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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMEROI aL IN TELL TGENOZ, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market to-day is without the slightest change, inquiries being moderate, and the rates easy. It may be mentioned, however, that a limited amount of business has been negotiated in choice ac ceptances, as low as 3i per cent., so that a reduc tion of the Bank's minimum to 3 per cent. is likely to take place at an early date. _ _ . Atlantic and Great Western Railway. Debentures hz,ve risen 2 per cent., to 52 54, and the Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds, 1, to 411, 441, on the state ment issued by Mr. Mcilenry, the financial agent of the cc mrany in this country. _ _ . The half year'y interest due on the 31st of De cember on the shares of the Metropolitan Sewage and Essex Reclamation Company will be paid at Messrs. (llyn, Mills, and Co., on and after the 12th instant. The amount required for the March dividend of the Turkish Loan of 1858 being already at the credit of the Syndicate, the Imperial Ottoman Bank is instructed by the Ottoman Government to give notice that on and after Ist February it will dis count that dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. It has been announced by the Imperial Ottoman Bank that the drawing of the bonds of the Danu bian Loan for repayment at par on the Ist March is to take place at their offices on Wednesday, the 9th inst. Some important changes have taken place in the return of the Bank of France. There has been a decrease of 39,500,000 f. in the cash in hand, 45,333,000 f. in the Treasury balance, and 1 3,200,000 f. in the private accounts ; while an increase has taken place in the bills discounted of 60,333,000 f., in the advances of 666,000 f., and in the notes 79,500,000 f. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets there has been very little business transacted. For superior descriptions of sugar, however, steady rates have been maintained. Coffee has been neglected, while the operations in rice have not been sufficient to cause any change in values. Saltpetre and tallow have been dull, and barely sustained former prices. _ _ The Bank of England return completed to the 2d January shows some rather important variations. The bullion has been increased by £167,503, while there has seen a diminution in the reserve of notes of £1,232,260. The other securities have been added to by £2,575,247, and the private balances also show an augmentation of £2,000,006. Subjoined are the particulars : Public Deposits ... £8,162,130 Decrease £544,231 Other Deposits ... 20,592,230 increase... 2,000,006 Rest 3,290,285 Increase... 25,508 On the other side of the account : Government Securities £13,111,068 Increase... 99,846 Other Securities 22,816,503 increase... 2,575,247 Notes unempioyed 10,142,255 Decrease 1,232,200 The amount of notes in circulation is £23,286,845, being an increase of £1,353,480; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £19,418,362, show ing an increase of £167,503 when compared with the former return. Two o'CLocK. According to Reuter's telegram from Paris this day, the French Rentes were 69f. 95c. Firm. Business in the market for the English Funds to day has been verylimited, and Consolsare unaltered, at 90i for money and the 10th inst., and at 9Oj for the February settlement. A firmer tone prevails in the Foreign Market, and prices tend upwards. Turkish 5 per Cents. have advanced f, to 324 33 ; Mexican Stock I, to 17i 18k ; Greek Bonds to 14f 15 ; Spanish Pas sive 201- 21 ; and the Italian Loan, 1861, to 54-, 53 ex div. '1 he operations in the Railway Share Market have been to a fair extent, but prices generally are a shade flatter. Great Western, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, have each declined i ; South Eas tern, j ; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, ; while Great Northern A Stock, London, Chatham, and Dover and Mialand have each im pro7el The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without material alteration. Dutch-Rhenish are marked 20i 4 ; Sambre and Meuse, 74 1 ; South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 151 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 201 s ; Great Western of Canada, 12/ 13 ; and East Indian, 1051 1061. Finance and Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. are at 731 ; Crystal Palace Stock, at 30 ; Credit Foncier of England are flat, at 21 1. Bank Shares are in moderate favour at steady prices. Bank of Egypt are dealt in at 30 30i ; Metropolitan and Provincial at 121; Oriental Bank Corporation at 42i and Union of London at 441 45k. BRITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GCVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Jan. 10 9Ol 3 per Cent. Reduced 894 1 5 - -4 New 3 per Cent 894 4 New 2/, per Cent. Jan. 1894 -- Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yre, expire sth April, 1885 124 Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — t , :xehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent l2 8 pm Do £5OO Do £lOO & £2OO pm Bank of England St oc k, 64 per "Cent ... 248 50 INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 104 per Cent., Apri11874... Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1680 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper .d. per Cent .— Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5- j per Cent., May 1879 — Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO 26 27 pm Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent — Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilim 5 per Cent — Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1863 — Do Account 7l 4 Do. £lOO Bonds 13aenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do 4100 Bonds DJ 2 per Cent. (D e f erre d 3 p er Cent ) -3-41 laullian 6 per Cent Do. 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent A Do. „ B Cilombian, 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 — DAnubian Principalities Gliiador New Consolidated, 1 por Cont ; Do., Piovisional Land Warrant Po , Doiened F:gyptiau 7 Per Cent — Do. ' Second Issue —' Do £lOO Bunds — Do. A ccount Do. 1864 — Ditto for Account .k 1100 Bowls F'o. Account Do. Government Railway Debentures — uo. Account Grc.'k 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 30. Coupons G I :teinala 5 per Cent. Iti , an 5 per Cent 1865 . -1- , o Account I'o. Marerninana Railway — , • . ~ , "xli- ail . per Cent 11.. 181;1 — Do C per Cent. Anglo-French - .., m , \ nloan 6 per Cent. - .1‘ , 10(_ •. 11 up, Imperial 5 per Cent l'ie W (Ir a/Ada - MINING MARKET. FRIDAY, Two o'Clock. Subjoined are the current quotations : Chivertou Moor, 4i 51 ; Chon:ales Gold, 21 3 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 9 10 ; East Basset, 22 24 ; East Caradon, 6 61; East Lovell, 8191 ; East Wheal Grenville, 21 ; Great Retallack, 24s 0.1 26s Od ; Great Wheal Vor, 17 18; Marks Valley, 41. ; North Crofty, ; North Treskerby ; Prince of Wales, 26s Od 28s GLI ; Prosper United, 3} 1; Providence Mines, 271 30 ; South Condurrovr, 12s 14s ; South Grenville, 7s Od 9s Od; Tincroft, 14 141 ; West Caradon, 14 15; West Chiverton, 54 56 ; West Frances, 16 18; West Seton, 125 130; Wheal Buller, 24 26; Wheal Chiverton, 61 ; Wheal Cubor, —s ; Wheal GrAiville, 29s Od 31s; Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seton, 135 140 ; Wheal Trelawney, 10 12 ; Wheal Uny, 2 2} ; Caru Camborue, ; Central Minora, ——; Cooks' Kitchen, 10 12 ; East Carn Brea, —; Great Lacey, 17 17 1 ; Great South Tolgus, 12s 6d 17s 6d ; South Frances, 22 25; St. Ives Consols, —; South Caradon, —; Stray Park, 4 41; Drakewells, 12s 6d 15s 03 ; South Darren 30s 3is ; North Roskear, 61 71. Do 3 per Ceni — ) Do. Deferrad Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) ;7'eruvian. