The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-01 00:00:00

l Biz of her two select Is in the ors were window, terior et he two, Jut upon w of the ne after )nd man twenty produced s stowed sy by the to their luort nor in by the t appear, any great minutes hen went Lich they c tad with he choice revolver r descrip .! seared. hey again rates kept at so die- present to +c•rs intent a favoured id nut the ocoulioned ft ar giving aloe s few !gunned to out in two Aar giving to follow o :out of y the ttn- , the three joules for eir visitors had crossed row passai s e wsite. Then inl not find went on to Ifi.rnied the pector Gun, k immediate the outrage• :h street and no trace of ored. From arrow alloys residents in from 0 obtain any Lgistrates slight hope ; the aireatias nt attributed o objoetof its aide of Mr. by only a few i aiahed, whim tin' object he I Lace stated* to the anthems ty of circ 11,1 to belisos o . 4 4 axh and eassows of the ssolltrt th affairs srait,r tinerican, whet. 6ckay was sat aid appears to extraordiner, e has prod the police , f another gam' op in the esh city • •short time since, and i L, . 0 ,1 taken elaborate precautions, as they believed, • prevent the recurreoce el an act of the kind. R is now stated, I know not with what authority, a i m lately a number of strangers have been ~s.errol in the city, several of whom have •,•vu seim loitering about the gunsmiths' shops. 1 sir. Alport's visitants seem to have made •,i,ipelves well acquainted with the interior I h i s place, as they needed no assistance to find best revolvers and the cartridges suitable for As a matter of course the affair, following F.,aty outrage, has given rise to the most alarm „,l,iinuises, and people here are persuaded that at the verge of a fresh insurrection. It ,3 much more likely that both enterprises were ..p.ivrtaken for the purpose of creating terror, by as they do the comparative powerless i the authorities, while at the same time it is • ng much needed supplies to the limited my of the insurrection. It is, however, tta q uestion that the Fenian organisation in • t..tith has fur several months past been regain and numbers, and is now nearly as , • as ever, and somewhat more daring. e7tI:IST.IIAS AT GURRNSEY WITH VICTOR HUGO. --- On Thursday last, the 26th inst., M. Victor Ilncu .• at noon , the sixth yearly fete to forty poor I.l3il.lrun t hi- residence, Hanteville-house, a large num h r of iteheatial ladies and gentlemen being also present. The ft consisted of three parts—first, the luncheon ; the poet's oration and the presentation of gar thin!. the distribution of articles from the Christ . During the first I. part, shortly after twelve, the st en tered the room, greatly applauded by the company, :... c hildren and the visitors having already commenced • .1.0..ing of refreshments, the same quality being offered without distinction of rank. It should not be for a:. I, that the children are always sure to obtain an en , Oh. ti , the file. for it is considered that it is peculiarly 1.. a. own. Thus, at least, once a year, are we taught • respect the pu i :r ;x / a man whose authority is immense. 'tarty The 'rty then into another room, where Victor I iu4o delivered a speech, of which the following is a sum ,ry. lie said that he had been requested to repeat the • q.lanation , he hail already given on the subject of his s t ekly dinner, and, ea the end he hail in view was to be ita fah he would rapidly go over the same ground. tit then tell us that poor children require proper n ourdinient at least once a motthithout which their lealth would he Mtn to suffer . w It was for the in terest of the future that children should be loved by the rich In osier to have a fair future, it was neces sary, cod helping, now to set a good example. He indicated ri simple means to arrive at that end. He hod entaliledied dinner for forty poor children, divided into two ban& of twenty, which dine alternately. In order to he invited to the dinner, poverty was the only reauisite no distinction between creeds or nationall iii.. was maile ; Roman catholics, protestants, French, del Engli-.11 were dike welcome. This little institution, shildished in Id, house, had been brought under the .ticc of continental readers, for almost all the European sewmapera hail republished the reports of the Christmas I. tes. Ile had two objects in view ; first, to show that the hyui. ne which he carried out was a success ; and to spread the knowledge of the reasons why be Nt• the dinners. If it was only forty children who were the matter would be most insignificant ; hut it was Tortmit that the example he had set should be eaten ly followed. He heel received, the day before, the I. l'ih4, which recommended strongly the formation of ::,filar institutions : and on last year's fete-day he hail o ail a letter which had appeared in the Times, ttitur, that, in imitation of the children's dinner •.e rmoy, the Lev. Mr. Wood hail established for poor i!oliben in London a dinner, at which three hundred and tai my were fed ; thus the forty had increased to three I, oelie.l and twenty. (Cheers.) This year Lady Thomp • treasurer of the children's dinner, Marylebonc, had t• it hint a letter, published in the Guernsey papers, which Ca speaker noticed. It stated that six thousand children I al dined Miring the few months of its establishment. tirst, then, there were the forty, afterwards the three hundred mid twenty, and now the six thousand: thus the little stream of Guernsey had become a large river in Lon don. lie begged now to thank Lady Thompson and her odlengues for their endeavours. (Cheers.) Addressing himself to the ladies, be asked them to think of their children whilst beholding the poor ones pre ,et ; and requested them, who were happy and favoured mothers, so to inculcate from childhood the fra ternity of men, that the little rich should not be envied by the little poor. let us sow the seeds of love ; thus we .11.114.30 , 13 the future. He wished that the children bmb) have one day of joy out of the year of misery. To day they had hail a luncheon, and now clothes were shout to lie distributed to them, and, in the third place, they share the joys of a hristmas tree. (Cheers.) Every out of us, said M. lingo, hair here below duties of different ortx ill 'terror'''. Cod imposes on us, in the first instance, rious duties —we must struggle in the interest of all men; must combat against the strong and the powerful; • diet the strain; when they abuse their strength, , a 1 against the powerful when they badly em . 'oy their power ; wo mm st take by the collar the mot. whileter be be, from the carter who ill•treats a to the king who oppresses a people. To be success hi and to ate fig: are rude necessities ; life would be if it only cote laird of that. Sometimes after useless ile,eours 3oh respite from duty ;we drag ourselves into tit, lireseti.a• or conscience. and conscience replies that a.• ma , : :main,: in duty. The struggle, however, is in tempted, to ma:templet. these poor little ones, whose faulaeolourtsl Casts are both lighted and rosy by the .plemlid dawn of life. We feel moved; we pass from iislignation to t. tiderness, and we understand the • of life. Tons we thank God, who, though g I,lllg us to combat the powerful and the wicked, Diu - . n. yet to succour the innocent and the feeble— aiel w ie., ',ale by side with the grave duties of life, has placed the elteerful ones—the latter to uphold the tt tr".