The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-26 00:00:00

ar. ester- boric four (1 by ()Inv, Ltrice, Tants' tjesty the ?ing hou- )uck- a at- Pria co, at tho offi- Holy ) at- ents, ligh the ched nuLd ith ith 3 [lO 011 Ants ord oyal g at hike )ut.- hich lin- The r in man :ach r of bing ar the me, ess. bed one rs. rig of ed ed Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do• Account Do x 1( 13, NONEY MARKET AND COAIMEROI iL IN TELLIGENCZ, Two o'CLocx. Very little business has been going on to-day in the City, the attendance having been reduced to the minimum ; in fact, no engagements seem to have been made beyond those absolutely necessary. At Lloyds, the Jerusalem, and other centres of City commerce, the dealings entered into have been devoid of any special interest. At the Stock Exchange the transactions have been very limited, and many of the quotations have been depressed in consequence of the prevailing inactivity incidental to the midst of the holiday season. Con scls'are 894 j- for money, and 891 90 for the ac count. The New Threes and Reduced are 88k 89i ; Annuities, 1385, 12/ ; Exchequer Bills, 9s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1071 4 ; ditto Enfaced 6 per Cents., 1001 1; ditto 51 per cents., 105 1; and ditto Debentures, 1004. Foreign Stocks are very inactive and show slight decline. Turkish 5 per Cents. have receded 1, to 32k ; Mexican 1 7 to 181 ; Greek j, to 13k 14 ; Spanish Passive, however, remains firm, at 201 1 ; the Certificates, at 131 j ; Italian Stock has also fallen 1, to 554 I. The New Russian Loan Scrip continues•flrm, at I premium. In the Railway Share Market there is not much animation, the dealers being chiefly engaged with the liquidation ; in some instances, however, more firmness prevails. Midland and South- Eastern have each advanced 10s., and North Stafford, 1 ; while Great Northern have declined bs. ; London, Chatham, and Dover, and North-Western, each 1; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines are very quiet, and show no material alteration in values. American securities are rather heavy. United States 5-20 Bonds have declined i f to 72 Erie Shares remain at 46 47, while Illinois have advanced to 781 791. Bank shares are quiet at about former rates. Alliance are dealt in at 181 and Consolidated at 4/ f. In the Miscellaneous Market prices generally re. main steady. Anglo-American Telegraph are marked 151 16i ; Credit Foncier of England, 31 ; General Credit, 4f ; and National Discount Com pany, 141. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING:PRICES. Gc VERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Der Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 10 B9l 90 a por Cent. Reduced BB} 9} New 3 per Cent BB} 9} New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 .— Do. 5 per Cont. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 y rs , exp i re sth AprillBBs 124 Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug.,1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 9pm Do Do. £5OO )e II pm - - £lOO & £2OO „ Pill Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent ... INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Liman otock, 101 per Cent., Apri11874... Ditto for Account — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lO4 5 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent, Aug. 1873 Do. Bouds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO Pm Do. und er £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 Do Account — ~ Do. £lOO Bonds — zuenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do. Account Do .ClOO Bonds U .. DJ 2 pe p r Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) utlian 6 er Cent — Do. 8 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A — , Do. B — o Jlombian, 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 5 per Principalities Jo. Account r,quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant Do Deferred 6 SYptian 7 per Cent — Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 — Do £lOO Bonds B3l 8 Do. Government Railway Debentures B5 1 44 54 Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-b, ex Coupons 131 )o Account „ do. Coupons uuttetnala 5 per Cent. It i/ian 5 per Cent 1865 Do, Account Do. Maremmana Railway — 11 exicar 3 per Cent Do. Account Dn. 1864 l2l Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — A lontevidean 6 per Cent. . — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 3 per Cen Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) U eruvian 5 per Cont., 1865 no Account — Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent, 1862 P Do Account ortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 434 4 34 Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cont. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pox Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 no 5 per Cent. 1864 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid 864 1 Do. do. £lO paid Bardiuian 5 per Cent Q Do. Account 'Panish 3 per Cent Du Acccuut Do New Deferred 321 ~ Do Account Do Passive 2Ol Acc,unt — 'Panish Cert. of Coup not funded l3l t , Do Account — 'lvedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1861 Scrip, dis L urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 7B r , .dOO Bonds - 1- ' 0 6 per Cent. 1862 ,Do £lO3 B on d s 806 per Cent., 1863 _ 5 D o. A per Cccount ent., 1865 1) 0. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — Venezuela 3 per Cat. TWELVE O'CLOCK. There has been a fair inquiry for money in the open market this morning, and the rates charged for the negociation of first class paper range from 38 to 31 present. The shares of the Belgian Public Works Com pany have improved their price to 11 to 11 prem. The following are the latest prices of bullion from the list of Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid :—Bar gold, 77s 93 ; do. parting, 77s 104 d ; Spanish doubloons, 74s to 75s ; Mexican do. and South .Ame rican, 73s 9d to 74s ; United States Eagles, 76s 21d per standard ounce. Bar silver, 5s 01 id ; do. con taining gold (5 gr. and upwards), 5s lid ; Mexican dollars, 4s 11. d ; and cake silver, 5s sid per stan dard ounce. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures are steady at 54 56, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 41i 42. The directors of the North British Railway have issued a statement of the liabilities of the company at the end of July last, with a proposition as to the manner in which the emergency may be met. The liabilities amounted to £1,875,625, and this sum they propose to liquidate by the creation of a special preference stock with a dividend not exceed ing 5. per cent. per annum ; this stock to rank on the revenues of the company immediately after the interest on loans and dividends on debenture stocks. The directors consider that this is, under the cir cumstances, a fair and beneficial arrangement for all classes of the shareholders, and will not materially increase the burden upon revenue. They also indicate their intention, should circumstances warrant, of applying to Parliament for permission to postpone, vary, or abandon works already sanctioned, and of creating a lien over the revenues of such executed works as they may resolve to proceed with, which will give undoubted security to the parties furnishing the capital. Do Account - - Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do. G per Cent, 1864 Ditto 11 per . Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 pt. Cent., Ex. 10 Florins BAgian, 4 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch i per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull, Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. — Italian 3 per Cont. 1831, Ex. 25f. to. 5 per Cent. Accourt THREE O'CLOCK. 