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

ZIONEY - XARKET AND COIMERCIAL CNTELLIGENcE TWELVE O'CLOCK. 1)18. couni accommodation has been in fair re c!ii!Bt) and the supplies of capital on offer have been ti 7e. The brokers, however, owing to the con h, il anee of the unfavourable specie movement, Ir e shown a disinclination to take the best bills Eder 6 per cent. new 6 per Cent. Ottoman Government "'an has been announced by the Imperial Otto tilan Bank. Th e amoun t requ i re d i s /6,000,000, to be issued in bonds of £2O each, but which will reduced to about £l3 Os. Bd., reckoning the aliPace of 66 per cent., at which they are emitted, e.' the discount on prepayments. The annual deed will therefore amount to more than 9 per eett. 4 111 the bullion department of the Bank of Eng ,,,ll€l, yesterday afternoon, there was a withdrawal 7„ . £ 12,000 i n bar gold for the continent, and of ' llO ,OOO in sovereigns for Alexandria. 2 1 1 the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets I ng the past week there has been a moderate , 4113111 1 t of business transacted. Sugars have fully " i 7tained f ormer va l ues . I n t ea a f a i r b us i ness h as 1 u :ell done, while coffee has in some instances rea extreme rates. Rice has been dull, and tallow 'ter being of rather lower quotations has slightly keevered. The adjourned meeting of Venezuelan Bond holders will take place at the London Tavern, on tic lay, the 22d inst., at noon, instead of on Wed 4%clay, the 20th, the day originally fixed. 31 r. Chomeley, of the firm of Plowden, Chomeley, 144 Co., the bankers, of Rome, has joined the boa rd of the Anglo-Romano Water Company. Sh ares closed to-day at Ito 2i prem. Two o'CLoca. A ccording to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent. French Rentes Rentes were quoted at 68f. 40e. The English Stock Market has been dull, but quo tations have nevertheless been maintained at the decline of last evening. Consols for money 87 1 11 1, and for the account 871 The New - trees and Reduced Annuities are 86f 87 ; An 44ities, 1885, 13 11-16ths 15-16ths ; Exchequer t us 7 6s. to 3 s. dis • Bank Stock, 246 248 ; India 6 Per Cents., 102 4 ; ditto 4 per Cent. Enfaced paper, 87. ; ditto 5 per Cent., 101. Foreign Stocks have generally continued firm. 1 2 4 exican, ex all, Bonds are 241 8 ; ditto New, ; Greek, 15} ; Spanish, 278 288 ; Certificates, ; Italian, 651 8 ; Confederate Loan, 68 71 ; kid Brazilian Scrip, prem. American Securities have been rather largely dealt 8 1 1' 13 - lifted States 5-20 Bonds are 651 ; Erie 'ta res, ; and Illinois, 84 82. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and in some instances prices have l ightly given way. Caledonian and North-Eastern o l erwick) have each receded 10$. ; and Great ta stern and Midland, each ss. ; Great Northern A St o elz, however, has improved £1; and Metropo -411, 10s. te The Foreign and Colonial lines are without ma rial variation. li auk and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet and ste ady Imperialal are dealt in at 29} ; English te ° mt stock at 111 ; London Joint-stock at 51 511 ; ` 44 dson Bay Company at 171; and London Finan lali, at 204 208 ; British Convention Bonds of 'lexico are quoted 65 70 ; Colonial Company, 4 11 pre en.; English and American Bank, 2 3 ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway ~,o n solidated Mortgage Bonds, 1 11 prem. ; redit Foncier and Mobilier of England (old) 0 14 es are quoted 31. 48 prem., ex all ; and the new ,7 11 e, 31 31,- prem. ; London Steam Towing Corn 1i 2 prem. ; and Charles Laffitte and Co., prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Gov . EnaimENT FUNDS. e Der Cent. Consols a 1:/ °. Account, Jan. 9 NNewC en t . R e d uce d 864 7 eh 3 per Cent B7 64, r lir 24 p er C en t. J an. 1894 — 41 °. 6 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Daities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 T T% for 30 yrs, expire sth Aug 1885 lB 11-1 G 13-1 G ? (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — 3 die uequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 6 80. £5OO — _,Do £lOO and £200 - ",,ux of England Stock, 5 per Cent 1..._ " 0 Account lb" D i lAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ,iali Stock, 104 per Cent., AprillB74 — D°.s'o A — e pe w r un Cent. July, 1870 y, 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 uo. Certificates — Do . l\ Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent 874 ' T V. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 i;' :) . 5 4 per Cent., May 1879 — -°- 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — 4-1 „. Bonds, £l,OOO — " 0 . under £l,OOO 11, FOREIGN FUNDS -ONE 0 CLOCK. 118 triatt Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 - ` 74 lia n 5 per Cent " 0 .44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 „ Do. 1865 t h 'o• Scrip, £25 paid Dos Ayres 6 per Cent — C 1„,.."° per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —, - .4an 6 per Cent 99t D 0 C oi • 3 per Cent e teinbian 6 per Cent. — L' B l 6 per Cent. — D h 3 per Cent., 1825 — D ° ' 4 per Cent., 1863 — b °. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — 41111bian Principalities p„, t)o Account 75 -Vador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — t "°-, Provisional Land Warrant — (trPtian 7 per Cent 0 Issue -, Second " 0 £lOO B on d s _ Do. 1864 — 0 £lOO Bonds DoAs' per Cents., 1824-5, ox Coupons j) • ..,.ccounG I ,°. Coupons ...., 0 . 4b., Account — irluala 5 per Cent. — De 4 86 paid — it• 1839 and 1850 — tall 5 Cent, 1865 r ) per D c). Account I}°. Mar emmana R a il way — ? Scrip, £674 paid — key? 5 Per Cent., 1864 — C s '' 'c all 3 per Cent 0. Account Do 1864 — 1)0 6 Per Cent. Anglo-French — LI D O Fr enc h S cr i p, E x. 25 f 20c — o 1 1 4te videan 6aier Cent., £3O paid k e o °llBl l Imperial 5 per Cent 1) / ' Granada L ° f s Per Cent • De, ueferred Do, Land Warrants (Hectares) U „,Per Cent, 1864 — t'e t „" vuaranteed, 4 per Cent elan 44 per Cent — Da an P; '"„erip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds U e per Cent. (Uribarren) — Port 4 4 per Cent., 1862 V o li guese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 Per Cent., 1856, '7, 5 9, '6O, '62, '3, 4 48 0 . Account ! ll 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B9l D O 4t per Cent. 1850 b e ,9* Per Cent., 1860 1 .) ,, u, Per Cent. 1859 — L o - ": Per Cent. 1862 BB4 °4ta i ,,u, Per Cent. 1864 — U "'all 5 per Cent — 44• A •ceount L, l 3 per Cent -"‘°, account 441 bs" •"eur Deferred Ul3 0 p Acco . unt 0, 881 V 0 4 tthi,.," i • L eceutit 2B b LL Cert. o f C ou p no t f un ded 1 1 , e1. 4 ,e 0 eunt 154 ~, L O - 7, 4 per `lir 'l' Per Cent. 1864 .... • Daly 6 pe r Cent. 1854.... ecount Do -A Per Ce t nt. 1858 ... " -t eecoun 00 4100 Bonds Do 1 4 Per Cent b o ‘; Per Cent. Account 1862 1)0 ecount 1) 0 1 1 ° 0 Bonds 1) 0 s ''' Per Cent.,1863 D R Per Cent. 1865 Ac P, £35 paid L 0 — ceeunt - 43+ V L ''• 4 440 Bands eti,, z ,, Per Cent. Guaranteed — 1),, rim 3 per Cent. b t , 'Peeunt bo, A, ' Peecortnt., 1862 Atlatri jAvidends on tlw above payabte in London. Del • 41 , 5 pe r Cent., Er. 10 Florins , ti 4 4, 41 tel, 1 per cent., Ex. 25f. D O. 4 1" e" (`‘.•uot., Ex. 12 G a il —. Pe r r Cent. Catilicaies C ,s- TWO O'CLOCK for money •Do, ois A ooount, 874 871 i 72i I 2 SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. -t Share Railways. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian . • • Cork and 8and0n...... Corn wall Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & ,►b.Junc iLLondon, scrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. sit. Paid.] 93 95 23 24 94 96 13 15 4} 5i 68 72 71 73i 113 115 42 a 71 Ei Do. E. Angl: st. No. 