The Express. — London, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. His Honour, being informed that the conec'tion an' cll the papers °vaunted therewith ad b 1194 given up to tbe assignees, grunted the bankrupt his order. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Nisi Prius Sittings at Weirtminster.—(Before the lard Chief Juetios and Special Juries.) Till CHRISTIE/A HOLIDAY. The Solicitor-General this morning addressed his lord. ship, 'long that he had been requested to ask his lord ship to allow the sittings to terminate on Saturday instead of o a k being extended to Monday, which was the last day of t h e doings in regular course. Christmas-day being on Tuesday he had ascertained that it would be a matter of t convenience to the bar, to the attornies, and to the j u rymen to be released on Saturday. The probability was that if the court sat on Monday very little if anything would be done on that day. The Lord Chief Justice said it was what they all wished pc doubt. There was a vary heavy cause list, but there was a precedent for terminating the sittings on Saturday when Christmas - day fell on • Tuesday. He had no doubt everybody would be glad to get away on Saluda. The Solicitor-General said - he could arum his lordship it was the general wish of everybody. The Lord Chief Justice—Then let it be so. Saturday will be then the last day of the sit ting s. The Solicitor-General asked his l ords hip's pectedodou to make the communication of his lordship's decision to the other courts. The Lord Chief Justice—Certainly. fTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY). (Before the common Serjeant.) At the witting of the court this morning Richard Joshual 'Darin 22, who had been convicted at the last medal for k conspiring with one Mayhew to procure affidavits to file as an excuse for the non-appearance of gentlemen to serve as , jurors in the city of London, was brought up for judgment, i the other convict, Mayhew, having died while in custody in Newgate. Mr. Straight, who appeared for the prisoner , reminded the court that the jury by whom the prisoner had been tried had accompanied their verdict of guilty with a re commendation to mercy, on the ground that they con sidered he had been the dupe and tool of Mayhew, to whom he was clerk. Mr. Poland said that on the part of the prosecution he was instructed to leave the case in the hands of the court. The Common Serjeant said that he concurred In the re commendation of the jury, and he should give effect to it by sentencing the prisoner to one month's imprisonment. THE ALLEGED FELONIOUS RECEIVING OF STOLMI GLOVES. The case of Simeon Duck and Wiliam Hoary Taylor, in - dieted for feloniously receiving a large quantity of kid gloves, the property of Mews. Dent, Allcroft, and Co., well knowing the same to have been stolen, bad been ap pointed to come on this m • , but in consequence of the unavoidable absence of Mr. by Seymour, Q.C., who had been speeally retained to defend Taylor, the trial was atponed until the second day of the next sessions, and Taylor was allowed to go at large on his former baiL BATES_ V. HEINTIT. The case was resumed this morn further h - f - thi• """ It was an acti earinit on an • marine policy of insurance in consequence of the capture of the late Confederate cruiser, the Q.C. and Mr. Potter were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Edwa rd James,Q.C.,Mr. T. Jones, Q.C., and Mr George Honyman, Q.C., were counsel for the de fendant. lir. Bates was called this morning. He deposed that be fore purchasing the Georgia he applied to the sollecter of customs, and from the information he received be pur chased her, and registered her as • British Alp. He afterwards chartered her to carry the Portuguese mails from Lisbon to the Portuguese settlements on the West Coast of Africa. As she was the only Georgia screw steamer in the world he did not think there could have been any mistake about her, and he gave all the informa tion required as to her builder and condition and the ser vice she was to be employed in. The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, said the defence to this action was that a material feat had been concealed from the defendant, and there could be no doubt there was no rule more important to be observed, or more salu tary in its effects, as maintaining that system of good f a ith upon which the whole system of insurance o ught to be founded, than that it was incumbent upon the assured, in order to enable him to main tain an action on a policy of insurance, to have communicated to the Insurer all the facts that we re material with reference to • vessel, with the view of enabling the underwriter to form a judgment whether be would insure the vessel, and if he would, then at what rate of pramium he would take upon him self the risks insured against. At the same time, it was plain that the rule could not, and ought not, to apply where the concealment or non communication of what was relied on was matter of common knowledge of both parties. His lordship ob served that a very nice question of international law same as to whether a government de facto in a state of rebellion against a government de jure, which built, or caused to be built, a vessel of war, could, while it so remained a government de facto, dispose of it so as to give a good and indefeasible title as against the government de jure ; but that was not a qua lion which they had then to consider. The main question for them to consider was whether the defendant had a knowledge at the time be underwrote the vessel that she.. had been a Confederate war cruiser. The jury, after being locked up nearly two hours, came into court, and said they were not satis fi ed that the defendant was aware of the fact that the Georgia was the former Confederate steamer, but that be had abundant means of identifying the ship at the time of underwriting her. The learned judge then directed the verdict to be entered for the defendant, with leave to the plaintiff to move the court above. ASSAULT OW 1111; MGM SPAS. Prisscis Lahey, 36, master mariner, surrendered in dis charge of his bail, to =awe: an indictment for unlawfully assaulting and beating Albert Bryant on board the B ritish ship Cymbeline on the high sees, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. The case was tried at the last session, when the jury, after being looked up for nearly four hours, could not agree to a verdict, being divided-11 to 1, and in consequence the jar g were discharged without giving a verdict, and the COM was ordered to stand over until this day. It will be remembered from the report of the former trial, that the prisoner had been captain of the ship Cymbeline, and that for had been at fi rst second mate, but on the = t ill of the chief mate by the captain had been promoted to that post. All went on tolerably well shortly before the ship reached Hong Kong, when as was alleged the prisoner, without cause, began a system of assaults upon the prosecutor, placing him in irons, and confining him, thus manacled, in the " Ward," a miserable place, described by the witnesses as unlit to put a dog into. From the number of witnesses to be examined the trial is expected to occupy the attention of the court the whole of the day. (Before the Recorder.) • • The oourt was occupied from its sitting until the de , 'patch of our report with the trialof the Mint prosecutions, ; which were wholly destitute of interest. The counsel en . gaged for the prosecutions were Mr. Poland, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Straight. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittiags at Nisi Prins in London.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and a Special Jury.) k THE ALLIANCE BANK ‘LIMITED) Y. ABRAHAMS. This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of exchange for 100/. and of a promissory note for 7SL, and the defence mainly relied on was that the defendant had been exonerated from liability upon the bill and note in consideration of his forbearing to crass-examine Mr. Frankenheim in the Court of Bankruptcy in reference to some matters which, according to the caw for the defen dant, the plaintiffs did not want made public. The matter wu partly heard yesterday, when the case for the defea dant was first laid before the jury, and afterwards Mr. Argles, one of the solicitors far the plaintiff, was examined on their behalf, and some extremely contradictory evidence was given. Mr. Milward, Q.C., and Mr. Archibald appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. G. Denman, Q.C., and Mr. F. H. Lewis for the defendant. Mr. Charles Arglea was recalled this morning and his ex amination in chief was continued, and some few questions were put to him to show that entries in his books confirmed the plaintiff's case. Cross-examined—l have never had a very large stake in the Alliance Bank. I and my partner have 200 100/. shares, 25/. paid up. I had never spoken to Frankenheim before I saw him on the 17th November at the Bankruptcy Court. The rumours I had heard on the 17th November were not that the Alliance Bank had rigged the market. The shares of the bank rose iu 1864. Soon after Frinkenheim's bankruptcy they fell. During this fall I never heard rumours affecting the bank, not in reference to the hank and Frankenheim. Everything that passed between me and Mr. Abrahams and Mr. Lewis was in reference to another bank, and not the Alliance Bank. They knew it was the other bank because they had directors, the manager, and secretary of the other bank at the Bankruptcy Court. I was concerned forthese gentlemen. I made a mistake. I had seen Franken heim twice before Nov. 17. I repeat that Mr. Lewis has misconceived the whole thing. What I said in reference to one bank he has attributed to another, the Alliance. In asking for an adjournment in the Bankruptcy Court it was in tended to have better accounts. I also understood that an ansuigenient was to be effected. In reference to the other bank I never said " For God's sake," nor anything of the sort. I gave Mr. Abrahams time to pay his debts to the bank, but afterwards I wrote to him for payment, and he called upon me. [The case was proceeding when our report left.] COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prins at Guildhall.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron and r Special Jury.) r. THE!:ASLIGHT A(I) COKE COMPANY. This was a new trial of an action which arose out of the destructive fire at Saville-house, Leicester-square, on Tuesday, the 28th February, last year. The plaintiff, Mr. 'Ward, was a manufacturer of invalid chairs, who occupied • shop and premises in the lower part of the building, and be sought to recover damages for the loss he had sustained by the fire over and above the sum for which his property was insured, and also as trustee of the insurance company for the amount they bad paid to him. The fire was caused by an explosion of gas, which had escaped, as the plaintiff alleged, through the negli gence of the company's servants in imperfectly closing or not closing at all the orifice of the service pipe, which had been disconnected from the meter. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Manisty, Q C., Mr. Pollock, Q.C., and Mr. Holland were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Haswell for the defendants. The case, which excites great interest among gas COM panics and insurance companies, is likely to occupy the court a considerable period. On the last occasion the trial hated three days. To-day the conrt was filled with elabo rate models of the building, as well as other models, show ing the mode in which the gas pipes and meter were fixed. In the course of the morning the Solicitor-General made a similar application to that which bad been successful in the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, for terminating these sittings on Saturday next, instead of on Monday. The Lord Chief Baron, after consulting the jury, who rid they were unanimously in favour of their labours closing on Saturday, announced that the court would not sit on Monday. GUILDHALL. Als EXPRNRIVE CAB TARE. Mr. John Rutherford Aitken, a surveyor, residing at Fgham, in Surrey, was summoned before Sir Robert W. Carden for a cab fare amounting to 225. e James Cunningham, the driver of cab 11,93 G, stated that on the sth of December he was hired by the defendant in Red Lion-street, Holborn. From there they went to Far rhigdon-road, and thence to the corner of Cheapside, where he gave witness a glass of ale, and then they drove on to Simpson's in Cheapside, where he discharged the cab, paid 2s. 61., and gave witness another glass of ale. It was then ,half-past 11 o'clock, a.m. The de fendant then re-engaged him, and told to him to drive him to the other Simpson's at Billingsgate, and he did so.' Mr. Aitken waist down to that house, and the complain ant waited there until 3 o'clock, when he went in search of him, and found he had been dining, and had had a sleep after dinner. lie told defendant that he thought he had forgotten him, but he said he bad not, and asked com plainant to have some dinner. It was not convenient for him to dine, so be took some drink instead. The defen dant came out about 4 o'clock and was then driven to Farringdon-road, and from there to Bloomsbury-square. He stopped the cab in Holborn, and ordered it back to Farringdon-road, and after that be said he must see his solicitor, and wait about for him. Witness told him he must go home and change his horse and he said he would go with him, and they went to St. John street-road, where the defendant went into a public-house. He took the defendant up again and at 10 o'clock at night he set him down in West Smithfield, because he was asleep and ho could make no sense of him. He claimed 225. for 11 hours. The complainant was cross-examined but adhered to his statement. The defence was that Mr. Aitken had taken the cab in the first instance to Farringdun-road, where he paid complain ant 2s. Gd. and discharged him ; he re-engaged the cab to go to Billingsgate, where he gave 2s. Gd. and then discharged him ; that he had been very liberal in giving the cabman drink and sandwiches, and therefore he waited for so good a customer ; that he again hired the cab and went to Farringdon-road, and there discharged him, paying him another 2s. Gd. He afterwards hired the cab a,'ain, and told the compla;nant to drive to Waterloo-sta tion, but instead of doing so he took advantage of the de fendant's good nature and the fact that he was a little fresh and drove him to Holborn among a lot of his own companions, and he remembered no more. He was not drunk in the cab but stupefied from having been drugged. He had 3/. 