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THE LAW OF MARRIAGE, meppinr ome areata manera! oe | | DeraRrMgntT or Stats, | Wasutneron, Nov. 11, 1854. * Brn— Yon will receive for your . tien and guidance, an opinion given at the request ef this d+partment, and which receivesits sanc- tiem by Hon. C. Cushing, At of the United States,on the law of marriage, 62 far as it re- Jates to its celebration by United States officers, and more especially consuls, and treating incidentally ofthe nature of the consular office and the duties as gee it. | J am, sir, respectfally, your obedient servant, W. L. Marcy. OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. ArroRNEY GBNERAL’s Orrice, Nov. 4, 1854. Su—Y of the Sd icst. states ‘that it is tice, to some extent, of the con- suls of the United States abroad to mirry parties, ‘wither citizens of the United States or not, and this ‘without observan:e of the laws of the particalar Tegarding marriage, ard sugges'a the in- whether such marriages are valid in the d States, cither as to the onal status of ‘the parties themselves and their issue, or as t an; of rights of property depending on the matri- monje] relation. This mquiry belongs to international law private, ‘as distinguished fiom international law public; ‘that ia to say, it regards, not the relations of nations | among theniselyes, but the relations of individaals to the laws, civil or criminal, of different nations. (Felix, Dr. lot. Privé, tit. prél.) ‘The different States of Christendom are combined, | by reiigious faith, by civilization, by szien:e and | art, by conventions, and oS or idess of rigu; having the moral force of law, int) a community of | mations, each politically sovereign and independent | of the other, but all admitting much interchacge of legal rigvte or duties. (Vatiel, Droit des Gens, Prel. 8. 11; Wheaton’s Elements, p. 40; Garden, ©. de dip. ce Europe, tom. i, int. p, 3.) As bet veen themselves, ths general rule of public Jew is that cach independent State is sovereiga in Meelf, and has more or leas complete jurisdiction o ali persons beiag, matters happening, coatracs mode, or acts done, within its own tecritory.— Kilaber, D-oit des Gens, 8. 21 and passim; Ssory’ Confitct ot Laws, ch. 2.) I say more or less complete, bscause, althongh each ration possesses its territory as its own ani exercises juritdiction witsia itself, not ouly as to one, whether subjects or foreignors, their actsand ‘theis property therein, and in general nei her claims Haclf, por concedes to others, extsraal jurisdictioa, yet each yields to the other certain recipro val rights ‘within itself, which are sometimes denominated by ‘She civil law term of servitudes of the public law or law of pations.—( Martens, Précis. 8. 83.) ‘Tuese privileges. servitudes, or easements of pub- Tic law have grown up either by express convention, or by usage founded on consent. (Per Ch. J. Mar- | whali, the Exchange, vii Cranch, p. 156.) Among "eem are the effect, which, in certain cases, one state concedes to the laws of another in regard to seontracts mate in the latter, and the resiprecal Tights conceded of personal residence or commercial course, and of the intercbange of ministers and | consuls, which con essions modity to a certain de- ree the hypothetical completeness of the internal sovereignty of each nation. Hence, in ail the discussions of private interna- | ‘tional right, the fundamental and all-pervading dis- tinction between the statute personal, or the laws of one’s own preper domicil, and the statute real, or the laws which are independent of the person, and | which regulate in a foreign country hia acts or in- | teresta irrespective of his domicil. The personal statute is transitory, and follows the person ; the | real statate is chiefly confined to things, which it eontrols only in the locus rei site, or the given ter- ritory. (Datloz, Dic'. Juris. s.v. Loi Pers.; Proud- hon, Des Personnes, tom. 1, p. 8. To the regular jarisdiction, however, of eaah over persons, things, and acts, being or @one wit! in it, there exist, by received public law, wertain absolute exceptions. These exceptions are the several ceses of exterritorislity: that is, the various conditions in which a person, though abioad, is exsmpt from the foreign jurisdiction, and is deemed to be still within the territory and jurisdic- thon of his own country. ‘The doctrine of exterritoriality {s denounced by | Bome speculative publicists as if it were a mere fiction of law. (See Pinbeiro Ferreira, Droit Pub- He, tom. 2,7.197.) This view of the matter is su- | Perficial, for it is only a cavil as to the name; and e@rronecus, because it argues upon the name, and | not the thing which it represents. The word “ exterritoriality” is a sufficiently | @efinite technical designation for the peculiarity of legal condition alreaay defined as attaching ty cer- tain perscns in a foreign country, to wit: the case Ot wb accusi sovereign of an ee encent State, bis pereen, saite, residence and farniture, while #ides or sojourns peaceably in a foreign coun’ foreign army, whether in peace or war; p ‘war genevally, and sometimes a merchant ship ina port, and either of tiem on the high seas in a@li_circumstasces; ard a foreign am assidoc. (Wreaton’s E!., p- 139.) Imall these cases, aud expressly in that of for- ~@ign ministers, the privilege of extercttoritlity | extends to th» residetce as well a3 the person Whe foreign minister, aud to certaia legal acts pe: formed in bis presence. (Vattel,}.8, ch.7, 8, Klnber, 8. 204; Martens, Précis, 1.7, ch. Moelix, liy.2, tit. 2, ch. 2, s. 4; Ch. de Martens, Guide Diplo matique, ch. 5.) Such are the rights of an ambassador or other m minister. But, although consuls are not merely commercial agents, as many autho’s assert, Wicquefort, Am>as, vol.i, p. 133; Bynkersh. de . mare 165. Wildman’s Institutes, p. 165); and although ‘hey undgubtecly have certain of tie qua- Hives snd sore of the rignts of a foreiga minis‘er | 1 {ace De Cussy, Réglements Consulaires, sec. 7 stil it is undeviable that they do not enjoy the privileges of exterritoriality, according to the tules ot public law reccived in the United S ates. (Cia k ve. Cretico, i. Taunton, 106; The Anna, iii. heaton, 446; United States va. Ravara ii. Datlas, 297; Viveash vs. Beeker, iii. Maule and Sel., 284; Barbuir’s case, Cases Temp. Tatbos, 2: Jom: ith vs, Kestoff, v Serg. & R., wa. Halvack. i Miles, 46; Davis vs. P: Peters, 276; S.C., vi Wend, 327; 8. C., x Weng., 50; Flyna vs. Stoughton, v Barb. 8. C. R., 115; State | we- De la Foret, ii Nott & M., 217; Manohard’ vs. Soderstrom, i Bin., 1: fall vs. Young, iii Pick, 80; Sartori vs. Hamilton, i Green’s R., 107.) In all the adjudged cases above cited, itis expresal; Darand Kkhard, vii t ly ruled, or the point presentei assumes, Bhat the covsuls are subject to the local jurisi, ‘The same doctrine is recognized ia the modera law treatises of most au‘ , Whether in the Uni'ed | Btates or is Great Britain. [Wheaton’s clements, p. 293; Kent’s Com., vol.i, p. 43; Wildman’s [ist., wol.t, p. 150; Flynn's Brit. Sonwits, ch. 5.) Notwit standing