The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-17 00:00:00

NONEYMARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two o'CLocK. The English Stock Market opened with a decline * per cent., but ultimately quotations recovered, and Consols are now 86i 87 for money, and 87f for the account. The Now Threes and Reduced Annuities are 861 87 ; Exchequer Bills, ss. to 2s. d ls ; India Stock, 208 2101 ; and ditto 5 per Cents., 102 i I. Foreign Stocks have generally been depressed. Turkish 5 per Cents., ex div., 39 i; Mexican, 2 4 ; ditto New, 19i ; Greek, 13+ ; Spanish Passive, 254 26 ; the Certificates, 13i 14k ; Italian, 614 621 ; the Confederate Loan, 6 7 ; and Brazilian Scrip, 1 prem. United States Govern- Mont 5-20 Bonds, 651 66 ; Erie shares, 57i 58 ; and Illinois, 7G The Scrip of the new Egyptian Railway Loan is quoted .1 prem. In the Railway Share Market business has been ' v ery dull, and in several instances prices have slightly given way. Great Eastern, Great Northern (A Stock), and Metropolitan, have each receded ss. ; d Lancashire and Yorkshire 10s. ; while North western, South Western, and North Eastern (Ber- Wick) have each advanced 10s. In the Foreign and Colonial lines there is little variation of of importance. B ank and Miscellaneous Shares remain very Inactive. Alliance Bank are dealt in at 27i ; Lon don and County at 82 ; Oriental Bank at 51 ; Joint stock Discount at 8+ ; and Overend, Gurney, and , e °., at 20i ; the New Egyptian Government ,-4ailway Debenture Loan is quoted 1 prem. ; Co nvention and American Bank, 1 prem. British Stearn Bonds of Mexico, 68 72 ; London „ . teatii Towing Co., 14- 2 prem.; Charles Lafitte and ‘-;0., 2 24 prem. ; and Galatz Candle Co., -I Prem. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. . GOVERNMENT FUNDS. ° I)er Cent. Consols 87 61 7 GI Do. Account, Feb. 8 er C on t . R e d uced 862 `',„P i. 7 61 ' "e 'v 3 per Cent B6l 1 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — A Do. 5 per Cont. Jan. 1873 — ..aluuities 30 yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880 . Ts rie. for ' 3O yrs, expire sth April, ' lBB5.- B 4 -' 0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 - - quer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 5 2 Do. .£5OO n Do £lOO and £2OO ' lll r Of England Stock, 5 per C en t -lAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. D o 4ildi Stock, 101 por Cont., April 1874 2OB 10/ 9 ala Account 1) O. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 ". 4 per Cent. Oct. Oct. 1888 Do. C ertificate ; _ FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Rust ili an strian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1839 5 er Cent 1)0 . 41 per p Cent., 1852-58-60 _ L e. 1863 „ Do. 1865 1,0 Account 741 1 5 t bo. 5 paid 11-,elloB Ayres 6 per Cent — '-'..no. Account e1., - ; ,° 1 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) D ° '- per Cent e , 4i per Cent — e°',erabian 6 per Cent. — 110 n I) 7 1 ~, per C ent. 1 41s il 3 per Cent., 1825 D -- '°. 4 per Cent 1863 — I.) ° . 5 per Cent:, 1773-77, £25 paid 7 44Rbian Principalities 3 t b e A ccount _ ciNliador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — ,t .) I rovisional Land Warra n t — 'l; ° RYptiaA 7 per C en t — Issu e — "Jo .£lOO B onds ,-, Do. 1864 9li 1 2 (iruo £lOO Bonds D° 6 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons -13. Account -0. Coupons ti,‘ -'0. Account r e nlala 5 per Cent. .p 0 o.£B6paid 1,111,. 1639 and 1850 — e t 4 6 per Cent, 1865 0. Account ...,,) •-••• b Ma•,remmana Railway . I .) `' ?erip, £67i paid — I .ley? u Per Cent., 1864 — 0 - 0 1 . e4 4 11 c 3 per Cent . Dct 1 2 1 14 1 2 D o 1864 n 0 B - '' Per Cent. Anglo-French itt o ,°, French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20e koZvidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Nei Bll Imperial 5 per Cent *be 2 Granada l3l 1, per C en t — .-,io Deferred bcff.° Land W arrants (Hectares) D O Per C en t , 1864 — p er 0 Gu aranteed, 4 per Cent ovi all 5 er Cent ip c'. Ac P b _ ~ count Bu ? per Cent. (Uribarren) _ Do Per Cent., 1862 1,,,, 0 A ccount D.llll suese 3 per Cont., 1853 kl) ° 3 Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, is°. Account '4sl e n ial .! 5 . per Cont., 1822, £ St B9l /311 - Per Cent. 1850 Bo 1,1 Per Cent., 1860 b ci u , Per Cent. 1859 D o u t , Per Cent. 1862 — hltroi„u, Per Cent. 1864 —D o . .an 5 por Cent 130.X1(0 Bands' — 4, iii 1 1 per Cent _ Dit to 3 per Cent bc, a ccount —B o l‘reW Deferred — ~c, Account .I%' Vassive ' c ' Ac e 26 51 6 51 ba,ni4 eurit 41.),-, i t Cert. of Coup not funded — i,e-eccount 141 D h 4 per Cent. DO. utkio, 1 ~Doe Cent. 1864 .--, D o p u Per Cent. 1834 — , '' - ecollllt B9 6 D o A P'"r Cent. 1858 1) -ke count 7O ' D o f loo Bonds _ D o ° Per Cent. 1862 A ccount 6B i 1 B o ° 4100 Bonds b o , 6 Per Cent. 1863 — b o t s ' Pey Cent. 1865 4- ° , l' e count 39 i IV' 1 Per C ent. Guaranteed — .[ZiAlela 6 per Cent w accOUllt 4,, Dividends on the above payable in London. p Atri.• s`-E+1•• 44 , 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins l ' l4 , 41 • '' ,-', r ,rei leh ..., 1 per cent., Ex. lof. kill,e, ,-Ltentes 3 per Cent. ~ b o l i ` Per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — 'E4li,' 'Per Cent. Certificates B o ' l Ae per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. ''' eunt 1.10,, THREE O'CLOCK. ktsoi, f 1 8 0. A or money ............................... 861 7 Ce e'lalt I ..... mi ..... 1111 ................. 67. TWELVE o'CLocK. The demand for discount accommodation to-day has not been very active ; but as there appears to be a diminution in the amount of capital afloat, the brokers have generally asked higher rates for the accommodation they have afforded. First-class bills have not been negotiable in the open market under 71 and 8 per cent., and those having only a few days to run have not been so easily taken at 7i per cent. as was the case two or three days ago. The twentieth report of the directors of the Bank of London was this morning adopted at the half -yearly meeting. The dividend declared was 10 per cent per annum, with a bonus of 12 10s. for shares amounting together to 20 per cent. free of income tax. The half-yearly meeting of proprietors of the London and Westminster Bank was held to-day. The dividend settled was at the rate of 6 per cent. Per annum out of profits, and a bonus of 14 per cent. on the paid-up capital. The prospectus for a new loan of £3,000,000, bearing 7 per cent. interest, has been issued by Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen for the Egyptian Government. The bonds are to be £lOO each, redeemable within eight years, at par, by annual drawings. The price of issue is £92, payable by instalments extending till Ist September. Arrange meats have been made for the regular transmission of the requisite funds for the half-yearly interest and for repayment of the capital to Messrs. Fruhling and Goschen. The receipts and revenues of all the Egyptian Government railways are appro priated and assigned for the punctual payment of the capital and interests of these bonds, and the Egyptian Government is directly liable in case of any deficiency. The loan is required for the fur ther development of the existing railway system, comprising the line from Alexandria to Suez, which, by rapidly increasing home and transit traffic, has become insufficient for the require ments both of passengers and goods. The brokers are Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co., and Messrs. Robins, Barber, and Dailey. SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways. i raiA i Closing 1 Business Price. done. Bristol and Exeter lO st Caledonian lOl at Cambrian . 