The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-28 00:00:00

MONEY ZARKET AND COMMERCIAL NTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Money is still abundant in the private and joint-stock banks, the Stock Exchange, and at the Bauk of England, and the market generally exhibits the same features as for some time past. Large supplies are held for the forthcoming dividends payable at the beginning of the year, as well as by all the private companies as the Bank of England, amounting to many mil lions. There has been a larger inquiry for dis counts, both at the national establishment anal in other quarters, but the supply has been good, and at rates fractionally below the minimum. Busi ness, however, in town and in the provinces is absolutely quiescent ; the public are cautious of investments, and there is a general dearth of commercial enterprise. In most of the provin cial markets for manufactures stocks are, from these Causes, unusually low, and there is a general indis position to augment them from the smallness of the demand. Anticipations are not very bright for the forthcoming year ; but it is hoped that, as stocks abroad are getting low, orders will come to hand more briskly, confidence and credit be restored, and greater' prosperity ensue. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received by the mail the following remittances on account of the New Granada dividends, viz.: £2,200 from the Custom-house at Marta, and £420 from Barran quilla, making a total of £2,620. The letters of allotment of the New Portuguese Loan have been delivered. A large number of transactions have taken place, and the price this morning is 1 j. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben tures have receded I, to 20 21, but the Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 18 19. The New Honduras Loan is steady at li lf prem. The movements of the preceious metals during the past week have been on a rather extensive scale as regards the imports, which have amounted to about £591,116, including £28,000 from New York by the Weser, £120,166 by the Persia, £61,500 by the Etna, £12,300 by the France, and £46,500 by the China. The Flamsted, from Buenos Ayres and the River Plate, has brought £65,000 ; the Anglesea, from Australia, £208,000 ; the Ceylon, from Bombay, £10,719. About £10,816 in gold has been received from Portugal, and £31,115 in silver from the Continent. The exports have been confined to remittances to the Continent through private sources, estimated at £88,828. The sum of £lO,OOO in gold was taken to the Bank of England yesterday. The China, from New York, has brought £46,500 in specie ; the Ceylon, from Alexandria, £10,719 from Bombay ; and the Anglesey, from Melbourne, had arrived with £208,000 in gold. With respect to the Scotch iron trade during the year Mr. Thomas Thorburn gives the following summary :—After a cycle of six prosperous years, we have had one year without buoyancy in the iron trade. When we reflect on the high price of corn, arising from a deficient harvest over a great portion of the world, and the disorganised state of the cot ton trade, the most important branch of enter prise in the United Kingdom—the cause of the present depression in iron is sufficiently explained. According to the ironmasters' returns, the quan tity of pig iron produced in 1867 is 1,031,000 tons, showing an increase of 37,000 tons, when com pared with last year. The deliveries by rails ays, the shipments, foreign and coastwise, combined with the local consumption, are 1,068,000 tons, and show a falling off, when compared with the preceding year, of 68,000 tons. The stock of pig iron in Scotland is 473,000 tons, exhibiting a decrease of 37,000 tons as compared with 1866. During the year the price has fluctuated from bls. 6d., the lowest point to which it fell in July, to 555. 6d., the highest attained in October, giving an average for the year of 535. 6d. per ton. The malleable iron works, the foundries, and ship buiding yards, have felt increasing languor. Next year will surely manifest a healthier condition in the cotton trade, and we may reasonably expect a lower range of prices for grain. Should these an ticipations be realised, there is no doubt the iron trade will show an improvement. Two O'CLOCK. English Securities continue to droop, the princi cipal attention of the operators being mainly ab sorbed in the settlement now in progress in foreign bonds and shares of all descriptions. There is some depression on the Paris Bourse, which also adds to the weakness discernible in the public funds. Consols have been depressed throughout the morn ing, but at the last moment greater firmness is apparent, the latest prices being 921 for money, and 921 for the January account. The New Threes are 92i 1 ; Reduced Annui ties, 921 /:; Exchequer Bills, 28s. prem. ; Bank Stock 240 ; India 5 per Cents., 111/ ; ditto 4 per Cents, 100} ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 104 ; ditto Tilebentures, 1882, 104 3i; and ditto Bonds, 40s. prem. _ _ _ In the Foreign Stock Market business has been rather more active, but the variations are unim portant. Turkish 5 per Cents., have advanced 328 338 ; Spanish Passive I, to 25/ 26/ ; the 3 per Cents., 358 36/ ; and Mexican f, to 151 k ; Greek continue at 128 ; and Italian, at 44i 1. The New Portuguese Loan is 11 i prem. American Securities exhibit very little alteration in prices. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares exhibit no change of importance. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents., however, have improved to 90, Hudson's Bay Company remain steady at 15k, Peninsular and Oriental Steam have advanced to MI, and Viceroy of Egypt's Mortgage Loan is flat at 72k. In the Railway Share Market the settlement of the accounts occupies the chief attention of the dealers and speculators, and in a few instances prices exhibit less firmness. Caledonian have been very depreased and hive receded 2, Metropolitan have declined 1, Midland Brighton i t , and Great Northern A Stock j. ; while South Western have improved and North Western f. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain with out any material change in values. Bank shares continue flat. Anglo-Egyptian are marked 17 ; Consolidated, 4i 3-16 ; Imperial Ot toman, 9 1-16 3-16 ; London and Westminster, 69 ; and Union of Australia have improved to 54. MINING MARKET. SATURDAY, Two P.M Business in the mining market continues very quiet. The shares chiefly in demand are Great Laxey, Great North Laxey, Chiverton, and West Chiverton. Annexed are the latest current quo tations : East Carn Brea, ; Chiverton !leer, 51 51; Clienteles Gold, 31 ig ; Clifford Amalgamated, 5f 6 ; East Basset, 9 11 ; East Caradon, 41 ; East Lovell, ; East Russell, 28a 30s ; Frontino and Bolivia Gold, —s Od ---s ; Great Laxey, 17 18 ; Groat North Laxey, 12s 6d 15s ; Great Wh al Yon, —; Marke Valley, —; North Crofty, 212. ; North Treskerby, 29s 31s Od ; Prince of Wales, 48s Od 508 ; West Basset, 21 2f; South Caradon —; South Frances, 23s 255; Tincroft, 13 131; West Caradon, 10 11; West Chiver ton, 66 68 ; West Seton, ; Whea: Basset, 21 21 ; Wheal Grenville, 24s 265; Wheal Chiverton, 51 51; Wheal Seton, 82 85 ; Great South Tolgus, 20s 22s 63 ; East Gunnis Lake and South Bodford, --s —s ; East Wheal Grenville, 23s 25s ; Wheal Basset, —; West Prances, —; Wheal Buller, BRITISH FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. Go VERNMENT FUNDS. 0 per Ueut. Consols Do. Account, 8 per Cont. Reduced 9 n 1 y„. 3 per Cent 921 1 41 eVir 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. den. 1873 — Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth J tn. 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, asp i re s t h April ' lBB5 — D o (Red Sea Televaph), Au g ,., 1908 — E (chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 St 2i per Ct 25 pm Do £5OO 2B pm •L', Do. ElOO & ..£2OO —Pm allic of England Stock. 4} per Cent 2lO -Do. Account . — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Iclian s . l tock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Account Do. 5 per Ceut. July, 1880 !r. Lord tr ty at t the and eneral whic h 0 Were one i" iterion !rsi, 15 that h over )cciallY a hate n" t he ' e ore' co, an d Caters , Dar:lble Dam e ' i bishop section a niill, nber of ) are 3t , a nnOn, Y— was i , e nts 11 draw , The )idly as sidere 4 iano as 410. ch Pre• c ustom b e first beg ilV a nd n o ale gift• ,cturers on the on3rn° ll -tier fe' aous to results i n tae to pre• Lys that - ; uinerY taly, it ,rnpore-i 3 over °. Easter n o f tl lB Leir cre• ussia ig whic h he Pr e ' terrific diate l Y straore a Yo r ' se cre- Osts the penee s ' t nus tb° Bid !' ent a"l in fro.- .„ 11C 1 °°°' aire " eo n the of age, yea rn un for ition of so fog c or:i roe P . ne d lotto- a , e r $ 11 of , Larg e 3 stba -. " 300 r )GI B I'lj f P et .° be r 113 f , be, 0 a „ilia 00°11. Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 5 per Cent., Rep. Deb., 187 .) Do. do. 1877 — Do. do. 188 4 Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug-. 1%-q3 . Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., .£l,OOO 40 prn Do. under .£l,OOO pei FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 Br tziliau 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cont., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 - D.). 5 per Cent., 1865 0., ) Aet , unt Dn. .£lOO Bonds 75 1; Buto.ios Ayres 6 per Cent — D , 2 per Cent. (I)eferrad 3 per Cent.) C apt, 6 per Cent. C,alitte 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent — 00.6 per Cent., B . Po., 1867 Do., 7 per Cent., 1806 Do., Scrip' £32 paid C•• ful)l,,e, 6 pur li.tit. Danis!). 3 P tr Cent., 182. D naiiiau Principalities, 7 rr Gout 6l Do 8 per Cent., 1867 . — B I,:ador New Consolidated, 1 par Cow... 6gy tante, 7 per Gent — n,. Se. oid Issue D '. £5 iu Bonds Do. £lO6 Bonds — Do. 1861 ,... 85,1 Do. .15'00 Bonds — Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 87 Goverum6rit ltail way Debentures 93} 2i 31 Greek, 5 per Cent., 1821-5, ex Coups — Do. Account , , T),,. Coupons Do. Account ... Glateniala 5 per Cent .. — It .iiau 5 per Cert., 1865 — Do, Account • — Do. Marounnana Itaiway — N.l.)xicaL 3 per Cent Ditto for Account D.. 1,861 — De it per Cont. Anglo-French — •iontevi . d9al; 6 per Cent. gooristi Imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada, . Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferred - Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Pertrian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account — Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 4i per Cent.. 1862 Do Account Portsguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,' 39} ',- Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4i per Cent. 1850 Do 4i per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 por Cent., 1862 , B4l 5f Do. Anglo-Duteb, 1861, £lOO Bonds B9 8i Do. do. £Bl 15s. do. Do., 1866 , £lOO Bonds . 7 B7l . Do. do. £Bl 15s. do — Sardinian, 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cen — Do Account Do New Deferred 351 Do Account Do Passive 2sf Do Acc*unt Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded ... Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent., 1851 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 66f Do 6 per Cent., 1862 6of Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1863 Do 5 per client., 1865 321 13 Da Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 50:1 DJ 4 per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. DJ Account. Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Divideucts on the above payable in Londou French Ilentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f. It9.liaL 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 251. Do. Account TWO tilaL OK, Consols, Money! 92i Do. Account [The following appeared in onr Latest Haitian ef yester day et-ening.] CITY, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK. Since two o'clock there has been no change in the value of the English Funds. Consols closed at 921 for money and the account. _ Foreign Stocks have shown less firmness. Italian 5 per Cents. have declined to 441 e ; Greek Bonds I, to 12 121 ; Mexican Stock 1, to 15/ I ; and Turkish 5 per Cents. /, to 328 33. The annexed is from Messrs. Alexander Collie and Co.'s Manchester Report :—During yesterday and to day there has been even less disposition for business than on Tuesday, and in the absence of transactions the quotations then given are un changed. The following are the latest current quotations of same of the principal railway company shares : Caledonians, 73 731 ; Great Eastern, 311 ; Great Northern, 137 109 ; Great Western, 44 441 ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 122.1 to 1231 ; Brighton, 491 501; Metropolitan, 1151 1161 ; Midland, 1021 1031 ; North-Eastern (Berwick), 98 99 ; and South Eastern, 661 671. LIVERPOOL COTTON ILIARKE7-711is Day. Market opens dull. Quotations unchanged. Sales probably 8,000 bales. LONDON G6ZEJ:TE.