The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

M'NFIY DIARKET AND allvlE ROI'. , TWELVE o'CLoclc. Biddings for bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of England. The proportions allotted were—to Calcutta, 19.86.300 rs. (£198,630) ; to Madras, 13.700 rs. (£1,370) ; and to Bombay, 15.38.51)0 rs. (Y. 153,850). The minimum price was fixed at Is. PiN. on all the presidencies. Tenders on Calcutta and Madras at ls. 100. will receive about 65 per cent., those above in full, and on Bombay at ls. 100. and upwards in full. The Green Fruit Market has been dull since Christmas, and prices for oranges lower ; some par cels of St. Michael's, Terceira, Valencia, and Sicily, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, went at easier rates. Lemons of good quality support their value, stock being lighter than usual. Nuts of all kinds in moderate demand, without alteration in price. Seville sours have arrived, for which there is Some inquiry. Business was resumed yesterday in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets after the Christmas holidays, but the unfavourable weather caused a very limited attendance, and the operations in most of the principal staples were of a very restricted character. Sugar was in steady request at full values, while moderate transactions were effected in coffee at previous rates. Tea and rice; however, were neglected, and quotations were nominally un altered. For cotton there was a better demand, but tallow remained inactive, and quotations gene rally tended downwards in all positions. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures are firm at 50 52, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 40 41. The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : Great Western North Western South Western Brighton Midland South Eastern Great Northern 1866. 1865. 62,304 60,878 111,002 106,385 22,484 18,883 22,437 18,530 52,331 54,136 23,661 22,636 32,454 30,097 Lancashire and Yorkshire 46,378 42,202 Bristol and Exeter 5,691 .._ North Eastern— 7_0,209 70,132 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 22,587 21,564 Great Eastern London, Chatham, and Dover 9,428 8,206 These returns, when comparel with those of the corresponding week in the previous year, are gene rally of a very satisfactory character. On the Great Western there is an increase of £1,426 ; North Western, £4,617; South Western, £3,601 ; Brigh ton, £3,857; South Eastern, £1,025 Great North ern, £2,357 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, £4,176 ; Bristol and Exeter, £448 ; North Eastern, £77 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, £1,023 ; Great Eastern, £2,502 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, £1,222. On the Midland there is a decrease of £1,805. Two O'CLOCK. Very little business has taken place in the Stock Exchange markets, but sales having been pressed, the movement is unfavourable. Railways espe cially have been depressed. Foreign bonds are lower, and English Government securities are rather less buoyant ; Consols, however, are still 90s I for money and the 10th inst. For the Feb ruary settlement the present price is 900 I, a de• cline of k per cent. in the rates of continuation. The New Threes are 89i I ; Reduced Annuities, 89k 4 ; Bank of England Stock, 2481 ; India 5 per Cents., 107 k ; and ditto Eufaced 5 per Cents., 101. In the Foreign Market the changes have been merely fractional. Greek have declined I, to 14i 5 1 - 1 ; Spanish Passive, to 20i 21 ; the Certificates, to 14 i; and Turkish 5 per Cents., I, to 32k I, while Mexican advanced k, to 17i 181; and Italian, k, to 524 53. The New Russian Loan is still firm at 1 prem. America.'" Securities are steady. United States 5-20 Bonds are 731 ; Erie, 46 ; and Illinois, 82 In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been to a fair extent. Great Eastern, Great Northern A Stock, Lancashire and Yorkshire, London, Chatham, and Dover and Midland have each improved 1 ; while Great Western, North Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, have declined 1, and Brighton, 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without material alteration. Bahia and San Francisco are marked 13 ; Great Luxembourg 12/ ; San Paulo, 131 ; East Indian, 1041 105 ; and Grand Trunk of Canada, at 191 201. Bank Shares continue dull. Alliance are dealt in at 191; City Bank at 15/ ; Imperial Ottoman have declined to 8/ a ; and Union of London im proved to 44/ 451. Miscellaneous and Finance shares are in fair re quest, and generally at steady rates. Anglo-Ameri can Telegraph are marked 151 16 ; City of Moscow Gas, 17/ 18 ; Hudson's Bay Company, 16/ ; Na tional Discount Company, 141 15 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 651; and Crystal Palace Stock, 3031. MINING MARKET. THURSDAY, Two o'Clock. Business in the Mining Exchange has continued very animated, and prices generally tend upwards. The shares chiefly in request are West Chiverton, West Frances, Great Retallac,k, Grenville, East Grenville, lJny, Trelamny, Tincroft, Providence, North Roskear, Cooks' Kitchen, and North Crofty. Subjoined are the annexed current quotations : Chiverton Moor, 4i 54 ; Chou:ales Gold, 24 3 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 81 91 ; East Basset, 21 22 ; East Caradon, 64 6; East Lovell, 81 94; East Wheal Grenville, 24 4 ; Great Thtallack, 23s Od 26s Od ; Great Wheal Vor, 17 174 ; Marke Valley, 41 1; North Crofty, 4 4 ; North Treskerby, 21 3 ; Prince of Wales, 26s Od 27s 6d ; Prosper United, 3 4 4; Providence Mines, 28 30 ; South Condurrow, 12s 148; South Grenville, 7s Oct 9s Od ; Tincroft, 14 15 ; West Caradon, 124 134; West Chiverton, 54 56 ; West Frances, 1517'1; West Seton, 125 30; Wheal Buller, 224 25; Wheal Chiverton, 64 7 ; Wheal CrAor, --s —s; Wheal Grenville, 28s Od 30s; Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seton, 140 145 ; Wheal Trelawney, 10 12 ; Wheal Uny, 2 21 ; Cara Camborne, 14 11 ; Central Minera, ——; Cooks' Kitchen, 10 11 ; East Cern Broa, 24 3 ; Great Lazey, 17 17 1 ; Great South Tolgus, 12s 6d 17s 6d; South Frances, 21 23; St. Ives Consols, —; South Caradon, —; Stray Park, 24 3. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. UCVERNRENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cent. Consols Do. Acc oun t , Jan.lo 4 3 per Ce n t . R educed 94 4 New 3 per Cent 8 94 * 4 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for .30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent ll pm Do £5OO lf - Do £lOO & £2OO tt —pm Bank of England Stock, 64 per Cent ... 2484 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874... Shut. Ditto for Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 54 per Cent., May 1879 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 por Cent., £l,OOO • pm De under £l,OOO pm FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent . Do. 41 per Cent., 18a2-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1863 Do Account Do. £lOO Bonds 13 ten us Ayres t; per Cent — Do. A ~!count. Do il.OO Bonds -- D ) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) ',.i.i.in 6 per Cent lOO Do. 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A — D o . ~ B - , C , lomoian, 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Unnish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 5 pe r C ent., 864 ... .',nubian Principalities Equatioi• New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., p i ,, v i s i onal Land W arrant — Do Deferied E.;yptial t 7 per Cent — Do., Se con d I ssue — lip £lOO Bonds . 86 De. 1861 824 no 41t),1 Bonds — (Do. Gosi - 4.1m, cut Rail way Debentures 791 : `l; 5 per Cents.. 