The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND ..70rdlUER,01:iL TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is very little inquiry for discount accommo dation at the Bank in Lombard street, and in financial circles generally. The rates remain undis turbed, the supplies are daily becoming more exces sive, and the bills - on offer continue of moderate amount. in the Stock Exchange daily loans on Govern ment Securities were negotiated at 21 per cent., with few borrowers. At the Bank of England yesterday there was an influx of £70,000 in gold. 'The silver market is very quiet, and the prices are steady. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit tance of £661 is. 10d. on account of the dividend on the debt of Ecuador. The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand was held at Auckland on the 31st October, when a very favourable report was presented to the shareholders. Tho total profits for division to the 30th September amounted to £56,067, and a dividend 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 ; £7,000 was added to the re serve fund, and £6,567 was carried to profit and loss new account. The report was unanimously adopted, and the usual forms of elocting directors, &c., terminated the proceedings. The Northern A s sam Tea Company have an nounced the payment of the usual guaranteed divi dend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for the past half-year on the A shares. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have advanced 1, to 51 53, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds are steady at 40 41. Two O'CLOCK. The City to-day has presented an extraordinary appearance. Snow has thinned the attendance at the Stock Exchange and the other principal departments of business. Even those who have been present have had but few commissions to execute, and the prices of stocks and shares are almost nominal. The streets are in a most dis graceful condition, different altogether from anything of the kind that would be tolerated in the principal cities of the Continent. It is a perfect disgrace to the municipality of London, who should have taken steps to have pro vided labour, and lessen the interruption of the trade of the metropolis. Even recourse might have been had to able-bodied paupers, and in addition to those of the City of London Union, Shoreditch, Whitechapel, and other outlying parishes. would have supplied men enough to get the snow in heaps and facilitate the ordinary traffic. Excessive mud or excessive snow seem to be matters altogether be yond the consideration of the civic authorities. Con sols are higher, viz., 90k for money and the pre sent account, and 9 0 -1 2. for the February settle ment. The New Threes were 89i and the Reduced Annuities 89k ; Bank of England Stock, 248 250 ; India 5 per Cents., 107 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 94k. There is very little animation exhibited in the Foreign Stock Market, and the variations have been unimportant. Turkish 5 per Cents. have declined 1., to 31i ; Mexican St oc k, to 18 if ; Spanish Passive, to 21i ; and th e N ew Russian Loan Scrip, to / prem. American Securities are steady. United States 5-20's have advanced *, to 72/ 73 ; and Illinois Shares, have improved 2 to 82 A fair amount of business has been done in the British Railway Share Market, and prices, in most instances, show increased firmness. Great Western and London, Chatham, and Dover have each im pro7ed ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, ; Great Eastern, / ; Great Northern A Stock, North Wes tern, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South Eastern each £1 ; and Caledonian 1i ; while Mid land have declined e. The Foreign and Colonial lines generally sustain previous rates. Great Luxembourg are dealt in at 12i ; San Paulo, at 13i ; Grand Trunk of Canada, at 19/ 20 ; East Indian, at 104} 105 ; and Great Indian Peninsula, at 1041. Bank Shares are very quiet, and show little variation. East London are marked 3 3 1 1. ; Imperial Ottoman, ; Orient a l B an k Corporation, 42. In the Miscellaneous Market a firmer tone pre vails. Anglo-American Telegraph have improved to 16 164 ; Hudson's Bay Company, to 16i ;an Peninsular an d Oriental Steam, to 65 ; Atlanticd Telegraph 8 per Cent• are marked 75 CreditFoncie r o f E ngland, 3i 1-• ; and MINING MARKET. WEDNESDAY, Two O'Clock. In the Mining Exchange to-day there has been an active inquiry for Cooks' Kitchen, West Frances, Seton, Trelawny, Providence, Great Vor, North Crofty, Marke Valley, and Tincroft, at fully previous rates. Annexed are some of the current quotations : C hivertou Moor, 4i 51 ; Ch on:ales Gold, 213 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 8 8/ ; East Basset, 21 22 ; East Caradon, 6f 6; East Lovell, 99f ; East Wheal Grenville, 2f f ; Great Retallack, 22s 03 24s Od ; Great Wheal Vol., 16 17; Marks Valley, 4 ; North Crofty, 4 ; North Treskerby, 2f 3 ; Prince at Wales, 26s Od 28s Od ; Prosper United, 3} i; Providence Mines, 27k 30; South Condurrovr 12s 14s ; South Grenville, 7s 6d 103 Od; Tincroft, 13 14 ; West Caradon, 121 181; West chivorton, Frances, 141 16; West Seton, 120 5 ; heat 53 55 ; West al Buller, 20 22i ; Wheal Chiverton, 61 7 ;Wheal Crabor, —8 —s ; Wheal Grenville, 26s Od 28s; Wheal Rose, ; Wheal Seton, 135 140 ; Wheal Trelavrney, 10 12 ; Wheal Uny, 30s 35s ; Oarn Camborne 11 ; Central Minera, ; Cooks' Kitchen, 910 ; East ;Cara Brea, 21 3 ; Great Laxey, 17 18 ; Great South Tolgus, 10s 15s; South Frances, 20 22 ; St. Ives Consols, —; South Caradon, 300 320. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. • 3 Der Cent. Consols ........................... 901 8 Do. Account, Jan. 10 ........................ 90f Nper Cent. Reduced ........................... 891 f New 3 per Cent ............... 89f ew 2f per Cent. Jan. 1894 ................... Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 .............. .................. ... Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs expire sth April,ABBs... Do (Red Sea' elegraph), Aug., 1908... Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Lent...... 11 pm Do .................. 1.500 ......... 8 D 0..... .£lOO do £2OO „ 7 Bank of England Stock, 6i per Cent ... 248 30 IND IAN GOVERNME NT SECURITIES. ludiatt Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874... Ditto for Account .......... Do. 5 p er C ent. July,. . .............. 1880 ............... 107 1 7 DDo. 4 p er Cent., Oct. 1888 """......••• 94 o. Certificates . ........................... Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent, Jan. 1872 ..... Do. 5} p er C ent., May 1879 .................. ....... Do. Deb. Do . under , 5 per Cent., A ug. 1873 ...... Do 80nd5,.£1,04 per 00 Cent., £1,000...... 2 5 pm . ................ . .... —pm FO REIGN FUNDS—ONE. O'CLOCK Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ,,, ,,,,,,,,,, Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 ......... Brazilian 5 pe r C en t Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 . Do Account Do. £lOO Bonds . Baenos Ayres 6 per C en t Do. A ccount Do 4100 Bonds Do.°DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) L a 6 per Cent per Cent. .. • — Do. 6 per Cent .. „ B ............................. . Oi Do lorubian, 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., ..182 .......... Do. 5 per Cent., 1864. ..... . ................. Danubian Principalities tio. Account Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent Do., Provisional Land Warrant. Do Deferted tfgyptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 • Do £lOO Bonds Do. Government Railway Debentures 79f Greek 5 per C en t s . , 1824 -5, ex Coupons -)o Account Coupons G iatemala 5 per Cent. It siian 5 per Cent 1865 D. Account Do. Marernmana Railway Mesita:, 3 per Cent fio. Account 83j • 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Angl o -F renc h filontovidean 6 per Cent. Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New GI - twatla .. FtPO 8 par Con tt Do. Deforr3l Do Laud .far ants (Hectares) - 'eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account ?ortsguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 44 per Cont. 1850 D 3 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pet Cent. 1859 D. 5 per Cent. 1862 8 8 8 541 Do 5 per Cent. 1861 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1860, all paid B6l Do. do. £lO paid pin Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Acciunt Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do 'Account S wedish 4 per Cent. Do. 4! 3 - per Cent. 1804 „ Do. Scrip, £6O paid l'urkish 6 per Cent. 1854, Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 ,„ Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Po. 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 11 per Cent, Dividends on the above payable•in Londok Austrisn, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Bel ien, 43 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2 per Cont. Ex. 12 Gail Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... French Relates, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. ltaiian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do. 5 per Cont. Account ••• TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Do. Account, Jan. 9Ol f r Do. Februa r y 901 85i I dis 5'21 THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 2. The African Company's steamer Calabar, the first of the bi-monthly line of steamers arrived here this morning. Her dates are Fernando Po, Nov. 29th ; Cameroons, 29th ; Old Calabar, 27th ; Brass River, December 2d ; New Calabar, 2d ; Bonny, 2d ; Benin, 3d; Lagos, sth; Jellah Coffee, Gth ; Accra, 7th; Cape Coast Castle, Bth; Cape Palmas, 10th ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Bathurst, 19th ; Tene riffee, 24th ; and Madeira, 26th. Old Calabar, Cameroons, Fernando Po, and Bonny were healthy. Trade was very brisk at all the above ports. In consequence of a misunderstanding King Agary at Cape Coast Castle had been arrested and sent to Sierra Leone. r.[rade was very dull, but the public health was good. Sickness has entirely dis appeared from Bathurst. The Calabar brings eleven passengers and a fair cargo. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market dearer, with very little offering. Sales probably about 20,000 bales. POLICE INTELLIGESCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY, &C., BY A VALET.—Efermann Abbott, a valet, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing some jewellery and wearing apparel, of the value of about £6O, the property of Mr. Prowse, a gentleman, re siding at No. 14, Arlington -street. The evidence showed that the prisoner entered the ser vice of Mr. Prowse,in August, at that time residing at N 0.44, Duke-street, St. James's. The prisonerhad not been in Mr. Prowse's service more than a few days when he asked Mr. Prowse if he had seen a valuable pin, as he had missed it from a jewel-case. Mr. Prows° said he had not, and the prisoner then said ;that the previous valet must have taken it. Nothing was heard of the pin, and the prisoner then told Mr. Prowse that he had been to Messrs. Attenborough's, the pawnbrekers, in Picca dilly, and gave notice of tho loss of the pin, and that if Mr. Attenborough heard anything of the pin he would lot him know. Subsequently the prisoner left Mr. Prowas service in consequence of there being disturbances in the house between him and the other servants in consequence of other property being missed. Mr. Prowse afterwards went to Attenborough's with Police -constable Butcher, 137 C, and found some of his property had been pledged there, and from inquiries Butcher made ho found that the prisoner had got a person to pledge some of the property for him. Butcher then proceeded to Tiverton Junction and took the prisoner into custody, when he found some duplicates upon the prisoner relating io the articles belonging to Mr. Prows°. A witness stated that the prisoner had given him some of the property to pledge, telling him that he pledged the property because his master had not paid him his wages. Mr. Proviso said the assertion of the prisoner was an entire falsehood, as he could prove by a book showing that the prisoner had received his wages. Butcher said that through a false accusation made by the prisoner a servant had been discharged from the house. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a very bad case, the prisoner having commenced robbing his master as soon as he entered his service. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr. Tyrwhitt coin mated him for six months, with hard labour. THAMES. A NOTORIOUS THIRY CLEVERLY DETECTED. —Thomas Parker, alias Parkins, a young man, who was described as a labourer, of N 0.3, Westover -street, Stepney, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with being emcerned, with two others not in custody, in stealing a table cover and three books, value 155., the property of George Stephen Bond, and also with stealing two plush sheets, value 18s., the property of Mrs. Susan Upson, of No. 6, Catherine street, Limehouse-fi e ld s , On Sunday evening last the house of Mr. Bond, No. 85, Grafton-street, Globe-fields, Stepney, was ent ere d, an d a table , from co ver, t h ree books a glass, and oth er ar ti c l es stolen ing the the front parlour. An entrance was e ff ected by open parlour window. One of the inmates of the house went into the parlour to close thb shutters. The win dow was then open, and the property was missed. Immediat e informati on was given to the police. About the time the robbery was discovered a police-constable, No. 70 K, saw the prisoner in Grafton-street, in Company with two b o y s — one o f t h e rrying something bulky under his arm. Mackay suspected they had been been committing a rob bery and pursued them, when a boy dropped from under his arm a table cover and three book; which were now identified by Eleanor Bond, a single woman, dwelling at No. 85, Grafton-street. The house of Mrs. Upson was entered by the front parlour window on Monday night, and two plush shirts taken away. Last night police -sergeant Briden went to No. 10, Edward-street, Litnehouse, for the purpose of suppressing a disturbance there, and the door was opened by a woman, who wasimmediately recognised by Briden. He knew that she had cohabited with the pri soner for some time. Briden also knew that the prisoner was "wanting" for the robbery in Grafton -street. Briden immediately said, " What, are you here ? Where's Tom ?' The woman at once said, " Tom is not here." Briden said, "I am sure he is here," and went to the door of a back room, which was locked. Briden forced open the door, and saw the prisoner in the room. Briden collared him and said, "I want you, Tom, for two or three robberies. I must see what you have here." Briden then searched the room, in which he found one of the plush shirts stolen from Mrs. Upson's . dg, and a qu an tit y of other property, including a black wellin and white plaid shawl, a black frock coat nearly new, a little boy's grey suit, a child's black silk jacket, a light mohair dress, a flannel petticoat, a pair of lady's drawers, a child's pinafore, two ladies' bodice; and four pawnbrokers' dupli