The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

Tor 17 PP 11 Ai, LAL ILL ONE I. -1 AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two O'CLOCK. The English Stock Market opened to-day at a decline of 8 , per cent., which loss has not been recovered. A few sales to realise profits and to obtain money stock has been the cause of this de preciation. Consols are 861 87 for money, and 871 1 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 86/ 878 ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to ls. di & ; Bank Stock, 246 247 ; I n di a S toc k , 210 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 1021 1 ; ditto 58 per Cent. tafaced Paper, 1071 ; ditto Bonds, 7s. to 14s. prem. Foreign Stocks show no important alteration in Prices. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 391 40 ex div. ; Mexican, 211 228 ; ditto New, 191 20 ; Greek, 131 14 ; Spanish Passive, 251 268 ; the Certificates, 14 1 ; Italian, 61/ 62f ; the Confederate Loan, 6 ; and Brazilian Scrip, / 1f prem. United States Government 5-20 Bonds, 66 1; Erie shares, 57f 58 ; and Illinois, 76 1. In the Railway Share Market business has gene rally been very quiet, and in several instances a :slight decline has taken place. South Eastern, Lula laild) Metropolitan, and North Western have each receded ss. ; and Great Eastern, 10s. ; while North Eastern (Berwick) have advanced ss. ; and Brighton a nd Great Western each 10s. , T he Foreign and C o l on i a l li nes rema i n without chan ge of importance. 13 ank and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. European have declined to 12} ; Bank of AustTal dOial 711 ; O r i en t a l B an k Corporation, 501 ; Lon n Financial are dealt in at 181 19 ; and Overend, I , Gur ney, and Co., at 201 211 ; London Steam Le°w Co. Shares are quo t e d 11 2 prem.; Charle s afitte and Co., 21 21 prem. ; and Galatz Candle C 0.2 1 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK GOVERNMENT FuNDs. 0 ▪ ber Cent. Consols D° • Account, F e b . 8 B7l li, •••Per Cent. Reduced .PieW tclv 2 3 8 1/ 6 per Cent Bil 6 i Per Cent. J an. 189 4 — De. b per Cent. Ann uities, 30 Jan. 1873 yrs, expire sth Jen 1880 , 3) 0. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, ' lBBs — B ~.".0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 -- ' e aequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 6 3 Do. £5OO 6 1 O DO £lOO and £2OO ''arik of England Stock, 5 per Cent i , 11,44,11 c GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 44,dian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 2lO/ ..,,"0 Account r,°. 5 per Cent. Oct 1870 ,`'°. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ,"0. Enfaeed Paper 4 per Cent '" r ,°. 5 ~ Jan. 1872 DO. 5 1 . per Cent., May 1879 lo7f ii ° . 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — ,o. Cent., Aug. 7 ' l ' o - under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Alto, b -- ''''all ._._ Bonds, 5 p er C en t, 1859 tau 5 per. Cent — LDo. per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. o 1863 1865 74/ I Do Account D o R • - . 134 . - criP, £2O paid i_senos Ayres 6 per Cent — D °• 4. Account ei, ; ,° 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) - -lan 6 per Cent Tin C - •=i- per Cent e°l'oMbian 6 per Cent. b ilba l. 6 per Cent. - 1) 4181 ' 3 Per Cent., 1825 .? - 11 --° . 4 per Cent., 1863 — 1) -13 . 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — anubian Principalities •130 Account — ua dor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — t °-, Provisional Land Warrant — gY„Ptian 7 per Cent 92f 4 ,4 0 -, Second Issue — " 0 . £lOO Bonds Do 2 D o •ti £l.OO Bonds 1864 92 91 f / 1 Do A s ccount per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupon s 0 Geo. Coupons lt. Account emala 5 per Cent. °• ~_ oXB6paid Itt-ty 1839 and 1850 b ia 'a 5 per Cent, 1865 0. Account D o Do • 4faremmana Railway . 0 clip, £671 paid — lit e ,. '' per Cent, 1864 — ri le au 3 per Cent -0. Account 1.) 0 6 Do 18 64 2O h per Cent. Anglo-F renc h ki-0 P rench Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — li n , 4 _,evidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid tr"lah Imperial 5 per Cent ehlr Granada 961 V 0 2 p er C ent DO Deferred - Do. ° 'and Warrants (Hectares) . B o r Cent, 1864 — P e ° U uaranteed, 4 per Cent — D ri l v ia . u 5 per Cent bu A ccount Do° 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — D 0 4 1 per Cent., 1862 P ort ° 4 Account : 0 guess 3 per Cent., 1853 D°'° Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 451 1 p Account 1 `4l.sei,,„ 1,7, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4 1 ,"1 per Cent. 1850 ,D - '', - i - per Cent., 1860 Do° 0 per Cent 1859 D o 5 , Per Cent. 1862 B9/ 1- httra,,_"' u. Per Cent. 1864 — ifoialan 5 per Cent ° o X 1 (0 Bands' — tp a4 i . ji per Cent' . ' 0 3 per Cent - bitto • ~ _ 1., account 1?)1000 i st e e e vr o.un De t ferred _ 35/ b assive — tba,?; Account 26 1 e 043 1 ), Cert. of Coup not funded — tilt ~Account l4/ 1 I j' - ush 4 per C en t. l'4l°tllB° 1 Per Cent. 1864 13 6 Per Cent. 1854 — 0 A, D 0 ,s count D u 4 per Cent. 1858 bu Account Do £l.OO Bonds r i ° 6 Per Cent. 1862 ,0 Account 6B} 40'0 £lOO Bonds ,p ° 6 Per Cent., 1863 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 — D oD , A cr il), £35 paid n . 7 e ccunt Ve 4 , - ;,,' Per Cent. Guaranteed — iy,.'`uela 6 per Co-' t. Account- 'en A tl 4. Dividends on the above payable in London. tel s g i li , 4ll , 5 pn Cent., Ex. 10 Florins vr e 41 11 per cent Ex . 251. itch 40, ~o t n es 3 per Cent. 4 4 1 re" COUt., Ex. 12 Guil Attu ar i'yer Cent. Certificates ° 41-e A . per Cent., 1861, Ex. 251 count TWO O'CLOCK. *-10 . Acco 1 14 forunt money .„ 864 7 871 i TWELVE O'CLOCK. More activity has been apparent in the Dis count Market this morning, arising principally, it is believed, from the settlement now in progress at the Stock Exchange. The capital on offer, however, is abundant, and the rates for the best commercial paper are and 74 per cent. An amount of £20,000 in gold was taken from the Bank yesterday for Alexandria. At the meeting of shareholders of the City Bank, held this day, the statement of accounts submitted showed a gross profit for the past six months of £65,072, enabling the directort to declare a divi dend of 6 per cent., and a bonus of 30s. per share, to carry forward £12,525 rebate of interest on bills not yet due, leaving £4,709 for appropriation at the close of the financial year. During the last few days there has been very little business transacted in the markets for Foreign and Colonial Produce. Operations in tea have been postponed until the public sales, which- com mence this day. Sugar has been on only moderate request, while superior descriptions of coffee have maintained former rates. Rice has been dull, and rather cheaper, while only limited dealings have taken place in tallow, at rates in favour of pur chasers, for both present and forward delivery. At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the Imperial Bank the report presented stated that the profits amount to £38,874, which paying the current ex penses, making provision for bad and doubtful debts, allowing rebate of interest on bills discounted not yet due, there remains a disposable balance of £23,272. Out of this amount the directors propose to pay a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, free of Income-tax ; to write off the balance of the preliminary expenses; to transfer £2,712 to the reserve fund, which will then stand at £57,000 ; and carry forward £1,560 to credit of profit and loss new account. Do. B 6tock at Do. ;New, is. at 25 pn. 10 st Gt S, and W. of Ireland 10 st Gt. Westein -Original 1, st I) . 5. Val. Rail gua. 10 st Do. South Wales .... 1.1 at Do. W. 913d.