1824-5. ex Coupons -ou. Cutiputi,J 'O. Accout 70i 1 i Guatemala 5 per Cont. _ It9lian 5 per Cent 1865 Do, Account , _ l)o. Maremmana Railway — 'exican - 3 per Cent Do. Account P'. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Sl.ontevidean 6 por Cont Nloorisl) Imperial 5 per Cent ow Granada l3i Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferred Do Laud Jarrants (Hectares) oruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 i Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cont., 1862 Do Account Portsguese 3 per Cent., 1853 , o Account Do 3 per Cont., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3. Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B6. Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1861 BB4 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all pail B6i Do. do. £lO paid — 3ardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred — Do Account - Do Passive — Do Account 2l } Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account l4 Swedish 4 per Cent. Do. 41 per Cont. 1864 Do. Scrip, £6O paid Uurlcish 6 per Cont. 1854 Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds - Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 521 2} 31 Do £lOO Bonds , Do Account 53 Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account dig 32~ } Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOO Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account ')o. 6 per Cent, 1864 — Ditto 11 per Cent. — Dividenas on the above payable in Lout., Austrian, b pm- Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. thiitu. 3 per Cent. 1831. Ex. 251. •—• Do. 5 por Cont. Amour... THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 9CI Do. Account, Jan. Is American Commerce t ) be Extinguished / Under the above headitTg the New York Times of Dec. 17 writes as follows : " One of the most striking passages in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury is that in which ho demonstrates the effect of high duties upon raw material in diminishing and almost destroying our once important business of ship and steamer building. He shows that though formerly a first class commercial Power, and apparently destined soon to lead the commerce of the world, we have during the last six years been steadily falling behind Great Britain, and if the diminution of our ship building and carrying trade goes on at the present rates (of some 50 per cent. in six years) we shall before long cease to be a commercial Power of any importance. These serious facts are confirmed by figures showing the decrease in American tonnage from this country, and the increase in English em ployed in our port, such as the following :—Th e tonnage of American vessels engaged in the foreign carrying trade which entered United States' ports was—in 1860, 5,921,285 tons ; in 1865, 2,943,661 tons ; in 1866, 3,372,060 tons. The tonnage of such vessels which were cleared from the United States was—in 1860, 6,165,924 tons ; in. 1865, 3,025,134 tons; in 1866, 3,383,176 tons. The tonnage of foreign vessels which entered our ports was—in 1860, 2,353,911 tons ;in 1865, 3,216,967 tons ;in 1866, 4,410,424 tons. The tonnage of foreign vessels which were cleared was—in 1860, 2,624,005 tons ; in 1865, 3,595,123 tons; in 1866, 4,438,381 tons. These statements have been strengthened by a fact which has called forth some public remark within a day or two—the approach ing sales of two steamers of the Havre line, they being apparently the last American steamers on any great line between New York and Europe. So ends our expected great commerce in American built ocean steamers. Great Britain has a vast fleet of iron commercial steamers plying over every sea, built so cheaply and ingeniously as to drive out all competition. In the grand business struggle of nearly a century to get possession of or to lead the com merce of the ocean, the United States, that seemed once on the point of victory, must now own to defeat. She is not only a commercial Power, second to Great Britain, but she seems destined to still fur ther inferiority, and to be almost driven from the seas. The explanation of this mortifying defeat is not to be found alone in cheap labour, for labour was cheaper in Great Britain 25 years ago than now, and the difference between what wages will buy in the two countries is not so great as it was a few years since. The difficulty is the same as that which is gradually taking our machine manufacture from us, so that machines for South America, for instance, which used to be ordered in New York, are now made in England. It is said that even river steamboats will soon be plying on our waters which were manufactured in Great Britain, because with all the duties they can be made so much cheaper there. This, as Mr. M'Culloch wisely remarks, is a direct effect of the high protective system, especially as applied to raw material. It must be remembered that such a tariff as we have now weighs upon every article which the manufacturer uses—his iron, brass, steel, wood, coal, and tools ; and he not only has to compete with the cheaper labour of England, which he might do with the aid of ingenuity, but he has to work on raw pro ducts which are all far dearer than in England, owing to our exorbitant duties. More than this, the, effect of such a high bounty as the present tariff offers, is to encourage, with the American producers of the raw material, a carelessness, extravagance, and want of business prudence and saving which gradually render their production more expensive. -There is nothing which stimulates economy, inge nuity, invention, and care like open competition. The moment Government comes in to back up an interest with excessive duties it becomes wasteful, and soon loses the watchful care which before made it successful. We have no doubt there is something of this effect of very high duties even on our manufac turers as well as our producers of coal and iron. It must be borne in mind also that the expenses of the labourers are greater under the high duties upon raw materials, and of course their wages must be greater, and thus the cost of manufacturing be increased. Our ingenuity, even under a revenue tariff, enabled us formerly with dearer labour to compete with Great Britain in shipbuilding and in many articles of manufacture. It will again, if the immoderately heavy duties on raw materials be removed, and pro duction of manufactures be thus cheapened, and in dividual expenses so be diminished. This country is especially adapted to be a great commercial country. Its forests of pines and oak, its mines of iron and coal, its countless bays and harbour; the hardy men on the coasts trained to the sea, its connection in trade with so many countries, and the new link now forming between the East and Eu rope over California and the Isthmus all show that if no false system be adopted, we shall become gradually and naturally the great carrier of the world's produce, and take the place which Venice and Holland had once, and Great Britain holds now. But if, on the other hand, our commerce be destroyed by our own suicidal policy, by a fatal mistake in political economy, we may in our youth lose that which we can never regain in our maturity, and the trade of the world pass out of our hands, and become merely a wealthy China, where agriculture alone shall be the profitable pursuit, and manufactures and commerce be left to foreign hands. Commerce is the great libe raliser and civiliser of a people. It brings a na tion in contact with foreigners ; it is the best school for a navy ; it prepares us for what is our only danger in the future—a naval war. We must always export our raw produce largely and import luxuries, and we ought not to lose the vast profits of the carriage. The American commerce of a century to come may depend on the revenue and protective system we now establish. Let Congress see to it that it be a wise and liberal one. 5,213 THE SUN, LONLON, THURSoAY liv ENING, JANUARY 3 18b7. SHARE MARKETS,—This day. inDIAARY SHARES AND STOCKS. ;Bristol and Exeter .... !Caledonian ... C.inibrian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June , & Ab. June I E.London, Certi , 86 418 123 25 40 45 ,s 7 124 4 6 C 5 63 70 72, Glas , .ow dr S. Western I Great Eastern, Urd. a Lic.l Do. E. Angl. et. No. 2 Great North of Scotland , U teat Northern Do. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, Is. at 25 pa, G t S, and W. of Ireland Western -Original Dc , . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Alid.—Oxtorh 16 .18 So 31 5 6 1.9 121 127 126 9O 02 1 511 slf 32 35 32 3. Do. Newport Do. II ereford 1 Lanolshire Yorkshire London and Blackwa4 Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. do North Western Lon. & South Western Man., 8110., & Lincoln Do. New t3O 132 E 7 16i I6i 1J to 122 122 t 3 kis .t. 4 65 26 127 2ta 10 1 1 64 88 Do. Extension...... sletropolitan District. do. do. Uo. and St. Johu'slrd lid and Do. .£9 Share 0.3 123i 1 2.p l 92 di Do, liirmin.. & Derby l .lid lient North British Do. Ed., Yth., & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. t).N•E punt's,. Do. Leeds Do. York Du. Carlisle 37 3S 4 18 107 1,9 66 67 100 102 Po. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 :North London .. Do. do. 1861 5 . Do. to. 1866 . North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Ccntral Soot. N. E Aber. stock uo. Scot, slid. stick Shropshire Union iouth Devon south E,stern itaines, Wok., & Wok raft' Vale Do. C Vale or Neath 34 Z 6 9 10 p 110 120 1 2p 1 2p l 70 72 114 118 148 152 46 48 07 68 8 9 150 253 3 4, Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitcha •Vest Cornwatl 130 i 55 f 121 1 11 Cgi 1 i Railways. i r e d ) Closing Business Prise. I done. 1 20 1 i i i 30 1 130 1 13 71 81 161 1 1211 21 1 810 4, 841 31 Iz7l 7 1 tittITISII t' Atlantic St. Lawrence Rom., Baroda, .%; Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. 1' shares itutrato & Lake Huron Do. Preference Bu 1., Brant, Goderich 6 p c. Calcutta & S. E., lim a. e Town & Dock, gu Oemerarn, 7 p.c. per. p lien_al, gu., 5 do East I aim., gu. 5 p.c. Do. .) Extension I and r rank ot Utuad Do. Evip. Mort, Bonds 1 eh true 6 p.c Do. .st -'ref. Bonds , o. do deterred ... Lle. 2d en t. Bonus ou. do. deterred Jo. :id Pref. Btock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deterred t. ludia Pea. gua. 'o. Gua. 5 per cent I Do. New gua. 5 p. c.. Ut.South of India qua. 5 per cent ...... I D 4f per cent.... Do . reat Wes. of Canada.. Do. New ...... Do. 6p. Bus. pay 1873 Jo. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 11 do Do. 4; do Do. Filth Extension \felb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. llel. & Hudson's Bay N. It I.C'da, 6pc Istpf.bs , Scinde ro Do. Delhi Do. do l .l Do. Puniaub.... Do.lndus St.lelot " COLONIAL GO VEIL British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1572.... tian.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.,t July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. a. Mar. & Sept I Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July 1)o. 5 p c. Inscribed sk jags Hope, 6 p.c. 167. Do.Apl.&oo • 1890-1900 IDo. do 1680-90 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and i 5 VCt., 1900 !Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, do Alauritlus, p. C, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 17,78 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov..:. Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal , oov. o per cent N.8.G0v.6p.c.Ja.&.1 N. 6.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866 1 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 187,,, Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 18931 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Sc ,tia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c. 6. Aus.GOV. 6 p,o 1868-0 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,tiov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do, do, April & Oct ,SIONS. 56 58 102 103 id ip 4 16 7i Bf} 50 55 10, 103 tOt IG3 10) 106 IS 20 85 88 57 59 50 54 50 51 37 10 23 25 106 107 1 pl 6 I c, 100 102 91 93 111 12} 1: 12) F 8 Sl2 8t 6 4 It li.t 162 IU3 92 H . 65 90 82 65 9d 101 97 98 11 id 98 99 'MINT SECU 93 94 90 02 90 92 77 78 75 7 7 lu4 103 105 102 104 104 106 88 ?0 ICO 102 1(4 ItAl 105 107 104 LOB 105 107 11.6 108 96 10 0 95 9 2 90 92 90 95 8S 87 98 100 84 86 96 9 5 92 91 100 108 103 104 POLICE INTELLIGENOE.--Ths Day. MANSION-HOUSE. OBTAINING UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF GOODS.—Joseph Cohn, who is an assistant to his father, a rag merchant in the neighbourhood of Commercial-road East, was brought up on remand before the Lord Mayor, charged with un lawfully obtaining possession of three bales of wool, the property of Messrs. Gooch and Cousens, of Aldgate East., Mr. Vallence, solicitor, attended for the prosecutors, and Mr. C. Sleigh, barrister, for the prisoner. From the evidence, it appeared that about the middle of November the prisoner came to the premises of a car pro prietor, named Harris, in Bishopsgate-street, and hired a cab, and went with the driver to Houndsditch. He desired him to stop near Aldgato Church. He sent him away for some time, and when he (the driver) returned he found the bags of wool in the car. The prisoner drove away so rapidly that he could not pack them, and when they came to Commercial-street the prisoner took him into a public house and gave him sonic beer, the hire of the car, and sixpence for himself. In the meantime the wool had been removed. There were two other charges against the prisoner of having had other bags of wool from tho prosecutors ; and in one case he told the driver of the car to drive to Com• mercial-street and wait for him there, and that if anybody asked him what he had got, to say he did not know. The prisoner overtook him, and told him to drive to Went worth-street, and he stop Fed at a house there by his direction. He saw the wool removed to a ware house underground, and the prisoner told him not to say anything about the matter. The whole property obtained by the prisoner amounted to 14 bags of wool, and at the dates when he got posses sion of them the prosecutor's had not received any orders to supply them to any of their customers. Mr. Valiance asked for a remand, in order to procure further evidence. Mr. Sleigh did not oppose the remand, but applied to his lordship to admit the prisoner to bail, on responsible security. The possession of the property by the prisoner was not denied, but there was - no evidence upon which a jury could convict him of felony. His Lordship refused the application, and the prisoner was remanded till to-morrow week. THAMES. A TREMENDOUS Row.—ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.