The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN', LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1858.

misrepresentation or wilful injustice. On the contrary,
the Press endeavoured to do its duty, fearlessly and to
the best of its ability. Its purpose was to expound the
truth, and nothing but the truth, and in so doing it
appealed to a discerning and an independent people.
The toast of the " Ladies" wound up the entertain-
ment, which, we may add, passed off with the greatest
eclat.
A professional company of vocalists enlivened the
proceedings by singing some excellent songs and glees,
in the intervals between the speeches.

MUSIC.

BY ELIZA COOK.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)

"The man who hath not music in hie soul ;" but non-
sense,—where is the man whose soul is entirely without
it ? It is true that we have known two upright animals
in the course of our life who appeared perfectly deaf to
the influence of " sweet sounds, —who pronounced music
to be an insufferable " noise," and invariably told their
daughters, in a very snappy manner, to "leave off sing-
ing ; ' but then neither of these worthies could merit the
name of man in its full sense ; they were coarse, hard,
rude pieces of human granite, whose very voice was an
infliction to a moderately-attuned ear, and whose uncouth
guffaw laugh made decent surroundings dumb. Such as
these are the exceptions to humanity, thank Heaven !
We have also known a very gifted and intellectual young
man who once seriously declared to us that he could
find music in omnibus wheels. We have a secret sus-
picion that a certain interesting young lady used to
step out of one of these vehicles rather frequently on a
visit to his sister, and that Cupid had rosined the
wheels which played so pleasantly on the fiddle-strings
of his heart. Yet we could not help respecting the
exquisite benevolence of ear which, under any cir-
cumstances, could detect melodious breathings in
rnmbling " Waterloos " and rattling " Favourites,"
and always held this young man as a balance against
the brace of soulless individuals just alluded to.
But in the average of biped creation, who does not
entertain some spark of affection for " music ?" We
should like to know where the being can be found who
has not attempted, in his or her lifetime, some musical
instrument. Be it recollected that exquisite cremonas,
rosewood horizontals, brazen-faced bugles, silver-
trimmed flutes, richly-decked harps, and the long list of
legitimate orchestral agents, are not the only sources
that develop the strong and innate love of harmony
which pervades mankind. It would be false and ridicu-
lous to assert that the natural love of food can only be
exhibited towards artistically-wrought dishes and stall-
fed sirloins, and it would be equally so to declare that
the love of music can only be testified by execution on
ivory keys and mystic strings. The dirty, shoeless
urchin in the courts of St. Giles's never heard of a

"gamut," and the names of Handel and Beethoven are
as foreign to him as the mines of Golconda ; yet we may
see him carefully selecting a halfpenny Jew's-harp, exa-
mining its tongue with scrutinizing intensity, and
fitting it to his teeth with as ready an aptitude as
Paganini when he shouldered his magic violin.
Away he goes, pouring his whole energy of hands
and breath into the melody of Sich, a Giffin.' Upstairs.
He may be elbowed into the kennel, or jostled
against the wall, but he is not to be diverted
from his study ; mouth, Jew's-harp, and finger, form an
indissoluble trinity, and it is a query whether he would
not play on if London were in flames, as Nero did while
the seven-hilled capitol was blazing. The boy is poor
even to hunger, ragged even to semi-nudity, ignorant
even to barbarity, yet the universal and imperishable
essence flings its sparks from the rough crucible : there
is "music in his soul."

We often stand in the sweet spring time with watch-
ful eyes at the corner of some " Mews," when the fresh
bundles of green-meat, smelling of clover-bloom and
daisy-roots, are pitched down in refreshing plenty. We
see a tribe of young vagabonds gather round with the
sly caution of felonious intent, as eager and stealthy in
their purpose as jackals about a carcase. What is it they
want ? There are no concealed lollipops, no latent
stores of battledores and peg-tops in those bundles.
No ; but there are materials for " squeakers," and
the emerald reeds once gained, are soon converted into
" wind instruments," and the gang of youngsters
into a most appalling horn band. It may be ad-
mitted that the notes elicited are about as pleasing
to the well-organized ear as the curious chro-
matic scale sent forth by the sharpening of a saw ; never-
theless, there may be some " Kcenigs" and " Bau-
manns" in the crew, although their powers may ever
be unknown to fame for lack of cultivation. They are
happy in the production of a sound, harsh as it may be ;
they are delighted with their own abominable attempts
at harmony, and the outlandish too-tooing that issues
from their fragile pipes serves to proclaim the mighty
influence of " music."

