The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

:...~~ Say. rincesg Chris- service Whip- Con- tuen co ;es be- busi- al, it the C ~ i i the 3e Sat some their naged Bur ree of ed by igine, and water r COIF it the A the ,lock, ation, y fell, r less wo or and Bail nding ation. 1, and lotion )orted [ little- w hich. Two ); that 7 an d a the Indon a was ;atiOn ;, and r3ach ; ;, 21 0 the over The from icipal 5 feet eon- gollal od of as of Won, ed to on of f di° ag eti us on made a feir hered on Of street nptly ,ected ed to ,uried were :ly 8 0 cabs inju as to neut. .e at. 0 NEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, f_~~ TWELVE o'CLocK. The discount market is quiet and quotations tend downwards. No perceptible change, however, has yet taken place. The rates for short-dated paper range from 7/ per cent. Loans from day to day on Government Securities are negotiated at 3/ per cent. • At the forthcoming meeting of the Bank of Egypt the directors will submit a resolution authorising the increase of the capital of the company by the issue of 5,000 new shares of £25 each. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Thursday, the 25th inst., a special settle ment in the shares of the following companies : Gale's Protected Gunpowder Company, which are to be marked in the twice a week lists; and in the Accidental and Marine Insurance Corporation, which aro not to be officially quoted. At the third ordinary general meeting to-day of proprietors o► the Imperial Mercantile Credit As- Oclation the report presented stated that the balance of undivided profits brought forward after- Payment of the dividend in July last w,as £53,141 155., and the amount of net profit realised during the past half year, after payment of expenses, and after providing for all bad and doubtful debts, and for rebate of interest on loans and bills not yet matured, is £91,860 17s. 7d., making a total of £145,002 2s. 7d. to be now dis posed of. It is recommended that the above sum be appropriated as follows, viz., that £50,000 be applied to the payment of a dividend for the past Six months of 10s. per share, being at the rate of 20 Per cent, per annum ; £833 Gs. Bd. to payment of Income-tax, and that from the balance the sum of £75,000 be placed to the credit of a " rest ;" leav ing a sum of £19,169 ss. lid. to be carried forward ; total, £145,002 12s. 7d. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the French Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68f. 50c. After an improvement of per cent. the English Funds have again exhibited weakness, and relapsed to their former values. The market indicates dull ness and depression, with little prospect of an im mediate revival. Consols are 86i 87 for money, and 87 4 for the account. The New Threes and deduced Annuities are 864 87 ; Exchequer Bills, 6 8. to 4s. dis. ; Bank of England Stock, 245 247 ; India Stock, 208 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 1021 4 ; and .ditto Bonds, 15s. prem. A fractional improvement is shown in some of the Principal Foreign Stocks. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 391 4; Mexican, ; 214 ; ditto New, 184 191 ; Spanish Passive, 25i 4 ; the Certificates, 13ft 4 ; ' Greek, 134 144 ; Italian, 61i 4 ; the Confederate Loan, 6 7:3 Egyptian Railway Loan Scrip, par to 6f prem. ; and Brazilian Scrip, 4 prem. United States Government 5.20 Bonds are 66 4; Erie Shares, 551 56 ; and Illinois, 75 Business in the Railway Share Market has shown more animation, and prices have varied to a slight extent. North Western, Metropolitan, and North Eastern (Berwick), have each improved 10s., and Great Western 55., while Great Eastern have de clined 15s. London, Chatham, and Dover, and South Eastern were 10s., and South Western and Midland each ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines continue in fair demand at steady rates. Great Luxembourg are marked 154 16, and Grand Trunk of Canada have hnproved to 36* 4. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in better re quest, and in most instances sustain former values. Imperial are marked 28i. London Joint Stock, 80 1 4 ; Union of London, 511 52 ; Hudson Bay C ompany, 161 16/ ; London Financial, 184 ; and verend, Gurney, and Co., 201. English and American Bank shares are quoted 1 4 prem. ; British Convention Bonds of Mexico, 68 70 ; London Steam Towing Company, 11 2 Prem. ; Charles Lafitte and Co., 24 24 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. . GO VERNMENT FUNDS. B per Cent. Consols , Do. Account, Fob. 8 B7l 1 °,,,Per Cent. Reduced B6l 7 87 61 7 No 3 per Cent 93 NOW 3f per Cent. Jan. 1894 A Do. 6 per Cont. Jan. 1873 — Qamuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — LDo (Reel Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 - I ° ll equer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent, 4 Do. £5OO 5 Do £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent ilndni an a S ll to e ck, " l7l p3l:: en EN T S t E . 7 C A tnti prii nE l s B . 74 208 Do Account — D 0.5 per C en t. J u l y, 1870 4 pe r C ent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 D 0.451 per Cent., M ay 1879 — per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, 0 Do. under .£l,000 . F OREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. q - ,Jlstrian Bond s , 5 per C ent, 1859 tirasillia n 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 . Do. 1863 Do. 1865 Do Account 74/ 1 Do. Scrip, £25 p a id Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do. Account Do 1 per C en t (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Olulian 6 per Cent -- Do. 41 per Cent velenabian 6 per Cent. C uba, 6 p er C en t . Danish 3 p er Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 pe r Cent., 1863 t— -1)0. 5 Ditnub ian pePrinci p r Cent,alities 1773-77, £25 paid ItDo Account 72/ 1 ador New Consolidateol, 1 per Cent — °., Provisional Land Warrant Egypthtn. 7 per Cent. —.— Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds 92 1864 9l 1 Do. C D o £lOO B on d s I ;, ee k 5 per Cent s ., 1824-5, ex Coupons • -vo. A.ccount Do. Coupons „ e Do. Account aa xican 3 per Cent — Do. Account Do 1864 — D O 6 per Cent. Anglo-French 46 141)o French Scrip, Ex. 25f 2.0 c — le t dovidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid ~,, oorish Imperial 5 per Cent me,W Granada l3l _. 4 - 1 0 2 per Cent De Deferred 1 , 0 13 0 Land Warrants (Hectares) 1) 0 • 6 Per Cent, 1864 p DoGuaraner Cent teed, 4 per Cent. — ernvian . 5 . Accoupnt 3 per Cent. rib Do 41 per Cent, (U 1862 arren) P D o Account °lll4 guess 3 per Cent, 1853 Do 3 per '6O , '9 , '7 , Cent~ 1856 , _ „ DO. A.ccount atussian 5 per C en t., 1822, £ St — Do Do 4 1 per C en t . 18 50 BBi 41 perlB6o ' Do 3 per Cont. t 1859 Do 5 per C ent. 1862 891 k _ Do 5 per Cent. 1864 93f tiardintan 5 per Cent Do £ I CO Bands c ~ . IPanishl3r Cent — per Cent Pauish 3 per Cent D itto account — Do New Deferred —• Do Account e, liDo A ccount . .. . - ....... .., .. 251 c l attish Co r t. o f Coup .. no . . . ... t, fundedn.delt „, Do Account ° Wedish 4 per Cent ..,. .... , Do. 41 per per Cent . Cent. 1 184' .•• ..•••.....••.•..•• -- 42, 5 h 6 Do Account Do 6 Do Acc peountr Cent. 1858 691 70 D„,O £lOO B on d s 6B uo 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 6Bl 1 Do £lOO Bonds - 6 Bf i i Do 6 p er C ent.,1863 °/. 