The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

ITONEf MARKET A ND COMMERMIL I,LIGEN CB, TWELVE o'CLocK. As usual at the end of the week there has been less inquiry for money, and in fact thei-discount business transacted has been of almost nominal amount. It is difficult to conceive a more intense degree of listlessness than that which now prevails, but this inactivity, it may be hoped, is the prelude of that revival of enterprise which generally charac terises the early spring, when confidence is in home politics, and when also there is little of a disturbing nature in the relations of fo re i gn Governments. There is a superabundance of floating capital, and the sooner it is forced into safe and remunera tive employment the more beneficial it will be in the interests of our industry and commerce. The the lowest terms in the general discount market are 2i 3 per cent., and daily loans on Govern- Mental securities in the Stock Exchange are offered at exceptional rates. Gold, to the amount of £B,OOO, was taken from the Bank of England yesterday. A report of the directors of the East London Bank, just issued, states that the available balance for distribution amounts to £4,009, and recommends the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax. The Anglo-American Telegraph Company pro , pose to make the dividend of £1 per share payable On the 29th inst. The letters of allotment of the Chilian Loan were sent out last night. The first instalment of 10 per cent. is made payable at the London Joint-Stock Bank on Tuesday, the 29th inst., as notified in the . Prospectus; no reply has been returned to those applicants to whom it has been found impossible to Make any allotment. A report has been issued by the Universal Marine Insurance Company, embracing the whole of the t ransactions of the company to the 31st December. It states that the net premiums received during the Year, after deducting returns of premium, cost of r e - insurances, brokerage, and discount, amounted to £225,887 17s. 2d., and the payments for losses and claims on account of the same period have been £105,504 108. Bd., leaving £120,383 6s. 6d. at the credit of the underwriting 'account of 1866 ; and although the disasters at sea have been unusually severe during the past year, the directors have every reason to hope that it will yield a satisfactory result. The .ieavy losses against which the Company has had to contend were (as is well known to the share holders) incurred in 1860 and 1861, since which time the balance to the credit of each year's under writing account stands as follows :—For the year 1862, £18,551 Os. 4d. ; 1863, £42,035 18s. 10d. ; 186 4 (Calcutta cyclone year), £lB,lOB 17s. ; 1865, ' £ 5 1,427 12s. 3d. ; making a total of £130,123. Bs . 5d., which, however, is subject to a deduction of £36,372 13s. 9d. for expenses, bad debts, &c. .It will, therefore, be seen that since the change Made in the underwriting department at the close of 1861 every year's business has left a profit to the company. In view of these facts, showing the gradual and steady progress made by the • com- Pally in retrieving the disastrous losses sustained during the first two years of its existence, the directors deem the time to have arrived at which the shareholders may fairly expect a distribution o ut of the interest that has accrued from the se entities in which the funds of the company have be en invested, and they recommend that a pay- Ment of 2s. Gd. per share (free from income tax), Which will absorb £6,250, should be made out of th e sum of £9,392 B s. 9d. s t an di ng a t th e cre dit o f " u e interest account. Specie, representing £79,264, has arrived by the I lansa, from New York ; and the Sussex, from Port Phillip, has brought gold to the value of 4117,000. The specie movements during the past week have no t bee n o f a very extensive character as regards the imports, which have amounted to about 268,192 —including £53,000 from New York, by the Allemannid; £2;940, by the City of Baltimore ; an d £79,264, by the lfansa. The Sussex, from Australia, .has arrived with £117,048, and about t . 1 6,940 has been received in silver from the Con- The exports have been £5,855 to the East Indies and China, by the Pera, and there have been remittances to the Continent through private , sour ces estimated at £529,320 ; th e t o t a l amount i ng tu £535,175. 'With regard to the tea trade, Messrs. Halbert and `-'°.) in their bi-Monthly circular, state as follows : " The feature of the past fortnight has been the Incr easing firmness of holders, and as is usually the this has tended to materially restrict opera ,l,°llB, which, from the na t ure o f th e i nqu i ry and from t he bidding s ma d e b y d ea l ers, might otherwise have ?eel]. extensive. The contracts passing since the 10th inst., confirm the advance then described in the value of fine t o fi nest classes of congon tea ranging from I s. 10d. to. 2s. Gd. per lb., immediate descriptions fully supporting old quotations, while many parcels are held for id. to 2d. more money. As to common and fair black and red-leafs, prices show an improve runt of about id. per lb., ruling now from is. Old. to is. 1 2 1 per lb. ; dusty to leafy grades are fetching from Gid. to 10d. per lb. ; at the moment they are in liberal supply. New -make congous are saleable from ls. 3id. to ls. 7d. per lb. Two o'CLoca. A further improvement has taken place to-day in the market for Consuls, which have advanced / Per cent. to 901 1 for money and the account. The I\ . lll Threes and R e d uce d A nnu iti es were 901 , 411 nuitie s , 21 per cent., 1894, 73 ; Bank of Eng pland Stock, 249 f ; India 5 per:Cents, 107 1; ditto c faced 5} per Cents, 107 ; an d ditt o D e b en t ur es, 1. Pore n Stocks generally are slightly improved. Grr r , c e--- :have advanced I, to 14 1 ; Turkish 5 per ~.,— e4t a- 1, to 291 1 ; Spanish Passive 1, to 22 1 ; the kde t' , incates /, to 141 1 ; while Mexican have de clined"-, to 174 1. The New Chilian Loan has declined 1, to 1 1 PrThhe Russian Loan Scrip continues firm at 11 1 _ Th ere was littl e an i mat i on i n the Railway Share Market to- day, but i n a .f ew i ns t ances pr i ces were a shade firmer. Great Northern A. Stock, Mid andg South-Easte rn , eac h i mproved 1; jua t Eastern, 1 ; an d L ancas hi re and Yorkshire, ; cl,lle Great W estern an d Metropolitan, each de ined _ .. 11 0 Fo re i gn and Colonial lines exhibit little vari -71,,0n. G reat Luxembourg are maked 121; Bahia 2 , 11 ," San Francisco, 121; Grand Trunk of Canada, Great Western of Canada, 141 1; East Indian 1061, 107 ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 4041 105. states Securiti es are - without change. U n it e d 'Xates 5-20 Bonds at 72 an d Illinoi s a t 8 0 81. 11 ; Erie Sha res a t 431 1 ; Atlantic an d G reat Western Railway Debentures la ve advanced 2 to 44 46 ; and the. Consolidated Mortgage Bonds to 33 34. Alisdellaneous and finance shares are very quiet. A nglo-American Telegraph have improved to 151 ; Imperial Land Company of Marseilles to 1/ 4 ; C redit Foncier of England were firm, at 31 1 ; and Crystal P a l ace stock at 27 29k. -Bank Shares are dealt in to a fair extent, and stea dy rates are current. Alliance are marked St ; Impe r i a l O ttoman, 81 ; London Joint 11°Ilek, 441 1 ; Londo n an d W estm i nster, 97f ; and ion of London, 451 1. MINING MARKET. SATURDAY, Two o'Clock. I , The dealings to-day were not quite so animated. maces, h owever, remained steady. Th e s h ares i' e flY in request were Great Retallick, P r i nce o f t „' 4,es, C hiverton, West Chiverto n R e d moor , Drake ails, North Crofty, and East Russell. Annexed are the latest quotations : I: s ra Camb orno, 22s Od 24s ; Cars Brea, —; Cent ra l —; Cooks' Kitchen, 10 11; East Cars Brea, 0 4 4. 