The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

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THE SUN,
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BIIARE MARKETS-This Day.) LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS,
LONDON,
MONEY IivIARKFT __---olto-
p I Leasing Closing Prices Biz
000' .
RAILWAYS. Shr. ...aid Rareways. Companies. this day tht
AND
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0 t
Closing Plea Business done -- - -
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. I shr. /Paid 1 RAILWAYS. this day this day. St. 100 Buckghainsh, Ln.&N.W. 91 -93 ,
)ifer'i
-.- ______ - ....., St. 100 Clydesdale Jc, Caledon... 94 - 96
25 all Col.Stour Vy, E.U.diE.O 12 - 14
It .. ____.
121 10 knabg. Nottng. Bost.
• ,
;I,s'"', # CITY, Two O'CLOCK. dr Eastn. June..,, 51 -54 5
5t . 100 a ll E. LUi I. gII. 6.
SP 1 1. e.
016:
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed 5O all Belfast & Ballymene 8 -8,
131 all Birmng. Wolvorh. d St. 100 Glas. Barr, & Caldonian.
GE t. .
Count,Nort hn , 1331;
_.-- 13344 ' 131
Oh tts
Neils• Direct.
with a flat appearance, and, compared with Fri- Stour Valley.. ... 64 - C
it, iv
St. 100 Do. New Do ** - ***
day's range, prices of all kinds were i-d. per lb. St. 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. a
25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Gt.Westn. ... - ...
labr
Cheshire Junct ••• - ...
•
i'V
25 all Cheshire
---
71 - 8.
lower. The sales amounted to only 1,000 bales.
25 all Do. 1 Shares ,Do
50 all Hull & Selby. Y. & N.M lO5 - 107 106
tile The business transaoted in the Railway Share Mar- 25 all Barth Az Tyne origins )
00
BfiestSocis&s.
Exeterat 45 .. . :121 all Do. 1 Shares. Do - •••
t, it ket was not large, but a better feeling prevailed.
St. 1 e)
... -
..
83 - 85 12/ all Lon.&Greenw S.Eastern. 12 -13 •
12
it
Trade in the textile manufacturing districts is St. 100 Caledonian. .....
78 - 79 79 f 20 all Do. Preference Do 221 - 231
.
St. IWO Lon, Til., &S. Peto &Co. 90 - 94
iiti:
described as being dull and depressed, the first St. 100 Chester & Holyheaa 30 .-- 32 304
10 I 94 Do, Bark, Sh, Do 1 - 1 0
i 5 ';
50 all Cork' and Bandon... 7 - 9
allall
CCoonirkw,
aßlllack. & Pass. ... - ... 51. all Manch.Bxton. Lu. &N.W.
aelP ,effects of the advance on the mintinnm to 8 per
2020
3 - 5 I and Matlock & Midld. 21 - 21 2
itb cent. not having yet expended their influence, A
St. 100 Mdld.Bradfd. Midland... 89 - 91
more settled feeling will no doubt follow 10 aI.EI Do A - ...
611 54 Newmarket
ait°l
•• -- •••
BuryE.G.spc. E. Count.. par - A p
1132 in a few days, but in the meantime busi-
-50 45 DuDblio'n&Blie'iia-s'iKic •a - •••' 50 , all N.drEst.s p.c. Do 54 -56
1164 .
.ness is greatly restricted. There has been a 25 all iDun. P. &Aber.Junc. 8 -8:
50 j all Do. 6 per ct.. Do ... - ...
istij ~,
meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Auld St. 100 !East Anglian - 184 18
50 1 all Do.Fixedsp.c Do • - •••
beil
20 ;Eastern Counties..... 53 -5454 3i
25 ' all Prest. az Wyre L. dr N. W. ... - ...
1
and Buchanan, calico printers, of Manchester st.lloo lEasterneenion,A.stk. 43 - 45
123,1 all Do. 4 Shrs. A Do • -- •••
alid
St. :100 IDo., do. B, 23 - 30
St. 100 Roystn.drHit. Gt.Northn 128 - 130
tllll°' and Glasgow, at which it was stated, that the assets
25 I 81 Do New A ••• - • •
10 I all Shrews.& Her T. Brassey 74 - 81
bet would probably realise 13s. in the pound. Several 25 171E14 Kent .: ..