the somewhat vagus specala- ions of Vetiel and Some other continental anthors won the question whether cousils are quasi minis- ters or not, (Vattel, Droit des Géns, i 8; De Cusy Réglemoats C onsalai $ reuil, Agents Co Borel, Des Con- muls, ch. 3); it is ly lished by judicial decisions on toe conticent, and by the opisions of the best modero authorities taere, that consn's do not enjoy the diplomatic privileges accorded to the ministers of foreign powérs; that in their personal affairs they are justiciable by the local tribunals for offences, and subject to the same recourse of ¢xecu- Bion ac other resiJent foreigners; and that they can- mot pretend to the same personal tnviolability and ex: Smption frow jurisdiction as foreiga ministers eajry by We lew of vations. (Fl x, i. ul, tis 2, canp. 2, 4; Datioz, Dic. de Jurispr., tit. Agents Diplomy » nO.35; Co. de Martens, Guide Diplomas, 2 of ii talloee 7 secnmaary foam tse Lapae De :988ar, uence, save in teed sted, that a marrioge, cel excepted caves A a }» CCles ‘brated in any given place, mast be celebraed ac- cording to Jaw of the place, and by a person whom those laws designate, unless the person by whom, or the premises {n which, it is celebrated, possess the privileges of exterritoriality. Therefore it may be, according to the opinian of Lord Stowell, that the ppameee, of a foreign sove- reign sojourning in a friendly country, or that of b's minister plenipotentia:y, or the act of a clergyman in the chape! or hotel of such sovereign, or his az:- bassador, mey give legality to marriage between enbjects of his or members of his suite, (Radi2z vs. Smith, ii Haggard’s C. R., 371; Prentiss ve. Todor i Hagg. C. R., 136; i Burge om Col. & F. Laws, p. 158.) But even snch rignt of s foreign sovereign or ambassador to celedrate a marriage, ifit exist, ‘ies only to his subjects, coun! or suite. uch persons wonld be married according to the law of their domicil, or that of the sovereign or ambas sador in whose service they are, on the assumption that for all the purposes of Tegal ty toeir domi-il goes with them, and that they are still at home, and in point of law are not in the foreign country where the marriage is in fact celebrated. A marriage celebrated by such sovereign or his smbas:ador in a foreign country, between citizens ot that country, or foreigners residiag there or sojourning there, would ceiive no force from hist: 1t would be mull =o void, unless legal according to the law of the Place. Consuls, it is still more evident, have no sha- dow of power to celebrate marriage between foreigners Nuc can they between their own coan uymen, ui leas expressiy sutho.ized by toe law of their own country; because, accordiag to the law 07 nations, they have Lot the privileges of exterrito- riality, like an ambassador, That American cousuis have no such power is clear, because it is not given to them by any act ot Congress, nor by the common law of mar- tiage as understood in the several States. (ise Kent vs. Burgess, xi. Simons, 361.) And marriage m the United States, is not a federal question, bat one of the resort of the individual Stat-s. (Bishop on Marriage, passim.) Henca, it is impossible for me to doubt: First, ihas marrisges celebra‘ed by a consul of the United States ic any foreigu country of Cnrist- endom, between citizens of the United States, would have no legal effet here. save In one of the exsep- tional cases above stated of its being impossible for the parties to marry by the /ex /oci. And, serondly, that marrlages calebzated by a con- sulof the United States in a foreign country, b> tween parties not citizens of the United Siates, would have no legal effect here, nolesa in case they be recognized express!y as valid by the lawof tne place of contract. In countries where the mere consent of the par- ties, followed by copula, constitutes marriage, as in Scotland, (McAdam vs. Walker, i. Dow's R., 148; Dalrymple vs. Dalrymple, ii. Hage. O.R., 97,) and where the presence and testimony of any person whatever suffice to prove the consent, there a mar- riage contracted before a foreign consu! migas be valid, not because he is consul, but becaus3 the consent makes the marriage. Bat, in most couutries of Europe, specific forms of law are to be followed, without which there can be no valid marriage; and as it appear that the marriages which the consuls of the United States have celebrated abroad, bave in most plazes bean celebrated between persons collected at some sea- port for the purpose of emigration, and who are not only foreigners as regards the United States, the marriage is celebrated, it b2comes ma‘eria! to consider the question in the sense of this impedi- matrimonial of the United States. The gener il rule of onr law is to ascribe validity to marriages when they are valid at the place of celebration. | If the parties to the marriage are at the time ac- | tually in their own proper di as in the case of Spaniarés domiciled in. Barcelona, and married | there, it is clear that the local jarisdiction is absolute and complete, and that a conaul of the United States bas no more right to celebrate a mar- riage between such parties there than he has to un- dertske the duties of Captain General. Suppose, however, that the parties are forcianers to the foreign place, and at the same time not citi- zens of the United States? The other governments of Christendom, and es- peciaily these of Earupe, are, if is notorious, mach more exacting and punctilisus than the United States ia the spplicatioa of their own las of per- sonal stotus to their own subjects when ab:ent from their country. ' We may not regard this" here, but they do smong themeelves ; and therefore it is important to look atthe legal bearings of a marri celebrated f2 one European county between the subjects of some other governments of Europe. The general rule there is, that the civil obliza- tions cf a person follow him into a foreign country, | save that in some countries forms are preserthed ac- coiding to which a subject may relieve bims2If of bis allegiense to his sataral soveceige and the cousequeny civil obligitious It is belleved that many of the persons who emigrate from Enrope to the United Stites, have not taken these prelimiaary steps; and, therefore, wil they shall have acquired & new domicil in tie United States, and while they are sojourning in some other fo1 country on their way 1 r, and ious to, theirs embarka- met of m y be stil! sahjact to the i far 88 this law is respected ansit or of their temporary a3 a of the validity of their marriage there by a forcign consul most depend on bis legal condition of tue parties in the coantries of Europe. In order to appreciate the legal relations in En- rope cf @ marriage between pariies foreizu to the place of mare. we my take, 38 9 conveniext ex- ample, the st: f the law in France. Jn France, of course, a!l Frenchmen mus‘ conform to the precise provision: 4 general rule, if they ma: observe certain 0 in order to give (Code Civil, no. regard to su ne2, it has beer tha country, who of pnb! otice in France required by the Jode.— (Dalloz, Dict. Ju, Marriage, No. 374.) 