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THE StT LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1860.

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TI IS DAY).

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ROLLS COURT.
Before the Master of the Rolls Sir John Romilly).
JUDGMENT.-"WEBB V. ENGLAND.

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ANNUAL MEETING-THIS DAY.

His llonour, the Master of the Rolls, in delivering judg-
ment, said—This is the case of a bill brought by the appren-
tice against a gentleman with whom he was apprenticed,
for the purpose of obtaining a cancellation of the inden-
ture ; and also for the purpose of obtaining a return, or a
partial return of the premium or deposit paid to him. The
bill goes on to pray in the alternative that if the court
could not do so it would specifically enforce the con-
tract. His Honour, on considering the facts of,the case,
came to the conclusion that he could not grant the
relief asked by the bill ; that adequate relief could be ob-
tained in a court of law in an action of damages for breach
of contract. This court cannot compal the apprentice to
learn or the master to teach the apprentice or to deliver up
the indenture to be cancelled unless obtained by fraud
or declared void by a court of law, tine then it becomes of
no more value than a piece of waste paper. The Lord
Mayor or the Justices of the Peace are empowered by Act
of Parliament to enforce specific perfonnance of contracts
of indenture. His Honour dismissed the bill without costs.

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COURT OF CHANCIRT.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
APPAL-JUDGMENT-THE LIVE111"00:1 BOROUGN BAltii.

V. TUIINER.

This was an appeal from a decision d Vice• Chancellor
Wood dismissing the plaintiff's bill.
The plaintiff claimed a right as ow= on a transfer to
several mercantile ships—the transfer to which was not
regularly entered in the ship's register is terms of the Act
of Parliament.

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The Lord Chancellor in delivering judgment said, on
account of the great importance of this case to the com-
mercial interests of the community, I have very deliberately
considered the existing statutes and the arguments to which
my attention has been directed, and I am of opinion that
the decision of the Vice-Chancellor must be affirmed. I
entirely concur in all the reasons which the Vice-Chancellor
has given, and which he has stated so very ably and at very
great length, and with much propriety, and which appears
to me entirely to exhaust the subject. His lordship referred
to the statute 17 and 18 Viet., cap. 101, with respect to the
transfer of mortgages, and particularly to the 55th section,
which declares all transfer of mortgages not found in the
register null and void. The register discloses the names
of the true owner, and the statute nullifies the title if the
title shows a different set of owners from the register.
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His lordship affirmed the decision of the Vice-Chancellor,
and dismissed the appeal with costs.

SHERIFFS' COURT.

ACTION FOR RECOVERY OP STOLEN EROPETY.-WOOD V

VASSELL.

This was an action in trover, to recover £lB damage for
the wrongful detention of a gold chain, the property of
plaintiff.

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Mr. Wontner for his client, said, the plaintiff was a widow,
and his honour would remember that in May last a robbery
was committed by a young man who passed himself
off as the son of Alderman Rose. This young man
was convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, having
pleaded guilty. Sentence being deferred, the pri-
soner (an imposter) confessed that he pledged the
property valued at £BO with a pawnbroker in Lisson-grove.
Thence it was traced to Debenham and Storr. It was sold
by auction, and the chain in question now was discovered
by Mrs. Wood in the shopwindow of defendant, he being a
jeweller in Fenchurch-street. He refused to deliver up the
property, hence the present action.

Mrs. Annie Wood having been called, deposed to the
above facts, and was cross-examined by Mr. 0. B. C.
Harrison for the defendant :—Met the young man at an
evening party. He was introduced to me as a son of Alder-
man Rose. He saw me home. Called the next day. I
had known him three months when he committed the rob-
bery. He used to oall every day. He had never been in
my bedroom before the day of the robbery to any know-
ledge. We were very friendly. Don't put any stress on
the word " very." My brothers and sisters live with me.
It was discovered at the Middlesex Sessions that the pri-
soner was a convicted thief.

Mr.Wontner then tendered the evidence of the conviction,
but Mr. Hanson admitted it.

