The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-09 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIfiL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is considerable ea , iness in the Money Market to-day, and to illustrate the prevailing plethora of money, it may be mentioned that some choice bills having a few days to run have been negotiated at 2 per cent. There were again no bullion operations at the Bank of England yesterday. The retirement of Mr. Rhys B. Griffiths has been announced from the firm of Messrs. Leyton and Co., tea and colonial produce brokers. His department of indigo will henceforth be conducted by Mr. W. Price Stansbury, who has assisted Mr. Griffiths for the last 15 years. The City Offices Company will remove their offices to-morrow to the large block of buildings iu Old Broad-street, which they have just erected, and which are to be known under the title of Palmerston Buildings, in memory of the late eminent statesman. The building is of great extent, has a corridor of stately proportions, running from Old Broad-street to I 3 ishopsgate-street, and the rooms, upwards of 250 in number, are all spacious, well-lighted, and of easy access. It is confidently believed that the tenants will readily be found when the advantages the company can offer are seen and appreciated. It is stated that Mr. W. H. Holyland, the official liquidator of the Commercial Bank Corporation of India and the East, is about to apply to the Court of Chancery to sanction the payment early in February, of a dividend of 6s. 8d in the pound. This dividend would have been 10s. but for the obstacles raised by some of the creditors and share holders at Bombay to the remittance of the funds from thence, which will now have to be made avail able for a second dividend. At a meeting held to-day of the shareholders of the Union Bank of London the report (the 37th) was adopted. The net profits for the six months ending the 31st 4 December last amounted to £139,552145., which, with £79,883 16s. 9d. brought forward from 30th June last, amount to £219,436 10s. 9d. ; out of which a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, and a bonus of 2f per cent. on paid-up capital, being, together, at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum, was declared, leaving a balance of £99,436 10s. 9d. The traffic receipts on the Brighton Railway for the past week have been £19,371, against £19,373 in the corresponding week of last year. On the Mid - land they have been £38,064, against £11,155 in 1866 ; on the South-Eastern £18,365, against £19,640 in the like period of the previous year ; and on the Glasgow and South-Western £12,687, against £13,077 in 1866. The following letter relates to the quotation at the Stock Exchange of the shares of the Madras Ir rigation and Canal Company : TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,--I have the pleasure of informing you that the Committee of the Stock Exchange, upon application and proper proof, yesterday ordered that the shares a the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company shall in future be quoted under the head "British Possessions," with the words • guaranteed 5 per cent." added.—lana, Sir, yours &c., J. WESTWOOD, Secretary. London, Jan. 8, 1867. Two O'CLOCK. Accordi ng t o R euter ' s telegram from Paris this day, the French Rentes were 70f. 00c. The market for the English Funds has been rather fluctuating to-day, Consols having declined 4, and then recovering, so that the prices are just the same as they were yesterday afternoon, viz., 90/ 1 for money and the 10th, and 91 5-16 7-16 February settlement. The New Threes and Re duced Annuities are 901 ; Exchequer Bills, 9s. prem. ; India Stock, 213 ; do. 5 per Cents, 107 4 ; do. Enfaced 5 per Cents., 101 ; do. 54 per Cents., 1054 ; and do. 4 per Cent. Bonds, 30s. prem. Foreign Stocks generally show a decline. Turkish 5 per Cents. have receded 4, to 32 ; Mexican 5 , to 17i 14 ; G ree k , 4, to 141 ; and Italian, 4, to 31 ; but Spanish Passive have advanced 4, fto 214 1, and the Certificates, 4, to 144 4. The New Russian Scrip remains at 14 4 prem. American Securities also are flatter. United States 5-20 Bonds have fallen 4to 721 1 ; Erie shares, 1, to 454 4; and Illinois, 4, to 804 811. A very li m it e d amount of business has been transacted in British Railway Shares, and prices generally show a further slight depression. Lon don, Chatham, and Dover, North Eastern (Ber wick), and South Eastern, have each receded 1 ; Great Western, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Midland, each I ; North Western, ; and Great Eastern, 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without material change. Grand Trunk of Canada have declined ; Great W es t ern o f Canada, ; East Indian, 1 ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 4. Bank Shares remain very quiet. Alliance have improved to 184, Imperial Ottoman to 84 94 ; London and County to 67 4, and Union of Lou don to 45. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares have in seve ral instances been a shade flatter. Atlantic Tele graph 8 per Cent, have:declined to 70 72 ; ; FoEgypncier tian Tradi ng C o. are marked 4/ 5 Credit of England, 31 ; General Credit and Discount, 54 ; and International Financial, 2/ 4 Atlantic and Great 'Weste . rn Railway Debentures have declined 1, to 53 55, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds 1, to 411 414. MINING MARKET. WEDNESDAY, Two o'Clock. The market to-day has been moderately active. Great Retallack is in demand at 30s. West Chi verton, Prince of Wales, East Lovell, North Crofty, and Trelawney, meet with buyers at quotations. Annexed are the latest quotations : Chiverton Moor, 5 51 ; Chon:ales Gold, 21 3 ; Clifford Amalgamate, 8/ 91 ; East Basset, 211 221; East Caradon, 6 6 1; East Lovell, 10 101; East Wheal Grenville, 21 Great Retallack, 303 355; Groat Wheal Tor, 17 18 ; Itarks V a ll ey, 41 1; North Crotty, 4 4f ; North T ros k er b y, 21 3 ; P r i nce of Wales, 27s Od Od; Pr osper United, 3 1 4; Providence Mines, 27 29.29 s South Condurrov r , 12 s 14s ; S outh Grenville, —s a Od; Tincroft, 13 14 ; West %radon, ——; West Chivorton, 541 56 ; West Prances, 17 18; West Soton, ; Wheal Buller, 22 24; Wheal Chivorton, 61 71 ; Wheal Crzbor, --a —8; Wheal Grenville 27s Od 295; 'Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seton, 135 140 ; Wheal Trolawney, 10 12 ; Wheal Uny, —; Cara Camborne, 1/ 1 ; Central Minera, —; Kitchen, 10 1 ; East Cant Brea, 3 3 ;reat Laxey, 17 ; G Cooks' 18 ; Great South Tol g us, • 14s Od Od; South Frances, 22i 25; St. Ives Consols, 8 9; South Caradon, —; Stray Park, 4 6 ; Drakewells, 153 Od 20s Od ; South ,Darren, —0 —8; North Roskear, 6 8. BRITISH FUNDS-ONR VOLOCX. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Ac coun t , J an. 10 91.1- 1 3 per Cent. Reduced 9o± New 3 per Cent 9oj a I N 0 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. fo r 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 9pm Do .................. £5OO Do ............ £lOO Sc £2OO Bank of E ng l and Stock „, 61 per Cent -- p m INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., Apri11874... 213 Po. Account .......... . ..... Do. 5 per Cent. J u ly, 1880 ............... .............. 10 71 1 7 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ............... Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 55 per Cent., May 1879 lO5l Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds,4 per Cent., £l,OOO 3O pm Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1863 Do Account Do. £lOO Bonds Do. Account Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do 4:100 Bonds C..)uti DJ ian 6 2 per or Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) —.Cent Do. 3 pe p r Cent. D 0 .6 per C ent A Cu l ombia n B - , 6 per Cent. Dan a ' Cub 6 per C en t . si' 3 per Cent. 1825 Do. 5 per Cent., 861 — u 44411,11,44 VriucipaLitiee Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.,.