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rous a of !ording D f the ►ovrers ,t and aains," ce of 3g up spar ed 'amous ddered Iovel." Mats- ig have .enera- , from sa id to appro 3virifi- d them )our of d ade letters of the at also inborn truth, Ly such C ern' here-- sought rather, )on its I was g difs. of ad „___ for ile the 3 so far fallow a that ath"- -- .dio ary by the is been plished n from ni of a g ius elf e ana- t crea- Le Nis n mar' •y later igaatiC s o ften ales of out of al sag' whOla ree°°- harae" d froul )opula r Le h re odorui Lt th e Athe t orie° cacci °l w hile ch do yed on d go; rratio, able 01 tial to ancifu l lection ses th e t is ye t [ ler w orked ork O f veness• ten tion ; coun t. &oat riuning * able/ chela r " sere is in the wide r ossib l Y Led the . ay," 00 0 far of f ind the 4)1 1 ° 0 t~ into I nd the S and ov en Of golf ,a,rati c° iudi varbled trouble• brolo rl. D i the of the Ly tton ►thered ese b°- stant l f lisatl on e , long n°lB. W COw s ed 0 (4 , ion l thesi 3 ' but ill tanza' Leto' G has R 112 '1 should 3 unde r i s , the sere, 111 berallY, The fro' se, Wil l ,ee that thought of Zavier de Maistre, where he speaks of our bed, as witnessing alike our birth and our death—" It is a cradle scattered over with flowers; it is the throne of love ; it is a sepulchre !" And let it here be said that quite as subtly interfused and as inextricably blent together as are those constituent elements of the Impas sioned and Appalling in Goethe's " Bride of Corinth," there are intertwined and intermingled in Sir Bulwer Lytton's " Death and Sisyphus" those if it be possible yet more widely contrasting con stituent elements of the Terrible and the Hu morous I And all the while, in very despite of the essentially pagan character of its theme, the poem itself has—permeating it throughout—a profound, consolatory, and elevating philosophy, one, it might even be said, harmonising in its general spirit with some among the diviner truths of Christianity ! The influence of it, as indeed of the whole book of which we are fain to regard it as perhaps the noblest portion, is serene and puri fying—appealing, as it does throughout, to our tenderest sentiments and our loftiest sympathies. Having said which in regard to it, we cannot but reflect that the book presents altogether a strange and even startling contrast to the last work of any importance emanating from Sir Bulwer Lytton's indefatigable imagination. There, in that latest fiction of his, we seemed to breathe the close and at times almost mephitic atmosphere of the chemical laboratory. Here, on the contrary, it is as if the thymy slopes of Olympus were under our feet and around us the air of Thessaly. Otherwise to express it, it is as though the galvanic battery, the crucible, and the furnace, having been trifled with for a while, were thrown aside by this Dreamer of Dreams for the " chorded shell" upon which his fingers move as deftly at mo ments as those of the old Milesian Poet and Musician Timotheus—not the favourite of Alexander, but the beloved and admired of Euripides. •_l-_-- (6 - ffurt -„ (irmliat .‘,-,..-, THE SUN, LONDON, MOB I)AY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, IBC6. SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing I Business Railways. I Paid.l Price. done. Share! Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast Juno Dun„Perth, & A b.June E.London, scrip Certi 93 95 !29 '3O 75 85 13 15 4 5} 68 70 70 72 Do. - Glasgow & S. Western Great. Eastern, Ord. s k. Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 Great North of Scot land Great Northern ..... DJ. A stock ...... Do. B stock 114 116 3i 40 7 8 1281 129 140 i 47 Do. New, is. at 25 pn , , Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n -01121)20 , . S. V&1. Rail gua.' Do. South Wales Do. W. hlld.—Oxfordl 92 Of 59 59 61 39 #1 35 37 iOl 103 121 122 r 9 91 9i 98 35 37 Lo. Ncwport 1)o. IT ert7tiird........ Lana shire, & Yorkshire L.,ndon and Blackwell Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast Lon., chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. r.x. A Lou. & North Western Lon. Sc South Western Man., Shet., (la Lincoln. Metropolitan. Do. New 126 126 91 45 59 b 9 136 138 3 h 1 lij 93 10, Do Exteniion Metropolitan District Do do. do. 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The wheat trade in the country markets held on Satur day was very quiet. Dry samples, being scarce, changed hands at full prices, but damp produce commanded very little attention. Good and fine malting barley sold steadily at quite late rates ; otherwise the spring corn trade was quiet on former terms. In flour about an average business was transacted at late prices. On the continent the wheat trade is very quiet at about previous quotations. Oats are firm and in request for ex port, but other articles are a slow sale. At New York the trade for wheat and flour is firmer, the result of an increased demand for the Southern States. The arrival of English grain, &c., up to our market last week were but moderate. The imports from abroad con s:sted of 13,200 quarters of wheat, 5,810 barley, 17,393 oats, 2,028 rye,. 1,520 beans, 254 tare; 19,090 linseed, 38,552 rapeseed, 13,421 maze, 3,754 sacks, and 1,866 barrels of flour. _ _ _ _ Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate, the bulk of the pro duce being in bad condition. The few dry samples on the stands changed hands at the prices of Monday last ; • but for damp produce there were few buyers, and sales in con sequence were with difficulty concluded, at irregular prices. At the close of the market a considerable proportion of the supply was left undispased of. A fair average supply of foreign wheat was on offer. There was a steady demand for dry Gherke wheats, and such commanded full prices. For other descriptions the trade was quiet, but without leading to any quotable change from Monday last. _ . Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate reques t at late rates. There was a falling off in the supply of English barley, the quantity on the stands being very moderate. The trade in consequence, though quiet, was somewhat more active, and prices ruled firm. For grinding and distilling barley there was a fair demand at full quotations. About an average business was transacted in malt at late rates. The market was moderately supplied with oats. In most descriptions a fair average business was transacted at last Monday's currency. There was a good supply of beans on the stands. The trade was dull, and in some instances prices declined to the extent of is per quarter. Peas, the supply of which was but moderate, sold slowly at late rates. Most descriptions of flour were in moderate demand at previous quotations. CURRENCY PER IMP. MBASURR. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 39s to 46s Do., old 46s 51e Do., white, old s2s 5 s Do, new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s --0 Do., ne`► - s Talavera, new s2s 608 Rye Barley—Grinding Malting 3os 38s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Os 5 -43 Kingstown and Ware Chevalier G6s G'is Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feed:ag 20s 263 Potato Youghal and Cork, black 2OB 26s Cork, white .. 22e 278 Scotch, Feeding 2la 26s Beans—Tick Pigeons .,., 46s 508 Peas—Grey, new Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 32s 348 Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel 26s 31s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The show of foreign stock on offer here to-day was rather extensive for the time of year; but its general con dition was very middling. The demand was heavy and the quotations had a drooping tendency. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, were considerably on the increase, and in prime condition. All breeds moved off heavily, at a decline in the quotations of 2d per 81bs, and a total clearance was not effected. Prime Scots and crosses sold at from 4s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs. The supply from Ireland was very moderate. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,300 Scots, shore horns, and crosses ; from other parts of England, 1,000 ♦arious breeds; from Scotland, 960 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 200 oxen and heifers. The supply of English sheep was only moderate. The quality of each breed, however, was prime. The mutton trade was very inactive, and last week's prices were barely supported. The best Downs and half-breds in the wool sold at Gs 4d to 6s 8d; out of wool, 5s 2d to os 4d per Blbs. There were a few lambs on offer; they realised fully 8s per Blbs. Calves were in short supply and sluggish request, at barely late rates. The demand for pigs was heavy, on rather lower terms. Per 81b to sink the offal. sdsd A d s d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 8 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 8 6 2 Second quality do ..3 10 4 2 Prime J'tIICIONVII 00.6 4 6 8 Prime large oxen ..4 4 4 6 La ge coarse calvcs.s 0 5 6 Prime Soots, &c.... 4 8 4 10 Prime small d0......5 8 6 0 Crse. and inf. sheep.* 0 4 8 Large hogs .4 4 6 Second quality do ..4 10 5 6 Small porkers 4 8 5 0 Lamb.... 08 Od to 0, Od. Suckling calves, I9s to 2is ; and quarter-old store pigs, 288 t) 338 each. _ _ _ Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 5,343 Beasts Cows. .. Cows. Sheep 20,930 Sheep Calves l2l Ca yes 1.5 Vigo 375 Pigs The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 6,816 head. In the corresponding week in 1865, we received 5,127 ; in 1864, 5,173 ; in 1863, 2,458; in 1862, 837 ; and in 1861, 3,691. ,CONEY MARKET illustration, we will give yet another passage from that same at once intensely rhetorical and highly dra matic poem—the closing passage of all, leading Zaraides and his warriors down the "Secret Way" into the banqueting chamber of the beleaguered Ring Omartes—at the very moment when Argiope (at the instance of her father) is about, cup in hand, to select from the assembled chiefs the future partner of her throne and life, with whom she is to escape from warlike durance along the Secret Way into the guardian solitudes of the Scythian wilderness. Argiope, more than ever we may fancy 4g shame faced and blushing to be born so fair," has but Just discovered, upon the unlooked-for entrance of Zariades, the mysterious lover whom she has hitherto only beheld in her dreams : She passed along the floors, and stooped above A. form, that, as she neared, with arms outstretched, On beaded knees sunk down And took the wine-cup with a hand that trembled ; A form of youth—and nobly beautiful As Dorian models for lonian gods. "Again !" it murmured low, "0 dream, at last! at last! how I have missed thee !" And she replied, "The gods are merciful, keeping me true to thee when I despaired."- But now rose every guest, Rose every voice in anger and in teator ; For 10, the kneeler lifted over all The front of him their best had fled before—. "Zariades the Diode " Rang from each lip : from each sheath flashed the sabre: Thrice stamped the Persian's foot : to the first sound Ten thousand bucklers echoed back a clang ; The next, and the huge walls Shook with the war-shout of ton thousand voices : The third, and as between divided cloud Plames fierce with deathful pest an angry sun, The folds, flung rudely back, Disclosed behind one glare of serried armour. On either side, the Persian or the Scyth, The single lord of life and death to both, Stayed, by a look, vain strife ; And passing onward amid swords uplifted, girl's slight form beside him his sole guard, 8e paused before the footstool of the King, And in such tones as soothe The wrath of injured fathers, said submissive— " I have been guilty to the gods and thee Of man's most sinful sin,—ingratitude ; That which I pined for most Seen as a dream, my waking life rejected; " Now on my knees that blessing I implore. Clive me thy daughter ; but a son receive, And blend them both in one As the mild guardian of the Scythian River." The mode in which the development of the plot is Wrought out, in which it is ravelled and then un ravelled to the climax of this bewitching incident, we have purposely refrained from in any way indicating -- preferring rather to leave the fairy windings of the labyrinth to be revealed by the clue vouchsafed to the reader's hand by the fabricator alike of clue and labyrinth. Constructed though the varied Stanzas in this volume are upon principles of rhythm which are accurately enough defined by Sir Edward Lytton, as exceedingly simple in them selves, the charm of the novel experiment in English pdetry thus adventured upon lies especially in the fact, the perfectly indisputable fact as it appears to us, that no such scheme has over before been applied to the purposes of narrative. Suggested by, rather than imitated from, the metres actually in use among the ancients, the various metres, or some, at least, among the various metres here contrived by Sir Bul- Wer Lytton may be said, in the strictest meaning of the word, to have bee n by hi m actually in a manner invented ! They are no mere echoes caught up by him and adroitly imitated. It cannot be said of the author of these " Lost Tales of Miletus," that like the untutored " Oread's Son," of whom he sings, h e Can be in any way described as one merely— " Breathing a soul into the hollow reed !" It IS . rather as though, while— ii • • . . there flashed into his hand A. shell-like instrument with golden strings— * * * * * * ------ Carelessly he swept the chords, And the lyre spoke ; spoke as