The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCi;,. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is temporarily easier this mo wing• The capital on offer continues large,.but bankers and brokers still evince a disinclination to take bills under the Bank rates. Some short-dated bills, however, have been negotiated at 6i per cent., but these were only in exceptional cases. The St. James's Hotel Company have announced the usual interim dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. Per annum, free of income tax, for the half-year ending December last. The following communication has been posted in the Stock Exchange :—" The Consolidated Bank (Limited) has received the sum of nineteen thou sand and fifty-five potinds three shillings and five Pence (£19,055 3s. 5d.) froin the earnings of the Month of November of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway for the credit of Trustees Coupon aceount_To M. Slaughter, Esq., Stock Ex- Cha n — . 71 Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received the following remittance on account of the New Granada dividends, viz., from the Custom House of Santa Marta, (which includes $4OO from Rio li aelle) £2,000, from Cartagena, £666 lls. 7d, and from Sabanilla £292 Os. Bd., making a total of £ 2 ,958 12s. 3d. Venezuela Six per Cent. Loan,. 1864.—The General Credit and Finance Company of London are in receipt of advice from their agents, Messrs. R. L. Boulton and Co., dated La Guaira, 9th of December, 1865, of duties collected (and remitted) on account of the above loan, as follows : Per statement No. 56, from La Guaira $3,986 48 No. 98, from Puerto Cabello 1,970 94 17 No. 69, 7 0 11 77. Total 65,964 42 Two o'CLooK. Acc ording to Reuter's t e l egr am the French Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68c. 50c. The English Stock Market has exhibited an im proved appearance, and some activity has been messed. The depre c i a ti on o f t h e F unds during past week has induced speculators to operate in r i aes• Consols are 8741 for money and the 9th aut•, and 871 1 fo r F e b ruary, Th e N ew Th rees Redu ce d Annuities are 861 ; Annuities, 5 1885 , 13 11-16 ; E xchequer Bills, 6s. 3s. dis. ; India Per Cents., 102* ; do. Bonds. 19s. prem. ; an d Bank of England Stock, 245. F°r eigrt Stocks have been dealt i n to a s li g ht extent, and prices have fractionally varied. Mexi can ex all Bonds are 22* and the new 2041, both less 27 all Bonds ; Greek, 141 15'; Spanish Pas -1 ° cede / ; Certificates, 151 . ; Italian, 621 621; ate Loan, 7i ; and the Brazilian Scrip, . b The operations in the Railway Share Market have n e A eti 'ell' limited, and prices have sho w n less firm -168s' Metropolitan have declined Midland a ,, s a " and Great W estern ss. ; while North Western - ,genth Eastern have each improved ss. Ott -e F oreign and Colonial li nes rema i n inactive. °lnall have receded to 94, and G ran d Trunk of Canada to 35 Ba n k 354• Apia a nd Miscellaneous Shares are ver y dull. y7nce have d ec li ned to 291 ; European to 121 ; ~lldell Ch artered of Australia to 224 ; L on d on an d. of ,etini n ster to 961 97. C re di t F onc i er and Mobilier .England to 8 u 1 ; Londo n Fi nanc i a l t o 191 1; and ali ver en d , Gurney, and Co. to 211. Ch ar l es L a fitt e ITd Co.'s shares are quoted 21 3 prem. ; London e ani Towing Company, 11 2 p rem . ; E ng li s h an d ti ..nierican Ba n k , 1 1* prem.; and British Conven e Bonds of Mexico, 64 72f. BRITISH IPUNDS v —ONE O'CLOCK. . GOVE RN MENT FUND S . u Der Cent. Consols 8 De. Account, Jan. 9 ~Per Cent. Reduced 86 9 ew 3 per Cent ........ .. .. . New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 • Do' 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 bo. for 30 Telegraph) ,, Aug., 13 11-16 Do (Red Sea Aug., 1908 _ xcequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per. Cent. ti Do. £5OO B ank o .£lOO and Cent I,f England Stock, _ ""° Account 5 per 1,, 1 , 1 , 11 D1AN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - ,`Liall Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 — 4-1,0 Account — lO2l T." ) . 5 per Cent. July, 1870 v,o. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 .1 1-4:). Certificates — Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent - -c 3 6 , per Cent., Jan. 1872 ~ --,,°. 0 1 per Cent, May 1879 — "°. per C ent., Aug. 1866 ,s £1 ."0- IlUondder, £1,000,000 l9 tostPOREIGAT FUNDS-01111 O'CLOCK "Ilrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — an 5 per Cent Do. •41 per Cent 1 852-58-60 Do, lio, ~ 1863 — , 1865 751 uo Account,..., - D 0 ....................... 11 1 pm B • laerlP, £25 paid upeT:344-eir_iietiet6 Per Cent —Do ° ••• . . c hilian i pieir y e r nt.o3el e ' ri ... e . d 3 per Cent.) Colombian Pe6 D° 3 per Cent Cent per Cent Da nish n..tit.43 per P ep r e reC C ent e e li n t t : , . _ ' 18 1 6 8. 3 25 Ts yo 5 per Cent., 177377 £25 paid — uanillibiall Plincipalities ' k,, - L 3 , 41- ce x ,ollut .. !„ , i ' " O r *" eW C.O. .............. 1 ..... Cent — 00., Provisional Land Warrant — E gYPtian 7 Eo., Second per Cent 93 D • Issu e o .£lOO Bonds o. _Do £lO O Bond s 1864 9ll O Po - '•• 0 per Cents. 1824-5 ex Coupons - Account " .u.uoo: ACocucopuonnts t'tiatetoala 5 per Cent'. ..... Do.£B6paid ........................... ~ -1). 1839 and . 1850 4al' _ 1 , 14 4 5 per Cent, 1865 ;-;"°• Account . .... .uo. Isiaremman'a-itail;a-y ' Li n n ° eril), £671 paid 1,4 u Per Cent., 1864 er,Xican 3 per Cent ue. Account ............... , 22} i .............. 3 , On 1864 - i- - ",° 6 per Cent. Anglo-French ,-uo French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c .. , '4,ont evidean 6 per Cent. £3O paid ?4 me imperial 5 per Cent ......, . " e r ,W Granada ..................... \°o 2 per C en t DO. -u,„O Def erred uo Land W arrants (Hectares) — 3 ,, Gyer Cent, 1864 — p o " kivaranteed, 4 per C en t •v prian q per Cent DO, Account •vo Scr iP, £45 paid , pa id i n Bonds F E° 3 per Cent (llribarren) — D 4 Il 0 41. per Cent., 1862 L'allese 3 per Cent, 1853 Bi% Account ' 451 I r s ia , ll , 5 per, Cent., 1822, £St ' — I f '*,, I Per Cent 1850 Lo „peer Cent., 1860 Dob° °, Cent 1859 " Per Cent. 1862 B9 81 9 ) 5 ~, Sam; • t'vr Cent. 1864 — -nia tt 5 , b o , per Cent 18p, .4-ceoullt bash Cent Do Per Cent be i:eeolltit ..... . DoDo ko7 neferred —C; P a 2 Int r , 4 ,—ive .. ............................... __ _ 130 ani e h ec'llot SiDo Ac_ e ll. of Coup not funded — wedi s h !Ott . ..„ ~ 80. 44 „_Per Cent ' . _ (nrlcisOrr Cent 1864 I), .&'" Per Cent. 1854 tit9t())o .414F,Tzor4uounettli..t.. ..... ...... ... 1... Ebo 6 °CI Il oud ' s ... ....... I-, . Per Cent. 1862 o° lecoutt ........... Do 6100 tork.d..4 • ................... -i 5 per Oent.,lBGi ...... —__ Do q ' '''. l. °e nt• 1865 B, A rIPI 435 paid . 1) econiit per 42 i i I o„,„ (0 , „.Do. 4 zriands . ~, ,_, - T enezuela n"-"b• Uuaranteed — C 'o. 14, Per Cent. D O. AC Per Cent .IZZltl_t .......... Aughi mins on the above payable in London. telzo l3 , 5 p„ Dutch, 41. ~- C e nt., Ex. 10 Florins 2' ' •,-'r cent., Ex. 25f. fBO 4 t l'sr (l ent .h • . t: ei tiaen • h A o t ee., , 3t, . 7_2 Cetit P ,elCent. . 1 ) 0 ..4 1) , e ui r 1 • • 18 61, E. 25f. ... t 621 1,0. 40 J e°llso money l s f o TWO O'CLOCK. sound, . ......................... ... 