•t soplause.) At the coneltision of the speech garments were distri kited to the then the company passed into the " tapestried where M. Hugo superintended the .... tine lIIIIIIVTOUd articles welch were on the t lot dloat..t it . er which hepresented sontepiettea of music to set end of t ,e ...diets as a souvenir of the fete, and a large l.kaa ..f c,u t•• was drawn for by lot. The Pte ended shortly I. ft••• p.. 11. From two to three hundred visitors were pie ht. The nmiu , ! .1i itribution of prizes gained by the the Leeds School of Art took place the Galt Institute on Monday. The tilif , o lomat, Stage cirpenteirs employedi at Is.r Majesty's Theatre at the time of the late calamitous tit, lay Iw.,e their tools loft the means of providing for their families. We have applied," they say, "to the hon. secretary of the Employes' Relief Fund, and have bent taut that the rum collected is not ready yet for distri bution, and that we must wait ; but, sir, we beg leave to say what 7,entlem..n call waiting is starving to us, and that could we only get part of our tools to go on with we should feel grateful." I strike among the South Yorkehire ironworkers ,pleura to tw inns nding. There was a meeting of the men room eted wi - .11 the Parkgate works, near Rotherham, yesterday, to on-ider the notice of reduction of ten per e,•ut. in the wAg. +, and a resolution was passed against returning to woe; until the notice is withdrawn. It is feared that the s Imo comae will be adopted by the men in other Ow. s, lie the ParkgAte men usually take the lead in th. se natters, and guide the rest. • "W e think," says the PM " thaewe are in a I.osition to announce that Mane. Patti will shortly be :uari:,..l to the Marquis de Calm." The Vienna journals publish some details re l., ctiu,.: the treasures which King George of Hanover has taken to that city. The plate comprises a valuable his ice in gold and another in silver. The cabinet of relicts of church utensils and of objects brought in 1172 by Duke Henry, the Lion, from the Holy Land, &o. roileet;on of coins numbers nearly 22,000. The piaures, remain, at least for the present, in Hanover. A frightful fat::ine, reminding one of that which .lesaNtatt ill IS, last year, is at present ravaging Algeria. The E•; ,,, of ( )ran (my. :—" On the 3rd of December inst., the 4rli,h of ten natives who died of hunger were found • at M.,,c au On the following day 14 perished in a like manner and on the tith 7.1 of these poor creatures were carried to the cemetery by their 00-religionaries, who only submitted to this luty under blows. The total number of victims in thee, dare was 47." It is eta t‘,l that, according to the last accounts from the ialarpl of St. Thomu, the work of the divers was Progressing. A company of American divers, using lleinke's apparatus, were also in operation ; but the earth quakes entirely unsettled the labour of tho negates, and yellow fever lad nterfered with the engineering bands. Hew,. Easton ant Amos have lost one at work in the dock, and one of Mr. Heinke's men has also died from the effects of the climate. Plurarn BILLS IN PARLILILENT.—The examiners of petitions for private bills in the House of Clocomons Ilk Charles Frere sad Hr. French) Palgrave) will co.os tome their sittings en Saturday, she lab bast. at 11 o'clock. THE MUN I w EnNESVAY EVElM,77ANtrAitifrit MS. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • ; Z: 1 . 111. Alai—was the latch of the door left fastened? Mr. Dunham (the landlord)—lt was. (THII3 DAT.) . ' • •Iftimer—l don't know anything about it. —..--. warded till Monday. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. THAMES. wawa so3OLLAT AND 1011313 T. (Before Mr. Registrar Bootie.) o •l'lniit , egad 20 years, and Matilda Weight, also IN PS H. R. BlAvilt. called So is 25, describing themselvesae hawkers, were The bankrupt, deseribed as late of Liverpool, out of . ht Wore Mr, Beason , charged with feloniously and business, was formerly a member of the firms of Cumming ' y kooIDNI and entering tits dwelling house of Beaver, and Co. of Singapore, and of J. IL Cumming ma Mr. James Nathan Wmon, oil and ooleurman of No. 4, Co., of , Leadenhill4treet. He ascribes his failure to ism s 1 white s acs-lane, siwtowyy , and dialing a large quantity on shipments inwards and outwards. The liabilltfiss ant o f p ro p ert y amen= stated at 91,2191., of which 83,9091 , are in respect of the 1 Cn the afternoon of Thursday last, Mr. Salmon locked late fi rm of J. B. Cumming and Co., who otoproirkroanil 'up his home and premises, and left the key with a neigh in September, 1866. 1 hour. He returned at hell-past 2 the following morning, This was the first sitting, but no assignee was ollesen- and discovered that his house had been forcibly entered, The next sitting was appointed for the 21st of Feinting. : and • large quantity of pr o p erty stolen, including twelve IN SS JOHN SMITH. ' white Ames, two white flannel shirts, eight linen shirts, The bankrupt, who was late • member of the firm of • twelve cotton s hks,„, , two ps i, s of calico & swots, w t * to Smith, Knight, and Co. (Limited), contractors' o of Token- l o f soaks, four b oo dk oro bi t h , two coats, four vests, horse - yard, is described as formerly of 1, Great GeOrfe* ' three rs of trousers, one jacket, three blankets, street, Westminster, and of the North London Brick • four • sheets, four pillow-eases, • counterpane, Works, Crouch-end, Homey-rise, contractor and brick- ' three window blinds, two tablecloths, and a silver guard maker. The adjudication wasmadeon thepetitionof Messrs. i chain, in fact everythin portable had been taken from the Alexander Young and Thomas Cave, two of the liquidetors I prosecutor's dwelling-house. The bedroom window which of Smith, Knight, and Co. (Limited) , who claim from , the prosecutor bad fastened inside with two wedges, had the bankrupt the large amount of 163,041. for calls on been forced open, and there were marks of footsteps out shares and interest . There is no other statement of liabill- side. All the linen in the house was taken away, ties ; but of course the whole of the liabilities of Smith . • silver chain removed from the mantel shelf, and Knight, and Co., are proveable against this estate, anti everything. The thief or thieves, after effecting they are said to amount to about two millions. lan entrance, opened the back door from the This was the first sitting. Mr. Sydney Howard, mar- , inside and their egress was then easy. The prisoners were chant, of King's Arms-yard, Colemanatreet, and Mr. lat once suspected when the polka received informatics of Alexander Young, accountant, of Tokenhouse-yard (both ' the burglary. Ellis has been convicted several times, and liquidators of Smith, Knight, and Ca) were chosen trade is a deverateand daring burglar. Wright has also been -lames. Messrs. Ashurst and Co. are the solicitors under in custody, and she has long cohabited with Ellis. James Briden, police-sergeant, No. 4 K, and Thomas Venablea, constable No. 141 K, took the prisoners into custody last night at No. 16, Ragentotreet, Mile-end. No portion of the stolen property was found upon them. Briden and Vella bles entered into circumstances of nu Wen against the prisoners, and John Rickard Lilley, a Lboorer, of No. 17, Friendly-place, White Horse-lane, was called, who gave very important evidence. He saw the prisoners near the Fomenter's house on Thursday, and saw them bringing bundles of property into the dwelling of Elis's father, • short distance from the oil and colour shop. The female prisoner entered the house of her paramour's father twice and each time with • bundle. She came from the direction of Mr. Salmon's premises. The officers asked for a remand. Mr. Benson —Certainly, I shall rem and the prisoners until Monday next for inquiries and additional evidence. SURREY GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The Epiphany General Quarter Sessions for the Peace commenced this morning at the Sessions-house, New ington.causeway, before Thos. Tilson, Esq., chairman E. H. L Penrhyn, Esq., deputy chairman ; Lieut.