The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The demand for money is well maintained, but the market remains in a quiet state, and the rates atill tend downwards, although the actual move ment is of the smallest fractional character. The Shannon has been announced from the West Indies with £685,360 in specie, and the Tyne from the Brazils has arrived at Lisbon with £1,500 on the way to England. The Monarch from Australia has brought £200,388 in gold. There is an increase of £1,406 in the traffic re ceipts of the Brighton R iilway, and of £468 on the South-Eastern for the past week. The half-yearly meeting of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company has been called for the 6th -February. Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool cotton market to-day was quiet, but steady ; sales about 8,000 bales. At Paris this morning, Three per Cent. Rentes opened at 70f. 15c., being sc. better than yesterday. The official returns relating to trade and naviga tion for the eleven months ending the 30th Novem ber has just been published. From these it appears that the total declared value of the exports from the United Kingdom was £113,280,779 compared With £115,355,004 on the like period of 1861, Mowing a decrease of £2,074,225. The principal decrease has been in cotton manufactures, cotton Yarn, hardwares and cutlery, machinery, and sheep and lambs' wool. _ . The importations of the principal articles were !Dialler as regards raw cotton and tallow, but larger la flax, provisions, sheep and lambs' wool, coffee, corn, flour, tea, tobacco, and wine. The shipping accounts exhibit a slight decline in the amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the United s tlngdom for the entries inwards, but there is an increase in the clearances outwards. In the coast ing trade for the same period there is also a small Increase in the tonnage entered inwards, but a de crease in those cleared outwards. . Continued firmness has prevailed in the English Stock Market to-day, but extreme dullness has also- been apparent, the dealings being altogether devoid of - public interest. Consols remain at 921 for money and account. The New Threes and the Reduced have been 92! 1 ; the 21 per Cents., 75/ ; Indian 5 per Cents., 1071 1 08 k ; ditto Enfaced I l aper, 1051 ; ditto 5/ per Cents., 112 k ; and Exche quer Bills, 9s. to 13s. prem. The most important feature in the Foreign Market is a rise of 1-1 in the New Peruvian Loan, which is °Nv 931, owing to statements that the operation L'as been ratified by the Government at Peru. Ita lian have advanced to 72k e ; Venezuelan Scrip to 1 1 a dis. ; Egyptian to 95/ 9 ; do., second issue, to 94 4 95 ; Mexican to 329; Portuguese Scrip to 4! preen. ; R uss i an N ew L oan to 94} ; Spanish Passive are steady at 231 ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858 , at 701 71; do., 1862, has receded to 71 1 ; a nd the Scrip to 3 k prem. ; but the Consolides are 'arm ut 411-1. A. very limited amount of business has been tr ansacted in the Railway Share Market to-day, but P r ices have in one or two instances slightly im proved. South Westerns and South Easterns advanced ss. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10 s., and 'North British, 15s. Great Westerns, however, de nlined ss. . The foreign and colonial undertakings were at st eady ic , rates. Recife and San Francisco brought ; Antwerp and Rotterdam 71 8 ; East Indian ,Were quoted 1061 lex div. ; Great Southern of div. 104 ex div. ; Madras 5 per Cents., 103/ ex ' q v.; and Punjaubs 1031 ex div. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares gene ally r maintain previous rates. bank B S t RIT ISHock FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. ~3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities Neer Cent. Consols Annuities 92 , .',. 48 .. 7 ' 3 per Cent. Annuities --25 India Sto per Cent. Annuities... 7si Stock Ditto 5 per Cent Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — D'tto 5 per Cent Ditto 55 per Cent, Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 1001 11;1, Bonds 13,000 — , Ditto under £l,OOO .... 29 JT idia Stock for Account, 5 per C en t.... 108 k - Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2i per Cent.... 13 9 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. trazilian 5 per Cent lOl •••. •••• Ditto 4} pea Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — bitto 100 gPPtian 7 pet Cent.. Ditto, Second Issue r t re Pk 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms l6 ) 4 411 a0. 5 per Cect. (Maremmana Railway) 76 a talcan 3 per Cent .... I,l)itto Account 3 2/ r avian 41 per Cent. . — , Ditto 1862 .Uit to Account 93i 3 Por tuguese,, 3 per Cent. 1853 Ditto 3 per C en t., 1862 I t D itto Scrip, £2O paid 11 'sian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9B gar Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 inian 5 per Cent. Pard°h 3 uer Cent il itto Passive T urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1358 Ditto Account.. Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862, Scrip, £6O pd• •34 3 pm Paid-up Scrip ' Ven ezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 24k Ditto 6 per Cents., 1862 (Scrip), £53 pd I dies ItDividends on the above payable in London, IDitto Account Oo4SOis , ~, THREE O'CLOCK. Ditto , Ai oney , .. 92k I Accowat, Jan. 8 h BURGLARY WITH VIOLENCE.—At the Birming tim Police.office yesterday, before Mr. Kynuersley, t il .. Bt iPendiary magistrate, two men, named Thos. Cooper, Tom the Chump, and George Talbot, were brought 71 3 char ge d with burglariously brea ki ng i n t o th e dwell -I,4gheuse o f M r. R eyno l ds, H az l ewoo d-h o use, Hagley ad) early on the morning of the 17th inst., and with ma w v ii i i ll iatns - , gen the same occasion violently assaulted Joseph one of the servants of Mr. Reynolds. The trat Witness called was Joseph Williams, who said that b e l ePt over the stable ih a room looking on the court inard at H azlewood-house. At about 3 o'clock on the morn g of the 17th inst. he was awoke by hearing a noise in the tl a o r o d „' a nd on looking out he saw five men forcing the kitchen i v• • 'When he saw the door broken open he dressed him tedt and having picked up a light hatchet, went down and i r° , BB ed the yard and followed the men through the kitchen hid the hall. He had a candle in his hand and the burglars C ' I EO a light, which they extinguished as soon as they ti e j a f t , cl hint. The tallest of the five men, when he saw that a i ' '' e as had a hatchet, kept dodging him about, and they tit' followed him into the kitchen. There the tall man bl ruek a t him with an iron bar he had in his hand, but the w did not take effect, and before he could recover him - If witness struck him on the arm with the edge of the s a chet. W itness was going to strike the man, when anot h er a tid ll ' ' w hom he id en tifi e d as the prisoner Cooper, interposed, received a sever e blow on the shoulder with theback part ° , l l l t he hatchet. Cooper then struck him and knocked the can cl-I°.llt of his hand. He fought as well as he could in the f b ut Soon r ece i ve d a bl o w on the back of his head and w e lt th e b lood trickling down from the wound made. He nothing mote knock e d d own , and kicked, and struck, and knew eM ° l , --itl g . mote until he found himself in bed four days later. i Reynolds an d severa l o f hi s servan ts were called, and t to the fact of th e h ouse h av i ng been broken into, and * it ," "finding of 'Williams insensible in the back kitchen th he hatchet lying near him. Both Mr. Reynolds and the servants were awoke by the noise of the struggle, but ebur.glars had made off before they reac h e d the spot. Dt c , tfe e Spokes and Seal gave evide nce re l a ti ve t o the ti(lP'euension of the burglars in consequence of the descrip e,lBl o f the bu rg l ars g i ven b y Willi ams. W hen taken into ° dY Coo on t per was suff which he said h bn caused by tt'4o Irishman giving him a fling against the edge of a curb pi, ' a • For th e pr i soners an a libi was en d eavoure d to be ase t h: v ed, but it f a il e d en ti re l y , an d on ly t e nded t o s t reng th en against Talbot, as proving that he was very 11, to intimate with Cooper, and tbat he was with him a late hour on the night bc'ore the burglary. Cooper was th„committed to the ass i zes f or t r i a l, a • d T a lbot was fur e.t": remanded. This daring burglary has caused much ex. went in B' rm ' ng h am. I n accor d ance w i t h t h e recom . r""eewilltd,a,,,t,on of Mr. Kynner s l e y, Government have offered a Ci f £5O for the apprehension of the burglars, and a Pardon to any one concerned in it who will give infer. 