The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

*parting intelligence. TATTERSALL'S.—MoNDAy. The meeting at the rooms to-day was sot only deficient iu numbers, but there was a marked absence of the " gentlemen," and a consequent dearth of interest in the proceedings. The only feature of the afternoon was the retrogression of Plaudit, against whom there was a mani fest disposition to lay, and an unwilligneu, equally ob servable, among tbe few backers present to accept the comparatively liberal odds offered against the Richmond colt. Ile was backed, it is true, at 9to 2 in two or three instances for the Two Thousand Guineas, but for small :mounts only, awl in the end this offer went begging. About Hermit there was a similar degree of indifference, for although an occasional investment was made at :r to 1, these odds were readily obtainable to any amount, and the only other transactions that eame under our notice for this event were a small outlay on Master Butterfly at the quoted odds, and a single investment on Troculero at :AM to 15. For the Derby The Rake maintained his position of first favourite at 7 to 1, but the horse most inquired after was D'Estournel, who was freely supported at II to L, and thus supplanted Plaudit fur second favouritism. Dram! truss was also in request, and a gentleman intrusted with a commission in his favour, after vainly endeavouring to obtain 1000 to :Cr, was content to accept the odds offered, 21 to 1. The re maining transactions were Master Butterfly, supported at 1000 to :0, The Priest at :So to I, and Avron at 1900 to n. A bet was also laid of :AM to KA on Dragon against Grand Cross. The prices at the close were as follows: TW., '7IIOI":4AND 9to 2 1145 t Elson's %au,llt t.t off) 5 t.. I Mr. Hermit 't A iitt 15 to 1 Mr. K. / . 414t.w.1 . 11 Master Inittertly 500 1. , 1.. . Y. de Lik=anitila Trucadero DERBY. 74. 1 nest Mr. Prvorp The hake t & oft it to 1 Mr. savile's ligntouniel a freely) 11 to 1 Major k3won's Plaudit MY 25 to 1 boM Itumtlory ns Grand Cross t , 1001 4. 35 Mr. It. F...tn....We Master Itutterfly ",t) 50 to 1 Mr. .5. Willlsures The Priest 100., bele of Hamilton's Aerial I B off, 500 t.. 450 on Drag.,., sot Grand (tom (ti CHESTER MEETING.- WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. ENTHIEa ToR THE TRADE...OIE3'a PLATE of 200 soya. in specie, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 25 sous. each, I:. ft, and 5 only if declared by noon on a day hereafter to be named to Messrs. Weatherby only ; second to receive 110 sore.: the winner after publication of the weights of the Two Thousand Guineas Stake', or a :.00 soya. kindles)), 10lb ; the second fur either, or the winner of a 200 sore. handicap, tub extra, both including the winner's own stake. Cup Course (about two miles and a quarter). (150 subs., lof whom did not name.) (If the highest weight accepting is under Sat 121 b it will be raised to that, and the others in proportion.) Mr. H. Chaplin did not name. 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Pepper's Gh;Ht Llfinpianlsman Alien/while Conundrum . c by Bomulino— Brion Bread .... 3 Cutrren 5 Affect llonenb.on 4 1. us 31m. Allen Nutrition 4 Mack Mince— fikirmiall youlary Tribune 4 Special Dart. Admiral . S /14.11:450e6 Archimedes 5 Those hones marked thus ( ) having been entered with out the knowledge of their owners, will be struck out at the time prescribed unless specially ordered to remain in. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. WEDSMDAY, MARCH 6. ENTRID4 Foil THE GRAND NATIONAL STZEPLECHASE of 300 move, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 23 noes. each. 15 ft, and 5 only if declared by noon on a day here after to be named by 3lesars. Weatherby?only; the second to Rave his stake; winner of any steeplechase after the weights are declared, 10Ib extra; starting opposite the stables. About four miles and a quarter. (106 subs.) Age Age Age Whitehall The Nun. by Ply- Dr. Holloway, by Little forme by-Naght ill b— • Dr. O'Toole—ga- Duke fh b; Hall Court Gate meralda Deodoral ' a RJroiser L. S. D l3 Harcourt little Widearrake a Sandford Plinlimon. by Mesnwood Hatuaton:dam's :Globule ... ... .. pedie;ree un- Ellangowan • Shakstpsaire .... 6 known Doctor Chstaway late Alhrlglit4e .6 1., S King of Hearts itabldar, Istliit Balhmio. by Stock- Port Royal Chat - York- well shire Witch.... 5 Merrimac' a Claxton` light Heart .... a Harold lilagrow Phantom a Charkmagnej.... a Farnborough .... a Pensioner 0 Bennet • Clusriuing Woman • fby yauoletto— liertirvre . . Dubin a Astrolabe a Marengo, by Great- Ibex It b) • Braman. by Dick heart a Sea King a liatturaick . 6 Little Peter a Shangarry At In .. a Matainme,ltylfits- Jack's AlDe • tilatronatt .. . h Gladiator 6 Hanker a Seitaatinst. by Lou. Balder defied , dent by l'hlimicy Sweep 6 Knave of Trumps a Hopeful) h It) 6 Tennyson ih-b) 6 Miller Dimpach dt b .... • Grace Darling—. 6 Watchman Silver Star linear - flame. dam by 11111)n 'plug a nend Election; 6 Tupaley a Z.:di...1,11.h . Acolyte 6 Hornet a Tiger hto San Bedale, by Faro- Surmy ham Pishenuan, by Aiello* le a Sunbury IA it..... • King Fisher— Kluilmoontade Little Mall .... a itillniglwar Clairvoyant. .... • it•.blytocks 131).4 itoyal ~.. a King Arthur 6 Harry, Sincerity. by Rea ititmleynw 5 Catmla !fart—lntegrity a &'.al J in a Tb.,,e bored marked thus t• having been entered without the knlowle,t,e of their teener' will he 'thick Out at the time preocribed, unleu apecially ordered to remain In. BATH AND SOMERSET MEETING. WEDNEnDAV. NOMINATIONS FOR THY SoiILIMETSHIRE STARES. Ass Sydn Ago Age innton ' Pirate Chic( 3 Budder:it Nu Greenback Apaley elarerhouse 4 John its sins Primrose ..... ... 1 rai Duke 5 Duet FAO. Lantwahlre .. a Gement 5 Salpinctes 5 Bedouin llischief Steamboat The Rssene 1 lAily Knee Ilessetio Gilead Honeymoon 4 Yeecnus in ebyliousulus—.3t. Serinicapatam .... 3 Pintail tack Peppeen Moat .. 4 Stud Tribune 4 Densany NI iralla F by Malcolm— Othello llsweuvre .... S Tormoitor &Annus* 4 Sea Mew Lord H. Thynne is a subscriber, but did not name. Thom horses marked thus haring been entered with out the knowledge of their owners, will be struck out at the time prescribed, unless, specially ordered to remain in. MANCHESTER MEETING. These races, which were postponed on account of the frost, are fixed for Friday and Saturday next, the 11th and 12th inst. PEDESTRIAN MATCH IN THE STRAND.— Yesterday morning a singular feat of pedestrianism was performed by Mr. Hemmings, a me-lied student, who undertook for a wager of 101. to run four times round outside the rail ings of St. Clement's Church, in the Strand, during the time the church clock struck the hour of twelve, and chimed the usual " Lass o' Cowrie." At the first stroke of the bell he commenced his task at a brisk pace, and is creased the speed, finally accomplishing the feat before the clock bad concluded, and won the stakes. The dis tance round the railings is 170 yards, and the four laps made the distance actually travelled over one-third of • mile. The church clock occupied three minutes' time in striking the hour and completing the subsequent chimes ; and the pedestrian had nearly 20 seconds to spare when he finished the race. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1867. THE LANCASTER ELECTION COMMISSION. LANCASTER, MoNney, Messrs. Barstow, Newton, and Staveley Hill, the commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence el bribery and corrupt practices ift the last election for this borough, resumed their investigation in the Shire-hal this morning. William Jackson, whitesmith, said be voted for Fen wick and Schneider, and received 101. for doing so. Also got a sovereign for being on Lawrence's committee. George Nelson, coachsmith, said he got Si. for voting for Feniciick and Schneider, lf. for acting on their com mittee, and 2/. is. for being on the conservative com mittee. Michael Henry, a schoolmaster, said be voted for Fen. wick and Schneider, but received nothing for his vote. Being pressed by the commissioners, witness said he re ceived V. for his expenses in coining from Blackpool to vote. Mr. Commissioner Hill told the witness that he was at least 30s. in pocket by . the election. The Chief Commissioner remarked that considering the way in which the witness, who ought to have known better, had given his evidence, his expenses would not be allowed. Thirty eight voters, in addition to those whose evidence is given above, admitted ,having rece ived money, 21 for voting for Fenwick and Schneider ' and 17 for voting for Mr. Lawrence . The bribes ranged from 51. to It/. Mr. H. Wilson, gentleman, of Overkellet and Liverpool, said be voted for Mr. Lawrence, but received nothing for his vote. He was one of the petitioners to the House of Commons against the return of Messrs. Fenwick and Schneider. Did not know Mr. Lawrence personally. Mr. Lawrence Holden, attorney, of Lancaster, said be voted for Mr. Lawrence, and received nothing for his vote. He was offered a retainer on behalf of Mr. Law rence, but declined it. Acted as agent for election expenses on behalf of Mr. Saunders in the contest which took place between that gentleman and Mr. Fenwick in April, 1804. Had not the slightest idea what Mr. Saun ders' expenses were but had heard them variously esti mated at from 1,2 001. to 2,000/. What was called the illegalexpenditure would be managed by Mr. Whelon, who was now dead. Mr. Banana, the auctioneer, was one of his chief agents. William' Procter, tailor and draper, said he had 31. to spend among Lawrence's voters at Bore. A SUM of 35/. i was subsequently left by arrangement at his house for five voters named Barber. Junes Barber received the money on the morning of the election, after having voted. James Procter, fanner, said he received N. for voting for Lawrence. Paid 150 i. a year rent for his farm. Francis Baby, lighthouse keeper, voted for Lawrence, and received 9/. from Alexander Harrison. Did not know what the money was for, but thought it was paid because Mr. Lawrence's friends had more money than they knew what to do with. (Laughter.) Told Harrison he did not want the money, for be had never received a penny for his vote these forty years. Mr. Commissioner Hill—Harrison did not compel you to take the money ? Witness—No. But a poor man is no fool. He always takes money when he has the chance of it. Daniel George, woodcutter, said he voted for Lawrence. Received Gt. from a man named King, at Slyne ; St. after wards from some person be didn't know, and on the elec tion day he was paid 101. by another stranger. Believed that all these sums were paid to him in order to get his vote for Lawrence. When he got the 101. he was asked to vote for Lawrence. Mr. Commissioner Hill—Did you not tell them that you had already received 141. ? Witness—Certainly not. I told them nothing. Richard Shaw, labourer of Heysham said he got 101. for voting for Lawrence, and 41. for voting for Schneider ; Henry Taylor, labourer, got N. for voting for Fenwick and Schneider; William T bompson , farmer, who pays 2641. ayear rent, received 101. for voting for Lawrence,and2l. for treat ing voters ; James Thompson, farmer, and brother of the last witness, also received 10/. ; Thorns. Thornton, wool comber, voted for Lawr e nce, and got 11/. ;T. 13. Thorn ton, beerhouse-keeper and soda water manufacturer, re ceived 131. from Lawrence's party for his vote and es- Richard Thornton, farmer, said his rental was 127. m He got 10/. for voting for Lawrence. Robert Threlfoll, fish dealer, voted for Lawrence, and re wired 12/. fur doing so ; also received about Wis. for his services before the election. Mr. Commissioner Rill—What services did you render? Witness (highly amused at the question )—`services! They were something ridiculous. I only had the money to spend in something to " sup." (Laughter.) Joseph Woodman, labourer, received 101. from a Liver man for voting for Lawrence, and el. for voting for Fenwick. The inquiry, which will be closed on Wednesday, was spin adjourned. REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL TREATMENT IN THE BELGIAN PRISONS. In a letter juat received from M. de Sodas, inspector of Belgian prisons, by Mr. William Taßack, secretary of the Howard Association, .1, Bishopsgate-street without, London, are contained some of fi cial testimonies respecting the be neficial tendency of the reformatoty and economic system of prison labour which is so lacking in English gaols, and which is being further discouraged by the new but retrograde Prison Act of 1865. M. de Series states:—" I am able to assert that in Belgium ex perience has proved that remunerated prison labour tends to prevent crime, to diminish recom mittals, and to hinder relapses." He then de scribes their system in detail, showing its eco nomic and improving nature, and mentions that Belgian prisoners are stimulated to industry by a fixed scale of gratuities, based wholly on piece -work (with some merely exceptional permission as to time-work). Of these gratuities, threm.fifiths are oonstituted • fund disposable by the prisoner daring his detention, in extra but plain food, in flannel, postages of letters, assistance to relatives, or the purchase of school boo ks. The remaining two thirds form a fund available at his discharge, when it is appropriated to pay his travelling expenses, to pur chase tools, and to provide food and shelter whilst earn ing the first wages of freedom. K. de Sorlas con tinues :—" It is absolutely either to re munerate labour or to compel itsperformance under the influence of fear. Under the latter system the prisoner will regard the labour as • part of his punishment, and it will share in the aversion he conceives for his in fliction as a whole ; and immediately on his liberation he will hasten to abandon it as such. Labour ought to he in prison what it is in society—the source of man's ameliora tion. Nearly all our criminals are in circumstances of utter privation when they enter prison. And they will be similarly situated on their discharge if their labour is not remunerated. Yet • criminal's return to society renders some expense essential. It is better to have recourse for this to the results of prison labour than to receive it as alms front the patronage even of a Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. But discharge without some such indis pensable provision as the one or the other would be repro. hensible. The whole tendency of our Belgian system is reformatory, and calculated to restore the prisoner to • respectable position in the community. It developes • love of labour and • practical skill in its performance, and renders safe a limitation of the mere prison diet to • minimum. (Hence its economy as contrasted with English prisons, whose inmates are in general much better fed and cared fur than multitudes of the honest poor outside, yet coat the country 30/. per head per annum, earn leas than 2/., and are continually recommitted after all.) It fosters • habit of saving, promotes good behaviour in pri son, and finally, on discharge, furnishes the prisoner with the means which are indispensable for immediately availing himself of the advantages of his training.' In conclusion, the inspector mentions that this system is carried out in the prison workshops of Ghent, Vit. words and St. Bernard, and in the separate cellular penitentiary of Louvain—in all of which it is found to be very beneficial. In the latter prison the recommitted criminals received hitherto have constituted 72 per cent. of the whole number admitted, whereas the number of those recommitted after passing through the reformatory training within its walls is under 7 per cent. The expe rience of France, Switzerland , and New England is confir matory of that f Belgium. Hence it is the more to be ripened that the Lords' committee on Prison Discipline in 1863 recommended, in direct opposition to the majority of witnesses and to the weight of evidence , an increased adoption of non-productive,_ expensive, and demoralising prison employments, as the tread - wh eel, shot-drill, and crank. EXPLOSION or GREEK FIRE.