The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The money market presents no new feature of interest. There is a general belief that a further large withdrawal of gold will take place to-day at the Bank, and the brokers, who expect an advance will be made to-morrow in the Bank rate, are dis inclined to negotiate bills at current rates. At the bullion department of the Bank of Eng land yesterday afternoon, there was a further with drawal of £75,000. The Committee of the Stock Exchange, Liver pool, have granted a special settlement to the Bir kenhead Amalgamated Brewery Company to pass through current accounts (Dec. 28), and also offi cial quotation. Notice has been given that the interest payable by the contractors on the shares and scrip of the East London Railway Company, for the half year ending Dec. 28 inst., will be paid .on and after Jan. 5. The interest warrants will be forwarded to the registered proprietors, but the holders of scrip will be required to lodge their certificates, ac companied by receipts for payments thereon, with the registrar, at the offices of the company, three clear days prior to payment. The directors of the St. John del Rey Mining Company (Limited) have received, per Guienne, the following report, dated Morro Velho, Nov. 17 : Produce for October, 48,509 oitavas ; yield, do., 9,541 per ton; cost for d0.,9 £,935 ; profit for do., £8,769 ; produce, 12 days (including two holidays and one pay-day) of November, 14,198 oitavas; yield, 7,686 oitavas per ton. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were quoted at 68f. 30c. Inanimate. The English Stock Market has been dull, and at one time further depressed. A recovery, how ever, has subsequently taken place, and Consols are quoted 87* I for money, and 871 * for the ac count. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 864 87 ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 2s. dis. ; Bank Stock, 246 ; India 5 per Cents., 1021 4 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 102 ; ditto Bonds, 14s. 18s. prem. Foreign Stocks have been steadily supported. Mexican, ex all, have improved to 254 ; ditto, New Loan, to 221 4 ; Greek are 15 f ; Spanish Passive, 274 28 ; the Certificates, 15f ; Italian, 64/ 654 ; Confederate Loan, 7 8 ; and Brazilian Scrip, 14 f prem. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, 72f 4 ; ditto, 1863, 67 ; ditto, paid up Scrip, 1865, 43 k; ditto guaranteed, 100. The scrip of the new Turkish loan is f to 1 prem. Most of the American Securities have been sup ported at steady quotations. United States 5-20 Bonds are 651 ; and Illinois, 82 I. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation ; prices, however, are firmer. South-Eastern have improved £1; Great Northern A Stock and Great Western, each 15s. ; and Midland, ss. • The Foreign and Colonial lines remain very quiet, without any material alteration in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull. Al liance are dealt in at 28 29f ; London and County at 72i ; Imperial Bank at 29i ; London Joint-stock at 511 ; Hudson Bay Company at 17k 4. ; National Discount Company at 14 17i ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co. at 211 I ; British Convention Bonds of Mexico are quoted 65 70 ; English and Aifierican Bank, 2i 2i prem.; Colonial Company, 14. prem. ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Consolidated Bonds, 1 14. prem. ; London Steam Towing Company, 11 2 prem. ; and Charles Laffitte and Co., 1 2 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 9 3 per Cent. Reduced B6l New 3 per Cent B6l 7 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 2 6 dis Do. £5OO 2 6 dis Do £lOO and £200 Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account - INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 Shut Do Account — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 . Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — - Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 74/ 51 Do. Scrip, £25 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chilian 6 per Cent — Do. 3 per Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 • Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid Danubian Principalities Do Account lictiador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian - 7 per Cent 93 Do., Second Issue — Do £lOO Bonds 92 Do: 1864 — Do £lOO Bonds Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do, Account - Do. Coupons Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do £B6 paid — Do. 1839 and 1850 — Italian 5 per Cent, 1865 Do. Account Do. Maremmana Railway — Do Scrip, £671 pdld — ~.Do 5 per Cent., 1864 — •nexican 3 per Cent — Do. Account Do 1864 221 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — ...Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c —• el ontevidea.n &per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred 7 , Do Land Warrants (Hectares) '' o . 6 per Cent, 1864 — Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent P eruvian 4} per Cent P., 0 . Account — "0 Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — p t) 0 41 per Cent., 1862 04 tuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 1) 0. Account b, . - 44118 man 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9O 10 0 q per Cent. 1850 "0 41 per Cent., 1860 .r.-130 pe r Cent. 1862 BB $lll 1 1 "0 5 per Cent. 1864 — Sa rdinian 5 per Cent S panish cou — 3 per Cent D itto account — D 0 New Deferred D 0 Account .„0 Pas s i ve "0 Account 271 1 D atlikith Cert. of Coup not funded — ilvo Account l5l i Vish 4 per Cent. — 1, 1 - ' O . 4i per Cent. 1864 rki sli 6 Cent. 1854 1:),, Ace per Do . mmt — l A ° 6 per Cent. 1858 1;00 Account — 1- 3 '_ . £lOO Bonds b` l o . 4 per Cent — b 0 0 6 Per Cent. 1862 721 1 b 0 £ lO O 1 £ lO O Bonds I ) . ' 6 per C en t. , 1863 67 b ° 5 Per Cent. 1865 — b ° Scrip, £35 p a id b° Ac count ° 4 1(0 Bands tr • 4 • 134,, Per Cent. Guaranteed lOO D ' lle la 3 per Cent. o l i. bo ccount b°. O,A Pe ount r Cent., 1862 ec AQ B .,„ Dividends on the above payable in London. ,N1R1", 1 , 641 1„ 5 psr Cent., Ex. 10 Florins "Ut e h ,-z,n per cent., Ex. 25f. Do 41. r er CiAllt E 12 Guil — p i . • 4 per ~ T. ~ e lieh uent. Certificaws 'tali". p ert es 3 per Cent. — C onsol s for Cent.,lB6l, Ex. 25f. — THREE O'CLOCK. Q? Aco money Taut, ttttttttttttt 1.,,,,,..1 ttttt Imo 87j t x 4 ind 111 ie en l- Lobe in 18 49 ' and in iOll at ~ g l s felic, tb° Satoed 1 ; s ir. a ile a F ojo tir SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. Share! Railways. Billgtol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian.. Cork and Bandon.... • • Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, & A b.June. E.London, scrip Certi. 93 95 25 26 94 96 13 15 4i 5i 68 72 70 72 Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. a tk. Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D. A stock Do. B stock 113 115 42 13 n & 121 i 127 145 145 Do. IN ew. is. at 25 pn. Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original D . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.— Oxtord 92 94 53, , , L 94 604 61 33 40 83 37 ;0.1 'O5 1211 1224 9) 12 102 104 36 38 50 S 2 1241 12 51 Vsi 464 6t, 63 137 i 8A 3 Sip 11 lip 103 104 Do. Newßort. Hereford Lancishire&Yorkshire 'Landon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast' Lon., ( hat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan.-- Do. New Do Extension Metropolitan District Do do. do. Do. and t-t.John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. k Derby iiid Kent . 121 k 1231 11 9 t North_British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N •E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... 