871 t . 87} t ............................... SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share' Railways. ißrfatol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.J unc. E. London, .trip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Da. A stock Do. B stock Do. View. 18. at 25 pni Gt 6, and W. of Ireland Gt. Westem -Original D . s. Val. Rain gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. .ewßort. Do. Her e r ford Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., dr S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover `Do. Metrop. i.x. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., She., & Lincoln Metropolitan.... Do. New Do. Extension...... Metropolitan District. Do do. do Do. and t.t. John'eW'd Mid , and Do. £9 Share Do, tiirmin.. Az Derby Mid Kent p a id . i Closing Business 93 95 129 130 94 96 13 15 4i 5i 68 72 70 72 112 111 42 13 71 S 12 , 1 . 4 127 144 145 92 94 53 , , 59 38 40 13 37 .03 1 05 122 ) 1f..3 9) 92 102 101 37 30 50 52 1251 125]. 95 96 62 63 1361 1374, 31 111 - ) It Ift, 101 103 123 123!' 1 1 11 I= 93 95 b 7 59 7 29 1101 lil 72 73 101 i 1051 ,36 37 to it p 126 128 2 2. p, 2 24p , 75 76 11 12 148 15. 68 68 112 114 54 56 741 751 8 9 - 147 150 3 4 P 102 104 49 61 144 I 130 5318 1221 i 01 10!, 125 1 1 i 131 I 6 71 :231 74 3 INorth_British .. Do. Ed., Pth , Sr Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. (i.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire IN. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central scot. N. E , Aber. stock • o, Scot, Mid. stick Shropshire Union South Devon ~outh E.stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale ot Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall BRITISH POSSE Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. Du. 5 per cent o. E shares Buffalo & Lake Huron , Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, dL G-oderich 6 p.c. .872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lim Cape Town St Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do.•do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c Po. Gus. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada..i Da. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 5i do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 4! do Do. do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. HlC'da, 6pc lst pt. bs Scdnde ...... Do. Delhi e g a l d Do. do Do. Pun iaub... • Do.Ludus COLONIAL GO VER British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1572 Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.Sz July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1 )o. 5 p. e. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do. Ap I. & Oct 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9. Do. 5 per cent. 15 April anct 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. Do. 1805, Feb. & Aug atal '4ov. a per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&Jul) N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 t Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1871 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189_ Sew Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Nova So )tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. C 8. A us. Gov. 6 p,c 1888 Do. 1878 St upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, April & Oct BRITI, Cam. ConsoL ti old, lint Chlverton Clifford A malgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake walls 9 10 20 21 575 595 1 1 18 20 81 90 51 5* 3 3¢ it 1 14 15 3 31 5 7 20 21 11 2 3A 321 31 4* 35 38 51 51 5 7 4 4/ 20 1?d 40 50 15 17 1 East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon ' East Carn Brea last Grenville (East Gunnislake .. East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk Gam. & StA übyn(G wen. Great Laxey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist .0 Grenville Elerod's Foot !lingston Downs . Mariaret (Uny Lelant Slar e Valley Yiwyndy Iron Ore, liru New Seton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper United Pr.,vidence Uny Lwlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, Urn.. West Bassett (Mogan .. W. Caradon (14 , skeard West Chi rerton 36 38 420 440 1* 20 25 10 14 19 20 4 8 3 4 9 8a 85 190 200 95 ICO 32i 37i West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton 4 6 212 i 2221 18} 19i, IWheal Trelawney (Lis. VIMFERENCIJ. bliAtticb. Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pf., 99 1001 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Di[to, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 133 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton. Lc., 5 per cent., 1865, 106 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9k Central Argentine, 3 • Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidinj, Sambre and Meuse, 5} per cent. pf., FOREION MIN ES, General, 2,, 2 St. John nel Rey, Um., 48} BAN Alliance, Urn.. 291 f Bank of New Zealand, 17 Colonial, lim.. 44i European Bank, lim. 121 Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., 16k Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 1 54 Imperial Ottoman. 14 131 London and Brazilian klim.), 48 Ditto, new, 7f London Chartered Bank of Australia, 223 London and County, 80 ,London Joint Stock, 51 London and ‘1 estminster, 971 7 Union of London, 55 MISCELLANEOUS. Bombay Gas, lirn. City of London Real Property, Um., 4 Commercial Union, Insurance, Credit Fonder and Mobilier of kngland. Ditto, issued at a prem., of which £2 is to pay, 3} Egyptian Com and Trading, lim., 2f Gen. Credit and Finance of Landon, Hin.„ 61 6 Hudson's Bay, 16 f Humber Iron Works, 4 Imperial mercantile Credit Asso..lim., 7* International Financial Society, lim., Joint Stock Discount, Um., 83- I Land Securities, lim., 31 London Financial Association, lim , 191 f National Discount lompany, 161 17 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 2lf Royal Mail Steam, 1094 Thames and Mersey ;Marine) Insurance, lim.,[Bl A FEMALE SAILOR.—The Ipswich Express says : " A person having the appearance of a bailor lad applied at the station-house, Tower Churchyard, on Sunday even ' ing, for an order for the union, giving the name of George Carter. The constable in charge, as is usual on such occa sions, proceeded to search the applicant,, who, however, objected to be searched by a man. Constable, surprised, reminded the sailor that he could not have a female to search him, and he then said, am a female.' Superin tendent Mason having been consulted, the female sailor was sent down to the lower police-station, where she was searched by one of the constable's wives, and there she re mained for the night. She has since given the name of Ellen Carter, and represents herself as being 19 years of age, mid belonging to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; she also stated that she worked as a lad at Messrs. Nicholson and Amott's, silk merchants, St. Paul's Churchyard, for two years, and had been nine months at sea and fnar months in Scotland. SIONS, Ss 6) 102 103 Id } 1p 6 10 11 j 75 80 99 101 65 70 100 103 102 102 103 104 par 6p 34 35 87 89 66 68 55 60 56 58 60 55 47 50 42 46 34 36 24 35 103 104 i iP * 1P 1018 1028 16i )7 4 341 f , 3 15 81 67 1 4d 1014 1024 93 95 89 91 63 65 82 M 1916 1021 1011 104 4 , 1 to, 102 MENT SECUIt 96 98 94 96 94 96 82 81 81 S 3 101 103 104 106 1(4 105 105 107 90 92 10) 102 1( 8 148 103 105 106 tOB 104 106 105 .107 98 100 116 i4B 1 0 IC2 93 05 8) 91 103 105 84 85 10) 102 102 104 108 108 IC4 106 II MINES. 