-Some Scotchmen, named Andrew Graham, also called Captain Graham, John Aitkin, Archibald Shore, and Hugh Fer guson, were brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being drunk and disorderly this morning, at 2 o'clock, in 3road-street, Ratcliff, and with violently assaulting three police-constables, named Slingsby, Thearing, and Webster, of the K division. It appeared that the prisoners were intoxicated and making a noise in Broad-street, and were desired by Slingsby to go home. They refused to do so, and he at tempted to remove them. They made a violent resistance, and Shore struck the constable on the mouth and caused it to bleed. Graham, who was the ringleader, instigated Aitkin and Shore to attack tha policeman, and they did so. Slingsby threw off his cape and pursued Shore, who ran some distance and was overtaken at the bottom of Gould's hill, Shadwell, when he threw the constable. Another constable, named Thearing, came to the aid of Slingsby, and was knocked down by Ferguson. An up and down fight took place between Thearing and Ferguson. The S3otchman used his fists and legs pretty freely, and knocked down the constable three times. Thearing re turned the blows with his staff, and broke Ferguson's head. There was a large surgical plaster on Ferguson's head ; there was no doubt he had suffered much. Webster 441 K, saw Ferguson and Thearing rolling in the snow, the former under, and they looked very much like ghosts when they were separated. Robert Nash, watchman at a coal wharf in Ratcliff, went to the assistance of the police, and] the prisoners were all captured. Nash was asked by the magistrate if the police had used any unnecessary violence, and ho answered in the negatiTe. The police-constables were severely beaten by three of the prisoners. Mr. Partridge—What are these men ? Inspector Griffin—They are all seamen, I believe, and have been recently paid off. • • Mr. Partridge had no doubt about this case, and he should make no distinction with the prisoners. Graham was a captain, and aiding and abetting the others and instigating them to beat the police. As to Ferguson, he believed all he had received he richly deserved. He fined the pri soners £5 each.. The penalties were paid. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. VIOLENT AsSAULT.—A NOVEL WEAPON.—Johannah Collins, the wife of a greengrocer in Grosvenor-mews, was charged with violently assaulting Benjamin Jones, a respectable-poking man, residing in Little Grosvenor street. The complainant said that he went into the Hereford Arms, Little Grosvenor-street, where the defendant came in, and called him a "- Welshman." In return he called her "Irish," and she then abused him and followed him into the parlour, knocked him down under the grate, took up a spittoon and struck him on the head severely, cutting it, and causing him to lose a great deal of blood, and she fell on the top of him and tried to bite his nose. She stated that it was all through her husband, the fact being that he had once protected him from her violence, she being a most violent woman, and having turned her husband and children out of the house. A young man, named James Harwood, gave similar evidence, adding that the complainant's head was badly cut, and bled a great deal, and that on going to St. George's Hospital with the complainant to have his head dressed, the surgeon said his he was dangerously cut. The defendant was knnwn as a violent woman. The magistrate said he had no doubt the defendant was a violent and brutal woman. He should order her to find two sureties in £3O, and keep the peace for six months, and perhaps that would have the effect of controlling her temper. ARKE TS. —This day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a very poor show of beasts on sale here to day. Although the demand was not to say active, the extreme prices of Monday were realised in every instance. The supply of sheep was limited, and sales progressed steadily on former terms. The best downs and half-breed realised Ge 4d per Blbs. The quality of the sheep was good. Calves sold at very full prices, with a limited num ber on offer. Pigs commanded rather more attention, at full quotations, to a slight advance. Per 81b to sink the offal. s de d Crse & inf. beasts... 3 8 3 :0 Second quality do ..4 0 4 s Prime large oxen ..4 10 5 2 Prime Soots, &c.... 5 4 5 6 Crse. and inf. sheep. 3 6 4 0 Second quality do ..4 2 4 i 0 dsd Pme ors-wool sheep 5 0 5 8 Prime ,'thdown ao 5 :0 6 4 Large ooirse ealres.4 6 5 4 Prime small d0......5 6 5 8 Large hogs .3 6 4 0 Small porkers 4 2 4 6 Lamb....6i Od to o' , Od. - - Suckling calves, 1.93 to 228; and quarter-old store pigs, 21s to 268 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 712 Beasts 212 Cows .... Cows. Sheep and lambs 2,q)o Sheep and lambs Calves 9l Ca ves 56 Pigs ...... 31,0 Pigs 2O MEAT. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.—Owing to the severity of the weather very little moat has arrived fresh up to-day The trade is inactive, yet high prices are demanded Beef, 3s 4d to bs Od ; mutton, 3s Gd to 5s Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d; and pork, 8s Gd to 4s 8d per 81b by the caroaso. Mi. Bright and the " Fortnightly Review." TO "HE EDITOR or THE SIN. Sin,—Since my arrival in town this afternoon I have seen the correspondence headed " Mr. Bright and the Fortnightly Review," published in The Sun of to-day, and I should be obliged if you would insert at your earliest convenience the following letter relating to it.—Your obedient servant, HENRY D. SEYMOUR. P.S. I never heard of Mr. Jacob Bright's letter of the 19th of December till the 29th of December, and I wrote my letter to Mr. Bright and sent it to the editor of the Fortnightly Review on the 30th of December. Athenaeum Club, Jan. 2. Knoyle, Salisbury, Dec. 30, 1866. My dear Bright,—As 1 am informed that your brother, Mr. Jacob Bright, has been writing to Mr. Morley, the editor of the Fortnightly Review, complaining of an inaccu racy in an article in which one of your speeches was mis quoted, and requiring to know the author's name, I write this letter to inform you that I wrote that portion of the article which relates to English affairs, and in which the error complained of was made. lam always prepared to accept the responsibility of what I write, and had you expressed a wish to know the name of the writer of the article in question, no doubt Mr. Morley would, after consultation with me, have sent it to you without delay. As Mr. Jacob Bright had no kind of right to ask for it I think Mr. Morley acted properly in refusing it. I don't know whether you yourself ever saw the article in ques tion, and I will, therefore, mention that it is the Public Affairs article of Nov. 1. An apology has been inserted in the January number of the Review, and 1 have directed a number of it to be sent to you at the Reform Club. I beg again to apologise for the mistake, and to assure you that you were not intentionally misquoted. At the same time, I must say that I believe your statement, that half the land in England and Scotland is in the hands of 150 and 12 proprietors respectively, is incorrect, but as yougive no authority for so important a declaration it is impossible to point out whore the error lies. That there should have been any mistake I deeply regret, although it did not affect my argument. lam ono of the many members of the Li beral party who, admiring your oratorical genius, and fully admitting the public benefits which you have in many re spects conferred on the country during your long career, must respectfully beg to differ from you as to the sudden and sweeping changes which, to judge from your speeches, you would wish to introduce into our laws and constitu tion. Earnestly hoping that you may so temper your acts and speeches as to render it possible for moderate men to agree with and support you.—l remain, yours truly, RENRY D. SEYMOUR. J. Bright, Esq. HAY. SaiITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 5s to £4 ss; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load. Supply limited. CUMBERLAND.