The Sun. — London, England, 1867-02-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. ...---- LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company have resolved to recommend to the proprietors at the ordinary gene ral meeting, on the 14th inst., that the dividend for the half- year ending Dec. 31 last be at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital stock of the company. LONDON, CUATHAIL AND DOVER. A meeting of the B and C shareholders in the Metropolitan Extensions undertaking of this com pany was held yesterday at the Victoria Station, Pimlico ; Mr. D. H. Waiter in the chair. The report of the committee was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he was glad to mention that the com mittee had received replies from a large number of shareholders expressing their adherence to the views of the committee stated in the report, and if they were present they would nearly fill that large room. The committee had suggested to the Board of Di rectors that the Metropolitan Extensions share holders should be duly and efficiently represented at the Board. The capital of the Metropolitan Ex tensions amounted to £5,733,000, while the capital of the generalundertaking amounted to £6,709,000, so that there could be no doubt that the Metropo litan Extensions interests should be duly represented at the Board. The original capital of the Metro politan Extensions was £2,200,000, but for one purpose or another it was increased by the former Board to £5,733,000. Those who had put the additional millions on their backs bad not given them a palmy of additional tolls to compensate for the increased capital. Although the cost of the Extensions was nearly as much as that of the main line undertaking, they only received 2s. tolls out of the 18s. 6d. fare to Dover. The link line received 4d. per passenger. That showed that their interests ought to be distinctly and effectually represented at the Board. They contended that the liabilities of each section should be distinctly confined to such section ; that the liability to interest on any money borrowed should be confined to the money actually expended on each section. They had suggested that provisions should be made in the bill before Parliament for securing the interests of the Metro politan Extensions and other sections, requiring the liabilities of each section to be explained. They wished to pay their own debts, but not to be saddled with other people's debts. They were only liable for money expended on the Metropolitan Exten sions, and if those and other things were fairly done there was no reason why they should not help the directors to get the gas bill carried. He also thought that. the debt due to them of „L.:52,902 for interest to June 30 last should be secured to them less any amount paid on their account. The com mittee found that £283,230 of the Extensions capital had been misapplied, leaving £192,000 due for land ; but this debt would take priority of the debentures. Beyond the £192,000, about £30,000 was required to provide accommodation for the coal traffic, and about £22,000 for other improvements to facilitate traffic. They would therefore concur with the Board, and assist them in carrying out a good pla❑ to benefit the property, and he trusted the deben ture-holders would endeavour to assist the share holders in that object. The debentures of 1860 had had priority of those of 1862, and the latter of those issued in 1864. He thought the interest of the common fund could be paid as working ex penses. There was nothing intended as antagonistic to any section, but if the directors' bill should not be carried out, or some modification of it, the com mittee must take other steps ; and if the bond-holders of the extensions would give them time, and not harass them with law proceedings, £750,000 would meet all the liabilities. If the shareholders would subscribe 5 per cent. on their capital, and the de benture-holders would assist, ample funds would soon be raised to provide what was necessary. He was a very large shareholder, and would subscribe £3,000 towards raising £550,000 to get the under taking out of debt, and provide what was requisite ; if other shareholders would do the same. If things could not be arranged as proposed by the committee, he thought the Metropolitan Extensions section should go to Parliament for a bill to provide money to pay their own debts and place their affairs on a sound basis. There was ample rolling stock to work the line. A great many unfounded remarks had been made to their detriment, but he ventured to assert that. there was no railway stock south of the Thames so efficient as that of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, both as regarded engines and carriages. He thought it would be better for the separate committees of all the sections to meet and devise some plan of action to promote the benefit of all parties connected with the whole undertaking. Every member must put his hands in his pockets and do everything in his power to protect the property. He entirely objected to the statement in the City Article of the Times of that morning, and denied that there was an internecine war by which the committees of the various interests in the company were madly contriving to inflict irreparable damage on all concerned. He.concluded by moving the adoption of the report, and that the committee be requested to continue their services. Mr. ISHERWOOD seconded the motion. Mr. BRISCOE was glad tc know that the views of the committee were supported by a large number of shareholders. Without the assent of the deben ture-holders he thought it would be hopeless for the B and and C shareholders to exert themselves, therefore they must work hand in hand with the debenture -holders. He wished to see a tangible scheme proposed by the directors, with the neces sary details, showing how far it was the interest of debenture and shareholders to assist in carrying it through. Mr. BILLINGS assured the meeting that they would have no trouble with the bondholders. If they would only secure the regular payment of the interest, the bonds would be renewed for any length of time. Mr. HOGARTH suggested that if the debenture holders would take 4 per cent. for three years, the present revenue of the company would pay it in cash. That would enable them to get out of their difficulties, and bring the line into punctual and efficient working order. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. BRISCOE suggested that a petition should be presented to Parliament by all the sections, praying for the appointment of a committee of both Houses to inquire into the affairs of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and its various sec tions, and the proceedings terminated. ANGLO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH. Yesterday the first general meeting of this com pany was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. Charles E. Stewart in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the directors met the shareholders with unalloyed satisfaction. When the company started it had three objects to attain. It had to lay the 1866 cable, to recover the 1865 cable, and to earn a dividend of 25 per cent. upon the sub scribed capital of the company. The three results had been obtained. (Cheers.) The £600,000 capital of the company had been paid up and expended in fulfilment of the company's obliga tions, and as the premiums paid for shares had been sufficient to pay the expenses incurred up to the time the cath was lai l, there were no charges upon the company prior to the date when the cable came into working. As the earnings of the company had exceeded the 25 per cent., the directors proposed to pay 1 per share, or 10 per cent., and leave the balance for the annual meeting in July. He