: ..
-•, l7 - 18
12 all IS. Staifordsh.. M.lllClean 81 - 91
at small failures connected with this description of st. 100 ;East Laneashire:....: 9O - 92 90
50 all IWearVal.g6pc Stk.drDar. ... - ...
elLk trade have been spoken of during the last two or 20 ail 'East Suffolk
25 all IDo Do 130 - 32
Do. -
...
)clej
three days, but they are not of importance. The St. 100 /Edinburgh & Glasgow 611 - 62,' 624
erel
all lEdinb. and Peebles ••• - ••• PREFERENCE SHARES.
0° extraordinary high terms which small houses are .0
t. 100 ,Ecliab.Prth.deDnnda 27 - 28 25 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p.
hat
St. 1100 Furness compelled to pay for assistance necessarily causes 0 ; all 'ForthandelydeJune. ... - ...
e.pref. (issd.at 501.) ... - ...
rill; great inconvenience. Although in many cases ••• - ••• St. 100 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. 89 - 91
ha
perfectly solvent, their credit is impaired by this St. 11(10 IGlasgow dt S.Westorr 94 - 96
10 j all ,Great N. of Scotland 81 - 94 20 5 Do, 4 per c, Shares.. ... - ...
St. 100 Caledn, £lO 44 p. c, 93 - 95
fie'
Qt. 1100 ;Great Northern
......
103 state of things, but it is hoped that the crisis will
95 - 96 96 51
et.lloo 'Do. A Stock 86 - 88._ St. 100 Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c. ... - ...
St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent... ... - ..•
field not be of sufficiently long duration to pro- et. -1. 'st A. •••••
00 IDo., B. Stock ..... 121 - 120 61 &I Cork&Bandons/p.e. ... - ..
the duce any general disaster among this St. 100 iGt. Sthekeirest.(lree 96 - 98
St. 100 ;GreatWestern. ...... 61 all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J. 5i - 61
eci° large and, it may be added, important 511 - 521 524 i 1
~.2 St. 100 E. Anglian Cis. A Sh.
OP,St. 'lOO !Do Str V R gua St 60 - 65
St, 100 Do. do. Cis, B Op. c, 109 - 112
class traders. The news from New York, by the 12 1 all I Trail South-Eastern.'. ••• - •••
St. 100 Do, do. Cls. C7P. C. 115 - 120
Cle,
ige, Anglo-Saxon is unfavourable, but the particulars 5C ! all Lancaster &Carlisle. 72 - 75 74
16i 1.4 no Thirds 7 - 8 a St. 100 Eas•Co•Ex,sp.cNo.l 102 - 105 105
ihe are not yet te baud. It is feared that further •- •' ' lai 12 Do. New Thirds .. St. 100 Do, No, 2 - 103. 7- 8 i St. 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St l2O - 123
otr casualties have occurred, but a hope is nevertheless St. 100 Lancasit. &Yorkslaha 93/ - 934 931 i 4
20 all East Un. G. 6p. c. ... - ...
ol
entertained that in the course of a few mails ruts;- 16 ; 6 Po., do. F £l6 ... i - 4 5 all Do, 51., 10,
per cent. ... - ...
3 IDo Wst. Riding Un ... - ... 41
ligence will be received of the steady subsidence of 20 1 all Do:'Sontlipart. ... . - ••• 10 all Do. 10/ Debentr.Sh. ... - ...
St. all Do, do. 4 per cont ... - ...
017
•• ••
eld the panic, 111 all London & Blackwal! 51 - 5i 5i St. 100 East Lancash.6 p.cts. ... - ...
• The public sales of Indigo, which commenced on sstt.. 100.0 I,....lo.Bnri:Nhttess.toosrit 1.2.
.....- 103
91? 7. $
1 1
5 all E.&W. York, J. sth.
... - ...
10 9 Edin.&Gl. sp. c. Sc.h. ... - •••
;di the 13th inst., terminated last evening, and during 20 all Do. Fiftha •••1 - ••• , I St. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p. 67 -69
011 the series, 11,513 chests were brought forward. 10 all Do. JO/. ShaM&B...(' ••• -•• 0'
12.1
1005 Do. Eighths 1 d - 1 St. 100 Furnees, sp. c....... ... - ...
St. 100 Glas. dr 5.W.G.5 p.c.