11 BO Cork and 8and0n...... al 20 Cornwall al st Dublin Sr Belfast June lOl st Dun„Perth, et A b.J unc let 100 E.London, t crip Certi 2l Do. 1 et Glasgow &S. Western 10 st Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 1C st Do. E. Angl. st. No 2 11 st Great North of Scotland 11 st Great Northern Et Da. A stock 93 95 127 128 94 96 13 15 _44 53 )6 I es 70 0 70 72 111 113 41 12 100 1 127 128 ;00 1 145 146 at Do. B stock lui at Do. New, Is. at 25 pm 10 at Gt S, and W. of Ireland 101 at Cit. Western -Original at Do. S. Val. Rail gua. 101 at Do. South Wales et Do. W. Mid.—Oxford 101 et Do. Newport tf at Do. Hereford 1 et Lancashire & Yorkshir, 1 , et London and Blackwal r 11 at Lon., Brigh., & S Coas 11 et Lon., Chat., and Dove II at Do. Metrop. Ex. A ll at Lon. & North Western 1( at Lon. & South Western 11 at Man., Shet., & Lincoln 1( at Metropolitan a 10 Do. New 10 Do. Extension 10 f Metropolitan District. a. ( Do do. do. 1 , 10 Do. and St. John'sW'd It Midland 9 Do. £9 Share... 101- .00 I 01 Q 3 t 0 I f 68} 59 - JO 38 40 00 34 37 [OO 101 IC3 [OO 1221 122 [OO 89 91 [OO 100 102 [OO 35 37 [OO 46 to .00 125/ 126 00 90 95 00 62 63 ,11 134 V 5 7 2J 2lp 6 1 11p , 100 102 It Do, Birmin.. Derby I 15 Mid Kent it North British ........ st Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. ;t Nth. Eastern—Berwick 11 :5 Do. G.N•E purchase 16. t Do. Leeds ..... 1( .. 1 it Do. York i 55 t DD D 00 0 .. . 3 C o a . r 1 Stock.li 8 s 16 o.la. n. D 6. 1 North London • •• 1 , 10 Do. do. 1864 .... 10 Do. do. 1865 et North Staffordshire 10 N. dr S. W. Junction st Scottish Central it Scot. N. E Aber. stock 101 it Do. Scot, Mid. st ack lOl it Shropshire Union 10f it South Devon it it south Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok it raft Vale LC Do. C it Vale of death it Waterford & Kilkenny 10( .0 Waterloo & Whiteha it West Cornwall... 4Of 11 1 1 128 145 128 k 221 i [OO i 1251 6 51 6 94 62} 133} 7 1235 I 111 i I 721 1(51 561 74 31 BRITISH Pa 100 At'antic& St. Lawrence al st Bom.,Baroda,k Cen.ln. 10 gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. E shares 201 Buffalo & Lake Huron al 10 Do. Preference al 00 Buff.,Brant, & Goderich I 6 p.c. 872-3-1 lOl et Calcutta &S. E., Um lOl st 'ape Town & Dock, gu lOl 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p: al at East. Beneal, gu., sdo 10( st East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 101 20 Do. J Extension st gilrandTrunkof Canada 101 00 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c al DO Do. Ist Pref. Bonds al. DO Do. do. deferred ai )0 Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds al )0 Do. do. deferred )0 Do. Pd Pref. stock al )0 Do. do. deferred 10 Do. 4th I'ref. stock al 10 Do. do. deterred it Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c lOl '0 10. Gua. 5 per cent 1 0 Do. New grua. sp. c .t Gt. South of India .. gua. 5 per cent 8t D 4.1 per cent lO 81 Do 204 Treat WCs. of Canada.. a] 204 Da. New 00 Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 al 00 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. al 10 fndian Branch, limited st Madras, gua. 5 p.c I st Do. 41 do ............ st Do. 44 do tO Do. Fifth Exterlsion 3t Ifelb. Cor. 6p. c. Bads. L. :41e1. & Hudson's Bay al it N. RI. C'da, 6pc Ist pf. hs 10( ;t Scinde .... It Do. Delhi 0 Do. do c% t Do. Punjaub„ :.1 t Do.lndus St.FlO ,ONIAL GOVERN British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Dec. 31,1872 101 Can.Gov.o p.c.Ja.&July 1877-1 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 1!I Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10• Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 101 Do. sp. e. inscribed sk 101 Capp G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 101 Do. Apl.&Ocl 1890-1900 10( Do. do; 1 ,, 30-9 101 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9. 101 Do., 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOl Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( 101 Do. 1878, do lOl Ilauritius, f p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1578 Do. 1882, May 15, Nov. ;1 10. Do. 1895, Feb. .1z Ana ls( Natal 'iov. es per cen t ID, N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 10( N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866 101 Do. 5 p.c. 18a to 1876 10( Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189.: 10( New Zealand, 6p. cent 101 Do. 5 per cent lOl Nova Sc.tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 l9l Queensland Gov. 6p. c lO S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-t 10 Do. 1878 & upwards ll Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 11" Do. do, A pril & Oct.. BRITIS 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, lim. I Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated, 30 20 21 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist. 1 670 690 Drakewalls 2.1.0 1 East Bassett (Illo gan ) 2 94 18 20 East Caradon 2.14.6 84 94 East Cam Brea 3l 54 51 East Grenville East Gunnislake 8.3.6 4 1 East Lovell 3.9.0 12 14 E. WI Russell (Tavistk 10.8.0 3 3} Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 66 5 7 4 Great Lixey, limited all 20 21 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 14 2 Great Wheal 8u5y...., 14.9.6 34 G. Wheal Vor (llelston 4U 31 33 Grenville 8.18.0 84 Si Herod's Foot . 8.10.0 40 4z llingston Downs .. ... . 5.10.6 51 54 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 5 7 Clarke Valley 4.10.6 4 44 4 Mwyndy Iron Ore, lim 2} 24 14d New Se ton North Roskear N.WII I I Bassett (Illogran 4.4.0 North Wheal Crotty Prosper United.... • - Providence ,UnyLelant 10.6.7 :17 39 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 410 430 South Condurrow 3.2.0 2 r 1 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 18 22 - Stray Park . 35.15.6 9 11 Tin Croft 9 19 20 5 Vigra and Clogan, lim all 4 6 West Bassett (Mogan 16 3 4 W. Caradon (Ltskeard 9 8 10 West Chiverton ll 80 83 West Seton 474 190 200 Wheal Bassett 'lllogan 54 95 1(0 Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 27 3) Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 3 6 Wheal Seton 584 2 1 5 220 Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 17 18 105 4: PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. South Eastern 44 per cent., 1850, 80 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. South Staffordshire, 864 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 111 / Bahia and San Francisco (11. n.) gua. 7 per cent., 14; Recite and San Francisc a ( 11 w.), gua. 7 per cent., 13 Sambre and Meuse, 94 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 161 FOREIGN MINIM Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 34 4 Frontino and Bolivia Gold, lim., Yudanamutana of S. Australia, lim., BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 561 Alliance, lim., 271 8 4 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 25 IS paid., 271 Anglo Egyptian, lim. 121 Anglo-Italian, lim., Bank of New Zealand, 17 British and Californian, hm., 5 Commercial Bank of India and the East, 29 East London, lim., 44 5 Eng ish Joint Stock, lim., 11 English and Swedish, lint. 15 Hindustan, China, and Japan .11m., Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 17 Ditto. new, 17 Imperial Bank, lim., 284 ; Imperial Ottoman, 131 Ditto, new, 11; 121 Lard Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 44 1 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, 11m., 13 London and County, 8f London Joint Stook. 