-LA6T EVENING. FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 26. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Adolfo Rivadcueyra as Vice-Consul in the Island of Ceylon, to reside at Colombo, for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. 11. Le Boutillier as Consul at Gaspe Basin, Canada East, for the United States of America. COURSE OF EXCHAVGE.—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 18} Ditto 3 Months. 12 Of Rotterdam A 12 01- Antwerp 2i'. 35 Brussels Hamburg 13 91 Paris .... Short 25 12} Ditto 3 Mouths.2s 30 Marseilles Frankforl on the Maine _7 25 30 120-t Vienna — 12 4U Trieste — 12 40 Petersburgh - 31i Berlin 11 19 12 1 12 1 25 40 25 40 13 10i 25 224 25 35 25 35 1201 12 45 12 45 Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto .. 484 48i 28 Bt. 28 85 28 K. 28 85 28 85 28 85 511 514 481 49 29 0 29 0 29 0 29 0 29 29 0 511 51i SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (By Telegraph.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 27. Grenadier, from Shanghai; Provi dence, from Gravelines ; Vino, from Uddewalla. Arrived, Dec. 28.—Moselle, from Antwerp ; Mary arKI Annie, from Bruges; Jenny, from Dautzic. Sailed—Charente, steamer, for Marseilles. DEAL, Saturday Morning Passed, Dec. 27.—Amber Nympb, for Demerara ; Secret, screw steamer, for Bordeaux ; Rivalea, for St. Übes ; Char lotte Ann, for Nelson— all from London. Anchored, Dec. 28. —City of Quebec, from Calcutta, for London. OFFICIAL GAB.—Some years since a graduate of Yale was asked to contribute towards the support of a society in that college whose object was to train young men in public speaking. He refused and gave his reasons therefor, which may be thus summed up _such societies encourage "gab." There is too much "gab." It will be the ruin of the American people. i won't give a cent to your society. We wish that man, to us he is one of the unhistoric names, could be censor of our official reports. From the President down to the "humble individual" wko sends in a bureau report to Congress, every man of them has the disease of verbose continuance. Congress needs information. We all wish it had more, but it does not need the long, turgid communications which for its sins officials are permitted to inflict upon it, in the shape of " reports." Have these gentlemen no idea that we live in thoughts, deeds, feelings, an d not i n words? Do they know that this is an age of railroads and telegraphs, that the pecuniary interest of the comin nity demands compactness of thought, clearness of infor mation, and brevity of expression? These officials are veritable antediluvians impressed with the beli e f th a t no more becoming contribution can be made to th e nineteenth century than long, turgid reports which lumber the telegraph, encumber the newspaper, in increase the bills for Congressional printing and bore the people. Their profusion of words covers their niggardli ness of ideas. We ask for a dozen on the half-shell, and we get lots of shells, but no oysters. yVe wish every offi cial whose duty it is to report to Congress was compelled to serve an apprenticeship to a daily journal. He would learn that brevity improves the force of communications and secures their reading. We are victims to " Webster's Unabridged" and " Worcester's Dictionary." Will n o t some " official " study "Pilgrim's Progress" before ho writes his next Congressional report, and give us a plain, brief, Anglo-Saxon statement of his own.— Watchman and Reflector. 32k 6 2/ fHE SUN, LON vON, SATURDAY EVEN iNG, DECEMBER 28', 18(37. 5 54 ai 04 4,0 430 a 10 12 li 2 24 14 2 a 8 1) 1i 2 4 5 17 18 17 19 1} 35 37 2} 21 6 15 4} 51 1t 60 70 5 7 BUEIIICRO done. 121 1 I 1:3; 1 45 41 A :5 1131 j 2 la 2; 2 3 2 2i 29 31 390 410 37i 42 4 6 13 14 10 12 66 68 195 205 85 95 16 1J 18 20 85 90 6 8 bar. EXAMINATION OF COLONEL BURKE AND CASEY. BOW-STREET.--(Tnis DAT.) The further examination of Colonel Burke and Theobald Joseph Casey, on a charge of treason felony, was resumed this morning before Sir T. Henry. Mr. Gifford, Q.C., and Mr. Poland appeared on behalf of the Crown to prosecute ; Mr. J. B. Torr and Mr. W. P. M'Donald to defend Burke ; and Mr. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, for Casey. Mr. J. B. Torr said—Before the proceedings commenced he had to offer some observations— Sir T. Henry—This is not the proper time. Mr. Torr said all he wanted to say was that he and his friend appeared for Burke i❑ a professional capacity, and that as a surgeon would when called attend a person with a broken leg, so he appeared for Burke. He should therefore like to know the exact acts, with their dates, that he had to deal with. Sir T. Henry--If you have read the depositions you are quite sure of the facts. Mr. Torr said there were a few circumstances he thought in them— Sir T. Ilenry—Then you can set that right in cross-examination. Now, Mr. GifTard, will you proceed with the prosecution. Mr. Giffard—l wish, sir, to include a person named Mullany, who has been taken into custody since the last examination•in the present pro ceedings. Sir T. Henry—Very well ; let him stand at the The prisoner Mullany was accordingly placed beside Burke and Casey, but on being asked his name he said Henry Shaw. The first witness called was John Fitzpatrick, who said he was a constable in the Irish constabulary foce. On the 7th of March in the present year he arrested ono of the prisoners —the further one. Sir T. Henry—The prisoner Shaw ? Witness—Yes. When I arrested him in the street there were two other men with him named Doherty and Roach. It was about one o'clock, and the three being together I arrested the whole of them. Roach had on his person a box of percussion caps, which he attempted to throw away. I seized Roach by the hand, and ordered the other two constables to take the other men into the bar racks. Roach, on being asked to account for the possession of the percussion caps, said he got them from one of the other prisoners on the Boyne Bridge the same morning. I found a six-barrelled revolver primed and capped on Mullany, who gave the name of Henry Shaw. He said, on being asked, that he had just come from Navan, and that he was going to Dublin. I also found a pocket-book upon him which contained some private letters. Doherty was also searched, and a six-chamber revolver was found on him. It was loaded and capped. The prisoner Shaw or Mullany has been in custody ever since. There had been a rising in Drogheda the night before I arrested him. Sir T. Henry—Shaw, have you any question to