The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND r , oMMERCI I. INTELL'Wt!Vot,i, TWELVE O'CLOCK Two o'CLocr Very little business has been going on to-day in the City, the attendance having been reduced to the minimum ; in fact, no engagements seem to have been made beyond those absolutely necessary. At Lloyds, the Jerusalem, and other centres of City commerce, the dealings entered into have been devoid of any special interest. At the Stock Exchange the transactions have been very limited, and many of the quotations have been depressed in consequence of the prevailing inactivity incidental to the midst of the holiday season. Con sols are 89i i for money, and 89i 90 for the ac count. The New Threes and Reduced are 88i 8 9i ; Annuities, 1385, 124 ; Exchequer Bills, 9s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 107 i ; ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., 100 i ; ditto 5f per Cents., 105 4 ; and ditto Debentures, loci. Foreign Stocks are very inactive and show slight decline. Turkish 5 per Cents. have receded +, to 321 I ; Mexican to 18; ; Greek to 131 14 ; Spanish Passive, however, remains firm, at 20i ; the Certificates, at 13i j ; Italian Stock has also fallen f, to 55i i. The New Russian Loan Scrip continues firm, at premium. In the Railway Share Market there is not much animation, the dealers being chiefly engaged with the liquidation ; in some instances, however, more firmness prevails. Midland and South- Eastern have each advanced 10s., and North Stafford, 1 ; While Great Northern have declined bs. ; London, Chatham, and Dover, and North-Western, each i; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines are very quiet, and show no material alteration in values. American securities are rather heavy. United States 5-20 Bonds have declined * to 72 I. Erie Shares remain at 46 47, while Illinois have advanced to 781 79i. Bank shares are quiet at about former rates. Alliance are dealt in at 18i and Consolidated at 41 1. In the Miscellaneous Market prices generally re main steady. Anglo-American Telegraph are 'narked 151 16k; Credit Foncier of England, 3-1 I; General Credit, 41 ; and National Discount Com 14fr. BRITISH TUNDS—ONIS O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Der Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 10 894 90 Nper Cent. Reduced BB4 94 ...ew 8 per Cent BBf 94 41 61 v 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 .Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, ex pi re sth AprillBBs 124 Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — E xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 9p m Do £5OO n pin an Do £lO zk of England Stock, 64 per , Cent ... pm INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Incliau otock, 104 per Cent., Apri11874... Ditto for Account — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — 80. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 - Do. 61 p er C en t. , M ay 1879 losf 5 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO pin Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. A rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 trazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-68-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 Do Account Do. £lOO Bonds - -enenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do. Account Do .elOO Bonds D Da ian 6 2 pe per r Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cent Do, 3 per Cent. Do. Do. 6 per Cent A B — t ' o lombian, , 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — „ Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 — u ntubian Principalities „, , io. Acc oun t di:ivador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant Do Deforted 4 3Yptian 7 per Cent. I„ )0 ., Second Issue vo £lOO Bonds „ Do. 1864 D 0,.., .£lOO Bonds 834 5 O uo. Government R a il wa y D e b en t ures. 8 5 4 44 54 reek 6 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 134 )o Account do. Coupons xt la temala 5 per Cent. t1;iall 5 per Cent 1865 Do, Account Do. M aremmana R a il way tiexicax 3 per Cent Do. Account Do. 1864 124 .. Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French ~41-ontevidean 6 per Cent. . aoorish Imperial 5 per Cent N ew Granada Do 3 per Cen B.„0. De ferral b uo Land Warrants (Hectares) ' eruvian 5 per C0nt.,86 15 Do Account P, O 44 per Cent. (Uribarren) V° 44 per Cent., 1862 I' Do Account c ortsguese 3 per Cent., 1853 B 0 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 434 4 3f ip U O . Account s' l lssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — 1) .„0 4f per Cent. 1850 D o 41 per Cent., 1860 DO 4- 20 3 per Cent. 1859 ~c 5 per Cent. 1862 DU. 5 per Cent. 1864 — " 0 . Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B6l 4 Do. do. .£lO paid la rdinian 5 per Cent 4 Do. A ccoun t tquish 3 per Cent B 0 Ace') unt 0 Ne w Deferred 324 1 2 0 Account uo Pa ss i ve 204 8 D 0 Acc. , unt — Panish C er t. o f C oup no t f un d e d 134 4 1) 0 Acco un t — W edish 4 per Cent. — O. 41 per Cent. 1864 - Do Scrip, £6O paid T urkish, 6 per Cent. 1854 7B - ", 0 . Accou n t D 0 6 per Cent. 1858 n o. A.ccount "0 £lOO Bonds - Do 6 per Cont. 1862 pc , nt ( r . c. Accou .£loo Bonds ' J o ~ 6 per Cent 1863 Do 5 Do, per C en t., 1865 Account v l) % 4 per Cent. Guarautood —. "4Wr i i 1 A + 0d 8 per y n ou., summilimilimm There has been a fair inquiry for money in the open market this morning, and the rates charged for the negotiation of first class paper range from 3/ to 3i present. The shares of the Belgian Public Works Com pany have improved their price to 1k to 1 prem. The following are the latest prices of bullion from the list of Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid :—Bar gold, 77s 9,1; do. parting, 77s lOid ; Spanish doubloons, 748 to 75s ; Mexican do. and South Ame rican, 73s 9d to 74s ; United States Eagles, 76s 2f d per standard ounce. Bar silver, 5s 0", ; do. con taining gold (5 gr. and upwards), 5s lid ; Mexican dollars, 4s Hid ; and cake silver, 5s sid per stan dard ounce. Atlantic and Great,Western Railway Debentures are steady at 54 56, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 44 42. The directors of the North British Railway have issued a statement of the liabilities of the company at the end of July last, with a proposition as to the manner in which the emergency may be met. The liabilities amounted to £1,875,625, and this sum they propose to liquidate by the creation of a special preference stock with a dividend not exceed ing 53- per cent. per annum ; this stock to rank on the revenues of the company immediately after the interest on loans and dividends on debenture stocks. The directors consider that this is, under the cir cumstances, a fair and beneficial arrangement for all classes of the shareholders, and will not materially increase the burden upon revenue. They Also indicate their intention, should circumstances warrant, of applying to Parliament for permission to postpone, vary, or abandon works already sanctioned, and of creating a lien over the revenues of such executed works as they may resolve to proceed with, which will give undoubted security to the parties furnishing the capital. Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 — Ditto 11 per Cent. — Dividends on the above payable in Loudon Austrisn, 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 4} per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2i per Cont. Ex. 12 Gail — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....: — French itentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — ltaliaL 3 per Cont. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do. 5 per Cent. Account 551 TWO O'CLOCK, Consols, Money B9l i Do. Account, Jan. B9i 90 dR . ec. 25. s yestcr- Osborne at four Lnied by Louise, Beatrice, servants' Alajesty iuted the re in at- the hon . Duck- ), Prin rvice, at ere the rth offi he Holy also at ay. tam. Day. resents, high- In the iarehed annual with a with a ,ernoon :layers, cling in t New in the attrae- which fight of joints Lccord- R o yal lug at Duke Lieut.- which d inl- The Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market opens with a brisk demand. Sales pro. ably 15,000 bales or more. EXPEDITION TO MATTO-GRO3SO. AWFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE BRAZILIANS, Our readers will remember that nearly two years ago a well-equipped Brazilian force started overland from Rio Janeiro to re-conquer from the Para guayans the province of Matto-Grosso. The ex pedition was fully supplied with provisions, moun tain artillery, &c., and accompanied by a corps of Engineers to erect a passage through the woods, mountains, &c., that intervened. The same journey was made by the Spaniards in the 17th century, but the present expedition found insuperable dif ficulties. At one time they were delayed two months in crossing a river not marked on any map, and the men were constantly occupied in killing enormous snakes, as will be seen from the first part of the diary over a year ago at Rio and reproduced in our columns. We now take from the Siglo the following melan choly account of the second year of the expedition : " A correspondence, dated August 14, from the banks of the Rio Dabaco, gives a most heart-rend ing account of the sufferings and privations of the expedition to Matto-Grosso. The soldiers, reduced to hunger and nakedness, died in great numbers and amid the most horrible sufferings; the first symptom was a swelling of the legs, after which the patient wore away and lost all strength. The prices for the commonest articles were exorbitant---a hard dollar for six sheets of letter paper, and ten dollars for a bottle of brandy. " The Paraguayans had evacuated Miranda, but kept all the roads guarded ; their forces still held the banks of the Aquidauna, and the following places :--Port Souza, Maria Dominguez, Taqua - russu, Furquilba, and Nioac. " The Brazilians counted on assistance from the tribes of Guaycurues and Galdocos, who had been armed with Minie rifles. " It must be borne in mind that the Brazilians have never lost possession of the capital, Cuyaba, but all the other important points, Curumba, Fort &c., are in the p ower o f t h e Coimbra, Olympo, Paraguayans."—From the Standard of Buenos Ayres. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, (BY TELEGRAPH. GuAvzsEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 25 —Behrens, from Memel. Arrived, Dec. 26—Hannah, from Guernsey ; Bleneatha, from Shanghai ; Eliza Forbes, from Dantzic ; Orion, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Holland, steamer, from Ostend. Sailed—Vigilant, steamer, for Calais ; Rosa Eliza, for Dieppe ; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne ; Sir R. Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, 'Wednesday Morning. Anchored—Theusia, from London, for Buenos Ayres Elizabeth, from London, for Bathurst. UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. Mails for the United States are made up in London every Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6 o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be posted half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day, by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning mails are taken by the Southampton steamers. Mails from the United States aro due in London on Mondays and Thursdays of each week. Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates : —Not exceeding 2 oz., id. ; above 2 oz., but not exceeding 3 oz., 6 , 1.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16 ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At the same_ rate of postage, any Pamphlet not weighing more than 8 oz (even though it be not a periodical publication) may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon. This postage is only the British portion, a further sum being charged on delivery. The periodical works or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or books (except those specified above), addressed to the places above named, are liable to lettei rate of postage. There must be no writing, or other marks upon such periodical works, pamphlets, &c., or upon the covers, ex cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing, except the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent and the names and addresses of the senders Any other writing, &c., will render the packetsliablo to letter rates of postage. A POOR PARSON'S ROOM.—It was a wretched, poverty-stricken room. By degrees the carpet had dis appeared, which had been laid down some nine or ten years since, when they bad first come to Hoggelstock, and which even then had not been new. Now nothing but a poor frag ment of it remained in front of the fire-place. In the middle of the room there was a table which had once been large ; but one flap of it was gone altogetlyr, and the other flap sloped grievously towards the floor, the weakness of old age having fallen into its legs. There were two or three smaller tables about, but they stood propped against walls, thence obtaining a security which their own strength would not give them. At the further end of the room there was an ancient piece of furniture, which was always called "papa's secretary," at which Mr. Crawley customarily sat and wrote his sermons, and did all work that was done by him within his house. The man who had made it, some time in the last century, had intended it to be a locked guardian for domestic documents, and the receptacle for all that was most private in the house of some paterfamilias. But beneath the hands of Mr. Crawley it always stood open ; and, with the exception of the small space at which he wrote, was covered with dogs-eared books, from nearly all of which the covers had disappeared. There were there two odd volumls of Euripides, a Greek Testament and Odyssey, a duodecimo Pindar, and a miniature Anacreon. There was half a Horace—the two first bdoks of the Odes at the beginning, and the De Arte Poetica at the end, hav ing disappeared. There was a little bit of a volume of Cicero, and there were Cmsar's Commentaries, in two volumes, so stoutly bound that they had defied the com bined ill-usage of time and the Crawley family. All these were piled upon the secretary, with many others --odd volumes of sermons and the like; but the Greek and Latin Jay at the top, and showed signs of most frequent use. There was one arm-chair in the room—a Windsor chair, as such used to be called, made soft by an old cushion in the back, in which Mr. Crawley sat when both he and his wife were in the room, and Mrs. Crawley when he was absent. And there was an old horsehair sofa—now almost denuded of its horsehair—but that, like the tables, required the assistance of a friendly wall. ,Then there was half a dozen of other chairs—all of different sorts—and they completed the furniture of the room. It was not such a room as one would wish to see inhabited by a beneficed to rgyman of the Church of England; but they who know what money will do and what it will not will understand how easily a man with a family and with £l3O a year may be brought to the need of inhabiting such a chamber.