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—— Vol. X VIL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1859. No.. 851

CONTENTS. the negotiation apparently, remains ; but, in fact, the United THE ECONOMIST. States have gained a great advantage over all’ European ing and the Congress...... +... 1397 Game and the Game Laws o+....+. 1404 ; Difficulties in the LITERATURE :— nations. The effect of the declarations of Paris. is.to secure Taxon Realised Property...... 1398 Thoughts on Government from capture the goods of the belligerents undér a neutral England's Suez POLICY ..0rc00e0-cceceree 1399 Life in Spait....,...... -cccecsscccesseees Wielded by Trades'Unions 1400 Women Artists in All Ages and flag, but not to protect them under their own flag ; nominally ] n Medical Service and their Countries ...... ccesrsereerseseeree -- Nowe Warrant ...... cerseceseesees 1401 The Fool of Quality . to secure neutral goods on board a ship, of one of the | owners of Ondes...... s0+0« 1402 { Reynard the Fox...... belligerents, but practically to postpone and’ impede their } The Merchants of Bremen on Mari- Foreign Correspondence ' JW" . cecsccccccaccoccoscceseoscscoees 1403 | CorrEsPONDENCE :— arrival at the port of destination by not protecting the ship AQRIOULTURE :— The Revue Independante...... 1409 itself. The advantage to neutral ships is evident; and i} Breeding and Feeding Stock...... 1403 | The Rhine Tolls ...... ceseosensseees 1409 ) THE BANKERS’ GAZBTTE AND COMMERCIAL TIMES: America is sure to be neutral. Affairs: in Burope are so ] BankRetarns and Money Market ... 1410 | Co'onialéForeign Produce Markets 141 £ complicated, and the interests here so ramified, that; when | Bankers’ Price Current 1412 POStacript ...... :co-serserseeseererevere Bs creaoceccocce sre ccceccengeccocsosce +» 1418! Additional Notices +» 1416 international relations are much disturbed, it is inrpossible Gommercial Epitome... asneeee 1414] Liverpool Markets . 1417 to say which nation will be drawn ‘intothe conflict, and Fy GOI. ..0000--sccerenrseesersercesenscecsnsanere 1416 | Gazette ...... cessesees « 1417 lampow MARKETS :— Price Current ...... 0+ + 1418 which will not. All are liable tobe so. But America is I} Stateof Corn Tradefor the Week: 1416 ; Imports and Exports... 1419 beyond suspicion. She is far removed from tlie: scene of i THE RAILWAY MONITOR. Byltome of Railway News...... 1419 | Railway and Mining Share Market... 1419 contention, and is-known never tointerfereinit. Accordingly, Share Listand Traffic Returns ...... -0ssceseesssensees 1420 when the late disturbances between France and Austria first became known, intelligent merchants wrote to their corre- Che Political Economist. spondents at Calcutta and other distant places,—‘ Ship our ‘goods by American vessels ; do notship them by English or SHIPPING AND THE CONGRESS. ‘ French vessels.’ The declarations made at Paris, during a prolonged and diffused Europeandisturbance, would, in effect, || We print elsewhere the resolutions passed at Bremen on the give a monopoly of the entire carrying trade of the world to subject. of maritime warfare, anda letter respecting them from the one great maritime State which has not as yet acceded themembers of the committee appointed to secure to them the to them. | attention of the forthcoming Congress at Paris: if possible. We-do so, because we think the subject of these remarkable It is, of course, no ground for altering our code of mari- propositions has not been fully discussed, and is not as yet time usages that it gives an advantage to the Americans or understood so well as it.is important. that it should be. to any other nation. That advantage may arise from the The declarations on maritime warfare made at the time of happy circumstances in which that nation is placed. In this thetreaty of Paris, two yearsago, have produced .a result case, America has a great natural advantage in being so re- which was not contemplated by the Plenipotentiaries who mote from the troubles of Europe. But the faet that our || agreed to them, and which is in itself remarkable. But one present regulations give a very great advantage to a single || great maritime State has not assented to them, and that State nation is, without doubt, a sufficient reason for very carefully || has obtained almost all the benefit which has accrued from examining them, and seeing whether they are, or are not, iithem. Those declarations, it will be remembered, were as based upon wise principles, What, then, are the facts? || follows :—* 1. Privateering is. and remains abolished. 2. The Two speculative lines of argument may be, and. often have “neutral flag covers enemy’s goods, with the exception of been, used with respect to property at sea in time of war. “contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, with the exception In the first place, it is said that private property on land is 4| “of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the protected in time of war,—that the contest onshore is mainly ||“enemy’s flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must betweenarmy and army, and not between individeal and “ be effective ; that.is to say, maintained by a force sufficient individual,—that the progress of civilisation ha» tended to {| really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy,” make it, more so,—that the internal commerce of the seat of | These declarations. were intended to be communicated to war on land is as little as. possible interfered. with,—that f 18 | the American. Government, which was not a party to there is no difference, or no sufficient difference between ent; | the treaty of Paris, and were in fact communicated to war at sea and war by land;—and that. good sense Dity. it. Mr Marcy,, however,, on its. behalf, replied that and humanity should induce us to -extend to the }\ the. United States. could not. agree to these: propositions former what has been found so advantageous in thie j\a#they stood; but that they were willing to agree to them latter. On the other hand, it may be said’ that it is the Provided that private property at sea, whether con- object: of all war to compel the enemy: to make a peace,—that, sisting of ships or goods, should no longer be subject to any hardships which compel him to do so arein the end bene- capture under any, circumstances. This proposition was ficial, to the world, though they may be cruel for the moment,— |) accordingly in the course of consideration by. the British that the commerce of the nation is: a.vulnerable point,—that ty of Government. “ But,’ as Lord. Palmerston. explained in by ruiaing her traders, and depriving her consumers of thie ngly js answer to Mr Lindsay in July,. 1857, “ in the meantime a commodities. they are used to, a nation. may be induced’ to r most “change took place in the Government of the United States ; make peace.—We should not wish to endeavour to argue re- ||,“ and. before any answer was sent by the British Government specting. these general views: of the subject. They have “to. America, the new. President came into office, and an long been diseussed, and probably everything which can. be “intimation was made that. the American Government did said about them has been said. But what werwish: to point “ not wish that any answer should be sent to.the proposition out. is, that the second of the declarations of Paris amounts in “of their predecessors, and. that, in point of fact, they practice to a decision between them. It exempts:from seizure “ wished 'to consider that. communication as suspended, and the goods of a nation at war in neutral vessels, The com- yi“ the-negotiation. not. going. on.” In. this.state of suspense merce, therefore, of a nation at war,—the importiof commodi-

Saeco lil erareeeromaeareareazesaasca iti =~ > _~+- 1398 THE ECONOMIST. [Dec. 17, 1859. | ties. into, and the export of commodities rae by her, may be; Congress did not confine its attention to the peace with carried on just as it used to be in time of peace, provided it Russia, which was the topic for which it was convened ; it is not carried owin her own ships. All the operations of the considered the position of ltaly and the conduct of the Belgian exporting and the importing merchant,—all the consumption press. Moreover, the present anomaly in the rules of mari. of the belligerent country may, and, excepting in the case of time warfare arises from its decisions, and there would, in blockaded towns, hereafter will, go on just as it was accus- consequence, be a peculiar propriety in the present Congress tomed to do previous to the war. It is, therefore, now no proceeding to revise them. longer possible to adopt the second of the well-known argu- ments to which we have alluded. Commerce is no longer a ENGLAND’S SUEZ POLICY. vulnerable point. We have agreed that all that is most im- portant in trade should incur no danger in war. If a nation Tarts is not a time when England can afford even to be sus is to be induced by severities at sea to make a peace, it must pected of a selfish policy ; and vet, owing either to some ve be by injuring the whole body of its traders and stinting the mistaken theory, or some very awkward management on the wants of the mass of its people. But this we have no longer part of the Government, our Ambassador at Constantinople the means of doing. We have agreed that the profits of the is now presented to the world in the attitude of opposing, general trader shall be what they used to be, and also the for some inexplicably selfish purpose, all the other Powers supply of the population. The only person really injured of Europe in their efforts to promote the formation of a canal, hereafter will be the shipowner of the belligerent country ; which, if it could be effectually made, would‘be a step of his ship may be captured and may be confiscated ; those mer- great importance in the progress of material civilisation, How foolish it is to give any colour to the suspicion that |} chants of his own country who have been so ill-advised as to send their goods by his ship will be injured likewise ; but England fears the results to her Indian Empire of the con- struction of this canal,—how much worse than foolish to these are not evils which will induce any nation to make give colour to the suspicion that, even if she did fear it, peace. Shipowners are a small class, and people will rot she would think herself justified in arresting a great |} eare for their adversity. If the daily wants of the commu- work of that kind from any such motive,—we have nity are well supplied and the general profits of trade are | already taken occasion to say in this journal. But unwise good, no complaints will be heard. and unjustifiable as such a course would be at any time, it We have then arrived at this result,—our present maritime is peculiarly unwise and unjustifiable now ;—nor can we well regulations are not reasonable, but unreasonable. All evil believe that our Ambassador at Constantinople can have which is inflicted during war and which does not tend to pro- instructions to pursue, on behalf of England, a policy which duce peace, is pure harm. The confiscation of the ships o will have the effect of crippling us effectually in the beligerent nations is of this nature, and should, therefore, no approaching Congress, by inevitably suggesting to all longer be permitted to exist. Europe, that whatever part we take in the Italian question, The proposal which the merchants of Bremen have very we take from purely interested motives, and with a view to | properly suggested has this object in view. They wish counteracting the influence of some Power whose pre |j ' that the expected Congress should consider if it be not possi- dominance we fear. It is simply to put the most powerful ble to exempt from capture all private property at sea, arguments into the mouth of our opponents, if we resist with | whether it be ship or cargo. In the present state of the cur political influence a scheme, which, if it be practicable | mercantile world, we can hardly conceive a proposition more and prosperous, all nations ought to rejoice to see carried | A a worthy of our consideration. It is creditable to so small a out; and if it be impracticable, or like the Great Eastern a State as Bremen that it should have sufficient courage to commercial failure, will hurt the shareholders and none | make so great a proposal, and sagacity enough to make one others. If the scheme is a bad one, the only way in which | that is so good. England can properly pronounce her judgment is by abstain- In discussing the code of international relations, it is most ing from taking shares in it. ‘To apply diplomatic pressure | advisable to avoid everything which can wound the suscepti- in order to protect English speculators from embarking bility of any nation, and especially one so very sensitive as their capital in a “ bubble,” is one of the most undignified ' the United States. In the present case there is happily no forms of Protection of which we have yet heard. No one! occasion for it. America has, it is true, derived an unanti- can believe that statesmen committed to Free Trade could even cipated benefit from an unexpected consequence of the decla- contemplate such a piece of folly. And, therefore, any opposi- | rations of Paris. But she was no party to those declarations. tion really offered by English statesmen to the measure, must | On the contrary, she suggested through Mr Marcy the very be attributed abroad, and no doubt justly attributed, to poli- | addition to them which the merchants of Bremen now tical uneasiness, which, even if felt, it is certainly far jj suggest. She cannot complain if the approaching European from dignified to express; and to which it is positively | Congress should adopt a suggestion which she made herself. ignoble to concede any practical influence in determining our }} Moreover, although her apparent interest is opposed to the attitude towards an undertaking intended to bring the Kast | proposal at present put forward, it is very dubious if her and West into closer connection. | real interest is so. By the present international regulations, The selfish opposition supposed to be offered by England her shipowners, would undoubtedly enjoy great protits during to the Suez Canal is not only foolish and unjustifiable, vut is a great European war. But would this really be advan- the one thing which really gives hope and courage to the tageous even to such shipowners? A new and sudden profit supporters of it. It is supposed that the diplomatic —— of this kind would cause a great rise in the price of ships, opposition must imply two things,—first, a real belief in ni | and give an extensive stimulus to the shipbuilding trade. 4 the practicability of the plan; and secondly, a real belief | great number of new ships would be rapidly run up. When that it would give France a great advantage over England peace came, the unusual demand would be gone, but in her relations with the East. Did not English statesmen | those ships would still remain. They would tend to believe it possible, it is shrewdly enough argued,—they depress the profits of shipowning, just as the unusual would see M. Lesseps’ workmen digging away in the sands: numbers built a few years ago for the emigration trade is now TTY of Egypt with the same kind of equanimity with which} depressing them. The American shipowner would certainly be men who should believe in the evil character of the !unar ———————— — better off than others, for though he would share the subsequent population might watch attempts to establish intercourse depression, he alone would enjoy the original advantage. with the moon. They might think the object a very fearful But it may be well doubted whether it would not be better and undesirable one; but, being fully convinced that no for him as well as for others, that the best regulations should human instrumentality could compass it, they would watch be made for international warfare, and the demand for ships with some malicious satisfaction the spasmodic exertions of in consequence be kept as steady as it can be. It is rare that the evil-disposed to transcend the limits of the possible. a sudden and fortuitous advantage is in the long run benefi- That English statesmen oppose the Suez Canal is, therefore, | cial to the profits of a trade, though it may make the fortunes rightly interpreted as a misgiving with regard to its possi- ees of individuals, bility. If, however, they do believe in its physical or scientific a = a It is probable that the state of Italy will for a consi- possibility, but not in the possibility of any profitable re- derable period exclusively occupy the Congress, But before turn, they could not do worse than show so clearly the it separates, we see no reason why it sheuld not give due vast political importance they attach to the scheme. A ——_— | attention to the vales of maritime warfare. The last great money sacrifice may be made for a political and } Slee to ph ———_= .

Witasa Dec. 17, cee 1859.] THE ECONOMIST.

national object. It would never be made of course way of Suez to India, she has as much power now | without such an object. English statesmen who really op- to do so as she would ever have. And the maari- e this scheme, do their best to turn it from a joint time canal would not, if the Dutch Government’ may stock speculation into a grand national effort,—do their best, be trusted, alter the route of merchandise at all. in short, to bring forward, in the place of men who will Whether, therefore, we look at the question from the subscribe in the hope of a very uncertain gain, political or the mercantile point of view; or whether, con- that much larger class of men who subscribe without ceding the absurd assumption that the canal, if made, would a wish for any return, but simply to promote the objects injure us, we look merely at the best policy we ought to ‘of France and thwart the selfish obstinacy of England. pursue to prevent its being made,— in every way we arrive at the result, that for England to meddle in the matter politi- Again, by opposing this scheme, our statesmen would ———— | not only add greatly to the belief in. its possibility—would cally at all, would be one of the greatest, and, at present, one not only do much to draw out the savings of French of the most inopportune and discreditable blunders an Eng- | patriots in aid of the poor contributions of European lish statesman could make. It would not only be to adopt | speculators—they would also do much to increase the a policy barefacedly selfish,—not only by the very fact of so general belief that the scheme, if carried out, would give doing, to promote the scheme which it is intended to crush ;— France a very great advantage over England in relation to but to do so at a time wher all Europe is looking to Eng- the East. And such a Velief will do far more to promote land to plead one of the noblest of causes,—a cause, too, it than any expectations of profit whatever. We believe which she can only plead with any chance of success if held that nothing can be more false than this belief, or more quite guiltless of any selfish and egotistic aims. \ foolish than to promote it. So far as the Suez canal gives \an advantage to France in relation to India, that advantage FURTHER DIFFICULTIES IN THE PROPOSED France has already, and no maritime canal would increase TAX ON REALISED PROPERTY. ite, The advantage really concerns the Passenger and Mail |ansport almost exclusively. And as regards this branch We remarked, on a former occasion, that the scheme jof communication, the change from a ship to a railway, in- which Mr Bright proposed for raising a revenue from convenient asit is, does not affect the result. ‘The route over realised prooerty would, if it were adopted, throw a very he Isthmus of Suez does already give the French as much great burden on the poorer fundholder. Our conclusion advantage, if they were ever likely to avail themselves of it, in was, wethink, indisputable, and we have scarcely seen it denied. transporting men or troops to India, as the maritime canal But there has been a disposition in some quarters to regard could give. Any obstacle which Egypt might choose to pre- it as an exceptional case,—one of the inevitable anomalies sent could be presented as effectually to the navigation which every system of finance will present. of a canal by transport ships, as to the transmission of Those who refer to the facts will immediately perceive troops by a railway. The difference would be merely one how erroneous this notion is. The public funds of this of convenience, possibly also of some very slight expense,— country are held for the most part in very small amounts. but certainly not one of speed. It appears from a late Parliamentary return, that in 1857, As to the Eastern commerce of France and Europe, the time to which it relates, the funded debt of England there is the greatest reason to believe that even in the case was held by 268,995 persons; and as the amount was then of France it would still take the usual route round the Cape, 780,119,7227, it follows that the average capital sum |—that no heavy merchandise, at all events, could be shipped possessed by each was only 2,900/; and as the annual interest by the Suez route without a very large increase in the cost. was 27,411,995/, that the average dividend each person re- The Government of Holland issued a Commission on ceived was only 102/. The figures of the National Debt purpose to estimate the saving or the loss on this route. Its look very large in the aggregate, but when we examine the | labours resulted in a report which has, we believe, never been facts, the notion that the fundholders are persons by whom translated, but the results of which are transferred to an a considerable burden could be easily borne vanishes at once. | excellent pamphlet by M. Frederic de Coninck, published at The peculiar hardship of the principle, though not of Havre a month or two ago. the details of Mr Bright’s scheme, has been well put by Mr Potter, the President of tlie Manchester Chamber The estimate for a sailing ship of 800 tons, manned ee LT by a crew of 25 men, from the Lizard’s Point to the Straits of ‘Commerce, iv a thoughtful pamphlet which he has pub- of Sunda, is :-— lished on this subject:—‘*I cannot,’ he says, “draw the Days. *¢ distinction between Income and Property, which it is From the Lizard {o the Straits of Sunda, by the Cape 84 “ sought to do;—both form the means of expenditure, I by way of Suez... 90 “cannot see why the single man, earning 60/ per annum, Loss by way of Suez ‘should pay nothing because he has no property; whilst “‘ the widow, with six children, perhaps, and 60/ per annum For the return voyage, from Sunda to the Lizard *‘ secured for her life only, on land or in the funds, should ‘pay Sor 10 per cent. on her income; and yet, it is pro- Loss by way of Suez ‘¢ bable, the number of persons living on small annuities In other words, a mere sailing ship would Jose 20 days on ‘¢ from property, and the single men earning similar incomes, this route, besides the tolls of the canal and the extra cost of “may be about equal.” ‘The small sums in which the insurance in the Red Sea (which is considerable). This at funds are held are frequently, though, of course, not always, first remarkable result is owing, no doubt, to the greater the sole means of support which is possessed by those to uncertainty of the winds on this route as compared with the whom they belong. Nor, small as the amounts appear, do open Atlantic route. But even with vessels assisted byasmall they always belong to individuals. In the case of trust steam-power, the Commission showed that the gain in time funds there is usually a further division. The income of the would be by no means equal to the lossin cost. Fora vessel of property, small as it is, has to be distributed among the 2,400 tons, with an auxiliary engine of 200 horse-power, they various members of the family for whom the trustees calculate the gain on the whole voyage and return, at about hold it. a month only, and this only by incurring double the cost in As we have had occasion again to refer to this subject, we coal, to say nothing of the great increase in insurance, may remark that it is not only the small fundholder who and the heavy tolls for the canal by the Suez would be aggrieved by the suggested tax. Many large holders route. Now, these results speak for themselves. If would be deeply injured by it,and a portion of these are among the heavy merchandise would never be sent by the the mercantile classes,—some of the very persons whom it Suez route from the North of Europe, and seldom, is desired particularly to relieve. Take the case of a large if ever, from Marscilles,—as even in this case the increase joint stock bank. Perhaps it has a million in the public in cost would, probably, much outweigh the gain in time,— funds, The proposed tax of 8s per cent. would amount the value of the canal can only affect the passenger traffic. on that sum to 4,000/ a year, and it would bear no relation And, as we have shown, France has quite as much advan- to the profitableness of business at the time. It would be a tage over England now, in that respect, as any maritime fixed burden on bad years as well as good years,—on a fail-

canal could giveher. If she chose to cut off our overland sl ht ing and on an improving concern. The form of the tax, too, is route to India, she has as much power now to do so, as she bad. In such a case as this, the securities which a bank could ever have, If she chose to send her own troops by ! holds as part of its available reserve are really a part of its

—~ 1400 THE ECONOMIST. [Dec. 17, 1859, ee ee ennai stock in trade. It is no relief to industry to put an impost ¥ not do so. Yet, capital in trade is not to be taxed, and on what is essential to business. It is partial, moreover, tu “* realised property”’ out of trade is to be so, The wholesome tax such a reseyve when it is invested in the funds, and not process of prudent realisation will be checked, and very great tax it when it is invested in other ways. The London and losses to individuals will occur in consequence. Westminster Bank, as one of their directors was authorised It is not possible either to exempt capital in trade from to explain to the Commiitee on the Bank Acts, holds, | the intended tax, or to include it without incurring serious besides its reserve in funded property, a large reserve also evils. ‘These are not all the objections which occur to us, in “bill-brokers’ bills’—in bills that are not discounted. for but they are suflicient for the present. The more the scheme their own customers, but re-discounted for the discount in question is thought of, the less valuable, we think, it wil] broker. These, we believe, Mr Bright would not tax. We generally be considered. hear nothing, and we are likely to hear nothing, of 8s per cent. on the bills in a bank's safe. The notion of “ visible sei maeaeaacococwmemeowaunsce “ property,” does not appear to include them. But how THE POWERS WIELDED BY TRADES’ UNIONS, absurd, and how little in accordance with the true principles Tue proposal of Lord St. Leonards to substitute for the of finance, is it to tax a banker's reserve when invested in unwise and unpopular Declaration, a simple engagement on “ public securities,” and not when invested in “ private the part of both masters and men, to recognise scrupulously “ securities.” the provisions of the present law, suggests a good solution of It is worth while to consider a little the phrases “ realised the immediate hitch, but by no means meets the ultimate property” and “ visible property.” Is capital in trade in- difficulty as to the means which Trades’ Unions are accustomed to make use of in enforcing their ends. The cluded within them? If it is, it should be taxed in the scheme suggested. But in that case it would be exposed law is not only explicit, buteasy enough to apply, as regards non-unionists. If any of these are in any way intimidated to the objections to the present income tax, and it would not have its advantages. The objection to the income tax or unfairly influenced by unionists with relation to the agree. is its inquisitorial character. Yet a tax on “ capital” ments they may choose to make with their employers, the employed in business would require an inquisition into a law is explicit enough ; those who use these threats or inti- trader’s books, yet more stringent than any which is now midations are punishable; and all who agree to obey strictly required. It would raise the most difficult questions. the provisions of the law, agree to do nothing which can in “© How much capital did you put into the business? How any way be interpreted as intimidating or unfairly influencing “ much have you augmented it? How did you lose any of their non-unionist comrades. The difficulty does not lie “it? Satisfy us that you have lost it,” would be the there. It lies in the application of the law to the case of inquiries of the new set of Commissioners. It would be non-content unionists, who would otherwise not be inclined dangerous to keep a reserve fund in business, for it would to agree to join in the demands made by their comrades at be taxed annually as capital. No Government Commission the command of their Council, and who only do so from the would venture to except it: they would say, “ It is employed fear of being struck off the Society's. books, and of the conse- “in the business; it belongs to the partners, and the dis- quences which such an event would involve. “ tinction between it and capital is only one of bookkeep- Free combinations, as we know, are lawful. Can it be “ing.” We do not say this would be fair language, but we said that a man is, strictly speaking, freely choosing his think it would be necessary language; if any other course own course who decides to join in a strike, simply be- were adopted, the Government might be cheated indefinitely cause he would not otherwise be permitted to remain any by charging to a reserve fund what was really new capital. longer a member of his Trade Society? It is by no means Again, such a tax would be a premium upon carrying on a easy to say what is strictly free combination for a given end, business with insufficient resources. The characteristic evil of One man enters into the combination simply because he can- prosperous commerce is its tendency to go too far—to trade not endure the disapproval, though purely moral, of his beyond its means. All good financiers would check this if combined comrades. This man must be said, in the law's they could. Yet under the scheme supposed it would be sense, to act freely. His judgment is not convinced perhaps, fostered. Those who have much capital would be taxed but he deliberately prefers to act unwisely with his comrades much; those who have little would be taxed but little. We to acting wisely in opposition to them. Another man does are quite certain that this would never be endured. Our richer not approve the policy determined on, and cares nothing for and wealthier merchants would never submit to it. At the the moral alienation of his comrades,—but it is not in his present moment how would a shipowner like to be charged judgment a wise thing to separate his lot from their's, He heavily on a large shipping capital, and yet see the ship- believes that, in the long run, he shall get higher wages by broker whose business requires scarcely any capital, and the strengthening the power of the Union than by weakening it, share speculator who scarcely ever had any, living almost un- even though in the particular case he thinks the Union mis- taxed. A tax which pressesmore heavily on asafe than onan un- taken. He again surely must be regarded as acting in the safe business, would be a national evil. One which does not legal sense freely. * In all cases, we imagine, a workman tax very prosperous trades that require no capital, and does must be supposed to act freely who genuinely prefers to tax one which does require it, is absurd. Unpopular as the sacrifice his own special judgment in individual cases for the present income tax is, it at least escapes this. Putting sake of combined action in general. The Trades’ Union is a aside the question of graduation, it is a just tax. Whatever society for promoting the united interests of the working be the objections to it, at least it does not leave, as the men in that trade. All who honestly hold that the practice tax suggested would do, wholly untouched one class of rich of united action is more important to themselves or to their persons,—of persons with good houses and many enjoy- class as a whole, than that their own individual view, on ments,—and impose a heavy burden on another. It does special points, should prevail, are right, and may fairly be not tax the merchant, and leave untaxed the commission called free, in bowing to the deliberate decision of their agent. It does not tax the stock-jobber, and leave untaxed chosen government, even though they individually would the stock-broker. have recommended to it a different course. We apprehend that Mr Bright has weighed these objec- But there may be still another case. It is possible that a tions, for he does not, as we understand, intend to tax capital workman may value very highly the power of discussing Hin trade. But im that case he meets an equal difficulty. the affairs of his trade with his united comrades ; he may see | His proposition, thus understood, is a monstrous injustice. that this discussion leads to a generally united course of Property in trade is as difficult to protect as property out of action, and often to a much wiser course than might be taken trade ; itshould, therefore, pay as much: it yields a much but for this general organisation. But he may nevertheless larger income ; those who have it have, for the time at least, not think it wise for men to sacrifice their own individual more to spend on their families and themselves ; it would be convictions of what is wisest simply for the sake of united very unjust that those who are at the moment best off should action. Consequently, he may wish to belong to an organi- pay nothing, and those who are not so well off should pay sation that gives many opportunities for consulting and dis- much. Again, it is often desirable that money should be cussing the affairs of his trade with his brother workmen, invested in visible property. After persons are unable to but very unwilling to sacrifice his reserved liberty of action conduct or watch a business, they should, in general, with- in deferenve to'a majority, or to the Council chosen by a draw their capital from it: they risk the loss of it if they do majority. The rules, however, of his Union force him to

————— Dee. 17, 1859.] THE ECONOMIST. 1401 Dele choose between the two. On the first occasion on-which his ' which makes him wish to leave it; and yet the sacrifice is own judgment comes into collision with those of his Union or as great as if the change had been in himself. ome its leaders, he must either waive his own judgment,—or It is clear to us that the State ought not to allow this indis- renounce those advantages which, to his own mind, such com- soluble tie between the social policy of a Trades’ Union and binations to discuss and consult upon trade-affairs present, the individual pecuniary interest of its members. It quite ‘om He cannot belong to the Trade Society at all unless he obeys prevents fair and impartial action on the part of the members ous ite government. It is not merely a society for interchange who dissent from any resolution taken by the governing of views, but a self-governed constitution which allows no body. The real and only useful aims of Trades’ Unions me tion as to obedience. A mere discussion society leaves an would be infinitely promoted by the dissolution of this un- vill yneonvinced minority alone. But a self-governed community natural connection between the advantages of an Insurance will have nothing to say to dissentients who violate the Society and a social policy. Such a power ought no more to rules. They must simply be ejected. belong to self-governing corporations of this kind, than to a Now, even in this latter case, the man who joins in a com- mere political association, such as a Church Union or @ bination reluctantly, and though he would rather be allowed to Ballot Society. stand aloof, if such a privilege were consistent with remain- ing @ member of the society at all, but still elects what he THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE AND THEIR deems the lesser ill of practical adhesion rather than the NEW WARRANT. greater ill of losing all the benefit of such combinations as Tue efficient and valuable officers constituting the Indian consultative societies, must, we think, be said to act freely. medical service feel themselves aggrieved, we believe, by a He knows when he joins it, that he joins, not a debating club, recent warrant which appears to place them in an inferior but a corporate body,—to consult, but to consult as to actions. position in respect both to army rank and emoluments as Ifa club, or any corporate body, passes a resolution of which compared with that occupied by their brethren of the British aminority do not approve, it is understood that the minority army serving in [ndia. The very serious facts relating to mast either retire or submit. If it is quite open to any the hea!th of the European and Native troops in India, which member to retire, and he does not retire, it must be presumed we noticed ’ately in reviewing a work* on this subject, would that he values his membership more than he dislikes the alone show how important it is that the efficiency of the course taken by the Society. But here it is obvious that the medical staff should be kept at its highest point. It would, complexity of the purpose answered by the Society, the merely indeed, be a terribly misplaced economy to discourage men of discussional or consultative purpose, and the co-operative pur- ability from entering the Indian medical service by any ,isadisadvantage. Some will join for thesake of the former diminution of their emoluments, when the health of our until they feel too painfully the loss of freedom entailed by immense army depends upon their efficiency. Yet the necessity of co-operating with others,—then they fall off. we know nothing more likely to produce this effect And so long as it is quite open to them to fall off at once, than to place the officers of the Indian service in there is no objection to this. an inferior position as compared with officers of But, wherever this complexity in the purposes of a Society the same length of service in the British army. The becomes too great, it will not be possible for a member who popularity of the medical service of the latter army has been isdissatisfied in one respect, to sacrifice quite different objects greatly increased by the issue of a new warrant of liberal which be has been pursuing for many years. The State may character. The number of young men seeking to enter it, fairly step in and say,—‘ It is not for the advantage of the na- and the quality of their attainments, are, we believe, higher ‘tion that any extraneous considerations should influence the at the present time than has ever been the case before. On ‘judgment of English subjects on political or social ques- the other hand, we have for some time past seen that the ‘tions, and therefore we will not allow uf any complexity competition for the Indian medical service has most seriously ‘in the objects of a practical Society which is likely to in- diminished. Un one occasion, at least, the number of cane ‘doce artificial combinations on those subjects.” For ex- didates was actually less than the number of appointments to ample,—If it were proposed to found a mutual Insurance be given away, and there is a very general impression that, Society among the believers, say, in the Ballot, or among the during the last two or three years, the average ability of adherents of Church Rates,—so that any Ballot or Church- those appointed to India has been below that of the officers Rate-man effecting an insurance of his life should be entitled to appointed in previous years. This will sufficiently show the all the benefits of*that insurance only so long as he voted for very great importance of avoiding any measures which may the Ballot or for Church Rates,—and on giving any vote tend to diminish the popularity, and therefore the efficiency, against the Ballot or against Church Rates should forfeit the of the service in question. And we can conceive nothing premiums he had hitherto paid,—we conceive the State more likely to do so than to establish invidious distine- would be not only quite right in putting in a veto, but would tions between two services, one belonging to the British be bound todo so. Such a society would tend to perpetuate army and the other to the Indian army, having precisely political opinion very unfairly. A man who had ever joined similar responsibilities and duties. the society as a believer in Church Rates would not like to give up his belief, and if he did, would have a strong motive It must be remembered, too, that in one respect the Indian for not giving up his profession of beliet in them,—and so poli- medical service has to supply an agency which does not fall tical opinion would be practically twisted into all kinds of within the province of the officers of the British army, be- false shapes. cause the latter are liable at any time to leave India, and can But the present constitution of Trades’ Unions is even never be expected to attain that knowledge of Indian hygiene, more objectionable in this respect. Almost all Trades’ of Indian pharmacopeeia, and of Indian disease, or languages, Unions are Benefit Societies, and very many also Burial which it is the special duty of the Indian service to acquire. Societies. The members pay so much a week for the privi- We allude to the very important duty of raising up a body of lege of being aided in times of sickness aad death, and of native medical officers through the medium of the excellent medical colleges and schools which the Indian Government securing aid to their families in case of their own death; but the condition of all these advantages is complete submission has set on foot with such marvellous success. The pro- to the constituted authority of the Society. Without this the fessors and lecturers of those institutions are, and must be, member is struck off the list, and loses all advantage of his past drawn from the general body of the Indian medical service, premiums, except so far as he has already reaped the advantage and if the efficiency of the latter is diminished, the difficulty in sick-allowances. If the Society, years after his joining it, of obtaining men fit to lead the medical education of the enact that the members are not to work for any master uuder country and to guide the progress of Indian medical science somuch a week,—he must obey or forfeit his premiums. Now, will be almost insurmountable. it is clear that this is a worse case than the one above sup- We will show in what respects the position of the oneser- posed. In the case of. the Church-Rate Insurance Society, vice differs from that of the other, as laid down by the new the principle is at least fixed from the first, and it only warrants. Rather more thana year ago, the new warrant to presses hardly on members who may change, or wish to which we have alluded was issued to the Medical Department change, their convictions. But in the case of the Trades’ of the British Army, which secured to the officers of that depart- Union, it may be a change of policy on the part of the * “Vital Statistics of the European and Native Armies in India. By Trades’ Union, and not on the part of the individual member, Dr Ewart.” °

