The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

MONEY AT ARKET. -• CITY NEWS—YESTERDAY. About £107,000 in gold was sent into the Bank A general meeting of the shareholders in the Bank of London is convened for Jan. 19. The Liverpool cotton market was steady, with Sales to the extent of 8,000 bales. We nuderitand that the tender of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for the conveyance of t he mails between Southampton and Brazil has been accepted by government. The new contract 18 for a period of seven years, and the previous sa tisfactory arrangements will be closely adhered to. The whole of the tenders sent to government for the West Indian mail service are believed to have been l ' e jected. Fresh tenders, however, are expected to be invited. Advices received, via New York, announce that dell eyrhole of th e £200,000 in specie and bullion, as as the cargo from Greytown, had been saved the wreck of the Royal Mail steamer Avon. The cargo consisted chiefly of indiarubber, and has e lyerienc e d b u t t r ifli ng i n j ur y from the water. Kittle hope was entertained of saving the vessel. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have announced Pqraent in due course of the dividend falling due Jan. 1 on the Venezuela 3 and 1-1- per Cent. " - ands, at th e rate o f 2 per cen t. on the former and i ' Per cent. per annum on the latter, as agreed to by Ta vern bondh o ld ers at a meet i ng h e ld at th e L o ndon on the 20th June last; also of the dividend fal ling due at the same time on the Venezuela 6 per Cent. Certificates which have been issued for arrears interest on the 3 and 1 per Cent. Bonds. The commercial advices from New York state that t he financial recommendations of the Committee of W ays and Means were expected to be adopted by Con gress with some modifications. The proposal 't hat the Government should already retract their P le dge to pay the interest on the national debt in gold was thought likely to be set aside for the mo ment, Mr. Chase having already borrowed from the banks enough to meet the sums on that ac count falling due on the Ist of January—nearly 4 8 00,000. Th at th e s t e p w ould be taken before e next period of heavy payments was consi dered certain. The proposal to limit the circula ti°ll of the various banks throughout the Union L taxation seems to have little chance of success It the face of the influence possessed in Congress Q.l . those institutions. The reports of the urgent tee d of the Government for means to supply their current liabilities were strong and general, and an it htuediate i ssue of additional paper was therefore t hought to be unavoidable. Experienced financiers We te preparing for this result, and were acting on .116 view that on the passage of the bill now under di scussion for the purpose the premium on gold will d t li h t4 P up to 40, with a prospect of a further advance moment the issues shall actually commence. the same time great doubts are expressed as to f aitlafulness of the figures lately presented by Chase of the total amount of the Government - " t • Business generally had been dull , a nd the can als are now closed for the winter. JITY NEWS-THIS DAY. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Th e enquiry fur money continues quiet, and the rtes still denote an abundance of money, and a te nde n c y to greater easiness. T he final call of £1 is to be paid on the sha res or t he Heref or d, H a y, and Brecon Railway Co. by th e 29th inst. There i s an i ncrease o f £897 i n th e traffic receipts of the Brighton Railway, but a decrease of £1,260 " the South-Eastern for the past week. tus-Lness in the Foreign and Colonial Produce 'larket during the last day or two has been more active. Sugars have been a little dearer, while ea free, cocoa, rice, and saltpetre have also been at 13Ti ghtly enhanced quotations. Tallow has been in 4it nited request at barely previous quotations, 1), 1'.C. on the spot and for spring delivery being marked 455. 3d. and 455. 6d. per cwt. respectively. Two O'CLOCK. There has been no alteration to -day in the Market for the English Funds, which, however, although quiet, are firmly supported. As the members are disposed to take advantage of the °PPortunity now afforded for suspending operations until next week, very few fresh engagements are ° Pened, and the market therefore exhibits an in- Iltive appearance. Consols are firm at 92,1 I for tea neY and the account. The New Threes and the 'educed A nnu iti es have been dealt in at 92 1 " ini r :lK Stock at 232 231; India 5 per 'Ants. 107/ ; Enfaced 5 per Cents. 1051 ; the 51 per i ft "ts. at 112 ; and the 4 per Cent. Debent ures ' 4 ; and Exchequer Bills 10s. to 149 . prem. T he be transactions in the Foreign Merket have ea circum scr ib e d, b u t n o important variation has ti c 'nrred. T urkish 6 per C ents ., 1858, 70,-; 71 ; dtt°, 1 862, 712 ; and the Consolides, 401- 41 ; 7, e , Bonds a re steady at 14 ; the Coupons at 94 4 ,v "ican at 32 ; Egyptian have improved to 95 1; ditto, 2d issue, to 931 941 ; Portuguese ti j I,oati is 4%- ; Spanish Deferred, 46 4 ; ditto Cer atCs, 8y ; Venezuelan 3 per Cents. 254.; and the l 'cv Scrip is flat at 2 1-a dis. the R ailway Share Mar k e t th e dealings con tve"eg "very limited, and prices, in some instance s, t re a shad e l ower. G rea t W e sterns, London and in Of e kwall, N orth B r i t i s h , and North Eastern I :lZ wi ek) receded 55., and South Easterns, 10s. V4tEasterns, however, improved 55., and South 'sterns 1, 59. The oreign and Colonial lines were without ma variation. South Austrian and Lombardo- F rit eti an remai ne d s t ea dy at 23i; Bahia and San gl llei eno at 20 ; Recife and San Francisco brought k ß l d ; G rand Trunk of Canada declined to 221 ; and r .as Five per Cents, improved to 1052 106. egO ib l4 . t- Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares Otid l i b . t ed no material change in values. London k az , ve attninster improved to 801, ; London and of A lli an brought 311-; Ottoman Bank, 33y7 Union l'eali llstr alia, 50 ; Australian Agricultural shares s ed 24,-1 ; and South Australian Land, 33. 11; ' 4 lli t s 13 1t1Tioil FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 t Pe -°e k 2331 4 2 . ... 1 4 1)4 etit. Reduced Annuities ~,,, e=it. Consols Annuities - I t)dia" Mockent. Annuities l, 2a 1 1) itt oit t ° ' Per Cent. )3;4° P,ufaced Paper, 4 per Cent -- bit to ° t Per Cent . , 4) 14 - , s 'i Per Cent. io'otteoi°B-o,ebentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 1001 , A c i v , for Account, Jan. 8 . 921 'll,l.er Bills £l,OOO, 21 per Ct. — b i „liitt o £SOO 'Le Small li Nzip 17.13 REIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. bitt i o ", 5 ~ per Cent. , i 3 Oti li per Cent., 1852-58-60 „ bi tt 411, 7 per Cent. q,,.. o s e 94 1 31 re e k Second Issue tbit t Per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons l i i eL e T l P ° n B )sz c, ,, itt o --, 0 Per Cent 4, lt, G Account 11 1) itt o tell acia, 2 per Cent ) rti le .,, e) over -due Coups. & Hectares • ~,es „ ... __. ,it t o 2 0 per Cent., 1853 ;Ditto " Q Pei Csnt 1862 " • 1 1 , 4 'iht' eri P, £2O pd .... 4 pm Ditt o s 'l Tier Cent. 1822 £ St — P, 4 41, 4 Per Cent., 1862 Vitt ) / 1 / 4 , Per Cent uit '"w Deferred . 