't Great North of Scotland Great Northeru D A stock Do. B stock • '1 *27 128 1444 115 Do. New. is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western Original I) . S. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newpoi t 100 10 100 1 , U 100 100 92 94 57, 58i 606 61 41 43 33 37 04 , 05 1219 122, 69 91 103 WI 36 38 50 62 125 12 5j 96 97 61• 63 136 137 3 lip 1 / 1 . 103,1 104 Do. 'lei eford ........ I Lane +shire & Yorkshire, L.indon and Blacks all, Lon., Brigh., & S Coast, Lou., Chat., and Dover, Metriip. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln IMetropolitan Do. New Do Extension...— Metropolitan District Do du. do . Do. and St. John'sW'd Mid and Do. £9 Share 1221 123 f 11 If i 93 95 DO, Birmin.. & Derby ►►id Kent . . Nprth British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwiok Do. G..N•E purchs.et Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. I 8 59 7 29 110 111 70; 71i 103 104 Do. to. 1860-61 „ North L,,ndou Do. do. 1864 .. 36 37 10 p 126 128 2 2.p 2 2r p 7 , 4 11 12 148 15 68 88 112 114 Do. do. 1865 . North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish 0 ntral Scot. N. E .Aber. stock o. Scot, Mid. et ick Shropshire Union South Devon -outh E , stern qtaineg, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale 55 67 766 761 8 . 0 148 150 3 p 101 104 Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornw 49 51 BRITISH P OSSE ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 42j 2 I 145 i 571 S 60a .30 IClosing I Business Price. done. 125 i 41 a 954 1371 / / 8 121& 21 I 721 / I 31 Atlantic& St.l.awrence Bom.,Baroda. , Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference . Buff., Bran t, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- ........ Calcutta & S. E., Mu.. ape Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p fast. Ben_ al, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do J Eitellstori Grand Trunk of Canad Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds, 1 charge 6 p.e Do. Ist -ref. Bonds , Do do. deferred . Do. 2d Pr. f. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. Pd Pref. stook Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pret. stook .. Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. o. Gua. 5 ver cent.. Do. New pia. 5 p. c.. Gt. South of India ...... gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do t; reat W. s. of Canada.., DJ. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 18731 t fro. 5, do. pay. 1877-8.. 1 Indian Branch, limited) Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 4; do _ . . Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. C. Bnds. Mel. az Hudson's say.. N. Itl.C'da, 6po Istpf.bs. Scinde . Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub ra .l Do.lndus St Flo `" COLONIAL GO VEX British Columbia. 6 pen cent., Dec.3l, 1872. Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug.. Di. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Uo. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p e. Inscribed Bk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9. Do. Jan. &July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April anc(ls Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.t Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 8 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 188?, May t 5, Nov. Do. 1805, Feb. & Aug.. atal ,ov. a per cent.. N.8.G0v.6p.c.Ja.&.1u1) N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c., 18er Do. 5 p.c. 18 1 to 187. Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 189- New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Nova Sc ,tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-l' Do. 1878 dc upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, .9 pril & Oct BRIT I Cam. Consol. Urn Chiverton Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon Ease Cant Brea s,ast Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L ,xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal tsusy G. Wheal Vor (Heist Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Elingston Downs ...„. Margaret , Uny Lelant Marke Valley Mwyndy Iron Ore, lin) New Sewn North Roskear Bassett(lllogan North Whe.,l Crotty Prosper United.... Pr vidence UnyLwlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Iran. (Mogan stray Park . Tin Croft Vigra and Cl gan, lim West .assett (Mogan W. Caradon ( L skeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton 'Wheal Tielawney (fls. ISIONS. 59 61 102 103 6.1 Id I o 6 10 11 75 80 99 101 65 70 101 103 102 103 103 104 tp 30 31 88 90 68 63 55 60 58 58 50 55 45 48 40 14 32 31 31 33 103 IC4 I t p 104 10211 18) )7 4 SO 3 05 1 46' 1.016 1021 , 94 96 89 91 134 46 82 81 L. 14 102 P, 1011 102/ 10! 102 'T SECUR: 96 98 94 96 94 96 82 8 } 81 S 3 104 106 104 106 IC4 106 105 107 90 92 10.► 112 1(6 108 103 105 106 [OB 104 108 IA :Os 98 99 98 i 8 1 0 162 93 95 81 91 103 105 84 88 10) 102 103 104 106 108 105 106 9 10 2! 236 575 595 ig 20 8i 94 " 36 - . 6 14 .5 3 31 5 7 206 216 16 2 36 4 34 ;5 41 36 38 56 56 5 7 4 44 24 1, d 40 f.o 15 17 I 1 5 t 14 38 4u 420 410 W 25 L. , It 0 20 5 7 3 4 9 11 73 828 190 Wo 95 r 0 3, 374 4 6 2 26 2226 181 ISI PKICFERENCP; t3HAttiG , Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 102 Great Western Orig. 4i per cent pf., 921 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4} per cent. pr., Ditto, new 5 per cent., ill LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S Chester and Holyhead, 55 London Tilbury, and Southend, 102} FOREIGN RAIL WAYS.' Dutch Rhenish, 23a t4reat Luxembourg, 15i N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent., ti Sambre and Meuse, 8i I San Paulo, lira., gua. 6 per cent, 17i frotimx4,al ALLIES. Don Pedro. North Del Rey, Scottish Australian, Bra.. St. John del Rey, lira., 501 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 8) BANKS. Alliance. lira.. 281 1 Ditto, issued at 20 pm.. of which 25 is paid., 24f 8 Anglo Egyptian, lirn., 131.1 Bank of Egypt, 30 Bank of utago. lim., 7 Brazili.►n and Portuguese, lira., 9 Consolidated:Bank. iim., 10* East London, lira., 51 Eng ish Joint Stock, Urn., 11/=: English, Scotch. and Australian Chartered, 201 English and Swedish. Urn., 15 Imperial Bank, lira., 29 Imperial Ottoman. 141 Land:Mortgage Bank 01 India. lira., 41 London and Brazilian (lim.), 49 London and Comity. 791 London Joint Stock, 511 London and South-Western, lira.. 19i1 New South Wales, 441 New Zealand Bank Corporation. Rm., 1 Oriental Bank Corporation, sli 1 Union of London, 54 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua.. 21 ustralian Mort. Land and Finance, hut.. 31 Ceylon Company, 101 Credit Fonder god Mobilier of .It . iglano. 9 V Ditto, issued at itPrem., of whiah is to pay, 34 Crystal:Palace, '54 Egyptian Corn and Trading, 1im.,L21 Electric Telegraph, 134 Gen. Credit and Finalize of London. lira.. 61 Hong Kong an i China Gas, 111 Hudson's Bay, 151 7 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso.,lim., lternational Contract, 51 International Financial society, lim., 61 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour.. Ditto, s. per cent. Bonds, redem. 1.70, issued 90, 83 .loint Stock Discount. lim., 81 London and Caledonian Marine, lim., 3 1 London Financial Association. lim , zOl London General Omnibus Company, lim., 3 1 M dray Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (all), 81 3lillwall Freehold Land and Dock, 6,1 tillwall Iron Works, 4/ National Discount t.ompany. 171 ice,sn Ns arine Insurance), 244 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lira., 11l Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, lim., 61 Peel River Land and Mineral. 