The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

NONEYMARKET AND COMMEROULL iNTEL.LIGItv TWELVE O'CLOCK. Yesterday there was very little demand for money, and business throughout the City was languid. Gold amounting to £92,000 was taken to the Bank of England, and 10,000 sovereigns withdrawn for E g y p t . There is nothing further in connection with mone tary and commercial affairs to comment upon this the height of the Christmas holiday season. The Hop and Malt Exchange and Warehouse Company (Limited) have removed their offices from 8 , Southwark-chambers, to the permanent building In Southwark -street, Borough. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. SATURDAY. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. alder Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 10 B9l 3 per Cent. Reduced BBl 9 1 ~1 10v 7 3 per Cent B9 81 91 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. fo r 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — I '' chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 p er Cent 6lO pm Do £5OO 71 6 10 Do pmm £lOO Sc £2OO 6 10 p Bank of England Stock, 61 per e Cent •„ — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ludiau otock 101 per Cent., April 1874... Account Do. for — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 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. rj e b., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO 25 pm Do under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. SATURDAY. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 72 Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent _ Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 — DO Account 7of 1 1 , Do. £lOO Bonds — zuenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do. .4 ecount Do 4100 Bonds — DJ 2 Du t ii an 6 per per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cent Do. 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A lOOl Do. ~ B Colombian, 6 per Cent. Pubs, 6 per Cent. vanish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 5 per Cent., Danubian Principalities L , 0 0. Account t .quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do.. Provisional Land Warrant — Do .Defened 4 SYptian 7 per Cent B3l 4 f Do., Second Issue B3f DO £lOO Bonds .., Do. 1864 B4 31 1, 0 £lOO Bonds B4 Do. Government Railway Debentur es B5l 1 i G reek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupon, )0 Account , Jo. Coupons kr tatem a l a 5 per Cent. — It Dan 5 per Cent 1 8 6 5 Do. Account Do. Maremmana Railway —.nexicaL 3 per Cent 0 0. Account Dn. 1864 „Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Kew 6 per Cent. „Qaoorish Imperial 5 per Cent `‘e'w Granada Da 3 per Con Do. Deferred P Do Lat i d Warrants (Hectares) 'eruvian 5 p er Cent., 1865 D 0 Account 7Ol po 41 D ° 41 p p er Cent., 1862 er Cent. (Uribarren) 0 0 Account Portsguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cont., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 0 0. Account no issian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7 Do 41 per Cent. 1850 po 41 per Cent., 1860 ,D 0 3 per Cent. 1859 . 1 - 1 0 5 p Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid — Do. do. £lO paid — tartlittian 5 per Cent 0 0. Account "'Panish 3 per Cent 90 Account ' ,O New Deferred — DO Account DO Passive k 0 0 Accaunt 2Ol 1 'Panish Cert. of Coup not funded — S W edish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 T 0 0. Scrip, £6O paid 1. arkiSh 6 per Cleat. 1854 — 130 . Account Do 6 per Con . .. 1858 13 , 0 . Account Do £lOO Bo n d s -- ,u 0 6 per Cent. 1862 DO Accoun' Do £lOO B on d s '' - ' 0 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cont., 1865 . A.ccount v 6 4 41ezuel pa 3 perer Cent Cent. . Guaranteed — 991 DO Account — 4') 1306 per Cent., 1862 — Account D°• 6 per C en t , 1864 — D:.' - - -- , itto 1:1 per Cent. al Dividends on the above payable i n Lond on . 44 84 • an, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins ` 4+ per cent., Ex. 25f. I ,‘ch 2-Ir per Cent. Ex. 12 Gu 57 " 0 . 4 Per Cent. Certific,ates il I,l'nch 3 ltentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. 'llia), per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. °. 5 per Cent. Account ssf TWO O'CLOCK. Money B9l Account, Jan. B9i 90 ORDER O 1 SUICIDE IN NORFOLK N orfolk, dreadful incident w a s revea l e d a t P os t w ick, ' o rfolk, on Sunday. It appears that Mr. Robin aoll,• an upholsterer, of Pottergate-street, Nor .ichi went down t o th e G rea t E as t ern R a il way L ' a tion with his wife at a ver y early hour on 'aturday for the purpose of taking l eave o f 116 of th e i r c hild ren. O n quitting the rail ,.° 1 , 4 Y station Mr. R o bi nson seems t o h ave h ur - I :edly left his wife, and he was not seen any more any of his relati v es an d f r i en d s d ur i ng S atur- Y. c 4 About 11 o'clock on S un d a y th e d ea d b o d y - `a Man was found in a field at P os t w i c k , a v ill age abo ut four miles from NOrwich. The corpse was fi lit lg in a little h o ll ow , so th a t i t was not read i ly e t', and whe n it was di scovere d i t was qu i te cold fland stiff. Th ere were some d rea df u l woun d s at t h e ick of th e h ea d , w hi c h appeare d to have been in betecl by a large flint stone, which was found clOse Y . ) and which was covered with blood. Various ha rts of th e b o d y were a l so smeare d w i th b lood, but bge clothes of the deceased do not appear to have : e ll torn, and 3s. 6d. was found in his pockets. It be aa at first supposed that a barbarous murder had , o e ti Committed, and great excitement p reva il e d i n t 'sequenc e in the neighbourhood. b e lle int e lli gence o f t h e occurrence seems to have a? 4 th us rece i ve d at the parish church, the result It ig that at the co nc l us i on o f th e morn i ng serv i ce the the w h o l e o f t h e congregat i on proceeded to e , lB Pot where the body h a d b een di scovere d . co in the course of the day Mr. Athill, deputy chief to listable of the Norfolk county police, went down ei t he village and made minute inquiries into the f li ten mstances. While he wa s pr o ceeding w ith th e h, v , est igation it transpired th a t a commun i ca ti on ;tci b een made about th e m i ss i ng man, an d a person i ir t le forward and identified the corpse as that of tea : Robinson. A f ew art i c l es found upon the de )ll,,ecl 'were also shown to M rs . R o bi nson, w h o was 1144e.b affected by them, at once identifying them as 1 : 41 g belonged to her husband. the tnedical gentleman who was called in to examine th at lv °unds of the deceased expressed an opinion they might h ave b een se lf-i n fli c t e d , so t h at the t,laleral conclusion no w a d o pt e d i s th a t th e poor h ti Perished by his own hand. It is stated that he ad Of f or some time past been in a desponding state ca u ttlill d, although th ere appears t o h ave b een no : r e for his d e p ress i on o f sp i r i ts. 1 f ' rB . Robi n s on b e li eves t h at w h en h er h us b an d fit t her on Saturday morning he had not his watch hi a him, and that he had only a few shillings in Pockets. • Th th esl cltiotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and exchange on London is 25.176 p er £1 sterl i ng. un these rates with the English Mi n t pr i ce of - ‘tio,,-14. Per o unce f or standard gold, it appears that gold is 41* t he Same p r i ce i n L ondon and Paris. br . 