2.1.0 291 2.14.0 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.0 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JA_NUARY 3, lE€6 LAW INTEL LIGENCE —This Day. COURT OF •BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Roche). IN RE DUBOIS OR COPPA.-MADAME VALENTIN'S CASE AGAIN. This bankrupt, who was a foreigner, was a prisoner for debt, and to-day he appeared for the first meeting of cre ditors. Upon the occasion of the application for release from prison, it appeared that he was opposed on behalf of Madame Valentin, whose case has created so much interest, and a long examination ensued as to a certain claim which that lady set up against the bankrupt in reference to some shares. At a certain stage of this examination the Com missioner directed that it should be finished before the Registrar in a private room, as it had a most important bearing on the pending disputes between Madame Valentin and other persons. The accounts are not yet filed, but the bankrupt states his debts to be £1,600, with assets £1,500. A day was named for the next meeting. IR RE CREAGII, This bankrupt was a late cornet in the Bth Dragoons, at Hastings, and his case has been before the court on other occasions. To-day a proposition was made, under which it is possible that the case may bo taken out of court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN ITALIAN ORGAN GRINDER CHARGED WITH A VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A BOY.—Giovanni Spironi, an Italian organ grinder, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting Joseph Chapman, errand-boy at Alma House, Sloane-place, Chelsea. Mr. Albert interpreted. The complainaut, about 12 years of age, said he was passing by Engine-street, Piccadilly, when the prisoner threw his organ stick at two boys, but the stick missed them and struck him on the head—the stick having an iron handle at the end of it. His head was badly hurt, and bled a good deal, and he had been obliged to have it dressed by a surgeon. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt the boy said he had given the prisoner no provocation whatever. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a dangerous thing to throw such a stick, as the boy might have been killed. Watson, 299 A, said the boy came up to him last night in Piccadilly with a bad wound on the back of his head, and his coat saturated with blood. He went after the prisoner and took him into custody. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the constable said the divi sional surgeon dressed the boy's head, it being a wound an inch aid a half in length and nearly an inch in depth. The boy was very faint from loss of blood, and he was obliged to see him home. The stick was loaded with lead. Mr. Tyrwhitt said boys very often did harass these men, but that did not justify him in throwing such a stick at them ; and besides, there was nothing to show that the boy had annoyed the prisoner. He should remand the prisoner that he might see whether the wound turned out to be dangerous or not. The prisoner said, through Mr. Albert that what the boy stated was true, but that he did not throw the stick at him, but at the other boys.—Remanded. THAMES.., MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON PoLICE CONSTABLES.—Peter Crawford, a singularly uncouth, tall, an 3 powerful man, with bruises about his head and face, and as dirty as pos sible, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with vio lently assaulting George Pepper, Philip Bradley, 59 H, and Ben Stubbings, 111 H, police constables. The complainants Bradley and Stubbings heard screams and cries of "Murder" proceeding from the house No. 4, New-street, Commercial-road East. Tho prisoner was there armed with a small axe, very drunk, and acting like a madman. He had seriously assaulted a man named Pepper, whose face was covered with blood. He attempted to cut down Pepper with the axe. Bradley and Stub bings seized the prisoner and tried to pacify him. Their efforts were fruitless. He broke away from the police con stables, and assaulted Pepper again. The policemen took him into custody. He made use of fearful language, and kicked Stubbings most dangerously. He then made a most savage attack on Bradley. Tho policemen, on par tially recovering from the attack, drew their truncheons, and beat the prisoner's legs until he fell. He was then dragged to the station-house. The two constables were in great pain from their injuries. The violent fury of the prisoner, and his dangerous attack on Pepper and the police were clearly made out. The prisoner said he was a sugar baker, and 26 years of age. He did not mean to hurt Pepper, who had not given evidence against him. He was intoxicated, and did not know what he was abotif. Mr. Paget said Pepper had been violently assaulted, and had exhibited great forbearance. The offence against the police was a public one, and not to be compromised. A most dastardly attack had been made on the constables. He sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment and hard labour for the assault on Stubbings, and two months' imprisonment and hard labour for the assault on Bradley, the sentences to be consecutive. WESTMINSTER. AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.—CharIes %Vivien, a cab driver, was charged with being drunk and incapable during his employment. Police-constable Kirwan, 201 B, said that he was on duty at 2 this morning near St. George's Road, Pimlico, when he was called by a gentleman and three ladies, and informed of the fact of his having undertaken to drive them home to St. George's-square, but being so drunk that he was unable to do so, in consequence of which the ladies, who were full dressed and without bonnets, were left in the street. Witness went towards Belgrave-street, and there found the defendant in the situation described. Defendant denied that he was unfit to drive. He ad mitted that he had had some liquor, but said he was not drunk. The fact was his horse was a " hawkward hanimal," just five years old, that became unruly, and got him into trouble. An officer on duty at the station confirmed the account of the constable that he was drunk, and it was stated that the latter drove the defendant's cab to his iinapter's. Mr. Arnold—How was it, if this horse was so awkward, that an unprofessional driver could get it honie ? Defendant —lt was because it was a-going home, your worship ; they're always quiet then. The gentleman never paid me a farthing fare. Mr. Arnold—l don't think he was bound to do so. It does not matter whether it was from your animal's awk wardness or your drunkenness, your contract to take hint to a certain place was not completed. Defendant—l drove them all the way from the Edgware road, and it's very hard to lose my fare. Mr. Arnold—And it was very hard for those ladies, without anything on their heads, to be left in the street at two in the morning. _ _ Defendant--I was very sorry for them, but the " hani mal was hawkward." Defendant was fined 55., or in default four days. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. To-day's market was very moderately supplied with English wheat, in middling condition. The trade for all qualities ruled heavy, yet no material change took place in prices. There was a fair supply of foreign wheat on the stands. The amount of business transacted was very moderate Prices were unaltered from Monday. Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request, at late rates. With barley the market was fairly. supplied. Good and fine malting qualities were firm in price ; otherwise, the barley trade was slow. Malt was in limited demand, at late prices. Oats were in fair supply and steady request, at full prices. Both beans and peas sold heavily, at barely late rates. There was a fair demand for flour, at late prices. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch. 1080 290 490 250 Irish Foreign — 800 320 5,570 160 sks. 6900 brls. COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OE GRAIN. For the week ending Dec. For the corresponding week 30, 1865. last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 72,309-46s lld Wheat 81,109-37s 10d Barley ' 80,285-32 s 6d Barley ..... 81,491--28s Od. Oats WHITEOHAPEL. The trade is firm, at the annexed quotations : Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5 s 2d ; veal, as 10d to 4s 8d; and pork, as 101 to 5s 2d per Blbs. by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. The demand for hops is by no means active ; neverthe less, prices rule firm. ELECTRIC BELLS ON RAILWAY TRAINS.--An in teresting experiment was tried on Saturday at the Dijon Railway terminus with a system of electric bells applied to a railway train of passenger carriages. It completely suc ceeded. A communication between each of the carriages and the compartment occupied by the head conductor of the train was instantly effected by merely pressing a but ton attached to one of the partitions of the carriage. EXPLOSION ,OF A LOCOMOTIVE BOILER AT THE GREAT NORTHERN STATION, NOTTINGHAM.—On Monday last about two o'clock in the afternoon, the boiler of a large locomotive engine, belonging to the Great N orth ern Railway Company, exploded near the Nottingham sta tion. The engine had been used for shunting between the passenger station and the ticket platform, and while wait ing for another train to run off some waggons on the same line, the boiler blew up with a terrific noise, hurling some of the fragments to a distance of 500 yards. Although the driver and the firemen wore actually on the engine, they escaped without any injury. Nov. 1 . Dec 9, > 1865. 1865. Increase' Decrse. Bank of England 21,8 '4,805 20 , 03,218: 1,0.11,5 7 Private Banks 3,133,928 2,977,.761 156,652 Joint-stock Banks 2,892,421 2,719,6 )7 102,764 Total in England 2 7 ,89 1, 154 2 ; , 570 , 181 ' - 1,3.0,973 Scotland 4,696,685 4,903,930 £207,295 Ireland 6 , ,NE37,925 ti,f91,240, — 193,685 —; ---... United Kingdom. 1 1,310.363 The Great Fire in St. Katharine's Docks. We are happy to state that this morning, owing to the indefatigable exertions of the new Metropoli politan Brigade, under Captain Shaw, his four chief officers, and the land and steam floating engines by Messrs. Shand, Mason, and Co., with the aid of Beck and Co.'s hydraulic, and the boun tiful supply of water on the land side furnished by the East London Company, the fire may now be said to be entirely got under. The, land steamers have been " knocked off," and all the machines at present required to be worked are the steam floats, which are throwing four or five tons weight of water per minute upon the still smouldering ruins, and it is now expected that the fire will be entirely extinguished by the end of a week or so. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS, -4.- SOUTHAMPTON, TUCOay, The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ripon, Captain Rogers, with the above mails, has arrived. She brings 97 passengers, and specie valued at £l,lll, also 874 packages cargo, of which 354 are bales of raw silk valued at £30,000, From St. Vincent to Ushant the Ripon expe rienced strong S.W. gales, with squalls of rain and heavy sea ; up the Channel strong westerly breezes and cloudy weather. Her Majesty's ships Royal Oak, Victoria, Cale donia, Gibraltar, Meeanee, Resistance, Enterprise, Firefly, Psyche, Pelican, Racer, Assurance, Hiber nia, Cockatrice, Caradoc, Cossack, and Arethusa were at Malta. GIBItALTAR, Dec. 28. The steamer Borysthenes has been wrecked on the coast of Algiers ; she litiuck upon a rock off Capo Blanco, near Oran. Of 300 passengers on board between 30 and 40 perished. Commandant Juge of the Engineers, Captain Lafond of the 2d Chasseurs, and seven of the crew are amongst those lost. The whole of the cargo was lost, but the re mainder of the passengers and crew suceeeded in reaching Plane Island, from whence they have been conveyed to Oran. The British brigantine Farmer's Lass, from Swansea, lost foretopmast off Cape St. Vincent; and the Princess Royal lost bulwarks, &c., off the Island of Sicily. Her Majesty's ships Racoon and Skylark are in the harbour. The following British ships have arrived here since the 22d :—Brigantine Alfred, 12 days from Swansea ; brigantine Georges, 26 days from Liver pool ; steamer Clio, 10 days from Hull ; steamer Rosetta, 8 days from Cardiff ; brig Queenstown, 38 days from Ramsgate ; schooner Enigma, 14 days from Plymouth ; and steamer Nyanza, 5f days from Southampton. Exchanges are quoted—London, 90 days' date, 49i ; Marseilles, 8 days, sf. 15c. to 16c. ; Madrid, 8 days, par to e prem.; Cadiz, 24 to 3 dis. ; Seville, par ; Malaga, par ; Valencia, par to j dis. ; prem. on sf. pieces, 1 per cent. The Tallow Trade. - Subjoined is an extract from Messrs. Smith and Charles's report of the progress of business in the tallow trade during the past year : " The past year having been in some respects an exceptional one in the tallow trade, it may be use ful to review the circumstances which have resulted in so large an advance and so many fluctuations in the article. In the spring of the year the high price of butchers' meat began to tell seriously upon the home production of tallow, and induced many large consumers to buy for futureperiods of delivery to the end of the year. Importers, however, being willing sellers,it was not until the failure of shipments of tallow and lard from New York brought in a more purely speculative class of buyers that prices began to ad vance to any extent. A little later the alarm pro duced by . the spread of the rinderpest aggravated the movement, and when it subsequently turned out that the Russian supply was shorter than the estimates by 10 or 12,000 casks, a very rapid ad vance took place, the price going to 52s for last three months and 55s for March . At and about those prices very considerable sales were made by the earlier pur chasers, producing a reaction of 2s. to 3s. per cwt. At from 51s. to 525. 6d. for March, purchases were again made for the rise, but the home production having increased and the supplies from Odessa and the Sea of Azoff, proving somewhat larger than had been at first counted upon, and they being very freely offered on the market. Concurrently ship ments (though at present only of a very moderate amount) having commenced again at New York, a further decline was submitted to, the price going back to 48s. on the spot and for January, and 495. for March." The Bank Returns. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 9th December. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 6th of December (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the previous month : 39,475,7641 38,165,401.1 And as compared with the month ending the 10th of December, 1864, the above returns show an increase of £951,359 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £2,047,078 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks tho following is tho state of the circulation:— The English private banks are below their fixed issue £1,162,193 The English joint-stock banks aro below their fixed issue ... 436,600 Total below fixed issue in England ... £1,598,793 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 2,154,709 The Irish banks are above their fixed issue 336,746 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 6th of Dec. was £14,310,174, being a decrease of £1,174,361 as compared with the previous month, and an increase of £356,657 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 9th of December : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... £2,793,886 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ... 2,574,945 £5,368,831 Being an increase of £203,729 as compared with the pre- Tious return, and an increase of £674,848 when compared with the corresponding period last year. The Right Hon. T. M.. Gibson, it is expected, will address his constituents at the Town-hall, Ashton under-Lyne, on the evening of the 23d inst. THE CONDEMNED PRISONER IN GLASGOW.—A memorial on behalf of John Jamieson, at present lying under sentence of death in Glasgow, was last night for warded to Sir G. Grey. The memorial fully sets forth the circumstances of the case, and concludes :—" We venture briefly to suggest that fin prisoner's guilt, though great, is surely to be widely distinguished from those cases of mur der in which the criminal has assailed the life of his victim insidiously and deliberately, and with all precautions to conceal his deadily arts from justice. The circumstances of the case, we humbly think, clearly show three things :- 1. That the prisoner was actuated by no real wickedness of heart. 2. That he enterlained no malice towards the de ceased. 3. That he committed the deed without premedi tation and under the influence of sudden and violent pas sion. That his crime may, nevertheless, in the strict legal sense, amount to murder wo do not dispute, but we yet venture to submit that it is a case in which the interests of justice do not require the extreme penalty of the law. We therefore, humbly urge upon you that, by the verdict which has been returned, the law, as it at present stands, has been sufficiently vindicated ; and we respectfully hope that you may deem it consistent with your duty to advise her Ma jesty to extend the Royal mercy to the unhappy man.' The petition is signed by Messrs. Caldwell and Smillia, the prisoner's agents.—Edinburgh Courant. BANKING AT NORWICH.--On Monday a spacious new banking-house was opened by Messrs Harveys and Hudsons, on the Castle Meadow, Norwich. The building is the largest of the kind in tha Eastern Counties. It was designed by Mr. Hardwick, standing architect to the Bank of England, and was executed by Messrs. Lucas Broth;rs. A new banking house is also nearly completed in+►London street, Norwich, for the Norwich branch of the Consoli dattild Bank (Limited). THE GALES. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 2.* The Norwegian ship Oscar, Captain N. 0. Bull, from Shields for Alexandria, with a cargo of 95 keels of coke and bricks, was towed in here to-day leaky, with 'boats smashed, decks swept, and otherwise damaged seriously by the violent gale in the Channel on Sunday last. The ship had a remarkable escape from total loss, with the lives of all on board, on Sunday. Captain Bull had decided early in the morning to give up further contesting the gale, and run back for the inside of - the Isle of Wight for shelter. The gale was blowing furiously from about S.S.W., with a tremendous sea running, and the ship was enveloped in such a whirl of wind, rain, and spray that nothing could be seen twice her length ahead. All hands kept a sharp look-out, and at about 11 30 a.m. the captain saw, to his horror, close ahead of the ship, a man walking on land with a child in his arms, and a white stone tower on the ship's starboard beam. The ship was running in dead under the cliffs near Black Gang Chine, where the Clarendon Indiaman was lost, and scores of other vessels before and since then, and the white tower on the starboard hand was found to be the lighthouse on St. Catherine's Point. Immense breakers were tumbling in astern of the ship over Rocken End Reef, while ahead the sea was dashing itself in mighty rollers on the face of the cliffs. There was but one chance of escape for the ship, and this was grasped and followed with the true seaman's instinct by Captain Bull. The human voice was powerless to convey orders over the ship's deck, but signs were sufficient, for all saw the danger readily enough, and also saw the door for their escape if the ship could only weather the rocky point of St. Catherine's with its ghostly-looking tower. The ship's helm was put down, port braces hauled in, and the ship laid as close as she would to the wind, when the point was seen to show itself slightly under the lee of the ship's bow. It was life or death to all on board. The ship might, by the aid of a favourable puff and the steadiness of her helmsman, pass to windward of the point, where she would be safe, or, with less favourable conditions, she would go ashore and smash her frame at once in a hundred pieces on the huge rocks which occasionally lifted their heads above the foam. The Oscar did pass, but not un scathed. Three times she struck the ground heavily, but, fortunately, on neither occasion did she lose her way, keeping her course close in and parallel to the cliffs from St. Catherine's towards Ventnor. Twice the sea took possession of her deck and threatened to sink her by its sheer weight, but the ship shook herself free of the water, and held on her way gal lantly. On the first sea rolling in upon the ship in a terrific wall of water the crew rushed below, and the captain and mate sprang in the mizen rigging at the moment it broke aboard. There was a dreadful crash, boats and bulwarks were smashed, and the ship's deck was left covered with shingle, which the sea, in its fury, had torn from the beach at the foot of the cliffs. A second time the ship was assaulted by the sea and land combined in this strange man ner, and a second time emerged safely from the shock, although again bearing marks of the fray. The great danger was now passed, however, a safer berth further off from the land was soon afterwards reached, and in abouttwo hours more the Oscar was safely riding to her anchor near the Nab lightship. A pilot boat took in to the Norwegian consul at Portsmouth, M. L. A. Vandenburgh, the news of the critical and damaged condition of the ship, and that gentleman having applied to Sir M. Seymour, naval commander-in-chief, for assistance, the paddle steamer Sprightly was at once placed at his disposal and towed the Oscar to a safer anchorage at Spit head, whence she was towed into Portsmouth har bour yesterday morning. The Oscar is a ship of great strength of frame, having formerly been a Danish Government transport, and to this fact she doubtless partly owes her safety when striking the ground in passing St. Catherine's Point. The wind has mode rated to a stiff breeze from south-west, south of the Wight to-day, but the barometer is unsteady, and the weather now—sunset—looks as wild and unset tled as at any period during the present gales. 