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

MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The commercial public are anxiously awaiting to hear if the Bank of England directors will advance their rate of discount. The passages leading to the court are filled with an eager crowd to learn the result of the deliberations, although this is not the day for the weekly meeting of the authorities. This fact in itself is sufficient to indicate the perplexity of the mercantile community. In the open market the brokers have very little capital at their disposal, and will not negotiate business under the official miniinum. Yesterday there was a further sum of £159,000 in gold withdrawn from the Bank for exportation to the continent, and the movement of the precious metals is, it is almost needless to add, Watched with great interest. The Imperial Ottoman Bank has received advices from their Bucharest agency of the receipt from the Government of the usual monthly remittance of £5,300 for the interest, and £1,400 for the sinking fund, of the Danubian Loan. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has been very little animation. Sugars have remained without material alteration in value, while a moderate business has been done in coffee, at about former rates. Rice has been dull, but there has been rather more inquiry for tallow, and quotations for both present and forward delivery are well maintained. Two o'CLocK. According to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were quoted at 68f. 95c. The English Stock Market continues very de pressed, although no further change in prices has taken place. What will now for the next few days contribute to the dulness prevailing are the prepa rations for the fortnightly settlement. Consols are quoted 868 87 for money, and 871 for the ac count. Foreign Securities have slightly improved. Turk ish Consolides are 471 1. Mexican ex all 24/ ; the New Loan, 22i / ; Greek Bonds, 154 16f ; Spanish Passive, 271 ; the Certificates 141 1; Italian 641 ; the new loan 76k 77 ; the Con federate, 89 ; Brazilian Scrip, 1i prem.; Turkish 6 per Cents, 1854, 89 81 ; ditto, 1858. 711 1; ditto, 5 per Cent. paid up scrip 1865, 431 I ; Venezuela, 6 per Cents., 1862, 36k. American securities are very dull. United State,. 5.20 Bonds are 62i ; Erie shares, 574 i ; and Illinois, 801 I. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and prices generally showed increased heaviness. Great Northern A Stock have declined Zl, North Eastern (Berwick) 155., Lanca shire and Yorkshire and Midland each 10s., and Great Eastern and North Western each ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive at about former rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares, generally, are very quiet, and at barely previous quotations. Colonial shares are quoted 1 prem. ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, prem. ; British Convention Bonds of Mexico, 65 70 ; Commercial Company of Africa, 1 prem. ; the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England '(old) shares, 3f 3i prem. ; ex all and the new issue, 34 3f prem. ; the St. Saviour's Wharf Company (Limited) shares, 1 1i prem. ; the London Steam Towing Company, 1k prem. ; Charles Laffitte and Co., 4 14 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 9 8 per Cent. Reduced B 6titil New 3 per Cent B 6l New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs l3 13-16 11-16 Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 _-:- March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 3 dis 3 6 dis Do. £5OO 3 dis 3 6 dis Do £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account - INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10k per Cent., April 1874 Shut Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5i per Cent., May 1879 Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 9Bl Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do, under £l,OOO . FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do . 1863 Do. 1865 „ D. Scrip, £25 paid zuenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 44 per Cent Do. 3 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — , Do. 5 per Cent., 177-77, £25 paid — anubian Principalities ~, De Account — ''cluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do Provisional Land Warrant ~ 43Yptian 7 per Cent 92 Do., Second Issue 9ll Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 914 4 Do £lOO Bonds Creek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account DO. Coupons , Do. Account ~u atemala 5 per Cent. — Do .£B6 paid — 1 - 0 0. 1839 and 1850 * *a.,lian 5 per Cent, 1865 DO. Account De. Maremmaua Railway — 'P() Scrip, £674 paid - 1 -'0 5 per Cent., 1864 — ''exican 3 per Cent O. Account Do 1864 224 ) o 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — A l po French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — - ` oll tevidean 6per Cent., £3O paid Ilibi o orish Imperial 5 per Cent e ' r cy Granada — ,u 0 2 per Ce n t — 4 -',O Defe rre d i ) .uo Land W arran t s (H ec t ares ) c '• 6 per Cent, 1864 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — e'llvian 44 per Cent D C. Acc oun t - 0 0 Scrip, £45 p a id , pa id i n Bonds — De 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do Account c ortaguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 por Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, p Do. Account 'llssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 1.,130 per Cent. 1859 "" 1 -, 0 5 per Cent. 1862 Sardinian''' r Cent. 1861 — , 5 per t Cent } — 1„ .1 -'0 Account v,allish 3 per Cent -utto account 1)0 New DDeferred o Account 374 2 ~ co 0 Pa ss i ve — 181„"° Account it eish Cert. of Coup not funded' — ° Acco un t l4l 1 h ecl ish 4 per Cent. —l Tl4-' -,' 4 i per Cont. 1864 14- ' Bll 6 Cent 1854 D° er . Account B9 84 D o C Do Ac Pe ountr Cent. 1858 714 1 60 £ l .OO Bonds 77 b c) „*„ l 4 per Cent t i " ° per C en t. 1862 1)0 Account D ° „ £l OO Bonds iy-o 5 6 Per C en t., 1863 — D o Per Cent. 1865 — DD o A e r l P, £35 paid ° 4.kccount V'e ti ,?,,, l ( 0 Bands — DO 4l ,ela 3 per Cent. Do Account D o. Per Cent., 1862 Account 4, 4 t . D ividends on the above payable in L o ndon. I ,V'; 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florin s "1it t 1 1 4 ,2, 4 4 per cent., Ex. 2sf. b Do. A `l* Cant., Ex. 12 Guil _ Ireb . , }l 7 Per Cent. CertiticaLes — tali - Llertte9 3per Cent. , ar t 5 . — l A , , Per Cent. ,1861, Ex. 25f. .dokteolint 4 0 . 18 . fo r money THREE O'CLOCK. 87 / d Account, " v urPool Cotton Market —This Pay. 14 4 k: market opens quiet. Sales probably 7,000 ur of King ?,ster- i had hood xans dight. -sday, ce on 'rince mis of 'nn of y into 3 Civic ;onsti- :reuz) A the des as ceased 'rince, .ost its [erived o-day, Lys :----- ;ach to ight as where march 'le last he In- less to tat the robust Last t mid i Lae nt had hours, nly be, e Duke nd the nce in -Slllll g, and s over. foment igence, plc and ,ach of cer en- condi- Senate, tatives, a. M. Lsehold, te con- d th em . ed into >ble and 1 . The He was hildren of the of the iaplain, a Lae iamber. van .t affec land in Lte King without rround that he through ►ews ap ►nly too e sensa d for by overeiga Levotion, rn . Let s is this ;, neither be ob e popti ,n nation the past, Augusts the large -ence) by ►ted lady, Wemyss , llyburton s born on the Hon• bald, first ladyship Efally - Euntly, by rles Cope , Lt of state- member BRITISH MINES. Cam. Conaol. Cold, lira. Chiverton _ Clifford Amalgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls l East Bassett (Illogan) 'East Caradon East Cam Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake East Lovell E. W'W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. Great L Axey, limited Great South Tolgus ' Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist ❑ Grenville Herod's Foot Hingston Downs Margaret (Unylant Marke Valley ilwyndy Iron Ore, Hui New Seton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassetttlilogan North Whe (1 Crofty Prosper United Pr vidence Uny lant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) uth Coudurrow S.Wheal Fran. t illogan stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Cl gan, Bra West assett (11.ogart W. Caradon iL skeard West Chi rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Setou Wheal T►eiawney (Lis. 9 10 22 23 575 595 1 4 18 20 9 10 54 6 .3 34 I I 13 15 3 5 7 21 22 14 2 3; 4 34 85 0 4 41 36 38 54 5f 5 7 34 44 24 1 0 d 40 50 15 17 14 14 38 40 420 440 1 1 20 25 I.) 12 19 20 5 7 3 4 9 11 77 82 190 200 95 100 25 27 4 6 215 225 :9 20 eItEFKItItaNCH. 