The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-03 00:00:00

“ T HE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN.° BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES, BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, fir all ages, all occa sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and EON'S. An immense asportment of WINTER CLOTHING, in all the newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S. OVERCOATS from 19s. to XI BOY'S OVERCOATS from 108. 6d. to 455. For the convenience of Ladies accom pal ying their Sons there is a separate de partment for Boys' Clothing,, and it is fur nished with a splendid assortment of Suits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should 1 .0 accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be 2heerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. - - . E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Beady-made and Be spoke Tailors, H abitmakers, Woollen drapers, flatters, - Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufae tur3rs, and General Ou 11 it( for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. THE CHEAPEST DI. A' EVER PUBLISHED. POCKET DIARY FOR 1870, containing the following useful information : Almsnsek Corporation of London Transfer Days of Public Funds Postal Infarmation Weights and Measures List of Bankers Stamp Duties Army and Navy Agents Foreign Moneys Cab Fares Ministers of State Ready Reckoner -----_ Al . so A DIARY, arranged oil the moat approvel plan, and neatly printed on good writing paper, Price One Penny, or post-trea for Twopence. E. MOSES and SON, MTNORTES and A IDGATE, NEW OXFORD-STREET, LONDON, TOTTEN HAM-COU T- Ft OAD, And BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. To be obtained also at the Metropolitan Railway and other Bookstalls of Messrs. Willing and Co. METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. WORKMEN'S TICKETS, at a Reduced Fare of Four pence per day, will be issued at Hammersmith, Shepherd's Bush, Latimer Road, Notting Hill, and Westhourne Park, to Moorgate Street, and intermediate Stations on the Me tropolitan Line, on and after the Ist December. For full particulars see special notices. A GENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodities valuable to every householder ttigh and low. This offers a highly remunera.tiveCornmi-sion to Tradesmen, Travellers. Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. HARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. {OH N GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. GUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded iu perfect.- this woncirful liquid. It is now offered to the public a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passage, 93, Upper Thames tre3t London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F.B. Chati , rton. THIS EVENING, at 7, IiF.LLF. , , OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA. new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault Messrs. Barrett, H. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, loht, Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstnne. , . THIS EVENING, at Seven, FAMILY JARS : Mr Compton ; Mrs E. Fitzwilliam. At a Quarter to Eight, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr uckstone, jun. ; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY : fir Kendall, Miss F. Gwynne, Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins, Mr C. J. Smith, and Miss Eliza Johnstone. At 15 to 8, THE LONG STRIKE: Mr Benjamin Webster; Messrs A. Stirling, G. Belmore. J. G. Taylor, W. Rignold, C. H Stephenson, C. J. Smith ; Miss Furtado, &c. To conclude with DO MESTIC ECONOMY. Mr (.4. Delmore and Mrs. Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. HOLBORN THEATRE.ROYAL. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, STATE SECRETS: Mr George Honey. At 7.45, Moore's great Tragedy of THE GAMESTER. Mr. Barry Sullivan ; Messrs. J. C. Cowper, W. Stephens, Lin Rayne, orsman, Lunt; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss J. Rignold, and Miss Howard. To conclude with THE LO fTERY TICKET. Principal Scenic Artist—Mr Julian Hicks. Acting Manager—Amosx SuLLIVAN. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. Immense success of Mr. H J. BYRON, THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Mr Henry Neville, Miss Lydia Foote. At 7..5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Sir Simon Simple, by Mr. H. J. Byron. Messrs. .1. Clarke, Parselle, ctc Mesdames Hughes, Berend. and Stephens. To conclude with A BREACH OF PROMISE Box-office open from 10 till 5. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager,Mr. Benjamin Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING: Messrs Ashley. D. Leeson, and Misses vl aria and Nelly Harris. At 7.45, THE LADY OF LYONS: Mr. Feehter; Messrs H. Marston, Stuart, Beveridge, A shley; Mesdames C. Leclercq and Elsworthy. P OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. After which, INO; !‘lessrs Thorne. James, Fenton, Turner Mesdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL' PORTING.--,1 WIN ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as pub 13hed.-1, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. rrHE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. G-ENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware•road, delivers the LAT NI EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. 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ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. rIIE DIRECTORS have now the pleasure of submitting the following statement, showing the financial position of the Company : The CAPITAL available for the purpose of meeting any unusual calamity happening to the assured is Two MILLIONS STERLING. The amount actually paid up is £288,495. This, with the accumulated funds in hand, exceeds £1,800,000. For the satisfaction of the public the whole of the se curities belonging to the Company are annually submitted to the careful scrutiny of two independent auditors, and the following is an extract from their report to the last annual meeting: " The whole of your books have been audited; every document, every account, every voucher, your bank-book, and every security - all have been most carefully kept, and there is not one doubtful security in the whole." t of the Investments of the Company, as d, may be obtained on application. nt valuation of the Life Liabilities, as at 1868, has also been obtained from Dir. the result being— A detailed List already publishec An iudepende: 31st December, Samuel Brown, t LIFE LIABIL: General Life As-, surances, lest, re -Assurances Children's En dowments Annuities (Im mediate and Deferred) Total.. Number. 13,841 14,472 The valuation has been made at 3 per cent. interest, and the net premiums only have been taken, so that the loadings for future profits and expenses are entirely held in reserve, and not brought into the valuation. The results show a considerable surplus in the Life branch, amounting in the whole to £198,450. JOHN H. Xi'LAREN, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY, U.K.— LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1869-70. LECTURES (6 to 7 p.m.) Three Courses of Lectures on Conveyancing and the Law of Real Property, Equity, and Common and Mercan tile Law, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society, in the months of November, December, January, February, March, April, May, and June next. LAW CLASSES (4.30 to 6 p.m.). In connexion with the Lectures, Classes will be con ducted under the guidance and superintendence of the Lecturers, and will proceed concurrently with the Lec tures. The number of subscribers to each class will be limited, and the instruction giv , n will bo confined to an examination of the students upon the subject of a proced ing lecture, or on portions of a given book bearing on the same subject. A sufficient number of classes will follow each lecture, and be of such duration as shall provide for the efficient instruction and examination of the students. The teaching of the lectures will thus be amplified, and impressed on the memory by the classes; and the system of constant examination will test, from time to time, the progress made by the students. Lectures on Conveyancing and the Law of Real Property, by Howard Warbiirton Elphinstone, Esq., Farrister-at- Law. The Course will consist of Nine Lectures :—Lecture 1, Introductory. The Theory of the Law of Real Property Treated Historically ; 2,3, Purchase Deeds ; 4,5, Mort gages; 6,7, 8, Family and Marriage Settlements; 9, Com mercial Conveyancing. The Lectures (with the exception of the first) will be rendered as practical as possible. Books, recommended for beginners:—Williams' Law of Real Property. Davidson's Concise Precedents. Black stone's Commentaries, Vol. 11., for Advanced Students, Tudor's Leading Cases on Real Property and Convey ancing, Davidson's Precedents and Forms in Convey ancing. Lectures on Equity, by Fitzroy Kelly, Esq., Barrister at-Law. The Course will consist of Nine Lectures upon the fol lowing subjects:—Lecture 1. Review of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery ; 2, 3. Specific Per formance of Contracts, Relief afforded in Cases of Acci dent, Mistake, and Fraud; 4, 5. Foreclosure and Redemp tion of Mortgages. Charges and Liens; 6, 7. Husband and Wife, Infants ; 8, 9. Trusts and Trustees ; and (if time permit) Administration. In the Private Classes the subjects of the Lectures will bo examined more in detail, and the practice of .the Courts will be e, plained. Books recoil - mi.-need to beginners :—Hayncs' Outlines of Equity, Smith's Manual of Equity, and Hunter's Suit in Equity. Lectures on Common and Mercantile Law, by Henry M. Bompas, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. It is proposed to treat the subjects in the following order: —Lecture 1. The Sources of Law. The Persons who are subject to the Law. Absolute Rights of Persons, such as the rights of Personal Security and Liberty ; 2. Absolute Duties and their Breach, including the Law relating to Negligence, Fraud and Malice, and the Law of Libel ; 3, 4. The Law of Contracts and the Rights derived from them ; 5, 6. Relative Rights of Persons, not arising from Contract, such as the Legal Rights arising out of the re lations of Husband and Wife, and Master and Servant ; 7. Rights over Things, such as Rights of Ownership, Ease ments and Liens; 8. The Transfer of Rights and Duties, including the Law of Bankruptcy, and the Devolution of Property; 9. The means provided by the Law for the Protection of Rights, and Enforcement of Duties. The Subscription payable for the Lectures : For all the For each Three Courses. Course. By clerks of members £2 2 0 £1 1 0 By clerks of gentlemen not members 3 3 0 1 11 6 By all other persons not being members The Subscription payable for the Law Classes:— For all the branches For each of Instruction. branch. By every subscriber Members of the Society may attend the Lectures without subscribing. To prevent interruption at the lectures, subscribers cannot be admitted to the Hall after the lecture has com menced. N.B. Gentlemen may subscribe for, and attend the lectures and classes, either separately or collectively ; but as the instruction given in the classes will have special reference to preceding lectures, it is recommended that those who desire to attend the classes should also attend the lectures. Address on the Origin and History of the English Law, by John Marshall Hayman, Esq., Barrister at-Law. Before the above Courses of Lectures are commenced an Address will be delivered by John Marshall Hayman, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, in the Hall of the Society, on " The Origin and History of the English Law." Mr. Hayman proposes to trace, so far as the limit of time will allow, the origin and history of some of the leading principles of the English law. He will invite attention chiefly to that element of our system which is derived from the law of the Roman Empire. It may be convenient to take at least one illustration from each of the main divisions of our law which are the subjects of the Courses of Lectures about to be com menced. The proposed illustrations are:- 1. The Derivation of our System of Equity from the Jus Prmtorium of Rome. 2. The Law of Contract, and particularly of Bailment. 3. Title by Prescription. Time will not allow of more than very brief reference to the other great element of our system, which is of na tive or feudal origin. The Address will be delivered on Monday, the Ist No vember next, at 5 o'clock; and, in addition to the mem bers of the Society, all clerks now serving under articles, whether subscribers to the Lectures and Classes or not, will be admitted gratuitously. E. W. WILLIAMS, Secretar.y Law Society's-hall, October, 1869. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 3, 1869. Truth is stranger than Fiction, is a well-known saying, and every now and then it is exemplified in some curious occurrence or startling revelation. It is no exaggeration to say that the capture of a re nowned swindler in Philadelphia has disclosed facts and unravelled mysteries which, if mentioned in the pages of a sensational romance might well have called forth incredulity, and awakened ridicule. The author would have been told by some matter-of-fact person that he had better not try to depict things so differently from what they actually were, and that in the world of common sense his sketches were visionary and vague. It has, nevertheless, been shown that the nineteenth century contains many dupes, and that one man may be dexterous enough to make many victims. SPRAGUE, whose career has been brought to so ignominous a conclu sion, contrived to play many parts in the world's stage, and may be considered an adept in the science of letter writing. It may be questioned if his victims will coincide with the opinion of the poet who said that " Heaven first in its mercy taught mortals their letters." Perhaps the news of the defeat and capture of this too successful strategist comes upon us with all the more force that for some time past the public have not been much molested by the intolerable tribes of begging-letter writers. SPRAGUE may claim some pre-eminence among the class, and he cannot be re proached with being " not half a villain," for he went into his work with a will, and achieved most signal triumphs in his novel branch of the art. There is something most revolting to the feelings in the whole