—Mcadow hay, £3 5s to £4 8s Od; clover, £4 Os to £5 12s ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load. Very little doing either in hay or straw. WIIITEMAPn.—Meadow bay, £3 5s to £4 5s ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, .£1 168 to £2 4s por load. A. short supply. COLONIAL, TEA.,—The market is very quiet, and prices remain un altered. SUGAIL—A small amount of business has been done in West India, at full prices. COFFEE.—There was a moderate inquiry for superior descriptions, but the dealings were only to a limited extent, at fully previous rates. RICE.—No business of importance has been done. Quo tations, however, remain steady, TALLOW.—The Market is fiat. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted—new, 44s 6d ; March 44s 3d ; and April to June, 44s 9d 55s per cwt. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at thio close of the market. s. d. Walls End Haswell.., 22 0 Hetton Lyons .......• 1 9 3 0 Ke11cu~............... . .. 21 Walls End Hettou ... 22 0 East llartlepsol ...... 21 9 Eden Main ............ 19 9 Ships at market, 5 8—sold. 40. s. d Harton l9 8 W r ylam Cassop Peusher Primrose South ilettou THE LATE TRADES' REFORM DEMONSTRATION. — On Tuesday evening a special meeting of the Executive Council of the Working Men's Association was held—Mr. G. Potter in the chair—to consider the propriety of taking legal proceedings against the lessee of the .A.shburnham Grounds for breach of contract and special damages, con sequent upon his refusal to allow the reform meeting to be held on the above ground on the ad December last. It was unanimously resolved that the solicitor of the association be instructed to commence an action forthwith, and to claim special damages. A resolution was also adopted, to be submitted to the next trades' delegate meeting, for keeping the present trades' organisation intact pending the coming session of Parlitunelit• The committee then ad journed. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. SIR, —May I beg you to insert the following let ter, which, I may add, was written and despatched before I was aware that the previous correspondence was already before the public?—Yours obediently, 193, Piccadilly, W., Jan. 2. J. MORLEY. Jan. 1. My dear Sir—l have been out of town, so I hope you will acquit me of any discourtesy in neglecting your let ters. The letter for the writer of the article shall be for warded as you desire. The writer declines to acknowledge our right to know his name, but, in order to show that he is not desirous to shelter himself behind the shield of ano nymity, he has written a letter to Mr. John Bright himself —a letter which I am forwarding to the Reform Club by this post.—Believe me, dear Sir, yours very truly, Jacob Bright, Esq. JOHN MoRLEY. FEES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The fee on filing a petition or other document or private bill in the House of Commons is .£5, and £l5 on each of the three readings, as also on the report of the committee. Out of the 317 bills for next session one house has 74. CATTLE AND SHEEP.—According to an agricul tural document just issued there were in the year 1866 in the United Kingdom a stock of cattle in number 8,716,276, and of sheep, 26,375,993. Sir Henry Paulet and Mr. John Morant are can didates for the office of verderer of the New Forest, vacant by the death of Mr. IL C. Compton. The election takes place at Winchester. The voters are freeholders of Hamp shire, and the poll may be kept open 14 days. SIR WALTER SCOTT AND HIS ADMIRERS.—When Sir Walter was first known to be in money troubles, it was remarked that if every one who had taken pleasure in his writings would but give him sixpence he would b 3 the richest man in England. REFORM DEBATE IN EDINBURGH.—The discus sion between Professor Blackie and Mr. Ernest Jones is appointed to take place in Edinburgh on the evenings of the 3d and 4th proximo. TROUT FISHING.—In the dark water by the side of the rock must be my first cast. With a lift of the arm and a turn of the wrist, the top of the rod bends slightly behind me ; the long line makes a circle through the air, flies forward, unfolding its long length as it de scends, and the red-tail fly drops like thistle-down upon the water. It hardly alights before it goes down, down, down, and then the line runs rapidly, cutting the water up the stream. I have hooked a trout now, and no mistake. The resistance which followed when I struck, the fly taken down under the water, and now the mad violence with which he rushes away, show me that he is a good one. Now everything depends upon the manner in which he is hooked, the temper of the Limerick hook, the strength of the gut, and—the skill of the fisherman. If you doubt the latter, look at that tyro, with all his neat, expensive, and scientific appointments. Look at him where he stands, with his eyes open and "rabbit mouth agape," beholding his line float back to him again, minus flies, casting line, and a fathom off its point, as with a rush and a swirl that big fish, which was his quasi-captive for a minute, breaks away unharmed. " Bad line, sir I rotten gut ! I barely touched him, that is all." Very possibly, sir, but that may not be all. We know the old proverb of a workman and his tools. Do not think me cynical ; it has happened to myself before now ; but be satisfied that a large trout will not be caught if he can help it. But I have had this one on long enough to understand that he is hooked well and firmly ; at all events, long enough to know that there is nothing wrong with the line or collar. They would have gone when I first struck if they meant to go; and now he is swimming deep in the middle of the rapids, with his head up the stream. That will never do. He will swim on there for half an hour that way and be none the worse. It is his natural direction; se I wheel up my line slowly, with my rod nearly bent double, drawing him to the edge of the stream, and turning his head round as 1 draw, get him into smoother water, and immediately he is off and down he rushes, making the reel whiz again as he carries out the line. The instant that I dare I give him a check, for he is drawing near the fall, and if he once goes, good-bye top of the rod and line and trout. It is only just in time, he runs back again, and I wheel up again as fast as I can, for a slack line would be fatal. Will it be ? He will try directly, after a rush or turn up and down, making less distance and rising higher in the water every time, so that I get an occasional glimpse of his great tail and dark track above the surface ; he fairly leaps clean out of it, and shows the goodly dimensions of a two-pound trout, if ever I saw one, and now unless my line is slack he breaks it, for he throws himself right upon the top of it as he comes down. Yes, but I was up to that dodge, and as he sprang up out of the water, down went the top of my rod into it, and the heavy fish falls upon the loosened bight. Up he is, and into the air again ; down goes the top into the water, and then he makes another furious rush up the stream, turns again, and I bring him easily back this time upon his side. I think that I can land him ; no, he sees me as I steal my left hand down with the short landing net towards him, and makes another struggle for liberty—nearly succeeds this time, for I did not think that there was a run left in him, and he is only just turned in time. Then he gives in ; a few short lengths run out and easily wheeled up, and I draw him towards me with his nose out of the water, my butt pointed towards it, my line tight, my elbow bent and wrist slightly turned back, left hand below the winch, right hand upon the handle, slowly and warily, till he lies motionless close beside the gravel bank, and I slip the net under him, and he is mine. Nearly two pounds and a half, beautifully spotted, with a belly as yellow as gold.