The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-07 00:00:00

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L ands of ' s i . t h e reeP° ll- ° MARKETS—This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with beasts, both as to number and quality. Prime breeds moved off steadily at full quotations, but inferior stock was very inactive at late rates. The top figure was 5s 2d per 81b. The supply of sheep was only moderate. On the whole, the mutton trade ruled steady at Monday's currency. The best Downs realised 6s 8d per 81b. Calves, the supply of which was by no means extensive, were in fair request at late rates. Prime small pigs were quite as dear as last week. Large hogs and mulch cows ruled about stationary. Per 81b to sink the offal. s d s d s dsd Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 2 3 6 Pine crs-wool sheep 5 8 6 2 Second quality do ..3 8 4 4 Prime o'thdown co 6 4 6 8 Prime large oxen ..4 6 4 10 La - ge coarse craves. t 0 4 6 Prime Scuts. ac.... 5 0 A 2 Prime small do 4 8 5 0 Crse. and inf. sticep.4 0 4 8 Large hogs .4 • 4 6 Second quality do ..4 10 5 ti L•mall porkers 4 8 5 2 . _ Lanth....os Od to 0% Od. Suckling calves, lOs to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 30s to 335 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 1,422 Beasts t27 Cows. .. 132 Cows. — Sheep 8,7 . Sheep 3 lOO Calves 314 Ca yes 307 rigs 260 rigs — MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—Fair supplies of meat are on offer, and the trade is inactive, at our quotations : Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 6d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 48 2d to 5s 8d per 81b by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Dec. 6.—Prime stock was in fair request, at full prices ; otherwise the trade was heavy. Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s 2d; mutton, 4s Od to 6s 6d; veal, 4s 2d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81b. to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Dec. 6.—The supplies of stock were mo derate, and the sales progressed slowly, as follows :—Beef from 3s 4d to 5s 2d; mutton, 4s 2d to 6s 8d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81b. Suckling calves, 18s to 22s ; quarter-old store pigs, 29s to32s ; and milch cows, £lB to £l9 each. HAY SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, .D 1 Os to £5 lOs; clover, £5 Os to 16 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAXD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 12s 6d; clover, £5 Os to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load. Supply only moderate. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 Os to £5 10s ; clover, f 5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load. Trade dull. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Monetary affairs continue quiet both at home and on the continent. There is a steady demand for mercantile operations, trade generally being very healthy, with a steady progression of enterprise. The quotations are kept up as nearly as possible to the level of the Bank's minimum, though excep tional instances are mentioned of dealings having been negotiated 1 1- and even I under 6 per cent, The letters of allotment of the Naples Public Works Company, and of the American Oil Wells Trading Company, were posted last evening. An amount of £9,000 in gold was taken from the Bank of England yesterday afternoon. A new and important joint-stock association has been formed by : the amalgamation of two large West India houses, Messrs. Cavan, Lubbock, and Co., and Messrs. Wm. Burnley Hume and Co. The capital required is £2,000,000, in shares of £5O each. The estates and real securities to be trans ferred to the company by the vendors are in Demerara, Berbice, Trinidad, and Barbadoes. The estates are fertile, well situated, and in a high state of cultivation. They are provided with an ample supply of Coolie, Chinese, Portuguese, and Creole labour. On several of these estates powerful machinery of the best description has been recently erected at a considerable cost, and the largely in creased profits which have resulted prove conclu sively the advantages to be derived from the further application of machinery on a still more extended scale. The increased capital which will be thus employed, in addition to the large amount already invested in real estate, renders the business more suitable to the resources of a public company than to those of private firms. The imports of the two firms in sugar alone have for the last three years averaged over 46,000 hogsheads per annum. The vendors will transfer to the company, free of any claim for goodwill, their large and profitable commission and agency business, *which has yielded in net commissions, on the ave rage of the past three years, an amount exceeding £BO,OOO per annum, and is capable of being greatly extended. The biddings for 35,00,000 rupees in bills on India took place yesterday afternoon at the Bank of England. The proportions allotted were—to Calcutta 22,33,000 rupees, to Madras 2,67,000 rupees, and to Bombay 10,00,000 rupees. The minimum price was as before, Is. llfd. on Cal cutta and Madras, and ls. 110. on Bombay. Tenders on Bombay and Madras at ls. Hid. will receive about 18 per cent., and on Bombay at 2s. Oid. about 8 per cent. ; above these prices in full. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : 1865. 1864. Great Western ... £66,233 £64,923 North Western ... ... 111,834 106,707 South Western ... 26,659 19,132 Brighton ... 19,078 17,573 Midland. ... 49,683 49,207 South Eastern ... 19,911 18,256 Great Northern 36,934 34,878 Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 39,498 84,192 Bristol and Exeter 5,877 5,654 North Eastern ... . 68,605 65,332 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ... 20,587 18,132 Great Eastern ... ... 30,774 29,604 London, Chatham, and Dover ... 7,686 6,240 These returns, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, generally show some very satisfactory results. On the Great Western there is an increase of £1,310, on the North-Western of £5,127, on the South-Western of £1,527, on the Brighton of £1,505, on the Mid land of £476, on the South-Eastern of £1,655, on the Great Northern of £2,056, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £5,306, on the Bristol and Exeter of £223, on the North-Eastern of £3,272, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £3,455, on the Great Eastern of £1,170, and on the London, Chatham, and Dover of £1,446. The directors of the Financial Insurance Com pany ha-re issued their first report. It states that the company . was, _registered ..on—the 6th December, 1 864, but was not advertised and thphares allotted until April last, so that in fact we are only now gettin g into working order, but the directors have the satisfaction to state that they have received-- 756 life proposals, assuring the"sum of £442,027, of which 581 proposals have been accepted, assuring £360,293, the premiums on which amount to £10,944 14s 1d; of these 351 policies have been completed and issued, assuring the sum of £240,780, the annual premiums on which amotuitta.2,7943s 7d. In the guarantee department 260 proposals;, have been received, amounting to £506,755, - ot which 198 proposals have been accepted, amounting to £20 2,455, of these 144 proposals have been com- Dieted, and policies issued amount to £135,450, t he annual premiums on which amount to £4,726 , 178 . 