45 Union Marine, Liverpool. Rm., 31 Universal Marine, Insurance, lien., 41 II MINES. 1.4.6 2.13. 7.1.6 10.6.7 la 3.2.0 1&189 35.15.6 9 all THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1565. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) ROBBERY. Richard Waller, aged 27, an agent for a jeweller, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of September, a bracelet and one pair of earrings, value £7O, the property of Samuel Lewis Nathan, his master. A. second count charged him with robbing his master, on the 16th of September, of a bracelet, brooch, and earrings, and on the 4th November of a bracelet and two shirt pins. Mr. Lewis prosecuted. Mr. Nathan said he carried on business in John-street, Bedford-row. The prisoner sold goods for him from April, 1864, to August, 1865. Another arrangement was then made that the prisoner should return the goods which were unsold, but he did not do so, but gave him up some deposit notes, stating that the goods were in pledge to Mr. Harrison. The goods unaccounted for amounted to £136, independently of property to the amount of £1,128, for which witness held the prisoner's bills. Another arrangement was then made, namely, that the prisoner was to hive goods to sell for witness in his invoices and entries in books kept on the witness's premises. It was arranged that the prisoner was to con sider himself witness's servant, that he should enter all sales, and that he should take stock in the morning, and return what was unsold at once, but prisoner told witness that he had pledgeda bracelet at Crauford's, and that if he redeemed it he thought he could yet sell it, and witness did redeem it. Prisoner said he had taken the bracelet with two pins to Mr. Johnson, of Threadneedle-street, and sold them for £7O. That was on the 4th of November. Mr. Johnson was entered in the ledger as a debtor for £7O. Mr. Johnson had not previously been a customer. Wit ness saw Mr. Johnson about the 16th of the same month, and, in consequence of what he heard, he saw the prisoner in the presence of his solicitor and witness's soli citor. Witness admitted that he had not sold the articles to Mr. Johnson, but that he had sold them to some one else, and had appropriated the money to his own use. He added, " Now you may do what you please." He used those words despairingly, rather than defiantly. On the 15th of September there was an entry of £2O for articles sold to Mr. Morris Moses, of Oxford-street, and on the 16th of September £l2 12s. .for articles supplied to Mr. Bennett, of Blackheath. He had ascertained that those articles had not been so supplied. Coss-examined by Mr. Sleigh for the defence—Witness had known the prisoner for some years, and believed he had borne an irreproachable character. The prisoner might have told him that he had a bill from Mr. Benson, of Ludgate-hill, but he never offered it to witness. The pri soner did ask him once whether he would take an accept ance of Mr. Benson, but witness said he would rather not, as he wished to have the money. The prisoner had made himself a bankrupt before witness gave him into custody. Witness happened to be at Mr. Lewis's office when the pri soner came there to mention his bankruptcy. It was then that he was given in charge. Mr. G. H. Lewis, solicitor, spoke of the arrangement made between the prisoner and Mr. Nathan, which were made in his presence. Witness asked Mr. Nathan not to take any proceedings against him in reference to previous transactions, and it was then understood that he was to act as Mr. Nathan's servant. Witness explained to him that if, in that capacity, he misappropriated Mr. Nathan' goods it would be stealing, and he would be prosecuted. The prisoner said Mr. Nathan might rely upon him, and he would do all in his power to reduce the large debt ho had ineurrred. Mr. Johnson, a jeweller, carrying on business in Thread needle-street, said he had had no dealings with the pri soner, although he did call upon him with some articles. Mr. W. H. Hughes said he was in the service of Mr. Benson, Ludgate-hill, and on the 4th of November pur chased the two pins (produced) from the prisoner for £4O. The invoice was made out in the name of R. Waller and Co., manufacturing jewellers, 9, Hatton-garden. By Mr. Sleigh—He gave prisoner a bill of exchange for the amount. Mr. Benson had been a customer of Waller's, but not of Nathan's. Mr. Morris Moses, jeweller, Oxford-street, said he never purchased articles from the prisoner, and• never gave him orders. An assistant from Mr. Bennett's establishment at Blackheath also proved that the firm had had no dealings with the prisoner. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Sleigh made an earnest appeal to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and a former employer gave him a good character. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Judgment was respited until next session. POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. Thomas Hopping, clerk, aged 17, pleaded guilty to feloniously forging and uttering two receipts to Post-offico orders for the payment of £3 18s. and 14s. with intent to defraud. He was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for 12 months. NEW COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) John Duncan, a youth aged 15, was charged with forgery, and Henry Garrett and John Buckley, the former a born badier and the other a driver in the Royal Artillery, were indicted with concealing, harbouring, and comforting the said Duncan with a view to defeat the ends of justice. The lad was in the employ of a gentleman named Conte, and it appeared from Mr. Sleigh, the learned counsel, who prosecuted, that the younger prisoner had been tempted by a person not in custody, to abstract some blank cheques from the book of his employer, which were filled up, pre sented, and paid at the London and Westminster Bank. The prisoner suddenly left his employment when the forgery was discovered, and eventually was taken into custody, in company with the two soldiers at an East-end theatre. It also appeared that he had bought watches and articles of jewellery and gave them to the soldiers, to one of whom he had given £3O to purchase his discharge, and had promised a like amount to the other. The Common Sergeant thought the two soldiers could not be included in the present charge, as it could not be proved they had harboured the younger prisoner with in tent to defeat the ends of justice. Mr. Daly made a strong appeal to the jury on behalf of the lad Duncan, and said it was to be regretted that the law, after a prisoner had made a full confession of an offence, still held the crime in the same estimation as if it had been fully proved by evidence. The lad, by his ad vice, was quite ready to plead guilty to the uttering. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against the boy and acquitted the soldiers. His lordship said he should defer passing sentence until an indictment against the soldiers for conspiracy had been disposed of. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Comthissioner Kerr.) Margaret Brown was indicted for stealing a watch the property of Peter Sungreen, from his person. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. George Betts, Henry Butler, and Henry Paterson, were indicted for stealing 24 woollen shirts, and other goods, the property of George Hooper. They were also indicted for feloniously receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen. Betts pleaded guilty, and was admitted as evidence against the other two. Tho jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. Dec. 18. THE ASSAULT UPON DR. HUNTER. T. B. Jones and Samuel Merrick were charged with an assault upon Dr. Hunter, who, it will be remembered, was charged with a criminal assault. Mr. Sleigh and Mr. M. Williams appeared for the prose cution, and Mr. Rigby for the defence. Mr. Sleigh opened the case. He said the prosecutor wag a physcian qualified by an American diploma to practise. His custom was to charge patients who came to his house a fee of ss. ; if they were attended out of doors they were charged more. A Mrs. Merrick, the wife of one and the sister of the other defendant, was one of his patients, who was visited at her home by Dr. Melville, one of prosecu tor's assistants or associates. A dispute arose about the fees, which led to a most violent assault by Jones and Mer rick upon Dr. Hunter, which would be detaile(by the witnesses. They were given in charge and committed for trial. On the Saturday before the trial was to come on a charge of criminal assault was made against Dr. Hunter by Merrick's wife, and he was locked up so that he could not go before the grand jury ; and the trial, therefore, had to be postponed until to-day. Dr. Hunter was tried and acquitted; and now he would be placed in the witness-box, and men tion the real facts of the case. William Davis, Dr. Hunter's door porter, stated that the prisoners came to the house, and after waiting some time rushed upstairs and assaulted Dr. Hunter. Witness went for the police, and the defendants were taken into custody. Dr. H. Melville—l am a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, and am associated with Dr. Hunter. I know a patient named Mrs. Merrick, and visited her at her house. I told Merrick to see Dr. Hunter about the fees then in arrears. On the 2d of November ho called at the house, and after waiting some time became very much excited, upon which I went and told him Dr. Hunter was engaged upstairs. He then rushed upstairs, followed by Jones. Wit ness also followed, and on reaching the landing found Dr. Hunter with his head thrust back against the wall with Merrick's hand on his throat, and Jones holding Dr. Hun ter's ear between his teeth. Witness pulled off Merrick and others got Jones away. Witness remonstrated with Merrick, upon which Jones said, " You don't suppose we came here" without knowing the consequences. I came to give him a licking." Cross-examined—l have known Dr. Hunter 11 years. I knew him in Now York, and was then intimate with him. He left in 1858. I never heard there of his not being pro— perly qualified, or of any charge against him. When Jon'es said he came to give him a licking he said it was bee:Ause Dr. Hunter had grossly insulted his sister. I knew a Mr. Rawlins in New York. Did not know a person in court (who stood up for identification, and who was said to be Mr. Rawlins). Re-examined—During the whole time he was in Ame rica he had the character of a well-conducted, moral man. Dr. Hunter—l am a registered licentiate of medicine and surgery, and a doctor of medicine. On the 30th October Merrick came to me about the fees owing. I explained that we could not continue the visits unless the fees were paid. Eventually I was to consult with Dr. Melville on the sub ject, as we had been to great expense with the case, provid ing an inhaling machine, &c. On the 2d November, about 2 o'clock, I heard loud talking in an adjoining room, where my wife and daughter with Dr. Munns were at luncheon. I opened my room door, but had scarcely done so when I received blows on the head from a thick stick from Jones. Merrick was with him, and Jones struck over his head. I knocked Merrick down, but before I could get to Jones he was up again and struck me twice in turn. He then seized me by the throat, and Jones, who had been hitherto hitting all the time, at length got hold of my ear be tween his teeth and bit it through. The blood flowed freely over my coat and waistcoat. Assistance came -the police took them into custody—and they were committed that day for trial. On the Saturday night before the trial 1 was taken into custody on a charge of assault upon Mrs. Merrick. ' Cross-examined—l practise as a physician. I hold a British colonial diploma, but not an English one. I have never had any charge brought against me of indecency in America or anywhere else in all my life. No such charge or imputation was ever made against me. This was the case, and Mr. Rigby, in defence, urged that the extreme provocation the prisoners were under the im pression they had received (and they could not even now accept the verdict of the jury in the assault case to be satis factory) was some excuse for their conduct. Merrick com mitted no violence till he himself was struck, and Jones denied biting the ear of prosecutor, which might have been hurt by the scapula a large knife for mixing ointment. Verdict, Guilty of common assault only, and of the more modified assault by Jones. Sentence deferred. Lecture by Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth. - - The usual weekly lecture at the Surrey Chapel was delivered on Monday (yesterday) evening, by Mr. Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth, the subject being " Captain John Brown, the Abolitionist Martyr." The lecturer said that when the civil war broke out in the United States, the first object of the people of the Northern States had been to get a national anthem which should be appropriate to the contest upon which they were entering. They tried the " Star-spangled Banner," " Hail Columbia," " Yankee Doodle," &c., but none of these would'do, so as the Northern troops marched southward they sang " Old John Brown, his body's mouldering in the ground, but his soul is marching on, Halle lujah." It was this recollection which was at the bottom of their hearts and which induced them to leave fathers, mothers, wives, and their pleasant homesteads, and to march cheerfully and instinc tively forward to eradicate an evil which they knew existed, and which they were determined should exist no longer ; and in reviewing the history of John Brown, the great abolitionist, he hoped that his hearers would be convinced that no selfish mo tive induced the Northern men to this fervour, but a true patriotism, to abolish that pernicious system of slavery which John Brown had striven to annihi late so nobly. Mr. Hughes, after narrating the birth of Brown in Torrington, Connecticut, his hardy life in Ohio, his early exl)erience of the hard ships endured by the untortunSte slaves, proceeded to detail the long train of consequences which ultimately led to the abolitionists' unfortunate pro ceedings at Harper's Ferry. During many years, it appeared, Kansas had been free soil in the United States ; but the Missourians who dwelt on the borders, and who were proprietors of slaves, had organised bands, who had been designated as border ruffians, and who had caused great devastation and misery in Kansas. Brown and its family settled in the south of that district, and from the first he be came the determined opponent of these border ruffians, and his name began to spread great terror amongst them. At length he became so bold as actually to release four families of slaves in Mis souri. With them he travelled 2,000 miles, and finally secured them a safe retreat in Canada, but at the same time a reward of 650 dollars was offered for his capture. He returned, however, to Ken nedy's Farm, and in the Alleghany Mountains con ceived the design of liberating all the slaves, of whom there were 20,000, in Virginia. He then made his famous raid to Harper's Ferry, and after having been at first partially successful, was sur rounded by irresistible numbers of the enemy, saw his best and nearest friends fall around him, was himself captured, and underwent - the ignominious death to which he was condemned with firmness and resignation. Such was the history of John Brown. " But," said the lecturer, " his attempt, capture, his death on the scaffold, did more, per haps, than anything else to arouse the anti-slavery party, and to place Abraham Lincoln in the Presi dential chair ; and they may be looked upon as the first two martyrs who inaugurated the abolition of slavery." The Rev. Newman Hall occupied the chair, and at the conclusion of the lecture 8 vote of thanks was given to Mr. Hughes amidst the greatest en thusiasm. The late Fire in Bavoystreet, Strand. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—Considerable misconception having arisen, from the reports in the various journals, id the fire at one of our branch establishments, leading to the inference that it was our chief establishment, we shall feel greatly obliged by insertion of the accompanying letter, addressed to our cus tomers at the branch in gnostic.; in your valuable jour nal, by which it will be seen that our friends and cus tomers will sustain no inconvenience, and that their orders will be executed, in the interim, at our principal works, Queen-street and Upper Thames-street, where our powers of production are unlimited.-`-We are, Sir, your most obedient servants, JOHN KING and Co. "Savoy Print'ng Works, Savoy-street, Strand, Dee. 16, 1865. " Dear Sirs,—We regret thm a fire of a destructive cha racter occurred this morning at' the above printing works, causing considerable damage. We aro pleased, however, to be able to inform you that t will not make any differ ence in the execution of your (deemed orders, as we have arranged immediately to tako up and finish all work on hand, as also all new orders which we may be favoured with, at our extensive chief works in Queen-street and Upper Thames-street, until the damage is repaired. " We beg also to notify that we have taken offices imme diately adjacent, No. 1, Savcy-street, where we request the favour of your forward* your orders as before, which will have immediate attention. " Thanking you for past favours, we are, your obedient servants, " JOILN KING and Co." MARKETS—TIAtiDay. HAY SMITITFIELD.—Moadow hay, £4 4s to £5 ss; clover, .£5 5s to 16 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 15s to £2 Os per load. Demand inactive. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £slos Od; clover, £5 lOs to £6 128 6d ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. Trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 4s to £5 ss; clover, £5 5s to £6 10s Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 Os per load. Trade slow. COLONIAL. TEA.-A fair amount of busixess has been done in the private market and full rates a* current for superior de scriptions. At the public sales to-day about 15,800 packages will be offered, the greater part of which aro without reserve. SUGAL—There has been a Moderato demand for West India, and late rates have been well maintained. Foreign descriptions have generally retrained inactive. In the re fined market good grocery kin have sold readily at fully late values. COFFEE.—The demand for both plantation and native Ceylon has been moderate, and !ully late rates have been obtained. The stocks in hand, compared with those in the corresponding period of last year, are slightly in excess. RlCE.—Business has remained very quiet, and prices are nominally unaltered. TALLOW.—Business generally has been moderately active, but some slight variations have occurred in prices. There has been a steady demand from the trade. P.Y.C., on the spot, is now quoted 495; all the month, 48s 9d; and January to March, 49s 3d pei cwt. Liverpool Cotton Mullet—This Lay, Market rather steady. Sales probably 7,000 bales. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUX.—During the week ending Dec. 16 the visitors have been as follows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, 'see days, open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 9,268 ; on Wedresday, Thursday, and Friday, students' days (admission ;o the public, 6d.), open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1,709. T)tal, 10,977. From the opening of the museum, 5,694,301, LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Pepys.) IN RE E. H. LEVEAT.TX AND CO. These bankrupts were described as wine merchants, of the Cedars, at Putney, and to-day was appointed for proof of debts. The liabilities are about £26,000, and the assets depend upon a large number of shares inthe Cadiz, Oporto, and Light Wine Association (Limited). The bankrupt, E. H. Leveaux, was the promotor of this company, and after wards became managing director. Some disputes arose and he left the company, subsequently stopping payment. A meeting of creditors was held recently, and a deed pre pared, but the Cadiz, Oporto, and Light Wine Association, who claim to be creditors in respect of calls on the shares, refused to sign it, and a petition was presented to this court early in the month. Debts were proved, and a day named for the next meeting. OLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STB,TMT. SHOCKING CASE OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.—Mr. Tubbs, tho assistant overseer of St. Marylebono, waited upon Mr. Tyrwhitt this morning in reference to two children of tho name of Richardson, whose mother had attended this'court a few weeks since and made a complaint against a woman named Jones of ill-using and neglecting them. Mr. Tubbs said that about three weeks ago the mother of the children attended at the court with them, and ap plied for a summons against a woman named Jones, in whose charge she had left the children, for ill-using and neglecting them, one of them having a cut lip and a bruise on 'the cheek, while the other, about five months old, was in such a shockingly emaciated condition that, according to the witness's statement, it only weighed seven pounds. The children were admitted into the St. Maryle bone Workhouse, and when the summons came on for hearing, he (Mr. Tubbs) attended on the part of the parish to prosecute, but the woman Jones was not in at tendance, and a warrant was in consequence granted against her; he (Mr. Tubbs) at that time having eight witnesses in attendance, and being prepared to go into the case. His object in now attending was to inquire whether there were any good reasons why the warrant had not been executed, and to mention that the younger child, although it had much improved in its condition, after being admitted to the workhouse, had since sunk and died, its death being no doubt accelerated • by the treatment it had pre viously received at the hands of the woman Jones. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was not aware of the facts of the case before, but he would have the matter looked into, and inquiries made why the warrant had . not been exe cuted, and Mr. Tubbs could be prepared with medical evi dence to support his case, and to show whether the child's death had not been accelerated by the treatment it had undergone. Mr. Tubbs said that according to the evidence he should be prepared to produce the children had not only been most grossly neglected but ill-used. The deceased child was stated by the mother to have been a plump, healthy child when she placed it in prisoner's hands. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would ascertain why the warrant had not been executed, and Mr. Tubbs should be made acquainted with the reason. A more shocking sight than the younger child presented on its being brought to the court by its mother has seldom been seen. It appeared to have been completely starved ; its legs not being thicker than a man's thumb, and seemed in a state of torpor. WESTMINSTER. AN APPARENTLY OLD AND PRACTISED SMASHER.—Geo. Wilson, a middle-aged man, well known to the police, was charged with uttering a bad shilling and tendering another well knowing them to be counterfeit coin. Mr. John Barratt, a cheesemonger, residing at 1, Little Chapel-street, Westminster, said that the prisoner came into his shop last night and asked for a rasher of bacon. Witness served him and asked for 4d. for the bacon, pri soner looked suspicious, and when he quietly put a shilling on the counter, witness immediately observed that it was bad. He bent it and cut it, and gave it back to prisoner, who paid 4d. and left the shop. Witness followed him. Mr. Mills, landlord of the Castle public-house, said the prisoner came into his house about 7 o'clock and asked for a pint of beer. He was served, and selected from a hand ful of halfpence a bad shilling and tendered it. Witness was about to give him change when Mr. Barratt and another person spoke to him, and he found the shilling was bad. He returned it to the prisoner, who paid for the beer, and then putting the shilling in his mouth swallowed it. He was given into custody. The other bad shilling was found nearly broken in two outside the public-house. Prisoner was remanded for a week. He admitted the facts. THAMES. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.— George Bains, a notorious and desperate thief, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with assaulting Mr. Andrew Wear, of Love-lane, Shadwell, shipwright, and stealing a watch, valued at £4, from his person. The prosecutor was passing along the Commercial-road East last night, at 12 o'clock, when he met tho prisoner and another man. They intercepted his progress, and in endeavouring to pass them one of the villains shoved the prisoner upon him. The prisoner immediately snatched Mr. Wear's watch, and broke a ring connecting the swivel with the watch. Mr. Wear immediately collared the pri soner, who struck him with his fist, kicked him, and tripped him up. Mr. Wear dragged the prisoner down with him and called out "Police!" and "Murder!" Henry Townsend, No. 313 K, was soon on the spot, and found the prosecutor on his back, and the prisoner standing over him. Mr Wear said " This fellow has stolen my watch." Town send immediately secured the prisoner. The prosecutor's chain was hanging loosely before him, and the watch was gone. Mrs. Eliza Bishop, wife of Mr. Thomas Bishop, an artist, saw the whole occurrence from her window, and confirmed the statement of the prosecutor in every particular. The prisoner mado no defence, and Mr. Partridge com mitted him for trial, and requested Mr. Allison, an inspec tor of the K Division, to ascertain if there were any previ ous convictions against him. He knew he had seen the prisoner before. Inspector Allison—Men from the different divisions of police will go to the prison and look at him. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was a well-known thief, and had been tried and convicted several times. Mr. Partridge—Then I will remand him until to-morrow week, Dec. 27, for the police to come here and prove the former convictions. ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. —Albert Wright, aged 19, of 17, Salisbury-street, packing-case maker, was charged with being concerned with others in assaulting and robbing Mr. Charles Perry, distiller's clerk, of 9, Patriot-square, Cambridge-road. The prosecutor was passing along the Mile-end-road at a few minutes past 12 o'clock on Saturday night last, and encountered eight or nine young men, among whom was the prisoner. He was hustled and shoved from one to the other. One of the young mon seized him behind, and others turned his pockets inside out and took from them a knife, a half-crown, fourpence, and a pocket-book containing receipts, pawn tickets, and letters. He estimated his loss at £2O. Ono man "bonneted" him (struck the top of his hat), and another attempted to strangle him. He was used with considerable violence. He could positively identify the prisoner, and saw him pick up one of the coins which fell from his pocket when it was turned inside out. The prisoner said he was innocent, and called George Jones, Charles Bowers, and Joseph Day, young men, who said they were with him on Saturday night in the Mile end-road, and he was not concerned in the robbery. In some points their evidence was very conflicting. The prisoner was committed for trial. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 18. (Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Special Jury.) HAMPSON, ADMINISTRATRIX, V. THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAIL- WAY COMPANY. This claim arose out of the late railway accident at Staplehurst on the defendants' line of railway. The plain tiff was the widow of Adam Hampson, formerly surgeon, veterinary surgeon, owner of a shoeing forge, and part owner of a cotton mill at Bolton, in this county ; and the action was brought on behalf of herself and two children. The defendants admitted the negligence of their servants by the payment of Is. into court, but they left the question of damages to be decided by the jury. It appeared that the total income of the deceased was about £3,000 a year, but that his family were now in receipt of about .£2OO a year. Mr. Hampson was only 40 years of age at the time of his death, and his future prospects at that time were very bright. It was also shown that some property which would have fallen to his children in the event of his surviving the present owners would now revert to other hands. His Lordship thought that if railway companies were to be held liable for such contingencies as these they had better shut up business at once. Mr. Temple, Q.C. (with whom were Mr. Millward, Q. 0., and Mr. Baylis), on the other hand, thought if persons were to be deprived of their sources of income by such gross negligence as had been exhibited in this case, they had better retire from business at once. Mr. Brett then addressed the jury on behalf of the de fendants in mitigation of damages, contending that the jury should not regard the income of the plaintiff's hus band as a certainty, but open to the usual incidents of trade. His Lordship then summed up, recommending the jury to view the amount of damage in a broad and equitable sense ; not regarding it as essential to award the same yearly income that the husband had been in receipt of, but sufficient to enable her and her family to live decently and respectably in proportion to the position they had been accustomed to occupy. The jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict for 47,000—X4,000 for the widow, and X 1,500 for each of the children. 321 1 31 ,ITIES. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. The great holiday entertainment at this magni ficent theatre has the peculiar advantage of com prising all the attractions of opera, ballet, spectacle, and extravaganza, and these will be combined in the form of a splendidly-illustrated grand comic Christmas pantomime, entitled " Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp ; or, Harlequin and the Flying Palace." The author is Mr. E. L. Blanchard, the scenery is by Mr. T. Grieve, so illustrious a name in the artistic annals of the theatre ; the characteristic music is by Mr. W. H. Montgomery; the ballet has been designed and arranged by M. Desplaccs ; and the whole of the stage arrange ments will owe their completeness to the well known skill and constant supervision of Mr. 