The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-11 00:00:00

no ANT - ) CODIMERQf AI, INTEIAJGENCE, • 1 Ler, )ret' lC•' be f °l'9 Ld 61° , 3 01. ka 5 1 i° s o r °f O NEY MARKET CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The continued increase in the supply of capital lit the discount market affords good ground for anticipating an early reduction in the official i nium. In f ac t, so genera l i s th e expec t at i on that the public are only asking for the assistance tr y immediately require, and thus have discounters at). abundance of money lying almost idle for "ca nt th aof employ men t . Th e quotat i ons, h owever, o negotiation of commercial bills have not as yet materially varied, 5-a and 54 per cent. re maining the terms for three months' paper, and 5i- Per ont. for bankers' acceptances. Of course the an thcritics are doing very little business 'in conse quence of the facilities offered by the brokers, and at the Stock Exchange there is also an excess of capital seeking investment in daily loans on Govern- Inent securities at 4 and 4 per cent. The bunion operations at the Bank yesterday e°lll Prisod an influx of 6,0001. in bar gold, and the withdrawal of 6,000 sovereigns. t „ . 1 -n the forei gn exc h anges yes t er d ay a ft ernoon ti ere was an advance in the rates on Amsterdam and 'Paris. T he subscription list of the Nowgong Tea Com of Assam will be closed after the 18th inst. The Bank of Holland has reduced its rate of dis count to 5 per cent. held their The shar e h o ld ers o f the U n i on B an k o f L on d on half-yearly meeting to-day—Mr. P. Mar- Shall Laurie in the chair. The report, which was al limously adopted, stated that the net profits for six months ending 31st December last, after pay meat of all charges (including the sum of 164,375/. 1.2 5 . 4d . for interest paid and due to customers on t heir current and deposit accounts), and making 41X1Pie provision for bad and doubtful debts, a mounted to 180,1951. 2s. 11d., which, with 3631. 68 . 2d. brought forward frbra 30th June last, declared to 180,5581. 9 s . Id. The di rec t ors now uee lared a dividend for the last six months at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, and a bonus of per Cent. on the increased paid-up capital, being at t he rate of 20 per cent. per annum, clear of in "Me tax. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele gram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes have been 66f. 95c. -Inanimate. The position of prices in the English Stock Mar ket has continued favourable, although no material alteration took place in quotations. There has been very little business negotiated to-day, but with the tendency of monetary affairs values are well main tained. Consols for money are 89i 90, and for the account 90 The New Threes and Reduced An nuities are 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 2s. to ss. prem. India 5 per Cents., 1034 104 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1021 ; 51 per Cents., 1092 1102 ; and Bonds, 7s. prem. General firmness has prevailed in the Foreign Market, but business has been rather quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 I ; do. Consolides, 491 1 ; Mexican, 281 ; do. New, 261 4 ; Greek, 24 1 ; do. Coupons, 108 li; Spanish Passive, 2 4 ; do. Certificates, 141 ; Portuguese, 461 1 7 4 ; the Confederate Loan, 641 1; the Egyptian, Zprem. ; th e D anu bi an, 1 dis. par ; and the utevidean, 31 1 prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has been dull, the dealers and speculators being chiefly occu pied with th e arrangements f or t h e sett l ement. Prices, however, are flatter. Great Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire have each declined ss. land Caledonian, Great Northern A stock, and Mid - -1 4 7 11d ' each 10s. ; w hil e Metropolitan have improved at. 10 s. i s In the Fo re i gn and Colonial underta ki ngs t h ere tile mate rial alteration to report in prices. p re r l( and Miscellaneous Shares are dull at barely London and County, 82. a cr o l3 v ! t it i x T m l E S, c l l l F PU , NDS—CLOSING PRICES. Per c ent - ITINDs. 130. 4ce. Consols 3 Per cp„, °11 , 111 1 Feb. 9 — w lie 3 --• -1- 'edliced B9 - 3 - tO. g per Cent. Jan. 189.4 ***************** lie w 2Per ***** 89149 i Aluniitl4sr3t‘,Jent. Jan. 1873 ID,O. for 34 3113 1 expire sth Jan., 1880 } x ' Gted s4: B, ,„exPire sth April, 1815 — c heque r Bd i ' - elegraph) Aug., 1908 — Do. 8 ) X l ,OOO, 4 per Cent /52 2pm Do .£5OO 13 • D a rik of E £lOO and £2OO D ngland Stock, r, Cent Ace° n per — ht 'lilt Ittlia44Bt I,OVEItsmENT SEcuRITIEs. 1) 13 0 0 A cc Ge o Z l l-01 per Cent., 1) A ri11874 240 .1)-0. Arco Cent. July, 1870 1031 3 1 4 1)0 Unt ~, _. 1 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. 0 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 DO. 5 .1 Per Cent., May 1879 llOl 91 I ,° o f_l_ per Cent., Aug. 1866 - t • -B onds, £l,OOO 7 pm DO . under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent -birazilian 5 per Cent DO . 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Chiliti tuenos Ayres 6 per Cent n 6 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent., 1864 — Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 - Danub an r Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Principalities Do ..£l5 paid — dis Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., P rov i s i ona l L and Warrant — Xityptian 7 per Cent — 0 ., Second Issue D O . £lOO Bonds , Do. 1864 9 51 1 I-kV:Scrip, £35 paid DO. Account — pm Creek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Guatemala 5 per Cent. — De. 1 8 39 and 1850 — Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent. 2B Do Account — Do 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do Scrip, £53 paid Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis Montevidean 5 per Cent., £SO paid Nev\ Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April, 1864... Do d o Aug., 1856 Peruvian 4i per Cent. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) _ Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account ..... .. .. . . . . ..- Portuguese 3 per Cent., ..... ............. Do Account Do 3 per Ceni., 1856, i, 'ti .. ; (f6 . ..... '' ** - „ '62, .3, 47 6i i 1 Do Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., -( 3. Do Do 41 t per Cent., 1850 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do 1864 Do Scrip, £65 paid Sardinian 5 per Cent — Do Account Spanish 3 per Cent 471 1 Do Account — Do New Deferred Do Account — Do Passive _ Do Account ..._ ?Vanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account _ Swedish 4 per Cent. Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 B9k Do Account ___ DoA 6 per Cent. 1858 cco, *mint Do £lOO Bonds 701- i Do 6 per Ce Po Accountnt. 1862 D£ l oo Bond s 7Ol i D °o 6 per Cent. 1868 — -ye1)1 ° Gu aranteed, 4 per Cent — /e4l-lela 3 pe r Cent. (3 * Do. a c count ' Per Cent 1862 — Do• Account Do 6 DO.% 1 per er Cent Cent., 1864 42 1 pi 'Dividend s on the above payable in London. Austria n, C ent., 5 per Ex. 10 Fl or i ns Belgian, 4i. per cent. , E x. 25f 99 Do Dutch 21 per Cent., E x. 12 Guil Fren• . 4 per Cent. Certificates ch Rentes, 3 per Cent Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 2sf. O. Account ................................. Clonsol THREE O'CLOCK. Ds, Money .... -. ....... 94 90 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 132 i li I P a id . ' Closing I Business Price. done. Share! Railways. 13 1 et It It 60 20 Bir., Wol. ' k Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do. A A gets no div tillap.e.p.an.has Do. B been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & A b.i Edinburgh & 431asgow Glasgow its S. Western ' Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Anal. st No. !, Great North of Scotland , Great Northern DJ. A s:ock.., Do. B Do. yew. ts. at 2i pn. GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n D . S. Val. hail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do IV. Mid.