The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-23 00:00:00

NONEv MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE 0' CLO CK. The discount market is quiet and quotations tend downwards. No perceptible change, however, has yet taken place. The rates for short-dated paper range from 7f per cent. Loans from day to day on Government Securities are negotiated at 3f per Cent. At the forthcoming meeting of the Bank of Egypt the directors will submit a resolution authorising the increase of the capital of the company by the is/Me of 5,000 new shares of £25 each. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap- Pointed Thursday, the 25th inst., a special settle -lent in the shares of the following companies Gale's Protected Gunpowder Company, which are to be marked in the twice a week lists ; and in the Accidental and Marine Insurance Corporation, Which are not to be officially quoted. At the third ordinary general meeting to-day of proprietors Of the Imperial Mercantile Credit As noeiation the report presented stated that the balance of undivided profits brought forward after payment of the dividend in July last was £53,141 1 4, and the amount of net profit realised during t he past half year, after payment of expenses, and after providing for all bad and doubtful debts, and for rebate of interest- on loans and bills not yet matured, is £01,860 17s. 7d., waking a total of £145,002 2s. 7d. to be now dis- Posed of. It i s recommen d e d th a t t h e a b ove sum n e appropriated as follows, viz., that £50,000 be a PPlied to the payment of a dividend for the past ail months of 10s. per share, being at the rate of 20 Per cent. per annum ; £833 6s. Bd. to payment of Ineerne-tax, and that from the balance the sum of 'V 75 ,000 be placed to the credit of a " rest ;" leav ing a sum of £19,169 ss. 11d. to be carried forward ; total, £145,002 12s. 7d. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the French Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68f. 50c. After an improvement of * per cent. the English F unds have again exhibited weakness, and relapsed to their former values. The market indicates dull- I leee and depression, with little prospect of an im kediate revival. Consols are 86* 87 for money, and 87 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 84 87 ; Exchequer Bills, 58 . to 4 5 . di s. ; Bank of England Stock, 245 247 ; In dia Stock, 208 ; ditt o 5 p er C en t s ., 104 ; and ditto Bonds, 15s. prem. A fractional improvement is shown in some of the Principal Foreign Stocks. Turkish 5 per Cents. r 39 4 a ; Mexican,: 21i ; ditto New, 184 194 ; "Vanish Passive, 251 4 ; the Certificates, 131 4 ; Greek, 131 141 ; Italian, 61i ; the Confederate Loan, 6 7:; Egyptian Railway Loan Scrip, par prem. ; and Brazilian Scrip, 14 prem. United States Government 5.20 Bonds are 66 i; Erie Shares, 55k. 56 ; and Illinois, 75 I. Business in the Railway Share Market has shown room animation, and prices have varied to a slight extent. North Western, Metropolitan, and North astern (Berwick), have each improved 10s., and Great Western 55., while Great Eastern have de clined 15s. London, Chatham, and Dover, and South Eastern were 10s., and South Western and kidland each ss. The Foreign and C o l on i a l li nes con ti nue i n f a i r demand at steady rates. Great Luxembourg are /narked 154 16, and Grand Trunk of Canada have 4 proved to 34 4. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in better re- P e st, and in most instances sustain former values. A perial are marked 284. London Joint Stock, 8 ,4 ; Union of London, 51i 52 ; Hudson Bay '° lll pany, 16i 16/ ; London Financial, 18 4 ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co., 24. English an d A mer i can B an k s h ares are quo t e d 11 4 Prem. ; B r i t i s h C onvent i on B on d s o f M ex i co, n 70 ; London Steam Towing Company, 2 t ' re ln• ; Charles Lafitte and Co., 24 24 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK 3_ 0131 rElimstENT FUNDS. Per Ceti,. Gueeole 3 D O . Account, Feb. 8 B' l, tie Per Cent. Reduced B6l 7 IT 3 per Cent B7 64 ' e n ' w 3 4 per Cent. Jan. 1894 93 A. O . per Cent. Jan. 1873 — DO.-,unuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 - 1 - 1 for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — 11;1 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 -- -e4equer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 4. Do, £5OO 5 5 Ba h t. D° £lOO and £2OO . 1,.. 7 of England Stock, 5 per Cent I lAN GovERNBIENT SECURITIES. - ",' 481 1 Stock, 10/ per Cent., AprillB74 2OB _ ..co Account 1 1 ?, ° . 5 per Cent. Oct 1870 T ,''''°• 4 per Cent , Oct. 1888 ..,0. Certificates. .120. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — '",.,°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ' I V. 5 1 per Cent., May 1879 — 7; 0 . 4 per Cent, Aug. 1866 "0. Bonds, £l,OOO D 0• under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. tostriarazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — , 5 per Ce Do. Loper Cent., 1852-58-60 . 1863 Do. 1865 Do Account D 741 Pm o. Scrip, £25 ` l . rs enoe Ayres 6 pe p r aid Cent 4 " 0 . Account C ~.o 1, per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) s'-waan.„ per Cent _ 0 4 ' o . 4 1 per Cent _ ol onabian 6 per Cent. — b ell bal 6 per Cent. — Doh 3 per Cent., 1825 — D 0 4 per Cent, 1863 — Dan . 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — übian Principalities -00 Account 721 uador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — ~ Do., Provisional L an d W arran t 'Vptian 7 4 per Cent — °., Second Issue — Do £lOO Bonds 921 Do. 1864 0 Do £lOO Bonds 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Do Ac count c count 131 . Couons , Do. A ccount °,l( 5l Do rt 3 per C en t "0. Account , De 3-. )° 6 Per Cont. Ang lB64 lo-French 46 iloDo French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — ntevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid N °°ll-ah Imperial 5 per Cent Be;s'v. Granada — D O 2 per Cent -- Deferred I),..;:°Land Warrants (Hectares) Do Per Cent, 1864 — Pe ,„,_,Guaranteed, 4 per Cent D"oll 5 per Cent BoAccount ° Account ° 3 Per Cent. (Uribarren) — P Do ... 4p nt., 1862 "0 Account i\ r tli guess 3 per C en t ., 1853 ''''° 3 per RP°. Account Cent. , 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, "slan D t s per C en t ., 1 822, £ St 4 / per Cent. 1850 41. per Cent., 1860 ° 3 Pei C en t . 1859 541 bdmi° 5 Per Cent. 1862 B9l a r ", 5 per Cent. 1864 931 an 5 r C Cent ' D 0 £1(0 Bands fil D l 4 per Cent _ Pa llish 3 per Cent Ditto account — Do liew Deferred — Do Account Do Passive — Do Account — "Thanish Cert. of Coup not funded 6 W D e ....ccount 134 1 1 .rsdish 4 per Cent. — T " 0 . 44 per Cent. 1864 ..,-. -14 , 1 1tish 6 per Cent. 1854 ' 1 1., 1 0 Account ~'0 6 per Cent. 1858 , i-) Account 694 70 •Do £lOO Bonds I 1) 0 6 per Cent. 1862 — "0 Account 6 84 I Do £lOO Bonds 6Bl 1 1 1)11 6 per Cent., 1863 — D°o 5 per Cent. 1865 11 S criP, £35 paid Vf!-0 Account 2 °. 4 Per Cent. Guaranteed — Do ..(eze o l Ace per Cent' 0 per 6 Per Cent. 1864 1864 An s 4., Di videncis . on the above payable in London. tie1,,.