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do 41 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Portacniese 3 per Cent., 1853 !In ' Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B6l 7 Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 1)o 3 pet Cent. 1859 Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1861 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all p:dil 86'.1. I Do. do. .£lO paid ll pin Sard:nian 5 per Cent D o . Account Spanish 3 per Coat Do ACCilint Do Now Deforrod Do Account Do Passive Do Ace , unt Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded 201 1 - Do Account Swedish 4 per Cout. Po. V I per Cont. 1861 Do. Scrip, £6O paid Turkish G per Cent. 1851 Do. Account dis Do 6 per Lent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds - Do 6 per Cont. 1862 Do Account s4i 5i 41 Do £lOO Bonds — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed 99; Venozuela 3 per Cent. Do Account ~..-. Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 114 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in Loudoia. Austrian, 5 par Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian. 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Italian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25i. Do. 5 per Cont. Account 53 I Dutch '4 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail, Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... French ltentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. — . _ THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Do. Account, Jan. ooi SERIOUS CHARGE OF POISONING IN NORFOLK. Yesterday (Thursday) before the Docking bench ° of magistrates, four persons, named John Grief, 51, Susan Grief, 51, Mary Grief, 27, and Sarah Grief, 23, were brought up on a charge of poisoning two, if not three, illegitimate children at Shemborne, an adjacent village. The prisoners John Grief and Susan Grief are husband and wife, and Mary Grief and Sarah Grief are their daughters. The legitimate family of the Griefs consists altogether of 12 children, of whom eight are living at home. The names of the children supposed to have been poisoned are Alfred Grief, who was five years and six months old at the time of his death, and who died Nov. 6, 1866 ; Ann Maria Grief, the child of Sarah Grief, who was 15 weeks old at the time of her death, and who died April 13, 1866 ; and Jemima Grief, the child of Mary Grief, who died in 1860. The bodies of the children Alfred Grief and Ann Maria Grief have been exhumed, and an abundance of arsenic has been found in them. As regards the third child, Jemima Grief, the result of the chemi cal analysis which is being made by Mr. Sutton, of Norwich, is not yet known. The children, although illegitimate, appear to have never been affiliated ; and it may be added, as an illustration of the im morality prevailing in the family of the Griefs, that Sarah Grief has had another illegitimate child, which is still living, while she is understood to be now again enciente. The death of the child Ann Maria Grief appears to have excited no suspicions ; but the case was different when the boy, Alfred Grief, sickened and died in November. This child was taken ill on Saturday, Nov. 3. On the Sunday he was better, an,l on the Monday he went to school, but he was sent home in consequence of being very ill, and he continued to grow worse until about one a.m. on the Tuesday, when he died. The peor little fellow seems to have vomited green matter, and a green foam was also observed about his mouth. These symptoms of arsenical poisoning, of course, provoked remark, more especially as no medical man had been called in, although the parish doctor might have been sent for without any expense to the family. Subsequent inquiries showed that the child Ann Maria Grief had presented similar symptoms, and had also died without the attend ance of a medical man. John Grief, the male prisoner, carries on the occupation of a sheep dresser, a business requiring occasionally the use of arsenic, but when he was interrogated on the subject, he denied at first that he had had any arsenic in his possession. He made this statement on Nov. 9, but arsenic was found in his house not withstanding. The male prisoner also stated that whenever he had any arsenic he was careful to keep it locked up in his coffer, but the arsenic discovered was not found there, but on the top of the bed in which the prisoner and his wife slept. The wife, Susan Grief, had also denied having had any arsenic in the house. The male prisoner is understood to have endeavoured to make it appear that he had left some bottles about, containing a mixture which he had used in his business, but these bottles when found, were under the stairs, and quite out of the reach of any one. There were a few drops in the bottles containing a mixture of tar, soft soap, and arsenic, but the poison was not in the state in which it was detected _in the bodies of the children, in which it was found pure and simple. The male pri soner was arrested Nov. 26, and has since been in custody in Norwich Castle. Susan and Mary Grief were arrested Nov. 22, and Sarah Grief Dec. 6. The female prisoners have been in Wymondham Bridewell, and were brought up from there yester day, while John Grief was brought up from Nor wich. The prisoners all denied, when arrested, that they knew anything about the matter. It is per haps right to add that the narrative of the case now given may embrace some details not yet deposed to on oath, but it is derived from official sources. The only witness examined yesterday was Super intendent Rose, of the Docking division of the Norfolk county police, who applied that the pri soners might be further remanded for a week, when he expected that the case against them would be co mpleted. Major Hollway asked Superintendent Rose whether he applied for the remand on the ground that the interests of justice would be promoted by the proposed delay. Superintendent Rose—Yes. Major Hollway asked whether Mr. Rose required the remand in both cases. Superintendent Rose—Yes. The Magistrates' Clerk (Mr. Blyth) said one re mand would be sufficient as the prisoners were all charged in both cases. Major Hollway asked the prisoners whether they wished to urge anything against the proposed re mand. All the prisoners replied in the negative. Major llollway—Then you will have to appear here this day week, on which day the case will be concluded as far as we know and hope. You expect, Mr. Rose, that the case will be completed on that day ? Superintendent Rose—Yes, Sir. Major Hollway—Because it is time it was com pleted. The prisoners were then removed, John Grief being taken in the course of the day back to Nor wich Castle, and the females to Wymondharn Bride well. The case for the prosecution has been placed in the hands of Mr. \Yilkin, solicitor, of Lynn, while Mr. Spanton, of Hunstanton, will probably appear at the next sitting for the prisoners. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, ---- a - -- The market opens with a moderate demand Sales probably 10,000 or 12,000 bales. PROFESSOR FAWCETT, M.P.—ln reference to the approaching marriage of Mr. Fawcett, the Brighton Guardian says :—"" In consideration of the learned pro fessor's eminent talents and of the high esteem in which ho is held at Cambridge, and especially in his own college, Trinity Hall, the master and fellows have (on his resignation) re-elected him to his fellowship under the new statute, which enables a Benedict to hold a fo.l ow _ ship." THE SUN, LONLON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1867. SHARE MARKET S.