The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

1 to 7 per cent.
15th—Intelligence received that the Southern members
of the 'United States Cabinet had resigned, on the ground
that the act of Major Anderson in abandoning Fort Moul •
trie, in Charleston Bay, and throwing his troops into the
stronger position of Fort Sumter, was a breach of a compact
entered into between the President and the representatives
of South Carolina that both parties should remain passive.
17th—More than £l,OOO raised in the Stock Exchange
in a single day for the relief of the metropolitan poor dur-
ing severe frost.

Numerous losses in the Baltic from the consequences of
deck loading.
19th—Failure of Francis Ede, Son, and Co.—the first of
an extensive series of failures of Greek firms.

21st—News of the tital defeat of Miramon and occupa-
tion of the city of Mexico by the constitutional army on
Christtnas•day.
23d—Bank bullion reduced to X 11,521,580, or £1,131,159
less than on the Ist of January. This was the lowest point
of the year. Consols, 911.
26th—India 5 per Cent. Loan of £3,000,000 announced.
Contract completed Bth of February, when there were
tenders for £6,000,000 at and above the minimum of 981.

Lowest tender accepted in full, £93 lls. 4d. Average price
at which entire loan was taken, £9B 14s. 51d.
31st—Refusal of Mr. Gladstone to pay the Red Sea-Tele-
graph guarantee without a fresh sanction from the House
of Commons. Followed by a decline in the £2O shares to
£l4 10s.

FEBRITARY.
4111—Opening of the French Chambers.

6th—Assent of Bank of England to a proposal from the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to modify the terms for the
management by the Bank of the public debt. Present al-
lowance of £241,883 reduced by £50,021, but the new con-
ditions guaranteed to remain in force for 25 years.
14th—Bank rate of discount advanced from 7 per cent.
to 8 per cent.
15th—Numerous purchases of Bank Stock, which sent
the price from 232 to 241, owing to order in Chancery per-
mitting trust investments in this and India Stock.
16th—Business of CoMmercial Bank of London trans-
ferred to London• and Westminster Bank, owing to dis-
covery of fraud by a cashier at the Henrietta-street branch
involving a loss of £67,000.
18th—Sequestration of the affairs of the Caisse Generale
de Chemins de Fer at Paris and arrest of M. Mires.
21st—News of famine in the North-Western Provinces
of India.

22d—Interest on March Exchequer-bills increased from
lid to 2d per day.
27th—Injunction granted against the printing of bank-
notes purporting to be signed by Louis Kossuth, and bear•
ing the anus of Hungary. About £15,000,000 were said to
bo in preparation.

MARCH:
Ist—Danish 5 per Cents, for £691,300 paid off in Loudon.
Decree for the emancipation of Russian serfs to take full
effect in two years.
Morrill Tariff' Bill (to take effect on April 1) adopted by
United States, amounting almost to a prohibition of many
of the principal articles of European manufacture.
7th—Meeting of the wino trade unanimously condemn-
ing the alcoholic test.
13th—Commercial Treaty with Turkey camo into opera-
tion, fixing 8 per cent ad valorem on imports and exports,
instead of 5 per cent on imports ani 12 per cent on exports.
This duty of 8 per cent to bo reduced 1 per cent per
annum until it is brought to only 1 per cent. The treaty
to continue for 28 years, with right of revisal in 18 years.
A similar treaty made with France.
15th—Reduction of Bank of France discount to 6 per
cent.

Subscription proposed ' for Indian famine under the
auspices of the Lord Mayor.
20th—Bank of England discount reduced from 8 to 7
per cent.
26th—Guaranteed dividend on Red Sea Telegraph Stock
paid, but without compensation for the loss of interest and
the injury resulting from delay
APRIL.

Ist—The stock markets dull from apprehensions regard-
ing the political relations between Denmark and Prussia,
and also of a collision between Austria and Italy.
4th—Bank of England discount reduced from 7 to 6 per
cent.

11th—Ditto, from 6 to 5 per cent,
15th—News of the annexation of the Republic of San
Domingo to Spain.

