The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

ATROCIOUS MURDER, At Govan, near Glasgow, an apprentice carpenter, named John Young, was fatally stabbed on ths 30th < ult. The unfortunate man was found staggering about the streets in a state of intoxication. Being taken into a neighbouring house, he slept for a couple of hours, and on awaking complained of being sick, when he was conveyed to his lodgings. On being put to bed it was discovered that he had sustained two wounds in the abdomen, from which the intestines protruded. He could give no account of himself beyond the statement that he had met two men, one of whom struck him on the nose. After lingering till Monday afternoon he died. On Thursday morning two young men, each about 17 years of age, named respectively Danoan M'lnnes, hammerman, and Alexander Miller, blacksmith, were brought before Bailie Thompson, at the Govan Police. I( oourt, at the instance of Captain Young, on a charge of having murdered Young. The prisoners on being apprehended on Wednesday evening-M'Inuea at seven o'oloek and Miller about twelve—denied all knowledge of the murder; but after the charge had been read over to them at the police- court, and they had been conveyed to the office, M'Innes seemed to feel acutely the position in which he was placed, and admitted that he and Miller had met John Young, the deceased, on Saturday evening. The unfortunate carpenter, who was so brutally assaulted was conveyed to the house of Mr. John. atone by two men, who said they had observed him ^aggering and failing in Main-street, and who were be- keved to be innocent of having in j nred him. It has now utanspired that the men who carried Young into John- tone's house were the prisoners M'Innes and Miller. They had been in Glasgow on Saturday evening, and feturned to Govan shortly before half-past eleven ? clock, after hiving enjoyed themselves, aa they say, *n a very temperate manner. They admit having met deceased at the corner of Main-street, and M'Innes, wo understand, states that soma chaffing" took Pjaoe. Observing Young staggering, they asked him where he belonged to; and, in reply, he said, Cam- lachie." This answer was thought offensive, and, ^fter more taunting language had been exchanged, deceased said he could fight them both. A battle then ensued, in the course which M'Innes aimed "lows at Young's face, while the blacksmith was observed to make several thrusts at the poor man's stomach. One of the witnesses who observed the tl.fIle believed the men were having a lark," consequence of not heariag any sounds ifter Miller made the thrusts. Young, on being stabbed, exclaimed, I'll give in; I am beaten." It would appear that he then boeame faint, and staggered across the street, when another witness saw the prisoner assisting de. ceased into a close. Some neighbours in the tenement heard a noise in the entry, and a man saying, We'll just leave him here;" but, before they left him, a woman came downstairs with a light, and she was told by the prisoners that they had found the car- penter lying in the close. Young was then carried to Johnstone's house, where he lay for about two hours, bond afterwards conveyed to his lodgings, when it was discovered that he had been stabbed. The post- mortem examination showed that the knife had gone through the stomach in one place, and into the kidneys another, and that a third stab had taken effect on the right thigh, inflicting a trifling wound, and a fourth had penetrated at the side of the thick top- ?Oa.t and body coat of deceased without in- juring the skin. Although a minute search Was made by the police, no weapon likely to have_ inflicted the wounds could be discovered, ^evious, however, to the prisoners being removed to the city, M'Innes told the police that the knife was °pnoealed in a field opposite Govan Free Church. Captain Young, in company with one of his officers, Proeeeded to the field, and after a laborious search e knife was found, closed, sunk into the ground at bottom of a paling stob, Oa being opened in the snerijf'a chambers traces of blood were visible on the Wade. The knife was hidden in the park on Sunday Saorning by the prisoner Miile-r, to whom it belongs. He stoutly denies having u-ei it towards Young, although M'Innes speaks feo having seen his comrade j making several throste at Young's belly.

SEDUCTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. Margaret M'Tajgerfc, a youcg Scotchwoman, with an infant in her arms, was brought before Mr. Part- ridge at the Thames-street Police-court, on Tuesday, charged with violently assaulting Mary Greany. Both women have been for some time inmates of the Stepney Union House at Bromley, Middlesex. The complainant was dsscribsd by Mr. Parker, the master of the house, as a well-conducted person; the prisoner was the reverse, had violated all the rules and regulations of the establishment, and waa con- tinually quarrelling with the inmates and doing acts subversive of good order and discipline. Mr. Parker's statement was verified by one of the nurses, who said the prisoner was a bad-tempered young wom&a, and continually quarrelling with the other females. Sh-a would net do her work properly. It appeared from the evidence of Greany that the prisoner had quarrelled with her abaut the cleaning and threatened her. Yesterday the prisoner struck her with a pannikin and threatened to injure her. Mr. Partridge asked the master it the other inmates provoked the prisoner ? Mr. Parker believed not. The prisoner was a very ill-tempered morose woman, and quarrelled with every one on the most frivolous pretences. The other women did taunt her occasionally, when she insulted them, with being the mother of two bastards. The prisoner's hiatory was a singular one. She was the daughter of a respectable and enterprising Scotch farmer settled in the Uape uolony, and ne sens net uu Glasgow to visit her aunt, and to finish her education in Scotland. On the voyage she was seduced by the; captain @f the ship, a Scotchman, and became pregnant. She was delivered of a child in Glasgow, and her aunt sent her back to the Cape in the same ahip that brought her. The intimacy with the cap- tain was renewed; she became enceinte a second time, and gave birth to the child she was carrying. She found her way to this country again, and settled for three weeks in the dwelling of her seducer, who was a married man. Quarrels took place between the cap. tain's wife and her rival, and the prisoner was turned out of the house and found her way to the union, where she had since remained. The prisoner, i» defence, aaid the complainant called her names. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had behaved in a very refractory and violent manner, and sentenced her to one month's imprisonment ana hard labour for sue assault on Greasy* f (- l 1- i-- r

GARIBALDI ON THB EASTERN QUES- TION. General Garibaldi has addressed the following letter upon the Eastern question to a friend near London:— Caprera, 18th Dec., 1866. "That I love England with the affection of a son you cannot doubt, and that it is over the desire of my heart to see her in the first rank among nations is equally certain, but to caress the errors of her ministers-to that I cannot lend myself. I repeat, therefore, to your statesmen that which I have stated to our own-Do well, and you will receive praise, but to lavish praise on those who do evil is servile adulation, and I never flatter. In the war of giants waged by England against the first emperor, I search is the pages of those histories of your country which narrate it for one single expression of condemnation at the expenditure of millions of lives and millions of money sacrificed to combat one despotism, in- deed, but certainly to sustain another not less ex- acting. Who, however, on the other hand, will not eoafess with me that the services rendered by England to the cause of human progress have been immense ? And I in particular bear testimony to the benefits received from you by Italy in 1860, without which we should not now be exulting in the embrace of every member of the Italian family. But when I see the Government of this, my adopted country, allied with Austria and with Turkey, I must tell you the truth— namely, that I enhale the fumes of a charnel- house which all the national vitality may be unable to dispel if Great Britain places herself in contact with these dead corpses. I would rather see her using her power and her influence to support those oppressed nationali- ties at present going to decay in the putrid atmosphere of despotism, but who, remaining constant to their desire of purifying themselves, must certainly rise one day or another to their natural places in the fraternity of free nations. Let us leave Austria, whose Emperor ought to receive the fate of his brother Emperor at Mexico, and which exists only through the dissensions of the nationali- ties chock-mating each other's efforts towards emanci- pation. Let ua travel to Turkey, cosmopolitan as I am, and a believer in that God who desires, not fao. tions, but, on the contrary, that men should love each other as brethren (which fraternisation can only be possible, however, when we send the dervish to the spade and the Romish priest to the mattock). Believ- ing fully all this, I can make no difference between the natives of the plains of Tartary and my country- men born on the sunny hills of Rome. Bet have you any idea what this deepotiam of the Turks pro- tected by you really is ? I will give you an example. One day, in the port of Olivieri. in the island of Mytilene, I inquired of a Greek peasant the reason why he did not gather up the olives instead of permitting them to perish on the ground. 'Because,' he answered, 'the Pasha buys up all the olives, and we are compelled to deliver them to him at such-a low price that it would not pay the expense of gathering them in.' Bshold how the interest of this poor remnant of Christians is ne. gleited in temporal matters. And for the rest, for all that conueruB the prostitution of the body and of the soul, how am I to relate it to you mho have so kind a heart, and who have a son and daughters? It is most horrible! And if I do not speak of it, oh! forgive me! It is for the sake of decency, and from the respect which I owe you, tbat I cannot detail to you such brutalities. Well, now I have laid before you the condition of the Christians insider Islam, and Britain, the classic ground of human rights, the protectress of the oppressed, the emancipatrice of the slave, persists in upholding these fruits of a despotism the most inhuman, and the most monstrous! In 1827, Eng- land, France, and Russia, in one of those outbursts of generosity which God sometimes exsifces in great minds, accomplished one of those facts which in the history of nations are followed by universal gratitude. Let them complete the sublime task, let them spare to humanity a freah torrent of blood, and they will receive from her a thousand benedictions, G. GARIBALDI."

