The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

, 1••••••......... a zbr. aturday. d Highness lohenlohe, ttendcd by on arrived and royal her 11Ia- Indon, and ajesty. Sunday. 1 elena and drove out ,olonel the ice of her being al 3 " c Ki ng of 1 of Cork 3 office Of receiving cward of 3erma°l ppointed don, and leen and DuchCSS it to the Frances 's Lodge, 16 1101101 we been ber Park , and, Iris tosonore Captain is, we ero IS 13.° is unable banque t denco Address, ernreeptl Conner' ,ment 011 James's_ Disraeli 'he ri party of Feb. 5• Chequ er vsidonce n -- :-T il° Milner .amiltort, Rog ers, ping toi, rs. Gisd evoall36 'erica . the u ; 'airiest agina - Soil - I poll' boa or de social, vari- MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL IN TELLiGENCE, BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 Per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Feb. 8 B7l 3 per Cent. Reduced B6l 7 New 3 per Cent B7 61 New 21 per C ent. Jan. 1894 — Do. a per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 -- Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 1 dis Do. £5OO — Do £lOO and £2OO R.thfr ra. fl gland 0t,,,k, 5 per Cent INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — 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. 51 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds £l,OOO l5 pm Do. under ' £l,ooo FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 _ . Do. 1863 — Do. 1865 — Do Acco un t 741 B ue Do. Scrip, £25 paid Do. Account 6 per Cent —Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cbiliau 6 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 D an Do. 5 per Cen ~ t 1773-77, £25 paid — Danubian Principalities Do Account - Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do, Provisional Land W arran t — Egyptian 7 per Cent Do., S econ d Issue 'Do £lOO Bonds 93 Do. 1864 9ll Do £ l OO Bonds Creek 5 D o. Account Cents., 1824-5, ex Coup ons Do. Coupons Do. Account Cluatemala 5 per Cent. Ile .£B6 paid Italian 5 per Cent, 1865 DO. Account Do. Mareminana Railway —Do Scrip, £671 paid Do 5 per Cent., 1864 Mexican 3 r Cent Do. Accounte Do 1864 l9l 19 lio 6 per Cent. An g l o -F renc h Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c • M ontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid 140 orish Imperial 5 p er C ent — New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do D e f erre d Do Land Warrants (Hectares) - 6 per Cent, 1864 Peruvian 5 per Cent — Do. Account Do 41 per Cent., 1862 ..., Do Account rortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent , 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account . 451 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B9l Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 5 3 per Cent. 1859 — p 891 or Cont. 1862 1 D 0 5 per Cent. 1864 93 w " Sardinian 5 per Cent Do XICO Bands ‘,. Do. 11 p er Cent — Spanish 3 per Cent Do New D eferred —Do .Account DDo Passive o Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded SDo Account 131 wedish 4 per Cent. Do. 4-1 per Cent. 1864 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account Do 6 p er C ent. 1858 — Do Account 691 70} Do £lOO Bonds Do 6Do Account Cent. 1862 68} 8 Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — .{-_(:' 5 Per Cont. 1865 Do° Scrip, £35 paid Account v _• 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — onezuela 3 per Guaranteed Do Do Account Do 6 - Per Cent., 1864 36 Ditch Dividends on the above payable in London. '2 ) 0 1 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 6ll Italia n / per Cent. Certificates B6l ir ,"a 1 5 Per Cent. 1861, E 2 - f Do Account ' x• ° • Consols for money TWO O'CLOCK. VO. Account ............................... 86i 7 . .... ~ , ..................... , l9 87 11 i TWELVE O'CLOCK. The demand for discount accommodation remains inactive, and the rates for the best bills are nego tiable at per cent. less than the official minimum. The prospect of monetary affairs is, from external appearances, therefore cheering; but there is, never- 1 theless, no great belief in anything like a permanent easy condition. It is stated that the drawing to determine which of the fifteen series of the Italian Domain Loan is to be paid off in April next will take place at Turin on the 30th inst. The Master of the Rolls has ordered the petition of the Great Northern Copper Mining Company of South Australia (Limited) to stand over until after the annual general meeting, and that the officers of the company should not be entitled to any salary e until the further order of the Court. The directors of the St. John d'El Rey Mining 8 Company (Limited) have received, per Estrama dura, the following report; dated Morro Velho, ; 16th December, 1865 :—Produce for November, 42,427 oitavas ; from 4,776 tons stone, yield 8.419 ; ' 0 cost for, £10,217 ; profit for, £6,134; produce, 11 days of December, 17,095 oitavas; yield 9.717 I oitavas per ton. In the manufacturing districts during the past week there has been more activity. At Manches ter a large business has been done in cloths and yarns, chiefly for exportation. The woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has been more animated owing to operations for the spring demands. In the hosiery and lace departments of Leicester and Nottingham the demand for most de scriptions of goods has been good ; while at Bir mingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton operations in most branches have been done, on a greater scale than usual at this period of the year. Two o'CLocic. The Australasian, from New York, has arrived, with £225,700. Very little business is reported in the silver market. When the English market opened this morning. - there was an appearance of dulness, and the subse quent transactions having comprised a preponder ance of sales, prices have receded I f per cent. ; for money they are now 84 87, and for the account 874 4. There is nothing of a special character with regard to money and commerce to cause this depression, but it cannot be disguised that politics are not viewed with an ordinary degree of con fidence. The approaching session is looked for- I ward to with some anxiety, and a part of the pre vailing heaviness of the Funds may be attributed 1 , to this circumstance. The New Threes and seduced Annuities are 864 87 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. dis. ; India 5 per Cents., 102# 4 ; ditto Bonds, 15s. prem. Sales have chiefly prevailed in the Foreign Stock Market, and quotations are generally lower. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 394 4 ; Mexican, 214 a ditto New, 184 19; ; Greek, 14 4 ; Spanish Passive, 25i 4 ; tho Certificates, 134 4 ; Italian, 614 62 the Confederate Loan, 5f 64 ; Brazilian Scrip, prem. ; the Egyptian Railway Loan Scrip, prem. United States Government 5.20 Bonds are 664 ; Erie Bonds, 573- 58 ; and Illinois, 75} 76. A retrograde movement has taken place in the Railway Share Market, and It will be seen by the official list that South Eastern, Great Northern A, Great Western, North Western, Midland, and Great Eastern have been principally depressed. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibited little change of importance. English and American Bank shares are quoted 1 14 prem. ; British Convention Bonds of Mexico, 68 72 ; London Steam Towing Company, 14 2 prem. ; Charles Lafittc and Co., 24 21 prem. ; and Galatz Candle Company, 4 4 prem. 'his Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share Railways. I p aid. l Closing Business Price. done. Bristol and Exeter lOO it Caledonian lOO it Cambrian .0 Cork and Bandon all :0 Cornwall all it Dublin & Belfast June. 100 it Dun„Perth,& A b.Junc. 100 O !.London, Certi. 