if all the thoughts, Passions, and powers, and dreams, Coiled in the brain or smouldering in the bosom, had found long-pined-for egress—As a bird Caged from its birth content, abruptly hears One on wings poised in heaven, Blending with days, its own melodious gladness. And yet, after all has thus been said, there is never theless one other adventurous employment of his mas tell over the world of harmonies latent in the golden str ings of that shell-like instrument that we cannot but regret his never having once attempted, his ha ving, in truth, throughout the volume, purposely abstained from attempting—a circumstance arising either, , we presume, from an over fastidiousness or ' 4 l °m a lack of temerity : the avoidance, we mean, th roughout the whole volume of any one at tempt to employ the hexameter per se, or th e hexameter alternately with the pen tameter. Sir Edward Lytton in a manner excuses himself no doubt towards the close of his Prefatory remarks, for inasmuch as he has, in point 43 ! f act, intentionally avoided both hexameter and p e ntameter. But he so excuses himself we cannot but tilMk inadequately. " For certain kinds of poetry," ha Bays, the hexameter, when in the hands of a blaster, is, no doubt, admirably well suited." Why not in this ? Why not in the hands of this master of many metres ? For—frankly let us say at once— We fail to recognise the force of his assertion when he observes that " Neither the hexameter nor the alternate hexameter and pentameter would be ap propriate to my mode of treating these stories, in Which, for the most part, I have sought to bring out dramatic rather than epic or elegiac elements of interest, not without aim at that lyrical brevity and com pression of incident and description, which is le ss easily attainable in the metres referred to than 41 c omposite measures of shorter compass and an d more varied caesura." Again, we must heeds protest that we altogether fail here to recog nise the force of the argument thus emphatically insisted upon. The very reference made imme latelybefore this to Whewell's charming translation of the "Herman and Dorothea," to say nothing W hatever of the prior allusion to Longfellow's " Evan geline," defeats, as it appears to us, Sir Edward's " 11 1 argument as directed against the employ faent of the hexameter in narrative poems, no mat ter of what length or brevity. Dramatic force and i rriea.l comp ress i on , as i t seems to us, are hardly else attainable in the rhythmic flow of the hexameter - and certain are we that it would have proved 8° in Sir Balwer Lytton's own hands if he bad but adventured upon this one additional experiment than in any one of the rhymeless stanzas he .44 here contrived for his own immediate P u rPoee so very ingeniously. Extending to no .1.,?131 . re tha n e i g h t poems in all, " The Lost Tales of as they are here recounted, are as widely ritrasted in their character as well could be. To t / i v° cmly would we take excepti on a s of compara velY inferior excellence'—the remaining six having eh of the m except i onal mer i ts peculiarly their own. r enthralling interest and dramatic power we pr id still give the palm to " The Secret Way." re r delicate and refined graces of fancy, graces hi rkable f or w h at may b e termed the i r contem _lve and i n t rospect i ve suggest i veness commend 4 commen d the Legend of Sicily. For the rare ingenuity b," Le nced in th e i n t r i ca t e e l a b orat i on o f t h e p l ot o f ei n o alf-forgotten story the meed of commendation cc 1:1 g 8 to " Cydippe or the Apple." For a sweetness mus ical as is Ap o ll o ' s l u t e " t o th a t mourn f u l l egen d breat hed a ane w as f rom t h e myst i c reed over the en ho,silee to the Grotto of Pan at Ephesus, in the brief in dedicated to the history of " Corinna." Be yond all the seven companion poems, however, com rißecl withinth em the compass of the volume—beyond li . in originality, in power, in the Ler e d hti ng memory of it when once mas a - would, upon mature consideration, - ceorcl p oei , highest praise of all to the remarkable co mmemorative of the mythical story of Ypaus. it. A Death and Sisyphus" is the title of tiona -o f nd. it is extraordinary if only for this excep able 8° 611btrle aln heas°ll—that it com bi nes i n so v i v id yet in. an mtaninser the Humorous and theb rible. 'Voluptu respect it is alone compar of the way to that won d rous combinatio nous and the Pathetic, of Love iu and Rerror • , in " The B r id e o f C or i nth " of Goethe, Whi c h +l , e thought o f Z av i er de Maistre is n reali sed i creatures cr eatures of bloo m i ng fl es h and b lood, most beyond au once beautif u l an d ' l oathsome, the power of utterance— HER MAJESTY• -4. - OSBORNE, Saturday. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Helena. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Communion Service was read by the Rev. the Subdean, the Rev. J. V. Povah, and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan. Anthem—" I have set God" (Goldwin). Sung by Messrs. Barnby, J. Foster, M. Smith, and Lewis Thomas. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan from Isaiah, ch. xxi., verses 11, 12. Parliamentary Banquets. The Earl and Countess Russell entertained the Earl of Minto, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, Lord and Lady Dufferin, Lord Eliot, Hon. Henry Cowper, M.P., Mr. George Trevelyan, Miss Peel, Mr. Fonblanque, &c., at dinner, at their residence in Chesham-place. . . _ The Right - Hon. the Speaker gave his first Par liamentary full-dress dinner on Saturday evening last to the following noblemen and gentlemen : The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Marquis of Hartington, Lord F. Cavendish, Right Hon. Viscount Castlerosse, Viscount Enfield, Lord C. Paget, C. 8., Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G.C.8., Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Right Hon. W. Cowper, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Hon. F. G. Baring, Right Hon. Milner Gibson, Right Hon. William Monsell, the Judge Advocate-General, Hon. T. Austin Bruce, Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, Hon. Henry Brand, the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate, the Attorney-General for Ireland, the Solicitor-General, the Solicitor-General for Scotland, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Childers, Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. Stansfeld, Colonel Kingscote, Mr. Dodson, Mr. Graham, Rev. Charles Merivale, Chaplain ; Mr. Alfred Denison, the Secretary. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli ga►e a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence, Gros venor-gate. There were present the Larl of Tyrone, Viscount Royston, Lord Eustice Cecil, the Hon. Frederick Stanley, the Hon. Gerard Noel, the Hon. Thomas De Grey, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Colonel Loyd Lindsay, Mr. Guinness, Mr. Graves, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Williams, Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Walrond. SURREY THEATRE.—That the unwonted depres sion of Miss Avonia Jones on the first performance of " East Lynne " on Monday last may be duly explained, we are authorised to state, what is not generally known, that the lady, though she has never changed her profes sional name, is the widow of Mr. G. V. Brooke, whose sad fate in the London must be familiar to all our readers. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The last " spiral ascent" of the surprising globe-roller, Senor Ethardo, was made on Saturday; at least his last performance for the pre sent. Mr. Manns previously gave one of his excellently arranged concerts, including selections from Mendels sohn's "Lurley," Vincent Wallace's " Lurline," and Silchers part-song " Lurley," with Madame Rudersdoff, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Patey as principal vocalists. The palace was illuminated at dusk, and upwards of 6,000 visitors bore witness to the attractions of a Crystal Palace Saturday. PASTORAL BY ARCHBISHOP MANNING.—Dr. Manning, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, issued his Lenten Pastoral yesterday. It was read pub licly in all the Roman Catholic places of worship in the district of the metropolis under his spiritual care, and treats particularly of the " three evangelical good works — fasting, alms, and prayer." At one part of the address the Archbishop writes :—" Signs of evil are everywhere. The words spoken on the first day of this year by the Sovereign Pontiff warn us of the perils which hover about his sacred presence. No two nations of the world are in amity; between almost all a secret and in tense animosity exists. Mutual resentments and defiance keep old wounds open. Sedition is undermining every people. The modern spirit of nationality is bearing its own fruit. It has been used as a lever to wrench fragments from tho unity of the Church, and to overthrow the government of the Vicar of Christ; it must now be ex tinguished within our own borders. All the States of the Old World and the New seem to be sick at heart; and there is little wisdom in rulers, and little confidence in the power and stability of Governments. Besides all this, the hand of God is visible in shadow. A murrain wastes our herds, destroying and tainting the food of man, and a pestilence which walketh in darkness, for no man can discern or control it, hangs over us, suspended for a mo ment, to descend upon us unless God avert, when winter is gone. Add to all this, the sins of this land, past and present, against the faith and the church of Jesus Christ, against His precepts, and the honour of his Blessed Mother ; the multitudes who are dying every day out of the fold of salvation, without sacrament or pastor; the millions who lie in the unconsciousness of spiritual death, corrupt and corrupting one another ; the monsters and portents of crime committed day by day among us ; and, lastly, our own unworthiness of ,all great graces. ' For it is time that judgment should begin at the house of God.' The sins of Catholics are darker than the sins of other men, for their light is greater, and the grace they have re ceived is enough to make them saints." PEACOCK AS A WRITER OF FICTION, says the Athenzuni very charmingly, is too little known by the readers of our generation ; but Shelley's executor, the author of "Headlong Hall,' 0 0 " Nightmare Abbey,' , " Maid Marian " (with its charming lyrics), ‘` Crotchet Castle," " Melincourt," and, the other day, "Gryll Grange," —the friend and collaborator of Bentham, and Mill, and Grote, must not pass to his rest, at the patriarchal age of eighty, without a tribute to his racy wit, his quaint read ing, and his quiet command of mother-tongue. Rated among novelists, Peacock, in one respect, counts for little. He never tried for plot; he had small descriptive power. Rated as a satirist who shot Folly as it flew, and could exhibit the philosophies and paradoxes of the time with an epigrammatic keenness, and withal a genial recognition of all that is best, highest, and most liberal, he demands no common praise, and will hold no common place whenever the story of ultra-liberal literature shall come to be written. One brief, whimsical volume comprises the best of his novels; but there is more in that book than in the seventy volumes of those prolific folk who lay stories—six a year as fast as circulating-library readers will devour them, to be forgotten as soon as devoured—[ls the Athenaeum tnink ing of Mr. Anthony Trollope?]—Peacock's tales will be returned to. They are, in some sort, already classics, AND COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is active, and for the moment the tendency is not, as was expected, easier. The rates for first-class bills continue to range from 74 per cent. _ _ An amount of bar gold equal to £21,000 was taken to the Bank on Saturday. The half-yearly report of Barned's Banking Com pany recommends a di7idend of Zs. per share, free of income tax, being about 6f per cent. per annum from the dates of the calls. The half-yearly report of the European Bank recommends a dividend of 6 per cent. From the manufacturing districts the accounts for the past week have generally been favourable. At Manchester moderate transactions have been effected in both cloths and yarns, and a slight recovery has taken place in prices. The woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has continued seasonably active ; while at Birming ham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton there has been increased activity in most departments, owing to large orders for home requirements and for ship ment, chiefly to America. Two O'CLOCK. According to .Reuter's telegram the French Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68f. 77c. Inanimate With a more confident feeling the Funds and other Securities have improved. The amelioration is not of magnitude, but it denotes a better tone, though the transactions have continued to be of a limited character. Consols are 1 higher at 861 87 for money, and 874 1 for the Bth March. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 861 87 ; Exchequer Bills, 7s. to 2s. dis ; Bank Stock, 247 ; India 5 per Cents, 1021 1 ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., 101. The quotations for Foreign Stocks generally share an upward tendency. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 381 1; Mexican, 211 22 ; do. New, 19 4 ; Greek, 13 ; Spanish Passive, 27 ; the Certifi cates, 151 16 ; Italian, 604 ; the Confederate Loan, 41 5j- ; Brazilian Scrip, 1 11 prem. ; and Egyptian Railway Scrip, 1.1 prem. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 671; Erie Shares, 51i 52 ; and Illinois, 7414. Business in the Railway Share Market has been inactive, although, in some instances, prices are a shade firmer. Great Eastern have improved 4, and Great Western and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln each 1. In the Foreign and Colonial lines there is not much variation, but Grand Trunk of Canada have advanced 2 per cent., to 49 50. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain very dull. London and County are dealt in at 79i ; Alliance at 264 ; Hudson Bay Company at 161 171; Joint Stock Discount at 4i 0 ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co., at 191 1. Charles Lafitte and Co.'s shares are quoted 3 31 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, March 6 B7 3 per Cent. Reduced B6} New 3 per Cent B6f 7 New 2f 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 — Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. 7 2 dis Do. £5OO 7 2 dis Do £lOO and £200 Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, loir 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. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian'Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1863 7 71! 5 Do Account Do. Scrip, £35 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent B2, Do. Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Milian 6 per Cent Do. 44 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 - Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue — Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 921 Do £lOO Bonds ';reek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons In- Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account Tuatemala 5 per Cent. — -talian 5 per Cent, 1865 Do Account Do. Maremmana Railway — M e=ican 3 per Cent Do. Account Dn 1864 — 1)o 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 — Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Peruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 45f Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 44 per Cent. 1850 Du 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 - ' Do 5 per Cent. 1862 II 901, 14 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 94 Sardinian 5 per Cent Do Account Do £ICO Bands Do. 14 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent Do. Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive 261 .1 Do Account — Spanish, Cert. of Coup not funded l5l Do Account l5l 1 Swedish 4 per Cent. Do. 4} per Cent. 1864 — Turkish 6 - Cent. 1854 — per Do Account., Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do 5 per, Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip 3Bl Do Scrip, £35 paid Do Account Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto account Do 6 per Cent, 1864 36 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull 6l+ Do 4per Cent. Certificates 96i French Rentes 3 per Ceut. Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. .... Do Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for money Do. Account B7l 1 A RICH BALE OF COTTON.—Many cotton bales arriving in New York have to be overhauled, dirt and stained cotton thrown out, and then rebaled. The other day two labourers in discharge of this duty found in one of the bales $27,000 in gold. One of them proposed to the other to divide and keep mum, but the other said he would report, to the boss. The purchaser of the cotton claimed the gold, and the seller claimed it because the cotton was not delivered, and for other reasons, and probably the court will decide to whom this rich mine belongs. The purchaser gave the two labourers $4OO each in green backs. AID TO THE OREGON RAILROAD. —Recently Representative Bedwell introduced a bill granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to Portland, Oregon, and which will probably soon be favourably re ported on by the Select Committee on the Pacific Rail road. The bill also authorises the Puget Sound and Columbia River Railroad Company to construct a road to unite with others on the Pacific coast. The usual grant 9f lauds and other privileges are conferred. 91 100 91 93 16i 16i 4} 4 0 92 04 84 C 6 1 40 9) 101 90 92 66 88 64 66 8 82 98i 99i 98 99 98 99 9 10 15 17 57,) 690 I 1 18 20 6 7 46 4f 36 4 IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WREN. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Aalborg 4 ... 6 ... ... ... 8 Antwerp — ... 1843 ... ... 45 ... Boulogne 6l ... 544 ... ... ... _ Bremen . ll ... ... ~. ... ~, Gothenburg...... 217 ... ... ... ... 39 Cadiz — ... ... ... ....... ... Calais.. — ... ... ... ... Dordt. - ... ... -- ... Dunkirk — ... ... ... ... ---- Delfzyh. Hamburg l3 ... ... ... ... Harlingen 443 ... 120 ... ... 14 ... Oporto ... ... ... .. ... . Ostend ... 107 ... ... 2 ... Rotterdam 526 ... 2223 ... ... 255 ... 315 Tonning Total 1,340 4,843 ... ... 271 362 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1865 1864 llO2 3481 ... ... 477 113 1863 550 ... 1447 407 4 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibitea and sold hi the Gloat Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Feb. 13, 1865, and this day, Monday, Feb. 12, 1866. Per 81be. to sink the offal. Feb. 13, 1865. Feb. 13, 1866. ad s d sd s d. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 Bto 4 2 3 4to 8 8 Second quality do. Prime large oxen s'o 5 2 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do 6 0 6 2. 6 4 6 8 Lambs • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Large coarse calves 4 4 5 0 5 0 5 6 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 8 4 8 5 0 Beasts 4,550 5,340 Sheep 15,800 20,930 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Feb. 15, 1864.—Beasts, 8,690 — sheep, 14,650—calves, 212—pigs, 420. Feb. 16, 1863—Beasts, 4,210 —sheep, 15,760—calves, 117 —pigs, 310. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of wheat on cale are moderate. For most qualities there is a fair demand, at the annexed quota tions : Per Sib by the carcase. ads d Inferior beef 3 0 3 4 Middling do. 3 6 310 Prime large do 4 0 4 2 Verne small do 4 4 4 6 Large pork 3 10 4 10 gd e d Inferior mutton 3 6 3 10 Middling mutton 4 0 4 6 Prime do 4 8 5 0 Veal 4 0 5 4 Small pork 5 0 5 6 Lamb, Os Od to Os Od. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. These markets are well supplied with potatoes. For good alid fine samples the trade ruled firm, at full prices ; but for inferior produce the demand is in a most inactive state. The imports into ondon last week ware unim pm tant. Kent and Essex regents sos to 90s per ton. Scotch do. Yorkshire do 6os to 95s ~ Flukes 7os to 105 s ~ „ Rocks 45s to 60s 1, TALLOW. The tallow trade is steady to-day, at 46s 9d for P.Y.O on the spot. Town tallow commands 45s 3d net cash. Rough fat is selling at 2s 4d'per Blbs. Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. Stock this day 47,215 62,845 48,039 42,593 44s Od to 40s 9d 41s 3d 463 9d to Price of Y.C. ......... —s Od —s Od 41$ 6d —s Od Delivery last week 1,575 1,630 2,005 • 2,525 Ditto from June 1 62,112 6 69,734 81,977 Arrival last week ...... 175 65 19 1,592 Ditto from June 1 ...... 71,322 80,074 72752 92,087 Price of Town BOROUGH HOP. For the time of year the demand for hops for homo con sumption is tolerably active. The export inquiry is good, and prices of all descriptions of produce rule firm. The import into London last week was 144 bales from Ham burg, 17 from Bremen, and 79 bales from Rotterdam. New Mid and East Bents Bos to 190 s per cwt. New Weald of Bents New Sussex Yearlings loos to 140 s 17 BRITISII Cam. Consol. ti old, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caration East Cam Brea east Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'i Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StA übyn(G wen. Gr• at L ‘otey, limited Great South Tolgus•— • Great Wheal tm,y .. . G. Wheal Vor (Heist qJ Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Hingston Downs ...... Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Va11ey.......... viwyndy Iron Ore, lim New Se ton ........ • • North Roskear ........ Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty •• Prosper United— Pr.videnee Uny Lulant S. Caradon (St. Cleer).. South Condurrow ...... S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park ............ Tin Croft .............. Vigra and Clogan, West Isassett (Mogan .. W. Caradon (Llskeard West Chi verton ....... . West Seton. .... . ...... Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton (L .... Wheal Trelawney is. 2.1.0 294 2.14.6 31 • 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 37 39 410 930 2 78 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 3 4 8 10 79 82 190 200 95 1(0 27 3) 3 5 230 23 17 IS FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Pall's. and San Francisco gua. 7 per cent. , 15 i Belgian Eastern Junction, Namur and Liege, gua. 6 per cent. pf., 191 1 ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), Recife and San Frandsen (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 13 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 151 FOHNION KIN ;cp. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 4/ 6 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 74 BAN KS. Albion, E . firn.. 261 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 121 australabia, 71} Bank of Egypt, 32 Chartered 4 , 1.er. of India, London, and China, 45 Consolidated Bank, lim., 91 Itnglish and American, Lim, 5} Eng ish Joint Stock, Bin., ioi European Bank, Um., 12 41 Hindustan, China, and .Japan, Um., Ditto, issued a , 2 PL. Ditto, new, 17 # Imperial Ottoman, .3 Ditto, new, 12 Land Mortgage Bank of India, rim., 4 London and Brazilian (lim.), Ditto, new. 71 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 221 London and Comity, 79 ? London Joint Stock, 471 National Provincial of England. Ditto, d and 3cl issue, 45 Union of Aualfalia, 521 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 3 Ceylon Company, 9' City of Loniion Real Property, lien. , 4 Credit Foncler and HOWlier of England, 81 8 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lirn.. 4& Fore-street Warehouse, Lim., itt Gen. Credit and Finanat 01 L /nctou, lim., oi Hudson's Bay, 17 1 Imporiil Mercantile Credit A sso., Urn.. bf International Financial Joint Stock Discount. lira., 41 London Financial Association. lira . 1 4 London General Omnibus Company, lim, 3 London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron bbip, lira. 11 National Discount company. Pi Overend, Gurney, and Co`, lint, 191 I 1 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, Ditto, new,` - o .f 50 Smith, Knight,ana.Co., Um., 13f South African Mortgage and lnveatment, lim. , 11 Unlversa t Marine. 1 Laurance, litre., 31 Upper Assam Tea, lira., 4f THE CASE OF CHARLOTTE WINSOR.—The solici tors for the defence of the culprit Charlotte Winsor, whose execution was fixed to take place on Monday, hav ing given notice to the Home-office that the Attorney- General had issued his fiat for a writ of error to the Ex chequer Chamber, on the ground that the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench is in direct opposition to a decision given by the judges in Ireland, where, when a jury was discharged on a criminal charge without giving a verdict, the proceedings became illegal, the Home Secretary has granted a further respite till after Easter term. 121 1 126 51- 61 9* I tot 6o 137,8 a 7 1 it Wit 1214 i i SEEDS, Linseed and rapeseed Vie;;;e7-3 , firm, but in agricultural seeds very few transactions took place. Linseed cakes moved off freely, at full prices. Cottonseed cakes, how ever, were a dull sale. WOOL. Owing to the renewed activity of the Liverpool cotton market the wool trade has exhibited more steadiness, but transactiors have not been augmented in any material. Prices, however, rule firm, and without quotable change from last week. Since the close of last sales the arrivals of wool have been, as far as the Cape and Australian colo nies are concerned, 37,706 bales, viz., 1,642 bales from Sydneyand Queensland, 12,185 Port Philip, 1,216 Adelaide, 196 Van Dipmen's Land, 366 New Zealand, and 22,094 bales from the Cape of Good Hope. Current prices of English wool per lb. d I d Fleeces—South Down h ogets 1 81 Half-bred do 1 11k2 Oi Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 7 110 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing 1 6 1 10 Combing LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) CAMPBELL V. LORD WENLOCK. The hearing of this case was resumed, and the following witnesses were called for the defence : Benjamin Kearsley said that he had been em ployed on different occasions by Lord Wenlock to work at houses which he had taken from time to time in London, and was engaged in taking down bedsteads at 49, Eaton-place on the 28th of April last. He foubd 16 bugs in the front attic at the head-board. He sent for Mr. Abbott, and during the absence of his messenger he killed seven more bugs. A housemaid of Colonel Campbell's was at work in the house, and she admitted to him that the room had not been cleaned for three or four months before. He sent for some water and soda, and found afterwards between 20 and 30 bugs. There were enough of the vermin to infest a whole house in warm weather. He put up the bed that came from his lordship's house in Yorkshire, which were quite clean and packed in clean matting. He examined them carefully. The witness was