bore testimony . to the excellent manner in which the works of the company were carried out by the Tele graph Construction and Maintenance Company, and said it was perfectly needless for him to say any thing upon the merits of the able men who had carried out the task of laying the cable, but he hoped the meeting would give their cordial thanks. With respect to the capabilities of the cable, he said that if any contrivance could 4 be invented by which messages could be transmitted and read off quicker than by human power, then the capabilities of the cable could be tested. Having referred to the in- conveniences arising from the occasional breaking down of the land lines from Newfoundland, he said the directors had been in communication with the company's copartners on the other side, and a tele gram he had received that morning informed him that Mr. Cyrus Field had sailed for this country with full powers from the directors there to make arrange ments, so that telegraphic communication might be kept up in a prompt and satisfactory manner. At present there were many interests to consult, but when the cable from Placentia Bay to Boston, or, still better to New York, was completed the line would practically be in the hands of one interest. (Hear, hear.) It was also hoped that arrangements would be made so that a message given into the hands of the company's servants in London would be trans mitted direct to Heart's Content. He then adverted to the honours bestowed upon Sir Richard Glass and his colleagues by the Queen, and upon Mr. Cyrus Field by the Congress of the United States, and said those honours were doubly valuable because they were fully deserved. He deeply regretted to say that Sir R. Glass was in a very bad state of health owing to his hard and anxious work in laying the cable. The report was then unanimously adopted. Mr. MORGAN proposed the election of Mr. T. B. Smithies and Mr. J. Dean as auditors, with an al lowance of £5O. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to questions, said the cable was worked by this company, and all the working expenses, except the directors, were paid by the company. Of the profits, 25 per cent. on the subscribed capital was taken by this company. The remaining profit, up to £72,000, was paid to the other company, and all over that the two companies divided. With respect to the reduction of the tariff, the question had had the attention of the directors, and they had reduced the tariff by one-half ; for whereas it was 20s. a word at starting, it was now 10s. The company might go still lower until it found its way to the most profitable rate. With re gard to a question as to what should prevent other companies laying other lines and competing, he said the company must not depend upon a monopoly, but upon doing the work so well and cheaply as to make other lines unnecessary. The extra work upon the lower rate, he said, had within a month or six weeks re-souped any loss which might have arisen upon the lesser sum charged. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors, and a vote of sympathy with Sir R. Glas3 in his illness. GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN. The report of the directors states that the total traffic receipts for the half-year ending Dec. 31 amounted to £261,292, and the corresponding half of 1865 to £237,215, showing an increase of £4,077. The net surplus revenue for the half-year was £107,445, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum on the consolidated stock of the company, leaving a balance of £15,150. The stock for the purchase of the Cork, Youghal, and Queenstown line had been issued in conformity with the terms of the agree ment, and the amount, £310,000, had been added to the capital account. All the necessary steps had been taken to enable the company to proceed with the works required to complete the junction with the Cork, Youghal, and Queenstown Branch Railway. The capital account showed that £6,065,843 had been expended, leaving a balance against the com pany of £75,471. DENIEEARA.. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the 23 days ending the 31st of December last amounted to $8,822, and for the corresponding period of 1865 to $B,BlB, showing an increase of $4. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the Examiners held sittings at the House of Commons. Before Mr. Frere, the follow ing bills were passed on standing orders :—The Broxburn, the Caledonian (deviation, branches &c.), the Bristol and Exeter (further powers), the Bristol and Exeter (Exe Valley Railway), the Devon and Somerset, and Bristol and Exeter Companies ; and the Limerick Ilarbours, the Worcester and Birming ham. Canal, and the Dublin Harbour Bills were postponed until Monday next. Before Mr. Pal grave, the Newry and. Armagh and the Atlantic Telegraph Bills were passed. AGRICULTURAL PnO3FECTS. Last week opened with a fine genial spring-like day, fresh and clear; but there was slight rain at night, with the wind from the south-west. On Monday the morning was showery, and it continued so most part of the day. Wind west ; thermo meter 50 deg.; barometer 29.80 in. From this ex cessive moisture no field-work could be proceeded with ; the land being so saturated that no teams could go on it, and ploughing appears likely to be protracted. As yet a correct judgment cannot be formed of the wheat plant, or of the effect the sud den disappearance of the heavy covering of snow has had on it. In a short time a better opinion may be gathered; but the fear is that in low situations too much water has latterly been ex perienced, and that the plant may assume a yellowish hue, when drier weather will be required to bring it round to a healthy colour. Tuesday held up fine until the afternoon, when slight rain fell, and the evening was wet ; the temperature remaining high, and the barometer low. Our advices from the West Riding of Yorkshire- state :—" The change to soft mild weather has materially affected the - condition of wheat, and this has no doubt a great effect on the minds of the buyers, or the general belief in ad vancing rates and the cheap rate of discount would lead more corn to change hands." From Northum berland our advices were :—" The weather was wet and cold on Wednesday, but since it has been mild and showery ; wind S.W. to N.W." Wednesday morning was fine, but had not a settled appearance, and at 3 p.m. it became very dark, with rain follow ing, which lasted the greatest part of the evening thermometer up to 52 degrees, and baromoter down as low as 29.70 inches. Nothing, of course, in the shape of out-door work could be done. From the west coast of Scotland it was remarked on that day : —" The weather has been wet and mild." Thursday was a fair, brisk, and fresh day, with a strong breeze from the west : thermometer down to 45 degs., and barometer steadily rising. Our advices from War wickshire stated on that day :--"A great quantity of rain has fallen at intervals during the week : the at mosphere has been mild for the season, but out-door labour is much retarded. Dry weather is anxiously looked for, to enable the farmers to prepare for spring sowing, and also for the benefit of the young wheat plant, which, in some districts, is reported to be sickly, from excessive wet." From Norfolk it was written We have mild open weather, and grain comes to band in poor condition.'' From Gloucestershire :—"T h e weather has be come unseasonably mild, with continual and heavy rain." From Northamptonshire : " The ra pidity of the thaw has swollen the rivers and brooks in this part of the country, so as to cause a flood over many parts of this and the adjoining counties, covering some fields of young wheat ; but it is hoped the injury will not be great." From Suffolk : "We have had very mild humid