10d. I n th e Fi re D e p ar t men t th e di rectors have only lately commenced business in this country, an d th e t o t a l num b er o f proposa l s amoun t t o 835 , Aing £865,584 10s., of which they have ac -30 8 proposals, insuring £857,034, the pre miums on which amount to £1,394 ss. 7d.; 4 , 4 . l cing the total income of the Company for the t 'Ort time they have been established amount to 1 13 5915 7s. per annum, a result which they think ;44.13 rarely if ever been obtained by any other com ellY• The result of the balance-sheet is stated to oft e ,qually satisfactory, and shows that after writing th "Irg'e sums for preliminary and other expenses: , d i1 e . 1.6 is a profit of 40 per cent., out of which the ectors recommend a dividend of 8 per cent. per Th 1 : 11141 7 free of income tax, to be calculated from 11 7 date of payment on the shares to the 31it ajaecleeraber instant, to be paid to the shareholders, N ,, ft, the balance of 32 per cent. to be carried for ititetcl to Pay at the rate of 5 per cent., per annum, t o jest to the shareholders for the next half-year ''ue 30th of June, 1866, and to meet contin 4encies. Two O'CLOCK. prAccording to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent. ch Rente s were quoted at 68f. 95c. 441 e market for English Stocks has presented a very dull aspect, and quotations have been exceed ingly weak. The settlement of the account to-day in the Funds occupies the principal attention of members. Consols are 87/ -1 for money, and 874 for January. The New Threes and Reduced An nuities are 874-; Exchequer Bills 4s. dis. for June; India 5 per Cents., 1024- a ; and Bonds, 14s. prem. American Securities are without material change in valuer. United States 5-20 Bonds are 634 64 ; Erie Shares, 574 58 ; and Illinois, 82 1. The dealings in foreign stocks have been few, and the fluctuations unimportant. Turkish Consolides have advanced to 474- 48 ; Mexican ex all Bonds have receded 4-, to 25 1, but the New have improved to 24 1. Greek are 154 161 ; Spanish Passive, 274 28 ; Certificates, 14} ; Confederate Loan, 89 ; Brazilian Scrip, 21 prem. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, 711 ; do. 1862, 70f 714 ; do. 5 per Cents., 1865, 431 f:; Italian, 644 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 1859, 541 ; do. sper Cents., 1862, 894- ; and Danu bian 7 per Cents., 75. Business in the Railway Share Market continues inactive, but prices are a shade firmer. Blackwall have improved ; and Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, North E astern (Berwick), and South Eastern, each 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are flat. Metro politan and Provincial shares have declined to 184- ; London :and Brighton to 494- ; Hudson Bay Company have improved to 15k ; and Overend, Gurney, and Company are steady at 211 ; Colonial Cdmpany's shares are quoted 1f 2 prem. ; Commercial Company of Africa, 1 4- prem. ; Bank of Turkey, 1.1 21 prem. ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Mortgage Bonds, 11 prem. ; the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (old) shares, 34 4 prem. ; ex .all and the new issue, 3f prem ; the St. Saviour's Wharf Company (Limited) shares, 1 1f prem. ; the American Oil Wells Trading Company, 4- dis. 4- prem. BRITISH FUNDS—•CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 9 3 per Cent. Reduced B7l- New 3 per Cent B7 i New 3i per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Db. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 June. Exchequer Bills, £1,900, 3 per Cent. 4 dis DO. £5OO Do £lOO and £200 Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent — Do Account ' — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10i per Cent., AprillB74.- Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 Do. Scrip, £25 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chili= 6 per Cent — Do. 3 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Danubian Principalities Do Account - 75 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent 92/ 3 Do., Second issue — Do £lOO Bonds 92/ Do. 1864 92 11 Do £lOO Bonds Liireek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account Cxuatemala 5 per Cent. — Do .£B6 paid Do. 183 b and 1850 'tali= 5 per Cent, 1865 Do. Account Do. Maremmana Railway Do 1865 Do Scrip, £674 paid Do 5 per Cent., 1864 Slexican 3 per Cent Do. Accciunt Do 1864 23 1 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — New Granada l4l Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 — Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Peruvian 41 per Cent Do. Account Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4i- per Cent., 1862 Do Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Aceount Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, X St — , Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 B9l 1 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 — Sardinian 5 per Cent — Do Account Spanish 3 per Cent - 44 Ditto account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive — Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account l4l Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Curkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do Account 9O 891 Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account 7ll 1 21 Do £l.OO Bonds .. 761 Do. 11 per Cent Do 6 per Cent. 1862 — Do Account 7ll / 701 Do £lOO Bonds 7l+ 1 1 1 Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Scrip, £35 paid Do Account Do £1(0 Bands Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 psr Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian_ !, 4l per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21. per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Do. 4 per Cont. Certificates — French R' entes 4k per Cent. — Iralian 5 per Cent. ,1861, Ex. 251. — Do - Account THREE O'CLOCK Consols for money 4..4., 871 x d Do. Account, Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market rather easier. Sales probably 8,000 bales. FRIGHTFUL DISCOVERY.—We thought that the Tories, like the wolves, were extinct—not that any great price would be set, by an economist, on the heads of the former. But it seems that we were in error. The eminent naturalist, Mr. Bright, has discovered that the species is still in existence, and raging. He declares that there are thousands of Tories rampaging about England (and at their leisure electing nearly half the House of Commons) who were hungering and thirsting to undo all the good that has been done for the last 70 years. They are sworn and vowed to achieve certain horrible things which he enumerates. They are these —To re-enact the Test and Corporation Acts, so that every Dissenter may be turned out of every place of profit. To repeal the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act. To repeal the Reform Act, the Corporations Act, and the Navigation Acts. To reim pose the corn laws, the sugar duties, the newspaper tax, and the paper duty. To abolish the system of national education. To do away with the new tariff. To repu diate the French treaty, and to make church rates and tho Irish Church eternal institutions. This is truly awful. We did not know it. As we said, we thought that the old original Tory was extinct, and we did not believe that there existed in England so great a fool as the man must be who entertains any one single object above stated. If we knew the man we would burst upon him in thunder and lightning. But we do not. Can it be that Mr. Bright has been once more calumniating a large body of his fel low-countrymen merely because they do not agree with him ? This is again an awful supposition—but is it quite without warrant in precedent 2—Punch. DEATH OF MISS TALBOT.—We have to announce the death, on Thursday last, the 30th ult., in London, of this estimable lady, in her 69th year. The deceased, Anne Talbot, was daughter of the late Mr. William Talbot, of Castle Talbot, and sister of the late Countess of Shrews bury. By her death many families of distinction are placed in mourning. Amongst others those of the Princes Bor ghese and Doria Pamphili ; Talbot, Dundas, Annesley, Sir J. Power, Lambert (of Carnagh), Bryan (of Jenkinstown), THE SUN, LONDON, THURSpAY, EVENING-, DECEMBER- 7, 180. SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing I Business Share' Railways, I Paid.' p r i ce. done. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc &London, ter ip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. *t Great North of Scotland Great Northern Mi. A stock Do. B stock 92 94 125 27 94 96 13 15 41 5i 68 72 71 73. 94 1254 6 113 115 44 15 71 81 '27k 129 147 146 Do. .tew, is. at 25 pn. GtS. and W. or Ireland Ut. Weßte n Original D . Val. Rail gua. Do. South %Vales .... Do. W. Altd.—Oxford 92 OS 62 t 2 60 62 41 43 15 40 04 106 122 123 88 90 104 105 36 38 50 b 2 124 126 90 97 6 , 4 6 136 3 lip 1 1P 1031 1046 Do. Newport Do. Bei eford ........ Lane ishire & Yorkshire Landon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast. Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Met rop. x. A.., Lon. & Aorth Western Lon. & South Westert,' Man., Stmt., as Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New Do Extension Metropolitan District Do do. do Do. and St. John'sW'd Mid'and Do. £9 Share 124 125 IA 2 94 £6 Do, Birmin.. & Derby %lid Kent ... North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. (.N purchast Do. Leeds ..... Do. York De. Carlisle ..... 601 61 8' 29 1101 111; 71 72 10 108 Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 - North Londou Do. do. 1864 .. 36 37 10 It p 126 128 2 2 •p 2 tip 74 76 11 12 148 152 67 69 112 114 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock 1)0. Scot, ➢iid. stock Shropshire Union South Devon mouth K.stern 55 67 78 79 8 9 148 152 3 t p 102 104 Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall 49 51 BRITISH P Atlantic & Bt. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda, Du. 5 per cent... o. 1! shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, do Goderich 5 p.c. 1872-3-' I Calcutta & S. E., lim ::ape Town dp Dock, gu 1 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi East. Ben g al, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prof. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.e 1 0. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India 20i 10 100 gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. Do. New . Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 43 do . . Do. Fifth Extension Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. Az Hudson's Bay.. N. Rl.C'da, 6pc lstpf.bs. Scinde Do. Delhi d Do. do Do. Puniaub p , n Do.lndus COLONIAL GO VER] British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1872. 4 . Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. o. Feb. & Aug. Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1)o. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 pm. 1873' Do.Apl.&001.1890-19 00 Do. do: 180-9 , Do. Jan. &July, 1890-9. Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., liroo Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Slauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 no. 1882, May i 5, Nov it Do. 1895, Feb. ‘34 Aug.. Natal .4ov. 6 per cent.. N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1861 Do. 5 p.c. 18,1 to 187 t Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189! New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 ..lueensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-l Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, n pril & Oct 'OSSEI 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 f 100 2 100 100 MELN 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 811 M ,SIONS. 59 61 102 i 1034 id tp 61 Oi 10 11 77 62 99 101 65- 70 101 103 102 108 104 105 VP 31 33 88 90 68 70 58 63 58 60 62 57 47 52 42 47 33 35 32 31 103 1(5 P 1011 1021 17 17! 3i 3 d 0 15 Sio e 7 1 od 1011 1021 94 90 89 91 64 '6 82 84 101 i 102 , 1014 1024 in 10t 102 fT SECU 96 98 95 1;8 96 98 &2 St 81 S 3 1(4 106 IC4 106 IC4 105 105 IC7 91 93 10) 1(2 1(6 108 103 105 106 108 104 106 1 6 104 10) IC2 96 ;8 1 0 102 93 95 90 01 103 105 84 85 101 102 103 104 106 108 4iiiiiii 118 71 1471 2)j 3) 61; 2 42 1 1221 88} vi 373 1251 NI I f 2 Pel 19} 71 - 1031 l 1244 4 lit 1 78 4:7i 1021 3 I'4 31 31i f 104 3/ 16/ 17 ITIES. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. The proceedings in this court during the early part of the day were of a rather unusual character, and caused a great waste of time. In the first place there wero three cases set down for hearing' before the Lord Chief Justice and special juries, and his lordship took his seat on the bench at 10 o'clock. However, only four jurors were in attendance, and the cases were accordingly struck out of the list. In the next case, which had reference to a disputed bill of Exchequer for £l5O, which presented no feature of general interest, the counsel for the plaintiff was informed that there would be no defence, but, after he had called his witnesses, it appeared that a learned gentle man had been instructed to defend the action, and the hearing of the case was resumed. In two or three other cases either the counsel, witnesses, or solicitors were absefit„ and the Court came to a (lead lock. His Lordship, in regard to one cf these cases, said that there were two courts sitting at that moment, and they had not once case between them, notwithstanding that there were several on the list, and it was disgraceful that the time of the court should be so wasted. It was desirable that parties should clearly understand that when their cases were on the list for the day they were liable to be called, no matter the order in which they stood. He would set the example of allowing cases to become remanets without necessity, or of the Court rising at half-past 11 o'clock through neglect on the part of persons interested. A case was then proceeded with, and at its conclusion the Court rose. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE J. E. BLAGROTE. This bankrupt was described as a provider of quadrille bands and clerk to a limited company of music publishers, at 201, Regent-street, also residing at 32, Langham-street, Portland-place, and to-day ho applied for the order of dis charge. The debts are £637, and the deficiency £573. Amongst the creditors are several of the band, who had been engaged to play at evening parties; Messrs. Richard and Henry Blagrove, musicians ; and Cramer, Wood, and Co. (limited), the cause of the failure being loss by specu lation on a musical tour in 1862. In the absence of oppo sition the order was granted. IN RE SHAKELTON - ANOTHER DIRECTOR OF THE STRAND MUSIC HALL COMPANY. The bankrupt, who is a .director of the unfortunate Strand Music Hall Company (Limited), applied for his re lease from custody, he being a prisoner for debt upon lia bilities incurred for the company. There was no opposition, and his Honour ordered the bankrupt's release. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A BATCH OF JUVENILE PILFERERS.