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a ment greater privileges in the way of promotion, relative It is not easy to see the reason for this; and indeed it would army rank, retiring pensions, and furlough allowances, than be well that in this instance also, the same seale should be they had previously enjoyed. The warrant, in fact, gave to adopted for both. this departmemt of the army a status to which it was justly Having thus passed in review the principal deficiencies of entitled. the Indian Medical Warrant, we would conclude by urging After the Indian army had been transferred to Her Majesty, on Government the necessity for a speedy reform in this it was felt that the Indian medical service must, in order to matter. Let the young men who enter both the English and attract candidates into its ranks, have a warrant given to it Indian medical services in the same manner,—viz., by com. similar to that which had so raised and strengthened the petitive examination-—who pass their probationary period English Army Medical Department ; and, accordingly, a docu- at the same army medical school, as it is intended they shall ment was sent out to Iodia which purported to be a counter- do—and who alike rise from the rank of assistant-surgeon part of the English warrant. But, on closer inquiry, it was by examination,—have the same rewards in the way of promo. found that the Indian warrant fell far short in its provisions tion and relative army rank held out to them, and equal of the English; thatit contained but the shadow, as it were, advantages given them as regards retiring pensions and of the real benefits conferred by the other.document; and, furlough allowances. Let the Indian surgeon be weil treated, accordingly, it was returned to England by the Governor- for he consents to serve in a distant land and an unhealthy General in Council for revision and reconstruction. The climate, while his brother officer of the English service can incipal points requiring reconsideration come under the frequently change his station, and invariably passes part of ads of promotion, relative army rank, and retiring and his time in temperate regions. farlough allowances. First, as regards promotion. In the Indian army we THE LANDHOLDERS OF OUDE. find that promotion is very slow, the assistant-surgeons We ventured to affirm last week with some confidence that being considerably more than twice as long in attain- ing their surgeonry as those in the English army. This Lord Canning had not granted a perpetual settlement to the ‘ | cannot, of course, be altogether remedied, but one cause landowners of Oude. We felt sure that no Indian Govern- of it might be removed by increasing the number of ment at the present day, after our long experience of the surgeons. It seems that while in the English army there Land Settlement in Bengal, would commit the blunder which i | ave 344 surgeons and 648 assistant-surgeons, in the Indian in Lord Cornwallis, at the end of the last century, was | army there are 242 surgeons and 603 assistant-surgeons. | 1 This disproportion is very striking. and certainly calls for a | pardonable enough. When, therefore, we saw it stoutly ehange in the Indian Medical Department. At present, | asserted that the Government of India had fallen into this many excellent and at the same time important and onerous {i | €rror, merely on the faith of a clause in the new Oude pro. appointments are in the hands of assistaut-surgeons ; men, it | clamation which simply affirmed that “the same rights are | is true, who have been from fourteen to sixteen years in the | service, during the greater part of which time they have held | “ secured on the same conditions to your heirs for ever,” we | iodependent charges, but still bearing a subordinate title. | felt sure that there was some great misunderstanding. The | Were the number of surgeons increased, these officers would actual terms of the grant which secures the territorial right gain a step in rank and position at a very trifling increase of in the soil of Oude to the Talookdars are now known. And i eost; this anomaly, which is peculiar to the Indian service, ‘it will be seen that, not only is no perpetual settlement ;| would be abolished; and a great acceleration of promotion granted, but that a revision of the land tax may be made | would take place. Connected with the subject of promotion, | from time to time, at the pleasure of the English Govern- | is that of promotion for ability and merit. Why the English ment. | assistant-surgeon should receive the full rank and pay of Know all men that whereas by the proclamation of March, 1858, by eS his Excellency the Right Honourable the Viceroy and Governor-General | surgeon, when specially recommended, while the Indian of India, all proprietary rights in the soil of Oude, with a few special ex- assistant-surgeon, under exactly similar circumstances (as ceptions, were confiscated and passed to the British Government, which has recently occurred in the case of the Lucknow assistant- became free to dispose of them as it pleased, I], Charles John Wingfield, = obtains but the brevet rank and no pay, it is not Chief Commissioner of Oude, under the authority of his Excellency the Governor-General of India in Council, do hereby confer on you the full easy tosee. Both the English and Indian services are under- proprietary right, title, and possession of the estate or estates of ? stood to be on the whole seniority services, and it is only in consisting of the villages as per list attached to the"kuboolyut you have particular instances that the rule is departed from; but why executed, of which the present Government revenue is . There- institute so invidious a distinction as this, and, while thoroughly | fore, this sunnud is given you, in order that it may be known to all whom it may concern that the above estate has been conferred upon well rewarding the one medical officer, give the other but you and your heirs for ever, subject to the payment of such annual re- the shadow of a recompense ? venue as may from time to time be imposed, and to the conditions of Next, as regards the relative army rank, it is clear that surrendering all arms, destroying all forts, preventing .and reporting the Indian medical service is unfairly treated. Thus, all the crime, rendering any service you may be called upon to perform, and of showing constant good faitb, loyalty, zeal, and attachment to the British Indian superintending-surgeons, men of 32 years’ Indian Government, according to the provisions of the engagement which you service, will by the new warrant be superseded by have executed; the breach of any one of which at any time shail be held English deputy-inspectors-general of from 16 to 20 to annul the right and title now conferred on you and your heirs, years’ general service; there being a special clause in It is also a condition of this grant that you will, so far as in your power, promote the agricultural prosperity of your estate, and that all the warrant to enable them to be so! Why intro- holding under you shail be secured in the possession of ail the subordi- duce, as has been done, 1st and 2nd classes of deputy-in- nate rights they formerly enjoyed. As long as the above obligations are spectors-general into the Indian service, when such do not observed by you and your heirs in good faith, so long will the British exist in the English ; and why not make the Indian warrant, Government maintain you aod your heirs as proprietors of the above- mentioned estate or estates, in confirmation of which I herewith attach my in this matter of army rank, exactly like the English ? seal and signature. (True Copy.) Thirdly, the retiring allowances of the Indian army surgeons T. D. Forsyrn, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Oude. are very inferior to those of the English. Thus, if the The grant is therefore made “ subject to the payment of English army medical officer retire voluntarily after his term “ such aunual revenue as may from time to time be imposed,” (25 years) of service, he does so on full pay ; ie., if a surgeon- and this is one of the “‘ conditions” on which the heirs of the major, on 319/ 4s per annum ; if a deputy-inspector-general, present generation of Talookdars will inherit their Talooquas. on 383/ 5s, and so on. The Indian medical officer, on the There has been no greater stumbling-block in the way of the other hand, receives at the close of his service of 17 years but Government of Bengal than the contract of Lord Cornwallis to 1917 12s 6d. The 17 years spent in the Tropics are consi- make the land tax imposed by hima final measure. It is even dered equal, as entitling to pension, to 25 years passed in pleaded by the present Zemindars as a. sufficient bar against more favourable climates ; and yet the retiring pension is so the imposition of any income tax on them in common with disproportionate! The scale, also, of retiring allowances for the rest of the Indian community. And it has been a the English army surgeon, for superannuation or incapacity constant and most annoying obstruction to the institution of from ill-health or wounds, is greatly superior to that for any sound police-system, the expense of which ought of course the Indian surgeon. to be defrayed by the local population. We are well pleased, Lastly, a great inequality exists in respect of furlough but not surprised, to find that there will be no such difficulty 1» eeeAtenPienettetncetieNNm allowances between the English and Indian army surgeon. in the way of organising an efficient police-system in Oude.

SSS — | Dec. 17, 1859.] THE ECONOMIST. 1403 ——_—————— ———— —— Considering, lastly, that all, whom their own interest or zeal for’ THE MERCHANTS OF BREMEN ON MARITIME the progress of justice impels to do so, ought Joudly to raise their LAW. veice and proclaim to their own Government and to the assembled | TO THE EDITOR OF THE ECONOMIST. Council of Nations the unanimous judgment of the civilised) Bremen, Dec. 3, 1859. world ; S1r,—The international maritime Jaws are not in unison with The meeting resolves :— the demands of modern times, Although most nations have, by 1. That the inviolability of person and property in time of war. on the! adopting the Paris Declaration of 16th April, 1856, abolished high seas, extended also tothe subjects and citizens of belligerent States,. privateering, acknowleged the right of neutrals, their flag protect- except as far as the operations of war necessarily restrict the same, is) ing enemy’s goods, and their goods being protected under enemy's imperatively demanded by the sentiments of justice universally enter. | flag, and have done away with the nominal blockades ; still, in tained at the present day. case of a general war, the mercantile navy and the property of 2. That the High Senate of the Free Hanse Town of Bremen be most: the citizens of the belligerent nations remsin exposed to destruc- urgently requested to support this principle, and to recommend the carry- tion by the enemy’s cruizers, or by the privateers of those nations ing of it into effect to the consideration either of the confederate German who, like the United States of America, have declined to adopt Governments or of the Powers assembled in Congress. 3. That strenuous endeavours should be made to procure the unani- the above declaration, unless a further and greater guarantee for protection in times of war should be secured; the peaceable ma- mous expression of opinion, and tho unanimous exertion of influence) with their Government, on the part of all who, in their own interest, and) riner returning home may be captured and carried into prison, and for the sake of justice and civilisation, desire to see the principle in ques- even the property of neutrals, if it be vessels purchased from tion carried into effect. belligerents atter the war broke out, is subject to confiscation, or 4. That, for the carryirg out of these resolutions, a committee be ap- if goods on board of an enemy’s vessel, although not subject to pointed, which will in particular undertake to bring the same to the capture, they are subject to a ruinous course of litigation, proofs knowledge of the High Senate, of the Chamber of Commerce, of the of ownership, &c. Consuls of other States resident here, and also of such circles and persons This state of things requires an immediate redress, for an im- generally, in Germany and abroad, as are interested in the prosperity: of mense amount of property is exposed to the danger of destruc- maritime traffic, calling upon them for their active co-operation in the: tien, in case a war breaks out, millions of industrious people are like spirit, tarned off from their peaceable occupation, nay, even the possi- bility of a war puts an end to the enterprise and the blessings of an extended commerce, and checks the extension of wealth and civilisation all over the world. A large meeting of Bremen citizens interested ia commerce and navigation adopted unanimously the subjoined resolutions, and BREEDING AND FEEDING STOCK. chose the undersigned as a committee to carry them out, to com- GREAT CHRISTMAS MARKET municate the same to their Government, and to call upon all those, THE great Christmas Cattle Market at Islington is the regular of whatever nation, who are interested in the same manner or sequence of the Smithfield Club Show in Baker street. Both shows sbare these opinions, with the request to cause the adoption of have their peculiarities, but the later is more real and business-- similar measures. like than the earlier exhibition. Many farmers who regard the In conformity with these instructions, the committee, hoping Club sbow as too fine and amateur-like in its character, take great that you will be convinced of the justice of the cause, takes the pride ia bringing to the Metropolitan Christmas Market cattle and liberty of handing you a copy of the resolutions (translated into sheep little if at all inferior to those shown in Baker street; English), and will feel exceedingly obliged to you if you will take and usually for the two or three shown by an exhibitor at such steps as to bring this subject, which is of the highest im- the Club, the exhibitor at the market brings his tens and his portance, to public discussion, to call forth similar resolutions, and twenties. The market, however, indicates the same kind of pro- to induce vour Government to take such steps as to secure equal gress in grazing as noticed to have been the characteristic of the safety to private property on the high seas as on ¢erra firma. Baker street show. All breeds of cattle are brought to the market * United efforts will succeed in doing away with the remnants of in better form, of finer quality, and less dependent on mere fat- past and more barbarous ages ; the high Powers now in Congress ness for attracting customers, than formerly. The breeder has convening will not close their ear to the unanimous voice of the gone before the grazier, and has prepared the way for this im- civilised world, and will gladly lend their hand to abolish the provement. The graziers now seek the well-bred, well-reared capture of private property on the high seas. stock, which combine quality and early maturity, and bring the With high regard, we subscribe ourselves, Sir, very respect- animals to market at ages formeriy unheard of for fat beasts. But folly yours, THe CoMMITTEE. even the Christmas market contained no inconsiderable quantity ALEx. FRITZE, E. KiueGkxist, of stock which proves weil-bred stock is still rather the exception Rk. Konirzky, Dr. H. von LENGERKE, than the rule. ‘There is,” says the Times report of the market, H. H. MEIER, CarRL MELCHEKS, ‘* by far too great a preponderance of inferior meat, and a positive tl Franz TEKLENBORG, C. H. WAtTIJEN. scarcity of superior quality. Now this ought not to be. If the efforts of the Smithfield Club are to be of any real worth, the en- ve RESOLUTIONS tire body of our farming stock ought to show the benefits of the e- Of a meeting held in Bremen on the 2d of December, 1859, re- improvements already attained.” Now, though the Smithfield garding the maritime intercourse in time of war. Club show is extremely useful as a test and public display of 0 Considering that the inviolability of person and property forms what can be done, and has been done, in the production of fat of the sole basis on which the materi ead intellectual intercourse of stock of the best quality and most approved form, the Club itself nations can safely prosper, on which civilisation and wealth can has little influence over “ the great body of farming stock.” It is 1g of be freely developed and penetrate unendangered into the remotest to the breeders of stock, the men who make it their business to sh territories of the earth; that this principle therefore ought, even keep breeding flocks and herds, we must look for the general im- a in war, to be held sacred by all nations whose ambition it is to provement of our sheep and cattle. The advances noticed in all id be regarded as the champions of civilisation ; parts of the country in the character of our stock is due to the Considering that, in contravention of this principle, what has competition of the pRofessional beeeders. But that advance is very ur long since been stigmatised as barbarous violence on land, to rob unequal. While one farmer will have nothing but the best stock, all of their liberty and property private individuals peacefully. pur- half a dozen of his neighvours are content to cumber their farms with i- suing their avocations, to seize and destroy merchant ships with stock which can scarcely be reared or fed with profit, and which will re their cargo, to detain their crews as prisoners, international law produce nothing but the ioferior meat of which complaint is made. sh in naval warfare still permits ; Buthere we often comein contact with other obstacles to the keep- p> Considering further that a consciousness of the injustice of this ing of good stock besides the neglect of farmers to avail themselves hy procedure is ulready felt on all sides; that the ** Declaration” of of the opportunities nearly every district offers for the purchase of the Congress at Paris of the 16th April, 1856, which has been well-bred stock of some kind or other. Notafew ofour farms are acceded to by almost all States, has begun to pave the way for just totally unprovided with the requisite accommodation fur good, or views of the subject; that it protects not only the interest of ueu- indeed any, stock; or, for want of drainage and the hke, they will { trals, but also the property of subjécts and citizens of belligerent not carry on to maturity with avy reasonable speed the stock.|} Btates if on board of neutral ships; that, partly in consequence kept upon them. As a prelimioary tothe improvement of the stock, 8. of this “ Declaration,” partly from the avowed wish of many the farms, and not unfrequently the farmers themselves, must Governments, for instance that of the United States of America, to undergo improvement. The difficulties in the way of such im-. See the long-established injustice completely abolished, the uni- provements, numerous, inveterate, and somewhat complex as they versal acknowledgment of the claims of private individuals engaged are, cannot be unknown t» our readers, in commerce and navigation to security for themselves and their Still, unquestionably much move might be done in the Property, provided they do not act contrary to the conditions of way of keeping better stock than is done. Farmers might, in Wer, is materially facilitated ; mauy cases, rear or feed animals of better kinds than they Considering also that the Congress of the great Powers of Europe do at present, even with all their existing disadvantages; and they now again assembling will gladly embrace the opportunity to com- would do so greatly to their own profit. Tuey have, however, plete the work commenced by its predecessor, and, by entirely too often a narrow, not to say niggardly feeling in reference to nishing from the rules of maritime Jaw the arbritrariness of stock, They buy such as can be bought at low prices, and fancy tuder ages, to found a noble and imperishable memorial in the they have bought something cheap, whereas in truth they have, annals of civilisation; = ee SS OS, spent their money in the dearest stock they can purchase. It is —— eee

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| quite true, 2s observed in the report we have referred to, that “‘ itis himself responsib'e for the damages, and it appeared to him (the Sheriff not every farmer who can afford, for the purpose of improving the manifest, (hat Mr Henderson acquitted himself by offering to the pur- quality of his stock, to purchase rams at 10 or 50 guiueas each, or suer the liberty of protecting himseif by shooting all the hares and rab- : a bull at 100 or 1,000 guineas. ‘The desire may not in some in- bits on his farm. If, a year afte: it should appear that there was stances ex'st. But that desire could be created if the means any difficulty in respect to the pursuer’s right to kill hares, Me Hendere | were at hand of gratifying it at small cost, suitable to the pockets son would require to undertake to keep the quantity of his game down : but, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, he felt he of the masses...... We would suggest to the attention of every could not do otherwise than dismiss the case. | agricultural club or society in the United Kingdom, that they The Scotch Game Law differs from that of England in this re. obtain by purchase the best bull and ram, and lend them at some spect, that there the law reserves the game to the landlord, unless | gmail cost, sufficient to defray the expense, to farmers who may de- expressly granted to the tenant; here, by our existing law, unless | sire their use, but have not the means to purchase for themselves. the landlord expressly reserves the game, it belongs:to the tenant, They must at the same time urge such class of farmers to avail That the English law is the best is unquestionable. Indeed; the | themselves of the oppertunity offered for their acceptance.” Now, game question is very much in the hands of the English farmer though these suggestions partake rather too much of the notion if he acts prudently when he takes his farm, by refusing to submit that inferior farmers can be dandled and coaxed iuto better prac- to any reservation of the game. But if farmers won’t help them. | tices than their own sense of self-interest and actual intelligeace selves they must take all the consequences, even if one be to would suggest, they do contaia a germ of usefulness. make such an exhibition of themselves as the tenants of the In the United States of America, cattle clubs for the purchase Duke of Rutland did in our columns last week. and importation of improved live stock are common, and have accomplished a great deal of good. And something of that kind might be done here by means of association and cu-operation amongst farmers, though we are not sure that the constitution of Literature. existing agricultural societies would enable them to do much in that way. In districts where improved stock do not much Tuovcuts on GoveRNME? AND LEGISLATION. By Lorp abound, farmers might associate to purchase and interchange male Wrorresiey, .R.S. Murray. | animals of the best kinds. The opportunity of using superior Tuts is the kind of publication so familiarly known in German | males on comparatively casy terms would induce the associates to Universities as a “‘ Handbook,”—a species which, we must say, as a maintain a higher standard amongst their female stock, and a species, has always appeared to us one of the most useless which steady and continuous improvement would be the result. But it the literary invention of man ever brought into existence,—con- | is of every day’s occurrence to find the ordinary farmers of a dis- taining just enough information to convince the student that he has | trict neglecting the advantages within their reach, A Shorthorn to read through a vast pile of books before he can know anythi bull of good character is often disregarded becauseits useinvolvesthe thoroughly, and not enough to teach him anything thorough on | additional outlay of a fewshillings ; and rams of the most inferior any one branch of the subject. Itis always difficult to say when kinds are bought because a petty saving of 30s or 40s can be effected books which are mere résumés of the sources of knowledge on any by substituting some ill-shaped mongrel for a serviceable, well- subject are intended to be read. If they are read by those who bred sheep. Agreeing with the reporter that ‘excellence to be previously knew nothing of their subject, the readers are disgusted really useful must be general,” we do not indulge in the hope of and disheartened by being led at such length round enclosures | seeing improved live stock become general until our average which they are not permitted to enter. If they are read by those farmers and their farms have first undergone considerable im- who have mastered any of the included subjects, such books can gi provement. little or no fresh information on these subjects, and will only be likely to mislead in relation to the other subjects touched upon, GAME AND THE GAME LAWS. inasmuch as the point of view of one student is not likely to be | Tue Northern division of the kingdom seems to be as much that of another. vexed by Game Law and game as England. At Paisley, the This book of Lord Wrottesley’s, for instance, on Legislation Justices of the Peace lately convicted a Highland girl—a domestic and Government, just touches a great variety of subjects con- servaut—in the penalty of 10/ or a month’s imprisonment for nected therewith, from the Benthamite, or utilitarian point of | poaching, the offence having consisted of taking a grouse out of a view. If the reader of it is already a Benthamite, or an admirer of snare near the farm steading. Can anything worse be said of the Bentham’s maxims on jurisprudence, he will learn nothing from it, | Game Law than to state such an occurrence? It surely must and have had all the various connected text-books opened up to | “ shock of the conscience ” even of a game-preserver. him already in the course of his own reading more completely In Scotland, however, the tenant-farmers have some advantage than Lord Wrottesley will do it for him. If not a Benthamite or | over their English brethren in respect of game, for occasionally admirer of Bentham, he will not feel at all content with Lord we find actions brought by tenants against their landlords for Wrottesley’s summary, and will even be puzzled by the calm damage done by excess of game. ‘The following is the statement assumption of utilitarian axioms which pervades all the early | of the farmer's case :— part of the book, which we have only read so far as to see that it George Holms, farmer, was tenant of the farm of Gateside, Inchinnan ; goes little beyond a résumé of the familiar assumptions of Ben- Mr Henderson was the landlord. Mr Hall Maxwell, of Dargavel, was the tham, Austin, and Mill. ‘revious owner, from whom he had obtained a lease for 19 years, in Lord Wrottesley’s apology for this portion is, that several of | 1843. There was nothing said in the lease about game, and there was | little or no game on the farm in 1843. In 1848 Mr Henderson became Bentham’s works, which he has more or less summarised here, are | owner, and in 1850 a wall was built round the farm. Two years or so not easily attainable at the present day. We doubt, however, | after that holes were made in the wall for the passage of game, and ever whether his outline would do much towards supplying their place | since that time the game have greatly increased on his farm. He had There is a closeness of thought and tight fit about the reasoning of | suffered much damage. In the month of July last, he wrote to Mr Hen- Bentham, which is his main, if not his only merit. This cannot derson for liberty to keep down the game, but received no answer ; wrote be given in outline. It requires first hand study. a second time prior to raising this action, which was not answered either. The master once quitted, this little work is faint and watery be- His crop consisted of oats and barley chiefly. There was one acre and a yond the common average of such works. Jn the chapter onthe half in one field wholly destroyed; it was not worth cutting ; and in Qualifications of Legislators for example, we are told— another field of three acres, half of the crop fairly destroyed. The On the important subject of the preparation of speeches, it is diffi- game in the neighbourhood has increased greatly of late years, particu. cult for any ove to offer suggestions which would be generally useful, lerly during the last two. He estimated his loss at 7/ per acre. for men’s minds are so differently constituted by nature and education, Other witnesses proved the damage amounted to 8/ per acre. that methods which would suit some might be fatal to others. Some The landlord stated that all he did was to have holes made in the speakers may not be satisfied with merely writing out their intended wall to let in the game. The neighbouring proprietors preserved, speec! 08 atl ugth, but commit them to memory, or at least some of but the tenant might kill the hares and rabbits if he liked to do the moe t important passages, and especially the commencement and so. The Sheriff decided against the tenant under the circum- peruratlion , rut the far greater number, probably, merely prepare heads stances, but thus stated the grounds of his decison :— or notes « f that whieh they intend tosay. The first method is attended it would appear that on this estate of Mr Henderson's, and on this *¥ DY : iMiouilies n all cases in which the speaker does not com- : t iebite hitasell particuar farm, there had been @ great avd rapid increase in thie yuaeut, | “a game. This was to be attributed eet to any active efforts on he pet Lhus kind of remark might be extended literally ad infinitum. of Mer Henderson, because be aut oni, 4008 WH Berp & gamekoeper, Su night «ay, for instance, that on the important subject of what be ie be sport man himee!! ot the aie thine * te oui say in a debate, there were two courses open—to solve ere “ree o Beep Gu @e lve game, stead, SCOUT lug vill directly ‘eo the mam point im debate, or to con

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some scarcely questions at all, but: only accidental remarks that those whose lives and artistic merits she lightly pesses over might be connected with any one of a thousand questions. And even or dwells upon more at large. The notices of Rosa Bonher r when this is not so, how could a class use as a text-book a work of Felicie de Faveau, and of Harriet Hosmer, are taken from the which on many of its most important heads only refers to other ‘English Woman’s Journal.” They are very well written, and text-books ? The statistical portion of the last chapter would have contrast in this respect favourably for themselves with those in been useful as a text-book, but no other part, we think, of the which Mrs Ellet does honour to the talent of her own country- work. women. With the exception of Harriet Hosmer and one or two others, the ladies she so enthusiastically praises seem remarkable Women ApmistTs IN aLL AGEs AND CounTrIES. By Mrs E. F more as instances of energy, independence, and a strong will, than ELLET. Richard Bentley, New Burlington street. of peculiar talent. The description of one of these artistic ladies, as given by an intimate friend, is.too magnificient to be “ WHEN detached or individual histories become so numerous that they can neither be easily collected nor perused, the public interest passed over, though we cannot pretend to understand it s—** The literature of the world, its science, and its art are with her.as ires a writer capable of arranging and embodying them in the household things. They flow from her eloquent tongue as music form of a general historical narrative, not indeed by minute detail oftheir whole contents, but by selecting from each that which from the harp cf the minstrel. No pent-up Utica. confines her appears most interesting and instructive.” ‘These words of Lanzi, powers; no Aztec theory of woman cripples ber labours, or im~- in the preface to his ‘‘ History of Painting in Jtaly,” is a pretty poverishes her mind, or her policy. A Mississipi feeling, and theory, and action actuate her, and we may look for corresponding exact definition of the aim Mrs Ellet has proposed to herself in the book before us. It is certein that female artists, if not from their results.” We await with unmingled awe the full development of this extraordinary woman. In the meanwhile, we can re- number, at least from the obscurity in which they have been commend Mrs Ellet’s ‘*Wemen Artists” to all who wish to gain allowed to remain, and from the consequent difficulty there is in getting at any connected idea of their works or lives merely from clearer ideas of the position women have taken in past days in the the chance notices of both that lie seattered here and there through- arts of painting and sculpture. out many writers, stand much in need of some such arrangement and embodiment, if even the names of many are to be kept from LIFE IN SPAIN, PAST AND Present. By WALTER THORNBURY. oblivion. Mrs Ellet has collected and arranged, according to the Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill. centuries in which they flourished and the schools to which they TueEReE are few things that make a man or a book more insuffer- belonged, all women who have attained any celebrity in art from ably wearisome company after the first five minutes than a settled the earliest ages down to the present day; she has connected determination on the part «f either to be amusing, to show how biographies—more or less full according to the deserts of her smart and clever, how original and funny he cr it can be, The subject or the materials at her command, and criticisms on the genius of a Dickens even could not long hold out under the per- style of each artist—by a continued sketch of the state of the arts petual strain, and we find the genuine fan and humour, the real, in each century, and of the various influences that surrounded and if something larger than life, portraiture of those earlier works moulded the genius of the artist. Here it must be owned Mrs that shook the public with laughter, and won for their author a Ellet does not shine. Jt is not asa critic settling the relative wide and immediate popularity, degenerating into the spasmodic merits of rival claimants, but as a simple relator of the struggles efforts at originality, the word-quibbling and caricature-painting and triumphs or failures of women of genius, that she lays hold of ** Bleak House” and “Little Dorrit.” If it has been thus with on the attention of her readers. She has brought to her chosen the master, how much more must it be so with those followers task industry and research, and her book, without possessing any who dress their lesser wits in imitative brilliancy, and make their very great literary merits, is interesting in itself, and supplies a desideratum in the history of art. style a ‘‘ thing of threads and patches,” like an ill-painted, gaudy picture, * after Dickens.” The volumes that are now springing It may, perhaps, surprise some readers to find how large has up, like suckers from the parent stem, from the defunct body been the number of women in all ages who have followed puint- of ‘* Household Words,” sufficiently prove how dangerous a too ing as a profession with erdour and with success. Weagree with great admiration for a favourite author may be, and how much Mrs Ellet that, on the whole, her book “will lead to a higher injury writers of ability may do themselves by copying his pecu- general respect for the powers of women.” That it will also tend liarities and merging any individuality of their own in his. Tf to“ raise higher hopes for their destined pcsition in the realms of any one desires to see this exemplified to its full «xtent, let him art” is, we think, more doubtful. It is not of hopeful augury choose out, in particular, these two volumes in which Mr Thorn= in this.respect that, of all the female artists who added iustre to the bury has collected his contributions to ‘* Household Words” in a sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who were praised and admired separate, we can hardly call it ina connected, form. He will here in their own day and looked upon as the ornaments of their time, find the forced humour, the mawkish sentiment, the bad taste, the so few should have left any permanent impress upon the art they glare and restlessness of Dickens’ worst style faithfully reproduced ; followed with so much ardour, or have saved more than a name and what might have been made one sufficiently entertaining (half forgotten if it were not embalmed by the praises of con- volume on the more striking and external features of Spanish life temporary writers) from the oblivion of thepast. Yet many of these and scenery, dilated, by force of words, intotwo, that we think no women possessed real genius, and pursued their profession with reader, who is not, like ourselves, under some outward compulsion, industry and zeal. Cf such were ‘“ Properzia di Rossi, a sculptor will read through steadily to anend. In their original place, of Bologna, who helped to adorn the church of San Petronio in perhaps, taken bit by bit, and varied with other subjects, they that town: she was as remarkable for beauty and feminine accom- were more readable: as it is, they form a book to be dipped into, Plishments as for her talents, but died in the prime of life, a victim not read. A piece here and there is worth picking out, as giving to professional jealousy, and an unrequited love ;—Marietta a real glimpse into that life in Spain which it is their professed Tintoretto, the “pride of her father’sheart ”;—the portrait painter, object to describe. The following passage, taken from a conver- Sophonisba Anguisciola, the favourite of Courts, of whom, in her sation between the writer and Don Sanchez Montilla, " the great old age, Vandyck “was accustomed to say that he had received sherry wine merchant,” will give a fair average notion of the more enlightenment from this blind old woman than from all his whole; and, if the account it gives is to be relied upon, it casts a studies of the greatest masters ”;—Susannah G erard, who received light more curious than agreeable upon the origin of wany of the from Albrecht Durer the praise : ‘It is wonderful that a woman can wines sold here as sherries. We must, however, premise thet it do so much”;—Lavinia Fontana, the pupil of Ludovico Caracci, is difficult to cay when our author is jocosely in earnest, or when he whose portreits “commanded enormous prices, and were displeyed is dully jocose :— with pride in the galleries of the nobility and the most cultivated persons,’ surpassingly Then we drove back to the old bigh road, and got again on wines- beautiful in person, end ex- Did 1 remember the glass from the Saint Barbara cask, just after the cellent both as a wife and mother ;—Klisabetta Pirani, perhaps brown gold cne in the Saint Antonio? That was real Amontillado, the most highly gifted of any of the female artists of her own or | What was Amontillado? Where did it grow? Bless me ! why, nowhere ; any age, but whose youthful promise was never brought to mature it was an accidental quality, discovered by tasting. It had an almondy, a _weEeeS] perfection, since she died at five and twenty, it was supposed | dry, bitter favour, which rendered it of rare velue to mix, because ‘ I must from poison ; given to her by envious rivals | clearly understand . ; or a rejected suitor . ;— j (ond it was only fair to teil me), that English sherry Annietta Di Kosa, whose talents were little inferior, and whose | was a chemical compound, made, like a French side-dish, of many in end was even more tragic ;—Elizabeth Sophie C)dron ;—Anna eredients, and of various ages and qualities of wines, Maria Schurmav, the wonderful child, who at the ewe of cleven | In Xeres there were five hundred thousand arrobas of wine—thirty of which went to a bota (butt)—made enneaily. This made thirty-four ould write, read, ond speek thirteen longuages, an« ve cal housang® butte, nine thourand of which were of first quality. Sherry is her conte mporarics “ the wor der of creation iec iivyeoh, ' Duich flower painter >—Modeme Merior i ine trong end teo cear r Svanierdas, end © feverish for toe ciomate observer and peinter of tnerete Lo thie let © beet is eer clare The best jathe “bedege” is worth row ftw te ai iy gu neasa alter neurence, freight, and sale | Celebrity im the sinteenth ama sewenteenth cents tage etes ' »; one hundged te one in ea and | only hitthute two pamer—Mary | t (sey) in Belgrave cquare, This earenty of femate ariiete it ches Nin : ured fomriets d ment wmmantily « : \* or ’ “ Phe embtecnt emlurs cs Tom Mes torm v« 7 any beameh of art : eperel vere Givble the | etwece thes st working | he Mee + et fo o le the pe aoe | MRrGeiiciy amd we eommet otter [Dec. 17, 1859.

