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

M N 1 MARKET AND cOMMEROIAL 0:4 N €i S . CITY, TwzLvl o'CLocK. Money is still abundant in the private and joint-stock banks, the Stock Exchange, and at the Bank of England, and the market generally exhibits the same features as for some time past. Large supplies are held for the forthcoming dividends payable at the beginning of the year, as well as by all the private companies as the Bank of England, amounting to many mil lions. There has been a larger inquiry for dis counts, both at the national establishment and in other quarters, but the supply has been good, and at rates fractionally below the minimum. Busi ness, however, in town and in the provinces is absolutely quiescent ; the public are cautious of investments, and there is a general dearth of commercial enterprise. In most of the provin cial markets for manufactures stocks are, from these causes, unusually low, and there is a general indis position to augment them from the smallness of the demand. Anticipations are not very bright for the forthcoming year ; but it is hoped that, as stocks abroad are getting low, orders will come to hand more briskly, confidence and credit be restored, and greater prosperity ensue. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received by the mail the following remittances on account of the New Granada dividends, viz. : £2,200 from the Custom-house at Marta, and £420 from Barran quilla, making a total of £2,620. The letters of allotment of the New Portuguese Loan have been delivered. A large number of transactions have taken place, and the price this morning is Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben tures have receded to 20 21, but the Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 18 19. The New Honduras Loan is steady at 1i 1, prem. The movements of the preceious metals during the past week have been on a rather extensive scale as regards the imports, which have amounted to about £594,116, including £28,000 from New York by the Weser, £120,166 by the Persia, £61,500 by the Etna, £12,300 by the France, and £46,500 by the China. The Flamsted, from Buenos Ayres and the River Plate, has brought £65,000 ; the Anglesea, from Australia, £208,000 ; the Ceylon, from Bombay, £10,719. About £10,816 in gold has been received from Portugal, and £31,115 in silver from the Continent. The exports have been confined to remittances to the Continent through private sources, estimated at £88,828. The sum of £lO,OOO in gold was taken to the Bank of England yesterday. The China, from New York, has brought £46,500 in specie ; the Ceylon, from Alexandria, £10,719 from Bombay ; aad the Anglesey, from Melbourne, had arrived with £208,000 in gold. With respect to the Scotch iron trade during the year Mr. Thomas Thorburn gives the following summary :—After a cycle of six prosperous years, we have had one year without buoyancy in the iron trade. When we reflect on the high price of corn, arising from a deficient harvest over a great portion of the world, and the disorganised state of the cot ton trade, the most important branch of enter prise in the United Kingdom—the cause of the present depression in iron is sufficiently explained. According to the ironmasters' returns, the quan tity of pig iron produced in 1867 is 1,031,000 tons, showing an increase of 37,000 tons, when com pared with last year. The deliveries by railer ays, the shipments, foreign and coastwise, combined with the local consumption, are 1,068,000 tons, and show a falling off, when compared with the preceding year, of 68,000 tons. The stock of pig iron in Scotland is 473,000 tons, exhibiting a decrease of 37,000 tons as compared with 1866. During the year the price has fluctuated from 51s. 6d., the lowest point to which it fell in July, to 555. 6d., the highest attained in October, giving an average for the year of 535. 6d. per ton. The malleable iron works, the foundries, and ship buidiug yards, have felt increasing languor. Next year will surely manifest a healthier condition in the cotton trade, and we may reasonably expect a lower range of prices for grain. Should these an ticipations be realised, there is no doubt the iron trade will show an improvement. Two O'CLOCK. English Securities continue to droop, the princi cipal attention of the operators being mainly ab sorbed in the settlement now in progress in foreign bonds and shares of all descriptions. There is some depression on the Paris Bourse, which also adds to the weakness discernible in the public funds. Consols have been depressed throughout the morn ing, but at the last moment greater firmness is apparent, the latest prices being 924 for money, and 924 for the January account. The New Threes are 921 ; Reduced Annui ties, 921 1 1 . ; Exchequer Bills, 28s. prem. ; Bank Stock 240 ; India 5 per Cents., 1111 ; ditto 4 per Cents, 1001 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1031; ditto Debentures, 1882, 104 34; and ditto Bonds, 40s. prem. _ _ In the Foreign Stock Market business has been rather more active, but the variations are unim portant. Turkish 5 per Cents., have advanced f, 32k 331; Spanish Passive 1, to 25; 26} ; the 3 per Cents., 351 361 ; and Mexican 1, to 151 1 ; Greek continue at 121 ; and Italian, at 441 1. The New Portuguese Loan is 11 prem. American Securities exhibit very little alteration in prices. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares exhibit no change of importance. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents., however, have improved to 90, Hudson's Bay Company remain steady at 15k, Peninsular and Oriental Steam have advanced to 551, and Viceroy of Egypt's Mortgage Loan is flat at 721. In the Railway Share Market the settlement of the accounts occupies the chief attention of the dealers and speculators, and in a few instances prices exhibit less firmness. Caledonian have been very depreased and hive receded 2, Metropolitan have declined 1, Midland t, Brighton I, and Great Northern A Stock 1; while South Western have improved I, and North Western 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain with• out any material change in values. Bank shares continue flat. Anglo-Egyptian are marked 17 ; Consolidated, 41 3.16 ; Imperial Ot toman, 9 1-16 3-16 ; London and Westminster, 69 ; and Union of Australia have improved to 511. MINING MARKET. SATURDAY, Two 11.11 Business in the mining market continues very quiet. The shares chiefly in demand are Great Laxey, Great North Laxey, Chiverton, and West Chiverton. Annexed are the latest current quo tations : East Clam Brea, ; Chiverton .Boor, 51 51; Chontales Gold, 3111; Clifford Amalgamated, 51 6; East Basset, 9 1 1 ; East Caradon, 4/ 41 ; last Lovell, —; East Russell, 28 . 80s; Frontino and Bolivia Gold, —s Od —s; Great Lttioy,l7 18 ; Great North Laxey, 12s 6d 15s ; Great Wh al ; Marks Valley, ; North Crofty, 21 21; North Treskerby, 29s 31s Od ; Prince of Wales, 48s Od 50s ; West Basset, 2} 21 ; South Caradon —; South Frances, 23s 255; Tincroft, 13 131; West Caradon, 10 11; West Oliver ten, 66 68; West Seton, - - ; Wheal Basset, 21 24; Wheel Grenville, 244 265; Wheal Chiverton, 54 54; Wheal Seton, 82 85 ; Groat South Tolgus, 20s 22s 61 ; East Gunnis Lake and South Bedford, --s —s ; East Wheal Grenville, 23s 255; Wheal Basset, —; West P rances, —; Wheal Buller, BRITISH FUNDS.