The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-07 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with beasts, both as to number and quality. Prime breeds moved off steadily at full quotations, but inferior stock was very inactive at late rates. The top figure was 5s 2d per 81b. The supply of sheep was only moderate. On the whole, the mutton trade ruled steady at Monday's currency. The best Downs realised 6s 8d per 81b. Calves, the supply of which was by no means extensive, were iu fair request at late rates. Primo small pigs were quite as dear as last week. Large hogs aLd mulch cows ruled about stationary. Per 81b to sink the offal. s ds d s dad Crse. di inf. beasts... 3 2 3 6 Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 8 6 2 .teond quality doPrie J'thao wn (10.6 4 6 8 r , rirae lar E p: oxen ..4 6 4 10 Lame coarse calves.. 0 4 6 .I,rtme Scots, 0 5 2 Prane small d0......4 8 5 0 (~ r se. and int. sheep. 4 Co 4 8 Large hog's .4 4 6 Second quality do ..4 lu 5 6 porkers ... 4 8 5 2 Lamb....os 0d to 0. Od. SuAtling calves, 19s to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 30s to 33a each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. --- Beasts 527 Cows .. — Sheep 3 lOO Ca yes 307 Bias Beasts _ _ - 1,422 Cows 132 Sheep Calves 314 Pigs :360 MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL—Fair supplies of meat are on offer, and the trade is inactive, at our quotations : Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 6d ; 'real, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 4s 2d to 5s 8d per 81b by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Dec. 6.—Prime stock was in fair request, at full prices ; otherwise the trade was heavy. Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s 2d; mutton, 4s Od to 6s 6d; veal, 4 8 2d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 4s Ocl to 5s Od per 81b. to sink the offal. RONIFORD, Dec. 6.—Tho supplies of stock were mo derate, and the sales progressed slowly, asfollows :—Beef from 3s 4d to 5s 2d; mutton, 4s 2d to 6s 8d; veal, 4s Od to 4 8 8d ; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81b. Suckling calves, 18s to 22s , quarter-old store pigs, 29s to 32s ; and milch cows, £ l B to £l9 each. IIAY SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 OS to lOs; clover, .45 Os to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. A slow trade. OmitsEwa:a:l.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 12s 6d; clover, L.) Os to £6 103 Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. Supply only moderate. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 Os to £5 lOs ; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 I.Be to £2 2s per load. Trade dull. MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Monetary affairs continue quiet both at home and on the continent. There is a steady demand for mercantile operations, trade generally being very healthy, with a steady progression of enterprise. The quotations are kept up as nearly as possible to the level of the Bank's minimum, though excep tional instances are mentioned of dealings having been negotiated * and even under 6 per cent. The letters of allotment of the Naples Public Works Company, and of the American Oil Wells Trading Company, were posted last evening. An amount of £9,000 in gold was taken from the Bank of England yesterday afternoon. - . joint-stock A new and important association has been formed by the amalgamation of two large West India houses, Messrs. Cavan, Lubbock, and Co., and Messrs. Wm. Burnley Hume and Co. The Capital required is £2,000,000, in shares of £5O each. The estates and real securities to be trans ferred to the company by the vendors are in Demerara, Berbice, Trinidad, and Barbadoes. The estates are fertile, well situated, and in a high state of cultivation. They are provided with an ample supply of Coolie, Chinese, Portuguese, and Creole labour. On several of these estates powerful machinery of the best description has been recently erected at a considerable cost, and the largely in creased profits which have resulted prove conclu sively the advantages to be derived from the further application of machinery on a still more extended scale. The increased capital which will be thus employed, in addition to the large amount already Invested in real estate, renders the business more suitable to the resources of a public company than to those of private firms. The imports of the two firms in sugar alone have for the last three years averaged over 46,000 hogsheads Per annum. The vendors will transfer to the e ftipany, free of any claim f or goo d w ill, th e i r l arge a nd profitable commission and agency bußinpsa, Which has yielded in net commissions, on the ave rage of the past three years, an amount exceeding 80 ,Q00 per annum, and is capable of being greatly extended. The biddings for 35,00,000 rupees in bills on India took place yesterday afternoon at the Bank of England. The proportions allotted were—to Calcutta 22,33,000 rupees, to Madras 2,67,000 r upees, and to Bombay 10,00,000 rupees. The I n'lli-mum price was as before, Is. 111 d. on Cal cutta and Madras, and Is. 114 d. on Bombay. T enders on Bombay and Madras at ls. Hid. will rec eive about 18 per cent., and on Bombay at 2s. y id. about 8 per cent. ; above these prices in full. The last w eek' s ra il wa y rece i p t s ascer t a i ne d up t 0 this day are in round figures as under : 1865. 1864. Great W es t ern £66,233 £64,923 orth "W es tern ... 111,834 106,707 QOl,, ii ° li l lt:rt Western .. ... ... ... 20,659 19,132 19,078 17,573 . 49,683 49,207 40ath Easte . rn 19,911 18,256 teat Northern 36,934 34,878 j4alleashire and Yorkshire 39,498 34,192 -Jristol N. -(01 and E xe t er ... 5,877 5,65 , 4 M anchest er, Eastern 68,605 65,332 Sheffield, and. Lincoln ... 20,587 18,132 il reat E astern 30,774 29,604 ri,ondon, Chatham, and Dover ... ... 7,686 6,240 .h est , returns, when compared with those of the ilcorresponding period of last year, generally show 1 ?,! t le very satisfactory results. On the Great ~estern there is an increase of £1,310, on the orth-Western of £5,127, on the South-Western if £1,527, on the Brighton of £1,505, on the Mid 411d of £476, on the South-Eastern of £1,655, on he Great Northern of £2,056, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £5,306, on the Bristol and Exeter „ 15 f £223, on t h e North-Eastern of £ 3,272, on the tlanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £3,455, on „ I le Great E astern of £1,170, and on the Loudon, \-latham, and Dover of £1,446. b The dire c t ors o f the Financial Insurance Com t",,a)l have issu e d t h e i r fi rst report. It states that 7 company was registered on the 6th December, a 64 it , but was not a d vert i sed and the shares allotted get . t April last, so th a t i n f act we are only now tk l oginto working order, but th e di rectors have the satisfaction to state that th e y h ave rece i ved-- 4 6 life proposals, assuring the sum of £442,027, k 31 %; bioh 581 proposals have been accepted, ass ur i ng k ii ,' °,29 3, the premiums on which amount t o to v,944 14s 1d ; of these 351 policies have been thtlPleted and issued, assuring the sum of £240,780, I ti e t a unual premiu ms on w hi c h amount to £ 7,7943s 7 d . 1 3 , e be guarantee department 260 proposals have 19 14 received, amounting to £506,755, o f w hi c h k2 o lll 'oposal s have been accepted, amounting to plot 5 5, of these 144 proposals have been com the L and policies issued amount to £135,450, 11/44114ual premiu ms on w hi c h amoun t t o £4,726 hav e d• In the Fire Department the directors 444 , °lll 3r lately commenced b us i ness i n thi s coun t r y, itlle total n um b er o f proposa l s amount to 835 , 4pt l4' e t ti lll -/ g £865,584 10s of which they have ac- I)N i . 