We hear the errand-boy chinking his home-made cas-
tanets with unceasing activity, while he whistles Rory
O'illore with a shrill fulness that overpowers omnibus
wheels. He goes through the Aurora Waltzes in a style
that evinces he has paid some attention to the Pro-
menade Concerts, and has even picked up The Pollacca
in I Puritani, with very fair accuracy. What does he
know of bars and rests, of crotchets and minims ? No-
thing. Who taught him to accent the stroke of the
castanets in just the proper place ? No one. The
joyous spirit of nature has alone instructed him : " there
is music in his soul."

Look on the tribes of children "coming home from
the fair," and who shall say that drums, fiddles, whistles,
and trumpets are not in the ascendant ? The staring
eyes of the happy wights have gazed wistfully on the
gingerbread-stalls, where watches with real gold faces
make time fly right merrily, and the rattle of crisp and
cracking spice-nuts causes more excitement than the dice
at Crockford's. They have lingered at the spots where
a display of yellow swords, scarlet guns, plum-pudding
horses, and rainbow-tinted waggons, have tempted them
to break the tenth commandment most outrageously. Fat
ladies, wonderful pigs, and astonishing dwarfs, have each
in turn made strong impression on squandering propen-
sities ; but the pence and sixpences have withstood all
attacks, until a most insinuating whistle or imposing
trumpet inspires with irresistable desire of possession,
and not all the coaxing entreaties of friends and rela-
tives, who naturally consider such things as household
nuisances, can induce the little obstinate wretches to
change their minds, and whole establishments are
thrown into fits by extemporaneous fantasias performed
by three separate members of a family, on three separate
instruments, in three separate keys, and in three separate
times ; but, despite of headaches produced by concertos
on the drum, and misdirected letters caused by the im-
mediate vicinity of an incessantly-scraped tambourine—
despite the St. Luke's tendency of such homage to
Apollo, we never can find it in our hearts to whip the
offenders, for they love the noise they make, and there
is " music in their souls."
We believe that music is born with us ; it is one of
the ethereal agencies that spiritualize our coarser senses,
and it forms one of the links of divinity. It is an uni-
versal essence, the power of which is bestowed in vary-
ing degrees of intensity, and experienced under very
differing emotions. Like the nervous fluid, it has a
secret and impenetrable action, and operates as strongly
and as unequally. The same melody will affect a dozen
distinct persons in a dozen distinct ways. The
phlegmatic and the sensitive will each yield to the influ-
ence of a fine National Song ; but while the first expe-
riences a merely strong stimulant of unusual excitement
and vulgar patriotism, the latter will be affected to an
aching of thrilling sense and enthusiastic delight.
The Highlander, whose fresh mountain nature is
incorporated with the pibroch and reel, moves very
differently to the strain of Tulloch, Gorum, compared
to the Almacks gentleman, who listens to the
measure as he would to a single knock at his
hall-door. Yet music is recognised by all of woman-
born as something at once mighty and impalpable,
and the acute sympathy with it lies so near the
surface in many bosoms, that an old fiddler can
make an instantaneous and peremptory demand upon
it. Let him strike up a merry and popular tune. It
is enough : faces grow brighter, feet become affected
with involuntary twitchings—heads are inclined to in-
dulge in most significant " nods and becks," and the
rising steam of exhilarating joy finds a safety-valve in
" hands four round, down the middle, and up again."
We have seen an old woman of eighty-four get so ex-
cited under the application of Money Music that her
white hair and rheumatics were at last entirely forgotten,
and she was found tripping it away with the youngest,
and even indulging now and then with an extra pirouette.
She certainly did seem a little ashamed when the dance
was over, and sneaked quietly into the nighest arm-chair ;
but as soon as ever she found sufficient breath, she roundly
and amply justified "making a fool of herself" by laying it
all torthe music ;" anu what do you think, gentle reader,
of a respectable retired naval officer, whose best leg was
his wooden one, and whose sense of decorum was a pro-
verb among his friends—what do you think, we say, of
this gentleman rushing into the thick of Sir Roger de
Coverley on the pretence that the pretty girl at the
piano played so capitally that " he could notstand it any
longer.". We honoured them both for the bit of " spon-
aneous combustion," and thought the " music in their
soul" among their most valuable possessions.
We remember once undertaking the care of an infant
nephew for an hour, and by dint of letting him pull
down the scarlet bell-ropes, giving him a valuable chim-
ney ornament to break, and talking to him about all
matters which we are supposed to be capable of under-
standing at ten months, we kept him tolerably still until
a young visitor went to the ivory keys and played
divers quadrilles and polkas. Our nephew immediately
turned into a very solid sort of quicksilver : he wriggled,
he jerked, he bolted up, he plumped down, he flung out
to the right, then as suddenly sprung to the left ; he
chuckled while he put his doubled fist in our eye, and
screamed with delight when he all but went over our
shoulder. His aspiration toward the ceiling was alarm-
ing, and we found ourselves embodying all the purposes
of a straight-jacket. The child had " music in his
soul ;" but we took care never to preserve that soul
within our arms again while its music was actively de-
veloped.