24. cis this rincesS e Hon. rincess out. me on Colo f Good De settle- n yes- y Will ng the Lady t fro►n ed to , Clon- vn on f the ote i o the inary Cates. wing SHARE MARKETS, Share! Railways. it 113natol and Exetir.:: ;t (Caledonian ....... .... 85`87 118 120 40 45 it Cambrian. Cork and Bandon :0 Cornwall al It Dublin & Belfast June l O, ;t Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc iri 10 &London, acrip Certi 1 ) 0 . 161 It i;lawow S. Western 10 t Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. to ,t Do. E. Angl. et. No. 2 10 t Great North of Scotland 1 ▪ Great Northern. 11 4 8 10 85 68 i 0 70 72 1 4 16 27 28 5 ti at Do. A stock io at Do. B stock lO Do. New, Is. at 25 pm 10 at Gt S, and W. of Ireland 10 at Gt. Western -Origina It. at Do. S. Val. Rail. gu 10 at Do. South Wales st Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 101 at Do. Newport . 10 at Do. Hereford ........ 10 at Lancashire & Yorkahir 10 at London and Blackwall 10 st Lon., Brigh., & S Coas 10' at Lon., Chat., and Dove 10 at Do. Metrop. Ex. A.. 101 at Lull. & North Western 10 , st Lon. & South Western I at Man., Shet., & Lincoln, 1 at Metropolitan 10 Do. New 10 10 1 1(8 1:7 10 I 120 125 )O 9O $2 0 sit 62i Do. Extension ifej o ropofi c l o an Di d s o trict. .0 Do. and St. John'sW'd at ISlid:and I 101 9 Do. L 9 Share st Do, Birniin.. & Derby 101 26 %lid Kent . st North British ...... et Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. l( st Nth. Eastern—Berwiok i 1( 26 Do. G.N•.E parohasei 16. at Do. Leeds st Do. York.. it Do. Carlisle ..... lol :5 Do. Stock. do Darling al l 0 Do. do. 1860 - 6 1 ll it North London Do. do. 1864 5 Do. do. 1866 . at North Staffordshire 10 t N. dc S. W. Junction .. al . . 25 Scottish Central s t Scot. N. E . Aber. stock 10 , uo. Scot. Mid. stack lO ■t Shropshire Union st ioutia Devon et South Eastern itaines, Wok., & Wok it raw Vale 10( ig tg :I 11 8 9 e 160 153 :-, 3 4; ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 2VI 81 1127 i I 8 7 115 i 15t 124 J I I ill I 85j 6 36 i 1061 61 66 99a 9 Of i i i 81 Paid) Closing I Business i 1 Price. I done. 117 ]• 74 tif 524 If 2 119 18& 191 it 2é 3 121/ 21 n 2 81 Do. C it Vale of heath it Waterford /it Kilkenny 10 10 Waterloo & Whiteha it West Cornwall loi BRITISH MOSS Atlantic& St. Lawrence a, Bora.,Baroda,,,Cen.ln. 10 gu. 5 per cent :0 Do. F shares ll :04 Buffalo & Lake Huron al tO Do. Preference 100 Butt,Brant,&Goderich 6 pe. 1872-3- i..• -••• • 10( at Calcatta & S. E., lim lOl at ai e Town & Dock, gu 10( 00 Demerara, 7 p.e. per. p at it , :ast. Bengal, gu., sdo 101 't East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 10( :0 Do. J Extension It at •irandTrunkof Canada 101 t• Do. Equip. Mort, Bond" 1 charge 6 p.c al vu Do. Ist Pref. Bonds at too Do. do deferred •• al Lou De. 2d Pr, f. Bonus at, Lou Do. do. deferred ..• • at] tOO Do. 3d Pref. stook lll 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. lth Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deterred .. • • at at Gt. I udiA Pen. gua. sp.c. tot O. flue. 5 per cent it 2o Do. New gua. sp. 0.. 1 at Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent at D 4i per cent l o' 81 Do 204 great W(.s. Cif Canada al' 204 Do. New .. .00 Do. 6p. o Bt.e. pay. 1873 al (0C Do. 5i do. pay. 1877-8.. al' 10 fndian Branch, limited et Madras, gua. 5 p.o 101 at Do. 4i do lOl st Do. 44 do 10( 20 Do. Fifth Extension at 31elb. Cor. 6p. c. Body, 101 50 Mel. t Hudson's Bay al st N.R l •C'cla,6pc let ptbs 101 at Scinde ...... It at Do. Delhi 20 Do. do . • et Do. Punjaub.... 1 , et Do.lndue St.Floti COLONIAL GO VER: British Columbia, 6 per Cent.,..1.)e0.31, 1872 10, Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 1 O. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 101 00. 5 p. C. Jan. & July 10 , Do. sp. c. inscribed as 101 Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 101 Do.Apl.& Oct 1890-1900 101 Do. do 1880-1, , 101 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 101 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOl Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p lOl Do. 1878, du lOl Hauritius, ft p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. 00. 1882, Mayls, N0v..5 104 Do. 180, Feb. dt Aug lOl Natal •iov. 6 per cent lOl N. B.Gov. p.c.Ja.&.July 101 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866 104 Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1876 10( Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 10( New Zealand, 6p. cent 10( Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. o sterling, 1875 l9l Queensland Gov. 6p. c 10( 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c. 1868-9 101 Do. 1878 & upwards lll Vlo,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 101 Do. do, April & Oot.. 1r BRITISH z Cam. Consol. Gold, - Chiverton - Clifford Amalgamated 3l - Devon G. Cons. (Taoist - Drakewalls 2.1 - East Bassett (Illogan) 2 - East Caradon 2.1 - East earn Brea - East Grenville - East Gunnislake .. 8.3 - East Loved 3.9 - E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.1 - Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 61 4 Great L4xey, limited., al - Great South Tolgus., - Great Wheal Busy 14.. - G. Wheal Vor iHelst .t, 41 - Grenville B.l - flerod's Foot 8 1 •••• - llingston Downs 5.1 - Margaret iUny Lelant 13.1 - Marke Valley *. l, 4 Alwyndy Iron Ore, 11w - New Seton ....... 4 : - North Roskear - N.Wh'l Etassettallogan 4.4 North Wheal Crotty ~ 2.1, Prosper United 7.1 - Pr4vidence Uny Lelant 10. - I S. Caradon (St. Cleer) - South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. allogan 18; - Stray Park . 36.1 - Tin Croft 5 Vigra and Clogan, lim a, - West Bassett (Mogan _ W. Caradon (Liakeard 1 - West Chiverton....... , - West Seton - Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller atedruth 1, - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. I - Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (1.4 5.: 10 3O 35 10 30 35 1261 127 it 87 oU 154 184 )0 10 t 0 10 118 j 1181 )0 81 63 )0 48 50 11 ;21 12 5 04 10 3 4 2 11P 11 84 88 )0 122 7 It 2 )0 90 )2 )0 35 36 )0 4 18 )0 105 IL7 65 67 98 9i) it 34 35 8 9 10 p 1 . 1 116 120 9 1 2p 4 1 2p /0 20 72 .11 114 118 0 1 148 152 ISSIONS. 58 58 )0 102 103 0 id 44 p 11 4 1 7j 84 10 60 55 11 101 103 )0 :01 1G:1 10 105 100 10 1 18 20 11 85 88 11 57 59 11 50 54 11 50 54 - - 1 I 37 to 1 I 23 25 10 10d LO 8 6 1 1 , 6 6 1 PO 1 100 102 Iv 91 93 L 1 la 121 1 14 121 11 88 $2 11 81 84 2 1/ 11 , i 10 102 103 10 02 *4 10 S 5 90 5 - 11 - 10 82 85 00 99 101 00 97 98 5 11 1 00 98 99 00 - '2d.ENT SECUIt )0 93 94 0 90 92 )0 90 Y 2 )0 77 •78 10 75 7 7 )0 104 166 /0 103 105' IC2 104 10 104 106 10 1 88 g 0 10 100 102 10 104 166 10 1 105 107 )0 I 104 10 I 105 10 lets 16 96 )0 90 92 10 90 95 10 8Z $7 10 92 100 10 81 85 96 98 92 Pi 0 1106 108 10 103 104 INES. 4 64 74 io 54 86 1 405 415 1.0 4 94 18 20 14.0 5 8 31 2 3 14.0 2 3 3.6 9.0 9 10 8.0 24 21 , 6 5 6 11 17 18 - .9.6 {0 15 16 18.0 1} 14 10.0 20 32 0.6 2/ 3f 17.6 2 4 L 0.6 3f 41 si 2f 11d 35 45 18t 2 4 4.0 ,3,( I 22 32 .6.7 24 26 11 300 320 Lo It 18.9 i 8 22 9 1 2 dl 2 lu 16 6 1 4 t 12 , 4 1 54 5 k 74 115 12 5 Si 63 25 ,6 18 20 8 10 12 084 135 145 7 0 eittCFERIGNCE South Eastern (Reading Ars., £l. Ditto, Fixed 4. per cent., 90 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton. &c., 41 per cent., 1858, 121 London, Chatham, &c., 6 per cent. 2dpf., 271 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent.. 112 • Preston and Wire, 421 A RICS. ,6), - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, Si Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 ilteat Luxembourg, 1 Namur and Liege, gua. 6 per cent. pl., 184 Recite and San Francisco, lim., gua. 7 per cent., 10 Royal Swedish. South Austrian aad Lombardo Venetian, 154 FOREIGN MINI4b. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 24 Cobre Copper. Don Pedro, North Del Rey, dis par Port Philip, St. John ael Rey, HM., 48E8 94 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 67 BANKS. Albion, 44 Alti4nee, iim.. 18 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 11:12 Chartered lier. of India, London, and China, 34 City, 14; 15 Consolidated Bank, lira.. 44 English and American, 5 Imperial Bank, lim., 25 Imperial Ottoman. lim., 94 LA.° Mortgage Bank of India, 11m., 21 London and River Plate. Ditto, issued at 1; pm., Ditto, ditto,pf: London Chartered Bang of Australia, 20 London and County, 64 London Joint Stock, 42; 34 London and 11 estminster, 95; 5 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 11; Midland Bank, lim., 171 National Provincial of England, Ditto. J and id issue, 394 9 National Bank, 67 New South Wales, 444 Oriental Baltic Corporation. 42 4 Provincial Banking Corporation, Union of Australia, 41+4 Union of London,, 44 MISCELLANEOUS: Anglo-American Telegraph, 164 Allan tic Telegraph,—. Dit o, 8 per cent., 80 City of Moscow Gas, lim., 14; Co...mental Union, Insurance. 5 credit eoncier of .Englund, lim . 34 Fore -street Warehouse, lim., 124 Gen. Credit and leins.nce of London, lim.. 44 1 Hudson's Bay, It; International Financial Society, lim,, 3 National Discount Company,' 144 Panama. New Zealand, and Aus. It, Mail, 7 1 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 631 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 184 Telegraph ConstructiQn and Maintenance, lim., Ditto (.£1:.), Trust and Agency of Australasia, lim., Universal Marine, Insurance. lim" 2 Vicor3y of Bgypt, Mortgage, Loan, 741 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, ISO. FIRE IN FLEET-STREE T.— (This Day.) This morning, shortly after six o'clock, a confla gration was discovered to be raging in some exten sive business premises in Peterborough-court, Fleet street, adjoining the backs of both the ,Standard and Daily Telegraph offices. The building in question formed the extremity of the cul de sac which Peterborough-court represents, and as old tarred wood entered largely into the composition of its walls, the danger from fire was obvious, not only to the structure itself, but to the costly and exten sive warehouses, &c., immediately surrounding it. The several floors and departments of this brick and timber building were occupied by Messrs. Mottram & Son, printers, Messrs. Walker & Moore, also printers, and by Mr. Whitehead, book-edge gilder, &c. In a few minutes after the first alarm of fire had been raised the whole place was in a blaze, and while it appeared pretty certain that nothing but complete destruction awaited the edifice itself, there was the greatest danger that th 9 conflagration would extend to the neighbouring buildings. Fortunately the men employed in the Standard office at once put into requisition the powerful fire extinguishing arrangements of that office, consist ing of Merryweather's apparatus ; and the regular firemen, with numerous engines, arriving promptly dragged their hoses up Peterborough-court, through the Standard and other premises in Shoe-lane and elsewhere, and from surrounding roofs and windows kept up a play of water sufficient to give assurance that the conflagration would be confined to the building in which it originated. By eight o'clock all danger was past and the fire was' well under," that result, however, being only attained on the almost total destruction of the premises in question. The Paris Universal Exhibition. substances; dyeing substances; preserved fodder. Class 44.—Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products : Acids, alkalies, salts of all kinds, sea salts, and products extracted from mother water. Various products of Chemistry : Wax, and fatty substance:; soaps and candles ; raw materials used in per fumery; resins, tar, and the products derived there from ; essences and varnishes, various coating sub stances, blacking, India-rubber and gutta percha, and their products ; dyes and colours, mineral and sparkling waters, natural or artificial ; raw mate- rials used in pharmacy ; simple and compound drugs. Class 45.--Specimens of the Chemical Processes for Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing, and Dressing; Specimens of dyed thread and fabrics ; specimens of fabrics prepared for dyeing; printed or dyed linen ; printed cotton fabrics, pure or mixed ; printed woollen and worsted fabrics, pure or mixed ; printed silk fabrics, pure or mixed ; printed felt or cloth carpets, oil cloth. N.B.—ln this class will be exhibited only such specimens as are essential for the proper appreciation of the value of the pro cesses. Class 4 6.--Leather and Skins : Raw mate rials used in the dressing of skins and leather ; raw hides ; salted hides ; leather, tanned, curried, dressed, or dyed ; varnished leather, morocco, and sheepskin; skins grained, shamoyed, tawed, dressed, or dyed ; prepared skins for glove making ; skins and furs dressed and dyed ; parchment. Gutwork : strings for musical instruments, gold beaters' skins, sinews, &c. Gallery V. belongs to this group. (Continued.) In the Fourth Group will be set out all articles of clothing (including fabrics) and other objects worn on the person. It also holds 13 classes. Cot ton dressed and spun ; pure cotton fabrics, plain or figured ; mixed cotton fabrics ; cotton velvet ; cot ton ribands and tapes. Class 28.—Thread and Fabrics of Flax, Hemp, &c. : Flax, hemp, and other vegetable fibres spun; linen and drills; cambric linen fabrics mixed with cotton or silk; fabrics made from vegetable fibres as substitutes for flax and hemp. Class 29.--Combed Wool and Worsted Fabrics : Combed Wool ; Worsted Yarns ; Muslin de laMe. Scotch cashmere, merinos, serge, &c. ; worsted ribands and laces, mixed with cotton or thread, silk or floss-silk ; hair-tissues pure or mixed. Class 30.—Carded Wool and Woollen Fabrics ; Carded Wool: Woollen Yarn, Cloth and other milled woollen fabrics; blankets; felt of wool or hair for carpets, hats, shoes ; woollen fabrics unmilled or slightly milled ; flannel, tartans, swansdown. Class 31.—Silk and Silk Manufactures : Raw and thrown silk ; floss-silk, silk yarns ; silk fabrics, pure, plain, figured, brocaded; silk fabrics mixed with gold, silver, cotton, wool, thread ; manufactures of floss silk, pure or mixed ; velvet and plush ; silk ribands, pure or mixed. Class 32.—Shawls : Woollen shawls, pure or mixed ; Cashmere shawls ; silk shawls, &c. Class 33.—Lace, Net, Embroidery, and Small Ware Manufactures : Thread or cotton lace made with the distaff, the needle, or the loom ; lace made of silk, worsted, or mohair ; gold and silver lace ; silk or cotton net, plain or figured ; embroi dery, crotchet work, &c. ; gold, silver, and silk embroidery ; tapestry work and other work done by the hand ; lace work of silk, floss-silk, worsted, mohair, horse hair, thread and cotton, laces, lace work, real or imitation ; lace work for military uniforms. Class 34.