- Ox•ord Do. He wp .. o t Do. He eford. Lane .shire & Yorkshire Landon and 131ackwali Lon., Bri.th., & S Coast Lon, Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Wester!, Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. shares Metropolitan. Do. New Mid an d Do, Birmin & Derby. Mid Gt. W., Ireland, Do. # shares 'lid Kent No, th British Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1855-18 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 18f4 North Staffordshire N. di S. W Junction Scottish Crntrnl Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 'O. Scot, Mid. st ick ews Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon 4 outh E stern •Itaioes, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Corny dl W.llartlepool ar.& It Do. A Irredeemable Do. A redeemable 1 BRITISH PI Atlantic St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda..v Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. lc shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aug. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1,1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & S. E., Urn 'a e Town & Dock, gu Demerit , a, 7 p.c. per. p Nast. Ben . al, gu , 5 Co East Ediao, gu. 5 p.c. Do. .1 Extension Grand Trunk of Canad 4 Do. Equip. Mort, Bond 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pr ef. Bonds Do. do. dt-ferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deferred ... • Do. ^d Pref. stock..• • Do. do. defer red .• • Do. 4th Pref. stock do. deterred Do. IGt. India. 1 o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p.c Gt. Sou.h of India (Inn , gun. 5 per cent D • 41 per cent Do reat W. s. of Canada.. D . New ...... Do. 6 p. e. Bdl. pay 1873 `0.5 , do. pay. 1877-8 .• Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.O .... Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Filth Bxtensioi Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds ?lel & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B ,7 .131.C'da, pc Ist pt.bds Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Pun!aub Do.lndus St Flo COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec.3l, 1572 100 - - Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb & Au 4 1( 0 87 99 D,.5p. c. Mar. & Sept 10' 97 9' 1)0. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 84 86 811 541 Do. 5p r. Inscribed sk 100 80 80 Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 103 105 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 100 105 107 Do. do:: 1890-1 100 106 1 ,, 8 Do. Jan. & July, 1691 lOO 109 112 Ceylon, Nov 1868, 6 p.c 100 it 2 104 Do. 1878, do. iOO 118 110 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. :6 100 106 108 Natal qov. 6 per cent lOO 101 106 N.B.Gov 6 p.c.Ja.& luly 100 98 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p •c.,1866 00 95 97 934 Do. 5 p.c: 18 Ito 1876 100 05 97 Do. 1 100 96 9 7 6 --- New Zealand, 5 P mlBBB to l 8 6 p .cent 9 2 10105 107 l'O 99 161 --No D s v t o e a r . I S S i o n p g e t:i al n 7os t Gov p. .6 . P. .c lOO 89 91 19 _- QS S. u A e e u n s sl G a o n y d . 6 G p o . r e . 1 6 8 p. B. e i; 1 1 0 00 0 I_o4_ 106_ Do. 1878 & upwards 1 0 107 109 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 100 Do. do, e prilOct MINES.OOIC 1076 . & 10'& 7 1 BRITISH 2 Cam Consol. Gold, lim 1 i I Chivert on Clifford Amalgamated. 32 33 Devon G. Cons. (Tav,st. 1 575 595 Drakewalls 2.1.0 4 i . East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 47 49 Nast Cara ion 2.14.6 19 20 as c Carn Brea 3 4.0 64 64 -- Nast Grenville Eart Love.l 2.13.6 114 156 E. W't Russell (Tavistk 9.10.6 4 s 5 Gam & StAubyn(Gwen. 601 6 8 4 Gr. at L :xey, limited all 181 194 181 4. G G ,Atiamir r eiwa e nerru a gyok t vdnseti S ,diosv o yne u t:ll t oul l otoTtwo. Downs g o us. . . G. Wheal Vor ,lielst . i 40 32 31 7.8.3 31 44 8.13 35 37 1.18.0 34 41 Margaret 'Uny Lelant 94 b 9 r e o y n Ore, lin, 4.3.02 4 11 ti,a % Nanglles 19 20 22 New Sewn ....... . 216 North Downs. :.... : . 3 6) 70 North Rosk ear . . 1 19 324 1 N.Wh'l Bassett,lllogan 3.10.6 A North Whe : .l C ro tt y - Prosper United... .... Pr vidence UnyL dant 10.6.7 32 34 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 530 550 -- &Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 20 25 • tray Park 30.17.6 16 18 Tin Croft 9 16 17 , West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (L'skeard 9 6 8 West Chi rerton ll 6) 65 West Seton 474 205 215 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 HO 95 . Wheal Buller (Redruth 10 9 i t Whea Ludo,.tt 3.12.8 4 4 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 13 15 - • Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 18 20 Wheal Uni.m 4 4 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1, 107 Great Western Orig. 4 1 1 per cent pf.. 96} Great Western, 4 per cent. irred., 851 'lt.Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford Ist guaranteed stock, 126 Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincoln, 6 per cent., Ditto, 6 p_r cent. rd., 64 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c , 6 per cent. 2dpf., C 5 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 91 Lcndon, Tilbury, and Southend, 100 FOREIGN RAILWAY& Antwerp and Rotterdam, 10 Bahia and San Francisco kli.n.) gua. 7 per cent., 15 Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 Great Luxembourg, 13 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 9* 10 Recite and San Francisco (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 14 San Paulo aim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 18* South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, Ili West Flanders, 54 per cent. pt., 9 1 FOItEIGN MINES! Port Philip, 11 Santa Barbara Gold Mine, lim., Wor ping (limited), BANKS. Agra and Master (Um). Ditto, ne . .v, lead at 30 pm , calls paid in advance, 02 Alliance (lob.). 33 2 1 Ditto. issued at '4 An 0 pm., of w liinh 10 is pd , lo Austrian, 7 Bank of ctago, Bin., 51 Consoli dated Bank, li ra., 111 European Bank, lira, , 151 Hindustan,china, and Japan (lira.), 3C imperial Bank (Um.), 341 Ditto, Lew, 331 imperial Ottoman, 17 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira.. 51 London Chartered B an k of Australia, 2 1 41 London and County, 82 London and South African, 22 London and ‘‘ estminster, 100 Merchant Bank, , 2S Mercantile and Exchange, Urn., 9) g ., C l o l rporation, lira , 31 s P o r u ovi th n E ci:t e l Union of Australia, 541 Standard of British South Africa ( 1 1m1), 25 t ß er a n n , ki lira., 'rn DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 71; 4 MISCELLANEOUS. British Indian Tea, Him., 151 I Credit Fonder and Mania of England, • Ditto (£2), 5} Crystal Palace. 32 East Indian Financl 11, 1im.,f31 East India Irrigation and Canal. ..5 Ebbw Vale, 4k Egyptian Corn and Trading, lira., 51 Electric Telegraph. 112 11 Financial Corporation. Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 9 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of Loudon, 11111., 71 International Land Credit. Um., 6 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour ) , ' Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, lend 90, 821 88 90 132 133 ( 6; 34 21 16 17 88 90 106 1 8 47i 43: 73 8} ISO 138 158 15J 130 3! f 9 01 ni 80 9 6I 45 47 10( 10t 116 1165 81 85 107 ICB 37 39 11 12! 98 93 61} 6.11 121 i 125 139 10 109 111 55 57 z 5 27 li3 111 73 74 103 101 33 39 11 12p 9 10p 1 123 126 1 - lip 79 80 101 11i 138 142 58 69 4i 42 84 871 8 - 9 163 168 34 4.p l 110 113 Z 8 40 75 78 SIONS. 57 G 9 100 101 par 5 5 9; 75 69 93 08 75 8r) 93 100 103 101 101 103 20 21 9 91 69 71 5.1 6[ 61 66 55 57 52 54 47 50 28 SO 26 28 101 1(2 i IP par i P 9) 101 9 9/ 1 lld 88 10 8) E 2 1 06 d 99 101 93 95 91 93 56 58 3 5 82 81 10a 103 102 i 103 id ip 1021 1u34 93 93 471 i 1361 7 157 131 80 791 EO 592 1011 16 10711 8 122 1 11- 98 i 4 6! i 125 .71 4A I 140 39; I 551 5 731 11 41 51 3 ceased, who used to reside at Hamburg. On the 27th of September ho left Hamburg for England for the purpose of going to New York. He was well supplied with clothes. He had 8/. ss. in English money, and $5O in German. The prisoner was unknown to the deceased when he left Ham burg. The Solicitor-General said that was the case for the pro secution. • Mr: Best trusted the Court would not ask him to address the jury that evening. The Chief •Baron said he certainly should not if the learned gentleman wished for postponement. Mr. Best said he did. The case was then adjourned until to-morrow morning, NEW COURT. THE CASE OF MR. HAMMOND. Mr. Baron Bramwell attended-this morning for the pur lose of passing sentence on Mr. Hammond, a surgeon, who Lad pleaded guilty last session to two indictments charging Lim with illegally locking up and otherwise ill-treating his wife. Mr. Sleigh, on the part of the defendant, informed hls lordship that it had been arranged that a deed of separation should be drawn up between Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, and further, that he (Mr. Hammond) should return half the amount of Mrs. Hammond's fortune to her. Mr. Baron Bramwell, in sentencing the prisoner, told him he had pleaded guilty to very serious offences. He was surprised that he had returned only one half of the lady's fortune to her. He (the learned judge) should have thought that the least he could have done was to return the whole, and beg her pardon for the cruel treatment he had subjected her to. As the arrangement , spoken to by the learned counsel had proved satisfactory to the parties interested, he should not refer to it any further, but he had a public duty to perform, and that was to deter others from the perpetra tion of such gross cruelty. He therefore sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labouk POLICE INTELLIGENCE. — This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. MEDICAL STUDENTS AND THE POLICE IN THE HAY MARKET.