513A.ttE6 Great orthern, 5 per cent., 1044 Great Western, 4 per cent irred 83 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 80 South Eastern (Reading Anns., .£1.0.6), 23 Waterford and Kilkenny, 6 per cent., 54 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S London Tilbury, and Southend, 10 t Bradiord Fret. Stock, 91} IeoREIGN KAILWAYti. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9} 10 Isabda and San Francisco ,ilino gum. 7 per cent., 1 1 i iireat Luxembourg, 161 8- Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), Sambre and Meuse, 7i / San Paulo. liin., E ,ua. ii per cent., 17} South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 161 West Flanders, 72. FOREIGN MINES. Frontino and Bolivia ti old, lint., 2j St. John del Rey, lint., 49 50 United Mexican, lint., 3 i BAN Itsi„ Agra and Masterman's, lira., 58 2 Alliance, lira.. 292 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 25 is paid., 292 2 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 132 Bank of London. 139 Bank of ()tag°, lira., 7 City, 110 92 Colonial, hm.. 41i 2 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10i 10 English Joint Stock, lim., li 2 1 / European Bank, lim. ' 11; Imperial Bank, Um. , 282 Imperial Ottoman, 14 14; Land Mortgage Bank of India. lim., 42 London and Brazilian aim.), 49 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 242 London and County, 792 London Joint Stock, 502 London and South African, 171 17 London and 11 estminster, 97 62 Merchant Bank, lira., 26 111 etropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira., 172 2 Midland Bank, lim., 18 2 National Bank, 772 8 Oriental Balm Corporation, 51 Provincial Banking Corporation, lira., 72 Ditto (£10), 72 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lim., 52 1 Union of Australia, 542 2 Union of London, 532 2 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 22 Berlin Water Works, lim., 102 Buipbay Gas, lim., 5a Company of African 4 .llerchants, lira., 32 Credit Fonder and Mobilicr of Englanu, 82 Ditto,l7;s — ueclat a prom., of viraoh le to pay, 31 Credit Fonder of Mauritius, Urn., 7 Crystal:Palace, Fly Egyptian Corn and Trading, lim., 2/ Gen. Credit and Finance of London. um.. 61 51 6 Imperial Mercantil e C re dit Asso., 7EI International Contract, 54 International Financial .society, lira., 6 51 Interational Land Credit. lim.. Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. Ic7o, issued 90,182 / Joint Stock Discount. Um., 9EI London Financial Association, lim, 201 1 1 London General Omnib us C ompan y, lira., 11 Dlillwall Freehold Land and Dock, 6i I Di ilwall Iron Works. 4/ National Discount ompany. 17 1( Ocean .ttrine Insurance), 241 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 211 1 24 Thames and Mersey ,Marine) Insurance, 11111, 1 .81 I Warrant Finance, UM., 7 61 SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. -• ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ R a ilw a ys. p aid. l Closing I Business Price. done. 113ristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian .... 93 95 124 26 94 96 13 15 4} 5} 68 72 71 722 Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast Juno Dun„Perth, & b.Junc I.London, scrip Certi , Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, ( )rd. s tk. 1_ Do. E. Angi. st No ? - -d 112 114 421 i3l 7 6 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D . A stock Do. B etock 127 '2B 146 147 Do. .\ew, is. at 25 ID,' Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste:n Original D Val. Rail gua. • " • • 601 41 Do. South ‘Vales:... Do. W. Mid.— Oxtord Do. Newport. eford. Lane 'shire & Yorkshire L ,ndon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast Lon., c hat., and Bova Do. Metrop. e.x. A Lon. & orth Western Lon. & South Western Man., Sher., & Lincoln Metropolitan..... Do. New 604 61 41 43 35 40 04 ‘O4 121 122 88 90 103 104 20 38 50 82 1244 !25 90 97 616 62 130 137 3 114 p 1 4 1 11 , 1031 1044 Do Extension Metropolitan District Do du. do Do. and :-A.John'sW'd Nlid and Do. £9 Share Do, liirmin.. & Derby 'lid Kent ... 1221 1231 11 1 1 I , 93 95 North British ... I 8 6, Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. (x.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stook. & Darling. Do. 10. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 .... Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. stock Shropshire Union South Devon south Eastern Staines, Wok., dc Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Weath Waterford & Kilkenny, Waterloo & Whitcha West Cornwall BRITISH P Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, 4 Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. k' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Bult,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- t Calcutta & S. E., lim ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pt East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East ladian, gu. .5 p.c. Do. J Eitasimi • • Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds, 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds. Do. do. deferred ... Do. d Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred ... Do. 4th Pref. stock . Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. o. Gua. 5 per cent.. Do. New gua. 6 p. c Gt. South of India ...... gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent Do Great W. a. of Canada.. D.,. New .. Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay 1873 t 5 , do. pay. 1877-8.. fndian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 4f do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extensiou Cor. 6 p. c. finds. Mel. & Hudson's nay N. If 1. C'da, 6pc Ist pf. ha cinde Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Punjaub :.1 L e' I Do.lndus St Flo 'l' COLONIAL GO VER. British Columbia,6 pert cent., Deo. 31, 1372 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-54 Do 6 p. c. Feb. & D sp. c. Mar. & Septl 00. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p Inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 uo.Apl.ez Oct 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9. Do. Jan. &July, 1590-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1000 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1..78 Do. 1882, May t 5, Nov. ,1 Do. 1895, Feb. & AuZ Natal , iov. 6 per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&,luly IN. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 c Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1871 , 1 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to IS9_' New Zealand, 6 p. cent' Do. 5 per cent Nova SoJtia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18684+ Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. J a & July Do. do, A pril & Oct 7 29 110 111 71 72 104 105 36 57 10 128 128 2 2p, 2 Zip 74 75 11 12 148 119 67 69 112 114 55 57 761 77i, 8 - 9 148 150 3 4 p 101 104 49 61 ISIONS. 69 61 102 103 ip 61 Of 10 11 77 62 99 101 65 70 101 103 102 103 103 104 iP 30 31 88 90 6S 63 55 60 58 53 50 55 45 48 40 44 32 31 81 33 103 1(.4 I 3 P 1011 10211 16} 17 4 Sid, 15 1 83 r 7 1 4d 10ti 10211 04 89 91 64 66 82 84 1..14 102,1 101, 102 i lot 102 IT SECUR: 96 98 94 416 94 96 62 8r 81 S 3 104 106 IC4 106 NA 106 105 107 90 92 lui IG2 106 108 103 105 106 108 104 106 1 6 10S 96 99 96 P 8 1 0 102 93 95 90 81 103 105 84 85 10) 102 103 104 106 108 105 106 2.1.0 294 2.14.6 31 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.0 CI 3 / 4 2} 113 73/4 146 k 7 Cii 6O i i 4 1031 3 51} 12►4 5 A I 1315 51 6k 104} 123 i 3 4 i i 1101 lii 104 i 4 55 77 t3i 'OSSE 102* 1.3* * 31* i 1E ,ITI Es, 1051 41 105} i FIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, lEEE. The Attack on Cape Haytien. A writer in a contemporary says :—Not seeing any account in the public prints of yester day of the destruction of the forts at Cape Haytien on the 9th of November by her Majesty's ships the Galatea and Lily, I write to mention to you that yesterday's post brought me a letter stating that after two days' fruitless negotiation the Galatea and Lily, at nine a.m. on the morning of the 9th, engaged the forts ; that the firing continued all day, and that at 6 p.m. the last fort was silenced. As each fort was silenced the Go vernment troops, under President Geffrard, charged up and took possession of it. The rebels retreated up into the mountains, closely followed by the Go vernment troops, and at night the town (which I presame to be Acul) was set on fire in seven differ ent places. It had previously been besieged for seven months by 45,000 government troops. The Lily had several men hurt, but the Galatea had none. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury. DEFRIES V. THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mr. Moss Defries, a partner in the eminent firm of Defries and Sons, gas engineers, Houndsditch, for compensation for injuries sustained on the South Eastern Railway on the occasion of the late terrible accident at Staplehurst, when he was a passenger in the ill-fated train. The learned counsel for the plaintiff, in opening his case, said Mr. Moss Defries was a gentleman previous to the accident of the most robust health and activity, but since the accident he had been the mere wreck of what he previously was. The action was brought to recover compensation for the extensive injuries he had sustained, and he had no doubt that they would give him as damages a sum commensurate with his posi tion as a gentleman, and the member of so exten sive a firm as that of which he had until the acci dent been a most energetic member. The Messrs. Defries' was a firm noted all over the world. They had executed orders of the greatest magnitude for the Nizam, the Sultan of Turkey, and the Viceroy of Egypt, and altogether their business was one without parallel. The carrying on of so gigantic a trade necessarily called for an immense capital, and the returns for that were comparatively great. The plaintiff and his two brothers, Coleman and Henry, were the sole partners comprising the firm, and therefore the plaintiff was entitled to, and received, a third of the profits. In consequence of the ter rible accident, he (the plaintiff) had been compelled to entirely abstain from business, and he (the learned counsel) was informed he never would be able to resume active exertion again. In awarding damages they must take into consideration the immensity of the business of the plaintiff, and the loss that had been incurred to it by his absence, and although he was sure the jury could not adequately compen sate him in money for the injuries he had received, yet they could give him that substantial recompense for his suffering that he was by law entitled to. The plaintiff was then called, and the Chief Baron, owing to his weak condition, directed that he should be placed on the bench beside his lord ship. The exertion of getting to the spot was so great that Mr. Defries nearly fainted, but on seating himself his lordship handed him a restora tive, which had the desired effect for a time. After answering a few questions respecting the injuries he had sustained, he became so prostrate that he had to be carried from the court. A number of medical witnesses were then exa mined, the effect of whose evidence was that Mr. Defries might recover to some extent, after the lapse of a long period of rest, but his perfect recovery appeared to be hopeless. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., for the company, said they must be guided in the conclusion of their verdict by the law. They must take into consideration the injuries Mr. Defries had sustained, and give him damages they thought he was entitled to. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, £3,500. _ _ _ The - amount of the damages was considered by the spectators as insufficient, as they expressed their disapprobation of it in the ordinary manner. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) HASTILON V. STOBIE.-JUDGMENT. His lordship delivered judgment to-day in this rather singular case. He said that the defendant had pleaded to a declaration that the testator was not acquainted with the contents of the will which had been propounded, and Sir Cress well Cresswell considered that a will executed under such circumstances wai legal. To that ruling he must object, because he considered it was opposed to the constitution of human nature ; and, further, he believed it was never known that a man handed over to another the authority to make his will with out being acquainted with what were to be the con tents. He was bound to say this will was not legal, because the law held that not only intelli gence but volition were requisite on the part of a testator in the execution of his will, and in the course of his legal experience he was not aware where any dictum had been laid down or any precedent of ancient or modern times adduced to establish the contrary. He felt bound to refuse probate of the present will, but the costs were to be costs in the case. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CRUELTY TO HORSES.—Henry Dexter, a carrier, of Church-street, Staines, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the instance of Mr. Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelly ill-treating and torturing two horses by working them while in an unfit state. Rutherford, officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said that, about half-past eight that morning, he was in Pall-mall East, when his attention was drawn to two horses attached to a van. Observing that the horses were in a miserable state, and scarcely able to crawl along, he stopped them, and found several wounds in the near side horse, the saddle pressing into one of them, and the horse being very old, and mere skin and bone. The other horse had several raw wounds on its shoulders and loins—wounds of old standing, and matter oozing from them. The horse was in such a deplorable state that its hip bone was nearly through its skin. He had never seen horses in a worse state. The d4lendant told him that he had brought 30cwt. of mustard from Hounslow, and that the van weighed 15cwt. The defendant said he was not whipping the horses. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the defendant was not charged with whipping the horses, but with cruelty to them, by using them while in an unfit state. Why did he (defendant) not draw the van himself—he was quite as able to do so as the horses ? There was a class of persons living round London who did not care what sort of animals they led. He should fine the defendant 20s. or 14 days for each horse, and he wished him to know that he was liable to a fresh penalty every day he took them out and worked them, and also liable to three months' imprison ment. The officers of the society would take care to watch him, and if he used the horses again and was brought before him (Mr. Tyrwhitt) he would have three months' imprisonment. The defendant said he would have one of the horses killed. The Extraordinary Intended Prize Fight as Reported at the Clubs• (From the London Correspondent of Saunders's Dublin News Letter.) A painful rumour has been prevalent at the " West End," within the last day or two, to the effect that a prize fight for a thousand pounds a-side is about to take place shortly between two " gentle men" well known in fashionable circles ! I regret to say that I have reason to believe that this report— so degrading to the upper classes, if not, indeed, to the nation—is no less than true. I have made special inquiry into the matter, hoping to have elicited that the story was but a senseless hoax. But I cannot indulge in any conclusion so satisfactory. I learn—indeed I am informed by those who assure me of their personal knowledge as to the particu lars, and whom I cannot doubt--that this scan dalous event is really in contemplation, and that the intended combatants are actually in strict training at this moment for its consummation. Names, of course, are for the present withheld, and, in truth, I should be sorry to learn them, and yet be debarred the privilege of exposing them ; but I am told that one of the champions was formerly in our cavalry, and that both are members, for the present only it is to be hoped, .of a well-known fashionable club. It seems that there is a disparity of nearly ten years . in their ages, but that, nevertheless, by judges of such matters, they are considered very equally matched. lam further told that both have pre viously exhibited their proficiency in gladiatorial skill, and that the contest is appointed to come off shortly after Christmas. Mutual jealousy of this questionable pre-eminence is said to have led to the proposed encounter. I need scarcely say that, in my humble opinion, this event, should it ever be permitted to take place, or should it avoid the de tection and prevention by the " authorities" here, will be a lasting disgrace upon our social progress. It behoves, I think, any member of " society" desi rous that his order should be nationally respected, to rescue it, if possible, from so foul a stain ; and if the names of those who would thus pollute it should come within his knowledge to at once forward them to the Home-office. The subject is causing consi derable sensation in certain circles, and lenient hopes are expressed that the affair will all end in smoke, and that the interference of friends will succeed in averting it. I fear those hopes are delusive. lam afraid that the arrangements in progress argue earnestness of intention ; and that " gentlemen" capable of entertaining such an intent are likely to find in these " friends" those far more likely to encourage them in their design than to dissuade them from it. Public exposure would be the only remedy. PATRICKSON V. PATRICKSON.-JUDGMFNT. His lordship delivered judgment in this case. The suit was promoted by the husband for a disso lution of marriage by reason of his wife's adultery, which the evidence fully established. The only question reserved for the decision of the court was as to whether the marriage had been proved. The marriage relied on was one that had taken place at Gretna-green, and at the trial a book was produced, which was kept by the person who performed marriage ceremonies there. That book stated that the parties in this suit were married on a certain day, and that entry was signed by the petitioner, whose handwriting was proved. It was further proved that the parties, when leaving Cumberland, where they had been living, stated that they were going away to be married, and on their return lived together as man and wife. Without going into further details, he considered that the evidence of the marriage was satisfactory. He must, therefore, decree the mar riage dissolved. ADJOURNMENT OF TIIE COURT. The Court at its rising adjourned until the 11th January, the first day of Hilary Term. The rising of the Court at this time is unprecedentedly early, the sitting after Michaelmas Term usually lasting till the end of the month. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Hazlitt.) IN RE lIOPE.-A lIARD CASE. This bankrupt was described as of various places in the country, and now of the Black Bull, Holborn, clerk in holy orders, and schoolmaster, and to-day was appointed for proof of debts. 'The amonnt already on the file is £548, and the bankrupt states the cause of his failure to having been induced to give £250 for the goodwill of a scholastic estab lishment which was guaranteed to produce £1,200 per annum, but which proved an utter failure. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) BAD PORK.-NORTH V. CURTIS. This was au action to recover a sum of money for a pig which proved utterly unfit for human food, plaintiff being a dealer of 11, Rose-street, Newgate Market, and defendant a butcher, of Great Trinity lane. Plaintiff stated that he used a portion of another salesman's stall in Newgate Market, and upon a certain day sold defendant a pig. Defendant said that the pork was very bad. His Honour— There is no implied warranty in the case of pork. Defendant—But in this case the matter was settled. When I got the pig home I found that it was shockingly bad, and therefore it could not be used. I informed the person of whom I purchased it that this was the case, and he struck the amount out of the bill. Plaintiff stated that the person who had struck out it had no right to do so, as the pig belonged to plaintiff. His Honour observed that the Court of Exche quer had expressly decided that there was no implied warranty in the case of meat supplied by a sales man to a butcher. Defendant—But this pork was so bad that if the inspectors had seen it I am quite sure they would have condemned it. His Honour—That is quite another matter, and if the inspectors had condemned the meat before it had been sold to you the case would have been different, but the salesmen have got a law in their favour, and they seem determined to uphold it. lam bound to administer the law as laid down by the Court of Exchequer, and must find for the plaintiff. Verdict for the plaintiff, with costs. Thomas Baring, Esq., is the gentleman recom mended by the Court of Directors of the Bank of England to fill the vacancy in the direction caused by the retire ment of the Right Hon. George Joachim Goschen. WESTMINSTER. SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF DRUNKENNESS AND FURIOUS DRIVING.