„`:" 441 1 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins P r 7 4,0, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. b'lleLL Rentes 3 per tj e o , 2 4 Per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull 6ll Ito • • *per Cent. Certificates _ iS a- ' 1 5 Per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. 0 Account C ti consols for m oney . 86i 7 TWO O'CLOCK. Do. account 87 4 in, 'ill La )st SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. I p a id . ' Closing ! Business Price. done. Bristol an* Exeter Caledonian Cambrian.. Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast Jana Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc. E. London, scrip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Wester* Great Eastern, Ord. stk.' 93 95 128 129 94 96 13 15 44 54 68 70 70 72. 112 114 39 i 0 7 8 Do. E. Angl. et. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock 127 128 144 115 Do. B stock DO. New, is. at 25 pn GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original' D S. Val. Rail gua. 91 93 5J 59j Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.— Oxiord' Do. Newport Do. Ilereford 39 (1 34 37 101 , 03 123 123; 89 91 101 103 36 38 is to 126-i 1261 91 95 63 64 185 136 21, 3ip 1 HP 100 102 Lano4shire Yorkabtre Landon and Blackwali Lon., Brigh., & S Coe Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. North Westerni Lon. dz South Western Man., She., dt Lincoln Metropolitan.... Do. New Do. Extension Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share 124 125 11 111 93 95 80, Birmin.. & Derb Mid Kent North British 67 58 Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun.] Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1884 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock o. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon South Ea stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenn Waterloo it Whiteha West Cornwall BRITISH P I Atlantic Az St. Lawrence Bom., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 percent.. .. Do. F shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, &Goderich 6 plc. ;872-3- 4 Calcutta d& 13. E., lien :;ape Town d& Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p 1 East. Bengal, 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. let Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref.itoci :: Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c Po. Gus. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India 1 gna. 5 per cent D. It per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada 1 Do. New .. • ...... Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 1 Indian Branch, limit e d Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 42 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel.. Hudson's Bay C'da, 6pc lstpf.bs Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub Do.lndus COLONIAL GO VER. (British Columbia. 6 per' cent., Dec. 31,1372.... Can.Gov.6 p. c.Ja. it July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00.5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9.• Do. Jan. &July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. t. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July no. 1r , 78 Do, 1882. May 15 Nov. o Do. Isvo, P eO. Natal (iov. 6 per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p. c.Ja. &J ul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 p - c.,188t Do. • 5 p c. 18;1 to 187 0 ____ Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189, New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic, G ov. 6 p. c. Ja & July Do. do, .9 pril & Oct BRITII Cam. ConsoL Gold, Um Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst Dtakewal is East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea Mast Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'i Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StA übyn(G wen. Great L ixey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist bu Grenville Herod's Foot . • • Hingaton Downs Margaret (tiny Lelant Marke Valley Stlwyndy Iron Qre, lira New Se ton North Roskear N .Wh' 1 Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper United Providence Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, Jim West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltakeard West Chiverton West Seton. Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 28 111 112 72 73 105 106 36 37 , 1 10 it p 1 123 126 2 2tp 2 Lip 76 77 11 12 145 148 66 68 112 114 55 $7 74 75 8 8 145 150 3 ipj 101 103 49 51 SIONS, As 60 9 103 ip 61 6/ 10 11 75 SO 96 98 60 70 100 102 100 101 ICO 102 34 36 87 89 67 69 57 62 57 59 52 57 46 60 42 46 34 36 33 85 100 102 P P gg 100 91 93 161 )6 i 44 * 1 92 /4 84 86 1 b u gl 100 90 82 86 88 64 66 8 . 82 98 99 98 99 -1 0 9S 99 Vr SECUIt: 93 95 93 96 93 96 79 61 78 80 101 103 104 106 104 106 101 103 90 92 101 103 101 IC7 101 103 102 104 102 104 99 101 92 14 1 0 102 92 93 87 88 100 102 82 84 97 99 99} 100§ 103 105 104 106 :NES. 9 10 20 21 570 690 I 1 18 20 8# 04 5} 51 3 3# i I 12 14 3 3# 5 7 20 21 1# 2 3# 4 31 33 1. s 40 4 2 5} 5f 5 7 4 4# 24 I#cl 40 60 13 15 1 11 37 39 410 430 2 Z 38 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 3 4 8 10 80 83 190 200 95 110 27 So 3 5 216 220 17 18 riLEFERIGNCS bkiAtiEb Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 1071 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 91/ PRICFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 41 per cent. pr., Ditto, 5 per cent pf., 92 London and S.-Westorn 44 per cent., 96 FORM GN KALL WA irB. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 10; li Bahia and an Francisco I ihn.) pm. 7 per cent., 151 14; Great Luxembourg, 16 151 Northern of France, 431 FOREIGN MINICF. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 3i. Frontino and Bolivia Gold. lim., 11 St. John del Rey, lim., 461 7 BANKS. Agra and Masterman•s, Um., 551 Alliam e, lin,.. 27} a } Bank of London. 1471 81 Bank of Utago, lim., 81 Bank of New Zealand, 171 18 . _. Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 23t Commercial Bank of India and the East, 29 8k English and Swedish, lim., 15t Imperial Bank, Rm.. 28k Imperial Ottoman, 13} 13 Ditto, new, 12k London and County, 80t London Joint Stock, 48t London and Westminster, 97 f” Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 181 Midland Bank, Rm., 20k Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., 71 Provincial of Ireland, 83 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, Um., 61 6 Union of London, 52 It MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 2 1 Canada Company, 79 80 City Offices, lim., Credit Fonder and Blobilier of England, 81 Discount Corporation, 9 Egyptian Com and Trading, lim., 4i Gen. Credit and Finanoe of London, lim., 5 1 General Steam Navigation, 27 Hudson's Bay, 161 t Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., 71 International Financial society, Um., 51 Joint Stock Discount, Rm., 7 t London Financial Association, lirn 318} London General Omnibus Company, lim„ 3k National Discount Company.:l6 Overend, Gurney, and Co., Urn., 20k Royal Mail Stearn, 107 Thames and Mersey (Marine) Insurance, lim., 7} The London Bank of Mexico and South America have received the half-yearly three per cent. dividend and three per cent. amortization fund, amounting to the sum of £7,996 11s. 2d., for account of the holders in this country of their certificates of the British Convention Debt of Mexico, 1851. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has been very little animation. Sugars in some instances have been a shade cheaper. Coffee, however, has brought fully late rates. Rice has been in more request at steady values, while tallow has been in better demand, and quotations for both present and fo;warci deli very show a slight advance. OSSR THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1860. LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush.) THE QUEEN V. WINSOR, THE WHOLESALE MURDERESS. This case came on for argument to-day before their lordships. It will be recollected that the pri soner was put on her trial at the assize held at Exeter charged with wilfully murdering the illegiti mate child of another woman. It was stated at the trial that the offence with which the prisoner was charged was not a solitary instance of her wicked ness, but that, on the contrary, other cases were ready to be proved against her. The trial was con cluded, and after the learned judge hid summed up the case, the jury retired to consider ;their verdict. They remained locked up for a considerable time, as they were unable to agree, and, after vainly endea vouring to arrive at an unanimous opinion, returned into court and stated thatit was impossible for them to agree. They were told they must be of one mind before they could be discharged, and accordingly they were again locked up, and so remained until 12 o'clock at night. It being just on the verge of Sunday morning the judge was informed that there was no likelihood of the jury agreeing, he ordered them into court and discharged without giving a verdict. She was again put upon her trial for the same offence, and the mother of the child, who had been in the former case indicted with her, was on this occasion examined as a witness, and a verdict of guilty was returned, and the prisoner sentenced to death. The counsel for the prisoner, Mr. Folkand, con tended that it was against the law to place the prisoner in peril twice for the same offence ; that therefore the second trial was illegal, and that the prisoner ought to be acquitted. The motion wail ordered to be argued before the judges at West minster, and this morning the learned counsel ap peared before their lordships to argue the case. He went at great length into the authorities bearing on the case, and contended that the judge had no power to dismiss a jury in a trial for murder with out returning a verdict, and that having been done, the prisoner was entitled to her. acquittal. The Lord Chief Justice asked, supposing the court-house was on fire, whether a judge would then have power to dismiss a jury without a verdict, or whether they were to be burnt to death rather than be discharged? Mr. Folkard said he apprehended the sheriff ought to take charge of them before such an even tuality arose. The Lord Chief Justice asked where that officer was to put them—where were they to go to? Mr. Folkard thought the proper course would be to adjourn the case, or else that the sheriff should provide for them, as was the case at the Old Bailey. The arguments in the case seem likely to extend over the day. The condemned woman Winsor was in court in custody of the wardress of the prison in which she was confined, and sat in a corner of the court with her eyes cast on the ground, from which she never during the whole of the morning once raised them. She appears to be a person of about 50 years of age, with features of a very ordinary description. Strauss Searchingly Reviewed. BY A CRITIC IN " THE ATHEN.,EUM." During the last three weeks there has been appearing in the columns of The Athenmunz a re markable series of papers, in which the notorious " Life of Christ," by D. F. Strauss, has been sub jected to a singularly calm, a perfectly dispassionate, and altogether, as we conceive, a very masterly analysis. An analysis, so clear and searching of its kind, that we are tempted to give the following ex tracts as exemplars of the critic's "quality" at once as a Believer and as a Logician. "Perhaps no book of a thousand pages ever written," he says, " has so large an allowance of supposition to so small a mo dicum of proof as this Life of Christ' by . Strauss. It is nearly all postulate and infer ence—mist of the fancy, mirage of the brain. Four pages in five are covered by repe titions of an argument wholly divorced from fact." Further on he remarks—" One of our English wits used to laugh at a confirmed book-maker for de canting one work into another, histories into travels, memoirs into manuals ; as a trader with a small stock of wine might decant Nuits into Volnay, Volnay into St. George. But even this steady old craftsman would hardly have poured his first volume into his second, bodily. Working in the figure known to logicians as a 'vicious circle—a line of march on which there is movement and no progress—Strauss not only puts his first volume into his second, going once again - over his labours, in the same ord er o f ti me , almost in the very phrases used (under pretence of showing by what tricks and forgeries the Imposture called the Christian Church was raised) ; but he pours his pre face into his introduction, his introduction into his first book into every subsequent boa. The argu ment moves through a chain of propositions, hang ing on to three or four Fundamental Ideas :—such as his assumptions that miracles are impossible, that Christ is a myth, that man ends with the grave, and that heaven is but a dreain." As for the non-existence of Christ, or what is here spoken of as the mythical existence of the Redeemer, the late Archbishop Whateley demon strated the flimsy and specious notion of that hypo thesis by his inimitable logical witticism, as it may be called, demonstrating (!) that there "never was such a person" as Napoleon Bonaparte ! " Herr Strauss's main purpose," continues the Athenmum critic, "is to show that Jesus was not the Christ. If this could be shown, an end would be made of many things now held in reverence ; an end of church ministry, of dogmatic theology, of reli gion itself, in some degree of God." And was it not such a creature even as Maxi milian Robespierre who remarked that If God had not existed it would have been necessary to invent Him.