—An explosion of supposed Fenian " munitions of war" took place on Sun. day in Esaex-street, Dublin, which was attended by se rious results to life and property. It appears that an Friday night a stranger engaged a room in the house, No. 8, Eases-street, from a tenant named Edward Con nolly. Ile placed a small box in the room, left the house, and did not afterwards return. Connolly's curiosity being aroused by the non-appearance of his tenant, he was induced on Sunday to examine the contents of the box. On removing the cover he found two round bottles carefully corked and secured at the top with chamois leather, which it is sup contained " Greek fire." Beneath them in the hex was a paper parcel which, on being touched, exploded with such violence as to knock down the walls and parti tion in the room. The glass in the windows was also broken, and the people residing in the house were either all knocked down or violen'ly thrown against the walls by the force of the concussion consequent upon the explosion. Connolly was seriously injured about the head and hands, and is not expected to recover. Upwards of 91) hall cart ridges were found in the room after the explosion. No clue has yet been obtained to the owner of the mysterious Ezpread. CRYSTAL PALACII. ONI SHILLING DAY. MONDAY, JAN. 7.—Admissions on payment, 935; ditto, by season tickets, 989. Total viaitam, 1,944. [Advertisement. Hottowsv's Pitts. En feebled Existence. —This medicine embraces every attribute re qtdred In a general sod domestic remedy ; It overturns the foun dations of disease Mid by Indigestible foal and impure sir. In oistnictions or congestions of the liver, langs bowels, or any other organ, pills are especially serviceable and eminently successful. They should be kept In every family. as they are a medicine without a fault for young persons and those of feeble constitutions. They slavers:sun pain or Irritate the most sensitive nerves or meet tender bowels. Holloway's pills are the bed known putiflers of the blood, and the best promoters of absorp tion and secretion, whkls remove all poisonous sod obadnudd paraded from both solids sad Golds. to intelligence. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—JAN. 7. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE R. B. I ,, WN.U.L. _ _ The bankrupt was a merchant of Fenchurch•street, Hp bad traded in partnership with Mr. Ronaldson, and after wards with Mr. Middleton. The liabilities of the several firms amount to 9,156/. ; assets trifling. This was the sitting for order of discharge, the exiunination haring been pared in November last. Mr. Aldridge, for the official assignees, stated that the bankrupt was entitled to an interest under his father's will, bat it was stated that it had been forfeited by the bankruptcy Mr. Bagley opposed for two French creditors who had taken proceedings against Mr. Middleton, the bankrupt's late partner, on two bills of exchange. Those actions had not yet been tried, and on that ground an adjournment was asked. . __— Mr. 'trough, for the bankrupt, opposed the adjourn ment, on the ground that there had been ample time for the trial of the action. Mr. Bagley said it had been necessary to send a commis sion to France to obtain evidence of the dishonour of the bills. Hu Honour, being informed that the action hod been brought in May, .aid that no ground had been shown fur further delay, and granted the order. removed two days after it fell. The contractor for his dis trict had been applied to, and his answer was, it was too cold for his horses to be taken out. ---- - 7 __ Mr. Tyrwhitt said the question was by n" means an easy one to decide off hand. It was • pity the legislature had not inserted a clause in the act strictly enjoining vestries to cleanse the streets. There were several acts of parliament to be looked into closely, and before granting a summons he would take time to consider what the law really was. The gentlemen thanked the magistrate and withdrew. On Saturday Dr. Novarre, of South-street, applied to Mr. Knox for a summons against the vestry of St. George's, for not removing the snow. Mr. Knox would take time before he granted the sum mons, but recommended Dr. Novarre to come with him solicitor, as the question was one of great public import ance, and it would be advisable to arrive at some decision on it as soon as passible. Dr. Novarre said he should certainly adopt the anises. tion of the magistrate. DISr.RACEPUL CONDUCT Old PARISH DOCTOR. Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry yesterday at the GeorgejV. Tavern, Green-street, Bethnal-green, respecting thf death of a married woman, named Ann Ferry, aged :36 years, who lost her life under very shocking circumstances. James Ferry, No. 5, Green-street, Bethnal-green, said that he was a dock labourer. The deceased was his wife. He had to complain that her death was caused through the neglect of • parish doctor. Matilda Grimm., No. Hi, Tatty-street, Bethnal-green, sister of the deceased, said that she had obtained an order for the Lying-in Hospital, and the deceased intended to have gone there. On Wednesday last she was seized with the pains of labour, and a cabman was called. He was asked ti drive her to the hospital, which was situated in the City-road. He said that, in consequence of the snow falling, he would not carry her there unless he got five shillings. After some delay, the five shillings was pro cured, but the cabman then said that he would not drive her there unless he got seven shillings. It was impossible to raise that aunt, and the cabman went away. The woman was then suddenly confined while she was standing in a room. The child was born alive. Witness went at once to the relieving officer for the district, and she obtained an order for the atten dance of the parish doctor, Mr. Massingham. That order was obtained at half-past six o'clock in the evening, ana witness took it to Dr. Mamingham at once. She told the doctor what had occurred, and she stated that there was no midwife in attendance upon the demand woman, and that she had not been seen by a doctor. He said that he could not come to see the deceased until the next morning, and witness then informed him that the woman was in pain. He gave witness • bottle of medicine, and he said that it was to be taken after the pain was felt. Witness then left. She returned to the doctor at half-past ten o'clock the same night. and she saw him sitting in his room