weather, which has seriously affected the condition of all new wheat not previously thrashed, only a chance lot being in grinding order. The glass to-day, however, is rising with a keen atmosphere." During the early part of Friday there was again rain, and at times during the remaining part of the day, although the barometer was steadily rising. Thus far then during the week nothing could be done in the way of field-work, and the thrashing of wheat would not be well done from the very moist atmosphere, as the condition cannot improve while such weather lasts. A change seems near at hand, :aid it is to b hoped that dry weather will soon set in, which is now 5 , .) desirable to all farmers, who are looking with anxiety, both as to the coming seed-time and the markets for all grain. Our advices from Lincolnshire on Friday ran thus : " The frost has made the wheat look yellow and sickly in many parts, and unless the colour alters speedily we shall expect to find considerable damage done to it. Turnips are much injured by the frost. Land is in a very wet and unkind state at present. Corn markets very flat just now, and it seems that barley has seen its highest point. This will doubtless be a short season for maltsters." Choice samples for seed will, we th lak, be so scarce IHE SUN, LONI OS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5 1867. that, when the demand comes on, higher prices still will be obtained, and that a scarcity of such quality will be experienced, solthat some maltsters will not have secured their usual supply at the close of the malting season. On the whole the prices have proved satisfactory to the agriculturists, and have steadily improved since harvest, with now and then a check, which was of but short duration. On Saturday there was no rain, and with the barometer up to 30.25 in., wind N.N.W., and thermometer 48 deg., there ap pears a probability of a little dry weather, which is -very desirable.—Mark-lane Express. nearly have a million of coloured people, whom war, want, anarchy, and a fictitious peace under liberty have repressed or destroyed. And this figure would undoubtedly be swelled from the statistics of Ala bama and Kentucky. It is gratifyng to record the resuscitation of Southern cities from the prostrating effects of the late war. Atlanta was, perhaps, that city most ex posed to all its horrors, the point aimed at by con tending armies, and the centre around which were fought the fiercest battles. The advantages of posi tion which tend most to the prosperity of a city in times of peace, are those which make it the object of generals to secure, for strategical purposes in times of war; and it is therefore probable that where the fight raged hottest, the recovery will be quickest. The New Era says: The unprecedented growth of Atlanta is the wonder of all who visit it. Our advancement is almost incredible. The people have quitted the arena of politics, and are giving their undivided attention to more substantial and honourable matters—to wit, the building up of a great flourishing city. Merchants, mechanics, physicians, lawyers, young men and old, are all working unitedly and faithfully for this important and desirable end. We have resolved to build up a first-class city in every parti cular, and no power short of the Great Ruler of events can prevent it. In five years at the furthest, Atlanta will be to the South what St. Louis is to the mighty West." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Commissioner David A. Wells having promulgated his report, the subjects touched on by him have excited a general feeling of interest, and provoked great comment. Universal praise is bestowed on this elaborate, clear, and exhaustive paper. Thoso who are arrayed at the ex: Creme ends of the opposing questions of Free Trade and Protection aro neither satisfied nor pleased. I believe, however, that the general sense of the community goes with Mr. Wells in his moderate and intelligent conclu sions. He estimates the income of the current fiscal year at $455,000,000, of which $275,000,000 will come from in ternal revenue, and $150,000,000 from customs. The expenditures will be about $286,000,000, exclusive of $64,000,000 for bounties. Of the surplus, $105,000,000, not more than $50,000,000 should be set aside for the reduction of the National Debt, and tho remaining $55,000,000 fairly limit the amount which taxation may be safely reduced. Secretary 3PCullocb's statement of the public debt on the Ist of January shows an increase of $29,422,150 in the debt bearing coin inte rest, which is partially offset by a decrease of $25,243,450 in the debt bearing currency interest, the transfer being largely attributable to the conversion of Seven thirty Treasury Notes into Five -twenty Bonds. The total reduction of the debt in December was $6,306,000. The Treasury held $97,841,967 in gold, January 1, and since then $2,247,000 has been received in a week, for imports, and the receipts from this source promise to balance the January payment of coin interest, so that the Government will begin February with about the same amount of coin on hand as it had a mouth before. The retirement of greenbacks during December amounted to $4,944,007, and the aggregate of legal tender iu the country, January 1, was $525,398,682. —The National Bank circulation was in creased only $18,400 last week, making the whole amount in circulatio❑ $298,609,419, which is secured by deposits of bonds worth $340,363,150. The Treasury Department printed $275,014 in fractionals, last week, destroyed $262,928 worth of old ones, and disbursed $308,719 in now. The total internal revenue receipts last week were $6,955,297. Things have not improved ; on the contrary, the ten dency is adverse, and feeble attempts made by the " bulls" to effect a ri.so have totally failed. Wall-street is sensitive to a degree, and the state of the political atmosphere is considered to be charged with electricity. Not only does Mr. Ashley's Impeachment resolution threaten, but the greatest uncertainty also exists as to what the course of Congress will be on financial questions. Stocks are dull, and a boarish temper is in the ascendant. Money is active, and more stringent, call loans now being at 7 per cent., with a heavy demand. This stringency is strongly felt in the West, where the market is tighter than it has been for months. The tendency has been to neglect shares and invest in Government Securities. There is an uneasy feeling abroad as regards these shares. Ido not look for an early return of confidence ; indeed I think the reverse might be predicted. SUll there is no great reason for alarm. Gold has fluctuated about 2 per cent. during the week, and closes flat at 133. Cash gold is abundant, and lower prices aro more likely than higher. The European' steamers on Saturdziy took out $696,700, and the Wednes day none. The receipts of gold from California last year were $41,750,965, and the imports $9,578,029—a total of 951,328,934. At the same time the exports of gold wore $62,553,700, making the loss during the year $62,553,700. Some of the New York banks have lent their greenbacks on gold at 7 per cent. interest, and substituted the latter as part of their lawful money basis—in other words, receiving the gold on deposit free of interest, and charging 7 per cent. against the checks made against it for currency. The aggregate specie value of the foreign dry goods imported at Now York, last year, was 9126,222,855 against $91,965,138 in 1865, and $71,589,752 in 1864. The woollen manufactures were at $450,405,179 against $36,074,585, the cotton at $21,287,490 against $15,350,604, tho silk at $24,837,734 against $20,556,261, and the flax at $20,456,870 against $15,402,602. The total imports at New York for the weak were $1,149,074 against $5,723,178, and