The Sun. — London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

TilE FRENCH TREATY WITII CHINA. The French have been in with early intel ligence of the exact advantage which is to accrue to them in return for their part in the expedition to China. Of course, they are to participate in all that we have stipulated. They can go into all the new ports, they can send Ambassadors to Pekin, they can travel through the country, they can establish commercial houses in the enormous cities, and they can carry woollens and longcloths to the gates of the Imperial Palace. But as these facilities may very possibly not have the same value in their eyes which they have in ours, and. as they happen to have not more than two French houses of com merce in all China, of course they have desired something special and uncommercial for themselves. The telegram which came by way of St. Peters burg, and which has been so promptly printed in the Ilion/tear, very succinctly states what these specialities are. They consist, it seems, of three objects, which aro perhaps not so entirely inconsis tent as they might at first view appear—money, slaves, and the Roman Catholic religion. The money is very reasonable. Sixty millions of francs cannot exceed or even equal the expenses incurred in sending out the French portion of this expedition; and indeed the sum has been well earned by our allies by the efficient protection they gave to the Imperialist city of Shanghai —which has nothing in common with the European settlement of Shanghai—when it was attacked by the army of the King of Nankin. The "Emigration of Coolies," as it is gently nhrascd, is, we feer, a much less innocent matter. What the emigration of Coolies is, as it has hitherto been car ried on in French ships, may be read in several revelations, and notably in those which attended the discussion on the case of the Charles et Georges. No " most favoured nation" clause can give us any part of this source of profit. The provisions of our " Passengers' Act" must shut us out of this carry ing trade, unless it be exercised under conditions which are not consistent with the habits of the present monopolists of this traffic; and, although we doubt whether the particular provisions of this Act are wisely framed for the object in view, we should be very sorry to see a word of them repealed unless to be replaced 1 - . y more effective enactments to prevent a system of kidnapping and slavetrading growing up under the disguise of an emigrant tran sport system. So much for the money and the emi grants. By the third special stipulation, France, having undertaken to relieve China of her surplus population, proposes to endow China with her own surplus of religious establishment. Whatever back stock of cotton and woollens we may have upon our hands, it cannot, we f anc y, be more embarras s i ng . to us than some portions of Napoleon's Church Esta blishment must be to him. As Louis Philippe con quered Algeria to gain a field of enterprise for the fiery spirits of his army, so his successor carves out in China a new theatre of action for those enter prising spirits of the Church Militant at home who are but too much inclined to turn their wordy weapons against himself; and if he takes from Pio Nono a few square miles of temporal dominion he gives him with Imperial generosity a spiritual do minion over one-third of the human race. About this time the edict is going forth that Coolies may be " emigrated" from China, and le Deum and Domino Salvum, have been already sung in the Cathedral at Pekin. The " Cathedral of Pekin" is a new scene added to the properties of this Chinese drama. The exist ence of such an edifice comes upon us by surprise. It has had the cross replaced upon its summit. We are curious to know what purpose this cathedral has recently served—whether it has been a Temple of the Five Hundred Gods, or a yamun of some State officer, or an examination-hall. Moreover, it would be interesting to ascertain what " de pendencies" it has, and what portion of Pekin those " dependencies" may comprise. Some of these temples and yamuns have very large gardens within their walls, large enough to hold a whole army of monks, who might reasonably be provided with means of defence against any sudden outburst of Pagan fury. Roman Catholic bodies are, we know, very tenacious of their titledeeds to long lost possessions. It is said that previous titles to many broad English estates, the present proprie tors of which can date back to Henry VIII., are still preserved at Rome. Still we should like to hear how the Roman Catholic hierophants who are now consecrating the " Cathedral of Pekin" can prove their title and identity. It must, at any rate, be quite 150 years since this building could have been used as a Christian church, and 150 years is a very long period in the age of a Chinese building. This consideration strikes us as important, because we observe that " all churches, cemeteries, and their dependencies which formerly belonged to the Christians in the whole empire are to be re stored." Now, this is rather a large stipulation. It is scarcely possible to measure the extent of claim which might be set up under such a stipu lation as this. What would the Scotch say if a treaty in precisely the same terms were to be forced upon their part of the kingdom by a Roman Catholic invader ? In their case it would apply to at least one-third of the land of Scotland. The Chinese have never been so addicted to " super stitious gifts" as the Scotch before the Reforma tion were. But still there must be buried in the dust of ages a great many Christian claims upon the land of China. It is now 13 centuries ago that Chistianity flourished in that far-away land, and that the Nestorian monks brought thence to Con stantinople the silkworms' eggs which endowed Europe with a new and profitable manufacture. Perhaps the Nestorians may have neglected their advantages. But it is also nearly three centuries since Matteo Ricci, that plausible and politic Jesuit, conquered a position, rather for his Order than for Christianity, at the Court of China. We may depend upon it that he, at least, and his successors, did not neglect their opportunities. There are proofs of his presence at Nankin and Soochow and at most of the large cities of the Empire, and we have very authentic details of the manner in which he worked his advantages. Ricci, we know, had a special aptitude for making rich converts, and, although an eminent Bishop of his Church, point ing to his habit of co-operating at the worship of idols after surreptitiously hiding a cross among the flowers or attached to one of the candles of the Pagan altar, asserts that Ricci " was a faithful servant of he Devil, who, far from destroying, established his reign among the heathen, and even extended it to the Christians," yet Ricci did make converts. Ricci moreover made his converts give substantial proof of their sincerity. Sin baptized Paul, and his daughter baptized Candida, who were very important people; and we read in "Du Heide" that the daughter alone built 39 churches in different provinces. The memory of these generous founders have not passed away, for they are even now worshipped at Shanghai as a Pagan god and a Pagan goddess. But it may not be unimportant to know whether the sites of those 39 churches can still be identified, or whether any plausible claim has been set up upon the strength of Du Halde's description of them. It seems a very simple thing that the Roman Catholics in China should have their churches restored to them with the cemeteries and dependencies upon those churches: But it may chance to happen that the Chinese have admitted a principle that may be pushed to an extent of which they are not quite aware. Dido • was a very sharp young woman, and the cuttingaip of that skin into thongs was a bit of smartness that might have deserved the admiration of a New Eng lander. But what is the sharpness of one Tyrian Woman to the astuteness and resources of the whole Order of Jesuits, so renowned as scholars, so excel lent as antiquaries, and so industrious in discover ing, or in imagining, invaluable proofs of antiquity? if there should be any truth in the report current some t ime ago, that the'Emperor of the French had meditat e a ti s l • 4. e partition of the spiritual dominion of the Pope, ‘s well as the abolition of his temporal power, here fine opportunity • a portunity for him to com mence his new ecclesiastical reign with tremendous eclat. To the title of Supreme Head of the Gallican Ch ur ch he might add that of Defender of the Faith in China, and