The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-04 00:00:00

_ _ M .•-~ ~. .~,« .`.. ‘_, L l f try ,ell ow ,Ily nail rhe ;elf hen 25 the )nly wag ho )een. ling* tely tiler the ling til lead via - lt) t Clio old into) hicli )eeu at T) E TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market to-day is without the slightest change, inquiries being moderate, and the rates easy. be m -!)tioned however, that a limited amou, ~f Ins uie s has been negotiated in choice ac ceptances, as low as 3-i per cent., so that a reduc tion of the Bank's minimum to 3 per cent. is likely to take place at an early date. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures liLve risen 2 per cent., to 52 54, and the Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds, 1, to 4 - 11, 4-q-, on the state ment issue 1 by Mr. Mci - lcnry,• the tiaa,ncial agent of the cemi , any in this country. The half yearly interest due on the 31st of De cember on the shares of the Metropolitan Sewage and Lssex Reclamation Company will be paid at Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., on and after the 12th instant. _ _ The amount required for the March dividend of the Turkish Loan of 1858 being already at the credit of . the Syndicate, the Imperial Ottoman Bank is instructed by the Ottoman Government to give notice that on and after Ist February it will dis count that dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. It has been announced by the Imperial Ottoman Bank that the drawing of the bonds of the Danu bian Loan for repayment at par on the Ist March is to take place at their offices on Wednesday, the 9th inst. Some important changes have taken place in the return of the Bank of France. There has been a decrease of 39,500,000 f. in the cash in hand, 45,333,000 f. in the Treasury balance, and 13,200,000 f. in the private accounts ; while an increase has taken place in the bills discounted of 60,333,000 f., in the advances of 666,000 f., and in the notes 79,500,000 f .. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets there has been very little business transacted. For superior descriptions of sugar, however, steady rates have been maintained. Coffee has been neglected, while the operations in rice have not been sufficient to cause any change in values. Saltpetre and tallow have been dull, and barely sustained former prices. The Bank of England return completed to the 2d January shows somerather important variations. The bullion has been increased by £167,503, while there has been a diminution in the reserve of notes of £1,232,260. The other securities have been added to by £2,575,247, and the private balances also show an augmentation of £2,000,006. Subjoined are the particulars :-- Public Deposits £8,162,130 Decrease £544,231 Other Deposits ... 20,592,230 increase... 2,000 006 Itest 3,290,285 Increase... 23 , 508 On the other side of the account : Government Securities £13,111,068 Increase... 99,846 Other Securities . 22,816,503 increase... 2,575247 Notes unemployed ... 10,142,235 Decrease 1,232 , 200 The amount of notes in circulation is £23,286,845, being an increase of £1,353,480; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £19,418,362, show ing an increase of £167,503 when compared with the former return. Two o'CLoCK. According to Reuter's telegram from Paris this day, the French Rentes were 69f. 95c. Firm. Business in the market for the English Funds to day has been very limited, and Consols are unaltered, at 901 i for money and the 10th inst., and at 901 k for the February settlement. A firmer tone prevails in the Foreign Market, and prices tend upwards. Turkish 5 per Cents. have advanced k, to 324 33 ; Mexican Stock k, to 177 18k ; Greek Boas -a-, to 14/ 15 ; Spanish Pas sive k, 20i 21 ; and the Italian Loan, 1861, k, to 52i 53 ex div. 'the operations in the Railway Share Market have been to a fair extent, but prices generally are a shade flatter. Great Western, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, have each declined 4 ; South Eas tern, ; and 'Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1 ; while Great Northern A Stock, London, Chatham, and Dover and Midland have each im proved I. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without material alteration. Dutch-Rhenish are marked 201 ; Sambre and Meuse, 71 1 ; South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 15/ ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 20k g ; Great Western of Canada, 12i 13 ; and East Indian, 105/ 1061. Finance and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. are at 734 ; Crystal Palace Stock, at 30 ; Credit Foncier of England are flat, at 21 4. Bank Shares are in moderate favour at steady prices. Bank of Egypt are dealt in at 30 34 ; Metropolitan and Provincial at 121; Oriental Bank Corporation at 421 ; and Union of London at 44' 4 1 45+. MINING MARKET. FRIDAY, Two o'Clock. Subjoined are the current quotations : Chiverton Moor, 41 51 ; Chou:ales Gold, 21 3 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 9 10 ; East Basset, 22 21; East Caradon, 6 61; East Lovell, 81 91; East Wheal Grenville, 2i a ; Great Retallack, 24s 0,1 26s Od; Great Wheal Yor, 17 18; Marke Valley, 41 ; North Crofty, 41 g ; North Treskerby 3i b ; Prince of Wales, 26s Od 28s 6d ; Prosper United, 31 ; Providence Mines, 274 1 - 30; South Coodurrow, 12s 11s ; South Grenville, 7s Od 9s Od; Tincroft, 11 14i ; W.: , t Claralon, 14 15; West Chiverton, 54 56; West FiThOeS, 16 18; West Seton, 125 130; Wheal Buller, 21 26; Wheal Chiverton, 61 ; Wheal Crebor, --s ; Wheal Grenville, *2.9s Od 31s; Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seto n , 135 140 ; Wheal Trelawney, 10 12 ; Wheal Uny, 2 21 ; Cara Camborne, ; Central Minera, ——; Cooks' Kitchen, 10 12 ; East Cara Brea, —; Great Laxey, 17 171 ;. Great South Tolgus, 12s 6d 17s 6d; South Frances, 22 25; St. Ives Consols, —; South Caradon, —; Stray Park, 4 41; Drakewolls, 12s 6d 15s Od; South Darren 304 36s ; North Roskear, 61 71. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GCVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 oer Cont. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 10 9Ol 3 per Cent. Reduced B9 New 3 per Cent B9/ New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent l2 8 pm Do £5OO Do £lOO & £2OO „ pm Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent ... 248 50 INDIA.N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., Apri11874... 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. TA- per Cent., May 1879 — Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds ,4 per Cent. , £l,OOO 26 27 pm Do under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 — Do Account 7l 1 Do. £lOO Bonds — Baenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do 4100 Bonds Do 2 per Cont. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 01-nian 6 per Cent Do. 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A Pd. ~ B Gilonibiar, 6 per Cent. +.lnba, 6 per Ceut. lilinish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1861 .. Danubian Principalitio,4 Einador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land War rant Do Defoned !V,.r,yptiau 7 per Cue+ Do., Second Issue — _ . Do . .£lOO Bonds 811 Do. .Account Do. 1564 — Ditto for Account 4 00 41011 Bou'.ts .0. Account Do. Government Railway Doboutures. -'• Accoaut ................................ 797 iBO , a per Cents., 1624-5. e? Goupoi., ,)o. Cott - pow ................. ............... Guatemala. 