The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

THE II MORNING STAR'S" VIEW OF MR. BRIGHTS SP EEGH. We extract the following from the leading article in the Star the morning after Mr. Bright made his cele- brated speech at Rechdale:-The first great meeting of the year to stimulate and encourage the Govern- ment and the House of Commons towards reform was, with a peculiar appropriateness, held in Rochdale last night. Mr. Bright, who, it need hardly be said, was the orator of the evening, adopted throughout his speech a tone which indicated how thoroughly he re- cognised the fact that the interests of the working population have now, beyond all others, to be con- sulted. In this sense he indicated that he was pre- pared to put aside, for the present^ all branches of the great Reform scheme which do not directly belong to the working man's immediate interest. He is pre- nared to so for a simple suffrage bill. Wa the Government bis disinterested and well-^si5>a counsel. His worst enemies cannot accuse him of any want of moderation in this instance; his most hypercritical critics cannot complain that he is inclined to sacrifice the moderate result which is attainable for the vast reform which is vague and remote. No man has more effectively and eloquently inveighed against the unjust and irrational allotment of representation which gives to some mouldering and miserable country town, scarcely swelling beyond the dimensions of a village, the same number of members of Parliament as it assigns to some great city with the population of a German State, and more than the wealth of many a Principality. Yet Mr. Bright earnestly advises the Government to postpone for the present the introduction of any measure for the redis. tribution of seats. Not that he has ceased to desire such a reform-not that he now thinks it less im- pertant than it ever before seemed to him—but simply because it is not a reform in which the unenfranchised class have so immediate and deep an interest, and because ho would not peril by any avoidable complica- tion the instant settlement of their just claim. So, too, of the ballot. Mr. Bright took care last night emphatically to reaffirm his conviction ef the import- ance and necessity of the ballot. At a. time when there seems a disposition on the part of some Liberal members to adopt the old Palmerstonian cant about the un-English nature of the protected vote, it is re- assuring to listen to so decisive a declaration in favour of the ballot, from the lips of Mr. Bright. But this, too, Mr. Bright is willing to postpone for the moment. He would not mingle at the present hour the question of the extent of the suffrage with the mode of collecting it. The working population at present can have but a comparatively slender interest in the redistribution of seats, seeing that they have no share in the election which fills a seat any- where and they have as yet no vote to be projected by the operation of the ballot. Undoubtedly no Reform Bill will ever satisfy even this generation which does not embrace the three conditions Mr. Bright specified last night-a lowered suffrage, an equitable distribu- tion of representation, and the adoption of the ballot system. It cannot be too clearly understood that those who now press for the settlement of any one of these demands are determined afterwards to press for the settlement of the other two. But Mr. Bright sees with the eye of a practical politician that the claim which is of the most pressing importance stands a better chance of being carried if it comes forward on its own merits, and that once carried it will prepare the way for the others.

SL-. » A CURIOUS WILL CASE. The Im-perial Court of Paris has just heard an appeal from a judgment of the Civil Tribunal, given in August, 1864, under the following circumstances:—In December, 1863, a M. Chapot, a, superannuated elerk of: the Ministry of Finance, elied at the Batignolles, leaving a widow with whom he had not cohabited for many years, and a married daughter named Hostein. Among the property of the deceased were found thirty-two shares of the Orleans Railway, which were claimed by a woman named Fabry, who had lived with him as servant or housekeeper for twenty-four years, and she produced a paper signed by M. Chapot, ten days before his death, acknowledging that the said shares were her property. The widow and daughter resisted this claim, on the ground that the paper in question had been obtained by undue influence, and a lawsuit was the consequence. The Tribunal, after hearing evidence, decided that, as the woman Fabry possessed only 2,000fr. when she entered M. Chapot's service, that sum, with the savings from her wages of 300fr. a year, could not have sufficed to purchase shares worth at least SO.OOQfr. As sundry documents produced, however, pearly showed that some of the Bhares were really the Tribunal ordered that twelve of them should i?iven up to the plaintiff Fabry, and condemned the ne^i aJid daughter to pay all costs. Both parties iafnu against this decision, but the Court, after ca!. r examinmg all the facts of the case, from w. „.„a^Peared that M. Chapot never had means of hi3 0 ° buy all the shares, declared that the jodgment mu8t be confirmed.