ask ? Prisoner—No, nothing. John Joseph Corydon was then called. He said I know the man at the bar as Mullany. I first be came acquainted with him in Liverpool in April or May, 1866. I knew him to be connected with the Fenian Brotherhood. I have seen him at several of the meetings held by the Brotherhood in Liverpool. Burke and Casey also attended those meetings, and also at several houses. I have " chatted " with them on frequent occasions. I was aware of the fact that the Fenian -Brotherhood were purchasing arms from Mullany. He said he had bought them both in Birmingham and Sheffield. I recollect a person named Lawrence very well. He came from the county Cork. He died in Liverpool. Before his death I often saw him with Burke and Mullany. He was a Fenian. Mullany lodged in Salisbury-street, at Mrs. Blackmore's, where I first saw him. There was a person named Farrell, who was " a centre," also lodging with him, and also a man named Burns, from Drogheda. Farrell had charge of the stowage of the arms, and the payment of the rent for the house in College-lane, in which they were deposited. I recollect Farrell and Mul lany going away from Liverpool in consequence of some Greek fire being found in the house at which they lodged. They went off to America. Farrell went in September, 1866, and Mullany a short time after that. I was in their company before they left England, and by that means I became aware of the fact that they were going to Ameriea. Lawrence, I believe, was engaged as an agent to receive arms, and I saw him receive his pay for that duty. Mullany returned to England in the ensuing month of January, 1867. He came back with Colonel M'Cafferty, Captain Rogers, and others, nine or ten in all, who were American offi cers. M'Cafferty since that has been convicted iu Dublin. I have before mentioned a meeting held in Liverpool, over which M'Cafferty presided. It was held a few days before the Chester affair. Mullany was present at the meeting. Mullany was arrested the Sunday before the rising in Birkenhead. I rather think he was taken up for getting drunk. He left for Chester with Captain Doherty. Mul lany, like myself, attended the meeting, where we received instructions for the Chester rising, which was to have taken place on the Monday night. Five or six weeks after that I was ordered off to Dublin. Mul lany was present when I received the orders and money to go. Capt. Beecher, the Fenian paymas ter, presided at the meeting at which I was directed to return to Ireland. I have seen both Mullany and Capt. Doherty in Mayo gaol. Cross-examined by Mr. Torr—l first became acquainted with Mullany in 1866. I met him at the house of a man named Austin Gibbons. I was introduced to him as a Fenian by Captain Wright. At this time I had n ot seen Burke in Liverpool. I first saw Burke in Liverpool in the summer of 1866. It was in Richmond-row, at a meeting-house, that I first heard Mullany speak about the purchase of arms. Captain Lawrence O'Brien, Captain O'Doherty, and all the American officers in Liverpool were at the meeting. I was ignorant of the fact of the buying of arms until that meeting. Mullany said he and Burke had bought and were still buying them ; but he did not mention the names of the persons of whom be had purchased them, or where he had obtained them. I cannot think of the names of all those present at that meeting, but I knew there were about 30 officers present. Michael O'Brien, who was hung in Man chester, Capt. O'Brien, Capt. Deasy, and others, were there, and I recollect them because they were prominent men. I cannot, of course, recollect the names of the whole of the thirty, but I recollect the n ames I have given, because I was more acquainted with them than the rest. Captain Ryan was there, I know, and I nailed them accordingly. Lawrence was a very important person, as much confidence was placed in him. I first saw Lawrence receive money at Gibbon's house ; Beecher paid him ; Burke received some money, and so did I. Mr. Lewis--You don't know Casey ? Witness—No. Re-examined—Michael O'Brien was the man Gould, who was hung at Manchester. Amelia Tye—l live at Birmingham, and am an assistant to Mr. Kylock. I know the prisoner Burke. I first saw him in 1865, shortly before Christmas, in Mr. Kylock's office, I knew him as Mr. E. C. Winslow. Ile wanted to see some percussion caps. I showed him some military ones, and he said he liked the brand, but that he was a novice, as he did not understand them. I told him the amount of stock in the warehouse, and he said he would come the next day and pay for those he had bought. He did not on that occasion give any address. saw him on the following morning when he completed the purchase of 2,000,000 of caps. In the afternoon he went out with Mr. Kylock to purchase some pistols. In the evening 40 revolvers and 250,000 small percussion caps were sent to him. I made up the parcel and placed the caps loosely in the case without fastening. The case was delivered in George-street, and the person who took the box was directed to ask for a Mr. MaHardy. The delivery-book was sent. I k now the third pri soner (Mullany), but merely to the extent of his delivering a letter to me from B' Berke, or as I knew him as Winslow, at Mr. Kylock 's office. I recol lect some ten gun cases being ret' arned. They had originally contained rifles when th were sent from our warehouse to the Curzon -sty Jet railway station. I took there about 25 cases r eturned. Mullany and another man brought the: it back. I never went to 64, George-street myse S. Mr. Lewis—Have you ever m Casey at Bir- mingham ? Witness—No, I have not. Charles Phillips, a ledger cle fk at the Curzon street Railway Station, proved thy: receiving of a consignment note for the forwrreing two cases. They were received on the 26th of!. Decemb',a, 1865, and forwarded to Park-lane Station, Liverpool. Mr. Kylock was recalled and iden:tifie I the note produced by the last witness, as being in the hand writing of the prisoner Burke, anl also the third prisoner, whom he knew as " Mull any." He could not, however, say positively that hei bad seen hi m more than once. Mr. Gifford said, as his learned friend had not had the opportunity of hearing the evidence given by Mr. Klock on the first examination, he proposed that it should be read over to enable him to. direct his cross-examination accordingly. This having been done, Mr. Torr declined to put any questions to witness. In reply to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Kylock said he was of