the total exports, exclusive of specie, $3,716,624 against $4,091,557. Railroad earnings in December—Chicago and Rock Island, $232,450; increase, $719. Michigan Southern and Nor thern Indiana, $339,447 ; decrease, $17,455. Chicago and Great Eastern, $ 102,957 ; in crease, $ 1 3,394. Michigan decrease, $20,200. Chi cago a nd Alton, The following are the l atest quotations :— Stocks closed s C 2 e B n s t 1 1 , 81 3 i o n B c , r 64 e a9se $48,589. ; now issue) SStrafes7 3 -10 Loan 1031 to 104, heavy and lower, Ame rican gold 133 , United States Five twenties (1862) 1 06 1 to 106 1, (1834) 1041 to 105, (1865) 1 031 to 104, United States 105 to Ten-Fortieslosl , (919846,5 U n New York Central Railroad 1101, Erie 631, Erie,preferred 77, Hudson River 130, Reading 104‘ , Michigan Central 107, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 791, Illi nois Central 1181, Cleveland and Pittsburg 901, Cleveland and Toledo 1231, Chicago and Rock Island 1021, Chicago and Nort h-Western 421, Chicago and North-Western preferred, 81; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 1024 ; Ohio and Mississippi cettificates 27, Western Union Telegraph Company 451, Pacific Mail Steam ship Company 167, American Express Company 75, United States Express Wmpany 68, (From Glenn and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Jqn. 30.) During the past week the London market for American Securities has been greatly excited, and the fluctuations have been large. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures have declined £l2, viz., from 53 to 41; and the Consoli dated Bonds £l3, from 42 to 29; 5-20 Bonds, however, are higher, and close firm at 721 to 735. Illinois Central after selling at 814 are now 79 to 794. The semi-annual divi dend on this stock is expected to be announced in a few days. A telegram received to-day that Eries have declined 12 per cent. in New York, and that a panic was ragitig in the stock markets, has sent down the price here from 42 to 37. The following is from the New York Com mercial and Shipping List : —" About the period of his Fort Wayne, speech, Mr. M'Culloch, Secretary of the Treasury, was undoubtedly one of the most popular members of the Cabinet ; but latterly a large share of the confidence reposed in him seems to have been withdrawn. And now many financiers and newspaper men who were his original supporters are unsparing in their denunciations of his financial management. The pressure brought to bear against him is so great that his resignation of the Treasury portfolio is L-y no means im probable. Nor are animadversions on Mr. M'Oulloch's financial policy confined to this side of the Atlantic; some of the English writers on finance, we observe, are begin ning to criticise his management sharply. We have before us the Circular of Messrs. Glenn and Co., a London firm who deal in public securities, which contains a scathing review of the head of our Treasury Department, Ste." Long extracts from our Circular of the 27th December are then given, with editorial comments, in which the admis sion is made that there is a good deal of truth iu what we then stated. Some time ago we closed a calm and unprejudiced re view of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway in these words—" Sooner or later the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds must sell for more than 42. We now wish to supplement this remark by observing that we have good reason to think it will be "later." After what has transpired during the last few days, we trust and earnestly beg the English public not to harshly judge Americans and American railways by such a standard as James M'Henry and the Atlantic and Great Western Railway. Mr. M'llenry is not an American born, and the Atlantic and Great Western Railway was not planned by American engineers, • nor has there ever been any considerable amount of American capital invested in it —Wall-street never would touch the bonds of this " company." The capitalists on the other side of tho Atlantic reasoned in this way—" If the Erie Railway, earning three times as much as the Atlantic and Great Western Railway on about the same capital, cannot pay a greenback dividend, how can the Atlantic and Great Western Railway pay their gold coupons and ster ling bonds ?" And yet up to the 15th of the present month the coupons were regularly paid—how ? And were they paid out of the earnings of the railway in question ? We look the responsibility of saying so square in the face, and assert that we believe the financial management of this road has been most corrupt---that traffic returns have been "cooked"—that dividends have been paid out of the sales of bonds—and that when the whole truth is known the London, Chatham, and Dover, and its management, will compare favourably with the Atlantic and Great Western Railway. In reply to numerous inquiries, we beg to give as our opinion of the Certificates of Debentures that they are worth less then the Consolidated Bonds. They are a second I charge upon the railway, ranking after the Consolidated Bonds, and the securities deposited at the Bank of England to pay them off are almost entirely unsaleable ; we doubt if they could be sold for enough to pay off at par 10 per cent. of the £2,800,000 debentures that become due on tho Ist of November next ; and our advice to investors who are still determined to keep an interest in the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, is to sell their Certificates of De bentures and buy the Consolidated Bonds; the exchange can now be made at a profit of about 11 per cent; and considering that the Consolidated Bank only guarantee the interest on these debentures till next November, we have no hesitation in recommending the immediate exchange. (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular.) The China's latest advices from New York aro to the sth instant. The demand for Government Stocks con- tinned, the Six per Cents. of 1881 and the 1862 issue of 5.20's being in most demand. Railway Stocks were generally steady at about former quotations. Mortgages and State Stocks were reported quiet. Money was in de mand to send South for the purchase of cotton, but for or dinary purposes was easy, and good Stock houses were well supplied. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN.—Much dissatisfaction is felt at the delay in issuing the Annual Report of this Company, which for the future is intended to be made up to October 31, instead of December 31. An independent audit of the accounts has been made by Mr. Bird, of the firm of Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co., who has recently returned from America, and whose accounts, together with the President's Report, aro looked for with anxiety. A copy of the account for receipts and expenses for the ten months, up to October 31st, from Mr. Calhoun, the accountant and auditor of the Company at Meadville, has been received. It gives the receipts for the ten months $4,833,489; the working expenses for same time, $3,522,460. Balance, profit, $1,311,029. (From Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.) Paris, Jan. 31. The general appearance of the Bourse has not varied since the 25th inst. Dullness and reserve are still the order of the day, and no one can foresee the end of this state of affairs, or can name any date at which confidence may be expected to revive. There is now much less talk of a new loan, tho rumour having been denied by the Minister of Finance ; but, on the other hand, the project of an income-tax for France is more than ever discussed, and almost universally with marked disapproval, and, should it ever be put into execution,would, we think, excite serious commotion. Exchange on London is slightly firmer, at 25.11 to 25.15. The only securities in which continuous and