'I he Scotsman says of the storm in Scotland : " The wind, which blew pretty fresh from the south west throughout the day on Saturday in the south eastern counties, increased gradually in violence after nightfall till about midnight, when it was raging with the fury of a hurricane, driving before it rat tling blasts alternately of hail and rain. Fortunately, owing, no doubt, to the lateness of the hour when it raged in its greatest, violence, the gale has not, so far as we have learnt, caused injury to life or limb ; but from the direction whence it blew, and the heavy showers of rain that fell at regular intervals, it sent down both the Tweed and Teviot on Sunday morn ing in tremendous flood. The water spread over the Teviot-road leading up by Springwood, rendering it all but impassable, and inundated the lower flat of Maxwellheugh-mill, injuring a considerable quan tity of grain and flour standing there in sacks. The flood carried down a good quantity of turnips, branches of trees, and the usual floating wreck washed down in inundations. On Monday the rivers had much subsided in volume (marking in the afternoon a little above 2ft.), and the weather, which was clear and cold in the afternoon, became overclouded after midday, and several heavy showers of snow fell at intervals. On Saturday the steamer Islay landed at Greenock the crew of the ship Lexington, which had foundered at sea, off Islay, on Tuesday, the 26th ult., one of the crew going down with the ship. The Lexington sailed from Liverpool forHavannah some daysprevious to the catastrophe, and experienced very heavy weather after leaving port. When off the coast of Islay on Tuesday, a fierce gale blowing, an attempt was made to "wear the ship," when she became unmanageable, and the sea breaking heavily over her the master ordered the boats to be got ready. Before the boats were launched, however, the ship began to founder, and the majo rity of the crew had barely time to get away when the vessel went down. One member of the crew was carried down along with the vessel. The sur vivors were buffeted about all night in the small open boat, but on the following day succeeded in reaching the island of Islay. The storms from the south-west have continued with great severity in the Irish Channel. A late telegram received at Liverpool from Cape Clear re ports that yesterday morning a full-rigged ship was seen to go down. PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Evening. It has been blowing strong for several days. A heavy gale commenced this morning from the south west, and veered with increased force to the south ward. The storm signal, a cone reversed, has been up all day. The frigate Galatea, lying just inside the breakwater, with top-gallant mast struck, parted a chain, but was soon brought up again. All the merchant ships in the Sound have two anchors down. The ship Zimi, which left Liverpool a month since for Bombay, put back here this afternoon leaky, with loss of boats, bulwarks, and one man drowned. The screw steamer London, from London for Mel bourne, due here to-day, has not arrived. The Duke of Cornwall, ready to start at 4 this afternoon for Dublin, is detained. ADVERTISEMENT.I -Avoid medicines: they always ag•gra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious MOW- Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourishment of the best, meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion. strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy ilvo,r, pure blood: re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a fcw outtof 00,0e0 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wastin4 away , debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad diges tion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.—Cure No. 1.771. Lord Stuart de Decies. Lord Lieutenant of Waterford. of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 19,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulen:y, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joily."—Cm e No. 16,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, •of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Mies Elizabeth Jacobs, of 'extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherins, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Jas, 'l'. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver. which had resiste 1 all medical treatment," In tins,l lb., 2s. 9d. 21b., 4s. 6d *; Mb., 11s. ; 121 b., 225. ; 40e.—Barry )u Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Philli tea dealers, 9, King William-street ; likewi-e at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63,154, and 298, -Oxford-street ; 330, Strand; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close lirothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's -wcod, London ; and all respectable grocers aria die wistis.—Beware of spurious imitations. Sir William Hutt and the Austrian Treaty. To Sir William Hutt and his colleagues will always be due the credit of having, with much labour and ability, negotiated the first step Of this great treaty, which, if concluded, will form a se quence to the one with France, for which Richard Cobden gained such renown. We think that Sir W. Hutt has hardly received at the hands of the public and the press of England the gratitude he has thus well merited, and we fancy that this may have arisen in some degree from a mis interpretation of his withdra.wal from Vienna at a time when the negotiations were appa rently at their height. The, -facts of the case were these :—Sir W. Hutt was sent to Vienna, from the Board of. Trade, as chief of the English portion of an Anglo-Austrian Commission, formed to dis cuss the relative systems of trade of the two nations, with a view to a commercial treaty. The labdurs of this commission progressed very favourably till the end of June, :bringing before the eyes of the Ministers of Austria many principles of commerce of which they were totally ignorant ; and, by dis cussion and comparison of statistics, showing forth on all hands the advantages of our unprotected system. Towards the end of June a split in the Austrian Ministry took place, and the Minister of Finance and several members of the commission— among whom was their chief, Baron de Kalchberg, the minister of commerce—resigned office. The commission was therefore temporarily dissolved, with the understanding that it was to resume its labours in October, when the Austrian Ministry should have been reconstructed and the vacancies in the commission filled up. The