scheme that is before us, and to have car ried it out in its entirety demanded an unscrupulous ness and an indifferenee to the commonest sentiments of humanity that are not often heard of, and could not be surpassed. To trifle with the good name of the dead, and to traffic on the genial thoughts and affectionate goodwill of the survivors are objects which one who sets before him must be ashamed to contemplate himself. The ingenuity of the plan is apparent at first sight, and it was not surprising that it should have answered in some cases, but the wonder is that so many fell into the trap to so great an ex tent. For two years the privacy of those whose sor row should have been sacred has been intruded upon, and their friend's characters traduced and their pro perty endangered to aid the purpose of a crafil and dexterous assailant. SPRAGUE has declared in his confession that be made three thousand pounds dur ing the period of his letter system. Of course he has during his career of crime tried his hand at many things, but this epistolary correspondence with the dead was the most successful of his strategems. The ingenuity with which he planned, and the zeal with which he carried out his schemes were indeed worthy of a better cause, and might, if directed to the pur suit of an honourable purpose have won him fame and fortune. He chose the crooked path, however, and must reap what he has sown. It is as well to draw what moral we we can from such an insight into the dark deeds of the corrupt and crafty, and the lesson in this case is one which he who runs may read. Had the individuals to whom these begging letters were ad dressed exercised more prudence they would have been rescued from much annoyance, and also escaped a considerable pecuniary loss. The swindler was at last caught through the foresight of a gentle man, who opened his communication to a departed relative. SPRAGUE was imprudent enough to send a reply to the carefully worded letter, which acknow ledged the receipt of his first application, and the failure of his scheme was the result. The strange thing is, not that one person suspected wrong, but that others should not have discovered before that evil existed. Let the warning not be lost for the future. Another SPRAGUE may not spring up in this generation, but there are plenty of cheats abroad, and plausible tales are told with great force and fluency. A little patience and a slight investigation may often serve to prevent an undesirable consummation, and in all cases it is wiser to make inquiries before commencing a system of doles and donations. By boldly facing the worst a better solution of the difficulty is often met with, than by tamely waiting for things to take their chance, or by submitting weakly to the imperative demand of the grasping. This accomplished swindler has verified the truth of the saying, be sure your sin will find you out, and it is most satisfactory to think that his infamous career has been cut short to all intents and purposes so far as the pursuit of his roguery is concerned. He who spared not the mourner cannot hope for commiseration, and he who traded on the character of the dead must not expect the world of living men to have much patience with him. The ignominy which attends his career may well deter others from following in his track, and the ex posure of his schemes should encourage people to be wary, and trust not to appearances. The admirable arrangements by which he was at last discovered reflect the greatest credit on the American authorities, and those criminals who persuade themselves that the Atlantic rolls between them and the arm of aveng ing justice, may awake some day to find that it has er ved as the means of communication between their victims and their judges. The sooner the criminal finds the honest men of all lands united together against him the better, and the fewer and less fre quent will be the transgressions of a similar character to that which has been recorded. The Cork and Limerick magistrates have found it necessary to issue a proclamation forbidding all gatherings and processions, and warning all persons who take part in street demonstrations that they will be dealt with summarily. Such is the unwelcome announcement which greets us at the close of the year 1869, in which England has deliberately made one of the greatest concessions to the Irish which have ever been asked from her. The aspect of affairs in the sister country is, it must be admitted, very discouraging, and unfortunately the Govern ment appear scarcely equal to deal with it. Mr. GLADSTONE'S unwise lenity to the Fenian prisoners was incalculably productive of mischief. Like savage nations, the reckless insurgents attributed lenity to fear, and mistook an overstrained desire to conciliate the disaffected for a sense of weak ness and of incapacity to resist them. They could not, or would not, enter into the re finements of political magnanimity, but they saw and recognised the plain fact that open and acknowledged law-breakers, who, without any ex tenuating circumstances, had deliberately imperilled the lives and fortunes of peaceable citizens, and defied the authority of the Crown, were sA at liberty. They naturally inferred that similar outrages would produce similar results, that murder, and clamour and treason would serve, not to bring the offend ers to the gaol and the gallows, but as instruments to extort from her MAJESTY'S Ministers those concessions which no lawkeeping loyal subject of the QUEEN could expect. The intemperance of language, the rub and hasty THEATRE -ROYAL DRURY- L A NE. ezole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8 FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, H Irving, David Fisher, Brtttain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Mac. donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLCTIIhS THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'NITS EVENING. at 7 o'clock, FAMILY JARS. After which, NEW MEN AND OLD ACR h.S: Mr Bnckatone. Concluding with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. 'fats EVENING. at 7. MY PRECIOUS BETSY, Followed by Th E LONG STRIKE: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr A. Stir ling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr :tephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Ilignold, Mr Taylor, JI l• s Furtado, &c. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY : Ur G. Belmore and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. This EVENING. at 7, A HOUSEHOLD Fklft Y. At '5. NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: ➢lr H. J. Byron. And BREACH OF PR(►MIS K. Mr J Clarke and Miss Hughes. PRINCESS'S TH E ATRE. THIS FVENING, at 7. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Mr Ashley and the NI isses Har, is. With TLIE LADY OF LYONS. Mr Fechter, Miss C. Leclercq, THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. TUTS EVENING, at -, STATE SECRETS. After which, THE GAMESTER: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And THE LOTTERY TICKET. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs.Swanboroutrh. THIS EVENING. at 7.30. AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. nd INO. Concluding with THF CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all thq year round, TIES AND ASSETS. Net Value) of I, 'Assurances) Accumu lated Fundj £765,021 21,260 137,544 £942,643 23,287 156,345 'X923,825 1.