--CLOSING PRICES. , tic V ERNMENT FUNDS. 4 PBr Leon. Consols Do. Account, 3 per Cent. Reduced 92/ I, New 3 per Cent 921 k New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. dun. 1873 — Aainuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yre, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telek,raph), Au,., 1908 — E ---(truer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 &21 per Ct 25 pnt .00 £5OO 2B pm Do. £lOO & £2OO — pin Bank of England Stock. 4} per Cent 240 Do. Account INDIAN UOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 4 diau stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Acc oun t D o. 5 par Cent. July, 1880 3sia is which e pre errifie More - 6 year, seers' ite the ,enses , ust trs we ) Rio ; salary 3 fog w cot roceed )titiUe A P ai l l'ge ) °- xtba ra. rviard° yea' ;ft t il l s is siou o ' 3 is v ol _ grt:o„ need to e PI r D s zaQre. Do. 4 per Cent Oct. 1888 Certificates — Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 5i per Cent., May 1879 — 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 — Do. do. 1877 — Do. do. 1882 lO4 31 Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ...., — Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000 under £1,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 par Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 BrAzilian 5 per Cent — 70. 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Dc. 5 per Cent., 1865 Du Account 76 Do. £lOO Bonds 751 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) C lba, 6 per Cent. o,alian 6 per Cent — Do. 4i per Cent — t.)o. 6 per Cent., B . Do., 1867 Do., 7 per Cent., 1866 — Do., Scrip' £32 paid O ,' •mbian, 6 per Cent. Danisti, 3 p )r Cent., 1825 D inubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 641 _ Do 8 per Cent., 1867 - Bluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent eigyptia,n, 7 per Cent — Do. Second Issue — D, , . £5OO Bonds Do. .£IOC Bonds — Do. 1864 Do. £sio Bonds — Do. £lOO Bonds ~... 87 Government Railway Debentures .... 931 2} 31 , Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups — Do. Account - Do. Coupons Do. Account Gdatemala 5 per Cent .. — It3lian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do, Account Do. Maremmana Raiway — M. , 3xicar. 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Dc 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — vlontevid@au 6 per Cent. . — Nloorish Imperial 5 per Cent blow Granada — Do 3 per Oen Do. Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Peravian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account . Do 41per Cent. (Uribarreu) Do 4i per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct.,1853,'6,'7,'9,'60,'2,'3 39i 1 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds B9 811. Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 874 4 Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Sa ,linian, 5 p.,r Cent — Spanish 3 per Ceu . Do Accf,uni Do New Deferred Do Account Oo Passive 251 Ace.aut Do Com. Cert. of Cou , , not fuuded — Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Account t; per Gout., 1.851 Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 d):) Account ,.. 59 1 / :o £lO6 Bonds 64 d 0 ci per Cent., lA 6 , Do Account - Lb ..t:lo) Bonds... Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cont., 1865 D ) Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 5O/ D) I por Cent., Guaranteed. Venezuela, 3 per Cent. - Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Italian 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. 2sf. Do. Account — TWO 01111LOOL. Consols, Money! 92/ i Do. Account `1 1 111.111) EDITION• SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLock. LATEST CITY INTELLIGENCE. CITY, 4.30 P.M. Since two o'clock there has been no material change in the values of most of the principal Stock Exchange Securities. Consols closed at 92i for money and account. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and scarcely any change can be reported in the quotations for most of the principal lines. There were no gold operations at the Bank of England to-day. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ST. ALBANS RACES—Tnis DAY. LOCAL CUP. The Local Cup (the gift of the licensed victuallers in the tow and neighbourhood of St. Albans), for horses ale property of persons residing within 40 miles of St. Albans, except winners of a handicap steeplechase ; llst each ; and any winner over country 71b extra. Once round the Steeplechase Course, starting in front of the Grand Stand. Walpole Clarence Killarney OPEN STEEPLECHASE. The St. Albans Open Steeplechase Handicap of 15 sous each, 10 ft, with 100 added; the winner of the Grand Metropolitan Steeplechase at Croydon 101 b, and the second in the same 51b, or any other winner after Nov. 22 (at nine a.m.) 71b extra ; weights not to be accumu lative ; about three miles and a half ; 25 subs. The highest weight accepting being list 121 b, it has been raised to 12st 71b, and the others in proportion. Hornet Lawrence Four ran. MAIDEN STEEPLECHASE. The Maiden steeplechase Plate of 30 sous; list 71b each ; if beaten three times previous to the time of starting allowed 71b, twice 51b; winners after the day of entry 51b extra ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs ; about two miles. Panther Penelope 2 Byfield.. 3 _ _ . WHITTINGSTALL STAKES. Relic° Guide Sportsman Eight ran. SELLING HANDICAP. Love in a Mist 2 Penelope 3 Sir Stephen Fiv© ran. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day. Market opens dull. Quotations unchanged Sales probably 8,000 bales. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This DEAL, Saturday Morning Passed, Dec. 27.—Amber Nymph, for Demerara ; Secret, screw steamer, for Bordeaux; Rivalea, for St. Übes ; Char lotte Ann, for Nelson—all from London. OFFICIAL GAB.—Some years since a graduate of Yale was asked to contribute towards the support of a society in that college whose object was to train young men in public speaking. He refused and gave his reasons therefor, which may be thus summed up—such societies encourage "gab." There is too much "gab." It will be the ruin of the American people. I won't give a cent to your society. We wish that man, to us he is one of the unhistoric names, could be censor of our official reports. From the President down to the "humble individual" wit() sends in a bureau report to Congress, every man of them has the disease of verbose continuance. Congress needs information. We all wisk it had more, but it does not need the long, turgid communications which for its sins officials are permitted to inflict upon it, iu the shape of " reports." Have these gentlemen no idea that we live in thoughts, deeds, feelings, and not iu words? Do they know that this is an age of railroads and telegraphs, that the pecuniary interest of the coinm nity demands compactness of thought, clearness of infor mation, and brevity of expression? 