The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-13 00:00:00

AFTER THE CATTLE SHOW. Yesterday morning, at the stroke of twelve, the various roads and avenues leading to the Islington Cattle Market, which had been restrained until that hour by a parochial bye.law, sprang into active busy life. The final act of the cattle show is the distribution of the various animals exhibited, and • large proportion of those not already sold find their way into the folds and pine of the cattle market, after being kept throughout Saturday and Sunday in the various "lain" or depots in the vicinity. It would be difficult to draw a stronger contrast to the cruelties and brutalities of the bad old Smithfield times than wee presented at Islington from midnight until morn. kg yesterday. The spacious, well-lit area, the broad road', the convenient approaches, the roomy peas, and the long files of cattle, symmetrically and even tastefully arranged, all spoke of careful organisation and successful manage ment. But the scene was quite as striking from an artistic point of view as it was satisfactory from a humane one. The night was lovely, the bright full moon shining bril liantly, now from • perfectly clear sky, now through one of the fairy-like gossamer clouds which chased each other from time to time in rapid sac amnion across its surface. Below, the multiplicity of gas lamps radiating from a common centre, and stretch ing in well-defined lines of light far away to left and right, whichever way the spectator turned; and the prominent clock-tower, looking with illuminated face calmly down upon the strange uproar at its feet, gave • curiously foreign aspect to the 44.3)111). A very slight effort of the imagination brought it vast continental P;are before the looker-on. The crier of the drovers were the warning shouts of gondoliers ; the stir and bustle were caused by the preparations for the Fle of to-morrow ; the wide, damp, and shiny roads stood for canals ; and though neither Doom° nor lauge's palace, Piazza nor lion-crowned column could bediacerned, the lot ty tower made an admirable campa and it was not difficult to fancy the rest. But the impression of necessity faded away as soon as formed. However unlike an English market place this enclosure might be at first glance, there was no mistaking either the sights or sounds whereby it was speedily filled. It was not merely the prevalence of what Byron termed the Engliahman's shibboleth, nor the other strange oaths with which it seems a point of honour for each drover to outvie his neighbour; nor the constant lowing of cattle, nor the bleating of sheep. nor the continuous barking of shepherd.' dogs, nor the half-frightened, half-savage butting of the poor beasts prior to their being tethered, which spoke of home. That which was conspicuous for its absence was the strongest tea timooy of all. there there would have been dozens of foreign soldiers wildly gesticulating and fiercely insisting upon order there was not a single representative of either the military or civil force. Two or three policemen at lung intervals singly patrolling the pavement outside were visible, but within the enclosure order was kept and individual rights preserved inviolate by the drovers themselves. Rude in bearing, aggressive in meaner, turbulent in talk, and by no means delicate or forbearing in action, these men acted fairly enough to each other, and there were no rows, and but little quarrellingthroughout the night4That the repartees were of the coarsest, the threats and imprecations occasionally both bloodthirsty and disgusting, may be readily believed, but these seemed to be indulged in as conventionally, and with as hale reference to individual sentiment or taste, as is many a more fashionable weakness by ladies and gentlemen higher in the social scale. The visitor who expected crowd ing, tumult, and confusion would be surprised to find in the portion of the market already filled on his arrival the order of • factory and the discipline of a barrack. Yesterday be it remembered was the grand day of the year. You hear it spoken of as " the Grand," and men were singing The Grand, it names but once a year, with a nual vociferousness worthy of the most unpleasant of Christie/a waits. Arriving at the entrance nearest the Caledonian-road, shortly after '2 a.m., the first thing we new was • little line of steadfast waiters outside the public. house at the corner. They were all well aware that the operation of the new law would prevent the door being opened until the clock struck four, and that they were doomed to waiting and to ungratified thirst for nearly two hours longer. Lilt when the inside of • tavern is impel,. sib* the outside appear., to a certain class of mind, the next best thing, and to lean with back against its wall, to keep eyes steadily fixed on the illuminated clock, and to "wish it were four, I do," was evidently not without a soothing influence, in the absence of more tangible refresh ment. The other aide of the irou railing opposite, each pilaster of which is crowned by a Millock's head in iron, is Already lined with cattle, no tightly packed, that when one lies down, the hind feet of its next neighbour perforce stands upon its back. Up the road which skirts the market to the left, calves and oxen are constantly panshig, now let out in small detachments from the lair, and driven by prods from drover, and barks and bays of dog, through the open gate, now coming by aid Of life accompaniments, from • more distant resting place. Up this mad sad through the open gets in its centre, and by dint of carefal piloting and discreet smilers. ties of speed, whenever a horned head seems more than Usually eccentric in its movements, the visitor stands in the main avenue running direct to the campanile. Over the left band radiug of this avenue may be seen • row of horns, the owners of which sluggishly lash their tails, and look with placid indifference upon the struggles and gym. floss of their brethren at the gate. To this complexion you must come, dear friends, they seem to say ; why then irritate yourselves so vainly, and give such unnecessary trouble Long hoes of cattle extend down to the right, stretching from the side to the point of observation you have just left, but with the exception of the one row of philosophic ob servers, whose red backs and ornate heads loot like a brick wall with a formidable c! onus de f rise at its top, the por. ton of the market to the left is at this hour empty. The eomponeot parts of each avenue of buttocks, and each lengthy vista of heads and tails to the right, are so much :dike in size, colour, and proportions, that it is es ident that as much pains are taken to match the bouts assorted together as if similarity of hue were an essential requisite in a herd offered for sale, And that this apparently fanciful notion is substantially true is proved on iuquiry, for it is one of the first duties of the I master drover or his representative to so sort the beasts trusted to his care as to avoid gluing cootrsst end striking ; discrepsocy. Thw, a long row of black and white is fol- ' lowed by a row of blacks, beyond which • row of duns and ose of white and red may be seen. The drovers, long stick and lauthorn in band, shout, and prod, and swear, and gosti. , cu late as the fresh arrivals come in, and practical objections to the process of tethering are made. Past more then one sleeping group of couutrymen, who make pillows of each' other on the ground, past many • row of cattle which seems but a repetition of its predeceisor, up and down many of the . avenues, and ru all cases agreeably surprised at the absence ! of obstruction, and cos are at the foot of the clock tower, ' and getting away from the oxen and over to the sheep folds. Bo many of this° are tightly packed that it would be easy, I by climbing over the divisions between pen and pee, to walk fur the next half-hour on • series of fleecy backs. • Amongst them are mon, who, waving a darning torch aloft, feel