... PACKET SOATS. II GEsSR1AL POST OFFICE. Pe. 24. ,Mails Last Packet NextPacket DESTINATISS. Ide3nazchod Sailed. Due. DESTIS>clos. [from London.; Lisbon .7th, 17th, andd . Spain . 3 ,th o'f La c e, Dec . 17. Gibraltar .. . every onth !ec.. Gibraltar, Malta, Greece. Ionian 1 20th of Ripen, Dec. 2&. ls.Egypt,Cev- every month.l Dec. 2u. lorn, India, &c.; British Colons. in'I W. Indies (ex - ...

... sJaNB& ':The market has nlbl b'een a1'o-abu ' 'fe'w t~ransactions have taken place in 'West Provi- Y 'dence, Alfrd COUSQl, St. rAub; a~nd (irsU, ?? j . In foreign shares, Seistiago it 4. ?? -, fi ' Notviithstaiidmng the'ChristA ?? 'i+lk 1 d has. been remarkable for greatV activity 'in: ?? >r share market, and for the numberof ?? :foF. ?? investment in dividend mines ?? and ~if the,';dejngae42 ...

... In the early part of the week the transactions in West India mos- covado sugar were limited; latterly, as usoal, the market hlas been closed on accoont of tbe holidays. The sales acoocirt to 150 hlids. and trs. Good brown Trinidads Bold at 31i, and brown Demerara 31s. Nothing done in Mallritills, Bengal,, or foreign sugars, or in West India molesses. Itelitied sugars have had a fir sale, ...

... (From the Shipping Gazette of Friday.) The depression which wehad to noticeas existinginthegraintrade for several weeks past still continues, although circumstances have oc- curred of late of a nature calculated to restore confidence. We refer more particularly to the falling off in the arrivals from abroad, and the relatively high pri-es current in most of the continental markets as compared ...

... FORGERIES ON THE YORKSHIRE BANKING COfP4A NY. it, LEEDS, DzC. 30.-An extensive forgery has just been erbrought to light in this locality. Front what has transpired r, within the last few days it is evident that forged notes of the in Yorkshire Banking Company (which has branches in most is of the large towns of Yorkshire) have been rather extensively is a circulated. Last Friday two men, named ...

... I T n s n o ' ?? o c I , M O E D A Y , ?? c . 2 9 , 1 8 6 1 .~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -I Am _ RAILWAYS aes fI sY 851 Preference, ai pera. in ?? 0 851mbrgteand EasteriiJU110. 5 5~ - 26 Iirkh.,L.,aud~heiih 11 d 2ILate Chester and jl3irkonh55ad I lot10 1'2~ Do. £22 shares . ?? ogd I snc 2 Birranghasn, and Dudi6Y ?? 2155 Ifle~ese 20 Birmingham and Oxford guar 29k2 50 at day. 20 Dit , ...

... CORN EXCHANGE.-IARiK LANE, LONDONf MONDAY, Dec. 29-There was a short supply of wvheat crriage samplea from Essex ;Ind Kent this mooming, byith a lilri quantity of barley, beauns, and peas from all the ngear ewotithie, d the fresh arrivals of English oat, were modercte, but there u, fair addition of Swotch and English. The imparts of foreln a were scanty. and those ofosts only to a moderate ...

... REVIEWV OF TIIE CORN TRADE. { f. V-- -1 1, - L 7 ._7 (Eront the Marke Lanle Ejrcess of Mon(lay.) SB .BIIITISH. ; Daring the year now about to close, supplies have been TA almost constantly in excess of demand, and, vith the Px ep- c i tion of a ternporury rally in June and the early part of JIly the tendlency of prices has been uniformly downward. Tbe TA rise allnded to was caused by fears ...

... otavuet urvorto.1 . . .11-111, ?? 1. ?? I-- - . WOOL MARKETS. I w BRITISH, W wI LEEDs, Drc. 20.-Thore has been a fair extent of business so done this week in the English wool marlket, and irices are firmer, bu with on upward tendency. . fot LIVERPOOL, DEC. 27.-Scotch: There has be* afair business br doing in laid Highland wool, but eo far ?? an ration in price. Fi White Highland is still ...

... THE GOLD DISCO VERIES AND THE RATE OF INTEREST ON CAPiTAL. nt [FROM THE ECONOMIST.J 0 There is one very important consideration in connection e with the recent discgveries of gold in California and Aus- _ tralia, and the probable depreciation of the value of i that metal in relation to other commodities, which has E hitherto been left without any public discussion, however be much it may have ...

... . 9be learkets. BELFAST. TuIESDAY, DEc. 30, 1851. NVIItxT.-Wheat, white (farmers' lots, 1121bs.), Gs Od to 7s Gd; do., red, Ss Gd to 7s Gd per do. Store lots, per ton, Irish, £81.5s Od to OS 6s Od; Polish Odessa, £8 Os to £8 S;si Dantzic, £10 1OsOd; French, £9 Os to £9 os; Egyptian, £7 Os Od (O s.-P'olishl, 5s Od to Os Od per 1121bs.; Potato, 5s Cd to Gs 3d per do. 0ATNIEAL.-s (d to lOs Gd per ...

... fart W GRAIN, &c, Durin LONDON CORN EXCHANGE-Dec. 26. Darin-, the present week the arrivals of English wheat up to our market, coastwise, have been only 1130 quarters, chiefly from Essex and Kent. Fresh up to-day the receipts were very limited, and in but middling condition. As the attendance of both town and country rtillers was unusually small, the de- mnand for all kinds of wheat of home ...