The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

LONDON, SA7 URDAY, JAN. 19, 1867. The continuance of the severe weather, which has prevailed more or less ever since the beginning of the year, is producing the most distressing effects among the poorer classes of the metropolis. Fol lowing on the continued depression of trade from be r a nic of last spring, and the distress and weak ness left in the wake of the cholera, the frost has created more than usual suffering in the houses of the industrial classes. In ordinary winter weather, when well-dressed and hearty persons are enjoying a good dinner and a good fire, and are talking " about fine seasonable weather," there are always thousands of sick and struggling persons who are terribly pinched ; but this year it is not only the helpless and infirm, not only the aged and widows, who are reduced to abject poverty, but the families of industrious and sturdy artisans and labourers, who in ordinary times are able to fight their way manfully without help from the outer world. All over London, but more especially in the eastern districts, is the same story told. From Poplar, Millwall, Limehouse, Bethnal Green, and their neighbourhoods, come constant and pathetic appeals for help. The sad story told by the resident ministers of religion and the principal in habitants of the districts are fully confirmed by the experience of special inquirers and casual visitors. We are not surprised, under these circumstances, to find that the Bishop of LONDON has summoned the members of the Metropolitan Relief Association to meet daily at their office in Regent-street, as at the time of the cholera. His Lordship, after saying that the committee on Tuesday last voted £875 to necessitous parishes, adds " The accounts of the distress witnessed by a member of the committee, who had visited the east of London to make inquiries on the spot, were appalling. Since the Metropolitan Relief Association make it a strict rule to administer relief solely with regard to the wants of the reci pints, without any distinction whatever on account of difference of creed, it has a strong claim upon the support of all classes of the public ; and the Bishop's appeal will, no doubt, be promptly and heartily responded to. The Committee ex press their willingness to co-operate with any other well-organised association, and we observe that a gentleman, residing in Poplar, has made a very sensible suggestion to the effect that a general committee of the leading manufacturers and ship owners of the district should be formed at once, so that the sums forwarded for the relief of the distress should be fairly divided throughout the whole of the many suffering districts. Steps have alreadybeen taken towards this desirable result, and a preliminary meeting will, we believe, be held in Poplar this morning. The plan of district committees answered so well in the autumn that it gives great encouragement to believe that the funds at their disposal will be well and wisely spent, and as the richer half of London is generally very ready to help the poorer half, provided they know how to set about it, money is not likely to be wanting for immediate action. There is one point in connection with the distress and lack of employment at the east end of London which has deservedly attracted much attention at the present crisis, and which gives a most unfavour able illustration of the working of trades' unions. In most of the daily papers of yesterday, side by side with the heartrending accounts of the wants and sufferings of thousands of families was a letter from Mr. ,FORD, the managing director of the Thames Ironworks Company. This company, as is well known, is one of the largest firms of the kind, and even in the present depressed state of trade are employing two thousand hands. Mr. FORD states that being on the eve of completing some large contracts which would necessitate the discharge of some hundreds of men, and as they were anxious if possible to avoid aggravating the existing dis tress they had opened negociations for building some steamers for a foreign company, which they could only obtain at a greatly reduced price, which necessitated a reduction in the cost of labour to escape actual loss, though profit in any shape was out of the question. The men employed by the firm were asked to accept a reduction of their wages of sixpence a day, which would diminish the ship wrights' wages from 7s. to 6s. 6d. daily, and the other classes in proportion. The answer to this offer Mr. FORD sends verbatim. It is signed " The Shipwrights of the Port of London," and states that the men find it scarcely possible to keep out of debt at the full rate of wages, and that considering the high rate of food, house rents, taxes, &c., as well as the losses caused by bad weather, holidays, and other interruptions, they will be "doing an injustice to themselves and their families, and all with whom they have dealings," by accepting the reduction. It will not take any one very long to cal culate what six times six shillings and sixpence will amount to, and there is no reason to suppose that the various losses they must take into such ample calculation would diminish it very largely. Thirty nine shillings a week, at a time when the most distressing poverty surrounds them would, one might have supposed, been most thankfully accepted by men who really wish to support themselves by their own hands, and not throw their wives and families upon the charity of the public. It is right to add that the firm belief that most of their men would willingly have taken the offer but for the prohibition of their Trades' Unions. So that the Trades' Unions, which were designed for the benefit of labour and the assist ance of the working-man, are actually so perverted from their original object that they compel a man to sit at home idle, and see his wife and children wanting food and fire, because in a time of extreme depression of trade be cannot take a temporary engagement of sixpence a day less than the regular sum. Do the shipwrights of the port of London think it mure honourable to take a quartern loaf and a grudgingly given half crown at the workhouse door than to receive thirty-nine shillings in payment of honest work ? If so, their standard is different from that of most of their