The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND .;OAirtiEROZiL -,.:,-i'`..ULLItE NUE, TWELVE o'CLocK. A small amount of business is reported to-day in the general discount market, and there is no alte ration either in the supply or demand. There were no bullion operations at the Bank of England yesterday. Notice has been given that the series of the obli gations of the Italian State Domain Loan of 1865, drawn for payment Ist April next, is letter C. A meeting of the London and Brazilian Bank (Limited) is convened for Friday, the 18th inst. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has been much animation. Prices, however, of most of the prin cipal staples have ben well supported. Sugar has fully maintained previous current rates, while superior qualities of coffee have been in demand at high quotations. In tea, rice, and cocoa there has been only a limited business transacted, but tallow has been in better demand, chiefly on speculative account, and prices for both present and forward delivery are well maintained. The Paraguassu Steam Tramroad Company (Limited), has been announced. It is established by charter from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, agreeably to the decree of the Legisla ture, and incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862. The length of the tramroad is about 250 English miles, and the share capital is £1,500,000, in 75,000 shares of £2O each; of these 56,000 shares have been appropriated ; over 22,000 have been subscribed for in Brazil ; 4,000 more are reserved for that country, leav ing 15,000 shares to be offered to the Eng lish public, £1 per share deposit on application, and £1 per share on allotment being required. The calls are not to exceed £2 per share, payable at intervals of not less than six months. Interest on the paid up capital, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, to be paid half -yearly during the construction of the lines by the company pursuant to the requirements of the charter. The directorate is very influential. The silver market is particularly quiet. An nexed are some of the latest quotations :--Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard ; do., parting, 775. 101 d. do. ; doubloons, Spanish, 755. to 755. 6d. per oz. ; do., Mexican and South American, 725. 9d. to ►4s. do. ; United States eagles, 765. 24d. ; do. Bar silver, ss. id. per oz. standard; do., containing gold (five grains and upwards), ss. lid. ; do. dol lars, Mexican, 4s. 1 lid. per oz. ; English cake silver, 655. id. do. The market for hides has generally presented a steady appearance during the past year. Prices have, as usual, fluctuated, but not to so great an extent as might have been expected from the excep tional state of the money market ; in fact, consi dering the stringency that ruled for so long a period, the hide trade may be said to have felt its effects but slightly ; and upon the whole a fair amount of business has been done. In petroleum the leading feature during the past year, has been the decline of nearly 75 per cent. from the highest quotations. The supplies during the latter half of the year in creased beyond all expectation, and the import for the whole of 1866 was 119,532 barrels against 23,703 barrels in 1865. The decline in price com menced with the opening of the past year, and has experienced but slight interruption, although the market has been occasionally steady, with some short periods of reaction. From January to March quotations were lowered from 3s. 3d. to 2s. per gal lon for American refined, with some slight recovery before the close of the latter month. From April to June the market was mostly steady at 2s. 2d. to 2s. 3d., but 2s. was quoted at the close of the latter month. In July prices declined to ls. 11d. and is. 10d., but slightly improved in the following month, 2s. being paid at the close. In September there was again a tendency to lower rates, which has continued almost without check to the clone of the year, stocks pressing heavily, and forced sales, con sequent upon, or attending large failures in the trade, giving the market little chance of improvement. During the past month very low prices have been accepted, refined has been disposed of at ls. 4d. ; crude quoted £l3 per ton, but almost unsaleable. The market is now more steady, at ls. sd. to Is. 6d. Per gallon for American refined. Two o'. All substanti a l securities dealt in at the CLocr Stock Exchange are improving in market value, for the public look with considerable fear upon a large pro portion of the joint stock companies quoted in the official lists. Yet there is growing confidence, and besides the securities representing home and foreign Governmental debts, Railway shares and even de bentures are now in greater favour than they have been since the difficulty about the London, Chatham, and Dover— a valuable property which under judicious manipulation must ultimately prove remunerative to all who have embarked in the undertaking. Consols are now 91, i t for money and the present account, and 94, for the Feb ruary settlement, a further rise of if: and conse quently p r cent, higher than they were this day week. In the Foreign Stock Market there has not been much animation, and prices are a shade flatter. Mexican Stock has declined to 1818-1 Passive , Spanish i f, to 24,*, while Greek Bonds have im proved /, to 144, The dealings in the Railway Share Market have been to an average extent, but prices generally show a slight depression. Brighton have declined ; Great Eastern, Great Northern A Stock, Lanca shire and Yorkshire, North Western, and Metropo litan each 1 ; Great Western 1 ; and South Eastern 1; while Midland have improved 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without material alteration in values. South Austrian and Lombardo -Venetian aremarked 15/ ; Grand Trunk of Canada 21 -211 4 ; Great Western of Canada, 13 4 1,- ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 105:1 106. American Securities are slightly depressed. United States 5-20 Bonds have declined -a to 721 4 ; Illinois, 4 to 84 82 ; but Erie shares re main firm at 451 461. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures are steady at 54 56, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 44 42. Bank Shares are quiet, Alliance being dealt in at 181, City Bank at 15, London and County at 651 ; London and Westminster at 99i ; and Union of London at 45 a 1. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares show little change of importance. Credit Foncier of England are steady at 3 31 ; Hudson's Bay Company at 16i ; National Discount Company at 141 ; Royal Mail Steam have improved to 105 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam to 661. MINING MARKET. TUESDAY, TWO o'Clock. There ha s b een an act ve demand for Great Re tallack, which have advanced to 295. buyers, Prince of Wales are 275. 