—Homoeopathic Practitioners, and the Mfdi- cal Professions" J^recommeud cocoa as being the most healthful of all beverages. doctrine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this conn«rjr, tasti0^ be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attractive to w or acceptable to the stomach the nut was either supplied in t Bp™ ?r 60 unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. > or .London, homoeopathic chemist, was induced, in the year■ ,™ h:s attention to this subject, and at of elaborate machinery, in being the first: to produce an ar p .in its composition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it r tne process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the.ae J»aph. For general use Epps'g cocoa is distinguished as an inTO0"1,. in his wAli, «e?kfllst beverage, wiih a delicious arofria. Dr. HaS8_i > <■ and its Adultera- tions." says;—"Cocoa contains P 'farie-ty of important nutritive principles; every ingredient neces. y the'growth and sustenance of the body." Again, "As a much higher than either coft'ee or tea." Directions wilfS" i'B of tIie P°w(iel' in a breakfast cup, filled up,with Sr "j.1** Seemed in tin-linedi-lb., i-lb.,and Mb, labeled Packets, and sold at is, 6d, per lb.f by grocers,, confectioners, ana ptoeiMMS.

I THE CONDEMNED CONVICT SOTJTHEY. I The Standard of Saturday last says :—We nnder- I stand that within the last few days a marked change | for the better appears to have taken place in the mind J of the wretched culprit who now awaits the execution J of the sentence of death in Maidstone Gaol. After his J trial Southey was for some hours in a state of excite- ment, complaining bitterly of much of the evidence, J and denying that he had had fair play or justice in the court. It is very remarkable that Southey never admits that the murders he committed were crimes. Indeed he appears to think that he has really done a service to the community. In one of his papers he writes- Were a thousand men in England to adopt my prin. ciple would it not make the nation such an one as wa,s never before seen—would it not tend to restore the balance, and to counteract alike the bad influ- ences of bigotry and wealth ?" Alfchongh his own admissions prove that he led a most irregular and immoral life, he always writes and speaks as if he were "more sinned against than sinning," and that" virtue" and necessity compelled him to perform the acts for which he is now a, condemned culprit. He says in one of his papers "Do you not see in my sincere; and earnest, and ardenb efforts to progress God-ward in the external, as known and felt by me, and as imposing on me the duty of showing the trash, an evidence of His presence and power, far greater than if I was under pressure on account of sin and was frenziedly and selfishly giving my whole thoughts to escape punishment ? Can aught but faith in the justice of God inspire a. man in such a position with such regard for his fellow-men, with such abandon of self ? Is not love to the brethren the first fruit of the Spirit—the very test whether or no the truth is in us ? The suffering-the agony of suffering I endured in offering up the sa.crifice-the agony I endured before I consented the exhausting efforts I made to save myself from the bitter cup all prove at the expense of how much self-denial and self-sacrifice I accepted the duty of high priest on the occasion, and offered up for this people my whole family, my own children, and those of one who was loved by me with a refined purity of feeling such as, we are told, the beautiful only really know. I offered them up for the nation's good, for the cause of truth. I took all the suffering I could on me, for I well knew that I must be included in the sacrifice, and be offered up myself by my fellow-men. I was willing to seal the truth with my own death in this way-willing to endure all the fearful suffering which I foresaw and realised would attend my incar- ceration, trial, and death; but I did not expect I should not be allowed to show the truth, and that my trial thereby would only be a gross mockery and an insult to justice. Could my coming death show me that it will fulfil my life's purpose, I shall feel that I am going to my life in that death-to my real life. It would prove to demonstration my belief that I was saving the real lives of my children in saving them from the certainty of moral destruction, and saving by the same means thousands of lives besides, both moral and physical, by showing the truth. The act shows the motive, and the ultimate truth will in time be seen to be on my side. To save from moral death by the sacrifice of mere physical life is admitted to be a virtue in the case of Virginius, whose act was one of heartbreaking virtue. In his ease tha danger of his daughter's virtue and her dishonour