.JI
Th© half-yearly meeting of the Buffalo and Lake London & S.Weaterr 891 - 901 91 904 14 ... ...
St. 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c. 112 - 114
0i
St. 100 Do. 5 P. C. Redeem.
I Huron Railway Company was held this day. J. 25 all Lndndrry.drCuleraini ... - ...
25 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. . - ...
at 10 p. c. prom.,,, 106 - 108
W. Powell, Esq., in the chair. The report was i. 100 Manch.Shef.drLincln. 38 -- 39 39
tie
St. 100 Do. 41 per cent lOO - 102
taken as read, and from this statement we notice 10 . 1 Metropolitan ......•.. ••• - ••• 100 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5
I'o
oa the following figures in respect to the traffic of the 10 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's
p. c. preen, - 62
arrangement ...... ••• - •••
10 all Gt.N.ofScot.lst Pre 10 - 101
l'ci last half-year :-Revenue, 124,552 dollars •; ex- St. 'lOO Midland Bll - 81/ 82 11 24 11 120 18 Gt. S 4W. (Ireland; ...
a
penditure, 122,623 dollars ; leaving a balance is st. 100 Do. Birming. & Derba- 55 - 57
20 18 Do, 4 pore. Pref. St. ... - ..:
111
50 all Midland o.West.(Tr.) ••• - •••
50 6 Gt..(B.drll.E.x.spe 51 - 6
favour of the company of 1,928 dollars. The ca i_ 25 all Do. / Shares .... . ..• - ...
Ot
St. 100 Do. eon, red. 41 p.c. 85 - 87
tai account showed the total receipts to have been 1 o`3 all Newcastle &Carli;le:. ••• - ...
St. 100 Do. con, red. 4p. c. 80 - 82
25 all Newpt.Aberg.drllrfd 121 - 33/ St. 100 Do, irred. 4 per lent, 81 - 83
14 2,069,277 dollars.
50 9 Newry & Enniskillen •••• ••-•••
St. 100 Do sp. c, red, pref. 95 - 97
0 Theedemand for money in discount circles to-day 20 , all Newry, Warrenpoint
8 all Do. Birm. Prof. Sh,. 9 - 91
di
dr Rostrevor
is very quiet, andthere is a liberal supply. Unless St. 'lOO Norfolk. - ••• 10 all Do.ChesterBp.c.P.S. 151 - 161
i a sudden inquiry springs up, there is every 53 - 60
50 31 Northn. Counties Un 31 - Fal 10 all Do. doa sp. c, d 0.... 91 - la
St. 100 Do, Birm, Gua. Stk. 6? - 69
probability of some slight relaxation being expe- St. 100 North British
St 100 North Devon, Rail. di 131 all Do, do. do 9 - 94
26i all Do, Chesh, Gua, Sh. 18 - 181
r rienced before the end of the week in the terms " -Dock Stock ............ ... - ••• 20 all Do. do. do l3l -14
charged by the bill-brokers. St. 100 Do., A Stock - •••
St. 100 Do., B Stock ... ..... ••• - ••• St. 100 Lan. & York, 6pc.St. ... - ...
Some of the gold brought by the Heatherbell is st. 100 Lon.&B.G. 5 pc.No.l ... - ...
il
St. 100 NT Eastern Berwick 901 - 911 911 3, 1 St, 100 D0.,P.,5p.c.5a110.2 ... - ...
likely to be taken into the Bank of England. 25 , all DO, do. Extension ... ••• - ••• St. 100 Do, New Guar, 6p,c. 133 - 138
About 68,0001, was added yesterday to the stock 25 164 Do do. G.N.E.Purch. 21 - 2 i
N.St. 100 Do, do. sp. c., N 0.4 111 - 113
50
tooall
Do.Do.St. 100 Lon. Leeds - 49 414 i&W., Cov. &held there, and if the present precautions
prevent St York 7B - 79 784 1
Nuneaton 5 p. et... ...