— Do., Pt ovisional Land Warrant — Do Deferred E r,yptian 7 per Cent _ Do. Account Do., Second Issue — Do £lOO Bonds — Do. Account .. — Do. 1864 B2l i Do. Account Do .£luo Bonds B2l Do. Account Do. Government Railway Debentures — 00. Account - Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons .L./o. Coupons S 5 Do. Account G iliteinala 5 per Cent. It ;Han 5 per Cent 1865 _ Do, Account 711 Do. Marerntnana Railway ..._ Do. Account 11.xicar. 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1861 Do. Account 4 Du 5 per Cont. Anglo-French — Ifentevidean 6 per Cent,. ..•• Nloorish Imperial 5 per Cent Now Cirauada Do 3 per Cen — Do. Doferrad Do Land Warrants (Hectares) 'eruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 41 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Di Account Do 3 per Cont., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3 — Do. Account43} Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7 61 Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Da 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cont. 1859 Do 5 per Cont. 1862 - Do 5 per Cent. 1364 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B6l / Do. do. £lO p a id ll 1 pus I Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred — Do. Account Do Passive — Do Acchunt 2ll Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Do. Scrip, £6O paid Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds - Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account — Do £lOO Bonds — Do Account 544 5/ Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 — Do. 5 per Cent. Account — Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 186 - 2 — Do Account - — Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 — Do. Account .. — Ditto 11 per Cent. — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil, — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... — Do. Account French Routes, 3 nor Cent., Ex. 25f. — Do. Account — Itilian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 251. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Do. Account Do. February 9l 5-16 7-1 G MARKETS.—This day. MARK LANE. At Mark Lane to-day the trade presented much the same appearance as on Monday. The supplies of English produce were small, but foreign quantities came freely to hand. As regards prices the trade ruled firm, but the transactions were generally of a restricted character. The market was again scantily supplied with English wheat. There was very little business doing in any description, yet, owing to the firmness of factors, Lai.. day's quotations were well supported. Coastwise, as well as ex-granary, the show of foreign wheat was tolerably good. Fine pat-eels commanded very full prices, and other sorts were unaltered in value; the trade, however, was quiet. Floating cargoes of grain wore in fair request at full quotations. Fine malting barley was scarce and quite as dear as on Monday. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off slowly at late rates. Malt changed hands to a moderato extent on former terms. The supply of malt was seasonably good. The oat trade ruled quiet, but fine parcels were held at full currencies. Very few transactions took place in bea', yet prices were unaltered. Peas were dull, at previous quotations. The demand for flour was inactive, on former terms. 81111' AItitITALS THIS 860 Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Fl 270 . our English and Scotch 160 1,750 1, Irish Foreign 12,410 6,020 110 - - 33,310 1,350 sacke C OMPARATITE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIX.brls For the week ending Jan. For tho corresponding week 5, 1867. last year. Qrs. Av er . Qrs. Ayer. Wheat 46,674-60s 2d Wheat 49,310-46s 3d Barloy ...... ...45,899-43s Gd B ar l ey ..... 66 ,0 65-32s 9d Oats ........ 6,595-248 2d Oats BOROUGH HOP. Groat firmness continues to prevail in all branches of the hop trade, and, with decreasing supplies, prices aro on the advance. WHITECIIAPEL. There is a moderate quantity of meat on offer. The trade is quint, at the following quotations : Per 81b. by th e carcase. Beef ......... 3s Od to 4s 8d I Veal Mutton 3s 2d to 4s 10d I Pork -_•...... w .. • Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day. The market opens steady. Sales probably 10,000 _— The Free of Gold. The quotation of the short gold at Paris is a b out at par, and exchange on London is 25.14 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 a. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold Is about the same price in London and Paris. The (Mum of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 104 per cent. At this rate th ere i s no pro fi t on the importation ot gold from the United States. THE EXPENSE OF CLEARI NG THE STREETs.—At the meeting of the Board of Works, Highways, and Sewers of St. Pancras held yesterday—Ai r . J . s alter in the chair---Mr. W. B. Scott, the chief surveyor reported that in consequence of the heavy fall of snow last Wed nesday, he sent to the several contractors for cleansing the streets orders for the removal of snow from the main thoroughfaces, with instructions to employ any number of men and carts day and night. The assistant-surveyors were also authorised to employ any number of hands, and relays for the night work. It was not attempted to clear away the snow from the whole width of the roads, but mainly for a width of about 10 feet from the kerbs, by which course was also removed all the snow that had been swept from the footways and cast off the roofs of houses, and the channels loft open and free for the thaw when it came. The total number of carts employed was 120 daily (nearly half of them being teams), with the assistance of nearly 300 men daily ; 7,000 loads were carted away, and nearly 10 miles of roads cleared. Mr. Lawford, in moving that the report be approved, said St. Pancras had set an example to other parishes, and they were greatly indebted to their officers for their energetic services, and also to their chairman. Mr. Eldridge said the expense had been £l,OOO, and £l,OOO wasted. He could not imagine a more extravagant bit of madness; if they'had let the snow re main it would all have melted away. Mr. John Taylor lamented the expense to the poor ratepayers. The Humane Society, if they had done their duty, would have locked tip the contractors for bringing out their horses in such weather. Mr. S. Taylor considered the expenditure a great benefit, and they would have been blamed if the frost had continued. The chairman said if they did not do their duty they would be set aside for another body who would. The report was adopted, and also a motion acknowledging the services of Mr. Scott, chief engineer, and Mr. Worrell, and also the chairman. THE SHEFFIELD BOY MURDERER. —The respite of the sentence of death passed at the last assizes at Leeds upon Henry Gabbites, aged 16, for the murder of his fellow apprentice, Arthur Allen, at Sheffield, has been followed by a letter from the Homo-office, addressed to the Geyer nor of the Leeds Borough Gaol, announcing that the capi tal punishment has been commuted to penal servitude for DARING BURGLARY AT A LICENSED VICTUAL - LER'S.