—CharIes Ellis, of 14, Merrick-square, Frederick Thompson, of 22, Trinity-square, John Heaps, of 4, Tri nity- square, medical students, and William Eaves, a porter, living at Putney, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, the first two with disorderly conduct in the Haymarket ; and the others with 'obstructing Police-sergeant Forrett, 292 A, in the execution of his duty. The sergeant said that shortly after one o'clock that morning, ho saw a crowd of persons assembled in the Haymarket, Ellis, Thompson, and Heaps forming part of it. Ellis and Thompson shouting at the top of their voices, He persuaded them to go away, but Thompson said he would go when he liked, and that he did not care a - for the bobbies. Finding persuasion useless, and as the crowd increased he took Thompson and Ellis into custody, and Thompson then thrust his hand down his stock. In passing along Jermyn-street Eaves and Heaps obstructed him in getting the others to the station, Eaves saying' •" Wait till I get my knife, you -. Assistance coming up the defendants were all got to the station. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the sergeant said there were three or four others with the defendants, and that some of them were in court. The defendants Ellis, Thompson, and Heaps, called two witnesses whose evidence was of no benefit to them. Eaves called a witness who, when asked by the Magis trate his name, answered in such a bullying impudent manner that Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered him to stand down, and said he would not hear him. Wm. Wood, 151 C, corroborated the sergeant as to the disorderly conduct of the defendants. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had no doubt at all about the case, and that the witness called by the defendant Eaves was one of those who were acting like blackguards in the Haymarket. He should fine Ellis 2s. 6d., Thompson 10s., Eaves 55., and Heaps would be discharged. STEALING MUSIC BOOKS.—Nicholas Beyney, a French man, described as a commission agent, was charged with stealing twenty-four music books, of the value of 141., the property of Mr. Joseph Alfred Novello, music publisher, of Dean-street, Soho. _ The parcel of books was taken from a cart waiting at Mr. Novello's door in Dean-street, and they were after wards traced to the prisoner's possession. He waft remanded. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1865. 100 10 F 0 10 100 iSSE 57} 100 i 1 28k 1011 i 100 { ICO 2 100 100 MISCE LLANEOUS —Continued. Joint Stock Discount, London Financial Association, 11m., Ditto, new, 231 London General Omnibus Company, 31 Mediterranean Extension Telegraph, lien., 31 National Discount Company, am., 15i National Provincial Marine, 21 North British and Mercantile Insurance, lim., 181 Oriental Inland Steam, 3i 21 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 80 1 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lira., 25/ Societe Finauciere d' Egypte, lira., . Telegrai h Construe. end Maintenance, lira., 3 ; Universal Marin?, Insurance, lim., 6 1 Warrant Finance, lim., 9 CENTRAL CRIMINAL CL,IIRT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and Justice Blackburn.) THE MURDER IN PLAISTOW MARSHES. Edward Ferdinand Karl Kohl was indicted for the mur der of his countrymen, John, alias Christian Furhop. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and elected to be tried by a mixed jury of English and foreigners. The Solicitor-General conducted the prosecution; and Mr. Best, of the Oxford circuit, defended the prisoner. It will be recollected that the prisoner was a German, and had been engaged as a sugar baker. About the middle of last September he went to Germany, and returned -to England on Oct. 2. He met with a young woman,whom he married,- and he afterwards lived in a house in Hoy-street, Plaistow Marshes, the rent of which he endeavoured to pay by letting out apartments. From Germ6y he brought with him a young man named Furhop, and introduced him to Mrs. Warren, with whom he had previously lodged. Furhop took lodgings in her house, and afterwards he took lodgings in the prisoner's house, where he remained up to the time of his death. The young man was found foully murdered in Plaistow Marshes on the Bth of November in a reed field by the side of the river, the head having been cut off. The clothes were stripped off, with the exception of the boots and trousers, and there was nothing to indicate a struggle. It was supposed that the deceased had been struck down at once, but it was con tended on the part of the prisoner that the deceased had laid violent hands on himself. The Solicitor-Ceneral in opening the case referred to the above circumstance, and then stated the nature of the evidence he should produce touching the movements of the prisoner and the deceased together. He commented on the fact that the prisoner had given a false account of his conduct, and had stated that on the day of the murder he was at. a sugar bakery in Whitechapel, whereas it would be proved he was on Plaistow Marshes, where the body was found. The clothes of the prisoner had been submitted to Dr. Letheby, who found spots of blood on them. He had also inspected a chopper which had been in the prisoner's possession, and had found upon it small portions of cotton linen fibre, and also a very small portion of human skin. A knife, he said, would also be produced which was found on the spot with human hair adhering to it, and this knife he should prove was the property of the prisoner. The learned gentleman then adverted to the minor points connected with the charge. The first witness examined was Elizabeth Warren, who proved that the deceased had occupied lodgings in her house. He had previously to his going to lodge with the prisoner left in her care six sovereigns, a gold chain, a watch, and other articles. She refused to give them up on his return until her demand for rent was liquidated. The deceased and prisoner afterwards came to her house, paid the money, tnd took away the things. In cross-examination, she said the prisoner was a very peaceful man. James Warren, the husband of the last witness, said he had seen the dead body found on the marshes, and iden- tified it as that of Fulthop. Eliza Whitmore said she saw the deceased and the pri soner in company together. She identified the knife found near the spot where the murder was committed as the property of the prisoner, as he had previously shown it to her, and made some observations about it. Mary Ann Wade said she had been in the habit of lending the prisoner a chopper. Previous to the murder he borrowed it and returned it to her, a portion of the handle having been painted red. Prisoner said he painted it because the handle was loose. Henry Schultz, a German, said he saw the prisoner and the deceased in company the day in which the latter dis appeared. The prisoner told him he had lost the young man in London. Kohl told him the young man had 41.105. in his pocket. Witness said perhaps he had met a girl, to which the prisoner replied if he had spent his money he would turn him out of doors, as he owed him four weeks' rent. He had seen the body and had identified it as Fur hop's. He also identified the boots Furhop wore. Walter Jackson, a