* "All that would remain of sacred tradition, and of the policy which rests upon it, would be swept away. For it is only a belief in its divine founda tion that preserves our faith alive. Strauss says that if our Lord was a man of simple and pious nature, clear in vision and pure in life, he had also many defects of mind, as might be expected from his age and country, such as unfit Him for the office of being a permanent pattern to mankind. According to this German view, He put the life of man in the family in the background ; held only a passive re lation to the State ; set himself visibly against trade, and left art and elegance out of his view of life. These grave defects, now found in Jesus, are con sidered by Strauss to be of the highest moment ; for not only, says he, are the details as to a man's con duct in such things wanting in our Gospels, but the guiding laws; so that, in the German School of Doubt, it is held to be impossible for any man to learn from the precepts of Jesus how he should behave as a citizen, and what he should do towards enrich ing his life by means of art and trade. In short, it is clear from what is now advanced, that if Jesus were not the Christ—if He held no divine commis sion—if He stood on the common ground of teacher only, He would lie open to much damaging assault, His character would require some rounding, his preaching would need many supplements, and His religion might be improved off the face of the earth. To destroy His sacred character is therefore the first step towards an abolition of His Church." " If, therefore," continues the critic in the Athenicunz (very reasonably), " secular criticism may be em ployect on 'Slam also be alloWed to step in to see how far the work is being honestly done." He then thereupon writes, in the manner following, upon a consideration of the Sources of the Sacred Stories. " Strauss begins,', he says, " with the Evangelists ; authors who stand directly in his light. If Matthew and John were companions of Jesus, as the Church declares ; if Mark and Luke were companions of the Apostles, as the Church also teaches ; and if these four men wrote the books which bear their names, Strauss would have no case to urge. No jury in the world would be able to reject their fourfold evidence as to things which they had seen and heard, even though the things were in the last degree new and strange. It was an old maxim of our law that, except in Crown cases, one good witness was enough to esta blish any fact, even though it might involve the issues of life and death. The Civil Code required two good witnesses to prove a fact ; but many good jurists have given the preference to our English law. With a view to guard against abuse of power, we also, in cases of treason, required the facts to be proved by two witnesses ; though the rule was often disputed by the Crown, and in Raleigh's case it was wholly set aside. It is hard, as all experience proves, to resist the evidence of [even] one good witness." At any rate he remarks---" Roman law has 'pre sumed that in every case the depositions of two witnesses wild prove a fact, however new and strange it may seem to be. No jurist has gone be yond this point. Blackstone inclined to think one witness enough. Montesquieu allowed the evidence of two loyal men to be sufficient, even in matters of life and death. When the question is about the evi dence of FOUR WITNESSES, such as we find in the Gospel narratives, there is no other legal, no other logical, way of weakening their testimony, than [by] showing that they could not have seen and heard the things to which they depose." Thereupon the Atheneum takes into consideration first of all collectively, afterwards one by one, the credibility as witnesses of the Four Evangelists : " Strauss's case," he says, " forces him to argue that the Evangelists were not the Evangelists. So long,' he (that is, Strauss) writes, ' as the Gospels are accepted as strictly historical, no historical view of the Life of Jesus is possible.' In other words, if the Gospel narratives are true, Strauss's view of the Life of Jesus must be false. To this conclusion every one must come at last. The German critic has, in some way, to get rid of the Evangelists ; to prove that the First Gospel was not written by St. Matthew the Apostle, the Fourth by St. John the Apostle ; to show that the Second Gospel was not composed by St. Mark, the friend of Peter, nor the Third by St. Luke, the companion of Paul.. Such men could not have been mistaken as to what they had seen and heard. Strauss has to prove, therefore, not a mere corruption of text, not the substitution of one word for another, not the insertion of a phrase here and there, but a complete fabrication of the narrative, and that, not in one Gospel only, but in each and all of the Four Gospels. He has to show that the Evangelical histories are all pious frauds, adopted by the Church, after the real companions of Jesus were dead and gone. _ " In arguing against the Gospel narratives in mass, Strauss cites the Evangelists in a way subversive of all rules of evidence. To wit : his case is, that our Gospel of St. Matthew was not written by that Apostle ; also that our Gospel of St. John was not written by that Apostle ; yet he cites the facts men tioned by John to damage Matthew, the facts men tioned by Matthew to damage John No court of law would suffer such a course. If a witness is good for one thing he is good for another. [The cogency of all this, to our mind, is perfectly irre sistible.] A liar, a forger, is of no value in the witness-box. ' If the author of the Fourth Gospel,' says Strauss, ' is correct in saying that, before his last journey to Jerusalem, Jesus had already often sojourned there, had taught and worked there, then the author of the First, who knows nothing of all these earlier journeys and sojournings, cannot r have been a companion of Jesus—not the Apostle Matthew.' But if John did not write the Gospel which bears his name,—if that work were the pious fraud of a Greek in the second century, —if it were fabricated by one who had never seen Jesus, who had never spoken to an Apostle, who had never been in Jerusalem,—why cite it ? You cannot ask the Court to believe a paper which you yourself describe as spurious. The rule of law is clear. Any tyro at the bar can see that if it should be part of his caseto prove that Alpha is a personator, au impostor, not to believed on his oath, it is out of the question to dream of putting the same Alpha into the witness-box against the good faith of Beta. tainted witness is out of Court. Strauss proceeds on the complacent plan of taking all that makes against him as bad. It is an easy method. One of two things : the Fourth Gospel is either true or false ; if true, it is must be admitted, along with all that it proves ; if false, it is incapable of being used so as to damage Matthew's claims.—[Q. E. D.] '• Further, in dealing with the patent fact that some of the Evangelists record sayings, miracles, journeys, which others omit,—for example, the case under notice of Christ's earlier visits to Jerusalem, — Strauss treats an omission as though it were a contra diction. Yet a glance through a shelf of biographies would show him that omission is not rare. No writer preserves all the facts. [Now mark, espe cially what follows Xenophon gives one side of Socrates, Plato another. The lives of Alexander, of Caesar, of Charlemagne, vary as much as the lives of Christ. Mallet forgot that Bacon was a philosopher, Campbell that he was a Chris tian. One account of Cromwell omits the battle of Naseby ; another, his journey into Ireland ; a third, his refusal of the crown. But the neglect to state a fact is not a contradiction of it. The purpose of each writer must be taken into ac count. A view of Our Lord's Sayings might be given with very little reference to his journeyings to and fro. In a collection of his Miraculous Cures it might not seem necessary to trouble the reader about dates and the order of events. In Europe we should think little of such points ; in the East they would think nothing at all. The truth is, that such literal prudery as would have precluded an art of verifying dates, had no existence in the East. Yet Strauss declares that the Second Gospel could