—Oxford 101 st Do. Newpoit at Ho. Hereford.... st Lane 'shire &Yorkshire, lo st Laidon and Blackwalf 10 , st Lon., Brigh., & S Coast) 10 st Lon., t'hat., and Dover 10 st Do. Metrop. Ex. A.. 10 at Lou. t. North 'Western 10 at Lon. & South Western 1 at Man., Shet., & Lincoln 1 at Metropolitan 10 Do. New 10 Do. Extension 10 j ?t o ropoli d t o an Di d e o trict. al 10 Do. and St. John'sW'd it 31id:and 9 Do. £9 Share it Do, Birmin.. & Derby 1 t. 5 Mid Kent it North British it Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. I( it Nth. Eastern—Berwick 1( 5 Do. G.N•E purchast 16. it Do. Leeds 1( t I Do. York. t Do. Carlisle . :5 Do. Stock. & Darling. a :5 Do. do. 1860-61 1 it North Londou 0 Do. do. 1864 . 0 Do. do. 1865 it North Staffordshire .. _ 0 N. &S. W. Junction a .t Scottish Central 4 Scot. N. E Aber. stock 10i it t)o. Scot, Mid. stJek 10, it Shropshire Union 101 it South Devon lOl it south E stern Staines, Wok., do Wok at ;t Taff Vale 10( Le Do. C it Vale of Neath ;t Waterford & Kilkenny 101 0 Waterloo & Whiteha it West Cornwall 10( BRITISH P, ,00 Atlantic& St. Lawrence a] Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent 20 Do. E shares 2O Buffalo & Lake Huron al 10 1)6 Preference al 00 ( Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- lot at Calcutta dr S. E., lirn lOl at :ape Town & Dock, gu lOl 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p , al . East. Ben_ al, gu ' sdo 101 It East I ditto, gu. 5 p.c. 101 20 Do. J Extension at Grand Trunkof Canads 101 00 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o al DO Do. Ist Pref. Bonds., al )0 Do. do. deferred )0 Do. 2d Prt.f. Bonds al )0 Do. do. deferred al )0 Do. 3d Pref. stock._ at 10 Do. do. deferred al JO Do. 4th Pref. stock 10 Do. do. deterred .... aIJ It Gt. India Pen. gua. bp.c. tM 0 l'o. Gua. 5 per cent.. 1? 0 Do. New gua. sp. c.. ,t Gt. South of India .. gua. 5 per cent st DDo ,41 per cent lO si 20i Great Wea. of Canada al 20¢ D. New ~ . ..... 11 100 Do. 6p. c. Bd s - pay 1873 al 10C Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 al 10 fndian Branch, limited st Madras, gua. 5 p.o et Do. 41 do at Do. 4i do 20 Do. Fifth Extension st sfelb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 50 Mel. k Hudson's Bay.. a. at N. 111.C'da, 6pc let pf. ba. at Scinde 11 at Do. Delhi 20 Do. do st Do. Punjaub y u, 1 at Do.lndus St.Fio 4, 1 COLONIAL GOVERN British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1872 10 Cau.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug VA Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10' Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 101 Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk 101 • Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 1873 101 Do.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 101 Do. do; 1880-9, 101 Do. Jan. &July, 1890-91 104 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOl Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( 101 Do. 1878, do. 10( Alauritius, p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, May t 5, Nov. ,1 10 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug l_6( Natal 4 ;ov. 6 per c en t nc N. B.G ov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J uly 10( N. S. W. Gov. 5 ire., 1861 10( Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1874 104 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189: 101 New Zealand, 6p. cent 101 Do. 5 per cent.... 101 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 I9C Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 100 Do. 1878 & upwards llO Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja 85 July 100 Do. do, e pril & Oct lOO BRITIS MINES. 2 Cam. Consol. ti old, Um 1 - Chiverton - Clifford Amalgamated 3O 20 21 - Devon G. Cons. (Tavlet 1 670 590 - Drake walls 2.1.0 1 - East Bassett (Illo gan) 2 95 18 20 - East Caradon 2.14.6 85 95 - East Carn Brea 35 5 5 - East Grenville 2.14.0 3 3} - East Gunnislake 8.3.6 5 1 - East Loved 3.9.0 12 14 - E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.8.0 3 31 - Gam.43t StAubyn(G wen. 66 5 7 4 Great Lixey, limited all 20 21 - Great South Tolgus - Great Wheal Busy-- 14.9.6 34 t - G. Wheal Vor (Heist 40 31 33 - Grenvilie - Herod's Foot . .. 8.10.0 40 4e, - Hingston Downs 5.10.6 a 51 - Margaret rUny Lelant 13.17.6 5 7 - Starke Valley 4.10.6 4 45 4 llwyndy Iron Ore, lin, 25 25 lid - New Se ton - North Roskear - 13 15 Bassett(lllogan 4.4.0 - North Wheal Crotty - Prosper 7.1.6 - -- Pr , videnee UnyLglant 10.6.7 77 39 - S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l5 410 930 - South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 8 22 - stray Park - Tin Croft 9 19 20 5 Vigra and Clogan, lim all 4 5 - %Vest Bassett (Illogan - W. Caradon (L , skeard 9 8 10 - West Chiverton ll 80 83 - West Seton. 475 190 200 - Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 55 95 1( 0 - Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 30 35 - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 3 5 - Wheal Seton •- Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 7 17 18 I'REFERENCE /SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No.:1, 101 Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent pm., 1071 dit.Western, Wt. Midland. Oxforci 2d guaranteed stock, Ditto, Ncwp. 5 per cent. pref., redeemable at 6 pm., 10) PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCEb. London, Brighton. &c., 4} per cent., 18 5 8, 961 6 London and S.-Western 44 per cent., 96f 6 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Wilts and Somerset, 85 FOREIGN RAIL WAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 101 Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 13 Sambre and Meuse, 91 FOREIGN MINED. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 2i erontino and 110111118, ii old. hm., DOCKS. BANK& ;SESSIONS. 11 A 60 )0 99 10) 6 11 6i 6 p 11 10 11 10 75 80 10 96 98 10 60 7u 11 100 102 10 100 101 1(0 102 ,5 - - )0 I 35 36 11 87 89 11 67 69 11 57 62 11 57 59 1 52 57 [1 96 50 11 46 31 36 1 33 35 0 100 102 6 P 6 1 PI )0 I 93 100 )0 I 91 93 a 16} 16i l 8 a 4 SO 11 )2 04 11 84 e 6 2 1 4d 10 100 )0 90 92 )0 S 6 88 2 it 63 65 10 8' 82 .00 l'ile 1024 !00 1014 1024 2 f f, J 00 98 99 00 ENT SECU 10 92 94 10 93 96 13 93 96 10 77 60 10 77 SO 10 101 103 10 104 106 10 104 106 10 101 103 10 I 90 92 )0 I 10) )0 I 104 m I poi 0 10t 1.04 102 104 I 103 105 98 100 )0 92 L 4 )0 1 0 102 )0 92 v 3 )0 I too 0 I 8: 97 99 99i 100, 103 105 104 106 Surrey Commercial, 113 Alliance, Um.. 27i A Anglo Austrian, 61" Anglo Egyptian, lim., 12E Australasia. 72 Bank of New Zealand. la British North American. 461 Chartered Bank of India, h.ustralia, and China, 23 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10 East London, lim., 5 Eng ish Joint Stock, lira., 111 101 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 20 European Bank, lim., 12 Liindustan, China, and Japan,/11m., Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 16 Ditto. new, 1 6i Imperial Ottoman, 13 121 Ditto, new, 12 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 4 London and Couuty, S'.:!. London and South African, 16; (/riental Bank Corporation. 51 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 16 Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gun,., 2f Bang"! arah Tea Estates, lira., lf Berlin Water Works, lira., 101- City Offices, lira., 6. Commercial Union, Insurance, 7f Credit Fonder and Mobiiler of I, :ngland. Ditto, issued at a prem., of whit.% £2 is to pay, 51 Credit Funcier of Mauritius, lim., 8 Crystal Palace, .F 4 Ebbw Vale, 8/ Egyptian Com and Trading, lira., 4/ Electric Telegraph, 135 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim.. 6a / • Humber Iron Woks, 38 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso.,lim., 7i International Financial society, lira. , 5 g Italian, Irrigation (Canal Carour), Ditto, 6 per ceiat.Bonds, redem. Issued 90, 78 Joint Stock Discount, Jim., S, London Financial Association, lira , London and Glasgow Engineeri.g and Iron Ship, lira, 11 Ocean at arine Insurance), 23 Overend, Gurney, and Co.. Jim., Sei l'eninsula and Oriental Steam, 72 i , itto, new. 5 , ./1 Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, lim., 4/ Royal Mail Steam, 108 6/ Trust and Agency of Australasia, lira., 2 Union Marine, Liverpool, Um., 31 SHARE 'his Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share, Railways. I paid. ) Closing 1 Business Price. done. it k drletol ana Rxeter aledonian , t !Cambrian. 