reading • newspaper. She told him that the woman was dying. lie said that he could not help that, and that he could not come until his usual time of coming mine round. He did not come until after the deceased had been dead some time. Witness thought that there was great neglect on the part of Dr. Massingham. Amelia Fox, of 7, Green-street, Bethnal-green, said that she went to Dr. Massingbani's at half-past eight o'clock on Thursday morning. She saw Mrs. Massingham, and that lady informed Mr. Mamingham that a person wanted to see him. He said, " I can't be seen for half-an-hour." " Then," said witness, " I had better go home." Mrs. Massingham advised witness to apply linseed meal and mustard poultice to the deceased. The deceased had given birth to nine children. Anne Ferry, a young girl of about 15 years of age, said that she was a daughter of the deceased. She went to Dr. Blaming/Lam', at half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday morning. Ho was sitting in his room reading a newspaper. Witness said, "Mother is dying." He exclaimed, "Fiddle de dee, nonsense ; if your mother was put to bed yesterday it can't be said that she will die to-day." Witness began to cry, and he said, " It's no use your • gg it's no use your kicking up that noise here—it won't bring her back again." Witness returned home and told her grandmother. Her mother died at half-past 12 o'clock that day. Coroner—That very day that the doctor said " Fiddle de dee, nonsense, she won't die to-day ?" Witness—Yes, air. Dr. Hetman C. Harris, medical officer at the Lying-in Hospital, said that the post mortem examination of the body of the deceased showed that she had been a very healthy woman, but the heart was small and feeble, and the lungs were in a state of inflammation. The cause of death was the inflammation of the lungs and effusion into the pericar dium, combined with the shuck to the system from child birth. Her case demanded very active treatment, and even with medical assistance it might have terminated fatally. The jury asked whether Dr. Massiugham was present to explain his conduct. Mr. Burrows, the officer of the court, said that Dr. Maasingham, when told that the inquest was to be held, said that he was iU, and that he expected to be in bed when the court was sitting. The Coroner having summed up, The jury, after some deliberation, returned the follow. ing special verdict :—" That the deceased expired from the mortal effects of inflammation of the lungs and effu sion into the pericardium. with shock to the system from childbirth; and the jurors further say that the conduct of the pariah doctor was inhuman in not attending the deceased when the parish order was given to him, there appearing to be nothing to prevent his doing so ; and the jurors also say that he is unfit to be continued as the parish doctor, and should be required to resign such ap pointment." A subscription was then raised for the family of the deceased. New POLICE AaaasroamEtrrs.—An order was issued yesterday to the police by Sir Richard Mayne, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, by order of the Secretary of State, that all charges taken at the Hunter street police-station, or E division, and which would in the ordinary course be heard at the Clerkenwell Court, should be taken to Bow-street for decision. The order also stated that when the prosecutor objected, or when the charges taken in the daytime could not be taken to Bow-street for decision that day, but could be taken to Clerkenwell in time, then they are to be taken to that court for declaim. The charges from that division have invariably been very few, and this course is adopted for the convenience of all parties. THE LICENSING SYSTEM.—We understand that a conference, under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftes bury, is to be held, at the end of this month, in St. Mar tin's-hall, for the purpose of instituting a searching discus sion into the present system of licensing public-houses and beer-shops. The Earls of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Harrowhy, and Lichfield ; Lords Lyttelton and Leigh ,• Mesas. Thomas Hughes, M.P., A. H. Layerd , M.P., and Hugh Owen, of the Poor-law Board, and the Rev. H. SoUy are among the principal supporters of the conference, and with names like these to stand sponsors for the move ment we way expect that it will be thoroughly and effi ciently carried out. THE HABEAS CORPCN ACT IN IRELAND.—Last year the session ounnuenced on the let February, and the first act was to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland until the Ist September. On the 10th August one of the last acts was further to suspend it till 21 day. after the commencement of the succeeding session. As the session will commence on the sth proximo the act unless renewed will expire in three weeks from the sitting of parliament. NEON() SHINYIINII IN VIRGINIA.—A corrtupon dent of the New York Hould, writing from Richmond on the 11th inst., says :--" The following account of the diffi culty between Dr. James Watson, of Rockbridgc county, and a negro named Tobe Echols, was published several weeks ago, and will prove inter esting: to your readers, since Dr. W. has been rearrested by order of General Schofield and brought to this city. Dr. James Watson, one of the most respectable gentlemen of Rockbndge county, on Wednesday hut shot and killed a negro named Tube Echols under the following circumstances. On the day previous the doctor's family were going to church in a carriage, and were overtaken in a very narrow pert of the road by the carriage of Major John R. Echols, con taining the family of that gentleman, and driven by the deceastd. The negro attempted to force a paster„le by the doctor's carriage, though knowing that he could not do so with safety on account of the narrowness of the road. He, however, against the remonstrance of she doctor's driver, made the attend, when the wheels of the two carriages became interlocked, one wheel of the dootor's vehicle being smashed to pieces. This did not stop the determined negro, but he continued to drive ahead, when another wheel was broken, and the horses to Dr. Watson's carriage took fright and ran off, in their flight breaking the carriage to pieces, but fortunately with out injuring any of its occupants. This occurred in a very dangerous part of the mountain mad, on one side of which was a steep precipice. Dr. Watson was not present, nor was he at home, beiAg absent in attending his practice. Then he returned on Tuesday night he was told of the oc. currence, and on Wednesday morning rode over to Major Echols' tochastise the impudent negro who had thus endan gered the lives of his wife and children. He found him in the field at work, and told him for what purpose he had come, and struck him with a small stick, which the negro wrenched from his hand and started to run. The doctor ordered him to halt or he would shoot him, and the negro not obeying the order the doctor levelled his pistol and fired, the ball striking him in the luck and coming out about the centre of the abdomen, inflicting a wound from which death ensued in a few hours. Dr. Watson imme diately went to a neighbouring magi-trate and surrendered himself, and, after an examination, was bailed in the sum of 1,000 dols. for his appearance for trial before the County Court. The doctor we, subsequently tried and discharged by a jury of his own county, but, as remarked above, be was re-arrested and brought to Richmond. General Schofield admitted him to bail in the sum of 911,000 dole., and, by an agreement between the parties, an examina tion will be commenced in this city to-morrow, when the evidence in the ease will be made public. The affair caused no excitement outside of the neighbourhood in which it occurred, and consequently I am unable to furnish any of the evidence brought to bear upon the case before the court that tried it." CRYSTLL P ►a ►Ca. —The pantomime will be played at half•past four this afternoon. Not a vestige of snow remains on the roof of the Palace. THE LOSS OP THE INDY& The folliiwing is the official report of Mr. 