The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

) CITY LII.Y. mug's Lord with n re w aP- mlDalS Lori Alder- P., - Air. Sheriff lerman di, the on, and ecently sent. e Court ask for entable Lt great , wg ater gaol at ,pposed h those L. The time is metro s to the • no or it, oven to re - All et' d 010 0 1 'er bee° of the all the of Ow ing the s ystem ed With e world tion are as ago" —public B as 0' lass ell' also be ur Of a hat '0 n vie /r+ 1.11113e11 t d by 0° mar uestiaa. me we ome e ' led ou r time ag c ; tbers o f e opera' rvitodef mtence ° o effec t ' . elicit $ exult is improve an dir' ably be po ll the anteaCe' wrisou offence' v arieti ; elf 1184 ; to t he ristrateo asion to • , wag° ler tl O al with tted fat colonial !seal"' t° Pus" L 4 yea' waR it , at dif 6. r as 01 0 ' was Siii :obab i l' nen into k eref° r , e ' to tbel', d e ° : , v 0 03 )1-lealre' a coo3' st at l ei/ to oeltbe feeiiop to fler 13(1 °"1 ; nd tl3 MO.N El' NIA Ric ET. CITY NEWS -THIS DAY. T he s CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. up ply of commercial bills on offer continued very moderate, the mercantile community merely aePplying their immediate requirements, which are by no means extensive. There is, nevertheless, a tendency to firmness, probably owing to the con tracted circulation usual at this period, when large hw te : e e n v u e e r 7ileetions are in pr ogress . At 3 p er cen t., the mercantile public are enabled to nego tiate good three months bills in the open market, as well as at the Bank of England, and short dated Paper of a superior quality is discounted at 2i per cent. _ The operations in the Foreign and Colonial P roduce M arkets during the last few days have been of a very li m i te d description. Sugars have bee n a sh a d e cheaper, while tea, coffee, and cocoa have remained inactive, at about previous quota tions. Rice has been in very limited request, at , Slightly reduced rates, while a fair business has been Tallow in fruit, p i ces, and saltpetre, on former terms. 'allow has been in more request for both present and forward delivery. There is a decrease of £lB3 in the traffic receipts of the South Eastern Railway, but an increase of 41,99 6 on the Brighton for the past week. N otice has b een g i ven that 38 special bonds of t he Italia n 5 per Cent. Loan, 1862, have been drawn, and will be paid off on the Ist proximo. ..., T he telegrams from New York by ;th e P ers i a ' L ow an advance of nearly 2 per cent. in the pre mittel on go l d. The amount brought by (his eal : 4 er is £llO,OOO. Two O'CLOCK. There has been a brisk demand in the Liverpool cotton market to-d ay; sales probably 20,000 bales. The market for English Securities remains in T P r h e e e IB d e e l a y ti t ng he B same state as for several d a y s p ast . are altogether unimportant, and they do D ot produc e the slightest effect upon quotations, Which continue firm. Consols are 92k for trans ,,fer, and at 921 I:, for the account. The New 3 per C ents. and the Reduced remain at 92 I ; Exche quer Bills at Bs. to 12s. prem.; Bank Stock at 231 and 233; India 5 per Cent. Loan is firmer at 1071 I. A rather buoyant feeling has pervaded the Foreign Market, although the dealings have been r estricted. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are 83k 841 ; ditto, 1858, 694 701; the New Loan, 719, and the Consolides, 381 39; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents. have further advanced to 98 ; Greek Bonds, to 161 1, the Coupons to 61 ; Mexican, 311 4 ; Por tuguese New Scrip, 4 prem.; Spanish Passive are 1 3 1 ; ditto Certificates, 81 ; Italian, 711 9 ; and Venezuelan Scrip has improved to 21 dis. In the Railway Share Market the operations ha ve been moderately active, but prices have, in several instances, shown less firmness. Midlands 513. d South-Easterns have receded 55., and Caledo lusue, Great Easterns, Great Northern A Stock, an d North-W esterns 10s. North Eastern (Berwick), how ever, have improved 10s. Dutch T he Foreign and Colonial lines remained dull. Rhenish brought 17k 174; Great Luxem t", 14 ; Eastern of Bengal have declined to 106! ; 404 Madras 5 per C ents , h ave i mprove d to 1 04 k Joi nt -Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares concon tinuedquiet, at about previous rates. Ottoman brought 321 ; Union of London, 33 ; London u Br M a zilian, 301 ; C r y s t a l P a l ace St oc k , 379 ; an d ° Yal ail Steam, 564 1. IQ 13RI TISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES . V l ak Stock P e r Cent. Reducedßeducedd Annuities 9221f 1 3 i Nee Cent. Consols Annuities g e W per Cent. Annuities 92 1 2 "trinities, 30yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yr ' expire sth April, 1885 l5l Illdia Stock s D it to 5 per Cent. lO7l 1 itto D itto 5 per Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Cent 1 Ditto Debent ures , 4 per C ent., Oct., 1863 105 ..,„ Ditto ditto Au g . 1864 or 6 6 1001 Ditto Bonds 21,000 Ditto under £lOOO consols for Acco , unt,7Jan. 8 ,Itt dia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .. • Chequer Bills £l,OOO, 21 per Ct. Ditto £5OO Ditto Small 8 12 FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Buenos A.yres 6 per Cent ee 'L 6 per C t 1 824-5 ex-Coupons bit P en '' - ' kr to Coupons 6 1 1 Z4, 3 1 x 1e . tl 6 per Cent. (Nlaremmana Railway) 73 2t 31 311 1 b, le n, 3 per Cent p e Ltto A ccount 311 1 iP'") 'ill 4f per Cent — P KEG 41 Ne w, 481 1 .o t u z 1862, A Scrip, £B3 paid ll dis );...tgUese 3 per Cent., 1853 !i1t.., 1 '." 0 S crip, £2O pd tarliitto .... 4 31 pm D itto 5 per Cent 1822 £ St .. 961 Oto 3 per Cent. 1859 6Ol, 6 per Cent., 1862 931 1 t i ., 4 ,Au 5 per Cent. ki 4 ' o Account Pl eigh 3 1):, per Cent Ditto New Deferred -- . , 1tt 0 A 46, 7k Dit to ecount ............ S Passive.. 6, 1 , 44 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditqen Apo Cent. 1858 bi„o ullt • D itto' 41° ° Bonds Ditto 6 P e r Cent., 1862, Scrip £6O pd 3 pm ve_ per S ri ' 71 1 701 11 -.Jilk,e4llcilit, 3per Ce e nt P 241 t ° 6 , Per Cent., 1862 (Scrip), £53 paid 21 dis I tali an, I) , ividends on the above payable in London. ' Per Cent., 1861, Ex. 2sf. e0, ,,i D' 8 ' 0 Ittke A __ o ll eY THRE E, 2 O I' C ILOCK. -.,:e unt, Jan 8 921 1 at ARRETS---THIS DAY. do lb , RAY MARKETS. -Wlt LD.--I\readow hay, £1 16s to £4 5s ()d; clover, 104c.,,,108 to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 16a per o tt Irade dull. A moderate supply. 3 1041 : thLA wn..-11.1etylow hay, £1 16s to £4 5s ; clover, 130 t111" ° X 5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 16s per load. A v ay and straw moved off stowly at late rates. do ArrießAPEL.—eadow hay, £1 16s to £4 , 4 ;4 — ' 1 % to £5 lOs ; h and straw, £1 12rt to £1 16s per t load. °W demand. kid -1:14 „.. - COLONIAL. :" - -b , 134 resale pr ie „. - uas n a very li m it e d b us i ness t ransac t e d, have d without change of importance : tleeer o l 4: t:,,,411.-The m ar k et has been dull, and in some iii (:lPt.:s a sli ght decline h as t a k en place in prices. Refined iclas Duly een dull at about previous quotations.. tol orl ;P,E•--limited dealings have been . recorded in hi'aL qualities without any material alteration in prices. 411 e There•-- has been a moderate demand for good and qualities of East India at about late rates. trit:4-IPETaz.—Business has been moderately active, full ..,,s being current for British refined, 114;4X,Low.