The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-12 00:00:00

I V IO- R - 1 - il - 111ARKET AND COMMEROIU INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The inquiry for discounts yesterday was very limited, but there has been an increase of business to:day, at, however, the same rates as before. There were no bullion operations at the Bank of E ngland yesterday. The Suffolk h as arr i ve d f rom M e lb ourne w i th £ 7 3,000 in coin and gold dust. rile Crown agents for the colonies have invited tenders for £56,500 Natal Government 6 per Cent. DAentures, being the final instalment of a loan of £165,500, authorised by an Act of 1860, for the improvement of Port Natal, upon a plan designed by Captain Veitch, 8.E., and on which £lOO,OOO have already been eKpended. The applications will be received until one p.m. of the 22d instant. At!antic and Great Western Railway Deben tures continue in good demand, and have further advanced 1 per oeut., to 52 54, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 401 40 . i. The movements of the precious metals during the past week have been on a very moderate scale. The imports have only amounted to about £364,143, including £24,800 from New York by the Arago, £ 7 7,931 by the Cuba, and £39,000 by the Deutch land. The Wave of Life, from Australia, has brought £64,000, and the Suffolk £73,000. The Ceylon, from Alexandria, has arrived with £1,412, and about £BO,OOO in silver has been received from the Continent. The exports have been £8,700 to the Brazils by the Rhone, and there have been re mittances to the Continent through private sources estimated at £78,920, the total amounting to £87,120. It is announced that the Directors of the Union Bank of Australia have decided on paying a divi dend, at the rate of 81 per cent. for the half year, being £2 2s. Gd per share. We are requested to insert the following impor tant letter National Discount Company (Limited), 33, Cornhill, E.C. 811 1 , —I am instructed to call your attention to a para graph in the Economist of this date, in which "the creditors o f the National Discount Company (Limited) are required to send in details of their claims to the official liquidator by the 2d of February, as the Ist of February has been fixed for adjudication thereon." With parties Well informed as to the position of the National Discount Company, this extraordinary announcement will be harmless, but as it may lead the timid and unwary to a needless sacrifice of their property, we shall be ob liged if you will cause it to be notified on the Stock Ex change f that the paragraph in question is scandalously false as regards this mupany. I am, sir, yours faithfully, RICHARD PRICE, Secretary. Slaughter, Esq., Secretary, Stock and Share Department, Stock Exchange. The traffic on the East Indian Railway, for the week ending Nov. 11, 1866, amounted to £42,963 18s. 2d., against£44,4l9 ss. Bd. in the correspond ing week of the previous year ; for the week ending 10 17. 18 they were £42,553 103. 9d., against £41,494 12s. 2d. in the corresponding week last Year. The traffic receipts on the Melbourne and Rob son's Bay U n it ed Railway Company, for the week e nding Nov. 22,:atuounted t0;£2,314, against £2,029 in the corresponding period of the previous year, showing an increase of £285. The following communication has been issued for publication by the Consul for Venezuela :- TO TUE EDITOR.. "Sirl-I have received a letter from General Guzman 'lance, dated from St. Nazaire on the dayof his embarka tion at that port by the French mail steamer for Vene zuela, from which the followinc, is an extract : " 'I have not time t o write to Mr. Macdonald, but I desire that you should fortify him, holders of 1864, with the assurance that the Government as also the bond of Marshal Falcon will pay with all punctuality the divi ends of the loan contracted by me in his name. " According to my last advices, the agents had already begun to receive the part of the export duties which cor espond with the present harvest. The diminution of ctliuties will never exceed the surplus, which up to this time e company had always returned. " ' I k now the probity of Marshal Falcon, and therefore do not hesitate to repeat these assurances.' " Your obedient servant, FREDK. 11. HEMMING, Consul. The " Consulate of Venezu4t, 25, M oorga t e - s t ree t , J an. 11 . " directors of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Alining. Company have received the following advices from thoir resident director, Mr. Bland, Retu rns 4'342 Clunes, 24th November last :--Four Weeks' A'eturns, (October).—Quantity of quartz crushed, '1,312 tons, yielding 1,355 ozs. 10 dwts. of gold, or an average of 6 dwts. 51 grs. per ton. The receipts were £5,944 4s. P rofit, £ 1,G43 £4,300 13 s . 7d. ; ~,,.ov ember). r° at, £1,643 10s. sd. Three Weeks' Returns to ns, O Quantity of qu ar t z crus h e d , 3,206 yielding 999 OZ3. 9 dwts. of gold, or an ave rage of 6 dwts. 5 grs. per ton ; remittance, £955 Bs, gd. According Two o'CLocs. to Reuter's telegram from Paris this day, the French Rentes were 69f. 67c. A slight degree of heaviness is again perceptible in the market for the British Funds, Consols leav ing off at 901 91 for money, and 91* for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 901 a, Annuities, 1885, 13 ; India 5 per Conte, 107 1; do. Enfaced 4 per Cents., 85; ; do. 5 per Cents., 102; do. 5 per Cents., 1061; and do. Bonds 275. to 30s.prem. In the Foreign Market there has been little Change of importance. Turkish 5 per Cents. have advanced -a, to 3 9 1 ; and Mexican Stock*, to 184; While Spanish Certificates have declined i f, to 141 4; and the Russian Loan Scrip a, to 114 prem. The transactions in the Railway Share Market h ave been limited, the preparations for the settle ment,, occupying the attention of the dealers and speculators. Prices, however, with a few excep ,tions, are w e ll supported. Great Northern and 'lAOrtb Western have each advanced 4; Midland, ; and Brighton, 1 ; while Great Western and Metropolitan have each declined 4. Mi scellaneous and finance shares continue in fair d emand, at steady prices. Atlantic Telegraph 8 Per Cents. have improved to 70 724 ; Credit Fon eier Of En g l and to 24 1 ; Fore-street Warehouse to 13 ; National Discount Company are marked 14 4, and Int ernational Financial 21. and In Duck Sh ares there have been bargains in East West India at 133 ; and in London and St. liatharine, at 694. American Securities s h ow some i mprovement. -r-4rie shares have advanced 4 to 43 44 ; Illinois 4, to 80 ; but United States 5-20 Bonds have declined 4, to 72 The Foreign and Colonial lines continue in fair demand at steady:rates. A moderate amount of business has been transacted in Joint-Stock Banks, and some of the quotations have advanced, while others have declined. Alliance, Chartered of India, Land Mortgage, London and County, and Union of London have receded ; Anglo-Italian, and Im perial Ottoman remaia steady. MINING MARKET. SATURDAY, T Annexed are the latest quotations : wo o'clock. Cliivertou Moor, 6 ; Chon:ales Gold, 2f 3 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 9 91 ; East Basset, 22 23 ; East Caradon, 6 61; Etst Lovell, 10 101; East Wheal Grenville, 24 ; Great Intallack, 34s 365; Great Wheal Vor, 17 171 ; Marko Valley, 43 ; North Crofty, 41 5 ; North Treskerby, 2 1 3 ; Prince of Wales, 30s Od 32s 6d; Prosper United, 4 41; Providence Mines, 29 30; South Condurrovr, 15s 17s 6d ; South Grenville, COs Od Os Od ; Tincroft, 13 131; West Caradon, 12; 131; West Chiverton, 55 571 ; West Frances —; West Seton, —— ; Wheal, Buller, ; Wheal Chiverton, 81 9 ; Wheal Cr3bor, --s —s; Wheal Grenville, 27e Od 295; Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seton, 13 5 110 ; Wheal Trelawney, 101 12 ; Wheal Uny, 2 2i ; w arn Camborne, —; Central Minera Cooks' l iitehou —; , 10 101 ; East , earn Brea, 3 + ; Great Laxoy, Great South Tolgus, 18s Od 20s Od; South Frances, —; St. Ives Consols, 89; South Caradon, ——; Stray Pa rk, Drakewells, 15s Od 17s 6d ; South - Darren, -- S; North Itoskear, —; Carn Brea, —; Great North Downs, 31 4 ; Wheal Basset, 70 75. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. oar Cunt. Consols - 1 Do• Amount., Feb. 7 + t,11:11. Cent. Reduced 9i); it Iv 3 per cola 901- it New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — A.nuuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l3 Do (lied Sea Telegraph), Aug.,1908 — ~ : xchequer Bills, £ l , OOO , 4 per Cent — Do £5OO l7 Do £lOO Sc £2OO 7,_ Bank of England Stock, 61 per Cent ... - pm -pm INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. :entail Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1881 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 188 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B5 Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 D. 51 per Cent.. May 1879 lO6l Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bouds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO 3O pm Do under £1,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 0 per Cent — lustriiiii Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 llrazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-110 Do. Account .. — Do. 1803 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account — Do. £lOO Bonds — Do. Account Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do .c:100 Bonds , Di 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Jutiian 6 per Cent — Do. 8 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A — Do. „ B — Colombian, 6 per Cent. Juba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 — Danubian Principalities Do. Account &quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Do Deferred E wptiau 7 per Cent Do. Account Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds B3 Do. Account .. Do. 1861 B2l Do. Account - Do £lOO Bonds Do. Account Do. Government Railway Debentures BOl ►lo. Account Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 'Jo. Coupons Do. Account ! Guatemala 5 per Cent. .iian 5 per Cent 1865 Do, Account Do. Maremmana Railway Do. ccount ti 18} 18 oxicar.. 3 per Cont Ditto for Account )n. 1864 Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Slontevidean 6 per Cent. • lloorish Imperial 5 per Cent Vew Granada Do 3 per Con Do. Deferrad Do Lard / larrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cont., 1865 .................. Do Accolint Do 4i per Cent., 1865 — Do Account Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren) Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 DJ Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7; Do ili per Cent. 1850 Do 4i per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 — Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1861 — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B6l 7 6/ Do. do. £lO paid l - Pin Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account - Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account — Do New Deferred 3l Do. Account Do Passive 22 Do Account — Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account S wedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 4-i per Cent. 1864 D. Scrip, £6O paid Curkish 6 per Cent. 185 4 — dis Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds -- Do. Account .. — Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account — Do £lOO Bonds Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 — Do. 5 per Cent. Aveount — Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 29 I Do. Account .. ' Ditto 11 per Cent. — Dividends on the aboTe payable in Londlp. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch '2 . 1 1 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,. — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... — French _Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Itliiai. 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do. Account — TW9 O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 9oi 1 Do. Account Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Mlles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1866. 1866. 1866 1865 S Belfast and N. Counties 991 991 1,923 1.8 25 Belfast and County Down 49 49 640 576 Blyth and Tyne 36 Brecon and Merthyr 1 1 :1 3 2 5 5 6 Bristol and Exeter l3l/ 1211 5,699 5, 519 Caledonian, Scottish Central 56 2103 56210 47 318;477 39 32 : 8 51 78 _ Cambrian Cocaermouth K & I'enrlth .. 315 315 376 499 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 377 386 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 122 141 Cork and Limerick Direct Cornwall 651 651 1,200 1. 411 Deeside " 17 17 233 291 Do Extension Dublin ,5c Belfast J unction .... 63 63 1,422 1.379 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,340 1.419 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 106 2,2,3 2.9 41 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c B5 85 4,405 4.2851 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. E astern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 422 101 32,401 33,103 Great North of Scotland 212 24l 2,633 3. 1 2J tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) Bll 711 456 359 it.Sout lin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 4105 333 7 / 5 . 333 6 ' 709 Great Western 13)11 12804 57,103 62.581 Highland .. 246 246 3 ,2 31 ,979 Hoylaka 55 -- -. _ I3e ° trit.ii North ••Western 145 115 1,762 1,'65 LalncalshlLie&kitYorkshire L Li i m an e e r i i i c y k . au dF . 0 . y . u .. e . 5 .. . ....... 2 4 5 4 5 2 46 65 1 151 15 101 84 481 547 Llynvi Valley .. - London & North-Western London & South-Western Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast , 3141 2931 19,371 4,373 London, Chatham, & Dover; i 135 i 134 1 6,84 7.729 all 3letropolitan Extension ( 121 12 1,7 , 2 2.300 Do. Kent t. oast Lon., Tilbury, & Southend Londonderry and Coleraine 361 3,15 272 22i Han.,Sheflield,& Lincolnsh .. 246 216 17, 92 17,252 Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 91 91 1,420 3,620 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 697 61;1 38,061 41,155 Midland Gt. Westn. of hind 2005 2605 3,' , 37 3.632 lionmoutlish. Rail. & Canal l4 44 2.460 2.335 North British, Edin., Penn and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 12205 North Loudon ll North Staffordshire 258 Pembroke and Tenby 275 ithyinney 221 Scottish North-Eastern ll3 Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon ...... 1105 South-Eastern 330 Taff Vale 63 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cork 175 Wrexham, Mold, &c l4 W 'haven,Cleator,& Egrinnt lO FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian 822 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 265 Bombay, Baroda, & ('en. India 306 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish lOBl Eastern oi France Eastern Bengal East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 Great Centrai of Belgium 285 Great Indian Peninsula 7Bl Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southeen of India ...• 79 U real Western of Canada 34i Madras Northern of Canada ... 64 5 , 3iadrid l Norw egian Trunk 3 orther' Saragossa uott'ran: A li. e. a. n. .... : 878681 41 Ottoman .. . . ....... tiCli ['aria, Lyons, .itic. 31 editerni... .. 2151 Paris cud Orleans ... . ..... Recife and San Francisco . 774 Sc.nde 119 Do. l'unjab, &Li 253 South Austrian, ‘tr.c .. . 