The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

MONTEY MARKET AND JOMMEROIAL [I , ITELLIDE NCR, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a very limited attendance in all depart ments of business in the City to-day, and the Stock Exchange being closed there is uo information on this head to report. The Etna, from New York, on the 14th Dec., has arrived at Queenstown. She brings pOO,OOO, and £1,500 in specie, value £61,500. A petition has been presented to the Court of Chancery by E. H. J. Craufurd, Esq., M.P., chair man of the Board of Directors, to wind up the County and General Gas Consumers' Company (Limited), a company of considerable importanc.:, stai ted some 11 years since, and having numerous gasworks in different parts of the country. Vice- Chancellor Malins has appointed Mr. W. J. White, of 33, King-street, Cheapside, public accountant, provisional 'liquidator, associating with him Mr. R. S. Parker, the secretary. Mr. Peckham, of Great Knightrider-street, is the solicitor in the matter. An extraordinary general meeting of the United Discount Corporation (Limited) will be held on Friday, .10th proximo. The Anglo-Austrian Bank will be prepared to Pay on and after the Ist proximo Coupon No. 4, due on that day, at the rate of 6s. per share, free of income tax. The payment of a second dividend of 2s. in the pound to the creditors of the Patent Carriage Com pany (Limited) is announced for Saturday next, at the offices of Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Winlet, and Evans, No. 3, Coleman-street-buildings. A further dividend is announced to the creditors of the European Bank of 2s. 6d. in the pound, pay able at Messrs. Hardy, Whinner, Gibbons, and Co.'s on the 30th and 31st inst. The liquidators antici pate being enabled to declare another distribution in January next. The Master of the Rolls has de clared a further dividend of ss. in the pound, mak ing 205., payable on the 30th inst. The traffic receipts on the Ottoman Railway for the week ending the Bth December amounted to 801. roubles, £1,040 245., and for the correspond ing period of last year on the same number of miles to £l,OOO ss. ld., showing a decrease of £39 17s. 3d. Messrs. Alex. Collie and Co., of Manchester, under date 24th Dec., state that the tone of this market has continued almost unchanged since last Tuesday ; and although transactions have not been individually extensive they appear to have been numerous, as the desire of manufacturers to effect sales does not amount to any important concession in prices, which are only nominally lower. There is but little addition being made to stocks ; the mills generally are running full time, and by latest telegrams from the East covering rates seem to be fairly maintained. With regard to the tea trade, -Messrs. William, James, and Henry Thomson report that business during the past week has been extremely dull and quiet, and many of the dealers have closed their transactions for the year. By official returns the duty payments last month, at the outports, were very large, making the total deliveries for the United Kingdom reach up to . that date to 135,000,0001b5. The public sale, held on the 17th inst., was extremely small, as advised in our last, and consisted only of 2,753 packages; prices generally remained unaltered. The China mail is expected on the 27th inst. The latest telegrams date from Hongkong to the 25th November. The arrivals have been the Coral Nymph, on the 17th ; the Star of China, on the 19th ; the Mary Whitridge, on the 21st, from Shanghae ; the Atma, from Canton, and the Caldevr, from Foe Chow, on the 20th inst., and the Chal gruve, from Canton, to-day. BRITISH FUNDS.--CLOSING PRICES. TUBsDAY. 41CTERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per UWIG. COLIS016 D.). Account, 3 Per Cant. Reduced New 3 per Cent 921 i th 3 iN' 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Du. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jau , 188 t, — Do. for 30 yrs, aspire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Seat Televaph), Au,,., 190 g — B tchcquer Bills, .£l,OOO, 2 et 21 per Ct 25 9 pm Do £5OO pat Do. £lOO & .£2OO — Pul Bank of England Stock, 4-k per Cent — Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. bi per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 — Do. do. , 1877 — Do. do. 1882 — Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £1,000 Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Arge n tine Republic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 13 razilirtn 5 per Cent — Do. 44 per Cont., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Da. 5 per Cant., 1865 Do Account 76 i 6 Do. £lOO Bonds — Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — D ) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) L' iba, 6 per Cent, eatlian 6 per Cent — Do. 44 per Cent — tio. 6 per Cent., B . Do., 1867 • 884 / Do., 7 per Cent., 1866 Do., Scrip' £32 paid a " mina ii, 6 per Cent. nuaisti, 3 p , r Cent, 1825 D .nubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 644 Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — Xisuador New (consolidated, 1. per Gem — 4 gyptiar, 7 per Cent 864 1) 0. Second Issue — D '. £5 )O Bonds Do. .£IOC Bonds BB4 no. 1864 bo. 4510 Bonds... Do. £lOO Bonds... Government Railway Debentures 93 Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups; bo. Account bo. Coupons D ~. o. Account t_i. tatentunt 5 per Cent .. — It iiian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do. Account Do. Maremmana Itaiway )o . 9 xietul 3 per Cent Ditto for Account 15 . 11 Do. 1864 74 Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — A lontevidvau C per Cent. . — Itoorish Imperial 5 per Cent viow Granada — Do 3 per Gen Do. Deferred , Do Land Warrants (Hectares) r erTriat 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account 73 24 3; Do 44 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 , Do Account r ertuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, 6, '7, 9,60,'2,'i> 394 4 Raman 5 per Cent., 1822, ..£ St B6 i Do 44 per Cent. 1850 Do 45 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutcb, 1861, £lOO Bonds — De, do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B 7; 4 do. £B4 15s. do — ardinian, 5 per Cent 714 'Panish 3 per Oen — Do Ace , iunt Do New Deferred Do Account - Do Passive... Po Accrant .- 1 0 Corn. Cert. of Cour. not fuuded ... , Do Account ' lA rkish 6 per Cont., 1851 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds D 0 Do. 1863 -° 5 per Cent., 1865 331 -1)3 Account D 83 D ° 0 Viper Cent., .r.J .... . 26 5} s;tl 61 621 v - por Cent:, Guaranteed enezuela, 3 per Cent. ~ -00 Account — 1) ° 6 per Cent '-' 0 6 per Cent. 1864 1862 — Dividends on the above payable in Londoi• ,tustrlsu 0 par Cent. Ex 10 Florins Dutchsigian, q per cent., Ex. 25f. Do 2* per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,, ....., • 4 Per Cont. Certificates .... drenchit, ltentes, 3 per Cont., Ex. 25f. — 1, 14 " , 5 per tlont. 1831, Ex. 25i Do. Account • 45 4f C onsols M THREE O'CLOCK. liDo. ,icco one nnt y 9 21 i --- ~,,,,,,, m„.". 00000 ~ 00000 .oo 92i I* 'rinse 'rinse born let at also i n the Norbert id moat iven to justice been 1111 for on of Ls the F. The classes a poor tteuded :10thing i gh the ad pre' re now n eces' of her .orningo b on her )$ towid old, at which pposing he care uct and as long uld the to the 224,0 0 ° .cklace, arriage, becom e N'orbert aritable dajesti is i n g of - I t , ru es , id from I m ll4 ted by or fatal' of hot ;h vege: up and e are ill ie poor Ike j i to l parab 3niers-- of 11 0° al given d r iving .est nni ched bY. at onc e of the 21st of r Duna ° II een 011 P Le bocIP w ith II ;ted and )oullei l 333rt. ' exit gift o wroe o .onet to ted t he ificatios ed with share: L orna° ~ Z ) Ca il l, : for t , " pr• 316 Or he o f lir' inted to v i vi g h e 011 . 