50 Oork and Bandon al 20 Cornwall •al at Dublin & Belfast June 10 st Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc. IC , 100 &London, Certi. 1)0. 1 at Glasgow &S. Western 10 st Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 10 , st Do. E. Angl. st. No. ? 1 at Great North of Scotland 1 st Great Northern at D A stock .. 1 11 4i )0 68 0 70 111 113 41 42 71 8} 10 l2li 127 10 145 JIG 91 93 58 18i, 10 38 40 34 37 10 101 4 , 3 )0 1221 24 10 89 91 I.) 100 IV2 )0 36 38 )0 48 r 0 A) 1:51 ]261 )0 9t V 5 )0 02 13 11 184 I`s 7 2 ! 21p 6 1 lip' 11 100 102 )0 123 i 124 5 1 1 It 1 )0 94 b 4 57 58 7 28 110 111 Iu 72 73 10 101 105 11 38 37 16 10 H p 123 126 5 2 2,p 5 2 24p 00 -- 76 77 . 11 11 12 Co 145 148 10 66 68 10 112 114 55 57 0 73 74 [1 8 9 0 147 150 0 3 3 101 103 - I 49 51 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1866. I '•'s 4 44 ,0 " (r )o'llll DI IC HER MAJESTY• OSBORNE, Monday. The Queen and royal family drove out this morning. 411 40; The Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Lieutenant-General Knollys, Major G. H. Grey, and the Countess of Morton, attended Divine service at Sandringham Church on Sunday. The Rev. G. B. Moxon, 8.A., rector, otliciated.and preached the sermon. On Monday morning their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by Major Grey and the Countess of Morton, drove to Gayton Thorpe Gate, and attended the "meet" of the West Norfolk hounds. 60 5 3 22 & 109 6! 131 His royal highness, attended by Major G. H. Grey, left Wolverton for Cambridge in the after noon, and proceeded on the Newmarket and Bury line to Six-mile-Bottom, for a couple of days' shoot ing with General Hall at Weston Colville. A dis tinguished party of sportsmen is invited. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and suit will honour the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with a visit to their country seat at Trentham, Stoke-upon-Trent, during next week. 124 . 111 k 11 721 MARRIAGE OF LORD CHARLES INNES KER AND MISS BLANCHE WILLIAMS. Yesterday morning the marriage of Lord Charles Inn es Ker, second and youngest son of the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, with Miss Blanche Williams, third daughter of Colonel Thomas Peers Williams, M.P., was solemnised at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The noble bridegroom, accompanied by his brother the Marquis of Bow mont, who acted as groomsman, arrived at the church early, and was shortly afterwards followed by the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Russell, Mr. and Lady Susan Grant Suttie, Viscount Pangan, Sir John E. and Lady Wilmot, Colonel Kuox, Colonel Brownlow Knox, Mr. Bulkeley, and a host of friends. The church was nearly filled with visitors. The bride arrived about half-past 11 o'clock, in company with her gallant father and mother. She was received at the entrance to the church by her friends ; and followed by her sister, Miss Bronwen Williams, and Miss Dalton, as bridesmaids, proceeded direct to the communion table. The wedding party having taken their places the religious rite commenced. The Rev. James Pelham Pitcairn, vicar of Eccles, and do mestic chaplain to the Duke of Roxburghe, assisted by the Rev. Henry Howarth (the rector of St. George's), officiated. After the ceremony the bridal party adjourned to the vestry, where the marriage was duly registered. The newly-married couple on leaving the church went in the Duke of Roxburghe's carriage to Colonel Williams's house in Berkeley square. They were afterwards joined by their friends, Colonel and Mrs. Williams giving a hand some breakfast to the relatives and friends of both 991 I families. 724 I 99i I 1011 1(0 351 5 341 33 .0}100; In the afternoon the happy couple left town for Temple-house, Colonel Thomas Peers Williams's seat in Buckinghamshire. The bridal presents were numerous, and some of ' a costly description. The toilet of the bride was elegant and particularly novel, designed and made by Madame Levilly. It was composed of a rich white satin skirt, trimmed with Brussels lace flounces, introducing for the first time a train of new shape, also satin, trimmed with a waved flounce of fine Brussels lace and ruching. The bride's necklace and earrings were of magnificent pearls and dia monds. The veil was Brussels lace. ITIES. 93i 1 The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are enter aining a select circle at their seat, Kimbolton Castle, Elunts. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland is some what better than when sho arrived at Stafford House, St. James's, from Scotland. Her grace is not, so unwell as to occasion any alarm to her family. The Duchess of Inverness entertained a select circle at dinner yesterday evening at Kensington Palace. The Marchioness of Abercorn and the Ladies Hamilton will leave Chesterfield House to-day for Paris, on their way to join the Earl and Countess of Mount- Edgeumbe at Cannes. 1(0 991 Proposed Enfranchisement of Chelsea and Kensington. 1041 100 104 k 5 MR. TORRENS, M.P., ON THE RATING FRANCHISE. Last night a crowded meeting was held at the Vestry Hall, King's-road, Chelsea, to take steps for the enfran chisement of that district, and the adjoining district of Kensington. Mr. B. W. JONES occupied the chair, and briefly opened the proceedings. Letters of apology for non-attendance were read from Lord Enfield, M.P., Mr. Hanbury, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. Alderman Lawrence, M.P., Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr.. P. A. Taylor, M.P., Captain Grosvenor, Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., Mr. T. Chambers, M.P., and Sir C. Went worth Dilke. Mr. E. H. RABBas moved the first resolution :—" That the parishes of Chelsea 'and Kensington, containing a population of 135,000 persons, contributing upon an assess ment upwards of a million yearly in public taxation, and abounding in education, intelligence, and wealth, have an incontestable right to a direct representation in Parlia ment." 311 t Lord W. LENNOX, in seconding the resolution, drew at tention to the vast number of boroughs with small popula tions and limited numbers of electors, which at present had members, and expressed his thorough sympathy with the movement. Mr. W. M. PIGUETT briefly supported the resolution which was put and carried. Mr. FINCH moved a resolution to the effect that it was desirable that suitable measures should be taken to ascertain the intentions of her Majesty's Government with respect to the enfranchisement of that district in the forthcoming session of Parliament. Mr. T. J. WILKINS, one of the churchwardens of Ken sington, seconded the motion. Mr. TORRENS, M.P., who was received with much ap plause, said that it was now some five years ago since they first met to agitate the claims of that district to direct repre sentation in Parliament. (Cheers.) He did not, for his own part, believe that there was a single metropolitan borough, or in fact any large constituency in the country, which would grudge Chelsea and Kensington what they asked. He was sure, at any rate, that there was not a man in Fing bury who was worth his salt who would not rejoice in thei r emancipation. (Cheers.) They had all heard a good deal, about the new Reform Bill, and the genenaopinion seemed to be that it was not to affect the redistribution of seats so much as the question of voting. (Hear, hear.) What then • was to be done ? If Lancashire was, to be at the head of the Government, and act as its dictator, then they would have a rating franchise of £6, and nothing else : so , that Chelsea and Kensington would not have much to do with that. But this they might depend on—a rating frat.