55 57 7 29 1101 1114 714 7 4, 104 i 1054 Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire 36 37 10 It p 126 128 2 2 p 2 2t p 74 75 11 12 148 15 , 66 68 112 114 N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. st_ck Shropshire Union South Devon south E stern Staines, Wok., ct Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath 55 57 74 75 8 9 147 150 3 I p 101 104 Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha Weat Cornwall 49 51 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 94 3i 124 421 2 2 1221 2 90 i 104 21 3 6?i i 1:.'8 i 721 2 :Oil Paid. / Closing I Business Price. done. 57 i ; 4 81 / 125 k I 5 i 1211 2 i I 5 741 4 1 31 4; BRITISH . P Atlantic to S t. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda..t Cen.ln. gu.-5 shares.. Do. N Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lim (*ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p, East. Bengal, gu., 5 Co East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canads Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prct. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 1d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock .. Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 1 o. Gua. 5 per cent.. Do. New pia. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D . 4! per cent Do Great Wye. of Canada.. Do. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay . 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's nay.. N. RLC'da,6pc lstptbs. Scindc .... Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub.... Do.lndus St. Flo. '" COLONIAL GO VER British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872. - ... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.&July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. a Feb. & Aug Da. 5 p. cs. Mar. & Sept 1 )0. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. inscribed sk 'Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do. Apl. & Oct , 1890-1900 'Do. do: 1880-9• Do. Jan.&July, 189041 Do. s . per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. Is7B no. 1882, Mayls, Nov. ! Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug a 1 al ‘,ov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&.l uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 18er, Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 187 t Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189. 1 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova So .tia Gov. 6 p. C sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 1. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-4 Do. 1878 & upwards 'Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, April & Oct ISSIONS, 59 61 102 103 id p 6 6} 10 11 75 80 99 101 65 70 100 103 102 IC2 103 104 par i p 32 33 88 90 68 . 63 53 60 56 58 50 55 45 48 90 44 32 31 31 33 103 104 ~ p~ i i 0 1011 1026 16i 17 4 30 13 15 8i c 7 1 ed 1011 1021 93 95 89 91 E 8 82 84 Ply 1024 1014 104 10, 102 [T SECUIt. 96 98 94 96 94 96 62 8k 81 93 104 106 104 LO6 104 105 105 107 90 92 10,) 102 1(6 'lOB 103 105 106 108 104 106 1.6 108 96 99 96 P 8 1 0 162 93 95 8) el 103 105 84 85 IV 102 103 104 106 108 105 106 BRITISH MINES. Cam. ConsoL Cold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. Devon G. Cona. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea Nast Grenville East Gunnislake.. (East Loved. E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gain.& StAubyn(G 71 e n Great L ixey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheat busy G. Wheal Vor (11elst , r, Grenvilie Herod's Foot .... Elingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley &twyndy Iron Ore, Urn New Sewn • • • North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper United.... Pr ,, videnee UnyLrilant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, lim West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (Lkskeard West Chi rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 2.1.0 294 2.14.0 3} 2.14.0 8.&6 3.9.0 10.8.0 9 10 2t 23i 575 695 I lit 18 20 si 94 5t 61 3 . 26 i i 14 15 3 31 5 7 20 21 141 2 34 4 34 F,5 311 4 3a 38 51 51 & 7 4 4i 24 I,d 40 50 15 17 i I I Ji 38 4:1 420 490 t x 20 2 5 to it 19 20 5 7 3 4 9 11 ri 824 190 20u 95 ICO 32 37i 4 6 - 2 24 2224 :81 ni rtiNFEItIN(I.IS bHARES, Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pf.. 100} Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stook, 117 North British 5 1 er cent., No. 1, Ditto, No 2, 102 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent, 1 dtto. 44 per cent:red.. i 9 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 801 South Devon, Anus 10s., fl PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan 5 per cent.,:losi LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S Lancaster and Carlisle, 217 166 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91. 10 Bahia and San Franciscu % Jim.) gua. 7 per cent., 141 Dutch Rhenish, 236 1 Great Luxembourg, 16 N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent., LI Sambre and Meuse, Si 6 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, t 7 !NM MON ni 'NEB. Anglo Brazilian Gold, limited, par Cape Copper, lim.. ln 13 Frontino and Bolivia cold. 1im.,721 Panulcillo Copper. Um., 41 Waahoe Gold, lim., 8 71 DOCKS. East and West India, 132 i 2 London and St. Katharine, 8 BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, Um., 561 74 Alliance, Rm.. 29 84 Anglo Austrian, 63 Australasia, 7 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 241 City, 108 Eng ish Joint Stock, lim., European Bank, Urn., 114 Imperial Bank, Rm., 29, Imperial Ottoman, 14 Land:Mortgage Bank of India, Rm.. 44 London Think of Jd ext..° and S. America, 11E0.041 London and County, 794 London Joint Stock, 504 13 London and South-Western, Jim., 204 London and 11 estminster, 961 Mercantile and Exchange. Um., 54 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank. lim., IF4 New Zealand Bank Corporation. lim., 14 Oriental Bank Corporation. 514 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. Rm., 6 Union of London, 54 MISCELLA.NEOI3I3. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per mut. gua., Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim. , 31 I. 80., bay Gas, lim., 5} Ceylon Company, 101 Ditto, A shares, 21 Commercial Union, liisuran3e, 74 Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England. 8/ 9 Ditto, issued at a prem., of which £2 is to pay, 3/ Crystal Palace, 1 , 56 Egyptian Corn and Trading, Um.," 21 f 1 Electric Telegraph, 1341 7 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 61 Hudson's Bay, 171 1 7 fi Humber Iron Works, 44 5 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso.,11 111 .• 71 International Financial society, lira., 6 1 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 8: t London Financial Association. lim . 20 1 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lim., National Discount company, lei 1711 Northern Assam Tea, lim., Ditto, B, 2} Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 214 2 11111911 Marine, Liverpool, lim,, OSSR ,IT! ES, 1031 4 THE SUN, LONoOls4, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20 1865. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. HILL V. FLNINEY. The hearing of this case was resumed this morning by the examination of Dr. Steele as to the condition of Capt. Hill. Mrs. Hill was also examined, but her evidence was a repetition of matter quite unsuited to the columns of a newspaper. When a verdict will be delivered seems very uncertain. , CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURr—This Day OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) TILE RUSSI.iN NOTE FORGERIES. The court was occupied the whole of the day with the trial of Berrans, Ifolchester, Silbermann, Davis, Brawn, and Bayer, the six persons charged with being found in possession of an immense quantity of forged Russian five rouble notes of the Imperial Bank of Russia. The last named prisoner (Bayer) pkaded guilty. The facts of the case were published at great length in the columns of The Sun, on the apprehensicn and examina tion of the prisoners at the Lambeth-street police-court. The trial will, it is expected, extend over two days. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) William George Head, 18, dell; pleaded guilty to an indictment for forging and uttering a cheque for £620, with intent to defraud. Mr. R. Williams, who appeared for the prisoner, said the circumstances attending the offence of his client were somewhat peculiar. He had been a clerk to the prosecu tor, Mr. Elliott, a solicitor, and the cheque had been taken from the cheque-book of his employer, who used to leave it in a drawer unlocked. The prisoner was well connected, and his father had died upon the coast of Africa, and the prisoner, who was very fond of reading accounts of travels and adventures, had expressed a wish to travel and live alone in the woods of Africa. He also thought that his father was still alive. As soon as he had obtained the pro duce of the cheque he bought several rifles and other things that he would require for such travelling as he con templated. His father had held an important official situa tion, and died when the prisoner was very young—about eight years of age—and it had always strangely affected his mind. After the robbery he had fitted himself out and he took his passage for Oporto, and from thence he went to Vigo, where Huggett, the City detective, who had gone in pursuit, took him into custody. Mr. Sleigh, for the prosecution, said the officer who took the prisoner found £530 upon him when he apprehended him. The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' im prisonment, with hard labour. The indictments against John Medlock, aged 16, who had been a student of the lives of Jack Sheppard, Blue skin, Claude Duval, and other literature of the same de scription, for feloniously firing and dischaiging a certain pistol, loaded with gunpowder and shot at Michael Collins, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm, was ig nored by the grand jury, and the prisoner was discharged. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant,) James Williams, a soldier, was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Chas. Allen, and stealing therefrom one £5 Bank of England note and a sovereign, and other moneys. The jury found him guilty, and the learned judge sen tenced him to 18 months' imprisonment. Henry Kilham, goldbeater, was indicted for feloniously receiving a quantity of gold and other articles, the pro perty of John Law, well knowing the same to have been stolen. The jury found tho prisoner guilty, and he was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment. John Norrington, Henry Williams, and William Tom kins, pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging them with feloniously breaking and entering the warehouse of Fre derick Eden Waddington, and others, with intent to steal therein. Williams was also indicted for having been previously convicted. The prisoners were caught in the premises by the police, and therefore they all pleaded guilty to the indictment. The Common Sergeant asked whether anything was known about the prisoners. Lockerby, one of the warders of the Middlesex House of Correction, proved no less than six convictions against Williams, commencing in the year 1844 down to 1862, when he was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. A warder from Holloway prison proved a previous con viction against Tomkins for two years' imprisonment with hard labour. Nothing was known about Norrington. The Common Sergeant sentenced Williams to 10 years' penal servitude ; Tomkins to 7 years' penal servitude ; and Norrington to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The learned judge ordered a reward of .f.. 3 each for tho courageous conduct of the police-constables Kilby, Oliver, and Fisher. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LoNDos, Dec. 20.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fino weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Saied—Her Ma jesty's ship Industry, from Woolwich. HOLYHEAD, Dec. 19.—Wind N.E.—Arrived.—Affigo, from Liverpool for Ghent. _ BRISTOL, Dec. 18.—Wind W.—Arrived—Lord Londes borough, from Mauritius. FALMOUTH, Dec. 19.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Posendon. from Rio Grande. Orr PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Kensington, from London for Boston. LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 19.—Furet, from Gravelines. Arrived, Dec. 20. Sylph, from St. Michael's; Fulton, steamer, from Dunkirk ; Leo, steamer, from Antwerp;; Cologne, steamer, Maas, steamer, and Batavier, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Scotia, steam tug, from Flushing Hol land, steamer, and Belgium steamer, from Ostend; Wil liam and Clara, steamer, from Dordt ; Panther steamer, from Boulogne ; Vigilant, steamer, from Calais. DEAL, Wednesday Morning.. No arrivals. THE CASE OF HOMICIDE BY A JOCKEY.—An inquest was held yesterday, at Richmond, on the body cf Robert Roberts, the man who was recently killed by a jockey at Mr. Watson's training stables, Belleisle, Rich mond, Yorkshire. It appeared that the deceased requested Lawrence, the jockey, to go and fill a boiler, and, as it was alleged, this request was refused. Lawrence running away, Roberts pursued him, and Lawrence took the fork from theplaco where it was hanging and threw it at deceased. Lawrence admitted having thrown the fork, but assorts that he never intended to hit his victim. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter. NAGASAKI.—The Bogatyr and other Russian men of war were leaving Nagasaki. Six Japanese officers leave for Russia in the Bogatyr. The Dutch barque W. Kemptner has been wrecked off Cape Gotto. She was lost during the severe gale on the 9th of September, and out of the whole crew only one man was saved. He contrived to take hold of a piece of timber, by the aid of which he was enabled to reach the land. He subsequently arrived at Nagasaki in her Majesty's gunboat Bustard. The bodies of the captain, mate, and two men were washed ashore, and buried by Captain Adams, of the Bustard. When the news of the sad occurrence reached Nagasaki M. Bauduin, the Netherlands consul, immediately raised a subscription for the relief of the relations of those who were drowned, most of whom had wives and families. A large sum was subscribed by the foreign residents and masters of vessels in harbour, and M. Bauduin himself headed the list with a handsome donation.—London and China Telegraph. THROWING A DOG INTO A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.