-Col Be resford, Sir John Thwsitee, and a full bench of magistrates. The calendar contains the names of 60 prisoners for trial -49 for felony and 11 for misdemeanor. The status of edu cation was as follows :-22 could neither read nor write, 26 read and write imperfectly, 4 can only read, and 2 can read and write well. CAUTION TO GRAND JCRTMEN. The following gentlemen were fined 51. each for absent ing themselves from the grand jury, Mews. Alfred Long Jeffrey, William Newton, William Carter, Alfred John Pal mer , and Henry Marten, of 13, Surrey square. Several other gentlemen were excused, being over 60 years of age. The chairman recommended them to wait upon the overseers, and have their name* expunged from the jury list. After ths them to the grand jury, there were two con victions under the Smoke kluisanos Act. BOARD Or TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dac. 30.—The Bight Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of • despatch from her Maj est y' s S'icretary of Legation at Rome, reporting that the Papal government has allowed that British commerce is fully entitled to share the privileges granted to France by the commercial treaty concluded between France and Rome, on the 29th July last, in virtue of the declarations exchanged between her Maj esty ' s government and that of the Roman States on the 17th of November, 1863, and has cons e q uently informed the Pontifical Cuetatus authorities of the fact. The table showing the modifications in the tuffff of the Papal States, as annexed to the treaty with Frame in 1807, and to which Great Britain is thus entitled, is published in last night's Gazelle. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dan. 28.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Doe Manuel Zaturnit as Consul in the bland of Malta for her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; the Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor Ralph Nunez as Consul in the Island of Jamaica for the United States of Venezuela.—Gov.v tle. The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers presided at a public soiree held in celebration of the third anniversary of the Willenhall Literary Institute on Monday evering. There was a numerous company, including Mr. Weguelin, )LP., Sir John Norris, Lieutenant-Coloael Vernon (High Sheriff of the county), and the Hon. and Rev. A. Anson. The governors of Charing-cross Hospital have just organised, on the recommendation of the council of their institution, a new department for the treatment of diseases of the skin, and on Monday last unanimously elected Dr. Tilbury Fox to the p ost of physician in charge of it. Tu. LORD MAYORALTY or DCBLIN.—The civic chair of Dublin is this day occupied by • member of our profession, Dr. William Carroll, for many years medical officer to the Extern department of the Coombe Lying-in Hospital, and • respected member of the town council. Dr. Carroll, we believe, was largely instrumental in securing for the Coombs Hospital the royal charter and the grant lately accorded to that institution, and thus ob taining for it an official recognition as an educational establishment —Medical Press and Circular, Jan. 1 , 1888 . THE AtITUAL STOCK Or COTTON IN LIVERPOOL.— The actual stock of cotton in hand in Liverpool mu yes terday ascertained to be 447,490 bales, being about 13,000 ' hales below the estimated stork. In American qualitin there ie an increase of 9,000 bales, while on the ether hand Surat has decreased '3,000 tales. The following summer/ alums the stock on hand t—Anorican, 103,420 b tles ; Brazilian. 66,0:8) bales; Egyptian, 35,150 bales ; Smyrna 3,840 bales ; West Indian, 13,640 bales ; Surat, 179,-:7o'hales ; Madras, 10,490 balm ; Bengal, 34,240 bales ; China, 1,180 bales. Actual stock, 447,4410 bales. THE FALSE LIGHTS AT WHITEURN.—A few weeks ago a statement appeared written by Captain John son, of South Shields, who said, in positive terms, that while making for the Tyne he saw a li•fat near :touter Point, which at first be took for Tynemou.h Castle, but finding he was in too shoal water for that to be possible ho drew out to sea and got into the Tyne in safety. An incident has just transpired, and is certainly a curious one, which it is hoped will throw some light on this mysterious affair. It appears that Captain Kirby, now of London, but formerly sailing out of the Tyne, hill little f some weeks on a visit at Shields, and having • little curiosity about the alleged false lights, thought be would explore the vicinity in which they were said to be seen for himself. Accordingly, about a fortnight ago, he paid • visit to the spot. and after wandering along the coast for some time he noticed a little hut on Sauter Point, near the edge of the cliff. Thinking that if the but was ever used by fishermen it might be possible for the glare of any fire kindled by them to be seen at see, lie proce4ded to examine it. He found traces of it having been recently occupied by some one and on looking up the chimney he noticed something con cealed in it. Oa taking this out he found it to be a piece of wreck timber, about two feet and a half long. On one end of it was a masa of rope yarn, tch and tar, but similar to the pitch inopsused o pi n board sh ip, which had no appearance of having been in the water. He thought it was best to take possession of this, and finding nothing else about the place to throw any light upon the subject be returned to Shields with it in his possession. He ham given it to the secretary of the Tyne Pilotage Commission, and made a full statement of all the circumstances attending its find ing, which will be laid before the lotard at its next meet inc.—Northern AWN Express. DI steaurci. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN AMERICA. F 1 rrT PERSONS KILLED.—The New York papers of the 19th ult. contain the following :—Buffalo, Dec. 18.—The New York expreastrain, from Cleveland, on the Lake Shore. road, due here at 12.45 p.m., being behind time, when two miles this side Angola, either from • defect in • rail, or frost, met with a serious accident about 3 o'clock this afternoon. Two rear passenger cars were thrown off the track, and rolled over an embankment of twenty feet. A train with surgeons, officers of the road, and others, le ft et 4 o'clock to render assistance. The killed and wounded are expected to arrive here at 9 o'clock, and every preparation is being made by the citizens of the city to make the wounded comfortable. Later amounts describe the accident as MOM serious than at first reported. The rear car went over an embankment of fifty feet, was set on fire, and out of fifty passengers only two escaped ; the rest were burned to death, and all that is left is • mass of blackened and charred remains, without say means of ascortaink.g their names. The accident occurred at Big Sisters Bs 'Age. one quarter of • mile mat of Angola. One I train with the unhurt passengers and • few of the wounded arrived here about half-past nine o'clock. The balance of the wounded will be here about twelve o'clock. Every preparation is being made to care for their wants by the citizens of Buffalo. Inquests are now being held at Angola on the killed. A large number of the physi cians of Buffalo left on • four ;o'clock special train to , moist the wounded. I A DINNER PARTT AT BELORADE.