The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

r I R 1 _........1 re red Dug life. peke' but ice Ln jo 'Ara acysir- race' the s s'g " " A Krl T - F‘ . AN F 3 1 10 MAT AittiMAT, INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Business to-i lay in discount circles has again been very active, _'and the bill brokers have required fully 6 per cer tt. for the nedotiation of short -dated paper. The in quiry for accommodation has recently been greatly stimulated by some heavy pay ments that had to, b e made in connection with the Egyp tian loan, and this afternoon a capital laige am oun t o f will be taken off the market by th e N orth Wcstern Railway. The near approach Of th e 4th of the month is' also exercisingts usual infl uence b y then a i the provision required for meeting th e bill s wh i ch rrive at maturi banke rs ty. The floatin g b a l ances of and other discount establishments, how ever, show an increase greater w illi n , and th ere i s, therefore, gness to enter into new engagements, and a more satisfacto At ry feeling appa ren t . rations the im Bank yesterday the re were no bullion ope of portance. During the past week the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets have been closed for the Christ mas holidays ; a few dealin:gs, howe ver , h ave t a k en place i n the private market in several of the princi pal staples at about the rates current at the close of the year. Operations, however, will be actively re sumed to-day. The following con'imunication refers to the Vene zuelan debt :—Mrissrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have r eceived advices from their agents at La Guayra, annvancing that the recent order of Gen. Guzman Blanco, for the resumption of - payment of the 55 per cent. of customs has been rescinded by an orde,c of the Caraccas Government, pending the decision. of the Federal Court as to certain alleged claims of Government creditors ; and that they . (Messrs. Baring's agents) had been required to re fun d a sum of $18,443 45c in payares, received at Prierto Cabello on account of the duties. The General Credit and Finance Company of London are in receipt' of advice from their agents, Messrs. H. L. Boulton and Co., dated La Guayra, Dec. 9, 1864, of duties collected 'as follows, on ac count of the Venezuela Six per Cent. Loan of 1864 ; Per statement No. 11, from La Guayra, $1,346 37 c. ; No. 12, from ditto, $3,927 49c. ; No. 19, fr9ni Puerto Cabello, $855 36c. ; total, $6,131 22c. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele gram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes have been 67f. 20c. Firm. No material alteration has been perceptible to-day in tbe quotations of the principal favourite securi tieF, of the Stock Exchange, but there has undoubt edly been more business in progress than recently, and a more buoyant feeling has been apparent. Monetary affairs .will no doubt in a short time assume an easier appearance, and politically there is nothing to occasion the least disquietude. Under these favourable influences the public may be ex pected to speculate more freely. The English Funds to-day have been maintained at their recent improvement, and Consols for money are 89i *, and 89i 4 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities 'are 88* 4 ; Annuities, 1880, 14 5-I6ths ; Exchequer Bills, 4s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 104 103* ; and Bonds, 10s. prem. There has been a moderate business in the Foreign Market, and prices have been tolerably steady. Turkish 6 per Cents. (1862) are 691 4 ; ditto Consolides, 48i 1 ; Mexican, 281; ditto New, 24 s ; Greek, 23* 1 ; Spanish Passive, 321 8 ; ditto Certificates, 141 ; the Confederate Loan, 52 54 ; the Egyptian, 11 prem. ; the Danubian, i d:Es. par ; and the Montevidean, 21 4 prem. In the Railway Share Market business has been moderately active, and prices in several instances are firmer. South-Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln have each advanced 15s. ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, and Midland each ss. ; while South-Eastern have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines are generally a shade firmer. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue at steady rates ; London and Westminster realise 8; U n i on of London, 581 ; London Charte re d of Australia 241 i Alliance, 33 34 ; Hudson Bay C "VanY7l6B ; London F inancial, 234 24 ; an d Credit F oncier and Mobilier of England, 81 i• BRITISH FUNDS CLOSING PRICES. Govnimin-rr Forms. 8 per Cent. Consols ... B9l i Do. Account, Jan. 10 BBl New 3 per Cent,. Reduced BBf t 3rr Cent BB New 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. per Cent. Jan. 1873 ... — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan.. . .1880 14 5-16 7-16 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBls.- Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908.- Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent. 4pm Do. £5OO and . „ Do. £lOO £2oo. — Bank. of Engla n d St oc k , 51 per Cent •239 Do. Account ............................ l I NDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ndian Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 —Do Account 215 Do. 5 per C en t . J u l y, 1870 )3 2Z- Do. Accou n t Do. 4 p er C en t ., O ct. 1888 Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 54 per Cent., May 1879 Do. .4 per Ceiat, Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO lO pm Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bond; 5 per Cent Do. 4-i per Cent., 1852-58- 60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Chilian 6 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Ce n t., 1864 Danish 3 per. Cent., 1825 Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 Do. 5 per Cent, 1773-77, £25" paid — Eador N ew C onsolidated, 1 per Cent — 0., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian 7 yer Cent ................• 9 -84 2. 4 Do., Second Issue ............... Do. £lOO 80nd5....... ; ....'.'.'. Do. 1864 D o. Scrip, £l5 pa i d .............. . 14 Greek 5 per Cents. Coupons , 1824-5, ex — pm. bo. Account 234 Do. Coupons Gu atemala 5 per Cent Do. 1839 and 1850 ........................... Mltalian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) exican 3 per Cent. ........................... Do Account ....... 1 ............................. 284 f DO 864 . . ......... . ............ 264 DDo 6 per Cent. Anglo-French ............ o Scrip, £5O paid Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c ............ dis x div NMoorish Imperial 5 per Cent ............... ew Granada ....... • ............................ DDo 2 per Cent o Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April, 1864 — Do do Aug., 1856 Peruvian 44 per Cent. ........................ Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 4i. per Cent., 1.862 Do Account ..... - ....... . Portuguese 3 per Cent , 1853 . Do Account .... • . • ............ - DDo 3 per Ceni., .... . ; 9 . , . CO • .. ... .. 461 o Account ........... . .... ... _ ... ... Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ Si., ......... Do 44 per Cent., 1850 ..................... ash Do 1860 ..................... Do 3 per Cent., 1859 511 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do 1861 Do Scrip, £65 'paid Sardinian 5 per Cad P Do Account Bll Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account . 4l • 'Do Passive Do Account 324 Spanish C er t . o f Coup not funded 1.• Do Account 144 Swedish 4 per Cent. Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1863 110 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Do,Vs'aezuela 3 per Cent. Account .... • 6 Per Cent . 1862 .. DoDo. Account . 6 Per Cent. . 1.864 14, Per Cent .... _ ... : ...... livid eat... .. ... ... . ori . the . .a . b . c;e payable in London. Belgian, Austrian, 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins 44 per cent.,. Ex.,25f. Dutch 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil French:Rentes, 3 per Cent Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, E x. ......... Do. Account .......................... ... 