and pinch, and gauge and estimate, mid often making entries hi dogs-clued greasy memorandum books, first touch the next sheep with their staff or weed, and then repeat the process with forenoon awl thumb. This again was a singular phase in the night's experience. The torches need were of the simplest, being apparently • rough bit of wood lipped in resin and lit, but the lurid glare they cut over the tough facts, weird figures., and wild dresses of their 'uolders made them stand clearly out eveu in the mundight wi•u a distinctiveness and force of contrast worthy of Itecularatelt or &avatar Rose. A roughly covered cart, an ordinary stage waggon roofed in with undressed twigs, and looting like an Indian wigwam, is full of sheep, which are being discharged into a pen war. Droves of pat tering feet and of mild and helpless-looking faces are teem ing into this division of the market with a monotouous regularity and in uercr-ceuiug succession, like waves beat ing idly upon the strand. With wonderful precoiormod mar vellous celerity these were all put away, and were probed nod felt in their turn by the torch-bearers and their satellite,. Through the sheep department, and working back to the lair, we pass the pig pens, all of which are empty, the waggons conveying the swine not being due until aster in the wonting. Round the open space where the Lent rowed wooden barriers are absent, and where tether. ing must be difficult, if not impossible, and pasting the rows of cattle once more, we stead at the corner tavern a few minutes before four. The group of thirsty souls has been augmented during our absence ; and when the welcome ouods of bolt and bar withdrawn are heard there u , ILUI4 • convivial rash arid an almost sumnimous demand for " art a pint and a ' pennortb." Some few take hot spirits and water, and ' fewer still rum aid milk, but the main drink of the weary drover would seem to be the compound just named, which consists of a peuuyworth of gin and half a pint of porter mixed up together. Toe long rows of harriers, which spread like a vast net work over a large portion of the enclosure, HIE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1864. 'TELLIGENCE are nearly all hidden now. Cattle have poured in nu- cessiogly during our stay, and the and of the stream seems as far off as ever. As the morning advances, cabs and I I knowing•looking light carts leave men at the tavern door. These retire from pathe gar for awhile, and reappear transmogrified from rather sporting•looking oceleney trades men into something between a butcher and • Highland cateran. They are meat salesmen, who " make up" before enteneg the folds and peas, and who scrutinise the placard on the tavern wan, giving the official return of the number of beasts and sheep for whom place has been taken, es if the information it afforded were entirely new, and had not guided them in their projects for investment and in the prices to be given• Long before dawn the offices of the market are opened, an d business talk and chaffering, and comparison, between pen and pee, are everywhere heard, while the droves continue to be admitted, and the shouts and barks, lowing. and bleating'', go on with unabated vigour. More vehicles and more pedestrians, more boys, more dogs, more live stock, until every available space within the railings seems to be disposed of. Up to the time we leave not one of the avenues or passages of the market is permanently tree, passed on. and iugreas and egress, inspection and handling are as easy as at first. When we contrast, as is aneroid: able, the proceedings of yesterday with those on the same anniversary a few years back—when we see inconvenience reduced to its minimum, goading and brutality rarer because lees fre 4 uently provoked, and the inevitable crowding, jostling, and packing made comparatively barmier, it is difficult to speak too highly of the importance of the ra. form. By substituting Islington for Smithfield, and a proper market for a street corner, cribbed, cabled, and confined, the authorities seem to have evolved order out of chaos and decency from disgrace. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE TWO YEAR OLDS OF 1864.—N0. IL was not exactly Derby form on the part of Mr. Bryan's Derby colt, and looked noes the better whoa Zambesi gave Bondi 51b and ran him to a neck next day ; bat he looked so like training on that, had his pipes not gone wrong in the autumn, he might have finished op me of the best horses of his year. In a rich sweepstakes Maid Marian managed to beat Snits Duck, a roan "Physalie of Lord Glasgow's that wanted more time, and the back ward Farewell just managed to defeat Haarlem for a Triennial ; but the only truly great form shown at Good wood was that of Victorious, who, after beating Birch Broom and Cranbury at weight for age, came out the lame , day for the N and, with 9st, beat Watelabox,7st ' 71b, and Lord Waldegoave, fist 131 b, a neck, A Ist tilt, and Saloon, fiat 13th, compriiinr ac t the others that were seer. Many of the re mainder "ran oat" at the turn, it is true, but all the above were beaten fairly e n ough, and everybody voted Victorious the equal of Liddington instanter. Taking the line from Watchbox, who beat Missionary for the Nursery at Stockbridge, he was at least 10th better than the latter, and that was worth boasting about, if the doable victory of Sweet Jessie (whom he gave 351 b to) at Ripon the week following Goodwood were not, on the pound that she was one of the lot that roe out. At Brighton, too, Nukubeva and Attaolti, two of Victorioui unpisoed oppo nests, were first and second in the Nursery ; and Nithetheve also won a Plate in which she fairly defeated Auditor and Salpinctee, if not Anti-Macesear, whilst Attaché secured the Priory Stakes at Lewes. Here Hope displayed she had at last rue into fair form, which she main tained at Huntingdon by beating Gordan, Rattle's Lady Florence, Vision, ha At Wolverhampton caste was lost by Victorious, apparently, when he only beat Grappler after a dead heat ; but be had been " indulged " ever since Goodwood, and would not have left Epsom bat that his party expected a walk over, Grappler's defeat the previous day showing he bad made no improvement sines Goodwood (where he was nunhood to Victorious with Pah between them), as he was only a moderate third to Zia= and Attache. Reading saw Jezebel quite out of her Bath form, for she was beaten by Lady Egidia, who herself was dia. graosd by ruccombing to Fanny ; and at Egham Lemonade went among the moderate lot, when she got utiplaced to Anti-Hamar, Lady Valentine (a really good filly), and Discretion, Anti-hlacasser exhibiting a return to his Amen form, and proving these who did not like his " doings " in Sussex—where he was beaten by Nukubovs and Attache —to have some grounds for their murmurs. At Oxford he was only beaten a bead from Sympathy when attempting to give her 151 b, and Discretion was giving 916 to Saloon when she failed to secure the Nursery by the same distance. Here I must make%another pause, leaving the New , market October sod great Yorkshire meetings at York' Doncaster, &c., for a third and lastilettor on the subject of the two-year-olds. Plenty of "food for comment" was sup plied by the three mouths' racing run over aSove, as daring that time the world not only saw Rarcliffe, Le Wornais, Auditor, Cordelia, Maid Marian, Discretion, Simple Maid, Purity, Missionary, Wstchbox, Oppressor, Siberia, Sweet Jessie, and Hope improve sufficiently in the "form" ex hibited by them in the three first racing months of the year, as to become at least respectable in class, but we likewise saw the ranks of the good and useful sort swelled by Lid disgton, The Duke, Victorious. La Fortune, Asti-Macassar, King Charming, Zambesi, Wild Boy, Lady Valentine, Reginella, Black Draught, The Flight filly, Rothomago, Todleben, Spice, Combat', Peeress. Edinburgh. Editha, The Vest colt. Ziace, Longdown, Le Mandarin, ()strew, White Duck, Farewell, Nukuhers, Contract, and Koenig.