—John Prendergast, 14, Samuel Clark, 14, Thomas Warren, 12, and Charles Pentney, 11, were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a quantity of tarts, buns, and cakes from the shop of Mr. George J. Fidler, confectioner, 315, Oxford-street. Binstead Webb, 112 0, said that last night he was in Oxford-street in company of Moss, 63 C, when he saw all prisoners, with the exception of Warren, go into the shop of Mr. Fidler. The prisoner Clark then pulled over a case and took out some cakes, and then they all rushed out of the shop and made off. He succeeded in catching Pentney and Warren, and 63 C took the others. On searching Clark at the station he found upon him a tin shop ticket, with the words " A Penny a Slice" on it, which no doubt had been taken from some other shop, as it did not belong to Mr. Fidler. Miss Fidler, daughter of the prosecutor, said that on the boys seeing her approaching they dropped some of the ar ticles (cakes and buns) and ran out of the shop. Mr. Knox asked whether the parents of the boys were present ? Prendergast's mother said her boy was an apprentice to a brassfounder and a good boy, and had never offended before. The mother of Clark said her boy had a situation. Mr. Knox said he was the worst of the lot, and the ticket from some other shop was found upon him. Pentney's father said his boy was at work ; and Warren's mother said her boy worked at a saddle-tree maker's, who would speak to his character. The boys here sat up a blubbering, as did also the mother of Warren, and Mr. Knox having ordered them to be taken out of court, said he should like to see the boys' employers, and if it turned out that the boys' parents had spoken the truth, he might at the end of a week remit them to their parents. He did not wish to do anything harsh towards the boys, but he wanted to know that they were not young thieves about the district, and he should therefore remand them for a week, but the police might make inquiries, and the boys' masters might attend. ployed in the engine-room, he was fined at this court on Monday for smuggling, and on Tuesday he directed the engineers to make a strict search in the engine-room for contraband goods. There was an unused oil tank in the engine-room, and on carefully searching that they dis covered the tobacco and cigars produced. Witness in stantly communicated with the Customs' authorities, and hence the apprehension of the prisoner. He, however, trusted his worship would release the engineers, as his vessel left the port to-day, and he would not bo able to ob tain other engineers in time. A consultation then took place among the authorities, when Mr. Beasley consented to the release of th• engineers on the captain's security to attend on Monday week. The other prisoners were fined £lOO each or six months imprisonment. The Cattle Plague. DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERNMENT (THIS DAY). • A deputation waited upon Lord Granville and Sir Geo. Croy, this day, at the Privy Council-office, from the Royal Agricultural Society of England, with reference to the existing cattleplague. There were present—Lord Tredegar, Lord Faversham, Lord Walsingham, the Hon. General Hood, Colonel Kings cote, Hon. A. Vernon, Professor Simons, Mr. Holland, M.P., Mr. Acland, M.P., Mr. H. S. Thompson, Mr. Bran dreth Gibbs, Mr. Randell, Mr. Bathroop, and other well known gentlemen. Mr. H. DARE, the secretary, submitted a string of reso lutions that had been agreed to by the society for arresting the plague. Earl GRAsvn.LE and Sir GEORGE GREY expressed an opinion that the orders in Council already issued were sufficient to meet the case, but said they would further con sider the deputation's prop osals. The proceedings then terminated. AMERICA. (RE UT ER'S EXPRESS.) NEW YORK, Nov. 25 (Noon). Governor Humphreys of Mississippi has sent a message to the Legislature of that State, recommending as a mea sure of vital importance, and as a means of relieving the State of national troops, the passage of laws admitting negro testimony in the courts, affording the freedmen pro tection in all their rights, giving encouragement to their industry, assisting in the education of their children, and taxing them for the support of their own vagrants and helpless persons. President Johnson has replied to Governor Humphrey's request that the national troops be withdrawn from tho State, that they will be withdrawn as soon as it becomes manifest that peace and order can be maintained without them. The Legislature of Alabama met at Montgomery on the 22d inst. Governor Parson's message was read to the body. It recommends the ratification of the anti-slavery amendment to the national constitution, tho passage of laws for the protection of negroes in their person and pro perty, and for the punishment of vagrants, black or white. Several of the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau have officially called attention to the fact that great suffering will probably exist among the negroes during the approach.. ing winter, and that the mortality among them is fearful and increasing. In one district 100 died out of a body of less than 4,000 within six months. The mortality among the children and the aged is particularly great. There have been no further developments in regard to the ru moured tendency towards insurrection on the part of the blacks, but in Louisiana all negroes arrested are generally found to be armed. It WAS apprehended that they might become troublesome about Christmas. An order was issued yesterday from the War Depart ment by direction of the President, notifying all claimants for the rewards offered by Government for the apprehen sion of Jefferson Davis and the assassination conspirators, that they must file their claims at the Adjutant-General's office before the Ist of January next, and also announcing the revocation of the rewards offered for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, Beverley Tucker, George N. Sanders, and William C. Cleary, Confederate agents in Canada, and John H. Surratt, suspected of complicity in the murder of President Lincoln. James H. Seddon, ex-Confederate Secretary of War ; ex-Governor Magrath, of South Carolina ; and ox-Gover nor Lubbock, of Texas, have been released on parole. The Secretary of the Interior informed the Commis sioner of Patents that he has been instructed by the Presi dent that no patent rights are to be granted to residents of the lately insurgent States unless applicants furnish good proof their loyalty. • The President has approved the sentence of death passed by court-martial in Georgia upon two white soldiers for the murder of a coloured woman. The Rev. George B. Cheever, one of the most prominent abolition clergymen in the country, at a lecture in his church in this city last Thursday evening, made a most violent assault upon the course adopted by President Johnson, with whom he declared the Northern people were greatly dissatisfied, and who was acting as though he owned the country and could do with its inhabitants as ho pleased. The speaker further declared that Mr. Johnson acted more like a counsel for the rebels than President of the United States, and that public opinion, which had long been suppressed, would soon be heard against him. Sir Frederick Bruce has consented to . act as umpire of the commission appointed for the settlement of the claims of the United States against New Grenada, growing out of the riots at Panama in 1856. The Prussian Minister at Washington has, in behalf of his Government, preferred charges against the authorities of the State of Massachusetts for having, by fraud and compulsion, induces 'Prussian emigrants to enter military service to fill the qitota of that State. A military commis sion, composed of Major-Generals . Hitchcock, Mott, and Williams, has been appointed to investigate the charges. The news from Mexico is even more than usually con tradictory. The recent report that the Imperialists had abandoned the Northern States and were concentrating at Mexico, Vera Cruz, and San Luis Potosi, to await the arrival of reinforcements, is effectually contradicted. Vera Cruz dates to the 13th inst. state that Michoacan and Oajaca had been cleared of Republicans and guerillas, and that a force of 600, under General Guzman, had been cap tured, and the leader shot in accordance with the recent decree by Maximilian. The Emperor had appointed Gen. J. B. Magruder, late of the Confederate Army, Surveyor- General of Colony Lands. . . El Paso advices to the 20th October state that Juarez and his Cabinet were still there, but would soon leave, as two French columns were moving upon the place. The inhabitants of the region around El Paso were very heavily taxed, having to defray the entire expenses of the Juarez Government. General Mijia held Matamoras on the 15th November. The Republicans were, however, still menacing the place, though not in formidable force. It is rumoured, by way of New Orleans, that Federal Gene ral Weitzel had refused to deliver to Mejia a steamer cap tured by the Juarists above Matamoras, and that the Re publicans had suddenly raised the siege of Matamoras in consequence of the approach of a large French force. 