The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-25 00:00:00

I. 1••••••` • ROE N OF g. 25. nce yes- 3 morn- g. 17. declared L change le more 'Threes, a frac- heir up present Shares, 23f. 75c• dvanced :.,ted by lf. 50c., market 69 -- 47 2 5 328 75 -. '-' -- 39 —: g 2a --.--- &cut. 16 25 7 )i 75 51 25 75 27 50 31 25 22 50 far. -day. iv, Ile' ?rin cog Sehles - lour of VALES ,day ire folk ycl gave Lcess of al yes less of re been royal of the tration )ssible, itinued Ileshall Dube ived in leir re- S.orfolk, hequer :hess of aes, Air• a nd a widenee friends e nant- Guards, rictoria r o f the Itorge'o Y r eel IThape l 7 friendo. of 07 m.P., t, itaiy, tteur 4 ; Awls; legit . occa- - - plans , 3eqlllll verY Jeria s, the ; Rtl ° ease one)" and ad parts, ar of s and bhera r per tained have pe w erfect the , i -for - P j e ce, Rittf . pa rto mor e vivid alio' , I s be T th ° C0 1 : 138 I,SiO MONEY MARKET AND coivarEnlAL INTELLIGENCE, Two o'CLocir. According to Reuter's telegram the French Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68f. 70c. Finn. The English Funds have been subjected to a decline of 1 per cent. through sales by parties who had bought upon the anticipation that the rate of discount would have been reduced to-day. A partial recovery, however, has since taken place, and Consols are now 1 per cent. less than they were last evening, viz., 861 87 for money, and 871 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 861 87 ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to ss. dis• ; and India 5 per Cents., 102 j. In the Foreign Stock Market quotations are generally lower. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 391 i ; Mexican, 21/ ; ditto New, 181 191; Greek, 131 14 ; Spanish Passive, 251 1; the Certificates, 13/ 1; Italian, 61/ 62 ; the Confederate Loan, 6 7 ; Brazilian Scrip, 1 prem.: and the Egyptian Railway Loan Scrip, 1 1 prem. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 661 1; Erie Shares, 55/ 56/ ; and Illinois, 75 1- Business in the Railway Share Market continues inactive, and in several instances prices are a shade lower. North Western and Metropolitan have each declined 155., North-Eastern (Berwick) 10s., and Great Eastern, Great Western, Lancaihire and Yorkshire, and Midland each ss. ; while Great Northern A Stock has improved 15s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain Without material variation. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain dull. City Bank are dealt in at 1021 104 ; London and Westminster at 961 ; Alliance at 26} 27 ; Hudson Bay Company at 161 i 1 ; London Financial at 171 ; National Discount Company at 151 161; and Overend, Gurney, and Co. at 201 201 ; L on d on Steam Towing Company are quoted 14 2 prem. ; Charles Lafitte and Co., 2/ 2/ prem. ; and Galatz Ca ndle Co., a f prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK GOVERNMENT FUNDS. ° Der Cent. Consols tPer Cent. Reduced 864 7 New ,, 87 6} 0 per Cent , 3 i per Cent. Jan. 1894 — . ' - ' 0 - 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 cinnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 D O . for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 -- 4 Chequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. — Do £5OO 6 Do £lOO and £2OO ... '' it hir of E ng l an d St oc k , 5 per Cent . — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 — Do Account — Do. 5 per Cent. J u ly, 1870 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent ° 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 D 0 .7, 5 i per Cent., May 1879 — '-'°. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO 1) 0. under £l,OOO lais FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. itrian Bonds,ent 5 per Cent, 1859 razilian 5 per C °. 4 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do _ _ Do. -,. . 1863 1865 Do A ccount zi pm -} ~. Do. crip, £25 pad ttenosS Ayres 6 per i Cent Do. Account , Do 1 p er C ent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) ullilian 6 per Cent.......... 993 Do. 43 p er Cent C olombian 6 per Cent Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 p O. 5 per Princi Cent.,a lities 1773-77, £25 paid t'aeub an , D o Account quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., P rov i sional Land Warrant ~, ' , gYptia n 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue _ Do £lOO Bonds 933 Do. (4 1. Do £lOO B on d s eek 1864 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons i .fo- Account -LP% Coupons Do. Accoimt 1. / t tlateinala per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent, 1865 .;!,0- Account , 'Jo. Maremmana Railway 6l i tXican 3 per Cent De. Account D. D o 1864 lB} o 6 per Cent. Anglo-French M4'o French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c oftevidean 6 per Cent., X3O paid ,rish Imperial 5 per Cent "(I,lr Granada ,u 0 Deferred t „s•uo b 'Jo Land Warrants (Hectares) . 0 , 6 A)er Cent, 1864 1),,--0 ! 4 uaranteed, 4 per Cent ' l Thrian 5 per Cent D T.O. Account 1) 4 ' 0 3 Per Cent. (Uribarren) —; .1, --° 4 1 per Cent., 1862 p .j 0 A cCOUnt °lll lgnes e 3 per Cent, 1853 -,,'"° 3 per Cent , 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, It .. , 0. Account . 45-} 4 D~} 118 an 5 p er C ent., 1822, £ St per Cent. 1850 43 Lo Cent., 1860 0 . 3 per Cent. 1859 t 5 Per C en t . 1862 8 5 4 Bard. —4 ° 5 Per C en t. 1864 ,mian 5 r C 1)0 XI.OO Ban 4 1 . 30 . 13 per Ce- ' . Jr Cent Pauish-3 Ditto per Cent per 41 I , i3 ° Nevr D e f erred — +Jo Account - _ _ ,s-ue Account "r,a4ish Cert. of Coup not funded 13 of Account 13a14 _ W i l e ctieh 4 per Cent. Tn — i ,.., ° ' 4 i per Cent. 1864 -„ -r44 811 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do•11-y.,0 Account . _ "`"° 6 Per Cent. 1858 — D ° Accourt# Dog Per Cent. 1862 — D ° 68} ccount 681 I 7n £lOO Bonds _ D ° , 6 Per Cent, 1863 _ ii" g Per Cent. 1865 b)--00°;ccricoPu' n4t35 paid ....., 391 . _ Velitzuel 1 Per Cent. Guarant ee d _ a 3 per Cent. -attst • A Dividends on the above payable in London. 8 Nal, par Cent. Ex. 10 Florins elgia4 I_ _- - P N „ , 7 n per cent., Ex. 25L bliilu antes 3 per Cent. — ' c D' ire‘ . Cent., Ex. 12 Gull — It•flio• I. per Cent. Certificates — Do 5 per Cent., 1.861, Ex. 25f. ''''o A ccount ........................... TWO O'CLOCK. ee ntsols for money .............. 86i 7 "). Account ....................................... 87 i • .........„,____::::: lot - Lverpool Cotton Market —This Day. -ket opens with A O bales, fair demand. Sales probably TWELVE O'CLOCK. The directors of the Bank of England have re frained from making any alteration to-day in the rate of discount. Athough the reserves of the esta blishment have been further increased during the 'week, and the value of money in the open market has been from to to 1 per cent. cheaper than at the Bank, the adverse state of the exchanges, and the still low figure of the reserves, must have influenced the author:ties to-day in abstaining for the present from initiating any downward movement. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :_.... 1866. 1865. Great Western ... £65,895 £63,284 North Western ... ... 101,106 95.579 South Western ... ... 20,816 19,413 _righton 16,765 15,596 -midand , . ... 48,977 46,364 South . Eastern Great N or th ern 19,982 19,827 ... 36,373 34,046 Lancashi re and Yorkshire ... ... 38,958 34,840 Bristol an d Exeter ...• ... 5,381 5,341 North Eastern ... ... 6,1814 59,049 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln •21,108 18,800 Great Eastern ... ... 31,152 33,131 London, Chatham, and Dover ... ... 