cates relating to wearing apparel. Sergeant Briden begged of the magistrate to remand the prisoner, and said he ex pected to find owners for all the property. The prisoner was a most notorious thief and burglar, and had been in custody several times. • Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner until Saturday next. STREET Sll`musGxh,-;-----um The of ca seation has j ust decided on an appeal tha erns Court t singing in the streets by ni g h t does not constitute the offence of nocturnal disturbance punished by Art. 479 of the Penal Code, unless aggravated by circumstances which change the character of the act and causes it to becom e a nuisance to the inhabi tants. The proceedings which gave rise to that decision were a charge brought against four young men marching and singing a piece from the " Dame Blanche" a n t c a o cTu p a a rt n e y r to ten at night. HEAVY SNOWSTORM. —During the night and this morning one of the heaviest snowstorms ocourred in the metropolis which has been known since 1855. The snow began to fall about one o'clock, and when morning dawned from six to eight inches had fallen. At nine o'clock it had become so deep that carriage traffic was almost wholly suspended, and it was with the utmost difficulty that foot passengers could wend their way to their respective places of business. In consequence of the severity of the wind, which drove vast snow drifts into the railway cuttings, allnQgt all the lines were blocked up. 58i 5.17.0 64 741 Sis 4 405 4i5 Is 6 20 5 6 2 3 2 3 14 10 21 21 5 6 17 18 15 16 11 11 30 32 2) 51 2 31 41 21 110 35 45 2 4 2} 31 21 26 300 320 I ti 18 22 1 2 9 1) 6 16 12 14 54 56 115 125 65 75 18 20 10 12 135 145 7 9 • rutartatisNUlli Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent .stock, 84 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., Ditto, 4i per cent. st. rd., 91 LINES LEASED kr FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, - - Ditto, 5 per cent.. 112 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg•, 12k San Paulo, lien. , gua. 6 per cent., l3} FattisUGN, , MIMICS. Panulellio Copper. Urn., 21 St. John del It c y, 11m.,51 HAMM Bank of Victoria, Australia, 38} a East London, lino., 3 1 3 Imperial Ottoman, lira. , Si Oriental Ban& Corporation, 42 DOCKS. ondon and St. Katharine, 66 74 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 16 Anglo-slexican Mint, 15} Atlantic Telegraph, - DR o, 8 per cent., 75 Credit Fonder of England, lira . English and Australian Copper Geu. Credit and Finance ot Lonain, lim.. 4 1 Hudson's Bay, h} International Financial Society, lira., Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 65 THE LATE SIR W. PARKER.—It is remarkable that Sir William Parker, the last of Nelson's captains, should have commanded the last fleet of sailing line-of battle ships that England will ever possess. In 1848 Sir ZV illiam Parker might have seen the Blenheim, a ship but a very little better specimen of a man-of-war than that Orion in which he first went to sea, steaming about Spit head at the then astounding rate of five miles per hour ! The world was moving, my masters ! for by 1854, when the admiral's flag was flying at Plymouth, vessels like the Agamemnon and the Prince Albert, twice the size and four times the armament of Nelson's Victory, were dash ing about the high seas at ten knots per hour without wind or sail. Sir William, doubtless, must have felt astonish.. meat at the revolution that was taking place in his much loved profession ; but he was in no wise an obstructionist, and was not the man to be guilty of the act of an old Scotch contemporary of his, who in the Baltic was so astonished at tho first screw gunboat's proceedings as to request her commander to take his " wriggling thing out oi his sight as quick as possible, Sir."—Blackwood's Magazine. A very successful show of canary and song birdi has been held at Sunderland. There were 45 competitors from all parts of the kingdom, and the entries were nearly 400 in number. One of the most successful exhibitors was Captain Ashton, of Polefield Hall, Prestwich, near Manchester, who carried off uhle of ti first 4114 several 1 of the second prizes. uaiiwayd. Bristol aua Exeter !Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Pertli, & a b..) tine S. London, erlp Certi , DO. tilas;zow & S. Western, Great Eastern, tird. stk. Do. E. AuLTE st. No. 2 Cireat Nortil'ul Scotland Grout Northern D.,. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25pm tirtS. and W. of Ireland (it. Western -Original; S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid. -- Oxford Do. Newport. ' Do. Ilere'rford....... Lanc.,shire c Yorkainru London and Blackwall Lon., righ.,& S Coaa; Lt Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lyn. North Western Lon. South Western Shcf., dz Lincoln' Metropolitan.-- Do. New Do. Extension sletropoiitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John'tard Stidiand Do. L 9 Share Do, Birmin.. (IL Derby l Itid Kent . INorth British .. Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. N th. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N*E purchast Do. Leeds ...... Do. York Do. Carlisle ...... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 5 . . Do. Jo. 180 . North Staffordshire N. Sr S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stool: vo. Scot, Mid. stick Shropshire Union South Devon South E..stern itaines, Wok., & Wok raft' Vale Do. C Vale of Neath tVaterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitelia 1. Webt Cornwall Atlantic & St. Lawrence Rom., Baroda, A Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference BulL,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. Calcutta & S. E., Um a: e Town & Dock, gu 1 iemerara, 7 p.c. per. p , r;ast. gu., 5 do East I,:dian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension )and rrunkof Cauadi Do. Equip. Mort, Bond, 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonds Du. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook .. Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c ;'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c t. South of India gua. 5 per cent DJ. 4.f per cent Do vreat Wes. of Canada D. New .. ...... Do. 6 p. c Bus. pay 1873 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 4f do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension Ilelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. N. Ell.C'du,6pc lstpi.bs Seinde .... i Do. Delhi Do. do ..fl/ o 4 P Do. uniaub.... :1., Do.lndus St.Flot 4° COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEDUM British Columbia, 6 per cent., Deo. 31, 1572. - ... l ean.Gov.6p.c.Ja. , lD July 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed ask Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 i Du. Apl. &Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do 1880-9 u Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April anti 15 Oct., 1900 , Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, di).. lzturitiub, 6 p. c, 1513, Jan. and J uiy Do. 1 , 78 Jo. 1882, Mayls, Nov. !, Do. 1895, Fee. & atal 'iov. 6 per cent N.8.G0v.6p.c.Ja..t,1 uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 ire., 1860 Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 18711 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1883 'New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Sc ,tia Gcv. 6 p. c sterling*, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. e S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18684 , Do. 1875 & upwards Vio,G ov. 6 p.c. J a .t July Do. do, April do Oct BRITISH MINES. Cain. Consol. Gold, Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cous. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon Easy earn Brea Nast Grenville East (i un nislake .. I East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAuhyn(G wen. I Great L txey, limited Great South Tolgus ,Great Wheal isusy G. Wheal Vor (Heist bu Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Ringston Downs Margaret (tiny Lelanto Maxim Valley Iwyndy Iron Ore, lila Ne v Seton North Roekear . N. Wh'l Bassett (Illogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pr..videnee ,Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park . Tin Croft igra and Clogan. lirn.. West , Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon uskeard West Chi verton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth 11Vheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Ma. THE SUN, LOALON, WEDNESoAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1867. ',ItITISLI SSE 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 5 100 100 b 6 98 122 124 40 46 4 6 65 CS 70 72 1 6 US 23 2) 5 5 1.8 120 127 122 90 02 1 54-i sii, 32 3S 32 3) 124 1291 85 87 154 16 ! 10 80 1204 )21 82 tit 52 53 :26 127 2} 2-1; 10 I 81 86 n 3 /23i lt 2.p 92 DI 37 38 4 18 107 IL9 66 67 100 102 34 96 9 10 110 120 190 100 100 110 100 100 2.1.0 29i 2.11.0 31 2.14.0 8.3. f 3.9.0 10.8.0 1 2p 1 2p ;CI 72 114 118 148 152 iSW 5 56 58 102 103 id ip 4 4i 7i 8 50 55 10t 103 101 IG3 105 106 18 20 85 88 57 69 50 54 50 51 37 (0 23 25 108 ICI i 1p i 1 P 93 94 90 92 90 92 77 78 75 77 104 168 103 105 IG2 104 104 110 88 ?0 ILO 1( 2 It 4 1.6 105 107 101 106 105 107 1(6 108 06 100 90 9 2 90 92 90 g. h 7 98 100 134 85 96 98 92 94 106 108 _ - 103 104 30H t 291 131 30i 54 51 61 5j 102 i 47 7ul 70j 101 105 191 20 91 1011 981 8 .ITILS. 832 1} .85i 991 90 . 105} I 161 17 John Morley, Esq. John Morley, Esq. Mi. Bright and the "Fortnightly Review." The following correspon — dence has been published Alderley Edge, Manchester, Nov. 29, 1866. Sir—ln an article in the Fortnightly Review of November 1, entitled "Public Affairs," criticising the speeches of Mr. Bright, M.P., you say, " The absurd inaccuracy of some of his statements—as, for instance, that all the land of SCotland is in the hands of 12, and of England in the hands of 150, proprietors, . are serious blemishes in his ors tory." Again you say, "His tone too mush indicates that in his heart he has adopted tho French maxim La propriate c'est le vol.' What other interpretation can be placed on his saying that' the poor only are fit to legislate for the rich?' " As these things never were spoken by Mr. Bright, and as I cannot suppose the editor of a respectable publication has invented them for the purpose of misrepresentation, you will not be surprised that I should ask you what report of Mr. Bright's speeches you had before you when you wrote the article iu question.— I am, &C., JACOB BItIGHT. To the Editor of the Fortnightly Review. 193, Piccadilly, Dec. 5. Sir,—l have communicated with the writer of " Public Affairs," and requested him to verify the phrases attributed to Mr. Bright. He assures me he can do so. I shall hear from him to-morrow, when I will acquaiut you with what he has to say. He is a Liberal member of the House of Commons, and would not, I think, spoak rashly. If, how ever, it should appear that he was wrong, yeti may rely upon a public and adequate acknowledgment of the mis take.—Yours faithfully, JOHN MORLEY. Jacob Bright, Esq. Alderley Edge, Manchester, Dec. 8, 1866. Sir,—l have your note of the sth inst. After what occurred in the last session of Parliament I am not sur prised to find that "Public Affairs" was written by a "Liberal member of the House of Commons." He states that he can certify the phrases which he attributes to Mr. Bright. I know that their verification is impossible, and on that ground I account for his delay. You inform me that if lam right there shall be an 'acknowledgtnent of the "mistake." The offence seems to be very inadequately characterised by the term "mistake." I call it a deliberate falsification. The words on which the "Liberal member of the House of Commons" founds the charge that in his heart Mr. Bright has adopted the maxim, "La propriete c'est le vol," aro placed bet Ween inverted commas. Inverted commas imply a literal quotation, and no honourable man will make use of them, especially when about to draw in ferences intended to damage another's reputation, unless he is sure of the truth of his quotation. As you will not desire to take upon yourself the respon sibility of the "blemishes" and "wild inaccuracies" of this discreditable article, may I request you to furnish me with theiname of the writer ?—I am, yours truly, John Morley, Esq. JACOB BRIGHT. 193, Piccadilly, Doc. 15, 1866. Dear Sir,—l wish to state parenthetically that in no case should I be responsible for the misstatements about Mr. Bright, as they appeared before I succeeded to Mr. Lewes as editor of the Review. It appears that the state ments to which you take exception are inaccurate. The inaccuracy shall be acknowledged in the Review for the Ist of January, which, as you will see, is all that I can do to repair the injustice. I do not think the writer would object to my furnishing you with his name. He is out of town at present, but I hope to see him on Tuesday, when 1 will write to you if you still think it worth while to know the writer's name.—Believe me, yours very truly, Jacob Bright, Esq. JOHN MORLEY. Alderley Edge, Manchester, Doc. 19, 1866. Dear Sir,—ln answer to yours of the 15th inst. I beg to observe that when a writer is engaged in fair criticism, or when he atta3ks, I do not care with how much severity the views of an opponent, he has a right to tho anonymous, if he wish to assume it ; but when he resorts to falsehood, or is guilty of carelessness so extreme that it cannot be distinguished from falsehood, then, in the interest of the public and of anonymous writers themselves, ho should no longer be allowed to conceal himself. Such a writer re quires to be put under restraint, otherwise anonymous slander might become general. I know of no mode of ap plying that restraint but by placing his name before the public in connexion with his offence. With these views I " still think it worth while to know the writer's name," and beg that you will give it me without further delay. Yours very truly, JACOB BRIGHT. Alderley Edge, Manchester, Dec. 27, 186 G. My dear Sir, —I trust you will excuse me for reminding you of my letter of the 19th inst., to which I have not yet been favoured with a reply, Yours very truly, Juhn Morley, Esq. JAC JB BRIGHT. Alderley Edge, Manchester, Dec. 30, 18G6. My dear Sir,—As I do not hear from you I presume I am nut likely to be put in communication with the writer of " Public Affairs." Being unable, therefore, to address him through the post, I must ask you to give him the enclosed letter, which I shall publish with this correspond -107 erice : Yours very truly, JACOB BRIGHT. To THE " LIBERAL MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OP COMMONS" WHO CONTRIBUTES TO THE "FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW." Alderley Edge, Manchester, Dec. 30, 1866. Sir,—ln your article, "Public Affairs," of last Novem ber, when criticising Mr. Bright's Glasgow speech, you say —"The absurd inaccuracy of some of his statements, as, for instance, that all the laud of Scotland is in the hands of 12, and of England in the hands of 150, proprietors, are serious blemishes in his oratory." Mr. Bright's own state ment, taken from the Glasgow Weekly Mail, is as follows : " Are you aware of a fact, which I saw stated