—The market has been movementsore active, and prices, fi lth ° shown an upward for both present r and ept?,:e delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 45s 9d, and n delivery 46s int cwt. COAL INI :N oes of Coal per Ton al 1340 S. d. Car te Wes c Hartley .. 15 0 1,-,43' anti Duffun ~d ti 22 0 ~,, b c , • ....... .. : lass' o ' A tithracite..2o 0 tD... Belaside West _ ortleY ......... ...15 6 Tt 8 Primro ..... 14 0 .I, Meld k l 4 3 a uR„, gorge ...... 4 _ I‘,T;Vcl Moor 8ute5....1 6 1)::o . l'elton Ga5,....14 6 ilsF3e4,llartley . ... 15 6 Je y °I I 8 West Hart ttkititi ... ............ 15 6 tiolyw(ecl Rartley ....15 6 tafilb_ 1 • ...... • .... 17 0 le ert a West Bart' 1° ,1 11Y4' :0 0 :„; , et • x; ...:, ..... 15 6 .._Or'l a l , l ::.-: " . ........... 6 Eti" 4111 ........... 16 9 WeCt.e",cl Steam ...... 14 0 4,:artley ••`••...15 6 Ships at market :ARKET. the olose of the market. e. d. Walker Primrose 13 9 Wylam 17 0 West Wylam 15 9 Walls End. Hetton .. lB 6 Thorpe .. ..16 0 Belmont 16 3 Tunstall Haswell lB 6 South Hartlepool 17 0 Trimdon Hartlepool lB 0 Eden l6 6 Acorn Close ..16 6 South Hetton ...18 6 Stewart's 18 0 Hedley l6 0 Cassop ... l7 0 Russel's Hetton 17 3 Peases West .15 6 Framwellgate l6 6 , 153; soil, 116. e°44 IR A TRAD E , D ec. 15 . —Th e deliveries in 4 41°4 estirnated for th e wee k were 999 , 017113., which is ketiteNBe of 16 ,3561 b., compared with the previous state• 1 0A s , h eti : " T HE PRIEST WLAUGHLTN.—The pro 44°":cn'eti°4 of suspension and liberation has ended i irn leell:i4g. on Saturday last, the Right Rev. Btsho f r a m u e. ibloriai"lll/1 Catholic Bishop of Glasgow, 411 kbl °I. Petition. to the Home Secretary se , n c t o o uched in 4441: ter arid asking a curtailing of the sentence, acious l'tie ol:t the ground that the flock of the contumacious time 14 keatlY require his presence, particularly at Peti to4 e great annual festival of the Church is h The ° e 1 11:,. ' W 8 UnderAtand, admits that M`La . ug linerred in , 11 ` 1 :1 e ,: pee t B ; and also states the fact of his knowing that A 1:311: li-tt4ds k ett t'Etble r t t o l l e ie r n at an who stole the cash from the letter. r , (.1 ~e l ply from Sir George Grey is confidently . ex -411 J:tte petitionk also alleges that, considering the with a case of conscience, the sentence tli.",eodo. sevee. 7 . l l'Laughlin meanwhile is employed, Ho Illtalizeq,liatt•threellitilasuaaal3p, risen dress, in picking Cotton. ath 8. visitors--quite a levee of symp i tti 44(1 people ill magi LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. _ . ------, 1 1 Leasing Closing Business Railways. ;Paid. CO. s Price. Done. Birkenhead.. . lOO Do.&G.W 89 01 Buckingh-mshire.. .. 100 Do, Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do Do. 51per cent 100 DO. Do. 5 „ 100 Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Cledon lO3 105 Colchester, Stour val. 100 E.U.&G.E 68 70 E. Lincolnsh. g6pr c. 100 Gt.Nerth. 136 138 Gloster &Dean Pores all Gt. West. -- Gt.Ea- tn. Newmarket &c., 5 per cent lOO Gt.Eastn. --- Do.E.U.Harwoh. 4 p‘c 100 D 0....... Do.Wodbrg, E. 4 p.c 101 Do . Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 111 113 Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 202 205 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do 41 per cent..... 100 Do. B7 89 Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all D 0........ .. • • Da.New ShlB6l, 41p.e. all Do ..... ... 22 24 Do.Wn. Ext. A, 41 pc. all Do. .... ... at I London & Green.wlo 100 S. Eastern 64 66 Do. Preferen -e Lon.,Tilb.&S.nthend 100 Peto &Co B9 91 Lnd'dr. &Ennis. orig. 100 Do. AI 100 Irish N.- Do. BI 100 Western. Do. C i 100 Lowestoftgua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk . .. Do 6per cent lOO Do. I•• • • Binc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& 3 I 4 11 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Nor.Dev.Rail & Dock lOO L.&S.W. Do A stook lOO from Ist Do B stock lOO Jat1.,1803. Do. Pr, ference. ‘. • , 100 Northn.&Eastn. sp, c. all Gt. Eastn 67 59 Do. 6 per cent..... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 100 N. E. Ber .. .. North Western Not. Gran. RI. & Cl. 100 Gt. North. 951 961 NI 51 Preston and Wyre. 1 all lALN.W &L.Yk. Lsk. i 44 46 Do. 5 shares A. all Do. ••• • .. .. .. Roystn.liitoh.&Shep. 100 Gt. North. 136 138 Shrewaby & Hereford 100 L.&N.W.. 135 137 1355 0 Do. Do. South Staffordshire West London, Cls A all W.Ln.Ex Do do B all Ln&N.W. Do do C all &bit,Wst, Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West, 92 94 Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&Bren 81 94 . . PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOOKS Dividends contingent on the Prate Of each separate Year. --- et Caledon. .E10(lna. Stoic 1045 - 102 104 1 lie D n o t . C d o o a . st 4 , 6 4 d p ,s .c . t f . th p a l r . e ß s ; 4 :1 p P :P p 1 st Gt Eastern sp. c. pref.l 100 106 108 6 1 8 0 a per centktw4... t Lon.& i a .. 11 . ,4 . 4 .. p . i y i . B, s s k . 84 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1(2 103 1011 3 et Lond'n, tz i st Do. do. 4# per ct. 186(1 100 —r.getn, (tc 4 ,in tte 0n et. , 18611 3 5 Do. d. 45 P p e e r , ct. 1861 100 1 1 0 90 3 32 at Do. do. o st Ln.Cht 105 01065 1045 10 Do, Metro'p.fixii.l,,e.6-cipPf et Lon. &iS.NVestern 44-c. I at O tt Ds N eo o Bo r it ; tda l i i British XlO G I ,; c. : 0 00 211 1 1 8 0 1 3 1 8 10 0 5 1 0 r , s f e h ' s ; t c h i. e B , & 1 6 , :D r a ' cl; e 4. ei p i • P: c 4• 100 a11 8 - 0 — B3 erred. pref ... . , . 100 10 S.-Eastern 45 P.C. 1859.. all 10 Do. 5 p.c. :June 1861 (rd.) all 10 3 10 10 Do. 5 p.c. Aug. 1861 (rd.)l all lo g 25 'Stkton &D u Igin. D,Pf, a ll 9 10 25 Do. L.°. 1 all 28i 29 _ , 20 1'419 91 lioth IA .. t,•,. . ali 201 215 SHARE MARKET....THIS DAY ORDINARY SHARE AND STOuhS. Railway& Paid Closing Business Price, done. Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and .Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter 'Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A (A ,gets no cliv Do. B till rip c.p an.lins, been paid to B.' Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. ,Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk! Ditto A stock _ _ Ditto East Anw,lian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland Great Western ... Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire ;London and Blackwalj Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western I Lon. & South Western IMan., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do I 5hare5........., ;Metropolitan (Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby I%Tid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British lEdin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire and S. W. Junction !Scottish Central IScot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. 'Mid. stock Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union ISouth DeTon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. .. Do B Do C "Inter Do ...... Do IVale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford dr Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.Stit West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford ~~ `l'i: f 13.14 8 8 - - 83 85 fi 6 1 115 116 Ei 7 41 43 13 14 86 88 104 106 46 47 43 45 24i 24 1241 125' 1.28 120 135 137 104 106 671 (81 55 57 108 f Io9i 72 74 117 118 18 39 95i 06 101 102 40 41 9 91 [2Bi 126! 