—Hosiery and Underclothing, and articles appertaining thereto : Hosiery of cotton, thread wool, Cashmere, silk or floss-silk, pure or mixed ; under-clothing for men, women, and chil dren ; baby-linen ; flannel and other woollen gar ments ; stays, scarves, gloves, gaiters, fans, screens, umbrellas, parasols, walking-sticks, &c. Class3s. Clothing for both Sexes : Men's clothes, women's clothes, men's hats and caps, women's bonnets and head-dresses, wigs and works in hair, boots and shoes ; children's clothes ; clothing peculiar to various professions and trades. Class 36.—Jewel lery and Precious Stones : Jewellery in precious metals (gold, platinum, silver, aluminium), chased, filigreed, sec with precious stones, &c..; plated and imitation jewellery, ornaments in jet, amber, coral, mother-of-pearl, steel, &c. ; diamonds, precious stones, pearls, and imitation pearls. Class 37.—Portable Weapons : Defensive ar mour ; shields, cuirasses, helmets, offensive weapons, maces, life-preservers ; side arms, foils, swords, sabres, bayonets, lances, axes ; hunt ing knives (couteaux de chasse); missile weapons, bows, cross-bows, slings ; firearms : guns, rifles, pistols, revolvers; accessory objects appertaining to every kind of small arms, powder flasks, bullet moulds, round, oblong, hollow, and explosive pro jectiles, copper caps, priming cartridges. Class 38 —Travelling Apparatus and Camp Equipage : Trunks, valises, saddle-bags, &c. ; dressing-cases and fittings, travelling-bags, travelling rugs, cushions, caps, travelling costumes, and boots ; sticks shod with iron and with hooks, parasols, &c. ; portable apparatus specially intended for scientific voyages and expeditions ; photographic apparatus, instruments for astronomical and meteorological observations, equipment and implements for geo logists, mineralogists, naturalists, pioneer colonists, &c. ; tents and camp equipage ; furniture of military tents, beds, hammocks, folding chairs, canteens, hand-mills, military cooking stoves, &c. Class 39. —Toys : Dolls and playthings; dolls and images in wax, games for the amusement of children and adults, instructive games. (Gallery IV. is allotted to this group.) The Fifth Group has to contain Products (Raw and Manufactured) of Mining Industry, Forestry, &c., and numbers seven classes. Class 40.—Mining and Metallurgy : Collections and specimens of rocks, 'minerals, and ores; ornamental stones; marble, serpentine, onyx; hard rocks ; refractoty substances; earths and clays; various minerals products; sulphur, rock salt, salt from salt springs; bitumen and petroleum ; specimen of fuel in its natural state and carbonised ; compressed coal ; metals in crude state; pig-iron, iron, steel, cast steel, copper, lead, silver, zinc, &c. ; alloys; products of washing and refining precious metals, of gold-beating, &c. ; electro-metallurgy ; objects gilt, silvered, or coated with copper or steel by galvanic process ; products of the working of metals ; rough castings, bells, wrought iron, iron for special purposes, sheet iron and tin plates, iron plates for casing ships and constructions, copper, lead, and zinc sheetsT manu factured metals; black smiths' work, wheels and tires, unwelded pipes, chains, &c. ; wire-drawing; needles, pins, wire work and wire gauze; perforated sheet iron ; hardware, ironmongery edge-tools, copper and tinware, &c. ; other metal manufactures. Class 41.—Products of the Cultivation of Forests, and of the Trades appertaining thereto : Specimens of different kinds of trees ; wood for cabinet work, for building purposes ; firewood ; timber for ship building, staves, cleft-timber shingles ; cork; bark for textile purposes, tanning, colouring, odoriferous. resinous substances ; products obtained from forests; charcoal and dried wood, raw potash, tur nery, basket work, straw work, wooden shoes, &c. Class 42.—Products of Shooting, Fishing, and of the gathering of Fruits obtained without cultivation ___ __ Collections and drawings of terrestrial and amphi bious animals, of birds, eggs, fish, of cetacea, of mollusca, and of crustacea. Products of shooting : furs and skins, hair, bristles, feathers, down, horn, teeth, ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, musk, castoreum, and analogous products. Products of fishing : train oil, spermaceti, &c. ; whalebone, ambergris, shells of mollusca, pearls, mother-of-pearl, sepia, purple, coral, sponge. Vegetable products of the earth ob tained without culture : mushrooms, truffles, wild fruit, lichens used as dyes, food and fodder, fer mented sap ; Peruvian bark, useful barks, and fila ments; wax, resinous gums; india-rubber, gutta percha, &c. Class 43.—Agricultural Products (not used as food) easily preserved : Textile materials ; raw cotton, flax, and hemp, scutched and unscutched, textile vegetable fibres of all kinds ; wool in its grease; cocoons of the silk worm ; various agricultural products used in manufactures, in pharmacy, and for household purposes; oleaginous plants, oils, wax, resin ; tobacco, German tinder; tanning ; years, with one exception, where the term is 50 years. The aggregate rental received for these plots is £2,481 per annum. The board would have proceeded to sell these ground rents, but they deemed it inexpedient, owing to the state of the money market, to do so as yet. The cost of the properties required for the formation of this street was £102,881 Os. Bd., which, with other expenses, including professional and law charges, gave a total of £121,353 13s. 11d. In Southwark-street, which has been open for nearly three years, out of 206 plots, into which the surplus land in the line of the street had been divided, 177 have been let on lease, and the income derived from the ground rents, including the rent of some ware houses purchased by the board, but not pulled down, is £6,904 per annum. The cost of the properties and interests purchased by the board was £476,222115. 2d., and the professional and other charges swelled the total to £582,630 lls. 4d. The cost of the re moval of Middle-row, Holborn, is estimated at £61,152. The compensation claims for freeholds and leaseholds amount to £17,566 10s., and the set tlements thereof to £15,950. The net cost of the Whitechapel improvement is estimated at £115,364, and the board have been engaged in purchasing the properties required up to March 31. The board agreed to settle claims for three freeholds and four copyholds, &c. The sum claimed was £47,708 ; set tled for, £42,818. The quantity of land purchased for Finsbury-park was 120 acres, which cost £56,650, or about £472 per acre. Memorials from St. Luke's, Islington, and Finsbury deprecated the use of any portion of that area for building purposes, but the board felt that the interests of other portions of the metropolis should not be lost sight of, and they have approved of a plan for letting a portion of the pro perty for building purposes, and to apply the funds to recouping the board to some extent for their out lay, and afterwards to other itnportant improve ments. Southwark-park will embrace an area of 60 acres, and the architect has been instructed to pre pare plans for laying out the grounds. The report also details the proceedings taken last session for the introduction of bills by the board, and for watching bills introduced by railways or other companies, the provisions of which might affect the interests of the metropolitan