important operations have taken place during the week are those of the United States 5-20 Bonds, quoted last week at 821, closing to-day at 82k. Although we were for fivo days without telegraphic news from New York, and in spite of the rapid fall in French Government Securities, we are glad to say that dollars (the usual term given on the Bourse) have not yielded to the general current, but have restrained their upward tendency, more especially since the news of the fall of gold in the United States. Nevertheless, as regards merely speculative operations, the heaviest interest is still for the fall, many pessimits predicting political troubles on the other side of the ocean, and repeating continually that America is threatened with a terrible financial crisis. We do not pretend to discuss the matter, but we regard the question in a different light, and do not cease to advise our friends to increase their in vestments in American Securities. . " Frauk Leslie's" Smsational Style of Illustration. Frank Leslie has taken to a highly sensational style of illustration. Under the heading of " Home Incidents, Accidents, &c.," a page is devoted to such graphic pictures of horrible events that one's hair has a tendency to stand on end. Frank Leslie is always truthful in detail, forcible in illustration, and powerful and artistic in execution. The first cut in the sensational page shows the bow of the steamer Fashion ran ashore on the Mississippi river, the midships in one sheet of flame, and all com munication with the after part of the ship inter cepted. The men appear to have been mostly forward, while the women were aft, where the loss of life and theteal horrors of the event were enacted. This is described in the second illustration. There, the women are seen throwing their children overboard and springing themselves after them. A third cut shows them in the water, and the rescue of those saved in the boat by the captain and mate. This occupies one column. The next begins with a bur glar scene, in which an heroic servant girl, single handed, confronted a gang of ruffians and fright ened them out of the house into which they had effected an entrance. The second gives an American mode of punishment known only to the law of Judge Lynch. The inhabitants are exerising an offender on a rail ; the affair occurred in Connecticut, and the man's offence was insolence towards a lady. The last picture of this column carries us into Canada and spews that a crinoline is at times useful. A lady who had been skating got into the water, and is represented coming down the river like a balloon, buoyed up by the air confined within the folds of her dress, by which means she was kept afloat till assistance came. The next scene illus trates the consequences of a visit to a menagerie after the hours of exhibition, to which the animals had become accustomed. There appears to have been " a strike" amongst the animals in the mena gerie against disturbance at unseasonable hours. The elephant making himself the organ of this opinion seized the intruder with his trunk, and after swinging him to and fro several times threw him up about 20 feet. We have the intruder in the air, but we are told he descended on a pile of hay. The death of MARGARET M'NUITY is given. Her clothes bad become entangled on a fence, over which, when intoxicated, she had attempted to climb, and she appears to have died suspended with her head towards the earth. With reference to this illustration, Frank Leslie informs us that hanging mutineers by the heels was a favourite mode of punishment with Christian English officers during the mutiny in India, and that experience proved death was certain in about half an hour, under the most horrible suffering. This is a fair sample of Frank Leslie's comments on the English, and we regret the tone on this subject of an illustrated newspaper that would otherwise be deserving of a wide circulation on this side of the Atlantic. We have no wish to palliate any atrocities committed during that period in India, for we happen to know from our own personal ex perience that what Frank Leslie here asserts, is grossly untrue. There are two or three more illus trations on this page of the same character as those we have described ; but all its horrors are con densed into one large engraving occupying an en tire page, where the massacre is depicted of United States troops by the Sioux and Chey enne Indians, near Fort Philip Kearney, llacotah Territory. A detachment of nearly 90 soldiers were surrounded about four miles from the fort, and not a man escaped to tell the tale. The Indians, in all the glory of their feathers and fantastic dresses, are in the act of tomahaw king and scalping the troops. No pen can describe so faithfully the facts of the terrible murders now frequently enacted in the wilds of the Far West. The spectator realises what actually occurred ; and when the stories reach us of the appalling tragedies in which these Red Indians are the actors, the truth of the details come with a terrible significance to our mind. Such pictures are calculated to arouse a feeling of indignation and a cry for retribution throughout the States. Frank Leslie is far from encouraging this un-Chris tian sentiment—" It would seem as though it might be possible so to arrange matters as to preclude these constantly-occurring massacres. Either the Indian tribes should be treated with such constant and uniform justice and firmness as would make them strongly our friends, or else when the necessity arises, with such severity as would show them how much for their disadvantage it is to be hostile. It is difficult to dispossess our selves of the idea that the first course would be successful if really tried." These Indian outrages appear to have excited the marked attention of the United States Government. A letter from General GRANT, to the Secretary of War, appears in our files of American newspapers, which shows that a correspondence had occurred on this topic and measures of protection been proposed. The Commander-in-Chief is of opinion that the regular army cannot be usefully employed in prevent ing these massacres. Ile thinks the Indian outrages will diminish from this time forward, and we have little doubt that the completion of the railway across the continent will have the effect. To return, however, to Frank Leslie, we are sur prised that this illustrated paper and Harper's Weekly are not more generally sold in England, American scenes are in these admirable journals both beautifully and truthfully depicted, and con vey impressions which written descriptions fail to accomplish.—Anglo American Timer. Miscellaneous American News, A telegram from New York, dated Jan. 26, an nounces that President Johnson has approved the bill for re-assembling Congress on the 4th March nexc. When the steamer Fashion, on the Mississippi river, was discovered to be on fire she was run aground about seven miles above Baton Rouge, so that the people upon the bow could leap on shore. The fire raged in the middle of the boat about the boilers, preventing those in the after part from escaping by the bow. The women then in a frantic state of despair threw their children into the river, and sprang in after them. The commander, Cap tain Pratt, and Mr. Hastings, the chief mate, sac- ceeded in rescuing many of those struggling in the water, clinging to chairs and fragments of wood which had been thrown overboard, by means of a small boat. There were about 300 passengers on board, of whom about 50 were drowned. Mayor Hoffman stated in his message that the total funded debt of New York city is $30,642,076, and of the county $11,809,100 —total $42,142,176, which, substracting the sinking fund, is reduced to $30,901,878. Of — this, $11,000,000 are for the Croton Water-works, $10,000,000 for the Central- park, and $14,445,000 for expenses growing out of the w ar. 