2. Generally al! acts apnersaining to the civil con- dition of Frencbmen sb oad may be proved by the modes of proof pract'sed in the foreign country; and therefore a martiege may be proved by wit- ,or by the certificate of a aioc’sas, when ceiebrated in a foreign count y where no registers of civil condition exist comformable t) the Uode.— (Daltoz, whi supra Nos. 346—-356.) i 23 of opinion as to the point that Frenchmen, who marry abroad, mnst conform to the provisions of the Code asto capacity, age, consent, and other conditioisof substance; but tions of the Cade Civil, 4 tothe marriage in Fraace, 70; Poelix, ubt supra no. 88.) 1 marriages of Feench- ged by the courts of that conn encamen long established in a foreiga the point whether it be or not essential to the va- lidity of such marrisge t vi previous publi sation of if this be @ radical ¢ i supra, N , 875 the Code, (No, 170,). rh'ch le, tracted between Fren hmen abroad according t> wm. 83) In trath, sll the obscurity and contradiction as to ‘this pomt in different anthors arise from the fact ‘shat consuls do unquestionsbly erjoy certain privi Jeges of ¢xemption from loval political obligation; ‘but still these privileges are tiulied, and fall ve y far short of the right of ex‘erritoriality. (Maes? Droit Commercial, tom. 1, no. 433, 439.) Thus, in tne United States, cousuls havea rig ot, by the constitution, to tie jurisdictionof the federal courts se necinst those of States. Toey are privi- Yeged from political or military service, and from personal taxation. In some cas’s w3 have by treaty to consuls, when they are not proprietors in country, and do not engage in commerce, a ry and personal immunity beyond what ‘they pos-ess by the general public law; and extreme point to which thes® privileges ‘have been cairied in any iastance may he see2 in ‘the r Convention of the 234 of February, 1853, between the United States and France (S2s- gion Acts 1853-4, p, 114). : premised this exolanation of the exo} consuls by the law of nations, it remsios for me to deduce from the geaera! dostriae ths pir: Moular conclusions applicable to the special subject ef toga f y- rd to the contract of marriags, the genc- ciple in the United States is, thatas be- sons sui juris, marrisga is to be dater- the law of tae place where it is celebra If valid there, then, althouga ths parties be it person’, and the marriage not in form or valid according to the lav of their domi- Lied valid rete dala atl some excep ps, of questions of incest aad polyvamy. it ‘valid where celebrated, it is iy Aid’ Svery Seg a of Laws,s. 113 ; Bissop on . 125.) , ‘The only exceptions to this last proposition, | namely, that marcioges not valid by the /ex loci | wontracius are not valid anywhere else, are, first, jm (avor of martisge, whea parties are sjourviag 4m @ foreign country whore the law is snoh that it 5: im ible for ‘them to contract lawfal mar- a it. Secondly, in certain cases in whieh, in some foreign ve the local bf ye ognizes a marriage as valid when contra» according to the law of domicil. Thirdly, where ge law of the cogutry goes wish the bea 2 z i 93; baat the forms need in the toreign country, adds, provi- ded (youre) the marriage be preceted by the pao ot bans, and do not contravene the other conditions of law, as prescribed by the Ist and 2d chapters of the 5th title of the Code. (3ee Touliier, Dro.t Civil, tom. 1, No. 579.) 4. The Code (art. 47 48) provides that any civil act of Frenchmen abroad shal be valid it it ba drawn up in purenance of the forms of the place, a:- cordiog to the ruledocus regit actwm: or it it bas been received conformably to the laws by the ciplu matic agents or consuls of France, It has ben doubted whether this applies to eerie though the better opinion is that it does ( jalloz, whi supra, no, 362, 3 Toullier, Droit Civil, tom. 1, no. 360; Meriin, » Mariage p. 641.) It is said, however, that if one of the parties to.a marriage b: a French corsui abroad is Preach and the other not, then the msrriage is null, because the consul ha3 uo joriediction as to the party mot Freach, and tho macriage may be attacked by either party. (Dalloz, ub? supra, no. 365,368.) In one of the cases where this point was devided, tae pariies possessed an act of martiage, with twenty years cobebitation, and two children. (Proudhoa, fr. des Persounes, tom. i, note a.) 5. Finally, a marriage contracted is France bya forcigner according to the extert 4 peescrihad by the law wouid be null, of intrinsic vultity, if the foreigner infiinged spy of ¢ ions of his statute personal ; that is, of tl soba! law of iis domiil, (Foeiix, whi supra, §. 88.) These views might be extended in detail to other countries of Europe. Thos, in the Dutch Netherlands, in addition to the conditions of competency and of publication of bana, there must be legs! tact befo.e the proper maufttrate, without whic the marriege isa nallity. (Van der Linéen, by Henry, p. 83.) As to this, exception is made in fayer 0? aay p beiog foreigners, of in iimere, or ar wi nd Radiog ve. Smith, if Hag. C. R, 371 note ) So, ain, marriage mass be solemaized by preseri role, that is, through the intervention of the parish priest, or other clergyma1 cenee of his ordinary, ac ording to the al of the Council of Trent concerning the refsrmition of matrimony. (Tapia, Febrero Novis, liv. i, cap. 25 Sala. Derecho real de span, lib. i, tit. 4) Th jg unneggasary to extend tagep exampleg, Sal- but foreigners also as regards the place in which | ment of double alienage, in its relation to the iaw | cf their own law; nay, as | abroad, still tnoy mnst | nd who have reserved no habitation and | no domfci! there, are not held to the forms | there are contradictory decisions and opinions a3 to | fice it to say, that in clesinstical diments exiet; ia not the case, 5 try, a Union, as a marriage proved bitation following consent, by to the old rule of the common law. Even then, the certificate of the consul would not constitute the marriage; it would serve at most only as proof of consent, to be connected with proof of cohabitation. such marriages Bat tke practice of would be objectionable even then, because itis ia 5 and contrary to the fraud of tEe local jar ee oi international comity, if not to positive 7. In what precedes, the inquiry has been treated a3 relating Sprite! to marries, ‘aasumed to be legal- ized by consuls of the U: States residing offi- cially in any of the countries of Christendom. For, in regard to States not Coristisn, although we make treaties with them as occasion may re- quire, and aseert in our intercourse with them all such provisions of the lawsof nations sa are of @ political natare, yet we de mot suffer, as to them, that full reciprocity of municipel obligations and tel which obtains among the nations of Chrisien- om. This t is determined very explicitly ia our treaty gar which, in the a cenequtvacal terms, places s!i the rights of Americans in Chiva, whether as to ere or property, under the sole jurisdiction, civil and criminal, of the authorities of the United States (see the Treaty, viii Stat. at Large, »..592); and