1 1 lip 96 98 51i 52 25 27 991 99/ 56 57 88 !81 125 127 106 108 41 440 1u 111 118 120 474 484 103 105 47 49 334 34i SSf 88i 00i 99 101 7 39 40 10 10a f r 7 74 p 146 148 44 5 2 3 p 554 564 21 34p d 8 89 L4O 145 29 31 43 44 35 37 94i 35 115} 861 46f & 44 125 129 i 68 7 i 10/4 731 1(8 171 pit 1281 i } li p 99 111 d 96 61 1011 Bris. k Exet 4 p. c. st Do. shares Caledon. qr. shrs, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. C. Cornwall, 5 percent Do. 4: 5 p. c gua. perpet Dun. Perth, Abcr.Jun Do. Ist Cidss Pref . ..... Edin.SLGlas.s p.c. sharef. Do. 4 p. c. anat.& & D.. Glas.st S.West. gu. 5 p.:‘, Gt.Eastn, E.Conn. Ex. 1 Do No. Do 6 p. c. pref Do. K Angn A st 5 p.c. Do Do, E. Agn. B 6 p c. pf. Do. do. C 7 do. Do. E. Union, 4 p.c. gua Do 5 p. c. gua Do.Norf'k 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 Do. do. p.c. pref. 1947 Do. 5 p. c. Wavy. Val. '47 Great Northern, 5 p. c.. D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm. Do. 44 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redn - ..atsp.c.pm Do. Hertford purchase. Do. Luton do Do.II.AL. pur. 4 p. C. pt. Do. Luton pur. 5 p. c.pf. Gt. Nh. of scot. Ist pref. Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland 4 per cent Great West, (perks and Rants Ext) 5 per cent Do, redeem. 44 p. et Do. redeem. 4 p. et Do. irredeem. 4 p. et Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref Do. Birm. guar. stock Do. firm. pref. stook Do. Chester guar. shares Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. sits' Do. Chester 5 pko, pl'. shs Lan. & Carl. 44 p.c. pre! Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock Do.Barnsl.st.Cs 3s 10dpc Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 44 p. C. (Blackh. pur Lon.&Brig.sp,e.gu. No.l Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. 5 per cent. d 0... , Do. 5 per cent, do. No. Do. 7 per cent. pref. stk Do, 6 p.c. do(W.E.SiC.P.) Do. 4 p c. st.(di v. deLlil'a Lon.Chat&Dov. op.c.pf. Lon. & N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent et., late 3d shares Do. (Portsnt'th perpetl anns. of 2s. 6d.) Sh. & Lin. S per ct Do. VI Do. 31 pe rcent, .. Do. redeem. 6 percent )]aryport & Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 44 per cent..... NTidland Con. fS p. c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c Do. 44 p.c. pref. st. rdem Do. 44 p.c,, irredeemable Do. 44 per Cent. . Do.Leic. and tiit.,4per ct Sort British, 5 per cent. Do. New gua. 5 percent Do. Bor. Un. g. prf, shs N-East. Cons, pref. 4 P.C. Do. 44 pr. et redeems - b 1( Do. G.N. E. 4 p. ct. pref Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quars, 1848.. Do. York, H. & S. Perch. Do, Carlisle 44 p. c. Do. do. 4 N. London 44 p. c p. . £2O pi North Staffordshire.,.. Scottish North-Eastern 3i ps C. pref. stock.... Do. Aberdeen,gua.6p.e Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 44 per cent South Ea6tern(Reading Ann., 1.0.6) . • 1L)o. 4 per tent Do, Fiked 4i per cent South Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 44 per cent Do. do 1859 Do. 5 per cent. S. Yorlnhire, 4 p. c. gua. Do. 6p. c. gun. Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c... 1 Do. B 6 0... Do. C 6 p. c... Taff Vale No. 1 Pref. ... atrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. c. 311d.-Oxf telt gua stk Do. 2d do. Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. Do. Pe: pet. 6 p. o. pf. 1866 Do. till 18691 PREFERENCE SHARES. 6.4.0 t 9.16.4 12.10 95 97 20i 214 di 7 111 113 91 93 112 114 111 113 129 131 105 108 29 131 148 152 117 119 112 11l [O5 107 [OB 110 98 100 98 100 88 90 89 91 102 104 77 79 170 175 104 100 138 140 03 105 16 118 16 118 38 140 16 118 55 160 31 135 E 0 B 2 96 97 21 3 124 126 iPm (8 70 I 140 142 103 105 156 tv lo tv.l. A 110 1 tip. 03 9 . 5 103 105 98 100 111 •• P IP 224 234 i6l jot 24 24 ( 2 104 LO2 104 87 89 21} 28 29 33 34 33 84 X 4 5 47 12(1 12,8 120 124 100 102 121 123 117 120 100 100 100 all all .!. 8 2 i 4 991 e ~ ~ V e( i ' ' ' TIM SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER x3G '1862. LA W---THIS DAY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. SLANDER- KOENIG V. RITCHIE. Sir Fitzroy Kelly this morning opened the case on the part of the deiendants. The learned gentleman was ad dressing the court when we went to press. The case will not conclude to-day. LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening. CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) THE WIDOW AND HER £BO. _ _ -- -- Edward Wood, du s t contractor, was indicted for feloni ously receiving a sum of money, well knowing it to have been stolen. He was also indicted for the larceny. From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutrix, Mrs. Stiddolph, a widow, residing at Bermondsey, where she carried on the business of a confectioner, and being in pos session of a considerable sum of money, £BO, she placed it for security under the fender in her bedroom. By some means or other it got removed to within the grate, and the servant girl one morning shoveled the two pieces of cloth in which the money was wrapped up in into the ashes, and threw it into the dust-hole. A short time before the money was so accidentally disposed of a argo quantity of almonds, which had become useless to Mrs. Stiddolph, had also been consigned to the same place, and the dust collector's cart having arrived, the men were called in to cart the refuse from the house. The ashes were taken to the prisoner's premises, and there left, and the peculiarity of the heap was marked by the immense quantity of almonds it contained. Atter the ashes were on the pri soner's premises a lad informed him that one of the men had discovered a lot of money in the dust. He then went to them, and they gave him £l5 as his share of the disco very. Some time after inquiry was made by Mrs. Stid dolph relative to the money, and the fact that a quantity of worthless almonds was also mentioned as being in the dust which was taken from her house, which it was also said contained the £BO which, with the exception of one sove reign, consisted entirely of half sovereigns. The prisoner, it was afterwards discovered, had paid lls. 6d. to the parochial authorities, and also £2 10s. for some clover, amongst which was one of a very peculiar de scription, and to which the prosecutrix swore as her pro perty. On inquiry being made, the prisoner denied the finding of the money, but he afterwards said that some coin had been discovered by the men, and that, according to the practice of the yard, the men gave him a half of the found money—viz,, £l5. The prisoner was then taken into custody, and as he was being conveyed to the station-house he told the constable that when any money was found it was always divided between himself and the men. Notes, he said, were fre quently found ; and with respect to the money in question, he said one of the boys told him that £45 had been found amongst the dust in the yard, and that he had received £l6, which he had paid away. He had given £9 Ile. 6d. to Mr. Riches, and £2 102. for some clover, and the rest he had advanced to his men, which he was to deduot on the following Saturday. A statement made at the police •court by the prisoner was also put in and read ; it stated that the money was found amongst the dust collected; and that he received £l5 as his share. When