1 ,4itliti.l Ac:eerT:li ip. not funded 81 ,te 6 - Pere Ce Cent. 1854 'UN, nt. 1858 vbitto paid-up 704 1 1 ,e21 1e i n ai djuP Scrip ', 3 itt - , - 9°Per Cent.. , .... -( rtt ° '''eo 1 0 G lint Per Cent 1862 (Scrip), £53 paid 2 la dis bato ti 21).1vidends.o, n the above payable in London. Dit t ' o 4 - Per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail _ Per Cent. Certificates lo2k %ti,,, Two 0 , (1 - .0(!-• bit N, Monev .0 A . „_ w • ount, J an . 8 9 21 i T i , ....._____ .tt COLD AT ST. PETERSBURG.--A letter from t%).0 I.Bblirg, in the Nord of Thursday, says :—" In the p eter rs'O L F r oan there h as no t b een suc h a w i n t er as this at ' k "rg-20 d egrees o f co ld ; the r i ver an d th e seak 4, em to, t ice for a l ong t i me past, and not a fl 1 , E(3 of snow. t 3 he glas s y f ros t, h orses and pedestrians cannot a ir is he upon either the road or the pavements. Tho ol4'Th'ereely d'cv ; we breathe it with difficulty. Ner tPie`)Ple are peculiarly affec ed by it; accordingly,. a no la4 k t i,, rB cit ' t except on :.lusiness, and of carriages a k n ., pro wr. 'AN ; ' l.B there are literally' none, even at the Nevs pe ttle,l'e, between two and four in the afternoon, where r ' l lutrily a great crowd," SiIARE MARKET...THIS DAY. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuh.S. SharP! Railways. Paid . ' Cg c i e n . g , Business Isir.. IVOL. and Str. Va Blythe and Tytw. Bristol and Exeter 8 84 83 85 115 116 'Caledonian Cork rtui Bandon Cornwall Do A (A trets •no div Do. B till Cpe.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin Belfast June. Gi 7 Dun.,Perth,& A b..lune Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasg. and S. Western ,Ord. Great Eastern, sik • Ditto A stock Ditto East Andian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great. Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western ... Do Sfr Val tuna. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and lllackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast .on., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Vi an., net, & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares.. . • Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid, Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee. Nth. Eastern—BerwicL Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Ste fford sh ire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aher. stook Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and I'Velchpool Shropshire Union South DeTon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington Do New, 1460 'Taff Vale. 110 Do C Ulster Do Do ' Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford do Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford Do Newpor • Do Hereford PREFERENCE S. 41 43 13 14 S 6 88 105 107 41 47 93 45 241 24t 1241 125! 128 129 135 137 104 106 61 Mt 1081 109 72 71 118 119 28 S 9 P6a 07 101 102 40 41 81 91 1281 12e , 1$ 11p 96 98 52 53 25 27 994 100 -d 56 57 F 8 EBl 125 127 107 1R) P 41. lif 118 120 474 48i 103 105 47 49 33} 344 88 89a 68& f9l 99 101 7 8 39 40 101 101 p 7i 74 147 149 44 5 28 3 p 558 F(4 28 38 p d 87 89 140 145 29 31 43 45 35 37 94i 24 ;HARES. 96 98 2Ci 21i tlf 7 111 113 91 93 112 114 111 113 129 131 105 108 '29 111 MO 152 [l7 119 112 114 05 107 08 110 98 100 98 100 88 90 89 01 ,02 104 77 79 170 175 104 100 33 140 103 105 116 118 116 118 136 140 116 118 155 160 '3l 135 80 LI 96 97 21 3 123 125 I m , C 8 70 fpm ;40 142 [O3 105 f,7 [lO 112 108 110 1 lin 93 95 EO3 105 98 100 P iP _ . _ .?3 23i Lei 101 !sris. & Exec. p. c. Do. shares f',ledon. qr. stirs, No. 2 cork & Bandon, 5.. p. c. Cornwall, 5 per c( Do. 4.; p. c. gua. perpet. Dun. Perth,& Abet ,Jun. Do. Ist Class Bret Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. C. guar. S. & S.West. gu. 5 p... G t. Ea stn, E. Co un Ex. 1 Do No. Do 6 p. c. pref Do. E. Angn A st 5 p.c. Do •• 7 p•c. Do, E. A crn. 13 6 p. c. pf. Do. do. C 7 do. Do, E. Union, 4 p.c. gua Do sp.o.gua Do.Norrk 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 Do. do. 5; p c. pref. 1547 Do.: p. c. Wavy. Val. '47 Great Northern, 5 p. c.. 1)0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c, pm. Do. 44 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redrr.atin.c.pn , Do. 11 ertford purchase. Do. 4,uton do Do.H.ALL. pur. 4p. c. pt Do. Luton pur. 5 p. c.pf Gt. N 1). of Scot. Ist prel G. Sn. & W. (Ireland 4 per cent Great West. (Berks an:' Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 4) p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. ct Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pre , Do. Birm. guar. stock Birm. pref. stock Do. Chester guar. share , Do. Chester s p.c. pf. shs Do. Chester 5 p.c. pc. shs Lan. & Carl. 4 p.c. pr e 1 Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stoe' Do. Barnsl.st£s 38 10dric Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 4i p. c. (Blackh. pur i.on.&Brig.sp.c.ar.. No. I Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. R pee cent. do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 7 per cent. pref. stl; Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P. Do. 4 p c. st. (di v.det.lll'w I,on.Chat. &Dov. sp.c.pf. Lon. & N. W., Coy. A' Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent Pt late 3d shares Do. (Portsm'th perpet anus. of 2g. 6d.) Sh. & Lin. 6 per et Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. Do. redeem. 6 percent... aryport et Carl. 4 pr. e. f)o. 4) per cent Midland Con. 6 p. c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p. c. Do. 41 p.c. pref. st. rdem Do. 44 p.c. irredeemable Do. 4 i per cent..... Do.Leic. andHit.4per ct Nort British. 5 per cent., Do. New vua. 5 per cent Do. Bor. Un. g. prf. shs N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. Do. 4a pr. ct redeemabl , Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pret Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. I Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. Do. York, IT. & S. Parch. Do. Carlisle 4 p........ Do. do. 4 p. c. N. London 4i p. c. £2O pt North Staffordshire.... Scottish North-Eastern .I p. c. pref. stock.... Do.Aherdeen,gua.6p Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock south Devon, Ann, los,. Do. Fixed 41) per cent Boutn Eastern(Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 44 per cent Do, Fixed 44 per cent "outh Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 44 per cent Do. do 1859 24 24a [O2 104 [O2 104 Do. 5 per cent Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua Do. 6p. c. gua 1 Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. e Do. B 6 p. e Do. C 6 p. e Taff Vale No. 1 Pref. titi atrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. c. W. Mi l d-Oxf 2d Ist do g - ua stl; Do.NewPort 5 p.c. pEred. Do. Pe D rpet.6 p. e. ti pf. 186 1866 o. ll 91 87 89 211 tli 28i 29i 336 39i 33i 31i 45 47 126 128 118 122 101 103 122 124 118 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ) Leasing Closing' Business Railways. i Paid. , Cm; Price. I Done. i -- _------ Birkenhead. Buckingh maaire lOO Do. 06 98 Chester & Holyilead lOO Do. Do. 5,6 per cent 100 IDo 126 128 Do. 5 „ 100 Do. I Clydesdale Junction 100 Cledon Colchester, Stour Val. 100 1 E.U.&G.E (8 70 E. Lincoln4h. gapr c. 100 Gt.Nerth. 136 138 Gloster& Dean Force all Gt. West. GLEE], tn. Newmarket &c., 5 per cent lOO Gt.Eastn. Do. E.U.llarwch. 4 p.c 100 D 0....... Do.Wodbrg. Ex. 4 p.c log Do Iln d and beiby all Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Lna&N.W 203 206 Lon. and Chat. Ext. 13 a per cent ...... Do 46 per cent lOO Do 6B 89 Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all Do. Do. New ShlBol, 43p.c. all Do 22 24 Do.Wi'. Ext. A, 46 pc. all Do .. . 