6d. and Prosper 275. Bd., but Clifford are weaker, and West Chiverton firmer. Annexed aro the latest quotations : Chivortou Moor, 5 Amalgamate, 9 9 51 ; Ch onzalea Gold, 2i 3 ; Clifford 1 ; East Basset, 22 23 ; East Cat-eclat), 1 ; East Lovall, 10 101; E as t W heal Grenville, 2; 1 ; Great Retallack, 29s 31s; Groat Wheal Tor, 171 181; Marko Valley, 4} 1. ; North Crofty, 4 4} ; North Treakerby, 2} 3 ; Prince of Wales, 11. ; Prosper United, 31 41 ; Providence Mines, 27 29; South Condurrow, 12s 14s ; South Grenville, —s s Od ; Tincroft, 13} 14 ; West earailon, 13} 14 ; West Chivorton, 54 56 ; West Frances, 17 19; West Seton, 125 130; Wheal Buller, 22 24; Wheal Chiverton, 61 7e ; Wheal Cr3bor, --s —s ; Wheal Grenville, 27s 6,1 30s; Wheal Rose, ; Whoa! Seton, 135 140 ; Wheal Trelawney, 11 12 ; Wheal Uny, 1} ; Cern Camborne, 11 ; Central Minera, —; Cooks' Kitchen, 10 } ; East Cam Brea, 3 3} ; Great Laxey, 17 18 ; Great South Tolgus, 15s Od 20s Od ; South Frances, 221 2 5; St. Ives Consols, 8 10; South Caradon, —; Stray Park, 4 G ; Drakewolls, 15s Od 17s Gd ; South :Darren, —8 —s ; North Roakear, 6 8. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GGVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Der Cent. Consols Do. Accou.ut Jan. 10 9l 901 3 per Cent. Iteducod 9Ol i New 3 per Cent "ii i * i New 2b. per Cont. Jan. 1891 _ Do. o per Cant. Jan. 1873 — Annuities ' 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth Ap r illBBs 13 Do (lied Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 Exphequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 por Cent l2 pm Do £5OO '- Do £lOO & £2OO „ Pm Bank of England Stock, 6f per Cent 250 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. tuthan Stock, 10f per Cent., Apri11874... 213 Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 por Cent B4l Do. 5 per Cent., Jau. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lO5 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 por Cent., £l,OOO 26 pm Do. under £l,OOO, FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 I),razilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1863 Do Account 7ll Do. £lOO Bonds Do. Account Baenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do .elOO Bonds DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 por Cent ) 6 per Cent Do. 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A Do. , t B C Aombian, 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 5 per C0nt.,1864 Danubian Principalities Do. Account Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Pt ovisional L au d W arrant Do Deferted E vptian 7 per Cent...._ D. Account — Do., Second Issue — Do £lOO Bonds — Do. Account .. B7 Do. 1864 Do. Account -,, Do 4.100 Bonds — Do. Account Do. Government Railway Debentures — 00. Account, Or .ek 5 per Cents., 1824-5 , ex Coupon, — Do. Account Jo. Coupons Gaatemala 5 per Cent. — It , lian 5 per Cent 1865 Do, Account Do. Maremmana Railway — Do. A ccount idexiea L 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Uontevidean 6 per Cent. — • Sloorish Imperial 5 por Cent etv Granada — Do 3 pe r C on Do. Defe rre d Do Land Warrants (Hectares) eeruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account 661 Do 41 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 4/ per Cent. (Uribarren) Portuguese 3 p er C en t. , 1853 DJ Acco un t D D o. o3 A p e e e r ou C n o t nt., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, — 3l 1 Ru3 , ian 5 per Cont., 1822, £ $t 864 Do 41 per C en t. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pet C en t. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 .-- Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B7 Do. do. £lO paid l4 1 4 Pin Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Acco un t Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account — Do New Deferred — Do. Account Do Passive — Do Account 2ll Spanish Cert. of Coup not fundod — Do Account Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Do. Scrip, £6O paid Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do. Account Do 6 per Cont. 1858 D 3. Accou n t Do £lOO Bonds -- Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 541 4 Do £lOO Bonds Do Account 55 41 Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do 4 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account 321 Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 Do. 5 per Cent. Account Do. 4 per C en t . Guaranteed Venezuela 3 p er Cont. Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1861.., Do. Account .. Ditto 11 per C en t. 271 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 pm. Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian. 4/ per cont., Ex. 25f 98 Dutch 21 per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil„ 56 1 Do. 4 per C en t . Certificates .... Do. Account French Rout es, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. -- Do. Account Italian 3 per Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f. Consols, Mo ne y THREE O'CLOCK. Do. Account 91 ••••••••••••••••• MARKS TS. —This day. HAY. 1311,1ITHFIILD.—Meadow hay, £3 08 to £4 lOs ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and .straw , £1 168 to £2 4s per load. Trade heavy. CUMBERLAND.—Moadow hay, £3 5s to £4 105 ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 18e to £2 5s per load. A quiet demand. WHI TECIIAPEL.—MottcIow hay, £3 Os to £4 105; clover, £ 4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load. A limited inquiry. COLONIAL. TEA. —Business remains very dull, but prices aro firm. SUGAR.—There has been a fair inquiry, particularly for refining descriptions, and late rates are well sustained. In the reined market a steady business has been done, at former quotations. CO PPlE.—Thedoraand for plantation Ceylon has been good, and fully former terms have bean current. RICE. —No dealings of importance have been reported, and quotations are unaltered. SALTPETRE. There have been a few inquiries, but busi ness has been dull, and prices are a shade lower. TALLow.—The market has boon firm throughout the week, and prices have been well sustained, a considerable amount of outstanding contracts having been settled for January to March delivery, but little business has been done for the end of the year, this period being much neglected. At Petersburg the price remains at 5O to but export houses aro not operating. Exchange, 32} d. To-day the market is hardly so firm. There are sellers at 44s 9d January to March, 45s 3d March only, and 45s 3d April to June, for the end of the year 45s 9d to 46s is the price. On the spot4ss is paid for new, and 44is 6d to 44s 9d, old Y.C. 45s 6d, South American and Australian 44; town tallow 445, net cash. ------ COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. a_ s. d. Davison's Hartley 17 0 Walls E n d Haswell 23 0 Lambert's W.Hartley 16 9 Tuustall Brady°ll's lletton .... 22 0 Ships at market, 29—sold, 22. Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day. The market opens quiet but firm. Sales pro bably 8,000 or 10,000 bales. AN EARL IN A COUNTY COURT.—At the New market County Court at Cambridge, the CAUSO of Ekin v. the Earl of Winchilsea was recently tried. It was an action for £lO ss. for hire of carriages, conveyances, lodging, ecc. The judge had received a letter from the defendant, stating he had been overcharged 215., and en closing a cheque for £9 45., which was of course returned, his honour saying he could not recognise a letter about a matter ho was to hear and try. Mr. Ekin proved the earl had engaged a carriage for four days at 255. per day, and that the amount of lodgings was £3, which, with horses and servants, made up the amount of his claim. Mr. Kit chiner appeared for the plaintiff, and hinted that the earl could have no reasonable grounds for objecting, especially as he had paid the same charge at previous meetings. Im mediate payment was ordered. ARTIFICIAL BIRDS' NESTS.