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

M‘.. RIAIt.KET AND CO:111AEROL iL IN TELL IGE TWELVE O'CLOCK. The 31st' i of December—the making-up day of bankers—having passed, the Money Market is already easier, and the supplies are excessive. From present appearance it is quite reasonable that many should incline very strongly to the opiLion that the minimum of the Bank of England will soon be placed at a lower figure. There was an h ... .flux at the Bank of England yesterday to the amount of £lO,OOO in bars, and also 3,000 sovereigns from Australia. The Douro has arrived at Southampton with £46,000 in. specie, and the Heckla from New York Nvith £23,000. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received, ou account of New Granada dividende,:a remittance of £7,545 7s. Id. from the Custom-house of Santa Marta. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have advanced 1, to 51 53, but the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds have declined 1 1, to 39i 40k. The London Bank of Mexico and South America (Limited) have received the half-yearly 3 per cent. dividend, and 3} per cent. Amortisation Fund, 3-1- amounting to the sum of £13,493 Bs. 7d., for account of the holders in this country of their cer tificates for the English Convention Debt of ➢lexico, 1861. The General Credit and Finance Company of London have just received the following from their agents in La Guayra, Messrs. H. L. Boulton and Co., relative to the Venezuela Loan of 1864 :—" On the 30th ult. Government published a decree an nouncing the reduction of export duties to two thirds of the old rates. Another decree of the same date states that 75 per cent. of the new duties will be applied to the payment of the loan of 1864, and the remaining 25 per cent. will be retained by Go vernment to pay off a domestic loan of $150,000. This arrangement makes it equal to a reduction of just 50 per cent. on what the bondholders formerly re ceived. By this mail we send you two Caracas newspapers, the Federalista and Porvenir, contain ing these decrees, and on this date we have received a communication from Government, under date of the sth inst., confirming the same. Acting upon this communication we applied at the Custom-house for the proceeds of the duties, and we are pleased to inform you that at the last moment we received the sum of $2,141.189, being 75 per cent. of the total export duties at this Custom-house for the week ending the Bth inst. We shall remit this amount by next mail ; it is too late to do so by this." The Northern Assam Tea Company, Limited, announce the payment this day of the usual guaranteed dividend, at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum for the past half-year, on the A Shares. Two o'CLoca. There is a healthy but a quiet tone in the present condition of business at the Stock Exchange. The English Funds are firm, Consols being 90 3-16th 5-16th for money and the present account, and 90k j for the account in February. Foreign Stocks for the moment are attracting little atten tion, but more firmness is manifested in the market for Railway and other shares. One of the features of the day is the absence of business in Crystal Palace Shares, which are nominal at the price to which they descended yesterday. Foreign Stocks are a shade flatter. Turkish 5 per Cents, have declined to 31; 32 ; Spanish Passive, to 211 21i ; and the Russian Loan Scrip, to prem., while Greek Bonds have advanced to 14:1 15 ; Italian 5 per Cents., 1861, are quoted Business i❑ the Railway Share Market has been moderately active, and a further advance has taken place in values. Great Eastern have improved ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, and South Eastern, each 1 ; Great Western, I; Middlesex, 1i; and Metropolitan, 2. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in fair demand. Dutch-Rhenish have improved to ''ol ; Northern of France are marked 47/ ; South Aus trian awl Lombardo- Venetian, 15/ Grand Trunk of Canada, 191 ; East Indian, 104/ j ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 1034 1041. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares are dull. Crystal Palace Stock has receded to 30/ 31; Bud son's Bay Company, to 161 1 ; National Discount Company have improved to 15 and Peninsular Oriental Steam, to 641. Bank Shares continue in limited demand. Alliance, however, have risen to 191 ; Chartered Mercantile of India, London, and China, to 33/ 4 ; London and County are steady, at 644 ; and Oriental Bank Corporation, at 42i 1. There is very little basioess in American securities, and the prices remain firm. United States 5-20 Bonds are 721 ; Erie Shares, 461 ; and Illinois, 80 1. I ontevideau 6 per Cent. Nloorish Imperial 5 per Cent Sew Granada — Do 3 per Cen — Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) 'eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account _ Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarron) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cont., 1856, '7, '9, 'GO, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pet Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all p•tid B6l Do. do. £lO paid 1 pm Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account S cvedish 4 per Cent. Do. 44 per Cent. 1864 Do. Scrip, £6O paid Curkish 6 per Cent. 1851 Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cont. 1862 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account PO. 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 11 per Cont. Dividends on the above payable in London, Austrisn,_ 5 p:Ar Cent., Ex. 10 Florins 13 , 41gian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutk:u ih por font - !':11C. 12 Gull_ - Do. Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. . French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. Itaiim. 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do. 5 per Cont'Account Consols, Money , Dc. Account, Jan TWO O'CLOCK. 901 901 ± POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. MANSION HOUSE. William Clark, described as a baker, living at 29, Surrey street, Blackfriars-road, was charged with stealing seven handkerchiefs, value 175., the property of Mr. Brown, hosier, Cheapside. Alfred Hughes said that about 11 o'clock this morning he saw the prisoner coming out of a shop in Cheapside, and perceived that he was endeavouring to conceal some handkerchief under his coat. He followed him and gave him in charge. James Dunn Parsons, assistant to Mr. Brown, identified the handkerchiefs as being the property of his employer, and said they were in a basket in a lobby leading into the shop. There were several other articles in the basket also. When the prisener was taked in charge he said that the property had been given him by a little bcy, and that he was out of employment and was looking for some work. He was not known to the police. The prisoner repeated this statement, but admitted that ho was endeavouring to make away with the property. Sentenced to 21 day's bard labour. THAMES. A REFRACTORY PAUPER.—SEDUCTION AND ITS CONSE QUENCES.