardwicke, from Madras, for London;
Psyche,_ from London, for St. Michael's.
Anchored—Deus Manes, from London, for Nantes ;
Dritannia, from London, for Newport,

The iron masts of the Prince Consort iron-plated
frigate have been received at the dockyard at Pem-
broke. They are entirely of wrought iron, and have
been manufactured at the iron works at Chepstow,
whence they were sent by special train down the
South Wales Railway. The mainmast is upwards
of 80ft. in length, and the united length of the three
masts with the bowsprit is 260 ft, while the weight
of the whole is over 60 tons. They were conveyed
on a train comprising 23 limber carriages, and each
mast was complete and ready for shipment when
placed on the trucks. Enormous shears have some
time been ready on the deck of the Prince Consort,
and, as the iron plating is well advanced, in a short
time this fine frigate will be ready for floating out
of the dry dock, where the process of armour plat-
ing has been carried on.
The screw steam frigate Doris, 32, Capt. Sir F. I.
M'Clintock, from the Mediterranean, arrived at
Plymouth yesterday morning. She left Gibraltar
on the Bth, Lisbon on the 10th, and Ferrol on the
12th inst. Very fine weather prevailed on the pas-
sage ; the wind was north-east, with heavy swells.
The Doris steamed nearly all the way. She brings
as passengers from Gibraltar Ensign Graham, 3d
Regiment, and one seaman and two marines, inva-
lids. This frigate was put in commission on March
4, 1859. Her crew will be paid off at Plymouth.
She has been constantly occupied in the Medi-
terranean, and on two occasions, for four months
and for two months, was in attendance on the
Prince of Wales during the visits of his Royal
Highness to the Continent. The Doris in in good
condition. At Gibraltar was the gunboat Procris,
Fredk. Warden, C. 8., and at Lisbon the screw
steamship Revenge, 73, Capt. Chas. Fellowes, flag
of Rear-Admiral Robt. Smart, K.H.; Black Prince,
40, Capt. James F. P. Wainwright ; Warrior, 40,
Capt. the Hon. Arthur Cochrane ; Resistance, 18,
Capt. Wm. Chamberlain; and the Defence, 18,Capt.
Richard A. Powell, C.B.

A contract for the supply of a portion of the
armour plates for the iron frigate Achilles, 50,1,250
horse power, building at Chatham dockyard, has
been taken by Messrs. Brown and Co., of the Atlas
works, Sheffield. They have engaged to supply the
plates at the rate of £45 10s. per ton. The same
firm is under contract to supply the armour plates
for the iron vessel Enterprise, which is being con-
structedaccording to the plan proposed byMr. Reed.
About 600 tons have already been received at Chat-
ham dockyard from the Thames Ironworks, the
Parkgate Foundry, and other establishments, to be
used in plating the Achilles and the Royal Oak, 50.
The whole of these plates are stacked beneath the
shed erected for the screw steamer Reindeer, 17,
under construction. In addition to these upwards of
800 tons of armour plates have been already bolted
to the sides of the Royal Oak. The principal por-

tion of the armour plates for the Achilles will be
manufactured at the Parkgate Ironworks, York-
shire, which firm has already supplied a large
number used at Chatham. In the manufacture of
the armour plates for the Achilles some im-
provements will be introduced in order to give
greater strength and hardness to the iron. I❑
the preparation of plates hitherto supplied for our
iron and iron cased vessels a certain number have
been manufactured either from rolled or hammered
iron—that is, the bloom of iron when taken from
the furnace is either rolled into the required slab
under heavy rollers, or else beaten into shape under
the steam hammer. It is intended, however, to
employ both these processes in preparing the armour
plating for the Achilles, the bloom being first rolled
into the shape of the plate, which will then be
completed under the operations of the hammer, ex-
perience having shown that the plates manufac-
tured by hammering are considerably tougher and
have a much closer grain than those which have
been rolled only. According to existing appear-
ances, the Achilles will be ready to receive her
first tier of armour plates in about a month, the
shipwrights being now engaged in fixing the 18 inch
teak backing on those parts of the interior plates of
the vessel which are already completed. The pre-
sent elevated tramway on each side of the dock will
shortly be removed, and in its place a much larger
tramway will be laid down for a pair of the most
powerful of Taylor's steam cranes, two of which
have been for some time at 'work in the adjoining
dock, lifting the heavy armour-plates and other
portions of the iron-work for the Royal Oak,which
latter vessel is expected to be ready for floating out
of dock during the ensuing month.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Edye, to
the Britannia ; Lieutenant George M. Comber,
to the Victory; John G. Barnes, paymaster, to
the Pylades ; A. M. Williams, midshipman,
to the Shearwater ; H. J. H. Veitch, midshipman,
to the Pylades ; and F. T. Bagshawe, master's assis-
tant, to the Meeanee. Mears. J. B. Fellowes, A.
E. Stuart, and H. J. Bodman have been nominated
to naval cadetships.