opinion that Casey was not the person he thought he was on the oc casion of his first examination ; he, however, still thought he had seen him at the office of Mr. Window. William. Martin, of the Birmingham police, said I produce a zinc plate taken from the door of No. 64, George-street, Parade, Birmingham. I searched the premises for a second time early in the present month. On my first search I did not go into the cellars, but on my last search I found a number of jars. I don't know what the liquid is, but from my visiting other gunmakers' shops, it seems to be a liquid used for polishing gun stocks. William Whitetread, a gun implement maker, said—l was formerly in the service of Mr. Kylock. I recognise Burke as Mr. Winslow, and I think I have seen the second prisoner (Casey) at Mr. Wins low's offices, in George-street, Birmingham. I have frequently taken letters to George-street for Mr. Kylock. The depositions taken against Burke and Casey on former examinations were then read over, as well against Shaw, after which each witness was re called and resworn. The counsel for the prisoners did not attempt to cross-question either Corydon, Devany, or Inspec tor Thompson. . Mr. Giaard said as the other witnesses were not in attendance he would not that day proceed farther with the case. Mr. Lewis hoped there would now be no objec- tion to Casey being admitted to bail. lie had been detained hitherto only on the charge of assault ing the police, and it was not till this morning that he was charged with treason-felony. The evidence of identification was exceedingly weak, and it was hard that the prisoner should be remanded from week to week whilst the prosecution went angling to see what evidence they could catch. Sir T. Henry—l shall not take bail. The pri soners must be remanded for a week. The prisoners were then removed from the dock. SHARE LlST.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways Paid. C.elompoein.g briaz.ut I,:ceter ( - ;-.11;:don , ortan..... and Bandon Cora Dublin & Belfast J lian„ Perth, & Ab. June. Lonlon, bcrip a; o. . 62 81 73 731 2J SJj 2 4 71 . i 76i' 7U 72 , !Wasrow S. Wcstera Urea' E2.stern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Aug]. at. 10. (ircat ort of ,Seot lain! Great Nortliero A P. tuck Do, 13 stock 95 87 3/ 31 7 15 8 107 09 :t.9; 110 123 145 DO. New, is. at 25 picni tilt 6 and W. ol Itit .Western -Originali Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. Do. South WA les Do. ‘1". Mid. —Usaorol Do. l'SVnt'pOL t DO. tit:rt.:ford Lanosshire Yorkshirt, uidon and Blpckwall :i,on., Coast 'f-ou., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Westert Lou. ,t South Wtsterl , Mau., Shel., Uncoil! Ntetropoirtan....• Do. New 95 9S ii 14 23 :30 28 ►22 y !23 72 1 4J 40 4 18 19 Do. Extewi on . 7 .7 1131 114 ;5 77 441 131 145 117 Aetrupolitan Dolrict 00. do. do — .and ' Midland Do. £9 Share Do, liirrain.. & vi id Kent North Britioh Do. Ed., Ytli., & Dun N th. Eastern Do. G. N •.14.1 Do. York Do. Carlisle ...... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-01 North Loudon .. Do. do. 18;13 5 . . 1)o. do. ISti6 . 103 103 _ - 102 15.4 70 72 33 35 98i 99i 5.1 61 90 92 no 132 _north Stailordshire & S. W. Junction licottish Central ticot. N. 1 ,Aoer. stoc6 uc. Soot, Mid. st Jck Shropshire Union 'South. Devon youth 14_1.fliitern Pitainen„ Wok., & Wok il3 il3 1 lip 53 61 110 112 Vaif Vale Do. C ale of Neath Waterford dc Kilkenny Waterloo & White Wet Cornwall 58 47 42 14 07 07i Si 9) 145 150 8R1T1614 MINES. , Cam. Cousol. Gold, li►a Chiverton kJlifford Amalgamated `Devon G. Coos. Cravist t.)rake,,valls LEast Bassett (illogan) Caradon ;East Cam Brea 11 , . as t Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Lovell E. W'l Russell (Tavistk k.4am.& StAubyn(G weu. Great Laxey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy.-- G. Wheal Vor (11elstma Grenville llerod's Foot •••• Flingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant llarke Valley 34wyndy Iron Ore, llm . . - . . 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The statement that such was the fact must have obtained publicity by the pri soner Mullany, who was examined this morning at Bow-street, in company with Burke and Casey, being mistaken for him, as he was brought to London via the North-Western Railway, and conveyed to safe custody, guarded by a strong body of armed police. POLICE INTELLIGENJE.—This Day, THAMES. THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.—Thomas Grant, aged 24 years, residing at Mapps-row, Stepney, was brought before Mr. Benson, charged with stealing a sucking pig, a leg of pork, and a rump steak, the property of Mr. Allan Bowyer. The prosecutor is a butcher on Stepney-green, and and he said he employed the prisoner on Christmas eve to carry a sucking pig, a leg of pork, and a first rate and very large and juicy rump steak to the house of a Mr. Whitbread. in Stepney-causeway. The meat which was in tended for Mr. Whitbread's Christmas dinner never reached him. Mr. Bowyer saw the prisoner next day and asked him why he did not deliver the meat, and he swore " heart and eyes" he never received the meat. "Why, I gave it you in a basket," said Mr. .Bowyer, and again the prisoner swore " heart and eyes" he never had any meat, never saw any, on Christmas-eve. Mr. Bowyer allowed him to depart, and subsequently spoke to Police-sergeant Briden, a clever detective, No. 4 K, who arrested the prisoner yesterday, and he then said he was drunk when he received the suck ing pig, the leg of pork, and the steak. He after wards wanted to pay for the provisions. Briden would not allow a settlement. Sarah Baker, servant to Mr. Bowyer, saw her mas ter deliver a basket of meat for Mr. Whitbread on Tuesday last. The prisoner was then half drunk and half sober, but knew what he was about. The prisoner impudently said that he never received the meat. Mr. Bowyer—This is not the first time be has made away with meat I have intrusted him to deliver. 