—The societies formed for the protectian of insectivorous birds in Switzerland are now setting up artificial nests. One of the members of a society of this description who inhabits Povey, having observed that many species of that kind select for nests the holes they find in the branches of rotten trees, and that they consequently do not find it easy to settle in orchards, whore all the trees aro in good condition, began, 25 years ago, to set up rotten trunks in his grounds; and since then he has had no need to trouble himself in the least about clearing away caterpillars, that care being entirely left to the birds, who perform their duty admirably. His neighbours, on the contrary, wh o have not had this foresight, have had their orchards laid waste by insects. Tho Yvardum Society have gone the length of placing artificial nests oven in the public walks and communal forests, on the borders of the lawns, &c. All those nests are now inhabited by hedge-sparrows, red starts, creepers, and tomtits, all which may be found in Switzerland as high up as the perpetual snow-line. Th e same practice has foumi its way into Germany.--Poln<ta,• Science Review. TtiE SUN, LONBOS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1867. SHARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Bristol and kieter 'Caledonian ... . Uatnbrian 87 $9 123 125 40 145 Cork and Bandon. (Cornwall Dublin & Belf*ast June Dun„ Perth, & A b.J uuc E. London, Dcrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. at. No. 21 Great North of Scotland Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. B stock • • 1 4 6 05 68 70 72 d 1:5 118 31 5 6 120 12 130 131 Do. New, Is. at 25 pti. G tS, and W. of Ireland, It. Western -Original) Du. S. V4l. Rail gua. Do. South %Vales Do. W. Mlcl.—Oxforo Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire Ljndon and Blackwali Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover, Do. Metrop. l•:x. A Lon. & North Western. Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Do. New Do. Extension... 14tropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John's WO And'and Do. £9 Share Do, Biriniu.. & Di rb) lid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. U.N•E purohast Do. Leeds Do. York 1)6. Carlisle Do. Stook. & Darling. Do. do. 1850-6 l North London Do. do. 1804 5 . Do. do. 1866 North Staffordshire N. it S. W. Junction Scottish Central scot. N. E , Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. st ek Shropshire Union ' South Devon Routh Eastern itaines, Wok., & Wok l'aff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny. Waterloo & Whiteha i West Cornwall 56J6 p aid. / Closing I Business Price. dine. 1 EN 8 ill 11124 32} If 121 1 lilt 34 1301 1 30i 91 90 1} 171 B t 123; f S 2; 3 65 41 6i ; 6 lt9) Si 9 f: Ioi II 901 Sgt 125 ii }II JO/ 11 1091 9 } 104 1 31 41 7I 70i I BRITISH I' Atlantic & St. Lawrence Horn., Hart:lda, Cen.ln., gu. 5 per cent... Do. shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Bull:, Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 Calcutta (lc S. E., Hm Jar e Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi East. Bengal, gu., 5 dol East ludtan, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. 181, rrei. Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonito Du. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deferred t. India Pen. gua. sp.c 'o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c South of India gua. 5 per cent D.,. 41 per cent Do - ,3reat Wes. of Canada.. Da. New .. Do. 6 p. a BLe. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 11 do . . Do. 4i do .. Do. Filth Extension 3lelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. N. ltl.C'da,6pc lst pl. bs. Scinde .. :.. ..... aDo. Delhi Do. do ti 4 Do. Puniaub....ln .. 1 Do.lndus St.Flot 42 ( COLONIAL GO VER British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Leo. 31, 1872 .. ,Can.Gov.6p.o.JadtJulyi 1877-64 - Do. 6 p. a. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. 0. Mar. & Sept 00. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. lnecribed Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oot , 1890-1900 Do. do 1880-9 U Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 1 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p., Do. 1878, do Manritium, Fi p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.'78 Do. 1882, May 15, Nov. ib Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal 4 3 ov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July N. S. W. Gov. 5 pre., 1866, Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 8 p. o sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. a p. c d.Aus.Gov. 8 p,o. 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards vie, Gov. 6 p.o.Ja, it July Do. do, April Oct BRITIS Cam. ConsoL Gold, Um Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated ' Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls least Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam BrPa East Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Lovell E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great Laxey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy. G. Wheal Vor G renv il le Elerod's Foot •••• [Lupton Downs Margaret (Uny Lelan Marko Valley Ilwyndy Iron Ore, lin, elv Sewn North Roskear Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United , Providenee ,Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan stray Park . Pin Vi,gra and Clogan, West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West C hi rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett ( Mogan Wheal Buller (Bedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. alit. Brie tol Mancha Dit North Dit 2.1.0 tai 2.14.6 3f 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.0.0 10.8. 47k 5k 16 8 58,E 5.17.0 64 7 4 $4 6 4 405 4 16 is l i 2O 5 6 2 3 2 3 i i 9 10 21 21 5 6 )7 18 15 16 11 1) 30 32 21 51 2 4 31 4 1 21 11 0 35 45 2 4 2 t 31 24 26 300 320 i ii 18 22 1 2 9 I) 12 14 54 56 113 125 65 75 16 20 10 12 133 145 7 9 rICEFE ItENCIG tIAKICb. and Exeter 4 per cent stock, .81 ,ester, Sheffield. and Lincoln, 8 per cent., tto (.£6 , 6i Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., tto, 4 per cent., rd., 92j PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Midland A and B £5 pl, 105 LINES LEASED ILT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, 54} Ditto, 5 per cent.. lit} London, Tilbury, and Southend, 82 Nottingham and Grantham it. and C, 91 4 • FOREIGN RAILWA.YB, Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9 Central Argentine, 7# Dutch Rhenish, xui I Great Luxembourg, 13 Namur and Liege gun. lit. per annum, 91 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 15/ FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Rey, lim., 53 $ DOCKS. London and St. Katharine. 68 . i BANKS. . __ Albion, iim.. 1181 Bank of British Columbia, 13 Chartered Viler. of India, London, and ChLta, 331 City, 15 Colonial, 404 a Consolidated Bank, lira., - Ditto, new, 21 Imperial Bank, Ilm., 251 Imperial Ottoman, lim., 8 2 9 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 21 London and Brazilian Win.), •- Ditto, new, 51 Loudon and Couuty, 65i 61 London Joint Stock, 431 London and VI estminster, 991 100 99 Mercantile and Exchange. lira., 31 Oriental Banx Corporation. 4z Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., 41 Union of London, 443 5i 41 MISCELLANKOUIL Atlantic Telegraph, Dit o, 8 per cent., 721 31 Ceylon Company, 94 City of Moscow Gas, lim., 171 City Offices, lira., 6 4 Commercial Union, insurance. 