'taffies, stipentliAry magistrate, in respect to the loss of the above vessel : "To the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee et Privy Council for Trade.—My Lords,-1 have, 'Nested by Captains Harris and Hight as nautical •aasessors, held the inquiry ordered by your lordships into the loss of the ship Indus off the Irish coast, on the II th Dec. last. The Indus was a wooden ship of e 47 tons, built in ' Maitland, N. S, and was owned by Messrs. Northrup and others, of Halifax, N. S. She left Liverpool on the oth of December, oommanded by Mr. Daniel Campbell—who himself owned eight shares in the vessel—with a general cargo, and bad on board a crew of IR hands a n told, one supernumerary, and the captain's wife and aisti r, and was bound to Philadelphia. She was towed out as far as Holyhead, when the tug was compelled to cast her off from stress of weather, and she beat down the channel. On the 10th the gale moderated, and it fell calm. On the 11th, about R a.m., the wind sprung up from the S.E.,and hauled to the southward and westwar d, At 9 a.m. the Blackwater lightship was seen, and at 10 a.m. the ship was tacked to theesetward, and continued on this tack till about 2 p.m. She was again tacked toff* westward lying at W. e S., which course she kept tiil she grounded on the long bank off the coed of Wexford at about 5.30 p.m. At 4 p.m. the weather had oome on thick and dirty, but no lead was used. Efforts were made without success to get the ship off, but she eventually became a total wreck, a small poe. tion of the cargo and some of the ship's stores being saved. No lives were lost. I regret to say that this is another case in which the loss of the ship is wholly attributable to the neglect of the lead, and this, in the face of the repeated warnings which have issued from the courts of inquiry which have been held from time to time during many years, upon yowls lost from the same cause in the Irish Channel. la this case the court was linable to discover any extenuating circumstances. The weather was moderate, and when it became thick it was especially incumbent upon the master to use the lead, which was close at hand, but was unaccountably disregarded, though the ship wee heading towards danger, and had been sailing in easy soundings for an hour before she struck. The court feel bound, under those circumstances, to suspend the certifi cate of Mr. Daniel Campbell for twelve calendar months-- I have the honour to be, my lords, your lordships' most obedient servant, T. S. Rare Les, Stipendiary Magistrate. —We concur in this report. Ht. HARRIS, EDWARD HIGH?, Nautical Aesessors." LONDON WEEIEL' SuoAR—W. I. blido &tam I Do. bru anal llawittus boP Last India )Mani haa Maw hegal Havana boxes ForeignMoacovadocaaks Brasil packages Bent Root casks Do. begs Corns—W. I...packages Do beta i Ceylon casks Do. ....MU k bags Mocha packages Other K India packages Brazil & Costaltlos begs Canna bop Foreign casks Item Do. 'dada litcg, East India tone BALTPRDIR tuns RKETS. Y DOCK RETUI ,Imp,r - ta Dellverd. 1,347 126 8,4:4 3NB.—Jax. 5. Pr. Stock. 1866. 20,571 17,4 ft 6,686 7,208 8%160 122,807 261,6?3 210,064 72 - 9 866,386 moss 29,753 46,741 16,617 21,712 17,292 AIM 1,976 3,291 2,099 52,626 738 1,161 MIMI 777 I,bM 1,068 2,148 46 1,440 2,066 201 14,377 14,514 46,779 40,751 1.371 1,364 116.69.5 41,654 2.5,430 47,000 14,670 14,615 22,565 ! 30,593 29,750 i 34,242 10.602 6,004 TALLOW.—Mosnsv EVWING.—We have had a good demand for tallow on the spot to-day, and prices are well supported, but there has been very little speculative busi ness doing. Froin St. Petersburg the market I. quoted steady at 525. for!Augurt, and the exchange is 32d. ; tal low thus costing to lay down here nest mason over 4148. pir cwt. Our closing prices are :—Spot, 43e. ; March, 455. 311. to 45e. Gd. ; April to June 455. 3d. ; October to Dec... ber, 455. Od. to Om Town tallow is quoted 445. net cash ; South American, 435. to 45e. 6d. first pipes ; second and yellow, 425. to 44e.. Australian beef, 44e. to 445. 3d. fine, to 425. 6d. low and weak. Cocoanut oil ie firm • Cochin, 625. ; Ceylon, 51s. ; Sydney, 475. to 505., middling to g o od. Palm oil quiet, 425. 6d. fine Lagos palm nut oil, 422.—(From the circular of Messrs. Smith end Charles.) COTTON. —LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—We have had a fair demand to-day, and a steady market at Saturday's prim. The sales are 12,000 bales, of which .1,000 are for export and speculation. WOOL AND WORSTED.—Bitarirom), J. 7.—There is no appreciable change in the market to-day. The quail. tity of wool changing Lands is only small, and prices are very firm. The amount of business done in worsted yarns very limited to-day, though the tone of the market is very firm. Prices are still against buyers. No improve. ment has taken place in pieces. Transactions are, if any. thing, even more limited than previously reported. The market altogether is very fiat. Prices are unchanged. CATTLE.—Lientroot., JAN. 7.—Owing to contrary winds and fog the arrivals of cattle were small. Prices were irregular, and generally much higher than last Monday. No change in sheep. Cattle at market 1,200 ; sheep, 4,000. Beef, tiiiL to Sid. per lb. ; mutton, GAd. to Bd. per lb. COMA—LONDON, JAN. 7--Darison's West Hartley, 17a.; Lambert's West Hartley, le.s. 9d .: Walls End Bnuidyll's Hetton, 225. ; Walls End Haswell, Vs. ; Walls End Tunatall, 20s. 9d.—Ships at market, 29; sold, 22. Ix BE WHZKLEIt. The bankrupt, adrap er at Salisbury, sought his dis charge from debts of 1,035/. ; assets about 40/. Mr. Bagley opposed for the assignees. The bankrupt, after executing a deed of assignment, had removed his stock, worth 4001., from Salisbury to Southampton, where it was sold for about 2001.—the bankrupt receiving the money and disposing of it as he thought proper ce, one pay ment being made to his father. Legal proceedings had since been taken against the auctioneers, and 1501. had been recovered to the estate. A further charge against the bankrupt was that after he had executed the deed ho bad bought goods of Messrs. Ramsdale to a large amount, and had disposed of them by auction. The assignees now asked for an order to prosecute the bankrupt under the 150th section. In the meantime it was desirable that the bankrupt should be examined at a private sitting. His Honour did not think that the bankrupt should be examined so as to criminate himself. Mr. Bagley said there were other witnesses who would have to be examined. Mr. Heed, for the bankrupt, characterised the proceed ings of the assignee as monstrous, scandalous, and audacious. The case had been before the court for twelve months, and the idea of a prosecution was now first heard of. The bankrupt had disposed of his goods at a sacrifice in order to meet the payments under his composition deed, and the proceeds had been applied for that purpose. The assignee who was thus