not have been written by a frierid of St. Peter, on the ground that if it had been so, the Apostle could not have failed to draw the attention of his author to that radical defect in the First Gospel,' (the omission of Christ's early visits to Jerusalem), ' and to have urged him to the correction of it.' See what this passage assumes as true. First, that Peter must have thought the omission a radical de fect. Suppose he thought it of no moment whatever ? St. Matthew's Gospel is a collection of discourses. When outward facts are mentioned, it is mainly so far as they illustrate the sayings. When Matthew has no speech, no parable to record, he is silent. May not Peter have thought this kind of record better for the Church than a narrative of journey ings to and fro ? Peter's spirit was intensely orien tal, and the teaching of oriental races is by word and not by fact. TheAvestas are sayings. The Vedas are sayings. The Prophetical Scriptures, the Talmud, the Koran, are all books of sayings. In Luke and in John we can trace the more active spirit of a western race. These Evangelists, writing under Greek and Roman influence, added more to the narrative than to the hortative part ; there western readers being excited no less by what Jesus did than by what he said. The Hebrews had another genius ; and Peter was a Hebrew in his heart of hearts. Second, the passage assumes that if Peter thought it a defect, he must have communicated this opinion to St. Mark. Third, that if Mark received such a hint from Peter, he must have remembered and followed it, whether he thought it of any moment or not. Do all these assumptions weigh so much as one little fact ? Strauss seems to think that when a man takes pen in hand he is bound to write down everything. Does any one do it ? The way to bore a man, says a French proverb, is to tell him all you know. We are sure that Plato knew more of Socrates than he wrote. We are equally sure that Tacitus could have told us more of Seneca than he does. It would be an odd argument to urge against the genuineness of Plato, that in his account of Socrates he has omitted some points, some sayings, some traits, which Xenophon preserves !" (inc. after annthor the n.rwirnontA of Strauss, as ap plied to the Four Evangelists in succession, are placed, as it were, under the oxihydrogen microscope —by being subjected turn by turn to the scrutiny of the critical acumen of the even-tempered and keen witted and eminently logical Believer writing in the Atheneum. Had we the space for so doing we would here gladlyselect from each of these analogies of Strauss's occasionally specious but always shallow arguments, as applied in succession to the Four Evangelists, what appear to us to be the salient or most striking passages. A single one of these, however, must suffice. It is the one in which, with exquisite aid yet irre sistible power, the critic sets aside and scatters to the winds of heaven Strauss's utterly frivolous argument that the explanatory style noticeable in the Gospel of St. Mark is indicative of its being a late production, and therefore a pious fraud ! " Strauss observes," says the critic, " that if Mark has to mention the Jordan, he explains that it is a river ; if he speaks of the Pharisees, he explains their tenets ; if he goes to Olivet, he explains that if stands over against the Temple Mount. In a hundred cases, where Matthew takes his reader's knowledge of places and customs for granted, Mark does not. What then? It is clear that Mark does not assume in his readers such familiarity with the geography of Palestine, with the customs of Jews, as Matthew. But surely such a fact suggests a distant audience rather than a distant time. No Hebrew would at any time and in any place require to be told that the Jordan is a river, that the Pharisees fast, and that Olivet stands over against the Temple. A man writing in Palestine, living among Jews, would never need to hint at such things ; but one writing in Rome, as Mark is said to have done, would naturally explain such points. An Englishman, writing in London about the late Primate, would not think of saying that the Thames is a river, that bishops are peers, that Lambeth Palace stands op posite to Westminster Abbey ; but the same man, writing in Calcutta for Parsees and Hindoos, would be very likely to give these useful scraps of infor mation, and their appearance in his narrative would suggest the separation of distance, not that of time." Enough, however. As cogently as he writes of Strauss's learned (!) twaddling as applied to one Evangelist, the reviewer in the Athenxunt will be found to have written also of the other three Evangelists. We have too grateful a sense of the delight with which we have read the criticism throughout, to remain dumb in regard to the fact of its appearance. And while directing attention thus to that fact, we would avail ourselves of the opportunity thereby afforded us for expressing a hope that the series of papers we are here referring to may be at once collected toge ther for separate publication in the form of a bro chure or livraison. At the Mansion-house, yesterday, Mr. John Pernewan, surgeon, of Bedruth, was brought up on a charge of having forged certain transfers of shares in the llallenbeagle Mining Company. On a second warrant the prisoner was charged with forging an endorsement to a bank cheque for the payment of £llB 10s. Evidence having been given as to the manner in which tho forgery had been committed, the Lord Mayor remanded the pri soner and refused to accept bail. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN TIIY, ISLE OF MAN.—A man named John Kermode, upwards of sixty years of age, who had been engaged to drive a gig with the mail from Douglas to Castletown, met his death in a mysterious man ner on Monday night. lie arrived safely at Ba'insane, but when the gig was near Castletown it was stopped, as there was no driver in it. A search was at once instituted for the missing man, but it was not until the next afternoon that his body was found in the river. The mails worn all right, but the stop of the gig was broken, and the general belief is that the deceased was dragged from the vehicle and drowned by his assailants, as the river was fax out cf his way. Deceased has left a widow and four children.— Liverpool Courier. LOSSES BY FIRE.