'rhe tax levy of last year was $16,950,767, of which $Bll,OOO were for salaries, $501,000 for street cleaning, $763,000 for lamps and gas, and $5,271,000 for police, board of health, asylums, and the support of the county govern ment. The Mayor thinks au immense amount of personal property escapes taxation entirely, and that if it could be got at, it would reduce the rate at least one-half. The Mayor says that while in theory New York is governed by the Mayor and city council----in fact it is not, and he hopes for a change on the meeting of the state convention. He recommends the improvement of the wharves and piers, the extension of Fifth Avenue through Washington-square, and of Centre-street to Fourth Avenue, to relieve the press of travel, and laments the widening of Ann-street, and the want of markets in the city. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States embraces 2,306 parishes, having 2,530 clergy men and 161,225 lay members. The contributions of the Church, for charitable purposes, during 1866, amounted to nearly $4,000,000. The scheme to restore salmon to the rivers of New Hampshire, operations under whish were be gun two years ago, is considered successful. Pro fessor Agassiz recommends that the various dams be so constructed as to admit of the free passage of the fish. Spawn deposited in Baker's River, a short time since, is hatching. The receipts of the New York Tribune for the first week in January amounted to $62,869,98. Subscriptions to American newspapers are generally renewed in January. Nevertheless, the 7 ribune's return is a large one. The House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting any person who took part in the rebel- lion from practising at law. Tennessee has rejected in its Legislature a bill to establish free schools. Upon which an exchange remarks :—" Until the Tcnnesseeans learn that a popular government is based upon popular intelli gence, and regard free schools as more necessary than a militia force or a loyal legislature, they may expect constant disorder and inveterate disloyalty." An invoice of twelve fierce-looking Camanches, in tended for the French Exhibition, has been received in New York. The Camanches are to be lodged dur ing their stay at some high and strong-barred hold, say the place used as the tarrying place of United States witnesses at the Tombs. how they can be taken with safety to themselves and the rest of mankind to Europe is more than an ordinary mind can determine. A later despatch from Fort Lafamie says the re cent massacre of United States troops by Indians did not occur near the old Fort Kearney, but in the vicinity of Fort Philip Kearny, Dacotah territory. The latter is situated at the fork of the two piney creeks, in the centre of the mountain districts of the military department of the Platte, and in the heart of the region occupied by the hostile tribes, the Sioux and the Cheyennes. Its defence consists of a well-made stockade of timber, pierced with loop-holes for musketry. At two of the corners were block houses of timber logs, 18 inches in dia meter. It is thought that the post was captured by treachery, as the force there should have been able to stand a siege, and it seems hardly possible that it could have been captured by Indian assault. On the other hand, the savages have so constantly manifested their hostility that it is difficult to see how the troops could have been beguiled into any relaxation of vigilance. We . notice the following in the Nation:— " Amongst the laws of North Carolina is a statute disfranchising all persons who have been guilty of larceny and similar offences, and have been punished therefore by whipping. In order to head off,' as is said, any action of Congress tending to enfran chise the negroes, the whites of that State are taking every opportunity of arresting them, convicting them of various petty crimes, and sentencing them to be publicly whipped. This is occurring in all parts of the State, and an army officer asserts that the sub ject is freely discussed amongst the members of the Senate and House of Commons, ono of them re marking, on one occasion We are licking them in our part of the State, and if we keep on we can lick them all by next year, and none of them can vote.' Says the officer mentioned above I cannot resist the conviction that there is a deliberate and general purpose to seize negroes, procure con victions for petty offences punishable at the whip. ping-post, and thus disqualify them for ever from voting in North Carolina, whatever may be the future action of the nation.' " A colony of 3,000 freedmen are about to settle in lands granted by the Government at New Smyrna, Florida. Six hundred freedmen have already left Charleston for the new Liberia. In a letter to Secretary Stanton, General Howard presents some estimates of the number of blacks in the South at the present time, which are compared as follows with the census of 1860 : 1860. Dec. 1866. North Carolina ... 361,522 361,522 Louisiana ..• 350,373 330,373 Florida ... ••• ... 62,677 62,677 Virginia ... •.• ... 548,907 500,000 South Carolina •.. ... 412,320 375,000 Mississippi ▪ 437,404 420,000 Arkansas ▪ 111,259 100,000 Georgia ... ..• ... 465,698 400,000 Missouri ... 118,563 100,000 Texas ... 182,921 200,000 Tennessee ... ... 283,019 300,000 The coloured population of Mississippi, as printed in theletter, is 320 ; but as General Howard speaks of only a slight" decrease in this State, there is evidently a mistake which needs correction. From the foregoing figures it appears that there has been a good deal of shifting and much presumable loss among the blacks. The Gulf States have contributed to fill up Texas and Tennessee, where an urgent demand for labour, on the one hand, and a loyal Government on the other, offered a refuge from idleness, precarious pay, persecution, and wicked laws. Kansas and lowa have drained Missouri and Arkansas ; Maryland and the District of Columbia, and indirectly the entire North, have lightened Vir ginia. Louisiana may have parted with some of her blacks, but must also have received many, act ing, perhaps, as a sieve to Texas. The emigration to Florida will-be more apparent hereafter. Alto gether, about 225,000 blacks are accounted for in the States enumerated. The natural increase in the past six years would have been about 350,000, and allowing that 100,000 will represent the number who have removed to, and still inhabit, States not included in the list above, we have a deficit of Miscellaneous French News. (From the Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.) In my last letter to the Anglo-American Times mention was made of the engagement of Made- moiselle Cora Pearl at the Bouffes Parisian in the character of Orphee aux Enfers. Last Saturday night she appeared before a most aristocratic audience. The theatre is two small to hold the crowds that flock to see her. Among those of distinction present to witness her Atilt were many of the elite of France, Spain, and America, the most noted being Prince Achille Murat, the Duke of Hamilton, and the Marquis de Madene. Also among the well-known theatrical personages was Mademoiselle Lilly, whose quarrel with Made moiselle Schneider was so lang the talk of France. Mademoiselle Cora Pearl appeared at Grist rather nervous, but very soon overcame all outward signs of trepidation. The works at the Exposition go bravely on, and the interior will be commenced.in a few days. The dining-hall is to have a cupola of immense size and beauty, ornamented with figures represent ing the different nations of the world coming as pilgrims to Paris. On Tuesday the Emperor appeared on horseback, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Goyon, and