The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Discount accommodation has been in active re quest this morning, owing to the fortnightly arrangement of the account at the Stock Exchange. Bankers and brokers evince much caution in the negotiation of long dated paper, and charge fully Ci and 7 per cent. for three months' bills. The amount of gold taken to the Bank yesterday represented 40,000 sovereigns from Egypt. The Stock Exchange have appointed Friday, 17th inst., a special settling day in the Austin Consolidated Silver Mines Company (Limited). Not to be marked. It is stated that Mr. Wright, the London Man ager of the National Bank of Australia, has accepted the general management of that bank, and proceeds to head-quarters, Melbourne, by the December 'nail. The London management will be tempora rily filled by Mr. Muttlebury, one of the London directors. It is announced that a meeting of the holders of bonds, debentures, and shares of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway will be held at the London Tavern, on Thursday, the 23d inst., at 12 o'clock. Two o'CLock. At the Paris Bourse, yesterday, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 68 50. The Market for English Stocks to-day has been very buoyant, and is, in fact, the only department of the Stock Exchange where signs of a recovery in prices are perceptible. The Funds show an im provement of per cent. upon the quotations of last evening, and Consols are 89k for money, and 88k for the Account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 871 ; India 5 per Cents., 1041 1054 ; do. Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1011; do. Debentures, 98i. Foreign Stocks arc generally depressed, and very little business, except that in connection with the arrangement of the fortnightly account, is in pro gress. Turkish Consolides are 47 f ; Mexican, 25/ 1 ; the New Loan, 24f ; Greek, 18 1 ; Spanish Passive, 28i ; the Certificates, 131 ; Italian, 64 1; the Confederate Loan, 8 10 ; and Brazi lian Scrip, 21 :1 prem. ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 20f ; do., 1858, 75/ a ; do., £lOO Bonds, 791 80 ; do., 6 per Cents., 1862, 754; and do., £lOO Bonds, 43i • American Securities are without any important change. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 6 3i ; a Erie Shares, 54 ; and Illinois, 81k 82. 4 Railway Shares are also very flat, and but few dealings have been reported. Canadian descriptions are in request, and in many instances show an ad vance. Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Metropolitan, are 1 better ; Great Northern A Stock, 4 ; and Midland and North British, each 1. The operations in Bank and Miscellaneous shares have been very restricted, and prices have remained Without change of importance. Union of London have advanced to 531 ; General Credit and Finance, to 6i 4; and Overend, Gurney, and Co., to 19f ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England Old Shares, are quoted 31 prem. ; St. Lawrance's Wharf, 14 2 prem ; Transatlantic Steam Ship, par, * prem ; Real Estate, 3 31 prem. ; and Frederick Symonds and Co., 14 4 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. - GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Dec. 7 B7/ 8 3 per Cent. Reduced B7l New 3 per Celia' B 7l I I i 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, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — March June Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 1.,31 per Cent. Do. ;£5OO Do £lOO and £2OO Dank of England Stock, 51 per Cent — Do Account : — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — Do Account - Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Eufaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent. ' May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 984 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,OOO 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 Do. Scrip, £l5 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent B5 Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chili an 6 per Cent Do. 3 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. BO Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — uanubian Principalities Do Account — Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent 931 21 Do., Second Issue — Do £lOO Bonds — Do. 1864 9ll 1 Do:x100:13onds Creek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do Account 6l txuatemala 5 per Cent. — Do £B6 paid — Do. 1839 an d 1850 'talian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) 671 Do 1865 Do Account Do Scrip, £671 paid — „.Do 5 p er C en t., 1864 — Alexican 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 241 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — M ontevidean 6, per Cent., £3O paid New I mper i a l 5 per Cent mow Granada l5l 1 Do 2 per Cent — Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian q per Cent Do. Account D ° Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 pe r C ent., 1856," '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 461 Do. Account ...... ... . .. Russian 5 per Cent., . 113 . 2, ..£ . St"""""" — Do 41 per Cent. 1850 ............ _ Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1861 E 3 ardinian 5 per Cent , Do Account "'Panish 3 per Cent Ditto account — Do New Deferred 371 1 Do Account — Do Passive — , Do Account 'Thanish Cert. of Coup not funded l3l DO Account l3l 1 \\ Wish 4 er Cent. _ D u 11 rr, ;11 per Cent. 1864 .- urlusli 6 per Cent. 1854 9Ol 1)0 Account Et) 6 i , per Cent. 1858 ..,-,10 Account — uo £lOO Bonds DO. 11 per Cent — ,° 6 per Cent. 1862 .-0 Account I t j) 100 ° 0 £ :6 1 c 1:,.e: r t .11 CI) Bondsen t. , 1863 76 b c ) 5 per Cent. 1865 _bo •,110 Bands 43t 1 i 431 i S crip £35 p aid b o ~., , yene z'uliarztuteed, 4 per Cent — n o , l ola 3 per Cent. 6 Per Cent., 1862 i-0.0. Account f , ' Per Cent, 1864 ,-- Dividends on the above payable in London. ''ugtri,:, n Ito frin , 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins ____ 13 1 ,47„;,', 41 1 - Per cent., Ex. 25f. i o ' . ,I par Cont., Ex. 12 Guil 6l _ P l y,,, e ,' Per Uet. Certiti4ates ir0...0 r yentes 4,3/4 11 Cent. L, '"4 0 per Cent. 1861 Ex 25f. 0 Account ' ' * ._ Cousols for money.. Do • Account .... THREE O'CLOCK 89 871 8 x d Liverpool Cotton Market —This Pay. Ma rket opens quiet. Sales, probably 6,000 'lle lumber of printed volumes in the English la t ,„ "age in California, which in 1847 hardly exceeded i 4 estimated iu 1865 at about 2,000,000. fight pri ... 11 Minis- a battle ult., and were put The loss but that 9th ult., routing Ld made ov. 4. the Go defence reault, a ddressed Fenian r. The ,e of the le city is ad been Fenians. e of the have a t nume- he con- Tat V. 13. npanied Princess Emily looting, le Hon. March ie royal ►rth left and the e Dowa 'folk. Dmitry 'indsor. sidenco May- ere ex- D g somo mdring- Wri 011 3sterday at Sand- n town Gunton nstance sle anti ighes, of le-park- a visit at, near is, tho 'he~liire. a town rd havo :icha,rd ant took Priory, ig liis Prince rmancee Lade, in id gave r and a counts . there d to his s recent a care- head is injury by the against n feW of the shortly. Righ at by his rocog- sum of INCESS tys the g letter cchi:-- isin,---I rith my n years worthy and the The rerance , ntinue, ship.—' )rniDg sties of iro and ch wag Right lequen ok his Chan - Sir G. )epart :tic© of Court Baron Brzuu- TUStiO O acellor arsons nt old tieo of m the rear as g been mlct]. nether ich the wales e gen: Aeou 6 ve the by the 1 each ; wero enter 10 Eels t o bt being out a its for D f the IOW" ryas : t ivol9 ) hoto - V° SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. I Paid. 1 Cpl°ritn.g Business Share/ Railways. dose. 