'William West. This most popular story of the " Arabian Nights " is now for the first time brought before the public in strict accordance with the manners and customs of the place and the period associated with the famous tale, and no expenditure has been spared in any department to ensure a brilliant realisation of its magical wonders. The pantomime commences with the abode of Abanazar, the African Magician, represented by Mr. W. 11. Payne, who, to the hor ror of his dumb slave Kazrac (Mr. F. Payne), re ceives a visit from the terrible Bo Ghee, chief of the Efreets, or Spirits of Darkness, in response to the invocation necessary to learn where the Won derful Lamp is to be found, and the means by which it is to be secured. An elaborate scene, representing a street in Canton at early morning, with the opening of the shops, and the peculiar business car ried on by the Chinese tradesmen, will be found highly characteristic. Here the Magician, disguised as the uncle of Aladdin (Miss Rachel Singer), lures the youth away from his mother, the Widow Ching- Ching (Mr. Charles Steyne), and here the arrival of the Princess Badroulbadour (Miss Blanche Elliston) and her attendants gives occasion for a grand incidental ballet. To the Cedar valley, in the Blue mountains, the Magician brings Aladdin, and there employs him in the mystic incantation which reveals the opening to the cavern. Descending to the subterranean Garden of Jewels, where the Wonderful Lamp is seen burning, Aladdin passes through a series of remarkable adventures, and finds the fate to which the Magician doomed him not so disagreeable as he at first imagined. With the aid of the Genius of the Ring (Miss Dacre) and the Fairy of the Diamond (Miss Weber), Aladdin makes his escape and returns to the house of his mother, where the Genius of the Lamp speedily exhibits the marvellous powers of the talisman. Application is made to the grand Cham (Mr. R. H. Lingham) for the hand of his daughter, the Princess Badroulbadour ; and the splendid palace is built in compliance with the con ditions exacted. Of course Magician,in the guise of a Pedlar, persuades the Princess to part with the old lamp for a new one, and borne on the broad wings of the Genii of the Lamp the Flying Palace con veys away Abanazar and the Princess. Ultimately Aladdin recovers the beautiful Badroulbadour. Bo Ghee appears to punish the magician, and the re wards are distributed in the effulgent beams of the " Wondrous Lamp of Day," designed and manu factured by Mr. T. Grieve, who thus supplies a transformation scene, which it is reasonably expected ' will become the object of enthu siastic admiration with all those who can appreciate a poetical conception, most elaborately executed in detail, and showing a gor geous profusion of decorative accessories regulated regulated by the most refined taste. The Harle quinade, with Mr. Harry Payne as Clown, Mr. Fred Payne as Harlequin, Madlle. Esther as Columbine, and the veteran Paul Herring as Pantaloon, will abound with humouros touches on passing topics, and ingenious mechanical changes. There will be morning performances of the pantomime, presenting this lavishly illustrated edition of Aladdin every Wednesday and Saturday. Railway and other Companies• BASINGSTOKE CANAL. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the Gray's-inn Hotel, Holborn ; Mr. Davey in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been con vened for the purpose of discussing the present posi tion of the affairs of the company. He regretted to inform the bondholders, who were the principal per sons concerned, that the receipts were not equal to the expenditure, and there was but little prospect of increasing the traffic. In consequence of the facili ties afforded by the railway companies for the car riage of coals, it was impossible to anticipate any improvement in the business of the company. Their land, which was contiguous to Aldershott Camp, was left in a sandy state owing to the evolutions of the troops, and the action of the wind and rain col lected a deposit in the canal which was not only an impediment, but would be a complete stoppage un til it was removed. They had cleared the canal at their own expense, and had received some assist ance from the Government, but latterly they had been refused further co-operation from the Govern ment, and they were now left powerless to work the canal or to remove obstructions from the want of funds. Mr. LAMB (solicitor of the company) said an eminent engineer had given it as his opinion that the canal would be an excellent source of water supply to the camp at Aldershott. He had written to the War-office on the subject, but had not as yet received a reply. Captain JESSE said he had spoken to Mr. Woods, an eminent railway engineer, as to the converti bility of the canal into a railway, but he expressed himself against the project, inasmuch as the returns would be in no relative proportion to the cost. Mr. Woods was very much in favour of the conversion of the undertaking into a water company, and said he had no doubt the Government would be anxious to contract for the supply of water to Aldershott Camp—the supply of the commodity to that place being of a very inferior description. Mr. LAMB submitted a resolution proposing the adoption of measures for the closing of the canal or its conversion into property of a remunerative cha racter. The resolution was unanimously crrried, it being understood that any proposal coming from the Go vernment or any other source would meet with due consideration. The Tragedy at Hong Kong• During the first four months of the present year, 1865, the total strength of officers, men, women, and children—Royal Artillery, Engineers, of the 2d battalion of the 9th Regiment, and of the 2d batta lion of the 11th Regiment—amounted to 1,204, and during the following four months the strength was increased by the arrival of the 2d battalion of the regiment from the Cape of Good Hope, to 2,079. The casualties during this short period of eight and a half months have been as follows : Died. Invalided. Officers 4 Dien 95 Women Children Total On October 20 the 11th Regiment could only muster 100 men for duty, though 704 arrived only four and a half months ago. No barrack accom modation had been prepared for this regiment until disabled by malaria at Kowloon, where the men were put up in miserable mat huts, and awfully ex posed. All the barracks have been overcrowded ; the women and children put into old houses of a most unhealthy character. The temporary barracks afterwards hired are badly situated, so that sickness and death continue to prevail. The poor soldiers had to go on guard every second or third night, whereby they were exposed to malaria, fatigue, &c. The hospital was also shamefully overcrowded. Theverandahs were not only filled with sick (cholera, fever, and dysentery), but many had actually to lie down on the floors between two rows of their suffer ing comrades. The cruel treatment to the men, women, and children in this way has been unequalled in the past history of Hong Kong. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. The following appeared in a late edition of The Sun of last eyening: MAIDSTONE, Dec. 18, THE RAMSGATE MURDER. (From our own Reporter.) MAIDSTONE, Monday morning. CROWN COURT. At ten o'clock this morning Mr. Justice Mellor took his seat on the bench for the purpose of dis posing of the cases which stood for trial at the pre sent winter assizes for the county of Kent. The principal charge in the calendar was the indictment against Stephen Forward alias Ernest Southey, who stood charged with the wilful murder of his wife Mary Ann Jemima and his daughter Emily S. Frances Forward at Rarnsgate, on the 10th of August last. The circumstance. that such an unparalleled cri minal was about to undergo his trial did not ap pear to create much curiosity, as the court was very far from full. The grand jury, of which Earl Brecknock was the foreman, having been empannelled, the Queen's proclamation against vice and immorality having been read, his Lordship proceeded with his charge. Having referred to several cases in-the calendar, his lordship went on to say that one of the most serious indictments that would have to be disposed of was that against Stephen Forward, who is charged with the murder of his wife and child, at Ramsgate. The facts were extremely simple. H e was seen almost to commit the crime, and as the evidence was so clear on the point, he did not feel called upon to refer further to the case, as the facts to be laid before them would be so precise that there would be no difficulty in finding a true bill against him. His lordship having con-. eluded his remarks, the grand jury retired to their room. The grand jury found a true bill on both indict ments. The trial will take place on Wednesday. RACING FIXT JANI TRES FOR 1866. "ARY. Manchester , PEBR Lincoln ARY. Nottingham Spring 27 C H. Derby Spring ___ 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring Crox ton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Chelmsford Spring Think ' 10 Epsom Spring Newmarket let Spring l6 Chester Curragh 24 :AY. Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hun gerford Newcastle-on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 Worcester LY. Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Winchester 24 I Southampton 25 Huntingdon UST. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Brighton 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham 14 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPT] York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter ...... Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 2B Weymouth 3O Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Canterbury lB MBER. Richmond Monmouth Manchester Autumn 24 Newmarket Ist October 26 Walsall OCTOBER. Northampton 2 'Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh NOVE: Lincoln Liverpool Foreign Mail Packet List. Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester MBER. Shrewsbury I Leamington Hunt ll MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. —Deo. 10. Ditto, via Marseilles i an. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao,et Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Soathampton Dcc. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 19. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 19. Ditto, via 31ardeilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dtc. 27. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 21. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Mansell es. Jan. 5. Newfoundland Portugal 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 w •• Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Deo. 22. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerife Jan. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico.... Dec. t 4. Cuba And Mexico Deo. 29. Bahamas, via New York. Jan. 11. Bermuda, ditto %O. The Nyanza, which carries out the India and China mail on Wednesday, will also take £107,571, principally in gold. _ It appears by the statistics of the Australian papers that there is a total of gold on its way to this coun try of £835,500, of which nearly the whole is over due. The Great Britain, out 59 days, has on freight £498,000 ; the Kent, out 79 days, has £276,000. ..1 The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived in their residence in Hamilton-place, Piccadilly, on Saturday, from Boughton House, near Kettering, Northamptonshire. The noble earl and countess left town yesterday to join the party visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailes bury at Savernake, Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith arrived at town yesterday from visiting the Earl and Countess Cow ley at their seat in Wiltshire. Lord Walter Scott and Lord Charles Scott left town yesterday to join the Du ke and Duchess o f Buccleuch Selkirkshire. and T t h a e mil ß y iagthßt Hon.owhill Sir George G re y, a ft er the , Cabinet Council on Saturday, left town for Falloden, Northumberland. Naw UNITED STATES CONSUL TO HANOvEn.—The Rev. W. CALVIN BROWN, of New Jersey, recently appointed United States Consul to Hanover, in place of lir. Locx.- WOOD, wild resigned that position, arrived during the put week, and assumed the duties of his office. a t Paris, li.cenEßif A N OVEL FEATURE IN GYMNASTICS. --Signor Ethardo, a young artist of . great talent, who has been making a tour of Italy under the title of " The Spiral Ascensionist," and who on the occasion of the " Dante Festival" at Florence, before his Majesty Victor Emmanuel, created a great sensation, is shortly expected to make his debut at the Crystal Palace, the directory of which vast institution, ever alive to all that is novel and interesting to their myriad visitors, has, we understand, engaged the services of Signor Ethardo to add to their Christmas at tractions. The performance given by this talented gym nast consists in ascending a spiral column 50 feet high on a globe, and descending backwards. This indeed is a novel feat, and cannot fail to attract and gratify the sensational taste of the present age. DEATH OF MR. MOTLEY'S SON-IN-LAW.--It is With feelings of deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr. IvEs, the son-in-law of the lion. J. S. MOTLEY, the United States Minister, at Vienna. Mr. IVES died at Havre, on his way to America, of typhus fever. H o was married to Miss MOTLEY, magEAlcoP.RE_ACElDvEaNsThinrgOtßon lAetMteErßlireci: intervention by the INTERVENTION IN his torical fact as a precedent justifying intervention Y o li l E l l o :V w e i f ollowing weeksg United States in aid of the Republicans in Mexico no w at war against the empir e :......e.urin revolu tion, when the patriotic M agyars were on t h e eve of gain ing their inde pendence frpomthgethteyraHnunnigeaaril anyokeo Austria, monarchic a l R ussia sent seven ty thousand men to the assistance of the nearly defeated Austrian army, and thus actively assisted in bringing the brave Hungarians once more under Austrian rule. And would it not bo just, nay, is it not our duty, to give aid to our republican neighbor? This step would be justified by the above and other antecedents in the annals of the history of nations. Our mutual relations •as sister republics and commercial intercourse demand that we should boldly help our sorely troubled friends to re-establish their beloved republic. Twenty thousand veterans under Sheridan would in a very short time reach the city of Mexico with out much opposition, and once across the Rio Grande they would be welcomed with open arms, and their ranks would swell day by day as they advanced towards the capital of the Montczumas." AUG bi 4 tel l f f t' th° " 4 ;fi. cre° 100 et 1 20 '.06 too 1 to() 100 100 all 100 100 .aEls 190 100 100 1.0 100 100 2.1.0 29i 2.14. s St 2. t 4.0 8.3. b 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 4(1 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 18.17.6 4.1(.1.6 56 33 i 321 103} 161 f