The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-26 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Since our last report immense supplies of meat have
.hanged hands, and prices have been well supported. To-
day we were scantily supplied, and only a limited business
was transacted, as follows :
Per 81bs by the carcase.

s. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 3 0 3 2 Mutton, Inferior
Do., middling 3 4 3 8 Do., Middling_
Do., prime large 3 10 4 0 Do., prime
Do., do. 5ma11....4 2 4 4 Veal
Pork, large 3 4 4 0 Pork, small

s. d. s. d.
32 3 4
.3 6 4 2
.4 4 4 8
.3 4 4 8
.4 2 5 0

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WOOL.
There has been about an average business doing in Eng.
lish wools, at full quotations ; otherwise our market is in
a very inactive state. The imports have amounted to 70
bales from Bombay, 27 from Leghorn, 51 from Monto
Video, 100 frem Australia, 110 from the Cape, and 63 from
Glucksta,dt.

LLOYD'S &HIPP' NG.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Dec. 26.—Wind this day at Noon, N.W. ;
light breeze, and fine, sharp, frosty weather.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 24.—Arrived—Thomas Mitchell, from
Calcutta ; Heroine, Algoa Bay ; Fragment, Larachea;
Louise, Rio Janeiro, for Copenhagen ; Hermann, Porto
Cabello, for Altona ; Jean Charles, St. Domingo, for
Havre ; Jones, Antigua Sailed—Calcutta, for Boston,
and several of the wind-bound.

PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 25. —Wind, N.E. to E.N.E. Ar-
rived—Lord Duncan, from Port Nicholson, for London ;
Europe, Batavia, for Rotterdam ; Prince Edward, St.
Andrew's, N.B.
COWES, Nov. 25.—Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Herschell,
An,goctura, from Bremen.
OFF S •NLComBE, Nov. 25.—Mayflower, Adelaide, S.A.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Sea
Park, Australia ; Johannas, Monte Video ; Jabez, Anti-
guff. The Charles and Jane (American ship), Newcastle
to New York, has put in very leaky, having been on shore.
ST. DAVID'S, Dec. 2s.—The Farmer's Delight, of Sal-
combo, Gijon to Liverpool, has been totally wrecked on
the Bishops and Clerks.
VALENCIA, Dec. 23.—The Tweedside (brig), of Hartle-
pool, foundered 15th inst., 50 N. 13 W. ; crew saved and
landed here.

SHEERNESS, Dec. 25.—Arrived—Dolphin, London for
Shields, with damage from collision with a collier brig
below the Gunfleet.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 25.—Wind, N.N.E.—Arrived —The
Sir Charles Forbes, St. Andrews, N.B. Sailed—Confi-
dence, Callao ; Ferdinand, Martinique.

LOWESTOFT, Dec. 25.—The Dorothea, of and from
Wisby for London, has been assisted in, leaky, and with
loss of rudder, having been on Harbro' Sand.
GIBRALTAR, Dec. 13.—The Beranger, of Havre, from
Bailie arrived hei e, drove, during a strong gale yesterday,
across the Onward, of Bristol, and Arabella, of London,
damaged both vessels and grounded. Dec. 17.—The
Crescent, of Inverkeithing, London to Magador, has been
assisted in here dismasted ; the Bebecca, Mazay.an to Liver-
pool, put in yesterday leaky, and must partly discharge to
repair ; the Adventure, of Poole, from Cadiz, with bow-
sprit gone, mizen and mainmast, carried away, and
various other damage, in a gale off St. Vincent, was seen
by the Samuel and Edward, arrived here from New York.

DEFALCATIONS OF MR. W. B. ANDERSON.—It appears
that the defalcations of Mr. W. B. Anderson, the foreign
and general agent, at present under remand on a charge
of forging bills of exchange, are much more serious than
was at first anticipated, the entire amount involved being
rumoured to reach between 130,0001. and 150,0001.
THE STAMP DIITIES.—The subjoined letter contains
a reply to one inserted yesterday impugning the ex-
pediency of the views lately expressed by Mr. Commis-
sioner Fane on the present state of the stamp law in•
relation to bills purporting to be drawn abroad :
"27, Bucklersbnry, Dec. 23.
" Sir,—The remarks that I had thepleasure of forwarding
to you with respect to the late case ' In re Oppenheim '
were directed to the necessity of relief being given to the
holders of stampless bills of exchange, rather than to the
punishment of fraud. Your correspondent Parini; lulus'
sees in the wholesome terror of the law, which he believes
sufficiently strong, if properly administered, to reach
offenders, as much protection as society can grant, and
places the bona fide discounter of a stampless pretended
foreign bill drawn in this country in the same category as
the holder of a forged note. The vast operations of com-
merce through the agency of bills of exchange renders it
of the highest importance that the negotiability of these
instruments should not be interfered with, and the Legis-
lature' by various enactments, has always insisted on
their free circulation. I suggest, therefore, that as no
1 foreign bill, under the present law, can be negotiated with
security as to regularity, it is the duty of the Government
to find a remedy by, an alteration of the Stamp Act ; either
by allowing a genuine holder on payment of the stamp to
be reinstated in his full rights, or by placing a small Go-
vernment stamp on all foreign bills, as practised in France.
In conclusion, it must be remembered that no parallel can
be successfully maintained between the value of a forged
note and that of an unstamped bill. The one, as a nego-
tiable instrument, is of far more importance than the
other; in addition, ordinary care and judgment can detect
the forgery, while no experience or acumen is of the
slightest use in determining whether a bill has been drawn
in London or elsewhere.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your most obedient servant, "T, R. L."