persecuting the bankrupt had not filed any account of his receipts since the bankruptcy, nor had there been any audit sitting. Mr. Treheme, on the part of the assignee, denied this. His Honour said it was essential that something should be done to enforce the quarterly audits required by the act. kr. Bagley said the auignee had already paid 170/. into the Bank of England. . . . . His Honour said he should not proceed with the cue until there had been a regular audit, and adjourned the sitting for that purpose. He pro po sed to bring these irregularities on the part of assignees before the Lord Chancellor. As to a prosecution his Honour was of opinion that too long a time had been allowed to elapse, and there was no ground for such a proceeding. (Before Mr. Registrar Murray.) IN RE WM. HOWARD GLOVER. - - - The bankrupt, commonly known es Howard Glover, is described as a teacher of music and contributor to the daily press, of Eton-street, Primrose-hill. The debts are 2111. He ascribes his failure to having lost his appoint ment as musical critic for one of the morning papers. This was the first sitting, but the proceethngs were only of a formal character. - - CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. Francis William Sierras, 31, sawmaker, was charged upon several indictments with unlawfully obtaining several considerable Bums of money from Means. Leaf and Co., warehousemen, Old Change, by means of forged and altered invoice.. Mr. Montagu Williams was instructed to prosecute, and Mr. Ribton appeared for the prisoner. This case disclosed a very ingenious system of fraud on the past of the prisoner. He was employed by the prose cutors to make springs for caps, and it was his duty when he took work home to the warehouse to produce an invoice and • receipt for the amount to which he was entitled, and if the clerk to whom the document was presented found that the goods had been ordered and tallied with the amount charged, he put his initials to the instrument, and the prisoner would then have to take it to the cashier, who would at once pay him the amount. It appeared that the prisoner, having obtained the signature of the clerk to the genuine document, which was generally only for the sum of • few shillings, altered the quantity of goods and made it much larger, and then inserted figures representing pounds before the shillings, end thus ob tained the amount from the cashier. In one instance the prisoner appeared to have obtained by this means 171., in another 161., and in fact he appeared to have been carry ing on a regular system of fraud, and in the course of • period of three months he appeared to have defrauded the prosecutors of nearly 2001. Mr. Ribton, as the case was proceeding, interposed, and said be felt that it would be utterly hopeless to attempt to struggle against • conviction, and the prisoner would therefore not give the court any further trouble, but would plead guilty. All be could urge in his behalf was that he appeared to have borne a good character down to the period when these transactions took place. The prisoner having formally pleaded guilty, the Re corder, having observed that he appeared to have been carrying on a most extensive and impudent system of fraud, by which ho had possessed himself of a very large sum of money, sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for six years. James Garrett Yaks, 40, a gentlemanly-looking man, pleaded guilty to three indictments charging him with embezzling several large sums of money belonging to his employers. . . . . . . H. Lewis, who was instructed to prosecute, said that the prosecutors were Messrs. Keen and Co., who car ried on a very extensive business as mustard manufacturers at Garlick-hill, and the prisoner had been in their service as • country traveller for about six years, and was paid • salary of 2001. a year, and was allowed It. • day for expenses. It was his duty to travel about the country and obtain orders and receive accounts, and to tranueit the sums so received to his employer' ; sad it appeared that ho had transmitted much smaller amounts than he actually received, and he sent false accounts to the customers, in order to conceal the frauds that ho had committed. The prisoner seemed to have met with • serious accident • short time back, and while he was con fined to his bed he sent for one of his employers and admitted his guilt, and the result of subsequent inquiries showed that he had robbed the firm to the extent of nearly 1,0001. He thought it right to inform the court that the prosecutors had occasion to prosecute another clerk who was in their service about a year ago, and who had robbed them of about 7001., and upon that occasion they recommended him to mercy, and he received • very lenient sentence. The present occasion was the third upon which they had been robbed by their servants, and, with out any desire to press hars hly upon the prisoner, the prosecutors felt it to be their duty to put the court in possession of the facts he had stated. The Recorder said it appeared to him that the pri soner's conduct was entirely without excuse. His salary appeared to have been raised from 120/. to 200/. • year, and he had an ample amount allowed him for expenses ; and notwithstanding this he seemed to have robbed his employers to a very large amount. Under these circum stances he had no alternative but to sentence him to be kept in penal servitude for five years. Samuel Wood, alias Pmfound, D, shoprnan, pleaded guilty to six indictments charging him with obtaining goods by false pretence& Mr. Poland and Mr. Grain were instructed to prosecute. The prisoner was formerly in the service of Messrs. Bur goyne Herblike, and Co., wholesale druggists, and it ap peared that after his discharge he employed a printer to imitate the pnnted orders that were used by his late em ployers. and by the use of these forged orders he obtained a quantity of goods from different tnulesmen with whom Messrs. Burgoyne and Co. del business. It also appeared that he had by a very ingenious fraud succeeded in obtain. ing possession of a quantity of drugs from the St. Katha rine Dock. The prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. William Courtney Brortton ' an attorney, wsa called upon to surrender and take his trial upon two charges of bigamy and miademeonour._ The defendant, who had been admitted to bail, did not appear to take his trial, and his recognisance/ and those of his bail were ordered to be entreated. Mr. Sleigh, who was instructed to prosecute, subse quently applied for a warrant for the apprehension of the defendant, and the application was granted. florid Williams, 26, was charged with being unlawfully in the dwelling - house of Frederick Cayley Wonky, with intent to commit felony. . . . . . . It appeared that a noise was heard during the night in the prosecutor's 140111.0, and upon the police being called in and making a search they found the prisoner concealed up the kitchen chimney, and he was jammed so tightly that it required three men to pull him down, and he then pre tended to be drunk. . The prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. The Court rose eaxly, in consequence of there being no more business ready to be pmceetled with. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEllll.—Visitors during the week ending January 5. —On Monday, Tues day, and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 9,161 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admis sion 6d..;, from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 700; total, 9,861. Average of corresponding week in former years, 8,142. Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,491,0903. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Geo).9e Walter Base, li), clerk, was indicted for stealing the sum of EN. 2n. 2d., and two cheques, each for the sum of 201., the property and moneys of Joseph Mills, his master. The prisoner pleaded guilty. This was a most daring robbery. The prosecutor is an ironmonger, and keeps • post-office in Russell-street, Bloomsbury, and he took the prisoner, who had just left Ongar Boariling•school, into his service, his father being a highly respectable man. A few days ago, the prisoner (then having only been in his situation ten days) decamped, helping himself to all the money and cheques he could lay his hands upon. A description was circulated throughout the postal district of the stolen cheques, and one of them was presented in Liverpool for payment. This was stopped, and also the person who presented it, and a tele gram was sent to London. Mr. Inspector Garford went there and apprehended the prisoner and the other man, but the former only was prosecuted. The cheques were recovered, but none of the money, and, according to the prisoner's statement, it appeared that he had been enjoy ing himself in Ireland, where he had spent the whole. Mr. Serjeant Dowhng said this was a very bad case, when they found • young man, but 16 years of age, and who had only left school a week, plundering his employer of a large amount of money. The sentence upon hint was six months' imprisonment and hard labour. If he did any thing of the kind again, this would be remembered, and he would go to penal servitude for a long term of years. John Brennan, who was convicted last sessions of steal ing a watch and chain, value 6f., the property of William Ed, from his person, was brought up for judgment. Mr. George Lockyer, sessions o ffi cer, said he had made inquiries. and found that the prisoner was in the employ. ment of Mr. Archer, a silk-dresser, No. Zi, Worship-street, on the 17th September last, and remained until the lit of December. He had no complaint to make of his honesty, and the prisoner left of his own accord. Mr. Berjeant Dowling sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for nine months. William IL paid., 28, clerk, was indicted for stealing 200 ounces of gold and silver wire, the property of Henry William Johnson and another, his masters. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. F. H. Lewis, who appeared for the prosecution, said the prosecutors had lost 700 ounces of silver and gold wire, which the prisoner had stolen from them, and was worth 300/. He had falsified the entries in the books, by inserting in the first instance, say a sale of 72 ounces of wire, and then afterwards adding a "1 " to it, so making the appa rent sale 172 ounces. Mr. Johnson, in answer to a question by Mr. Serjeant Dowling, said he had a very good reference with the prisoner, who was their clerk. The only money the prisoner received came through the post, as all their customers lived in the country. He recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the court. Mr. Serjeant Dowling, after commenting upon the con duct of the prisoner, said it sapped all the foundations of mutual credit, and sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. As the prosecutor bad re commended him to mercy it was highly creditable to that gentleman, considering the loss he had sustained through his mispla ced confidence. Darid Pool, 34, clerk, was indicted for stealing cheques to the amount of 173/.. the property of Thomas Mosdell Smith, his master. This amount was made up by several indictments. The prisoner pleaded guilty to all the in dictments. _ _ . -- Mr. ilesley prosecuted ; Mr. Collins appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutor carries on business as a wax and tallow chandler and melter in High-street, Kensington, trading under the name of " Francis Tucker and C 0.," and the prisoner was in his service as clerk, entering about four years ago at a salary of 30s. a week, which sum was after wards increased to 120/. a year, with a residence. It was the prisoner's duty to fill up cheques in favour of personate whom his master was indebted, and having obtained the signature of the prosecutor or his son, to hand them to a clerk for the purpose of their being sent to the creditors. On the 29th of September the prisoner absconded without giving any notice that ho was about to leave to his master, and in consequence an investigation of his accounts took place. On comparing the cheque book with the entries in the ledger they did not at all correspond, the cheque often exceeding the amount set down in the ledger, or no entry whatever of the particular sum being found there. In some instances when open cheques were given to the pri soner he filled them up for a sufficient sum to cover pre vious defalcations, and got a publican in the neighbour hood, to whom his employer was well known, to cash them. The pruioner also pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with having been previously convicted at Belfast on the 20th June, 1861, for felony. Mr. Begley said that :IS the Assistant Judge bad tried another man, named Charles Sheen, for a robbery from the same firm, he should ask that sentence should be deferred until next sessions, when the Assistant Judge might be able to attend. THE POLICE COURT& MANSION-HOUSE. Charteß Williams Lee Webb, Joetpit Star Veld Dean alias Alaop, Thenteas Berwick, and Lion(' 11,4dereorth were brought up on remand before Mr. Alderman Finnic, for further examination on the charge of being concerned in scuttling the ship Severn on the high seas. Mr. George Lewis, instructed by Captain Downward, of Lloyds' Salvage Association, again appeared for the prose cution ; Mr. Buchanan was in attendance for the prisoners Webb and Dean ; and Mr. T. Beard appeared for the pri soner Holdaworth. The proceedings of this day, as previously arranged, consisted of reading over to the different witnesses the depositions which had already been taken. These deposi. tions were extremely voluminous, as may be supposed, when it is stated that the witnesses were no less than 60 in number, and the process of reading occupied a very con siderable time. At the close, Mr. Lewis intimated that he bad nowcompleted the case and did not propose to call any fusilier evidence. He should therefore apply that the prisoners be committed for trial. The Chief Clerk (Mr. Oke) stated to the prisoners that thicharges against them would be as follows s—First. Webb would be charged for that he on the lath May last feloniously did cast away and destroy on the high seas • certain British ship called the Severn, with intent to defraud certain marine insurance companies and private under writers ; and Berwick, Holdawortb, and Dean would be charged with being accessurien before the fact of the commission of the said felony by the prisoner Webb. Secondly. The four -orisoners would be charged with con spiring together in the months of March, April, and May Lot, in the City of London, to cast away and destroy the said ship with intent to defraud. Third. The four pri soners would be again charged with conspiring together bet seen the months of May and November last, and by divers false and fraudulent pretences procuring from certain insurance companies and private underwriters divers valuable securities