i true, as observed in the report we have referred to, that “ it is himself responsib'e for the damages,"and it appeared to him (the Sheri | ; every farmer who can afford, for the purpose of improving the manifest, that Mr Henderson acquitted himself by offering to the i | quality of his stock, to rams at 10 or 50 guineas each, or suer the liberty of protecting himself by shooting all the hares and rabe i] ‘H) a ball at 100 or 1,000 guineas. The desire may not in some in- bits on his farm. If, a year after this, it should appear that there mn stances ex'st. But that desire could be created if the means any difficulty in respect to the pursver’s right to Kill hares, Mc Hendere |} suitable to the pockets son would require to undertake to keep the quantity of his game down: |} were at hand of gratifying it at small cost, but, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, he felt of the -masses...... --We would st to the attention of every could not do otherwise than dismiss the case. ane me club or society in the United Kingdom, that they: The Scotch Game Law differs from that of England in thie-re.} ain by purchase the best bull and ram, and lend them at some spect, that there the law reserves the game to the landlord, unless |) gmail cost, sufficient to defray the expense, to farmers who may de- expressly granted to tho tenant; here, by our existing law; unlesg|| chant ana | sire their use, but have not the means to purchase for themselves. the landlord expressly reverves the game, it belongs:to the tenant; |} They must at the same time urge such class of farmers to avail That the English law is the best is able. I Indeed; ¢ : themselves of the opportunity offered for their acceptance.” Now, ‘game question is very muck in the bands of the English farmer, |] a though these suggestions partake rather too much of the notion if he acts prudently when he takes/his farm, by refusing to submit!|| ‘that inferior farmers can be dandled and coaxed iuto better prac- to any reservation of the game. But if farmers. won’t them- |} | tices than their own sense of self-interest and actual intelligence selves they must take all the cos, even if one be: tol} would , they do contaia a germ of usefulness. make such an exhibition of themselves as the tenants of the:|| In the United States of America, cattle clubs for the purchase Duke of Rutiand did in our columns last week, and importation of improved live stock are common, and have | hj aceomplished a great deal of good. And something of that kind might be done here by means of association and cu-operation amongst farmers, though we are not sure that the constitution of Literature. | existing agricultural societies would enable them to do much in that way. In districts where improved stock do not much Taoucurs On Government aND LeeisnaTIon. By Loz» j abound, farmers might associate to purchase and interchange male Wrorrnsiey, F.R.S. Murray. | ' animals of the best kinds. The opportunity of using superior Tuts.is the kind of publication so familiarly known. in. German} i males on comparatively casy terms would induce the associates to Universities as a “‘ Handbook,”—a species which, we must say,,as aj} maintain a higher standard amongst their female stock, and a species, has always appeared to us one of the most useless which] steady and continuous improvement would be the result. But it the literary invention of man ever brought into existence;—cone |} is of every day’s occurrence to find the ordinary farmers of a dis- taining just enough information to convinee the student that he hasi| trict neglecting the advantages within their reach. A Shorthorn to read through a vast pile of books before he can know anything:|} bull of good character is often disregarded becauseits use involves the thoroughly, and not enough to teach him anything thorough om|} additional outlay of a few shillings ; and rams of the most inferior any one branch of the subject. Itis always difficult to say whem} kinds are bought because a petty saving of 30s or 40s can be effected books which are mere résumés of the sources of knowledge on any;} by substituting some ill-shaped mongrel for @ serviceable, well- subject are intended to be read. If they are read by who |}. EA EERFaeSSEFEERCESEREE bred sheep. Agreeing with the reporter that “ excellence to be previously knew nothing of their subject, the-readers are disgusted |} ‘really useful must be general,” we do not indulge in the hope of and disheartened by being led at such length. round enelosures |} seeing improved live stock become general until our average which they are not permitted to enter. If they are.read by those} farmers and their farms have first undergone considerable im- who have mastered any of the included subjects, such books can give} provement. little or no fresh information on these subjects, and will only be} SEEEE likely to mislead in relation to the other subjects touched upen GAME AND THE GAME LAWS. inasmuch as the point of view of one student is not. likely to: be} Tue Northern division of the kingdom seoms to be as much that of another. vexed by Game Law and game as England. At Paisley, the This book of Lord Wrottesley’s, for instance; on Legislatio: Justices of the Peace lately convicted a Highland girl—a domestic and Government, just touches a great variety of subjects cgn+| ] servant—in the penalty of 10/ or a month’s imprisonment for nected therewith, from the Benthamite, or utilitarian point of} poaching, the offence having consisted of taking a grouse out of a view. If the reader of it is already a Benthamite, or an admi : suare near the farm steading. Can anything worse be said of the Bentham’s maxims on jurisprudence, he will learn nothing fromit, Game Law than to state such an occurrence? It surely must and have had all the various connected text-books opened up to “ shock of the conscience ” even of a game-preserver. him already in the course of his own reading more completely In Scotland, however, the tenant-farmers have some advantage than Lord Wrottesley will do it for him. If not a Benthamite or over their English brethren in respect of game, for occasionally admirer of Bentham, he will not feel at all content with Lord we find actions brought by tenants against their landlords for Wrottesley’s summary, and will even be puzzled by the calm done by excess of game. ‘Lhe following is the statement assumption of utilitarian axioms which ades all the early of the farmer's case :— part of the book, which we have onl so far as to see that if PErpeROGERY FE George Holms, farmer, was tenant of the farm of Gateside, Inchinnan ; goes little beyond a résumé of the familiar‘assumptions of Ben+« Mr Henderson was the landlord. Mr Hall Maxwell, of Dargavel, was the tham, Austin, and Mill, wrevious owner, from whom he had obtained a lease for 19 years, in Lord Wrottesley’s apology for this portion is, that several of Fsge 1843. There wasnothing saidin the lease about game, and there was Bentham’s works, which he has more or less summarised here, are little or no game on the farm in 1843. In 1848 Mr Henderson became : owner, and in 1850 a wall was built round the farm. Two years or so not easily attainable at the present day. We doubt, however; after that holes were made in the wall for the passage of game, and ever whether his outline would do much towards supplying their place: sinee thet time the game have greatly increased on his farm. He had There is a closeness of thought and “ fit about the reasoning of suffered much damage. In the month ‘of July last, he wrote to Mr Hen- Bentham, which is his main, if not his only merit. This cannot derson for liberty to keep down the game, but received no answer ; wrote be given in outline, It requires first hand study. a second time prior to raising this action, which was not answered either. The master once quitted, this little work is faint and watery be- His crop consisted of oats and barley chiefly. There was one acre and a yond the common average of such works. the chapter on the half in one field wholly destroyed; it was not. worth cutting ; and in Qualifications of Legislators for example, we are told— another field of three acres, half of the crop fairly destroyed. The On the important subject of the preparation of speeches, it is dif_it game in the neighbourhood has increased greatly of late years, particu- cult for any one to offer suggestions which would be generally useful) PERE PEERS larly during the last two. He estimated his loss at 7/ per acre. for men’s minds are so differently constituted by nature and education, = Other witnesses proved the damage amounted to 8/ per acre. that methods which would suit some might be fatal to others. Some The landlord stated that.all he did was to bave holes made in the speakers may not be satisfied with merely writing out their intended 43 > wall tolet in the game. The neighbouring proprietors preserved, speeches at length, but commit them to memory, or at least some: of but the tenant might kill the hares and rabbits it he liked to do the most important passages, and especially the commencement and so. The Sheriff decided against the tenant under the circum- peroration ; but the far greater number, probably, merely prepare heads stances, but thus stated the grounds of his decision :— or notes of that which they intend tosay. The first method is attended It would appear that on this estate.of Mr Henderson’s, and on this by obvious difficulties in all cases in which the speaker does not. com particuiar farm, there had been a great and rapid increase in the quantity mence the debate himself. of game. This was to be attributed not to any active efforts on the part This kind of remark might be extended literally ad infinitum of Mr Henderson, because he not only does not Keep a gamekeeper, but We might say, for instance, that on the important subject of what he is.no sportsman himself. At the same time he has not taken any members should say in a debate, there were two courses openr—to active measures to keep down the game, and, according to the tenant’s address yourself directly to the main point. in. debate, or to.comr owa statement, for several years there has been a great increase, and sider its relations to some other point not hitherto brought inte much damage has been done to his crop. But no notice of this was connection with it; and that one course might be advisable in one given on any previous occasion to Mr Henderson; in fact, he bad no case, and another in another, according to special circumstances and notice of it till July last, and by that time a great deal of the damage the temper of the House. And this remark would be about. a6 ERE TERESESeETS now claimed for was done. Then it would appear that a good deal of well worth printing as Lord Wrottesley’s. =z the damage was done by rabbite, which the pursuer ought to have The last chapter, on the Condition of England, contains a.sumr a known he had a perfect right to kil. In July the pursuer wrote to Mr Henderson, and although, on account of the absence of the latter, it was mary of general English statistics within narrow limits, which may sometime ere he got an answer, yet that answer was very satisfactory, it be convenient to many who do not know where to find the originals, being to the effect that the pursuer was at perfect liberty to destroy both scattered as they are through Parliamentary Returns. The book is hares and rabbits on his own farm. Now, the question came to be whe- not nearly terse and informing enough foraclass-book. It touches ‘ber by this delay in answering the pursuer’s leiter the lendiord had made in a vague way on many subjects, some questions of interest, and Ne nasa mam aaaeomaIoaNaataaa glug EFEF | ep aa 9 Dee: 17, 18593] THE ECONOMIST. scarcely questions at all, but: only accidental remarks that:| those whose lives and’ artistic merits she passes. t Bight be connected with any one of'a thousand questions. And even’ or dwells more at The notices of Bonhe' a this is not so, how could’a'class use’ as a text-book a work | of Felicie de Faveau, and/of ‘which on many of its most'important’ heads only refers: to other “English Woman’s Journal?’ PF They cncpere are sen very’ aller well;written, ; Il text-books ? ‘the statistical of the last diester ‘would have sates in this favourably for themselves with those: i: | been useful asa text-book, t no other part, we think, of the which Mrs Ellet does honour to the talent: of her own-country-y) || work. women, With the exception of Harriet Hosmer and one or twa) others, the ladies she so enthusiastically praises-seem remarkable: i Womzn Awrists IN att Aczs anp Countrigzs. By Mus E. F more ag-instances of energy, independence, and a strong will, than’ | Etet. Richard Bentley, New Burlington street. of talent. ‘The description of, one of thess ar! ee | j ladies, fs given by an intimate friend, is.too magnificient ¥ ‘be. + 5 | “ Waren detached or individual histories become so numerous that mapemantie though we cannot pretend. to understand it:—“‘ The jf “~~ 2 }| they can neither be easily collected nor perused, the public interest iterature of the world, its science, and. its art: are with her as requires a writer ble-of-arranging aud embodying them in the household things. They flow'from: her eloquent tongue as music }} ‘form. of a general’ historical narrative, not indeed by minute detail from the harp of the minstrel. No pent-up Utiea..confines ber | of their contents, but. by selecting from each that which powers; no Aztec theory:of woman eripples her labours,.or im-'}) most interesting and instructive.” These words.of Lanzi, poverishes her mind, or her poliey. A Mississipi. feeling, and!}} in the preface to his ‘‘ History of Painting in IJtaly,” isa pretty theory, and action actuate her, and we may leok for it S28 ° exact definition.of theaim Mrs Ellet has pro to herself in the results.” We await with unmingled awe the full development, book before us. It is certsin that female artists, if not from their of this extraordinary woman. In the meanwhile, we can re- number, at least from. the obscurity in which they have been commend Mrs Ellet’s ‘Women Artists” to-all who wish to gain allowed to remain, and from ‘the consequent difficulty there is.in clearer ideas of the position women have taken in past days in the: getting at any connected idea of their works or lives merely from chance notices of both that lie seattered here and there through- arts of painting and sculpture. ont many writers, stand much in need of some such arrangement and embodiment, if even the names.of many are to be kept from Lire IN Spatn, Past AND Present. By WALTER THORNBURY, || oblivion. Mrs Ellet has collected and arranged, according to the Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill. genturies.in which they flourished and the schools to which they TueRe are few things:that make a.man or.a book more insuffer-. belonged, all women who have attained any celebrity in art from ably wearisome company after the first five minutes than a settled: the earliest ages down to the present day; she has connected determination on the part «f either to be amusing, to show how anfet or tbe me or less full according to the deserts of her smart end clever, how original and funny her it can be, The: , ect or the materials at her command, and criticisms on the genius of a Dickens even could not long hold out under the per- style-of each artist—by a continned aketch of the state of the arts petual strain, and we find the genuive fan and humour, the real, 2s Freerrer jneach century, and of the various influences that surrounded and if something larger than life, portraiture of those earlier works: moulded the genius of the artist. Here it must be owned. Mrs that shook the public with laughter, and won for their author a’ Ellet does not shine. Jt is not asa oritic settling the relative wide and immediate popularity, degenerating into the spasmodic) merits of rival claimants, but as a simple relator of the struggles efforts at originality, the word-quibbling an ooientere ee and triumphs or failures of women of genius, that she leys hold of “ Bleak House” and “Little Dorrit.” If it has been thus with: on the attention of her readers. She bas bronght to her chosen the master, how much more must it be so with those followers: task industry and research, and her book, without possessing any who dress their lesser wits in imitative brillianey, and make their very great literary merits, is interesting in itself, and. supplies a af 2ee ° style a ‘ thing of threads and patches,” like an ill-painted, gaudy, desideratum in the history of art. picture, “‘ after Dickens.” The volumes that are now springing: » It. may, perhaps, surprise some readers to find how large has up, like suekers from the parent stem, from the defunct body || been the number of women in all ages who have followed paint- ot ‘* Household Words,” sufficiently prove how dangerous & too, ling a8 a profession with ardour and with success. Weagree with great-admiration for a favourite author may be, ant how much; ‘Mrs Eilet that, on the whole, her book “‘ will lead to a higher injury writers of ability may do themselves by copying iis peen- oe. respect’ forthe powers of women.” That it will:also tend liarities and. merging any individuality of their own in his. If ‘to raise higher hopes for their destined pesition in the realms of any one desires to see this exemplified to its full«xtent, let him iart”’ is, we think, more doubtfal. It is not of hopeful augury choose out, in particular, these two volumes in which Mr Thorn= ‘imthis:respect that, of all the female artists who added iustre to the bury has collected his contributions to ‘‘ Household Words” in a ‘sixteenth and: seventeenth. centuries, who were praised and admired separate, we can hardly call it ina connected, form. He will'here im their own day and looked upon as the ornaments of their time, find the forced humour, the mawkish sentiment, the bad taste, the ‘0 few should have left any permanent imprees upon the art they glare and restlessness of Dickens’ worst style faithfully reproduced ; ‘followed with so much ardour, or have saved more than a name and what might have been made one sufficiently entertaining (half forgotten if it were not embalmed by the praises of con- Ser easOSoe,tT volume on the more striking and external features of Spanish life {} temporary writers) fromthe oblivion of thepast. Yet many of these and scenery, dilated, by force of words, intotwo, that we think no: ‘women possessed real genius, and pursued their profession with reader, who is not, like ourselves, under some outward compulsion, and zeal. Of such were “ Properzia.di Rossi, a seulptor ————— ee !|::_|]>::: will read through steadily to anend. In their origi place; . ‘of Bologna, who helped to adorn the church of San Petronio in perhaps, taken bit by bit, and varied with other subjects, they ‘that town: she was as remarkable for beauty and feminine aeccom- were more readable: as it is, they form a book to be dipped into, “Plishments as for her talents, but died in the prime of life, a victim not read. A piece here and there is worth pieking out, as.givin te professional jealousy, and an unrequited love ;—Marietta a real glimpse into that life in Spain which it is. their pro , the “pride of her father'sheart ”;—the portrait painter, abject to describe. The following paseage, taken from a conver- Sophonisba Angnisciola, the favourite of Courts, of whom, in her sation between the writer and Don Sanchez Montilla, “ the great eld age, Vandyck “was accustomed to say that he had received sherry wine merchant,” will give a fair average notion of the more-enlightenment from this blind old woman than from all his whole; and, if the account it gives is to be relied upon, it casts a studies of the greatest masters”;—Susannah Gerard, who received light more curious than agreeable upon the origin of many of the from Albrecht Durer the praise : “It is wonderful that a woman can wines sold here as.sherries. We must, however, premire thet it do so much”;—Lavinia Fontana, the pupil of Ludovico Caracci, is difficult to say when our author is jocosely in earnest, or whem he whose portreits ‘commanded enormous prices, and were displeyed is dully jocose :— mith pride in the galleries of the nobility and the most Then we drove back to the old bigh road, and. got again on wines: cultivated persons,’ surpassingly beautiful in person, and ex- Did I remember the glass from the Saint Barbara cask, just.after the cellent both as.a wife and mother ;—Klisabetta Pirani, perhaps brown gold ene in the Saint Antonio? That was. real Amontillado. the most highly gifted of any ofthe female artists of her own or What was Amontillado? Where didit grow? Bless me! why, nowhere; any age, but whose youthful promise was never brought to mature it was an accidental quality, discovered by tasting. It had an almondy, _ eoeeeOe=-Free&be perfection, since she died at five and twenty, it was supposed dry, bitter Havour, which rendered itof rare value to mix, because I must from poison given to her by envious rivals or a rejected suitor ;— clearly understand (and it was only fair to teil me), that English sherry Annietta Di Rosa, whose talents were little inferior, and whose was a chemical compound, made, like a French side-dish, of many in- was even more tragie;—Elizabeth Sophie Chérop ;—Anna eredients, and of various ages and qualities of wites, Maria Schurmav, the wonderful child, who at the age of eleven In Xeres there were five hundred thousand arrobas of wine~thirty of which went to a bota (butt)—made annoally. This made thirty-four could write, read, and speak thirteen languages, and was called by her contemporaries “the wonder of creatiou”;-— Rachel Ruysch, thousand* butts, nine thousand of which were of first quality. Sherry’ is too strong and teo dear for Spaniards, and too feverish for the climate the Dutch flower painter ;—Mademe Merion, the indefatigable The best:is in Xeres a doliar a bottle. Thebest inthe ‘‘ bodega” is worth rverand painter-of insects. To this list of foreign-women of celebrity from fifty to eighty guineas a butt ; and, after insurance, freight, and sale in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, England can charges, it stands the importer in)from one hundred to one hundred and only contribute two names—Mary Beale and Anne Killegrewe. thirty guineas before it reaches it his cellar (say) in Belgrave square. 7 ertoaovuwrv?OoSe ‘scarcity of female artists in England at a time when they How mapy gallons to the butt, Don Sanchez? About one hundred flourished most abundantly on the Continent is very striking. and twelve. This will bottle into about Alty-two dozen, and the duty is _ The eighteenth century can boast of few women who excelled five shillings and sixpence the gallon. So you may form your own opinion many branch of art. Angelica Kaufman and Elizabeth Le Brun about cheap London sherries, which are, generally, very “ curious’ in- divide the field. between them, and afford a very attractive subject deed,—mere doctors’ draughts, ia. fact, made up according to certain —_eoeoawn's for Mrs Ellet’s pen. In the presentcentury hersubject wideusalmost swindling prescriptions, indefinitely, and we cannot => attempt to mention even the names-of, —_— — * The Author’s arithmetic, not our’s.—Ep. Ecox.

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Here wes « blow for my old friend Binns, who opens a bottle of forty- unspeilt by all her caresses, bad long been known. to Irishmen on sherry with the air of an antiquary unswathing a mummy only asthe saintly recluse of Longfield; and latterly as.an im. Thought I, the next time the deluded men points to the oily poverisbed old man, fading away by the quiet euthanasia of stickiness of his glass, 1 will leap up, seize him by the white cravat, and sezond childhood, with one sweet daughter,-—the only surviving sey in a hollow voice: “Binns! you are the victim of a life-long child of twenty-two,—clinging to him, and yet supporting him, delusion; that stuff you drink, you think is the juice of Spanish as ivy the mouldering wall.” As Mr Kingsley says, he Tived too grapes, piucked by men playing guitars, and smoking cigars; you call it, in poetical moments, bottled sunlight, sunfire, and so on—bah !” (After long for his fame, and orly a few years after his death few people the manner of Napoleon) “it is only s chemical compound made up of knew more about him than they do at the present day, And yet drugs and infusions, like Daffy’s elixir, or James’s powder. It is cooked he had written and published much, and ‘in most’ départments of up with boiled treacly wine; and brandy; it is a compound mixed from a literature. His drama ‘‘Gustavas Vasa” ‘incurred the paing dozen barrels, and made to order for a particuler market. If the wines and penalties of the political censorship, and became the estab- of Keres grew till they got black in the face, Binns, they could not yield lished favourite of the opposition party at Leicester House, On © EPEET| civz 1 wine like your forty-eight shilling sherry.” the other hand, John Wesley — the calm spirit of The Don jaughed, and said that certainly the sherry wine district was priation of true piety) republished his “ Fool’ of Quality” very small; not more than twelve miles square. Therefore, it could not during the author's life-time, revising it’ in accordance pe yield honest wine enough even for half London. The sherry grape grew the tenets of Methodism, under the title of “The Life of only on certain low, chalky hille, where, the earth being light coloured, is Henry, Earl of Moreland,” and it became very popular among net so much burnt—did not cheap and split so much by the sun, as Methodists as one of the writings of their great master. But TE darker and heavier soils do. A mile beyond these hills, the grapes with the world at large Henry Brooke had become something léss deteriorate. The older the plants the better, but the fewer the grapes. { than a name; and we are sfraid that; except with a rather con- tracted circle of admirers, this will continue to be the case, even Tue Foor or Quatiry ; or, The Histary of Henry, Earl of More- after Mr Kingsley’s energetic expostulations in his behalf: Tothat Jland. By Henry Brooke,Esq, A new and revised Edition, gentleman’s preface we must refer our readers for the leading m- with a Biographical Preface by the Rev. CHaRLes KINGSLEY, cidents of his author’s life. An early marriage witha very young M.A., Rector of Eversley. Smith, Elder, and Co. lady, and a considerable facility in getting rid of large sums of Mr KinGsLey hes undertaken to resusci‘ate the forgotten name money in agricultural and other similar experiments, and in lavish and fame of one of the popular authors of the last century; and and indiscriminate charity, are among its more noticeable features. for this purpose he hes selected the most popular and best known But per: aps these matters should be judged after a Celtic and not Gn its time) of his works, re -editing it with a biographical preface, a Sexon s.andard ; for Henry Brooke was a native of County Cavan, full of energetic and unreserved panegyric on the author’s genius and it was in Ireland that his pecuniary extravagances were and private character, and very vehement and dogmatic defiance chiefly indulged in. Mr Kingsley is all a-fire at the bare idea‘of of the modern canons of taste and social economy. Such an intro- possible attacks on his hero for his ‘‘imprudent” marriage. duction, however piquant in itself, is rather a dangerous course to ‘*He was recalled to Ireland by a dying aunt, to become guar- adopt in a case like the present, where the fashion of the dian of her child, a beautifal little girl of twelve, Catherine Meares, work is necessarily often strange and even repugnant to established of Meares Court, of a good old Westmeath house. He put her, tastes and conventionalities, and where the differences between wisely enough, to a boarding-school in Dublin; and within two two generations require to be bridged over by some sort of defer- years, not quite so'wisely, married her secretly. Yet,” continues ence to the feelings or prejudices of both, instead of being widened our biographer, ‘* neither the heavens nor his family seem to have by an arrogant asszrtion of the superiority or perfection of either. been very wroth with the folly. The marriage was as happy a one The nineteenth century is not likely to be browbeaten into ad- as this earth ever saw; the parents—lIrish people not holding the miration of a writer of the eighteenth, on the mere strength of his tenets of Malthus—could not find it in their hearts to scold so pretty extreme antagonism to its own settled notions of propriety. It is a pair of tartles, and simply remarried them, andieft them toreapy|| not fair to the author himself to make him guilty of such the awful fruits of their own folly in the form of a child per year. ill-breeding to his readers. Mr Kingsley tells us Mr Brooke was On which matter, doubtless, much unwisdom has been and will a model of the Christiangentleman. In the Jatter capacity, at any be talked in common-places, which every one can. supply for hini- rate, let us hope he would have known better than to pooh-pooh self. But it is worth while to clear one’s mind of cant,” &c., &e, entirely those to whose pleasure he was professing to minister. And for several pages the editor wagee war on a supposed Mal- For our own part, we are especially sorry to have an old favourite thusianism, and pleads the advantages of early marriage. ‘ What ushered into modern society in a manner so likely to give unneces- if the imprudence of the early marriage did cause the child-wife sary offence. We read the “ Fool of Quality” with delight when to have a fewmore children? One may boldly auswer firstly, we were young enough to be cheerfully unconscious of its heavy ‘ Whet matter ?’ and secondly, ‘1 do not believe the fact any more moral platitudes, and itsdreary “ useful knowledge ” dissertations, than I do certain Melthusian statements anent ‘such matters, which and not too old to appreciate the charm of its simple descriptions require a complete re-examination, and that by men who know at of every-day matters, and its astonishing disregard of the probabi- least a little both of physiology and of human nature.” We do lities. The romances of a philosophical visionary appear to recom- not find the date of the marriage stated, or what was Brooke's mend themselves especially to the juvenile mind. Perhaps the own age at the time ; so we do not know what may be the force didactic element inspires just enough sense of authority to subju- of the editor's reasoning in favour of his marrying, drawn from gate the intellectual faculties of childhood, and so to render the the prevalent excesses of young unmarried men. It does not sway of the fancy more ceriain on every other point: It is no seem, however, to be necessary that they should, in order to avoid doubt much more easy to believe in the truth and accuracy of the this danger, marry what Mr Kingsley very unpleasantly remarkable events which befel young Harry Clinton, from the calls a “child-wi'e” of fourteen. Sucha marriage may be justi- time when he underwent summary chastisement in the dining- fiable in extremely peculiar cases; but twenty-two children, all but room at the hands of his Countess-mother, down to his marriage one dying prematurely, isan awkward fact, and, perhaps, may be with the fair Princess of Morocco, if we are made to feel at due allowed some weight as a physical argument for a more mature age intervals of the story that we are under the truthful guidance in the parents at the commencement of so long a line of offspring. of Messrs Fenton, Meekly, and Co.,—men who are by far too With the mother the case was little better. A friend who visited decidedly dull to be for one moment open to the suspicion them in later | fe, describes the ‘‘cbild-wife, alas! worn out by bear- of wandering into the regions of idle imagination. Who, for in- ing and losing children, and quite emaciated, and so feeble she can stance, could refrain from bestowing the entire confidence due to hardly walk across the room.” We do not feel disposed to be solemnly dull propriety, who had once cast eyes upon, and severe on Mr Brooke's ill-regulated housekeeping and excessive d—we will not say how—to the conclusion of the treatise charity ; for it is, no doubt, closely connected with that sweetness 1) on the British Constitution which adds its weight to these pages. and simple nobleness of character which shines through every ‘|| But though we could not conscientiously (with a due regard to their part of his book. To turn to that, we scarcely know how to possible moral influence on our own early feelings) advise the omis- give our readers.any fair idea of its character within our limits. sion of these didactic sections, and their corresponding wise saws ‘rhe quaintness and abandon of the style can only be gathered in the body of the work,—we are grieved to see them thrust from the work itself. Its general construction is very similar to in so ungentle a manner into the foreground, to the depreciation that of most of the popular compositions of that day. There is the of what were to us the really charming parts of the book, and to usual allowance ofiutercalary stories, breaking the thread of the maia the inevitable discouragement and disgust of those who have not story,andsorely trying the patience of the modern reader. There had the advantage of an early iniliation into the story. To such are what we should now think the somewhat impertinent interrup- we would sey, think nothing about Mr Brooke's admirable the- tiors of short dialogueson the characters and plot between theauthor ology and praiseworthy socialistic theories. Skip as much as you and an objecting’ but always confutable and confuted friend. like of the heavy Yam but sift the book fairly through, and we There are one or two “ good stories” in the humorous sense of ‘the think you will find not a few pleasant passages clinging to your words, and the casval introduction of a few historical characters, memory, which will meke you feel courethling beyond an incipient’ such as the Earl of Portland. One of: the interpolated tales is, yawn when you again-hear mention of the “ Fool of Quality.” perhaps, more interesting than the main story ; but we cannot but Henry Brooke was born in 1708, and died in 1783, Mr think that some interest wil! attach to thewcapegrace ed~ Kingsley has gathered together the very few facts which can be ings of Harry Clinton and his two yétttig! companions, with rescued from oblivion of his long and varicd life. ‘The pupil of the schoolmaster Mr Vindex, who is. extfemely’’ well-drawn. Swift and Pope; the friend of Lyttleton and Chatham; the The character of the somewhat weak’ and’ doting father darling of the Prince of Wales [George IiL’s father]; bean, of Harry is also sustained with-great’ spirit; ~The uncle and swordsman, Wit, poct, courtier; the minion once of fortune, yet “wise man” of the'story is less suecessfal; aud, to make & THE. ECONOMIST.

"elean breast of it, we must say we are too much bored by him to | a bungler. However, the poem before us does not last longer 4 ‘bave much room left for respect{ul admiration. With those general it is convenient to hold the assumption. We shall not probably: | E ; hints we must Jeave the plot, such as it is, with all its old-fashioned recur to it as its juvenile’ reader will, but a. single reading is ‘ ‘|| disregard of canons ot elegance and comp'eteness, to speak for itself, real treat. doe || and commend the book to our readers’ candid judgment. Blind Man's. Holiday; or, Short Tales for the. Nursery... By the REYNARD THE Fox, AFTER THE GERMAN VERSION OF GOETHE. Author: of ‘+ Mia and Charley,” ‘ Sidney,Grey,”’ ‘+ By THomas James ARNOLD, Esq. With Illustrations from the Shadows,” &c. Griffith and Farran, Corner of ‘St‘Paul’s'|| the Desiges of Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Triibner and Co. Churehyard. i : THIS elegant volume does notbing more than present to us an old Tuts little book of tales. for the nursery will, we think, meet) friend in a new dress, but, under the circumstances, this is doing witha cordial reception from the juvenile population of that: much ;-—for the dress is not only in itself most valvable, but it is upper region. The writer is evidently one who has studied. admirably suited to our friend, and the present is by far the best the tastes, and can accommodate herself to the thoughts, er sppearance he bas ever made in England. It is unnecessary here a people. Her stories are pleasantly imagined and } | to inquire seriously into the origin of ‘‘ Reynard the Fox.” Our told. readers all know i: to be one of those general favourites which, > being nobody’s property in particular, become the property of Post Office London Directory, 1860. Sixty- first Aunual Pablic every one. That every one should think it worth their while to tion. of London eagraved to accompany the Directory’ t forward a claim to possession, is sufficient proof of its value. for 1860, 1| The earliest traces of the poem are to be found in Flanders, bat Post Office Directory for Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire... With: whether more complete knowledge would not invalidate the Dutch Maps engraved especially for the Work. Kelly and Co. title-deeds is matier of doubt. Onur information with. regard THESE new issues of Messrs Kelly’s valuable publications will no}}| to the actual authorship of ‘ Reynard” is as. uncertain: and doubt sustain their reputation for care, usefulness, and allthe: / poreliable as that which we possss in regard to most qualities of first-rate Directories, and Directory Maps.. We:|) popular stories, and probably for the very good reason that it need not say that the London ones are almost essential to any’|| jjcan be attributed to no one particular author. It has all man of business, and useful to many who are not men of! business. the appearance of. a story that has grown,—and not been jicomposed. It has had many editors, but its. author was in BOOKS RECEIVED. tall likelihood nothing less than the people,—the story-ielling Manual for Rifle Volunteers. Stanford. people of perhaps three or four generations. Of one fact the Rees’ Improved Diary and Almanack. Renshaw. The Life of Christopher Columbus, Bell and Daldy. poem in itself bears sufficient evidence, viz., of its Teutonic origin ; The Children's Picture-book of Scripture Parables. Bell and Daldy. its grotesqueness aod naturalness are indisputable proofs of this. The Human Face Di-ine, Bell and Daldy, And the species of satire which it contains, points to a distinct Journal of the Statistical Society of Londen. Parker. Metropolitan Gas. Phipps. period in the middle ages,—tbe period when a reaction from the Routledge’s Shakespeare. Part 46. Routledge. overstrained romance and maudlio sentiment of an effete chivalry Routledge's Illustrated: Natural History. Part 19. Routledge. made this coarser, but more truthfal and lifelike style of composi- The British Workman. No.5. Partridge. tion, acceptable. It clearly belongs to the early and vigorous portion of the mental phase which culminated in the weighty satire and elaborate dulness.of Sebastian Brandt's ‘‘ Ship of Foreign Correspondence Fools.” The earliest known-edition of ‘‘ Reynard the Fox.” is in i the Grenville Library at the British Museum, and is believed to }| be a unique copy; it is a black letter octavo in Dutch, and was (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) | printed at Gouda, near Rotterdam, ia 1479, but we have proof of Paris, Thursday. j/the poem having been known as far back as the twelfth century. Several Belgian and English journals have been spreadin Upon the Rotterdam edition was based the translation of William the-report that the Government has at last distinctly seta Caxton, published‘in 1481, and there was no lack of translators in on, adepting a liberal commercial policy, and has even sent’ jj other countries, the poem being known in all the. principal to the Council of State for examisation a bill which makes European languages. inthe present edition, however, we have sweeping reforms in the tariffs. I have the regret to inform |) but the kernel of the old work. One of the master-hands of modern you, aod I do so on good authority, that if the Govern- literature. gave it its present form. In 1793 Goethe published his ment, which means the Emperor, has adopted any such reso- i} version of ‘* Reintke fuchs,” and it is. superfluous tv say that in lution, not the slightest manifestation of it has- yet. been his mind, while it assumed a far, more artistic shape, it lost nothing made anywhere ; and that most certainly no bill of tariff reforms, of the keen satire of the original.. This version has been well great or small, has been sent down to the Council of State. I rendered into English verse by Mr Arnoid. Fora translation itis should, of course, have been glad to be able to confirm the pleasing remarkabiy light:and lively, and the points are brought out with statement of your contemporaries; but facts are facts. The same unusual felicity,—no easy task in a poem of this description. But journals have represented that in an interview which the Emperor! the peculisr merit of the volume before us lies in the illustrations, had the other day with Mr. Cobden, His Majesty expressed: his which are unrivalled for their humour, and perfect mastery of anxiety to make commercial reforms, and his regret that the expression and detsil. Wilhelm von Kaulbech’s name is well opposition he encounters prevents him from doiog as much as he: known in Germany. He was a pupil of Cornelius, and has distio- could wish. I believe that 1 am not wrong in s»ying that this guished himself in several great works,—his Shakspere gallery, and statement is also erroneous. His Majesty, may, have listened the frescoes which adorn the staircase of the new Museum at attentively to a pleading of the English commercial statesman in Berlin, being among the most. remarkable; but not more so than favour of liberal commercial policy ; but it is not bis. custom.to these illustrations of ‘“ Reynard the Fox,” which, appeared ta'k about what he wishes to do or about the obstacles his plans originally in 1846, when the work was published in a quarto form. encounter ;—and it is hardly likely that on a question of the very A reduction in the size of the engravings wes made in 1857, and highest importance to France, and on one which, from the power from this smaller book the present English edition has originated. of interested parties, is not of easy solution, he would express The execution of the engravings be‘ore us is perfectly satis- himself more freely to a foreigner than he has ever done toa factory, and they area valuable gift to the Knglish public. The Frenchman. skill is marvellous with which Kaulbach, without any undue Although no tariff reform bill has been sent by the Govern- exaggeration or contortion of the natural form aud charact:r of ment to the Council of State, I believe. that body has stall before it |\ each animal, has contrived to infuse a human and conscious ex- a measure for making certain modifications..in the duties on. wool pression, suited to the part which cach has to play, It is needless which was presented. last year; also a bill for sanctioning. the to say that such illustrations. add greatly.to the life and ioterest Imperial decrees by which at different times in the present year: of the poem. As to. the poem itself, it is one that, like mo-t some petty changes have been made in the import duties on oxen, popular tales, suits all ages. The young will read it for the tale meat, &c. This. measure is merely one of form, That on wool itself, and for the fun with which it abounds, and ea this.account it duties is warmly opposed by the Protectionists. isa capital Christmas book, and deservesto be one of the ist popular I had the opportunity of seeing the other day an unpublished presents of the year. The more mature will read it for its deeper official document, giving a correct account of the disbursements; meaning, but. we doubt whether. they will in consequence derive actually made for the navy during the last ten years, and apalys- greater amusement from it ; certain it is, at least, that they will ing those expenses. The total expense in each year is certainly; seoner tire otthe work. Satire, especially elaborate satire, quickly considerably less than is supposed in England,—it in no year) palls upon the taste. It. is like the conversation of a person who having much exceeded 8,000,000/ sterling, and in. some. years) is nothing more than aclever man of the world. To follow. him having been only about half that figure, and in others even less than: it is necessary to make an assumption, and though we can make half. The analysis, moreover, shows that the portion of the total it for the nonce, it is an effort to keep it up for long, Assume actually disbursed for the navy, strictly speaking—thet is, for that all the world are rogues or fools, and that the only difference ships and sailors (the salaries and expenses of civil functionaries, in their actions proceeds from the greater or lees amount of their hospitals, repairs of ports and buildings, &e., being excluded) —is ability, courage, perseverance, and resources, and our sympathies assuredly not so large as to justify the apprehensions, which have naturally go with Keynard, the successful rogue... He, at least, is existed in England. But, leaving, the » let us look at the thorough-going and clesr-headed. ‘I'he. real. principles. and in- immediate future... I have.before me. the budget of the Marine “stinets of all are pretty. much the same, but Reynard alone is not Department for the coming year 1860, which the Government has THE ECONOMIST. [Dee. 17, 1859, a} - es I} prepared ‘for the Legislative Body,—and I find that the total ex- was, is 'still'sueh as*to cause anxiety; atid that, without p ‘2 ‘ Ti pense of that d nt is set on at 123,503) 148f (4,940,1252). politieal security, commercial transactions: cannot prosper, ‘] 1) T find, too; thet of this total 40,594,364f are for ‘‘ pay” to officers of the decline in discounts, several have:

7) and sailors, 11,800,895f for “ provisions,” 16,342,000f for “‘ wages pressing the Bank directors to reduce the rate of discount wed en Soe =. }) ofshipwrights and workmen,” 36,158,000f for “‘ general supplies to to'3 per cent. ; but at their meeting held to-day they ht Hlotticrsleet (this item includes timber and mecbinery, as well os to do so. eber et if 9) -whatwe in England call “ stores”), end 101,987f for “‘ gunpowder.” At a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Algeria,, ii The rest of the total consists of expenses. which have nothing a few days ago, a dividend of 22f 10c:for-the-half-year end 1} at all to do with the fighting power of the navy. Now, I think the 31st October last was declared ;—and this, added to a half./h }iithat the items cited are not at all exaggerated, considering the year’s dividend previously paid, makes the total for the year ‘pavy Franee has always = up; and I doubt not that the cor- 42f 80c, which is equal to rather more than 8 per cent. on ing ones in the Englisn bedget are very much larger. 500f shares, and to rather more than 7 per cent. on the GOOf 7] ' , Perhaps if what I now state were generally known,—and you The total amount of discounts effected by the Bank in the: years | | may rely-on its perfect exactitude,—much of the uneasiness which ending the 31st October was 43,342,538f. exists as to what is supposed to be taking place in the French The railwey returns continue to be satisfactory. sati The Eastem | dockyards would cease. line presents an increase for the week ending ithe 2nd of rather’ In arecent letter you were informed that the budget of France more than 4 per cent. per kilometre, with the corre- |! for 1860 is fixed atthe large figure of 1,824,957,778t (very nearly sponding week of last yeer; the Orleans, of nearly} ; the Medi- 35 F7E45591 73,000,0007). In this total the public debt is set down, for terranean, of nearly 7} ; the Western, of rather:more than 13; the ' 442,691,384f for the Consolidated 44, 4, and 3 per Cents. and the Northern, of nearly 4; the Southern, of 18}; the Geneva, of} sinking fund ; and interest on the floating debt of the Treasury, rather more than 24}; the Victor Emmanuel, of rather a ee civil and military pensions, and other charges, at 117,457,292f than 4. more. The Marine Department, as already stated, is 123,503,143f; On the Bourse the rente, after undergoing a reaction on’ last the Ministry of State, 11,778,400f (including 1,500,000f for com- week’s quotations, has improved to-day, in consequence of 'the a the Louvre); the Ministry of Justice, 27,633,595f ; friendly character of the speeches which were exchanged by’the-|| oreign’ Affairs, 10,740,600f ; Interior, 168,003,575f ; Finance, Austrian Ambassador and the Emperor atthe Tuileries yesterday | TE tft 386,072,699f; Wor, 339,458,744f; Public Instruction and on the occasion of the former presenting his credentials. Some | Worship, 67,430,736f; Agriculture, Commerce, and Public sanguine people ate disappointed at’ the rise not having been] Works, 101,460,100f (30,100,000f for extraordinary works) ; and greater than it is; but others'think’that it would be unwise to} Fire 38,727,510f for Algeria and the:Colonies. carry it much further before the turn which the Congress may} Ee M. J. E. Horn, an economist of high repute, and author of take shall be seen. The quotations of all securities are as follow: |p several greatly esteemed works on economic science, both in Thursday, Thursday, French and German, has just published a pamphlet, entitled “‘La Dec. & Dee. 15, Hongrie et L’Autriche de 1848 4 1859.” As its title implies, it gives an account of the relations between Hungary and Austria during the last ten years, and shows clearly and unanswerably New 3 per Cent. Loan Is] Som Bank of France ‘thatthe latter has cruelly wronged and oppressed the former. It Credit Fomcier .....0...000..c.scseeeesees shows, in fact, that Austria has destroyed the Constitution of Credit Mobilier Hungary, which is as ancient as that of England ;—bas trampled Orleans Railway im ~3co S222 underfoot the liberties of the Hungarians, which are as old and Norther .cccsscesnce.dcecsceecsencess — [<3 wa sacred as the liberties of Englishmen ;—has deprived the Protestant Ditto, new zs | Church of rights and immunities it has enjoy: d for centuries ;—-has Mediterranean .. | exhausted the national finances, burdened the country with debt, Southern cé vuined commerce, kept agriculture in stagnation ;—has, indeed, aeea gone'so far and done so much that the Hungarians, exasperated almost beyond endurance, seem on the point of rising in insurree- Sardinian (Victor Emmanuel) | -tion,. The pamphlet of M. Horn is written with great nervous South Austrian (Lombard) . oNsoBsoSoSocooSiio }) ‘power, but is at the same time calm and argumentative. It bas SSERE a #\ created great sensation in political circles here, and may be safely The weekly account of the markets is as follows :— } | ‘secommended to all Englishmen, especially such as are profes- Four at Paris, yesterday, was 59f for choice qualities the sack of j-sional politicians who are desirous of obtaining a correct view of 157 kilogrammes ; 57f to 58f for first quality ; b5fto S6f for good ; and the Hungarian question,—a question which, according to present other sorts, 53f to 54f 50c. The four marks forthe curreat month were appearances, wiil be of paramount importance in the coming year. done at 57f 50c to 57f 95c, and were offered for January at 58f, for : The last number of the Economist was pounced upon by the January and February at 58f 50c. police at the Post Office, and consequently no copies were distri- Wueat.—At Paris, yesterday, offers were less numerous, but: pur- ' buted to your numerous readers here. The number must have chases were readily made: choice was 32f 50c to 33f the sack of 120 | eontaiced some article whieh the Government thought very dan- kilogrammes ; first qualities, 31f 50c to 32f; good sorts, 30f 50c to 31f5 gerous. inferior, 28f to 29f 50c. As regards provincial markets, 39 present a rise |} The newspapers ray that the French Ambasrador at Constan- of from 7c to 2f the hectolitre, 27 a fall of from 7¢ to 1f, 34 haveremained tinople, M. ‘Tnouvenel, has presented in the name of France a unchanged, anc 30 are reported firm. Corron.—At Havre, for the week ending Friday, prices remained un- formal demand to the Porte to authorise the project of M. Lesseps changed ,—low New Orleans being 107f the 50 kilogrammes, and very for cutting a canal throvgh the Isthmus of Suez, and that it has ordinary ditto, 112f. The total sales of the week were 13,811 bales, and been supported by the Ministers of Russia, Prassia, Austria, and the arrivals 9,826. This week sales have not been very active; and low Sardinia. A fact of this kind would be of such extreme gravity, New Orleans was yesterday at 106f. that it is desirable the French Government should either confirm or SucaR.—At Havre, inthe week ending Friday, the market was feeble, contradict it at ence. and prices fell. The sales were 1,014 casks }French West’ India dis- |} A meeting of delegates of the different great railways has lately posable at 58f to 58f 25c the 50 kilogs duty paid; 46 ditto, “ usine,” 59f; been held for the purpose of discussing the question whether or some lots of Porto Rico, part at 58f, part at prices kept:secret ;.and 600 not a general reduction in the tariffs on merchandise should be sacks Calcutta, 41f. A small quantity of dameged Meuritius was also ad pted in return for the abandonment by the Government (to sold. The arrivals were upwards of 450 casks French West India, and |} which it was disposed to consent) of a certain tax on passenger 850 sacks of other sorts. This week, French West India has been.done traffic, and the conclusion come to was that no reduction was at 58f 25c, and 58f 50c; Porto Rico, 58f 50c;. and Reunion, 6}f. Sales desirable. have been active. At Nantes, last week, one single refinery took upwards of 17,000 sacks Mauritius which are expected, and some smaller lots of Gr: at sensation has been caused at Marseilles by the suspension French West India and Porto Rico; but, apart from these transactions, of payments of a large sugar refinery company in shares, entitled business Was not important. The brokers fixed the closing prices of the itue ranco-Belge Company. According to some accounts the week at 63f the 50 kilogs for Mauritius and Reunion, 60f for French iabilities are enormous, according to others they are exceeded by West India, 37f*for Havana. The arrivals were 19,500 bales Reunion. the asrets. ‘The law authorities are making an investigation into The stock on Saturday was 46,900 bales Reunion, 1,098 casks Guadeloupe. the affairs of the company, and they have already discovered cir- This week nothing has been done. At Bordeaux, the market last» week cumstances which have caused them to arrest M. Zangronich, the was not animated, the sole sales being 222 casks French West India at managing director. It is reported also that the gentiemen com- 60f to 61f the 50 kilogs daty paid; Reunion was nominally at 63f to posing the Council of Surveillance are likewise to be prosecuted for 63f 25c. This week, after.a keen competition, 9,000 bales Reunion have not having exercised a proper supervision, and so by their negleet been sold at, it:is said, 63f; and 270 bales at prices not stated. subjected the shareholders to loss. Corrgn—The demand at Havre, during the week ending Friday, was'| The last monthly retura of the Bank of France, published on regular, and prices were maintained. The sales were 910 sacks of Port~ Friday, has oceasioned some uneasiness. A diminution of au-Prince and Gonsives at 69f to 70f the 50 kilogs for the former, and 71f for the latter, in bond; 1,316 sacks Rio, not washed, 68f 50c to 75f ; 16,006,000 (640,000/) in diseounts compared with the correspond- 300 sacks ditto, washed, 77f to 80f; 60 sacks Santos, 68f 50c ; and 350 ang month, an augmentation of 6,000,000f in‘ the metallic reserve, sacks Java, 134f, duty paid. A small lot of damaged Manilla was besides aud a cimination of 27;000,000f in the notes in cireulation,—are sold by auction. The arrivals were 5,870 bales. This week, sales have fcts which testify that the approach of the new year has not, as it been very active: Ceylon, at about 125f 50c duty paid;- Rio, 7Of to lly does, given activity tocommerce. But it must not’ be 72f°50c in bond; ditto, washed, .78f 50c to 81f; Hayti, 69f 50c that the political situation, though less: black than it to 70f; Santos, 64f to 78f; Java, 133f and 134f, duty paid. At antes, A

toa eo, week, nothing was done, and-this week the sole sale has been 80 COMMERCIAL. AND MISCELLANEOUS: sack’ Port-au-Prince at 73f in bond. At Bordeaux, last week, 73 casks -Yago were sold at 73f the 50 kilogs in bond; 580 sacks Le-Guayra, } at from 777 50c to 85f; 900 sacks India: Wynard plantation, 135f, duty A commercial letter from Calcatta, dated Novy. 8, says 1—For I ; and 108 Malabar, 136650c to }40f, Scme.damaged San Yago was 10 or 12 days our import market for piece goods and.yarn has ass also sold, This week there have been no sales. At Marseilles, last week, quiet and daily increasing duliness. Geénerally the Aécountsfr ) i} gente few hundred sacks of Rio’ went at 69f to 72f the 50 kilogs in country markets present a considerable decrease in the consumption-and:a)|| ‘}) bond, and 600 sacks Maracaibo at prices not stated. The stock of all fallin prices. The demand for the Bombay market is at an end, and the |} ' i kinds is very small. exports for the coast ports are going on upon a very fimited’ scale. A i sImpico.—At Havre, for the week ending Friday, the sole sales were 5 these unfavourable circumstances, connected with an appearan¢ eases Bengal and 13 Manilla, ‘and the prices of these were kept recret. tightness in the money market, produced the quietness which’ prev |i There were no arrivals. This week 4 cases Java have been sold at 11f 80c just now in the piece goods and yarn market.’ Prices began to fall off ‘Hi the tkilog: At Bordeaus, last week, 55 cases Bengal, 8 Java, and 34 again both,for goods and yarns, and the reasons that we explaitied Madras, were sold at previous quotations, This week there have been previous reports present the future prospects as rather uncertaiv’ end. un~ gome sales of Bengal and Kurpah, but the prices are not stated, favourable. The stocks of piece goods in first and'secood hands are still) - Hipes.—At Havre, in the week ending Friday, 500 Buenos Ayres, dry, heavy, and the supplies on the way from England too large, and, ubless a} went ‘at 155f the 50 kilogs, duty paid; 1,680 ditto, from New York, at very brisk consumption shall be manifested, we caunot expect any great | prices kept secret; 1,100 ditto, salted Saladeros, 86f; 850 Rio Grande, improvement in this market, Money continues abundant in the: Bank of salted, 80f; 219 Chicago, salted, 63f; 3,200 Pernambuco, salted, 72f; Bengal, and the other banks hold large amounte~ , or at best if and 2,000 ditto, at 73f 50c; 600 Australia, salted, 60f. The arrivals loaned on Goverment securities at from five to six per cent. Th the Bazaar i} were about 12,000, This week sales have been somewhat considerable :— the same state of thiugs exists, with no present prospect of improvement. i) Rio Grande, salted, 80fto 82f 50c ; Monte Video, salted, 83f, and 83f 50c ; The Moniteur has published the following monthly debtor-and- ditto, dry, 155f; New York, salted, 63f 50c; Australia, salted;, 60f; account of the Bank of France; made up) to° Thursday: se’n t. i} Rio Janeiro, 68f 50c ; Pernambuco, 72f 50c.and 73f 50c; ditto, dry- corresponding fivures of last month and the previous yearare a ee salted, 107{ 50c. At Marseilles, last week, 4,000 Senegal were sold at if prices not stated. December. , 1859. | eee 4 1850, Decensbery 1888 : i} Tautow, at Havre; last’ week, was very calm, and:there were no: arri- i} vals. This week nothing has been done. At Faris, yesterday, the 100 F ce | F © F e }) kilogs remained as last week, at 145f 70e within the walls, and 138f 500 Capital TMA of TIWUR the Bank...... 00«« cds cassscseosncabe 91,250,000 0 0 | 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 91,250,000 0 0 without. At Marseilles, last week, the nominal price was 130f the 100 Profits in addition to capital kiloge, but the supply was scanty. (Art. 8, Law ot June’9, 1857) 1,510,527 65 1,510,627 65. | 1,618,467 77 Reserve of the Bank® ...... « 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Woot—The sales: at:Havre, ia the week ending. Friday, were 200 New Reserve.. 9,125,000 0 9,126, 0) 9,125,000 0 bales La Plata unwashed at 80c to 2f 95c. the kilog: in bond, 64 sheep~ opeeed 4,000,000 0 4,000, 0) 4,000,000 0 i} skins, Buenos Ayres unwashed, If 15¢ to 1f 50c. This week, Buenos Wecoveceecccecenes 678,514,425" 0 | 705,920,775 0 | 687,340,325 0 Ayres unwashed have been sold at 2f 7}¢ to 2f 80c in bond; Chili, 6,918,857 7,840,058 41 0 | 5,627,751 8,754,493 56 0| | 6,191,188 6.684404 13 0 M2Sc. At Marseilles; last week, 1,100 bales: Persian and 400 bales other 238,586,016 70 199,573,304 31 | 132,571,824 13 i} went at 75f to 77f 500, and. 100 Thiaret at:70f.. There were some. 147,127,009 89 174,460,736 77 | 149,254,785 68 } arrivals: from the Levant. 32559,237. 0 (963,688 0 | 30,846,655 . 0 |} Sprrits.—At Puris, yesterday, 3-6 of 90 deg. was at 85f the heetolitre ; ts, 9,407,516 621,162 97 75 3,772,603 698,209 25 17| } ‘1,915,787 518,989 25 88 i} Montpellier at 130f. At Bordeaus, the day before yesterday, 3-6 Langue- Coramission on deposita...... 11,497,190 53 8,977,503 49 8,519,867 28 doe was 130f. Rediscounted the last six months 1,751,105 5 1,751,105 5 1,066,532 18 Surplus of paid-up bills...... 3,718 81 es 35,000 60 Baten dabei sncccccccccssecncsesecsensecccees 4,870,619 31 4,376,339 92 | 3,373,990 73 j Correspondence. 1,853,892,676 31 1,238,498,012 72)

THE REVUE INDEPENDANTE. Creprror. December, 1859. November, 1859. | TO THE EDITOR OF THE ECONOMIST. ¥ o| ‘ee © 205,724,393 45 | 271,776,802 64 i) Six,—In a-leaderin your paper of the 10th instant, under the heading 373,499,643 0 | 361,647,415 0 } of “Orieanist Influences om the Anglo-Freoch Reletions,”’ after referring 421,056 92 | 298,588 58 | tothe Orleanist party in England, yowstate “the ‘Revue Indépendente ’ 221,158,772 61 | 232;582,016: 90 | Net is clearly the.organ of this party,” This I beg most-emphatically to 268,002,893 0 | 272,219,048 0 | deny,—unless, indeed, to“adWocate freedom of opinion, parifamentiry 13,200°0"| 13,200 0 | government, and liberty of the press; be to represent. Orleanism ; Ditto by the Branch Banks ... 618,400 0 | 638,500 0 | Ditto om French public securi- | ip that case, and in that only, can | admit the ‘‘ Revue ” to be otherwise CRIB ia corcgenoereceprccocccosetccotces 29,479,600 0°| 28,773,000 0 than its name insports, “Indépendante.,”—I remain, Sir, your obe- Ditto by the Branch Banks ... 13,380,700 0 | 14,050,000 0 dient servant, ‘W. Jerrs, Pablisher of the ‘‘ Revue Indépendante.” Ditto on railway securities...... 51,242,800: 0 50,416,800 0 | Ditto by the Franch Banks ...) 32,989,250 0 | 35,180,250 0 | 15 Burlington arcade, December 14, 1859. Ditto-on Ore.!it Foncier scrip... 708,200. 0 | 758,500 0 Dittoon Bran 1 Banks scrip. 298,800 0 | 357,600 0 | Ditto to the State on agreem | THE RHINE TOLLS. of June 30, 1848 ...... + 65,000,000 0°| 65,000,900 0 TO TRE. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE IN ENGLAND. Government steck reserved 12,980,750 14 | 12,980,750 14 Rotterdam, Dec. 6,.1859, Ditto disposable ae 52,198,332 13 | 52,108,832 13 New shares, not settled .. aes } pon We beg to call your attention to a subject of the highest importance,— Hotel and furniture ef Bank...... 4,000,000 0 | 4,000,000 0 namely, the tolls whieh are still Jevied- om the Rhine, Landed property of Branch Boks 6,725,932 0 | 6,722,605 0 These'taxes, having their origin. in another age, under the then pre- Expenses of management...... 2,014,444 17 | 1,624,751 20 Samad ridsa,...crccvescocssosscveveescooses 1854413 9 | 2,660,069 12 vailing opinions, are, im the present days, that the Sund tolls have been ee ‘ieee abolished, and the Stade toll meets with general.reprobation, an intoler- TURE. ccorccercocsscoessceope 1,342,308,580 21 | 1,853,892,676 31 | 1,238,488,012- 72 : able burden to all those that make use of that important commercial route. In reference to statements afloat, this week,. in. City circles,, to the Holland, as far as regards her territory, lowered the tax. considerably effect that ten millions will be shortly raised for dockyard defences, the in: 1845, and repealed it.definitely in 1840. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, of yesterday, says that the Chaucellor Ip-Germany it still exists in the main point, having been only par- of the Exchequer has no intention, to raise a loan at present. tially and insufficiently reduced. The principal German Statee, especially the Prussian Government, have latterly shown more: disposition to modify this tax; but the smaller BIRTHS: States of Nassau and Hessen are unwilling to give up a source of revenue not unimportant to them, but wholly inconsistent with the rights and in- On. the 6th inst., at 26 East Cliff, Dover, Viscountess. Hawarden, pre- terests of the navigation. maturely, of a son. On the 11th inst., at 58 Rutland gate, the Lady Raglan, of a son. It is unnecessary to enter into many details, in order to prove that On the 29th Nov., at Caen, the Lady Audley, of a daughter. these Rhine tolls are a beavy burden; butwe shall only mention that they cause an additional charge equal to.about 75 per cent. on the freight MARRIAGES, from Rotterdam to Manheim, and in some instances equal to the entire On the 6th Oct., at the Cathedral, Spanish-town, Jamaica; by the-Rev- amount of the freight, James Gayleard, Charles Douglas Monteath, eldest son of W. Ax Bell,’ Esq., of Woodhall St Dorothy, stipendiary magistrate, to Sarah Cole, only It is not only Holland that suffers by it, but the interests of Great daughter of Thomas Witter Jackson, Esq-, stipendiary justice of the peace Britain, as exporting largely to Germany, are in this respect identical with for the parish of St David’s. those of the Netherlands. No country, therefore, interested in. that On the 14th inst., by special license, at Curson chapel, Cursom street, trade can be indifferent to the existing impediments by which the Mayfair, the Right Hon. George John Warren, Lord Vernon, to Frances charges are considerably augmented, not only on all the goods destined Maria‘Emma Boothby, only daughter of the late Rev. Brooke Boothby for the consumption of the Z Nverein, but also on all the merchandise and the Hon. Mrs Boothby, which is transported on the Rhine to Switzerland and other countries. DEATHS. The Government of the Netherlands has for several years strongly On the 29th Sept. last, at Calcutta; in his 56th year, Henry Holroyd, Temonstrated against the Rhine tolls, but thus far without *uccess. Esq., barrister-at-law, youngest surviving son of the late Sir George Sowley | Wherefore we now take the liberty:to request your assistance in this im- Holroyd, formerly one of the Judges of Hér Majesty's Court of ‘Queen’s portant matter, in order to call the: attention of your Government on Bench: thisssubject ; the earnest co-operation of all the nations interested in this On the 7th inst., Eustace Mountstuart, infant son:of Viseount!and Vis- countess Hawarden. question promising the only chance of success. On the 11th inst., at42 Charlotte square, Edinburgh,.the Countess Tae CuamBer or Commence in RorrerpaAms, Dowager of Courtown, sged 34. Van Ryrererovue.,. President. On: the: 10th iust., at Sydenham, Colone} the Hons John Walpole,of 58: J. C. Rupim4xer, Secretary. Jermyn street, Piceadilly, aged 73. oo veweri~~

. v TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. ere election. The resources of the Bank of Communications must be authenticated by the name of the writer. had accumulated to an extraordinary point, ee. a glut of money and a dearth of enterprise. ‘x Y. Z.—If GC has the legal estate, he bas prima ane In 1856, the dispute between Prussia and Switzerlana | i yer of B, and is not to be postponed merely becaus: he hae not got in the deeds. But the Court of Chancery will post- upon the Neufchatel question was still pending. The Bank : pone him if he is chargeable with fraud, gro«s negligence, or wilful of England rate of discount was about to be lowered from} blindness.. He will not be so chargeabie if he inquired after the 6} to 6 per cent. The position of the Bank of France wag, deeds, and fair and credible reasons were assigned for their non- likewise improving. A project for raising 1,000,0002 for production. But he will be held to be so chargeable and will be postponed if he neglected to inquire, or if the answers to his in- railways in North Holland had failed, quiries were such as ought reasonably to have excited his suspicions. In 1857, the effects of the panic were gradually passing (See Hewitt v. Loosemore, 9 Hare, 449, and Colyer v. Finch, 5 Ho. off. Gold was flowing back from the United States; an of L. Cases, 905). The query cannot besafely answered for practical purpdses without a knowledge. of ali the facts. Our correspondent increase of a million took place in the gold in the Bank should consult his own solicitor. within a week ; the private deposits were still rapidly rising, j and the private securities had begun to decrease. The! Bank’s reserve had consequently reached four millions and Ebr Bankers’ Gasette. > @ quarter over and above the two millions of notes issued in excess of the legal limit. But although the rate of discount BANK RETURNS AND MONEY MARKET. in the open market had receded to 9 per cent., the Bank of BANK OF ENGLAND England warily kept up their terms at 10 percent. Com. eevee SEeEee OSZ25O8h5 (From the Gazerrs.) mercial failures were still occurring. The Illinois Central An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending Railway Company had issued proposals: for a loan of on Wednesday, the 14th day of December, 1859. 640,000. Consols stood at only 91# ex div, yet the ae DEPARTMENT. e's £ Turkish 6 per Cents. of 1854 (now at 774) commanded 94 Motes igsmed...... ccccccsseseseere 30,701,205 | Government Debt to 95. Other Securities : :

Silver Bullion .. ovens In 1858, the reserve and bullion in the Bank were sti increasing, although withdrawals of gold had commenced on 30,791,305 account of the new Chilian loan, which was quoted } to BANKING DEPARTMENT. £ | prem. The Turkish loan of 1854 was quoted 93, and t Government Securities (includ- of 1858 + dis. The prospectus of the Madras Irrigation ther Securities , Company had made its appearance, the first issue of capital Gold and Silver Coin... being fixed at one million. } 8 938,987 The amount of the “other” deposits, as compared with the “ other” securities, showed, in 1849, a deficiency of | 41,057,476 41,057,476 874,553/; in 1856, a deficiency of 7,785,906/; in 1857, a Dated the 15th December, 1859. M MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.’ deficiency of 14,197,512/; and in 1858, a deficiency of THE OLD FORM. 3,382,372/. In 1859, the deficiency is 5,768,7972. The above Bank accounts would, if made out in the old form, present the following result:— The money market is decidedly easy, for this time of the Liabilities. year. The demand throughout the week has been only 16,096;882 moderate in Lombard street and slack at the Bank. In con- sequence, huwever, of the large accumulation of money in the Bank, the rates are fairly supported. The best bills are | 44,109,497 47,252,596 The balance of Assets above Liabilities being 3 aa, as stated in the above taken at 28 per cent., but discounters generally ask 24. It account under the head Res is very probable that a brisker demand will be experienced || FRIDAY NIGHT. The preceding accounts, compared with those of last week, during the closing weeks of the year, but the market retains- exhibit— a very settled appearance. The money dealers have not yet A prcrease of Circulation of £409,077 had occasion to apply to the Bank in anticipation of thej An INCREASE of Public Deposits of s 820,772 An DvcREASE of Other Deposits of 192,399 dividends. No chenge in the amount of Government Securities. An Increase of Other Securities of...... ++« 54,746 The final instalment of 13 per cent. falls due on the Rus+ An wverease of Bullion of...... 0.« sian 3 per Cent. loan on the 25th January. The movements in bullion and in the Indian Government: The addition to the deposits, not having been neutralised paper are thus noticed by Messrs Pixley, Abell, and Langley, by any increase of adequate amount in the securities, forms, under date this day :— of course, an addition to the unemployed reserve. There Goid.—Sinee our last (9th December), there has. been a demand for is a trifling increase in the bullion, which now amounts to gold for export, which still continues. The Swiftsure's specie, as we anti- cipa'ed, was not delivered until the 10th instant, and it was all taken for 17 millions. the Continent. The arrivals have been, the Emeu, from Australia, with 14,000/; the Ethiope, from Africe, with 6,000/; the Canada, from Boston, Subjoined i is our usual weekly table, affording a compara- with 5,000/; the Sexonie, from New York, with 26,000/; the whole of tive view of the Bank returns, the Bank rate of discount, which has been sent away, together with 20,000/ in bar gold taken from the price of Consols, the price of wheat, and the leading the Bank. The Avon took 43,800/ to the Brazile; this was chiefly in exchanges, during a period of four years, cor responding with doubloons, and the demand is now rather more quiet. The arrival of the Norfolk, with 272,000/, has been announced off Penzance; but the gold: the present date, as well as ten years back, viz., in 1849 :— brought by her will not be in London for a few days. The oniy eee now on the way from Australia are the Lew Chew, out 86 days; At corresponding dates Anglesea, out 59 days; bringing together 392,000. witht present wee Silver,—The demand for bar silver is firm at 62d per oz standard. It. | 20,510,117 | 21,533,750 is not cxpected that Government will make any remittance by the out+ “| one 29,986 885 | 900.625 | 6,944 352 9,526,771 | $988,987 going mail of the 20th instant, and the amount on private account will 942,822 | 15,077,428 12'606,151 | 18,686,760 be but small. The Avon took out 9,500/ in bar silver to the Brazile, and: | 14,350,880 10,640 867 | 5,446,131 10,808,591 | 10,926,157 10,803 418 16 828,728 | 29,264,940 15,988,503 | 19,405,557 the Tagus, from the Peninsula, has brought 12,5102 in silver. Reserve of notes & coin | 13,088,361 6,464,716 } 6,282,295 18,753,114 | 10,726,762 Mexican Dollars —The dollars brought by the Shannon from the West. Coin and bullion 16,991,261 10,692,526 | 9,450,855 19,024,369 | 16,999,882 Indies have been held until yesterday, when on delivery of the China Bank rate of discount...| 2} p.c. 64 p. c. 10 pc 2tpe 2pc Price of Consols 96) xd 983 xd 912 xd 97xd | 95h xd letters they were sold at 61$d per oz, being a slight decline in price. Average price of wheat; 38s 9d 60s 1d 493 Sd 41s 10d 433 lld The Saxonia, from New York, brought 10,000¢ in dollars, which bave Exchange on Paris(shrt)| 25 40 - 25 26 2530 40 25 74 15/2510 15 been placed at the above rate, and we consider the price firm at 614d — Amsterdam ditto...| 11 1 1114 | 1117 18 11 55 16 |1113h 133 _ Hambugg Smonthe) 13 ist 1a | | 1362 7 13 18 14 13 7 i | 135 5 per oz. Exchange on Bombay and Calcutta remains very firm for Bank bills At the corresponding period of the year 1849, ‘Gaia at 2s (id to 2d, 60 days’ sight on both places. The demand has beea Baraguay @'Hilliers had gone on a mission to Portici, with larger than usual, and we do not look for anything below these prices for the next out-going mail. Madras, 23 to 28 .0}d, 60 days’ sight. Docu- a view to persuade the Pope to return to Rome. President mented bills, Is-1i4d to 3d. Louis Napoleon had abandoned the design of holding a India Government Loan Notes.—These continue in the same good de- grand military review, which had been announced for the mand reported in our last (9th instant), and prices are again slightly