£1,122,975 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1869, ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex- oept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children ; under twelve, Ad. ROYAL ALIT A3IB RA PALACE. THREE BALLET; Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open fromll to 4. V expressions into which politicians on both sides suf ered themselves to be hurried during the late con test of parties is also much to be regretted. Men forgot they were not dealing with figures and sta tistics, with blue books and legal enactments only, but with quick-witted, eager, excitable and headstrong human beings. The triumph of the partisan, the silencing of the adversary, was the ob ject in view in the stately chambers of St. Stephen's, or on the busy English hustings, and it was difficult to remember how the words spoken in the temporary excitement of an assembly where loyalty and order were matters of course, might be pondered and accepted by an inflamed and disaffected po pulation so many miles away. But what ever the prevailing cause or causes of a state of affairs which is becoming an eager subject of interest on the Continent and a source of the most painful anxiety to ourselves, it is quite plain that some prompt and vigorous steps must be taken to re dress the evil. Murmurs are beginning to be heard at the inaction of the Government. The English people, tolerant to a fault of ordinary offences, and inclined to show unusual lenity to a people they believe to have been misgoverned, and misunderstood, will not consent to the open de fiance of law and order in any part of the kingdom. Popular rights and individual liberties must be re spected, no doubt, but we have yet to learn under what privilege a man may shoot his neighbour in open day. Punch's satire on GLADSTONE, A 1, who looks in at the door while the highwaymen are buy ing their revolvers inside, represents a phase of the public mind, which augurs ill for the prospects of her MAJESTY'S Ministers. Rumours of an approaching Christmas session are beginning to make themselves heard, and undoubtedly the Government would do wisely to share their pain ful and weighty responsibilities with the representa tives of the people. The return of a convict to Par liament, the open ingratitude displayed by a consi derable section of Irish speakers and leaders, for the exertions and sacrifices made for them, above all, the constant recurrence of agrarian assassinations, afford amply sufficient justification:for any unusual step.3lMr. GLADSTONE has done wisely in refu3ing to carry his concessions further ; but the refusal has irritated, without im pressing the men who believed they could trade on his fears. None have more need to regret the state of things than the real friends and well-wishers of that troubled country, in which Englishmen have so deep an interest, while they are so unfortunate in dealing with it. The Irish are throwing away an opportunity such as seldom comes to a nation. The English, impressed by a sense of duty and animated by a spirit of kindness, were ready almost to overdo the part of concession and forbear ance. There is reason to fear that the reckless wickedness of the few and the headstrong folly of the many will drive Englishmen to remember that justice comes before generosity in ruling a nation, and that until the maintenance of law and order be assure], it is idle to dream :of further developing civil liberty and religious equality. POLICE IN7I4.:LLIGENCE.—Hits Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. A WILFUL LADY.—lirs, Elizabeth Morrison, describ ing herself as " a lady," and residing in Stanley-street, Pimlico, was charged before Mr. Knox with behaving in a most disorderly manner, and also with breaking a pane of glass of the value of £3, at the house of Mr. A. Taylor, the Marlborough Head, Great Marlborough-street. From the evidence of Mr. Alfred Taylor, son of the prosecutor, it appeared that the prisoner went into the house the previous evening with her sister, and grossly insulted Mr. Taylor. She was requested to leave and refused, and took up an iron spittoon and threatened to knock Mr. Taylor's brains out. Mr. Taylor turned the prisoner's sister out of the house, and the prisoner after making an unsuccessful attempt to seize Mr Taylor's whiskers went outside, and on the door being closed to prevent her returning to the house she smashed a pane of glass in the door with her fist, and was then given into custody. Police-constable 108 ( 1 , who took the prisoner into cus tody, said she was very disorderly, and admitted doing the damage. Mr. Knox ordered the prisoner to pay the d Linage, and a fide of 20s. or a month. THE PROSECUTION OF THE .REV. MR. BENNETT. The case of " Sheppard v. Bennett" also came before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Thursday, in the shapo of an appeal from the decision of the Dean of Arches, who had refused to admit an article which charged the defendant with contravening the teach ing of the Church of England in reference to the reception of the Eucharist by the wicked, in consequence of its having been preferred too late. After argument on the part of Mr. Stephens, who appeared with Dr. Tristram and Mr. Shaw, for the promoters, their lordships decided that the rules of the Privy Council did not admit of an appeal in which the defendant did not appear being heard until after four months had elapsed from the time of the original judg ment being given. ACTION AGAINST A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER. An action was heard on Thursday in the Court of Queen's Bench, `• Marriott v. Poole." The defendant is the pro prietor of the Coventry Standard, and the plaintiff had been Mayor of Coventry, and was a Liberal partizan. A petition was heard in the recent election, and the two Conservative members retained their seats. The libel complained of was that the plaintiff had bribed a deaf and dumb man, and, on complaint by the plaintiff, an apology was inserted in the Coventry Standard, withdraw ing the imputation, and fully apologising. Sir John Cole ridge, for the defendant, fully admitted the libel, but contended that after the apology had been made, which redounded greatly to the credit cf the defendant, the jury would mark their sense of the en deavour to get their verdict merely as a political triumph. Mr. Keene, Q.C., replied, arguing that the apology was not made until after legal proceedings had been threatened, and that it was a case for substantial damages.—The Lord Chief Justice said that which the jury had to consider was the value of the retractation.