districts. Since this board has under taken the duties formerly performed by the fire brigade the number of engines has been nearly doubled and the land force and steam-engines has been materially increased. In the employment of firemen preference is given to young and active sailors, as being a class of persons well suited to the requirements of the service. Complaint is made of the Petroleum Act as being so defective in its pro visions as to have become a dead letter ; as is like wise the case with the legal provisions for prevent ng the carrying on of dangerous businesses in certain localities. Oa the subject of the Metropoli tan Gas Acts the report expresses the belief of the board that the said acts " have been evaded by meter makers, gas companies, and others, who were in the habit of sending meters manufactured within the metropolitan area to be tested at testing houses beyond the jurisdiction of the board." One person was summoned before a magistrate for such an offence, and fined £5 ; and the person for whom the meter had been so tested was also summoned, but the magistrate dismissed the summons, considering such case not to come within the statute. The matter now remains to be referred to a superior court. Reference is then made to various other matters subjected to their jurisdiction under divers recent Acts of Parliament, and to the industry dis played by the members of the board in the perform ance of their duties, they having held 47 meetings during the year, at which an average of 33 mem bers attended. The board consists of 46 members, and in addition to the ordinary meetings there have been 189 of their committees on drainage, embank ment, &c. The report concludes by referring to the increased duties imposed upon them by acts of Par liament passed since the board was first constituted, including the extensive improvements by forming public thoroughfares, embankment; new parks, the preservation of commons, the licensing of stores for dangerous goods, the raising of funds to shelter the houseless poor, the prevention of the spread of fires, and other matters which occupy the almost daily sittings of their committees. Looking at the highly important and varied work recorded in the volume under notice, all tending to the_ improvement of our vast metropolis, there is every reason to feel the greatest satisfaction with the members of the Metropolitan Board of Works and their officials for the efficient manner in which they have performed their duties. —Observer. Extraordinary and Distressing Suicide of a Girl. Yesterday Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, Camden-town, on the body of Mary Ann Frier, who committed suicide under very distressing circumstances. Charles Frier, father of the deceased, living at 2, William-street, Regent's -park, said—The deceased was my daughter. She was 19 years of age. I saw her last on the 29th September. She had been induced to leave her situation on the Monday pre vious. She said she went to live with the sister of a man named Saunders. She said Saunders kept her out till it was too late to go home, and then ho took her home with him. My wife went to inquire about it the next day, and my daughter, finding we were determined to inquire into it, ran away and drowned herself. The next morning we found 4his note in her workbox "My dear mother,—As you are determined that me and Harry shall not come together, I will give him up, but it will be with my life. I cannot live, mother, without him. I have written to say good bye to him, and now I will say the same to you.— Your daughter." I and my wife wished to break off the engagement after we knew that he took her from her situation. Sarah Frier, the mother of deceased, said—l saw my daughter after she left her situation talking to Saunders. She said she slept with his sister, but I found out afterwards from the sister that this was untrue. Henry George Saunders, of 19, Castle-street East—l was acquainted with deceased. I had promised to marry her, and would have done so. I saw her last alive on the 27th November. I had seen her on the previous Monday. I left her between ten and eleven in the evening. She said she would go to my sister's, but she did not. I work at Harrison and Son's, Sackville-street. I saw her on Tuesday, and I advised her to go with her mother, and die did. When I went home to dinner she was in my room. She said her father and mother had ordered her to give me up, and she could not do it. I persuaded her to go home. I did not see her again, but I received these letters from her, which will show you whose fault this is. (The following letter was read :—" My darling Harry,—By the time you have received this I shall be no more. I need not tell you whose fault it is. They will not let me see you any more—so good bye.") We loved each other, and wanted to marry, but her parents wanted somebody better off than me. John Lay, turncock to the West Middlesex Waterworks Company —I found this body about 30 yards from the bridge near St. Mark's church, Prim rose-hill. I handed it over to the police. I should just like to say, sir, that there are no drags by this bridge, so that it would be impossible to save any body who might fall in. The lowness of the parapet on the bridge was com mented upon by the coroner. The vestry of St. Marylebone had raised the parapets of their bridges, and since then he had not had a single case of acci- dent or suicide in connection with them. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind. The witness Saunders asked for the protection of ,e Court, as he said the father of deceased had al- ready bitten him so severely in the head and on the ar•_n and hand that he was obliged to wear bandages. Ile feared further violence as he left the court. The police-constable present undertook to protect witness THE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COMPANY.—We are requested to contradict the statement that Lord Bury has joinod tho Board of Directors of this company as an nounced in their advertisements. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The report of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 865-G, published pursuant to the provisions of the Metropolitan Management Act of 1865, presents a statement of their proceedings during the past year under that act, and the other acts passed before and since that date. In their former report the main features of the Metropolitan Drainage Works, then advanced towards completion, were somewhat fully described, as well as the principle on which they were designed, and the present report describes the general arrangement and the routes of the pre sent lines of sewers. For the north side of the Thames the three lines of sewers, viz., the High, Middle, and Low Levels, were designed to unite at Abbey Mills, where the contents of the Low Level Sewer are to be pumped into the Upper Level, whence the aggregate stream is to flow through the Northern Sewer to the outfall at Barking-creek, 12 miles below London-bridge. The High Lever Sewer commences at the foot of Hampstead-hill by a junction with the Fleet Sewer. It passes through Kentish-town, Holloway, Stoke Newington, and Hackney to a junction with the Middle Level Sewer at Old Ford. It is about seven miles in length, and drains an area of 10 square miles, intercepting the sewage of the district above -named. It cost, in cluding