The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL ENTELLIGENC,E, -~--- TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market presents symptoms of an easier tendency, and there is more disposition shown by brokers to take first class bills at per cent. below the official minimum. The demand is also 1 less active than it has been for some short time. The sum of £31,000 was withdrawn from the bullion department of the Bank of England yester day afternoon. The reserves of notes and gold of the Bank of Ist England have not been largely diminished during the week, and considering the different usual opera tions in progress at this period of the year, the re turn, of which the following are the principal items, gay be considered favourable Active Circulation ... • ...,£20,361,610 si Decrease ... .. 191,840 8' Buni on 13,872,409 el Decrease ... 148,994 8, nest 3 , 238,206 s 1 el Increase 16,710 Public Deposits ... —• •• • •• • 77375,855 . Increase ... ... ... ... 294.519 Other Deposits ... ... ... ... ... 14,090,236 100 Decrease ... ... ... ... 196,646 ~ Seven Day and Other Bills ... ... ~. 422 , 455 l' Decrease ••• ••• ••• ••• 36,514 s Government Securities ... ... ... ... 9,891,100 8 1 Increase ••• ••• ..• ••• 50,000 21 Securities 21,627,853 s' i Increase ... ... 12.223 8 A • , °tea Unemployed ::: ...... ~. ... 7,331,735 DeCrea'se ... .. ... .. 2,505 The alterations shown in the Bank of France return are generally encouraging. The bullion has been increased £54,667, while the notes in circula tion have fallen off £66,000. The bills discounted have been reduced £90,000, but the advances on Stock have received an addition of £24,000. The Current accounts have been augmented £300,000, and the Treasury balances lessened £lBB,OOO. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were quoted at 68f. 37c. Heavy. The English Stock Market shows an improve- i Inept of * per cent., Consols having risen to 871 for money, and to 871 1 for the account. This advance is partly due to the better and easier state T of monetary affairs, as business is exceedingly inac tive. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities were 87 1; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 2s. dis.; India 5 Per Cents., 102 k ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., t 102 ; and ditto Bonds, 19s. prem. In the Foreign Stock Market prices also have generally improved. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 421 43 1 ; Mexican, 25 1 ; ditto New, 221 23 ; Greek, 1 51 161; Spanish Passive, 271 28* ; the Certifi cates, 14 ; Italian, 641 65* ; the Confederate I Loan, 78 ; and the Brazilian Scrip, 11 prem. American Securities show few changes of import ance. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 6 6 1 • Erie Shares, 58 3 - it • and Illinois, 82 I. g 8 7 - _ Business in the Railway Share Market has been Moderately active, and prices, in most instances, are firmer. Great Eastern, Great 1 Northern, London, Chatham, and Dover, North Western, and Midland have each improved 10s. ; Lancashire a nd Yorkshire, and South Eastern, each ss. ; and Caledonian, £1 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings fully Maintain former rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are steady. Imperial Ottoman are dealt in at 14 I ; London Joint-stock at 51 s ; London and County at 79 ; hudson's liay Company, at 16; ; National Dis count Company, at 171; and Overend, Gurney, and Co. at 2111 ; British Convention Bonds of Mexico are quoted 65 70 ; English and American Bank, 2 21 prem. ; Colonial Company, par 1 prem. ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Consolidated kortgage Bonds, 1 11 prem. ; London Steam 'rowing Company, 112 prem. ; and Charles Lafitte and Company, 2 21 prem. BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 Der Cent. Consols , Do. Account, Jan. 9 °Per Cent. Reduced B7 f 7 ,„evr 3 per Cent B7 f 7 New 2 1 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — A Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — 41 1nnities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprilA BBs — „, Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — 4, zchequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. 6 ', dis Do. £5OO — dis Do £lOO and .£200 'milk of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account .. — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. I ndian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874... Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — uo. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. B razilian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 5 per Cent Do. 4} per Cent., 1852-58-66 1) o. 1863 Do. 1865 Do. Scrip, £25 paid B uenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do. Liccount r Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) uhilian 41 per Cent ' 74 „ Do. 3 per Cent "'olombian 6 per Cent. ? ) liba, 6 per Cent. anish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — b Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — anubian Principalities Do Account — k -'cluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — t , Do., Provisional Laud Warrant — 'C'Yptian 7 per Cent 1 , ) , 0 ., Second Issue "0 £lOO Bonds 93f Do. 1864 9ll 21 Do £lOO Bonds " r eek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do- Account "0. Coupons 0 0. Account G uatemala 5 per Cent. — Do £B6 paid t b.., iao. 1839 and 1850 — "n 5 per Cent, 1865 t — 4 J,0. Account •, 1 -o. Maremmana Railway 6 74 , 1 '0 Scrip, .£674 p a id — 1 1 " 0 . 5 per Cent., 1864 — exican 3 per Cent I ° o . Account Do 186 , 1 224 3 .,-0 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — 1 4 " 0 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — o ntevidean 6 per Cent., £ 3O paid lorish Imperial 5 per Cent r ,lv Granada lif ," 0 2 per Cent - ",0 Deferred D " 0 Laud Warrants (Hectares) N . a ,Per Cent, 1864 — p: - ' 0 Guaranteed , 4 per Cent — w;uvian 44 per Cent DC., Account "0 Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds D O h 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — A a . " 2 44 per Cent., 1862 F l ,Aziguese 3 per Cent, 1853 ° 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, D 0.4,,... Account eian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St D O 44 per Cent. 1850 D 044 per Cent., 1860 il 3 pei Cent. 1859 — V ) 5 per Cent. 1862 BBf 9 4,14. 0 1.4 i apen rs C peenr t C . l e B n 6 t 4 93 1: i i 0 30 Account IPiell 3 per Cent n i tto account 4-1 „ 0 New Deferred . " ° D Account o Passive 0 Account tr,Acco un t Cert. of Coup not funded — 1,,,. u 154 wedip' -3 1 , - ‘ ll ola 4 per Cent. '4' l , . 13 . 4i. pe r Cent. 1864 itKish 6 pe r Cent. 1854 - D °'" Account B9l 70 . 0 6 Per Cent. 1858 ••,(1, Acount — " 13 XlOO Bonds — 0 h ° • n li per Cent t ---° ' 0 per Cent. 1862 De Account 72kl n , ° XlOO Bonds -"° 6 per Cent.,1863 D e 68 D°- - per Cent. 1865 — Do,. \ A.BecricoPu' 485 paid 43} _ bio £1(0 Bands _ Ir e °' 4 per Cent. Guaranteed 991 ~_ l i ,s 4 o : 4 ll : e : o ll . 3 t er Cent. b u ti per Cent., 1862 0. Account — A u -Dividends on the above payable in London. Ni,:. '', 5 P3r Cent., Ex. 10 Florins — 011A44,,44. per cent., Ex. 25f. • )3 'o -- 2 t re- v.nt., Ex. 12 G . 4 per Cent. Certiticabes uil — Consols for money THREE 8 0 71 '0 1 1,0 x 7 m Do. Acnt, 87i x(1 nsti life" town, ws 13 s boat i s the reboat Lrneott Dalai in hit Lord len il l ,ion of 3 32ft. astior coot by tb° undeet to be r to it s tubers Ye ar w aived repAY: eaclo" th No, th° on ecrosse _ se $ tepos' on. SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. -- ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. ," , t'trice,.l Closing 1 Business done. - fl. Bristol and Exeter 4 Caledonian io Cambrian ••••• ! c l Cork and 8and0n...... A Cornwall A Dublin & Belfast Juno Dun,.Perth, & , b.J nue &London, scrip Certi :3 95 27 28 94 96 13 15 4i 5i 68 72 70 72 93! 