—l am, METEOR.. LAW IN' COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Dao. 12. SECOND COURT. After Term Nisi Prim Sittiap at GuilcihalL—(Baton Ilr. Justice Skim and a Common Jury.) •10.1.111.318 r. AlT131B01.01;,.H. This was an action for a breach of contract and dation. Mr. Hoddlestoo, Q.C., and Mr. J. 0. Griffiths were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Day were counsel for the defendant. The plaintiff is a furniture dealer, carrying on business in Bedford•row, Covent - garden • and the defendant, Mr. James Attenboiough, is a Pawnbroker, carrying on business at 32, Strand ; and the action was brought to recover a sum of money that had been paid to the defendant, and also damages for breach of contract. The plaintiff's conceal, in opening the case, said the jury would be no doubt initiated into the mysteries of the cham pages trade, and how it was the markets of this country were inundated with that kind of wine ; for it had bees said that if stock could be taken of the quantity of so-called champagne that was consumed in one day in the world, it would be found to be three times as mach as the quantity that had been made for the last 20 years in the champagne country. A large quantity was made which was perfectly wholesome from grapes grown in other parts of the world, and he understood that Switzerland yielded largely that character of wine. Da the 13th May last the plaintiff was at Debenham and Storr's apatite rooms, in Covent-garden, where about 100 dozen of champagne was for sale. It was recommended as a good article, and samples were produced. The wine was put up, bat no one appeared to venture on it in balk, and it was then sold in quantities of dozens, at 13s. per dozen. The sale was .lack, and at the auction the plaintiff purchased two dozen. After the sale the defendant spoke to the plaintiff, said the wine was his, and asked him to purchase it, and ultimately it was agreed between them that the plaintiff should have the remainder at 12s. 9ii. ; but if was afterwards made 13a. per dozen. The defendant, in the course of the conversation, said the wine came from Switzerlaud, was very good, end, the Derby and Bath room were coming off, it would be a good thing for bun. Defendant got the wine warrants from Debenham and Starr, and handed them to the plaintiff, who paid him 40/. on amount. Plainti ff sold the wine at one guinea and 255. I ted per dozen ; but when he went to Fenn s Wharf for the wine be found an injunction had been 1 upon it from the Court of Chancery, and ho was unable to get it, and it still remained there. As the plaintiff did not get the wine, he sought to rec mar the amount he had paid the de fendant, the expenses be had been put to, and damages for the loss of the differeace of the contracts he bad entered into to supply the wine between what he bought it at and sold it for. He promised Mr. Pollard, the keeper of the greed stand at Epsom, twelve dozen of the wine at 21s. per dozen. In cross-examination the plaintiff said he attended auc tions, and sometimes had a hand in a " knork-ont," like the defendant. He never had a wine license. This wine suited people who attend races. It is sold on race-courses for a guinea a bottle and under. When I made the bargain for the wine I had money at my command with which to pay for it. I did not know till Ipaid the defendant the 404 that the wine was not in his possession. Defendant said he knew nothing about the injunction. He never offered to return the money. The wine warrants were not purchased for Mr. Matham. I did not suggest to Mr. Lawrence, a so licitor, to bring an action against me at the suit of Mr. Mathew, for the non-delivery of the wine. He told me Mr. Mathew was content to take back his 401. and 21. expenses, which I l aid him. Mr. Lawrence bad the warrants for Mr. Matham, when we went to the docks. lor Mr. Matham, and not his nephew, had the warrants from the defendant. Owing Mr. Matham some money I gave him over the warrants as security. The Bath races commenced the same day I went to clear the wine. In re-examination plaintiff said Mr. Matham would take the lot if the wine turned oat as I had represented. Mr. Matham held the warrants as security for the 40!. or the 20 dozen of wine. A clerk from Fanning's Wharf proved that five injunctions and other proceedings bad been lodged with reference to the wine. They still remained. Mr. Witham deposed that he advanced the money, and agreed to take 100 dozen at a guinea a dozen. In cross-examination be said be sometimes went to races, and sometimes picked op money, and at others be dropped it. He had been in the habit of buying such wine at, 63aa dozen. Mr. Hawkins, in addressing the jury for theciefeoce, com plained of the manner io which the cue had been put before them. He had spoken of the quantity of champagne that was daily consumed, and at the expense of his country he had extolled Swiss champagne, having ignored the Putney gooseberry, which was so productive of that chanipmaree which went to the Derby, the Bath, and other rams, sod refreshed so many thirsty souls. (Laughter.) The plain tiffs case was untrue, having been grossly exaggemteand his alleged sales of the Wine were shams. The warrant, were sold to Matham for 40/., the amount be had on the goods, and he had no idea of an injunction. In fact, be ob tained samples of the wine without ever being informed of the injunctions. As soon as he found out the wine could not be delivered he had been willing to repay the 40/. to Mr. Mecham, who he believed was the real purchaser of it. He sold the goods in law without a warranty of title H. sold the warrants as they were, and not au wine to be delivered. The defendant was called. and deposed that the warrants were pawned with him in March, 1862, by a person named Morris Khan. The warrants were put up es described in the catalogue, but not sold. but a few dozen were afterwards disposed of by auction. Plaintiff told him he thought he could get him a purchaser for the lot, and that he would bring a party who would pay the 40(., take the warrants away, and clear the wine. After be had paid the duty and cleared the wine it was to be paid for at the rate of Lie. per dozen. He told the plaintiff he was surprised at the iejunctions, and he offered to return the KW. and any ex pense, he had been put to, but he declined to take it be. fore he had oonsulted Mr. Lawrence. Mr. Matham's soli. niter. On crow-examination he swore positively he did not sell the plaintiff the wine, although in answer to interrogatories that had been put to him he had sworn he did sell it to the plaintiff, though he believed the money wan Methane.. In Knower to a question from the learned judge, he said he sold the wine to the plaintiff as Madam's meat. Mr. Justice Shee said the answer to the ninth ieterroga. telly, that be sold the wine to the plaintiff, was an answer to the case. - After ionic further evidence, The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, '2?./. u against Attenborough, end Debenham to refund the 40t. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Dac. 12. Sittings at Nisi Prins at GuildhalL—(Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a Special Jury.) METER V. WESTERN ME IMSCIANCI COMPANY. ThiE was an action to recover 5481. upon a policy of in surance against fire. Thu defendants pleaded that the claim was fraudulent. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., and Mr. Hairy Janne were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Benedict Hayes and Mr. Willa for the ddendants. Shore sesolildng as he acme down stairs. He believed that Gibes did not smoke. kle only knew him a week before lest Geed Friday The fire, it seemed, was confined almost entirely to a rather large cupboard or closet whict stood between the two ream, sod in which the silk wee kept. It was not entirely burnt, and the charred remains with all the portions of silk found were exhibited in court, and formed a chief portion of Use evidence in the cue. On the part of the defence, it was said that though it was invidious for an insurance company to dispute a policy, yet the directors, who acted as the trustees of others, were bound to do so if they . sew circumstances which justified such • course. The information they received from the most experienced persons with respect to the fire and the debris found on the premises unspoiled them to bring this action into court. The circumstances were altogether mys terious The fire was put out is three minutes after the entrance of the firemen with the hose, and the first shelf of the cupboard from the bottom was found unconsumed, and the lower pert remained almost perfect. On that shelf there was one piece of silk standing upon its end against the side, and another piece leaning surest it—a very unusual mode, it was said, of stowing away silk—and they were both partially burnt. A third piece, also much burnt, was discovered on the counter. But beyond these I three pieces no more were found. nor any buret remains which indicated that there had been more silk on the premises. It was contended that it wee utterly impos sible for fifteen other pieced to bare been burnt, without some debris from them being found. The company had offered the plaintiff 471. 9s. 10d., the value of the three pieces, but be refused to take it. Cohen made a claim of 220/., and the company being anxious to avoid any nine ' ceesery dispute, offered him 801., which he took, and he could not now be found. Another fact in the cue was that the plaintiff kept no books, and entered his transac tions upon loose memoranda, some of which be produced. The particulars of the plaintiff's claim gave 18 pieces of silk, of which the three found were 20-inch silk, the remainder, of which not a vestige could be traced, being silk varying from 24 to 32 inches. It farther appeared that on the Saturday night four dozen new and empty bandbox., were taken upon the premises, sod that on an examination by the firemen, these were uninjured, while pieces of paper "crumpled up in a mysterious manner" were found under the counter and about the floor. Mr. Serjeaut Hayes submitted that, if the jury believed that the 15 pieces were nut on the premises when the fire took place, the plaintiff was entitled to nothing ; because it was a condition of the insurance that the account sent in by the claimant should be a true amount, and if be know ingly sent in one which was not only false, but grossly exaggerated, the policy became void. Enderlin was then given to prove that, though the whole dibris of the fire was carefully examined and sifted, not a particle of the 15 pieces of silk was discovered, and that some portions must inevitably have been found if they formed part of the burning materiel. The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said it was of the deepest 'interest to the community that questions of this sort should be fairly, carefully, and justly decided. There were three ways in which the jury could dispose of the case. If the plaintiff had lost his goods by fire without soy fraud or fault on his part, he was entitled to recover their full amount, but then the burden of proof wee upon him. Then if they thought that the 15 pieces were not burnt—and the evidence went to show that Dot a vestige of them had been found in the debris—the defendants were entitled to deduct them from the plaintiff's claim. But then Mr. Serjeaut Hayes said that, as the plaintiff had made a fraudulent claim, the defendants ought to pay him nothing. If he had made out that there was fraud he was perfectly right, and it was fit that fraud should be so punished. But here the burden of proof was shifted, and it was for the defendants to prove the fraud; but mere suspicion would never justify a verdict of fraud. There must be clear and cogent proof, and he must say that in the whole evidence Le could nos put his finger on any part which proved that the plaintiff was guiltyof any fraud. The case was certainly one full of great suspicion ; but it was possible to conceive that, instead of being an SCCOIn . plice, he might have been the victim of the villany of another. _ _ The July almost immediately found • verdict for 47!. 9s. 101, the value of the three pieces of silk. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUT.—CHELYSTOILD, Dsc.l2. The commission of gaol delivery for the county of Eases was opened yesterday by Mr. Baron Chassid'. There are not many prisoners for trial, and the most serious charge is the one against Francis Wain for the murder of a woman at Chdwell•heath. There is also a serious charge of wounding with intent to murder, but all the other mass appear to be of • an ordinary description. TO THE EDITOR OF THZ WWI& StO,—Those who fullQw two-year-old rent -01•11CeS have invariably discovered some new star at the Epsom Summer Ileetuig, and they were sot disappointed this year, although in the Woodcote, Gardevisnre and Puri tan, who bad previously shown whet they were made of, were first and third, the filly bettiug the colt just as cleverly as she was bound to do, after her may overthrow of Tennyson at the Spriug Meeting. Dividing the pair, we had the useful La Fortune, who was only beaten half a length, but has never sines run up to.lthe earner form being still • maiden. There were one or two bin; of promise among the unplaced, but they all wanted a lot of tune, Wedding Peal and Maid Marian particularly, and the latter had quality enough soot to score a win. In the Heethcote Puts La lUcbante ran in splendid form, when only beaten • ueck from Lady Clifdeo, and with Attraction (who got • bed start, however), and Gemma, behind her, and thus, when Victorious one out in the half mile Two-year-old Stakes his friends were very sweet, as they took their inspirations concerning him from Vision, La Meditate's double victrese is the early spring. He had some quality to beat in AntiMacaaaar, Le Biarnais, Verderer, Wings of the Wind, Sc., but got home very cleverly ;and awes to the credit of the two first-named that they finished so close to him, for he is one of the very best horses of his day, the great pity being that he is not in the Two Thousand or Derby. Ascot was rich as ever in the germ that adorned the juvenile races, Liddingtoo ligurtog in two of the most important of them, and by iris defeat of Gardevisnre and Shrapriell in • biennial, convinced the world as to his superiority over all previous " public form." Wild Boy also made • creditable tint appearance by getting wood to him ; and when looking at the after perfottuamces of Ostregor and itothomago, who were, with the slashing Salpinctes, unpaced, it is surprising how be got where be did. Carrying a 51b. penalty to the New Stakes. Liddington now ran homes tan lengths waiter, Grinder, Spice, Harold, and Contract, however, comprising the best of the fresh lot he beat, so that there was little to boast of here, and the four lengths defeat of Gardevisure on the first day was what be took such high ground upon. Auditor greatly distinguished himself in the Trial Stakes, and also in a plate won by Lemonade, with the promising Black Draught second, for be was before La M.ichante sod le others ; and Ls Bi'arnais also improved on his previous form by winning the weight for age Queen's Stand Plate, with &wheal beaten three lengths from him. for the latter afterwards disposed of Kraig, La Fortune, Jezebel, Fermata, Indigestion, and the no. certain Audi:, and showed Mr. Merry to have • very useful second-string to Liddingtos, Zambesi being anything but up to concert pitch as yet. Koeig was, at the ram* time, not the horse at Ascot he suhsequently proved himself, or he would not have allowed Teouyson to beat him so cleverly for a triennial, wherein Maid Marian and Reginella nn next to the pair, and the good-looking Tixllebsn and Night watch were, with La Fortune, " nowhere." In • Maiden Plate, • creditable delnit was made by King Charming. when he beat Shrapoell, Cordele, mid Leader, who were all " in form," if Audits, Radcliffe, Spice, Pepper's