Mobsieur Du Boury, his ecuyer. He visited the barracks of Prince Eugene, and returned to the Tuileries at about four o'clock in the evening. There was a large dinner given at the Hotel de Ville on the 26th. Among the guests were the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Madame Moustier, the Prince of Moskowa, and Count Nieuweskeske. A German concert is given once a week at the Hotel du Louvre. There was one there last Saturday night. Madame Schroeder—who is engaged at the Theatre Lyrique—sang, and was received with great applause. After the concert supper was served, and after supper an operette was performed. Adelina Patti appeared in the " Barbiere de Seville," on Sunday night, at the Theatre Italian. It is the first time she has come before the public on Sunday. Her new song— "l could tell you his name, But I won't, ah ! ah !" is now the rage here. Richard Wagram is at present in Paris. He is the great favourite of the King of Bavaria, and it is said the King intends to build him a theatre at Munich. A young lady named Mademoiselle Aicher has arrived in Paris. She has run away —so says rumour—from the Harem of Mahomet Pacha Kibrisli, one of the principal dignitaries of the Ottoman Empire. The papers have been laughing at the intention of M. Havin to erect a monument to Voltaire by a subscription of 10 sous from each person. A cheap subscription for a memorial of so great a man. The grand ball at the Tuileries on the night of the 30th was, if possible, more superb than the previous one. The attendance was very large. The names of the Americans who had the honour of being presented to their Imperial Majesties are— Mr. John W. Dix, the son of the United States Minister to the French Court ; Mr. Wed. W. Clarke, New York ; Mrs. Wed. W. Clarke , New. York ; Mr. Clift, Mrs. Murray Smith, Mr. Phelp s , Mrs. Phelps, Mr. Giles, Mrs. Ellis, Miss Ellis, Mrs. Bryce Smith, Miss Smith, Mrs. Spencer, Miss Spencer, Mr. Barclay, Mrs. Barclay, Miss Macomb, Miss Matteson, Mr Tuckorman, Mr. Cobb, Mrs. Carey, and Miss Love. In my letter next week I will give a description of the style of dress worn by many of the ladies, the routine of presentation, and other items connected with the ball. General Cleescret, of the United States army, has arrived in Paris. His mission is to study the various military systems of France, with the view of discovering a method by which the number of the regular army of the United States. can be dimi- ni;lied. The exhibitors in the Champs de Mars are beginning to flock here and to make arrangements for the decorations of their stands suitable to the style of their goods. Among the recent arrivals of distinguished Ame ricans in Europe, I will mention the names of Hon. John M'Ginness, United States Ministerat Sweden ; Major-General Roberts, from St. Petersburg, where his improvements in firearms have at tracted much attention.—Hamilton Norton, Esq., Secretary of the New York Yacht Club, now in Paris, and who is in correspondence with the Com missioners of the Exhibition in relation to the pro posed International Regatta, and Mr. Mignot, the distinguished American artist, whose painting of a " Lagoon in.Guaquil," South America, is now on ex hibition at the American Gallery of Fine Arts, 14, Rue Auber. It is said that the crown jewels of France will be shown at the Exhibition, and they will be so placed as to be lowered into the ground at night, and be exhibited from a raised platform during the day time. Mr. John Gordon Bennett, the owner of the Henrietta, had the honour of an interview with the Emperor on Wednesday. This gentleman has been very cordially received, and I am glad to see that the kindness of both the English and French na tions has modified favourably the tone. of the New trork, herald towards these countries. A gold medal has been — preseuted, to him by the Regatta Society of La Rochelle ; so he is likely to carry off many trophies in commemoration of the greatest yacht race victory yet achieved. The replies to the complaint of Mr. Charles Dickens in the 7 times of the perils of the Midland Railway are amusing. Mr. James Howard, of the Britannia Ironworks, Bedford, a gentleman known as an American traveller, and one at least thoroughly conversant with things agricultural and things ap pertaining to agriculture, expresses his total dissent from everything Mr. Dickens has advanced against the railway. Next follows a letter of a captain of Royal Engineers, who bears corroborative testimony to the statement of Mr. Dickens, and proceeds to give his own experience. But the funniest letter comes from " a shareholder," who feels much in debted to Mr. Dickens for his powerful warning against the reckless driving of " express" trains. The " shareholder" can find nothing to complain of but the speed, which was so frightful that it seemed as if nothing could save the train from leaving the metals. This is a novel " thing" in complaints, and the " shareholder" could have got into a Par liamentary train and travelled at a rate which would have suited him. His letter must have been meant as " chaff." lie says that this rattling speed, of a mile a minute, is the constant practice of the Mid land, and that he has never had the good fortune to find it otherwise. The " Engineer's" letter really contains a complaint, for he states that the oscilla tion was so great that the carriages were perform ing a fantastic dance of a drunken character. A deputation from the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of Sir T. Fowcll Buxton, M.P. (President), Mr. John Hodgkin (Vice-President), Mr. W. 11. Warton, Mr. R. C. Warton, the Rev. J. C. Gallaway, M.A., Mr. Arthur Albright (llon. Secretary), and the Rev. A. Hampson (Secretary), had an interview with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-office, on Friday, January 25, on the question of an appropriation from the surplus funds for relief of distress in the manufacturing districts in aid of the frecdthen of the United States of America. The Great Eastern is to leave England for America on the 20th of March. The intermediate shaft of the paddle engines has been condemned, and Messrs. G. Forrester and Co. arc to put in a new one, which is being forged by the Mersey Steel and Iron Company, and which is to be finished by February 12. Six new screw-engine boilers are also being supplied. The "big ship," when she again leaves the Mersey, will have accommodation for no less than 2,800 passengers. She is to run between New York and Havre during the summer in con nection with the Faris Exhibition . 111INI 1 VG INTELLIGENCE. A prospectus of the "De Groot Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company" has been issued. The Company is formed f o r the purpose of work ing three gol l and silver quartz ledges, situated 1 11 Storey county, State of Nevada, United States. The Union Hill Silver Mining Company, an asso ciation recently formed here for working certain silver ledges on Union Hill, near Nevada, have appointed the late owner superintendent of the mine, and work upon the property will commence in March. It is not the intention of the company to ercct a mill at the present time, as the ore rased can be crushed at the Custom Mills in the vicinity. An English mining - engineer will shortly leave England to examine, and, if found satisfactory , take 1 ossession of the Lucy Phillipps gold and silver mines of Boise City, Idaho, on behalf of the company recently organised here to work this propel ty. Capt. James Barrett, of Cornwall and London, i a mining engineer, well and favourably known n commercial circles in the city, and formerly of the Indian Government Mineral Purveying Depart ment, has recently returned from the Pacific States, where he has been to examine certain properties for the Mineral Rights'Association of Loudon. 