FORGING THE SEAL OF THE COURT QF QUEEN'S BENCH. James Dennis Maloney, late clerk to Mr. R. Jones, solicitor, 5, New-inn, was brought up at Bow-street OlJ Thursday, on remand, charged with stealing two sums of 5a. each from his master. On the 15th December the prisoner was sent by his master to issue several writs of summons, one in an action in which Mr. Stephanos Xenos was defendant, providing him with money to ¡;ay the fees for the same, being 5s. on erch writ. The prisoner's duty was to have these writs issued at the writ department of the Record, office, stamped with the seal of the Court of Queen's Bench, and no doubt with regard to all the writs but this one he did go. But the writ or pretended writ against Mr. Xenos having subsequently passed into the hands of another clerk who was instructed to have it served, he noticed that the impression of tho seal was re- versed. This led to inquiry at the Writ-office, when it was found that BO such wrifc had boeu iesaed. It seems that the genuine seal is impressed in blue ink, which remains damp for a few minates, and thus enabled him to transfer the impression, though some- what faintly, to another form, which of course had never been stamped at all. In another instance, the same trick had been resorted to, but so clumsily executed, that the genuine impression on the writ which had actually been issued had been nearly obliterated in the process, and the attempt had been made to prove its legibility by touching it up with pen and ink. Altogether there had been five instances in which the prisoner had committed the same fraud in each case for the same sum, 5s. The prosecutor was desirou3 of exhibiting every possible leniency towards the prisoner, and would have been satisfied that the offence should be dealt with as one of laroeny, which the learned magistrate would Have power to dispose of summarily, but Mr. Flowers held that it was clearly a forgery, with which he could not deal summarily under any circumstances, and being a counter feature of an official seal, it was far too serious a matter to be so treated, even if it came within the limits of his jurisdiction. The prisoner had been prepared to plead guilty if the case could have been dealt with at this con., but finding that he was to be sent to the Central Criminal Court, he elected to reserve his defence. He was accordingly committed for trial.

DEATH OF ALEXANDER SMITH, THE POET. Intelligence reached London on Saturday night of the death of Alexander Smith, a poet of some note in Scotland, which occurred on Friday morning at Wardia, near Edinburgh. He was born on the 31st of December, 1830, at Kilmarnock, where his father was a drawer of patterns, a lace designer, and the lad having shown some literary inclination was destined for the ministry of the Presbyterian Established Church. A serious illness and adverse family circumstances interfered with the continuance of his theological course, and ha was apprenticed to the business of lace designing. He cultivated litera- ture, however, and from a work he composed, "The Life Drama. he forwarded some extracts to the Rev. George Gilfillan, of Dundee, who obtained a place for them in the Critic." He subsequently published a volume entitled City Poems," and other works, which obtained for him a wide celebrity. In 1854 Mr. Smith was appointed secretary of the University of Edin- burgh. Among the latest productions of the poet were a story entitled The M'Gillowie's of M'Gillowie," and a couple of essays, one on County Histories," the other A Autumn Homily," whioh appeared in the Quiver."

Captain" Kelly, harb our master, died on Wed- nesday morning, from the wound received in the election riots in Waterford. Sale °f American Steamships.—The Arago and Flilton, comprising the New York and Havre line-the only American line now in operation—have been sold by auction in New Yerk. There was but a single btd, and they were knocked down to Mr. Learnard W. Jerome for 300,000 dollars. It was understood that Mr. Jerome acted for the company. The New York and Havre Steam Navigation Company was formed in 1848. Both its steamers, the Humboldt and Franklin, were afterwards lost, and the line was reorganised in 1855, building the Arago and Fulton in the next two years. t The two cost a million dollars, and another half million was expended in repairs. It is not yet decided what the directors will do with the vessels thus thrown back on their hands, but it was thought probable that arrangements would be made by which the steamers will be run as before. '¡ <'

I DREADFUL DEATH OF A CHILD. Mr. Humphreys, coroner, held an inquiry at the Seven Stars Tavern, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, on Thurs- day, touching the death from wast of Thomas Easthorpe, aged seven years. Rosa Easthorpe said that she lived at a cheap lodging house at No. 1, George-street, Spitalfields. She was the wife of a commercial traveller, but she had been abandoned by her husbar-d. The deceased was her illegitimate child. There were two other children, one of whom waa supported by her husband; the other, a girl of thirteen, lived with witness. When witness was left by her husband, she had no means of supporting them. She was the daughter of a publican, and having been brought up respectable," she had no trade or calling to fall back upon. She at first sold lucifers about the streets, but as she could not get food for her children that way, by degrees she went on the streets. She only had 6s. or 7s. a week for months past: out of that she had to pay 3s. a week rent, and the balance waa all she had to support deceased and herself. Her daughter got a shilling a week and her diet as a servant latterly. The deceased never had meat any more than witness; she could only give him bread and butter, and not enough of that, and sometimes he got a little tea. Sometimes witness got no money at all. She did the best she could for the deceased, and he had not enough of food or clothing. The Coroner asked the witness why she had not applied to the workhouse for relief. The witness said that she had done eo, but they would give her nothing unless she would enter the house. She had once before gone into the house, so that the parish authorities might find out her hus- band. They did so, and took him before the magis- trate. When she was left destitute on the last occa- sion she would not go into the house again, for there was no comfort there to make it better than a crust of broad outside, got anyhow. The deceased had been ailing for a long time past. On Monday he became very bad the parish doctor came to see him on Tues- day, but he was dead. Charlotte Barrester, wife of the keeper of the lodging-house in George-street, s&id that the last