the other day in an essay on this subject, that half the land of England is in the possession of fewer than 150 men ? Are you aware of the fact that half the land in Scotland is in the possession of not more than 10 or 12 men ?" In another part of your article you write :—" Mr. Bright says 'that the poor are the only people fit to legislate for rich.' Again you say, "Mr. Bright, if left unchecked, would speedily bring on the war between those who have and those who have not. His tone too much indicates that in his heart he has adopted the French maxim, 'La pro- P riete c 'e B t le vol.' What other interpretation can be placed on his saying that 'the poor only are fit to legislate for the rich ?' Such a course as this would bring us to the bloody days of June, which is a curious climax for a mem ber of the Society of Friends to wish fm." The passage from Mr. Bright's Glasgow speech on which you have dared to fOund this disgraceful attack is as fol lows:_" But I deny altogether that the rich alone are qualified to legislate for the poor, any more than that the poor alone would be qualified to legislate for the rich. My honest belief is, that if we could be all called upon to legis late for all, that all would be more justly treated, and would be more happy than we are now. We should have then an average ; we should have the influence of wealth and of high culture, and of those qualities that come from leisure, and the influence of those robuster qualities that come from characterise N w sir, industry and f rom labour. " Iyosuhralleoundontesteeikn thisfor e m pi a t t h te e r. ts wherewith e i r s ew en it o h ng t h o o ve t to you refer as s that your s il ence and secrecy show that you regard it as I do. I obs erve t h at you go out of your way to make an at tack upon M r . C obden. I believe your statement is false, usablebu t as it t appears o to I unreport edhavedone i nconversationsthe case of m I am y brother. You are a "Liberal member of the House of Com mons." lam at present ignorant whether you represen t a free constituency (of which there are some in England) , or whether you sit for a place where the electors have only the appearance of choice. If the latter, you may be less afraid of giving the publicyour name, as you might thereby establish an additional claim to the support of your patrons. If the former, the case would be different. Those who elected you might put inconvenient questions. In the course of y our article you say the people at Glasgow "knew they had no real grievances." If tkat be your view should you not take your seat on the other side of the house, among 0. those who think that think things are perfect as they are, and that change is an evil ? You speak of Mr. Gladstone's reform Bill as " a double dose of concession in granting the voting privilegeinorder to compensate for its author's illiberality in other directions. And yet you know that if that bill has passed millions of your country men would still have been excluded from the franchise—a state of things now hardly to be found in any civilised country. You have done one service to the cause of Reform, and for that I thank you. By attacking Mr. Bright through miserable inventions of your own, you have given the strongest testimony which it is possible to obtain that the speeches, whose influences you would fain undermine, are themselves unanswerable.— I am, &c., JACOB BRIGHT. EXETER HALL.—The performance of the "Crea tion" to-morrow night will commence at 8 o'clock, instead of half-past 7, as previously announced. Mr. Santley will sing on this occasion for the last time in oratorio, prior to his leaving London for a three months' tour. Conductor, Mr. G. W. Martin. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES.—At the Sheffield Town hall yesterday William Stones, of Verdon-street, a private watchman in the employ of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, was charged with having committed a series of robberies from the goods department at the Victoria station. The prisoner entered the company's service three months ago with a four years' excellent cha racter from the Lincolnshire Constabulary. As soon as he began his watching robberies began, and at the end of three months he was suspected, watched, and detected in the act of abstracting articles from a parcel. Among the property afterwards found at his house, all new, were an iron bed stead, a pistol, a revolver, blankets, calico, rugs, smocks, bed-ticks, brushes of all kinds, boots and slippers, shawls embroidered wrappers, lard, cheese, cutlery, crockery, pipes, a hare, a duck, etc. Three cases only against the prisoner were gone into. To these he p1Q094 "Guilty," and was committed for trig, The Fire at the Crystal Palace. The public interest in the disaster which has caused the destruction of a material part of the Palace at Sydenham is shown by the crowds of people who have gone to see the ruins during the last two days, but especially yesterday. On Mon day evening a telegram was received by the autho rities there from Osborne to the effect that the Queen was concerned to hear of the fire, and wished to have some details in reference to it by post. These were furnished by Mr. Bowley, the manager, by the mail of that evening, and would reach her Majesty yesterday morning. Already steps have been taken by the directors towards repairing the damage caused by the fire. Yesterday, Mr. Edwin Clark, the consulting eng►- neer of the company, and Mr. Rose, the resident engineer, made an official survey of the ruins, and agreed to rmanmend to the directors the enclosure forthwith of a space of about 120 ft. on the northern side of the screen, separating what was the tropical department from the rest of the nave, with the view to the eventual restoration of that part of the fabric, , if the directors should so determine. As the roof and sides of the building for that distance north of the screen have been saved, the enclosure of so much of the space is easily effected, and the rest of the area, extending about 300 feet further in that direc tion, and which is now covered with the wreck oc casioned by the fire, may be restored in course of time. As much has been said, and truly said, in reference to the languid supply of water from the hydrants in the Palace for some time after the fire broke out, and to the inefficient state of the canvas hose, it may be well to state what precautions were ordinarily taken by the company in the event of fire. With respect to water, they have four different and abundant sources, and that irrespective of the various fountains and lakes on the terraces and in the grounds. At the top of each of the water-towers, north and south, there is a tank 42ft. Gin. in dia meter by 38ft. deep, and capable of containing about 700 tons of water each. At the north end of the building there is- an open reservoir, level with the floor of the building, - extending over an acre and a half, and ordinarily containing 5,500,000 gallons of water, though capable of containing half as much more. In the immediate vicinity of this and of the water tower at the northern end there are two raised tanks, 15ft. deep, and each capable of ,containing 207,360 gallons. When the fire began there were about 9ft. of water in the large open reservoir, or 4,950,000 gallons, and next morning, after the fire was completely extinguished, 7ft. of water remained in it, or about 3,300,000 gallons, although six of the large engines of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade had been draining it for two or three hours conti nuously, while the fire raged, and more or less