— This day. ORDINARY 811A.RES AND STOCKS. Closing I Business Price. done. Lure, Railways, • st ,Bristol and Exeter .... 100 86 28 at ICaledonian . 100 123 125 at Cambrian Cork and Bandon — 20 Cornwall. all 4 6 at Dublin & Belfast June. 100 -05 63 at Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc. 10 70 72 100 s.London, buil? Certi. all D o . 100 0 at Glasgow &S. Western 103 1 6 18 st Great Eastern, Ord.stk.' 100 SU 31 311 304 at Do. E. Angl. at. No. •P 100 5 8 at Great North 01 Scotland 100 at Great Northern } 100 1.0 12! 121 at D.,. A stock .. ! 100 127 12: 1304 1 41 1).). B atock i 160 Do. New, is. at 25 pm.; 10' sz (RS, and W. of Irelandl 10.,) 00 82 , at ..It. Western -Originazz 1,0 511 54 56 5/ st 0,. 6. V.D. Rail gun' 100 at Do. South \Vales ;LC at Do. W. Mid.—Oxford! 100 32 34 at Do. Newport 32 3, at Do. II ereford 1 100 at I.:lnc.:shire & Yorkshire. 100 IS) 132 1301 1 at L. - ,ridon and lilackwal..,l l 100 at '1.0t1., Brigh.,l„/ S Coat 10.. , b 7 00 at ILon., ghat., and Dover 100 155 16.1 Ir/ $ l7 at Do. Iletrop. Ex. A 1 100 10 t 0 II . • at Lon. & .N. orth Westerni 100 122 ;22 123 21 31 14 at k Lon. & South Western 100 e 3 15 1 at ,lian., Shot., & Lincoln 100 14 55 55 641 at 0 etropolitan . all 26 t 27 1281 1 1 10 Do. New 10 Do. Extension •10 10 ii 1 101 4 1,0 Nietropolitan District all 84 86 894 9 Do. do. do. 10 -•— 10 Jo. and St. John'slrd 6 st Mid,aud 9 Do. £9 Share 7 li 2,1 at Do, Birmin.. & Derby 100 93 04 25 •i id Kent at North British at Do. Ed., Ptli., & Dun. 100 4 18 at N th. Eastern —Berwicis 100 107 It 9 25 Do. G.N•B purohaai 16.13.4 at Do. Leeds ..... a Do. York lOO 100 102 104 at Do. Carlisle ..... 25 Do. Stock. & Darling. all 34 56 35 1 10 Do. do. 1860-61 lB 910 p 291 at North London at Do. do. 1861 5 at Do. do. 1866 st North Staffordshire at N. &S. W. Junction 15 Scottish Central at Scot. N. E , Aber. stool , 100 I 10 Do. Scot, Mid. at:4k at Shropshire Union at South Devon lOO 46 48 ... at .south Eastern 20 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 8 9 at Tall* Vale lOO 140 153 10 Do. C i 3 4 at Vale of each N at Waterford & Kilkenny 10 , t 10 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 6 at West Cornwall 100 ------_ BRITIS LI YOSSESSIONS. too A.tlantio zt St. Lawrence all 66 68 ~ .1 1 Bom.,Barodit, Con.ln. 100 102 103 1 01 $ gu. 5 per cent... ..... -10 Do. 1' shares lO id ip .:134 isutralo & Lake Huron all 4 44 10 Do. Preference too I Bud.,Brant,&Goderich l 6 p :•. 1872-3- t 110 at Calcutta &S. E. , Bin— 100 at .a l e Town & Dock , gu . 100 60 65 .00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p. all 101 103 at : ,. ..ast. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 101 IG3 1021 at East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. 100 105 106 106 51 61 20 Do. J Extension at ;rand frunk of Canada 100 18 20 201 1 •:.00 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c a ll 85 88 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 57 69 59 100 Do. do deferred 100 Dc. 2d Pra. Bonds all 50 54 100 Du. do. deferred - 10 0 Do. 3d Prof stoJk all 37 40 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook .. all 23 25 100 Do. do. deferred .... all at Gt. India Pen. gun. sp.e. 100 106 107 .051 13 0. Gua.. 5 per cent.. 18 4 1 p ••"..) Do. New gun. 5 2. c .. 6 6 1 V at Gt. South of India ...... gun, 5 per cent 1 at D,. 44 per cent lov 91 93 at Do .... ?.06 treat We 1 s. of Canada all 11$ 121 124 $l3 ; 201 Do. New . .00 Do. 6p. e Ms. pay. 1873 ail 22 • 100 Jo. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. all 8 1 64 r 10 Indian Branch, limited '2 11 113 at Madras, gua. 5 p.o .... 100 1 84 2 103 1 st Do. 41 do lOO 02 10 0 85 90 at Do. 46 do 20 Do. Fifth Extension 5 —' at Meib. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. 100 50 Mel. & Hudson's Bay all -- t at N. IMC'cla, 6pc lstpf.bfL 100 82 t 10 5 at Scinde 100 99 1 n at Do. Delhi i d r s 6. 1 5 14 /., V at Do. Punja,ub.... es 100 98 90 a at Do. Indus St.lolot 6 . 1, 100 --------. ----- -OLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Ilritivb Columbia, 6 per Cent., 1)ec.31,18 72 100 Can.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.it July 1877-54 . , ........ 100 03 94 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 1,0 90 92 D.•. sp. c. Mar. Sept 160 90 42 Do. sp. e. Jan. ft July 100 77 78 80 Do. sp. lu6eribril ass 100 I 75 77 l)avt; 6 p.c. 1573 100 lu4 106 uo.Apl.&Oct. 1500-190 100 103 105 Do. do 100 lu2 104 Do. Jan.,tiuly, 1890-0 i 100 104 106 Do. 5 per txut. 13 Aprii and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 88 lie) lon, Nov. 1568,6 p lOO KO 102 Do. 1875, do lOO i lu4 It 6 Mauritius, A p. 0, 1571, Att. and July Do. L 478 Do. 1882, May i 5, Nov. is 100 104 107 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 106 108 Natal 'iov. 6 per cent lOO 96 100 N.11.G0v,6p.c.Ja.,t.1u1) 100 90 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p*c., 1865 100 90 92 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 18 7 6 100 90 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 100 85 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 98 100 Do. 5 per cent.... ... 100 b 4 85 B3i 41 Nova Sci,tio. Gov. 6 p. o sterling, 1875 l9O 96 95 4ueensland Gov. 6p. c l OO 92 94 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c. 1808-9 100 -- Do. 1878 St upwards l,O 106 108 Vio,Gov. 6 p.C.Ja &July 100 Do. do, at OCt 100 103 104 1052 5 ERITISL•I MINES Cam. Consol. Cold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist. iirakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cant Brea 14;ast Grenville... East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyu(G wen. Great L trey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy.-- u. Wheal Vor (lielst 0 Grenville llerod's Foot •••• llingston Downs Alargaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley. ' wyndy iron Ore, lmi ew Sewn North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(illogan North Wheal Crotty i'rosper United.. ... • • • i'r videnee Uny Lelaut S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Frau. k Mogan Stray Park . Pin Cr0ft....0 Vigra and Clogan, lira \Vest V•assett (Mogan W. Caradon ,skeard \Vest Chiverton West Seton • Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seto!" Wheal Trelawhey (Ids 64 7 4 54 6, 405 4; 6 6 18 i 0 5 6 2 3 2 3 i 9 10 24 21 5 6 17 18 2.1.0 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8. , all 0.14.0 14.9.0 3.2.6 18.18. g ,35.15.8 5S 1 5.17.01 15 1 6 30 32 2/ Si 2 4 31 41 21 lid 35 45 2 4 21 31 2i 26 300 320 it i 8 4.2 1 2 4 1) 6 15 12 .4 54 5 11 115 123 65 7 5 1d k 0 10 1 2 135 145 7 9 91 1 ettitrEKENCE bliAttEs Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. I, 80i Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford let guaranteed litoolol4 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Di,to, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 95} LEASED AT FIXED tttiNTALIS• Nottingham and Grantham R. and C, 9l r °UNION RAILWAYS ntWerp and Rotterdam, 8 it Dutch Rhenish, 2 , Sambre and sleuse, 73 San Paulo. 