'These officials are veritable antediluvians, impressed with the belief that no more becoming contribution can be made to the nineteenth century than long, turgid reports which lumber the telegraph, encumber the newspaper, in increase the bills for Congressional printing and born the people. Their profusion of words covers their niggardli ness of ideas. We ask for a dozen on the half-shell, and we get lots of shells, but no oysters. We wish every offi cial whose duty it is to report to Congress was compelled to serve an apprenticeship to a daily journal. He would learn that brevity improves the force of communications and secures their reading. We are victims to " Webster'e Unabridged" and " Worcester's Dictionary." Will not some " official " study "Pilgrim's Progress" before he writes his next Congressional report, and give us a plain, brief, Anglo-Saxon statement of his own.— Watchman and Reflector. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENSW EXAMINATION OF COLONEL BURKE AND CASEY. BOW-STREET.--(This DAY.) The further examination of Colonel Burke and Theobald Joseph Casey, on a charge of treason felony, was resumed this morning before Sir T. Henry. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Poland appeared on behalf of the Crown to prosecute ; Mr. J. B. Torr and Mr. W. P. M'Donald to defend Burke ; and Mr. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, for Casey. Mr. J. B. Torr said—Before the proceedings commenced he had to offer some observations— Sir T. Henry—This is not the proper time. Mr. Torr said all he wanted to say was that he and his friend appeared for Burke in a professional capacity, and tiiat as a surgeon would when called attend a person with a broken leg, so he appeared !or Burke. He should therefore like to know the exact acts, with their dates, that he had to deal with. Sir T. henry---If you have read the depositions you are quite sure of the facts. Mr. Torr said there were a few circumstances he thought in them— Sir T. Henry—Then you can set that right in cross-examination. Now, Mr. Giffard, will you proceed with the prosecution. Mr. Giffard—l wish, sir, to include a person natned Mnllauy, who has been taken into custody since the last examination in the present pro ceedings. _ _ Sir T. Henry—Very well ; let him stand at the bar. The prisoner Mußau was accordingly placed beside Burke and Casey, but on being asked his name he said Henry Shaw. The first witness called was John Fitzpatrick, who said he was a constable in ,he Irish constabulary force. On the 7th of March n the present year he arrested one of the prisoners —the further one. Sir T. llenry—The prisoner Shaw ? Witness—Yes. When I arrested him in the street there were two other men with him named Doherty and Roach. It was about on© o'clock, and the three being together I arrested the whole of them. Roach had on his person a box of percussion caps, which he attempted to throw away. I seized Roach by the hand, and ordered the other two constables to take the other men into the bar racks. Roach, on being asked to account for the possession of the percussion caps, said he got them frotn one of the other prisoners on the Boyne Bridge the same morning. 1 found a six-barrelled revolver primed and capped on Alallany, who gave .the name of henry Shaw. He said, on being asked, that he had just come from Navan, and that he was going to Dublin. I also found a pocket-book upon him which contained some private letters. Doherty was also searched, and a sir-chamber revolver was found on him. It was loaded and capped. The prisoner Shaw or Mullany has been in custody ever since. There had been a rising in Drogheda the night bef ire 1 arrested him. Sir T. Henry—Shaw, have you any question to ask ? Prisoner—No, nothing. John Joseph Corydon was then called. He said I know the man at the bar as Mullany. I first be came acquainted with him in Liverpool in April or May, 1866. I knew him to be connected with the Fenian Brotherhood. I have seen him at several of the meetings held by the Brotherhood in Liverpool. Burke and Casey also attended those meetings, and also at several houses. I have " chatted " with them on frequent occasions. I was aware of the fact tbat the Fenian Brotherhood were purchasing arms from Mullany. He said he had bought them both in Birmingham and Sheffield. I recollect a person named Lawrence very well. He came from the county Cork. Ile died in Liverpool. Before his death I often saw him with Burke and Mullany. He was a Fenian. Mullany lodged in Salisbury-street, at MTS. Blackmore's, where I first saw him. There was a person named Farrell, who was " a centre," also lodging with him, and also a man named Burns, from Drogheda. Farrell had charge of the stowage of the arms, and the payment of the rent for the house in College-lane, iu which they were deposited. I recollect Farrell and Mul lany going away from Liverpool in consequence of some Greek fire being found in the house at which they lodged. They went off to America. Farrell went in September, 1866, and Mullany a short time after that. I was in their company before they left England, and by that means I became aware of the fact that they were going to Ameriea. Lawrence, I believe, was engaged as an agent to receive arms, and I saw him receive his pay for that duty. Mullany returned to England in the ensuing month of January, 1867. He came back with Colonel M'Cafferty, Captain Rogers, and others, nine or ten in all, who were American offi cers. M'Cafferty since that has been convicted in Dublin. I have before mentioned a meeting held in Liverpool, over which M'Cafferty presided. It was held a few days before the Chester affair. Mullany was present at the meeting. Mullany was arrested the Sunday before the rising in Birkenhead. I rather think he was taken up for getting drunk. He left for Chester with Captain Doherty. Mul lany, like myself, attended the meeting, where we received instructions for the Chester rising, which was to have taken place on the Monday night. Five or six weeks after that I was ordered off to Dublin. Mul lany was present when I received the orders and money to go. Capt. Beecher, the Fenian paymas ter, presided at the meeting at which I was directed to return to Ireland. I have seen both Mullany and Capt. Doherty in Mayo gaol. Cross-examined by Mr. Torr—l first became acquainted with Mullany in 1866. I met him at the house of a man named Austin Gibbons. I was introduced to him as a Fenian by Captain Wright. At this time I had not seen Burke in Liverpool. I first saw Burke in Liverpool in the summer of 1866. It was in Richmond-row, at a meeting-house, that I first heard Mullany speak about the purchase of arms. Captain Lawrence O'Brien, Captain O'Doherty, and all the American officers in Liverpool were at the meeting. I was ignorant of the fact of the buying of arms until that meeting. Mullany said he and Burke had bought and were still buying them ; but ho did not mention the names of the persons of whom he had purchased them, or where he had obtained them. I cannot think of the names of all those present at that meeting, but I knew there were about 30 officers present. Michael O'Brien, who was hung in Man chester, Capt. O'Brien, Capt. Deasy, and others, were there, and I recollect them because they were prominent men. I cannot, of course, recollect the names of the whole of the thirty, but I recollect the names I have given, because I was more acquainted with them than the rest. Captain Ryan was there, I know, and I