11 P understand that he has made a very favourable re port of the Tallulah Silver Mines of Humbolt, i Nevada, one of the most promising properties n that State. The property is in the hands of Messrs. Richardson and Capron, 11, Poultry. We understand that the recent arrangement made between the Washoe Gold and Silver Mining Company (an English company organised about two 3 ears ago for working gold and silver ledges . Nevada), and an American gentleman, whereby the mill of the company was to be put into immediate and profitable use, has terminated rather abruptly in consequence of a misunderstanding. 'rho shares are consequently very much depressed. With a valuable mill and extensive lands at Washoe, and mineral property of good reputation at Humbolt, this company, by prompt action and judicious management, might yet be made.to return large dividends. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORTHAMPTON-FEB. 2. - _ New white wheat, 58s to 655; new red, 46s to 64s ; old white, 62s to 68s; old red, 61s to 66s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 42s to 51s per qr. ; grinding, 29s to 368 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 33s ' • new, 23s to 32s per 24 ston e. Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. Po"? 38s to 42s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER—FEB. 2. Wheat, white 6 s 708 Beans, Mazag5n......3 38 408 red 628 678 Middle and small,. 44s 486 Harley ... l2s 56s Peas, white 38 8 428 Oat* ..... ... —8 - s grey ...308 12i RD-FEE. 1. --- - -- plied with wheat, but millers selination to buy, a dull busl the rates of last week. Oats Peas, Partridge 415 435 White ..328 363 Bailing - s —6 Dun.... ...38s 405 dit , o, new.... --14 Beans, Tick, 01d......40s s•'• new....33s Barrow ricks. 423 4u„l new.... 50 3 41` Mangan . ..... ;;9.5 436 CIIELMSFO: The market was fairly sum and merchants showing no in ness was done at 2s under and beans firm. Wheat, old white....s2s 66 new .5 s 67s old red. 500 1,96 new. 538 5S 8ar1ey..... 20s 33s Chevalier - -8 'lss 30a Malt 58a tOs Chevalier 60s 624 Oats ... 2lB 278 GRANTHAM—FEB. 2. Old white wheat, 65s to 725; old red, 60s to 68s ; 133r white, 68s to 71s •, new red, 56s to 64s per 36 stone. ley for malting, 38s to 455 per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 34 s P er , 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new 25s to 30s pe r stone. Beans, old, 42s to 52s ; new, 39s to 46s per 38 sto ne ' Peas, 35s to 40s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN--FEB. 1. At our market to-day w h ea t was in fair supply, but the trade was inactive, at lower terms. White wheat 52s Od to 60s Od P 62th v bushel. Red wheat 48s Od to 55s Odc Potato oats 24s Od to 26s Od C 40th io bushel. Common oats 23s 6d to 25s Odj Bere 31s Od to 32s 6q t 53th v bushel. Barl©y 32s Od to 33s Od Oatmeal 20s 6d to 21s 6d 13 boll of 280 1 b Flour, flue 43s Od to 50s 6d Vsack of 2600' KIRKCALDY—FEE. 2. Good supplies of wheat, barley, and oats. Saks slovr• Wheat and barley is down. Oats as before. Wheat. Barley. Oats First...— Les ud 34s , d 1 2:s Od teeond s 37s 6 i Od Tiiird COI ed 4 u ed 29s od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. : a. s. d. • i ,- 6 West Hartley Original Hartlepool l9 0 Bradyell's Iletton ... t.. 10 8 6 Eletton Lyons l6 9 South Hetton ......... 1 0 Tun stall ... a Q 9 Wallsend Haswell l9 0 Tees Riddell • - 9 Eden Main Russell's Raton... 6 Kepier Grange l7 6 K e ll oe .................. 17 0 Wharncliffe 3 Cowndon Acorn Close l7 0 Walls End Hetton ... 2° 9 Heugh Hall lB 0 Walls End Gosforth 16 . Ships at market, 145—sold, 102. Foreign Mail Packet List. a-- MAILS DUE. &ustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 19 ' Ditto, via 31areeilles Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet........ • • Feb. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Fe— h 27 China. Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton F eb , 3 Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Feb. 2 ' Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Ft b 7 ; Ditto, via Marseilles .... . • • India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb- Ditto, via Marseilles Feb i• Halts, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton .......Fe b ' 2. Ditto, via Marseilles . Feb Ifauritius, via Southampton Feb I 3 Ditto, via Marseil.es. iewfoundland Feb; 13. Portuga) , . ........ . ..... ..• • • Feb 4 Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon 'United Estates and British North America, by Bri- „ • . tish packet. ... • • ... ....... Feb. i Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton • Ditto, via Cork Ditto ny Cana , ll4n packet. 1.9u.1.0.1v.rry . Fob 1 vVent ladled and raottio telcoePt Balla u'* and liontlurat) Feb. i33118.1V...4, via New York. Fr. Cuba and Mexico ...... • Fcb• .- Bermuda. via Halifax .... Feb' 11 , 3 A - ea Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teueriffe .. • • Feb By the last mail from Brazil intelligence bas h ia , rived of a robbery committed at the Bank of 133" A large number of not es , of the value of 266 eontt,,)B, ~1 orabout £30,000 sterling, had been abstracted 11.'0 the cash chests, and when the mail left no clu e b oo been obtained to the guilty parties, nor 113 " ro d notes been traced. The robbery was only discovoo on the 22nd of December, through an exankit iat , l o o of the cash reserves by a new body of diree3a entering an office. A meeting of shareholders :03 been held, but after an explanation of the facts some discussion, it was adjourned for further quirt'. Tce Euscalduna, a journal of Bilbao, in f e st states that on the arrival of a train at Bruja l3 to days back six third-class passengers were foilll'oot be complaely insensible from cold, and tw o aria 00 likely to recover. The windows of the c3rr occupied by them were not even glazed. an rit/ ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment -- air aiv iA ; There is no question whatever that rheumatistr,ll°- eaS°l and such like painful maladies, are more rife this S il os than for some years past. The number of testilleoll'g cures effected by Holloway's remedies is unpreco gere and should be enforced on the attention of all s A l im po to from these complaints. The parts in pain sh° 111 "0 1 mented for some minutes with warm brine, dried , I ' l l ptl mediately well rubbed with the ointment. it IV ro lit into the pores of the skin, and give the greatenabt Many valuable lives are annually lost which 1 , 1 1,;5e re ; saved if early recourse in illness were made t° bo n markable remedies, which must necessarily po i ' cial, and cannot do harm. Births. Du CANE. —On tho 4th inst., at 54, Quoon,s_mtbe-te, W., tho on. Mrs. Charles Du Cane, of a da7lglit°';,joill Ikon. WALTERS n tho 3d inst., at the W a ldrons , Cll3' ... the wife of W. Walteri) E'sq., of a son. 45 Marriages.. gt it` l3cl.-01 ALLISON—WATKINS—On the 2d inst , at '' P`l h ' s ct Church, Ralph, son of the late Ralph. AllisoB,lo.ls`-' Adelai road, N.W., to Emil Margaret, ela °st t ' . o (s ' of the, late John Watkins, Esq., Y of Bristol. All P o ' 0' WATERMAN—MATTHEWS —On the 31st ult , at d 13r - , 5 Church, Kensington-park, Chas. Watertn. ftn , V. t ttl° :ll bank, Sheffield, to Helena, Notting-hill. of Nv• ' Esq., of Arundel-gardens, Notting-hill. Deaths. iris JUDKINS —On the 31st ult., at 11, Park-terilee' , 110 ° Charles 'l'. Judkins, Esq., aged 43 . NORTH—William North, Esq., o f IDa thgej d a7l6 ' till Streatham, late of Palace-road, B g ° A r a tte l VAUGHAN— OR tllO 3tl inst., at Greerthitne, J° ll/1 .-- Esq., aged 65. - - It - 1 ' . 1 0_ 0.., 1 1 . 1 4 L1A0r i ,,, IV', Og t.ondon: Printed tad Pabiiehed by of No. 112, Str4nd, Pthlter at Tux S vN Of c oati strand, in the Preetaet of the Savoy , ill the Middlesex. — Tuesday , February 5,1607'