7,140 6,827 These returns, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, generally show some satisfactory features. On the Great Western there is an increase of £2„611; on the North Western, £5,527 ; South Western, £1,403 ; Brighton, £469 ; Midland, £2,613 ; South Eastern, £155 ; Great Northern, £2,327 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, £4,118 ; Bristol and Exeter, £4O ; North Eastern, £2,765 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, £2,308; and London, Chatham, and Dover, £313 ; while the Great Eastern show a decrease of £1,979. The Yal SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Shs.rei Railways. /p ail ! Closing I Business Price. done. F D Bristol and Exeter st Caledonian st Cambrian •• • • SO Cork and 8and0n...... 10 Cornwall . st üblin & Belfast June. st un„Perth, & Ab.Junc. )0 E.London, scrip Certi. Do. !t Glasgow &S. Western it Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 4 Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 it Great North of Scotland it Great Northern 93 95 128 129 94 96 13 15 4f 5f 68 70 70 72 112 114 39 10 7 8 t DJ. A stock it Do. B stock '27 128 144 145 st Do. IN ew, is. at 25 pm st GtS, and W. of Ireland at Gt. Weste.n at D . Val. Rail gua. at Do. South Wales' at Do. NV. Mid.— Oxford at ffo. Newport at Do. Hereford 91 93 51 59, 39 41 34 87 101 , C 3 123 123 e b 9 91 101 103 36 38 is 1252 126} 93 95 (3 64 185 136 2} S p 1 lip 100 102 st Lanc.ishire&Yorkshirs st Ldndon and Blackwall st Lon., Brigh., & S Coast st Lon., Chat., and Dover st Do. Metrop. Ex. A.. st Lon. & North Western st Lon. & South Western st Man., Shet., & Lincoln et Metropolitan 10 Do. New 10 Do. Extension. 100 Metropolitan District. Do do. do. LO Do. and St. John'sW'd it Midland 9 Do. £9 Share it Do, Birmin.. Js Derby 5 Mid Kent . it North British 124 125 ii II 1 93 95 a Do. Ed., Pth , SE Dun. It Nth. Eastern—Berwiek Do. G.N•E purehm§e it Do. Leeds b 7 58 7 28 111 112 Do. York DG. Carlisle . 5 Pb. Stock. & Darling 5 Do. do. 1860-61 it North London 10 Do. do. 1864 10 Do. do. 1865 st North Staffordshire 10 N. &S. W. Junction st Scottish (kntral Bt Scot. N. E . Aber. stock st uo. Scot, Mid. stock It Shropshire Union it South Devon it South Kiatern :0 Staines, Wok., & Wok it Taff Vale Le Do. C ...... it Vale of . Neath It Waterford & Kilkenny 0 Waterloo & Whiteha 1. it West Cornwall BRITISH P ,00 Atlantic & St. Lawrence st ( Bom.,Baroda, .e Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent.. .. 20 Do. shares 20i Buffalo & Lake Huron 10 Do. Preference 00 Buff.,Bra,nt, & Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3-i st Calcutta it B. E., Rm st ~ape Town & Dock, gu 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi It East. Bengal, gu., sdo et East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 20 Do. J Extension st Grand Trunk of Canad % 00 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c DO Do. let Pref. Bonds DO Do. do. deferred DO Do. 2d Pref. Bonds DO Do. do. deferred DO Do. 3d Pref. stook. )0 Do. do. deferred )0 Do. 4th Pref. stock )0 Do. do. deterred Bt Gt. India Pen. gua. sn.c !A) Po. Gua. 5 per cent ! 0 Do. New gua. sp. c.. st Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent • ••• • • at D 41 per cent.... 81 Do 204 Great Wes. of Canada.. l 201 Do. New 00 Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay . 1873 00 00. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. 10 fndian Branch, limited at Madras, gua. 5 p.o st Do. 41 do st Do. 43 do N Do. Fifth Extension at Ifelb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. SO Mel. do Hudson's Bay at N. C'da, 6pc Ist pf. bs at Scinde it Do. Delhi :0 Do. do d at Do. Puniaub it Do.lndus St. Flo COLONIAL GO VER. British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Dec. 31,1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.,& J uly _ 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug.. Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1 )0.5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk Cape (x. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 vet., 1900 Ceylon, Nov_ 186 S, 6 13. c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1. , 78 00.1882, May 15, Nov. Do. 1895, Feb. di, Aug .Natal , ioy. 6 per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.ciz.l u 1) N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,lB6t‘ Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 187, Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 189.1 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-1- Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, A pril & Oct 72 73 105 106 36 37 10 11 p 123 /26 2 24p 2 24 76 77 IL 12 145 148 66 68 112 114 55 57 74 75 8 9 145 150 3 p i [Ol 103 49 61 :SSIONS. 66 69 99 103 ip 6i 6/ 10 11 75 80 96 98 60 70 100 102 100 101 ICO 102 31 36 87 89 67 69 57 62 57 59 52 67 46 50 42 46 31 36 33 35 100 102 IP 3 3 P 93 100 91 93 16i )44 42 ►4 84 36 1 4d 93 100 90 12 86 88 64 46 8 82 98 99 98 99 i a 1 98 99 T SECUIi 93 95 93 96 93 96 79 81 78 90 101 103 104 106 104 106 101 103 90 92 iol 103 104 1t.7 97 99 99i 100; 103 105 104 106 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. Conisol. Gold, Um - Chiverton - Clifford Amalgamated - Devon G. Cons. (Tavist - Drakewalls - East Bassett (Illogan) - East Caradon - East Cam Brea - East Grenville - East Gunnislake - East Lovell - E. W'l Russell (Tavisik - Gam.& StAubyn(G weu. 4 Great Laxey, limited - Great South Tolgus - Great Wheal Busy - G. Wheal Vor (Heist n - Grenville - Herod's Foot •••• - tlingston Downs ...... - Margaret (Uny Lelant - Marke Valley 4 aiwyndy Iron Ore, lira ' - New Se ton - North Roskear - N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty - Prosper United - Providence Uny Lelant - S. Caradon (St. Cleer) - South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. ( Illo gan -• Stray Park - Tin Croft 5 Vigra and Clogan, lim - West Bassett (Illogan - W. Caradon (Ltskeard - West Chiverton - West Seton - Wheal Bassett 'Mogan - Wheal Buller (Redruth - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. - Wheal Se ton Wheal Ttelawney tide 9 10 20 21 57J 590 1 18 20 8i 91 5i 51 3 34 1 11 1 i 12i 3 34 5 7 20 21 2 31 3 i 23 SI 31 40 42 5 1 5 1 5 7 4 4} 21 14d 40 50 13 15 1 2.1.0 29i 2.14.fi 31 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 li 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.6 37 39 410 43J 2 :8 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 3 4 8 10 80 83 190 290 95 1( 0 27 3) 3 5 2io 23 17 18 PREFERENCE SHARES. North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, 101 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, London Tilbury, and Southend,9Bl FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Belgian Eastern Junction, If South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 61 West Flanders, 6 4 per cent. pf., 91 FOREIGN MINE?. Anglo 'Brazilian Gold, limited. 3 Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 33 / 3 , Frontino and isolivia Gold. lim., it St. John del Rey, lim., 47 6 BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, Um., 551 Alliance, lim. , 27 61 Anglo Austrian, 61 Anglo Egyptian, 1im., r 123 Bank of otago, Um., 8 Bank of New Zealand, 173 I Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 231 3 City, 104 21 Consolidated Bank, lim., 101 Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 17 Imperial Bank, lim ,, 281 Ditto, new. 125 London Joint Stock, 49 London and 11 estminster, 961 Merchant Bank, lim., 263 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., 71 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. lim., 6 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim., 58 Canada Company, r 2 Commercial Union, Insurance. if Credit fonder and Mobilier of England, 81 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, 4 k Electric Telegraph, 1358 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., lit Gen. Credit and Finance of Landon, lim.. 58 Hudson's Bay, 168 Imperial Mercantile Credit A 800.. lira.. 7 International Financial society, lim., 68 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 68 68 London Financial Association. lim 18j National Discount Company. Pi l6 Overend, Gurney, and Co., Era, 2 Royal Mail Steam, 10Z The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mule pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.15 per 41 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 43 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advless from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per 41 stsrlbv. Standard gold at the EnglWi Mint price is, therefore, at about the same price in London and Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is IC9 to 1091 per cent. At these rates there is no profit on the importation of go'd from the United States. The screw steam frigate Topaze, 31, vacated No. 2 dock at Devonport on Tuesday, and was placed at her moorings in Hamone. 