And what a power of music there is in the soul of that
clever old lady, Dame Nature ! What a glorious Aolian
harp she manages to make between the strings of the
mountain pine-stems and the storm-gusts of the north
wind. How admirably she marks the "forte " and
" diminuendo" passages ; how judiciously she softens the
" breves" of bass, and how tenderly she arranges the rapid
chromatics in the treble, while the dark-plumed dancers
bend to the tones in perfect and stately measure. Now
she indulges in a plaintive wail, and anon she bursts on
the ear with a triumphal march. Mendelssohn must
surely have taken lessons on this grand wind-harp.
Take up that fair-skinned sea-shell, with its lips so
delicately rouged, and hear what a sweet murmuring
ditty those lips are giving. We imagine it is some na-
tive echo which it learnt in the crystal chambers of the
Syrens, while it rested there once on a coral ottoman,
o we brought away the ghost of a rich melody the

first time we went to " Her Majesty's Theatre." Put
your ear close ; what do the pink lips tell ?
Of a wandering breath of mysterious love
From the caverns below to the planets above.
There, put it gently back again between the orange star-
fish and bright blue muscle : they may miss their dainty
ballad-singer, for aught we know, and make a complaint
to the great orchestral director, touching our wanton
derangement of his band.
Just listen to the " big waters" when they are " ele-
vated" under the influence of a strong draught of " nor'-
east." Hear those billows come galloping on, with their
white manes flying like a troop of wild sea-houses. What
a magnificent bass they make as they dash over the
green rocks, and roar in the face of the iron cliffs. What
a " stunning" reunion is got up when Neptune quarrels
with Boreas ; when the conch-horns of the Tritons peal
through the sparry caverns, and the yelling laughter of
the Nereids rings over the deep-mouthed din of ocean-
strife. Listen, we say, to the music in the soul of the
big waters, and be mute with wonder. Let Lablache
hang his head in jealous mortification ; that breaking
wave beats his superb voice into a penny trumpet ; but
we admit that it would be awkward to introduce such a
singer on the boards, for no manager would desire such
an " overflowing" house as it would certainly produce.
See yonder in the east—that thickening leaden cloud.
It is nothing but a swelling scroll of music arranged for
the clever old lady's double drum ; and all the " boys"
in the crack regiments put together cannot handle the
sticks as she can. Let the electric message be once sent,
and listen to the grand " roll" she will execute. See how
the kings of the forest will lay down their arms, and the
wild marauders of the jungle hold their peace, before the
simple but sublime battle-music in Nature's soul.
Let us sit beside the wimplin stream as it takes its
lonely way through the briary wood, and mark what
delicious harmony it makes with the help of pebbles,