-- The Last Chronicle of Barset, MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Boxing-day is invariably great with the holiday folk at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, and on the present occasion it has lost none of its hitherto universal great popularity. Visitors have been pouring in since its opening this morning, and we feel convinced that all are well pleased with the " thousand and one" objects which are to be seen in the various galleries of the exhibition. The life-size portrait models of our kings and queens, from the Norman monarch to that of her present most gracious Majesty, appear to at tract no small amount ol interest. The costumes of the figures having been carefully studied from illuminated manuscripts, and the effigies in the tombs in the cathedrals in which their remains were interred. Every visitor is recommended to purchase a catalogue, which contains an ample explanation of the exhibition, and which will be found to be an excellent guide to the study of English history. THE FISHERY CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—The International Commission to revise the Fishery Convention between France and England will meet this week in Paris. The commissioners for England are the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., Vice President of the Board of Trade ; Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P. (of the late Deep Sea Fisheries Commission); Mr. H. Goulburn, of the Customs; and Captain Hove, R.N., Naval Attach 6 at Paris. CoxsoLA - noN.—When Lord Cockburn was at the bar he once defended a prisoner who, in spite of his exertions, was sentenced to be htinged on the 17th of the month. After the sentence the condemned man com plained to his counsel that he had not had justice. " Never mind (saidOookbarn), you'll have it on the 17th," THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESOAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1866. SHARE MARKETS.—This day. I Closing Business ' Paid ', Priue. done. ISSK 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 5 100 100 'MEN' 190 100 100 100 100 100 65 )7 118 no 40 45 4 6 06 69 70 72 I'4 :16 27 28 5 6 116 117 126 125 90 02 611 62; T SECU: 93 94 90 92 90 12 77 78 75 7 7 104 108 103 105 102 104 104 100 88 20 100 102 104 IL6 105 107 104 106 105 107 14.6 08 96 100 93 ►2 90 92 90 95 85 87 9$ 100 81 85 6 1 3 152 118} 82 3 501 50 A2ll 5 1221 I C6l 1 1 7 1031 loefr f 1061 12} 1$ 1021 91} ,ITIES. 9617 1051 861 i POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. MARLBOROII - GII-STREET. OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT BY FOREIGNERS.— Charles Turen, waiter, and Rudolph Stauffer, cook, at Epitaux's Restau rant, Pall Mall, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting Win. Hams, a cab driver, badge 10,402 ; and Turen was further charged with assaulting Augustus Giovanelli, a cab driver, badge 14,475. Wm. Hams said that on the previous night he brought the prisoner from the Borough to the end of the Hay market, and on asking for his fare Stauffer seized him by the whiskers, and pushed him down and trampled and jumped on him, and Turen violently kicked him, and but for assistance coming he believe'd ho would have been killed. Augustus Giovanelli said that he saw the prisoner kick ing the last witness, and bumping his head on the pave ment. Ho went up and told them that it was scandalous to beat a man in such a way, when the prisoner let go of Hams and turned upon him (witness), Turon seizing him by the throat with one hand, and catching hold of his hair and forcing his head back with the other. He at last got away, and went behind a cab so that the prisoner should nut see him, when they camp after him and kicked him violently, and Turen seized him by the comforter ha was weaving so tightly that he was nearly choked. He called to the bystanders to release him, and at last a female came out of Epitaux's and unfastened his comforter, and he was thus able to get away from Turen. The prisoners then got him down, and again ill-used him. He believed if he had not interfered on behalf of Hams that that Hams would have been killed. Mr. John Eisen, of Chester-street, Kennington, and a gentleman residing in the Brompton-road, both spoke of the prisoner's conduct as being of the most violent description, stating it as his belief that if the bystanders had not interfered Hams would have been killed. Stauffer said that he offered Hams his fare and he would not take it. . . Rime said that was not true. Turea said that Giovanelli attacked him first. Giovanplli said that he had done nothing of the kind. He merely said " Don't abuse the poor old man," and then the prisoners attacked .him. Dixon, 226 C, proved taking the prisoners who were drunk into custody. - • The only answer the prisoners made to . the charge was that they Bid been drinking. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for two months' each with hard labour, remarking that such assaults would never be passed over. A NIGHT CAB-lionsE.--Alfred Sim; cab proprietor of Savoy-wharf, Strand, appeared to answer the Complaint of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of causing a horse to be tortured by being worked while in an unfit state. On a former day, a man in the defendant's employ was fined 20s. for driving a horse which was in a most wretched condition, having several sores on it, and which it appeared was only brought out at night time. . . Sell, officer of the Society, said that, on asking the de fendant why he worked the horse, he said he knew it was lame, but that he only worked it occasionally. The defendant handed up a card showing that he had the horse killed. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that, having seen the condition of She horse, he considered it a bad case, and fined the de !endant 20s. and costs. THAMES. A VIOLENT AND UNDUTIFUL Sox.—Dennis Lyons, a young man, barman and manager in the service of Mrs. Bridget Lyons, his mother, who is the landlady of the George and Vulture public-house, Wapping-wall, Lower Shadwen, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk and disorderly, assaulting his mother, and kicking two police constables. Mrs. Lyons, a widow, said she did not wish to press the charge against her son, who was tipsy when he struck her, and was very sorry for what he had done. Mr. Partridge asked the complainant where her son had struck her, to which she replied, " On the head," and that he wanted to take the liquor out of the bar to treat his friends. She would not allow him to do so, and pushed him out of the bar. He was then very violent, and struck her. She begged to withdraw the charge. Police-constable No. 847 K said he was called upon at a quarter-past five o'clock on Christmas morning to take the prisoner into custody. The prisoner was drunk and threat ened to kill his mother. He requested the prisoner to leave the house and come with him. The prisoner refused to do so, and said, " You are not the man to take me." The prisoner made use of many threats and bad language, and called for a knife. He seized the prisoner, who said, "I'll see whether you will take me out or not," and kicked him on the lower part of the stomach. He called a Thames police-constable to his aid, and the prisoner struck the policeman in the lower part of his body and hurt him very much. The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he done- He had never been placed in such a position before, and would take care this did not happen again. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had conducted himself in a very. disgraceful manner, and he did not wonder at his striking the policeman after tho brutal assault on his mother. He was almost disposed to send the prisoner to gaol without the option of paying a fine, but as the peni-. tonne of the youth appeared to be sincere he should inflict a fine of 40s. for the assault on the two police constables. Mrs. Lyons paid the fine and liberated her son, who spent his Christmas-day in a police cell. The Burning of H. M. Steamer Berenice. (From the Bombay Times.) His Excellency the Governor's steam yacht May Frere, under the command of Lieut. Arnott, arrived iu Bombay harbour on Nov. 24, from Bassadore, with the officers and crew of the steamer Berenice, which was burned in the Persian Gulf on Oct. 31. By arrival of the May Frere, which made one of the quickest passages from Kurrachee on record, we have obtained details of the destruction of the above named vessel, of which until now only telegraph intimation has been received. It appears that the Berenice left Bushire under the command of Lieut. Dawes on Oct. 29, for the southern part of the Persian Gulf, having on board Lieut.-Col. L. Pelly, the Political Resident of the Gulf, Mr. Hojel, the Assistant Resident, a party of the 21st Native Infantry, and the usual complement of officers and men, amounting in all to 178 persons. Early on the morning of Oct. 31, when the Bere nice was between Sheik Shaaib Island and Hinde rabi, smoke was observed issuing from the small hatch in the after part of the vessel which communi cated with the orlop deck. The circumstance was immediatly reported to the captain, and he at once adopted measures to ascertain its cause. The after hatch was raised, and a dense volume of stifling smoke arose through the opening, nearly choking those who stood around, and as the orlop was seen to be full of smoke it was thought to be useless to attempt going below to put out the fire. Mr. King, the third officer, however, did descend to the orlop to try to ascertain the position and extent of the fire, but was pulled out nearly stifled. He reported that he saw no flames, but thought that two llin. coir hawsers, which were coiled away on the star board side of the orlop, were on fire ; and as the pungent choking fumes of the smoke seemed to con firm this belief, the hose of the ship's donkey engine, which had been brought aft, was directed to the spot where the hawsers were coiled, and fire parties were told off to work it and to throw water over the burn ing mass. By this time the smoke was rolling up the hatchway in dense volumes, and owing to its suffocating character it prevented any close ap proach to the scene of the fire. The after ports were lowered to prevent draught ; but as no person could go below to secure them inside, it was impossible to prevent the entrance of the air, more especially as it was found:necessary to keep the large ports open in order that the sailors employed in trying to sub due the fire might have a supply of fresh air. By some accident the first length of hose burst as it was being attached to the engine, and was thus rendered useless. Another was obtained ; but, although it would fit the nozzle of the engine, it would not fit the deck screw, so that the engine could at first ren der no service. Proper hose, however, was at length fitted, and the engine got to work, but it was then of comparatively little use. Orders were given to flood the main deck, and strong parties of men were furnished with buckets to throw water, and thus try to put out the fire by another method. This work they performed very quickly, and in half an hour the port side of the main deck was flooded knee deep. The gunroom deck was then flooded in two places, which were thought to be above the hawsers, and water was thrown in a constant stream upon the hawsers themselves as well as down the orlop batch outside the main. deck. The parties of men engaged in this work were under the command of Mr. Fisher, the first officer, and Mr. King the third officer; Mr. Norris, the second officer, remaining on the bridge to direct the steering of the ship. During the time the fire was raging, Mr. Young, the gunner, with a party of quartermasters, cleared the maga zine of its contents. All the cases of gunpowder, amount ing to about 2,000 rounds, were brought up on deck and thrown overboard—a work which was performed in less than half an hour. Shortly after the fire was discovered, the engines were stopped, so as to cause a less draught on board the burning vessel ; but as the smoke became more dense than ever, Lieut. Dawes gave orders for the boats to be launched and dropped astern. This was accordingly done, and a quan tity of provisions placed in the first cutter for the use of the crews. Mrs. Shemmings, the wife of the chief engi neer; Mrs. Rozario, the wife of the agent at Bassadose ; three children and three ayahs, were placed in the lifeboat, which was also ordered to drop astern. When the fire first broke out the wind was blowing off shore, so that the Berenice could not be headed for the land, as the quartermasters could not see, and could scarcely breathe in the dense clouds of smoke which were blown over them ; but in the course of half an hour the wind changed to seaward, and the ship was headed for the land. This change, of course, prevented the fire parties remain ing on the main deck in consequence of the smoke, so the ♦essel was kept broadside to the wind for a time, and then again headed for the shore. It was necessary to proceed very slowly, however, as by going fast the suction-pipe of the hose was prevented from working. About eight o'clock in the morning, two hours after the fire was discovered, the smoke became much loss dense ; the volume issuing through the hatch diminished until nothing but steam came up, and the fire parties were able to get into the saloon with hose and buckets. Hopes were for a time entertained that the fire had been extinguished, when sud denly a dull explosion was heard below and a jot of flame shot up through the skylight of the upper deck. In a very short space of time the smoke increased, a volume of flames rushed up through the skylight, and it was seen that all hope of saving the vessel was at an end. Orders were then issued for the men to take to the boats, and the abandon ment of the vessel commenced. The boats were hauled up to the gangways and under the bows ; and the ship's com pany —except some of the firemen and a party of the 21st Native Infantry, who were on deck—went on board in a most orderly manner. Some excuse may be found for the firemen, as