17e. when he took the cab, and when he gut home he had only 21. Police-constable 257 said he roused the defendant in the cab and got him out, and it was then a quarter to 9 o'clock. He was very much stupefied, and witness could get no sense into him. The cabman said the defendant had two sovereigns, some silver, and some coppers in his pocket, but he saw none of it. Sir R. W. Carden thought the cabman wall entitled to his fare by time, and ordered the defendant to pay 225. cab fare, Is. Gd. for the man's loss of time in taking out the summons, 2s. Gd. for his attendance that day, and Is. for the summons, making together 295. The amount was at once paid. CLERKENWELL. SYSTEMATIC RuIIUERY BY A BARMAN. William Webber, aged 18, a respectable-looking young fellow, a barman, was charged before Mr. Cooke, on re mand, with stealing three threepenny pieces, 23 half ouuces of tobacco, 79 cigars, and other articles, the pro perty of his employer, Mr. William Hammond, licensed victualler, at the Welsh Harp public-house, 23, Aylesbury street, Clerkenwell. From the evidence of the complainant it appeared that the prisoner entered his employ on the 18th of November last, and since then, though the trade had appeared to increase, the amount of the takings had considerably fallen off. Suspicion at last fell on the prisoner, who had, since he had been in the service of the prosecutor, pur chased two or three new suits of clothes and a valuable gold watch and guard. On the afternoon of Sunday, the 9th of this month, the prosecutor marked 12 threepenny pieces, and placed them in a glass at the back of the counter. The practice at this house is not to pay to customers threepenny pieces, but to keep them to meet small incidental ex penses. At 5 o'clock, when the house opened the prose cutor missed three of the marked coins, but said nothing to the prisoner about his loss. On the following morning he called in Police-constable Neighbour, 225 G, and gave the prisoner into custody, and on his box being searched two of the marked coins, together with the tobacco and the cigars mentioned in the charge-sheet were found. The prisoner,who seemed to feel his position vete. acutely, said he was guilty, and hoped his master would be merci ful to him, and he would take care never to offend any more. Mr. Cooke asked the prosecutor what he considered the amount of Fs losses were. The prosecutor said over 30/. Since the prisoner had been in the House of Detention, he had written him &very penitent letter, in which he said he would restore all he could. Under these circumstances he would recommend the prisoner to mercy, though he had not shown him any mercy in robbing him to the extent he had. He understood that the friends of the prisoner were highly respectable, and that this was COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) the first time the prisoner had been in custody. Mr. Cooke said that the prisoner had pleaded guilty to MILFORD v. MILFORD.—SENTENCE. this charge, and had it not been for the reoommend ation In t his case, which was heard a short time ago,and which by bi z master to mercy, but perhaps still more from the ess a l r eady been reported, Sir J. Wilde gave judgment penitent letter the prisoner had written, he should have this morning. He said there could be no doubt as to the f e lt it his duty to pass a severe sentence. adultery, for it was admitted, and it was of a most profit- Several gentlemen in court stated that the prisoner had gate character. As to the cruelty, however, the case was come from Somerton, in Somersetahire, that his parents not so clear. Only four acts of actual violence were were respectable andwell to do, that he bad belonged to the alleged to have been committed during a cohabitation choir of the church there, and that if the magistrate at ten yearn, and of those two appeared to have been of the would pass a light sentence they would see that when he most trivial (I , sicription. As to the other two he thought came out that ho was restored to his parents. that Mrs. Milford had given a somewhat exaggerated Mr. Cooke said that but for this character and the seooent of them ; and on the whole be was not satisfied apparent penitence of the prisoner he should that the plea had been made out. He should, therefore, have passed the highest sentence in his po wer. merely decree a judicial separation on the ground of adul - When a servant betrayed the trust imposed in him tery. by his employer, and stole the property of his employer, ,The respondent, it will be recollected, was a banker at it was much worse then a case of petty larceny. He then e4eter. sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. i The prisoner, who was in tears, was then removed. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) A BOY BREAKING A MAN'S ARM. IN RE N. L. T. T. VON EXTER. James Morriss, a rough-looking boy, about 15 years of The bankrupt was described as of Victoria Hotel, Easton- age, was charged with breaking the arm of James Monro, lad, mine proprietor and mining engineer. His liabilities at Islington. &mount to 10,952 f. - assets and pro perty held as security Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, defended. only Imo . ' The 'bankrupt a tt ri bu ted his failure to The prisoner was throwing some stones at the the expense of obtaining a concession from the govern- palings of the complainant's he hou and would not when and was asked meet for the establishment in Russia of an Anglo-Russian to desist by Mrs. Monro 33 . 11 h, and the delay in making the same available in con- very impudent. On that the complainant went out, Nguema of financial difficulties in England and on the tad told the defendant to go sway, but he would not, Contioent. . and took up a-great atone sod kit him co the arm. Hsieh Mr. Aldridge appeased for the official assignee, and Mr. great pain from the blow, and on being taken to e Royal G. Lewis for the bankrupt. Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, it was found that his arm had bez , n broken, 1 that just above where it had been previously broken, about six or seven weeks before. As the surgeon was not now in attendance, Mr. Cooke remanded the case. SOUTHWARK. PICKPOCKETS AT A RAILWAY STATION. BEGry &ea, a trainer of young thieves, and George Daniels. a well-dressed lad. 13 years of age, wine brought before Mr. Woollych by George Holmes, a detective ser geant of the 31 division , employed by the South Eastern Railway Company, charged with picking pockets at the London-bridge terminus. Sergeant Holmes said that on the previous afternoon he saw the prisoners come on the platform of the North Kent Railway. A train had just come and they mixed among the passengers. Shortly afterwards he saw them walking up the platform conversing together, and then they separated. Having heard that a lady had been robbed he watched them, and saw Reeoe endeavour to put some thing away. He, however, seized hold of his hands, and found the purse produced in it. The prisoner at first said it was his own, and that it contained only a few signings. Witness, however, found four half crowns and eigbtpence in it. Then Reece said he picked it