5t London and South African, 161 London and 11 estminster, 975 Merchant Bank, lim., 261 Midland Bank, lim., 204 ; Oriental Bank Corporation, 51 501 Oriental Commercial Bank, lim., late N. F., 3 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., 71 Provincial of Ireland, 82 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. lim., 6 Standard of British South Africa, 15 Union of Australia, 511 Union of London, 51 2 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, per Cant. gua., 24 II Australian Agricultural, 22 3 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim. 54 Berlin Water Works, lim., 114 Ceylon Company, Ditto, A shares, 24 City Offices, lim., 64 Continental Union Gas, lim., Credit Fonder and Mobliier of Nngland, 81) 4 ; Cry st DittPo, alace, issud at a prem., of 'which £2 is_to pay, 54 ; al e 3.11 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, lim., 6 Egyptian Comm. and Trading, 11 m., 14 Electric Telegraph, 131 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 54 6 Hudson's Bay, 16 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso.,llm.. 71 1 International Financial Society, li m . , Joint Stock Discount, lim., 8 London Financial Association, lim 419 London and Provincial Marine, 2) 4 National Discount Company, 164 Ocean Marine Insurance), 221 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 201 4 Peninsula and Oriental steam, 71 Royal Mail Steam, 107/ 6 Thames and Mersey (Marine) Insurance, lim., 71 Universal Marine. Insuranee,lllll., 34 Warrant Finance, UM., 74 100 123 i 124 5 1/ 00 9e 94 WO 57 58 , 7 28 100 110 111 .13.4 - - [OO 72 73 00 106 106 ,11 36 37 16 10 11 p 3'l 123 126 5 2 241,, 5 2 100 76 77 24p1 itll 11 12 ,00 145 148 LOO 66 68 00 112 114 `)0 - ,00 55 67 ,CO 73 74 all 8 9 100 147 150 3 3 / 100 101 103 10 2 - - 00 49 51 , ESSIONS. 11 5.3 60 0 93 10) B ip 1 oi 1 lt) 11 75 80 86 98 60 70 1 100 102 0 100 101 0 1(0 102 5 - - )0 I 35 36 I 87 • 89 i 1 67 69 11 57 (,2 11 57 59 Ll 52 57 46 50 ,1 42 46 3t 36 1 73 35 0 100 102 6 t P G t it 1) to 11 1 IA )0 93 ICO )0 91 93 1 16i )6i 18 4} 4& 11 !2 81 11 81 r 6 2 1 ód 00 Di 100 0 9O 92 0 86 88 II 1 63 65 1 8 , F 2 LOO 1)14 102 100 1015 1024 2f $ , 100 Os 99 .100 NT SECUIt 93 95 0 93 96 )) 93 96 )0 77 $0 10 77 SO 10 101 103 , 0 104 100 0 104 101; 0 101 103 ) 0 00 02 10.) II 2 )0 104 107 101 103 0 102 104 • 1 102 104 D 103 105 ig 100 1i 0 102 92 93 87 88 ICO 102 82 84 10 97 99 10 1:104 100? , ' 0 1103 - 105 104 106 MINES. EDITYS SPORT Palestin In Fund SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. 16 20 22 28 It is estimated that the route just described, if properly carried out, will occupy the party till April, when it will become too hot to work with safety, and when it is intended that they shall re turn. I must not forgot to say that regular meteorolo gical observations will be taken throughout, and that specimens of natural history, botany, &c., will be collected, and photographs and sketches made with care, and in large numbers. Whether the object of the next expedition will be something arising out of the present preliminary party, or be devoted to a thorough examination of the geology of the country, must depend on circumstances. Meantime funds are urgently re quired. The subscriptions hitherto promised amount to over £3,000, of which £5OO has been already expended in the survey of Jerusalem ; £2,000 was voted for the present expedition, but, owing to the cattle plague still raging in Syria, and the recent visitation of locusts, the price of all requisites for travelling has so much increased that it is not im possible that that sum may have to be exceeded. The names of the committee and officers of the fund will be found in ybur advertising columns of this day, and I shall be happy to forward a detailed statement of the objects of the association, and a full report of the meeting at Willis's Rooms, with a list of subscriptions to the present time, to any one interested in the object who will communicate with me.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, G. GROVE, Hon. Secretary. Sydenham, S.E., Jan. 16. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,:',TANUARY 17, 1866. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As numerous persons have expressed a desire for more detailed information on the route and objects of the first expedition of this association, a short report of which you were kind enough to in sert in the Times of the 6th inst., I now take leave to make the following statement on the subject : The expedition is under the charge of Capt. C. W. Wilson, Royal Engineers, who conducted with so much ability and tact the Ordnance survey of Jeru salem in 1863 and 1864. Capt. Wilson has under his orders Lieutenant Anderson, R.E., an officer, like himself, of much experience in surveying and observing, and a corporal of Engineers, who is afirst rate photographer. They are well provided with chronometers, barometers, and other meteorological and surveying instruments, in regard to which the fund is indebted to the kind offices of Genera] Sabine, President of the Royal Society ; Mr. Glaisher, F.R.S.; Rev. Charles Pritchard, P.R.A.S.; Mr. Gassiot, F.R.S. ; Mr. Charles Frodsham, and others. They are also furnished with every re quisite for making and preserving collections in botany, natural history, geology, &c. Few private expeditions have probably gone out to any country better provided. At 'the request of Earl Russell (one of the committee of the fund) the Sultan has issued a firman to the authorities of Syria empower ing Captain Wilson to make all necessary explora tions and excavations. The object of the expedition is in the main ten tative, to ascertain what special lines of explora tion may be followed out in a more detailed and leisurely manner by future parties. At the same time there are many things which this party will be able to effect with certainty. They will ascer tain with precision the position of many places not yet ascertained, and the uncertainty of which keeps the maps of the Holy Land in constant incorrect ' ness. They will endeavour to record correctly the main features of some districts which up to this time are in confusion on the maps. They will make di rect explorations of niany spots important in their bearing on the historical geography of the country, but which have not yet been explored by parties possessing the leisure or special knowledge possessed by Captain Wilson and his associates. This will become more evident as I enumerate the more prominent points of the route generally laid down for the party. At Beyrout they are instructed to examine the sculptures of Sennacherib, Rameses, &c., at the Dog River. Near Damascus is an arti ficial mound of considerable size, which is reported by Porter and others to be of Assyrian character. This will be excavated, and the cylinders, slabs, or other objects (should such be found) will be pre served. Harran el-Awamid, a village east of Damascus, has been lately brought into sudden prominence as a representative of the Haran of the Scriptures, in place of the Harran in Mesopotamia, hitherto believed to be that spot. This will be examined and excavated if necessary, and plans and photographs taken. At Banias the sources of the Jordan will be investigated, and an attempt made to discover the Lake Phiala of Josephus, the pre sent identification of which (Birket-er-Ram) is more than doubtful. Descending the Jordan, Kedes— the Kedesh of the story of Sisera--will be explored, an attempt made to discover the site of Hazor, which played so important a part in the troubles at the time of the conquest. The first serious halt of the party will be at the upper end of the Lake of Galilee, where an endea vour will be made by careful examination of the ruins at Tell Ham, and by exploration and excavation at Khan-Minyeh and at Ain-el-Madilwara (the round fountain) to elucidate the situation of Capernaum, Bethsaida, and the other towns of Gennesaret. It seems more than possible that among the extensive remains of architectural fragments which strew the ground at Tell ham, some inscriptions may be found to throw a new light on this vexed and hitherto hopeless question, of such deep interest to all readers of the Gospel narrative. While here explorations