1 ; Drakelrells, 25s Od 27s 6d ; Great Laxey, 17 18 ; ',tenon Moor, 6 61 ; Ch on:a l es Gold, 2i ; Clifford 46:11algalnate, 8 i ; East B asse t , 24 2 6 ; East Caradon, 6 ; East Levell, 1010 i; East Wheal Grenville, 2 BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GC VERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cont. Consols Do. Account, Feb. 7 9 o 3 per Cent. Reduced 9of f Vow 3 par Cont 9Ol f New 2k per Cent. Jan. 1894 73 f Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 lunuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Ixehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 pe r Cent pm Do £5OO ~ •-• Do £lOO a £2OO pin Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent 2491 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10} per Cent., Apri11874... Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 por Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 lO7 Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4 1 per Cent., 1852-58-60 - 2 150 . . . 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account 72+ i !G. AIN Bonds — Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent 7Bl DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 33 C.arian 6 per Cent Do. 3 per Cent tro. 6 per Cent A — Do. 13 — 7 Colombian, 1 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent, 1825 Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 — Danubian Principalities Do. Account t./quador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Do Dofoned Egyptian 7 per Cent — Do. Account Do., Second Issue • 83} 3 Do .£lOO Bonds Bsi Do. 1864 — Do £lOO Bonds 834 Do. Government Railway Debentures BO4 4 80 'Jo. Account Greek 5 per Cents., 1821-5, ex Coupons do. Coupons Do. Account Gu-ttemala 5 per Cent. — Itrlian 5 per Cent 1865 Do, Account .., 72 4 Do. Maremmana Railway — 7114xicar. 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — dontevidean 6 per Cent. •..• — Sloorish Imperial 5 per Cent , ew Granada Do 3 per Con Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account , 65/ Do 44 per Cent., 1865 ___ 17f . 36i I Do 4f per Cont.'(Uribarren) Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account - f••••• Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853 '6,'7,'9;60,'2, '3, 431 Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St BB Do 4i per Cent. 1850 Do 4f per Cont., 1860 Do 3 pet Cont. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 B6l Do 5 per Cent. 1864 B9 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B7 Do. do. £lO paid ll pm Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account - 3panish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do. Account Passive Do Do Account 221 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account S wedish 4 por Cent. Do. 44 per Cent. 1864 Do. Scrip, £6O paid T arkish 6 per Cont. 1854 Do. Aocount- Do 6 por Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 180 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 544 Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do. 6 por Cent., 1865 Do. 4 per Ceut. Guaranteed Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do ..elOO Bonds Do. 6 per Cent, 18C2 241 Ditto 11 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per CAnt. Ex. 12 Guil, Do. 4 j;;r Cent. Certificates .... French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 43f. — It%liah 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do. Account 5 TWO O'OLOOK. Consols, Money 9Ol Do. Account GREAT DESTRUCUON OF PROPEMY THIS DAY. This morning, at a few minutes past 5 o'clock, the greatest excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Clay-corner, Shoreditch, more especially among the nume rous inmates of the Model Lodging-house, situate at that spot. A fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Thorp, walking-stick manufacturer. The discovery Iras made by a police-constable of the M division, who gave the necessary alarm, and sent off for proper assistance. In the course of a few minutes Conductors Kidson and Hayward arrived with two of the Royal Society's escape; when the conductors rushed into the model lodging-house and aroused about 50 persons—men, women, and children who happil y succeeded in effecting a rapid retreat. Numerous steamer s b y Shand, Mason, and Co. having arrived, under the direction of Mr. Gatehouse, the super intendent of the district, and a po wer f u l b o d y o f f i remen, and the London Salvage Corps, with Mr . . Swarton, the chief superintendent, they set to work immediately, a plentiful supply of water having been obtained ; but during the brief interval the fire had seized upon the whole of the immense range of premises, and nearly a million fancy canes, sticks, &c., showing up a light that could be seen all over the metropolis. The first thing the firemen sought to accomplish was the protection of the lodging-house and the candle works. The ladder expedient was crowned with success, both buildings being saved, but nothing could be saved in Mr. Thorp's premises except his books, which were fortunately deposited in one of the patent re fire-proof safes. The loss of property will reach to some thousand pounds sterling. Five other fires took place during the night, but they were not of a serious character. fiance SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 26—Promise and Cordelia, from Guern sey ; Oriental, from the Cape ; Dagmar, steamer, from St. Michael's; Malvern, from Pondicherry; Lady Bowen, from Sydney ; John Paul, from Shanghia. Sailed, Jan. 26—Holland, steamer, from Ostend ; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne; Triton, steamer, for Calais. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Anchored.—North Star, from London, for Philadelphia. Passed.—Albion, from London for Berbice ; Osbert, from London, for Demerara; Mangerton, from London, for Barbados. Passed (in tow)—Whito Bose, from Melbourne, for Londpn. THE VICTORIA CROSS.—TIIC London Gazette of yesterday contains a notice dated Jan. 25, to the effect " that tho Queen has been pleased, by an instrument under her royal sign manual, to direct that the decoration of the Victoria Cross may be conferred on persons serving in the local forces of the colony of New Zealand, or who may hereafter be employed in the local forces raised, or which may be raised in the colonies and their dependencies generally." FOOLS AND FIREARMS.—A. boy named Scott took up a supposed unloaded gun at the house of Mrs. Lee, Bury, on Wednesday, and, putting a cap on it, snapped it in joke at two men. The gun was unfortunately loaded, and went off, and both men wore injured about the face with the shot. LA PL ATA. UTIIAUP TON, Friday.