— After retiring for an hour, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; damages, £4O. THREATENING TO SHOOT A PROSECUTOR. At tho Mansion House, on Thursday, before Alderman Sir Thomas Gabriel, Robert Haswell, of the Lord Napier Tavern, Fenchurch-street, was brought up on remand, charged with embezzling £14,000 belonging to a trust fund. Mr. Straight, barrister, who appeared for the prosecution, stated the circumstances of the case, and said that defendant had executed a deed conveying all his property to three trustees, in order that the money embezzled might be refunded. So short a time, however, had elapsed since the last examination that the solicitor for the prosecution had not been able to satisfy himself as to the value of property mentioned in the deed, and he asked for a short delay in order that enquiries might be made. Sir Thomas Gabriel said the application made by the learned counsel was practically taking the matter out of the magistrate's hands. He did not think that was a proper thing. What he had to do was to consider the evi dence, and deal with the case accordingly. If it were a case of arbitration the matter would be different; but he was sitting there as a magistrate. Mr. Beard, for the defendant, said there was not suffi cient evidence to enable the magistrate to act adversely to the prisoner. After some consultation, Mr. Straight withdrew the charge of misappropriation, but asked that the defendant might be bound over to keep the peace, as he had threatened to shoot anybody who took proceedings against him with a revolver. Mr. Macdonald, the prosecutor, was then put into the witness-box, and deposed to the threats made use of by the prisoner. On one occasion the prisoner assaulted him, and was fined at the Guildhall for the offence. When ap prehended on the present charge, he had in his possession a revolver loaded in five chambers. Mr. Beard said that defendant had no intention of carrying his threats into execution. Sir Thomas Gabriel said the defendant must find two sureties for £l5O each, and enter into his own recog nisances for £3OO to keep the peace for six months. The necessary bail was provided, and the defendant was discharged. THAMES. AN UNWOMANLY OUTUAGE.—Mary Ann Johnson, a bloated and dissipated woman, aged 29 years, was brougLt before Mr. Paget charged with being drunk au d disorderly and violently assaulting Flora Winch, a respectable mar ried woman, of No. 27, Turner-street, Whitechapel. The complainant, who is far advanced in pregnancy gave evidence in this court some time since which affected a friend of the prisoner's. Yesterday evening the pri soner was drunk and disorderly in Charles-street, Stepney, and meeting the complainant and her husband, commenced abusing them, and using very foul language. The prisoner continually exclaimed "Did I steal any thing from you; dare you say so ?" The complainant civilly replied, " 1 never m i made any charge against you." The prisoner, after indulging n more abuse and coarse invective, made a furious attack on the complainant and her husband, and struck both repeatedly. A police constable, named Donald M`Kay, No. 275 K, was passing, and took the prisoner into custody, He said th a t th e i co mplainant was seriously njured, and put to great inconvenience and pain by the outrage upon her. The prisoner said she was the worse for liquor or she would not have acted as she had done. Mr. Paget said that nearly all the offences b roug ht un der his I notice were committed under the influence of strong drinks. The prisoner had committed two audaci ous assaults, one on the complainant and the other on her husband. The delicate situation . of the c om pl a i nan t oug ht to have stayed the prisoner! hand The outrage was a most unwomanly one, committed because the complainant had done her duty in the interests of justice. Ile sen tenced bou.r th e prisoner to 14 da ys' imprisonment and hard STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Dec. 2.—ln consequence of a rise in the price of cotton yesterday there was an advance in yarns of id. to id. per lb., and in cloths of lid. to 3d. per piece. Sellers are exceedingly firm in this demand, having a good supply of orders, but it checks business. Buyers are dis posed to wait, before executing orders, to see how far this advance can be established. The question as to whether cotton will be dearer or cheaper is just now one of engrossing speculation. Messrs. Ellson and Haywood, of Liverpool, in their circu lar just to hand, express a doubt as to whether American cotton will touch so low a figure even as lld. to llid. during the present month. BRADFORD, Dec. 2.—The wool market this morn ing is rather quieter in tone. There is a fair inquiry for most sorts of wool, especially for choice lustre and demi-lustre, both hogs and wethers, though the aggregate amount of business done is not large. The rates which in the case of good scarce wools staplers are obliged to seek, in consequence of the stiffer quotations of country holders and dealers, still tend to repress business. The time of the year is usually one of less activity, and, more over, most spinners have recently operated rather freely, and are consequently in less need of wool. Such operations as occur are to cover immediate re quirements. Prices are generally firmly maintained ; if anything, this is less apparent in medium and in ferior sorts. There is little inquiry in worsted yarns, and not much business done in any class. A very limited inquiry is apparent in single yarns, with little demand arising out of it. There is a rather freer inquiry in twofold yarns, but the prices offered are not remunerative, and consequently result in little business. Some small orders have been placed by export merchants, in order to meet p:essing requirements. There is, if anything, rather less inquiry on home account, and the trans actions are somewhat restricted. The piece trade is still rather inactive. A few forei,;n buyers have been in the market looking- round and occasionally buying small lots of goods. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be called "The Royal Irish Distillery." lIIGH.WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MO RNIN G. SVENING FRIDAY 30 min past 1 56 min vast 1 SA.TURDAY 16 miu past 2 40 min past 2 SUNDAY 0 min past 3_ 25 min past 3 _ MONDAY 48 min past 3 10 min past 4 TUESDAY 30 min past 4 50 min past 4 RITUALISM AT ST. ALBAN'S. An application was made on Thursday to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to declare that the Rev. A. H. Mackonothie, incumbent of St. Alban's, Holborn, had disobeyed the monition which had been served upon him after the decision of the Privy Council in the case of "Martin v. Maellonochio," by whiolk moinition lag was f ar _ bidden to elevate the paten and cup during the prayer of consecration in the celebration of the Holy Sacrament, to kneel or prostrate himself before the consecrated elements, or to use Hinted candles on the altar during the celebra tion of the Holy Sacrament, when such were not required for purposes of light. The members of the Judicial Com mittee present were the Archbishop of York, the Lord Chancellor, the Bishop of London, Lord Chelmsford, Sir J. Napier, and Sir• J. Colville. Mr. A. J. Stephens. Q.C., and Mr. Charles appeared for the promoters in the suit, viz., the Church Association. In support of his case, Mr. Stephens was about to read from affidavits which alleged that the practices forbidden had been in force at St. Alban's Church on a certain Sun day in July in the present year, when Lord Chelmsford isked if the defendant appeared. The Rev. Mr. Mackonochie : I ask leave to appear in person, my lords. Lord Chelmsford : Very well. Mr. Stephens then proceeded to