Patron and Protector of the Chinese With a , prop erl _ Church., y organised establishment of missionarie s, 1 1 )° ,L 60 , u 111. might make in China euceessfui riv a l - a not very un.Jt o the GI and Lama of Thibet. He has some lie very till very eebstanti a l a d van t ages over the Lama, and s greater advantages L over the Pope. By t has of a discreet use of this stipulatiou for hunting up. old tr adition a l t itl es t o ancient Christian possessions, a nd for restoring two to thirteen pieces "preferment in his hands which the Grandveryplea Lama of rhib e t h as not ; and, by dint of his imperial p ower, he . „ %the means of preventing his missionaries from Ruarrel ling amono. themselves, as the Jesu it s , the Francis cans, and the Dominicans did, and thus furnishing plausible excuses for beingturned out of Chu theirrch glebes and losing the head of the Gallican so valuable a portion of his spiritual dominion., However, we are, of course, delighted to see 001 Our allies have been influenced in conducting and concluding this war so entirely by their charitable and religious sensibilities. Nothing can be more laudable than a desire to relieve the overcrowded shores of China of their necessitous population and to make the Roman Catholic religion the esta blished and endowed religion of China. We only venture to express a hope that our brethren in arms will, not pursue these good works with too indiscreet a zeal. Conveying away too many Chinamen at a time has sometimes been found to produce public scandals, and, what is worse than this, to cause a certain disinclination among the remaining population to submit to the process of being made " emigrants." Very largo " resump tiona" of church lands and their Christian depen dencies in China may have a bad effect in a different w ay. Ripa complained that in his days the mis- I sionaries made no converts because their garments I were made of the richest materials; because they went nowhere on foot, but always in sedans, on horseback, or in boats, and with a large retinue of attendants following them; and because none of them had been able to surmount the language so as to make himself understood by the people at large. We are sure that the pious Crusaders would not wish to reproduce such a state of languor in the Missionary Church as this. Let them not therefore take too many lands, at least to begin with. And so we wish our allies God speed with their new gains, only begging them so to use them that, they may not breed a new China war.—Ti»les. 111 E VENETIAN QUESTION The gocd old-fashioned Christmas has come back, " frosty, but kindly ;" and it comes with all the messages of peace and mercy, all the traditions of charity and goodwill, all the memories of Divine compassion, which for eighteen centuries have thrilled like the joy of a single household the warring and divided worshippers of the Cross, If the snow storm lends a keener zest and a richer glow to the comfort of the family fireside, it must awaken a more poignant pity for the homeless and the destitute, and inspire a more awful tenderness for the starving and the outcast. Indeed to all noble natures the " happiness" of Christmas is dimmed with tears, not only of private and per sonal sorrow for the absent and the dead, but of a troubled and yearning wonder at the immense mystery of mortal destinies. The whole creation groaneth and travaileth until now;" and to two thirds of the civilised human race life is, at best, a blind chance, a battle in the dark, a penalty with out judgment or reprieve. When we look at a drop of water th r ough the microscope we see an epitome of the life of millions of mankind. Whether the spread of education, the growth of political free dom, the energy of religious proselytism, the con quests of science, or the electric forces of opinion, are to result in the deliverance of multitudes from this helpless state of bondage to the lust of glory, the disordered ambition, or the pride :of power, of half a dozen riders of armies and their parasites, the next half century will show. To clever people the question seems ridiculous. The many will always be the many, and the few will always be the few; the few rich and the many poor, the few wise and the many ignorant, the few leaders and the many led. Poverty is necessary for the dis play of Christian virtue, and war is occasionally beneficial in promoting a chivalrous spirit and in weeding surplus populations. Such is the philo sophy of clever people. Any other doctrine is silly sentimentality. And yet—silly sentimenialists or not—at this particular moment we cannot help observing that even Monarchs and Ministers of State spend their Christmas like the rest of their fellow-creatures, and celebrate in many solemn, festive, and homely ways the good old tidings of peace on earth and goodwill to man. For a little while there is a lull all Europe over, except, per haps at Gaeta, where Francis 11. is desirous of burying himself under the: patronage of a French Emperor and the casemates of a fortress. By common consent the annual armistice is tacitly in augurated in every hostile camp of home and foreign politics, and for all the European " ques tions," upon the issue of which hangs the fate of nations and of Empires, there:is one month's am nesty and oblivion. The stillness of the snow-clad earth is scarcely more intense than the stillness of the world of public affairs at Christmas. And like the stillness of nature laid to winter sleep, this political stillness is tremulous and thrilling, for beneath it is the unknown promise of the coming year. Shall it be health, plenty, and prospe rity, or plague, pestilence, and famine ? Shall it be peace, freedom, and international reconcilia tion, or war with all its miseries and follies, for the satisfaction of a young headstrong Emperor's self love 1 .) We were saying some weeks since that within five months the peace of Europe must be made securer far than any Congress of the Powers has ever made it, or a war must break out in which principals would soon be seconds, and Venetia but a spark in the devouring conflagration. Time moves silently and relentlessly on, while ministers and diplomatists are making Christmas holiday. A month atter the British Parliament has met it will be too late to talk of special envoys to Vienna : of equivalents, and guarantees. 100 late, we know, is a favourite phrase with monarchy in these latter days. It may be that the Emperor Francis Joseph has chosen it for the epitaph of his house and reign. But the English public has not forgotten the miser able makeshifts and delusions of statesmanship in the first months of the year before last, the abortive missions, the impotent negotiations, the reckless romancing of Mr. Disraeli in the House. The war came which everybody out of Downing-street know must come, and Europe had to thank Austria once more not only for her obstinate refusal to prevent, but for her headstrong precipitation in provoking the conflict. Austria did not drift but drive into war ; it is a triumph of statesmanship when a war takes Europe by surprise ; and this is the sort of triumph which the diplomatic art of " drifting" is not unlikely to celebrate next year. Never assuredly will the saving wisdom of Governments and the farsighted beneficence of diplomacy have achieved a more remarkable suc cess. Perhaps it may be argued in excuse that diplomacy can only deal with secrets ; and that the war announced for the spring of 1861 is beyond the pale of diplomacy precisely because it is announced beforehand by vulgar lookers on. This excuse may serve in some degree for the brilliant failure at Vienna in the spring of 1859, but it will be far more apposite on the coming occasion ; since the Liberator of the Two Sicilies has named the very hour for the final struggle, and sum moned a nation to his standards. There is really nothing left for diplomacy to do; except indeed to preserve the peace of Europe in the only possible way it can be preserved : by persuading the young Emperor of Austria to be content with one great defeat, with an insolvent treasury, with disaffection in all his provinces • and to consider a little the convenience and comfort of his friends and neigh bours, before he resolves upon a:second and more complete catastrophe. It is nothing that France adds a battalion to all her regiments ; this time, at least, we know that the Emperor wants peace—it is nothing that Sar dinia is arming to the teeth, for we are certain that Count Cavour would be rejoiced to nettle the Vene tian question without striking a blow. But the honour of France is doubly