Mr. Hanson then said his client was a highly respectable
jeweller, and had purchased the gold chain in question in
Market-court over the counter.

Mr. Wontner called the attention of the court to the case
of Scattergood and Sylvester, in 19 " Law Journal."
His Honour, upon reading the case, said the decision
there was as he had anticipated. Upon conviction of, the
thief the property reverts to the owner.
Mr. Hanson urged that such a rule of law gave great
opportunity for collusion between the thief and the owner
of the property. Here was a case in which defendant had
bought goods openly, and if be was obliged to give up the
chain it would be a great injustice. His Honour would
remember that no evidence had been given at the trial, and
that the prisoner pleaded guilty.
His Honour said, upon looking at the case, he was bound
to find for the plaintiff.
Mr. Harrison was anxious that his Honour should grant
a case, in order that the decision in Scattergood and Sylvester
should be reversed, it being manifestly an injustice to the
public.
Mr. Wontner objected, and the defendant gave up the
chain, which was accepted, and a verdict passed for costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DA3'

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF ASSAULT AT AN OYSTER Roo*

—Thomas Slea, a well-dressed young man, described as a
tailor, was charged before Mr. Beadon with assaulting
Eliza Cooper, of 11, Sheldon-street, Paddington.
The complainant said she met the prisoner in Oxford-
street about one that morning, having been out that day
to see some friends at Richmond, and he asked her to go
and take some refreshment with him, and she did so, going
to No. 250, Oxford-street, near the Marble Arch. After
being in the room some time he threw her on the sofa, and
took some money out of his pocket, with which he struck
her over the nose, smothering her face with blood. She
called out, and the waiter came to her assistance, and
pulled him from her, and he then struck the waiter and
tried to get away, but the landlord stopped him.
Benjamin John Bannister said he was shopman, and
" waiter when required," at 250, Oxford-street, refresh-
ment-rooms, and about one that morning the proseoutrix
and the prisoner entered the house and were served with
provisions. The prisoner sent him for some porter, and
when he went into the room with it he found the prisoner

trying to " take an advantage" of the " lady," and saw him
strike her over the nose, having at the time several coins in
his hand. He took him by the collar and pulled him off,
when the prisoner brandished his walking stick and pushed
him down.

By the Chief Clerk—The place is a refreshment and
oyster• room. The room the prisoner and the prosecutor
were in is a private room. The room is paid for as well as
the refreshments.
Mr. Beadon asked the witness whether ladies and gentle-
men were in the habit of going to it
The witness said it was respectable, and ho ne'rer saw
anything wrong before.
Prisoner said the prosecutrix had his watch in her hand,
and wanted money.

The witness said the prisoner struck the prosecutriz
severely, and made no remark about his watch. The pri-
soner had a bottle in his pocket, which he threw away on
getting outside, but he did not know there was anything
wrong in it.
Lazarus Howes, 95 C, said the prisoner told him she
tried to take the watch, and he struck her.
The waiter said ho had seen the lady at the oyster room
several times.
Mr. Beadon said it was clear the female had received a
severe blow. Supposing she had taken the watch, he (pri-
soner) could have called for the waiter.
Howes said the presecutrix was bleeding, and they had
both been drinking.
The waiter said prisoner had a handful of coins when he
went into the room, and his watch was all right.
Mr. Beadon fined the prisoner 403. or a month, the assault
being inflicted in a very dangerous place, between the pro-
, secutra's eyes.