. the effiux to America an amelioration will soon be St. 100 North London .....
witnessed. 10 31,1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp-
late 3d Shares ... 155 - 160
stead, and City Jn ..• - ...
121 all Lowly. & Color, 3 Sh. ... - •••
The Continental exchanges yesterday afternoon 20 1174 North 'Staffordshire 4l -44 131 i
124 all Londy.&Ennis. 4 Sh. ... - ...
were generally rather firmer. 20 all North Western 74 - 8
St. 100 Ma S.,&L. 6p. Cent.
... -
•••
10 I all N. &S. Weatrn June ... - •. •
6 43 Do, do. do. £6 ... .. 1 - ii
The market for English Securities opened buoy-
st. 100 Oxford Worcester di.
St. 100 Do, do, 3,1 per cent. 62 - 66
antly, and an improvement of i per cent. took place. Wolverhampton..... 29 - 31 231 3011291
20 16 Portsmouth 8 - 6 e 12/ all Marypt. & Carl. 4 p.c. ... - •••
121 all Do. 41 per cent - •••
There was not much animation, but purchases, both 10 10 Rhymney - ... 12/ 103 Do. do. - .••
real and speculative, were made which created ad- St. 100 Scottish Central ...... 100 - 102 102 St. 100 Mid.Consol.6 p.c. St ... - ...
St. 1.001))
Shropshire
Nh.iEe..itprdn. St
414
___- 23/
ditional firmness. Since then, however, the market
st. 100 Do.Con.Br.Bia6p.c. 128 - 120 129 30
St. 100 Do, 44 p. C. Prof. St. 93 - 95 94
has been supplied with stock, and this together with 10 1 6 Sitiegsbourne &Sohnee'r'; 31 - 48 st. 100 Do, L. drH. Pref. St. 85 - 87
a rumoured failure at Paris, has produced a reac- al 12,3 .South DE evton . ...... ... 2 - 34
10 all New.,Aber., &c., pr.
Lion ; prices being now rather heavy at their pre- 10 1 all IDo. 441 paegreern. 'iil;; ... ...„- 63 634 i sp. c. refl. sp. c. pm. ... - ...
.
a 10 all Do. Perpet, 6 pr. ct. 101 - 11
vious values. The advises from New York, by way St. 'lOO ;South Wales Bl - $2
20 all IS. Yorksh. River Dun 134 - 144 x u 10 all Norfk.Deb.4 p.c. Sh. ... - ...
St. 100 Do, Sp. c. Ext. 1846 ••• - ~.
of Canada, may have some weight upon the market, 20 10 !D0...... ............ - 41d St. 100 Do, 51 p.c. pf , 1847 ... - ...
but the uncertainty felt with regard to the specie 20 I all Staines,Wok.,&Wok, 9 - 11
St. 100 Do•Wv.V.sp. •.,1847 ... - ...
25 !all !Stockton & Darling j3B- 40 : St. 100 North British 9B - 100
drain to America and tie extent to which it
25 115 I Do. do., 1854 - ...
may affeskus, financially and commercially, prevent 25 1 5 Do. do., 18.15 - •.. St. 100 N. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf. 91 -93
any active speculative dealing for an improvement ... , 16eStockton ee Hartlepl ... - •
... 17 8S Do, do, do ll - le
St 100 'Taff Vale
..• 20 13 I Do. Leeds C pc. No. 1 ... - ...
Consols have been as high as 881 -4. for money, St, 00 !Do. Prof., No. 1 ::: --
... 123 9 IDo. do. Qrs., 1848... ... - ...
and 884 89 for account. They have since been 25 122 IThames Hay. D. &It ... - ...
25- 10 :Do.YorkH.4S. Pur. •1
- id
884 g and 88 1 respectively. They are now a2O all Vale of Neath l9l - 201 204 20 20 all ,North Staffordshire,. 21 -22
20 all ' Waterfd. & Kilkenny; ... - ... St. 100 10x., Wor, & Wolv. 6
shade firmer again, viz., 88i / and 88/ 4. The 50 all :WaterSordaLiraorick ..
1 p.c., lst guar. ...... 108 - 110 1014
• - •••
New Three per Cents. have been dealt in at 88' 20 all West C0rnwa11......., ... - ... St.