LITERATURE.

Through Algeri-i. By the Author of " Life in

Tuscany." Bentley.
Belonging to the rapidly increasing class of lady
tourists, and commencing her work with an apology
for the same, the author conducts her readers
through the various phases of Algerine life, jotting
down her impressions in a light and agreeable man-
ner, and conveying a vivid idea of the condition of
that part of Africa which is now under the paternal
Government of the French. The native population
of Algeria consists of a mixture of Moors, Jews,
negroes, and Arabs, and of the former she says :
"The Moor has an innate love of beauty. The
colours of his dress are well assorted, and his em-
broidery designs are graceful. He is passionately
fond of flowers—he has them often in a jar beside
him as he works, and he frequently inserts them
beneath the edge of his fez or turban; the oppres-
sive fragrance of the large white jasmine and the
orange flower is his delight. Though loving to lie
in the shade, he likes to have a gush of sunshine
lighting up the scene on which he locks. Polite in
speech, his gestures are always graceful, his bear-
ing dignified, and the calm self-possession of his
address is never disturbed by the most unex-
pected incident." Algeria, at present, consists,
as it were, of two divisions; that occupied by the
French having been almost entirely rebuilt by them,
has consequently lost its distinctive architectural
features, but in the old portion of the town the
oriental aspect is still preserved. "It is but a step
from a wide French street to a native thoroughfare
about four feet wide, scaling the side of a steep hill.
The shops on either hand are in European eyes no-.
thing but mere stalls ; many of them are not so large
as a good-sized wardrobe, and in every case their
open fronts serve the place of doors and windows.
Here is a stall whose entrance is ornamented by
pendant buuellea of red pepper pode and onions,
whilst the proprietor, coiled up upon his bench,
has fallen fast asleep. Opposite is a narrow room,
some five feet long, in which a barber is exercising
his skill upon a well-lathered head ; and on a bench
inside a handsomely-dressed Moor is evidently wait-
ing to undergo a similar operation. Close by three
shoemakers ply their trade in a recess, whose en-
trance is garnished by pendant strings of shoes,
black, red, and green, and showing here and there
a resplendent front, glittering with gold and silver
twist, and tinsel ornament. A few steps further up
I pass a cafe, whose walls are lined on either side by
a row of cross-legged natives, of whom some smoke,
some play at draughts, whilst others sip coffee out of
diminutive cups, amidst an almost unbroken silence.
In a small recess raised a few steps above the street
a solemn Greybeard sits, resting on his knees a sheet
of paper, on which he is slowly tracing with ex-
quisite neatness some Arabic characters." But the
author did not confine herself to Algiers, but made
excursions into the country, and even penetrated as
far as Ka bylia ; the natives of which, differing in
many essentials from the Arabs, have the character
of being by no means fond of strangers. She was
received, however, everywhere with courtesy,
though her advent not a little astonished the
Kabyles, and the accommodation with which she
had to content herself was often of a most primitivi
kind. The great curse of the country seems to be
malaria ; the soil, wherever turned up, emits pesti-
lential exhalations, and the French settlers have
" died off like flies." This has been a terrible draw-
back to the prosperity of the colony, and notwith-
standing all the inducements held out by the French
Government progress has been exceedingly slow.
Scattered through the volume we find some interest-
ing anecdotes illustrative of Arab character, together
with curious descriptions of their superstitious rites
and festivals, and the reader will obtain from it not
only amusement, bat also a considerable amount of
information.

The °tannings. By Mrs. Henry Wood. Bentleyi
This is a reprint, in a single volume, of Mrsi
Henry Wood's extremely popular novel, and in its
present handsome and convenient, but cheap, form
we have no doubt it will command an extensive
sale.