are especially estimated, and obviously led to the sacrifice, but not more certainly than in the case of my own, in which I strove to prevent what was really danger, to the moral life of my family; but neither the court of justice nor the people of England would hear the truth-tney would not receive the light-they have allowed a spirit of hate and vengeance to blind them. I appealed in vain, and was left at last with my awful suffering and despair. The laws and customs of' England were to me a denial of justice and an outrage upon humanity; and I sunk under the nDsnpportabie load of misery which ornsiioci me to the earth." With regard to his approaching fate, he considers himself as already dead; but the two persons he wished to die with him (Mrs. White and her child) he says are gone back from life to moral death. One of Southey's great anxieties is lost certain MSS., confided by him to his solicitor, should get into the hands of Lord Dudley. The papers consist of forty- eight pages of manscript, and contain a rough sketch of Mrs. White, the woman with whom he was living, and whose children he destroyed. It is headed, Account of Two Visits to Witley Court, showing the circumstances which have united to cause my death." The number of eminent persons who were visited by Southey, or to whom he wrote letters and detailed the circumstances upon which eight lives depended" was no fewer than two hundred; and all I their names were carefully preserved. He asserts that his immoral union with Mrs. White was not entered into until all hope of the payment of the money he had won at billiards from Mr. Dadley Ward was gone. There is no doubt that for eight months previous to the crimes for which he is condemned, he entertained mur- derous thoughts^against others, and particularly against Lord Dudley. He says that on several occasions he was on the point of shooting kis lordship within a few days previous to the perpetration of the other murders. He even fixes the places where this intended deed of blood had so nearly been consummated-at White's Club, in the Opera Colonnade—but his lordship at the critical moment stopped to speak to a policeman; at another time at Fortnum and Mason's; and on another occasion he actually held the muzzle of his pistol close to his lordship's back while he was looking into the window of an Albanian shop in Regent-street, but con- cealed the weapon in his coat pocket. He could not, however, make up his mind to fire, as he had received no direct voice from God to rid the world of the tyrant," and because his motives might be put down j to vindictiveness.

THE FLOGGING OF WOMEN. The following letter is given, in large type, in several of the metropolitan papers of Saturday Sir,-Daring the proceedings taken by the mili- tary authorities for the suppression of the late riots and disturbances in Jamaica an enormous, but un- known, number of the black and coloured people were flogged. Amongst the number of these wretched and unfortunate creatures thus punished, it is credibly stated that more than 300 were women and young girls, and we are told that they were flogged with that severe instrument of torture called the ca.t-a'- nine-tails. The English public are entitled to know something more about this flogging of women to enable them fully to comprehend the enormity of the transaction. It must, therefore, be understood that flogging women ia Jamaica means flogging naked women. Men are flogged on their bare backs and shoulders. It is otherwise with women—they are flogged, according to Jamaica, fashion, on their naked posteriors. However shocking this may be to mention, it is act the less necessary that the fact should be known. The person of a woman flogged is publicly and indecently exposed in shameful nakedness. The revelation of the facts relating to such floggings of women by the West Indian slave- owners was the circumstance that most powerfully roused the indignation of the people of this country against negro slavery, and most prominently conduced to its abolition. I am altogether at a loss to conceive that, under any possible circumstances of insurrection or warfare, it could be necessary to resort to this abomin- able and ferocious punishment of women. The sub- ject is quite unfit for a woman to think of, but it is absolutely necessary for the ends of justice, and a due regard for outraged humanity, that these things should be known to the women of England. "If I have wrongly described the mode of flogging women in Jamaica, Brigadier-General Nelson, who is reported to have authorised these women floggings, is now in this country therefore I shall be glad to be contradicted and set right by him in this matter, if it can be shown that I am in the wrong.- I am, &c., H. PRINGLE, "Formerly Stipendiary Magistrate, Jamaica. Chelsea, Jan. 5."