6 4 3 i ' 1-I[REE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Do. Account ...... SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Paid./ Share/ Railways. PaidC l l ' o ric i en.g Business Bir., Wol., & Str. Val.. Blyth an Tyne Bristel and Exeter Caledonian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall A gets no dry. Do . A DO B { tilldp.c.p.an.has ' been paid to B Dublin & Belfast Juno Dun„Perth, & A b.Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Wr stern Great Eastern, Ord. si k. Do. E. Angl. st No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern ....... . D.). A stock Do. II o ............ Do. New, Is. at 25 pu Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste it -Orijnal I) . S. V4 l . Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do W. Mid.—Ox ord Do. Newpo t......,. Co. He eford. .. L u po .shire &Yorkshire London and Blackwali Lon., 8ri..:11., & S Cons t Lon., Chit., and Dover Lon. & north Western Lon. & South:Western Man., Shet„ & Haryport and Carlisle shares Metropolitan. .. Do. New Mid and Do, Birmin & Derby Mid Gt. W., Ireland Do. .4 shares •id Kent No th British Do. Ed., Pth , - St Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G. N .11 purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. ..tock. & Darling. De. d . 855- 8 Do. do. 1 80-61 Corth Londou Do. New Do. do H. 4 \forth Staffordshire .N. & S. W Junction icottish C. ntral scot. N. E Aber. stock o. Scot, Mid. at !ck -h ews & Welchpool.. Shropshire Union .... south Devon outh - E stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W.Hartlepool Har.&lt Do. A irredeemable. Do. A redeemab' e 88 90 132 133, 6 7 BRITIS POSSE; Atlantic & St. Lawrence 1 3om.,Baroda, A Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bcls. Aug. 1, 87z 1 Do. do. July 1, 18731 Do. do. June 1, 1574 1 Calcutta & E., lirn , a e Town & Dock, gu 1 Dernera a, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben al, gu , 5 co East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. .1 Extension (3t and Trunk of Canad 9 Do. Equip. I!Jort,Boncl., 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. Pref. stock Do. do. defet red Do. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deferred Gt. India Pen. gua. bp.e o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c (H. South of India (Urn.) gua. 5 per cent D Do . . 41 per cent i3reat %ir< a. of Canada D New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 f)0.51 do. pay..1877-?•1 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Mclb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Hel & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and 13 NT. itl•C'da, pc Ist pl.bds Scinde .. • ...... Do. Delhi . 74 1 • Do. d 0..... ..... ..... cg Do. PuWaub..... . Do.lndus St Flo COLONIAL GOVERNSIEN' British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec. 31,11372 Can Gov.° p.c..Ja.& July 1877-4 Do C p. c Feb & Au 4 D sp. c. Mar & Sept 1 )0.5 p c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p c. inscribed sk Cape G.Hopc, 6 p.c. 1873 April & Oct. 1880-1 Do. do: 1.90-1 Do. Jan. & July, It 9 Ceylon, N(..y_ 18 6 8, U 1 3 . Do. 1878, ;do. Mauritius, A p. c, Jan. and July Do. 1 78 Do. 88!, May 5, Nov. Natal ov. o per cent N.B.Gcv 6 p.c.Ja.& July N. S. W. Gov. 5 pv.,1866 Do. 5 p.c: 18 1 to 876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent.... ... 'Nova Sc tia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1675 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 6. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18 8-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Uov. 6 p. c. Ja & July Do. do, c- pril & Oct BRIT" Cani Consul. Uold, lim Chiverton ;Word A malgamated.l Devon G. Cons. (Tav,st Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara. ion as Carn Brea. Nast G:euville Last Love.l L. W'l Russell Javistk Gam & StAubyn(Gwen. Gr. at L :xey, Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor ;Heist Grenvil e lierod'a Foot [Mignon is owns Margaret Uny Lelant 3.larke Valley Viwyndy Iron Ore, lie Nangi lea . New Se ton North Downs North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett •Itlogan North Whe,l Crofty Prosper United Pr vidence Uny I. dant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan -tray Pa-k Tin 'Croft West assett (Ii wan W. Caradun (L skeard West Chi rerton West Seton Wheal BaaEett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Whea Ludo,,tt Wheal Mary Ann (Um Wheal Seto.l Wheal Ti elawney (Lis. Wheal Uni n.......... 34 2 ; is 17 DO 92 108 1 8 471 4?.q 71 13i 135 155 15i 130 32 99 01 73 78 67 - 57 59 44 46 ;CO 102 1111 415 SO 84 105 106 37 39 1181 119 97 99 6.1 67 121 12! 13 1 137 105 197 55 57 z 5 27 1 3 111 7►4 72 103 101 38 39, 1' 12p 9 lop 123 124 1 2p 1 1 p 79 8 101 11 138 142 58 69 4 42 85 85 8 9 [63 168 3} 41p [OB 109 S 8 40 74 77 sIONS 58 60 1021 103 Par iP 5 5 bi 9, 75 69 93 100 102 103 103 104 20 21 9) 9 , 70 72 61 61 63 63 56 58 53 65 47 48 30 31 28 30 103 1(4 P par f p lot 103 9 94 1.1 lld 88 b 0 8) £•2 1 04d 1024 103 96 93 91 93 C 6 58 3 5 82 81 10! 103 1023 103 id ip 102! 1 , 3, 95 97 SECUR 98 1( 0 ¶7 99 97 9 r 81 86 8.1 81) 11: 105 105 107 106 108 109 1 1 '1 2 1( 1 4 1(13 110 05 107 06 109 106 108 100 106 93 100 95 97 95 97 96 96 105 107 89 91 99 1(1 101 106 107 10) 106 107 M 2.1.0 30 2.14.6 3 4.0 2.7.0 2.13.6 M 0.6 601 all 1.1.0 8.13 4.18.0 4.3.0 214 3 321 3:10.0 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 18.18.9 30.17.6 474 54 10 3.128 8 58i 7 NES. 64 6 32 33 575 595 47 49 19 20 61 CI 41 51 14,E If,t 4 $ 5 6 8 18} IN 1 it 341 33 31 41 25 37 3 4, 8 9 41 31 1} 20 22 6) 70 17 ig 1 I 2i 3 t 2i 3 3 1 86 530 650 2) 25 1 6 18 16 17 7 / 8 6 8 -6.) 65 205 215 90 95 9 11 13 35 11 , 5 205 18 2) ,I 71 7 ['REFERENCE SITAR Es Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford Ist guaranteed stock, 1:5 6 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent.. oi PREFERENCE SHARE AND sTOCEs. London, Chatham, ize., Aletrop. text., B @ per cent., 93 London and South-Western, 4) per cent , 99 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. North Western, lit Nottnghain and Grantham R. & O. 92 3) FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91 Great Luxembourg, 1i 12 131 Namur and Liege, gua. 6 per cent. pf., 191 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 9i Alamiilos, limited, it FOREIGN MINES, Linares, lint., 5 alont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., St. J ohn del Rey (Elm.), 35 4 BANKS. Alliance (lim.), 34 3 4 3 tiliatrtn:knooi 1 itto, new, 254 Ditto, issued at 'Z,O pm., of which 10 Is pd , 18 4 ti, nclEa:n?:ntisi loaar3tlttadulng(til 1 ,e 1 : 16e ) : 174 1im . 4 . 1(5 Angi,l Austrian, 8 Bank of ( (tag°, lim., 14 i Junk (4 Nen. Ze I d i l;,,liarter,d hank of India Australia, and China, 341 5 a l , nn an ., d . Elindust ani s t, ,u b e it c l . t.onsolidated Bank . a Ditto, European Bank •• lira., 11- g 1 k is , Bued a it. 2 pm., 27 'Japan aim.), 304 f Dittn, Imperial Bank al 6111.'1,71 Land Mortg ae B k or India, lim., 51 imperial ot tom In • • 4 `-- - London CharrerLral'l6l 1 17 London and county a B n 3 k of Australia, 241 4 e—sttnl;s;er to' 9 London Joint Stoc, ' i i a London D 1 tto a , n n d e %, ‘ , v l , Merchant Bank, lira ,24 ' u Oriental Bank- Corporation. 58 tioinde, Punjaub, ahi lim 1' Union of Australia, nd — Del .. 5 Union of London, 184 5 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 171 • 4 Commercial Union, Insurance. 85 Credit Fonder and Mobilit r of E ngland, 83 i Ditto (£2), 55 Credit Fonder of Mauritius, lira., Gi Crystal Palace, 32 4 Ebbw Vale, Egyptian Corn and Trading, Ern., 54 Financial Corporation, 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Bic., 71 Hudson's Bay, 164 Imperi.J. Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 8 $ $ .1; International Financial :iociety, lim., 7/ International Land Credit, lim., 65 I London General Omnibus Company, 34 London Mercantile Discount, lira., 3 Milwall Iron Works, 45 THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—Advices by the Canada report that the Banshee had arrived at Nassau, from Wilmington, with 1,270 bales of cotton; and the Colonel Lamb at Wilmington, from Nassau. 13 1 at at at 50 20 20i 20 / 100 lOC 100 100 1(,0 10) 10 100 10 10 I'o 100 100 100 all all all 100 100 16.13.4 10) 100 all 100 WO 2 100 100 1' 0 100 100 10 100 100 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1865. r-U - • ,_-E-!,-..., - -,---- trtu r .., 4by POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTINGUISHING THE GAS AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT IN A THEATRE.