compensation, £196,804. It was completed in 1861, and has since that date been in full opera tion. Connected with the High Level Sewer a pen stock chamber was constructed at its junction with the Middle Level Sewer at Old Ford, Bow, contain ing five large iron penstocks worked by machinery, in order to divert the sewage into any of the three channels which form the commencement of the Northern Outfall Sewer, and which will, under all ordinary circumstances, be used to discharge the sewage at Barking Creek. The work is so contrived that, in case of storms or accident to the outfall sewers, relief could in a few minutes be obtained by the discharge into the river. Lea of the whole of the sewage. This provision places three-fourths of the northern sewage completely under control. The sewage intercepted on the north side of the river amounts to 10,000,000 and on the south side to 4,000,000 of cubic feet. The extent of area drained and carried off by the sewers is about 117 square miles, having a population of 2,809,000. In the construction of the other sewers and works 318,000,000 bricks, and 880,000 cubic yards of concrete have been used, and about 3,500,000 of cubic yards of earth have been excavated. The re port says that the experience of last year fulfils the anticipations of the benefits to be derived from the increased purification. of the river. These bene fits are evidenced by the fact of the return of fish in large quantities to those parts of the river which hael previously been in a polluted condition ; and further improvements are anticipated, as arrangements for purifying its upper waters become matured, and a more efficient system of water supply is organised. For the utilisation of the sewage north of the Thames, the steps taken in reference to which were referred to in the board's previous report, the board have granted to Messrs. Napier and Hope and their legal representatives the exclusive right and property in the Northern Sewage for 50 years. Other details upon this sub ject and upon the ventilation of sewers in the metropolis are also given. The report of the Board on the Thames Embankment (North): This work is to be executed in three lengths, viz.—from Westminster-bridge to Waterloo-bridge, the con tract for which was let to 111 r. Geo. Furness for £520,000 ; from Waterloo-bridge to the Inner Temple, the contract for which was taken by Mr. Ritson for £229,000 ; and from Temple-gardens to Blackfriars-bridge, tenders for the contract for which are now being called for. One of the first two contracts has been since taken by Mr. Brassey. The Embankment Approaches (North) : The board sought Parliamentary powers for the formation of several new streets, enumerated in the report ; but on a bill being introduced into the House of Commons for the granting of the requisite powers opposition was made on behalf of the Duke of Northumberland to the proposed new street from Charing Cross to the Embankment, and that portion of the bill was withdrawn ; but powers were obtained for making a new street, viz.—con necting the Embankment with Surrey, Norfolk, and Arundel-streets, and another with Wellington street, Waterloo-bridge, Buckingham-street, and Cecil-street ; a new street from and other short streets to communicate with Villiers-street, New George-street, Adelphi, to terminate at the east end of Whitehall, and another from the Embankment at Whitehall-stairs to Whitehall, opposite the Horse Guards. The board jproposed a clause in a bill introduced in Parliament last session provid ing for a direct street from Charing-cross to the Embankment, near Northumberland House, but that clause was withdrawn owing to an opposition made thereto on be half of the Duke of Northumberland. (Notice has been given of application for power to construe a new street from Charing-cross to the Embank ment.) The works contemplated for the Embank, ment on the south side consist of a solid embankmen from Westminster-bridge to Gunhouse-alley, near Vauxhall-bridge, a road way of 60 feet average width along the Embankment between Gun-ally and Lam beth Suspension-bridge, and a roadway 20 feet wide from that point to Westminster-bridge. The re moval of a number of dilapidated buildings, and the formation of new streets as approaches to those works. Also to improve Palace New Road, and to stop up and appropriate portions of Crozier-street to _ - - the general improvement. A contract for the Em bankment and works between Westminster-bridge and Gunhouse-alley, near Vauxhall-bridge, has been let to Mr. W. Webster, under which the prin cipal works to be done are the formation of 4,300 feet in length of river wall, landing -stairs at new Westminster-bridge, paved road and footways, sunk wood ways to the dock, and other properties severed by the works, and a short sewer for draining part of the roadway. The contract for these works is £309,000 (the foundation-stone of the work being laid by Mr. Tite, M.P., on the 28th July last). The total cost of the.preliminary works at the date of the report was £30,000. The report also states the cost of the new streets made, and also the receipts from the coal and wine duties as follows :—The claims in respect of the Thames Northern Embank- went were—for freeholds, leaseholds, &c., £311,257 11s. Id., which were settled for £211,374 10s. The claims for the new street to the Mansion House were—freeholds, leaseholds, &c., and yearly tenan cies, .£1,184,723 7s. 5d., which were settled for £1,059,234 6s. The claims in respect of the Thames Embankment (South) were—freeholds, leaseholds, &c., £142,742 14s. 5d., which were settled for £109,975. The whole of the building plots in Garrick-street (which was opened to the public in March, 1861) have been let on leases for 80 ITIES. 104 32 Mr. Newdegate at Birmingham. At the annual distribution of prizes to the Bir mingham volunteers, Mr. Newdegate, M.P., was present, with Lieut.-Col. Mason, Rev. Dr. Wilkin son, Rev. C. Evans, Rev. I. C. Barrett, Captains Hebbert, Briggs, Burt, and Gem. The mayor pre sided. Mr. NEWDEGATE, after the proceedings had been opened by his worship, said he was proud of being deputed by the lady who had to confer the honours upon the successful competitors that evening to ad dress to them a few words. He contended that the establishment of the volunteer force had effected an immense saving to the country. A friend of his told him the volunteers had saved 2d. in the pound in the income tax. One penny in the pound income and property tax used to be thought worth a million ; now it was worth between £1,100,000 and £1,200,000; therefore, they were very good political economists according to that calculation. When the volunteers were enrolled in 1804, it was because England found herself isolated in Europe. Then 400,000 men started up to defend the country, and if they had to fight the battles of England single-handed, they might depend upon it that they must all turn out. He was ready, and he thought he was the oldest volunteer in the room. But look at the state of Europe. The treaty of Vienna was being torn up. He thought 17 minor States had been absorbed. What did they think of the pros pects of peace ? Why, every State was arming, as England was armed, for defence. Let them con sider the effect of all the discoveries which science had made—the wonderful increase in the rapidity of intelligence by the telegraph. Why, they trailed the