- chise might suit Lancashire, but it would not suit London (Hear, hear.) But London had a right, by its intelligence, its numbers, its forbearance, its loyalty, and by the shame ful paucity of its representatives in the House of Commons —and not only a right, but a prominent right over all places in the United Kingdom—to insist on the Govern ment having in their bill such a franchise as would do its population justice equally with the rest of the people. (Cheers.) He, for his own part, protested against any measure which, under the form of law, should shut out any great portion of the industrial classes of London. (Loud cheers.) London, to a. large extent, contained a peculiar class of the population to which no rating scheme, as the basis of voting, coull ever be made to apply satis factorily. It was inhabited in flats, and story by story— each house divided. Hundreds of suoh people paid far more rent and no rates than the inhabitants of a miserable country town. (Hear, and cheers.) Thus it was obvious that a rating franchise would shut out London to a very great extent, so that its population of three millions must now speak out with a voice which should make itself heard. (Cheers.) He himself knew forty men of letters and intelligence who could teach him most things, and there were scores of skilled workmen well learned in the applied sciences, whose houses were full of objects of beauty and research, but who under the present metropo litan system had no votes as part occupiers of houses. (Loud cheers.) Now such a state of things must be reme died. (Hear, hear.) The man who for a certain value lived in possession of a portion of a tenement, and conti nued to do so for a given time, and who paid the same amount for his portion of a house in root as was paid by a man holding a cottage for himself —that man ought in the future to have the benefit of a vote. (Loud cheers.) Tho motion was then put and carried. A resolution appointing a deputation to Earl Russell was also agreed to, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LAW INTEL LIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Black burn, Mellor, and Lush.) BENNETT V. DORSET AND ANOTHER. This was an action tried before the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn at Guildhall, in which a verdict wasreturned for the defendant. The action was brought to recover damages for the alleged breach of charter party, with option to purchase within 12 months, for £1,200, the steamer Donxzu. Mr. M. Chambers now moved for a rule to show cause why 'the verdict should not be set aside, and a 73QW trial had, on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. • Their lordships delivered their opinions at some length, and considered there was evidence to go to the jury to justify the finding, and refused the rule. COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. (Before Chief Justice Ede, and Justices Keating and Willes.) THOMAS W. WELCH. This case involved the question of an infringement of a patent granted foi a Sewing machine. The arguments, in moving the Court in the first instance, occupied the Court many days, and the present proceedings seem very likely to occupy tho same space of time. COURT 01. P BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE THE HON. GEORGINA AUGUSTA FREDERICA HENRIETTA CAVENDISH BENTINCK. This bankrupt was described as of Green-street, Caven dish-square, and to-day she came up for the order of dis ciarge. The debts are £2,198, and the assets—property realised by the assignees—£l,23Blos., leaving a deficiency of £959. Bankrupt's expenditure has been £BOO per an num. The cause of the bankruptcy is the loss of a sum of money lent to the late Dowager Lady Rivers, and insuffi ciency of income to- maintain Miss Bentinck's position. Upon the last occasion his Honour ordered a cash account from August, 1804, to be furnished, and this has been done. Mr. Sargood, who appeared for an opposing creditor, said he now desired to examine the bankrupt. He had desired to do so on the last occasion, but hoped to have found full information in the accounts ordered to be filed. Those accounts did not furnish such information as the creditors were entitled to. The cash account was all lumped together, and unless proper acknowledgment was made a regular examination must take place in public, however painful. It .would be seen that large quantities of jewellery had been parted with, evidently for the pur pose of livelihood. C. E. Lewis, for the bankrupt, said that his client was quite ready to answer any questions put to her in court. She had given all the information in her power, and could not possibly give any further particulars. Mr. Sargood said there was a sum of £l5O set down as "presents from friends," and the creditors had a right to inquire into that. His Honour was not so sure about that. Mr. Sargood suggested that the amount might have been £1,500. There were certain noble names in the cash account, and they spoke for themselves. The lady was of good family, and as regarded the £l5O a question must be asked. Mr. Lewis said he should not submit to allow this lady to be questioned as to the names of those who had given her the £l5O. It was a scandalous thing that whenever a lady was connected with families in a high position, it was sought to drag in other names for the purpose of putting on the screw. Miss Bentinck was then asked what became of the wellery ? Miss Bentinck—lt was parted with by a friend of mine under the strictest promise of secrecy as regarded his name. Mr. Sargood then proceeded to question Miss Bentinck as to the other items, after which the case was adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. KICKING A MAN DOWN STAIRS.—Walter Walters, a butcher, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on remand with kicking Mr. Daniel Lewis, undertaker, Little St. Andrew street, down a flight of stairs. Mr. E. D. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the defendant.' On the last occasion tho prosecutor, who, for some timo past has been suffering from bronchitis, was unable to attend. He was in attendance to-day, and stated that, while going up the stairs of his house, the prisoner first struck him and then kicked him down a flight of stairs. He had no recollection of what afterwards occurred, hav ing become insensible. When ho recovered his senses, he found himself lying on a sofa in great pain. In answer to Mr. Lewis, the prosecutor said he had done nothing to tho prisoner to cause'him to act in such a way towards him. The prisoner was a lodger in his house, and was coming down the stairs while be (prosecutor) was going up. He did not seize the prisoner by the leg, neither had ho insulted persons going to the prisoner's wife, who was an artificial flower maker. Mr. Lewis having addressed the magistrate, and called witnesses on the prisoner's behalf, _ _ _ Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 21s. or 14 days. CHARGE OF STABBING.