—The fire insurance companies of New York sustained losses in the year 1865 amounting in all to $43,139,000, an unusually heavy amount. They had to pay on 354 fires. This is stated to include only fires in which the loos reached as much as $20,000. The Opening of the French Legislature. SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR. The following appeared in a late edition of The Sun of last evening : - - - - PARIS, Monday, Jan. 22. The Session of the French Legislature was opened at one o'clock to-day by the Emperor, who delivered the following speech : Messieurs les Senateurs, Messieurs les Ddput6s, The opening of the Legislative Session enables me periodically to lay before you the condition of the empire, and to express to you my ideas. As in preceding years, I shall examine with you the principal questions which interest our country. At home peace appears to be everywhere assured, since in every direction the means are sought of amicably settling difficulties, instead of deciding them by arms. The meeting of the English and French fleets in the same ports has shown that relations formed upon fields of battle are not weakened. Time has only, cemented the agreement of the two countries. With regard to Germany, my intention is to observe a policy of neutrality, which, without pre venting us at times from sorrowing or rejoicing, will leave us nevertheless strangers to questions in which our interests are not directly engaged. Italy, recognised by nearly all the Powers of Europe, has affirmed her unity by inaugurating her capital in the centre of the Peninsula. We have reason to rely upon the scrupulous execution of the treaty of the 15th September, and the indispensable maintenance of the power of the Holy Father. The bonds which attach us to Spain and Portugal are still further strengthened by my recent interviews with the sovereigns of both those kingdoms. You have shared with me the indignation pro duced by the assassination of President Lincoln, and recently the death of the King of the Belgians has caused unanimous regret. In Mexico the Govern ment, founded by the will of the people, is consoli dating itself. The dissidents, vanquished and dis persed, no longer have a chief. The national troops have shown valour, and the country has found the guarantees of order and security which have developed its resources and raised its trade with France alone from 21 to 77 millions francs. As, therefore, I expressed the hope last year, our expedition is approaching its close. lam making arrangements with the Emperor Maximilian to fix the period of the recall of our troops, in order that their return may take place without compromising the French interests which we went to defend in that distant country. North America, issuing victorious from a for midable contest, has re-established the American Union, and solemnly proclaimed the abolition of slavery. France, who forgets no noble page of her history, sincerely desires the prosperity of the great American Republic, and for the maintenance of amicable relations now nearly a century old. The emotion produced in the United States by the pre sence of our army upon Mexican soil will be ap peased by the frankness of our declarations. The American people will understand that our expedi tion, in which we invited it to take part, was not opposed to its interests. Two nations equally jealous of their independence must avoid every step which would affect their dignity and their honour. At home the tranquillity - which has not ceased to prevail has enabled me to visit Algeria, where my presence will not, I hope, have been without effect in securing interests and establishing a more friendly intercourse between races. My absence from France has besides proved that I could be re , placed by an upright heart and an elevated mind. It is in the midst of satisfied and confiding popu lations that our institutions work. The municipal elections have been accomplished with the greatest order and the most entire liberty. The Mayor being in the commune the representative of the cen tral power, the constitution conferred upon me the right of choosing him from among all the citizens, but the election of intelligent and devoted men has almost everywhere allowed me to select the Mayor from among the members of the Municipal Councils. The law upon coalitions, which gave rise to some apprehensions, has been carried out with great impartiality by the Government, and with moderation on the part of those interested. The working class, always intelligent, have understood that the greater the facilities accorded to them for the discussion of their interests the more they arc bound to respect the liberty of individuals and the security of all. The inquiry into co-operative socie ties has shown how just were the basis of the bill which has been laid before you upon this important matter. This bill will permit the establishment of nu merous associations for the profit of labour and of benefit societies. To favour its development I have decided that the authorisation of meeting shall be granted to all who wish, apart from po litics, to deliberate as men of business upon their industrial interests. This faculty will only be limited by the guarantees required by public order. The state of our finances will show you on one hand that the revenue continues in its progressive increase, while on the other the expenditure tends to decrease. In the new budgets the incidental or extraordinary sources of revenue have been replaced by normal and permanent resources. The law upon the redemption of the debt, which will be submitted to you, shows the establishment of certain revenues, and affords fresh guarantees to the creditors of the State. The equilibrium of the budget is secured by a surplus of revenue. In order to attain this result it was necessary to effect economies in the greater part of the public services, among others in the War Department. The army being upon a peace footing, there was only the alternative of reducing either the regimental cadres or the effective. The latter measure was impracticable, since the regiments hardly mustered their necessary strength of men. The welfare of the service even counselled an augmentation of the effective. By suppressing the cadres of 220 companies,:46 squadrons, and 40 bat teries, but at the same time drafting the soldiers into the remaining companies and squadrons, we rather strengthened than weakened our regiments. As the natural guardian of the interests of the army, I should not have consented to these reduc tions if they would have affected our military orga nisation or ruin the prospects of men, whose ser vices and devotion I can appreciate. All interests will thus find themselves guaranteed, and the coun try will not have shown herself ungrateful to those who shed their blood for her. The budget of Public Works and that of instruction have not suffered any diminution. It was useful to preserve to the great undertakings of the State their productive activity, and to maintain the energetic impulse of public instruction. For the last few months, thanks to the devotion of the founder, 13,000 new refuges (tours d'asile) have been opened in the communes of the Empire. Agriculture has made great progress since 1852 . If at the present moment it s uffers from the depre ciation of the price of cereal s, that fac t is the inevi table consequence of the s u p erabun dance of har vests, and not of the supp ressio n of the sliding scale. Econom i ca l transformations develope general prosperity, but they cannot ave r t partial inconve niences. I have thought it would be useful to open a serious investigation into the condition a n d ne cessities of agriculture. It will confirm, lam con vinced, the principles of commercial liberty, will offer valuable information, and will facilitate the study of the proper means both to alleviate local suffering and realise fresh progress. Th e i mpu l se of our intercourse has not slackened, and general commerce, which amounted last year to more than seven milliards of francs, has increased by 700 millions. In the midst of this constantly increasing pros perity, unquiet minds, under the pretext of quick ening