greengrocer, said on the 7th of No vemberthe prisoner made a small purchase at his shop. In paying he drew from his pocket a handful of money, gold and silver, amongst which were a few halfpence. He (witness) made some remark about the ,money, when the prisoner replied he was going to Germany in a few days. Mathilda, Harris proved changing a sovereign for the prisoner on the Saturday after the murder. Joseph Williams said he became acquainted with the prisonerin October last year, and he eventually married his (witness's) sister. He afterwards went to Germany to arrange matters, and brought back a young man with him whom he called John. He said he had known the young man from childhood. The prisoner, when he returned from Germany, did not bring any money with him. The only money he ever saw in his possession was the sove reign which was changed to pay the marriage fees. That was the only time he ever saw the prisoner with any money. Prisoner had no money to purchase furniture. He had never done a day's work since he had been married. On the 15th of October the prisoner showed me the ticket of a watch, which John, he said, hadgiven him to pawn to purchase victuals with. He saw John the night before he was missed. He went to see the prisoner in Ilford gaol. He told him to go and get his cousin Bill to say that he was with him on . the Thursday. He told him he could not do that as it was not the case ; to which the pri soner replied, " Well, he must say se." , Mary Jane Cooper said she saw the prisoner on the river bank on the 7th November. She saw him jump the ditch near the third stile. He was jumping from the reed-bed. Richard Harvey, an apprentice to a shipwright at Popla said—On the Bth of November he, in company with some others, went out shooting near the reed bed. He went into the reed bed, and while he was watching for birds he found the body of a man without a head. This witness was confirmed in his testimony by several others who were with him, and also by the policeman who was called. This witness added that much of the body had been eaten by rats. The prisoner was taken into custody on the evening of the same day, and when he was charged he said " I well know where I was on that" not finishing the sentence. On a further search, blood was found about 50 feet from the place where the body lay. William Richardson, randlady of the Graving Dock public-house, said the body of the deceased was brought to his house on the Bth of Nov. About three o'clock in the afternoon the prisoner was outside the house, and witness asked hfm if ho had not lost a friend. He replied yes, in Ratcliffe-highway. He (witness) then asked the prisoner to come and look at the body, when he replied, " I don't like to look at such sights." Afterwards he went in and witness showed him the boots. He said they were not the boots that John went away with, and made some remarks about the trousers. Witness then uncovered the body and pointed to where the first blow had been made on the neck. Directly prisoner saw that he turned away from the body. Witness said, from your appearance " I should think you know something of this affair." He became deadly pale• He then put his hand on the prisoner's shoulder, and said he should apprehend him on suspicion of being concerned in the murder. The prisoner dropped his hands and fell against the wall, but said nothing. A police man was called and told not to lose sight of him. Cross-examined—There were many persons outside the house talking about the murder, while the prisoner was there. The body presented a hideous appearance, and the prisoner was very much affected. George Good, an inspector of the Thames police, said on the 9th of November he went to look for the head. A man, named Jones, directed his attention to what looked like a rat's hole with blood round it. He dug up the earth and discoved the head of a man, which he took to the Graving Dock Tavern. Mr. Morris, a surgeon of Barking-road, said he was sent for to see the body, the head of which appeared to have been detached by the chopper. A knife had also been used in severing the head from the body. Dr. Letheby said the hatchet or chopper had been handed over to him for examination. On the broken part of the edge he found a small quantity of brownish matter, which he had removed and submitted to examination under the microscope. He produced it in the same state as he removed it. He found some fibres of cotton, and also some fibres of wool, some of which had originally been dyed with Magenta red. They were bound together by something which he could not detect, but which must have been a liquid originally. He also found some small por tions of surface skin of the human skin. He had removed the handle from the chopper. It was very tightly fixed. The paint on the top had no effect in tightening it. A Juror wished to know whether the brownish matter was identical with the paint on the Chopper ? Dr. Letheby said it was entirely different. Some of the prisoner's clothes had been handed to him for examination. He had found on them stains of blood. The stains had all the character of human blood. At the request of one of the jurors, Dr. Letheby ex plained the process by which he had arrived at his con clusions. In cross-examination Dr. Letheby said he found only two spots of blood, each of which was about the size of a sixpence. John Atkins, an engineer residing at North Woolwich, said that on the 9th of November ho found the knife (produced) in the reed bed. At that time some hairs adhered to the blade of the knife, but they dropped off. The wife of the last witness confirmed his evidence, adding that the hairs were of a light brown colours. The knife was given to the police. A number of witnesses were called to prove that the prisoner had pledged various articles belonging to the deceased, and also to show that the prisoner was very short of money previous to the day of the murder. Theodore Furlop said he was the brother of the de- MARYLEBONE. SOOT PIRATES.—A VALUABLE COMMODITY.—Edward Hicks, a sweep, was charged with stealing a sack of soot, the property of Mr. John Brown, 1, Goldsmith-place, Kil burn, master chimney sweep. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor is in a very large way of business, having the contracts for the principal West-end mansions, as also for the houses in most of the squares. It is the practice of his men, when they get a sack full of soot, to deposit it at a certain fixed spot, for Mr. Brown to fetch it away in his cart. This morning, at an early hour, one of the men deposited a sack of soot in Clarendon-terrace and then left it. Shortly afterwards the prisoner was seen to empty the soot from the prosecutor's sack into one of his own. Mr. Brown came up just as he was making off. He gave him into custody. - The value of the soot was is. 6d., and just now it was a very valuable commodity. During the - past three months ho had •lost between 20 and 30 sacks, and parties like the prisoner go about stealing the sacks and soot. Prisoner had been in his employ, but ho was com pelled to discharge him for dishonesty. Mr. Mansfield sentenced the prisoner to one month's hard labour in the House of Correction. THAMES. ALLEGED OUTRAGE IN — A STATION-HOUSE.