511 Company of African M erc h ants. 24 Credit voncier of Englann, lim., n. 3 Crystal Palace, 29 East India Irrigation and Canal, 10 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, itm., 5 Electric Telegraph, 133 Hudson's Bay4p 1 11411117-7 Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, lira., 21 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cayour), 7 London tieneralOmitibus Company, lira, 3 Nrtional Discount Company, NI Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem., of which 21 i s t o pay, Ili New Consolidated Discount. lim If Oriental Gas, lira., 5 Panama. New Zealand, and Aus. it. Mail, 71 Peninsula and Orenial Steam, 1361 Royal Mail Steam, 105 Thames and Mersey Marine, insurance, lira,, 51 Viceroy of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan, 70. 90 02 53 34 37 3Z 33 ISO 132 9) 92 17 18 1U to 122 124 85 i 7 55 67 28 130 ti 10A 11 115 125i1 11 12k 93 05 38 40 4 VS IC9 11U 67 68 103 105 35 56 10 11 p i 119 121 1 2p 1 2p 73 75 148 !Lt.: 17 19 7u 72 9 10 150 153 3 4; ISIONS. 66 68 ICO 101 id it. 4 44 74 Si 60 65 101 103 10t 103 106 1(7 2L 22 85 88 57 69 53 54 52 54 37 10 23 25 106 1(6 1p 1 ICO 102 91 93 12; 13} 1.: 120 82 81 84 11 11:i 100 102 92 14 85 90 82 65 97 9) 97 98 1 i,. 91 98 1 6! 6 , 13i 3 ICOj iT SECURI 93 94 90 92 90 92 77 78 75 7 7 104 160 103 105 102 104 IC4 116 88 ?0 11,0 IC2 VA 10 105 107 101 106 105 107 108 108 96 100 96 It 90 92 90 05 85 /37 98 100 81 85 96 9 8 92 Pi 106 108 103 101 aced' CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. THE ACCIDENT ON THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. Au application was made to postpone the trial of the two prisoners, Wilmott and Chaney, for the manslaughter of three persons on the Metropolitan Railway until next ses sion. An objection was raised to the application, and it was ultimately arranged that the two mon should be tried on the coroner's inquisition, no other indictment being preferred against them. STEALING A LETTER. James 'Mitcham, 38, lettor-carrier, was indicted with stealing a post letter, the property of the Postmaster- General. The evidence was of the usual description. A test letter was made up, containing 60 postage stamps, all of which had been previously marked. Tho letter was duly posted and traced until it came into the prisoner's possession. It was never delivered at the address, and the enclosed was afterwards found in the prisoner's possession. The jury found the prisoner guilty. In mitigation of punishment it was urged that the pri soner had been induced to commit the offence by the pressure of circumstances. Also that he had served his country as a soldier during the late Crimean war in su h a manner that he had been awarded a pension of 4s. Bd. a week, which pension he would lose as the consequence of the conviction. The Recorder, in passing sentence, said it was a most painful matter to find a person who had conducted him self so well on former occasions standing in the dock convicted of an offence which was invariably visited with very severe punishment. However, taking into conside ration the loss the prisoner was sustaining by the stoppage of his pension, he would, in that particular instance, depart from passing the present punishment inflicted for robbing the Postmaster-General, viz.•- a term of penal servitude, and, under all the circumstances he should sentence the prisoner to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. _ - POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MANSION-ROUSE. James Wren, aged fifteen years, was charged before the Lord Mayor with stealing a bag containing twenty-five cocoa nuts, value Gs., the property A Mr, Plumridge, 20, Botolph-lant. From the evidence it appeared that about five o'clock yesterday afternoon a foreman of the prosecutor's missed the bag in question, and shortly after three boys came up and told him that it had been stolen by some other boys. They directed him to St. Mary's Hill, and there ho found the prisoner and three other boys en gaged in dividing the nuts. Tho prisoner bad the bag on his hand, and, when he charged him with stealing it, he lot it drop, and ran away, but ho followed and overtook him. The other boys escaped. The prisoner said he had got the nuts from his companions, and knew nothing about them being stolen, upon which he was given in charge. Ho repeated his statement to the officer who took him to the station, and ono of the city police officers said that the prisoner had been in custody before on a charge of stealing a tarpaulin, but there being no prose cutor the case was dismissed. Tbo prisoner gave a correct address, and it appeared that he was living there with his mother and stepfather, but that the latter knew nothing about him. The mother of tho prisoner said that he worked at a printer's at the Barbican, but had been out of work for some time. He had never been in trouble before, and it was his younger brother who had been before the court previously. The Lord Mayor said that the prisoner was in a bettor position than hundreds of poor boys in London, for he know how to get his living. He would sentence him to 14 days' imprisonment. arah Law was charged with assaulting John Piper, a porter, living in New-inn-yard. From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared that the prisoner had boarded and lodged with him, and left him owing V ss. He had endeavoured to find her at her lodg ings but without success, but he traced her last night, at 12 o'clock, to a house in Montague -court. He saw her on the stairs. While he was talking to her the landlady made her appearance, and the prisoner "pitched into her." He interfered with a view to separate them, upon which the prisoner struck him a violent blow over the eye, which was the assault of which he complained. The prisoner said that the prosecutor was in the habit of persecuting her in the street, and last night he came into the house in Montague-court, when the landlady gave her some bread, as she was almost starving. The prose cutor saw'her on the stairs and attempted to throw her down, but she caught hold of him and flung him down the stairs, which caused the mark on his eye. The Lord Mayor said this was a case in which he could give the complainant no assistance, and discharged the prisoner. MARLBOROUGMSTREET. AN INAPPROPRIATE NAME.—Goorge Artless, a sullen looking boy, was charged with the following robbery : Mrs. A nn Gottfried, wife of Mr. Conrad Gottfried, baker, of No. 27, Little Pulteney-street, said that on the previous afternoon she left the shop for a minute, and on her return she saw the prisoner leaning over the counter with his hand in the till. She seized the prisoner, who asked to be allowed to go, and took from his hand a half-crown piece and a florin. Her husband afterwards gave the pri soner into custody. In answer to ifr. Tyrwhitt, Mrs. Gottfried said there was other money in the till, but not within the prisoner's reach. Hills, 154 0, said that on taking the prisoner into cus tody ho admitted taking the money. The boy asked the magistrate to deal with the case. The constable said he believed the boy had before been at the court. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would only sond the prisoner for two months instead of throe, in the hope that he would change his ways. A SEASONABLE GlFT.