The Sun. — London, England, 1870-12-14 00:00:00

MONETARY DEPORTS.--Y STERDAY. • The stock markets to-day have been characterised by much quietness, owing in a great measure to fate.itimi being chiefly directed to the fortnightly settlement of shares and foreign bonds. Heaviness, however, has also been ingendered by the threatened complications with re:. gard to Luxemburg. Railway stocks with the exception of Caledonian and North Eastern, which have been dealt in at a slight improvement, havo been dull and lower in value. Foreign Bonds have likewise been depressed, a further fractional reduction being observable in Egyptian, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish. The French loan, at the same time, has been depressed, and per sent. lower, at dis. to prem. In the market for Home Government Securities next to nothing has been doing. Consols have been . dull, and * per cent, lower, at 9 4 ex div., for delivery; and 910, 91. E ex div., for January. Reduced and New. Three per Cents., 91 1 , 91a ; Bank Stock, 231, 232 ; Exchequer Bills, 10,3. to 15s. prem. ; India Five per Cents., 110, 111; and India Bonds, ?..2s. to 275. prem. Business in the market for English railway stocks has been on a limited scale, and the bulk of the alterations. have been unfavourable. Metropolitan has fallen or 63, 631; and Great Northern A, 1, or to 1341, 135 ; Brighton, at 402, 41i ; South Eastern, 74k, 74 ; Great Eastern at 381, 38; and Great Western at 69,i, 701, are each lower. On the other hand, Caledonian at 85, 851, and North Eastern at 144, 1441, are 1 and better respectively. In Indian railway stocks the transactions have been limited. Bombay, Buroda, and Central India, 105, 105 ; East Indian, 1101 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1071, 108 ; Madras, 105, 1051 ; Oude and Rohilkund, 103, 1031 ; and Scinde, 103, 1031. Canadian shares have been quiet. Great Western, 14. Foreign shares have been in limited request. Bahia and San Francisco, 18i, 18R ; Lombards, 14} ; San Paulo, 21. • The Foreign Bond market has been dull, and the move ments have all been in an adverse direction. Peru vian (1865) have fallen or to 91, 913 ; Egyptian (1868) or to 76i, 77i ; Italian (1861) or 55k, 55i ; Spanish (1867) *, or 31, 31i ; ditto, (1869) or 393, 31; Turkish Five per Cents. 433, 44i ; ditto (1869) f, or 50, 50i ; and Mexican *, or to 13f, 14. American securities have been quiets The Five- Twenty (1882) Bonds have been done at 84, ssg ; ditto (1885), 87i, 88i. The demand for Bank sham has been on a limited scale,. Anglo-Egyptian, 203, 21; Imperial Ottoman, 113, 12 ; London and Westminster, 633; and Union of Aus tralia, 413. In telegraph shares the business doing has been only moderate. Anglo-American, 79; British Indian Sub marina, 6, 63 ; Falmouths, 91. For Miscellaneous securities there has been but little inquiry. General Steam Navigation, 281- ; and National Discount, pi. The sum of £9,000 in sovereigns has been sent into the Bank from Hamburg. In the rates of foreign exchange no alteration has been noticed. The discount market has continued to bo characterised by much quietness. There has been a large supply of capital lying idle, for which no adequate employment is offered. An increase in the inquiry may now he expected owing to the approaching close of the year, but it is doubt ful whether it will be maintained, as the payment of the dividends in January will throw additional supplies on the market. Today three months' paper has been taken at 21 per cent. The Douro, from the Brazils, has brought £55,599 in specie, and 'the Calabria, from New York, £lO,OOO in specie. The Germany has arrived at Lisbon, from South America, with £50,000 in specie. The steamers which left New York on Saturday last took out £85,000 in specie. The report of the North Metropolitan Tramways Company