—A young man, who was fined ss. yesterday for being drunk and in capable of taking care of himself, made an application to Mr. Paget for a summons against a police-constable, named Read, 66 H, for striking him in the station-house of the H division in Leman-street, Whitechapel. The applicant stated that a constable took him into cus tody on Monday night, and was very kind and civil to him, but while he was in the dock at the station-house, and the charge was being taken, 66 H told him to turn round, and then struck him a violent blow with his clenched fist on the eye, and blackened it. This outrage was quite unpro voked. He had not offended the constable in any way. Mr. Paget questioned the applicant very particularly and at some length, and he adhered to his statement, on which the magistrate said that he would grant a summons in the usual way. At the same time he wished to have all per sons, including the inspector, who were in the station house at the time in attendance' when the case was hoard. It was requisite that he should have all the information that could be given. . •-• Burnett, a police-constable,, No. 158 H, said that the matter had been reported to the Commissioners of Police, and he believed that an investigation was now pending. Mr. Paget said he had nothing to do with that. The applicant complained of an assault, and he was entitled to a summons. It mattered not whether the individual com plained of was a police officer or any other person. The applicant wished to address the magistrate again, but Mr. Paget said he could hear no more at present. MARKETS—This Day. MARK LANE. The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our market, to day, were very moderate. The condition of the produce being tolerably good, the demand both for red and white produce ruled steady, at quite Monday's currency. The market was fairly supplied with foreign wheat. The trade for nearly all qualities was very quiet, and the total amount of business transacted was small, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain move off slowly, at previous quotations. The supply of barley on sale was but moderate. Good and fine malting produce moved off freely, at extreme rates ; and other descriptions ruled firm in price. Malt changed hands to a moderate extent ~ at full prices. The supply of oats on sale was tolerably large. Selected parcels were firm in price ; otherwise, the oat trade was dull, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations. Beans were dull, at about previous rates. Peas met a slow sale, on former terms. The flour trade was steady, at full currencies. -- - - ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat.Barley.Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch... 890 1,350 2,250 2,7 30 20 950 1,020 620 sacks Irish ..................... 3,510 brls. Foreign ............... 1650 21,980 WHITECHAPEL The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade is steady, as follows : Beef, from 2s ado 4s 8d ; 3s mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; nd pork, 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. A fair business is passing in most kinds of hops, and prices rule firm. The market is very moderately supplied. Now ready, G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide, Is. G. R. Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ; Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street ; and all agents. In our report of Dr. Franklin's lecture on " Coal Gas" at the Royal Institution, on Saturday, the name of the patentee should have been Lenoir, instead Lerroirs. ETON COLLEGE.—The Christmas vacation, which commenced on Friday, Dec. 15, terminates on Wednesday next, the 18th instant, with the return of the lower boys.. On Thursday, Jan. 19, the fifth form arrived at the college, and the boys of the sixth form will follow on Friday, the 30th inst., when the whole of the school will have reassem bled. It is understood that there have been no changes of importance in the college staff during the recess. CASES IN THE DIVORCE COURT.—As many as 133 original cases appear on the list of the Divorce Court for hearing, besides 27 standing over by the consent of parties. ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—There are 134 appli cations for admission during the present term, besides 70 renewed applications and for readmission. The number of attorneys on the roll is about 10,000, Severe Storm and Wreck of Boats. The Wick coast has during the past week been visited by a succession of severe gales, which threatened the most serious consequences to the numerous boats engaged in the winter herring fishing. On Thursday afternoon the weathermode rated, and a large number of boats proceeded to sea; but towards evening the wind rose, and continued to increase till the morning, when it blew a perfect hurricane from the south-west. Early in the even ing, fortunately, the boats made for the harbour, and they all succeeded in reaching it in safety, with the exception of two, which were forced to take re fuge in Ackergill Bay, the wind, however, having veered round to the north, made the position of these two boats a perilous one ; and on Friday morning the crews, in order to save their own lives, deemed it advisable to run the boats ashore, which they managed to do with considerable difficulty. One of the boats, belonging to William Keith, was dashed to pieces on the rocks ; but the other, be longing to Robert Robertson, having taken the ground on a sandy-bank, was speedily drawn up beyond the reach of the waves, and was found to have sustained but little damage. On land the gale did not pass without doing considerable mischief. Chimney-cans and slates were blown down in every direction, rendering the passage of persons through the streets very dangerous. The most serious casualty, however, occasioned by the storm, was the death of Mr. George Dunbar, carrier between Dun beath and Wick. It would appear that the unfor tunate man, who was on his way to Wick on Friday morning, was overtaken by the storm when near Whaligoe. The road is very much exposed at that place, and it is supposed that the cart, which was laden with light and bulky goods, was caught by the gale and capsized on Dunbar, who was likely to have been walking at the lee side. At all events, the cart was found overturned upon the road, with the horse strangled in his endeavour to free himself ; and on the cart being removed, the body of Dunbar was found beneath, life apparently having been extinct for a &nsiderable time. Throwing the Hood. This ancient game was played at Haxey on the 6th, in which the Haxeyites, West-woodsiders, and Graislanders took part. The day being favourable there was a very large number of spectators to witness the sport. After an exciting game the Graislanders proved victo rious, having secured both hoods. This local game is a very old one, and there are no written records as to its origin, but the oral traditions give it as having originated with the De Mowberry family, so far back as the 13th or early in the 14th century, and that it arose in the fol lowing manner :—Sfr John de Mowberry at that time was owner of the greater portion of the parish of Haxey, and on the Gth January, whilst his wife was going out for a ride on horseback, accompanied by a groom, a gust of wind blew off her large black silk hood, which in those days was considered an indispensable winter head dress for ladies of rank. Near to the place there were 13 men who saw the predicament in which her ladyship wa s placed, and they at once started in pursuit of the hood, striving with all their might which should have the honour of restoring it to its owner. The wind was very fitful, and the chase long and exciting, but however, after much tumbling and jostling, the most powerful man in the company succeeded in catching the hood, with which he returned to her ladyship in triumph. The man who had caught the hood, though physically strong enough, being a real son of Anak, had not the moral strength to look at her ladyship's brilliant laughing eyes, and gave the hood to another man, who straightway presented it to her. The chase so pleased her ladyship that she promised to give them each a broad piece of land for themselves and successors for ever, if they could invent and continue a similar game to be played every 6th of January. She also gave them the name of " plough boggins." The name of plough is presumed to have been given from the manner in which they turned up the soil whilst struggling to get the hood, but the meaning of the word " boggins" is not clearly understood, though it seems very much to have tickled her ladyship's fancy, for every time the hood changed hands she cried out with delight to her servant, " See, John, its ' boggind' again." She also gave them titles, or names, that of " My Lord," to the man who gave her the hood, and to him who having first caught but gave it up to another instead of its rightful owner, she gave that of "fool ;" but to one unlucky and clumsy fellow, whose nose bore unmistakeable signs of having done duty as a ploughshare, she gave " His lordship's ploughboy ;" the remainder to be called " His lordship's servants." They were all to be dressed in red jackets except the "fool," who wears a suitable cap. At one o'clock on the 6th of every January, they meet at the Cross, near Haxey Church, when his "lordship" orders the "fool" to pull off his cap and in form the "ladies and gentlemen" that the sport