81 6 London & Greenwic 100 S. Eastern 64 66 Do. Preferen L oi.,Tilb.& 3.. -"tend 100 Peto &Co 9O 92 Lnd'dr. &Ennis. orig. 100 Do. A' 100 'rish N.- Do. B 100 Western. Do. C 100 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do 6 per cent i 100 Do. 11Inc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& 31 4 96 Mid. 11radford Prefer ence stock Nor.Dev.Rail & Dock lOO L.&S.W. Do A stock Do 13 stock OO Jan.,1863. Do. Pr ference lOO Nortlin.&Eastn. sp. c. all Gt. Eastni 67 59 58 Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do ... 1.. .. N. Eastn—Hartlepool]l ( 0 ti. E. Beni .. .. North Western Not. Gran. Rl. & Cl. 100 Gt.North.l 95i 96i sei Preston and Wyre. 1 all L&N.W 1 &L. yk. 44 46 Do. 6 shares A. all Do. •• • • ..1 • • • • Roystn.HitehA Shep. 100 Gt. North. 136 138 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 L. &N.W.. 135 137 Do. Do. South Staffordshire lOO Ln. &N. WI West London, CI s A all W.Ln.lix, D o do I) . all Ln&N.W.I D o do C ' all &(it.Wst' I Wilts and Somerset no tit. West. 9B Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Brg,tn 1 9 8. pi FREFERENC Dividends contimren' ESH t on th [ARES ,e Profits BIND Si of each a, 'OCKS , parate Year. C a t 1 Easternon 0 — P 100 Kent Coast, p.ct. p:. B 2 i 1 r Stek. ti Lop.& 100 Do. do. 4.1 do. shares 4) Lond'n, Icc., 4 per cent. 1818. 100 Do. do. 4 per ct. 180 0 100 Do. do. 4k per ct. 18M, 100 Do. do. 44 per et. 1861 pn,ctc. 6p.c.2ci pt' 100 Do, Metrop. Ext 11,6 p.c.; all 100 North British £lO Gua.l Shares,...... all DoEd,Prth,&D'dee,4pc 100 Scottish Central 4) p.c. 102 101 103 10q P 1(2 103 id ip 103 105 92 96 103 105 to 1011 104 106 80 83 irred. pret S.-Eastern p.c. 1559 Do. 5 p.c. June 18 . 61 (rd ) Do. 5 p.c. Aug. 1861 (rd ) Stkton & D.trlg, tn. D,Pf Dp. do. Vale of Neath . 10 101 107, 10a 103. 101 284 294 gt 211 13.14 6.4.0 19.16.4 2s. 6d. , 1,•o.:e. 100 100 100 all all all I'o 100 100 100 all all all all all 68 i 1081 71,1 961 f 1011 881 8 131 k 1021 5 1 1 VI 88.2.8! THE SUN I LONDON, T crE S DAY E V NINING, DEC:RUB E R 23, 1862. LA W---THIS DA SHIPPING-THIS DAY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. HUDSON V. SIR P. SLADE AND OTHERS. LONDON, Dec. 23.—Wind this day at noon—North. Westerly; light breeze, and cloudy weather. The evidence being concluded. Sergeant Shee proceeded to address the jury in reply. He contended that although the evidence appeared to exculpate Sir F. Slade and others from giving the plaintiff into cus tody, yet it clearly showed that Mr. Bradshaw :was re spons Lie for the act, as ho accompanied the police to the station-house when the officers were first called into the Parliament-chamber of the Temple. The case will occupy the whole of the day. , . OFF HURST CASTLE, Dec. 23,—Arrived—Pera, steamer, from Alexandria. GLOUCESTER ; Dec. 22.—Sailed—Undaunted, for Si John's. DOVER, Dee. 22.—Wind N.—Arrived—Antelope, from Curacoa, for Amsterdam, with loss of an anchor and chain. TORBAY, Dec. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Princess Alice, from Tayforth, for Havannah. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Golden Horn, screw steamer, from London, for Melbourne, having lost both anch ors and chains off the North Foreland. Sailed —Minerva, for the African Coast. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 22.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Dromedary, for Ascension; General Caul field, for Madras. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE STRICKLAND. This was a meeting for last examination and discharge. Mr. Pook supported, and said that the case had been adjourned for the bankrupt to furnish a goods and defi ciency acccunt, which had been furnished, and he believed that the trade assignees were satisfied, as there had been no objection taken. , esday Morning. Arrived--- New York, SOUTHAMPTON steamer, from Tu Bremen ; Tartar, steamer, from Lisbon ; H avre and Alliance, steamers, from Havre ;Pera, steamer, from Alexandria; Dispatch, steamer, from Jersey, Sailed—Alliance, steamer, for Havre. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesda Morning. Arrived, Dec. 22—Sara, from Aarhuus ; y Sea Flower, from Guernsey, Arrived, Dec. 23—Cock o' the Walk, from St. Michael's ; Sir E. Banks, from Calais. A clerk of the solicitor to the assignees appeared, but his Honour said that he could not hear him. The solicitor ought to have been in attendance in person ; he wis allowed a fee of a guinea, and ss. for his clerk. He should there fore direct a memorandum to be placed on the proceedings that, on the taxation of costs, the solicitor's fee should not be allowed. :DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passsed, Dec. 22—Fairlie, for Sydney; Porchester, for Calcutta—both from London. Mr. Pook said there was no ground for opposition, and no creditor opposed. His Honcur granted an immediate discharge. IN RE GURNEY'. . _ SUNRISE FROM MOUNT ETNA. This bankrupt was described as a wine merchant, of Upper-road, Islington, and this was a meeting for last exa mination and discharge; but being stated by Mr. E. Reed, for the assignees, that an arrangement was pending for winding up the matter out of court, an adjournment was taken. The accounts are said to be heavy. In the Diary of the Duke of Buckingham, just published, is the following picturesque bit of description :—" Behind me rose the giant cone (Etna), looking pale and streaky and snowy through the uncertain light. By degrees the streaks of purple, which are the first avaunt couriers of the sun, began to spread themselves over the heavens and the bosom of the sea, which lay, like a vast mass of uncertain gloom, I know not how far before me. Almost in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, shoots of vivid red ran up from the edge of the sea to the zenith, filling the sky with masses of crimson shot with golden threads ; and after I had con sidered this extraordinary spectacle for perhaps two or three minutes, the streaks of golden light getting momentarily more intense and vivid, giving the effect more of a golden aurora-borealis than anything else, a speck of dazzling bril liance became visible on the surface of the sea; and, break • ing an awful silence which had lasted from the moment we km ur tuu mountain, my guide exclaimed, in a low tone, as if in fear, Ecco it sole ! ' Many men have sat down in their studios after having seen this great sight, and have contrived to put together phrases to describe it. I shall not make the attempt. The only idea which T think goes near to express anything like a similitud e to it, is to suppose that one could have been a solitary being standing upon chaos when God said ';Let there be light 1 '—and there was light ! I have been told by those who have seen the sun rise amidst the higher Alps, that the scene is grander there, but they have exclaimed their meaning to be that the sun has risen on Alps crowned by Alps in almost endless succession of vista, gradually developing each sunny peak,and lighting up each glittering glacier. It may be so; but so, during the first period of his early course, the sun appears to rise like a bene ficent Deity upon a new and beautiful creation. Man does not appear, and his cities are lost in the haze—nothing to be seen but the immense expanse of the sea, and of a beautiful world below. Gradually the mist rises, and the objects de velop themselves byslow degrees; forests show their colours, mountains their moving shadows, rivers their silver courses, and at last, best of all, the habitations of man their dimi nutive white cupolas, spires, and fronts." BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Shar 100 hailways atk I 20 204 100 1 Do. January, 18 - 62 .. Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Share: Do. New IDo. 6 p.c. '73 with't opi Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 4/ p. o. Extensim I De. 4, 1 if/O. Fifth Extension. p. o. Buds 'Melb. & Hobson's Ray. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds. Newßrunswick t Canda Class A Capital Shan Do. do. B Capital d 0... •N.Rl.C'da6 pc Ist pf bds 15cinde !Do. Delhi 1 • , Do. do 4 Do. Punjaub ,4a Do. Do. .- •• •• Do. Indus. St. Flo.) N•u K ru~rly Antwerp &Rotterdam. Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7p.o. Be; an East. Junction Copiapo bitto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ....... Do Eastern of France Grand Rue Giiar. 6 p. c. Gt. Luxem., Con. she Italian Junction Namur ,t Liege .... Do. 6 p. o. fret. Northern of France :Do. New Shares N.Rail. of BuenosAyres Gua. 7 p c., Lim Norwegian Trunk Pre' ovininsmyrna to Aidn) Paris,Lyons, ez Medi ter. INris t Orleens Portuguese Rail. Royal ,:eclie & S. Fran. D'in ua. 7 p. et. lim Riga Az Dunaburg I:oyal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre Az Meuse Do. 5i per cent. Pref San Paulo, lim, g. 7 P.C S.Aust,&Lomb Venetin S. East Portugal 7 p et. Southern of Prance Turin and Savona %V est Pianderu Do. 54 p c. Preference W. Az N.W. of France Atlantic ez St Lawrence Bom.,Barodat.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. Preference Bufialo,DrautAG odricl 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1572 Do. do. July 1, 187: , Do. do. June 1, IK-4 Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Li , Cape Town Sa Dock Seri] Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canals Do. 6,per cent. Pref.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gun. Paid, all all 100 (100 100 2 15 ICO 1100 all all all all all ail Closing Price. 6769 105} IG6 51 5a 8 84 77 (0 75 78 72 75 105 107 1071 108} 1064 1074 108 109 1 lip gP 224 124 74 76 61 66 35 37 48 52 34 36 34 16 107 1(8 1 lip in 105 106 13 in 7} 7i 98 100 90 92 dis 105 106 99.,► 1001 IcAILII , AIO It 74 If 2 It 7 5 li li P 201 21i 14 Ha 9 9} 20 21 40& 41i id ip 8 4 g i a 15} 03 41 43 . In I 8 14 16 i t 9 1 9 10 10 i i If 2pm 231 231 316 326 3 26d 7 71 10 106 206 216 51 53 3 5 3 83 65 1061 1074 1044 1054 P 1 I , 1105 107 101 103 Business donc 106} IN RE HUBBARD. This bankrupt was &scribedasof Alma-road, Bow, common painter, and this was a meeting for last examina tion and discharge. IN FM BARBER. Mr. T. Beard appeared for the bankrupt. Mr. Aldridge did not appear, and the order of discharge was granted. IN RE CROWRIIRST. This bankrupt was described as of Dartford, wheel wricht. and this was a meeting for choice of assignees. Mr. W. R. Buchanan appeared iu titappo:t- oo tha ru,tithm, and assignees were chosen. IN RE OATWAY. This bankrupt was described as a printer, carrying on business in the Strand. This was the first meeting, and Mr. David Nixon, manager to Marr and Co., typefounders, (successors to Wilson and Sinclair, of Edinburgh), was ap pointed trade assignee. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) EXTRAORDINARY COLLISION CASE--FORDHAM T. CHAMPLIN AND HORNE. This was an action to recover £l4 for damage to plain tiff's chaise, through the alleged negligence of ono of de fendants' drivers. Mr. Kemp (instructed by Mr. Beard) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Merry for defendants. This was a running down case, but a singular fact was stated. Plaintiff said he was driving his four-wheel chaise, his three daughters being in it, one evening about 9 o'clock, in the month of July, near the Hampstead -road. A van belonging to defendants came across the road at a rapid pace, and the pole struck the splash-board of the chaise, completely separating the fore carriage from the hind. The horse went off with one part of the chaise, and the other dropped into the road with plaintiff and his family. (Laughter.) Plaintiff retained his hold of the reins and was dragged about two yards. His Honour observed that it was a most extraordinary accident, and the only parallel he could remember was that related by Baron Munchausen, whose horse, being cut in two by a falling portcullis, one half remained behind, while the fore part tore off to the fountain. (Great laughter.) After some conflicting evidence the Judge nonsuited plaintiff. Nonsuit. POLICE-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. OUTRAGEOUS ATTACK ON A YOUNG FEMALE.—Henry Farron, a porter, living in Blue Cross-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt as follows : _ Edith Burnett, a respectable looking young female, stay ing with some friends in Soho, said—This morning about one o'clock I was returning with a friend from the house of some friends where I had been visiting. (The witness here became so nervous that she could not go on with her evi dence, and Mr. Tyrwhitt told her to sit down, and said he would hear the next witness.) Isaac Wharte, a young man living in Old Compton street, said—l was returning from a friend's house this morning at halt past one in company with the last witness, and on turning into Gerrard•street we were rset by the pri soner and several other lads, who pushed against us. I asked them why they did so, and the prisoner, who was the ringleader, immediately thrust his hands under the young woman's clothes, and moat indecently as s heassaulted ntly d in coulher. her own struggled with the prison er es w defence. I tried to take her part and to prev en t h er f rom b e ing subjected to any further indignity, when I was attacked by the whole of the fellows, my umbrella, of the value of 10s. 6d. was snatched from my hand and passed to one of the fellows, my friend's cloak was torn from her back by one of the gang who went off with it. A constable then coining up some of the fellows ran off, dropping the cloak, but my friend keeping tight hold of the prisoner he was secured. The cloak was afterwards picked up. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l hope you gave the prisoner in charge r Witness—l did, sir. The first witness was then examined, and in a state of great nervousness said—The prisoner was the first who assaulted me. All my friend has said is true. Prisoner stole the cloak off my back. lie, then seeing the constable approach, threw the cloak away and tried to escape, but I held him till the constable came. Luke Jeffrey, 209 C—On prosecutor giving the prisoner in charge he deni e d stealing the cloak and umbrella. I saw the pri whosoner's comp an i ons running away. Prisoner , made no def ence, was remanded. WE STMINSTER. TICIET-OF-LEAVE MEN.