8 30 proposals, insuring £857,034, the kakittlAs on which amount to £1,394 ss. 7d.; the total income of the Company for the t* -13 ,91 1 41 e they have be en es t a bli s h e d amount to 11 4 1 ,2 7 s. per annum, a resu lt w hi c h t h ey t hi n k 1'44 - " e lY if ever been obtained by any other cora be the result of the b a l ance - s h eet i s s t ate d to wallyo satisfactory, and shows that after writing t he- ‘ ge St uns for preliminary and other expenses " is a 're cto Profit of 40 p er cen t ., out o f w hi c h t h e ' ap4t,rh, e ra re ommend a dividend of 8 p er cen t. per 1 3 e ( o at :r c of i ncome tax, to b e calculated from eee kt , O f Payment on th e s h ares t o th e 31 st 4 1k1 the buer instant, to be p a id t o th e s h are h o ld ers, ara to of 32 per cent. to be carried for- P a y at the rate of 5 per cent., per annum, `° th,st 3 1 ° the sh are h o l ders for the next half-year ' Q laei e „ . (4ll of June, 1866, and to meet contin- 'l°l It \-u e -I Two o'CLocK. ng to Reut er ' s telegram the 3 per Cent. mark et for nt es were quoted at 68f. 95c. English Stocks has presented a very dull aspect, and quotations have been exceed ingly weak. The settlement of the account to-day in the Funds occupies the principal attention of members. Consols are 871 I for money, and 87:1 for January. The New Threes and Reduced An nuities are 87k; Exchequer Bills 4s. dia. for June ; India 5 per Cents., 102 k ; and Bonds, 14s. prem. American Securities are without material change in value?. United States 5-20 Bonds are 631 64 ; Erie Shares, 574 58 ; and Illinois, 82 1. The dealings in foreign stocks have been few, and the fluctuations unimportant. Turkish Consolides have advanced to 471 48 ; Mexican ex all Bonds have receded f, to 25 1, but the New have improved to 24 1. Greek are 154 161 ; Spanish Passive, 271 28 ; Certificates, 14f 1 ; Confederate Loan, 8 9 ; Brazilian Scrip, 21 prem. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, 711 ; do. 1862, 701 711 ; do. 5 per Cents., 1865, 431 1:; Italian, 641 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 1859, 541; do. sper Cents., 1862, 89f ; and Danu bian 7 per Cents., 75. Business in the Railway Share Market continues inactive, but prices are a shade firmer. Blackwall have improved -1- ; and Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern, each I. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat. Metro politan and Provincial shares have declined to 181 ; London :and Brighton to 49f ; Hudson Bay Company have improved to 15i- ; and Overend, Gurney,, and Company are steady at 21f r ; Colonial Company's shares are quoted 1f 2 prem. ; Commercial Company of Africa, 1 prem. ; Bank of Turkey, 11 21 prem. ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Mortgage Bonds, 1 11 prem. ; the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (old) shares, 31 4 prem. ; ex all and the new issue, 3i 31 prem ; the St. Saviour's Wharf Company (Limited) shares, 1 1 prem. ; the American Oil Wells Trading Company, dis. prem. BRITISH FUNDS-ONB O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 9 3 per Cent. Reduced B7l New 3 per Cent B7 New 31 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 June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 4 die DS. £5OO Do £lOO and £200 Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account ' INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10 per Cent., April 1874 — Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 54 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866• — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS —ONB 0 CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 4/- per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 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 75 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Cgyptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 921-1 Do £lOO Bonds ~ .;reek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account Cxuatemala 5 per Cent. Do XB6 paid Do. 1839 and 1850 'talian 5 per Cent, 1865 Do. Account Do. Maremmana Railway — Do 1865 Do Scrip, .£67i paid — Do 5 per Cent., 1864 — &lexicon 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 23 i 1)0 o per Gent. Anglo-French — Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — gew Granada — Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 — Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Peruvian 41- per Cent Do. Account Do Scrip, .£45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4i per Cent., 1862 Do Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Aceount Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, .£ St — ga Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Da 4i per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 B9l Do 5 per Cent. 1864 — Sardinian 5 per Cent Do Account Spanish 3 per Cent . Ditto account — Do New Deferred — Do Account — Do Passive — Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account l4l ..-- "--"" Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Uurkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account 7ll 1 Do £lOO Bonds — Do. 11 per Cent — Do 6 per Cent. 1862 — Do Account 7ll I 701 Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Scrip, £35 paid Do Account Do .£1(0 Bands — Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 psr Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 ivr Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates — French Rentes 41 per Cent. — lralian 5 per Cent. ,1861, Ex. 25f. — Do Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for money Do. Account, - B7f Liverpool Cotton Market—This ray. Market rather easier. Sales probably 8,000 bales. FRIGHTFUL DISCOVERY.—We thought that the Tories, like the wolves, were extinct—not that any great price would be set, by an economist, on the heads of the former. But it seems that we were in error. The eminent naturalist, Mr. Bright, has discovered that the species is still in existence, and raging. He declares that there are thousands of Tories rampaging about England (and at their leisure electing nearly half the House of Commons) who were hungering and thirsting to undo all the good that has been done for the last 70 years. They are sworn and vowed to achieve certain horrible things which ho enumerates. They are these —To re-enact the Test and Corporation Acts, so that every Dissenter may be turned out of every place of profit. To repeal the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act. To repeal the Reform Act, the Corporations Act, and the Navigation Acts. To reim pose the corn laws, the sugar duties, the newspaper tax, and the paper duty. To abolish the system of national education. To do away with the new tariff. To repu diate the French treaty, and to make church rates and the Irish Church eternal institutions. This is truly awful. We did not know it. As we said, we thought that the old original Tory was extinct, and we did not believe that there existed in England so groat a fool as the man must be who entertains any one single object above stated. If we knew the man we would burst upon him in thunder and lightning. But we do not. Can it be that Mr. Bright has been once more calumniating a large body of his fel low-countrymen merely because they do not agree with him ? This is again an awful supposition—but is it quite without warrant in precedent ?—Punch. DEATH OF MISS TALBOT.