witness and her two children had lodged with her for about six months. They had a meal one day, and were three days without. The mother used to be out until three in the morning-sometimes the whole night. The children were generally up till she came home, for if witness put them to bed, as she had sometimes done, then the mother would come in without money and could Lot pay far their bed; but when she knew that they were not to go to bed till tha bed was paid for, she brought in the money. She was a sober woman she never drank. Witnes5 trusted her a little at times, and the lodgers would give the children bits of bread when they had nothing. Witness urged the mother to go into the workfcoose, but she said she would not for she had been in it befrra. Tha mother did her best for th-a children, but deceased was shockingly clothed, and had not enough of food. As for the girl of 13, for the last week or two sbe had gone off with the girls th&t went on the streets. Mr. Septimus Swyer, surgeon, said that ia obedience to a parish order he went to visit the deceased on Tuesday last, and he found him dead. The body was excessively emaciated. Tha post-mortem examination X" showed thatltte mtestinea were atrophied from long continued privations. The braiu was congested; the substance of it bad begun to eoften from want of food. There was only a very little trace of food in the stomach. The cause of death was congestion of the brain from want of proper food. A police-sergeant said that the lodging-house in which the deceased died was occupied by about 100 persons. Only those that were too reduced to geta home or a bed elsewhere lodged in it. The price of a. double bed was 7d. a night. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a. verdict of "Dùath from con- gestion of the brain from want of food and other necessaries." IIB'II'

A MILLION. DEATHS FROM FAMINE IN EASTERN INDIA. Under the above startling heading the Friend of India writes as follows Mr. T. Ravenahaw, Commissioner of Orissa, has sent to the Bengal Government a report of the famine in that province. Never haa so heart-rending a pic- ture been drawn. An official whose bias, if it exists, must lead him to tone down the horrible facts, estimates the loss of life from want of food and its consequences at from 560,000 to 600,000, and in some places at three-fourths of the whole population. This ia among the four and a half miliionsof Orissaalcne, where the official reports show the deaths to be still going on at the rate of 150 a day. The mortality was not less severe proportionally in the adjoining district of Mid- nopore, with its population of more than half a million. In Ganjam, with nearly a million of people, the calamity was comparatively light, bat famine, disease, and debility swept away thousands. The same is true of Chofca Nagpore. We hava a reliable record of the death of paupers from famine- stricke-q districts ia Calcutta. Add to all these the mortality in the other districts of Bengal from Saugor Island to Patna &nd the borders of Nepaul, and we have a record of the loss of life which exceeds in horror and extent that of any one of the six great droughts of India during the last oentury. Before the destroying angel takes its final flight the tale will have mounted up beyond a million known deaths. This is worse than in the great famine which carried off 800,000 people from the North Western Doab in 1838. We have reason to believe that the most terrible of all recorded Efiliations of this kind, that of 1770, was not more ruthless in its murderous work than this which still demands its daily holocaust. For the greater part of that million of deaths has occurred, not over a wide extent of territory, nor among millions ef people, but within an area not larger than that of England and Wales, and among a people who do not exceed six millions in number. No plague, no black death, no yellow fever, no great physical con- vulsion like the most tremendous earthquake on record, has ergulphed so many victims. The last famine, of which Baird Smith was the alleviator and historian, carried off half a nsiilion, or on!y a twenty- sixth of the thirteen millions affected, and the starva- tion price of food was never higher than 7t seers the rupee. This, ere it closes, will have swallowed up a sixth of the people, am. oii whom rice sometimes was not to be had at aU, and for many a long month not lower than 6 seers the rupee. England, the civilised world, will demand at the hands of the responsible authorities in India an account of the stewardship under which such a hideous loas of life has been possible. That account it is for Mr. Jastiee Campbell ard his colleagues in the recently appointed commission of inquiry to give, judiciously, sternly, fairiy. In the Iaot famine, when half a million perished, there was no doubt in the public mind that the calamity had been mitigated by every possible means. The 30 years' settlement had done much to apply the first, the radical remedy- the ability of the people to help themselves. The Ganges Canal supplied the second-the water which the heavens had denied for two years. The local government, Sir Gaorgo Edmonstons, a Bengal civilian, furnished the thira-tbe rapid organisation of re- lief, by himself working through a Board of Revenue aa able aa it was zealous, by enlisting the benevolence of the rest of India and England, and, above all, by applying for the services of a special commissioner and extra official staff at an early period. And the moment it was possible, a remedy for the future was promised in a pledge that the thirty years' assess- ment should be converted into a perpetual settlement. The parallel between Sir George Edmonstone and Sir Cecil Beadon, we need not draw. Leaving all other disputed Questions to be decided by the facts which the commission will supply and by Sir Cecil Beadon a own defence to the Secretary of State, we have three undeniable truths: — 1. That Sir Cecil Beadon neglected preparations for the permanent set- tlement of Orissa on the expiry of the assessments which fell in last month. 2. That up till June last Sir Ceci Beadon, the Board of Revenue, and the local officials alike disbelieved in the reality or extent of the famine which the public were pressing on their attentien; and 3. That Sir Cecil Beadon has characteristically sacrificed a local official whose only fault was that of accepting this belief from his Euperiors. and who over- tasked himself to grapple unassisted with a calamity, the magnitude of which he recognised before his rash censor. +

Admission of Attorneys.—The number of new applications for admission in the next term and Hilary [ vacation is 168. The certificate duty on attorneys [ exceed £ 70,000 a year.