4 6 have °"- in Or ,000,000 o nl f r vii seveil" Dab llll s raig,ll h. ;ficie lic a en, V ion cla s ' 231 -tba t ° her tin f ng ele t ° lenc y of °' rt ‘ were as _ rkni e o, the oe. 01 0 t tt ePAY °, g ive of- SHARE LIST.. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. i Paid.l Closing Business Price. done. at Bristol ano Exeter .... - 100 81 83 811 et Valedonian ...»... 100 73 73/ 71/ 41 31 at Uanibrian . - Work and Bannon • - - 10 'ornwall all 2 4 at üblin & Beliaat June IOJ 74 76 st un„rerth,& Ab.Junc ,.60 70 72 100 i111.Lon:lon, scrip Cc-: ,i, all - - Do. 100 - - d st Glasgow kS. Western 100 93 87 at ;Great Eastern, Ord.stk. 100 3 , 1 Ai 315 at I Do. E. Angl. at. N 0.2 107 7 8 f st 'Great North of Soo tlan 100 15 6 at Ilireat Nortnern 2OO 107 08 108 at D.,. A stock lOO 1.0 111 lill at Do. 41 stock lOO 123 125 at Do. New, is. at 25 pw 10 - - at iitS. and W. 01 irelanc 100 96 9S at Gt. Westezu -Origins. lto 44 115 44 5 I at Do. 6. Val. Itail gea. 100 - - at Do. south Wales - - et Do. W. Mid.-Oxtort l6O 25 3) at Do. Newport lOO 29 31 at Do. Hereford lOO - et Lancashire & I:orksitir, 100 121 121 1211 21 2 et I ondon and Blackwali 103 -I, - , at 1 on., Brigh.,& S CoaK 10 , 50 a 5O * at I on., Chat., and Dove; 100 18 19 i Pf a 1 at Do. Metrup. Ex. A lOO - - ! at Lun. & North Weston lOO 1135 114 1315 14 131 at Lon. ez South Wester' lOO 75 77 j 76 at Man., She., & Lincolc 100 41E 05. t at ,Metropolitan..... all .15 117 116 i I/16 1 at Do. New lO - - at Do. Extension...., all 105 106 1055 65 6 et f Metropolitan Dbstriet all -- - 77 20 ( Do. do. to. 10 - - 10 Do. and St. John's WN., 6 - - et Midland - Do. .£9 Share 7 - - et Do, Birmin...t Dart); 100 70 72 - 3lid Kent . - - et North British at Do. Ed., Ptly, & Dun lOl - - et Nth. Eastern-.Berwie, 100 985 99} 9SI 91 25 Do. LI-01•111 purchas , '6.13.1 - - et Do. Leeds et Do. York lOO 90 92 911 et DG. Carlisle ~ ... ..... 100 - - et Do. Stock. & Darling all 1:-,0 132 35 Do. do. 1860-61 IS -•--- P at North London .. lOO • 113 115 - Do. do. 1863 5 . lO - - 10 Do. do. 1866 at North Stallordshire .. 100 0) 61 et pl. &S. W. Junction .. all 110 112 - 23eottish Central - -- - Scot. N. E , Aber. stool LOU - - - Do. Scot, Mid. atnok - - at Shropshire Union at South Devon ,OO 42 14 at (south E4atern 20 'Staines, Wok., he Woi-. all 85 91 at rad' Vale li, 145 ;50 10 Do. C - - - - V ale of Neath - - - Waterford & Kilkenn , 100 - 10 Waterloo & Whitely( 6 - - West 430rnw411 100 - _ BRITISIa MINES. Cam. Consol. Gold, Um 1 - - - 'hlverton - ( 'lifford Amalgamated 3O 55 6, - i evon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 4zo 430 - ' rakewalla 2.1.0 1 / - East Bassett (Illogan) 205 10 12 - :set Caradon 2.14.0 6 6 - . 'set earn Brea 3l 2 24 - i Grenville . ... 2.14.0 15 2 - East Gunnialake .. 8.3. e 1 5 - East Lovell 3.9.0 8 1 - E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 15 2 - Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 06 4 5 4 Great Laxey, limited., all 17 18 - Great South Tolgua 0.14.0' - - -- Great Wheal Busy-- 11.9.0 - - - G. Wheal Vor (Lielst.q ll4 17 19 - Grenville _ 9.0.6 11 15 - ilerod's Foot .... 8.10.0 35 37 - tlingston Downs 1.10.6 25 21 - Margaret tUny Lelant 13.17.6 6 6 - ilarke Valley 4.lu.i. 45 0, 4 liwyndy Iron Ore, Um 35 25 11 - New S ton ...... - North toskear . 3B.i 5 7 - S.Wh Bassett(illogan 1.1.0 - - - North Wheal Crotty - erosper United 8.11.0 2 25 - Providence ,Uny Lelan t 10.6.7 29 St - Caradon (St. Cleer) l5 09) 410 - iouth Condurrow (.2.0 5 1 -i. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 375 42) - r3tray Park 35.15.6 4 6 - rin Croft.. . , V 13 14 - Vigra and Clugan, lira.. all - - - Weal Bassett (Mogan .. la / 11 - W. Caradon (L(akeard 1: 1) .2 - West Chi verton ll 66 68 - Wes t. Seton 475 195 zO5 - - Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 is 95 - Wheal Buller (Bedruth 16 16 1 i - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 18 20 - Wheal Seton -- Wheal Trela.vviley (Lie 5.17.0 6 8 BRITISH YOSSESSIO.NB. 1 ,, J ivtlantic&St.Lawrence all 53 65 t Botn.,Baroda, a' Cen.ln. 1 0 0 1(4 1(5 f gu. 5 per cent... •:.0 Do. It 'shares lO p fp Ai Buffalo & Lake Huron all 3} 4 10 Do. Preference ButL,Brziut,&fioderich {oof - u p.c. 1872-3-1 ... 100 63 71 at ~ ,;alc.itta &S. E., lim.. luo - - at ,aic Town .t Dock, go 10u 18 2 , 2 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p• all 119 1t,2 3t r.:ast. lien,fal, gu., sdv 100 13 164 st tCast I.ldiau, gu. 5, p.c., 100 11U 11(.4 WI I i 4 Do. ~ hict,cnbion. .. i,, - - at •, and urunko.t Canada tut. .7 t 8 190 do. Ekelip. :Jon, Bond, 1 en.' rge 6 p.c aft :3 8.; 100 .. t o. Ist I'ref. Bonds all 5U 52 100 to. do deferred .., a.,i - - too tie. 20 Prtt. Bonin all 10 45 Ind :.. o. do. deterred - 100 ;)0.11,1. Pref. ateck 3ll 12 31 100 : ht. rl ,- :. ri , lerred - 100 ;.,•.. i-tl, Pref. stock 100 l)o. do. deterred - - at ~;t. India Pen. gut'. 5p lOO 107 leB 109,i it 93 0. Gas. 5 per cent lB - 2i• 20 Do. New gua. sp. o 6 - 2 e at •: t. South of India gua. 5 per cent st Do 42 per cent lo u2 92 94 - - 20i , ireat 'Wes. of Canada all 15j 154 lk il7 204 Do. New .. 100 Do. 6p. e lira. pay. 167:i all 95 27 100 :Jo. 50 do. pay. 1577-8.. all 65 ,7 10 Indian Branch, limited 3 t i I at Sladras, gua. 5 p.c .... 100 100 102 it Do. 41 do lOO 93 95 st Do. 43 do lOO 89 91 29 Do. Fifth Exteusdoe 5 - • st 31elb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. 100 - - 50 lel. & Dobson's iSay all - - at N.111.1.1' da, 6pc Ist pf.ha LOU 83 85 st Snide .. .. l OO 100 101 104 at Do. Delhi 1 a n 0 ~; i ICOi . 10!i 20 Do. do ..1 ti a.:, 15 i}p at Do. Puniaub..... m.e, toe 99 1110 at Do.lndua St.Flot 4 ° 100 65 17 G00:111N5IFINT SECUI(ITI ! British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1572 100 Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja.kJuiy 1877-84 Do. 6 T .. c. Feb. & Aug 1•0 101 le3 103 Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 100 101 1,3 • Do. sp. c. Jan. (lt July 100 90 92 91 Do. sp. c. inscribed sk 100 89 91 °apt; (i.llope. 6 p.c.1873 100 1(2 104 Do.Apl.&oo .1890-1900 100 1(6 108 Do. do 1880-9 v 100 1(4 1,6 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 100 107 It 9 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 95 i 7 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.t ieu - - Do. 1878, do tan 11) nei Mauritius, 6p. c, Jan. and July Do. 1.‘z78 100 166 168 0. 188'2, stay 15, Nov. 10: , 105 107 Do. 1815, Feb. & Aug lOO te7 lue Natal 'joy. 6 per cent loo 1(4 106 N.B.Gov.6p.c.JaAJuly 160 it 3 105 N. S.W. Gov.s p•0.,1866 100 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 100 98 00 f 9.31 Do. 5 p.c. ISBB to 1895 100 971 996 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 Do. 5 per cent.... Nova &Ala Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 1:10 102 104; Queensland Gov. Gp. c. 100 103 1(5 104 8. A.u.s. Gov. 6 p.c. 1868-9 100 - Do. 1878 & upwards lO 110 'll Vio,Gov. t3p.c.Ja &July 100 Do. do. April & Oot lOO 110 112 111 WES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, Buckinghamshire, 94 KEY' 1.1 HEN CE 1:1A11104. .rest Eastern. E. Counties Ex.. No. 2. 75 tireat Northern, s.per cent. rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 1051 I'REFERENCE B:IA.R.ES ANL) STOCKS London and North-Western, 5 per cent., 1091 • south Eastern, 5 per coot. Charing-cross, 1863, 92 r•OItIJGN RAILWAY Dutch Rhenish, 20} Ditto, <4 Ditto, new. 2f Great Luxembourg*, 8/ Mexican, 11w., 4 1-16 FOREIGN MIN/4:13. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, :lim., 31- Don Pedro. Nor.h Del Rey, 2t pm Port Phillip, if Rossa Grande, Yudan.krautana of South Australia, lim. BANliti. Agra. liru., A, 71 Australasia, 6 t 1 Bank of ~tago, lim., 5} 1 Imperial Ottoman, London and River Plate, Ditto, new. 11 I.ondon Chartored BanK of Australia, 231 London Joint Stock, 35 Ditto, new, 23 1 widen and ,% estminster. 681:1 Midland Bank, lira., 19* 6 New South Wales, 4', 5i Union of Australia, 516 MISCELLANEOUis, Anglo American Telegraph, 19 k Ave- Atexican 3lint, 16 Atlantic felegraph, o, 8 per Jeut., 891 * Bombay Gas, lim., Ditto, ne ,v, 21 Credit ieoncier of England, Jim.. 3 3-:6 Ebbw Vale, 101 Egyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egypt. Goy., 91 Ditto, Scrip, 1* Gen. credit anti Discount, tim.. 5 t-16 International Financial ,ociety, iim., 2 11-18 Peninsula and Oriental *team, 56 5 Ditto, new, 1867,4 Royal Mil Steam, 621 Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance. Thames and Mersey Marine. Insurance, W. 1., 4f United Kingdom Telegraph Co., lim., Upper Assam Tea. lim . 41 DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. A Cornish man, who has attained the age of 101 years, was buried at Truro on Monday. The deceased was by trade a thatcher, and enjoyed good health up to a fortnight o f his death. THE NEW . FACTORY ACT.—On Wednesday, the Ist proximo, the new act on factory extension will take effect, and has reference to factories in the United Kingdom whore 50 or more persons are employed There are temporary and permanent modifications in the tatue. Share! THE SUN, LO N LION MAIVCIIPSTER EMIC'ATION COMMITTP,E. The Committee on , Education, which holds its sittings at the Manchester Town Hall, has decided upon taking such action as shall result in the reintroduction of the bill prepared under its auspices, and which in the last session of Parliament was introduced into the House of Colh mons by Mr. Bruce, Mr. W. E. Forster, and Mr. Alger non Egerton. Arrangements are being made for a Conference, to be held in the Town Hall, Manchester, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 15th and 16th of January next, and it is hoped that the committee will secure the attendance of the most influential friends of education, of all political parties and religious denominations. The bill introduced last session, and the provisions of which will be discussed at the Conference next month, is per missive in its character, and, when passed, it may be adopted by the ratepayers in any boron,;h or district. When so adopted, it the administration of the fund in the I of school committee, elected by the to a) , in m ..- cipal boron, and by the rat payers in otlic d wl.O have power to call upon the overseers, or ot.ier local authority, to levy a rate for educational purposes. It adopts existing schools as the basis of its operations, and only contemplates the establishment of new schools, on the failure of voluntary effort to supply, after due notice, any deficiency of school accommodation. Trustees or managers may, under the provisions of the bill, place their schools in union with the school committee, either as free schools or aided schools, and receive payment per head for the attendance of the scholars on compliance with such conditions as will secure the efficiency of the schools and protect the rights of conscience ; but with out the sehool committed acquiring thereby any right to interfere with the internal management, disci pline, or instruction, in such schools, otherwise than to see that the conditions of union are com plied with by the managers, and thus what is commonly called the religious difficulty is entirely avoided. The principle of the bill is local rating, for the support of free and aided schools, with local administration of the funds ; anion of existing schools without interference with their internal management ; and security for the rights of conscience, without violating the convictions of school managers ; a power of appeal being given in all cases to the Queen in Council. It is proposed that Mr. Bazley shall, ,when the bill is in committee, introduce certain clauses, with a view to compel the attendance of children at school. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FREEDOM OF WOE' SHIP.—A prize is offered by this association for the best " scheme of operations " for awakening Church authorities, seat-holders, and the nation at large, to the wrong and mischief of excluding the great mass of the people—the working classes—froM the national churches by the pew system. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST GREEK FIRE AT THE GO VERNMENT OFFICES. -At the offices of the Board of Trade, the Privy Council, and other Government esta blishments, the precaution has been taken of having the flooring leading to the several departments strewn with sand, and supplies of sand kept in readiness in the event of the buildings being attempted to be destroyed by means of Greek fire. • TUE EASTERN FISHERIES. —Taking the season as a whole, it is feared that the herring fishery on the eastern coast this year will not prove quite up to the average, as, since the 20th ult., when stormy weather set in, the quantity of fish secured has been comparatively small. The sales made during the last few days have been at from £l7 to £2l per last (13,200 fish). CONSISTENCY.—A political scene, which in any other country and with any other actor would he thought extraordinary, was witnessed in Ballymoney, County Antrim. An Orange soirée was held at which Mr. John Rea, of Belfast, who had been specially invited to attend, made a speech, in which h e avowed the utmost sympathy with the Orangemen, eulogised them as the stalwart sup. porters of liberty, complained that he had been misrepre sented to them, and declared his intention to devote him self to their interest for the future. Only a month has elapsed since Mr. Rea delivered a vehement speech in Belfast, denouncing the Fenian executions, and declaring that had he been in Manchester he might have been one of the prisoners. He has all hti life been ranged with the Liberal party fighting fiercely to overthrow Orange in fluence. The apparently irreconcilable inconsistency may, perhaps, be accounted for by the supposition that he is endeavouring to promote the formation of a great Democratic league in the North—an object which other polit'cians have in view in contemplation of an Irish Re form Bill. FORTUNE OF THE LOTTERY.—Not a little amuse ment has been afforded to the Viennese lately by an eccentric illustration of the humours of the lottery. The day after the drawing of the quarter-million prize, a trimestral sensation in Vienna, the intelligence spread far and wide over city and suburbs that a female under-cook in the light pastry department of that good and great institution, the Archduke Charles Hotel was the owner of the 225,000 number, and soon a host of congratulators assailed Mr. Schneider's domain, and insisted upon visit ing the culinary department, in order to offer their heart felt and disinterested felicitations to the Lady of the Rolling Pin. In vain she denied the good fortune ascribed to her—her denegations were received with respectful, incredulity, and attributed to great astuteness of charac- . ter ; assurances of friendship, protestations of affection, were showered upon her ; and she was overwhelmed by half a dozen marriage proposals in the course of an after noon. How many beautiful and accomplished girls have waited a life-long without one such request being addressed to them ! The cream of the joke is, of course, that she really had not even possessed a share of a lottery ticket, far less drawn the first prize, and that the whole mystifi, cation was got up by some cynical young lions of finance as a test of Viennese character. As the supposed favourite of fortune is neither young nor fair, let us hope that she closed with one of the numerous offers made her by her enraptured suitors. MR. MASON AGAIN.