—During tho late inclement weather Mr. P eacoc k , o f th e fi rm of Nurdin and Peacock, the well-know n egg merc h an ts of Berwick-streot, St. James's, w ith hi s customary k i n d ness, gavo t o th e p oor o f the dist r i c t 5 0 waggon loads of wood, besides other present s . M r. Peacock forwarde d a reques t t o thi s court that any poor person applying for firing might be sent to his establishment. THAMES. ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.=-George Yates, a morose-looking follow, whose left arm was in a sling, and whose clothes were covered with mud and dirt, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with stealing an old-fashioned mahogany chair and savagely assaulting Joseph Simmons, a police constable, 127 K. Simmons, who is an intelligent and useful detective officer, stated th a t yesterday evening h e met the prisoner in the Bi le - end-road carrying the doctor's flat-backed mahogany chair now produced. He asked the prisoner what he was going to do with it, to which he replied, " I have been trying to sell it; I am going to take it to 4, White chapel-road." He told the prisoner he was not satisfied with that accou n t, and he must coma along with him. The prisoner walked very quickly about 200 yards and then said, "Y ou -- don't h o ld me so ti g ht," an d , a t t h e same time, brought th e chair down on his head with terrific force and half stunned him with the blow. Ho seized the prisoner again, and ho used fearful language and struck him. They struggled and both wont down in the mud. The prisoner threatened to kill him and tried to put him under a horse and cart passing along the road. He nar rowly escaped being run over, but the prisoner did not escape, for ono of the wheels went over his left shoulder. This put an end to the conflict, and he took the prisoner and the chair, which was broken, to the station-house, where a doctor attended upon him and put his injured arm in a splint, as it now appeared. Inspector Kerressey, of the K division, said that he called in Dr. Cornelius Garman, of the Fairfield-road, Bow, who said that no bones were broken. The prisoner was very much bruised. Mr. John Burnham, chemist and d rugg i s t , Mile-end road, said the mahogany chair produced was the property of his father, and stolen out of the shop near the door yesterday evening. The prisoner said he knew nothing at all about the chair. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial. A N CIENT SILVER COINS. —A man , w hi le plough ing up a headland on C hanto n Farm, between W as hi ng t on thing which d n ABhin u ° c n a 'S s i e l d esiet; felt his pl ough come against some to to be thrown out of its course. It proved to be an old crock, or earthenware pot, containing a number of old coins, chiefly of the time of Edward the Confessor and Harold. They Were all packed in the crock on their edges, as closely as possible, and had evidently re mained undisturbed since first hidden. Tho Government authorities have been communicated with on the subject of the treasure. THE EXPORT COAL TRADE. --The exports of coal from the United Kingdom continue to show a large increase, the total in November having amounted to 790,109 tons, as compared with 731,329 tons in the corresponding month and 773,395 tons in November, 1864. Nearly the whole of the increase observable in November arose on French account. The aggregate exports in the 11 months ending November 30 last year amounted to 9,257,210 tons, as compared with 8,484,336 tons in the corresponding period of 1865, and 8,141,388 tons in the first 11 months of 1864. In these totals the shipments to France figure for 1,708,315 tons, as against 1,442,682 tons and 1,311,757 tons respectively. The exports also increased last year to Russia, Sweden, the Hanse Towns, Holland, Spain, Italy, Brazil, and British India; and to the United States there was a decrease. The value of the coal exported in November was £415,701, as compared with £365,604 in the corres ponding month of 1865, and £370,456 in November, 1864. In the 11 mouths ending November 30 last year the total value of the exports reached £ 4 ,733,055, against X 4,071,475 to the corresponding date of 1865, and £3,829,084 in the first 11 months of 1864. Franco paid for British coal to November 30 last year£798,899, as compared with £652,426 in 1865 and £562,593 in 1864. An Aztec Wedding. The London public will perhaps remember two extraordinary children who, some 14 years since, were exhibited under the auspices of Mr. Anderson, known as the Wizard of the North, and who were then described as being specimens of an ancient In dian race that still survived amongst the ruined cities of ,Central America. The story then told was that one of those cities, " Ixamaya," still remained intact, but was so jealously guarded by its inhabi tants that it was almost impossible fur any stranger to approach it. A Spaniard named Velasquez, how ever, ventured within the lines, and at great risk of life and limb bore off two children, to whom he gave Spanish Christian and surnames. He brought his prize to New York, when he handed them over to Mr. Morris, who has been their proprietor and guardian ever since. On the occasion of their first exhibition in England, Mr. Morris, being too much occupied to come over himself, intrusted them to Professor Anderson, who represented them to be brother and sister—a statement which it is now un derstood was entirely without foundation. These children excited a great deal of curiosity and much discussion amongst the learned in ethnology, but no one ventured to give a decided opinion as to whether, as was asserted for them, they might be accepted as specimens of an ancient but newly dis covered race, or whether they were merely abortive births, such as occasionally happen in every coun try. Since then Mr. Morris has himself travelled with his interesting little charges through most of the great cities of Europe and America, and shows approving testimonials from persons of the highest distinction in more than one continental city. In St. Petersburg especially the Aztecs attracted ex traordinary notice, and received written testimony to that effect from members of the imperial family. Everywhere the same discussions were raised amongst the savans as to their origin and race, and every where with the some conclusive results. What they are, whether accidental births, or the last remnants of some ancient and sacred race which had for ages been preserved by the priests of Central America to serve as a sort of living idols for their worship, still remains a mystery—a circumstance which of course will only serve to heighten the curiosity of the British public should Mr. Morris determine upon exhi biting them in London. So far as we could learn he has brought them over for the purpose of having them joined in holy wedlock, they now being both of marriageable age, and accordingly the legal cere mony was performed yesterday morning, by the registrar, in the vestry-room of St. George's, 1-lan over-square. In order to give all proper eclat to the wedding, the preparation of the bride's trousseau was entrusted to the house of Howell and James, in Regent-street. The dress was of the richest white satin, trimmed with the costliest of lace, and the jewels of the purest water. The little lady seemed to be' absolutely enchanted with her sparkling neck ' lace, her solitaire ear-rings, and her bracelets of emeralds and brilliants. 