he was first spoken to about the money he denied all knowledge of it ; but he afterwards made an offer to repay the prosecutrix all he had received from the men. The Jury were of opinion that the prisoner was guilty of receiving the money, and that he did not give himself any trouble to find out the owner. The Common Sergeant—Do you mean to say that when the prisoner put the money into his pocket he reasonably believed the owner c ou ld b e f oun d ? The Foreman—Yes, my lord. The Common Sergeant—The property then was stolen. You must now say whether the prisoner received the money under circumstances that induced him to belicve it had been stolen. The Foreman—We find him guilty of receiving the money, well knowing that the o wner could be foun d , b u t we strongly recommend him to mercy. '1 he Common Sergeant—Will you say whether you are of opinion that the prisoner believed that he had a right to the property found as his perquisites ? The Foreman—We think so. The Common Sergeant, in passing sentence, told the pri soner he had been found guilty of a very serious offence; but at the same time, he must admit, it was under very peculiar circumstances. He thought it could not be too gene rally known that such as plate, jewels,or money did not belong to parties finding them, but that they were bound to take the best means in their power to discover the owner. Under all the facts of the case, he thought he might safely in the present instance pass a light sentence, but he did not mean by that to mark his opinion as to a person appropriating money, as had been described. He thought the prisoner laboured under some idea that he was entitled to the pro perty; and, as he had before remarked, the case was some what peculiar, he should sentence him to two months' im prisonment In the House of Correction. NEW COURT. (Before Commissioner Kerr.) Frederic Leighton Chft, 25, basket maker, was indicted for unlawfully being at large before term of penal servi tude, to which he had been sentenced, had expired. Mr. Clerk and Mr. Besley prosecuted, and Mr. Kemp defended the prisoner, who pleaded guilty. It will be recollected that the prisoner was one of two brothars, named Clift, feather dealers, residing at Peck ham, who were about two years ago indicted for and found guilty of setting fire to their premises, with intent ;o defraud the Globe Insurance Company of the money for which he had insured his property. They were convicted and sen tenced to 10 years' penal servitude, but previous to the prisoner's being sent out of the country he was transmitted to Millbank Penitentiary to undergo the probationary part of his sentence. A short time after his entering the Pene tentiary he contrived to effect his escape therefrom with an other prisoner, and remained at large until he was taken into custody on another charge, viz., for forging and utter. ing a bill for £44, with intent to defraud. The'Commissioner sentenced the prisoner to 15 years pOlial servitude. POLICE-THIS DAY• MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN UNIAPPY PAIR.—THREATENING A WTFE.—WIII. Norris, a pattern card marker, 55, New Compton-street, Soho, was charged with threatening his wife Mary Ann, Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for the complainant, a respectable looking young woman, and said that the parties had only been married two years, and for some time past the defendant had threatened his wife with great inhumanity, the sole cause for it being because his wife was in the family-way. The defendant had told his wife that he would not strike her, but that because she Was about to give birth to a child he would, by his conduct to her, put her in her grave in three months. Last January the wife, through the defendant's ill-usage, had been delivered of a dead child, instruments being used. Ho (Mr. Lewis) would call the wife and then ask the Magistrate to show the defendant that if men would act like brutes to their wives they would be punished. The wife then deposed that her husband had for some time ill-used her, but had latterly said that he would not strike her ; but he was in the habit of violently shaking her, and said that ho did not like children or the idea of her Jawing thorn. The defendant said he never remembered using any threats. Mr. Tyrwhitt said they had better live apart. The defendant said ho did not wish to live apart. Mr. Lewis observed that they could not live together. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the defendant was a poor cowardly fellow to harass his wife in her then condition. He should make the defendant find one bail to keep the peace to his wife for three months, and he would tell him that he con sidered him a pool miserable fellow. THIRD EDI NON. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 13. The Quee n h as b een pleased to appoint Ro b er t W i ll iam Gifford Watson, Esq., to be Chief Magistrate for her Ma. jesty's settlement of Lagos. DEC. 15. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Byerley Thomson, Esq., to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon ; Richard F. Morgan, Esq., to be her Majesty's Advocate for the Island of Ceylon ; and John Comber Browne, Esq., to be Superintendent of Go vernment Schools and Organising Master for the Island of Mauritius. FOREIGN OFFIPE, Nov. 7. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John Elijah Blunt, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Adrianople. to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Adrianople. DEC. 13. The Queen has been pleased to approve ef Mr. C. Kramer Waller as Consul at Newcastle, New South Wales, for the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg. WHITBHALL•PLACB, DEC. 15. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury has, under the authority of the Act of the 13th and 14th years of her Majesty's reign, chapter 94, appointed the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole to be a Church Estates Commissioner, in the place of William Deedes, Esq, M, P. deceased. BANKRUPTS. That portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had not arrived when we went to press. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 161 11 17 Antwerp.. Brussels — 25 421 25 50 Hamburgh .. 13 61 13 61 Parisl7f 25 25 Ditto Niarseilles Frankfort on Maine —118 k Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin — Madrid .. — 49 49/ Cadiz Leghorn — 25 52/ 2.5 57} Milan . ... 25 55 25 60 Genoa — 25 55 25 60 Naples Palermo .. 1193 119 Messina .. 1191 119 Lisbon — 521 522 Oporto — 521 523 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z...... a 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons 0 0 0 SHIPPING---THIS DAY. LONDON, Dec. 16.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather. OFF DOTER, Dec. 15.—Arrived—Centurion, from Syd ney, N.S.W. DARTMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hen rietta, from Helsingfors, for Rio Janeiro, with jibboom broken. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind S.—Arrived—Her Ma jesty's ship Emerald, from Gibraltar; Lady Melviile, from London, for Melbourne ; Mary Sheppard, from London, for Sydney. _ _ _ FALMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Falkland, from Moulmein. LOUGH FOYLE,Dee. 16.—Arrived—Jura, screw steamer, from Portland, U.S. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAYESBND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—AVillkomman, from Riga ; John Pickard, from Groningen ; Teaser and Countess Leicester, from Guernsey; Isabella, from Rio Janeiro ; Hope and N....athilda, from Uottenburg. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Earl of Hardwicke, from Madras, for London; Psyche, from London, for kit. Michael's. ;,-,j,l9red—Deux. Manes, from London, for Nantes ; Britannia, from London, for Newport, Advices from Lyons state that the sale of raw silk is difficult there. The merchant s o f L yons, ta ki ng i n t o c onsideration the great increase in the quantity of foreign silk imported into France, have decided, it is said, on build ing storehouses for its reception. Japan produces 3,000 bales of silk, being more than the produce of France and Italy. The East produces 300,000 bales. The greater part of these silks arrive in London by the Cape of Good Hope, but it is expected that when the canal across the Isthmus of Suez is completed (if it ever be completed) silk from the East will first arrive in France. Some considerable pur -1 chases of foreign silk were made at Marseilles last week. 111 E NAVY. The iron masts of the Prince Consort iron-plated frigate have been received at the dockyard at Pem broke. They are entirely of wrought iron, and have been manufactured at the iron works at Chepstow, whence they were sent by special train down the South Wales Railway. The mainmast is upwards of 80ft. in length, and the united length of the three masts with the bowsprit is 260 ft, while the weight of the whole is over 60 tons. They were conveyed on a train comprising 23 limber carriages, and each mast was complete and ready for shipment when placed on the trucks. Enormous shears have some time been ready on the deck of the Prince Consort, and, as the iron plating is well advanced, in a short time this fine frigate will be ready for floating out of the dry dock, where the process of armour plat ing has been carried on. The screw steam frigate Doris, 32, Capt. Sir F. I. M'Clintock, from the 'Mediterranean, arrived at Plymouth yesterday morning. She left Gibraltar on the Bth, Lisbon on the 10th, and Ferrol on the 12th inst. Very fine weather prevailed on the pas sage ; the wind was north-east, with heavy swells. The Doris steamed nearly all the way. She brings as passengers from Gibraltar Ensign Graham, 3d Regiment, and one seaman and two marines, inva lids. This frigate was put in commission on March 4, 1859. Her crew will be paid off at Plymouth. She has been constantly occupied in the Medi terranean, and on two occasions, for four months and for two months, was in attendance on the Prince of Wales during the visits of his Royal Highness to the Continent. The Doris in in good condition. At Gibraltar was the gunboat Procris, Fredk. Warden, 0.11., and at Lisbon the screw steamship Revenge, 73, Capt. Chas. Fellowes, flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Smart, K.H,; Black Prince, 40, Capt. James F. P. Wainwright ; Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. Arthur Cochrane; Resistance, 18, Capt. Wm. Chamberlain ; and the Defence, 18,Capt. Richard A. Powell, C.B. . I A contract for the supply of a portion of the armour plates for the iron frigate Achilles, 50, 1,250 horse power, building at Chatham dockyard, has been taken by Messrs. Brown and Co., of the Atlas works, Sheffield. They have engaged to supply the plates at the rate of £45 10s. per ton. The same firm is under contract to supply the armour plates for the iron vessel Enterprise, which is being con structed according to the plan proposed by Mr. Reed. About 600 tons have already been received at Chat ham dockyard from the Thames Ironworks, the Parkgate Foundry, and other establishments, to be used in plating the Achilles and the Royal Oak, 50. The whole of these plates are stacked beneath the shed erected for the screw steamer Reindeer, 17, under construction. In addition to these upwards of 800 tons of armour plates have been already bolted to the sides of the Royal Oak. The principal por tion of the armour plates for the Achilles will be manufactured at the Parkgate Ironworks, York shire, which firm has already supplied a large number used at Chatham. In the manufacture of the armour plates for the Achilles some im provements will be introduced in order to give greater strength and hardness to the iron. In the preparation of plates hitherto supplied for our iron and iron cased vessels a certain number have been manufactured either from rolled or hammered iron—that is, the bloom of iron when taken from the furnace is either rolled into the required slab under heavy rollers, or else beaten into shape under the steam hammer. It is intended, however, to employ both these processes in preparing the armour plating for the Achilles, the bloom being first rolled into the shape of the plate, which will then be completed under the operations of the hammer, ex perience having shown that the plates manufac tured by hammering are considerably tougher and have a much closer grain than those which have been rolled only. According to existing appear ' ances, the Achilles will be ready to receive her first tier of armour plates in about a month, the shipwrights being now engaged in fixing the 18 inch teak backing on those parts of the interior plates of the vessel which are already completed. The pre , sent elevated tramway on each side of the dock will shortly be removed, and in its place a much larger tramway will be laid down for a pair of the most powerful of Taylor's steam cranes, two of which have been for some time at work in the adjoining dock, lifting the heavy armour-plates and other portions of the iron-work for the Royal Oak,which latter vessel is expected to be ready for floating out of dock during the ensuing month. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Edye, to the Britannia ; Lieutenant George M. Comber, to the Victory ; John G. Barnes, paymaster, to the Pylades ; A. M. Williams, midshipman, to the Shearwater ; H. J. H. Veitch, midshipman, to the Pylades; and F. T. Bagshawe, master's assis tant, to the Mecanee. Meesrs. J. B. Fellowes, A. E. Stuart, and H. I. Bodman have bee❑ nominated to naval cadetships. FRIGHTFUL FALL INTO THE MAIN DRAINAGE WoRKs.--Last evening, about 4 o'clock, a frightful occur rence took place at the Main Drainage Works, Back-hill, Clerkenwell. It appears that John Hennesy, one of the workmen, was about to descend the shaft, when he over balanced himself and fell head foremost from a height of 40 feet to the bottom of the shaft. lie was almost immediately hoisted up in a state of insensibility, having been crushed in a shocking manner, and removed to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-lane, but, from the serious nature of the injuries, not the slightest hopo is entertained of his recovery. Advices from Lesparre, in the Gironde, mention the largest sales of wine during the present year. The produce of Chateau Lafitte, Chateau Latour, and Chateau Margaux has been sold at 4,000 f. the 912 litres. Panillac and St. Estephe brought 1,400 E, Cissac from 800 f. to 825 f,, and St. Lambert 800 f. There are several bu y ers in Lower Medoc, who are endeavouring to purchase at the prices quoted immediately after the vintage, but the wine growers declare their determination not to sell at less than 660 f. BRITISH POSSESSIONS Shari 100 stic i Itailways Paid, all t !antic Lawrenc, 13 :un.,Barodact.Cent In< Gu. 5 per cent Do. New . . • Buffalo and Laxe Huroi. Do, Preference Sk 5) 8 8h 77 80 75 78 71 74 104 106 107 i 1084 106 107 107 i 118 i BP 21! 