shows that the gross receipts on the road from Whitechapel Church to Bow Church, a distance of two and a-half miles, which was completed at an expenditure of X 46,500, amounted to £8,557 during the first six months, whilst the working expenses were £4,632, having a net profit of £3,924, out of which the directors recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent., which will absorb 22,790, and leave £1,134 to be carried forward. The number of passengers carried was 1,053,151. The directors expect to open the line as far as Stratford by the middle of January, and the authorized line along Moorgate-street, City-road, and Islington to Highbnry and Highgate early in the ensuing summer. It is understood that the North German Five per Cent. Loan will be introduced on Wednesday next by the London Joint Stock Bank, and that, out of the £7,500,000 contracted for, the'portion offered in London will be £3,000,000. As is usual with war loans, it is ex pected that the instalments will be promptly called up. The following is from the Eclipse Gold Mining Com pany, Limited :—Captain Barrett reports respecting the general operations :—" Since my last we have resumed the sinking of the main shaft below the 160 feet level, lode three feet wide, composed of quartz, iron pyrites, the oxide of iron, and gold in sufficient quantity for"the mill. This lode in the last six feet sinking has greatly improved, and indicates further improvement. I believe we shall soon have a very rich lode in this shaft. In the stopes in the back of the 100 feet level, north of main shift, the lode is several feet wide, of milling ore. Two men only are engaged here, but when our new staff arrive we shall force on all the most prominent points with vigour. The whim and railways in the mine are working well, and established mining has commenced, which will be carried on without hindrance." FoREIGN EXCIIANGES.—Antwerp, three months' date, 25 35, 25 40 ; Paris, short date, nominal ; ditto, three months' date, nominal ; Marseilles, ditto, 25 50, 25 60; Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, and Palermo, ditto, 26 90, 26 95 ; Amsterdam, short date, 11 18, 11 19 ; ditto, three months' date, and Rotterdam, ditto, 120 i, 121; Hamburgh, ditto, 13 11, 13 11A ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine, ditto, 120,-1201 ; Vienna and Trieste, ditto, 12 65, 12 70 ; St. Petersburgb, ditto, 2.4 a, 29} ; Madrid, ditto, 491, 49 ; Cadiz, ditto, 49i, 49 , 1 ; Lisbon, 00 days' date, and Oporto, ditto, 521, 524. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.- T URSDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines Indicate the business done. GOVERDTMENV SECURITIES. three per Cent Conaola 911 Viet 5p o Jan 85 July 1891. 10311041 Kt 1. 1,1, a x d 1031, 41 Do for Account 911, 1 x il 931. i. 1. # Three per Cen t Reduced 91 1 911 Egyptio.o 1862. ipa.. .. 79 81 91/. a De Rail Deben 7 p c .. 100 102 New :per Cent a 915 911 101, 1001 911. 3, 3 Italian, 1865, 5p a • — Exchequer 1311 s, March 10 15pna Peruvian, 1805, 6p c .... 91 02 pin 93, 13 Do, June lO 15pm Portugucao 1889 3pa .. 311 321 10s pm 321 43ank Stock 2314. 2', SO 841, 33 India 5 per Cents 1101 3, 10, 3 x a mi, i India Bonds — Spanish. 1807. 3pc pin 31 1, 1 Can 6 pc Janfaulyll77-84 104 145 Do, 1809. 3 p a Do March k: Sept. 102 104 311, 301 Do 5p o Jan Sc July .. 971 9 81 Turkish. 1804. op a 73 SO 973 791, i; Do Inscribed Stock .. 97 99 Do. 1841. ,p a Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 97 211 433, 41, 31 Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1865 ti p a November 1878 146 101 621, 31, 21, 3 Mauritius 6p o Jan and .1 7 33. 5.20 lionda,6 po 1893 88 881 July 1873 lO3 105 8 4 3, 8 New 8 Walea 5 p 01871-76 10111021 Do do 1885 871 881 .Now Zealand 6 p e 1891 lOB 110 881, 8 Do 5p o Do 5p o Consolidated 981 995 Briesha,loo,lolB,all paid 991. I, i lllinota Central ;Sharps .. 