countrymen. On other grounds, too, there is good reason for indignation against this application of the aut C war aut nullus theory. There are hundreds of labourers who are dependent in a great degree upon the em ployment of the skilled workmen who have no voice in the matter, not being members of the unions, and who are thus deprived of the chance of employ ment at a time when employment means good warm clothing, almost life itself. Such tyranny exercised by the higher classes over the lower might well raise an outcry about the abuses of English liberty. From one working man to another the act passes unnoticed. There is reason to fear that the unjust and unrea sonable conduct of these men may in some degree alienate public sympathy. It is well, therefore, that it shoulJ be distinctly understood that the worst suffering is among those who have no chance of im proving their condition in the present state of things. The Conservatives seem determined to make the most of their opportunities just now, and to lose no time in putting their views before the country. Per haps, all things considered, this is a wise determina tion upon their part, for, with one thing and the other, there have been a great many mis-statements, and Mr. BRIGIIT and his friends have made so many mis- statements that it is advisable to confute them. On Thursday a grand banquet took place in the Guildhall, Cambridge. Mr. BALLS presided, and made an energetic speech in proposing the toast of the evening, " The Members for the Borough of Cambridge." Ddr, POWELL Waii their .141 F ElloAT SERV] C ES.—Durin g the storms of the past year (1858) the National Lifebsat In stitution, by its iiteboats and other means, contributed to the Eaving of 9 13 person s from different wrecks on our coasts. Tue Institution also expended £31,430 in the same perio•l on its lifeboat et tablishmeuts, in addition to granting £2,173 as iewards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly 'APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the 172 lifeboat Stations of the Institution. Contributions are received by the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary. Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. s, , le Lessee and Man tger, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDIN To conclude Iv th the Pantomime NUMBE it NIP ; or. Harlequin and the Gnome-King of the Giant M untain. 9iesriames Lydia Thompson. Hudspeth, Bodenham, Seymour, Gardonni, r.nd H. Vandenhoff; Messrs. Tom Mathews. Bar: by, Clifton, Robin?. Se) ton, and 31aster Percy Roselle ; Poleno, Said, le, Lauri, Cormack, Barnes, and Morris ; I I Warne Buleuu and Mdlle. Marion. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, TO-NIGHT. A LESSON FUR LIFE. Messrs. 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Mr. POWELL commenced by stating his opinion that it would be no more poi lsible to speak in this month, January, 1867, without referring to a Reform Bill than it would have beeu lait January to deliver a discourse and make no allusion to the cattle plague. " No man," said he, " dare repudiate this question who has any regard to the safety of the State, as its consideration was demanded by a large body, who, year by year , were becoming more capable of exercising the r ghts and fulfilling the great duties of citizenelip." The hon. member sought to refute an often-wpeated fallacy, which is to the effect that the liberties of England are less than these of other lands waere the suffrage is not so restricted. He put this, -very plainly before his hearers, by saying that if a =an desired to become a citizen of France and promote any principle, or if he endeavoured to establish a newspaper to advo cate such a thing, he would be hindered at every turn. If he called a public meeting, he would find expression of opinion was forbidden. Another spe cimen of universal suffrage is afforded by Prussia, when the King said, some months ago, " that if he could not rule within the Constitution he would rule without it." As for America, nothing that takes place there can strengthen our faith in such a proposed remedy for our national grievances ; far from England seeking to imitate, there is much that she ought to " eschew and avoid" in the con duct of affairs in the great Republic. This is all very true, and it is very advisable for public speakers thus to dwell upon the inconsistencies and inaccuracies of those who persist in upholding all foreign countries in preference to our own, wilfully ignoring in their speeches what they must know to be true in their own minds that the results of these vaunted schemes are not satisfactory by any means. What is the use of show without substance, of illusions of liberty when the practice of freedom is null and void. It is high time that such absurdities should cease from among us, and that we should all think and consider what suits us best, and what changes it may be desirable to make without reference to the ways of any other country. Mr. POWELL did not advocate having no change in our present plan, and adhering to what had been done in 1832, but he advised caution in making the change whenever it really took place. He truly said that there is no reason whatever why a Conservative Government should not grapple with this question quite as well as a so-called Liberal one. We also agree with the hon. member that the matter must be treated by bold and com prehensive legislation if any good results are to follow, and if we would " from the nettle danger pluck the flower safety." In going over the doings of late years, Mr. POWELL showed that the Liberals had not done much to gain the confidence or win the respect of the country. The army is the victim of maladministration, the navy is not at all in a fit condition or rendered likely to hold her own upon the seas, the education question is not settled, and many other important and interesting questions have been let alone, if not absolutely neglected and mismanaged. A more disastrous or deplorable calamity than that which occurred in Regent's Park can hardly be imagined, and the full extent of the calamity has not yet reached us. It is now almost certain that there are more bodies under the ice, although it is as yet impossible to reach them. A more sudden contrast can hardly be found than has been afforded by