Ghost, Lady Florence, and many others be disposedof, were not ; but be could not come anything like as a level with Liddingtoe, whose preeige was added to by the result of nearly every two-year-old contest at the meeting, Gardeviaure's &Sage previous to it making her out the superior of King Charm ing, Tennyson, Lemobade, Auditor, and Zambesi—aad Mr. Merry's dyer gave her a good 10Ib. beating. At Hampton' there was nothing good enough to make either Vision or Victorious gallop ; bat at Newton, the former's troublesome spring opponent Blackbird disgraced herself by allowing the Leader to beat her, and it became evident she was be coming • rank jade, notwithstanding she managed to win a nee two days afterwards. The Hampshire reunion, that followed next, assumed almost as ranch importance en Ascot ; for after Willem had shown us bow respectably Dis cretion could do when she turned the tables on Simple Maid (who beat her and several other cleverly at Herpoidea ere the Friday before the Epsom week), and • pretty Gamma di Vergy filly out of Flight bad done a new trainer, A. Day, some credit, sou., rare doings took place at Stockbridge, Here the Daneburyitee brought oat the Duke, and they made no such mistake with him as with Koenig at Ascot, fur in the biennial he boa Wild Boy, La Fortuue, and Be ware= easily, in addition to Nukabeva and one or two others, who proved themselves of some account afterwards. Wild Boy did notfinish nearly so close to him as to Lidding ton, and many would have it the Duke's was the superior performance; but there is no telling how easily f..idelington wee at Ascot, and Wild Boy's third race in public showed such decided mediocrity that the Duke can take little cre dit for a defeat of him- Nevertheless, Denebary was in great force during the week, and in the Troy Stakes Kienig satisfied the stable they had not overrated him at Ascot when be ran Gardevisure toe heed, aid finished several lengths before Tennyson, with Siberia, Contract, Shrapoell, and Sydmonton-fall ug tt horses—ia the Troy Stakes. The minor affairs displayed Missionary, Todleben, Cadet* Harold, sod Blackbird, in their beet colours • still, Liddington looked more than ever the champion of hie year after the meeting, for when Garde visure beat Koeuig, Tennyson, Lc., she maim( a Sib penalty, and, on paper, he was K.euig's superior by at least a stone. Nothing important tranepired at Beverley, New. castle, or Worcester ; and Chelmsford and Ipswich are only noticeable for the great improvement in form Radcliffe (not in the Derby) exhibited at both places - so that, a leap must be takes front Stockbridge to Newmarket July before any- ' thing can be found worth dwelling upon. At head-quarters Liddington and the Duke met to fight out the vexed question of superiority, bat left it still an open one, even after Liddingtoo bad won both the great races, for there is no doubt the Duke ought to have secured the July had Ms jockey not gone tosleep, sod when the horse came out to the Chesteitield he looked " all weeps." Against this, however, there is the fact of Liddington having stumbled, and thus lost many lengths, in the first encounter, the great stake of money Mr. Merry backed him for in the second event raising the suspicioe that something as serious as this must have happened to him ; and as the pair were far before Cordelia, Zephyr, Rathomago, Bonding., sa d others, when they carried ilb penalties for the Chesterfield, there may not have been much wrong with the Duke after all. The great " form" of the pair there was no doubt about, for in the July they were lengths before the magnificent Lelio (who nest make • great three year-old), Skirter, and Todleben ; and those who saw Spice bowl over Camboll and others fora .50 1 . Plate, and Cambell ',Bermuda run away from Attache, ox., in • similar ram, gave Liddington the credit of laiug the better horse, for Spice was distanced by him at Ascot. The victory of Puritan in the Exeter Stakes, when he heat Rothomego, Peeress, Todleben, and Alton (elated at starting), also went further to his credit, through Gardevisure ; and at the end of the week the yellow jacket . was es peat • favourite fur the Darby as ever. At Abingdon. Lilitba, Edinburgh, and a colt Ly Guidon out of Vest, figured to some little &dean ' tage ; as did Goe trait, Zisca, and oppressor, the mane week at Liverpool, the Frenchman cleverly disposing of Spring Gun and Nothing More, and Oppressor doing the like with &WI, after she h ad carrie d home the top-weight in a Nursery. Stamford gave us the first intimation of • good nUy being in the Derby, Siberia soddenly displayed un movement by easily defeating King Charming. Jezebel, and Spice, and saving at:other good word for the long string of NN u at Deuebury —a mar of whose representatives, ukubeva and slimpoell, could not, however, get places at Winchester to Missionary, Grappler, aul Purity, the latter figuring reniarkally well, as she was • fair third with • 7lb penalty. At Southampton Grappler woo the chief event, thanks to Sydnumton being still very " backward" and Wstchbox heavily penalise d; but nothing startling occur red after Sibei ia's Stamford victory until we got to the first of the Sussex meetings at Goodwood, where Siberia sustained her reputation by running second in the Levant, foe she was only beaten a neck by Loogdown, who was good-looking enough to be backed at 20 to 1 for the Derby, and the highly trie,l Frenchman, 1.1 Maadarin, who was only third, after wards woo his race at Brighton very easily from Elthson, &e. The Ham Stakes fi eld WAS only moderate, SA usual, with Haarlem sod Skeeter first and second ;and the number contesting the nude!) was weak, owing to the hard ground the ken, being an important one, nevertheless, as Oatreger beat Koong after • magnificent race, with Zinibesi only third, and Wild Boy fourth—the latter's position show ier that both be and Ostreger had greatly altered since they performed together at Ascot, where the latter was =placed to Wild Boy's second. It TATTERSALL'S.-MONDAT. December being known as the deed mouth of the year on the turf, no surprise is evinced when • thin attendance at the Corner is announced, nod this afternoon will have proved no exception to the rule. The weather war not in viting to those whose presence was compulsory, and hence, perhapa, the meagre attendance fora Monday. The prin cipal business done during the afternoon was the squaring of sundry small balances, several, ho wever, being lef &untouched. The general lull in the betting world for several days put induced several to put forth • "feeler" for the Ihy, when it was speedily discovered that Breadalbatie was the hero of the hour, and so keen war the desire to get on Itr. l'Ansoe's horse, that 12 to 1 was snatched up in every direction, leaving little or no money in the market at the same price, consequently 11 to 1 wan only obtainable at the close of business. The Spring Cottage second eking showed decided signs of • coming tendency, inasmuch ea that after 40 "tenure" had been taken—to start with -33 ponies were booked, and finally 1,000 to 30. The re mainder of the animals backed belong to the oatside divi sion, except perhaps Christmas Carol, about whom .'hundreda" were accepted. Closing prices : TWO THOUSAND. 4to I Agit Mr. Merry'. [Addington (of) DERBY. 6tt 1 apt Mr. Merry 3 1.61110p0n (off) 11 to 1 Mr. W. l'Ansou's Breadaltone (off, 12 to 1 't freely, 21 to 1 Captain Christie's Christmas Carol )t) 33 to 1 Mr. W. l'Ansou't Droondelaw 33 to 1 —51 r. WWtams.•n's Longdown 3 and off) 40 to 1 lord Wastraorlands Bookt and of f 40 to 1 Lord Westmoreland's Brma (t and off) 40 to 1 lotd Durham's Arirl it and of; 1000 to 15 Mr. 7. Fairs Inlay t ; 1000 to IS Mr. Naylor's COOVV4II it and off) NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIBALTT, DEC. 12.—Arpon - rmr.yri. —Lieut. A. Turman, to the Defence. Paymaster C. W. Eelee, to the Victoria. Surgeon Dr. A. 1.;:olru, to the Bloobeiru. Engineer J. W. Nett, superaurocrary, to the Asia, confirmed. :ICting Second Clue Amistant Engineer J. Barn, to the Asia, as supernumerary. PaomonoN3.