engaged towards Vene tia ; first by the treachery of Campo Formic, not yet redeemed ; secondly, by the words " from the Alps to the Adriatic" not yet fulfilled. And as to the Sardinian Government, it must win Venetia or lose Italy. Nor is this Venetian question a ques tion of military ambition or political intrigue, though by exasperation it may become an instru ment of both. It is in its present aspect such a question as any simple family snaking holiday at this happy season can appreciate as well as the astutest Cabinet. It is before and above all, a question of life and death, of home and household, and property, for two millions and a half of human beings. Doubtless it is part of the Italian "idea," and of the political programme of Italian patriotism, that the independence of the Peninsula must pre cede its unity. To talk of the unity and indepen dence of the Peninsula is absurd while Austria holds the Quadrilateral. But for the people of Venetia it is something more than an idea, how ever grand, or an aspiration, however esalted ; it is the question of living the life of freemen, or of enjoying Austrian taxation, conscription, silence, solitude, dungeons enlivened with fusillades, and violent death escaped by exile. Surely this is a question which any Englishman who knows what it is to have a country and a home, public freedom, domestic security, and equal laws, can answer without consulting the diplomatic augurs. The rumours which reach us of attempts at an amicable settlement, and the pamphlets which are coming out in Paris, are not altogether reas suring. It is of little avail, we fear, to impress upon the mind of the Emperor Francis Joseph the extreme imprudence of an Emperor, notoriously in solvent, making or sustaining war. To young Emperors, wars, in which hecatombs of human lives are sacrificed, are so much " wild oats." Enterprising spendthrifts don't renounce the stud or the yacht because they are "hard up." Insol vency is sometimes an irresistible temptation to extravagance. It is a precipice over which the giddy climber must go. The pamphlet lately pub lished at Paris, attributed to an eminent capitalist, and even to Imperial revision, is admirably rea soned, and would convince any capitalist, perhaps e s ven any Emperor alive, except the one to whom it addressed. Its only fault is that it is written by a, man in in , t g:a io in his senses toa man insolvent and , whom with much provoking coolness it recommen consi deration w id , t il i o give up in time and for a eonsi of the Court of YVilnYn:i b cannot keep. Of course, it is obvious to ever out of Austria, or rather out , t t h hat Austria has everything to gain by Partin But the Einpea„ Venetia . for a handsome Francis Joseph's blood is sum . up , a nd his army is full of fight. The threat of the Austrian an capitalists Government to wi withdraw dra lightl y their credit fromthose o will fet in Indeed the Austrian Government surprised to learn that qbeuaargtrecresa. agreeably l os e i it has any credit to n any money market an the wor ld. It remains, therefore, to be seen whether there are in Austria itself influences strong enough to curb an SEtmaree;roorr'swtheemtpheerr ,and to control the policy of the among the rest of the so-called Great Powers there is energyenougehr vetoosr to ave keep An tria in spite of herself , by bindi ng her THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, IMO. the peace, and purchasing Venetia for Italy on fair and honourable terms. But such a settlement must be absolutely concluded on its own basis; not ham pered with guarantees or with eventual compensa tions. The British people will most certainly never consent to guarantee the dominions of any Power. And to promise Austria territorial compensation in the East of Europe would be simply to light an in exhaustible funeral pile for the Turkish Empire. — Daily News. TILE COLLIERY EXPLoSIGN IN SOUTH WALES. RISCA, DEC. 20. This morning Mr. W. H. Brewer, the deputy coroner, and the fifteen gentlemen previously em panelled to inquire into the circumstances attending the above calamity, re-assembled at the Albert Tavern. Mr. Brough (the Government inspector of mines f&r the district) was in attendance, as were also Mr. Phillpotts, the manager of the Risen. Coal and Iron Company (to whom the pit belongs), and Mr. Owen, s olicitor, of Newport, who attended on be half of the friends and relatives of some of the de ceased. Up to last evening seven bodies had been recovered in addition to those previously mentioned in our columns ; and last night another body was brought up from the pit. The names of the former were John Phillips, Nathaniel Phillips (brothers), Reece Morgan Reece, Charles Evans (a boy), D. Edwards, H. Parnell, and Wm. Davis; and of the latter Isaac Bateman. The first seven had been previously viewed by the jury, and the deceased had been interred on the following day. The Coroner now said they would only have the body of Isaac Bateman to view ; but as he was speaking, information arrived that two other bodies had just been brought up, but that their names were not known. These were afterwards found to be Charles Cox and Henry Goulding, and they were placed beside the other body, so that they might all be viewed together to enable the coroner to grant certificates of death, in order that immediate inter ment might take place. It was also stated that one or two other bodies were expected to be brought up during the night, in which case the jury undertook to view them the next morning. _ . . . With regard to the total number of victims of the calamity, they still appear to be 142 ; 116 are ac counted for, and 26 are yet reported as being " underground and missing." Three of the 116 were brought up alive, but have since died from the effects of their injuries. As to the present condition of the pit it appears that since the determination was arrived at to regu larly clear it, as the quickest mode of recovering the remaining bodies, Mr. Brough, Mr. Phillpotts, Mr. Harrison, the underground viewer, and the other experienced men who have rendered assist ance to the company, have devoted themselves with unremitting vigour to effect that object. They have so far succeeded that the ventilation has been to a great extent restored, and the most formidable " fall" almost removed. 'When this latter task has been entirely accomplished, it is believed the miss ing bodies will be rapidly recovered, it being ima gined that the majority are all close together at a spot which, up to the present time, has not been able to be reached. A few days more, however, must elapse before the efforts that are being made can be entirely successful, owing to the quantity of gas still its tha pit. The names of the jury having been called, Mr. Brough, the Government inspector, said he had to solicit another adjournment of the inquiry, and he did so upon the ground that it was impos sible to complete the examination of the pit until the ventilation had been restored. He did not think that could be effectually accom plished until the first or second week in J'tinuary, and, perhaps, not even then ; but he believtA an adjournment until the 9th of January would allow time sufficient for the purpose. The Coroner inquired of the jury whether the day named would be convenient to them ; when Mr. Owen requested to be informed whether the convenience of the" other side" would be consulted in any arrangement that took place. The Coroner—What side ? I have no " other side" in this inquiry. I have no " for" or " against" here. I am an impartial judge. Mr. Owen—And I beg it to be distinctly un derstood that all I want is the truth. The Coroner—You may depend upon it, Mr. Owen, that as far as I am concerned there shall be a full and just investigation. But lam guided prin cipally by the Government inspector, and I must wait until he is prepared to give evidence. . . Mr. Owen then wished to be informed what course would be adopted when the jury met after the adjournment. He had been present on several occasions, and he always endeavoured to ascertain what line of conduct would be pursued when they met again. . . . . The - Coroner said he should begin to examine witnesses if Mr. Brough was prepared. . _ . . . Mr. Owen would also like to know whether the persons acquainted with the workings or the pit would be admitted to hear the evidence. He recol lected that when he was there before,'when a simi lar catastrophe had taken place, he was compelled to ask his way to the inquest-room, and the rela tives and friends of the deceased were not admitted. The Coroner replied that all he could say on