the scenes in the Park from what they were at the commencement of the week and what they are now. A curious instance of the uncertainty of life in the midst of its most exciting pursuits was afforded in the case of Mr. SPENCER, one of the victims to this accident. He had only that very day come to London for the purpose of entertaining his friends in celebration of a recent success in Chancery. An affecting incident con nected with the recent event is that a New foundland dog, which accompanied his master on the ice, and got back again, has never left the ground near the water. Food has been brought to him, but he has refused it. This reminds one of the lines of Sir WALTER SCOTT on the dog which watched his master's corpse at Helvellyn : " How many long days and long nights didst thou number Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart." A most sad and solemn scene was that at the Marylebone Workhouse on Thursday morning, when the hearses arrived to take away the remains. Altogether this painful affair has thrown a blight over the metropolis and caused the Christmas holidays to close in gloom and darkness. We hope that care will be taken in future to guard against the recurrence of Each misfortunes ; but though wisdom may be thus gained from the events of Tuesday, we must all feel that this is no consolation to those who have suffered from them, and have to sustain the consequences of so sudden and unlooked-for a calamity. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. ' The Moniteur to-day is in possession of such a small amount of Continental news that its first article is devoted to the abandonment of the pro posed demonstration of the Reform League at Westminster-hall on the meeting of Parliament. A letter from Constantinople, dated January 1, says :—" The Turkish Government has just given its consent to the arrangement concluded between France and Russia for the reconstruction of the grand cupola of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. The Sultan, attaching importance to his rights of territorial Sovereign and governing Monarch of several millions of Christian subject; claimed the right to take his share in the expenses of the recon struction. Ile also ordered the Governor of Jeru salem to give every possible assistance to the opera tions by facilitating the landing at Jaffa, and the transport to Jerusalem of materials coming from foreign countries, and by purchasing articles re quired upon the spot. The Porte has consented also to the demolition of various buildings, with a view to give better effect to the appearance of the cupola. The letter adds that the amicable arrangements be tween the Governments of France, Russia, and Turkey for the reconstruction of the cupola have given intense satisfaction in the East, and that they will put a stop to deplorable quarrels among Chris tians. The affairs of Germany are forgttten, at least for the moment, and the Eastern question is in the as cendant with the Paris papers. It becomes more and more complicated. The differences between Turkey and Greece form only a portion of the question, for claims are put forth by the populations of various localities, to which the Turkish Govern ment is either heedless or opposed. Letters from Belgrade state that Turkish troops in large numbers are now concentrated on the frontiers of Servia, and that the Pachas have given orders for a considerable increase of fortifications in Bosnia. The Turks, like other nations, are increasing their army. Without joining in the anticipations of the alarmist journals, it seems pretty clear that the preparations of the Ottoman Porte mean mischief, and that the Eastern question is likely to take a foremost rank in public attention. The sympathy for art and genius will be strikingly exhibited to-morrow. Arrangements have been made for a funeral service, with great pomp and ceremony, over the remains of M. Ingres, the painter, to-morrow, at the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin. At the grave some impressive speeches will be made, having for object to exhibit venera tion for art and respect for individual worth and estimable qualities. I am informed the French and English Govern ments have come to an understanding, with a view to modify Customs' regulations, as far as possible, during the Universal Exhibition. Among the recent deaths are those of Madame Conny, who died at Moulins, aged 100 years and nine months, and of Giuseppe Moltem, at Milan. He was one of the most eminent Italian painters of the day. The reign of Old Whiter is seriously re-estab lished. It began to snow last night, and has snowed, but not very severely, during the day, with every prospect of continuance. Even where there is a great traffic the snow remains upon the thorough fares, so that frost is likely to be in the ascendant for the present. Letters from Lyons and several other cities of the South state that an immense quantity of snow has fallen since Saturday. The communications are interrupted on many points. The musical world is excited with an opera pro duced at the Theatre Lyrique, called " Deborah." It is the first composition of M. Devru-Duvirier, a pupil of the celebrated Halery. The music is of a peculiar and original character, and some have com pared it with the startling and magical composition of Weber. Several of the airs were enthusiastically received, and a quantor in the second act excited general enthusiasm. The librettes, by M. Edouard Flouvier, is founded upon an episode of the war of the Cavaliers. Deborah is the widow of a chieftain of the Scotch clan of the Macdonalds, who died in fighting for the prescribed Charles Stuart. French dramatists so torture English his tory that a further description of the plot would only lead to confusion. But naturally the chief attraction of the opera is the music, and in this respect the production was satisfactory. The scenery of the second act is very beautiful. In imitation of the announcement sometimes made in your Parliamentary and other reports, I conclude my letter to-day with the information that at 6 p.m. it was The total, without including amounts which are yet to be paid, is one milliard 262,268,000 f., being an increase of 105,576,000 f. upon the whole of the duties levied in 1864, and of 59,934,000 f. upon the taxes levied