—James Serninands, a cab driver, was charged with being drunk and furious driving, whereby a serious accident resulted. Sergeant Purchase, 10 B, said that there had been two complainants in this case—one a coster monger whose barrow had been broken up by de fendant's cab, and the other a boy who had been run over, and so much injured that he was at pre- sent an inmate of St. George's Hospital. Defendant had settled with the first by compensating him for the damage, but the other charge would be pro ceeded with. Thomas Coble, 212 B, said that at 6 last evening he was called to Belgrade-place, Pimlico, where he found a collision had taken plaee between a cab and a costermonger's barrow. He found the defendant there drunk, and the hinder part of his cab was completely knockedi away from the other part. A donkey barrow was lying turned over in the road. Mr. Arnold—You got some information, I sup pose, about the matter. Witness—Yes, your worship ; I found that a boy had been knocked down and run over by the de fendant. The boy was taken to St. George's Hos pital, and it seems was quietly crossing the road when he was knocked down by the horse driven at a furious rate. Mr. Arnold—Where was the cabman when you came up—on his box ? Witness—No ; on the ground with his head cut, drunk, and bleeding. Defendant—l had a fresh horse and could'nt help it. Air. Arnold—You were drunk. Defendant—Well, I had had a little. Defendant was remanded till the boy is expected to be able to attend. Bail to be accepted. MARYLEBONE. ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER IN PADDINGTON.— COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL OF THE Ac c USED. Robert Mothersole ' a middle-aged ma n , o f 17, Salem-gardens, Moscow-road, Paddington, boot and shoemaker, was brought up for re-examination, charged with attempting to murder Mary Anne Mothersole, his wife. Mr. Pain, of Marylebone-road, solicitor, appeared to watch the case on behalf of the prisoner. The wife, a respectable-looking woman, and ap parently very weak from loss of blood, was led into court, having just been brought from St. Mary's Hospital. She said on Friday night my husband came home and was cross with me. I was not angry. He was the worse for drink. Whilst he was at supper lie got into a passion because I had refused to drink with him the previous night in a had treated people him withpucbolinct-ehmoupst and e.H in e who kept a public-house and others would cry shame upon me. I made him no answer. He came up su s l a te id d him, an to me with a plate in one hand and a tableknife in the other, and cut my throat. My neck was b are , and the blood came profusely. I went into the next room, and after I had been in there some ti me , and when he had finished the supper, be came into me. I said to him " 0 dear, you have cut my throat, surely you did not mean to do it." He re plied, " Didn't he, and if it was not for the law he would stab me." I cried, and lie said, " Get out of my sight." When he cut my throat I thought he was not going to do it. He went into bed and I was anxious to have something done, and not liking to awake the landlady, I went into the street and saw a policeman, who took me to the station-house, where my wound was dressed. The officer was taking me home when the wound burst out bleeding again, and I was taken to the hospital. I said I would charge my husband. Doctor Beale, Porteous Road, said—l was called to the woman, who was bleeding most profusely from a wound in the neck. There was a cut near upon three inches in length upon the back of her neck. It was a clean cut wound, cutting through one of the arteries that supplies the back of the neck with blood. She had lost a quantity of blood. John Jeffrey, 171 X—After taking her to the station-house, I went and took the prisoner into custody. He was in bed, sound asleep. After waking him, he wanted to know what he had done. I said, " Don't you know ?" He said, " No." I told him he had cut his wife's throat. I then locked him up. Prisoner—l went home, and my wife asked me to have supper, and we were talking very civilly about family affairs. She said we would go to bed, and I said I would in a minute. If I hurt my child lam as innocent as a child unborn. If I stabbed her I did not know it. I believe I was going to kiss her, as we were on very good terms. Mr. Yardley fully committed the prisoner for trial. WHOLESALE UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN.—A middle-aged man, who gave the name of John Barton, a cook, was charged with uttering counter feit coin. Mr. Morton, 188, Kentish-town -road, fishmonger, said the prisoner came to his shop and purchased a herring, and in payment for it gave a bad four penny piece. He was given into custody. About a fortnight ago he (the prisoner) tendered a bad coin (sixpence) for a herring, and then joined a woman outside. Thomas Penn, landlord of the Cardinal Wolsey Tavern, Kentish Town, said—A few nights ago the prisoner came in, called for a glass of pale ale, and gave a shilling in payment, which was afterwards found to be bad. Richard Wildey, 153 T, said he took the pri soner into custody, and at his residence found a smelting pot with some white metal in it, and also some silver sand. Since he had been in custody witness found that he had been passing counterfeit coin very extensively amongst publicans and trades men in the neighbourhood of Cambden-town and Kentish-town. Ile produced a dozen counterfeit pieces, which he had received from the parties. The prisoner was remanded till Thursday next for the attendance of the Mint solicitor to prose cute. MARKETS—This Day. HAY SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 lOs; clover, £5 5s to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load. Demand inactive. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 12s Od; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. Trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 4s to £5 lOs ; clover, £5 5s to £6 lOs Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load A slow trade. COLONIAL. TEA.—A moderate amount of business has been done in now season's Monings, at from is 10d to 2s 2d per lb. SUGAR.—There has beon very little activity in the market, and quotations remain without change of import ance. Refined goods, however, have been in more request, and have brought steady rates. COFFEE—A moderate quantity is announced for public sale during the week, and late rates are generally well sus tained. RlCE—There has been a very limited inquiry, and no dealings of importance have been reported. TALLOW—Very little speculative business has been done, but there continues to be a fair consumptive demand. P.Y.C. on the spot is;quoted 49s 6d 49s 3d, and January to March 50s per cwt. SIR CHARLES EASTLAKE—who remains at Pisa —we are sorry to hear is in a very low state. Hardly any hope is entertained of his recovery. He has appointed Mr. &sail his deputy in Trafalgar-square. THE CATTLE SHOW. Towards 2 o'clock yesterday, after the pink, blue, and yellow rosettes had been adjudged in the several classes—to the shorthorns, Scotch and Welsh cattle, by Messrs. Hugh Aylmer, George Drewry, and William Torr, and to Devons, Here ford, Sussex, Norfolk, or Suffolkpolled, longhorned, Irish, and crossed or mixed breed cattle, by Messrs. John Buckley, John Coleman, and Thomas Pope, the 18 first prize oxen and steers were marshalled side by side in the centre of the hall, and exhibitors (now permitted to take a bird's-eye view of the public judging), congregated in the nearest portions of the galleries to watch the process of selection for the great honorarium of the show. Short work was made of half the animals, which were led off reluct antly to their several standings, leaving for a closer scrutiny a Devon, Hereford, shorthorn, Sussex, Highlander, polled Scot, Welsh, and a Hereford and shorthorn cross. The two latter were first turned away, then the Sussex steer, followed by the polled Scot. Would the palm go to Messrs. Martin's short horn, Mr. Loyd's Hereford, Major-General