39 31 127 1461 55 129 59 81 1221 i 125 i i 931 1 1351 1 41 28 1111 722 lot i 51 76 i 'OSSE, 991 100 1004 1n I t MEN ,IT 1 6j 7i THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JAMTARY 25, 1866.' LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco before the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices Mellor, BlackbAn, and Lush.) ' BOUILLON V. VALENTIN. This was an application on behalf of Madam Valentin that an order for a commission to examine witnesses in this case, which had bean issued by the Court de Premier Instance, Department de Seine, should be altered, and another court selected, and that the examination should be con ducted by interrogatory instead of viva voce. Mr. Quain, who appeared in support of the ap plication, said it was made in consequence of M. Bertrand, who is so intimately corn:meted_ with the legal procedings in this case, and who was one of the vice-presidents of the Court, and that it was to him, the president, and another vice-president, that the commission had been directed. lie con tended that there were other courts in France com petent to examine witnesses in this case, and that Madame Valentin could not expect justice from a tribunal of which M. Bertrand was a principal member. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., opposed the application, and said that as the court was composed of 75 members it would be absurd to suppose it could be influenced by a single member. The Lord Chief Justice said that he saw serious objections to the selection of the court in question, except that it was merely confined to the examina tion of witnesses. W Mr. Quain urged that even an examination might be conducted in such a manner as to prejudice a suitor. The Court refused the application as to the al teration and the jurisdiction, but directed that the evidence should be taken by interrogatory. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Baron Bramwell , and a Common Jury.) WEBB V. IiELHARDO. This was a suit brought by the plaintiff, the pro prietor of the Cleveland Club, for a sum of £5O, to which the defendant pleaded that he was not in debted in that amount, on the ground that the plaintiff owed him money for commission. Mr. D. Seymour, Q.C., and another learned gen tleman were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Price, Q.C., and Mr. Wharton for the defendant. The evidence in the case was very complicated ; )ut the result was, that the jury found a verdict 'or the plaintiff for £7 7s. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde, without Jury.) In this case the wife prayed for a judicial separa tion, on the ground of her husband's cruelty, to which the respondent answered, and pleaded denial. Mr. Hance was counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. Harrison for the respondent. Mrs. Emma Kennicott, the petitioner, was exa mined, and stated that she was the daughter of a clergyman of the Church of England, and that her maiden name was Hodson. Her husband was in cumbent of St. Paul's, Monkwearmouth, in the county of Durham, and the marriage was solemnised in April, 1846, after which she and her husband removed to his living. Until about 10 years ago they lived on good terms, but her Husband became very intemperate in his habits, and treated her and her children with great violence. He used to strike them, fling different articles at them, and his general conduct towards them was very cruel. The petitioner here detailed different acts of violence to which she and her children were subjected for years, and until she was compelled to institute the present proceedings. In cross-examination she stated that her husband's living was about £lOO a year, but it might have been made much more profitable if he had attended properly to the duties, and she denied that she gave the respondent any provocation to cause his ill treatment. The case was not concluded when we went to press. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERIES AT THE LONDON CRYSTAL PALACE.—John M'Grath, about 14 years of age, was charged before Mr . Knox with stealing from stall s i n th e London C r y s t al Palace, Oxford-street, a set of quartett, the property of Mrs. Maria Targett ; a box of gun-caps, the property of Miss Ryan ; and two silver pencil-cases, the property of Miss Emily Overall. Wm. Scherer, residing in Great Portland-street, said that on the previous evening, while at the London Crystal Palace, observing the prisoner behaving in a very suspi cious manner, he watched him, and saw him go up to a stall and take a box off and put it into his pocket. He wont after the prisoner, and asked him what he had taken off the stall, and he handed the box to him. He then took the prisoner into the office, when he handed over some other articles, and the constable of the place then took him to the station. Mrs. Maria Hickling, widow, of 49, Marlborough-street, assistant to Miss Targett ; Blanche Laurant, of 2, Charles street, Middlesex Hospital, assistant to Miss Ryan ; and Mrs. Emily Overall, identified the property produced—the latter person identifying the silver pencil-cases. Richard Howe, constable at the London Crystal Palace, said the pencil-cases were picked up that morning near where the prisoner stood in the office yesterday evening. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT.—Henry Wakefield, civil engi neer, of No. 11, Adam-street, Adelphi, was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and disorderly in Piccadilly. Police-constable Thomson, 175 0, said that about half past seven he was told by some gentlemen that a person was pushing people about and behaving in a disorderly manner. He afterwards met the prisoner, who had been drinking, coming along, and after pushing some persons about he seized hold of a young woman, who screamed out, and got away from him. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that having a cold he took a little rum, and it took a little effect upon him. Mr. Knox said it could not be permitted for a person to get drunk in the early evening, and pull women about in the streets. Ho should fine the prisoner 205., or 14 days. A SHAMEFUL NUISANCE.—John Hudson, salesman, of 94, Wimpole-street, was charged with unlawfully ringing a bell at 181, Regent-street. The case having been proved by Mr. Shipley, saddler, 181, Regent-street, and Deverson, 121 0, Inspector Harrison said that several similar cases had occurred within the past week, in which persons had been disturbed by the violent ringing of the bells, in one or two cases the bells being stolen. The prisoner was fined 40s. SPAIN AND PERU. ATTEMPTED STOPPAGE OF A PERUVIAN MAN OF-WAR AT GREENHITHE. A very important question of international law is likely to arise in reference to a Peruvian man-of war, now lying fully armed and ready for sailing at Greenhithe. The Spanish consul, who has been apprised of this fact, instructed Mr. Beard yesterday to consult the City authorities as to a warrant for stopping the vessel, but Mr. Beard was informed that no power was vested in the City, and that he had better apply to the Foreign-office. Upon this Mr. Beard communicated with the Consul yesterday evening. So far as the reporter has been informed, there is no allegation that the vessel has been unlawfully enlisting in this country, and the right of the British Government to stop the man-of-war is somewhat debztesl. RACING FIXT FEBR Lincoln MA Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring RES FOR 186 G. TARY. Nottingham Spring 27 Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B AP Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring Ascot Spring MA 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring ' JU Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 JU: Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB I AUG Brighton 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham 14 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket let Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 24 Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge Manchester Ascot Summer 29 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Ilungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 Worcester SLY. SEPTE Warwick September 4 I Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB OCT O. Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l NOVE: Lincoln Liverpool York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter 2B Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O AMERICA.. \ (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) (Per Herman.) NEW YORK, Jan. 13th (Noon.) Southern advices continue meagre, the most impor tant item of news furnished being a statement of a Mobile paper of the Bth inst. that General Thomas, commanding the Military Division of Tennessee, has officially an nounced that all the national troops are soon to be with drawn from Georgia and Alabama, that arms and ammu nition will be furnished to the State militia, and that the State authorities will be promptly supplied with provi sions for destitute families. A New Orleans despatch states that a lot of negroes on plantations on the Red River, in Louisiana, rose in arms recently, anti attempted to murder their overseers, but failed. They then marched to another point to await re inforcements. The militia, however, dispersed them, and captured a number of the ringleaders. On several planta tions arms and ammunition were found secreted in large quantities. The militia in Cadds parish were kept under arms in readiness for any event. The negroes generally throughout Louisiana are reported to refuse work, and to manifest a sullen and discontented spirit. They claim that the Government should furnish them lands for their own special use. Most of the large plantations on the Red River were lying idle, and many were offered for sale at very low prices. The same condition of affairs is said to exist in Eastern Texas and Arkansas. The planters were very anxious to secure white labour for the approaching crops, and agents were being sent North to secure them by private contracts. A Galveston, Texas, despatch, of the 9th, states that an order has been issued there for the mustering out of ser vice of 22 of the coloured regiments now doing duty in Texas. Tennessee advices state that the personal unpopularity of Governor Brownlow is increasing. In the Federal Senate, on the 10th inst., , Mr. Wilson, chairman of the Military Committee, introduced a bill to increase the strength of the regular army of the United States. The bill provides that the military peace establish ment shall consist of ten regiments of cavalry, seven of artillery, and sixty of infantry. This adds to the present force two regiments of artillery, one of white and one of coloured troops ; four regiments of cavalry, two white and two coloured ; besides eight new regiments of infantry from the reserve volunteer corps, and twenty-two other regiments of infantry, ten of which are to be coloured. Provision is made for one lieutenant-colonel, five major generals, and ten brigadiers. The bill was referred to the Military Committee. Mr. Howe, Republican (Radical), of Wisconsin, offered a resolution providing provisional governments for the lately rebellious States. Mr. Howe supported his resolu tion in a long speech, in which he contended that the Governments of the States in question had been destroyed, and he denied the right of the President to restore them. The readmission of the Southern States would add 58 members to the house and 22 to the Senate, and would give the President, if so disposed, an opportunity to work successfully for his own re-election. The bill was referred to the Reconstruction Committee. In the Senate, on the 11th inst., the resolution of Mr. Howe, offered on the previous day, for the appointment of provisional governments for the Southern States, was taken up for debate. Mr. R. Johnson, of Maryland, op posed the bill in a lengthy and able speech, in which he contended that, by the defeat of the rebellion, the object of the war on the part of the United States, namely, to keep the rebellious States in the Union, had been attained. The Constitution conferred power to preserve but not to destroy States. The Southern States were still in the Union, and the war had been a failure, and the rebel ordinances of secession ineffective. Those engaged in , the rebellion were traitors, but not foreign enemies ; they might, if necessary, be prosecuted for treason, but the States they inhabited were now, as before the war, States of the Union, and could not be treated as conquered territory. The existence of the Southern States as States had been repeatedly recog nised by the Federal Government during the war. The functions of the Governments of those States could have been suspended through necessity, but could never be de stroyed. Mr. Johnson during his speech frequently quoted authority, both judicial and constitutional, in support of his argument, and his speech was attentively heard and con cluded without interruption. In the House of Representatives, on the 10th inst., Mr. Davis, of New York, offered a resolution expressing confi dence in President Johnson. Debate arising the resolu tion was laid over. Mr. Brandeger (of Connecticut) offered a bill, which was sent into the Judiciary Committee, to punish counterfeit ing with death. A resolution inquiring what means would best enforce the Monroe doctrine in Mexico was offered, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Eldridge (Democrat, of Wisconsin), declaring that as the Constitution furnished no authority for any State to secede, all ordinances of secession were null and void, and, by the defeat of tho rebellion, the States had been kept in the Union, and that they snouta at once resume their relations with the Na tional Government, and that Southern members should be at once admitted with regard to the question of negro suf frage. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Reconstruction. A resolution was adopted asking the committee of ways and means to report upon the expediency of exempting from taxation all incomes under twelve hundred dollars per annum. On the 12th inst., in the Senate, a petition of the Ame rican Free Trade League was presented, asking that pro tective tariffs be abolished, and duties be levied only with a view to revenue. Referred to the Committee on Finance. In the House of Representatives Mr. Raymond (Repub lican), of New York, offered ti resolution, which was adopted, calling upon the President for information con cerning the political and general condition of the Southern States, and for copies of all papers connected with the Provisional Governments of those States. Democrats and Conservative Republicans regard Mr. Raymond's resolution as a very decided check to the Radi cals, it having frustrated the scheme of sending a sub committee South to furnish areport which would secure the adoption of the Radical policy by the Reconstruction Com mittee. As the matter now stands, the President is enabled to give to Congress an exhaustive and truthful statement of the subject, as derived from official reports ; and the Reconstruction Committee, in making their report, can hardly refuse to suggest the adoption of such informati9n as a basis for Congressional action on reconstruction. THAMES. A FORGIVING WOMAN.