'llitstol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc E.London, scrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Aug]. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock 91' 13 127 28 94 96 12 14 5 6 87 7 71 73 109 111 46 47 7i 8 127 129 118 J 49 90 92 02i 62; 61 83 , 41 43 36 39 104 106 122 1221 88 90 104 106 36 38 50 52 124} 32 , /, 96 97 691 6 135 137 top 1 lip 102 104 1241 12411 14 2 p 95 97 61 6.! Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original' Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford. Lancashire & Yorkshire Landon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., do Lincoln Metropolitan.... Do. New bo Extension Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and st. John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share. Do, Birmin.. & Derby Mid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun Nth. Eastern-Berwick Do. G.N •E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction 'Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock ifo. Scot, Mid. stJck Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., dc Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall BRITISH P Atlantic &St.Lawrcnce Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & S. K, lim Cape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pt East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 Chdige 6 p.c Do. let Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pre f. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref stook. Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook . Do. do. deterred ... Gt. India Pen. gua. 5p.C. o. Gus. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. Souih of India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. DJ. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. fndiau Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Con 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. R 1. C'da, 6pc lstpf.bs Scinde Do. Delhi -% Do. do Si Do. Punjaub.....L n Do.lndus St.Flot COLONIAL DOVER; British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Dec. 31,1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk, Cape G.lfope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do. Apl. & Oct 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-9. , Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April. and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. 1)0. 1878, do Slauritius, P, p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. lb Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal , lov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1866 Do. . 5 p c. 18:1 to 187( Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 Sew Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Soutia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, April & Oct BRITI 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, Bin Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) 1 East Caradon East Carn Brea Nast Grenville East Gunnislake . East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk G am. & StAubyn(G wen. 4 Great Laney, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (I.lelstas Grenville Herod's Foot llingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley twyndy Iron Ore, lim New Se wn North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan' North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pruvidenee Uny 'Aslant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West C hi rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis ' 8 SO 110 111 68 69 103 104 36 87 10 II p 120 122 74 76 10} 11 148 152 60 62 57 69 7) 79 8 96 149 151 3 4 p 102 105 49 51 ISIONS. 68 60 102 103 f ip 6 6i 10 11 73 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 102 103 IC4 105 to 27i 28j 88 89 66 69 53 62 57 5? 6 52 46 6) 4 4+ 30 32 30 31 10+ lus !P i 1) 101 102 17A 173 3} 3 d 08 86 Ad 1 4 d 101 102 93 05 83 90 84 68 82 84 l 0)? 1016 1004 1011 id 1004 101 i SECUR: 95 97 93 95 93 95 81 83 81 83 103 105 102 104 102 104 103 105 90 92 1(2 114 lu9 11 102 104 104 106 106 104 105 107 100 1(2 95 97 9) 101 93 95 90 01 103 105 84 85 /0) 102 102 103 106 108 106 106 'NE S. 9 10 21 22 580 59) 1 11 20 22 8 9 j " 4 I I 15 - 16 3 2 4 20 21 2 4 4; 35 26i 24 3 39 41 41 5i 6 8 3h 4 24 1!d 40 60 10 12 34 36, 420 410 1} ,1 12* 174 10 12 19 20 4 6 5 6 10 12 80 85 175 185 75 80 22 24 4 A l l 1076 2 24, 18i 194 PREFERENCE SHARED. Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. p1.,101} Great Western, Chester gua. stook, Ditto, 8 per cent pf., 155 orth British 5 per cent., 104 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 821 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOWE& Great Eastern 4i per oent. pt., Ditto, 5 per cent., 97} London, Brighton, itc., - 5 per cent. 1865. 105 London, Chatham, Etc., illetrop. Ext. B, 6 per cent.. Ditto, C, 6 per cent., 73 FOREJGN RAILWAYB. A ntwerp and Rotterdam, 9; Namur and Liege, gua. a per cent. pf., 20 FOREIGN MINE& Alamillos, limited, 11 1 Port Philip, a Yuadanamutna of 3. Australia, lim., 11 Squth Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 161 Western and North-Western of Irmo. 202 OCKS. East and West I n di a, 132 3 D BANKS. Alliance, Urn.. 311 1 Australasia, 70 4 British North American, 471 8 Colonial, lim., 411 2 Imperial Ottoman, 161 London and Brazilian (in.) 411 London and South-Western, lim., 19 London and vl estminster, 981 New Zealand Bank Corporation, 11m., I Oriental Baltic Corporation, 42 Union of London,:s3l MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, B:per cent. gua., 21 2 1 Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England, 81 Egyptian Com and Trading, lim., 2 EE.glish and Australian Copper, 11 Hudson's Bay, 151 London General omnibus Company. lim., 31 Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 3/ Milwall Iron Works. 41 North British Australasian, 49 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 181 ; Peninsula and Oriental Steam,! — Ditto, new, t 2,1 Quebrada Laud, BAH, and Mining, Um., 31 SHIPWRECK ON THE IRISH COAST.—HOWTII, DUBLIN BAT, Monday Night.—At daylight this morning (reports C. Hughes, Esq., P. N., Inspecting Chi e f Officer of the Coast Guard) a ship was observed to be on shore under Port Marnock Tower, near the entrance of lialahide River. The Howth lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution was manned as quickly as possible, and proceeded at onto to the wreck, which proved to be the Ocean Ranger, apparently of Greenock. A heavy sea from S.E. washing completely over the vessel made it dangerous to board her; the coxswain satisfied himself before leaving the wreck that the crew had been landed previously, and that uo person remained on board. It is earnestly hoped that the crew of the ship reached the shore during the night in safety. The crew of the lifeboat were much ex hausted by the time they got back to Howth, having to pull five or six miles dead to windward against a consi derable sea. 124 a f 4 604 1361 51 04 ice} ,ITIES. ,H M 21 i 2.1.0 29 2.14.0 3f 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 3 1 if MI 6 -~ ~ .. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 180. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. SHERIFFS' COURT, (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) BETTING ADVERTISEMENTS.