up on the platform. The prisoner Daniels attempted to make his escape from the station, but was stopped by another officer, and handed over to his custody. Mr. Woolrycb asked whether the female who had been robbed was in court. Witness replied in the negative, but on a future day he would procure her attendance. The prisoners here denied all knowledge of each other, and declared that they were not at the railway station for any improper purpose. The lad said he went to meet his sister, and being a stranger at the place, he went up to the other prisoner, and asked him to show him the way to the refreshment-room. He was about going there when he was taken into custody. Sergeant Holmes said that he should be able to show that they were both thieves, and that the elder prisoner was an active trainer of young thieves. Mr. Woolrych accordingly remanded them. WANDSWORTH. CHANGE AGAINST A SIGNALMAN. William Going, in the employ of the South Westeia Railway Company, was brought before Mr Ingham on • charge of indecently assaulting a young woman named Martha Chun, living with her mot in Sussex-street, Bridge-road, lattersea. Mr. Wilson defended. The complainant, a respectable-looking young woman, gave an account of what took place in the back garden, which abuts on the embankment of the railway. She went into the garden about 10 o'clock on Sunday night. having put the candle in the wash-house SA she did not require it as the moon was shining at the time, when the prisoner rushed in upon her and committed the assault with which be was charged. When he heard the footsteps of her bro ther, he rushed out into the garden up on to the line. In cross-examination the witness said she had known the prisoner between four and five years by seeing him in the signal box on the line. She denied having gone up to his signal box on Sunday evening, neither witness nor her sister. She admitted that about twelve months ago he called at the house where she was in service, but she denied having admitted him. She had . been in his box, nor had she been in the Green-lane with him. She had never been intimate with the prisoner, nor with any man. She did not ask him to come down from the line on Sunday night. She did not give him a signal to come to her. When he rushed in she tried to get away from him and helloed. Alfred Chun, the brother, said that on returning home on Sunday night he went into the garden, where he saw the prisoner rush out and go up on to the line. Witness looked in and saw his sister, who was crying, and said the prisoner had assaulted her. He then went up on to the line to the signal-box and asked the prisoner for his name, when be abused him. The witness added that he heard something like a rattle at the door on his entering the garden. He heard nothing else. His sister's character was good. He had lived in the house for five years and the prisoner had been employed in the box all that time. He bad not spoken half-a-dozen words to him. The sister, • married woman, was called, and proved that she had never been in the signal box. Inspector Spice, of the company's police at Nine-elms depot, was called, and said he had never heard of any complaint against the prisoner. At the request of Mr. Wilson, who was not prepared with his defence, Mr. Ingham remanded the prisoner. SHOCKING DEATH OF A SURGEON. Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the Three Colts Tavern, Cambridge-heath, last evening, relative to the death of Mr. Bsnjamin Vale, aged 50 years, a surgeon, who was found dead from the effects of excessive d rink ing. Dr. Hughes Halle, LLD., said that he was one of the trustees to an annuity of 401., which the deceased had settled on him. He practise d as a surgeon. He was a licentiate of the Apothecary's Company, but he bad not passed the college. For the last six weeks he had lived at No. 5, Three Colt-lane. Bethnal-green. For years past be drank excessively. In 1864, the Dean of Lichfield left him 4001., which was invested in house properly that yielded him 401. a year in addition to his annuity. He at once gave up practice, and took to drinking until all his money was exhausted. He then mortgaged the houses to a pawnbroker, and drank the proceeds. On last Thursday, witness received a note from the people at No. 5, Three Colt-lane, stating that Mr. Vale had become maniacal, and that a medical man had ordered him to be watched night and day lest he should commit suicide. Witness had already' dvanced him 4/. out of his own pocket, since he bad been paid on the 2nd November his annuity, but all the money was spent in liquor. Ile used to compel the instant payment of tLe instalment due to him in a lump sum by threatening the executor with an action. Witness at once took steps for the proper care of deceased on the Thursday, but on the next morning he was found dead. Selina Greener said that three weeks ago when she went to live at 5, Three Colt-lane she found deceased lodging there. Ho had nothing to cover him but a coat, not even a shirt. He had uo food. She bought him a second shirt with money given her by Dr. Halle. He spent every thing in drink ; the first thing he took in the morning was a quantity of ruin. The place was in a dreadful condi tion, but she had to use great tact to get an opportunity of sluicing it out with water. Dr. Robins cautioned her against going into the room alone fur fear deceased would knock her on the head with the poker. On Thursday morning deceased began to get mad ; he shrieked out " Stop him ! stop him !" She called in a doctor, who ad vised his removal to the union. The neat morning she found him dead on the floor nearly naked. Dr. Halle said that deceased used to wrap himself up in an old rug like a wild Indian, and go to sleep ou the floor. Until witness made himself responsible for his rent, he used to be perpetually seized upon or turned out of his lodgings. Witness provided money for his use on Thurs day, and sent Dr. Atkyns to see him. Mr. B. J. Shaw, surgeon, said that deceased died from effusion of serum on the brain, arising from excessive drinking of ardent sprits. Nearly all the organs of the body were in a state of disease from drink. The jury returned a verdict " that deceased was found dead from effusion of serum on the brain, the result of ex ' I cessive drinking of intoxicating liquors." . . . . WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TCB9DAT, DECEMBER IS, 6 A.M. Biztrems. B. T. W. 120 F. D. W , ISea,l te 12 -- Naha 129.03 53' 8. 31 W . S . W cb 1 Aberdeen - 0 29.78 531 S.S.W. S 4 1 S.S.W. rrn 0.04' 2 Leith 120.64 55' S.W. 2' 1 B.W. locl - 1 1 Ardroaaan 2.4.5t; 51, S.W. 8 6 I B.W. I o.- 1 6 {ice2o.Bl 52. W.S.W. 4 5 ntia 29.52 52 S.W. 78 i S .W. mu '614 5 Cape Clear , - - - - I -i - 1 - IJvcrpool '30. 14 62 s.w. 3 4' S.W. o- 2 Holyhead ....30.07 52 B.S.W 16 6 S.S. W or 0.03 5 Penzance.- 54 S.W. 15 4 ! W.S. W. co - 3 Brest .. 30.31 52. S.W. i 516 I W.S.W. foc l- j 6 Lorient 30.32 54' S. 2 3 W.S.W. - 3 Rochefort 30.39 5 4 E.N.E. 2 2 o -. 2 Plymouth 51 . S.W. 2 2 S.W o; - 1 Weouth 3 1 , S.fmo 0.01 3 Por ym tsmouth.. 30.3362 8.5 W. 3 3 B.W mo 10.01 2 London 30.31 50 S.W. 3' 4 W.S.W. cro I- I - Yarmouth... 30.'27 48 ?S.W. 4 5 1 W.S.W. bo 1 - 2 Soarboroush. 30.05 50 W.S.W. 1 2 1 S.W. ob I - 2 Shields ...... t..).Ut3 54 N.W. . 