will be made on the eastern side of the lake, with the view of reconciling the curious discrepancies pointed out by the Dean of Westminster (Sinai and Palestine, chap. 10), and thus throwing light on the spot where the healing of the demoniacs and the destruction of the swine took place. The level of the lake above the Mediterranean wil] also be taken, the existing observations on which vary no less than 300 ft. South of the lake Beisan will be visited. This is the ancient Bethshean, one of the oldest Canaanite towns in the country, and for long the seat of a peculiar idolatry. It contains also very extensive and interesting Roman remains. At Zerin, the ancient Jezreel, explorations will be made in the hope—faint, it must be allowed—of finding some traces of the city of Ahab and Jezebel. Nablus (the ancient Shechem) will be the second halting place. Here the ruins on Mount Gerizim, both those already known and those which are either little known or only as yet suspected, the reported existence of Luz, or Luzah, on the moun tain Mount Ebol, the Samaritan Pentateuch, &e., will give ample opportunity for exploration and record. Not far from Nablus is Sebastiyeh (Sebaste, Samaria), which as the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, the favourite residence of Herod, and the site of a remarkable Christian church, built over the presumed tomb of John the Baptist, is full of promise. From this point excursions will be made to Kefr Saba (Anti patris), an Herodian city, described by Josephus as abounding in fine buildings, with streams and trees, but which now exhibits not a vestige of either above the sand, and to Cesarea Athlit, Tantura (ancient Dor), and other places on` the coast. While at Nablus a reconnoissance will be made of the coun try lying between it and the Jordan, the structure of which is very complicated, and cannot be recon ciled on the present maps ; Salim, east of Nablus, said to contain great springs of water, and Ain-Un near it, candidates for the Salem and Anon of St. John the Baptist, will be visited, and an attempt made to fix the exact latitude of the embouchure of the Wady Zerka (Jabbok) and Wady Obeideh on the further side of Jordan, hitherto the despair of the map-makers. Proceeding southward from Nablus several places of promise will be explored. Seiluun (Shiloh), so long a sanctuary and a seat of the Tabernacle ; Tibneh, probably 'Timnath-Serah, the burial-place of Joshua, containing extensive and elaborate tombs, hitherto only cursorily examined by M. de Sanley, but promising to be both interesting and important, Beitin (Bethel), abounding in ruins. In the neigh bourhood of Jerusalem Wady Bittir (possibly the ancient Bether), and the Frank Mountain, the Herodium, or fortress of Herod, will be explored. At Jerusalem itself what can be done will depend much on circumstances, and must be left mainly to the judgment of Captain Wilson, even if it can be touched at all on the present occasion. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers, held at Guildhall, Dr. Letheby presented a very voluminous and important report upon the cattle plague. Ile commences by saying that the most remarkable event of the year 1865 had been the prevalence of a frightfully fatal disease among cattle, and that the malady was first seen in the filthy cow-sheds of London, where, if•it was not ac tually generated, it was so intensified that its force became irresistible, and it spread in all directions. Hardly six months have elapsed since it appeared in the metropolis, and yet it has reached the remotest districts of Great Britain, and has travelled into Holland, Belgium, and France. In this country alone not less than 60,000 animals have been at tacked by it, and of these about 45,000 have died or have been killed. It is the fatal murrain from the steppes of Russia, and its proper home is in the grassy steppes of Central Asia, where it is a com mon endemic disease. The origin of the present outbreak in England is most obscure, for although it may be conceded that the disease is of a specific origin, and has been imported into this country, it is by no means certain how or when it came among us ; and those who declare that it came here with a cargo from Revel, in May last, have disregarded a great number of very important facts which tend to cargo.show t A that there is nothing to co nnec t i t w i t h that probable source of the malady is with the cattle imported from Holland, for it was 44 Dutch cattle from the Metropolitan Cattle Market which took the plague into Norfolk as early as the Ist of July, and it was five Dutch cows from the same market which infected Lord Granville's farm at Child's-hill. But, let it have come to us whence it may, it evidently found the cattle of this country in a fit state to receive it, and no doubt it gained strength in the unnatural condition of the cows in the London dairies, for there it has been remarkably fatal. Out of a total of about 16,000 COWS in the 1,300 sheds of London there have been about 7,300 attacked, and of these about 3,300 have died, and 3,100 have been killed. According to the return of the East London Cowkeepers' Association in November last there had been 1,185 cows destroyed out of a total of 4,873, and 2,749 had been sold at a large sacri fice. These numbers show that about 20 per cent. of all the cows kept in London have actually died from the disease, and nearly the same proportion have been killed. There has, therefore, been a total destruction of about 40 per cent. of all the cows in London, and perhaps not less than 50 per cent. have been sold for slaughter, either to avoid the disease, or with the first symptoms of it in them. In all England the returns from the Veterinary Depart ment of the Privy Council-office to the end of December were as follows :—Attacked, 73,549 ; died, 41,491 ; killed, 13,931 ; recovered, 7,045 ; remaining, 11,082. The extent of its future pro gress can hardly be estimated, for with the present mode of dealing with the disease it may remain with us for years. At the last visitation, in 1745, it stayed in the country for 12 years, and it destroyed at least 200,000 animals, 160,000 of which died and the rest were killed. The prospect before us, there fore, is not encouraging, and it is high time we should review the knowledge we have gained and apply it to the future. Remembering that it is an imported disease, we are in constant danger of a similar visitation, and the utmost vigilance should be exercised at our places of import, the number of which should be reduced to one or two, having a sufficient staff of skilful inspectors to supervise all imported animals. All steppe cattle, or cattle from suspected districts, should be subjected to quaran tine or slaughtered at the place of importation, and then the dead meat instead of the living animals would be sent to the city markets. The disease is frightfully contagious. The nature of the infectious matter is not yet discovered, but it is, to use the words of the Royal Commissioners, subtle, volatile, and prolific in the highest degree. It is living germitral matter, so minute that its particles are pro bably less than one hundred thousandth of an inch in diameter. A single infected animal placed in a public market, or permitted to travel along the highway, may be the means of unlimited contagion. As many as 200 diseased bullocks have been exposed for sale at one time in the city market, mixing with from G,OOO to 7,000 beasts, besides from 30,000 to 40,000 sheep, and many hundreds of calves and pigs ; whereas, if the disease is to be checked, all traffic in live stock should be stopped, all diseased animals isolated, and all infected sites and vehicles disinfected. As regards the symptoms of the disease, it is thought that the longest