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE AND IMPORTANT DECISION. RICHARDSON AND ANOTHEiR V. READ. This was an action to recover a sum of money for ad- Tertisements in the Court Circular, Mr. F. H. Lewis being counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Montague Williams repre senting the defendant, who had pleaded a set-off for £24 for reports of sporting matters. Mr. Lewis said he should prove that defendant had given tho order for the advertisements, which had been duly inserted in the court Circular. His Honour—ls thero anything in the sot-off, Mr. Wi: ? Mr. Williams—Certainly ; but when the proper time comes I shall be prepared to meet the plaintiff's case upon a point of law. His Honour—What is it ? Mr. Williams—l wish to call your Honour's attention to the character of the defendant's advertisement, and then I refer you to the Act of Parliament. It is quite clear that the advertisement was ono relating to betting. I beg to bring it under your notice. _ _ _ The newspaper was handed up to the court, and the ad vertisement ran as follows :—" Mr. John Read, of London (Member of Tattersall's), the most experienced and largest backer of horses, executes commissions on all the principal races throughout the year, but does not issue price lists, as from the repeated fluctuations in the market it only en genders discontent and confusion." Mr. Williams—Now, your Honour will just look at the Act of Parliament, the 16th and 17th Victoria, cap. 119, sec. 7, and you will find the following words : " Any person exhibiting or publishing, or causing to be exhibited or published, any placard, handbill, card, writing, sign, or advertisement, whereby it shall be made to appear that any house, office, room, or place is opened, kept, or used for the purpose of making bets or wagers in manner aforesaid, or for the purpose of exhibiting lists for betting, or with intent to induce any person to resort to such house, room, or place for tho purpose of making bets or wagers in manner aforesaid, &c., shall be liable to con viction, &c." Now, defendant's advertisement clearly came within the provisions of the act, and, as such, was illegal. There could be no doubt that defendant kept a betting-office, and advertised it in the columns of the Court Circular contrary to the law. Mr. Lewis called his Honour's attention to the wording of defendant's advertisement, and did not think it camo within the provisions 01 the act. His Honour—l have seen it, and lam of opinion that it is. It is quite clear that this is a betting advertisement. Mr. Williams—And the words of the act are quite plain. Mr. Lewis—The act may be plain, but I do not see how the advertisement is touched by it. His Honour—Suppose that the advertisement had run as follows :—' Mr. Read is not a member of Tattersall's, is not the most experienced and largest backer of horses, and does not execute commissions on all the principal races," would that have been within the provisions of the 7th section of the act ? Mr. Lewis—l should say not. His Honour I should say it did, as it would be clear that the intention was to evade the act. Looking, how ever, at the defendant's advertisement as it stands, it is to me quite clear that it is a betting advertisement, and I think that the proprietor of the Court Circular ought to be indicted for inserting it. I know that the fluctuations of the market not only lead to confusion and discontent, but also to the appearance of many young men at the bar of the Old Bailey. Mr. Lewis—That is between Mr. Richardson and the His Honour—lt may be so, but plaintiff cannot recover this money. Mr. Lewis—Cau we appeal ? His Honour—No ; the amount is under £2O, and I have no doubt upon the point. You will be nonsuited. Plaintiff nonsuited, with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SKELETON KEY ROBBERY. James Watson, address and occupation refused, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a counterpane and other articles, the property of Mr. John Whitcomb°, 4, Bateman's-buildings, Soho. Police-constable Francis Moss, 63 C, said that between 5 and 6 yesterday evening he saw the prisoner and another man in Bateman's- buildings, apparently trying the diffe rent doors with keys. He stood in a doorway a short time, and then walked down the buildings, when the other man went away and the prisoner came out of a house with a bundle. Ho stopped the prisoner, and asked him if he lived in the house, and lie said he did. He then told the prisoner that he was not quite satisfied with his statement, and he would take him back to the house to see whether he had told the truth. On the way back the prisoner dropped the bundle and made off and tried to escape, but he secured him and took him to the station. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the constable had acted very well in ho matter. The constable said that on the way to tho station the prisoner became very violent, and tried to throw him. 3lrs.Whitcombe identified a counterpane and;two sheets produced as the property of her husband, and said they were taken off a bed in a room on the second floor. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the witness stated that she was not aware. the house had been entered till she was in formed by the police. She thought the prisoner might have entered the house at the same time that some children entered. The constable saw no children near the place, and it is the belief of the police that the house was entered by means of a skeleton key. Inspector Harrison asked for a remand, as there was some reason to believe the prisoner was known. . _ _ The prisoner said the articles were given to him by a man standing at the door, who told him to wait till he came back. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner. THAMES. GREASE AND BUTTER.—John Nilewold, a Dutchman, aged 41, of No. 4, Elphick-terrace, Devon's-road, Bromley, a commission agent, was brought before Mr. Paget on a warrant, charged with obtaining money by false pretences. Mr. Robert Harris, a grocer and cheesemonger, of No. 52, Sussex-street, Poplar, said that on the 29th of September last the prisoner and another man came into his shop with a tub of butter, which they offered to sell. The prisoner, who carried the keg, said the butter was first class. He tried it with a taster about six inches down. The butter was very nice on the top, and he agreed to purchase it for .£1 17s. 3d. He was indebted to the other man, Mr. Cooper, as. 9d., and he paid the prisoner £2 ls. He afterwards found the keg of butter with the exception of six or seven inches at the top to be nothing but cart grease. Mr. Paget asked the witness if he was brought up to the trade of a cheesemonger and butterman. Mr. Harris said he was not, he was by trade a shipwright. Mr. Paget—You should have tested the butter through out the whcle bulk, and tasted it as well. The prisoner, in broken English, said that the butter was adulterated in Holland, and that when the fraud was discovered, "Mr. Harris makes up von row about the grease and the butter, which he offered to change for Mynheer." The prosecutor said the stuff had been made up here ; more than two-thirds of the cask was stinking grease—it was veneered butter, a little good butter at the top, and grease under it. A sample of the grease was produced. The odour was very offensive, and Mr. Paget wisely motioned with his hand to keep it away from the bench. The prosecutor was recalled, and said the prisoner agreed to take back the butter and grease and give him other butter, but, as ho had not kept