rushes, and lily-leaves, gentle and sweet, ever like an
old-fashioned madrigal or one of the quaint love-strains
sung by a melancholy ill-used Strephen in praise of a
cruel Amarantha in the days of Dryads and shepherd's
crooks. What an undying cadence it keeps : now sing-
ing rather boldly as it tumbles headlong over the rugged
fragments of stone sprinkled here and there ; then mur-
muring with a persuasive gurgle as it creeps along under
the blackberry's trailing limbs ; and whispering still more
softly as it glides beside the lips of the convolvulus.
Now it breaks out with a sort of plashing chorus over
a fallen alder-trunk, as if the broken bubbles were each
uttering a lady-like and tuneful scream at the sudden
shock received by their crystal systeth. 'Then off it
hurries round that sedgy willow-shadowed corner, as
merry and melodious as a laughing child. Sing on,
sweet brooklet ; there is precious music in thy soul to
soothe the sorrowful and charm the glad.
Now listen to the Hullah society of feathered pupils
in the orchards and valleys. There is not a tuning-fork
among them ; every note is in a different "pitch," every
measure is unequal, and yet the harmony is unbroken.
The rook keeps " cawing' in most brasen and Billings-
gate-like style!; the robin whistles with a sort of conceited
melancholy air ; the wood pigeon is quietly trying one
little tune over and over again ; the cuckoo is doing the
same ; the family of finches are all gabbling at once like
ladies over a tea table or gentlemen after dinner ; the
lark is playing his pipe as hard and as fast as he can ;
the black-cap and the swift are doing their utmost to
swell the melodious uproar ; and myriads of self-taught
singers are each " practising" nobody knows how many
" hours a day ;" yet the concord is perfect ; no out-of
tune jar is heard, no confusion disturbs the dreamy lis-
tener. Flat, sharp, and natural are all in the ascendant
at once ; but the swell of music falls arounds us without
a false accentuation or a grating tone.
How different is the human arrangement of Costa's
band. Let Signor A's fiddle-string be a thought lower
than Signor B's flute, and the consequences are serious.
Let the large trumpet be a degree flatter than the little
flute, or the triangle a point sharper than the cymbal,
and the pit and grand tier would go into convulsions.
Costa is a fine leader unquestionably, but he will never
be able to keep his instrumentation as complete as the
dear old lady Nature does. But perhaps we are tiring
our readers by our love and admiration for such " wan-
dering minstrels." Our own attempt at a morsel of ex-
tempore prose may prove dull and weary ; and while
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more money by " giving us a penny to go into the next
street." We will fling down our pen at once while we
possess a chance of being supposed to have an echo of
sweet music in our soul.

STATE OF TRADE.