—I accordingly mustered enough of the " mysterious gutturals" to say ' !something civil and complimentary about the place, the , dinner, and the company, which the prince acknowledged politely, saying, " I believe yea are the first Englishman who has ever set foot here. Year countrymea, I fancy, are too haughty to like to mix with indiscriminate com pany, and though the rule may be • safe one, they lose some thing by their reserve. The people who sit about you now in this room comprise every . class and condition of life. . That law man with the cicatrix on his cheek is Prince Carl Dureki, and the man opposite to him, is green velvet and gold, was his valet ones. He is now the Greek minister of police. Yonder is • Mexican general. who is now in command of • troop of banditti in Petra' ; they are in Russian pay, and are assent for envies in Theasely. . He with the spectacles is the correspondent of the 4 /If/t -wine Zeitung, and the tall quaint fellow on his left is FORTUNATE Dirrecnos Or 110551115. ' Hunyadi, who is under sentence of death in Austria ; and An sotivalooking fellow, who rase the name of Williams the dark handsome man, next bat and one to him, I, &ride th r st - Potteeft. was placed at the her char g ed with being found chi, a man ruined by high play, compromised in aiding and abetting in the commission of • c o , affair of Orsini's." " Who is that noble-looking fellow .34T4R4 Orr. Of 11, Woraton-plate , Pimlico , twid — ii we. near the Move—he with the white stela over the Demist sitting at • little before 10 o'clock Met night in the kitchen j a cket !" " That's the headsman of the Yalattica of Mem down stairs when Ihe • " shag " resembling the re- tempo. It's ri bold thing for him to sit down ill& 00114. 140.41 of ON latch of the strait dem I suspected fhst pony many of whose sons and brothers have fallen under there was something wrest elea west elseedel- Ms sword. Rs's the vainest dog in Eurepe,.and fancies When I 0 to the Pa sufra fiend : the erree‘door wide the Queen of demos is in love with him. * ' And whet ors, Prisoner standing ow the steps. He and have do they 'ell do beret What's their sillset to meet*/ sees or heard ore. for when I got into lae. PIMIP.. be Pee thus l" el l do the Bonne is to the rossoyod folk this • *sal to 0 ,6 ".C00P WI" was answW. ea...br a : l MM "at room 34 to the swot polio* of Eastern Ihrope, sad their rushing out of the frost Perm! „mita_ _ imai fa . f . commits , which depend far their =lams* en the Terlefleh clothes. I gave ea Warm, and f0130144.4=1•041 14 GOB em pire. They play at ocpsonara a s me sumo at B. the calm man, who ran together down a of 114111141/ ; soh knows what Isis sal %t e ar attar. sad &a into Warwiek4treet, wheee I Aerie& them with*, his led to outwit him. mom im hose' rebbiey. The other man amp/A shim knavery SSW by lawilskig • mem Mr. Arnold—What bedew of the sitofsl of clothes? than giehoo,wimi be grew lie Inger efeahowethi mew lib Witmer—The man threw them dews before they bops threat, and sailed as he spar —ffikathisorl's Megewies ipt I rombeg. - Jemmy. 1} Nei Y7~TELL~QEH CE LATEST SPO Off MANCHNITZR larrlNG.-(THIS DAY.) HURDLE RACE. Two miles. Tomah. Harannah, Rose, Crewe, Turmoil, Ada, and Molly are here. CITY STEEPLECHASR. Three utiles end• hell. Birdie, Rosa, Carlow, Whelan, Imogene, Banbury, Kate Terry, Kimet, and Queen of Hearts are bete. PAID Fonweffr.le Boy, Haltom, New Light, Mother of Pearl, and Rim Dobson. HUNTERS' STEEPLECHAR Ho E. Threemiles end squirterßun.. Hawk Kate Terry, Tally , Taft, Sl, bury, Reveler, Bronze, and Johnny an here. TRIAL STAKES. One mile. Hopleaf, Cadley, Harsonah, Serf, Paequet, Falsehood. Frederica, Ada, Rob Roy, Queen of Scots, Rulebook and Paradise. TES MIDLAND RAILWAY. WILTING 01. lIKAIEHOLDIRS AT LEEDS. Yesterday a meeting of the shareholders of the Midland Railway Company was held at the Queen's Hotel, Leeds, " to consider what stops shall be taken to protect the interests of the company at the meeting to be held at Derby, on the 15th January." Mr. Baum, M.P., occupied the chair. The attendant* was ' large and in . MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) On collsons. This being New Year's-day, the Stock Exchange is dosed, and we have no transactions to report in stocks and shares. In the discount market the supply of money has largely increased, and good bills are freely taken at per cent., or below the rate current yesterday. The Calcutta, China, and Australian mails have reached Suez. With reference to the South Australian Banking Company, it is notified that the half-year's divi dend to the 31st December, at the rate of S per cent. per annum (clear of income tax), will be pay able on the 15th inst. Tenders are invited by the Peruvian Legation for the construction and working of a railway from Lima to the towns of Magdalena and Bellavista. The Midland Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 6,364/. over last year, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire an increase of 2,0471. The dividends will be payable to the public at the Bank of England on Thursday week, the 9th January. About 16,0001. in bar gold, forming a portion of recent arrivals from Australia and America, was sent into the Bank yesterday, in addition to 5,000 sovereigns from America. The New York, from New York, has brought 490001. in soec.ie for England. The bar silver and Mexican dollars by the steamer Tasmanian, from the West Indies, were sold yesterday, chiefly for the Continent, at se. Odd. and 4s. 101 d. per ounce, respectively, showing no change, compared with recent quotations. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were steady. There was a further slight advance in the rates for bills on Vienna, and a decided move ment against Italy, the financial position of the government of that country being regarded with a good deal of distrust, now that a large military ex penditure, threatening a chronic deficit in the finances, seems to have been decided upon. This afternoon's list is subjoined : Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 12.1 ; ditto, short, 11.181 to 11.191 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 12.1 Antwerp, 3 months, 25.35 to 25.40 ; Brawls, .1 months, 25.35 to 25.40 ; Hamburg and Altme,3 months, 13.91 to 13.10 ; Berlin, Cologne. go., 3 months. 6.2 64 to 6.27 f ; Bt. Petersburg, 3 months, 32 to 31 1 ; Paris, eet, 25.121 to 25.22 f ; ditto, 3 months, 25.30 to 25.35 ; Marseilles, 3 months, 25.30 to 25,35 ; P ran kt or t-on-the-Maine, 3 months, 1201 to 1201 ; Vienna, S months, 12.45 to 12.50 ; Trieeta, 3 months, 12.45 to 12.50 ; Madrid, 3 months, 481 to 48i ; Santander, 3 months , 481 to 481; Cadiz, 3 months, 49 to ; Seville, 3 months, 49 to 48f ; Malaga, 3 months, 481 to 481; Valeuzia, 3 months, 481 to 48f ; Bar salons. 3 months, 483 to 414 ; 3 months, 481 to 481 ; Saragossa, 3 months, 481 to 481 ; Leghorn. 3 months, 2 4 .t0 to 29.30 ; Genoa, 3 months, 29.0 to 29.30; Nsplea, 3 months, 29.0 to 29.30 ; Palermo, 3 months, 81.0 to 29.30 ; Messina, 3 months, 29.0 to :M.30 • Lisbon, 90 days' date, 511 to 51f ; Oporto. 