his word, he obtained a warrant against him. . _ Mr. Paget said tho prosecutor treated the matter as a civil contract, nothing more, until he found he could not obtain payment for the rubbish, and then asked for a war rant. He could not treat this as a criminal offence. Ho discharged the prisoner. ___ CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—Thomas Ford, jun., pipe maker, White Horse-street, Stepney, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with killing a boy named Noah Wye, aged 13 years, iu Forry-road, Isle of Dogs, Poplar. George Pullen, a police sergeant, 10 K, stated that yes_ terday afternoon the prisoner came to him and said he had unfortunately run down a boy with his horse and cart in the Westferry-road, Millwall, and that he wished to sur render himself and have a proper inquiry made. He asked the prisoner how the affair happened, and ho said ho was driving his horse and cart along the Westferry-road at a moderate pace, and the boy came into the road, w a lki ng backwards with his hands extended like a man rowing a boat, and he fell under the cart-wheel on his back. He believed the occurrence was purely accidental, and that the prisoner was drivin,g carefully and at a moderate pace. Mr. Paget asked if information had been forwarded to the coroner of the district ? Pullen said that had been done. Mr. Paget said he would tako bail for tho prisoner's appearance a week hence. 13ai1 was immediately tendered for tho prisoner, whose family are highly respectable. The bail was accepted and ho was liberated. WESTMINSTER. UNSLPPORTED CHARGE OF FELONY.—CharIOttO Breeze, a decently dressed woman, was charged with stealing £1.5 in gold and silver, and a box, from Keppel-street, Chelsea. Joseph Butt, proprietor of the beer-house, 17, Koppel street, Chelsea, said that the prisoner and her husband lodged in his house for eight months. On Monday after noon his brewer came with some boor at two o'clock. At half-past one o'clock the money in question was safe in a box in his bedroom, and the door of the room was locked. At a little before two the prisoner left the house, and in half an hour prosecutor went up stairs to look for his brewer's book, and found the door broken open ; the box and all the money was gone. From in formation he received from his son, who saw prisoner leave tho house with a large box uudor her arm, he waited for her, and when she came home, at 3 o'clock, he gave her into custody. Nothing relating to the charge was found, and prisoner did not say one word one way or the other with reference to the charge. A witness was called, who said that on the way to the station a man told him he had got the right party, and that the prop2rty was fenced ; also, that the prisoner and her husband meant to leave the house by stealth that night. A constable was called, but did not further carry the case. Mr. Arnold said there was not the slightest possible tittlo of evidence against the woman, and ordered her to be immediately discharged. MARKETS—This Day. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, .C 4 lOs to £5 15s; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw,. £1 15s to £2 Os per load. Trade firm. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 15s; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load. A steady demand. WHITECITAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 lOs to £5 15s ; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 165 to £2 Os per load. A steady trade. COLONIAL. TEA.—A fair amount of dealings has been done at steady prices. To-day a small quantity of Assam will be offered at public sales, and full rates axe expected to be obtained. SUGAR.—The dealings hare not been very extensive, but good grocery descriptions are at slightly enhanced rates. In the refined market there is no material altera tion. COFFEE.—There has been a steady inquiry for both plantation and native Ceylon, and late prices are well supplied. RICE.—A large business has been done in soft grain de scriptions, and in seyeral instances at slightly enhanced rates. TALLOW.—The market has shown a slight recovery from the late depression. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 50s. Gd., December 50x. 3d., and January to March de livery 51s. por cwt. Archbishop Manning in Salford. On Saturday afternoon the Most. Rev. Dr. Man ning, Archbishop of Westminster, laid the corner stone of a new Catholic institute and school in course of erection near St. John's Cathedral, Sal ford. The erection of this building has been con templated for years, and it is upon the urgent re . commendation of one of her Majesty's school inspec tors that active efforts have been made to meet the want of additional school accommodation, and an institution for the instruction of young men in science and religion. The teachers of St. John's school were among the first young men to point out the necessity and desirableness of erecting the In stitute. The clergy of St. John's, to whom the question was submitted, gave to it considerate at tention, and eventually decided to second the efforts of the school teachers. The receipts of subscrip tions warranted the commencement of the work. In the Gothic style, the structure will be of the best brick, with stone facings. It will have a play ground for children on the first floor ; an infants' schoolroom, reading and class rooms will occupy the second story ; and a lecture hall, 86ft. long by 40ft. wide, will occupy the whole of the third floor. Ornamental tiles will cover a pointed roof. The whole building is estimated to cost about £2,000. Mr. J. Finnigan, Queen's Park, Manchester, is the builder, and ho, with the Rev. Canon Benoit, has drawn the designs. The ceremony on Saturday was witnessed by a number of ladies and gentlemen, who occupied seats in front of the platform which was erected near the corner of the building on the second floor. The band of the 56th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers was present. On the arrival of the Archbishop, with 1 1 1 Bishop Turner, of Salford, the Mayor of Salford (W. Turner, Esq.), and clergy, Mr. J. Stores Smith, chairman of the committee with whom ori ginated the scheme for the erection of the Institute, explained the object of it. The germ of the under taking, he said, was necessity. Some time ago the schoolrooms connected with the cathedral were found to be inadequate to the increasing number of scholars, and extended accommodation could not be provided in consequence of a lack of funds. A few months ago one of her Majesty's inspectors of schools suggested the provision of increased school room, and as the suggestion was accompanied by an intimation that if more accommodation were not obtained, sooner or later he would have to recom mend the withdrawal of a considerable Govern ment grant, the suggestion partook somewhat of the character of a command. The clergy thought of building an infants' schoolroom only, until they were seen by several young men, members of the congregation, some of them Sunday school teachers, and all of them desirous to spend their evenings in rational, social, and intellectual re creation, and to spread education among the Catho lics of Salford. These young men had long felt certain objections to the secular instruction deriv able from existing mechanics' institutions, and they suggested to the clergy that a Catholic institution, with the proposed infants' school, might occupy one building, the erection of which would cost two thirds, or only one-half, of two separate