— A young man named John Humphrey, a groom, was charged yesterday, before the Bromley magistrates, with throwing a living dog into an express train on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and injuring Wn. Wells, one of the guards. It appeared that as the 8 30 p.m. express train from Ludgate-hill to Dover passed the Brom ley station the window of the guard's van was broken and Wells was struck and cut with the glass and knocked backwards. He became insensible. On recovering, he found the body of a terrier lying in the break-van, which had been thrown at the train as it was travelling at a speed of about 30 miles an hour, The dog was then dead, the van being covered with marks of its blood. Inquiries were made at Bromley, and the dog was identified as having been in the possession of the accused up to within a short time of the train passing Bromley, he having offered it for sale for a trifling sum to some men in a beerhouse. The prisoner denied the offence alleged against him, and said that he left the dog sitting on the step of a linendraper's shop door while he went in to make a purchase, and that on coming out he missed it. The magistrates remanded the prisoner, accepting bail for his future appearance. GENERAL SCHOFIELD AND THE AMERICAN BOND HOLDERS.—The report that appeared last week in the Pans papers that General Schofiold was in that city on a special mission created quite a commotion among the Continental holders of United States securities. At Frankfort-on-the-Maine the opinion prevailed among the timid that the General was instructed to demand the immediate withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico, and that, in the event of refusal, war would ensue. There were many personal visits of Bankers and other interested parties to the United States Consul-General, at Frank fort, to ascertain if he had any official news respecting General Schofield's visit to Paris. His reply that the General was on a visit of pleasure only quieted their fears for a time. A day or two later it was ascertained that the General had visited the United States Legation at Paris, and this simple fact created another excitement, which caused a decline of one per cent. in United States 6ectlritielh POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN EXPENSIVE AMUSEMENT.—Henry Dawson, a printer, residing in Queen-street, Seven Dials, was charged with ringing the bells at different houses in Cranbourne-street. Allwood, 186 0, said that between 1 and 2 that morning a person came to him in Cranbourne-street, and complained t!iat his bell had been violently rung. He went after the defendant, who was with some other young men, and saw him ring three bells, and he took him into custody. The defendant said he had been drinking, and did not remember what had occurred. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a mischievous.and dangerous practice to ring persons' bells in the middle of the night, as there might be persons ill, and who might be seriously affected by it. He well knew there was a certain class of persons who did not care what mischief they did. He should fine the defendant 405., or in default 14 days' impri sonment. Explosion in the City.—Three Lives Lost. A fearful occurrence, resulting from explosion and fire, produced by the ignition of a quantity of Mephisto Chinese fire (a new invention for the amusement of juveniles), took place yesterday fore noon at the premises in the occupation of Mrs. Simmons, situate in Mitre-court, Mitre-square, Aldgate, by which three individuals unfortunately lost their lives. It appears that the upper part of the premises in question were let by Mrs. Simmons to lodgers. The back room on the first floor was taken for ,an office about a month ago by two parties of the name of Larsea and Chone, who described themselves as cigarette-makers and exporters, and one of them occupied an adjacent bed-room at night. Mrs. Sim mons was in the habit of attending upon them and was frequently in their room, but never saw any thing in the place to excite her curiosity or appre hension that there was anything dangerous in the room beyond what seemed to be a few reams of thin white paper, which, as she imagined, the cigarettes were made of. But on Saturday last she saw brought into the house by them a box filled with small pack ages known as " Moor's Mephisto Chinese Fire" (a magical light). This was placed in their room, and yesterday morning one of them told her they ex pected a customer would call to purchase some of the fire, and wished she would open the door when there was a knock. A few minutes before 12, hearing a knock, she went for that purpose, but the door was opened by Chone, who con ducted the customer up stairs, and they had not been in their room long before she was startled by a loud explosion overhead. She rushed into the passage with an intention of going up stairs, to learn the cause, when she was met by vivid bright flames, which appeared to fill the house, forcing her to run out immediately into the street. At this moment a sweep, who was engaged at the next house, looked out at the back, and there saw a man lying . in the back yard of Mrs. Simmons's house with his clothes on fire. Flames were also issuing from the window of the first-floor back room. The sweep directly got over the wall to the unfortunate man's assistance, and put out the fire about his clothes. He was, however, dreadfully burnt about the face and body and was insensible. Whether he was blown out of the window by the force of the explosion, or jumped out to escape the flames, is a matter of conjecture. As' soon as possible a stretcher was obtained from the police-station, and the poor fellow was forthwith conveyed to the Lon don Hospital. While this was going on at the back a number of people had gathered in front, and hearing that several persons were in the house an effort was made to get at them, but this was beyond all human power, as the whole of the interior of the upper part of the house was in a blaze: The police gave immediate information of the fire to different brigade stations in the City, and several engines were quickly on the scene playing into the burning premises. By considerable exertion the firemen managed to confine the ravages of the fire to the back part of the house, although it had extended up the staircase to the upper rooms and roof, yet the place is not entirely destroyed. As soon as the fire had been extinguished, and the smoke and steam had cleared off, the bodies of the two other unfortunate men were at once seen among the black burnt debris of the back room. It was a hideous spectacle to the firemen who made the discovery. In one corner of the room was the body of one of them in a sitting posture, with the flesh burnt off his head, face, and legs. It was supposed he had been blown into the corner by the force of the explosion. The other body was found stretched on the floor, and was also shockingly burnt and disfigured. The former, by means of a pocket-book which the firemen found in his coat, proved to be Mr. Heyman, of 36, Herbert street, New North-road, Islington, who had offices at 4, Berwick-court, St. Mary-axe. This was the customer, as represented to Mrs. Simmons. The other body was that of Mr. Chone. He had evidently been thrown down on his face. Both bodies were subsequently deposited in shells and taken to the dead-house of the parish to await a coroner's in quest. The sufferer who was taken to the London Hospital proved to be the partner Larsea. He died shortly after his admission to the hospital. He is described to be about 60 years of age. Mr. Heyman was 37 years of age and Mr. Chone about 40. The police, from the inquiries they have insti tuted, have every reason to believe that the room was taken by the unfortunate deceased for the os• tensible purpose of trafficking in the new inven tion, " Chinese fire," which is now in great demand, and that their representation that they were cigarette-makers was merely a ruse on their part to get possession of the place. Health of the Metropolis. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday, Deeemberl6th, the births registered in London and ten other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,130 ; the deaths registered 3,090. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births 0f;1,096 boys and 1,002 girls, in all 2,098 children, were registered in the week. In the corre sponding weeks of ten years 1855-64 the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,026. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,440. It was the 50th week of the year; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for in crease of population, 1,450. The deaths in the present re turn are a little under the estimated amount. No case of cholera was registered in the week; 27 deaths occurred from diarrhoea. Typhus was fatal in 91 cases ; 5 deaths from typhus occurred in the sub-district of Mile-end New Town ; 49 deaths were caused by measles, 48 by scar latina, 13 by diphtheria, 52 by whooping -cough, and 15 by smallpox Smallpox is reported as raging in the sub-dis trict of Spitalfields ; 3 deaths from it were registered in the sub-district. A bootmaker, aged 48 years, died on the 7th of December at Guy's Hospital from hydrophobia. The daughter of a shoemaker, aged 11 years, died on the 11th of December at St. George's Hospital from hydro phobia (3 days). The wife of a woadcutter, aged 40 years, died on the 11th of December at 27, Clarendon-street, Southwark, from suffocation caused by an escape of gas from themain of the Phoanix Company. The daughter of a clerk in holy orders, aged 23 years, died on the 11th of December of broken heart from acute mental distress ; she lost a sister five weeks previous to her death. The following fatal carriage accidents were registered in the week :—A labourer, aged 18 years, fell from a van ; died on the 29th of November at the Poplar Hospital. A shop man, aged 63, was run over by a cart ; died on the 3d Dec. at Middlesex Hospital. A carman, aged 19, was run over in Oxford-street ; died on the 10th Dec. at Middlesex Hos pital. A coal porter, aged 60 years, was struck against an arch while riding on a van ; died on the 9th Dec. at 8, Bond-street, Lambeth. A sailor, aged 47, was run over; died on the 13th Dec. at the London Hospital. Since the beginning of the present year 221 persons of various ages have been killed by horse conveyances in the streets of London. The annual rate of mortality last week was 25 per 1,000 in Loudon, 26 in Edinburgh, and 31 in Dublin ; 43 in Liverpool, 31 in Manchester, 45 in Salford, 28 in Birming ham, 29 in Leeds, 26 in Bristol, 34 in Hull, and 27 in Glas gow. The rate in Vienna was 25 per 1,000 during the week ending the 9th inst., when the temperature was 8.6 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 25 per 1,000. In Liverpool the births in the week were 393, the deaths 394; in Manchester the births 242, the deaths 212; in Sal ford the births 85, the deaths 96 ; in Birmingham the births 303, the deaths 179 ; in Leeds the births 216, the deaths 123 ; in Bristol the births 120, the deaths 81; in Hull the births 68, the deaths 68 ; in Edinburgh the births 116, the deaths 88 ; in Glasgow the births 324, the deaths 222 ; and in Dublin the births 165, the deaths 187. Th ere were 269 deaths in Vienna during the week ending the 9th inst. Southampton.—Among the population of this borough (estimated to the middle of the present year at 53,001), 19 deaths were registered during the week ending last Satur day ; of these, six were again referred to scarlatina. The annual rate of mortality during the week' was 19 per 1,000 persons living. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.444 in. The barometri cal reading increased from 30.28 in. on T hursday , to 30 . 61 in. on Friday ; a higher rate than any since January, 1859, when the reading was 30.64 in. Tho mean temperature of the air in the week was 391 deg., which is 0.8 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 46.9 on Monday ; the lowest night temperature was 29.9 deg. on Saturday. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 17.0 deg. The mean of the highest tempera tures of the water of the Thames was 45.1 deg. ; that of the lowest was 43.9 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 4.3 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 85, complete saturation being represented by 100. No rain fell during the week. The general direction of the wind was N.E. and N. Mr. Mill, M.P., on Municipalities for the Metropolis. The following letter from Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., was read before the Parliamentary Committee of St. James's Vestry, yesterday : Dec. 13, 1865.." Dear Sir,:—l have seen with great pleasure in the newspapers the movement which the St. James's Vestry has originated at your suggestion for the union of all London into one body for municipal purposes, with smaller bodies of the same sort for purposes special to each of the Parliamentary divi sions. I have long wished that an effort in this direction should be made. All the more important town interests are common to the whole'town, and can only be properly attended to by a body repre sentative of the whole ; and I quite agree with you that there should be but one such body, and that the functions (for instance) of the Board of Trade should merge into those of the united municipality. I also go on entirely along with the proposal to abo lish the jurisdiction of the Middlesex magistrates in the metropolis, and to have none but stipendiary magistrates. The only point on which Ido not agree with the scheme as reported is the choice of magistrates by the citizens or the municipal body. The proposed corporation ought of course to have powers equal to those of other municipal corpora tions ; but it seems to me the choice of judicial offi cers is best placed, not with any corporation, but with a Minister or great public functionary, who can be held responsible for making a proper choice. As a general rule skilled professional officers are hardly ever well chosen by numbers ; some one person must make it his business to find them and judge of their qualifications. I do not know if this view of the question has been under your consideration, or that of the vestry; but as I hope to aid in bringing your plan before Parliament, 1 am glad to begin already an inter change of sentiment with you on the subject.--I am,ldear sir, very truly yours, James Beal, Esq. (Signed) J. S. MILL. WESTMINSTER. IMPUDENT STREET ROBBERY.—A woman, between 30 and 40 years of age, giving the name of Emma Leach, who has been often charged at this court, was charged with robbing Richard Harris, a groom, of a silver watch, value £5. Prosecutor said he was walking up Grosvenor-place last night, when the prisoner came up to him and spoke to him, and remained by his side addressing him for two or three minutes, and then left him. He had only proceeded a few yards farther when he discovered that his watch, which he had worn in his waistcoat pocket, had been cut from his guard, and was gone. He went in the direction the prisoner had taken, accompanied by a policeman, and overtook her with two other women. He recognised and charged her with taking his watch, which she denied, but the policeman suddenly seized her hand, and witness then heard the crashing of glass. Police-constable Wilson, 42 B, said that he was told of the robbery, and, suddenly seizing the prisoner's hand, took the watch from her, the glass of which was broken. On her being searched at the station a handsome gold pin with a green stone set in its head was discovered in her possession. Prisoner—l say nothing about the watch, but he gave it me, and the gold pin belongs to my husband that ought to be and aint. Prisoner was remanded until Wednesday. THAMES. "GATHERING THE SNOW."