The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

r MONEY MARKET AND OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two O'CLOCK. The English Funds are flatter upon political ap prehensions and the neglect of investors; but rail way stocks have advanced. Many adverse opera tors have closed their accounts by purchases, and the market being thus relieved has naturally re covered. The advance in Midland stocks amounts to 11 per cent., and in some others to 1 per cent., Whilst the general recovery is about I per cent. A partial recovery has also taken place in the Foreign markets. But of new business there is little or nothing. The Stock Exchange will be closed t )-morrow the Ist Jan. Consols remain flat at yesterday's decline, at 911 to 92 for money and account. New and Reduced 3 per Cents., 911 to 92 ; India Five per Cents., 111 to 1111 ; Bank stock, 239 to 241 ; Exchequer Bills, 235. to 28s. prem. With the exception of a relapse of 1 in New Spanish, which have declined to 33-, Foreign Stocks have improved * to k per cent.. Mexican Bonds are now 15 to 15i. ; Greek, 12 to 12i ; Passives, 25 to 25i ; Turkish (1861), 32k to 32f ; Italian (1861), 44i to 44i ; New Portuguese, j to 1 prem, and Old, 39 to 39i. The demand for money is less active than it was yesterday, but rates are quite as firm. Nothing is taken under 1i per cent., and the quotation is 1i to 2 per cent. The New Honduras Loan is steady, at 11 to 11 prem. American Securities are heavy :—United States' Five-twenty Bonds are dull, at 72k to 728 ; Erie Shares k lower, at 48 to 49 ; and Illinois at 89 to 90. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have risen 1, to 21 22, and the Consolidated Mort gage Bonds remain firm, at 18 19. English Railways are much firmer. There is a rise of 11 in Midland, at 1031 to 1041 ; of 1 in Lon don and South Western, at 76 to 78 ; of I in Metropolitan, at 116 to 1161 ; of f in Great Northern, at 107 to 108 ; of 1 in Brighton, at 49 to 491 ; of 1 in Sheffield, at 45 to 451 ; in Great Eastern, at 31 to 311 ; in Great Northern (A), at 1081 to 1091 ; and in South Eastern, at 664 to 66 ; and 1 in London and North-Western, at 1131 to 114; in Great Western, at 44 to 441 ; and iu Caledonian, at 71 to 72. Lancashire and York shire are steady, at 122 to 1224. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Twelve thousand sovereigns, received from Por tgal, were sent into the Bank yesterday. To-morrow (Wednesday) will be a strict holiday in Stock Exchange. The Liverpool cotton market 'ill be closed ou both Wednesday and Thursday. Messrs. Barings have received a further sum 0f.£535 ti account of New Granada dividends. The Dutch Rhenish Railway Company have made , cal! of 24 florins per share, payable by the Ist of ?ebruary. There are again reports from Paris of a French roan, in order to bring the floating debt of the mpire to its normal proportions "on the eve of vents which will demand great elasticity on the part d the Treasury." The proposals are expected to be nade early in the year. The following circular has been issued :—" Old lank, Leeds, Christmas, 1867. Sir, —Referring to he announcement already made to you by Messrs. Dooke and Co., that we have agreed to amalgamate heir bank with ours from the Ist of January next, we take leave to express to you the gratification it will afford us if the connection which has hitherto subsisted between you and Messrs. Cooke and Co. should be extended to the united firm ; and, with the assurance that we shall have pleasure in placing our best services at your disposal, we are, sir, your most obedient servants, BECKErr AND Co. N.B.—The forms of cheque on Messrs. Cooke and Co. may con tinue to be used as heretofore." The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales was held at Sydney on the 30th of October. The report showed the divisible profits for the half year ending the 30th of September, to amount to £91,564 4s 3,i, which was disposed of as follows : £75,000 for a 15 per cent. dividend, £12,500 for a Si per cent. bonus, making in all 17i per cent. per annum, and leaving £4,064 4s 3d to be carried for ward to the new account. The dividend on the shares on the London register will be payable on and after the 31 of January next. Toe half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New [sealand was held at Auckland on the 30th October last, when the report was presented to the share holders. The total profits for division to the 30th September amounted to £58,618 6s 4d, and a divi dend of 10 per cent. and a bonus of 7s per share, equal to 17 per cent. per annum, were declared. This amounted to £42,500, leaving £16,118 6s 4d to be carried to the new profit and loss account. The report was adopted. The dividend on the shares on the London register is payable on the 3d January next. BRITISH FUNDS—Tyro O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 8 per Own. Consols ... .. Do. Account, 3 per Cunt. Reduced 9l} 2 New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. o per Cent. J an. 1873 — Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Tele6ra,ph), Au 6., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 &2i per Ct 23 pm Do £5OO 23 pm Do. £lOO & £2OO 23 pm Bank of England Stock, 4} per Cent 239 Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ndiau Mock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent B7 Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lOBl 1 Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 187' Do. do. 1877 — Do. do. 1882 lo3} Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000 Do. under £1,000 FORRIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 5 per Cont., 1865 Do Account 75 f Do. £lOO Bonds 7sf Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Bs} Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cuba, 6 per Cent. Cuilian 6 per Cent — Do. 4} per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent., B • Do., 1867 Do., 7 per Cent., 1866 Do., Scrip' £32 paid 0 )i mbian, 6 per Cont. Danisn, 3 per Cent., 1825 B7 D nubian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — egyptian, 7 per Cent B4l 5 Do. Second Issue Do. .£5OO Bonds Do. .£IOG Bonds — Do. 1864 Do. £550 Bonds — Do. £lOO Bonds ... .. 88 Government Railway Debentures ..... 92} Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups — Do. Account .. 12 Du. Coupons Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent .. — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 pd pm It 6ian 5 per Cer.t., 1865 — Do, Account • — Do. Alaremmana Raiway — Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — Ilontevideau 6 per Cent. .. — Moorish imperial 5 per Cent New Granada ll4 Do 3 per Can — Do. Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Perivian 5 per Cent. 1865 Du Accbunt — Do 4f per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 4} per Cent.. 