—Ann Walters, of 77, Charlotte street, Fitzroy-square, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stabbing Mr. Ryan in the arm with a knife. The prosecutor refused to attend, and Mr. Tyrwhitt told the prisoner that she had been rather fortunate, and dis charged her. ship. The Alleged Piracy on Board the Ship Scotland. FURTHER REMAND OP THE PRISONERS. This morning James Liffin, Thomas Carr, Thomas Dickson, Phi Tillage, Charles Tuffer, and Joseph Matthews, six seamen, and lately a por tion of the crew of the ship Scotland froni Calcutta to London, were again placed before Sir Thomas Henry at Bow-street police-court for further exami nation. Mr. Pollard, for the office of the Solicitor to, the Treasury, said—l have, Sir Thomas, t o app l y f or another remand in 'consequence of the non-arrival of the . Scotland in London. I have received 'a letter from the Messrs'. Montgomery and Greenhorn, stating that the vessel left Vintry Bay in tow on Friday last, and even with fine weather the passage from thence to London would occupy about six days. Taking into consideration the severe weather that has preVailed, it is therefore not at all likely that she could arrive before Friday next, and, under these circumstances, I have to ask for a further remand. Sir Thomas Henry—Under the circumstances you had better make it for eight days, say to morrow week. Mr. Pollard—l also, Sir Thomas, apply for sum monses for the attendance of the necessary wit-. nesses. Sir Thomas—You can have summonses for each one of the crew now on board. Mr. Pollard—An officer can then go to Graves end, and on the arrival of the ship there, serve them on the crew, and thus prevent auy one leaving the Sir Thomas—You will see that done, Mr. Evans. Inspector Evans—One of the prisoners on the last occasion asked for the attendance of one of the passengers named Hou;h, who, he said, was a pen sioner of Greenwich Hospital. I have made every inquiry, and I cannot find such a name on the roil of pensioners. Liffin—He was one of three Government passen gers. We should like all three Lo attend. Sir Thomas Henry—Then he will be on board ; therefore he and the other two passengers men tioned can, if it is thought material, be summoned to attend. Liffin—We should like them all to be present a the examination. Sir Thomas Henry—Very well, the summons will issue for their attendance. The prisoners were then formally remanded until to-morrow week. [The ship Scotland, in which the alleged piracy occurred, has a most valuable cargo, amounting to no less than about 1,600 tons of indigo and silk. She is only about four years old, and cost over £26,000. The captain is now on board, but the great danger has to be encountered in bringing her round from Vintry Bay. She would next arrive at Queenstown, and then have to encounter the rough weather in the Channel, which, in her disabled state, would be attended with much peril. In ordinary weather the run home under most favourable cir cumstances occupies 72 hours.] TA TTERSALLS'—Last Evening DERBY. 7to 1 agst Rustic (taken freely) Bto 1 agst Lord Lyon (offered) 11 to 1 agst Student (offered) 100 to 6 agstlan (taken and offered) 22 to 1 agst Janitor (taken freely) 22 to 1 agst Auguste (offered—take 25 to 1) 25 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Stabber (offered) 66 to 1 agst Wolsey (offered) 100 to 1 agst La.naret (taken) 100 to 1 agst Primate (offered) AQUATICS. SCITLLERS' RACE FOR £6O. The first scullors' race for the present year took place yesterday, when again Manchester was represented on the London river in the person of one of its most unknown scullers, although, judging from his performance on this occasion, ho will ere long be matched against much better men than him against whom ho mado hie dobut. Tho young man in question is Mark Addy, who has never hitherto rowed a scullers' race save in regattas ; but as a prominent member of the celebrated Colleen Bawn crew, who hail from the inky Irwell, he has obtained no small amount of credit. Edward May, of Lambeth, his opponent on this occasion, is, like him, an amateur, and has contended in no less than 20 scullers' races, against for the most part infe rior talent. Success, however, has rarely rewarded his efforts, and the inclination to back Addy at any odds—not withstanding he had laboured under great disadvantages during training in consequence of family bereavement- 7 . showed that it was generally imagined that May's usual bad " - - - fortune would attend him. Addy trained at home until a few days since, when he arrived in town and went to the metropolitan quxrters of the Manchester division, viz., Harry Kelley's, the Bells, Putney. May put up at Mr. Wilcox's, the White Hart, Barnes, and from the causes mentioned above was in somewhat better trim than his adversary, and pos sessed an advantage over him in weight and length of reach. The men had engaged Citizen B (Capt. Turner) to accom pany the race, and the fineness of the weather brought to gether a large concourse of spectators, amongst whom 9 to 4 was the price laid, and still greater odds were wanted. On board the boat were Messrs. Wilcox and F. G. Barratt, umpires respectively for May and Addy; while Mr. John Ireland, of the London Rowing Club, officiated as re feree. May, who won the toss for choice of stations, was waited upon by George Drewitt, and the cham pion pioneered Addy, the stake being .£3O a side, and the distance Putney to Barnes. Despite the brightness of the atmosphere, a strong wind was blowing off the Putney bank, which was nearly dead against the men through the next reach, and, owing to the recent fall of snow, the quantity of land-water out was so great as to successfully check the natural upward tendency of the tide. This was supposed to be in favour of the Manchester man, as resembling in some degree the water upon which he is accustomed to row. However, be that as it may, they were no sooner fairly under way than, with a fine long stroke—even longer than May's (although the latter stands seven inches taller), Addy went to the front, and, in 20 stroke; had cleared his man and taken his water. May's forte being starting and not staying it was even thus early apparent that he was out of the race. The difference in the steerage adopted by the men induced a belief at one time that May was making up again to his man, but, as they rounded the point, and made the shoot over to the Soapwork; there were six or eight lengths between them. May at times spurted, but was never able to reduce the lead. Stemming the downward rush of the land water, and making headway against the dead noser in Corney reach, Addy rowed on without faltering, and finally suc ceeded in winning by 100 yards. The severity of the struggle through the rough water may be judged from the fact that the winner was 31 minutes rowing the distance. THE SILENT COAL-SCUTTLE.--Mr. John Murray, of Whitehall-place, suggests, for the annoyance eaused to invalids by the act of putting coals on the fire, a very simple remedy. It consists in wrapping the coals in paper bags, and placing them quietly on the fire with the hand, when the bags quickly ignite, and leave the eoals to be distributed noiselessly over the fire. Bags of the required size, holding from three to five pounds of coal, may be purchased for a mere trifle. The inventor says he has for many years tried this plan with complete success in the house of himself and friends.—Journal of the Society of Arts. THE ENGLISH FARM SERVANT OF THE 14TH CENTURY.—Let me attempt to reckon the annual value of a well-paid farm servant's wages, with those of his family, in the first half of the 14th century. He received, in kind, say six and a half quarters of wheat during the year. The average valuo of wheat during the 14th century was ss. 1O d. This payment amounts, then, to about 38s. Bd. His money wages were, say 6s. Bd. His allowances during the harvest months were not worth less than ss. If his wife worked for 120 days in the year at a penny a day, it would add another 10s. ; and if his boy were also engaged at a halfpenny (and these were the customary wages of women and boys), it would add ss. more. If wo multiply this aggregate—that is, £3 ss. 4d., by twelve, the wages of a hired farm servant, conjointly with those of two members of his family, would have amounted in modern money to £39 4s. ; that is, to nearly 15s. a week, a rate far higher than the average wages of the modern agricultural labourer. And we must not forget that this calculation does not include his commonable rights, and _ that he held his cottage and curtilago at a rent of about 3s. a year, that is again in modern money at about 9d. a week; nor does it seem that the labourer ran any risk, of not finding employment. Wherever peasant proprietor ship is the rule of tenancies the wages of labourers are comparatively high, because hired labourers are scarce. This is known to be the case in France and Lombardy. In our own country the highest rate prevails in Cumberland, where the small proprietor, called the statesman, is not yet extinct. And though there are many conveniences which modern commerce and manufactures have supplied to the English peasant, it cannot, I fear, be doubted that, esti mated by tho money value of his wages, his condition is far inferior in the command over the necessaries of life to that of his ancestor in the fourteenth century.