--James Naven, a determined looking fellow, was charged with the following disgraceful conduct:— Mr. George Roberts, proprietor of the Two Brewers Tavern, Strutton-ground, said that the prisoner came into his house last night drunk, and created a great disturbance by getting up a fight there. The uproar and confusion was so great by the defendant's misconduct that he was obliged to get the police io clear the house, and the accused was expelled with the others, but immediately afterwards, after kicking violently at the door, forced his way in, and seizing complainant by the throat in the same way as the garotte operation is performed, dragged him to the ground. He was then surrounded by others and ill-treated. Francis Fishey, 112 B, said that when he first entered the house to clear it, he found th e d e f en dant fighting with some women. Aft er the house was cleared, and when he went in a second ti me, h e found the defendant with his hands round the pr osecutor ' s throat. Witness se i zed the defendant, and, notwithstanding his resistance, brought him into the street, but there accused's companions rescued him, and he escaped. Police• constable 267 B said he afterwards found the de fendant in a state of nudity engaged in another disturbance in Duck-lane. Mr. Paynter asked what was known of the defendant. Inspector Caplin replied that he had only just been re leased from a long imprisonment. Mr. Paynter—ls he a ticket-of-leave man? Inspector Caplin—He is, I believe, sir. Mr. Paynter—Then, under that circumstance, I shall certainly not dispose of the case myself. I shall send it for trial. Another fellow, named Donnelly, was charged with being concerned in the rescue of Naven, which was clearly proved. Mr. Paynter—ls he known ? The police—He is the common associate of thieves. Mr. Caplin—lf remanded with the other prisoner w should be able to let the Court know more about them. They were remanded. MARKETS-THIS DAY. COLONIAL. TEA—There has been % fair demand for most descrip tions, and full rates are current for the better qualities. StioAß—The market has been dull, but prices have con tinued firm, and holders do not press rates. In the refined market dried goods fully sustain former rates. COFFEE —Only limited dealings have been entered into, and prices have remained without change of importance. RICE—The demand has slightly improved, and full rates are realised for good and superior descriptions. SALTPETRE —Business has been more animated, and enhanced prices are current for most qualities. TALLOW. —The market has continued dull, and but little business has been done, either for present or forward delivery. P.Y.C., on the spot, is quoted 458 3d ; and spring delivery, 45s 3d THE UPPER CANON ON THE FRASER RIVER As I have said, the view before entering the Upper Canon is grand. Looking up between the precipitous cliffs, the water is sees rushing through them at fearful speed. I hardly know which was more grand, the vie w f rom t hi s spot or that further on, as we got well into the canon, in which in some places the trail led up crags so steep that we had to clamber up them with our hands and feet, until we arrived breathless at the top of a projecting ledge, on which we were glad to halt a few minutes to draw breath and gaze with wonder on the scene. Before and behind, peak after peak rose 1,000 or more feet above us, altho ug h we were p ro b a b ly 600 or 800 feet above the river, each more rugged, bold and and grand than the other ; while beneath, the river, Whit e with foam, whirled along, gurgling and eddying, its wild reverberations continued in endless echoes.—Commander Alarm's Zritish. Columbia and,Vancouvcr Nand. A POLISH SALT MINE. We came suddenly upon one group of workmen, under a shelving ledge, who were occupied in detaching masses of crystallised salt from a cleft in which they worked. They were naked to the middle, having nothing on but coarse trousers and boots, and wrought with their crowbars and picks by the light of a few grease lamps held by grimy little boys, with shaggy heads—members, no doubt, of the same subterranean family. Some of the men were lying on their backs punching away with tremendous toil at the rugged masses of salt overhead—theirleads,faces,and bodies glitter ing with the showers of salt grit that fell upon them; while sthers stood up to their armpits in dark holes delving into the lower crevices. Seeing our lights they stopped to gaze at us. Was it possible they were human beings, these bearded, shaggy, grimy -looking monsters ? Surely, if so, they well represent the infernal character of the place. Never upon earth (the surface of it I mean) had I seen such a monstrous group ; shocks of hair all powdered with salt ; glaring eyeballs overhung by whitelashes flashing in the fit ful blaze of lamps; brawny forms glittering with crystal powder, and marked by dark currents of sweat I No wonder I stared at them with something akin to distrust. They might be monsters in reality, and take a sudden notion to hurl me into one of their infernal pits by way of nastime,in which case the only consolation would be that, where there was such au abundance ef salt, there would be no difficulty about the preservation of my remains. After all, there was something sad in the condition of these poor wretches—shut out from the glorious daylight, immured in deep dark pits hundreds of feet under ground, rooting, as it were, for life, in the bowels of the earth. Surely the salt with which other men flavour their food is gathered with infinite toil and mingled with bitter sweat I—Harper' s Monthly Magazine. ACCIDENT TO A RIVER STEAMER.—This morning an accident happened to one of the Iron Steam Boat Com pany's vessels Citizen H, which at one time appeared rather alarming. The boat had scarcely proceeded 100 yards from Waterloo-bridge pier when she struck upon something lying at the bottom of the river, which made a hole in her side. The water instantly cleared the cabin of its passen gers, some of whom were very much frightened. Another vessel belonging to the same company came to their assist ance, and all were taken off the injured boat without acci dent. The captain ran the vessel ashore ; but as the tide was running up, the afterpart of the boat and engine -room were, at one o'clock, entirely under water. Efforts are being made to move her further inshore. A POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO PENAL 'SERITI TUDE.—An ex-police officer, named Joseph Scott, has been sentenced to three years' penal servitude, at the South Lan cashire Assizes for forgery. In connexion with the police force, of which the prisoner was a member, a sick and burial society had been established, and having been ap pointed its secretary, he broke his trust and forged various certificates of death in order to obtain sums of money be longing to the proprietary. The Dublin Freeman states that Mr. Edward Levinge, of the Irish bar, who has - been appointed one of the new Indian judges with a salary of £5,000 per annum, and a retiring salary of £1,200, is well known by his pro fession as the author of the "Irish Justice of the Peace," a work of considerable merit. Tho learned gentleman was called to the bar in 1848, and is much respected. He is a younger brother of Sir Richard Levinge, Bart., M.P., for Westmeath, of Knockdrin Castle. The Constitutionnel of yesterday contains a para graph signed by M. Boniface, stating that it is authorised to give a complete denial to the news published by th• Opinione, alleging that in a conversation between M. de Sartiges and Signor Parini, the latter declined to resume any negotiations on the Roman question because they were not likely to lead to any result. The Constitutionnel also denies that the Chevalier di Nigra, Italian ambassador at Paris, had held similar language to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, as was likewise asserted by the Opinione. METROPOLITAN POLICE.