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 Russian 5 per Cent., 1.822, £ St — Do if per Cent. 1850 Do •If per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cont., 1859 Do 5 per Cont., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dut c h, 1861, £lOO B on d s BB Do. do. £B4 15s. do. De., 1866, £lOO Bonds B7l f Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Sardinian, 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Cen — Do Account Do New Deferrou Do Account Do Passive 2s} I Do Acc.ant Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do £lO6 Bonds 6l! Do. 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 5Ol Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 251. Do. Account TWO erOLOCK Consols, Money' 92 Do. Account SHARE LIST.--This Day. IRDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 1,„ ClosingJ Business hallways. "'"1 Price. j done. Brist.di and Exeter .... - 100 82 84 ;84 Caledonian lOO 71 711'71/ 2} 11 Cambrian. '.rk and Bandon...- - - - Cornwall all 2 4 Dublin Sr Belfast June lOO 741 751 Dan„Perth,& Ab.Junc aoo 70 72 ‘E.London, scrip Cezti all - 100 -d, Glasgow &S. Western 100 95 87 Great Eastern, Ord.stk. 100 80/ 34 31 1 / Do. E. Angl. st. No. t 100 7 8 Great North of Scotland 100 15 6 Great Northern lOO 107 109 107 Du. A stock .. 100 1081 1094 109 1 Do. B stock lOO 123 125 Do. New, is. at 25 pm lOu - - GtS, and W. of Ireland 100 96 98 Gt. Western -Original 100 41 441 141 4 Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. 100 - - Do. South Wales - - Do. W. Mid.-Oxford 100 25 30 Do. Newport lOO 29 31 Do. Hereford lOO - - Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1221 123 j 1221 31 Landon and Blackwall 100 - - Lon., Brigh., &S. Coast 100 48 49 49} 9 1 1 , 0 n., Chat., and Dovei 100 18 19 Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO - - Lon. & North Wester' lOO 113 114' 1131 14 Lou. at South Western 100 76 77 761 Man., Shel., & Lincoln 100 441 151 451 / Metropolitan. Do. New lO - - • Do. Extension.- all 102 103 Metropolitan District. all - - Do. do. Jo. 10 - - On. and :it. John's W'd" 6 - - Midland Do. £9 Share 7 - - Do, Birmin.. & _Ugric)} 100 72 74 73 did Kent - - North British Do. Di., Ptli., & Dun lO9 - - N th. Eastern --Ber wim lOO 98 99 981 9 Do. G.N•.E purcha5,.16.13.4 - - Do. Leads Do. York lOO 90 92 Do. Carlisle ..... . - - Do. Stock. & Darling all 130 132 Do. do. 1860-61 lB -•-- p North London .. lO7 113 115 Do. do. 1861 5 . . lO - - Do. do. 1866 worth Staffordshire i. &S. W. Junction icottish Central - - icot. N. E , Aber. stool lOO - Soot, Mid. stock - ihropsuire Union iouth Devon iOU 42 14 4outh Eastern Vt , ok., & Woe ail 86 91 Vail' Vale lou 145 :50 Do. C - - ale of Neath - - Waterford & 10,1 Waterloo & Whiteha i 6 - - West Cornwall lOO - - COLONIAL GOVEILNMENT SECURITIk.; ,, —. Britt*b Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1572. 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.&July 1877-84 po. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 1 0 101 103 Do. sp. c. Mar. & Septl Nu 101 I°3 Do. sp. c. Jan. & Juiyi 100 90 92 901 Do. S P. c. inscribed sKI Ito 80 91 Cap(' G. Hope, 6 p.c. 187 s lUu 102 104 Do.Apl.&Oct. 1890-1900 100 106 108 Do. do 1880-99 100 104 106 Do. Jan.&July, 18110-91 100 107 109 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 95 i 7 Ceylon, Nov. 1888, 6 p.i 100 Do. 1878, do lOO 11) 110 1 Mauritius, 6p. o, 1873, Jan. and July -- DO. 1878 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. it, 100 105 107 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aua lOO 107 109 Natal , iov. 6 per cent lOO 1(4 106 N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July 100 103 105 N. S.W. Gov. 5 pv.,1860 100 Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 187oi 100 98 90 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1895 100 97i 91 9? New Zealand, 6p. cent I lOU Do. 5 per cent.... Nora Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 l3O 1(2 104 Q ueensland Gov. 6p. 100 103 1(5 103 j . Aus.Gov. 6 p.c. 1868-91 100 - Do. 1878 & upwards. 1 1(0 110 ill Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &,3 111;1 100 _ Do. do, April & 100 i 110 112 BItITISII POSSESSIONS. 100 Atlantic .6z St.Lawrenoe all 63 65 st ttom., Baroda,&Cen.ln. 100 1(4 105 1(21 gu. 6 per 20 Do. F shares lO p 3p 203 Buffalo .t Lake Huron ail 34 10 Do. Preference tooßutf.,Brant, & Goderich ( 1 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 lOO 68 71 st Calcutta &S. E., lim lOO st Uape Town & Dock, gu lOO 18 52 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p, all 99 102 st East. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 103 104 1031 st East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 110 1104 109 84 I 20 Do. J Extension 15 st Grand Trunkof Canada 100 17 18 100 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all 83 85 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 50 52 100 Do. do deferred 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 40 45 100 Do. do. deferred - 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 32 34 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook 100 Do. do. deterred st Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c lOO 107 108 93 o. Gua. 5 per cent lB 2 20 D o . New gua. sp. c 6 2 p st Ut. South of India gua. 5 per cent st Du. 41 per Cent lOu 92 94 st Do 2 201 Great Wes. of Canada all 151 151 201 Do. New all 100 Do. 6p. c B . e.s. pay. 1873 all 95 97 100 Uo. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 all 85 87 10 Indian Branch, limited 3 t st Madras, gua. 5 p.o st Do. 41 do lOO 93 95 st Do. 44 d 0....... lOO 69 91 20 Do. Fifth :xtension 5 et afelb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. 100 50 lel. & Hobson's Bay all at V.ltl.C'da,6pc lstpf.bs 10u 83 85 et Scinde ..... _! 100 100 101 st Do. Do. Delhi 20 do l5 P st Do. Puniaub.... a 100 99 100 it Do.lndus St. Flo r 100 85 87 BRITISH MINES. 'am. Consol. Gold, lion. 1 'hiverton - 'lifford Amalgamated 3O 51 6 ) evon G. Cons. (Taviat 1 4co 430 ..)rake walls 2.1.0 1 1 tWast Bassett (Illogan) 291 10 12 ast Caradon 2.14. 5 6 - 'ast Carn BrPa St 2 21 last Grenville 2.14.0 11 . 2 East Gunnislake 8.3.0 1 East Loved 3.u.0 8 9 E. W'l Russell (Tavist ' 11.7.6 14 2 (Aam.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 5 4 Great Laxey, limited., all 17 18 Great South Tolgus 0.14. -- - Great Wheal Busy 14.9. - (I. Wheal Vor 40 17 19 renville _ 9.0.6 11 14 Herod's Foot .. 8.10.0 35 37 - Hingston Downs 5.10.. 21 21 - ilargaret (Uny Lelant 6 8 - llarke Valley 4.10. 41 5 4 4 Awyudy Iron Ore, li 34 21 11 - A e - AT S ton ...... 561 60 70 North toskear - N.Wh Bassettallogan 4.4.0 - - North Wheal Crotty Prosper United.