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(From the Correspondent of The Field.) THE HAGUE, Dec 19. John Barr, the head falconer of the Champaigne Hawk ing Club, is just now in Holland, at the village of Valkens waard, on the fron'ier of the province of North Brabant, where he is entering the haggards which have been caught for the club by Mellen, the old falconer of the Leo, who resides there. Robert Barr, Mr. Nowcome's falconer, has also been there during the past month for the same purpose ; and two members of the French Club, MM. Julio Alfonsode Aldama and Pierre Pichot, have spent h week at the same place, where I have had the good fortune of accompanying them, and of being initiated in all the details of wild hawk catching. Perhaps a short account of our excursion w 11 be acceptable to the readers of The Field, as it is interesting to ascertain what still remains in our days of one cf the most favourite pastimes of our forefathers. Valkenswaard ewes its origin entirely to falconry, as even its name indicates—meaning, in Dutch, the place whore hawks are kept. Schlegel, it is true, in his mag nificent work on hawking, speaking of that village, says that in days of old (about the first half of the 17th. century) the word was spelt Varkenswaard by some authors, meaning a place where pigs aro kept; but, though these quadrupeds are numerous enough on market days on the large open space of the village, I should rather accept the later but more poetical and sportsman-like spelling. In fact, Valkenswaard is alive with remembrances of the falconry of old ; the greater number of the inhabitants, if not falconers themselves, have had some famous falconer in their family, and the well-known names of Mellen, Bots, Peels, Damns, Boom, &c., are still to be met with in that picturesque little place. Since the completion of the Eindhoven lino of railway, access to Valkenswaard has been made easy enough, either by Rottordem or Brussels, it being the frontier station where the Dutch custom-house officers poke their inquisi tive noses into your trunks and carpet bag. The village is at a short distance from the railway station, and is a charm ing little place. There are about twelve hundred inhabi taLts, who live in pretty little brick houses, neatly tiled or thatched, having something of the appearance of English cottages. Most of them have only a ground floor, and the steep triangular roofs are in general higher than the walls which support them. The shutters are painted bright green, and the windows are set up with small panes of glass. The most important part of the village is a long triangular space, planted with linden trees ; at one end is the town hall—a shabby sort of erection—facing which is the Catholic Church, erected about six years ago. This sort of forum is surrounded by pretty houses, some of them very old ; one of the prettiest on the left is that which belonged to Frank van den Heuvel, Louis XVl.'s last falconer. Next to it is the Falcon Hotel, which is kept by the widow of Bets, the old falconer of the Loo, and in front is Van Best's celebrated cigar manufactory. At nearly every street corner you see swaying to and fro in the wind the signboard of some publichouse or hotel which seems to prove that this was at one time a place of great resort. Indeed, the old people still remember a time when numerous falconers flocked there in the autumn, to purchase the passage hawks caught by the professional hawk catchers who lived there. The birds used then to be sold by auction at the Three Swans, which sign you find on the left, just after passing the house where Mellen now lives. The hawks fetched a high price then, being sometimes knocked down at more than one hundred florins. Another curious signboard is that of the old house still occupied by one of the Mellen family, and which represents a heron deliberately stepping over an owl, while a little bird flies away quite shocked at the long-tilled bird's coolness. I understand that there is some very capital Dutch joke in that painting, but what it was I oonfess I could not well make out. Last, but not least, I will mention the sign of the Falcon—a hooded hawk, sitting on its grass bloc ; and there we took up our lodgings for the week. Of the ac commodation I need say nothing specially, except that it was much more comfortable than might be expected in such an out-of-the-way place. The cookery was very good indeed, and Madame Bots is a famous hand at fried eels and fancy cakes; but the stoves which are used there are most extraordinary apparatus, being nothing more than an iron pipe breaking off into the chimney piece. Coals are put in at the middle, and burn downwards till the machine is red-hot, when the place becomes pretty com fortable ; but we had hard work sometimes to set these economical pipes agoing. Wolf's famous drawing of hawks, illustrating Schlegel's Falconry, were hanging on the walls ; and in the chief public room a few cases of stuffed birds, including two gerfalcons from the Loo, completed the decorations of this true falconer's rendezvous. Shortly after our arrival we went over to Mollen's house to see the newly caught hawks. Tho passage has been a remarkably bad one this year, owing, I dare say, to the western winds which have prevailed during all the autumn, driving the birds of prey more to the east, to wards Prussia. Perhaps, too, the birds of prey were desirous of presenting their compliments to their famous colleague Herr von Bismarck. Be this as it may, after nearly two months' tedious sitting in their lonely huts, Mollen and his men have only succeeded in capturing five falcons and two haggard tiercels, seven red falcons and four red tiorcels, one male goshawk, and five merlins. We found them all on their perches in the hawk-house—a large room which Mellen fits up every year for the pur pose. Some of them are beautiful birds ; the 'laggards in adult plumage are particularly so, and one old bird which Barr designated " Old • Granny," whose age it would be hard to guess, would have offered to a painter a perfect model of the noble Peregrine. On a smaller perch and curtains the merlins were placed. Two of them are old moulted males, very elegant indeed, and getting remark ably tame with little Karl, Molten's youngest son, who will grow up I hope to be a good falconer in time, as he has taken a great liking for the noble pursuit. We called one of our hawks " little Karl," after him. The number of huts set out each season for catching the passage hawks depends greatly on that of the hawks ordered. But even a few huts can command, on those flat plains, a very large extent of ground, and bring to the net all the hawks which fly by, though much apart from each other. Th:s year Molten had three huts out on the heather; one close toValkenswaard, halfway between that village and Heeze ; the other near Blois do Due, and the third on the Belgian part of Brabant. This hut was mis chievously destroyed one night, the nets cut to pieces, and the butcher birds and pigeons let loose. Happily the pas sage was then nearly at an end ; but, though