--Margaret M'Taggert, a young Scotch, with an infant in her arms, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with violently assaulting Mary Greary. Both woman have been forlorn° time inmates of the Stepney Union-house at Bromley, Middlesex. The com plainant was described by Mr. Parker, the master of the house, as a well conducted person, the prisoner was the reverse, and had violated all the rules and regulations of the establishment, was continually quarrelling with the inmates, and doing acts subversive of good order and dis cipline. Mr. Parker's statement was certified by one of the nurses, who said the prisoner was a bad tempered young woman and continually quarrelling with the other females. She would not do her work properly. It appeared from the evidence of Geary that the prisoner had quarrelled with her about her cleansing, and threatened her. Yesterday the prisoner struck her with a pannikin, and threatened to split her with a pannikin. Mr Partridge asked the master if the other inmates provoked, the prisoner. Mr. Parker believed not. The prisoner was a very ill-tempered morose woman, and quarrelled with any ono on the most frivolous pretences. The other women did taunt her occasionally, when she insulted them, with being the mother of two bastards. The prisoner's history was a singular one. She was the daughter of a respectable and. nterprising Scotch farmer, settled in the Cape Colony, and he sent her to Glasgow to assist her aunt, and to finish her education in Scotland. On the voyage she was seduced by the captain of the ship, a Scotchman, and became pregnant. She was delivered of a chiid in Glasgow, and her aunt sent her back to the Cape in the same ship that brought her here. The intimacy with the captain was renewed, and she became enciente a second time, and gave birth to the child she was now carrying. She found her way to this country again, settled for three weeks in the dwelling of her seducer, who was a married man. Quarrels took place between the captain's wife and her rival, and the prisoner was turned out of the house and found her way to the Union, where she had since re mained. The prisoner, in defence, said the compiainant calledhor Mimes. Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had behaved in a very refractory and violent manner, and sentenced her to one month's imprisonment and hard labour for the assault on Greaney. MARKETS T his day. HA Y. - - SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 4s; clover, £1 Os to £5 15s Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load. Trade quiet. CumßEltrAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 4s Od; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 183 to £2 5s per load. Demand inactive. WILITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 48; clover, £4 Os to £5 13s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load. Trade heavy. COLONIAL The for e i gn and colonial produce. markets are closed for the Christmas holidays, but business will be resumed to morrow the 2d inst. TALLOW. —There has not been much business doing in the tallow market during the past week, but prices have been rather on the advance, 45s having in one or two instances been paid to clear outstanding contracts for the month. The demand from the trade has been small, as is usual at this period of tho year. At St. Petersburg a few hundred casks have changed hands for August de livery at 501 silver roubles; the Exchange was 311 15-l6ths. To-day the market is steady, with, perhaps, rather more tallow offering ; 44s 9d is the price at which contracts have been closed for the month ; 44s 9d is de manded for January to March; 45s 3d April to Juno ; and 45s 9d October to December. On the spot new Y. is sold at 455. ; old at 445. 6d. South American town tal low fetches 43s 9d nett cash (for March only 455. 3d for Y.C. A CAB SET ON FlRE.—Yesterday morning a cab man, after setting down his fare at Kennington• road, dis covered the cushions and linings of the cab to be on fire, and before it could bo extinguished the sides and roof of the cab were burnt off. --- THE BOROUGH OF ARMAGH.—The representation of Armagh will be vacant in a few days on the appoint ment of Mr. Miller to be judge of the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. Vance will, we believe, be teturned without opposi tion.—Dublin Evening Mail. THE SENSITIVE PLANT.—In a letter of Dr. Siger son's to the Atheneum, he states that the folioles of the Sensitive Plant were touched by him with a non-con ductor, and exhibited no movement. The sensitive plant is a common weed here, and is at present, as in his expe riments, in flower. I touched it with glass, sealing wax iron, and the h an d, an d i n a ll cases f oun d th e usual move ment, which also took place when the plant was gently blown on with the breath. No such difference as, on any electrical hypothesis, we should expect, existed between the sensitiveness of the ends and middles of the folioles. Another fact about the sensitive plant, which the electrical theory does not explain, is the closing of the loaves at night. Perhaps the more hopeful question would be not " why do they shut P , but " why do they open ?" And I may be permitted to guess that the solar rays in the morning, or the solar dif fused light, throws the molecules of the folioles into some now condition, the result of which is their opening, and that such a molecular condition is destroyed by the vibra tion caused by touch. What this molecular condition is perhaps we shall never know, or, if over, through micro scopic analysis. Dr. Sigerson's observation, that children affect the sensitive plant more than adults, I confirmed by comparing the effects of my own touch with that of a child of seven years' old, who affected the plant more powerfully than I could do.—W. E. HAMILTON.— Greyto wn, Nicaragua, Nov. 15, 1866. Mr. CHARLES DICKENS will give a public reading of " Barbox Brothers, and " The Boy at Mugby," at Leeds, in the course of a week or two. The Examiner, we are interested to remark, on announcing that its index for 1866 will bo given with the number for the 12th of January, 1867, takes occasion to add that after this week more rcom will be made for cur rent criticism on books, plays, music, and pictures, by a change or two in the plan of its news columns. MINING MARKET. I'UtSDAY, Two o'Clock. There has been increased activity in the Mining Exchange. Annexed are the current quotations : Chivorton Moor, 4-1 51 ; Chou:ales Gold, 9 1 33 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 8 9 ; East Basset, 21 22 ; East Caradon 5; 64; East Lovell, —; East Wheal Grenville, 2; 1 ; Great Retallack, 22s (II 24s Od ; Great Wheal Vor, 15 16; Marks Valley, 4 f; North Crofty, 3; 4 ; North Treskerby, 2; 3} ; Prince of Wales, 26s Od 28s Od ; Prosper United, 3 3-1; Providence Mines, 26 28; South Coudurrow, -8 ; South Grenville, 7s Od Os Od; Tincroft, 12i 13; West Caradon, —; West Chiverton, 53 55 ; West Frances, 14 16; West Seton, 120 5 ; Wheal Buller, 20 221 ; Wheal Chiverton, 6; 7 ; Wheal CrAor, 12s 14s ; Wheal Grenville, 26s 6d 30s; Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seton, 135 140 ; Wheal Trelawney, 9 11; Wheal Uny, 24s 26s ; earn Camborne, 20s 255; Central Miners, —; Cooks' Kitchen, ——; East Cam Brea, 21 3 ; Great Laxey, 17 18 ; Great South Tolgus, lOs 15s ; South Frances, 20 22 ; St. Ives Consols, —. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Der Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 10 9 Ol i 3 per Cent. Reduced B9i I New 3 per Cent B 9l New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 11 pm Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exehequer Bill s , £l , OOO , 4 per Cent — Do £5OO Do £lOO Sr £2OO „ Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent ... INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874... Ditto for Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B4 Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO — pm Do. und er .£1,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. A rgentine Republic, 6 per Cent Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 ........... Do Account..., Do. £lOO Bonds ............. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent... DO. Account Do .ZlOO Bonds D ) 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cont. 6 per Cent 1)o. 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A lOO l „ B C:)lombian, ti per Cent. Cuba., 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 5 per Cent., 864 — Danubian Principalities Do. Account. Equador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent._ Do., Pt :_wisional Land Warrant Do Deferi e d tcgyptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds ............... 71/ Do, Do £1)O Bowls Do. Govern went Hallway Debentures 79 G rt. ek 5 per Cents., 182-1-5, ex Coupons - ) D ACCOUIIt - .JO. Coupons G riteinala 5 per Cent. It .lian 5 per Cent 1865 1) O. Account 1)o. Marennnana Railway — , N.l.”Zielli: 3 per Cent Le. Account Dn. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — 1861.. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1867. SHARE MARKETS.— This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. iiiiiatoi anu Exeter .... Caledonian Cambrian Jork and 8and0n...... Corn wal Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth,& Ab. June sl.London, bcrip Do. .Aasgow & S. Western) Great Eastern, Ord. stk.' Do. E. Angl: et. No. 21 Cireat North of Scotian& ‘.lreat Northern DI. A stosk • . Do. B stock Do. New, Is. at 25 pro 'GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original D. S. V&I. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Dxford Do. Newport Do. fleraord Lanc , ishire& Yorkshire L.indon and Blackwalt Lou., lirigh.,& S Coasti Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. lietrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western' Man., She., & Lincoln Atetropolitan Do. New Do. Extension ' Actropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John's IVAI Hid and Do. £9 Share Do, Birinin.. & Derb3 , +Lid Kent . . North British Do. Kd., rth., & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick, Do. G.N•E purolL Do. Leeds Do. York _ Do. Car!bale Do. btock.& Darling. D0..10. 1860-61 - - 24orth London .. Do. do. 1864 5 . . Do. do. 1866 . North Staffordshire • . LS. 6t 0. Yr. Junction Scottish Ccutral 4cot. N. E ,Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. st Shropshire Union SOuth Devon ,outli Eastern . 6taines, Wok., & Wok ratr Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford tit Kilkenny' Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall BRITISII r A.tiantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, .t Cen.ln. gu..5 per Do. F shares Buffalo Lake Huron Do. Preference B , Bran t, & Goderich 6 p Calcutta & S. E., Um !a, c Town & Dock, g - u 1 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Bengal, gu. l 5 do East I udian, gu.s Do. J Esteneton ..! ;rand rrunkot Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bond,. 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Prd. Bonds Du. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Cit. India Pen. gus. sp.c. I O. Gus. 5 percent.. Do. New glia. 5 p. c Ut. South of India gua. 5 per cent I) 4} per cent Do treat Wes. of Canada.. Do. New Do. 6 p. o Bl.s. pay. 1873 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do .. . Do. 43 do Do. Pifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. Hudson's Bay.. N. Itl.C'da,6pc Ist pf.bs Scinde . . A Do. Delhi Do. do t Do. Puniaub.... Do.lndus St.Flot 40 T o ri s og ins 86 58 122 124 40 45 4 6 65 68 70 72 1' 6 118 28 2 5 6 1:8 120 127 128 90 02 51} 611 32 3i 32 3) 'I2Ft 129. 85 87 154 161 D 121 )21 82 tit 52 53 26 127 2} 2L 10 11 84 86 i'3 2,1 )1 37 38 4 18 107 1,0 66 67 100 102 34 `6 9 10 p 116 120 1 •2p 1 21, 70 72 104 l l s 143 152 46 48 67 i 8 8 9 150 ;53 3 4, , SSESSIONS. 56 58 102 . 103 id p 4 4. 84 50 55 10 t 103 101 IC3 105 106 18 20 85 88 57 59 50 54 50 51 37 10 23 25 too to; i 1€) 4 i t. NO 102 91 93 111 121 1.: 121 F 8 P 2 81 84 lt IG2 103 92 di 85 90 82 85 99 101 97 98 18 98 99 101; 31 Business . done. 123 2j 28 91 9 55 i i I 130 n C 4 16 1211 t 33 127 Bft The Fire at the Crystal Palace. It was not until the return of daylight yesterday that the havoc caused by the fire at the Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon was completely dis closed. The whole of the northern end of the build ing has been destroyed, except a part of the low narrow wing extending towards the east into the grounds, at a right angle with the fabric, and used chiefly as an orangery. The space between the water tower and the screen which separated the tropical department from the rest of the nave, about a couple of acres in extent, is now strewn with blackened masses of the fallen roof and other ma terials, presenting a deplorable spectacle. All that remains of the northern transept are a few broken outlines of the arches, and towering from among the general wreck are still to be seen the two colossal Egyptian figures copied from the temple of Itameses the Great at Aboo Simbel, in Nubia, but now sadly defaced by the action of the fire. They were 65ft. high, and reached to the roof of the transept. Of the Alhambra Court, on the west side of tho tropical part of the nave, and also of the Byzantine and Romanesque Court, facing it on the opposite side, little is left but the bare walls ; the Queen's apart ments and the library and reading-room have perished, as have also the extensive collection of Indian curiosities and products, the Gallery of Naval Architecture, the Aviary, and the whole of the tropical plants. The remains of the stupendous tree brought from the Sierra Nevada, in California, and which, when growing, is said to have been 400 feet high, have shared the same fate. The fire ap pears to have originated in, the north-eastern wing, from which it spread rapidly towards the main body of the building, along the flooring and other wood work, which in the tropical end had become exceed ingly inflammable. It afterwards extended to the great water tower, the floors of which, at alzrereli a v , aea•i Via so b µ13,.1 . 