5 per Cent. ........................ , per Cent 1865 .. ................... '.)O. 11 , e , ...trillta,tut Railway 3 I.;er Cent 1864 Per Cent. Anglo-French .`.loatevi:l3au 13 per Cent.......... -- Moorish luiperial es per Ceut New Cirantidil =IP 3 p , r Cen' .1 1 -- Do 4 per Cent., 15t:5 Do Account Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren) Portugueso 3 per Cent., 1853 Ao Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian r. nor Cont., 1822, £ St B6i ;. ti, , 3 p:; C , uit. 1839 110 ',-, per Cont. 1862 - 1)o 5 p ,, r o , lt. - 1.61 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid BU 1 Do. do. £lO paid ll pin iardinian 5 nor Cent Do. Account ;ranish 3 per Cent Do A ce , :,unt Do New Deferred — Do Account - Do Passive Do Acc.unt 2oi Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account — Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Do. Scrip. £6O paid Tarkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Po. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds - Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 54 Do £lOO Bonds — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account .. 57 6 7 Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account De. 6 per Cent, 1861 Ditto 11 per Cent. • Dividends on the above payable in Loudon. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Italian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do. 5 per Cent. Accou^i 53 Dutch per Cent. Ex. 12 Gui , Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. . French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Do. Account Jan. 9Ol I- Do. February 9Ol SERIOUS CHARGE OF POISONING IN NORFOLK. Yesterday (Thursday) before the Docking bench of magistrates, four persons, named John Grief, 51, Susan Grief, 51, Mary Grief, 27, and Sarah Grief, 23, wore brought up on a charge of poisoning two, if not three, illegitimate children at Shemborne, an adjacent village. The prisoners John Grief and Susan Grief are husband and wife, and Mary Grief and Sarah Grief are their daughters. The legitimate family of the Griefs consists altogether of 12 children, of whom eight are living at home. The names of the children supposed to have been poisoned are Alfred Grief, who,was five years and six months old at the time of his death, and who died Nov. 6, 1866 ; Ann Maria Grief, the child of Sarah Grief, who was 15 weeks old at the time of her death, and who died April 13, 1866 ; and Jemima Grief, the child of Mary Grief, who died in 1860. The bodies of the children Alfred Grief and Ann Maria Grief have been exhumed, and an abundance of arsenic has been found in them. As regards the third child, Jemima Grief, the result of the chemi cal analysis which is being made by Mr. Sutton, of Norwich, is not yet known. The children, although illegitimate, appear to have never been affiliated ; and it may be added, as an illustration of the im morality prevailing in the family of the Griefs, that Sarah Grief has had another illegitimate child, which is still living, while she is understood to be now again enciente. The death of the child Ann Maria Grief appears to have excited no suspicions ; but the case was different when the boy, Alfred Grief, sickened and died in November. This child was taken ill on Saturday, Nov. 3. On the Sunday he was better, and on the Monday he went to school, but he was sent home in consequence of being very ill, and he continued to grow worse until about one a.m. on the Tuesday, when he died. The pcor little fellow seems to have vomited green matter, and a green foam was also observed about his mouth. These symptoms of arsenical poisoning, of course, provoked remark, more especially as no medical man had been called in, although the parish doctor might have been sent for without any expense to the family. Subsequent inquiries showed that the child Ann Maria Grief had presented similar symptoms, and had also died without the attend ance of a medical man. Johu Grief, the male prisoner, carries on the occupation of a sheep dresser, a business requiring occasionally the use of arsenic, but when he was interrogated on the subject, he denied at first that he had bad any arsenic in his possession. He made this statement on Nov. 9, but arsenic was found in his house not withstanding. The male prisoner also stated that whenever he had any arsenic he was careful to keep it locked up in his coffer, but the arsenic discovered was not found there, but on the top of the bed in which the prisoner and his wife slept. The wifo, Susan Grief, had also denied having had any arsenic iu the house. The male prisoner is understood to have endeavoured to make it appear that he had left some bottles about, containing a mixture which he had used in his business, but these bottles when found, were under the stairs, and quite out of the reach of any one. There were a few drops in the bottles containing a mixture of tar, soft soap, and arsenic, but the poison was not in the state in which it was detected .in the bodies of the children, in which it was found pure and simple. The male pri soner was arrested Nov. 26, and has since been in custody in Norwich Castle. Susan and Mary Grief were arrested Nov. 22, and Sarah Grief Dec. 6. The female prisoners have been in Wymondham Bridewell, and were brought up from there yester day, while John Grief was brought up from Nor wich. The prisoners all denied, when arrested, that they knew anything about the matter. It is per haps right to add that the narrative of the case now given may embrace some details not yet deposed to on oath, but it is derived from official sources. The only witness examined yesterday was Super intendent Rose, of the Docking division of the Norfolk county police, who applied that the pri soners ioight be further remanded for a week, when he expected that the case against them would be co mpleted. Major Hollway asked Superintendent Rose whether he applied for the remand on the ground that the interests of justice would be promoted by the proposed delay. Superintendent Rose—Yes. Major Hollway asked whether Mr. Rose required the remand in both cases. Superintendent Rose—Yes. The Magistrates' Clerk (Mr. Blyth) said one re mand would be sufficient as the prisoners were all charged in both cases. Major Hollway asked the prisoners whether they wished to urge anything against the proposed re mand. All the prisoners replied in the negative. Major Hollway—Then you will have to appear here this day week, on which day the case will be concluded as far as we know and hope. You expect, Mr. Rose, that the case will be completed on that day ? Superintendent Rose—Yes, Sir. Major Hollway—Because it is time it was com pleted. The prisoners were then removed, John Grief being taken in the course of the day back to Nor wich Castle, and the females to Wymondham Bride well. The case for the prosecution has been placed in the hands of Mr. Wilkin, solicitor, of Lynn, while Mr. Spanton, of llunstanton, will probably appear at the next sitting for the prisoners. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. The market opens with a moderate demand, ,ales probably 10,000 or 12,000 bales. PROFESSOR FAWCETT, M.P.—ln reference to the approaching marriage of Mr. Fawcett, the Brighton Guardian says :—" " In consideration of the learned pro fessor's eminent talents and of the high esteem in which he is held at Cambridge, and especially in his own college, Trinity Hall, the master and fellows have (on his resignation) re-elected him to his fellowship under the new statute, which enables a Benedict to hold v, THE SUN, LONLON, FRIOAY EVENING, JANUARY 4 1867. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. --This Day. AIARLBOROITGFI-S I BEET . REFRACTORY CONDUCT IN A WORKHOUSE.—Three rough-looking young men, named Thomas Challenger, William Peel, and Albert M‘Grady, were charged before Mr. Knox with refractory conduct in St. James's Work house. William Henry Knight, superintendent of labour in the workhouse, said that he was informed that the prisoners were making a great noise in ono of the halls, and on proceeding there he found that the prisoner had been up setting the tables and jumping up)n them, and their con duct was of such a disorderly nature that the old men were afraid of them. William Judge, an inmate of the workhouse, and act ing as " captain" of the third hall, said that last night the prisoners commenced upsetting the tables and broke some jugs, and they then fastened the door, so that no one could either get in or out. The prisoners had been pre viosly snowballing and upsetting the whole hous. Peel asked the witness whether l►e had not said to him "Out of the workhouse into a prison—out of a prison into a workhouse ?" The witness said he never made such a remark. Peel then asked the witness whether he had not told him that the reason why he was in the workhouse was because he could not go out with his blacking box in snowy weather ? Burgess, 142 C, said that on taking the prisoners into custody at the workhouse, they said they would do what they could for the officer Knight, and they would like to have a mouth for him. In answer to Mr. Knox, Knight said that he believed Challenger had been brought up in the workhouse school. The others had been six times in the house. Their con duct had been very bad. That morning they had made use of bad language, and thrown their broad about. Mr. Knox said that the prisoners had been guilty of re fractory conduct, as proved by the second witness; and the constable had proved that they had threatened the officer Knight. He should commit them for fourteen days each. As the prisoners were leaving the court they observed he officer Knight, and stated that they would do some hing for him when they came out of prison. BOW-STREET. A SOI-DISANT CLERGYMAN.—John M'Lennan, a middle aged, shabby-genteel-looking man,".was placed at the bar on remand, charged with stealing a mutton chop, value 3d., from the shop of Mr. Payne, butcher, Drury-lane. The case against the prisoner was, of itself, a very trivial one, but the prisoner himself had acquired a notoriety amongst the police from the number of times he had been taken into custody on various charges of theft. On one occasion ho was charged with stealing a book from a railway-station, and he having on that occasion repre sented himself as an ordained minister of the Church of England. Ho was fully committed for trial; and being tried at the Surrey Sessions the presiding judge addressed him at some length for the disgraceful position ho occupied for one in his station of life. He on that occasion got off with a very few weeks' imprisonment, the judge not being acquainted with his real Character, as ho had carefully changed his name on each occasion of his being taken into custody. To-day Lockerby, the officer appointed by the magis trates to identify offenders, attended at Bow-street, and informed Mr. Vaughan, the magistrate, that he had known the prisoner ever since 1852, during which he had been convicted no less than between 14 and 15 times. He was a regular old thief. Mr. Vaughan having cautioned the prisoner, ho said in his defence he was innocent of stealing the chop, and that the whole thing was a mistake. The magistrate said he thought otherwise, and therefore he should fully commit him for trial. SHARE MARKET S.— This day. _~.__._. SHARES AND STOCKS. Share, Railways. Paid. Closing Business Price. I done. st !Bristol and Eieter st Caledonian st Cambrian Cork and Bandon...—. LO ,Cornwall 80 S 8 123 125 40 45 !• 1t 1. , 11 ,iu & Belfast June.' an„ Perth, & A b.J E.London, tserip Certi.i Do. st ' Glasgow Sr S. \Western ! st !Great Eastern, Ont. stk.; st Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2' t Great N orth ot Scotland 3t Great Northern st D.,. A stock at Do. B stock Do. New, Is. at 25 pu 3t Gt S, and W. of Ireland' st .it. Western -Originald at Do. S. Val. Rail gua. at Do. South Wales st Do. W. slid.—Oxford st Do. Newport st liereford st LaneAshire t Yorkshire at London and Blaekwall at Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast?, at Lon., Chat., and Dover' at Do. Metrop. Ex. A at Lon. 16 North Western st Lon. & South Western st Man., Shef., & Lincolrr st stetropolitan..... 10 Do. New 4 6 (5 68 70 72 1 6 .18 SO 31 5 5 ig 121 27 at 90 92 Ha Gil 32 3S 32 3 i so 132 67 90 151 16, 1.1 ZU i 22 :22 b 3 1 3 5 54 55 ,26 127 zir 10 11 84 88 10 Do. Extension 0 I Nlej o ropoti c l o an 10 00. and St. John's W'd st Nlid:and 9 Do. £9 Share st Do, Birmin.. 4; Derby 25 013 /24 it 2.1 H 92 04 slid Kent . it North British it Do. Ed., rth., & Dun it Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase it Do. Leeds it Do. York it Do. Carlisle 15 Do. Stock. & Darling. 10 Do. do. 1860-61 at North London st Do. do. 1801 5 . at Do. do. 1866 st North Staffordshire st N. &S. W. Junction 25 Scottish Central st Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 1.; I Jo. Scot, Slid. stock et Shropshire Union et South Devon it jouth E..stern 20 itaines, Wok., & Wok st Pair Vale to Do. C , ... st ale or Neath d i 'Waterford & Kilkenny to ‘Vaterloo & Whitelta st 'Newt Cornwa'l 37 38 4 18 IG7 IG9 66 67 100 102 al} 30i 1200 130 a 1 55 5i lei | 17 123 21 3 21 55 45 128/ 1 101 895 9 1211 i 5 33! 9 674 a Mt 35 I 29 34 50 9 10 p, 116 120 1 2p 1 2p ;0 72 114 118 148 132 70j 70 rOSSESSIONS. :VP.antic&St.Lawrence all 56 58 IBoat., Baroda, 100 102 IC3 101 gu. 5 per cent... .o Do. F shares lO id ip .04 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 4 44 W Do. Preference 100 u• fl.,Brant,&Goderich ( 6 p.c. 187 2-3- 4 lOO st Calcutta &S. E., Bro lOO et a, e Cown & Dock, gu.l 100 50 55 00 Jemerara, 7 p.c. per. p:jt all 101 103 !..,Ist. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 101 103 102 } Nast Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 105 106 106 61 20 Do. .1 Extension at -.rand Trunkot Canada 100 18 20 20k 1 00 Do. Equip. Mort. Bouds 1 charge 6 p.c all 85 88 1.0 Do. Ist Frei'. Bonds all 57 69 59 100 Do. do deferred 100 Lie. 2d Pret. Bonus all 50 54 lOU Du. do. deterred - 100 Do. ?.d Pref. stock all 37 40 100 Do. do. deferred .... all 110 Do. 4th Pref. stock .. all 23 25 100 Do. do. deferred .... all at Bt. India Pen. gua.sp.e. 100 103 197 05} iJ o. Gus. 5 per cent.. 18 1 i !‘") Do. New gua. sp. c.. 6 4 1 e At ti t. South of India gua. 5 per cent at ll ~. 4} per cent lOO 91 93 Do 'O4 ;real Wrss. of Canada all 11k 124 12/ tl3 204 D New .. - ...... all 14 124 00 Do. 6p. e Bbs. pay. 1873 all 88 92 100 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 all 81 84 10 Indian Branch, limited 2 14 11.1 at. "Vladras, gua. 5 p.c 100 102 103 at Do. 41 do lOO 92 14 100 at Do. 44 do . 55 90 20 Do. Fifth Extension 5 et Melb. Con. 6p. c. Buds. 100 Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. all at N.l.ll•C'da,6pc latptba, 10u 82 15 at Scinde •. .. 