they had been kept below in the engine-room until the last moment, and on coming on dock they because panic-stricken at seeing the great rush of flames, and scrambled into the boats as fast as possible. As soon as the crew had got on board, the boats pulled off to a distance from the burning ship, except the largest gig,which was to carry the captain and officers. Before leaving they went round the lower and upper decks as far as they could get, to see that no one had been loft behind; but as the fire by this time was making great progress, Lieutenant Dawes sent his officers into the gig, and went aft alone as far as the funnel. At that time the whole of the after part of the ship was in a blaze, so much so that from the spot where ho stood ho could not see the wheel. Me thou went into the boat, and in about half an hour after leaving the flames had spread on all sides, and the ship was a burning mass from stem to stern. The boats, six in number, and containing 178 persons, then steered for land, and shortly after sunset the whole company landed in safety at the village of Luz, on Sheik Shaaib Island. On the following day, Nov. 1, Lieutenan Dawes procured a native vessel, and took them all to Nak hila, where they obtained some provisions and clothing. At that place the boats were loft in charge of the second officer and a party of men, and on the 4th inst., the majo rity of the party went to Lingah. From that place the first officer was sent with telegrams to Mussendom, and on the 6th inst. the others arrived at Bassadore, where an addi tional supply of clothing, &c., was procured. The tele gram reporting the disaster was received in Bombay on the 7th November, and Capt. Robinson, the superintendent of marine, with most commendable promptitude, de spatched the steamer May Frere to Lieut. Dawes' assist ance, with a plentiful supply of such stores as the crew were likely to want. The May Prere arrived at Bassadore on the 16th, embarked the officers and crew, and on the following day loft for Bombay. The origin of the fire is merely a matter of conjecture. Under the hatch in the after-hold some bales of hemp which were used by the engineers, some coal baskets, and some iron casks containing oil, had been stowed a short time before the fire was discovered, and it is believed that the fire broke out there. It must have spread with won derful rapidity, as Lieut. Dawes was in and out of the after cabin several times between two and six o'clock on the morning of tho 31st October, yet perceived no indica tions of fire. Ouo of the officers, it is said, observed that the place near where the flames subsequently burst forth - - was very hot shortly before six o'clock, but nothing oc curred to excite suspicion until the smoke was seen coin- rig up the hatch. We are glad to learn that all the officers, warrant officers, and European seamen greatly distinguished themselves on this trying occasion. Mr. Fisher, the first officer, who was on the sick list with fever, remained with the fire party all the time they wore engaged, except when superintending the hoisting out of the cutter, and continued fur a long time in the stifling smoke which issued from the hatch pointing the hose of the fire engine. Mr. Norris, the second officer, and Mr. King, the third officer, rendered most efficient service. Mr. Shemmin7s, the chief engineer, remained in the angine-room along with the junior engi - neers until the time when, all hope of saving the ship being lost, the order was passed to him to blow off the stcain and come on deck. It is most satisfactory to know that nut a single life was lost—a result which is doubtless duo to the intrepidity and coolness of the Europeans, as well as to the judgment of Lieut. Dawes in ordering the powder to be thrown overboard when the flames had be- gun to make headway ; for had the magaziuo caught fire, the consequence must have been calamitous. Government has directed a court of inquiry to assemble to hivostioto the eireuznaluacos counoctod with Ow out broak of the ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. ,hare' Railways. Bristol and Exeter .... Ca1ed0nian............ Cambrian cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast Juno Dun„Perth,& Ab.Junc &London, bcrip Certi Do. 20 et At 100 Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Ang,l. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland, Great Northern Do. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pmt GtS, and W. of Irelandl Gt. Western -Original Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.—Oxford. •110. Newport 110. Hereford. , :.anoashire da Yorkshire 4 London and Blazkwal Lon., Brigh., & S Cass Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. detrop. Ex. A Lun. & North M extern Lon. & South Western Han., Shot. , & Lincoln Nictropllitan.... Do. New Do. extension Metropolitan District Do. d o. do. i)c. and St. John's W'd %lid and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby, %lid ICent . . North British Do. 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Gov. 5 p 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aue.Gov. 6 p.o. 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vlo,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, April & Oct BRITIS Cam. Consol. Cold, Um Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea east Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Loved E. WI Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L 4xey, limited Creel South Tolgus Great Wheel Busy ' G. Wheal Vor (llelst.,D erod's Foot .••• llingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant llarke Valley Awyrdy Iron Ore, lim New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper United Providence ,Uny Lelant S. Caradon (3t. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (11logan Stray Park . Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, llna West Bassett (Mogan W. 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Jim,. 31 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, lim., 24 Ebbw Vale, 101 Electric Telegrtian Corn .aph. and 136 5 Trading, lira., If Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 41 4 Home and (1 &vial A ssurance, 11 Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, Rm., 21 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour). 7! London Financial Asamiation, lim,. 91 London LieneralOmnibus Company, lim, 34 Naional Discount Company. 111 Ocean Marine Insurance), 201 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, C 4 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements. 191 Viceroy of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan, 744 THE CHRISTMAS TREE.—The Christmas tree is at home in the Teutonic countries of the north--that is to say, in the Protestant countries of Germany—whereas in the Catholic parts of south Germany it is an utter stranger, or only known by name, or an artificial importa tion. It is needless to dwell on the beautiful meaning of the Christmas tree, which represents, as it wore, the love of the new-born Saviour for all infancy and childhood. Christ being at the time of the year an infant himself, yet superior in wisdom and charity to men of all ages and times of life, bestows His gifts first on the little innocents. The Christmcs tree should always be a sapling of the fir or the tannen, the evergreen leaves (Germans call them needles) of which form a charming contrast to the snow of the season, and, moreover, point to the eternal freshness and youth of the Christian faith. By a monstrous pervorsityof feeling, Christmas trees have in modern times been manu factured; indeed instead of being taken from the living wood, they have been made of cast iron, hollowed out and filled with gas —a vile idea, worthy of Brummagem, not of Birmingham; in fact, worthy of the degenerate race of dry money-makers, not of oivilised and genial Clyietien&— gardener'd Mayazinf. 