—A letter from Mr. Mason, ex-envoy of the Confederacy in Europe, in reply to the invitation of a certain Colonel Graham, formerly of Texas, to settle in Jamaica, has appeared in the Virginia papers. Mr. Mason refuses to settle in Jamaica himself or to ad• vise others to do so, inasmuch as "it is his hope and be lief that a time must come when the reckless and unscru pulous party in power at Washington will be overthrown, and the Southern States again remitted to full and exclu sive control over their respective populations, without; foreign intervention." What he means by this " full and exclusive control over their populations," he explains fur ther on by expressing his confidence " that the intelli gence, wisdom, and, more than all, the experience of our people in regard to negroes would make them devise some system of legislation by which, without again reducing them to slavery, they would be made to discharge the incumbent duties of a labouring class." All this, being turned into plain English, means that he looks forward to the time when the South will be enabled to put in force the black code which most of the States drew up at the close of the war ; and that this expectation is shared by the great body of the white population there can be very little doubt. If the Democratic party should get into power before the traditions of slavery have died out, an 1 before the negroes have acquired enough education and intelligence to be able to protect their own rights, there can be little question that this expectation would be realised, which is as strong a reason as can be given why the Republican party should carefully avoid whatever seems likely to take from it the confidence of the masses. —New York Nation. " Christmas Day in the Workhouses" is, of course, always good for rather over two columns. Then there are descriptions of the Christmas dinners which have been given, through the kindness of the benevolent, to the poor who have not yet taken up their lot within the workhouse walls. The attractions of the Christmas amusements are described at a length which contrasts in a remarkable de gree with the unfeeling manner in which this class of matter is treated at any other period of the year. The fine arts, so terribly neglected in the parliamentary session, are now dealt with in such a way as to make ample amends for the sins of omission which have characterised the past. Two or three columns of " Ear,t London Distress " seem to cast a heavy gloom over the recorded incidents of this festive season. The resolutions of the Pan-Anglican Synod were fortunately issued only a day or two ago, and they occupy nearly five columns in some of the papers. A writer on " Railway Engines Abroad " has deemed the topic of sufficient importance to devote three columns to it. Close alongside it is a letter on the wheat crop of 1867 —not a satisfactory one, It 3 we are now finding out. The evidence before the Trades Union Commission holds out canitally. An elongated description of British Honduras will be thoroughly appreciated after the lovers of the legi timate drama have witnessed the pantomime. Those who wish to know how religious denominations flourish in the United States are presented with some light and pleasant reading inthe shape of a pile of statistics. To counterbalance the possible effect of figures on the nervous system, the scis sors have been ruthlessly employed o-1 the pages of " No Thoroughfare," "London Society," " Cassell's Christmas Annual," and works of a kindred nature, for these have contributed column after column to the morning's matter. One paper, which usually publishes a "summary," finds nothing whatever in the world's intelligence to include under that heading ; another condenses the news from the uttermost parts of the earth into three paragraphs averag ing si4 lines each. So much for the " topics of the day " in London : now for awn , a the PrOYinceil. . THURSoAY EvENING, DECEMBER 26, 1567. EXAMINATION OF 7'ilE FENIAN, FINITE BOW-STREET.---(THIs DAY.) Michael Finity, a ferocious-looking personage, was charged on remand with using wicked, mali cious, and seditious words and expressions against our Sovereign Lady the Queen. Mr. Poland, instructed by Mr. Hodgson, the solicitor to the Treasury, appeared for the prosecu tion, and Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, defended. To accommodate the prisoner's solicitor, the de positions taken at the last examination were read of er. Mr. Poland—Did.the prisoner say. Mr. Somers, in what way the Queen would be shut ? Witness—He said the first time she went to Ulu', house. Mr. Poland—lle did not say by a bullet or not. Witnes.s—No. Cross-examined by Mr. Ricketts—l don't think he was drunk. He had a wife and little child with him. I did not see any fellow-workmen of h's there. They were principally men working on the railway works. I have known him about five years. For the last twelve or thirteen months he has not much used my house. He never did much. I never heard him say anything when he was sober, unless you put him out, and then he would talk as he did on that night. There wa3 no one to dispute with on this occision. He was shout ing out at the top of his voice. Ido not think that any one spoke to me. I do not know Mrs. West. I did not hear any female speak. I have no bar maid. My wife and daughters assist in the busi ness. George Baiderstin, cross-examined, said that he heard prisoner ‘ say he would shoot the - Queen the first time she opened Parliament. He was not drunk. He thought it extraordinary conduct. He was in the house from 9to 11 o'clock. He heard the man while he was passing, and he looked at him. He thought it odd conduct. Ile worked for the Midland Railway Company. Thomas Lintot stated that he lived at 5, Hull street. He was a ganger on the Midland Railway. On the 14th ho was in the public-house where the prisoner was. He was damning the country and all in it. Witness said then you are damning me. He said he was not. He did not appear drunk. This was soon after 10 o'clock. Cross-examined—He did not appear to be sober. He might have been excited. His manner impressed him that he was sober. Thomas Wood said he lived at No. 2, South wark-street. He was a valveman at the Imperial Gas Works. He then confirmed the statement made at Mr. Somers 'sby the prisoner. A witness, Huckel, was called, and he stated that he had never heard the prisoner at the gasworks say anything seditious whatever. He thought him a harmless man. This was the last witness, and Mr. Ricketts com mented upon his evidence, and said if it had not been for the late detestable crime at Clerkenwell, would Sir Thomas have entertained this charge as it had been entertained ? Sir T. Henry (emphatically)—Certainly. chief warder of the Westminster House of Corrcc - tion, Tothill Fields. A solicitor appeared from the Visiting Justices to ) prosecute. Mrs. Howe said on the 14th of November sht passed into No. 3 prison, C section, to see th e work taken by Warder Lambert, and the prisons r passed into the room to the oakum scale. She was suffering a term of two years' imprisonment, when she got to the scale she had not picked h et day's