structures. This recommendation was adopted. The large hall occupying the third story of the building would be devoted to public meetings, concerts, social gather ings, and to any purpose that was not anti-Catholic in its nature or subversive of social order. The hall would exceed the size of the large room at the Town Hall. The twofold character of the institute, science and religion, would afford to Catholic young men an increased knowledge of science, without weaken ing their attachment to the faith of the Catholic Church. (Applause.) To those who had con tributed towards the cost of the institute and school building, he was bound, on behalf of the Committee, to tender many thanks. It was a very great thing to give money, but, after all, it was far greater to give personal service. To the Archbishop of West minster the Catholics of Salford were indebted for his personal attendance on that occasion. Archbishop MANNING received from Mr. Smith a trowel, and with it prepared for the reception of the corner stone. The ceremony concluded, he delivered an address. Ile said for the invitation, and, he might say also, the permission, to lay the corner stone of a Catholic Institute in Salford, he thanked the gentlemen who composed the committee. The act he had just performed was one in which all his sympathies concurred. The objects for which the structure was to be built—the education of children and the sanctification of the intellect of adult per sons—commanded not only his sympathy, but his most heartfelt interest. A few words of the address by the chairman of the committee had supplied him (Dr. Manning) with a stronger motive for being present on that occasion. Mr. Smith had said it was an easy thing to make an offer of money, but a much more valuable thing to offer personal service. That principle, being of great value, would apply to Mr. Smith, to the committee of which he was chairman, and to that body of young men in accordance with whose petition the en largement of the institution had been undertaken. (Cheers.) These young men, 30 in number, devoted their time on Sundays to the instruction of scholars, an humble work, which men engaged in worldly affairs might perhaps count to be a very heavy and uninteresting occupation, but a work which he be lieved to be one of the noblest occupations in which a matt could spend his time. (Hear.) He believed that if the young Catholics of Salford, Manchester, and London would spend the spare hours of their Sundays in seeking out poor children, and in in structing them when they were gathered together, they would be exercising the faculties and the affec tions which God had given them upon the highest objects they could find. (Cheers.) He hoped the ex ample would tend to increase their number of 30 to 3,000 in Salford and Manchester. But in saying that his sympathies were with an institution of that char acter he meant this—we lived in a century when there was an inverted process of instruction in which the young taught the old--(a laugh) —in defiance of the traditions of consanguinity, those who were entering into life conceived themselves to be the instructors of their elders ; in the nine teenth century, the chief virtue of children was to bring up their parents in the way they should go. (Laughter.) This inverted process of instruction was verified in the most superlative form—the in tellectual 19th century was teaching the Catholic Church how to think. (Applause.) This inverted order of consanguinity and instruction could not be exemplified in a more superlative form than that. He believed that truth to be in these three short propositions—That reason rightly cultivated leads to faith ; that reason, illuminated by faith, is deve loped, elevated, and perfected in its highest degree, and can only so be made perfect ; and that reason, whensoever it leads away from faith, is enfeebled. Without giving lengthened proof of these proposi tions, he would say, in confirmation of what he had affirmed, that the greatest intellectsthe and d th th en e world ever knew, the one in speculation other in practice, were Plato and Aristotle ; and he would call any scholar to answer him whether . the whole history of the human intellect, before the illu mination of faith, there could be found any two who approached more nearly to a pure knowledge of the Divine nature. (Applause.) Of the second proposi tion, he affirmed that the scholastic philosophy and scholastic theology which were eminently and in tensely Catholic were denounced in this age, because they were identical with Romanism ; and he asked whether there was to be found an exhibition of the human intellect more enlarged, subtle, and mature than was seen in the scholastic philosophy and theo logy of the Catholic Church ? (Applause.) As to the third proposition, he would affirm this--We had entered into that age when reason and faith were no longer united, but parting asunder. In speaking of reason, he meant reason under its modern cultWation. But was it not a violation of our reason, with the external world about us and the dictates of reason and conscience within, not to believe in the existence of God ? Would any man say that his reason was elevated and perfected by his becoming an atheist ? Was his reason not in its normal state by believing in his Maker, in whose image he had been created, in the likeness of whom, and in virtue of which likeness, he possessed that very rea son ? (Applause.) God had made us in His own likeness, bestowed upon us intelligence and will, made us capable of loving him, and made our hap piness dependent upon the knowledge and love of Himself. Then, was it not a violation of moral rea son, of the conscience, of the greatest gifts of God to the human soul, to believe that God should not have given us the means whereby to know this— that He should have created us with a capacity of knowing him, and have placed us in a state where we could not know him ? This privation of the means of knowing God would be a privation of the end for which he made us. What were the means of knowing God ? His own revelation. There fore it was a violation of moral reason to believe that God had not made Himself known to man sufficiently for his perfection and happiness. In the third place, if there was a revelation of God in the world, he would ask where, in the whole history of mankind, was to be found a pure doctrine respecting the being and perfections of God, except in the Christian religion? Was there to be found a pure doctrine or delineation of the nature of a man, except in the incarnation ? Was there to be found a pure morality anywhere, except in the Gospels? Therefore he was bound to affirm, as dictated by reason acting upon the evidence which human his tory afforded him, that if there was a revelation of God in the world that revelation was Christianity ; that, if Christianity was a revelation of God, that Christianity was Catholicism ; and that every other form of the Christian religion was fragmentary. (Applause.) He did not say this controversially, though as had been said with great prudence and moderation by Mr. Smith, who had preceded him, their adhering to a Catholic form of science and literature was not controversy, but the simple dic tate of their reason and faith. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Smith had also said that the mind of a man who was educated in science or literature, apart from his faith, was so far fragmentarily and not perfectly. developed ; and it was absolutely true for this rea son—Almighty God in the revelation of His truth, by the laws of nature or by the laws of revelation, properly so-called, had built a whole system of truth which was perfect, uniform, and symmetrical from its foundation to its completion. But the laws of nature passed into the laws of revelation ; the foundation which God laid in the intellect of man in ancient days was the basis upon which the truths of this revelation were placed afterwards. We could not take human science, human history, or human philosophy apart from the revelation of God in his truth. (Hear, hear.) It was ono structure, one perfect tower, rising a pyramid from its foundation to its apex ; and, therefore, it was in the name of reason that the Catholics refused to be made frag mentary either in science or in literature, and that they believed all must be studied in the light of the revelation of God, and in union with him. There fore, he said, that these four great truths, which he might call the four corners of that pyramid—the existence of God, the revelation of God, the revela tion of Christianity, and the identity of Christianity with Catholicism—were the dictates of reason. Ha believed the more reason was cultivated, the more would those truths prevail. He had no fear in the world of the cultivation of reason. He was not one of those who believed that religion was promoted by darkness. (Hear, hear.) The Germans had divided the Catholics of the present day into the friends of darkness and the friends of twilight. The friends 9f twilight were those who believed and did not believe —a certain mixture of rationalism and faith ; the friends of midnight were those who believed in the whole revelation of God and the whole light of the Day of Pentecost. He (Dr. Manning) professed himself to be a friend of midnight in the profoundest sense of that definition; and he believed the more reason was cultivated, the more certainly would a man believe in the revelation of God. Why ? Al mighty God was not a bad logician. We were bad logicians, intolerably bad reasoners, in the 19th cen tury. This was shown perpetually by the newspapers that touched upon the Catholic Church and Catholic preachers. The writers also of this century were all intolerably bad logicians, but there was one who was not a bad logician. He was the eternal truth. He (Dr. Manning) was perfectly convinced that if any man in the cultivation of his reason fell from the path of faith, it was because he had fallen from the true line of the cultivation of reason itself. On;this ground alone he (Dr. Manning) felt that to the young Ca tholics of Salford and Manchester should be given the means of studying science and literature, which would enable them to comprehend more largely and adequately the truths of revelation, and thereby the truths of their faith. Everybody who became more illuminated and penetrated with the light of his faith would become more capable intellectually to comprehend both science and literature. And he must say that, in all the sys tem of instruction, from the lowest elemen tary infants' school to the highest form of intellec tual cultivation, he saw great reason why the Catho lics of England should not beg or borrow from any existing institution any participation in the crumbs or fragments of science or literature possessed by others, broken to them, and cast as it were from the table; and he saw great'reason why the Catholics I should form for themselves from a foundation, sym metrically, solidly, and without compromise, a sys tem of true Catholic education for the infant of the poor and the son of the highest and the richest in the land. (Applause.) This principle was at the root of the work which had been commenced that day—an infants' school in Salford. He hoped it was but the prelude of the day when the corner stone would be laid of a Catholic University of England. (Continued applause.) On the motion of Mr. D. LEE, seconded by Mr. G. RICHARDSON, thanks were passed with acclama tion to the Archbishop ; and this concluded the pro ceedings. On Sunday morning Archbishop Manning preached at the Cathedral in behalf of the funds of Mount St. Bernard's Reformatory. IMPUDENT SwiNDLE.---The police authorities at Burton-on-Trent have recently come in possession of the particulars of a most impudent and clever swindle, which was perpetrated at the late cattle and cheese fair at Burton-on-Trent. The unfortunate dupe was a farmer residing at Fisherwick-grove, of the name of Woolley. It appears that Woolley, who had brought two horses to the Barton fair, and disposed of one of them for £25, was met in the fair about half-past one o'clock by two respectably attired persons, one apparently the master and the other a servant or judge. They saluted him, and the elder sharper asked the farmer how muoh he wanted for the mare his servant had in the fair. Woolley, who gave them to understand that he knew nothing of them, asked where they came from, and they replied Rugeley. Upon this he told them that he had a brother residing at Old Wood Farm, Rugeloy, and with whom the sharpers declared themselves to be on most in timate and friendly terms. They then adjourned to the Talbot Inn and bargained for the mare. The elder swindler aud pretended purchaser handed to the farmer a document to the effect that if the mare suited he would pay £26 for her on the Thursday following ; but if not he would return her on the said Thursday, with £1 as expenses. The docu ment was signed " Thomas Robinson, with which the farmer expressed his approval. After some further conver sation the farmer left his fresh acquaintances at the inn, and went to cash a cheque for £25 which he received as payment for the horse he had sold in the morning after wards he retur ne d t o t h e inn, againand joined . the Soon h having draw n a t t h e b ank three £5-notes and twel s ve arprs sove reigns. An accomplice put in an appearance in the room about this tim e , an d , i n a very polite manner, begged to be excused if ho was intruding upon private company. He was frankly asked to join them, and did so. Knowing that Woolley had been to the bank, he asked him if ho had got his money all right, as ho had had some money left him, and on going to the bank to draw it had some trouble in getting it correct. Woolley then counted his money, and found it to be right, whereupon the accomplice very kindly presented the farmer and his companions with a purse each, stating that persons could not be too careful with their money now-a-days. His kindness was gratefully ac cepted, and each one proceeded to put his money into the purse which had been so very kindly given to him. Onv of the sharpers then artfully passed his own bag, and "rang changes" with the farmer, which was not perceived by him. Some two hours passed away after this in conver sation, and the sharpers finally accompanied their foolish dupe to the railway station, and bid him adieu as he left by the 5.20 p.m. train for Lichfield. On the following morning the farmer looked into his purse, and. lo ! to his great surprise and grief, he found a piece of the Gardener's Chronicle, of October last, and twelve flash sovereigns, instead of three five-pound notes and twelve good gold coins. Ho reported the circumstance to Mr. Superintendent Keith and Sergeant Kelly, having by hi s own folly and stupidity lost his mare, £25, the value of the other horse, and £2 which he had in his pocket pre viously. A description of two of the swindlers and the mare has been issued ; and a reward of £5 will be given to any person who shall give such information to any police authority in Staffordshire as shall lead to the recovery of the mare and apprehension of the offenders.