20 Do. 10 it Glasgow &S. Western 100 1 it Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 it Do. K Angl. at. No. 2 100 it Great North of Scotland 100 it Great Northern lOO 1 it DJ. A stock ...... 100 I it Do. B stock lOO it Do New. is. at 25 pm 10) it Gt S. and W. of Ireland 100 it Gt. Western -Original 1, 0 it U . S. Val. Hail gua. 100 it Do. South Wales it Do. W. Mid.— Oxford 100 it Do. Newport too it I'm Hereford. . . it Lanc•ishire & Yorkshire 100 it L.indon and Blackwall 100 it Lon., Brigh., & S Coast 100 it Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 it Do. Metrop. EX. A • 100 it Lou. & INorth Western 100 1' it Lon. & South Western 100 it Man., She., & Lincoln 100 it Metr0p01itan.......... all 1 10 Do. New 7 0 Do. Extension Metropolitan District. all 1 )0 Do do. do. 10 10 Do. and St. John'sW'd 6 at Midland 9 Do. £9 Share 5 it Do, Birmin.. &Drby 100 15 %lid Kent it North British ..... lOO it Do. Ed., Pth ,& Dun. 100 it Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 :5 Do. G.N'E purchase 16.13.4 it 1)o. Leeds it Do. York lOO at Do. Carlisle ..... 100 15 Do. Stock. & Darling. all 15 Do. do. 1860-61 l6 t North London 10 Do. do. 1884 10 Do. rim 1865 st North Staffordshire 10 N. &S. W. Junction st Scottish Central st Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 100 st tho. Scot, 111 i d. 100 st Shropshire Union 100 st South Devon too st South Eastern tO Staines, Wok., & Wok all at Taff Vale lOO 10 Do. C it Vale of Neath it Waterford & Kilkenny 100 .0 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 2 it West Cornwall lOO 93 95 28 129 94 96 13 15 41 51 68 70 70 72 Ll 2 114 41 42 401 1 391 40 1 27 128 1 128 7 t 45 i 46 141 i i 91 93 5 i 60 ii 59 1 1 i 39 91 34 37 101 iO3 123 12:31 123# 3 89 91 89 I 101 103 iOl/ 35 37 37 :61 1261 125/ 91 95 911 (3 64 6311 35 136 135 4 1 21 31p 1 lip 7k tOO 102 10 1 124 125 1 1241 1 11 11 1 - 93 95 67 581 58i 7 28 BRITISH P OSS. 00 Atlantic& St. Lawrence all st Bom.,Baroda, A Cell.ill. 100 gu. 5 per cent... 20 Do. E 'shares 8 20i Buffalo & Lake Huron all 10 Do. Preference all 00 / p. Buff Brant, &Goderich 6 st Calcutta &B. E., Um., 100 st ]ape Town & Dock, gu. 100 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi all 1 1 3t Fast. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 1 ( st East Indian , gu. 5 p.c. 100 LO Do. .1 Extension st Grand Trunk of Canada 100 JO Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all )0 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 10 Do. do. deferred .• • • all 10 Do. 2d Bret Bonds., all Do. do. deferred all - Do. 3d Pref. stock... • all Do. do. deferred all 10: -/ ) D D o o .. 4 d t o h d P e r f e e f r . r s e t d oc . k . .. a a l l ll 3t Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c 1 00 :0 l'o. Gu a . 5 per ce n t 16 O Do. New gua. sp. c 6 ,t Gt. South of India ....• • gua. 5 per cent it D•, 41 per cent... • 10 ° it Do . 2 !Oi Great V[! .s. of Canada all !04 Do. New 18 /0 Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 all 1C Do. 5) do. pay. 1877-8„ all ;0 fndian Branch, limited 2 it Madras, gua. 5 p.o it Do. 42 do lOO ;t Do. 4i do lOO i 0 Do. Fifth Extenvion 2 it Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 ;0 Mel. do Hudson's Bay all it N. li I. C'da, 6pclatpl.bs lOO it Scinde 100 1 r=l It Do. Delhi ',O Do. do t i . 4 2 it Do. Puniaub., a 100., 100 ,t D o .l n d us St.Floi ,ONIAL GO VERNMEN British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1872 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug luo Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 102 Co. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 Do. sp. e. Inscribed sk 100 Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 1 Do.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 100 1 , Do. do: 1880-9.• 100 1 , Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 100 1 1 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 1 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( 100 1 , Do. 1878, do lOO 1 , Mauritius, n p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 . Do. 1882, May 15, Nov. 10•) 11 Do. 1895, Feb. & Natal qov. 6 per cent.. 100 1 N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J uly 100 1 N. S. W. Gov. 5 p c. , 1866 100 1 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1871 ton LK._ 5 p.c. 4853 so 1894 100 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 1. Do. 5 per cent.— Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. sterling, 1875 l9O •4ueensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 9! 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1808-1' 100 • Do. 18:8 & upwards l lO 1 1 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July 100 Do. do, A pril & Oct lOO 1, BRITIS 2 Cam. Consol. Cold, lim. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 Drakewalls 2.1.0 East Bassett (Illogan) 294 East Caradon 2.14.6 East earn Brea 3l East Grenville East Gunnislake 8.3.6 East Loved 3.9.0 E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk 10.8.0 Gam. & StA übyn (G wen. 66 4 Great I. ixey, limited., all Great South Tolg - us 0.14.6 Great Wheal Busy 14.9.6 G. Wheal Vor (Heist , L) 40 Grenville 8.18.0 llerod's Foot 8.10.0 Hingston Downs 5.10.6 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13 . 17 .6 - Marke Valley ....... . 4 Mwyndy Iron Ore, lim 21 - New Se ton North Roskear ....... 184 - N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan 4.4.0 North Wheal Crotty -- 2.13.1, Prosper United...... .. 7.1.6 Pr..vidence Uny.Lvlant 10.6.7 S. Caradon (St. Cleer).. 14 South Condurrow ...... 3.2.0 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 1 8.18.9 -- Stray Park ........... 35.15.6 Tin Croft 5 Vigra and Clc , gan, lim... all West Bassett (11 Logan .. 1,) W. Caradon (Llskeard 9 West Chi verton ....... . 11 West Setou ...... . ..... 474 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 rIiEFEJIEN StiAREb. Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1, Ditto, 6 per cent. pf., 1 6 Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 1071 Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pi., 991 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto, 4i per cent, red., 9 Si South Devon, Anne., 10s., 10 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Northern and Eastern. 6 per cent., 82 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, It Bahia and San Francisco ,11. n.) gua. 7 per cent., 151 Recite and San Francisca (lim), gua. 7 per cent., 14 West Flanders, 71 FOREIGN MINER. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 31 4 3 Don Pedro, North Del Rey, par Fortuna (lim.), 32- wrontino and tsolivia Gold, lint., Port Philip, St. John ael hey, lint., 46 Washoe Gold, lint., 61 BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, Um., 56a Alliance, lim., 28 71 Anglo Austrian, 61 . Anglo Egyptian, 1im.; . 13 A utarmasiti, 7 1 Bank of New Zealand, 17 Consolidated Bank, lim., lul English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 201 Hindustan, China, and Japan,.llm., Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto. new, 17 Imperial Ottoman, 131 Ditto, new, 12 1 London and Brazilian (11m.), 46 London and River Plate, —is' Ditto, issued at 14 pm, 13 .1 Midland Bank, lim., 201 Oriental Bank Corporation, 51 Union of Australia, 61 54 Union of London, 52 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 161 Ceylon Company, 9) City Offices, lim., 61 Continental Union Gas. lim., 9il Credit Foncler and &fobiller of xlngland, 8I Crystal Palace, '-'4l East India Irrigation and Canal. 