Hood's Devon, or the Duke of Sutherland's Highlander ? The shorthorn, good as he was, was not good enough ; the Hereford, compact, but too short in the quarter, retired from the contest ; and there, having vanquished their massive rivals, stood the clever little Devon from the Royal farms, and the game looking little horned Highlander hesitated, appa rently as though they had done enough in a hurry; dividing three against three, and ultimately calling in one of the stewards, an eminent shorthorn breeder, who gave his voice for the mountaineer. Once in the history of the Sheffield Club has the Devon breed, and once has the cross-bred class wrested the chief prize from the shorthorns and Herefords ; but, now, for the first time, a Scotch beast is made the year's champion. A handsome specimen of the breed, with beautiful head and lyre like horns, a dark red and brindled coat not too shaggy to indicate good quality, an amazingly deep frame, with short fine legs letting the carcass almost down to the ground, very heavily fleshed, but rather too flat-sided and wanting at the shoulder point, small for an ox nearly six years of age, girthing only Bft. lin., and a slack handler (at least for southern taste), this is by no means the best that we ever saw ; and if it be really the crack bullock of the show characterises the quality of the whole as considerably below par. Breeders ask--for what was the red-and-white riband awarded ? Not for substance ; for the shorthorn at only half the age carries, perhaps, one half more weight of beef, and girths within an inch of 9ft. Not for quality as butchers' meat ; for Gen. Hood's Devon has a touch of marvellous firmness and an elasticity indicating the perfection of ripeness ; indeed, the dun-coated Highlander standing behind the Duke's has a firmer hand, and many animals in the show surpass it in quality of flesh. Perhaps the proclivities of judges for their favourite breeds, failing to carry the day, ultimately gave in to pluck and the picturesque. As the Highlander pleases the eye, so the Devon ap proves itself to the hand ; but pretty and well made up as this steer is, we have seen even better at for mer exhibitions. The Devons are in strong force, and of fully their usual merit ; Mr. J. Overman, of Burnham, NOr folk, being first in both of the steer classes; Major- Gen. Hood, of the royal farms, and Mr. Burton, of Shobrooke, Crediton, Devon, being second. In the class of steers or oxen Mr. Heath, of Ludham-hall, Norfolk, wins the second prize to Gen. Hood's first. Mr. Farthing, of Stowey Court, Somerset, wins a first prize with a nice heifer ; Mr. Waiter, of Bear wood-park, Berks, comes in with a good second, beating a fair third of Mr. Blomfield, of Wells, Norfolk. And in a pretty fair class of cows, Mr. Heath takes first, and Mr. W. Smith, of Higher Hoopern, Devon, the second prize. The Herefords make a fine show, but including in their ranks too many big, plain beasts to excel their appearance of last year. In the ox class, the first prize animal of Mr. Heath is of tremendous size, and girths 9ft. 7in., but is very plain, with an arched instead of level back. Mr. J. M. Read's is hand somer though not so weighty. Mr. Aaron Pike, of Tewkesbury, Glooestershire, is second in this class. Mr. T. Jones, of Shrewsbury, and Mr. Garrett, of Compton Scorpion, Shipston-on-Stour, are first and second with heifers. Mr. Bettridge's first prize cow is wonderful about the hips and quarter, not so good forward, though fairly beating Mr. Jones's second prize cow. Shorthorn merits come out in the heifer class. Here the Earl of Radnor is first, the Earl of Hard wicke second, and Mr. Stoneham, of Crayford, Kent, third ; the Earl of Radnor also gaining the £4O Silver Cup, with Gold Medal as breeder, for 1 the best female in the cattle classes. The judges had out Mr. Heath's Devon cow, Mr. Farthing's Devon heifer, this Shorthorn heifer, Messrs. Heasman's Sussex cow, Mr. Pollok's Irish heifer, and Messrs. Martin's Aberdeen and Shorthorn cross heifer; the final competition lying between the Shorthorn and the cross-bred, and the Shorthorn getting the best of it. A good animal, not of the very best make and finish, with a broad, table back, but with a tail badly set on, slack behind the shoulder, low on the leg, and even too low behind, this heifer is scarcely to be placed befo re th e E ar l o f H ar d w i c k e ' s second prize red-and-white, which is an extremely pretty heifer, of beautiful symmetry, and very much better forward than the other. The cows are not so grand as usual. Mr. Aldworth, of Frilford, Berks, is first with a cow wonderfully good, except for deficient hind-quarters ; and Mr. Ralph Newton, of Wood stock, is second. The long-horns are weaker than ever—only one moderately good steer of Mr. Chapman, of Upton, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, which takes the prize. The horned Scots are in large numbers, and of great merit. The Duke of Sutherland's steer, as before said, wins the Silver Cup, value £4O, with gold medal to the breeder, with, of course, the first prize in its class,—and this is £3O, for the Club prizes are on a magnificent scale all through their list. The cross or mixed bred cattle are numerous, and about as good as usual. The sheep, especially the South Downs, are re markably fine ; but we see none of the old familiar names connected with the gold medal. The glory has departed. Goodwood, nor is it to be heard of in the halls of Hove; a new man—at least in the South Down world—has turned up. Lord Sondes takes the prize, and in this case the public endorse the decision of the judges. Of pigs, beside the apparent paucity of their numbers, they are not equal in size and quality to the porkers of former years. The Radnor pen is this year as famous as ever for the roundness of its inmates, the shortness of their noses, and their general superiority over all surrounding porkers. BATTLE OF TOULOUSE. WAS WELLINGTON OR SOULT MOST TO BLAME FOR THE UNNECESSARY EFFUSION OF BLOOD IN THAT BATTLE, THE WAR HAVING BEEN VIRTUALLY AT AN END ? (From the last number of Notes and Queries.) ---~- In reply to an inquiry under the above heading, in a recent number of Notes and Queries, as to how Lord Wellington could justify Soult for having caused that sanguinary battle, I stated that Lord Wellington was most to blame, having been the aggressor, and aware that the allied Sovereigns had been then in Paris for about a fortnight, and that they had declared Napoleon dethroned and Louis XVIIT. Sovereign of France, the war ought there fore to have been considered as virtually at an end, this proclamation of the Allied Sovereigns from the capital of France having been regarded in the same light as if Napoleon had actually abdicated. There were various replies in Notes and Queries which I did not consider deserving of notice, as they were from anonymous writers, and did not question the correctness of my facts, but clung to the fact, that as the official notification of the abdication of Napoleon had not reached the hostile armies, then preparing for battle at Toulouse, this proclamation was undeserving of notice and the thousands of lives thus sacrificed justifiable. I find, however, in a recent number of that publication, a letter from Col. Ponsonby of the Guards, containing an extract from the papers of his father, the late Sir Frederick Ponsonby, in which it was stated " That he was the first who brought the intelligence of Napoleon's abdication to Lord Wellington, having preceded by some hours from Bordeaux Colonels Cooke and St. Simon, who were bearers