(Prom the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
_ _

MANCHESTER, September 6. —The Africa's advices
show that the decline in cotton at New York, occa-
sioned by the Arctic's intelligence, had been regained
on the receipt of more favourable information to
the 13th ultimo. In the south the yellow fever
continued its ravages, which had reached Mobile and
Natchez. The reports of the coming crop are very fa-
vourable. We extract the following from the advice of
an eminent house at New Orleans :—" The most impor-
tant topic now is the coming crop, and we are pleased
to be able to continue to congratulate our friends upon
the favourable prospects generally. Two bales of the
new crop have arrived—one from Texas on the 9th is of
fair colour, fine and strong staple, and well matured—
the other from this state on the 11th is failing in colour
and deficient in staple, as if picked before mature. They
are held at 15c. per lb., but no one appears disposed to
make an offer for them." From the same firm, the fol-
lowing telegraphic statement was received at New
York on the 23d August :—" The following private dis-
patch has been received by telegraph :—New Orleans,
August 29th, 1853. Sales of cotton sum up for the week,
ending to-day, 800 bales, with receipts during the same
period of 600 bales. The excess of receipts at all the
southern ports up to the latest dates amount to 195,000
bales, whilst those for France arel,Boo bales. The market
is in a state of suspense in consequence of the prevailing
epidemic. We quote to-day strict mid. 11c. The accounts
from the country with regard to the growing crop continue
favourable. Freights are firm at id. for Liverpool. Ex-
change is dull :we quote sterling to-day 9to 91- per cent."
The state of the money market, and the renewed appre-
hensions regarding the Turkish question, are felt in a
somewhat more depressed condition of business both
here and in Liverpool. Continues extremely dull ; and
though the middling and better descriptions of Ameri-
can are still steady, the buyer has at least an advantage
in choice. The lower qualities, together with Surats,
are almost unsaleable, and have been bought, in some
circumstances, slightly under the reduced rates of Friday
last. Our own market is rather difficult to describe, so
as to convey a correct impression of its condition at the
moment. Sellers and buyers are very much perplexed
by the circumstances just now operating upon business.
On the one hand, not only does the difficulty of affect-
ing discounts tie up in a great degree the hands of ex-
porters, but the fulness of the principal foreign markets
renders further shipments of our manufactures for the
present unadvisable ; while there are reasons for believ-
ing that the monetary pressure may continue for some
time. On the other hand, the country is felt to be in a
sound state ; perhaps never so well prepared for encount-
ering the difficulties referred to ; producers have scarcely
any stocks on hand, indeed are still in , possession of a
fair amount of contracts
; and these causes of firmness
are strengthened by an increase in the cost of produc-
tion, which, in several departments, takes away all pro-
fit, in some leaves a loss, and in all is a source of anxiety
as to the future. Under these circumstances, buyers
still act with extreme caution while producers be-
tray no particular anxiety to sell ; and the transactions
of the day are altogether inconsiderable. As re-
gards prices, there is very little change as compared
with this day week, not more than a slight turn in
favour of buyers. Pincops, classed at 16's, are now id.
down from the late highest prices, but they were then
unduly run up by special causes. With this exception,
yarns are practically found hardly to have receded more
from that highest range than an average of id. per lb—
some more, some less. We speak of single yarns from
50's downward ; doubled of most counts remain firm.
A like inconsiderable change of value is seen in goods.
Even those kinds which are prepared for India and
China, though scarcely saleable, are remarkably steady,
which, indeed, they may now well be as the cheapest
articles in the market, and held by the strongest hands.
Domestics, also, which involve a loss to the makers, are
quite firm.
ROCHDALE, Sept. s.—There has been a good demand
for flannels, more especially for those made of the lower
qualities of ; goods of a finer description have not
been so much inquired after. Low-priced English wools
are scarce, and better prices are asked for them.

HALIFAX, Sept. 3.
—The demand for worsted
late
ratesgoo d s;
any change
ry,
a has not improved in our piece hall to-day ; and the sales,
which have been limited, have chiefly consisted of mix-
in the quotations.
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HUDDERSFIELD, Sept. 6.—The market has been very
good to-day, though without any change to report,
having been much the same for the last few weeks. The
demand for seasonable goods still continues to exceed
the supply, and the warehouses, during the week, have
been doing a brisk winter trade. The manufacturers are
very busy, and have every prospect of being so for some
time to come.