-- 8.14.0 2 24 Providence )Uny Lelan 10.6.7 29 31 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 390 410 South Condurrow 3.2.0 1 ',Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 371 424 Stray Park 35.15.; 4 6 in Croft 9 13 14 7igra and Clogan, lim all - W est Bassett (Mogan - w. Caradon (Liskeard 1: 10 12 West Chi verton ll 60 08 West Seton--.... Wheal Bassett ( Mogan 5/ 85 95 Wheal Buller (Itedruth 16 16 19 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 18 20 Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 5.17.0 6 8 VICEFEICENCN Great Eastern, E. Counties EL, No. 2, ... Ditto, 6 per cent., b3i Great Western, 5 per cent., rd., 95 FOREIGN MINES. Chontalea Gold and Silver Mining, Don I'edro, North Del Bey, 2i 3 pm St John del Key, ulna , 57 BANILb. Australasia, 61 Bank of New Zealand, 19 Chartered tier, of India, London, , land China, 291 Consolidated, lira., 4k English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 17 1 Imperial Ot oman, 0 4 1-16 London and giver Plate, Ditto, new, 11 London Joint Stock, 353 Ditto, issued at £lO pm., 20k London and ks estminster, 6,1 Ditto, Scrip, 33 _ DOCii S. East and West India, 125 HISCELLANNOUb. Anglo American Telegraph4l9l 1 Atlantic l'elegraph, 51 I)it o, 8 par zent., 95 31 City of Moscow Gas, lira., 101 city Utficcs, lim., 6 Credit e'oncier ut England. Jim.. 3 1 East India Irrigation and Canal, 17/ Egyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egyp Govt. Ditto, Script, Eyyptian Com, and Trading, lim., London District Telegraph lim., Ditto, Preference, London deuerai omnibus Company, lim, 11 Peninsula and Orienvil Steam, 54 i Ditto, new, 1867, 51 Rhyniney Iron, 184 Ditto, ne h , 51 Submarine Telegraph, --- Ditto, Scrip, United Kingdom Telegraph Co., lim., 2 13-16 THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAV EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1887. POLICE I NTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A CONSTABLE.—Thomas Hamilton, a chairmaker, residing at No. IA, Upper Rathbone-place, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being disorderly and violently assaulting Police constable Walter Grigsby, 66 E, by striking him on the head with a katchet. Grigsby said—About 3 o'clock this Morning I was on duty in Upper Rathbone-place and saw the prisoner standing at his door abusing his wife, who was in the street. The wife said she had been in the street all night, and was afraid to go in doors. She asked me if I would protect her, and I said I would. I spoke to the prisoner, and tried to get them to go in together. The prisoner went in doors, and again came out into the street, and began again making use of very bad language. I told him that I should lock him up, and went up to him to take him into custody, when I received a blow from a hatchet which came on the brim of my helmet and cut it through, and cut my forehead just over the left temple. He then dropped the hatchet and ran away through the passage into the yard. I then broke the door open and pulled him out and took him to the station and had my head dressed. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did he say anything to you ? Grigsby—He was offended with me for interfer fering with him, and said he would kill his wife if he was hanged for it. Had it not been for the hatchet taking a slanting direction I should have been seriously injured. Alexander Sim, of Frances-street, Tottenham court-road, said—l was returning home this morn ing from a ball, when I heard a disturbance in Upper Rathbone-place. The prisoner was using bad language towards his wife from the first floor window. The prisoner then came down to the door and went in again, and came to the door a second time, and struck at the constable with something, but I cannot say what with, saying something at the same time, but I was not near enough to hear what. The prisoner's wife was in the street at the time. The constable told me that the prisoner bad struck him with a hatchet, and the constable had blood running down his face. I afterwards saw the hatchet in the constable's hand. Thomas Austin, residing in the same house, said, I live in the same house as the prisoner. Some persons in the house told me that they had heard the prisoner say that he would have his wife's life if he was hanged for it. The prisoner made a great disturbance, and my wife was confined while it was going on. My wife's nurse heard the prisoner threaten to kill his wife. I saw nothing of the assault, but thought it to be my duty to come for ward and state what I have done. Mr. Tyrwbitt—You have done quite right. Mr. Charles P. Skrimshere, assistant to Dr. Ross, 1, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, the medical officer of the E division of Police, said—l was called this morning to the police station to see the constable, and found he had a wound two inches iu length on the left temple, and it was such a wound as might have been inflicted with the hatchet produced. I attended to the wound, which was not a very deep one. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Do you, prisoner, wish to say anything ? You can do so or not, just as you please, but what you say will be taken down and may be used in evidence against you. Prisoner—Thepoliceman hit me first, and knocked me down twice before I struck him. Mr. Tyrwhitt —Did you do so? Grigsby—No, sir. I knocked him down after he struck me. Committed for trial. RAIL TVA Y INTELLIGENCE. MEXICAN (LIMITED). The fifth ordinary general meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the offices, New Broad street ; Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., in the chair. Mr. \V. Roscoe, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an ab stract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CllairtmaN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the proceedings taken by the board in respect of the concession were related in the re port, and the result could not be considered unsatis factory. Ile had just received a copy of the con cession granted to the company by the Government of Mexico. It was inLSpanish, and he had not had time to go through it carefully, but on glancing over it he thought it more favourable to the company than the original concession. During the greater part of the time, from March to June inclusive, the cities of Mexico and Vera Cruz were in a state of siege, and the line itself was in the hands of national forces. The company had not been subjected to any unfair obstruction from those forces. The special powers forwarded to Mr. E. Barron, the company's resident director in Mexico, authorising him to make arrange ments with the Government, did not arrive in Mexico until after the decease of that lamented gentleman. But the principal points had been fully discussed by Mr. Barron with the members of the Mexican Go vernment prior to his illness ; and it only remained for Mr. Kirkpatrick, the agent of the company, to give formal effect to the conclusions arrived at on the part of the company and the Government. Mr. Crawley, the contractor, had also rendered great assistance. It was gratifying for the proprietors to know that the concession recently granted was in every respect superior to that granted by Maximi lian. The Government considered all the arrange ments under the Empire as of no effect, and started from the concession granted in 1861, having amended it in several particulars to the advantage of the railway company, and they amended it in very few instances against their advantage. (Hear, hear.) They would see that the traffic on the line be tween Mexico and Apixaco from January to June had produced them, or they had been allowed, £7,068 for the use of the line. The traffic for the month of July, when peace was restored, amounted to £7,734, for August to £9,933, and for the month of September to £7,625. At the other end of the line, from Vera Cruz to Paso del Macho, from March to the end of June they had no control over this portion of the line, as it was occupied by the military forces. Neither had they over the line from Apixaco to Mexico, and he thought they were fortunate to get £7,000 for working the latter up to July last. The receipts he had just mentioned were entirely for local traffic and averaged from £2O to £26 per mile per week. The population of Apixaco was 100,000, and of Mexico about 500,000. The population was considered wealthy, and the people were in the habit of expending money. Large supplies of food were brought by the railway to Mexico and Apixaco, so that they had a good local traffic. The section of the line at Vera Cruz depended on foreign traffic, and there fore he did not suppose it produced much while occupied by the military, although in the month of January it had a traffic of £6O per mile per week, in February of £55 per mile per week, and in the first week in March £59 per mile for the week. They were not in a position to recommend any particular policy at present. The traffic did not indicate what the receipts would have been under more favourable circumstances. He thought their policy should be to extend the line from Vera Cruz into the interior, and also from Apixaco towards Del Macho. The present difficulty was as to obtaining the means to carry out the un dertaking, and from their improved position under the new concession, he thought they could give very adequate security for what they required, but he did not wish to discuss that mater at present. The directors would as soon as possible consider the whole question, and, when matured, would take the opinion of the shareholders at a special meeting to be convened for the purpose, and which would be held at no distant period. They had pressed share holders for calls in arrear, and found that some could pay and others could not, but they had received between £6,000 and £7,000 on that account during the year. He thought the great advantages of the new concession and the fair prospects before them would induce those in arrear to pay up, and enable them to raise the requisite capital. In reply to Mr. Moxon, it was stated that the calls in arrear amounted to £68,073, exclusive of 4,000 shares that had been cancelled. The Government of Mexico were to pay them $420,000, being the interest of $6,000,000 of bonds granted to the com pany. The Imperial Government had paid them up to June on that account $900,000. The present Government had extended the concession for 25 years further. The original concession was for 25 years, and the Government renewed it. The com pany were in receipt of 15 per cent. of certain duties which they were allowed in a very direct way, which would be found to work well. There would be no objection to print the concession and circulate it among the shareholders. Part of the calls in ar.. rear were due in Mexico. A SHAREHOLDER thought the time bad come when those in arrear should be pressed to pay up the calls due. The report was unanimously adopted, and the proceedings terminated. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. VALETTA, Dec. 24.—The departure of the French steamer Gyptis enables me to announce the arrival yesterday at 2 p.m. of her Majesty's ironclad frigate Lord Clyde, 23 guns, Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8., from Lisbon 16 days, and Gibraltar six. She brought as passenger Capt. Graham Ogle, R.N. The Lord 'Warden arrived at Gibraltar from Lisbon on the 16th inst., on her way to Malta. Her Ma jesty's Indian troopship Serapis, Captain J. C. Soady, arrived this morning with troops from Ports mouth, which place she left on the 14th inst., on her way to Alexandria. She is not to leave till Fri day, to let the men pass Christmas in port. Her Majesty's screw gunboat Trinculo, 1, Lieut.-Com. V. do Sanders, arrived to-day from Patras, for the purpose of refitting. The English screw steamer Hawk, Capt. Halpin, returned to-day from Sicily, where she has been engaged repairing the electric telegraph cable connecting that island with the Italian peninsula. The weather up to yesterday has been very severe in the Malta Channel and this part of the Mediterranean. The French brig Trois, Jean Baptiste, which left Oran for Girgeute in bal last, foundered at 3 p.m. ou the Bth inst., about 110 miles distant from Zante. Her master, Captain Jacomin, and the crew, seven in number, arrived here on the 22d inst. iu the Italian bark Italia. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Serapis arrived at Alexandria on the 28th inst. with the Bth Bri gade Royal Artillery, and other troops destined to proceed from Suez to Bombay in the Euphrates. It was yesterday announced at Chatham that Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, who recently met with the severe railway accident in France, has so far recovered as to be able to resume his duties at the Admiralty, the official documents received at the dockyard yesterday from his depart ment being signed by him. At half-past 4 yesterday afternoon the Lords of the Admiralty telegraphed to the Port-Admiral at Plymouth orders for the embarkation to-day, at 9 a.m., of a detachment of Royal Marines on board the troopship Himalaya, 2, Capt. Shute B. Piers, which has been several days lying in the Sound ready for sea. The detachment consists of Capts. Spratt, Leslie, Farmar, and - West ; Lieuts. Stevens, L. P. Smith, A. B. Liardet, Luxmoore, E. A. M. Liardet, and Seager ; 12 sergeants, 12 corporals, and 392 privates. The Dauae, 6, screw corvette, 300 horse power, Captain Sir Malcolm M'Gregor, left Spithead yes terday morning at daybreak for the Channel. On her return to Spithead she is ordered to make two more trials of her speed over the measured mile in Stoke's Bay, each trial being made under fixed con ditions of trim. Iler Majesty's paddle yacht Osborne, Commander John D'Arcy, dismantling and clearing out at Ports mouth preparatory to undergoing a course of thorough repairs, will be paid out of commission on Thursday next. Mr. _Henry D. Sarratt, her master, is appointed master of the Megwra, screw troopship, commissioned at Woolwich by Staff-Commander Jabez Loane. The appointment of assistant-master shipwright at Portsmouth dockyard, vacant by the retirement, on superannuation, of Mr. W. H. Brain, has been conferred by the Admiralty on Mr. Morgan, one of the foremen of Chatham dockyard, who is employed on special duty at the Admiralty, during which the duties of assistant-master shipwright at Portsmouth will be discharged by Mr. Owen, foreman at Chat ham dockyard. By direction of the Duke of Cambridge, the following officers of Royal Engineers have been struck off the strength of the Royal Engineer esta blishment, Chatham, for special service —viz., Lieut. S. L. Jacob, Lieut. C. F. C. Beresford, and Lieut. Napoleon Arnott. Capt. A. Parnell has been appointed to the command of the 40th depot com pany of Royal Engineers, at head-quarters, Brompton barracks, Chatham. By