oakum, and the warder at the scale asked 1 ter if she was excused. She said "No ; she had b: :en 'stated' for the doctor." She turned round to t •he warder and directed her to put the prisoner down as "No work until inquire." Prisoner was then tc ld to stand by the scale. She did so for a minute, a id then suddenly picking up a 21b. weight, threw it with all her might at witness, striking her on the arm. She picked up a 11b. weight and also threw it, but witness ducked her head, and it pissed over it. By Mr. Arnold—Could not suggest any motive for it except that prisoner had been reported before by another warder fol. having forbidden things without permission. Her character was bad during the whole time. Mr. Arnold inquired why the prisoner had not been brought up before ? Mr. Walley, the solicitor, said the visiting justices considered the matter on the 16th, and thought it too serious for any punishment they could inflict, and ordered her to be brought up at the expiration of her term. Mr. Arnold said it was just a case that came under Jervis' Act, where the prisoner should have been brought up at once, and at the expiration of the term inflicted for the offence sent back to finish the original term. He found that when the pri soner was sentenced to two years, she had insulted a witness in court and ordered to find bail for three mouths. Prisoner seemed to be a person of ungovernable temper, and it was necessary to re press exhibitions of this sort in a prison, where the utmost discipline should be kept. He sentenced the prisoner to three mouths' hard labour. Mr. Ricketts here said that he should satisfac torily prove that the prisoner was drunk, and ha been so all the latter part of the day, and that he should call witnesses who would confirm this state ment. He trusted that after hearing this evidence Sir 'Thomas would discharge him. A witness named Mack, working at the Impe rial Gas Works, deposed that he had been drinking at various public•houses in the neighbourhood of the gasworks, and that they all got pretty nearly drunk. This was after four o'clock. When pri soner left him he thought he was drunk. Michael Lowry and Mrs. West gave confirmatory evidence. Mr. Poland said that it was wrong to suppose that the Treasury had taken up this matter. They really were only watching the case upon the infor mation of persons who thought it their duty to come forward. Under all the circumstance; he should hardly ask that the prisoner should be sent to trial, but that he should be bound over. Sir Thomas Henry said he thought that Mr. Poland had taken the right course, and that no jury would convict the prisoner, therefore he must find two sureties in £lO each, and the imprisonment ha had undergone he richly deserved for his drunken habits. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREE P. ONSLAUGHT ON THE POLICE—A BEGGARS' MEET ING.—James Wilson and William Crompton, two rough-looking fellows, were charged before Mr. Knox with behaving in a disorderly manner, Crompton being further charged with assaulting Police-constable John Moore, 193 C. Sergeant George Appleton, 26 C, said—About 9 o'clock last night my attention was called to the British Stores beer-shop, in Gerrard-street, Soho, by hearing a great noise. On looking in I saw about fifty persons, nearly all of them known to me as beggars, drunk, hallooing, and fighting ; and as soon as I entered the house with a constable there was a general onslaught on us, and pots were thrown at us. Finding we could not cope with the persons I sent for some of the inhabitants, and they assisted me, and we got the persons out. Wilson then re fused to go away and I ordered him to be taken into custody, and while Wilson was gone to the station, Crompton returned with some of his companions and set to shouting and hallooing. Mr. Knox —Were both the prisoners concerned in the onslaught on the police, and were they both drunk ? Sergeant Appleton —They were. • John Moore, 193 C—At nine o'clock last night I went with the sergeant to the British Stores, and s aw a number of drunk and disorderly persons. On getting them into the street they set to shouting, and hallooing, and would not go away. After taking Wilson to the station, I returned and took Crompton into custody, and on the way to the station he set to kicking and plunging, and kicked my legs from under me, and we had great difficulty in getting him to the station, and he nearly tore the nail off one of my fingers. Mr. Edward Yeomans, an inhabitant of Gerrard street, said—Having been sent for by the sergeant, I went to the British Stores, and there saw between forty and fifty of the lowest persons in Lon don. I persuaded the persons to leave, and as soon as they got outside they began quarrelling, shouting at the tops of their voices. Wilson abused me, saying that he had killed many a better man than me, and Crompton said that he had paid for a pint of beer, and he was -- if he would not break every pane of glass in the place. Mr. Knox—Has the attention of the authorities been called to the house ? Sergeant Appleton—lt has ; they had made the place a meeting place yesterday, having got plenty of money and got drunk. Mr. Yeomans—l'm told that they beg all day and leave the money they get with the landlady on their leaving the house to get a bed in the casual wards, and that they call for their money the fol lowing morning. Mr. Knox fined each of the prisoners 40s. or a month for their disorderly conduct, and committed Crompton for a month without a fine for assaulting the constable. James Doyle, alias Bryan, one of the same class as the other prisoners, was brought up for behaving himself in a disorderly manner and breaking a pane of glass of the value of 405., the property of Mr. Bentley, of Wardour-street. The prisoner went into Mr. Bentley's house, in sulted the customers because they would not give him beer, and then on being put out of the house deliberately smashed a pane of glass in the window. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for a month without a fine. A number of persons were brought before Mr. Knox this morning, charged with being drunk and incapable, and drunk and disorderly. Where c,he charge was only for drunkenness the offenders were discharged, and in the other cases Mr. Knox, taking the festive season into consideration, im posed slight fines. WESTMINSTER. VIOLENT ASSAULT IN A PRlSON.—Margaret Grace was charged with moulting Mrs, Charlotte Howe, TERRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION.—Last night, about 10 o'clock, there was a tremendous e,xplosiou of ga in the dwelling-house of Mr. Samuel French, No 46, Exmouth-street, late Ho'ince-street, Stepney. ['here was au escape of gas in the back parlour, and Mr. French, instead of carefully opl ing all the doors and windows, went int( the apartment with a lighted candle. A loud report followed, the front door was blown off the hinges into the street, nearly every pane of glass in the window smashed, a panel of the shutter covering the front window shatterei, and the back of the house blown out. Mr. French, who is upwards of 60 years of age, was seriously injured by the explosion, and his face and head were scorched. Great fears are entertained that the calamity will prove fatal. He is a most respectable and worthy man, and has been in the service of Gusler and Co., the wine mer chants in Fenchurch-street, for 35 years. BILLIARDS AND CHESS.