Instant Cure of Toothache—Buuter's Nenrine gives imme- diate and permanent relief. Sold by all Chemists, Is. lid- per packet. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. The Joint-Stock Coal Company (Limited), 49, Fleet-street, LONDON. At the First Annual Meeilllg of Shareholders, helo at, the London Tavern, Dec. 29th, it was Eesolwd That the Report be adopted and printed, and that a toi-vidend and Bonus equal TO 10 per cent. per annum to Shareholders, together with an additional Bonus, of 4 per cent. to coal-consuming Shareholders, BE paid on and after Jan. 20th, 181)6," The Directors have resolved to issue the remaining Shares, application for which may be made to the Managing Director, at the Ofices of the Company, ac- J companied by A deposit of 5s. per sbare. —By order, FREDERICK A. NEW, Manaffirg Director.

OUR "CITY" ARTICLE. .+- Another ri-s. of 1 per cent. in the Bank rate of discount has been the natural consequence of a very heavy demand for money during the past I week. Such a demand was to have been expected, J as, besides the increased inquiry for money for trade purposes usual at the opening of the year, arrangements were to be made for the settlement on the 4th, which in January is, of course, quarterly as well as monthly. Early in the week advances could not be obtained in the open market under the Bank rate as it then stood, viz., 7 per cent. This had the effect of sending more business to the Bank itself, which, at the weekly meeting, found its reserve decreased to the very great ex- tent of X 1,624,600. The directors therefore, to check the large withdrawals from the Bank, have raised the rate of discount from 7 to 8 per cent. The total demand upon the Bank for discount accommodation during the week, as shown in the return under the item other securities," was = £ 2,224,373. The Government deposits, owing to J withdrawals for payment at the end of the quarter, decreased by £ 964,906. On the other hand, a large increase took place in the amount of the private deposits, which stood XI,492,020 higher than in the preceding week. The withdrawals of gold from the Bank have continued, and comparatively few arrivals of specie have taken place. The stock of bullion has con- sequently declined by £ 296,919. The inquiry for silver for the East has lately been active, but it is anticipated that the higher rate of the Bank will put an effectual check upon it for a time. Even at the advanced rate, a full discount de- mand has taken place since the last Bank meet- ing. The current charges are now as follows :—For bills of from one to four months, 8 per cent.; for six months' Bank bills, 8 per cent.; for trade bills, from four to six months, 8-i to 9 per cent. On the Stock Exchange money is offered from day to day on Government securities at 4t to 5 per cent. The joint-stock banks and discount houses, which are reaping large profits at the present market rate, have raised their scale of allowance for money on deposit. The rates are now:—Joint- stock Banks, 5.1 per cent. (at the London and Westminster, 4 per cent. only on sums below = £ 500); discount houses at call, 5l per cent.; ditto, with seven days' notice, 6,+ per cent.; ditto, fourteen days, 7 per cent. The Bank of France has carried its rate of dis- count during the past week from 4 to 5 per cent. The Bank of Holland has also advanced its rate to 6i. The rate at Frankfort is 5i; at St. Peters- L, 2 burg, 6; and at Berlin, 7. At Madrid, where affairs are in a generally' unsatisfactory condition, the discount rate is 9. It does not necessarily follow that the enhanced value of money which we are now witnessing in this country, and the further rise in the Bank rate from time to time, are unfavourable symptoms of the course of our monetary affairs. If such high profits can be secured in the legitimate pursuits of trade and the extension of our commerce, that manufacturers and others will gladly pay 7 and 8, or even more per cent. for the use of money, the high rates are a positive benefit, and simply represent what the country is gaining by its business and mercantile transactions. But, on