airection of Major-General F. Murray, the military guard on duty within Chatham dockyard has been augmented, and the troops retained within the establishment the whole of the night, instead of leaving the dockyard at sunset, as has hitherto been the practice. At the Chatham convict prison, St. Mary's, the military convict guard remains on duty the whole night, and additional sentries have been posted around the prison walls. Colonel E. Y. W. Henderson, the Inspector-General of Prisons, has been engaged on a special visit of inspection at the Chatham convict establishment for several days, for the purpose of ascertaining that every precau tionary measure is adopted for the safe custody of the large number of convicts confined within the Chatham. Prison. Within the last few days a strong military guard has been posted within Fort Amherst, at Chatham, and the guardhouse re moved within the fort, for the protection of the stores of Snider cartridges and other small arm ammunition stared in the magazines at the fort, a line of sentries communicating from the heights on which the magazine is built with the garrison both by day and night. The military guard at Hampton Court, as was expected, has been increased at the Royal Palace. .A. full company of the 56th Foot has arrived from Portland, and has taken up its quarters there. The detachment of the Hussars, supplied from the head quarters at Hounslow, was not sufficiently strong in numbers to provide the number of sentries re quired, so the infantry have come to help. The cavalry keep to their old posts, the 56th doing extra duty. The " specials," whose employment we noticed last week, are still kept on the men are all armed with a stout cudgel at night, and are changed every two hours. The day watching is principally left to the civilians, but at night sen tries are placed all round the Royal Palace, and in all the approaches. After dark no one is allowed to pass without giving the sign, and if not known, is not allowed to proceed without a guard with him. Even in Frog-walk, facing the green, passengers are challenged, and have to come forward to the light so that they may be seen. That part of the Palace which faces the river is most carefully guarded, and heavy iron gratings have been placed over the mouths of the sewer. The watchmen and sentries are so arranged that there is a complete cordon round the whole place, and no one is left unsupported. Precautions are still taken by the military autho rities at Woolwich to provide against the threatened attack of the Fenians on the Government estab lishments. The garrison orders issued last night directed the reinforcement in the Royal Arsenal of the guard stationed during the day, in command of Lieut. Le Breton, Royal Marine Light Infantry, to post sentries along the gun-wharfs and the outlying positions adjoining the open marsh, in conjunction with the police, who do duty in couples. Precau tions, as on former nights in the latter portion of the week, are also to be observed in the barracks, where detachments of the mounted batteries of Royal Artillery are equipped for immediate service. A demand was made at the dockyard police station during the night of Sunday for hasty assistance to the police at Erith, as rumours of an intended attack on the powder magazine there bad been conveyed to the officials of that establishment. The constables of Woolwich dockyard relieved from their day's duty were aroused from their beds, and were despatched to meet the emergency ; but no thing occurred to demand their aid. On Satufday Col. Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, General Arbuckle, Captain Robertson, county magistrates, and Com modore Edmonstone, in his capacity of Superin tendent of the Dockyard, assembled in the official department of the yard, and administered oaths to upwards of 3,000 of the artificers and la. bourers of the establishment, who were sworn in as special constables for the preservation of the peace. The men, whose names had previously been registered for that purpose, mustered on the parade in groups of 50 each, in charge of officers appointed, and took the necessary oaths. The num bers sworn in were as follows-1,600 from the shipwrights' department, and about the same num ber from the smitheries and factory. The proceed ings commenced shortly after ten, and terminated at half-past two, when the men were released from further work for the day, with Admiralty sanction, and on leaving the dockyard they gave three rounds of lusty cheers. A detachment of the Scots Fusilier Guards ar- rived at Portsmouth yesterday by the first morning train from London, and proceeded to Cowes, to join the detachment now on duty at Osborne. The total strength of the detachment at Osborne is now up wards of 180 of all ranks. It was announced at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer estAblishment, Chatham, on Satur day, that all leave to officers and passes and fur loughs to the non-commissioned officers and men are stopped, the whole of the officers and men being re quired to be on duty in case of their services being suddenly wanted. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieuts. G. W. Hand, Archibald L. Douglas, and Lynedock L. Moncrieff, to the Excellent, for study ; Lieut. A. P. Black, to the Simoom ; Sub-Lieuts. Hugh G. Gough and C. S. Donner, to the Achilles; D. L. Dickson and C. Sherard, midshipmen, to the Achilles ; Edwin 11. Richard, midshipman, to the Dee ; David Duncan, surg., additional, to the Achilles ; David B. Thomas, assist.-surg., to the naval hospital at Bermuda ; Navigating-Lieut.W. J. Cunningham to the Indus, additional, for the Liverpool ; Wm. Crawford, sur geon, to the Revenge ; 'William Miller, engineer, to the Indus, for the Flirt; John G. Cox, engineer, to the Indus, for the Fly ; and Thomas Ponton, first-class assistant-engineer, to the Dauntless, for tenders. THAMES. ALL AGROUND.—Captain Innes Al 4 Pherson, the master of a merchant ship, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. Gully, a police constable of the K division, said that at one o'clock this morning he saw the prisoner on Tower hill very drunk, incapable, and noisy, and surrounded by a lot of roughs, who would have soon stripped him if he had not interfered. A friend of the prisoner tried to get him into a cab and drive him home, but the prisoner was obstinate and would not go, and he was compelled to take him into custody. Mr. Benson—Here is the captain of a ship, a grave-looking, sedate, elderly man, drunk and in capable of taking care of himself—how very dis graceful. Captain M'Pherson—l was all aground last night, and brought up all standing. I had been tasting wine in the dock. Mr. Benson—Drinking wine you mean. What a pity you did not go home in a cab and save this ex posure. You are fined ss. for being drunk and in capable. WIGG I NS THE M URD ERE R. —Mr. George Wiggins, a lighterman, who is well known on the river and in the eastern part of London as a man of good re putation and honesty, came before Mr. Benson, and said that, since the execution of his son for the