6 2 1 S.W. oc 1 - j Helder REM A RKS. Temperature hu then considerably on our northern and eastern coasts, and is now very high and nearly Uniform over the British Isles. Barometric pressure is about six.tenths of an Inch higher in the south ,d England than in the north of Scot ian& l'he winds are southwesterly, strong, with much sea on our western coasts, and light to moderate on our other coasts. The Atlantic cable seems to be working a com plete revolution in trade between the United States and Europe. Besides the ordinary business messages be tween England and the Atlantic commercial poets, it is stated that English orders upon the San Francisco market for the purchase of the fine wheat of that region have passed through the cable and by the American Overland Telegraph, direct from London to San Francisco. So promptly were these orders executed that advioss of purchases made have been returned to the London merchants who sent the messages in the morning by the evening of the same day. The cable also has an effect upon diplomatic relations, and the longest message yet sent through it is mid to have been Secretary Seward's remonstrance to Minister Bigelow on the Mexi can question, which contained over 5,000 words, and being in cipher, cost the American government about 5,0001. The managers of the Opera-house at Paris have determined, in consequence of tbe increasing population of that city, drawn together in anticipation of the Uni versal Exhibition, to give six performances. week, com mencing on the 15th of January, 1867. ) the burl stage and tic ovarian ol in goin )ense from was. Fee IL license to and limn would lie *at of the hat license ng that the on. Cases I kind, but be glad se oases, when levise some of mobs. it regulation hat the that all fed I sent to the be subjected a and other should be )uld be given There wife ips' holds, foe cautions fur. be sing s= ruggested that ead meat various points a it was in- to parliament me due consi illow fat aui presumed the changed? kiiricultural so. listance in re. council had to ay, lea cling to ry glad to best ;ht be assured fullest possible courtesy with utation retired. FRATIVES ON 'ICH. nudy attended itants Deptford, was held at the wieh, in aid cd iy thousands of adders in that ntLtasp.ttl, were Sir Charles Byrne, M.P. fee Canon Millers an said he wee . beau laid before le-spread distress !ar case had been the. It appeared made to the re quite unequal been rumoured iihling on the mu, had been strikes a if such er t :sg t distressed opera• ram that the ship work during three roportion, but that E tbe trades union. ling could be more :an to have it be. strikes or the ings• o discuss the Pill' a k the q uestion et :ions pay ? It wee e ded raising the 3p wages to sneh ing for the British umfacturer ? Wee resent time hest tuned timber geode at a much cheaper rem, and which le. the wages of *e a ., e not to set dal, but he was coo' this wages qu t s ~. res ts of both Par...m , British manufacture e Rev. Canon MINE the chairman, a.eg t o nna the greet d r e working Ilaseet, e _ t rm circumstances Or minly had not beer that he could hen t the men or work t !rs of day wo ad to wait Wee :a union , he thought of these combin e rs longer. The etivea and thew lama' instep° . in manY de ;are, and the fue r is s ales Bright , the chairman as to WI! :turers in collo4uie s ! motion was adap!tt ears officially B u ildi ng Compar ne many to the inones , orking men under whlS . At the time th e se men took no ked a, man to ore! he utmost snlhoger! di MaluilWnt 11th says :—« Tye u s Coloans had • lee Horning. During the t o the French Wore ard-house, a pic )Ut was pursued b$ who joined in the Inee o Via dei Bergsma/A but his pow ill o f the indigenous liee ,yonet, ordered bins sts given by the (1 4 ' it could not stop short n on the bayonet, at tin ged the weapon Wel IS run through the fell down expiring!44 cen to the hospitsi Ple 20, and never spoke off Emile de Giroditto ent to abandon I t esti and establish the opiro Ming from interieweoe • TEE EXPItESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1866. GUILDFORD ELECTION.-(THIS DAY.) The polling commenced this morning at 8 o'clock, and, as was anticipated, the contest was a very severe one. At 10 o'clusk the numbers were : Pocock (L) Garth (C) 197 KLXVEN O'CLOCK. Popock Garth TWILVZ O'CLOCK. Garth Posock THE CAUSE OP THE STAFFORDSHIRE =PLO- 21011. (IT inscrsio TILLIGRAPII.) (PROM OUR owl.; cowsrosorrr.) yr A zsTLEY, TA: isosv. The cause of the explosion has been discovered. The blacksmith's lamp has been found with the top off. The man's bead was blown to pieces. He went down to shoe horses, and strolled into the workings. THE FREE CHURCH MOVEMENT. MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) A meeting of a somewhat extraordinary character was held to-day at Exeter-hall under the presidency of the Honourable COLIN LINDSAY. It Wee Cale by a circular, which stated that it would be , A meeting of the Vice-Presidents and Members of Council of the London branch of the National Association for Freedom of Worship and of the London Free and Open Church Association," and that it wan called " for the pur pose of considering propositions for securing either (1) har monious co-operation, or (2) entire unity of action and re sources between the National Association and its branches and the Loudon Society." As soon as the chair was taken, an indignant letter was handed in, signed by Mr. J. J. Powell, Q.C., the chair man of the London Association, and other ottloers ' slating that the circular b a d been issued by the National Association, whose headquarters are at Manchester, without their knowledge, and that unless some of the council of the London Society were mis led by it none of them would attend the meeting. (Two or three were present) They also urged that in the circular it was stated that Mr. W. J. Garnett, late M.P. for Lancaster, who was formerly chairman of the Manchester Council, had agreed to the propositions, whereas tie. Garnett had informed members of the London council that his name had been appended tothe propositions in question without his consent, and that he did not wish to be considered as assenting to them. Mr. Garnett was preset to confirm the statement, and an angry discussion toed place. No result had been arrived at when our report left but it is quite unlikely that any satisfactory arrangement can be made under the circumstances. CEYLON COMPANY (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held this afternoon ; Mr. LAwFORD Acuom in the chair. The following report was presented : " The accounts of the company for the half-year ending the 30th September last have been made up, and exhibit an available balance of 16,800/.54. Id. at the credit of profit and loss. The directors propose to pay an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum (being 84. 3d. on each original, and 2a. on each A share), on the 20th day of December instant, free from income tax. This dividend will absorb 12,812/. 10s., and leave 3,9871. 154. Id. unappropriated. The ac counts have been examined and approved by Mr. J. Ball, the auditor of the company. The above balance does not in clude any part of the profit derived from produce of the company'. own estates, as some of the accounts could not be made up in consequence of the late arrival of a consider able portion of the coffee." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, observed that the 437,000/. raised by debentures was 38,0001. less than they were authorised to raise. It was not intended to raise any more money in that i way until a call had been made on the A shares, which had been delayed by the state of the money market. At the last meeting a resolution, proposed by Mr. Baker, was passed, asking for a fall de tailed account of the business of the company ; but as that resolution was carried by only twenty one shareholders, and the board felt that it was undesirable that all the affairs of the company should be ' exposed, the resolution had not been acted upon. In the report presented to the next annual meeting as much information would be given as the board considered , expedient having regard to the interests of the company. In reply to questions, The CHAIRMAN said no advances were ever made on estates in the Mauritius without proper documents and securities ; that s call not exceeding 3!. would be wade on the A shares within three months ; that the company were owners of estates to the amount of about 2r55,0001., purchases having been mule in the last year to the amount of 165,000/. ; that the coffee crop had been already sold ; and that the prices of both coffee and sugar were better than those realised in the pre % ions year. The report having been adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum declared, the meeting ter minated in the usual manner. Baron de Alalaret, Minister of France at Flo rence has commenced law proceedings at Turin against the Unita Cattolica, edited by an eminent catholic writer, M. hlargotto, for an outrage on the government of Napoleon 111. The article complained of appeared about a fortnight ago, under the title of " The Fall of the First and Second Empire," and the writer, in order to insure its pub"city, sent copies round to a number of high personages, and among the rest to Baron de Malsret. The entire amount of the public domains of the United States is 1,465,468,800 acres, of which 474,160,551 have been surveyed. Of the soldiers who fought in the American revolutionary war of 1775-83, but one is now living' Samuel Downing, of New York. He receives a pension, and pensions are also paid to 931 widows of revolutionary soldiers. There were on the 30th June, 1866, 126,722 military and naval pensioners on the rolls, and to pay this pension list during the current year the secretary asks an appropriation of over 33,000,000 do's. W'th the exception of about 3,000, these are all pensioners of the late civil war. A letter from San Francisco says :—" Of late the overland mail has been very regular, bringing letters on steamer time, and on some occasions in leas ; if news papers could only come on the same way, the arrival of ' the steamer' would not be looked for with as much anxiety as it now is. The telegraph during the past ten days has been very uncertain ; we were a week without eastern news, and all owing to the Indians, who can't let the wires alone. San Francisco has become so thoroughly spoiled now, that if we don't have dates from New York, London, and Paris of the day previous, in the morning papers, why, there is an o ld-fashioned growl all over the city." The Chancery vacation for the Christmas recess will commence on Saturday and terminate on the lith of January. At common law it will commence on Monday, the 24th. A STRANGE STORY.—I knew a strange old man with something noble about him outwardly and inwardly— he might have sat for R.etzsch's etching of the " Ancient Mariner," so exactly he resembled it—who, whilst living amid the Eastern civilisation that had reared him, one day found his arm moved and his finger pointing, in obedience to nerves which he could not, or fancied he could not, con trol. The finger pointed westward, and he resolved to follow it. It brought him to a door in a town near the source of the Ohio, at which he knocked. He related how he hal been guided there to the inmates of the house, and he found them full of faith in his pointing finger. They entertained him for some days. and called in their friends, who sat around this Ancient Mariner with silent expecta tion. Again his finger pointed to the river, and to tt the group followed him. There they found a raft waiting to be employed, and the old man had an impression that they must all get on it, taking tents, clothing, and provisions ; and that they must float down the river to some place afterward to be revealed, or " pointed" to, where they were to found some kind of New Jerusalem. Strange as it may seem, well-to-do men and women, old and young, em barked on this singular voyage. On the slow raft, shoved aside by hundreds of swift, amazed steamboats, they floated one or two weeks witho ut once landing, until at length the old man stood at the front and pointed to the shore. There they left the raft and made their way a mile from the r iver, where they mapped out a city and built some cabins. Then the pillar of fire which had led them seemed to melt into the light of common day. One after another they departed, leaving the cabins alone as the monuments of their adventure. But I believe that none of the ey m again lived in the ordinary way in human society ; th _have wandered ever since through many par te of the world, s if seeking for something they had lost. Lately, I saw some of them walking along the stints of London with the same sad expectant look. But I doubt not they will all find their way back to the Ohio, where they belong, as castles belong to the Rhine arid docks to the Mersey. Ages before them, the red aborigines floated down the same river„following their westward -pointing finger and dream ing - st fairer hunting-fields. And, with only a more eon vestional setperstition--ateamboat instead of raft—there went before ahem raileionarisa, Xermene Oweettea. Californian gold-hunters. Did any of them any more find what they sought ?—Froser's Magazine for December. MONEY M, Oira o'CLucz. In the Stock Exchange to-day the principal feature is the continued active demand for British railway securities, which exhibit a fresh advance, ranging from ito 2 per cent. The purchases have been very numerous, the speculators who have recently sold to a large extent showing a very strong desire to close their accounts. South Eastern stock was in strong request this morning, and rote to 65, " buyers," upon the announcement that upwards of 100,0001. of the debentures of this company, falling due in January next, have been renewed by the Bank of England for three years, at 5 per cent. interest. A reaction has since taken place, yet the present price is about 2 per cent. higher than yesterday. The improvement in this stock in two days has consequently reached nearly 4 per cent. The funds have also advanced It per cent., and some of the foreign bonds and miscellaneous shares are in qu;red for. There is a good demand for money to-day, espe cially at the Bank of England. The charge in the general market for the best bills ranges from 31 to 4 per cent. A large amount of Australian paper has just arrived at maturity. The quotation for loans from day to day on English government securities is 3 to 4 per cent. Consols are now quoted 891 to i, cx div., for money, and 89i to +, ex div., for the account (January 10). Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certificates, and Mexican Bonds have advanced 1 per cent., while Turkish of 1865 have decined 1. Turkish of 1862 are also i lower. Russian scrip is called 1 to 11 prem., being steady. Turkish Bonds of 1862 are quoted 57i to 58i ; ditto of 1865, 32i to 33k; Greek, 131 to 14; Spanish Passive, 201 to i ; ditto Certificates, 131 to 14 ; Ita lian of 1861, 553 to 56; Mexican, 181 to i. United States 5-20 Bonds and Erie Railway shares are in demand, and have improved 1 to , per cent., being quoted 711 to i, and 471 to i respectively. Illinois Central are steady, at 7771 to 78. Anglo-American Telegraph and Atlantic Tele g7aph 8 per Cent. Preference shares are unaltered ; the former are called 161 to 1, and the letter 3i to ,i. International Financial shares are quoted to 21 dis. ; London Financial, 197 1 to liPi dis. ; General Credit, 2g to 2i dia. ; Credit Fancier, 5} to 51 dis. ; National Discount, 9i . , to i prem. ; and Hudson's Bay, 10 to ff. The Crown agents for the colonies notify that they will receive tenders until Saturday next for the sum of 250,000 rupees. No tender will be accepted, nor will any bill be drawn for a less suns than 5,000 rupees. The half-yearly interest on the Bonds of the Lombardo-Venetian Railway Company, at the rate of 7fr. 50c., will be paid on the 2nd of January. Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen have sumounced that the coupons due the Ist January on the Egyp tian Government Railways Debenture Loan will be paid at their offices on and after that day. About 3,0001. in gold was sent iuto the Bank yesterday. The Aleppo, from New York, has brought 27,000/. in specie. It appears that " Lloyd's " and the "Jerusalem" will be open for business on Monday, the 24th, and Wednesday, the 26th inst. On the latter day the mails for Calcutta, China, Australia, and Mauritius are made up, thus compelling the attendance in the City of merchants and others. The application for the sanction of the Court of Chancery to the arrangements for the resuscitation of the Agra Bank was adjourned yesterday till to morrow, owing to a pressure of business in tile court. The failure was announced yesterday of Messrs. James Barber and Co. an old and respectable firm in the East India trade. Their liabilities are be lieved to be considerable, but the exact amount has not yet transpired. As will be seen by the subjoined circular, which has been sent to the creditors, the partners believe that they will eventually be able to pay 20s. in the pound : 136, Leadethall-street, London, Dec. 14. It is with deep regret that we have to advise the receipt this morning of a tele;;ram from Calcutta, announcing the stoppage of our agents there, Messrs. Gordon, Stuart, and Co., and as they owe us a very large sum of money we feel it our duty to call our credito tther, anlace the state of affairs before them, tha t t hey may tak e s u ch mea sures as they deem best for realizing our estate. Notwithstanding the heaiy loss which must be looked fur on our Calcutta account, we believe that with tine and careful realization all our creditors will be puid in full. A statement of our affairs is now being made up. and we would invite your attendance at our office on Thurs day, the 2 20th inst., at 1 o'clock. Requesting your forbearance in the meantime, we remain, Sc., JADES Ii.IIWER and CO. The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 1,0761. compared with the corresponding period of 1665 ; and the Lon don, Brighton, and South Coast an increase of 1,962/. The Grand Trunk Rail way of Canada traffic return for the week ending Nov. 24 shows a decrease of ' 2,519/. compared with the corresponding p eriod of 1 1865 ; and the Great Western, for the week ending ' Nov. 30, a decrease of 4,1551. The traffic receipts of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway for the first three weeks in No vember were 388,665 dots., _ ag ainst 471,14-1 dole. in the corresponding period of last year, showing a decrease of 82,479 dols. The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland have given notice that a dividend for the half-year ending Christmas next, at the rate of 4 per cent. on the paid up stock of the bank, and also an extraordinary dividend of 30s. on each 1001. share, and 12s. on each 10!. share, will be paid to the proprietors on Tuesday, the 15th of January. The Central Argentine Railway Company have made a call of 21 . per share, making 18/. 10s. called up, payable by the 16th January. The meeting of the Aerated Bread Comp anv (Limited) was held yesterday. The balance of . pr d ofit for the six months was stated at 3,962!., an a dividend of 5 per cent. was declared for the twelve months ending October last. An extraordinary general meeting of the Palace and Burlington Hotels Com p an y for the 28th instant , when a diviLdeininditeisd)toisbeeddiede- dared. The li q uidators of " Harper Twelvetrees (Li - mited) "—Mesars. Edwin Kelly and John James I Andrew—have issued a report on the winding-up of the company. The affair is only a small one, but the facts mentioned in the circular, that the whole expenses of the liquidation up to the 31st October were not 1.001., and that the law costs were not 101. up to that date, deserve to be placed on record, and to be brought to the notice of liquida tors generally. It is stated that the Canadian delegates have settled all the points at issue with the New Bruns wick and Nova Scoti a delegates, on the one hand, and with the Imperial government on the other, regarding the Confederation of British North America. A bill on the accepted basis will be introduced at the opening of next session to con firm this arrangement. The system of confedera , tion, accompanied by an Imperial guarantee of the Intercolonial Railway, having been sanctioned by British ministries of all parties, no doubt seems to be entertained of the measure being well received by the House of Commons. It is arranged that this Imperial guar an t e e, originally fixed at 3,000,0001., shall- be extended to 4,000,0001. —if that, amo unt shall be f ou nd requisite. The dele gates further compute that the Intercolonial line can be completed'within two years, so as to con nect the Grand Trunk Railway with Halifax. Indeed, three sections of this line between Quebec 'HIS DAY.) and Halifax are already constructed. At the same time, a direct line from Chicago to the western terminus of the Grand Trunk at Port Sarnia is in • progress. This opening with Europe and with the Far West can hardly fad to be of advantage to the Grand Trunk Line, the mileage receipts of whicho through its cc Inparative isolation, are as yet but one-fourth of those of the great A merican through; lines. The devices adopted some months ago by the speculative seller, of bank shares, in order to pro-, duce a fall in prices, were justly regarded as a great public sc.indal, but the reprobation with which. they were visited has not prevented the "bears" from attempting similar practices to ras:alucei a fall in railway steel. To sift and contradict false, and, too often, malevolent rumours, has now become a portion of the regular business of jounialists. A signal instance of the way in which false