—The following orders from the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police were for. warded to the various stations last evening All the men of the X division of police have returned from the International Exhibition to rejoin the several divisions to which they were formerly attached, with the exception of one sergeant and five constables, who will remain at the building."—" The Commissioners are pleased to state that a communication has been received from the directors of the General Omnibus Company, acknowledging the very efficient manner in which the Metropolitan Police at the Exhibition performed their duties, which was proved by the fact that no accident or injury occurred in the delivery and return or the millions of visitors." REIGATE ELECTION.—Amongst the probable candidates for this b oroug h , M r. Hi nde Palmer, Q.C., has been mentioned. H e h as l ong taken an active part on the Liberal aide in East Surrey, having nominated Mr. Locke on two successive occasions, and acted as the chairman of two Liberal candidates. He has recently received from the Liberal party at Lincoln a costly and handsome testimonial for the manner in which he has promoted their cause as a candidate for that city. NEW MODE OF BREAD MAKlNG._Experiments are now being tried, says the Paris Constitutionnel, at the central baking establishment of the Administration of Pub lic Assistance of a now system of panification, in which the leaven is replaced by carbonic acid and gas. This gas, which is introduced into the dough, gives it all the neces sary lightness without exposing the component parts to that decomposition which it undergoes in the ordinary fermen tation. The bread thus made is said to be agreeable both to the taste and smell, and it only remains to be seen whether the acidity produced by the yeast of the ordinary bread is, as some savant: affirm, indispensable for its di gestion. AN ENGLISHMAN IN RUSSIA.—An article in a French paper, published at St. Petersburg, says :—" Died at St. Petersburg, on the 26th November, 1862, Mr. Thos. Budd Shaw, M.A., of Cambridge, Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Lyceum, and Lecturer upon the same subject in our University. Mr. Shaw was only 49 years of age ; he died of an aneurism. This distin guished man was one of the most worthy representatives of the British nation that we have ever had among us, and leaves behind him the unanimous 'egrets of the large circle of persons who had the advantage of knowing him, His happy and amiable temper, and the firmness of his charac ter, acquired for him the attachment of those who were ad mittted to his intimacy, whilst his vast erudition, the origi nality and vivacity of his great intelligence, his talent as a writer, and his high moral qualities, to which was added a a re modesty, scour ed for him universal respect," ()LONIAL 00VERNAIENT SECU i; p.c.J a &July 1877-St Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Septa Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July.l Do. 5 Inscribed stock, Cape G. Hope, 6 p Do.Ap &Oct. 1880, Do. 18901 Do. Jan. & July, 1891_ , Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p c' N.1.1.G0v. 6 p.c. J a.&July Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct.' N. S. W. 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THE DERBY. 7to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 12 to 1 agent- HospodarHospodar (offered) 22 to 1 agst Automaton (take 25) 25 to 1 agst 3 arnicoton (offered) 30 to 1 agst Carnival (taken) 33 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (taken) 40 to 1 agst Melrose (offered) 60 to 1 agst The Beau (taken) 66 to 1 agst Taje (taken) 66 to 1 agst Tambour Major (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Overton (taken) I7ALIAN AFFAIRS. TURIN, DEC. 19. People heard yesterday with pleasure, but without sur prise, of the acquittal of the naval commanders Giraud and Avogadro, of the frigates Duca di Genova and Vittorio Emanuele, charged with allowing Garibaldi, in August last, to leave Catania and land in Calabria. After the re velations made by Gen. Cugia in the Chamber during the discussion which overthrew Rattazzi, and the publication of numerous ministerial orders and despatches, the public was prepared to hear that the two commanders would be acquitted. It was impossible, in fact, to pretend that they could have divined the wishes of the Ministers; the utmost they could have divined was that the Cabinet wished to throw upon them a responsibility it did not not like to assume itself. The acquittal is thus a posthumous censure of the Rattazzi Ministry. It must not be supposed, how ever, that the sentence was dictated by sympathy for Garibaldi and his expedition. No such sympathy in fluenced the naval council of war. It was the evident confusion of the orders given and the ambiguous tone of the despatches, together with the significance of previous occurrences, which produced the sentence. It was not very difficult for the defendant's counsel to show how indefinite and ridiculous were such instructions given to the commanders when they asked how they were to act • " Act solely in the interests of the King and the constitu tion." The Chamber of Deputies is closed, and the next session is to open at the commencement of February. The new ministry, it is obvious, has a large majority, and accord ingly it will not be necessary to dissolve the house and peal to the country, as was reported. The Senate, too, is fiuibhhig its wulk, so that a sort of thuwisy - calm is suc,Ted ing the storm of the last few weeks. The Sardinian Rail way Bill was carried by 63 to 30. At the head of its oppo nents was the engineer and ex-minister, Sig. Paleocepa. There is no doubt the state is going to a great expense in order to save the island from our "magnanimous ally." No clue has yet been obtained to the robbery of 25,000 f. belonging to the Rothschilds on board the Naples steamer. It is thought that the captain and chief mate will be ar rested, for it does not seem that the money was taken by any of the passengers. BARD 7IMES FOR 711 E AMERICAN PRESS. A letter from New York says a local calamity has hap pened that affects us more than all the bad war news. It is the advance of paper. Every newspaper is on the brink of ruin. Yesterday all of our daily journals (save one) ad vanced the price from two to three cents. It is said that all must fail, even at these prices, unless paper falls. Even Bennett, of the Herald, who has accumulated a fortune, has no idea that he can serve it, except in one way. It is announced that" James Gordon Bennett goes out of the Herald on the Ist of January next, and is succeeded by his son, who takes the whole business. The son is Jas. Gordon Bennett, jun." By taking this course, if matters do not take a favourable turn, the old Bennett may save a portion of his property, and have something to live upon in his declining years. Every paper that his son sells will be so much loss—meanwhile it becomes evident that his early rival (from 1835), the Sun, will take away all the ad vertising that the Herald has had for some years. It an nounced to-day, " The other New York City morning papers have raised their prices to 3c,, but the New York Sun will continue to be sold, as it has been for nearly 30 years past, at 21c." That is not all. Unless paper can be kept at its present rate all the journals in the city must fail ; they can not even issue single sheets. They have all united to make paper. Here is what they announce : " To CAPITALISTS AND PAPER -MAKERS.