THAMES.
DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.—John Mahoney, 2 tall
fellow, aged 21, and one of the most desperate thieves in
the district, was brought up on remand before Mr. Yardley,
charged with assaulting George Fagan, a seaman, and
attempting to steal a watch from his person.
The prosecutor was passing along High-street, Shadwell,
a few days ago, and was suddenly pounced upon by two
men a few yards from the Paidy's Goose, a celebrated
publichouse, resorted to by mariners. The prisoner was
one of the fellows who seized him, and at the same time
made a snatch at his watch, but fortunately the guard did
not break. The sailor attempted to release himself and a
struggle ensued, in the course of which he was ♦iolently as
saulted, and was getting the worst of it when a police-
constable named Parsons, No. 292 A, who heard the cries
of police and murder, arrived and seized the prisoner, who
was then tugging away at the watch. Mahoney, who
made a desperate resistance, was secured. Tho prisoner
had been remanded to prove a former conviction against
him, which was now done. There was a conviction recorded
against him for picking pockets. He had been in custody
several times. He was sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment for attempting to pick pockets in the early part of the
present year.
Mr. Yardley again sentenced the prisoner .as a rogue and
vagabond to three months' imprisonment and hard labour.
The prisoner (impudently)—l wish to have the caso
settled at the sessions.
Mr. Yardloy—You shall not have year wish gratified
this time. The next time you are brought here you go for
trial.

Mgr. de Bruillard, ex-bishop of Grenoble, who
is 93 years of age, is very seriously ill at l his chateau at
Mohtfleuri,

WATERLOO LIFE, EDUCATION, CASUALTY
AND SELF-RELIEF ASSURANCE COMPANY,

ILEALTY OF LON.DON TSB WEEK.

:From the Quarterly Return of the Registrar General.)
The deaths in London in the week that ended
last Saturday were 1,240 ; they were not quite so
numerous as in the previous week, when they were
1,275. The average number of deaths, as derived
from returns of corresponding weeks in the ten
years, 1850-9, and corrected for increase of popu-
lation with a view to comparison, is 1,369. The
, present return, therefore, exhibits a number less by
129 than that obtained by calculation, and war-
rants the conclusion that the public health is better
than it usually has been at this season.
In the last two weeks the deaths caused by
bronchitis were nearly equal, viz., 166 and 172 ;
those by pneumonia, or inflimmation of the lungs,
fell from 126 to 95, the result, perhaps, of the
mildness of the weather, the mean temperature of
last week having been higher by five degrees than
that of the previous fortnight. Phthsis in the same
weekly periods fell flout 166 to 150. It may be not
uninteresting to notice the relative fatality of par-
ticular diseases in certain period of life; for
example, 60 to 80 years. At that age last week
only 5 persons out of the 150 died of phthisis ; 2 out
of a total number of 95 of pneumonia ; 11 out of 24
of apoplexy ; 20 out of 31 of paralysis ; 18 out of 37
of heart diseases, and 51 out of 172 of bronchitis.
The deaths from measles increased from 50 in the
previous week to 58 last week; scarlatina from 45
to 50 ; diphtheria from 9 to 18 ; whooping-cough
from 40 to 52. Five children died from measles in
the sub-district of St. John, Paddington, 4 in that
of Gray's Inn-lane ; 4 died from scarlatina, 2 froth
diphtheria, and 4 from whooping-cough in St.
Peter %Valworth. Five children died from whoop•
ing.cough in St. Giles, North. Two children died
of diphtheria in a family at 21,Featherstone•street,
Finsbury. Six nonagenarians died in the week,
Out of 9 deaths from burns and scalds, four were
from the clothes taking fire, which eccurred to
the daughter of a general labourer, aged 4 years,
the son of a bootmaker, aged 4 years, from a
lucifer match, the wife of a waterman, aged
82 years, and the son of an engineer, aged 5 years.
The son of a servant, aged 1 year, was fatally
scalded in consequence of his feet, when he was in
a fit, being put into hot water.
Last week the births of 923 boys and 891 girls,
in all 1814 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59
the average number was 1635.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29152
inches. The reading fell from 29.61 inches on Sun-
day to 28.63 inches on Saturday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 46 deg., which
is 4 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years, as determined by Mr. Glaisher. The mean
daily temperature was above the average through-
out the week, and on Thursday exceeded it by no
less than 8 deg. The thermometer in the shade fell
to 40.5 deg. on Sunday and rose to 54 deg. on Thurs-
day, being respectively the lowest and highest
points in the week. The entire range of tempeta-
ture was therefore 13.5 deg. The mean daily range
was 6 5 dog. The range on Friday was only 4.9
deg., and it was not considerable in any instance.
The difference between the mean dew point tempe-
rature and air temperature was only 1.1 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 96, and
approached complete saturation, which is repre-
sented by 100. On four days the humidity was 98
or 99. The wind blew from the south-east and east
in the beginning of the week, aid afterwards from
the south-west and south. Rain fell to the amount
of 7-10ths of an inch; one-half of it fell on Saturday,
but some on every day of the week. The mean tem-
perature of the water of the Thames was 42 7 e.eg.