8 k Ebbw Vale, 81 Egyptian Corn and Trading, lim., 41 Fore-street Warehouse, lirn. Gen. Credit a n d Finance of L ' anuon. Minn 6 Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asao., International Financial society, UM, oZ Joint Stock Discount, lim., 7j London Financial Association, lim London General Omnibus Company, lira, 31 National Discount Company,;l6 1 National Provincial Marine, 1k Overeud, Gurney, and Co., Urn., 201 Thames and Mersey ;Marine) Insurance, lim., 74 I Union Marine, Liverpool, lim., 3k Universal Marine, insurance. lim., 31. 4 ---_--,--__ • Mr. George Peabody, who is now in better health than for many years past, intends to revisit America in April next. On that occasion he will doubtless inaugurate the completion of the institution at Baltimore which he nobly endowed some years back. .11 112 ► 112 72 73 172 f 105 106 1054 36 37 to it p 123 126 2 2e p 2 24p 76 77 75 11 12 [45 148 66 68 [l2 114 55 57 74 75 74f f f 8 9 115 150 3 t p 101 103 49 61 ISIONS. 63 60 N 103 10) id Ip 6i 6i 10 11 75 80 96 98 60 70 100 102 100 101 CO, 102 1011 1 2 87 89 67 69 57 62 57 59 46 50 42 46 34 36 35 i 33 35 34 W 0 102 i I P i I P 94 100 91 93 16} 164 14 44 44 , i 131 92 .4 84 86 194 10 0 1} 90 92 86 88 64 46 8 • 82 98 99 981 98 99 I 4 , 1 IS 99 981 iEC Jatirrih:s. 93 95 931 93 96 95 93 96 79 81 80 73 SO [Ol 103 tO4 106 04 106 .01 103 90 92 [Ol 103 101 107 Eli g ,01 103 102 W 4 102 W 4 103 105 90 101 92 1 , 4 941 0 102 09 03 87 88 BB} I WO 102 8S 84 97 99 19k 100;1 001 103 105 104 106 1 1052 4 INES. 34 36 136i1 61 6 9 10 20 21 $7O 590 I 1 18 20 84 91 5# 5; 3 . Si i 12 14 3 31 5 7 20 21 14 2 35 31 t 3 3} 3, 40 4z 5} 7 4 45 24 locl 40 50 13 15 1 37 39 410 930 2 o 8 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 3 4 8 10 80 83 190 20U 95 1( 0 27 3) 3 5 220 SHARE THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SANITARY 22, 1866. Day. MARK-LANE. The trade for wheat in the country markets, held on Saturday, ruled steady. For all good and fine dry samples there was a steady derand, at full prices, but damp produce was a dull inquiry. Springcorn was in but moderate request, at late rates. The flour trade was quiet, on former terms. On the continent the wheat trade is very quiet, yet no material change has taken place in prices. Oats are in re quest for export, but other articles are a slow sale. The trade for wheat and flour at New York is very dull, and scarcely any business is doing for export to Great Britain. Fresh up to our market to-day the receipts of English wheat, both from Essex and Kent, were but moderate. The small supply of good and fine dry produce on offer was disposed of at the full prices of Monday last; but damp qualities were very unsaleable, a large proportion being left unsold at the close of the market. Tho supply of foreign wheat on sale was moderately good. In most descriptions a fair business was transacted, and prices ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request at full quotations. The demand for malt was in a sluggish state at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was but moderate. The trade, nevertheless, was by no means active, yet the prices of Monday last were steadily supported. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 39s to 46s Do., old 46s 51s Do., white, old yes 5 s Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —B — EI Do., neic Talavera, new s2s 60s Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 3Bs 40s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware _ _ Chevalier 66s 678 Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolush., Feeding 218 2615 Potato Youghal and Cork, black 2OB 26s Cork, white 228 27s Scotch, Feeding 2ls 26s Beans—Tick Pigeons ... 46s 50s Peas—Grey, new Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b 438 468 Suffolk 32s 345 Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel 26s 31s spot. Town tallow, 46s Gd per cwt. net cash. Rough fat, 2s 5d per 81bs. Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. Stock this day.,,,, 52,218 66,221 53,229 47,406 P r i ce of Y.C. ...... .. 144 s 9d to 41s 9d 41s 9d 47 s 9d t o —s Od —s Od 42s Delivery last w ee k 2,407 2,568 2,41 0 7 2,31 0 3 Ditto from June 1 56,352 49,421 62,464 74,903 Arrival last week BO5 990 464 2,200 Ditto from June 1 70,291 77,895 70,669 89,826 Price of Town .... LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENOIT. (Sittings in Banco before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush.) WILLIAMS v. LOVELL. This was an application by the plaintiff for a rule to dis. charge an order made by Mr. Justice Blackburn last No. vember. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., appeared in support of the rule, and from the learned gentleman's statement the following facts of the case, which is rather complicated, wero de veloped :---The plaintiff is a solicitor, and had been engaged by a lady named Cass in some legal proceedings in 1860. The defendant, a barrister, was also retained by the lady, and she agreed to be responsible to him for his fees, in stead of the solicitor. The plaintiff then delivered some papers in, the proceedings in question to the defendant. Mrs. Cass being desirous of changing her solicitor, applied to him for her papers, which were in the possession of the defendant, who refused to part with them until the whole of his fees had been paid. Mrs. Cass then applied to the Master of the Rolls, who consi dered that the plaintiff had no right to give the papers out of his custody merely as a security to the defendant for his fees, and made an order directing him to return them to Mrs. Cass. However the defendant still retained the papers, and Mr. Cass then obtained an attachment against the plaintiff for non-compliance with the order of the court, and he was taken into custody. The decree of the Master of the Rolls was reversed in an appeal to the Lords Justices, and the plaintiff was released from custody after three months' imprisonment. The plaintiff's case came before Mr. Justice Blackburn in Chambers, and his lord ship, having required the attendance of all the parties con cerned, decided that the defendant should be discharged from all liabilities to the plaintiff, who had commenced an action against him. It was to set aside this order that the present rule was applied for, which was unanimously refused by their lordships. women assembled were as bad as the male savages, and one of them seized the constable by the hair of his hoad. Curley made his escape, and came to the court this morn ing to look after his brother, who was concerned in another row. Police-sergeant Gamble, No. 49 K, said that when Dixon was brought into the station-house he made use of such horrible language that he told him ho should charge him under the police act with using bad language in a station-house. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to two months' impri sonment and hard labour. Sir George Bowyer, M.P., on Religion and Reformatories. (From the Lircipool Mercury.) The annual soiree of the Liverpool Catholic Young Men's Societies was held on Thursday in St. George's Hall. About 1,200 persons sat down to tea, which was supplied by Mr. J. MiMourn, St. Anne-street. Afterwards the chair was taken by Sir George Bowyer, Bart., M.P., and there were also on the platform the Earl of Denbigh, the Rev. Canon Toole (Manchester), the Revs. Father Teeby, M'Grath, Shepherd, Caldwell, Bonte, Van Hee, W. Cothan, J. Gotham, Almond, Lenoir, Walsh (Bootle), Guy, M. Doon, Broodie, D. Power Nugent; the Rev. Dr. M'Cartan (Wolverhampton), Lieutenant-Colonel Bidwill ; Messrs. E. Kelly, J. Fairhurst, J. Yates, 11. Sharpless, J. Radley, J. Whitty, J. N. Lomax, E. Latham (who wore the Grand Cross of St. Gregory and the Order of Malta), &e. The CHAIRMAN said he had naturally turned over in his mind what subject would be most likely to be most acceptable to the assembly he saw before him, and several things had suggested themselves to him ; but within the last few days he had found that so great a public interest had been excited by the able speech of Lord Stanley with regard to the mode of dealing with offenders that he had resolved to make a few observations on that subject. (Ap plause.) That was a subject upon which it was rather difficult to say anything which might be called new ; nevertheless, he thought he could present that subject in a point of view in which it had not been heretofore presented, either by public speakers or in the public press of the country—he meant he wished to view that subject in that point of view in which a Catholic would naturally view it. (Hear, hear.) He had heard many long speeches on the subject of the mode of dealing with offenders on what was called, in the common slang of the day, the reformatory movement. He had heard many debates in Parliament on the subject; he had read many speeches made at public meetings upon it ; but in all these speeches and in all these debates he had not been able to discover what was the real power—what was the real influence—by which it was proposed to reform these offenders. A bad man could not be made into a good man by mere educa tion. Reading, writing, and arithmetic would not make a dishonest man and a bad man and an of fender against the laws of his country into a useful citizen. (Applause.) It was true, as it had been pro posed, and to a great extent carried into effect, to give to those persons who fall under the operation of the criminal law of the country an industrial education—to teach them means by which they may earn a livelihood, and by that means may be taken away from criminal pursuits—that was no doubt a most important and a most useful method of pro ceeding, but after all it applied only to one class— to that class of persons who pursue a criminal course of life as a means of livelihood, and who, if they were able to gain their living in any other way, would do so ; and this class he feared was a very small class among the criminal population of the country. (Hear, hear.) But they had to deal with a class which is becoming a really great evil. He be lieved if they were to take the offenders and lunatics together they would find that they cost the country more than the standing army. (Applause and hear, hear.) He was not sure whether taking the offenders alone without including the lunatics the expenditure for them would not equal the ex penditure for the standing army. This showed there was something in the condition of the country which required strong remedial measures, and what those measures are to be was the great problem, and a problem he had never heard solved by any who had spoken on the subjpet. Lord Stanley had prac tically and wisely suggested what should be done with another class of prisoners —he had suggested that those who were incorrigible should have means provided them to enable them to emigrate to places where their old associations would be separated from them, and where they could comnience a useful life. That, no doubt, was a very wise and practical suggestion ; and, in deed, everything that came from Lord Stanley was always practical and useful. (Applause.) But still lie (the chairman) asked, where was the great in fluence which was to reform those people ? They talked about reforming criminals—they talked about the great reform movement, but what was the great power which was to regenerate those men and make bad good ? He said there was only one power that could do it, and that was the power of religion. (Applause.) Religion, and religion only, could re form these people, and make them resolve to lead in the future a good and useful life. And it was the Catholics who had the key to open the gate to this great mystery— it was the Catholics who had to take the lead in this great movement, and that because they had the true religion. (Loud applause.) If religion was to do the work, it must be the true re ligion. (Hear, hear.) The Catholic religion was the true religion, and it was the Catholics who must do the work. The Catholics ought to set an exam ple, and it was through them an example must come for all that was to be done in this great movement, which was of so much importance to this country and for the welfare of humanity. (Hear, hear, and applause.) He had no doubt there were persons present who did not belong to the Catholic Church. It had always been his practice through life to avoid saying or doing anything to give the slightest offence to those who differed from him in opinion —(ap plause) —but he must be allowed to speak freely on this subject. He remembered many years ago going to a Protestant reformatory for boys. He had a letter of introduction to the person who had the management of the institution, but he was absent. He (the chairman) was therefore shown over the es tablishment by an inferior official, and he did not regret it, because by that means ,he was enabled to get at the unbiassed truth, and obtained information which the rules of etiquette would probably have precluded the principal from giving him. The insti tution was certainly an admirable one ; there was divine service every day in the chapel, and the chaplain gave religious instruction to the inmates. He (the chairman) said to the person who conducted him over the institution, " What is the effect of this religious instruction ? Do you find that it makes the bad boys into good boys ?" His answer was, " No. They come here wicked ; they go away wicked. We keep them under discipline ; but the moment that discipline is withdrawn they return to their vicious habits, and go from here as wicked as they came. They are wicked when they come here, and they steal from each other when they have no one else to steal from. In fact, we do not reform them." That was a very simple admission. In the last session of Parliament, as a member of the committee on the poor laws, he asked several Protestant witnesses of eminence questions with regard to the effect which the religious ministrations of the chaplains had upon the poor in the workhouses. The answer was, "No effect at all. They can get no hold upon them." The result of the evidence went to show that this portion of the discipline in these workhouses was perfectly ineffectual and of no use at all. (Hear, hear.) Now let them turn to what the effect of reli gious ministrations and instructions would be and must be in a Catholic establishment. Even Pro testants have admitted over and over again that the services and ceremonies and rites of the Catholic Church had a great effect upon the human mind— an effect which no other service or ceremony had. They said, in the way of reproach, that the Catholic religion appealed to the senses. If it did so, had not Almighty God given us our senses as the avenues by which we were to receive that which was true and that which was beautiful ? He had enabled us to see the beauties of nature, the beauties of the flowers and of the vegetation of this earth ; to see the beauties of the stars of heaven and the beauties of the works of man. Why had He ambled us (THIS DAY.) At the half -yearly meeting to-day of the Consoli dated Discount Company the report presented stated that in again meeting the shareholders, the directors regret that they are unable to exhibit a more favour able balance-sheet ; but they would remind them that they have had to contend against the frequent and sudden alterations of the Bank rate, and the movements being nearly all of an adverse character, have seriously interfered with discount transactions ; whilst the uncertainty of the market, by restricting operations, has materially diminished profits. The Fenian Trials. D ÜBLIN, Saturday Evening. Francis Cleary, who pleaded guilty on Thursday, was to-day admitted to bail on his own recogni sances in £5OO, and two securities in £2OO each. The trial of Dennis Dowling Mulcahy was pro ceeded with, and to-day he was found guilty and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. On being called on to say why sentence should not be passed upon him Mulcahy made a violent speech, Which the judge repeatedly interrupted. Two persons, named O'Brien and Dun ne, Were arrested in Belfast last night for Fenianifinn. They were brought before the magistrates this •day and remanded. An active search for arms was mad e b y the police East night, which resulted in the arrest of two men. COURT OF RXCHEQUER. (Before tho LcrdChief Baron andißarons Martin, Channell, and Pigott. BAXANDALE V. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Mr. Bovill was engaged this morning in further arguing this case. It related to the terms upon which the plaintiffs were entitled to carry goods in connection with the South- Western Railway Company. The oase was entirely devoid of interest. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Baron Bramwell.) PROCTER T. HOLLINGSWORTH. This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of exchange for £5OO, which it was alleged was accepted by the defendant. The defendant denied the liability, and pleaded never indebted. Mr. Huddloston, in stating the case, said the plain tiff in the action, and for whom he appeared, was formerly in partnership with Mr. Moore, who was the drawer of the bill. The defendant, according to the state ment of the learned counsel, was formerly a gardener, em ployed at Winchmore, and an intimacy having sprung up between him and Mr. Moore he eventually asked him to oblige him with the loan of £5. The sum was lent by Mr. Moore, he being informed that although the position of the defendant was not much there, his father was a man of property, and that at his death the defendant would in herit a large amount of property. - Various other money transactions took place between defendant and Mr. Moore, when the transaction arose which gave rise to the present action. The defendant, wishing to purchase a fare; ap plied to Mr. Moore to lend him £4OO. This Mr. Moore agreed to do, and the bill in dispute was then drawn up for £5OO at nine months,whieh was to cover all the former small loans and the £4OO. Mr. Moore then, at the dissolu tion of the partnership with Mr. Procter, passed the bill to him, but payment was refused, and the present action was instituted. The defendant denied his liability on the ground that no value had been received for the bill. The case is being tried by a special jury, and is expected to last over the whole day. COURT OF COII3ION PLEAS. (Before Chief Justice Erie and Justices Smith, Willes, and Keating.) lIARTEY V. MARTIN. Mr. Quain moved for a new trial in this case, in a verdict which had been given for plaintiff for £39. The plaintiff sold defendant a quantity of fish manure, and when pay ment was applied for it was stated that the defendant had bought the manure from a limited liability company with which ho was connected; and not in kis private capacity, and therefore he was not liable for the value of the pro- party. Their• lordships postponed their decision. CHTT lto NTT _ This was an application calling upon the plaintiff to give security for costs. Ile was a seafaring man, for merly serving on board the ship Queen, and ho brought this action for balance of was - es and wrongful dismissal. As the plaintiff was now in America, but proposed to bo in Lou don when the action was tried, it was thought he ought under the circumstances to give security for the costs of the action, supposing the verdict went against him. The Court granted a rule nisi. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ASSAULT ON TIME SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BAKERS' INSTITUTE.—James M‘Lean, a baker, of No. 17, Rupert ; street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and assaulting William Ruddlo, superintendent of the Baker's House of Call and Institute, Rupert -street. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, said he was instructed by the committee of an institute, called the Bakers' House of Call and Institute, an institution formed by a number of highly respectable persons—bakers, millers, the clergy, and others, Lord Ebony being a patron, and the prisoner was charged with assaulting the superin tendent of the institute. Although an institute it was not a union or club from which respectable journeymen were excluded, but the prisoner was ono of a class who was anxious to prevent respectable men resorting to a place where they could meet together and have harmless recrea tion, and was in the habit of going to the place and in sulting the members and causing a disturbance. On Saturday night the prisoner went in a state of intoxication, interfered with a member who was entering the place, and wanted him to fight, and on the superintendent going out to quell the disturbance the prisoner behaved in a dis orderly manner, and was then given into custody, and while on the way to the station the prisoner gave the superintendent a blow on the back of the head and nearly knocked him down. It was wished that the prisoner should be taught that if a respectable class of persons chose to meet together they were not to bo interfered with by a person like him. The Superintendent said that while on the way to the station on Saturday, after giving the prisoner into custody for creating a disturbance, the prisoner said, "Take that you —," and gave him a blow on the back of his head, nearly knocking him down. Police-constable 214 C corroborated the complainant. The prisoner called a witness, who said the prisoner was first struck by the superintendent. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 10e. or 7 days. THAMES. THE DANGERS or T ONVER - HlLL.—Robert Jackson and David Don, well dressed men, represented as clerks in City houses, were brought before Mr. Paget, charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of themselves. Joseph Hemsley, a constable of the City of London Police Force, No. 579, stated that at half-past 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon he was sent for by the landlord of the Crooked Billet public-house on Tower-hill, to remove two gentlemen who were intoxicated and unable to take care of themselves. He found the prisoners there helplessly drunk and surrounded by a great number of thieves. They would have stripped the prisoners of all the property they had about them if he had not appeared among them. Ho saw several of the most desperate ruffians that eve: disgraced society about the prisoners, and they were greatly enraged at being deprived of their prey. He took the prisoners into custody and lodged them in the station house. Jackson, who had a large shade over his left eye, said that he was drunk. Don—So was I, dead drunk, I believe. Mr. Paget—This is a most disgraceful position for per sons of your station to be in, and I hope you are ashamed of yourselves. You are fined ss. each for being drunk and incapable of taking care of yourselves. The fines were paid. _ _ • MURDEROUS ASSAULT.