eee =. OuOoOOoOHNOwTTTTFH_lHTNEmnanaann OO Qanana=oo Deo: 17, 1859:] (IST: | ‘ wi ote 5 per cent, paper 1s 11d, firm and eved a shade higher liquidators from the shareholders, ameunts to 587; ba la complete notes, immediate delivery, 5} per cents. are 23 11-164 to respect of: the. estimated defici in Avell. 1 ie $09 ;: buyets at the former and sellers at the laiter price, with acon- 1,191,118%,, in addition to the s ahid ar “tm SOR; ef business doing at the intermediate quotation of 103. The mail Caleutta, so far as we can judge, has not brought much of ‘the 5 above mentioned, 40,0007 more is expected ‘from: them; the || — oa but of the 5} per cents. we think a fair quantity has come purchasers of the Derwent Iron Works have given their pro» { d missory notes for 150,000/, and the Derwent Iron Company, ‘Quotations for Bullion.—Gold—Bar gold, 778 9d per oz std; bar gold are to pay 425,000/, making a. grand total of. 1,202,2271. Prefivable, 788 per oz std; South Americen doubloons, 75s 6d per oz; The total of cash as yet received by’ the: liquidators is 34d per oz, last price. Silver—Bar silver, United States gold coin, 768 1,186,1171, and the amount disbursed is 1;173,026¢. 5é 2d per oz std; bar silver, containing 5 grs gold, 58 2}d per oz std; Mexican dollars, 5s 14d per oz; Spanish dollars (Carolus), 68 3d per oz, The Universal. Marine Insurance Company has been jap price; five-franc pieces, 5s Od per oz. launched this week, and appears to have been received with It was just at this time last year that the Council of India favour. The shares were quoted to-day § to 4 premiam. to grant bills at three days’ intimated their willingness The traffic of several of the American railways, including; sight in London, payable in India, for interest on such Government promissory notes as shall have been “ enfaced” more especially, the Illinois Central, exhibits. signs: of reco- very, and more inquiry is springing up for'these securiti for payment here. During the twelvemonth, some millions which during the last two years have been’ utterly-out of sterling of this paper have probably been transferred to the ion of English holders. The 5 per Cent. rupee paper favour. is quoted here 95} to 964. The last price received from At Paris to-day (Friday) the closing quotations of the Caleutta is a fraction below 90. Bourse‘ were as- follows :—38 per Cent. Rentes, for mon The Calcutta and China steamer of the 20th inst. is ex- 70.45 ex div. ;: ditto, for account, 70.55 ex div. ; ditto, 4h pected to take about 200,000/ in specie, inclusive of 15,0002 per Cents., 97; Bank. of France shares, 2,880. Compared on Government account. with the closing and advanced quotations of last Friday, the 3 per Cents. show a fresh rise of 4 per cent. The foreign exchanges this week have been firm. The The other continental stock markets de likewise better. rates on Holland, Paris,. and St. Petersburg are quoted a little more in favour of this country, The Austrian ex- Austrian securities at length exhibit signs.of recovery.from changes are slightly lower. the severe depression which was occasioned by the éombined embarrassments and want of honesty of the Government. A-rumour, which was circulated at the beginning of the It has been officially intimated that from the 1st of January week, that Messrs Rothschild have bought from the Russian next the holders of the “ National Loan” shall receive their: ! Government the St Petersburg and Moscow Railway, has dividends in specie, as originally stipulated, During the not been confirmed; but there is an impression that some late war this agreement was shamefully violated, the: divi- negotiations have been on foot. dends being paid in paper, with o partial but inadequate Mr Frederick Hill, of St Petersburg, hemp, grain, and bonus. The fraudulent over-issue of that loan, -however, linseed merchant, has stopped payment, with liabilities to a remains a damning blot upon the financial reputation of the moderate amount. empire. ‘ Monday week, the 26th of December, will be almost The new Indian 5 per Cent. loan is now quoted| ex thedj universally observed as a holiday in commercial circles. dividend due in January, and the transfer books are. shint. |> A new Brazilian railway—the San Paulo,—with a capital The support hitherto given to it by investors-being thus, for of about 2,000,000/, will shortly be announced. “The calls the time, partially withdrawn; pa market has been less will probably be spread over a series of years. buoyant. The price, however, is still very well maintained, We have received a copy of the preliminary prospectus and closed this afternoon at 104 to 4 ex div., being about + of the ** Bank of Syria.” The proposed capital is 500,0002. per cent. lowér than on Jast Friday, Other Indian securi- The names are put forward of a committee of gentlemen to ties have continued to meet with a good demand for invest- |f whom it is proposed to intrust the management at what is ment. The 1,600,000? of 5 per, Cent. Debentures of the to be the chief seat of the Company's operations—Beyrout. East Indian Railway Company, which were lately placed Attached is a copy of resolutions adopted by a number of with difficulty at par, command 1# to 2 per cent. pre= respectable firms in that town, expressive of their sense of mium. The Indian 4 per Cent.’ Debentures. are likewise the necessity and importance of the project. The names rising. Numerous purchases. have. algo been made this which are to compose the Court of Directors in England are week in the Indian railway shares, most of which exhibit not filled in. The general manager is to be Mr J. Lewis a fresh improvement. Farley, who furnishes the annexed statistics as evidence oF Many other securities have advanced, business having sud- that there is really a field open for banking operations in mo denly experienced a sensible revival in the Stock Exchange. that region :— Brazilian “railway shares have’ been in especial favour. ALEPPo. No banking accommodation: exists at Aleppo.. The imports and Pernambuco closed on Friday last at 1} discount, and | to- exporte are rapidly increasing. In the year 1851, the imports were day at + dis.; and Bahia at 4 dis. on Friday last, and to- 486,060/, but in 1855 (the latest official return) they had increased to day at to § premium. The stock of the Grand ‘Irunk. 1,414,0592. The exports in 1854 were 993,630/, and in 1855, 1,254,130/. Railway of Canada has risen from 39 to 42} to 43, the: In 1854, Aleppo exported 135,000 quarters grain, and in 1855, 195,000 quarters. Inv the year 1856, there were at Aleppo 5,560 looms at work closing price this afternoon (after being dealt in as high as: iu the manufacture of silk and cotton goods, turving out 2,638,800 pieces, 44), and Lombardo- Venetian Railway shares. from 2§ to 3 value 69,292,000 piastres. prem. The latter at one period of the week touched 3}. BerRourT. Apart from occasional realisations and checks, these move- In the year 1848, the imports were only 546,266/; in 1853, they in- ments may be accepted as a testimony that the tendency of creased to 722,864; in 1856, to 1,161,676/; and in 1857, to 1,334,5502 ae. ite.iaa,eeeeeoe The exports in the year 1848 were only 253,648/; but in the year 1853, the stock markets is strongly upwards, provided no new they increased to 624,544/; in 1856, to 795,657; and in 1857, to political troubles arise. 983,398. These returns do not comprise the imports and exports at The English funds, which last week rose + per cent., have Jaffe, Cariffa, St Jean d’Acre, Sidon, Tyre, Tripoli, and Latakia, all the banking operations of which are conducted at Beyrout. No official this week presented an exception to the generally buoyant returns are made from these ports, but an opinion may be formed of their character of the stock markets, having been rather: flat, importance iu connection with Beyrout, by a reference to the imports This morning the quotation of Consols was 95§ to ¢ ex div, into Syria and Palestine of the produce and manufactures of Great Britain alone. In the year 1853, these imports, exclusive of foreign and for the 10th of January, but the closing price was only 954 colonial produce, amounted to 306,580; iv 1854, to 366,993/; in 1857, to 3, being # per cent. below that of last Friday. The cit+ to 703,375/; and during the past year to 760,523/, cumstance that the transfer books are shut may, perhaps, ew Ff|——= Tue small capital used in banking operations at Beyrout is quite in- have something to do with the depression. Political con- adequate for a place doing such a trade as 1,324,5507 of imports, and siderations appear to have had little influence. The truth 983,398/ of exports. The rate of interest is amply. sufficient to leave a very satisfactory is, many other kinds of securities. now compete with profit. Consols, and induce sales, with a view to exchanges. The s_—lUrer US The liquidators of the Northumberland and Durham re-investment of a portion of the January dividends, how-. District Bank, which failed in 1857, have issued a report of ever, may perhaps cause, as usual, a renewed absorption of||] progress. ‘The winding up proves somewhat less disastrous stock. Subjoined is our usual list of the highest and lowest:|{ than had been feared. ‘The total sum obtained by the! prices of Consols every day, and the closing prices of the}] [Dec. 17, 1859,

English and foreign stocks last Friday and this BANKERS’ PRICE ol BRENT. PRICES OF

se aye “Lowe ore Bilis. Hank Stock, div 9 per cen: .. ‘seseee Shut eoeves one 278 pm 303 pm 3 per Cen:. Reduced Anns. .. a ; 278 pm 30s pm 3 rer Cent. Console Anns. ..|97 27s pm 303 pm New 3 per Cont. Annuities . ++ 955 4 ‘Wednesday... = 288 pm 51s par New 34 per Cent, oo ove 288 pm Sls pm New 2 bgp ee Priday...... — 298 pm 3ls pm 5 per Long ooo Jan. 5, 1860 . Anns. for 30 years,Jan.5, 1860 8 pre cent. console, account .. Ditte Jan, 5, 1880 ee eos Ditto Apr. 5, 1865 a New 3 fant 3 cute nommnmpeten Iadia Stock, 10} per cent.... ‘| Do. Do. 5 per Cent... 1065 tg Scene ah March De. Loan Debentures ..1858'97 97, Do. Do. --1859\96§ 7 ort a Bank stock . caepptapmognannepen Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent. 1,0001\38 P Ditto under 1,0002 .. ooo 38 63 p East India stock seeeeecen: Bauk Stock fo: acent. Jan. 10 on 3 prOt. Cons. for aect. Jan. 104055 i xd 95) qxd 958 ~ 955 § xalo5g. xd 953 dxa India Stockh for account —_ 10) ak Ditto 5 per cent. jl 106} § 106f § 1085 xd 104 xa j1054 xa Consol Scrip...... on eee oe Bachequer Scrip...... ++ ose Excheq. Bills, 1,000% 14¢ ...... -/308 ‘2tsp' 308. Q7ep 308. ‘28sp|31s P Ditto "5001 = 305 27ap) «+ j30s 28ap) ane Ditto Small — [303 27sp) «.- 308 “8p 800 29sp 288 p | PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS.

Sat. | Mon. New ditto, 4 per cent ...... Austrian Bonds . « No department of the Stock Exchange Ting shown more Ditto 1859 .. e Brazilian 5 per cent... buoyancy than the British railway share market, which Ditto 44 per cent, 1852 fully verifies all the favourable anticipations expressed in the Ditto New 5 per cent, 1839 ‘and 1839 Ditto New, 1843 ee ee oe Economist.. All descriptions have again risen, and in Ditte 4} percent, 1858 .. e several instances the demand has been characterised by an Buenos Ayres 6 per cent ee e Caba 6 per cent extraordinary degree of ess. This was especially the Ditte Matanza and Sabanilla 7 per cent Chilian Gpercent.. ee es ‘case with South-Eastern and Great Western stocks. To- Ditto Spercent .. ee ee | day, as a natural and healthy consequence of the rise, sales Danish 3 per cent, 1625 ee oe Ditto Spercent§ .. ; yet the final quotations, compared with Dutch 24 per cent, Exchange ‘a guilders those of Friday last, exhibit an advance of 3 per cent. in Equador New Consolidated . Grenada, New Active 34 per ‘cont South-Eastern, 2} per cent. in Great Western, 2 per cent. Ditto Deferred ee ee Mexican 3 percent .. ee in Eastern Counties, 1} per cent. in North British, 1 per Peruvian 44 per cent... ee cent. in Great Northern and Midland, 7 per cent. in Caledo- Ditto 3 per cent - Portuguese 3 per cent 1853 .. nian and York and North-Midland, } percent. in London Russian, 1822, 5 per cent, in £ sterling and North-Western, South-Western, and Berwick, + per Ditto44 percent .. e Sardinian &per cent .. ee eent. in Lancashire and Yorkshire, &c.. The fortnightly Spanish 8percent .. ee Ditto 3 per cent Deferred ee settlement, which was completed this day, shows that Ditto Passive... ee ee although speculative purchases, as might have been ex- Ditto Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Swedish 4 percent .. ee « pected, have increased, they have been accompanied by a Turkish 6 per cent... o- Ditto 4 per cent guaranteed oe large bond fide absorption of stock. Subjoined is our usual Venezuela 24 per cent o list of the closing prices of the principal shares last Friday Ditt®l percent ... and this day :— Diwidends on the adove payable inLondom, Rattwars. Austrian 5 per cent, 10 gu. per £ sterling Closing prices Closing prices Belgian. 2)percent. .. ee eo last Friday. this day. Ditto 4) percent .. 99} Bristol and Exeter ...... eeereeeee 162 4 Datel 2 per cent, Exchange i2 guilders 65 Ditto 4 per cent, Certificates oe ooo 58} 93.4 94 erereeeee 1068 eeeseeee . 69} 70 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. eeeeeeeee 99§ 1003 65 7 Jussday. Friiay. 113 15 984 9 Time. Prices negotiate || Prices negotiated 97} 84 on ’Change. on ’Change, Midland . 109} 3 North British samen eeenceereecees 623 3 short. | 1123) 12 33$) 1133} 1113 Worth 4 4 dis Ditte 3 ms. 154) 11 11 153) 11 1 Rotterdam | ll 15¢), 11 15, Il 15 35 S34 ‘44 Antwerp ke 5 29 26 3 25 223) 25 27 Brussels | 25 224 Hamburg 13 5 Paris... 25 7} Ditto 25 30 Marseilles .. 25 324 Frenkfort-on-the-Main 1l7 Vienna o 12 55 Trieste oe 12 58 Petersburg ee 344 Madrid ° 405 Cadiz .. “ 495 Leghorn ee 30 273 Genoa .. oe 25 40 Naples... 409 Palerino oe. 121 Messina * 1214 Lisbon a 524 Oporto oe 523 ‘ | 52§ RioJaneiro es 60 dsst.| ... eos ose New York .. ee . ee | - ge: aes on FRENCH FUNDS.

Bengal, @ days? SIght .o ceccseere eecee seecce oe = exeneee Paris | rondon | Paris | xaaiton | Paris | London oes ene -eceee Dee, 12) Dee. 14) Dec. 13) Dec. 15; Deo, 14) Dec. 16 _ 30 Peceecenenee Bombay, 60 F ap fat = ae qunenetees ? SwONOCws 0g 44 per Cent Rentes, div, 22 as. Bombay. Total. March and 22 Sept. 7D) wm | 7 en 96 90 E.L Company's billsdrawa— <£ s 4d b& d Z£eada Zea 8 per Cent Rentes, div. 22 e | one 22016 8 220 16 8 June and 22 Dec. 70 60 9 70 60 70 20 2565 it Do. Serip 2nd Loan of 1855 oe its Total drafts from Jan, 9% 1859, ‘to December 9, 1859. ecreenccrercececcerseserese 8,521 8 6 Bank Shares, div. 1 Jan. {9890 0 we (9890 a Pe — drafts from May 9, 1859, to December 9, 1859 2.2.0. .-....ccncne sernecene 2,802 ll 3 and i July .. 2880 0 Bills with documents attached aganst indents acd consignments for Incia vary Exchange on London ‘1 month} 25 9 eos 3 9 ote 25 9 gecording to the articies drawn against. Ditto 3 mcnths 24.983) on 24 98g! are 24 98}

Co rT The Commercial Times.

FOREIGN MAILS

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2 a rena ee aie Australia and Mauritius...... 0...ss0ssesseee plapme} eseee ee « dollars Iinols 6 per cent ee ae ae Bahamas and Havana (via New York). 6per cent .. e + Canada, &c. (b' Canadian packet).... pe, Ascension, an ' canted b per cent or o e Po Sterling Cape of Good ecevosvenccccosovensesssene J MBs Massach usetts5 percent .. oe ee Sterling New York 5 per cent Stock .. : ae oe China, Penang, and Singapore...... »++ via Southampton Dee. «= 6percent - . oe oe bie Marseilles . — 6 per cent ee eo oo India (Caleutta), Ceylon, and Ionian rn Southampton Dee. vania 5 per cent Stock oe ave Islands ..... mpgsestonescoconcecsoceapoocesesonsse via Marseilles ... Dec. =- 8S percent Bonds o- Ditto (Bombay) .+-..-..ccrseseresseres i Southampton Dee. “| via. Marseilles .... Dee. South Carolina 5 per cent ( Palmer's) on ee Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Bonds,, Falkland Islands ...... +++ seeeceneasceresonpeesccones Jan. eS =ee 6 percent Bonds .. ‘Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto... & per cent 5 Sterling ‘Fvia Southampton Dec. nian 6 pr cnt Rallway Bonds, lst mortgage Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, i Aden... via Marseilles .... Dee. ee ee a ne tera Te ETT Newfoundland ...... s-snessssnereeeees Lconpennspapnpocey: ccsseseee DOG. JOINT STOCK BANKS, United States, California, Canada, ital ‘ke, evistGork de Boston) Dee. Ce ————— (by British packet) ctenbetosccnscts Price 3 °o =~ | Dividends Ditto (by United States packet) .. seeceeees/( NOW YOrk) sooseeee Dee, shares. [perannum Names. | Shares. Paid. j|pershare Western Coast of ot Diadeira and lo sconcennnenosocsespangegee: i aMaNtN GV—_——V—XV—Xn—nrr— ee a a mn ae acer haere wencetnenees £eda 20000/102 pr cent} Agra and United Service eva 50 0 «0 ooo Cuba and Mexico 22900/20/pr cent) Australasia ee oe ee 40 0 0 82 All other parts of the West 10000 ove Bank of Egypt ... - oes 25 0 0| 228 and all places in the Paeific, om ea 6000/52 per cent} Bank ot London .. oo ee 50 0 0 ee ing Chili, Peru, California, and Bri 20000/62 per cent} British North American.. es 59 0 0 eee tish Columbia acceses Seen eeenecereressoarens $2200/5? per cent] Chrtd Bk, India, Austra., & Ch. 16 00 eee 6000/5/ pe&l5sb! City.. se oe ee of 50 0 0 ° 20000/82 per cent} Colonial . os 25 0.0 ns MAILS ARRIVED. 25000/7/ per cent; Commercial of London . ee eo 20 0 0 eee Latest DATES. 25000/4/ per cent] Eng., Scot., & Austral. Chrtd... 20 0 0 On the 12th, America, per steam ship Canada, via Liverpool—Halifax, 3rd inst. 86000/6! per cent London Chrtd Bank of Austral. 20.0.0 93; 20 00 32 On the 12th, Arrica, per steam ship Ethiope, via Liverpool—Fernando Po, Oct. 28; 20000|12/p cent | London end County .. e Cameroons, 30; Old Calabar, Nov. 1; Brass and Nun. 2; Bonny, 7; Benin, Oct. 60000/124/ pr ct | London Joint Stock ee ee 10 0 0 33. 20 00 564 23; Lagos, Nov. 10; Accra, 12; Cape Coast Castle, 14; Cape Palmas, 16; Sierra 50000/16/ pr cent} London and Westminster oé Leone, 21; Bathurst, 25; Tenerifte, Dee. 1; Madeira, 3. . 10000/15}/ p cent} National aE of England 35 0 0 +. 2 0 0 , On the 13th, PENINSULA, per steam ship Tagus, via Southamyton—Lisbon, 7th 20000'6! p: &6/bs} National .. oe ee and Vigo, 8th inst, 25600/20! pr cent} New South Wales ee os 20 0 (0 eee 20 0 0 18 On the 13th, Uvsrrep Srares, per stedm ship Saxonia, via Southampton—New 27000\8! p c & bs} Ottoman Bank .. oe York, 1st inst. £0400/10: pr cent] Oriental Bank Corporation oa 25 6 0 ove 25 0 0 oso On the 14th, MeprrerRaNEay, per steam ship Ripon, via Southampton—Alexandria, 20000/10/ pc & bs} ProvincialofIreland .. ee Nov. 30th; Malta, 4th inst. ; and Gibraltar, 9th, 12000/5! per cent) Ionian oe ee ee es 2% 0 0 eee On the 16th, Awernica, per steam ship Bohemian, via Liverpool—New York, 3rd inst, 12000/9/ per cent| South Australia .. ee ee 23 00 31 40000)16? pr cent} Union of Anstralia os ee 2 00 56 GRAIN IMPORTER 60900/15/ pr cent; Union of London.. ee 1 0 0 29 An Account of the total quantities of each kind of corn, 8000/3! per cent Unity Mutual aoe os 69 0 0 ove eolonial, imported into the prineipal ports of Great Britain, pool, Hull, Neweastle, Bristol, Gloucester, Plymouth, Leith, Giang, Dundee, COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. and Perth. In the week ending December 7, 1859. Wheat ; Barley Amount IDiv. per Beans | cern and & of Loan.|Hf-year. Name, . Oats and|Rye and/Peasand) .4.4n.| Indian oatmeal.| ryemeal. 3 pr ct |Canada Government 6 per cent ...... qrs qrs pr ct.| Ditto 6 per cent . Foreign ... 53550 3 pr ct. Ditto 6 per cent .... Colonial . 600 ts +» |E. I. Transfer Loanat per Sicca rupee.... eve Do. 34 per ct. Enf Promis, Notes) at per. Total..... e “5107S 56697 | 54150! 1896 5871 12498 6606 3 oo Do. 4 per cent, ditto } Co.'s . Imports of the week .. -- 188,800 qra. os Do. 4% per cent. ditto rupee.. eco Do. 5 per cent. ditto eoneee 1660007 |3 pr ct |New Brunswick Gov. 6 per cent. ....».... WEEKLY CORN RETURNS. New South Wales Gov. 5 per cent. 1866.... From the Gazette of last nigkt. Ditto ditto 5 per cent. 1871-76...... Ditto 5 per cent., 1888, and upwards. Rye. | Beans. | Peas. - .|Nova Scotia Gov., 6 per cent, Deben. 1875. .|Quebec City 6 per cent. Sterling ...... qrs qrs ra South Australian Gov. 1878 and upwards. Sold last week ...... 0+...1859... oa — st Victoria Government 6 per cent...... eneeees eeeapondin week in 1858... 2 Ditto ditto 6 POF CONL...ccccersssreercseresereees = 1857... 134 5228.1 1754 - ao 1856... 44 6303 | 3642 FOREIGN RATES OF EXCHANGE ON LONDON. ~ 1855... | 507 $227 | 3022 Latest Rates of Exchange s da sd ad sa sd s a Dates. on Lendon. 3 days’ sight Weekly average, Dec. 4311] 3510) 21 5; 8210) 41 1) 89 1 PAri6...000000000000 Dee. 15 ..0000 25 10 ecence _ a 44 8 36 5| 21 9 30 7| 44.9) 39 8 _ oe, CT eeee ° 3 months’ date Antwerp ...... 25 024 3 days’ sight ae Nov. 44 1/| 36:1 2 6 29 1 41 2 39 (0 Amsterdam...... 11 65 11 673 3 ein a os 43 1| 35 11 21 11 23 4). 40 9) 39 6 oo a a 21 5 29 7|.40,38); 37 9. oo 11 60 11 624 2 months’ date — — 42 9! 35.9; 22 1 80 2; 39 3} 38 5 Hamburg...... 13.33 8 days’ sight + —_—- — 13 4he13 4} 3 months’ date St Petersburg. 344 34} 8 Six weeks’ average .ueseee| 43 7| 36 0} 2120) 801) 40.8} 8820 Lisbon . 53 3 \— perrrersionememars 1 Gibraltar... 51 3 Same time last year «006; 41 7) 35 3; 2211] BE 11| 42.7 44 7 New York. 110 1103 60 days’ sight DIOS . ..cageroccccnescngsocesscsseee 10 10”? 10 1.0 10 10 Jamaica 1 per cent. pm 30 $ per cent. pm 60 MONTHLY IMPORTS OF GRAIN. o “ P ar 90 Aw Account showing the Quantities of Cony, Grain, Meat, and -Fiour Inorten Havana ...... - 153 per cent. pm. 90 into the Unrrep KixepoM, and admitted to Home Consumption, in the month of Rio de Janeiro. — 9 ..... > 25 60 November, 1859. Bahia ....0..00006 d 25 60 Pernambuco ... 25d 60 Species of Corn, Grain, From Foreign | rom BritishPos- Total, i Buenos Ayres... 69 70 60 PIrEtiidd Meal, and Flour. Countries. sess outof . Singapore . 4s 9d 6 months’ sight Ceylon... 5 per cent. dis 6 qrs bash qrs bush qrs bush Bombay . 2s 09d 2s 14d 6 Wheat ..rccovcrrses escccovece accececeen 322543 7 327278 0 Calcutta ... 2s Ofd 23 Ofd : Barley 211776 3 211776 7 Hong Kong. 43 10d LT Oats 109335 3 109758 3 Mauritiusessesc,. 24 per cent. dis 90 days’ 8 sight Rye.. 7987 2 7987 2 - 2 per cent, dis 60 Peas 14445 1 31146 5 Sydney ...... par 80 Beans 45950 4 45950 4 Valparaiso ...... 444d 45d 60 Maize or Indian corn . 171581 5 171581. & ee Buckwheat ....++0+++ 256 2 2. 2 COMPARATIVE EXCHANGES. Beer or bigg...... epccnppeccesessesess ove ose The quotation of gold at Paris is about $ per mille discount, and Total ccccssccccesescceseccessssisssss] SBSSTS1:S 21859 1 905735. 4 the short exchange on London is 25.10 per 1/ sterling. On comparing ewt qr lb ewt qrdb ewt qrib these rates with the English Mint price of 3/ 17s 10$d per ounce foc Wheat meal and fiour. " 141762 3 8 $2348 1 8 174111 016 Barley meal ...... 10 0 oon! 1.0.0 standard gold, it appears that gold ia about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Oat meal..... ll 215 10.0 12 2.15 Paris than in London. 563 2 4 , 563, 2.4 By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.3} per 1/ sterling, Standard gold at Maize or Indian corn meal 4 221 6.021 the English Mint price is, thetefore, about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Buckwheat meal...... sssccssesees 40 0 40 0 +} Hamburg than in London. Tata crecccocsscesersonccesssceseseves) 142347 2:20 | 32850 3 8 174698 2 0

ej aes ae THE ECONOMIST. | Dec, 17.1859; Dec a pally from Americs, at 16 taels to 18 tales 5 mace. Pekoe, 150 chests, COMMERCIAL EPITOME. at 424 taels, Scented teas, 3,000 boxes at 21 to 26 taels. Stock; FRIDAY NIGHT, Congou, 74,000 chests, principally good ordinary to mediom kinds; that ‘Only 2 limited supply of English wheat was on sale at Mark Soucbong, 1,500 chests, medium quality; pekoe, 250 few | lane this morning. For most kinds the demand ruled steady, at fine ; Oolong, 28,000 half-cheste of ‘ Foochow packed” and “ fai} toa fully Monday’s currency. Importers of foreign wheat—the good cargo;’ scented teas, 4,000 boxes “fair” and “five.” Quots. |} | remar show of which was tolerably good—were firm, but no change tions: —Congou— Low dusty to clean common, 9 taels to 14 taels 5 mace; ) There took place in the quotations. Fine barley maintained its previous good common to fair medium, 15 taels 5 mace to 21 tacks 5 mace; kaisow |} instance: value, and oats advanced 6d per quarter. Other articles moved kind (nominal), 24 taels; kaisow (nominal), 30 taels, Souchong—Good || Heme common to medium, 14 taels to 20 taels; extra fine and finest, 35 taels, |! The i off slowly, on former terms. The imports from abroad, this week, Oolong—Foochow, packed and common cargo, 16 taels to 16 taels § | are very limited, viz., 450 ‘quarters of wheat, 2,420 barley, and mace; fair and good, 17 taels 5 mace to 19 taels 5 mace; good] advance 4,890 oats. and fine to finest (nominal), 20 taels to 22 taele 5 mace. Shanghai || sper At Liverpool, to-day, all articles moved off steadily, at very advices are to the 2lst inst. A fair business has been done in imports at |] |. Mode full prices. former rates. Silk.—5,000 bales settled during the fortnight, making and fine There has been a rather extensive demand in the Liverpool 28,000 bales for the season to date. There is no change in prices, but the | cotton market during the week, the total sales amounting to stocks are heavy, and the tendency is downward. The export of silk 68,000 bales, including 52,000 to spinners, 10,000 to speculators, from China to Europe is 25,322 bales, against 23,190 bales last season, or and 1,000 tor export. Quotations are unchanged since Friday an increase of 2,132 bales for 1859-60. Tea.—Black teas have been Pallo last. The market to-day closes quiet, without change; sales 7,000 purchaeed at rather easier rates for all kinds except the best, which, being spot, he bales. Notwithstanding the extent of the week's transactions, scarce, may be quoted a shade higher. Sales are as follows:—Congou— Mess the choice of cotton offering has been eo abundant, that buyers Old Ningchow, 1,800 chests, at 25 taels duty paid; Ningchow and jj ence to Oopack, 19,200 cheste, at 254 to 34 taels duty paid; Sunchunki and have had facilities of purchasing on very favourable terms. ‘The Hohow, 3,900 chests, at 194 to 25 taels duty paid; Shanghai, packed, nearly American accounts give hopes of a yield exceeding four millions, &c., 700 chests, at 16 taels duty paid; Souchong, 1,800 chests, at 21 to 38 and the shipments to this country continue on a large scale. taels duty paid; pekoe, 1,000 chests, at 35 taels duty paid; total, 28,400 H} even of At New York, on the 2nd inst., cotton was tolerably firm in chests. Green teas are 1} tael Jower, with few buyers. Settlements, | eodil illa: price. A telegram from New Orleans to the same dete, says: — 26,000 half-chests. Stocks are estimated at—black, 55,000 chests; mises t “ Cotton sales to-day, 13,000 bales; market steady, at 10% to llc green, 130,000 half-chests. The export of tea from China to Great poe for middling. Sales of the week 90,000 bales; receipts of the Britain is 24,354,400 lbs, against 9,446,500 ibs last season, or an increase week 92,000 bales, against 70,000 same time last year. Receipts for 1859-60 of 14,907,900 lbs. To the United States the export is ' crop i ahead of last year 138,000 baks. Receipts for Southern ports 11,784,800 lbs, against 8 012,700 lbs to same date last year, or an increase ahead of Jast year, 199,000 ba'es. Stock in port, 363,000 bales.” for this season of 3,772,100 Ibs, val Messrs Briggs and Co., of Alexandria, thus report the state of | For nearly all kinds of coffee there has been an improved eq the grain and cotton markets to the 3rd inst.:— inquiry, and the quotations have had an upward tendency, The averat Since our last advices, the same causes have continued to »perate, and supply on offer has rather increased. that c have preduced increased firmness in our grain markets, with a consider- Messrs Volkart, Brothers, of Colombo, have forwarded the been able :ise in the value both of wheat and of beans. The price in the annexed report of the coffee market to the 15th ult. :— 84,001 Cairo markets is as high as bere, The weather has been unsettled since the date of our la.t report, and is mat The following are the sales of our principal articles of export since our the progress in preparation of produce has been limited. The disposal of distri last, together with their present value free on board :— our present season’s crop to date, stands thus :— will © uarters. per quarter. PLANTATION COFFEE. qualit Wheat—Saide—Private trade produce ...... 1,875 ...... 37s Od to 378 3d To Great Britain...... ewts 23,613 against last year, cwts 14,474 _ _ acha’s Ri sends 1,000 ...... 398 3d Foreign Ports...... 1,262 — — pe is, we Beans—Saide—Private trade — t 30s 0d to 30s 6d Australia and India...... _ os 2,186 Tar ¢ SEMIN, accbaleeceni cee sstadibeaBedeanincess «» 2s 8d — 223 Od Coen level BN. nr 0ss0045 wie 25s 3d 24,875 16,697 Cotton weed ...... cecceceee.cecesees 82s Od to 868 6d Native Correr. NM ctbthbisscddbdcmensschdteoal Jes Msedssigeedtee:’ +E: aneppi 62s 3d To Great Britain...... ewts 13,761 against last year, cwts 5,224 A good business has been maintained in cotton since our last, and Foreign Ports...... -. a _— S46 about 5,400 bales have been sold during the week. Prices of the lower Australia and India...... — a 500 grades are somewhat easier, but the higher qualities are in great request. 14.583 14,570 Present value per ib, f.o.b., may be considered to "be, for middling, s eras 7 4-101; good middling, 7$d; fair, 77-104 to 7 8-104; good fair, 84; After the departure of our last mail, an advance took place in the value good, 8 2-10d; fine; 8 7-10d to 10 1-104. Freight, by steamer, is at $d of native coffee, which has since been lost, and we quote it as previously per ib and 5 per cent. net weight ; and by sailing ships, 34 per Ib. advised. The market continaes freely supplied, with rather more sellers Exports of cotton from 17th Nov. to 3rd Dec., 1859:—Great Britain, | than buyers at the present rates. There have been but few transactions 4,238 bales; France, 1,282 bales; Austria, 301 bale; total, 5,821 bales. in plantation parchment during the fortnight; one early crop at lis 6d, | Export of Corron from 19th Oct. to 3rd Dee., 1859. and a Dimbola parcel at 11s 9d, the former deliverable in all this month, r Great Britain. France. Austria. Total. | are all we hear of. A good deal of the early coffee has found its way to bales bales bales bales | Colombo. 1856—-1857 ...... 8,118...... 1,700 .....200 2,135 serverees 11,953 All raw sugars have commanded an active market, and the i sees jams premipes 4 i PePaRagN 4 _ pocptene ee | quotations have further improved 6d to ls per cwt. Refined 1859-1800... 69,312 org "638" ta7943 | 82048 have commanded more money, and the lowest value of dried The public sales of tea, heid this week, have gone off steadily, goods is 51s 6d per ewt. =¢ Mie steam at full quotations, By private contract, more business is doing, The dealings in rice have been wholly confined to immediate and common sound congon is worth quite 1s 2d per 1b. wauts; nevertheless, prices, generally, have been supported. The following commercial report is dated Hong Kong, Oct, 29 :— M. Arles Dufour, of Lyons, writing on the 10th inst., observes:+« Silk,—Settlements only amount to 110 piculs for India. Prices have | Daring November,and up to this date, a fair activity has prevailed further advanced 10 dols. Stock, 170 piculy. Soonkong, No. 1,430 dols; | in the silk trade, and, notwithstanding their elevation, prices have ditto, No, 2, 41010 415 dol; Luckiow and Cumchuck, 415 dols; re- | kept pretty firm. Probably, as it generally occors at this time of reeled ditto, (nominal), 440 dois; Kowkonge, 390 dols. Tea.—The mar- | the year, the majority of mawufacturers being occupied with stock- ket has been quiet, foreignere being unwilling to pay such high prices. | taking, business will be dull for some time to come, though with Arrivals are very, moderate. One or two settlements show a declive of | the reduced supplies of European and Asiatic silk any serious fall $ tod ofa teel, but prices genersliy are unchanged since Jast mail, | appears impossible. As regards the future, viz., February and sehense 7 ae — isshown, Sales are—of congou 22 chops; | Murch, if we consider that, generally speaking, manufacturers are wa ; ; Oonams, 22 taels 2 mace to 28 taels; Tayshan | without stocks of silk or manufactured goods, we may auticipate and Canten packed, 2,000 half-chest+, at. 184 teels to 21 taels; scented activity and firmness.” | caper,. 12,000. boxes, commen, 15} aels to 17 taels; fair, 17 taels to DELIVERIES of SILK through the Lyons ConpITION Hous 22 taels.; scented orange pek»e, 8,000 boxes, common, 2] taels ; fair, —-——1858——__, ¢ 1853-—— 23 taeis to 24 tacls; tine, 28 taels. to 31} tael:, Stocks—Congou, 70 bales. kilogs. bales. kilogs. chops; Souchong, 500 chesta; Oolong, 2,800 half-chests ; flowery pekoe, From October 1 to 31...... 4,110:,.. 323.000. 2.4.2... 3,150... 215,000 140 chests; plain. orange pekoe, 700. half-chests ; country greens, old From November 1 to 30 ... 3,590. ....280,000...... 2,750 ... 198,009 season, 4,000 packages, Foochow letters are to the 2istinst, Trans- Since the close of the public sales, most descriptions of wool actions in imports are.not worthy of notice. Tea.—Prices show no change, have met a slow inquiry. Holders, however, have continued firm except, forthe lowest kind of congou, which are somewhat cheaper, in their demends, and prices have been well supported. Arrivals have been lerge, but. demand has also been considerable. A The following report, transmitted from Messrs Moran and Co., large quantity of very low-class dusty tea has been brought down already, shows the state of the indigo market at Calcutta, to the 8th ult :— which looks as if stocks in the cduntry were reduced to alow ebb. In- Exports of indigo from, the 1+t November, 1858, to 31st October, deed, it has, been a very early season, and the comparative export is no 1859:—To Great Britain, 13;775 chests; to Havre and Bordeaux, 4,732; just criterion. Total arrivals to. date are—Congou, 284,000 chests, against to Marseilles, 261; to Foreign Europe,217; to Americe, 1,866; to 102,000 cheats last season ; Oolongs, 155,000 half-chests, against 87,500 Gulf, &c., 2,205; total, 23,058. We have at present no reason to half-chests last season, Sales to. date—Congou, 186,000 chest, ageinst change our opinion as to the out-turn of the crop, which we continue to 68,500 chests last season; Oolong, 110,000 haif-che-te, against 80,000 think will prove. to be about 1,04,400 maunds. With, regard to the half-chests, last season. Transactions during the fortnight have been— quality of the new.indigo, we fear that Lower Bengal will be found to be Congov, 29,700 chests, from, 9 taels to 21 taels 5 mace, principelly from below its average, the produce having been unusually, and ia some in- 1} to 16 taela; about 8,000 cheats are for the. colonies, and a small stances unaccouptably low, and it is invariably the case that when the quantity for America, Souchong; 1,400 chests, at 16 to 20 tales; anda plent yields badly, the colour aad paste of the indigo are.poor in propor- small quantity of finest at 35 taels. Oolongs, 12,500 half-chests, princi- tion, The fact of Tirhoot having mede a fair season isto be attributed