—To be First Class Assistant Engineers : G. Woolard, of the Trafalgar ; E. Clark, supernumerary of the Asia; N. D. Chamber, of the Dauntless. PORTSMOUTH, Dtc. 12. The Achilles, 20, iron screw strain frigate, Catplan Edward W. Vansittart, arrived at Spithead on Satur day, andualuted the slag of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, C.C.S. This morning Admiral Sir Michael Seymour em barked on board the Sprightly. steamveuel, Muter George Allen, proceeded to Spithead and inspected her. The mew of the ship manned yards on the admiral going on board. Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin paid a visit to the dockyard today. The Calcutta, iron *crew steam transport, solved this afternoon from Calcutta, with time expired men and mili tary invalids, and came into harbour to discharge them. the Rinaldo, 17, screw sloop, commander the Hon. Maurice H. Nelson, is daily expected at Spithead from the West Indies. to pay off, having been four years in commis sion in May next. . . . . . The Urgent, iron 'crew steam troop ship, Captain Samuel H. Henderson, will be taken oat of No. 1U dock to-morrow; she will also get up her steam for trial of her machinery after repairs. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Die. 12. Tut ENSUING COMMENCLAIENT.—rhe Vice-Chao callor hie requested that the supplicate and certificates of terms for degrees of A.S. in mathematical Immure, for degrees of LL.B.,and the supplicate for degrees in Moral and Natural Sciences at the approaching conirueucemeut may be mot to the registrary on or before Saturday, the 24th of December. CLASSICS. —The Board of Classical Studies hays given notice that the following will lw the subjects cf examina tion at the general previous examination of 1866 : —The Gospel of St. Mark; liarodotus, Book VIL ; Virgil's bueld, Books V. and VL CHARGE Or FELONY AGAINST A COMMIsSION Auecr.—At the Manchester police-court, yesterday, Isaac Collin', described as a commission agent, but formerly a wealthy manufacturer at Rochdale, was charged with steal ing 6 cwt. of cotton fonts, the property of Mr. Holt, of Rochdale. In September the prisoner met the prosecu tor in Manchester and introduced him to a third person, from whom the prosecuter purchased the fonts. They were left at a public-house, it being arranged that they should be lett there till neat morning, when the prisoner should take them to the railway station at Rochdale, where he was to be met by some one on behalf of the prosecutor. The pit. miser obtained the feats. but never took then, to the pro. mentor, who met him at Halifax, and gave him into custody of the police. He was committ ed for trial at the sessiose. FATAL AceIDENT ON THE STAINES AND WOKING. HAM HAlLWAT.—Yesterday at noon Mr. C. J. Woods. the coroner for West Surrey, held an inquest at the Railway Inn, Egham, Surrey, on the body of George Overton, aged 43 • platelayer iu the employment of the London and South . Western Railway, who was killed on Friday last by the 10.50 down train, while walking along the line &timid hag to the permanent way of the Sistine. and Wolchigham Railway. After hearing the evidence the jury returned • verdict of " Accidental death," and although they coo riclared there was no culpable neglect of duty on the part of the compar.y's servants, and that no blame could be attached to them, they felt that it was desirable that the coroner should direct the attention of the traffic =eager of the South Western Railway to the great discrepancy in the witnesses' evidence with retard to the rate of travelling upon that portion of the line when the accident had taken I Pfs'e*- KILAC FAST BETIRAG —Homcropathic practi tioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of all bower:wee When the doctrine of homoo.pathy wag first Introduced into this country, t.ere wen to be obtained no preparation. of cocoa either attractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach . the nut am either iupplied In the crude state or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, Homeopathic Chemist, was induced Ici the year 16341 to turn his attention to this subject. and at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery In being the first to produce en article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it Zs'through, so to be most acceptable to the delicate st o mach . ;Mead use Eppe s oa is distinguished as an nvlgmarmiy, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most delirious aroma. Dr. Hassell, In his work, "Adulterations of nod," says :- -Cocoa contains a great variety of important nut-itive princi ples—every Ingredleut neceasary to the poeith and sustenance of the body." Amain As a nutritive, cocoa sterile eery much higher thee either entree or tea." Dlrectious—Two tempoonfula of the powder la a breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Bemired In tau-lined Vb., jib., and Ilb labelled packets, and sold at la. 64. per IL, by grocers. confectioners. and chemists —(AdvertisentsiaL NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRK, Dec. 12. Alice Wilton, 23, was charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Wilson, her infant son, nine months *ld. at Booth, near Howdeo, on the 12th of November last. Mr. Thomp son and Mr. Newton were for the prosecution ; Mr. Camp bell Foster appeared for the prisoner, who pleaded not guilty. The yruo oar was a married woman, but had been deserted by her husband since 1542. She had bad two children. The eldest, a boy, died, and the other wee a girl of the ego of three years. On being deserted by her hus band she went to service, but in February or March of the present year returned to her mother's house at Booth, near Bowden, where ahe gave birth to the child who formed the subject of the present inquiry. The jury, after three hours' deliberation, found the pri mmer Guilty, but reoosomeoded her to mercy. Sentence of death was passed in the usual form. LIVERPOOL. DEC. 12. The winter assizes were commenced here today before Mr. Justice Mellor in the crown court, and Mr. Justice Blackburn in the nisi prices court. The cause list end calendar are both very heavy, and the suites &reexported to last up to Christmas-eve. In his charge to the grand jury, Mr. Justice Mellor expressed his regret at Noise so heavy aor after the gaol delivery at Menchester. There were, he said, no lees than num cues of murder, and every other crime common to a large town. Some of the murder eases would doubtless be reduced to manslaughter, and it was a cur kin fact that most of them originated in " roar," where extreme violence had been used. In the no. pans court, Mr. Justice Blackburn said that he would not be able to release the special jurymen' until the aid of the Cbrivtinas week, and he trusted that he would not require their ra vines after that. There are 97 causes entered for tri►l, and of these 40 are marked for special juries. Amongst the latter is Hanrotty •. the Great Northern, s collision case, which will not be tried before Saturday. Price v. Bowen will not be tried before Tuesday in next week. This is as action against • surgeon for malpractice, and amongst the medical men sub rreaed is the President of the Royal College of Surgeons. THE POLICE COURIS. WESTMLNSTER. Mr. E. C. Morley, solicitor, King's Beach-walk, Temple, aocompanied toy Str. C. E. lons. • geotlemas, applied to the megietrate for • sun:rooes arising out of the followitia • , The circumstances of the case were somewhat peculiar, e_lacard: which bas been distributed widely upon the Saudi The plainti ff , Henry Herman Meyer, • young man, a n d a Western Railway native of Prussia, carried on in this country the business of a " Rewards for the Conviction of Smokers at Railway general merchant, but dealt chiefly in silks. He lived at Stations sod in theCarriages.