—We have to announce the death, on Thursday last, the 30th ult., in London, of this estimable lady, in her 69th year. The deceased, Anne Talbot, was daughter of the late Mr. William Talbot, of Castle Talbot, and sister of the late Countess of Shrews bury. By her death many families of distinction are placed in mourning. Amongst others those of the Princes Bor ghese and Doria Pamphili ; Talbot, Dundas, Annesley, Sir J. Power, Lambert (of Carnagh), Bryan (of Jenkinstown), &c. ter- rday stian it to Lance Lfter d by ks at first gusto. td the royal s of ?rine° being ivn at noble ladles- Paget, )n. 11. unton elected on the ally to to his .er the of the of the )rmous to the [ace at rincess 'd and rd and dy Al ,rd and erkeley Militia finer. nour of guests he aris- allroow ssrs. J. -room, ❑nected bout 10 , 1 s Nor opened Lordship ess the ;hnesses sures of d High had the x-room. ►ntinued one out hounds he even- a select Duchess of Salis- re siden co ridge, as e yoster - DO officers y Louisa e in Port- Lbly good, id Lady of visits, ere cold, Le Cabinet y at the rreaSll l l 9 0 the Lord lo Earl of Earl Do Duke 0 I the Bight :view. itary an d announce, 7opriatelY, Ordinary With t he r words, it m i .. Beet" the pr?" idea to its he British at an tiie and So uth cipal cities it eo oducv , . s of both nee. Mid t ef fi Cienej, l very a ds of N - '" e resPollsl4 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EV ENING, DECEMBER 7, 18b5. 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 [lOO 2 100 100 MEN :SSIONS. b 9 61 102 i 103} idp 61 6 4 10 11 77 F 2 99 101 65 70 101 103 102 103 104 105 31 33 88 90 68 70 54 63 58 60 52 57 47 52 42 47 33 35 32 31 103 105 t I P t I P 1014 1024 17 171. 31 34 b 3 15 8i /7 1 41 1011 1021 94 96 89 91 64 66 82 84 1.014 102 , 1014 1024 lot 102 rT SECUR: 1021 3 1 - 4 31 31i f 104 31 161 17 .ITIES. 44W INTEL LIGENCE —This Day. !.=; • COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. The proceedings in this court during the early part of the day were of a rather unusual character, and caused a great waste of time. In the first place there were three cases set down for hearing before the Lord Chief Justice and special juries, and his lordship took his seat on the bench at 10 o'clock. However, only four jurors were in attendance, and the cases were accordingly struck out of the list. In the next case, which had reference to a disputed bill of Exchequer for £1.50, which presented no feature of general interest, the counsel for the plaintiff was informed that there would be no defence, but, after he had called his witnesses, it appeared that a learned gentle man had been instructed to defend the action, and the hearing of the case was resumed. In two or three other cases either the counsel, witnesses, or solicitors were absent, and the Court came to a dead lock. His Lordship, in regard to one of these cases, said that there were two courts sitting at that moment, and thy had not once case between them, notwithstanding that there were several on the list, and it was disgraceful that the time of the court should bo so wasted. It was desirable that parties should clearly understand that when their cases were on the list for the day they were liable to be called, no matter the order in which they stood. He would set the example of allowing cases to become remanets without necessity, or of the Court rising at half-past 11 o'clock through neglect on the part of persons interested. A case was then proceeded with, and at its conclusion the Court rose. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Beforo Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IS RE J. E. BLAGROVE. This bankrupt was described as a provider of quadrille bands and clerk to a limited company of music publishers, at 201, Regent-street, also residing at 32, Langham-street, Portland-place, and to-day ho applied for the order of dis charge. The debts are £637, and the deficiency £573. Amongst the creditors are several of the band, who had been engaged to play at evening parties; Messrs. Richard and Henry Blagrove, musicians; and Cramer, Wood, and Co. (limited), the cause of the failure being loss by specu lation on a musical tour in 1862. In the absence of oppo sition the order was granted. IN RE SHAKELTON - ANOTHER DIRECTOR OP TILE STRAND MUSIC HALL COMDANY. The bankrupt, who is a director of the unfortunate Strand Music Hall Company (Limited), applied for his re lease from custody, he being a prisoner for debt upon lia bilities incurred for the company. There was no opposition, and "Lis Honour ordered the bankrupt's release. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A BATCH OF JUVENILE PILFERERS.—John Prendergast, 14, Samuel Clark, 14, Thomas Warren, 12, and Charles Pentney, 11, were cjiarged before Mr. Knox with stealing a quantity of tarts, buns, and cakes from the shop of Mr. George J. Fidler, confectioner, 315, Oxford-street. Biustead Webb, 112 C, said that last night he was in Oxford-street in company of Moss, 63 C, when he saw all prisoners, with the exception of Warren, go into the shop of Mr. Fidler. The prisoner Clark then pulled over a case and took out some cakes, and then they all rushed out of the shop and made off. lie succeeded in catching Pentney and Warren, and 63 C took the others. On searching Clark at the station he found upon him a tin shop ticket, with the words " A Penny a Slice " on it, which no doubt had been taken from some other shop, as it did not belong to Mr. Fidler. Miss Fidler, daughter of the prosecutor, said that on the boys seeing her approaching they dropped some of the ar ticles (cakes and buns) and ran out of the shop. Mr. Knox asked whether the parents of the boys were present ? _ _ _ Prendergast's mother said hor boy was an apprentice to a brassfounder and a good boy, and had nevor offended before. The mother of Clark said her boy had a situation. Mr. Knox said he was the worst of the lot, and the ticket from some other shop was found upon him. Pentney's father said his boy was at work ; and Warren' s mother said her boy worked at a saddle-tree maker's, who would speak to his character. _ _ The boys here set upa blubbering, as did also the mother of Warren, and Mr. Knox having ordered them to be taken out of court, said he should like to nee the boys' employers, and if it turned out that the boys' parents had spoken the truth, he might at the end of a week remit them to their parents. He did not wish to do anything harsh towards the boys, but he wanted to know that they were not young thieves about the district, and he should therefcre remand them for a week, but the police might. make inquiries, and the boys' masters might attend. SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. Share) Railways. 'tsnatoi anti Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast Junc Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc E.London, scrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. • Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock Do. B stock Do. New. Is. at 25 pc GtS. and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste. n -Original I) Vd.l. Rail gllft. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newpot t Do. Bei eford Lancashire ,tz Yorkshire Landon and Blackmail Lon., Brigh., & S Coast' Lon., chat., and Davcr 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 Midiand Do. £9 Share Do, tiirmin . Jr Derby vi id Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth . & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. U..N•E purchaet Do. Leeds Do. York DG. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. Jo. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock o. Scot, Mid. stick Shropshire Union South Devon -ouch E stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale or' Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha Went Cornw.ill Closing Paid. price. OSSE 92 94 125 27 94 96 13 15 4i A a 42 71 73 d 113 115 44 i 5 7; ti 1 274 120 147 146 92 0$ 62 /2, 60 62 41 43 40 1 04 108 122 J 23 88 90 104 105 36 38 50 32 125 k :26 96 47 61 6 :36 1:17 3 tipl 1i 1031 10431 124} 125 I li. 2 p 24 £6 , GOI 61i 8' 29 1101 1116 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 94 125/ 6 44 1 i I i 128 71 1471 _ 1231 3) 61} 2 42 I 1221 1 , 88i 94 101 37i 12 961 . 