30 3S 30 35 126 j 127 81 87 156 16) 10 /0 1181 1181 81 133 43 50 , 24 125 16 2p; 10 11 84 86 Ali 122 It 2 90 )2 35 36 .4 18 105 1(7 65 67 98 99 34 35 9 10 p 116 120 1 2p 1 2p 70 72 114 118 148 152 42 44 65 65 8 9 ,50 253 3 1 ,SIONS. 86 58 102 103 id . ip 4 7i bj 60 55 101 103 101 IG3 105 106 18 20 85 88 67 69 60 54 50 54 37 (0 23 25 106 107 it 1p I 1p 100 102 91 93 11/ 12} lt 12; F 8 82 81 84 1# lid 102 103 92 H 85 90 82 85 99 101 97 98 li i " 98 99 96 98 92 9i 106 108 103 101 64 74 54 64 405 415 i 6 18 20 6 8 2 3 2 3 1 i 9 10 24 21 5 8 17 15 15 16 11 11 30 32 2 st 4 31 41 21 lid 35 45 2 4 26 320 ti 22 14 3.2.0 18.18. P 35.15.6 II ML WESTMINSTER. " CHRISTMAS Smt-nia."—Rosina Keefe, aged 15, and Martha Eastwood, aged 13, two humbly but well-clad looking girls, were charged with begging. John Conner, 164 B, said that on Christmas-eve he saw the prisoners go to, different houses in the New Kings road, Chelsea, and sing, after which they received money. They then went insidea gate and began to sing at the door of the house. Some person belonging to the house came out and requested them to go away, when they refused the prisoner Keefe declaring that they would not leave until "they brought them out some of their strong beer.' This they declined to do, and complainant was then taken into custody for begging. Keefe—We did not ask for nothing, and it was Christ mas time. Mr. Selfe--Yes ; you wanted strong beer to be brought out ; how was that ? Keefe —We was a-singing Christmas carols; that was all, They was only "a Christmas ser-ing," your worship exclaimed a sturdy female hawker, the mother of Keefe. There's no harm on Christmas ser-ing; speak up, Rosina, for yourself. Rosina spoke up to declare her impression that she had been doing no wrong ; and the mothers of both girls echoed the same sentiment, declaring that it was a freak of their children without their knowledge. The girls were discharged. MARKETS.—This day. MARK LANE. The fresh supply of English wheat was by no means extensive, and its quality was only middling. As regards prices the trade ruled firm, but, owing to the limited at tendance of millers, the transactions were much restricted. Foreign wheat, the show of which was tolerably good, moved off slowly, but at the full currencies of last week. Floating cargoes of grain were in limited request, never theless prices were fairly supported. The barley trade ruled quiet. Fine malting parcels, however, were held at full quotations, whilst grinding and distilling sorts were unaltered in value. Malt met a slow sale, at late rates. In oats, sales progressed slowly, and heated parcels were easier to purchase. The inquiry for beans was heavy, on former terms. No change took place in the value of peas, but the de mand for them was far from active. Flour was firm in price, with a limited business doing. 811IP AItRITALS THIS IVEME. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 150 990 110 240 410 Irish Foreign 7,570 440 15,510 660 sacks brie WHITECHAPEL. Large supplies of meat are on sale. The trade is dull, a drooping prices. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s Od to 4s Gd I Veal .. . ... 4s Od to 58 4d Mutton 3s 4d to 48 10(11 Pork ...... 3a 4d to 48 Gd BOROUGH ROP. Owing to the holidays so little business is doing that prices aro nominal. KINGLAKE AND TODLEBEN.--It may interest the public, military and civil, who aro not beyond recollecting the war with Russia of 1854-5, to know that the third volume of General Todlebon's " History of tho Siege of Sebastopol," and the third volunao of Mr. Kinglake's " History of the French and British Alliance in the Crimea," will appear in the course of next year, which is furthermore to be illustrated by the Great Exhibition at Paris as the precursor, no doubt, of Armageddon.—Army and Navy Gazette. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—The great difficulty ex perienced in selecting suitable articles for presents will be entirely obviated by visiting Parkins and Gotto's extensive show-rooms, where may be seen by far the largest stock in Europe of articles of excellent taste and workmanship, at very moderate prices, comprising portrait albums, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, de spatch boxes, envelope cases and blotting books, card trays, work boxes, glove and trinket boxes, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, purses, pocket books, pencil cases, cigar cases, reticules, opera glasses, scent cases, smelling bottles, eleotro-gilt and elegantly mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services, in every variety of type and binding. A. new department for indoor games of all kinds—bagatelle and billiard tables, all sizes ; musi cal boxes, &c.; in fact, an endless variety of articles to suit every taste and purpose, Parkitis 4 1 44 aetto, 24 and 25, Oxford-greet, W. 2.1.0 294 2.14.6 31 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.1., all 0.14.0 14.9.0 Captain Sir James Anderson, of the Great Eastern. (Abridged from the Euiqfries Standard). The commander of the Great Eastern was on Fri day presented with the freedom of the town of Dum fries, his native place, in recognition of his great services in the successful laying of the Atlantic Cable. In the evening his fellow-citizens enter tained him to a banquet, the Provost in the chair, and Mr. Al‘Diarmid of the Dumfries Courier crou pier. The gallant officer spoke modestly of his honours : " Aline," he said, " was the opportunity, and st" holding the command of that grand ship gives me ample reason for wearing my honours calmly. An error of judgment, or want of nerve that might re sult in damage to a ship so pre-eminently national, would go far to reverse my present position, and perhaps change your estimate of the man you now so highly honour. Yet it would have been bad taste, if not moral cowardice, to have declined the honour of knighthood, or this honour of public re cognition in my native town." (Loud cheers.) Of the great enterprise Sir James said— " We were supplied with everything of the kind and quantity we asked for, with as large a margin for contingencies as our experience and foresight could suggest. We only wanted one thing that we could not control, and that was a favourable season. This we did not get. (Hear, hear.) We had a constant recurrence of gales, fogs, and long high seas ; and one attempt after another was frustrated by such accidents as the breaking of a chain, the drawing of a splice, the driving pull of our ocean buoys, or with gales springing up after we had lowered our grapnels, and at times when we had hooked our prey and got it a mile away from its oozy bed ; until after thirty attempts over a period of 18 days, our 20 miles of strong grapnel line were