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

NEWGA .TE AND LEADENHALL.

Since our last r t port immense supplies of meat have
changed hands, an. I prices have been well supported. To-
day we were scantily supplied, and only a limited business
was transacted, as follows :
P er 81bs by the carcase.

s. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 3 0 3 2
Do., middling 3 4 3 8
Do., prime large 3 10 4 0
Do., do. small 4 2 4 4
Pork, large 3 4 4 0

Mutton, Inferior
Do., middling
Do., prime
Veal

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

Pork, small

WOOL.
There has been alxr ut an average business doing in Eng-
lish wools, at full quo tations ; 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 Au st ralia, 110 from the Cape, and 63 from
Gluckstadt.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

LoNDoN, Dec. l63.—Wind this day at Noon, N.W.;
light breeze, and fi se, sharp, frosty weather.
PLYMOUTH, Dec. 24.—Arrived—Thomas Mitchell, fro
Calcutta ; Heroin, ~ Algoa Bay ; Fragment, Larachea ;
Louise, Rio Janeiro, for Copenhagen ; Hermann, Porto
Cabello, for Altor tn, ; Jean Charles, St. Domingo, for
Havre ; Jones, Ai Itigua Sailed—Calcutta, for Boston,
and several of the • vivid-bound.

PORTSMOUTH, I ),.)c. 25. —Wind, N.B. to E.N.E. Ar-
rived—Lord Dune: in, 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,
Angostura, from L :romen.
OFF SALCOMBE, Nov. 25.—Mayflower, Adelaide, S.A.
PLYMOUTH, No, r, 25.—Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Sea
Park, Australia; J "cdilinnas, Monte Video ; Jabez, Anti-
gua. The Charles and Jane (American ship), Newcastle
to New York, has Fut in very leaky, having been on shore.
ST. DAVID'S, D ec. 25.—The Farmer's Delight, of Sal-
combo, Gijon to I Jiverpool, has been totally wrecked on
the Bishops and C larks.
VALENCIA, Dec . 23.—The Tweedside (brig), of Hartle-
pool, foundered 1Z; ith inst., 50 N. 13 W. ; crew saved and
landed here.

SHEERNESS, D OC. 25.—Arrived—Dolphin, London for
Shields, with dai nago from collision with a collier brig
bolo* the Gunflee t.

FA LMOUTIT, Dc e. 25. —Wind, N.N.E.—Arrived —The
Sir Charles Fort)( a, St. Andrews, N.B. Sailed—Confi-
dence, Callao ; Pc rdinand, Martinique.
LOWESTOFT, D cc. 25.—The Dorothea, of and from
Wisby for Lond, has been assisted in, leaky, and with
loss'of rudder, ha• ring been on Harbro' Sand.

GIBRALTAR, D ec. 13.—The Beranger, of Havre, from
Bahia arrived het e, drove, during a strong gale yesterday,
across the Onwari I, of Bristol, and Arabella, of London,
damaged both ressels, and grounded. Dec. 17.—The
Crescent, of Inve irkeithing, London to Magador, has been
assisted in here di masted ; the Bebecca, Mazagan to Liver-
pool, put in yesterday leaky, and must partly discharge to
repair ; the Adv( siture, of Poole, from Cadiz, with bow-
sprit gone, mizen and mainmast heads carried away, and
various other dal sage, in a gale off St. Vincent, was seen
by the Samuel ai Id Edward, arrived here from'New York.

DEFALCATION: 3 OF MR. W. B. AribitusoN.—lt appears
that the defalcat ions of Mr. W. B. Anderson, the foreign
and general agent,, at present undet remand on a charge
of forging bills of ,exchange, are much more serious than
was at first antici pated, the entiiiinnount involved being
ramoured to reach between 130,0001. and 150,0001.
THE STAMP rli ITIES.—The subjoined letter contains
a reply to one iT iserted yesterday impugning the ex-
pediency of the vi ews lately expressed by Mr. Commis-
sioner Fane on e present state of the stamp law in
relation to bills Iv urporting to be drawn abroad
:
"27, Bucklcrsbury, Dec. 23.
" Sir,—The rem arks that I had the pleasure of forwarding
Ito you with resqa act to the late case `ln re Oppenheim '
were directed to t he necessity of relief being given to the
holders of staml ess bills of exchange, rather than to the
punishment of fi ,ud. Your correspondent Parlus lulus'
sees in the whob js ome terror of the law, which he believes
sufficiently stro g, if properly- administered, to reach
offenders, as mi uih protection as society can grant, and
places the bona j if le discounter of a stampless pretended
foreign bill draw r i in this country in the same category as
the holder of af a rged. note. The vast operations of coin-
fierce through he agency of bills of exchange renders it
of the highest i tmportance that the negotiability of these,
instruments shoe xld not be interfered with, and the Legis-
lature, by vari, ms enactments, has always insisted on
their free circulation. I suggest, therefore, that as no
foreign bill, undo a- the present law, can be negotiated with
security as to rec, clarity, it is the duty of the Government
to find a remedi.l ')yr an alteration of the Stamp Act ; either
by allowing a gei mine holder on payment of the-stamp to
be reinstated in 1 its full rights, or by placing a small Go-
vernment stamp o. a all foreign bills, as practised in France.
In conclusion, it n mist be remembered that no parallel can
be successfully me untamed between the value of a forged
note and that of art unstampod bill. The one, as a nego-
tiable instrument,. is of far more importance than tho
other; in addition,. .ordinary care and judgment can detect
the forgery, while, no experience or acumen is of the,
slightest use in deter mining whether a bill has been drawn
in London or else w:here.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your most obedient, 'servant, "T. P. L."