— Western Press. ...... THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. SHREWSBURY' RACES—Tuts BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SWEEPSTAKES. Convent 1 Vulture Black Prince 3 Five ran. HANDICAP. Blue Bell filly 1 Carnizette Eight ran. BATTLEFIELD HANDICAP. Overture Confederate 1 2 Eight ran. SALOPIAN. Tormentor ....................................... 1 Miss Harriet .......................................... 2 SHREWSBURY CUP. Raglan Sidewind 1 2 Gomera . 3 Eleven ran. COUNTY MEMBERS' PLATE. Thalassius 1 Catalogue 2 Troublesome 3 Seven ran. ENVILLE HALL STAKES. Ulphug 1 Galnara Hop Tine 3 Agricultural Prospects. This week opened with a fine bright day, sunny, with splendid white clouds, wind N.W., very un like the sth of November. This would be very servienn.lilp in drying the land and making it fit for the reception of seed, as a continuance of such weather would soon enable farmers to make a good finish at last with their wheat sowing, while all those who like to go into moist ground will this season have their wishes gratified. Monday was a fair day, but not so bright as the previous one, as at times it was dull and threatening ; slight rain falling in the evening, but with the night fine ; wind N.W., thermometer 46 degrees, barometer 30.10 inches. Fair progress was made with field work, particularly in the lighter soils. On Tuesday the morning was cold, but the day held up fair, but not fine, a slight drizzling rain coming occasionally in the afternoon, as at 5 p.m. more rain fell, and this was not so favourable for the continuance of out-door work ; wind N.N.W., barometer 30.05, and falling. Our advices from Northumberland on that day stated,: —" The weather since our last report has been unsettled, wind N. to N.W." In Kent, it was re marked on the same day :—" The change in the weather, which has again become close, with a steady downfall of rain, has affected the condition of the samples brought out, checking the wheat sowing in this country particularly, and this is so far unfortu nate for the farmers. On Wednesday it was appa rent that a good deal of rain had fallen in the past night, but the day proved fine, and some progress was again made in field work. Wind was round to the N.N.E., drying the land serviceably. In Scot land the weather had turned frosty, more accep table still for drying the land. On Thursday morn ing the weather was fine, with slight rain at 1 p.m., and again at 5 p.m., but nothing to stop the pro gress of autumnal tillage ; wind remaining in a cold quarter ; thermometer, 46 deg. ; barometer down to 29.85 in. From Surrey on that day our advices state :—" Farmers are now sowing wheat broadcast on land too wet to carry the seed drill, and on light and dry soils wheat sowing is nearly finished." From Warwickshire it was remarked--" The weather dur ing the week has been favourable for autumn sow ing and planting, which operations are now mostly completed." From the interior of Suffolk it was observed :—" The weather during the past week has been generally fine, with some frost at night. On mixed-soil land pretty good progress has been made with planting, and a beginning has been made on stiff heavy lands." From the same county, nearer the coast, it was remarked :—" Wheat sowing pro gresses very slowly in this district, and it will be unusually late ere it be completed." Friday was a fine bright day, and great progress was made in all directions with committing wheat to the ground ; and although many growers consider it late, others appears satisfied that they have had a good oppor tunity of getting on this week. One farmer from Essex writes :—" By to-morrow I shall have com pleted five-sevenths of my wheat sowing, and shall proceed to plough the remaining two-sevenths if the present weather permits, during next week." From Yorkshire, in the West Riding, it was stated : " Weather continues fine, and sowing will now soon be brought to a close with a week more such." From the East Riding accounts represent that the farmers have nearly cometo a finish, and in a pretty good state, with their wheat sowing. This work completed, there will be more time for thrashing, and better supplies of wheat may be looked for. Farmers will be anxious to take advantage of the recent improvement in value, and millers will be careful in buying from this time forward up to Christmas, well knowing that that is the most try ing time to make up rents and other heavy out goings of the farm. For the present, then, a calm in the trade may be looked for as regards prices, but ultimately a return to activity may be expe rienced from the result of the past harvest, and the moderate imports of foreign grain anticipated.— Mark-lane Express. adecnst t escaped i E aNI arN S vi C adi A i PeTfdyrEPo, somewhat m t RiF e S thefTol morningtugsenemSndtoieeouir.itgidhsoaimynagnaneConvict.sentence It appears t pi s w pooen o f a ri c l:s o t n ayh v eav i ate e rri n t sy s , a w n e d re th se e en la s t a te fe r in on t z e o i f r I b o eds one of the infirmary wards wore two men named Thompson p_ o eoiryin. CONVICTS FRO3IPORTSMOUTH years' o n spuenndaal Sunday servitude.h night by the The m guard;men but on the latter entering the ward h 1 s ort y after 1 yester day morning for the purpose of ascertaining that all was right, he discovered that the prisoners had escaped. The fact was at once reported to the governor, and on an exa mination of the ward being made, it was found that the men, who were the only occupants of this ward, had cut through the floor, and gained access to the messengers' room, where it appeared there were two uniform-coats, which the convicts took with them. From the messengers' room they passed into the stewards' quarters, and after wards scaled a wall, dropped into the street, and got clear away. Throughout the whole of yesterday the neigh bourhood was scoured by the police and the officers of the prison, and placards offering a reward for the appre hension of the convicts was issued, but up to the time our parcel was despatched, only one of the mon (Thomp son) had been apprehended. It appeared that about two o'clock in the afternoon the man was observed by a country policeman in the neighbourhood of Havant, about nine miles from Portsmouth, wearing the coat he had stolen, and with a handkerchief tied round his head. His singular appearance attracted the notice of the policeman, who challenged him, and the fellow at once pulled out a knife, and threatened to murder the constable if he at tempted to arrest him. A struggle at once took place, and at that moment a warder from the convict prison came up and assisted in the man's capture, but during the struggle the warder was wounded in the arm. The prisoner was, however, overpowered and brought back to Portsmouth, whore ho volunteered the statement that the other convict was, according to his belief, still in the town. A BOY BURNT TO DEATH.—Last evening Mr. W. Payne, City coroner, held an inquiry at St. Bar tholomew's Hospital touching the death by fire of Richard Gay, aged nine years. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the son of humble parents residing at 4, Trafalgar-buildings, City-road, and on 'Wednesday morn ing his mother wont out to work, leaving him directions to mind his two younger brothers, and to keep the fire in. An hour afterwards he ran into the street shrieking, with his night shirt in a blaze. Some young men tore off the burn ing dress all but the collar, which was tightly fastened, and continued to burn. He was taken to Mr. Simpson's, sur geon, and thence to the hospital, when he said that the fire having gone out he proceeded to relight it, and so set himself on fire. He was terribly burnt all over the body, but he only spoke of the thrashing his mother would give him for the destruction of his now shirt. Ho died on Fri day last from the severity of his injuries. The jury re turned a verdict of "Accidental death by fire." The planters of Cuba have addressed a memorial to the Court in Madrid, asking for the abolition of slavery in the island. Six ran. BOROUGH MEMBERS' PLATE. Not received. SHORTS HANDICAP. Jane Shore 1 Wentworth 2 Bella 3 Eight ran. The races commence to-morrow (Wednesday) at 10.30. LONDON GAZETTE —This Evening. WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 14. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orderg for the appointment of Philip Griffith, Esq., late her Ma jesty's Charge d'Affaires to the United States of Columbia, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 13. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Heyligar Aertsen Porter, Esq., to be a Member of the Executive Council, and Isaac Farrington, Esq., to be a Non-Elective Member of the Legislative Council of the Virgin Islands. CROWN-OFFICE, Nov. 10. The Queen has been pleased by a commission under the Great Seal of the United Kingdou to appoint Thos. Ewing Winslow, Esq., to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 14. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Deputy-Assistant Commis saries-General John Buckle Barlee and Alexander Clerk to be Assistant Commissaries-General, to fill the va cancies caused by the retirement of Deputy Commissary- General 11'31ahon and Assistant Commissary-General Muri ay. CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT.—The Reverend Alexander Henderson, Chaplain of the 4th Class, to bo Chaplain of the Third Class ; The Reverend J. B. H. Harris, M.A., Chaplain of the Fourth Class, to be Chaplain of the Third Class. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 10. The undermentioned Officers have this day been pro moted to the rank of Paymaster in her Majesty's Fleet John Kiddie, Esq., and Wm. Wallace, Esq. Nov. 11. Mr. William Whittle Watts has this day been promoted to the rank of First Class Assistant-Engineer in her Ma jesty's Fleet, with seniority of the 14th October, 1865. Nov. 18. Mr. Joseph Wyllie has this day . been promoted to the rank of Acting Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet. COURSE OF EXCHANGE--This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 19 Ditto 3 Months. 12 14 Rotterdam Antwerp 25 50 Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 15 Ditto 3 Months. 25 474 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1211 4 Vienna — 11 1 Trieste — 11 124 Petersburgh - 304 Berlin ••• Madrid —47 i Cadiz Leghorn Milan Messina Genoa Naples — 25 62 Palermo Oporto — 51} Lisbon 5l-} 11 191 12 2 12 21 25 57f 25 574 13 10 25 25 25 55 25 55 121} 11 17} 11 20 30} 471 48f 25 67 25 67 25 70 25 67 25 67i 25 67f 51 51 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Nov. 14.—Wind this day at noon—North- westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. CARDIFF, Nov. 13.—Wind N.—Sailed—Western Chief, ror Hong Kong; Arcadia, for Rio Janeiro; Cambyses, for Para. CLYDB, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bethia Jewett, from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—LiTerpool, from London for Auckland, N.Z. LOUGH FOYLE, Nov. 14.—Arrived—Ilibernia, scrow steamer, from Quebec. FALmorrH, Nov. 12.—Wind N.E.—Sailod—Caradoc, for Matanzas. NEWPORT, Nov. May, from Ascension. HOLYHEAD, Nov. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—VeteHa, from Liverpool for Surinam.' 13.—Wiud N.E.—Arrived—Daniel GRIMSBY,I Nov. 13.—Wind W.—Arrived—Kate Agnes, from Richibucto. BROOMIELAW, Nov. 13.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Duke of Argyll, for Calcutta ; Lothian, for Rio Janeiro ; Juvonta, for Surinam. KINGROAD, Nov. 12.—Wind NZ — Sailed—Blanche, for Demerara. ROCHESTER, Nov. 13 .—Arrived—The Sarah, from Lon don for Ipswich. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 1 GR►YESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Nov. 13 —Perseverance, from Medemblik ; Hope, from Dunkirk. Arrived, Nov. 14—Ocean Queen, from Dunkirk; Leo pard, steamer, from Hamburg; Rhine, steamer, from Boulogne ; Comet, from Bruges. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Golden Horn, screw steamer, from Shields, for Alexandria. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Nov. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ...... Dee. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Nov. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles. Nov. 2 6 . Falkland Islands 1 1 Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton ... Nov. 18. . Nov. 28. Ditto, via Marseilles MANSION -HOUSE.—To-day, at 12 o'clock, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Phillips), accompanied by the Sheriffs of London, went in state from the Mansion -house to Guildhall, to open a grand flower and fruit show, held there by permission of the Corporation, in aid of the benefit fund of the United Horticultural Society. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN DUBLlN.—Detec tive Officers Hughes and Doyle were shot at on Sunday evening, when turning into Exchange Police Court. Both aro wounded in vital parts, but, the ball being spent, the wounds are fortunately not dangerous. No clue to the assassins has been o btained.—D üblin Evening Post. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FORGERY BY A B. IY B i a th nk fo t r o gin th g e e a h m og ou u n es t —J o h n Duncan, a boy 1 5 years old, was charged uponat the the3l a u L s o i o u n d - o h n o u t s tn e, d o l n v t a m t n u i t n •d s a t y e r , rtyrialnaAr Artillery , y, of £2lO ; and Henry Garrett, John Jennings, and John Buckley, privates i a n nd the; first-mentioned wore with counselling prisoner to commit the offence of which he was accused and also with receiving a portion of the money obtained from the bank by means of the forged' cheques. Upon the former examina • tton of the prisoners it was proved that the boy Duncan was junior clerk to Mr. Conty, a ccrk manufacturer, in Jewry-street, and that he availed him self of the absence of his master from the counting-house to abstract various cheques from his cheque-book. The" were afterwards filled up by some person or other for different amounts, to the sum of £2lO, and the signature of Mr. Conty was so well counterfeited that no suspicion Was entertained, and the whole of the cheques were paid. The moment the forgeries were discovered Duncan ab sconded, 'and it was ascertained that ho bad become linked with the other prisoners, and from correspondence that passed between them it was inferred that they had incited him to commit the forgeries upon the bank Duncan had bought watches and other things and given them to the soldiers, and he had advanced about £BO out' of the money obtained by means of the forged cheques to buy two of them out of the regimeut.—Duncan was corn mittad for trial, and the others were remanded. 100 st I 20i 10 100 1 'OSSIM 100 f 100 2 100 100 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 'Cl' 1011 96 5I 10th 101 4 104 31 78f 9 05 if