4ua. 6 per cent., 13 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 1511 FORK.IGN SIIMCts. St. John del Rey, lim., 52 Tutholanutana of South Australia, 1im., 13 BANKN Alliance, lim., 191 Bank of Egypt, 3 I 30 Bank of New Zealand, 18; } Chartered Aer. of India, London, and China; 33} City, 15 Consolidated Bank, 1im.,4; ; English and American, lira., 5 Imperial Bank, lim.. 27 Imperial Ottoman, lim., 81. Lard Mortgage Bank of India, lIM., Do. 5 per cent. Debentures, 1861, for 30 years, 81 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, London and 11 estminster, 1)9 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 1 2 i Oriental Bank Corporation, 441 Union of London, 451 4; DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, OSI MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 16 Atlantic Telegraph, o, 8 per cent., 731 Berlin Water Works. lim., 12/ Ceylon Company, 81 City of Moscow Gas, lim., 18 171 Cothmercial Union, Insurance, 51 Credit Fonder of EnOanti, Urn , •z/ Crystal Palace, SO} 3 ) ,Egyptian C,oin. and Trading, lim., 9; 5 Electric Telegraph, 1331 • Hudson's Bay, D 2 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour. 7 London Generalemnious Company, lim, 3 i Nr.tional Discount lompany, 15 Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem.,:of which 2 is to pay,` 12 New Zealand Loan and Mer. Agency, lim., 2i Ocean Al arine Insurance), zoi Peel River Land and Mineral. 38 Peniusula and Orenial steam, 641 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements. 19/ Submarine Telegraph, 59 ' Telegraph Construction and MaintenanCe, Um., Ditto (£l4), 13} Universal Marine. Insurance, Um., 2 PRESS QUARRELS IN F RAN E.—A duel took place on Wednesday between two writers of the Paris press, M. Henri Rochefort and M. Paul de Cassag nac, the latter being the offending party. The parties, with their seconds, had repaired to Belgium, but the meet ing was delayed by the intervention of the police. At last the affair came off with pistols, Dpi, Rochefort receiving a slight wound in the side. - POLICE INTELLIGENCE. --This Day. Rebecca Riots in Opposition to the New I Salmon Fishery Laws. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. REFRACTORY CONDUCT IN A WORKHOUSE. — Three rough-looking young men, named Thomas Challenger, William Peel, and Albert M`Grady, were charged before Mr. Knox with refractory conduct in St. James's Work house. William Henry Knigkt, superintendent of labour in the workhouse, said that he was informed that the prisoners were making a great noise in ono of the halls, and on proceeding there he found that the prisoner had been up setting the tables and jumping up)n them, and their con duct was of such a disorderly nature that the old men were afraid of them. William Judge, an inmate of the workhouse, and act ing as " captain" of the third hall, said that last night the prisoners commenced upsetting the tables and broke some jugs, and they then fastened the door, so that no one could either get in or out. The prisoners had been pre viosly snowballing and upsetting the whole house. Peel asked the witness whether he bad not said to him "Out of the workhouse into a prison—out of a prison into a workhouse r The witness said he never made such a remark. Peel then asked the witness whether he had not told him that the reason why he was in the workhouse was because he could not go . out with his blacking box in snowy weather ? Burgess, 142 C, said that on taking the prisoners into custody at the workhouse, they said they would do what they could for the officer Knight, and they would like to have a mouth for him. In answer to Mr. Knox, Knight said that he believed Challenger bad been brought up in the workhouse school. The others had been six times in the house. Their con duct had been very bad. That morning they had made use of bad language, and thrown their bread about. Mr. Knox said that the prisoners had been guilty of re fractory conduct, as proved by the second witness; and the constable had proved that they bad threatned the officer Knight. He should commit-them for fourteen days each. As the prisoners were leaving the court they observed be officer Knight, and stated that they would do some hing for him when they came out of prison. BOW-STREET. A SOI-DISANT CLEUGYNIAN.—John M'Lennan, a middle aged, shabby-genteel-looking man,livas placed at the bar on remand, charged with stealing a mutton chop, value 3d., from the shop of Mr. 'Payne, butcher, Drury-lane. The case against the prisoner was, of itself, a very trivial one, but the prisoner himself had acquired a notoriety amongst the police from the number of, times he had been taken into custody on various charges of theft. On one occasion ho was charged with stealing a book from a railway-station, and he having on that occasion repre sented himself as an ordained niinistor of the Church of England. He was fully committed for trial ; and being tried at the Surrey Sessions the presiding judge addressed him at some length for the disgraceful position he occupied for one in his station of life. He on that occasion got off with a very few weeks' imprisonment, the judge not being acquainted with his real character, as he had carefully changed his name on each occasion of his being taken into custody. To-day Lockerby, the officer appointed by the magis trates to identify offenders, attended at. Bow-street, and informed Mr. Vaughan, the magistrate, that he had known the prisoner ever since 1852, during which he had been convicted no loss than between 14 and 15 times. He was a regular old thief. Mr. Vaughan having cautioned the prisoner, ho said in his defence he was innocent of stealing the chop, and that the whole thing was a mistake. The magistrate said he thought otherwise, and therefore he should fully commit him for trial. Some years since the press of this kingdom teemed with narrations of the unlawful doings of a body of men who, banded together under the title of "Rebecca and her daughters," destroyed the turnpike-gates and levelled the toll-houses in certain parts of Breconshire and Radnorshire. The cause which led to those riotous and lawless pro ceedings has been partially removed,but the same turbulent spirit now shows itself in armed opposition to the salmon fishery laws. It is well known to residents in Radnor shire that in the houses of many persona living on the banks of the Wye and its tributaries, the Khon and other rivers, a score or two of " kipper," i.e., unseasonable salmon dried, take the place of the honest English labourers' flitch of bacon, these salmon being the product of spearing expeditions while salmon are ascending the streams to their spawning grounds, when engaged in depositing their ova, or of spent fish when in a state totally unfit for human fool. Great exertions have, up to this time, been made by the board of conservators of the Wye Fishery to prevent this wholesale destruction of salmon by those who live on the upper part of the river; and very close supervision is being exercised by bodies of night watchers and water bailiffs. Rebecca and her Daughters (who really are the Welsh far mers, and who have been wont to assert their right to take salmon how, when, and where they will) have been for some time seen gathering in large numbers on the Upper Wye and the Khon, and lighting the streams by flambeaux spear the salmon in large numbers; but the force of watchers is so comparatively small that it was not deemed prudent to attempt a capture of the poachers, who have recently an nounced their marauding expeditions by the firing of guns. The gangs of these poachers had become so formidable in December that an increased body of water bailiffs were put on the Khon ; and, supported by a gentleman of the neighbourhood and his gamekeepers, at eleven o'clock on the night of the 22d ult. they came upon a gang of about twenty poachers, disguised in various ways, armed with spears, pikes, bludgeons, and other weapons, some of whom were carrying flambeaux of straw to light the streams and attract the fish, while the rest pursued their work of spearing., The water bailiffs concealed themselves in a wood by the side of the Khon until the poachers wont into the