nailed them accordingly. Lawrence was a very important person, as much confidence was placed in him. I first saw Lawrence receive money at Gibbon's house ; Beecher paid him ; Burke received some money, and so did I. Mr. Lewis--You don't know Casey ? Witness—No. Re-examined—Michael O'Brien was the man Gould, who was hung at Manchester. Amelia Tye—l live at Birmingham, and am an assistant to Mr. Kylock. I know the pri,oner Burke. I first saw him in 1865, shortly before Christmas, in Mr. liflock's office. I knew him as Mr. E. C. Winslow. Ile wanted to see some percussion caps. I showed him some military ones, and he said ho liked the brand, but that he was a novice, as he did not understand them. I told him the amount of stock in the warehouse, and he said he would come the next day and pay for those he had bought. He did not on that occasion give any address. LI saw him on the following morning when he completed the purchase of 2,000,000 of caps. In the afternoon he went out with Mr. Icy lock to purchase some pistols. In the evening 40 revolvers and 250,000 small percussion caps were sent to him. I made up the parcel and placed the caps loosely in the case without fastening. The case was delivered in George-street, and the person who took SHARE LlST.—This Day. :nare itallwayb Closing 11'sid1.4 at ikirLatni and I , 4xeuer ...• st ;Caledonian .. et It ~mbriau. ilYork and 8and0n...... :00 Cornw..ll at (Dublin & Belfast June. it Dun„ Perth, & Ab. Juno. 00 'E.London, scrip Corti. o. di I Glasgow &S. Western st Great Eastern, Ord. stk. st Do. E. Aug). st. No. 2 st 'Great North of ScotlailA at Great N:n - therti at D j. A stock at 00, 11 31oCk at 1)0, At '45 pro st t 5, and W. of Irel.Lnd st Gt. Weste. - n -Original st Do. S.Val. hail. gua. at Do. Soutn Wales st Do. W. Mid.—Oxford st Do. Newpoi t at Do. liereford ..... st Lancashire & Yorkshirc et .andon and Blackwall st .on., Brigh.,& S. Coast st -on., Chat., and Dover at Do. Metrop. Ex. A et Lun. & North Western at Lon. & South Western at Man., Shef., & Lincoln st Ntetropolitan..... st Do. New st Do. Extension st Metropolitan District. 20 ( Do. do. Jo. 10 Do. and St. Joll.ll'dlrti st Aidiaud Do. £9 Share at Do, dirinin.. & Derby Aid Kent . st North British at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 25 Do. G.IN.I•E purchase at Do. Leads ..... st Do. York at Do. Carlisle ..... st Po. Stock. & Darling. 25 Do. do. 1860-01 st North London Do. do. 186* 5 . . 10 Do. do. 1860 at North Stallordshire at Pi. &S. W. Junction oottish Central ilea. N. E , Aber. stook Do. Scot, Slid. stack at Shropshire Union at , South Devon at iSouth Eastern 20 - Staines, Wok., & Wok st Vail Vale 10 Do. C Vale of Nea , ,h Waterford & Kilkenny 10 Waterloo & White's West Cornwall 82 ta 73 734 2) 30 2 4 ' 74i 75} 70 , 95 07 3( .11, 1 1 7 IS 15 107 'O9 1 IC9I 110, l'h:3 145 95 OS 44 44 25 30 29 31 1221 12E4 4j 664 18 19 114 /14' 76 77 412 15} 115 117 +3DINARY SHAKES AND STOCKS. 72 li WS 106 - - I 102 1014 70 72 33 35 98i 99. 5? 61 90 92 130 132 113 110 1 lip 59 61 110 112 56 57 42 14 67 57! • 84 04 145 150 BRITISH MINIG3. Jam. Consol. Gold, lint ,;lliverton ;Mord Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Prake walls Nast Bassett (illogan) 41;ast Carat' Uarn lirea li.;ast Grenville Gunuislake Lovell W'l ltuasell (Tavistlt StAnhyri(ti wen. uireat Laxey, Great South Tolgue Treat Wheal Wheal Vor (lielst , nu iierod't3 Foot •••• tlingscon Downa ,largaret Lelant, arke Valley. .i.wyntiy Iron tire, ULM Stun . I ~orth :o ear V. Wit Bassett(illogau ' ,- orch Wheal Crotty , : 'rosper United— • t'r,vtdence Uny ',dant 5. Carudon (St. Cleer) k iouth Condurrow _ . . i.Wheal Fran. tillogan - •ray Park - Vin Cr0it....4 %rigra and Clogan, lira. :Aabsett (Mogan . - W. Caradun lLtslieard - West Chiverton - West Seton - Wheal Bassett 'lllogan - Wheal Buller (Bedruthl - Wheal Mary Ann (Men.; Wheal Seton - Wheal Tzelawney (Lis. 2.1.0 2 4 .4 2.1 2. i 3.0 5.3.0 3.9.0 11.7.6 j. J. 6 6. I US , 5.10.6 13.17. *.IU. 561 W.G.7 18.18.9 ,35.15,6 5.17:01 5 56 54 66 440 130 10 12 A 6 2 26 16 2 * 4 8 11 2 4 5 17 18 17 11) 11 14 35 37 21 21 6 4/ 51 o 7u 5 7 2 3 2 2a 29 3L 39J 410 37a 42a 6 13 14 10 12 6t; 68 115 205 95 16 10 18 20 85 90 6 8 SSESSIONS. 63 65 IC4 105 3 P I 4 5 6 68 71 18 62 99 102 103 IG4 110 110, 17 18 iu Xtlantio w St. Lawrence at Born., Baroda. A; Cen.ln. gu. 6 per cent !O Do. F 'shares Kil l Buffalo & Lake Huron 10 Do. Preference But! ,Brant, Goderlch )0 6 p.c. 1872-3-4 it Calcutta & B. E., lim it e Town & Dock, gu )0 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi, it last. Bengal, gu., sdo 3t East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 10 Do. J )4_:xtension st i rand Tr unk of Canada DO I Do. Eqdp. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c DO Do. Ist Pref. Bonds DO Do. do deferred DO De. 2d Pref. Bonds 00 Du. do. deferred 00 Do. 3d Pref. stock 00 Do. do. deferred 00 Do. 4th Pref. stook 00 Do. do. deferred st Gt. India Pen. gua. 6p.c. P 3 Gua. 5 per cent 20 Do. New gua. 5 p. c st Cir t. South of India gua. 5 per cent st Do. 4i per cent at Do 204 Great Wee. of Canula 204 Do. New • • 00 Do. 6p.0, 11 (a. pay. 1873 00 Do. si du. pay. 1877-8.. 10 Indian Branch, limited et Madras, gua. 5 p.o et Do. 41 do et Do. 44 do 21 Do. Fifth Extension st Leib. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 50 el. & Hobson's Bay st .Itl.C'da,6polstpf.bs. et Scinde .......... • et Do. Delhi 20 Do. do ..1 ti 4. 1 at Do. Puniaub.... Es 2. st Do.lndus St.Flot '" £3 85 50 52 AO 45 32 34 19i 20! 107 106 - 214 - 21 100 10. 92 94 15a i 5! 95 97 85 57 f id 100 10; 93 95 89 91 83 85 1 100 101 , 1001 1011 i }D 99 100 85 87 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECUR: 'British Columbia, 6 per' ' cent., De 0.31, 1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 o. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug o. sp. c. Mar. . Sept Do. sp. c. Jan. & July •—Do. 5 p. C. inscribed sk i Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c.1873' Uo.Apl.&001, 1890-1900 Do. do 1880-90 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov 1868, 6 p.& Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. :fi Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug , —Natal , yov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1870 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1895 New Zealand, 6p. cent! Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.l sterling, 1875 aeensland Gov. 8 p. c. . Aue.Gov. 6 px.1868-9 1)0. 1878 & upwards Vlo,Gov. 6 p.o.Ja &July Do. do, April & Oct 102 104 101 lu3 101 1t,3 90 92 89 91 102 104 106 108 104 106 107 109 05 07 uo noii 105 107 106 108 105 107 107 109 104 106 103 105 98 90 97i 981 - 98 99 102 104 103 101 110 111 110 112 311: SIiALCZII. . stook, ettEleiLltENt Kid Consolidated, 6 per cent. Ditto. Bristol and Birm., Ditto, 4i per cent. rd., 95 FOREIGN KINKS. 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Ditto, by French packet J in. 2: Cape Verds, by Brazil paoket . ... Cape of Good hope. Asoonsion. and St. lieleus De.i. 23. China, Penang. and Sia, , r,.ip , ore, via Soui.hainptou Jan. 3 Ditto, via Marseilles ... Falkland Islands ...iibraltar, via Southampton .. India.via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es . ..... D. c. 28 Malta, r4ypt, itc. .Dec.2o Ditto, Marseilles.. Dec. 23. Mauritius, Cape of Good hope, and Natal, via Southampton Jan.l9 Ditt , ), Marreiiles Jan. 13. Newfoundla iii.. Jan. 13 Portugal Ditto, by p r Ni is ship to Oporto .. Ditto . -tto to Lisbon United States. (. anada, California, &c., oy British packet Ditto, by L Lited 7,tates packet Ditto ditto New York) Ditto ditto Isl,w York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Dec 27. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 3. Businese dene. 121 I 1131 I 45 42 11141 14 15 11011 2 11 21 10If 100 100 100 all 100 100 1051 .ITIES. 190 100 100 100 100 100 DECEMBER 28, 1867. the box was directed to ask for a Mr. MaHardy. The delivery-book was sent. I know the third pri soner (Mullany), but merely to the extent of his delivering a letter to me from Burke, or as I knew him as Winslow, at Mr. Kylock's office. I recol lect some ten gun cases being returned. They had originally contained rifles when they were sent from our warehouse to the Curzon-street railway station. I took there about 25 cases returned. Mullany and another man brought them back. I never went to 64, George-street myself. Mr. Lewis—Have you ever seen Casey at Bir mingham ? Witness—No, I have not. Charles Phillips, a ledger clerk at the Curzon street Railway Station, proved the receiving of a consignment note for the forwarding two cases. They were received on the 26th of Decerub7r, 1865, and forwarded to Park-lane Station, Liverpool. Mr. Kylock was recalled and identified the note produced by the last witness, as being in the hand writing of the prisoner Burke, and also the third prisoner, whom he knew as " Mullany." He could not, however, say positively that he had seen him more than once. Mr. Gifford said, as his learned friend had not had the opportunity of hearing the evidence given by Mr. lock on the first examination, he proposed that it should be read over to enable him to direct his cross-examination accordingly. This having been done, Mr. Torr declined to put any questions to witness. In reply to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Kylock said he was of opinion that Casey was not the person he thought he was on the oc casion of his first examination ; he, however, still thought he had seen him at the office of Mr. Winslow. William Martin, of the Birmingham police, said— I produce a zinc plate taken from the door of No. 64, George-street, Parade, Birmingham. I searched the premises for a second time early in the present month. On my first search I did not go into the cellars, but on my last search I found a number of jars. I don't know what the liquid is, but from my visiting other gunmakers' shops, it seems to be a liquid used for polishing gun stocks. William Whitehead, a gun implement maker, said—l was formerly in the service of Mr. Kylock. I recognise Burke as Mr. Winslow, and I think I have seen the second prisoner (Casey) at Mr. Wins low's offices, in George-street, Birmingham. I have frequently taken letters to George-street for Mr. Kylock. The depo3itions taken against Burke and Casey on former examinations were then read over, as well against Shaw, after whiA3 each witness was re called and reiworn. The counsel for the prisoners did not attempt to cross-question either Corydon, Devany, or Inspec tor Thompson. Mr. Giff ard said as the other witnesses were not in attendance he would not that day proceed farther with the case. Mr. Lewis hoped there would now be no objec- tion to Casey being admitted to bail. He had been detained hitherto only ou the charge of assault ing the police, and it was not till this morning that he was charged with treason-felony. The evidence of identification was exceedingly weak, and it was hard that the prisoner should be remanded from week to week whilst the prosecution went angling to see what evidence they could catch. Sir T. Henry—l shall not take bail. The pri soners must be remanded for a week. The prisoners were then removed from the dock. THE CLERKENWELL OUTRAGE It appears an entire mistake to suppose that the police have succeeded in arresting the miscreant who fired the barrel of gunpowder at the wall of the House of Detention. The statement that such was the fact must have obtained publicity by the pri soner Aluilany, who was examined this morning at Bow-street, iu company with Burke and Casey, being mistaken for him, as he was brought to London via the North-Western Railway, and conveyed to safe custody, guarded by a strong body of armed police. POLICE INTELLIGENOE.—This Day, THAMES. TILE CHRISTMAS DINNER.—Thomas Grant, aged 24 years, residing at Mapps-row, Stepney, was brought before Mr. Benson, charged with stealing a sucking pig, a leg of pork, and a rump steak, the property of Mr. Allan Bowyer. The prosecutor is a butcher on Stepney-green, and and he said he employed the prisoner on Christmas eve to carry a sucking pig, a leg of pork, and a first rate and very large and juicy rump steak to the house of a Mr. Whitbread. in Stepney-causeway. The meat which was in tended for Mr. Whitbread's Christmas dinner never reached him. Mr. Bowyer saw the prisoner next day and asked him why he did not deliver the meat, and he swore " heart and eyes" he never received the meat. " Why, I gave it you in a basket," said Mr. Bowyer, and again the prisoner swore heart and eyes" he never had any meat, never saw any, on Christmas-eve. Mr. Bowyer allowed him to depart, and subsequently spoke to' Police-sergeant Briden, a clever detective, No. 4 K, who arrested the prisoner yesterday, and he then said he was drunk when he received the suck ing pig, the leg of pork, and the steak. He after wards wanted to pay for the provisions. Briden would not allow a settlement. Sarah Baker, servant to Mr. Bowyer, saw her mas ter deliver a basket of meat for Mr. Whitbread on Tuesday last. The prisoner was then half drunk and half sober, but knew what he was about. The prisoner impudently said that he never received the meat. Mr. Bowyer—This is not the first time be has made away with meat I have intrusted him co deliver. Mr. Benson remanded the prisoner for a week. .11IARKETS—( 2 his Day.) COVENT GARDEN. Fnurr.—Apples, 4s Od to 8s ; chesnuts, 10s to 158 ; walnuts, lOs to 16s per bushel ; cobnuts, is ; grapes, 3s 03 to 6s ; pine apples, 3s to 6s per lb ; lemons, 3s to 68 ; oranges, 4s to 8s per 100; pears, 2s to 4s per dozen. VEGETABLEs.—Artichokes, 2s to 4s ibeet, is to 2s ; cabbages, is 3d to 2s; cauliflowers, 3s to Gs; tomatoes, Os to Os per dozen , carrots, 6d to 8d ; herbs, 2d to 4d ; leeks, 2d to 4d; turnips, 3d to 4d per bunch • celery, is to is 6d ; horseradish, 3s to 5s per bundle ; endive, is 6d to 2s ; lettuces, is to is 6d per score ; onions, 4s Od to 5s ; spinach, 2s Od to 3s per bushel; potatoes, 80s to 170 s per ton. POULTRY. Turkeys, 5s to 12s; geese, 6s to 8s Od; Surrey fowls, 3s Gd to 5s ; barn door fowls, 2s to 3s ; ducks, 6s ; tame rabbits, is 3d to is 9d; wild ditto, is to is 2d ; hares, 3s to 3s 6d ; pheasants, 3s Od to 4s Od ; grouse, 3s to 3s 6d ; wild ducks, is 6d to 28 Od ; partridges, 2s Gd to 3s Od ; widgeons, is to is Gd each. English eggs, 12s to 12s Gd per 100; French ditto, 9s to 108 Cd; fresh butter, is 2d to is 4d per lb. NEWPORT. Beef Mutton Per Blbs by the carcase. WHITECITAPEL. Beef 3 0 to 4 6 I Veal 3 10 to 4 4 Muttou 3 0 tot 6 1 Pork 3 0 to 4 2 Per 81b by the carcase. HIDES AND SKINS. Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d to —d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3id ; 721 b to 801 b, 3fd to 31d; 801 b to 881 b, 30 to 3id ; 881 b to 961 b, 311 to 4d ; 961 b to 1011 b, 4d to 41i; 1041 b to 1121 b, 41d to 4 , 11; horse hides, 9s Cid to lOs Gd. Calfskin; light, 2s Od to 48 Od ; full, 7s 0,1. Sheepskin; polled, Gs Gd to 7s Gd ; half-bred; 5s 0,1 to Gs Gil ; downs, 4s 4d to 5s 20. HAY. SMITRUIELD.—Meadow hay, 55s Od to 85s ; clover, GOs to 105 s ; and straw, 30s to 3Gs per load. A small supply. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 55s to 83s Od ; clover, 60s to 107 s Gd ; and straw, 30s to 3Gs per load. A slow sale. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 55s to 87s Gd ; clover, 60s to 107 s 6d ; and straw, 30s to 36s per load. Trade heavy. PRESENTS TO SUIT EVERY PURPOSE, TASTE, AND POCKET AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—Photographic Albums a choice of 3,000 ; despatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, travelling bags, envelope cases, blotting books, ink stands, desks, book slides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card eases, purses, stationery cabinets, scent bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, &c.; oigar cases, card baskets, pocket books, electro-gilt and elegantly mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser vices, in every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford street. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new mad fresh, consequent upon a rapid sale.--[ADVT.) HAWK-CATCHING IN HOLLAND. (From the Correspondent of' The Field.) TILE HAGUE, Dec 19. John Barr, the head falconer of the Champaigno Hawk- ng Club, is just now in Holland, at the village of Valkens- - . waard, on the frontier of the province of North Brabant, where ho is entering the haggard which have been caught for the Club by Mollen, the old falconer of the Leo, who resides there. Robert Barr, Mr. Newcome's falconer, has also been there duriug the past month fur the same purpose ; and two members of the French Club, MM. Julio Alfonsode Aldama and Pierre Pichot, have spent a week at the same place, where I have had the good fortune of copinpanying them, and of being initiated in all the details of wild hawk catching. Perhaps a short account of our excursion w 11 be acceptable to the readers of The Field, as it is interesting to ascertain what still remains in our days of one cf the most favourite pastimes of our forefathers. Valkonswaard owes its origin entirely to falconry, as even its name indicates—meaning, in Dutch, the place where hawks are kept. Schlegel, it is true, in his mag- - - nificent work on hawking, speaking of that village, says that in days of old (about the first half of the 17th century) the word was spelt Varkentwaard by some authors, meaning a place where pigs aro kept; but, though these quadrupeds are numerous enough on market days on the large open space of the village, I should rather accept the later but more poetical and sportsman-like spelling.. In fact, Valkenswaard is alive with remembrances of the falconry of old; the greater number of the inhabitants, if not falconers themselves, have had some famous falconer in their family, and the well-known names of Mollen, Bots, Peels, Dams, Boom, /ice., are still to be met with in that picturesque little place. Since the completion of the Eindhoven line of railway, access to Valkenswaard has been made easy enough, either by Rotterdam or Brussels, it being the frontier station where the Dutch custom-house officers poke their inquisi tive noses into your trunks and carpet bag. The village is at a short distance from the railway station, and is a charm- ing little place. There are about twelve hundred inhabi tants, who live in pretty little brick houses, neatly tiled or thatched, having something of the appearance of English cottages. Most of them have only a ground floor, and the steep triangular roofs are iu general higher than the walls which support them. The shutters are painted bright green, and the windows aro sot up with small panes of glass. The most important part of the village is a long triangular space, planted with linden trees ; at one end is the town hall—a shabby sort of erection—facing which is the Catholic Church, erected about six years ago. This sort•of forum is surrounded by pretty houses, some of them very old ; one of the prettiest on the left is that which belonged to Frank van den lieuvel, Louis X Vt.'s last falconer. Next to it is the Falcon Hotel, which is kept by the widow of Bots, the old falconer of the Loo, and in front is Van Best's celebrated cigar manufactory. At nearly every street corner you see swaying to and fro in the wind the signboard of some publichouse or hotel which seems to prove that this was at one time a placa of great resort. Indeed, the old people still remember a time when numerous falconers flocked there in the autumn, to • _ purchase the passage hawks caught by the professional hawk catchers who lived there. The birds used then to be sold by auction at the Three Swans, which sign you find on the left, just after passing the hours where Mollen now lives. The hawks fetched a high price then, being _ _ _ _ sometimes knocked down at more than one hundred florins. Another curious signboard is that of the oil house still occupied by one of the Molten family, and which represents a heron deliberately stopping over an owl, while a little bird flies away quite shocked at the long-billed bird's coolness. I understand that there is some very capital Dutch joke in that painting, but what it was I oonfess I could not well make out. Last, but not least, I will mention the sign of the Falcon—a hooded hawk, sitting on its grass bloc ; and there we took up our lodgings for the week. Of the ac commodation I need say nothing specially, except that it was much more comfortable than might be expected in • _ _ such an out-of-the-way place. The cookery was very good indeed, and Madame Bots is a famous hand at fried eels and fancy cakes ; but the stoves which are used there are most extraordinary apparatus, being nothing more than an iron pipe breaking off into the chimney piece. Coals are put in at the middle, and burn downwards till the machine is red-hot, when the place becomes pretty com fortable ; but we had hard work sometimes to set these economical pipes ageing. Wolf's famous drawing of hawks, illustrating Schlegel's Falconry, were hanging on the walls ; and in the chief public room a few cases of stuffed birds, including two gerfalcons from the Loo, completed the decorations of this true falconer's rendezvous. Shortly after our arrival we went over to Mollen's house to see the newly caught hawks. The passage has been a remarkably bad one this year, owing, I dare say, to the western winds which have prevailed during all the autumn, driving the birds of prey more to the east, to wards Prussia. Perhaps, too, the birds of prey were desirous of presenting their compliments to their famous colleague Herr von Bismarck. Be this as it may, after nearly two months' tedious sitting in their lonely huts, Mollen and his