—Thi3 morning, about 5 o'clock, three me n entered the house of Mr. Hazleton, Coburg Arms, Webber street, Waterloo-road, and stole a considerable sum of money, jewellery, and clothing. As they were escaping Mr. Hazleton rose from his bed and fired twice after the fellows with a revolver, but without effect, and they got clear off. The entrance was effected by forcing back a belt at the front door, THE SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESOAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1867. SHARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Paid. Closing I Business Price. done. 87 sl'd 123 125 40 15 68, V 4 6 65 63 70 '72 116 118 31 5 6 120 12: 130 131 301 1 30f 301 lOU 02 5i 55 3-1 37 32 3 , 30 :32 9) 92 17 18 1.) to 122 )24 85 V 7 55 67 28 130 ti 10 11 115 1251 11 11i 93 OS .18 40 4 18 10 11,0 67 68 101 105 35 86 10 Il 119 121 I 1 2p 1 2p 73 75 114 118 148 152 17 49 70 72 9 10 160 253 3 4 130} 1 30 i 91 i 17 i !Ilti . l E 64 5i 66 Si 1221 10; 11 1241 I 5 ,SIONS. 56 58 100 101 id tp 4 4& 7i 4 50 55 101 103 101 1C,3 106 11,7 21 22 85 88 57 69 53 54 52 51 37 40 23 25 106 ICO I' 6 1 1071 7 201 & 100 102 91 93 12/ 13} 1: 121 F 8 92 81 84 100 102 92 94 85 90 82 g 5 97 9.) 97 98 1 I 91 98 1 5h I rT SECUIt: 93 94 90 92 90 92 77 78 75 7 7 104 106 103 105 1(.,2 104 104 106 88 ?0 ILO 102 lvt AO 105 107 104 106 105 107 108 108 96 100 90 91 90 92 90 95 85 87 98 100 84 85 .ITIES. 96 96 92 94 106 108 103 101 LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Roche.) I N RE HOLDEN.--EXTENSIVE FAILURE OF A RAILWAY CONTRACTOR. This bankrupt was described as a railway contractor, and contractor f3r public works, of Queen-street, Cheap side, and to-day was appointed for the proof of debts. No accounts aro yet filed, but the liabilities arq. estimated at £BOO,OOO, with assets not yet stated. Mr. Chidley was solicitor to the potition. MARYLEBONE COUNTY COURT. (Before Sir J. E. E. Wilmot, Bart.) FLOWERS V. WINDHAM. The final hearing of this case occurred this morning Tho action was brought by Mr. henry William Flowers, proprietor of the Red Li on T avern , Harrow-road, to re cover from Mrs. Agnes Wi n dh am , Of 3A., Westbourne terrace, Paddington, the sum o f £9O 145., the balance of an account delivered. Mr. Scaife, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Edward Lewis, for defendant. One curious item in the bill was £7 Bs. for 587 pints of ale supplied to 587 men employed at the Great Western railway terminus, at Paddington, on the day Mrs. Wind ham gave birth to a son and heir, and this was done at the express order of Mrs. Windham given some days previously- Another formidable item was for a large quantity of ' Reid's double best stout," to a nurse who attended the baby alluded to. It appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff supplied defendant with wines, spirits, and beer to the amount of £BO, and since then she had paid him nearly £GO. The defence was a plea of coverture, which was put in, and it stated that defendant was married to Mr.Windhain in 1859, and that Mr. Windham died in February, 1866. Mr. Scaifo stigmatised the plea as being, in a measure a dishonest one, and urged the fact that in 1864 defendant was separated from her husband, and that at the present time she was living in grand style. Mr. Lewis called Miss Rogers (defendant's sister), and other evidence, whose testimony went to show that in 1864 Mr. Windham occasionally visited his wife, and that he had borrowed money from plaintiff the same year. His Honour said he thought there wero sufficient assets from Mr. Windhani's estate to pay all creditors ; at all events he thought the plea must prevail. Mr. Scaifo said if that was his Honour's opinion he would elect to be nonsuitod. Nonsuited accordingly, without costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MANSION-HOUSE. EMBEZZLEMENT.—WaIter Sheldon Jewitt was charged before the Lord Mayor with embezzling divers sums of money to the extent of £l6O, the property of his employers, Messrs. Allen, Murray, and Co., tea dealers, B illiter-square. The Lord Mayor said that the case was very clear. The prosecutors were satisfied to get their money, and did not wish to ruin the prisoner, and therefore entered into the negociation in question. Under the circumstances the case became a civil one, and could not be dealt with crimi nally. lie must, therefore, dismiss the charge. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF STEALING BANK NOTES.—George Stephenson, a servant out of place, living in Mason's-yard, Duke-street, St. James's, was charged before Mr. Tyr what with stealing three .£5 bank-notes and a shirt, the property of John Ward, a servant lodging in the same house. The prosecutor said that he lodged in Mason's-yard, and the prisoner occupied the next room. On Thursday last he placed a .£5 note along with two others which were in his pocketbook, and he placed his pocketbook in his port manteau, leaving it unlocked, and on going yesterday to take out a £5 note he missed the three notes. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prosecutor what caused him to suspect the prisoner. The prosecutor said the prisoner had been laid up with rheumatics for a fortnight, and had not been out of the house during that time, and had been borrowing money, having none of his own ; but on Friday last he said that ho was going to the City to cash a cheque for £9, and went out, and on his return he paid for his board and lodging. Thinking the prisoner's conduct very sus picious, he got a policeman yesterday, and then asked the prisoner to let him search his room, and on doing so he found in a drawer a shirt belonging to him, and which had been taken off the top of the clothes in the port manteau, from which the notes had been taken. The prisoner said he knew nothing of the shirt, and that he had not placed it where it was found. He said that ho received the cheque from Mr. Baring, and that he cashed it at Glyn's, in Lombard-street ; but ho ;prosecutor) had ascertained that no such cheque had been cashed at the bank, and when the prisoner was searched nearly £l3 wore found upon him. Sergeant Stevens, 24 C, said that on taking the prisoner into custody he said he received the cheque for £9 from Mr. Baring, of Berkeley-square, and that ho changed it at Glyn's bank, in Lombard-street. On noarohing the pri soner, who denied putting the shirt whore found—in the drawer of a washstand—he found upon him £l2 in gold and lls. in silver. On making inquiries at Mr. Baring's, ho was informed that the prisoner was a servant to Mr. Baring some time ago, that-no such cheque had been given tac f o o hn I r 3eddic ir i aut. x beiTov m auayt months, G n wtm t hi h hyae s indt , c, et Glyn's, s n emabci d i that ouud rteio.t atwas sFuoMa Farquhar's. : bac wy ß au oh a tu r hal i erd n , g banked at Farquhar's. Subsequently the pri soner sa id t h at he d i d not cash t h e sstoryremand excessively t h suspicious prisoner e c r a.hads WESTMINSTER. MAGISTERIAL REPROOF OF POLICE MALPRACTICES. — Clara Harris, a married woman, about 30 years of age, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a greatcoat from the shop of Mr. Slone, 8, Leader-street, Chelsea. Mrs. Slone said that the prosecutor came there on Mon day, and, telling her a long story of distress, asked her to buy an umbrella, which she brought with her, and prose cutrix was at length persuaded to do so. Yesterday th• prisoner again came and offered a box for sale, which she refused to bay, and, turning her back for a moment in the shop, her husband's greatcoat disappeared from the coun ter, and with it the prisoner. James Strathlee, 225 B, said ho was called last night to take the prisoner into custody. He found her at her lodg ings, when she denied that she had been to Mr. Harris's that day. Witness hero produced a num her of duplicates and photographs,which he had brought from the accused's husband's room. Mr. Arnold—What can these things have to do with the charge. Is there anything relating to the property stolen ? Policeman—Nothing but the ticket of a coat. Mr. Arnold—you were justified in taking that, but had no right whatever to take the other things. The police aro getting to exceed their authority very much. It is most absurd to bring these duplicates and photographs here. You might as well have stripped the man and woman's house. It is a gross excess of your duty. Take the things back to the husband, Prisoner was remanded. THAMES. THE HYDROPATHIC SYSTEM—STEALING WET LINEN.