period of incubation is nine days, and that a quarantine of ten days is absolutely safe. In some cases of great malignity the animals have died in from 12 to 14 hours after the commencement of the attack, but in most cases the disease is protracted to the fifth or sixth day, and occasionally to the eighth and ninth. In some places, where the nature of the disease was not recognised, and the animals were let alone, the mortality was only 50 per cent. This was so in the outbreak among the Dutch cattle at Mr. Leed's farm in Norfolk, where out of 26 cows that were attacked 13 recovered. During the first two months of the visitation of the disease in Holland, 3,319 animals were infected, and of these 1,169 died and 674 were slaughtered. This is at the rate of 55 per cent. In 1862 the number of cattle attacked by the plague in the Austrian dominions was 2M,000, of which 152,000 died. This is only about 51 per cent. Again, in the year 1863, when the disease invaded Galicia and overran the whole kingdom of Hungary and its dependencies, 14 per cent. of the cattle took the disease, but the average mortality in Hungary was not above 65 per cent. lii Russia, also, during the year 1864, 159,476 cattle were attacked, and 104,714 died or were killed. This, also, is only at the rate of 66 per cent. ; but in London, where the mortality has been great, and the slaughter still greater, the loss has been raised to 87 per cent., while in all England the deaths have only been 56 per cent., and the total loss 75 per cent. There is no actual cure for the malady, but there are means of assisting nature in the progress of the disease and of supporting the vital powers. pectant measures of ratio nalmediTcinhees.e aTrehetyheonexly operate as defensive agents against the weakening influences of the disease, but they may turn the hesitating scale and give victory to nature, and they are best applied in the early stages of the disorder, when the system has not been much weakened by the attack. A warm stable, with good ventilation and nourishing drinks, are the fipt among the palliative remedies. Dry foods are especially to b e avoided. Diluted alcoholic drinks and the prepara tions of ether and ammonia are recommended. i n addition to this the action ofruthbesking, and doulbdy btheepurose elinasteed oil, may constipated, ay b a e as s ulphur pro moted by warmth, by brisk bin of mild diaphoretics. As the bowels i n t h e early stage of the disorderar h gentle laxative, so somewhat w a d van t ageous ly given, and for th e subsequent diarrhoea a whtehn the beste nimal shows a d es i re for food, it remedy is chalk an d op i um. Lastly, should be cautiously fed on easily digestible sub stances, as boiled carrots, or turnips, or meal. Dr. Letheby appears to coincide in the opinion of Dr. Murchison, that the disease presents the strongest analogy to smallpox, and that, as small pox in the human subj ec t i s made less severe by vaccination, so also it may be possible to induce a milder form of the cattle plague by passing it through the system of another animal. He thinks it very probable that in the early stage of the dis order, before the more decided symptoms of fever have shown themselves, the flesh of the diseased animal may not be unfit for human food, but he is of opinion that it would be very dangerous to permit the unrestricted use of such meat in all stages of the disease. lie then proceeds to show that in almost every part of the world the regu lations for the sale of meat, the inspection of cattle, and the management of markets and slaugh ter-houses, are far more stringent and precise than they are in London, and he expresses a hope that the experience gained by the present outbreak of disease will lead to reformation in most of these par ticulars. He strongly advocates the pressing ne cessity which exists for the removal of all the slaughterhouses from the city. There are 58 of these slaughterhouses in the city, and they receive about 5,400 sheep, 1,800 beasts, 420 pigs, and4oo calves every week. All these animals must be driven through the crowded streets, and the dung, and blood, LAW INTELLIGENCE —This Day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.) EMERY T. JEWETT, Mr. Mayhew, the prompter, said he recollected well the first performance of the " Watch Cry." The plaintiff went through his part without the slightest assistance from him during the entire representation. Had he been prompted he must have heard him. Never beard the under prompter (Mr. Craven) assisting Mr. Emory while • the piece was going ou. He never knew a first piece go off so perfectly as the " Watch Cry." Mr. Horatian said he was an actor, and performed in the "Watch Cry." The character ho represented was that of the cousin to that sustained by Mr. Emery. He was continually on the stage with Mr. Emery during the per formance of the piece, and he never heard him prompted. Mr. Widdicombe said ho was a member of the Lyceum company. Ho perfectly recollected the first representation of the " Watch Cry." He played a part in it. Ho never heard Mr. Emery prompted during the performance. His part was called by the critic a well-dressed scoundrel. (Laughter.) Sergeant Parry—Such a part as B.njamin Bowbells, in the "Illustrious Stranger," suits you much better? Mr.Widdicome—Oh, yes ; very much better. (Laughter.) Mergeaut Parry then handed in a letter written to the defendant after the criticism had been published, which was read as follows " Sir,—l have been consulted by Mr. S. A. Emery with reference to a paragraph concerning him in your notice of the new piece at the Lyceum, produoed on the 7th inst., to which his attention has just been called. It is there stated, that the part of Mr. Emery was effectively spoken by the prompter'. The meaning of this is quite clear, and as it conveys to the public and theatrical profession,' the false impression that Mr. Emery was incapable of playing the part assigned him, it is calculated to do him considerable injury in his profession. I have, there fore, on his behalf, to call upon you to publicly withdraw this false statement, and publish in your columns of your next journal an apology for misrepre senting the fact.—l am, sir, yours " EDWARD JoussoN." The letter was published in the newspaper with a foot note attached to the following effect :--" Our publication of the above letter is its best answer. Wo may add that intimidation will never cause us to forget the duty we owe to our readers." This closed the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Powell, for the defendant in his opening address, blamed Mr. Emery very much for bringing the action. Ho contended that it did not pass the limit of fair criti cism, especially as it was true in every particular. The writer of the article was a gentleman named Gilbert A'Beckott, and so far from their being any malicious feel ing in the matter, that gentleman had not the acquaintance of Mr. Emery, and had never spoken to him in his life. Ho said the plaintiff had omitted to call the second prompter ; and that fact would certainly be a matter of very groat importance, in enabling the jury to come to a just conclusion. He should call before them the author of the piece, Mr. Palgrave Simpson, who was pre sent during the first performance, and ho presumed ho might be taken to know something of the part. He had had almost to drag that gentleman into court, but ho would tell them that Mr. Emery was imperfect in his part to a very great extent. If he proved that, the jury he felt would come to the conclusion that the critique had but done his duty in stating facts, and that their verdict would be for the defendants. Mr. Arthur A'Beckott said ho was the writer of the critique complained of. Mr. Emery was decidedly not perfect iu his part on the first