that point was that any person who was likely to be called as a witness would not he allowed to remain in the room, but, with that exception, any persons might be present. If they did not interfere with the business be was sure he should not interfere with thew. Mr. Brough might venture an observation with respect to taking evidence. He had attended several similar inquests, and it was the invariable rule for the government inspector's evidence to be taken last. Mr. Owen said that was the reason he had asked what course was intended to bo pursued when they assembled. Other evidence was to be taken besides that of the government inspector. The Coroner—Yes, Mr. Owen, that is true enough; but Mr. Brough will like to be present while the other witnesses are being examined. Mr. Owen—l wish it to be distinctly understood that all I am anxious for is that a full and proper inquiry shall take place. The Coroner—And I repeat that as far as I am concerned it shall be so. Mr. Owen then complained that letters had been written to the public papers giving only one side of the case. He did not think that fair, and he was only anxious that the future proceedings should be strictly impartial. The public had had its atten tion directed to a fearful catastrophe, and on behalf of the poor widows and orphans who had been left it demanded proper investigation. The jury were then sworn to inquire into the cause of the death of James Hammond—one case having been at the request of the coroner selected from the others—the verdicts with regard to the great bulk of the deceased to be the same as recorded in the case agreed upon. Mr. Owen now asked Mr. Phillpotts, the mana ger of the mine, whether he had any objection to give him a tracing of the underground workings of the mine. It was done in the last case of a similar character. Mr. Phillpotts replied that Mr. Owen had written to his (Mr. Phillpotts') solicitor, who had intimated in answer that if Mr. Owen sent any respectable surveyor to the pit there would bo no objection for him to take a tracing of •the working, but on his own part he (Mr. Phillpotts) positively declined to incur the expense of providing another tracing. He had furnished tracings to Mr. Brough, to the coroner, and to every viewer, and all of those would be in the room *hen the evidence was being given, and Mr. Owen would have ample opportunity of inspecting theta and framing his cross-examination' after doing so. Mr. Brough said Mr. Owen might have free access to his copy of the tracings. Mr. Owen remarked that lie wanted the tracings before the evidence was given, so that he might as certain the state of the ventilation of the workings, and frame his questions accordingly. Mr. Phillpotts said he should be fully prepared to show the state of the ventilation in the workings. He was most anxious to do so; but he declined to go to the expense of getting another tracing for Mr. Owen, who had not stated for whom he ap peared, Mr. Owen—l appear for the dead, and I shall not allow the matter to be settled without inquiry. You will hear of the subject again, but I will now take your direct refusal. Mr. Phillpotts —There will be plenty of tracings in the room. There is no reason for incurring ad ditional expense. The jury then proceeded to view the bodies, which lay in one of the sheds near the pit's mouth. In every case it was almost impossible to establish a satisfactory identity; in fact one of the bodies resembled a block of coal, and scarcely a feature could be traced. The others were fearfully mutilated. At the conclusion of viewing the inquiry was formally adjourned until Jan. 9. [A DVERTISEMENTI - Hon,way's rills.— Winter Ail ments.—Each season of the year has its peenlii* diseases; but in our winters the sick list much increases. Bronchitis, diphtheria, mumps, liver complaints, and dyspepsia, or disordered stomach, generally prevail at this period. The most philosophical and successful mode of preventing or curing this calamitous catalogue of sufferings is to purify the blood : with its purification all disorders depart. 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The pri soner, a married man, lived in Campbell-street, about 200 yards from Lupton's ; and his wife fol lowed the occupation of a charwoman, in which capacity she was employed by the prosecutor on the Saturday before the committal of the present offence. At about half-past five o'clock on the morning of Monday, the Bth of October, prosecutor was awoke by a knocking at the outer door of his house, and by the barking of the house dog. Looking out of the window, he saw the prisoner, who asked for some castor oil. Prosecutor, having let the prisoner in, served him with two ounces of the oil he had asked for. The prisoner then asked for a number of other articles, which the prosecutor prepared for him. Lupton. was standing with his back towards Kenworthy, reckoning what the articles came to, when the pri soner knocked him down by a blow on the head, and repeated the blow whilst he was on the ground. The prosecutor was stunned, but, nevertheless, managed to get upon his legs. He seized the pri soner, and a scuffle ensued, in which the couple eventually got to the bottom of the stairs. At this time the candle had been extinguished; the pro secutor was bleeding profusely from the head, and he and his assailant were on the floor. The prisoner eventually got on the top of the prosecutor, and seized his nose with his teeth, but Lupton, by get ting the prisoner's thumb in a similar position, released himself. He then crept into the shop, whilst the prisoner proceeded upstairs and com menced ransacking the rooms. The prosecutor, finding that he had not strength to open the shop door, crept into the warehouse, and eventually get ting into the street, cried out " Murder !" The alarm brought a Mrs. Horner to the spot. She met the prisoner leaving the house, and on going up to the prosecutor, found him so bathed in blood that she could not find the seat of his injuries. Another neighbour coming up, Lupton was taken into the house, the floor of which was covered with blood. Under a chair was found a hatchet, which belonged to the prisoner. The prosecutor had sus • twined five scalp wonnds, and one on the left ear. There was also a wound on the back, another on the left wrist, a superficial one on the nose, and many scratches on the face. Upon the crown of the head there was a compound fracture, the left parietal bone being broken in several places. The shape of this wound was that ef a letter T, the trans verse part of it being 2 inches long, and cut down to the bone. The longitudinal part was about the same length and depth. To the left was another wound, about two inches long, and which also exposed the bone. A little to left and more in front, there was a third scalp wound of the same length and exposing the bone, The next wound was behind the ear, and separated the upper part of the ear from the head. To the right of the com pound fracture was another scalp wound about 2 inches long, and exposing the bone, the blow hav ing fractured the skull. The fifth scalp wound was behind the head, 3 inches long and expos ing the bone, which was almost cut through, but not broken. Five fragments of the bone of the skull were subsequently removed. Tho wound on the back was about three inches long, and exposed the bone. Three of the wounds on the head ap peared to have been done thy a blunt-edged instru ment, and the others, with one exception, with a sharp-edged instrument. All the wounds were of a dangerous character. Fresh blood and some of Mr. Lupton's hair was found on the hatchet. A knife, bent and bloody, was also found at the place in the police office where the prisoner had been standing after' he was taken into custody. It appzAared that, after the committal of the above offence, the prisoner 'went to his mother's and changed his coat and waistcoat. He then went home and took off his trousers, and sent them to pledge. The latter, however, were afterwards found by the police, and bore numerous marks of blood ; while the coat and waist coat, similarly marked, were found concealed at his mother's. The prosecutor's bedroom was found to have been ransacked, and the motive assigned for the commission of this outrageous attack was not only one of plunder, but in order to prevent the possibility of the prosecutor, who well knew the prisoner, afterwards giving evidence against him. His Lordship complimented Mrs. Horner for her courageous conduct on the morning in question. The jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm ; and be