TORE eA PHS OO RN Te re } Dee. 17, 1859.] Re to the very large crop of plant, and not to good produce, the latter Thus the receipts show an increase of 152,000 over those of last yrar, |p having been below its usual standard, aud we do not think the indigo and an increase of 733,000 over 1857-8, and the exports exhibit the fol |} | from that district will be better on the whole than it was last year. lowing results :— | The few musters we have seen of the new crop so far bear out the above wun & Batata To France. To other F. P, Toval:' Stock i remarks. year ...... 1nc.173000 ...Dec. 25000 ...Dec, 1000 ...190147000 ..Jnc 69000 | There has been an improved demand for saltpetre, and, in some 1857-8 ....0000 Inc. 234000 ...Inc. 62000 ...I[ne, 17000 ...1n0318000' .Ihe. 368000 instances, the quotations have had an upward tendency. — From Messrs Neili Bros. and Oo.’s Circular, forwardd dy Mr Ollenshaw. P22 See Hemp, flax, and coir goods have sold at about Icte currencies. of Manchester, The iron market has shown more firmness, and Scotch pig has advanced to 58s cash, mixed numbers. English tin has improved MARKETS IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS 3i per ton. Modérate eales of rum have ‘been reported, at late quotations, The amount of business transacted in manufactured goods this week, and fine parcels of brandy have realised rather more money. has been only to a moderate extent, and, in some instances, prices have The oil market, generally, has ruled inactive, yet very little change has taken place in value. had a drooping tendency. The stocks in warehouse, however, have nat increased, and an improved demand. is generally anticipated. The iron ‘Tallow has commanded more attention, and P. Y. C., on the trade has become more active, at enhanced quotations. Hardware has gpot, has sold at 56s 9d per cwt. . continved in good request, both for home use and export, and there has Messrs Clarke and Sons, of Archangel,’write as follows in refer- been an improved inquiry for coals. ence tothe trade of that port : —‘* The export of flax this year was Mancuester, D>c. 15.—The market has been very languid, and rather neatly double that of last year, and is the largest we have ever easing in some‘few things. Shirtings in 40-inch width, and particularlyin ‘had to record. The quality wes particularly good—the produce 45-inch, have been worse to sel!, at 14d per piece reduction, buyers having —S-- aminS2eria£88. even of the least favoured districts being satisfactory. Tows and shown no disposition to operate; 34 and 36-inch have maintained: theic

= eodillas were also in large supply this year, but the new crop pro- value, with a fair inquiry. Water twist, in certain numbers, can also be ‘mises to be deficient. We may quote 30r as a probable minimum bought about 44 per lb lower, 16’s to 24’s, in particular, being 3d per=lb price for Nos. 1 and 2 tow on contract. Rye shows a very small below the late highest points. Other classes of goods and yarns may gene~- export, and the demand from abroad was almost nil. The new rally be reported as very steady. The home trade continues very busy, con- crop is again very deficient in quantity, but the quality is very sidering the season of the year; but with respect to our great export ~ —&Baw market, the letters from Calcutta, received to-day, seem to have inclined good. Prices have already opened very high in the interior—say, merchants to close proceedings for almost the remainder of this yer, ual to 5$r to 53r. Wheat also was in small supply, as usaal. especially as the buying season for Bombay is now already closed. The quality of the new crop is reported good, and the quantity an average. Oats—The quality of the shipment this year was a!l COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE COTTON TRADS. that could be desired. The quantity was large, and would have Price | Price | Price | Ptice | Price | Price been larger had the dealers accepted a moderate price for the Dee. 15, | Dee. | Dee, | Dec. | Dec. | Dec 84,000 chets which they preferred warehousing. ‘The new crop 1859 | 1858 | 1857 | 1856 | 1855 | 1854 is mach less abundant than the last, and the quality in some Raw Corrow. s dis djs dis sdisd districts is by no means s» good. We do not expect that prices Upland fair...... 0crcseersecsverecrsoees 0 it 07/0 60 0 Sp 0 6 will open under 3r, or 15s f.o.b. Linseed was of very indifferent Ditto good fair.... 07 0 7} 0 a 0 0 Pernambuco fair .... 0 8/0 8/0 TH 0 0 6B 0 quality this year, and the new crop, although better on the whole, Ditto good fair...... cscccssceseressereesee 0 O 830 790 0 630 7 is, we fear, by no means alluring, The supply will be small. No. 40 More Yarn. fair, 2nd quality...... 1 1 0 | 0 10% 0 0 09 No. 30 Water ditto GE comes 1 6 0 114) 0 9} 0 0 0.9 Tar and pitch were in ordinary supply, and at prices much on a 26-in. 66 reed, Printer, 29 yds, los 2oz...| 6 3 | 5 14/4 9) 4 4 4414.0 level with those of recent years.” 27-in, 72 reed, ditto - ditto 5ibs2oz...; 7 0 6135 9/5 56 615 1) 9-in, 60 reed, Gold End Shirtings, 374 8 Ths 402.4020 Biliicgsiscansthis 9 9 |9 4/80 73) 7°44 40-in, 66 reed, ditto ditto, Slbs1l2oz...,; 11 0 |10 0/9 0) 9 8 3/8 4 COTTON. 40-in, 72 reed, ditto ditto, ane oes 12 3 |1L 0/10 1§)10 13,9 3) Oy 4g r Red End Lon oe bail ital ald Oo 18 737210 7 W711 New Yorx, November 29. HuppersrFiz_D.—Stocks of all kinds, with theexception of. black doe” The following is a statement of the week’s sales here and at the chief skins and plain goods, are very low, and are being kept so by the influx Southern porte, at latest telegraphic dates, with the closing prices, f.0.b., of orders. Manufacturers of fancy trousering, especially in better quali- with freight in sterling at current exchange:— ties, continue unusually busy, and the trade of the district generally is:in Sales. Closing, Middling. Freight. F.0.b. a thriving and satisfactory condition, The local wool trade is brisker New Orleans... Nov. 28 63000 je lower ii" i sdequalto 6}4 again, which is a most unusual feature in the face of Christmas, Mobile ...... 004 28 25000 unchanged ... 10: sto 4 Oo 6a Charleston . + 26 17000 fe lower... 1 we 4d = 515-164 LeEDs.—At the present time the stocks, both in first and second hands, Savannah...... + 26 300040 — ose. 10 we 7-166 — 5 are so small that any intending buyer is unable to do more than catch a New York ... + 29 800030 — eee Upl. 11 ow. 3-16d — HP few articles without assortment. For seasonable articles, and principally Total... 116000 bales AVOPAGCs.0..000000- 5.31-32d in the departments of sealskins and doeskins (the latter for rifle uniforms) there is a fair inquiry, and rates continue to be very stiff, with an upward New York Market—The declining tendency noticed last week has tendency. LEICESTER.—The demand for most classes of hosiery is since made further progress, The Circassian’s advices, together with falling off, but this is the period of the year when trade usually slackens, continued good accounts of the crop, checked the demand, and holders The season has been a good one. There.is very little stuck on hand, and have since been anxious to sell. Prices have receded nominally to 11c the next season’s demand is expected to be brisk. The workpeople both to il}e for middling Upland, with sales of 8,000 bales for the week, of in the country districts and in the town are well employed for the time of which 3,000 in transitu, on the basis of 11c to 11}¢ for middling New year. Yarns are not so much in request. Wools are less fitm.——Nor- Orleans, with 9-164 freight. Southern Markets, by Telegraph—Previous TINGHAM.—There has been fully as much doing during the last few deys to receipt of the Circassian’s news the New Orleans market had gradually as in the week previously in the lace trade. The German buyers ate buy- advanced tu 11c to 114c for middling, owing to the continued favourable ing to a certain extent, and the foreign houseg are decidedly more busy, accounts from Liverpool. The duil advices by this steamer, however, The American orders are limited; and the home trade is yet depressed, s0.far as regarded the Liverpool market, checked business, and caused The hosiery trade continues in a Satisfactory state for the time of year; ‘less firmness, and prices at the close are irregular and nominal at Ile. There is less doing for home Consumption, and this branch will not At Mobile, factors had already found it necessary to concede slightly ; but, thoroughly revive until the commencement of the new year.’ The foreign: under this news, buyers demanded a further concession, which stimulated orders have been good, and the trade generally is in a very healthy state, business, and 10$c to 10%c is vow the current rate for a good style of Yarns are without material ‘change in price. Rocupave.—There has middling. The Atlantic markets have receded 3c to 4¢, with a moderate been about an average market fur the season in wool. We have a very business. Freights at the Gulf ports have receded to 4d, while a searcity active demand for most kinds of goods. Stocks on allsides, both in the of tonnage at Charleston and Savannah has. caused an advance there to bands of merchants as well as those of manufacturers, are reported to be 7-164 to $4. Sterling exchange is unchanged. very small, and prices remain’ nominally as they were a fortnight ago, The following is a statement of the movements of cotton for: the but really they are higher. Braprorp.— Woo0l—The demand is not so past week, and since Ist September last, compared with the five preceding active as it was a fortnight ago. Spidners act with great caution, buying years :— nothing but what they require for immediate eonsumptiov. ‘ Noils and o~——]tecerets.—— -—-—ExPorts FOR THE WERK.—— shorts withoutchange. Yarns—The demand for worsted yarn continues for Since To Great both the home and exyort trades, and spinners aré' well engaged ‘to order. Ist Sept. Britain. Prices are higher, and with an upward tendency» Pie¢es—Manufactarers bal of fancy goods are well engaged, but cobourg and plain makers are act- ing very cautiously, and, when they have no’ orders to place, allow their looms to remain idle——Bstrast:—The demand for yarn has contioved somewhat brisk, at very full prices: The transactions for export have been somewhat numerous. Linens, almost’ generally, have commanded extreme rates.——-Dounpzex.—A fuli average business has been passing in To Great To To other this market, at rates fully: equal to the previous week.——Woxrvex- HAMPTON.—Mr T. Griffiths reports a firmer market; at the annexed rate for finished iros:—Common Steffordsbire bars, 72 103, at tbe works; bee¢ bars, 8/108; sheets, 92; doubles, 10/105; nail sheets, 8? 109; latin, 12° 5 boiler plates, 97; best and best best, in proportion ; common rods, 7/ 1085 hoops, 81 103; gas strip, 82; Canada plates, 122; all other sorts ia pros portion, ————- ee Ss asi

7 4 " . (Dee. 17, 1855, i. ieee CORN. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCER MARKETS, TRANSACTIONS OF THE WEEE. Fon Rerort or Tavs Day's Markers, sex ‘ Postscntpr.” AMERICAN GRAIN AND FLOUR MARKETS. Mincine Lang, Fripay Mornme,. | New Yorx, Nov. 29.—Flour was dul], but'the market on the last day Svcar.—The moderate supplies brought forward in the public sales advanced ‘5c per barrel; and wheat, although quiet, also improved lc to 2c have chiefly found buyers at the advance of 6d to le established dating | the week, and some per®bushel. Indian corn dull. importers appear unwilling to realise eeu further rise. Refining kinds have attracted the most attention and the. recovery upon these from the late lowest point amounts to about Be. The. stock of sugar in London is 60,500 tons, against 51;200 last year, LONDON MARKETS. 55,800 in 1857, and 38,140 tons in 1856. Landings last week; 3,006 tons: delivered for home use and export, 5,600 tons. STATE OF THE CORN TRADE FOR THE WEEK. Mauritius.—Several parcels have been sold by private contract, in- Marx Lane®, Frivay Evenine. cluding brown, at 293 to 34s. 790 bags of the new crop by auction’on The quantities of English wheat on offer, both here and in the various Wednesday went as follows: grey, rather grainy low middling to mid. } dling, 40s to 42s 6d; good middling brown, 36s 6d perewt, this week, have been moderate. In the general con- local markets held Siam.— 5,628 begs went at full prices: soft yellow, 418 to 48¢; stron dition of the samples shown, however, there has been a slight improve- good to very fine yellow, 43s 6d to 468 6d. Some bagslow brown have | ment. For good and fine parcels the demand has ruled steady, at very fall prices; but other kinds have moved off slowly, at late quotations. been resold by private contract at 32s per ewt. i Manilla —2,600 bags clayed have been reported at 378 6d per cwt, i has been shown to speculate in foreign wheat—the imports No disposition Refined.—An active demand has existed, and the supply is now a0, of which have not increased; nevertheless, importers, generally, bave much reduced that common to middling qualities command 1s 6d ad pee firm, and prices bave:been supported. For malting barley, continued vance. Yesterday there was nothing offering under 51s 6d. Crushed there has been a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry, at fully last sorts, however, have moved off commands 48s 6d to 503 6d. Advices from Holland represent the market week’s currency. Grinding and distilling for crushed as very firm. i heavily, at ls per quarter less money. New malt has maintained late Rum.—The total stock of rum is 28,000 puns, against 25,750 puns in currencies; but old: qualities have ruled somewhat lower in price. There has been 2 good consumptive inquiry for oats, on former terms. Both 1858 at same time. beans and peas have-met asiow eale. In the value of flour, we have no Cocoa.—Common qualities are quiet, and good to fine remain firm. Corrsr.—The improved tone which pervaded this market last week change to notice. has continued during the present. Most of the continental markets have continued firmer for wheat, at Txa.—The market has been steady, but transactions by private contract full currencies, although the export demand is confined to limited quantities. very moderate in extent. Public sales, comprising 18,425 packages, All spring corn has changed bands stecdily, but no improvement has were commenced yesterday, when 2,400 packages Assam met with the teken place in value. Large supplies of produce, both wheat and flour, usual competition, and 4,860 packages China passed, of which 1,760 still continue to arrive at the shipping ports in the United States from the uae full prices. Common congou is firm at 1s 2}d to 1s 2}d per lb, interior; nevertheless, no disposition bas been shown to press sales, and uyers, the quantity lately disposed of for export purposes is very moderate. At Ricz.—A better demand sprang up in the early part of the week, present, shipments, either to London or Liverpool, would be attended partly speculative, which, however, bas since subsided. with loss. Imports and Detiveries of Rice to December 10, with Srock.on hnad. 1859 1858 1857 1856 In Scotland, about average supplies of wheat have been on offer in fair tons tons tons tons condition. On the whole, the trade has continued steady, A good TMports .....cceresseeessees ove 37340 4. 80400 ... 72190 ... 96400 businese has been passing in spring corn, especially in fine barley and Deliveries for home-use... 31500 ... 34640 .,. 29000 ... 30850 Exported ..c.rccccccoscssoeees 20640 ... 21920 ... 36450 ... 24500 malt, at previous currencies. Steady shipments have been made to the GERBGT ‘ecerccsnescncedicascccdsece 70780 ... 86220 ... 62420 ... 562900 South. Of the above stock, 12,340 tons are Bengal, 8,000 Madras, 35,325 The Irish merkets have been fairly supplied with most kinds of pro- Rangoon, Akyab, &c., and 15,000 other kinds. duce, Generally spesking, the demand has ruled inactive, but we have SALTPETRE.—A good deal of business has been done, and Bengal may no change to notice in prices. be quoted 6d to 1s dearer. Imports and Detivenrizs of SaLttreTrE to December 10, with Brock on hand, Only a limited supply of English wheat was on offer here, to-day, and 1859 1858 1857 1856 all kinds moved off steadily, at fully Monday’s prices. Foreign wheats tons tons tons tons Tmported ....eseseeee-- woreeee 17730 one = 9610 440 16380 4... 14690 were firm, but the demand for them was by no means active. Fine Delivered .... cove 16800 ..- 13340 .. 11800 ... 16200 barley supported previous rates; but other kinds were a dull inquiry. Btock ...... 006. weeecceescooes cece 3040... 24380 .. 6560 ... 2260 Oats advanced 6d per quarter. In the value.of other produce, no change Delivered iast week 410 tons. took place. Drvucs.—Camphor firm at 6/ 17s per cwt. Merats.—The markets have been rather higher. British tin is again In reference to the floating trade, Mr Ed. Rainford informs us that 3s dearer, and foreign bas advanced to 137s to 138s for Straits ; 1416 for only 5 arrivals have been reported off coast since the 6th inst., and that Benca. Scotch pig iron has risen quite 3s, mixed numbers closing at the business done has been very limited. 58s per ton thie morning, The London averages announced this day were :— O1ts.—Market generally inactive. qrs s @ TURPENTINE.—900 barrels old rough sold at 989d. Spirits remain Wheat .....scrcceseeseees pungencnnccecoccsocasoosesocenesesooesocese - 4872 at 45 10 Barley .. _ ose 88 2 dull, American drawn, 34s 5d per cwt 23 «8 PaRTICULARS OF TALLOW.—Monday, December 5. andl a 1858 1899 39 1 cas. 48 7 Stock this day...... 18,576 wu. SDAME on SB908 ane ineeo | Delivered last week . 2231 2907... «= 38 ww. = Ditto since Ist June . 72,078 ... 60,723 . 60,558 ... 43,402 ° | Wheat. Bariey. Malt. Oats Flonr. Arrived last -week..... 1,399... 1192)... 6864)... so | qrs qrs qrs qrs qrs Ditto since 1st June ...... 71,674 se 82,744 io 82,955 oe 80/969. | Binglish .....0. 2330) ...00- ee 2160.20... TIO cesace 1720 Price of YC omthespot... 598d ... 528 3d ... 6518 0d ... 568 Od Trish ....c.000000 seo, eeanee —: oe ane. compen pint. aokids on ‘ Ditto Town last Friday... 60s 3d bbe 9d -. Bistl =. STe8a | Rte... Sonn. B.S. . ...? Ze. 4890 ...} sac! = POSTSCRIPT. Farwary Evenine, PRICES CURRENT OF CORN, &e Sucar.—The market showed undiminished firmness. 3,160 casks} 8 6 s 8 West India found buyers during the week, including many parcels to- Waear—English, New white ... 45 to 50 | Pras—Foreign, white boilers 38 40 : red .... 38 45] — feeding 36 37 day. 3,062 bags Mauritius, 3,628 bags Bengal, and 2,451 boxes Havana, Danzig and Koenigsberg, high | Oats—Enaglish, Poland & p an eed by auction, chiefly sold at previous quotations. eS 54 i — white, feed ond Tra.-~-The sales concluded to-day. Good common congou soldat a a mixed 52 53 | _ BRE isos cccansetcde ote eos Is 234 per 1b, Rostock and Wismar ...... -.. 48 51} Scetch, Hopetownand potato... 27 29 Stettin, Stralsund, and Wolgast 47 49 /| — Angus and Sandy...... 25 27 TALLow.—650 casks by auction sold at 1s advance; including Marks and Mecklenburg...... 47 «50! — COMMON .cccecceeeee 2 24 Australian at 553 3d to 55s 6d; South American, 57s to 578 3d. Also Danish, Holstein, & Branswick 46 49} Irish, potato ...... 27 several otber parcels; including East India at 53s 6d to 568 3d. Town) St Petersburg, soft...per 496ibs 42 47) — White, feed.. 23 = MRED ieisbsetensinne 45. 46) 22 advanced 9d-—viz., to 58s; Y.C. 578 6d; and.57s per cwt spring. American and Canadian, white...... | 21 os _ TOG... sce one | 23 ADDITIONAL NOTICES. Odessa and Sea of Azoff, soft, } 24 RIOD IID: sncinainacanienipooneane 45 48 23 REFINED SuUGAR.—Tbe home market for refined sugar opened very Egyptian, Saidi. 480 Ibs...... 24 animated at advanced prices for most descriptions. of goods. Nothing ~ Behira .... «vee | RYB—Engiish...... 31 doing in crushed for export. 25 tons of 6 lb loayes have been sold at Syrian, hard and soft ... | Tares—kLnglish, win . 56 40s for forward delivery. The Dutch market remains firm. Several parcels Bariay— English and | Foreign spring eo 45 malting, NEW ...... ccorrsceeensnes 40 45|Ixpiux Corn; per 480 lbs= of Belgien and French loaves have been sold for arrival. here and the out- English and Scotch distilling...... | American, White ...... 0000 ++ ° ports, for consumption, at 32s, 328 6d, and 338; At is reported ‘about a — grinding... 26 30 | _ FOI vennocrccensnee, cco 1,000 tons. Saale maltirg ... 39 42 Galatz, Odessa, and Ibraila, Danish distilling... 31. 33 ORIG cncnnnnmmbnans. 900 aeadentinenel 82 633 Dry Frouir.—No alteration in the value of fruit. Clearances continue _ grinding... 30 31) Frour, per 280 ibs Town made very large, particularly of raisins. No arrivals, and little of any kind Odessa and Danube, per400 lbs 26 28 delivered tothe baker ...... 40 43 now afloat. Barbary and Egyptian...... 26. 27 Country marks ..... ait droseaheeen 3l 34 Brans—English a 45| American and Canadian fancy EncLisu Woor,—Not any alteration in the English wool trade. Dutch and Hanoverian...... 38 40} 28 CoLoniAt AND Forzregn Woo.t.—The market remains firm, but with| Egyptian & Sicilian, per 480 lbs 55 36 | little doing, Pxas—English, white boilers...... 40 42) = Frax market quiet. — grey, dan, and | 26 maple ...... 40 46) on Hemp steady at our quotations. me DAM... enneerencenes 60 70 Corron.—There has been nothing doing in cotton this week. Dec. 17, 1859.]

—The silk market has been rather more quiet since the 8th inst., | prices realised on Mon last. of 4d per 8 Ibs, the | ‘eonsumers — having previously anes supplied ie themselves, . Prices continue*firm, ; per 8 lbs. We were supplied -with sheep, and ve no t to the most recent shippers from China. very inactive, at barely stationary prices. tees “God and fine sorts for home trade have experienced a fair | ther kinds of veal slowly, on formerterms. ‘demand, at prices slightly in favour of buyers; ordinary descriptions re- eae hb 4 cibtaive “main neglected. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2 3 6 PrimeSouthdown sheep 5.0 5 4- ugk AND Hipgs.—The leather trade since the publication of our : : oo os re we : - : : 7 ponthiy cireulat has exhibited no change. Rather more business has 5 0 Loree sc renuiea’ 9. 6 ee : een doing during the past week than is usual at this time of yeas but : 10 com menslta s : = ; ; atLeadenball, yesterday, the transactions were limited. The supply was nekling calves... oa ie} fiso moderate and prices unaltered. 4.5 lon Quarter oistorepige... 28. 0 39. 0 r, | : Merats.—-A : fair business oa is reported during ; the week, and : some | J} metals have improved in position. Copper is firm for all descriptions. ‘ | and foreign is in request at improving prices. Iron recovers but slowly * NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. yi | jp manufactured, but Seotch pig has advanced several shillings per ton cleseatebes oe nated eee en — me nm the week. Tin ‘ has again i advanced 3/ per ton in ; English, i and the tions; extensive. otherwise Prime the trade beef is and mu inastive. m teadily, . at full quota- d. | ‘paket isfirm, Spelter shows a steady position, Lesd is quiet, Tin Per 6 Ibe by the carcass. / j ples io x na et i i wening :— Inferior n beef sepeeesions $8 320 Mutton, inferl OP Sepeawees $4 a8 eh ero on s 4 Middling ditts ~ 38 2 8 = . 810 42 ve |] | 58 0 Prime large 88 40 - 42 46 eee ee | 3 Ob Prime small 42 46 Large pork.. $6 20 F 9 Vealisssesvesses 40 46 Small pork... 42 @20 Ff 0 if : r : HOP MARKET: j d if 0 BoroueH, Monday, Dee. 12.—Our market continues un active ot H for this period of the year. The demand for Weald of Kentsand Sussex We has for the present cleared the market of cults samples; and om have for this description. made a further advanee of from. 4s to 5s, and n PROVISIONS. East Kents, the quantity on offer is limited, and prices remain firm, . Year- | The bacon market firm, at 59s to 60s f.0.b. Hamburg, 55s to 56s | lings and old olds have been in considerable request at more money. Mid | landed. and East Kents, 84s, 112s, 147s; Wealds, 63s, 74s, 845 ; Sussex, 60s, 688, k More doing in Irish butter, prices very firm ; in foreign also considerable | 76s. ee: a ready sale, at 120s; fine Bosch, 98a to 100s; fine FRipaY, Dec. 16.—All new hops are very firm, at extreme. quotations. ot | Jersey, ‘ 5 Companative Statement or Stocks axp De Te eIe, POTATO MARKET ; Stock Butver. Deliveries. Stock. acon. SouTHWARK WATERSIDE, Monday, Dec. 12:—During -* the past week the ecccecrs 89809 8080 ..scosere 1169 arrivals have not been so large as in the previous week, but still more than », sree cee 45504 6046 seeverees 2402 equal to the demand; the trade still continues very dull. The following eoeee eves, 20023 4919 .recocoee 2295 . are this day’s quotations :—York Regents, 75s to 1208; Lincolnshire ditto, ty ARRIVALS FOR THE PAST WERK. 708 to 90s; Dunbar ditto; 90s to 1108; Kent and Essex, 70s to 908; Perth, Irish butter ......