— George Smith and John Tribe, each about 19 years of age, were brought before Mr. Paget, charged with being con cerned with another in stealing a quantity of wet linen. Yesterday evening two officers of the K division, named Briden and Venables, root the prisoners in the Globe-road, Mile-end, with a third man. Tribe had a bundle under his arm, and Briden seized it, and said to him, " That contains wet linen," to which Tribe replied, "No, it ain't, it's calico." Briden opened the bundle, which consisted of two bed gowns, a shirt, and other articles, quite wet. The articles had been recently taken off a line. Briden searched the prisoner at the station house, and found two large table cloths and a wet bed gown fastened round his body. Venables took Smith into custody and searched him. There was a wet chemise and a wet pinafore fastened round his body. The prisoners alleged they were under the treatment of a professor of hydropathy, but this was a fallacy. They adopted the hydropathio treatment to con ceal the linen, which the officers had no doubt had been stolen out of a yard or garden. This system of robbery had been carried on to a considerable extent in the suburbs. Mr. Paget inquired if an owner had been found for the property. Briden—No, sir, we have not had time to do so yet. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoners for a week to enable the police to trace the owner of the property. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—We are pleased to find that the attractions at the far-famed wax-work ex hibition, in Baker-street, continuo to meet with their full share of patronage during their present festive season. The hall of kings, which contains the series of life-size effigies of the monarchs of th i s co un try, froms also those the Norman oseof tomcoonsqtuoefstthe p t r h e a s t en o t f presentih.oeyralfamily, a s Majesty,well as the greatest a of the European statesmen, appear to be highly attractive to the hosts of visitors who daily throng the magnificent galleries of the exhibition. GREAT FLOODS.—The sudden thaw and the sub sequent rain have greatly swollen the waters of the Thames at Windsor, Maidenhead, and Staines. At Windsor the water rose very rapidly, the rise being estimated at about two inches an hour, and by yesterday morning the river was quite 2ft. higher. A strong westerly w i n d h as been blowing, accompanied by showers of rain, and as a large volume of water has yet to come down from the Oxford shire hills it is not unlikely that the inundation of last year may be repeated. in the north of England the streams have been also much swollen by the thaw. Yesterday by noon the rivers Rye, Iliccal, Hodge, Seven, Costa, and Derwent, with all the tributary streams, wore in flood. At 3 p.m. they had overflowed, and, as the rivers were still rising, a far larger flood than any of the four preced ing ones which have occurred since midsummer is looked for. Farmers aro driving their stock from the lands in danger. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) CHARGE AGAINST A DISCOUNT COMPANY MANAGER. James Freeling Wilkinson was indicted for that he, being a director of the Joint Stock Discount Company (Limited), unlawfully did take, and apply to his own use, certain pro perty of the said company—to wit, two bankers' cheques for the payment of £4,000 and £BOO respectively, The facts of the case have heen repeatedly published, and, briefly related, they were as follows :—ln the month of August last Messrs. Capper, stockbrokers, bought 520 shares in the Joint-Stock Discount Company (limited) for Wilkinson, and on the 16th of that month 377 of them were delivered, and £l,OOO was asked on account. 'Wil kinson said he could not pay for that sum in cash at that moment, but that he would give a cheque on the Joint- Stock Discount Company fer the amount, and he would pay it to the Discount Company through a third party. The remainder of the shares were delivered on the 28th of August, when Messrs. Capper received another cheque for £B6O, being the . balance of that duo on the shares. They were appointed the liquidators of the Joint-Stock Discount which stopped in 1866, respecting the £B6O which the firm offered, was in payment made by the defendant on his personal account, and not on the sum due by their firm, for a loan, an entry to which effect had been made in the books of the Company. The £4,000 defendant alleged also that he had given in loan to a Mr. Cleland, who was not to be found. Mr. Capper, in his examination, said ho was a member of the firm of Capper, Lescombe, and Lawson, and they had dealings with Mr. Wilkinson in buying and rebuying shares. They never borrowed on the 16th of August £4,000 from the Joint Stock Discount Company as a loan. A sum of the account was received from Mr. Wilkinson, and credited to his account. On the 28th of August we never borrowed a sum of £B6O, or did we pay interest or give security for the account. That sum wasalso received as a payment for certain share transactions, and certainly not as a loan. In cross-examination, by Sergeant Ballantine, he said ho transacted nearly the whole of the transactions of the firm. When they wore ordered to buy shares they inva riably go either to the jobber, or broker, and a contract is made with either of them by word of mouth, never by a contract note. They enter the transaction in their books, and it is checked the next morning. They don't assume that the persons with whom they had the transaction had the shares in their possession. They never assumed any thing. They are looked upon to produce the value of shares, if the seller demanded it, on the settling-day. It depended upon credit whether the buyer was called upon to pay for the shares. They never bad a black account, that would require loans to enable them to meet demands. It was part of their business to borrow money at one amount of interest and lend it if possible at a higher. He used generally to see Mr. Wilkinson at the bank every morning for chatting and business purposes. John Ramsay, clerk to Messrs. Capper, said, ho recollected taking over 377 shares to Mr. Hill at the Joint Stock Dis count Company. He asloed Mr. Hill for the cheque, but as he did not get it he communicated with his principals, and he went again and then he received the £4,000 from Mr. Hill, the assistant manager. He could not recollect the form of the cheque the same day that he received it; he paid various cheques into Messrs. Masterman's, and in the credit slip of the monies so paid in he saw £4,000 cheque. . . The case was not concluded when we went to press. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Shoe.) CHARGE OF ARSON. Frderick Bicknell was indicted for feloniously setting fire to a certain dwelling house and shop, with intent to defraud. The premises were situate at the east end of the town, viz., Queen's-terrace, Commercial-road, and on the alarm of fire being raised the engines attended, and the firemen entering, the premises were found to be burning at two dis tinct places very rapidly. The fire was extinguished, and an examination of the premises being made the calling and different parts of the shop were found to be wet with paraffin. A board in the first floor seemed to have been raised, and oil or grease seemed to have been thrown be neath it. From all appearance the fire seemed to have been wilfully caused. The case was proceeding when we went to press. THIRD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) Thomas Conner and Margaret Cooper were indicted for robbing Frances Burn of 18s. The jury found both prisoners guilty. On the officers being asked whether anything wasknown of the prisoners, no less than 18 former convictions were proved against Conner, and two against Cooper. The Recorder said the prisoner was a most dangerous person, and as former punishment seemed to have no effect, he should in this instance sentence him to eight years penal servitude. Cooper he should sentence to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. James Garrett Yates, a traveller, lately in the service of Messrs. Bellville, mustard dealers, and who was yesterday convicted and sentenced to five years penal servitude, was again placed before the learned Recorder this morning, wheh hie sentence was altered to 18 months' imprisonment. INTERNATIONAL ROWING REGATTA.