The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Owing to a large number of bills in connection with the trade of India and China falling due to day the inquiry for discount accommodation has been very active. Brokers have shown a disinclina tion to take even short dated securities under 5j and 6 per cent., and the consequence has been a good demand at the Bank. An advance has taken place in the value of bar silver, and a large amount has been disposed of at ss. lid. per oz. standard. Several alterations of a rather discouraging charac ter are shown in the Bank of England return, but they must generally be attributed to operations usual at the pr,, , smt period. Subjoined are the particulars : Active Circulation £2O 755,190 Increase ••• ••• .•• ••• 33,475 Bullion ... '14,469,617 Decrease - 159,331 Rest 3 192 552 Increase 6,635 Public Deposits ... 6,619,643 • Increase 75,261 Other Deposits 12,647,000 Increase ••• ... 175,479 Seven Day and Other Bills ... 471,129 Decrease •.• ••• ••• 22,894 Government Securities _ 9,841,100 Increase 100,000 Other Securities 19,277,797 Increase ••• •.. ••• ••• 327,287 Notes Unemployed. 7,580,080 Decrease 196,270 Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent. French Rentes were quoted at 68f. 85c. The English Stock Market has shown symptoms of incteased depression, and the Funds have declined another * per cent. Consols fi)r money are quoted 87* I, and for the account, 871 I. Several sales of New Threes and Reduced Annuities have taken place, and the quotations for each have receded to 86* 87* ; the 2f per Cents. are 69, ex div. ; and Red Sea Telegraph, 191 ; June Exchequer Bills are 3 dia. ; and India Enfaced 5 per Cents., 108. Foreign Stocks are generally at lower values. Turkish Consolides are 471 4 ; Mexican, 241 251 ; ditto, New, 231 1 ; Greek, 15/ 161 ; Spanish Pas sive, 271 4 ; the Certificates, 141 4 ; Italian, 641 1; Confederate Loan, 8 9 ; Brazilian Scrip, 21 / prem. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1864, 891 ; do., 1858, 721 ; do., 1862, 711 1 ; and do. 5 per Cents., 1865, 431 1 ; Venezuela 6 per Cents., 1864, 37. American Securities are very dull. United States 5-20 Government Bonds are 631 ; Erie, 57} 58 ; and Illinois, 811 821. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain very quiet. London and Country have declined to 50i ; Bank of Australia to 69. London Financial are dealt on at 201 1, and 0 verend Gurney, and Co. at 214 1 Bank of Turkey shares are quoted 1 11 prem. ; Colonial Company, 11 prem. ;Atlantic and Great Western Railway Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 1 14 prem. ; and Commercial Company of Africa, 1 1 prem. ; the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (old) shares, 31 31 prem. ; ex all and the new issue, 31 31 prem. ; the St. Saviour's Wharf Company (Limited) shares, 1 11 prem. ; the Ame rican Oil Wells Trading Company, 1 dis. par. Business in the Railway Share Market has been very inactive, and most of the principal lines are at reduced rates. Great Eastern have declined 1, Lancashire and Yorkshire 1, South Eastern 1, Brighton 1, and Great Northern A Stock, Great Western, London, Chatham, and Dover, and Metro politan, each /. The Foreign and Colonial lines are also in very limited request at barely previous rates. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 9 8 per Cent. Reduced B7 1 61 New 3 per Cent B7 * 6* New 2* per Cent. Jan. 1894 69 x d Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 l9} June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 3 dis Do. £5OO Do £lOO and £200 Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account ' — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — 219 Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lOB Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSMG PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent, 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent ' — Do. 41 per Cent., 11152-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 Do. Scrip, £25 paid U At V 2l 1 pm Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent _# Do 1 p er C en t. (D e f erre d $ per t Cent.) %Lilian 6 per Cent . — Do. 3 per Cent C olombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, .. 0 per Cent. Danis ier Cent., 1825 — D. ' 4 )er Cent., 1863 — per Cent., 1773-77, £2'o paid — vanubian Principalities Do Account 754 Ectqador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent ll* Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent 92 3., Second Issue ' — Do £lOO Bonds 914 3 1M1)o. 1864 94 4 i: 1 Jo.£100 Bonds . 921 14 week 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account ‘zilatemala 5 per Cent. — Do .£B6 paid — , Do. 1839 and 1850 — 4talian 5 per Cent, 1865 Do. Account Do. Maremmana Railway Do 1865 DO Scrip, £671 paid — lc , lie 5 per Cent., 1864 — m'er-ican 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 — per Cent. Anglo-French — 4 -'0 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — ti s Mo ntevidean 6;per Cent., £3O paid — 4 ° °rish Imperial 5 per Cent -Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred D D 0 Land Warrants (Hectares) 0 ...,. 6 per Cent, 1864 — D . Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — eruvian 41 per Cent Do. Account Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 44 per Cent., 1862 , Do Account 724 `ertugues e 3 per Cent., 1853 DO 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, b Do. Accou n t 444ssian 5 per. Cent., 1822, £ St 0 ,0 4} per Cent. 1850 4 -',, 41 per Cent., 1860 i r ,'" 3 pet Cent. 1859 '''- i .,° 5 per Cent. 1862 - B9l 4 13 4 7 ° per Cent. 1864 r dinian 5 C t per en 18 0 A.ccount ' — tiSlish 3 per Cent Doio account — ~; New Deferred — 4,-0 Account — ° bpassive — kin ° Account t lli sir Cert. of Coup not funded L 0 Account ipish 4 p er C en t . la 4 4 per Cent. 1864 D ish 6 per Cent. 1854 — .Do Account 894 I), 4 6 e Per Cent. 1858 1), equnt 72} 2 O £lOO Bonds e• 4 per Cent — 1) 0 6 Per Cent. 1862 1)0 Account 7ll 1 £lOO Bonds e 6 13 0 s Per Cent., 1863 — 11 0 s Per Cent. 1865 1)0 Account3s paid Ven e ° , 4l -10 Bands — 1 3 0 - 1 61 4 3 per Cent. — Do "`"ceount 1) 0. Per Cent, 1864 '"„ c count 4„ D i deeds on the above payable in London. B e l Bl ri4n, 6 b gizi Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins I ;_tel i .j .l -1 1 - Per cent. Ex. 25f. Fr - 1 -)e, il Por Cent., Ex. 12 Gull _ trill a e 4 ll-tte.LlerntCee s nBt. p C er ert C ifi en c t a . ws tu A cc ou n tent. ,1861, Ex. 25f. 964 0_ THREE O'CLOCK 0. Ac 1:Isola for rooney 875 I xcl J) eount 7 lay. ;hness moon, valked mise. e and rester- rthur, I Miss after dsor. ;s of day. with party, side of avour arge a former manta, The joined after- night, Militia of the ch last ui vive, in the rincess )-night nother their m and thence 8, it 18 iingham Aeuten- rom his Bottom, a their , m their y have ire. and for y have ;ester. lended 101 V 0C- 1, near e to the ; to the shortly zgerald ed the lifferent ing in- ide, was the im- Messrs. in the ;ion of cing tile e, after quitted k. to the ial to be ,pplying for their 1 to the p, Capt. lock at ion the n Chat two or prelimi -5 of the lie occa- steamer, 1 Steam b Sheer -1 be pro removed 3,260- here she Is which tg of the the can- L.d cora md will 72 tons, r, which was on rpose of in order which it caber of the day . E. J. emoving )rk by 2 Lter was success al Sir C. eerness ; andolph, l, super amber of eedings. it to the y to pro al trip. ander J. morning e Crown inent, at brought ransport at Spit r several Victoria men to led from arge her urgoyne, id out of order, it !sscl, the lying at orted, be vette, of he North commis [crsey in ) be dons improv fittings, mounceds cers and been de n during the croW lay mei . " the beets' hour le s " in, and it ar on the the fir°t son. SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. Share Railways. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian. Cork and Bandon t 3 95 125 27 94 96 13 15 41 5} 88 72 7t 721 Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & b.Junc. 6.London, scrip Certi. DO. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. 111 115 431 141 7) 6 Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great N orth of Scotland Great Northern D ,7A stock Do. B stock '27ê 128 147 14 8 Do. i‘ ew, is. at 25 pri , GtB, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste.n -Original . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newpo:t 92 04 61i (2 60 62 41 13 1.5 40 I<2 :2261 88 90 104 105 36 38 50 52 12' !251 go 97 6 61 '36 1:-7 3 li p p 103 1 1041 Do. Deraord Lane .shire & Yorkshire Landon and Blackwall Lon., 11rIg - h.,& S Coast Lon., Chat.., and Dove r Do. iletrop. 1;x. A Lou. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do Extension Metropolitan District Do do. do Do. and St. John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby vild Kent .. North British 124 121i' 1 1 1 i I 93 03 60 61 Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. U.N•E purcha Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle - 7i 2S 1103 1110 71 72 105 10d Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. 10. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 ..... Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central 36 57 10 I 1 p 126 128 2 2 p 2 2 p 74 75 11 12 148 159 67 69 112 114 Scot. N. E , Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. stick Shropshire Union South Devon South E.. stern 55 67 77 77# 8 9 148 150 3 4p 102 104 itaines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Meath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall 49 51 OSSE, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 127 k 147 i 6I 104 31 1241 ; I 5 95 601 Ili 4 77i I i Paid./ Closing 1 Businet.s Price. i done. 441 4 41 S 74 I'22i 2 84 9 1 103/ 374 4 4 6, 1251 97 6j I?. i } Al 6 0 BRITISH P Atlantic & St. Lawrence Bom., Baroda. Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. k' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- 1 ......- • I Calcutta & S. E., lien 'ape Town & Dock, gu 11 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p Nast. Ben,' al, gu., 5 do East L:slian, gu. .5 p.c. Do .1 Eitastor. Grand Trunkot Canad Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prt t. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. : I .d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred 1 Do. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D . if per cent.... Do Great VV , s. of Canada..l Da. New Do. 6 p. c. Bdi. pay. 1873 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. 1 Indian Branch, limited' Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do po. 4i_do Do. Fifth Extensiol, Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. & Hudson's hay.. N. It I.C'da, 6pc Ist labs. Bcinde Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub.... a 4, Do.lndus St. Flo. COLONIAL GOOLE: British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1572.... Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja.,lz July 1877-84 Uo. 6 p. a Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00.5 p. c. Jan. & July, Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk. Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 io.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-9 Do. Jan. &Jul y, 1890-9 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April an al - 15 Oct., 1900, Cel•ton, Nov. 1868, 6.p. , . Do. 1878, do Mauritius, R p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 00. 1881, Mayls, Nov, t Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal ~ov. 6 per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J ul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 pv.,1861- Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1874 Do. 5 P.o. 1888 to 189_ New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gcv. 6 p. C sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c s. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-u Do. 1878 & upwards Vlc,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, a pril & Oct BRIT 1 Cam. Consul. Bold, lira I Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated, Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) Nast Caradon East Cana Brea if;ast Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk (Am.& StAubyn(G wen. Great Lixey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal busy G. Wheal Vor (Ilelst Grenville Elerod's Foot .... Hing - ston Downs ,Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley dwyndy Iron Ore, lit New Se ton North Roskear N Wh'l Bassett ( I lloganl North Whe,l Crotty Prosper Pr vidence UnyL.lant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Cl. gan, lim.. West assett(lltogan W. Caradun (I,skeard West Chi verton (West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redruth I Wheal Mary Ann (Men IWheal Seton Wheal Tielawney (Us. SIONS. 69 6! 102 103 id kr) 6k 61 10 11 77 6,2 99 101 65 70 101 103 102 103 It 3 104 qP CO 31 88 90 68 63 53 50 58 58 50 55 95 48 40 14 32 31 31 33 103 1( 4 P I t p 1011 1021 16} )7 4 Siri 1-3 95 e 7 1 yd 101 f 1024 94 96 B 9 91 di 66 82 84 101} 102 1011 1024 au 10t 102 SECUF 96 P 8 45 t 8 95 97 82 81 81 93 IC4 106 104 106 IC4 106 1(5 lt7 90 92 101 1(2 106 108 103 105 106 108 104 106 1 6 103 10 I IC2 98 18 1 0 102 93 95 90 01 103 105 N 85 10) 102 103 104 106 108 105 106 9 10 " 23 575 595 k 3 9 10 54 8 3i 4 1 15 16 3 A 5 7 21 22 1 14 31 4 35 30 1 4 4} 35 37 51 61 7 9 4 5 2f d 40 50 15 17 I 14 38 40 420 4io 271 32, 1.. Il 19 20 6 7 5 6 10 12 77 82 190 2uu 85 90 21 28 4 6 215 225 i 9 20 PREF blitENillf; Great Western Orig. 41 per oent Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Di , to, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cc Ditto, 41 per mit pf. at. irrd., 10 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cc] Ditto 4t per cent., rd., 904 Scottish North Eastern 34 per ct pref. stock, Ditto, Aberdeen gua 6 per cent., 123 PREFERENCE SaARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4} per Mt. pr., Ditto, 5 p r cent., 954 London and S.-Western 44 per cent., 93 7 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Wilts and Somerset, 87i LAKICti 931 2} nt., vi i i IL, - FOREIGN RAILWAYS.. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 10 Dutch Rhenish, 241 4 I Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 101 Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 31 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 16/ FOREIGIti MINE*, Cape Copper, Um., 12& Washoe Gold, Tim., 61 BAN SS. Alliance, Rm.. 301 } Australasia, (); 70} 694 Eng:ish Joint Stock, 1 im. i 115 1 5 Engiish, Scotch, and Aus tralian Chartered, 2(5 r Imperial Bank, lira., 28 Imperial Ottoman, 1(5 Lectd:Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 45 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 241 London and County, 79} 1 a London Joint Stock, 51 London and South African, 17 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Bra., 18 171 National Bank, 78 Oriental Bank Corporation. 515 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, U n. , 51 1 South Australia, 355 5 Union of Australia. $45 Union of London, 5 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 21, f Australian Mort. Land. and Finance, lim.. 35 Commercial Union, Insurance, Credit Fonder and Mobiiicr of h,ngland. 8 - 1 Ditto, issued at a prem.. 01 which £2 is to pay, 35 1 Credit Fonder of Mauritius, lim., 75 Crystal Palace, '8 Ebbw Vale, 125 Egyptian Com. and Trading, Um., 25 5 1 Electric Telegraph. 1335 Fore-street, Warehouse, lim., 115 Gen. (:edit and Finance of London. Um., 65 Rorke and (2 'lonia' A ssurance, lim, 3a liudson's Bay, 151 International Financial Society, lira., 55 6 Joint Stook DiecOunt, lim., 95 5 1 Land Securities, 1,m., 25 London and Caledonian Marine, lim., 45 5 London Financial Association, lim, 105 5 London General Omnibus Company, lim., 35 5 Miliwall Freehold Land and Dock, 41 National Discount c ompany. 