1001 'Do. 6p. c. 2d guar... 100 - 102
and 87f, and the Reduced 874 to 884. India 10 ; all ,West End of Londonl
St. 0 Do. de. Debentr. St. ... - ...
1 and Crystal Palace. 7 - 9
81 all jS, cot. Cent New Pref. ... - ...
Stock is 2094, and the Bonds have dropped to 355. 5 all Cr A '24- ' 3a
St. 100 Se.N.E.Aber.g.6p.e. ... - ...
discount, Exchequer Bills are 14s. to 103. ails. 5 all Do. B -
St. 10-0 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. ••• - ..
20 all West London
St. 100 Do. d 0.31 p.c. pf. St. ... - ..
.Bank Stock 212 to 214,
10 all Do, First Class - •••
- •.•
25 all South Devon 9l - 101
In the Foreign Market very few transactions 20 all Do. Second Class... ... - ...
10 all Do, fixed 41 pr cent. ... - ...
10 , all ,Wmbledon&Croydon
~.. - ...
have taken place, but prices have improved.
-_--. 1.0.6 all S. Eastern (Reading
Ann,) of la Os. 6d, 211 - 224
Turkish 6 per Cents. have been 874 to 88. They BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
St. 100 Do. 44 per cent9s - 100
are now 87a lie Spanish 3 per Cents. are 404, and 100 all lAtian. and St. Law. I ..• - ... 75 St. 100 Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Sh. 95 - 100
I
Dutch 4 per Cents. 97. 18 9 'Bombay, Baroda, and I
Cen•lnd,guar. 5 p.c.l 1 d - 1 d St. 100 Do. New 41 pr. cent ... - ...
St. 100 S. Wales Gua. 4p. c. ... - ...
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 18 1 all IDo.
' •• St. 100 Do, do. 4a p. c ....... ... - ... 1
20it 18 ;Buffalo dr Lake Hur.l 64 -51 d 12 20 all S. Yorksh.4 p.c. Guar. ... - , a r
Stocks :-Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 6 ; Mexi-
-25 all Stock. &Dar., 6p. c. 263 - 271 261 I
100 100 IBuff., Brnt.drGodch I I
can, 19 19f ; Peruvian 44 per Cents., 75 77 ; 100 ,100 16 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'7i f ''' - - 25 19 IDo. do. do, - 2/p
St. 100 IWaterfil&Kilk. 6pc ... _
...
ditto 3 per Cents., 52 54 ; liortuguese 3 per Cents.,
too I Do, do., 1 July, '73. ~, - ...
__ jlOO Do. do., 1 June, '74; ... - ... •
a
43 44 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 105 108 ; ditto .1..
BRITISH MINES.
20 1 2s. Calcutta and S. East. ... - ... I
per Cents., 95 97 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 404 401 •; 20 2srld Central Oudo (Lim.), ... - ... 2/ 12 Alfred Cons. (Phillc.)l 131 - 141 111 134 c
•••
ditto Deferred, 254 251 ; ditto Certificates, 54 I • 20 lOs !Ceylon A shares ; • - ..
20 11 British Iron - 7 1 a
' 20 1 I Do, B. do. - 1 r li 2
20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 105 - 115 g
ditto Passive, 5f /.
1741 all ;Demerara . - ••• •••
10 1 Dev. Gt. Cusls. (Tan.) 410 - 460 a
A very moderate business has been done in the 20 1 2s. ;Eastern Bengal - I
••• 271 Etst Basset ' (II ogan) 90 - 110 b
St. 100; 'East Indian I 974 - 984 081 i
... 14s0 Great South Tolgus.. 16 - 163
Railway Share Market this morning, but in most 20 115 I Do, C Shares l4 - 8 I), 141
... 11/3 Gra. W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 5 - 6
instances higher rates were current, the advance 100 all I D 0.41 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 ... - •••
••• 7 Get. W. Vor (Helstn.) 3 -- 4
100 all I Do. de. do., '59, do, ... - ...
