The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-20 00:00:00

MARKETS ---This Day, ---s Fresh n MARK LANE. ' pto our market to-day the arrivals of home -81."711 Wheat were very mo d era t e , b u t notwithstanding the show of samples on the stands, the trade was very ' 4 ll ket both fo r re d and white qualities, at Monday's quota -41048. but With most descriptions of foreign wheat the market was moderately supplied. The trade, however, ruled quiet, 'evertheless the business done was at quite previous rates. 4Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late prices. 118 s upply of good and fine barley on sale was small, the trade for the best malting produce was firm, at full "eno ies• Inferior barley, with which the market was s . v e l y supplied, sold heavily, at low pri c es. -malt chan ged h ands t o a mo d e rate extent, at late rates. tjt h supply of oats on sal' - a was moderate. On the whole 13ade Was steady, at ftull quotations. e aus Were dull, at the late decline in prices. ~,eas met a slow sal; on former terms. 418 dour trade was steady, and prices ruled firm. ARB TVALS THIS WEEK. Englis Wheat.Barley.lialt. Oats. Flour. Irieh aria Scotch,— 530 440 1,930 5,310 1,340 .............. vre i t ........ fin 1950 1,200 11,410 120 sacks brls. e (A erate N ENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. ,s lier a ll y s applies of meat are on sale at these markets. Peaki ng , the trade is quiet, at our quotations. Per 81b by the careale. lnfertor 'oeef .. Bded 0 do.. ...... 3 8 4 < P rime ll° l arge 4 4 6 Labecork.do....4 8 4 10 Labe ....... 38 4 2 sded Inferior mutton 3 4 3 10 Middling mutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do 4 6 4 8 Veal 3 10 4 8 Small pork. 4 4 4 8 Ti le BOROUGH HOP. titv , . market conti nues t o l era bly fi rm . In good and finef4lies sales p rogress s t ea dil y , a t fully late rates ; but r i jas : , :u produce moves off slowly, and the quotations have, ule instances, a drooping tendency. Micl and East Kent • • ..1108 to 200 s Pireald of Kent loss to 155 s Sussx. Yearlings 100 s to WI COLONIAL. b :•"-The public sales of China have continued to pro slowly, and inferior qualities have slightly de d value. 11A:lf,art•—ltusiness has been very dull, and West India th -erl P t iorts quoted about 6s per cwt. cheaper. In rc i :j e , n ned marketthere is also very little animation. Com o"' lu mps are quoted 43s per cwt. t'; 3l'l '.—There has been a fair inquiry for both planta -11; a lld native Ceylon at fully previous quotations. 7, l t e • - --The demand for East India has continued brisk, an d late prices are well sustained. P . I.' 4 ' LL oNv.—A moderate business has been reported in t at . *C., both for consumption and on speculation, and quo -118 are steadily maintained. On the spot, 41s 6d ; at ell delivery, 42s 6d ; and last three months, 43s 6d per elYt. XoNEY IirSA:2.KET AN COl,Cula i_AL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TwELvE O'CLOCK. The rates r • a, .'s for discount accommodation have tended I n li iii - easier d irection consequent upon a smaller in _1,,,17 for assistance and a good supply of money on oolter. B rokers have now more capital at their c , lusnand than they can use, and they are therefore 'egutiating the best commercial bills at 5i- i. per cent. ~. About £ 32 , 000 in gold was taken into the Bank ter day The re turn for the p as t wee k f r om the Bank of Zg la ud is of a satisfactory character, although the 1 3 ; 1 ‘ r ! of notes has been diminished. The bullion fail. been increased, and the other securities have ti elli ell off r ather considerably. Annexed are the par_ A ars :--- '`‘tbre Circulation £20,710,700 aho °l l Incr ease 4 Rest..... I n:cre ... .ase 7 . 3,489,023 1 ' Publi c ,Increa,se 66,232 ~ u €.:,posits other . 1 ., v eere ase ' - ' e Posits 14,658,015 seven , Decrease G o -u a-3' and Other Bills ove Ill Decrease til ent Securities 11,023,211 ° tiler N iD elir e i e r u e . ase es liote becrease " i erupl 1,568,607 ' t, (oyed 7;50,975 Th e inc rease 225,230 Fr ance weekly b a l ance - s h eet f rom th e B an k o f b ill sh ows but fe w i m p or tant alterations. The "°4 has b een increased £136,000, and the notes pia circ ulation £44 5,00 0 . A d ecrease h as take n el l : l n the T reasury b a l ances o f £90 , 000 , in the accounts of £440,000, and the discounts of 0. parsi iv ePort of th e O cean Marine Insurance Com - 01 5,,0mm ends the payment o f th e usua l di v id en d og i per share on t h e pa i d-up capital, and a bonus Ti l l Per share, both free of income tax. p a „ d irectors of the International Contract Com ber.' ave declared an i nterim dividend to Decem „„lBt'L at the ra t e of 6 per cent. per annum. ;he Merchant Banking Company of London nit ed) have made a call of £2 10s. per share, p a yable on Saturda, the 18th o f F e b ruary, a t th e 41 anch eR t er branches. Allia nce Bank, L y othbury, o r i ts Li verpoo l or The directors of th e Company. of General C redit and Finance co mmend a London (Limited) h ave decided to re the m dividend of 10 s . per of in s hare, making, with di vidend of 2s. inter dividend Paid i n August, a t o tal 12s. share for th e year 1864, being at the r a t e of 15 per per cent. on the present p a id- u p c apital of 11,000,000, or of over 18i. per cen t. on the capital paid up on the average of th e y ear . In dition the sum of £125,000 is proposed to be ear- Ile d to a rese rve fund, and £22,440 o f un di v ided Ills(*ts carried forward to next year's account of profit and loss. 4 Nring the past few days there has been less p etiv ity in the Markets for Foreign and Colonial 4 1 3 lice. Sugars have, in some instances, declined l ia o llt 6d. per cwt. The public sales of China teas r 41. re progressed very slowly, at barely previous t s . Coffee and rice, however, have been in fair 41 , 11 est, and fully maintained previous prices, while to-cbcderate business has been reported in tallow, I)rieve:.h present and forward delivery, at steady the first first ordinary meeting of the shareholders of 1141 ‘-'onsolidated Discount Company was held to- The chair was occupied by Mr. Thomas S. carl e—rds On- The Report showed that the balance ,T ent to the credit of profits, after payment of all a gainst tm.elPenses, amounted to £14,681 2s 5d , IvritellUote---.1 amount, however, the directors had to bad debt : slim of £15,940 14s 3d from losses by th e a ',caving £ 1,259 lls 10d to be carried . to e-4 et explai liro next year's account. The chairman arisert from f '44 the majority of these bad debts had enj oyed 0 111 t he failure of firms which had previously tigheet good credit, and were reputed to be of the Jaatkin. ", 811e , c tability, amongst others the Leeds alrn alo g . '°lnpany, Messrs. Gladstone, and Mr, te AtTwo O'CLOCK. Paris, this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's ' the 3 p er Cents. Rentes were 66f. 95c. t ;the English Stock Market, after being steadily ce )31 1 - 11°It ed at former prices, shows an appearance ofthe 12, a ' l le, and a few purchases have improved and r per cent. Consols, for money, are 89 4 1 1, ic'r the account, 894 90. The other depa bi N ti ,,, b3 o f the Stock Exchange remain firm, but little d It eti ''e B B has been negotiated. The New Threes and 1031 ea sties. Ann are 884 ; Annuities, 144 ; e ' eq u er Bil prem. ; and I n di a 5 per Cents., Aj a ce h as been little fluctuation in the Forei:gn irt4ricet t o - day, and business has continued quiet. aoli d , ls h 6 Per Cents., 1862, are 704 ; do. Con- Gr ee e k s ; Mexican, 274 28 ; do. New, 264 4 . ; fie at ' ; Spanish Passive, 334 ; do. Cert.