murder of Agnes Oakes, his life had been a misery to him. He was 72 years of age, feeble and labour ing under infirmities and great mental depression. A woman, named Flick, had abused him, and called him a murdering old rascal in his own house. Mr. Benson was very sorry that any one could be so dastardly and wicked as to torment a poor old man because his son had committed crime. It made his blood run cold to think that any one should be so perverse, so infamous as to taunt the old man with the crime of his son, who had suffered the extreme penalty of the law. lie inquired when and where the woman had abused Wiggins. Applicant—ln my own house. Mr. Benson said he had no power to interfere. He would seriously advise the old man to remove to a locality where he was not known, and where the reminiscences of his son's crime would not be talked about. The applicant said his bread laid here, and he had lived in the East all his life. The same woman had abused him in the street, and said he ought to be hanged like his son. Mr. Benson—lt is very cruel and very shocking. Have you any witnesses that the woman of whom you complain insulted you in the street ? The applicant believed there were witnesses to the outrage in the street. Mr. Benson—You shall have a summons. Wiggins then said that, in the sight of God and man, he would distinctly say his son was innocent of the murder for which he was most unjustly hanged. Mr. Benson said he could not entertain that sub ject, and must beg of the applicant not to talk about the matter in that court. Wiggins then left the court, declaiming vehe mently that his son was unjustly sacrificed. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Bap• GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Doc. 30.—Mary Ann, from Dunkirk; Capella, steamer, from Hamburg. Sailed, Dec. 31 Belgium, steamer, for Ostend ; Seine, steamer, for Boulogne ; B. E. Braham, for Antwerp; Anglo Dane, steamer, for Copenhagen. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. No arrival% 111ARKETS—( 2 his Day.) HAY. SMITIIFIET.D.—Meadow hay, 55s Od to 85s • clover, 60s to 105 s ; awl straw, 30s to 36s per load. 'Trade firm. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 55s to 90s Od ; clover, 60s to 1053 Od; and straw, 305 to 3Gs per load. A steady do mand. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 555 to 84s Od ; clover, 60s to 1075 6d ; and straw, 305 to 368 per load. A firm inquiry. 'AI?KET. at the Close, s d Original Hartlepool 19 9 Keno°. Bradyell'slletton lB 3 lletton Eden Main Tanfield Moor Butes 15 6 Hollywell Main.,. 19 ERIE. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the month of November amounted to $1,421,881, and for Nov., 1866, to $1,416,001, showing an increase of $5,880. LA TV FOR SPECIAL CONSTABLES. ---~- The Law Journal explains some points of law as to the functions of special constables. The question has been asked in some quarters whether a special constable is invested with the peculiar powers at tached to members of the metropolitan police force. The answer must clearly be in the negative. Special constables must not attempt to arrest persons for furious driving, blowing horns, ringing door-bells, making slides, or for any other of the 17 sets of offences named in the 54th section of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839. The special constable has, how ever, one considerable advantage over the police. While the penalty for assaulting a policeman is £5, in the case of a special the maximum fine is £2O. A special constable is a conservator of the peace, and may for treason-felony, breach of the peace, and some misdemeanours less than felony, committed in his view, apprehend the supposed offender without warrant. He may, upon his own view, interpose to prevent a breach of the peace, and all persons assisting him at his request are protected. He may not without warrant arrest on a charge of breach of the peace after the affray is over. But during the affray, or where an offence is threat ened in his presence to be committed, he may, to avoid a continuance of the breach of the pease, or prevent the offence, arrest the affrayer or party menacing. If he is preventing a breach of the peace, and any person stand in the way to hinder him, he may take such person into custody, but not give him a blow. He may remove a person from church for disturbing the congregation, but he must not detain the party in order to take him before a magistrate. If a landlord turn a disorderly person out of a public-house and the landlord be assaulted, the constable may on view arrest the offender. He may also arrest without warrant for felony upon a reasonable information and charge made by others. Where a constable acts without warrant by virtue of his office, he should, unless the party be pre viously acquainted with it, notify that he is con stable, or that he arrests in the Queen's name, and for what. It will be sufficient, however, if from the circumstances the offender may collect that he is constable ; and it is enough if he show his staff. TIIE CONSOLIDATED FUND.—The first act of the present Session, which is the third Session of the 19th Par liament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, was to apply the sum of two millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending the 31st of March last. COAL M. Price per Ton s d Tunstall l7 0 iletton Lyons ........ 19 0 Qaradoc l7 6 Fast Hartl , Tool l9 0 Brancepeth Cannel lB Russell's Hetton... South Durham l7 3 TILE TEA TRADE, Dec. 30.—The deliveries in London made for the week are 538,4351 b., being a de crease of 457,6511 b, as compared with the previous weok. PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. The Dean of Westminster preached on Saturday afternoon at the church of St. Lawrence, Jewry, to a crowded and attentive congregation, in aid of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The Dean chose his text from Isaiah li. 1—" Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." After referring to the earliest exploration of Jerusalem, which had taken place shortly after this prophecy first appeared--that by Nehemiah, when he arrived from Babylonia, and in the dead of the night had gone through the ruins of the city and the Temple--the Dean spoke of the charac teristic tendency of the age to investigate and probe everything to the bottom, to go down to the native rock, and reach the living source of history, tradition, or topography, a tendency of which the present exploration of Palestine was the natural and inevitable result. Much as the Holy Land had been visited from the West, its accurate investiga tion was a thing of very recent existence. It had begun, in fact, only with that lamented member of the American churches, Dr. Rubinson, who was the first to travel there with his eyes open to what ever there was to see and hear, in connection with sacred topography, and of whose labours, we may add in passing, so brilliant and profitable a use has been made by Dr. Stanley himself. What had been done already for the upper surface and the general aspect of the country it