100 99 101 j at Do. Delhi 20 D 0 .6, at Do. Pun;aub... - . 4, 100 98 09 st Do.lndus St.Flot 4'4 100 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. , British Columbia, 6 per , cent., Dec.3l, 1872.... 100 Can.G 0v.6 p.e.Ja.& July 1877-84 -- Do. 6p. C. Feb. & Aug. 1 0 9 0 12 ). sp. c. Mar. & Sep t 100 90 12 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 77 78 SO Do. sp. c. Inscribed ma 100 75 77 Cape B.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 104 106 00.Apl.&Uct. 1890-1900 100 103 105 Do. do 1880-90 100 102 104 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-01 100 114 106 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April alio .5 out., 1900 lOO 88 90 Ceylon, Nov. 1868 6p , 100 110 102 Do. 1878, do lOO 104 116 Alauritium, 6p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1-478 . .'O. iBB2, 51ay15, Nov. :5 100 105 107 " Do. 1805, Feb. ‘t Aug.. 100 106 108 Natal 'iov. 6 per cent.. 10u 96 100 N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&.lul+ , 100 95 02 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 184 100 90 92 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 18711 100 00 1 5 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 100 8!: 87 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 98 100 Qc al; 41 -= Do. 5 per cent.... ... 100 lit - Nova Scatia Gev. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO 96 98 Queensland Gov. p. c lOO 92 94 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 1868-9 100 Do. 1878 & upwards 1t:0 106 108 Vie,B ov. 6 p.c. Ja &July 100 5 Do. do, pril & Oct lOO 103 101 1051 VI 48. CI 08 8 9 150 153 3 4 BRITISLI MIN Cain. Cousol. Gold, ilia. - (Ativerton - , _;iiil'ord A thalgarnated. - Devon U. Cone. (Tavlst. - '.)rake walls - East Bassett (Illogan.)• • - East Caradon - East earn Lira - East Grenville - East Gunnislake .. - East Loved - E. WI Russell (Tavistk - GamAt 6tA übyn(G wen. 4 Great L txey, limited - Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy - G. Wheal Vor (lielst. , u - Grenville - Herod's Foot •••• - tungsten Downs - )targaret t Uuy Lelant. - Macke Valley 4 ttwyndy Iron Ore, lim --. New Se Lon - North itoskear - N.Wit'l Bae:sett (I llogan North Wheal Crotty ['rosper United.-- • • • - l'r,,videnee Uny Lelant - ' S. Caradon (St. Cieer) : i So N tV ia l e Cn , u d r u a rr . o t w i 110,,, an 1 -- -.tray Park - Pin Croft 2.1.0 204 2.11. e 2.14.0 3.0.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 13 .17.6 t. r).O 13i 384 1.1.0 2.13.( 7.1. fl 10.G.7 li 3.2.0 18.18.0 35.15.0 64 7 4 54 405 116 18 6 20 6 6 2 3 2 3 4 9 10 2} 21 5 6 17 1S 15 1 6 1} 16 30 3 2 si 2 4 31 4,1 35 45 2 4 21 3} 21 2i; 300 320 ti 2 e to lt 12 :4 54 5 5 115 125 65 7 5 1s 20 10 12 135 145 7 9 4 7 1gra and Clogan, 1im..1 - West Bassett (Mogan - W. Caradun (I, , akeard - West Chi rerton - West Beton - Wheal Bassett jllogan - Wheal Boller (Bedroll' - Wheal Slary Ann (Men. W heal Seto"). - WheAi Treiawney (Lie; sii 5.17.0 .1 , .14. Ls B.A.it.e. 13reat. Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1, 80} 13t. Western, Wt. slidland, Oxford lst guaranteed atOok, 114 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Dicto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 951 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Nottingham and Grantham R. and C, 91 FORE) (1N RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 1 Dutch Rhenish, 2 Sambre and Meuse. 71 San Paulo. lira., gua. o per cent., 131 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 15i FOREION MINET3. St. John del Ray, Bin.. 59 Yudanamutana of South Australia, lim.. 12 BAN fib Bank of Egypt, 3 2 Bank of New Zealand, 182 Chartered der. of India, London, and China,: 33 i City. 15 Consolidated Bank, Um., 42 English and American, lim, 5 Imperial Ottoman, Rm.. Si Lard Mortgage Bank of India, lim.. Do. 5 per cent. Debentures, 1861, for 30 years,:B2 London Bank of Mexico and S. America. 1im.,11 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 126 Oriental Bank Corporation, 4 2 4 Union of London, 451 42 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 681 MISCELLANEOUS . Angio-American Telegraph, 16 Atlantic Telegraph, Dit o, 8 per cunt., 731 City of Moscow Gas, lira., 18 Uo.,:mercial Union, Insurance, 54 • Credit rnncier of Eng'anti, lira . 24 I Crystal Palace, 30} 3 ) Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 4s 4 Electric Telegraph, 135/ London jeliertiii) mn ib u s Company, Urn, 3 4 N:.tional Discount Amipany. - - Peel p t i t t o i'v n er ew lia t u t l u tirn d d is to pay, •1 Submarine Telegraph, Li alsnperraelm. whi.3ll Uaiven.ii marine. insurance. Um.. 2 PRESS QUARRELS IN FRANCE. -A duel took place on Wednesday between two writers of the Paris press, M. Henri Rochefort and M. Paul de Cassag nac, the latter being the offending party. The parties, with their seconds, had repaired to Belgium, but the meet ing was delayed by the intervention of the police. At last the affair came off with pistols, M. Rochefort receiving a slight wound in the side. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S HOUSEHOLD.-President Johnson's household is thus organised under a law passed by Congress in its last session :-LPrivate secretary, Robert Johnson ; assistant -secretary, Robert Morrow ; secretary to sign laud patents, Edward D. Neill; aide-de-camps, Colonel W. G. Moore, Lieut.-Colonel Wright Rives, Col. Andrew K. Long. RESPITE.—The governor of Kirkdale Gaol has received a respite for Robert Reid, who was found guilty, and sentenced to death, at the last Liverpool Assizes, for . the murder of his wife in Liverpool four years ago. THAMES. DREADFUL DESTITUTION AND NEGLECT.—Mr. James Spratley, one of the relieving officers of the Poplar Union, came before Mr. Partridge, and solicited his advice under these circumstances : Mr. Spratley said he had been recently called upon to visit the family of a man name Pine, of No. 10, Hancock road, Bromley, within the union. The family consisted of six young children, the eldest 14 years of ago, the youngest one year and seven mouths only. He found the children in a most deplorable condition, suffering from the want of food and clothing. They had no shoes and stockings ; the room they were in was without furniture; the children had suffered much, and would have perished if ho had not relieved them. The mother of the children abandoned them about two months ago, and their father, who was a cooper in the Victoria Dock, Plaistow, and earning 28s. per week. They had no clothes or bedding, and although Pine was not destitute or unable to maintain his children, he bad given them no proper nourishment or clothing. He never saw children in such a neglected state before, and they would have perished. . Mr. Partridge said the relieving officer had dnne quite right, and that it was not because the father of the children had neglected his duty the pare4hialofficers were to evade theirs. Mr. Spraaey said ho had given the children outdoor re lief, and if he had not done so Lo was afraid they would Lave been starved. Mr. Partridge—That is right ; continue to administer relief, and I will give you all the aid in my power to reach this man who has so grossly neglected his children. He is amenable to the law. Mr. Spratley—The medical officer of the district has seen the children, and has recommended me to make this application. Mr. Partridge said tho relieving officer could have a warrant against Pine for neglecting to maintain his chil dren. MARKETS.