—ln accord ance with the instructions received last night from the Lords of the Privy Council, the passengers who arrived on the 17th inst. in the West India mail steamer La Plata, and were transferred to the company's steamer Parana, were released from quarantine to-day, and landed in the docks. The crew, who have been located on board her Majesty's steamship Lulus, at the Motherbank, are to be released to-morrow. Great Rota Hack, 44s Od 46a; Great Wileal Vor, 17 18 ; Marko Valley, 4 4;; North Crafty, i; North Treskerby, 2i I.; Prince of Wales, 348 Od 85s Od; Prosper United, 3/ I; Providence Mines, —; South Condurrow, —s —d ; South Grenville, Os Od Od Od; Tincroft, 141 15 ; West Caradon, 111 121; West Chiverton, 621 65 ; West Frances, —; West Seton, 125 130; Wheal Buller, 221 25; Wheal Chiverton, 81 9 ; Wheal Cr3bor, --s —s ; Wheal Grenville, 20s Od 245; Wheal Rose, ; Wheal Seton, 120 125 ; Wheal Trelawney, 111 12/ ; Wheal Tiny, 2k a ; Great :South Tolgus, 17s 6d 19s Od; South Frances, 18 20 ; St. Ives Consols, 0 0; South Caradon, ——; Stray Park, —s —s ; North Itoskear, 0 0 ; North Downs, 00 ; South . Darren, 0 0 ; Wheal Basset, 0 0. TIM SUN, LONDON, SATURDA Y V ENING, JANUARY 26, 1867. ISSESSIONS. 66 88 100 101 Id ip 4 4i 71 to luo 100 100 all 100 100 50 55 101 103 101 11;3 106 107 21 22 85 88 67 59 53 54 52 54 37 10 23 25 NB 106 i 1 p a 1 u 58 IGOf 107 6j 1 41 5 INTELLIGENCE.--This Day, COURT OF CHANCERY. GARDNER V. THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY COMPANY—DRAWBRIDGE V. SAME—GARDNER (No. 2) v. SAME—THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION (LIMITED) V. SAME. The court gave judgment in these four suits. The first suit was instituted by Mr. Gardner, on behalf of himself and all the other mortgages of what is known as the "General Undertaking" of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, against the company, for the purpose of realising his and their securities. The second and third suits are of a similar nature. In thefourth suit the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association (Limited) seek to establish an equitable charge to the amount of £135,000 upon the proceeds of the sale of the superfluous lands of the "Metropolitan Extension" of the railway compiny. Their lordships were of opinion that in the case of Gard- ner and Drawbridge the order ought not to apply to the sale of lands or the surplus rents of the company, and in the Imperial Mercantile Credit suit there ought to be a receiverl but perhaps to save expense some officer of the company would act gratuitously. The costs in the cases to be costs in the cause. Mr. Seely, M.P., on Admiralty Mismanagement. Mr. Seely, M.P., and Mr. Heneage, M.P., ad dressed a meeting of their constituents in Lincoln on Wednesday night. The latter gentleman, who was subjected to some interruptions and allusions to " the Cave," defended his votes daring the last ses sion of Parliament, and showed that he had sup ported Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill in principle, although he had voted against it in the detail raised by Lord Dunkellin's motion. In concluding his remarks, amidst cheers mingled with groans and hisses, the hon. gentleman hoped the Liberal party would again b.2corne united, :Lid that Mr. Gladstone would remain the leader. Mr. SEELY, M.P., addressed his auditors in a speech of great length, stating that he was and ever bad been an advocate for household suffrage, and was not the least afraid of the bugbear called the " working man." Having taken some 'pains to show that there was not the slightest reason to fear that under an extended suffrage the working classes would all vote one way, the hon. gentleman proceeded to a demonstration of the proposition that there was abundance of room for improvement in the Legisla tion and Government of the country. He confined his remarks on this head chiefly to Admiralty mis management and the shortcomings of Parliament in dealing with that mismanagement, going over in his statement much of the ground traversed by him in his speeches on thesubject during the last session of Parliament. The following are extracts from his remarks :—On examination of Royal dockyard ac counts, I found that four years, from 1863 to 1866 inclusive, there were £2,000,000 not accounted for. The Frederick William cost —adding the items which a private shipbuilder would have to charge—the sum of £281,691 in repairing. She could have been built for £134,453, so that the loss on that transaction was £147,138. (Laughter.) I have picked out five ships, and the repairs, adding the items I have re ferred to, amounted to £230,090, and the vessels could have been built new for £152,148, so that you actually repaired five old vessels at a cost of £79,942, more than you could build them new for. (Laughter.) Now, the Admiralty have never dis puted my figures with regard to the cost of ships, or, if they have, they have afterwards had to admit that I was correct. Of course they did not like it. (Laughter.) Besides this, I pointed out that in one dockyard an article was produced for 14s. 31:d.-- these figures are taken from their own published accounts—and that in another yard the same article cost £1 11s. 91d. I pointed out that in one yard they made more offal timber than they ought to have done, according to their own authorities, which caused a loss to the country of £35,126. I showed that they manufactured sheet lead at a cost of 355., when they could have bought it for ss. (Shame.) One boat cost £35, which ought to have been only £lO 10s. ; another cost £3O, instead of £9 16s. ; another £2B, instead of £7 10s. ; and so on. I pointed out that for some cause or other—l cannot tell what —a particular firm, Brown, Lennox, and Co., had since the year 1842 supplied the Go vernment with anchors, and that the cost of those anchors during that period had been about £170,000 more than the market price. I charged this upon the Government in the session before last, and, as a matter of course, one of the officials—l think it was Lord Clarence Paget, now gone to the Medi terranean as Admiral of the Fleet—with his usual audacity, said, " Yes, but we must take care of the lives of our seamen ; we cannot have bad anchors." Well, who wants them to have bad anchors ? We want them to have the very best anchors possible. But it so happened that the anchors which were supplied to the navy by Brown, Lennox, and Co. are anchors of a par- titular pattern, which was condemned by a com mittee appointed by the Admiralty, I think in the year 1852, as being the wont of seven anchors which were submitted to the committee. I further pointed out that there was some iron ballast, familiarly called pigs—(laughter)—and I think it is probable that these pigs will give a squeak when Parliament meets again. (Laughter.) At a most moderate estimate, there is £150,000 or £lBO,OOO wasted in this atrocious manner- Of course, some of my statements have been disputed, but the matter cannot rest here. I have endeavoured, to the best of my ability, not to discredit my constituents by ever making statements that I could not maintain. (Hear, hear.) I assure you I have no wish whatever to gain notoriety by making statements which I cannot substantiate. I simply want " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,"l and so long as I am favoured with your confidence, so long shall I endeavour to elicit the truth in the House of Commons. (Applause.) The proceedings closed by the passing of a vote of confidence in both hon. gentlemen. SHARE MARKETS,—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. bribLOl :mu .E.2cetei—..:. Caledonian Oam briar Cork and 8and0n...... 