night of the representation of " The Watch Cry" at the Lyceum. Ho heard the prompter distinctly more than once. Cross.examiucd by Sergoant Parry— Mr. Ruery was very imperfect, so much so that no ono could fail to no- Lice it. He was sitting on the seven row in tho The prompter's box is in fro nt of the orchestra, but he could not say ho heard the voice from that box. Ho heard the person prompt. It was in a " stage whisper." He could not say that every person heard the prompter. lie knew ho heard him very distinctly. Mr. Emery was incapable of acting his part ; ho was so imperfect. By the Judge—He did not recollect whether Mr. Hors man and Mr. Widdicombe were inconvenienced by Mr. Emery being imperfect. Mr. Palgravo Simpson said he was the author of the piece in question. Ire was present on its first representa tion. Mr. Emery was decidedly imperfect in his part. He was confused throughout. The learned judge having summed up, The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of three-quarters of an hour, returned into court with the following verdict:—" That the words complained of were libellous ; that it was untrue that Mr. Emery was prompted ; that the language used was not fair criticism; and that they gave the plaintiff £5 ss. as damages." This was au action brought by Mr. Samuel Emory, the for a falso and malicious libel published on the 7th of November. The defendants pleaded justification. The libel complained of was, that the gentleman, in writing the notice of the " Watch Cry" had passed beyond the pale of fair criticism in stating that " the part of Mr. Emery was effectively spoken by the prompter." Mr. Emory was called, and said—On the evening of the Gth of November, he appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in a new drama called the " Watch Cry." Ho wont through the part without the slightest assistance from the prompter. He was continually on the stage throughout the per formance. The part was an exceedingly difficult ono He attended every rehearsal, and at night ho went through the piece in a perfect 'manner. He should have been liable to fine had he gone on the stage imperfect in his part. Liverpool Cotton Market—This ray. The market opens with a slightly better demand, Sales probably 4,000 or 5,000 bales. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Mlles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1865 1864 2,825 1.736 576 576 1,.•.56 1,331 1,195 816 5,558 5,414 27,455 24,916 1,951 1,730 299 - 101 IEO 35 41 ni i i ITIES. 21 192 1864. 1865. Belfast and N, Counties 931 Belfast and Comity Down 441 Blyth and Tyne . 36 Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter l2ll Caledonian, Scottish Central 4OB Cambrian Cock ermouth K - .3z Penrlth .. 31 1 - Cockermouth and Workin .. 9 9 - - Cork and Bandon 2O 20 383 815 Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 6l 6/ 111 133 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 651 651 1,414 1.391 Deeside Do Extension Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,379 1.307 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,490 1.351 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and IVextd lO6 911 2,954 2,717 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 5) 3,262 2,816 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eas tern,Nrfk~ &E. Union Great Northern 404 885 33,103 33,364 Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,801 1.191 Do Branches 42 42 1,169 1, 08 GL Northn. & Westn. (Irel.), 7l 711 439 242 9 t.Soutlin. & Wes tn.(lrind.) 3B 7* 8871 6.159 5.836 Great Western l2BO 1270 62,530 60.34) Hull & Hornsea Highland Irish North-Western 145 145 1,466 1,457 Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 403 40,709 35,t80 Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes 261 261 84 98 Llanelly 461 461 517 486 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2674 19,373 17;239 London, Chatham, & Dover; ( 134 127 / 7,729 6,563 all Metropolitan Extension /12 111 j 2,300 1,501 Do. Kent Coast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,SheLlield, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.3i Altrinch am Ol 91 1,620 1,415 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6771 6511 41,156 38,888 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2OOl 2601 2,796 2,998 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 41 2,385 2,517 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 12061 11601 69,981 65,8 8 North London ll 9 4,233 3,273 North Staffordshire 258 258 7,656 6.925 Pembroke and Tenby lll 114 96 67 Itliyinney l9l 191 1,003 g 7 Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,6 8 5,006 Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1,063 782 South Devon South-Eastern 315 306 19,640 18 220 Taff Vale 6l 61 5,519 5,624 Ulster Vale of Clwd. lO5/ 105/ 2,74 S 2.998 10 10 125 143 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 280 53 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1, , 212 1316 W'haven,Cleator,& Egr inn t lO 10 630 60g Whitehaven Junction l3 13 - Whiteliaven & Furness Ju- 35 3.5 - - FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B 828 50,482 41,696 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction.- 261 261 41'8 442 Bombay, Baroda, & cen. India 306 1851 8,587 2,184 Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 189 4,812 6.139 Dutch Rhenish Eastern ol France Eastern Ben,gal East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 25,462 22,916 Great Central of Belgi um 285 261 - - Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 34,639 12,748 Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,187 ;3.880 Great Southern of India 121 i 408 22! I ME. JOHN BRIGHT AND TIIE ROCIIDALE NEW Tows HALL—At the request of the General Purposes Committee of tho Rochdale Town Council, Mr. John Bright has deferred his visit for the purpose of laying the corner stone of the new Town Hall, which was arranged to take place on the 24th inst., to the 31st of March, on account of tho unpropitioug otato of tho weather. rIGENCE MANCHESTER BE'T'TING--YESTERDAY, DERBY. 15 to 2 agst Rustic (taken and wanted) Bto 1 agst Lord Lyon (offered) 11 to 1 agst Student (offered) 20 to 1 agst Redan (taken) 20 to 1 agst Janitor (offered—take 22) 40 to 1 agst Bribery colt (offered) 50 to 1 agst Knight of the Crescent (tak 1000 to 16 agst Magician (taken) 66 to 1 agst Wolsoy taken) 1000 to 12 agst The Rector (taken) 'IRE WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP. 25 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's nomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Jardine's nomination (taken: 25 to 1 agst Mr. Heywood's nomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Spinks's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Knowles's nomination (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lord Stair's nomination (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's nomination (taken) 45 to 1 agst Mr. Bake's nomination (taken) 45 to 1 agst Mr. Dean's nomination (taken) RACING FIXTL FEBIII Lincoln ...................... 20 MAI Derby Spring ............... Liverpool Sprin g ......... Warwick Spring ......... 13 Doncaster .................. 13 Lewes Spring ............ 15 "RES FOR 1866, TART. Nottingham Spring :CII. Croxton Park.,,...... Northampton . ..... Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring... AP. Newmarket Craven ...... 2 Durham ..................... 2 Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Catterick Bridge ......... 5 Abergavenny ............... 5 Lichfield Spring ......... 9 Chelmsford Spring ...... 