liberal measures on the part of the Govern ment, desired to prevent it from advancing, by de priving it of all force and power of initiative. They take possession of an expression borrowed by me from the Emperor Napoleon 1., and con found instability with progress. The Emperor in declaring the necessity of successively perfect ing hundin institutions, wished to say that the only durable changes are those effected with time by the ameliorations of public morals. These COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Byles and a Common Jury.) FINCH- V. AITKEN. This was an action by the plaintiff, a miller and discounter of bills, for a sum. of £6O, the amount of a bill of exchange accepted by a person named Con way, and drawn by the defendant, who is a lodginghouse-keeper, living at No. 5, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, and who pleaded that he had received no notice that the bill was dishonoured. Mr. J. 0. Griffiths was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Quain for the defendant. For the plaintiff it was deposed that when the bill came to maturity on the 20th November last, he wrote a notice of its being dishonoured, which was addressed to the defendant, and posted by his son. Mr. Aitken, in the course of his evidence, stated that he had been nine years a butler in the service of Dr. Temple, headmaster of Rugby School, and that Mr. Conway was a tailor and outfitter at Not ting-hill. It was arranged at the plaintiff's house that the defendant should be the drawer of a bill of exchange, and he swore most positively • that no letter from Fenil, dated the 20th November, had been delivered at his house. This evidence was corroborated by the groom of a lodger in the house. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff-- damages £6O. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde.) IN THE GOOD OF D. A. REED.-JUDGMENT. His Lordship delivered judgment in this curious case, which was tried last week, and presented a point upon which no precedent existed. It was an application for probate of a document exe- CULcd LT" domiciled in Scotland, and one day before his mar riage. The document was in the form of a marriage settlement, but was intended by the testator to operate as a will, which was perfectly legal according to Scotch law, although contrary to the law of Eng land. Some years subsequent to the marriage he removed with his wife to this country, where he died, and the question was whether, having become a domiciled Englishman, his will should not have been made in conformity with English law. His lordship said that, except for certain statutory enactments, the will would be invalid ; but in his opinion, according to Lord Kingsdown's Act, unless there were some act revoking the will, the mere change of domicile did not vitiate it. He must, therefore, decree probate of the will. - - IN THE MATTER OF THE GOODS OF W. VALLANCE. In this case application was made for letters of administration to the effects of William Valiance, who had made a will bequeathing the residue of his estate to his son, or in case of the latter prede ceasing him, to the present applicant. The son who was a ship carpenter, sailed from this country in 1851, and had not been since heard of, the as sumption being that he was dead. The only point was whether he died prior or subsequent to the testator, and in the absence of any information on that point his lordship considered the letters of ad ministration should be granted. Decree accordingly. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE NA3311 - TH. This bankript was a merchant of Great St. Helen's and Bombay, and to-day he came up upon the adjourned meeting for the order of discharge. The accounts show debts between £40,000 and £50,000, but the assets are expected to prove con siderable. Mr. Lawrence appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Reed represented the assignees ; and it is not unlikely that eventually the case will be taken out of court. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) THE PACKED PARCEL QUESTION-IMPORTANT DECI SION-CHINERY V. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action to recover £1 lls. 5d., alleged overcharges by the company upon parcels forwarded by the plaintiff. Mr. Plews appeared for the plain tiff, Mr. Smith representing the company. It was admitted, for the purpose of shortening the case that the, plaintiff had forwarded various parcels to the company's receiving houses, paying the rates levied in accordance with the tariff. The parcels were consigned to the plaintiff's agent at Brighton, who had to pay id. per lb. extra upon them. It was stated that the question of packed parcels had been contested by Mr. Sutton and a great railway company, an appeal now lying for hearing before the House of Lords. Mr. Smith called the traffic superintendent in the company's service, who deposed that by one of the bye-laws the company was entitled to charge ono penny per lb. extra on all packed parcels. This was not only noted in the time-tables, but was placed in a conspicuous spot on the company's premises. in cross-examination witness said that Id. per lb. extra was invariably charged on all packed parcels, no matter who sent them. His Honour said that to his mind the case re solved itself into a very simple point. If the company's bye law, under seal, gave notice that packed parcels would be charged Id. per lb. extra, then there was an end of the case, and the only question was, had the plaintiff sent a sufficient number of pounds to the company to warrant them charging the consignee fa 1 ls. sd. ? After some calculation it was found that the company had charged 2s. 6d. too much, and al though it was endeavoured to be shown that this sum had been levied for collecting the parcels, the evidence was not conclusive upon the point, and his Honour found a verdict for the plaintiff for half-a crown. Costs were applied for, bat his Honour said he should only allow costs upon the amount re covered, as the company had been successful upon the great point in packed parcels. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market opens rather quiet. Sales probably 6,000 bales. THE NEXT MAIL FROM JAMAICA.—The Shannon , with the next West India mail, is expected on Sunday next. She will bring news from Jamaica up to the 6th inst. The Shannon took out Sir Henry Storks. 