1 (2 13Cf f 10} a 121} I 281 111 i 78 i Business done. BRITISH P At 'antic St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, k Cen.ln. _ . Du. 5 per cent o. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lim Yape Town & Dock, gu 1 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p 1 East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. p.c. 1 Do. J Extension Grand Trunk ot Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds l 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr. f. Bonds Do. do. deterred I D 0..? d Pref. stock. Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c t'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gun. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent Do Great IV, s. of Canada.. D. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1878 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4; do Do. Filth Extension Helb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. Az Hudson's Bay.. N. Itl.C'da, 6pc Ist pt. bs. &ludo ...... Do. Delhi Do. do e L s' Do. Punjaub 1 Do.lndus St. Flo COLONIAL GOFER British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1372.... Can.Gov.6p.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 c. Inscribed sk Cape (..Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct. 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9 Do. Jan. &Jul y. 1890-9 , Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1800 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. I*7B Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. Do. 1895, Feb. & atal Liov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&Jul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,lBa. , Do. 5 p. c. 18;1 to 187.1 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189_ New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova So ,tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aua.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-1 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Ciov. 6 p.C. Ja & July Do. do, A pril & Oct WESTMINSTER. FORTUNATE DETECTION OF A NOTORIOUS TRIEF.—A short active young fellow, who gave the name of Robert Bryant, was placed at the bar charged with attempting to rob a carrier's cart. Police-constable John Babb, 120 B, said be was on duty in Sloane-street, Chelsea, at seven o'clook last evening, and saw the prisoner with three other men walking along together. He was particularly observing them when a cart laden with goods passed, and prisoner and one of the others immediately ran after it. Witness followed, and after proceeding a short distance the prisoner and his com panion got up from behind into the cart, which almost im mediately after stopped. As witness was rapidly advancing towards the cart, the prisoner and his companion jumped out and endeavoured to make their escape, but the accused was captured and taken back to the cart, from which nothing had been taken, as the goods were fastened in, and there was not sufficient time to loose them. Prisoner—lt's all a mistake. I was a quietly looking at a shop window as the policeman comes up and says, "I wants you." I never was near no cart, and hadn't nobody with me. Mr. Arnold- -What is known of the prisoner? Witness—He was convicted for six months for a rob bery in a house less than 12 months ago. Dennis the gaoler—Ho is a well known thief, and has been repeatedly convicted of felony. Mr. Arnold—What do you say to that, prisoner? Prisoner—Well, of course, I've been a little unfortunate. Mr. Arnold - I have no doubt of your intentions last evening. You aro committed to hard labour for three months. THAMES. ROBBERY IN A WAREHOUSE.--George Mitchell, a porter, was charged with stealing two bottles of wine, valued at 10s., the property of the Midland Counties Railway Com pany, at their warehouse, in Royal Mint-street. At four o'clock this morning a watchman, named Thomas Moorcroft, employed at the goods station of the Midland Railway, saw the prisoner in a warehouse there. A bottle of wine was standing against a post. The prisoner took it away. Moorcroft immediately sent for a police-constable, named Samuel Fuller, No. 153 11, who took the prisoner into custody. He saw a cask of wino there that had been spilled. He received a bottle of wine from the last witness. It had been taken from the prisoner. At the station-house the prisoner gave the constable another bottle of wine. The constable returned to the warehouse, and found another bottle of wine had been spiled. The prisoner delivered to Fuller a gimlet and a spile peg, and admitted he had taken the wine. A quart of port and a quart of sherry in square bottles was produced, and Mr. John Walker, an agent of the Midland Counties Railway Company, said the value of it was 10s. Tho prisoner pleaded guilty, and added, " I did not mean to take it off the premises." He was convicted under the Criminal Justice Act, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. LAZY PAUPERS.—George Saunders, aged 37, John Ben nett, 29, Itobt. Evans, 19, and George Townsend, 18, were charged with refusing to perform the task-work allotted to them by the Guardians of Mile-snd Old-town while they were casual inmates of the workhouse. Thomas Moffatt, porter of the workhouse, said that he admitted the prisoners into the casual ward last night. They had a warm bath, and supper and breakfast this morning. They had absolutely good beds to lie upon all night. Ile put them into the stone-yard at half-past 8, and directed them to break up a basket of stones. They all refused, and said they had never broken stones before and would not do so now. The prisoners were all asked if they had anything to say, and each replied in a sullen manner "Nothing." Mr. Partridge—l sentence each of you to 21 days' im prisonment and hard labour. SOUTHWARK. WHOLESALE SMUGGLING ON BOARD A FOREIGN STEAM SHIP.—The first and second engineer and three firemen, of the Schwalbe steamship, trading between Bremen and the Port of London, 'was brought before Mr. Woolrych on information, charged with having concealed in the engine room of that vessel upwards of forty pounds in weight of foreign manufactured cigars and tobacco, such not having been paid the duty for, thereby rendering the ship liable to be forfeited to the Crown, and the prisoners to a £lOO penalty each, or six months' imprisonment. Mr. Beasley, assistant solicitor to the Customs, attended to prosecute. Mr. John Edwin Bent, surveyor to her Majesty's Cus toms in the port of London, said that on the previous day, from information he received, he sent on board the Schwalbe, and entered the engine-room. In one of the oil tanks he discovered sixty-eight pounds of tobacco and nineteen boxes of cigars, all of foreign manufacture. lie communicated with the captain, and the prisoners were sent for and given into custody. Witness, however, did not think that the engineers know of the concealment. Mr. Graves, one of the brokers to the ship, interpreted the evidence to the prisoners, when Mr. George Hewsmas, the captain of the vessel, was called, and he stated that the two engineers were respect able men, and would not have risked their reputation by smuggling tobacco, or the engine man. In fact he was sure they knew nothing about it. As for the other man em ployed in the engine-room, he was fined at this court on Monday for smuggling, and on Tuesday he directed the engineers to make a strict search in the engine-room for contraband goods. There was an unused oil tank in the engine-room, and on carefully searching