4 uatie o. T he Pr e f ec t o f P o li ce h as j ust i ssued an order th at for the special theatrical journals t 4, obtain an autho 21:_ati, to be s o ld i n the i nter or of the theatres, they must t .. a n a c omp l ete lisp, of the performances at every place theatrical " eatric al representations in Paris. The Monzteur Vsnzcole announces, &though un der some reserve, that the idea is in contemplation of re ducing the octroie duties of Paris, and that wine will be in cluded in the list of articles to which the reductions are to be applied. A letter from G ilatz of the 16th says:—" In con sequence of the sudden and extreme fall of the tem perature, the lower channel of the Danube is completely blocked up with ice. Navigation is consequently entirely interrupted. The excessive rigour with which the winter has commenced causes it to be supposed that the ice will continuo this year as late as in the two previous years, that is to the middle of March." A few days since the former Court Marshal of Princo Adalbert of B tvaria, Baron Fallot von Gmainer, who was suddenly dismissed from his office and from his post in the army, was charged before the police magistrates at Munich with having assaulted his suc cessor in office, C ourt M arshal Baron von Maltzen, in the streets with a stick, The accused did not seek to deny the offence, but admitted that he had struck the complainant some severe blows. The angry baron was sentenced to 21 days' i pri: oument. Marshal Count Ornano has now recovered from the illness which caused so much uneasiness to his friends' SHARE MARKETS---This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuKS. Closing Business Railways. I Paid. • Price. done. 8 84 - - ri 61 84 F 6 1164 1164 ei 71 41 43 13 14 87 88 105 107 46 47 43 45 24 25 12i f'2o 129 180 135 137 104 108 68 (8i 1091 1091 714 724 118 110 78 89 97 074 101 10:.; l i 40 41 9 gi 1281 29 11 Isp 96 98 53/ 54} 25 27 99/ 100 56 67 68 8i 125 127 108 1W 41 4i r 11 I]i 118 120 41 486 104 106 47 19 334 344 88 646 686 f 94 100 103 7 8 I 39 40 101 7 1(1 r) 4 1 P 148 150 44 5 26 3 p 554 564 1 34 i 2 i p p 87 90 140 145 29 31 43 46 35 37 94 :5 Share Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and' Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ('‘lrk and Bandon Corn wall De A 1 2 -ets no (liN ' c.p an.bas D o. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast .Tunc. Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. ,Great Eastern, Ord. atk, Ditto Jk stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares ,Gt. S. an W. of Ireland 'Great Western Do Str Val gua.. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwait Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast I 1.0 n., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western I Lou. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. liar/port and Carlisle. Do shares 9Tetropoli t an 'Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Niid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent _ Do Cray Line North British lEdin., Perth, Sr Dundee INth. Eastern—Berwicl, Do, G.N.E. purchase I Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New I North Staffordshire . • IN. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C UlB ter Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.Szß West Midland -Oxfords Do Newport Do Hereford, BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share , Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 I.lllantic &St Lawrence all 67 69 f lßom.,llaroda&.Cent pa 1(34 1041 104 xn "`" Gu. 5 per cent. 20 I Do. New 201 'Buffalo and Lake Huroi , all 51 Si 10 j Do. Preterence ...... all 8 81 100 I Buffalo, Brant,&Godricl 10 77 80 ( 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 187:' 10'- 75 78 100 Do. do. June 1, 1 ,- 1 MO 72 75 st (1. , 100 1(4 105 1031 xn st Cape Town Dock Sex', 100 1 1 71 4e8,4 j stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. t 100 1044 105 xn stock ihast, Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 106) 106 k xn 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 5 1 ltp 20 j Do. do. II do. .. 2 4 p 24 xn stock ,Grand Trunk of Canad: 100 22 221 I 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 74 76 100 ' Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. all 61 66 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debenti. all 35 37 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 48 52 100 Do. do. 1867.. all 34 36 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 34 36 stock IGLlndiaPenin.gua.sp.e 100 105 1( 6 1051 xn 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 1 14p 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 4 lip stock 'Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 106 1(4 2 0 1 , G t. W. of Canada Share, all 12$ 134 201 ! Do. New .. ....... . . . 18 74 4 , 1 100 !Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 99 100 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 90 92 10 ,Indian Branch Limited Z d stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 1051 1061 103 i stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension. 100 1100 101 stock ' De. 44 100 15 7 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. a. Bnd, 101. i 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 51 53 100 Do. 7p. c. llortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick a Candi, Class A Capital Shar, all 3 5 20 , Do. do. B Capital d 0.., all 3 5 IN.RI.C'da 6pa Ist f bds 100 83 t 5 stock IScin de (100 1(64 ion !Do. Delhi .. st Do. do g 5 2 44 p 24 20 Do. Punjaub c. 15 l4 st t Do. Do. , 1(0 41051 1161 1031 stock ' Do. Induß.St. Flo.) 1101 , l.Ol 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 1 108 i 10911 le6 108 1(6 ICS 99i ICO 98 100 .0i (10 111 113 112 ;14 114 116 1071 108i' 1014 10241 1014 1024: 101} 1011 111 113 1 108 109 11 113 111 113 1(0 104 1091 i 112} 12 - .11. Gov. 6 p.C.J a SzJ uly - 1877-SI Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & A it 2 -. Do. 6 p. c.Mar. Ar. Sept. Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. - Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 6p c,1873 Do.Ap Oct& 1880 I Do. 1890 I Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p N.B.Gov. p.c. J a.&Julyi Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. IN. S.W. Gov. 5 p C.,1866 ' Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand 6p. cent.l Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterlinv,, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. c S. Aus G6p.c.1876.& up - Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. to Rp.n. A.D.AzOok. BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Goldi 1 1p 1} Chilord Amalgamated 1 --- 21 23 ' Devon G. Cone, (Tavist I 1 500 510 505 East Bassett (illoqan) 30 52 64 1 !East Clogau Gold Ltd , 58. p fp East Caradon ..... I.) 42 433 43 , East Carn 8rea. 3 . 0 . 0 .. WI Russel (Tavistk. 7.19.0 21 RI .1 am.&StAubyn(Gwen.) 574 15 17 ; - 3reat South Tolgus 175 7 74 Wheal Vor(llelston 40 6 64 ,Grenville J flerod's-Foot 8.12 47 49 iiiingston Downs 4. 7.0 25 2/ Lady Bertha Margaret (lJny Lelant 94- 41 43 Marke Valley.. 4 Nlyndv Iron Oro (Lim ' 2): 4ds pr New Setun l9; 135 145 North Downs, 23 23 5 Ihrseo (1110 fan 2.17. t; 2/ 35 Furth Wheal Crotty 2.4.9 6 64 rar Consols (St. Blazey, 13 5 10 t'rovldenee(Uny Lelnt.' 10.il.; 1 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer; 380 391 S. Carte Brea (111 wan) 5.15.6 25 2/ Fran.(lllozan 18.1-.9' 90 95 Stray Park Tamar SilV.,lz Lead Min 43 I 10 Crott 9 13 18 West Basset (Illogan) l4 13 14 W Caradon (Liskeard) 5 26 13 West Seton .. e . • Wheal Basset (Mogan' 51 773 823 heal Bulleratedruth) 5 473 623 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 73 83 WhealLud ott Wheal slaryAnn (Men ) B 15 16 Wheal Seton 583 190 196 194 wheal Tretawney (Us ) 7 17 18 Wheal Union 3.13 51 6% PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, Luton purchase, 95. PREFEKENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., 41 per cent., 18..8, 1041—London and South-Western, 40 per cent., 1051. LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. East Lim.oln, guaranteed 6 per cent., 137—London and Chatham 40 per Cent., 89} —Nottingham and Grantham R. and C., i 6!. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 71- B—Bahia and San Francisco (11m.), guaranteed 7 per cent., 24 }—Namur and Liege, gua. 14f. per annum, 91—Ottoman (Smyrna to Aid.n), 12—Paris and Orleans, 4 :1 —Recite and San Francisca (lira.), guaran teed 7 per cent., 181 t—San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 91 — Ditto ditto, 224 I—South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 23A I—West Flanders, 71. FOREIGN MINES. East del Rey (lira.), 2—Port Philip, 11 .I—Santa Barbara Gold Mine (Bra.), I—Scottish Australian (Um ), 1 }—United Mexican (lim.), sa. JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 95—Alliance Bank of Lon don and Liverpool (lim.), 201 k 20—Australasia, 70 - Bank of Egypt, 251 —Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 20,—Hindustan, China, and Japan (liro.), I—London Char tered Bank of Australia, 27} —London and Colonial (lim.), 4 London and County, 39 i—London Joint Stock, :6k 6 —Na tional Prov. of England, New, 18$ —Oriental Bank Corpo ration, n—ottoman Bank, 331 9—Ditto New, 8 7k—Standard of British South Africa (Um.), 10—Union of Australia, 50k 50 —Union of Ireland (Urn.), st. MISCELLANEOUS. - • -- iEast India Irrigation and Canal, 2—Great Ship 17b per Pref., I—ltalian Irrigation and Canal, 2 i—Oriental Inland Steam (lira.), 81—Peninsular and 0, iental Steam, 70 I—Que brada Land, Rail, and Mining (tim.), I—Submarine Telegraph (Registered), t. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECE \II3ER 30, 1862. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. -•- COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. There was a long list of cases today, but principally before the Registrars for first meeting. IN RE 8. F. BERKELEY, ESQ. This bankrupt was described as Swinburne Fitzhardings Berkeley, Esq., of Curzon-street, Mayfair, and this was a meeting for proof of debts and choice of assignees. Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles are the accountants to the estate. The debts are stated at £15,000; assets nil. IN RE G. GRAY. This bankrupt was described as of Kensington, licensed victualler, and this was a meeting for proof of debts. Mr. Chidley is the solicitor to the estate. The debts are stated at about £3OO ; assets, £2OO. TN RE HADDEN. This bankrupt was described as a corn•dealer, at Ham mersmith, and this also was a first meeting. Mr. T. Beard was appointed solicitor to the assignees. The bankrupt was insolvent in 1860, and now owes about £2OO ; assets, about £3O. IN RE R. CLARKE. This bankrupt is the accountant in bankruptcy, and now came before the Court. This was a meeting for choice of assignees. The amount of debts and assets was not stated, but the bankruptcy is attributed to bill transactions. The bankrupt's salary is £1,500 a year. Assignees were chosen. POLICE INTELLIGENCE---This Day. BOW-STREET. ROBBERY AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.— Charles Gray, carpet planner, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a quantity of felt carpeting, the property of his employer. ➢ir. Lyons, of Bell-yard, Temple-bar, upholsterer, said the prisoner was in his employ, and was engaged with a number of other workmen at Drury-lane Theatre. This morning on his arrival at the theatre to superintend the carrying out of his contract for carpeting the lobbies, cor ridors, and boxes, he found the defendant in custody of the fireman of the establishment for having attempted to take away a quantity of scarlet drugget, which he was engaged in laying down in tho boxes. When he was engaged he was expressly told that no perquisites would be allowed, and the bundle produced contains some very large lengths of material which had been tied up inside a lot of smaller bits, There was enough drugget to furnish one of the boxes. Mr. Corrie asked the prisoner what answer he had to make to the charge ? Prisoner said it was quite true that he had taken the cuttings, but they were his perquisites, and to which he was entitled by the rules of the trade. A planner was always allowed his cutting. Mr. Corrie —But you don't mean to call the large pieces " cutting ?" If the case was mine I should not allow such pieces to be taken away from my house. Prisoner—Yes, they are all cuttings, and I am entitled to them by the rules of the trade, Mr. Corrie—You were expressly told when you were en gaged that no perquisites would be permitted. Mr. Lyons—l have now upwards of 30 men employed, and if each one was to take away such "cuttings" as those now in court, I should soon feel it very seriously. It was only yesterday morning I stopped a man taking away some of the same material, but nothing like the quantity now in court. Edward Hamilton, one of the firemen engaged at Drury lane Theatre, said he stopped the prisoner with the bundle as he was leaving the theatre this morning. He asked him for the pass authorising him to take the things away, and as he could not produce ono he was detained until Mr. Lyons came. Prisoner said he was en itled to the carpet by the rules of the tr..de Mr. Lyons said he was certain there was a ready receiver for such goods, and if the prisoner would only tell him where any of the cuttings that wet() at present missing had been disposed of he would not press the charge so strongly against him. Prisoner consented to do so, and the case was adjourned for a week, in the meantime defendant being admitted to bail. I homas BoT was charged with stealing a large portman teau from the shop of Mr. Bengough, in Holborn. The prisoner, in the most impudent manner, entered the shop, shouldered the property, and was deliberately walk ing off with it when he was stopped by the porter, Mr. Corrie committed the prisoner for four months, with hard labour. divisional surgeon of police, and physician of Spital• square, said that Fletcher had a severe lacerated wound on the scalp nearly an inch long, and the tissues were completely broken. It was such a blow as would be given with the hammer produced. It cut a piece of cane in the police.. man's hat, and if that had not been the case his skull would have been fractured. There was another lacerated wound on the left temple an inch and a half long, dividing all the structures down to the bone, and a wound on the chin a quarter of an inch long. Michael Malony and Thos. Flynn were committed for trial under Lord Campbell's Act, for unlawfully wounding John Malony, who was engaged in the original affray, was sentenced to 7 days' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly, and Thomas Smith, an Irishman, dwelling at No. 35, Royal Mint-street, who in terfered with the police, and was terribly beaten, was fined 55., on which he exclaimed "Is that all, yer honour's wortchip ; I am thankful to you." MANSLAUGHTER.—RandaII Stone, the captain, Louis Lane, mate, and Henry Francis, boatswain of the ship Martha Pope, charged with the wilful murder of a lad named William Curtis, at sea, on a voyage from Honduras to London, were brought up on remand before Mr. Wool r 3 ch. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, conducted the prosecution for the first time; Mr. l.ewis, son., of Ely-place, appeared for the defence. Mr. Young said a coroner's jury had returned a verdict of manslaughter against all the prisoners. The case was proceeding when our messenger left the court, and is not expected to conclude unti► a late hour. We believe the magistrate will commit all the prisoners for manslaughter. The Calamity at Edmund's Main Colliery. WORSBOROUGH, SATURDAY. The bodies of the 60 men and boys who were the victims of the explosions at Edmund's Main, con tinue immured in their gloomy sepulchre, and there are but faint hopes that they will be recovered for some months to come. The terrible explosion—the third and most destructive in its effect upon the mine of the series—which took place on Wednesday week, and necessitated the complete flooding of the pit, has deprived the survivors for a long time to come of the melancholy satisfaction of paying the last sad offices to the dead. The first explosion, it will be rememb ere d, was caused by a fire wh i ch originated at the extreme "dip point" of the work ings, at the bottom of a long incline, and engineers hoped that the flooding of that part would be all that was required, but the third explosion showed conclusively that the fire had been spread over a large area by the first and second, and nothing lest than the complete flooding of the workings will now suffice. The operations at the colliery during the week have bier, under the charge of Mr. Brown (of the firm of Brown and Jeffcock, mining engineers) ,tnd Mr. Mitchell, to whom the task of recovering the bodies of the entombed miners has been dele gated. Water is still being poured into the mine in large quantities, and the three shafts are sealed against the admission of air. The opera• tions exactly resemble those which were carried on after the great explosion at Lundhill, three miles from Worsborough. When the pit is full will commence the tedious and laborious operation of pumping it out, and then the restoration of the brat tieing, so as to reinstate the ventilating apparatus, and then the search for the bodies of the dead. The inquest has been concluded this week, and the statements made by some of the witnesses, re echoed as they are throughout the district, ought to be productive of good results in the future manage ment of mines in this district. Jr. Me Sun of Wed nesday last it was stated in the brief teleAam an nouncing the verdict, that one of the jurymen—a 111 r. Parker—dissented from the verdict. We have been furnished with the reasons which induced him to take that course. He says he was of opinion " that the quantity of gas in the dip-boardgate was increased by the unjustifiable vapidity with which the coal was excavated, the men work ing in shifts or sets, which followed each other in regular succession day and night; the exer tions of the main being stimulated by a bonus of £l, which was given to each of the sets that suc ceeded in excavating 50 yards of coal within a fort night. This mode OF working resulted in the con stant liberation of a large quantity of gas, which mace the use of gunpowder highly dangerous. That the evidence conclusively proves that gas issued in blowers and in considerable quantity from both faces of the dip-boardgate for several weeks before the Bth inst., and had been repeatedly fired by the men in the prosecution of their work ; that the gals was fired in the dip- boardgate by a blast of gunpowder on the 4th, and was again fired by a naked candle en Saturday, the 6th inst., when the men were en gaged for nearly an hour in putting the fire out ; 'hat the use of gunpowder in the dip-boardgate had been attended with great danger to the men em ployed in the colliery for several weeks before the Bth inst., and its continued use in blasting the coal Liter the danger attending that mode of excavating had been so frequently demonstrated was a proceed ,ng reckless on the part of the men, and highly culpable on the part of those who either authorised or permitted it." The concluding paragraph blames the managing partner for leaving " 238 men and boys engaged in so dangerous an occupation as coal fining without the supervision of a competent coal-vie wer." In reference to Mr. Parker's assertion that the inert were stimulated by the offer of bonuses to in creased exertions in coal-getting on the Swaithe level, it may be stated that one of the colliers, Wm. Fisher, said at the inquest that the proprietors gave the men an additional sovereign every time they worked 50 yards in a fortnight. It was also con clusively proved that gas had been issuing from the coal at the extreme end of the workirgs in such quantities as to render an explosion inevitable un less extraordinary precautions were used. 13u , what were the facts ? Not only we re the men allowed to use gunpowder to blast the coal, in pre ference to the more laborious but secure system of getting it down by wedging, but the hurriers and norse-drivers were actually allowed to go close up to the faces with their oak, d lights, thus rendering altogether nugatory the order for the coal-getters to work with safety lamps. The use of gunpowder, as a means of getting the coal more cheaply and expeditiously, is the real cause of this fearful cala mity. The seam is well known to be unusually fiery and dangerous, and one in which naked lights should never be used. The danger seems to have occurred to the mind of the underviewer, George Lawton, some months ago, for he told the men that he did not like the thought of blasting in that coal, and ordered them to begin wedging. That was done, but the men found they "could not make wages," although an increased price was given, and murmurs ensued. The result was that the use of powder was again permitted ; hence the explosion. It was proved beyond doubt that the state of the dip-boardgates a few days before the explosion was such as ought to have warned any one of the imminence of the peril• Said one collier, There were three or four fires at the faces the week before the explosion. On the Saturday, two eiys before the explosion, there was a fire, caused by the :!as igniting at a cantle, which raged for two bouts before the men could get it out." Yet, in the face of this state of things, naked lights were constantly used in that part of the mine, and the coal war constantly blasted with powder, until the inevitable result took place and caused such a fearful sacrifice of life. Indeed, the recurrence of these fires at the dip boardgates seems to have contributed to the ex tent of the calamity, by inducing carelessness on the part of the men in other parts of the mine. l'hey said, when questioned as to their singular tar diness in escaping, " that there had been fires be fore, and they thought the men would get this out as they had got out the others." One of the men was warned of the danger, but he said he should ge. on with his work until he " heard more of it," and he continued to work for an hour until he was fairly driven from his bank by the increasing volumes of smoke and gas. Another, on being warned by a collier who was running past his work ing pace, replied, " Thou can leave, if thou'rt frightened, but stop." That man is yet in the mine. Considerable feeling was excited in the district by the statement that many of the men could have got out of the mine if they had been warned during the long interval that elapsed between the breaking out of the fire and the first explosion. It is clear that the two Lawtons did scarcely anything to warn the men, but Mr. It. Mitchell, the eon of the managing p ar t ner , gave ev id ence i n v i n di cat i on o f himself, and stated that he did all in his power to hurry the men out before the explosion. The last time the underviewer, George Lawton, was seen alive, he was on his wsy to the Sweithe level to build a "stopping" to cut off the supply of air from the fire raging beyond. It is a curious fact, but vouched for by a scientific gentleman who formed one of the daring party of explorers who were last in the mine, that the building of this stopping, if it did not ac tually cause the explosion, greatly tended towards that result. They e were previously about 11,000 cubic feet of gas per minute passing over the burning faces, and the combustion of such a quantity of air would make the place a vast furnace for a consi derable distance up the clipboard. When he put in the stopping in the ingoing aircourse the gas evolved from the coal by the heat would cease to be consumed, owing to the absence of air, and the dipboard - would be converted into a huge gas retort. The gas would accumulate until it got into the re turn aircourse, and would then fire at the first naked light, of which the evidence showed there were pl en ty in the mine. In the opinion of the sam e gentleman the second explosion was caused by the restoration of the air-crossing at :he first half-way, which carried the air forward again to the dip faces and to the fire which bad been spread by the first blast. The scientific gentlemen examined at the inquest were unanimous in condemning the use of gunpowder in a mine where there was so much The Late Fire and Loss of Six Lives. CORONER'S INQUEST-THIS DAY. Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, opened an inquiry this afternoon into the cause of the lamentable loss of life which occurred at the fire which broke out a few days ago in Portland-street, Soho. The jury having viewed the bodes, The Coroner said all he proposed t. do at that sitting was to have the bodies identified, and after heating the medical evidence to adjourn for a few days. He did not think, after the sickening sight the jury had just wit nessed, they ware in a state of mind to go into the in juiry, which promised to be a very lengthened one. Henry Hitchens was then called, and proved the bodies to bo those of Samuel, Sarah Ann, Emily, Joel Walter, Edward and Alfred Spencer. Dr. Buzz ud, of Great Marlborough-street, said that be had seen the bodies of the unfortunate children, and found the burns not very deep but extensive. The faces were all bronzed or blackened by the smoke, and the bodies were covered with broken blisters. Tho eldest had sus taieed the most severe injury, as one of the hands had been entirely burned off. He had made a post mortem examination of the body of the boy Edward, aged six, and ha was of opinion that death had been produced by the shock occasioned by burning. The Coroner—Not from suffocation Witness—No; not from suffocation. I think all died rom iujurics from burning. One of the Churchwardens of St. James's said the authorities of the parish took great interest in the present inquiry, as four of the deceased children were inmates of their Parochial school at Wandsworth, and had only come up from the institution a few days previous to their death to spend the Christmas with their friends. He felt exceed ingly gratified at hearing that all the circumstances con nected with the fearful calamity would be thoroughly in vestigated. The inquiry was then a•tjourned until Tuesday next, at the Vestry-hall, St. Jam s's LONDON GAZETTE---This Evening. BOROUGH OF TOTNES. The Gaze(te contains the Speaker's warrant for issuing a new writ for the electing of a member to serve in Parlia ment for the borough of Totnes in the room of the H n. George Hay, commonly called the Earl of Gifford, now deceased. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE GERMAN STREET BANDS.—William Laus, a mem ber of a band of German musicians, was charged, before Mr. Tyr whitt, with being concerned with several others not in custody, in playing certain musical instruments, after being requested to depart, in Chapel •street, Grosvenor square. Mr. Edwin Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the defence. Mr. John Bazalgette, of Penge, Surrey, civil engineer, said-1 appear for Miss Bazalgette, who resides in Chapel street, Grosvenor-square. At that lady's request last night I went out and told the defendant, who was, with a band of eight or ten others, making a great noise, to go away and to go to the next street. The defendant said h 3 should not leave, neither should he go into the next street, as they were paid to play, and that they should continue to play. I told him I would give him in charge if -he did, and said I would look for a policeman. On coming back I heard them making an atrocious noise, and gave the defendant in charge. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Was there any illness or reason for tell ing the defendant to go away ? Mr. Bazalgette—Miss Bazalgette is in an infirm state of health and generally unwell, and I have a certificate to that effect—(ono was handed to the magistrate stating that the lady was unwell). Mr. Tyrwhitt Did defendant say who he was paid by? Mr. Bazalgette—No, sir. By Mr. Lewis—The lady is generally in an infirm state of health. It is not a special illness of yesterday or to-day. Her medical man attends her every second day, but she goes out for a drive occasionally. Ido not know the band has played in the street for years. It is within the last two months that the lady has complained to me of the nuisance and requested me to protect her from it. She has not told me that she objects to it because another lady patronises it. I told the defendant that he must not play in the street, and to go away. I took care that he should understand me, and he gave me a plain answer. Henry Alger, 94 C—Last night, at eight o'clock, I was called to take a musician into custody for annoying a lady who was ill. I could not make him understand me. He had just left off when I got up. By Mr. Lewis—The musicians had left off by the time I got up. I took the defendant into custody. Mr. Lewis—l must first submit that the defendant is wrongfully in custody, because one of the sections of the act, the sixty- third, says the playing must be in the presence of the police constable; the section stat ing, "It shall be lawful for any constable belong ing to the metropolitan police district to take into custody, without a warrant, any person who, within view of the constable, shall offend in any manner against this act, and whose name and residence shall be unknown to such constable, and cannot be ascertained by such con stable." The offence with which the defendant was charged was playing after he had been warned, and it was proved by the constable that on his going up tLey had ceased playing. lie (Mr. (Lewis) had had a case before Mr. Yardley recently, in which, under similar circumstances, the prisoner was discharged. In the second place, the words of the act had not been complied with, for the 57th section stated that illness or some other reasonable cause must be stated, which had not been done. Mr. Tyrwhitt, after referring to the Law Journal, con taining a report of a case before Mr. Justice Mateo, said— The gentleman should have told these people that the lady was ill, or have stated some reasonable cause, and it did not appear that he had told them any reason why they should go away. If the gentleman had done so he would have brought the defendant within the meaning of the act. I do not say that the constable was not right in taking the defendant into custody, but it was for the magistrate to say whether he was in lawful custody. Although it is my duty to dismiss he case, I can only say that such persons as these (defendant and his companions) in such places as Chapel-street, might collect together and levy black mail by harassing the persons residing there, I for one, in spite of all the unpopularity I may obtain in the newspapers, shall never hesitate to enforce the law when the case is proved, and to inflict a fine of 40s. Mr. Lewis—There is a little pique between the lady in this case and another lady. The defendant was then discharged. THAMES. DASTARDLY ASSAULT ON POLICE - CONSTABLES. -It was reported this morning to Mr. Woolrych that Charles Abbott, a valuable detective officer, who took Captain Stone, of the ship Martha Pope, into custody for manslaughter, had been seriously wounded by a cowardly miscreant on Christmas Eve. Abbott was assisting another constable in securing a desperate ruffian who was drunk, and had com mitted an assault, when another villain approached and struck Abbott a heavy blow on the jaw, breaking it in two places. It is supposed the scoundrel who committed this outrage had a hammer, or piece of iron, in his hand. Abbott was carried in en insensible condition to the sta tion, and still remains there under medical treatment. It is feared that the public have lost for ever the services of an intelligent and active officer. James Fletcher, a police constable, No. 33 H, was severely beaten and disabled by two Irishmen, named NI ichael Maloney and Thomas Fl 3 nn, of No. 2, Blacksmiths Ann's-place. The two Irishmen are tinkers, and they were fighting with another tinker named John Maloney. All three men were stripped, and when Fletcher interfered with them Flynn struck him on the mouth with his fist, and Michael Maloney obtained a hammer, and while Fletcher was struggling with Flynn, struck him on the side of the head with it, inflicting a severe wound. Another fellow aimed a blow at Fletcher with a more ponderous hammer, but Fletcher avoided the murderous blow intended for him, and knocked the fel low down with his staff. Fletcher was disabled and left on the ground in an insensible state, Mr, Grainger Tandy, WESTMINSTER. SINGULAR CASE UNDER THE MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT.—A w , man about 40 years of age, of pleasing ex terior, besought the magistrate's assistance under the following circumstances : The lady said she had been deserted by her husband and now sought a gratuitous order under the Matrimonial Causes Act, to prevent her husband, should he return from taking anything she possessed. Mr. Paynter—How long have you been married ? Applicant—Eleven years. Mr. Paynter—How long has he deserted you ? Applicant—Four years. Mr. Paynter—Under what circumstances did he leave you? Applicant—We were residing at Hampstead when he suddenly absented himself and went, as I afterwards understood, to Bedford Races. Mr. Paynter—When did you last see him ? Applicant—Two years ego. Mr. Paynter—Did he then continue with you ? Applicant—No; it was a mere visit to tell me he was going abroad. Mr. Paynter—Did you consent to his going abroad ? Applicant—l had nothing to do with it. I had no voice whatever in the matter. My husband went by the recom mendation of his friends. H 3 had indebted himself, and was in difficulties. Mr. Payater—Was it your own furniture in the house at Hampstead ? Applicant— It was. Mr. Paynter—What became of it after your husband left ? A pplicant--lt was seized by the landlord and sold for the rent that had been owing. Mr. Paynter—Have you acquirekl property since he left you ? Applicant—Nothing in particular. Mr. Paynter--Then there will be nothing to make an order to protect ? Applicant-1 ant a`,out to establish a school, and am told that he might come and take any thing. I have main tained my children by having pupils. All I have is a pianoforte and a few other little things. Al,plicant further said her husband had held an e..cellent appointment, which he had thrown up for horse racing. Mr. Paynter—The case is one of much d fficulty. It is one to which I must refer you to the Court above. I can not grant the order. MARKETS---This Day. HAY MARKETS. • SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £1 16s to £4 5s Od; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 16s pet load. Supply only moderate ; trade slow. CUMBERLAND.--Mealow ea), £1 16s to £4 5 , ; clove , , £3 lOs to £5 10, Od ; and straw, £1 12) to tl 16s on load. A slow deman . W H ITECHAPEL.—Meftdom hay, £1 16s to £1 ss; Jiti%ca, do., £3 10. to 15 106 , and straw, €1 12..0 .61 168 per load. rade dull, COLONIAL. The foreign and colonial produce markets remain closed for the Christmas holidays, and will re-open on Tuesday next, Jan. 6, 1863. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South- Wcsterly; moderato breez , , and fine weather. HOLYHEAD, Dec. 29.—Wind fresh gale.—Arrived —Douglas Castle, from Liverpool, for Bombay; Hannibal, from Liverpool, for Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Ro berto, from Hartlepool, for Naples GLOUCESTER, Dec. 2 9 . -- Arrived—Coral Isle, and Vic tory, from Now York. GRIMSBY ROADS, Dee. 29.—Arrived Henrich von Gejouen, from the North, for Newport. MUMBLES, Dec. 29.--Arrived—Deerelayer, and Chile, from Caldera ; Acacia, from Valparaiso; Ocean King, from Coquimbo. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—Alliance, steamer, from Havre. Sailed—Ouse, for IIull; Chenamus, for Newcastle; Reaper, for Sunderland. (Dv MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning, • - - - Arrived, Dec. 30—Perseverance , f rom Gravelines ; Istam boul, from Bombay; Prince Alfred, from Foo- Chow-Foo , Ocean Mail, from Shanghai ; Louwine, from Nykiobing ; Malden, from Tuticerin. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—William Carey, from Singapore; Othini, from Canton; Aminta, from Calcutta; Men, from Liverpool; Bard of Avon, from the west; Ashburton, from New York ; Drogheda, from the west ; Odin, from New York ; Lecellin, from the East Indies—all for London. THE PREACHER AND HIS VOLUNTEER ALLY.— A half-witted you , h asked his mother if she did not think it wrong for people to fall asleep at church, and she replied that she did . N ext Sunday, before starting foT church, the youth his pocket with appl, Ft. One bald headed old man, who i nvar i a b ly went to -lel.) during the sermon, particularly att racted his attention. Seeing him at last nodding, and giving nasal evidence of be , ng in the " land of dreams," he gave the astounded sleeper a blow with an apple on the top of his bald pate. The minister and aroused congregation at once turned round and indignantly gazed at the boy, who naere:y said to the preacher, as he took another apple in his hand, with a sober, honest expres• sion of countenance, " You preach ; I'll keep 'em awake 1" REFINED HAPPINESS !—We can tell our readers a story hitherto unedited, end which we think will not be considered the less terrible for being grotesque. One Boxing-day, not very long ago, a labouring man and his I wife were overheard in violent altercation in the street. 'The man was drunk, but he had arrived at the lachrymose stage of inebriety, and was sobbing piteously. " What's the matter ?" querulously asked his wife. " I—l—l'm so unhappy," blubbered the husband. " Unhappy 1 " the lady repeated, with a profound expression of cont mpt. " Unhappy I You were drunk on Sunday, you were drunk on Monday, you're drunk now, and you ain't happy. What more do you want ? Do you want to be a Rangel ?" —Daily Te'egraph. as my father highly-gifted man, " dear Hartley." HARTLEY COLERIDGE.— A humble-hearted, I called him, dreamed thr, ugh a life of error, loving the good, and hating the evil, yet unable to resist it. His companion ship was always delightful to the Professor , an d man y hours of converse they held. His best and happiest mo m ents were those spent at Eillary. My father had a great power, and exerted it with a kind but firm determination. On one occasion he was kept imprisoned for some weeks, under his surveillance, in order that he might finish some literary work he had promised to have ready by a certain time. He completed his task, and whenthe day of release came it was intended he should leave Eillary. But Hartley's demon was at hand; without one word of adieu to the friends in whose presence ho stood, off he ran at full speed down the avenue, lost to sight amid the trees, seen again on the open highway still running, till the sound of far-off foot steps gradually died away in the distance, and he himself was hidden, not in the groves of the valley, but drinking among his low companions, where his mind was soon brought to a level with theirs. Then those clouds would after a time pass away, and he again returned to the society of those who could appreciate him, and who never ceased to love him. Every one loved Hartley Coleridge; there was something in his appearance that evoked kindness. Extremely boyish in aspect, his juvenile air was aided not a little by his general mode of dress—black round jacket, white trousers, with a handkerchief tied closely round hit dirk, and w a s expressive,relieved by and the a throat ; sometimes a straw hat co vere d hi s h ea d , b ut more frequently it was bare, showing hi s bl ac k , thi c k , s h ort, curl inghair. countenance H iseyeswere large, almost sadinexpression beautiful smile which lighted it up from time to time.— Memoirs of Christopher _North. SERIOUS RAILWAY ROBBERY.—LI,2OQ,STOLEN. —On Christrnaa•day a serious robbery was effected on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. By one of the early morning trains into Yorkshire a number of cashboxes were sent from the head offices of the company, containing the wages of the employes at the stations along the line. On the train reaching North Dean it was discovered that three of the boxes (those for Bradford Halifax, and Wakefield, containing £1,200, chiefly in gold and silver) had been abstracted. The guard did not miss them till he reached North Dean, and it is supposed they had been taken from his van during his temporary absence at one of the previ ous stations,—Leeds Afercury, 8 71 f I 2 46 1 125! 