391 9 i 81 59} i 123 102 361 1251 61 1285 934 4 621 1 1351 4i 151 58i 27} 112 72} 3 Nei 371 7 29 74 I 991 ;0) 61 ITIES. ameliorations will result from the appease ment of passions, and not from intemperate changes in our fundamental laws. Of what advantage, in. deed, can it be to recommence to-morrow that which was rejected yesterday ? The Constitution of 1852, submitted to the ac, ceptance of the people, has undertaken to found a national system, wisely based upon the just balance between the different powers and the State. It stands at an equal distance between two extreme positions, with an Elective Chamber controlling the Ministers, the executive power is without authority, and with out the feeling of sequence. It is without control if the elective chamber is not independent and in possession of legitimate prerogatives. Our consti tutional forms, which have a certain analogy with those of the United States, are not defective be. cause they differ from those of England. Every people must have institutions suitable to its genius and its traditions. Certainly every Government has its defects, but in reviewing the past, I congratulate myself at the end of 14 years upon seeing France respected abroad, tranquil at home, having no political offenders in her prisons, and no exiles beyond her frontiers. has not the nation sufficiently discussed during the last 80 years the theories of Govern ment? Is it not now more useful to seek practical means of improving the moral and material fate of the people ? Let us occupy our selves in spreading everywhere, together with enlightenment, healthy economical doctrines, the love of good and religious principles. Let us endeavour to solve by liberty in business affairs the difficult problem of the just partition of reproduc tive forces, and let us endeavour to ameliorate the conditions of labour in the field as well as in the workshop. When all Frenchmen now invested with political rights shall have been enlightened by education they will discern the truth without trouble, and will not allow themselves to be seduced by deceitful theories. When all those who live from hand to mouth shall see the benefits arising from assiduous labour increase, they will be the firm supporters of a society. 'which guarantees their welfare and their dig nity. Lastly, when all shall have received from infancy those principles of faith and of morality - which elevate man in his own eyes, they will know that above human intelligence, above the efforts of science and,rea,son, there exists a Su preme Will, which rules the destinies of individuals as well as the destinies of nations. TAT TERSALLS'—Last Evening TWO THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Lord Lyon (taken and offered) TIEE DERBY. 7to 1 agst Rustic (taken freely) 15 to 2 agst Lord Lyon (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Student (taken) 100 to 6 agst Redan (taken) 20 to 1 agst Janitor (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Auguste (offered—take 22 to 1) 33 to 1 agst Stabber (taken) 40 to 1 agst Bribery colt (taken) 50 to 1 agst Knight of the Crescent (taken) 66 to 1 agst Wolsey (taken) 1000 to 12 agst Laneret (taken) 100 to 1 agst Messmate (taken) 100 to 1 agst Czar (taken) RACING FIXT TES FOR 1866. JARY. FEBR Lincoln 2O MAJ Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring Nottingham Spring 27 Cll. Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2(l Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B 1 AP. Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 24 Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge Manchester Ascot Summer 23 JU. Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham llibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 1 Worcester rLY. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l AUG Brighton 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham l4 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPT] Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB OCTI Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh NOVE2 Lincoln Liverpool US T. York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter ...... Tunbridge 2B Derby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O :MBER. Richmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall IBER. Newmarket Houghton Worcester 22 ~ 30 BER. Foreign Mail Packet List Shrewsbury Leamington Hunt l9 MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. Feb. 10. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ...... Feb. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape v a i n a d s S o t u . Feb. Feb. 22. 2. China, of Good Penang, Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27, F al kland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .....Jan. 27 . :L e Singapore, A B°e sin India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Feb. 2 Ditto, via Marseilles .......... . ....Jan. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton. ................. Jan. 26. Ditto, via Marseilles ....................... Feb. 7 Mauritius, via Southampton Feb. 13. Ditto, via Marseill es. ......................... .Feb. 7. Newfoundland .......................... . Feb. 14. Portugal • ........ Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... •. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet ................... ..... Jan. 31. Ditto, by United States packet via Southamp ton ...... . , Ditto, via Cork ............. Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Jan. 26. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 11. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico.. ....... Jan. 29. .... Cuba and Mexi co Jan. 29. Bahamas, via New York. Feb. 8. Bermuda, ditto Feb. 14. THE ELECTION OF THE NEW "RESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY will take place on Wednesday, the 24th inst. _Among the members upon whom the choice is likely to fall aro Sir E. Landseer, Mr. Boxall, Mr. Grant, and Mr. Maclise. Two of these gentlemen are understood to have previously declined the honour which may be proffered to one of them on this occasion. Tho gentleman who, of all the R.A.'s, has been longest on the roll, is Mr. A. Co o p er , who was elected an Associate in 1817 , and Royal Acade mician in 1820, i.e., in the same year with Collins. The second R.A. on the list in the order of election is Mr. Bally, elected 1821, student 1809, A.R.A., 1817 ; the third is Mr. G. Jones, who was elected in 1824, A.R.A. in 1822, and on both occasions in the same year as Sir Jeffry Wyat ville, who, even more to his own surprise than that of any other man, was " commanded" to furbish up Windsor Castle ; this was the nephew of Wyatt the Destroyer, the man who ravaged Salisbury Cathedral. The next in the like order is Mr. H. W. Pickersgill, who was elected R.A. two years before Etty, i.e. in 1826, three years before Con stable, and four years before the late President. Sir Edwin Landseer is the next in succession of honour; he was elected ILA. in 1831, student of the Royal Academy in 1816, A.R.A. in 1826, the first of Hayden's pupils who attained the last mentioned dignity, Eastlake following in 1827. Mr. Stanfield became A.It.A. in 1832, B.A. in 1 830 ; Mr. Gibson was A.R.A. in 1833, R.A. in 1836 ; Mr. F. R. Lee in 1834 and 1838 respectively ; Mr. Maclise became student in 1828, A.R.A. in 1835, R.A. in 1840. The other members were elected R.A. in the following order, until the beginning of the current decade :—Messrs. Wither ington and Hart 1840, Mr. Hardwick 1841, Mr. Knight 1844, Mr. C. Landseer 1845 ; Messrs. Webster, Macdowell, and Herbert, 1846 ; Mr. Cope 1848, Mr. Westmacatt 1849 ; Messrs. Creswick, Redgrave, and Grant, 1851; Mr. (,),, Marshall 1852, Mr. Frith 1853, Mr. Cousins 1855, Mr. Elmore 1856 ; Messrs. F. R. Pickersgill and Doe, 1857 ; Mr. Foley 1858, Mr. Phillip and Mr. Smirke 1859. Sir E. Landseer was born in 1802, exhibited for the first time at the Academy in 181.—Atlicnosum. i al in koi n 'too 1 WO 100 100 all 100 100 MN: N' 190 100 100 1(.0 100 100 B M 2.1.0 294 2.14.6 3f 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.6 Ant I 3a I 35 } 1011 1 16} 131 92 3 851 991 10511