The ordinary annual meeting of this society was held
to -day at the offices, 355, Strand, for the purposes of
receiving the report of the directors for the past year, and
for the election of retiring officers. Joseph Bishop, Esq.,
chairman of the board of directors, presided.
The usual routine business having been transacted,
The MANAGER (J. Williams, jun., Esq.) read the report
of the directors as follows :--
" In presenting the ninth annual report of the operations
of the Waterloo Life Assurance Company to the proprietors,
the directors are enabled to state that the progress of the
company is of a satisfactory character, and gives promise
of yet greater advances, and they consider that they may
fairly
assert that it has established for itself a foundation in
public estimation, to strengthen and extend which the con-
tinuedconfidence and renewed exertions of its friends are
alone needed. The directors could have wished that the
anticipations expressed by them in their last report of the
probable increase of public confidence, and appre-
ciation of the principles of life assurance had been
more fully developed during the year now closed ' •
but such has not been the case, although the directors
are not without hope that a season of such general depres-
sion will be followed by a larger amount of business during
the current year ; for the transaction of which the agencies
of the company] are very Although
filly prepared. the
business of the year has not been large, owing to the
causes indicated, and others over which the directors have
had no control, several of the agencies of the company
give promise at the present time of a more than ordinary
amount of business, as appears from passages in reports
furnished your directors, to one or two of which refer-
ence is here made. The company's representative in
Sheffield, under date of the 21st of November last,
writes as stollows, viz Favourably as the Waterloo
office has ever been looked upon in Sheffield, I am happy to
say—so great is the confidence now placed in the company,
that during the past year the sums assured have been con-
siderably in excess of former years. With respect to the
future I have no fear, believing that the past is but a
guarantee for increased success ; and I fully anticipate that
Sheffield will, as hitherto, maintain its high position
amongst the agencies of the Waterloo Assurance Company.'
The Jamaica agent writes,—' There are several proposals
yet pending, and the same shall go forward in due course.
The success of the agency I shall endeavour to render as '
perfect as possible. We keep free from loss ; and all
our lives, you will be pleased to learn, continue
well.' The Melbourne agents report the esea-
blishment of important agencies under their supe-
rintendence ; and the probable adoption by the Colo-
nial Government of a system, in connection with the
Waterloo, for granting annuities and endowments to pilots,
as prepared by Peter Hardy, Esq. The transactions of the
year embrace the acceptance and completion of 316 new
assurances for sums amounting to £33,375, and producing
in annual premiums £2,955 12e. 2d. Proposals to the
number of 68 for £19,900 have been made and accepted ;
but, for reasons unknown to your directors, have not been
carried out ; and 14 proposals for assurances, to the extent
of £14,100, from prudential reasons, have been declined.
The number of policies lapsed by death has been 22,
and the amount assured, with bonuses, £5,3.5
10s. 9i. ; and your directors have reason to believe
that to several the sums thus paid have been
almost the only provision which industry and foresight
were enabled to bequeath to the survivors. The directors,
with very deep regret, have to intimate the loss by death of
their highly-esteemed colleague, Geo. Mitchell, Esq., from
the direction of the company; and also of J. A. Durham,
Esq., one of the auditors. They cannot refer to this sub-
ject without bearing their prompt and hearty testimony to
the valuable services rendered the company by these gentle-
men, connected with it as they were from its formation, and
having evinced on all occasions an undeviating purpose to
promote its interests ; and in these feelings, although
they constitute but a feeble tribute to the memory of those
who so constantly and anxiously watched over and assisted
in the progress of the company,the directors are assured that
the proprietors will participate with the greatest sincerity.
The vacancies thus created, your directors consider, should
be filled up, and they have, in accordance with the powers
vested in them, elected the Rev. J. D. Frost, 8.D., Incum-
bent of St. Paul's, Winchinore Hill, a duly qualified share-
holder, to a seat in the direction, in full confidence that he
is prepared to discharge the important duties pertaining
to the office of director, and they now, with very great plea-
sure, submit the name of this gentleman for approval by
the meeting. The vacancy in the auditorship is left with
the proprietors to supply. Under the provisions of the
company's deed, and in conformity with the terms of the
notice convening this meeting, candidates for the
office are required to give seven days' notice ;
and your directors would report that the requisite
notice has been received from C. G. Macpherson, Esq., of
Compton-road, Canonbury, whom they believe to be a gen-
tleman in every respect qualified to discharge the duties of
auditor, and who offers himself for the suffrages of the Pro-
prietors at this meeting. The retiring director on this oc-
casion is Jos. Bishop, Esq., who offers himself, and is
recommended by the board for re-election. The statement
of the accounts of the company for the past year, now sub-
mitted and presented as part of this report, has been
carefully compared with the several books by the
auditor, who certifies the entire accuracy of the same.
Interest on the capital stock of the Company
after the rate of six per cent. (free of income tax)
is recommended for payment, and such rats, of interest is
hereby declared accordingly. Tour directors are not in-