—This day. MARK LANE. The quality of English wheat received fresh up to our market, to-day, was by no means extensive, and its qua lity was far from satisfactory. Notwithstanding the short ness of the supply, the few millers in attendance showed no disposition to purchase, and refused to operate beyond their immediate wants. On'; ho other hand factors were equally firm in their demands, and the few transactions which took place were at present equal to Monday. There was a fair supply of foreign w heat on the stands. Fine qualities were in fair request at full quotations. In ferior qualities, although unaltered in value, met a slow sale. 92 1 Floating cargoes were held at very full prices. Increased supplies of barley were on sale. Fine malt- Aug parcels commanded a fair share of attention, and wore disposed of at full quotations, otherwise the trade was quiet, and prices were rather easier. Malt was in go o d supp l y an d moderate request on for mer-- terms. In oats a moderate business was concluded at the rates previously current. The show, which was good, was chiefly composed of foreign produce. Beans and peas moved off slowly at drooping prices. The flour trade was quiet on former terms. war ARRIVALS TLE LS Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 1,090 120 2, 400 30 380 Irish Foreign 26,070 29 ; 060 28,580 7,920 sacks 1,180 brls NEWGATE AND LEADENBALL. Only moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these markets. Tho trade is by no means active. Nevertheless, prices rule firm. Per 81b by the carouse. s d s d Fidget .nferlor beef 3 4 3 6 Inferior mutton.... 3 6 4 2 Riddling do. 3 8 4 0 Middling mutton.. 4 4 4 8 Prime large do 4 2 4 6 Prime do 4 10 5 0 Prime small d0....4 .8 4 in Large pork 3 6 4 0 Veal 4 4 0 2 Small pork. 4 2 4 6 Lamb. Os ud to As Od BOROUGH HOP. Considering the time of year, there is a fair demand for hops, at quite late rates. The supplies aro by no moans extens ive, and it is anticipated that there will bo shortly an advance in prices. Mid and East Keats l7os to 228 s por cwt. Weald of Kent Sussex .... lsss to 170 s ~ Yearlings COLONIAL. TEA.—A small amount of business has been done in middling Congou at about late rates; other descriptions have been neglected. SuGAL—Business has been rather dull, the dealings in West India having been to a very moderate extent, with out any material change in values. COFFEE.—There have been no public sales, and only a limited business has been done in the private market, at about former rates. RlCE.—Scar cel y any business has been entered into, and quotations are unchang ed. TALLOW. —Business has remained very inactive. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 445. Gd., March 41s. 3d., and April to June 455. per cwt. SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY MAIN.—On Tuesday afternoon au old pensioner, named William Wal ker, was found dead at Larbert Station in one of the car riages of the 11.30 train from Perth to Edinburgh. The deceased,who was an inmate of the Falkirk Poorhouse, had been at Stirling for his pension, and was returning home with it when his death occurred. lie occupied a second-class compartment of a carriage himself, and the circumstance of his sudden demise was first observed by the ticket collectors having been identified by Mr. Falkirk Poor-house, it was con at Larbert. He was at once removed from the train to t he the evening. Walker was a years of age, and mv s n teaa,ytEti con voyed v o ldve n at - onh h ; e o cgr u eoa s tv e i rn , rn a nt n eh: d er ihiscourse f body Ath. rso Ayrshire, ire, was 66 during his connection with the army saw a good deal of servico in India, where he was wounded. Little is known of his relations, but it is understood that he has two sons, compositors, in Edinburgh. It may bo added that it is ex actly two years last Tuesday since a similar accident hap , polled 43, the Name trainbotwoonatirliug and Larbert, 01} Rebecca Riots in Opposition to the 17ew Salmon Fishery Laws. 1.gr......' ' Some years since the press of this kingdom teemedirith narrations of the unlawful doings of a body of men vrl banded together under the title of "Rebecca and hilr daughters," destroyed the turnpike-gates and levelled th o toll-housesin certain parts of Breconshire and Radriorshiro. The cause which led to those riotous and lawless pro ceedings has been partially removed,but the same turbulent spirit now shows itself in armed opposition to the salmon fishery laws. It is well known to residents in Rai fuer shire that in the houses of many persons living wa the banks of the Wye and its tributaries, the *Khon and other rivers, a score or two of " kipper," i.e., unseasonable salmon dried, take the place of the honest English labourers' flitch of bacon, these srlmon being the product of spearing expeditions while sar.mon are ascending the streams to their spawning grounds, when engaged in depositing their ova, or of spent fish when in a state totally unfit for human food. Great exertions have, up to this time, been made by the board of conservators of the Wye Fishery to prevent this wholesale destruction orsalmou by those who live on the upper part of the river; and very close supervision is being exercised by bodies of night watchers and water bailiffs. Rebecca and her Daughters (who really are the Welsh far mers, and who have been wont to assert their right to take salmon how, when, and where they will) have been for some time seen gathering in large numbers on the Upper Wye and the Khon, and lighting the streams by flambeaux spear the salmon in large numbers; but the force of watchers is so comparatively small that it was not deemed prudent to attempt a capture of the poachers, who have recently an nounced their marauding expeditions by the firing of guns. The gangs of these poachers had become so formidable in December that' an increased body of water bailiffs were put on the Khon ; and, supported by a gentleman of the neighbourhood and his gamekeepers, at eleven o'clock on the night of the 22d ult. they came upon a gang of about twenty poachers, disguised in various ways, armed with spears, pikes, bludgeons, and other weapons, some of whom were carrying flambeaux of straw to light the streams and attract the fish, while the rest pursued their work of spearing. The water bailiffs concealed themselves in a wood by the side of the Khon until the poachers went into the stream, and were at their work, when they showed a bold front by rushing into the stream. The poachers, probably fancying the number of water bailiffs to be greater than they really were, darted out of the stream on the opposite "side, and clearing some rails, got into the meadows beyond, where they wheeled round, and form ing themselves into line, presented their spars at the watchers. Samuel Owens, the superintendent bailiff, asked them what they meant to do, and if they would deliver up their weapons, upon which they exclaimed, " Fight !" Hereupon the watchers closed upon them, and a determined encounter followed, in which a gamekeeper named Lloyd was seriously injured, and the poachers and watchers terribly punished, but the watchers, after a fight which lasted for a quarter of an hour, proved themselves victorious by capturing four men and driving the others off the field. During the encounter one of the poachers, named Edward Hamar, the son of a large and wealthy farmer, threw the superintendent, and, keeping