was now intended to do for its original soil, long buried beneath the accumula tions of so many ages, races, and generations—to do, in fact, what has already been done at Pompeii, Rome, Egypt, and Nineveh. Of such investiga tions Jerusalem was the natural centre, and here the Dean mentioned three results which he thought might reasonably be hoped from the present un dertaking :-1. A monument of the Old Testa ment of peculiar and special interest, the catacomb containing the tombs of David and the Rings of Judah, the prototype of the royal tombs of the mo dern world. It alone of all tombs was permitted to be within the walls of the city. In it, around the central cell of the founder, were grouped nearly all the kings of his line—his wise son Solomon, his great successors Asa and Jehoshaphat, with the iligh Priest Jehoiada, the one personage of hum bler rank who had been allowed a place there. Apart from anything that might be found in the tombs, its discovery would be of immense value as fixing the position of the " City of David." The last time it was seen was when Herod the Great broke into it in search of treasure ; but there could be no reasonable doubt that it was still buried beneath the rubbish, and still recoverable. 2. Another monument was the " Holy Sepulchre.' The church in which this was shown had been the centre of pilgrimage and crusade for many a century, but latterly the feeling had very much cooled to wards it. Many considerations tended to throw doubt on the present position, and the question ought to be cleared up, which it would only be by excavation of the course of the walls. 3. There were the natural features of the old Jerusalem, and here the Dean spoke of the discovery which had been already made by the Palestine Exploration Fund, by which the enormous depth of those sacred walls had been for the first time revealed, the accuracy of Josephus substantiated, and a new force given to the narrative of the temptation of Christ. TliC Dean then went on to urge the importance of proceeding with the undertaking. The men were there. They were practised in their work and alive to all the bear ings on the subject. The Imperial Government of the East was favourable; everything encouraging. Let the opportunity slip and it might never return, or if it did the whole trouble and cost incurred would have to be repeated. Never let it be said that in his Bible-loving country a work had been relin quished that bore so closely on that Book which was called in the Coronation service " the most valuable thing which the world contains." " Let us show a hundredth part of the spirit of our fore fathers in this matter, and we shall possess the Holy Land in a far truer sense than they did. We are not fulfilling the mission of our age as long as we allow hole or corner of that land or city to remain unexplored." The Dean concluded an eloquent and forcible appeal by a touching reference to the late Duke de Luynes, a nobleman who by his own unassisted efforts had done more for the elucida tion of the geography of Palestine than all the con tributions of this country. A New Year's Plea for the Epileptic and Paralysed. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—At this season of the year your columns are kindly opened to appeals on behalf of the sick poor. I trust you will allow me to solicit aid on behalf of the epileptic and paralysed. Those unfortunate people, though struck down by disease, and rendered incapable of mental or bodily exertion, are ineligible for admission into general hospitals. The Infirmary for Epilepsy and Paralysis in Charles-street, Portman-square, W., which has been founded exclusively for the treatment of patients suffering from these and other nervous affections, has during the last few years been the means of relieving large numbers of poor sufferers. The council of this charity are now under the necessity of delaying the:numerous applications for admission from want of funds. Timely medical treatment is of the greatest importance in such cases, and many patients be come incurable or insane from the want of it at the early part of their disorder. Help is, therefore, needed for this institution. Contributions will be thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street; Messrs. Drum mond and Co., Charing-cross ; the President, Lord Wharncliffe ; or the secretary, at the offices, 46, Coram-street, Russell-square, W.C. I am, sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES H. MILLS, Treasurer. 67, Lombard-street, 28th Dec., 1867. STOPPAGE IN THE IRON TRADE.—We (Bir mingham Gazette) are informed that Messrs. Motley and Co., of the Russell's Hall Furnaces, Dudley, have ceased operations. The liabilities will be but trifling, the firm having been so short a time in existence. OYSTERS.—OId custom has prescribed the trans mission of a barrel of oysters by the London agent to each of his country clients on Christmas-day. We doubt if it can be continued, at least it will impose a very grievous burden upon the giver. Oysters are scarce, and their price almost prohibitory. The barrel formerly charged at 5s is now 245. In such circumstances the country solicitors will excuse their agents if the package should not arrive as usual. A turkey would be literally sending coals to Newcastle. Is there nothing else ? Yes. The grocer will supply the most tasteful baskets of dried fruits, and that would be no unwelcome substitute.—Law Times. ST. ALBANS OPEN STEEPLECHASE.—Chimney Sweep was struck out of this race at 11.35 a.m., and Northern Light at 1 p.m., on Friday last. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Monday, Dec. 30. —Admissions on payment, 4,002 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,693 —total visitors, 5,695. f rl - 1 I D EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. THE VIC 2 ORIA CROSS. (From !he Gazette qf this Evening.) \VAR-OFFICE, Dec. 31. The Queon has been pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the under mentioned Officers, whose claims to the same have been submitted for her Majesty's approval, for their gallant conduct in Bhootan, as recorded against their names, viz.: Royal (late Bengal Engineers)—Major William Spottis woode Trevor and Lieutenant James Dundas, for their gallant conduct at the attack on the Block-house at Dewan thri, in Bhootan, on the 30th of April, 1865. Major-Gan. Tombs, C. 8., V.C., the officer in command at the time re ports that a party of the enemy, from 180 to 200 in number, had barricaded themselves in the Block-house in question, which they continued to defend after the rest of the position had been carried, and the main body was in retreat. The Block-house, which was loop-holed, was the key of the enemy's position. Seeing no officer of the storming party near him, and being anxious that the place should be taken immediately, as any protracted resistance might have caused the main body of the Bhooteas to rally, the British force having been fighting in a broiling sun on very steep and difficult ground for upwards of three hours, the General in command ordered these two officers to show the way into the Block-house. They had to climb up a wall which was 14ft high, and then to enter a house , occupied by some 200 disparate men, head foremost through an opening not more than two feet wide between the top of the wall and the roof of the Block-house. Major-General Tombs states that on speaking to the Sikh soldiers around him, and telling them in Rindoosiani to swarm up the wall, cone of them responded to the call, until these two officers had shown them the way, when they followed with the greatest alacrity. Both of them were wounded. LONDON GAZE r rE.