—Edwin Henry Crump, a clerk, living in Stephen-street, Tottenham Court-road, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with disorderly conduct at the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham-street, Tottenham Court-road, and also with extinguishing the gas in the box-passage. Wm. Francis, box-keeper at the Queen's Theatre, said the defendant and some, companions, young men, were at the theatre last evening, and behaved in a very disorderly manner, clapping their hands and applauding when all the other persons in the theatre were perfectly quiet. At the same time, one of the gaslights was put out by some per son. After the defendant and his companions had been expostulated with, they were quiet, but as the audience were leaving the theatre he saw the defendant first look for the gas tap, with the view of turning off the gas, but failing in finding it he blew the light out. The defendant said he blew the light, but did not think it would go out. Mr Tyrwhitt said if the defendant wanted to play his monkey tricks he should go to a penny theatre. Extin guishing the lights in a theatre was a most mischievous thing, and aided robberies. The defendant said he was very sorry for what he had done, but he had no improper object. Mr. Tyrwhitt said ho should require the defendant to find one bail for his good behaviour for three months. The required bail was put in, and the defendant liberated. MARYLEBONE. CONDEMNATION OF A THIEF TRAP.—William Pickleford was charged with stealing three coloured shirts, under the following circumstances. Edward Quarthy said—l am assistant to Mr. Lewis Bill, draper, of 7, Edgware-road. Mr Yardley—Do you hang things outside your shop ? Witness—We do, sir. Mr. Yardley—Go on with your evidence. Witness—About 8 o'clock last evening I had just got into the shop when I heard the bell ring. Mr. Yardley—What bell ? Witness—We have all the goods outside connected by a string to a bell, and as soon as things are touched the bell rings. On going outside I saw the prisoner with the three shirts, valued at lOs 6d, in possession. Mr. Yardley—You had, in fact, a thief trap ready baited. Witness—Yes, sir. Mr. Yardley—You have this thief trap ready baited to lead persons into temptation. Why do you hang your things out ? I wish the law would allow me to punish you. I would apply it with . great felicity. George Adams, 882 A, deposed to taking the prisoner into custody. Prisoner expressed his sorrow. Mr. Yardley sentenced him to three months' hard labour. MARKE I S---This Day, HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s ; clover, £5 5s to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s ; clover. £5 5s to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. A fair demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, £4 4s to £5 5s ; clover, £5 5s to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. Trade firm. COAL MAR s. d. Bowers West Hartley 18 3 Byass's West Hartley 18 3 Cowpen Hartley Hastings Hartley lB 3 Itolywell Main lB 6 Howard's llartley Lambert's Hartley Tanfield Moor Butes 17 0 Walker Primrose l5 9 West Hartley West Wylam Wylam lB 3 Walls End A corn 2l 3 Walls End Byron Walls End Gosforth 21 0 Walls End Harton 21 0 Walls End Riddell Walls End Wharucliff 21 3 Eden Main Walls End Belmont 2l 0 Braddylls Hetton 22 0 HER MAJESTY. 0 EMORTO, Monday. Her Majesty the Queen, and their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold at tended Divine service yesterday afternoon at Whipping ham Church, where the Rev. G. Prothero officiated. Hor Majesty tho Queen will hold a Council at Osborne on Saturday next. The Prince and Princess of Wales. SANDRINGHAM, Monday. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, Marquis Bow . - mont, Earl Cowper, Sir Frederick Johnstone, Hon. C. Carrington, and the Hon. Wm. Grey, finished cover shoot ing, at Sandringham, for the present season on Thursday last, the Prince and his distinguished guests having had three excellent days' cover shooting last week. Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale has arrived on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales. On Friday their Royal Highnesses and their distinguished visitors attended the " meet" of the West Norfolk, at Congham House, it being by far the most bril liant " meet" of the season, and had the pleasure of getting two or three runs. The field, which ;timbered some three or four hundred horsemen, behaved in a most respectful and decorous manner. Their Royal Highnesses and party arrived shortly after the appointed time, and were received by the esteemed master of the hunt, H. Villebois, Esq. Almost immediately afterwards the plan tation near the house was drawn, and in less than five minutes the hounds "found," and soon Reynard broke, and the welcome " Gone away" put all in their places that in tended to follow. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, attended 'by the-Marchioness of Carmarthen, and accompanied by the Duchess d'Aumale and the Hon. Mrs. Grey, now returned to Sandringham, but his Royal High ness the Prince and his guests joined the hunt. The fox went away for Merringham Common, which he skirted, and, describing a circle, he brought the whole field back to where they started, and succeeded in getting to earth in the wood from whence he was started, after affording about half an hour's run. He was dug out and killed, and it being found that he had got another sly old chum in the earth that was started and afforded another short spin over nearly thg same ground, only shorter, getting back to the wood. We understand that a third run was subsequently obtained. His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen left Sandring ham on the same day. On Saturday the Marquis BOwmont, Earl Cowper, Sir Frederick Johnstone, and the Hon. C. Carrington, tenth nated their visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales, and left. Yesterday their Royal Highnesses, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Lieutenant-General Knollys, Captain Grey, Mr. Holzman, and the Hon. William and Mrs. Grey, attended Divine service at Sandringham Church. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Captain Grey, left Sandringham this morning, on a visit to the Earl of Leicester at Holkham. Their Royal Highnesses meet a distinguished circle at Holkham, and will remain till after the ball on Thursday, returning to Sandringham on Friday. Howlett's cele biated quadrille band are engaged to play each evening at the ball. It is understood that the Prince will join the Lord Lieu tenant for a day or two's shooting over the splendid covers, and will also inspect the most extensive, and highly-cul tivated estate in Norfolk. Distribution of Her Majesty's New Year Gifts to the Poor of Windsor- Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the ceremony of dis tributing her Majesty's new year gifts to the poor of New Windsor and the district took place in the Butchers' Market, beneath the Town Hall, Windsor, in the pre sence of Mr. W. R. Harris (the mayor), the Rev. H. J. Ellson, vicar of Windsor, the Revs. Messrs. Simpson, Rooke, and Stone, of Windsor, the Rev. T. Carter, of Clewer, the Rev. H. Hawtrey, of Holy Trinity, Windsor, &c. The Queen's bounty—which in happier times was given to the poor of Windsor in the'presence of her Ma jesty and the late Prince Consort at the Riding School of Windsor Castle—consisted to-day of portions of beef of the finest quality, weighing from 31b. to 71b. (supplied by Messrs Bedborough and Sons, purveyors to the. Queen and Prince of Wales, and Messrs. Copeland and Hughes, the principal butchers in Windsor, and quantities of coals of from 1 cwt. to 3 cwt., supplied by Mr. Little, coal mer chant, of the Great Western Railway yard, Windsor. The coals were delivered at the residence of the recipients. The beef was presented in the market, the distribution to several hundred recipients being superintended by Mr Miller, clerk controller of the kitchen at Windsor . Castle, assisted by Mr Renwick. The scene presented was a very striking and interesting one. The forms in the market, the avenue leading to which was guarded by the - borough po lice, wero loaded with pieces of beef, being ticketed with the proper weights. As soon as the gates wore opened the market became thronged by those of the poor entitled to partake of her Majesty's bounty, and the distribution of the beef was commenced. Gradually the large red piles of meat were reduced in size as the recipients, with smiling faces, retired with their gifts, and in about 20 minutes all had received the bounty awarded to them. During the distribution the bells of the parish church of St. John rang out a merry peal. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge will return to St. James's Palace on the 9th instant from Kew. His Excellency the Danish Minister and the Countess de Belli have arrived at Ashburton House, Put ney Heath, from a Continental tour. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have been entertaining a select party at Deane Park during the past week. Viscount Grey de Wilton, who has been suffering from indisposition for some time past, at his residence at Melton Mowbray, is now, we learn, much better. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town from Exeter yesterday afternoon. The Right Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., and Mrs. Peel are staying at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, on a visit to Frances, Countess Waldegrave, and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue. Sir Edward .and Lady Caroline Kerrison are entertaining a large party at their sea, Brorne Hall, Suffolk. Colonel and Mrs. Farquharson, of Invercauld, have arrived in town from visiting Sir George and Lady Julia Wombwell, at their seat, in Yorkshire. _ . The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have in- Tited the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Milner Gibson) to visit Liverpool, in the same week that he will address his constituents at Ashton-under-Lyne. THE DRAINAGE OF WINDSOR CASTLE.—Some extensive drainage improvements are now being carried out in connexion with the Castle. Within the last month or two a new sewer for the reception and car rying away of the Palace sewage has been projected and is now in the course of completion. This new brick sewer is a work of. some magnitude, extending as it does from a point close to the gates at the north end of the Long Walk and stretching away across the Home Park in a south-easterly direction, between Frogmore-house and the Castle, towards the south bank of the Thames, into which river the sewage of the Castle, it is said, will flow. A large quantity of bricks has been used by the contrac tors, and the works are being carried out rapidly during the absence of her Majesty at Osborne. Much has been done during the reign of her Majesty within the precincts of the Castle to perfect the drainage, and there now exists a system of daily flushing with a strong force of water, which more than anything else must always tend towards the prevention of the epidemics created by a bad or care less system of drainage. BURNING OF THE SPANISH ADMIRAL'S SHIP AT THE CHINCHAS.—The following is an extract from a letter from a shipmaster, dated Callao, November 29, 1864 :—" On the 26th inst., at 6 p.m., one of the Spanish frigates took fire (accidently starting turpentine)—the main magazine blew up at 3 a.m., As we were starting I sailed to see the wreck. She foundered in 50 fathoms about half a mile distant from us. The officers and crews of the fleet behaved with great pluck. Not a single accident. They saved her treasure, small arms, a quantity of shot and shell, drew the charges of the shotted guns, flooded the magazines, and towed her an equal distance from each ship of the fleet. This is great news for the Peruvians — they have got all their fighting tacks on board just now." TIID LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT HIGH PARK COLLIERY, NOTTS.—At the Shire-hall, Nottingham, on Saturday, Ichabod Woolley, Joel Walters, and Samuel Walters, under viewers in High Park Colliery, belonging to Messrs. Barber and Walker, were charged with a breach of the Milling Act in allowing men to work in the colliery where - firedamp was present without sufficient precautions being taken to insure their safety. Tho case arose out of the unfortunate and fatal accident which took place a short time ago in the High Park Colliery, by which three colliers lost their lives from the firedamp being "buffeted" on to naked candles which they were carrying, and the above named*men were charged, being under-viewers in the col liery and having discovered the presence of firedamp in the pit, that they allowed the men to work with naked candles, in contravention of the 28th section of the Act, which enacts that no one shall be allowed to work in a pit unKl all danger from the damp is removed. The bench convicted all the defendants, Woolley in a penalty of 20s, and the two Walters in penalties of 40s each, or a month's Inprisonment. WESTMINSTER. ROBBING BARGES IN THE THAMES.—Henry Calcott, youth, 18 years of age, was placed at the bar charged with stealing some coals. Police-constable James Garratt, 132 V, said that he was on duty in Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, last night at a quarter to 11 when he saw the prisoner come from the shore with a bag on his shoulder containing coals. He said in reply to an enquiry from the witness that he had got them honestly ; he had found them on the shore where they had dropped in the unloading of barges ; but as he was certain that that account was untrue he took him into custody. Prisoner—What I told him was quite true, your worship. was down on the shore and picked up the coals as the .de left them there. Police constable—There have been of late a great many complaints of extensive robberies of coal barges moored off Chelsea, and the police have had directions to keep a sharp look out, in order to detect the offenders. Had these coals ever been dropped and found, as described by the prisoner, they would have been covered with dirt and wet, but they were perfectly clean and dry. Prisoner —They are little lumps that have been inside of others that he had broken. Mr. Selfe—ls the prisoner known ? Dennis, the gaoler—He is a well known thief, and has been convicted both here and at Hammersmith. He has not long been out of custody. ... Mr. Selfe—What have you to say to that ? Prisoner—Nothing. Mr. Selfe—l have no doubt that you stole these coals amounting to nearly a hundred weight, from a barge. I shall commit you for one month to hard labour in the House of Correction. THAMES. REMOVAL OF IRISH PAUPERS.—Mr. Jeffreys, one of the relieving officers of the Poplar Union, came before Mr. Partridge, with Mary Hayes,' aged 37, and John Hayes, her brother, aged 12, and requested him to sign an order for their removal to Limerick, their native place. Mr. Partridge said the law 'prohibited the removal of Irish paupers as deck passengers during the winter season. Mr. Jeffreys said the two :pauj)ers before the bench would be forwarded to Limerick as cabin passengers in a steamship, which would leave the river to-morrow morn ing. The Guardians had contracted to pay 10s. extra for each pauper sent to Ireland during the winter months. Mr Partridge said that a case had been lately investi gated by his colleague, Mr. Paget, vthere it appeared that the guardians of the Greenwich Union had sent paupers to Cork as deck passengers in the month of December, 1864, and one of them was a young woman who had been con fined a month only. He could not , too strongly condemn such a state of things. He asked the two paupers for whom orders of removal were asked were in good health ? Mr. Jeffreys—Yes, sir. Mr. Partridge--And able to undertake the voyage to Limerick ? The woman, who did no t look Pi Mr Jeffreys—Y e; s i r, an d w illi n g to go. Wore than 20, and her brother were then sworn to t h e p l a te of their legal settle ment, and the magistrate signed the order for their re moval, on being assured that prof r care would be taken of them on the voyage. CHAPEL ROYAL, SAVOY.