him on his back, made an attempt to "gouge" him, and was only prevented by the timely assistance of a watcher named Williams. This encounter and capture served to dispel a belief en tertained by many that these salmon poachers were poor, needy labourers, and has shown that "Rebecca and her Daughters" are chiefly composed of the largest occupiers of land in the district ; for two of the persons captured are the sons of one of the wealthiest farmers thereabouts, and it is now well known that most of the gang are men well to do. The four prisoners were broughtupbefore T. P. Severna, Esq., and E. M. Evans, Esq., at Penybont Petty Ses sions, on Dec. 27 and 28. The occasion drew together the whole population of the district for many miles round, and the greatest excitement prevailed. The evidence of the whole of the water bailiffs, and the gamekeeper (Lloyd), who was nearly scalped by a blow with a spear, proved the narrative above given. Mr. Evans, the magistrate, said that on one account he was not sorry this disturbance had taken place, for it had served to dispel the delusion that only farm servants were guilty of these outrages, for it was now clear that some large and respectable farmers themselves took part in them. A tenant of his own was charged with salmon poaching on the previous day and expected to be turned out of his farm, but he did not think that was the way to deal with tenants at will, though he should in all pro bability get 50 per cent. more rent from another. Their proper punishment was not a notice to quit their farms, but the infliction of the specific penalty furnished by the law for its infraction. After referring at length to the evidence, Mr, Evans continued : —Looking at all that has transpired, I do hope that all persons who are owners of property on the banks of the river will assemble their tenants and come to a clear understanding with them in reference to this ishing question. There is no doubt that the inhabitants of these salmon districts occupy a peculiar position. Most of those persons 1 see before me have, almost from their cradles, been in the habit of killing unseasonable salmon. This habit, until recently, has, if not actually been per mitted, 'at• least been connived at. You arc, therefore, very much in the position of one of your wild Radnorshire ponies which has, from the hour it was foaled, been allowed to run restrained over its native hills. After it is well ad vanced in years it is suddenly caught, a bridle is put upon its head, a bit in its mouth, and a saddle on its back. What is the consequence ? Why, it naturally kicks. Now, what I want you to understand is this —it is not some half-dozen or dozen Radnorshire magistrates who saddle and bridle you ; it is the Legislature which does so. It is useless for you to feel exasperated towards us. YOU.May, if you will, kill us. You will find fresh authorities will rise up and step into our shoes. You cannot kill the law. I do implore you, therefore, before there is bloodshed, and bloodshed there will be if things go on as they have, I implore you all I see before me, especially the large and respectable farmers, to use your influence among your children, servants, and dependants, to put down the present state of things, and do not oblige the magistrates to subject the ratepayers to the expense and the country to the disgrace of applying fora large police force to maintain the supremacy of the law. The prisoners were discharged. At a meeting of the Fishery Board, on Wednesday, Sir Yellers Cornewall in the chair, it was resolved to lay the matter before the Home Secretary. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 3. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account DEBTOR. Jan. 3. Dec. 27. c. fr. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 Profits in addition to _ . 182,500,00 1 - - capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 62 7 , 044 , 776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches pßes rtT erve in landed pro- Pe 4,000,000 Notes in circulation ... 1,016,558,625 Banknotes to orderand 22,105,750 14 22,603,730 14 4,000,000 936,969,825 receipts payable at sight 16,578,406 78 15,618,609 42 Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 240,039,320 37 259,593,558 98 Do. branch banks 39,844,905 33,496,959 Dividends payable 12,398,251 75 14,556,434 75 Discounts and sundry 1,088,037 12 419,601 76 interests Rediscounted the last six months 1,574,256 84 1,574,256 34 Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 11,919,123 87 7,515,187 96 Total, ' 1 ... 1,740 ) 684,765 20 1,715795 ) ,587 95 & —...- — —_. --- CREDITO Jan. 3. Dec. 27. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over- due Commercial, bills dis counted, not yet duo 336,902,178 57 309,701,718 120 00 Do. branch banks 368,323,362 335,137, Advances on deposit of 527,209 68 234,536 01 bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public 33,943,300 - 32,614,600 8,224,400 - • 9,006,900 Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures 87,606,200 D. branch banks 26,034,900 Do. on Credit Fonder 14,125,400 - 14,029,100 7,828,700 - 7,689,800 743,600 - 727,000 606,550 613,050 - 87,292,200 25,873,000 Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con ^vention, June 10, 1857) Government Stock re- 60,000,000 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 36,065,237 91 36,063,237 91 serve Do. disposable lientes Immobalisdes (Law, June '2, 1857) 100,0 00 , 000 100,000,000 otel and furniture of the Bunk and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment !Sundries 8,304,097 - 8,306,692 Total 1,740,684,765 20 1,715,795,687 95 Certified by the Senator G (Si overnor of the Bank of Franco. gned) ItouLAND. The Christmas dish in Austria is a goose, of which immense numbers are slaughtered on that occasion. At Vienna the poultry dealers decorate their shop windows with those birds dressed up to represent in caricature individuals of a momentary notoriety. This season the majority of geese figure as Marshal Benedek or General Clam-Gallas. The great success on the previous occasion was "a French romance-writer de livering a scientific lecture," which Alexandre Dumas was thsu doing in the Austrian capital, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This ray. MANCHESTER RACES. Races postponed again. No stated time fixed. RACING FIXTI FEBR' RES FOR 1867. ARY. Lincoln Spring Harrow 2l MA: Nottingham 26 Derby Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 West Drayton l9 Bromley Epsom Spring Lewes Spring 2B Croxton Park 29 Northampton Windsor Spring 4 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6 Newmarket Craven 8 Curragh 02 Thirsk .... I Durham .. Newmarket ]st Spring 22 Cutteriek Chester 3O AY. Chester (continued) 1 York Spring 7 Salisbury . , p. Doncaster Spring Bath Harpenden Epsom Summer Newton 2') Croydon . Stockbridge Chohnsford Newcastle Ourragh Worcester Summer 27 Ipswich 27 JUL Ascot Summer 4 Windsor Summer Manchester Summer ,on 0 diham l7 Bibury Club lB Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading Liverpool July Meeting 10 liungerford Nottingham July 'Y. Down Royal Corporatn l7 Stamford Huntingdon 23 Winchester Southampton Goodwood Goodwood (continued). 1 rii ST. 1 York August Dover West Drayton 22 Plymouth . 