the oher hand, time alone can show whether any extraordinary measure of trade is carried on on a sure foundation, and, in the present case, whether borrowers are justified, by the actual results of tbeir dealings, in paying the high prices which now prevail in the market. There are not wanting sound authorities who question that this is the case at the present time. They point to the extraordinary shipments of English goods that have lately been made to America, and then to the fact that comparatively small quanti- ties of produce and specie have been forwarded to us in return. It may be that our manufacturers are not over speculative in their dealings; that the United States are really able to take all the supplies lately sent out, and-what is of more importance still-to pay for them in specie or valuable produce in a reasonable time. But, on the other hand, so short a period has elapsed since the conclusion of the war, that the country, with all its resources, has scarcely had time to recover from its previous financial disorganisation, and it is just possible that American credit may not be prepared to sustain the large demands made upon it. The issue has to be seen; but here is certainly a danger to which all classes concerned in the course of monetary affairs need to be fully alive. The increased rate at the Bank in the week had an unfavourable influence upon the Government securities. Consols on Friday touched as low a point as was reached at any time during the past year, having been done at 86f, They did not re- main at this, however, but ranged to 8713 for money, and between 86Jt and 87 for account. The closing prices in Saturday's official list showed an improvement, being 86i, 7t both for money and account. The final bargains on the Stock Exchange after official hours exhibited a further rally, to S7i to i for delivery, and 87% for the February account. Three per Cents. Reduced were quoted 86- t; and New Three per Cents,, 86f, f; Bank Stoek, 11 4 24621; India Five per Cents., 102f, f. Foreign Stock s were heavy. Turkish and Spanish especially declined, the former on account of the failure of the new loan, and the latter through the news of disturbances at Madrid and the revolt of a portion of the troops. TEE railway market was dull, and in nearly all instances business was done at a fall in prices. The last quotations show a decline in Great "Northern to 127i, and on the A stock to 144; Great Western also declined to 58l¡- Great Eastern were 42f; London and North Western, 125f; South Western, 95; Metropolitan, 134|—a fall of 3t; Midland, 122l; South Eastern, 73f. The traffic returns for the week ending Dec. 30 showed receipts of X646,105 on 12,299 miles, against £ 586,330 on 11,889 in the corresponding week of the previous year. The business was less than that of the preceding week by 2114,331; but this was owing to the greatly increased traffic during the Christmas holidays. Joint-Stoek Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were generally dull, at receding prices. In the former class, Agra and Masterman's were last 57; Alliance, 2941 Bank London, with < £ 50 paid, maintained the extraordinary price of 150; London and County, with X20 paid, were 80}; London Joint-Stock, with X15 paid, were 51. Some of these well-established undertakings are clearing from £ 2,000 to £ 3,000 per day profit, at the present high rate of money. Among new financial undertakings, the shares of the London Financial Association were quoted 181—a ^ecliH0 of 1 in the week those of Overend, Gurney, and Co. remained at 6J, 6! prem.; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England were 3£ prem. Of all successful companes. which have come into existence under the Limited Liability Act, few look better upon paper than the Joint-Stock Coal Company. Their trading transactions sho w a profit equal to 18 J per cent, per annum upon the a profit equal to 18 J per cent, per annum upon the paid-up capital. We believethis Joint-Stock Coal Company are about to issue new shares, anticipating that, with an increased capital, their profits also will increase.