that they dis covered the tobacco and cigars produced. Witness in stantly communicated with the Customs' authorities, and hence the apprehension of the prisoner. He, however, trusted his worship would releas e th e en g i neers , as hi s vessel loft the port to-day, and he would not be able to ob tain other engineers in time. A consultation then took place among the authorities, when Mr. Beasley consented to the release of the engineers on the captain's security to attend on Monday week. The other prisoners were fined £lOO each or six months imprisonment. The Cattle Plague. DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERNMENT (THIS DAY). A deputation waited upon Lord Granville and Sir Geo. C.rey, this day, at the Privy Council-office, from the Royal Agricultural Society of England, with reference to the existing cattle plague. There were present—Lord Tredegar, Lord Faversham, Lord Walsingham, the Hon. General Hood, Colonel Kings cote, Hon. A. Vernon, Professor Simons, Mr. Holland, M.P., Mr. Arland, M.P., Mr. H. S. Thompson, Mr. Bran dreth Gibbs, Mr. Randell, Mr. Bathroop, and other well known gentlemen. _ Air. IL DARE, the secretary, submitted a string of reso lutions that had been agreed to by the society for arresting the plague. fadGRANVILLE and Sir GEORGE GREY expressed an opinion that the orders in Council already issued were sufficient to meet the case, but said they would further con sider the deputation's prop osals. The proceedings then terminated. AMERICA. (RE UT ER'S EXPRESS.) NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (Noon). Governor Humphreys of Mississippi has sent a message to the Legislature of that State, recommending as a plea sure of vital importance, and as a means of relieving the State •of - national troops, the passage of laws admittjng negro testimony in the courts, affording the freedmen pro tectiedidell their rights, giving encouragement to their industry, assisting in the education of their children, and taxing them for the support of their own vagrants and helpless persong. President Johnson has replied to Governor Humphrey's request that the national troops be 'withdrawn from the State, that they will be withdrawn as soon as it becomes manifest that peace and order can be maintained without them. The Legislature of Alabama met at Montgomery on the 22d inst. Governor . Parson's message was read to the body. It recommends the ratification of the anti-slavery amendment to the national constitution, the passage of laws for the protection of negroes in their person and pro perty, and for the punishment of vagrants, black or white. Several of the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau have officially called attention to the fact that great suffering will probably exist among the negroes during the approach ing winter, and that the mortality among them is fearful and increasing. In one district 100 died out of a body of less than 4,000 within six months. The mortality among the children and the aged is particularly great. There have been no further developments in regard to the ru moured tendency towards insurrection on the part of the blacks, but in Louisiana all negroes arrested are generally found to be armed. It was apprehended that they might become troublesome about Christmas. An order was issued yesterday from the War Depart ment by direction of the President, notifying all claimants for the rewards offered by Government for the apprehen sion of Jefferson Davis and the assassination conspirators, that they must file their claims at the Adjutant-General's office before the Ist of January next, and also announcing the revocation of the rewards offered for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, Beverley Tucker, George N. Sanders, and William C. Cleary, Confederate agents in Canada, and John H. Surratt, suspected of complicity in the murder of President Lincoln. Jame i s IL Seddon, ex-Confederate Secretary of War ; ex-Governor Magrath, of South Carolina ; and ex-Gover nor Lubbock, of Texas, have been released on parole. The Secretary of the Interior informed the Commis sioner of Patents that he has been instructed by the Presi dent that no patent rights are to be granted to residents of the lately insurgent States unless applicants furnish good proof their loyalty. The President has approved the sentence of death passed by court-martial in Georgia upon two white soldiers for the murder of a coloured woman. The Rev. George B. Cheever, one of the most prominent abolition clergymen in the country, at a lecture in his church in this city last Thursday evening, made a most violent assault upon the course adopted by President Johnson, n ith whom he declared the Northern people were greatly dissatisfied, and who was acting as though ho owned the country and could do with its inhabitants as he pleased. The speaker further declared that Mr. Johnson acted more like a counsel for the rebels than Pregident of the United States, and that public opinion, which had long been suppressed, would soon be heard against him. Sir Frederick Bruce has consented to act as umpire of the commission appointed for the settlement of the claims of the United States against New Grenada, growing out of the riots at Panama in 1856. The Prussian Minister at Washington has, in behalf of his Government, preferred charges against the authorities of the State of Massachusetts for having, by fraud and compulsion, induced Prussian emigrants to enter military service to fill the quota of that State. A military commis sion, composed`of Major-Generals Hitchcock, Mott, and Williams, has been appointed to investigate the charges. The news from Mexico is even more than usually con tradictory. The recent report that the Imperialists had abandoned the Northern States and were concentrating at Mexico; Vera Cruz, and San Luis Potosi, to await the arrival of reinforcements, is effectually contradicted. Vera Cruz dates to the 13th inst. state that Michoacan and Oajaca had been cleared of Republicans and guerillas, and that a force of 600, under General Guzman, had been cap tured, and the leader shot in accordance with the recent decree by Maximilian. The Emperor had appointed Gen. J. B. Magruder, late of the Confederate Army, Surveyor- General of Colony Lands. El Paso advices to the 20th October state that Juarez and his Cabinet were still there, but would soon leave, as two French columns were moving upon the place. The inhabitants of the region around El Paso were very heavily taxed, having to defray the entire expenses of the Juarez Government. General Mijia held Matamoras on the 15th November. The Republicans were, however, still menacing the place, though not in formidable force. It is rumoured, by way of New Orleans, that Federal Gene ral Weitzel had refused to deliver to Mejia a steamer cap tured by the Juarists above Matamoras, and that the Re publicans had suddenly raised the siege of Matamoras in consequence of the approach of a large French force. TBE FENIAN TRIALS. DUBLIN, Wednesday. O'Leary was found guilty to-day on all the counts, and was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. He made an address. The Government, he said, had found no difficulty in getting a jury to convict. He accused Mr. Barry, Q.C,, of morally assisting him, pointing to h;ln as that " miserable man." Judge Keogh had said that informers' were easily bought by the Government with money, but agitators "made the best bargain." A traitor had been placed by Dante in the lowest hell ; but it was the traitor who betrayed king, country, friends, and benefactors. He was no traitor, England was not his counfry, and he had betrayed no friends or bene factors. . O'Donovan (Rossa) was put forward, but certain documents having been withdrawn from him by the governor of the gaol which were necessary to his defence, the trial was postponed. Moore, the black smith who made the "rods," was then arraigned. THE RUBY.