—The Impe rial Commission for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867 has announced to her Majesty's Commissioners that it is intended during the Exhibition to hold an interna tional rowing regatta on the Seine, in which they invite this country to take part. Her Majesty's Commissioners have accordingly fppointed the following committee to make the necessary arrangements on the part of Great Britain :—The Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Drogheda, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Granard, Earl Vane, Lord Alfred Paget, the Hon. G. Denman, M.P., Mr. T. E. Chitty, Mr. J. Macgregor, Mr. Allan Morrison, Mr. J. White, and Mr. C. Wylde (secretary). The Imperial Commission has appropriated a sum of £BOO for prizes at the regatta, and contributions have also been promised by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his Royal High ness the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Marlborough, Sir J. Pakington, M.P., the Hon. G. Denman, M.P., &c. The committee has recommended that the regatta should be held in the second week of July, and that it should comprise races for boats of all classes, from scuffing boats and canoes up to eight oars. BOats duly entered for the races will be conveyed from London to Paris and back again free of expense. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN PAUPER,.—On New Year's-day—her own birthday—there died in Shrewsbury workhouse Mary Galligall, aged 102 years. Mrs. Galligall, who knew herself best and was better known as " granny," was, up to the very hour of her death, a singularly shrewd and lively old lady, and, propped up in her comfortable bed, held her regular receptions, and was wont to crack jokes and bandy repartee with her visitors, in which en counters she didnot always come off second best. Although her body was wasted away till her arm was not thicker than a man's forefinger, her animal spirits never seemed to flag, and her senses and intellect were in a remarkable state of preservation. By the kindness of Dr. Keate, the house surgeon, she had many privileges not usually ac corded to paupers, among which were her lunch, her glass of gin, and her pipe, which were duly provided at eleven o'clock each morning. On New Year's-day she finished her gin and smoked her pipe as usual, and then quietly lay back and died, without a struggle or sign of pain. No doubt can exist as to "granny's" prc3iso age, the parish authorities having sought out the register of her birth and verified it. A VEGETARIAN FESTIVAL.—A rather remark able festival was held at Blennerhasset, Cumber land, on Christmas-day, upon the farm of Mr. William Lawson, son of Sir Wilfred Lawson, of Brayton. The farm is conducted upon the co operate principle—a tithe of the profits being divided among the workers, and Mr. William Law son and his servants are vegetarians. All the people of the district who chose to write beforehand for free tickets or to pay 4d. on Christmas -day were invited. Musicians were requested to take their -instruments with them, and it was added " those who like may bring their own spoons." About 1,000 people attended. The farm buildings were decorated, and in the large rooms singing and dancing, and lecturing on phrenology, co-operation, vegetarianism, and physiology went forward at intervals during the day. At noon a meal of grain, fruit, and vegetables was given, which rather sur prised some of the beef-eating peasantry who had assembled to take part in the festival. There were raw turnips, boiled cabbages, boiled wheat, boiled barley, shelled peas (half a ton of each of these three last-named) ; oatmeal gruel, with chopped carrots, turnips, and cabbage in it ; boiled horse beans, boiled potatoes ; salads, made of chopped carrots, turnips, cabbages, parsley, &c., over which was poured linseed boiled to a jelly. As there were no condiments of any kind, either upon the extra ordinary messes or the table, and all being cold except the potatoes, it may be imagined that the guests did not sit down with much relish to their vegetarian fare. Each one had an apple and a biscuit presented on rising from the table. In the course of the afternoon Mr. Lawson's two steam engines, called by him " Cain" and " Abel," set off with steam up and whistles screaming to lead a procession over the farm, but they did not get very far, and the procession was rath er a straggling °se. Good order was maintained all day, the farm servants of the establishment acting as officers, and Mr. W. Lawson himself performing the duty of special constable, a fact which was announced by placards posted up on the farm buildings, bearing the words--" William Lawson, swore constable," Railways. flrtiatol and Eiceter Caledonian ...... 100 ~Cambrlan .. Cork and 8and0n..... . tCornwall all Dublin & Belfast June ' 100 Dun„Perth, & Ab.Jwac lOO !,.London, scrip Certi ' all Do. 1100 Glasgow &S. Western- 100 !Great Eastern, Ord. s tic, 100 Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2' 100 :Great North of Scotland. 100 'Great Northern lOO Do. A stock lOO Do. [1 stock 1100 Do. New, Is. at 25 pni.i 10) Gt S, and W. of Ireland', 100 Gt. Western -Original ILO Do. 6. Val. Rail gua. l 100 Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxiorcii 100 Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 Lmtion and Illackwl Lon., Brigh.,&S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lyn. Az North Western Lon. & South Western. Man., Shel., 3: Lincoln, Metropolitan Do. Neva Do. Extension-- Metropolitan District. IJo. do. do. i)o. and St. John'sird Hid • and Do. .£9 Share Do, Birmiu.. & Derb) vlid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwics Do. U.N•I6 purolisst Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 5 Do. do. 1866 . North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock DO. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok Tail Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall 7 100 all 100 100 100 1(5.13.4 100 100 100 all 100 100 6 100 BRITISH Y Atlantic&SlLaWrence Ro Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 6 per cent... Do. F shares Buffalo .SL Lake Huron Do. Preference Bufl.,Brant,& Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 Calcutta & S. E., lim Jape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East ludian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension irand Trunkoi Canads Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pr f. Bonds Du. do. deferred 1 Do. 3d Pref. stook. Do. do. deferred . Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. Do. Gua. 5 per cent 1 Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada-1 D. New . Do. 6 p. c Bt.& pay. 1873 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 41 do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N.lll.C'da, 6pc Ist pf.bs Scinde ..... - Do. Delhi Do. do . tit Do. Puniaub.... R.O Do.lndus St-not " COLONIAL GO VER British Columbia, 6 per! Cent., Dec.3l, 1372: Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.dr July 1877-64 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl. &Oct 1890-1900 Do. do 1680-9 u Do. Jan.