—Macmillan's Magazine. THAMES. A DESPERATE RUPTlAls7.—William Hannan an Irish labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting William Crook, 135 K, and William Heath, 405 K, in a very brutal manner. Crook said the prisoner was very drunk, disorderly, and quarrelling with his brother in Black-boy-alley, Wapping. He remonstrated with the prisoner, who immediately seized him and tried to throw him. The dangerous and disgusting manner in which he was seized hurt him very much. Ho got the prisoner away, and he was again seized in a similar disgraceful manner. He called assistance, and conveyed the prisoner to the station house. On the way there he was exceedingly violent. William Heath, 405 K, was called to assist the last wit ness, and the prisoner threw himself down and caught the leg of his trousers, at the same time time seizing him as he had seized the other police constable. Ho shook the pri soner off with the loss of a portion of his trousers, which were torn from the middle downwards. They got the pri soner a little further, and he threw them both. After much trouble the prisoner was lodged in the station-house. The prisoner was very sorry for what ho had done. It was all owing to the drop taken yesterday afternoon. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said he had known the pri soner many years as a waterside labourer,• and that he knew him always to be a steady, industrious, and sober man. He was surprised to see the prisoner in the dock, and he was still more surprised to hear that he had acted as ho had done. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had acted in a singularly disgusting manner towards the police-constables. He fined him 405., or one month in default, for the assault on Crook; to pay Bs. for the damage done to Heath's trousers; and to pay a fine of 325. for wilful damage, or bo further imprisoned for another month. NEW THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE FOR LIVERPOOL. On Satut day morning Mdllo. Titiens performed the cere mony of laying the foundation-stone of the Alexandra Theatre and Opera-house, Lime-street, Liverpool. The now theatre is being built by a company, with a capital of £50,000, from designs by Mr. Salomons, of Manchester, and will afford accommodation for 1,800 persons. It is to be finished by the Ist October next. FATAL SHIPWRECK.—The brig St. George, Lales master, from Shields; bound for Guernsey, with a cargo of coals, was driven ashore during the gale of last week, and totally wrecked off Wimereux, with, unhappily, the loss of all on board. BISMARCK ON PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S MESSAGE. — The Nee Deutche Allgemeine Gazette, official organ of Von Bismarck, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prussia (says the Anglo-American Times), contains a vulgar attack upon President Johnson's Message, which is be lieved to have been inspired by the Autocrat himself. The article referred to having previously alluded to the Message in contemptuous terms, says, " The same is bald, worthy of the puffery of Barnum, and is better suited to the lan guage of an emigration agent than the chief of a great state." This senseless and unjust article has been read throughout Germany with surprise and indignation. We trust that .the worthy American Minister at Berlin, Governor Wright, may before long have an opportunity of teaching Von Bismarck a little of much-needed *r tesy and consideration for the Chief Magistrate of the great Republic, and that he may learn from him that, in dealing with the United States, he has a nation stronger than any Power .he would like to quarrel with. In a very different spirit the non-official portion of the Staats Anzeiger of Wednesday contained an article upon the United States, in which it characterised President JOHNSON'S Message as eminently conservative, and laid stress upon the continued friendly relations between Prussia and the United States. It then continues : "Institutions often called into question, and which would not be suitable for Europe, have proved their stability in America. Notwithstanding an unprecedented expenditure and the interruption of labour and trade, the American Government, which in four years placed two millions and a half of men in the field, has in about as many months been able to reduce its army to one-fifth of its former strength. Some of the journals friendly to the Govern ment, but improperly regarded as Government organs, have not failed to express precipitate And unjust opinions upon President Johnson's Message," American Trade. Subjoined is a statement, prepared by Messrs. Guion and Co., of Liverpool; showing the extent of our consign- Ments of goods to America during the year 1865. It wil be seen that during the past six months they were not only four times the amount of those of,the corresponding half of last year, but were considerably in exces s ev e n o f th ose of the corresponding period of 1860, while the importance of this excess is in the latter instance much increased by the intervening advance in price here and in the rates of Customs' duties in the United States : EXPORTS FROM LIVERPOOL OF BRITISH MANUFACTURES OF COTTON, WOOL, SILK, AXE) FLAX, TO NEW YORK BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW ORLEANS IN PACKAGES. 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 --- January 23,449 17,-136 14,381 12,622 16,669 6,73 February- 15,762 7,324 12,742 12,631 16,125 9,921 March 14,153 10,699 9,228 13,078 13054 4 10,362 Apr'l May Julio Ist 6 mths 103,669 42,126 58,867 60,200 80,569 52,125 -- - July August Sept. 13,641 4,451 11,176 12,468 4,361 20,431 October 14,830 6,990 10,950 11,520 4,234 24,855 November 17,598 .6,602 8,496 13,520 3,602 25,812 December 20,992 5,904 10,651 15,164 5,414 26,098 • 2d G mths 111,172 30,792 69,716 74,075 34,138 131,801 - - 7 - - An. totals 214,841 172,913 128,583 134,281 114,707 183,930 EXPORTS FROM LIVEP.POO: STUFFS, LACES, AND BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA PACKAGES. IL OP FOREIGN SILKS, DRESS, EMBROIDERY, TO Ntw YORK, k, AND NEW ORLEANS IN 1860 I 1861 5,110, 2,524' 1,245 1,120 1,9291 1,042; 12,9701 12,794 1893.: 5,185 1862 1863 January February March .. April May June Ist 6 mths July August Sept. October November December 2,200 , , 3,055 9351 2,570 1,328! 1,677 , 1549! 2,068 2,111. 2,348 2d 6 mths An. totals 20,824 1 38,960 10,0161 17,209 22,936' 30,003 21,23 S 36,095 'ion. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day. LONDON, Jan. 16.—Wind this day at noon —South.. Westerly; moderate ,breeze,.. and cloudy weather, .with rain. YARMOUTH, Jan. 15.--Wind S.T.—Arrived—lvanhoe, from London for Demerara, haing lost stanchions, cut water, &c. COWES, Jan, 14.--Wiird S.W.- - Arriveci—Olkf, from London for Cardiff.: NEWPORT; Dec. 1.5.-:—Wind Balls, from Bristol for Corfu. • i6oL, Jan. - 14.—Wind S.W.—_Arrived—Olinda, fro i m Pernambuc6 ; OntariO, from New York. ' Sailed Wanata, for Ardlbourne. PIA - mount, Jan. 15 Wind- S.W.—Arrived—Helennt Nicolatff, from Limerick. 16 ' 663 6 ' 735 The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up - 16,125 9,921 13,031 10,362 to' the 31st December, are in round figures as 9,695 6,716 under:— ' '• ' 11,837 7,423 13,269 10,969 1866. 1865. ._ Great Western ... £62,580 £60,946 123 1 North Western •.• 102;645 • 96,396 _ South Western 21,017 19 , 893 ,708 Bright on ..• 19,373 17,230 ,850 Midland ... ••• ••• ... 41,155 38,888 431 South Eastern ... 19,640 18,220 355 Great Northern ... ."33,103 32,643 ./2 Lancashire and York s hi re 40 , 70 9 35,680 ,098 Bristol an d E xe t er ... ••• ... 5 ,558 5,414 -- North Easter n . 