—The most valuable of all jewels is the ruby. This precious stone depends upon its colour, as we have said before, for its value. The ruby, sapphire, and oriental topaz are composed of identically the same materials ; the red sapphire is a ruby, the blue ruby a sapphire, the yellow ruby a topaz. They are all termed corundums, an Indian name. The ruby is the next hardest thing in nature after the diamond. The finest rubies are found in the kingdom of Ava, and in Siam; they are also found in Ceylon and in many parts or Europe. The King of Burmah takes one of his titles from it, that of " Lord of the Rubies." In Burmah they are a royal monopoly, and none of any value aro allowed to leave the kingdom. The finding of a fine ruby is made a state event, and a procession of grandees, with ' soldiers and elephants, are sent out to meet it. The colour varies from pale rose to deep red, but the tint that is most highly valued is that of the " pigeon's blood."—Onco a Week. BOILING DOWN DISEASED CATTLE.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Hatcham was held last evening, for the purpose of getting the suppression of a nuisance which now exists at the Hatcham Mills by boiling down diseased cattle. Several vestrymen of Camberwell were present. A number of speakers, principally working men, addressed the meeting, describing the injury they had suffered from the smells from the mills, and a medical gen tleman stated that the effluvia front the boilers would be likely to cause much disease and fatality in the neighbour hood. Ultimately a deputation, consisting of working men, was appointed to wait upon the Privy Council, to ask redress. The Earl of Lonsdale has left his residence on Carlton-house-terrace for Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Sir David Brewster on Patent Rights. -~- In opening the session of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on Monday night, Sir David Brewster stoutly defended patent rights. In the course of his address he said—The present raid against the patent laws is the direct and acknowledged result of the ungenerous influence of trade. The shortness of the tenure of patent rights, and the heavy- tax levied from inventors, are expressly maintained in order to diminish the number of patents ; and the avowed reason for thus diminishing them is, that from their number and frivolity they interfere with the opera tions of tradesmen and manufacturers, by exposing them to actions for infringement. That there are many patents not remunerating, and not immedi ately beneficial, is painfully true, when we consider how much they have cost the sanguine inventor. That there are any patents really frivolous or use less, in the true sense of these terms, can be main tained only by ignorant or interested parties. There is no patent that does not contain a proposal to do something that is new, or to make some improve ment upon what is old; and there are many examples of apparently useless patents containing the germs of future and valuable inventions. There are cases even in which the invention stigmatised as useless has proved to be an essential element in a future patent, where the new patentee has piratically used it, and dared to complain that he had been prosecuted for infringement. But there is a still more intelligible reason why no patent can be called useless. In bringing it into the market workmen are employed and materials purchased ; and even if the process, instrument, or machine thus offered to the public has no sale and no useful application, the hapless patentee has given liberal fees to several functionaries of the State, and contributed nobly to the patent fund. That any patent is frivolous and injurious , in -the sense of interfering with the func tions of honest traders, is simply untrue. ,jf an in vention which has been patented at the cost of £175, and produced nothing in return, is a neces sary part of an important invention subsequently patented, it is a positive proof that patents appa rently frivolous may be truly valuable. The first invention is, therefore, neither an obstacle to im provements nor a ground for litigation. It has, on the contrary, led to a greater invention ; and whe ther the second patentee has used it ignorantly or ad visedly, he ought to pay for the use of it, instead of pleading in a court of law, as he generally and dis honestly does, that the original specification is de fective. But even if the cases of interfering with pa tents were more numerous than they are, and more fertile in litigatian, is is the lawgiver, and not the inventor, that is to blame. If Parliament, in its wisdom, cannot reconcile the interests of paten tees and honest tradesmen but by robbing the for mer, they overlook the fundamental law in social economy, that no great improvement can be made in the arts of life, and no true reform in our institutions, without interfering with a var i e ty o f i nterests. In proposing to abolish patent rights, its promoters seem to have wholly overlooked the international interests that are at stake. If we .have no patent law, we deprive every foreigner of his existing right to a British patent. Foreign Governments may there fore adopt a policy of retaliation, and refuse to our countrymen the patent rights which they now so freely enjoy ; or, what is more probable, they may hold out additional privileges to our ingenious arti sans, and thus obtain the first fruits of their skill. Inventors will follow their inventions, and in the exodus to foreign countries—to the United States, especially, with its cheap and judicious patent laws— we shall lose, more rapidly than we have yet done, the most ingenious of our inventors, and the most useful of our citizens. A policy like this, so Boeotian in its character, and-so injudicious in its results, is as politically unsafe as it is socially unwise and per sonally unjust. Rights that have been firmly estab lished and long enjoyed are not readily abandoned. Illiberal and oppressive as the patent laws are, they are still the Magna Charta of the commonwealth of inventors, and in an age tending to democracy they will not be surrendered without a struggle. Rights hitherto unquestioned, and not more sacred, may be exposed to the same scrutiny, and social interests endangered with all classes have been accustomed to respect and defend. If these views of patent rights be just, and if, as movable property-, they are as sacred as copyrights, there can be no just reason why they should not be granted equally cheap, given to every applicant, and enjoyed during at least the life of the patentee. Wages in the Carpet Trade. - A short time back reference was made to the annual meeting of the Power-loom Brussels Carpet Manufacturers' Association, which was held at Shrewsbury on the Ist of last month. A deputation on the part of the weavers attended that meeting, on the invitation of their employers, and trade questions were entered upon in a manner so tempe rate as to inspire the men with confidence in the as sociation. The leading subject which came under discussion was the regulation of the supply of labour to the carpet power-looms in a manner such as would fairly meet the wants of a growing trade, with its increased need of weavers. It appears that hitherto no one has been allowed to take a loom till 21 years of age. The " creel" boys employed in the carpet mills have consequently, when about 17 or 18, been induced to look elsewhere for higher wages, the de mand of the labour market being met by absorbing the old hand-loom weavers of the locality, and ad mitting