men have only succeeded in capturing five falcons and two haggard tiercels, seven red falcons and four red tiercels, one male goshawk, and five merlins. We found them all on their perches in the hawk-house—a large room which Mollen fits up every year for the pur pose. Some of them are beautiful birds ; the haggards in adult plumage are particularly so, and one old bird which Barr designated " Old Granny," whose age it would be hard to guess, would have offered to a painter a perfect model of the noble Peregrine. On a smaller perch and curtains the merlins were placed. Two of them are old moulted males, very elegant indeed, and getting remark ably tame with little Karl, Mellen's youngest son, who will grow,up I hope to be a good falconer in time, as he has taken a great liking for the noble pursuit. We called one of our hawks " little Karl," after him. The number of huts set out each season for catching the passage hawks depends greatly on that of the hawks ordered. But even a few huts can command, on those flat plains, a very large extent of ground, and bring to the net all the hawks which fly by, though much apart from each other. This year Mollen had three huts out on the heather; one close toValkenswaard, halfway between that village and Heeze ; the other near Blois de Due, and the third on the Belgian part of Brabant. This hut was mis chievously destroyed one night, the nets sut to pieces, and the butcher birds and pigeons let loose. Happily the pas sage was then nearly at an end ; but, though it was quite finished when we arrived in Holland, Mollen had kindly kept the nearest hut out to show us how the thing is managed. Of all the modes of catching wild hawks the Dutch sys tem is certainly the most curious. The hut is built out in an open place on the heather, from which one can com mand a good view of all the environs. It is built up of turf sods to the height of about five feet, and is large enough to conceal one or two persons. The roof is made of an old cart wheel, which answers perfectly well, being easily covered with turf. This ancient practice of using a cart wheel is so much adhered to, that falconers are in the habit of saying that hawks will not come if the traditional wheel is dispensed with! This wheel may therefore be called the talisman of falconry. The entrance to the hut is generally made to open towards the east, as the wind and rain do not usually come that way, and the door is carefully covered up with turf. A long and narrow window is made in the hut, just under the edge of the cart wheel, and can be opened by taking off the sods on either side of the hut according to the direction of the wind ; for it would be very disagreeable to the falconer to have it blowing directly into the little room where he keeps his long and dreary watch. At twelve feet distance from the hut, and just beforo the window, two mounds of earth and sods are built 15 feet apart from each other ; these mounds are four feet high by two feet broad on the top, on which a fiat turf sod forms a sort of platform. On this platform a little bower of turf is neatly arranged, with its opening towards the window of the hut, and three little wands aro bent in a semicircle and stuck around it. This is the butcher-bird'srecess. The little captive is tied by a sort of brace which encircles its body, and he perches on the wands, being continually occupied with eating chopped meat placed in a hollow stick, and all the while keeping a careful look-out. Two poles, about four or five yards in height, are next raised up at about forty yards from the butcher bird's mounds, and about 20 yards apart from each other. To the summit is tied a string which falls loosely down, and goes into the hut where both ends are under com mand of the watcher. At the foot of one of these poles a captive hawk is tied to the string by means of a swivel, and a little lower down a rough bunch of feathers. By pulling the string, the hawk and bunch of feathers are hauled into the air; and then the hawk bates and shakes he bunch of feathers. To the string of the second pole tied a live pigeon, who can seek for shelter under a ittle hut made of turf. The use of this will be presently explained. The nets—three in number for large hawks, and one for merlins or sparrow hawks—are eet at about 150 yards from the hut. They are clap nets of fine thread, and made to close by a wire which runs into the hut. At 30 feet behind each net is a little box mado of turf, in which is kept a live pigeon. The pigeon can be drawn out of the box by means of a string which runs through the middle of the net, and passes through the eye of an iron pin stuck in the centre. The nets are placed north west, south, and south-east ; the merlin net is not so far away from the hut, but only about 40 yards off. A little live bird is tied in the centre to a sort of lever, which by means of a string can be made to move. Things being thus disposed, the falconer gets into his hut early in the morning, and while he smokes his pipe he keeps an attentive look out on the movements of the butcher-birds. These no sooner see a hawk in the dis tance than they set up a shrill croak, and look up to the sky in the direction in which the bird of prey is coming. They become quite restless as he approaches, and lastly pop into their bower for shelter, showing the greatest - signs of alarm. From time to time the falconer, by tighten ing the pole strings, sends the decoy pigeon flying into the air, or by acting on the string to which the hawk is attached, and thus displaying a sham fight between the hawk and the bunch of feathers, which is supposed to be a wild and live quarry, he calls the attention of the passing birds of prey. Nov there is a point from one or other of the butcher-birds, and as the wild hawk approaches their alarm gets to its highest pitch. \Vhen the falconer judges the hawk to be sufficiently near, he lets the pole-pigeon creep back into its lodge and the decoy-hawk rest on the ground, and then, by means of the string, he draws the other pigeon out of its box, the trapdoor by which it was confined closing back as the pigeon is drawn out. Happy to be loose, the pigeon flutters about ; but now there is a stoop from the Peregrine, who is, however, shy at times , and does not bind its prey at once. " Old Granny," the hawk I have already mentioned, made eight or nine stoops before fixing on the lure. When, however, this is done, the pigeon is drawn slowly into the net by means of the string which passes through the eye of the pin, and then the bow or clap-net is pulled rapidly over it. Ono could scarcely imagine how interesting it is to see the active guard mounted by the butcher-birds. As we wanted to witness all the proceedings, we cincealed our selves in the hut, while at about two miles distance B. Barr let loose our little tierce], "La Tremoille." Imme diately there was a point from the butcher-birds; the de coys were acted upon, and, as the butcher-birds crept shrieking into their bower, Mollen pulled the net-pigeon. There was a stoop, then another, and, as La Tremoille began plucking his bird, we might easily have closed the net over him. We let him kill the bird, however, and waited for Barr, who soon came up. As he was taking up the hawk, Mellen