official position, therefore, of Sir W. Hutt and his colleagues in Vienna was, until the Austrian portion of the com mission should be re-formed, at an end. They were accordingly for the time recalled to England. But the new Ministry, more liberal in their views than their predecessors, considering the investigations already made by the commission to be satisfactory, desired at once to enter into the practical discus sion of the treaty. The entire commercial com mission was therefore formally dissolved, and the carrying on of the negotiations (now become, to use an official phrase, purely a Foreign Office business) fell into Lord Bloomfield's hands in his capacity of ambassador. It was felt, however, that the information gained by our English Commissioners during their labours ought not to be entirely lost, but should be brought to bear in some practical way on the treaty. Mr. Morier and Mr. Mallet remained therefore at Vienna in a strictly private capacity, to give to Lord Bloomfield the benefit of their experience in the difficult negotiations of which he had the official management ; and Sir W. Hutt was retained at home to advise Lord Russell, in a similar manner, on the various questions submitted for his decision. The treaty just concluded is, with few exceptions, identical with that originated by Sir W. Hutt, and we feel that while due credit is given to Lord Bloomfield and his assistants in Vienna, for their share in its negotiation, the gratitude of the public will be as freely bestowed on Sir W. Hutt, whose able services her Majesty's Government have most frankly acknowledged, not only by creating him a K.C.8., but by formally communicating to him their thanks " for the great ability with which, under circumstances of much difficulty, he has conducted the negotiations entrusted to him."—Morning Post. THE POPE AND THE FRENCH ARMY, ROME, JAN. 1. The Pope, on receiving the congratulations of the French officers, presented to his Holiness by General Montebello, expressed his fatherly affection and gratitude towards the French army in Rome, and added, "This year especially I must express my thankfulness, it being, perhaps, the last in which I can bestow my blessing on them." His Holiness, in conclusion, said .that after the departure of the French army the enemies of the Church and of the Holy See would, perhaps, come to Rome, but, remembering the example of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Pope would pray for the French army and the Imperial family and the whole of France, and even for poor Italy, afflicted by so many evils. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 29. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. J. M. Bailey as Consul at Glasgow for the United States of America. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 2. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-General Sir Henry Knight Storks, G.C.8., G.C.M.G.; Russell Gurney, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Recorder of the City of London ; and John Blossett Maule, Esq., Barrister-at- Law, Recorder of the town of Leeds, to be her Majesty's Commissioners for the purpose of inquiring respecting certain disturbances in the Island of Jamaica, and the mea sures taken in the course of their suppression. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles Saville Bounden, Esq., barrister-at law, to be Secretary to the aforesaid Commissioners. ITIES. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 2.—We have had a very strong market for all kinds of shipping yarns, which have continued to exhibit throughout the day a gradually hardening tendency in price. Many orders have been given out for the Continent which had been held in abeyance, and the market closes strong. In home trade yarns the market also has been firm, with a steady business. In cloth the year opens with firmness in all descriptions of goods. Manufac turers as well as spinners are generally engaged for some weeks forward, and although the holydays are scarcely over, and we can hardly yet say that busi ness is resumed, there is an evident tendency to higher rates. The business done in cloth to-day has been small. The past year has been one of great fluctuations in price, and ruinous losses have been sustained by many persons connected with the different branches of the cotton trrde. Buyers un- der such circumstances have naturally become cau tious, and are indisposed to follow the present high prices. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth market : " Business has hardly yet been fairly resumed, and but little is proposed. Manufacturers are very steady in their demands, and the year opens with a firm, if not advancing, tendency. To-day buyers appear indisposed to operate except for very small quantities, and we close with but few transactions." CARDIFF, Ist.—Now that the Christmas holydays are over, the works of the district have resumed their former activity, and the men are fully em- ployed. The steam coal trade is healthy, and orders on foreign account come to hand more regularly and freely. There is a moderate trade with the West Indies, and the mail packet coaling stations are taking an average quantity. The demand for steam from the metropolitan markets is tolerably good, and increased quantities are sent by rail to Birkenhead for shipment. Colliery proprietors an ticipate a brisker trade towards spring, and are making preparations accordingly. In house coal the demand is not so active as was expected, and so long as the present comparatively mild weather con tinues the consumption will keep down. The iron trade is somewhat firmer, and the decision of the preliminary meeting of masters not to interfere with present quotations has induced buyers to come for ward with their orders. . Pig iron continues de cide My firm. _ . I LEEDS, 2d.—The attendance in the cloth halls to day was rather better than on this day week, but buyers operated cautiously, and at the close of the market the aggregate amount of cloth which had changed hands was found not to be quite to an ave rage extent. Ordinary plain goods in medium qualities were the most saleable, and these, with tweeds and plain and fancy meltons, formed the bulk of the purchases. The mark et in other re spects was satisfactory, it being a general impres sion that the balance of the year's accounts will turn out well as to both the home and the export trading in the varied woollen fabrics manufactured in this and the surrounding districts, and that the prospects for the spring demand are good. The manufacturers are well employed, but a few of the dressing mills are not quite so busy as we lately had to report. Dyers are mostly in full work, and, indeed, there are not many of the really skilled adults in any branch of the woollen clo th manufac ture out of employ. Prices of wo o l, yarns, and cloths are firm. NOTTINGHAM 2d.—There was not much busi ness transacted in lace yarns at our Exchange-hall to-day ; prices, however, remained very firm, with a tendency to harden. For hosiery yarns previous rates were fully sustained: Silks were quite as dear, with an upward tendency. For brown nets there was little or no inquiry, and prices were much .1 the same as last week. ROCHDALE, Ist.