1798 1./0, l'iedinont lines 619 6outliern of France 960 Victoria Welland 25 West & N- \Via. of France 717; 12,7} 19,159 26,952 58,700 80,93 t 4,571 4,159 6,.50 7,656 22) 1,056 1,003 852 1,063 3.3.11 3,740 18,366 19 614 6,012 5,519 2,617 2.748 10k 2.6 2 , 4 280 1.149 1,239 1051 10 - _ 689 53i 53..479 52,6,1 793 799 3 20 348 5,715 10,351 4,428 4,842 4,992 4,066 73,963 6 ,605 3,231 2,428 44,349 34,826 16,268 24,448 5 913 6,371 18,271 3 .s'!l 5,559 5,522 1,368 13 t 8 11,487 13,263 8,8 , 0 10,6 , 2 22,340 19,841 932 1,035 69,412 68,214 18i 20 6 18 8 774 105 2,3 1691 619 823 254 908 70! 151,146 145,312 8 ,228 7.,.34 4 ,077 1,0 3 2,042 1,151 1,596 1,391 3 3 ,779 34.312 11,941 10,556 " 6 25 61,751 6" , 914 1151 SCIENTIFIC CHRISTMAS Boni. The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company have presented the Juveniles with a very delightful Christmas-box. It consists of a tiny steam engine made of glass, which volutes with immense rapidity, diffusing in its magical whirl a cloud of perfume. So simple is the contrivance that the performance can take plrce on the drawing-room table ; while so tiny in dimensions and graceful in form is the dainty glass apparatus filled with brightly-coloured liquid and distilling dolightful odours, that it appears a fairy masterpiece designed by Puck for the anruornont of Titania. TIIE SUN, LONLON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, .111671 NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL. MONRO V. THE TOWN COUNCIL OF TEWKESBURY. 1012 104 212 5 105 i i 1 3 1 i LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Mellor, Blackburn and Lush.) THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS. Sir W. Bovill took the usual oath of allegiance on his appointment to the Chief Justicoship of the Court of Cosi mon Pleas. Dr. Spinks and 11r. H. C. Cole, the lately appointed Queen's Counsel, were called within the bar this morning. Mr. Dowdeswell, Q.C., moved for a mandamus, calling on the defendants to show cause why they refused to ad mit the plaintiff to his seat at the board of the Town Council of Tewkesbury. It appeared that Mr.lll:zzard, Tide mayor of Tewkesbury, was elected to one of the vacancies that occurred in the Town Council some time back. It appears also that this gentleman was ineligible for the office, and Mr. Moore, who was his opponent, claimed to bo the proper party elected., lle gave publicity by placards and other means to the ineligibility of Mr. Blizzard. Mr. Moore had obtained a qua warranto, and at the first meeting of the Town Council gave notice that he would attend and take part in the proceed ings, and that notice was duly delivered to the town clerk of the borough. A resolution was then passed by the council to the effect that they would not recognise Mr. Moore as a member of the board, or permit him to vote, until he had obtained a rule in his favour froM the Court of Queen's Bench. The Court granted the mandamus. WOOD V. MOSEY. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs the music publisher, of Regent-street, against the defendants, also music publishers, carrying on business in Holles-street, Cavendish-square, for an infringement of the Copyright Act, by their publication of a pianoforte arrangement of the opera of the " Merry Wives of Windsor," an opera composed by Otto Nicholat The case was originally ried before the Lord Chief Justice, at Guildhall, when the plaintiff was nonsuited, but leave was given to move the Court to have the verdict entered for hind. After the composition of the opera, it was Messrs. Bock, of Berlin, and a person named Bressler was employed to make a pianoforte arrangement, and eventually the copy right of the opera, with' the pianoforte arrange ment, was assigned to Mr. Wood, who was then the proprietor of the firm known as Cramer and Co. Messrs. Boosey after this published a pianoforte arrangement of the opera. It was contended the musical arrangement could not bo considered an infringement of the copyright, but in the arguments this morning Mr. Sergeant Parry contended that such could not be the case because the arranger could have done nothing without the original score, as it contained the whole of the melodies of the opera, and of these the pianoforte arrangement was made up. The Lord Chief Justice said he did not think that the melodies of a certain opera could be considered the whole of the work, because the instrumentation formed a very important portion of it. Mr. Sergeant Parry said the arranger of a pianoforte score could not be looked upon in the same light as a composer, because ho was but in fact a skilful me chanic, and dealt with the ideas and creations of other parties, and he could not think that because a person made a pianoforte arrangement of a certain piece of music, in which the whole of the melodies of the original work were embodied that he became pos sessed of any copyright of the work, although he might have been engaged to make it by the persons in whom was vested the right of possession of the original work. Colley Cibber and Sir W. Davenant had re-arranged certain of the plays of Shakspere ; yet no one would contend that because such was done and copyright existed in such re arrangement. The case on its original hearing occupied a considerable time, and the argumentsin the present instance seem likely to last beyond the time of the sitting of the Court to-day. in batches of five and six each, and they took anything they could lay their hands on. He had seen _many of those boys, who were in the receipt of 9s. and 10s. per week when there was plenty of work, starving and half naked about the streets. Mr. Paget—Ani those boys who were in the receipt of such good wages saved nothing ? Inspector Beare—Nothing at all, sir. The destitution of the people at the east end of London is fearful. Mr. Paget—And. what did the boys' fathers earn when the iron shipbuilding yards wore in full operation ? Inspector Beare—From 18s. to £3 per week. Tyson said he had been out of work five months. Inspector Boare—Yes, that is so. The ship yards are closed. There is no employment for those boys. Mr. Paget—How were the boys employed? Inspector Beare: In carrying nails, bellows blowing, and picking up nails. Mr. Paget—And now they are in this condition. It is very painful—very sad. The statement of Inspector Beare, who is an officer of great experience, is not over charged. The people in the East are statving, and some very comprehensive plan should be adopted to save them- The number of paupers chargeable to the Poplar Union is very great, and the rates have vastly increased. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPLEOHASES, 1867. ALY 22. Heap of 3 sovs each, with 40 L three miles. Age st lb Newlight ... a 9 10 Castanet 6 9 10 Revenge (late Double _ _ _ ... 5 9 9 Friars' Balsam ... a 9 7 Lonsdale ... a 9 5 Wild Duck Oat() . Josephine) ... 4 9 3 Jungle Queen 1 9 3 SHARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 87 SJ 122 121 40 45 4 6 C 5 GS 70 72 1 6 18 Si 32 4 8 119 121 130 131 90 12 551 34 37 32 3 • SO 132 9) 92 17 18 It) 20 12: 121 85 55 57 28 128, z 21, lot 1.35 125 11 11; 94 96 38 40 4 18 108 110 67 68 101 105 35 16 10 11 p 119 121 1 2p 1 2p 73 75 114 118 148 152 47 49 7o 72 `9 10 160 153 3 4 33 1 2; 51 bi 6i 1231 41 S5l 4 661 6 130 29k 10/ 111 125) 8 108; 9/ 1031 4} 73}2j Pei d. , Closing I Business Prim. done. ,SIONS. 56 5S 100 101 tp 4 41 71 S 6 50 55 101 103 tOl IG3 106 107 21 22 85 88 57 09 53 54 52 54 37 40 23 25 106 Itti 4 1p 4 1v NO 102 91 93 121 13f 1z F 8 t 2 81 84 - it lid' 100 102 92 H 85 90 St 85 97 9) 97 98 1 i , 97 Y 8 T SECURITULS. 96 98 97 97 V 9 79 81 78 80 101 193 104 106 It 3 105 101 193 88 ?0 1(0 102 lu4 1,15 102 1(4 Ik3 105 LOC tO5 105 107 96 100 14 96 90 IJ/ 84 f. 5 98 100 b* 86 94 96 92 93 103 105 106 107 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Bovill, and Justices Willes, Keating, and Smith.) KNIGHT V. WHEELER. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., moved on behalf of the defen dant for a rule nisi, calling on the plaintiff to show why a verdict for £2O 155., which he had obtained, should not be set aside as being against evidence. The case was heard before Mr. Justice Keating at the sitting after last term at Middlesex. The plaintiff was a stonemason, carrying on business at Devon Wharf, Mile-end, and the defendant was a bankerand brewer at High Wycombe. The plaintiff entered into a contract with the Board of Works at High Wycombe for the paving of the town on April 7, 1865. Some extra paving was required, and at the , request of private indivi duals it was executed. A portion of this work formed the plaintiff's claim. It appeared that the defendant was ono of the local board of works, and it was alleged that he gave the order on his own responsibility. The defendant de nied this, and the case turned en the credibility of the evi dence pro and con. Thu court considered that there was a sufficient case made out fur a rule, which was accordingly grautud. SHOREDITCII - COUNTY COURT. (Beforo Mr. Dasent.) SUTTON T. PAIMER. This was an action to recover the value of a ring, under somewhat singular circumstances. Mrs. Sutton said before her marriage she lived with her sister, and defendant was a lodger in the house. On the 18th Juno last a party, including herself and defendant, wont for a walk through the Victoria Park. As they were go!ng along they began to "lark," and defendant caught sight of the ring on her finger. He took it off and put it in his pocket, saying that she should not have it any more. She begged defendant to give it back to her, as it was a present from Robert, to wham she was then engaged, and is now married. Defendant then declared that he had lost it, but agreed to make it good. His Honour—Was it an engagement ring ? Mrs. Sutton—lt was. 1 Defendant admitted having taken the ring off Mrs. Sut ton's finger for a lark, but he had no intention of keeping it. After he put the ring in his pocket ho jumped over some hurdles, and ho supposed the ring must have got out of his pocket. He told Mrs. Sutton he would get her ano ther, but ho had not done so. thing to lark with you ng l a di es ' His Honour—You see, d e f en d an t, it is a very dangerour engagement rings. It is quite clear that you aro li a bl e for t h e mo ney now s ue d f or , and you must pay it. Verdict for the plaintiff, with costs. A SOI-DISANT IIEIR, OF KING JAMES THE SECOND. A middle-aged man, who stated that his name was Wil liam Derbyshire, and that he was son of James Derby shire, handed in a paper, and said he had been authorised by order of a judge to come before the court and prove that he was the heir of King James the Second. (A laugh.) The paper or.t was formally received by one of the registrars of the e Cu POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE LOWEST DEPTH Or MlSERY.—Churchill Long, 11, Stephen David Long, 10, and Thomas Fields, 8, were charged before Mr. Knox with begging. Sergeant Bunco, 50 0, said that about eight o'clock yes terday evening, ho saw the boys standingjby the door of Mr. Cook's, the :confectioner, in Coventry-street, two on one side of the door and one on the other. They seemed to be nearly dropping for want, and begged of different ladies for pence. He took the boys to the station and sent for food for them, they stating that they were very hungry. He afterwards went and made inquiries re specting the boys, and found that Fields had no father, and that his mother, who goi her living by washing, lived in Crown-street, Soho.. Tho father of the Longs, who lived in Prince's-courf, Drury-lane, was a shoemaker, but in such a bad state of health that he was unable to work, and the mother was hourly ex pected to die. Th e y a pp ear ed to be respectable p e ople overpowered by illness and poverty. Field's mother state(crying bitterly) ,saaisdketd her to lothatherboy seeing the distressed him go out with som e fusees to get a few half p ence. She had other children. She went tout to work when she could got it, and before i i ) the death of her husband never had to do so. Mr. Knox asked the poor woman whether she would like her boy to go to school, and she said she would. The father of the Longs came forward, and he appeared to be in a sad state of health. Ho said that he had only been a week out of bed, and that he was scarcely able to attend the court that morning, his wife being so ill that he loft her senseless when he came away. Mr. Knox ordered the boy Field to be sent to Feltham, and gave the boys Long back to their father, stating that if he would like them to go to school, and could attend again, he would see what could be done. Some temporary assistance from the poor box was kindly ordered by Mr. Knox to be given to the poor man, who seemed very grateful for it. THAMES. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. - Four boys, the eldest 14 years of age, were brought before Mr. Paget this morning charged with felony. Jeremiah M'Carthy and Daniel Hunt, charged with stealing broad, were discharged, there being no pro secutor; Alfred Hockaday, accused of stealing a large German sausage, value 4s. Gd., was remanded ; John Tyson, for stealing 40 pins and two boxes of hair pins from the shop of Mr. William Clarke, in Bromley, was also remanded. The prosecutor said that many boys were always round his shop, and ho had much difficulty in preserving his property. Inspector Beare, of the K division, said there were a great number of boys, who formerly worked in the iron ship building yards, and whose earnings were from ss. to 11s. per week, prowling about the streets of Poplar and Bromley every evening. They had no bread to eat and were in a lamentable state of distress. lie had seen them Share! Railways. Bristoi and Exeter .... Caledonian l:tuibrian Cork and 8and0n...... Corn wal I Dublin & Belfast June. I Dun„ Perth, & A b.J nue. F.London, tail) Cut' Do. Glasgow S. Western, Great Eastern, ()rd. stk.l Do. E. Ang,l. et. No. (i rest North of Scotland! Great Northern 1)0. A stock • •. Do. It stock Do. New, is. at 25 pub G t S, and W. of 1re1.:14 tit. Western -Origina4 S. Val. Rail gua.; Do. South Wales I Do. W. Mid.—Oxtorl Do. Newport Do. ilereford ; Lane shire 4 Yorkshire! 1,,,nd0n and Blaekwal Lon., Brigh.ok S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover' Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. d; North Western Lon. St South Western Man., Shot., d; Lincoln Do. New Do. 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Natal .iov. 6 per cent.. N. 8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&.lul) N. S. W. Gov. 5 p•c.,166t. Do. 5 p.c. 183 to 187t1 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 New Zealand, 6 P. cent Do. 5 per cent.... ... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. 0 sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 poa. 1868-9 1)0. 1878 & upwards. Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &Julii Do. do, April & Oct , SSE 100 100 100 all 100 100 BRITIS Cain. Consol. Gold, ling Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great Laxey, limited Great South Tolgus Great W heal Busy G. Wheal Vor ( heist u Grenville !I erod's Foot •••• Elingaton Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant; Marke Valley 111,vyndy Iron Ore, lima New Se Lon North Roskear N. W h' 1 Bassett (I slogan North Wheal Crotty erosper United er,videnee Uny Lelant I S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 'South Condurrow 'S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan i•ray Park . Pin Croft Vigra and Clogan, lim West eassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheat Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton wnpai Trelawnev (Me ' YREFEKENI Caledonian Quarters, No. 2, Do. Scottish N.E., Aberdeen stock, 78J Great Western, Chester gua. stock, 75 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 90 Dutch Rhenish, 2ut DOCKS. East and West India. 