dur ing the following night in cooling the ruins. The immense volume of water stored at the top of each of the lofty water-towers is easily available in case of fire, and was available on Sunday last during the conflagration. It is, moreover, capable of being delivered and directed upon a given point at a pres sure of from 1101 b. to 1201 b. the square inch, and that simply by gravitation. Such was the supply of water ordinarily at command for the uses of the building and in case of fire. But, unfortunately, for some time at least, and that at a most critical period, just after the outbreak of fire, and when all the resources of the company should have been called into requisition with the view of extinguishing it, all that immense volume of water was kept pent up for want of some one familiar with the duty promptly to turn on the mains, and was rendered still further useless by the rotten condition of the hose belonging to the company. The fire broke out about 2 o'clock, and Mr. Rose, the resident engi neer, arrived 20 minutes or half-an-hour after wards. Until then the hydrants appear to have been but imperfectly charged, and hence the languid supply of water when it was most wanted at the first appearance of fire. The fist act of Mr. Rose on his arrival was to cause all the mains in the building to be turned fully on, including those of the tank at the top of the northern water tower ; but as the grounds and building are exten sive all this required time, and in the interval the fire made great way. The moment, however, the mains were completely charged a new and most vexatious effect was produced. The water, which until then had required to be coaxed and cajoled, flowed in such force as to burst the canvas hose, and it was not until the Croydon and Clapham engines with their leathern hose arrived that any decided effect was produced in arresting the progress of the fire. It is currently reported, upon what appears to be reliable authority, that in the event of the northern end being rebuilt the cost will be from £50,000 to £60,000, and that in addition to the expense of reinstating it in other respects, should the directors decide upon restoring the tropical department, with the various courts that have been destroyed, as it ori ginally stood. In the meantime the ordinary re creations of the Palace go on as usual, and the effects of the fire cannot be seen from the interior of the building. They can, however, from the grounds, and during yesterday, as on Monday, crowds of persons assembled to see the ruins. The havoc caused in the Alhambra and Assyrian Courts is most complete, and scarcely less so in the Byzan tine, immediately opposite. All three are dis mantled, and present a deplorable sight. Of the Alhambra Court, erected and embellished under the superintendence of Mr. Owen Jones, and with which thousands must be familiar, little re mains but the gilded walls, and these are blackened in places by the action of the fire and otherwise defaced. As will be remembered, it was a repro duction on a small scale of the far-famed Court of ' Lions, the Tribunal of Justice, the Hall of Abence rages, and the Divan of the fortress-palace of the Alhambra, situated on a hill above the city of Granada, in the South of Spain, the capital of the Moorish Kingdom of that name. Passing through the central archway a fountain was seen supported by the lions that gave name to the court, and through the archway opposite the stalactite roof of the Hall of the Abencerages, composed in the ori ginal of innumerable pieces. The Court of Lions, in Mr. Owen Jones's reproduction, was 75ft. long, or two-thirds of the length of the original. The columns were of the same height and size as those of which they were restorations, and the arches that sprang from them were also of the actual size of the originals. The Assyrian Court was 120 ft. long, 50ft. wide, and had an elevation of 40 feet. Its chief interest lay in its illustrating a style of art of which no specimen had, it is said, been before presented in Europe, and it was erected from designs by Mr. James Ferguson, assisted by Mr. Layard. The Byzantine Court, on the opposite side of the nave, was a restored copy of a clois ter of the Church of Santa Maria at Cologne, of the date of the close of the 10th century. The roof was beautifully decorated with Byzantine ornaments, and at one end was a recumbent figure of Richard Coeur de Lion from Rouen, which has been compa ratively little injured by the fire. In the centre stood a marble fountain, an exact copy of one at Heisterbach, on the Rhine. That, too, has been but slightly damaged, as have also the recumben t effigies of Henry 11. and his Queen, Eleoßpra ; Richard 1., and Isabella, wife of King John, copied from those of Fontevrault Abbey, burying-place of the Plantagenets, and which are said to be the only copies in existence. The greater part of the court itself, however, with all its characteristic architec ture and elaborate decoration, has been irreparably injured. With the library and reading-room perished a copy of the New Testament, printed in 1851 for the then King of Prussia, and said to be unequalled as a specimen of Gothic typography. Twenty-five copies only of the book were printed when the type was broken up. Of these five existed in England—four now. The magnificent volume was the gift of the late King to the library of the Palace. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM, SNARESBROOK.—The fourth entertainment provided for the inmates of this institution during the winter sea son took place on Monday evening, when, under the title of " Literary Extracts in Prose and Verse," Mr. Arthur S. Wieland gave a series of readings and recitations from the works of popular authors, proving equally successful in catering for the amusement of his audience iu the delivery of both the humorous and rathotic sOectious wade, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER RACES-YESTERDAY. The sudden sotting in of the frost at Manchester pre vented the races, fixed for yesterday and to- day, taking place, and the intelligence transmitted by telegraph last night intimated that snow was falling fast, tho frost grow ing more intense, and that the stewards had finally decided upon postponing the meeting to Friday and Saturday next. SHARE MARKETS,—This day. ---~ oItDIAARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing 1 Business Price. i dene. 16 18 67 -68 . 8 9 ISO 'is3 3 4 ; 100 102 91 93 111 14 1 121' tz 81 84 102 103 02 94 85 90 82 65 99 101 97 98 1* ti 98 99 130 1 I 1221 I I I 84 541 g 4 ltd g 71 1 1 1 89 121} i 31 38i 109 k 4 . The French in Mexico. Diplomatic agents of the Emperor Maximilian accredited to certain European Courts complain of the interception of letters sent to them from Mexico. Despatches known to have been put on board packets in Mexican ports have never reached their destination. It must of course be a matter of con jecture where, by whom, and with what objects this foul play has been perpetrated. It is thus that au thentic information of what has lately passed in Mexico is rendered almost impossible. A few letters have escaped, and extracts of them are sub joined. They proceed from Imperialist sources, but their writers are of high respectability, and the facts they contain may be accepted as undoubtedly cor rect. The first in date was written at Mexico, No vember 17. It contains the following passage : " The French are going, but they have not said so here officially, nor do they leave the Government any liberty to act at this moment of supreme diffi culty, when action might perchance be the