—Maria Hannan, who has been in oustody a week, was brought before Mr. Cooke on re mand, charged with assaulting and wounding Margaret Bow, who appeared in court with an hospital bandage round her head. The parties are married women, and were living in the same house. They quarrelled ; and the prisoner, who was provoked at something uttered by her adversary, threw an earthenware plate at her head, and inflicted a deep wound. She fell and lost a large quantity of blood. She was taken to the London Hospital, and had been under treatment ever since. The gash was a serious ono, and for several days the worst fears were entertained for her safety. The prosecutrix begged of the magistrate to release the prisoner, who, she said, was the mother of two children, who would suffer if their mother was imprisoned. She did not care for the wound; it was her own fault. _ Mr. Cooke acceded to the entreaties of the prosecutrix, and discharged the prisoner. MARKETS.--This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a large number of beasts on sale in to-day's market, but it was chiefly composed pf stock left over from Monday. All breeds sold slowly, at unaltered quo tations. The top figure was 4s 8d per 81bs. Sheep, tho show of which was only moderate, moved off heavily, at previous currencies. The best Downs and half-breeds changed hands at 6s 4d to 6s 6d per 81bs. There was a steady sale for calves, at Monday's advance. Prices ranged from 4s 6s to 5s 8d per 81bs. In pigs very little was doing, and the currencies were in favour of buyers. Milcb cows were quite neglected. Per 81b to sink the offal. sdsdEl d s d Crse. (lc inf. beasts... 3 2 3 6 Pine crs-wool sheep 5 6 6 0 Second quality do ..3 8 4 0 Prime s'thdown 00.6 2 6 6 Prime large oxen ..4 2 4 6 La; ge coarse calves. 4 6 5 2 Prime Scuts. dic....4 6 4 8 i'rime small d0......5 4 5 8 Crse. and int. sheep. 3 10 4 o I Large hugs 3 1 4 2 Second quality do ..4 8 5 4 Small porkers ... 4 6 1 8 L•µmb....Os Od to 0. Od. Suckling calm, 19i to 20s; and quarter-old store pigs, 23 E , ,0 28s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts l,BOO Beasts Cows. .. 120 Cows. Sheep Calves lOl Caves BO E'igs 220 Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEW GATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supply of meat is moderate, and the demand is steady at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 10d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per 81b by the carcase. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 8s to £6 Os; clover, £5 lOs to £7 Os Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load. Trade steady. CM:MERL/IND.—Meadow hay, £4 8s to £6 Os Od; clover, £5 10s to £6 15s Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. A fair demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 8s to £6 Os; clove; Lb" 10s to £7 Os Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load. Supply moderate. France and the United States. The following are the despatches of Mr. Seward to the French Minister at Washington and the American Minis ter at Paris on the subject of the French intervention in Mexico : "MR SEWARD TO THE MARQUIS DE MONTHOLON. "Department of State, Washington, Dec. 6, 1865. _ . Sir,—Having made known to the President tho Empe ror's views on Mexican affairs which you communicated to me on the 29th ult., I have now the honour to inform you of the disposition of this Government in regard to the same subject. It seems proper, however, for me to say in the first place, that what I have to communicate has been already fully made known to Mr. Bigelow, with authority, in his discretion, to impart the same to M. Drouyn de Lhuys. " The effect of the Emperor's suggestions, when they are reduced to a practical shape, seems to be this : That France is willing to retire from Mexico as soon as she may ; but that it would be inconvenient for her, without first receiv ing from the United States an assurance of a friendly or tolerant disposition to the Power which has assumed to itself an imperial form in the capital city of Mexico. The President is gratified with the assurance you have thus given of the Emperor's good disposition. I regret, how ever, to be obliged to say that the condition the Emperor suggests is one which seems quite impracticable. " It is true, indeed, that the presence of foreign armies in an adjacent country could not under any circumstances but cause uneasiness and anxiety on the part of this Go vernment. It creates for us expenses which aro inconve nient, not to speak of dangers of collision. Nevertheless, I cannot but infer from the tenour of your communication that the principal cause of the discontent prevailing in the United States in regard to Mexico is not fully apprehended by the Emperor's Government. The chief cause is not that there is a foreign army in Mexico ; much less does that discontent arise from the circumstance that that foreign army is a French ono. We recognise the right of sovereign nations to carry on war with each other if they do not invade our right or menace our safety or just in fluence. The real cause of our national discontent is that the French army which is now in Mexico is invading a domestic republican Government there which was estab lished by her people, and with whom the United States sympathise most profoundly, for the avo wed purpose of suppressing it, and establishing upon its ruins a foreign monarchical government, whose presence there, so long as it should endure, could not but be regarded by the people of the United States as injurious and menacing to their own chosen and endeared republican institutions. " I admit that the United States do not feel themselves called upon to make a war of propagandism throughout the world, or even on this continent, in the republican cause. We have sufficient faith in the eventual success of that cause on this Continent, through the operation of existing material and moral causes, to induce us to acquiesce in the condition of things which we found existing here while our our Republic was receiving its shape and development. On the other hand, we have constantly maintained, and still feel bound to maintain, that the people of every State on the American Continent have a right to secure for themselves a republican Government if they choose, and that interfer ence by foreign States to prevent the enjoyment of such in stitutions deliberately established is wrongful, and in its effects antagonistical to the free and popular form of Go vernment existing in the United States. We should think it wrong as well as unwise on the part of the United States to attempt to subvert by force monarchical Governments in Europe, for the purpose of replacing them with repub lican institutions. It seems to us equally objectionable that European States should forcibly intervene in States situated on this Continent to overthrow republican institu tions, and replace them with monarchies or empires. "Having thus frankly stated our position, I leave the questions for the consideration of France, sincerely hoping that that great nation may find it compatible with its bast interests and its high honour to withdraw from its aggres sive attitude in Mexico, within some convenient and rea sonable time, and thus leave the people of that country to the free enjoyment of the system of republican Government which they have• established for themselves, and of their adherence to which they have given what seems to the United States to be decisive and conclusive as well as very touching proofs. I am, sir, the more inclined to hope for such a solution of the difficulty for the reason that when, at any time within the last four years, the question has been asked of any American statesman, or even of any American citizen, what country in Europe was the one which was the least likely to experience an alienation of the friendship of the United States, answer was promptly given —France. Friendship with France has always been deemed important and peculiarly agreeable by the American people. Every American citizen deems it no less important and desirable for the future than for the past. "The