different to the importance of renderieg the company as
attractive as possible, by the adoption o plans calculated
to enlarge the area of its operations, and they are ever
ready to consider any suggestion made with this view,
their object being to confer the largest possible benefit,
wiih the utmost safety. Several suggestions have been
recently made for the further extension of the com-
pany's business, and among them one is a carefully
arranged plan for combining the advantages of life ai,-
surance with those of a system of deposit, which, while
it would advantage the depositor, would confer
benefit upon the company. To this and any practical sug-
gestion the directors will give their best ccnsideration. In
submitting the foregoing report for your approval, the
directors of the Waterloo would impress upon the attention
of the shareholders, assurers, and all connected with the
company, the necessity for personal exertion to sustain and
to extend the influence of the company. This, an often-
repeated request, your directors feel has not yet met with
that thorough response which they are conscious it
merits. To share in the continued success of the com-
pany should suggest the duty of taking part in promot-
ing the increase of that success, and prompt to generous
ertions on behalf of the interests of the 'Waterloo.
What is more particularly needed now is, a more extended
connection at home ; and your directors cannot avoid ex-
pressing their conviction that they have no means at their
disposal so effective in promoting the business of the com-
pany, as would be the personal recommendation of the
shareholders and assured within the immediate circle of their
relatives and friends, throughout which,.were their influence
brought to bear, your directors sincerely believe-a-la
extended series of gratifying results would inevitably fol-
low ; earnestly recommending this view of promoting the
future prospects of the company to the serious considera-
tion of all associated with it, your directors trust it will be
their high satisfaction to realise a large increase in the busi-
ness transactions of the company before another annual
meeting."
The CHAIRMAN said he had very great pleasure in
moving the adoption of the report, because he believed it
would be considered highly satisfactory by the whole of the
gentlemen present. (Hear.) It was a great pleasure to find
that notwithstanding the depression that had existed dur-
ing the last year, the Waterloo Assurance kept pace
with other offices. (Hear, hear.) Ho should
not trespass on their time at any considerable length, be-
cause the lucid and clear report that had been read to them
fully entered into the business of the last year. The num-
ber of new transactions for the year just closed was quite
satisfactory. The company had completed 316 new assur-
ances, for sums amounting to £33,375, and producing in
annual premiums £2,955 12s. 2d. (Hear, hear.) Ho must
urge upon the assurers present the necessity of using their
utmost endeavours amongst their personal friends as to
the necessity of life assuranee, and if such were done
he had no doubt a great increase of assurers
would take place, and as a natural consequence
the Waterloo would increase its sphere of usefulness—
(hear, hear)—and improve the already high position it
held in the commercial world. With these few observa-
tions he had great pleasure in moving the adoption of the
report. (Cheers.)
Mr. BLACK said he had carefully attended to the reading
of the document, and having also carefully examined the
balance-sheet he felt he could conscientiously second the
adoption of the report. He thought the assurers had not
properly supported their office, but he should like to know
what office could be pointed to in which such had
been the case. (Hear, hear.) He advised the direc-
tors not to be discouraged by such a circumstance, but
to redouble their exertions, and shame the assurers into
doing their duty. (Hear, and cheers.)
The adoption of the report and dividend was then put to
the meeting and carried unanimously.
Mr. SHERWOOD moved the confirmation of the election
of the Rev. J. D. Frost, a duly qualified shareholder, to a
seat at the board of directors. Ho paid a high tribute to
the memory of the late J. A. Durham, Esq., who had so
leng exercised his talents for the benefit of the company.
(Cheers.)
Dr. HHWLETT said he felt it a pleasure to second the
proposal of Mr. Sherwood.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. FROST returned thanks, and said hislbest
exertions would be used for the benefit of the company, but
at the same time he must urge on all present the import.
ance of using their utmost exertions to promote the prospe.
rity of the company. He thought a great deal might be
done if the assurers properly exerted themselves, because
they had an admirable office to recommend, and one
which was remarkable for the promptness with
which all its pecuniary engagements were met. (Hear,
hear.)
Mr. SHERWOOD moved the re-election of the retiring
director, Joseph Bishop, Esq., their esteemed chairman.
(Cheers.)
Mr. HYSLOP and Mr. WILLIAMS supported the motion,
which was put to the meeting and carried unanimously.
Mr. DARIUS moved the appointment of Mr. C. G.
M‘Pherson as auditor of the company.
Mr. BLACK seconded the motion. to the
Mr. 'WILLIAMS, the manager, said he felt it due
office of
directors to say, that the gentleman named for the
auditor was entirely unknown to the board of tdierectors—
(hear, hear)—and it would be satisfactory to the assurers
to know that they had elected one of their own body to
r
fulfil the important office of auditor. (I-ear) hear.)
The motion was carried unanimously.
thanks, said it certainly
Mr. MP nmesoN, in re turning
was true he was unknown to the board of directors ; in-
deed, he did not know any of the gentlemen present, with
one exception. He thanked them for his election, and at
the same time he said ho hoped his future exertions would
merit the approbation of the whole body of assurers.
Votes of thanks were then awarded to the Chairman,
Directins, and IslatutPr) the Proceedings terminated,l