5 per Cent. 1865 1 , 0 Scrip, £35 paid 39 } -"„o Account yetliooez.l4ecpicaeoru3nCpteenrtc. G en u t a . ranteed er..._ -.Jo 6 per Cent., 1864 A_ . Dividends on the above payable in London. riStylan, 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins b ‘" r i gla, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. ouch Routes 3 per Cent _ Dutch, 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull 6l/ L'o 4 per fiates — Italian. 5 per Cen t. ,, 1861, Ex. 25f. •••• DO Account ............. 61/ 1 .................... Con THREE O'CLOCK. j)° ' Account y B°lB for mono ............................... 861 7 .................................... 87 1 I 3 5 7 I 2 17 15 218 PREFERENCE 8 Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 Great Western, 4 per cent irred , 80„ London. Chatham. and Dover 5 per cent. pref,, 91/ North Eastern, G.N.E. 4 per cent. pref., 108 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOLES. Great Eastern 4/ per:cent. pi., Ditto, 5 per cent pf., 92 London and S.-Western 44 per cent , 95 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Hull and Selby. Ic9 Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent.. 51 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 104 it Bahia and San Francisco t 11.11.) gua. 7 per cent., 15/ 14/ Great Luxembourg, 16 151 Northern of France, 431 Sambre and Meuse, 94 I A. KES. per cent. pm., 1071 FOREIGN MINEP. Cape Copper, 1; Chontalev Gold and Silver Mining, 3; a Cobre Copper, 20 in Frontino and Bolivia Gold. lim., I i St. John del Rey, lim., 461 7 BANKS. Agra and Misterman's, lint., 55 / Alliance. lint.. 23 1 Bank of London. 1471 8/ Bank of Otago, lint., 71'81 Bank of New Zealand, 17k 18 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 231 3 Commerdal Bank of India and the East, 29 81 Consolidated Bank, lirn., 101 Eng ish Joint Stock, lint., 101 English and Swedish, Bin.. 15 1 Hindustan, China, and .1 apan,_llm., 271 Imperial Bank, Urn., 281 Imperial Ottoman, 131 13 1 Ditto, new, 121 1 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 131 London and Brazilian (11m.), 46 London and County, 802 1 London Joint Stock, 4EI London and South-Western, lim.. 191 20 London and 11 estminster, 97 6) Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Lim., 181 Midland Bank, lint., 201 Oriental Bank Corporation. 50/ Provincial Banking Corporation, lint., 71 I Provincial of Ireland, 83 4 Scinde, I'unjaub, and Delhi, lint., 61 6 Union of Australia, 501 Union of London, 5t 11 1 Canada Company, 79 City Offices, lint., 6) Credit Foncier and &lobilier of England, 81 MISCELLANEOUS. ' Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua , I Baum arah Tea Estat es , li m., if • Bo i.bay Gas, Mu., 51 Discount Corporation. 95 Egyptian Corn and Trading, lim. , 41 Gen. Credit and Finance 01 L indon, ri •. General Steam Navigation, 27 Hudson's Bay, 16J 6 Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso.,lim., 7/ International Financial society, lim., Ca Joint Stock Discount, lira., 7 London Financial Association, lim ;485 London General Omnibus Company, 1ina,7,35 Nerbudda Coal and Iron, 2f National Discount Company.;l6 Overend, Gurney, and Co., Jim., 24 Royal Mail Steam, RI rhames and Mersey Marine) Insurance, UM, 71 1 Universal Marine, Insurance, lira., 21 United Kingdom, Tclegraph Co., lim,, 3 SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways, 'Bristol and Exeter ... Caledonian Cambrian Cork and Bandon al Cornwall al] Dublin & Belfast June 1O( Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc &London, scrip Certi 2C Do. 1, Glasgow ,t S. Ific stern 101 Great Eastern, Ord. stk. ifs Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 101 Great North - of Scotland fol Great Northern lOl Do. A stock lOl Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pm 10 GtS, and W. ollreland 10 Gt. Western -Original It.i Do. S. Val. Itail. gua. 101 Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 101 Do. Newport lOl Do. Hereford lOl :.anoashire,tYprkshtiej 1 London and Blackwal ii Lon., Brigh., & S Coas II Lou., Chat„ and Dove 11 Do. Metrop. Ex. A.. 11 Lon. & North Western 11 Lon. & South Western 11 lifs.n., Shet., & Lincoln 1( Metropolitan. al Do. New Do. Extension Metropolitan District. al Do do. do. 11 Do. and St. John'aW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby IC lid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun l O, Nth. Eastern—Berwick. 10 , Do. G.N•E purchase 16.1 Do. Leeds ..... 101 Do. York lOl Do. Ouliale ... lO Do. Stock. & Dunn * al Do. do. 1860-61 ' ii North London lO Do. do. 18i34 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E . Aber. stock 101 Do. Scot, Mid. stJck Shropshire Union 10 South Devon.... South Eastern Staines, Wok., it Wok al gaff Vale 10( Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford it Kilkennyi 101 Waterloo & Whitcha 1 1 West Cornwall I I Paid.' Closing I Budseinne.ese 93 95 128 129 94 96 13 15 41 5 68 70 70 72 112 114 39 10 7 8 0 127 128 0 lit 145 393 9 i 81 9 1271 6911 i 102 1} 361 125} 6} 126, 931 4 on I 9 1351 42 61 7i 581 271 112 721 3 NCI 371 7 711 BRITISH P Atlantic & StLawrence al Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. Lgu. 5 per cent Do. F shares Buffalo & Lake Huron al Do. Preference al Buff. ,Bran t, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- Calcutta & S. E., Ilm lO 'are Town & Dock, gu ll Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p al East. Bengal, gu., 5 do 101 East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. 10 Do. J Extension Grand Trunkof Canada 10 1 Do'. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c al Do. Ist Pref. Bonds al Do. do. deferred Do. 2d PAL Bonds al Do. do. deferred al . Do. nd Pref. stock al Do. do. deferred al Do. 4th Pref. stock al Do. do. deterred al Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 101 o. Qua. 5 per cent 1 Do. New gua. sp. c.. 1 Gt. South of India ...... gus. 5 per cent Do. 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. al DJ. New pay 1878 18 11 pay Do. 6p. c. Bd s . 73 al Do. 5s do. pay. 1877-8.. at Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do ll Do. 41 do ll Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. I. Mel t udson's may.. al N.lll.C'da,6pclstpt.bs. 10( Scinde . . . Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Punjaub Do. Indus `' D 1, COLONIAL GOVERN IBritish Columbia,ii per cent., Dec. 31, 1572... Can.Gov.6 1877-84 Do. 6g. c. Feb. & Aug Ico Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10) Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July 100 Do. sp. r. Inscribed sk 100 Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 I /o.Apl.&Oct , 1800-1900 100 Do. do; 1580-9 100 Do. Jan. &July, 1890-9; 100 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1000 lO Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( 18 Do. 1878, do Mauritius, fi p. a, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1578 rOo. 188?, May i 5, Nov. it 10 Do. 1805, Feb. to Aug.. I.QI Natal qov. 6 per cent.. f 0( N.l3.Gov.op.c.Ja.,VJ ul) 10( N. B.W. Gov. 5 pv.,1861 10( Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 187 i 10C Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189: 10 , New Zealand, 6p. cent 10 Do. 5 per cent.... lO Nova Scutia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 l9 Queensland Gov. 6p. C lO i. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 10 Do. 1878 & upwards l l, Vic,Gov. 6 p.c.Ja l July 10 Do. do, A pril ,Sz Oct lO, BRITISI 11;ao2. Cons6l. Gold, Um Chiverton Clifford A malgamated. 3 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake wal Is 2.1 East Bassett (Illogan) 2 , East Caradon 2.1 East Cam Brea Nast Grenville 2.1 East d unnislake .. 8.3 East Lovell 3.c E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.1 Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 61 Great L Axey, limited al. Great South Tolgus 0.1 Great Wheal Busy... l4. G. Wheal Vor (Helstin Grenville B.l. Herod's Foot .... B.lr Hingston Downs ...... 5.1 Margaret (Uny Lelant 18.1 Marke Valley 4.1 IMwyncly Iron Ore, lim 'New Seton North Roskear _ N.Wh' I Bassett North Wheal Crotty 2.1 Prosper 7.1 Providence tiny ',slant 10. S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow .... 3.; S.Wheal Fran. (11logan 18. 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IC3 104 104 10.5 101 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY LAW INTELLIGENCE,This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush.) THE QUEEN V. WINSOR, THE WHOLESALE MURDERESS. This case came on for argunient to-day before their lordships. It will be recollected that the pri soner was put on her trial at the assize held at Exeter charged with wilfully murdering the illegiti mate child of another woman. It was stated at the trial that the offence with which the prisoner was charged was not a solitary instance of her wicked ness, but that, on the contrary, other cases were ready to be proved against her. The trial was con chided, and after the learned judge had summed up the case, the jury retired to consider their verdict. They remained locked up for a considerable- time, as they were unable toagree, and, after vainly endea vouring to arrive at an unanimous opinion, returned into court and stated thatit was impossible for them to agree. They were told they must be of one mind before they could be discharged, and accordingly they were again locked up, and so remained until 12 o'clock at night. It being just on the verge of Sunday morning the judge was informed there was no likelihood of the jury agreeing, and he ordered them into court and discharged them without giving a verdict. She was again put upon her trial for the same offence, and the mother of the child, who had been in the former case indicted with her, was on this occasion examined as a witness, and a verdict of guilty was returned, and the prisoner sentenced to death. • The counsel for the prisoner, Mr. Folkard, con tended that it was against the law to place the prisoner in peril twice for the same offence ; that therefore the second trial was illegal, and that the prisoner ought to be acquitted. The motion was ordered to be argued before the judges at West minster, and this morning the learned counsel ap peared before their lordships to argue the case. He went at great len,gth into the authorities bearing on the case, and contended that the judge had no power to dismiss a jury in a trial for murder with out returning a verdict, and that having been done, the prisoner was entitled to her acquittal. The Lord Chief Justice asked, supposing the court-house was on fire, whether a judge would then have power to dismiss a jury without a verdict, or whether they were to be burnt to death rather than be discharged ? Mr. Folkard said he apprehended the sheriff ought to take charge of them before such an even tuality arose. The Lord Chief Justice asked where that officer was to put them—where were they to go to? Mr. Folkard thought the proper course would be to adjourn the case, or else that the sheriff should provide for them, as was the case at the Old Bailey. Tho arguments in the case seem likely to extend over the day. The condemned woman Winsor was in ccurt in custody of the wardress of the prison in which she was confined, and sat in a corner of the court with her eyes cast on the ground, from which she never during the whole of the morning once raised them. She appears to be a person of about 50 years of age, with features of a very ordinary description. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Byles and a Common Jury.) FINCH V. AITKEN. This was an action by the plaintiff, a miller and discounter of bills, for a sum of £6O, the amount of a bill of exchange accepted by a person named Con way, and drawn by the defendant, who is a lodginghouse-keeper, living at No. 5, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, and who pleaded that he had received no notice that the bill was dishonoured. Mr. J. O. Griffiths was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Quain for the defendant. For the plaintiff it was deposed that when the bill Caine to maturity on the 20th November last, he wrote a notice of its being dishonoured, which was addressed to the defendant, and posted by his 5011. Mr. Aitken, in the course of his evidence, stated that he bad been nine years a butler in the service of Dr. Temple, headmaster of Rugby School, and that Mr. Conway was a tailor and outfitter at Not ting-hill. It was arranged of the plaintiff's house that the defendant should be the drawer of a bill of exchange, and he swore most positively that no letter from Fenil, dated the 20th November, had been delivered at his house. This evidence was corroborated by the groom of a lodger in the nuse. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— ainages £6O. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde.) IN TIIE GOOD OF D. A. REED.—JUDGMENT. His Lordship delivered judgment in this curious case, which was tried last week, and presented a point upon which no precedent existed. It was an application for probate of a document exe cuted by David Alexander Reed, at atime when he was domiciled in Scotland, and one day before his mar riage. The document was in the form of a marriage settlement, but was intended by the testator to operate as a will, which was perfectly legal according to Scotch law, although contrary to the law of Eng land. Some years subsequent to the marriage he removed with his wife to this country, where he died, and the question was whether, having become a domiciled Englishman, his will should not have been made in conformity with English law. His lordship said that, except for certain statutory enactments, the will would be invalid ; but in his opinion, according to Lord Kingsdown's Act, unless there were some act revoking the will, the mere change of domicile did not vitiate it. He must, therefore, decree probate of the will. N TIIE MATTER OF THE GOODS•OF W. VALLANCE. In this case application was made for letters of administration to the effects of William Vallance, who had made a will bequeathing the residue of his estate to his son, or in case of the latter prede ceasing him, to the present applicant. The son who was a ship carpenter, sailed from this country in 1851, and had not been since heard of, the as sumption being that he was dead. The only point was whether he died prior or subsequent to the testator, and in the absence of any information on that point his lordship considered the letters of ad ministration should be granted. Decree accordingly. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RENASMYTII. This bankrupt was a merchant of Great St. Helen's and Bombay, and to-day he came up upon the adjourned meeting for the order of discharge. 'The accounts show debts between £40,000 and £50,000, but the assets are expected to prove con siderable. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Reed represented the assignees ; and it is not unlikely that eventually the case will be taken out of court. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) THE PACKED PARCEL QUESTION-IMPORTANT DECI SION-CHINERY V. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action to recover £llls. 5d., alleged overcharges by the company upon parcels forwarded by the plaintiff. Mr. Plews appeared for the plain tiff, Mr. Smith representing the company. It was admitted, for the purpose of shortening the case that the plaintiff had forwarded various parcels to the company's receiving houses, paying the rates levied in accordance with the tariff. The parcels were consigned to the plaintiff's agent at Brighton, who had to pay Id. per lb. extra upon them. It was stated that the question of packed parcels had been contested by Mr. S u t ton and a gr he e a a ri t n r g a b il e w fo ay re theiu company, los an appeal n ow l y i ng for of Lords. Mr. Smith called the traffic superintendent in the company's service, who deposed that by one of the bye-laws the company was entitled to charge one penny per lb. extra on all packed parcels. This was not only noted in the time-tables, but was placed in a conspicuous spot on the company's premises. - In cross-examination witness said that id. per lb. extra was invariably charged on all p ac k e d parcels, no matter who sent them. - His Honour said that to his mind the case re solved itself into a very simple point. If the company's bye law, under seal, gave notice that packed parcels would be charged ld. per lb. extra, then there was an end of the case, and the only question was, had the plaintiff sent a sufficient number of pounds to the company to warrant them charging the consignee £1 lls. sd. ? After some calculation it was found that the company had charged 2s. 6d. too much, and al though it was endeavoured to be shown that this sum had been levied for collecting the parcels, the evidence was not conclusive upon the point, and his Honour found a verdict for the plaintiff for half-a crown. Costs were applied for, but his Honour said he should only allow costs upon the amount re covered, as the company had been successful upon the great point in packed parcels. Liverpool Cotton Market—This ray. Market opens rather quiet. Sales probably 6,000 bales. THE NEXT MAIL FROM JAMAICA.—The Shannon, with the next West India mail, is expected on Sunday next. She will bring news from Jamaica up to the Gth inst. The Shannon took out Sir Henry Storks. EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1866. Strauss Searchingly Eeviewed. BY A CRITIC IN "THE ATIIEN.EUII." During the last three weeks there has been appearing in the columns of The Athenwum a re markable series of papers, in which the notorious " Life of Christ," by D. F. Strauss, has been sub jectedto a singularly calm, a perfectly dispassionate, and altogether, as we conceive, a very masterly analysis. An analysis, so clear and searching of its kind, that we are tempted to give the following ex tracts as exemplars of the critic's " quality" at once as a Believer and as a Logician. " Perhaps no book of a thousand pages ever written," he says, " has so large an allowance of supposition to so small a mo dicum of proof as this Life of Christ' by Strauss. It is nearly all postulate and infer ence—mist of the fancy, mirage of the brain. Four pages in five are covered by repe titions of an argument wholly divorced from fact." Further on he remarks—" One of our English wits used to laugh at a confirmed book-maker for de canting one work into another, histories into travels, memoirs into manuals ; as a trader with a small stock of wine might decant Nuits into Volnay, Volnay into St. George. But even this steady old craftsman would hardly have poured his first volume into his second, bodily. Working in the figure known to logicians as a vicious circle—a line of march on which there is movement and no progress—Strauss not only puts his first volume into his second, going once again over his labours, in the same order of time, almost in the very phrases used (under pretence of showing by what tricks and forgeries the Imposture called the Christian Church was raised) ; but he pours his pre face into his introduction, his introduction into his first book kite , every subsequent book. The argu ment moves through a chain of propositions, hang ing on to three or four Fundamental Ideas :—such as his assumptions that miracles are impossible, that Christ is a myth, that man ends with the grave, and that heaven is but a dream." As for the non-existence of Christ, or what is here spoken of as the mythical existence of the Redeemer, the late Archbishop Whateley demon strated the flimsy and specious notion of that hypo thesis by his inimitable logical witticism, as it may be called, demonstrating (!) that there "never was such a person" as Napoleon Bonaparte ! " Herr Strauss's main purpose," continues the Athens um critic, "is to show that Jesus was not the Christ. If this could be shown, an end would be made of many things now held in reverence ; an end of church ministry, of dogmatic theology, of reli gion itself, in some degree of God." And was it not such a creature even as Maxi milian Robespierre who remarked that If God had not existed it would have been necessary to maven Him? " All that would remain of sacred tradition, and of the policy which rests upon it, would be swept away. For it is only a belief in its divine founda tion that preserves our faith alive. Strauss says that if our Lord was a man of simple and pious nature, clear in vision and pure in life, he had also many defects of mind, as might be expected from his age and country, such as unfit Him for the office of being a permanent pattern to mankind. According to this German view, He put the life of man in the family in the background ; held only a passive re lation to the State ; set himself visibly against trade, and left art and elegance out of hiz view of life. These grave defects, now found in Jesus, are con sidered by Strauss to be of the highest moment ; for not only, says he, are the details as to a man's con duct in such things wanting in our Gospels, but the guiding laws; so that, in the German School of Doubt, it is held to be impossible for any man to learn from the precepts of Jesus how he should behave as a citizen, and what he should do towards enrich ing his life by means of art and trade. In short, it is clear from what is now advanced, that if Jesus were not the Christ—if He held no divine commis sion—if He stood on the common ground of teacher only, He would lie open to much damaging assault, His character would require some rounding, his preaching would need many supplements, and His religion might be improved off the face of the earth. To destroy His sacred character is therefore the first step towards an abolition of His Church." " If, therefore," continues the critic in the Athentruni (very reasonably), "secular criticism may be em ployed on such a task, the same secular criticism may also be