'Corn wall . . Dublin Si Belfast Juno.' Dun„Perth, & Ab. Juno. E. London, scrip Certi. Do. irKi 118 120 40 46 4 6 e 5 OS 70 72 Glasgo : w & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D.,. A stock Do. 11 stock 116 118 34 36 6 8 120 12! 13! 133 Do. New, ts. at 25 prll UtS, and W. of Ireland Ut. Weitern -Original, Do. 6. Val. Rail gua. l Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Ustord, 91 9S 51 L 6 Do. Newport Do. Hereford. Lano.ishire St Yorkshire Landon and Blackwell ton., Bri;h.,dc S Coast Lon., and Dave•• Do. Metrop. A Lon. La iNortli Western ton. South Western Man., Shet., dc Lincoln Do. New Do. Extension... )Metropolitan District Do. do. do. L%l 00. and St. John's Ard ) Alid'and i Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby! Hid Kent . . 1 -, :. orth British Do. Ed., 11th., & Duu 1 11th. Eastern—berwicki Do. G.N'E purchase , Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ...... Do. Stock. & Darling Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 5 . N. Do. do. 1866 . North Staffordshire . N. az S. W. Junction Scottish Central [Scot. N. E , Aber. steel Do. Scot, Mid. stJoic. Shropshire Union .3outh Devon South Eastern ... 'itaines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of heath Waterford & KilkennN Waterloo & Whlteha West Cornwall Paid./ Closing I Business i Price. done. 35 4 51 7 1331 55i li 51 1311 89 7i 8 181 1 12.3 E lj 5q 1311 2 1 1-10 12 141 1061 6 71 i 31 4 BILITISH i' Atlantic & 8 LLawrence Horn., Baroda, •4 Cen. In. gu. 5 per cent Do. F 'shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff:,Brant,&Goderich 6 p.c. 187i-3-i Calcutta & S. E., litn.• Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p Nast. Bengal, gu., 5 do' East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension i rand Trunk ot Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. let Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Prat. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock.— Do. do. deferred Du. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deterred t. India Pen. gua. sp.c. o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p.. 3 t.it.South of India gua. 5 per cent D.,. 41 per cent Do ;rest Wct. of Canada, New Do. 6 p. o 1345. pay. 1573 Do. 54 dv. pay. 1877-8.. 1 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do .. Do. 4j do Do. Filth Extension 3felb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. & Hudson's Bay.. N. ttl. C du, ape lat pi. bs 1 Scinde Do. Delhi Dodo . • 4a Do. l'uniaub.... n yea Do.ludus St.Flot a 0 , 3t 35 34 37 - - 133 131 87 8) 18 19 10 10 123 124 87 9.) b 3 54 130 131 11 nil ►24, 125 11 lit 93 95 30 41 4 18 10G IU7 66" 67 101 103 35 SG 10 11 p 120 422 1 2p 1 2p 74 76 114 118 148 152 48 GO 73 7E 9 10 [5O 153 _3 4 ; 100 102 91 93 12/ 13} It 120 F 8 92 , 81_ 84 i If lid 100 102 t 2 94 85 90 82 85 97 9) 97 98 1 97 98 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per o al c nB e 7c7 t .. 0 , 8v 1) 4. 6 e p o .. c . 31, j a 1 . 8 t 72.. j u i ; 1001 0 0 9 - 8 1 - 00 991 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 1 0 99 101 D. sp. a Mar. 0 Sept 100 99 101 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 82 84 81 Ei Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk 100 82 84 Cape o.At 6 p.c.1823 100 101 164 o p G ll ll ,olc e. t, 1890-1900 100 104 108 Do: do 1880-9, 100 103 ..105 10(1 __ D o 0 0. . 5J per a n . &J cent.o l y, 15 181.10 p - r 9 il 100 : 1 10: 0 382 1 11 1 00) 0 , 854 3 _ anti 15 Vet., 1900 lOO 90 72 laT Lon. Nov. 1808. 6 p.t 100 lot -103 .. Da. militias, 6 p. lB 7 0 8 , '4 18 0 7 . 3 . , 1 : 000 9 0 9 D Ja o l . l. l7 n B d July )o. 1882, 31ay15, Nov.::, 100 103 106 o. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 105 107 Natal qov. 0 per cent IOU 99 10i ..8.G0v.6p.c.Ja.,104) 100 95 ,7 N. S.W. Gov. 5 re., 1860 100 90 93 Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1876 100 _ Do, 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 100 85 F 6 851 1 Neiv Zealand, 6p. cent 100 9.; 101 Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. a ..... G0v.1875 lOO 96 98 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1 6 868 p. - c 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 _ 9l I _ 3 92i Do. 1878 & upwards 1( 0 104 106 Vio,Gov. 6 p.m Ja &J uly 100 - - Do. do, April & Oct 1100. 107 108 1071 BRITISH MINES. _ Cain. Coneol. Gold, lira. 1 - - Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 2O 8 9 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 400 410 Urakewalls 2.1.0 4 1 East Bassett (Ill ogan) 294 22 21 East Caradon 2.14.0 6 7 East Carn BrPa ' 31 2 3 1 1 .; ast Grenville 2.14.0 2 3 East Gunnislake 8.3. 5, 11 4 East Loved 3.9.0 9 10 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.8. i 21 21 Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 5 6 4 Great L orey; limited all 17 13 1 71 17 Great South Tolgus O. t 4.c Great Wheal Busy. • 14.9.6 - - G. Wheal Vor (flelst.o 40 15 10 Grenville 8.18.0 14 14 ' ' lierod's FoOt „. 8.10.0 30 32 Ringston Downs .. _. ... 5.10. 0 , 21 ,11 Margaret (Uny Lelant '3-17.6 2 4 Marck Valley. 5.10.6 31 44 4 flwyndy Iron Ore, Hut 31 24 lid New Scion North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassettallogan 1.4.0 - - 'North Wheal Crotty 1 Vrosper linited 7.1.0 Pruvidence Uny Lslant 10.6.; 21 28 I S. Caradon (St. Cleer) /3 300 320 'South Condurrow 3.2.0 4 14 1 8. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 18 12 Stray Park . 35.15,6 ,r i n Croft... „ Vigra and dogan, lint all 2 10 West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard 12 12 14 West Chi rerton ll 54 56 West Seton l7l 115 :25 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 51 65 25 Wheal Buller atedruth 16 18 20 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 10 12 Wheal Setoa Wheat Trelawney (Lis 5.17.11 7 9 SANIEB. Alliance, Um.. 17 4 17 Australasia, 651 6 Bank of Egypt, 36i Chartered der. of India, London, and China, f City, 141 consolidated Bank, Urn., 41 5 English, Scotch. and Australian Chartered, 184 Imperial ottoman, lim., 8/ If Land Mortgage Bank ot India. lim., 24 London Bank of slexico and S. America, 1im.,1 3 London and Brazilian (Urn.), 33 London and River Plate, Ditto, issued at 14 pm., 114 London Joint Stock, 41 1 4 London and 11 estrainster, 974 Midland Bank, lim.. 18 Oriental Banx Corporation, 444 Union of London, 454 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 154 Anglo-Mexican Mint, 151 Atlantic Telegraph, 28; Ditto, 8 per cant., 65 Ceylon Company, 94 City Offices, Um., 34 Continental Union Gas, Urn., 91 Credit Fonder ot England. I Crystal Palace, 291 9 East India Irrigation and Canal, 121 Ebbw Vale, 114 Fairb drn Engineering, 51 Fore-street Warehouse, nm., 134 Gan. Credit and Discount, lim.. S Imperial Land Company ot Marse i lles, lim., International Financial Society, lim., zi Land Securities. Dm., 2, ~ t .~ -w. SIR E. LANDSEER'S LION AT THE NELSON COLUMN.