89f 89i 90 Consols, Money Do. Account, Jan. ~ Liverpool Cottoi Market—This Day. Market opens with a brisk demand. Sales pro• ably 13,000 bales or more. EX ` ) EDITION TO MAT £O-GR0330. AWFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE BRAZILIANS. Our readers will remember that newly two years ago a well-equipped Brazilian force started overland from Rio Janeiro to re-conquer from the Para guayans the province of Matto-Grosso. The ex pedition was fully supplied with provisions, moun tain artillery, &c., and accompanied by a corps of Engineers to effect a passage through the woods, mountains, &c., that intervened. The same journey was made by the Spaniards in the 17th century, but the present expedition found insuperable dif ficulties. At one time they were delayed two months in crossing a river Dot marked on any map, and the men were constantly occupied in killing enorrnow snakes, as will be seen from the first part of the diary over a year ago at Rio and reproduced in our columns. We now take from the Sly° the following melan choly account of the second year of the expedition : " A correspondence, dated August 14, from the banks of the Rio Dabaco, gives a most heart-rend ing account of the sufferings and privations of the expedition to Matto- Grosso. The soldiers, reduced to hunger and nakedness, died in great numbers and amid the most horrible sufferings; the first symptom was a swelling of the legs, after which the patient wore away and lost all strength. The prices for the commonest articles were exorbitant--a hard dollar for six sheets of letter paper, and ten dollars for a bottle of brandy. " The Paraguayans had evacuated Miranda, but kept all the roads guarded ; their forces still held the banks of the Aquidauna, and the following places :—Port Souza, Maria Dominguez, Taqua russu, Furquilha, and Nioac. " The Brazilians counted on assistance from the tribes of Guaycurues and Galdocos, who had been armed with Minie rifles. " It must be borne in mind that the Brazilians hare never lost possession of the capital, Cuyaba, but all the other important points, Curumba, Fort Coimbra, Olympo, &c., are in the power of the Paraguayans."—From the Standard of Buenos Ayres. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY TELEGRAPH. Gu.avEsExn, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 25 —Behrena,from Memel. Arrived, Dec. 26—Hannah, from Guernsey; Bleneatha, from Shanghai ; Eliza Forbes, from Dantzie ; Orion, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Holland, ;steamer, from Ostend, _ _ Sailed—Vigilant, steamer, for Calais ; Rosa Eliza, for Dieppe ; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne ; Sir R. Pee], steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anchored—Theusia, from London, for Buenos Ayres Elizabeth, from London, for Bathurst, UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRAYGEMENTS. Mails for the United States are made up in London every Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6 o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be posted half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day, by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning mails are taken by the Southampton steamers. Mails from the United States aro due in London on Mondays and Thursdays of each week. Periodical works nut of daily publication, issued in the shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates : —Not exceeding 2 oz., ld. ; above 2 oz., but not exceeding 3 oz., 6d.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16 ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more than 8 oz (even though it be not a periodical publication) nay be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon. This postage is only the British portion, a further sum being charged on delivery. The periodical works or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or books (except those specified above), addressed to the places above named, are liable to letter rate of postage. There must be no writing, or other marks upon such periodical works, pamphlets, &e., or upon the covers, ex cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing, except the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent and the names and. addresses of the senders Any other writing, &c., will render the paeketsliable to letter rates of postage, A POOR PARSON'S Roo3l.—lt was a wretched, poverty-stricken room. By degrees the carpet had dis appeared, which had been laid down some nine or ten years since, when they had first come to Hoggelstock, and which even then bad not been new. Now nothing but a poor frag ment of it remained in front of the fire-place. In the middle of the room there was a table which had once been largo ; but ono flap of it was gone altogether, and the other flap sloped grievously towards the floor, the weakness of old age having fallen into its legs. There wore two or three smaller tables about, but they stood propped against walls, thence obtaining a security which their own strength would not give them. At the further end of the roomthore was an ancient piece of furniture, which was always called "papa's secretary," at which Mr. Crawley customarily sat and wrote his sermons, and did all work that was done by him within his house. The man who had made it, some time in the last century, had intended it to be a locked guardian for domestic documents, and the receptacle for all that was most private in the house of some paterfamilias. But beneath the hands of Mr. Crawley it always stood open ; aud, with the exception of the small space at which he wrote, was covered with dogs-eared books, from nearly all of which the covers had disappeared. There were there two odd volumis of Euripides, a Greek Testament and Odyssey, a duodecimo Pindar, and a miniature Anacreon. There was half a Horace—the two first books of the Odes at the beginning, and the Do Arto Poetica at the end, hav ing disappeared. There was a little bit of a volume of Cicero, and there were Caesar's Commentaries, in two volumes, so stoutly bound that they had defied the com bined ill-usage of time and the Crawley family. All these were piled upon the secretary, with many others—odd volumes of sermons and the like; but the Greek and Latin lay at the top, and showed signs of most frequent use. There was one arm-chair in the room—a Windsor chair, as such used to be called, made soft by an old cushion in the back, in which Mr. Crawley sat when both he and his wife were in the room, and Mrs. Crawley when he was absent. And there was an old horsehair sofa—now almost denuded of its horsehair—but that, like the tables, required the assistance of a friendly wall. Then there was half a dozen of other chairs—all of different sorts—and they completed the furniture of the room. It was not such a room as one would wish to see inhabited by a beneficed le rgyman of the Church of England; but they who know what money will do and what it will not will understand how easily a man with a family and with £l3O a year may be brought to the need of inhabiting such a chamber,— The Last Chronicle of Barset. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Boxing-day is invariably great with the holiday folk at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, and on the present occasion it has lost none of its hitherto universal great popularity. Visitors have been pouring in since its opening this morning, and we feel convinced that all are well pleased with the " thousand and one" objects which are to be seen in the various galleries of the exhibition. The life-size portrait models of our kings and queens, from the Norman monarch to that of her present most gracious Majesty, appear to at li - tract no small amount of interest. The costumes of the figures having been carefully studied front illuminated manuscripts, and the effigies in the tombs in the cathedrals in which their remains were interred. Every visitor is recommended to purchase a catalogue, which contains an ample explanation of the exhibition, and which will be found to be an excellent guide to the study of English history. TIIE FISHERY CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENoLAND.—The International Commission to revise the Fishery Convention between France and England will meat this week in Paris. Tho commissioners for England are the Right Hon. Stephen Cava, M.P., Vico President of the Board of Trado ; Air, G. Shaw Lefevre, M,P. (of the late Deep Sea Visheries ,Commission); Mr. H. Goulburn, of the Customs ; and Captain Hove, R.N., Naval Attach at Paris. CoNsoLATioN.—When Lord Cockburn was at the bar he once defended a prisoner who, in spite of his exertions, was sentenced to b hanged on the 17th of the month. After the sentence the condemned man com plained to his counsel that he had not had justice. " Never mind (said Cockburn), you'll have it on the 17th." THE SUN, LONLON, WEDNESuAY Ev ENING, DECEMBER 26, 1866. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. MARLBOROCG 11-STREET. OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT BY FOREIGNERS.—CharIes Turen, waiter, and Rudolph Stauffer, cook, at Epitaux's Restau rant, Pall Mall, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting Win. Hams, a cab driver, badge 10,402 ; and Turen was further charged with assaulting Augustus Giovanelli, a cab driver, badge 14,475. Wm. Hams said that on the previous night ho brought the prisoner from the Borough to the end of the Hay market, and on asking for his fare Stauffer seized him by the whiskers, and pushed him down and trampled and jumped on him, and Turen violently kicked him, and but for assistance coming ho believed he would have been Augustus Giovanelli said that he saw the prisoner kick ing the last witness, and bumping his head on tho pave ment. Ho went . ap and told them that it was scandalous to beat a man in such a way, when the prisoner let go of Hams and turned upon him (witness), Turen seizing him by the throat with one hand, and catching hold of his hair and forcing his head back with the other. He at last got away, and went behind a cab so that the prisoner should not see him, when they came after him and kicked him violently, and Turen seized him by the comforter he was wearing so tightly that he was nearly choked. Ho called to the bystanders to release him, and at last a female came out of Epitaux's and unfastened his comforter, and ho was thus able to get away from Turen. The prisoners then got him down, and again ill-used him. He believed if be had not interfered on behalf of Hams that that Hams could have been killed. Mr. John Elson, of Chester-street, Kennington, and a gentleman residing in the Brompton-road, both spoke of the prisoner's conduct as being of the most violent description, stating it as his belief that if the bystanders had not interfered Hams would have been killed. Stauffer said that he offered Hams his fare and he would not take it. Hams said that was not true. Turen said that Giovanelli attacked him first. Giovanelli said that he had done nothing of the kind. He merely said, " Don't abuse the poor old man," and then the prisoners attacked him. _ Dixon, 226 C, proved taking the prisoners who were drunk into custody. The only answer the prisoners made to the charge was that they had been drinking. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners for two months' each with hard labour, remarking that such assaults would never be passed over. A NIGHT CAB-HORSE.---Alfred Sims, cab proprietor of Savoy-wharf, Strand, appeared to answer the complaint the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cru e lty t o of causing a horse to be tortured by b e i ng wor k e d Anima;a, while in an uni:: state. On a former day, a ;:an in the defendant's employ was fined 20s. for driving a h 2rse which was in a most wretched condition, having severa:.sores on it, and which it appeared was only brought out at nig:: t Sell, officer of the Society, said that, on asLing the de fendant why he worked the horse, he said he knew w a s lame, but that he only worked it occasionally. The defendant handed up a card showing that he had the horse killed. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that, having soon the condition of tho horse, ho considered it a bad case, and fined the de fendant 20s. and costs. THAMES. A VIOLENT AND lINDI:TIFUL SON.—Dennis Lyons, a young man, barman and manager in the service of Mrs. Bridget Lyons, his mother, who is the landlady of the George and Vulture public-house, Wapping-wall, Lower Shadwell, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk and disorderly, assaulting his mother, and kicking two police constables. Mrs. Lyons, a widow, said she did not wish to press the charge against her son, who was tipsy when ho struck her, and was very sorry for what ho had done. Mr. Partridge asked the complainant where her son had struck her, to which she replied, " On the head," and that ho wanted to take the liquor out of the bar to treat his friends. She would not allow him to do so, and pushed hire out of the bar. He was then very violent, and struck her. She begged to withdraw the charge. Police-constable No. 347 K said he was called upon at a quarter-past five o'clock on Christmas morning to take the prisoner into custody. The prisoner was drunk and threat ened to kill his mother. He requested the prisoner to leave the house and come with him. The prisoner refused to do so, and said, " You are not the man to take me." The prisoner made use of many threats and bad language, and called for a knife. Ile seized the prisoner, who said, "I'll see whether you will take me out or not," and kicked him on the lower part of the stomach. He called a Thames police-constable to his aid, and the prisoner struck the policeman in the lower part of his body and hurt him very much. The prisoner said ho was very sorry for what he done• Ho had never been placed in such a position before, and would take care this did not happen again. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had conducted himself in a very disgraceful manner, and ho did not wonder at his striking the policeman after the brutal assault on his mother. Ho was almost disposed to send the prisoner to gaol without the option of paying a fine, but as the peni tence of the youth appeared to be sincere he should inflict a fine of 40s, for the assault on the two police constables. Mrs. Lyons paid the fine and liberated her son, who spent his Christmas-day in a police cell. 3 DARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY 1311A.RES AND STOCKS. - 8 St 1 , 8 12a 40 15 4 6 e 6 63 ;0 72 1 , 4 116 27 28 5 1!.7 126 /2" 00 02 Gil 62; 30 3i 3) 35 126} 127 81 87 11 161 10 20 11111 1181 81 t 3 48 60 121 12 6 2 p 10 11 84 86 ini 122 2 1 9J )2 35 36 .4 18 105 1.7 65 07 98 9.1 34 35 1 1 9 10 p 116 /20 1 2p 1 2p 70 72 114 118 148 152 42 44 (35 d 5 8 100 153 3 4 -...