Congress has msde provisions to meet the exigencies of the treaty in this respect. (Act of August 11, 1848, ix Stat. at Large, p. 276.) Our treaty with Turkey is leas explicit on this pent; fut it expressly ascrives to citizens of the United States exterritoriality in criminal matters (see the Treaty, VIII. Stat. at Large, p. 408,) pro- vision ag to which is made by the above cited act of Congress: and as the treaty stipulates bow contro versies in Turkey, between zens of the United Szates and eubjecta of the Porte, sball be adjudica ted, that is, by the local authorities in presenv: of @ representative of the United States; and as i: stipa- Jates that only a certain class of lifigation shall be submitted tothe Porte; andas it gives to Amaiicans in Turkey all the rights of the most favored vation, with express referencs to ‘'the usages observed to wards otber Franks,”—it might be assumed that the doctrine of exteritoriality applies to Americans in Turkey, a8 it certainly does to subjects there of ailthe Christian States of Europe (Mreuil, Guide des Agents Consulaires, tit. IJ.) Our treaties with’ the minor Mohammedan soreness of Tripoli, Moresco, Muscat, and uni, are even leas explici; than that with Turkey. Stil, it may be assumed in regard to them, asa yrincipal of the international law of the world,so far as there is any, that unless there be expresd cs aol to the contrary, no Christian nation admits a full reciprocity of municipal righ’s as between itself and anyState not Christian; and therefore, that in the Mohammedan governments above enumerated, Americans pcesess the rights of exterzitoriaiity which belong to all other Franks,” that is, the races of independent Christian Europe | and America. (See Ward's Law of Nati na, vol. ii, | passim; Kiuber, Droit des Gens, 8. id.; Wiseman’s Instita*es, vol. i, p. 130.) In our treaty with Siam, we have incon- sideraiely engaged that our citizens b ‘ing there “gbail respect and follow the laws and customs ofthe country in all points.” (See the Treaty, | vili Stat. at Large, p. 455.) I do not know how they are to do this, unless they become Pagans ‘in a'l points. ” That provision of the treaty is, in the inter Datiopal relations of the United States, the solitary exception, it is believed, to the rule that tho muni- cipal rigbis of citizens of the United States are not subject to the local law of any State not Christian. “rue, we deal with such States as sad oreo and apply to them, so far as we can, doctrines of our international law. (Che Helena, iy. Robios. Adm. R., 5.) But, when we speak of the law of ny tions, we mean the international law of the nations of Christian Europe aud America. Our treaties with nations other than these bring them practivally within the pale of our publis Jaw, but it is only a3 to political rignts: municipal rights remain as they were. (Whcaton’s Elements, p.44; Polson’s Law pel ie p-17; Pailumore’s International Law, On this point, ag on a!] others in the course of the preeert opinion, Erglish and American auchorities are cited mcis: riminately, because the law of bota countries maixtaius the same doctriue ia the premi- £63; and Great Britain isin advance of, rather than behind, the other nstions of Caristendom, fa re- Pelling the municpa) jurisdiction of communities no? Cbristain. N Tn regard to Mr. Phillimore, however, it needs to be voted, that tis late work is only of value asa Teposicury of references; foz it is very inaccurate in Teatters of fact; ané is threnglout s9 colored acd perverted by ratioval prejudices, that it is entitled to norespect or authority as a treatise of positive law. The doc‘rine above enun jzted spp to Japan; to the minor independent stats of Asia and its islands, whether Mohammedan, Iado-Chinese, or what others: to *he barbaris communities of Africa. and still more tothe petty insular tribes of Oceanica. Our sores with the Hawaiian Jalands places them on the footing of a Christian State, with the manici- pal rights belonging to the international law of Christendom. (ix Stat. at Large, p. 977.) Now, in nee to the States not Christian, not only the Mohammedan States, but all the rest, it seems to me that the true rule is, that contrasts of citizera of the United States in general, and espe.i- ally the contract. of marriage, are not subject to the dex loci, but must be governed by the law of the do- micil; and that, therefore, in sach countries, a valid contract of marriage may be solemnized, and the contract authenticated, not only by an ambassador, H but by 3 consol of the United States. | The English author ities come to substantially the same con: Jusion, for similar reasons. “Nobody cao suppose,” says Lord Stowell, “that whilst the Mogat empire existed, an Englishman (in Hindestan) was bound to consult the Koren for the celebration of | his marriage.” In most of the Asiatic and African countries, in- died, the law is personal, not local,ss it was in | many parts of modern Europe in the formative period of seed organization. Hence, in B:i ‘ tish India, Hindus, Parsis, Jews, Mohamme ians, Christians, all marry according to the law of their religion. Nay, the ecclesiastical law of England goes further than this, tor it recoguizes the mar. riage ot Englishmen, celebrated eccordiog t> the | English that is, by a clergyman, in Britizh | factories abroad, though situated in Christian coun- triea—but, countries of the Roman Catholic or Greek religion. (Roading vs. Smith, ii. Hage. C. R., B. 371; Kent vs. Burgess, xi, Simons, 361.) Indeed, inthe preceding cases, as in others, the English ' guthoritier, as we have already seen, lay down the bread rule that where, owing to religions or legal | difficulties, the marriage is impossible by the lex i, a lawfai marriege may be contracted, and e authenticated by the best means of which the circumstances admit, as in many cases of mar- riages contrazted in the East Indies and in other foreign possessions of Great Britain. (See Catterall vs. Catterall, i. Roberts, 580.) ‘This doctrine is conformaole to the canon law, which gives ¢ffect to what are called matrimonia cloendestma, that is, marriages celebrated without obrervances of the religious and other formalities decreed by ite Ceuncil of Trent, (Cavalario, Dere- cho Caronico, tom. 2, p. 172; Esctiobe, s. v. Matr.,) when contracted in countries where, if those do- crees were enforced, there could be po marriage. (Walter, Derecho Ez Jestastio, s 292—204.) Nay, in suc countries, in the absence of a priest, theie may be valid mirriage by consent alone, confor- mably to the canon Jaw as it stood before the Coun- cilof Trent, either by verba de presenti or by verba de fuluro cum copula, as happeved ex necessitate rei, under the Spanish law, in remote parts of America. Of conrse, in circumstances like this, s marriage might be legalized bya mere military commandant. (Patton vs. Phil. and New Orleans, i,La. An. R,p, Lo Surely this coctrine apphes to the present quee- tion; for, seeing that by the common law of toar- riage, as now received in all or nearly all the States of the Union, marrizge isa civil contract, to the validity of which clerical intervention is unnecessary, (Bishop on Marriage, 8. 