175 5 North British and Mercantile Insurance, 205 Ocean arine Insurance), 244 Oriental Gas, lira, 55 Overend, Gurney, and Co. lim., 215 1 8 Panama, New Z ea l and, and Australian Mail, Rm., 6 Royal Mail Steam, 111 5 105 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market quiet. S a l es pro b a b ly 7,000 bales • 3O 1 30 16 11 i ill 21 ITIES. Sli MINES. 1f,51 4 fiiE SUN, LONDON, FIIIDAY EVEAING, DECEMBFE 8, IEEL. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. - - COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before the Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a Special Jury.) WARD V. THE GAS LIGHT AND COAL COMPANY.-THE FIRE AT SAVILLE HOUSE. This was an action brought by Mr. Ward, the occupier of the lower portion of the building lately known as Sa ville House, which was destroyed by fire, to recover for special damage, on the ground of the carelessness and negligence of the defendants. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., who appeared for Mr. Ward, said his client wus the well-known easy chair manufacturer, and formally carried on this business in a building in Leicester-square, which was destroyed by fire on the 28th of February, and the whole of the contents destroyed. The action was brought to recover the amount of damage he had sustained: The plaintiff was partly insured in the Commercial Union, and the money sought to 'oo re covered was the amount uncovered by the insurance. Also the insurance company were parties to the suit to the extent of the amount they had paid the plaintiff. The jury would not be troubled with assessing the amount of damage in the case, because it had been agreed by all parties that, if the defendants were found to be liable, then the amount to be paid by the company was to be settled by arbitration. It was alleged that the escape of gas was caused by the servants of the gas company, the question of liability was the only one they would have to try. The defendants supplied the gas consumed on the whole of the building, although the music-hall saloon and other rooms in Saville House were occupied by a gentleman named Bloom. There was a metre in the passage of Saville House, which sup plied a portion of Saville House in the occupation of Bloom, and it was the matters that occurred at that particular spot that caused the destruction of the building, The servants of the defendant came on the early part of the day, of the 28th day of February, to remedy some defect in the supply of the gas. After examination the man decided to put up a new metre, and the old one was at once removed. Having proceeded to the length of removing the metro the men, instead of proceeding with their work, went on indulging themselves in the kitchen, eating pancakes in !the kitchen—(laughter)—it being Shrove Tuesday. The pipes were disconnected, the metre was taken down, and the men said they would not be able to bring a new one for a week or a fortnight. They ought, therefore, at once to have formed a connection between the inlet and outlet 'pipe, but such had not been done ; and whether they intended to do so he did not know. But he thought it would be beyond dispute that they took down the metre, and at the time of the explosion such connection had been made. The men had turned the gas off at the inlet pipe previous to commencing their operations, and having done so they proceeded to discuss their pancakes. The gas' was, of course, wanted to light up the house, and when the tap of the inlet pipes was turned the gas would not light. One of the servants went to ascertain the cause that prevented the gas lighting, and when near the place where the metre was situated with a light an explosion took place, and the whole of the building and contents were entirely destroyed. The cause of the explosion he attributed to the servants of the gas company leaving the pipes in an inse cure state. It was said, on the other side, that the pipes were not left in a dangerous condition; that after the metre was removed a bung was placed in the inlet pipe ; but he thought it more than likely that the gasmen having taken down the metre were only too anxious for their pancakes —(laughter)—that having shut the gas off from the main, by turning the tap attached to the inlet pipe, and leaving the key in the usual position, they left the work without properly securing it by placing a screw cap over the aper ture. That was the ordinary way of securing an open pipe, and not to trust to pushing a bung into the pipe, supposing such a thing to have been done. He should call witnesses to prove by their evidence the facts he had stated to the jury, and having done that he felt that they would have no difficulty in arriving at a verdict. William Larven said he was in the employ of Mr. Bloom in February last. He occupied part of the premises known as Saville House, Leicester-.:quare. Ho occupied the music hall and saloon ; he had let the billiard room. He knew there was a complaint about the gas, and the company's inspec tor and his men attended to remedy the defect. The in spector asked for a hammer to open the metre box ; it was given him, and he believed the metre was removed. After taking the metro down he saw the men eating pancakes in the kitchen, they remained about half an hour and then went away. They never told him he could not use the gas to light the hall, saloon, and nas sage. He went out for about half an hour, and when he returned the house was on fire. Ho did not know that there had been any escape of gas the day previous. From the great number of leading counsel engaged, and the number of witnesses to be examined in the case, it is not expected to conclude to-day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET A MASQUERADE IN THE HAYMARKT.—Margaret An derson, a young woman, wearing the costume of debardeur, was charged before Mr. Knox with disorderly conduct in the Haymarket. Police-constable 51 C said that about a quarter past six o'clock that morning he saw the defendant running up and down the Haymarket screaming at the top of her voice He advised her to go away, as she was likely to cause a crowd to assemble, in consequence of the dress she was wearing, when she exclaimed " I'm a man," and refused to leave, but after a time did so. About an hour after wards he found her at the door of Walker's tavern, near the Haymarket, with a crowd of about 50 persons, most of them men going to their work, around her, and as she re fused to go away he took her to the station. Mr. Knox inquired whether anything had been going on the previous night, and the constable said there had been a bal masque at the Alhambra Palace, and the defen dent had been there. The defendant, who hung down her head, said she had only been a short time in London. She came from Liverpool. Mr. Knox said he wished she would return there. She did not appear to have done any harm, and would there fore discharge her. The defendant left in a cab brought to the rear of the court so as to prevent a crowd collecting. UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.