was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude. HOME CIRCUIT,—CIIELMSFORD, Dec. 21. (Before Benin Bramwell.) Thomas Haydon, 40, descrjbed as alaboarer, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Harriet, Hay den, his own daughter, a girl 15 years of age. There was also another indictment against the prisoner which charged him with assaulting orimi• nally three others of his daughters—Emma, aged 10 years; Phoebe, aged 16; and Anne, aged 17. Mr. Walford conducted the prosecution, This was one ofthe most atrocious cases that has ever perhaps been brought before the public. Itap peared that the prisoner is a married man, and he had lately resided with his wife and the four girls who were the subject of the inquiry at Beddow, near Chelmsford. The prisoner, who seemed to have re ceived a rather better education than usual in per sons of his position, was formerly addicted to drink ing to excess, but of late he become a teetotaller, and had delivered lectures upon teetotalism. The eviilence left no doubt that fora considerable period the prisoner had been in the habit of conducting himself in the most abominable manner to wards his daughters, and that he commenced this course of conduct when they ivere not more than nine or ten years of% age. The first charge gone into was the one above mentioned, which charged the prisoner with committing a feloni ous assau lt upon his daughter Harriet, a very mo dest, decent-looking young woman, who stated that on the 14th of September, while she was in the garden, the prisoner told her to go into the shed for a cucumber, and he followed her and made use of an indecent expression to her. She requested him to be quiet, but he laid hold of her and com mitted the offence imputed to him. She told the prisoner that she would tell her mother, and he said that if she did he would kill her, and he also said that if she made known v. hat had happened to any one he should be sent to prison and hanged, and that she would be sent to prison with him, and they would let him knock her about as much as he liked. In consequence of these threats, she .was afraid to tell her mother what had taken place. In answer to questions put by the learned judge, this witness said that the prisoner had repeatedly assaulted her in a similar manner, and that the first time he did so was five or six years ago, when she was not more than nine or ten years dld, and at that time she said she did not know what ho did to her ; but she was afraid to say.anything about it on account of his threats. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said that what the prosecutrix had been saying was ail a lot of stuff, and the charge had been trumped up by his family to get rid of him. Baron Bramwell, in summing up this case to the jury, said it appeared to him that the evidence was not sufficient to support the charge of felonious assault, and that the prosecutrix had not offered that resistance which was necessary to justify a jury in convicting the prisoner of that offence. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner was then tried upon another indict ment, which contained four counts, each charging him with indecently assaulting his daughters, Emma, Phoebe, Harriet, and Anac Hayden. Emmr, the first complainant, wits a child only 10 years old, and she stated that one Sunday even ing, while her mother was gone to chapel, the prisoner got into her bed and assaulted her. He threatened to kill her if she told anybody what had taken place, and she was therefore afraid to say anything to her mother when she came home, but on the following day she told her sister Phoebe how her father had acted towards her. Baron. Bramwell asked the prisoner whether he wished to ask his daughter any qnestions The prisoner replied that he did not. She had been telling nothing but lies. He had never been at home alone with her on a Sunday, and she knew that he never missed going to chapel. In answer to a question put by the learned judge, the poor little child, in a very artless manner, said she did not like the prisoner after his conduct to her, and she was afraid he would kill her when ho got out. Phoebe Haydon, Harriet Hayden, and Anne Haydon, the other three daughters, wore then examined, and they deposed to various acts of gross misconduct on the part of the prisoner towards them, and the witness Pha)be said that she was subjected to the attacks of her father when she was only ten years old, and she told her mother of his conduct. The prisoner here exclaimed that the mother must have been a pretty sort of woman, if her story was true, not to have put a stop to it. The witness, apparently almost involuntarily, said, in reply to this observation, " What sort of a man must you be to act in such a manner ?" Anne Hayden, the prisoner's eldest daughter, v gh a t r e i r o , u a s very intelligent girl 17 years old , spok e to the fact of the prisoner having assaulted her upon occasions, but she said that she did not know what to do. She was in service when she heard of the attack that had been made upon her youngest sister, and she then determined to let the matter be known whatever the consequences might be, and first in formed her mistress, but she was unable to advise her what course to take. She then, it appeared, wrote to a brother, and he came to Chelmsford and gave the prisoner into custody. The Rev. Mr. Stackpoole, a magistrate for the county of Essex, proved that while the prisoner was under examination before him upon these charges ho said that as to the youngest child he had never meddled with her, but he had committed the offence charged with all the older ones and gave them a shilling a piece. When the prisoner was called upon to answer these charges he merely said as he had done before, that he was entirely innocent. He added that he had no recollection of having made the statement that had been spoken to by Mr. Stackpoole, and the charges had been tramped up by his family for the purpose of getting him away. The learned Judge then summed up, and the jury after a very short deliberation found the pri soner Guilty upon the whole of the counts of the indictment. His Lordship then addressed the prisoner in a few indignant remarks upon his abominable and unna tural conduct, and sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years upon each charge. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, Dec. 20. (Before Mr. Justice Byles.) John Clapp was indicted for stealing a quantity of grain from on board a vessel called the Ann Jones, then being on the high seas. Mr. IL T. Cole prosecuted, and Mr. Lopes de fended the prisoner. It appeared that Ridley, the prosecutor, was the owner of a vessel called the Ann Jones, and in 1859, the prisoner being the captain, the vessel was char tered to some merchants in London to proceed to Galatz, a town on the Danube, where large quan tities of corn were shipped to this country. The vessel took out a cargo of coal to Malta, and then went on to Galatz, when she took a full cargo of grain. The vAsel then sailed down the Danube, and came to a town called Tolcha, where the trans action took place which had led to the present charge. There was no necessity for the vessel stop ping at Tolcha, but the prisoner anchored there, and went on shore on the 15th Nov., 1859. Shortly after he left the vessel he sent an order to Steer, the chief mate, directing him to lighten the vessel, and a lighter came off into which 10 quarters of grain were placed and taken on chore, and on the following day 15 quarters more were taken away, also by direction of the prisoner. Thus 25 quar ters of grain were taken on shore at Tolcha, the prisoner being all the time on shore. Having remained there two days, the prisoner came on board, and they proceeded down the Danube. The great question would be whether the prisoner had removed this grain fraudulently, and had appro priated the proceeds to his own use. When the prisoner came on board at Tolcha he asked Steer, the mate, whether he had " logged" the grain. Steer said he had logged the first boat. The pri soner said that was not necessary, and it mist be taken out; and under the directions of the prisoner, the mate took the leaf containing the entry out of the logbook. It was contended that if this had been an honest transaction there would not have been any necessity for taking out the leaf. There was no entry of the grain having been sent ashore at Tolcha, nor was there any charge for lighters tak ing it on shore. The ship went on to the mouth of the Danube, where it was usual to lighten all ships to enable them to cross the bar. Accordingly, in the