163,) it would seem to fol Tow, at least a8 to all those countries, barbaric or other, in which there isin fact no lex /oci, or those lobam! or Pagan countries, in which, though @ loca! law exists, yet Americans are not subject to it, that there the mal statute accompanies them, and the contract of marciage, like any other con- tract, may be certified and authenticated by a consul of the United States. But this doctrine does not apply to the countries of Europe, and their colooies in America or other eg of the world, in all which there is a recognised w of the place, and she rale of locus regit actum is in fuli force. Toere, in my opinion, a consal of the United States has no power to celebrate marriage ba beng ee or remeron , jt appears correspondence accompanying your epmronteetions that, in some parte of Rurope, in corsequence of poverty, or otner impediments thrown in the way of marriage, there is great prea ofconeub mage; that the desire of law- ‘al cohabitation enters into the inducements of em- igeation; and that it becomes sn object, especially with emigrant females, to obtain, before leavin their country, ifmot a marrige, yet an assure matrimonial engagement; and that such parties are in the practice of entering into mu tual promises of = marriage, and proscar ing the contract to be cetified by the corsn) of the United Ststes. Such a contract Would probably give rigats of astiom to yh? parties in this , it must have a tendency to promote Four Weeks ! ater from Australia morals, and be oe Rraecton ae A y the “ sanama Star, Nov. 14.) female emigrant; and im our own, Wakeman, arrir <i'trom Cellso, which port she lett oe er oa (a a of ee 6 At rat i wen evnnced & bo we in which the contract is made. of the mir’ 460"vas in full sccordeuce wich ber name, Thave the honor to be, very re posite, pg Bot ener |y known that sbe was oa the je awe om New York. Hon. Wu. L. Mancy, of , built i omen wy « Serban mrad, sho left Now York ia ities of the Late Canvass. ‘rom the Albany Journal, Nov, 24.) ‘There are several curious facts re She brings about hneiegrd pessengers, princi- a Waly punone 7s from Aus'ralia. Perbe fates from Melbourne re to the 16th of Sep- didates have usually 5 ir. Clack ‘here Htical inform: inequally Tortunate in much Tocaid ce ent, Law: | g Toere a0 politieal news. We are informed by ren 0, Clinton, Jefferso’s, Oswego, Scb>- | fe: too fiequemt, that the yield of gold is falllag haire, , Warten, &¢., W'sere whig majori- | om snd that Pyery dull ia mer- ties are seldom recorded. cantile world. ey toe hsd taken place, apd ons aranar dt chenane eh acentss| shes re Gly nd cule Pre ® u while Mr. Raymond’s vote exceeds Mr. Clark’s on'y ae mtg eis ee some 600, bis m: over his hi, competitor i’ Mrtnoursr, Sept. 7, 1854. is nearly 90. having 157,059 votes | At the date of our last circular uh at we held and Mr. Ludiow 128,163; showing that abou’ 25,000 t improvement in our marset in about two electors for Gov. Seymour who refused to vote 1d the rate of importation, which had been for his Lieutevant. reduced, continue to d . But we striking fact is that s com- bivation of Ulimean’s and Bronson’s vote shows al- : iy, get to nay that the decrease has not been maintained. t that time the rate of importation bad decreased from excess 5 004 was Tah cereale ar ‘The condition of the eighty-seven banks of Rh Island, on the 2d of September, 1854, according to tugns made to the Secretary of State, was as annexed: Total amount of liabilities, otal amount of resources Increase of capital since last return. ot , Jast ots ye seeeeee . mount of suspended paper, bad or doubtful... ® The receipts of the State Treasury, Virginia, for fiseal year ending October 30, 1854, amount $9,013,588, and the expenditures to $8,692,242, lea a balance on band of $321,346. Of this balance, $66,44 goes to the sinking fund, and $155,079 to the Board Public Works, Included in the receipts isthe sum $331,695, which was on hand at the commencement the fiscal year. The following table will'show the discounts, deposi specie and circulation of the South Carolina banks ¢ the 8lst of October :-— Banks or SovTH CAROIINA. upwards of twenty millions sterling, in the firet quarter carrrge bec catee Moss exactly the same aggregate as that of their Of the year, to Melbourne aloue, to little more tian ten | Bak ree ii 8, Viz:— millions per annum for the five weeks ending 8th Jul; gr eRe * 2573 Clark’s vote... -156,770 | We have prefaced and prefix a statement, showing the | 2°. ¢ yt Gov. Seymour's vote.. 56,455 | declared value of imports into Melbourne during the 113°914 Ullmsn’e, 122,154; Bronson’s, 91,002 156,156 | mouths of July and August respectively, from which ri It ia ing ‘to find that even though the at- | it will appear that they have increased £1,200,000 $ iy ie 94,869, tempted combination of the friends of the two lsst | per month, or nearly fourteen mil ant an | Bank of 8. G..... 601,457 206,167 34,218 tamed had been perfect throughont the State, the | f°" al" outer "ports, whith was, about the pro: | BASK Charleiiga 2,289/829 307.400 190804 w would still have led the crowd. : rig 4 sires ail ro, | Farm. and Exch, 644,456 125,517 88,095 Again, it is gratifying to eee how very nearly | Portion last year, we have an annual importation valued | Dank Hamburg... 251,918 20,512 126,371 ww, at sixteen millions and a half for the whole colony. ‘The 251, ,! 3 equal the several cabdidates on the whig State | smallest consideration must show thet nothing but ruin Pg A A Tt tucket ran with each other—the only mate:ial differ: | Inust ensue to parties making such reckless consign- | BAvk Newberry . 114,007 35,084 32,450 ence being in favor of Mr. Fitzbugh, who, beside toe | ments as these figures indicate. ‘The opuation of Vie- | Seen’ Connon at 4 ot. as ante yen cele = bim i ie Cpe pant a toria, i the present sear, Se average | Werch. Cheraw. 276,901 18,885 24,797 inees for the office # @ held and for which he | more than three hundred thousand, so that the present | pani Chester 223,153 22,806 23,083 i rate of importation would be upwards of £50 per head. | ster... 228,1 , . was sgain running, bad the advantage of the de | rate of impo Mentor rai arer Before known te Austra. | Peoples? S.C. 285,781 61,295 34,904 clension of ove of his competitors—waich decien i se ss sion, Lowever, was not generally regarded. Their | ''* "asin 1610, just before the Li gy alg og ie ETE $11,183,507 2,607,852 1,192,009 6,794, 59 roe H, eu? Se Owe 156,770 | 1 tatyear the imports into New South Wales amount. | A cireulation more than six times greater than th Bay ieresi “BRET | lh Sate ae, Sakti, ree te | oat of eee cS SN SSE: a Henry Fitzhugh . "160,981 | eo that the Imports at this moment are double the high: | hese times. The Bank of the State has.» circulatio} Norwood Bowre. 