105 106 BRIT! Cam. Coneol. (~told, Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 1 Devon G. Cone. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Carad on East Uarn Brea. Nast Grenville ~ East Gunnislake.. (East Lovea. E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StAubyn(G wen. Great L twey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist Grenvilte Ilerod's Foot .... Elingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Mwyndy Iron Ore, lira New Se wn North Roskear N.Wh' I Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper llnited Pr,videnee Uny Lelant . S. Caradon (St. deer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft "agra and Ckgan, lim West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard West Chi verton ..... . West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan' Wheal Buller (Redruthl Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Tzelawney (Lis INES. 9 10 21 23 580 690 1 14 12 25 9 10 54 6 • 34 4 1 15 16 3 4 5 7 21 22 1 14 3 ef 35 30 21 45 35 37 5f 5f 7 9 44 5 21 14c1 40 60 15 17 t I} 1 14 2.1.0 29i 2.14.0 31 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 38 40 420 410 12 12 273 326 1. , 1t 19 20 5 7 5 6 10 12 7' 82 190 20u 85 90 24 28 4 6 215 225 19 20 105 i 6 ritEFERENOE SHARES. Caledonian Quarters, No. 2, 98 Great:Eastein, E. U., 4 per cent. gua.. 80 Great Western Orig. 4i per cent pf., 93 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Hail., 801' FOREJGN LtAILWAM, Great Luxembourg. 16/ / Ottoman (Smyrna to Aldm), 104 San Paulo, lim., gua. 6 per cent., 17/ FOREIGN MINIM Cape Copper, lira., 13 121 Fortuna (Aim.), 3} Mcnt. Aureos Brazil Gold Min./Co., 1 I BANlib. Anglo Egyptian, lira., 131 Australasia, 6.} Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 24} Consolidated Bank, lim., 10i English Joint Stock, lim., li a Hindustan, China, and Japan, ilm., Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto. new, 16} Imperial Ottoman, 1i London Bank of Alexi,o and S. America, lim., 141 London and Brazilian (lira.), 41a London and County, 79} London Joint Stock, 51f Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 18} Ditto (£2) , Scinde, Panjaub, and Delhi, Um., 51 Union of London, 5'62 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, St MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lira., 3i Ceylon Company, 10i Commercial Union, hisurance, Credit k'oncier and Mobilier 01 itugland, si Ditto, issued at a prem., of which £2 is to pay, 3j Crystal Palace, 8 Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., 115 j Discount Corporation. 12 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, Um., 12 Egyptian Com and Trading, Urn., 2& Fore-struct Warehouse, lim., 11l Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lim., Home and (1 ilonial A ssuran ce. lim, Hong Kong and China Gas, Hudson's hay, ii Joint Stock Discount, lim.. 9 i Land Securities, I ma., 3 London Financial Association, lim Apoi London General Omnibus Company, inn., 31 M • dras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (a11),1 Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 4f National Discount company, 17i Ottoman Financial Association, Aim. 13 Overend, Gurney, and Co.. 211 I!: Rio de Janeiro City Improve - menu. Aim. 23 1 Royal Mail Steam, 11. Thames and Mersey ( .uarine) Insurance, lim., THE ACCIDENT ON THE VALE OF NEATH RAIL WAY.— The bodies of the engine driver and stoker have been found, and an inquest has been adjourned to Friday next. Another signalman, named Charles Bartlett, has been taken into custody on a charge of neglect of duty on the morning of the accident, he being the signalman at the New Cut-bridge, which is a short distance from the bridge whore the accident took place.- He was taken before the magistrates on Tuesday and remanded. The rubbish in the float has now been pretty well cleared, and traffic has been partially resumed, WESTMINSTER, FORTUNATE DETECTION •OF A NOTORIOUS TIIIEP.—A short active young fellow, who gave the name of Robert Bryant, was placed at tho bar charged with attempting to rob a carrier's cart. Police-constable John Babb, 120 B, said he was on duty in Sloane-street, Chelsea, at seven o'cloek last evening, and saw the prisoner with three other men walking along together. He was particularly observing them when a cart laden with goods passed, and prisoner and one of the others immediately ran after it. Witness followed, and after proceeding a short distance the prisoner and his com panion got up from behind into the cart, which almost im mediately after stopped. As witness was rapidly advancing towards the cart, the prisoner and his companion jumped out and endeavoured to make their escape, but the accused was captured and taken back to the cart, from which nothing had been taken, as the goods were fastened in, and there was not sufficient time to loose them. Prisoner—lt's all a mistake. I was a quietly looking at a shop window as the policeman comes up and says, "I wants you." I never was near no cart, and hadn't nobody with me. Mr. Arnold•-What is known of the prisoner? Witness—He was convicted for six months for a rob bery in a house less than 12 months ago. Dennis the gaoler—He is a well known thief, and has been repeatedly convicted of felony. Mr. Arnold—What do you say tO that, prisoner? Prisoner—Well, of course, I've been a little unfortunate. Mr. Arnold I have no doubt of your intentions last evening. You are committed to hard labour for three months. THAMES. ROBBERY IN A WAREliousE.—George Mitchell, a porter, was charged with stealing two bottles of wine, valued at 10s., the property of the Midland Counties Railway Com pany, at their warehouse, in Royal Mint-street. At four o'clock this morning a watchman, named Thomas Moorcroft, employed at the goods station of the Midland Railway, saw the prisoner in a warehouse there. A bottle of wino was standing against a post: The prisoner took it away. Moorcroft immediately sent for a police-constable, named Samuel Fuller, No. 153 H, who took the prisoner into custody. He saw a cask of wine there that bad been spilled. He received a bottle of wine from the last witness. Ithad been taken from the prisoner. At the station-house the prisoner gave the constable another bottle of wine. The constable returned to the warehouse, and found another bottle of wine had been spiled. The prisoner delivered to Fuller a gimlet and a spile peg, and admitted he had taken the wine. A quart of port and a quart of sherry in square bottles was produced, and Mr. John Walker, an agent Of the Midland Counties Railway Company, said the value of it was 10s. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and added, "I did not mean to take it off the premises." He was convicted under the Criminal Justice Act, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. LAZY PAUPERS.