loo.- .IOISJJ 60"luell a™ c,'s CSiterry Toolli price IS. 6d Decidedly the be*t preparation for cleansing and pren'jrvi:ig the teeth. •Sold by afl perfumers and chemists. 12,Three King-ct, I^mbard-sk, JB.O. In cons.equence of the Reduction in Duty, Homiman't Teas are- now supplied by the Agents EIGHTPENCE per lb. CHEAPER. Every Genuine Packet is signed Horniman & Co." Satisfying, Strengthening, Soothing- for In- fants, agresable, feestiMe,.nourishing fj!- Invalids, is DR,. HIDGE'S PATiuNT (cooked) FOOD. Prevents acidity and wind. The beat and heafest food. Of Ohymiscs, in canister4d., si, 13., and 2s. 6d.

ani) €amxtxtj ffxrfats, Money Market. -CITY, JAX. 10.—The stock markets are rather firmer to- aay, owing chiefly to the plethora of money, and the conse- quent decline in the rates of discount in Lombard-street, Consols have advanced t per cent.. and an improvement is also observable in some foreign bonds and English rail- way stocks. Banking and financial shares are likewise steadier, and a slight rise has taken place in London Finan- cial. There is a fair demand for money to-day, owms partly to the arrival at maturity of, a large amount of Indian paper. The supply of capital, however, is superabun- dant, and transactions continue to be effected in the biat bills at 7a to 7f per cent., or i to § below the Bank rate. ILL the Stock Exchange, loans to-morrow on English Govern- ment securities are obtainable at 4 to 5 per cent. Consols are now quoteuj 86f to 87, ex div., for money, and 871 to -5 ex div., for the new account (Feb. 8). The Corn Trade MARK-LANE, JAN. 10.—Only limited supplies of English WHEiT were received fresh up to our market to-day, in. for the most part, but middling condition. The demand for all qualities ruled inactive, at Monday's decline in the quota- tions. We were moderately supplied with Foreign WHEAT, the transactions in which were chietly in retail on former rates. Floating cargoes of GRAIU changed hands slowly on former rates. There was a moderate supply of BARLEY on the stands. The inquiry for all descriptions was limited at the rtoent fell in prices. MALT was quiet at late rates. OATS were in moderate supply, and steady requast, at full quotations. Large supplies of BEANS were on offer. Sales progressed slowly at the late reduction in the currencies. In PrAs-the show of which was gGoc1-very few transac- tions took place. For FLOUR the trade was dull at about Monday's -price?. LINSEED and RAPESEED were firm. Agricultural seeds commanded scarcely any attention. Cakes were sceady. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 9.—The market moderately attended. Flour and Wheat very dull at barely last week's prices. Indian corn, Glliatz, 32s to 33:3. Beans flat. Oats and oat- meal dull Cattle Market. METROPOLITAN.—A statement of the supplies and prices of fat live stock on Monday, January 9, 1865, as compared with Monday, January 8, 1866 :— Per 81bs. to sink the offiL 1865. 1866. s. d. s. d. a. d. s, d. Coarse and inferior Beasts 3 8 to 4 4 3 4 to 3 8 Second quality ditto. 4 6 4 10 3 10 4 4 Prime large Oxen 5 0 5 2 4 6 4 10 Prime Scots, &c. 5 4 5 6 4 10 5 C Coarse and inferior Sheep 4 2 4 8 4 0 4 8 Second quality ditto. 