Advices from India that the railway requirements would
be £22.000,000 for perfect completion, and £i3,000,000 for
works absolutely essential to bring the lines already con-
structed into development.

16th—Mr. Gladstone's budget. Income tax reduced from
10d to 9d. Paper duty abolished. Chicory duty of £6 por
ton increased to £l2. Various minor alterations.
27th—News of the commencement of the American civil
war by the attack of the Confederates on Fort Sumter.

Large purchases of saltpetre in the Mi v cing•lane markets
for the American Government.
27th—News of the outrage on the Ti nt by the Federal
ship-of-war San Jacinto.
Consols declined from 92/ to 91/.
Notice for :eduction of interest on Ju a e Exchequer Bills
from 31 to 3 per cent. on the 11th of 1)c tc ember.
Exportation of saltpetre prohibited.
~„ _ _

28th—News from India of Govern= n t resolution to sell
waste lands at os per acre for jungle, al id. IN per acre for
cleared land,

i)ECEMBER.

2d- Demand for surrender of Messrs. :Mason and Slidell
despatched by Cunard steamer.
4th-Statement published showing Una average reduction
of employment in the Lancashire cotton mills to be about
24 per cent.
9th-£296,000 awarded to be paid for Si . Thomas's Hos-
pital by the Charing-cross Railway.
21st-News from Paris of France hav is cg announced to
the European Powers that she had infonat ed the Washing-
ton Cabinet that the Trent outrage was a. \ violation of inter-
national law.
23d-Funeral of the Prince Consort. Busineas entirely
suspended.
30th-News of intense excitement at Nit).w York on know
ledge of the British demand for surrender al Messrs. Mason
and Slidell. Consols 901.
Annexed is,a list of the new-cornpani,o brlaftibf
1'1.1861. 4 considerablo proportion of them' failed to raise
their capital :
• - Capital.
, - t'al`.ipany.
Amman Colliery £lOO,OOO
Atlas Coal
.. 10,000
Asphaltum . • .. 200,000
Bahia Steam • • .• 160,000
Corsican and Mediterranean GIBS ... 25,000
Commercial Copper Smelting 4000,000
China and Japan Steam Navigatiya r 300,000
China River Steam .. 1... 200,000
Compressed Coal .. . • '.. 100,000
Chesterfield and Midland Silkst bna
Colliery .. • •
Canadian Land and Emigration
.. 250,000
Cannock Chase and Ogley Land 100,000
Economic Omnibus 50,000
Elbo Colliery .. ••
15,000
East del Rey Mining .. • • 75,000 • "
General Tramroad .. 200,000
General Telegraphic Wprks .. 60,000
Hindostan (Singboom) CopPfx .. 120,000
Hafed Lead Mining • * .. 50,000
Indian Carrying .. . • .. 100,000
Liverpool and .Now Orleans Steam 200,000
Llanmorlaise Colliery .. 20,000
London and Burton Brewery ~ 120,000„ 4
London Saffrance Wharf Company 250,000
London and Provincial Discount 250,000 '
London and Provincial Agr;.eultural 100,000
Lambeth Bridge .. .. 40,000
Mentes Aureos Gold .. .. 200,000
Mwyndy Iron .. 160,000
Metropolitan Consumers' Coal ~ 60,000
Metrop ditan ides Range .. 60,000
Mercantile Joint-Stock Bank .. 1,000,000
Metropolitan and Provincial 8ank4,000,000
Malta and. Mediterranean Gas .. 60,000
National Horse Exchange .. 50,000
National Marine'lnsurance .. 1,000,000
National Credit .. .. 500,000
Natal Land ..
.. 22.5,000
Natal Cotton • • • . 50,000
National Boat Building .. • 200,000
Oriental and General Marine Insur-
ance .• se 1,00b,000
Patent Bitumeniscd Pipe .. 30,000
Patent Waterproof Glue .. 20,000
Patent screwed Boot and S'lls 40,000
Paris Land
•C• • • 100,000
Queensland Cotton .. .. 50,000
Roodco Iron ai 100,000
River Salado Steam rt ; 240,000
Thames Valley Railway .. 200,000
Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway 20,00%
ctaprid Tren - 100,000