OUR "CITY" ARTICLE. THE state of business throughout the City was greatly impeded during the first week of the new year by the fall of snow and the continuous frost. Never before was such a period of dulness and in- activity apparent. The difficulty of locomotion was something extraordinary, and from day to day the attendance of bankers, merchants, and brokers on 'Change was altogether limited. The thaw which set in on Sunday gave hopes that a speedy recovery would take place if we could get more settled weather, but until that is the case it is not probable the real current of business will be ascertained. Trading operations were almost stagnant; in Mincing-lane the tendency was a little more favourable, with a slight extension of dealings; and at the Stock Exchange it would only seem requisite for the season to brighten to have a further recovery in quotations. b The position of the Money Market has not es- sentially varied. The rates, nevertheless, show a slight tendency towards decline. The business transactions of the new year have not undergone any special development, and, therefore, no difficulty has been experienced in obtaining any reasonable amount of accommodation. The terms for the negotiation of first-class paper have varied from 3i to i per cent. On Saturday the quotation dropped to 3;} per cent.; and it is believed we shall see the official minimum,before long 3 per cent. The situation of trade leads to the expectation that in the course of the next month even lower rates may rule, though they would not be condu- cive of benefit, and might probably be productive of mischief, through forcing into negotiation a variety of fresh lean operations. For the present there is reason to anticipate that the supply will be much better than the inquiry, and that there will be a continuance of an easy condition of things. The market for English securities does not greatly fluctuate, but the tendency is again rather favourable. Notwithstandingtbe late inter- ruption to business through the state of the weather and the frost, some purchases have taken place, and since the weather has changed, an upward movement is apparent. The operations have been principally bona fide, owing to the in- vestments made by bankers and others. The few speculative transactions that have been for the rise have netted a considerable profit to those who have engaged in them. Sales, however, which have since occurred, have produced a reaction, but after a slight fall a recovery has once more set in. The tone of the market is altogether strong. Reduced and New stand in an encouraging position, because some purchases have been made of them. It is quite evident this depart- ment will continuer well supported, the public showing more than ever a disposition to take these special classes. There has also been a fair share of dealing in India Stock, Rupee Paper, and the debentures. The business has been on a moderate scale, with prices slightly in advance, but the activity has not been general. Bank Stock and India Guaranteed Stock have been sustained, the engagements having been limited. India Bonds and Exchequer Bills have been steady, without particular change. The supply of money has the last few days been pretty f all, the terms for short loans rule about 22 1 to 3 per cent., and latterly the quantity offering has been largely in excess of the demand. The buoyancy of the English Stock Market was further developed on Saturday, which was indi- cated by a rise of £ per cent, in the value of Consols. This movement has been promoted by steady purchases for investment, and numerous speculative operations for a rise. The lowest quotations for Consols on Saturday was 901, and the highest reached 90|. The return from the Bank of England, com- pleted to the 2nd instant, shows some rather important changes, although they are generally of a favourable character. The bullion has been increased by X167,502, while the reserve of notes shows a decrease of < £ 1,332,200. The commercial bills discounted, and the loans have been aug- mented by £ 2,575.247, which has caused an addi- tion to the private balances of £ 2,000,000. A very fair amount of business was transacted during the first week in 1867 in the railway share department. An advance has taken place as fol- lows :-Caledonian, 1; Midland,114; Great Westers, 1-2-; London, Chatham, and Dover, If; Lancashire j and Yorkshire, 2; London and North Western, 21 Sileffield and South Eastern, 31 Metropoli- 2 tan, 4; and Great Northern, 3. Bank shares have been in moderate request, and in several instances have shown an upward movement in prices. London and Westminster I have advanced Y,2 to 98 100; Albion Baiok, .