‘STATEMENT r parative Imports, Exports, and Home of the following articles Che Railway Monitor. [OES he frat 60 Wweaks of 1886-9, showing the Stock on Dee. 10 in each year. e FOR THE PORT OF LONDON. " ggrOf those articles duty free, thedeliveries for Exportation are included under the RAILWAY CALLS FOR DECEMBER. H send Howe Consumption. Annexed are the railway’ calls for December, +0 far as they havey® East and West Indian Produce, &c. been advertised — SUGAR. Amount per share. scabhincte —eeoe ee@eeor& mported. Daty paid. Stock. Date Already Number o due, paid. Call. Shares. Total. if 1859 1858 1859 1858 1859 dod Z£sada Z£eda 2 £ a tons tons tons tons tons Dublin and Meath ...... 5 ww 5 00 ww 210 0 1. 9,900 ... 28,000 97009 | 110826 92918 12090 15795 East Indian—Jubbulpore ... 10 .. 5 0 0 ... 5 0 © «,. 100,000... 500,000 31485 26157 28267 9429 12259 F Extension ...... 10... 5 0 0 . 5 0 0... 50,000... 250/000 24446 | 27978 | 23517 3131 2752 Forest of Dean Central ...... a ° + 20 0 we 6,600"... 18,000 ew | 53980 67389 ove Great ag or Debenture GRO T .. cignsicecraricsersincces 15 60 p. cent. ... 20 p. cent. ... Unknown. 155073 | 152940 | 218941 | 212091 | 24650.) 30806 Great Western and Brentford ’ Foreign Sugar. cece | ee | eee meena epeeateem omens 5 per Cent. Preference£10 1 ....3 0 0 .. 3 0 O.. 3,008)... WjeRe Exported, 2. , Slam, and Manilla} 6788 | 17033} 1812 830} 3175} 9040 Great Western of a or Havana ...... +.| 44978 | 44840 | 4778 | 7297) 19596 | 12830 5 15 00 .. 3 06 .. 78,101 ... 294,808 RICO. ..cecocecscocsce| 18163} 7871 146 30} 177] 2614 1... 410 0... 1100... 1000... 1,500 vecceee coccescccce-co| 6284] 12048 | 1439} 1498] 37891 7905 Newry & Armagh Extension 12 ... 8 0 0 ... 1.0.0 sus U — ee North British Border Coun- 71163 | 807871 8175! 97001) 289071 39389 ties Union Guaranteed £10 PRICE OF SUGARS. BRETOD i... .cccocessepcscsoccocers 31 100 ace 250 Oden Unknown, a Guaran- The average prices of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of theduties. teed SHATECS...... c0seecesee 810 0 ... 110°0 ww 2,568... 3%, s 4 Riga and Dunaburg...... 7 we 8 0.0 1. 2-0 0 oe 81,600... 168,200 From Sate Possessionsin America .. eos 2511 percwt a Station and Pimlice = Mauritius . 0 0 Rail deccescecsoosversesceste 23 .. 9 5 0 1. 015 O ws 22,500... 16,875 _ East Indi « QO NGROROEE i. cccsscusensseusitinsens 1 200 2 0 0%... 12,000 ... 24,000 The average price ofthe above | pence 00 Worcester and Hereford..... 1 10 5 0 we 1,00 wn 400... 46,400 Ne SO MOLASSES AND a 1,287,854 } Im b Duty paid, Stock. West India ...... cccccereseeees 10096 | 4997 8300 } 5570 7087 | 3188 RUM. EPITOME OF RAILWAY_NEWS. Exported and Imported. delivered to Vat.| Heme Home Consump.. Stock. TRarric RETURNS.—The traffic returns of railways in the United King- 1858 1859 1858 1859 358 "71859 — 185 dom, for the week ending December 3, amounted to 466,530/, and for the gals gals gals gals gals gals — corresponding week of 1858 to 424, 4201, showing an increase of 42,1107. West India.) 3655305) 3162105) 1709910) 1818725, 1513365) 1432575, iseis7s 1998000 | Bast India...| 290115, 460035 33268 401040} 15570) 31095, 184590 229590 The gross receipts of the. eight railways having their termini in the | Foreign Pecos 2 463995) 218160 274320; 1215 4050} 131040 283455 metropolis amounted to 197,899/, and for the corresponding week of last ! Exported. | year to 179,948/, showing an increase of 17,9517. | Watted ...... 206: 1820790 ——| | 1428850) 98170) 108720} 241200 265275 BomMBAY, Baropa, AND CENTRAL InDIA.—The report of the directors 6 5906925 3940425) 3912485! 1658320) 1576440) 2508705 2776320 states that the long-vexed question of the approach to Bombay had been satisfactorily settled.. The direct line from the Veturnee river, via Bassein | COCOA—Cwts. to Dhadur, as compared with the line joining the Great Indian Peninsula | n| 40655 | 38043 6711 8197 ; 23848} 31146 9717 7680 at Purseek, showed that the direct line would coat less and. be dle } Foreign ...... ) 24942} 4130 | 10427 | 11547} 4931) 3503 | 16278] 45013 shorter, and that ‘thé curves on it were few and easy, while those 65597 | 42173} 17188! 19744 28779 34649 25990 | 12690 other line were numerous and ‘sharp. Up to the 19th of November: last, 67,000 tons of irom materials, &c., had been shi from ee eaane H COFFEE—Cwts. Bombay. The capital account to the 3lst August in India, to the 1 B.Plantation| 22042 , 12866 3334 2802 . 15660 9720 4886 4886 31st of October in England, showed that 1,399,2817 had been receivéd, and i Ceylon ...... 249684 | 296874 | 93502 | 116783 | 161743 | 175669 | 84862 97191 1,221,274 expended, leaving a balance of 75,3082 with the Secretary | Re } Total R.P.| 271726 | 309240 96836 | 119535 i 177403 | 185889 | 89748 | 102077 State for India in Council, and 102,6987 at bankers’ and cash in hs ae ee Ee The guaranteed interest for eight half “ta ending the 30th of Je une last, i Mocha ...... 33425 | 11685 | 4796 2781 | 22252 | 21113 | 21106 9513 amounted in the aggregate to 100,37 The balance at the bankers’ in i) Foreign E.1.} 27147) 37630 3199 | 11666 | 19388 {| 22506, 12058 | 17233 respect of the interest account amounted to 1,1372. | Malabar...... one an tee al oie ise] ind nae HS Domingo, ... | 2648) uu. | 2556 | are ODF ace 24 | Mav.&P Rico 513 5754 61 2562 412 2547 1283 1875 | Brz. &C. Rica} 53228 | 58957 | 47626 | 20893 | 43210 | 25163 | 20188 | 31513 RAILWAY AND MINING SHARE MARKET, } African ...... 514 52 531 133 663 77 398 241 LONDON. Monpay, Dec. 12.—The railway market was firm and little affected by , Total Frgn 14827 "116726 56212 40591 85925 71466 54983 60399 the flatness in the funds. In one or two stocks there was a slight decline, especially North-Eastern and North British, but the general tendency was Grand Total’ 386553 —_— 153048 | 160126 | 263328 28808 "144731, 162476 favourable. Indian guaranteed descriptions were again in demand at | — tons tons tons | tons tons tons enhs:iced prices. Grand Tronk and Gr-st Western of Canada were also RICE ...... 37341 21921 20642 34644 31481 86221 70761 higher. In the Continental and American markets, the shares of the PEPPER. Lombardo-Venetian and New York and Erie Companies were considerably tons tons tens tons tons tons tons tons White...... | 180 595 17 68 278 438 | 9 | wh better, especially the former, at 3 to 31 premium. The first mortgage Black 3248 2877 13866 1465 1633 1854 2139 1924 bonds of the Pennyslvania Central and the new issue of Victoria Govern- ment debentures were likewise quoted at an advance. The changes. in i pkgs pkes | pkgs pkgs ; pkgs pkgs | pigs| pkes WMOTMEGS..| 2323 | 3026| 1128; 1260} 1499] 1768), 1942] 2283 mines were rather numerous, and generally in a favourable direction, the } Do., Wild 45 3 52 10 64 56 601 551 principal adverse movement being a relapse in St John del Rey. AS. LiG.. 5819 15857 2818 6857 1588 7100 7408 11483 TurspaY, Dec. 13.—The railway market was again firm, and in several INAMON 6969 7920 5395 6345 1863 1568 3689 3691 of the leading British stocks a further advance has taken place. Sheffield bags | bags | bags | bags bags | bags bage bags was exceptionally’a shade flatter. Prices were generally well maintained PIMENTO...| 31607 15140 15372 13602 7349 6049 22115 19804 to thelast. The demand for Indian guaranteed descriptions continues good, but to-day there was u little tendency to reaction, » however, con- | Raw Materials, Dyestuffs, &c. tinued firm at the late advance. In other colonial railways there was a | serons | serons | serons | seroms , serons , serons ; serons | serons marked rixe in the ordinary steck and bonds of the Grand Trunk of Canada, HGOCHNEAL| 11785 18019 oe 14812 17740 5013 5989 and aamaller improvement in Great Western. In foreign shares, Bahia and Pernambuco were steadily buught fur investment, the latter closing frac- | chests | chests | chests | chests | chests | chests | chests | chests tionally higher than yesterday. Mines were in fair Cemand, and in several i ) LAC DYE...| 4694 thao 3533 oon ceiaallahablanarted eee 5102 4693} ces 12355 sre | PN 11095 cases better. Joint stock banks were steady at former prices. tons tons tons tons tons tons tons tons WEpNESDAY, Dec, 14.—The railway market continued to show consider- j WOOD 5810 5665 ose ove 6153 6234 4077 $213 able animation, and in nearly all of the leading lines a further rise took } ) MO ub 30 2051 2374 ove eee 2043 2167 497 794 lace. The stocks most iu favour were Lancashire. and Yorkshire, which ) INDIGO. oe advanced to par, South-Eastern, and Great Western, the latter on the | H cheste { chests , chests | chests , cnests ; chests | chests ; chests final execution of the contracts for the proposed Metropolitan line by which ) pettadie.. 22750.) 19419 a we =| 22580 | 24148 | 19812} 14439 communication will be obtained with the City. § tive operations for ————— | | ee i the rise were slightly on the increase. In colonial descriptions there was serons | serons serons | serons , serons | sérens | serons | serons Spanish...) 6225) 7444, ae a 5690 | 7568! 23771 2183 a further rise in Grand Trunk of Canada on the opening of the Victoria bridge, the ordinary stock closing 42} to 43}, or 5 per cent. higher than at SALTPETRE, the end of last month. Mines and joint stock . were quiet, but oe tons tons tons tons tons tons tons tons generally firm. -| 9613 | 17729 eee oop 13336 | 16758 2427 39387 Taurspay, Dec, 15.—The railway market was again firm, the progress . of of the settlements showing a marked increase in bona fide purchases in this are 4365 4544 ove ecg 4916 4389 1341 1771 department. Indian guaranteed descriptions continued in request for in- COTTON. vestment, Great Western of Canada shares p rallied. Fo rail- bales bales | bales bales bales bales . bales bales ways wa firm. In American securities, there waa a rise in Illinois Central i — ee ll 169 ota ove 10 219 53 | 3 shares, and a reduction in the bonds of the New York and Erie. Mines Brazil .. . 314 42 oe ove 313 see 5) 47 were inactive but steady; St John del. Rey improved 1/, In joint stock Est Eniiie 60452 | 49023 oe 83087 | 48602 | 15913 |; 17480 banks, an advance occurred in Bank of Egypt. col, all "| kinds a 2192455 |2519282. | 272000 | 3 3330 |1998490. 2086230 | 341060 | 428620 Fripay, Dec. 16.—The transactions. in the railway share market have ——-|-—-————- —- | - —_—|—- ee been moderate, and rather iess firmness has been apparent'in one or two o, Of Total .....|2253232 |2668516 272000 | 353330 2081900 2134951 357081 446150 the principal undertakings. Colonial lines are dull, but at steady rates:

TL THE ECONOMIZST. Che Economist’s Railway and Mining Share List. THE HIGHEST PRICES OF THE DAY ARE GIVEN.

./ORDINARY SHARES AND és di $ s e g STOCKS. a) iB é s 3 Name of Company. shares! 25 ° | & > Name of Company. Name of Company. 4 le l Hull and Séelby...... - 1¢ South Devon ,Annuities 8000) 25 | 25 | — Halves 2.0... 6. ee veee | 8 | 100 |S. Easte:n 44 per cent,.,. / é - 8000) 123] 124) — Qmarterd 1.2... se00- |100 |S. Yorkenire, 4 pr ct guar.| 87 |... Eastern Union, class A sees) 40} Steck/100 |100 (Londen and Greenwich... i — classB .. i 29 |...... || Stockil00 1100 | — Preference ...... +++ -}190 J FOREIGN RAILWAYS. — Newa. lato. U. Thirds|.. j Stock}100 |100 |London Tilbury, & Southend 97 Pio Antwerp and Rotterdam .. East Kent...... -.-- || 92590} 54} 54/Manchester,Buxtn, & Mtlock| 23/ 5 |Belgian Eastern Junction... 1900 |Edinburg’a and Glasgow. ‘| 81 | |} Steck}100 x “\MidlandBradford ...... -{100 /100 | | 15 |Dateh Rhenish...... 0.+. |\09 |Edinb., Herth, and Dundee 303) 31d || 46969! 50 | 50 |Northern & Eastern, 5 pet.) 5 | 20 |Eastern of France ....++++| 27 100 |Glasgow South Western ..|100 Stock |!00 |100 |Reysten, ous and| | 1100 |East Indian 2.000 scree ose. (103 Great Northern ....+... | Shepreth ...... f | 20 | 10 | — Fshares, .+eseeeeeee+| 1 100 - Astock.. 96 78750} 12 | 12 South Staffordshi \ cvceee j /100 /Gt Indian Peninsular, guar|101 B stock.. || $tock|100 |100 /Wilteand Somerset e - Stock 1100 |Grand Trunk of Canada ..| 414 i00 GtSouthern and West. (Lays | | | |} 100000} 20 | 20 |Gt f-enembenapCrastiintes 100 |Great Western . ewncene } | | PREFERENCE SHARES. Shares ..0+ewveswee 1100 | — Stour Valley, Guar.....| || Steck|100 }100 |Bristol & Exeter, 4 percent. || #18919} 4) 4 50 'Lancaster and Carlisle ..../2 12034 || Stock/100 |100 |Caledonian 10/, 44 percent.|104 ‘ Stock}100 |100 j 149) — Thirds...... +e++see0{ 3 } || Stock|!00 |100 |Chester and Helyhead, 54 pc| 26595| 20 | 20 [Namur & Liege ....+.+++- 16) — New Thirds ...... | 3 7680| 63 64|Cork and Bandon, 5§ p cent'.. z 400000} 16 | 16 |Northern of France 100 |Lancashire and Yorkshire. .| 99% 100 || 18094) 63 : |Dunde, Perth,&AberdnJanc.| 6 577500| 20 | 20 |Paris, Lyons, and Mediterr. 100 \London and Blackwal! ....| 67 | 664 Stock|100 |100 |East Anglian, Class A,5&£7pc\102 300000; 20 | 20 |Parisand Orleans...... - a \London, Brighton, and S. C 115 | ee Stock|!00 |100 | — Class B, 6 percent....)115 40000| 20 | 20 |RoyalbDanish ...... 2 and Nerth- Western os Stock|100 |100 | — Class C,7 percent. ....)108 88334) 5 | 5 |Roya) Swedish -..... Righths .... id es Stock|100 /1¢0 |Eastern Counties Extension, | 81000) 20 | 20 |Samtre and Meuse .. io iLondon and South Western } 5 percent., No 1...... /114 .- | 10 | 10 | — 54 perwent. Pref... 95 (Londonderry and Coleraine}... Stock|10@°}100 | — Nov? ...... 0000000. (113 26757| at 84)West Flanders ...... > & Enniskillen; ‘ ‘ Stock|!00 |;00 | — New 6 percent...... 300000) 20 | Western & .-W. of Prance 100 |Manchester, eee d 3 Stock |!00 |100 /Eastern Union, 4 pr cent... 8 |Metropolitan ...... +s0+. Stock/100 [100 |Edin., Prth, & Dunde, 4 pret.) 7 5 MINES. Stock |100 Lo Midland .. ..ccevsecceees 10841095 Stock}!00 |100 |Great ‘Northern, 5 per cent.) 20000) pi Australian «2.00 cesses Steck}ie0 (100 | — Birmingham and Derby; 55 Stock|100 |100 | — 5 per cent. Redeemable British Fron .. .evevevese es 20900) 50 | 50 |Midland Great Western (1.).|...... at 10 per cent. pm...... b 274\Brazil. Imp (i @ |\Newport,Abr., and Hereford Stock|100 [700 | — 4} percent do, . 4 — St John Del Rey ...... = Norfolk ...... +. y 5 Stock|!00 |100 |Great Southern & Western ++ | 20 |\Condurrow ....+. at Northern Counties Union.. | (ireland) 4 percent . ... Cobre Copper North British ...... i| 6 10000/ 50 | 6 |GtWstrn(Brks&HntsEx)5pc od ) PIAPO .. ce oe oe = North-Eastern—Berwick . Stock|!00 |100 |Gt Western, red. 44 pr ct..| Devon Great Conseils 16g) — G.N. anna: eo ee} 155 }100 |100 | — con. red. 4 per cent... * Bast Basset ... sre. +s+- 100 | — Leeds .. nce csccee cece }100 |100 | — irred. 4 per cent. . -| 98 nl Great South Toulgus...... nee > BOGS 20ccccc0c0 0s one. 80 1100 }100 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 SINGER... .nncocees+oeeseee North London ...... |108° POT CONE... 00. eeeee * es g|North Frances ...... +-. | tobe and South- West. Jane.| oF 100 |100 |London and ‘Brighton, New, ‘| te Par Console .. ..+.0e++ cere} 12 iQ 8600) 20 | i¥giNorth Staffordshire ...... { 13§ | GUAT. 6 per COLE. .. 2.0. + |reerssleree Tamar Silver and Lead... . | Steck)i99 1100 \Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolwn) 37 | 36 100 |100 |London and 8.W. lateThirds| ; a4 Santiagode Cubs = .. +. ++ --|... (Scottish Central ...... ya Saipan ~~ All |L’derry & Coleraine halves). . 56) .. South Caradon...... +.++++{2 |Seottish N. Eastu AberdnStk | All |L’derry & Enniskillen halves es South Carn Brea ... 2 fi soe Scottish Midland Stock Stock 160 /100 |Manchester, ae and | Tin Croft ...-seee \ShropshireUnion...... Lincoln ~ P Coocececece | United Mexican . \South Devon .... once, | 6| 44) — 6. e0ee ccccecs ee |South-Eastern .. : 100 |100 | | ‘ . West Caradon ...... ++ South Wales...... -.++00+.| | § 100 | — Bristol and Birm, 6 pe.j/l4l | ee 5g) Wheal Basset .. + eevee South Yorkan. o «iver Dun 100 see | — 44 per cent. pref ...,..|105 | i) 20 | Do. €B.o0.00.00 00.00.0+]e000" || Stock/200 | Norfoik Extension , ons cent | ’ Wheal Mary Ann...... +- |Vale of Neath ...... | || Stock) 100 | 100 | ‘North British ...... -/118 oso Wheal Trelawney ...... --

OFFICIAL RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS

Dividend per cent. Week |-————_—_——RECEIPIs-——___—_|_ per Miles ee Name of Railways, P ers, Merchandise, Total Same} mile open in | First hai ending. a ke minerals, | Receipts. | Yee —_—_ eo Year 1857.| Year 1858.| 1859. VC) cattle, &e. he's -| 1859 186% - — —___-— -- ——_-—— _ ae —- — |! 1859 : £2 eda; & 8 4 Birkenhd, Lancash.. penn eaaiee Dee. 2 1486 0 0 | 2450 0 0 33 euenes and Exeter... ee 3822 9 | 2217 5 7 | 5689 15 ise ee Onian ... ee 3590 4 {10169 18 7 |13760 1 ANAS Dublin aad Drogheda ee i 104 16 | 626 710 | 1681 63 63 Dundee and Arbroath .. ° 11) 331 9 268 0 7| 599 17 ——— aoa & Aberdeen... | 3 648 17 2 | 1001 3 ast Anglian 6 476 16 838 semaines, Fenty ‘and 3 Dundee... | 1984 0 317 78 | Do. Eastern Union eee \ | 13007 13 Do. Norfolk oes eee oO Orth hm Hh chew aACoooon BACHS 8 Go oo “On Edinburgh and a Grand Trunk of Canada . Great Luxembourg Gt Northern & East Lincoinsbire howe se 00 00 56 Great North of Seotiland.. { 5 | Great Southern & Western (ria) 10) 4007 2 2 | 8021 14.11 | 7118 ee Great Western es . Lj sane ee oe +e cepee ce eee oe oe (BOMB

. 26, 41738 3 5) 3600 is 0 | 77738 ee —- = . 1110513 |22087° 0 © \32600 conare London & North-Western, &.... 11/30829 43727 0 0 |74056 | London and Blackwall .. 4) 1136 24417 6 | id8l | London, Tilbury, and Southd Ex. 4) 698 164 0 0| 857 London, Brighton, & South Coast 3466 0 0 |13110 : SSOCHMONSHORNM: London and South-Western os Whe cons os + s+ 00 14488 ~~ “<- ‘ Manches., Sheffid, & Lincoinshire } "7401. 3 10 \10724 Midland, Bristei, and Birn. oo. } scene \26483 Midland Gt Western (Irish) ° 11) "1615 te "2531 10 ‘oO | 4146 _ North British ose ose ooa) 4) 1868 0 3346 0 0 | 5214 SiEg95s 28882 c822E & North-Eastern (Berwick) York .. 10}... 00 00 covees| cecere ce cees O4280 Leods .. 8S 8DBDBOOO BD OH ©8S SAMACSSHSSOSOSSeSSO CS©€9Seoow 2539 4793 Seottish North Eastern ... Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester... ease ewe sepetes se South-Eastern oe ee ° 5 5231 00 |16941 South Devon a 710 19 6 | 2794 South Wales o Seuth Yorksbire, Don. & Goole 1,342,37 ae OHOe OR KOHOH HFBHRONOawOo o ecooooeeooooesoooocw N@oo oo OO RP OOO OhmCHRO ROORAAWPOS CHTOM sooovroscooooso ooocooocoeoem eoescoco 8 Taff? Vale .. ee os os eeesaetessé xv a Dec. 17, 1859.] THE ECONOMIST.

—_——o VAUTION.—BOND'S: PERMANENT (,00D. NEWS: FOR. SMOKERS.— W, SILVER (AND 00, u MAKKING INK.—To avoid disappointment from NO PUFFING REQUIRED, —Buy the new Patent e OUTFITTING WAREHOUSES, 66 and 6 the substitution of counterfeits, be careful to asi for the MBERSCHAUM DUST BILLIARD PIPE, the most CORNHILL, B.C. , Bond's Permanent Marking Ink; and farther delightful, economical, and permanent medium tor the distinguish it, observe that NO SIXPENNY SIZE enjoyment of tobacco ever invented. ‘ Man wants but Military Officers, ee any time been, prepared by him, the In- little here below,” but that. little must. be the most perfect Civilians, Clothing for Gentlemen's Home or. short pipe that can be got, and it only can be got, with all Naval-and Military Uniforms and Civilian Dressof’ ; ‘B—The genuine and original Bond's Permanent its rapidly colouring advantages, at the “Waterloo” To- best Materials and: Workmanship.: a Ink bears the address on the label, 28 Long bacco and Pipe Establishment, 193 Waterloo bridge road. Gloves, 4c. Ladies’ Outfits, Camp," i jane, West Smithfield; City, London. —Sample pipe in case sent post free for 28 stamps.— Barrack, Cabin and Colonial use, embracing every: BE cinerennestoetintiinoe EB EDWARD PILLINER, Patentee. variety of Cabinet Work, Canteens, Trunks, teaus, &c., portable and suited to all climates, iwR LEWIS AND SON, Manufactory, Silvertown, opposite H.M. Dockyards, } 113 Strand.—The Royal Lewisian Systems o [JEANE'S TWO0-HOLE BLACK PENS Woolwich. } Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, and Shorthand, as which are unequalled for their durability and easy SELF.CURE.—AMERICAN TREATMENT. fer upwarus of fifty years by Mr Lewis, the real action, are adopted by the gentlemen of the Stock Ex- ; and Birst teacher ‘0 these world-renowned and change, and the principal bankers, merchants, and puvlic NERVOUS. SUFFERERS.—- | infallible systems, insures in any of the companies of the city of London, besides several of Her GIVEN AWAY. | branches after a few easy and interesting lessons, Majesty's judges, the most eminent counsel, and the “THE GUIOE TO SELF-CURE.” unable to take the lessons may obtain the reverend the clergy, cheapness and popularity has By C. T. Rarxer, Esq, Registered M.R.C.8., | inventor's works for self-lostraction at his only instita- induced many unprincipled people te put forth imitations and Consulting Surgeon to the Metropolitan Medical } fom, 113 Strand ot the genuine articles, whiem-are equally useless. to: tho Institute, &c. “The first man of the day’in these complaints."—Ma~ | nl purchaser, and disgracefultothe vender. The publicare WAWRENCE HYAM, therefore cautioned, and respectfully requested: not to vical Review, July, 1856. “The true to j in his Bespoke Department, employs the most purchase any as DEANE’S GENUINE TWO-HOLE those who desire a speedy and private cure.” —UniveR-: ¢xilfal cutters, under his immediate superintendence, aud BLACK PENS, unless each pen is stamped stvy Macazine. “The ‘NEW AMERICAN DiIs- } fl examines every garment previous to its being “G. and J. Deane, London Bridge,” COVERY’ demonstrates the absurdity of the English home. The Trousers, at 17s, made to measure, are and the bex, which contains exactly tweive dozen, has Mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing upen such principles as to ensure true and elegant thereon a variously coloured label, inscribed to the afllicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine: ether the wearer be walking, riding, or sitting “@. and. J. DEANE's Two-Hole Black Pens, 46 King a by adopting the means ” BY ENING on may select froma stock of cloths of all de- William street, Londen bridze."’ UN. na,—amounting te £16,000;—and the extra- Sent free on receipt of four. stamps (merely variety cannot fail to meet the taste of the most to defray postage, &¢) by Dr Rapkey, No. tt Albes ous NAUTION TO. THE DEAF.— place, Bedford square, London, W.C. DEAFNESS. aud SINGING. NOISES» in the TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. AWRENCE HYAM’S , HEAD.—F. R. HOGHTON, M.R.C.8.E., and L.A.C., JUVENILE ATTIRE: has secured for him-the | Sargeon-aurist, of 23 Suffolk s:reet, Pall Mall, London, ME, CURTIS, AUTHOR OF THE connec ion umong parents ani guardians; and will send a. book for SELE-OURB, contiuining: the edical Treatise “ MANHOOD,” — be con ing now been established. above 20 years, he can addresses of 200 persons cured, on the receipt of five sulted as usual, either by letter or 4 ab his refer to his great and continued success; as an stamps. This book will rescue all from the grasp of the residence, 15 ALBEMA STREET. PICC tLy, on of the upright manner in which his large extortionate pretenders of the present day. Consulta- LONDON. The efficacy and harmiess: nature: of:the | remedies employed by Mz’ Curtis; having been iy ness is conducted. * tion free from eleven till four. Established 14 years. j Grrr EsTasLisument, 36 Gracecharch street, Testimonials from Professor Bransby Cooper, Aston monstrated by the most: complete success during’ i West Exp Estasiisnment, 189 and 190 Tottenham Key, and Mr Morgan. practice extending over a» period ef 20: y } Toad, sufferers of every class, including those 1 H. iT want of energy, loss of memory; pains in the: back; oo; } GONOMY AND ‘a BXCELLENCE.— 7 A) A TREASURE FOR THE TOILETTE. distrust, functional incapacity or debility, have a perfeet guarantee that the utmost skill td) E. MOSES-anid SON; Merchant Tailors, General —Among the many luxuries of the present age none can be obtained possessing the manifeld virtues. of Dutfitters, &c., undertake to combine economy and ex- it t ions home be for sane consultation daily, from Ten till — ce in all articles of Clothing, ina manner, and te OLDRIDGE’'S BALM of COLUMBIA, If applied to mtent, quite beyond the reach of any other firm in the roots and body of the hair, it imparts the most delight- aad Six till Eight. Sundays from Ten'till One. Landon or elsewhere. The vast’scale on which’ their ful coolness, with an agreeable tragrance of perfume, It REVIEWS OF THE Nbasiness is conducted enables them to accept prices that also at this period of the season prevents the hair from “Curtis on Mannoop.—Thisis a valuable work,. falling off; or if already too thin or turning grey, will and should bein the hands of young old.’’—SunDaY traders with a less extensive list of castomers would stop its further. progress, and. soon restore it again. Trwgs, 23rd March, 1856. i} Weutterly ruinous. . -Jdveniles’ Clothing in every-variety. Those who really desire to have beautiful hair, cither ‘“Itis the duty’ ofall mento The Bespoke Tailoring contains fabries with wave or curl, should use it daily. It is alse cele- body, no less than those of their the pages of Nevery description from the lowest to the highest brated tor strengthening the hair, freeing it from scurf, this work will be found golden rules for regulating.the: fies. The most skilful English and foreign cutters and producing new hair, whiskers, and moustaches. one and preserving the otner,”—Marg Lanz Expres, employed, ensuring the latest and most gentlemanly Established upwardsof thirty years. No imitative wash can equal it. Price 3s 64, 6a, and 11s only,—C. and A Meth * The author bn has con: colored get a@ great io rig y pul ‘this little work, in whieh is A large and well-assorted stock of Hostery, Drapery, Oldridge, 13 Wellington street north,Strand, W.C. desecibed the source of those: i is, Mantles, Dresses, Underciothing, Hats and ane which pouiee aaeee im. youth, or more requently premature old age”—Damx: TELEGRAPH, Boots and Shoes, &c. AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.— March 27th, 1856, . E. MOSES and SON wish. it to be particularly observed “The book under review-is ore calouleted to. warm tif any article be not of it will beexchanged, 20,000 Copies of a Medical Book for gratuitous cir- money returned wit! hesitation. culation.—A Nervous Sufferer, having been effectu- and instract the erring, without imparting one idea that Their Book, containing a sketch of the history of ally cured of nervous debility, loss of memory, dimness can vitiate the mind not already tutored by the vices: ritish costume, with rales for selfsmeasurement, and of sight, lassitude, and i: resulting from the of which it treats."—-NavaL anD Muirary Gagzerrz, of prices, gratis, on application, or post free, early errors ro by following the instructions given 1st Feb., 1856, ina Medical Work, he considers it his duty, in gratitude An enlarged edition of. the-above work has just beem: E. MOSES and SON'Sestablishmentsare as follow :— to the author, and for the benefit of others, to publish published, and may be had. of Piper and Co., 23 Pater~ Lonpor—Aldgate and Minories (opposite Aldgate the means used. He will, theretore, send free, secure noster row; and all booksellers. Price One Shilling,,or t ch) ; and New Oxford street (corner of Hart street). from observatien, on receipt of a directed envelope, and tree by post, in a sealed envelope, frem the Author fur Counrey Brancnes—Sheffield and Bradford, York- two stamps to prepay postage, a copy ef the book, 14 stamps. centaining every information required. ‘‘ Every young . ~MBDICAL ADVICE, man should peruse this excellent little work, if he values , nm —" > THE “INDISPENSABLE” ~‘ . 7 SUIT, his health, happiness, and peace of mind.”—BnritisH pe LA'MERT, REGISTERED L.S.A,, made of various materials, ia all colours and shades, Critic. Address, James Wallace, Esq, Wilford house, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical. Ss adapted to walking, riding, travelling, Burton crescent, Tavistock square, London, W.C. Society, M.D. of the University of Erlangen, &c., ) and business. This is universally acknowledged to be may be CONSULTED on: all cases. of Debility. most comfortable and serviceable suit ever intro- OLLOWAY’S PILLS AND Nervousness, and the Secret Infirmities of Youth, and ; price from 35s.--To be obtained only of E. MOSBS OINTMENT.—Consequences of Neglect.—In our Maturity, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his resi« aad. 80N, corner of Minories and Aldgate, and New dence, variablé climate the larger proportion of disease te 37 BEDFORD SQUARE, London. street, corner of Hart street. which mankind is liable depends upon the neglect or inefficient treatment of coughs, colds, influenza, ard Dr La'Mert has just pu ed, price Sixpence, with , ' _ 7 numerous Engravings and Casea,. a. New Edition of | THE GREAT BEASTERN— rheumatism. The pradent will pay attention to the his. Work, — =~ [St /&. Am elegant Almanack, with a beautifully executed first symptoms, which are removed at once by the use ving of the Great Eastern, may be obtained gratis of Holloway's Pills and Ointment.. In chest complaints, ie E. MOSES and SON, Minories and Aldgate, and while taking his Pilis, their effect is quickened and in- i Oxford street, cornerof ‘Hart street. creased by briskly rubbivg his Ointment on the back £ and breast‘twicea day for five minutes, or longer if DR. DE JONGH’S conveaient.. The friction-causes the Ointment to pene- Srorion L—The Phy: : (Knight of. the Order of Leopold pold of of Belgium) trate the skin, whence it passes to the lungs and purifies Szerton IL—Puberty—. y IGHT-BROWN GOD LIVER OIL, the whole mass-of bicod as it flows through those Generative Physiology—True and False organs in its circulation. Szcrion Ill.—Marriage in its Moral Physical Relations—Its. and PULVERMACHER’S PATENT. ments—Advantages of Physical contrasts. in Health:

—— VALV AN O-anti-RHEUMATIC CHAIN BANDS. For self-application Marvellous and certain as are the

i cases of deainess, gout, sciatica, lumbago, ind and nervo-debility, &e., disappear in a comparatively short time. The invention is distinguished by the sup- port of Professor Oppolzer, physician to the E of aeeate, Sir oi Bart., physiclan'to Hor “ZSn2°SS" "°° Queen, yer, physician to Napoleon IIL, and other professors of similar celebrity. The scientific press of Europe, and hundreds of medical and’ philosophi- cal. works of the last period have. also it the highest encomiums, and. these standard

of Self-Application ¢ P rice 13), D>» and.one ? enumerated in with cases of RSESessasteo de Jongh's Cow: .—-.SSqSSSS eee 1499 THE ECONOMIST. [Dee.-17, 1859, i