4 10 5 2 4 10 5 6 Prime coaree-woolled ditto 5 4 5 8 5 8 6 2 Prime Southdown ditto 510 6 0 6 4 6 8 Large coarse Calves 4.6 5 2 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto 5 4 5 8 4 8 5 0 Large Hogs 3 6 4 0 4 0 4 6 "Teat Neat small Porkers 4 2 4.8 4 8 5 2 NEWGATE AND LBAI)ENI-IALL.rer 81bs. by the carcase B. d. d. s. d. to s. d Inferior beef 3 0 to 3 4 Middling ditto 3 6 4 0 Prime large 4 2 4 4 Ditto small 4 4 4 6 Large pork 4 0 5 0 Inferior m"utton 3 6 4 4 Middling ditto 4 6 5 2 Prime ditto 5 4 5 8 Veal 4 0 5 0 Small pork 5 2 5 81 Lamb 0 0 0 0 Turkeys, each 4 6 12 0 Geese, each 5 6 8 0 Fowls. each 2 6 3 6 Capons, each. 4 0 5 0 Chickens, each 19 2 6 Ducks, each 2 6 3 6 Rabbit-s, each. 10 16 Hares, each 3 6 4 6 t Grouse, each. 0 0 0 0 Partridges,e,tch 1 6 1 9 Pheasants,each 3 6 4 0 Pigeons,, each. 0 8 0 10 Ostendfr, butter, per dez. lbs. 12 6 14' 6 English ditto. 13 6 16 6 French eggs, 120 8 0 12 6 English ditto. 13 0 14 0 Fruit and Vegetables. COVENT.GARDEN, JAN. 6.—Notwithstanding the com- parative mildness of the weather, and a good supply of winter greens, prices for that description of goods still keep high. Of good apples, both foreign and homegrown, there is It scarcity, and peai s are not over abundant, the varieties of which they consist being confined wifcbin small compass; the best are Winter Nelis, No plus Mends, and Gioa Morceau. Grapes and pine-apples are sufficient tor the demand. Flowers cbieiIy consist of jsomsettia pulcherrima, orchids, heaths, Chinese primulas, cameJIi(2) and roses. FRUIT s. d. s. d. Pineapples,p. lh. 5 0 to 8 0 Peaches, p. doz. 0 0 0 0 Plums, p. quart 0 0 0 0 t Apples,p.hf-sieve2 0 3 0] Pears, p. hf-sieve 4 0 8 0 Grapes, per lb. 4 0 10 0 J Melons, each 3 0 5 0 1 s. d. B. d. Oranges,p.100 4 0 to 10 6 Lemons.p. 100 6 0 10 0 Nuts,cob,1001b 160 0 0 C Brazil,p. bush. 18 0 0 0 Filberts, per lb. 0 9 10 -Almnds.p.busli. 0 0 0 0 Fi, per doz. 00 6 0 VEGETABLES. II s d s d CalVbages, per doz. 1 Û to 2 0 S«aKale,per punnet 2 6 3 0 Asparagus,perbun. 8 0 12 0 Potatoes, York Re- gents, per tori 75 0 90 0 Rocks, per ton 55 0 65 0 Flukes, per ton .100 0 120 0] Kidneys, per cwt. 8 0 12 0 Carrots, per bunch 0 4 0 6] Turnips, per bunch 0 4 0 Celery, per bundle 10 16; s d B d !Cucumbers, each .2 0to3 0 [Beet, per dozen 1 6 2 0 Shallots, per lb 0 8 0 0 (Garlic, per lb 0 8 00 Lettuces, per doz.10 00 jEndive, per score .1 .0. 2 6 [Artichokes,perdoz. 4 0 6 0 [Horseradish,p. bun.l 0 4 0 'Mushrooms,perpot.l 0 2 6 Parley, p. doz. bun. 2 0 4 C Herbs, per bunch 0 6 0 C London Produce Market. MINCING-LANE, JAN. 10.—SUGAR.—Rather easier prices having been accepted for refining qualities of British West India, the demand has been more active for other descrip- tions. No sales of importance are reported. Refined, prices in this market rule in buyers' favour. COFFEE.-The parcels of plantation Ceylon brought to public sale, have gone off steadily at full prices for good coloury qualities, and at about previous prices for common sorts, of which the bulk of the parcels brought forward consisted gatblings and triage sold at 41s to 60"); ordinary to low middling gres 73d to 77s 6d low to fine middling coloury, 78s to 88s 6d. Native Ceylon, small, 66s good ordinary, 68s; fine ditto, 6Ss; Mocha, long berry, 9';<:1 to 968 6d. TEA.-A limited business doing in Kaisows and scented teas. RICF.—A parcel of old Necranzie sold at 10s n-a, short prompt. -Rum.-Tlie sales are confined to 60 puns. of good iair De- merara at Is Ed. SALTPETRE continues dull of sale. CUTCII.