1 were for several hours burning at the same time. It was first discovered by a police-constable on duty, and he gave an alarm to a fireman in the company's service within the building, and the - only one who happened to be there. Ordinarily there are three of the company's firemen ou duty in the Palace, but only one on Sundays. On receiving the alarm the fireman screwed on a hose to one of the nume rous hydrants in the building, which are said to be always charged at high pressure. That he gave to the policeman to hold, while he screwed on another, and, so equipped, they appear to have tried for some time, but in vain, to cope with the fire. Being Sunday there was some difficulty in collecting the workmen belonging to the Palace to render assist ance in the emergency. The remains of the young hippopotamus are said to have been found among the ruins yesterday, but to have been scarcely distinguishable. At present it is impossible, with any approach to accuracy, to estimate the amount of the damage done to the building, but the company are said to be insured to the amount of £BO,OOO upon the whole fabric, £20,000 of which was apportioned to that part of it which has been affected by the fire. During the fire, and when it was not certain what turn it might take, the flooring along part of the nave on the south side of the screen was ripped up in places to prevent it spreading in that direction. That pre caution having, fortunately, become unnecessary, the flooring was reinstated in the course of the fol lowing night, and yesterday the Palace was open to the public as usual. A cause of the fire has been suggested as probable. It is supposed to have originated in a place used as a paint and store-room in the north-east corner of the building, and near the water tower. Adjoining that room the boiler of a powerful steam engine used in pumping water was housed, a slight wall separating the two. After the fire a hole was found in the partition, and the firebox of the boiler had been driven from its place in the direction of the wall. The theory is that some one in chArge of the boiler may have banked up his fire, closed the door of the furnace and left the place. The effect of a fire so banked up might be to generate gas, for it would act like a retort ; but still the gas, if gene rated, would simply burn, and not explode, unless mixed with atmospheric air. It is further suggested that the damper connected with the boiler may have admitted sufficient air to cause an explosion, and that the firebox, driven from its position against the wall, may have made the breach which was afterwards found in it, and set the paint room on fire. The directors, with Mr. Bowley, the manager, and Mr. Grove, the secretary, had a meeting at the Palace yesterday, at which they instituted an in quiry as to the cause of the disaster, but the result, if any, did not transpire. They are understood to have expressed themselves in grateful terms to Captain Shaw for the energy and discretion shown by him in the emergency. On arriving at the scene of the fire the whole of the northern transept had fallen in, and he directed all the means and ap pliances at his disposal to prevent its spreading beyond the screen separating the rest of the nave from the tropical department, in which he was happily successful, and by that means, probably, the building was saved from entire destruction. While he was so engaged he was much urged by strangers and others to detach some of the men of the brigade and engines to operate on the water tower, which was on fire in several places; but he resisted all such importunity, knowing that the tower was then completely isolated, and not likely to be the means of communicating fire to any other part of the Palace, and he employed all his energies and those of the brigade to confine the fire to the tropical end. That achieved, he applied himself to extinguish the fire in the water tower, in which he also succeeded. There were upwards of 8,000 visitors at the Palace yesterday. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. _-~ Information was brought herleVlEaxstFOevil o p n , i F ng rid d a n y ring a violent gale of wind that nine workmen, who had been employed on the Dogger Sand Bank for the Wexford Harbour Commissioners, were endeavour ing to reach the shore in their own boat. As they thereby ran a great risk of losing their lives, the lifeboat Civil Service, of the National Lifeboat In stitution, was launched to their assistance, and was fortunately the means of rescuing the men, who were much exhausted when taken into the lifeboat. CA ISTOR, Saturday. A vessel was seen to stop last night, near the shoal of the Barber Sand, and soon showed signal lights of distress. The National Birmingh am Igo. Institution, was at o. 2 lifeboat, be longingonce launched, and on arriving a l ongs id e th e vesse l she was found to be the brig t Kelpie, of London, laden with coa l s from,. Shield s , an d s h e was found a ground on the sand, very leak—. The lifeboat re mained by her all n i g h t , and the ultimately succeeded in getting her off, and, with the assistance of a steam tug, she and the crew were safely taken this morn ing into Yarmouth harbour. PENARTII, Saturday. During heavy squalls last evening several flash lights were shown from a vessel apparently in dis tress near the west end of Cardiff Sands. The life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution was there upon launched, an d proceeded in that direction. On arriving alongside the vessel she was found to be the bark Cedea of Bremen, bound from that port to Cardiff, in ballast, and that she was not in distress, but was signalling for her own boat, which was on shore with the master. After remonstrating with the crew for showing distress signals unnecessarily, the lifeboat returned to the shore. SINGULAR CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.--On Thursday evening last three ladies and a gentleman were in a car riage on their way to Hams Hall, to attend the annual ball given by the Eight Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Adderley. When the carriage arrived at Forgo Mills the two white gates which span the road were open, and the driver was proceeding on his way, when suddenly the gates were blown inwards with great violence. The gates coming into contact with the hind wheels of the carriage tore them both off, and the carriage was upset, but the driver was unhurt. The occupants of the carriage also fortunately escaped injury. THE WRETCH !