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Goods carriage LERY in the world, all Warranted, is on Sale at _ to any part of the kingdom. Note our £15 WILLIAM 8. BURTON'S, at Prices that are remuneta. FETE rawing-room Suite, covered in velvet or damask; ENSON’S WATCHES. patterns free by post. Inspection invited. tive only because of the largeness of the sales. 3}-ineh “Perfection of mechanism"—Mornine Post. Ivory-handled Table Knives, with high shoulders, 12364) Gold, 4 to 100 Guineas. | Silver, 2 to 50 Guineas per dozen; Desserts to match, 10s; if to bala: ce, 64 per ILLE COLZA OIL Send 2 stamps fer Benson's Illustrated Watch dozen extra; Carvers, 4s 3d per pair; larger from for MODERATOR LAMPS, 4s and 4s 6d per Gallon. Pampbiet. 208 to 278 6d per dozen ; extra fine Ivory, 33s ; if with It being essential in order to obtain brilliancy of light Watches sent to all parts of the world free per post. Silver Ferrules, 40s to 50s; White Bone Tatle Knives, to have Off that is perfectly bright and pure,—most 38 and 34 Ludgate hill, London, E.C, 68 per dozen; Desserts, 5s; Carvers, 2s 3d per pair; especial care is taken by Black Horn Table Knives, 7s 4d per dozen; Desserts WHITMORE and CRADDOCK HE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851 6s; Carvers, 2s 6d; Black Wood-handled Table Knives in selecting only from the finest parcels imported into —Council Medal, Exposition Universelle, 1855— and Forks, 6s per dozen: Table Steela, frem 1s each, this country, and they guarantee its delivery in precisely Grande Medaille d’Honneur.—Gallery of Bronzes d'Art. The lergest stock in existence of Plated Dessert Knives the same fine condition as when drawn from the tanks —F. BARBEDIENNE and CO., of Pacis, respectfully and Forks, in cases and otherwise, and of the new Plated: at Lille. Its burning qualities are unsurpassed by any inform the British public, that a complete COLLEC- Fish Carvers. known Oil at present in use. Delivered free of charge, TION of their MATHEMATICAL REDUCTIONS (by anywhere within six miles, and by railway in casks of the process of M. Collas) from the CHEF d’'@BUVRES ‘THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR 15 gallons each and upwards. of ANTIQUE and MODERN STATUARY in the Gal- SILVER.—The real Nickel Silver, introduced more WHITMORE and CRADDOCK. | leries of of the Louvre, Florence, and Rome, Museum of than 25 years sgo by WILLIAM S. BURTON, when PREPEEESPSoE?. The City Oil and Candle Depot, 16 Bishopsgate street Naples, and British Musewm, may be seen at Mesers plated by the patent process of Messrs Elkington and within, London, E.C. Lists free. JACKSON and GRAHAM'S, 35, 37, and 38 Oxford Co., is beyond all comparison the very best article next ir street. The Prices the same as in Paria, with the to sterling silver that can be employed as such, either charges of importation only added. Catalogues, with usefuily or ornamentally, as by no possible test can it be marginal illustratienss, may be had free on application. distinguished from real silver. TRADE MARE. N.B. A large and spleaded collection of Ornamental A small useful Plate Chest, containing a set, guarane Clocks, Vases, Cande:abra, and other objects of taste. teed of first quality for finish and durability, as follows :— BROWN AND POLSON'S Fiddle Thread King's Piers > ATENT CORN FLOUR, DINNEFORD'S or Old or Brans- Lily or preferred to the best Arrowroot. Delicious in Pud- PURE FLUID MAGNESIA Silver wick Pat- Military, dings, Custards, Blancmange, Cake, &c., and especially has been for many years sanctioned by the Pattern. Pattern, tern. ae. suited to the delicacy of Children and Invalids. The most eminent of the Medical Profession, as an excel- £ad & - =~ Lanest states, “ Thisis superior to anything of the kind lent remedy for acidities, heartburn, headache, gout, 12 Table Forks ~~ — os = wo ~ a o known "—Trade Mark and Recipes on each packet, 4, 8, and indigestion. As a mild aperient it is admirably 12 Table Spoons.... and 16 oz. Obtain it where inferior articles are not adapted for delicate females, particularly during preg- 12 Dessert Forks . substituted, from Family Grocers, Chemists, Confec- nancy; and it prevents the food of infants from turning 12 Dessert Spoons. od a a 33G tioners, and Co dealers.—77a Market street, Man- sour during digestion. Combined with the Acidulated 12 Tea Spoons -— _— nS to i oanccse chester ; and 23 Ironmonger iane, Lendon. Lemon Syrup, it forms an efferveseing aperient draught aon an which is highly agreeabie and efficacious. co ocococso ee RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PALENT Prepare hy DINNEFORD aad CO., Di sing 2 Sauce Ladles.... Chemists (and General Agents fer the Impro Herse 1 Gravy Spoon. a ed woo W HITE’S MOC-MAIN LEVER Hair Gloves and Belts), 172 New Bond street, London, 2Salt Spoons, gilt TRUSS is allowed by upwards of 20 Medical and sold by all respectable Chemists threughout the bowls 0 ao Gentlemen to be the most ive invention in the cura- empire. 1 Mustard Spoon, gilt tive treatment of HERNIA. The use of the steel spring, 0 so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided, a soft THE HUMAN HAIR 1 Pair of Sugar Toags 0 2525 & Sheese being worn round the body while the requisite Just published, price 1d, the 76th edition. of 1 Pair of Fish Car- resisting power is by the MOC-MAIN PAD ‘er 70 ’ vers _ RIMSTONE’S THREE MINUTES 1 Butter Knife . and PATENT LEV: fitting with so much ease and ADVICE on the Growth, Caitivation, and Pre- closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn 1 soup Ladle.... ~ - ~ servation of the Human Hair. This unique little work coor econ * & 2ooS ohm weh © COSKH coce cf eHhD SEH WKY e304 Of2 oem COfP ooococe Soen Se ooo ecocor Sooff eXNoS th co eco scoosososo ecco cof Oo ecoo oror oo eeceo Soooecocooe eo 2S duriag sleep. A descriptive circujar may be had, and contains two engravings and many letters of undoubted the Truss (which cannot fail to fit) ferwarded by post, — on the circumference ot the body two inches be’ow the authority, proving Grimstone’s Aromatic Regenerator Total ....00- 9 19:9 18 103 14 19 6 16. 40 to be the only article that will produce a new growth of hips being sent to the Menufacturer. Any article to be had singly at the same prices. Am Mr WHITE, 228 Piceadilly London, human hai», eyebrows, moustachios, whiskers, with Oak Chest to contain the above, and a relative namber a new growth of hair upon bald places. Sold in ef knives, &c., 2/158, Tea.and Coffee Set», Dish Covers, Price of a single Truss i6s, 2ls, 26e6dan Sis 6d; triangular bottles, 4s, 7s, and lis. This size contains and Corner Dishes, Cruet and Liqueur Frames, &c., a Portage, ls. Double ditto, 3is 6d, 42s, and 52» 6d; post- four of the 4s size; by post 12s, case and postage proportionate prices. All kinds. of replating done by age, 1s 8d. Post-office orders to be made payable to acluded the pa:ent process. ohn White, Post-office, Piccadiliy. Grimetone’s Eye-Snuff for exportation. Sold in Jars 8s per lb; or in Tin Canisters, 8d, Is 3d, 2e4d, 40 6d P'S# COVERS AND HOT-WATER ELASTIC STOCKINGS KNEE and 86 6d. His Medicated Bye-Snuff, samples Is 14d DISHES in every material, in great variety, and CAPS, &c., tor VARICOSE VEINS, and all cases o 2s 9d, and 4s 6d. This snuff is intended for Ladies or of the newest and most recherché patterns. Tin, Dish WEAKNESS and SWELLING of the LEGS, SPRAINS, Gentlemen who are not Snuff Takers. All letters to Covers, 6s 6d the set of six; Block Tin, 1293¢to 278 the They are porous, light of texture, ar d inexpensive, —" Grimstone, merchant, 52 High street, Blooms- set of six; elegant modern patterns, 35s6a to 62s 6d the and are drawn on like an ordivary stocking. Price rom ury. set; Britannia Metal, with or without silver : Ts Gd to 16s each; 64 r a handles, 3i 11s to 6/ 8s the set; Sheffield Plated, to WHITE, Maxovaerusza %28 Piceadilly. London R KAHN’S MAGNIFICENT 162 10s the set ; Block Tin Hot-Water Dishes, with wells ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, top of the Hay- for gravy, 12s to 303; Britannia Metal, 228 to 778% [NTERESTING TESTIMONY IN market (acknowledged by the whole of the Press +o be Electro-Plated on Nickel, full size, 11 Lis. of DR LOCOCK’S PULMONIC the most useful and ive of any in existence), is WAFERS —An eminent Wesleyan Minister, the Rev. open daily for Gentlemen only, from 12 till 5, and from WiLLiam S. BURTON | W. H. Evans, in writing the biography of his father, in 7 till 10. Admission One Shilling. Descriptive hand- GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGERY ‘ agazine™ for December, 1859, books gratis. Dr Kahn's Pepular Lectures on the CATALOGUE may be had “Philosophy of Marriage,” daily at 3 and 8 o'clock contains upwards of 400 precisely. Syllabus— and Unhappy Unions, and stock of Electro and Sheffield Plate, Nickel their causes—Youthful Vices and iscretions, and Britannia Metal Goods, Dish Covers, and their Disq' for Marriage, and their troubles old cure—the Physiology af uotion—Self-inflicted Ki tel hen Ri ange, 5 Lome 8, Gaselless, ” for Miserigs— Sterility and it causes—’ How to Secure Moral Tea Trays, Clocks, Table Imovic Wafers Happiness. Toilet Ware. , Iron and Brase, asthma, cen- NB, Dr Kahn's Treatise on the above subjects, en- ding, Bed-room Furniture, &c, with List titled “The Philosophy ot Marriage,” sent post free on Plans of the Sixteen ee receipt of 12 stamps, direct from the author, 7 Harley street, W.; 1, la, 2, 3 atrect, Cavendish-square, W, y and’6 Perry’s place, Lendon. |) Dee. 17, 1859:]

- : THEATRE ROYAL, | DRURY LANE: . | | |, | EA. AND PERRINS’ S’ WORCESTER: : SHIRE SAUCE is acknowledged to be a in announcing the Re- ee and experience has | “eThe lessee i eet efficacy in promoting of this National Theatre on = digestion and 5 26th, with the Greatest Pantomime Sold by Barclay and sons, Goran: andl Bcetielt ea the principal dealers everywhere. } ‘orld: Harry Boleno, Dickey Fiexmore, To on le on Ikey Deulin, Milano, St Maine, Tanner, call or at fixed periods. —1 Pease com emcham Miss Sharpe, and Madame Boleno, &c., HARVEY'S FISH SAUCE.— RICHARD PRI '. be hopes to receive his old friends who have so hen years. Notice of Injunction.—The admirers of this cele- 85 Cornhill, December, 1859. nar yee Vindly patronised him for the last seven brated Fish Sauce are particularly requested to observe First Morning Performance com- MOTICE.—The o'clock. that none is genuine but that which bears the back HE TRUST AND LOAN mences 00 Wednesday, December 28th, at two label with the name of Witaiam Lazewnr, as: well as Monday, December 26th, Her Moajesty’s servants will COMPANY ef UPPER CANADA. Incorporate! the front label signed “ Elisabeth Lazenby,” and that by Royal Charter. ~~ £1,090,000, orm (first time at this theatre), KING RENE'S ter futher security, on the neck of every bé@ttle of the In which Miss Page will make her first USTEES, PatiGHTER. Genuine Sauce will hencetorward appear an additional Thomas Baring Esq., M.P. | G. Carr Glyn, Esq., MP. suppported by Messrs Verner, Farrell, label, printed in green and red, as follows: —“ This id, Peel, Mellon, Emery, and Mrs Dowton. notice will be affixed to Lazenby's Harvey's Sauce, pre- ver which, will be produced JACK and the BEAN The Right H ‘on. adword Edw Pleydall Bouverio, ou! M.P the Merry pared at the original warehouse, in addition to the well- President. wer STALK; or, Harlequin Leap Year, and known labels, which are protected against imitation by Pranks. of the Good Little People. The New and William Chapman, Esq., Deputy Chairman, ohn by William & perpetual injunction in Chancery of 9th July, 1858."" James Hutchinson, Esq. Matthew Uszielli, Esq. Splendid Scenery, with Novel Effects, 6 Edwards street. Pertinan square, Londen. Beverley. The ‘Grotesque Pees Opening invented Charles Morticon. fheg. T. M. Weguelin, Kaq. whole William G. Thompson, Esq. and written by E. L. BLANCHARD. The de = and produced under the direction of Mr ()VERLAND ROUTE.— Bankers —Mesars lyn, Mills, and Co. Robert Roxby. COMMUNICATION by STEAM The Redeoed Prices as usual at thie theatre, viz., to INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c., via The Directors are prepared to grant Debentures for Upper gallery, 64; lower gallery, 1s; pit and upper Egypt—-The PENINSULAR and loans of sums of £100 and upwards, for pertods of 3, poxes, 28; first circle, 2s 6d; dtess circle, 48; stalls, 58; RIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY 5, 7, or 10 years. do., four Any information required can be obtained on applica= private boxes, to contain two persons, 10s 6d; BOOK PASSENGERS and receive Cargo and Parce!s for 1, 1}, and 2 guineas each. tion to the Secretary. FRED. FEARON, Secretary, Gibraltar, Malta, Corfu, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Madras, 65 Moorgate street, London. EW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Calcutta, the Straits, and China, by their steamers 1b. Webster. — leaving Southampton en the 4th and 20th of Sole Proprietor and Manaver, Mr every month. For Gibraltar, Maita, Ezypt, Aden, Holidays) of the Original HEATSTONE’S Last week (until after the and Bombay, by those of the 12th and 27th of each Drama of THE DEAD HEART. On Monday, and £6 68 5-Octave HARMONIUM (New Patent) ; month ; and for Gibraltar, Melita, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, has double pedals, with soft, agreeable quality of tone. . the week, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs B. Mauritius, Keunion, King George's Sound, Kangaroo , D. Fisher, Stuart, Billington, P. Bedford; Island (for Adelaide), Melbourne, ani Sydney, by the , Mise Woolgar, K. Kelly, and Laidlaw. To conclude steamers leaving Southampton on the 12th of every HEATS TONE’S with DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Mesers month. —For further particulars apply at the Company's £33s PATENT CONCERTINA, 3} Octaves (48 3. L Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss K Kelly. offices, 122 Leadenhall street, London, E. C., or Oriental Keys), Rosewood.—_WHEATSTONE and CO., Inven- Qa, Boxing-night, the Celebrated Drama of THE place, Southampton. tors, 20 Conduit street, Regent street, 3 ererterseemeus' with new and CHRISTMAS CAROL. After which, TS elaborate scenery, and grand mechanical effects, the IANOFORTE S— Spectacular Extravaganza, by H. J. Byron, Esq, NOTICE.—The Steamers for Halifax and Boston are \P Cramer, Beale, and Co. List of prices and terms intended to call at Cork Hurbour, on bo'h outward T- entitled THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLBYBEY ; or, for hire, post free, 201 Regent street. The Knight and the Naiades. and homeward passages, to land and receive Mails. at RITISH re ‘ AND NORTH Ls hl ARM ONTLU M S— ta ROVAL St JAMESS THEATRE, Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201 Regent street. De- eh \ ‘AMERICAN. ROYAL MAIL King street, St James's. STEAM SHIPS, appointed by the scrip‘ion and list of prices post free, | 6d. Lessee, Mr F. B. Chatterton. per Admiralty to sail between LIVER- Nearest theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster; OL and NEW YORK direct, and between LIVER- SECON D-HAND HARMONIUMS.— om the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all Cramer, Beale, aud Co.; nave a great variety. 201 ith POOL and BOSTON, the Boston ships only calling at beurs of the night. ‘ HALIFAX to land and receive passengers and Her Regent street, and 57 Conduit street. es, On Saturday next, Christmas Eve, New Farce, ir: Majesty's mails. The following, or other vessels, are LONGS AND BALLADS GARIBALDL Messrs Charles Young and Barret; appointed to sail from Liverpool :— rts, Mesdames Evans and Cecilia Ranoe. To be followed from the most interesting and popular novels. ves an entirely new tketch, entitled A HOUSEHOLD ARABLA, for NEW YORK direct, Saturday, Dec. 24. LITTLE: SOF Bes; ch, AIRY. Miss Wyndnam; Mri. T. Craven. To con- EUROPA, for BOSTON, Satarday, December 31. ves from ‘What will'He do with it?” By Sir Bulwer ie with the New and Gorgeous Pantomime of PUNCH Passage money, including steward's fee and provisions, Lytton, Bart. ted. D JUDY; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Crystal but without wines or liquors, which can be obtained on Caves. Miss Lydia Thomson, and tbe Corps.de Ballet. board: —To Halifax and Boston, chief cabin, Twenty~ S.. 2.20 Soe Clowns, Messrs Paul Herring and Clauville. Pantaloon, two Pounds; second cabin, Sixteen Pounds. To New from ‘‘ John Halifax, Gentleman.” Mr Parker. Harlequin, Mr Ach. Columbine, Miss M. York, chief cabin, Twenty-six Pounds; second cabin, Fowler. ‘The Pertorming Dogs. Eighteen Pounds. Freight to Halifax, Boston, and New T T Y x Reduced prices: Pit 1s, Gallery 6d. Box-office York, £3 per ton and 5 per cent. primage. Small parcels, from ** Adam Bede.” By George Elliott. open from 11 to 5 daily. Commence at seven. 5s each and upwards, These steam ships have accom- N A Hl RhsSS is: ane ny , f modation for a limited number of second cabin passengers. from “Adem Bede.” By George Elliott. ASTLEY S RUYAL For passage or other information, apply toJ. B. Foord, W nn 7 = AMPHITHEATRE. 62 Old Broad street, London; D.. Currie, Havre, and iL i? 2.23 BE LE de Lessee, Mr Wm. Cooke. 12 Place de la Bourse, Paris; G. and J. Burns, from the “Old Curiosity Shop.” By Charles Dickens, HIS FAREWELL SEASON. ‘ Muchanan street, Glasgow ; or D. and C. M'Iver, Water Cor:posed by George Linley. Price of each, 28. Last week of GARIBALDL The Scenes in the street, Liverpool. Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201 Regent street. Arena. John Henry Cooke as the Nemean Conqueror. Educated Elephant. Athenian Athlete. Miss Kmily *,* IMPROVED ACCOMMODATION FOR PAS- (yt D ENGLISH DITTIES, Cooke, Young Alfred, Madile. Jerny, Clowns, Messrs SENGERS LANDING AND EMBARKING AT selected from W. Chappell'’s interesting work, Croueste and Thorne. .Lavghable Farce. First pe: form~- 8T. KATHARINE’S WHARF.—An additional ani “ Popular Music of the Claen Time,” sung by Miss ‘ance of the Great Equestrian Pantomime, entitled separate entrance leading direct to and from the Poole and Mr Rameden, in their new entertainment, HALREQUIN TOM MOODY; or, Qld Towler the steamers alongside the wharf, with waiting-1ooms Single songs, ls and 2s each; or in parts, containing Huntsman, and the Goddess Diana, on Monday, attacaed, kas been providea for the use of passengers twelve songs, 5+ December 26, at 2 o'clock. only, by which ail confusion and inconvenience Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201 Regent street. Stage Manager, Mr R. Phillips. arising from the goods traffic on the wharf will be ALTER mp MAYNARDS ¥ ART f OF St JAMES’S HALL, avoided. SINGING, after the Me:hod of the best Italian PICCADILLY, STEAM SHIPS— Masters. Fouth edition. Price 5a, “on Seeeae =| cooocoem eco = Eighth week of CAMPBELL'’S AMERICAN The General Steam Navigation Cramer, Beale, and 'Co., 201 Regent street. es so MINSTRELS.—(Organised 1844, C.. H. Fox and bomen ll tp and first-class Ay 7 f Warden, Proprietors.) The Entertainment of this STEAM SHIPS leave from St Katha- NEW PLANOFORTE MUSIC. Popalar and justly-celebrated Company having been rine'’s Whart for— crowned with the most complete success will be repeated HAMBURG—Every Wednesday and. Saturday FAVARGER'’S Fantasia from Guillaume Tell ... every evening until further notice. Grand Day Per- morning. Chief cabin, 27; fore, 1/ 5s FAVARGEn'’S Le Depart du Conscrit formance every Saturday at Three. Stalls, 38; area, 2s ; -ROTTERVAM—Every Tuesday, Thursday, and FAVARGER'S Promenade sur I'Evu.. gallery, 1s. Doors open at half-pa-t Seven, to commence Saturday, at 11 morning. Chief cabin, 1/ 10s; fore, FAVARGER’S Lydia (sans Octaves).. at Eight precisely. 178 64. Cologne, 348 64 or 198 94. New editions of “ Oberon” Fantaisies, by this popular composer. ¥ . , ANTWERP, BRUSSELS, and the RHINE—The EAL AND SON’S EIDER-DOWN Rhine and Doipbin every Tuesday and Thursday, at 11 Cramer, Beale. and Co., 201 Regent street. QUILTS, from One Guinea to Ten Gnineas. Also, morniog. Chief cabin, li 7s;. fore, 20s,. Brussels, 22s 3d. \RAMER’S. y 1) INTRODUCTORY r r GOOSE-DOWN. QUILTS, from 8s 6d to 248, List of Cologne, 358.64. Leaving Antwerp for London every prices audi sizes sent free by post. HEAL and SON'S Sanday and Friday at 11 mern. \/ PRACTICE and EXERCISES for the PLANO- pew Illustrated Catalogue of Bedsteads, and Priced List OSTEND, BRUSSELS, and the RHINE—Every FORTE. In Parts, 6s each. of Bedding, al:o sent post-free. Wednesday and Saturday Dec. 21 at 10; 24 These exercises remam the standard work in the 196 ‘Tottenham ceurtroad, W. musical academics of Europe. All the eminent pianists, at 12 noom, Leaving Ostend for London every including Mesdames Pleyel, Clauss, Goddard, MM. 5 , 5 > reveav a Tuesday and ne night.. Chiet cabin, 188; fore, 14s, AbLLSorre S PALE OR BITTER Brussels, 208 3d 48 348, Thalberg, Halle, Rabenstein. Bennet, Benedict, Sloper, ALE.—Messrs 5. ALLSOPP and SONS to in- HaVRE—From 8t arine'’s Wharf, every Sunday. Silas, and Bilumentael, have employed this form the Trade, that they are now registering orders for work in their general ceurse of study. Dec. 18 at 6; 25.at ll am. Chief cabin, 148; fore, 10s. Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201 Regent street, Be SeskesicccsSa s the: October Brewings of their Pale Ale in Casks of 18 London to Paris, M. Gallons and upwards, at the Brewery, Burton-on- ; PARIS, via CALAIS, direct-From London Bridre IANOFORTE f 7 DUETS.— 7A ze and at the undermentioned Branch Establishments :— Wharf, every Wednesday and Saturday morning. Dec. .» At 61 King William street, City, 21 at 10; 24.at 12 noon. Chief cabin, 14a; tore, 10a. Verdi's New Opera, ‘‘ Un Ballo in Maschera;” Verdi's At Coek street. London. to Paris, 176 8d. “ Macbeth;” Verdi's I] Trovature,” and“ La Traviata; she BUULOGNE—From Lendon Bridge Whart, every Flotow’s ‘‘Martba;'’ Rossini’s “Stabat Mater;"” Ros-. Tuesday, Thursdey, Friday, and Sunday morning. sini'’s ‘‘ It Barbiere;” Weber's “ Oberon;” Mozart's EDINBURGH...... At Union street lane. Dec. 18 at 7; 20 mt 9; 22 at 11. Chief cabin, 14s; “Den Giovanni," and Mozart's ‘Ib Flauto Magico,” as | a 7” eas GLASGOW L...... c0.+.008, At 146 St Vincent street, fore, 108. Lendon, to Paris, 16s. duets. By W. H. Calleott. 58 and Gs each. DUBLIN ....:c000s-.000008 At 1 Crampton quay, EDINBURGH—From St Katharine's Wharf, adjoin- Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201 Regent street. CORK .i..cciecenreeeseeeve At 25 Cook street, ing the Tower, every Wednesday and Saturday, BIRMINGHAM...... At Temple street. at 10 morning. Fares: chief cabin, 20s; ;eturn, 308: NURSERY, RAYMES WITH THE WOLVERHAMPDON At Exchange steecet. lean 04 ever, bile, daa 2a which fares include all OLD TUNES. Illustrated. By E. F. Rimbaalt. 5a, WORCKSTER i.i+1,,.. At the Cross. wen and Granton. w. Cramer, Beale and.Co, 201 street. SOUTH WalLBS:..... Atl3 King street. Bristol. LL—From London Bridge Whart, every Wednes- Messrs ALLSOP P and SONS take tne opportunity of day and Saturday, at Eight morning Chief cabin, THE CHILD'S OWN . SINGING 6s 6d; return, 10s; fore cabin, 4s; return, 6a BOOK.—Old Songs for Y: and P ESEREnka NEWCASILE—From, Newcastle Steaiun Wharf, 272 lar Me'odies, with an Sop dineetntee —- By Maria Wapping, every Wednesday and Sunday, at 106 mm ning. and W. H: Callcott, 2e. Chiet cabin, 88; return ticket, 12s: fere, 58; return, 76 6¢. Cramer, Beale, and Go., 201 Regent. street. YARMOUTH—From London Bridge Whart, every Wednesday and , at Four afterneon. Saleon, EW QUADRILLES, VALSES, iti lable can be N POLKAS, and DANCE MUSIC, for the Christmas "tion bt boots cots; WF Homann it cients s08:& \ and white ground striped. Leadenhall street; and &t Katharine Whart. Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201 Regent street. THE ECONOMIST. sr AUBYN MINERAL COMPANY NEW. ORLEANS, JACKSON, AND THE UNIVERSAL MARINA} (LIMITED.) GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD FIRST INSURANCE COMPANY, to be Capital £60,000, in 60,000 shares of £1 each. MORTGAGE CONSTRUCTION BONDS in STER- under the Joint Stock Companies Act, and to be cog. 2s per share, and $s perghate on allotment, LING, bearing 8 per Cent. Interest. ducted on the principle of Limited f with tr pe ee mip ig Hk come con ll The Half Yearly Dividend due lst January, 1860, on eee ee in er Shares of £20 each, Registered according to Stock Companies’ the underme tioned 601 Bonds, Nos. 26 to 389, 400 to eposit per share, to be paid on —" Acts, whereby each person's liability is limited to the 525, 983 to 1050, 1351 to 1388, 2811 to 2815, domiciled in further deposit ef £1 per share on allotment. rg ne shares subscribed for. In the event of Lordon, will be paid at the couating-house of Messrs J. to exceed £2 per share; and no call to be made a 40,000 shares not being subscribed for, the deposit of 2s Henry Schrider and Co., 145 Leadenhall street, on intervals of less than three mouths between each call, r returned in full. _ Monday, 2nd proximo, and any succeeding day, between Dregcrors. the hours of 1] and 2. The coupons, with a list in numeri- John H. Dillon, Esq., the Albany, Piccadilly. cal order, must be left two clear days for examination. 3. Pinto Leité, Esq. (Messrs Pinto Leité, Brothers), Printed forms may be had on application as above. Harvey Lewis, Esq. (Director of the National Bank), |) London, Dec. 15, 1859. John Lubbock, Esq. (Messrs Lubbock, F » and Co.), f] M. Usborne, Esq. (Messrs Usborne and Sons). ges, Esq., Consul, Ramsgate. EYLON RAILWAY COMPANY.— Henry Woodfall, Esq., Liverpool. Sir Thomas Herbert Maddock, Union Club, Trafalgar In pursuance of a Reso’ution passed at the ordinary Albert Ricardo, Esq. (Messrs A. and W. Ricardo). square. General Meeting of the shareholders of this Company, Z. C. Pearson, Esq. (Messrs Pearson, Coleman, and Co,), William Woodward Manning, Esq., Coldbrook park, held on the 27th day of October last, adjourning the Geo. Fred. Young, Esq. (Messrs Young, Son, ang Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. consideration of the directors’ report to a meeting to be Magnay, shipbuilders). John Moss, Esq., Litchureh, Derby. held on the 5th day of January next,—Notice is hereby A. P. Petrocochino, Esq., Finsbury chambers. Richard Rooke Michell, Esq , Marazion, Cornwall. given, that a Genera) Meeting of the shareholders of this BankeRs.—Messrs Lubbock, Forster, and Co, ‘Thomas Morgan, Esq., 90 Upper Groand street, Black- Company will be beld in pursuance of such adjournment, So.iciTors. and for the purpese above mentioned, at the Company's Messrs Hughes, Kearsey, Masterman, and Hughes, John Parkinson, jan., Esq., Bournemouth, and Farmer's Offices, 9 Broad street buildings, Lenton, on Thursday, Messrs Ashurst, Son, and Morris. Club, New Bridge street, Blackfriars. the 5th day of Jan ae oe in the after- BROKERS. John Sewell, C.E., Esq., 12 Oxford terrace, Hyde park, noon -—B, of i, Messrs R. and J. Sutton, Royal Exchange. and 26 Nicholas Jane, Lombard street. 7 - G. E. COOPER, b Mesers Field, Son, and W: W arnford court, Leicester Vernon, M.P., Ardington house, 9 Broad street buildings, London, 15th Dep., 1859. Secretary, pro tem.—J. W. Pillans, Esq. antage. Temporary Orrices—64 King ‘William street, City, The business of the Company will be managed by an EYLON RAILWAY COMPANY.— Marine Insurance is now recognised as a highly safe ex*cutive committee, selected from the above. Notice is hereby given, that the Transfer Books of Soxnserrors—Mesars Prudence and Bedwell, 1 Gray's this Company will be closed from Thursday, the 29th ium place, Gray's: inn. day of December, 1859, to Thursday, the 12th day of The well-known prosperity of the existing Marine Broxeus— Messrs Sen, and Wood, 9 Warnford January, 1260, both days inclusive, for the purpose of Insarance Companies clearly establishes this fact, and court, Th street ; ee 8. oe = making up the interest account te the 3lst day of shows the value attach d by the shipping interest to. || Healey, Liverpool; Mr George Wilson, Sheffield; Mr December, 1859 the security which is afforded by the large subscribed |} M. B. Beverley, Leeds; Mr W. A. Labertouche, 18 The Interest Warrants will be forwarded on the llth capita), and the systematic action of joint stock estab- Fleet street, Dublio. Janeary to the proprietors who are registered in the lishments, in this important auxiliary to commercia} Baxkers—Union Bank of London, Princes street, Company's books on the 28th day gf December instant, The present selling prices of the shares of Mansion house; Sir Samuel Scott and Co., 1 Caven- —By order of the Board, Marine Insurance Companies vary from dish square; Messrs Vivian, Grylis, and Co., Helston, G. E. COOPER, Secretary. three to thirty times the amoant paid, spe 4 Cornwall. 9 Broad street buildings, London, Dec, 8, 1859. Zs MaNaGek AT THE —_-S Jos. Richards, Helston, The Indemnity hasinereasedfrom 5 13 6 paidupto 170 ornwal!. MADRAS _ RAILWAY COMPANY.— London Assurance ditto 12100 ditto 4 Oveices—Pancras Chambers, 1] Pancras lane, Queen The Directors continue to receive APPLICATIONS Royal Exchange ditto 100 00 ditto 300 street, Cheapside. for LOANS on DEBENTURES for five years, from the Althance ditto 25 00 ditto 60 PROSPECTUS. lst July, 1859, at 5 per cent. per annem, payment of Marine ditto 156 00 ditto 10 The Saint Aubyn Mineral Company (Limited) is the principal and interest being guaranteed by the Although the trade and commerce of Great Britain formed for the purpose of one of the most Secretary ef State for India in Council are rapidly expanding every year, and the improvements Particulars and forms of apphcation may be obtained in ship-building keep pace with the requirements of our at the offices of the Company. merchants, the amount of capital contributed by the crushing, dressing, and JAMES WALKER, Managing Director. public as a fund for the insurance ef the fleating wealth all ores, metals, and minerals obtained No. 33 New Broad street, London, E, C., Sept. 2, 1589 of the nation remains almost stationary, and is whelly These extensive mines are situate in the parish of inadequate for the insurance of the enormous and com St Hilary, Cornwall, about three miles from the port of ADRAS «] RAILWAY a COMPANY.— . TY stantly increasing quantity of goods and bullion cross. Marazion, and the same distance from the wharves and ingthe ocean. Thecensequence is, that marineinsurances Notice is hereby given, that the Transfer Books to a large extent are now effected for British merchants of the Company will be closed from the 19th inst., to in Hambarg, Bremen. Antwerp, and elsewhere; and, the 1ith day of January next, both days inclusive, for ewing to the difference in the laws and customs - of of a mile north to south, and centain at least the purpose of making up the interest accounts to the nm known lodes. They comprise within their limi foreign countries, d:strust and litigation frequently arise Sist inst. in the settlement of claims. tracts of land known as Penberthy Crofts, and Trevarton The Interest Warrants will be forwarded to the share- downs to the westward, and Wheal Fancy and Enys The increased speed now attained in locomotion by holders whose names are registered on the 19th inst. sea and land, and the extension of electric tele zraphs, Wheal Virgin to the eastward, all of which are well in the books ef the Company known in the county for the large returns of tin and cop- multiply considerably the transactions whic! require Deeds of Transfer are not received at the offices nsvurance, and lead to quicker returns. per they have made. of the Company while the books are closed.—By According to the reports furnished to tne Directors, The Premium Incomes of the existing Insucance order of the Board, companies are as follows :— and upon which they implicitly rely, the immediate JAMES WALKER, Managing Director. is from the immense returns No. 33 New Broad street, London, E.C., Indemnity~about ...... 500,000 Premium per Annum he«l Bolton, and Dec. 9, 1859. main lode to the London Assurance—about 400,000 — _ ADRAS ¥ RAILWAY T r COMPANY.— Royal Exchange 400,000 = _ Allianee — 300,000 _ — FOURTH EXTENSION 8H4ARES (£5 per Share Marine — 300,000 = -- Paid).—Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a proving satisfactorily that the pablic appreciate the Resolutien of the Board of !irectors, the proprietors of security of the joint stock principle as applied to Marine Fourth Extension Shares (£5 paid) in the Madras Rail- Insurance. way Company are required to pay a Call of £5 per share The necessity therefore of an enlarged basis for Marine on each of their respective shar’s, on or before the 16th Insurance becomes daily more apparent: during the day of January next, at the Union Bank of London, 2 last 25 years the exports alone of Great Britain have Princes street, in the City of London. Notice is hereby increased four huedred per cent., while the greater size further given, that interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per of the vesseis now built fer ocean navigatioa, and the annum will be charged on all calls remaining unpaid enormous value of bullion and merchandise often shipped aiter the day above mentioned; that the proprietors in ene bottom, render the insurance of the full value whose calls are not paid on or before the day named, difficult, and frequently impracticable. will further incur a loss ef intere-t on the amount called The Universal Marine Insurance Company is estab- upon each share for the period intervening between the blished on a broad and comprehensive basis, for the 15th day of January sforesaid and the date at which the purpose of participating in the profits realised in a x y are entitled under the contract to make the growing and prosperous business. next payment into the Treasury, at the India Office, The valuable connection already secured to this Com- on account of the capital; ard that if default be made agreements pany enables it to commence operations at once, with in the payment of this call for one calendar month after well-grounded expectations of success, and proper been entered into by which the lease, together with the 15th day of January aforesaid, the shares in respect eee \ work done, SR ee rie ie, measures have been taken to secure the services of an of -which default is made wili become liable to forfeiture underwriter of acknowledged experience and high ne eeaeee a ee eee me the property Company for 5 : viz., — the Company's Deed of Settlement.—By order of and the balance in shares, of the vaiue standing. In addition to the anticipated advantages of the mea- JAMES WALKER, Managing Director. sure introduced by Government in the last session of 33 New Broad street, London, E.C., Dec. 7, 1859. Parliament, for the limitation of the liability of marine insurance companies, the large subscribed capital of the LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE Universal Marine Insurance Company will protect the RAILWAY COMPANY.—DEBENTURESTOCK. interests of its subscribers, and at the same time pre- The Directors are to receive applications fer sent to its customers an ample guarantee for the secu- the issue of a pertion of the Company’s Perpetual Four rity of the policies effected at office. In the mean- per Cent. Stock, wi will be recorded in time, in every transaction of the Company, the liability the Books of the Company, in the names of the appli- of the shareholders will be especially restricted to the canta, free of Stamp Daty or other amount of their shares. The subscription list will be closed at aoe oe and in the meautime applications for shares may be ad- dressed to Mr J. W. Pillans, Secretary (pro tem.), at 84 King William street, City: to Messrs R. and J. Sutton, 22 Royal Exchange; or to Messrs Field, Son, and Wood, 9 Warnford Court, Throgmorton street, Brokers to the Ns Sipe is Company. Every must be by the Banker's receipt for the deposit of £1 on each share applied for. In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will be returned. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ({LENFIELD PATENT STARCH rts pshpiienae ie is the STARCH used in HER MAJESTY’S LAUNDRY. And as some unprincipal Parties are now making and sae GLENFIELD offering for Sale an Imitation STARCH of the

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