stream, and were at their work, when they showed a bold front by rushing into the stream. The poachers, probably fancying the number of water bailiffs to bo greater than they really were, darted out of the stream on theopposite side, and clearing some rails, got into the meadows beyond, where they wheeled round, and form ing themselves into line, presented their spears at the watchers. Samuel Owens, the superintendent bailiff, asked them what they meant to do, and if they would deliver up their weapons, upon which they exclaimed, " Fight!" Hereupon the watchers closed upon them, and a determined encounter followed, in which a gamekeeper named Lloyd was seriously injured, and the poachers and watchers terribly punished, but the watchers, after a fight which lasted for a quarter of an hour, proved themselves victorious by capturing four men and driving the others off the field. During the encounter one of the poachers, named Edward Hamar, the son of a large and wealthy farmer, threw the superintendent, and, keeping him on his back, made an attempt to "gouge" him, and was only prevented by the timely assistance of a watcher named Williams. This encounter and capture served to dispel a belief en tertained by many that these salmon poachers were poor, needy labourers, and has shown that " Rebecca and her Daughters" are chiefly composed of the largest occupiers of land in the district ; for two of the persons captured are the sons of one of the wealthiest farmers thereabouts, and it is now well known that most of the gang are men well to do. The four prisoners were brought upbefore T. P. Severne, Esq., and E. M. Evans, Esq., at Penybont Petty Ses sions, on Dec. 27 and 28. The occasion drew together the whole population of the district for many miles round, and the greatest excitement prevailed. The evidence of the whole of the water bailiffs, and the gamekeeper (Lloyd), who was nearly scalped by a blow with a spear, proved the narrative above given. Mr. Evans, the magistrate, said that on one account he was not sorry this disturbance had taken place, for it had served to dispel the delusion that only farm servants were guilty of these outrages, for it was now clear that some large and respectable farmers themselves took part in them. A tenant of his own was charged with salmon poaching on the previous day and expected to be turned out of his farm, but he did not think that was the way to deal with tenants at will, though he should in all pro bability get 50 per cent. more rent from another. Their proper punishment was not a notice to quit their farms, but the infliction of the specific penalty furnished by the law for its infraction. After referring at length to the evidence, Mr. Evans continued :—Looking at all that has transpired, I do hope that all persons who are owners of property on the banks of the river will assemble their tenants and come to a clear understanding with them in reference to this ishing question. There is no doubt that the inhabitants of these salmon districts occupy a peculiar position. Most of those persons 1 see before me have, almost from their cradles, been in the hah't of killing unscas)nable salmon. ,This habit, until recently, has, if not actually been per mitted, at least been connived at. You are, therefore, very.xnuch in the position of one_of.yonr wild Radnorshire ponfbs which has, from the hour it was foaled, been allowed to run restrained over its native hills. After it is well ad vanced in years it is suddenly caught, a bridle is put upon its head, a bit in its mouth, and a saddle on its back. What is the consequence ? Why, it naturally kicks. Now, what I want you to understand is this —it is not some half-dozen or dozen Radnorshire magistrates who saddle and bridle you ;it is the Legislature which dons so. It is useless for you to feel exasperated towards us. You may, if you will, kill us. You will find fresh authorities will rise up and step into our shoes. You cannot kill the law. I do implore you, therefore, before there is bloodshed, and bloodshed there will bo if things go on as they have, I implore you all I see before me, especially the large and respectable farmers, to use your influence among your children, servants, and dependants, to put down the present state of things, and do not oblige the magistrates to subject the ratepayers to the expense and the country to the disgrace of applying fora large police force to maintain the supremacy of the law. The prisoners were discharged. At a meeting of the Fishery Board, on Wednesday, Sir Velters Cornewall in the chair, it was resolved to lay the matter before the Home Secretary. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Jan.. 3 The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account DEBTOR. Jan, 3. Dec. 27. c. - fr. 182,500,000 Capital of the Bank.... Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) Reserve of the Bank 182,500,000 - 7,044,776 62 7,044,776 02 22,105,750 14 and its branches Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur- 22,603,730 14 4,000,000 936,969,825 16,578,406 78 15,618,609 42 rent creditor Current accounts, Paris Do. branch banks Dividends payable Discounts and sundry 185,033,312 81 210,039,320 37 39,844,905 - 12,398,251 75 230,370,628 58 259,593,558 98 33,496,959 - 14,556,434 75 1,088,037 12 interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 1,574,256 34 THAAIES. DREADFUL DESTITUTION AND NEGLECT.-Mr. James Spratley, one of the relieving officers of the Poplar Union, came beforo Mr. Partridge, and solicited his advice under these circumstances : Mr. Spratley said he had been recently called upon to visit the family of a man name Pine, of No. 10, Hancock road, Bromley, within the union. The family consisted of six young children, the eldest 14 years of age, the youngest one year and seven months only. He found the children in a most deplorable condition, suffering from the want of food and clothing. They had no shoes and stockings ; the room they were in was without furniture; the children had suffered much, and would have perished if ho had not relieved them. The mother of the children abandoned them about two months ago, and their father, who was a cooper in the Victoria Dock, Plaistow, and earning 28s. per week. They had no clothes or bedding, and although Pine was not destitute or unable to maintain his children, ho had given them no proper nourishment or clothing. He never saw children in such a neglected state before, and they would have perished. Mr. Partridge said the relieving officer had done quite right, and that it was not because the father of the children had neglected his duty the parochial officers were to evade theirs. Mr. Sprat:ey said ho had given the children outdoor re lief, and if he had not done so he was afraid they would have been starved. Mr. Partridge—That is right ; continue to administer relief, and I will give you all the aid in my power to reach this man who has so grossly neglected Lis children. He is amenable to the law. Mr. Spratley—Tho medical officer of the district has seen the children, and has recommended me to make this application. Mr. Partridge said the relieving officer could have a warrant against Pine for neglecting to maintain his chil dren. • MARKET S.