it was quite finished when we arrived in Holland, Mollen had kindly kept tho nearest hut out to show us how the thing is managed. Of all the modes of catching wild hawks the Dutch sys tem is certainly the most curious. The hut is built out in an open place on the heather, from which one can com mand a good view of all the environs. It is built up of turf sods to the height of about five feet, and is large enough to conceal one or two perscns. The roof is made of an old cart wheel, which answers perfectly well, being easily covered with turf. This ancient practice of using a cart wheel is so much adhered to, that falconers are in the habit of saying that hawks will not come if the traditional wheel is dispensed with! This wheel may therefore be called the talisman of falconry. The entrance to the hut is generally made to open towards the east, as the wind and rain do not usually come that way, and the door is carefully covered up with turf. A long and narrow window is made in the hut, just under the 'edge of the cart wheel, and can be opened by taking off the sods on either side of the hut according to the direction of the wind ; for it would be very disagreeable to the falconer to have it blowing directly into the little room where he keeps his long and dreary watch. At twelve feet distance from the hut, and just before the window, two mounds of earth and sods are built 15 feet apart from each other; these mounds are four feet high by two feet' broad 'on the top, on which a flat turf sod forms a sort of platform. On this platform a little bower of turf is neatly arranged, with its opening towards the window of the hut, and three little wands are bent in a semicircle mid stuck around it. This is the butcher-bird's recess. The little captive is tied by a sort of brace which encircles its body, and he perches on the wands, being continually occupied with eating chopped meat placed in a hollow stick, and all the while keeping a careful look-out. Two poles, about four or five yards in height, are next raised up at about forty yards from the butcher bird's mounds, and about 20 yards apart from each other. To the summit is tied a string which falls loosely down, and goes into the hut where both ends are tinier com mand of the watcher. At the foot of one of these poles a captive hawk is tied to the string by means of a swivel, and a little lower down a rough bunch of feathers. By pulling the string, the hawk and bunch of feathers are hauled into the air; and then the hawk bates and shakes the bunch of feathers. To the string of the second pole is tied a live pigeon, who can seek for shelter under a little hut made of turf. The use of this will be presently explained. The nets—three in number for large hawks, and one for merlins or sparrow hawks—are eet at about 150 yards from the hut. They are clap nets of fine thread, and made to close by a wire which runs into the hut. At 30 feet behind each net is a little box made of turf, in which is kept a live pigeon. The pigeon can be drawn out of the box by means of a string which runs through the middle of the net, and passes through the eye of an iron pin stuck in the centre. The nets are placed north west, south, and south-east ; the merlin net is not so far away from the hut, but only about 10 yards off. A little live bird is tied in the centre to a sort of lever, which by means of a string can be made to move. Things being thus disposed, the falconer gets into his hut early in the morning, and while he smokes his pipe he keeps an attentive look out on the movements of the butcher-birds. These no sooner see a hawk in the dis tance than they set up a shrill croak, and look up to the sky in the direction in which the bird of prey is coming. They become quite restless as he approaches, and lastly pop into their bower for shelter, showing the greatest signs of alarm. From time to time the falconer, by tighten ing the pole strings, sends the decoy pigeon flying into the air, or by acting on the string to which the hawk is attached, and thus displaying a sham fight between the hawk and the bunch of feathers, which is supposed to be a wild and live quarry, he calls the attention of the passing birds of prey. Now. there is a point from one or other of the butcher-birds, and as the wild hawk approaches their alarm gets to its highest pitch. When the falconer judges the hawk to be sufficiently near, he lets the pole-pigeon creep back into its lodge and the decoy-hawk rest on the ground, and then, by means of the string, he draws the other pigeon out of its box, the trapdoor by which it was confined closing back as the pigeon is drawn out. Happy to be loose, the pigeon flutters about ; but now there is a stoop from the Peregrine, who is, however, shy at times, and does not bind its prey at once. " Old Granny," the hawk I have already mentioned, made eight or nine stoops before fixing on the lure. When, however, this is done) the pigeon is drawn slowly into the net by means of the string which passes through the eye of the pin, and them the bow or clap-net is pulled rapidly over it. One could scarcely imagine how interesting it is to see the active guard mounted by the butcher-birds. As we wanted to witness all the prociedings, we cincr;aled our selves in the hut, while at about two miles distance R. Barr let loose our little tierce], "La Tremoille." Imme diately there was a point from the butcher-birds; the de coys were acted upon, and, as the butcher-birds crept shrieking into their bower, Mollen pulled the net-pigeon. There was a stoop, then another, and, as La Tremoille began plucking his bird, wo might easily have closed the net over him. We lot him kill the bird, however, and waited for Barr, wh - i soon came up. As he was taking up the hawk, Mellen thought he would have a joke at his expense, and tried to pull the net over Robert's head as he was leaning on the ground, but the wire broke, and the joke was against us. We stopped eight days at Valkenswaard, and a pleasant time we had of it, spending all our time with the h iwks and studying their management. In the daytime we used to go and fly them at the lure on the heather. The fine style in which both Barrs manage that instrument must be seen to be credited ; indeed the Dutch falconers, good as they are, were quite pleased to witness it, having never during the Loo's brightest days called tboir hawks otherwise than by a live pigeon in a string, which is quite sufficient for heron hawking. They used also to tame their hawks very slowly, not requiring