allowed to step in to see how far the work is being honestly done." He then thereupon writes, in the manner following, upon a consideration of the Sources of the Sacred Stories. " Strauss begins,', he says, " with the Evangelists ; authors who stand directly in his light. If Matthew and John were companions of Jesus, as the Church declares ; if Mark and Luke were companions of the Apostles, as the Church also teaches ; and if these four men wrote the books which bear their names, Strauss would have no case to urge. No jury in the world would be able to reject their fourfold evidence as to things which they had seen and heard, even though the things were in the last degree new and strange. It was an old maxim of our law that, except in Crown cases, one good witness was enough to esta blish any fact, even though it might involve the issues of life and death. The Civil Code required two good witnesses to prove a fact ; but many good jurists have given the preference to our English law. With a view to guard against abuse of power, we also, in cases of treason, required the facts to be proved by two witnesses ; though the rule was often disputed by the Crown, and in Raleigh's case it was wholly set aside. It is hard, as all experience proves, to resist the evidence of [even] one good witness." At any rate he remarks_" Roman law has 'pre sumed that in every case the depositions of two witnesses would provo a fact, however new and strange it may seem to be. No jurist has gone be yond this point. Blackstone inclined to think one witness enough. Montesquieu allowed the evidence of two loyal men to be sufficient, even in matters of life and death. When the question is about the evi dence of FOUR WITNESSES, such as we find in the Gospel narratives, there is no other legal, no other logical, way of weakening their testimony, than [by] showing that they cou ld not have seen and heard the things to which they depose." Thereupon the Aiken munz takes into consideration first of all collectively, afterwards one by one, the credibility as witnesses of the Four Evangelists : " Strauss's case," he says, " forces him to argue that the Evangelists were not the Evangelists. So long,' he (that is, Strauss) writes, as the Gospels are accepted as strictly historical, no historical view of the Life of Jesus is possible.' In other words, if the Gospel narratives are true, Strauss's view of the Life of Jesus must be false. To this conclusion every one must come at last. The German critic has, in some way, to get rid of the Evangelists; to prove that the First Gospel v. as not written by St. Matthew the Apostle, the Fourth by St. John the Apostle ; to show that the Second Gospel was not composed by St. Mark, the friend of Peter, nor the Third by St. Luke, the companion of Paul. Such men could not have been mistaken as to what they had seen and heard. Strauss has to prove, therefore, not a mere corruption of text, not the substitution of one word for another, not the insertion of a phrase here and there, but a complete fabrication of the narrative, and that, not in one Gospel only, but in each and all of the Four Gospels. He has to show that the Evangelical histories are all pious frauds, adopted by the Church, after the real companions of Jesus were dead and gone. " In arguing against the Gospel narratives in mass, Strauss cites the Evangelists in a way subversive of all rules of evidence. To wit : his case is, that our Gospel of St. Matthew was not written by that Apostle ; also that our Gospel of St. John was not written by that Apostle; yet he cites the facts men tioned by John to damage Matthew, the facts men tioned by Matthew to damage John ! No court of law would suffer such a course. If a witness is good for one thing he is good for another. Y [The cogency of all this, to our mind, is perfectly irre sistible.] A liar, a forger, is of no value in the witness-box. If the author of the Fourth Gospel,' says Strauss, ' is correct in saying that, before his last journey to Jerusalem, Jesus had already often sojourned there, had taught and worked there, then the author of the First, who knows nothing of all these earlier journeys and sojournings, cannot have been a companion of Jesus—not the Apostle Matthew.' But if John did not write the Gospel which bears his name,—if that work were the pious fraud of a Greek in the second century, —if it were fabricated by one who had never seen Jesus, who had never spoken to an Apostle, who had never been in Jerusalem,—why cite it ? You cannot ask the Court to believe a paper which you yourself describe as spurious. The rule of law is clear. Any tyro at the bar can see that if it should be part of his case to prove that Alpha is a personator, an impostor, not to believed on his oath, it is out of the question to dream of putting the same Alpha into the witness-box against the good faith of Beta. 4 tainted witness is out of Court. Strauss proceeds on the complacent plan of taking all that makes against him as bad. It is an easy method. One of two things : the Fourth Gospel is either true or false ; if true, it is must be admitted, along with all that it proves ; if false, it is incapable of being used so as to damage Matthew's claims.—[Q. E. I).] "Further, in dealing with the patent fact that some of the Evangelists record sayings, miracles, journeys, which others omit,—for example, the case under notice of Christ's earlier visits to Jerusalem,_ Strauss treats an omission as though it were a contra diction. Yet a glance through a shelf of biographies would show him that omission is not rare. No writer preserves all the facts. [Now mark, espe cially what follows Xenophon gives one side of Socrates, Plato another. The lives of Alexander, of Caesar, of Charlemagne, vary as much as the lives of Christ. Mallet forgot that Bacon was a philosopher, Campbell that he was a Chris tian. One account of Cromwell omits the battle of Na.seby ; another, his journey into Ireland ; a third, his refusal of the crown. But the neglect to state a fact is not a contradiction of it. The purpose of each writer must be taken into ac count. A view of Our Lord's Sayings might be given with very little reference to his journeyings to and fro. In a collection of his Miraculous Cures it might not seem necessary to trouble the reader about dates and the order of events. In Europe we should think little of such points ; in the East they would think nothing at all. The truth is, that such literal prudery as would have precluded an art of verifying dates, had no existence in the East. Yet Strauss declares that the Second Gospel could not have been written by a friend of St. Peter, on the ground that if it had been so, the Apostle could not have failed to draw the attention of his author to that radical defect in the First Gospel,' (the omission of Christ's early visits to Jerusalem), ' and to have urged him to the correction of it.' See what this passage assumes as true. First, that Peter must have thought the omission a radical de fect. Suppose he thought it of no moment whatever ? St. Matthew's Gospel is a collection of discourses. When outward facts are mentioned, it is mainly so far as they illustrate the sayings. When Matthew has no speech, no parable to record, he is silent. May not Peter have thought this kind of record better for the Church