... Tavrspar.—The Eo * opened this morning at the lower qnotations of yesterday, and subsequently expe- rienced a farther decline, The first price of was 101 to }, and although touched at one time 101} the last quotation was 101 to 4, and after regular hours there were sellers at 101. The reason assigned for the fall was a rumour that the Chancellor of the xchequer intends to pro- pose a ...

... Mospar.—Impreesed with a belief that the public debt of the country will, for the present at least, be left intact, and that the surplus at the end of each financial period will, owing to the extraordinary and iccreasin: prosperity of the country, be much larger than the Chancellor of the Exche- quer veatares to anticipate, the public continue to invest in our home stocks, although ia small ...

... THE NEW GAZZA LA RA, (From the Morning Chronicle.) The following is an illustration of Mr “ Cicero- nian” habit of learning commonplaces and forgetting to specify that they are quotations. The words “it has been well ob- served” can apply to the first sentence only ; and if they are intended as a loophole, that only shows the plogiariem to be thoronghly willul. 1: may be well to stete that “ ...

... FETTERCAIRN FARMERS’ CLUB. (Montrose Standard.) The following are some of the reports on “ The Compara- tive Value of Different Special Manures for Rearing Turnips,” as given at the last meeting of the Club:— From Sir Joun Stuart Fornss, Bart, on Turnips grown at Fettercairn, 1852:—The kind bullock yellow green 3ist May, on biack loam, over clay and sandstone rock—furrow-drained after oats, ...

... Luntelligqence. SOUND LIST. December 13.—Naxo, Harild, Inverkeithing, Copenhagen —15. Caroline, do. , do. Winds at Elsinore.— Dec. 13. SW.—14. S. SSW. SSE. $.—15. 8. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. The W. S. Lindsay, Western, from London to Port-Philip, has put back to Greenhit’e to have her compasses adjusted. Harw'ch, Dec. 18.—The Agnes, of Leith, coal laden, bound to Saragossa (?), in making for the ...

... Cagland. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1852. — PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY. ~- Bank Cor 24 India Bonds under £1000 se Ditto for Account - - South Sea Stock.. - Three per Cent.Red. Anlot Do. Old Annuities Three perCent.Con An, — Do. New Annuities Consols for Ae New 5 per Cent. Ann. — New 3j per Cent. 14! India Stock for Ac New 5 per Cents. Canada Guaranteed Debs. ...

... PROC A meeting of the Town-Council was held on Taesday—the Lord Provost presiding. EXCURSIONISTS, Tn answer to a question from Mr Sclanders, the Lord Pro- vost stated that there was no truth in a paragraph in the Mer- cory, copied from a Glasgow paper, that the public institutions had been closed against excursionists, in consequence of the His Lord- improper conduct of an English excursion ...

... Shipping Entelligence. UND LIST. December 6.—Earl of Moray, Ross, Burghead, Stettin.— 8. Rachel, Romer, Kirkcaldy, Copenhagen. Winds at Elsinore. — Dec. 5. NW. — 6. NW. SE—7. NW. ENN.—8, SE. SSE.—9. S. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Danbar, Dec. 11.—The Betsy and Isabella, Henderson: from Grangemouth to Hull, struck on the rocks at Skateraw this morning, but floated off with the tide, and bas been brought ...

... letter of Mr Councillor Kay, to the Caledonian Mercury, on the Edin- burgh and Hawick Mail, will be found in another We recommend their attentive pernsal to our readers, as ex- pressing more fully than we have been hitherto enabled to do the great injustice of our postal The haggling spirit in which the postal authorities have met the railway company is discreditable to them, and should be ...

... OTCH PARLIAMENTRY PROCEEDINGS British Fisheries—Petition of fishermen of Newbigging, for participation in the benefits and privileges of the Board of British Fisheries ; to lie on the table. Inhabited House-Duty—Petition against the proposed mea- sure from Edinburgh. Malt and Inhabited House-Dnties—Petition from Edin- burgh against the proposed reduction of the duty on malt, and the extension ...

... arkets GRAIN, &c. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE—Dec. 3. The present week's arrival of English wheat up to our market’ coastwise, has amounted to 2190 quarters, chiefly in middling condition. by land carriage the receipts fresh up to-day were small. very moderate, and the show of samples was comparatively As in general bold limited etock, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce ruled steady, ...

... arkets GRAIN, &c. MARK LANE—Nor. 29, At this morning's market there was an exceedingly small show of wheat by land-carriage samples from Kesex and Kent, and few offers from the cast coast. No improvement in the condition was perceptible; the millers, nevertheless, bought rather freely, and a clearance was made early at an advance of 1s to 2e per qr on the currency of this day se‘nnight. The ...