— Minnie Dunn, a young woman, was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Susan Cossins, re siding at No. 9, Spring-gardens. The complainant was passing along Regent-street, when the defendant went up to her, and asked her if her name was Minnie, and, on her saying it was not, gave her a blow on the mouth, no provocation whatever being given by the complainant. Allred Warwick Shill, a labouring man, passing at the time, proved seeing the defendant assault the complainant and seeing her mouth bleeding. The defendant said the complaint pushed against her, but this was denied by the complainant and her witness. Mr. Knox remarked that he did not see why inoffensive persons should be outraged in the streets, and fined the defendant 205., or 14 days. take him into custody. The prisoner struck the con stable and threw him, and when he was down kicked at his temple. The rim of the policeman's helmet saved his head. A tremendous struggle took place, and Free man was nearly overpowered, and called for help. A young man named Liggins, of 45, Wellington place, went to the aid of the constable, and he was assaulted and kicked by the prisoner; other help was at hand, the fellow was secured, and his ravings were loud and incessant for some time. Inspector Griffin said the prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for assaulting a constable in the early part of the year. Mr.Paget said the prisoner had committed a most violent and dastardly assault on the constable, who was doing his duty in a forbearing and proper manner, and he had also beaten and kicked a respectable young man. If he did not protect constables in the execution of their duty no decent man would enter the force. It was equally his duty to protect orderly and respectable people who assisted the police. He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for one month and kept to hard labour for the assault on Free man, the constable, and another month with hard labour for the assault on Figgins. Mrs. Castle, the prisoner's sister, implored of the magis trate to inflict a tine only, and said her brother was not right in his mind. . A beershop-keeper, who bailed the prisoner, believed him to be of unsound mind. Roche, the gaoler of the court, was of a similar opinion. Many years ago an ex-sergeant of police, named Murray, obtained 3s. 6d. per week of him under pretence of giving him a good education. The case was investigated in that court, and by some technicality the alleged offender escaped. Inspector Griffin and others said the prisoner was a per fectly sane man when he was sober. Mr. Paget, after investigating the matter at considerable length, came to the conclusion that the prisoner was an swerable for his actions, and refused to alter his sentence or to inflict a penalty. THE FENIAN TRIALS, DUBLIN, Wednesday. At the sitting of the court this morning Judge Fitzgerald delivered his charge to the jury in the case of the prisoner O'Leary, in whose behalf Mr. Dowse had addressed the court on the preceding day. In the course of the charge the learned Judge said :—" It has occurred to me, and possibly it has occurred to you, in the course of this investigation, to ask yourselves the question, What did these par ties want who were enaged in this Fenian movement? What did they want, if the object at the bottom was not the redistribution of property in this Coun try ? I hope you will agree with me in this, that we can boast of possessing an amount of freedom, and a constitution unrivalled iu Europe, or in the wide world." The overt acts charged against the prisoner were 30 in number, consisting mainly of articles in the Irish People, and acts done in con nection with the confederacy, and proof of any one of them, as performed in advancement of the crimi nal conspiracy, would be enough. The judge did not think the Fenian society was merely playing with treason—a sham or pretence ; there was not a shadow of ground for alleging that the prisoner was base enough to be a party to anything of the kind. "It may have been that in this country, or in America, there were engaged in the movement schemers and swindlers, whose principal object was the raising of funds with the intent to appropriate them to their own purposes. But that at least the prisoner would be acquitted of." The Law of con spiracy was to be jealously regarded, but it was on the other hand essential for the protection of society that such a law should exist, as otherwise a person might set on foot an organisation of an illegal kind, keeping in the background and leaving his agents and dupes to bear the responsibility. Judge Fitz gerald also referred to the remittances from America for Fenian purposes. The Solicitor-General had estimated them at £7,800 ; in one year certainly £5,000 had been sent to O'Leary's orders. The funds came through the hands of John O'Mahoney, and it could not now be doubted that the money was remitted for the treasonable purpose of further ing the conspiracy to overthrow the Queen's autho rity. If the prisoner knew from whence it came he was guilty, and if he had distributed it knowing the intent, then he was not only a leader, but in a cer tain sense the leader of the conspiracy. The jury were an hour and a half absent, and when they returned into court with the verdict of " Guilty on all the counts of the indictment," the prisoner addressed the court coolly, and with deliberation. He said—" My lords, I was not unprepared for this. I felt that a Government which had so safely packed the bench would not be un likely to obtain a verdict." (Judge Fitzgerald here intimated to the prisoner that, while the court were willing to hear anything he had to say, language of that kind could not be permitted.) O'Leary re sumed—" Very well, my lord. Mr. Luby declined to touch upon this from a very natural fear that he might do harm to some of the other political priso ners, but there can be little fear of that now, for a jury that could be found to convict me of this con spiracy will convict them all. Mr. Luby admitted he was technically guilty according to that highly elastic instrument, British law, but I did not think that those men" (here the prisoner pointed to the benches where the Crown counsel sat) " could make that case against me. And this brings me naturally to a subject on which there has been much misrepre sentation in Ireland—the subject, I mean, of in formers. Mr. Justice Keogh said, in his charge against Mr. Luby, that men would always be found ready for money to place themselves at the dis posal of the Government, and make known the designs of the conspiracy. No doubt men will be found for money so to place themselves at the disposal of the Government ; but •I think it is agitators, and not rebels, who have been generally bought in this way, who have cer tainly made the best bargains. And now I come to speak," added the prisoner, " of the moral assassination of me, for which that miser able man" (pointing to Mr. Barry, Q.C., law ad viser to the Irish Government) "is mainly respon sible." Here the judge again interrupted O'Leary, and the prisoner said he would not pursue that tone of observation. He, however, continued—" He did not mean to defend himself or others now, but he would denounce the moral assassin. Mr. Justice Keogh had administered a lecture to Mr. Luby about the consequences of revolution, but he should like to know whether the same consequences did not follow war. Only one word more would he say. He had been found guilty of treason — treason-felony they called it—and no doubt it was a foul crime. The poet Dante placed traitors in the ninth or lowest circle of his ' In ferno.' But what traitors? Traitors against king, country, friends, and benefactors. England was not his (the prisoner's) country, and he had betrayed no friends or benefactors. Hampden and Sidney were traitors, and JeffreyS and Norbury were loyal men. He would leave the case there." Except in the closing passage, the speaker was calm and un impassioned. Judge Fitzgerald immediately, in a short sentence, awarded him the punishment of 20 years' penal servitude—the same term as given to Luby. While the jury were out of court considering their verdict in O'Leary's case, O'Donovan (Rossa) was put forward and addressed the court himself, stating that he had got papers from America which would contradict the testimony the detectives in tended to offer against him, and show that he had been in that country carrying on a legitimate busi ness ; but that when he had been removed with the other prisoners from Richmond Bridewell to Kil mainham, those papers had been taken from him by the governor of the latter prison, and probably had been since in Dublin Castle. The governor of the prison was sent for, and stated that he had only acted according to the rules of the gaol. He was ordered to give the prisoners the papers, and the trial was postponed until that of Moore, the man charged with making the " rods," or pikes, to Stephens's order, had been finished. Moore was then arraigned, and his trial proceeded with. DUBLIN, Thursday. _ The Fenian pike-maker, Moore, was found guilty to-day, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The evidence exclusively established a contract between him and Stephens for the making and distributing of pikes. It was also proved that he had been sent back from America by O'Mahony in oder to make these weapons. Tie gilcsed he had only been pursuing his trade a s a c a -,-,on working man, and denied he was guilty of conspiracy. He asked that some trifling articles seized by the Crown sho,," 1(1 - be given to his wife, and this was agreed to. WANDSWORTH: THE CLERGYMAN AND HIS DOG.