1271 8 ,t Glasgow &S. Western it Great Eastern, Ord. stk. It Do. E. Angl. st No. •! it Great North of Scotland it k reat Northern t D A stuck it Do. B Muck Do. ew. 18. at GtS, and W. oi Ireland t. Wetße n uri;.;inal . V. Rail gua. 112 114 42 13 71 6i 2'27 146 .:47 92 91 63. 50i t, Do. South Wales ,t Do %V Mid.— 0:::for , 1 t Do. Newpo • t t Do. fie . eford t Lanc ,shire &Yorkshire t L .radon and Blackwall t Lon., Brigh., & S Coast• t Lon., i hat., and Dover t Do. Metrop. Kx. A t Lon. & North Western it Lon. & South Western it Man., Shet., & Lincoln it Metropolitan.. .0 Do. New. 0 38 VI b 3 37 t (k 5 122. 9) 12 102 10 37 3i) 50 62 1251 :2 6 U 5, 46 62 63 •374 8 3i '$V 1 1 VAT, 103 104 Do Extension ' , Metropolitan District ( Do d do LO Do. and -t. John sW'd it Mid and 9 Do. £9 Share et Do, dirraiu . & Derby 25 l0') 'CO 100 100 11+0 all •r id Kent ... t North British I Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun I Nth. Eastern— Berwies 5 Do. U.N'E purehast . it Do. Leeds ...... it Do. York De. Carlisle :5 Do. :•tock.& Darling. :5 Do. do. 1860-01 st North London .. [0 Do. do. 1804 10 Do. .10. 1865 100 . all 100 100 100 16.13.4 10u 123 121 11 1 i i 93 95 , t North Staffordshire 10 N. dr S. W. Junction it Scottish C. ntral it Soot. N. E Aber. stock it o. Scot, Mid. at it Shropshire Union it South Devon 3t -outh E. stern 10 itaines, Wok., .Sz Wok at raft* Vale 10 Do. C at Vale of Neath at Waterford & Kilkenny LO Waterloo & Whiteha 1 st West Cornw ►ll 57 59 7 29 1106 11i6 i I 71i 7 41 lola 1056 36 37 10 I 1 p 126 128 2 2 p 2 2. p 74 76 11 12 148 15 65 68 112 114 421 31 3 2/ '26k 7 4t5 55 $7 71 75 8 9 147 150 3 f p IC2 104 59i91/9i 1 26 51 61 51 9')i 6 1:4 C 9 181 71 lu4 123 k 41 49 51 1711 101 721 1 4 # 74f I } BRITISH POSSESSIONS lt) Atlantic & St. L awrence at I Born.,Baroda. , Cen.ln. u.sg per cent.. Kl Do. le shares :01i Buffalo & Lake Huron 1.0 Do Preference .. : BudarantoirdCdeiich 6 ; 6 p.c. 872-3- ......• • it Calcutta & t. 5. E., lim.. it al e Town & Dock, gu. 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p it East. Ben _al, gu., 5 do' t East I. gu. 5 p.c. 40 Do J Extension .. at ;rand Trunk ot Canada 00 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c 10 Do. ist ef. Bonds .00 Do do. deferred .00 Do. 2d Pr. f. .00 Do. do. del,:rred 00 Do. d Pref. stock Mil Do. do. defe. red ,10 D... 4th Pret. stock 100 Do. do. deterred st Gt. India Pen. gua. 20 0. Gus. 5 I.er cent 40 Do. New gua. 5 p. c at Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent at D . 41 per cent 81 Do ..... .0i .reat WP. of Canada 204 I) . New .. 00 Do. 6p. c. lA, pay 187.' 10. .o. 5 no. pay. 1577- , .. 10 Indian Branch, limited at Madras, gua. 5 p.o st DO. 4f do st Do. 43 do 20 Do. Fit th Extensioi. st 3Telb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 50 Mel & Hudson's slay at N. it I.C'da, 6pc Ist pf. bs st Scinde . ... st Do. Delhi A 20 Do. do. ci st Do. Puniaub 1 et Do.indue St Flo "`" 100 100 100 all 100 100 59 di 102 103 id tp 6 61 10 11 75 80 09 101 63 70 100 103 102 IC2 1,3 104 par 41) 32 3;1 88 90 63 63 55 60 55 53 50 55 45 44 40 4 3.: 3I 31 33 103 t( 4 • t I P 10► 1024 16, '7 4 34 , 3 05 8, '7 1 A 1011 102; Y 3 v 5 89 01 f 3 45 82 84 1 14 102 101 14.2 i PI 1()2 32t 3 1 ULokiIAL GU V ERO4 1' aUU BIT t Iritish Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.sl, 1872... 100 an.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-4 lOO 96 98 to. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug I. 0 94 96 ~ sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10 , 94 96 to. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 82 to. 5 p Inscribed sk 100 81 83 :ape G.Hope. 6 p.e. 1873 100 I. 1 tO3 )0.Ap1.&001. 1890-1900 100 104 106 do; 1, , ,80-9 100 104 105 )o. Jan.&July, 1890-9 100 . 105 11 , 7 )o. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 oct., 1900 lOO 90 92 ;eylon„ Nov. 1868, 6 p.t 100 Iu 112 Do. 1878, do too 1..6 lob lauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1-78 10. t 8 8 .?, May 5. Nov. .10 104 106 )o. 1805, Feb. & Aud 1.90 105 107 rut al • ov. o per cent lOO 96 99 i.8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&,lul) 100 96 r 8 c. Guv. 5 rec.,186. 100 1 0 1(2 Do. 5 p.c. 18 Ito .87 100 93 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189 Ou 8) 01 10 Sew Zealand, 6p. cent WO 103 105 Do. 5 per cent.... Nova So tia Gcv. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875 l9O 10 1 102 .lueensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 104 ~ Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 1868-9 100 -- Do. 1878 & upwards 1 0 106 108 Vic,Uov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 100 Do. do, A pril & Oct lOO 105 106 1'53 5 BRITISH MINES. Cam. Consul. cold, urn 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. 30 2e. 23 Devon G. Cons. (Tavtst. 1 575 595 Drake walls 2.1.0 4 1 East Bassett (Illogant 24 18 2) East Caradon 2.14.1 85 91 East Cam Brea 34 54 51 East Grenville 2.14.0 3 34 East Gunnislake 8.3.6 4 1 East Loved 3.9.0 14 15 E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk 10.8.0 3 31 Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 5 7 Gr. at L .xey, limited all 20 21 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 14 2 Great Wheal 14.9.6 3* 4 G. Wheal Vor kitelst 40 34 .15 334 Grenville 8..8.0 36 4 Herod's F00t..... 8.10.0 30 38 llingston t , owne 510 6 51 51 Margaret Uny Lelant 13.17.6 5 7 Marie VAley 4.10.6 4 44 4twyndy Iron ore, lin t 2. 1 d New Se .A.n North Roskear .Wh' I Bassett . 1 tloga n 1.4.0 4 1 North Whe .1 Crotty Prosper United 7.1.. Pr vidence Uny L .lant 10.6.; : 6 38 S. Caradun St. Cleer) if 420 440 S o th Condurrow 3.2.0 S.Wheal Fran. , i llogan 18.18 9 20 25 -ray Park 15 15 6 t U Tin Croft 9 19 20 7igra and CI gan, lim . all 4 6 West assett(ll , ovan 1 3 4 W. Caratta.n tL skeard 9 9 .1 West Chi verton it 774 824 West Seton. Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 95 1 0 Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 324 374 (Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 4 6 Wheal Seto.l Wiled. Tt eiawney Wis 7 8 British Columbia, 6 per cent., inc. 31, 1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.Si July 1877-4 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug - D sp. c. Mar. & Sept - 00. sp. c. Jan. & July - Do. 5 p Inscribed ak - Cape (*.Elope. 6 p.c. 187:1 - I )o.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do; It,Bo-9 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9 - Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 uct., tlOO - Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p., - Do. 1878, do - Mauritius, p. c, 1873, Jan. and July - Do. 1-78 - • to. 88 May 5. Nov. - Do. 1895, Feb. & Atm - at al • ov. o per cent - N.B.Gov. p.c.Ja. &Jul) - N. NW. Gov. 5 p•c., 186. - Do. 5 p.c. 18 1 to .87 - Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189 - New Zealand, 6p. cent - Do. 5 per cent.... - Nova So tia Gcv. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 - Queensland Gov. 6p. c - S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 186EW! - Do. 1878 & upwards - Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July - Do. do, A pril & Oct 2 Cam. Consul u old, lira - Chiverton - Clif f ord Amalgamated - Devon G. Cons. (Tavtet - Drake walls - East Bassett (Illogan) , - East Caradon - East Carn Brea - East Grenville - East Gunnislake .. - East Loved - E. W'i Russell (Tavlstk - Gam.