6 681 8 i 1051 i I 72} 97j 7 i 102 lt 401 531 i 4 gas at the faces ; but they agreed in stating that the ventilation of the mine was generally excellent. The narrative of the exploration of the mine after the second disastrous explosion is exceedingly inte resting and reflects peat credit upon the daring of those who undertook the perilous task. Soon after one o'clock Mr. R. R. Maddison, of Worsbro-dale, colliery viewer, arrive 1 at the mine, and he organised 3. party of five men, which was increased by three other volunteers, to go down the mine and search for the missing. They found the ventilation mode rately good until they got about 120 yards down the engine-plane, when they found the "stoppings" that carried the air forward more or less destroyed, and the air escaping through the broken stoppings into the " return aircourse." They persevered, however, until one of the men was almost lost in the smoke, and then were compelled to retrace their steps. It was then suggested that some of the men .night be found nt an aircrossing on the south level, and the party of explorers proceeded thither, but there were no traces of any of the men. !Ir. \lsddison then conducted bis party back to a place near the shaft, and asked them separately "-If they thought any of the men could b, alive in { he mine 9" The men, with two exceptions, were compelled s zrowfully to reply in the ne gative, and the two men who persisted in hoping against hope, after another ineffectual attempt to penetrate into the workings through the deadly at mosphere, were compelled to acquiesce in the gene ral conclusion. The party then reascended the shaft, bringing with them the confirmation of the worst fears of those who had anxiously awaited their re turn. A document setting forth the conclusions ar rived at was drawn up and signed by the volunteers -Mr. R. R. Maddison, John Guest (fireman),Sam Padgett, John Bellamy, Ben Clegg, Robert Rat cliffe, John Wave, W. Ibbetson, and John Skelton. ['hey did all that men inspired by the generous de termination to save their fellow-creatures could do, but their gallant efforts wen! powerless against the deadly gas and chokedamp which followed the ex plosion. The subscription in aid of the bereaved has now reached about £l,OOO. The funds are being carefully applied under the superintendence of a local com mittee, but the amount in hand is altogether inade quate to the claims of the sufferers. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 14. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Francis Howard Vyse, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Kanagawa, to be her Majesty's Consul at Hakodadi. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Charles Alexander Winchester, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Hakodadi, to be her Majesty's Consul at Kaua gawa. FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 29. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James Bullock as Consul at Akyab for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. E. Oesterley as Consul at Calcutta for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburgb, The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. G. Gilmour as Consul at Glasgow fur the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Alex andre Duranty as Vies-Consul at Fleetwood for the Re public of Haiti. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEc. 30. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Peter With ington to be Major, by purchase, vice BreNet Lieutenant- Colonel Adolphus William Desart Burton, C. 8., who retires; Lieutenant Edmund Prideaux Chichester to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wi tbington. 6th Regiment of Foot—Captain Jiiehard Thompson to be Major, without purchase, vice Edward Jaa. Blanckley, deceased , Lieutenant Thomas Mortimer Kelson to be Captain, without: purchase, vice Thompson; Ensign Gustavus Wheatley Berry Collis, to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Kelson. 7th Foot—Ensign the Hon. Wyndham Percy Moreton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice George William Henry Holyeake, who retires; Reginald Broadhurst a Beckett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hon. W. P. Moreton. 17th Foot—Lieutenant 9eorge Daniel Webber io be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Anthony Powell Traherne, who retires; Ensign Jobn Henry Thorold to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Webber ; Charles Peter Morgan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thorold. 22d Foot—Captain William Mtßeati to be Major, by pur chase, vice William Mills Molony, who retires; Lieute nant Thomas Gilling Gilling to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mtßean ; Ensign John Henry Hameraley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gilling ; Robert James Dallin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ha me rsley. 25th Foot—Ensign Richard Thomas Higgins to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Roderick John Hanley, who retires; Henry Haynes Preston Powell, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Higgins. 59th Foot—Ensign Charles Peter Morgan, from the 17th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Henry Richard Lacy who has been superseded for being absent without leave. 92d Foot -Charles Stuart Forster Alleyne, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice John Campbell, tran sferred to the 93d Foot. 93d Foot—Brevet Major Frederick William Burroughs, to be Major, without purchase, vice W. G. A. Middleton, deceased : Brevet Major Erskine Scott Francis George Dawson to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel W. D. Macdonald, deceased ; Lieu tenant George Rowe Fenwick to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet -Major Burroughs; Lieutenant Anthony Olivier Tabuteau to be Captain, without pur chase, vice Brevet -Major Dawson ; Ensign William Forbes to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tabu teau ; BREVR E ns ign Jam Campbell, from the 92d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Charles Edward Condell, who retires. . Major John Wimburn Laurie to have the local and honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the army while employed on a particular service in British North America. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, t3amuel Benison, of the 39th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 30. Royal Artillery—Second Captain Falkland Carey to be Captain, vice Captain and Brevet. Major Henry Arthur Vernon, deceased; Lieutenant George Adam Crawford, on the Supernumerary List, to be Second Captain ; Lieu ter ant Towns e nd A r emburg de Moleyns to be second Captain, vic e C are y ; Lieutenant George Scott Chiene has been removEd from the Army, her Majesty having no further occasion for his services: Royal Engineers—The following Officers, with temporary rank, to be Lieutenants, with permanent rank :—Lieute nants Stephen Weston Jenner, Arnold Charles Wal linger, Edward Harvey, Henry Fowler, John Henry Urquhart, HenryHoract, Baker, James Devereux Bowly, Charles Cunn ngham, William Alexander Wildman Orange, Thomas Glancy, Arthur Clitherow Ward, Albert Charles Smith, J ohn Edward Toiler, and Francis William Nixon. BREVET. Second Captain Charles George Gordon, of the R o y a l Engineers, to be Major in the Army. The undermentioned officers o . f the Royal Engineers, having completed five years' quallfying service in the rank of Lieut.-Colonel , to be Colonels in the Army : Lieutenant-Colonel Conolly M'Causland. Lieutenant -Colonel John Cameron. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of importance ill the Gazette Thomas Henry Abell, grocer, Okehampton William Garner, licensed victualler, Liverpool John Berry, ironmonger, Oldham, Cornelius Horn, plait dealer, Dunstable Thomas Leech, farmer, Mobberley, Cheshire Steward Wilson, grocer, Gaitsgill, Cumberland Henry Porter, farmer, Soham, Cambridge James Gates, cab praprietor, Russell• square Raymond England, plumber, King •street, Hammer smith. Samuel B. Rawlings, miller, Oakham, Rutlandshiro Robert A. Kirkaldy, printer, Upper Ground-street, Blacktriars Thos. Smith, attorney, Weston-Super-Mare. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Edward Opray, spirit merchant, Glasgow Henry P. Capreol, Linlithgow Algie and Watt, tea merchants, Glasgow Thomas Whyte, grocer, Dundee Samuel Strahan, flesher, Brechin John Hatly, builder, Edinburgh Robert Buchan, farmer, Chapelton Alexander Forbes, farmer, West Ruthven Course of the Exchange---This Day. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 164 11 16 Antwerp .. 25 375 25 42t Brussels — 25 375 25 421 flamburgh — 13 6 13 61 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 1181 119 Vienna Trieste .. 11 80 11 90 Petersburgh Berlin — Madrid Cadiz Leghorn — 25 55 25 60 Milan — 25 524 '25 575 Genoa — 25 55 25 60 Naples Palermo . 119/ 1191 Messina Lisbon —52 f Dporto — 521 62b Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons 0 0 0 The Scotch Iron Trade. (From the Annual Report of Mr. Thomas Thorburn.) Scotland shows a marvellous progress in the develop ment of the iron trade. The steam engine, the hot. blast, and the railway system have doubtless contributed to this prominent feature of our national prosperity. And, it is to be recorded for the information of the world, that in less than half a century, the production of pig iron has in creased more than one hundred-fold. Seven years ago, the stock of pig iron in Scotland di not exceed 10,000 tons. Now our wealth in this the most useful of metals has accumulated to at least 720,000 tons, which, calculated at the average price for the year, in ster ling money, is £1,900,000, thus approximating to the amount of gold bullion held by the Scotch banks. And it may reasonably be expected that the combined, steady, and well directed efforts of producers and capitalists will, in the course of two years, achieve the grand result of a stock of one million of tons. The quantity of pig iron produced in the year just closing is computed at 1,080,000 tons, which, valued at this year's average price, represents £2,850,000 sterling. The ex ports, foreign and coastwise, combined with the local cm sumption, amounted to 970,000 tons. The stocks, there fore, show an increase of 110,000 tons, when compared with the same period last year. It may arrest attention, that whilst the stocks have been steadily increasing, the price has risen from 49s to 57s Gd per ton. This has no doubt been owing to speculative ope rations in the article, based upon a sanguine belief in en early settlement of the American war, but the advance arising from this expectation has been very shortly main tained. The lowest price was 48s in January, and the average for the year is 52s 10d per ton. The malleable iron works, the foundries, and the ship building yards on the Clyde are generally well employed ; and should the belief in the superior advantages and im pregnable character of the iron-clad ship gain ground, it may reasonably be hoped that those great branches of na tional industry will continue to flourish. Since the Irish famine, which the great wealth and greater charity of this country encountered and overcame, there has been nothing approaching the enormous suffer••• ing and destitution arising from the cotton famine in Lan cashire. But it is a matter of unspeakable satisfaction, that the resources of this great country, inc uding very particu larly those detived from the successful development, of the iron manufacture, are adequately alleviating this un precedented distress. The hope may therefore be confidently entertained that the iron trade, as hitherto, will continuo to increase, and that, whilst adding to the wealth of Scotland, it will con tribute to the civilisation and prosperity of the world. BANK RETURNS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending Nov. 15. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 12th Nov. (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous month : Nov. 15, ~ Oct. 18, s , 1862. I 1 1862. I Increase Decrease. - -- Bank of England... 21,007,973 21,266,153 , 258 178 Private Banks . 3,3.6,282 3,37,077; ''A 5 Joint-stock Banks.. 2,970,7351 2,991,369, 13,634 Total in England. 27,364,992' 27,647,599 i 282,G('7 Scotland 4,409,845! 4,193,171) 216,674 Ireland 5,923,38 71 5,66 ,4243 361961 , ..- T - f-.14,...1 U . 1... .4.-. 0, nno 001 ' 0, A/10 1 ne[ nnit etn:j ..--- United Kingdom 296,028' 37,698,224: 37,402,198 And, as compared with the month ending the 16th of Nov., 1861, the above returns show an increase of £47,175 in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of £590,852 in the circulation of the United Kingdom : On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the sev. ral banks the following is the state of the circulation : Ile English private banks aro below their fixed issue The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue £331,622 Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,274,651 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,660,574 The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £431,107 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 12th of Mov. was £15,561,222, being a decrease of £1,162,352 as compared with the previous month, and an increase of £1,336,689 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 15th Nov.:-- Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,411,927 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks.. 2,060,495 £4,472,422 Being an increase of £190,826 as compared with the previous return, and a decrease of 1400,07 when compared with the corresponding period of last year. THE VOLUNTEERS. On Friday a field-day among several of the metropolitan corps took place onkhe downs at Caterham, about 17 miles from London. The ground selected for the movements it; distant about five miles from the Caterham junction, on a declivity of the downs, near the clubhouse and rifle range of the South Middlesex Rifles, and is well adapted for testing the progress made by each corps in battalion move ments. The corps engaged consisted of the 2d, or South Middlesex Rifles, the 3d City of London (Working Men's), the North-East London Rifle Brigade, and the 4th Tower Hamlets Rifles. Major Richards was in command of the 3d City, and the chief command was taken by Lord Rane lagh, whose regiment (the South Middlesex) mustered more strongly than any of the others. The North-East London Rifle Brigade and the 4th Tower Hamlets took up position to the north of the downs on a high eminence, and represented the enemy, while their opponents formed in line at the bottom of the undulation. Shortly after 3 o'clock the enemy threw out skirmishers to dislodge Lord Rene lagh's small force, and steadily advancing down the hill kept up a well-sustained fire on their opponents. The latter, notwithstanding the apparent advantage the enemy had over them in firing from the heights, replied with equal vigour, and though retiring kept pouring in a galling fire, till the enemy had taken possession of the position pre viously occupied by their adversaries. Here, however, the good fortune of the enemy seemed to forsake them, for they retired, and Lord Ranelagb, fully alive to the supposed defeat, formed his men in column, and they poured in a tremendous volley, which reverberated over the hills find dales, and as a matter of course put their foes hors do combat. A few other movements brought the field• day to a close. The weather was all that could be desired, and the majority of the movements were well executed, the steadiness with which the South Middlesex and 3d City marched in line being especially commendable. The manoeuvres of the Tower Hamlets are also entitled to similar praise; but it was evident to the most casual ob server that they have yet much to learn in skirmishing drill. SYDNEY;LADY MORGAN.—With the manuscript of" The Novice" ehe made the journey from Dublin to London alone; no pleasant enterprise i n 1805, w h en t h e Conway and the Menai Straits were yet unbridged, and the road by Penmaenmawr was as wild and difficult as in Dr. Johnson's days. When the coach drove into the " Swan with Two Necks" in Lad-lane, she had not a notion where to go or what to do next, and sat down upon her small trunk in the yard, to wait until the bustle or arrival should have a little subsided. Overcome with fatigue and anxiety she fell fast asleep. Such was the first appearance in Lon don of Sydney, Lady Morgan; and artists are not likely to forget a circumstance so picturesque,—.lthoueum, rho lied of le nt 2S, vas I nt He re la- ,ed he 13.14 25 10 st st 50 20 i. 4.0 19.16.4' (2.10 all 100 10' all all all ) all 100 100 100 100 100 88 i i 101 i 109 i