•- : :J 5 } 3 1151 82 3 501 0 124 k 5 1221 f 661 1 1 7 11.0 100 100 all 100 100 XLEN r aid ) Closing Business Price. I dens. Share Rail way . f ristol anti /6(eter Caledonian k.:a brian ..... Jork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth,& A b.Junc E. London, acrip Certi I Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great i'., ,4 artrn, Ord. stk. Do. ITh. 2 Great North of Scotland! Great Northern DJ. A 5t0ck...... Pc. if stack Do. N tn. at 25 pc (It S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original! D. S. Val. Rail gua Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxforo Do. NeWport Do. Hereford. Lane ishire & Yorkshire London and Blackwal! Lou., Brigh., & S Coast 'Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lun. & N orth Western I Lon. & South Western IMan., Sher., & Lincoln Nletropolitan Do. New Do. Extension Metropolitan District Do. do. do. 20 st st 100 Do. and St. John'aW'cl Hidiand Do. £9 Share DO. /Wrath . Darby Kent . . North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. .N th. Eastern—Berwich Do. G.N*E Do. Leeds Do. York Du, Carlisle ..... Do. Stook. s& Darling. Do. do. 1600-01 North London Do. do. 1864 5 ..... Do. do. 18E6 North Staffordshire N. &S. W. Junction ' Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. stJok Shropshire Union South Devon -south E .stern . taines, Wok., & Wok fair Vale Do. C Vale of Neatli .Waterford Kilkenny Waterloo & Wlißeba West Cornwall BRITISH I' :antic & St. LaWrenc.:7 Baroda, gu. 5 per cent Do. F shares Buffalo ct Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff., Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 1 Calcutta .5; S. 16., :az e Town Dock, gu.l Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian , gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension ;rand Trunkof Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonds. Do. do. deterred ... Do. 3d Pref. stook... Do. do. deferred ... Do. 4th Pref. stook . Do. do. deterred ... ;Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. . co. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. C South of India gua. 5 per cent D . if per cent.— Do . . treat Wes. of Canada.. Da. New .. Do. 6 p. a Bus. pay. 1873 Do. 5) du. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension 31elb. Cor. 6 p. c. Ends. Mel. dz, Hudson's Bay.. N. 111.0'da, 6pc latpf.bs Scinde .. Do. Delhi Do. do .l 4 Do. Pan;aub.... Do.lndua St.Flot COLONIAL GO VER British Columbia,6 per cent., Deo. 31, 1872: Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja. Jc. July 1877-64 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. St Aug.. I D,. 5 p. C. Mar. & Sept,' Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p c. inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.& Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do 1680-9,) Do. Jau.StJuly, 18V0-91 Do. 5 per ceut. 15 April and II Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 Do. 1878, do .11anritium, 6 p. o, 1873,1 Jan. and July Do. 1878 . )o. 1881, May 15, Nov. it, Do. 180, Feb. ,t Aug.. Natal , iov. 6 per cent.. N. 8.G0v.6 uly N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 New Zealand, 6 p. cent 1 Do. 5 per cent.... ... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c 1 sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 5. Aus.Gov. 6 p.o 1868-9 1 Do. 1878 do upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja July 1 Do. do, April & Oct 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 , SSE, 100 titiO 5 100 100 BRITIS ICam. Congo'. Gold, Um rqiverton Clifford Amalgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradori East Carn Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L xey, limited Great South Tolgus "rent Wheal Busy 11. Wheal Vor (heist. U renville if erod's Foot .... llingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley uwyndy Iron Ore, Mtn' VevSeton North Roskear V. WWI Bassett(lllogan, North Wheal Crotty Prosper Providence ,Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow s.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, lim West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (L lskeard West Chirerton West Setou ►Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney II MINES. 2.1.0 294 2.14.0 31 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8. L all 0.14.6 11.9.6 11 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.6 584 5.17.0, 6 74 51 6i 405 415 16 20 5 6 2 3 2 3 9 10 21 2f 5 6 17 13 15 16 11 14 30 32 21 31 2 4 31 41 21 lid 35 45 , 2 1 21 3i 21 26 300 320 ti 18 22 1 2 9 10 i 14 12 14 54 56 115 125 65 75 13 20 10 12 135 145 7 9 rICIGFICKENCX tikIAKICS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 110 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gun. 7 per cent., 2} Recite and San Franciscl, Inn., gua. 7 per cent., 11 FOILEIGIS MINES. St. John d 4.1 Rey, lim., 4 BANKS. Alliance, 11 rn.. 282 Chartered Bank oi India, Australia. and China. 16 Chartered 4er. of India, London, and China, 34/ City, 141 15 'onsolidated Bank, lim., 4i f Imperial Ottoman, Um., 9} k I London and River Plate, Ditto, issued at 1 j pm., Ditto, ditto, 8} London and Couuty, 631 London and estminster, 98 Union of London, 141 MISCELLANEOVE. Anglo-American Telegraph, 15i t Atlantic Telegraph, Dit o, 8 per cent., 72i Berlin Water Works, Him, 111 Credit Fonder of Eng Jana. lim . East Indian Land Credit and Finance, Um., 2/ Ebbw Vale, ;02 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lim., Electric Telegraph, 138 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Ilm., 41 Home and C &MAI A Militant% 14 Imperial Land Company ft Marßellies, lim. , 21 Italian trrlgratiOn (Canal Cavour;, 7 ) London Financial Association, lim,. 94 London General Omnibus Company, lim, .?1 lintional Discount (,ornpany. 14t Ocean Marine Insuranc(), 201 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 641 Rio de Janeiro City lintitoOtilents, Viceroy of 14;07 fr ,, ,tcra"a 741 THE CHRISTMAS TREE. --The Christmas tree is at home in the Teutonic countries of the north--that is to say, in the Protestant ecOntrits df thithanY—whereas in the C-tilholio parts of south Germany it is an utter Strlttiger, or only known by name, or an artificial importa tion. It is needless to dwell on the beautiful meaning of the Christmas tree, which represents, as it wore, the love of the now-born Saviour for all infancy and childhood. Christ being at the time of the year an infant himself, yet superior in wisdom and charity to men of all ages and times of life, bestows His gifts first on the little innocents. The Christmrs tree should always bo a sapling of the fir or the tanners, the evergreen leaves (Germans call them needles) of which form a charming contrast to the snow of the season, and, moreover, point to the eternal freshness and youth of the Christian faith. By a monstrous pervorsityof feeling, Christmas trees have in modern times been manu factured ; indeed instead of being taken from the living wood, they have been made of cast iron, hollowed out and filled with gas —a vile idea, worthy of Brummagem, not of Birmingham ; in fact, worthy of the degenerate race of dry money-makers, not of ciTilised and genial Christians.— Gardener's Magazine. _ ,SIONS. 50 55 102 103 Id *p 4 48 78 88 50 55 101 103 101 11:3 105 106 18 20 85 88 57 69 50 51 50 51 37 40 23 25 MS 107 1p it 1u 100 102 91 93 111 121 12 121 F 8 82 81 8.1 lt 101 102 103 92 94 85 90 82 *5 9') 101 97 98 1 1 1 98 99 7 SECU. 93 94 90 92 90 92 77 78 75 77 104 106 103 105 102 101 104 106 88 ?0 ICO W 2 1(4 ILO 105 107 104 108 105 107 (CO 108 90 100 SOO 92 90 92 90 05 81 87 98 100 Si 88 96 9S 92 Of 106 108 103 101 103 i 1061 181 121 It 1021 9} k ITIES. 981 7 86i a WESTMINSTER. " CHROMAS SER-iNa."