--A Doctor's wife attempted to move him by her tears. "All !" said he, "tears are use less. I have analysed them. Thoy:contain a little plies phato of lime, some chlorate of ooditun, and water." Reopening of Cattle Market& Yesterday, there was a lengthened sittting of the justices of Buckinghamshire, at the quarter sessions at Aylesbury, under the presidency of Lord Caring ton, there being also present, amongst others, the Duke of Grafton, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir H. Verney, M.P., Major Ilan mer, Sir T. F. Fremantle, &c. Amonget the many subjects under consideration, the report of the cattle plague finance committee was presented, showing that there had been already expended by the county on account of the cattle plague a sum of not less than £25,000, which would in all probability be raised to £30,000, when all the bills were received and paid. The report was adopted. The vexata questio of the reopening of the cattle markets was also mooted. It appeared that the clerk of the peace, Mr. Tindal, had received applica tions from the inhabitants of Winslow, Stony Strat ford, Wolverton, &c., to sign the licences for the holding of cattle markets at those places, and this has been delayed on account of the clerk of the peace not considering that the order in council placed that responsibility on his shoulders, especially as a letter from Col. Harness to Mr. Neale, of Wins low, stated that applications for licences were to be made only by clerks of the peace, under the direc tion of the local authorities, the divisional commit tees, or the mayors of boroughs. Mr. DUNCAN said he must enter his protest against the reopening of markets at present. He be- lieved most farmers—indeed, all whom he had con sulted--desired them to remain closed ; and it was only the dealers and public-house keepers who wished the contrary. The country was free from the disease, and he hoped the Court would not make it run the risk of having to spend another £25,000. The Rev. Dr. BOOTH said as they had gone to ~„„„„ • I .r to fill "- disease, and as the experience of twelve months proved that- medical science throughout Europe had not made a single step in advance towards ob- taming anything like a cure of the disease, and the only mode of suppressing it was by what is calle d stamping it out, the court would be acting reck lessly were they now to reopen the markets. Hav ing got rid of the disease,as they hoped, they should give some further time to test whether it was actu ally suppressed or whether it was, as it were, only smouldering in the county. He seconded Mr. Dun can's motion for the markets being closed. Major HANMER said there were only six cases of rinderpest in the kingdom last week. He did not see why, under certain restrictions, the markets could not be reopened. At Leighton Buzzard, which was just outside of Bucks, the farmers wanted the markets reopened. Mr. CARSON reminded the court that the disease was still very bad in Holland, and he firmly believed that if the markets were reopened the drovers would bring in foreign stock, and with it the disease. The Rev. G. PHILLIMORE thought the Court would be exercising a very grave responsibility if they permitted that risk. The county had already had painful experience, and what it did should be done in caution. If the stringent measures which were put in force bad been adopted earlier, the cattle plague would have been almost unknown in this county. It was the dealers, and not the far mers, who wanted the re-opening of the markets. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained that the requirement of the signatures of clerks of the peace to the applications, and the reference to the courts of quarter session for their observations on the :desirability or otherwise of reopening the markets, was a course taken by the Privy Council by way of precaution. It was done merely "to check a weak cause," and in accordance with that spirit of precaution which had characterised the operations of the authorities. The question, after some further discussion, was put, with this result :—For the reopening of the markets, two (Major Hanmer and Sir H. Verney, M.P.) ; against the reopening, 17. The decision was announced amidst evident signs of satisfaction from several agriculturists who w ere present in the court. The Eastern Question. Gen. Garibaldi has addressed the following latter upon the Eastern question to a friend near London : " Caprera, Dec. 18, 1866. " That I love England with the affection of a son you cannot doubt, and that it is ever the desire of my heart to see her in the first rank among nations is equally certain, but to caress the errors of her Ministers—to that I cannot lend myself. I repeat, therefore, to your statesmen that which I 'have stated to our own—Do well, and you will receive praise; but to lavish praise on those who do evil is servile adulation, and I never flatter. In the war of giants waged by England against the First Empe ror, I search in the pages of those histories of your country which narrate it for one single expression of condemnation at the expenditure of millions of lives and millions of money; sacrificed to combat one de spotism, indeed, but certainly to sustain another not less exacting. Who, however, on the other hand, will not confess, with me, that the services rendered by England to the cause of human progress have been immense ? And I in particular bear tes timony to the benefits received from you by Italy in 1830, without which we should nut now be ex ulting in the embrace of every member of the Italian family. But when I see the Government of this my adopted country allied with Austria and with Tur key, I must tell you the truth—namely, that I inhale the fumes of a charnel-house, which all the national vitality may be unable to dispel, if Great Britain places herself in contact with these dead corpses. I would rather see her using her power and her in fluence to support those oppressed nationalities at present going to decay in the putrid atmo sphere of despotism, but who, remaining constant to their desire of elevating themselves, must certainly rise one day or another to their natural places in the fraternity of free nations. " Let us leave Austria, whose Emperor ought to receive the fate of his brother Emperor of Mexico, and which exists only through the dissensions of the nationalities checkmating each other's efforts to wards emancipation. " Let us travel to Turkey, cosmopolitan as I am, and a believer in that God who desires not factions and discords, but, on the contrary, that men should love each other as brethren (which fraternisation can only be possible, however, when we send the Dervish to the spade and the Romish priest to the mattock). Believing fully all this, I can make no difference between the natives of the plains of Tartar) , and my countrymen born on the sunny hills of Rome. " But have you any idea what this despotism of the Turks protested against by you really is? I will give you an example. " One day, in the port of Olivieri, in the island of Mitylene, I inquired of a Greek peasant the rea son why he did not gather up the olives, instead of permitting them to perish on the ground. Be cause,' he answered, ' the Pasha buys up all the olives, and we are compelled to deliver them to him at such a low price that it would not pay the ex pense of gathering them in.' " Behold how the interest of this poor remnant of Christians is neglected in temporal 'natters ; and for the rest, and for all that concerns the prostitution of the body and of the soul, how am I to relate it to you, who have so kind a heart and who have a sou and daughters? It is most horrible. And if I do not speak of it, oh ! forgive me ; it is for the sake of decency, and from the respect which I ONVC you, that I cannot detail to you such brutalities. " Well, now I have laid before you the condition of the Christians under Islam, and Britain—the classic ground of human rights, the protectress of the oppressed, the emancipatress of the slave—per sists in upholding these fruits of a despotism the most inhuman and the most monstrous. "In 1827 England, France, and Russia, in one of those outbursts of generosity which God some times excites in great minds, accomplished one of those facts which in the history of nations are fol lowed by universal gratitude. Let them complete the sublime task, let them spare to humanity a fresh torrent of blood, and they will receive from her a thousand benedictions. G. GARIBALDI." Share' I COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEOUR. 