—" Long threatening," says the proverb, "comes at last ;" and, having been accustomed for years to hear from time to time complaints about the delays attendant on the completion of the monument to England's great admiral, the public will gladly learn that "at last" one of the long-promised lions has been placed at the foot of the Nelson Column in Trafalgar-square. Tho royal beast arrived before noon yesterday, in a waggon drawn by four horses, and was safely transferred to his pedestal without any untoward accident. He is placed at the south-western corner of the monument, and frowns majestically across Cockspur-street, or will doubtless do so as soon as the white cloth which now covers him shall have been removed. Despite this covering, however, enough of the contour of the animal is perceptible to produce a fine effect, and to enable the beholder to form some judgment as to the ulti mate grandeur of the monument when completed, as it no doubt will be ere long. The outline of the lion is very effective as seen from Charing-cross, though the appear ance of white marble which the covering suggests does not harmonise well with the surroundings. What is seen gives good reason to expect that, when the four guardians of the monument have been placed on their pedestals, the public will acknowledge with satisfaction that they were worth waiting for, and that, long as the delay has been since they were taken in hand, the time occupied by Sir Edwin Landseer in thus perfeating his work has been well spent. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Jan. 25. A ceremony of a very novel character took place in the Mansion-house yesterday. The Lord Mayor received in State at the Mansion-house a deputation from the tenants of Lord Aunaly, in the county of Clare, who presented an address to his Lordship and the Lady. Mayoress, with a beautiful and costly service of plate, as an expression of their gratitude for his conduct as Lord Annaly's agent, and his efforts to promote their welfare in various ways, as well as of their personal regard and esteem, and their hearty congratulation on the high position to which Mr. Lane Joynt had attained. The address having been read by Mr. M. Kelly, the Rev. Mr. Quaid, parish priest of O'Callaghan Mills, county of Clare, who accompanied the deputation, said he endorsed every word of the address, and paid a high tribute to the public usefulness and private worth of the Lord Mayor. His lordship delivered a lengthened reply, which contained some fat `s worthy of notice. He ascribed the chief merit of what he had done to the landlord, who has extensive estates in the counties of Clare, Limerick, Longford, Meath, and Dublin. He declared that Lord Ann aly never turned out a tenant, and that he wished every farmer on his property should have an interest in his holding, should be secure in his improvements, and encourage I to increase the produce of the land, so as to gratify the honest desire of every tenant to be able to hand down to his children, with increased value, the place where his children grew up around him, which the dearest associations of youth and manhood had hallowed,—the home to which he clings with all the devotion of au Irish heart. The Lord Mayor continued : These aro noble and honest feelings. They are making their way to the acceptance of all great thinkers and states men. The Legislature can no longer disregard them, the statesmen whose ambition is to rule the count r y must recog nize and embody them in law; they are founded in justice, they will be enforced by justice also; they are recommended by the greatest living writers, they are recommended to the plainest understandings of those who are associated, as I am, with the working of the Irish land system. I do not be lieve in the proposed plans of buying up properties and sell ing them in small lots to tenant occupiers. I believe the tenant-farmers of Ireland don't want that. Most, if not all, prefer to got their land at a fair rent—for the value—to be secured by a 31 years' lease ; and I belfeve with you, under such circumstances, the value of the agricultural produce of Ireland would be doubled even sooner than the period you mention-20 years. Most farmers would expect from their capital a greater return than 4 or 5 per cent., and most of the good landlords of Ireland—and I believe they are more numerous than is usually believed—can afford to purchase lauds and let them far more moderately than the small class of purchasers which the newspapers considered would re generate the country. Now, you know that the tenant. farmers of Ireland fear no class so much as that of the smal capitalist who buys a small lot of land, and as I have known in many cases, trebles, nay, quadruples, on the occupying tenant the rent before he has been bix mouths its owner. I could quote instances of this in Clare, but I need not; you are too familiar with them. I trust, therefore, in the inte rest of the landlords themselves, many of whom do not know their true interest, a, bill may be prepared and brought in during the coming session to settle the land question. There is no insuperable difficulty about it, and if her Ma jesty's Government will not settle the question they must give place to a Government who will. Gentlemen, you have alluded to emigration. It is the hemorrhage which drains the life-blood of Ireland away, and I deeply regret that a noble lord of hereditary talents, of great parts and accomplishments, should have re-animated the Sangrado prescription of more bloodletting and hot water. Ireland has too much of that already. I fear to face the future, when ono half million of our population is to be reduced. I fear to face the deep and untold misery to thousands - the (paled fires, the household gods scattered, the trading elaesee iu the towns still further reduced and ruined, and the professional and middle classes feeling the want of ihat life-blood which it is the duty of true statesmen to keep in the b dy politic, and, above all, arrest its continual flow. I rejoice to say that on Lord Anualy's estates I have never evicted a tenant; that not one compulsory ejectment ever drove a family from old Ireland ; that all the while Lord Annaly's rents have been well paid, and his tenants daily growing more prosperous and contented. Some are large and prosperous farmers, occupying his lordship's lands and enjoying their own fee simple estates; others are not so affluent; but I rejoice to say his lordship has many small tenant-farmers ; they pay their rents well, are industrious and contented, and, above all, secure in their holdings. It is a fatal folly to drive such men and their families from Ireland—all the more fatal when men like the noble lord I have referred to propound such theories. The Lord Mayor entertained the members of the deputation, with a number of ladies and gentlemen, at dinner in the Oak-room in the evening. The Lord-Lieutenant will be present at the in auguration dinner. The Marchioness of Abercorn has also accepted the invitation of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. About 200 ladies will be in vited on the occasion. A public meeting was held at Cork on Wednes day, presided over by the Mayor, to petition for re form in the Irish railway system. The Mayor, Mr. N. D. Murphy, M.P., Mr. J. N. Murphy, Alder man Scott, the City High Sheriff, Mr. W. J. Shaw, and Mr. T. Mahony were among the speakers. Re solutions were passed unanimously in favour of a general reduction of rates and fares on Irish lines, the gresent charges being greatly in excess of those on Continental railways. A resolution was also adopted, Messrs. Mahony and Shaw dissenting, call ing on the Government to purchase and undertake the management of the present lines, and to make such extensions as should be considered necessary to complete the railway system of the country. A petit tion to the Government on the subject was adopted, and a deputation, including the Mayor, High Sheriff, and city members, appointed to present it. - 'Naval and Military Intelligence. The Urgent, screw iron troopship, Capt. E. H. Henderson, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday at 10 a.m. for China with a large number of naval officers; seamen, and Marines on board, for service in the gunboats and other of her Majesty's ships now serving in the Chinese and Japanese seas. The list of naval officers going out in the Urgent for this service includes Capt. Hickley, R.N. ; Lieuts. Cameron, Rose, Anson, Kent, Grenfell, Griffith, Crosbie, and Broxham ; Master John Tulley, Pay master J. M. Blyth ; Second-Masters Hedden, Packer, Fox, and Ridden ; Assist.