22& 72 74 61 65 34 36 97 50 34 36 34 36 105 107 IpliP, 13 utralo,11rant,dtGodricl 5 P. et. bds. Aug. 1, IS7 Do. do. July 1, 12:l7 (lo Ton. , I, ";lentta.,S.lCastn.(l,i , stock stock .ape'rown Az Dock Seri) Flastn. Bengal go. 6 p. hast Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock Cl Ext.., Do. do. H do. .. 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Belonging to the rapidly increasing class of lady tourists, and commencing her work with an apology for the same, the author conducts her readers through the various phases of Algerine life, jotting down her impressions in a light and agreeable man ner, and conveying a vivid idea of the condition of that part of Africa which is now under the paternal Government of the French. The notice population of Algeria consists of a mixture of Moors, Jews, negroes, and Arabs, and of the former she says : "The Moor has an innate love of beauty. The colours of his dress are well assorted, and his em broidery designs are graceful. He is passionately fond of flowers—he has them often in a jar beside him as he works, and he frequently inserts them beneath the edge of his fez or turban ; the oppres sive fragranc e of the large white jasmine and the orange flower is his delight. Though loving to lie in the shade, he likes to have a gush of sunshine lighting up the scene on which he locks. Poiite in speech, his gestures are always graceful, his bear ing dignified, and the calm self-possession of his address is never distu r b e d by the most unex pected incident." Al ger i a, at present, cons i s t s , as it were, of two divisions ; that occupied by the French having been almost entirely rebuilt by them, has consequently lost its distinctive architectural features, but in the old portion of the town the oriental aspect is still preserved. "It is but a step from a wide French street to a native thoroughfare about four feet wide, scaling the side of a steep hill. The shops on either hand are in European eyes no thing but mere stalls; many of them are not so large as a good-sized wardrobe, and in every case their open fronts serve the place of doors and windows. Here is a stall whose entrance is ornamented by pendant bunches of red pepper pods and onions, whilst the proprietor, coiled up upon his bench, has fallen fast asleep. Opposite is a narrow room, some five feet lon g, in which a barber is exercising his skill upon a well-lathered head ; and on a bench inside a handsomely-dressed Moor is evidently wait ing to undergo a similar operation. Close by three shoemakers ply their trade in a recess, whose en trance is garnished by pendant strings of shoes, black, red, and green, and showing here and there a resplendent front, glittering with gold and silver twist, and tinsel ornament. A few steps further up I pass a cafe, whose walls are lined on either side by a row of cross-legged natives, of whom some smoke, some play at draughts, whilst others sip coffee out of diminutive cups, amidst an almost unbroken silence. In a small recess raised a few steps above the street a solemn Greybeard sits, resting on his knees a sheet of paper, on which he is slowly tracing with ex quisite neatness some Arabic characters." But the author did not confine herself to Algiers, but made excursions into the country, and even penetrated as far as K-Ibylia ; the natives of which, differing in many essentials from the Arabs, have the character of being by no means fond of strangers. She was received, however, everywhere with courtesy, though her advent not a little astonished the Kabyles, and the accommodation with which she had to content herself was often of a most primitive kind. The great curse of the country seems to be malaria ; the soil, wherever turned up, emits pesti lential exhalations, and the French settlers have " died off like flies." This has been a terrible draw- back to the prosperity of the colony, and notwith standing all the inducements held out by the French Government progress has been exceedingly slow. Scattered through the volume we find some interest ing anecdotes illustrative of Arab character, together with curious d, scriptions of their superstitious rites and festivals, and the reader will obtain from it not only amusement, bat also a considerable amount of information. The Channings. By Mrs. Henry Wood. Bentley. This is a reprint, in a single volume, of Mrs Henry Wood's extremely popular novel, and in its present handsome and convenient, but cheap, form we have no doubt it will command an extensive sale. THE LATE PRINCE CONSOR7. Mr. Murray has just published—" The Principal Speeches and Addresses of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort with an Introduction giving some Outline of his Character." This volume contains something more than a collection of speeches already known to the public. The Queen has chosen this occasion to make known the secret details of the correspondence which took place in 1850, when it was rumoured that the prince was about to assume the position of commander-in-chief. We have here a memorandum written by the prince relating all the facts, and from this it appears that it was the prince himself who withstood the suggestions of the Duke of Wellington, who desired to invest him with the great command. The words which in the volume before us usher in the memorandum of the prince are very remarkable, and will be read by the public with even more interest than the memorandum itself : " In allowing this memorandum of the prince to be pub lished, the Queen is also actuated by another motive in ad dition to those which have already been mentioned. It affords her Majesty a fitting opportunity for expressing, ix the most clear and simple manner, that for so many years she has desired to express. During the prince's life the Queen often longed to make known to the world the ever present, watchful, faithful, invaluable aid which she re ceived from the Prince Consort in the conduct of the public business. Her Majesty could hardly endure even then to be silent on this subject, and not to declare how much her reign owed to him. And now the Queen can no longer re frain from uttering what she has so long felt, and from pro claiming the irreparable loss to the public service, as well as to herself and to her family, which the prince's death has occasioned. The position of hor Majesty, for aiany years accustomed to this loving aid, and now suddenly bereft of it, can with difficulty be imagined to the full ex tent of its heaviness and its sadness. Desolate and sombre, as the Queen most deeply feels, lies the way before her ;—a path, however, of duty and of labour, which, relying on the loyal attachment and sympathy of her people, she will, with God's blessing, strive to pursue ; but where she fears her faltering steps will often show they lack the tender and affectionate support which, on all occasions, her Majesty was wont to receive from her beloved husband, the prince." The occasion of this offer made by the Duke of Welling ton may have now'passed out of the public memory. It was as follows : On