-Good quality of old import has brought 30S. TUMERIC has sold at Is decline; middling Bengal, 22s 6d to 23s. COTTON. -The market continues dull, there being no buyers at previous rates. HEMP.—St. Petersburg, clean, steady at 235 10s. PRICES OF BUTTER, CHEESE, HAMS, &c., at per cwt. -Butter: Friesland, 132s to 134a Jersey, 112s to 126s; Dorset, 132s to 136s. Fresh: per doz., 14s to 18s; Cheese: Cheshire, 66s to 78s; Double Gloucester, 68a to 72s; Cheddar, 70s to 78s; American, 58s to 66s. Hams: York, JISs to 122s; Cumberland. 118s to 122s; Irish, new, 90s to 104s. Bscon: Wiltshire, 70s to 74s Irisb, green, 62s to 64s. BOROUGH, JANUARY 8.—Our market is still very quiet. The limited business transacted since the holidays navrng been confined almost exclusively to the execution ot small country orders, prices remain very firm for all nops Oi fair average quality, which holders anticipate will meet with a better demand before long, as both the Bavarian and Bel- gian markets continue to exhibit ail upwara tendency in prices. Reports from America she;v a brisk inquiry for hops of last growth, the home stock Of which appears to be nearly exhausted; prices are consequently improvingMid and East Rents, 100s, 147s, 190s; iarnbams and Country, 100s, 126s, 160s Weald °LS ?oo 115S> 130s; Sussex 70s, 100s, 112s; Yearlings, 9»s, 1^1) 8, lb5s. WOOL CITY, JAN. m some measure, to tlie advance in the Bank rate tor money to 8 per cent., very few transactions have taken pIaee m any kind of wool sinee our last either for honle use or export. Holders, however, are still very firm in their demand. The supply of wool on offer s very moderate. TALtOW, Jan. 10.—The market is steady. Price? are auoted as follows:—Town tallow, 47s, net cash; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 47s 6d; January, 47s 3d; March, 48s Gd; April to June, 4§s; October to December, 49s 6d. gOPS, BOROUGH, JAN. 10.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report an improved deniamd for consumption during the last f0W days, some of the large London brewers having purchased largely. Prices may be said to have an upward tendency. HAY MARKETS.— Meadow Hay- Clover Straw j Sm;tbfieliJ. I s. d. a. d. 81, 0 to 105 01 105 0 130 0! 36 0 40 0) I Cumberland. I s. d. s. d. i 84 0 to 110 OS 105 0 132 0 35 0 42 0] Whitechapel. s. d. a. d. 84 0 to 105 0 105 0 130 0 36 0 40 0 I Y i ■ There has been a curious rifle match in Canada. It was between four men, two of whom were abstainers from liquor, and the temperance men vanquished their opponents by three points. The match has resulted in the following challenge:—" Ten men who partake of liquor and tobacco challenge an equal number of « temperance men, who do not indulge in the use of tobacco, or, if these cannot be procured, the challenge is open to temperance men who smoke. This chal- lenge is given by drinkers and smokers who will be happy to contest the matter by receiving ten days' notice. Death of Miss Bremer. The Stockholm papers announce the death of Miss Freclerica Bremer the celebrated Swedish novelist. Miss Bremer was born in Abo, in Finland, in 1802. After spending several years in Norway and Stockholm, as a teacher, she devoted herself to literary pursuits. Her first novels, "The President's Daughters" and the "Neighbours," had a great success, and were tran- slated into most of the European languages. Misrg Bremer travelled a, good deal, and visited Germany, France, England, America, Italy, and the East.