& StAubyn(Gweu. 4 Gr. at L .xey, limited - Great South Tolgus Great Wheal - G. Wheal Vor klielst - Grenville - Herod's F00t..... - Kingston t =owns - Margaret Uny Lelant Marke VAley 4 wyudy Iron ore, liw - New Sewn •••• North Roskear . W I Bassett , Itlog a u North Wh. , .1 Crotty .. Prosper United........ 1 Pr vidence Uny lant S. Caradon . St. Cleer)..' S. uth Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. Rogan -.ray Park 'in Croft 7igra and CI gan, lim,. West assett(ll.otrai; W. Caratia.n L skeard West Chi verton - West Seton . - Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth iWheal Mary Ann (Alen. - Wheal Seto:i ..... -• Wheal Tt eiawney Great Western Orig. 44 per cent pf., 914 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS Great Eastern 44 per cent. pt., Ditto, 5 p r cent., 95 London. Brighton. ,44 per cent., 1618, 98 Midland A and B£s pt, 64 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S Mid. Bradiord Fret. IStozk, 9e, o . 4)11,k;1(.1ki ttA.ILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish. 231 Sambre and Meuse. 81 San Paulo. lim., ~ua. 6 per cent.. 174 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 74 BAN ti Agra and 31 xstermates, Um., 57i Atli ...",11-... ~9 30 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 25 is paid., 28) Chartered Bank 01 India, Australia, and China, 24} Imperial Bank, lira., 29, Imperial Ottoman, 14 Letio:Mortgage Bank of India, London and River Plate. 52i London and County, :0 London Joint Stock. 5O 1 London and South-Western, lira., Ditto, new. 191 STetropolltau and Provincial Bank. lim., New Zealand Bank corporation. Urn., 1 riental Banic Corporatim.. 51f Oriental Commercial Bank, lim., late N. F., 3 Alb() NLLAAN b. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 161 Atl uric felegrapu, 8 per cent. gua., If Ceylcn Company, 101 Credit Fancier lud 111obiller of Englann. Ditto, issued at a prem.. of which £2 is to pay, Si East India Irrigation and Canal. 8A Ebbw Vale, , 3e Financial Discount, Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperi,l Mercantile Credit Asso..llm., Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour . 10 London Financial Association. lira, i. 03 M dras Irr gation and Canal, 13. National Discount t ompany, 171 Northern Assam Tea, lim., Ditio. B, 21 3 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 111 I Royal Mail Steam, 110 Trust and Agency of Australasia, Um., Union Marine, Liverpool. lim., 4, In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has been rather less animation. There have been no public sales of sugar, but enhanced rates have been obtained in the private market. Coffee has been in moderate request, at steady prices, while rice, saltpetre, and tallow have each been at reduced prices. The markets will close this afternoon for the Christmas holidays, and reopen on Tuesday,. 2nd January, 1866. "It may not be generally known," says a Berne letter, " that the late King Leopold belonged for more than half a century to that friendly association (Freemasons) which has recently been made the object of such violent attacks. He was received at the lodge of Berne in 1813, as he was passing through Switzerland in the interval between the two campaigns," LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. were said to amount to 30s. a week. His business of " caller up" has brought him in frequent collision. with the police, and he has preferred several charges of assault against constables, and also of interfering with him in his calling. All these charges were dismissed, and the police warned not to interfere withhim in calling up people, although it diminished the profits of the - pelice-menrin the district. Latterly the lad Sun had competed with the prisoner, who entertained a very bad feeling against him in conse quence. This morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock, the pri soner met the boy at the corner of King David-lane, Shad well, a few yards from the station-house of the K division, and, uttering a fearful oath, knocked him down with a very strong and heavy stick. He then fell upon the pros trate lad, seized him by the throat, and made a savage and deliberate attempt to strangle him, in which he would have certainly succeeded but for the timely interposition of Police-sergeant Cox, 45 K, who saw the whole transaction, M'Kay, 275 K, Greenfield, 495 K, and John Welch, a watchman employed at the opening of the low-level sewer at the Corner of King David-lane. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) HILL V. FINNEY. The hearing of this case, which has occupied the atten tion of the jury for the last six days, was resumed to-day. The suit was brought by the plaintiff, Captain Wil loughby Hill, an officer in the Bombay Cavalry, against his solicitor for alleged misdirection in regard to a suit, by his wife, for judicial separation, heard before the late Judge Ordinary, in which the defendant was stated to have ad vised the plaintiff not to defend the action, in order to avoid statements that would be damaging to his character, assuring him, at the same time, that if he agreed to aban don his defence, no evidence of a derogatory character would be given at the trial. However, at the trial it was necessary to give evidence in support of Mrs. Hill's allega tion of cruelty, and this not being rebutted, the plaintiff's character became so damaged that his fellow officers re fused to associate with him, and a communication was for warded to the Secretary of State for India. involving the question as to whether he should not be dismissed from her Majesty's service. The evidence was very lengthy and most conflicting. Mr. Coleridge, for the plaintiff, at the sitting of the court this morning, said that he hoped the court would not call on him to address the jury that day, as he was suffering from a severe cold ; and his friend Mr. Karslake, who was on the other aide, was in the same position. The jury intimated that the postponement met their special approval, and it was agreed that at the close of the evidence the case should be adjourned until the 12th of DEBTOR. They all described the condition of. the boy as most-piti able. The prisoner was compressing the boy's throat, which was bleeding, and blood was gushing from his nose, mouth, and ears. There were marks on the boy's throat, which be bared and exhibited to the magistrate. Ile was in a very sad condition. Mr. Joseph Smith set up a defence that the boy was always prowling about under the fostering care of the police and annoying the prisoner, who carried on the same business which his father had done for 40 years. The boy called him bad names this morning and he shoved him down. Cox was recalled, and said he had known the boy six or seven years, and he was always well behaved. The pri soner was jealous of the boy, said to him "What do you want here, you young -?" and then knocked him down with the stick and seized him by the neck. The boy was all but choked, and was black in the face. January. Some witnesses were called, who corroborated previous evidence on behalf of the defendant, and the proceedings in regard to this case terminated for the day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN BE JITSON -CABBY AND THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS Mr. Partridge said there was no truth in the defence set up. The boy was not prowling about in the sense in which prowling ought to be used, but was on his legiti mate business, and had as much right to call people from their beds as the prisoner. A more gross and savage out rage had not come under the notice of the court for some time. He sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprison ment and hard labour. COMPANY. This bankrupt was described as a cab-driver of 17, Bris tol-mews, Paddington, and he applied to-day for his order of discharge. The cause of the bankruptcy is as follows : Having lost an action I brought against the London Ge neral Omnibus Company to recover damages for injuries sustained by reason of the negligence of the company's servants, and being unable to pay the costs. The debts are only .