President will be pleased to be informed of the re ception which the Emperor gives to the suggestions which I have now made. " Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my very high consideration. . " IVILLIAm H. SEWARD." " Mn. SEWARD TO MR. BIOELOW. "Department of State, Washington, Dec. 16, 1865. "Sir,—Your despatch of the 30th of November, No. 209, was duly received, and it has been submitted to the President. " Your proceeding in reading my despatch, No. 300, to M. Drouyn de Lhuys is approved. The genial tenour of the remarks made by you to the Minister of Foreign Af fairs on that occasion is likewise approved. It is not the Executive Department of this Government alone which is interested and concerned in the question whether the pre sent condition of affairs shall be continued in Mexico. The interest is a national one, and in every event the Con gress which is now in Session is authorised by the Consti tution and is entitled to direct by law the action of the United States in regard to that important subject. It has been the President's purpose that France should be respect fully informed upon two points, namely : " First—That the United States earnestly desire to con tinue and cultivate sincere relations with France. "Second—That this policy would be brought into immi nent jeopardy unless France could deem it consistent with her interests and honour to desist from the prosecution of armed intervention in Mexico to overthrow the domestic republican Government existing there, and to establish upon its ruins the foreign Monarchy which has been at tempted to be inaugurated in the capital of that country. "In answer to an exposition of our views which was thus made, the suggestion was offered to you by M. Drouyn de Lhuys that the Government of the United States might favour the express desire of the Emperor to withdraw from Mexico by giving him some formal assur ance that, in the event of his withdrawal, this Government would recognise the institution of Maximilian in Mexico as defacto a political Power. It was my desire, in framing the despatch No. 300, to express in behalf of the United States a decision that the recognition which the Emperor has thus suggested cannot be mado, and to assign, by way of explanation, the grounds upon which that decision was based. I have carefully considered the arguments against that decision which were presented to you by M. Drouyn de Lhuys in the interview referred to, and I do not find in them any sufficient reason for modifying the views which the United States have expressed. It remains now only to make known to M. Drouyn da Lhuys my profound regret that ho has thought it his duty to leave the subject, in his conversation with you, in a condition that does not authorise an expectation on our part that a satisfactory adjustment of the case can be effected on any basis that thus far has been discovered.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " W. H. SEWARD." "John Bigelow, Esq., &c. .Aubrey de Vere on Fenianism. UST, atBER. IRichmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall IBEX Newmarket Houghton Worcester ;DOER. 1 Shrewsbury Leamington Hunt l9 DULL EVENINGS MADE MERRY.—AII the new parlour games, magic lanthorns, musical boxes (from 125.), and thousands of Id. toys—the ss. Gd. parcels contain 73 articles. Arthur Granger's noted cheap warehouse, 308, High Holborn, W.C., and the new bazaar, 95 and 96, Borough. EXETER HALL.—The National Choral Society, under the conductorship of Mr. G. W. Martin, will give its first performance this season of Handel's " Judas Macca bceus" on Wednesday, the 31st. The band and chorus will number nearly 700 performers. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Lucy Franklein, and the new tenor, Mr. Leigh Wil son are already engaged as principal vocalists. GOOD NEWS FOR GAMBLERS.—The Evenement announces that the lease of the gaming tables at Baden held by M. Benazet, and which expires on the last day of 1867, has been prolonged by the Grand Duke, on the pro position of his Ministers, to December 31, 1870. CRYSTAL PALACE.—To-day and to-morrow there will be a continuation of the present series of holiday amusements. On Saturday next the Saturday concerts and promenades will be resumed, when a collection of the works of John Gibson, R.A., will be on view, as well as a great display of camellias in bloom. Signor Ethardo will g ive a tato ran-formanee at. firs o'clock. THE LATE MR. G. V. BROOKE.—Measures are about being taken to perpetuate the memory of Mr. G. V. Brooke, by establishing a lifeboat on some part of the coast hereafter to bo decided upon, and by building a house in connection with the Royal Dramatic College. A. com mittee, consisting of Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Billington, Mr. M. W. Hodges, Mr. Clarence Mit, Mr. J. W. Anson, and Mr. Switzer have been appointed to carry out the object. THE SHIP DESERTION MANIA IN LIVERPOOL.— It appears that not only seamen, but engineers and other officers of steamers and sailing vessels, have during the last month in a great many cases neglected or refused to join their vessels. Yesterday an engineer was charged with this offence, and Mr. Raffles, the stipendiary magis trate, remarked that, if certificated officers continued in this way to refuse to join their vessels, a communication must be made to the Board of Trade with a view to the suspension of their certificates. Yesterday, also, nine sea men belonging to the Mediterranean steamer Melita were charged with refusing to put to sea in that vessel (which had put back); but as it appeared that the men had a sub stantial grievance, in the shape of bad water supplied, they were discharged. THE FENIAN TRIALS.--D ÜBLlN,Wednesday Night. —William Francis Roantree was convicted this day, and sentenced to penal servitude for ten years. The prisoner made a violent speech, and concluded by saying, "As an Irishman, I appeal against your sentence to my fellow-countrymen, and I pray that the God of Justice may guide and strengthem them in their holy determination." WORTHING NEW LIFE-BOAT.—The National Life boat institution has just forwarded to Worthing a fine new lifeboat, 32ft. long and 7ft. 4in. wide, rowing 10 oars, and double banked, to replace the present small life boat on that station. The cost of the lifeboat station has been presented to the institution by a lady who had pre viously given the institution the cost of two lifeboats. The lifeboat was publicly launched at Worthing on Tuesday. A free conveyance was readily given to the lifeboat and car riage to Worthing by the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company. THE PRESIDENTSHIP OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.— Yesterday evening a meeting of the Royal Acade micians was held at their rooms, in Trafalgar-square, for the purpose of electing a president in the room of Sir Charles.Eastlake, deceased. The whole of the body was represented, and a discussion in reference to the various candidatures was protracted until nearly 10 o'clock. It is understood that the very honourable position of president of the Royal Academy last night rested between Sir E. Landseer and Mr. Gilbert Scott, the former the represen tative of painters, and the latter the chosen candidate of the architects, both .of which branches of art seem to be pretty fairly balanced at the Royal Academy. No decision at last night's meeting was arrived at, the conflict of opinion amongst the academicians being between the merits of a painter and those of an architect. At all events, the Royal Academicians, after deliberating about two hours, separated on the understanding that they should meet again on Thursday, the Ist of February, when, possibly, the Royal Acamedicians will be able to make up their minds with regard to the president. IN THE LION'S DEN.