those who had been creel" boys after they had passed their 21st year, if they were then in clined to resume work in a carpet manufactory. The hand-loom weavers have now been almost entirely brought into the power-loom trade, and it is there fore becoming necessary to make some arrangement for the admission of those who, growing up in the subordinate branches of the work, may reasonably look for employment at the looms as years pass on. After some discussion and explanations as to the apprenticeship system in other trades, the weavers then present intimated that an ad vance of their wages would be acceptable, and upon this the manufacturers determined to consider both these subjects fully. A committee of six power loom firms, appointed at that meeting, have since gone carefully into these questions, and their report has had the cordial and unanimous assent of the other members of the Association. As a result of this a meeting was held at Kidderminster, on Fri day evening, when the manufacturers present were met by a corresponding number of their workmen. The chairman (Mr. Brinton) announcecl , to the weavers that, upon a fair and candid r6View . of the wages - question, and the question of the labour supply, the manufacturers had decided to make such alterations as the state of the trade and due regard for the claims of the weavers allowed. The altera tions would embrace an entire revision of the prices now paid, and an advance in most of those paid for special widths and qualities of power-loom work, and for loom changes, and particular alterations:- the object of the association being to place the weavers' remuneration for special kinds of work on a just footing with the ordinary sorts, and also to constitute a uniformity of payments, as far as pos sible, throughout the entire Brussels power-loom trade. It was further stated that a general advance of a farthing per yard, equal to 12i per cent. upon the present list, would be given on all qualities of work from the Ist of January. The alterations also include the introduction to the trade of such a moderate number of apprentices and of adult hands as might be necessary, and, in the judgment of the Association, fair and reasonable. A printed list, drawn up under the supervision of the committee of the association (whose labours the weavers present gratefully acknowledged) will be issued in a few days, and will contain the new prices and regula tions which come into force at the beginning of the new year. On the following day the weavers of Kid derminster set the bells ringing in honour of what had occurred, and the inhabitants generally seem gratified, as well as surprised, at the way in which the manufacturers have dealt with their workpeoplo. —Birmingham Post. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES SULLIVAN.—The death of Sir Charles Sullivan took place on Sunday last at his residence in Montcomb-street, Belgrave-square. The late baronet was born in 1820, and succeeded his father as fourth baronet in 1862. 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Anglo Egyptian, lim., 131 Australasia, 64 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China 24 & Consolidated Bank, Dm., 191 English Joint Stock, lim., 11 Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto. new, 16i Imperial Ottoman, 15i London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 141 London and Brazilian Mtn.), 49j London and County, 79} London Joint Stock, 5( Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 181 Ditto (£2o', 181 Scinde, Punjaun, and Delhi, lim., Union jof London, 532 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 82 MISCELLANEOUS. Ceylon Company, 10i Commercial Union, Insurance, 74 Credit leoncier and Mobilier of I , ..ngland. Ditto, issued at a prem., of which £2 is to pay, 3/ I East Indian Land Credit and Finance, lim., 12 Egyptian Com and Trading, Dm., 21 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., Ilf Hong Kong and China Gas, II; Hudson's Bay, MI Joint Stock Discount, Um., 91 London General Omnibus Company. lim., 81 Mil!wall Freehold Land and Dock, 41 National Discount k.ompany. Overend, Gurney, and Co., Dm.. 211 / Royal Mail Steam, 11.* Thames and Mersey (marine) Insurance, lim., 811 The Price of Gold. The ()notation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mile pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of i7s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By adviccs from Hamburg the price of gold is 424. er marl and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 st(rlin,. Standard gold at the Eng lish Mint price is, there:ore, at about the same price in London and fiaraburg-,. The couree of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is it Si to IC9 per cent. At these rates there is no profit on the importation of go d from the United States. The Duke of Rutland has arrived in Paris from England. The Right Ron. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., the newly-appointed Secretary for Ireland, will leave town on Saturday, accompanied by Frances Countess Waldegrave, for Dublin, to enter upon his official duties. STATE OF TRADE. LEICESTER, Dec. 6.—The demand for hosiery is slackening, as is always the case at the end of the year. Manufacturers are, however, tolerably well engaged in . the warehouses, and completing. orders on hand. in the country districts there is an ave rage amount of business doing. Worsted yarns are quoted at high rates, with a firm market. There is no material change in the price of cotton yarns. The wool market is firm, at high rates. NorrlNGlum, 6th.—There is a further falling off in the demand for lace goods this week, and business will be quiet to the end of-the week. Cotton goods of most descriptions sell very slowly. The plain trade is extremely quiet, and the fancy branch is also dull. Buyers purchase only for immediate re quirements. In the silk department there is no im provement. Black laces meet a slow inquiry, and the narrow edging trade remains depressed. Silk commands exceedingly high prices. The hosiery trade continues very active for the time of the year. Most branches are well engaged, and the operatives are in full work. Yarns are firm, at high rates. BOW-STREET—Yesterday. Anak, the giant, who has been performing at the St. James's - Hall, appeared yesterday before Mr. Vaughan, the sitting magistrate, in answer to a summons for an assault. In consequence of a ruse of the Bow-street reporter, who stated that the case would not come off before to-morrow, the ceurt was mostly filled by the policemen of the Division. It appeared that two gentlemen called upon the giant for the settlement of - some trivial account, when he un ceremoniously lifted them in his arms, and carried them out of the house as if they had been children. This was the assault complained of. The magistrate, after a patient investigation, dismissed the case, telling them that they had their remedy in the county court. Anak then bowed to the magistrate and retired. SHIPPING INT4LIGE . NCE—This day. 4.-. 2 - •(BY TELEGRAPH.)' GRAVESENb, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Ann Margaretha, from. Randers ; Vigo, from Groningen ; John Bull, from Montreal ; Trident, from Hamburg. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed, Dec. 6—Amy (schooner), from St. Michael's; Caroline (schooner), from Marseilles ; Helenor (bark), John Bull, and Commerce (bark), from Montreal ; Creswell (bark), from Colombo; Ocean Sprite (bark,) from Falkland Is lands; Amelia (ship,) from Belize—all for London. Passed, Dec. 7.—tialdavia, (ship,) from Marco; Bertha, from Sydney ; Maria Pia, from Lisbon ; Pegasus (screw steamer), from China ; Mignonette (bark), from the west —all for London ; M. A. Stephenson, from London, for Buenos Ayres. Anchored.