twisted and shattered and reduced. The three ac companying ships were out of provisions, and one of them had to leave us for want of coals. It really seemed as if we were only wasting energy and ma terial, and the reflection would thrust itself on the minds of those of us who were responsible whether we were gratifying a personal tenacity of purpose or honeStly doing our duty to the shareholders. Very little was ever said, and when we changed our ground it was still with strong hope and more faith than ever in its practicability ; but we felt that the season was far advanced, and that if we ever were to succeed it must be with such weather as we were having, and we placed our first buoy upon the new grappling ground while a gale was blowing and commenced grappling as soon as day broke. The interval betwixt this gale and the next—exactly 50 hours—was the only favourable opportunity we ever had, and we got the cable. (Great applause.) Three hours afterwards another gale had begun ; and I need hardly assure you that the feeling of gratifi cation was deepened into gratitude with the difficulty of the achievement, and our nearness. (Cheers.) Had no word of praise been offered us upon our arrival I should all my life have felt proud of having shared in an enterprise that required all the fore sight, energy, and intense watchfulness of which all of us were capable. (Cheers.) Nor do I consider it a small privilege to have been associated with the talented men who have been engaged in construct ing that simple-looking cable with all the appliances for placing it safely in its ocean bed ; and still more wonderful, perhaps, the talent required to make the electric spark carry the signal with such marvellous precision." (Cheers.) It appears that Captain Anderson is in his 42d year. He has been at sea since he was a lad of 16. In 1851 he joined the Cunard service, and has com manded successfully no fewer than fourteen steamers in the Mediterranean and Atlantic trades. Latterly he sailed in the China, and it was while in command of this vessel that he was selected to take part in the laying of the Atlantic cable. The gallant officer, we trust, will long enjoy his well-won honours. The Marine Steam Engine• The name of William Symington is known in connection with the history of steam locomotion by sea. He was born at Leadhills, in Scotland, in 1763. His father was a practical mechanic, who superintended the engines and machinery of the Mining Company at Wanlockhead, where one of Boulton and Watt's pumping engines was at work. Young Symington was of au ingenious turn from his boyhood ; and at an early period he seems to have conceived the idea of employing the steam engine t o drive wheel carriages. His father and he worked together, and by the year 1786, when the son was only 23 years of age, they succeeded in completing a working model of a road locomotive. Mr. Meason, the manager of the mine, was so much pleased with the model, the merit, of which princi pally belonged to young Symington, that he sent him into Edinburgh for the purpose of exhibiting it before the scientific gentlemen of that city, in the hope that it might lead in some way to his future advancement in life. Mr. Almon allowed the model to be exhibited at his house and invited many gentlemen of distinction to inspect it. But Symington's engine was not destined to be applied to road locomotion. He was completely diverted from employing it for that purpose by his connec tion with Mr. Miller, of Dalswinton, then engaged in experimenting on the application of mechanical power to the driving of his double paddle-boat. The power of men was first tried, but the labour was found too severe ; and when Mr. Miller went to see Symington's model, and informed the inventor of his difficulty in obtaining a regular and effective power for driving his boat, Symington—his mind naturally full of his own invention —at once suggested his steam engine for the purpose. This suggestion was adopted, and Mr. Miller authorised him to proceed with the construction of a steam engine to be fitted into his double pleasure boat on Dalswinton Loch, where it was tried in October, 1782. This was followed by further experiments, which eventu ally led to the construction of the Charlotte Dundas, in 1801, which may be regarded as the first practical steamboat ever b u ilt . Symington too k ou t letters patent in the same year, securing the invention, or rather the novel combination of inventions, em bodied in his steamboat ; but he never succeeded in getting it introduced into practical use. From the date of completing his invention fortune seemed to run steadily against him. The Duke of Bridge water, who had ordered a number of Symington's steamboats for his canal, died, and his executors countermanded the order. Symington failed in tin ducing any canal company to make trial of his in vention. Lord Dundas also took the Charlotte Dundas off the Forth and Clyde Canal, where she had been at work, and from that time the vessel was never more tried. Symington had no capital of his own to work upon, and he seems to have been un able to make friends among capitalists. The rest of his life was for the most part thrown away. To wards the close of it his principal haunt was Lon don, amidst whose vast population he was one of many waifs and strays. He succeeded in obtaining a grant of £lOO from the privy purse in 1824, and afterwards an annuity of £5O, but he did not live long to enjoy it, for he died in March, 1831, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Botolpb, Ald gate, where there is not even a stone to mark the grave of the inventor of the first practicable steam boat.—Samuel Smiles in the Engineer. THE RUMOUR OF LORD ST. LEONARDS' DEATH. The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday gives the following explanations of the false report of Lord St. Loonards' death :—" Tho manner in which we were led into a parti cipation in circulating the statement will ho understood on a perusal of the following letter which wo have received from a member of his lordship's family :—' Stapoloy House, Nantwich, Doc. 22, 1866. —I led you into a mistake that I fell into about Lord St. Loonards' death. On arriving here just now I found that it was his eldest son, Henry Sugden, who was dead. Tho telegram misled both my wife and myself, as it was from Miss Sugden (no direction) : ' Papa died to-night.' We never thought of but ono Miss Sugden.'" [ADVERTISEMENT.]-110110Way'S rills.