90 days' date, 511 to 511. The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 1,3791. over last year ; the London, Brighton, and South Coast an increase of 2,8871. ; and the Glasgow and South Western an increase of 13/. ; and the Metropolitan an increase of 3051. The traffic return of the Great Western Railway of Canada for the week ending the 27th inst. shows an increase of 3,2161., compared with the corre sponding period of 1866. The traffic receipts of the Erie Railway Company for the month of November were 1,421,881 dole., being 5,880 dole. more than in November, 1866. At the meeting of the Canada Company, held yesterday, the directors were authorised to divide, out of the assets in hand, 21. per share, free of in come tax, for the half-year ending January 10. A meeting was held yesterday of the Russian (Vyksounsky) Ironworks Company (Limited), when the directors' report was adopted, after sonic Ws- fi unitieL The CHAIRMAN elated that he still bald the views which he ventured to express a few days ago in the letter he addressed to the Tines. He believed in the entire honesty and integrity of the Midland management, and he be lieved in the solidity of the property of the Midlaad Com pany. Bat he also thought that great errors had been committed in going out of their legitimate field—(hear, hear)--and in undertaking far too many lines at once. (Hear, hear.) The policy he would urge upon the share holders would be to look fairly at the liabilities of the company.l to abandon every line and every work not yet far advanced which it was possible to abandon, and to postpone every work which it was possible to postpone without serious detriment to the interests of the company. (Hear, hear.) He believed that lime and works to the amount of 5,255,000/. could be , including lined not yet commenced, viz.:—The re s t! ir n and d Carlisle line, 2,200,008/.• the Mansfield lines, 650,000/.; the Ashby and Nuneaton lines, 228,0001.; lines under the acts of 1865 and 1866, in progress, 2v0,0u0r.; the Midland proportion of the Liverpool and Cheshire lines, 835,0001. of works in progress and ordered on old lines, 100,0001.; addition to rolling stock, 200,0001.; and London station, hotel, and onion, 200,0001. All, or nearly all, of these lines and mocks were capableof postponement if only the shareholders were determined that it atonic: be done. The directors could not of themselves do it, bat must have the authority of the shareholders, not only empower ing, bat, if needful, directing them to adopt such a MUM. He advocated a policy of calmness and moderation towards the directors, and the appointment of a committee of consultation with the directors. Mr. °ARNIM, of Otlev, moved the adoptioa of the fol lowing resolution :—" rilmt, considering the injurious effect produced on the value of Midland shares by the intended application to parliament for powers to raise new capital to the amount of 5,000,0001, it is essential, in the opinion of this meeting, to revive the e ngagements of the company for lines, weal, and all con templated outlay, with the view to the relinquishment or postponement for a considerable time of all that can be relinquished or postponed without serious detriment to the interests of the company." In moving this resolution Mr. Garnett expressed a strong opinion in favour of the abandonment or postponement of the Settle and Carlisle line, and his earnest hopes that the shareholders would act altogether independently of the Manchester Aim- ciation. Mr. JOICITr seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. 10101)ES then moved—" That this meeting recom mends the appointment at the meeting of the Midland Company on the 15th January of a committee of consulta tion, consisting of large shareholders, to confer enth the directors on the position of the railway, and especially at to the extent to which projected lines and works can be relinquished or postponed, and to report to the half.yearly meeting in February." Mr. Alderman Maack seconded the resolution, which also met with a hearty concurrence on the part of the meeting. On tile motion of Mr. Al& GEORGE, seconded byMr. 818. CHALL, a committee, consisting of Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. Garnett, and Mr. Jowitt, was appointed to present the resolutions to the directors st the meeting ou the I.stt instant. mission. The directors of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company have made a call of 24 tis. per share, on the new issue of 25,000 shares, and a similar call of 24 its. on the remainder of the original issue of 100,000 shares on which 15/. only has been paid. These calla will be payable on ur before the Ist February. The warrants for the half-year's interest on the stock of the Great Southern of India Railway Com pany were yesterday forwarded to the proprietors, and are payable at the Union Bank of London on and after to-day. The interest on the mort gage bonds of the company is also payable to morrow on presentation of the coupons. Dividend warrants for the usual interim divi dend payable on the Ist of January have been issued by the St. James's Hotel Company. Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas, dock, and canal shares, as given in the Stock Exchange list of last evening : lasnramm—Commorcial Union, 4 Thames and Money Marisa (Limited), 41 ; Universal Maria° (Limbed), 43, i, d• Gaslight and Coke—City of Madams Gas, 101, 4; Europese (Now), 7 ; imperial Coatineatal, 9tit ; London, 621. Gosk•—Foss and West India, 123. Carols—Raganas (or London), 214, 203 ex die. Messrs. Fenn and Crosthwaite of Royal Ex change-buildings, have issued their usual tabular statement, shover rig the highest and lowest prices of Consols, railway stocks, banks, foreign bonds, and miscellaneous securities, in each month of the year now ended. It is • period that has been marked by great and exceptional variations in many classes of public securities. The extreme variation in Consols has been between and 844. Mr. John Green, of 5, Nicholas-lane, has an nounced that he has just taken into partnership Mr. James Tomlinson, and that the business of the firm, as discount nd money dealers, will be conducted t inder the style of Green, To mlinson, and Co. Mews. David Satow and Co. have announced that their senior, Mr. H. D. C. Satow, retires from busint sit this day, and tha t the fir m will be con tinued as heretofore by the remaining partners. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 31.—The Queen has been plasma to appoint Mr. Peter Wyatt Squ ire to be chemist and druggit upon the eatabli.liment in ordinaryto her Majeskr, jointly with his father, Mr. Peter Squire.