Slate Mountain .. . • • . 30,000
Trust and Agency of Australasia .. 500,000
Universal Private Telegraph .. 100,000
Venezuela Cotton .. .. 200,000
Zamora Tin .. .. • • .. 12,000
The following list comprises most of the firms
whose failure has been announced during the year
in London. It also includes five provincial banks,
some of which have suspended for large amounts.
In the previous year the chief disasters Were in the
leather trade, and this year there have been sus-
pensions of nearly equal magnitude among the
Levant houses, but with the difference that a very
considerable number of the latter have shown large
assets, and have paid in full,while the stoppages of
1860 were mostly of a discreditable character :-
Actual or Estimated
Debts. Assets.
W. H. Gurridgc, wholesale choesomonger £40,121 £26,078
Whistler, Dawson, and King, colonial pro-
duce agents .. .. 19,170 11,003
Fras.Ede, Son, and Cc., Levant merchants 156,343 57,840
Edo and Co., ditto 20,058 23,200
L. Rodoconachi and Co., ditto .. 101,937 134,993
E. IVackerbath and Co., sugar refiners .. 26,440 21,688
A. Psichari, Levant merchant
D. Navone, ditto ..
.. 31,400 5,900
P. C. Salvage and Co., ditto .. 46,721 11,988
S. P. Zizinias, ditto .. 66,036 10,254
E. Vitalis, ditto .. 25,124 25,124
Ledgard and Sons, Poole Bank • . - -
O'Halloran and Co,, East India and Ceylon
merchants • • . • • • .. 20,541 27,939
Marco Adutt, Levant merchant .. .. 52,253 107,578
F. Whittall and Co., ditto es ••
Lutrari and Co., ditto .. -
Armstrong, Pelton, and Co., ditto
T. Guess, ditto ..
Schilizzi and Vuros, ditto .. .. 34,000 17,009
S. Roberts and Co., drapers 10,778 5,380
R. Brandt, Russia merchant .. .. 115,320 30,481
T. and R. Raikes and Co., Hull Bank .. 70,000
Pietroni and:Draper, Levant merchants.. 20,822 7,155
James Crichton, flax merchant .. 80,000 12,000
Bello, Brothers, Levant merchants .. 131,445 53,102
J. G. Behrends and Co., E. I. merchants. 25,668 11,709
Phineas Abraham, West India merchant. 49,528 32,291
Cuppa, Brothers, & Co., Levant merchants 70,000
B. de Cuadra, Spanish merchant.. 110,263 110,263
C. A. and F. Ferguson, block manufact'rs. 21,684 9,718
redder and Co., Preston Old Bank .. 638,827 543,003
Barnes, Medley, and Co, Faringdon and
Wantago Bank .. 45,500 22,500
Cook and Greenwood, wine merchants 14,850 6,837
Burrell and Geary, corn merchants .. 8,680 4,425
P. Hava and Co., Levant merchants .. 66,905 68,286
Lascaridi and Co., ditto .. 212,184 133,433
Theodore Ralli, Sons, and Co., ditto .. 74,786 98,646
Scott & Wright, woollen warehousemen.. 43,000 28,000
York and Co., Peterborough Bank .. 161,000 41,000
Nicholson and Stone, warehousemen 31,926 22,519
Alexiadi, Delta, & Co., Levant merchants 84,447 123,534
T. Dowling, timber merchant .. 38,797 14,917
Mackay and Reed, commission merchants 16,150 4,040
James Grieves, Australian merchant .. 54,777 38,890
Rocca Brothers, Italian merchants .. -
Coster, Beater, and Co., warehousemen .. 216,863 -
J. and H. Miller, Australian merchants.. 14,487 7,994
F. -Harrison and Co., woollen merchants. 45,000
Alexander Thomas Gordon, contractor -
Braum and Kortoske, wholesale hat ma-
nufacturers ..
Kesteven Brothers, woollen warehouse-
men
Ford, Hale, and Jones, wine merchants.. -
Barnard, Rosenthal, and Co., braid ma-
nufacturers .. • 70,000
William Harryman, hop factor .. .. 40,000
Sowerby, Tattoo, and Co, mercers 42,150 13,267
Arnett Brothers, ditto , 20,792 16,318
Joseph Pickering contractor . • .. 78,076 78,076
Benoliel Brothers, merchants .. .. 40,000
Fairhead and Son, seedsmen 12,556 6,160
Westgarth and Co., Australian merchants 25,000 12,000