read from the first affi davit, which alleged that at the commencement of the morning service there were several lamps burning in the chancel of the church, six candles in candelabras, and two candles in candlesticks on a shelf raised a few inches above the altar. These candles were extinguished shortly be fore the Communion Service commenced. The Lord Chancellor : The monition forbids Mr. Mac konochie to use lighted candles during the administration of the Sacrament. Your affidavits say they were ex tinguished before the office for the administration of the Sacrament was commenced. Mr. Stephens: The spirit of the monition was to forbid the use of candles in a symbolical manner. The Lord Chancellor : We must look to the letter of the monition. Mr. Stephens said after that intimation he would aban don the charge as regarded the use of candles. He then continued to read from the affidavits that the Rev. Mr. Mackonochie had disobeyed the other portions of the monition, but their lordships pointed out that the affidavits in question were by no means precise in their alle gations that at the time of the elevation of the paten and the cup, and of Mr. Mackonochie prostrating himself before the elements, these latter had actually been conse crated. The Lord Chancellor : It seems to me that the affidavit goes as far as this, that there was a prostration after the bread had been consecrated, but no prostration after the cup had been consecrated. Mr. Mackonochie, addressing their lordships, said he appeared under protest, for he denied the ability of the Privy Council to issue and enforce the monition in question. He then argued that the monition was not in accordance with the terms of the Order in Council. The judgment given against him in , the Arches Court as to the elevation of the elements ordered him not to recur to practices which he had actually given up before the suit was commenced, and to those practices ho had not returned. As to the affidavits that had been read by Mr. Stephens, he denied that they were correct—a fact which he could have demon strated by counter affidavits, but the notice of the present hearing had been so brief. A discussion then arose whether time should be given for the production of these affidavits, the Lord Chancellor saying that he supposed Mr. Mackonochie would be pre pared to make an affidavit himself. ➢ir. Mackonochie : Certainly, my lord. The Lord Chancellor : I suppose Mr. Mackonochie you mean to affirm that you have carried out the monition in the narrowest sense ? Mr. Mackonochie replied that that was so. After deliberation their lordships decided that Mr. Mackonochie ought to have time to produce the affidavits, and adjourned the further hearing until Saturday next. A Lancashire county meeting for promoting a me morial of the late Earl of Derby is to be held at Newton-le- Willows early in January. THE STORY OF A CIIRISTENING.—A. somewhat singular incide n t occurre d i n the village of Kingsley, Frodsham, last we e k. A li ttle " stranger " sck nets appearance in the hou se o f a labourer, and as it was not likely to live long, a parson was sent for, in order that it might be baptised. After casting about, as is usual with parents, to ascertain by what name the little one should I.:e called, it was decided that it should be Frederick. Accordingly the minister went through the baptismal service, giving the child the desired name. A short time afterwards a neighbour went in to see how " baby " was getting on, when she horrified the parents by discovering that the little one was a girl ! A too close attention to the bottle was, it seems, the cause of the unusual mistake. Of course the child will be requji:9d kere-jhrii4494.— Cheiter .Guardian. Surplus, 1£177,622 18,801 198,450 JUDGMENT AGAINST MR. VOYSEY. Mr. Granville Vernon Harcourt, the Chancellor of the diocese of York, in giving judgment in the matter of the prosecution of Mr. Voysey for heresy, said he had simply to determine whether the charges alleged against Mr. Voysey were sufficient to put him upon his trial, and whether the whole or any part of them ought to be re jected. The character of the defendant and his con scientious views entitled him to respect, but he (the Chancellor), sitting there as a judge, had no option and no right to permit any such personal motive to intrude on the execution of what was to him an imperious duty. He felt this, on the other hand, that the congregations of every parish in that province had a claim upon him, as the appointed guardian of their rights. They might well say to him, "We have been provided by our ancestors with a church wherein to worship, and a minister to serve in it subjected to limitations established by law. We have under the auspices of such a minister, and in con sonance with these regulations, been educated in a cate chism of stated religious doctrines. We have possessed a Prayer-book prescribed for our edification, and a Bible for our solace and instruction, and as an aid and guide in his ministrations." They might well add :—"Better were it to live -ender no law at all than by the aid of an irreligious indifference to conform ourselves as best we can to the arbitrary rule of our pastor, and fancy we have a law on which we can rely, and still find at last that that exposes us to listen to principles unheard of until the very moment of their propagation., It could not be otherwise than offensive to the sentiments of a Christian audience to hear broached from a pulpit spiritual theories which might seem to have ema nated from the school of Arius, placing the doctrine of revelation at the mercy of every private judgment, and substituting a Pantheistic creed for the symbols provided for the Church. Mr. Voysey had grafted some German metaphysics on the heresy of Arius, or the theology of the Neo-Platonians, and it might be inferred from some pas sages in his defence that he did not intend, in the views he had promulgated, to assail the Articles ; but even in the case of "Burder v. Heath," where the word "ad visedly" had been used, it was contended on behalf of Heath that as he had not published what he had pub lished with a view to impugn the Articles, he might not come under the censure of, the law. It was decided, how ever, by the Court that as he had acted deliberately in the matter, it must be assumed that he had done that with the purpose which his language had in fact effected, and that it was immaterial whether he had intended to impugn the Articles if he had done so in effect. He (the Chancellor) would not unnecessarily occupy time by going elaborately through all the different points, either of the prosecution or the defence ; but he would just give a summary analysis of the principal points on which the prosecution relied, and which his view of the articles might have sufficiently explained and made appear. Mr. Voysey had maintained, as was apparent from the document submitted to him (the Chancellor), that Christ has not made an atonement or any reconciliation for sin ; that He has not been made a sacrifice; that there is no need for any such sacrifice ; that Christ did not suffer in our stead ; and that to suppose He did so suffer was a revolting popular belief. It was quite clear, as far as it was possible to understand the