the death of Sir J. Macdonald, the adjutant-general, in March, 1850, a suggestion was made to amalgamate the two offices of adjutant and quartermaster general under a single head, to be called chief of the staff. The Duke of Wellington was, in consequence, summoned to Windsor, and several conversations ensued, in the course of which the duke proposed that arrangements should be made with a view to the prince's ultimately succeeding himself as commander-in• chief. The prince's minutes of the conversation which passed are not given in extenso, but the following are the extracts now published : Windsor Castle, April 3, 1850. " I went yesterday to see the Duke of Wellington in his room after his arrival at the Castle, our conversation soon turning to the question of the vacant adjutant-generalship. I asked the duke what he was prepared to recommend. He said he had had a letter on the subject recommending the union of the two offices of adjutant-general and quarter master-general, and he pla ced his answer to it in my hands. He then proceeded to say that he thought it necessary that wo should cast our eyes a little before us. He was past 80 years, and would next mo nth enter upon his 82d. He was, thank God I very well and strong, and ready to do any thing ; but he could not last for ever, and in the natural course of ovents we must look to a change before long. As long as he was there ho did the duty of all the offices him self. • . . . To form a new office by uniting the duties o f adjutant-general and quartermaster-general in the per son of a chief of the staff, as was the practice in some foreign armies, would be to appoint two different persons to do the same duty, which would never answer. The chief of the staff would again have to sub-divide his office into an adjutant-general and quartermaster-general's department, and nothing would be gained. " However, the duke saw the greatest advantage in hay. jog a chief of the staff, if, after his death, that arrangement should be made which he had always looked to, and which he considered the best—viz.,that I should assume the com mand of the army. lie was sure I could not do it without such a chief of the staff, who would be responsible before the public, and carry on the official communications with the other govern ment departments. For this contingency he was prepared to organise the machinery now, and he would answer for its success. . . . " I answered to the duke that I should be very slow to make up my mind to undertake so great a responsibility-- that I was not sure of my fitness for it on account of my want of military experience, &c. (to which the duke replied that with good honest intentions one could do a great deal, and that he should not be the least afraid on that score) — whether I could perform the duties consistently with my other avocations, as I should not like to undertake what I could not carry through, not knowing what time or atten tion they would require. " The duke answered that it would certainly require both time and attention, for nothing could be done without ray knowledge, or without my order, but that the detail would be worked out by the chief of the staff. He had thoroughly considered that and would make it work. . . He always stood up for the principle of the army being commanded by the Sovereign, and he endeavoured to make the practice' point agree the with that theory by scrupulously taking on every Queen's pleasure before he acted. But, were he gone, he saw no security, unless I undertook the command myself, and thus supplied what was deficient in the consti tutional working of the theory arising from the circum stance of the present Sovereign being a lady. Strictly constitutionally I should certainly be responsible for my acts, but before the world in general the chief of the staff would bear the responsibility, and for that office the man of the greatest - name and weight in the army ought to be se lected. He repeated that he thought this the most de sirable arrangement, and would at once work it out to the best of his ability. . . I begged him to leave me time: to consider the proposal. "In the evening the Queen gave the Duke of Wellington an audience, I being present. After having set out by say ing ho was most anxious to let the Queen know and feel all he knew and felt about it—in fact, to think aloud—the duke repeated what he had said to me in the morning, mi. we discussed the question further. I said that there were several points which still required to be considered. . . The offer was so tempting for a young man that I felt bound to look most closely to all the objectiDns to it in order to come to a right decision. . . The Queen, as a lady„ was not able at all times to perform the many duties imposed. upon her ; moreover, she had no private secretary who , worked for her, as former Sovereigns had had. The only person who helped her and who could assist her in the mul tiplicity of work which ought to be done by the Sovereigrt was myself. I should be very sorry to undertake any duty which would absorb my time and attention so much for one department as to interfere with my general usefulness to the Queen. , . . The Queen added that I already worked harder than she liked to see and than she thought was good for my health,* which I did not allow—answer ing that, on the contrary, business must naturally increase with time, and ought to increase, if the Sovereign's duties to the country were to be thoroughly performed ; but that I was anxious no more should fall upon her than could be help e d. " The duke seemed struck with this consideration and said he had not overlooked it, but might not have given it all the weight it deserved, and that he would reflect further upon it. " We agreed at last that this question could not be satis factorily solved:unless we knew the exact duties which had to be performed, and the Queen charged the duke to draw up a memorandum in which these should be detailed, and his general opinion explained, so that we might found de cision on that paper. This the duke promised to do " Windsor Castle, April 6, 1850. "After a good deal of reflection on the Duke of Welling. ton's proposal, I went to pay him a visit yesterday morning in his room, and found him prepared with his memoran dum, which he handed me. After having read it, I said; to him that I must consider my position as a whole,. which was that of the consort and confidential adviser and assistant of a femalo sovereign. Her interest and good should stand foremost, and all other considerations must be viewed in reference to this, and in subordina-- tion to it. The question then was simply whether I should not weaken my means of attending to all parts of the constitutional position alike—political, social, and moral —if I devoted myself to a special branch, however important that might be; and that I was afraid this would be the consequence of my becoming commander-in-chief. It was quite true that the Sovereign being a l a dy naturally _ _ weakened her relation to the army, and that the ditty rested upon me of supplying that deficiency, and would do so still more when the protection which the duke. afforded to the Crown should be unfortunately withdrawn. But I doubted whether this might Rot be accomplished without my becoming especially responsible for the com mand of the army. There was