—An unprecedented scene occurred at the Cirque Napoleon on Monday night, during the performance of Mr. Batty, the successor of Van Am burg, who is now exhibiting in Paris. The moment he en tered the wild beasts' cage the lioness was observed to be in a terrible rage. The lions were also roaring and jumping about, and Mr. Batty seemed to have lost his usual in fluence over them. The public, fearing to see him torn in pieces, cried "Go out, go out!" Mr. Batty took the ad vice, and cautiously withdrew, walking backwards. The cause of the extraordinary commotion in the cage was soon ascertained. A few minutes before the commencement of the performance the lioness had given birth to a cub, who was thought to be an only son. The young lion was taken away from her and given to a bitch to suckle; but just as Batty entered the cage the lioness unexpectedly produceda second young one, and the lions wanted to eat it--a propensity said to be very common with wild beasts when in a state of cap tivity. The fury of the lioness in defence of her offspring, and the ferocious attitude of her companions in the cage, produced an extraordinary panic among the spectators, and - , several ladies fainted. After a short pause Batty contrived to separate the lioness from the cub, and the latter, about the size of a cat, was held up by the nape of theneck for the inspection of the company. The screw steam surveying -vessel Baun and victualling-tender Thais were placed on Tuesday in No. 2 dick at Devonport, to be repaired. The crew of the screw steam-frigate Galatea, 26, Capt. Rochfort Maguire, were paid off on Tuesday morning alongside the dockyard at Devonport. The Commander-in-Chief has approved Ensign Crockett, of the 84th Regiment, exchanging from the service to the depot companies with Ensign Hamilton. Mr. D. Lamont, who has for some time past held the post of superior barrack sergeant at Colchester camp, has been appointed barrack. Inaster at Canterbury-7 TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—A period of difficulty is often a special op portunity. Fenianism bas been for some time occu pying public attention. We may easily make too much of it or make too little. If we understand it aright we shall disarm it of its dangers, and may convert evil to good. As an attempt at revolt, it is contemptible. Its adherents are not, as yet, numerous ; the Catholic clergy have from the first denounced it, as they denounced the attempted rising in 1848, and as they always denounce secret societies; and the farming class, with good reason, hate and fear it. The sect consists, in the main, of very poor and ignorant persons, though with a considerable mixture of young men who hang loose on the skirts of society and whose education has been an irreligious one. It Lincludee, doubtless, honest enthusiasts, who, if the movement gained a temporary .success, would fall early in their attempts to check its excesses. As for foreign assistance, Ireland has long since learnt what that means. It always came too late and ended in desertion. But Fenianism has another side to it. It proves that long-continued discontent, taken in conjunc tion with the circumstances of our day, can, to a considerable extent, alter even a national character. There are dangers worse than those of a revolt, be cause more insidious and less remediable. " Fast " politicians exclaim, " Ireland was always disloyal." This is a random reading of history. Fenianism is a new and Jacobinical movement. It is out of har mony with the Irish character and annals. There is no other country in which, for so many centuries and under such repeated rebuffs, the instinct of loyalty survived so long. Professor Goldwin Smith well remarks in his excellent work, " Irish History and Irish Character :" "So far as willingness to submit to governors is con cerned, they are only too easily governed. Loyalty is the groat feature of their political character ; its great defect is want of independence, and of that strong sense of right by which law and personal liberty are upheld." The great and successful struggle of this century, that for Catholic emancipation, was a constitutional one. Mr. O'Connell never endangered his popularity when he asserted his loyalty to the Crown, and de nounced the shedding of " one drop of blood." The few Sovereigns who have visited this country have been well received, and many an Irish noble, of the latter race, has found himself almost a clan chief in his own despite. There was one exception—the rebellion of 1798. That rebellion was produced by protracted wrong, and it bequeathed to a country then on its way to better things 31 years more of oppression and igno miny. But its root was in Ulster; its leaders were not Catholics ; and it was quickened by that French Revolution which had at that time scattered widely over England, as well as over Ireland, the contagion of Jacobinism. The danger now comes to us not from France, but from America, and comes by no fault of hers, but by necessity. Slavery abolished, she stands with her face to the light. But how is the Irish peasant in America to discriminate between a prosperity coincident with Republican institutions and one de rived-from such ? How is he to learn that the only institutions which could exist in America might work ruin in an old country like Ireland? He is not an impartial critic. Since the beginning of the famine years about one-third of Ireland's sons have been driven from Ireland by stress of poverty. wh at if such a state of things existed in England or France ? Emigration is better than the workhouse ; it often leads to wealth ; but the poor as well as the rich love their homes—woe to the land if they do not ! and when emigration becomes colossal, the emigrant sometimes thinks, whether rightly or wrongly, that the laws are at fault, either by enactment or omis sion. On landing in a new world he hears exag gerated statements, mixes natural feelings with erroneous impressions, and becomes at once a valu able American citizen, and an Irish Jacobin. Such is Fenianism. It comes from without, though with a ready response from within ; and therefore, how ever checked at any particular time, the disease is renewed with every westerly wind. England has now two Irelands to deal with, and one of them out of her reach. In time she may have a third in Australia. Here is the true danger. In the noble old times obedience might, indeed, sometimes be challenged by the wrong claimant ; but in itself it was deemed a thing to be proud of, not a thing to be conceded with a sense of degra dation—that is, assuming, of course, that the authority obeyed was itself a loyal authority, the true exponent and virtual representative of the sub ject--his interests, his feelings, and his honour. A inoral'basis was thus supplied for political stability. It is otherwise now. Ireland is surrounded by what is calculated to perplex, if not to seduce. She still has her anomalies. She often hears a revolution spoken of as if it had been the first foundation of the constitution ; and with Continental revolutions the most eminent writers have commonly been in almost indiscriminate sympathy. All these thi ngs work dangerously under the peculiar circumstances of Ireland. Loyalty goes ; and the respect for law has not come. Nations are disaffected till their affections have been gained. With the American part of the difficulty we can not deal. What remains in this--to leave no fuel at home for a foreign flame to play with. It is one of those periods which require large action, and create an opportunity for it. How begin? Ire land is full of hard problems, made harder by her transitional condition ; but there is one on the solu tion of which the right working of all other reme dial measures mainly depends—the ecclesiastical settlement of the country. Of that settlement the Church establishment is the positive side ; but it has a negative side likewise. In all nations physical distress and religious bit terness have proved the chief causes of disturbance. What if the two exist in union ? Material prosperity can only advance by degrees. The more reason, then, for