salvation of the country. The situation of affairs is extremely difficult by reason of the attitude of the French, in open collision with the Government, which must perforce keep up an appearance of harmony, and in decided rupture with the Emperor, whom they are endeavouring to drive out of the country in a man ner greatly resembling violence. Meanwhile we are upon hot coals, seeing one place after another fall ing into the power of the enemy merely because the French would not allow us to form a national army, while they themselves do absolutely nothing. Na poleon will not run counter to the United States, and we it is who must pay for the inconceivable errors that have been committed in this unhappy expedition. The disorderly and fatal policy adopted has had our ruin for its result." The following extract is from a letter dated Vera Cruz, November 21. : " The country is in a state of fever, brought on by the unfortunate position in which we find our selves. The French want to carry out the fatal convention of July 30, authorising them to take 50 per cent. of the proceeds of the maritime custom houses. When this shall be done, the part remain ing to the Government will be only one or two per cent. of those proceeds, with which it is not possible for it to exist. Everything here is paralysed by the want of resources of our own and by the of the French. We have been obliged to suspend mili tary operations, and the enemy daily gains ground. The French beheld with shouldered arms, entirely unmoved, the surrender of Oaxaca with all its mili tary materials and stores. The Austrian garrison of Jalapa surrendered, leaving to the enemy its arms and the park of ammunition. Our complete inac tion encourages the Juarists. Alas! for poor Mexico. Generals Marquez and Miramon are now with the Emperor, and both of them hope and feel confident that the state of affairs may change greatly for the better. But the French insist on appropriating the receipts of the custom-house, the only important branch of revenue in the country, and this aggra vates the evil. No money can be sent by this steamer to Yucatan for the troops who are there bravely fighting against the Indian barbarians. You will have seen by the papers the atrocities committed by the Juarists at Atsam, where they destroyed the railway (constructing with English capital) between Mexico and Puebla, burnt the carriages, sacked the houses, violated the women, and carried off the daughters of the first families in the place, after kill ing their fathers and brothers who defended them . One of these unhappy girls contrived to escape and hid in some bushes. ller savage captors probed her hiding-place with their sabres, and drove her out to die covered with wounds. You will perhaps als have read the murders committed by the Liberals o Guaymas on the per,ons of Fanori, Almada, and other officers. After the disaster of Ures they em barked with their families for California. The Libe rals sent an armed vessel in pursuit, which over took them and brought them back to Guaymas, where they were all shot—men, women, and child ren, down to the very infants at the breast. The corpses were dragged through the streets, mutilated and burnt. The immaculate Juarez and his com manders upon the frontier are dividing and sharing among themselves the estates and property of the Imperialists. They confiscate everything, and whithersoever they carry the liberty they bring the traces of profound ravages remain. This is what Jules Favre and his friends applaud as pa triotism and liberalism. Such are the Republicans and patriots protected by the Washington Govern ment." A third letter is from Merida, Yucatan, and is dated November 27. Its writer says : " Pablo Garcia, with the assistance of Tabasco, has now invaded the territory of the Carmen, oc cupied Palizada, and summoned the Laguna to sur render. The French steamer anchored in the port will not assist in the defence of the place, its com mander having orders not to do so. . . Apropos of the manner in which Mexican affairs are judged in Europe, I am induced to refer to an article pub lished in the Revue des Deux illondes for September 15, under the title of Le illexique et les Chances de Saint du Nouvel Empire, by M. de Keratry. What is there said concerning the Emperor's journey to Yucatan is false and absurd. Every one here knows that no member of the Gutierrez family accom panied him, and that his journey, far from being a failure, was a continual and spontaneous ovation, such as few Sovereigns have ever received." The force to which the Austrian garrison referred to in the letter from Vera Cruz surrounded at dis cretion consisted of a few Indians and half-castes, the cowardly mongrel breed of which thousands have been wont to fly before a mere handful of horsemen. The Imperialists declare Mexico on the eve of a saturnalia of atrocities unparalleled even in her blood-stained annals, and they bitterly denounce what they call the treachery of the French Govern ment, which they say has abandoned them to the mercy of their enemies. They expect whole sale executions and confiscations to redouble as the Juarists advance. Mexican diplomatists in Europe positively contradict the report lately spread that the Emperor Maximilian bad been held pri soner by Marshal Bazaine, but they admit that a very strong pressure was put upon him to induce him to quit the country; and they point with parti cular indignation to the fact that the French are actually treating with Juarez in the presence of the Prince whom they lured from his own country to a foreign throne only to desert him iu the hour of his greatest need. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. (BY TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Jail. 2. Arrived—Rose Eliza, steamer, from Dieppe ; Holland, steamer, from Ostend. DEAL, Jan. 2. Passed, Jan. I.—Dovana, from London, for Port Phillip. The Price of Gold. Toe quotation of gold at Paris Is about at par, and the shert exchange on London is 25.17 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of .C: 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold about the same price in London aed Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at tIO days' sight is about 10.)} per cent. At this rate there is no profit on the importation of goli tram the United States rADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Influenza, Colds.—ln diseases of the throat and chest, so prevalent in this country, nothing so speedily relieves, or so certainly cures, as these inestimable remedies. These disorders are too often neglected at the commencement, or aro injudiciously treated, resulting in either case in dis astrous consequences. Whatever the condition of the patient, Holloway's medicines will restore, if recovery be possible. They will retard the alarming symptoms till the blood is purified, and nature consummates the cure, gradually restoring strength and vital nervous power. By persevering in the use of Holloway's preparations tone is conferred on the stomach and frame generally; the fluids aro regenerated, morbiac matter is expelled, and a happy reyolutivii OC4IIIO throughout the system. MEETING OP PARLIAMENT. (From the London Gazette of last Evening.) BY THE QUEEN—A PROCLAMATION. Victoria, R.