and bankers' cheques for the payment of money with intent to defraud. Next, the prisoner, Hobleworth and Dean would be charged with conspiring together to defraud the London and Caledonian Insurance Company of the sum of 1,500/. ; and lastly, Holdsworth and Berwick would be further charged with conspiring to defraud. . . _ _ Mr. Alderman Finis, having cautioned the prisoners in the usual form, asked them if they had anything to say in answer to these charges. The prisoner Webb—l will merely say, my lord, that I ani entirely innocent. The prisoner Dean—l am innocent ; I never saw either the ship or the cases. The prisoner Berwick—l shall reserve my defence. The prisoner Holdsworth—l am perfectly innocent, and I shall reserve my defence. The witnesses were then all bound over in the sum of 40f. each to appear rind give evidence against the prisoners at the sessions of the Central Criminal Court which will commence on Monday, the 28th January inst. The prisoners were then removed, but will be brought up on Thursday to be formally committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Bentinck. M.P., Charles-street, Berkeley-square, and Mr. I'ercy Doyle, Halfmoon.street, Piccadilly, came before Mr. Tyrwbitt to apply for a summons against the vestry of St. George, Hanover-square, for neglecting to remove the snow from the streets in the parish. Mr. Doyle said his complaint was that the vestry left Halfmoon-street M an elmostimpassable state, making no attempt whatever to clear away the snow. He wrote to the vestry on the subject, but the only reply he re ceived was that him letter should be laid before the board on the next board day, but as it was not known when that day would arrive, he felt that the only course left to him was to apply to a magistrate for a summons against the vestry. Mr. Bentinck said he also applied for a summons against the vestry, on the ground of neglect. His application was made under the 12-ith section of the Metropolis Local Management Act, and the C.lth section of the 23 Vic., cap. 102. The clause under the first-named act stateil " that it shall be lawful for every vestry and district board, and they are hereby required to appoint and employ a sufficient number of persons, or to contract with any company of persons for the sweeping and cleansing of the several streets within the pariah or district, and for collecting and removing all dirt, ashes, rubbish, ice, snow, &c., and if any such company or person shall fail to execute such winks he sh a ll forfeit a sum not ex ceeding W." His object in making this applic a ti o n was to raise the question publicly, and to ascertain whether house holders and the public had any remedy or not. The parish of St. George was somewhat peculiarly situated ; it was divided into two wards, the inner and outer ward. The vestry contracted for one of the wards, and undertook the other themselves. He did not complain that the vestry had tried and failed, but that they had done nothing, and seemed, apparently, content with doing nothing. Mr. Doyle considered that the offence was clearly made out, inasmuch as he was unable, owing to the non-removal of the snow, to get in or out of his house. Had Provideaoe not done what the vestry neglected to do, the inconveni. ence to the public would have proved unbearable. He paid rates and taxes to the vestry for cleansing the streets ; and he might just remark, to show that the cleansing proems was not an impossibility, that all the snow in the City was TRAFFIC RETURNS. ILATLWAT!‘ Mlle. Par Mr. Total. Total, OM lenges% ehatigise. 1468. 1066. Week ending Nov. 4. t 6 L t But Indian 1194 15,118 27,150 42,288 41,;04 Week ending use. 8. Ninthern of Canada Week ending Dec. 20. Detroit and Milwaukee—. 180 Week ending Dee. 21. Great Western of Canada . 343 Week ending Dec. 28. Belfast and N. Counties Londonderry it Coleraine Week ending Den. 30. Brecon and Merthyr .. Wed' ending Jan. 5. Booth Bantam.. 4,823 4,611 11,45 T 13,263 ~. G 8 314 428 1.118 1.14 . 330 13.972 4,393 18,163 19,610 CRIME IN SeFFOLK.—The proceedings at the Ipswich county quarter sessions on Friday brought out • remarkable fact. There were seventeen prisoners for trial, and of these nine were old offenders. One had been three times convicted of felony, and for one of his offences see. tenced to three years' pemd servitude, and eight tines in gaol, under sentences for night and day poaching and assaulting a gamekeeper ; another had been four times in gaol, sad had undergone two sentences of four years' penal servitude. Both these men were sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and the other old offenders to long periods of inirsonnient. From the fact that the majority of the prisoners had been previously convicted, two oondicting inferences might be drawn ; on the one band it might be said that there is not much new blood in our criminal population ; and on the other, that the discipline of oar prisons is not severe enough to deter those who have had one taste of it from returning to their old ways. To the latter inference we might, however, add that there is no accounting for taste.—Suffolk Chronic. Du BARRY'S DELICIOCS ItS le VALENTA ARARIER Fool' cures dyspepsia, indigestion, cough, asthma, oonsumpdom debility, constipation, diairhan, palpitation, nervous, bWous, liver, and stomach complaints. Cure Nu. WM& —" Rome, Jab ii, Ib66.—The health of the Poly Father is excießent, since, abandoning all other remedies, be has confined= entirely to Ira harry's Food, and his Holiness Mme praise this excellent food too hlehly."—iewette du blidL Ira harry and co., No. 77, Regent-street. Lonilin, W. In tine, at le. 104 lib., a• Yd. lfdba, ?ft. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES. AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. ARIIOI'R.- January, 4, at W.. it .u, near Liverpool, the uife el M. W. Armour, Esq., of a ion. ECl'l.l.B.—Jaatiary 4, ac tatou-square, the wife of cantata Emles. of • eon. lllLLEl4—January 4, at Chailhin•place, Edge-WU, Lii,rp.a. the wife of P. M. Miler. of a w.n. MACLEMD.—January 4, Mrr. Hi.tio,d, of Ben Rhydditg, of I son. BIM I.:MlN.—January 4. at Weal...tine-park, the wife of It. W. eitupson. Ben., of a ir h. ST SION lisON.—Jusuary 4, at Dnvtitki.ill. Croydon, ' , urn), tha wife of W. 817nondarin, Jun.. I.nt of a lon. MARRIAGES. lIRRETT—REPPEL—January at Eaton Church, near %or. wick. by the Hon. and Ker. E. e. Kennel. A. E Itortrtt.. of Grimaton. Norfolk. to Hetuietta. dotehter of the late Ilea. and Rev. T. R. Keppel. r.,.h.r of North crr.tke, Nortoik. B4IID—ItLFINNERIiAnsETT. -.Linn:try 1. at Trinity thnreh, Eastbourne, by the lter. It. W. ilerpint. captain .1. it, of the itotnhay staff Owl., to Anna, daughter ,4 cudwa Blunter', PAW tt. IL N. 11ART—IIIIVIIIE.—January 3, n: the district church of St Mary Magdalene, Peckham, by the R.v. 11. Blur. Ertirtirki son of the late W. 11:01. G .of E....khou, to ?tan Ann. daughter of the into W. , Great W ludo =la. street, Loudon. DEATHS. CoorEß.—Jannary 5, at Guil,lfonhatreet, Roatelhvio Lucy Elizabeth, widow of T. Co-4.er. kiki. DE V EAR.—January 4. at Norwich, charlotte, relict of the laid J. De Veer. EN., aged al HEARD.—Jauaary 3, at Elgin. N 8., Catherine, widow of the late Rev. J. Heard, of Gantioath. aged lIATTIIET —January 4. at Leo, Kent, Marla, wife cd C. Matthey, Req., aged Rh WHEELER.—January 3, at New AVandsworth. Elba Blake, of Mr. H. Wheeler. aged 62. WlDAULT.—January Qat LautAown-crewilit, P. R. 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