110 131 004 p e Mar 8c Sept 1891 106 108 1101, 1 Do Jillie Sc DeclB9l 105 107 Atlantic and UW 1L Con Vid 6 pelaii &July 1891 1151112 117 Mortgage Bends DoApril Wet 1833-85.. 111 1 1111, 1. 12 43f 44; TB East Bengal guar 5 p o 10451055 Northern of Franco .... East Indian, g 5 p c nu 111 Ottom ( Smyrua to Aidiul 41 5 b 110 a, S Recife and San Francisco (Irand Trunk Canada lO 115 (Limited) guar 7pa .. 14t, 15 - 11} 14; Do Equip Mort Bncl 1 • San Paulo IL) guar 7p o 201 21 charge 11 D c ;,o 2ml do Scrip .... idle Ipni South Austu & Loin-Yen 14 143 • iin let L'ref Lion.ti 55 57 145 9, - nitliern .4 Franc , . . , BANKING COMPANIES. Pit P.l - 1 Agra Gauls (L) A 7l Si 29 Lou Char of Anstrlia. 21 25 25 Alliance (L) - 13 14 24„ 10 Anglo-A . :Atrium 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 20‘. 1 kl OO 204, 1 x a i 5 London Joint -Stock IS) 'A , , IO British N American 03 Of ai Lon and Weetunieter 03 64 20 Ch of India, Anatrlia 14 15 6Q, 25 Char Mere of India 23 24 14 Metropolitan SA 9 23'1 20 Nlidland (L) ' I .lii.pa t 10 City 25 Colonial 4 Consolidated (L 4 15-10 25 tinion of Australia.. 41 42', 20 Eng. Scot. and Aus C 16 17 411 Ituptirial kLi 10 Impi , rial I ittot tttttt 114, 12. 11 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. im • r,l - - - - 100 Anglo-American L) 73 80 10 Great Northern .... llt 111 79 6 Great N. China. and 10 Anglo-Medttrn (L) 123 121 Japan Extension.. 21 11 as 100 Atlantic — 5 Indo-European (Li.. 11 13 100 Do 8p c 13 British Australn (L) 5 41dis and Malta (L) ... 5 f) 5 die 10 Mediterrn Ex (Lc 4 6 ;0 British Intl Eaten (L). 51 61 21 Films and S. Pcfc(L) :- . 1 2) die 10 British Indian Sub- die marine, (L) 6 13-16, 1, 1 20 Soo Trans France IL) 131 131 7 ChinaSubmarine(L) 51 5,11 s 100 Submarine 237 242 10 Falmouth. Gibraltar, Do Scrip 2} 21 and Malta (LI 4 i MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. Pd A... Anglo-Austrian End- iil London Fin Assoo(L) 20 18d% holders Certificate 11 21 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .. 21 3 10 BerliuWaterworks(L) 141 151 2 Lon &Prov Marine L)1 Ipm 30 Bolekow-Vaughan 1430 35pm 21 100 Boston City (U.S. 5 100 Madras Irrlg. &Canal p c Sterling Loan 91 93 gsn o by Ind Gov. 101 102 4 Brit & Fgn Marine( L 1 213/pm 101 25 Canada Company. 7,,. 75 2 Mauritius Laud (L) 1 dm. par 10 Ceylon Company L) 31 3 dis 5 NatnlDisetComp (L) 11 111 35 City Offices (L) 251241 dis la, 11 20 Colonial (L) 5 Coin Union Assnrnce 3 31pm Mere Agency tLI ~ 1 ',.pin 10 Crdt Form of Eng (L) li 21 5 N Zealand Loan and 100 Crystal Palace 100 1)o Prof 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb, lll 116 5 OceanMarinelnsur ..131 14pm 271 Ebbw Vale Steel LI 9 89dis 50 P and 0 Steam 47 49 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p a 10 Do do Now. 1867 3 1 dil Mortgage Loan.... 78 80 50 Ithymnoy Iron 79/ 15 Do New Bl 99 100 Egyp 9 p &Troy Loan, 60 Royal Mail Steam guar by Egyp Gov.. 94 96 12 Tel Con and Main (1) 251 261 13 Fore-stWarehouse(L) 71 %pm 261, 1 100 Fgn and ColonialOov 2 Thames and Mersey Trust 8p c Bonds.. 98 100 Marine Insur (I, 99, 81, 91 St. Tobacco G p c Loan 78 Gen Credt &Dint (L) 1 1 die guar by Italian Gov B7 89 14 Gen Sun Navigation 271 239 5 Trust and Loan Co of 28/ Upper Canada .. 7r 19 pin 7 Hooper's Tel Works 1 Oldie 5 U Marine, Lvpool(1 , 4 '4lpln 6 3-16 20 Union Steamship (L) 23 25 17 Hudson's Bay 8 81 6 United Dis Corprn (1, 1 ,115 par 45 Indrbbr,Gut Per. and slf nivMarine lnsur (LI a7lpin Tel Works L) .. 431 44/ 12 5 Inteml Ethan Soc(L) lindis 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 dis 20 It Irrig 'Can Cavour 11 4 100 Do 6p e Donde. re- dimmable 1870 . 63 65 MINING SHARE LIST.