—lcon, from London, for Cape of Good Hope, RETURN OF THE SHENANDOAII TO LIVERPOOL. The notorious ex-oruiser of the Confederates— the Shenan doah—which left Liverpool about three weeks ago for New York, arrived most unexpectedly in the Mersey yesterday, when everybody supposed that she would be all safe in New York harbour. She appeared to be in a very strained and damaged condition, and without sails, all having been blown away in a fierce gale she encountered on the 23d of November in lon. 25, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane from the north-west. The Shenandoah suffered so severely from the effects of this gale that Captain Freeman, her commander, an old and experienced officer, judged it ad visable to return at once to Liverpool and refit. THE ACCIDENT ON THE VALE OF NEATH RAIL WAY.— The bodies of the engine driver and stoker have been found, and an inquest has been adjourned to Friday next. Another signalman, named Charles Bartlett, has been taken into custody on a charge of neglect of duty on the morning of the accident, he being the signalman at the New Cut-bridge, which is a short distance from the bridge where the accident took place. He was taken before the magistrates on Tuesday and remanded. The rubbish in the float has now been pretty well cleared, and traffic has been partially resumed. The Dublin Express says there are at the disposal of the Government in Ireland about 10,000 men of all arms comprising 1,260 artillery, with 48 Armstrong gnus, 2,280 cavalry, and nearly 7,000 infantry—which can be augmented, if necessary, by the Royal Engineers and Mili tary Train. The following paragraph is going the round of the French journals : " h Archteological discoveries are nu merous in the present day. An Italian collector, return ing from Egypt, has brought back the statue of no loss a personage than Potiphar's wife. An inscription on the base leaves no doubt as to its authenticity. The features are said to be exceedingly ugly." D EAU' OF CAPTAIN PO KE. aptain Fowke, R.E., the architect of the Exhibition building, 1862, died suddenly on Tuesday. Ho was a distant relative of the Fowkes, baronets, of Lowseby Hall, county of Leicester, and was born about the year 1824. He was educated at Woolwich, obtained his first commission in the engineers n 1842, and attained the rank of captain in 1854. FRENCH SAVINGS BANKS.—The Minister of Agri culture, Commerce, and Public Works has addressed to the Emperor a report on the operations of those esta blishments during the year ending Dec. 31, 1864. From this document, which fills nearly six columns of the Moni teur, it appears that the number of these banks in France was 492 at the end of 1864, seven new ones having been founded during the year. The total assets of the savings banks from all sources, after deducting expenses of admi nistration, amounted at the end of 1864 to 12,688,420 f. (rather over half a million sterling), being an increase of 650,195 f. over those of 1863. The number of depositors on Jan. 1, 1864, was 1,471,509, and 239,326 new accounts were opened during the year, while 156,684 were closed; so that the total number on the 31st December last was 1,554,151 being an increase of 82,804 accounts, or nearly six per cent. For all France there is one depositor to every 24 inhabitants; 28 departments exceed or equal this average, and 61 fall short of it, the highest proportion being in the Seine, where there is one depositor to every seven inhabi tants, and the lowest in La Vendee, where there is only one to 329 inhabitants. Though the total of accounts had greatly increased, there was a diminution of 468 in Paris, 400 at Lyons, 503 at Marseilles, and of smaller numbers in seven other places. The deposits received during the year amounted to 175,623,724 f., Which, with the balance of 447,871,5131. from the preceding year, and interest accrued, make the grand total of 639,744,417 f.; from which must be deducted accounts paid off and sums invested in Rentes, 177,668,902 t; leaving a balance of 462,075,515 f. due to de positors on the 31st of December last. As compared with the preceding year the balance has increased 11,098,2011., or about 345 per cent. The average sum owing to each depositor for all France was 297 f. 34c. in 1864, against 304 f. 46c. in 1863. This average is exceeded in 64 depart ments. The number of accounts under 500 f. is 1,172,361 ; from 500 f. to 800 f. 185,976 ; from 800 f. to I,ooof. 110,550; and above I,ooof. 85,264. Of the depositors, 85,099 are workpeople, 38,698 domestics, 11,305 shopmen and clerks, 7,174 soldiers and sailors, 54,997 of divers trades and pro -41,735 minors, and 318 benefit societies. fessions, A CARD-SIIARPER IN COURT.--At Port Glasgow, on Thursday, a man named George Thomson, who had " fleeced* an Irishman of £55, was charged with gambling in a railway carriage between Paisley and Port Glasgow. A colloquy between Thomson and the Bench is thus reported by the Glasgow Herald:—" Upon the in dictment being read, Provost Read said—Well, what have you to say to the charge ? Panel—Well, your Honour, I have just to say that I am guilty of gambling in the train. Provost—What is your business? Are you a general dealer in cards ? Panel—No, your Honour, I am a dealer in flats Provost—Did you make any money that night? Panel— Yes ; a few pounds—the matter of a £lO note ; but that is nothing. Provost —The man who has lost the money has said you got a £5O note instead of a £5. Panel—There is some talk about its being a fifty, but I do not think it was anything of the kind. Men are not so foolish as to hand out a fifty instead of a five; however, I will soon know what it was. Provost —I su pp ose y ou could show it now ? 'We will be able to tell you what it is. Panel— Indeed, I cannot, because I lost it almost as soon as I got it. A party in the carriage won it from me —one f of the gentlemen who travel with me has it ; but the is, on my word o f honour—ah ! you ma y smile, b u it is a fact, I have such a thing, and I pride myself on my h onour —it is all a fib about it being a £5O. Bailie Lang—The dupes that are taken in by you are to blame as well as you. They play to win, and to a certain extent are deserving of what they get. Panel — Now, that i s th e r ight way to put it. Whoever heard tell of a man pl ay i ng the pa island I never to lose? And when a man plays he is just as b a d as we nt t hoy found oom e from, and There is a saying that an Irishm an i s very witty and 'Theyr pretty n w r i e d a e l i a t N y v a a k r e e , as but g r f e o e r n my as and should all be termed the green 'uns.' Provost—This poor Irishman loft his wits at home, but took his purse with him. You know that, I suppose ? Fined 40s. with 80s. of expenses, 'which was at once paid. Provost—Now my advice is, to give up this line of business and become an honest man. You must feel very much being placed in this position. Although you don't look like a flat, still, if you have any of the honour you talk about left you must feel to face a man after you have done him out of his money. Panel (putting his hand into his pocket and taking out three cards)—ls there no possibility of me getting as much as will take me to Glasgow ? I don't like to walk. Provost (laughing)—There is no chance of your doing anything in that line here. The walk to Glasgow will do you. good, and possibly you may meet with a few flats on the road. Panel—l dare say the only flats I would meet would be the soles of my boots, and I am not flat enough to walk them off my feet. This town has a flat appearance, so there must be a good many here, and I will just wait for au hour or so. The card-sharper then left the court. 20i 10 100 1 100 100 100 1 , 0 100 100