than a narrative of journey ings to and fro ? Peter's spirit was intensely orien tal, and the teaching of oriental races is by word and not by fact. The Avestas are sayings. , The Vedas are sayings. The Prophetical Scriptures, the Talmud, the Koran, are all books of sayings. In Luke and in John we can trace the more active spirit of a western race. These Evangelists, writing under Greek and Roman influence, added more to the narrative than to the hortative part ; there western readers being excited no less by what Jesus did than by what he said. The Hebrews had another genius ; and Peter was a Hebrew in his heart of hearts. Second, the passage assumes that if Peter thought it a defect, he must have communicated this opinion to St. Mark. Third, that if Mark received such a hint from Peter, he must have remembered and followed it, whether he thought it of any moment or not. Do all these assumptions weigh so much as one little fact ? Strauss seems to think that when a man takes pen in hand he is bound to write down everything. Does any one do it ? The way to bore a man, says a French proverb, is to tell him all you know. We are sure that Plato knew more of Socrates than he wrote. We are equally sure that Tacitus could have told us more of Seneca than he does. It would be an odd argument to urge against the genuineness of Plato, that in his account of Socrates he has omitted some points, some sayings, some traits, which Xenophon preserves !" One after another the arguments of Strauss, as ap plied to the Four Evangelists in succession, are placed, as it were, under the oxihydrogen microscope —by being subjected turn by turn to the scrutiny of the critical acumen of the even-tempered and keen witted and eminently logical Believer writing in the Athenxum. Had we the space for so doing we would here gladly select from each of these analogies of Strauss's occasionally specious but always shallow arguments, as applied in succession to the Four Evangelists, what appear to us to be the salient or most striking passages. A single one of these, however, must suffice. It is the one in which, with exquisite and yet irre sistible power, the critic sets aside and scatters to the winds of heaven Strauss's utterly frivolous argument that the explanatory style noticeable in tho Gospel of St. Mark is indicative of its being a late production, and therefore a pious fraud ! " Strauss observes," says the critic, " that if Mark has to mention the Jordan, he explains that it is a river; if he speaks of the Pharisees, he explains their tenets ; if he goes to Olivet, he explains that if stands over against the Temple Mount. In a hundred cases, where Matthew takes his reader's knowledge of places and customs for granted, Mark does not. What then? It is clear that Mark does not assume in his readers such familiarity with the geography of Palestine, with the customs of Jews, as Matthew. But surely such a fact suggests a distant audience rather than a distant time. No Hebrew would at any time and in any place require to be told that the Jordan is a river, that the Pharisees fast, and that Olivet stands over against the Temple. A man writing in Palestine, living among Jews, would never need to hint at such things ; but one writing in Rome, as Mark is said to have done, would naturally explain such points. An Englishman, writing in London about the late Primate, would not think of saying that the Thames is a river, that bishops are peers, that Lambeth Palace stands op posite to Westminster Abbey; but the same man, writing in Calcutta for Parsecs and Hindoos, would be very likely to give these useful scraps of infor mation, and their appearance in his narrative would suggest the separation of distance, not that of time." Enough, however. As cogently as he writes of Strauss's learned (!)twaddling as applied to one Evangelist, the reviewer in the Athenteum will be found to have written also of the other three Evangelists. We have too grateful a sense of the delight with which we have read the criticism throughout, to remain dumb in regard to the fact of its appearance. And while directing attention thus to that fact, we would avail ourselves of the opportunity thereby afforded us for expressing a hope that the series of papers we are here referring to may be at once collected toge ther for separate publication in the form of a bro chure or livraison. At the Mansion-house, yesterday, Mr. John Pernewan, surgeon, of Redruth, was brought up on a charge of having forged certain transfers of shares in the Hallenbeagle Mining Company. On a second warrant the prisoner was charged with forging an endorsement to a bank cheque for the payment of £llB 10s. Evidence having been given as to the manner in which the forgery had been committed, the Lord Mayor remanded the pri soner and refused to accept bail. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN THE ISLE OF MAN.—A man named John Kormode, upwards of sixty years of age, who had been engaged to drive a gig with the mail from Douglas to Castletown, met his death in a niysterious man ner on Monday night. He arrived safely at Ballasalla, but when the gig was 'near Castlotown it was stopped, as there was no driver in it. A search was at once instituted for the missing man, but it was not until the next afternoon that his body was found in the river. The mails were all right, but the step of the gig was broken, and the general belief is that the deceased was dragged from the vehicle and drowned by his assailants, as the river was far out of his way: Deceased has left a widow and four children.— Liropool Courier. LOSSES BY FIFE. —The fire insurance companies of New York sustained losses in the year 1865 amounting in all to $43,139,000, an unusually heavy amount. They had to pay on 354 fires. This is stated to include only fires in which tlio loss reached as much as $20,000. TI till EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. AMERICA. - -- ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF LONDON ( Via Roches Point.) NEW YonK, Jan. 13 (Morning). The New York Herald. states that President Johnson has positively determined to reconstruci his Cabinet, retaining two of its present members, It is rumoured that Mr. Stanton . will supersede Mr. Adams in London. Mr. Sumner has stated in the Senate that Mr. Seward will be absent for three weeks. Twenty-two regiments have been mustered out in Texas. The diplomatic correspondence laid before Con gress includes an intercepted letter from Captain Maury to Mr. Benjamin Wood, which says : " The South is connected with the Gwynn enter prise. Napoleon will give him all the aid he de sires. He will go out as director-general in charge of a very peculiar kind of colonisation." In July Mr. Seward enclosed the intercepted correspon dence to Mr. Bigelow, and requested him to present it to M. Drouyn de Lhyus, and to inform him that any favour shown by Maximilian or the French Government to the Gwynn or any other Confederate colonisation agents would tend to increase in America the popu lar impatience at French intervention, because it will be regarded as imparting dangers to, or at least as a menace against, the United States. If these statements are to be believed, Mr. Seward assumes, with the President's sanction, that the Emperor Napoleon has deserted his neutrality. On