&July, 1893-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Caylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. O. Isis, uu Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July DO. 1878 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov 15 'Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug.. Natal (.lov. 6 per cent.. N. 8.G0v.6 p.c. Ja.&J my N. S.W. Gov.s p•c.,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... ... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 pm. 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, April & Oct BRITIS Cam. Consol. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East earn Bra Nast Grenville East Gunnislake East Loveil E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L ixey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Helstou Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny LelanM 3larke Valley slwyndy Iron Ore, limi New Se ton North Roskear N. Wh'l Bassett (Mogan, North Wheal Crotty 1 Prosper United Pr,ividenee,Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ! South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park :Flu Croft Vigra and Clogan, West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liakeard West Chirerton West Seton. Wheal Bassett (Mogan Wheal Buller (Bedruth Wheal slary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Whestl Trelawnev (Lis. , H MI. 2.1.0 294 2.14.0 31 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.1, 584 5.17.0 64 74 114 61 405 415 6 18 20 5 6 2 3 2 3 1 9 10 24 21 5 6 17 18 15 16 11 30 32 2 si 2 4 31 41 21 lid 35 45 2 4 21 3.1 24 26 300 320 1 1 18 22 1 2 9 15 4 . 14 12 M 54 56 113 :26 63 75 18 20 10 12 135 145 7 9 AKI;Y. rILEFLKENUIIi S Great Western, Orig. 4} per cent.. 8 London, Chatham. and Dover 5 per cent. pref. PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London Brighton, &c., 5 per cent. 1865, 941 London and S.-Western 41 per cent., 92 LINES LEASED Ar FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle, 2t I Loudon and Blackwell, 81 FOREJUN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, • - FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., 9 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Min. and Smelting, 7i St. John del liey, lim., 530 BANKS. . Alliance, lint., 181 Chartered %ter. of India. London, and China, 331 i t Consolidated Bank, lint. , 4f East London, lim., 31 Imperial Ottoman, lint., London and Brazilian aim.), 32 London and County, 66i 7 London Joint Stock, 44 London and South-Western, lint., 17 Standard of British South Africa, lim., - - Ditto, issued at 6 pm., 31 Union of Australia, 40 Union of London, 45 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 15/ Atlantic Telegraph, Int.% 8 per cent., 70 2/ Berlin Water Works, Rm.. Ditto, new. 51 Bombay Gas, lim. ' 4/ City Offices, lira. 5 4/ Credit eoncier o f England, lim .31 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, Um:. 5 4/ Gen. Credit and Disoount, aim., 5/ „ In ternational Financial society, lim., 2 1 Z Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 7* Ne.tional Discount Company, Ditto, new, Issued at 5 prem.. of which 21 Is to pay, ilt Peel River Land and Mineral. 3 6 Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lim., In the cotton market the price of fair Sut7T,T—iticti was about 17d. per pound on the Ist January, 1866, was on the Ist January, 1867, after many fluctua tions, about 12id. The cattle plague returns, issued on Thursday night, show that although the disease has not com pletely disappeared, it remains confined to the South Ilolderness petty sessional division of the East Riding. Nine new attacks were reported, all in that locality. 11Ir. Bennett having announced that he holds himself in readiness to accept any challenge from English yachtmen, the Duke of Edinburgh has agreed to sail him round the Isle of Wight in August next for £lOO, the Duke to sail his own yacht. Share Doncaster Eccentrics. We extract the following from Ur. Timbs's new work, " English Eccentrics and Eccentricities :" "Among the visitors to Doncaster racecourse are many of the lower grade, some of whom have contrived to get hanged. Such was the case some half-century since with Daniel Dawson, who employed himself, or was employed by others, in poisoning with arsenic the drinking-water of horses whose success in the future race was not desirable to Daniel or his patrons. Several steeds perished in this way at tho hands of Daniel, in the north as well as at Ness market. Ultimately a ease from the latter locality was proved against him, through the treachery - of a con federate, and Daniel suffered, for it at Cambridge. Had he been a met-4r in a good cause, he could net have died with more becom'ngness. Daniel complained of no one, did not even reproach himself ; and expressed his satisfactory conviction that he should certainly ascend to Heaven from the Brutal as his offence was, it seems ill-mea sured justice that takes a man's life for that of a beast. "Dawson is beyond our own recollection; but wo can remember amore singular and a much more honest follow, whose appearance on the Doncaster course was as confi dently looked for and as ardently desired, as that of any of the Lords-Lieutenant of the various Ridings. We allude to the once famous Jemmy Hirst, the Rawcliffo tanner, whose last of about fifty visits to the 'Sillinger ' and Coop' contests was made when ho was hard upon ninety years of age. When Jemmy retired from the tanning business with means to set up as a gentleman, the first ob jectle purchased was not a carriage, but a coffin, deposit ing ther3in some of the means whereby he kept himself alive, namely, his provisions. The walls of the room in which this lugubrious sideboard was erected were hung round:with all sorts of rusty agricultural implements. This lord of a strange household retained a valet and a female general servant.' His stud consisted of mules, dogs, and a bull, mounted on which he is said to have hunted with the Badsworth hounds. His most familiar friends were a tame fox and otter. He certainly rode the bull when he went out shooting, and was then accompanied by pigs as pointers. In fair-time Hirst used to take this bull and a couple of its fellows to bo baited, sitting proudly by himself while his valet went about collecting the ' coppers.' His waiscoat was a glossy garment made of the neck feathers of the d-ake, from the pocket of which he would issue his own bank-notes,bearing responsibilities of payment to the amount of 'Five half-pence.' "His carriage was a sort of palanquin, carried aloft by high wheels, and its peculiarity was that there was not a nail about it. This vehicle was really better known at Doncaster than the stately carriage of Lord Fitzwilliatn himself. It was the boast of the proud and dit'.y gentle man who sat enthroned there that he had never paid and never would pay any sort of tax to the King ; and how he managed to shoot, as he did, without paying a licence, was best known to himself. He was the most popular man on the course, and, unlike very many who began rich and ended poor, Jemmy increased in wealth year by year. He was wont to cantrast himsele. with ' the Ptimoe's friend,' Col. Mellish, who inherited an immense property, won two Legers in two consecutive years, 1801-5, and finally died almost a pauper. Jemmy had undoubtedly, in his view of thinge, done better than 0 )1. Mellish ; but the tanner, through life, never thought of the welfare but of one human being— that of James Hirst. He was as selfish as the butcher-churchwarden of Doncaster, who ruined the grand old tower