156,155 | est rate ever pete and quadruple the average, At | More than ten times larger than its specie, The depa It.is very selaom, even w! parti most closely knit, that candidates run 8) evenly. It con- trasw very satisfactorily with the votes received by the candidates of the other parties; for instance: — SOF TS. the same time it would be absurd to place the present rate of consumption higher than double that of the period previous to the discovery of gold, #0 that our prevent importation must be donble the amount of consumption. Of articles which are perishable, such as provisions, oilman’s stores, furniture, glass and earth- Gov. Seymour. enware, vast quantities have become unsound, or have Mr. Ludlow. deen acetroyed through carelessness, &c.; but as no in- Mr. Clark. surance can be recoyered in such a case, the losses to | Mr. Andrews.. shippers have been as great as by the depreciation by | the glut of goods that are not perishavle. Mr. Broneon. From the remarks we have made, shippers of goods Mr. Ford must see clearly that the very greatest caution and dis- Mr. Burnham crimination will in future be necessary in making con- " ‘am signments to this market! In fact, this observation ap- | Mr. Vernam... plies toall the Australian Colonies, for the markets in KNOW NOTHINGS. Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart Town are similarly glutted, Mr. Ullman... and supplies are poured in here from all these places the | Mr. Scroggs. moment a margin of profit is indicated by the temporary Mr, Williams. ; demands for goods of any description. It is a remarka- Mr. Saunders. *120'737 | dle and discouraging fact, that fhe markets of California, We argue from these facts, that in spite of all the distracting elements which are abroad, and which were mingled in he late canvass, the whig party possesses greater strength and more perfect ursnimity than any other party in the State ; and that, in the future, as in the past, it will be found to be the only party capable of successfully resist- irg the aggressions of slavery, and of pronoting the great principles upon which human freedom and state and national prosperity are permanently A Groan From John Mitchel. [From the Citizen.] + There is no longer any doubt that the “Order” is going to rule these United States for certain years. in the course of humin events, and the progress of the species, it has come round that the paltriest, meanest, falest and most ignorant (though far from the most dangerous) form of popular delusion which bas ever troubled nations, now rises to an as- cendancy well-vigh absolute over the freest, wisest, strongest and best ccuntry upon earth. We ca'lit paltry and mean, because it presetns the spectacle of a great nation of five and twenty millions cr thereaboute—a nation which isin actual enjoyment of unexampled freedom and happiness acpieved by itself, pretending to fear some danger to its hberties from a handful of people, not com- bined in one mass or concentrated in one place; people who bave as keen an appreciation and ag high @ relish for the liberty ena happiness of the nation as sny otker inhebitant:--pe:haps h'gher and keener, by contrast with what they have expe- rienced ‘where; and totally umable, even if so disposed, to make the least approach, by one single step, towart iy alteration or modification of the constitution and ‘aws urder which they were, until now, tco happ; to Jive. We callitmesn and paltry, too, because it in- voives a brrachof that covenant which tbe fathers avd founders of the Republic made by implication b all the peoples of the earth—relying upon which, those who prow weary of monar :nical insti- tutions aud intolerent of oppression, have been pou-irg over to Amcrica in myriads and millions, t> their cwn great gaia, certainly; but, also, wiih no detriment to America for many 2 year. Ard we call it paliry and mean, because it is too manifestly a mimlery of Great Britain, ani her shabby ard ferocious “ Protestantiem.” he Know Nothirg movement bas followed hard upon the Ec- clesiastical Titles Bill. The Know Nothings have seid within their hearts, ‘‘ Bexold tre stand which our Anglo-Saxon kindred have made against Papel aggression and the Jesuite—s3all we not prove our- selves worthy of our blocd and race?’ Thus, ia a servileand altogether provincial spirit, Awericaus strive to emulate the nation which sippemed them, which strove to crush them, and which still hates, fears and despises them, and in the very point hey that nation is, leest of all, wortny of imi- ation. We ca'l it ignorant, because itis based upen an utter misunderstsnding, not only of the Catholic re- ligion, against whieh it scema soecially directed, bnt also of the bistory, the foundation, had tne on! genuine nationality of the American nation. Until within the last few years, iu never entered into tha heed of an American that there was anytbhiog in the Catho'ic religion at all incompatible with re- publican institutions. Until within a few yeara, no American called a raturalized citizen a “foreigner,” or looked upon his exercise of his acquired rights aud franchise as a “foreign influence.” The nationality cf this land is made up of those foreign ir fluences; and its true pride and glory has been that it can make room for them all, and absorb them into its own vigorovs life. Those who dechiin against the dangers and evils of ‘‘ Jesuitism” have not the least idea what a Jesuit is. Taey who rave against foreigrera do not know what it is to be a foreigner in America. Mozeover, the excessive ig- norance of this party is made muifest ia the me- thod they have adopted for counteracting those Jesuits and thisforeign influence. {hey complain of naturalized citizens cherisbing foreign predilections— of their adhering to a priest. | tacts in cach of the leading railroad fancies. A small | ood which bas a foreign head; and by tae system | 1t of Stonington Railroad sold at 60 per yale State of proscription which they annoonce, they make | stocks were steady to-day, but not sold to ®ny extent. | sure that these formidsble foreigners shell never become American entircly, these pestilent Catho- lics shall cling the closer to their priests and their religion, as men always do uncer persecution and prot cription—as the Irish especially have ever done, and as they sssuredly ougtt to do. If toere be, indeed, anything a'srmivg to republican feeliag in tie pretensions of the Catholic clergy, we have an opportunity of seeing every day---as 10 the reeis ance or the laity at Boffslo and at Hartford--tha: tne spirit of free irstitutions has penetrated the mind of the Catholic as well asof the Protestanf, avd that, whatever be the designs of a Pope at me, Or an Archbishop at New York, the Cathuli: people, veneraliy, have no pait or concern iu those designe, and are, in fact, far more econ interested in resist- ing and deftatiog them than all the Kaow Nothiag lodges in the Jand. jut if it be possible to throw these Catholio peo- ole back in bijnd submission into the arms cf those Jesuits, bishops and cardinal-legates, the Know Nothings and their petty persezutions arc the agen: cies most likely to do so. ‘Loatly, we call it false, becanse by far the greater 60“ — Mechanics’ Banking ‘Association. number of those who join in the auby movement, 10. (k, eeea cetaceans teas, 00 and cso ape aped an ap-} 52 « U8. Fire Insurance Company..,...115 Preeeniee end designe, which, they well Keow teas | _ telograplilc communication from Washington an- Pihere repudiate and ablor. Moreover, some of the | ounces the dissolution of Mossrs. Seldon, Withers & Most active and noisy leaders of the No Nothings | Co., and the suspension of the house. are foreigners; real fo , not naturalized. nor intending to be; principally English and northern Trish, @ sprinkiing of Scotchmen, jike that thorongh-going American, the editor of the Hernan; and Hindoos like Ulimen, the Calcutta Native Americen candidate for Governor. la short, the whole system, from head to foot, and from heart to uttermost extremities, is a gross and vile impostare. oo . aria a“ be i There ey Le a ing in Oy @ name to rally wl voters withal. And, heat des it must be confessed that hitherto, owing to the nature and origin of our constitution, and the latitadinarian views of its founder:, Americans have beem debarred from that ancient abd noble pastime which has always been a favorite eport in the other parts of Cbristendom— nemely, singling out some one set of Christians to hunt and worry like wild beaste. For this sporting purpose, with true & ike insticct, the stronger set of Christians have always selected ths weaker act; and, sseing that there is a Pro‘es ant majority here inclined to worry, and 9 Catholic | for a lot of twenty-five shares, the asking rice bein: i 60; for a small lot; Vermont and Canada sold, buyer minority ready to be i db y pethaps, hard | it at G0; bat the best eash bid waa 66. Bank shares to debar the geme. the republic eoubdtless overlooked this legitinate propensity, and omitted to make proper urtaugemsnta for the exercise of the most precivys of all © chure> privi- legos.” dence held firm at quetations of yesterday—50% ‘offei are coming out more freoly, proportion. week it was in active requost at 108, fallen from 106 to 108: Jami Arst mgrigage in this the fifth year of the gold discovery, are si overwhelmed, and therefore it appears that an over-s By of merchandise in gold consbies must be # chronio HOUBC. [From the San Francisco Herald, Oct. 29.) There is one feature io the late news from Aus- tralia, we have recently published, which is calcu- lated to arrest attention. It is the very high price paid for gold, and the extravagant rate of exchange on Englaxd. Gold dust was selling freely in Mel- bourne at $19 84 to $19 96 per ounce, $17 60 ia the highest paid in this city for California gold. | This large difference in the price of Australia and | California gold arises partly from the greater purity of the former, and to an equal extent from the ope- rations of the colonial banks. These institutions issue paper money to any amount, and send agents all through the mines to buy up the gold dust with their notes. They pay extravagant prices for a va- Tiety of reacons. First, because bai Acted obtain a circulation for their issues, securing thereby tie use of the money, and give in exchange only their credit, which costs them nothing; se:ondiy, beeause, in penta. tbiough so many hands fi a rough country, there ig a chance that some of the notes wiil be lost or destroyed, which wil! be a direct gain of s0 much to them; and thirdly, because the high price paid for gold prevents private indi- viduals from competing with them— gives them tho mcnopoly of the shipmenta to England, and by cou- sequence enables them to exact of the people the most enormous, and what would here be considered the most :uinous rates of ex hange upon England. Three and a balf per cent for d: on the Atlantic States is corsicered a very onerous tax by the people of San Francisco, but the Australians are compelle1 by the benke to pay five per ceni on England, which 8 equivalent to one dollar for the transportat: ond ineuance of every ounce. This is 6 beautit financial operation on the part of the Anstralisn barks, ond is just what we should see iu California f reg money were once tolerated here. Sixty-five millions of dollars in gold dust are annually ex- pert from Australia, almost exclasively by the anks, and ageinst it they draw at least fifty mil- Jicns iv exchange. which pe ds them, at five per cent, the snug sum of two and a half milifons per anoun in the sbape‘of premium. Of course they cannot make anything on the sale or coinage of the das’ in England, because every ounce costs them in Austra- lia, say $19 90, freight to Englaad 9 cents, and insurance 50 cents, making the total cost, landed in England, $20 49 per ounce, which no gold, however pure, will net after coinage. Tey make all their eds by selling exchange, and with their credit, in the shape of paper money, es their capital, con- trol a businers amounting to fifty or sixty millioa dollars per annum. It uscd tobe considered sate banking if the paper issued did not bear a greater ratio to the specie on hand than fivetoone. On this basis the Australian banks may purchase five | million dollars worth of go'd dust, with an actual | cash copital of cnly one million. Sach a state of things must necessarily beget a wild spirit of secu: | lation, and ultima‘ely result in a fiaancial crash. We | may thank our stare and the framers of our consti- larly tution that such things are impogsibie in Califoraia, | - and from this may learn how important it is to frown down the first attempt to introduce paper money here under any guise. —_—_—_——————__ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, MONEY MARKET. Saterpay, Noy. 25—6 P. M. The stock market to-day was buoyant, with a pretty active business, At the first board, linois Centrol Bonds went up 34 per cent; New York Central Bonds, %(; | 1 Canton Company, 5; Nicaragui Transit, 14; Cumberland Coal, 34; New York Central Railroad, 144; Hudson Rail- road, 134; Erie Railroad, 114; Harlem, 14; Reading Rail- road, 7. Erie and Reading opened and closed at the same figure; New York Contral advanced 34 per cent from the opening price. The bears were about putting out con, | Only one small lot of Erie Bonds were sold to-day, 1883, at 2 per cent. Illinois Central Bonds were sold freely to-day on time, seller’s option, at an advance, At the second board, prices were not sustained. New York Central Bonds fell off 34 per cent; New York Cen tral Railroad, 34; Cumberland Coal, 4s; Gold Hill, ‘4; Virginia 68, 24; Norwich and Worcester, 5 per cent since ast cale. Erie closed without change. ‘The steamship Atlantic, from this port for Liverpool to-day, carried ont $262,834 31 in specie, principally in Philadeiphia gold bars. After the adjournment of the board the following sales of bonds and stocks were made at auction:— $84,000 N York and Harlem Mort. B’ds, int. ad’d., 75 2,000 Mich, Southern R.R., Jackson Branch, ‘” 73 30,000 Jowa county § per Cents, 50,000 Vermont Valley Railroad, 1860, 5,000 “ « 2a mort., “ 10,000 Western Vermont Railroad, 3 mort., —“ 1,300 shares Il. Central R.R.. 10. per cent. paid, 14 “Sixth Avenue Raiiroad....... The Rochester Union of last evening, announces the suspension of John M. French & Co., of that city, who are largely engaged in various branches of