—Rosina Keefe, aged 15, and Martha Eastwood, aged 13, two humbly but well-clad looking girls, were charged with begging. John Conner, 164 B, said that on Christmas-eve ho eaw the prisoners go to different houses in the New Kings road, Chelsea, and sing, after which they received money. They then went inside a gate and began to sing at the door of the house. Some person belonging to the house came out and requested them to go away, when they refused the prisoner Keefe declaring that they would not leave until "they brought them out some of their strong beer.' This they declined to do, and complainant was then taken into custody for bogging. Keefe—We did not ask for nothing, and it was Christ mas time. Mr. Selfe--Yes ; you wanted strong beer to be brought out; how was that ? Keefe —'We was a-singing Christmas carols; that was all, They was only "a Christmas ser-ing," your worship exclaimed a sturdy female hawker, the mother of Keefe. There's no harm on Christmas ser-ing ; speak up, Rosins, for yourself. Rosina spoke up to declare her impression that she had been doing no wrong ; and the mothers of both girls echoed the same sentiment, declaring that it was a freak of their children without their knowledge, Tho girls were discharged, MARKETS.--.This day. MARK LANE. The fresh supply of English wheat was by no moans extensive, and its quality was only middling. As regards prices the trade ruled firm, but, owing to the limited at tendance of millers, the transactions were mach restricted. Foreign wheat, the show of which was tolerably good, moved off slowly, but at the full currencies of last week. Floating cargoes of grain were in limited request, never theless prices were fairly supported. The barley trade ruled quiet. Fine malting parcels, however, were held at full quotations, whilst grinding and distilling sorts were unaltered in value, Malt met a slow sale, at late rates, In oats, sales progressed slowly, and heated parcels were easier to purchase. The inquiry for beans was heavy, on former terms. No change took place in the value of peas, but the de mand for them was far from active, Flour was firm in price, with a limited business doing. SKIP 44111IVALS wEn, Wheat,Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 00 990 110 240 410 Irish Foreign 7 ) 5 70 440 15,510 660 sacks brie WHITECITAPEL. Largo supplies of meat are on sale, The trade is dull, at drooping prices. Per 81b. by the carcaso. Beef 3s Od to 4s Gd I Veal Mutton 3s 4d to 4s 10d Pork BOROUGH HOP. Owing to the holidays so little business is doing that prices are nominal. . ItiNGLAKE AND TODIABtN.—It may interest the public; military and Civil; Who are not beyond recollecting the War With ittiSsia of 1854-6, to know that the third volume of General Todleben's " History of the Siega of Sebastopol," and the third volume of Mr. Kinglake's "History of the French and British Alliance in the Crimea;" will appear in the CoUrse of next year, which is furthermore to bo illustrated by the Great Exhibition at Paris as the precursor, no doubt, of Armageddon.—Army and Nary Gazette. CII:RiSTMAS PRESENTS.—The great difficulty ex perienced in selecting suitable articles for presents will bo entirely obviated by visiting Parkins and Lotto's extensive show-room; where may bA seen by far the largest stock in Europe of articles of excellent taste and workmanship, at very moderate prices, comprising portrait albums, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, de spatch boxes, envolo o eases and blotting books, card trays, work boxes, glove and trinket boxes, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, purses, pocket books, pencil cases, cigar cases, reticules, opera glasses, scent cases, smelling bottles, electro-gilt and elegantly mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services, in every variety of type and binding. A new department for indoor games of all kinds—bagatelle and billiard tables, all sizes ; musi cal boxes, tkc..; in fact, au endless variety of articles to suit every taste and purpose. Parkins and GOto, 24 and 25, Olfc.rd-street, W. The Burning of H. M. Steamer Berenice. (From the Bombay Times.) His Excellency the Governor's steam yacht May Frcre, under the command of Lieut. Arnott, arrived in Bombay Harbour on Nov. 24, from Bassadore, with the officers and crew of the steamer Berenice, which was burned in the Persian Gulf on Oct. 31. By arrival of the May Frere, which made one of the quickest passages from Kurrachee on record, we have obtained details of the destruction of the above named vessel, of which until now only telegraph intimation has been received. It appears that the Berenice left Bushire under the command of Lieut. Dawes on Oct. 29, for the southern part of the Persian Gulf, having on board Lieut.-Col. L. Pelly, the Political Resident of the Gulf, Mr. Hojel, the Assistant Resident, a party of the 21st Native Infantry, and the usual complement of officers and men, amounting in all to 178 persons. Early on the morning of Oct. 31, when the Bere nice was between Sheik Shaaib Island and Hinde rabi, smoke was observed issuing from the small hatch in the after part of the vessel which communi cated with the orlop deck. The circumstance was immediatly reported to the captain, and he at once adopted measures to ascertain its cause. The after hatch was raised, and a dense volume of stifling smoke arose through the opening, nearly choking those who stood around, and as the orlop was seen to be full of smoke it was thought to be useless to attempt going below to put out the fire. Mr. King, the third officer, however, did descend to the orlop to try to ascertain the position and extent of the fire, but was pulled out nearly stifled. He reported that he saw no flames, but thought that two ilin. coir hawsers, which were coiled away on the star board side of the orlop, were on fire ; and as the pungent choking fumes of the smoke seemed to con firm this belief, the hose of the ship's donkey engine, which had been brought aft, was directed to the spot where the hawsers were coiled, and fire parties were told off to work it and to throw water over the burn ing mass. By this time the smoke was rolling up the hatchway in dense volumes, and owing to its suffocating character it prevented any close ap proach to the scene of the fire. The after ports were lowered to prevent draught ; but as no person could go below to secure them inside, it was impossible to prevent the entrance of the air, more especially as it was foundLnecestary to keep the large ports open in order that the sailors employed in trying to sub due the fire might have a supply of fresh air. By :ome accident the first length of hose burst as it was being ...ttached to the engine, a n d was th us ren d ere d useless. A::other was obtained ; b u t, a lth oug h i t would fit the nozy:: s e of the engine, it wou ld no t fi t the deck screw, so that, the engine could at fi rs t ren der no service. Proper hose, however, was at length fitted, and the engine got to worn : but it was then of comparatively little use. Orders I;'ere given to flood the main deck, and strong parties of nzen were furnished with buckets to throw water, and thus try to put out the fire by another method. This work they performed very quickly, and in half an hour the port side of the main deck was flooded knee deep. The gunroom deck was then flooded in two P laces ) which were thought to be above the hawsers, and water was thrown in a constant stream upon the hawsers themselves as well as down the orlop hatch outside the maitt deck. The parties of men engaged in this work were under the command of Mr. Fisher, the first officer, and Mr. King the third officer; Mr. Norris, the second officer, remaining on the bridge to direct the steering of the ship. During the time the fire was raging, Mr. Young, the gunner, with