£77, and include the Company (for costs), £57 ; bank rupt's attorney, £ll ; and his doctor, £9. Thero is a for mer bankruptcy, and no regular accounts being filed, the case was adjourned. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. LONDON GAZET.CE—Last Evening. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 21. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-General Sir Henry Knight Storks, G.C.8., G.C.M.G. (now Gover nor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Malta and MARLBOROUGH-STREET. _ STEALING BOOKS THE PROPERTY OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. —Joseph Smith, a porter, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a Bible and other property belonging to the Society for Pro moting Christian Knowledge. Mr. J. Russell Endean, manager of the Piccadilly depot of the Society, said that the present being an unusually busy time in consequence of parcels being sent into the country they required an extra hand ; as the man generally employed was unable to attend he sent the prisoner. On the 13th inst. three parcels, containing a large Bible, some glazed pictures, and books, were given to the prisoner to take to the Charing-cross Railway station. The prisoner some time afterwards returned with his empty bag, and perceiving that he had been drinking, he told him that he would not suit him, to leave the shop, and to send the man who sent him. The prisoner then left, and fearing there might be some mistake as to the delivery of the parcels at the railway station, he sent a messenger to make inquiries, and he found that no parcels had been left there. He had also received a letter from a gentleman in the country, stating that he had not received its dependencies), to be Captain-General and Governor-in- Chief of the Island of Jamaica and the territories depend ing thereon, during the prosecution of certain inquiries about to be instituted respecting the late disturbances in that island, and for such further time as to her Majesty may seem fit. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 22. Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Henry Frederick Chapman Lewin to be Second Captain, vice Richard Decie, who resigns. The following Lieutenants to have their temporary Commissions made permanent, viz.:— Robinson Garner Scott, Richard Tudor Frere, Valentine Francis Rowe, Frederick Hamley Fawkes, John Noble Manwaring, Killingworth Richard Todd, William Sin clair Smith Bisset, William Henry Coaker, Fleet wood Isham Edwards, and Herbert Hughes Whatley. BREVET. The promotion to Lieutenant-General of Major General P. Faddy, on the Retired Full-pay List of the Royal Artil lery, which appeared in the Gazette of the 3d November, 1865, to bear date the 20th September, 1865. Lieutenant-Colonel Albert O'Donnel Grattan, retired full-pay, Royal Engineers, to have the honorary rank o' Colonel. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 20. Royal Marine Light Infantry—Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. Stratton Aslett to be Colonel Second Commandant vice Farrant, retired ; Captain Arthur Butcher to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, vice Aslett ; First Lieutenant Charles Stark to be Captain ; vice Butcher. Second Lieut. Henry Edmond Mortimore to be First Lieutenant, vice Stark, - Mr. Frederic Moore has this day been promoted to the rank of First Class Assistant Engineer in her Majesty's Fteet. the parcels. The prisoner said he went to the depot the following morning and told Mr. Endean that ho hed been drinking, and did not know where he left the parcels. He also offered to pay for the property if he could not find it. Mr. Endean said the prisoner did come on the following morning, and went with the messengers to several places where he pretended he had been to. Police-constable Charles Butcher, 137 C, said that, seeing the prisoner in the Regent-circus yesterday after noon, he told him that he was going to apprehend him for a robbery at 48, Piccadilly. The prisoner said he had got "boozed" (drunk), and did not take the parcels to the rail way station, and did not know what he had done with them, but that he hadbeen to the office and explained all about them. He had since ascertained that the prisoner had been employed by a gentleman in Oxford-street to take a hamper to the Great Eastern Railway station, but that he had never delivered the hamper, and the prisoner had only just come out of prison, after six months' im prisonment, for a robbery at a railway station. Mr. John Saunders Holloway, clerk at the Charing cross Railway station, said there was no entry in the book of three parcels being received at the station. Mr. Knox said he would remand the prisoner, who appeared to be a regular thief, for a week. Sergeant Monckton, a detective at the Charing-cross Railway station, was in attendance to prove that the pri soner had been convicted for stealing 6s. from a person at the station, he having taken the money under the pretence of getting a railway ticket. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. `, a._ Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 18 Ditto 3 Months. 12 1 1 . 12 11 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 50 25 55 Brussels Hamburg - 13 9 Paris - Short 25 10 25 17 Ditto 3 Months. 25 371 25 45 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1201 l2l Vienna — 10 80 10 85 Trieste — 10 75 10 85 I'etersburgh - 30} 304 Berlin _2B 6...281 Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 461 47 47/- 481 25 60 25 - 65 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 FRE SUN, LoNuaN, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, BANK OF FRANCE PARIS, DEC. 21. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : Dec. 14. fr. c. 182,500,000 WESTMINSTER. DEPREDATIONS BY WAITERS.—WiIIiam Collier, a young man, was charged with being concerned with others in a systematic robbery. Henry Sparks, 186 B.—At a little before one this morn ing I was on duty near the Trevor Arms Tavern Music ball, Knightsbridge, and on going down a narrow passage leading to the hall, which is used only for professionals to enter, I found two bottles full of ale placed against the wall. As I considered this a very suspicious circumstance I determined to watch the bottles. Before long the pri soner and three other waiters came into the passage, and I immediately asked them what they did there, and what had become of the bottles of ale which had been moved. They said they knew nothing about them. I told them I would search them all before they left that passage, upon Ns , hich the prisoner stepped back and put down the two bottles of ale upon the ground. Mr. Street, proprietor of the tavern and music-hall in question, said that there were several waiters employed at , his establishment, and prisoner was one of them. The losses by theft had of late been considerable. The waiters had access to the bar to clear it after the night's work. The bottled ale was such as he sold. Sparks said that upon a subsequent examination of the other side of the passage spoken of, ho found two other bottles of ale placed in a corner. Prisoner—l know nothing about the bottles of ale. The policeman is wrong in saying I ever had them in my hand. One of the four waiters was called for prisoner, and said ho could scarcely believe the constable's statement. Mr. Selfe committed prisoner for trial. SOUTHWARK. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Frederick Cooper and John Tucker were brought before Mr. Woolrych, for final examination, charged with assaulting Jain Morgan, in the Westminster-bridge-road, and robbing him of his watch and chain. The prosecutor, an elderly man, said that on Saturday night last he was passing a shop in the Westminster bridge-road when the prisoner Cooper came up to him and asked him to point out to him the way to Westminster bridge. Witness was in the act of doing so, when Tucker and another came up and pushed him. At the same time Cooper snatched his watch and ran off with it. He was about to follow him when he was tripped up. As soon as he recovered himself he pursued him again. He in a short time saw both prisoners in custody. In answer to the Magistrate, the prosecutor said he was not struck by either of the men, but he was pushed and tripped up. He was positive that Cooper was the man who snatched his watch, and he believed he passed it to Tucker. Police-constable, 95 L, said he was on duty in the West winster-road on Saturday night last, when he saw the pri soners and another assault the prosecutor, and they all suddenly ran off. He heard Cooper say to Tucker, " step it," and they went in different directions. He pursued Cooper and took him into custody. Tucker was appre hended by 97 L. They were searched, but nothing was found on them. _ . The prisoners, in the most impudent manner, denied the charge, when Mr. Woolrych asked what was known of them ? Bricklow, a detective officer, said he knew them both as thieves, and he believed they had been convicted. Downes, the gaoler, also informed his worship that they had been there before. . _ Mr. Woolrych asked the prisoners whether they pre ferred being tried by him or go to the sessions. If so they must plead guilty. Both prisoners pleaded guilty, wishing to have it settled at once. 31r. Woolrych told them ho bad no doubt they were ex pert thieves, and had been previously convicted, but there was no proof of that before him. He should therefore sentence each to six months' hard labor in Wandsworth House of Correction. THAMES. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—Henry Roberts, aged 28, of Martha-street, St. George-in-the-East, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting Joseph Sun, a lad, in a very savage manner. Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, defended tho prisoner. The prisoner is the son of an old parochial watchman, and on the " watch and ward" of the metropolis being superseded by the police force of Sir Robert Peel followed the occupation of a private watchman, and at other times of a caller up," or arousing people in the early morn to attend to their business. The prisoner has fol lowed the profession of his late father for some time, and with tolerable success, for his earnings front that source Dec. 21. fr. c. 182,500,000 Capital of the Bank Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, Juno 9, 1857) Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve in law:ed pro party • 4,000,000 Notes in circulation 859,417,675 Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 22,1 - 05,750 14 22,105,750 14 4,000,000 875,H7,525 - 7,736;127 51 6,751,362 71 sight Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Patis 161,931,755 93 155,570,908 19 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 781,722 75 832,271 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 1,427,623 17 1,427,623 17 752,993 36 752,993 36 9,526,906 38 11,719,619 41 Total CREDITOR. Dec. 21. Der. 14. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c Branch banks Commercial bills over- 122,971 26 163,853 39 due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 307,865,628 79 329,435,280 31 Do. branch banks 315,359,500 321,073,185 Advances on deposit of 11,266,000 - 13,684,300 - 9,506,800 - 8,494,700 - bullion 1)o. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. ou railway shares and debentures 1). branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 13,259,300 - 13,143,400 - 7,505,300 - 7;289;000 - 30,276,900 - 19,886,580 - 30,002,200 10,526,780 653,200 - 450,450 - . 621,500 - 439,050 - 60,000,000 serve Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisdes 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 36,449,737 91 36,449,737 91 (Law, June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches ... Expenses of manage- 100,000,000 - 8,361,267 - 8,371,389 - nient Sundries 2,759,650 78 2,410,262 86 9,869,578 - 11,601,741 40 Total 1,397,388,796 17 1;410,426,870 80 Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) ROULAND. Metropolitan Railway Extension -0. Within four hundred yards of the Bank of Eng and a new railway station is on the point of open- ing which will accommodate the daily locomotive requirements of thousands of Londoners, and ulti mately bring within a narrow circle a ready access to the whole railway system of the country. Thus, deferring for a time the important consideration of ends which the Metropolitan Railway Company have in view, a reasonable mind might be contented to dwell on the immediate advantage of an addition, merely, of three quarters of a mile to the conve vient length of underground rail which has hitherto worked so satisfactorily between Paddington and Clerkenwell. But we may, nevertheless, glance at the entire scheme which is in progress, and which has for its object the intercepting of railway traffic at different points round London. The line, then, which i 3 complete from the Great Western terminus at Paddington to Finsbury Pavement, is a section of a circle, the remainder of which will enclose nearly the whole of the metropolis on this side of the river. Having got to Little Moorfields, the iron ring will continue east to Alclgate, then south west to Blackfriars, then west to Brompton, and then by a north and north-easterly sweep to Paddington, where the circle will be completed. On that portion of the line which has yet to be made the stations will be neither few nor far between. On the con- trary, indeed, they may be as inany and as close toge• ther as the exigencies of a crowded city demand. Their number will not be fewer than eighteen, which added to the nine on that part of the line already open, will give a total of twenty-seven stations on the entire circle. The projected stations, after Finsbury, will be Liverpool-street, Aldgate, Fen church-street, Mark-lane, King William-street, Blackfriars—where a point of communication with the London, Chatham, and Dover will be estab lished—Norfolk-street, Charing Cross, the Houses of Parliament—a private entrance being made here —Victoria Station, Sloane-square, Brompton Mu seum, Gloucester-road, Kensington, Notting-hill, Bayswater, and Paddington, where a second sta tion is to be built opposite the hotel. The posi tion of the Notting-hill one will be near the old toll-gate; and that at the Bayswater will be situated at the Queen's Road. It is unne cessary to demonstrate how the enterprise, which we have thus briefly sketched in outline, must re lieve the pressure on our crowded thoroughfares. A partial railway service in and under London only yields advantage to certain districts, while it may even in some degree tend to increase the traffic at points in its own vicinity. But so soon as the benefit becomes general, so soon as it is evenly spread over the whole circuit of the overgrown town, there can be no other result than a consi derable abatement of the difficulty one has now to encounter in traversing the heart of the City at busy hours of the day. It should