---TWO rough-looking youths, named Luke Dixon and Bernard Curley, were brought before Mr. Paget charged with violently assaulting James Watts, police constable, No. 303 K. The complainant, who has sustained very serious in juries, and, it is feared, will bo off duty for some time, saw the prisoner Dixon in Shadwell last evening soon after six o'clock, while the parishioners were on the way to church and chapel. The prisoner was intoxicated and making use of very disgusting language. The constable requested him to desist, which he refused to do, and commenced the most dreadful abuse of the constable, who said I must take you into custody. The prisoner said lam stronger than you, you shall not take me, and knocked him down. Ho then kicked him with considerable violence about the head and face, and broke his helmet. Curley joined in this savage treatment, and also kicked the constable, while the Shadwell blackguards and thieves called out kill the -, and his life certainly would have been sacrificed if aid had not arrived from the King David-lane station. The scene was ono of unmitigated ruffianism, and the METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a moderate supply of foreign stock on offer in our market to-day. Among it were 360 Spanish and Por tuguese beasts, and 200 shorn sheep from Holland. The quality generally was very middling, and sales progressed slowly at depressed currencies. The arrival of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, was seasonably good. The quality of the English breeds exhibited a decided improvement compared with several previous weeks. The Scotch beasts were remarkably prime. The order prohi biting the removal of beasts into the country districts for the purpose of slaughter had a depressing influence upon the trade, which ruled heavy at a decline in the quotations of 2d to 4d per 81b. A few very superior Scots and crosses realised 4s 10d, but the general top figure was 4s 81b per 81b. The Lincolnshire graziers are still sending forward half-fat animals. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,800 Scots, crosses, Sm. ; from other parts of England, 1,200 short horns, Devons, Herefords, &c.; from Scotland, 800 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 200 oxen and heifers. Although the total supply of sheep was limited, the sale for all breeds was heavy, and the quotations gave way 2d to 4d per 81b. The best Downs and half-breds wore disposed of at Gs 2d to 6s 6d. per 81b. The few calves on offer sold readily on higher terms. viz., from 4s 6d to os 8d per 81b. Pigs were a dull inquiry at drooping prices. The supply was moderate. Per 81b to sink the offal. d s d 8 dad Cree.& inf. beasts... 3 2 3 6 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 6 6 0 Second quality do ..3 8 4 0 Prime S'thdown a 0.6 2 6 6 Prime large oxen ..4 2 4 6 Large coarse calvcs.4 6 5 2 Prime Scuts, &c.... 4 6 4 8 Prime small d0......5 4 6 8 Crse. and inf. sheep. 3 10 4 6 Large hogs .3 1 4 4 Second quality do ..4 8 5 4 Small porkers ...4 64 lt Lamb....os Od to 04 Od. Suckling calves, Ds to 21s; and quarter-old store pigs, 2:e. o 2( s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 4,970 Beasts Cows. .. Cows. — Sheep Calves 166 Ca ves 165 rigs 325 Pigs The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 8,928 head. In the corresponding week in 1865, wo received 5,695 ; in 1864, 1,722 ; in 1863, 2,696 ; in 1862, 797 ; and in 1861, 598. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. neep. _Lambs. calves. figs. Amsterdam ". Antwerp ". 1871 ". oes — Boulogne: 97 ". b4l ". •41. -- Bremen ... 107 ". bl Copenhagen Cadiz Calais.. Dora. Dunkirk ." Gothenburg.— 256 ... 17 ... - Hamburg 33 ." 493 ". ". 19 Harlingen 507 405 ... 37 Oporto 7B ". ". ." ." -- Ostend l6 ." 499 ... ”, 9 Rotterdam 404 ... 2776 305 377 Touning - ... ... e” .1; -- •.• --- ... 20 Total 1,498 ... 6,653 ... ... 305 ... 472 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1865 1864 579 ... 711 ... ... 382 ... 1863 661 ... 654 ... ... 381 ... 50 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Jan. 23, 1865, and this day, Monday, Jan. 22, 1866. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. Jan. 23, Jan. 22, 1865. 1866. sdsds d s d. Coarse and inferior beasts... 3 6to 4 2 3 2to 3 6 Second quality do. Primo large oxen 5 0 5 2 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Primo coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do 5lO 6 0 6 2 6 6 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 4 5 0 4 6 5 2 Prime small do. Large hogs Teat small porkers 4 0 4 6 4 6 41 0 Beasts 4,680 4,340 Shee p 15,930 20,130 Calves . Pigs 310 485 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Jan. 25, 1864.—Beasts, 4,270 — sheep, 14 ,030—calves, 96—pigs, 330. Jan. 26, 186 3—Beasts, 4 ,lso—sheep, 16,180—calves, 177 —pigs, 310. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale at these markets are large, The trade is Tory dull, on easier terms. Per 81b by the carcase. 8 d 8 (1 gd s d Inferior beef 2 8 3 2 Inferior mutton.... 3 4 3 8 Middling do. 3 4 3 8 Middling mutton.. 3 10 4 4 Prime large do 3 6 4 0 Prime do * 6 4 8 Prime small d 0.... 4 2 4 4 Veal 4 4 5 4 Large pork 3 6 4 2 Small pork. 4 4 410 Lamb, Cs Od to Os od. BOROUGH HOP. The demand for all kinds of hops riles quietly, but without leading to any material changis in prices from last week. The imports into London last week amounted to 83 bales from Antwerp, 62 Bremen, 63 Hamburg, 55 Boulogne, and 36 bales from Dunkirk. New Mid and East Kents Bos to 190 s per cwt. New Weald of Kents 71 New Sussex Yearlings loos to 140 s ,', BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of potatoes on sale at these markets are tolerably largo. The trade is dull, and prices somewhat easier. The supplies are almost entirely confined to home grown produce. There was no import into London last week. Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. Yorkshire do 6os to 80s t 7 Flukos Rocks 40s to GOs I/ 73 ----- - SEEDS. Tho demand for linseed and rapeseed has somewhat im proved, but the transactions in them have been by no means extensive. As regards prices, the market may be considered firm. In agricultural seeds very little business was passing. Oakes were in steady request, at full quotations. WOOL. The demand for home-grown wool has somewhat im proved, but the actual business doing is very moderate. Prices, however, are steadily supported. In colonial wool, by private contract, a limited business has been transacted, at late rates. Last week's imports into London were about 2,000 bale; tbc, bulk of which was from the Cape of Good Hope. Current prices of English wool per lb. d s d Fleoces—South Down hogets 1 8 110 Half-bred do lll 2Of Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 if 1 81 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing Combing TALLOW. The tallow trade is steady, and prices aro rather on the adyance. P.Y.C. is now quoted at 470 9d per cwt. on the Liverpool Cotton Market —This Da Market unchanged. 10,000 bales. Sale Probably 8,000 or • The Bank of Egypt haye issued their report in anticipation of the forthcoming meeting of share holders. It states that the net profits for the half year ending 30th December last, after providing for bad and doubtful debts, amount to £22,383 14s 3d, which, added to £4,466 18s. 3d., the balance broughtforward from the previous half-year, makes a total of £26,850125. 