no branch of public busks /as in which I was not now supporting the Queen, &c. . . The duke replied he quite saw that my position ought to be , looked at as a whole. He felt the extreme difficulty and delicacy of it, and was kind enough to add that he approved of, and the public did full justice to, the way in which I bad hitherto maintainel it. 1 begged him to leave me a little time for consideration, that I wanted to study his memor andum, and would finally write to him upon the subject." Ultimately the prince formally declined the position in. the following admirable letter : " My dear duke,—The Queen and myself have thoroughly considered your proposal to join the offices of adjutant general and quartermaster-general into one of a chief of the staff, with a view to facilitate the future assumption of the command of the army by myself. . . The question , whether:it will be advisable that I should take the command of the army or not has been most anxiously weighed by me, and I have come to the conclusion that my decision ought entirely and solely to be guided by the consideration whether it would interfere with or assist my position of consort of the Sovereign, and the performance of the duties which this position imposes upon me. " This position is a most peculiar and deliekAte one. While a female sovereign has a great many disadvantages ,n comparison with a king, yet, if she is married, and her husband understands and does his duty, her position, on the other hand has many compensating advantages, and, in the long run, will be found even to be stronger than thet of a male sovereign. But this requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife r that he should aim at no power by himself or for himself— should shim all ostentation—assume no separate responsi bility before the public —but make his position entirely ra part of hers—fill up every gap which as a woman she would naturally leave in the exercise of her regal functions--con- tinually and anxiously watch every part of the public busi ness, in order to be able to advise and assist her at any mo ment in any of the multifarious and difficult questions or duties brought before her, sometimes international, some times po'itical, or social or personal. As the natural head of her family, superintendent of her household, manager of her private affairs, sole confidential adviser in politics, and only assistant in her communications with the officers of the government, he is, besides the husband of the Queen, the tutor of the royal children, the private secretary of the So vereign, and her permanent minister, " How far would it be consistent with this position to undertake the management and administration of a most important branch of the public service, and the individual: responsibility attaching to it—becoming an executive officer of the crown, receiving the Queen's commands through her secretaries of state, &c 4 I feel sure that, having under , taken the responsibility, I should not be satisfied to leavw the business and real work in the hands of another (the chief of the staff), and should feel it my duty to look to them myself. But while I should in this manner perform duties which, I am sure, every able general officer who has gained experience in the field would be able to perform bet-- ter than myself, who have not had the advantage of such experience, most important duties connected with the wel fare of the Sovereign would be left unperformed, which no body could perform but myself. I am afraid, therefore, that I must discard the tempting idea of being placed in command of the British army." * The anxiety of the Queen lest the prince should injure his health by his excessive attention to public busters na turally continued to increase. In 1860, when the Society of Arts renewed the proposal for holding a second Inierne tional Exhibition, the Queen wrote to Lord Gra nv ill e , wth out the knowledge of the prince, expressing her earneOt hope that he (Lord eranville) would do all that in him lay to prevent the resonsibility and labour of conducting the undertaking being thrown in any way on his royal high ness. The Queen felt deeply the necessity for averting any addition to the heavy work already entailed on the prince by the assistance and support (ecery day more needful to her) which he gave her in the transaotion of all public busi ness; and her Majesty was convinced that he could not again undertake the labour he had gone through in conduct ing the first Exhibition to its successful term:illation with out injury to that health which was not only mast p recious to herself and his family, but to the country, an eT e 4 to the world. A FRIEND IN IN EED.—In one of the hospitals at Alexandria we saw a young fellow near an open window lustily singing, "I'm a bold soldier boy." "And what is• the matter with you?" " Blind, sir, blind as a bat." Poor Joe Parsons was in front at Antietam Creek, and a ball passed directly through his eyes, across his face, destroying his sight for ever. But he was as happy as a lark. " I might ha' been worse, yer see. I was hit," he said, " and it knocked me down. I lay there all night, and the next day the fight was renewed. I could stand the pain, yer see, but the balls was flying all round, and I wanted to get away. I couldn't see nothin', though. At last I heard a. feller groanin' beyond me. Hello l' says Hello, your self,' says he. Who be yer ?' says a Rebel ?' "You're a Yankee,' says he, So I am,' says I. What's the mat ter with you My leg's smashed,' says he. Can't yer Yes.' 'Won,' says I, you're walk ?" No.' Can yer see?' a -- Rebel, but will you do me a little favour?' will,' says he, of I ken.' Then I says, ' Well, ole butternut, I can't see nothin'. My eyes is knocked out, but I ken walk. Come over yere. Let's git out o' this. You pint the way, an' I'll tote yer off the field on my back.' Bully for you,' says he. And so we managed to git together. We shook hands on it. I took a wink outer his canteen, and he got on to my shoulders. I did the walkia' for both, an' he did the navigatin'. An' of he didn't make me carry him straight into a rebel colonel's tent, a mile away, I'm aliar llows'ever, the colonel came up, an' says he, ' Whar d'yer come from ? Who be yer I told him. He said I was done for, and couldn't do no more shoot'n ; an' he sent me over to our lines. So I came down here with the 14:? e u r n e d_e , d , boys, where we're doin' pretty well, all things co o n r sf ellow d "But you will never see the light again, y in the eye—an' can't help it, you the . old man said of fau bo lt ; a so si ldier boy. "—Pkila- I did S he P s O o ß u T th S Iv : es n " o T ti lr e t . 's y an d s o w ot e y re ; d, g g o l t ib s ly h , ot but o l p rt' E n u , t n_ot , I m ,m y a TRADE OF THE wO - Enquirer. ng the month of Nova d considerable increase as compared with the cor responding Pe i 299 tons of coke, and 1, p0rt5 325 tons of patent tons of iron, • l were ex ported from Cardiff, b e i ng an i ncrease of nearly I f l7ooo tons of coal as compared with the corresponding month of 1861. 437 vessels left the pert of Swansea during the month with an aggregate registered tonnage of 52,113 tons, being a slight increase on 1861. Llanelly and Briton Ferry also show an increase on 1861, 11, 25. ed. i; o. s.~ 102 f 20 28.2.1 , o•1i ioo all al' a.] all 1 5 3 28