of the official despatches to that effect." This extract from the papers of so distinguished an officer as Sir Frederick Ponsonby I consider de serving of notice, so far as regards my confirmation of all the facts therein contained, submitting at the same time that such facts do not at all disturb my views of the case—namely, that Lord Wellington having been aware of the proclamation, already al luded to, of the Allied Sovereigns as to the down fall of N apoleon, and the succession of Louis XVIII., ought to have considered the war as much at an end as when Napoleon was forced to abdicate, and that consequently the loss of life in that battle was un necessary, it being improbable, if not impossible, after the destruction of the French army in the Russian campaign, and the invasion of France by the Allied Powers of Europe, north and south, the declarations In favour of Louis XVIII., and the general outcry for a termination of the war at Bor deaux and other cities and towns, that Napoleon could continue to govern that country. Even Napier, the historian of that war, who generally supported Wellington, admits this to have been "an unnecessary spilling of blood," one re giment alone, the gallant 42d, having lost four fifths of their number in their endeavour to retain one of Soult's fortified heights, after being over powered by numbers until supported by the 71st and 91st Regiment, which were also reduced to what he termed an extended line of skirmishers compared to what they had been in close contact at the com mencement of that sanguinary conflict—a conflict (in which, as I commanded a regiment, and was one of the sufferers from a musket ball that has never been extracted) I am not likely to forget—which must justify my having a perfect recollection of all the facts connected with it, and my defence of Soult from the blame which has been cast upon him when he was not the aggressor, having only defended him self when attacked. His conduct had been, never theless, and is still by many, so reprobated in this country from misrepresentations of these facts, that the late Lord Aberdeen expressed his surprise in the House of Lords how any Minister could be on amicable terms with a man capable of such a crime. This was noticed by Napier at the conclusion of his history, and how the Duke of Wellington was com pelled to defend Soult, but he did not go so far as to say that the severity of the expressions used by Lord Aberdeen were more applicable to himself than to Soult, or, as expressed by Horace in days of yore, " Mutato nomine de to Fabula narrator." The foregoing proclamation could only be regarded by Napoleon and his followers as their coup de grace, and therefore more worthy of attention than the act of abdication which followed as a necessary conse quence, an act that could not be either expedited or retarded by the blood-stained laurels obtained on that occasion. There were, moreover, other important facts that should have operated upon the Duke's mind, and prevented this effusion of blood, namely, the ground being so wet in the valley, which was commanded by Soult's fortified heights as not to admit of the ar tillery required to make breaches, and the troops not being provided with ladders, which ought to have been looked upon as indispensable for success. The consequence was that all the attacks made under the Duke's immediate orders on the enemy's left failed with the loss of thousands of lives, and that if it had not been for the almost miraculous success of the two divisions, 4th and Gth, detached under Beresford to the extreme right, a distance exceeding two miles (of which my regiment formed a part), this battle would not have been added to the Duke's glorious victories. How dearly it was purchased may be seen by the manner in which Napier describes certain regiments as reduced to their lines of skirmishers, compared to what they had been before the battle commenced. For the vain glory arising from laurels so dearly purchased it might have been justly observed, sic transit gloria mundi. Should the foregoing facts not be questioned, no difference of opinion ought to exist as to whether Wellington or Soult were most to blame for the blood shed at Toulouse, nor respecting the fact as to the result of that battle not having tended, in the slightest degree, to expedite the abdication of Napoleon, which followed, as a matter of course, the proclamation of his dethronement by the Allied Sovereigns and restoration of Louis XVIII., by whom, in conjunction with his Allies, not only France but Europe, might have been justly consi dered as then governed. Fiat Justitia mat Ccelunz. JOHN SCOTT LILLIE. Union Club, Nov. 28. The Coroner's inquiry into the death of the man Flanagan, who was supposed to have been murdered in Lisson-grove, terminated yesterday. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Richard Jones, who had been quarrelling with Flanagan, and who has since absconded. Yesterday, at the Southwark Police-court, the young man Shirley, charged with the attempted murder of Mr. Henry Hus on the 2d inst., was committed for trial. It was proved in evidence that the pistol with which he shot Mr. Hus had at one time belonged to that gentleman, but had been abstracted from the premises in August last. ACCIDENT AT A SAW MlLL.—Last night an accident happened in the Poplar Saw Mills, by which a poor man named Andrew Cannon, while attending to the machinery, was caught by the sleeve and carried round, and falling on a circular saw had his left arm cut off by the shoulder. He was removed to the hospital, but there seems no hope of his recovery. LAMARTINE is going to publish a novel in the Constitutionnel, to be called " Ma mere !" THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening. The London Gazelle had not been published up to the hour of our going to press. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 17 Ditto 3 Months. 12 11 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 45 Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 10 Mar seDitto illes 40 Frankfort on the M a i ne 120/ 00 Vienna, 10 Trieste — 10 90 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid 46} Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples — 25 60 11 IS 12 2 12 2 25 55 25 55 13 91 25 17/. 25 47i 25 47/ 121 10 95 10 95 6 28 47/ 48. 25 65 25 65 25 62/ 25 65 25 65 25 65 511 511 Palermo Messina Oporto Lisbon 25 60 25 60 51 3 511 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Deo. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds. by British pacLet ...... Jan. 1. Ditto, by French packet Dec. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 22. China, .Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles .Dec. 13 . India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 12. Ditto, via Marseilles . Dec. 21. Mauritius, via Southampton Jan. 11. Ditto, via Marseille3 .Jan. 5. Newfoundland • • , Dec. 20, Portugal Jan 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork . .; Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Dec. 15. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tcneriffe Jan. 10. West Indies and Pacific (exceptßahamas, Cuba, and Mexico • • . ........ ...Dec.‘l4. Cuba and Mexico Dec. 29. Bahamas, via New Y ork. Dec. 14. Bermuda, ditto Dec. 20. THE UNITED STATES MONITOR MONADNOCK.