them before the month of May ; but John Barr, requiring the service of his 'sirds in France as soon as possible, has introduced the, Indian practice of keeping the birds awake until tamed. in the evening we sat round the stove in the public room of the Falcon, each with _a bird on his fist, while some played at cards or at draughts, and smoked, Van Best's cigars, which are excellent, and cost a mere trifle—less than a halfpenny apiece. What a pretty picture a painter might have drawn of this scene, which called to my mind more than once the poetical romances of the middle ages ! During our stay we went once to see the cemetery of the village, hoping to discover some souvenirs of the an cient falconers, but ware sorry to find that no monument was there to tell of the Van den Heuvels, the Damns, the Peels, the Daankers of old. The earth mounds over their tombs have been beaten down, and nothing tells of their existence. There is, however, there the tomb of an Eng lishman -Mr. Hammond—who died at Valkenswaard twenty-five years ago, having lived for several years in the village, where he took great interest in the hawks which were kept there at the time. His is the only stone on which a name can be read. At last snow,set in and covered all the heather; and, as we probably should not be able for some time to do any thing with the hawks in the open, we quitted with regret the kindly inhabitants of Valkenswaard—leaving, however, the Barre behind us, as there better than anywhere else they can complete the education of their new recruits. We had no sooner reached the Hague than the story of our sojourn in Brabant spread like wildfire, everybody wondering at the idea of strangers having spent a whole week in a little unknown place to study all the details of the old craft. Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, who formerly took much interest in the Loo Club, graciously invited MM. Alfonso and Pierre Pichot to the Palace, where a most agreeable interview took place. Her Ma jesty seemed to take great interest in all that was said to her respecting falconry by the two members of the French club, being the only woman, perhaps, in our days, who knows anything about hawks. She inquired after Mr. Newcome and several of the old members of the Loo, and expressed her regret that falconry should have fallen so much out of use. Then, turning to other topics, she quite captivated my travelling companions by the knowledge she displayed of everything relative to art and literature. H.H. the Prince of Orange was equally kind to both MM. Alfonso and Pichot, who had several times the honour of being entertained at his delightful palace of the Noorhout. The Hague is a charming town, prettily built, and most picturesque, when covered with snow, as we saw it. Life there is as calm and peaceful as in some quiet English town, and the society most amiable and refined. We were met by the most cordial welcome from everybody, and enjoyed very pleasant receptions in some of the salons, where a small but choice assembly of pretty women and most agreeable men seemed to strive to make us forget our home. This, lam ashamed to say, for my part I was very near doing ; but, alas! like the decoy pigeons I have just deserib3d, I am tied by a string to a large hut, which is Paris, and already my falconer is pulling me back. I therefore leave the Hague to-morrow, but with the hope of returning again; and my wishes are that on my next voyage I may have some hawking to tell about. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MENTS. On the sth ult., at 1.45 p.m., Mrs. Allan out of the Liver pool Autumn Cup. On the 16th inst., at 9 a.m., Arundel out of the Doning km Hunt Open Steeplechase. _ On the 16th inst., at 9 a.m., Lawrence out of Idetropoli an Handicap at Kingsbury. On the 17th inst., at 9 a.m., Mother of Pear], Orleton, and Cabin Boy out of their Manchester engagements. On the 18th inst., at 9 a.m., Corkscrew out of his Kings bury engagements. On the 23d inst., at 9 a.m., Cabin Boy, Orleton, Trium pher, Ace of Trumps, and Black Swan out of their Ealing engagements. On 23d inst., after 6 p.m., King Alfred out of his Ealing engagements. On tho 2 ith inst., at 9 a.m., Elegance out of the Doning ton Park Handicap Hurdle Race. On the 24th inst., at 9 a.m., The Swell (dead) out of all his engagements. On the 24th inst., at 9 a.m., Grey Peter (dead) out of all his engagements. On the 26th inst., at 9 a.m., Endsleigh out of the Don- Ugton lark Handicap Hurdle Race. Oa the 27th inst., at 11.35 a.m., Chimney Sweep out of he St. Albans Open Steeplechase. NOMENCLATURE. Mr. J. Markwell's : Colt foal by Adventurer out of Sister to Rap- parse, by Rataplan ... ... ... Mr. G. Angell's yearlings : ... Speculator. Brown colt (lato Loving Cup) by D ... ... ... ... ... ... Cupbearor. Bay filly by Caractacus out of Lady Abbess... Ursala. Lord Anglesey's : Chesnut filly foal by Oxford out of Her High ness ... ... Ladybird. RACING FIXTI FEBE RES FOR 1868. JARY. Lincoln lB Harrow 2O Nottingham Spring 25 Darby Spring MA: Liverpool Spring M 3 Chelmsford Spring M 10 West Drayton l2 Epsom Spring Meeting 24 Northampton AP: Durham Hendon l3 Newmarket Craven 13 M./ Chester 5 Winchester York Spring Salisbury l4 Lewes Spring Newmarket Ist Spring 27 Bath ... 19 Croydon Ist Summer ... 21 Harpenden Epsom Summer NE. West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer 2 Ascot Summer 9 Windsor Summer • JII Worcester Summer Newmarket July 7 Reading Liverpool l6 Bibury Clubt. 23 Stockbridge Chelmsford Summer I Alexandra Park 3O LY. Huntingdon 2l Nottingham July Goodwood AUG Brighton Brighton Club 6 Lewes Summer Wolverhampton ll Stockton Windsor Egham lB Hastings UST. York Oxford Canterbury IDerby Summer Weymouth 1 Lichfield 1 Tunbridge SEPT] Warwick 1 Abingdon 3 Leicester Doncaster 8 Richmond 1 :.11BER. Kelso l7 Hendon l7 Monmouth . l9 Newmarket Ist October 22 West Drayton 29 MLR. OCT Bedford 1 Newmarket 2d October 5 Cheltenham l3 Newmarket Houghton 19 Worcester STEEPLECHASES. JANUARY, 1868! Manchester • 1 I Fading Birmingham FEBRUARY. -- 11,12 I Lincoln MARCH. 7, 8 Grand Military l6, 17 Cheltenham „ 26, 27 On Thursday Earl Vane attended the opening ceremony of a now infirmary at Sunderland, which has been erected at a cost of £20,000. His lordship intimated that it was probable the Prince of Wales would visit the town in February, and assist at the opening of the exten sive new docks there. ZCH. 'RIL. coin' [len r the ➢la - Prin ,rager Ding. It out ~miJl y Mr. lotel , g at 7tain . The of the