EAST INDIAN IRON COMPANY.—At the meeting of
the East Indian Iron Company held yesterday the report
atband
c the u
ed.
These which
business
presented by the directors was unanimously carried.
tsats
rdisatisfactorily
conducted.
ne-
gotiation
with the Board of Control
It was explained by. the chairman (Mr. Aglionby,
M.P.) that the delay in bringing the undertaking into
active operation had been caused by he lengthened
i
India-
house respecting a charter, and an extension of the pri-
vileges connected with the lease of the mineral districts
in
eosfony
con-
cluded, the directors, with the view of bringing the com-
pany into profitable working, have determined upon
arrangements
having9f the
now company
been
making a call of 2/. 10s. per share, a dividend of 7 per
cent. being stipulated to be paid to those who supply
the present capital before any distribution shall be made
among the old proprietors, represented by deferred
shares. The points principally discussed related to the
large quantity of ore available exclusively for the com-
pany, its generally excellent quality, and the efficiency
of the works at present in active operation, and it was
stated that the extension of railway communication in
India, and the demand for shipments of iron to other
markets, insured a degree of success, which would be
increased by the improvements about to be introduced
in the manufacture under the new management. At
the close of the proceedings a pledge was given that if
the call shall not be responded to on an adequate pro-
portion of shares, the directors will consult the pro-
prietors on the further steps it may be considered neces-
sary to adopt.

St.
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st.

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6
12
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Closing Prices
Yesterday.

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4 - 4i
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9 7d

19 - 21
3 - 2i (
99 - 100
65 -65 i
20 - 21
18 - 19

2 -31 p
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27. - li

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129 - 131
108 - 110
85i- 86

7- -- 7i
105 -- 107
17 -- 18 p
734 -- 74
5f -- 5 d
3f -- 3 d
144 -- 15

8 -- 8i
1 -- lip
100 -- 101
108/ -- 109
1 -- 1/p
l_P
82

83
9 8 d
8— 7 d
11 - 13
18 20
23 25
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68
38, 40 r

55 - 68
4 --: 1 ici
2i - 3
8 - 8i
51 - 53

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31a 32
8 10

1.00
100
100
100
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100

Easiness done
this day.

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94 96
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62 64

68 70
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9 10
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68i 681
36 37
123/4 133/4

20 - 30
2. 31
15 15i
8 - 84
.30 - 32
9 - 10

674 684
8 74d
- 2id
55 56

641 5 4a

131 13

4
716

791 80
130 29

85 4.1

72i 2 pm

1074 i 7

23 2i
661 6 z d

514 x d

46 5

67 i i 6
ad
ad

PREFERENCE SHARES.

68 7 xd

ad
88 I ad
55 xd

Aberdeen .

l
Do., No. 2, 7 p. c
Bris. & Ex. 4 p. a. St
Do. 4 p. c. Shares
Caledonian £lO
Chester dr Holyhead
Guar. 5i per oent
Cork&Bandonsp.e
DundeePerthdrAber-
deen Junction

EastA nglian (310 s)
6 per cent.
Do. (£5) 7 per cent..
Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. et..
Eastern Counties Ex-
tension, 5 p. c.
Do., No. 2.............
Do., New 6 p. c. St..
Eastern Union, Scrip
Guar. 6 per cent....
EastLancash. 6 p.ets.
Edinb. Prth. dtD undee
5i per cent...........
Glasgow do S. Western
guar. 5 per cent....
Great Northr 5 p.c.
Do. 5 p. c. , Redeem. ,
at 10 p. c. pram
Gt. Southn. dtWestn.
(Ireland) Eighths
Gt. Westu. (Berke d.
Hants Ex. 5 p. c.)..
G. West. fixed 4i p c.
Lan. di York. F. £2O,
Do., 6 p. c., Stock._
London and:Brighton
Guaranteed 5 p. 0...
Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St.
Do. Convertible, sp.
c., 1852 .
Do. New Guar. 6p.c.
London do S. Western,
Con. Thirds

Londonderry& Color,
A Shares .. ...

LOndy. & Ennis. Sh
Mar eh. ,Shef. , &Lin.,
Shares, No. 1......

103 *i:os

i 66!

19 -- 20

6k -- 6g
3f -- 4i
5 -- 54,
-
lP
-- lip
lft -- lip
14g -- 143
21 -- 214

li i

liiro. New,'2lo..
Do., £6.