'British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Dec. 31, 1572. ... ,Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.tt J my 1877-'q - Do. 6 p. C. Feb. Sz Aug.. 5 p. C. Mar. tt Sept Do. sp. C. Jan. July Do. 5 p. C. Inscribed sk' Gape Ur.l.lope, 6 p.c. 1573 Do. Apl.&ocl .1890-19 X 'OO. do Do. Jan.&July, IbYO-'3. Do. 5 per cent. 15 April . . and 15 Oct., 1900.:.. Cc lon, N0v..1868, 6 p., Do. - 1878, do ~lBlll'ltlUy, it p. c, 1873, Jan. and July . - Do. Is7B t.)o. 1884 May t 5, Nov. 'Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug ,Natal Gov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&Jul) N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 t, Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 New Zealand, 6 p. cent 1)o. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gcv. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Czueensland Gov. 6 p. c o. Aus.Gov. 6 p.o 1868-9 Do. 1878.4 a upwards Vic,G ov. 6 p.C. Ja &July Do. do, 9 Aril & Oct 93 94 UO 92 9) ?2 77 78 75 7 7 101 106 103 105 112 101 104 1( 6 88 ?O 1(.0 1( 2 Ic4 1,6 105 107 104 tOl 105 (07 1(6 108 05 100 93 ,)2 90 92 00 9 5 s A 7 08 100 bl 85 S)6 9S 93 91 106 108 103 101 190 100 100 1 , 0 100 100 BRITISLI MINES. Consol. Gold, Lim Chiverton Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cous. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan).• h.ast Caradon Ease tarn Brea east Grenville East Gunuislake .. East Love.l E. W'l Russell (Tavistk StA übyn(G weu. !_lrcat L txey, limited.. Great South Tolgus... Great Wheal 8u5y..... G. Wheal Vor (Heist 'n •lrenyifle ilerod's Foot •••• Hingston Downs nargaret (Uny Lelant - Nlarke Valley lwyndy Iron Ore, lim N ew Se ton .. North Roskear N Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pr ,videnee Uny Lelant ,S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow 's•Wheal Fran. (Mogan stray Park . Tin Crott..... Vigra and Cluon, lim Went Bassett (11 logau W. Caradon (L(skeard Went Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Setou Wheal Tielawney (Lis 2.1.0 296 31 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8. o 58i 5.17.0 61 7 3 / 4 51 8; 11.5 415 Is 20 5 6 2 3 2 3 9 10 21 2/ 5 6 17 18 15 16 1f 16 30 32 2 Si 2 3i 4 i 2i 1 1d 35 45 4 2/ 31 21 26 300 s2O J 8 z 2 1 2 2 1, 4 1 4 12 4 54 t 3 115 125 63 75 1d c 0 10 12 135 145 7 9 I'RKFERENCE STAKES AND STOWL.b. Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex.. No. 2,7 t) Great °miler'', 5 per cent., no North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto, 44 per cent., rd., 9 t. North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail,. 801 LINES LEASED AT FIXED ILICNTALb. London and Blackwell, 814 1 YOREJGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 West Flanders, 7± , FOItEIGN Chontales Gold and Silver alining, 3 Yontgibaud Silver, Lead 311 n. and Smelting, 711 Scottish Australian, / tit. John del Key, Um., 501 Yudan.imutana of South Australia, Um., II BANKb. A . Lfra and Masterman's, lira., 8/ Affiance, 1110.. 19 Australasia, C 4 Bank of New Zealand, 18/ it Chartered , ter. of India, London, and China, 33/ City, 141 15 Colonial, 40} East Loudon, UM, 3 English and American, lira., 51 6 English and Swedish. lim.. 14 Imperial ottoman, lim., 81 8 Laed Mortgage Bank of India, lint.. Do. 5 per cent. Debentures. 1861. for 30 years, 82 London Chartered franc of Australia, 20 London Joint Stock, 43/ London and South African, 1 3 London and %% eatminster, 90/ Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira., 11/ 11 Oriental IlanK Corporation, 42 /3 Culon of London, 45 DOCKS. ondon and St. Katharine, 67t Si lIISCELLAINEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, Di t o, 8 per cant., 72} Credit Fonder of England, lira . 31 1 Itlgyptian Com. and Trading, lim.,b Fore -street Warehouse, lim., 12,1 City of Moscow Gas, lam., 16k East India Irrigation and Canal. 10 91 Geu. Credit and Finance or Lonrho, 11m., 43 General Steam Navigation, Rm., 2611 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour,, 61 Land Securities, Lm., 2k London Financial Association. lira,. 10 London General Omnibus Company, lira, 34 dras Irr:gation and Canal (4 per cent. guaranteed by In: dian Government), Ditto all), 11 Nr.tional Discount Company," 14; Pdwins. New Zealand, and Aus. 11. Mail, 74 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 181 FEES IN TILE HOUSE OF CO3I3IONS.—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 ou 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, n d of sheep, 26,375,993. ITIES. Important Proclamation of the Emperor Maximilian. The following proclamation was promulgated in the city of Mexico on the sth inst.:— " Orizaba, Dec. 1. _ _ _ " Mexicans,—Circumstances of great magnitude relating to the welfare of our country, and which increases in strength by our domestic difficulties, have produced in our mind the conviction that we ought to reconsider the power confided to us. Our Council of Ministers, by us convened, has given us their opinion that the welfare of Mexico still re quires our presence at the head of affairs, and we have considered it our duty to accede to their re quest, announcing at the same time our intentions to convoke a national congress on a most ample and liberal basis, where all political parties can participate, and this congress shall decide whether the empire shall continue in future, and, in case of assent, shall.assist in framing fundamental laws to consolidate the publie institutions of the country. To obtain this result our counsellors are at present engaged in devising the necessary means, and at the same time arrange matters in such a manner that all parties may assist in an arrange ment on that basis. "In the meantime, Mexicans, counting upon you all without excluding any political class, we shal► continue the work of regeneration with courage and constancy, having been placed in charge of your countrymen. (Signed) " MAXIMILIAN." Advices front Mexico, in the Liberte, say : " Mazatlan was certainly evacuated by the French on the 13th November. Despatches from Sau Fran cisco, dated the 12th . December, relate what took place nearly as follows :---‘ For several days the Juarist generaloccupied Presidio, at a short distance from the town. His advance posts had even ap t- At eleven in the foreifoiiri - tht - French squadron, composed of three vessels, the Rhine, the Marne, and the Talisman, left their moorings. That act was the signal for general confusion among both the soldiers and people. It was feared that, on the one hand, Corona would attack the town during the embarkation of the troops, and, on the other, that the squadron might bombard