is about to commence, and they must all play fair, upright, and down straight, and not either kill themselves or one another. " His lordship" then takes the hood into the centre of the field, ordering his men to different points of the compass, and the "fool" to throw up the hood. The game then be gins in earnest, each party throwing to one another until they get it to the other side of the field, when it is called " boggind," and it is the duty of "the boggin" to secure it, but if he fails therein "his lordship," who throws it up the middle again, when game second begins, and so continues until dark, when "his lordship" calls his men away. The game is then continued until one of the contending parties succeed by throwing, running, or by main force, in getting it into the public-house belonging to their party, and when it is once fairly within doors the game is considered over. The hood is then spitted and roasted before the fire, being at the same time well basted with ale, and, when properly cooked, every one that likes can have a slice of it. The landlord generally gives one or two bottles of spirits to the victors. The game must be seen in order to be thoroughly appreciated, for at times the fun runs fast and furious, and produces one of the most exhilarating sights of modern times, the players being generally active and good humoured young men, who enjoy their tumbles and other misfortunes in a Spirit of playfulness rather joyous to be hold. What has become of the land given in support of this game "for ever" our deponeth saith not, but at the present time the " boggins" are reduced to the necessity of singing their carols, and soliciting alms from the public of the parish in order to carry out their own pleasures and the lady's wishes.—Eastern Morning News. PROFESSOR ANDERSON. This gentleman issued the following Farewell Address to the London Public on leaving St. James's Hall, Monday, Jan. 9, to fill an engagement at the Crystal Palace, commencing on Saturday, Jan. 14 : • For eighteen weeks I've occupied this stage, And, proud to say, enjoy'd much patronage ; For such great kindness my best thanks are due— And now, to-night, my gratitude will show. My WORLD of MAGIC o'er the world has been, As good, I fancy, as you've ever seen ; And let me add that not one week pass'd o'er Without inviting Children of the Poor, Feeling that they should have some share of glee, And therefore THOUSANDS were admited FREE! Now, if I've pleas'd the short time I've been here, My hopes are gain'd—your visits render'd dear. But soon, alas ! the Curtain will be drawn, And we be parted, and these scenes be gone. Still, in remembrance I shall long retain Your hearty welcomes, o'er and o'er again. My Children join with me in this adieu, And own their pleasure for those smiles from you ; For smiles like thine will stimulate them on To act their parts when I am past and gone. My TREASURER, too, your kindness don't forget, And hope he pleased when in the Cabinet, Where, strongly handcuj'd every night to view, Released himself to be more linked to you. And, to conclude, our gratitude we tend — Not in mere words, for they cannot be penn'd. Our actions, then, we trust, will satisfy ; And, for the present, wish you all—Good-bye. We are informed that the Professor's exhibitions at St. James's Hall have been most successful. MR. W. S. WOODIN, the accomplished mimic, is at present performing at the Cardiff Theatre, in Wales. WAVES OF HEAT, WAVES OF MORTALITY.—If we carefully observe the fluctuation of the thermometer by the side of the mortality of the nation at large, no very remarkable relationship seems to be traceable between the one and the other. But if, in connection with the mortality, care bo taken to isolate the cases, and group them accord ing to their ages, a singular and significant series of facts follow, which show that after a given age a sudden decline of the temperature influences mortality by what may be considered a definite law. . The law is, that up to the age of 30 years variations of temperature exert no influence on the mortality of the population generally ; but after the age of 30 is reached, then a fall of temperature which is suffi cient to cause an increased number of deaths, acts in a given manner—as it may bo said in waves or lines of intensity, according to the years of the people. If we make these lines nine years long, we discover that they double in force at each successive point. Thus, if the fall in the tempera ture be sufficient to increase the mortality at the rate of one person of the age of 30, the increase will run as follows t-of d One death at 30 years of age ; two deaths at 3a9triseaarst 57 age ; four deaths at 48 years of age ; eig 9deaths at 75 ht years of age ; 16 deaths at 66 years of age ; years of age ; 64 deaths at 84 years of age.—Popular Science Review, Terrible Coal-pit Accident in Belgium, On the 3d inst. an explosion of fire-damp took place in a coal-pit called St. Catharine, situated at Dour, in the province of Hainault, Belgium. This pit has already been the scene of a calamity of a similar nature, for only last year 17 miners lost their lives in it from the effects of an explosion. The pre sent catastrophe occurred just as the men were about to leave work and ascend. At this time a strong column of flame was seen to rush out of the principal shaft, seize on the ropes, the machines, and the roofs, and with the rapidity of lightning the building erected over the shaft was in flames from one end to the other. It would be impossi ble to depict the horrors of the scene which en sued. Mothers instantly assembled calling for their children, children called for their parents, all utter- ing most heartrending cries. At the time of the explosion more than 100 workmen were exposed to the effects of the fearful blast. The work of delivery was commenced immediately, .but this was not an easy matter, for so dense was the smoke which arose that the few men who at first volunteered to descend were obliged to return, or they would certainly have been suffocated. The daring and humane men who had undertaken the task of delivering those of their comrades who might yet be alive within the pit could not be long restrained by the obstacle which opposed their descent, and at last they arrived at the bottom, where lay the living and the dead. The full extent of the calamity could not be ascer tained for some time, nor indeed even when the last accounts left; but in a short time 50 living men had been rescued, though as many dead bodies had been met with. It was ascertained that 117 miners had gone into the pit in the morning, .and of these many had saved themselves by getting into a new venti lating shaft, and others had escaped by the lad ders ; but more than half of those who were exposed to the explosion perished instantly. An approxi mative estimate of the number sacrificed gives 64 as the total, with four wounded by the falling of a wall ; but it is feared that this number is below the sad reality, as but very faint hopes were entertained of finding more living men within the works. Eleven bodies were brought up to the night of the 3d inst., and 20 on the follow ing day. The damage caused to the interior of the pit is very considerable. When the last accounts left Dour 42 bodies had been recovered, and it was calculated that at least 16 or 17 remained in the pit. HEALTH OF LONDON, 4 (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) London has hitherto been the only great city of the world Ln which the causes of all the deaths and the births have been inquired into and published weekly. The bills were commenced in the reign of Elizabeth, when thousands of the people were swept away by zymotic diseases, and Lo ndon was, in truth, periodically the city of the plague, con taining within its walls and liberties a population of only 130,178 souls. The bills, imperfect as they were, appeared weekly, as they were returned by the confraternity of parish clerks from 1603 until the new system of registra tion was introduced, which placed in the hands of the Re gistrar-General the means of publishing the London weekly tables in a complete form. The cause of nearly every death is certified by the medi cal attendants, and the certificates are copied by the 135 registrars, who forward abstracts of their registers weekly, which reach the General