wires in the rear of the cannon. Then, what was the effect of the rapidity of ,railway communi cation ? Simply that they could move large bodies of troops in less time. What was the effect, to go further back, of the application of steam to naviga tion ? Why, they explained that to the Russians in the Crimean war. What was the end of it ? That a blow might be struck by one nation upon another in one-fourth or one-fifth the time that it could be done in before. They would remember how public opinion outran Parliament, because it was the intelligence of the middle class which made an un willing Parliament re-establish the militia. He re membered the sharp work he had in the House of Commons, co-operating with their excellent and lamented member Mr. Muntz, to convince the Go vernment of the expediency of changing the weapon with which the army was furnished. Supported by. the Duke of Somerset, they undertook a grave re sponsibility. They persuaded the House of Com mons to overrule the Government, and to send the order for arms down to Birmingham ; and they made them do it. He had a piece of plate pre sented to him by the arms trade as a memento of the course he pursued on that occasion, and which he should hand down as an heir-loom in his family. Breech-loaders had now come in, and General Peel deserved the highest credit for his pNinptitude. lie trusted he was breaking no confidence, but he saw Gen. Peel before lie was sworn in, and then he had expressed the opinion that if breech-loaders were better than no breech-loaders, then breech-loaders the English army should have. lle had to say that General Peel had broken through the pipeclay of the War Department, and sent down au order to Small Heath ; and the chairman of their small arms trade, co-operating with the Government, was rapidly supplying the troops of England with breech-loaders, which, to use a sporting phrase, would handsomely cut down the needle-gun. Well, they were volunteers, they were citizen soldiers, and let them not rest content until they bad breech loaders themselves. They knew he was a Protec tionist, and should be a monopolist; but there was something inconvenient in the old Tory politics, and the Liberals would always find it so. They did not call themselves Liberals in politics, but they thought the Liberals eminently narrow-minded. Well, he had not the slightest notion of having a Govern ment monopoly, and he did not wish the monopoly extended so as to include only Small Heath. His belief was—and he spoke in the presence of men who knew more about the matter than he did— that to insist upon the interchangeability of every part of every rifle was a piece of departmental coxcombry. He wanted to know how their American cousins did ; and they had seven patterns of rifles, most of them breech loaders, in their service. They had get on in that way, and he wanted to know why every part of the gun was to be interchangeable to fit it for the English service. Everybody had replied that it was contrary to departmental opinion. Well, he had a very great respect for the department ; but he had not the departmental opinion. He had heard it declared that the arms trade of England could not produce more than 30,000 stand of arms a year ; but in the years 1850 and 1855, and about three months besides, he saw the arms trade pro duce 272,000 stand. What, then, was he to think of departmental opinion ? his opinion—and he was quite prepared to repeat it—was, that it would be wise on the part of the Government to obtain a class of arms which had been found good enough for the Americans, and which were quite good enough for them, though not interchangeable-- breech-loaders which should be ready to their hand, so that if they were called upon they should not be placed at the disadvantage the Austrians were in the presence of the Prussians. He was afraid he had been troubling them with entering into detail. The great fact with which they had to deal, as Englishmen, was this, that the appliances of modern science and art had rendered it possible for one great nation to strike a fatal blow upon another in a quarter of the time it was possible to do it in before. He rejoiced to see the volunteers organised as the third line of the national def ences trusted that he should ha ve their but he sanction when he claimed that the second line of defence--the militia —should be augmented. For what was France doing ? what was Russia doing ? They were aug menting the strength of their second line of defence, in imitation of Prussia. Those men were ready for service when occasion should arise ; and let them remember that the augmentation recom mended for the French army, the augmentation contemplated for the second line of the Prus sian defences, the augmentation that has made Prussia victorious, was not a militia ; it was the augmentation of a force available for agres- Sion as well as defence. Remembering that, he asked th em t o suppor t measures for strength ening the second line of the national defences__ the militia, from which the army of England could be recruited, forming together a force far in ferior to the large contingents France and Russia would have, but still a force disposable as a movable column for the defence of England, whilst they (the volunteers) held the fortifications in the defence of the hearths, of the homes, of the altars of England, a cause in which he had been long joined with them, and in which ho heartily wished them God speed. Mr. Newdegate was loudly cheered at the con clusion of his speech. The prizes were then dis tributed by Mrs. Mason. Their total value was £596 13s. WM. MULREADY, THE LATE ROYAL ACADEMI cIAN, has been cleverly sketched by the Athenmunt as follows :—" Poor old Mul !" By this phrase was the late .William Mulready spoken of, towards the close of his long career, when his fame had increased with his years, but his fortune had not augmented iu proportion. What a quaint, kindly-hearted, slightly cynical, old-fashioned figure was his, when your eye fell on Lim as ho stood in the centre of a drawing-room, where the somewhat sad so lemnities of a soiree wore being celebrated ! He looked, in dress and bearing, a relic or last shadow of the times of the Regency. how pleasantly antiquated was the smile which Sow and then crisped up from above his white, rolling "neckcloth" and his lofty shirt-collars. He was the very picture of old gentlemanlike simplicity; and you longed to ask him why Le would carry about with him, .held close to his side, and among such gay throngs of fashionable people, that antique umbrella, to which he . seemed to attach such importance. But every one had a tenderness for the gentle old man, a respect for the air of sorrowing which hung about and over him, and no ques tion was ever put to him that carried with it the possibi lity of wounding his susceptibility. There might be a smile at the umbrella, when the smiler was out of sight of the bearer, but there was never a reference to it within the bearer's hearing. He would pull it up under his left arm, as you approached him, hugging it closer to his heart as if it were a matter which only concerned themselves — that is, heart, umbrella, and Mulready—and, respecting the mystery, you talked of enoral things. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HORSES STRUCK OOU p THEIR ENGAGE MENTS. Dec. 17, at 9 a.m., Jack o' Newbury, out of Grand An nual Steeplechase at Ealing, and Savernake Forest Han dicap, at Westbury. Dec. 18, at 9 a.rn , Daisy and Flylisher, out of Ealing and Westb.try engagements. Dec. 21, at 2.60 p.m., Cockfighter and Orontes, oat of Ealing engagements. NOMENCLATURE. The following names have been given Mr. R. Ten. Broeck's. BI yearling fby Dundee—l'almeria ... Dinah. B yearling cby Lord Albemarle, out of Amazonian... ... Veto. Ch yearling f by Dundee, out of Cossack Maid Sorrel. B filly-foal by Trumpeter—Silkstone Chantress. Mr. Alwyn's. Yearling f (sister to Bonnie Doon) by Dundee, out of Mountain Maid . ... Heather Bell. Mr. A. Harrison's. Gr yeurling I by Voltigeur —Spinster PertieTeranue. Mr. R. Porter's Yearling's. Bl cby Musjid, out of Miss Clifton ... Banio. B f by King of Diamonds, out of Star of the Vale •,. ..„ Splendour. Bl fby Weatherbit, out of Interduca Storm Signal. B f by i Thundeib o lt, d am by Snowdon Dunhill, out of Spouse... Spitfire. Bf by Promised Land, out of Scandal Sueorwell. Lord Zetland's Yearlings. Bf by Carbineer, out of Tib Ticket •.. Molinara. B f by Barnton, or Carbineer, out of Cas tanette ••• ••• Hermosa. RACING FLYT tJANI Manchester IRES FOR 1867. ARY. 1 VARY. FEBR' Lincoln Spring Harrow Nottiugham 26 Derby Cli. MA: Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 West Drayton l9 Bromley Epsom Spring 2B Lewes Spring 2B Croxton Park 29 ' . Northampton . Windsor Spring 4 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6 Newmarket Craven 8 9 j Curragh Chester (continued) l. York Spring 7 Salisbury 9 Doncaster Spring Bath JU. Ascot Summer -4 Windsor Summer Manchester Summer Stockbridge l9 Chelmsford -i Newcastle Cu rragh Worcester Summer ,7 Ipswich 27 LY. Hampton l3 17 Bibury Club► lB Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading • • •• 9 Liverpool July Meeting 10 Rungerford Nottingham July Down Royal Corporate l7 S Wilford Huntingdon., Winchester .. Southampton Goodwood 23 23 25 30 Goodwood (continued) 1 Ripon Brighton •• 6 Brighton Club 8 Lc wes E'-hum .. . l3 Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford ..... 15 hustings York August Dover West Drayton 22 Plymouth... . 23 Canterbury - 27 Lichfield Derby Summer Woymouth Tunbridge SEPTAMBER. Warwick Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon 5 Newmarket Ist October 24 Doncaster OCTOBER Northampton Autumn. 1 Curragh Edinburgh Autumn ... 2 Newmarket Houghton Newmarket 2d October. 7 Worcester Autumn 29 Cheltenham l5 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. JANUARY. Manchester FE BR. 1 VARY. Harrow Spring Derby Carmarthen • 5 Birmingham l2 Windsor MA: Liverpool Spring Grand Military Chertsey 13 Malton ••• • Croydon Spring Cheltenham Grand An 2l Bromley AP. York l7 SevonoakB Kildare Hunt Aston, Cheshire Mr. Warwick COURSING. COURSING MEETINGS TO COME. DECEMBER. Name. Judge. Days of Running Corrio, Lockorbie ... ......... Mr. Warwick JANUARY, 1867. Huntingdon Club ............... Mr. Warwick l7 2, Lincolnshire, Ho!beach ...... Mr. Spafford Coole, co. Cork (Open) ...... Third S. Lan cas hi re, (South port (Open) .................. Mr. Westropp 9, 10, 11 Spelthorne Club ............... Mr. Warwick Border Union (Longtown) Cumberland ................ Mr. Warwick l5, 16 Barton -on-Humber, Lincoln. Mr. Spafford Altcar Club, L ancashire Wigtonsh. Cl u b (S tranraer) Mr. Boulton22, &c. Little Crosby Mr. Welding County Louth Club, Ireland Mr. Spafford Ridgway Club, Lyth am FEBRUARY. Ilufford, Lancashire Cardiff Club ' Mr. Warwick l4, 15 Waterloo, Lancashire ...... 20, 21, &a Tamworth, Staffordshire MARCH. Irish Grand National (Open), county Louta Ardrossan, Sharphill South Lancashire (South port) Champion Mr. Westropp l4, 15, &c Leinstor (Open) Courtown... Mr. H. Springall— 19, 20 Scottish Open, Lanarkshire --.. SEPTEMBER. Brampton, Cumberland Mr. Warwick OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire Mr. Spafford 6, 7 7, &c. HOW TO ARRIVE AT A VERDICT.— Colonel Myddelton Biddulph, M.P., and the trustees of the Wem Bronygarth Road not being able to settle the amount of compensation for land amicably, the matter has been set tled by a jury. And it 'would appear that the 12 gentle men who composed the conclave were much divided in their notions of the value of the colonel's land, some con sidering that £75 was sufficient compeiisation, and others holding the opinion that £450 was not too much. After nearly two hours' "deliberation," the knotty point was decided by a stroke of genius on the part of the foreman, who suggested that each should put down on a slip of paper the amount he considered a just satisfaction of the claim, and when they had done so he would add up the 12 sums, and the division of the total by 12 should be the amount awarded. This proposal was received with de light, every one would be represented in the decision, the idea was carried out, and Colonel Biddulph was awarded £l6s.—Oswestry Advertiser. POISON FOiWHALES.—A new method of catching whales is now being tried with considerablesuccess, science having contributed to its discovery. Our readers are well aware of the deadly effects of the Italian poison called curare, or woorali, concerning v4liich we have often had occasion to record the most interesting experiments, espe cially in mentioning the attempts made to useit as a specifio for lockjaw, its peculiar action consisting in relaxing the muscular system. Strychnine is a poison producing the contrary effect, the excessive contraction of that system, or, in other words, tetanus, or lockjaw. It is a curious fact that by the conjunction of these two agents, so dia metrically opposite in their effects, a poison is obtained that will kill almost instantly if only administered in the dose of half a milligramme per kilogramme of the animal to be subjected to its action, provided its weight do not exceed 10 kilogrammes. If larger the dose must be pro portionately increased. M. Thiercelin, the inventor of this poison, composes it by mixing a salt of strychnine with one-twentieth of woorali. To apply it to whale fish gun gunpowder contained in an explosive sh ell fish ing, ho m a k es t h e compound up into cartridges of 80 grammes (au ou nce ) each, which is enough to kill an ani mal of 60,000 ki logrammes weight. Each cartridge is im budded i n the powd which i s fi re d off on the whale. In a late w h a li ng vo yage 10 whal es rece i ved such missiles, an d a ll di e d within from four to 18 minutes after the infliction of the wound. Out of these 10 whales six were cut up for their blubber and whalebone. Their remains were handled by careless men, who frequently had scratches and sores on their skins, and yet not one of them suffered the slightest injury, a circum stance which shows that the poison cannot be transmitted from the fish to the men. Its poisonous action on the whale is, however, so great that practically the dose will have to be diminished, so that the death of the creature may not be so sudden. We should not forget to state that two out of the 10 whales above mentioned were lost by one of the many accidents incident to whaling, and that two others were of a kind that is not worth fishing for.— Galig. natai's Messenger. Thirsk . ll Durham Newmarket Ist Spring " _'2 Catterick Chester 3O .Y. Harpenden Epsom Summer Newton 2l 29 Croydon 29 RIL. UST. [tell. tions tical lent vast retie iu l- ro ind 'OU ant ce3 In. to to 106 } 106 } 96i 6 714 9 86 6 el 2