be mentioned that the circular railway will consist far more of cuttings than of tunnels, and that the eighteen stations yet unbuilt are designed to be all in the open, instead of being covered in, as at Gower street and Portland-road. The survey and trial, on Wednesday, of the new length of rails, between Farringdon-street and Finsbury, by Capt. Tyler, the Government In spector, and by a company of gentlemen practically concerned in the construction and working of the line, resulted in the highly satisfactory announce ment that all is ready for the public opening, which is accordingly fixed for to-morrow. The official inspection began at about eleven o'clock, there being present Mr. J. Fowler, the engineer by whom these bold and complex works have been so far planned and carried out; Mr. T. Marr Johnson, the resident engineer, who will be as sociated with Mr. Fowler in the completion of the scheme ; Mr. J. Kelk, M.P., the contractor for the new piece just finished ; Mr. Myles Fen ton, the general manager of the Metropolitan Rail way Company ; Mr. Burnett, the locomotive su perintendent ; Mr. Armstrong, manager for Mr. lielk ; Mr. Spagnaletti, and other gentlemen. This little band accompanied Captain Tyler on foot, backwards and forwards between Finsbury and Farringdon-street, examining the rails, testing the efficiency of Saxby's locking signals and points, and putting also to repeated trials the ingenious tele graphy of Mr. Spagnaletti. The new Aldersgate street station, an intermediate work of some note, half-way on the recently-finished length of rail, like wise received a full share of close and minute atten tion. It is a fine structure, nearly 300 feet long, and opposing a lofty elevation to the main thorough- Ifare from which it is named. More im p ortant b y many degrees, however, is the second and permanent station at Farringdon-street, which is close to the temporary one that has heretofore been the terminus of the line, and faces with it the cross-way known as Charles-street. Here it is that auxiliary lines are in progress of formation, to communicate by a plan of mixed gauges with the Great Westei i n, the Great Northern, the Midland, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railways. PUBLIC FLOGGING.—On the morning of the 26th of October the Caffres sentenced at the Combined Court received their respective castigations in the Market-square of Durban. A large number of persons were present, in cluding many natives. The number of lashes apportioned to each of the three culprits was 25, but it was remarked by all present that the punishment was a mere mockery, and was evidently regarded with utter indifference by the recipients. If we are to have corporal punishment inflicted on the native at all, let it be worth the name, and, if publi city is to be given to these degrading exhibitions, let the flagellation be exemplary. In this case the floggees seemed rather to enjoy their titillation as a good joke, while on the Caffres around the spectacle produced the effect of a bur lesque—a parody of justice.—Natal Mercury. Ltverpool Cotton Market —This ray. Cotton market steady. bales. Manchester FEBRUARY. . Lincoln . Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Catteriek Bridge Abergavenny 5 Chelmsford Spring Ascot Spring I Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Windsor Summer ... ~ 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 JU Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Brighton Brighton Club Lowes lO Egham 14 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPT] Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Canterbury lB NOVE Lincoln Liverpool RACING FIXTURES FOR 1 .86 G. JANUARY. Sales probably 10,000 Nottingham Spring CII. _ _ Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Chester Curragh 24 AY. Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 Worcester •L Y. Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon AUGUST. York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter . ..... Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 28 Weymouth 3O IMBER. Richmond Monmouth Manchester Autumn 24 Newmarket Ist October 26 Walsall IBER. Shrewsbury Leamington Hunt ll THE SO-CALLED LEADER OF THE BAND AT THE ARGYLL Rooms.—Mr. P. Grenet, the manager of the Argyll Rooms, waited upon Mr. Knox, at the Marl borough-street Police-colyt, on Saturday, and said he wished to contradict the statement which had gone forth to the public that the Mr. Hill who was charged with beg ging at this court was formerly the leader of the band at the Argyll Rooms, Hill never having been either the leader of the band or engaged at the rooms. The fact of his being only a flute-player incapacitated him from being the leader of a band. Mr. Knox said he did not think the man stated himself that he had been the leader of the band, but the statement to that effect was made by a Mendicity Society officer. He had no doubt Mr. Grenet's object would be served by the statement he had made. Mr. Grenet thanked the magistrate and retired. LIFE AND CIVILISATION IN GEORGIA.—A cor respondent of the Roston Advertiser, writing from Albany, Georgia, descrites an unpleasant adventure in which be was a prominent actor. On the evening of his arrival he was standing on the steps of the hotel, when he writes —" There came up an ex-rebel colonel and the eouuty judge. Both were tipsy. The colonel singled me out perhaps because I was the youngest' and smallest of the party—and asked me to drink with him. I declined. He pressed his invitation, and the judge joined his impor tunity. I declined again and again—telling them that I never drank, and would not begin now. The colonel swore that I should drink with them, and threw his arms around me as I sat in my chair. I roso and disengaged myself, and stepped into the hotel. He asked each of the other gentlemen to drink, and each of them also declined. I'll get my pistol— somebody shall drink with me,' ho added with an oath, as he started for his store, five or six doors away. means you,' said one of the gentlemen, as I resumed my seat. I answered that I thought he wouldn't trouble me. Directly he came out cf the store with a revolver in his hand, exclaiming. 'Now show me the man who won't drink with me !"The landlord seemed to anticipate trouble, for he stepped out and met the colonel, and persuaded him that some one on the op posite side of the street was calling him." A Modern Robinson Crusoe, The Melbourne Correspondent of the Times sup plies a long narrative of a man named Musgrove, who was a year or two ago shipwrecked on one of the Auckland Islands, about 400 miles south of New Zealand, and compelled, with some of his crew, to stay there for nearly 20 months. He has published in Melbourne a diary, from which the narrative is taken. Some brief accounts of the affair have appeared before; but this full and au- thentic narrative is still interesting Early in January of last year, Musgrove, com- manding a small scaling vessel called the Grafton, out of the port of Sydney, was driven in a gale of wind on to one . of these islands, and his ship became a wreck. With difficulty he and his Crew contrived to reach the shore in a boat. 