Register-office every Monday morning. - The population of London was 2,803,989 in 1861. It is no longer decimated by the plague, and it is some years since cholera ravaged its parishes. But the causes of death are numerous, and their operations can only be arrested by a knowledge of the laws which govern death as they govern life. Our knowledge of these laws is likely to be increased by extending the area of observation, and in endeavouring to accomplish this object the Registrar-General has every where-met with co-operation. The utility of weekly re turns is admitted all over Europe. Vienna is at present one of the great medical schools of the age, and from that city the returns are punctually dent to this office every week by Dr. Glatter. Berlin will probably supply the same infor mation. Baron Haussmann, whose efforts to improve Paris are well known, has been communicated with, and he will, with his admirable administrative organisation, have no difficulty in supplying science with the same information about the state of the public health of Paris as is furnished here respecting the health of London. Tho Registrar-General of Ireland publishes weekly tables for Dublin; and the Registrar-General of Scotland zealously co-operates by procuring returns for Edinburgh and Glasgow. Under these circumstances it has been thought right to procure returns from Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Bir mingham, Leeds, and Bristol, six of the greatest cities or boroughs of England. The returns are furnished by the local registrars, who have laudably aided in the work. Mr. Glaisher, whose services to meteorological science it is impossible to over-estimate, compiles the return of tem• perature :and rain from six observers, whose namos give authority to the tables ; and any prevailing epidemic or re markable variation in the mortality will be noticed. The weekly returns of births and deaths for the cities of the United Kingdom extend over a population of 5,167,187 among whom 3,713 births and 3,389 deaths were registered during the first week of the year ending Saturday, January 7, 1865. The deaths in London were 1,660, or 102 above the cor rected average of the corresponding weeks. Last week the births of 1,043 boys and 1,016 girls, in all 2,059 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor responding weeks of the years 1855-64 the average number (corrected) was 2,055. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the moan height of the barometer in the week was 29.785 in. The mean tem perature of the air in the week was 36.7 deg., which is 0.2 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years. The highest day temperature was 49.2 deg., on Wednesday The lowest night temperature on the grass, as shown by a self-registering thermometer, read at 9 a.m., was 19.0 deg. on Monday. On Tuesday there was a range of only 5.2 deg. of temperature within the 24 hours. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air tempera ture was 4.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 84, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell heavily during the afternoon of Thursday. The general direction of the wind was S.W. In Liverpool the births were 321, the deaths 442 ; in Manchester and Salford the births 269, the deaths 275 ; in Birmingham the births 208, the deaths 213 ; in Leeds the births 117, the deaths 138 ; in Bristol the births 124, the deaths 81 ; in Edinburgh the births 109, the deaths 90 ; in Glasgow the births 357, the deaths 313; in Vienna the deaths 326, in the week preceding, where the temperature was 14.4 deg. lower than in London. DEATHS IN LONDON IN THE LAST QUARTER OF 1864. In the 13 weeks that ended Dec. 31, 19,636 deaths were registered in London. In the corresponding quarters of the years 1860-63 the numbers of deaths were respectively 15,197, 15,866, 17,717, and 18,857. The increase in the mortality is chiefly found in the local class, 8,535 per sons having died from diseases included under that head ; in the same period of 1861 7,639 deaths occurred from the same causes, and in 1864 only 6,300. Zymotic diseases in the aggregate were not so fatal as in the corresponding quarters of the two preceding years, the numbers in the three quarters being 5,055, 5,016, and 4,847. The most fatal disease in the list is scarlatina, which caused 1,095 deaths. 1,064 persons have died from typhus, which shows a large increase as compared with the corresponding quarters in the years 1860-63, the deaths for those periods amounting to 311, 624, 796, and 881. The alarming inroads made by this disease on the lives of the population deserves careful investigation, and shows the necessity of carrying out at once every available sanitary measute. Smallpox was fatal in 120 cases, 81 of which were in young per sons. The mortality from measles varies consider ably. In the same period of 1861 the disease car ried 171 persons ; in the like period of 1862 900 fell victims to its influence, and in the quarter which has just terminated it destroyed 638 lives. Whooping-cough proved fatal to 438 children, a number differing little from that registered in the corresponding quarter of . 1863, when 429 deaths were caused by this disease. Erysipelas and inetria (childbed fever) show an increase. From the former disease 151, and from the latter 82 deaths were registered.. Diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthismise) were fatal in nearly 1,000 more cases than iu t n he ed ea the period of the year 1863. In the quarter which d most fatal disease in 2ddiseoafsJosar in the e lB q 6 o 4, art 3 e , r 4 j 7 u o st pe o r n s d o e n d s 4 (l ,4 i 6 ed 7sp frot o u ns p ei d Z o rz the same causes. Bronchitis is the died from its a ttack, the this class, 2,387 pet-sons having die. 1,630, 1,553, 1,760, and I,B3l.desPturoeyed 1,555 lives. The numbers who died in the like peruimodosnaf vas s 6o a - 1 6 5 3 0 being than usually active, having . aitnhdll,li9c3h. the compari_ 979,e f r 00 1 6r o e 6 r 11 . pc : t 6s h : si s In the same quarters numberssn ismawdeho 1,985 deaths occurred h s t a e l n i s 9 4 2 2 : 61 were de d 1 , n 2 5 O t h , who 2, foil victims to the dise ase Were of b:n t rsd he brain aalya9ns died nervous ed ofri e s py insanity, 0 1 f ,7 1 8 8 5 6 , 0 4 -6 8 3 40 t , h 1 e ,8 n 9 n 9 m , om From diseases tt fP ih r e eo eaD rn is these na ' set; P : s ifs ee dP lc i s i n e t e i d : ot fnh Y; : o ° 7 . hnf same 3 s d t76 6 number-isfeBr: heart i r t o andml c bloodo n v u si o n vesselss occasioned 947 from epilePsY , period of 1863 886 persons died from 572 persons lost their lives by accidents of various kinds. In the corresponding quarters of 1860-63 the numbers who came to such an untimely end were 415, 432, 428, and 563. In the 13 weeks now ended 230 deaths were occasioned by fractures and contusions, 27 by burns or scalds, 47 by drowning, and 127 by suffocation—of these latter 115 were young persons. 25 cases of murder or manslaughter and 64 cases of suicide were registered. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK. MARTINIQUE. Advices from Martinique to the 21st December have been received. On the previous day the transport frigate eiv Am. a zone had arrived at F or t-d e - France rec from Vera Cruz and Havana, having on board 1,900 men of the Mexican expeditionary ar my, and was to continue her route ti t aTo la ul t o te n r , after a short stay. The last troops designated to return to France had received orders from Marshal partßazaineof January, when h nottoleaveVtere Austrian Vera Cruz until legion ntil he would have arrived. Anecdotes of Farragut and Grant. A Northe c r o n t c s l a gentleman h ed - w h t o o has the S t a a ts v e m l l a e n d in the f t o h l e lowing anecdotet:— Mr. Osborn (President pf the Illinois Central Railroad) told me a story of Admiral Farragut and his son. They were on the Mississippi, and Farragut's fleet was about to. pass Port Hudson, which was then held by the Confede rates. Farragut's son, a lad of about 12, had been impor tuning his father that he might be sent to West Point, where the military cadets are educated. Old Farragut. said, " I don't know how that would do ; I am not sure whether you would stand fire." "Oh, yes, father, I could, do that." "Very well, my boy, we'll try; come up with fl d in flinched while they the shot here." Th e a d m i