reports are set afloat and circulated has just transpired. During the last two or three days a rumour has been propagated in London, Man chester, and elsewhere of the failure of Mr. Edward W. Watkin, M.P. and though, besides being a false, it is also a f o olish report, inasmuch as Mr. Watkin is not in busiuess in the ordinary sense of the term, and therefore has no personal engage ments, its circulation is said to have contributed to the fall lately observable in the stocks of the South Eastern, Manchester and Sheffield, and Great 'Western, the three chief English railway companies with which that gentle man is prominently connected. When it if stated that this fall, produced by various causes, represen.ed within three days a total depreciation of between three quarters of a million and one million sterling, it will be seen that the matter is of no trifling importance. Mr. Watkin, however, has taken up the matter with commendable spirit, and we shall be glad to hear the result of the in vestigation prennsed by the committee of the Lon don Stock Exchange. MONDAY Eviunifii. Console, which closed on Saturday at sot, "buyers," ex uiv., for the 10th January, opened this morning at 89 to 1, and closed at 891 to j. For money the last price was 891 to /. The o- cial business report is as follows :—Thres per Cent. Consols, for money, 881, 9, ; ditto, for account, 89, 1., 9 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88, 1 ; New Three per Cents., 881, 8, ; India Stoelt, shut; ditto, for account, 212, ex div. ; ditto Five per Cent. 1061, 7 ; ditto Four per Cent., 94 1 ; ditto-Five-and-a -gall per Cent. " enfaced" rupee paper, 105 ; ditto Bonds, 255. prem. Exchequer Bills show a further improvement of Is., closing at 4s. to Bs. prem. The foreign b;r.ck market participated to some extent in the improvement observable in most of the other departments of the Stock Exchange. Turkish Bonds of 1858 and 1865 (Six per Cents.), as well as Peruvian of 1862, rose 1 per cent. ; Russian of 1862, Egyptian Railway Debentures, and Spanish Three per Cents., / ; Turkish of 1865 (Five per Cents.), < : Italian of 1861, 1; and Greek, . Sardinian Bonds, however, declined 1 per cent., and Greek Coupons/. The scrip of the new Russian Loan closed at 1 to 11 prem., being again 1 higher. MINES.-(THIS DAY.) Ulu o'Ctooi. The mining market is steady to-day, with a fair amount of business. Great Vor shares are quoted 14i to 15 ; West Chiverton, 53 to 55 ; West Caradon, 13 to 14 ; South Condiirrow, lls. to 13s. ; Prince of Wales, 235. to 275. ; Frank Mills, 325. 6d. to 375. 6d.; North Crotty, 2; to 31 ; East Lovell, 9 to 10 ; East Caradon, 4.11 to 5; East Providence, to ; and Chontales, RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.) 0:t& o'Cwor. British railway stocks continue in active request, and a further important and almost general rise has occurred in prices. Compared with the last ~ttutatioas 01 yesterday, South Eastern stock has advanced per cent.: Great Northern (Original), 1 ; Great Western, 1, ; Metrepolitan, London and North Western, and Midland, M ; Great Northern A, ; Lancashire and Yorkshire and North British, 1 ; and Great Eastern, h. Metropolitan stock is now quoted 12:i to ; Great Western, 501 to 511 ; London and North W es tern, 11s to A ; Midland, 1211 to ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 1241 to 1251; Caledonian, 1164 to 117 A ; South Eastern, 64 to 4 ; Great Eastern, 271 - to ; Great Northern, 114 to 115 ; ditto A, 125 to A ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 16 to 1 ; and North British, 34 to 35. onbardo-Venetian Railway shares have de clined 7s. Gd., viz., to 15 to j ; but Grand Trunk have improved to the like extent, being quoted ISA to 19. East Indian a re steady, at 104 to 1061. I I ,r ~ hare Lists ace pni;e 4 1 COMMERCIAL AND MIRKETS. LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.) (PROM °on OWN conniaPoNverr.) CorroN.—The market very strong. Sales probably 7,,150 bales or more. ConN.—The market well attended wheat and floor in fair request, at extreme rates of Friday. Beans. bseley,oats, and oatmeal quiet and the)turn lower. Indian —In e , aus e q uence of vay little being ready uria n cor tliate deli very holders uk 4.15. per 480Iba. MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.) SI"GAR.---TIIL market has opened firmly, t 1 week been 's Prices ;hut no gales of importance have :le yet ned re ported. A parcel of Penang sold at As. :kl. Refi continues firm ; brown lumps, 425. ca. Com et:.--Coloury qualities of plantati,ii Ceylon have been sold at former prices. Other qualities at steady nave. He Ct ANT , S Itt.—No sales reported. ICE.—The market is quiet for both tough and cleaned. Ixio6o.—Only a Waited business is doing. I'rices re main firm. Corms.—The demand is more active, and prices ate firmer for all dwriptions except Tineivelly, TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) The market is firm. Town tallow is gaited 4,4‘. 34i., nett ; Petcrhburg Y.C. on the spot, 445. 31. ; J...nuary to March, 445. ; March, 455. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(I'HIS DAY.) Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at the fol. lowibg prices :—Prime clover, from loth, ut to c il. l over. 90s. in ferior ditto. 90e. to S l ss. ; prime second c to 100s._; inferior ditto, 365. to 70 s. ; p r ime meadow hay, 752. to Ms.; inferior ditto, sas. to 705.; straw, .14iy. to 4.a. LTEI:TENANTi OF CotrFlßS.—The Marquis of Sligo is about to return immediately to hi the s county, th t con a siderable personal i nconven ience, but in belief at his proper place at present is Westport Hodae.— Errning HARROW ScilOOL.—The examination for the scholarships has just ended in the election of C. B. He berden and H. N. Abbot. The examiners were M nity r. R Col . C. Jebb, M.A., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Tri lege. C l ambridge ; and Mr. C. P. Ilbert. D.A., Fellow of College, 4:)foreL At the end of July next there will ll be an election to four entrance scholarships c,f GOI. a year each, tens.de during residence at the school. All boys under 13 en the lit of January, ISo7, are eligible. Further information will be furnished by the head toaster. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SUROBONK.—It has been arranged that the oration in honour of the os.mory of the late)ohn Bunter shall be deli v ered on the 14th of Fe bruary next by Professor Hilton, F.R.S. Henceforth an oration will be delivered in alternate year.. WELLINGTON COLLEGE.—The students at this college leave for the Christmas vacation on Thursday Ault, the 20th inst., and the South-Eastern Railway Company have made special arrangements for their conveyance the Wellington College station, on the Reading aaa Reigate branch. The vacation will extend • ver several weeks. It is tht intention of the senior boys to give concert before the school breaks up. During the past few months a racquet-court of noble proportions has bent built in the grounds adjoining the college, and the weaken now nearly completed. MlTROPohrrait FREE HORMAL, HEYONSFM*- 'ARE, errs. —Ana wrestle swabs; of patients reljetipd during the week ending Dec.ls was--Me4lical, 542 ; sup. gical, 562 ; total, 1,401, of which 612 were new the Lord Eder nd sift with a t. Oa r. Rol. Uri* ,bert