— GaAte. BOARD or TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dec. 30. — The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a oopy of a deviate& from her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at tioatemabi, inclosing copy and trans lation of the tariff of duties on importation of goods into Nicaragua, • which will come into operation on the Ist January, Dalai. This tariff can he inspected on application at the Board of Trade, WhitehalL—Gastre. THE VICTORIA C RO SIL—WAR-OTFICE Der. 31. The Queen has been grac iousl y p leased to denify her in tention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cress on the undermentioned offieers, whose claims to the same have been submitted for her Majesty's approval, for their gallant conduct in Bhootan, as recopied against their names, via.:—Ma j or William ltpottiawoode Trevor and Lieutenant James Dundee, Royal (Lek Bengal) Engineers, for their gallant conduct at the attack on the Block-house at Dewan.thri, in Bhootan, on the 30th of April, Isqs. Major-General Tombs, V.C., the o f in command at the time, reports that • p ar t y of the enemy, from NO to 200 in number, had barricaded themselves in the Block-hones in question, which they continued to defend after the rest of the position had been carried, and the main body was in retreat. The Block-honse,whkh was loop-holed, was the key of the enemy's position. Seeing no officer of the storming party Mar him, and being anxious that the place should he taken immediately, as any protracted moistest' might have mused the main body of the Bhootsss to rally, the British force having been lighting in a broiling sea on very steep and difficult ground for upwards of three hours, the general to command ordered these two officers to show the we, into the Block-house. They had to climb up a wall which was 14 feet high, and then to enter a house, occupied by erne 200 desperate men, bead foremost through an opening not more than two feet wide between the top of the wall and the root' of the Block-house. Major- Gcseral Tombs states that on "peeking to the Sikh soldiers around him, and telling them in Iliadoostani to swarm up the wall, none of them responded to the cell, until them two °films bad shown them the way, when they followed with the greatest alacrity. Both of them ware wounded. DEATH OF LADY WALDEORAVIL —The poorer inhabitants of Hastings beard with deep regret, on Fel day, that Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave, elder daughter of the late Earl, had died at two o'clock that morning, at the family mansion, High-street. Her ladyship had been ill for about two months, and had become nearly cones lucent. when a relapse t ook place, ending in death. Her ladyship was unmarried. She spent a large part of her , time in active works of b e nevolence, abIT and con tinuously assisting the aged Counter* of Wmdegrave in her many good works. Her ladyship was also the diligent honorary secretary of the Ladles' Home at At. Leonard.. ' 1 She will be greatly missed, not only by the residents at the Home, but by the indigent poor of All Saints and I St. Clement's parishes. By this unexpected event the families of Sir Bounden Palmer, 11. P. (late Solicitor- General), the Hon. George Waldegrave-Leslie, M.P. for Hastings, Viscount Chewton, and other distinguished I p er sonages, will be placed in mourning.—Surrey Stan dard. A PuErrY Fitzycnwonnx.—l have not yet told you how very very pretty Mademoiselle Petiole was. She was not lovely her sister was that ;—nev her was she handsome, or beautifuL In each of throe words there was something above or something beyond Mademoiselle reticle. But she was that supremely Jona femme which a l Frenchwoman alone ever is. Rather under than over the middle height, the first idea she gave you was that of psr- feet proportion. She had not the most beautiful throat o , or the most beautiful arm, or hand, or shoulder, in th world; no one particular limb reminded you of a statue; but the whole went together romvellously well ! Each part so fitted the other, the ensemble was so harmonious, so pleasint to the eye, that you were charmed without knowing why, and would have voted to be insupportable w hoever should have attempted to persuade you that you ought not to be so. All the lines were soft and rounded in Feline's face and figure. In her whole being there was not an angle, or anything abrupt. She was all ince, all charm. Her voice was insinuating, her movements ukin ndu lating, her looks caressing. She was precisely that d of Frenchwoman whom, if you have theme* distant dream of reninining,--howsver little, —your own master, you had best never meet. She never alarms and never releases you. Except for the powder which disguised the wavy chestnut hair--that thick, naturally curling, blond winded heir, which Fetid° deemed so exquisit e ly except for that , everything was alike in tile too tts celebrated lAdy of Veraneonr s t ed her demendent ; the sense calm, se skin, with just enough of detiosts colour to present its being pale ; the came small. with its transparent , nostrils • the MUM finely arched eyebrows, and f a scinating light hand eyes ; the some—se I wa= the same 'RNA. The epoch Ind eeta=dhenoand. Lanzun's mistress bad the rich vps via package moused soweehing out of taut tad Wit littip ed • whilst oar Nadessebelle Visesisellt sensed 14* es thin thst they was hardly mu s e Via edges of the mouth ; bright red lbws eleaka weer rows of enrableely pawl-like teeth—will else ale sad Hula fade they were Maar panto& rotas 1 . 12 1 6; 4 4. Peal's Jfegentee for Ifinuory. TuuDAT Evionsa. Consuls, whichwerequoted at 4 o'clock yesterday 92 to b ex div., both for money a nd next Tuesdays settlement (though afterwards declining to 911 to 92), opened this morning at 91* to 92, and, after touching 92i, closed at a 2 *. For the February settlement the last price was 92 * to o The Three per Cents . Reduced and New Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 911 to 92. per The official business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 92, I*, 2k, ex div.; ditto, for account, 911, 2, ex div.: Mrs, per Cents. Re dosed, 911, 2 ; New Three per Cents. , 92, 1 1 , 2, ; Bank Stock, 239 ; India Stook, shut ; ditto Five per Cent., 111*, 10f, ex div.; ditto Four Cent., 1001 ; ditto Fiveend-allalf per Cent. 'eft„ rupee paper, 108*, ; ditto Five per Cent. Rupee Debentures, 1882, 103* • ditto Five per Cent. Debentures, 106 ; ditto Bonds, 355. prem. The India Five per Cent. Stock was again offered, and was last m arked 1103, ex div. There was also a further reduction in India' Bonds, which were sold at 35a. prem. Exchequer Bills were fiat at 235. to 28s. prem. Foreign s t o cks were very inactive , and prices generally s h o wed no movement. Spanis h New per Cents., Passive, and Turkish of 1865 rose j to f per cent., while Turkish of 1858 fell 1, the Viceroy of Egypt's Loan and Greek Coupons /. There was no decline yesterday in Peruvian Bonds of 1865, the apparent reduction being owing to the fact (not expressed in the official list) that the price was then for the first time quoted ex the drawing, which is to take place on the2nd January, and the chances of which are estimated to be worth about 1 per cent. The price closed to-day at 71 to with the dividend but ex the drawing, and it Will be quoted in this form until the settlement at the middle of January. The E g yptian Nine per Cent. Scrip was last quoted to 1 prem. ; Portuguese Scrip, to being dull ; and the liondursa Govern- Ileginty Loan, Ito pram., being i lower. . , , &Mel; Yoion. —Own Banana] Dee.— ' Tomewir, Dee. 31. ahodwwwie ea payment, 4,757 ; 'oe by mom Vika* 2,354 ; total vista" 7,111. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREST. INTIMIDATING WITNT , SEN. George Britten .Reistorre was brought up on remand, charged with attempting to intimidate George William Day, to deter him from giving evidence at the last Old Bailey sessions, on the prosecution of one George Gould, alias Uriatowe, for obtaining goods by false pretences. Mr. Abrams, who conducted the case, stated that the prisoner's father, George Bristow°, was recently committed for trial fromthis court foe obtaining by false pretences a set of harness from Mr. Phipps, of High Holborn ; • coat from Mr. Robins, • salesman ; and other goods from other parties. The frauds were committed under the name of " Gould." It was part of the false pretence that he ((lould) was the owner of property at Barking, and had a farm in that neighbourhood. He also represented that he was in the habit of bringing large quantities of milk from the country, end kept • shop in London to sell the amides by retail. To give colour to this repre sentation he took a small shop in Charles-street, Hatton garden, near Bleeding Heart-yard, where a Mr. George , Gould carries on a pretty extensive business, so that per sons calling upon him, and seeing the carts and the vans of the real Mr. Gould in the yard, readily arrived at the conclusion that they belonged to him. He was committed to the last Old Bailey sessions. Ho was tried before Mr. Commissioner Kerr for the fraud upon Mr. Phipps, but acquitted; the learned commissioner being of opinion that the case was one which ought to have been tried at a county court. The next day, however, he was tried upon the other charges before the Recorder, who took a different view of the matter, and he wee convicted. tioveral previous convictions were moved against him, and he wise sentenced to five years penal servitude. Now, in order to understand the present charge, it was necessary to state that Mr. Day, who is an extensive cattle dealer, was called at the trial as a witness for the prosecution to prove that he had known Gould, alma Bristow', fur about 25 years. end knew that he had never been a farmer at Ito-king or elsewhere, and had no property there. On the other hand, George Britten Bristowe, the present pri soner, was called for the defence, to prove that his father bail a farm near Barking, and had recently pur chased four houses in Barking from him (G. B. Briatowe), though be had some difficulty in explaining how lie himself had acquired the property, having reoently been bankrupt, and remanded sine die. It appeared that on the first day of the sessions, pending the trial of the father on the first charge, the preemie prisoner met Mr. Day in Portugal-street, and said to him, in the presence of Mr. Robins, " You —, if you come and give evidence against my father, I will kick your inside out." He attempted to stri ke Mr. Day, but Mr. Robins interposed and prevented him. Mr. Day came to Bow-street, and obtained a variant against him. The next day they again met at the sessions, where Mr. Day attended to give evidence against the father on the second charge. The prisoner repeated his threats, and put himself in a fighting attitude, hut was prevented from doing ached violence to Mr. Day by the opportune arrival of Buck, ore of the summoning officers of the court, who hail come to serve the warrant. The prisoner, however, violently resisted apprehension, and it was only be the assistance of Taylor, another of the Bow-street summoning officers, and a City policeman (No. Ill), that he was ultimately overpowered, and re moved to Bow-street. Mr. Vaughan said this was a most perking offence, and one which mud be restrained with the utmost rigour. It could not, under soy circumstances, be tolerated that wit nesses giving evidence in the cause of justice should he interfered with and threatened or maltreated. In this case there was the aggravation that the person in whose behalf the menaces were used, was evidently an old and hardened offender. The relationship which existed between them could not for a moment be aduaittee , as an excuse. The prisoner must be committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. NIGHT Newman& Wm. Lee, Alfred Sherwood, Catherine Guinan!, and Sitaanowth Callen, were charged before Mr. Tyrwbitt with loitering in Oxford-street, for the purpose of committing • telony. Briosted Webb, a plaia clothes officer of the C division, saw the prisoners in Oxford-street, and suspecting diem he followed them about for a considerable time, and watched them, and saw the female prisoners stop several gentlemen, the male prisoners sometimes being before them and sometimes behind them, and occasionally stand ing on the opposite aide of the way, waiting for them, and ready to receive anything from the female primacy*. Sherwood said that be was on his way home from the Victoria Theatre, when he met the female*, and was go ing with them to have a cop of coffee when they were tsken into custody. The female prisoners said they met the men, and they were invited to have some coffee, and were going to have it when they were stopped by the constable. They never spoke to any gentleman. Joseph Lane, 210 I), said that Les had been convicted of felony, and was a constant associate of thieves, and walked the streets all night. Several of Lee's associates had been convicted, and he knew Sherwood as a companion of Lee. Lee said he was never locked up in his life. Lane said that be had been convicted ten times for assaults on the police ; the last time on Monday last, when he was fined 40s. at Marylebone Police-court. Patrick Geraghty, 26 D, gave driller evidence to Lane, and said that Lee was the worst character he knew, and was in the habit of prowling about the streets all night with bail characters trying to fall acmes drunken men. He had seen Sherwood in custody at Marylebone, and had cautioned the female prisoners several times. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he bad no doubt the female prisoners were hunting for drunken men to rob them, and the male prisoners lying in ambush in case their services were required. He should commit the male prisoners for three months each, and the females for a month each. COMMERCIAL AND MARKET& MARK-LANE.—(TBIB DAY.) The quantity of home-grown wheat received fresh up In our market to-day, coastwise as well as by rail, was ray moderate. For all descriptions the trade was very inn. choice samples being scarce commanded fully the late sa vant*. Fall average supplies of foreign wheat were on the stands. All kinds were firmly held, with a mods". inquiry. On the whole floating cargoes of grain were quiet, but firm in value. The few parcels of fine malting barley, on offer, were readily disposed of, at extreme quotations. Grinding said distilling sorts found buyers, on former terms. Malt was in fair request at late currencies. In oats the transactions were to a moderate extent. ah Monday's prier s. Beans supported late currencies. The trade for then ruled quiet. No change took educe in the value of peas. Moat kinds of flour moved off slowly at stationary prim. The seed market generally was inactive. Cakes ruled quiet. CVIIRENT PRICES. ENSUE. Per qr. Wawa?. a a Yea, Teat, tel. T. 6 t.. Gi to 70 „ to '67 et to 74 Nat o&arl Lbuchi red BLUM owes. Scotch potato Ate 34 Utah, black „ white oto 12 3103. Mamas Tick 0 Is a M INN 4l to a 1 ligela et SO is PIM Om 43 to a /Mt 46 64 a Bollara _ Met. 39 to 461 46 to 40 12 7 Si to U 111433. Norfoik, and tt to Ot Linetaa ood Wan 64 to 0 Brows CU to 79 Tows otwW:Faie o 57 W 611 166. Itousabold 6l to It Country Norfolk and Dalloile 46 to 48 sub* New Opts. OATS P. a Dantat and Swediah '27 to is Bantam 7 to DIANN. Danish Eg7ltilut PLS. Maple Boilers INDIAN CORN. 15 to 47 45 to 42 GI a 44 t 47 White ... Yellow .. VLOUIL French, per sick.... 50 to 56 Spanish to 66 American, per brL v.: , to 37 Canadian to Id INTO LONDON DT WATER THIS WIDEN. Mi. 4G to 'ROA, feed — TS to 331 potato Saadi, 1••1 25 toSOI AULT : Per Qr. I a Ramble and Zonis* I Hi lnn 73 to 85 t & )(edam- to= Ors to NI Rossi's, hard soft American, rat — to „ white 1 BAUM'. .._ ... .. ••_•».. Ortsdlag • ?Ift to SS DiatslUng Malting oAni. __ _ Dutch :3 to 22 teedlux .... 24 to 27 ARRIVAL:I O 1 (MAIN, 40.. Per Q. • %TIM. Waft. re. Ws. I roar. ! A p In• kb. Saghlbao.lB c otel l buu : 3u I 1330 180 50 12/9 fit& . . Tortdvi Ol2l ' 1150 . V . 340 14 row --- Total ' 10110 1190 I 1350 I 34090 t3lO ! 