—STRANGE DOINGS IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—The Rev. Braithwaite Hermitage appeared before Mr. Day man to answer a summons, at the instance of Inspector Carpenter, on behalf of the Brighton Railway Company, charging him with unlawfully interfer ing with the comfort of certain passengers. Mr. (oorge nest, auctioneer, said he resided Anerly, but his offices were in Celethan.street ) day. On the morn lag of the tath tilt. he entered a second- class carriage at the Victoria Station, as was his custom, to return home, and after he had been seated a tsbnit tittle the defeficiatit who wore a black hat, and carried a short stick in his hand, drove a large dog into the same CoMpartinent, and then followed himself. lie thug apparently the Wage fiit liquor. Several persons in the carriage objected to the presence of the dog, as there was a proper place in the train for it, but the defendant refteteti hi retiaoVe the ani= mal, said it was was all right, and that they all knew him on the line. The attention of the officials *as Called to did dog, but finding they could do nothing with the defendant the train went on. The defendant then spoke about the character of the dog as to what it would do if any person interfered with it, flourished his stick, and struck the roof of the carriage With it. The train had not pro ceeded far when the defendant took out some Coppers and tossed for money with a boy, who won twopence of him. lie made use of very improper language. lie represented himself as a reverend gentle man, and in reply one of the passengers said he did not act like one, and that his conduct was more like that of a lunatic. Several passengers alighted at Clapham-junction, and the defendant soon crossed over to where witness was hitting, and wanted to pull the window,down. Witness said, "Don't touch it." He replied, " Who the are you ?" Ho then flourished his stick again, and struck the roof of the carriage. The defendant alighted at Balham station, where it was discOvered that he had a third class ticket, and had not paid for the dog's riding. The defendant expressed his regret at the occurrence, but the magistrate fined him 55., and 12s. costs, which was instantly paid. THAMES. AN EXTRAORDINARY CIIARACTRIL—WinittM BRIM, a newsvendor, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with violently assaulting Police-constable Freeman, 436 K. The prisoner is related to some very respectable people, who carry on business as newsagents in Pattison-street, Stepney. He is certainly the most foul-mouthed ruffian ever known in the district. He has been repeatedly in custody for being drunk and fin assaults, and owing to the intercession of his sisters, who have shared in his abuse and threats, he has been frequently released. He was re presented by his relatives to be of unsound mind, but it was stated by Inspector Griffin, K division, and others, that he was perfectly sane when he was sober, and that when excited by drink he acted like a madman. He was drunk last night, and conducted himself in a very disor derly manner in Wellington-place, Stepney. Freeman begged of him to leave the street and go home. He refused to do so, and made use of the most diabolical threats. The policeman expostulated with him in vain, and at last put his hands upon him, and said ho should MARKETS—This Day. Fresh up to our market-day the arrivals of home-grown wheat were but moderate, whilst the condition of the pro duce was but middling. Dry samples ruled firm at full currencies, but as regards damp produce the trade was dull at Monday's quotations. There was a moderate supply of foreign wheat on the stands. In most descriptions a fair average business was transacted at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain ruled firm, at full currencies. The market was well supplied with barley. Generally speaking the trade ruled quiet, at Monday's prices. Only a moderate business was transacted in malt, at late prices. There was a large supply of oats on offer. • The trade was dull for all qualities, and prices declined. 6d per quarter. Beans and peas ruled firm, and changed hands at ex treme rates. About an average business was transacted in flower, at late prices. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch. 1190 2020 3210 3520 2310 Irish - Foreign 9230 11,390 65,270 310 sks. brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these markets. On the whole, the trade is steady, and prices rule firm. Per 81b by the cargase. sd s d Inferior beef 2 10 3 0 11b:idling do. 3 6 3 10 Prime large do 4 4 2 Prime small do.. „4 4 4 6 Large pork 4 0 5 0 Lamb, Cs 0 1 sd s d Inferior mutton 3 8 4 4 Middling mutton 4 6 5 o Prime do 5 2 5 4 Veal 3lO 4 8 Small pork 8 2 5 8 id to Os Od. BOROUGH HOP. A very moderate business is passing in most kinds of hops. Good and fine samples are firm in price, whilst in the value of inferior produce no change has taken place since we last wrote. New Mid and East Kents Bos to 190 s per cwt. New Weald of Kents New Sussex Yearlings • 95s to 135 s „ N COLONIAL. TEA. —There is of much animation in the markets, but prices generally are steadily maintained. SUGAR.—The operations in West India have been on a very limited scale, at about previous rates. In the re fined market fair grocery lumps are quoted 44s per cwt. COFFEE.—There have been no dealings of importance, and quotations are nominally unaltered. RlCE.—Business has remained very dull, and prices are without alteration. TALLOW.—The market has remained rather quiet, but quotations fOr both private and forward delivery are well supported. P.Y.C. on the spot boing 49s 9d, and January to March delivery 50s to 50s Gd per cwt. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL—MunsDAY. At this day's market there was a short supply of English wheat, best samples of which realised late rates, other sorts difficult of sale. Foreign at full prices. Malting barley at late rates ; grinding 6d to is per qr. lower. Oats advanced Gd per qr. Beans is per qr. higher. BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 45s to 50s ; red, 398 to 48s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; grinding, 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 308; Irish, 21s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 42s per qr. MANCHESTER-THURSDAY. Our market this morning was well attended, and a firm feeling prevailed. Choice sorts of English and foreign brought an advance of is per qr. Flour 6d por sack higher. Oats id per 451 b. and oatmeal fully is per load dearer. Beans ruled firm. Indian corn is per qr. higher. BURY ST. EDMUND'S-WEDNESDAY. There was a large supply of wheat which realised fully late rates. Prime sorts of barley quite as dear, secondary is per qr. cheaper. Beans, peas, and oats in favour of the seller. Talavera wheat, 578 to 595; red ditto, 45s to 475; barley, 37s to 408; secondary ditto, 30s to 33s per qr. averages :—Wheat, 1,181 qrs, 43s 4d ; barley, 2,879 qrs., 33s 5d ; oats, 13 qrs, 22s 6d. EDINBURGH-WEDNESDAY. At to-day's market there was a good supply of country wheat, which sold readily at full prices. Average prices. Wheat, 50s 8d 1 Oats, 25s 10d Barley, 32s 8d 1 Beans ...43s 7d Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 42s Od; extra superfine, 40s Od; superfine, 88s Od; fine, 36s Od. Wheat on the top, 2s Od up average, Os ld up. Barley on the top, is Od up average, Os id up. Oats on the top, Os 6d up average, Os 2d up. Beans on the top, is Od up average, Os ld up. Total supply and sales. Wheat ...................... 