The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-19 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL I\3TELLIC- 2 .EN OE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Discount accommodation has been in fair re quest,. and the supplies of capital on offer have been large. The brokers, however, owing to the con tinuance of the unfavourable specie movement, have shown a disinclination to take the best bills under 6 per cent. A new 6 per Cent. Ottoman Government Loan has been announced by the Imperial Otto luan Bank. The amount required is £6,000,000, to be issued in bonds of £2O each, but which will be reduced to about £l3 Os. Bd., reckoning the Alice of 66 per cent., at which they are emitted, and the discount on. prepayments. The annual dividend will therefore amount to more than 9 per Cent. In the bullion department of the Bank of Eng land, yesterday afternoon, there was a withdrawal of £12,000 in bar gold for the continent, and of £ 5 0,000 in sovereigns for Alexandria. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the past week there has been a moderate amount of business transacted. Sugars have fully sustained former values. In tea a fair business has been done, while coffee has in some instances rea lised extreme rates. Rice has been dull, and tallo w after being of rather lower quotations has slightly recovered. The adjourned meeting of Venezuelan Bond holders will take place at the London Tavern, on Friday, the 22d inst., at noon, instead of on Wed nesday, the 20th, the day originally fixed. Mr. Chomeley, of the firm of Plowden, Chomeley, and Co., the bankers, of Rome, has joined the board of the Anglo-Romano Water Company. Shires closed to-day at Ito 21 prem. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were quoted at 68f. 40c. The English Stock Market has been dull, but quotations have nevertheless been maintained at the decline of last evening. Consols for money _ 87 4 and for the account 871 4. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 864 87 ; An nuities, 1885, 13 11-16ths 15-16ths ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 3s. dis. ; Bank Stock, 246 248 ; India 5 1) per Cents., 1024 4 ; ditto 4 per Cent. Enfaced aper, 874 ; ditto 5 per Cent., 101. . Foreign Stocks have generally continued firm. Mexican, ex all, Bonds are 241 4 ; ditto New, 2 , 2 1 a ; Greek, 154 ; Spanish, 271 2 84 ; Certificates, 45 4 1 ; Italian, 654 4 ; Confederate Loan, 64 74 ; and Brazilian Scrip, 14 4 prem. American Securities have been rather largely dealt 1 n• United States 5-20 Bonds are 654 4 ; Erie shares, 58f ; and Illinois, 814 82. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and in some instances prices have Olghtly given way. Caledonian and North-Eastern (Berwick) have each receded 10s. ; and Great Eastern and Midland, each ss. ; Great Northern A Stock, however, has improved £1; and Metropo litan, los. The Foreign and Colonial lines are without ma terial variation. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet and steady. Imperialal are dealt in at 291 ; English L i oint stock at 111 ; London Joint-stock at 51 511 ; godson Bay Company at 171 ; and London Finan- Val at 201 201 ; British Convention Bonds of Mexico are quoted 65 70 ; Colonial Company, 11} I pt lia.; English and American Bank, 2 3 preen. ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway C onsolidated Mortgage Bonds, 1 1/ prem. ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (old) shares are quoted 3i 4* prem., ex all ; and the new 31 31 prem. ; London Steam Towing Com- Daty, 11 2 prem. ; and Charles Laffitte and Co., i Li prem. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. _____— - ---- ------ --- GOVERNMENT FUNDS. - ft Der Cent. Consols a I°o . Account, Jan. 9 Neer Cent. Reduced B6f 7 ti e „W 3 per Cent B7 61 7 61 °°, \ NV 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Af 0. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — - ' l 4 uities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 DO. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, ' lBBs l3 11-16 13-16 " 0 (Rd Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — kehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 6 3 dis Do. £5OO — t Do £lOO and £2OO — 4 , 4 k of England Stock, 5 per Cent " 0 Account — Dth,.... 1 4 ,-..ri GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 1 ,"Q 41 1 Stock, loi per Cent., AprillB74 — " h e Account -- D O. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 t , - °. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 4 -', O . Certificates — " IN e• Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B7l '''').)°. 5 per Cent, Jan. 1872 - I , ° . 5} per Cent., May 1879 — "e• 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — . Bonds, £l,OOO — " 0 . under £l,OOO ,f,„ .. FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 11"drian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — 41 1 i, an 5 per Cent — 4-10 . 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 ni 5} D o . 3 4 • Scrip, £25 paid b e 11.% Ayres 6 per Cent 1 q . •: = per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) b i t_ian 6 per Cent 99; 0 0 i". 3 per Cent e li pDibian 6 per Cent. B2 0 4 1 6 per Cent. bish 3 p er C en t., 1825 — D ° • 4 • per Cent., 1863 — t), 0. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Doillibian Principalities t,, Account 75 ltlador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — D O., Provisional Land Warrant — Ptian 7 per Cent — D 0 £lOO Bonds 93 Do. 1864 — (ite°,_£loo Bonds ~e - 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do.° Account 151 b Coupons ti ll , Account iZeinala 5 per Cent. — b o g 4B 6paid — It qi • 1339 and 1850 — Dan 5 per Cent, 1865 t io ° • Account b • Alaremmana Railway — 1) ° , Scrip, £671 paid — 14 exi 5 Per Cent., 1864 — . 12)0.4 4, -un .. 1864 1 1 e 3 per Cent ~ ount b I)" ' per Cent. Anglo-French — font Prench Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — k, ll videan 6_per Cent., £3O paid A ei ' A Imperial 5 per Cent bo.Jariada 95 ~ D° T ;Per Cent 0, -,"eferred ' , o, - 6 •L'and Warrants (Hectares) Per Cent, 1864 — F G uaranteed, 4 per Cent — b o v . iala q per Cent — Do Account b 0 Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds - be, ~ ' ert l , I' Per Cent., 1862 .b o Pese 3 per Cent, 1853 $ D " Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 15 . A Nia ccount 0 04 1 1 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St' B9t 1 )3 4 ? Per Cent. 1850 Do iz Per Cent. 1860 Do , R Pei Cent. 1859 k 1) 0 ‘4 Per Cent. 1862 BBl 1 'itrdi 4 . Per Cent. 1864 — gtio A l4ll . 5 per Cent I l kti' Q eeunt -N Dittoh ' Per Cent - 'on ii - ac count 43; 41 tio el v Deferred — 00 Ac 11Ilt --. I) pass' , t, O Ae ye — r\ klli sti e r , o unt 2B @ "0 ,k ee 'ert. of Coup not funded — Iv l ,ek A eiint l5l. 1 T "ch. 4' Per Cent. — l A sh. z Per Cent. 1864 . "e 4 6 Per Cent. 1854 — Dog C CORTIt tO Atr u C tl e t ut. 1858 o 00114 Bonds b o 6 i• Per Cent 1) o A Per Cent 1862 1)0 A O . 1) •t11)0 721 1 2 1 f 2 t, s o G -.e n d s o 5 i t er Cent., 1863 — ° r Cent 1865 1) o A er iP, .£3-. paid h o -.cc ° , , 0 — 1., 4- „ n 4 v:uo, 4 " Bands qle ' Per Scent. Guaranteed r , 21 1 et ent. Guaranteed 4 -'0 4 3 D Ac eou Per Cent. — °b 6 ~,,, lit 17 D°• Aijr Cent., 1862 A h , I ) 9°lint pmt t i, ivid en _ b,„. hal, 6 as on the above payable in London. 4 , ),, , “4 , 1 P:'r .t., 'tC l . ., li per Gent., -ca. 10 Florins o.t , 4i ve_ cent., Ex. 25f• 4 Pe r r•Y''tit., Ex. 12 Guil _ 'eat Certificates °o h eOl3 ft raolle THREE O'CLOCK. ''‘ -.D. A 'C23lllit y t 71 ................................. 8 i d 8 x d I 7 x SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. Pam. Closing I Business Pri ce . done. I/37istol and Exeter lealedonian Cambrian Cork and Bandon ...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc &London, g,crip Certi 93 95 123} 241 94 96 13 15 4i 5i C 8 72 71 734 1231 4 Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. d 113 115 42 13 6il Do. E. Angl. st No. •t Great North of Scotland Great Northern D A stock Do. B stock 2 145 145 Do. ew, is. at 2:i pn GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n Original D . S. Vai. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.— Oxtord 92 94 57, 584 60i 61 41 43 33 37 03 05 121} 1211 E 9 91 102 101 36 38 50 b 2 1241 1:5) 46} Bt. , 63 31 1' 8* 3 1p 11 lip 103 10-1 Do. Newpo, t Do. eford Lane :shire & Yorkshire L.,ndon and Black wall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. tx. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shei., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do. Extension Metropolitan District Do do. do. Do. and tst. John'sW'd Mid and Do. £9 Share 1211 12311 11 Ii p 93 95 Do, hirmin.. & Derby slid Kent . North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. (1.1s1•E purchum Do. Leeds ..... f 8 59 7 29 1104 1/14, 70i 71i; 103 104 Do. York DC, Carlisle ..... Do. stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1804 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire 36 57 10 11 p 126 128 2 2 p 2 2i,p 74 75 11 12 148 15 , 66 63 112 114 N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E . Aber. stock t; o. Scot, Mid. st.)ck Shropshire Union South Devon E stern 55 $7 73 74 8' 9 147 150 3 Ij) 101 104 Staines, Wok., & Wok raff Vale Do. C Vale of death Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitcha 1 West Cornw,,ll 49 51 BRITIS EI P Atlantic & St.. Lawrence Born.,Baroda,. Cen.ln. gu. 5 Do. le pshareser cent.. Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buft,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- • Calcutta & h. E., lim , _ ape Town & Dock, gu 1 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben _ al, gu , 5 do, East I t,dhpo , gu. 5 p.c., Do. J Extension` Gland Trunk ot Canada Do. Equip. Mort. Bondy 1 Chtirge 6 p.c - - Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred .... Do. 2d Prat. Bonds.. Do. do. deterred .... Do. 3d Pref. 5t00k.... Do. do. deferred .... Do. 4th Pret. stock .. Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. 5 p.c. o. Gua. 5 per cent.. Do. /%19v . gna...p p. c.. tit. South gua. 5 per cent D 4} per cent Do . -;reat Wt R. of Canada..i D New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 1 uo. 5, do. pay. 1877-n.., Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 4i ao Do. 43 do Do. Fifth Extensdoe Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. N. Bl.C'da, 6pc Ist pt. bs. I Scinde . Do. Delhi Do. do t.'s Do. Puniaub Do.lndus St. Flo COLONIAL GO YEE British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1572.... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug... Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p e. Inscribed sk Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. • do: 1880-9. Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 8 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 00. 1887, May .5, Nov. ' Do. 18115, Feb. & Aug Natal •,ov. e per cent N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J uly N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 t Do. 5 p.c. 18 1 to 187: Do. 5 p.o. 1888 to 189. New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Sc , tia Gov. 6 p. o. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c. S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1888-t• Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, A pril & Oct SION S. 59 61 102 103 fcl 6 6i 10 11 75 80 99 101 65 70 100 103 102 1(2 1(3 104 par 6p 32 33 88 90 68 63 55 50 56 58 50 55 45 48 40 44 32 31 31 33 103 IC4 2 to 1011 1024 16i :7 4 3414 _ i , 3 05 8i c 7 1 ot tOti 102 f 0 95 89 91 F 3 45 82 84 1.;16 102, 101 s 1024 10, 102 T SECUR: 96 98 94 96 94 96 62 8t 81 93 IC4 106 IC4 106 1( 4 106 105 1(7 90 02 101 IC2 1(6 IbB IC3 105 106 108 104 106 1 6 ;OS 96 99 96 o'B 1 0 102 93 95 8► 91 103 105 84 85 10) 102 103 104 108 108 105 106 10:11 i a BRITISH MINES. . 2 Cam. Consul. li old, lim 1 - Chiverton - Clifford Amalgamated. 30 24 236 23} - Devon G. Cons. (Tavist. 1 575 595 - Drake walls 2.1.0 5 14 - East Bassett (Illogan) 294 18 24 - East Caradon 2.14.6 84 94 9 - East Carn Brea 3} 5} 51 54 - r.ast Grenville 2.14.0 3 36 34 - East Gunnislake 8.3.0 1 - East Loved 3.9.0 14 15 - E. WI Russell (Tavlstk 10.8.. 3 3 - Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 5 7 4 Great L ,xey, limited all 20 21 201 - Great South Tolgus, 0.14.6 14 2 - Great Wheal busy 14.9.6 31 4 - G. Wheal Vor (Heist ?5 3y } - Grenville - Herod's Foot 8.10.0 36 38 - Hingston Downs 5.10.6 55 54 - Margaret (May Lelant 18.17.6 5 7 Marke Valley 4.10.6 4 44 4 vlwyndy Iron Ore, liva 24 2i 1, d - New Sewn - North Roskear Bassett(lllogan 4.4.0 8 1 North Wheal Crotty - Prosper United.... - Pr , vidence Uny Lulant 10.6.7 38 40 - S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l} 420 410 - South Condurrow 3.2.0 -- S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.18.9 20 25 - Stray Park 35 15.6 to 12 - Tin Croft 9 19 20 5 Vigra and Cl gan, lim all 5 7 - West I , assett (litogan - W. Caradon L•skeard 9 9 11 - West Chiverton ll 775 826 - West Seton 474 190 200 - Wheal Bassett 'lllogan 55 95 0 - Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 3: 374 - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 4 6 - Wheal Seton -• Wheal Ti eiawney (Lis. 7 8 164 ettNirEILIGN(IN Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 102 Ditto, 4i per cent., redeemable at i 0 per cent., 162 Great Western Orig. 4i per cent pr., 928 A Kti;t< PRICFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 44 per cent. pr., Ditto, new 6 per cent., SI LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S Chester and Holyhead, 65 London and Chatham, 44 per p Cent., Ditto, Corn. Fund stock 5 per cent., 93t London Tilbury, and Southend, 1024 FOREIGN RAIL WAYS.„ Dutch Rhenish, 234 Great Luxembourg, 14 N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gun. 7 per cent., Sambre and Meuse, 84 San Paulo, lint., gua. 6 per cent., l7i FOREIGN MINES, Cape Copper, lira., 13 Don Pedro. North Del Rey, Fortuna (lira.), 3i Scottish Australian, lira.. St. John del Rey, lint., 504 Yuadanamutna of S. Australia, lim., 14 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 8) Alliance, Um.. 281 Ditto, issued at 20 pm.. of which 25 is paid., 2hl 8 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 13*,* Bank of Egypt, 30 Bank of otago, lim., 7 Brazili4n and Portuguese, lim., 9 Consolidated;Bana, lim., IC* East London, Um.. 5} Eng.ish Joint Stock, lim., 111 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 205 English and Swedish. lim.. 15 Imperial Bank, Bin., 29 Imperial Ottoman, 14* Land; Mortgage Bank of India, Um.. 41 London Think of slexLo and S. America, 11in., 141 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 231 London Joint Stock, 515 1 Merchant Bank, lim., 27 Ditto, new, 105 Midland Bank, Bin., 101 &hide, Punjauo, and Lelhi, lira., 6 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., Australian Mort. Land and Finance, liin., 31 Bo , bay Gas, lim., China Steam hip and Labuaa Coal Company, 2 City Offices, lim., 7 5 , I Credit Fonder and Mobilicr of England, 9 81 Ditto, issued at a prem., of which X 2 is to pay, 31 Crystal:Palace, Z , ;;* a Egyptian Com and Trading, Fore-street Warehouse, lim. 11* tmen. Credit and Fi na n ce of London, lira.. Hong Kong and China Gas, 11* 12 Hudson's Bay, 17* .7 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 7 / International Financial Society, Joint Stock Discount, Dm., 8/ I Land Securities, lim., 31 8 London Financial Association, lim, M dras Irrgation and Canal, Ditto (all), 8/ National Discount Company. 17* North British and Mercantile Insurance, 204 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., It* t Royal Mail Steam, 1104 9) Union Marine, Liverpool, Rm.,' 3/ I 42) 2 I !45 i 8 5 57& S 7i 12 i 21 90 1 , 21 2.0 i 125 41 51 5 951 6,1 5i 1:371 8 7 71 1 121 k 21 1 . IE4 110 i 111 100 3i 100 all 100 I 100 100 16.13.4 OSSR - . . • • . : CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT —This Day. Re-examined—During the whole time he was in Ame rica he had the character of a well-conducted, moral man. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) ROBBERY. Dr. Hunter—l am a registered licentiate of medicine and surgery, and a doctor of medicine. On the 30th October Merrick came to me about the fees owing. I explained that we could not continue the visits unless the fees were paid. Eventually I was to consult with Dr. Melville on the sub ject, as we had been to great expense with the case, provid ing an inhaling machine, &c. On the 2d November, about 2 o'clock, I heard loud talking in an adjoining room, where my wife and daughter with Dr. Moans were at luncheon. I opened my room door, but had scarcely done so when I received blows on the head from a thick stick from Jones. Merrick was with him, and Jones struck over his head. I knocked Merrick down, but before I could get to Jones he was up again and struck me twice in turn. He then seized me by the throat, and Jobe's, who had been hitherto hitting all the time, at length got hold of my ear be tween his teeth and bit it through. The blood flowed freely over my coat and waistcoat. Assistance came -the police took them into custody—and they were committed that day for trial. On the Saturday night before the trial I was taken iti,tc custody on a charge cf assault upon Mrs. Merrick. Richard Waller, aged 27, an agent for a jeweller, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of September, a bracelet and one pair of earrings, value £7O, the property of Samuel Lewis Nathan, his master. A. second count charged him with robbing his master, on the 16th of September, of a bracelet, brooch, and earrings, and on the 4th November of a bracelet and two shirt pins. Mr. Lewis prosecuted. Mr. Nathan said he carried on business in John-street, Bedford-row. The prisoner sold goods for him from April, 1864, to August, 1865. Another arrangement was then made that the prisoner should return the goods which were unsold, but he did not do so, but gave him up some deposit notes, stating that the goods were in pledge to Mr. Harrison. The goods unaccounted for amounted to £136, independently of property to the amount of £1,128, for which witness held the prisoner's bills. Another arrangement was then made, namely, that the prisoner was to have goods to sell for witness in his invoices and entries in books kept on the witness's premises. It was arranged that the prisoner was to con sider himself witness's servant, that he should enter all sales, and that he should take stock in the morning, and return what was unsold at once, but prisoner'told witness that he had pledged a bracelet at Crauford's, and that if he redeemed it he thought he could yet sell it, and witness did redeem it. Prisoner said he had taken the bracelet with two pins to Mr. Johnson, of Threadneedle-street, and sold them for £7O. That was on the 4th of November. Mr. Johnson was entered in the ledger as a debtor for £7O. Mr. Johnson had not previously been a customer. Wit ness saw Mr. Johnson about the 16th of the same month, and, in consequence of what he heard, he saw the prisoner in the presence of his solicitor and witness's soli citor. Witness admitted that he had not sold the articles to Mr. Johnson, but that he had sold them to some one else, and had appropriated the money to his own use. He added, "Now you may do what you please." He used those words despairingly, rather than defiantly. On the 15th of September there was an entry of £2O for articles sold to Mr. Morris Moses, of Oxford-street, and on the 16th of September £l2 12s. for articles supplied to Mr. Bennett, of Blackheath. He had ascertained that those articles had not been so supplied. Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh for the defence—Witness had known the prisoner for souse years, and believed he had borne an irreproachable character. Tho prisoner might have told him that he had a bill from Mr. Benson, of Ludgate-hill, but he never offered it to witness. The pri soner did ask him once whether he would take an accept ance of Mr. Benson, but witness said he Would rather not, as he wished to have the money. The prisoner bad made himself a bankrupt before witness gave him into custody. Witness happened to be at Mr. Lewis's office when the pri soner came there to mention his bankruptcy. It was then that he was given in charge. Mr. G. H. Lewis, solicitor, spoke of the arrangement made between the prisoner and Mr. Nathan, which were made in his presence. Witness asked Mr. Nathan not to take any proceedings against him in reference to previous transactions, and it was then understood that he was to act as Mr. Nathan's servant. Witness explained to him that if, in that capacity, he misappropriated Mr. Nathan' goods it would be stealing, and he would be prosecuted. The prisoner said Mr. Nathan might rely upon him, and he would do all in his power to reduce the large debt he had in currred. Cross-examined—l practise as a physician. I hold a British colonial diploma, but not an English one. I have never had any charge brought against me of indecency in America or anywhere else in all my life. No such charge or imputation was ever made against me. This was the case, and Mr. Rigby, in defence, urged that the extreme provocation the prisoners were under the im pression they had received (and they could not even now accept the verdict of the jury in the assault case to be satis factory) was some excuse for their conduct. Merrick com mitted no violence till he himself was struck, and Jones denied biting the ear of prosecutor, which might have been hurt by the scapula —a large knife for mixing ointment. Verdict, Guilty of common assault only, and of the more modified assault by Jones. Sentence deferred. Lecture by Mr. Thomas Hughes, M. P. for Lambeth. -P .-- The usual weekly lecture at the Surrey Chapel was delivered on Monday (yesterday) evening, by Mr. Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth, the subject being " Captain John Brown, the Abolitionist Martyr." The lecturer said that when the civil war broke out in the United Staten, the first object of the people of the Northern States had been to get a national anthem which should be appropriate to the contest upon which they were entering. They tried the Star-spangled Banner," " Hail Columbia," " Yankee Doodle," &c., but none of these would do, so as the Northern troops marched southward they sang " Old John Brown, his body's mouldering in the ground, but his soul is marching on, Halle lujah." It was this recollection which was at the bottom of their hearts and which induced them to leave fathers, mothers, wives, and their pleasant homesteads, and to march cheerfully and instinc tively forward to eradicate an evil which they knew existed, and which they were determined should exist no longer ; and in reviewing the history of John Brown, the great abolitionist, he hoped that his hearers would be convinced that no selfish mo tive induced the Northern men to this fervour, but a true patriotism, to abolish that pernicious system of slavery which John Brown had striven to annihi late so nobly. Mr. Hughes, after narrating the .birth of Brown in Torrington, Connecticut, his hardy life in Ohio, his early experience of the hard ships endured by the unfortunate slaves, proceeded to detail the long train of consequences which ultimately led to the abolitionists' unfortunate pro ceedings at Harper's Ferry. During many years, it appeared, Kansas had been free soil in the United States ; but the Missourians who dwelt on the borders, and who were proprietors of slaves, had organised bands, who had been designated as border ruffians, and who had caused great devastation and misery in Kansas. Brown and his family settled in the south of that district, and from the first he be came the determined opponent of these border ruffians, and his name began to spread great terror amongst them. At length he became so bold as actually to release four families of slaves in Mis souri. With them he travelled 2,000 mile 6, and finally secured them a safe retreat in Canada, but at the same time a reward of 650 dollars was offered for his capture. He returned, however, to