— John Grant, an old offender, who has been a thief several years, and is not more than 20 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with stealing a bundle of linen, the property of Mr. William Theodore, of No. 3, South-Grove, Mile-end. Joseph Simmonds, a police-constable, No. 127 K, stated that he met the prisoner yesterday evening, in the Mile end-road, with a bundle. He stopped him, and demanded of him what he had got in the bundle, and to whom the property belonged. The prisoner said "It's linen ; it be longs to me." He took the prisoner into custody, and found the bundle to contain a shirt, night-dress, a pair of drawers, a chemise, and other pieces of linen, all wet. Mrs. Grace Humphreys Theodore, the wife of the prose cutor, said the whole of the articles produced were the property of her husband, and were taken off the lines in her garden yesterday evening between five and six o'clock, and in her absence from home. The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Paget com mitted him ‘ for Simmons stated that the prisoner was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour for being in a garden in which there was a large quantity of wet linen hanging on lines to be dried. Mr. Paget—You will not fail to mention that to tho judge upon the trial. AX AWKWARD ACCIDENT.—Robert Higgins, aged 60, landlord of the Gosseth Arms, Gosseth-street, Bethnal green, and Alfred Shirley, aged 36, barman, of No. 40, Gosseth-street, were brought before Mr. Paget, charged with being drunk while• in charge of a pony and chaise last night in the Commercial-road. Henry Pratt, No. 277 K, said that both prisoners tumbled out of a chaise, and were lying on the ground intoxicated. Shirley said the pony he was driving stopped suddenly, and he was thrown upon his head. Higgins, who appeared to be very ill, said he was not altogether himself. Mr. Paget—You are not yourself by your own intempe rance. It is most disgraceful for persons, in a state of in toxication, to be driving horses and vehicles about the streets of London. This is the cause of many accidents. People are run down and maimed or killed by drunken people. You have brought upon yourselves a larger punishment than the law can inflict upon you. You are each fined ss. for being drunk and incapable of taking care of yourselves. MARKETS—This Day. M ARK-LANE. The fresh supply of English wheat brought forward to day was limited, and the total supply on the stands very moderate. The trade, however, ruled quiet, both for red and white qualities, at Monday's quotations. The market was fairly supplied with most descriptions of foreign wheat. The demand was in a sluggish state for all descriptions, but without leading to any quotable change in prices from Monday. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at late rates. Barley was in good supply, and slow request, at Mon day's prices. The malt trade was dull, at about previous rates. Oats—of which there was a fair supply on offer—sold steadily, at full prices. Beans and peas were dull, at the late declino in the quotations. Flour was in fair demand, at Monday's currency. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch. 620 2640 660 2160 490 Irish Foreign 3810 3,120 150 sks. 310 brls. COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week ending Dec. For the corresponding week 16, 1865. last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 91,844-46s 8d Wheat 78,074-38s 4d Barley 81,970-32 s 9d Barley 84,273-28 s 8d Oats BOROUGH HOP. Our market is firm, at full prices. The supply of hops on sale is seasonably large. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is tolerably large, and the trade is slow, at the annexed quotations : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Gd ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s 4d per 81bs. by the carcase. ENTERTAINMENT OF THE INMATES OF ST. JAMES'S WommousE.—Yesterday evening, through the kindness of the governors and directors of the poor of St. James's, Westminster, the inmates of the workhouse in Poland street were entertained with a lecture on the " Life of Christ," illustrated by some beautiful dissolving views by Messrs. Farmer and Passingham of the City Mission, the dining-hall of the building, in which a temporary stage and gallery (for the directors and their friends) had been erected, being used for the occasion. About 400 of the in mates, male and female, were present, many of them being very old and infirm —some so much so that they had to be assisted or carried into the hall ; and they testi fied the delight the entertainment afforded them by frequently applauding the lecturer. The band of the St. James's-Industrial School, consisting of 19 boys, attired in a uniform similar to the Westminster Rifle Volunteers, during the evening performed a selection of sacred music their excellent playing being much appreciated, and reflect great credit on their bandmaster, Mr. Lawson, of the Royal Artillery, several of whose pupils from the same school have joined the bands of different regiments. The perfor mance of the "National Anthem" by the band brought the evening's entertainment to a conclusion. Enthusiastic cheers were given for the governors, Mr. and Mrs. Mackay (the master and matron—the cheers for the matron being proposed by one of the female inmates), Messrs. Farmer and Passingham, and Mr. Lawson. Our readers will no doubt be glad to have the opportunity of perusing the following list of novelties which Mr. Chappuis, of 69, Fleet-street, has prepared for Christmas presents, among which will be found scientific teys and amusements for all ages, namely: —New pocket ;magnesium lamp, with wire, 6s. Gd.; pris matic humming-top, 48. 6d. ; magic lanterns and 12 slides, guaranteed, 78., 10s., 155., or 255. ; a box of novelties in harmless fireworks, for drawing-rooms and gardens, viz., Japanese pleiades, feu fond, surprise -matches, Bengal fires, Pharaoh's serpents, magnesium wire and garden drops, for 6s. 6d. ; the novel patent burner°, or bubble-amusement, scientifically applied, complete, with geometric frames, &c., Bs. 6d. ; polyoramas, with six artistic views and novel effects, 95., 125., or 21s. ; an open stereoscope, with 12 excellent slides assorted, 10s. 6d. ; ditto, superior, with reflector and 12 slides, 19s. ; artistic sots-20 scraps, photographic gems, from album size to 6 by 8 inches, 125.; 12 charming cartes for album, scenery, celebrated paint ings, for ss. Gd. ; 12 album celebrities, at choice, from life, free 12s. 2d. ; useful articles for 6s.—one pair registered whist-markers, one stampholder, and one reading magni fying glass ; the leather whistmarker, 3s. Bd. ; 3 pretty ar ticles with scent; saucy China girl, a Pekin puzzle, and a Sezame-purse, 6s. ; a pair of capital puzzles, with surprise, ss. 6d. ; for 6s. 6d.—a basket of fragrant grapes, a savings' bank, with scent and perfumery, also a surprise devised puzzle ; the tell-tale mirror, to see within apartments passers-by in streets, complete, 21s. ; the reader's reflector, for the bedridden in daytime, 325. ; the Dreadnought illu minator, for reading in bed at night without danger, 355.; also a variety of useful articles connected with the reflec tion of light, and for amusing, scientific, and domestic purposes. These prices include packing ready for rail, &c. Early orders are solicited to insure execution before Christmas. N- B. Remittances in stamps, se. ; to accom pany order, Liverpool Cotton Market—Thus I ay. Market quiet but steady. Sales probably 8,000 bales. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening. -------4'.-- - Amsterdam Short. 11 17} 11 18 Ditto 3 Months. 12 1f 12 1f Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 50 25 55 Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 10 25 17 Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 25 45 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine , _ 120 j _l2of_ Vienna, Trieste 10 86 10 go 10 85 10 90 Pctersburgh Berlin 30 30} 6 ,^ 28 6 28} .__ Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan 25 (10 2565 25 60 25 65 Genoa 25 GO 25 65 Naples Palermo Messina 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 25 60 25 65 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Deo. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet Dea 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 22 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Dec. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 19. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Dec. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dtc. 27. Ditto, via Ilaminas .. . ...Deo. 21 ilauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Ma/Tell:es. . Jan. 5. Newfoundland Portugal _ . Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United btates and British North America, by Bri- tish packet Dec. 28 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp- ton Ditto, via Cork. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Dec. 22. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tencriire Jan. W. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico .... Dec. 2) Cuba and Mexico Deo. 29. Bahamas, via New York. Jan. 11. Bermuda, ditto Jan. 17 The Price of Gold. - --0- - The quotation of gold at Paris is about a per raffle pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.12} per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of L 3 i7s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-ittha per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advicc a from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per marl and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per -el stunt]. . Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, at about the same price in London and Hamburg. l'he course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about IC9 per cent. At these rates there is no profit on the importation of god Irvin the United States. RACING FIXT JANI TRES FOR. 1866. ARY. Manchester.. FEBR Lincoln 'ARY. Nottingham Spring CH. MA: Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring Crox ton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B AP. Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Catterick Bridge Abergavenny Chelmsford Spring Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring T hirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Chester Curragh 24 Y. Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer 29 JU Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle- on- T y no 26 Curragh 26 I Worcester LY. 1 Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Winchester 24 ISouthampton 25 Huntingdon UST. 1 York August Ol Plymouth 27 Lichfield Devon and Exeter . ...... Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 28 Weymouth 3O JU] Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading AUG Brighton 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham l4 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPT] Warwick September 4 Curragh 6 Leicester 11 Doncaster Canterbury lB ~ OCTO Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh NOVE Lincoln Liverpool MBER. 18 Monmouth2o Manchester Autumn 24 Richmond Newmarket Ist October 26 Walsall BER. Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester MBER. I Shrewsbury I Leamington Hunt. ll [ADvEnufsEmENT.)— Dyspepsia (indigestion), constipa tion, debility, consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly cur able by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been con sidered hopeless, such as-cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, bre merrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noses in the head and cars, rheum ,tism, gout, im purities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irrit sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, &WHO', dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in preg nancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains in the pit of the stomach and between the shou!ders, ,tc. We quote a few :—Cure No. 46,276. 51r James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimky, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and par tial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacob+, o ex treme nervousness, indigestion, gather:ngs; low spirits, f and nervous fancies. -Cure D4O. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decks, lord lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. -No. 49,832. Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, a e4 nd . vomiting—Maria July —Cure No. 51,816. The Rev, James T. Campbell, Fakenham. Norfolk , of indi g estion and torpid ity of the liver, which had resi sted all medical treatment.— In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21 b. , 4 s. 6d ; 51b., 118. ; 228. ; 1b 408.—Barry :)u Barry and Co., N 0.77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, a, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate streA Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford - street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham -court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting -hill ; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's -wcod, London ; and all respectable grocers and she wists.—Beware of spurious imitation. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. THE FIVE-FOLD MURDER. (BY - ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MAIDSTONE, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The pripuer Southey was brought up this morn ing at 9.30, and wanted to speak, but Mr. Justice Mellor said the case must be left to counsel. It was, therefore, postponed to 1 o'clock this day. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. At one o'clock the prisoner Stephen Forward was again placed in the dock, and the indictment was read by the Clerk of the Arraigns, whci put the usual question to hi m as to whether he was gu il ty or not guilty of the charge imputed. Southey attempted to evade the question, and was about to enter into a long statement quite ir relevant to the matter before the court. On being stopped he finally refused to plead. A verdict of not guilty was entered for him, and the trial proceeded. The witnesses examined were Miss Ellis, of King-street, Ramsgate, and her father, in whose house, it will be recollected, the prisoner shot his unfortunate wife. They repeated their evidence as to the prisoner having an interview with his wife, who resided in front of their house on the opposite side of King street, and also again detailed the tale of horror, which terminated by Southey shooting his little daughter just as she was entering the room in which her mother was murdered. Southey frequently interrupted the proceedings by his strange protestations as to the authority the Old Testament gave him to act as he had done. The prosecution, which is conducted by Mr. Po land, is still proceeding. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 20. The Inman steamship City of Baltimore, from New York on the 9th inst., arrived here at 8.30 a.m. to-day - with the mails, $36,000 in specie, and 193 passengers. She lauded 30 of the latter, and proceeded at 9 a,m. for Liverpool. United States Postal Arrangements. Mails for the United States are made up in London every Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6 o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be posted half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day, by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning mails are taken by the Southampton steamers. Mails from the United States are due in London on Mondays and Thursdays of each week. Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates : —Not exceeding 2 oz., ld. ; above 2 oz., but not exceeding 3 oz., 6d.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16 ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more than 8 oz (even though it be not a periodical publication) may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon. This postage is only the British portion, a further sum being charged on delivery. The periodical works or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or books (except those specified above), addressed to the places above named, are liable to letter rate of postage. There must be no writing, or other marks upon such periodical works, pamphlets, &c., or upon the covers, ex cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing, except the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent and the names and addresses of the senders. Any other writing, &c., will render the packets liable to letter rates of postage. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. WHITEHALL, DEC. 19. The Queen has been pleased'to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon. Sir John Romily, Knt., Master or Keeper of the Rolls and Records in Chancery, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Romilly, of Barry, iu the county of Glamorgan. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-- land to theßight Hon. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Northbrook, of Stratton, in the county of Southampton. WAR OFFICI.J, PALL-MALL, DEC. 19. 4th Regiment of Hussars—Edward Fox, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Isaac Burnley, whose ap pointment has been cancelled ; Frank Gooch, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice A. B. Corns, who has retired. . 11th Hussars —Assistant-Surgeon Oliver Barnett, from the 12th Lancers, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice W. H. Mus. champ, who exchanges. 12th Lancers—Assistant. Surgeon William Henry Mus . . . . . champ, from the 11th Hussars, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice U. Barnett, who exchanges. 9th Regiment of Foot—Colour-Sergeant Thos. Sterritt to be Quartermaster, vice Patrick Boylan, deceased. 30th root—Charles Benjamin Charlewood, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice W. EL Lee, transferred to the 65thPOot. 39th Foot - Major Robert Hamilton Currie to be Lieutenant Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel William Munro, C. 8., who retires upon half-pay ; Captain and Brevet-Major Charles Denison Pedder to be Major, without purchase, vice Curri e ; Li eu t enan t Ed ward Gatty to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major Pedder, Ensign Charles Napier Milner Hamilton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gatty ; Frederic Edward Lyster, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Henry Alfred Austen, whose appointment on the 10th of October, has been cancelled. 42d Foot—Ensign Walker Aitken to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Jones, who retires ; Andrew Kennedy Macpherson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Aitken. 60th Foot —Lieut.Clifford Fortescuo horror to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieut. W. G. Turle, who resigns that appointment. 65th Foot—Lieut. Robert Mit chell, fr om half - pay, 28th Foot, to be Lieutenan t, vice A. B. Tok er, promoted to a Robert H a af r pay p erMT C iot o uc m ihme p li a l, nn to wh•sovbiet retires htui Lieutenant, purchase utlE natint,si Ensign Ensign. Alfred purchase, vice William HNan ning Lee, from the 30th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Touimin. Brigade—Ensign Alfr v el e M ß o i r e d h a n u r n d t .vv E i g n e st lr ni on ey te o be n. Rifle Lieutenant, p merod, who retires ; th e H on. Algernon H. Grosvenor to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Egerton. 3d West India Regiment —Ensign Samuel Thos. Atkinson Dunn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice E. IX Jones, who has retired; Ensign Walter Roberts, to be .Lieute mut, by purchase, vice, J. Dooley, who has retired. HALF -PAY.—The promotion of Brevet-Colonel _Evelyn Henry Frederick Pocklington to a Majority, without purchase, on 28th June, 1864, to be antedated to the 18th June, 1861, but such antedate is not to carry back pay. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel George Jackson Carey, C. 8., Major, 18th Foot, to have the temporary rank of Brigadier-General while in command of a Brigade in the Australian Colonies. The undermentioned promotions and alteration of rank to take place in her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, con sequent on the death of Lieut.-Gen. Henry Sargent, :Madras Infantry, on Nov. 19, 1865; and Major-Gen. St. George Daniel Showers, C. 8., Bengal Infantry, on the 9th of October, 18 62 ; Major-General John Kynaston . Luard, C.B , Madras Infantry, to be Lieutenant-General ; Major-General Hubert Marshall, Madras Infantry, to take rank from 10th October, 1865 ; Colonel John Liddell, C. 8., ya n il DI Brevet-Coloneli a r t a u g o A on rc tod Guards, akre Hamlets 3 h . D a s , Bombay Infantry, to be Major-General ; Colonel Edward n d Darvall, Bengal Infantry, to be Major-General. Binosuipebcatyor-EG:t i Ol o c m: a e hp n at t al ., fi Hospitals t a o b e The u ndermentioned officer, who has retired upon full pay, to have a step of honorary rank as follows: —Deputy Inspector -General of Hospitals. b C e oM e o n ll p m e ° rSi as t cl t De e ti d )Ci t l— o ß. retire from the service by the sale of his Commission under the conditions of the Circular Memorandum, dated Horse Guards, Feb. 15, 1861. ADMIRALTY, DEc. 16. Commanders Arthur Thomas Thrupp, Michael Cultne Seymour, Thomas Hut c hi nson M ang l es Martin, William Fitzherbert Buxton, and Charles Bayley Culmady Dent, to be Captains. Lieutenants—James Dillon Cttrtis, Robert Mansel, Jas. Stevenson Twysden, Henry Berkeley, Thomas Borrett, Sir John Swinburne, Bart., William Derenzy Donaldson Selby, James George Mead, George Borlase, William Fre deric Johnson, and David 80y1a, , ,t0 bo Commanders. DEC.:IB. Lieutenant Robert Henry Moro Ilolyneux to bo Com. mander. 4 CAPTURE OF THREE ENGLISHMEN. — Three Eng lishmen, fellow-commoners of Trinity, Lord A. Hervey, the Hon. Mr. Strutt, and Mr. Coore, have just been captured by brigands in Greece. The ransom de manded for their release is £l,OOO each. Lord A. Hervey and Mr. Strutt have been set at liberty—Mr. Coore being retained in captivity as security for the payment of the ploney. ~~ Igo, the his age, heir otts. dOO Is a s elicit iren the ss of Bur- the rived Is oll near &Sing yes- Peel's ie 1145 ;fax , 4 of ,orge ,ts• 100 et I 20 20i 10 100 1 luo 100 100 all 100 100 100 f 100 2 100 100 111 E N' 190 100 100 1 , 0 100 100 1021 1031 17 i i 103} 105 k