... ' 13s Lady Bertha - 11
having been about i to 1 per cent. Lancashire and
20 all Geelong & Melbourne
••• 71 N. Frances (Illogan) 14 - 15
Yorkshire improved ss. ; Caledoniau and South- I guar. 5 per cent.... 19 - 21
Western, 10s. ; Midland, 15s. ; and Eastern Coun- St. 100 ;Gd. Trunk, of Canada 40 - 4t 41 140 1
... 3/15 N Wheal Crofty 5 - We
100 all ! Do, 6p. c. Deben...' 75 - 80 ... ... Northßset (Illogan) 15 -- 16 154
... 11 Par. Cons. (S(.Blaxy) 19 - 20
ties, Great Northern, Lancashire and Carlisle, 20 all 'Gt. In. Pen, g. 5 per c. I 194 - 19/ , 19)
... 9 Pkell U. (Wend.) 44 - N ,
North Eastern, York, Oxford, Worcester, and 20 4 I Do. New, guar. 5 p.capar - /p 1 ... Os. o,
Coons. Min. Co 2t - 2e 21
A
Wolverhampton, and South Eastern, 1/. Brighton, 10)44
laoll 10Dt. Westn. of Canada 18; - 19 ; 18i II 1 4
... 21 3. Caradon (St. Cleer) 335 - 315 2 . New
... 2 S. Cern Brea (Illogn.) 5 - 6
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and one or I 100 all- Do, Bds.; payable '57,1 ... ...
... 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn.) 240 - 250 T
two others remained very firm. The Foreign 100 all Do, do., '76, p. '6O 1105 --
110 108 5 41 Pam. S. &L. Min. 00. 4 - 14 o'
all
DDoo. do,, '73, do. ,105 - 110 10 9 Tin Croft 34 - 41 G
lines have been inactive, but prices have been 100 all .do 73 without, I
• 9 1
... 40 Un.Minea (Gwennap) ... - •••
it
steady. Paris and Lyons improved about ss. and option
all IMa.dras, guar. 41 p.c l7l -
' 98 - 102 I
~, 1256 V. of Towey (earner.) 13 - i
AI
Sambre and Meuse, ss. Great Luxembourg, L 0 all I Do. do., 5 per c. ~,i 191 - 19jI
18A
... 14 W. Basset (Illogan).. 231 - 24
11
Lombardo-Venetian and Pernambuco were a shade
55
Do.
43tdhEExx., •.dsop,c , sh.,
dd
_...- 1
ddil
20 10 Do. 4/ p. c. Extenl 11 - nail ••• 20 %V. Camden (Liskrd.) 1174 - 1223
..• 51 Wh. Basset (Illogan). 185 - 195 w
firmer. The Colonial undertakings are flat. East 20
pl
... 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 295 - 310
201
1(
Indian have receded 10e. to 15s. ; Grand Trunk of 20 Se. 'Oude (Limited.) . ' *** - ... 53 Wh, Edward(Calstck) 9 - 94
... 117 e
Wh, Kitty (U. Llant) 20 - 21 2(
Canada, 1/. Great Western of Canada improved 20 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per' - i.l; !51 i ... 8 h.Ma.Ann (Menht.) 4T -49 484 es
as.: and Great Indian. Peninsula receded ss. to 20 all Do i ... - ... ; 44 %Via Trolawney (Lis.) 24 - 26 Cr
10s.
FOREIGN.
FOREIGN MINES. fla
co
Mining Shares aro quiet. Alfred Consols lea- io all ,'llitwrp &Rotterdam ' 5/ - 63 6 -
20 78 Australian - i .
0 S.
lised 14 ; North Wheal Basset, 154. 20 18 Ardennes... ............ a _
..-
ha
• 1 10s. Bon Accord Cop. (la ) f d -par
5 all Belgian East Junct, i
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are 20 16 Healers to Gra'issessae -- " 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued vi,
' ••• - ...
at £5 pm) - 24 ha
inactive, but little variation can be noticed in 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouse
20 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada. . - •••
prices. London Chartered of Australia improved I CoalhAplihnes.and Ry. 31 - 4
20 15 Do, St. John Del Roy 13 •-
14 134
20 12
is
55. ; Oriental Bank, ss. ; National Discount Corn- 20 all 'DEsu.sttec rn'ofeliFirsahnce ~, 2561 - 4247; el. 4 Clarendon Con. Min.
Co. of Jamaica WI
pang, ss.
20 all Do. New •••• ... a - ...