it in retaliation. The American Consul immediately took steps to induce Corona to allow the French to leave unmolested ; but without success. The Mexican general declared that he felt it to be his duty to inflict all the injury he could upon the enemy. In the evening the Liberals made an attack upon the French lines, but without achieving anything. The next day a more vigorous assault was delivered ; the struggle was a fierce one, and the defenders of the position lost a considerable number of men and some officers. Early on the 13th the French Admiral proposed a truce to Corona, which was accepted. The place was imme diately evacuated by the French. In the afternoon the Liberals entered the city in goodurder and were well received by the inhabitants.' " The Political Prefect of Vera Cruz has published the following : • " Dec. 1. " Inhabitants of Vera Cruz,—One of the most acceptable events to all true Mexicans has just taken place in the nation. His Majesty the Emperor, who has made so many sacrifices for the welfare and felicity of our beloved country, has given the greatest proof of the regard which it deserves. While bowed down by the natural emotions which agitated and are still agitating his mind, in consequence of the illness of his august and noble spouse, our beloved Empress, it was for a momentbelieved that he would abandon the country temporarily, to dedicate him self to her, and to comply with the sacred duties of affording his worthy consort those attentions she stands so much in need of in her present delicate state of health ; but the Emperor still sacrifices him self for us, placing his duties as a man after those of his honour as a monarch, and in the present cri tical moment, while he is traversing the country, declares solemnly that he will remain at the front and will struggle without rest until he has shed the last drop of his blood in defence of the nation. Vera Cruziaus, let us congratulate ourselves and give thanks to Providence for having saved the integrity of our land, and let us salute with all the ardour o: our hearts the day of the resurrection of our nation• ality on the eve of its disappearance. "D. BUREAN." A MARTYR WANTED.—The following very comical but genuine letter was actually received by the prisoner Lynch at the gaol here from Roberts, the President of the Fenian organisation :—" New York, Nov. 30, 1866. — Robert Bless Lynch, Esq., Toronto Gaol.—Sir,—Your letter requesting me to send to Washington affidavits of your non-military connection with the Irish Republican army has been received and the request complied with, in care of Captain Fitzpatrick, and I will write to General O'Neil on the subject. I regret to tell y.)u that you are not going to be hanged. So great a crime upon a non combatant like yourself would make every Irishman in America a Fenian, and furnish our exchequer with the necessary moans to clear Canada of English authority in short order—a consummation devoutly to be wished — and, therefore, I say I regret that you will not be hanged. It would be a glorious death for you ; and a life that would otherwise pass away unknown, in a few years, at most, would become an honoured portion of the history of our race and of the times. But whatever be your fate, pray God that yeti will act a brave, dauntless part to the last. Remember that you not alone represent your own weak nation, in the position in which you are placed, but your country and your race also ; and though much I regret that you are in the power of blood-thirsty foes, I still trust and hope that, under any and all circum stances, you will make your countrymen proud of you, and your name honoured.—l remain, yours sincerely, W: R. ROBERTS, President F. B." The match of this production would be hard to find. Only fancy a man writing to a friend under sentence of death with great regret that he is not to be hanged, and coolly giving as a reason for this regret that his execution would bring a pile of money into the Fenian exchequer. It reminds one of Artemus Ward's patriotism during the late war, in determining to shed the blood of all his wife's able-bodied male relations before he would see the Union " burst up."— Toronto Globe, Dec. 17. ANONYMOUS JO URNALISM.--When the Press was first started, the squibs of briefiess barristers were often attributed to Bulwer. Readers of " Pendennis " will re member the reputed parentage of some of Captain Shan don's articles in the Pall Mall Gazette. Mr. Lewes himself, in his "Life of Goethe," tells us that in the Ekren, the periodical starte.l by Goethe and Schiller, articles by the poorest writers were attributed to the greatest. Now, we would ask Mr. Lewes what would have been the result if these articles had been signed by the real names of their authors ? The mystery would have been at an end, and with the mystery the interest would have departed. LATEST PHASE OF RITUALISM.—The more ad vanced section of the Ritualistic party have lately introduced amongst themselves two very decided novel ties in the English Church. They are publishing at Ox ford an " Anglican Missal," which contains the order of the Communion Service, without any portion of the Liturgy, and is illuminated as well as divided into parts, in exact imitation of the Roman Catholic Missal. Nor is this part of the Anglican Prayerbook over spoken of by the Ritualists as other than " the Mass." " I have been to high mass," or " I am going to hear low mass," is now l as common a way of speaking a mongst the worshippers of St. Mary Magdalene, Mufister-square ; St. Alban's, Bald win's-gardens: or St. Matthias, Stoke Nowngton, as it is with the members of any congregation that is under Dr. Manning's jurisdiction. Another curious fashion some of the Ritualists have a dopted is that of speaking to or of the clergymen who adopt these views as " Father John," " Father James," or whatever the reverend clergyman's Christian name may be, instead of calling him Mr. Smith, Brown, or Jones. A M U NIFICENT - LIFT.—We arc informed that a member of the legal profession has set aside £25,000 for the benefit of London hospitals. Tho name of ,this muni ficent donor is known to us, but, in accordance with his wish, it is not to appear in print. The eircuthstances which led to this gift aro said to be as follows :—The gentleman in question is a member of the legal profession, and suc ceeded recently iu recovering a sum of £150,000 for a pen sioner of the metropolitan police. Ho made it a condition that, in case of success, his client should set apart £25,000 for his poor relations, and that ho should place in his hands .£25,000 for distribution to hospitals. Both conditions, we understand, are being realised ; and, remembering how often fortunes thus suddenly acquired have been squan dered in such a manner as to prove a curse rather than a blessiug, there is very groat reason to admire the prudence and the nobility of the proviso."—Solicitors' Journal. HARROW SCHOOL.—llarrovians will be interested to learn that valuable prizes of .