—DECEMBER Messrs. WATSON 13110T11EIRS. Mining Office!, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. Market moderately active. Grenville, Prince of Wales, Taquarll, West Tankerville, Perran Virgin, Bast Lovell, and New Lovell, chiefly in demand. Pary's Mountain, 31. 4/ Perran Wheal Virgin, 32s 6d, 253 Plynlimmon, Prince of %Vales, 19s. 21s Providence Mines, 33, 40 Rosewall 11111 and Ranuoine United, South Condurrow, 3, 31 South Frances. Tankerville. 13f, 131 Taquaril (Gold), 48s, 50s Tincroft, Trumpet Consols. Van. *5l, 53 Van Consols, West Caradon, West Chiverton, 51, 52 West Maria and Fortmene, it, 1f West Tankervillo, 3, 31 Wheat ember, Wheal Grenville. 21, 2 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Ann, Wheal Seton. Australian United, Bwleli Consols, Chiverton Moor, Chiverton Valley, Chou tales (Gold), Cook's Kitchen, 18, 19 Devon Great Console, Drakeivalle, 2.35, 25s Dolcoath, Don Pedro North Del Rey, 2f, East Caradon, 51, 6 East Lovell, 24 251 East Seton, East Wheal Grenville. 21, 21 Fron thlo and Bolivia (Gold). -6., General lirazllian, Groat Duey, 18, 18i Great Retallack. Great Wheal Vol.. 2i, 4 Illugaton Down, Marko Valley, f,4, 7 New Beldon, New Lovell, 29a. Me Pomo. RAILWAYS. Fl 3 83 Grand. Trunk of Canada 85 65 2nd I'r s ef Stock 1; Do 3r41 !'ref Stock Grand Trusar Of Canada 4th Tree Stook 16, 15,1, 18 —, - Do A 1:41133; Great Indian run g 6 , 4 c lift 108 134 Pm, 8. 74, 8 Great Western 5 70 Great Western of Canada 13/ 141 70. 613 • 14, 134 Lancashire ...it 'Yorkslitre 13211:14 Do Gpe, 1;4,11(1S, 1573.. 97 99 1322 Per ;;5 do, isn—s 94 96 Isin, Brigh, and 14 Coast 41, 411, m3l) s pref. Is6ileti 85 Lais 19 11 Lou, Chat. and Dover .. 12 125 Madras awe '' P 0 122 105, 5 Lon and 14 orth-Westerti 12721251 N. Itailway' Of (1u4A(24 , 1275,7 , 1, 4 5p e Ist Prof Bonds Lou and Sontb-We s t ern 90 21 mac sad itoiatimila g 91, 902. 1, 902 5 ne Mao, She, and LiticOln 45 46 1031, 5 451, 41, 55 Senile, Pun/atilt and Motropolltan OlUllaiul l2B 1281 103, ) 1232 Bahia and Man I'ranciszo Newt& 'British - la} 13 1 North-Itarterneousols.. 14311441 Belgiail l i B r, l .l' l u B n 3 —1 otion . ' 2 21 It3i, 4, 31 Buenos Ayres (At Stb ru .l 24 26 rioal.l4-Eastern 745 741 Ufa:aid ansi St Lirwritee 75 77 243 , 4oillisty, llaro.i.a, and Dunaburg and Witepair 181 19 Central India, g 5 p c 10411051 Dutch-Mellish 22 23 1052 . Eastern of Fraeco Buff and Lake Huron „ $ 41 Crest Luxembourg . 11 31 D.. 23 . , 1,6 itmals,iB72-3-4 1. 81 Lemberg lizeritow az gnu' • ~..•lare guar 5p a Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 85, (heat Eastern FSk 39 Croat Northern 124, 4 - l5l 16 h i IARKETS. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TIIESDAY.—This market opened very quiet to-day. Wheat, 44,813 ; barley, 372 ; beans, 4,553; oats, 2,012 ; pease, 3,050 ; Indian corn, 1,002 qrs. ; flour, 8,269 barrels and 6,003 sacks: oatmeal, 4,952 loads. Closing Roport.—Wheat was slow, and a very little business was done at this market to-day. New red wheat declined from ld. to 2d. per cental on the week. White wheat hold for the last quota tions, but loss has to he taken to do business. Flour was unchanged. Choice quality was restricted, and the sale was limited. Barley was rather easier. Beans, 6d. ,per quarter lower. Peas were steady. Oatmeal was neglected, Indian corn doclined 6(L on the week. LF,Elli CORN MARKET, TIJESDAv.---This market opened to-day with lino fresh wheat,. of which the supply continues small, and fully maintains last weeks prices. The business doing in other quail, les is very slow, and to a limited extent. Fine malting barley was fully as dear, but the general trade is slow, inferior sorts moving off with increased difficulty, and all feed corn firmly held. HULL COltti MARKET, •TUESDAY. —There was a fair supply of English wheat at this market to-day, but the sale was dull, at is. decline. in other grain there was not much doing. Last week'S rates prevailed, and are generally maintained. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—At this mar ket tArday there was a small supply of farmers' wheat of an inferior quality ; but the late rates wore maintained. There was very little (lone by factors, who koep np the price obtained on Saturday, which was in favour of sellers. Flour was un changed, households bringing SW. par mak. Oats and beans at former rates. DUBLIN CORN MAItKET, TUESDAY.—At this market to day Irish wheat remains unaltered. Barley was better, full prices being paid freely for every quality. Oats were dull' Foreign wheat and maize were quiet, and no change in price' Flour had a slow sale at rates the same as on Friday last, Weather severe. There was frost last night which continued to-day. HULL CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—This, market to-day was somewhat in favour of sellers for grazing stock. The demand sold readily, at about 7s. ad. per stone. There was a rather better trade for pigs, at 7s. 6d. per stone. The show of sheep was not. extensive, but fair prices were realised. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—.Chore was much larger supply of stock at this market to-day, as compared with that of last week. Trade was dull, and part • remained unsold. Best beef receded 3d. per stone, tho top figure being Os. 6d. per stone. Mutton was down to 3s. 4d. Pigs sold at 10s. 64. to lls. per stone. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—At this market to day there was a larger supply of cattle, and about the same number of sheep as last week. For beef trade ruled steady, with best quality at about 9d. per pound. Sheep met a slow sale, at about last week's quotations. Prices were—Beef, Bd. to 9d. per lb. ; sheep, 71d. to 9d. per lb. ; calves, 71d. to 91d. per pound. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY.- The market to-day was moderately supplied with hay and clover. Sales in all descriptions were effected cautiously, and prices were scarcely maintained :—Primo meadow hay, 130 s. to 140 s. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime first-cut clover, 130 s. to 140 s. ; inferior ditto, 115 s. to 125 5. ; prime second - cut clover, 1265. to 1355. ; inferior ditto, 105 s. to 1153. ; and straw, 335. to 38s. per load. METROPOLITAN ➢TEAT MARKET, TimsnAY.—There were moderate supplies of meat on offer at the market to-day. The trade was quiet, and prices were rather easier. Beef, from 3s. 4d. to ss. •3d. ; mutton, 3s. Bd. 'to ss. 2d. ; veal, 4s. 10d. to ss. 2d. and pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. 4d. per Bibs. by the carcase. LONDON OIL MARKET, TUESDAY.—Linseed dull, at 295. 6d. London : 295. 60. Hull, spot, and month ; 30s. 6d. sellers first four months. Rape oil quiet, a 455. 6d. for English brown on the spot, LONDON TALLOW MARKET, TIN-gam—The market is quiet. Y. C., spot, 435. 6d.: 435. 3d. buyers December ; 435. 9d, to 445. •spring ; and 445. Od. sellers March, LONDON METAL MARKET, TUESDAY.—Tin flllll, at pre vious rates. Last business—Copper at ,t 7.2 for Wallaroo, with extended prompt ; spelter inactiva. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE MARKETS, TUES DAY.-Sugar : The market continues firm, with diminished sup plies. 'Havana, landed, strong No. 12, 355. to' 365. Demerara sold at 36e. to 365. 6d. for fine, crystalised,. and 265. to 28s. for brown syrups. Trinidad dabs, 225. to 225. 6d. French West India brown and yellow, 275. 6d. to 31s. 641. : fine, bought in at 355. 