806 qrs sold 517 Barley ...................... 2493 qrs sold 1916 Oats 2317 qrs sold 1564 Beans 149 qrs sold 96 GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. This day's market was as usually attended. Wheat 3d to 6d dearer; barley, beans, and peas the turn in seller's favour, oats advanced 3i to 6d ; oatmeal, sa to is ; Indian mu a t 9 Od. MADAME TUSSACTD 7 S. A full-length portrait model, taken froth 1114 di the notorious Charlotte Winsor, the child murderess ; has been just added to Madame Tas daud3a (ihdantier of physiognomy in Fiaker=stfefOi. The returns issued Plank of France shows that some favourable alterations litfe taken place during the past week in the principal items of ti account ; and the position of the establishment has been much strengthened. The bullion has been in creased £BOO,OOO, while the notes in circulation have been reduced £1,760,000, and the advances on stock £12,000. A meeting of the directors of the London awl Provincial Marine Insurance Company was held yesterday, when Mr. George Lyall, of 13, Leaden hall-street, was elected to a seat at the board. The application list of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Consolidated Mortgage Bonds will close, for London, on Tuesday next, and for the country and continent on Wednesday. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot has joined the board of the National Cattle and Meat Com pany, having been unanimously elected its chair man ; and Mr. Alfred. Slater, son of the purveyor to her Majesty, has accepted the post of manager of the trading department. During the last kw days there has been very little activity exhibited in the markets for foreign and colonial produce. Sugars have been dull, but without change in values. Tea has brought steady rates, as also coffee and rice. Fruit and spices have each been a shade cheaper. Tallow has continued in moderate demand at about former prices. THE EARL OF EGLINTOIN'S BIRTHDAY.--On Mon day the anniversary of the birthday of the Earl of Eglin ton was celebrated by 'a public dinner in the Eglinton Arms Hotel, 101 N -filming, which was attended by a largo number of the gentlemen connected with the town and a goodly sprinkling of his lordship's tenantry. SWINDLING A LAWYER.—It is a penny-wise and pound-foolish plan to grudge the fee to a solicitor for making your will. So convinced of this was one crafty and covetous fellow, who wanted to have his will accu rately drawn without paying for it, that he sent for an eminent lawyer, and having given the necessary in structions desired him to put in a clause giving £lOO to himself. The will being finished a fee was offered but refused, the lawyer was no sooner gone than the will was copied, and the £lOO legacy left out.—Chamberes Journal. O'Donovan (Rosso) will be tried to-moi;°"'• The following hired sailing troopships are on their way to England, bound to Spithead, with time expired and invalided officers and men from inci2ll and China. From Madras, the ship Theresa sailed on Aug. 31, with men, women, and children from various regiments serving in the Presidency, under the command of Lieut. J. E. Rogers, 102 d Regiment ; from Bombay, Oct. 13 , the ship Talbot sailed, with upwards of 200 men, women, and children, in charge of Brevet-Major Hastings and Assist.-Sur. Wins low, 103 d Regiment. The other military officers on board comprise Ensign Decette, 56th Regiment ; Gildea, 72d Regiment ; and Barstow, 95th Regi ment. From Hongkong, on Oct. 14, the ship Gresham sailed, with a large number of time-expired and invalided men from both services, including among the officers Capts. Burland and Gipps, 2d battalion 9th Regiment ; Surg. Black and Lieut. Vaughan, 2d battalion 11th Regiment. EXTRAORDINARY PIKE FISHING.— C allater Loch, which lies amid the wilds of the glen of that name, abounds with the pike of large size, and the gamekeeper stationed at the shooting-lodge th ere has recently made several good takes by means of lines attached to floating buoys. One morning he met with a vigorous resistance in pulling in one of the lines, which had been baited over night, and it was with groat difficulty that he succeeded in raising the captured fish to the boat. The reason for the extra effort that had been needed was found in the almost inciedibie fact that a trio of pikes were fast to a single hook. Two of these had caught at the bait, and so been caught them selves, while the third- -a voracious animal, weighing about 201 b. avoirdupois—had swallowed both the smaller fish and had allowed himself to be drawn into the boat , rather than disgorge the morsel. —DundeelAdvertiser. Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Yesterday a deputation of this institution was held at its house, St. John-street, Adelphi—Thos. Chapman, F.R.S., and president, in the chair. There were also present—Captain Sir Edward Per rott, Bart., W. H. Harton, Esq., Admiral M'Hardy, Admiral W. H. Hall, C. 8., F.R.S., Capt. Egerton, R.N., Colonel Fitz-Roy, Clayton, Richard Lewis, Esq., the secretary. The minutes of previous meeting having been read, rewards amounting to £224 were granted for different noble services by the following lifeboats of the institution during the recent storms :—The Portrush lifeboat rescued the crew of four men from the schooner Clara Brown, of Barrow ; the Wex ford lifeboat saved 19 men from the ship Savoir- Faire, of Liverpool ; the Cahore lifeboat rescued four men from the same vessel; the Palling life boat saved 20 men and a pilot from the ship Orso, of North Shields ; the Whitburn lifeboat rescued six men from the schooner Token, of Jersey, and a few days after again went off and saved six men from the schooner Test, of Southampton ; the Tenby lifeboat saved a lad from the smack Mary, of Cardigan ; the Theddlethorpe lifeboat savednine men from the fishing smack Splendid, of Grimsby ; the Howth lifeboat saved five men from a lighter; the Plymouth lifeboat saved 11 men from the brig Espoir, and 11 men from the brig Commerzle weathin Hanpt, of Mecklenburgh ; the Penzance lifeboat rescued five men from the brigantine Tobaco, of Hamburg ; and the Fowey lifeboat went off twice in one day, and saved 13 men from the barque Drydens, of North Shields, and nine men from the brig Wearmouth, of Sunderland. The silver medal of the institution was voted to Mr. J. Heath, chief boatman of the Coastguard, and coxswain of the Fowey lifeboat, in admiration of his skill and daring in assisting to save, under very perilous circumstances, the shipwrecked crews of the vessels before named. Rewards amounting to £l7B were also voted to pay the expenses of the lifeboats of the institution stationed at Ilowth, Pakefield, Berwick, Rosslare, Barmouth, Portcawl, Swansea, Cemlyn, Penzance, Porthdiullaen, Penrith, Newquay (Cornwall), Cais ter, Broughty Ferry, Skerries, and New Brighton, for either going out and rendering assistance to vessels in distress, or for putting off in reply to signals of distress to render services to different_ vesssls which, however, had afterwards got out of danger. It appears that during the gales of November the lifeboats saved 124 shipwrecked persons in addition to bringing two vessels safely into port. Altogether . 