40 all Cobro Copper 42 - 44 AI
20 2s, Euphrates Valley.;.
~, _
~,
... 16 Copiapo - 12 ri:
B I/ ITISLI FUNDS, 2U
PRICES-THIS DAY. 20 18 Gt., Central of France ... - ...
1 all Dun Mountain Cop- par - 4 p
(/ roe+ the Officzal List:) 20 all Great Luxembourg._ •51 •
- 61 6/ 6
per Mining Co. Wi
16 4 Italian Junction
.• - ••• 2 all Fortuna - id li
Sank Stock .. .......................... 214 13 20 a . Lake Coast. & Bale ..• - . 20 all General
3 per cent. Reduced annuities ........... 87/ 81 7/ 20 all !Lime and Turnhout ~. ad 3 all Linares - 61
3 per Vent. Cerise's Annuities - 20p 84 511 Lusitanian - p
New 3 pot Cent. Annuities B7; 4'74 1427, 5 all I Lucca dr Pist.sp.c.p. -..
1 all Mariquita
9 20 all Lyons and Geneva ~, 241 - 25/ 2- ii ii
Lode Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860.... 2 1-16
1 all New Granada i - il Ge
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 24 20 all Lyons & Mediterran. ... - ...
1 all Noveau Monde - ... an
India Stock.
2094 84 335 •all Maria Antonia - •••
20 all Pont.Sil•LdM.dr Smlt 5 - 6
India Bone's, nut% '.. ... .. ...,. 35 a 10 all Do. New
- •••
5 1 Port Philip ............ ... - ...
Ditto, under L 1001; 35 25 d 20 all Namur & Liege - Ti
30 164 Santiago de Cuba ... 14 - 14 tic
Co, eels for x coin 3 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. 181 - 19
68
285' all United Mexican 3a -61
... - 344
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
- pr
431000 . ... . lO 13 d 10 i all NorwcgianTrek•Pref 9- 10
MISCELLANEOUS. 111(
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14 d 20 I all Paris and Lyons 321 - 317.4, 324 8 He 11..,...... .. ...... .. .. .................... 10 13 8 d 20 all Paris and Orleans 5l -53 1000 900 Atlautie Tel. (Lim.) ... - ...
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and indirectly, consequences, to make it responsible for
which is the consummation of injustice and absurdity.
The effect of this dec7sion must be ruinous to the
proprietor, and it is greatly to be regretted that the care
which he was prepared to prove before the court, wag
not fully shown and proven. It would have sufficed, at
any rate, to place his establishment perfectly right in
the judgmentof the public, whale reverdecision the board
may have given on the cpiestion of the license. The proof
by his books, kept regularly and constantly, that the
whole average number of persons visiting the rooms,
both male and female, is 600 nightly, and the proportion
of males to females being about ten to one ; this proof,
supported by the members and officers of the police,
who have been constantly on duty et the rooms, would
have settled the zeal of the three inspectors. Super-
added to this proof, that females of unimpeachable re-
spectability do visit the place, and we think the inspec-
tors would have felt ashamed of themselves ; indeed,
if the case had been carefully nursed and pertinacionely
defended with the materials on hand, and for that pur-
pose ready in the court, we think they might perhaps
have been led to retract and apologise, after the fashion
of well-meaning men, who, having committed an error
and injustice, are prompt And ready to acknowledge and
redress it.
Recurring briefly to the statute—questions plain
(
enough perhaps to lawyers, but to our apprehension no
!lass complex than apt, force themselves upon the mind.
In what sense is a statute, which plainly states as the
reason for its enactment that it was to withhold tempta-
tions from the lower sort of people, and prevent their
congregating in disorderly houses, applicable to the
Argyll Rooms ? Have the lower sort of people ever
frequented that establishment ?—Never. Quite the re-
verse. It is the resort of great numbers of the higher
sort, and the great majority of its visitors are of the
better sort. Clearly law is not reason ; or rather,' what
might have been both law and reason in 1747, have
in 1857 become grossly at variance with each other.
We ...imply rase the question, for we have not room for
present argument, sufficient to note the utter inap- .
plicability of the statute to the present case, and to the
present day. Again ;in case of violation of the condi-
tions of the statute, the license " shall be forfeited, and
shall be revoked by the justices, &c. See" Suppose
none of the conditions have been violated. What then ?