in 1865. The duties upon sugar alone exhibit an increase of 35,242,000 f. as compared with 1864, and of 3,589,000 f. as compared with 1865. The month of December, 1866, alone pre sents an increase of 11,637,000 f., composed of various items. The amount received of the direct taxes to the end of December,lB66, was 520,189,000 f. There still remains to be paid 15,510,000 f. for the taxes under miscellaneous heads. The funeral of M. Ingres took place to-day. There was nothing splendid in the procession from his residence on the Quai Voltaire to the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin, not even a mourning coach. But there was something about it " which passeth show," and exhibits in a strong light the desire in France to do honour to great masters of art. Many hundreds of friends and admirers followed on foot, and though it snowed heavily at the time many walked with their hats off, and all were heedless of the "pitiless pelting of the storm." Although there was nothing gaudy about the solemnity, it was im pressive. A detachment of infantry marched by the side of the procession, and muffled drums were beat as it advanced on its solemn mission. The streets throughout the line of march to the church were thronged with spectators, who would not have assembled in such weather if a love and respect for art did not exist among the French. After the funeral ceremony in the church there was a consi derable increase in the number of mourners deter mined to proceed to the cemetery. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. ATHENS, Jan. 14. Intelligence received here from Candia announce that Mustapha Pacha was preparing to attack Sphakia on the side of Askyfos and from the sea. The Cretan General Assembly had forwarded an address to the Powers requesting them to send an agent to the island, in order to judge of its un happy condition, and to protect the inhabitants who desired annexation to Greece. ATHENS, January 18. Advices received here from Candia through Greek sources state that the insurgents had been victorious in an engagement with 5,000 Turks near Heraclium. They had also prevented the disembarkation of Turkish troops at Sphakia and Selinon. The same advices confirm the report that a Turkish frigate had opened fire upon some Cretan families who were waiting to be taken off the island by a foreign vessel. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the illustrated London News.) The will of the Right Hon. William, Earl of Craven, of Conibe Abbey, Warwickshire ; Ashdown and Hamsptead Parks, Berks ; and of Charles.. street, Berkeley-square, was proved in London, on the 4th inst., by the Right Hon. James Walter, Earl of Verulam, and the Hon. Robert Grimston, the joint executors. The personalty was sworn under £lBO,OOO. His lordship died Aug. 25, 1866, at Scarborough, at the age of 57, having executed his will 1865, and a codicil April 25, 1866. His lordship appoints his wife, Countess Craven, guar dian of the children who are in their minority ; and bequeaths to her ladyship all the furniture, horses, carriages, and the plate which was his late mother's, and leaves her lad) ship a legacy of £6,000 and an annuity of 11,100. To his daughter Lady Emily Georgina Craven he leaves a legacy of £lO,OOO, and an annuity of £6OO (her sisters, his lordship states, being already well pro vided for). To Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., he leaves an annuity of £2OO. To his son, the Hon. Osbert William Craven, £40,000, under settlement. The residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his son, the present Earl of Craven, ab solutely. The will of William Fisher-Hobbs, Esq., formerly of Marks Hall, Essex, and late of Boxted Lodge, in the same county, was proved in London, on the sth ult., by John Thomas Lay Hallum, Esq., of Wormingford, Essex, and Henry Trethewy, Esq., of Silsoe, Beds, the executors and trustees. The personalty was sworn under £lB,OOO. Amongst the bequests are the following :—£loo to Henry Hall Dare, Esq., Secretary of the Royal Agricul tural Society ; £lOO to T. B. Gibbs, Esq., Secretary of the Smithfield Club; to Roilieu de la Treluennau, of Bickley Park, Kent, any portion of his agricul tural library he may choose to select ; to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, of which he was chairman, £5OO ; to the Colchester Hospital and the Essex Idiot Asylum, Colchester, each £lOO. The residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his cousin, William Hobbs, of Sellinge, Kent. MADAME TESSALTD'S. —The Hall of Kings, in the celebrated Wax-work Exhibition, continues to form no small amount of attraction to the numerous visitors who daily throng the magnificent galleries in Baker-street. The life-size models of our Kings and Queens, from William the Conqueror to Quoen Victoria, are unquestion abiy highly instructive to the juvenile mind, and, with the aid of Madame Tussaud's unique catalogue, will load to a knowledge of all the interesting objects which aro to be seen. (LEFT SNOWING.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. The following is the. news of the day from the Moniteur "A private telegram from Pesth announces that the Chamber of Deputies has adopted una n i mously the address drawn up by M. Deak, with a v i ew to obtain from the Emperor the suspension of th e ordi nance of the 2d of January respecting the co un t r i es u address connected ca n b withe presentedthe crown to th of H yit must • Before th e re ceive the sanction of the Upper Chambe r . e Emp e rorngar " The formal meeting of the Reicharath has taken place at Stockholm, but only for the verification of the authority of the members to sit. 4, The official opening of,the parliament will take place next Saturday. _ _ "bas laid bef ore to the B u d ge t the C T h h e a m M b i e n r i s o t f e r p o e f p F u i t n i easnacne appendix for 1867, which realises an economy of 27 millions of francs, and thus the total deficit is reduced to 159 millions. ' The Journal des Debats complains that which theatthetele public graph feel an interest. issilentupons I several w lp a o n i t n s ts upon to know particu larly whether the Candiote insurrection is completely suppressed, and says that no news has reached it either from Constantinople or Athens of what is going on in the island