10 ivir Ascot Spring' Salisbury Bath 8 liarpouden lO York Spring EUL. Epsom Summer.. Uxbridge .., Manchester Ascot Summer . , Windsor Summer Newton Hampton °damn Bi bury l3 S tockbridge Chelmsford l9 JUI _ _ _ Liverpool Beverley Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne Curragh Worcester ,Y. Oarlislo Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB AUG Stamford Radcliffe "Winchester Southampton Huntingdon Goodwood Brighton _ 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham ll Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l UST. York August Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter Tunbridge Derby Summer Weymouth SEPT] Warwick - September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB 3113 ER. Richmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 2 ,BER. OCT( Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh Newmarket Houghton Worcester Lincoln Liverpool :BET. SlireNvsbnry Leamington Hunt— THORNTON-LE-MOORS (CHESTER) COURSING MEETING. Judge, Mr. Warwick ; starter, Mr. Chapman. This meeting was held yesterday. Hares were rather scarce, owing to the severity of the weather. The courses, generally four miles in length, on the meadows, afforded excellent trials. We give the result : The Thornton Cup , —First Ties. Mr. Ellis's Ringkeeper beat Mr. Hughes's Happy Lass. Mr. Smith's Nelson beat Mr. Johnson nd Gronden. Mr. Griffith's Romp beat Mr. Borthwick nd Bird's Nest. Mr. Voller's General Hops beat Mr. Knight's See Clear. Mr. Gough's Gipsy Girl beat Mr. Booth's Volunteer. Second Ties.--Nelson beat Ringkeepor, General Hope beat Romp, and Gipsy Girl ran a bye. Third Ties.—Gipsy Girl beat Nelson, and General Hope ran a bye. Deciding Course.— Gipsy Girl beat General Hope, and won. The Ince Puppy Stakos.—First Ties. Mr. Palmer's Bounce beat Mr. Voller's Viletta. Mr. Booth's Pinwire beat Mr. Hughes's Honeymoon. Mr. Wilkinson's Busy 800 beat Mr. Kendall's Kangaroo. Mr. Donton's Regular boat Mr. Wright's Prince's Feather Second Ties.—Pinwire beat Bounce, and Busy Beo beat Regular. Deciding COUVSO. —Busy Bee, by Beacon Li,c,,dit—Polly, beat Pinwire, by Cnnaradza—Sister to Sampler, and won. Tho Elton Stakes.—First Ties. Mr. Hughes's Hydraulic beat Mr. Jones's General Jackson. Mr. Booth's Alice beat Mr. Voller's Blink Bonny. Mr. Denton's Caller Ou beat Mr. Kendrick nd Tippler. Mr. Knight's Nancy beat Mr. Kendall's Kleptomania. Second Ties.—Hydraulic beat Alice, and Nancy beat Caller On. The stakes were divided. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 16. Our market has been very quiet to-day for shipping yarns, and to make sales spinners have had to submit to a decline of id. per lb. from this day week. At this decline, how ever, a very fair business has been done to-day. The market closes tamely, with less disposition to business even than prevailed last week. In the mar ket for home trade yarns there has been quite a pause, and prices have been fully id. to ld. per lb. in favour of buyers. Manufacturers, who are among the principal buyers generally of these yarns, are holding aloof, and even at this decline there has been very little business. Spinners, manufacturers, and merchants came to market to-day with no great expectation of much business, but hardly anticipat ing and certainly unprepared for the dulness and de cline in prices which have marked the proceedings. The cloth-market has been as dull as any depart ment. The quietness almost amounts to stagnation. Prices are - weaker in all descriptions of goods, and there has been an amount of uncertainty and un easiness exhibited by buyers sufficient to preclude the expectation of any operations of magnitude. The actual business done has been on a very small scale—indeed, too small to enable any one to form a very accurate estimate of the decline in prices. The sales made have generally been more or less in favour of the buyer. The Indian advices to hand yesterday were more satisfactory, but there is nothing in them co offer any inducement for buyers at the present rate of prices in this market. Messrs John Slagg and Co. report of this day's cloth-market as follows :—" Our market is very flat to-day, and prices present a decidedly weaker aspect. Buyers, although freely inquiring, keep aloof from any but the most limited operations. The business of to day has been small, and at rates slightly in favour of buyers." LEEDS, 16th.—The morning being damp and murky, there were fewer buyers in the cloth-halls than there otherwise would have been. Operations were not very brisk, but at the close of the markets a fair amount of goods having met with purchasers were removed from the halls. Meltons and tweeds, particularly the latter, continue to keep in'good re quest, and for such goods orders for early delivery are employing many of the manufacturers. Though the woollen manufacturers generally are well em ployed, some of the dressing-mills are not quite so busy as we lately had to report them. There is not much activity in the local wool trade, but prices are firm, as are also those of woollen yarns and woollen goods generally. NOTTINGIIA3f, 16t11.—At our Exchange -hall to day there was a good attendance of merchants and manufacturers. The demand for lace yarns assumed a steady tone, and sales were effected at the full rates of last week. The inquiry for hosiery yarns continues fair, and recent rates were supported. Silks are firm, but there was not much doing. Spun silks the turn dearer. There was not much demand for brown nets. For fine qualities prices were rather higher ; in coarse ditto there was no material change to report. ROCHDALE, iGth.---There has been a better at tendance of buyers in the flannel market to-day than for some weeks past, and more disposition to purchase was shown. The chief demand continues to IN for fancy goods, the manufacturers of which arewell stocked with orders, so that the quantity offered in public market is not large. The better class of white goods is in uo great demand, nor in deed are other kinds of white. There is no improve ment in the demand for Yorkshire goods, and the lower qualities of such are bad to sell. Wools, though mannfacturers axe not purchasing freely, are firm in price. Think lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragb. 15 21 23 29 and offal must afterWazds be carried away. 'Within the last five years the officers of the Commissioners of Sewers have condemned 946,9141 b., or rather more than 420 tons of diseased and putrid meat. This consisted of 4,289 sheep, 1,445 pigs, 272 calves, 6,074 quarters of beef, and 11,424 joints of meat, besides 1,917 head of game, and 13,748 head of poultry. Last year the amount of meat con demned in the city markets was 247,827111, and of this 126,6141 b. were from animals that had died from natural causes. A large proportion of this was condemned during the last quarter, and it con sisted for the most part of meat from animals affected with the plague. ESSEX. At the last sittings of the Chelmsford magistrates several applications were made for certificates for removing fat beasts for the purposes of slaughter, most of which were granted. The disease has broken out in the Halstead district, hitherto almost free from its ravages. One bullock has been con demned at Barrett-hall, Great Maplestead, Mr. J. Cooper's ; three at Mr. Moss's farm in the same parish, and one at Mr. J. Brewster's, Dean's-hall, Little Maplestead. Several others are attacked. HUNTINGDONSHIRE AND ISLE OF ELY. The disease has broken out on the farm of Mr. Longland Ekins, at Coke, and also among the herds of Mr. W. Hempstead, Mr. Daintree, and Mr. Asher, of Pidley. At Somersham it is making great progress among the herds of Mr. J. Moseley, Mr. Wilson, and others, 30 or 40 cattle having fallen in a short time. At Bluntisham and Earith great losses have been sustained ; Mr. Wormsley has lost nearly all his stock, Mr. J. Brown 12 beasts, and Mr. Johnson 30. At Fenstanton the disease has been spreading among