'The severity of the weather—gales of wind being the rule rather than the exception in that boisterous latitude—prevented them from getting many things from the vessel, and the only tools they had were a hammer, an axe, and an adze, and a gimlet, with which they contrived to make, after long and persevering labour, a thing they called a house, with a fire-place and chimney to it. For provisions they were dependent on seals, widgeons, mussels, and a sort of saccharine root found on the island, which served for bread and po tatoes, and which after some time they learned to brew into some stuff which, although not beer, the captain says was better than cold water. " First catch your seal," was constantly the cardinal prin ciple of this island cookery. The seals were in pro digious numbers, and Captain Musgrove's diary is interesting in its notices of these curious creatures. " They go roaring about the - woods," he says, "like wild cattle. Indeed, we expect they will come and storm the tent some night." Speaking of another part of the island, he says : " At this place we saw hundreds of seals ; both e shore and the water were literally swarming with In one instance we saw a black seal and a :hem. tiger seal fighting. They were at it when we first saw them. We watched them about half an hour, and left them hard at it. They fight as ferociously as dogs, and do not make the least noise, and with their large tusks they tear each other almost to pieces. In other portions of the diary are entries which show that from the excessively pugnacious charac ter of the old seals, especially of the bulls (which showed fight even when assailed with clubs by seve ral of the crew), the young calves were generally deemed the safer game, and were knocked on the head accordingly. After some months of this wretched struggle against starvation some of the men grew insubordinate. On Sunday, Feb. 7, Musgrove's log has a misanthropic tinge about it. He says : " Up to the presenttime the men have worked well and conducted themselves in a very obedient and re spectful manner towards me, but I find that there is somewhat of a spirit of obstinacy and independence creeping in among them. It is true, Ino longer hold any command over them, but I share every thing that has been saved from the wreck in common with them, and I have worked as hard as any of them in trying to make them comfortable, and I think gratitude ought to prompt them to still continue willing and obedient ; but you might as well look for the grace of God in a Highlandman's log-book as gratitude in a sailor. This is a well known fact. By a subsequent entry of the Ist May, he shows how he had successfully dealt with this disaffected spirit " I have adopted a measure for keeping the men in order and subjection, which I find to work ad mirably, and it also acts beneficially on my own mind. This is teaching school in the evening, and reading prayers, and reading and expounding the Scriptures on Sunday to the best of my poor ability. We have done this for some time now, and I am happy to say with much greater success than I at first expected. They are all getting particularly fond of reading and hearing the Bible read. Some of them cannot read yet, but they are learning very fast, and I have not heard a profane word spoken for a long time. So much for moral suasion. I trust that the result will be beneficial to all parties." In another mood, this poor sea captain's entry shows us a glimpse of his inner suffering : " My urgent prayer to Heaven is that I may be permitted to retain my health and reason through the distressing trial." And so on the diary proceeds—a little desultory, of course, as most diaries are—occupying nearly two pages of the Age newspaper, with the daily war fare on the seals ; with an account of the murder of a fine phlegmatic, ever-present, immoveable old seal they called Royal Tom, the plagues of sand flies blow flies, and boils breaking out on the faces of the sufferers, until at last some of them determine on attempting an escape from the island. Their only craft was the little dingy in which they had escaped from the wreck. The neareft inhabited land was New Zealand, 400 miles off. To traverse such a tract of stormy ocean in such a boat, Captain Musgrove knew was little other than a form of suicide ; but, grown desperate, he determined on the attempt. As well perish quickly at sea as slowly on shore, he said. Prudence or consideration for others need not restrain him, for his wife and mother in Sydney must long since have given him up for lost. He and his men raised the sides of the boat and otherwise made her fitter for a sea-way ; and, when ready, a question arose who should accompany the captain. eSom flatly re fused, two consented. They secured as large a store of seal and other food in the boat as she would carry, put forth to sea, and arrived at Invercargill in New Zealand, on the 27th of July. This is the most wonderful part of the whole narrative ; as probably such another voyage, in such a boat, was never before made. The captain and his men were treated with the greatest kindness at Invercargill, and a small craft was at once chartered to proceed to the island for the other men. They were recovered and brought away ; but as smoke was seen on another past of the island, it was thought that there were probably other shipwrecked persons there who were unable to escape, more especially as several vessels have been lost, or given up as lost, which have lately sailed from Australian ports. Captain Musgrove therefore came on to Melbourne, and applied to the Victorian Government for further assistance, which has been granted. The colonial steam sloop Vic toria has been despatched with a numerous crew, and with Musgrove on board as pilot, and the cap tain of the Victoria has particular instructions to make a careful search over the island, before he re turns to Melbourne, which will probably be about six weeks hence. It is needless to say anything of Musgrcve's personal qualities, which best appear from what he has done and suffered. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. • LoNnax, Dec. 22.—Wind this day at noon—South. Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Atlas, for Shields. FALMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Theresa, from Taganrog. BRISTOL, Dec. 21::—Wind W.—Arrived—Bonny Belle, from St. Michael's. CARDIFF, Dec. 21.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—Samite, for Bilboa. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 21.—Wind Jheleui, from Constantinople; Amalia, from Corunna ; Valentina, from Rochefort. CLYDE, - Dee. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Pero, from Malta and Gibraltar. HULL, Dec. 20.—Wind S.—Arrived—Gilbert Wheaton, from St. Michael's. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rob Boy, from Auckland, N.Z. KINGROAD, Dec. 20.—Wind W.—Arrived.—Cynthia , from St. John's. SWANSEA, Dec. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Roso of England, from Caldera. LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 21.—Rose, from Guernsey ; Alice Tainter, from Kurrachee ; Bebeck, from Guernesey ; Caroline Good yer, from St. Michaegs. Arrived, Dec. 22.—Union, and Amelia, from Gueresey ; 0. L., from Caen ; Victor, steamer, from Brussels ; Water ho, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Panther, steamer, from Boulogne. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed, Dec. 21—Ocean King, screw steamer, for Trieste; Seine and Tamise, sarew steamer, for Rouen—both from London ; Barham, from Madras ; Kennington and Duke of Athol, from Calcutta —all for London. In the Manchester County Court, on Wednesday, an action to recover £5O was brought by John Walmsley, beerhouse keeper, Henry-street, Oldham road, against a tripe dresser, named Samuel Kay, living in Jersey-street, Ancoats. Some months ago a disagreeable smell arose from a sough in the plain tiff's cellar, and it was thought that it proceeded through the medium of a drain, from the defendant's premises. In the month of August a mass of steam was thrown up from the sough, and when the nature of the defendant's business was considered, the opinion which had been formed received a corrobo ration. Eventually a flood of water, containing a large quantity of offal from the process of tripe dressing, found its way into the plaintiff's cellar, and a most offensive odour was emitted ; and in conse quence, it was alleged, the plaintiff's wife and child became ill, his customers ceased to visit the house, the plaintiff was obliged to betake himself to lodg ings, and he sustained altogether a loss of more than £5O. An investigation was made, and the nuisance was traced to the defendant's premises, from the back of which it was found the defendant discharged his refuse. From the point where this refuse left the defendant's premises, two drains ran in con trary directions, one of them being a drain which was under the supervision of the Corporation. This, it was discovered, had become so ob structed that anything discharged into it was afterwards forced into the other drain, of which the Corporation had no cognisance, and the free communication of which with the main sewer had been impaired by the " settling" of the ground. It was through this last drain that the filth passed into the plaintiff's house. It was proved that after the plaintiff's cellar had been drained of the water, there remained a heap of most offensive filth six or seven inches deep. The judge (Mr. Ovens) said he was surprised that the authorities allowed such matter to be turned into sewers. He asked if there was not a by-law to prevent such a proceeding. Mr. Francis, surveyor to the Paving Committee of the Corporation, said he was not aware of any by law of the kind. The drains were calculated, if in proper order, to carry off refuse from tripe dressing. Mr. Ambrose, for the defendant, said he had a right to use the drain. Mr. R. B. B. Cobbett, for the plaintiff, said he was not going to raise any ques tion as to the defendant's right to use the drain, but he had no right to create a nuisance. The judge said it was desirable to see how the two drains were connected. If that which passed under the plaintiff's house was a private drain, a man had a right to use it only as far as he had a right to easement against his neighbour. If it was a public drain it would make all the difference. He could not see any objection at present to the drain sanc tioned by the Corporation being used for the dis charge of anything which could fairly pass. Ho could not see how the refuse got into the private drain. If it was discharged into the public one and then, through some fault not resting with the de fendant, got into the private one, there was no case against the defendant. For the purpose of an ex amination being made, he would adjourn the case to the 15th of January. In the Matter of the hiblic Service. - -41- - (BRING A LETTER TO A COLONIAL GOVERNOR.) Mr dear Sir Adolphus, — You ask me what you should do if an insurrection were to break out, after all—if, for instance, 30 or 40 white men should be massacred. Do ? Nothing can be more simple. In the first place, you should immediately disband the troops. Bayonets are the last resort of tyrants. In the second place, you should send away any of her Majesty's ships that may happen to be cruising near the island. I tremble to think of the conse quences if an infuriated gang of British sailors should be let loose upon negroes who have only put a few whites to death and mutilated their bodies. In the third place, you should disarm the volunteers. if those murderous ruffians were to be surrounded by a justly indignant multitude of intelligent African labourers, and if they were, as they would deserve to be, pelted with brickbats and stones, I am convinced that the dastards would fire upon the inoffensive crowd. Having thus proved that you had no intention of coercing an amiable but enlightened people, I would recommend you to invite their leader—who accused you of stealing a piano—to dinner at Go vernment House. Between ourselves, I can hardly believe that you really purloined the musical in. strument in question ; but as the coloured gentle man is a personal friend of Mr. Chamerovzow, that good and gifted man, it would be rude to say that he is a liar. Your next step would be to distribute tracts amongst the poor blacks, who will by this time have assembled in considerable numbers. All this being done, I should then recommend you to try the efficacy of moral force by proceeding in person, and unarmed, to their camp. But as a mere matter of worldly wisdom, I should recommend you previously to make your will. Bear these principles in mind, my dear Sir Adol phus, act upon them, and yott will earn the eternal gratitude of Exeter Hall, and of the Lambeth Baths —of Mr. Chamerovzow, and of Mr. Murphy. To be sure England will lose the island—what of that ? Act otherwise ; and I will tell you what will be your fate. You must remember that Lord Palmerston is dead, and that as your name is neither Elliott nor Grey, you cannot rely for support upon Lord Russell. Public meetings will be held, a deputation, con sisting of a China merchant, a dissenting minister, a blind man, and a street preacher will wait upon the Premier ; a commissioner will be sent out to Sugar-cane Island ; you will be superseded ; you will be put upon your trial ; and you will probably be disgraced —Fun. . _ MARKETS—This Day. MARS-LANE. The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our market, to-day, were very moderate, yet the trade ruled quiet, at Monday's currency. The condition of the produce was tolerably good. The market was fairly supplied with foreign wheat. In most dtscriptions a moderate business was transacted, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. The supply of barley on sale was tolerably large. The trade, generally speaking, was dull, at the recent fall in prices. • Malt sold heavily at last week's currency. Oats•were in fair supply and slow request, at late prices. Beans were a dull inquiry, at the late decline in their value. Peas met a slow sale, at late rates. For flour there was a moderate demand, at previous quotations. The Corn Exchange will not be reopened till Wednes. day next. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch ll7O 3410 2000 3260 1120 Irish Foreign 2500 3990 6910 1330 sks. 310 brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are well supplied with meat, and tllO trade rules heavy, at the annexed quotations : ....._ _ _____ __ . , rcr 81b by the carouse. 8 (1 s d e d s d ~ 8 3 2 1 Inkrbr ti11itt011....3 8 4 4 Inferior beet 8 4 3 10 3liddlin4 mutton.. 4 6 4 10 1 Prim.e do .......... 5 0 b 4 Middling do. ~ Prime innal Ido 4 4 4 6 i Veal ~,,,,, ,,,,,,,3 6 4 6 3 10 4 10 I Small pork' 5 0 5 6 Large pork Prime lar-e do 4 0 4 2 Lamb, Os Od to Os Od. BOROUGH HOP. Wo have to report a, firm trade for hops. The amount of business done is very moderate ; nevertheless all qua lities support late prices. New Mid and East Kents Bos to 1902 per cwt. New Weald of Kents New Sussex Yearlings 9ss to 135 s ~ COLONIAL. SUGAR Business has been moderately active, and prices generally are a shade firmer. Refined goods are in more request at slightly enhanced rates. COFFEE —The dealings have been limited, but superior qualities of colonial maintain previous values. RlCE—There have been no sales of importance reported, and quotations are nominally unaltered. SALTPETRE—Business has been small, and rather lower rates are current. TALLOW—The market remains inactive. P.Y.C. on the spot is marked 48s 3d ; March delivery, 18s ; and Qctobar to December, 49s 6d to 50s per cwt. ~` f ir iici e(1 ►est unt the be age lay her a a .esi field hess his oWn 1 for rOnl g at left 3 the - the have t M. iraber )olffs under 81 5