Ken nedy's Farm, and in the Alleghany Mountains con ceived the design of liberating all the slaves, of whom there were 20,000, in Virginia. He then made his famous raid to Harper's Ferry, and after having been at first partially successful, was sur rounded by irresistible numbers of the enemy, saw his best and nearest friends fall around him, was himself captured, and underwent the ignominious death to which he was condemned with firmness and resignation. Such was the history of John Brown. " But," said the lecturer, " his attempt, capture, his death on the scaffold, did more, per haps, than anything else to arouse the anti-slavery party, and to place Abraham Lincoln in the Presi dential chair ; and they may be looked upon as the first two martyrs who inaugurated the abolition of slavery." Mr. Johnson, a jeweller, carrying on business in Thread needle-street, said he had had no dealings with the pri soner, although he did call upon him with some articles. Mr. W. H. Hughes said he was in the service of Mr. Benson, Ludgate-hill, and on the 4th of November pur chased the two pins (produced) from the prisoner for £4O. The invoice was made out in the name of R. Waller and Co., manufacturing jewellers, 9, Hatton-garden. By Mr. Sleigh—He gave prisoner a bill of exchange for the amount. Mr. Benson had been a customer of Waller's, but not of Nathan's. Mr. Morris Moses, jeweller, Oxford-street, said he never purchased articles from the prisoner, and never gave him orders. An assistant from Mr. Bennett's establishment at Blackheath also proved that the firm had had no dealings with the prisoner. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Sleigh made an earnest appeal to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and a former employer gave him a good character. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. _ . Judgment was respited until next session. POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. Thomas Hopping, clerk, aged 17, pleaded guilty to feloniously forging and uttering two receipts to Post-office orders for the payment of £3 18s. and 14s. with intent to defraud. He was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for 12 months. NEW COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) John Duncan, a youth aged 15, was charged with forgery, and Henry Garrett and John Buckley, the former a born badier and the other a driver in the Royal Artillery, were indicted with concealing, harbouring, and comforting the said Duncan with a view to defeat the ends of justice. The lad was in the employ of a gentleman named Conte, and it appeared from Mr. Sleigh, the learned counsel, who prosecuted, that the younger prisoner had been tempted by a person not in custody, to abstract some blank cheques from the book of his employer, which were filled up, pre sented, and paid at the London and Westminster Bank. The prisoner suddenly left his employment when the forgery was discovered, and eventually was taken into custody, in company with the two soldiers at an East-end theatre. It also appeared that he had bought watches and articles of jewellery and gave them to the soldiers, to one of whom he had given £3O to purchase his discharge, and had promised a like amount to the other. The Rev. Newman Hall occupied the chair, and at the conclusion of the lecture a vote of thanks was given to Mr. Hughes amidst the greatest en thusiasm. The Common Sergeant thought the two soldiers could not be included in the present charge, as it could not be proved they had harboured the younger prisoner with In tent to defeat the ends of justice. Mr. Daly made a strong appeal to the jury on behalf of the lad Duncan, and said it was to be regretted that the law, after a prisoner had made a full confession of an offence, still held the crime in the same estimation as if it had been fully proved by evidence. The lad, by his ad vice, was quite ready to plead guilty to the uttering. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against the boy and acquitted the soldiers. His lordship said he should defer passing sentence until an indictment against the soldiers for conspiracy had been disposed of. The late Fire in Savoy-street, Strand. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) Margaret Brown was indicted for stealing a watch the property of Peter Sungreen, from his person. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. George Betts, Henry Butler, and Henry Paterson, were indicted for stealing 24 woollen shirts, and other goods, the property of George Hooper. They were also indicted for feloniously receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen. Betts pleaded guilty, and was admitted as evidence against the other two. Tho jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. Dec. 18. THE ASSAULT UPON DR. HUNTER. T. B. Jones and Samuel Merrick were charged with an assault upon Dr. Hunter, who, it will be remembered, was charged with a criminal assault. Mr. Sleigh and Mr. M. Williams appeared for the prose cution, ana Mr. Rigby for the defence. Mr. Sleigh opened the case. He said the prosecutor was a, physcian qualified by an American diploma to practise. His custom was to charge patients who came to his house a fee of ss. ; if they were attended out of doors they were charged more. A Mrs. Merrick, the wife of one and the sister of the other defendant, was one of his patients, who was visited at her home by Dr. Melville, one of prosecu tor's assistants or associates. A dispute arose about the fees, which led to a most violent assault by Jones and Mer rick upon Dr. Hunter, which would be detailed by the witnesses. They were given in charge and committed for trial. On the Saturday before the trial was to come on a charge of criminal assault was made against Dr. limiter by Merrick'swife, and he was locked up so that he could not go before the grand jury; and the trial, therefore, had to be postponed until to-day. Dr. Hunter was tried and acquitted; and now he would be placed in the witness-box, and men tion the real facts of the ease. William Davis, Dr. Hunter's door porter, stated that the prisoners came to the house, and after waiting some time rushed upstairs and assaulted Dr. Hunter. Witness went for the police, and the defendants were taken into custody. Dr. H. Melville—l am a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, and an associated with Dr. Hunter. I know a patient named Mrs. Merrick, and visited her at her house. I told Merrick to see Dr. Hunter about the fees then in arrears. On the 2d of November he called at the house, and after waiting some time became very much excited, upon which I went and told him Dr. Hunter was engaged upstairs. lie then rushed upstairs, followed by Jones. Wit ness al.!'io followed, and on reaching the landing found Dr. Hunter with his head thrust back against the wall with Merrick's hand on his throat, and Jones holding Dr. Hun ter's ear between his teeth. Witness pulled off Merrick and othersget Jones away. Witness remonstrated with Merrick, upon which Jones said, " You don't suppose we came here 'without knowing the consequences. I came to give him a licking." Cross-examined—l have known Dr. Hunter 11 years. I knew him in Now York, and was then intimate with him. He left in 1858. I never heard there of his not being pro perly qualified, or of any charge against him. When Jones said he came to give him a licking he said it was b3cause Dr. Hunter had grossly insulted his sister. I knew a Mr. Rawlins in New York. Did not know a person in court (who stood up for identification, and wilo was said to be Mr. Rawlins). TUE SUN, LONDOIN, ITESIJAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19 1865. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Pepys.) IN RE E. H. LEVEACX AND CO. INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. MARLBOROUG STRE E T . These bankrupts were described as wine merchants, of the Cedars, at Putney, and to-day was appointed for proof of debts. The liabilities are about £26,000, and the assets depend upon a large numbei of shares inthe Cadiz, Oporto, and Light Wine Association (Limited). The bankrupt, E. H. Leveaux, was the promoter of this conipany, and after wards became managing director. Some disputes aroso and he left the company, subsequently stopping payment. A meeting of creditors was held recently, and a deed pre pared, but the Cadiz, Oporto, and Light Wine Association, who claim to be creditors in respect of calls on the shares, refused to sign it, and a petition was 'piesented to this court early in the month. Debts were proved, and a day named for the next meeting. SHOCKING CASE OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.—Mr. Tubbs, the assistant overseer of St. Marylebone, waited upon Mr. Tyrwhitt this morning in reference to two children of the name of Richardson, whose mother had attended this court a few weeks since and made a complaint against a woman named Jones of ill-using and neglecting them. Mr. Tubbs said that about three weeks ago the mother of the children attended at the court with them, and ap plied for a summons against a woman named Jones, in whose charge she had left the children, for ill-using and neglecting them, one of them having a cut lip and a bruiso .on the cheek, while the other, about five months old, was in such a shockingly emaciated condition that, according to the witness's statement, it only weighed seven pounds. The children were admitted into the St. Maryle bone Workhouse, and when the summons came on for hearing, he (Mr. Tubbs) attended on the part of the parish to prosecute, but the woman Jones was not in at tendance, and a warrant was in consequence granted against her; ho (Mr. Tubbs) at that time having eight witnesses in attendance, and being prepared to go into the case. His object in now attending was to inquire whether there were any good reasons why the warrant had not been executed, and to mention that the younger child, although it had much improved in its condition, after being admitted to the workhouse, had since sunk and died, its death being no doubt accelerated by the treatment it had pie viously received at the hands of the woman Jones. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was not aware of the facts of the case before, but he would have the matter looked into, and inquiries made why the warrant had not been exe cuted, and Mr. Tubbs could be prepared with medical evi dence to support his case, and to show whether the child's death had not been accelerated by the treatment it had undergone. Mr. Tubbs said that according to the evidence he should be prepared to produce the children had not only been most grossly neglected but ill-used. The deceased child was stated by the mother to have been a plump, healthy child when she placed it in prisoner's hands. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would ascertain why the warrant had not been executed, and Mr. Tubbs should be made acquainted with the reason. A more shocking sight than the younger child presented on its being brought to the court by its mother has seldom been seen. It appeared to have been completely starved; its legs not being thicker than a man's thumb, and seemed in a state of torpor. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. The Charge Against Madame Rachel. MARLBOROUGH POLICE COURT.-THIS AFTERNOON. Rachel Leverson, the celebrated "enameller" of Bond street, appeared by her solicitor to answer a summons taken out against. her by Aurora Knight for unlawfully obtaining from her £33 and a diamond ring, value £2O, the property of George Knight, with intent to 'defraud. It will be recollected that the summons was originally taken out by a per Son calling herself the wife of an Ame rican consul, who had come to England expressly to em ploy the skill of Madame Michel to make her "beautiful for ever." She further alleged that Madame Rachel had extorted from her the money and ring mentioned in the summons without doing that which she had engaged to do, viz., the removal of marks left on her face by smallpox. On the summons being called on the plaintiff, Aurora Knight, did not appear. Mr. Sayers said he quite anticipated such a result, and he would now say that a more fraudulent and scandalous charge had never been made against any person. He begged it would be clearly understood that Madame Rachel had made no attempt to prevent the plaintiff from appear ing, or had she taken any steps to get her out of the way. It was a false and malicious charge, made, hel believed, for the purpose of extortion ; and he could not but regret that the suggestion that bad been made for the postponement of the publication in the daily papers until the summons was heard was not adopted• With respect to the woman making the charge, he called her an impostress—one put forward by other parties to in jure Madame Rachel, and one who, finding her scandalous charge had had effect, now studiously kept out of the way. He had seen this person, who said she had been made the I dupe of Madame Rachel, and so far from being a lady, he was in a position to prove she was one of the lowest class. The great wonder to him was that Madame Rachel had been so imposed upon as to have be lieved that she was the wife of an American consul. Tho woman was well known at the Cafd do Leon, and she had at one time called herself Lady Jones, Aurora Knight, and the sister to Dr. Hunter, whose name had been so much before the public of late. Instead of a lady, this woman occupied, he believed, a second floor back room in ono of the streets in the Strand, and when Madame Rachel went to her she found her taking her tea in her poor apartment in the dark. She said she would give Madame Rachel £lOO to make her beautiful, but how such a person was to pay such a suns was a circumstance ho would not stop to inquire. Madame Rachel, however, attended her ten days, and she then ordered her baths ; but as the woman said she had been suffering from small-pox, she of course would not allow her to use the baths at her establishment, but advised her to go to those in Argyll-street. Instead of doing so, he was in a position to prove that this Ame rican lady, as she called herself, went to the baths in Endell-street, and there complied with the directions of Madame Rachel by the outlay of twopence. (Laughter.) This woman said she had given Madame Rachel £3O, and a diamond ring of the value of £2O, but that was the greatest untruth that was ever uttered, and could only have been said to serve some malicious purpose. All the money Madame Rachel had ever received from the woman Knight was four napoleons and a 10-franc piece, and instead of getting from her any more the person mak ing the charge actually 'borrowed is. from his client. Madame Rachel on becoming aware of the charge made against her went to the residence of the woman, and there Knight told her she was under a mistake, as she had not taken out a summons against her, or had she ever been to Marlborough-street Police-court at all. On being told that such, however, was the case, she said she would go with Madame Rachel to Marlborough-street, but without waiting for the defendant she put on her bonnet and left her residence for this court. Mr. Tyrwhitt—T hat must have been when she came hero and said Madame Rachel had restored her ring. Mr. Sayers said there was no more truth in that than in her first statement, and he could only say, in addition to the observations he had addressed to the bench, that he challenged the plaintiff to come forward, and, if pos sible, make out her case against Madame Rachel. That she knew was impossible, and therefore she wisely ab stained from making her appearance in court. Mr. Tyrwhitt said, with respect to the proceedings of that court appearing in the newspapers, he had nothing to do. The persons who had to collect the news of the day had a duty to perform, and the wonder was how it was so well executed. With respect to the summons, that, of course, would be dismissed, which circumstance, he felt certain, would be made as public as the application. to him in the first instance. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR, — Considerable misconception having arisen, from the reports in the various journals, of the fire at one of our branch establishments, leading to the inference that it was our chief establishment, we shall feel greatly obliged by insertion of the accompanying letter, addressed to our cus tomers at the branch in question, in your valuable jour nal, by which it will be seen that our friends and cus tomers will sustain no inconvenience, and that their order's will be executed, in the interim, at Our principal works, Queen-street and Upper Thames-street, where our powers of production are unlimited.—Wo are, Sir, your most obedient servants, Joss KING and Co. "Savoy Printing Works, Savoy-street, Strand, Dee. 16, 1865. " Dear Sirs,—We regret that a fire of a destructive cha racter occurred this morning at the above printing works, causing considerable damage. We aro pleased, however, to be able to inform you that it will not make any differ ence in the execution of your esteemed orders, as we have arranged immediately to take up and finish all work on hand, as also all new orders which we may be favoured with, at our extensive chief works in Queen-street and Upper Thames-street, until the damage is repaired. " We beg also to notify that we have taken offices'imme diately adjacent, No. 1, Savoy-street, where we request the favour of your forwarding your orders as before, which will have immediate attention. " Thanking you for past favours, we are, your obedient servants, . " JOHN KING and Co." MARKETS—This Day. HAY SMITHFIELD.--Meadow bay, £4 4s to £5 ss; clover, £5 5s to £6 1O Od ; and straw, £llss to £2 Os per load. Demand inactive. CumuEßLAxu.--Meadow hay, £4 4s to £slos Od; clover, £5 10s to £6 12s 6d; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. Trade dull. WinTEcHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 4s to £5 ss; clover, £5 5s to £6 lOs Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load. Trade slow. COLONIAL. TEA.—A fair amount of business has been done in the private market and full rates are current for superior de scriptions. At the public sales to-day about 15,800 packages will be offered, the greater part of which are without reserve. SVGAR.—There has been a moderate demand for West India, and late rates have been well maintained. Foreign descriptions have generally remained inactive. In the re fined market good grocery kinds have sold readily at fully late values. COFFEE?—The demand for both plantation and native Ceylon has been moderate, and fully late rates have been obtained. The stocks in hand, compared with those in the corresponding period of last year, aro slightly in excess. RlCE.—Business has remained very quiet, and prices are nominally unaltered. TALLow.—Business generally has been moderately active, but some slight variations have occurred in prices. There has been a steady demand from the trade. P.Y.C., on the spot, is now quoted 49s ; all the month, 48s 9d ; and January to March, 49s 3d per cwt. Liverpool Cotton Market—This T ay, Market rather steady. Sales probably 7,000 bales. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. —During the week ending Dec. 16 the visitors have been as follows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 9,268 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, students' days (admission to the public, 6d.), open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1,709. Total, 10,977. From the opening of the museum, 5,691,30.1. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. The great holiday entertainment at this magni ficent theatre has the peculiar advantage of com prising all the attractions of opera, ballet, spectacle, and extravaganza, and these will be combined in the form of a splendidly-illustrated grand comic Christmas pantomime, entitled " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp ; or, Harlequin and the Flying Palace." The author is Mr. E. L. Blanchard, the scenery is by Mr. T. Grieve, so illustrious a name in the artistic annals of the theatre ; the characteristic music is by Mr. W. H. Montgomery; the ballet has been designed and arranged by M. Desplaces ; and the whole of the stage arrange ments will owe their completeness to the well known skill and constant supervision of Mr. William West. This most popular story of the " Arabian Nights " is now for the first time brought before the public in strict accordance with the manners and customs of the place and the period associated with the famous tale, and no expenditure has been spared in any department to ensure a brilliant realisation of its magical wonders. The pantomime commences with the abode of Abanazar, the African Magician, represented by Mr. W. H. Payne, who, to the hor ror of his dumb slave Kazrac (Mr. F. Payne), re ceives a visit from the terrible Bo Ghee, chief of the Efreets, or Spirits of Darkness, in response to the invocation necessary to learn where the Won derful Lamp is to be found, and the means by which it is to be secured. An elaborate scene, representing a street in Canton at early morning, with the opening of the shops, and the peculiar business car:: ried on by the Chinese tradesmen, will be found highly characteristic. Here the Magician, disguised as the uncle of Aladdin (Miss Rachel Singer), lures the youth away from his mother, the Widow Ching- Ching (Mr. Charles Steyne), and here the arrival of the Princess Badroulbadour (Miss Blanche Elliston) and her attendants gives occasion for a grand incidental ballet. To the Cedar valley, in the Blue mountains, the Magician brings Aladdin, and there employs him in the mystic incantation which reveals the opening to the cavern. Descending to the subterranean Garden of Jewels, where the Wonderful Lamp is seen burning, Aladdin passes through a series of remarkable adventures, and finds the fate to which the Magician doomed him not so disagreeable as he at first imagined. With the aid of the Genius of the Ring (Miss Dacre) and the Fairy of the Diamond (Miss Weber), Aladdin makes his escape and returns to the house of his mother, where the Genius of the Lamp speedily exhibits the marvellous powers of the talisman. Application is made to the grand Cham (Mr. R. H. Lingham) for the hand of his daughter, the Princess Badroulbadour ; and the splendid palace is built in compliance with the con ditions exacted. Of course Magician,in the guise of a Pedlar, persuades the Princess to part with the old lamp for a new one, and borne on the broad wings of the Genii of the Lamp the Flying Palace con veys away Abanazar and the Princess. Ultimately Aladdin recovers the beautiful Badroulbadour. Bo Ghee appears to punish the magician, and the re wards are distributed in the effulgent beams of the " Wondrous Lamp of Day," designed and manu factured by Mr. T. Grieve, who thus supplies a transformation scene, which it is r'asonably expected will become the object of enthu siastic admiration with all those who can appreciate a poetical conception, most elaborately executed in detail, and showing a gor geous profusion of decorative accessories regulated regulated by the most refined taste. The Harle quinade, with Mr. Harry Payne as Clown, Mr. Fred Payne as Harlequin, Madlle. Esther as Columbine, and the veteran Paul Herring as Pantaloon, will abound with humouros touches on passing topics, and ingenious mechanical changes. There will be morning performances of the pantomime, presenting this lavishly illustrated edition of Aladdin every Wednesday and Saturday. ' Railway and other Companies• BASINGSTOKE CANAL. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the Gray's-inn Hotel, Holborn ; Mr. Davey in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been con vened for the purpose of discussing the present posi tion of the affairs of the company. He regretted to inform the bondholders, who were the principal per sons concerned, that the receipts were not equal to the expenditure, and there was but little prospect of increasing the traffic. In consequence of the facili ties afforded by the railway companies for the car riage of coals, it was impossible to anticipate any improvement in the business of the company. Their land, which was contiguous to Aldershott Camp, was left in a sandy state owing to the evolutions of the troops, and the action of the wind and rain col lected a deposit in the canal which was not only an impediment, but would be a complete stoppage un til it was removed. They bad cleared the canal at their own expense, and had received some assist ance from the Government, but latterly they had been refused further co-operation from the Govern ment, and they were now left powerless to work the canal or to remove obstructions from the want of funds. Mr. LAMB (solicitor of the company) said an eminent engineer had given it as his opinion that the canal would be an excellent source of water supply to the camp at Aldershott. He had written to the War-office on the subject, but had not as yet received a reply. Captain JESSE said he had spoken to Mr. Woods, an eminent railway engineer, as to the converti bility of the canal into a railway, but he expressed himself against the project, inasmuch as the returns would be in no relative proportion to the cost. Mr. Woods was very much in favour of the conversion of the undertaking into a water company, and said' he had no doubt the Government would be anxious to contract for the supply of water to Aldershott Camp—the supply of the commodity to that place being of a very inferior description. Mr. LAMB submitted a resolution proposing the adoption of measures for the closing of the canal or its conversion into property of a remunerative cha racter. The resolution was unanimously crrried, it being understood that any proposal coming from the Go vernment or any other source would meet with due consideration. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 18 Ditto 12 ii R o tterdam Antwerp — 25 50 25 55 Brussels hamburg Paris Short 25 10 4 25 171 Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 25 45 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1201 1201 Vienne , --- 10 8U 10 90 Trieste - 10 85 10 90 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid 46 i Cadiz 48 _ _47l_ Leghorn Milan .. 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 .... ~_ Genoa Naples — 25 60 25 65 Palermo Messina The Nyanza, which carries out the India and China mail on Wednesday, will also take £107,571, principally in gold. It appears by the statistics of the Australian papers that there is a total of gold on its way to this coun try of £835,500, of which nearly the whole is over due. The Great Britain, out 59 days, has on freight £498,000 ; the Kent, out 79 days, has £276,000. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived in their residence in Hamilton-place, Piccadilly, on Saturday, from Boughton House, near Kettering, Northamptonshire. The noble earl and countess left town yesterday to join the party visiting the Marquis and 'Marchioness of Ailes bury at Savernake, Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith arrived at town yesterday from visiting the Earl and Countess Cow ley at their seat in Wiltshire. Lord Walter Scott and Lord Charles Scott left town yesterday to join the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family at Bowhill, Selkirkshire. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, after the Cabinet Council on Saturday, left town for Falloden, Northutuberland. WESTMINSTER. AN APPARENTLY OLD AND PRACTISED SIFIASHER.—Geo. Wilson, a middle-aged man, well known to.the police, was charged with uttering a bad shilling and tendering another well knowing them to be counterfeit coin. Mr. John Barratt, a cheesemonger, residing at 1, Little Chapel-street, Westminster, said that the prisoner came into his shop last night and asked for a rasher of bacon. Witness served him and asked for 4d. for the bacon, pri soner looked suspicious, and when he quietly put a shilling on the counter, witness immediately observed that it was bad. He bent it and cut it, and gave it back to prisoner, who paid 4d. and left the shop. Witness followed him. Mr. Mills, landlord of the Castle public-house, said the prisoner came into his house about 7 o'clock and asked for a pint of beer. He was served, and selected from a hand ful of halfpence a bad shilling and tendered it. Witness was about to give him change when Mr. Barratt and another person spoke to him, and he found the shilling was bad. He returned it to the prisoner, who paid for the beer, and then putting the shilling in his mouth swallowed it. He was given into custody. The other bad shilling was found nearly broken in two outside the public-house. Prisoner was remanded for a week. He admitted the facts. THAMES. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.- George Bains, a notorious and desperate thief, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with assaulting Mr. Andrew Wear, of Love-lane, Shadwell, shipwright, and stealing a watch, valued at £4, from his person. The prosecutor was passing along the Commercial-road East last night, at 12 o'clock, when ho met the prisoner and another man. They intercepted his progress, and in endeavouring to pass them one of the villains shoved the prisoner upon him. The prisoner immediately snatched Mr. Wear's watch, and broke a ring connecting the swivel with the watch. Mr. Wear immediately collared the pri soner, who struck him with his fist, kicked him, and tripped him up. Mr. Wear dragged the. prisoner down with him and called out "Police!" and "Murder!" Henry Townsend, No. 313 K, was soon on the spot, and found the prosecutor on his back, and the prisoner standing over him. Mr Wear said " This fellow has stolen my watch." Town send immediately secured the prisoner. The prosecutor's chain was hanging loosely before him, and the watch was gone. - _ _ Mrs. Eliza Bishop, wife of Mr. Thomas Bishop, an artist, saw the whole occurrence from her window, and confirmed the statement of the prosecutor in every particular. The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Partridge com mitted him for trial, and requested Mr. Allison, an inspec tor of the K Division, to ascertain if there were any previ ous convictions against him. He knew ho had seen the prisoner before. Inspector Allison—Men from the different divisions of police will go to the prison and look at him. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was a well-known thief, and had been tried and convicted several times. Mr. Partridge—Then I will remand him until to-morrow week, Dec. 27, for the police to come here and prove the former convictions. ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLBSCE.—AIbert Wright, aged 19, of 17, Salisbury-street, packing-case maker, was charged with being -concerned with others in assaulting and robbing Mr. Charles Perry, distiller's clerk, of 9, Patriot-square, Cambridge-road. The prosecutor was passing along the Mile-end-road at a few minutes past 12 o'clock on Saturday night last, and lencountered eight or nine young men, among whom was the prisoner. He was hustled and shoved from one to the other. One of the young men seized him behind, and others turned his pockets inside out and took from them a knife, a half-crown, fourpence, and a pocket-book containing receipts, pawn tickets, and letters. He estimated his loss at £2O. One man " bonneted" him (struck the top of his hat), and another attempted to strangle him. He was used with considerable violence. He could positively identify the prisoner, and saw him pick up one of the coins which fell from his pocket when it was turned Inside out. The prisoner said he was innocent, and called George Jones, Charles Bowers, and Joseph Day, young men, who said they were with him on Saturday night in the Mile end-road, and he was not concerned in the robbery. Iu some points their evidence was very conflicting. The prisoner was committed for trial. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTLIEAN CIRCUIT—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 18. (Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Special Jury.) RAMPSON, ADMINISTRATRIX, V. THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL- WAY COMPANY. This claim arose out of the late railway accident at Staplehurst on the defendants' line of railway. The plain tiff was the widow of Adam Hampson, formerly surgeon, veterinary surgeon, owner of a shoeing forge, and part owner of a cotton mill at Bolton, in this county ; and the action was brought on behalf of herself and two children. The defendants admitted the negligence of their servants by the payment of ls. into court, but they left the question of damages to be decided by the jury. It appeared that the total income of the deceased was about £3,000 a year, but that his family were now in receipt of about £2OO a year. Mr. Hampson was only 40 years of age at the time of his death, and his future prospects at that time were very bright. It was also shown that some property which would have fallen to his children in the event of his surviving the present owners would now revert to other hands. His Lordship thought that if railway companies were to be held liable for such contingencies as these they had better shut up business at once. Mr. Temple, Q.C. (with whom were Mr. Millward, Q.O , and Mr. Baylis), on the other hand, thought if persons were, to be deprived of their sources of income by such gross negligence as had been exhibited in this case, they had better retire from business at once. Mr. Brett then addressed the jury on behalf of the de fendants in mitigation of damages, contending that the jury should not regard the income of the plaintiff's hus band as a certainty, but open to the usual incidents of trade. His Lordship then summed up, recommending the jury to view the amount of damage in a broad and equitable sense ; not regarding it as essential to award the same yearly income that the husband had been in receipt of, but sufficient to enable her and her family to live decently and respectably in proportion to the position they had been accustomed to occupy. The jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict for £7,000—X4,000 for the widow, and £1,500 for each of the children. LONDON GAZET2E—This Evening• WHITEHALL, Dzc. 19. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon. Sir John Romily, Knt., Master or Keeper of the Rolls and Records in Chancery, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Romilly, of Barry, in the county of Glamorgan. The Queea has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land to theßight Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Northbrook, of Stratton, in the county of Southampton. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 19. 4th Regiment of Hussars—Edward Fox, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Isaac Burnley, whose ap pointment has been cancelled; Frank Gooch, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice A. B. Corrie, who has retired. 11th Hussars—Assistant-Surgeon Oliver Barnett, from the 12th Lancers, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice W. H. llus- champ, who exchanges. 12th Lancers—Assistant-Surgeon William Henry Mus champ, from the 11th Hussars, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice 0. Barnett, who exchanges. 9th Regiment of Foot—Colour-Sergeant Thos. Sterritt to be Quartermaster, vice Patrick Boylan, deceased. 30th Foot—Charles Benjamin Charlewood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice W. 11. Lee, transferred to the 65thFOot. 39th Foot -Major Robert Hamilton Currie to be Lieutenant Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel William Munro, C. 8., who retires upon half-pay ; Captain and Brevet-Major Charles Denison Pedder to be Major, without purchase, vice Currie ; Lieutenant Ed ward Getty to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major Pedder, Ensign Charles Napier Milner Hamilton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gatty ; Frederic Edward Lyster, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Henry Alfred Austen, whose appointment on the 10th of October, has been cancelled. 42d Foot-Ensign Walker Aitken to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Jones, who retires ; Andrew Kennedy Macpherson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Aitken. 60th Foot - Lieut. Clifford Fortescue Borrer to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieut. W. G. Tunle, who resigns that appointment. 65th Foot—Lieut. Robert Mitchell, from half-pay, 28th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice A. B. Toker, promoted to a w ith o ut purchase ; Ensign Alf re d Company,yl`oulnlint b e Lieutenant, by purchase, vi ce H H a al r f p - e p r a Robert Mitchell, who retires ; Ensign William Han ning Lee, from the 30th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Tatihnin. Rifle Brigade—Ensign Alfred Mordaunt Egerton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Richard Winstanley Or merod, who retires ; the Hon. Algernon H. Grosvenor to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Egerton. 3d West India Regiment—Ensign Samuel Thos. Atkinson Dunn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice E. D. Jones, who has retired; Ensign Waiter Roberts, to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice, J. Dooley, who has retired. HALF-PAY.—The promotion of Brevet-Colonel Evelyn Henry Frederick Pocklington to a Majority, without purchase, on 28th Juno, 1864, to be antedated to the 18th June, 1861, but such antedate is not to carry back pay. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel George Jackson Carey, C.B. Major, 18th Foot, to have the tempo rar y rank of Brigadier-General while in command of a Brigade in the Australian Colonies. The undermentioned promotions and alteration of rank to take place in her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, con sequent cn the death of Lieut.-Gen. Henry Sargent, Madras Infantry, on Nov. 19, 1865; and Major-Gen. St. George Daniel Showers, C. 8., Bengal Infantry, on the 9th of October, 1862 ; Major-General John Kynaston Luard, C. 8., Madras Infantry, rankMajor-General f roin jo th O cHubertMarshall,tobr,iB6st MadrasColonel e one L i i jeournnElt Liddell,a a n n Infantry, e to e o L:1 1 B k Bombay Infantr to be Major-General Dnll p a a Ty r ht a eo l ißavenegaasl tepundermentionedlnfantry, offit c o e barw M ea n a ß i k ' oirraen-vssGe followsetete r o a 1 0 . 0 n olL:i)iula Deputy of pec or- eneral of Hospitals. el B Inspector-GeneralolmiEblaiD Establishment, u . I p ii o t °ll honorary a / s Cooke Wade, C. 8., half-pay Ist Dragoon Guards, has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Commission under the conditions of the Circular Memorandum, dated Horse Guards, Feb. 15, 1861. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 16. Commanders Arthur Thomas Thrupp, Michael Culme Seymour, Thomas Hutchinson Mangles Mar ti n , William Fit z herbert Ruston, and Ch ar l es Bayley Culniady Dent, to be Captains. Lieutenants—James Dillon Curtis Robert Thomas Borrett, Robert Mansel, Jas. Stevenson Sir John Swinbu rne , Bart Derenzy Donaldson Twysden, Henry Berkel Selby, James G eorge Mead, George Borlase, William Fre deric Johnson, and David Boyle, to be Commanders. DEC: 18. Lieutenant Robert Henry More Molyneux to bo Com mander. HALL V. FINNEY.—This case, which conunenced on Sa turday in the Court of Queen's Bench, was resumed to-day, but no definite result was arrived at. DEATH OF MR. MOTLEY'S SON-IN-LAW.—It is with feelings of deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr. IvEs, the son-in-law of the Hon. J. S. MOTLEY, the United States Minister, at Vienna. Mr. IVES died at Havre, on his way to America, of typhus fever. He was married to Miss MOTLEY, at Paris, cnly five weeks ago. -2 1 31 59i 60 321 i 31 3 161 I 17 ITIES. a ed ,ere the en ary wn, urn roni LS at dge day, Bei onel DM' Valli Fan 'ring )nag linle J ltd Will aak° Tile ings_ , the ttov , Bar' )taiu iter egst ❑ter' ,ton, bbbi' .01 100 St I [OO 1 100 100 100 all 100 100 MEN' 190 100 100 F 0 100 100 58 33 it 321 1031 103 i