133 London and 6t. Katharine, 69} 13ANHE1. Alliance, Urn.. 181 Anglo-Italian, lira., Ili • Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China. 18 Chartered \ler. of India, London, and China, 32 Consolidated Bank, Rm., 41 Imperial Ottoman, Urn., n 9 Land Mortgage Bank of India, Iltn., 21 London and County, 064 7f Loudon Joint Stock, 43 London and South African, 13 London and ‘l estininster, 97 Midland Bank, lira.. 171 Provincial Banking Corporation, lira„ Union of Australia, 50 Union of London, 44 31 MISCELLANEOUS: Anglo-American Telegraph, 151 Atlantic Telegraph, —, Dit o, 8 per cunt., 72i Australian Agricultural, 17 Berlin Water Works, lira., 12 Ditto, new, 51 City of Moscow Gas, lira., 181 Commercial Uniou, Insurance. 5 1 Credit Fonder of Englanu, lira.. 2} Crystal Palace, •-- Ditto, Pref., ll° Ebbw Vale, 8: Egyptian Coin, and Trading, 1ina.,51 Fore-street Warehouse, lira., 13 Gen. Credit and Discount, Dm.. 5 1 Hudson's Bay, I 6 international Financial Society, lim., 2 National Discount Company, 141 ti Royal Mail Steam, 105 Universal alarine. Insurance. lim., 2E2 ROAD REFORM IN SCOTLAND.—A deputation of the Chamber of Agriculture waited upon the Lord Advo cate of Scotland on Wednesday to present the resolution lately adopted by that body on the subject of road reform. Mr. Maclagan, M.P., Mr. Pagaw, of Cupar-Fife, who was the originator of the road reform movement in Scotland about 20 years ago, and Mr. M'Laren, M.P., severally addressed his lordship in support of the petition of the Chamber for the introduction of a general measure similar in principle to that adopted by several of the counties, and following out the recommendations of the Road Commis sioners. Tho Lord Advocate, in reply, expressed his satisfaction in receiving the deputation, and stated that he would bring the views of the deputation before Govern ment. lie added that the deputation might be assured that any legislation on the subject which he would recom mend would be in conformity with the principles recom mended in the Commiesioners' report. II MINES. 7 7i 8 9 400 4LO I 1 22 24 6 7 2 3 2 3 4 9 10 2} 21 5 6 a 18 IS 16 30 32 2t 2 4 41 31 21 11( 1 35 45 2 4 21 3,1 21 26 300 320 18 Y'2 1 2 e 10 4 1 4 12 i 4 54 50 111 125 65 75 18 20 10 12 135 145 7 9 LIN BHA/LEI 2.1.0 291} 2.1 3 4. n 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.0.0 10.8. c, 554 1061 71 NEWBRID GE ST E JANU The Open Steeplechase Han( added; abou Ago st lb Carlow ... 511 5 ClllllOO ... a 11 2 Switch ... alO 13 Portfire 6 10 13 Schoolmaster ... alO 7 Barley Hill ... 5 10 4 Wisdom ... 6 10 3 Bay gelding ... 6 10 0 X. L. ... 5 9 12 Scrub ... a 9 12 THE CARMARTHENSHIRE HUNT AND STEEPLE CHASE MEETING, FEB. 4, 1867. Nominations for the Open Steeplechase Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft, and 8 only (to the fund) if declared on or be fore Tuesday, Jan. 15, with 100 added; about 4 miles. Ago st lb Ironsides ''a 12 7 Flyfisher Lightheart -'l, 11 12 Daisy a 11 12 bu a 11 11 B ena zet a 11 10 Ibex lo -b) a 11 9 Cabin Boy a 11 7 Globule Merrimac Sly Fox a 11 4 Meerschaum a 11 0 The Nun (h-b) a 10 12 Brahma Arlescott Trapeze 5 10 9 Manchester Garus a 10 8 Age st lb Whitehall - a 10 6 Dick T urpin alo 6 Robin Adair (late • . • Truant, late Toni Payne) Fisherman The Rogue Crusade a 10 5 Primrose Little Moll Mulberry Nabocklish Ballet Girl 6 10 2 Milford Aprillus 6 10 2 Pensioner 6 10 0 FEBRI .VARY 5. Nominations for the County Members' Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft, and 3 only (to the fund) if declared on or be fore Tuesday, Jan. 15, with 100 added; about four miles; 31 subs. . Age st lb Ironsides Fly fisher Lightheart Daisy a 11 11 Globule a 11 11 Bengzet a 11 9 Ibex (lib) .. a 11. 9 Cabin Boy a 11 7 Merrimac Sly Fox a 11 3 Meerschaum a 11 0 The Nun (h b) a 10 12 Brahma 5 10 12 Arlescott Trapeze 5 10 9 Manchester Carus a 10 8 Weights published Jan. 9, cu Jan. 15. Age st lb Whitehall a 10 6 Dick Turpin a 10 6 Robin Adair (late Truant, late T Payne) Fisherman a 10 6 The Rogue Crusade alo 5 Primrose Little Moll 6 10 4 Mulberry a 10 4 Nabocklish Ballet Girl 6 10 2 Watford 6 10 2 Pensioner a 10 0 Aprillus 6 10 0 8 p.m. Forfeits to be declared BIRMINGHAM STEEPLECHASES. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13. Entries for the Birmingham Grand Annual Steeplechase of 15 sous each, 5 ft, with 100 added ; about three miles and a half. 69 subs. Ballet Girl, 6 yrs King Arthur, 5 Robin Adair (late Merrimac, a Snarleyow, a Truant, late Tom Harold, 5 Agues, a Payne), a Balder, a Garus, a Dick Turpin, a Bonazet, a Comberton, a Tiger, a Wheldrake, 6 Stiff, 6 Whitehall, a Brahma, 5 Globule, a Bedale, a Grace Darling, 5 Banker, a Crusade, a Carnbroe, 5 Arlescott, a Glasgow, 6 Little Frank, a Cabin Boy (h-b), a Light Heart, a Marble Hill, a Cortolviu, a Miltown, 6 Sylph, 5 Greenland, 6 Ibex, a Despatch (h b), a Hall Court, a Sea King, a Rossington, a Surney, 5 Fisherman, a Charm. Woman, a Roadster, a Plover, a Little Peter, a Albrighton, 5 Doctor, 0 Havelock (late Sinking Fund(lato Phantom, a Claxton), 6 Harry), a Knave trumps, x Meerschaum, o f Ace of Trumps, a Sir William, a Sly Fox, a Patience, a Sprite, a Bird of Passage, 6 Pearl Diver, a Lady Newark, a Shakspere, 6 Meanwood, a The Rogue, a King of Hearts, a Daisy, a Blackrock, a Dermot Asthore, 6 Manchester, a •Alcibiade, a Jack's Alive, a THURSDAY. Entries for the Grand Annual Steeplechase (Handicap) of 20 sous each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 100 added • over about 4 miles of a fair hunting c ountr y , under 'the Grand National Steeplechase conditions. b 2 subs. Balder, aged Despatch (h b), a Sprite, a Chimney S weep, 5 Fuo, 5 Banker, a Tennyson (11 b), 5 Farnboro', a Portland, a Harold, 5 Charming Woman, Jack's Alive, a Grace Darling, 5 aged Pearl Diver, a Benazet, a Ross, a Sea King, a Genievre, a Marengo,by Great- Ibex, a Charlemagne, a heart, a Abderhaman, 6 Whitehall, a Shakspere, 6 Silver Star, a The Nun, by Fly- Dermot Asthore, 6 Manchester, a by-Night(h b), a King of Hearts, a Pensioner, 6 Cortolvin, a Columbia, a Hall Court (late The Elk (late King Alfred, a Deodora), a General Elec- Garus, a Chataway (late tion) Little Frank, a Babbler), 5 Acolyte, 6 Havelock (late Cheerful Boy, a Slyfox, a Claxton), 6 m by Fazzoletto— Gamecock, a Knave of Trumps, Bodkin, a Lincoln, by Jack aged Anti-Macassar, 5 Robinson, 6 Sinking Fund(late Plover, a Burney, 5 Harry), a Bedalo (h b), a Thomastown, a Cock -a - Doodle Robin Adair, a Rhodomontatie, 6 (h b), a Nabocklish, 6 King Arthur, 5 The Tavern, by Tally-ho, a Snarley ow, a Turnus—Emma, Hu n gerford (hb), a (ioldylocks, 6 aged Philosopher, a Light Heart, a Globule, a nharley, a Glasgow, 6 Meanwood, a The Tiger, a Shaugarry (h b), 6 Phantom, a Astrolabe, a Clansman, 5 Watchman, 6 Matamore, by Fitz- Sensation, by The Doctor, 6 Gladiator, 5 Lundyfoot, dam Hornet, a L. S. D., 6 by Hopeful (It b) Accident, a Roadster (late 6 Cabin Boy (h b), a Shropshire), a TURF NEWS RFOM FRANCE. M. Grandhomme, the secretary of the French Jockey Club, accompanied by M. Boulet, professor at the veterinary college of Alfort, inspected Count de Lagrange's two year olds on the 2d January, so as to give them the necessary certificates for England. J. Francis has terminated his engagement as private trainer to M. Verry. J. Spinks has arrived at Chantilly in charge of several horses belonging to Count d'Evry. The brood mare Predostinee (dam of Pretondant and Mathilde) is dead. LATEST BETTING. FRENCH DERBY. 