- A correspondent of the London Standard, writing from St. Thomas, gives a description of the monitor Monadnock, one of the United States Pacific squadron. The writer says: —" As this monitor is the first of her class which has made a long sea voyage, it may not be uninteresting to your readers to have a short description of her. As she now lies in the harbour • with her low, rusty sides, about eighteen inches out of the water, funnel and two turrets, she certainly does present a most curious appearance, and one cannot but admire the ingenuity of the Yankees for inventing such a ship, but also must allow them credit for the pluck they display in trusting themselves on board of her for a voyage of some 15,000 miles. She is about 250 feet long, 1,200 tons register, and has engines of about 250-horse power. She has stowage-room for 350 tons of coal, of which, when steaming full speed at a rate of about eight knots an hour, she burns from 22 to 25 tons per day. I was informed that she has two screws. On going on board you are most courteously received by the officers, and al lowed to go over the whole ship, when the first thing that strikes one is the immense solidity of the whole concern. You at once perceive that you are on board a war vessel, which would not be easily destroyed either by the new system of 'ramming,' or by good-sized guns. All along the deck holes about 6 in. in diameter, covered with thick glass, serve to give light down below, and some can be opened when in harbour for the sake of air. The Monadnock has two revolving turrets, each con taining two 20-ton 15-inch guns, which throw a solid steel or iron shot of 5001 b. three miles with an immense charge. They are muzzle-loaders and not rifled. The car riage of each one weighs eight tons. They are certainly fine pieces of -ordnance. When in action the guns are loaded inside the turrents, the rammers and sponges being constructed on the telescopic principle ; then run outside the porthole and fired. The gun at once recoils, and a piece of solid iron, the same thickness as the turret, in stantly fills up the porthole, which both prevents the smoke getting inside and keeps the shot and shell of the enemy from entering. The turrets revolve, one in every three minutes, and the tops of them are covered with gratings of the strongest iron in order that any smoke may escape that way. The inside of the turrets is lined with a thick padding covered with canvas, so that no con cussion may be felt from shot striking it outside. I was told on board that when the turret is struck by a ball the concussion is so great that if any one is touching the iron work he is at once thrown down. On the top of the turrets are placed the pilot-houses, from which the Captain issues his orders and fights the ship. These houses are of a great thickness, eleven inches I was informed, and have small holes all round, through which the commander takes his observations. It is so arranged that the monitor's anchor is weighed on the main deck, in order that at no time may any of the crew be exposed to an enemy's fire. I noticed that the ship was constructed of 1-inch iron plates, the sides of these being composed of six of these plates rivetted together. She bears the marks of her late engage ment at Fort Fisher, Wilmington, ono 10-inch shot having struck her, just at the top of her side, making a good dent in the plates ; another struck her forward. After going all over her, and seeing what an enormous mass of iron and wood she is composed of, one cannj' really help being convinced that tho Monadnock is an ugly customer, and a vessel that would do great destruc tion amongst a fleet of wooden vessels ; at the same time I must acknowledge that she is not the ship one would choose to make a Transatlantic passage in." " PRESENTED" TO GENERAL GRANT.—Part of the scene of the 20th ult. at the levee held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel by General Grant is thus described by the New York Times:—The presentation business was really very absurd. In front of the flowers stood General Grant, with the committee all about him, like bees about a lump of sugar; just by and at his right were Mrs. Grant and other ladies mentioned ; at his left were Mrs. General Hooker, Mr. Ethan Allen, General Wool, John Van Buren, Miss Dix, General Cook, occasionally General Hooker and the members of the press. In the front was the multitude shouting, jostling, hot, tired, cross, weary crowd, badgered and bullied, and pueled and pulled by the infelicitous committeemen. As each couple approached a little mall asked their names ; he generally managed to get them wrong, and announced to the General all queer kinds of cognomens, which were as amusing to the parties pre sented as they were unintelligible to the General. Some times a couple would go by without a name being given, the consequence being that in his commendable effort to keep up with the crowd the gentleman who presented them would give lir. and Mrs. Robinson the appellation by which Mr. and Mrs. Jones were ordinarily known, and the direst confusion of course existed. Every man and woman insisted upon shaking the General by the hand, so that by the time the affair was ended his right hand wr.c shockingly swollen and shapeless. Some pious and reverent people offered little prayers for him as he passed, and others judged it a good opportunity of making pretty little speeches like these:- , ` ram, glad to see you, General. God bless and preserve you many years." youilli a m s a yM for a s o him n—W everyi Mason—Willie, ie, tell"G e G n e e n ra e lr,atlhGrant my the d little eldest prayeron William night." (Willie attempts to d o so, but is moved on sud denly by the active com mitteemen.) " I alwa y s knew y o u els would be victorious, Ge neral. I told Dr. Vinton that Go d would sur ely crown so good and great a man with success. May I not kiss you, General ?" (The General declined.) " You remember we met last fall at West Point ?" (The G e neral smiled vacantly, as if he did not like to tell a story.) " Quite a crowd here to - night. All deserved, sir; all deserved! God bless, God protect you, dear, dear General ?" " I want to talk with you, old fellow, about Chattanooga." " I had a brother in the 29th Connecti-, cut. I wonder if you knew him ?" These and scores besides were said to the General, who solemnly permitted his hand to be pumped up and down at the will of the merci less populace. So far as we could see, besides a tendency to blood in the head, there was no f a ti gue or change in him from the time of commencement until the close. He rarely spoke, save when some old army acquaintance or some particularly charming lady made a remark, and then his words were brief and to the point. THE OVERLAND 'TELEGRAPH.—Application was made recently to the United States Navy Department, by Ethan Allen, of N ew York, in behalf of the Russian a n d American and Ove r l an d T e l egraph Compan y, fora naval vessel to aid in l a yi ng t h e cable across B e hring's Straits. The application was refused by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, on the ground that it was exclusively a private enterprise. In the British West Indies there are about 980,000 souls. Of these fully 800,000 aro nog-roes ;of the remaining 180,000, more than 120,000 aro mulattoes. Of nearly one million, there are only about 50,000 white people. It requires but scant gift of prophecy to foresee that one or two more outbreaks like that of Jamaica will considerably reduce oven this small proportion ; and that, in one or two generations, the entire population of those colonies will consist of black and coloured people. What is to be their future—what their government ? )atch 1 to- Earl tight ►iceSS Car ,eut.- San- tower Est. 2O 10 100 I 100 100 100 all 100 100 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 1022 32i 103 I