-THIS EVENING. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC Ihe Queen has been pleased to appoin't Georgo Harvey Hayward, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Madeira, to be her Majesty's Consul in the island of Madeira. DEC. 28. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Manuel Zammit as Consul in the Island of Malta for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor Ralph Nunez as Consul in the Island of Jamaica for the United States of Venezula. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 31. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Mr. Peter Wyatt Squire to be Chemist and Druggist upon the Establish ment in Ordinary to her Majesty, jointly with his father Mr. Peter Squire. COURSE OF I.;Xollaii Lit.--Th's Evening. k msterdam Short. 11 181 11 19 Ditto.. 3 Mouths. 12 O 12 1 Rotterdtuu lutwerp Brussels ilamburg Paris Marseilles Frauk - for; on the Maine Vienna Trieste Petersburgn Berlin .O. Cadiz Leghorn Aldan denoa, Naples Palen . = Messina ,,.. Lisbon . Oporto • • RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. FEBRUARY. Lincoln lB Nottingham Spring 25 Harrow 2O I Derby spring MARCH. Liverpool Spring M.... 3 Epsoni Spring Meeting 24 3helmsford Spring M. 10 Northampton West Drayton l2 APRIL. 12 01 12 1 2E 3 25 35 25 40 25 40 13 94 13 101 • •••• Short 25 12i '25 20 3 Months. 25 30 25 35 23 30 25 35 1204- . 121/i 12 4U 12 4o 12 40 12 45 31i 32i 6 26i 6 2r .. 28 8Z 28 83 29 0 29 0 28 81: 23 0 2 8 85 29 0 28 85 29 0 28 85 29 0 Durham 13 I Lewes Spring lleudon - 13 I Newmarket Ist Spring 27 N'ewmarket Craven MAY. Chester 5 I Bath Wi.iehester York Spring Salisbury l4 1 Epsom Summer JUNE. West Drayton 1 I Bibury Club 23 Jroydou 2d Summer ... 2 1 Stockbridge Ascot Summer 9 1 CLelmsf,rd Summer ... 30 \Viudsor Summer JULY. Worcester Summer ... 2 I Huntingdon 2l Newmarket July 7 Nottingham July 'leading Liverpool l6 1 AUGUST. Brighton Brighton Club 6 Oxford Lewes Summer Wolverhampton ll Derby Summer Stockton Windsor Egharu lB Hastings T uubridge SEPTEMBER. Warwick Abingdon 3l I Leicester Doncaster 8 Richmond Kelso l7 Hendon l7 Monmouth .. l9 Newmarket Ist October 22 West Drayton 2U OCTOBER. Bedford 1 Newmarket Houghton 19 Newmarket 2d October 5 Worcester Cheltenham l3 NOVEMBER, Shrewsbury .. lO ,STEEPLECHASES. JANUARY, 1868; .:‘,4j Manchester 1 I Reading FEBRUARY. Birmingham ll, 12 I Lincoln PARISH REGISTERS.—There are 20,000 parish registers in England, allof which are exposed to uncertain guardianship. There is not one, perhaps, without some peculiar illustration of life and manners in it, besides proof of birth,.marriage, or death. A suggestion has boon mado, from which some good may arise, that transcripts of the entries, and a general index shall be printed down to 1837, when the present system of registration came into force. For purposes of genealogy or heirship this would be of great use, and Parliament might sanction a wol ser work. One sample of the way in which the old registers were kept is to be soon in the case of a country clergy man, who, being applied to with reference to a genea logical matter, cut out of his register every; entry of the name mentioned by the applicant, and despatched the fragments by post to London. THE HEADMASTERSHIP Or ETON COLLEGE. —TO - morrow is the day fixed for the election by the Provost and Fellows of a Headmaster at Eton College, in the room of the Rev. Dr. E. Balston, who has resigned. 4. CHRISTMAS 0 RATORIOS. —The " Creation" will be given next Wednesday, at Exeter Hall, by the National Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin. Band and chorus, 700. Mr. Santley sings on this occasion, also on the following Wednesday in the "Elijah." ANTIQUITY OF MAN.—Colonel George Green wood writes to the Athenceum :—" I have headed chapter xiv. of ' Rain and Rivers,' Man may have existed in the Silurian Period.' In the last Atheneum, page 858 C. F. P. says, ' in a quarry near Brewood, in Staf fordshire,' on a large slab (of Red Sandstone) I de tected the moulds of what aro unmistakably the imprints of two largo human feet. The mould of the left foot is very perfect.' These are 'footprints in the sands of time with a vengeance. Indeed, if C.F.F. has read the characters aright, he has undoubtedly lighted on the most intensely interesting passage which has hitherto been dis covered in na:ure's hieroglyphics. UNJUST WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—During the past year 740 South London shopkeepers have been tined for using, or having in their possession, unjust weights, scales, or measures. The black list is made up as follows :-109 licensed victuallers and beer retailers, 73 bakers, 10G chandlers, 83 butchers, 76 greengrocers and coal dealers, 65 grocers and cheesemongers, 11 oilmen, 4 confectioners, 10 fishmongers and poulterers, 7 eatinghouse keepers, 5 corn-chandlers, 13 marine store dealers, 1 furrier, 2 curriers, 2 glue and size makers, 2 ironmongers, 3 ham and beef dealers, 2 leather mer chants, 1 coal merchant, 1 soapasaker, and 8 general dealers. The total amount in fines was £1,070 15s. Gd. During the year 1803 there were 808 shopkeepers fined, which shows a decrease for the past year of 68.—South Loadom Press. OUTBREAK OF FEVER IN ESSEX.—An epidemic of typhoid fever has suddenly broken out in the village of rerliug, in Essex. Whole families are attacked with the disease, which is of great severity. Dr. R. Thorne, Thorne has been sent down by the Privy Council, and we understand that the main cause of the outbreak is contamination of tho drinking water. A thorough in vestigation of the nature an causes of the disease will be made by Dr. 1 horue, who will report the result of the labours to the Medical Department of the Privy Council. rue_quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and ,he short exchange on London is 251. 15c. per £1 sterling. c =paring these rates with the English .11int price of Qi lis. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appeAra that _cold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in Lon don. ac fen- 'ait- ince out ajor had igh- Icl to gr. eyed nor 17 I log Lein' fights ;titu ntle \.f ter t we the rould arly, icate stig by same Aber into shire ;Teat or 6 !LW' I the corti' Dneg , ksso . üblio press the a for inity ifest large this of , o pla e ar c ' f the The ee in at to ip 0; rS Of gi ing j e cts !arrY" s ad• Dr. ter e rset . stitiv wag iden t lresi - IP r last 25th used - Ke ir delt vta' iito 3 ' ~ of itioo , with ,f the more Or o 1, the stl o2l ;hare! 20 et et too