6 to' 1 agst Montgoubert 25 to -- 1 agst Dragon 50 to 1 agst Etendart -100 to - 1 agst Cote d'Or 100 to. 1 agst Montluo 150 to 1 agst Mon Soleil 200 to 1 agst Enchanteur 7 to 4 agst Count de Lagrange's stable 7to 1 agst M. Delamarro's stable GRAND PRIX. Bto 1 agst D'Estournel STUD NEWS. On the 6th inst., at Middle Park, Eltham Beauty, a bay filly by Marsyas ; on the 7th, Q. E. D., a bay filly by High Treason; on the 10th, Mrs. Fowler, a bay colt by King John. On the Ist inst., at Bushbury Pad dock, Argosy, a filly by Lifeboat, and will be put to him again. Golden Drop has arrived in foal to Lifeboat, and Tourterelle has arrived to Gunboat. EXPORTATION OF BLOOD STOCK TO AMERICA. - Our readers will learn with regret that the valuable cargo of blood stock shipped by Mr. Cameron on board the Helvet i a for New York on the 10 th ult. , a list of which was given n our columns, encountered somo very severe weather in the passage, from the effects of which the whole of the 39 died with the exception of Birague and four foals. This will be a very heavy loss to Mr. Cameron, as, in addition to some fair performers on the Turf, including Peeress, he had selected several brood mares who, from their breeding, were bound to produce race horses. Mr. Lowther has given notice that at the general meeting of the Jockey Club in the Craven Meeting he will move— " That no horse or mare bred out of the United Kingdom shall be allowed to start for any race under the jurisdic tion of the Jockey Club, unless the owner has lodged the certificate of its birth with the Keeper of the Match Book, and also a certificate of its ago from a veterinary surgeon appointed by the stewards of the Jockey Club." Abergavenny flat races and steeplechases, in connection with the Monmouthshire Hunt Club, are fixed for the 11th and 12th of April, over the same natural course as last ear; and with the assistance of one o f the leading patrons to the steeplechase world the promoters are in hopes of having as good a meeting as last year. Beelzebub, 4 yrs, purchased by Capt. Coote out of a draft of Mr. Merry's stud offered for auction at Tattersall's in December, has been renamed The Saint ; and Mr. Wood's Claxton, 6 yrs, has been renamed Havelock. THE 31ANCILESTER MEETING.—It has been finallydecided that the postponed Manchester Meeting shall be held on the 25th and 26th inst. The programme will be recon structed, and several stakes reopened, of which due notice will be given in our columns. • We are requested to state, on the authority of Mr. Frail, the clerk of the course, that Beeswing was scratched for the Shrewsbury Cup at 1 o'clock on the day before the race. The •` Lecturer dinner" recently given by John Day to his friends at Stockbridge went off with the greatest eclat, and the harmony and conviviality was sustained until a late hour. The picture of "'Tattersall's," painted by the late Mr. Joy, is in course of engraving, and hopes are entertained of its being ready fur publication before the end of the season in Juno. Four of Mr. Campbell-Wyndhatn's horses by Glen rnasson have arrived at Percy's stables, Pimperue, from Isaac Wooleot's. soon follow. King Christian and Gulden Bloom will Mr. J. Cassidy requests us to state that his two mares New Light and Midwife were struck ontof the Manchester Steeple Chase upon the appearance of the weights. Mr. Owen has sold The Count,.by Stockwell out of Countess of Albemarle, 6 yrs, to Mr. Foster, of Selby, Yorkshire, where he will be located for stud purposes. Rugby Steeple Chases will be held on Monday, March 18 —the day befors the Warwick Spring Meeting—over the well-known Grand Military Course, overlooking the Pytchley Vale. A Spring Meeting, composed of flat racing and steeple chasing, will be held at Margate this year on Monday, March 18. Mr. Roe has named his four year old steeple chase_mare by Artillery out of Katinka, by Red Hart, Italia. Gorsehawk's forfeits have been paid. The colours of Mr. Pelham are blue and yellow hoops. NOMENCLATURE. Mr. W. Sadler's. Filly by Master Bagot, dam by Nabob of Bourra Tomacha, 2 yrs Mr. H. Marsh's. Filly by Y. Melbourne—The Wryneck, 2 yrs Adelaide. Colt by Fugloman out of Lovebird, 2 yrs Spurgeon. Mr. Watt's. Bay filly by Nowminster out of Souvenir, 2 yrs Mysotis. Bay yearling colt by National Guard out of The Pet, by Daniel O'Rourke Snider. Mr. Saxon's. Brown filly (sis. to Beeswing), 2 yrs Honey. Brown filly by The Dupe out of Calot, - - 2 yrs ' Jewess. Filly by Lord Albemarle—Giantess, 2 yrs Sultana. Bay colt by Wild Dayroll —lmposition, ' 2 yrs The Hunter. _ _ Mr. Copeland's. Filly foal (foaled Jan. 1,1867) by Lifeboat out of The Argosy Surprise. . . Mr. W. Phillips's. Chesnut colt by Cape Flyaway out of Harriett, by Cotberstone, 2 yrs Cape Clear. Bay filly by De Clare out of Lady Bibina, 2 yrs Lady Clare. Mr. T. Stevens's Yearlings. Bay colt by Prime Minister out of Salute, by Gladiator Bay filly by Caractacus out of Idy Cara. Bay filly by Caractacus out of Shepherdess Careful. Brown filly by Big Ben out of Constance, by Collingwood Bay filly by Prime Minister out of Buco lic, by Barnton Mr. Harcourt Johnstone. (From Baily's Magazine.) To the list of Yorkshire Masters of Hounds, which have appeared in our pages, we now append the gentleman who for some time has hunted the Pickering country with a success that has brought it into note, and given him a posi tion which he is well able to support. Mr. Johnstone is the eldest son of Sir John Johnstone, and was born in 1829, at the Palace of Bishopthorpe,where his grandfather, the Archbishop of York, resided. The son of a man, who, bordering on 70 years of age, manages to be with hounds four days a week, and the great-grand son of the celebrated Lord Vernon, the owner of Wood pecker, a famous horse of the last century, cannot but have been born a foxhunter,und a sucking M.P.H. Mr. John stone was educated at Eton, and on leaving it entered the 2d Life Guards in 1816, when they were commanded by Colonel M'Douall, who used to let the cornets off the riding school if they pledged themselves to go hunting, and it is needless to add the obligation was invariably respected, until they one day got into trouble by the Inspector- General of Cavalry complaining of their stirrups being too short ; in this experience has proved him to be wrong in practice. Mr. Johnstone remained in the . regiment until 1850, when, on his marriage with the second daughter of Mr. Charles Mills of Hillington Court, he quitted it; and, Cin cinnatus like, turned his sword into a ploughshare, and settled in Yorkshire. The Pickering country, in which Mr. Johnstone has commenced his career as 31.F.H., extends from the village of that name to Robin Hood's Bay, and from thence to Scarborough, and was formerly hunted by Mr. Richard Hill, who, with his son, Mr. John Hill, presided over it for half a century. Their hounds, which boasted of a very staunch strain of blood, and for very many years before they were broken up showed wonderful sport, passed into the hands of the present Duke of Grafton, and added much to the strength of the Wakefield hounds. Consequently, Mr. Johnstone had to get together a fresh pack, which he formed by buying the old and young drafts from the Bramham, Lord Middleton, Mr. Fitzwilliam, and Mr. Foljambe. These, by the aid of a very clever huntsman, Dick Christian, who was worthy of his name, and the recommendation he had from the Duke of Beau fort, managed, during the three years he was with them, to show the country excellent sport; and those hunting men who wintered at Scarborough were perfectly content with the gallops they enjoyed with them. Dick Christian also took honours as a breeder of hounds, and showed that Sebright's early lessons had not been lost on him, as he bred Caroline, by the Duke of Beaufort's Hotspur out of Mr. Lane Fox's Constant, that took the second prize at the Doncaster Hound Show. The subscriptions falling short of expenditure, as, alas! is too often the case, Mr. John stone took to hunting the hounds himself, and in spite of his weight, in a most hilly and rough country, with large woodlands and deep valleys, he contrived to kill plenty of foxes, and gave satisfaction to the owners of covers as well as tho subscribers to the hunt, who appreciate his gentle manlike conduct in the field, as well as his keenness for sport. And although the Pickering is neither a loge nor a fashionable country, more unanimity and good-fellow ship exists in it than in those with greater pretensions, for the gentlemen and farmers know every hound that is out, and take a personal interest in all that concerns the well-being of the hunt. In all the duties of a country gentleman Mr. Johnstone takes an active part, and although a Liberal in politics, and a candidate for St. Stephen's, he is as great a hater of the Beales school as of vulpecides and poachers. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market nearly closed in consequence of snow , balling on Change. Sales probably 5,000 bales. MR. GARTH, Q.C., AND MR. BRIGHT.--Mr. Bright has now ttgren up the cudgels on his own behalf, and called Mr. Garth to strict account for his unfortunate speech at Guildford, challenging him to the production of his authority and declaring all the charges to be without foundation. Mr. Garth has answered, admitting that ho had no better source of information than rumour, and the uncontradicted statements of speeches by Mr. Pope .Hen nessey and Mr. Ferrand. A speec h on an Irish hustings must be acknowledged to be a very insufficient foundation on which to base such grave charges as were preferred against Mr. Bright in his character as a manufac turer and master. The heat and licence of an election will excuse a great deal, and this escapade would have been readily forbidden on that account if only the com plaint had been received and answered ink, befitting spirit. As it is, Mr. Garth has subjected himself to the severest rebuke that even Mr. Bright has ever uttered, and a lead ing article in the Times has seized the opportunity to point the moral and to indorse the protest we ventured to put in last week against the growing practice in political war fare of attacking persons instead of principles. No public man has more offended in this manner than Mr. Bright ' • b u t that does not excuse Mr. Garth, who should have avoided, and not followed, the example. This little Christ mas story will, however, not be without value if it should direct attention to the subject, and induce for the future a more careful abstinence from personalities. Mr. Garth is a gentleman highly respected in his profession, and wholly incapable of the deliberate misrepresentation imputed to him by Mr. Bright.—Law Times. VORACITY OF THE STARLING.—During the snow storm of last week, Sergeant-Major Collins, of the Dorset Militia, observed a common starling (sturnus vulgaris) perched upon the top rail of a fence in the neighbourhood of the barracks. Suddenly it pounced upon something in the snow, and evidently swallowed it. The sergeant major resolved to see what this was, and immediately shot the starling, when, on wringing off the head after the most approved style of doing execution on these peculiar birds, what was his surprise to find projecting from the thorax of the bird thus decapitated the sharp head and eyes with the two fore-claws of a nimble lizard (lacerta agilis) throo or four inches in length, which the starling had swallowed entire. The sergeant-major exhibited the lizard alive iu Dorchester market on Saturday ; for, strange to say, after remaining dormant for 21 hours, it revived. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 28th day of December, 1866, present the Queen's Most Excel lent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the Parliament, which now stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 15th day of January, 1867, be further prorogued to Tuesday, the sth day of February, 1867, and that the Right Hon. the Lord High Chancellor of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain do cause a Commission to be prepared and issued in the usual manner for proroguing the Parliament accordingly. FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 8. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Richard Levinge-Swift, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Oporto, to be her Majesty's Consul at Barcelona. The Queen has also been graciously pleas to appoint Oswald John F. Crawfurd, Esq., to be her Majesty's Con sul at Oporto. 'WHITEHALL, JAN. 10. The Queen has Wen pleased to present the Rev. George Cook to the church of the united parishes of Borgne, Kirk ander, and Sennick, in the presbytery and atewartry of Kirkcudbright, vacant by the death of the Rev. Win. Reid, late minister thereof. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 11. lst Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub Lieutenant Charles Needham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Heury Reginald, Earl of Clouting, who retires ; Lord Algernon Charles Goreo t-Lennox to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Needham. Royal Horse Guards —Benjamin Leo Guinuess, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thomas Wm. LonW,ord Brooke, promoted. 7th Dragoon Guards —Acting Veterinary-Surgeon 'diehard ' Poyser to be Veterinary-Sutgeon, vice Veterinary-Sur geon of the First Class R. J. G. Hurford, appointed to be Principal Veterinary-Surgeon in Bengal. 2d Dragoons —John Henry Raymond Rowe, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Wm. Humphrey, who retires. 3d Hussars—Acting Veterinary-Surgeon Charles Felix Phillips to be Veterinary-Surgeon, vice Geo. Fleming, transferred to the Royal Engineers. 15th Hussars—Wm. White, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Wm. Macalpine Leny, promoted. 19th Hussars—Acting Veterinary-Surgeon Hugh Ander son to be Veterinary Surgeon. Royal Artillery—The undermentioned Acting Veterinary Surgeons to be Veterinary -Surgeons :—Geo. Agnatius Amos Oliver, Peter Moir, William Black Edmonds, Ed ward Ewing. The undermentioned gentlemen to be Veterinary-Surgeons : —John Ashworth Rostron, Frede rick Charles Boulter, Alfred Adrian Jones, Charles Barrow, John Pile, Walter Seymour Adams, William Walker. Royal Engineers—Veterinary Surgeon George Fleming, from the 3d Hussars, to be Veterinary Surgeon. 4th Foot—Ensign Edward John Lugard to be Lieute nant, without purchase, vice Francis Plummer, a Pro bationer for the Staff Corps in India; Gentleman Cadet George Wemyss Anson, from th e Royal Military Col lege, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lugard. 6th Foot—Lieutenant Henry E. Adams, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Lanyon, who exchanges. 11th Foot—Major John Whiteside, from half-pay, late Bth Foot, to be Major, vice Humphrey Gray, deceased ; Captain Philip Philpot to be Major, without purchase, vice John Whiteside, who retires upon full-pay; Lieut. Hopton S. Stewart to be Captain, without purchase, vice Philpot; Ensign Spencer Byng Astley to b e Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Stewart; Ensign Richard Squire Imhoff O'Brien to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Christopher Garcia, a Probationer for the Staff Corps in India; Ensign George Frederick Gugon, from the 74th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Astley ; Gentleman Cadet Thomas Lloyd Lewis, from the Royal Military College ' to be Ensign, withaut purchase, vies O'Brien. 12th Foot--Gentleman Cadet Charles Percy Smith, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Edward Maclean Showers, transferred to the 95th Foot. 13th Foot—John Miller Elgee Waddy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Charles Moore, who retires. 