- Surgs, H. It. Ryall, R. Nelson, E. W. Lesly, H. Hansford, Eugene Van Meru, and C. G. Wodeworth ; Chief Engineer E. M. Avoy ; Engineers Young, Foster, Coltam, Sanders, Murray, and Green ; 25 assistant engineers, 8 warrant officers, and upwards of 50 seamen and Marines. The Urgent will call in at Plymouth Sound on her way down Channel ; and at Loaudo, the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Singa pore, and Ceylon, during the outward voyage. The machinery of the ship since her arrival at Portsmouth from foreign service in August of last year has undergone considerable repairs, and im portant modifications have been made in the over head arrangements of the boiler-room and stoke hole. The engines have had new condensers and air-pump, and a general overhaul and repair of all other parts. New boilers were also required, and a set which had been lying in the dockyard for some time, marked "Furious," were appropriated for the purpose, the said Furious being now a coal bulk converted from a once formidable paddle steamer. In putting the new boilers on board the Urgent, the Steam Factory engineer officers im proved upon the old arrangement with one funnel, where the uptake covered in more than one-third of the entire length of the boiler-room, substituting two funnels placed athwartships, and each with its own separate uptake from the boilers on that side of the ship. By this new arrangement the ventila tion has been vutly improved, there being now a free opening to the upper deck from the stokehole throughout its entire length, much to the health and comfort of the men in charge of the fires. On the ship making her trial over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, a few days since, six thermometers were hung in the stokehole from for ward to aft, and between the sets of boilers, at about the height of a man's shoulders, from which readings of the temperature were taken each mile. The temperatures on the second, fourth, and sixth miles may be considered as most correctly represent ing the true heat of the stokehole at an exceptional time, such as the trial of speed, when the furnaces are made to burn all the coal they can, and on the day of the Urgent's trial the returnsfrom her stoke hole thermometers were as follows, commencing from forward, and ending aft :—Second mile-63, 48, 80 (middle of stokehole), 82, and 62 deg. ; fourth mile-66, 52, 84 (middle of stokehole), 92, and 74 deg. ; sixth mile-64, 52, 85 (middle of stokehole), 95, and 75 deg. A special report on the rearrangement of the Urgent's boiler-room, and the results so far obtained, might possibly be valuable even to "My Lords" for future reference and guidance. The Industry, screw storeship, Staff-Commander Youell, arrived at Shithead early on Friday morn ing from Ascension, and sailed again in tha after noon for Woolwich. A few invalids brought home by the Industry from Ascension were landed . at Portsmouth. The Speedy, screw gunboat, tender to the Dasher, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for the Channel Islands. The Tamar, screw iron troopship, Capt. Francis W. Sullivan, C. 8., will sail from Portsmouth on Monday for Kingstown, Ireland, with a detachment of the 84th Regiment and a few naval supernu meraries. From Kingstown the Tamar will pro ceed to Malta with the 64th Regiment and the de- tachment of the 84th, landing there the 64th, and proceeding thence to Jamaica with the 84th Regiment, which now forms part of Malta garrison. From Jamaica the Tamar will return to Queens- town, Ireland, with the 6th Regiment of Foot. The Medusa, paddle steamer, Staff-Commander Thos. Potter, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for Sheerness with supernumeraries for the unarmoured screw line-of-battle ship Rodney, now fitting as the flagship of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Kep- pel, K.C.8., the appointed successor of the presen Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Fleets in India, China, and Japan. By the death of Gen. Sir J. Freeth, K.C.8., Lieut.- Gen. E. F. Gascoigne, Colonel of the 69th Regiment, becomes full General ; Major-G-en. C. C. Hay, Inspector-Gen. of Musketry, becomes a Lieut.- Gen. ; and Col. H. Hope Graham, C. 8., Inspecting Field Officer of the London Recruiting District, a Major-General. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. B. Evans, to the St. Vincent, additional for service in the Martin tender, vice Fitzmaurice, promoted, the appointment of Lieut. W. L. E. Walsh having been cancelled; Lieut. Seymour Spencer Smith to be Flag-Lieut. to Rear-Admiral Wellesley, C.B. ; Sub-Lieut. An thony Kingscote, Sub-Lieut. G. R. C. Eyres, Sub- Lieut. John S. Halifax, and Sub-Lieut. Keppel Garnier, to the Galatea ; 11. P. S. Dorrien, E. J. Fellowes, Hon. A. G. Curzon Howe and G. Neville, midshipmen, to the Galatea ; 11. A. W. Onsl ow , naval cadet, to the Galatea; R. 0. Bray, clerk, additional, to the Itoyal Alfred. The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi nated naval cadets :—Patrick Black and Herbert M. Ileathcote. The Prince of Wales and Prince de Teck left Sandringham on Thursday afternoon for a couple of days' shooting at General Hall's box, Six Mile Bottom, near Newmarket. • SOLUTION OF THE HUNGARIAN QUESTION.- According to information, received from a source which we have reason to regard as perfectly reliable, the long -pending differences between Hungary and the Court of Vienna have been satisfactorily adjusted. A separate Hungarian Ministry has bawl conceded, and the nomina tion of its members is almost complete. The new Ministers will enter upon their functions as soon as the RAiichsrath Extraordinary is assembled. It will then depend on the wisdom and moderation of that body and the Diet for Hungary to make the understanding arrived at complete. In view of this much-to-be-desired result it is of paramount importance that the German party, as well as the Centralists, should renounce their assumed attitude of opposition, and resolve upon taking part in the election of rorresentatives tv the koGuntly-wayvkod livich§ratla. share; 1 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Bylos and a Common Jury.) BARNES V. SCHOFIELD. Mr. Robert Barnes, the plaintiff in this case, is an iron monger, and resides at Barnes, in Surrey, and the action NI as brought to recover compensation in damages for an alleged assault on the part of certain porters in the employ of the defendant, who is an auctioneer in business at Vincent-square, Westminster. The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Pearce wore counsel fOr the plaintiff, and Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., and Mr. Lawton for the defendant. The plaintiff, in his evidence, said that early last Sep tember he went to the auction rooms of the defendant and obtained a catalogue, which