—This day. MARK LANE. The quality of English wheat received fresh up to our market, to-day, was by no means extensive, and its qua lity was far from satisfactory. Notwithstanding the short ness of the supply, the few millers in attendance showed no disposition to purchase, and refused to operate beyond their immediate wants. On:tho other hand factors were equally firm in their demands, and the few transactions which took place were at present equal to Monday. There was a fair supply of foreign wheat on the stands. Fine qualities were in fair request at full quotations. In ferior qualities, although unaltered in value, met a slow sale. • Floating cargoes wero held at very full prices. Increased supplies of barley were on sale. Fine malt ing parcels commanded a fair share of attention, and were disposed of at full quotations, otherwise the trade was quiet, and prices were rather easier. Malt was in good supply and moderato request on for mer terms. In oats a moderate business was concluded at the rates previously current. The show, which was good, was chiefly composed of foreign produce. Beans and peas moved off slowly at drooping prices. The flour trade was quiet on former terms. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEsK• Wheat. Barley. IVialt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 1,090 120 2,40 0 30 380 Irish Foreign 26,070 29,060 28,580 7,920 sacks 1,180 brls NENVGA.TE AND LEADENTIALL. Only moderate supplies of meat are on sale at these markets. The trade is by no means active. Nevertheless, prices rule firm. Per 81b by the carcase. 11 d s d 'dud Inferior beef 3 4 3 6 Inferior mutton.... 3 6 4 2 Middling do. '3B 4 0 Middling mutton.. 4 44 8 prime large do. 42 4 6 Prime do 410 5 0 0 P r ime small do ...4 8 4 10 Large pork 3 6 4 Veal ..........•... 4 4 5 2 small pork. 4 2 4 6 • Lamb. Os (id to Os Od - . BOROUGH 1101 3 . Considering the time of year, there is a fair demand for hops, at quite late rates. The supplies are by no means extensive, and it is anticipated that there will be shortly an ad•ance in prices. Mid and East Kents l7os to 228 s per cwt. Weald of Kent S us sex .......................... . Yearlings COLONIAL. TEA.—A small amount of business has been done in middling Congou at about late rates; other descriptions have been neglected. SlTGAR.—Business has been rather dull, the dealings iu West India having been to a very moderate extent, with out any material change in values. CorrEs.—T hero have been no public sales, and only a limited business has been done in the private market, at about former rates. business has been en t er ed into, and RICE.—Scarc el y any quotations are unchanged. TALLOW. —Business has remained very inactive. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 445. Gd., March 445. 3d., and April to June 455. per ovt. SUDDEN DEATIT IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On Tuesday afternoon au old pensioner, named William Wal ker, was found dead at Larbort Station in ono of the car riages of the 11.30 train from Perth to Edinburgh. The deceased,who was an inmate of the Falkirk Poorhouse, had been at Stirling for his pension, and was returning home with it when his death occurred. He occupied a second-class a compar t me nt of a carri a g e himself, and the circumstance of his sudden demise was first observed by the ticket collectors at Larbert. H e was at once removed from tho train to the station-house, gP been identified by Mr. u,En, go oor-house, it was con veyed there in t he course of the evening. Walker wasand a na tive of Catrino, in Ayrshire, was 66 years of age, l,er and oo r hisof theb body Fylk havin g n during his connection with the army saw a good deal of service in India, whore he was wounded. Little is known of his relations, but it is understood tLat be has two sons, com positors, in Eainhur g ,h. may be added that it is ex actly two years last Tuesday since a similar accident hap .pened in the same trainbetween Stirling and Larbert. • 419,601 76 1,574,256 34 11,919,123 87 7,515,187 96 Total .............. _1,740,684,765 20 1,715,795,587 95 CREDITOR. Jan. 3. Dec. 27. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks ......... 675,053,965 30 714,524,6 92 56 Commercial bills over- 527,209 68 234,536 0 : duo ..................... Commercial bills dio.- counted, not yet due. Do. branch banks...... Advances on deposit of 336,902,178 57 368,323,362 - 309,704,1 20 00 335,137,718 - bullion ................. . Do. branch banks...... Do. on French Public 33,913,300 - 8,2'21,400 - 32,614,600 9,006,900 Securities ............... Do. by branch banks... Do. on railway shares 14,125,400 - 7,828,700 - 14,029,100 7,689,800 and debentures D. branch banks Do. on Credit Fonder 3'7,606, 2 0 0 - 26,034,000 - 37,292,200 25,873,000 80nd5.................. Do. branches ........... Do. to the State (Con vention, .June 10, 1857) ..................... Governmen t Stock re- 743,60 0 - 613,050 - 727,000 606,550 60,000,000 60,000,000 -- 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 36,065,237 91. 36,063,237 91 serve .................... Do. disposable ......... Rentes Immobalisees (Law, Juno '2, 1857) otel and furniture ? of the Bunk and la ned propel Ly branches li:apenses of manage ment ..................... f3undries .................. 100,000,000 100,000,000 --- 8,306,G92 8,304,097 - 5,310 - 13,103,10 4 60 11,002,691 33 T0ta1............. 1,740,684,765 20 1,715,795,587 95 Certified by the Senator G (Si fined) r of the Ban Uk of France. ROLAD. The Christmas dish in Austria is a goose, of which immense numbers are slaughtered on that o ccasion. At V ienna the poultry dealers decorate he t shop windows with those birds dressed. up to represent in caricature individuals of a B momentary notoriety. This sea son the majority of g eese figure as Marshal enedek or General Clam - Ga llas. The great success on the previous occasion was "a French romance -writer de livering a scientific lecture," which Alexandre Dum®s was then doing in the Austrian capital, Milt 0 EDITION . SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. VIC fORIA CROSS. (From the Gazette of this Evening.) WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 4. The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her ntention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned private soldier, whose claim to the same has been submitted for her Majesty's approval, fox his gallant conduct at the 'siege and capture of T übabeco long, Gambia River, as recorded against his name, viz. : Private Samuel Hodge, 4th West India Regiment -For his bravery at the storming and capture of the stockaded town of Tubabecolong, in the kingdom of Barra, River Gambia, on the evening of the 3th of June last. Colonel D'Arcy, of the Gambia Volunteers, states that this aim and another, who was afterwards killed—pio aeon; in the 4th West India Regiment—answered his call ' for volunteers, with axes in hand, to hew down the tt ) Aade. Colonel D'Arcy haying effected an entrance, Private lodge followed him through the town, opening with his axe two gates from the inside, which were barri caded, so allowing the supports to enter, who carried the place from east to west at the point of the bayonet. Oa issuing to the glacis through the west gate, Private Hodge wls presented by Colonl D'Arcy to his comrades, as the bravest soldier in their regiment, a fact which they azdcnow lodged with loud acclamations. LONDON GAZEIITE —This Evening. --.-- ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 1. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Bev. Wil liam Henry Brookfield, Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty, to be one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Very Rev. Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D., Dean of Nnrwich. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Stop ford Augustus Brooke to be one of the Honorary Chap lains in Ordinary to her Majesty. CROWN OE WE,' JAN. 3. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAM ENT . _ . County of Waterford—Edward lia La Poer, of Gurteen, in tho county of Waterford, Eiq. in the room of Henry Do La Poor Beresford (commonly called Earl of Tyrone), a Peer of the United Kingdom. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 3. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received a notification to the effect that in consequence of the appearance of cholera in the Island of St. Thomas, the Board of Health at Bar badoes have passed a resolution recommending that a quarantine of 21 days should be imposed on every vessel arriving from St. Thomas, or any other infected port. COURSE OF EXC HANGE.--This Evening. Amsterdam Short. Ditto 3 Alonths. Rotterdam Antwerp 11 151 11 18 11 18 25 37 25 37/ 13 8 25 15 .25 37/ 25 40 11 16 11 19 11 19i 25 45 25 45 13 iii 25 221 25 421 25 45 120 13 40 13 40 Brussels Hamburg Paris Ditto Marseilles ............ Frankfort on the Maine Vienna ........................ Trieste Petersburgn Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon • • ......... Oporto ........................ . Short 3 Months. 119 k 13 36 13 35 6 25 471 48i 27 10 27 10 27 10 27 10 27 10 27 10 511 511 6z6 27 iO 27 20 27 20 27 20 27 20 27 20 51i bli SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day MANCHESTER RACES. Races postponed again. No stated time fixed. RACING FIXTI FEBR Lincoln Spring ......... 19 I Harrow ..................... 21 MAID RES FOR 1867. TARY. I Nottingham Derby ROIL Liverpool Spring ...... 5 Chelmsford Spring...... 12 I 'Vest Drayt0n............ 19 Bromley .................. 21 APRIL. 2 I Thirsk 4 Durham 6 Newmarket lst Spring. 8 Catterick 9 Chester MAY. Epsom Spring Lewes Spring Croxton Park Northampton Windsor Spring ..... . .•• Edinburgh Sp. Meeting Newmarket Craven Curragh Chester (continued) 1 I York Spring.... 7 Salisbury Doncaster Spring Bath JU iisrpenden Epsom Summer . Newton Croydon Ascot Summer 4 Windsor Summer ll Manchester Summer l2 Ilampton l3 Odiham Bibury CluU lB NE. Stockbridge l9 Chelmsford Newcastle .. 25 Curragh .................. 25 Worcester Summer 27 Ipswich JU Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading • •••• 9 Liverpool July Meeting 10 Ilungerford Nottingham July - --- AUG Goodwood (continued) 1 Ripon Brighton •• 6 Brighton Club 8 Lewes Egham . . l3 Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford ..... 13 Hastings SEPTI Warwick Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon Doncaster ............... 10 iY. Down Royal Corporate. 17 Stamford lB Huntingdon 23 Winchester ........•""" 3 Southampton 25 GJodwooLl. ;UST. 21 York August 22 Dover 22 West Drayton 23 Plymouth 27 Canterbury Lichfield 28 Derby Summer 28 Weymouth 29 Tunbridge IMBER. Richmond l7 Hendon l9 19 Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2O Newmarket Ist October 24 Walsall 25 THE WEITHER.—(THIS DAY.) —This afternoon, at 2 o'clock, the barometer stood at 29.88, and the the thermometer at 19, being 13 degrees below freezing point. The extreme cold last night was 5 deg. above zero, which was 27 degrees of frost. A VENERABLE PARTY.—On the day before Christmas-day, the Rev. Mr. Judd, curate of St. Paul's, Cambridge, entertained twelve old ladies, his parishioners, to dinner and tea, and provided them with other good things appropriate to the season. Their united ages amounted to 1,000 years, but tho venerable dames managed to spend a very merry afternoon notwith standing. CONVICTION OF CELEBRATED PRIZE FIGHTERS. —At the Derbyshire Sessions, before Mr. Evans, M.P., and other magistrates, Joseph Goss, Peter Morris, George Hol den, Joseph Wareham, and James Mace, surrendered to their bail, on a charge of unlawfully disturbing the public peace at Croxall, on the 28th November, 1866. The pri soners pleaded guilty, and through their solicitor asked to be allowed to go at large, as they all earned their livelihood in respectable employments, upon entering into their re cognisances to come up for judgment when called on. It was proved by the superintendent and inspector of police that they had not been assaulted or insulted by the defen dants when told to desist from fighting. The chairman said that though engaged in an illegal act they had not in terfered with the police ; b ut it had been proved by a cent case in Sheffield that the course which the defendants requested him to pursue towards them did not put a stop to prize fights. He should, therefore, inflict a substantial punishment for the offence. The sentence was that they be severally imprisoned, with hard labour, for one calendar month, and at the expiration of that time be each bound over in his own recognisances in the sum of £lO to keep the peace for twelve months. H ER MAJESTY'S WOODS AND FORESTS.—The forty-fourth report of the Commissionerss of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues,, ha just been pub lished. The general abstrac that c t c h o n e r uts for the actual and year end ing March 31, 1866, shows eceipts, anticipated, are £631,447 185. ld. in cash, and £268,926 11s. 2d. in securities purchased. The payments in cash amount to £529,459 17s. Bd., thus leaving a balance of £101,988 Os. sd. Amongst the items included as pay ments are capital, which now stands at £245,962 lls. 2d. ; income, £57,435 ss. 7d.: and salaries and expenses in the offices of Woods, &c., £28,292 4s. 101 RESPITE.—Th 3 governor of Kirkdale Gaol has received a respite for Robert Reid, who was found guilty, and sentenced to death, at the last Liverpool Assizes, for the murder of his wife in Liverpool four years ago. THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN PROFESSOR BLAME AND MR. ERNEST JONES.—T his discussion was, we learn by telegraph, opened last night at Edinburgh by an address from Professor Biocide, who maintained that on referring to the history of all democracies, ancient and modern, it would be found that none had ever been successful. At the close a vote of thanks was given to the Professor, and good humour prevailed throughout the proceedings. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — These wonderful productions have now become so appre ciated in every part of the world, that they form a complete household trelsure; the worst cases of ulcers, wounds, and every variety of skin diseases, for which so many remedies have been tried without effect, readily succumb to their power; they act so miraculously upon the system as to be considered a complete phenomenon In the healing art. For this reason they are advocated by many modern practitioners after everything else has proved unsuccessful. Those complaints especially, which affect the sedentary and g stdious, give way as mist eforo the risin sun to the influence u of the Pills. External wounds are as readily healed under the Ointment. Old Stories Re-Told. (From Dickens's "All the Year Round.") THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINE WRIGHT (JANUS WEATHER COCK), THE POISONER. One of those pleasant winter evenings, when fires burn frosty blue, and hearts grow warmer as the weather grows colder. It is an evening soon after he ascent to the throne of his Most Gracious Ma- jesty King George the Fourth. A pleasant, merry, and highly intellectual party are dining at the house of the publishers of th a t clever periodical the " Lond in Magazine," in Waterloo-place, to celebrate the new proprietozallip. The cloth has been removed, the glasses spArklu in the light of the wax candles, the wine glows ruby and topaz in the fast revolving decanters, the oranges gleam golden, the crystallised fruits glitter with jewelled frost, the chestnuts, tight in their leather jackets, are hoarding their warm floury m ea l for the palates of poets and thinkers, puns are flash- ing in the air like fireworks, smart sayings are dart ing past like dragon-flies, even