Suppose, on the contrary, they have been most scrupu-
lously and conscientiously observed and maintained, so
that the licensed place of entertainment gains a high
and almost world-wide reputation for the propriety and
excellence of its management. Shall it be forfeited and
revoked all the same ? Does the statute empower the
magistrates to commit so manifest an injustice ? To
encourage a man during seven consecutive years, until,
confident in the reputation of his place, confident in the
scrupulous care he has taken to act up to the law in its
letter and its spirit ; he has gradually expended
the sum of 30,000/. (which we understand to be the fact)
upon his establishment ; and then suddenly, without a
i-ingle cause, refuse the license, render his property
valueless, or comparatively so, and turn him upon the
world a ruined man ? Is this justice 1 If it be, Heaven
preserve us from the Court of Sessions, and the Statute
Of 1747 !
What means discretion ? By the second clause of the
statute the Sessions may " grant such licenses as they
in their discretion shall think proper." And what
means discretion ? That they may c:o as they see fit, one
way or the other, with regard to nothing but their will I
Certainly not. Discretion means a reasonable, sound,
and just exercise of their judgment. Here has been a
perfect observance of the law, a scrupulous regard to
property, an orderly assemblage of the higher and better
clan..-es for the purpo es of innocent recreation, and a
large fortune invested under the long and continuous
sanction of the Sessions, and all disregarded. Let the
public judge if this be the discretion which the law
means—a reason& le and just exercise of judgment,
not only has the essence of the law been disregarded,
but the principle on which the Court is supposed to
' act, "never to injure property without good cause,"
has been cast aside in tt i : case. Of oeuvre, the nuli-
ance of the Haymarket will be re t up as the justifica-
tion; whereas, fur this nuisance, the Argyll Rooms are
not, and, before a court of law, could not, be made
responsible. In plain truth, the arbitrary powers -con-
ferred by the proviii ins of an absurd law, hostile to
the rights and feelirgi of Englishmen, have been per-
verted to the commission of a grave and signal injustice.
Why were Creme roe Gardens licensed ? Why the
Holborn Casino ? Why the fifty other places ? It can-
not be pretended that the Argyll Rooms had Jess pre-
tensions to respectability in any particular than any of
these. We put these qu stiees to test the "discretion "
of the Sessions in its al placation to the Argyll Broome.
In considering this 'vase, we place entire relieve°
upon the steiteurenti o the proprietor ; and to those
who are di-posed to do otherwise, we say that great
credit i. due te him. If, as the inspector ntated, his
establishment has been the nightly resort of &frill 500
to 700 prostitutes, an I he has so entirely succeeded in
subjecting mob an enormous mass of profligacy to
decency, order, and propriety for several hours every
evening, iu the gay areuienieut of dancing, without in-
curring a solitary charge of disturbance, intoxication, or
impropriety of any diecription, then, we say, he is, in
his sphere and station, a ta'ented and beneficial reformer '
—that he deserves well of the public, and is just the
man to be encouraged and not smitten with ruin.
['here are many gradations between the two extremes
of the highest good and the? rawest evils, and he•who can
stand on any ono of the multitudinous intermed.ate steps
and do his share of even comparative good, does well.
Prostitution has existed in all ages and in all nations of
the world. Harlots hid the spies in Jericho, and Re,
from whom many a professor of sanctity would do well
to take closer pattern, has recorded his judgment en
another, taken in the velar act. At the same time, we
lutterly deny that the Argyilißooms are any more a resort
thr females of this descripttoa than any other place for
dancing or than any theatre in the metropolis. And we
also deny that the proprietor is in anywise responsible
for their attendance at his rooms.
Much as the act of injustice committed at the Sessions
is to be deplored, and particularly in reapect to the
ruinous and undeserved weight with which it halls on the
owner of the Argyll Returns, good will grow out of it.
Public sycepatby invariably fellows an act of gross and
inauitest oppression, and succeeds eventually in righting
the nppre,sed. Attention will be directed to the statute
et 1747.

THE QUARTER SESSION 8 AND THB

ARGYLL .RoOMS.