—ast evening a most theatre is it was fill e d w i th agreeable entertainment was given to the juvenile portion of the p ar i s hi oners o f th e 'precincts of the Savoy, in the the a t re o f Ki ng ' s College, Strand. Spacious as the your people, with the most good - humoured faces, accompanies). ; in many cases by elder branches of their families. The ehdristers for the day threw off their surplices and dressed themselves up in all sorts of grotesque' attire, singing, reciting, tumbling, and playing all ma nner o f t r i c k s f or `the amusement of their friends. The Rev. Henry White, the chaplain of the Savoy, in a few general words, said his object had simply been to provide a Christmas entertainment for the young people he was in tho h a bit o f me eting on more serious terms during the y ear, an d th e re was to be no attempt to instruct anybody. It was inttnded to be a meeting for pure fun and enjoyment, nothing more nor less. He then entered into the amusemen ts bf the evening with the greatest possible zest, pl a yi ng on the piano while the chil dren sang, exhibiting magi c lanterns and chromotropes in every conceivable form, and cheer/14g' on the young people to enjoyment with wonderful succ,ess. One youth gave a capital parody of speeches too often heard—in the capacity of an emissary from the " Cat's Fiidnd Society ;" another (or perhaps it was the same, for his face was blackened) was an excellent representative of a stump orator. Another was tied up a la Davneport, and tied, too, by people who, never having seen anything of the sort before, were deter mined to have no nonsense. So they tied him up in a very barbarous fashion, and so thoroughly that the poor fellow had to be carried behind a screen, where he was left to himself. In less than a minute he returned and exult ingly held up his ropes in his hand, a feat which brought down thunders of applause. He then in less than a minute and a half tied himself up, and it tqok the stalwart porter of the college nearly half an hour to untie him. It would be impossible to describe the varied amusements of the evening, with which the rapid progress of time alone in terfered, for there was enough in the programme to have lasted several hours longer. When Mr. White announced that on account of the lateness of the hour the amusements must cease, and give them all a New Year's greeting, the young people rose in a body and thanked him in a succes sion of hearty cheers. A similar compliment was paid to Dr. Jelf, principal of the college, who placed the theatre at Mr. White's disposal for the entertainment, and who has also granted him the use of the college chapel on Sunday evening until the church of the Savoy, some time since burned down, is restored. THE HUNTERIAN ORATION.—Mr. Partridge, of King's College, has consented -to deliver the oration in honour of John Hunter, at the Royal College of Surgeons, on the 14th of February. DEATH OF LADY DE DUNSTANVILLE.—Harriet, Lady De Dunstanville and Basset, relict of Baron De Dun stanville, expired on Friday last at her residence in Charles street, Berkeley-square, in her 89th year. At the death of Baron Do Dunstanville in 1835 that title became extinct, but his barony of Basset passed to his only daughter by his first wife, who died 20 years after her father, and with her the title also became extinct. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. -A new step has been taken by this society. They have instituted a weekly show of whatever flowers (common or rare) may be at their best on each succestive Saturday. They have a band of music every Saturday—Weippert's Quadrille Band—and by the constant recurrence of the shows every Saturday they secure the exhibition of many plants which rom their flowering at a time when no great show was held, would not have been exhibited at all. One advantage of this step is that whoever is fond of flowers or music will now find the best of both at the Horticultural Society's Garden on Saturday. Monday has been fixed as the people's day at a low charge of admission, and these weekly shows are to be carried over from Saturday to Monday for this express purpose. We see also that prizes for window gar dening are in contemplation, 1351 i 1574 791 ; 1162 ; 84 106C4 33i: 8 1221 93i 9 off 1241 i 141 i 86 5i f 102 I IT lES. 8t i 842 ET, JAN. 2. s. d. Walls End Haswell._ 23 0 Walls End Iletton 23 0 Pensher Primrose 22 0 Russel's Hetton South Hetton Stewart's Sunderland Tunstall West Lambtolt ' 0 Cassop Caradoc Hartlepool Heugh Hall Kelloe East Hartlepool South Hartlepool 2l 9 South Durham 2l 6 South Kelloe Whitworth Evenwood lB 6 THE BRITISH,MINISTER TO MEXICO.—The Hon. P. Campbell Scarlett, the newly 'appointed Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Mexico, left London yesterday to enter on his newly-appointed duties. Mr. Middleton goes out as first secretary, and Mr. H. Le Strange as second secretary. THACKERAY'S SCHOOL-DAYS.—It was when he was between the ages of thirteen and fifteen and a half or sixteen that I knew Thackeray best. He was then a rosy-faced boy with dark curling hair, and a quick, in telligent eye, ever twinkling with humour, and good humour. He was stout and broad-set, and gave no pro mise of the stature which he afterwards reached. It was during a short but severe illness, just before he left school, that he grew rapidly, leaving his sick-bed certainly a good many inches taller than lie was when he entered it, and heading at once all his contemporaries. No man ever owed :more of his mental growth to time and exercise, and less of his bodily stature. For the usual school boy sports and games Thackeray had no taste or 'passion whatever, any more than in after-life for those field-sports which seem to have been the delight of his schoolfellow and fellow-humourist, Leech. Such amuse ments would have come probably next to Euclid and al gebra in his list of dislikes. But he was by no means what a good many men of genius are said to have been in their youth—disposed to isolation or solitary musing. For a non-playing boy he was wonderfully social, full of viva city and enjoyment of life. His happy insouciance was constant. Never , was any lad at once so jovial, so healthy, and so sedentary. Good spirits and merriment seemed to enable him to dispense with the glow of cricket or foot-ball ; and if in his still earlier days he ever " . fagged out," it must have been most bitterly against his will. We were now and then, indeed, out together in small fishing parties, but it was for the talking, and the change, and the green fields, and the tea abroad instead of at home—cakes, &c., accompanying (for he was always rather gustative, never greedy)—that Thackeray liked these expeditions. . . . He was eminently good-tempered to all, especially the younger boys, and no thing of a tyrant or a bully. Instead of a blow or a threat, I can just hear him saying to one of them, "Hooky" (a sobriquet of a son of the late Bishop Carr, of Bombay), "go up and fetch me a volume of "Ivanhoe" out of my drawer, that's a good fellow; in the same drawer you will, perhaps, find• a penny, which you may take for yourself." The penny was, indeed, rather problematical, but still realised suffi ciently often to produce excitement in the mind of the youth thus addressed, and to make the service a willing one. When disappointed, it was more than probable that the victim would call Thackeray a "great snob" for mis leading him, a title for which the only vengeance would be a humorous and benignant smile. In the two or three years that I am recording, I scarcely ever saw Thackeray seriously angry, or even his brow wrinkled with a frown. He has been called a cynic ; it is doubtful whether a real cynic could ever be manufactured out of a boy who had such powers as he had of sarcasm.—"Comhill Magazine" for January. ALLEGED MURDER.