'We were informed the trousseau cost close upon £2,000, and, considering its completeness, we should bereluctant to pronounce it dear at the money. The bridegroom wore plain evening dress, but was most demonstrative in his examination and exhibition of a splendid gold watch with which he had been presented for the interesting occasion. During the ceremony he deported him self most judiciously—for a bridegroom, examined the certificate which the registrar handed to him at its conclusion most carefully, and then, with much impressiveness, presented the bride with her " mar riage lines." They are both much grown since their last visit to this country, but still far below either in stature or bulk anything else that we have ever seen in the shape of either savage or civilised hu manity. Their heads are not bigger than would be that of an English child of a month old, and their figures are in proportion. The female is well formed, and has a not unpleasing countenance, but the man is a most extraordinary looking individual. The type of countenance in both is decidedly antique, but whether Assyrian, Egyptian, or Central Ameri can we must leave to Professor Owen and the An thropological Society t 9 decide. There never was anything like them exhibited in London except themselves on the occasion of their first visit, and whatever attraction they then offered for the curious must be increased tenfold now when they present themselves under such altered circumstances, and in full and complete maturity. After the marriage ceremony the bride, bridegroom, and a party of their friends adjourned to Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, for the wedding breakfast, when some appropriate speeches were made, and all sorts of good wishes were expressed for the interesting couple. Naval and Military Intelligence. The iron armour-plated ship Northumberland, 26, 6,621 tons, 1,350-horse power, Staff-Commander R. B. Batt, was on Saturday swung at her moor ings in the Medway, for the adjustment of her com passes, under the direction of the officials connected with the Hydrographic Department of the Admi ralty, previously to proceeding round to Devonport, to be completed for commission. The Northumber land will be navigated from the Nore by a number of officers, seamen, engineers, and stokers from the Steam Reserve in the Medway. There is compara tively little more remaining to be completed on board the Northumberland in the way of fittings, &c., before she is ready for the pennant. The Rodney, 78, 500-horse power, Mr. W. H. Harris, master-in-charge, will be ready for being commissioned by the end of the ensuing month, when she will proceed to China, as the flagship of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8., relieving the Princess Royal, which returns to Eng land. The War Department steamship Lord Panmure, Master Commander Spriddle, has taken in a heavy cargo of war stores, composed of 160 tons of Major Palliser's shot, a number of 9-ton guns, 250 rec tangular powder cases, 150 quarter-barrels of lead balls, 220 quarter-barrels of ammunition, &c., and will sail from Woolwich Arsenal this morning, by the early tide, for Devonport ; and the Alma and Raglan, Master-Commanders Mountfield and Wilkins, in the same service, are shipping similar cargoes at Woolwich for,Portsmouth, Devonport, and Milford Haven. The Royal gun factories at Woolwich are engaged night and day with orders now on hand for the pre sent financial year 1866-7. The sum required for the department in the estimates of the ensuing year will be about £600,000. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. George J. Anstruther to the Achilles ; IValter H. Worsfold, master, to the Charybdis ; John G. Oakshott, chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for service in the Severn ; John B. Swann, paymaster, to the Indus, additional, for the Euphrates; Henry Sewell, paymaster, to the Asia, additional, for the Jumna ; E. R. Chamber lain, paymaster, to the Fisgard, additional, for the Serapis ; Robert F. E. Morison, paymaster, to the Charybdis ; Richard Harbord, assist.-paymaster, to the Charybdis ; George Roe, John Watson (B), Alfred Mason, Thomas Summers (B), Richard Mockett, and Thomas Spence, engineers, to the Bristol ; Owen Douglas, :Edwin L. Carte, John Wendover, and Thomas Barnes, first-class assist.- engineers, to the Bristol ; John R. Harney, first class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, for the Vivid; Thomas Weeks and Frederick Simley, second-class assist.-engineers, to the Bristol ; Edward A. Smith and Macleod G. C. Mallard, assist.-clerks to the Charybdis ; Commander Andrew J. Kennedy to the Lord Clyde, vice Barnardiston ; Lieut. Archi bald Little to the Charybdis ; Dr. Jno. C. Messer, surg., to the Charybdis ; Charles H. S. Douglas, second master, additional, to the Victory ; and Dr. Thomas Cann, assist.-surg., to the Charybdis ; and Claude Hunter nominated a naval cadet. WOLVES IN SEARCH OF AN ASYLUM. —A consi derable invasion of wolves has been noticed for some time past in the forests of Belgium. For many years these animals had not been seen in such numbers in the Ardennes. This emigration is attributed to the late war between Austria and Prussia. The wolves, hunted from the forests of Germany and Bohemia by the movements of the troops and the thunder of the cannon, went to seek in Belgium order, peace, and daily food. • Mit'S' 57 101 100 j 211 I [ 1 ITIES. 801 60 Si I i 851 Sanatoria for Drunkards. A recent publication re-excites attention to the sad effects of the vice of confirmed intemperance, which is so common at the present day, and to the question of the establishment of asylums for drunk ards. In other countries partial success only has attended the efforts to overcome the many difficul ties that surround the matter of the suppression of drunkenness, or the management of those over whom it has asserted a permanent mastery; for so many unpleasant considerations in which family re lationships or friendly intercourse are concerned tend to engender silence, and bar the discussion of what is classed conveniently in the category of " un pleasant subjects." The majority of men, however, are unable to resist the conviction that the evil is in great degree a self-produced one ; and as the truth is distasteful, it is natural that we seek for an explanation which plays the role of an excuse, and is calculated to secure a lenient sentence for those whose individual responsibility is blamed. Clearly the mode of cure of drunkenness, at once, in itself, both efficient and easy of application, is to cut off ,the supplies of the drinker ; but this involves dis tinct interference with the " liberty of the subject," which the physician shrinks from recommending, and the public are not disposed to justify without very cogent reason. The necessity, however, for spe cial legislation in the matter is urgent, freely acknow ledged on all hands, and will no doubt by-and-by break through the thick crust of our many pre judices, and allow common sense and consider ations of policy to exert their due influence. Mean while it is the duty of medical practitioners to faci litate legislation by determining accurately the na ture of that habit to which psychologists give the terms " oinomania," " dipsomania, " polydipsia," and which include cases of so-called uncontrollable drunkenness. Is it a crime, or the result of a