6d., available for appropria tion. The directors recommend £4,400 to be car ried to the reserve fund, which Will then amount to £25,000 ; that a dividend be declared at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the half_year (£12,500), and a bonus of 102. per share (£5,000), both free of income tax, and together equal to 14 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £4,950 12s. Gd. to be carried forward. The half-yearly meeting of the London Financial Association was held to-day, when a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, with a bonus at the same rate, being 15s. per share, free of income tax, was declared. This payment absorbs £30,000 of the balance of the year, £103,082, leaving £60,107 10s. Id. to be carried forward to the next balf-year, to see these things for our recreation and joy if He intended our senses should be closed, and not used to the fullest, in the exercise of reli gion 7 If we were not to use our senses in the service of God there was a great paradox and a great difficulty, which no ingenuity could solve. They might; therefore, admit that religion did enlist the senses as well as the reason of man in the wor ship of God. However that might be, there was no doubt whatever of the fact that the worship of the Catholic Roman Church had a great effect upon the mind of man. The religion which had not an effect upon the mind of man was probably not a true reli gion. One test of the true religion consisted of its being fitted for man ; and if they found a religion bringing all that was good in human nature to its proper use, for the glory and worship of God, that, he thought, was a strong argument in favour of its truth. And so they found that there was nothing beautiful either in nature or in art which the Roman Catholic Church did not bring to bear upon the worship of God. having the point admitted that the religion of the Catholic Church had the greatest effect upon the mind of man, then it followed that that religion was the most likely to produce the reformation of criminals—it was a religion which was the most likely to lay hold upon the minds of men who had been accustomed to criminal habits, and by the lessons it inculcated turn their minds from evil to good. The Catholic religion was the religion likely to produce that result. (Applause.) In a Protestant chapel there was nothing to arrest the attention of the people ; on the contrary, in a Catholic chapel, however poor or humble it might be, there something was found to arrest the attention of the worshippers —they found there the blessed sacrament, and the simple low mass, but neverthe less there was a solemnity and a truth in thatservice which even those who did not believe in it were ob liged to bow down to. There was an influence ex ercised there which could only be exercised by the rites and ceremonies of the true Church. The re formation of criminals was in the hands of the Catho lic clergy, and it was for Catholics to produce that great result. There was one point more which he must mention, which was the great turning point of all, and that was that the Catholic Church had the sac rament of penance. A chaplain of a Protestant gaol could not get at the minds of the prisoners, because he could not bring them to confession. But a Catholic priest brought those persons to the confessional, and there they stood in the presence of God, and even the most hardened criminal would flinch before he would tell a lie, and he would bring to bear on that man the Divine power exercised in the tribunal of penance, and that pointed out that it was the Catholic Church which could reform prisoners. They had here disco vered the great power which was to reform criminals —this was the solution of the problem, and he would leave them to reflect upon it. (Loud applause.) He next referred to the laws of punishment of the ancient Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, and lastly the obsolete laws of England, pointing out that ven geance was more the principle in former times, but that now this principle was changed for one of refor mation of the criminal, and that reformation was only to be accomplished in the manner he had pointed out. (Applause.) The Rev. Dr. APC ARTAN •(of Wolverhampton) next addressed the assembly on the proposition— " The help which young men may receive in a reli gious point of view from being members of Young Men's Associations." The rev. gentleman strongly insisted upon the necessity of union and co-opera tion, and concluded with the assertion, amidst loud applause, that so long as the Catholics held together, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Mr. POWELL (Liverpool) then briefly spoke upon the subject—" Education, so far as it is promoted by the existence of Young Men's Societies." The Very Rev. Canon TOOLE (of Manchester) discoursed upon " The advantages of Young Men's Societies to Catholics." The Earl of DENBIGH then proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman, and impressed upon the young men present the desirability of storing their minds with useful knowledge, so that in the event of being thrown upon their own resources they might find profitable employment for their mental faculties, and at the same time escape the tempta tions which beset youth and inexperience. The Rev. Father ALMOND (St. Mary's, Liver pool), seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN, in responding, directed attention to the languishing condition of the Catholic Hospi tal in London founded by Cardinal Wiseman, and which, he said. must be closed in March if an effort were not made to increase its funds. He appealed to the members of the Catholic Young Men's Socie ties in Liverpool for assistance to preserve an insti tution which was intended by its founder to be an example to all other similar institutions in the coun try, and in which not only the bodies but the souls of the patients were cared for. (Applause.) The major portion of the company had for some time displayed a wandering restlessness which ren dered the speakers inaudible except to those imme diately around the platform, and, the oratory over, all now entered with avidity into the dance, which was kept up with spirit for several hours. It should be stated that between the speeches a party of vocalists, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, Miss Monkhouse, and Mr.Warne, with Miss Martin at the piano, sang a number of songs, glees, &c., in excellent style. Consolidated Discount Company. ---~ - The Opening of the French Legislature. PARIS, Monday, Jan. 22. The Session of the French Legislature was opened at one o'clock to-day by the Emperor. W e shall publish the Speech in a later edition. SPORTINGINTELLIGENCE.—This Day CITY BETTING—THIS DAY. THE DERBY. 7to 1 agst Rustic (taken) 100 to 6 agst Janitor (offered, 20 to 1 wanted) 100 to agst Beclan (offered, 20 to 1 wanted) WATERLOO DUD. 2.i to 1 Lord Sefton's nomination (taken). 