—It is somewhat humili ating to reflect that eminence cannot ba attained, even in the art of knocking about three ivory balls with a stick, without the devotion of a lifetime. It is the more humi liating when we consider that in the prosecution of this art not the slightest mental effort is required. Neither chess nor whist can be played, even moderately well, by an arrant fool ; but a billiard-table will be found in every well-conducted lunatic asylum in the kingdom. Billiards require a well-strung and well-disciplined condition of body, so that between hand and eye the most perfect sympathy may exist. Chess is a contest of brains ; HI- Herds, of steady nerves and correct eyesight. Chess is a great mental, billiards a great manual, effort.—Saturday Review. RARE CAITHNESS BIRDS.—The John O'Groat Journal describes a unipte collection of Caithness birds to be seen at present in the office of that paper. The speci mens are ten in number, forming eight species (there being a male and female of two of the species), and belong altogether to the insectivorous order of birds. First in interest are a pair of pied flycatchers, migrants from African to British shores, and so rare even in the more congenial climate of England, that the Rev. F. O. Morris says concerning them—" Like the majority c,f ornithologists, I have never seen this species alive." Thera is also a specimen of the spotted flycatcher, a female, which was shot in a garden in Wick, on the 15th of May last. Only a few specimens of the cola tit (Parser ater) have as yet occurred in the county, and the indi vidual here shown is the first recorded example. A pair of common redstarts, male and female, aro here shown; but the former has not acquired the full adult plumage, the colours being less brilliant than those exhibited by the adult male in his nuptial dress. There is a fine example of that curious little bird, the tree creeper, and another of the whinchat, a bird closely.allied to the wheatear, a nu merous and well-known Caithness species. An extremely rare bird in these northern parts is the tree pipitt shown here, whose song is described as possessing considerable "compass, variety, and sweetness." Last, but not the least lively and graceful, is a specimen of the willow warbler, one of a family of birds but little known in this, for the most part, treeless county. THE POACHER.—We may picture him to our selves, if we like, lurking in sequestered den—half cave, half cottage—built into the hillside, and protected by a spreading oak, and there will be no one to disturb our vision. We may imagine him a good sportman, a self-taught naturalist, sober, and, in his own eyes at leas', honest and industrious. Last, but not least, let him stand 6 feet high, be a model of strength and activity, with a frank, bold countenance, a merry blue eye, extremely white teeth, and a smile that would subdue a duchess. Our fancy may paint him as we like, and nobody, we repeat, can contradict us. Thetis a poacher of the golden age, before modern preserves, modern battues, or percussion caps weere invented. But as we do not believe in the "starving peasant" theory of poaching, still less do we believe in that romantic and pic turesque ideal which modern novelists do still occasionally present to us. The poacher of the old school, if he ever existed, with his Allan-a-Dale swagger and Robin Hood like generosity, is as extinct as Dick Turpiu. To him has succeeded_the poacher of the iron age; member of a ruf fianly gang, whose business is to fill the dealers' shops in town and country, and to get drunk on the proceede. These gangs vary in number and daring, from the to -sawyers of London down to the provincial artists,who are shoemakers or ratcatchers by day, and poachers only by tight. The cream of the profession, we fancy, sully not their hands by any meaner occupation, not at least during the days of their glory—" in the season of the year." These men, making some large town or village in a good game coun try, or perhaps London itself, their headquarters, carry on operations in a systematic and wholesale fashion. They have their spies and undeilings in the neighbour hood of all the large preserves, from whom they receive accurate information as to the quantity of game, the likeliest covers, the movements of the keepers and the character of the local police. In fact, their precautions and their organisation are exactly the same as those of any regular gang of housebreakers,—•Cornhiel Ma gazine. " Now,, it is singular that the Viceroy should all of a sudden be seized with a desire to afford protec tian to Abyssinian refugees, and to facilitate the pilgrimage of Abyssinian Christians to Jerusalem. One cannot be sure, but I cannot help thinking that Ismail Pasha is playing his cards for cutting into the north provinces of Abyssinia the first day he finds the road open. Observe, between Matamma and Massowah the territory is undqr Tirsoa Gobasie; then Hallman is just above Massowah, and a good place to reside in ; and the two guests lately arrive•l at Cairo are intimately connected with those districts, the one having relations with Go bazie, and the other with Mato, with whom, as is reported, he has been Theodore's agent for several years. The Viceroy is said to be nervous about our proceedings in Abyssinia, and will be delighted to hear that Lord S:atiley has empha tically announced that we shall not retain any por don.of the country, or stay a moment longer than is necessary to obtain a release of the prisoners. Our presence there would prevent that of the Vice roy's troops, and put a stop for ever to slavery. A very shrewd native here, who knows the Soudan well, remarked to me that if the English remained iu Abyssinia the Pasha would be driven away by the inhabitants. About a week ago the Viceroy wrote, under his own seal, a very pressing letter to Theo dore, urging him to give up the prisoners, otherwise he would have his country taken away from him by the English, and as the English were a very powerful nation, he (the Viceroy) might be com pelled to join them. The Coptic Patriarch has also been ordered to write to Theodore, and the Arme nian Archbishop of Jerusalem—the prelate men tioned in the Blue Book—has likewise had to try his hand. The former is stated to have represented to Theodore the degradation to which the Abyssi nian Church would be subjected under the English who would leave it no freer than the Coptic Church is in Cairo. All this to try and get us out of the way of his Highness, who dreads our presence near the Soudan. The letters will be withou t effect. There is no one Theodore distrusts more than the Egyptian Viceroy." THAMES. A CHAPTER OF MISTAKES.