present instance, some of the grain was put on board lighters, and after the vessel, had crossed the bar, the grain was transferred to the Ann Jones. After the lighters had left the vessel the prisoner told the mato to make an entry in the log that the lighters left the ship with a quantity of grain on board " unknown." The ship having met with bad weather put into Malta, and the prisoner there signed a protest giving an account of the voyage, but he did not say anything about the transaction at Tolcha. When at Malta the cargo was examined, and about 25 quarters of grain were condemned and sold. This circumstance was perfectly described in the protest. Upon the arrival of the vessel in Ireland the pri soner told the mate and crew separately not to say anything about the grain which had been dis- I charged at Tolcha. The prisoner had caused a bulkhead to be placed in the vessel, so as to take up the room of 25 qrs. of grain. On the part of the prosecution it was contended that the taking the grain on shore at Tolcha, and the absence of all mention of it in the log, and the statement of the prisoner 1 o the crew, proved the guilt of the pri soner. The vessel had taken in 1,083 qrs. at Galata, and only 1,003 qrs. were on board when the vessel discharged in Ireland. Mr. Lopes submitted that there was no property in the prosecutor, who was only the owner of the vessel. The grain belonged to the consignees. The Judge thought the property for the time being was that of the prosecutor, and was in the possession of the prisoner as his servant. Mr. Lopes then said there was a question as regarded the "high seas," which were held to be waters where the great ships went. The bar at the mouth of the Danube prevented great ships going up that water. Mr. Cole said the statute of the 17th and 18th Victoria, cap. 101, section 267, answered the objec tion by giving this Court jurisdiction, let the ship if a British he where it might. The learned Judge said that was an answer. Mr. Lopes then said there *as no proof of the vessel having been a British ship, and that the only proof of that fact was the production of the register of the vessel. Alr. Cole said that was one proof, but the pri soner, in his protest, had described the vessel as belonging to Plymouth. The learned Judge thought that was sufficient, and the case must go to the jury. Mr. Lopes asked the judge to save the point. The learned Judge said he would do so if he should have any doubt ; the learned counsel had put every point with great ingenuity, but he feared they had all been answered. Mr. Lopes then addressed the jury, urging that there had been no conversion, and that there had not originally been any felonious intent. The weather had been very bid on the voyage, and when the pumps were used the grain was pumped up,and no witness could say how much; but his strong point was that there was no felonious intent in the mind of the prisoner, because, in the absence of that intent, no larceny had been committed. Mr. Justice Bytes, in summing up, said it was a very important case, and when the facts were brought home to any person the jury would neglect their duty if they did not find him guilty. By the mere taking out the grain, if the prisoner had given an account of what he had done no offence would have been committed; but then came the alteration in the log, and that bore heavily against the prisoner. The prisoner had afterwards caused a bulkhead to be put up, so that the abstraction of 25 quarters might not bo discovered. Then the mate was ordered to make an entry in the log that a quantity of corn had gone in the lighters, "quantity un known." There was no ground for that entry in the log, and the fact was denied by the mato and crew, and by the prisoner's protest. That protest was silent as to what had taken place at Tolcha. Perhaps they would think there was no doubt the grain had been taken, and that he intended to con ceal the fact of its being so taken ; but the question was whether before he took it he intended to appro priate the proceeds to his own use. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. It has beeia determined to close Lloyd's at two o'clock on Monday next, and the Baltic Coffee-house alto gether on that day. [ADVEB.TISXMENT.I.—Tho following are not the least re markable among the numerous extraordinary cures with out mediciue effected by Du Barry's delicious Health Re , storing Revalenta Arabica Food. Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham-cross, 'leas : a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gather inio, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool; a cure of 10 years dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure 18,216. Dr. Andrew Uro, of constipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure 34,210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic tits. Cure 46,814. Mr, Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years diarrhoea. Cure 64,812. Miss Vir ginia &gazers, cured of coasumption, after her medical adviser had abandoned all hopes of recovery. 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No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, on theseal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins lib. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 1211, and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage fro) en receipt of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Ce., 77, Re' gent-street, London; l'ortnum Mason, and Co.; Abhit, 60, Gracechtireh-street ; 4, Cheapsido; 63 and 150, 01- bard-street ; 330 and 451, Strand; 49 and 60, Bishops al street ; Batty,' 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips eta tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and ing 1 1 70.110 1 u - Btrolts City iat 127 High Holbont; and Co. , ;di grocer., POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 21. WORSHIP-STREET.—AIfred Purl, an acute, resp3ctable-looking man of 35, was charged with fraud. Mr. Beard stated the case for the prosecution, and called Mr. Richard Beall, a Yorkshireman and tailor and draper in Bishopsgate-street, whose statement, in substance, was that on the Bth of October last a person called upon him and asked him to wait upon a gentleman the next day at a tavern in the Shrubland-road, Dalston, and measure him for a suit of clothes. Witness accordingly went there, and while waiting for the gentleman in the parlour the prisoner popped his head in at the door and asked him if a young lady had been in the room. The witness replied that she had not while he had been there, and the prisoner seated himself, called for some sherry, and said that the lady had agreed to meet him there that he might take her to see some rifle matches shot off in Vic toria Park. He then took out his pocket-book to pay for the wine, and accidentally exposed to sight a number of £2O, £lO, and £5 notes, and inciden tally mentioned that he had at last succeeded to what ho had been expecting some time, an uncle of his in the country having just died and left him £12,500, of which he had as then received, how ever, only £2,500, the other £lO,OOO being pay able afterwards, and he at the same time carelessly drew his notice to a sheet of parchment looking like the will, and which the prisoner said was . so. Two other gentlemen also came into the room, and, it being proposed to see some shooting at a rifle gallery at Hoxton, the witness was asked to go with them, and did so. On reaching there, how ever, as in almost all these cases lately, there was no rifle-gallery, but there was a skittle alley, and, as is also always the case in these frauds, the prisoner professed an utter ignorance of skittle-playing, and thought the ball must be iron, and not wood, and lost sixpence upon that opinion to the prosecutor, and paid him the money. A game of skittles was then proposed, and, strange as Mr. Beard said it was, considering the number of times this kind of fraud had been exposed in the papers, the prosecutor was asked to make a friendly bet or two, and agreed to do so. There was one slight impediment, however, and that was, that as he had come out upon business only, he had come out without money, but this was got over by the gentlemen suggesting he had a gold watch, which he could pledge if he liked, and upon a little pressing he agreed to this also, and pledged it for £5 ss. This was speedily lost, but it was disagree able to be disappointed at winning back a loss, and it was next suggested the prosecutor should go home for a little more cash, and one of the gentlemen kindly offered to go with him, if he liked, an