— Fraser. NEW NATIONAL GALLERY.—We are requested to state that Foreign Ministers, members of the two Houses of Parliament, Royal Academicians, and the com peting architects, will, on presentation of their cards at the entrance door by the Victoria Tower in the now Palace at Westminster, be admitted'on Monday and Tuesday, the 7th and Bth inst., between 10 and 4, to view tho designs for the now National Gallery, in the Royal Gallery; and that the public will be admitted on Wednesday, the 9th inst., and the three following days, and also on the last four days of each of the two succeeding weeks. THE OLD ENGLISH NAME OF HOLLY was "Holm," or "Holm Oak," and in many parts cf England it is still known by these names ; and Holinsdale, in Surrey, and other villages whose names commence with Holm, have been derived from the abundance of hollies which once grew in their vicinities. It has been thought that the "Greenwood-tree," familiarised in the story of Robin Hood and other old English ballads of forest life, was identical with the holly. Tt grew in great abundance at Sherwood and other places in the central and northern counties.—Once a Week. What must be done to conduct a newspaper right ? Write. What is necessary to a farmer to assist him ? System. What would give a blind man the greatest de light ? Light. What is the best piece of counsel given by a jus tice of the peace ? Peace. Share 20 at 81 100 BRITISH MIN.ES. Cam. Consul. U old, 121liverton Clifford a malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist orake walls East Bassett East Caradon East Carn Brea Nast Grenville East Gunnislake Nast Loyea E. W't Russell (Tavistk /aim& StAubyn(G 7VCII. .r. at L .xey, limited rent South Tolgus ti reat Wheal is usy G. Wheal Vor heist. ,irenvilte it erod's Foot llingston Litmus Margaret ;Uny Lelant Nlarke Valley vi wyndy Iron Ore, lint Ne - ,v Sewn North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crotty i'rosser United Pr..,vidence UnyLelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan stray Park l'in Croft Vigra and Clogan, lim West :assett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard West Chi yer ton West Seton . Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Retiruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 2.1.0 204 2.14. E 34 2.14.0 3.9.0 10.8. 58 5.17.0 B 3 76 Si 5 41,5 4,5 id 20 5 8 2 3 2 3 4 9 10 2/ 21 5 6 17 16 13 16 11 11 30 32 2 , 1 31 2 4 3} 4 1 21 lid 35 45 2 4 21 3,1 24 26 300 320 ti 18 z 2 1 2 2 10 1 6 12 •4 54 56 115 :25 65 25 18 20 10 12 135 145 7 9 ritEFEILENCE SHARES. Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock, 81 Great Western, Orig. 4I per cent., 814 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Bristol and. Birm., 6 per cent., Ditto, 4i per cent. at. rd., 91 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, - - Ditto, 5 per cent.. 112 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 12i San Paulo, liui., gua. 6 per cent., 13} FOREIGN MINE% Panulelllo Copper. lim., 21 St. John del 'ley, lim., 51 BANKS. Alliance, lira., I£l Anglo Austrian, e 1 Anglo Egyptian, lira., 111 Anglo-Italian, Urn., 111 Australasia, 64 1 British North American, 46f Chartered •.ter. 01 India, London, and China.:B3l City, 151 191 Colonial, 30 English. Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 17 imperial ottoman, lira., 8/ Land Mortgage Bank or India, 11m.. Do. 5 per cent. Debentures, 1161, for 30 years, 821 London and River Plate, Ditto, issued at 11 pm., London Chartered bank of Australia, 211 Loudon and Couuty, 644 London and t estminster, 984 Mercantile and Exchange, Mu., 4 Oriental Bank Corporation, 14 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, GS) MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 16,; nglo- Mexican Mint, 15/ Atlantic Telegraph, Dit o, 8 per cent., 711 City Discount, lim, 2} City of ikloscow Gas, lim., 171 Credit i , oncler 01 11;u;:lian0, iim . 31 Crystal I'alace,,aol 30 E glish and Australian Copper Gen. Credit and Finance 01 I,ouu - Jll, 111 n— 4 1 Hudson's Bay, 6 I Imperial Laud Company of Marseilles, lim., 2i International Financial society, Land Securities, I;m., 21 London LieneraiOnanibus Company, Um, hi 3 Nr.tional Discount Company, 14 . Peninsula and Orenial £team , 05 RESULTS OF THE LATE STAR SHOWER.--It is of course impossible to say at present what data this shower will add to meteoric scieuee when the various observa tions come to bo discussed and analysed, The results it has already yielded are chiefly the verification, to a certain extent, of Professor Newton's calculations, the fixation, as closely as possible, of the position of the radiant point of the November shower, and the relative thickness of the Meteoric cloud at various p Dints in the section cut through by the earth, as shown by the variations iu the average numbers of meteors occurring per minute throughout the time vt the display.—Th Gentlonata's atapzine. 1O ii 51 201 191 .ITIJ . Q}} 31 AQUATIC?. LETTER FROM HAMILL. The Newcastle Chronicle prints a letter which has been received by. Mr. Brown, of the Blenheim, Newcastle. Though emanating from and signed by both, it is written by John, in that free, open, and candid manner so charac teristic of him, and which won him so many friends when here. The latter will be glad to hear that both brothers aro doing well, and that John has now fairly settled down to work again, after the excitement attending their visit to England. By letters and papers kindly forwarded to them by Mr. Brown, they were informed of the victory of Cham bers in his recent race with Sadler, which, as may readily be imagined, set the whole family rejoicing. In fact, wo may say that nearly all Pittsburg, where Bob's name has now become as " familiar as a household word," was in a state of jubilancy on the receipt of the news. So elated, indeed, was Hamill's family, that their sister met John at the gate of their house, as ho was coining in from work, and shouted "Hurrah for Chambers !" by which, John says, ho knew that all was right., and that Bob had won. He seems to have anticipated the decision come to by Chambers subsequent to the match in question, for he hopes now that we have got the champanionship once more on the Tyne, Bob will not go from home again, but that, should he row again, he wilt insist that any one wanting to compete for the supremacy should come to the Tyne to measure blades with him. James Hamill, it appears, has not done anything in the rowing way since he wont home, but ho has accepted a challenge from Walter Brown, who recently beat Joshua Ward (James's old antagonist), and was in turn beaten by him, to row in the spring ; and then it further appears that the said Walter Brown intends challenging the winner of the race on the Thames, which of course means Chambers, and by the tenour of the letter it would seem that he wishes Chambers to go to America for that purpose. In the event of either Bob or any other man going from the Tyne to America to row, John hopes they will decide upon going to Pittsburg, where they will guarantee them a fair race, and they will also have an opportunity, he says, of repaying some of the kindness they received while in Newcastle. The letter concludes with kind regards to all their friends in Newcastle, includ ing, of course, Bob Chambers, Harry and Jack Clasper, Messrs. W. Oldham, J. Wilkinson, W. Blakey, T. French, Bannister, J. Leithead, and a host of others whose friend ship they enjoyed and reciprocated while