25 to 1 Mr. Bland's nomination (taken). RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTII-COAST. The report of the directors of this company states that the amount received on capital account to the 31st of December, 1865, was £13,823,182, and that it consisted of £5,342,933 ordinary stock and shares £5,026,615 preference stock, £2,156,285 mortgage debt, and £1,297,349 debenture stock. The amount of capital expended during the half year had been £687,078. The gross revenue for the past half year had been £619,741, showing an increase of £37,112 over the corresponding half of 1864, and 'Making the gross revenue of 1865 £1,116,199 or £67,269 in excess of that for the previous year. Besides carry ing forward a balance of £8,267, the highest rate of dividend ever paid by the company had been reached within a fraction, notwithstanding that the traffic of the lines recently opened, particu larly the Horsham and Guildford, the Bognor and Seaford, as well as the Littlehampton steam boat service was by no means developed. The in crease of the revenue had been uniform at almost all the 117 stations, not being confined to parti cular points. The great reduction of fares in August, 1863, reduced the receipts from the traffic between London and Brighton from £222,130 in 1862 to £213,420 in 1863 ; it rose again to £217,384 in 1864, and to £228,177 iu 1865. Those figures included the gross traffic of every description be tween London and Brighton. As compared with the corresponding • half-year revenue was debited with interest on the cost of plant prepared for the South London traffic, on the capital of the Ban stead and Epsom Downs and the Horsham and Guildford lines, and other outlay on completedlines, amounting in all to £550,095. The total receipts for the past half year amounted to £609,281, against £571,758, showing an increase of £37,523 ; and the working expenses and renewals to £304,169, or 49 per cent., against £292,498, or 51 per cent., show ingan increase of £11,671. The expenses were 2s. 9d. per train mile, against 2s. 11d. per train mile in the corresponding half of 1864. The large additions made in 1865 to the train service, particularly to Portsmouth, and the more recent separation of the London-bridge and the Victoria expressos, avoiding the stoppage at Croydon, had, with other similar measures, resulted in affording great convenience to the public and in contributing towards the increased traffic. The express trains now performed the journey between London and Brighton in 65 minutes, and with greater facility and regularity than they formerly did in 75 minutes. The line from Horsham to Guildford was opened for public traffic on the 2d of October. Its proper development had been im peded by the inability of the London and South- Western Company to furnish sufficient accommoda tion at their Guildford station, which this company had the power to use. They believed that au im portant traffic from Brighton and the south coast to Guildford and the west of England would be ob tained. The line to South Croydon was opened on the Ist of September, and the station in the southern part of that town would afford great accommoda tion to a neighbourhood where building was at presentrapidly increasing, and would no doubt still further increase by reason of the new railway ac commodation. The new station in the centre of Croydon would shortly be ready for traffic. The directors had applied to Parliament for the neces- nary powers to carry out the arrangements with the Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway Company. The works had been let to eminent contractors, who were already proceeding with energy, and the direc tors looked forward to important results from the construction and completion of the undertaking, which, under favourable circumstances, would be ready within two years, and complete a third com munication between London and Brighton. The net amount at the credit of the revenue account was £181,515, out of which the directors recom mended payment of a dividend of 3$ per cent. for the half-year, payable on the 12th of February, amounting to £173,248, leaving a balance to the credit of the current half-year of £8,267, and making the dividend for,the year 1865 amount to 5,1 per cent. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SHIRE. The report of the directors states that the total revenue for the past half-year from all sources amounted to £546,638, and the total expenditure to £238,935, leaving a net profit of £307,703, which, with the balance of £2,063 from the previous half year, gave a total sum of £309,766 available for interest and dividend. The debenture and other interest chargeable against the revenue of the half year amounted to £70,715, the canal annuities to £14,142, the dividends on the various classes of preference stock and shares to £95,156, and the South Yorkshire interest and dividends to £58,979, making a total charge against the above net balance of £154,137, leaving a balance of £70,771, out of which the directors recommended that a dividend be paid at the rate of £3 10s. per cent. per 11111111111 on the ordinary stock of the company, leaving a balance of £2,170 for next account. learn, R. G letterslßSON, THE SCUIPTOR.--WO are glad to by from Rome of the 19th inst., that this eminent sculptor is gradually recovering from his late at tack, and that hopes are entertained of his restoration to health.— Times. JEALOUSY AND SUICIDE.--.A sailor named Gall, forty years of age, who had just come home from a long voyage, committed suicide on Friday by hanging himself. Jealousy at finding that an old sweetheart had been mar ried in the interim, had become a widow, and now favoured another, was the cause. The following paragraph appears in a French provincial paper :—"Dr. Fuson one of the most eminent professors of Oxford, and one of the most remarkable mon of the Anglican Church, has lately arrived at Bor deaux. After soveral interviews with his Enainelace the Cardinal on questions relating to the reunion of the Churches, he visited the convent of the Dominican Fathers, in the midst of which ho spent the entire Sun day." A SILVER IDOL OF THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT, clad in armour like Christian in the Pilgrim's Pro gress, says tho Spectator, has been presented by the, Queen to Prince William, the oldest son of the Princess Royal, as well as to Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Both images are adorned by the same verses, said to be from the hand of Mrs. Prothero. The statues and statuettes to the good Prince Consort are multiplying a little more rapidly, we think, than would have suited his own taste. If ho can see us now, does ho not think, as St. Paul of the Athenians, that we ;►re "in these thing. too superstitious ?" Would he not say that we wore giving ourselves to idolatry, and his "spirit be stirred within him ?" MADLLE. RACHEL AND MADLLE. MA R S.- Statues in white marble of the two great tragic actresses, Madllo. Mars and Madllo. Rachel, both represented as seated, have been placed in the Ayer of the Theatre FranTtis. THE AGED FATHER OF THE LATE MADLLE• M. FELix announces that he is ready to undertake the isistruc tion of pupils for the stage. He adds that he was the solo instructor of Rachel and his other daughter Lia, tbte star ,e Gaito. Constantinople l e tters and journals to the; 10 th have reached us. Some changes in the occupants of the higher administrative offices have taken place, but this device of shuffling the official cards, gene rally for the purpose of obtaining temporary relief from embarrassment, is neither new nor in the pre sent instance of much importance. The principal point of general intelligence is that winter has come rather severely on the Turkish capital, heavy snow having fallen three days before, so that the whole country round w weather hadbeenua w n s usuhaitlely. te t p t e h s e tu ß ou la s c , k Sea and dsev t e h r e t wre cks were said to have taken place in the course of the week, triC t be' At sub ,n of ►d in was fol- 13 11 Ltl° 10a 111'