—The under signed, a committee appointed by, and acting for, the Asso siated Press in the city of New York, will receive proposals for the supply of the whole or any part of 300,0001 b, of paper per week, for five years, from the let of January next (or as soon thereafter as the necessary arrangements can be perfected).—M. S. Beach, Sun Office, corner of Nassau and Fulton-streets; Samuel Sinclair, Tribune Office, corner of Nassau and Spruce-streets." All of the weekly papers have raised their price from four to six cents. The Albion (British) has been raised to ten cents. The bookmakers and publishers are holding meet ings. They have resolved not to publish a book for six months "unless the price of parer fans below the present rate," SENTIENCE ON 7HRIE MURDERERS. Some time ago a frightful murder was committed atßen field, near Strasburg, on the person of Mdlle. Reibel, an old maiden lady of fortune (a relative of General Reibel, for merly commandant of the Strasburg garrison). The as sassins were speedily arrested, and were tried at Strasburg on Saturday last. Their names are Philip Gigax, George Ruff, and Xavier Wolff—all Alsaciens, whose habitual language is German, though they also speak French. They are all very young men. Gigax and Ruff are jour neymen bakers, and Wolff is a working mason. More horrible ruffians were never heard of. Gigax, the ring leader, was a discharged convict. He had heard that Mdlle. Reibel lived in a lonely house, and kept there a great deal of money which she had saved. They made three days' march with the deliberate purpose of murdering her and sacking the house. They arrived at Benfield at night, slept in a poultry loft, got up early in the morning, and murdered Mdlle. Reibel and her maid -servant by strangu lation, all three men laying huld of their throats together. They found a great deal of money, all in gold, in lucifer match boxes, but did not come upon the most considerable hoard. They are supposed to have carried away B,ooof. or 9,000 f., of which Gigax kept the largest share. His com rades went to Strasburg, and spent most of their plunder in a house of ill fame, where they were arrested. Gigax escaped to Paris, and afterwards faysured London with his company, but having spent all his money he came back to his own country, and was arrested at Saverne while he was plotting the murder and robbery of a rich Jew in Germany. They are all three found guilty, and sentenced to death. .RAILWAY 7 RAINS. At all hours of the day and night, in all directions, and at all points, the railway continues its wonderful and inces sant labours. Thus, last year, 1,902,069 passenger trains, travelling 44,594,359 miles, and 1,222,617 goods trains, tra velling 42,973,849 miles, were run in England and Wales; 275,825 passenger trains, travelling 6,044,655 miles, and 276,152 goods trains, travelling 6,558,777 miles, were run in Scotland ; and 174,445 passenger trains, travelling 4,416,462 miles, and 30,882 goods trains, travelling 1,553,338 miles, were run in Ireland. We thus arrive at the amazing aggregate of 105,141,440 miles as the railway work of the British islands for 12 months. Astronomical calculations indicate that the earth is 95,000,000 miles from the sun, and the unwearied locomotives accomplished this immense distance with an odd 10,000,000 miles to spare. Further, it would appear, that they traversed nearly 31 miles in every second which elapsed during the year. This prodi gious activity was not, however, attained without a great effort, and taking every item of working expenses into ac count, it appears that every mile traversed involved an out lay of 2s. 71d. The 12 great companies contributed to the year's labour as follows :—The Caledonian ran 38,489 pas senger trains, which trave sed 1,043,858 miles, and 104,689 goods trains, which traversed 2,342,663 miles—or 3,286,521 I miles in all; the Great Eastern ran 118,680 passenger trains, which traversed 2,951,069 miles, and 52,312 goods trains, which traversed 2,286,719 miles, or 5,237,788 miles in all; the Great Northern ran 17,306 passenger trains, which tra versed 2,715,124 miles, and 28,446 goods trains, which tra versed 3,605,505 miles, or 6,320,629 miles in all ; the Great Western (including the South Walesand West Midland) rata 190,787 passenger trains, which traversed 5,498,132 miles, and 92,360 goods trains, which traversed 4,141,129 miles, or 9,639,261 miles in all ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire ran 181,896 passenger trains, which traversed 3 ,415,300 miles, and 120,402 goods trains which traversed 3 ,001,020 miles, or 6,416,320 milesin all; the London, Brighton and South Coast ran 136,956 passenger trains which traversed 2,364,091 miles, and 23,210 goods trains, which traversed 407,026 miles, or 2,771,117 miles in all; the London and North-Western ran 228,036 passenger trains, which traversed 7,959,484 miles, and 195,888 goods trains, which traversed 7,724,804 miles, or 15,684,288 miles in all ; the London and South. Western ran 174,663 passenger trains, which traversed 3,113,898 miles, and 55,152 goods trains, which traversed 1,297,899 miles, or 4,411,797 miles in all; the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ran 55,301 passenger trains, which traversed 1,296,008 miles, and 33,376 goods trains, which traversed 1,375,810 miles, or 2,671,811 miles in all ; the Midland ran 132,941 passenger trains, which traversed 3,487,256 miles, and 151,933 goods trains, which traversed 5,398,190 miles, or 8,885,446 miles in all; the North-East ern ran 141,956 passenger trains, which traversed 3,313,154 miles, aid 119,854 goods in trains,and the whichtraversed 6,329,233 miles, or 9,642,387 milesall;South - Eastern ran 102,649 passenger trains , which traver sed 2 , 3 00,500 miles, and 9,392 goods trains, which traversed 691,217 mil es , or 2,991,717 miles in all. A consideration which adds to the interest of these wonderful figures is the fact that the work performed goes on incessantly from day to day, 100 miles having been run upon a f' esh account while the reader, himself snugly ensconced perhaps in cushioned carriage, has been conning over this somewhat bewildering paragraph. _ _ P JRYSTAL PALACE.--ONE SHILLING DAY.---MOll - 22.—Admissions on payment, 512; ditto by sea m tickets, 732; total, 1,244. AMERICA'S DAY OF RETRIBUTION. The following is an extract of a sermon preached on Thanksgiving-day, by the Rev. F. G. Clark, in the Presbyterian Church,Twenty-third-streer, New York :—" The substance of the strife, as everybody knows, is slavery. Settle this question and our battles end. Over this vast problem we are fighting the most desperate war the world ever saw. The questions to be decided are too profound for mortal solution. No man has yet risen up to tell us what to do with this institution, or, if once rid of it,what we shall do with the race thus emancipated. The fruit of slavery has fattened the nation. It has be• come the most influential thing in the land, because the most profitable. We found it first a foundling on our door stone. It grew up to rule the house. We baptised it and called it Christian. We canonised it, and called it Saint. We deified it and served it as God. God waited, but did not forget. If God is just, so huge a wrong can never die a natural death. The day of reckoning has come. What we have been hearing for a year is only the rumbling of the world's great clock before it strikes the hour of God's full time. God has taken this great question out of the hands of States and states men, and politicians. He &creed that it should