25 - 127

1110 - 112

'Marypt. &Carl. 4
Do. 44 per cent,,,,,.
Do .. • . ...
Mid. Consol. 6 p. e. St
Do. Consol. &
Birm. 6 per cent
Do. Pref. 4i per cent
Norfolk Extension
Do. Pref. 4i per et
Do. Way. Val. 5 p c
North British
North Staffordshire
Oxford Worcester &
Wolverh. £15,6p. c
Do
Shrews& Birm. N. G
Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor. W. Min),B p. c.
Do. 5 per cent
South Devon
. _

-
L 0 —l7Ol
* d
L5O 152

- 3i
10 - 11
131 - 14.}
17
10t - 104
I - P

147 149
id IP
113 -115 x
117 120

115 - 117
24i -25 i

10i -- 114$
17i - 18
- 1p
14 --15
Pte-- P
251 -- 264
19 -- 20,

Do. New
S. Eastern (Reading
Ann.,) of £1 03.6 d.
S.Yorksh.4p. c. Guar.
Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c.
York Newcastle and
Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref
Do
York& N. Midland H
& S. Purch

idl
100 102 ,
5 51

Par— }PI

FOR]

IGN.

14i pm

Antwrp &Rotterdam
Belgian East. Junct.
Charleroi & Erquelin
Dijon and Besaon
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian
Do. Extension

149 k

lia
13 -- 1241
2 -
2f -24 d
4i
-- 1 p
21 -- 2P
1 -- id

IGt. Indian Peninsula
IGd. Junct. of France
'Gt. Westn. of Canada
Shares
Lucca and Pistoja, 5
per cent. pref
Luexembourg ...
Do. (Railway)
Do
Do. (Canal)
Do. 6 p. cent. pref.
Lyons & Mediterran
Madras
Maria Antonia
Do. New
Namur & Liege (with
interest
Do. (ex interest)
,Northern of France
Do. 20/. 3 p. c. Bds
[fmy.B.&Ams.Shs ]
INorwegianTrnk Pref
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleals
(Paris and Rouen
;Paris and Strasbourg
'Paris Caen& Cherbrg.
.1
Quebec Quebec & Richmond
Rouen and Havre
'Sambre and Meuse
Do. 6i per cent. pref.
Southern of France
'Upper India Scrip
West Flanders
Do. 5i per c. Pref .
Western of France
West. of Switzerland
New Zea1and.........

4 - 4

ii --14
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74
29
10,
all

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6i - 71

3.. L iii

t 4 -- 141
81 -- 9
171 -18 i
50 -- 51
44 -- 45
37 - 38
4 -- 5

20 - 2i,
9 -96

5 a.

lar ._.
--4 p
4 4§

341 i

49i 27 7

91 10.
2 id

37i i

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.

PAILWAY3.

Bnckghamsh.
Clydesdale Jc.
E. Lincoln. gr.
6 p. cent._
Glstr.&Dn.Fr.
Hrtlpl. Dk. &
Railway

Hull & Selby.
Do. 4 Shares.
Do. i Shares.
Lou. & Greenw
Do. Preference
Lowestoft gr.
4 per cent
Do. 6 per ct
Manch.Bxton
and Matlock
Middlesbro' &
Redcar
Midld.Bradfd
Northern and
Basternsp.c.
Do. 6 per et
Do.Fixedsp.c
Prest. &Wyre

Leasing
Compans.

!L. dr N.W.
ICaleclon...

Gt.Northn
Qt.Westn.
Yk. New.
& Berw
Y.&N. Md
Do
Do

S. Eastern
IDo

Norfolk
Do
Ln. &N. W
&
Stckton
Darlingt.
Midland

St.
51
50

lli
100
100
18f

Do. Shares.
Roystn.&llit.
Do.Shepth.St.
Shef. Roth. &
Goole g.5.p.c
S. Staffordsh
WearVallergt
6 per cent
Do
Wilts &Somrst

Closing Prices
Yesterday.

103 - 105
51i - 53

149 - 151
32 - 33

110 --111xd
55 -- 65
27 -- 28
144 -14 i
26 -- 27

96 98xd

3 - 3i

.05i -106 i
63 - 65

E. Count
Do

L. &N. W
&Ln&Yk
Do

Gt.Northn
Do
Lancash.&
Yorksh
Kat Clean
Stockt. &
, Darling.
Do
t Gt.Westn.