detailed, amongst other articles of sale, a hogshead of sherry. He wont to the yard whore it was placed fur the purpose of tasting it, and found three persons whom he un derstood to be parties on the establishment around. He was supplied with the bottom of a bottle to taste the wine, but, without tasting it, he at once discovered it con sisted of the lees of wino bottles, and ho made some obser vations in respect of it to the porters. The defendant came down tho yard and asked what was the matter, and one of the porters said he had been drinking wino, upon which the defendant said, "Put him out," at the same time calling some other porters. He was then seized by three men, and dragged from the yard into the auction room, when they fell over some shovels or spades, he being under them. If he had not caught hold of the shirt of one of the men he would have been severely hurt by falling against ono of the shovels. Ho was then dragged out into the street, and thrown with violence on his back, and his hat, which had fallen off, was thrown out after him. He went to the nearest police station, and acting on the advice he received there he returned to the auction-rooms, and asked for the names and addresses of the men who assaulted him. He said, "If you do not bold your noise I shall order you to be served in the same way again." He suf fered very severely from the violent treatment to which he had been subjected, and was a fortnight under the care of his medical attendant. The witness was cross-examined at some length by Mr. Digby Seymour, and deniod most positively that he had tasted the wine. He identified one of the partes in court as one of those who assaulted him. He was not talking particularly loud when the defendant came up the yard. There was no outcry on the part of the persons assembled in the auction room to turn him out, and he was making no noise when he was assaulted. The evidence was very conflicting, it being deposed on the part of the defence that the plaintiff created a disturb ance in the auction room at the time the sale was going on, which rendered his expulsion necessary. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Da WESTMINSTER. IMPUDENT FEMALE ROBBER?.—Margaret Revel, a re spectably-dressed young woman, Was charged with the following impudent robbery. Mr. John Barnes, linendraper and mercer, 101, Lupus street, Pimlico, said that on Friday afternoon a large roll of coloured flannel shirting was at his door. Part of the roll was exposed at the end for show outside, but the roll was inside the door, fastened by a wire. Prosecutor was standing inside his shop, when he saw the prisoner and another woman come up to the door together and examine the flannel. After looking about them, to satisfy them selves that they.wero not observed, the prisoner stepped inside, and having unfastened the wire, rolled her shawl round the flannel and crossed the road with it. He has tened out of the shop and followed the two women, who, seeing him, separated, the prisoner throwing down the roll of flannel, which was worth :the's-a £2. Prosecutor got a person to pick up the flannel, and followed the pri soner. The latter resisted very violently, but was at length taken into custody. Mr. Selfe— Did she say 'anything ? Prosecutor—Ye; denied the robbery. Prosecutor—She got away. Prisoner said she had got no home, and was wandering about from place to place, and had slept the night before last at Paddington. She would admit that she took the flannel, but it was entirely through distress. Prosecutor said that she had had another woman, but she did not know anything about her. That was a mistake. Mr. Selfe asked her whether she wanted him to dispose of the case or desired to be sent to the Sessions ? Prisoner said that as she had stolen it she would rather the magistrate dealt with her at once. Mr. Selfe said he should commit her for three months to hard labour in the House of Correction. • THAMES. SHOCKING CRUELTY TO DONKEYS.--James Townley, a coke dealer, of Joy cottage, Well-street, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with cruelty for tortur public streets. ing two donkeys by Wor k ing thew in an unfit state in the Inspector Beare, of the IK division, said his attention was called to the prisoner yesterday afternoon. He was driving two donkeys yoked to a cart laden with coke. Tho animals were the moat wretched ones he ever saw, and there was a general feeling of indignation at the prisoner's cruelty. The smallest of the two donkeys had wounds, from which an offensive discharge was issuing, on the tail, withers, and shoulders. It was also mangy. The poor animal fell down from weakness, and ho had much difficulty in raising it again The larger donkey had a wound on the off shoulder, which was raw, and in a very offensive state. This animal was also in a poor condition generally. A clumsy attempt had been made to conceal the wounds from the stump of the tail to the back, b y covering them with black grease, which added to th e i r sufferings. Tho prisoner, who ap peared in as wretch e d a Plight as his donkey, said he was e very poor man, and having no work to do as an iron sh'pbuilder, bought a donkey and cart. The larger don key belonged to Mr. Barry, Well-street, Poplar. He gave the small donkey a "hot mash" of bran on Friday morning. Inspector Beare was of opinion the two donkeys ought to be killed. They could never be worked with safety again. It would be torture of the worst kind to attempt to work them or yoke them to a cart in their present con dition. Mr. Paget looked at the animals, and was quite dis gusted and indignant at their miserable and disfigured ap pearance. arance He never sa w an i ma l s i n a more wretched condition. It was disgraceful to work them at all. He should issue anummons aga!net Barry and adjourn the case for a week. The prisoner might go at large on his own per sonal recognisance, but if ho dared to work either of the donkeys until this case was disposed of he would be surely punished. MARYLEBONE. THE MARQUIS OF TOWNSHEND.—X poor, dirty-looking bop, dinamedngs, ryeb Jeremiahone, aged 9, of 14, Gray's buildings, was Moriarty, charged with b egg i ng. The Marquis of Townshend said —O n th o prev i ous m a i afternoon I was in Vere-street, Cavendish-square, and saw the prisoner and other lads outside a confectioner's shop, begging. There aro always a number of juveniles about the shop begging. I took tho boy to the police station, and charged him. I believe his mother sends him out to beg, and she is in the habit of begging herself. In reply to Mr. Mansfield the child said it was true he was begging. Mr. Mansfield remanded him, with a view to get him into an industrial school. The Marquis thanked his worship and retired. nmgaasilver watch and chai n , groom named Henry George Miller, of no home , who said h o was sa il or, was in the Edgeware-road, at 1 o'clock in the mor n i ng . committed a f n o d r s tr t e ia a l l ifnogr a f rsosamuliti OUR MERCHANT SE AMEN. —At the meeting of the Committee of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society yesterday --Captain the Hon. Francis Maude, R.N., in the chair-- the secretary, Mr. Lean, presented 111 cases for relief arising out of the late storms—viz., 23 widows and 88 shipwrecked mariners, for assistance to replace their clothes lost by shipwreck. Afterwards the committee proceeded to investigate the claims of 305 widows of drowned mariners, who, having orphan children, though relieved at the time of the death of their husbands, are allowed to apply annually for further relief while their children are young, say for five or six years, when they are struck off the list to make room for others. The whole of these were relieved at a cost of £949 ss. 9d. THE VALUE OF AN ATTORNEY.