—Mr. Richard Smith, a re tired surgeon, living at the quiet little town of Winchcomb, Glocestershire, was on Friday committed to Glocester county gaol on the coroner's warrant, charged with the murder of his wife by shooting her through the head with a gun. Mr. Smith formerly practised as a surgeon, but had retired for some years, and lived with his wife alone, without a servant, in North-street, Winchcomb. He was very eccentric in his manner, but his eccentricities were not considered by his friends great enough to warrant them in placing him under restraint. On Tuesday night a shot was heard in his house, and a neighbour who heard it listened at the window and hearing Mr. Smith moving about the room and talking she thought no more of it. Next morning the prisoner went to his .brother, who lives in the same neighbourhood (the prisoner's son living with ; him), and told his sons that their mother was dead ; that she had been shot. When asked whether the shooting was accidental, he said the " gun was pointed at her and went off," but he would not say whether it was accidental or not. The sons ran to their father's house, and there they found their mother lying in her blood, cold and stiff, in the sitting-room. In a room' adjoining was found a double-bar relled gun, one barrel of which was loaded, and this, there could be no doubt, was the weapon with which the deceased woman was shot. After telling his sons of their mother's death the father was proceeding to Gloucester, when he was overtaken by the police and apprehended. The inquest was held at Winchcomb before Mr. Lovegrover, coroner for Glocestershire, when Mr. James Adolphus Smith, son of the deceased, deposed that his mother was 52 years of age, and that she and his father lived comfortably toge ther. The gun belonged to'witness, and had been left by him at his father's on the previous Saturday. Witness slept at his uncle's on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday morning his father came there and said his mother was dead, and also said something about a gun, but witness was too agitated to understand him. He fetched his brother William, who was in the same house, and then asked his father, " Did you shoot her ?" He replied, " The gun went off." The witness added that his father had been labouring under delusions. He was under the impression that his sons would be kidnapped and sent to America. William Alexander Smith corroborated his brother's testi mony. He last saw his mother alive about three hours be fore the gunshot was heard. His father was at home, and they appeared to be on good terms with each other. Next morning on hearing from his father that his mother was dead he ran to the house, and accompanied by a man named Payne went into the parlour, where they found the de ceased lying on the floor on her side. She was dressed ash 3 had seen her on the previous evening. Corroborative evi dence was given in support of the above by Joseph Payne and another of deceased's sons. Mrs. Greenhalf, who lived next door to the house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Smith, deposed that about 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening, hearing the report of a gun in Mr. Smith's parlour, she went to the parlour shutter and listened. She heard some one move the chairs about, and Mr. Smith spoke, but no one answered. Hearing Mr. Smith afterwards go into the hall witness went away. Mr. Newman, surgeon, Winch comb was called in to see the deceased on Wed nesday. She had fallen close to a chair, on which her right hand and arm rested. There was blood on the floor, and she was dead, cold, and stiff. There was a gunshot wound.in the upper and back part of the neck. The spine was fractured, and death must have been in stantaneous. He found 16 shots in the wound, and these, on being compared with the shot found in the double barrelled gun, proved to be of the same size. There could, of course, be no doubt as to the cause of death. Most of the witnesses bore testimony to the fact that the prisoner was of unsound mind. The policeman who apprehended him said he considered ho had been in an unsound state of mind for the last five years. At times he had been in such an excited state as to call for his interference. A juryman stated that he had seen him with a fishing-rod fishing in the turnpike road. Mr. New man (the surgeon) said that ever since he had known the prisoner, twenty years, he had considered him in an unsound state of mind. The jury found a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Richard Smith, and wished to append to their verdict an opinion of his insanity, but the Coroner said that must be left to another court. The prisoner was accordingly committed for trial at the next Gloucestershire spring assizes. SCHOLASTIC REGISTRATION.—The general com mittee, encouraged by the success which has attended the movement in favour of scholastic registration, has re solved to convene a public meeting of schoolmasters and others interested in education, to consider the best means of bringing the question before the Legislature and the public. The meeting will be held on Thursday, the sth of January, at two p.m., at the rooms of the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi. The hon. secretary will read a report of the progress of the movement to this date, and will give an outline of the Medical Act, which has suggested the proposed Act, on a somewhat analogous plan, for the Registration of School masters and Teachers. Several gentlemen of influence will take part in the meeting, and it is earnestly hoped that all promoters of educational reform will endeavour to attend, and co-operate with those whose object is to obtain for the public some protection ageinst incompetent educators, and for the profession the position to which its character and importance entitle it. —Educational Times. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co• have received by the present mail the following remittances on account of New Grenada dividends :—From Santa Marta, £1,971 14s. 2d. ; from Cartagena, £642 ; and from Sabanilla, £4OB lls. 6d.—total, £3,022 4s. s Bd. The mil from Guayaquil has brought a remit tance of £1,769 3s. 3d. on account of the dividends on the debt of Equador. AMERICA. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Boston and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 11 a.m. to day (Jan. 2.) She brings 53 passengers and $56,622. She landed all the mails and seven pas sengers, and proceeded at 11.30 a.m. All well. She was detained one day at Boston by a snow storm. Admiral Porter's fleet of 100 vessels, including 65 war vessels, amongst which are the most power ful in the Federal navy, was spoken 40 miles south ward of Hatteras, bound south, it is supposed for Wilmington or Charleston. Thirty companies of Canadian volunteers have been ordered to the frontier. It is reported that the money taken by the St. Alban's raiders is now in the hands of the Confederate agent in Montreal, and will be returned to the proper authorities. The House of Representatives has passed a reso lution that Congress has the right to declare a foreign policy, and the recognition of new Powers. The executive department is bound to respect this policy in diplomatic relations. Mr. Seward has ordered that persons coming to the United States, except emigrants, must have passports. This regulation applies specially to persons coming from the British provinces. The Cuba has arrived out. Hood is reported to have raised the siege of Nashville and commenced to retire southward on the 13th. Thomas reports that he had pursued him to Spring-hill, south of the Franklin, on the 18th, making daily captures of men and artillery. The Confederate losses are, however, believed to be greatly exaggerated, and it is asserted that, with the exception of the battle of the 16th, in which Thomas admits a loss to himself of 3,000, the engagements have been confined to skirmishing with Forrest's cavalry, acting as rear guard to Hood's main army. Southern papers contain the following despatch from General Bragg :—; " Augusta, Monday, Dec. 6. "About midnight on th'e 3d Wheeler's cavalry attacked the enemy on the Savannah Railroad, a few miles below Waynesborough. Follawing up their defeated cavalry, he came upon a heavy force of infantry tearing up the rail road—at daylight a very heavy force of cavalry, infantry, and artillery, before which he retired, fighting, to Brier Creek, inflicting a heavy loss on the enemy. This morning it is ascertained they have moved rapidly towards Savannah, our cavalry piessing their rear. All our available means should be concentrated at Savannah and Grahamville, and the people of the country should tear up and blockade all roads leading across the Savannah