offer the prosecutor accepted, and, having thus provided himself with £4O more, they returned to the ground, where he was induced to make a bet of £2O that the prisoner could not knock the pins down in seven times. The prisoner talked so largely, and was so careless about his money, offering to bet £5O, £lOO, £5OO, and even £l,OOO upon his own abilities that, large as the £2O bet was, th e p rosecu t or did no t lik e to object, and having made the bet and deposited the money in the hands of one of the others, the prisoner succeeded in winning it by knocking them down in six. It was then proposed that the pri soner should do it in six times, and against this the prosecutor betted £20155., that being all the money he had, and the prisoner's luck was so abundant on this occasion that he won that also, by fortunately getting all the pins down in five throws. He was now entirely "cleared out," as Mr Beard suggested, and the prosecutor assented, but still the sport went on, and the bets being raised to £5O, a game was played for that amount, the prosecutor giving a note of hand for the stakes in default of the ready money; this, of course, was soon lost in the same marvellous manner, and then, when it was too late, and the prisoner had pocketed his note of hand, it struck him suddenly that he, had been swindled all through ; he - told his late friends so pretty plainly, and went out to seek a policeman. A constable is said never to be found when urgently wanted, but the prosecutor's luck turned now, and having found an officer almost directly, lie rushed back to the house with the policeman, but only to find the ground empty, and all the men safe out of the house. Sergeant Evans, the detective, said, in consequence of the prosecutor giving him a description of the man who had defrauded him, he knew at once it must be the prisoner, whom he had known for ten years as an habitual skittle-sharper, frequenting the termini of railways to " pick up" country sim pletons, aad ho therefore kept on the watch for him, but unsuccessfully until Thursday evening, when he met him on Holborn-hill. The prisoner said it was an entire mistake—he had got the wrong man ; but ho took him to the station end searched him, and on him found a pocketbook with seven Bank of Elegance notes in it, and a copy of the will, a double set of trick cards—the prisoner say ing he was a professional gambler—and four flash sovereigns, the prisoner's personal appearance being also considerably added to by an ivory -headed Malacca cane and a massive watchguard, but which turned out to be only plated. The prisoner said that the coins were whist markers only, and that any one might as well take a horse for a sovereign as one of those. He made a long, impudent, and ingenious defence, trying to make it appear that the prosecutor'had willingly led the prisoner to take it, instead of the reverse, and asked to be admitted to bail, but Mr. Knox refused it, and remanded him. LAMBETH.—Dupont de Nemours, alias Count de Nemours, 'and Jean Baptiste Mathieu, fashion ably dressed young Frenchmen, were charged with stealing various articles of furniture and other pro perty, belonging to Mr. Martin, described as a gen tleman of property residing at Lanark-house, Queen's-road, Peckham. Mr. Fletcher attended for the presecution, and from the opening statement end the testimony of the witnesses it appeared that about 18 months since Mr. Martin, the prosecutor, met the prisoner De Nemours, who then represented himself as a Count, and, the latter being in great distress, Mr. Martin took him home to bis house, and, aecording to his own account, fed, clothed, and kept him in pocket money. In the beginning of November, 1859, the prosecutor, in order to provide employ ment for De Nemours, established an institution, which he called the " British Institute of Uni versal Genius," and installed him as its secretary. The objects of the institution seemed shrouded in perfect mystery, and all that could be elicited from Mr. Martin and the prisoners themselves respecting it was that it had 25 to 30 members, the major part if not all of whom lived abroad, that medals were to be given as awards, and that about £l2O had been received since its formation, and that the pre , sentation of one medal was all that could be accounted for. Some three months ago the second ' prisoner Mathieu made his appearance, and being in distress he was at the solicitation of De Nemours taken into the institute as a clerk and assistant secretary, and the concern was kept going until Monday evening last. On the Tuesday Mr. Martin proceeded to the institute, which was held at No. 18, Chattam-place, Peckham, when he found it closed; but obtained an entrance, collected and locked up several letters and documents, and closing the place requested the policeman on duty to have a look out about it. The prosecutor's visit on the Tuesday was occasioned by the prisoner De Nemours not coming to his house on the Monday night to sleep there, as had been his custom, and on Wed nesday it was discovered that the whole of the furniture in the place, the accounts, and other things had been removed, and the furniture was traced to Taylor's Repository in St. Geore.e's-road, where it had been taken by the prisoner %lathieu. The prisoners were apprehended on Thursday night, when £4 odd were found on Mathieu, and on De Nemours were found in an envelope two French banknotes of 100 f. each and other property, and the former accounted for his possession of the fur niture by saying he had purchased it from the latter out of £l2 he had been paid by De Nemours for his three months' service as clerk. De Nemours assumed the right to dispose of the property, and the owership of all the things in the institute, as its principal. The prosecutor, however, denied his assertion, and said he had purchased the articles before the opening of the institution, as he co u ld show by bills in his possession. A printer in the Walworth-road said he had done printing for the institute to thet the amountprson prisoner h et change £l4, and had not yet been paid the money. H e wherehe also said that on Tuesday evening h Mathieu called at his house and asked him if h e knew where he couldde neighbourhood, gt fora 100t'. note in a hurry. Ho (witness) di r ected him to the s h op o f a tobacconist in the thought he would be able to get it, but he after wards learned that he did not get it, and went to Leicester-square. At the conclusion of an examination of three hours' duration, Mr. Norton remarked that the institute appeared to him to be one of the most extraordinary he had ever heard of, for, though it had been in existence 14 or 16 months, and £l2O had been received, it was £35 of whi c h h a d reac h e d th e prosecutor, without a president, a committ ee , or a board of management of any kind, and oise prize of £3 10 s , a ll that was accounted for. The cue w a s ono requirin g — further inquiry, and ho should therefore remand the prisoner for a week, The remaining 50,000 of the Four per Cent. Loan authorized to be raised for Jamaica, with the guaran tee of the home Government, was offered yesterday at the Tre asury for public tender, and taken by the Guardian Assurance Company at 105. The dividend on these deben tures will date from the lst proximo. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—Dy.c. 21. There was a good attendance of town and country burl at this morning's market, and we had a brisk dernan for wheat and flour, which may be quoted at an advance of ld to 21b per 1001bs and 8d per barrel and sack. Indian... corn attracted a moderate demand. O a t s and oatmeal st i ll active, and at more money. Beans and barley unaltered in price. Peas easier to buy. WAKEFIELD—Due. 21. The supplies of wheat were fair, but the trade was of retail character. Good old and fine dry new met a tolerable demand at is per qr advance on Friday's rates. Fine par' eels of barley in fair request, at higher prices. Beano, oats, and shelling unchanged. EXETER-DEC. 21. A fair business was done in the corn market to-day, at last week's prices : NITh white..7s Od to 8s Gd I Barley.. 4s Gd to 5s 61 Ditto red Os Od to Os Od Oats 3s Otiw 3s 6 1 New white wheat, 7s 9d io 88 ; red, 6s 6d to 7s. Flour, fine, 47s to —s ; seconds, 45s to —s per sack. CATTLE. There was scarcely any cattle driven in, nor any business doing. Fat beef,p score, 108 to 10s6d Pork earcases,do lOs to 1066 d Sheep, per lb. Od to —d Rough tat Ewes, per lb sa to 60 Wethors, d 0...... 