— An attorney in Dublin having died exceedingly poor, a shilling subscrip tion was set on foot to pay the expenses of his funeral. Most of the attorneys and barristers having subscribed, one of them applied to Toler, afterwards Lord Chief Justice Norbury. "Only a shilling to bury an attorney!" said Toler. " guinea, go and bury ono and twenty 44 thew," SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BELTING—THis 111 Y. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 15 to 1 agst Batthyany (taken) 20 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (taken) 25 to 1 agst Vandervelde (taken) CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Bracken (offered) 40 to 1 agst Miss Harriette (taken) 40 to 1 agst Weather Star (taken freely) 40 to 1 agst John Davies (offered) 50 to 1 agst Tormentor (taken freely) 50 to 1 agst Duke (offered) 50 to 1 agst Gomera (offered) 50 to 1 agst Redcap (offered) TWO THOUSAND. 9 to 2 agst Plaudit (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Julius (taken) 6G to 1 agst General (taken) DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Plaudit (offered) RACING FIXTURES FOR 1867. FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring Harrow Spring ... Nottingham 26 Nest Drayton 2(; Derby MA Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 Margate... Warwick Spring l9 Cardiff Northampton Wimlsor Spring 4 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6 Newmarket Craven 8 Abergavenny Ascot Spring York Spring -7 Doncaster Spring Salisbury Bath Ascot Summer 4 Windsor Summer ' 11 Manchester Summer Hampton l3 Odiham l7 Bibury Club lB Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading Liverpool July Meeting 10 Hungerford ll Nottingham l6 AUG Ripon Brighton . 6 Brighton Club 8 Lewes Egham ... . l3 Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford ..... 15 Hastings York August SEPT Margate ___ 3 _. War wick Spring 3 Abingdon 5 Leicester Doncaster Brecon OCT Bromley Epsom Spring 26 Lewes Spring 2B Croston Park 29 IL. Thirsk Newmarket Ist Spring 22 Durham .. 22 Catterick Chester 3O Harpenden Epsorn Croydon Newton 29 Northampton Autumn 1 Edinburgh Newmarket 2d October 7 Beverley Stockbridge t 19 Chelmsford Summer Newcastle .. 25 Ipswicti 27 Worcester Summer 27 'LY. Down Royal Corporate l7 Stamford Huntingdon 23 Winchester Southampton Goodwood Dover West Drayton 22 Plymouth..... 23 Canterbury Derby Lichfield Weymouth Tunbridge Baden Baden NOVE. :MBER. Richmond l7 Hendon l9 Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2O Newmarket lst October 24 Bedford Cheltenham l5 Newmarket Houghton IMBER. Liverpool Autumn Shrewsbury Autumn ll Leamington Hunt : la STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. FEBRUARY. - ---- - - Carmarthen 5 - Harrow Spring Birmingham l2 Derby Windsor MARCH. Liverp00l Spring Grand Military Chertsey Malton COURSING• COURSING MEETINGS TO COMB. JANUARY, 1867. Name. Judge. Days of Running County Louth Club, Ireland Mr. Spafford Ridgway Club, Lytham FEBRUARY. Rufford, Lancashire Cardiff Club Mr. Warwick Waterloo, Lancasi tiro Tamworth, Staffordshiro ... Mr. Warwick MARCH. Irish Grand National (Op n), county Louta Ardrossan, Sharphill South Lancashire (South port) Champion Mr. Westropp l4, 16, &o Leinster (Open) Courtown... Mr. H. Springall l9, 20 Scottish Open, Lanarkshire - 26, &a APRIL. York l7 I Kildare Hunt Sevenoaks 6, 7 7, &c. SEPTEMBER. Brampton, Cumberland Mr. Warwick OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Linoolnahire Mr. Spofford LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 21. Lieutenant John Townsend to be Retired Commander, under the provisions of her Majesty's Order in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 15 11 151 Ditto 3 Months. 11 18 11 19 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 35 25 42} Brussels Hamburg — 13 8 13 8 Paris Short 25 10 25 20 Ditto 3 Months. 25 32} 25 37} Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine —119 i Vienna — 13 55 13 62f Triesto — 13 55 13 62f .... Petersburgn Berlin ali Sli 6 25k 8 Zal Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina ............ Lisbon • • Oporto 471 48 48j- 481 26 75 26 80 26 75 26 81 26 70 26 80 26 70 26 80 26 75 26 80 26 75 26 80 511 52 51i b 2 Foreign Nail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Bouthamptoa Feb. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Feb. 4. Ditto, by French packet Feb. 22 . Capc of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 27. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Feb 2. Ditto, via hlerseilles Jan. 27 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 28. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 28 Ditto, via Marseilles ••• • •jan. 27 India (Bombay), via Southampton. ................ Jan. 28. Ditto, via Marseilles ..................... ..Jan. 27 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ....... Jan. V. Ditto, via Marseilles ........................ Jan. 27. Mauritius, via Southampton ..................... .Feb. 19. Ditto, via Marseille 3. ......................... Feb. 3 Newfoundland .......................... Feb. 13. Portugs) , • • ........... .....Feb, Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United Stater and British North America, by Bri tish packet ........................ . Jul. 30. Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton ...... Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry West Cout of Africa, Madeira, and TenerilTe ....Feb. 3. West Indies and Paola° (except Bahamas and Ilonduras) ... ......... .............. Jan. 28 Baham‘..4, via New Y or k Feb 7. Jan 28 Cuba ald Mexico .... Bermuda, via Halifax ... LAW REFORMS FOR TIIE SESSION.—We learn ,hat the Government is actively engaged in the prepara ion of important measures of law reform which will be introduced to Parliament early in the ensuing session. Foremost among them is a reconstruction of the law of bankruptcy. The law of master and servant is to be amended. Tho merchant shipping law will be revised and improved. Considerable changes will be proposed in the administration of the poor law. The law of landlord and tenant in Ireland will give to the latter better security for positive improvements. Some amendments suggested by the recent experience of its working v, ill be made in the law of joint stock companies. Tho provisions of the Fac tories' Acts are to be extended to the protection of Women and children in all other employs. A bill will embody the principal recommendations of the Capital Punishment Commission. The promise is magnificent, but experience proves how far short of it performance usually falls. It is ono thing for a government to producintseawouniatsrtipotmt permitted nhce o aen s tira i i n t, yrep g odas ststsho:e arraythe s to ohh f good rrbooeuu ggs m sanguine tgthhuee e i a nin s e u u r nl e to s ipw ; l ieitdth Legislature.aoi that s rtL another haa t : i h eita i attention of Parliament, whether adopted by the Govern- MLA Cl4' used for its ovortlirow.-4 aw rims. oil. NE. UST. BER. 20 81 Bt 100 20 `4oi 10 R