421 lives have been saved by the lifeboats of the in stitution during the eleven months of present year, in addition to bringing fourteen vessels safely into harbour. It was reported that its lifeboats had been manned during the past three years by about 18,000 per soils, and that out of that large number only three men had been lost. General Sir George Bowles, the donor of the Howth lifeboat, was so pleased with the services of that boat on a recent occasion in saving five poor fellows from a watery grave, that he has decided on giving the institution the cost of another lifeboat. The silver medal of the institution and £1 were voted to Gunner James Moore, and £1 each, and the thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum, to two other men of the Coast Brigade of Royal Ar tillery, stationed at Aberdovey, for rescuing, at some risk of life, 17 men of the crew of the French ship Carioca, which had struck on the rocks under the Hermitage Rock Battery during a gale of wind on the 19th October last. The silver medal of the institution and £2 were also voted to Peter Pascoe for rescuing, at the risk of his life, a man who had previously attempted to assist in saving the life of a sailor belonging to the barque William of Sunderland, which was wrecked off Porthleven, on the 24th ult. A reward of £1 was also granted to the man Pascoe had saved. Various other rewards were granted for saving life from wrecks on our coasts. Payments amounting to upwards of £3,000 were ordered to be made on various lifeboat establish ments. The sale of £2,000 stock of the institution was ordered to be made to meet these heavy pay ments. Reports were read from the inspector and the as sistant inspector of lifeboats to the institution on their recent visit to the various lifeboat stations on the coasts of England and Scotland. It was re ported that G. Jeremy, Esq., and Mrs. Jeremy had presented £4OO to the institution to defray the cost of a lifeboat and carriage to be stationed either on the coast of Devon or Cornwall. A communication was read from Captain A. R. Weston, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na vigation Company's steamer Simla, forwarding £5O Bs. 7d., and stating that he was using his best endeavours to collect the cost of a Simla lifeboat amongst the passengers sailing on board his vessel between Calcutta and Aden, to be presented to the institution. The contributors to the Quiver magazine, pub lished by Messrs. Cassell and Co., had generously contributed the cost of a lifeboat to be called the " ,Quiver." Legacies of £lOO by the late Capt. Brown, of Kilmarnock, and £lOO by the late James M'Nab, Esq., of Guildford, had been received by the insti tution. The late Mr. T. Boys and Mr. Dudley Costello had also recently left the institution legacies. During the past month the institution had sent new lifeboats to Anstruther, Tynemouth, Bacton, and Cemlyn. The cost of the lifeboat for Tyne mouth had been contributed by the people at Ponte fract and Goole, where she was publicly exhibited on the 6th inst. on her way to the station, Lady Houghton, supported by Lord Houghton, Lord and Lady Cathcart, and the gentry of the neighbour hood, kindly naming the boat on the occasion. Other business, having been transacted, the pro ceedings of the meeting terminated. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMBOAT AT SEA.—On Wed nesday morning the steamboat Leander, belonging to North Shields, put out to sea for the purpose of seeking vessels making for the Tyne, to tow them in. After the boat had got out a considerable distance off the bar they descried a vessel to all appearance making for the harbour. The Leander immediately proceeded in the direction of the vessel to inquire if they would allow them to take the vessel in tow. The steamboat went alongside, and, while matters were being arranged between the captains of the Leander and the vessel, a terrific sea struck the steamboat on her side, and sent her with great force against the right beam of the vessel, smashing her paddlecase to pieces, driv ing the iron beam completely th rou g h her, and nearly ' opening her in two. She began to sink almost immedi ately, and the crew just had time to jump into the boat before she went down. Tho vessel by this time was reach ing before the wind, and was at some distance from them quite unable to render assistance. The men in the boat were tossed about on the waves, expecting every moment to be swallowed up by the angry sea. They pulled as best they could, but all their efforts seemed to bo fruitless, as the force of the sea drove them hither and thither. Anothet gretml-Qat, however, the Renard, belonging to Shields, had seen the oCcu'rrence, and knowing th e i mm i nen t per il th e men were exposed to, bore down upon them and succeeded in laying hold of the boat before any accident Occurred. Tile crew were taken aboard and brought to the harbour in safety. '[ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of 60,000 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines, which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in reality no o.her tendency than that of increasin and with it the danger of life, we were simply to sincly how to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood, upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's inva lids' and Infa .ts' Food, the Revalenta Ar.:blea, and its thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as mush easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, sad for children it i i the best substitute for human milk. Dr. Route, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children—the best authority on ouch matters —in his admir able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub stances, th .t which comes closest to milk in its composition is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta A rabica Food, con aining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of potassium; it also includes casein, the same principle which is fouud in milk in its constituent part?. No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the bedyl, and marked debi have completely recovered. I have given it wi th the hreatest advantage in such cases ; and so far as m I ay judge from my own experience, practice fully carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate— In tins, 1 lb., is. 9d. ; 21b., ls. tad ; 51b., lls. ; 121 b., 228. ; 241 b. 408.—Barry 1)u Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, F, King William-street ; likewi e at 61, Graceehureh-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate streA Within ; 63, 130, and 295, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand; 51, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 90, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close Brothers, 65, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's•wcod, London; and all respectable grocers and che mists.--Beware of spurious imitations. JAMAICA. - 4.-- [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] LIVERPOOL, Dec. 8. The steamer Californian, with advices from Jamaica to the 19th November, has arrived off Holyhead. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. WAR-OFFCE, DEc. 6. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Henry Burrard Farnall, Esq., an Inspector of Poor Laws, and Robert Rawlinson, Esq., an Inspector in the Local Government Acts Office, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. BANK OF ENGLAND, 7th December, 1865. COURT of DIRECTORS of the GOVERNOR 1. and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND given notice— That a GENERAL COURT will be held at THE BANK on WEDNESDAY next, the 13th instant, from Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon till Four in the Afternoon, for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR for the remainder of the year, in the room of the RIGHT HON. GEORGE JOACHIM GOSCHEN, who has retired. The Election of the said Director will be declared that evening. HAMMOND CHUBB, Secretary. N.B.—By an Act passed in the Seventh year of the Reign of George 111. no person will be entitled to vote at the said Election who shall not have been Six Calendar Months possessed in his own right of the Stock for which he shall then give his Vote, unless the said Stock shall have been acquired, or shall have come by bequest or by marriage, or by succession to an intestate estate, or by the custom of the City of Loudon, or by any deed of settle ment after the death of any person who shall have been entitled for lifo to the Dividends of such Stock. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. DEC. 7. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Douglas Galton, Esq., late Captain in the Royal Engineers, Assistant Under Secretary of State for the War Department, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 8. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Cirilo de Barcaiztegui as Consul at Gibraltar for her Majesty the Queen of Spain: INDIA-OFFICE, DEC. 6. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Augustus Brooke Warden, Esq., of the Bombay Civil Service, to be a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. DEC. 8. The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Gibbs, Esq., of the Bombay Civil Service, to be a Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 8. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Wm. Robinson Truman to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morris Bayntun Crosbie Yescombe, whose promotion by pur chase has been cancelled. 9th Lancers—Cornet Ronald Mackintosh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexander Baring Bingham, who re tires_; Cornet the Hon. Edward Francis John Presto n t o be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gilbert Stirling, who retires; Walter Glyn Lawrell, Gent., to be Cornet, by uMaecukuinGtoesohr.ge Pain, from the Royal Artil lery, to be Surgeon, vice Dudley Hanley, M.D., appointed 13th Hussars—Maximilian Bieber, Gent., to be Cornet by purchase, vice Edward Hamilton Blackett Ord, who has retired. Royal Artillery—Second Captain Gustavus Frederic Blair to be Captain, vice George Cayley Robinson, retired upon half-pay; Lieut. Henry John Thornton to be Second Captain, vice Blair ; Surgeon Alexander Smith, M.D., from the 47th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice George Pain, appointed to the 11th Hussars. Royal Engineers—Lieut. John Coldstream Menzies, from the Supernumerary List, to be Lieutenant, vice A. C. Wallinger, who resigns. 59th Regiment of Foot - Lieut. James Hartley to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice John James Mathew, who re tires ; Ensign John Brooke Booth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hartley ; Lieut. Henry Robert William Miles, to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Enderby, pro moted. 20th Foot—Captain J. S. Chandos Harcourt, from the 51st Foot, to be Captain, vice Chatfield, who ex changes. 25th Foot—Ensign Gerald Monteath Shirley, to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Jerome O'Brien, who retires ; Ensign Frederick Hutchinson Forjett, from the 3d West India Regiment. to be Ensign, vice Shirley. 47th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Alexander Robert Hudson, M. 8., to be surgeon, vice Alexander Smith, M.D., ap pointed to the Royal Artillery. 51st Foot—Captain Charles Kyrle Chatfield, from the 20th Foot, to be Captain, vice Harcourt, who ex changes. 52d Foot—Lieutenant Henry Atkinson Adair. to be Adju tant, vice Lieutenant Prendergast, promoted. GOth Foot—Algernon St. Maur, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Crosbie, promoted. 85th Foot - Staff-Surgeon Alexander Fisher Bartley to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major John William Johnson, M.D., placed upon half-pay. 101st Foot—Lieutenant William S wynfen Jervis to bo be Captain, vice William Lumley Louis, who resigns ; Ensign George Segundo S owe ll t o b e Li eu t enan t, vice Jervis ; Gentleman Cadet Thomas George Thomson, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Sewell. Rifle Brigade—Ensign Frederick Arthur Fane to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Hillary Allaire, who retires; John Adam Fergusson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fane. 3d West India Regiment—Henry William Tombs, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Forjett, transferred to the 25th Foot; Sergeant Major-George Field, from late sth West India Regiment, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Tombs, transferred to the Ceylon Rifle Regi ment. _ Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ensign Henry William Tombs, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Kane, promoted by purchase, in the 78th Foot. STAFF.—Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Hussey Fane Keane, Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers, to be Deputy Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers at Head Quarters, vice Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel F. E. Chapman, C. 8., whose period of service on the Staff is about to expire. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Assistant Commis sary-General William Worthington Moore has been cashiered by sentence of a General Court Martial. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon O'Connor D'Arcey, M.D., from half-pay, late Military Train, to be Staff Surgeon, vice Alexander Fisher Bartley, appointed to the 85th Foot; Surgeon Dudley Hanley, M.D.,from the 11th Hussars, to be Staff Surgeon, vice Alex. lobert Hudson, 31.8., appointed to the 47th Foot. HALF-PAY.—Lieutenant Arthur B. Toker, from 65th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase. BREVET. Colonel-Commander William Henry March, retired full pay, Royal Marine Light Infantry, to have the honorary rank of Major-General, in accordance with her Majesty's Order in Council of No. 13, 1858. Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Grigor Suther, C. 8., Royal Marine Light infantry, to be Colonel. MEMORANDUM.—Ensign George Edwards should have been described in the Gazette of Nov. 10, 1865, as being promoted to a Lieutenancy on the Unattached List of tho Bengal Army, and not to a Half-pay Lieutenancy. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 1. GENERAL ORDER—No. 874. His Royal Highness Commanding-in= Dated, Horse Dec. 1. Chief notifies to the Army that her Majesty ha s . approved of Buan il o m f . t ß h . e , RprooymaioAtiortnilloefryA,stsoisbtane at Staff-Surgeon, s a considera tionepideomf ihnisnfhyigelhllnywmfeervietrolaitoußserslneridincetss r t e h n e de F re i d el d d lin a g r the epidemic Royal Hig Commanding WILLIAM PAULET, Adjutant-General. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 5. Royal 3larine Light Infantry — Major-General Anthony Blaxfand Stranshani to be Colonel of the Woolwich Divi sion, vice Philips, deceased. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 18 Ditto 3 Months. 12 11 1 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 50 Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 7i Ditto 3 Months. 25 37A Margeilles Frankfort on the Maine —120 i Vienna — 10 80 Trieste — 10 80 11 18} 12 2 12 21 25 55 25 55 13 9-} 25 15 25 42} 25 45 121 11 95 11 93 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid Cadiz 30} 6 2'7/ 47 47/ _ 6 28 481 25 10 25 62* 25 60 25 60 25 62k 25 62* 514 51t Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo 25 35 25 571 25 bb 25 :55 25 57 25 57 512- 51;j Messina worth Listhon Thomasis the gentlem an recom mended by theßaing, Esq. , Court . of Directors of the Bank o f E ngland m me to fill the vacancy- the , direction caused by th e retire ment of the Bigh t Hoz. Ueor i te Joachim G usc h en. r. DISASTROUS FIRE,--This morning a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Ellis, cornehandler, Edwin-terrace, I3ur d e ll-road, Stepney. The inmat es o f 'th e h ouse were rescued by the fire-escape men, but the flames had got such a hold upon the building by the time fire engines arrived that it was impossible to save the house, and it and its con tents were consumed, causing great loss. SERIOUS FIRE.—A fire took place in the house of Mr. Trayfield, hairdresser, 191, Whitechapel-road, this morning. The inmates escaped, but the fire was not got out until it had destroyed the shop and first floor. BREA.CII OF PROMISE.—An action for breach of promise of marriage was tried in the Court of Commons Pleas yesterday. A young girl named Berry sued a Mr. Da Costa for damages. There could be no doubt that the promise had been made and that th e plaintiff had been se duced. Ultimately the defendant married his mother's maid. The jury gave the pla intiff a verdict for £2,500. AN UNLUCKY PARTNER. --A strange accident has taken place at a public ball at Vienna. 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