—George Saunders, aged 37, John Ben nett, 29, Robt. Evans, 19, and George Townsend, 18, were charged with refusing to perform the task-work allotted to them by the Guardians of Mile-end Old-town While they were casual inmates of the workhouse. Thomas Moffatt, portdr of the workhouse, said that he admitted the prisoners into the casual ward last night. They had a warm bath, and supper and breakfast this morning. They had absolutely good beds to lie upon all night. He put them into the stone-yard at half-past 8, and directed them to break up a basket of stones. They all refused, and said they had never broken stones before and would not do sd new. The prisoners were all asked if they had anything to say, and each replied in a sullen manner "Nothing." Mr. Partridge—l sentence each of you to 21 dap' im prisonment and hard labour. SOUTHWARK. WHOLESALE SMUGGLING ON BOARD A FOREIGN STEAM SHIP.—The first and second engineer and three firemen, of the Schwalbe steamship, trading between Bremen and the Port of London, was bruught before Mr. Woolrych on information, charged with having concealed in the engine room of that vessel upwards of forty pounds in weight of foreign manufactured cigars and tobacco, such not having been paid the duty for, thereby rendering the ship liable to be forfeited to the Crown, and the prisoners to a £lOO penalty each, or six months' imprisonment. Mr. Beasley, assistant solicitor to the Customs, attended to prosecute. Mr. John Edwin Bent, surveyor to her Majesty's Cus toms in the port of London, said that on the previous day, from information he received, he sent on board the Schwalbe, and entered the engine-room. In one of the oil tanks he discovered sixty-eight pounds of tobacco and nineteen boxes of cigars, all of foreign manufacture. He communicated with the captain, and the prisoners were sent for and given into custody. Witness, however, did not think that the engineers knew of the concealment. Mr. Graves, one of the brokers to the ship, interpreted the evidence to the prisoners, when Mr. George Hewsmas, the captain of the vessel, was called, and ho stated that the two engineers were respect able men, and would not have risked their reputation by smuggling tobacco, or the engine man. In fact he was sure they knew nothing about it. As for the other man. em- TBE FENIAN TRIALS. DUBLIN, Wednesday. O'Leary was found guilty to-day on all the counts, and was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. He made an address. The Government, he said, had found no difficulty in getting a jury to convict. He accused Mr. Barry, Q.C., of morally assisting him, pointing to him as that " miserable man." Judge Keogh had said that informers were easily bought by the Government with money, but agitators " made the best bargain." A traitor had been placed by Dante in the lowest hell ; but it was the traitor who betrayed king, country, friends, and benefactors. He was no traitor, England was not his country, and he had betrayed no friends or bene factors. O'Donovan (Rosso) was put forward, but certain documents having been withdrawn from him by the governor of the gaol which were necessary to his defence, the trial was postponed. Moore, the black smith who made the " rods," was then arraigned. THE RUM—The most valuable of all jewels is the ruby. This precious stone depends upon its colour, as we have said before, for its value. Tho ruby, sapphire, and oriental topaz are composed of identically the same materials ; the red sapphire is a ruby, the blue ruby a sapphire, the yellow ruby a topaz. They are all termed corundums, an Indian name. The ruby is the next hardest thing in nature after the diamond. The finest rubies are found in the kingdom of Ava, and in Siam; they are also found in Ceylon and in many parts of Europe. The King of Burmah takes one of his titles from it, that of " Lord of the Rubies." In Burmah they are a royal monopoly, and none of any value are allowed to leave the kingdom. The finding of a fine ruby is made a state event, and a procession of grandees, with soldiers and elephants, are sent out to meet it. The colour varies from pale rose to deep red, but the tint that is most highly valued is that of the " pigeon's blood."—Once a Week. BOILING DOWN DISEASED CATTLE.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Hatcham was held last evening, for the purpose of getting the suppression of a nuisance which now exists at the Hatcham Mills by boiling down diseased cattle. Several vestrymen of Camberwell were present. A number of speakers, principally working men, addressed the meeting, describing the injury they had suffered from the smells from the mills, and a medical gen tleman stated that the effluvia from the boilers would be likely to cause much disease and fatality in the neighbour hood. Ultimately a deputation, consisting of working men, was appointed to wait upon the Privy Council, to ask redress. The Earl of Lonsdale has left his residence on Carlton-house-terrace for Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Sir David Brewster on Patent Rights: In opening the session of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on Monday night, Sir David Brewster stoutly defended patent rights. In the course of his address he said—The present raid against the patent laws is the direct and acknowledged result of the ungenerous influence of trade. The shortness of the tenure of patent rights, and the heavy tax levied from inventors, are expressly maintained in order to diminish the number of patents ; and the avowed reason for thus diminishing them is, that from their number and frivolity they interfere with the opera tions of tradesmen and manufacturers, by exposing them to actions for infringement. That there are many patents not remunerating, and not immedi ately beneficial, is painfully true, when we consider how much they have cost the sanguine inventor. 'That there are any patents really frivolous or use less, in the true sense of these terms, can be main tained only by ignorant or interested parties. There is no patent that does not contain a proposal to do something that is new, or to make some improve ment upon what is old; and there are many examples of apparently useless patents containing the germs of future and valuable inventions. There are cases even in which the invention stigmatised as useless has proved to be an essential element in a future patent, where the new patentee has piratically used it, and dared to complain that he had been prosecuted for infringement. But there is a still more intelligible reason why no patent can be called useless. In bringing it into the market workmen are employed and materials purchased ; and even if the process, instrument, or machine thus offered to the public has no sale and no useful application, the hapless patentee has given liberal fees to several functionaries of the State, and contributed nobly to the patent fund. That any patent is frivolous and injurious in the sense of interfering with the func tions of honest traders, is simply untrue. If an in vention which has been patented at the cost of £175, and produced nothing in return, is a neces sary part of an important invention subsequently patented, it is a positive proof that patents appa rently frivolous may be truly valuable. The first invention is, therefore, neither an obstacle to im provements nor a ground for litigation. It has, on the contrary, led to a greater invention ; and whe ther the second patentee has used it ignorantly or ad visedly, he ought to pay for the use of it, instead of pleading in a court of law, as he generally and dis honestly does, that the original specification is de fective. But even if the cases of interfering with pa tents were more numerous than they are, and more fertile in litigatian, is is the lawgiver, and not the inventor, that is to blame. If Parliament, in its wisdom, cannot reconcile the interests of paten tees and honest tradesmen but by robbing the for mer, they overlook the fundamental law in social economy, that no great improvement