English language, that in the Second Article of the Church ;Christ was made to be the medium of reconciliation with God, and that He is made to be a sacrifice not only for original sin but for the actual sins of men. It was quite clear that in the Third Article it was stated that Christ died for us ; in the Seventh (and both in the Old and New Testaments) everlasting life was offered to men through Christ, who is the only mediator; in the Fifteenth, that by the sacrifice of Himself He shall take away the sins of the whole world ; and in the Thirty-third article, the words "redemption," "propitiation," and "satisfac tion " for sin were also distinctly stated. The Prayer Book and its collects, and the various collateral services intimated the same doctrine. Mr. Voysey had also maintained that man is not by nature born in sin, that there was no curse to remove by the shedding of the innocent blood of Christ, and that the fall of man was contrary to Christ's teaching. In contradis tinction to this, the Second Article stated that Christ truly suffered to reconcile God and man. In the Ninth Article original sin is minutely and elaborately explained, and in the Eleventh Article we are accounted righteous for the merits of the Saviour alone. With regard to the statement that Christ was no more very God than other men, the Chancellor intimated that Mr. Voysey had derived this notion through some school of German theology. His state ment that the worship of the Son and the Holy Ghost was idolatry was a direct impugning of the Nicene Creed, which he was bound to read to the congregation. The First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Articles enjoined the acknowledgment of the Holy Trinity. The remaining objections of Mr. Voysey to the ordinary teaching of the Church of England had reference to the authenticity of tbe. Bible, either wholly or in pars. the wliule more might be considered to be subjected to his criticism, because he considerCd that a revelation by any book was impossible, and that'all true knowledge of God must be in men's hearts. The Chancellor, after commenting further on this point, referred to other assertions of the defendant as being contrary to the teaching of the Church. He then observed that, having had every disposition to expunge or remove anything he could find—(acting on behalf of Mr. Voysey, who was without legal advice there) —as not being relevant, or not sufficiently made out, he was bound to say that he thought on the face of them all the assertions which were there made, and all the deductions from those assertions, were sufficiently clear, and not unfairly pressed on the defendant. The document containing his defence had caused him to arrive at the conclusion that the pulpit of the Church of England was not the fit place from which his views ought to be promulgated. His (the Chancellor's) judgment would imply that all the allega tions against Mr. Voysey were a ground for excluding him from the Church of England. It was plain that con sistently with his own view, from the moment the official decision was arrived at which was sought by the present prosecutors, he would be content to retire from that position which he could hardly understand he could, with the conscientious and amiable character he had, have retained so long. At present he must content himself with saying that the articles must be admitted to proof. Costs were granted, and notice of appeal was given by the defendant's proctor, who stated that his client would prefer that the case should be finally determined in the Court of Appeal. RAILWAY SANDWICHES. — The thinness of Vaux hall sandwiches has passed into a proverb, but railway sandwiches are even lighter and more transparent. One of our correspondents purchased three sandwiches in the re freshment room at the Bristol station, and was so much struck by their appearance that he had the curiosity to have the thickest of them weighed at a neighbouring chemist's, shaking the crumbs out of the paper over it, so that it might have every advantage. The weight of the sandwich was thus ascertained to be as follows :—Beef, 2i drachms ; bread, 3 drachms ; that is to say, the whole article was # drachm less than oz. Some day or other directors will perhaps relent and supervise the refreshment rooms along their lines. A refreshment car attached to each train travelling a long distance, from which passengers could obtain a cup of tea or coffee, glass of beer, sandwich, or cold fowl at one station, returning cups, glasses, and dishes at the next, is one of those simple practical concep tions at once convenient to travellers and profitable to the company, for the realisation of which it would be absurd to hope.—Pall Mall Gazette. ENGLISH TIOSPITALITY.—If you wish to be civil to a stranger in London. you ask him to dinner; and if you wish to be doubly civil you ask him twice ; in other words, you spend about four hours in his company and give him, say, two guineas' worth of meat and drink. In the country you may go further, and make him, for a few days, a member of your family circle. But your utmost efforts fall very far short of the practice in primitive countries, where the merest stranger is made at home, and has the fatted calf slain in his honour, and has no delicate hints thrown out as to the conveniences offered by the neighbouring railway. Undoubtedly the degree of hopistality is measured by the general dulness of life. We welcome a man gladly when we are thoroughly tired of ourselves and our family circle ; and thus the charge is brought under our general principle, that life is made up of a series of petty and rapidly-changing excitements rather than of simple and powerful emotions. Perhaps, however, this is all a little too sentimental. I am approximating too nearly to lamentations over the fine old English gentleman, whose disappearance, to say the trrth, I can bear with very con siderable equanimity. He was too often a brutal, beer drinking, port-wino-swilling, illiterate animal, and his rough vigour was very capable of judicious refinement. Baronial halls and yule logs, and the general hospitality which is celebrated in Christmas Annuals, seem to me to be a lumbering and pretentious form of joviality, wh ose extinction is a matter fcr sincere congratulation.—" The Decay of Murder," in the Cornhill Magazine. TIIE AUSTRALIAN RABBITS.—Owners of runs con tinue to spend large sums of money in order to prevent the increase of the wild rabbits, which, in some districts, appear to have become a nuisance. Mr. Robertson's run at Colac is enclosed with stone walling, and a man with a pack of dogs is engaged in keeping the rabbits outside the boundary, while the run has been already cleared by the work of the rabbiters, at an expenditure, up to the present date, of £9,000. Dr. Stodart has expended £1,300 in endea 'touring to got rid of the bunnies , —llicaourne Argus. , 0E ( lA A Nt f1,74Z:-) LiDD raliNt HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 2. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal iiigh e ness Princess Louise, walked and drove in th Home Park this morning. Her Majesty went to London this afternoco, aincl visited her Royal Highness the Princess of gra° at Marlborough House. THE PRINCESS OF WALES• The following bulletin has been issued :--- MARLBOBOUGII HOUSE, Dee. 2 ' " The recovery of her Royal Highness th e Prin • cess of Wales is proceeding as favourably ao Bible. "The infant Princess is quite well." Another bulletin will be issued on Saturday after. noon, the 4th inst. (Signed) ARTHUR FARRE, M.D. EDWARD H. SIEVEKING, M•D'' LATEST INTELLLGBN (REUTER's TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK,ln e o e i s 2 s . t i o The Hamburg and American steamship g arrived here at 5 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 124 ; the highest quotation alit ing the day was 1224 ; the lowest, 122. Sterling Exchange on London 1081' 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll3. " " 1885 ll* {4 " 1 8 67 ll3i 10-40 1061. 6 4 Illinois 1331 Erie ............ 211. Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour, extra state, $5.35c. to $5.95c. Corn, mixed, sl.llc. QUEENSTOWN, Deb ' 3. a The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Russia a rrile be here from New York at 8.45 a.m. to -day. 0, landed passengers, 71 sa c k s o f ma ils, &c., and Pr ceeded for Liverpool at 9 o'clock. All well. er The National Steamship Company's steams 0 Pennsylvania arrived here this morning ' ro Liverpool, and havi n g em b ar k e d passengers, she proceeded for New York. All well. ROME. ROME, nee . 2 ' .0 A Pre.Synodal Co ngrega ti on wa s held to -dg the Sistine Chapel, when the Pope delivered an Allocution, and received the oaths of the officers f the (Ecumenical Council. ITALY. 2 . The Ministerial crisis continFuLeOs.RENlCnEce Dee. t ralfl has fallen during the last eight days. Th ere es much snow in Upper Italy, and the telegrap h 1111 t have been damaged. All the trains arriving 3 Florence have been delayed. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Dec. 3. The New Free Press of to-day publishes A tele gram from Constantinople, dated the 2d inst ant ' alleging that the French Ambassador, M. Bour ree ' t had declared to the Grand Vizier yesterday Oa slia r....1.:.>:rn4-ck ;I^. 41.„, Porte, to the effect that the differences exis tin l between Turkey and Egypt were a purely ira te rns r question. The French Ambassador, it is birthe d asserted, pointed out that by treaties guarantee by the Great Powers and concluded betweed Egypt and the Porte, the said Great poscers the right to intervene in this conflict. The same paper publishes intelligence from °‘ - Petersburg that Gen. Ignatieff has been spP °'nod ° to succeed Prince Gortschakoff a s Minist er Foreign Affairs. BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, De e ' 2 ' 4 The Peninsular and Oriental Companf° steara'a Massilia, from Southampton 20th le ultimo, ar rlye at on the 29th November at nine a.m., an d midnight for Alexandria. The Delhi left at three p.m. to-day for Sout"11301:: ton, where she may be expected about the llt b in RANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 2. F —Three o'clock—T he market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 72f Credit Mobilier 202 50 Transatlantic 230 Credit Fonder 1612 Paris Gas 1597 50 RAILWA - T Bank tsi; a n S Shares ................. .....5-• • Austrian Fires ... o u ao Ottoman Loan ••• 44''' 30 Do. Debt......... ,11 Spanish Threes ... 1 ..... Home Debt ..••••-.- Deferred ......... Cash. Orleans Western ........................................... _6,6a 9371 zt Northern ... ...... 1.M.. Strasburg 96 s Lyons and Meditei: . ra1 . a"n" . .....................:::: B i; Southern...., 5O Sardinian Austrian 502 Lombard North of Spain 6ll Saragossa Roman .............. • MARKETS.-7his Day. LIVERPOOL COTTON. Dec. 3.—Sales p ro b a bl y 15,000 baleei Tha 1‘43 firm. to "f IBP ' Our readers are strongly recommended op,aa the manufacturing stationery warehouse of PAr ici A p s s f A nd d Lotto, who employ upwards of 150 hands (ec'th e umb) in finishing, pressing, and cutting the fine"„ of w riting papers, stamping paper and enveloP"diate sinking, card-plate engraving &c. Being in iltl i el t e ti de connection with all the paper mills, and having al' he tails under their own superintendence they cane s-:;"011 writing papers, envelopes , &c., at nearly ' half th "'" :0 , charges. Here may be seen form, and make, from 2s. the p a p er ream of 20 qu ires to t he tl' overland Ape vellum club-house linen paper. Mourning sed conceivable Li ~,5 1 11; papers of 100 sorts ; envelopes of every in every variety of l ex colour, and size, and of which they sell 50,000,000 ah l3- j o g, elegant specimens of coloured and emblazoned etAlciod dinner programmes, din ner car ds, menus, and eyed of fancy stationery of thenewest style. t tb ° A good service pension has been place— Ado * disposal of the Lords Co m missioners of the jot) ralty by the death of M a j or Pascoe, Royal 'lnbe Light Infantry. Th e d ecease d officer enterea servine in 1808, and served in the thefollowing Isle of France and surrender of the Isle l oya l Passe. . Major Pascoe served with the 18 11 -1)°1 rine Battalion at the capture of Java in 1 4 ; (war medal with clasp), and in Holland. in 18 13 Baltic ia to.; n America during the war in 1814-15, inclucliol the action of Blandensburg and other affairs ; 8 . 41 on the coast of Syria in 18.10 (naval war medal wl` two clasps and Turkish medal).• he Monarch, t urr et- s hip, Captain John co;nne rell, V.C., C. 8., a t Portsmouth, is completeuate her voyage to America with the remains of the the ' A Ir. Peabody. The apartment in the ste rn ef c ship, taken from the captain's apartments, villia has been prepared for the reception of the WAY ° Li its passage across the Atlantic, is being v isited, ill' official permission, by large numbers o f peroile• The apartment has been hung with bl ack clotby with white silk in relief. M C COIL] Busine: brisker tb to note a Were firr Foreign improved prices hal Cousoil ditto, fo: duced, ! Excheque 2 7 preen 4 prem. ; 4-4- per G India ditto 5 per Cent. 4 per Cc prem. In Ban to 59f ; I Joint-Sto 38} ; Chg Austrian, Agra (A; In Tel( An glo-Ar Alaintena In Mis cline of to 12i. ternatiom Discount, In the Argentin' (1864), 7 13i to 13 to 27 ; T 1 65! to 66 Americ 844 to 85 Bonds, 8 801. Eh In the Westerns Caledonia Great Nc 1081 ; M 119 i; an At Mai with a si wheat, of the full t( which„wa asked, bu done was Flour rul There 1 terday. The At £69,765 i A limit sold for C The arriv these coi, there is v The sul Consolida been corn up the ou first insta the part o their allot ate disc being giv of £200,C quotation At a in and Co., tion of 1 Inents, w At a n gold thre of Prestc The estai signment. Aless rs subscripti and Giur; which is to the Da property per cent. of 90, wh to £BB 16 in seven yield an I cent. per payment to which the railw of the Hal The ac Turkish mount it that pric according The loan nominal appropril bursemer bonds, it be difficu customer pathy f( changing realized, pears, is issued by Way coin scribers • is the ml 172 f. 50( combiaat wish to e stocks, 6 the magi involves fort Ban and put be raised the bent 5,000,00 bourg-L project I The ri week en results v Rest PuLlic de Other de On the Governor tins Other se Notes on The ami being al bullion i a decrez prec edit Subic of the 1 and Fre last yea Itesery Notes Rate of Congo] Freud The f and bill th• wee Ciov per Co. 2,027