£3O a year for the encourage ment of the study of Modern History and English Literature have recently been founded by John Edward Bourchier, who was head of the school in 1862-3. He died of consump tion at Bournemouth, on the 23d inst., aged 22 years. _ _ The Morning Herald announces, with regret, that the new Conservative weekly paper, the Monitor, which was to have appeared with the New Year, is un avoidably postponed for the present. TAT TERSALL S'—Last Evening. TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 agst Plaudit (taken) 12 to 1 agst Grand Cross (taken) 12 to 1 agst Julius (taken) DERBY. Bto 1 agst The Rake (offered) 10 to 1 agst.Plaudit (taken) 20 to 1 agst Dragon (taken) 80 to 1 agst Master Butterfly (taken) 100 to 3 agst Marksman (taken) 1000 to 15 agst The Priest (taken) 1000 to 12 agst Avron (taken) 1000 to 12 agst Star of India (taken) RES FOR 1867. AltY. VARY. Nottingham 26 Derby ;011. Epsom Spring 26 Lewes Spring 2B Croxton Park 29 FtIL. Thirsk Durham .. 22 Newmarket Ist Spring 22 Catterick Chester ' - 3 O 3O AY. Harpenden Epsom Summer 2l Newton ' 29 Croydon Stockbridge Chelmsford Newcastle Curmgh .. 25 Worcester Summer 27 Ipswich 27 LY. Down Royal Corporatn l7 Stamford Huntingdon 23 Winchester T.CiiictiiVat - - 34 UST. ;MBER. Richmond l7 Hendon l9 Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2O Newmarket let October 24 Walsall 25 BER. Carragh ... l5 Newmarket Houghton 2l Worcester Autumn 29 MBE& I Leamington Hunt STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. T A NUARY. Manchester FEBRUARY. Carmarthen 5 Harrow Spring Birmingham l2 Derby Windsor MARCH. Liverp00l Spring Grand Military Chertsey Malton COURSING. COURSING MEETINGS TO COME. JANUARY, 1867. Name. Judge. Days of Running Huntingdon Club Mr. Warwick Lincolnshire, Ho'beach Mr. Spafford Coole, co. Cork (Open) - Third S. Lancashire, (South port (Open) Mr. Westropp 9, 10, 11 Spelthorne Club Border Union (Longtown) Cumberland Barton-on-Humber, Lincoln. Mr. Spafford _ Altcar Club, Lancashire - Wigtoush. Club (Strauraer) Mr. Boultou Little Crosby Mr. Welding County Louth Club, Ireland Mr. Spofford Ridgway Club, Lytham - 3O, &c. FEBRUARY. Raiford, Lancashire - ' Cardiff Club Mr. Warwick l4, 15 Waterloo, Lancashire - Taniworth, Staffordshire ... Mr. Warwick _ ___ MARCH. Irish Grand National (Open), county Loutn Ardrossan, Sharphill South Lancashire (South port) Champion Leinster (Open) Courtown... Mr. H. Springall l9, 20 Scottish Open, Lanarkshire APRIL. York l7 I Kildare Hunt Sevenoaks 6, 7 7, &c. SEPTEMBER. Brampton, Cumberland Mr OCTOBERWarwick Ancaster and Willoughby, WLincolnshire Mr. Spofford NEW SOULa WALES. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 31. Advices received here from New South Wales by the Shannon state that the Legislative Assembly had passed through all its stages, after a fierce struggle, a bill making public education more un sectarian, and extending the public school system into thinly populated districts. Great preparations were making for the ade quate representation of the industry of the colony at Paris. The Tenterfield Bank robbers had all been con victed. Large numbers of unemployed men had solicited the American consul to grant them a free passage to America. The Bank of New South Wales had declared a dividend of 9 per cent. The 15th Regiment had arrived out. Her Majesty's ships Curacoa and Eclipse had sailed for England. BOAT RACE ON THE TYNE.—A boat race equaling in interest that which recently took place between J. Tay lor and J. Bright, came off on the Tyne yesterday. Bright was again a competitor, and pulled against G. Carr, a pro mising Tyneside oarsman. The stakes were .£5O aside, and the stretch was upwards of 21- miles—from the High Level at Newcastle to the Meadows House. The agree ment was that tho men row in open boats, in the manage ment of which both aro known to bo adepts. Carr has already pulled several successful matches in these boats, and since Bright's defeat by Taylor the odds have risen considerably in his favour. For some da)s back he has been readily backed as the favourite, and on Saturday night 6 and 7 to 4 were freely offered upon him. Harry Clasper was referee, and the umpires were--For Carr, John Adams; for Bright, H. Nichol. Bright won by 5 lengths. MR. GLADSTONE AT ST. PETER'S.—The following letter appears in the Unita Cattolica of Dec. 18 : " Mr. Editor of the Unita Cattolica,—Y our Roman corres pondent's letter, dated Dec. 8, inserted in your issue of the 11th inst., speaking of the ovation received by the Pope in the Piazza of the Holy Apostles on the evening of Dec. 7, says, It is a pity that Lord Gladstone was not at Rome yesterday evening.' Know, then, that I myself accom panied Mr. Gladstone to our coretto, which commands the Presbytery of the Church of the Holy Apostles; and he, beholding the magnificent temple, most richly ornamented, and crowded with people, and the vast presbytery filled with cardinals and other exalted personages, and the Chief Pontiff in his robes singing the To Deum, said to me, Come sono beuto di vodere quest© grandi cose (How blessed am Ito see these grand things !) After the bene diction ho was led to the gallery of the apartment of Car dinal Panebianco, which commands all the immense piazza, and thence witnessed and felt the ovation to the Pope.-1 am, with esteem, your most humble servant, Fr. Gl° ANTONIO BoNaLLI, Min cony Parochus SS. Apostoli. LORD LYTTON'S " LADY OF LYONS."—It may be observed generally of Lord Lytton's play that, although the more bigoted worshippers of the past aro apt to look down upon it as a comparatively trivial production it is a piece which, the more it is seriously studied, presents the more apparent claims to commendation. Among its merits is the clearness with which the characters are drawn. From Pauline and C!aude Melnotte, on whom the interest of the story depends, down to poor Doschappelles, who is vs insignificant in the eyes of the awlience as he i in those of his own wife, the personages all remain true t themselves from the beginning to the end of the play. Saturday Review. THE REDUCTION OF WAGES IN SOUTH WALES.— On Saturday the notices for a reduction in wages expire at some of the leading ironworks of South Wales, and in each case the meu have expressl their willingness to so on at the reduced rate. RACING FIXT JANIT Manchester FEBR Lincoln Spring Harrow MAI Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 West Drayton l9 Bromley • AP. Northampton Windsor Spring 4 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6 Newmarket Craven 8 Curragh M 4 Chester (continued) York Spring 7 Salisbury 9 Doncaster Spring Bath Ascot Summer 4 Windsor Summer Manchester Summer Hampton l3 Odiham l7 Bibury Club lB Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading ilangorftYd Nottingham July AUG Goodwood (continued) 1 I Ripon Brighton Brighton Club 1398 Lewes Egham ..... Wolverhampton l3 I Stockton Oxford l5 Hastings ..._..... SEPTI Warwick Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon 5 Doncaster OCT( Northampton Autumn. 1 Edinburgh Autumn 2 Newmarket 2d October 7 Cheltenham l5 NOVI Liverpool Autumn 5 Shrewsbury ll York August Dover West Drayton 22 Plymouth Canterbury Lichfield Derby Summer Weymouth Tunbridge too 100 1 . 100 5 100 100 129 4 1211 1 69 i 57 1001 100} 1011 19 } 7)