131. MINCING-LAN DAY.) Bra XII. —We are still without sales to report In Tarr, sad the refined market remains quiet, at previous prices. COIF,/ AIM Th A.—Them) articles continue quiet. Ricz.-300 tons of Bassein sold, at lie. fkl., ex sbiy. Rl' x.—A few small parcels have been disposed of. Pals Lisswards, Is. 9d.: Demerara. 9r. Id. S ALT rrniz.-200 bags of Bengal sold, refraction 4 at 19s. 6d., short prompt. 0 - rms.—:t fair amount of business has been trans:.cted, and prices now show an *avarice of id. per lb. TALLOW MAILFULT.—(THIS DAY.) The market is gat. Town tallow, 41i. 9d. ; Petersburg Y.C. Oil the spot, 425. 91. ; Spring, 425. Od. ; 43 ; October to December, 445, Gd. BOROUGH HOP MARKICT.—(THIS DAY.) Mears. l'attentln find Smith report imrnv , d dor mant! for all d escr i ptions of both English mu p d foreign, Lite prices ruling firm. The stock of English now oil:ens( is very small, growers preferring, in most inst.inoec to hold for higher priors. PROVINCIAL BEARE MARKETS. IMAPOote tlle. 3l.—Malta to-day : Caledonian, 72 14 laabaldre sad urkslilre, 123411 c. Brigtatom MI& 11.sath roast, 4.4 London and North Western, 113,i 14 11; Motro 1 1 14-31/411414 . 44er, shenielal. aad Lincolnshire, 4.51 4—iscs Man, 11 ,1 4 — Midland( I ° 3 iiittl l •11 I--lilts eli convent 13.11: p., North Y.astern , neM43 capital stoat, 04--Sonth Eastern, tal i and Yorkshire. Mots barn purehaw, 44 per bat., t.,.—latto, ditto, Ore per emit., Ild Central, an—luit States 5-W Booths. Mat, Ist 1I •Y an- d let November, 71 1-10tto, 1S0:1, 711 -tavern. d asd London Mid Glebe Fire sal We, 414-11 p.—Atbuitic 1 eleennils Eight per Cent., 4:—8r141.1i and Irish Magnetic le:e;.(1 Imitod 1401—Etectric and International Telegraph. 15 , National Staab Ship Company (Limited . , 7 bid. 13.411C1M111. line. M.—Market drab prices generally 'letter. Atlantic Telvirrapb prat. s per cent., iin -Cardona:oh 711 la I 11$ I—Cnslhistel Hank (Limited`, I p—Great Eastern. 303 1 —Great Northern ( A , 1(4) 44 1 1 I—Lancashire and Yorkshire. 11.?1 4 3 3 London, Brighton, and Month Coast, 441 Lau don and Cal. Marine Insurance Lindtai , 61 d.—Laudos and North Western, 114 I 14 I—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoinsalre, 431—Notropolltan, 116 1 1 10 1:.7 Midland, 103 I 434 't 4 j r --North British, :04 4—N, It/ Fsters, berm( ie.," Steel and Masa .Lhuiteal', 1:( IL —Visited Mater L.-20 leas Bonds, 731-1: aloe lank, 21 p.— talon Hate Glass. 43. BIRI4II4OIIIAX. ST—The In thls market to day included ratith Staffordshire Railway Stork, at sa ; Britannia Allianee lite insurance shares, MI dia. Closing price*: Stow brl..is'4dge Railway shares, buyers, at 1 allaßh e 74 ". Birmingham Town and Markt Looks, at 10, to II Midland Financial shares, at 111.16 to 1; dl.. ; Britan and nia 1I ,If., , layers; Midland Wagon shares, sailers, at n 1 Frembird Slate and Slab shares, I db., az die., sellers This Stock Exchange will be closed to.morrow. In the wheat market, where a rise of 11 s. was established in 18.1', followed by • further rise of Vs. fel. in 1866, another advance of shout 9s. has been upheld, the price, which on the Ist of January was Ws., being now 755. MODERN CY MICA.- -The cynics had no audience • for their ill nature in the daye either of Cromwell or of Robespierre, though they found listeners enough or Charles 11. and Louts.XlV. The present time it one tit which men work exceedingly hard for money, when they n act a in.rdinate value upon it, and when to be poor, or t seem to be poor, is to he worse considered than to be dishonest and not poor. It is an in France and Ragland — it is the tome, though perhaps in a minor degree, in America. ha consequence of the very hard work that men go through, day after day, in the struggle to be OT to seem to he rich, there is a tendency to undervalue everything but gold and that which gold will boy, and to look uony t be the me" be anceesisful man as the best of men, however great p ma cri which he has committed In his life•anddcath struggle for the wealth which all oovet— To steal for poser is dastardly and mean ; Tn rob for millions with a vial serene Soils not the Miners. All success is clean. There is also less taste for instruction, and more taste for amusement and for anything that will excite a laugh, than exists in times of greater contentedness and simplicity. Hence, as ill-natured wit is always laughed at, the wits cultivate ill-nature ; and cynicism, sometimes real, i but m ost commonly affected, flourishes in 'octet?, where awl blasé it s as me sh esteemed by the disea s e d appetite of jaded people as game that is over - ga m y or caviare, that pleases the mi seducated palate which has lost its relish for whole 'some food. But modern cynicism does not assume the gross and vulgar shape which it WOre in that olden timowheni dirty Diogenes told Alexander the Great to get outtleinen of his .wahine. The cyni cs of our day are very fine g n in their own conceit ; or very fine ladies who have out lived their passion'. They dress in purple and fine linen, and fare luxuri ous ly every day. They think the elegant club, or the more elegant drawing.rooni, in i n w hi c h th a t itely prefer able to the tub of Diogenes , o r the st y human hog grunted out his contempt for his 'opener fellow-creatures. The modern cynic his nothing of the dog about him but the snarl, .nd lacks the fidelity and affection of the worthy animal which has given ita name to his philosophy. His cynicism is the sy stematic depre- • elation of human nature ; the systematic * love of himself, tics and the pampering of his own appetites ; the systema disregard of ell that does not minister to his personal ease and enjoyment i the systematic denial of all great virtue, heroism, genius, or noblenees of character (except in dead men and women) ; and the systematic attribution of mean and selfish motives to the good deeds that are daily committed in the world. He may have the educe- • tion, the position, and the polished manners of a gentle man, hot he lacks the great essentials of goodness of heart and Christian charity, without which zoos can be truly a gentleman, though he may trace bask his pedigref for • , thousand years, and be called " Your lordship," pedigree Your • Grace," or 'Year Majesty."—Blacibotwers llagazine f or . January. Tan TALKER'S OivoiernirviT.—lt will have been observed by most persons who aro in the habit of dini ng gregariously. that there is always a certain dish handed rased of which no one can be induced to partake. It is ordinarily the third end*, and very often consiste of stewed pigeons. Whatever it consiste of, however, its fate is always the same. It is refused by the honotaable lady on the right of the hod, and then everybody says, " No, thank you "oe shakes his head as the unap p recialad. dainty is offered ' to each. It is • very curious phenomenon co connectke with o f parties this ustrotion, by common. consist on manyof guests, of some one particular dish --curious In ways, sad la none more than ia Ira Wee dose ia the midst of speedo:mad enema The ohm littion oi the stewermws, er whatever else it may te„ is bavanialliptiss Mr a passe ; sad it is of than pow that the Lase will take advantage, ea giving him a Asa essestealty foe tie Itemshise of his eve hark. — Time is no time like it.— OursikAll %vans. he Masan% 14 , J i 1 7 1 . 1, i , . I -• I 1 . 1 , , . 1 1 ' • 1 ' :1 . 1 1 ' 1 t I 11A i P ' A \ • I •1. ( ' 1 r% ..! 1 't , 1 t r. , r' , . ". 1 11 . , hr er • this MOM rage, rede. gular corn- I lien- A are t men Iport, ough t the ienry