thought he would have a joko at his expense, and tried to pull the net over Robert's head as he was leaning on the ground, but the wire broke, and the joke was against us. We stopped eight days at Valkenswaard, and a pleasant time we had of it, spending all our time with the hawks and studying their management. In the daytime we used to go and fly them at the lure on the heather. The fine style in which both Barre manage that instrument must be seen to be credited ; indeed the Dutch falconers, good as they are, were quite pleased to witness it, having never during the Loo's brightest days called their hawks otherwise than by a live pigeon in a string, which is quite sufficient for heron hawking. They used also to tame their hawks very slowly, not requiring them before the month of May; but John Barr, requiring the service of his lairds in France as soon as possible, has introduced the Indian practice of keeping the birds awake until tamed. In the evening we sat round the stove in the public room of the Falcon, each with a bird on his fist, while some played at cards or at draughts, and smoked Van Best's cigars, which are excellent, and cost a mere trifle—less than a halfpenny apiece. What a pretty picture a painter might have drawn of this scene, which called to my mind more than once the poetical romances of the middle ages ! During our stay wo want once to see the cemetery of the village, hoping to discover some souvenirs of the an cient falconers, but ware sorry to find that no monument was there to tell of the Van den Eleuvals, the Daams, the NV Peels, the Daankers of old. The earth mounds over their tombs have bean beaten down, and nothing tells of their existence. There is, however, there the tomb of an Eng lishman -Mr. Hammond—who died at Valkenswaard twenty-five years ago, having lived for several years in the village, where ho took great interest in the hawks which were kept there at the time. His is the only stone on which a name can b 3 read. At last snow sot in and covered all the heather ; and, as we probably should not be able for some time to do an) - thing with the hawks in the open, we quitted with regret the kindly inhabitants of Valkenswaard—leaving, however, the Barrs behind us, as there better than anywhere else they can complete the education of their new recruits. We had no sooner reached the Hague than the story of our sojourn in Brabant spread like wildfire, everybody wondering at the idea of strangers having spent a whole week in a little unknown place to study all the details of the old craft. Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, who formerly took much interest in the Loo Club, graciously invited MM. Alfonso and Pierre Pichot to the Palace, where a most agreeable interview took place. Her Ma jesty seemed to take great interest in all that was said to her respecting falconry by the two members of the French club, being the only woman, perhaps, in our days, who knows anything about hawks. She inquired after Mr. Newcome and several of the old members of the Loo, and expressed her regret that falconry should have fallen so much out of use. Then, turning to other topics, she quite captivated my travelling companions by the knowledge she displayed of everything relative to art and literature. H.H. the Prince of Orange was equally kind to both MM. Alfonso and Pichot, who had several times the honour of being entertained at his delightful palace of the Noorhout. The Hague is a charming town, prettily built, and most picturesque, when covered with snow, as we saw it. Life there is as calm and peaceful as in some quiet English town, and the society most amiable and refined. We were met by the must cordial welcome from everybody, and enjoyed very pleasant receptions in some of the salons, where a small but choice assembly of pretty women and most agreeable men seemed to strive to make us forget our home. This, lam ashamed to say, for my part I was very near doing ; but, alas ! like the decoy pigeons I have just deseribad, I am tied by a string to a large hut, which is Paris, and already my falconer is pulling me back. I therefore leave the Hague to-morrow, but with the hope of returning again ; and my wishes are that ou my next voyage I may have some hawking to tell about. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MENTS. On the sth ult., at 1.45 p.m., Mrs. Allan out of the Liver pool Autumn Cup. On the 16th inst., at 9 a.m., Arundel out of the Doning ton Hunt Open Steeplechase. On the 16th inst., at 9 a.m., Lawrence out of Metropoli tan Handicap at Kingsbury. On the 17th inst., at 9 a.m., Mother of Pearl, Orleton, and Cabin Boy out of their Manchester engagements. On the 18th inst., at 9 a.m., Corkscrew out of his Kings bury engagements. On the 23d inst., at 9 a.m., Cabin Boy, Orleton, Trium pher, Ace of Trumps, and Black Swan out of their Ealing engagements. On the 23d inst., after 6 p.m., King Alfred out of his Ealing engagements. On the 24th inst., at 9 a.m., Elegance out of the Doning ton Park Handicap Hurdle Race. On the 24th inst., at 9 a.m., The Swell (dead) out of all his engagements. On the 24th inst., at 9 a.m., Grey Peter (dead) out of all his engagements. On the 26th inst., at 9 a.m., Endsleigh out of the Don legit= Park Handicap Hurdle Race. On the 27th inst., at 11.35 a.m., Chimney Sweep out of the St. Albans Open Steeplechase. NOMENCLAT ÜBE. Mr. J. Markwell's : Oolt foal by Adventurer out of Sister to Rap parse, by Rataplan ~. Speculator. Mr. G. Angell's yearlings : Brown colt (late Loving Cup) by Dusk— Chalice C upbearer. Bay filly by Caractacuu out of Lady Abbess.- Ursula. Lord Anglesey's : Chesnut filly foal by Oxford out of Her High ness ... ... Ladybird. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. FEBRUARY. Lincoln lB I Nottingham Spring 25 B arro w 2O I Derby Spring MARCH. Liverpool Spring M.... 3 I Epsom Spring Meeting 24 Chelmsford Spring M. 10 Northampton West Dray ton l2 'RIL. Durham Hendon l3 Newmarket Crayon 13 Lewes Spring Newmarket Ist kipring 27 Chester 5 Wiachoster York Spring Salisbury l4 I B a th Croydon Ist Summer Harpenden I Epsom Summer NE. West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer Ascot Summer 9 Windsor Summer JU I Bibury Club 23 Stockbridge Chelmsford Summer 30 I Alexandra Park 3O LY. Huntingdon 2l I Nottingham July I Goodwood Worcester Summer 2 Newmarket July Reading Liverpool l6 Brighton Brighton Club 6 Lowes Summer Wolverhampton ll Stockton Windsor Egham lB Hastings SEPT Warwick 1 Abingdon 3 Leicester Doncaster 8 Richmond Bedford 1 Newmarket 2d October 5 Cheltenham l3 Manchester 26, 27 UST. ..._ __ York l9 Oxford Canterbury Derby Summer Weymouth Liet►field Tuubridge MBEIL Kelso l7 flendon l7 Monmouth ... ..... Newmarket I,t, October 22 West Drayton 29 )BELL Newmarket Houghton 19 Worcester STEEPLECHASES. JANUARY, 18683 1 LBeading FEBRUARY. 11,12 I Lincoln Birmingham MARCH. Grand Military l6, 17 Oholteuham ........ 7, 8 On Thursday Earl Vane attended the opening ceremony of a new infirmary at Sunderland, which has been erected at a cost of £20,000. His lordship intimated that it was probable the Prince of Wales would visit the town in February, and assist at the opening of the exteia sivq new docks there. 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