23 Canterbury Lichfield Derby Summer Weymouth Tunbridge Ripon Brighton Brighton Club 8 Lewes Egham Wolverhampton l3 Stockton - Oxford 15 Hastings SEPTI Warwick Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon 5 Doncaster IMBER. Richmond l7 Hendon l9 Monmouth Manchester. Autumn 2O Newmarket let October 24 Walsall • 25 OCTOBER. Northampton Autumn. 1 Curragh Edinburgh Autumn ... 2 Newmarket Houghton Newmarket 2d October. 7 Worcester Autumn Cheltenham NOVEMBER , Liverpool Autumn 5 I Leamington Hunt Shrewsbury ll STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. TANITARY. • -. Manchester ._ _ 1 FEBRUARY. Carmarthen 5 Harrow Spring Birmingham l2 Derby Windsor MARCH. Liverp00l Spring Grand Military ......... 7 Cheltenham Grand An 2l Chertsey Mahon ............... ..•.. 13 COURSING. COURSING MEETINGS TO COME. JANUARY, 1867. - Name. — Judge. Days of Running Huntingdon Club ............... Mr. Warwick l, 2, Lincolnshire, Ilolbeach ...... Mr. Spofford Cork (Open) ...... Coole, co. Third S. Lancashire, (South port (Open) .................. Mr. Westropp 9, 10, 11 S pe lthorne Club ............... Mr. Warwick Border Union (Longtown) C um berland . . ..... . .......... Mr. Warwick Barton-on-Humber, Lincoln. Mr. Spafford Altcar Club, Lancashire...... - Wigtonsh. Club (Stranraer) Mr. Boulton Little Crosby . ....... . ......... Mr. Welding County Louth Club, Ireland Mr. Spafford Ridgway Club, Lytham ...... - FEBRUARY. Rufford, Lancashire ......... - Cardiff Club ..................••• Mr. Warwick l4, 15 Waterloo, Lancashire......... - Tam.worth, Staffordshire ... Mr. Warwick 26, &c. MARC U. Irish Grand National (Open), 8, 7 7, &c. SEPTEMBER. Brampton, Cumberland Mr. Warwick ...... 26, &c. OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, WLincolnshiro Mr. Spafford 'l, 2 county Loutn irdrossan, Sharphill South Lancashire (South 11r. W es t r opp l4, 15, &c port) Champion Leinster (Open) Courtown... Mr.ll.Spriugall l9, 20 Scottish Op en , Lanarkshire APRIL. York l7 I Kildare Hunt Sevenoaks Bank of England Returns.—Last Evening. An Account, pursuant to tl cap. 32, for the week ending . ) ISSUE DET Notes issued ....03,429,1001 ,he Act 7th and Bth Victoria Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1867. PARTM}NT. Governmt. Debt £11,015,10 0 Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion X33,429,100' 1 BANKING D: X 33,429,100 Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest 3,290,285 Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div Accounts) ...... 8,162,130 Other Deposits... 20,059,223 Seven Day and other bills 458,443 :PARTMENT. Governmt. Secu- - rities(ineluding Dead Weight Annuity) £13,111,068 Other Securities 22,816,503 Notes 10,142,255 Gold and Silver „, 986,262 Coin £47,056,088 447,056,088 THE WEATHER.—(THIS DAY.)—TIiS afternoon, at 2 o'clock, the barometer stood at 29.88, and the the thermometer at 19, being 13 degrees below freezing point. The extreme cold last night was 5 deg. above zero, which was 27 degrees of frost. A VENERABLE PARTY.—On the day before Christmas -day, the Rev. Mr. Judd, curate of St. Paul's, Cambridge, entertained twelve old ladies, his parishioners, to dinner and tea, and provided them with other good things appropriate to the season. Their united ages amounted to 1,000 years, but the venerable I dames managed to spend a very merry afternoon notwith standing. CONVICTION OF CELEBRATED PRIZE FIGHTERS. —At the Derbyshire Sessions, before Mr. Evans, M.P., and other magistrates, Joseph Goss, Peter Morris, George Hol den, Joseph Wareham, and James Mace, surrendered to their bail, on a charge of unlawfully disturbing the public peace at Croxall, on the 28th November, 1866. The pri soners pleaded guilty, and through their solicitor asked to be allowed to go at large, as they all earned their livelihood in respectable employments, upon entering into their re cognisances to comp up for judgment when called on. It was proved by the superintendent and inspector of police that they had not been assaulted or insulted T by ho the air defen dants when told to desist f rom fighting. chman said that though engaged in an illegal act they had not in terfered with the police ; b ut it had been proved by a cent case in Sheffield that the course which the defendants requested him to pursue towards them did not a subs t antial put e top to p r ize fights. He shoul d, therefore, inflict punishment for the offence. The sentence was that they be severally imprisoned, with hard l ab our,r o each no calen bound dar m onth, and at the expiration of that tme be over in his own recognisances in the sum of £lO to keep the peace for twelve months. HER MAJESTY'S WOODS AND FORESTS.—The forty-fourth report of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, has just been pub lished. Tho general abstract of accounts for the year end ing March 31, 1866, shows that the receipts, actual and anticipated, are .£631,447 18s. ld. in cash, and £268,926 11s.. 2d .in securities purchased. The pay meats in cash amount to £529,459 17s. Bd., thus leaving a balance of £101,988 Os. sd. Amongst the items included as pay ments are capital, which now stands at £245,962 lls. 2d. ; income, £57,435 ss. 7d.: and salaries and expenses in the offices of Woods, &c., £28,292 4s. 10d. THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN PROFESSOR BLAME AND MR. ERNEST JONES.—This discussion was, we learn by telegraph, opened last night at Edinburgh by an address from Professor Blackle, who maintained that on referring to the history of all democracies, ancient and modern, it would be found that none had :ever been successful. At the close a vote of thanks was given to the Professor, and good humour prevailed throughout the proceedings. ['ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — These wonderful productions have now become so appre ciated in every part of the world, that they form a complete household tretsure ; the worst cases of ulcers, wounds, and every variety of skin diseases, for which so many remedies have been tried without effect, readily succumb to their power; they act so miraculously upon the system as to be considered a complete phenomenon in the healing art. For this reason they are advocated by many modern practitioners after everything else has proved unsuccessful. Those complaints especially, which affect the sedentary and studious, give way as mist before the rising sun to the influence of the Pills. External woundB are as readily healed under the Ointment, RIL. Old. Stories Re-Told. (From Dickens's "All the Year Round.") TH MIAS GRIFFITHS WAINE WRIGHT (JANUS WEATHER. COCK), THE POISONER. One of those pleasant winter evenings, when fires burn frosty blue, and hearts grow warmer as the weather grows colder. It is an evening soon after he ascent to the throne of .his Most Gracious lesty King George the Fourth. A pleasant, merry, and highly intellectual par'y , are dining at the house of the publishers of ',.hat clever periodical the " Lond ,n Magazine.;" in Waterloo-place, to cerebrate the new proprietorship. The cloth has been removed, the glasses sparkle in ' the light of the wax candles, the wine glows ruby and topaz in the fast revolving decanters, - the oranges gleam golden, the crystallised fruits glitter with jewel!ed frost, the chestnuts, tight in their leather jackets, are hoarding their warm floury m e for the palates of poet. 3 and thinkers, puns arc flash-, ing in the air like fireworks, smart sayings are dal c_. ing past like dragon-flies, even the gravest frhers glow and brighten. A ring,of brilliants the party resembles; for there is no one