not be adjusted ; and this because he is just. We are powerless now. We can fight and die, but we cart decide nothing. Why did we not conquer at Bull Run ? Our General never failed before. Our sup plies, our troops, our courage, were enough for vic tory. Why then a defeat P We would have conquered a hundred times, but God is not ready. His retributions are incomplete. He is holding everything in suspense until the world shall pause to give attention. He has a sublime work to do. The retributions now falling due are rising like a tide, and running into all the coves and fissures of society. Our land is more and more finding out what God means. God is just. Nations must remember tbeir sins. God is doing a thing in the earth which all nations will see and remember. Let us pray God to do this work thoroughly, if we can bear it. May he settle our troubles on the principles of truth and justice. Better have the gold in the furnace twenty times than have it come out aught else than gold. To God we commit, with implicit faith, our bleeding coun try. " Our soul waiteth for the Lord : he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name. AMERICAN _PA7RIO7IC HOPES. The Rev. Dr. S. Tyng, of New York, who is known by report to a large number of Englishmen, preached the sermon at St. George's Church on Thanksgiving -day. I n the progress of his discourse he said—No class, no form of humnn government, in its institutions and its promises, ever attained to an exaltation like this. lam grateful, under God, to those venerable and elevated men, the fathers of the generation past, who humbly and solemnly said, " We owe it all to the grace and beneficence of God. The people are the rulers by their elected represen tatives. They devise, enact, proclaim the laws, by their elective commissioned magistrates; they com mand their laws to be justly executed and enforced by their own appointed judges; they interpret and decide the particular application of their laws, as occasions demand, and having thus, in the majesty of their power and the right of their control, under God, from whose beneficence they confess the right to proceed to establish their authority, they claim, and rightly claim, that it shall be thoroughly and properly administered for their good; and having thus settled its authority in every department of execution of their sovereign will, they, as volun tary subjects of their own law, submit themselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be the king, as supreme, or to go vernors as unto them that are sent by them for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well; for so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. The justice of our ruler is a righteousness in the fear of God. It is not our theory merely to restrain, but to uproot the crimes of the wicked. Our inherited, adopted view of public justice is the protection of the innocent, the secured welfare of the deserving—the education of the ignorant —and the destroying those who destroy the earth. This has been the great positive scheme which the beneficence of God permitted our fathers to inaugurate for us, and have transmitted to us as our dearest inheritance. It has established a system of free public education, constantly im proving —proclaimed laws for the faithful honour ing of the Lord's Day, which have made, as the eminent D upon ceau declared, the American Sabbath to be the chief distinction and honour of the nation. It has constantly restrained and limited, and in some highly favoured sections of our country abso lutely prohibited, the sale of intoxicating liquors, the direct instrument in 40 years past of consign.. ing to a grave more than 1,000,000 of the men of our land. It has regularly compressed the power, denied the claims and testified against the wicked ness of African slavery, until it has realised the dawn, and given the promise of a universal eman cipation. It has solemnly testified for the validity and authority of public law, of majestic national sovereignty, over all inferior dissent, and against every aspect of individual and sectional rebellion, until it has even risked the issues of a war of un precedented extent, and of terrific inflictions of individual suffering and cast, rather than yield to any rebellion that national sovereignty and integ rity which is the o n ly f oun d at i on of individual security. It has raised up a spirit of energy transmit ted from father to son which will stop at no sacrifice, and flinch from no danger, in defending and main taining a national unity so justly dear. Can you suppose that a nation so educated will yield P It is impossible. Its going forth in its high progress is as sure as the dawn of morning. Clouds may come over it—l have unbounded hopes for the glorious advancement of my nation, and I have no abiding or overwhelming fears. No internal re bellion can break it down. No outward assaults in whatever combination can overthrow. ASSENECAL POISONING. ,! A. very serious case of poisoning is being investi gated at Revesley, about eight miles from Boston, in Lincolnshire. The body of an elderly woman, named Jemima Garner, has been exhumed, and the stomach, &c., forwarded to Dr. Alfred Swaine Taylor, who in his report states that he discovered arsenic in the stomach, intestines, liver, and heart of the deceased, partly in a soluble and partly in an insoluble form, i.e., as orpiment or yellow arsenic. Patches of colour were observed on the stomach, bowels, and spine, produced probably by a chemical change in the white arsenic contained in the stomach and bowels at the time of death. Yellow stains found on the spine were produced by arsenic escaping through the coats of the stomach after death, and yellow stains on the mesentery were caused by arsenic escaping through the coats of the intestines. The quantity of arsenic found in the body would probably be a fatal dose to a human being. This result was disclosed after only one-third of the viscera had been experimented upon. The body of the poor old woman was in terred so long since as December, 1861. John Garner, her son, and Elizabeth Garner, his wife, have been apprehended, and it appears they were both in the habit of behaving cruelly to the deceased, who resided with them. Thus, when the deceased was suffering from dreadful pain and sickness on her death-bed, she was refused brandy by her son, who said to her, " You've been torturing me with your dyi lig these last 30 years ; you're afraid of dying ; it's your Wesleyanism giving way.'' He then left the room, and did not see his mother again, although sent for twice. On another occa• sion he had been seen to beat and kick his mother. The female prisoner was also in the habit of swear biiner. until after Christmas. adjourned ing and calli ng a t th e d ec eased. The in quest , Christmas. —Blanch ester which has been commenced,ianeh t er Examiner. hass . The Special Services at St. Paul's Cathedral will commence with the New Year. Preachers :—Jan. 4, the Lord Bishop of London ; Jan. 11, the Very Rev. the Dean of Canterbury; Jan. 18, the Rev. J. Lawrcll, Incumbent of St. Matthews, City-road; Jan. 25, the Rev. Daniel Moore, Incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell. a of the ore s of as's ,m• Dg, Loll nce P er bat laad w as ant or, g il ,ed )0• to 07, stock stock stock 100 WO 100 100 100 100 stock stock 20f 20f 100 100 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 10 RO 20 20 20 100 100 ?0.11 101 i i