Mr. Gunnell's herd ; at Holywell several beasts have died belonging to Mr. Prior; at .Needingworth Mr. Manor has lost 18 out of 21, and Messrs. Sharpe, Sandiford, Bennet, and Hunnybun have also been sufferers. The disease has also appeared at Dry Drayton, Longstanton, Oakington, and Boxworth, where in a few days more than 20 died. Losses of cattle have also been sustained at Great Staughton, liimbolton, Wistow, Warboys, Raveley, &c. At Sutton, in the Isle of Ely, about 120 deaths have now been recorded. At Chatteris there were 12 deaths last week. About 20 deaths are also reported from March, Dodding ton, and Wimblington. LAW INTELLIGENCE—T'ths Day. THE PADDINGTON WIFE MURDER. INQUEST TIIIS DAY. The adjourned inquiry touching tho death of Greco Ringwood, who was stabbed by her husband, was held this ' morning before Dr. Lankester at the Hall Arms, Edgware road. A great deal of interest was manifested in the pro ceedings, a large crowd surrounding the house where the inquest was held. The accused, Ge3rge Ringwood, was present in custody, having been brought up under an order from the Home-office. Mr. T. Willing, solicitor, of 17, Titchborne-street, ap peared for the prisoner. The Coroner road over the depositions taken at the first inquiry, comprising the evidence of Mrs. Juson, of the Greyhound beerhouse, Louis Marcki, a lodger there, who witnessed the murder, and Mr. Hammonds, surgeon: Mrs. Juson was re-examined, and, in answer to Mr. Wilding, said—l have known deceased and her husband snore than a twelvemonth. I have seen her during that time frequently the worse for drink. On the evening iu question the prisoner first sat with his back to the door near a table. He was not sitting nearer to the table on which th, knife and fork lay when Marcki came into the room. Tne prisoner was not eating any bread out of his hand, nor had he tho knife in his hand. The whole affair was done in a moment, and I am certain Ringwood did not intend what ho did. They both appeared to be on the best of terms, and Ringwood even joined the deceased in a chorus a few seconds before the unfortunate circumstance took place. When I came back, after leaving the room, Ringwood was supporting the deceased in his arms. Louis Marcki was recalled, and said he saw the bottle thrown. It would have seriously hurt the accused if it had hit him. When the deceased called Ringwood "a thief" she had her back to the sofa, and the accused had shifted closer to the table whore the knife and fork lay. Tho whole thing was done in a minute and in the height of passion. By a Juror—Ringwood had not the knife in his hand for any time before ho struck the blow, but took it up on tho moment. By the Coroner—l think it was in self-defence he took up the knife, as she was so violent. I never know Ring wcod to ill-treat his wife. __- M' r. B. Stephens, who was called by Mrs. Juson after the occurrence, deposed that she said to him, " For God's sake come into my house—there is murder." When witness wont into the room he saw Ringwood and his wife. Bing- Ile had both hi s h ands pass d i o wi lot all desert me. I did but don't dese r t me — . a w r o as od h s a a c i t d, in " a F m or o G m o en d' t s o stkel o l u ea n v d e s, m en e d ." eavouring to stop the blood appeared d e t d o abedoinctoar.most pressing Witness fetched Iti for il g G w o o d o ' God's s i ss a a k : rd e : "Forfdeo: s n w ' t God's sake, St ep h ens, run for a doe dietressed state of mind. t o By— y gme Mr. . o I n v o i l a l t i n a g n — y price The a . By a Juror—l saw James Ringwood •m a butcher's shop buying a piece of meat, and he told me about a contract he had taken that day, and said what a blessing it was for his little family. lie- was perfectly sober, but she smelled strongly of drink. They both appeared most happy. The inquiry was not concluded when we went to press. A POPULAR " LIFE OF Tom SAYERS "—Capi tally well written by the author of " Pugilistica," and published for the nominal sum of ,6 a bob," by S. O. Beeton, is a little volume really worthy of preservation. It is the record of as genuine pluck as ever brave man manifested. The career of Tom Sayers extended altogether over less than forty years, dating from his birth in the July of 1826, at Pimlico, in Brighton, to his death in the November of 1865, at No. 257, High-street, Camden-town. His indomitable courage, coupled with his honestly self-restrained mode of life, for a prize fighter, up to the period of his final retire ment from the Ring, when he unhappily for him self appears to have given loose to his love of ease and pleasure, lent a sort of respectability to Pugilism. He was the most popular of all the winners of the Belt, since the Belt was first won by the Champion of England—and for the dogged valour of the man, for his daring pluck and unconquerable good humour under punishment, he nobly merited his popularity. A NOBLE LIFE. By the author of " John Ifali- fax, Gentleman," "Christian's Mistake," &c. 2 vols.— " T4is is another of those pleasant tales in which the author of 'John Halifax' speaks, out of a generous heart, the purest truths of life. Of the mere skeleton of the story thero would not be much to tell, but in the clothing with warm flesh and blood the author uses her own magic arts. The chief of them are her sympathy with all that is right and kind in human intercourse, and her habi tual solution of all problems of life by reference only to the highest grounds of action."—Exantiner. ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—One of the &naves of the Imperial Guard some days back received 1,500 f. on re-engaging himself, and was about to send the money to his mother, when by some unfortunate chance he lost the notes. The journals published an account of the circumstance, but the man never recovered the money. His comrades, who knew him to bo an excellent, well-con ducted soldier, made a subscription for him, but the amount was very far from making up the sum lost. At the end of last week the company of the poor voltigeur was on duty at tae Tuileries, when the Prince Imperial sent for the officer in command, and handed him 1,5001., with a re quest that the sum might be given to the soldier. "I have heard," said his highness, " of the loss, and of the use for which the money was destined. Have the kindness to give► him this from rue—it is a little present from a grenadier to a voltigeur." COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde.) COOKE V. COOKE. This was a suit promoted by Eliza Cooke for restitution of conjugal rights, to which her husband pleaded adultery and cruelty on her part, but did not appear by counsel. Mr. Staveiy Hill was for the petitioner. From the evidence of the petitioner, who was the only witness examined, it appeared that the parties were mar ried at Gateshead, on the 9th Marck, 1839, and that there were seven children issue of the marriage. In 1853 the respondent accused his wife of adultery with a person named Bennet and others, but they continued to cohabit. In March, 1861, the parties agreed to separate, and the re spondent allowed his wife £175 for some time, but he be came a bankrupt, and she was at present on parochial relief, although the respondent, had relieved his position, and was again in business. The learned Judge made the decree, and allowed the respondent a month to comply with the order of the Court. His lordship was engaged a portion of the day in hear ing tho case of Taverner, falsely called Dichfield v. Dich field, in camera. 5 7. - in a eua, I of lour Drg o . de ;c of ford fiord out, tnd, iced ige, omo 10011 left 11 at igb.- for , rno, do ved olio tha nu- tus of ight r.of the on- -er tnd ted trly est . DOO nni ing der six )TS© 6th ex- on, ay, znd ed, till ly, 110 in lid ng air lar of nd )0, rs, 1' SFI I 1001 i