—SamueI Crosby, a seaman, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting David Crutchley, a police-constable, No. 188 K. The complainant said that on Saturday night the prisoner met him in the Back-road, Shadwell, and represented that he had lost his way, and wanted to reach Green's Sailors' Home, in Poplar. He directed hiim which way to go. The prisoner said that he wished him to act as pilot and convey him to the Home. He told the pri soner he could not leave his beat, and the prisoner departed. Some time afterwards the prisoner re turned to him on another part of his beat, and again demanded that he should conduct him to the Sailors' Home. He again refused, and the prisoner knocked off his helmet. He picked it up and took the prisoner into custody. . Mr. Paget—You say this occurred on Saturday night, why was not the prisoner brought before the magistrate sitting here on Monday ? Witness—This is Monday. Mr. Paget—No, you are wrong. Witness—Yesterday was Sunday. Mr. Paget—No, you are wrong again. Witness, throwing his arms up with a sudden burst of recollection—l beg pardon, yesterday was Christmas-day. On Christmas-eve the prisoner accosted me. The prisoner said he was on a voyage from Pic cadilly to Poplar, and found himself at the Horns, Kennington. That was not his latitude or longi tude. He tacked about, and steered again for Poplar. He found himself in Shadwell, and spoke to the police constable, who was drunk, and he could tell him the exact position in which he stood. The prisoner then went into a long harangue, which the magistrate patiently heard, and then sentenced the prisoner to seven days' imprisonment. EGYPT AND ABISSINIA. The following intelligence, from a correspondent of the Pall-Mall Gazette at Alexandria, dated the 12th inst., may serve to throw some light on the movements of the Egyptian troops on the coast of Abyssinia : "I have lately obtained several items of infor mation from a native Abyssinian which go to con firm the supicions I expressed of Ismail Pacha's intrigues with Tussoo-Gobazie; but I must first correct a mistake into which I was led in a former communication which appeared in the Pull- Mull Gazette of the sth ut. It was not Yahula Geita iu person who was at the Musafir Khaneh at Cairo, aad who has been passing back wards and forwards between Abyssinia It n 1 Egypt, but a trusty friend of his, named Mikhail. The story of Yahula Geita is this—he was governor, on the part of Theodore, of Arin tchuho, a district, as I a nderstood, between Gondar and WTalkait, andun able to resist Theodore alone. Tasso Gobazie leagued with him, and both turned t) the Egyptians to save them from Theodore. A year ago Yahula Geita bad the misfortune to fall into the hands of Theodore, who at first pardoned him, but after wards charging him with maintaining intelligence with Tusso Gobazie, put him in chains. Mikhail still passes as Yahula Geita's servant. He left Cairo on the 2d inst. for Massowah. He was there last Dec., and it was on his return to Massowah in January that he learned the news of his master's capture. He stated that this was the c muse of his long stay at Massowah, and that ho only came here again, on the strength of former visits, to obtain the favour of the Viceroy, which is not very likely, auy more than that his Highness would place him in the Musafir Khaneh unless he had some special claim on the Viceroy's hospitality. I observed to my in formant that the suggestion did not account for Jasfar Pasha's solicitude for Yahula Geita's ser vant, and his bringing him on with him to Sua kin, and sending him thence by steamer tQ Suez. Is ❑ot Mikhail,' I said, ‘ come from Tussoo Goba zie, with whom the Viceroy is said to be friendly ?" To which the answer was, As you seem to know it, what is the use of telling you ?' My present inform ant corrected me when I said, ' Tussoo Gobazie,' and pronounced the word Tirsoo,' which name, he said, was given to this Gobazie from his having promi nent teeth—from Tirs, a tooth (Arabic, airs ?). Before Mikhail left on the 2d another Abyssinian ar rived at the Murafir Khaneh. He is called the Feta Awrari (prefect) Garrad for several years past, and was, up to his departure from his post, the Wakel, or personal agent, of Theodore with Hailo, the governor of Hamasein. What lam told about him is, that Theodore lately directed him to pro cure money from Hailo, and to come with it to Debra Tabor, but that Garrad, doubting Theo dore's intentions towards him, thought it better to escape; and having just sent his family to the thermal springs at Ailat on the plea of his wife's ill health, in another fortnight set off with followers to bring them back, joined them, and proceeded to Massowah. The English at Zulla wanted to get hold of Garrad, but Hassan Bey, the Governor of Massowah, claimed hi m as his guest, and sent him on to Cairo on his way to Jerusalem ! I am not 'yet apprised of his having left the Musafir Khaneh. It is probable that our peolle saw him at Massowah or Zulla, as he came on to Suez in one of the Azizieh boats under charter to us. COINAGE OF KINGS OF KENT. That extraordinary repertory of old English relics, the receding sea-beach of Cheshire, has lately (so we are informed by the Atheneum) disclosed two interesting, and we believe unpublished, coins of the Saxon period, which a young collector, Mr. J. R. Allen, of Liverpool, has the good for tune of securing. The earlier in point of date is a .sceatta, a variety of a well-known but puzzling type, which has been referred by numismatists to two early kings of Kent,—viz., Ethelbert the First and Second, but without certainty, inasmuch as no name appears upon it. A second, and also unpublished variety, occurred here two years ago, but the present is a fine and perfect example, weighing 17 grains. The presence of these presumably Kentish coins at so distant a locality is remarkable, as such have hitherto been discovered only in the south-east of Eng land. The other piece proves to be a halfpenny of Edward the Confessor, the place of mintage being represented by s v, probably Southwark or Southampton. So rare are the Saxon halfpennies that, previously to the celebrated " Cuerdale find," only two were known—those published in Ruding's " Annals of the Coinage." It is a noteworthy fact, that of the various coins found here, and which represent every portion of the national history, from the intercourse of our ancestors with Carthage in pre-Roman times, downward, the Saxon prove to be in by far the finest condition ; and whilst elsewhere such occur in hoards more or less large, here they re-appear singly ; in point of fact, where lost by their former owners, the admixture of arboreal matters in the soil from whence they are washed fortunately pro tecting them from excessive oxidation. A more specific description of the above-named pieces will be given in Mr. Ecroyd Smith's annual report of the archaeological discoveries on the Cheshire shore, supplied to the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Sir W. Gordon Cumming, Bart., has entered the ormy as ensign and lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Guards. - . Mr. C. Sykes, M.P., has returned to Branting ham Thorpe, from staying with Sir John and Lady Gwen doline Ramsden at Byrom, South Milford. HER MAJESTY'S Theatre is to be immediately rebuilt on a magnificent scale. SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS.—The annual dinner of this flourishing association, which has been devised for the keeping together in a professional and social band the younger members of the body of civil engineers, was held on Friday evening last at the Bridge House note], and was fully attended. The quotation 01 gold at Paris Is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25t. 15c. per £1 sterling. On cmnparin; - ; these rates with the English Mint price et lis.lo4d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about tripth per cent. dearer in Paris than In LOA.. don. THIRD FDlrrl;„ SUN OFFICE, 6 O'CLOCK. LATEiST CITY INTELLIGENCE, - -C. The following are the principal alterations ex hibited in the Bank of England return published this afternoon :—An increase of £338 in the a ock of bullion, an decrease of £424,040 in the return cf notes, an increase of. 5299,747 in the other &enti ties, of £32,437 iu the 1 üblic depcsits, and a de g ; rease of £231,20 in the private deposits. ;urns, —This Eveninr% Sank of England Re An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, .1),:c. 25, 1867. ISSUE DEP kRTIIEST. Notes issued ....-C35,837,200 Governint. D0bt. , C11,01.5,100 Other Securities 3,961000 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion X 35,837,200 BANKING D: £35,837,200 l'ropriotors'Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Say ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts Other Deposits.. 