TILLS RAPS MARAEIS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

A very limited supply of English wheat was on offor in
to-day's market. For both red and white qualities there
was a steady, but by no means active, demand at Monday's
currency.

We were well supplied with foreign wheat. Several
parcels changed hands for inland consumption at extreme
rates.

Floating cargoes of grain were the turn dearer.
We have to report a steady inquiry for barley, and line
samples were is per quarter dearer. _ .

The malt trade exhibited some improvement. In prices,
however, no change took place.
Oats were in request at 6d to is per quarter dearer.
In the value of beans and peas no change took place ;
but country flour was held for more money.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 1,070 250 190 , 110 180
Irish — —1, 220 ,
10,790 1,550 —1 1,880 120 saek
6,810 brie.

BOROUGH HOP.
Good and useful hops are in fair request at full prices,
otherwise the demand is heavy.

WHITECHAPEL.

Prime beef and mutton are in good request at very full
prices; but other kinds of meat are a dull inquiry.
Beef, 2s 8d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; veal, 3a 8d
to 4s 4d ; pork, 3s 8d to 5e Od per 81bs. by the carcase.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—TESTRID AT.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 171 11 173/4
Antwerp
Brussals — 25 35 25 40
llamturgh
Paris
Ditto
Nlarseilleß
Frankfort on Maine — 1173/4 1
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 341 341
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon

491
49#
25 60
25 57f
25 55
39}
119
1191
521
53

49i
49
25 70
25 65
25 70
39
119
1191
531
63i

Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York — • • •1
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. L 3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 5 1
South American Doublons