a party of quartermasters, cleared the maga zine of its contents. All the cases of gunpowder, amount ing to about 2,000 rounds, wore brought up on deck and thrown overboard—a work which was performed in less than half an hour. Shortly after the fire was discovered, the engines were stopped, so as to cause a less draught oa board the burning vessel; but as the smoke became more dense than ever, Lieut. Dawes gave orders for the boats to be launched and dropped astern. This was accordingly done, and a quan tity of provisions placed in the first cutter for the use of the crews. Mrs. Shemmings, the wife of the chief engi neer; Mrs. Rozario, the wife of the agent at Bassa,dote ; three children and three ayahs, were placed in the lifeboat, which was also ordered to drop astern. When the fire first broke out the wind was blowing off shore, so that the Berenice could net be headed for the land, as the quartermasters could not see, an d could scarcely breathe in the dense clouds of smoke which were blown over them ; but in the course of half an hour the wind changed to seaward, and the ship was headed for the land. This change, of course, prevented the fire parties remain ing on the main deck in consequeace of the smoke, so the vessel was kept broadside to the wind for a time, and then again headed for the shore. It was necessary to proceed very slowly, however, as by going fast the suction-pipe of the hose was prevented from working. About eight o'clock in the morning, two hours after the fire was discovered, the smoke became much less dense ; the volume issuing through the hatch diminished until nothing but steam came up, and the fire parties were able to get into the saloon with hose and buckets. Hopes were for a time entertained that the fire had been extinguished, when sud denly a dull explosion was heard below and a jot of flame shot up through the skylight of the upper deck. In a very short space of time the smoke increased, a volume of flames rushed up through the skylight, and it was seen that all hope of saving the vessel was at an end. Orders were then issued for the mon to take to tho boats, and tho abandon- ment of the vessel commenced. The boats were hauled up to the gangways and under the bows ; and the ship's com pany—oicept some of the firemen and a party of tho 21st Native Infantry, who were on deck—wont on board in a most orderly manner. Some excuse may be found for the firemen, as they iis;! been kept below in the engine-room until the last moment, anc; n coming on deck they became panic-stricken at seeing the Brea„ rush of names, and scrambled into the boats as fast as poss ib le. As soon as the crow had got on board, the boats pulled off to a uLtance from the burning ship, except the largest gig,which was to carry the captain and officers. Before 'leaving they went round the lower and upper decks as far as they could got, to see that no one had been left behind; but as the fire by this time was making great progress, Lieutenant Dawes sent his officers into the gig, and went aft alone as far as the funnel. At that time the whole of the after part of the ship was in a blaze, so much so that from the spot whore he stood he could not see the wheel. 1.10 then went into the boat, and in about half an hour after leaving the flames had spread on all sides, and the ship was a burning mass from stem to stern. The boats, six in number, and containing 178 persons, then steered for land, and shortly after sunset the whole company landed in safety at the village of Luz, on Sheik Shaaib Island. On the following day, Nov. 1, Lieutenant Dawes procured a native vessel, and took them all to Nak hila, where they obtained some provisions and clothing. At that place the boats were left in charge of the second officer and a party of men, and on the 4th inst., the majo rity of the party went to Lingah. From that place the first officer was sent with telegrams to Mussendom, and on the 6th inst. the others arrived at Bassadore, where an addi- tional supply of clothing, &c., was procured. Tho tele gram reporting the disaster was received in Bombay on the 7th November, and Capt. Robinson, the superintendent of marine, with most commendable promptitude, de spatched the steamer May Frere to Lieut. Dawes' assist ance, with a plentiful supply of such stores as the crew were likely to want. The May Frere arrived at Bassadore on the 16th, embarked the officers and crew, and on the following day left for Bombay. The origin of the Are is merely a matter of conjecture. Under the hatch in the after-hold some bales of hemp which were used by the engineers, some coal baskets, and some iron casks containing oil, had been stowed a short time before the fire was discovered, and it is believed that the fire broke out there. It must have spread with won derful rapidity, as Lieut. Dawes was in and out of the after cabin several times between two and six o'clock on the morning of the 31st October, yet perceived no indica tions of fire. One of the officers, it is said, observed that the place near where the flames subsequently burst forth was very hot shortly before six o'clock, but nothing oc curred to excite suspicion until the smoke was seen com- ing up the hatch. We are glad to learn that all the officers, warrant officers, and European seamen greatly distinguished themselves on this trying occasion, Mr. Fisher, the first officer, who was on the sick list with fever, remained with the fire party all the time they wore engaged, except when superintending the hoisting out of the cutter, and continued for a long time in the stifling smoke which issued from the hatch pointing the hose of the fire engine. Mr. Norris, the second officer, and Mr. King, the third officer, rendered most effi c i e nt service. Mr. Shemmings, the chief engineer, remained in the engine-room along with the junior engi • nears uutil the time when, all hope of saving the ship b e ing lost, the order was passed to him to blow off the steam and come on deck. It is most satisfactory to know that not a single life *as lost—a result which is doubtless duo to the intrepidity and coolness of the Europeans, as well as to the judgment of Liont, Dawes in ordering the powder to be thrown overboard when tho flames had be gun to make headway ; for had the magazino caught fire, the consequence must have been ealatnitorfs. Government has directed a court of inquiry to assemble to investigate the circumstances connected with the out break of the fire. Cap taiu Sir James Anderson, of the Great Eastern. (Abridged from the Dun fries Standard). The commander of the Great Eastern was on Fri- day presented with the freedom of the town of Dum fries, his native place, in recognition of his great services in the successful laying of the Atlantic Cable. In the evening his fellow-citizens enter tained him to a banquet, the Provost in the chair, and Mr. M‘Diarmid of the Dumfries Courier crou pier. The gallant officer spoke modestly of his honours : " Mine," lie said, " was the opportunity, and still holding the command of that grand ship gives me ample reason for wearing my honours calmly. An error of judgment, or want of nerve that might re sult in damage to a ship so pre-eminently national, would go far to reverse my present position, and perhaps change your estimate of the man you now so highly honour. Yet it would have been bad taste, if not moral cowardice, to have declined the honour of knighthood, or this honour of public re cognition in my native town." (Loud cheers.) Of the great enterprise Sir James said— " We were supplied with everything of the kind and quantity we asked for, with as large a margin for contingencies as