14th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick W. Harington, to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Francis Le Breton Butler, who resigns the appointment. 15th Foot—Lieut. Wm. S. Jemmett to be Captain, without purchase, vice Magens J. 0. Browne, deceased ; Ensign H. B. Le Mottee to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Jemmett; Gentleman Cadet Philip Ashby Mettam Pearson, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, withouepurchase, vice Le Mott6e. 16th Foot—Ensign Richard Francis Percy to be Lieuten ant, without purchase, vice Charles Platt, deceased. 20th Foot—Captain Edward Munektan Jones to be Seconded on appointment as Adjutant to the Staff College. 21st Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Francis Sierd Ring, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice John Davidson, a Probationer for the Staff Corps in India. 23d Foot—Ensign F. Stringer to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Francis Palmer Jones, a Pmbationer for the Staff Corps in India ; Gentleman Cadet John Addi son Millar, from the Royal Military College, to be En sign, without purchase, vice Stringer. 2Gth Foot -Staff Surgeon Major Thomas Moorhead, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon Major Richard Gamble, M.D., who redres upon half pay. 33d Foot—Ensign Wm. Everett to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Murray Do veton, Valentine T. Grant, a Probationer for the Staff Corps in India ; Ensign Lewis Forbes Heath to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Charles Alfred Carthew, a Probationer for the Staff Corps in India; Gentleman Cadet Alexander Henry Fraser, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Everett. 35th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Fred. Drummond Bettye, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Legh ltichmoud Battye, a . PrObationer for the Staff Corps in India. 36th Foot—Archibald Spiers APRte, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. vice At.hur Herbert William Kennedy, who retires. 38th Foot—Ensign John Dalton C. Serrell to be Lieute nant, without purchase, vica Benjamin Parnell Brom head, a Probationer for the Staff Corps in India ; Gen • tleman Cadet Charles Whitmore Isaac, from the Royal Military College, to bo Ensign, without purchase, vice Serrell. 40th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant Henry Foster to be Quartermaster, Vied Francis Barnes, who retires, upon half-pay. 41st Foot—Lieutenant Nathaniel Montgomery to be Cap tain, without purchase vice Charles James Hughes, a Probationer for the Staff Carps in India ; Ensign Lavallin Robert Iltid Thomas to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Montgomery; Ensign John James Money-Simons, from the 81st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Thomas. 42d Foot—Lieutenant William Underwood, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Murdoch Macleod ; Ensign George Bontinck McLeod Cumberland to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Underwood; Gentleman Cadet George Frederick Campbell, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cumber land ; Mackay John Scobie Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Norman Guthrie Chalmers, transferred to the 79th Foot. 49th Foot—Captain T. C. Ffrench, from the 72d Foot, to be Captain, vice Fordyce, who exchanges. 60th Foot—Ensign J. B. Stradling to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice R. F. St. Andrew St. John, a Proba tioner for the Staff Corps in India ; E. W. Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Stradling. 61st Foot—Ensign Owen Wynne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Leonard Knipe, who retires ; Robert Kane, ent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wynne ; Gentleman Cadet Maurice Charles O'Connell, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Robert Kane, transferred to the Royal Canadian Rine Regiment; Lieutenant Henry Tomkinson to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. E. W. Rumsey, promoted. 65th Foot—Lieutenant Villars Butler to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Arthur Henry Lewis, deceased. 68th Foot—Paymaster Lawrence Mackenzie, from the 83d Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Paymaster, with the hono rary rank of Captain, Frederick Francis Fereday, who exchanges. 72d Foot—Capt. Alex. Dingwall Fordyce, from the 49th Foot, to be Captain, vice Ffrench, who exchanges. 79th Foot—Captain Charles S. M'Alester, from half-pay, late 46th Foot, to be Captain, vice Arthur Walker, who retires upon temporary half-pay. BREVET. n l el l . th Foot, to of r r t d e n f a u n ' i t ro y l John honorary W h ranksid Whit e side, a tt ac h e d and Staff Officer of Pensioners, who:ret ires on full htitCaptain and Brevet - Major Tho mas Hod g etts, Un ajtohre pay, to have the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Quartermaster Francis Barnes, half-pay, late 40th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Captain. Surgeon-Major Richard Gamble, M.D., 26th Foot, who retires upon half-pay, to have the honorary rank of :deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. The undermentioned Officers having completed the quali fying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonels, under the Royal Warrant of the 3d of February, 1866 : Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Vanbrugh Jenkins, 19th Hussars. Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Birch, 104th Foot. The undermentioned promotious to take place in her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, consequent on the death of General Edward Freder i c k, C. 8., Bombay Infantry, on the sth December, 1866, and the retirement of Major- General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, K.C.5.1., 0.8., Bengal Staff Corps, on 29th October, 1866: Lieutenant-General Sir John Cheape, G.C.8., Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, to be General. Major-General William Justice, Madras Infantry, to be Lieutenant-General. Colonel John Macleod Bannatyne Fraser T tler, C. 8., Be c n o g l a o l n S el taff ito C b o e r r p t s,to m b e e rysbt ounghuiuMajor-General. d, 0.8., Bombay 5t..,1! Corps, to be Major-General. The undermentioned Officers, who have retirod upon full-pay, to have a step of honorary rank, as follows : Major-General Sir George St. Patrick Lawrence, K.C.5.1., Bengal Staff Corps, to be Lieutenant-General. Lieutenant-Colonel George Nicholson Oakes, Bengal Staff Corps, to be Colonel. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 8. Royal Marine Light Infantry Second Lieutenant Robert Evans Montgomery to be First Lieutenant, vice Woodforde, to half-pay. First Lieutenant Henry Evelyn Sturt to bo First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, vice Hale, promoted. COURSE OF EXOttANuE.-Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 15f 11 161 Ditto 3 Months. 11 18t 11 18t Rotterdam -11 18* 11 19 Antwerp — 25 35 25 40 Brussels Hamburg — 13 8 13 81 Paris . . Short 25 10 25 20 Ditto 3 Months. 25 32} - 25 40 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1101 119 f Vienna — 13 37f 13 42/ T r i es t e — 13 371 18 42 Petersburg a - - 6 30 L5 6 31 20 Berlin Madrid — 471 47 Cadiz 27 5 27 0 Leghorn Milan 27 5 27 15 Genoa Naples — 27 5 27 10 Palermo Messina Lisbon . . ......... 51} 51} KING'S COLLEGE.—We are requested to state that the Civil Service Class will reassemble ou the evening of Monday next, the 14th inst., instead of on the evening of 'he 21st inst. 20 st St 'Co LOU st 1 ai to too 1 190 100 100 1(0 100 100 841 1 ~~