—Whereas Our Parliament stands prorogued to Tuesday, the fifteenth day of Ja nuary next, We, with the advice of our Privy / Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the said fifteenth day of January next to Tuesday, the fifth day of February next; and We have given order to Our Chancellor of that part of Our UniteA Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare , t% Commission for proroguin g the same aceuxd ingly ; and We du hereby further, with the 'ad vice aforesaid, declare Oar It )yal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on thq said Thursday, the fifth day of February next, assemble and be holdea fur the dispatch of divr_rs urgent mil important affairs ; and the Lords Spiritual and *femporal, and the Knights, Ciri tzens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners fol. Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said Tuesday, the fifth day of February next. Given at Our Court at Osborne House, Isle, of Wight, this twenty-eighth day of Decem ber, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and in the thir, tieth year of our reign. God save the Queen. WAR IN PARAGUAY. The following appeared in oar Third Edition 11,,f yester. day evening : Yesterday's mail, per Douro, has brought us the Paraguayan account of the famous battle of Curu paity, and which we subjoin in abbreviation : The fight raged with fury for nine hours, dur ing which the allied loss was enormous ; at length victory decided in our favour, and our scat tered enemies retreated in confusion, whilst our heroes rent the air with their vic torious shouts. I do not now pretend, in fact it would be impossible, to give you here the full de tails of a day that must ever be regarded by our country as the one on which was achieved the most glorious victory of our arms. The little fortress of Curupaity, which must now be ever memorable, is well defended by nature and art. From personal observation, and the accounts of prisoners, the assailing force consisted of twelve battalions of Argentine and twelve of Brazalian in fantry, a proportionate cavalry force, and a small park of artillery, which they had conveniently planted behind a hastily formed breastwork of sand bags. To divert our attention from the real point of attack, a small cavalry and infantry force opened the day by an assault on the extreme left of our position, while at the same time the battery ou the island of Curapi in Lake Pirus opened fire ; our batteries replied to all this, and with such 'rigour that at times our whole line appeared as in a blaze. As soon as the ironclads engaged our batteries the Brazilian and Argentine Generals harangued their men, saying that the road was now open, and they had only to march up and take the trenches. The columns of infantry rushed forward to assault our right and centre, protected by a fire from their bat teries. The vigorous and galling fire of our artillery had a terrible effect on them. The Argentines ad vanced on the centre, and the Brazilians on the right, seeking protection from the fleet. The first at tacking columns were completely shattered ; a se cond and third time the enemy pushed up obsti nately to our lines, whence a shower of shot and shell poured destruction among their ranks ; the slaughter of their officers and men at the verge of the fosse was something horrible. They had faggots of wood, scaling-ladders, exc., but their ranks were converted into piles of wood before they had time to use these appliances ; five men contrived to get into the fosse. On the right the Brazilians held out longJr, under cover of the fleet and a close thicket, but our howitzers had so awful an effect that whole battalions remained dead on the field, the piles of corpses obstructing the only practicable passage. They tried every means to outflank our batterie, , , some advancing under the barrauca on the river, but we had a trusty force there to give good account of them. At 4 p.m. the enemy were repulsed at all points, and of the attacking columns nothing remained but a few hundred stragglers dragging some of their wounded after them : in fact the forces of Mitre and Port Alegre were annihilated. The ironclads seeing the disaster on land hastened to get out of range of our batteries. It will hardly be believed that we have barely 50 men hors de combat, thanks to our advantage ous position _and the visible protection of Divine Providence. The battle of Curupaity is, beyond question, the most brilliant that has yet crowned our victorious arms. Never before did the Triple Alliance sustain such an overthrow, and the loss of the allies is wholly irreparable. Our reverse at Curuzu has been amply revenged, and the victory of Sept. 22d has surpassed all our anticipations in the magnitude and splendour of its results. Curupaity will form the brightest page in our annals, and its very name will inspire terror and confusion among our invaders. We tried to avoid such. bloodshed, but Mitre and his allies in their insane idea of conquering Paraguay have poured out the blood of thousands of their men, and all to no pur pose. _Heaven chastises their pride and confounds their wicked councils. With us the time for peace is past. Officers and men are justly irritated at the conduct of the in vaders, and can now only be satisfied by their utter extermination. " Fortune favours the brave," and now, after 18 months' fighting, we find ourselves in a better con dition than when we began. Since the glorious victory of Curupaity the utmost enthusiasm prevails throughout the country, and large contingents are daily arriving to share the glories of the campaign. A grateful shower of rain has succeeded the long drought, and all our ditches are full. Amid the thousand joyful emotions of victory I have not the coolness requisite to give you further details. LONDON GAZEVIE —Last Evening. - -4 OSLVORNE, Dze. 28. The Queen was this day pleased to confer tho honour of Knighthood on John Burgess Karslake, Esq., her Ma jesty's Solicitor-General. The Queen was this day pleased to confer tho honour of Knighthood on Benjamin Samuel Phillips, Esq., Alderman, and late Lord Mayor of the City of Loudon. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 15} 11 16f Ditto 3 Mouths. 11 18} 11 19f Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 35 25 421. Brussels Hamburg — 13 8} 13 8} Paris Short 25 15 25 25 Ditto 3 Months. 25 31 25 42} Marseilles Fr:inkier: on the Maine —119 f V ie, mitt — 13 3,) 13 40 Trieste — 13 35 13 40 Petersburgn Berlin sok 6 z 5 3o 6 -..:6 Ott} 42S* 27 10 27 20 27 10 27 20 27 10 27 2U 27 10 27 2U 27 10 27 20 27 10 '27 20 51i 51i 51i 51± Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Saples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto TILE HIGHT 110 S. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD.—A contemporary states that a committee has been formed of the inhabitants of Horsham and the neighbour hood with the view of presenting a testimonial to the Right lion. W. Seymour Fitzgerald on his leaving England to assume the government of Bombay. It has been de cided to present the right hen. gentleman with his por trait, for which ho has consented to sit, that it may be a memorial in his family of the general regard and esteem which his public services and his private worth have secured to him. The execution of the portrait has been entrusted to Mr. Lucas, the Royal Academician, who has just completed his portrait of the late Lord Palmerston for the brethren of the Trinity Rouse, and whose pictures of the lamented Prince Consort, of the late Duke of Welling ton, and laord Littraege are well known. ~~~ It Tday ;s of :wise Ting. roily yr the lling and ince ;art- g act their orn ;y of -:Gll- rl a Tets, I two I was ition, as 5 f the uses, tined own, ortu- cart iries, The the rail flict- mall sting ross of 3 tlkea onio, 1 0110 1116 1 fiery vhile Abor two loud ucch Ding nter [nc o r t 'p to tb° Nir ,f ter ffee roo t ;oIY +g to ahttre 20 et et ICO