147 - 149
147 - 149

••• --- •••
li id

31 -32 E
‘lO2 - 103

BusineEs
this day.

nol ad
55 x d
27 x d

xd

MINES.
1 all Agtut Fria ..... ..... - liP
10s. all Anglo Californian 3— i P
10 2 Australasian li 4 d
20 6 Australian . . ... . - 3 ,
1 all Australian Cordillera 3 1 11, .
1 all Australian Freehold. g di ll
1 all Ave Maria 4 di i
1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of; t dia— par
1 all British Austrin. Gold 4 —id i
20 13.5'British Iron 7 9
35 243 Brazilianlmp.(issned
at £5 pm 3 - 44
30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 2 3
20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 32 34
1 4 Carsons's Creek i- d pa/
40 all Cobra Copper 44 —45
5 1 Colonial Gold
14 Copiapo lO3 113
Si. all Copper Min. of Eng 55 —65 64
25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 63 —74 p'
5 all English and Austin.
Copper Smeltg. Co. 24 lid
20 all General l4 —l6
2 all Great Nugget Vein.— 4_ 4 P 24 4
3 all Great Polgooth
1 all Lake Bathurst
1 all Liberty 1 --
4 d
1 all Loud. &Californ. Gold
Quartz Crush. Co i I
1 all Mariquita,
10 9 Mexican&S.Americn 64 7 7
1 all New Granada d par
1 all Nouveau Monde l3
5 1 Port Philip
1 all Quartz Rock idis— p
50 all Rhymney Iron — ...
15 Do. New — .••
30 10i Santiago de Cuba 3/ 4.'T
1 all South Australian...., 4d— par
10 7 Tin Croft ... ... ........ . 7 8
284 all United Mexican 44 44
1 all Waller g 4 d
1 all West Granada $ 4 d
1 all West Mariposa..,,,,,, g t d
1 all Yuba i i d
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
40 all Australasia 74 76
40 all British Colonial Bank ... ...
and Loan Company
50 all British N. American ... ... 61 4
20 2 Chrtd, Bnk.of India,
Austral., and China 3 3 p 24
25 5 Chrtd. Bnk. of Asia. g gd 46
100 25 Colonial
100 20 Commercial of Lond ... ...
20 10 English Scottish and
Australian Chrtd 4d— par 9i
20 15 London Chrtd. Bnk
of Australia - - 2 p
50 20 London and County ... ...
50 10 London Joint Stock ... ...
100 20 Lond.andWestminst ... ...
100 35 National Provincial
of England
20 10 Do. New — •••
50 224 National of Ireland ... ...
25 all Oriental Bank Cor
poration
100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 491 50
10 all Do. New — ...
5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg.
and Gold Imp. Co.. 4 d— pa
25 25 South Australia 4O a 0
25 all (Union of Australia 64 —66 64i
24 Do. New 7 8
50 10 Union of London
40 all (Union of Madrid

100
20
10
50

MISCELLANEOUS.

6
35
8
6

Rubin Coal and Iron
Australian Agricult.
Australsn.Pcific.Mail
Australis. Royal Mail
Brit. American Laud
Brit. & Coln. Smeltg.
and Reduction Co
Canada Company
Crystal Palace

- ii

We LT We

(Crystal Pal. of Franco
Eastern 5team.......

Electric Tel. of Ire'.
Gen. Steam Navigat.
General Screw Steam
,Trish Beetroot Sugar

Magdalena St. Navig.
Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel
Netherlands Land....
N. B. Australasia-i...
Nrth . of EuropeStearr
Peel Rr. lA. & Minrl.
Peninsular & Oriental
Do. do.
Portland Iron Co

- •••
lf .- 2 p
6 - 1 p

••.
id p

1 7- B p

6i i
2/

2i a in

Ii 1- iii)

in ir

ii - 17

5i 4

16i I