of the church by placing a hideous clock face in it, which was so constructed that no one could see the time by it except from the butcher's own door! "We should hardly render Hirst justice, however, if we omitted to state how such a great man departed from this earth. The folding door of his o'd coffin was closed upon him. Eight, buxom widows carried his corpse for a hono rarium of half-a-crown each. Jemtry had expressed a desire to have eight old maids to undertake this service, bequeathing half-a-guinea to each as hire. But the ladies in question were not forthcoming. So the widows were engaged in their place ; but why the fee was lowered we =not tell, unless it was to pay for the bagpipe and fiddle which headed the procession. All the country round flocked h to do Jemmy honour or to enjoy the holiday; and for many a year afterwards might the sor:owing comment be heard on Doncaster Course : 'Nay, lad ! t'Coop-day seems nought-like wi'out Jemmy !' and the mourners took out his 'Fihaw-pence notes,' and compared their own touching respective memories of the departed glory of Doncaster. "At the close of Jemmy's career the wonderfully dressed 'swell mob' was busiest, if not brightest. The latter was only shop lived. A party of them really dazzled common folk by the splendov7 of their turn-onf, both as regarded themselves and their equipage. People took them for foreign princes, or native nobility returned from foreign climes, and not yet familiarly known to the public. The impression did not last long. The well-dressed, finely curled, highly-scented, richly-jewelled strangers, saunter ing among the better known aristocracy, commenced a series of predatory cp3rations which speedily brought them within the fastness of the town gaol. No one who sew them there a day or two later, after seeing them on the course, will ever forget the sight and the strange con trast. Stripped of their finery, closely cropped, and clad in coarse flannel dresses, they might be seen seated at a board, with a hot lump of stony-looking rice before them for dinner. _ _ "Altogether, there was occasionallya very mixed society on and about the course—among the so -to-speak pro(es sional habii:uis, men who made a business of the pursuit there —who were actors rather than spectators, and all of whom have disappeared without leaving a successor in his peculiar lino—we may mention the old Duke of Leeds, redolent of poi:, ; the white-faced Duke of Clevelan(, the Jesuit of the Ring;' P. W. Ridsale, ox-footman, then mil lionnaire, finally pauper ; blacksmith Richardson, who shaking his head at Leeds,' would remark of himself, that sobriety alone had saved him from being hanged ; Mr. Beardswortb, who had been originally a hackney-coach man, then sporting his crimson liveries ; Mr. Crook, who commenced life with a fish-basket ; and the well-known son of the ostler at the Black Swan, in York, wearing diamond rings and pins, betting his thousands, and look ing as cool the while as if he not only largely used the waters of Pactolus, but owned half the gold-dust on its banks. " The two extremes of the official men as regarded rank were, perhaps, Lord George Bentinck and Mr. Gully, the ex-pugilist. The former introduced, at Doncaster, the signal-flag to regulate the st•trts,' and he founded the Bentinck Fund (w:th the money subscribed for a testimonial to himself) for the relief of decayed jockeys and trainers. The two men were equals in ono respect, the coolness with which they either won or lost. They who remember the year when Petro's Matilda beat Gully's Mameluke, and who witnessed the event and its results, speak yet with a sort of pride of Gully's conduct. lie had lost immensely ; but he was the first man who ap peared in the betting-rooms to pay any ono who had a bet registered against him ; and he was the last man to leave, not retiring till he was satisfied that there did not remain a single claimant. Ho pa'.d away a grand total on that occasion, which, properly invested, would have set all the poor in Doncaster at ease for over. PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION.—A " Model Bill," as entitled, has recently been printed, under the direction of the P,:vate BPI-office, for adoption in the forthcoming Session of Parliament. It contains 35 clauses and a supple ment of special powers required in some private Bills. BELGIAN SMUGGLERS.—Some mounted smugglers from Belgium, each cariiing about 100 l - Ilogrammes of tobacco, snug, and cigars, some days since passed the French frontier in a dexterous manner. Leaving Blandain they followed the lino of railway as far as Baisioux, where a French custom-house officer gave the alarm respecting the ai:ival of this novel lend of train; but the smugglers put spurs to their horses, and,,throwing a packet of snuff to the official with a "Good overing !" succeeded in getting off. LICENSING PUBLIC-HOUSES AND BEER-SHOPS. — We understand that a conference, under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury, is to be hold at the end of the pre sent month in St. Martin's Hall for the purpose of institut ing a searching discussion into the present system of licens ing public-houses and beer-shops. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, the Earl of Har:owby, the Earl of Lichfield, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Leigh, Mr. A. H. Layard, M.P., Mr. Hugh Owen, of the Poor-law Board, and the Rev. 11. Solly aro among the principal supporters of the conference. DESERTED DOCTORS' COMMONS.--iire are in Doc tors' Commons, and lawy ers themselves will be startled to learn that the old Arches Court, the old Admi ralty Court, the old Prerogative Court, the old Consistory Court, the old harbour fo r delegates, chanc epors ors, viseacar generals, comm i ss aries, prothonotaries, cursit, l keepers, sergeants-at-mace , doctors, deans , apparitors, proc tors, and what not, is being applied to such useful purposes now. Let the reader lea ve the bustle of St. ;Paul's-church yard, and, turning under the archway where a noble army of white-aproned touters formerly stood, cross Knight Rider street and enter the Commons. Tho square itself is a me morial of the mutability of human affairs. Its big sombre houses are closed. The well-known names of the learned doctors who formerly practised in the adjacent couits are still. on . the doors, but have, in each instance, "All letters and paras to be addressed" Belgravia or to one of the western inns of court as their accompaniment. The one court in which ecclesiastical, testamentary, and mari time law was tried alternately, and which, as wo have seen, is now ending its days shabbily, but usefully, is through the further archway to the left. Hero the smack Henry and Betsy would bring its action for salvage against the schooner Mary Jane ; hero a favoured gentleman was oc casionally "admitted a proctor exercent by virtue of a ro script ;" here, as we learnt with awe, proceedings for divorce were " carried on in pcenam," and " the learned judge, without entering into facts, declared himself quite satisfied with the evidence, and pronounced fox the separation ;" and here the Dean of Peculiars settled his differences with the eccentrics, who I presume, were under his charge, and to whom ho owed his title. Alteration in the law has dispersed the merry brood ; alterations in London have thrown their deserted legal eyrie into the hands of the Metropolitan Board of Works; and, until the ground adjacent is filled by the now thorough faro, Mansion House-st-eet, the old court-house and Com mons' grounds will remain at the disposal of Capt. Shaw and the Eir4 Drindo.—,Dickens's "ill/ the Year &ma." . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER STEEPLECHASE MEETING. On the authority of the Electric Telegraph Company, we inserted in the Sun of yesterday an announce ment to the effect that this meeting would take place on Friday and Saturday next. We are requested by Mr. S. Lambert, clerk of the course, to correct this mistake, the meeting have been postponed to Friday and Saturday, the 25th and 2Gth of January. Several stakes will have to bo re-opened, particulars of which will be published in due eourse. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. TUESDAY, MARCH 5. _ Entries for the Liverpool Spring Cup of 200 sous in specie, added to a handicap sweepstakes of 15 soya each. One mile and a half. *John Davis, 6 yrs K. of the Fairies, 3 Duchess of Wel- Nu, 5 The Colonel, 4 lington 4 Wellesley, 5 Russian Be e , 4 Honesty, 4 Edgbaston, 4 Rejoinder, 3 llonestish,. 3 Archimedes, 5 Harcourt, 6 *Whirligig, 3 Leap Year, 3 Bracken, 3 C a i t h ness, 4 Foresight, 3 Sk"lnish, 5 Chepstow, 4 The Rock, 3 Beeswi ug , 4 Clarice, 3 Mrs. Allan, 4 Lady Calthorpe, 4 Dulcimer, 5 *Merry Harp, 5 *Malvern, 4 Maggie, 3 Helen, 6 Ackworth, 6 John Halifax, 4 Fan, 5 King Charles, 3 Sorgt. Pacquot, 4 Buckfoot, 6 Miss Williams, 4 Cora, 4 Musketeer, 5 Fby Y. Melbourne F by Diophantne Fortunatus, 4 —Doralice, 3 out of Kite, 3 Hawkswell, 4 Sweet Home, 3 Broadlands, 3 Proserpine ' 4 Red Wine, 3 L ozenge , 5 , Steamboat, 4 Tacitus, 4 Wandering Min- Numa Pompilius, 3 Izaak Walton, 4 strel, 6 Those horses marked thus (*) having been entered without the knowledge of their owners, will be struck out at the time prescribed, unless specially orderod to re, main in. RACING FIXT( FEBR RES FOR 1867. IARY. Lincoln Spring Harrow 2l Nottinghaia 6..., 26 Derby 013. Liverpool Spring Chelmsford Spring l2 West Drayton l9 Bromley Epsom Spring 26 Lewes Spring 2B Croxton Park 29 Northampton Windsor Spring 4 Edinburgh Sp. Meeting 6 Newmarket Craven 8 Curragh Thirsk U Durham .. 22 Newmarket Ist Spring 22 Catterick Chester ' 30 :AY. Chester (continued) T York Spring 7 Salisbury 9 Doncaster Spring Bath JU. Harpenden Epsom Sommer 2l Newton 29 Croydon Ascot Summer Windsor Summer Manchester Summer Hampton l3 Odiham l7 Bibury Club lB I Stockbridge l9 Chelmsford I N ewcastle .. 25 Curragit IWorcester Summer 27 Ipswich 2Z 'L Y. Carlisle 2 Newmarket July 2 Pontefract Reading Liverpool July Meeting 10 Hungerford ll Nottingham July Down Royal Corporatn, 17 Stamford . 18 Huntingdon 23 Winchester Southampton Goodwood Goodwood (continued) 1 Ripon Brighton Brighton Club 8 Lewes Egham Wolverhampton l3 Stockton Oxford l5 Hastings SEPT 3 3 3 5 York August Dover West Drayton 22 Plymouth .. 23 Canterbury Lichfield Derby Summer Weymouth Tunbridge MBER. Richmond l7 Hendon l9 Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2IJ 5 Newmarket Ist October 24 10 Walsall 25 OCTOBER. Warwick Margate Curragh Leicester Abingdon Doncaster Northampton Autumn. 1 Curragh Edinburgh Autumn ... 2 Newmarket Houghton 2l Newmarket 2d October. 7 Worcester Autumn Cheltenham l5 NOVEMBE Liverpool Autumn 5 I Leamington Hunt l9 Shrewsbury ll STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1867. FEBRUARY. - Carmarthen 5 Harrow Spring Birmingham l2 Derby Windsor MARCH. Liverpool Spring Grand Military Chertsey Mahon ..... 13 COURSING. COURSING MEETINGS TO COME. JANUARY, 1867. Judge. Name. Coole, co. Cork (Open) Third S. Lancashire, (South port (Open) Mr. Westropp 9, 10, 11 Spelthorne Club Mr. Warwick 9, 10, 11 Border Union (Longtown) Cumberland Mr. Warwick Barton-on-Humber, L'ncoln. Mr. Spofford Al tear Club, Lancashire Wigtonsh. Club (Stranraer) Mr. Boulton Little Crosby Mr. Welding County Louth Coro, Ireland Mr. Spofford Ridgway Club, Lytham FEBRUARY. Days of Running 9, Jce. Rufford, Lancashire - Cardiff Club Mr. Warwick l4, 15 Waterloo, Lancashire - 2O, 21, &u Tamworth, Staffordshire ... Mr. Warwick LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. -+ FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 4. The Queen has been, pleased to approve of Don Victor Shakery as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of Costa, Rica. WHITEHALL, JAN. 5. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. Henry Longueville Mansel, 8.D., the office and place of Regius Professor in Ecclesiastical History in the Univer sity of Oxford, iu the room of Walter Waddington Shirley, D.D., deceased. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 8. Royal Regiment of Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel the Hon. George Talbot Deveroux to ba Colonel, vice Arthur G. Burrows, retired upon full pay ; Captain and Brevet-Major Charles Neville Lovell to b© Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel tho Honourable G. T. Devereux ; Second Captain Markham Le Far Taylor to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Lovell; Second Captain Edward Keate, on the Supernumera : ry . List, to be Captain; Seco nd Captain Jones Julian Smith to be Captain, vice Augustus William Johnson, who resigns ; Lieutenant Harry Adair Tracey to be Second Captain, vice Taylor; Lieutenant Win. Strahan, to be Second- Captain, vice Smith. Royal Engineers—The temporary Commissions as Lieute nants of the following Officers to be made permanent, s:Z. : —Harry Croker Fox, FrancisMascall, John Towns end Bucknell, John Walter Ottley, Montagu Frederick Ommannoy, Alexander Donald M'Arthur, Richard Cal row. BREVET. Tho honorary rank.conferred upon Liout.-Colonel J. P. Beadle, retired full-pay, Royal Engineers, which appeared in the Gazette of 17th July last has been cancelled. Brevet-Colonel James Paulo Beadle, on the Retired Full Pay List of the Royal Engineers, to be Major-Gene ral, the rank being honorary only. Col. Arthur G. Burrows on the Retired Full Pay List of the Royal Artillery to be Major - Ge neral, the rank bein g h ono rary only. The following officers having completed their qualify ing service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonels in the Army : Royal Artillery—Colonels John Eliot, Wm. D. Aitken, and C. a. Fuller • Lieutenant-Colonels Henry Lewis, H. P. de Teissier, C. H. Dickens, G. Moir, C. 8., Jas. Young, F. W. Swinhoe, G. E. Voyle • Colonel George Selby ; Li eu t en ant-Cols. A. Macmtire, C. 8., Thos. Hay Campbell; C o lonels John Worgan, Edward Wray J. G. Petrie; g Lieutenant-Colonels J. D. Woolzome, C. 8 ., W . S . H atc h , A. Wintle ' Henry Lo Geyt Bruce, F. G. IsTuthill, A. T. R Ca l d to B 3al E 11,' and D i . enn eGaye.rs— . Maclagan, J. H. M axwe ll, J. D. Campbell, M. Kennedy, A. de Lisle, W. R. Dickenson, C. Scott, C. H. Hutcbinson, and James Fettle Beadle, since retired on full-pay. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 4. Mr. Alexander Brown has this day been promoted to 'the rank of Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet, with senio rity of Dec.l7, 1866. JAN. 7. 'Commanders John BeitieCaior, Thomas Hodgkinson, and John Crawshay Bailey have been allowed to assume the rank of Retired Captains ; and Lieutenant Henry Pres cott Bauce that of Retired Commander from the Ist inst., under the provisions of her Majesty's Order in Council of July 9, 1864. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 15i 11 16} Ditto 3 Months. 11 18i 11 19 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 35 25 421 Brussels — 25 35 25 40 Hamburg — 13 8 13 8} Paris Short 25 15 25 20 Ditto 3 Months. 25 37} 25 40 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1191 119 i Vienna — 18 30 13 421 Trieste — 13 35 13 40 Petersburgu - 31 311 Berlin Madrid , —47 j - 48' 48i ~ Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Mussing. Lisbon ............ OPorty ..... ........ ..... sir -- . 27 -1 i 0 27 121 27 10 27 121 27 10 27 15 27 10 27 11 27 10 27 129 27 10 27 12i 51i 51i 511 bli MA: rUST. 20 Bt 8t 100 204 10 100 1 ISSE, MEN' 190 100 100 1(0 foo no 55 5j 88} lin 9 671 8 1041 70; i 1011 1 ,13} i 11 8 101 841 85 1081 II