£1 to 15 10 dis.; Bank of New Zealand, £ 1 to 8 10 prem.; Colonial Bank, -91 to 39 41; English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered, £ 1 to 16 17; English and Swedish, .£1 to 11 9 dis. The first drawing by lot of bonds of the Bra- j zilian Five per Cent. Loan of 1865 took place on the 1st inst., and the numbers of the bonds drawn for repayment at par on the 1st March next are published. They are 259 in number, and repre- sent £ 34,800. The amount required far the March dividend on the Turkish Loan of 1858 being already at the credit of the Syndicate, the Im- I perial Ottoman Bank is instructed by the Otto- man Government to give notice that on and after Friday, the 1st February, it will discount that dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. There has been more animation ia the market for American Securities latterly, and prices have undergone some rather important variations, From the opening on New Year'3 Day to the close of the market on Thursday, the tendency was up- of the market on Thursday, the tendency was up- wards on large purchases from the Continent induced by the decline in the quotation for gold at New York. On Friday, however, a general and decided decline took place in quotations, pro- duced by large orders to sell from the Continent, accompanied by unfavourable rumours respecting Congress and the President. On Saturday, in the absence of any confirmation of these statements, a decidedly firmer tone was again apparent, and the market closed with a buoyant appearance. United States Government Six per Cent. 5-20 Bonds, after advancing to 731 73, receded to 72J 73, and have since recovered to 72| 73 J, which are the latest quotations, showing an advance of t. Erie shares were at one time 46 £ 46t, then 45-3- 46, and lastly 4 46461, or i higher. Illinois shares have been very buoyant, and after being 82t 82! closed at 81f 4 4 82}, or at an advance of 2t. Atlantic and Great 4 4 Western Railway securities were seriously depre- I ciated during the early part of the week by specu- lative sales, but on Friday they advanced to an important extent, which was increased on Satur- day, through the confidence engendered by the address of Mr. James M'Henry, the financial agent Ðf the company in this country. The debentures, after being 50 to 52, closed at 54 56, or 2 per cent. higher. The Consolidated Mortgage Bonds were at one time forced down to 39| 40?, but closed at 41| 42, showing an established rise of$per cent. The supply of money on Monday was large, and I the rates of discount working lower. The terms i for first-class bills stood at 3t to H; but ia some 4 8 cases 3-k was accepted. The change in the I weather was considered favourable to business. The markets for public securities exhibited steadi- ness, and in railway and foreign stocks there was rather more activity. # j The amount of money offering at the Stock j Exchange was large, with little or no demand, and the rate varied from 2 to 2t per cent. | 2

JUnbDlt nub Qtnuntl'J2 The Money Market. CITY, JAN. 8.—There was a downward tendency in the money market o- ay, partly owing to the knowledge that about 800,000 in Australian gold is now on the way to Ens- land, and as a large portion will probably arrive within a week the markets for public securities opened very firmly this morning, but a relapse has since taken place upon sales to realise profits. The discount market is extremely easv, with a lar^a amount of money seeking- employment., and few bills offer- ing. The geneml quotation for choice paper is 3i per cent., but exceptieiial traumctions sire reported at 3f. Consols are now quoted to 91, ex div., both for money and next Thursday's settlement, and 21 to ex div., for tho February account. The railway market is somewhat flatter to-day, the recent great, rise in prices having caused some of the operators to rennse. JV±etropohtan stock is now guoted 12&-I- to 129 • Great Western, to f; London and North-Western, 123 i° iSi S to *'< Lancashire ar.d Yorkshire, 130i 1^1: Caledonian, 123 to 125; South-Eastern, 71i to 4 Great Eastern, 31f te 32; Great Northern, 120i to 121 £ ditto A, loOj to '131J; London, Chatham, and Dover, 17J to IS; and North British, 38J- to 39$. Corn Trade. MARK-LANE, JAN. 7.