60;931 55;818 804 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 17,852 15,347 London, Chatham, and Dover ... 7,729 6,567 These returns,, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, generally show an increase in the receipts of most of the principal lines. On the Great Western it amounts to £1,640; North Western, £6,249 ; South-Western, £1,124 ; - Brighton, £1,234 ; Midland, £3,267 ; South )5 Eastern, £1,420 ; Great Northern, £469 ; Lanca -527 shire and Yorkshire, £5,029 ; Bristol and Exeter, ' 345 £144 ; North Eastern, £5,113 ; M anc h ester, Shef ,s4s ,646 field, and Lincoln, £2,505; and London, Chatham, ,428 755 and Dover, £1,162. , FRANCE AND MExICO.-We have heard on autho ,246 rity, Which we regard as reliable, that the Emperor of the - - French has positively intimated to the Cabinet of Wash ,lol ington his willingness to withdraw his troops from Mexico ,921 at any moment on condition that the Government of the 438 United States recognises the Empire of Mexico. 952 103 THE LIFEBOAT CALA MITY OFF GO R L STONE.- Th e salvage lifeboat which unhappily capsized off Gorlstone on 335 the 13th inst. is in no way connected with the National Lifeboat Institution, nor is the boat a self-righting one. ,581 There are four of these large salvage boats on the coasts of - Norfolk and Suffolk, and one at Margate. They belong to the boatmen themselves, and are constantly engaged in saving property. Two of them have during the past week capsized, the one at Gorlstone with a fearful loss of life. Nearly all the 153 boats of the National Lifeboat Institu tion aro self-righting boats, and are specially used in sav ing life in cases of shipwreck. The Megra, screw storeship, Commander Mon tagu. B. Dunn, has sailed from Portsmouth for. Woolwich and Deptford, to load with stores for Rio Janeiro and the West Coast of Africa. The Medusa, paddle steamer, Master-Commander Thomas Potter, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Devonport, with the screw frigate Imperieuse, in tow. The first of the amour plates manufactured for he double-screw frigate Penelope was tested in the proof-room of the Thunderer on Friday, in Por chester Creek, near Portsmouth. The plate was 6in. in thickness, and was supplied from the roll ing mills of C. Cammell and Co., Sheffield. The Penelope is a vessel of 1,758 tons, will carry 14 ton guns in a central battery, and will be fitted with en gines of the collective nominal power of 600 horses, driving two independently working screws. She is building at Pembroke, from the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, chief constructor of the navy. The adoption of the double screwprinciple in her Majesty's navy, and its application to ships of considerable tonnage, such as the Penelope, is a measure of great importance in its relation to the arguments for and against revolving turrets. Capt. Itobt. Hall, R.N., at present private secre tary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, will in all probability succeed Capt. Wm. Loring, C. 8., as Captain Superintendent of the Pembroke dockyard. Capt. Loring, who is now senior captain in the fleet, and also aide-de-camp to the Queen, will vacate both appointments on promotion. The following vessels are now in course of build ing at Pembroke dockyard:—The Daphne, 4 gun screw sloop; the Nassau, 4 gun screw vessel; the Newport, 5 gun screw vessel; and the Penelope, 10 gun iron clad double ram. Orders have been received at Chatham garrison, directing No. 3 battery of the Royal Artillery, Depot Brigade, to proceed from headquarters to-morrow to Shoeburyness, where the officers and men arc to undergo an extended course of gunnery instruction previously to embarking for colonial service. Capt. F. M. H. Somerset, who has succeeded Col. J. F. M. Browne, C. 8., at the Royal establish ment, Chatham, on the removal of the latter officer to the Horse Guards, has joined at headquarters, and has been granted leave of absence until the end of the month. Mr. M. J. P. Knight and Mr. P. J. C. Flynn, Deputy Assist.-Superintendent of Stores at the Tower, are under orders from the War Department to hold themselves in readiness to take their depar ture for Hongkong. The instruction class of the de partment at. headquarters, Woolwich, who have completed their course of practice at Waltham Abbey in the manufacture of powder, are ordered to proceed this morning to the small arms manufactoryat Enfield. Mr. Wm. O. Chislett, Deputy Assist. -Commissary General, recently ordered home, on the expiration of his term of office in New Zealand, has been ap- pointed to the Curragh. Capt. M. De Courcy has been appointed to the Leander to relieve Rear-Admiral Harvey as'senior officer in the southern division of the Pacific station and will take command of the Leander on that occa. Capt. Thurburn was appointed on the 3d inst. to H.D.S. Wellesley, at Chatham, as commander. ' VALETTA, Jan. 7.---Her Majesty's screw cor vette Cossack, 20, Capt. R. D. White, hove in sight on the 3d inst., and entered port the following day from Boudroun. She left Boudroun on the 29th of December. The Surprise, 4, gunvessel, Com mander G. Tryon, left Malta on the 4th inst. for Cape Passaro, to assist the English bark Energy, on shore there. The Italian iron-clad San Martino, after being docked, left on the 4th inst. for Syracuse. The English yacht schooner Myth, Viscount Lis more, commander and owner, arrived on the same day from Cowes and Algiers, having also on board the lion. G. O. Callaghan and Mr. Oldham. Lieut. the Hon. li. B. Hamilton, of the Victoria, was tried on the 6th inst. by court-martial on board the lli hernia. The court was composed as follows—Capt. R. Coote, of the Gibraltar, president ; Capt. F. A. Campbell, of the Royal Oak ; Capt. G.Wodehouse, of the Meeanee ; Capt. R. J. J. G. Macdonald, of the Arethusa ; Capt. W. G. Chamberlain, of the Resistance ; Capt. R. D. White, of the Cossack ; Capt. the Hon. F. A. C. Foley, of the Caledonia ; (Capt. A. L. Mansell, of the Hydra, being ab sent on leave) ; Mr. F. J. Fegen, secretary to the commander-in-chief, officiating judge-advocate. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be dismissed his ship and to be deprived of one year's seniority. Before the same court was tried Thomas Fitzpatrick, private Royal Marines, for insubordi nation and striking a sergeant. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to ieceive 48 lashes and to be imprisoned for one year with hard labour. The sentence' of three months' imprisonment awarded to Lieut. and Adjt. Hammersley and Lieut. Swinny, Ist battalion 22d Regiment, for assaulting the police, has been remitted by the officer administering the government, at the prayer of the Archbishop of Malta, and of a number of respectable citizens who interceded in their behalf. A fatal accident occur- red on the Ist inst. on board the Arethusa to E. Lynn, captain of the mizentop, who fell from aloft. The following have arrived :—Ensign Ross, Lieut.- Col. Gubbins, Sir C. Van Straubenzee, Archbishop Polding, and Rev. Mr. Athy. The following have left :—Capt. A. B. Fyers, R.E. (appointed to Cey lon), Capt. A. bi‘Mechap, Commander D. Selby, yceastpetr.da. Macdonald for rrlllil,S leaves to-day for Corfu. R.N., Major Jervoise, R.E. , and Ca p t . Stewart, R.E. Her Majesty's gunboat Tyrian, 2, Lieut.- and t C h o e n f l r . i T ga . tle).ArMeutrlrmasYa„ left 05, Capt. The quotation of gold at Paris 15 about 1 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 26.174 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £1 17s. tOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gol , ils about 1-lith per cent, dearer in Paris than in Louden, 1864 I 181 6,029 3,394 2,212! 