round the well-spyead table but has a name in the world of letters or in. the world of fashion. There is Charles Lamb, uo' busy with his " Elia," the finest essays ever writt , ja a little grave man in black, but with the face of a genius ; Hazlitt is glorying in a Titian, upon which he is expatiating ; Thomas Hood, with a frAce like that of an invalid Plato, is watching for a pun like a fly-fisher waiting for his cast. The Rev . H. Cary _ _ (the translator of Dante), the mildest and gentlest of men, is explaining a passage of the " Inferno" to that fine, vigorous Scotch poet, Allan Cunninghatr l , the sculptor. Mr. Proctor (Barry Cornwall), i n his own kind, cheery way, is defending a fine pa s .. sage in Ben Jonsou from the volatile ilipparAcy of the art-critic and gay dilettante of the magazine— to wit—Janus Weathercock, otherwise Thoma 4 Griffiths Wainewright. , He is a fop and a dandy, but is clever, has a re fined taste, and is the kindliest and most light hearted creature in the world. He has run throug4 one fortune, has been in some dragoon regime/it, and no doubt distinguished himself against the French—if he ever met them. He is on the wrong side of thirty, and records his military career by that exquisitely blue undress military coat he wears, all braided and befrogged down the front. His cravat is tied to a nicety. His manner most gallant, in sinuating, and winning. His face, however, is by no means that of the mere dandy. His head is massive, and widens at the back. His eyes are deeply set in their orbits. His jaw is square and solid. He seldom looks the person he talks to full in the face. He has his hair curled every morning (a stray ring let or so left free), and slightly stoops. His expres sion is at once repelling and fdscinating. He is übiquitous. Go to the Park, and you ob serve him in his phaeton, leaning out with his cream-coloured gloves and his large turned-down wristbands conspicuous over .the splashboard. Go to old Lady Fitzrattle's ball the same evening, and you will see the fascinating creature with the belle of the evening, gracefully revolving in the waltz. In the club library he is conspicuous ; at the supper party he is the merriest and the gayest. He has fortunately left us portraits of himself both at the . coffee-house and at home. Let us see the charming man at 9 o'clock on a November evening, 1822. The diners at George's Coffee-house, 213, Strand, then the great resort of Kentish lawyers and men from the Temple, are all gone but three—two young barristers in the last box but one from the fire, and next to them a fashion ably dressed man with the exquisite cravat, the square jaw, and the deep-set eyes, that we at once recognise. George's was famous for its soups and wines, and Mr. Wainewright has dined luxuriously. A bottle of the rarest wine he has sipped away with supercilious pleasure. lie now holds to the candle, in an affected manner, displaying carefully his white jewelled fingers, a little glass of eau de vie de Dantzig, and is languidly watching the little flakes, or, as he would call them, " aureate particles," float and glimmer in the oily and glutinous fluid like scales of gold. fish. The voices in the next box catch his ear ; he lis;.cns. The one Templar is read ing to the other with unction an article by Janus Weathercock in the last London Magazine. " Soothed into that desirable sort of self satisfaction so necessary to the bodying out those deliciously voluptuous ideas perfumed with languor which occasionally swim and undulate like gauzy clouds over the brain of the most cold-blooded men, we put forth one hand to the folio,which leant against a chair by the sofa side, and, at hap-hazard, extracted thence Lancret's charming Repas— A summer party in the greenwood shade, With wine prepared and cloth on herbage laid, And ladies' laughter coming through the air. 'itimini. This completed the Charm." The gay writer listens with half-turned head, gloating over every word, inhaling the intense so delicious to his vanity, taking care, however, that the waiter is not looking. Again they are talking about it. First Voice—" How glowing, how exquisite, how recherché, how elegant, how full of the true West end manner! A fine mind that young fellow has. Oh, he'll do." Second Voice—" Don't like it. Flashy assump tion. Mere amateur stuff. By-the-by, when does that case of Badger versus Beaver come on, Jones ? Isn't to-day the 15th ?" " Low creature ; debased nature," thinks Janus. " Upon my honour, these coffee-houses are getting mere haunts for the inferior classes. The 15th, eh ? So it is. Why, that's the day I promised to write my article for the London. I must be off to Turnham-green." Let us follow the delight of society to the White Horse, and take a seat beside him in :the two-horse stage till it stops at the door of Linden House, Mr. Wainwright's elegant residence. His wife meets him at the door, and with her there come dancing out, radiant with almost an exuber ance of life, Phoebe and Madeleine, the two blooming daughters by a second husband of his wife's mother. They kiss him, they pet him, they load him with playful caresses, for he is their idol, they admire his genius, they love him as their nearest and.dearest relation. Laughingly he frowns in assumed anger, and pleads the occupation of a popular author and a great critic. He breaks at last from their pretty syren wiles, and locks him self iu his sanctum. It is a luxurions den. We can sketch it in almost Mr.Wainewright's own cox combical words. He strips off his smart tight-waisted befrogged coat, in which he so exquisitely masquerades as the retired officer of dragoons, and, in his own airy way, n dr e esdressing-grown, ni t eg o g s - a s gu e r s to o ni graaryne French with at nfl pinkpow, r e it r bh e b d e n r gs u .r s o t n ne g d hintcg llightsa sasz lt globe of which is painted with gay flowers and gaudy butterflies. He then hauls forth languidly, as if the severity of the labour almost exhausted him, " portfolio No. 9," and nestles down into the cushioned corner of " a Grecian couch ;" stroking " our favourite tortoise-shell cat" into a sonorous pur; he next, by a tremendous effort, contrives to ring the bell by the fireside. A smiling " Venetian shaped" girl enters, and places on the table "a flask of as rich Montepulciauo as ever voyaged from fair Italy;" they after contemplating his elegant figure in a large glass, placed with a true artistiesense opposite the chimney mirror, with a fresh exertion he pours out " a full cut glass" of wine with one hand, and strokes the cat with tho other. The sheet of glass returns sharp-cut photographs of a gay carpet, the pattern of which consists of garlands of flowers, a cast of the Venus de Medicis (for [Mr. Waine wright is an artist), a Tomkinson piano, some Louis Quinze novels and tales, bound in French " mar roquin," withtabbysilk linings, some playful volumes Lewis,choi e 1 ysoreearzedaleabsyteßemoginegrsN,v i P t h a3 c , n ri e m , s a o n n d b I C o s h s a o r m l e s s , standing on a white marble slab, and a large peasabre ceful Newfoundland dog also. A fine Damascus hung against the wall (dragoons again), an almost objectionable picture by Fuseli, that gay old bache lor at Somerset }louse (a friend of the eminently popular and accomplished art-critic); and last, but not least of all, the exquisite man of the world him self, fell of heart, fall of soul, and bathed is the el