the gravest faces glow and brighten. A ring of brilliants the party resembles, for there is no one round the well-spread ;able but has a name in the world of letters or in the world of fashion. There is Charles Lamb, now busy with his " Elia," the finest essays ever written : a little grave man in black, but with the face of a genius; Hazlitt is glorying in a Titian, upon which he is expatiating ; Thomas Hood, with a face like, that of an invalid Plato, is watching for a pun li'Le a fly-fisher waiting for his cast. The Rev. H. eau (the translator of Dante), the mildest and gentlest of men, is explaining a passage of the " Inferno" to that fine, vigorous Scotch poet, Allan Cunningham, the sculptor. Mr. Proctor (Barry Cornwall), in his own kind, cheery way, is defending a fine pas- sage in Ben Jonson from the volatile flippancy of the art-critic and gay dilettante of the magazine—. to wit—Janus Weathercock, otherwise Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. He is a fop and a dandy, but is clever, has a re fined taste, and is the kindliest and most light hearted creature in the world. He has run through one fortune, has been in some dragoon regiment, and no doubt distinguished himself against the French—if he ever met them. He is on the wrong side of thirty, and records his military career by that exquisitely blue undress military coat he wears, all braided and befrogged down the front. His cravat is tied to a nicety. His manner most gallant, in sinuating, and winning. His face, however, is by no means that of the mere dandy. His head is massive, and widens at the back. His eyes are deeply set in their orbits. His jaw is square and solid. He seldom looks the person he talks to full in the face. He has his hair curled every morning (a stray ring let or so left free), and slightly stoops. His expres sion is at once repelling and fascinating. He is übiquitous. Go to the Park, and you ob serve him in his phaeton, leaning out with his cream-coloured gloves and bis large turned-down wristbands conspicuous over the splashboard. Go to old Lady Fitzrattle's ball the same evening, and you will see the fascinating creature with the belle of the evening, gracefully revolving in the waltz. In the club library he is conspicuous ; at the supper party he is the merriest and the gayest. He has fortunately lett us portraits of himself both at the coffee-house and at home. Let us see the charming man at 9 o'clock on a November evening, 1822. The diners at George's Coffee-house, 213, Strand, then the great resort of Kentish lawyers and men from the Temple, are all gone but three—two young barristers in the last box but one from the fire, and next to them a fashion ably dressed man with the exquisite cravat, the square jaw, and the deep-set eyes, that we at once recognise. George's was famous for its soups and wines, and Mt. Wainewright has dined luxuriously. A bottle of the rarest wine he has sipped away with supercilious pleasure. He now holds to the candle, in an affected manner, displaying carefully his white jewelled fingers, a little glass of eau de vie de Dantzig, and is languidly watching the little flakes, or, as he would call them, " aureate particles," float and glimmer in the oily and glutinous fluid like scales of gold- fish. The voices in the next box catch his ear ; he listens. The one Templar is read ing to the other with unction an article by Janus Weathercock iu the last Loudon Magazine. " Soothed into that desirable sort of self satisfaction so necessary to the bodying out those deliciously voluptuous ideas perfumed with languor which occasionally sw im and undulate like gauzy clouds over the brain of the most cold-blooded men, we put forth one hand to the folio,which leant against a chair by the sofa side, and, at hap-hazard, extracted thence Lancret's charming Repas— A summer party in the greenwood shade, With wine prepared and cloth on herbage laid, And ladies' laughter coming through the air. Rimini. This completed the charm." The gay writer listens with half-turned head, gloating over every word, inhaling the intense so delicious to his vanity, taking care, however, that the waiter is not looking. Again they arc talking about it. First Voice—" How glowing, how exquisite, bow recherché, how elegant, how full of the true West end manner! A fine mind that young fellow has. Oh, he'll do." Second Voice—" Don't like it. Flashy assump tion. Mere amateur stuff. By-the-by, when does that case of. Badger versus Beaver come on, Jones ? Isn't to-day the 15th ?" " Low creature ; debased nature," thinks Janus. " Upon my honour, these coffee-houses are getting mere haunts for the inferior classes. The 15th, eh? So it is. Why, that's the day I promised to write my ar ticle for the Loudon. I must be off to Turnham-green." Let us follow the delight of society to the White Horse, and take a seat beside him in :the two-horse stage till it stops at the door of Linden House, Mr. Wainewright's elegant residence. His wife meets him at the door, and with her there come dancing out, radiant with almost an exuber ance of life, Phcebe and Madeleine, the two blooming daughters by a second husband of his wife's mother. They kiss him, they pet him, they load him with playful caresses, for he is their idol, they admire his genius, they love him as their nearest and dearest relation. Laughingly he frowns in assumed anger, and pleads the occupation of a popular author and a great critic. He breaks at last from their pretty syren wiles, and locks him self in his sanctum. It is a luxurious den. We can sketch it in almost Alr.Wainewright's own cox combical words. He strips off his smart tight-waisted befrogged coat, in which he so exquisitely masquerades as the g ali c g h gh i lts n as t a : re ti r ed officer of dragoons, and, in his own airy way, essw nitegogs_ elegant nersto gay yne French hi a t s h y l apm npk, flowered ribbons. the r g u r s o t l l u l in n e i d i r e globe of which is painted with gay flowers and gaudy butterflies. He then hauls forth. languidly, as if the severity of the labour almost exhausted him," portfolio No. 9," and nestles down into the cushioned corner of " a Grecian couch ;" stroking " our favourite tortoise-shell cat" into a sonorous pur; he next, by a tremendous effort, contrives to ring the bell by the fireside. A smiling " Venetian shaped" girl enters, and places on the table "a flask of as rich Montepulciauo as ever voyaged from fair Italy;" then after contemplating his elegant figure in a large glass, placed with a true artistic sense opposite the chimney mirror, with a fresh exertion he pours out " a full cut glass" of wine with one hand, and strokes the cat with the other. The sheet of glass returns sharp-cut photographs of a gay carpet, the pattern of which consists of garlands of flowers, a cast of the Venus de Medicis (for pin Waine wri,ght is an artist), a Tomkinson piano, some Lo uis Quinze novels and t a l e s, bound in French " mar roquin," withtabby silk linin g s, some playfuand Charles l volumes choicely covered by Rogers, Payne, Lewis, some azaleas teeming with crimson blossoms, standing on a white marble slab, and a large peaceful Newfoundland dog also. A fine Damascus sabre dragoon s again), an almost hung against the w all ( o bj e ctionable picture by Fuseli, that gay old bache lor at Somerset House (a friend of the eminently popular and accomplished. art-critic); and last, but not least of all, the exquisite man of the world him self, full of heart, full of soul, and bathed in the 11 22 22 25 30 I - as eh 3S, WS in oil ow 117 era ich fair it de— '..--" )11S0 ozi- )oen ,vin- II 0 a at- rho old into hicll teen at ,lace the in a I