1,377 1,460 3,666, 18,136 3,613 4,030 2,098 2,068 3,052 5,763 1,175 2,722 1,531 2,017 2,505 2,841 2,760 2,93] 922 1,384 2,911 11,8601 3,301 3,708 1 3,834 3,729 2,563 7,097 5,662 4, 6,629 3, 4 ; 688 3, 4,742 2, 6,338 2, 7,031 4, 35,0901 21, 5,430 8, 1,409 8, 1,305 6, 1,759 13, 1,036 12, 1,967 12, 12,9061 62, 47,9961 83, "An English Merchant," in a letter to the Liverpool Post, says :—" The commercial community of this town have been somewhat astounded by the articles in the London Times of yesterday and to-day in reference to our trade with America. The Times inlulges in prognostications of a coming ciisis, owing to the large shipments of goods to America,, and which by implication the writer asserts the Americans cannot pay for ; and, to give plausibility to his version of the state of the account, he entirely ignores the largo shipment of cotton from the United States to Grc.lt BL:tain. Now, in yesterday's Times I find the following:—" The Cunard steamer this week has brought no spec:e, yet it is known that the shipments of goods to America, during the past as well as the pre ced.ng months, were on a scale larger than what has been witnessed for many years, while the receipts of produce thence have been singularly small." Now there can be no question that the shipments of goods to America during the past few months have been very large indeed; but it is also equally true that never at any other period were the Americans less indebted to this country for such goods, for, upon due inquiry from most of our principal firms connected with the United States, I find the same answer—" All our orders, extensive as they have been, have been remitted for by sterling bills when sending the orders." From what source o: information, therefore, does the Times derive its idea of rash and extravagant credits to the Americans ? Then the Times is again at sea as regards the shipments of produce from the United States to this country. In its articles of yesterday and to-day it has taken great pains to show that while we have been supplying the Americans with vast quantities of goods, which the exhausted stocks of the Southern States absolutely necessitated their taking, they, in return, have been send'ng us but small supplies of produce, and that even shipments of gold to this country have entirely. ceased. With a paper claieng such pre-am!nence of in formation, I cannot conceive what the editor has been contemplating when he entirely omits from his calcula tions the shipments of cotton the past three months from America to this country, which have been so large that at the present prices cm rent they are estimated at fu'ly thir teen million pounds sterling, a sufficient sum to exhaust the Bank of England if it had to be all paid for in gold. Perhaps the Tim"s writer AI , ill, after placing this £13,000,000 to the credit of the American nation, begin to think that as the whole estimated value of our shipments to the United States for the fist eleven months of 1865 was not more than about £16,000,000, after all the Ame rican people cannot be owing us so very much; and as it is also estimated that at present prices for cotton they will be able to spare us at least £18,000,000 worth morn of cot ton during this year, I think the feeling of panic which the Times is endeavouring to produce is quite unwar:anted by the true position of affairs. The Times speaks most deprecatingly as to the danger of the public of Europe in vesting Fa the United States 5-20 Bonds. Those who re member the warnings of the same paper bestowed upon the Germans when they were largely investing in them at 38 to 40, and which many English_buyers have since been glad to purchase from them at 68, will know how to appre ciate the warnings of the Times on financial questions. How the Times can perceive a coming rise in America in the rate of exchange, of 10, 20, or 30 per cent. with recent and prospective shipments of cotton from thence, of the value of £30,000,000 sterling, I am quite at a loss to con ceive. Now, throughout these and former articles in ,the Times there has been manifested a bitterness of feeling towards the American people and nation which is much to be deprecated ; more especially the flippant manner in which it insults a kindred nation, with whom: our business connections are of such gigantic proportions, by insinuating that they will repudiate their responsibilities, is in my opinion, unworthy of the Timm, and entitles the writer to the condemnation of all thoughtful, honourable men. How long will the public be led astray 14 a paper which so misleads them, and which the experience Of the past few years has fully proved to beunreliable ? A strong feeling is gradually setting in in that direction, and I think its once boasted power " for good or evil" is gradually becoming weaker. Apologising for trespassing so much upon your space, but which the importance of the subject demands, I conclude with the word I have heard to-day on 'Change from one of our old and respected merchants, respecting these articles in the Times—"l have lived long enough to know that by acting the opposite to wha the Times writes I am sure to do right." The Earl and Countess Granville are expected ,o leave town to-day for Walmer Castle, Kent. - The Earl and Countess of Listowel left town yesterday on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Man chester, at Kimbolton Castle, Hunts. The Earl of Chesterfield left town yesterday for Bretby Park, Derbyshire. Viscountess Dangan gave birth to a son on Sun day last. He r l a d ys hi p an d i n f a nt are going on very favourably. Lord Dunsany and Captain and Mrs. Coote have arrived at Brown's Hotel, Dover-street. ARRIVAL OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN OF SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN.—His Serene Highness Prince Cht;istian of Schleswig-Holstein arrived in England yesterday after noon. The Prince crossed the Channel from Calais in the London, Chatham, and Dover J' acket Com p an y's steam vessel Maid of Kent, ar riving at Dover at 3 .15 pan. Hi s serene highness, who was re ceived on landi ng by Capt a i n Bruce, R.N., and Lieut. Morgan, RN., on behalf of the packet company, was conducted to the Lord Warden Hotel. The Hon. Colonel 'larding° subsequently arrived by train at Dover and received the Prince, who remained during the night at the hot el, and will lea ve for Wind sor thi s morning. N.—We d eep l y re - DR. D. J. SIMPSO David James Simp son,gret to record the deat h of 111 r. D EA TH OF doc t or of medicine, eldest son of Professor Sir James Si m p s on, which took place at 52, Queen -street, Sun day, after a short i l ln ess. The condolence of on Sir same s's friends will not be the less sincere and heartfelt that they anticipated expressing their fee in r gs in a very different ma nner.—Edtnburgli Courant. CHARLES LAMB'S A UTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.— " Charles, born in the Inner Temple, 10 February, 1775. . . pensioned off 1825, after 33 years' service; is now a gentleman at large ; can remember few specialities in his life, except that he once caught a swallow flying (tate sita manu): below the middle stature stammers abominably, and is therefore more apt to discharge his occasional conversation in a quaint aphorism or a poor quibble than in set or edifying speeches ; has consequently been libelled with aiming at wit, which, as he told a dull fellow that charged him with it, is at least as good as aim ing at dulness. A small eater but not drinker ; confesses a partiality for the production of the juniper berry; was a great smoker of tobacco, but may be resembled to a volcano burnt out, emitting only now and then a casual puff. His true works are in Leadenhall-street, filling some hundred folios. In short, all his merits and demerits to set forth, would take to and of Mr. Upcott's book, and then not be told truly. He died —, 18—, much lamented. His queer spirit departed. Crude they are, I grant you a sort of unlicked incondite things, villanously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such : and better it is that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him. -~~ ng 1:1y or for Ye it rk, ;he si iat 10, n(I '0 tor )Icl st, its iet ter Si )st L,scl b us k 'Ol