—The arrivals of English Wheat fresh up to our market to-day were very limited, but in fair con dition. There was an increased supply of foreign Wheat on the stands; but other kinds moved off heavily. A large quantity of wheat is now close at hand from the Black Sea porta. Since Saturday evening the imports have been heavy.-Very little fine Barley was brought forward; but the supply of foreign was extensive.—Malt was in fair average supply, and moderate request.—Oats commanded full quotations; but. the sale for them was by no means act,ive.-Peas moved off slowly.—The sale for both English and foreign Flour was quiet. CUSBEHT PBICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AWn TrmTTTl. Shillings per Quarter. WHEAT, Essex and Kent, white new 54 to 61 » it red 52 66 Norfolk, Lincoln, and Yorkshire, red 51 66 BAELEY 34 to 37.Chevalier, new 41 53 Grinding 31 34.Distilling 39 44 MALT, Essex, Norfolk, & Suffolk, new 72 76 Kingston, Ware, & town-made, new 72 76 Brown 58 65 RYE 32 88 OATS, English, feed 24 to 31 Potato 28 36 Scotch, feed .24 31 Potato SO 06 Irisli, feed, white 22 26 Fine .26 31 Ditto, black 21 25. Potato 27 32 BEANS, Mazagan .37 40.Ticks 37 40 Harrow .41 45 Pigeon 44 48 PEAS, white,boilers 40 42 STaple 3,9feo 40 Grey,new 37 38 FLOUR, per sack of 280lbs., Town, Households 52 57 50 Norfolk and Suffolk, on shore. 44 46 FOREIGN GRAIN. WHEAT, Dantzic, mixed .61 to 65 old, extra 66 74 Konigsberg 60 6t extra 66 69 Eostock 57 66 fine 66 69 Silesian, red.56 62 white 60 67 Pomeia., Meckberg., and Uckermrk.red old. 59 65 Russian, hard, 51 to 56.St. Petersburg and Riga 55 61 Danish and Holstein, red 56 61 French, none Rhine and Belgium 59 65 American,redwirterOOtoOO.springOOtoOO,white BARLEY, grinding 29 to 31. distilling and malting 34 39 OATS, Dutch, brewing and Polands 22 to 32.feed 21 27 Danish and Swedish, feed 24 to 30.Stralsund. 24 30 Russian, Riga 24 to 27.Arch., 23 to 26.P'sburg 24 29 TARES, spring, per qr 00 00 BEANS, Friesland and Holstein 38 43 Konigsberg 40 to 43.Egyptian 40 42 PEAS, feedingand maple 87 40.fine boilers 38 40 INDIAN CORN, white .35 39.vellow 35 39 FLOUR, per sack, French 44 53.Spanish, p. sack 45 52 American, per brl 27 30.extra and d'ble. 30 S3 LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8.—The roasket fairly attend! ed. Wheat and ilour remain steady at lost Friday's prices. Indian Corn. 42860. Oats and Oatmeal unchanged. Beans steady. WAKEFIELD, JAN. 4.—Wheat trade more active than of late, at Is advance. Barley, Beans, and Oats, each command full nrices. Meat and Poultry Markets. NEWGATE AND IŒ;ADENHALL.-There are moierate supplies of meat, and the trade is steady. Per SIbs. by the carcase• s. d. s. d Inferior beef 3 2 to 3 4 Middling ditto 3 6 3 10 Prime large 4 0 4 4 Ditto small 4 6 4 8 Large pork .3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton 8 4 4 0 Middling ditto 4 4 4 6 Prime ditto 4 8 410 Yeal 4 0 5 2 Inferior mutton 3 4 4 0 Middling ditto 4 4 4 6 Prime ditto 4 8 410 Yeal 4 0 5 2 Small pork 4 2 4 8 Lamb 0 0 0 0 Turkeys, each 5 0 15 0 Goslings, each 4 0 10 0 Fowls, each 4 0 6 01 s. d. feo s. <2. Cnpons, each. 0 0 0 0 Chickens, each 2 0 3 0 Ducklings, each 2 6 4 0 Rabbits, each. 10 2 0 Hares, each 2 6 3 6 Grouse, ellch n. 0 0 0 0 Partridges,each 0 0 0 0 Pheasants,each. 0 0 0 0 Pigeons, each. 0 8 0 10 OB ten d f r. butter, per doz; lbs. 12 0 17 0 English ditto. 13 0 17 0 Frenche?gs, 100 8 6 10 0 English ditto. 13 0 35 0 METROPOLITAN. A statement of the supplies and prices of fat live stock on Monday, Jan. 8, 1836, aa OOEi« pared with Monday, Jan. 7, 1866 Per Sibs. to sink the offal. Jan. 8, 1866. Jan. 7,1366, S. (I. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts 3 4 to 3 3 3 8 to 3 10 Second quality ditto 330 4 4 4 0 4 8 Prime large Osen 4 6 4 10 4 10 5 2 Prime Scots, &c 4 10 5 0 5 4 5 6 Coarse and inferior Sheep 4 0 4 8 3 6 4 0 Second quality ditto 4 10 5 6 4 2 4 10 Prime coaree-woolled ditto 5 8 6 2 5 0 5 8 Prime Southdown ditto 6 4 6 8 5 10 6 4 Lambs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calve3 4 0 4 6 4 6 5 2 Prime small ditto 4 8 5 0 5 4 5 8 Large Hogs 4 0 4 6 3 6 4 0 Neat small Porkers 4 8 5 0 4 2 4 6 Fruit and Vegetables. COVENT-GARDEN. Produce, both home-grown and continental, has this week been greatly diminished in quantity, owing to the severe frost and heavy fall of snow which we have experienced. There are, however, large stocks of many things in hand. Hothouse grapes re- main as they were last week. Pears btill consist of Glon Morceau, Beurre Diel, and winter Nelis; apples of ribston pippin, Cox's orange pippin, and old nonpareil. Oranges are both excellent and cheap. Kent cobs continue to realise fair prices. Broccoli still arrives from the West of England. Portugal onions fetch from 6s to 12s per 100. Potatoes may be had at last week's quotations. Flowers chiefly consist of orchids, Chinese primulas, violets, pelar- goniums, mignonette, and roses. FRUIT. s. a. B d. | Apples, p. bushel 4 0 to 8 0 Chestnuts, per bs.10 0 18 0 Currants, pr. siv. 0 0 0 0 Grapes, per lb. 4 0 8 0 Lemons,p. 100 4 0 8 0 Nuts,cob,1001b 70 0 75 0 Filberts, pr lb. 0 0 0 0 1 B. a. B. a Oranges, p.l00 2 6 7 0 Peaches,per doz. 0 0 0 0 Pears,kitehen,dz. 2 0 6 0 dessert M 0 0 0 0 Pineapples, p. lb. 6 0 8 0 Strawberries,p. lb, 0 0 0 0 Melons, each 3 0 4 0 VEGETABLES. B d s dj Artichokes,per doz.2 0 to 4 01' Àsparagus,perbun.O 0 0 0) Beans,kidney,p.lsv.O 0 0 01 Beet, per dozen 1 0 2 0| Broccoli, p. bundle 0 0 0 Oi Cabbages, per doz. 2 0 4 0"1 Carrots, per bunch 0 6 C 8/ Cauliflowers, p. doz. 2 0 SO; Celery, per bundle 2 0 3 01 Cucumbers, each 10 2 0 Endive, per doz.1 0 16' I Garlic, per lb 0 8 0 0J Herbs, per bunch .0 6 0 01 Horseradish, p. bn.4 0 6 0 I Leeks, per bunch.0 6 0 0\1 Lettuces, per score 2 0 3 0|i Mint, perbuach .1 0 0 0!' s d s d Mushroom s,perpott.l 0 16 Mustard& Cress,p.p.O 2 00 Onions, per bushel 4 0 5 0 „ pickling, p.qt.O 0 0 0 143V Parsley, per i si e 16 20 Parsnips, per doz. 0 0 0 0 Peas, per qt 0 0 00 Potatoes, York Re- „ gents, per ton .100 0 135 0 Bocks, per ton 85 0 _95 G Flukes, per ton 115 0145 0 Kidneys, per ewt 0 0 0 0 Radishes, p. 12 bn. 1 0 16 Rhubarb, p. bundle 0 0 0 0 seakale,per punnet 2 0 30 Spinach, per bush. 5 0 6 C Turnips, per bunch 0 6 0 0 London Produce Market. I MINCING-LANE, JAN. 8.— SUGAR.—1The market has I Opened with a good demand and at nrm prices. The sales include 700 boxes of at ù2"S 6d; 1,000 bags of Mauritius, at 27s 6ci to 30s; 1,^00 bags of Peiiaug at 30s 9d, and 5.000 bags C F nnclayed Manilla at 25s 6d. Refined is in fair, but not active, reqneat, at the full prioes of last week. I COFFEE.—A good business is doing in plantation Ceylon, at fully previous rates. TEA. There is stm a lair trade demand at steady prices. RICE AND SAMPETSE remain quiet. I Ru,r -No sales reported. COTTON.—The sales are confined to small parcels at about previous sates. JVTS.—A fair auioyiit of business is doing at steady HEMP.—AFT > £ 34 10s for St. Petersburg clean, and £ 47 to £ 48 for roping Manilla, the market is steady, GAMBIEE.—A parcel of cubes sold at 29s. s PRICES OF BUTTER, CHEESE, HAMS, &c., at per ewt —Butter: Friesiand, 116s to ISOB; Jersey, 943 to 114s Dorset, 128s to 132s. Fresh: per doz., 14a Od to 13s Od; Ch Cheshire, 78s toSSs; Double Gloucester, 74s to 78s Cheddar, 80a to 90s; American, 66s to 74s. Hams: York, new. 90s to 100s; Cumberland, new, 90s to 100s; Irish, new, 90s to 100s. Bacon: Wiltshire. 64s to 68s; Irish, green, 563 to 60s. COTTON, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8.—The market quiet but steady. Sales about 10,000 bales. TALLOW, JAN. 8.—The'market is steady. Town Tallow is quoted, 44s; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot. 44s 9d; Janu- ary to March, 44s 9d; March, 45s 3d; April to June, 45s 3d; October to December, 45s 9d to 46s. HOPS, BOROUGH, JAN. 7.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report more activity in the trade, with a very short supply, and prices gradually advancing. HAY MARKETS. I Meadow Hay.. Clover Straw Smithfleld. a. d. s. d. 60 Olt. 95 0 80 0 115 0 36 0 41 0 Cumberland, I a. d. a. d. 65 0 to 95 0 80 0 115 0 38 0 45 0 Whiteohapei, s. d. S. d. 69 0 to 95 0 80 0 115 0 qôO 440