the 14th of December last Mr. Seward writes to Mr. Bigelow—" Your despatch of November 24th seems to discourage, on our part, expectations of an early withdrawal of the French from Mexico. It must be remembered, however, that the opinions on that subject which you received from M. Drouyn de Lhuys, were expressed not only without the Emperor's positive sanction, but also in the absence of any knowledge on the part of the French Government of the definite conclusion of the Pre sident on the subject discussed. It is desirable to leave no part of those opinions open to misappre hension. It is signally desirable that we shall be authorised to infer that such expositions of Impe rial views as are given to us in the name of the French Government are made with the Emperor's approval." President Johnson has sent to the Senate the re ports of Mr. Stanton and the Attorney-General upon Mr. Davis's trial. Mr. Stanton states that Mr. Davis was captured and is still held by the military power. He now awaits the demand of the proper Government authorities for his trial upon the charges of treason, inciting to the assassination of President Lincoln, and murdering Federal soldiers. The Government decided to try Mr. Davis first for treason, but this is delayed in consequence of Mr. Chase, the Chief Justice, refusing to hold a Court under present circumstances in the judicial district' of Virginia. The Attorney-General supports the postponement of the trial of Mr. Davis and other rebels until civil authority is completely restored in the districts where the offences were committed. The Government has informed the house that the Executive had no official data on the subject of the alleged kidnapping of Madame Iturbide's child by Maximilian. In the Senate the Military :Committee has re ported a bill fixing the future strength of the Federal army at seven regiments of artillery, ten of cavalry, and sixty of infantry. One new regiment of artil lery and two of cavalry will consist of coloured troops. The aggregate strength of the army will be 60,000. Mr. llowe has offered a resolution providing provisional governments for the Southern States. A bill proposing an additional cotton tax has been introduced, and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. A Bill has also been in troduced to punish counterfeiting with death, and has been referred. The War Department has ordered 10,000 more troops to be mustered out. The Mobile Advertiser states that Gen. Thomas has officially announced that all Federal troops will be withdrawn from Alabama and Georgia, and that arms and ammunition will be furnished to the militia. The Fenian Congress has adjourned sine die, and has abolished the titles of President and Senator. WV • The government will be conducted by the Head Centre and a Central Council of five. O'Mahoney has been elected Head - Centre for 1866. Roberts and the Senators have been expellei from the bro therhood. A letter has been published from Stephens, dated the Irish Republic, Dec. 23, appointing o'lllahoney American representative and financial agent of the Irish Republic, and ignoring the existence of the Senate. The Inman steamship City of London, from New York on the 13th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 10 a.m. to-day (23d instant), with the mails, 190 passengers, and $171,694 in specie. She landed 30 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 10.35 a.m. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money abundant. Gold, 139*. Exchange on London, 150 f ; on Paris, 374. Stocks depressed. New York Centrals, 93. Illinois, 126. Erie, 891 ; 5-20 Bonds, 1041. Cotton, good inquiry ; Upland, 51c. Flour and'wheat declining. Corn, limited demand. Provisions heavy. Coffee held firmly. Sugar quiet. Molasses depressed. Pe troleum dull; crude, 36 ; refined, 55 to 57. 24,800 bales of cotton have been received at New York since the Ist January, and 468,000 since the Ist of September. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11.--Cotton declining ; middling, 48c. Sales to-day 3,400 bales. MEXICO. Intelligence received here from Brownsville to the 4th, via New Orleans, states that General Crawford's recruiting office had been closed, and that the Federal soldiers had been forbidden to enlist. The Imperialists had captured 30 Repub licans on the Rio Grande, who would be executed under the Emperor Maximilian's order. General 'Weitzel had protested to Mejia against this proceeding. The latter replied that he was obeying the orders of the Government. Escobedo was preparing to attack Matamoros. Orleans despatches state that Negrete had arrived on the Ist inst. at San Antonio, Texas, from El Paso, but the Mexican Republican Consul at New York denies the truth of this report. Galveston papers notice that la rge numbers of Federal troops were passing through that city en route for the Rio Grande. The Scotia and Edinburgh had arrived out. LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening. BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, JAN. 20. The Queen has boon pleased to appoint the Right Hon. John Georgo Brabazon, Earl of Bessborough, to be Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, iu the room of the Right Hon. Edward Granville, Earl of St. Germans, G.C.8., resigned. MASTER OF THE HORSES'-OFFICE, JAN. 23. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Richard Ed mund St. Lawrence, Earl of Cork, to be Master of her Majesty's Buckhounds, in the room of th e E ar l of Bess borough, who has been appointed Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN, 20. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Thos. James Rowsell, M.A., Rector of St Christopher -le-Stocks, and St. Margaret's Lothbury, London, to be an Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty. WHITEHALL, JAN. 22. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,7constituting and appointing the Most N o bl e Ed war d Ad o l p h us D u k e of Somerset, ° K.G. ; Admiral the Honourable Sir Frederick William Grey, G.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Charles Eden, C.B. ; Roar- Admiral Edward Genny s F ans h awe , C.B. ; Rear-Admiral the Hon. James Robert Drummond, C.B. ; end Henry Fenwick, Esq., to bo her Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dominions, Islands, and Territories thereunto belonging. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 19. The following uotico is substituted for the notice dated January 15, 1866, which appeared in the Gazette of th 16th inst. The notification in the Gazette of Oct. 31, 1865, of the appointment of George Buckley Mathew, Esq., to be her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia, is cancelled—Mr. Mathew retaining his appoint ment as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Cen tral America. The notification in the Gazette of Nov. 3, 1865, of the appointment of Robert Bunch, Esq., to be her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republics of Central America, has been cancelled. JAN. 20. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Robert Bunch, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul-General in Cuba, to be her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul- Gemral to the United States of Colombia. DOWNING-STREET, JAN . . 22. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Downes Griffith ' Esq., Queen's Counsel, to b e Att orney -Genera l for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 20. Mr. Joseph Forster has this day been promoted to the rank of First Class Assistant Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of 19th January, 1866. COUBSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 17} Ditto 3 Months. 12 1i Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 50 Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 10 Ditto 3 Months. 25 47f Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1201 Vienna — JO 82 Trieste — 10 82f Petersburgh - 29f Berlin Madrid 46 1 4 Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa — 25 65 Naples — 25 65 11 18f 12 2 12 2! 25 55 25 55 13 9 25 20 25 52f 25 52f 121 10 8! 1U 87f 291 6 284 46} 47f 23 721 25 70 '25 70 25 70 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXTI FEBR 20 MAI 'RES FOR 1866. TARY. Lincoln Nottingham Spring 27 CII. Derby Spring _ 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster 15 Lewes Spring Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring 28 Newcastle Spring No wmarket Craven 2 Durham 2 Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Windsor Summer Newton Hampton Odiham Ilibury Stockbridgo Chelmsford Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB Brighton v i Brighton Club Lewes lO Bgham ' Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford Hastings 2l SEPT] Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB OCTI Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh NOVE Lincoln Liverpool RIL. Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 2l Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer 29 it Liverpool i Beverley 2O ' Ipswich ' Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 1 Worcester 'L Y. Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l UST. York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter . ...... Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O :MBEF. IRichmond Hendon Monmouth I Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall ~ 2B IBER. Newmarket Houghton Worcester BEll. 22 ~ 30 Shrewsbury Leamington Hunt l9 Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. l Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 10. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13. Brazil and Cape Wide'. by British packet ...... Feb. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Feb. 22. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Feb. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta). and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Feb. 2 Ditto, via Mar s eilles ... Jan. 27 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 26. Ditto, via Marseilles . . ... Feb. 7 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil e a Feb. 7. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet . Jan. 31. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Jan. 26. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerifre Feb. IL West Indies and Pacific (exceptßahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Jan. 20 Cuba and Mexico Jan 29. Bahamas, via'New York. Feb. s. Bermuda, ditto BRUTAL OUTRAGE IN DRURY-LANE. —On Saturday night last a fearful outrage was committed in Drury-lane by a number of desperate characters who reside in that locality. It appears that Patrick Fitzgerald, 50 F, had obtained several convictions against certain members of the gang. Several of thorn vowed vengeance when they camp out of prison, and late on Saturday night a number of them sat upon the unfortunate man, knocked him down, and broke both his arms. He Was taken to King's College Hospital, where ho lingered in great agony until between ono and two o'clock this morning, when ho expired. One of the gang of ruffians, named William Daly, has been arrested. THE ELECTION OF THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY will take place on Wednesday, the 24th inst. _Among the members upon whom the choice is likely to fall are Sir E. Landseer, Mr. Boxall, Mr. Grant, and Mr. Maclise. Two of these gentlemen are understood to have previously declined the honour which may be proffered to ono of them on this occasion. The gentleman who, of all the R.A.'s, has been longest on the roll, is Mr. A. Cooper, who was elected an Associate in 1817, and Royal Acade mician in 1820, i.e., iu the same year with Collins. The second R.A. on the list in the order of election is Mr. Baily, elected 1821, student 1809, A.R.A., 1817; the third is Mr. G. Jones, who was elected in 1824, A.R.A. in 1822, and on both occasions in the same year as Si Jeffry Wyat ville, who, oven more to his own surprise than that of any other man, was "commanded" to furbish up Windsor Castle ; this was the nephew of Wyatt the Destroyer, the man who ravaged Salisbury Cathedral. The next in tho like order is Mr. H. W. Pickersgill, who was elected R.A. two years before Etty, i.e. in 1826, three years before Con stable, and four years before the late President. Sir Edwin Landseer is the next in succession of honour; he was elected R.A. in 1831, student of the Royal Academy in 1816, A.R.A. in 1826, the first of Haydon's pupils who attained the last mentioned dignity, Eastlake following in 1827. Mr. Stanfield became A.R.A. in 1832, R.A. in 1835 ; Mr. Gibson was A.R.A. in 1833, R.A. in 1836 ; Mr. F. R. Lee in 1831 and 1838 respectively ; Mr. Mediae became student in 1828, A.R.A. in 1835, R.A. in 1840. The other members were elected R.A. in the following order, until the beginning of the current decade :—Messrs. Wither- ington and Hart 1840, Mr. Hardwick 1841, Mr. Knight 1844, Mr. C. Landseer 1845; Messrs. Webster, Macdowell, and Herbert, 1846 ; Mr. Cope 1848, Mr. Westmacott 1849 ; Messrs. Croswick, Redgrave, and Grant, 1851; Mr. C. Marshall 1852, Mr. Frith 1853, Mr. Cousins 1855, Mr. Elmore 1856 ; Messrs. F. R. Pickersgill and Doo, 1857; Mr. Foley 1858, Mr. Phillip and Mr. Smirke 1859. Sir E. Land.seer was born in 1802, exhibited for the first time at the Academy in 1815.—Athenteunt. ACCIDENT TO A COURT DRESS.—Lord Alfred Paget was on his way a short time ago to dine with the Queen at Osborne, and in conveying his luggage from the steamer at Ryde Pier, ono of the porters carelessly let full into the water the portmanteau containing the Court dress of his lordship. The pier company have consented to pay his lordship £5O for the damage sustained. A Chinese newspaper is to be issued in London, under the title of the Riling Dragon. Professor Summers, of is 3 i a t p s a p n r , o e n c d t t 0 I t intendedi n s ake a n f appearanceo r circu lation once a month, in time for the o verland mail. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY TER3IINUS.--The Athe naeum states that, at a competition recently entered 'upon i a f n e ef a instructed Bristol to by various architects in vited to desi g n th e new terminus for the Midland Rai l w a y in the Eusto n - road, Mr. G. G. erect it the ha building, u sble g, the pronouncedcostof whichsuc c, e rr s ivi s i f : u l. wll be about £280,000. , d A DOCTOR'S HELPMATE._ physician has passed tho exami na ti ons necessary to her admissioninto the profession of medicine, and she now assists her husband in his practice. 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