River below the mouth of the Brier Breek. " BRAXTON BRAGG. " To Governor M. L. Bonham." The Richmond Examiner of the 14th ult. says : " The only definite information from Georgia is the 'ap pearance of Sherman's army in the vicinity of Savannah. The Yankee papers informed us that he had accomplished this march almost a week ago, but of course their statement was based upon what they deemed the probability of the situation. Up to yesterday forenoon no fighting had taken place between Sherman's army and the Confederate troops I n the defence of Savannah. gen. Hardee commands the iatter. A contemporary paper speaks of Savannah as in vested. This is not the case. Savannah is no more invested than Richmond, and we have'no evidence that it stands in the - least danger either from assault or siege. An official despatch of yesterday mentions that. Sherman had developed his army near the town, but that does not signify that he will go into trenches. Savannah has a triple line of de fences." The Augusta Chronicle of the Bth ult. asserts that the only effect of Sherman's march has been to de velope the latent strength of the Confederacy. "It has," it_says,— " Brought out another formidable army, which, doubt less, to Sherman's great surprise, now confronts him on the coast. It is truly a wonderful and gratifying fact that while the armies of Tennessee and Virginia are hurling defiance at the foe in those States, the energy and patriotism of the people of Georgia and South Carolina are creating a third army of the Cumberland—the victor of Donelson, of Vicksburgh, and Missionary Ridge. The truth is the people of the South are just finding out their own strength. The present extraordinary efforts of the enemy only serve to develope it. • Sherman is the greatest recruiting officer we have ever had among us. He has effected what no con script law could have accomplished." The Richmond Examiner of the 13th ult. holds that no strategical object can be gained by Sherman : " Whatever he may do now will have little effect on the fortunes of this war. His campaign may yet furnish some additional material for Yankee brag, but has attained no strategical object beyond the ruin of a belt of country a couple of miles wide, between Atlanta and the sea, and his presence on the seacoast is far less injurious and dangerous than either at Chattanooga or Atlanta." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 20 (Evening). Gold has fluctuated since' yesterday between 211 and 227, closing to-day at 2231. Exchange on London, 243 ; Paris, 2.10 2.15 ; Stocks dull ; New York Central, 1154. ; Illinois, 126 i ; Erie, 91 ; 5.20 Bonds, 109. TAT TERSALL'S.---Last Evening. MANCHESTER NEW YEAR'S MEETING.—This meeting, comprising steeplechasing, hurdle, and flat racing, and which was to have taken place yesterday (Monday), is postponed to Saturday next, January 7, in consequence of the severe frost. Now ready, G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide, is/ G. R. Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ; Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street ; and all agents. PRICE ONE SHlLLlNG.—Nimrod's (Editor of the " Turf") " Analysis of the Derby, Two Thousand, and Oaks ;" together with a copious index of dates of the most re markable occurrences.—" Turf" Office, 3, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street; and Glenie's Sporting Library, Connaught terrace, Hyde-park, IV. Frightful Accident at Dundee. EDINBURGH, Monday Night. A frightful accident is reported from Dundee to night. An exhibition of gymnastic performances was to have taken place in a large hall there under a Dissenting place of worship, to which the entrance is by a descending staircase of 13 steps. A large crowd had assembled outside to obtain admittance, and pressed against the door. One half of it was opened; the other half was forced in by the crowd, and those who stood in front were thrown headlong to the bottom of the stairs, where they fell over each other. Those further back continued to pour in, only to increase the mass of prostrate bodies within the building. Above half an hour elapsed before the space could be cleared, and then ten men and nine women were taken out dead. A great many others were seriously injured. THE BOTTLE CONJUROR.—The following copy of 1 the original advertisement of this celebrated hoax taken from the Daily Advertiser of Wednesday, January 11, 1749, may not be without interest at the present moment, when the performances of the Davenport Brothers are ex citing so much interest and controversy :—" At the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, on Monday next, the 16th inst., is to be seen a person who performs the several most surprising Things following, viz., First, he takes a com mon Walking Cane from any of the Spectators, and thereon plays the Musick of every instrument now in use, and likewise sings to surprising Perfection. Secondly, he presents you with a common Wine Bottle, which any of the Spectators may first examine ; the bottle is placed on a Table in the Middle of the Stage, and he, without any Equivocation, goes into it in the sight of all the Spectators and Sings in it. During his Stay in the Bottle any Person may handle it, and see plainly that it does not exceed a common Tavern Bottle. Those on the Stage or in the Boxes may come in masked Habits, if agreeable to them, and the Performer, if desired, will inform them who they are. Stage, 7s. 6d. ; boxes, ss. ; pit, 3s. ; gallery, 2s. Tickets to be had at the Theatre. To begin a half an Hour after Hours Six o'Clock. The performance continues about two and a half. Note. If any Gentlemen or Ladies (after tli after the above Performance), either single o a o n r y ou d t ec o e f as M ed as p k, er i s s on de , ssiruoduisas H us band seeingan or rrin Wife, Representation Sister or Brother, or any intimate Frie nd of Ossbd a fhaelilthbeergSraetxifi(eudpobyn seeingmak ing a Gratuity to the Performer ) and conversing with them for so me Minutes as if ali ve ; likewise, if d es i r ed, he will teu you your most secret Th o ughts in your past Life, and give you a full View o f Persons who have injured you, whether dead or alive. For those Gentlemen and Ladies who are desirous of see ing this last Part, there is a private Room provided. These Performances have been seen by most of the crown'd Heads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and never appeared publick any where at once, but will wait on any at their Houses, and perform as above for five Pounds each time.—Notes and Queries. LINCOLN CATHEDRAL—A prebendal stall and a minor canonry in the cathedral church of Lincoln have be come vacant by the death of the Rev. George Davenport Whitehead, M.A., formerly of Queen's College, Oxford. By Mr. Whitehead's death the rectory of Hainton, near Wragby, has become vacant. It is worth £260 a year, and is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. THIRD El DITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. THE FIGHT FOR THFA CHAMPIONS HIP In accordance with prev - it ats arrangements the parties desirous of witnessing the pugilistic contest a a rs:l id en e , a o n f ci N t o h t e tin efa h m am pi , o a n n shi d p Jo o e f betweenwrmoal d for Andrew O M O England, assembled early this morning at the Euston-station of the North Wes tern Railway. Late last night, after a very long discussion it was arranged that the train we have mentioned should be the means of enabling the combatants to settle their respective claims to the belt of the champion of England, but the cohl and piercing weather no doubt preventlxl a v ery large attendance. In order to prevent p o li ce interference the, precise locality fixed upon for the encounter was kept, as it was imagined, a profound secret, but the result of the day's trip will prove that such was not the case ; the num ber of passengers generally leaving London by the 6.30 4 train is considerable, and in consequence of an unusually great addition to that number a delay of nearly half an hour was expe rienced, as it became necessary to attach several additional carriages to the .train. A few minutes before seven, however, everything was arranged, and the train moved out of the station. At the Cheddington Station the train drew up, and the parties accompanying Wormald and Marsden had to change carriages, and this having been accom plished the train proceeded to its destination. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Tuesday. Wormald and Marsden and their friends have arrived, but they are being closely folloWed by. the police who . are, - determined to prevent the fight taking place. The fight, under these circumstances, not come off until to-morrow. LONDON GAZE rTE—This Evening, FOREIGN OFFICE, DEc. 17. The Queen has been pleased•to'approve of Mr. Stephen Tobin as Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for his Majesty the King of Denmark. JAN. 3. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Oscar Steveni as Vice-Consul at Great Grimsby for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin. WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 3. 7th Regiment of Hussars—Lieutenant Arthur Peel, from 101st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Pedder, who ex- changes. 3d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant. Felix Thomas Jones to be Captain;` by purchase, vice Charles Edgar Gibson, who retires—Ensign Francis William Kane to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Jones. 11th Foot—Lieutenant William Gerard Byron to be Cap tain, by 7purcliase; vice Richard Rorke, who retires— Ensign Arthur Frederic Astley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Byron—Gentleman Cadet Forster Bur mester, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Astley. 20th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Kyrle Chatfield to be Captain, without purchase, vice the Hon. Adolphus E. P. Vereker, deceased—Ensign James Whybrow to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Chatfield—Gentle man Cadet William Alfred Headeck, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Whybrow. 22d Foot—Lieutenant Ernest Adolphus Caren to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice James John' Dudgeon, who re tires—Ensign William Fleming Martin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carey—Benjamin Sculthorp, Brookes, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Martin. 26th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Turner to be Captain, by purchase, vice Joseph LoNvndes, who retires—Ensign James Samuel Greer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Turner-James Bond Clarke, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Greer. 39th Foot—Lieutenant John Tryon to be Captain, by pur chase, Vice William Gammel, who retires—Ensign Chas. D'Oyly Harmer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tryon. 43d Foot—Colour-Sergeant Joseph Cooper to be Quarter master, vice Arthur Williams, who resigns. 48th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Hugh Oldham, from the 101st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hatton, who ex- changes. 52d Foot—Ensign Hughes Charles Howe Gwynne-Hol ford, from the 87th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hervey JuCkes Lloyd Bruce, promoted. 53d Foot—Major Charles Clapcott, from half-pay late 32d Foot, to be Major, vice William F. Adams. Colman, who retires upon half-pay—Captain and Brevet-Major John Alexander Dalzell to be Major, by purchaSe; vice Clap cod, who retires! , 79th Foot—Lieut. George Quin, from the 101st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Birch, who exchanges. 80th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arnold Samuel Wilson, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Joseph Renuy Macy, who retiies. 82d Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Cardew, from the 104th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Bunbury, who exchanges. 87th Foot—Ensign William Western Taylor to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Charles Alexander Moore, who retires—Hughes Charles Howe Gwynne-Holford, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Taylor—Gentleman Cadet Evelyn Campbell Money, frozn the Royal Mili tary College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hughes Charles Howe Gwynne-Holford, transferred to the 52d Foot. 88th Foot—Captain Thomas E. Anderson, from half-pay, late 24th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Joshua, Grant Crosse, proMoted to an unattached Majority, with out purchase. 94th 'Foot—Lieutenant Philip Robert Anstruther to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robert Wingfield Cox, who retires—Ensign William Edward Montague to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Anstruther—Frederic Mel kington Stow, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice - Robert Lowell Gwatkin, promoted. 101 st Foot—Lieutenant Henry Benjamin Pedder, from the 7th Hussars, to be Lieutenant, vice Peel, who exchanges—Lieutenant Alexander Jonn Colvin Birch, from the 79th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Quin, who exchangesieutenant Walter Benson Hatton, from the 48th Fobt, to be Lieutenant, vice Oldham, who ex hanges. 102 d Foot--Gentleman Cadet Sydney Drummond Turn bull, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice St. John Green, promoted. • 104th Foot—Lieutenant William Reeves Bunbury, from the 82d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cardew, who ex changes. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT—To be Deputy Assistant Commissary-General—Acting Deputy Assistant Com sary Generals Archibald Robinson Gibbs, Albert Meyer, and John Parkyn. MEMORANDUM.—Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Eugene James Vaughan, half-pay . 57th Foot, has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission, under the conditions of the Horse Guards' Circular Memorandum of Feb. 16, 1861. ADMIRALTY, DEc. 31. __ _ Dr. Alexander 'Eugene Mackay has been this day pro moted to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospi tals and Fleets in her Majesty's Fleet. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : David Sheath, grocer, Sutton William Smith, publican, Spitalfields Harvey H. Sadler, grocer, Hey bridge, Essex. Jonathan Brown, builder, Harrow-road. John Maidlow, builder, Bayswater. Henry Rice, builder, London-wall, City. Joseph Parsons, hosier, Leeds Thos. Huddleston, boot manufacturer, Manchester Walter Holt, watchmaker, Nottingham. David Rees, chemist, Swansea SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. William Cochran, tanner, Kilmarnock. Wiliam Gray, glass merchant, Glasgow. Murdock Bayne, innkeeper, Fort Augustus John Reid, jun., and Co, merchants, Glasgow Joseph D. Murray, dealer in fancy goods, Edinburgh. A. and W. Gray, merchants, Aberdeen. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Day. Amsterdam Short. 11 14 11 15 Ditto 3 Months. 11 18 11 181 Rotterdam Antwerp' Brussels HamburSh Paris Ditto . 212 25 11 491 4 4 1;7_ 5 5 ti. 222 2 12 3 5 5555 5 5555 0 72000: Marseilles 1 1 1 20t 5 l n l 8 8 2 21 Frankfort on the Maine Vienna Trieste ..... . 3 M S = l lo 7 n rt th . s ' 11 95 30 ... ..• Leghorn 214 9i1 25 4 4 6 714,5 MBPeeatraeliir.7tbl 7 .. g . .: .... I . : .: .: ..........................: ......: ..: ..: .... ..: ..: - 2 0 ' 94 7 0 Milan Genoa Naples — 25 70 25 75 Palenno Messina - 25 75 Lisbon . — 514 514 Oporto — ' 511 • 514 Foreign gold in bars (standard), £3 17s 9d per oz. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Jan. 3.—Wind this day at noon—North-West ; moderate breeze and hazy. BRISTOL, Jan. 2.—Wind N.E.--Arrived—Gettysburg, from Bangor ; Albion, from Callao ; Venus, from Deme rara. 110LYHEAD, Jan. 2.—Wind 8.E.--Put back—Dolora, for Bilboa. FALMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Arrived—Wanderer, from Bermuda; Gearemy Belly, from Bermuda. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Prince Albert, from Jamaica. SWANSEA, Jan. 2.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Kenilworth, for Singapore. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—lndiana, from Kurrachee ; Donna Maria, from Luba; John, from London for Trinidad. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. The market opeucd quiet. • Sales, 5,000 bale is aC' nder text; n ill' 1 th ( tal 0 essfu ytedl: dis' dis. hail b a il Is ill onlo - :ng e iug , out; ;ally to agl' de• 0 11 ; ry )113, -