of Crete. The Journal des Debats adds some alarming reports upon the subject from the Nord. Provincial papers and private letters give fearful accounts of the ravages of the snow and the interruption in the 'communications. Several points of the Lyons and Mediterranean railway are completely blocked up. From Tain to Avignon there is no communication, and between St. Rambert and Tarascon the passage of the trains is suspended for the present. Between Nismes and Cette the communication is but partial. In some of the mountainous districts the snow is two yards deep. The Post-office has to-day issued a notice that the quantity of snow which has fallen in thesouth has completely blocked up the communications, but that the various railway companies will do all in their power to re-establish them as soon as possible. The inundations continue in some localities, and add to the difficulty. Among the departments with which communication is suspended are the Ain, Doubs, Jura, Rhon e , A rdeche, Irene, D rome , Vau cluse, Gard, Bouch es d u R hone, Loire, a nd Pay de Dome. The r a ilw ay station of the Cro i x R ousse a t Lyons had given w ay in consequence of the unusual weight of snow up on i t, b ut no p e rsonal injury had been sustained. Toulouse and Marseilles have both suffered much from the snow. As to Paris, the snow fell heavily last night, and it has snowed almost uninterruptedly throughout the day. The streets are very slippery, for the snow at present is not in the " melting mood," and around Paris it lies quietly and coldly at more than a foot in depth. At post hour there was an indication of a thaw " more t'other." It is satisfactory to add that this inclement weather has not caused any interruption to the works at the Universal E x hibition. The Palace may be said t o ex i st, and the wor k s in the interior proceed regularly and rapidly. The Presse has a long article upon the present anomalous position of the Moniteur, respecting which I shall write you in a few days, as I am well acquainted with all the circumstances of the recent change. The effi-ial tables of the receipts of direct and indirect taxes for 1866, which have just been pub lished, present satisfactory results as compared with those of 1864 and 1865. They were, for the first three months of 1866, 306,632,000 f., for the second quarter 312,942,000 f. for the third quarter 311 ) 510,000f., ler the Wit quarter 351,184,000 f. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 17, Two o'clock.—The downward movement continues, encouraged by a fall of I tele graphed from London on English Consols. French Threes at 69f. 35c., a decline of 15c. Credit Mo bilier shares have fallen 7f. 50c.—at 485. Comp toir d'Escompte are quoted at 765 f., which, taking into account the 65f. deport, represents a decline of 1 5f. Credit Foncier shares lose sf.—at 1,405 f. Italian Fives are better, having an advance of sc. at 54f. 35c. Railway shares are offered at lower quotations. Three o'clock.—The market has closed as follows : 4i per Cents 98 75 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 30 Do. end month 69 32f Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foucier — Do. end month 1405 - s&11. Bank Shares 3565 Italian Loan 54 50 Do. end month 54 50 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - AYB. Orleans Northern Lyons -‘d For Account. , 902 50 1180 908 75 4J yons any Southern 565 Western 582 50 Eastern 542 50 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 3BB 75 North of Spain 122 50 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman. :editerrauean 95 - BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 17. 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. 17. Jan. 10. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, Juno 9, 1857) 7,044,776 2 7,044,776 2 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 13,532,616 8 14,102,154 70 Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 196,714,054 40 225,112,743 57 Do. branch banks 27,696,918 31,196,085 Dividends payable 5,148,633 75 7,454,201 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 1,574,256 34 1,574,256 34 12,086,322 40 15,162,508 15 L liW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. COURTS OF COMMON LAW. The different common law courts sat to-day at West minster in Banco and at Nisi Prins, but the proceedings were devoid of any general interest up to the time of going to press. DIVORCE COURT. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde.) ItYSDALE V. RYSDALE AND SMITH. This was a suit by the husband, a journeyman grocer, for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, a person in humble life. Dr. Spinks, Q.C., was counsel for the plaintiff, and there was no appearance or answer on thepart of the respondent or co-respondent. It appeared that the respondent had been a milliner, and the parties were married in 1854 at Boston, where they cohabited until 1857, during which time they had one child, still living. The conduct of the petitioner was de scribed as being most kind to the respondent, who early after marriage contracted habits of intemper ance. She was in the habit of pledging every avail able article to gratify her fatal propensity, and the home of her husband was rendered quite desolate. According to the evidence, the husband had made every effort in his power to reclaim his; wife, but without success, and in 1857 she deserted him and went to live with the co-respondent, taking the child with her, but she sub sequently returned it to the petitioner. Her misconduct was not confined to her liasan with Smith, and she appeared to be a most profligate character. The case was fully proved, and the court made a decree nisi. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —This Day. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. OUT OF A REFORMATOY INTO A PRISON.—James White, a young follow, described as a shoemaker, was charged, before Mr. Knox, with the following robbery : Philip Waats, a working man, residing at 24, Union street, Middlesex Hospital, said that about a month ago he met tho prisoner, and knowing that he had no home he offered to allow him to come and lodge with him. Tho prisoner availed himself of the offer. Yesterday morning when he went to work he left the prisoner in bed, and on his return in the evening missed a counterpane and other articles of the value of 30s. The prisoner had been in Woking Reformatory, having been sent there for three years, and he received a ticket entitling him to come out before the end of the three years, which oxpired yesterday. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner. Total CREDITOR. Jan. 17. Jan. 10. Cash in hand and in Branch banks Commercial bills over- 229,076 3 91,898 38 due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet duo 322,368,891 87 343,479,519 98 Do. branch banks 356,924,723 351,180,668 Advances on deposit of 33,801,200 bullion Do. branch banks 8,277,600 Do. on French Public Securities 13,782,300 Do. by branch banks 7,420,400 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 25,798,600 Do. on Credit Fencier 33,617,100 - 8,338,600 - 13,893,000 - 7,749,100 - 37,190,000 - 25,720;b00 743,500 - 742,550 - 740,200 - 676,750 - Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, Juno 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisdes (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 otel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage- 60,000,000 - 8,327,186 - 8,317,004 - ... went Sundries 41,076 24 15,748 55 9,175,628 47 9,076,572 85 Total 1,688,445,057 9 1,705,424,968 23 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of Franco. (Signed) ROTILLND, Senator. LOST IN THE SNOW.—A young woman, named Hunter, who works at one of the factories in Montrose, but who belongs to Bervie, left Montrose on Saturday to go home. She spent the night with her relations, and left to walk to Montroso on Sunday afternoon. Not having made her appearance as expected, her friends in Montroso sent a telegram to Bervie to see if she was still there. This, of course, alarmed the friends of the missing woman at Bervie, who instituted a search, which resulted in the discovery on Tuesday of the dead body of tho missing woman in a wreath of snow a few miles from Bervie, on the Montrose road. The unfortunate woman had no doubt got bewil dered in the snow drift, and perish from exposure.—Scots man. SUICIDE BY SKATlNG.—Something must be done to "put down" suicide by skating. Persons should not be allowed to distress their friends and otherwise derange the relationships of society, sometimes pauperising their fami lies and throwing the burden of them on the public, by their own destruction through an insane and unreasoning love of sliding along. It should be made a criminal offence to go on to public ice certified to be unsafe. The fear of throe months, with hard labour, might deter many who would not be kept off by the chance of losing their life. Builder. SUSPENSION OF HUNTING.—In consequence of the frost and snow neither the fox nor stag hounds are able to leave the kennels, and the gentlemen of the nulnuruus hunts are completely frozen out of tho hunting field. The horses used for hunting aro daily oxorcised over straw and tan rides to keep them ready for the thaw and resume hunting. THAMES. AUDACIOUS ROBBERY OF PROPERTY AND MONEY IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—Charles Foster, a tall man, 21 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget chorged with assaulting a poor, aged woman, named Charlotte Catchpole, with threatening to cut her throat, and with stealing £35 i n cash and a great number of gold and silver articles, 3s. 6d. of postage stamps, a black coat, and other property, be longing to Mr. James Smart, warehouseman, of 14, N ew _ road, Stepney. The prisoner, a singularly-looking, heavy browed fel low, was on the 4th of June last dwelling in the house of the prosecutor, and was then ostensibly getting his living living by selling colouring matter to licensed victuallers. Mr. Smart and his family were absent from home on the 4th of June, and left the premises in charge of Mrs. Catchpoll, a charwoman. In the evening the prisoner suddenly at tacked the old woman, brandished a razor, before her eyes, and threatened to cut her throat if she raised any ala rm or made the least noise. He then bound her hands and legs together with cords, and left her while he .proceeded to plunder the house of every portable article of value it contained. Ho opened a drawer which contained £35 in gold and £5 in silver, and gold and silver articles, and spoons, and other articles, the whole of which he abstracted. The fellow also carried off other property and absconded. The police receired early information of the outrage and robbery, but they soon lost all trace of the prisoner. No more was heard of him until the commencement of the present week, when informa tion reached the Metropolitan police that the prisoner was under confinement in Derby Goal for stealing a watch, and that he would be liberated on Thursday morning. Police-sergeant Briden, No. 4 K, a detective officer was despatched to Derby to arrest the prisoner, and when he reached there on Thursday morning ascertained that the prisoner's sentence of imprisonment terminated on Tues- , day, and that he was at liberty. Briden traced the pri soner to Nottingham, Leicester, and ;other places, and on Friday morning at three o'clock found him in the casual ward of Loughborough Workhouse. On the way to Lon don, on Friday afternoon, the prisoner said, "I shall get a long term of imprisonment for this. I hope 1 shall get sent out of the country." Briden said the prisoner pawned some of the stolen property before he loft Loudon, and he had traced the articles. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week. WESTMINSTER. NIGHTLY PAUPERS AND THE CASUAL WARD. —Ann Williams and Mary Williams, two women apparently com fortably clad, were charged with the following extraordi nary conduct at St. Margaret's Workhouse, Westminster. Harriet Waterman, who has care of the casual ward for females, said that the defendants were admitted last night at 9 o'clock, and began using very bad language. They had scarcely been admitted two minutes before they began quarelling with the other inmates, and were evidently par tially intoxicated. When taken into the bath-room they used the most frightful and filthy language respecting it. Mr. Selfe—So you put them all into the bath ? Witness—Yes, generally, if they are very dirty, but since the weather has been so sharp we have not been so strict. Mr. Self—ls the bath ina nice warm place ? Witness—Oh, it's very comfortable, it's a nice warm room,and a very nice fire. Selfe—Exceedingly comfortabl e ? 