—Smokers are now exceedingly sfildmay-park, lslingtos, but kept no office or warehouse, insolent. They are become an insufferable nuisance at and deposited his goods on the premises of a person named railway teatimes mid io the carriages, and in order to test Cohen, • cap and mantle maker, who occupied the gist how far it is practicable to arrest this custom, we shall begin floor, consisting of two rooms, at 42, Noble -street, St. Ilar- at the Waterloo, Richmood, and intervening railway tin's-le-Grand. Oo the 2iid May last the plaintiff effected stations, and shall give from this office-1. One pound to an insurance for 1,0001. with the Western Fire Insurance the first pawn •ho shall convict a passenger of smoking Company, upon the goods which he kept at Cohen's. It at any of the above stations or ia the carriages. 2. Ow appeared that a short time previously Cohen had insured his Pound tee shillings if the convicted Pat► is goods with the name dB.), and that he introduced the plain- an gime of whom shamefully bemuse them. tiff as an insurer. On Saturday night, the 7th May, shortly selves with fumes of tohacco, and serious accidents before 11 o'clock, after all had left for several hours, a fire are the natural result. 3. Two pounds if the convicted broke out on the first floor. The firemen buret open the party is a rail say director. 4. Teo shillings to a porter or doors and succeeded in • few minutes in putting out the any office' who may merely aid io the conviction of an flames. The plaintiff now claimed 343/, being the value, offeoder.—Teomas REYNOLDS, Secretary. British Mai ls he alleged , of the silk which he had on the premises Tobacco Society's Office, le, Camdenequare, London, N.W., when the tire occurred. Evidence was given to show that Nov. 2, 1844. the plaintiff purchased from a merchaut in SL Paul's. I "N.B. We have been instructed to offer the above re. churchyard, on the 14th April, 27 pieces of silk, and on the wards by gentlemen who are impelled from a sows of duty 18th some other pieces, for which he paid • total sum of to do something for the protection of themselves and other 6131. 12s. sd. in cash. These he sent to Cohen's, and the son-smoking travellers." portion remaining unsold, consisting of 18 pieces, wore I Mr. Morley said that his application was for a summons stated to have been destroyed. A young man, named Shore, I against Mr. Thomas Reynolds, of 10, Csuiden-square. &clerk to Cohen, depoed to the goods being on the premises Camden -tows, whose name was appended to thu handbill when he left hetween o audio is the evening. He said that es the secretary cf the society. Mr. inure on Monday last a Mr. Phillips." a printer, called about 5 o'clock to had arrived at the Barnes Railway Station, and having to see Cohen, Out they all left together, and that he wait something like three-quarters of so hour for a train, locked the door and gave the key to Cebu. He did was smoking. The station, as is well keown, was us not bear of the fire until Monday morning, when be enclosed. There was only ore person besides himself on went to the warehouse at 11 o'clock. He had the platform; he had positioned himself at a remote part of only bees io Cohen's service • month before the it, so that he might literally he said to be smoking on Baran fire, and did not know where Cohen was now, but he bad Common, and could not be causing an offence to aeyese ; lived in Weolock-street, New North-road. Cohen paid him when his tame and address were denuded and taken far his salary on the Huntley after the fire, and be met Cohen smoking on the platform. Anxious that the circumstances two months afterwards, when be told the witness that be should not be misrepresented, be communicated with the had not gone into business again. and thought he was secretary of the British Anti-Tobacco Society, and received going to Germany. Another of Coben's clerks, William the following reply : Noble, who had been in his service about two month., said " December e, 1864.—5ir,-1 sent your letter to the there were between 18 and 20 pieces of silk on the premises. gentlemen who have offered the rower& for the conviction He said he wrote letters, and sometimes travelled, but kept of smokers, and I send on the other side a verbatim copy of no books, as Cohen kept his own books. He added that their reply. It remains with you to decide whether the there was no tire on the premises derive the day, but that ' matter shall be proceeded with, or whether you pay the fine whys they left Cohen gave him and Phillipson • cigar each, and avoid the costs mud exposure.-1 am, sit, your obedient and that the cigars must have been lighted in the house, servant, T. REYNOLDS. C. E. limes, Esq.—P.S. 1 will as they went out smoking. Cokes paid him his wages on not allow any steps to be taken until Tbersday morning." the Saturday sight. A young woman, also in the employ , The communication alluded to on the other side ran as of Colima, gave similar evidence as to the silk being in the follows :—" Dear Sir,—The reward is offered to be given rooms when she left on Saturday night. It appeared after conviction. If the offender confess his fault and pay that her father was agent of the Western luso- the fine, 405., he may avoid prosecution, and the reward ranee Company, and also • shareholder in the company. shall of course be given is addition to what may be ob. Phillipson said he was a friend of Cohen's, but their tamed from the guilty party. The parties are thus secured acquaintance hail only been of short duration. O n th e against any lose of time. The present case seems clear. If Saturday evening he went with Cohen to an evening party, the smoker will not arrange quietly and most be prime where they remained until half-past eleven or twenty crated, the instant he is convicted the complainants legally mites to 12, and then left together. He parted from claim, and shall receive the reward, as well as the 21. to Cohen at his own door, in Wenlock-strest. They made an which the offender is liable by the laws of the railway appointment to meet on the Sunday at three o'clock, but company." Coheo did not keep his appointment, and he went to see him Mr. Morley said that the object of his appearing there on the Monday morning, and then be ascertained that • fire I war to prevent this eystetu of annoyance against timid per had taken place. The witness. said be never saw the plain. sons, who shrieking from the fear of publicity might be is tiff until last Wednesday, when he called upon him (wit- i clued to comply with such terms as proposed. Hie client, ness) and asked for Coheres address. Witham, lighted his ; Mr. Dues was not a man disposed to submit to math we. cigar outside the door on the Saturday night, but he saw duct, and had felt it hie duty to the public to take legal measures. He DOW &eked fora summons wind 5!... Evyookls for causing to be received, knowing the contents. a letter demanding money with menaces without reasonabl e . . . Seife said it was a sort of thing that ougl.t to Le iet • stop to. It looked very mach like a system of eztortior„ and panted the summon. MARIET& LONDON WKEKLY DOCK RETIIENS.-Du. I'. traport4..Debrord. Pr. Stock ISQ. svoAR—W. I. blida 2 tree 1,523 Mauritius bags 6.248 East India bags 26,188 slam sass baskets Manilla Havana bo b s 1,440 Cuba boles Po ar Leuicovido casks 1,234 packages 638 Do. bags COM3a—W.l. _packages 1 Do.. balk i bags Cairn casks 244 brim. & bags 1,324 Morita packages' Other E. India packages 1.628 Do. dm sic:MIN BMW & Coats bawl -.- COCOA begs' 25 Foreign cl= M— om Do. Wilds Mc; LI tons 847 SALITIM ••••• FIFILATI OF row. tons 61 s.va itooe ttn 1411, 36.724 I 2:2t,1311 I- L 7 7u,4e! 9,053 212.,74 2.: :7 Vt 434 - U,SVI 11.14 - 1,015 35,479 7,356 TALLOW.- MONDAY Evintuca.-The tallow market s firm throughout last week, and the delivery for the et, proving large, the market has exhibited increased etrensm, and holders have demanded higher prices in all poeitloti, which hare been to &owe extent submitted to by buy, the market closing with an upward tendency new, 411.; old, 40L 3d. to 40a. 6d. ; January, 41s. t, 41s. 9d. ; March, 425. 