the iron and hardware business. They have large furnaces in Wayne county and Rochester. The Union expresses a hope that the suspension will be only temporary. The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of this port to-day, amounted to 98 70; payments, $202,264 72—balance, $6,455,075 07. The Boston Journal of the 24th says :— Money is hard to-day, but we notice no change in rates. The downward inclination in prices at the Stock Exchange continues, the market closing flat at quota- tions. Kastern opened at 461%, and went down to 46, a decking of 134 since yesterday; Fitchburg sold at 80, closing heavy at this price asked; Western suddenly dropped off to 91, a fall of 2; Michigan Central declined Jc, Worcester §¢, being offered at 9145 without pur- chasers; Old Colony freely preased for sale at 78%; Frew and prices are reveding in 106%, to-day, while Inst forchants’ has ; Howard from 95 to 94, Rut- old wt 60, but the yomaga Fxchango sold at sitson hand were small compared with the discount: ‘The banks of South Carolina are ina very weak and un sound condition. The following table shows the quantity of some of th principal articles of produce left at tidewater from commencement of navigation to the 22d of Nov. inclu sive, during the years 1852, 216 days; 1853, 216 da; 1854, 205 days: RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE AT TIDEWATER. Canal opened April 20, April May 1, opened Aro Aigo “aba? Flour, bbls. Wheat, bu get 6,064,750 _ 2,934,00 97985;615 20,026,431 - 17,828,504 ‘The quantity of four, wheat, corn and barley left al tidewater during the 3d week in Nov., in the years 1859 and 1854, was as follows:— Flour, bls. Wheat, bus, Corn, bus. Barley bus: 182,179 626,563 10,1! 9, 4 55,908 «107,885 = 295,654 76,72) 226,271 Dee. 519,178 Inc, 115,521 Dec. 132,71 ‘The aggregate quantity of the same articlesleft at tide weter from the commencement of navigation to the 22d of November, inclusive, during the years 1858 and 16 was as follows: Flour, tls. Wheat, bus. Corn, buss Barley,bus. 1853.,..2,704,123 7,680,088 2,892,738 267,952 1854... 1,005,518 3,187,153 9,836,242 1,694,385: Dee. .1, 008,605 Dee.4, $92,935 Inc. 6,043,504 Dec. 573,600 ‘The aggregate quantity of the same articles left at tidewater from the commencement of navigation to tha 22d of November, inclusive, during the years 1852 and 1854, was as follows:— Flour, vis. ‘heat, buse Corn, bus. Barley, bus.} 1852. .3,162,575 6,060,312 5,176,419 2,044,186 1654,.'1,095,518 3,187,153 9,836,242 1,694,382 Dec..2,066,857 Dec.2,878,159 In.4,759,823 Ine. . 849,83 By reducing the wheat to flour, the quantity of th latter left at tidewater this year, compared with the} corresponding period of last year, shows a decrease o 507,192 barrels of flour. Stock Exchange. Sarerpay, Nov. 25, 1851. > $5000 Ohio €3 760... 9634 550 sls N'YCRR.s60 773g 5 do... 98 50d 1380 773 £006 Virginia 6s 90% 100 1008 Cal 7s 70. 84" 100 80 100 81 255 82 550 do. bi 78% 76 100Hud RiwRR..b90 3235 12600 do 2d Iss, 77 10 Mich SoConstr’n 77 1€€00 Ill Cen RR Bac do,...b60 2 83. 1000 Chi&RIRR Bds 83 3000 Tl In Im St of 47 5 US Trust Co 60 Canton Co. 100 Nic Tran Co, 350, 50. do, f: 100 Harlem Hit. ..530 50 & aT 1h do......b30 183g 10 Stonington RR.. 60 200 Penn Coal Co.b60 961; 200 Reading RR..s30 653¢ 5 a 83 953_ 300 do © O53¢ © 96 250 00 100 200 300 q 150 do 30 100 do .....060 2634 37 Cleve & Tole RR. “60 NY Cen RR...830 774 do, 10 do.seeeee. 77% 26Chi& Ria RR.. BOARD. $1000 Virginia 6s... 200 shs Nic Tran Coe 18% 5000 NY Cen RRB 100 Camb Coat Co 60 26 10000 Pan Bds@dIss. 77 250 Greco. oc, SB 1000 H Rist Mtg Bs, 100 200 NY Cen RR..snw 78 100ehe Gl Hill Mine 1 45 ao, 83 78 18 175 Erie RR 33 100 s7 18 50 a 33 50 60 1834 100 Hud Ri v3 382 100 20 18% 100 Nor & Wor RR... 37 CITY TRADE REPORT. Saturpay, Nov, 25—6 P.M. Asnts—The sales included about 50 bbls. pots and pearls, at unchanged prices. Ereapsterrs.—The same te 8 of flour, espe- cially of the common grades, hac ct of depressing the market, and common brands ¥ State sold at 123¢e. per barrel lower; and closed at #8 37, $5 50.; choice, good, to extra brands were unchanged. The sales foo up about 5,000 a €,000 barrels. Canadaian was quiet in bond at $8.76 and at $975, duty. aap Southern sold to the extent of 1,500 a 1,600 bbls., and though prices were the same the market clcsed duil. Meal was +» Rye flour was at about $7 a $7 75. asked, Wheat—fales of 9,090 bushels Upper Lake were made at $1 75, $187, and 3,00 do, red, at $180. Corn—The market was active, with a gooa demand fer export, with sales of about 120.009 bashels at 92c., a 93c., in store, and at Me. afloat, delivered. Rye—The market was at $195 9 $190 asked, Bar- ley was quiet. ‘Corrrx.—The market was slack, with 1 tions, About 200 bags of Maricaibo co: 10sec. Cestox.—Sales of abont 400 1 500 bales were made on the spot, and 2,200 do. in transitu for Liverpool. The market closed rather Leavy in the absence of the Cana- da’s letters. Fruicuts.—Rates were active for Liverpool, with en- gagements of Tudian corn yesterday and to-day of about 100,000 bushels, at 449d. in is and Sd. in b 4 1,600 bales of colton were engaged at Se. por dale, ani aed. per Ib., and 250 tierces eet at 28. 6d, To Lond 500 Lbls. pork were engaged at 2s. Cd., and 300 do, at Qs. dd. To Antwerp 260 bbls. rosin were engaged aty 8s., and 100 bbls. ashes at 26s. To Amsterdam bark was engaged at old rates. To Rotterdam a lot of flour was engaged at 2e. 9d. The ship Eastern States was chartered for Melbourne at p. n. t. To California rates were steady at Sic, a 40c. per foot measurement. Frvrr.—The sales embraced 200 boxes wet raisins at $2.50. The market was bare of dry. Hay.—The sales included 500 bales for shipment, at about 70c. Hors.—New were in better requost, at 52c. a 86c. Ib. Pe sox—The market was quict, and sales moderat at $35 per ton for Scotch pig. . Leap.—The market was dull, and prices, both for el transac: were sold at Galen: i foreign, somewhat nominal. "i Lr Rockland was saleable and firm. a Motasers.—About 600 a 800 bbls. New Orleans new were sold at 28 ¢. and 180 do p. n. t. Nava Storrs.—The market was quiet. Spirits were unsettled in prices. Common rosin was worth $2 per 810 Ibs., delivered, and raw turpentine $4 50 a $4 75. ‘Ons.—Whale, sperm and olive were quiet, but other- wise unaltered. Linseed, ruled dull at 78c. 9 79¢., for large, and 80c. 2 82c., fot small lots, per gallon, Lard oil retailing at former rates, Provisions.—I'ork was firmer, and 500 bbls, mess were purchased for export to Ni leans, at $1275, and About 400 a 600 do. wore fold at thy sacs price, and 200 2 800 prime at $11 27. Beef wastin fair demand, with sales of 500.2 (00 bbls. part on private terms, and the yemaincer at previous prices, good part of it was taken for export. Lard was firm at 103¢c., with light transactions, the enlos having’ embraced £00 a 200 bbls. Cut meats were pretty much out of market, and nomi- nal. Dressed hogs were worth 6e. @ Te. Rick.—£ales of 15 tierces were made at Se.aBiye, | Srrepe.—Sales included 10 cases nutmegs, at $124 a $15; 5 caggs mace, at 9be., and 60 bags pepper, at Lc. per ib, —