our experience and foresight could suggest. We only wanted one thing that we could not control, and that was a favourable season. This we did not get. (Hear, hear.) We had a constant recurrence of gales, fogs, and long high seas ; and one attempt after another was frustrated by such accidents as the breaking of a chain, the drawing of a splice, the driving pull of our ocean buoys, or with gales springing up after we had lowered our grapnels, and at times when we had hooked our prey and got it a mile away from its oozy bed ; until after thirty attempts over a period of 18 days, our 20 miles of strong grapnel line were twisted and shattered and reduced. The three ac companying ships were out of provisions, and one of them had to leave us for want of coals. It really seemed as if we were only wasting energy and ma terial, and the reflection would thrust itself on the minds of those of us who were responsible whether we were gratifying a personal tenacity of purpose or honestly doing our duty to the shareholders. Very little was ever said, and when we changed our ground it was still with strong hope and more frith than ever in its practicability ; but we felt that the season was far advanced, and that if we ever were to succeed it must be with such weather as we were having, and we placed our first buoy upon the new grappling ground while a gale was blowing and commenced grappling as soon as day broke. The interval betwixt this gale and the next—exactly 50 hours—was the only favourable opportunity we ever had, and we got the cable. (Great applause.) Three hours afterwards another gale had begun ; and I need hardly assure you that the feeling of gratifi- I cation was deepened into gratitude with the difficulty of the achievement, and our nearness. (Cheers.) Had no word of praise been offered us upon our arrival I should all my life have felt proud of having shared in an enterprise that required all the fore sfght, energy, and intense watchfulness of which all o f u g were capable. (Cheers.) Nor do I consider it a small privilege to have been associated with the talented men who have been engaged in construct ing that simple-looldng cable with all the appliances for placing it safely in its ocean bed ; and still more wonderful, perhaps, the talent required to make the electric spark carry the signal with such marvellous precision." (Cheers.) It appears that Captain Anderson is in his 42d year. He has been at sea since he was a lad of 16. In 1851 he joined the Cunard service, and has com manded successfully no fewer than fourteen steamers in the Mediterranean and Atlantic trades. Latterly he sailed in the China, and it was while in command of this vessel that he was selected to take part in the laying of the Atlantic cable. The gallant officer, we trust, will long enjoy his well-won honours. The Marine Steam Engine. The name of William Symington is known in connection with the history of steam locomotion by sea. He was born at Leadhills, in Scotland, in 1763. His father was a practical mechanic, who superintended the engines and machinery of the Mining Company at Wanlockhead, where one of Boulton and Watt's pumping engines 'was at work. Young Symington was of an ingenious turn from his boyhood ; and at an early period he seems to have conceived the idea of employing the steam engine to drive wheel carriages. His father and he worked together, and by the year 1786, when the son was only 23 years of age, they succeeded in completing a working model of a road locomotive. Mr. Meason, the manager of the mine, was so much pleased with the model, the merit, of which princi pally belonged to young Symington, that he sent him into Edinburgh for the purpose of exhibiting it before the scientific gentlemen of that city, in the hope that it might lead in some way to his future advancement in life. Mr. Meason allowed tim model to be exhibited at his house and invited many gentlemen of distinction to inspect it. But Symington's engine was not destined to be applied to road locomotion. He was completely diverted from employing it for that purpose by his connec tion with Mr. Miller, of Dalswinton, then engaged in experimenting on the application of mechanical power to the driving of his double paddle-boat. The power of men was first tried, but the labour was found too severe ; and when Mr. Miller went to see Symington's model, and informed the inventor of g his difficulty in obtaining a regular and e ff ec ti ve n n a o t w ar e av Hower for f driving nllof his o h w is n i boat, nvo invention—at once suggested Symington --his e Li— h' is mind his steam engL2. for the purpose. This suggestion was adopted, ana 11Ir. Mill er au th or i se d hi m t o proceed with the construction of a steam engine to be fitted into his double pleasure boat on Dalswinton Loch, where it was tried in October, 1782. This was followed by further experiments, which eventu ally led to the constru c ti on o f th e Charlotte Dundas, in 1801, which m ay b e regar d e d a s the first practic al steamboat ever built. Symington took out letters patent in the same year, securing the invention, or rather the novel combination of inventions, em bodied in his steamboat ; but he never succeeded in getting it introduced into practical use. From the date of completing his invention fortune seemed to run steadily against him. The Duke of Bridge water, who had ordered a number of Symington's steamboats for his canal, died, and his executors countermanded the order. Symington failed in in ducing any canal company to make trial of his in vention. Lord Dundas also took the Charlotte Dundas off the Forth and Clyde Canal, where she had been at work, and from that time the vessel was never more tried. Symington had no capital of his own to work upon, and he seems to have been un able to make friends among capitalists. The rest of his life was for the most part thrown away. To wards the close of it his principal haunt was Lon don, amidst whose vast population he was one of many waifs and strays. He succeeded in obtaining a grant of £lOO from the privy purse in 1824, and afterwards an annuity of £5O, but he did not live long to enjoy it, for he died in March, 1831, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Botolph, Ald gate, where there is not even a stone to mark the grave of the inventor of the first practicable steam boat.—Samuel Smiles in the Engineer. TILE RUMOUR OF LORD ST. LEONARDS' DEATH. The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday gives the following explanations of the false report of Lord St. Leonard?' death:—" The manner in which we were led into a parti cipation in circulating the statement will be understood on a perusal of the following letter which w e have received from a member of his lordship's family : —' Stapeley House, Nantwich, Doc, 22, 1866, —I led you into a mistake that I fell into about Lord St. Leonards' death. Oa arriving here just now I found that it was hireldestsou, ifenry Sugden, who was dead. The telegram misled •both my wife and myself, as it was from Miss Sugden (no direction) ' Papa died to-night.' We never thought of but one Miss Sugden.'" [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Low tempera ture, cold and changeable weather, is very apt to under mine the health unless the stomach is kept to its highest state of efficiency : Holloway's pills improve the appetite, and so promoto digestion that a large and strengthening supply of new material is thrown into the blood after every meal, whereby fresh vigour and activity aro bestowed on every organ, and ability to resist dis ease is- conferred on the system. Holloway' s pills thoroughly purify the blood when it has been tainted by fogs, unwholesome vapour, and all other impurities. No medicine equals these pills for removing biliousness, suppressing nausea, checking flatulency, and acting as mild and effective aperients, which aro alike suitable for either sex or age. 1 THIRD EDITION-. SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocs. THE GREAT ATLANTIC YACHT RACE, (By Electric Telegraph.) CWES, ec. 26 To-day the Roy a l Y ac h t Club fired a sal D . ute of 11 guns in honour of the yachts. The Ilenrietta manned yards and dipped her colours in man-of-war style. Commodore Al‘Vickar, of the New York Yacht Club, has arrived. Captain Bennett visitel ILJLS. Hector, and re turned thanks for the offers of facilities at Ports mouth Dockyard for repairs. The Henrietta needs none. Capt. Brown, secretary of the Royal Yacht Club, tendered to the American yaclismen the hospitality of the Clubhouse, which, inamedately on their ar rival, they gratefully accepted. SPOR EING INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1867. ;JANUARY. Manchester l FEBRUARY. Linarcolnro Spring H w MARCH. Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 I Lewes Sprin g ............ West Drayton l9 Croxtou Park ............ 29 Bromley APRIL. Northampton lt Windsor Spring 4 Durham .. ............... 22 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting G Newmarket Ist Spring.. 22 Newmarket Craven 8 Outten& Curragh MAY. _ Chester (continued) ... 1 I Harpenden York Spring 7 1 Epsom Summer Salisbury 9 Newton 29 Doncaster Spring Bath JUNE. , Ascot Summer 4 I Stockbridge l9 Windsor Summer Manchester Summer ... 12 1 Newcastle .... 25 Hampton l3 1 Curragh Odihain l7l Worcester Summer 27 Bibury Club lB lpswich . 27 ---- JULY. Carlisle 2 Down Royal Corporatn, 17 Newmarket July 2 I Stamford .................. 18 Pontefract Reading ..... 9 1 Winchester Liverpool July Meeting 10 I Southampton ........... Hungerford Nottingham July AUGUST. Goodwood (continued). 1 1 York August Ripon Brighton •• 6 West D rayton 22 Brighton Club 8 Plymouth..... 23 Lowes Egham ... . l3 Lichfield Wolverhampton l3 1 Derby Summer Stockton Oxford ..... 15 Tunbridge Hastings _ 20 ___. .._____ SEPTEMBER. Warwick Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon Doncaster Richmond l7 Hendon l9 Monmouth Manchester Autumn 25 Newmarket Ist October 24 25 • OCTOBER. Northampton Autumn. 1 Curragh I Edinburgh Autu mn ... 2 Newmarket Houghton . 21 Newmarket 2d October 7 I Worcester Autumn 22 C heltenham l5 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. T ANUARY. Manchester 1 FEBRUARY. Carmarthen 5 Harrow Spring . 21 Birmingham l2 Derby Windsor MARCH. Liverpool Spring Grand Military Chertaey Malton ..... 13 I APRIL. York Se venoaks Aston, Cheshiro Mr. Warwick COURSING. COURSING MEETINGS TO COME. DECEMBER. Name. Judge. Days of Running Coale, Lockerbie JANUARY, 1867. Huntingdon Club Mr. Warwick Lincolnshire, Holbeach Mr. Spafford Coole, co. Cork (Open) Third S. Lancashire, (South port (Open) Mr. Westropp 9, 10, 11 Spelthorne Club Mr. Warwick 9, 10, 11. Border Union (Longtown) Cumberland Mr. Warwick l5, 16 Barton-on-Humber, Lincoln. Mr. Spafford Altcar Club, Lancashire...... - Wigtonsh. Club (Stranraer) Mr. Boulton Little Crosby Mr. Welding County Louth Club, Ireland Mr. Spafford Ridgway Club, Lytham - 80 (tc. FEBRUARY. Raiford, Lancashire Cardiff Club • Mr. Warwick l4, 15 Waterloo, Lancashire... - Taniworth, Staffordshire ... Mr. Warwick 26, Ac. MARCII. Irish Grand National (Open), 6, 7 7, &c. county Loutn Ardrossan, Sharphill South Laueashiro (South port) Champion Mr. Westropp l4, 15, &c Leiuster (Op e n) Courtowa... Mr. IL Springsll l9, 20 Scottish o,,en, Lanarkshire - BLONDIN IN DUBLIN. —Suanders's News-Letter i says : --46 Among the attractions provided for the p u blic during the present week, the foremost position mu s t be assigned to the engagement of the truly celebrated Blondin by the directors of the Exhibition Palace. During the past 18 months Blondin has made a tour through Europe, earning golden opinions in the principal cities of France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. The most eloquent pens have been employed to record his achievements, but jao amount of praise has been beyond his extraordinary de serts. Iris courage, skill, agility, grace, and ingenuity have elicited the warmest encomiums, and he merits them all. " The hero of Niagara," a title awarded Blondin by the enthusiastic Americans, was fairly won, and every subse quent enterprise has only served to confirm the adven turous gymnast in his elevation. Blondin's performance does not constitute the only entertainment offered to the visitors of the Exhibition Palace. A. theatre has been fitted up for the exhibition of a series of tableaux, and a variety of dances by Madame Jarlini's automata, peculiarly suited to the holiday folk. An elaborate programme, now in circulation, gives the details of the uniqne representa tion; and we have little doubt that the comtinations of music, song, and Terpsichorean grouping will afford great delight to all class of visitors. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting M. Elie de Beaumont presented the academy with a copy of the work he hadconamunicated to that bodylast year, as our readers may recollect, on the numerical data fixing, on the surface of France and the adjacent countries, the inter sections of 29 great circles of the pentagonal network. This book was also accompanied with the six sheets of the geo logical map of France, another of the great works under taken many years ago by the distinguished perpetual secre tary of the academy, in conjunction with the late M. Dufeenoy. M. Elie de Beaumont on this occasion stated the remarkable fact that the two maps, the geological o ne and that containing the pentagonal network, being both executed on the same scale, coincided perfectly if one of them was applied on the other. A communication was re ceived from M. Dumour on the composition of the stone implements found in the Celtic monuments and among savage tribes. The substances ho considers aro amphibo lite, aphanite, diorite, saussurite, and sturotide, all minerals containing large proportions of snide, alumuia, and oxides of iron, besides other loss important ingredients. M. Paul Gervais wrote a paper on the fresh water fish of Algeria, stating that two genera more may be added to the list of seven which had hitherto been considered the only ones existing in that country. These genera are the Cobius and Coptodus, the latter of which alone is unknown to the rivers of Europe, and bears some resemblance to the Bola of the Nile. A series of 21 cryptogimic preparations, stated to represent different states of the Meralius lachryu :;l w te as d sent in by M. L eu b e , a G erman physiologist, who but on that all these specimens had grown, not wood,o t n helias forma stone, which is a sort of grit belonging accompanied to with a tion. M. Paulin sent in a dia gramrider m re a p y re m se a n s t te in r g h a is this bit the animal nheewrsesotPiraitspafrnbtliy, i b .u y .e m a ea se. n u s f of its which By a special contrivance attached to nostrils may nay this, by t i a t k s een res h p o i l r d ati o o f n, a w t i a ll s o e b e l o i n g d e ''' it n t o o tic s e t47l ECLIPSES IN 1807.—There will be four eclipses in the course of tho next year. 1. An annular eclipse of the sun, March 6, visible at Greenwich 8.17 a.m. 2. A putial eclipse of the moon, March 20, invisible at Greenwich. 8 A total eclipse of the sun, Aug. 29, invisible at Greenwich 4. A partial eclipse of the moon, Sept. 13, visible at Green wich, begins at 10 . 57 p.m.