6d. to 422. Oti. ; October to bar, 435. 6d. to 4-k. Town tallow, 41.. 3d. net u ,h . Taganrog sheep, 412. 6d. to 43. Beef, 41s. North Amen. can, 40a. 6d. to 412.; South American, 42a. let pi;vi ; Australian sheep, 41.2. to 413. 9d. ; beef, Pk. to 4. 5 . 6d. fine, to 395. low. Cocoa-nut oil is quiet. Coein, 37e. 6d. ; Ceylon, 36a. to 36e. 6d. No Sydney offers;. Palm oil steady, 335. 6d. to 36a. Sae Lagos. Pakchut oil, 29a.-(From the circular of Marra. Smith and Clastrlei.) COTTON.—Livaroot, Dec. 12.—Sala today, bales, including 1,500 speculation and export. 300 A mpr.,. /3 . 22d. to 27d. ; 120 Pormun. 260. to 270. ; 1.0) Bic)," and Bahia, 26d. to 27d. ; 450 Egyptian, rid. to 274 d. ; ..) Smyrna, 15/d. to 16gd. ; 5,520 Surat, 12d. to •14,1„; Madras, ltd.; Beata/. Sandi, &c., 12d. to 13d. ; 130. to 16d. ; Japan, 17d. to 171.1. We lava hada.,...it bat steady market. WOOL AND WORSTED.—Bitapron, DEC. 12. -71 z market is again very quiet. The transactions in wool kre very ; prime, nevertheless, me very firm. 'lb! wonted yarn department has been remarkably quiet day; scarcely any business has been done. Spioncii, have for some time past been running to stock, sern,...lv contemplate curtailing production by mopping toaci,n,,,y and running short time. The piece market is, if quieter than on Thursday. The American houses comm.... to place a few sm►ll orders in fancy goods ; but the boa.t and foreign merchants are almost entirely out of niatiit. Prices, following the raw material, are exceedingly firm. COALS.— LOYDON, DzC. 12.—Coopeu Hartley, , Basilan, Hartley, 18.. 6d. ; Hot well Main, 1-1. , Lambert's West Hartley. 18e. 3d. ; West Hartley, , Walls End Braddylla Hatton, 225. 3d.; Walls End b., wall. 6d. ; Walls End Heim*. 23.. ; Walls Elsa hep,tr Grange. 21s. 911. ; Walls End South Hetton, "'s.'4. ; Walls End Sunderland, 20a. ; Walla End Tunstall, 295. , el.; Walla End Hartlepool, 22e. 9d. ; Walls End Haugh Hall. 225. ; Walls End Kalb" 21a. 9d. ; Walls End East Haile. pool, 225. 9d. ; Walla End South Hellos, 7b.—Ships at mar. kat, 77 ; sold, 71. TRAFFIO R.ETURN& Mills Pos- Mar. Total, Told =IMAM Open. Bakken. chaa4ll44l. 1.364. /la Mouth ceding Oct. 81 A A 6 it Royal Danish ..— —4,6 A Week ending No.. 19, Growl Trunk of Canada l2lll —•— 24,611 21,3)? Week coding Nor. 21. . __.. MIMI and Milwaukee .. 189 6,173 3,331 Week endlog Nor. fa. Great Western of Canada $46 11,527 13,W.G Week ending Nov. . Ottoman 37 DI 307 545 SA We k endang Dee. a. Cork and Yougbal and Queenstown Direct 307 97 40t 391 Aogiccuritst PaosPzers.—The weather was dry on the first day of the week, bat sunless and dull, while Monday was a fine bright sunny day, very unlike December. Wind, S.W.; thermometer, 48 degrees ; baro meter, 30 inches down to 29.80, and still Ulnae. Tuesday was soother fioe dry day, but not eo clear as the previous one ; barometer rather higher. Oar advice' from Lancashire run thus:—" Though latterly we have had a deal of nuo.thers has not been too much, and field work in West Lanculnre has made steady program. The wheat plant is highly promising, but many of oar farmers have sown leer of this important cereal this autumn, in conse quence of the umwmunerative prices. Yotetoes are plentiful, good, and cheap. There are fewer corn. plaints now of turnips . In Northumberland it was stated, on the same day, "The weather rime our last report his been mild, but damp, with the exception of Thursday and Sunday, when it was fine. Wind W. and S.W." In Suffolk the weather was reported to be mild and open for the season. Wednesday was a dull day, with some slight rain at night. On Thursday. much rain fell up to noon, with a low barometer-down to 29.50 in. Wind still S.W. Thermometer, 46 deg. The land Menu sow been pretty well saturated of late, a little water begins to run into the ponds ; and some additional showers would DOW tell, and replenirk them sufficiently. This refers tofarms well drained, as those not in such condition have bees better off, and the brooks in low situations have at lint been running, and as millstreams are full at places, giving again the power to make Sour, which has been withheld so long by the very dry season. This has been much against wheat thrashing ; bet the farmers show no anxiety to bring out their stores, seeing that the prices are so low, with no immediate pros pect of improvement ; this, m, in spite of the great falliog-off in the imports from all quarter of the globe. which, during the winter, are likely to be lam than for many years past at the same period of the year. such a decrease may cause a revival after the coa dation has been meoded by a little sharp frosty weather, and when the Chrietrea• rents have been paid. The average price this week wu 38s. sd. ; the corresponding week of last year was 40e. 9d.: the previous year, 465. 9d. ; and that in 1861, 60s. 4d. per imperial quarter. The contrast is very greet, mid his a deepondme tendency on agriculturists geuerally, with no ameliorating circumatsoces to cheer up the down• coat, struggling to make up the amount wanted for the landlords. The unfavourable weather is not so much against the thrashing of barley, hard samples being a little mellowed by the soft atmosphere; and this working is going on Mildly, famishing supplies faster than can I.e taken off by the regular demand The amount returned this week us the largest of the season, being 117,769 ma, but at only 21st. 2.1. ; last year it wee 1e2,260 qm. at 33e. rid. ; the previous year 126.747 qrs., at 345. 101.; whilst is 1861 the amount we. 121,642 qrs. ' at 375. per ~r. —showing much depressim. Oats, beans. and Pala cot., mend more favourable prices, but then the yield has berg so deficient as so provost any benefit in the results over former sessoaa. 7 .ltirk.fane prc.u. HORN IMA.N n Ti... is choice and strong, moderate in price and wholesome to um. These advantages have serer t for Lois lea a general preference. It Leonid In packets tz estuta—lAdvertisensaut.l BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. BEDWELL—December 9, at Leatherbead, the wife of F. A. E. •• well, r Sq., of a daughter. BC X 1 ON.—December 10, at Champion Hill, the wile of Fr•-‘ , : , Button, Lai., of a ion. GOMA:CO.—December 10. at Wellbury, Herta, the wife . Goding, Ego of a daughter. LA NGWOICIM V.—Deoesaber 9. at getuderlandlensee. We't botusepark, the %aloof J. W. Unworthy, Fag of a damid , r. MACLEOD. —December 10, at Gothic Lodge, Worthing. the wife of M. k Macleod, Ewa . of a daughter. PAtt GT.—December at fh)ombecottage, Croydon. the wife Mr P. PAget. jun.. ofa sou. Sid I7ll.—lkcember 10, at Palmer's-green, Southgate. the •Ile t Mr. 11. Smith, el • non. MARRIAGES, BLACKETT-14URRA1::Decetnber tl, at SL Thames 1:41w,1 il Church. LVldf. 11 the Itor. W. B. Blackett, J. S. 11Ia ►ot . Lag., C.L, East Indian Railway, to It illlanaloa daughter of x. Murray. Esq., of Dollerio, County of P. rth. COI WElC—DAY.—Decrmller 10, at New At Pancras C1.1.r, Euston.road, 31r Y. Cooper, of Tottonitun.asowt dagehtet of the late R. De), lay.. of 51.wuloot, enad. Lion s-park. _ ISELSoli—lillio.—Lieeember 10, at Rt. Juden Church, nlr' na k. by the Rev, D. Mee, Janus tidtrar• . son of Eau , of West Drayton, county llblaileses. daughter of the Tate Captain C. O. King. of the bOOl Erguaa DEATHS. BbliTll.—December 9, at Brighton, 11. D. Blyth, Esq., 0111 -r ton-place, Piccadil ly. DACU rn L—Doceber 0, at Stratford.green, Essen, G. Inert. . ailed 77. lllAXTolo.—Deostober 8. at Canonbury, Olivia Anne Ernst ..t.• . the wife of J. Marton', Et., ago, I ea: — - skrrkitsiux—Dee.mber 6, at Lower Clanton. MOW' • Char nal lotte Marts. relict of the late J. L Netter. :6. PELLATT.— December 0, at Champion-lodge. Itre4ium, Maria Esther, wife of the late M. Pellatt, Iraq . 71. REM INGToN.—Decesiber to, at Vaaaall.rillas, uenaaa nom'. Brixton, Elisabeth, relict of the late U. keratoo lo6 . aired 72. WllEATLEY.—December 9, at Worthing, Georgians. of the late General Sir M. Wheattey, Bart. 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