dis eased state of brain, of a passion for intoxicants, which is the chief symptom of a brain alteration, and which no will can therefore resist, but which con quers sense and intellect ? Charity may be allowed to assert the existence of the latter condition, but practical experience teaches us that uncontrolled is a more just expression than that of uncontrollable drunkenness—that this is not caused by disease, but is the effect of a habit which had its little begin nings that were left unchecked, and that cannot be held to have diminished the responsibility of the in dividual in whom it is exhibited. The existence in the drunkard of a powerless desire to break away from the thraldom of a confirmed habit is no rea son why we should make an excuse for him—it is his own election. Violation of moral obligations to one's self and society involves its penalty in the case in point, as in other cognate instances--a penalty which finds one of its worst punishments in a haunt ing crave for the liquor which becomes the habitual drunkard's curse, and is the only remedy he finds against the " blue devils" of his own producing. It is an unhealthy sense that classes, with no little tinge of poetry, the sufferings of the drunkard with thote of the self-denying martyr. Public sanatoria or asylums for the confirmed inebriate are by no means desirable, but they should be under the strictest surveillance ; private establishments would be open to great obuse, in which the element of commercial speculation might play a very promi nent part. The drunkard is a criminal, and he should be deprived of that the possession of which renders him a positive source of evil to himself and society—his liberty. In the regime under which he would be placed there need be nothing harsh, but it would be most pernicious in practice and wrong in philosophy, if the drunkard could make for himself a voluntary arrangement to enter when he liked and to quit when he pleased, as has been suggested.-7he Lancet. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Fib. 4. Ditto, by French packet Jan. 22 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Dec. China, Penang, and Sing 'pore. via Soulhampton Jan .19. Ditto, via garsellies Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 13. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Jan 13. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Jan. 7 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 13. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan 7. Mauritius, via Southampton Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseille 3 . Jan. 19. Newfoundland Portugal . ..... .....Feb. 4 Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet ON An. IS. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton ... , Ditto via Cork •• Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Jan. :11. West Coskt of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Feb. 3. West Indies and Paella (except Bahamas and Honduras) Baham`...i, via New York. Jan. 19. Cuba and Mexico Jan. 28 Bermuda, via Haullitx •••••• ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—At a meeting of the Nottingham Town Council on Monday (yesterday), a resolution was passed appointing a committee to wait upon the council of the British Agricultural Society in London to ask that body to select Nottingham for the society's meeting in 1868. Fnom BOMBAY TO CALCUTTA.—There is reason to believe that the entire journey from Bombay to Cal cutta will be made in four days by the end of the year.— Bombay Gasette, Dec. 13, 186 G. THE FINSBURY AND CITY OF LONDON SAVINGS ' BANK.—The accounts of this institution having now been balanced for the past year, the managers have published their usual statement of results, which is most satisfactory. The transactions of the past year have again been more numerous than ever. During the first nine months of the year, which included tho whole course of the womorable "panic,' the payments only exceeded the receipts by a little over £20,000, while during the last three months of the year the excess of receipts and interest caused a re covery and increase of more than £lO,OOO of that amount, and thus raised the capital at the close of the year to the sum of £425,287. The accounts open in the course of the year exceeded 20,000, and the operations upon them were such as proved the extremely valuable nature of the facili ties which aro given by this and other Government savings banks for the encouragement of thrift and care. The office is open, as usual, seven times in each week, and the inte rest given is £3 per cent. NUMEROUS DEATHS FROM THE INCLEMENCY OF THE WEATHER.—Yostorday a coroner's inquest was held at the Southampton Coffee-house, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, on the body of Charles Greene. The de ceased came from Birmingham on Thursday to give evidence in a patent case, and on the next day died suddenly. Mr. Augustus Greatrex, surgeon, who made a post-mortem ex amination of the body, describes it as very emaciated. The heart was the smallest he had ever seen. The death he attributed to disease of the heart and lungs, which would be accelerated by cold on the railway journey from Bir mingham. Tho jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. Dr. Lankester, the coroner, said he thoadbe attributed thatmorn ing b to the who were weak, on being attacked, sunk under the cold. been late in fo iTcl e e d m o e f nt 2 weather—old ich people THE SEVERE WEATHER. —A man named Warner, employed as night switchman on tho Groat Western Rail way at Reading, was frozen in such a manner that his death followed o n Sunday. It appears that Warner had been a porter at the company's station at Oxford, and but very recently removed to R e ading. He performed his duties as narrow-gauge s witchman during the night of Thursday, and went home, but only slept two or throe hours, as he had arranged to fetch his wife and family from Oxford that day. He did this, and went on duty at night. On Satur day morning he was found in a dreadfully cold condition, and removed to one of the rooms of the station, where everything possible was done to relieve his sufferings. Subsequently he was conveyed home and attended by Mr. Bulley, surgeon to the Great Western Railway Provident Society for the Reading district. All that medical ail' could suggest was done for the poor fellow, but he expired on Sunday morning from the effects of exposure to the bitter frost on Friday night. SIAM AND THE PARIS EXHIBITION. —A commu nication from Bangkok of the Bth November contains the subjoined :--" The King of Siam being desirous of partici pating in the groat solemnity of 1867, has given orders to send immediately on to Singapore a number of products of his kingdom, selected by himself, to figure in the Universal Exhibition. Those articles comprise about 33 tons of goods, and the cases in which they are contained will be shipped on board the French transport Oruo, which Admiral do la Grandiere has placed at the disposal of the Siamese Govern ment, according to instructions from the French Minister of Marine and the Colonies. The Orne will, besides, re ceive on board M. Daniel Windsor, interpreter to the Mi nistry of Foreign Affairs in Siam, and three officials from the King's palace, who are ordered to accompany the pro ductiene oat by their eoYereign." THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. LONDON GAZE VTE—This Evening. FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 4. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Victor Shakery as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of Costa Eica. WHITEHALL, JAN. 5. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. Henry Longuovillo Manse], 8.D., the office and place of Regius Professor in Ecclesiastical History in the Univer sity of Oxford, iu the room of Walter Waddington Shirley, D.D., deceased. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 8. Royal Regiment of Artillery_ L ieutenant -Colonel and Brevet-Colonel the Hon. George Talbot Dovereux to be Colonel, vice Arthur G. Burrows, retired upon full pay ; Captain Mud Brevet-Major Charles Neville Lovell to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel the Honourable G. T. D..ivereux : Second Captain Markham Le Per Taylor fo ho Captain, vice Brevet-Major Lovell ; Second Captain Edward Keate, on the Supernumerary List, to be Captain ; Second Captain Jones Julian hmith to be Captain, vice Augustus William Juhason, who resigns ; Lieutenant Harry Adair Tracey to bo Second Captain, vice Taylor; Lieutenant Win. Strahan, to be Second Captain, vica Smith. 11)yal Engineers—The ternplrary Commissions as Lieute nants of the following Otll:ers to ba made permanent, viz.: —llirry Crokar Fox, Francis Masco.ll, John Towns end Bucknoll, John Walter Otdey, Montagu Frederick Omcnanuey, Alexander Donald &Arthur, Richard CAI ro w. BREVET. Tho honorary rank conferred upon Lieut.-Colonel J. P. Beadle, retired full-pay, Royal Engineers, which appeared in the Gazette of 17th July last has been cancollod. Brevet-Colonel James Pattlo Beadle, on the Retired Full Pay List of the Royal Engineers, to bo Major-Gene ral, the rank being honorary only. Col. Arthur G. Burrows on the Retired Full Pay List of the Royal Artillery to be Major-General, the rank being honorary only. The following officers having completed their qualify ing service in the rank of Lieutenant-Celunel, to be Colonels in the Army : Royal Artillery—Colonels John Eliot, Wm. D. Aitken, and C. a. Fuller • Lioutonant-Colonels Henry Lewis, IL P. de Teissier, C. H. Dickens, G. Moir, C. 8., Jas. Young, F. W. Swinhoe, G. E. Voyle ; Colonel George Selby ; Lieutenant-Colonels A. Macintire Thomas Hay Campbell ; Colonels John Worgan, ElwarA Wray J. G. Petrie ; Lieutenant-Colonels J. D. Woolzome, C. 8., W. S. Hatch, A. Wintle, Henry Lo Goyt B ruce , F. G. N ut hill , A. T. Cadell, and D. Gaye. Royal Engineers—R. Maclagan, J. H. Maxwell, J. D. Campbell, M. Kennedy, A. do Lisle, W. R. Dickenson, C. Scott, C. IL Hutchinson, and James Pattie Boadle, since retired on full-pay. - ADMIRALTY, JAN. 4. Mr. Alexander Brown has this day been promoted to the rank of Engine er i n h er Majesty's Fleet, with senio rity of Dec.l7, 1866. JAN. 7. Commanders John Bertie Cator, Thomas Hodgkinson, and John Crawshay Bailey have been allowed to assume the rank of Retired Captains ; and Lieutenant Henry Pres cott Bance that of Retired Commander from the Ist inst., under the provisions of her Majesty's O r d er i n C ounc il o f July 9, 1864. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The House of Congress has passed a resolution directing a committee to inquire into offences com mitted by the President by 108 Ayes to 38 Noes. This is the first step to an impeachment. The Radicals are determined to press it. The President has vetoed the Negro Suffrage B ill. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. TUESDAY, MARCU, 5. Entries for tho Liverpool Spring Cup of 200 sovs in specie . added to a handicap sweepstakes of 15 sovs each. Ono mile and a half. *John Davis, 6 yrs K. of the Fairies, 3 Duchess of Wel- Nu, 5 The Colonel, 4 ton, 4 Wellesley, 5 Russian Bee, 4 Honesty, 4 Edgba,ston, 4 Rejoinder, 3 Honestish, 3 Archimedes, 5 Harcourt, 6 * Whirligig, 9 Leap Year, 3 Bracken, 3 Caithness, 4 Foresight, 3 Skirmish, 5 Chepstow, 4 The Rock, 3 Becswing, 4 Clarice, 3 Mrs. Allan, 4 Lady Calthorpe, 4 Dulcimer, 5 *Merry Harp, 5 *Malvern, 4 Maggie, 3 Helen, 6 Ackworth, 6 John Halifax, 4 Fan, 5 King Charles, 3 Sergt. Pucquot, 4 Buckfoot, 6 Miss Williams, 4 Cora, 4 Musketeer, 5 Fby Y. Melbourne I` by Diophantus Fortunatus, 4 —Doralice, 3 out of Kite, 3 Hawkswell, 4 Sweet Houle, 3 Broadlands, 3 Proserpine, 4 Red Wine, 3 Lozenge, 5, Steamboat, 4 'Paeans, 4 Wandering Min- Numa Pompilius, 3 Izaak Walton, 4 strel, 6 Those horses marked thus (*) having been entered without the knowledge of their owners, will be struck out at the time prescribed, unless specially ordered to re main in. BATH AND SOMERSET MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Nominations for the Somersotshire Stakes. Sydmonton, 5 yrs Pirate Chief, 3 Buckfoot, 6 Nu, 5 Terror, 4 Monitress, 4 Greenback 3 Lady Bugle Eye, 3 Salim, 4 Apsley, 4 Lecturer, 4 Killaloe, 3 Claverhouso, 4 John Davis, G Whirligig, 3 Primrose, 3 The Duke, 5 Duet, 4 East Lancashire, a Gomera, 5 Salpinctes, 5 Bedouin, a Ischia, 4 Chilbolton, 4 Mischief, 4 Roso Cheri, 4 Clarice f, 3 Steamboat, 4 Whalebone, 4 Priority, 3 The Rescue, 3 Lady Rose, 3 Flatcatcher, 4 Beeswing, 4 Charles 11., 3 Edgbaston, 4 Gilead, 3 Sis. to Vedette, 3 My Love, 3 Honeymoon, 4 Freemason, 3 Douro, 4 Attack colt, 3 Seringapatam, 3 Pintail, 6 Pepper's Ghost, 4 Special, 4 Cranford, 4 Tribune, 4 Stud, 3 Stokeley, 3 Mirella, 4 Dunsany, 5 *Archimedes, 5 Manoeuvre filly 3 Friday, 5 *Elland, 5 Retrousse, 4 Othello, 4 *Tacitus, 4 Tormentor, 4 Seatnevr, 3 Redmire, 5 Lord 11. Thynne is a subscriber, but did not name. Those horses marked thus (•) haying been entered with out the knowledge of their owners, will bo struck out at the thus prescribed, unless specially ordered to remain iu. MANCHESTER MEETING. These races, which were postponed on account of the frost, are fixed for Friday and Saturday next, the 11th and 12th instant. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1867. FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring H arrow MA 011. Liverp00l Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 Lewes Spring West Drayton l9 Croton Park Bromley Northampton Windsor Spring 4 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6 Newmarket Craven 8 Curragh - - I Thi rs k Durham .. 22 Newmarket ]st Spring 22 Catterick Chester :AY. Chester (continued) 1 York Spring 7 Salisbury Doncaster Spring Bath . l4 itarpenden Epsom Summer Newton 29 Croydon Ascot Summer 4 Windsor Summer Manchester Summer Hampton l3 Odiham l7 Bibury Club lB IStockbridge l9 Chelmsford No wcastlo • .. 25 Curragh Worcester S ummer 27 Ipswich 27 'L Y. Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading Liverpool July Meeting 10 Hungerford Nottingham July Down Royal Corporatn l7 Stamford Huntingdon 23 Winchester Southampton Gaodwood . 3U Goodwood (continued). -- I Ripon Brighton •• 6 Brighton Club 8 Lowes Egham ..... l3 Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford ..... 15 Hastings SEPT Warwick ___ 3 Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon 5 Doncaster York August Dover West Drayton 22 Plymouth ..... 23 Canterbury Lichfield Derby Summer Weymouth Tunbridge MBER. Richmond l7 llendon l9 Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2O Newmarket Ist October 24 Walsall UST. COURSE OF EXCHAN GE. —This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 15i Ditto 3 Months. 11 18i Rotterdam 25 35 25 35 13 8 . 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