—Lo w tempera ture, . cold and changeable weather, very apt to under mine the health unless the stomach is kept to its highest state of efficiency. Holloway's pills improve the appetite, and so promote digestion that a large and strengthening supply of now material is thrown int o th e bl ood after every meal, whereby fresh vigour and acti v it y are b estowed on every organ, and ability to resist disease is conferred on the system. Holloway's pills thoroughly purify the blood when it has been tainted by fogs, unwholesome vapour, and all other impurities. No medicine equals these pills for removing biliousness, suppressing nausea, checking flatulency,- and acting as mild and effective aperients, whioli art aliko suitably ivr either ox or ago, NOMENCLATURE. The following names have been given : Mr. R. Ten. Broeck's. BI yearling f by Dundee—Valineria ••• Dinah. B yearling c by Lord Alb emar l e, out of Amazonian... Veto. Ch yearling fby 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 Mouutaiu Maid Mr. A. liarrisou's. ... Heather Bell. Gr yourling I by Voltigeur—Spinstor Perseverance. Mr. R. Porter's Yearling's. BI c by Musjid, out of Miss Clifton Banjo. B f by Ki ng of Diamonds, out of Star •of the Valo BI fby Weatherbit, out of Interduca. Storm Signal. B f by ,Thunderbolt, dam by Snowdon Dunhill, out of Spouse... •.. SpiAfire. Bf by Promised Land, out of Scandal ... Sneerwell. Lord Zetland's Yearlings. B f by Carbineer, out of Tib Ticket Molinaro. B f by Barnton, or Carbineer, out of Cas- Lanett° ••• ••• ••• Formosa. RACING FIXT IJANI Manchester FEBR I Lincoln Spring Harrow MA: Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 West Drayton l9 Bromley Northampton Windsor Spring Edinburgh Sp. Meeting Newmarket Craven Curragh Chester (continued) .. 1 York Spring 7 Salisbury 9 Doncaster Spring Bath Ascot Summer -4 Windsor Summer Manchester Summer 12 Hampton l3 Odiham l7 Bibury Club lB JU. Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading Liverpool July Meeting 10 Hungerford Nottingham July Goodwood (continued) 1 Ripon Brighton .. G Brighton Club.. 8 Lewes Eghain .. . l3 Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford ..... 15 Hastings JRES FOR 1862. 'Ally. 1 UAEY. Nottingham 26 Derby ta ;CH. Epsom Spring 2t: Lewes Spring .......... Croxton Park ,,..... 20 Thirsk Durham Newmarket Ist Spring '42 Catterick Chester . 30 Harpenden Epsom Summer Croydon .......... 21 Newton..... 2'J .... " Stockbridge .19 Chelmsford ............... 2.5 Newcastle .• 25 Curragh Worcester Summer Ipswich 27 - LY. Down Royal Corporatn l7 Stamford Huntingdon 23 1 Winchester !Southampton 1 Goodwood . 30 York August Dover West Drayton 22 Plymouth,,.,, 23 Cauterbury Lichfield Derby Summer . 28 Weymouth Tunbridge SEPTAMBER. Warwick Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon 5 Newmarket Ist October 24 Doncaster OCTOBER. Northampton Autumn. 1 Curragh Edinburgh Autumn ... 2 Newmarket Houghten Newmarket 2d October. 7 Worcester Autumn Cheltenham l5 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. T ANUARY. Manchester 1 FEBRUARY. Carmarthen Birmingham l2 Windsor Liverpool Spring Grand Military Chertsey Mallon AP. York l7 Sevenosk Harrow Spring Derby ,Cll. Croydon Spring Cheltenham Grand An 2l Bromley :IL. Kildare Hunt Aston, Cheshire Mr. Warwick COURSING. COURSING MEETINGS TO COME. DECEMBER. ----- Name. Judge. Days of Running Corrio, Lockerbie ... Mr. Warwick JANUARY, 1867. Huntingdon Club Mr. Warwick l, 2, Lincolnshiro, Ilolbeach ..,.,, Mr. Spafford Coole, co. Cork (Open) ...... Third S. Lancashire, (South port (Open) .................. Mr. Wostropp 9, 10, 11 Spelthorne Club Mr. Warwick Border Union (Longtown) Cumberland Barton-on-Humber, Lincoln. Mr. Spafford Altcar Club, Lancashire - Wigtonsh. Club (8 trauraer) Mr. Boulton Little Crosby Mr. Welding County Louth Cl u b , Ireland Mr. Spafford Ridgway Club, Lyth am - 3O, &c. FEBRUARY. Rufford, Lancashire - Cardiff Club Mr. Warwick Waterloo, Lancashire Tantworth, Staffordshire ... Mr. Warwick 31:MGR. Irish Grand National (Open), county Louto Ardrossan, Sharphill South Lancashire (South port) Champion Leinster (Open) Courtown... Mr. 11. Spriugall l9, 20 S co ttish Open, Lanarkshire - 6, 7 7, &c. BLONDIN IN D ÜBLIN. —Saunders's News-Letter sa y s :--- 1 ‘ Among the attractions provided for the public during the present week, the foremost position must be assigned to the engagement of the truly celebrated Blondin by the directors of the Exhibition Palace. During the past 18 months Blondin has made a tour through Europe, earning golden opinions in the principal cities of France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. The most eloquent pens have been employed to record his achievements, but no amount of praise has boon beyond his extraordinary de serts. His courage, skill, agility, grace, and ingenuity have elicited the warmest encomiums, and he merits them all. " The hero of Niagara," a title awarded Blondin by the enthusiastic Americans, was fairly won, and every subse quent enterprise has only served to confirm the adven turous gymnast in his elevation. Blondin's performance does not constitute the only entertainment offered to the visitors of the Exhibition Palace. A theatre has been fitted up for the exhibition of a series of tableaux, and s variety of dances by Madame Jarlini's automata, peculiarly suited to the holiday folk. An elaborate programme, now in circulation, gives the details of the unique representa- tion ; and wo have little doubt that the comtinations of music, song, and Terpsichorean grouping will afford great delight to all class of visitors. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting M. Elie de Beaumont presented the academy with a copy of the work he had communicated to that body last year, as our readers may recollect, on the numerical data fixing, on the surface of Franco and the adjacent countries, the inter sections of 29 great circles of the pentagonal network. This book was also accompanied with the six sheets of the geo logical map of France, another of the great works under taken many years ago by the distinguished perpetual secre tary of the academy, in conjunction with the late M. Dufeenoy. If. Elie de Beaumont on this occasion stated the remarkable fact that the two maps, the geological ono and that containing tho pentagonal network, being both executed on the same scale, coincided perfectly if ono of them was applied on the other. A communication was re ceived from 11. Dumour on tho composition of the stone implements found in the Celtic monuments and among savage tribes. The substances he considers aro amphibo lite, :Thalia°, diorite, saussurite, and sturotide, all minerals containing large pr o p or ti ons of silieia, alumnia,' and oxides of iron, besides other less important ingredients. M. Paul Gory ais wrote a p a p er on t h e fresh water fi s h o f Al g eria, stating that two genera more may be added to the list of seven which had hitherto boon considered the only ones existing in that country. Those genera are the Gobius and Coptodu a , th e l a tt er o f w hi c h a l on e is unknown to the rivers of Europe, and bears some resemblance to the Belli of the Nile. A series of 24 cryptogamic preparations, stated to g a iri p td a b ; g e lro r o2 a g i nl impanied with a represent different states of the Merultus I . achrynaus, was sent in by M. Leube, a German physiologist, who stated g not to on th c:ads, forma tion. tmoan. stone,ttil o a n t Ilmyth.hiereshae Paulin slan specimens ssoein.tt oifn dia gram representing a now sort of bit, by means of which a rider may master his horse instantly in case of its bolting: By a special contrivance attached to this bit the animal's nostrils may be taken hold of at a second's notice, and this, by hiuderins its respiration, will oblige It tQ Ga SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. y~ .111. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF 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 aan , Daisyand Flyfisher, out of Ealing and Westbury engagements. Dec. 21, at 2.60 p.m., Cockfightor and Orontes, out of Ealing engagements. UST. ,oyal rent new om© cted ora- ssrs• ring 0 of cm et id tic red