cross-examined. He understood that bugs took three weeks before the birth, and 11 weeks before they became an insect. By the Lord Chief Justice—He did not know when bugs laid their eggs. (A laugh.) Mr. Bovill—Were these young bugs ? Witness they were large, and he thought they were about 18 months old. (Laughter.) John Bushnell -said he had heard the last wit ness's evidence, which was quite correct. Ellen Hardcastle said she was one of the house maids in Lord Wenlock's family. She went to the house in. Eaton-place on Saturday, the 22d of April last. She slept in the back attic, and something bit her during the night. She struck the light, but could find nothing. The next night she slept in the back room below, but was not disturbed then. The day before she was with Mr. Abbott in the best bed room where the four-post bed was, and while the bed was being cleaned something was brushed on Mr. Abbott's face. He put his hand to his head and killed a bug. He handed it to her and said is not this a new thing ? (Laughter.) On the Friday after she was in the front attic with Mr. Abbott, he killed about 18 or 20 bugs. The next day she found five or six bugs on the floor crushed. Henry Tiffin—He was a professor of natural philosophy with respect to these insects. (Laughter.) He made it his business to destroy them, and he was considered efficient. Bugs increased very rapidly. If the weather were warm eggs were laid iu June or early in July. • After the eggs were laid the bug came out of them in about a fortnight. (Laughter.) One bug could produce as many as 90 during the season. Bugs travelled about the house, and on one occasion he had seen a troop of 15 walking leisurely up stairs. (Laughter.) Mr. Bovill—l suppose they walk down stairs also ? Witness--Oh, yes. Mr. Bovill—Up stairs, down stairs, and into my lady's chamber. (Great laughter.) This closed the evidence for the defence. His lordship having summed up, The jury then retired, and after an absence of one hour and 40 minutes, returned a verdict for plaintiff for 500 guineas, the full amount claimed. The Fatal Accident on the Gnat Western Railway. INQUEST THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LEA3fINGTON, Feb. 12. An inquest was held at the Town-hall this day on the body of Daniel Giles, who was killed on the Great Western Railway, near Leamington, on Saturday. After hearing the evidence, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of " Accidental death ; and that no blame whatever attached to any of the com pany's servants." The Exploration of Palestine. The following letter (dated Feb. 9), from Mr. George Grove, the Hon. Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund, will be found deeply interesting not only in itself, but as affording distinct and posi tive evidence that the work of exploration under taken in the Holylands will be carried on now, is being carried on both systematically and ener getically I have received a further report from Captain Wilson, in charge of the first exploring party of this association, dated Banias (Caesarea Philippi), Jan. 2. " The party left Damascus on the 28th December, and travelling by S'as'a and Jeba reached Banias on the 31st. They had very bad weather, with sleet and snow every day. The country between Jeba and Kuneiterah was half under water. Topography.—The positions of Damascus, Kaukal Jeba (not marked on the maps), Banias, and the junction of the Hasbany and Banias rivers, have been fixed astronomically, and the calculations made both for latitude and longitude. A reconnaissance sketch of the route from Damascus to Banias has been made showing great discrepancies in the best maps. A reconnaissance sketch was in progress of the district round Banias to show the junction of the three streams of the Jordan and the course of the Wadys near the town. The snow is, however, so thick and so low down as to prevent much being done in the Wadys them selves. Archwology.—Plans have been made of the great Mosque at Damascus, of Bab Shurky (the Roman Eastern Gate) and of the Mound of Tel-Salhiych. Excavations had been made in three places in the mound, but with no decisive result except the discovery of ono sculptured slab of quasi-Assyrian character. Tho mound was originally formed of a compact mass of sun-dried bricks, with ter races, of which traces still remain. It is now much ruined, and the masonry has probably been used in the buildings at the foot of the mound. Mr. Consul Rogers has under taken to transport the slab to Beyrout, and the further ex ploration of the Tel will probably be carried on by him. Photographs have boon taken as follows—of the Mosque at Damascus (8), which with those taken by Mr. Bedford at the Prince of Wales's visit will afford a very good illus tration of this remarkable basilica : of Bab Shurky : of the city wall opposite Tomb of St. George : of arch and iwneenlyt h b u o d o k r : 1) o a z f a n a i i c • h : e o s f a h n o d u s g r e i o n t t t o h : e o c f i t t y h e : f o o f ü ß h a t a n f i n a s h p f e r e a o d d m i of the castle from various points (5). The geology of the country passed through had been carefully observed, and noted. It was intended to leave Banias on the 6th of January for Deir Mimas, at the bend of the Litany, and thence to follow the ridge to Kedes : proceeding from Kedes, by Kefr Birim, Meiron, and Safed, to Tell Hum, and Khan Minyeh on the Lake of Galilee. This would give opportunity for surveying the ridge dividing the Hasbany and Litany and the district round Jebel Jurmuk and Safed, whilst excavations, plans, and photographs are being made among the ruins at Tell Hum. The health of the party, " adds Mr. Grove at the end of his communication," was good. Heartily and earnestly we wish God speed to this enterprise. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 9.—O'MALLEY IRWIN V. SIR GEORGE GREY, BART.—IN ERROR.—Master Benettl of the Court of Common Pleas, attended at the bar of the House this day, with the plaintiff, and delivered in the judgment roll in furtherance of tho above appeal case. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY. LINCOLN HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) 100 to 8 agst Saccharometer (offered,) 100 to 8 agst Mephistopheles (offered) 100 to 7 agst Gemma (taken) 16 to 1 agst V aniant (taken) 16 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (off— take 20 to 1) 16 to 1 agst Pantaloon (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst East Lynn (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 6 agst Laura (taken) 20 to 1 agst CurtolVin (taken) 25 to 1 agst Innellan (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Thomastown (taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 10 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) CHESTER CUP. 500 to 15 agst Sandal (taken); TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. sto 2 agst Lord Lyon (offered) 7to 2 agst Student (off-4 to 1 taken freely) DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Auguste (taken) 25 to 1 agst Janitor (offered) 50 to 1 agst Stratheonan (taken freely) Lincoln . MA. Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring AP Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Blackheath dr Woolwich 2 Czttterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring MA' Ascot Spring Salisbury 1 I Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring JU. Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 JU. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract 9 Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 I Worcester -LY. Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l AUG Brighton 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham l4 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPT] Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB OCT( Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October— 8 Curragh NO YE Lincoln Liverpool RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. FEBRUARY. 20 I Nottingham Spring RC H. Croxton Park l6 Northampton . ......... 20 Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 2l Epsom Sun mer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter 28 Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O UST. :MBER. Richmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall IBER. Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester :DOER. I Shrewsbury I Leamington Hunt l9 The Cattle Plague. DEPUTATION TO EARL RUSSELL (THIS DAY.) A deputation of noblemen and gentlemen, from the Royal Agricultural Society of England, had an interview with Earl Russell this afternoon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, to present various resolutions passed at the Council of the Society, urging the Government to adopt measures to arrest the progress of the cattle plague. The resolutions having been handed to Earl Russell, His lordship said he quite agreed with the depu tation. That the, cattle plague was incrcazing - was unfortunately too true, but the steps that were being taken he hoped would tend to arrest its progress. His hon. friend Sir George Grey would that night introduce a bill in the House of Commons which he (Earl Russell) thought would embrace nearly the whole of the .recommendations of the council. The measure would make it compulsory that all cattle infected with the disease should be imme diately slaughtered, but it did not propose, neither did the resolutions now submitted to him say that the sound animals should be sacri ficed. The bill would also prevent the removal of cattle from the farm on which they had been in fected. The refuse of the animals was also to be speedily dealt with. The bill proposed to assimi late the powers of county and borough magis trates, and to make their action uniform. The bill would give the power to levy a county rate, and also to lay a tax of so much for each head of cattle. The prohibition of the transit of animals by road or rail was also provided with certain limits as to time, and also animals imported by sea would only be allowed to leave the ship for immediate slaughter. The matter was one of great difficulty, but he hoped, with the blessing of God, that the action of the Government would be successful in stopping the dreadful disease. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Mar. a. Ditto, by French packet Feb. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 22. China. Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Feb. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles ........ Feb. /3 Falkland Islands ................ Gibraltar, via Southampton ............. Feb. 13. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Feb. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. 13. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 22 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilte 3 Feb. 13 Newfoundland Portugal • • ....Mar 6. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Feb. 0. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tencrifre Feb. 11. West Indies and Pacific, (except Bahamas, Cuba and Mexico • • ... F.. b. 33 Cuba and Mexico Feb. 28. Bahamas, via New Y ork. Mar_ s. Bermuda, ditto Feb. 11 Dn. COLENSO'S SUCCESSOR.—It is said that - , the title of the Bishop whom the Bishop of Capetown is about to consecrate in the place of Bishop Colenso, will be not the Bishop of Natal, but the Bishop of Pietermaritzburg. THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION A TEN THOUSAND POUNDER.—Retaining a reserve fund to meet outstanding liabilities of £4,000, the Committee of the late Dublin. Ex hibition state their net profits to amount to £lO,OOO. THE STEAMSHIP JEDDO.—The Peninsular 'and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have re ceived the following telegram :—The company's mail steamship Jeddo left Hongkong on the 15th January. She duly arrived at Point de Gallo and landed there all her passengers, mails, and cargo for Europe, and proceeded for Bombay. On the night of the 2d inst. Ishii ran on the Choul Kadu Shoal, about 15 miles south of Bombay. Sho had on board two passengers only, 76 boxes of specie, and a gene ral cargo from China. Two of the company's steamers were immediately sent to her assistance, and at the date of and specie, latest t e l egram (sth inst.) all mails, passengers, and specie, and 200 packages of cargo had been landed more d ore t Bombay ; 700 packages of merchandise still on bohai 4 , or less damaged. The company's agent telegraps, Ido not think the ship can bo saved." MISTAKING A GAROTTER.—,.. m is take at sy which is likely to have fatal results was ma de on Saturday morning. Mr. Joseph Ferguson,n a pianist, :h ss ed h been en was going home from a party at clock toowhich Crystal Adenhara gaged, and at half-past two o'cl followed him. Is P i a rt l d a d ce o , ck against w o s s w ta h n ic d h i n a g. p o bag, and Maddock thinking this i p e l i a o i u n s, olothes, named pace, and so did Maddock. thought his r ° F n a sehuro i gs n p u w s a o sn beings pcuarrrysuiendgbay Mr. Ferguson quickened also, with and lir. being leu : o ll: Then Mr. Ferguson, n the course of which Maddock Then began a struggle, H quicker garotter, u ran, uer He shouted for help. and two was stabbed in three pla k was taken to Guy's Hospital; and on sur rendered. Maddoc policemen came up, when Mr. Ferguson willingly ofantdhewMthwa:oddcaftemke ran n p Saturday afternoon the Greenwich police magistrate went there and took his deposition. Mr. Ferguson was brought , up at the police-court and remanded, 20}