ra l an d hi s son wen t up t oge th er i n t o the maintop, th e o ld man h a d hi mse lf an d th e b oy l as h e d to it, an inhed his hil way ttaoss e atshell were d Port Hudson.l flying 'lh The lad never past him. " Very well, m y b o y, that will do ; you shall go to West Point." mt Grant,o n commanded,d ,he t h o o l dm o w hise this troops: commands —ln before nt which RGiraOchnf advan tage over the Confederates. They began to plunder the Confederate camp in spite of all that Grant could do to stop them. At last Grant, who knew that Confederate re inforcements were coming up, got some of his friends to set fire to the camp, so as to stop the plundering. Then he got his troops together as well as he could and retreated ; but in the meantime the Confederate reinforcements . came up, attacked Grant, and defeated him. There' were five colonels under Grant who had not by any means supported him efficiently in his attempts to stop' the plundering and collect his troops. Mr. Osborn saw Grant a day or two afterwards, when he exp ec t e d t o be deprived of his command on account of the defeat. H e said, " Why do you not report these colonels ? They are the men to blame for not carrying out your orders." , cwh y, ,,- said Grant, " these officers had never been under fire before —they did not know how serious an affair it was—they have had a lesson which they will not forget. I will answcr for it, they will never make the same mistake again. I can see by the way they behaved in the subsequent action they are of the right stuff, and it is better that I should lose my command, if that must be, than that the country should lose the services of five such officers when good men are scarce." Grant did not lose his command, and three out of the five officers have since greatly distinguished themselves. The day before Grant attacked Fort Dounelson the troops had had a march of twenty miles, part.' of it during a bitter cold night. Grant called a. council of war to consider whether they should attack the. fort at once, or should give the troops a day or two's rest. , The officers were in favour of resting. Grant said nothing till they had all given their opinion ; then he said, " There is a deserter come in this morning ; let us see him and hear what he has to say." When he came in, Grant looked into his knapsack. " Where are you from ?" "Fort Donnel son." "Six days' rations in your knapsack have you not, my man ?" " Yes, sir." " When were they served out ?" " Yesterday morning." " Were the same rations served out to all the troops ?" " Yes, sir." " Gentlemen," said Grant, " troops do not have six days' rations served out to them in a fort if they mean to stay there. These men mean to re treat, not to fight—we will attack at once." He did attack the Confederates, defeated them, and took a large number. of prisoners. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. The market opens with a good demand, at ,mproving prices. Sales, probably about 7,000 bales. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Jan. 11.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. . . Hum, Jan. 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Swallow, from Callao. BRISTOL, Jan. 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Yolana, from Cuba. SWANSEA, Jan. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Hampshire, from Cuba. • PLYMOUTH, Jan. 10.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Cambria, steamer, for the Cape of Good Hope. LOUGH FOYLE, Jan. 11.—Arrived—North American screw steamer, from Portland, U.S., and proceeded for Liverpool. FORTSMOUTH, Jan. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady. Maxwell, from London for St. Michael's ; Echo, from Lon don for Columbo. FALMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Celestina, from Sulina. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Alma, from Liverpool for Demerara, with loss of boat and other damage. (BY MAGNETIC TELEG►RAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 10—Rival, from Guernsey ; Hannah Park, from Marseilles; Kron Prindieese Loese, from Taganrog; Nient Galling, from Porto Rico. Wednesday Morning. Anchored—Souve, steamer, for Malta; Rose, steamer, for San Marturis—both from London. A VALUABLE CARGO IN AN " OLD BOTTOM." Yesterday the old Liverpool and New York packet ship Dacotab arrived in the Mersey from Nassau, with a (-Argo consisting of 4,000 bales of blockade-run rum. At the present rates for fine American staple in Liverpool this cargo is valued at £280,000. A WOMAN DROWNED IN A WELL.—Last week' . a poor woman, the wife of a respectable shoemaker named Sharp, residing at the corner of Church-lane, Leatherhead, who had been for some time in indifferent health, when drawing a bucket of water from the well in her husband's garden, was taken either with a fit or became giddy, and fell headlong into the well, and was of course drowned be fore any assistance could reach her.—Surrey Advertiser. CONVICTS AND THEIR WARDERS.—At the Ports mouth Epiphany Sessions, held on Saturday before Mr. John Duke Coleridge, Q.C., recorder of the borough, Henry Sutton, instructing assistant-warder in the Portsea Convict Prison, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour for obtaining money from the friends of convicts. The evidence proved that Sutton, by the aid of one of the convicts immediately under his superintendence,, obtained the addresses of the friends of convicts in the prison, and would then write to them asking for money, which was to be forwarded to Sutton's residence, and not to the prison. The letters were written by the convict alluded to, as under Sutton's immediate superintendence, but the letter was posted in the envelope by the prisoner himself. The convict assistant or dupe at length became alarmed, and gave information to the governor of the. prison. SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE. —Early on Satur day morning (reports the officer of Customs at the between t oc Stockton), n ) it i the d dl e smalleho tradingtothe The latter place, was wrecked ne .n ar tow b and the tug e, eed vesselNe Newcastle, and st J i_i , r t o n oro cl ,.g a m w - t h u e g n , vessel was entering the Tees unfortunatelyl gf fast drivenc considered :7d a s r h as e when the tow an r d op steam-tug. the sybe i hnassistance ' Nationalbroke, t lo of s vessel,ttitetion was some time, has her crew of two men drowned. The but not a beinglast N or seen North uunable Garr Sand, to n t e h d , e r e t n u o ed g p e , o r n : f v a a n v h i e been wrecked, to the bar by a Middlesboro' lifeboat 0 the bar sunk, ic,s for btl he e th e a xa t c s t he spo co t ul b d ein h g av a e s immediately of the little vessel was visible. The • vestige . . quite . . coxswain, however, got awa y, being without sails and always navigated in yet unknown. CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS DREAM-CHILDREN. t S o h w e , ::: i ttcdao that s t s t il t d e wl e r ee m s de u i n t s ddtohaveo —I love to picture him far from the din of th critical Babel, surrounded by those delicate and beautiful creations of his fancy, that ideal family, the children of his pen. There, in the twilightof his study,l • see him sitting with his arro. round Nell . the favourite child. Her face seems worn and sad, but when she looks up in his eyes, it becomes suffused with heavenly light. At his feet rest little Dombey and his sister hand-in-hand, and nestling to the father who has called them into birth. Poor Joe is there, the fungus of the streets, crouching like a dog beside tho fire, grateful for food, and warmth, and shelter. I hear the clumping of a little crutch upon the stairs, and in hops Tiny Tim, the crippled child. Above them hover the shadowy forms of other children, children who on earth were poor and suffering drudges, workhouse outcasts that the world had turned adrift, but which are now on high, a blessed band of angels. And yet this man, great critics is only a mere buffoon, and nothing more ? Truly, a fit companion for that low player of the olden time,who wrote "King Lear," and acted at the Globe.—To-day by John Hollinyshead. MR. Jomq GIBSON, R.A., THE CELEBRATED ScvLrTon, has intimated his intention to bequeath 82,00 and casts of all his works to the Royal Acadeniy. 1 .1 ng en, sort 2 0 ; COO' 3 114 fron as °f HER' dy 0 taw, 100 st 20 20i 10 100