18,769,205 Seven Days and other Bills 567,6991 :PARTMENT. Govornmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £13,013,203 Other Securities 17,518,504 Notes 12,474,335 Gold and Silver Coin £44,115,887 £44,115,887 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. PROGRAMME OF EALING STEEPLECHASES. THIMSDAY, Dec. 26. The Selling Steeplechase Plate of 40 sous; four year olds list 71b ; nye llstl2lb, six and aged 12st; the winner tck be sold for 60 soya ; if for 40 soya allowed 71b, 30 12111 ; about two miles. The Ealing Plate (Handicap) of 40 sovs ; winners of any steeplechase after Dec. 20 (at ten a.m.) 71b extra;' aboe,t two miles. Trumpeter He . Sinite . Age st lb ... 6 12 7 ... 5 12 4 ... a 12 3 Peignoir ... Useless ... Puebla ... Age FA lb ... a 11 2 ... 4 11 2 ... 5 11 0 Harold ... 512 2 Tom Coke ... 410 12 Trap ... a 11 12 Pearl ... ... 4 10 12 Orleton (h b) all 10 Caustic ... ... 410 10 Gorsehawk ... all 9 Wedding Peal ... 510 10 Foxholes ... ... 5 11 9 Joker ... ... 5 10 10 Savannah ... 611 9 Little Peevish ... 410 10 Hopvine ... 411 7 Crafty ... ... 410 14 Heurlys 11 7 I Signal ... ... 410 10 The Robber a 11 4 Faint Heart ... 4 10 7 The Maiden Steeplechase Plato of 30 sous; four year olds list 71b, five and upwards 12st ; if beaten three times previous to the time of entry allowed 71b, twice Sib; half-breds allowed 71b ; winners after the day of entry 51b extra. Tho winner to be sold for 50 soya, &c. About two miles. Bronze aged, Penelope 6 yrs, Byfield (h b) aged, Signal 6 yrs, Crafty 4 yrs, Panther (h b) aged, Black Swan (h b) aged, Cantharides 4 yrs. The Ealing Hunt Cup, value 70gs ; four yearolds 11st 41b, five and upwards 12st 41b ; half breds allowed 71b ; win ners over a country up to the time of entry once 51b, twice, or of a stake value 100 sous 101 b exra ; non-pro . _ _ fessionals allowed 51b ; about three miles. Lawrence (h b) aged, Hippolyte aged, Waterperry aged, Leotard aged, Arlescott (h b) aged, Meerschaum aged, Comberton aged, Patience (h b) aged, Northern Light 6 years, Snowstorm (h b) 4 yrs, Laura (h b) 6 yrs, Pixie 6 yrs, Kennett 6 yrs, Darkness (h b) aged, Sugar Plum (11 b) 5 yrs, Sensation (h b) 6 yrs, Tally-ho aged, Merry Horn (h b) 4 yrs. The Middlesex Handicap o added; winners after De , About two miles and a hal 5 Boys each, 2 ft, with 30 20, at 10 a.m., 71b oxtra. 24 subs. Age st lb Hornet The Guide 5 11 7 Ace of Trumps a 11 4 Triumpher Cabin Boy (h b) a 11 4 Sportsman a 11 2 Garus a 11 2 Siuite a 11 0 Woodbury iliil(h Li) a 10 12 Viudieator a 10 10 Nabocklish Leotard •t 10 10 Age st lb Kingfisher (h b) alo 9 Stiff Leicester Balhatn Heurlys a 10 5 Harcourt Risk Joker 5 10 0 Wedding Peal Signal 6 10 0 Corvedale (h 13) a 10 0 Ned of thu Hills a 10 0 FRIDAY. ' Tho Selling Steeplechase Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 f with 30 added; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs; about • two miles. The Local Cup, value 25gs, for horses that have never won a handicap steeplechase value 20 sovs, the pro perty of persons residing within thirty miles of London ; llst 71b each ; winners of a steeplechase or hurdle race in 1867 101 b extra, but not penalised for both ; non- professionals allowed 51b; once round the Steeplechase Course, starting in front of the Grand Stand. The Town Plato (Handicap) of 40 soya ; winners of any • steeplechase after Dec. 20 (at 10 a.m.) 71b About two miles. Age st lb Sharpshooter .. 5 12 7 Ace of Trumps ... a 12 0 Triumpher ... 6 12 0 Helice ... ... 5 11 10 Age st lb Peignoir ... a 10 9 Useless a 10 9 Puebla, ... 5 10 7 Joker ... ... 5 10 5 Tom Coke 4 10 5 Pearl 4 10 5 Mountain Maid 4 10 5 Caustic ... 4 10 4 Wedding Peal 5 10 4 Little Peevish ... 410 4 Signal ... 6 10 4 Ned of the Hills ... a 10 4 Crafty ... 4 10 4 Faint Heart 4 10 4 Woodbury Hill(hb) a 11. 7 Vindicate:... ..-. a 11 4 Trap ... 11 4 i3raudy Apple ... a H 4 Th© Rubber ... a 11 2 Foxholes ... Savannah ... Harcourt ... ... 5 11 2 ... 6 11 2 ... 6 11 0 Hopvine ... Heurlys ... Risk ... ... 4 11 0 ... a 11 0 ... 5 10 12 The Grand Ealing and Sout dicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft fore Monday, Dec. 23, to 100 added ; any winner of (at eight p.m.) 71b, twice and a half; 17 subs. ,h Country Steeplechase Hau t, and 3 if declared on or be dessrs. Weatherby only, with a steeplechase after Dec. 16 101 b extra ; about three miles Age st lb Sprite (including .- I.olb ox) a .l2 8 Hornet Age st lb Nabocklish (inc. 71b extra) 6 10 11 Sylph 5 10 9 Pixie Birdie a 10 7 King Alfred Captain Crosstree a 10 7 Bal ham Badminton Cabin Boy (h b) all 10 Arlescott (h b) a 11 7 Fairy Mount 6 11 7 1- . lippoly to . Gurus - a 11. 2 Sinite a 11 0 Bishopton 5 10 12' The Half Bred Hunters' Stakes of 10 Boys each, 3 ft, with 100 added, for half bred hunters ; 12st each ; winners of any handicap hurdle race or handicap steeplechase 31b, of two handicap hurdle races or handicap steeplechase, 141 b, of three handicap hurdle races or handicap steeple chases 211 b, four or more 281 b extra; gentlemen riders, professionals 51b extra ; about three miles ; 21 subs. Ganymedo, Kate Terry, Lawrence, Corvodale, High flyer, Arleseott, Walterstown, Meerschaum, The Miller, Patience, Northern Light, Sincerity, Kingfisher, Leicester ' Orleton, Darkness, Sensation, Sugar I'lutn, Emigrant, Tally-ho, and Forest Lane. PROGRAMME OF ST. ALBANS STEEPLECHASES. SATURDAY. The St. Albans Open Steeplechase Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, with 100 added; the winner of the Grand Metropolitan Steeplechase at Croydon 101 b, and the second in the same 51b, or any other winner after Nov. 22 (at nine a.m.) 71b extra; weights not to be accumu lative ; about three miles and a half ; 23 subs. The highest weight accepting being list 121 b, it has been raised to 12st 71b, and Abe others in proportion. Age st lb Ago st lb Sir Bobby ... a 12 7 Arlescott 11 2 Benazet a 12 5 Cabin Boy (Li b) ... a 11 1 Despatch a 11 13 Badminton ... 5 10 13 Tally-ho(in.slb ex.) a 11 12 Spatchcock ... a 10 13 Hornet ... all 11 Hipplyte ... alO 13 Chimney S weep(in- Greenland 6 10 12 eluding 101 b ex.) 5 11 11 Lawrence (h b) ... a 10 9 Pensioner (pd) 6 11 7 Highflyer ... a 10 9 Sprite .. ... a 11. 7 King Alfred ... 610 9 Patience (h b) 11 5 Harcourt (pd) ... 610 9 Tusculanum ... 3 11 5 NortheraLight(u b) 6 10 9 L. S. D. ... ... a 11. 4 Polestar ... ... 5 10 9 Cl ansma n ... 5 11 4 Bishopton 5 C The Local Cup (the gift of the licensed victuallers in the tow and neighbourhood of St. Albans), for horses the property of persons residing within 40 miles of St. Albans, except winners of a handicap steeplechase ; list each ; and any winner over country 71b extra. Once round the Steeplechase Course, starting in frcnt of she Grand Stand. The Maiden Steeplechase Plate of 30 sovs ; list 71b each ; if beaten three times previous to the time of starting allowed 71b, twice 51b; winners after the day of entry 51b extra ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs ; about two miles. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. FEBRUARY. Lincoln lB I Nottingham Spring 25 Harrow 2O 1 Derby Spring MARCH. Liverpool Spring M. 3 Epsom. Spring Meeting i 1 ,1% Chelmsford Spring M lO Nortllanyton • ; at West Drayton l2 APRIL. Durham Hendon lB Newmarket Ist Spriugci Newmarket Craven • l3 Chester 5 Winchester York Spring Salisbury , 14 Bath Croydon Ut Summer , Harpenden Epsom summer 1.......1 ge -tree f the A by trice, and tiug, were L o yal ;o the ping- ) ping trice, Hen' gh am ,Lhero \_ ■ I R