here. THE CROYDON STEEPLECHASE. -Sir Francis B. Head writes in a contemporary as fol lows : Sir,—ln your account this day of the Croydon Steeple chase it is stated by your report that "among those pre sent was the Duke of Hamilton and Sir Francis Head, author of "The Horse and his Rider," who was there to give evidence, if needed, for the defence. As I have always considered steeplechasing to be, as re gards both horias and riders, an unsportsmanlike exhibi tion of "valour without diecretion," and as I am an ardent supporter of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals, I shall feel exceedingly obliged if you will be so good as to allow me testate that shortly after the Croydon Steeplechase, which I had attended to see Meanwood, a favourite horse that had belonged to me, run, I declined to give evidence on the forthcoming trial, which was then announced to me. On Saturday morning last, not knowing it was to take place in a few minutes, I walked into Croydon, and on again being earnestly solicited to appear as evidence, I replied, "I will not come forward as a volunteer, but as I should like to hear the trial I will go into court, and then if either side think proper to notice my presence I will reply to any questions that may be put to mo." On the motion of the secretary for the prosecution, all persons who were to give evidence were ordered to leave the court. For nearly three blessed hours was I therefore shut up in a little dungeon, not loft. square, with witnesses of all castes, until a policeman, opening the door, said, "You may all come out now; the case is dismissed." So much for my having been during the trial present in court. With respect to the case itself permit me to state that, with the most benevolent intentions, the prosecutors made a great mistake. For really the society might as well stig matise the six noble-hearted Americans, lately swept into eternity from the deck of the yacht Fleet vying, as " sui cides," as to charge that quiet, game-looking little rider, Mr. Crawshaw, with "cruelty to his horse which broke its back at the steeplechase at Croydon." The magnates and magistrates and the thousands of peo ple of all classes whom I saw crowding the stands and con gregated on each side of the water-jump were all more or less guilty of the cruel expectation, bordering on hope, or seeing some of the horses and riders souse into the water or roll along the turf, but no saint on earth or angel in heaven, instead of wishing to break Voightlander's back, could more ardently desire that ho should land safely than, of course, the man who rode him. As the course was not only over stiff clay, but was un usually wet, it was what sportsmencall "severe"—in plain English, cruel to the weakest of the horses that went twice round it. But Voightlander, the horse selected by the so ciety, shortly after starting, fell in going over the water jump the first time. The jump, as regards breadth, any ordinary hunter would, without the smallest extra exertion, have traversed in his stride ; and as on the off-side it was not 6 inches deep, if the green grass for the 13 feet, instead of being flooded with a layer of water, had been white washed, the horses reaching it at full speed would all have jumped it quite as well, and with no less danger. The fault of the fence was that the furze in front of the water had been placed upright, instead of sloping outwards. Voightlander fell, therefore, not because he was ex hausted by cruel riding, but because, being too fresh and joyful, ho jumped only for height, and thereby throwing himself out of gear for jumping breadth, his feet, pasterns, and body landed on the turf in a false position, and so, greatly to the grief and disappointment of his gallant little rider, down he came, and for a few minutes remained pros trate, with Mr. Crawshaw's leg underneath him. Poor, noble animal ! As I rode home I passed him with his head dangling downwards from a knacker's cart. Only a few days before I had happened to pass a horse in the agonies of death from having fallen at a trot on a turnpike road.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Croydon, Jan. I. F. B. HEAD. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoa.....Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles • Jan. 13. i3razil and Cape Verde. by British packet.......... Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet Jan. 23 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 28. China, Penang. and Singapore, via 1 i Sou t hampton J an 3. Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 3. India (Calcutta),And Ceylon, via Southampton Jan 3 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 13 Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 7 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 3. Ditto, via Marseilles JaC. 7. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil:es . . .Jan. 19. Jan. 2. gewfoundland , Portugal. --Jan. 4 Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet. .. Jul. 9. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet. via Londonderry Tan. 4 West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife ....Jan. 3 West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Jan. Honduras) •• Baham`..J. via New Y ork. Jan P. Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day. Market opens with a fair demand. Sales pro. bably 15,000 bales. SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. —A general quarterly cour of this corporation was held yesterday at the hall in Crane-court. Dr. Ramsay in the chair. The minutes of the former court, with the school reports, were con firmed. The secretary read letters from his Grace the Duke of Bucclench, accepting the appointment of vice-pre sident (with others); from the Archdeacon Sinclair, ac cepting the office of one of the chaplains of the corpora tion ; and from the Rev. Dr. Hamilton to the like effect. A letter was read from the Rev. Dr. Cumming, dated Dec. 4, declining to accept the office of chaplain, and requesting that the nomination should be cancelled. Mr. Webster moved and Mr. Lang seconded the motion that the resig nation of Dr. Cumming be accepted. Professor Donald son interposed, and suggested that it was only due to Dr. Cumming that the court should offer their most cordial thanks to him for his unwearied zeal and exertions on be half of the institution for the long period of 21 years. (Hear.) He therefore proposed, " That the rev. gentle man be admitted to the extra privileges attaching to a go vernor of 50 guineas." Mr. Lang seconded the motion, and passed a high eulogium on the Rev. Dr. Cumming. Five members of the family of the rev. gentleman contri buted to the funds of the institution. (Hear, hear.) The motion was carried unanimously ; and so was that of the acceptance of the resignation of Dr. Cumming as chaplain. On the motion of Mr. F. Morris, a resolution was passed unanimously, expressing sympathy for the family of the late Mr. William Kirk, who for a great many years had been a governor. The secretary announced another dona tion from Robert Hannay, Esq., of 100 guineas. Ordered to be entered on the minutes. The balance-sheet of the Kiuloch Bequest in trust to the Scottish Hospital, from St. Andrew's-day, 1865, to St. Andrew's-day, 1866, was con sidered ; and some conversation arose on matters of detail, the report of the committee of management to St. Andrew's day, 1866, being confirmed. On the motion of Mr. Laing, a vote of thanks to the chairman was carried with accla mation, and the court adjourned. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 3. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-dv shows the following changes com pared with that of last week : INCREASE. Bills discounted Advances Notes 60,333,000 f. 666,000 f. 79,500,000 f. DECREASE. Cash in hand Treasury Balance Private accounts 13,200,000f. Bank of England Returns.—This Evening. An Account, pursuant to t] cap. 32, for the week ending he Act 7th and Bth Victoria Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1867. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued .....C33,129,100 Governmt. Debt L 11,015,100 Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion X 33,429,100 £33,429,100 BANKING DEPARTMENT. Governmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £13,111,068 Other Securities '22,816,503 Notes 10,142,255 Gold and Silver Coin Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of - National 986,262 Debt, and Div • Accounts) 8,162,130 Other Deposits 20,059,223 Seven Day and other bills £47,056,088 £47,056,088 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HOW THE TRIAL GOT WIND. The following episode is extracted from a pleasant ar ticle headed "Town and Moor" in Baily's Magazine for January : "Wary as the trainer himself may be, however keen eyed his assistants, and let the surrounding points of van tage be scanned and examined as keenly as they may, it is wonierful how frequently the result of a trial is seen and spread abroad. Some years ago a three years old was un dergoing a preparation on a high northern training ground. In his early days he had performed very mode rately. He was not fashionably bred, and had died out of the memory of the public altogether. The colt was, how ever, so good that, if treated with any degree of leniency by the adjuster of weights, one or both of the great autdmn handicaps at Newmarket were nearly certain to fall to his lot. Towards the close of the summer, it was determined that his merits should be severely tested, and very early one morning before aught was astir on the moor, and with no discernible witnesses save owner and trainer, the colt was ' asked a question.' He answered it in a manner so unexpectedly clever that those interested in him hugged themselves at the bright prospect of gain which opened out before them. As their exultation was at boiling-pitch a ragged, dishevelled form rose above the crest of a neigh bouring hollow, and approached the party. Consternation pictured on their faces, they gazed upon the unwelcome in truder. It's only Fond Jemmy,' exclaimed one of them, with a sigh of relief, as the poor addle-pated creature, walk ing up to them, displayed a large basket of mushrooms which he had collected in the neighbouringpastures. Jemmy,' he continued, in a seductive tone,`halt thou seen aught? We're nobbut giving t'horses a bit of a gallop. ' Nay,' said Jemmy, carefully avoiding the speaker's eye, and staring fixedly into vacancy. Ah hevn't. Mebbe yell want a few misherums.' A glance was exchanged by the two principal conspirators, and Jemmy was directed to hand over his succulent burden then and there ; and with a brigh half-crown clasped tightly in his dusky fist, he moved hurriedly away towards the town. Luckless and mistaken liberality ! Had the reward been confined to the shilling which usually repaid the mushroom-gatherer's exertions, all would have been well. Half-a-crown was too much for Jemmy to carry unbroached. An early visit to the Black Lion was the natural consequence. One three-penn'orth was consumed ; a second ; and when a third dram of un sweetened Xicholson had been despatched, he grew talka tive. It chanced that one acute member of the brotherhood of touts was taking his ' morning' in the same establish ment; and, pricking up his ears at the disjointed sentences uttered by the weak-headed tippler, he soon extracted from him the secret of the trial at early dawn. Jemmy, it ap peared, had seen the spin, and, notwithstanding his infir mity, retained sufficient Yorkshire cunning to deny the fact when first taxed with it on the moor. Now that his tongue was loosened he described with such accuracy to his tempter how the short-legged bay, who carried his head so low, had beaten the others to a stand-still, that the shrewd listener—himself a great believer in the prowess of ' Le Medecin'—putting this and that together, was able to place the information, within a few hours, at the disposal of his London employer. The latter quietly took advantage of it. Owing to an extraordinary and unprecedented blunder the good thing did not come off. Had it done so, the dis burser of the half-crown and his allies would have disco vered that the amount which they had backed their colt to win was considerably less than the great stake for which he was stood by the Metropolitan bookmaker, who had ac quired his information through the tipsy babbling of Fond Jemmy.' " 'URES FOR 1867. VARY. iNottingham 26 Derby CH. _ _ Epsom Spring 26 Lewes Spring 2B Croxton Park 29 T rsk ll arham Newmarket Ist Spring 22 Catterick Chester BO Y. 17 Harpenden 1 Ep s om Summer Newton '2,SI Croydon NE. 19 Stockbridge Chelmsford Newcastle Carragh 27 Worcester Summer 27 Ipswich JUL ,Y. Down Royal Corporate l7 Stamford Huntingdon 23 Winchester Southampton Goodwood :UST. York August Dovor West Drayton 22 Plymouth.. . 23 Canterbury Lichfield Derby Summer Weymouth Tunbridge RACING FIXT FEB Lincoln Spring Harrow MA" Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 West Drayton l9 Bromley Northampton Windsor Spring 4 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6 Newmarket Craven 8 Curragh M Chester (continued) 1 York Spring 7 Salisbury 9 Doncaster Spring Bath JU Ascot Summer 4 Windsor Summer Manchester Summer * 12 Hampton l3 Odiham l7 Bibury Club lB Carlisle 2 Newmarket July ...... Pontefract Reading • •••• 9 Liverpool July Meeting 10 Hungerford ll Nottingham July ..._ AUG Goodwood (continued) Ripon Brighton Brighton Club 8 Lewes Egham . l3 Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford Hastings SEPTEMBER. Warwick . 3 Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon 5 Doncaster Richmond l7 Hendon l9 Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2O Newmarket Ist October 24 Walsall 25 OCTOBER. Northampton Autumn. 1 Curragh Edinburgh Autumn 2 Newmarket Houghton Newmarket 2d October. 7 Worcester Autumn 29 Cheltenham l5 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. TANUARY. _ .. Manchester .. ___ _ FEBRUARY. Carmarthen 5 Harrow Spring Birmingham l 2, Derby Windsor MARCH. Liverpool Spring Croydon Spring Grand Military Chertsey Mahon SEASONABLE. BENEVOLENCE. —Tuesday being New Year's-day, the whole of the patients in the Consumption Hospital, Brompton , w ere p lentifull y regaled with champagne, as they had been also on Christmas -day , Mr. Tod-Heatly having with considerate kindness for warded no less than twenty-ono dozen of excellent cham pagne for the use of the inmates. The treat was very gratefully appreciated; and the patients drank to the health of the Queen, Mr. Tod - Hea tl y , and of the Committee of Management. This Christmas -tide another kind friend, Mr. Abel Smith, has contributed to the enjoyment of the Brompton invalids, by a g ift of sixty pheasants, in addi tion to many former acceptable presents of game. The bountiful supply of evergreens sent up as usual by the chairman provided f or the decoration of the chapel and the corridors (which had a very pretty appearance), besides affording cheering and interesting occupation to the thuscurving,touchtheheartswhich o ftheconstantly pooronsta sufferers re at Brompton, and help them to bear their lot with patience and clzeerfultloo, _ .0i 10 , SSE 190 100 100 1.0 100 100 LOO 103 1 i