can be made in the arts of life, andno true reform in our institutions, without interfering with a variety of interests. In proposingto abolish patent rights, its promoters seem to have wholly overlooked the international interests that are at stake. If we have no patent law, we deprive every foreigner of his existing right to a British patent. Foreign Governments may there fore adopt a policy of retaliation, and refuse to our countrymen the patent rights which they now so freely enjoy ; or, what is more probable, they may hold out additional privileges to our ingenious arti sans, and thus obtain the first fruits of their skill. Inventors will follow their inventions, and in the exodus to foreign countries—to the United States, especially, with its cheap and judicious patent laws— we shall lose, more rapidly than we have yet done, the most ingenious of our inventors, and the most useful of our citizens. A policy like this, so Boeotian in its character, and so injudicious in its results, is as politically unsafe as it is socially unwise and per sonally unjust. Rights that have been firmly estab lished and long enjoyed are not readily abandoned. Illiberal and oppressive as the patent laws are, they are still the Magna Charta of the commonwealth of inventors, and in an age tending to democracy they will not be surrendered without a struggle. Rights hitherto unquestioned, and not more sacred, may be exposed, to the same scrutiny, and social interests endangered with all classes have been accustomed to respect and defend. If these views of patent rights be just, and if, as movable property, they are as sacred as copyrights, there can be no just reason why they should not be granted equally cheap, given to every applicant, and enjoyed during at least the life of the patentee. Wages in the Carpet Trade. A short time back reference was made to the annual meeting of the Power-loom Brussels Carpet Manufacturers' Association, which was held at Shrewsbury on the Ist of last month. A deputation on the part of the weavers attended that meeting, on the invitation of their employers, and trade questions were entered upon in a manner so tempe rate as to inspire the men with confidence in the as sociation. The leading subject which came under discussion was the regulation of the supply of labour to the carpet power-looms in a manner such as would fairly meet the wants of a growing trade, with its increased need of weavers. It appears that hitherto no one has been allowed to take a loom till 21 years of age. The " creel" boys employed in the carpet mills have consequently, when about 17 or 18, been induced to look elsewhere for higher wages, the de mand of the labour market being met by absorbing the old hand-loom weavers of the locality, and ad mitting those who had been " creel" boys after they had passed their 21st year, if they were then in clined to resume work in a carpet manufactory. The hand-loom weavers have now been almost entirely brought into the power-loom trade, and it is there fore becoming necessary to make some arrangement for the admission of those who, growing up in the subordinate branches of the work, may reasonably look for employment at the looms as years pass on. After some discussion and explanations as to the apprenticeship system in other trades, the weavers then present intimated that an ad vance of their wages would be acceptable, and upon this the manufacturers determined to consider both these subjects fully. A committee of six power loom firms, appointed at that meeting, have since gone carefully into these questions, and their report has had the cordial and unanimous assent of the other members of the Association. As a result of this a meeting was held at Kidderminster, on Fri day evening, when the manufacturers present were met by a corresponding number of their workmen. The chairman (Mr. Brinton) announced to the weavers that, upon a fair and candid review of the wages question, and the question of the labour supply, the manufacturers had decided to make such alterations as the state of the trade and due regard for the claims of the weavers allowed. The altera tions would embrace an entire revision of the prices now paid, and an advance in most of those paid for special widths and qualities of power-loom work, and for loom changes, and particular alterations— the object of the association being to place the weavers' remuneration for special kinds of work on a just footing with the ordinary sorts, and also to constitute a uniformity of payments, as far as pos sible, throughout the entire Brussels power-loom trade. It was further stated that a general advance of a farthing per yard, equal to 12i per cent. upon the present list, would be given on all qualities of work from the Ist of January. The alterations also include the introduction to the trade of such a moderate number of apprentices and of adult hands as might be necessary, and, in the judgment of the Association, fair and reasonable. A printed list, drawn up under the supervision of the committee of the association (whose labours the weavers present gratefully acknowledged) will be issued in a few days, and will contain the new prices and regula tions which come into force at the beginning of the new year. On the following day the weavers of Kid derminster set the bells ringing in honour of what had occurred, and the inhabitants generally seem gratified, as well as surprised, at t he way in which the manufacturers have dealt with their workpeople. —Birmingham Post. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES SULLIVAN.--The death of Sir Charles Sullivan took place on Sunday last at his residence in Montcomb-strect, Belgrave-square. The late baronet was born in 1820, and succeeded his father as fourth baronet in 1862. His brother, Edmund Robart, suc ceeds him in the baronetcy. •••• - THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocx. TAT TERSALLS'—This Evening There ware very few members present, and no transac tions worthy of quotation came under our notice. Prices nominal. Bank of England Returns,.—This Evening. An Account, pursuant to tho Act ith and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending WednesdAy; Dec. 6, 1865. ISHUE KI'MEN't otes Isoued :35,%7), .£'4B 3:35,270 RANKING 1/ oprletors' Ca pi_ i al X14,563.000 'Lest eublic Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Comm is m issiouers of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 6,619,6 3 Other Deposits 12,617,030 Seven Day and other Bills 471,129 Dec. 7, 1865. £37,453,3 4 1' Government Debt £11,01:1,1' 0 Other Sceuritie. . Gold coin .Xt 13,0E5 21,0 Silver Bullion .... 'ZPARTILEINT. I Government Seen- riticti (including Dead Weigh t Au- £'-8.335,270 nuityj Other 'Securities Notes Gold and Silver 7t4,347 Coin . £ 37 ,483,324 MILLER, Chief Caehier. STATE OF TRADE. LEICESTER, Dec. 6.—The demand for hosiery is slackening, as is always the case at the end of the year. Manufacturers are, however, tolerably well engaged in the warehouses, and completing orders on hand. in the country districts there is an ave rage amount of business doing. Worsted yarns are quoted at high rates, with a firm market. There is no material change in the price of cotton yains. The wool market is firm, at high rates. NOTTINGHAM, 6th.—There is a further falling off in the demand for lace goods this week, and business will be quiet to the end of the week. Cotton goods of most descriptions sell very slowly. The plain trade is extremely quiet, and the fancy branch is also dull. Buyers purchase only for immediate re quirements. In the silk department there is no im provement. Black laces meet a slow inquiry, and the narrow edging trade remains depressed. Silk commands exceedingly high prices. The hosiery trade continues very active for the time of the year. Most branches are well engaged, and the operatives are in full work. Yarns are firm, at high rates. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day, (BY TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Ann Margaretha, from Randers ; Vigo, from Groningen ; John Bull, from Montreal ; Trident, from Hamburg. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed, Dec. 6—Amy (schooner), from St. Michael's; Caroline (schooner), from Marseilles ; Helenor (bark), John Bull, and Commerce (bark), from Montreal; Creswell (bark), ft-cm Colombo; Ocean Sprite (bark,) from Falkland Is lands ; Amelia (ship,) from Belize all for London. Passed, Dec. 7.—Valdavia (ship,) from Marco; Bertha, from Sydney; Maria Pia, from Lisbon; Pegasus (screw steamer), from China ; Mignonette (bark), from the west —all for London; M. A. Stephenson, from London, for Buenos Ayres. Anchored.—lcon, from London, for Cape of Good Hope, RETURN OF THE SHENANDOAII TO LIVERPOOL.— The notorious ex-cruiser of the Confederates—the Shenan doah—which left Liverpool about three weeks ago for New York, arrived most unexpectedly in the Mersey yesterday, when everybody supposed that she would be all safe in New York harbour. She appeared to be in a very strained and damaged condition, and without sails, all having been blown away in a fierce gale she encountered on the 23d of November in lon. 25, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane from the north-west. The Shenandoah suffered so severely from the effects of this gale that Captain Freeman, her commander, an old and experienced officer, judged it ad visable to return at once to Liverpool and refit. The Dublin Express says there are at the disposal of the Government in Ireland about 10,000 men of all arms —comprising 1,260 artillery, with 48 Armstrong gims, 2,280 cavalry, and nearly 7,000 infantry—which can be aug,mented, if necessary, by the Royal Engineers and Mili tary Train. DEATH OF CAPTAIN FOWKE.—Captain Fowke, R.E., the architect of the Exhibition building, 1862, died suddenly on Tuesday. He was a distant relative of the Fowkes, baronets, of Lowseby Hall, county of Leicester, and was born about the year 1824. He was educated at Woolwich, obtained his first commission in the engineers n 1842, and attained the rank of captain in 1854. FRENCH SAVINGS BANKS.—The Minister of Agri culture, Commerce, and Public Works has addressed to the Emperor a report on the operations of those esta blishments during the year ending Dec. 31, 1864. From this document, which fills nearly six columns of the Moni, teur, it appears that the number of these banks in France was 492 at the end of 1864, seven new ones having been founded during the year. The total assets of the savings banks from all sources, after deducting expenses of admi nistration, amounted at the end of 1864 to 12,688,420 f. (rather over half a million sterling), being an increase of 650,195 f. over those of 1863. The number of depositors on Jan. 1, 1864, was 1,471,509, and 239,326 new accounts were opened during the year, while 156,684 were closed; so that the total number on the 31st December last was 1,554,151 being an increase of 82,804 accounts, or nearly six per cent. For all Franco there is ono depositor to every 24 inhabitants; 28 departments exceed or equal this average, and 61 fall short of it, the highest proportion being in the Seine, where there is one depositor to every seven inhabi tants, and the lowest in La Vendee, where there is only one to 329 inhabitants. Though the total of accounts had greatly increased, there was a diminution of 468 in Paris, 400 at Lyons, 503 at Marseilles, and of smaller numbers in. seven other places. The deposits received during the year amounted to 175,623,724 f., which, with the balance of 447,871,513 f. from the preceding year, and interest accrued, make the grand total of 639,744,417 f.; from which must be deducted accounts paid off and sums invested in Rentes, 177,668,9021; leaving a balance of 462,075,5151. due to de positors on the 31st of December last. As compared with the preceding year the balance has increased 14,098,201 f., or about 345 per cent. The average sum owing to each depositor for all France was 297 f. 34c. in 1864, against 304 f. 46c. in 1863. This average is exceeded in 64 depart ments. The number of accounts under 500 f. is 1,172,361 ; from 5001. to 8001. 185,976; f ro m 800 f. to I, ooo f. 110 , 55 0; and above I,ooof. 85,264. Of t he de p ositors, 85,099 aro workpeople, 38,698 domestics, 11,305 shopmen and clerks, 7,174 soldiers and sailors, 54,997 of divers trades and pro fessions, 41,735 minors, and 318 benefit societies. , . A CARD-SHARPER IN COURT.—At Port Glasgow, on Thursday, a man named George Thomson, who had "fleeced" an Irishman of £55, was eharied with gambling in a railway carriage between Paisley and Port Glasgow. A colloquy between Thomson and the Bench is thus reported by the Glasgow Ilerald:—"Upon the in dictment being read, Provost Read said—Well, what have you to say to the charge ? Panel—Well, your Honour, I have just to say that I am guilty of gambling in the train. Provost --What is your business? Are you a general dealer in cards ? Panel—No, your Honour, 1 am a dealer in fiats Provost—Did you make any money that night ? Panel— Yes; a few pounds—the matter of a £lO note; but that is nothing. Provost The man who has lost the money has said you got a £5O note instead of a £5. Panel—There is some talk about its being a fifty, but I do not think it was anything of the kind. Men are not so foolish as to hand out a fifty instead of a five ; however, I will soon know what it was. Provost—l suppose you could show it now ? We will be able to tell you what it is. on it is a Panel— Indeed, I cannot, because I lost it almost as soon as I got it. A party in the carriag e won it from me —one of the gentlemen who travel with me has it ; but the nd yo I u pridenay smile, myself b fact is, on I nmy h w av or e d su o c f h ho a no th u i r n — g : th. my honour—it is all a fi b about it being a £5O. Barn() L ang —The dupes that are t aken in b y y ou are to blame as well as you. They p la y to win, and to a certai n extent are deserving of what the y g et. Panel—N ow, that is the r ight way to put it. Whoever heard tell of a man Playing to lose ? And wh en a man plays he is just as bad as we are. There is a saying that an Irishman is very witty and pretty wide awake, but for my part I never found it so They in reality are as green as the island they come from, and should all bo termed the ' green 'uns.' Provost—This poor Irishman left his wits at home, but took his purso with him. You know that, I suppose ? Fined 40s. with 80s. of expenses, which was at once paid. Provost—Now my advice is, to give up this line of business and become an honest man. You must feel very much being placed in this position. Although you don't look like a flat, still, if you have any of the honour you talk about left you must feel to face a man after you have done. him out of his money. Panel (putting his hand into his pocket and taking out three cards)--Is there no possibility of me getting as much as will take me to Glasgow ? I don't like to walk. Provost (laughing)—There is no chance of your doing anything in that lino here. The walk to Glasgow will do you good, and possibly you may mee t with a few flat s cn the road. Panel—l dare say the only flats I wo u ld meet would be the soles of my boots, and I am not flat enough to walk them off my feet. This town has a flat appearance, so there must be a good many hero, and I will just wait for an hour or so. The card-sharper then left i the court. this eyes that &est .heek the ) that e feet 3 life hold nr ` of con- that than I am v the hard,