--The flannel-market to-day was almost a blank because of the customary cele bration- of New Year's Day. Business was so limited as to be almost of a retail character, and it was confined to a, few hand-to-mouth purchasers, chiefly from some of the neighbeiiring districts. Business in 'the warehouses is little better than nominal, owing to the understanding that merchants are absorbed in stock-taking. It is hoped that the new year will give an impulse to the trade of this place, especially to the' plain goods department, but the remarkable openness of the weather is not pro mising for anything. like an average winter . trade. A few makers of Yorkshire goods were in attend ance, but buyers seemed unanimously to have agreed upon a holiday. Liverpool Cotton Market--This ray. The market opens rather quiet, but steady. Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 bales. Mr. Pell, the Leamington magistrate, • about whom there was such a disturbance a week or two ago, has requested the Lord Chancellor to take his name off tho commission of the peace for the county of Warwick. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN, 2.. Royal Artillery—Lieuten'ant Hugh F. A. Brodie has been permitted to resign his Commission. • Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Wolsten holme Ward, from the Supernumerary List, to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, vice A. Q'D. Grattan, retired on full pay. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets from the Royal Military Academy to be Lieutenants, with tem porary rank :—Sydney Long Jacob, Charles Frederick Cobbe Beresford, John Simpson Nicholson, Napoleon Arnott, George Robert Walker, Robert Charles Thoro ton Hildyard, George Dashwood Goldin Taubman, Duncan 111'Neil Campbell, Charles Claude Clifton Bar low, and William Robert Purchas. 13th Regiment of Foot—Major Peter Macdonald to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet- Colonel Lord Mark Ker, C. 8., who retires upon half pay ; Captain and Brevet-Major Frederick Van Strau benzee to be Major, without purchase, vice Macdonald. BREVET. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Henry Augustus Powell, Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Major. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening, Amsterdam Short. 11 171 _ _ 11 18 Ditto 3 Months. 12 11 12 21 ; Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 471 25 55 - Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 121 25 29 Ditto 3 Months. 25 421 25 471 Marseilles Frank - for: on the Maine 120* 1201 Vienna — 10 8u 10 85 Trieste — 10 80 10 85 Petersburgh - 29Z 30/ Berlin 461 47 —47 i 25 62} 25 67* 25 62i 25 67* 25 62 1 25 67* Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 25 62i 25 671 25 62i 25 67* 25 621 25 67* SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. -+ - RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. FEBRUARY. Lincoln 2O Nottingham Spring MARCH. Derby Spring 1 Croxton Park 1 G Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster I Lewes Spring APRIL. Newmarket Craven Durham 2 Epsom Spring Cat terick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Chester I Chelmsford Spring MAY. Ascot Spring Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer JUNE. Windsor Summer 5 Liverpool Newton Hampton 7 Ipswich Odiham Bibury l3 Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 i Worcester JULY. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon 1 Reading Huntingdon AUGUST. Brighton 7 1 York August 2l Brighton Club Lewes lO Lichfield Egham .14 Devon and Exeter 2B Wolverhampton 14 Tunbridge 2B Stockton l5 Derby Summer 28 Oxford l6 I Weymouth 3O Hastings 2l SEPTEMBER. Warwick September Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Canterbury lB Richmond lB Monmouth Manchester Autumn 24 Newmarket Ist October • 26 Walsall 2 OCTOBER. Northampton 2 Newmarket Houghton 22 Newmarket 2d October 8 Worcester Curragh NOVEMBER. Lincoln Liverpool BAILY'S TURF GUIDE FOR 1866.—The winter edition of this valuable guide is always looked forwai d to with great interest by sporting men. In the present num ber will be found the nominations for 1866 , and entries for the great stakes of 1867, with the horses indexed, and their pedigrees ; a calendar of all races and steeplechases in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, and Baden-Baden for 1665 ; with a complete index, colours of the riders, lengths of courses, sales of blood stock, laws of racing, list of trainers, jockeys, &c., as well as the winners of all the groat prizes from their commencement. On the frontis piece there is a life-likeness of Jemmy Grimshaw, one of the best light-weight jockeys of the ago. Now that the entries for all the important spring handicaps will shortly be published, we would strongly recommend it as an in valuable guide to those who engage in turf pursuits. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.12 i per £1 sterling. On competing these rates with the English Mint price 01 £d 175. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-11.ths per cent. dearer in fads than in London. By advic4s from Hamburg the price of gold Is 424 per marl and the short exchange on London is 13.4 i per £1 sterna . Standard gold at the Engli,th Mint price is, there:ore, at about the same price in London and Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills et 60 days' sight is tog to 100,1 per cent. At these rates there is a trifling profit on the importation of go'd from the United States. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Jan. 3.—Wind this day at noon—South. Westerly; moderate breeze, and fino weather, but rather cloudy. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Simoda, from Newport for St. Thomas; Anna Augusta, from St. John's, Newfoundland. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Avoca, screw steamer, from London, leaky, and with machinery damaged. ' LIVERPOOL, Jan. 2.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Chrysoleto, for Gibraltar; St. Andrew, screw sfeamer, fow New York; Alexander, Galveston. _ CALINGFORD, Jan I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Lady Have lock, from Dublin for --. steamer,SoUTHA frMom the PTON W , Jaens.t Indies. 2.—lVind S.W.—Arrived—Atrato, Indleboro DARTMOUTH, Jan. I.—WindW.—Arrive d—, from Quebec for Hull. • PENZANCE, Jan. I.—Wind Camyngs, from St. Ives for Naples, with loss of sails, a n d other damage. FALMOUTH, Jan. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Antonio, from Sulina. KINGSTON, Jan. I.—Wind S.Vir.—Arrived—Euphemia, from St. John's, N.B. PLYMOUTH, Jan. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nile, from Rouen for Liverpool. GREENOCK, Jan. S.W.—Arrived.—The Echo, from Charleston, for Liverpool, leaky, and with other damage. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 2—City of Hamilton, from Montreal ; Scotia, steam tug, from Flushing. Arrived, Jan. 3,--Leo, from Antwerp. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. No arrivals. It blew a gale during the night from the S.W. ; this morning it has abated and is moderate. and ern, 3 to for her scr- )yal ms, ally )ya 1 Len and Less and iord to the age Ind 100 100 100 all 100 100 10 i 35 4 681 7} 36 Si 101 i 161 a