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PA most extraordinary "run " with Lord
Middleton's hounds in the East Riding of Yorkshire is
chronicled. The hounds ran after the fox for a distance of
40 miles, crossing in their progress three railways and three
rivers. All the horsemen were beaten off, but the hounds
carried on their game into the night, and were only picked
up by the huntsmen the morning after the hunt.
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1, . Black Prince, 40, will leave the steam basin
at /ortsmouth this da
I y, and go into dock, where
her bilge pieces will be put on, together with her
valves, pumps, &c. There are now 150 artisans
employed on the various fittings of this ship. These
men merely work the ordinary hours. Blacksmiths
are working overtime. The engine department
is complete with the exception of the ventilating
apparatus and auxiliary engine, to be used in case
of fire for pumping water in the ship, for the fan,
cupola, and general purposes. The Black Prince is
ordered to be completed by the last day of April,
but with a full complement of artisans she could
be got ready for sea in little more than a month.
The engine department could be made ready fcr
sea in two days.
'The Warrior, 40, iron-cased screw steam-frigate,
Captain the Hon. A. Cochrane, lit fires to-day. She
will be out of the hands of the dockyard authorities
to-night, and will leave the harbour to-morrow
morning for a trial trip. Admirals Eden and Ro-
binson are expected to accompany the usual officials
on this occasion.
The Chanticleer, 17, screw sloop, now lying off
Osborne House, Isle of Wight, will be inspected
this morning by Captain Harris, of the Britannia,
who will ;proceed to her in the Sprightly. The
Chanticleer will be employed in convoying a troop=
ship to Canada. We understand that all troop
ships will in future be convoyed by ships of war.
The Vigilant will relieve the Chanticleer off
Osborne.
The -Galatea, 2G, 800 horse power, fitting at
Chatham, is ordered to be supplied with the follow-
ing large quantity of shot and shell, viz, :-140
common and 100 segment 100-pounder Armstrong
shells, 800 10-inch shells, 9 24-pounder and 6 12-
pounder diaphragm shells, 2512-pounder Armstrong
shells, 1,20010-inch solid and empty shot, 100 24-
pounder shot, 100 12-pounder segment shells, and
50 12-pounder Armstrong solid shot. In addition
to the above, she will be supplied with 412 of Dell's
whole cases, and 32 metal-lined half cases of powder.'
A large number of mechanics and labourerslavere
yesterday engaged in the various departments of
Woolwich Arsenal to replace those who had forfeited
their engagements through intemperance and lossof
time during the Christmas week. 104 were taken on
in the Royal gun factories, about the same number
;at the Laboratory, and from 50 to 80 in the other
departments. On account of the present urgent
claims on the establishment the usual privilege of
closing the departments on the 26th, and working
up the day in overtime, was not accorded, which
was a source of great annoyance, and the work was
but partially carried on from the lack of hands.
Many absen tees were checked on following days and
dismissed.
Under the new regulations recently laid down at
the Marine-office, the detachments of Royal Marines
serving on board the various ships in harbour at
Chatham will in future be relieved yearly, instead
of once in three years, as formerly. In accord-
ance with this arrangement, the Royal Marines
serving on board the Wellesley, 72, Captain Fan-
shawe, guard-ship at Chatham, will bo landed
today, when a fresh party will be sent on board
that vessel. The Royal Marines serving on board
the various ships at the several harbours are to be
landed on periodical occasions for a few days' drill
with their battalions.
The workmen at the dockyard at Pembroke are
mast actively employed in pushing forward the
construction of the various men-of-war now
on the slips. The Blenheim, 60 guns; guard-
ship, stationed off the yard, has received orders to
be ready for any emergency. and to be able to Pit
to sea at the shortest notice. The various defences
have been almost denuded of artillery in consequence
of the 15th Brigade having been sent off to Canada.
The St. Andrew still retains her berth on Wool-
wich pier, awaiting orders to commence shipment.
She is well sapplied with troops' fittings, saloon
cabins, and a capacious hold capable of stowing up-
wards of 1,000 tons of cargo.
No. 8 steam transport Calcutta, with troops and
war stores for Canada, as enumerated in Vie Sun
of yesterday, left Woolwich pier yesterday morn-
ing at 10, having previously shipped in addition 46
troop horses, which, by the superior arrangement
afforded by the hydraulic cranes, are now hoisted
on board and berthed without danger or inconve-
nience. Thirty snow sledges were also shipped, a
similar allotment loving been supplied to each for-
mer battery now on the voyage.
The following appointments were made at the Admi-
ralty last evening :
Master—Bernard B. Dowling to the Cumberland, for
the Racehorse.
Assistant-Surgeon G. A. Campbell confirmed in the
Algiers.