- p re eB 7 144 ; Italian, 64f ; do. New Loan, ; Confederate, 55f 56f ; Egyptian, 14 prsn ; Danubian, I dis. ; Montevidean, 24 4 vret ti. : 1111411. ess in the Railway Share Market has onle°lltinAled very quiet ; prices, however have in X eter h ave im iliatances been a shade firmer. Bristol and proved g 1 ; Metropolitan, £1 ; and Brighton, ss. Great Northern, however, have de clined 10s., and Lancashire and Yorkshire ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain dull, at about previous rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have remained inactive ; London and County have receded to 80k ; Metropolitan, to 17+ ; City Bank, to 1144 115 ; and London Financial, to 23+ k ; City of Milan Im provement Company Shares are quoted 24 3 pm. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Feb. 9 894 3 per Cent. Reduced BB4 4 New 3 per Cent. BB4 4 New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, BO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs l4 7-17./ Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 4 pm Do. £5OO — Do. £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 54 per Cent 243 404 1 3 Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 213 Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 , 1024 Do. 54 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — pm Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. • 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Chilian 6 per Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent., 1864 — Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Danubian Principalities Do £l5 paid — dis Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent lOO Jo., Second Issue 984 9 Do. £lOO Bonds 991 Do. 1864 951 6 Do. Scrip, £35 paid — pm Do. Account — pm Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account .. 231 Do. Coupons Do Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. — Do. 1839 and 1850 — Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana, Railway) 684 MexiDo c Ac couan 3 pnt er Cent. —7 21 4 1 DE. 1864 261 i Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do Scrip, £53 paid Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis Montevidean 5 per Cent., £ 25 paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April, 1864 — Do do Aug., 1856 Peruvian 44 per Cent. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Bl4 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do Account 47 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., Do 44 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do 1864 Do Scrip, Lob paid — Pm Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account 4l Do Passive Do Account 334 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account Swedish 4 per Cent. Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account — Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account 721 Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 7of Do £lOO Bonds - 1 1 70f Do 6 per Cent. 1863 ` Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 — Do. 6 per Cent., 1864 — Do. 4 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Do. 4 per Cent. Certifi.....tes French Rentes, 3 per Cent. 66f 25c. Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Do. Account THREE O'CLO.CK. Consols, Money B9f I Do. Account Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. --~-- Rather more doing in cotton at steadier rates. Sales, probably 5,000 bales. LAW INIELLIGENCE—(This Day). VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS. (Before Sir W. Page Wood.) PLATT V. 'WALTER.—"TILE TIMES" AND THE "EVENING MAIL." This was an interlocutory application by the proprietors of the Evening Mail for an injunction against the proprie tors of the Times to compel them to continue the publica tion of the Evening Mail, at their premises at Printing House-square. Mr Rolt, Q.C., and Mr. Bagshawe were for the plaintiff ; Sir Hugh Cairns, Q.C., Mr. Giffard, Q.C., Mr. Haddam, Mr. Boys, and Mr. Plummer were for the defendants. The Evening Mail is a paper circulating principally in the country, and is published on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, in each week. It consists of a republication of the contents of the Times of the same morning and the day before, minus the advertisements, law, and police reports, and plus some late market and Stock Exchange intellegence. The Evening Mail was instituted by John Walter, the grandfather of the present owner of the Times, in the year 1790, two years after the floating of the Times, and from that date up to the present time the paper has been printed at the Times office, and has been under the same management as that paper. From 1861 (on the abolition of the paper duty) the proprietors of the Times made overtures to the proprietors of the Evening Mail with the view of purchasing that paper for the sum of £12,000, being, according to them, five years' purchase. The pro prietors of the Evening Mail refused to part with their pro perty, and, after some squabbling, applied for permission to inspect the accounts of their paper, which were kept by Mr. Walter at the Times office. At first this was refused, but, after some correspondence, a balance sheet was fur nished them. Some further squabbling between the solici tors of the various parties ensued, and in the end, on the Evening Mail proprietors steadily refusing to part with their property, Mr. Walter gave notice to them of the dissolution of the partnership between them and himself in the publi cation of the Evening Mail, and on the 21st of Dec., 1864, further notice was given that after the 80th of December the publication of the Evening Mail should no longer take place at the office of the Times in Printing House-square. Upon this the proprietors of the Evening Mail filed their bill for an injunction as above. The'secret of the matter seems to be that the proprietors of the Times, who are the defendants to this bill, and the majority of whom are the descendants of John Walter, " the grandfather," or take through descendants, wish to keep the management of their paper and all belonging to it in the hands of the family re presentative, Mr. Walter, without any interference from other parties--outsiders. The bill contains an extract from the will of the founder of the Times, which is as follows : " And as the said papers (the Times and the Evening Mail)were raised under my inspection, and I well know that by dissension and difference of opinion between the par ties thereto, as to the mode of their being conducted, the property may be injured and the fabrics I have raised tumbled to the ground, I do therefore entreat, and it is my will, and I direct that my son John shall and will continue to have the sole management of the said papers." The will went on to direct that Mr. John Walter should receive £l,OOO for his management. This will was made in 1810, and John Walter, the grandfather, died in 1812. Since that date the head of the Walter family has had the sole man agement of both papers. The proprietors of the Evening Mail are descendants of Mr. Thomas Platt, who was the attorney of John Walter, the grandfather, and from whom he received shares in the Evening Mail. After hearing the learned counsel for both sides, His Honour ordered that matters should go on as here tofore with respect to the printing and publishing of the Evening Mail, and that no steps for the sale of the good will and copyright of the said paper should take pla ce until after the hearing of the cross suits instituted by the respective parties. A VERY HARD CASE.—A woman presented her self at the central police-station, Chicago, the other day, and complained that though she had two husbands in the army she could get no relief from either the comity or the City war committee. rilE SUN, _LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1865. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. I P a id . / Closing I Business Price. done. 91 93 130 131 fi 6, 32 34 16 17 87 8J 106 1 8 47 48 74 8; 131 136 1531 151 130 31 103 10 10 10 100 91 93 ,Oi 81 60 6! 48 50 10 101 116 116 818 834 109 110 37 391 1:0t 12 , 1 98 94 611 62 121 127 2i 2110 , 13i) 139 108 110 55 56 tin 2 7 4 1144 115 73 74 Nit 105} 38 39 1 i 12;p 9i 10p 122 125 Ili It 1 11p 79 80 11 11i 138 142 43 45 (0 6? 52 54 88 871 92 Km 'l3Ol 47k { } 134 4 154 3 801 1 80 1k 102} 2 1163 :5 109} 121 9 , 612 291 94 811 1383#3 DOCKS. East:and West India. 138 London and St. Katharine, 7I 1 FOREIGN MINES, Aiamillos, limited, Anglo 'Brazilian t old, limited, Cobre Copper, 304 East del Rey, lim., Port Philip, Santa Barbara Gold Mine, lim., COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday the first Court of Common Council since the election in the various wardmotes on St. Thomas's-day was held at Guildhall—the Lord Mayor in the chair. SWORN BROKERS. The Town-Clerk read a report transmitted from the Court of Aldermen, in which they stated that they had considered the whole subject of the grievances under which the sworn brokers represented that they were labouring, and that they had resolved to request the Lord Mayor to inform the Court of Common Council of the results at which they had arrived. These results were that, in addition to the £5 rent which these brokers were liable to pay under the Act of Parliament, they were also subjected to the pay ment of certain fees, which necessitated an outlay of up wards of £l3 upon the part of all persons who were desi rous of becoming sworn brokers. The Court of Aldermen recommended that these fees be abolished, and that in future no fees be payable except ss. on being admitted, ss. for stati.ps, and the £5 rent. Mr. SMELLING asked whether this recommendation applied to all the brokers—colonial and ships brokers and others. Tho LORD MAYOR replied in the affirmative. The communication was unanimously ordered to be en tered on the Journals of the Court. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY COMPANY. The Town-clerk read a letter from this company, in which they stated that they had purchased all the property lying between Snow-hill and West-street, and were about to com mence operations there with the view of extending their city progress, and completing their last section in the direc tion of Smithfield-market. They now sought for the ne cessary authority from the corporation to go on with the remainder of the work. The letter was referred to the Markets and Improvement Committees. THE CITY RAILWAY SCHEMES. Mr. CORRIE, the City Remembrancer, read a list of the various railway schemes which would be submitted during the approaching Session of Parliament, and which would more or less affect the streets and house pr9perty of the city. Mr. Deputy LOTT moved that this list be referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee, with a request that they would particularly direct their attention to those of the schemes which would materially affect the city. He had reason to believe, from having served upon a similar committee, that some of them would interfere with no fewer than 150 of the city streets. The motion was carried, but the reference was made not only to the Law and Parliamentary Committee, but to a variety of other committees. Railways. , Wol., & Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Boatel and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do' A A gets no div. • Do' B (been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Dun,.Perth, & n b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Wt stern Great Eastern, Ord. s; k. Do. E. Angl. st No. '? Great North of Scotland Great Northern D r. A stock ,t Do. B o. Do. Few, is. at 2i pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. `Neste n -OrLinal I) . ti. VA , . Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do W. Mid.— Ox.ord Do. Newpo t Do. lie eford Lane , shire Az Yorkshire Lmidon and Blackwali Lon , S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. i shares Metropplitan. Do. l'ew . did and ... Do, Birmin & Derby Mid Gt. W., Ireland Do. 4 shares 'Old Kent No th British Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. :Aock. & Darling. De.d. 1855- 8 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 18f4 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish G ntral Scot. N. E , Aber. stock o. Scot, Mid. stick ews & Weichpool Shropshire Union South Devon , outh E stern Btaines, Wok., it Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale or Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Weat Cornw 01 Har. &R. Do. A irredeemable.. Do. A. redeemable BRITISH Pi Atlantic & St. Lawrence Bom., Baroda, p Cen. In. gu. 5 per cent Do. is' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aug. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1,1573 Do. do. Jun'e 1: 1374 Calcutta & S. E., lim.. 'a e Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben.,al, gu , 5 Co East ludiau, gu. .5 p.c. Do. J Eitension Grand Trunk of Canad a Do. Equip. Mort, Bond:. 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist eref. Bonds Do do. deferred Do. 2d PAL Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3 d Pref. stock D6 - . -- d — o:cia - e - ii:a - 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. Sou , h of India (lim ) gua. 5 per cent D . 4 per cent.... Do.. Great W, s. of Canada.. D New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 Do. 5 , do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 43 do Do. Fifth gxtension Helix Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel & Hudson's Bay.. New Brunswick & Can. Class A and B I. 111.C'da, pc Ist pf.bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do. ct Do. Pun iaub 1 E s .) Do.lndus St Flo 9- 1 160 165 3} 4!p 110 113 ..... 39 41 75 78 ISIONS. 67 (.9 100 101 par 4p 4} 6i NI 9} 75 6) 93 98 75 85 99 101 100 101 101 10! 20 21 99 91 63 70 57 59 St 88 65 57 bt 64 47 50 28 SO 28 28 101 112 par p 9) 101 81 9 lit lld 88 4:o' 81 E 2 1 04d 99 101 I 9: 94 88 9J 60 62 3 5 82 81 991 300 9 1 ICO, d ip 100 1 1 94 97 T SECUR 93 95 95 97 95 97 82 84 82 64 103 ICO 106 1(8 107 1 9 106 108 102 101. 108 110 104 106 105 ►O7 108 110 105 107 96 98 97 9) 93 95 9 t 94 103 105 87 88 96 98 101 102 103 107 lon 104 INES. I hi 6 32 33 680 600 44 1 46 124 136 3 1 6 7/ 5 36 124 134 46 5 6 8 18 19 22 31 334 316 34 32 4 36 35 35 6 8 5/ 65 16 Old 37 1 9 35 45 1 - 61 18 -- - 1 21 2/ 3 3, 32 34 530 550 2) 25 141 151 14 15 71 81 7 8 67 70. 209 210 971 1021 13 1 15 21 IVS 205 18 20 i POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERY AT MESSRS. CROSSE AND BLACKWELL'S.—Two boys named Edward Clifton and Patrick Allen were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing several pots of jam, jelly, marmalade, &c., of the value of 305., the property of Mr. Thomas Francis Blackwell and others, Italian ware housemen, &c., of Soho-square. Henry Dawson, 301 A, said that on the previous even ing, when in Sutton-street, Soho, he saw two lads in Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's employ come out and give the prisoners a hamper. The prisoners then walked away, Allen carrying the hamper. On getting near St. Giles's Church he asked Allen what was in the hamper, and he said he did not know, but that a boy had asked him to carry it for him. He then, with the assistance of Webb, 112 C, took the prisoners into custody. Webb, 112 C, proved going to No. 28, Dudley-street, where Clifton was living with his father, and finding a large basket belonging to Messrs. Foster, bottled ale mer chants, of Brook-street, Bond-street. Mr. Bell, from Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's, identified the articles produced as the property of the firm, and said that they were not goods taken out of the stock, but some which had been returned by customers. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoners. A CHARACTER OF THE STREETS Of LONDON-Cathe rine Brown, a professional beggar, with a child about 18 months old in her arms, was charged before Mr. Knox with begging. Moorcroft, 165 E, deposed that about half-past 11 the previous night he saw the prisoner standing at the door of the Princess's Theatre with a child in her arms begging. As he had cautioned her several times before, she being at the door of the theatre nearly every night with the child, he took her into custody. Mr. Knox said it was a cruel thing to take a child out at such an hour of the night. He should commit the prisoner for a month, and the child would be either sent home or taken to the workhouse. The constable said the child was only. borrowed by the prisoner for begging purposes, and the mother was in court. Mr. Knox ordered the mother to stand forward, and told her that she was a disgraceful woman, and that if the child was caught out again employed for such a purpose he would send her (the mother) to prison for a month. THAMES. THE HOUSELESS POOR.—Sidney Morgan, a half-famished looking creature, aged 19, and very thinly clad, who was described as a labourer with no home, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with disorderly conduct, and violently ringing the bell at the door of the Mile-end Town workhouse without lawful excuse. Thomas Moffatt, the porter at the Mile-end workhouse, said the prisoner applied for admission as a casual pauper, at one o'clock this morning, and he was informed that he was too late. The prisoner then pummelled at thv door and violently rung the bell, for which he was given into custody. Mr. Partridge thought the prisoner ought to have been admitted in the casual ward as one of the houseless poor for whose especial protection, in the winter season, wards were fitted up in the metropolitan workhouses. Moffatt said that the hours for admission of casual paupers were half-past 7 in the summer and 8 in the winter, but he often relaxed the rule, and admitted very bad cases till ll'o'clock. He admitted four persons, including a poor woman and her child, after the prisoner was given into custody. Mr. Partridge thought the porter ought to have admitted the prisoner. Moffatt said that Mr. Paget decided that all the rules and regulations for the admission of casual paupers remained in full force, and that there was no alteration in the law re stricting them. The only alteration was as to payment of expenses of supporting the houseless poor. Mr. Partridge said that poverty presented itself in so many shapes that it was difficult to frame rules and regu lations which were to be, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, unalterable and irrevocable. He did not think the Poor Law Board would sanction the rejection of poor creatures from the casual wards in such inclement weather as this. Moffatt said that, notwithstanding the regulations, he admitted poor persons until he went to bed, which was generally at eleven o'clock at night. Mr. Partridge—ls there no one sitting up all night? Moffatt—Yes, sir, the watchman. Mr. Partridge—Ho could have admitted the prisoner. It was a cold, damp, foggy night. I think you have acted improperly in refusing admittance to the prisoner. He is discharged. WESTMINSTER. POLICE VIGILANCE.—John Ayres and John Smith, two young men, were placed at the bar, charged with being de tected in the commission of a robbery at Chelsea. Police-constable Frederick Chenner, 385 V, said that at nine o'clock last night he was passing through Beaufort street, Chelsea, when he heard a poise like the fluttering Of fowls, at No. 37. He found the gate locked, and inquired whether any one was there, but received no answer. He then rang the house-bell, and on the servant coming to the gate he inquired whether there was any one in the fowl house, which he was about approaching, when prisoner Ayres came out of it, and directly afterwards, ad dressing Smith, who was still hiding in the fowl house, said, "You had better come out Jack, we are fairly caught." Smith then came out and endeavoured to escape, but witness seized them both and held them against the wall until he received assistance to take them to the station. Another policeman observed that the wire-work in the fowl-house had been broken down, and nearly twenty pigeons were found in a sack tied up ready to take away ; they had been removed from another part of the fowl-house, and were yet alive. Three pheasants were stolen from the same premises on Friday. Mr. Arnold—Prisoners, what have you to say ? Ayres—There's nothing gone. Mr. Arnold—No, you were detected. You are charged with being there with intent to commit a robbery. Ayres—My cap was thrown over into the ground, and I went to get it. Mr. Arnold—What have you to say, Smith ? Smith—Nothing. Mr. Arnold—your cap was not thrown over ? Smith—No, it wasn't. Mr. Arnold—Went to help your friend to find his, I suppose. It was very fortunate that you were detected as you were, and as there cannot be the least doubt of your intention, I shall commit you both for three months to hard labour in the House of Correction. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 19. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Jan. 19. Jan. 12. fr. C. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,0 00 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,0d0 Notes in circulation . Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 5,462,364 77 7,223,278 02 Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 116,860,164 66 130,801,679 44 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 6,185,655 75 8,971,645 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months 2,789444 05 2,789,444 05 Sundries Total CREDITOR. Jan. 19. Jan. 12. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. branch banks Commercial bills over- 1,041,343 54 796,718 29 Commercial ...s due .... . . ..dis counted, not yet due 339,028,819 72 344,321,315 78 Do. branch banks , 328,092,595 333,369,594 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks .. Do. on French Public Securities .. . . ... Do. by branch banks 9,534,500 9,405,150 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks .....:.• 18,468,050 18,191,150 Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches . . ... Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1863) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Govertrment Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disporable ... .. Rentes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) 10 0,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment 36,821 15 30,138 50 Sundries Total 1,298,856,919 86 1,305,844,335 27 (Signed) The Senator Governor of the Bank of France, ROVLANDI COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. The several committees of the Court of Common Council for the ensuing year were then appointed. When the Com missioners of Sewers were about to be nominated, Mr. RowE moved that every member of the Court of Common Council be added to the Commissioners of Sewers because, he said, that by that means the Court could no; longer plead ignorance of the doings of those Commis sioners. The COMMON-SERGEANT said that a motion of this kind could not be made, according to the standing orders, without notice, inasmuch as it would interfere with the constitution of the Commissioners. The motion was withdrawn, and the Commissioners were appointed. THE GUILDHALL COMMITTEE. Mr. PRICKER moved that this committee be dissolved, and that its powers be transferred to the City Lands Com mittee. He observed that the Guildhall Committee was one which could be very well done without, and one which it would have been well if it had never been appointed. Mr. RowE seconded the motion. Mr. Deputy LOTT opposed it, and said the discontinuance of this committee would cause a disruption of various ne gotiations at present pending, and which had for their ob ject the purchase of property. Mr. KELDAY defended the committee, who, he said, had purchased property in Basinghall-street for £40,000 which was now worth £75,000. They had discharged their duty to the best of their ability, and whenever they negotiated they reported to the Court of Common Council before they completed any contract. A discussion ensued, in which the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Alderman BESLEY, and other members took part, and eventually the motion was put and lost, and the committee was reappointed. THE ROYAL RECEPTION COMMITTEE. At the time of reappointing this committee, Mr. FULLER said the medal commemorative of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the city would be shortly delivered to the present members of the Court of Common Council, and that they would not be delivered to any of those who were members of the Court at the time the royal visit was paid but who had since ceased to form part of the corporation. Mr. RowE thought this a strange resolution on the part of the Reception Committee, because as well might they give a medal to a raw recruit who had never been in an en gagement as give one to a member of the Court who was not in the Council at the period of the Royal visit. (A laugh.) Mr. FULLER said the resolution of the committee would be adhered to, for the number of the medals ordered cor responded exactly with the number of the members of the Council, and not one more s ould be forwarded. Moreover, when the medal was struck the die would be handed over to the Town Clerk to be placed among similar articles in the FIRE AT THE COAL EXCHANGE. Mr. Deputy BoNE said that no doubt the members would be anxious to know something of the fire which had taken place the night before at the Coal Exchange. (Hear, hear.) He happened to be there at the time it broke out, and he remained until it was extinguished. A report had been made by Mr. J. R. Scott, the clerk and registrar, to the effect that the fire had originated in a sleeping room at the top of the Exchange, in the occupation of a Mrs. Gardner, who kept the refreshment department in the building, but that how it was occasioned could not be ascertained. There was destruction caused to one large room, serious damage to two others, damage also to the ceilings of three offices, and to the committee room, and a portion of the glass roof was also damaged. The estimate of the damage was that it would not exceed £550, and the building was insured to the extent of £20,000. (Hear, hear.) RAILWAY SCHEMES IN ST. SEPULCHRE'S PARISH. A petition was presented from the inhabitants of the parish of St. Sepulchre, in public meeting assembled, pray ing the Court to oppose the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway and London and South-Western Railway Com panies Bills in Parliament, and setting forth that, if the schemes of these companies were carried out in St. Sepul chre's parish, 200 houses there would be destroyed. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR moved that this petition be ordered to lie upon the table, and stated it seemed unaccountably strange to him that the rich parish of St. Sepulchre should ask the Court to do what ought to be done by the parishioners themselves. He called upon the corporation to recollect that they had squandered thousands of pounds last year by acceding to applications of this description. If now again they were to oppose railway bills in Parliament to what would it lead, and where would the expense end ? If once they retained counsel they would have to employ them, and then, at the end of the session, the particulars of :all the charges would be furnished. Farringdon Ward always wanted everything they could obtain ; but the time had arrived when they should be told that if they wanted to op pose railway schemes they must do so out of their own pockets. If any real interference with the city were threatened, then let the Council show theMselves ; but let them not, at the bidding of St. Sepulchre's, which would involve an outlay of thousands of pounds. If this petition were received how could other parishes be prevented from making similar applications ? He had no doubt that the committee of last year regretted the enormous expense in curred in fighting the Parliamentary battles, and he was anxious that no other committee should be placed in a simi lar dilemma this year. Mr. STEWART reminded the Court that they had opposed the railway schemes last year at the earnest request of the bankers and merchants of London, who came before the natural custodians of the rights of the city, which the cor poration were, and asked that they should do so. He hoped the parishioners of St. Sepulchre would at all events be now treated with respect. Mr. HARTRIDGE said there was nothing too hot or too heavy for the London, Chatham, and Dover Company to undertake, and that the petition ought in fairness to be sent to a committee to consider and report. Mr. LAWLEY was in favour of the reception of the peti tion, believing that the Court ought always to be approach able by any of their fellow-citizens who had a grievance to complain of. Mr. Deputy SCAMELL also supported it ; and After some discussion, in which Mr. Deputy Lott, Mr. Deputy De Jersey, and Mr. Philipps took part, the petition was referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee. THE RECORDER AND COMMON SERGEANT. Mr. TAYLOR moved " That it be referred to the Law, Parliamentary, and City Courts Committee to prepare a return of the several occasions during the years 1862, 1863, and 1864 on which the Recorder and Common Sergeant have been respectively engaged as counsel on behalf of this corporation, either before parliamentary committees or otherwise, setting forth the particulars of the cases, and the sums received, or to be received by them in reference thereto, and that the committee be authorised to apply for similar returns froni the hon. the Irish Society and the Commissioners of Sewers, and report thereon to this Court.' , In submitting the motion, he said, he had but one feeling —namely, that the Court - should obtain as much informa tion as possible touching the expenditure. He did not dis parage the ability either of the Recorder or the Common Sergeant, but then the former received £3,000 a year, and the latter £1,500 a year for their respective services, and they had been, in addition, employed and paid by the cor poration for their services in Parliament and elsewhere. There was no necessity on the part of the Court to employ them as counsel in Parliament, and certainly some rule ought to be acted upon in this matter different from that which now existed. On the other hand, if they could get the best legal advice at home, there was no occasi on for them to go abroad in search Of it. Still, he wished it to be understood that they were completely independent of their officers in the matter of employing them in Parliament. Mr. FRICKER seconded the motion. Mr. ROWE supported it. He Wished to know what the duties of the Recorder and Common Sergeant were defined to be at the time those gentlemen were appointed, because it was iindeniable that now, in addition to their handsome salaries, they were.receiving extraordinary pay for extra ordinary work in Parliament. Mr. HARRIS said that Some time ago, when legal assist ance was wanted, there was no legal gentleman to be found —the Recorder being in Italy, the Common Sergeant being in the West of England acting as a Judge, the City Soli citor being in Switzerland, and the Town-clerk being somewhere spending his vacation. The only legal gentle man who then canie to the aid of the corporation was the City Remembrancer. Mr. Deputy FRY movesfl as an addition to the resolution, that the nature of the duties owl the terms of the appoint ment of the Recorder and Commxl Sergeant be added to the motion. Mr. PEDLEY seconded the amendment. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR replied, and said he had no objection to the amendment, as his object was information. The COMMON SERGEANT reminded the Court that the last three years were exceptional ones entirely as regarded Parliamentary business. (Hear, hear.) The amendment was adopted ; so also was another amendment, moved by Mr. SAUNDERS, which struck out from the motion the words " during the year 1862, 1863, and 1864," and substituted the following :—" since their respective appointments." With these amendments the motion was passed. THE "BUDGET MUNICIPALE." Mr. MnnwiN moved—" That Mr. Town-clerk apply to M. le Baron Haussman, of Paris, the Prefet of the Seine, for a copy of the Budget Municipale; that the same be trans lated into English at a cost not exceeding £lO, and a copy furnished to every member of thiwourt." He said the in formation he sought for had been published in the Moniteur, and that in wishing to obtain a translation of it he intended to institute a contrast between the cost of improving Paris and London, and the time in which improvements in these respective places were:accomplished. This information, he believed, would tend to satisfy many complaints now made in London. Mr. WEBBER seconded the motion, which was agreed to. RETURNS. Mr. MEDWIN moved—" That the Commissioners of Sewers be requested tp make to this Court the following returns for the years ending the 29th of September, 1854 and 1864 respectively :—The amount of rental upon which the consolidated and sewers-rates were assessed ; the rate of such assessments in the pound; the separate total amounts received in the same year respectively ; the num ber of public lights ; total cost of the same ; cost per light ; number of yards superficial of foot paving in the city ; the cost per yard new ; total amount expended on ditto in new work and for repairs separately ; total number of yards superficial of roadway paving in the city ; cost of ditto, new work, per yard ; total cost of new work ; ditto of re pairs ; cost of water for the public streets ; ditto distribut ing the same ; cost of cleansing the roadway ; the total number of yards lineal of brickwork in sewers under the control of the Commission ; total cost of constructing new sewers ; repairs of sewers." This motion, after an opposit ion on the part of Mr. De puty De Jersey, was agreed to. Share 13 1 COLONIAL GO VERNSIEN [British Columbia, 6 per' cent„ Dec. 31,1872. - Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-34 Do. 6 p. c. Feb & D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 00.5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 110. April & Oct. 1880-1 du: I'9o-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1801 Ceylon, Nov 1803, 6 p. c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 1882, May :5, Nov. it , Natal qov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov 6 p.0.Ja.&1 uly IsT. D B O . . W S . p G . c ° : v l . B s P 1 . t 18 e 3 184 7 6 6 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189! New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do 8 per cent.... Nova So lie Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aue.Gov. 6 p,o 18 8-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6p.o.Ja &July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRITISH M Cam Consol. U old, Um Chiverton Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) last Cara ion as c (7'.strn Brea East Grenville . East Loved E. Vri Russell (Tavlstk Gam & StA übyn(G wen . Gr at L ,xey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Heist , u Grenvil e Herod's Foot •••• Hingston Downs Margaret , Uny Lelant Marke Valley uwyndy Iron Ore, Nangiles New Se ton North Downs. North Roskear N.Wh' 1 Bassett Mogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United.... Pr vidence UnyLvlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park . Tin Croft West rassett (Mogan ~ W. Caradon (L skeard West C hi verton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Whea Ludoott Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton Whoa I T relawney (Lis. Wheal Uni n 2.1.0 4.3.6 2.14.6 3 4.0 2.7.0 2.13.8 9.10.6 60 all 1.1.0 7.8.3 8.13 4.18.0 321 3.10.6 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 18.18.9 0 1 30.17. 474 64 10 3.12.8 YEEFE RENCK SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1, 107 Great s orthern, 44 per cent.. red. at 10 per cent. pm., 1011 liitto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 1 per cent. 107 Ditto, 5 per cent. red. at 5 per cent. pm., 108 GtWestern, Wt. Illidland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock, 119 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 92 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, 4t per cent. pt. stock rd., 100 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent, N - 0 - rt D h it E io a . B lg r ir n. _f ent. red., 10 - 3 Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33a BANKS. &gra and M isterman's (11m.), issd at 30 pm., calls paid in advance, 61 Albion, 2i alliance aim.). 321 34 2j Ditto. new, Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 10 is pd., 17 Anglo Austrian, 61 Bank of Egypt, 314 City, 115 14i I Consolidated Bank, lira., 114 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21 Hindustan, china, and Japan:.(lim.),:—; Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 261 Imperial Bank (Urn.). 334 Imperial Ottoman, 17 61 London B ,nk of Mexi,:o and S. America. Jim., 10 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 24 London and Couuty„.Bl 804 4 1 London Joint Stock. 494 to London and South-Western, lim., 22 London and t% estminstor. 974 Mercantile and Exchange. lim., 81 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 171 18 National Provincial of England. 156 Ditto, ditto. 454 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim , 41 scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. lim., 11t Standard of British South Africa (lime), 25 Union of London, 521 31 25 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 18 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim., 34 Ceylon Company, 91 g City Offices, lim., 51 Commercial Union, Insurance, 8 Continental Union Gas, Ihn., 105 Credit Fonder and Mobilivr of England, Ditto, new, 5% 5 Crystal Palace, 34 3 4 Ditto, Preference, 110 East India Irrigation and Canal, 5 Ebbw Vale, 4% Egyptian Corn and Trading, lim., 51 En,glish and Foreign Credit, 3 Financial Corporation, jE Fore-street Warehouse, Jim.," 91 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 7 6) Home and (I,lonial A ssurance, lim 54 Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lira., 8 International Financial Society, lim., 71 7 Joint Stock Discount, Rm., 9 London Financial Association. 11m., 23% Ditto, new, 231 London General Omnibus Company, 31 London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Ship, 1im.,3% Lon oa Provincial Marine, 34 ational Discount Company, lim., 15) Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 81 fimith, Knight, and Co., lim., 31 Thames and. Mersey Marine (Iriourllnee),llM.. 74 11011 10011111 !ES. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. Mr. Alderman COPELAND, M.P., said he had every reason to believe that a commission would be appointed by Par liament next month to inquire into the constitution and working of the Metropolitan Works, and that one of tho first witnesses examined before it would be the City Archi tect and Surveyor. The Court then elected Mr. Bailey to the office of prin cipal clerk to the Architect's office by a majority of one over another candidate, Mr. Baker, the numbers being for Bailey 55, for Baker, 54. The Court then adjourned. U HE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 17th Count Eulenburg, the Minister of the . Interior, made the following protest against Presi dent Grabow's speech on the previous day : " The President took occasion, at yesterday's sitting, to append to his thanks to the Chamber for his re-election a bitter criticism of the proceedings of the Government and a gloomy picture of the situation of the country. I refrain from dwelling upon the question by what right the Presi dent, even before the constitution of the house and in the absence of the representatives of the Government, has made a general complaint against the Ministry, after just promising impartially to fulfil the duties of his office. But I can and must ask what impression will be produced upon our royal master, upon the Government, and upon the country, when immediately after thq urgently expressed wish in the royal speech that the difference between the Government and the, House of Representatives shall be brought to reconciliation,' the President of the latter is nevertheless hardly able to await the time to declare very plainly, from the important position he occupies, that this difference has never been more marked than at present, and that agreement is only possible provided the Government determines to adopt the come of the Chamber of Depu ties ? The King's Government can only sincerely regret the step taken by the President, but, even supposing it to have the approbation of the majority of the house, will not allow itself to be thereby induced to be unfaithful to the course it intends to take towards an understanding. We also consider ourselves as occupying a place upon the 'rock of right,' and as in duty bound not to permit ourselves to be dislodged. So far, however, as reconcilable with our duty we shall show both in matter and manner that our wish to see the existing difference removed is sincere." _ _ President Grabow replied that he had thought it his duty to express his opinion upon the position of the country, and had done so frankly, without dis guise. He did not consider the Minister justified in his reproaehes. If reconciliation was desired, the points of difference must be stated, otherwise they could not be removed. The conclusion of his speech advocated agreement, and it was only by the Go vernment adopting this course that blessing and pros perity could be expected to attend Prussia and her constitution. Count Eulenburg replied that he had felt himself bound to make a statement, as there was no higher authority than the President in that house. Deputy Reichensperger demanded the advocacy of the rights of the minority on the part of the Presi dent, stating that the latter was the organ of the house and not of the majority. _ _ Deputy Waldeck defended the course taken by the President, and the subject dropped. Finance Minister Von Bodelschwingh brought in the Budget for 1865. The total receipts and ex penditure are stated at 150,714,031 thalers ; the permanent expenditure, 142,535,000 thalers ; tem porary outlay, 8,179,022 thalers ; increase of the gross receipts are compared with last year, 9,388,750 thalers ; net receipts, 7,147,641 thalers. Deputy Von Hennig moved that, in accordance with the order of business, the preliminary discus sion of the Budget should take place before the full house (in plenum). The speech from the Throne appeared conciliatory, but was not so in reality. Last year the Government had denied the prospect of reconciliation, had subsequently prosecuted all who did not partake their opinions, and had found courts which had undertaken such prosecutions. The President animadverted upon the portion of the speech relating to the courts. The Minister of Justice said that the Govern ment could not admit such criticism. The indepen dence of the courts would continue. Count Schwerin, with Deputies Osterrath and Twesten, supported the reference of the Budget to the committee. After a lengthened debate the amendment was ultimately carried. Various bills of minor importance were brought in by' the Ministers of Finance, Commerce, and Justice. Two motions have been brought into the Chamber, one for the cessation of the salt monopoly, another for the issue of an address to the King by the Reichensperger party. SIIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 19.—Cormorant, from Sines. Sailed, Jan. 20.—Crescent, for Guernsey ; Cosmopolitan, steamer, for Hamburg; Concordia, steamer, for Boulogne ; Hanover, steamer, for Havre. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed.—Corcyra, screw steamer, for Malta; Silva*" Wave, for Fort Natal—both from London. - A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were —Viscount P a lmerston, the Lord Chancellor , Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, th e Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. After the breaking up of the Cabinet Council, summonses were issued to the m embers of the Cabinet for a council this afternoon at Lord Palmerston's official residence in Down ing-street. MApAgE Tuss AUD'S. --T his popular and instruc tive exhibition has been unprecedentedly well attended during the holidays. The numerous additions which are from time to time being made cannot fail to render the historical gallery, in Baker-street, one of the most attrac tive sights of the metropolis. Every possible civility to the visitors is invariably shown by the highly respectable and intelligent attendants, who always evince their anxious desire in affording information to those who ask it. THE CHETWYND DIVORCE CASE. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.) The learned Judge summed up the evidence, and the jury having' deliberated for 45 minutes, found the follow ing verdict:— That the respondent was guilty of the cruelty charged ; that he had committed adultery with Mary Jane Smith ; that he was not guilty of adultery with Thyrza, Pomford, Caroline Lethbridge, or Harriet Emerson ; that the petitioner had not con doned the offence of her husband; that she had not been guilty of conduct conducing to his misconduct ; and that she had not committed adultery with Henry Mathews or Henry Cornelius. The learned judge then made the decree nisi. FURNISHED APARTMENTS.—A Brother and Sister require for a permanency TWO BED ROOISIS and SITTING-ROOM, Within two miles of the City ; W.C, District preterred. Terms not to exceed Hs. per week. Address, W. H. 8., 101, Strand, W.C. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. LONDON GAZET.CE--•-This Evening MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE, JAN. 20.: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Seal of the Duchy of Cornwall, appointing the Right Hon. Ed ward Berkeley, Baron Portman, Lord Warden of the Stan naries in Cornwall and Devon, and Rider and Master Forester of Dartmoor, in the room and place of the Duke of Newcastle, deceased._ _ ADMIRALTY JAN. 17. Rear-Admiral George St. Vincent King, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral in her Majesty's Fleet, whilst employed as Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels on the China Station. Mr. James Cole has been this day promoted to the rank of Master in her Majesty's Fleet. BANKRUPTS. That portion of the Gazette containing the Bankrupts had not arrived when we went to press. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening, Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam Antwerp Brussels Hamburgh Paris . Short. 11 14 11 15 . 3 Months. 11 171 11 18 , 11 174 11 18 25 474 25 524 25 474 25 524 13 7i 13 71 Short. 25 15_ 25 22* Ditto 3 Months. 25 47 25 52 - + Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine —119 k Vienna — 11 80 11 2t5 Trieste — 11 80 11 — 87+ Petersburgli Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan 44 47 - 25 60 25 65 25 GO 25 65 Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 25 60 25 651 25 60 25 75 25 60 25 75 25 60 25 75 Lisbon 5ll 518 Oporto 5ll 511 Foreign Gold in bars (standard)....X3 lis. 9d. per oz. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT TERSALL'S.-THURSDAY. A few of the subscribers dropped into the room to-day, but, as the result of the afternoon's transactions will show the betting was merely nominal. The death of Mr. Chas. Greville was one of the principal topics of conversation, all being unanimous in the declaration that his place is not likely to be filled in the councils of the Jockey Club—at least in this generation. The subjoined quotations will, as far as they go, sufficiently denote the tone of the market : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 8 to kagst Mr. Naylor's Chattanooga (off.; t. 9 to 1 THE DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Mr. W. I'Anson's Breadalbane (offered) 22 to 1 agst Mr. W. I'Anson's Broomielaw (taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. T. Wadlow's Christmas Carol (offered) 45 to 1 agst Mr. Naylor's Congress (taken) 2000 to 30 agst Mr. Parr's Friday (taken) 3000 to 30 agst Mr. Nicholl's Whirlwind (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP. 100 to 6 agst Lord Uffington's nomination (t and w) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Croft's nomination (t) 28 to 1 agst Mr. Spinks' nomination (t ) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's nomination (t freely) 33 to 1 agst Mr. J. Johnstone's nomination (t) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Blundell's nomination (off) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6to lon the field (offered) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Liddington (offered) 22 to 1 agst Bedminster (t) 50 to 1 agst Congress (t) The Late Hurricane. Yesterday telegrams were, received from Lloyd's agent at Brest, announcing another fearful shipwreck during tho recent bad weather. The unfortunate vessel was a new iron screw steamer called the Columbian, belonging to the West Indian and Pacific Steam Navigation Company, which is reported to have foundered off the French coast, four miles to the westward of Conquet, near Brest. The Colum bian was about 1,000 tons register, and although she was only classed in Lloyd's book as A 1 for seven years, she was apparently a strong built ship. She left Liverpool on the 10th inst., under the command of Capt. Bennett, for the West Indies. The particulars which have been received of the catas trophe are somewhat brief. It appears, however, that on clearing the St. George's Channel she encountered the re cent terrible weather, and by her heavy labouring sprung a leak,which would seem to have defied all efforts to subdue it. Whether she endeavoured to put back or was blown by the, hurricane over on to the French coast has not correctly transpired ; but the fact is known, that on arriving within about four miles of Conquet the steamer, without giving the least warning, suddenly went down stern foremost in deep water, and of her crew and passengers only three seamen are reported to have been saved, the number who perished being 31. The survivors were washed ashore, and they at once communicated the loss to Lloyd's agent. Anxious inquiries having been made regarding the ship Powerful, from India for London, supposed to have foun dered with all hands off Guernsey, during the storm of last week, Lloyd's agent at that port, on being apprised of the melancholy feeling which prevailed on the subject, caused the fullest inquiry to be instituted, and yesterday the fol lowing letter was received from the agent : . - - " Guernsey, Jan. 17. " Referring you to my telegram of yesterday relative to the loss of the ship Powerful, of Liverpool, I have now to inform you that I spent the greater part of yesterday and to-day on the west coast of this island searching for portions of the wreck which may have come ashore, and making in quiries among the pilots and fishermen of that neighbourhood and coast. Pieces of the wreck have been picked up on the coast, a range of at least four or five miles, but everything found up to the last this evening appears to have come from the ship's deck and bulwarks. I here give you a list of what has been picked up :—First, the ship's figure-head—a High lander, about 7 feet high—with a portion of the cutwater, all American birch. A seaman's chest with the bottom out. a caulking box, three small studding-sail booms, and sundry very small pieces of planking, apparently of the bulwarks, Second, a skylight about 10 feet by 6, and what appears to be the end of a house on deck with sundry pieces of planks. Third, a boat about thirty feet long, clinker-built, painted white, fitted up as a lifeboat, several br oken oars, two life-buoys with the words " Powerful, Liver pool," in black Glasgow letters, a pair of seaman's boots apparently belonging to the all in the boat ; the boat wilevagtiwisevidentlythe long-boat, with captain or mate, and sundry ropes, is very much damaged and hardly worth repair built, en tirely Fou rth, a barometer or weather glass of American pine. . D. WGregor, age n t , ,z r wri oke t n te ; n o o n n t o h n e e st o e f glass wi p th ort th io e n f s o Ao ll fd o Edinburgh. h N 0.2,929." Fifth, and Greenock ; several ri the W oa ard' rs the word "Powerful, LivemrPoucc Quebec" i s branded (the Powerful was a Quebec-built ship). Sixth, several children's toys, bedding, &c., four side folders fresh coal-tarred, and of oars all very' a boat-hook. I may remark that the long boat was carded-built, and the other clinker built. The planking found evidently is from the same s hip ; they are all painted alike, blue, and white, and some portions grained. Nothing has been seen as yet of any portions of the ship's hull below the deck, and the preva lent opinion is that she has struck on some sunken rocks some two or three miles off the coast, and then foundered in deep water, I observe by the list that the vessel is called the Powerful, of 1,220 tons ; and from the appear ance of what has come ashore I fully believe it is from a vessel of that size." THE LATE MR. CROCKFORD.—The Queen of this day says—We have to announce, with profound sorrow, the premature death of Mr. John Crockford, the publisher of this journal, which took place on Friday last, the 11th inst. His many kindly qualities had endeared him to a large circle of friends, by whom his loss will long bo mourned. CORONER'S INQUEST.—A few weeks ago a deplor able accident occurred at Leeswood-green colliery, near Mold, by which eight persons were drowned. At the ad -1 journed inquest on Tuesday a verdict of manslaughter was unanimously returned by the jury against the proprietorP of the colliery, Messrs• Craig, Taylor, and Craig. ■ )o' 1,11 '5 iteli ~;ty, of ye l4. 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