3iNvrtness—Oh, very comfortable. Mr. Selfe—l am glad to hoar it. Witness—The bath woman let them come up without was hing, and then they made such a dreadful noise that they awoke all the others in the ward, and all the poor people got up. Davis, one of the summoning officers of the court, said that by chance he passed the women before they went in, and heard them threaten what they would do when they got inside. Mr. Self° (to defendants)—You are just the people who make the workhouse unbearable to the docent poor. Oue does not wonder that decent people who have seen bettor days should shrink from going into the workhouse if their rest is to be broken and ears polluted by such filth as you have uttered. You aro committed to hard labour for 14 days. MARKETS.—This day. COVENT GARDEN. small, andth e t ra d e i s very firmThaetstlepaptlryemoef fruitc urr a emeryeincies Vegetables are ih request, and prices well supported. FRUIT—Pine apples, Os to 8s ; grapes, 4s Od to 8s Od ; Illberts,Olto Osper lb; apples, ls Od to 8s Od; pears, Os Od to Os Od per dozen; oranges, 330 d to 8s ; lemons, 4s to 8e per 100; chestnuts, lOs to IBs per bushel. VSGETA.BLES—Cauliflowers, 2s to 6s Od ; cabbages, 2s to 3s Od; horseradish, 4s Od to Os Od; celery, is Gd to Sts Od per doz heads; turnips, 4s Od to 6s Od ; carrots, Gs Od to Od per dozen bunches; cucumber; Od to Os each ; onions, 4s to 5s Od; spinach, Os to Os per bushel. POULTRY. Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ; geese, 44 Od to 7x ; ducks 3s 0(1 to 4s Od ; tame rabbits is 6d to 2s Od ; wild do, 1s 3d to is 6d ; pigeons, 10d to is 6d ; hares, 3s 6d to ts 6(1; Surrey fowls, 7s to 9s ; d o . c hi c k ens, e s to 8s Od ; barn door fowls, is 6d to 5s Od per couple. English eggs 14s to 15s Od; Fren c h d o., 10 s to 11s per 1 0 0 . Fresh butter, is ld to 1s 7d per lb. NEWPORT. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s Od to 4a lOd Veal Mutton ... 35 Od to 43 Bd, Pork WHITECHAPEL. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 4d to Os Od I Veal Mutton Vs 2d to 4s I.od Pork BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the mejtropolis are from 91d to I.od. ; of household ditto, Bd. to 9d. per 4.lbs loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 56 to 641bs, 2id to 21d ; 64 to 721bs, 21d to 3d ; 72 to 801bs, 3d to 3i-d ; 80 to &sibs., aid to 30; b 8 to 961b5., 3d to 3td ; 96 to 1041b5., Od to Od ; 104 to 121bs, Od to Od. lioraehides, 9s to 10u 6d ; call skins (light), 2s Od to 4s; full, is ; polled sheep, 102 6d to 12s; half-breds, 9s Oct to 10s 6d ; downs, 6s 3d to 7s 6d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; sheszlings, Os Od to Oa Od. HAY. SMITHPIELD.—Aieadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s; clover, £4 Os to .£5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load. Trade firm. CUMBERLAYD.—Meadow hay, £3 5s .to £5 Os ; clover, £4 Os to £5 154 ; and straw, £1 188 to £2 5s per load. Trade steady. WHlTEmula.—Meadow hay, £3 08 to £4 158 ; £4 5s to £6 Oa Od and straw, £1 Itis to £2 4s per load. Limited supply. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. (This Day.) Market quiet. Sales probably 5,000 bales. CRICKET MATCH ON THE ICE AT NOTTINGHAM. — Yesterday afternoon a cricket match was played on a sheet of ice near the Trent, by the members of the Notts County Cricket Club. The men wore skates, and the match created considerable interest. Sides worn chosen, and some very exciting play followed, Butler, on Brown's side, running up the excellent score of 33. A very extraordi nary catch was made by J. C. Shaw. The following is tii score :—Grundy's side :—J. Grundy, 10 ; G. Martin, 0 ; J. C. Shaw, 6; Stokes, 6; J. Clegg, 10 ; Lowe, 0 ; total, 32. Brown's side; C. Brown, 20 ; W. 11. Butler, 33; J. Dance, 0; Harvey, 15; Bough, 0 ; Geary, 9 ; total, 77. P ...... ar€-: TOVrt xy r ir ft 14 ,;!r. HER MAJESTY, &c• OSBORNE, Jan. 18. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Waterpark ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Miss IVPGregor. ' The D.lke of Edinburgh arrived at Osborne yes terday, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke. _ _ The Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur skated in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise was attended by the lion. Emily Cathcart. Prince and Princess Christian, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia went out walking. Mr. Mitchell has had the honour of submitting to the Queen some printed copies in colours of Mr. MacLeay's drawings of Highlanders of Scotland. Naval and Military Intelligence. Major-Gen. C. Hay's (Inspector-General of Mus ketry) annual report for the information of the Duke of Cambridge, on the instruction carried on at the Schools of Musketry at Hythe and Fleetwood, has just been promulgated, bearing date, School of Musketry, Hythe, Oct. 24, 1866, and contains the following statements :—The number trained at the Schools of Musketry, Hythe, and Fleetwood, dur ing the year ending March 31, 1866, of all ranks of the several branches of the service, including seven volunteers, is 1,678. In order to afford an oppor tunity to a greater number of men to shoot at dis- tances beyond 300 yards, and thereby increase the number of competitors for prizes, it was considered desirable to reduce the qualification for passing from the third to the second class ; consequently the courses of practice at the schools during the year have been conducted as regards qualifications only under two systems, which are s l iown separately for comparison. The change was sanctioned by the General Order, No. 878, dated Horse Guards, 4th of Jan., 1866. The number of officers, sergeants, and rank and file of the regular army, Royal navy, staff of militia, and Volunteers, are given in detail. With regard to the officers, sergeants, and rank and file of the army the number of third-class shots under the new system is considerably less than under the old. The " figure of merit" in rapid file firing and skirmishing for officers at Hythe was—in 1864-65, 110.29 ; and in 1865-66, 96.97 ; at Fleetwood for the former year, 98.54, and for the latter 101.95. Sergeants and rank and file—Hythe, 1864 65, 100.03 ; 1865-66, 106.21 ; Fleetwood in the former year, 90.06, and in the latter, 108.49. The shooting, on the whole, has improved in both schools, except in the case of the officers at Hythe. The following results of the yearly course of prac tice of the sergeant instructors at Hythe and Fleet wood are recorded as an evidence of what squads of men can do with the Enfield rifle when carefully and systematically trained. These non-commis sioned officers are not selected as instructors on ac count of their good shooting, many of them being only second-class shots when they joined the school:—Average points obtained in the first period-53 at Hythe, 51 at Fleetwood ; ditto, in volley firing, 24 at Hythe, 25 at Fleetwood ; per centage of first class, minus third class, 95 at Hythe, 92 at Fleetwood ; figure of merit, 172 at Hythe, 168 at Fleetwood. Average points obtained in the second class, second period-40.57 at Hythe, 32.13 at Fleetwood; ditto, first class, third period, 19.80 at Hythe, 21.33 at Fleetwood ; ditto, in rapid file firing, 14.10 at Hythe ; time, smin. 52sec. at Hythe ; average points obtained in the second class, second period, in skirmishing, 17.10 at Hythe. The number of sergeants and petty officers of the Royal navy. (20), regular army, militia, volunteer, and staff sergeants instructed at both schools was 483, of whom 300 were awarded certificates of qua lification for the appointment of sergeant instructor of musketry, the remaining 183 being pronounced ineligible. The percentage of sergeants who had been awarded certificates this year increased, as compared with that of 1864-65 ; the former being 62, the latter 53. Gen. Hay remarks :—" I would, however, notice, notwithstanding this increase, that there is great room for improvement in writing and arithmetic in the majority of those who passed for the appointment." The gallant General also remarks —" I have again much pleasure in bearing testi mony to the exemplary conduct and efficiency shown by the petty officers of the Rckyal Navy while at this school for instruction." Gen. Hay concludes his report with the following remarks : Having noticed in my last report a practice that prevailed of selecting third-class shots for the detachments sent to the schools of musketry, it now only remains for me to mention a circumstance which occurred during the year for which this report is prepared, to show what may be done with third- class shots if pains be taken in their further in struction, instead of depriving them of indulgences, and subjecting them to what has the appearance of punish ment, for faults which have not been discovered and cor rected during the execution of the preliminary drills, and hence have been confirmed. In th• February term the 39th Foot sent a detachment of nine men to this school (exclu sive of the officer's servant, who is not exorcised). Five of these men were third-class shots, who, the commanding officer intimated, were selected to be sent hero, "to judge if proper attention had been paid to their instruction by the regimental instructor during the annual course for 1865-66," they having failed to pass into the second class after a further course of preliminary instruction at the re giment, although, as the commanding officer stated, " the strictest attention of the officer instructor had been given to them." This detachment was, with others, put through the usual course of drill and practice ; not only did all these third-class shots pass into the second class after firing 20 rounds in the first period, the worst shot obtain ing 38 points (30 being the qualifying number), but three of them passed into the first class. Tho figure of merit of this detachment was 117.55, with no third-class shots while that of the regiment for 1865-66 is 54.28, with 109: or 171 per cent., third-class shots. This result speaks for itself as regal ds the value of the preliminary drills, which I regret being obliged to remark are in too many cases slurred over. On Thursday the screw steamship Gibraltar, 81, was hauled alongside the sheer Hulk iu Hamoaze, and had her masts taken out. Vice-Admiral the Hon. SirHenryKeppal, K.C.8., was yesterday appointed Commander-in-Chief in China, vice Vice-Admiral G. H. V. King, whose period of service has expired. Railway and other Companies. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS. The traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week ending January 12, on 12,734 miles, to £603,893, and for the cor responding week of last year, on 12,498 miles, to £598,092, showing an increase of 236 miles and of £5,800. The gross receipts on the following 14 railways amounted, in the aggregate, on 9,189 miles, to £509,260, and for the corresponding week of 1866, on 9,039 miles, to £507,028, showing an increase of 150 miles and £2,232. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to £1,002 ; on the Great Northern to £2,759 ; on the Great Southern and Western to £424 ; on the Great Western to £1,945 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to. £3,279 ; on the London and North-Western to £1,724; on the London and Brighton to £1,739 ; on the London and South-Western to £598 ; and on the South-Eastern to £s22.—Total, £13,992. But from this must be deducted £3,451, the decrease on the Great Eastern ; £1,895 on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ; £1,271 on the Midland ; £50,1 on the North British ; and £4,512 on tha North-Eastern, together £11,760, leaving the increase as above £2,232. The goods and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to £300,799, and for the corresponding week of 1866 to £300,586, showing an increase of £213. The receipts for passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £208,461, against £206,442, showing an increase of £2,019. The traffic receipts on 52 other lines amounted, on 8,545 miles, to £94,632, and for the corresronding week of last y,.n.r, on 3,439 miles, to £91,064, showing au increase of 86 miles and of £3,568. The total receipts of the past week show an increase of £628 as compared with those of the preceding week ; ending the sth infit, Pointe a CCOUI Danis follo; 6 2 ,141 )0. J.N 0 . 3, toult c duties We a Bh ortl3 C itida( °V er t( Aff a Inert ( ro a dvanc 4.lie p ad vanc 22 , an, Cent s 17i 18 The Prem. tan] L o t d oi al* 4°ll , 4, de n d;