dealing with the question that admits of being settled. In this question all the jealousies of Ireland meet, as the nerves of the body are said to meet in the hand. Elections and the suffrage, the Poor-law system, Maynooth, the convents, schools, colleges, from the appointment of a Minister to the appointment of a turnkey, under all alike the same sinister subauditur lurks. Above all, this question alienates those true loyalists who cannot support in justice, which they know to be, however, prescrip tive, not order and civilisation, but chronic anarchy. Catholics without loyalty to their faith may be ser vile to the State, but are never loyal to it. At war with the religion of a people, authority saws off the branch on which it is sitting. The bad musician quarrels with his instrument, but there are harmo nies in Ireland still for a skilful hand to draw out. We have to convert into a principle the instinct of loyalty. We have also to produce that respect for law which cannot exist until the primary laws are all of them respectable. But the Fenians, we are told, do not quarrel with the Ecclesiastical Settlement. Of course not. Bit terly would they quarrel with any one who set " This frame of things the right side up." It is while statesmen show their wit by keeping the social pyramid standing on its apex, not its base, that the Fenians see their chance of overturning it. What is the Ecclesiastical Settlement? It is owe by which the whole of the ancient religious endow ments of Ireland were, and are, taken from a nation and given to a small minority—taken from the poor and given to the rich. To the latter no blame. They have inherited their position, and suffer from it, as some of them know, scarcely less than the rest of the community. This is no landlord question, From the land a sacred reserve was set apart. Its pur pose was to provide religious ministrations for the people on the land. It is alienated, and the people have to provide their religious ministrations at their own cost, imperfectly, and with the note of inferiority. This is a question not of theology, but of morals. Let it be conceded that the new teachers came with the message of peace and truth. But they took possession of the Church property. Their voice was the voice of Jacob ; but their hand was the hand of Esau. The nation at large refused to change. Its Church—let us speak plainly—stands disinherited by ancient laws, and, legally at least, proscribed by recent. This is the Ecclesiastical Settlement of Ireland. Whenever the Irish people are contented with it, expect soon to find that the spirit of Jacobinismhadeaten through its very heart. Do they muse over the past ? The piesent " Eccle siastical Settlement is the past embodiedand monu mental ; and the popularrecollections of ancient sor rows are but the weeds which grow in its shade."* " What, then," it will be asked, " does Ireland require ?" I answer, " Religious equality." I use this term advisedly, and in contradistinction to a more formidable one. The abolition of the ascend ant Establishment would be but one means out of many of effecting equality. If no better be per mitted, to this it must come at last. But there is such a thing as levelling up as well as levelling down. The principle of equality once heartily ac cepted, men of sense will not be long in finding both just and gentle means of applying it. If the wound of the nation can be healed without inflicting a wound upon any section of the nation, surely this must be the wisest and best course ? No Catholic need seek for more. R e li g i ous communities do not flourish, as is too often assumed, at each other's expense. More often each one benefits indirectly by that which benefits an honourable competitor. But the objection comes from another quarter. " The State," we are reminded, " has a conscience, and must therefore make a confession of the truth." The truth it has to confess is, that the nation has ceased to possess unity of faith, but that it preserves a love of justice and a respect for social order and political security. In times not wholly unlike our own there lived a man who was at once the master foe of Jacobinism, against which he ever bent a Pythian bow, and the foremost friend of the Irish Cathol;cs—Mr. Burke. In 1780, addressing 11;s constituents at Bristol, who were discontented with his conduct on Irish affairs, he said fearlessly : "It is proper to inform you that our measures must be healing. Such a degree of strength must be communicated to all the members of the State as may enable them to de- fend themselves and co-operate for the defence of the whole. Their temper, too, must be managed, and their good affec- tions cultivated, . . England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is largo enough for both. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it." As the revolutionary principle asserted itself more and more, the more plainly did Burke indicate where safety was to be found. In 1795 he insisted upon 1t sof hi c, in " That in Ireland particularly the Roman Catholi c reli giondul venera tio n, ean f 1 li aa u d be, the people who p ro f ess i t. " should in b i e ts u p p l h a e c l e d , p in ro h v i i g d h respect eawith and the , g Let them (the Irish) g row l ax, sceptical, careless, and indifferent with regard t o re li g i on, and so sure as we have s g o A i t g l a a i b n l , e s h s i e n g said— to an existence, it is not a zealous Anglican or Scottish Church principle, but direct Jacobinism which will enter into that breach. Two hundred years dreadfully spent in experi ments to force that people to change the form of their reli gion have proved fruitless. You have now your choice for full four-fifths of your people of the Catholic religion or Jacobinism." He lifted a warning and reproving voice. " The worst of the matter is this : you are partly leading, partly driving, into Jacobinism that description of your people whose religious principles, church polity, and habitual discipline might make an invincible dike against that inundation." What in that day was called Jacobinism is now called "Fenianism." How would it have fared in Ireland to-day if the exhortations of Mr. Burke, from his earliest tract to his latest political letter (dictated in 1797 from his death-bed), had been attended to ? I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, AUBREY DE VERE. Ireland, January 10. * " The Church Establishment in Ireland, illustrated ex clusively by Protestant Authorities." (Warren, Thomas street, Dublin.) In this pamphlet the opinions of the chief leaders of Liberal public opinion in England between 1830 and 1845 will be found carefully digested, with an expla natory preface. STATE OF TRADE. LEICESTER, Jan. 2 4.—There was a slight improve ment in the hosiery trade this week. Fancy goods are, however, still not in demand, the mild weather checking the sale of heavy goods. In the rural dis tricts business is rather quiet, but more will be doing shortly. Worsted yarns continue firm, and spinners are pretty generally well employed. In wools there is no change ; staplers hold firm for high prices. Cotton yarns unaltered in value. NOTTINGHAM, 24th.—The lace trade has been rather more active during the last few days. There are a few home orders in the market, and a little is doing for shipping. Some fair orders for silk mechlins are in course of completion. The quilling branch is quiet, the prevailing fashions operating against the sale of this class of goods. There is a little improvement in the cotton branch, and in a short time there is every reasonable pro spect of a better demand. The hosiery trade is active ; the business doing for the home department is fully an average for the season. Foreign orders are still on band in course of completion, and the trade generally satisfactory. Yarns are firm, and very high in price. )f th e e . 0 138 3utir° ,100 100 2 100 •100 luo 100 100 all 100 100 IC2 11 16j i 103 104 104 105 101 101 k 935 93 5 88} i