Engineors—John Snell, to the Indus, for the Royalist ;
William Farquharson, to the Revenge.
Assistant .Engineers—A. Borthwick (first-class) to the
Asia, for Highlander; J. C. Weeks (first-class) to the
Cornwallis; Henry Benbow to:Cornwallis, for the Fly ;
H. Vatcher (second class) confirmed in the Surprise; G. F.
Gossage (second class), confirmed in Miranda ; C. Gregory
(second class), confirmed in the Indus (lent to Avon) ; T.
Stewart (second class), confirmed in the Defence.

THE ARMY.

Orders were received yesterday, directing 150
men of the Royal Artillery, together with three
officers, to proceed (to-morrow) from the depot bri-
gade at Sheerness to Shoeburyness, there to go
through a course of instruction in the use of the
Armstrong gun, previously to their being despatched
to British North America. A detachment of the
Royal Artillery, consisting of those officers and men
who have completed their course of instruction at
the School of Gunnery, will rejoin the depot brigade
to-day.
Great progress is being made in the erection of
the new barracks for the use of the Guards on the
grounds adjoining Chelsea Hospital. When ready
for occupation they will be capable of accommodat-
ing 1,000 men. In addition to detached houses for
the officers and non-commissioned officers, the build-
ings will comprise separate dwellings for the mar-
ried soldiers, a library and reading-rooms, a lec-
ture room, ball court; gymnasiums, skittle grounds,
baths andwashhouses, a provost prison, guardhouse,
and lock-up, canteen, and quartermasters' stores.
The soldiers' quarters, which form the main portion
of the building, are in a very forward state, and
the officers and non-commissioned officers' quarters
are already roofed in. The building work of
the now barracks for the Ist Royal or East
Middlesex Militia, at Hampstead, is now completed
arid will soon be ready for use.
The staff appointment of second fieldwork instruc-
tor at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham,
has become vacant by the appointment of Lieut. J.
M. 11. Maitland to the 18th Company, embarked
for Canada.

The undermentioned officers and 520 men belong-
ing to 2d battalion 17th Regiment, embarked at
Queenstown, on the steam transport Cleopatra, on
the 27th, for Halifax :—Lieut.-Col. M'Kinstry,
Majors O'Conor and Heigbam, Capts. Thompson,
Hunter, Stuart, Travers, Bellamy, and Elliot, Lieuts.
Colquhoun, Mosse, Fluder, Wedderburn, Crickett,
and Dwyer, Ensigns Mash, Lonsdale, Dunning,
and Rolph, Sarg. Ciutterbuck, M.D., Adjt. Ross
(Lieut.), Quartermaster Monk.

In addition to the large force of garrison and field
artillery which has left Woolwich for British North
America during this month, the following bat-
teries are under orders to proceed to Liverpool for
embarkation this week, viz. :—For Halifax, two
batteries of the 10th brigade of garrison Artillery,
commanded by Major Childs and Captain Robinson;
and for Bermuda, two batteries of the 15th brigade,
commanded by Major Hope and Captain Byrne.
The several departments of the Royal Arsenal are
still working by night and day, in consequence of
the pressing demand for various descriptions of war
stores required for shipment,