6d to Fat calves, d0....6id to 01 4id per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR-DEC. 21. The market is dull, and there are no sales to report. Tl lB offices were closed yesterday for the Christmas holidaPy and business will not be resumed before the Ist proximo. COAL MARKET—DEc. 21. (recce of Coal per Ton at a. d. Lambert's West Hart- ley 16 9 13yass's Bebside West Hartley ..17 3 Buddle'sWest Hartley 17 3 Tanfield Moor 16 6 l'anfield Moor Butes l6 6 Hastings Hartley l7 6 Holywell ..18 0 West Hartley 17 6 Craghead Hartley 16 9 Walker Primrose 15 9 Bate's West Hartl,337 16 6 Bell's Primrose l6 0 Davison's West Hart- ley 6 Howard's West Hart- ley 17 6 Wylam .. lB 6 Walls End. South Hartlepool 21 0 North Hartlepool 11 0 Hartlepool..... 21 0 Heugh Hall 21 6 Stowart's 22 6 Ships at market, 105 ; soli, 74. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. the close of the market Walls End. s. a. Musgrave 18 6 South Hetton ..21 0 Russel's Hatton ..20 tl„. Cassop .. 21 u, s lletton .. 2l v Ridde11........ l9 0. Gosforth ....19 v„ Brrddyll's Hetton 20 ‘' Eden Main .... 19 ° A Haswell .... 2l v K e ll oe Keiper Grange.... 2O 0 Harton Northumberland 17 6 6 Whitworth 17 Framwtilgate l9 5 n Cowpen Hartley ..17 ,° Lambton 2l v,, Wapdhouse Close 17 ,', South Durham 19 Trimdon Thornley 18 „‘' Thorpe Carway and Duffryn Malting 23 6 TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE 1/4 EEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. A____. • ~........-........4........-....... 1800. 1859. 1860. 1859 , -_..... _.-----' .S„,. Ballymena and Port Rush.. 35 35 X 361 , 2° Z Belfast and N. Counties.... 65 65 1,266 1,1 ,"," Belfast and County Down.. 20 20 546 I" Birkd., Lane., &Ches. Juno 3? 32 2,541 2,33 6 Blyth and Tyne 2O 13 1,450 1,11 6 Bristol and Exeter 125 125 5,673 6, 039 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington 8.1 84 253 q,'' Cork and Bandon 2O 20 352 44.. Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 6 4 199 2 04 Cork and Youghal . 26 - 195 Cornwall 531 531 1,003 826 Deeside l7 17 226 252 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,508 1, 503 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,692 1,6 35 Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 101 401 1,397 1,35 0 Dundalk and Enniskillen., 122 122 1,648 1,507 Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 589 552 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,195 1, 009 East Anglian 671 671 824 89 0 E.Counties,Nrfk.,&E.Union 499 499 25,388 24,246 Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,285 3 , 15 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western 1831 1832 7,939 6,891 Great Northern 283 283 32,610 30,17 9 Great North of Scotland P it Southu. & Westn.(lrind ) 329 241 7,890 7,2 54 Great Western 470/ 466. 32,610 39,179 inverness & Aberdeen Juno 55 55 796 65 5 Irish South-Eastern 251 25/ 268 2 31 Lancashire & Y orks hire .. Leominster and Kington Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes 261 26 137 a 97,, Llanelly • 461 461 550 37 7 Louden & North-Western London and Blackwall a 5 1,480 1,36 2 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 224 i 223 4 14,705 12,9 93 London, Chatham, & Dover 421 1011 - - Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 424 40 876 8 72 Man.,Sheffiold, & Lincolnsh 1734 1734 11,507 11,05 3 Mauch. S.Jun.& Altrincham i 94 93 992 87 4 Maryport and Carlisle Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6141 6140 40,380 36,321 Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind. 177 177 4.114 3,80 5 Monkland 56 56 1,672 1,53 2 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 '. 2,481 2,211 Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 3,875 3,11 4 North British (incl. Selkirk _ - and Galashiels) North Devon 35 35 339 38 4 N-Eastern(Bedale.taLeybrn) 761 764 38 062 33,99 1 North London , 9 9 2 ,407 2,246 North Staffordshire ' 246 233 8,068 7,643 Oswestry and Newton__ 20 - - 387 Ithymney l9l 181 731 67 0 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 '3O 2,026 1,66 9 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,610 3,91 0 Shrewsbury & Birmingham 291 29 4 1,888 1,80 3 Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury & Hereford - 51 61 1,952 1,93 3 Shropshire Union 291 291 990 82 3 South Devon South-Eastern 3 , 06.. V.,:.?„ 17,313 16,66 , South Wales all itiz 7 , 393 9 , 808 S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 3626 2,648 Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale 53 53 5,154 4,57 1 Ulster Ulverstone and Lancaster Yale of Clwyd. lO 10 128 124 1 Vale of Neath 2 54 251 1,613 1,34 5 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 270 246 Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall 271 271 676 601 W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39 39 4,693 3,463 West Midland Whitehaven Junction l2 12 677 61 0 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 647 539 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrinnt 7 7 398 349 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 958 80 4 Austrian B2B 673 35,522 30,455 Belgian Eastern Junction 261 261 318 248 Burialo and Lake Huron Demerara (fortnight) - - - - Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 2,408 2,27 3 Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,124 2,913 Eastern of France .. .. 1032 1032 48,949 46,458 Grand Trunk of Canada. . ... 970 880 15,418 14,07 2 Great Indian Peninsula.... 2971 1941 4,598 2,454 Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,735 1,997 Great Western of Canada 345 345 8,331 7,91 1 Lyons and Genev a 142 142 5,172 4,11 9 Madrid, Saragossa &Ali can t 301 284 10,990 8,78 8 Northern of Canada Northern of France - Norwegian Trunk :44 44 950 777 Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 91,840 81,734 Paris and Orleans 922 922 51,673 49, 394 Paris and Strasburg* - - Royal Danish 69 69 569 482 Sambre and Meuse Southern of France south Austrian Welland , West Flanders W. and N.W. of France 742 73 0 33,747 34.653 [ADVERTISEMENT.] Pills and medicine invariably ag• gravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, die appointment, and expense may be avoided by p erso ns in indifferent health sending only their address to E. S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and tree by post the "INVALIDS' OWN L.; Dun," or Natural Restorer , without medicine or ex p , nse, of per f ec t digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and rcfreshiug sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the removal of indigestion (dyspepsia), Constipation, liver complaints , nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debil ity, nervousness, palpitatiot , cough, asthma , consumpt ion, dropsy, flatulency, diarrhcea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the cars, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi• tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms. sinking, tits, bronebitis — "Unguestionably the safest Guide to health BIRTHS. DOUGLAS. —On the 20th inst., at Villa d'Este, Ryde, Islo of Wight, the wife of Lieutenant George Bought's, of daughter. REUTER.—On the 2Cth inst., at 16, Buckland-crescent, Belsize-park, St. John's-wood, the wife of P.W. Reuter, Esq., of a daughter. WILSON.—On the 20th inst., at Eastry Vicarage, Bent, the wife of the Rev. Charles Carus-Wilson, of a son. MARRIAGES; LEES-111•CTAGGART.—On the Ist Nov., at Ootaannundf East Indies, H. J. Lees, Esq., 6011 Rifl es , e l des t son of Sir J. Lees, Bart., to Charlotte, daughter of the late W. Mactaggart, Esq. Vl:SET—Glum—On the 20th inst., at St. Maula bone Church, Captain Charles Yesey, R.N., son of the late Hon. and Rev. Arthur Vesey, to Harriet Alice S. Grace, oldest daughter of the late Sheffield Grace, Esq./ K.H., of Knole, Sussex. DEATHS. Cenuorz.—On tho 18th inst., at Loughton, Ease; Sir George Carroll. DALTIOUSIA —On the 19th inst., at Dalhousie Castle, Mid lothian, the Most Noble the Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T. DAWES.—On the 19th inst., at Westbrook°, Belton, Mat thew Dawes, Esq., F.S.A., aged 56. GROUT.—On the 19th i ns t., a t N orw i c h, Geor ge G rou t, Esq , aged SO. LEE.—On the 19th inst. at his residence, Loampit-hill, Lewisham, Kent, John Edmund Lee, Esq., in his 60th year. VINEO.—On the 18th inst., at Ealing, Miss Sabina Vines, aged 91. WALsz.—On. the 20th inst., at Oxford, John Walsh, Esq., aged 68. LONDON : Printed and rublished by MURDO YOUNG, O f No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand in the Precinct of the Savoy. 11l the County of Middlega Saturday, December 22,1660. b 1 _At il 0 1 ilia It Was Tha and a , tild e 0 1 , Proi,e4 Tha Spain gee idtho t S pired the 'll/13n$ Thal %oh of 1148141 lit IN i Lie u NbB