6d. to 365. Bengal Dulloak, 103. to 20s. fld. ➢Madras pale native, bought hi at «Os. tv 20s. 6d., and common unclarified Manila, at 225. per cwt. Coffee : The inquiry is steady, and prices are well supported. Ceylon good ordinary, 535. Gd.; bold, 575. to 58s. ; small, 475. dd. per c wt. Telliehcrry pale, 535. to 68s. ; pea berry, 755. Tea : The market is pretty active, and prices are firm. Cocoa : The demand is slow, and prices are unchanged. Trini dad, orninary grey, 565. to 85s. ; middling red, 60s. to 6.55.: good 70s. Gd. to 735. ; and fine, 86s. 6d. Grenada bought in at 535., and Guayaquil at 468. to 50s. per cwt. Cotton The market is quiet, and prices are weak. - - _ LIVERPOOL COTTON I . IARKET, TUESDAY. Opening Report.—This market opened slow to-day. Sales, 8,000 bales. Imports.--American, 11,777 bales; Egypt, 7,859 bales East Indian,. 4,383 bales ; Brazil, 2,682 bales. Closing report.—This market closed quietly to-day. Prices were slightly easier. Sales, 10,000 bales, Arrivals without change. MANCIIESTER TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The tone of this market , to-day is barely so good as it was at the end of last week. The heavy receipts of potton at the American pOrts combined with the large iraportS into Liverpool, have produced a more subdued feeling in this market. A fair business was done towards the end of last week, both in yarn and cloth which had. the effect of steadying prices. Buyers, howCyfr, now make fewer offers, and expect a concession in price, having apparently supplied their present wants. Producers are most unwilling to reduce their quotations, but the course of the market looks as !Mils must come. In the meantime this firm ness, which is not always adhered to, has limited business to day. The principal business dolug is in 39-inch shirtings, and' similar goods for China. Printers arc dull, and so are heavygoods for the home trade. Yarns, of which shirtings are made, are In request, and tolerably firm. Shipping qualities continue neglected. Quotations to-day are for 39-inch shirtings, 71bs.. ,counnon to best makes, 7s, 71d. to Bs. ; ditto 81 lbs„ 9s. to Os. 60. • forkies ppsle yarn, good seconds, ls. 11d. ; thirties water tWist, Is. iyl. The market at the close is quiet, with only a moderate business, 114 prices barely supported. LEEDS TRADE REPORT, Tyw4y.—This market opened very quiet to-day. No buyers were plesent, whose immediate. object it was to do business. They say all the thaleis are placed now which are likely to be on this side of Christmas. Seine manufacturers think businesi is no worse than it was last De cember, while others complain loudly that it is scarcely pos ,il,lo to make a living'. Cert abs it is, however, that all . the large firms in Dewsbury, . Batley, rala the neighbourhood are working night and night. The orders which We Ugric trade give out are to go into the new year. The cloths most saleable at present are black 1111i011R ' from I:3. 6d. to 4a. 6d.: but nll th a t - s h e waqted can be, supplied from stocks. These are principally taken for foreign parts, including a large share for the uniwa States. Some par6els of tweeds have been taken for London, Manchester, and Scotland. Goods suitable for the shop trade are frequently bargained for. Low tweeds in dark colours are occasionally inquired for. A fair trade in mel t:gas is expe,;ted for the next two months. Oil is again dearer. ljnan mills are working less than last week, having orders, however, in hand fer next week. The iron and engine works are working average thee. Special machinery is slacker. GOLASGOIV PIG IRON MARKET, TuEsnAr.---This market opened quiet to-day, 51 to cash being taken far several lots. Closing sellers at this price, buyers ;bade loss. Seconi_lte port.--This market closed 110 U-day, 5C5..4d. cash accepted. Closing sabers at ON price, buyers offering peppy less. eixim evisjimp suamt MARKET, TUESDAY. —This innrket continues quiet to-day, and the business done was small. 0011 K Burn; a MARKET, TUEspAY,—Ordinary firsts, 1:18s.; seconds, 125 A. ; thirds, 1155.; fourths, 106 s, ; fifths, 965. ; sixths, 67'0 firlifir,i in the market. Mill cured, firsts., 182 s. ; seconds, 1335.; thirds, Ws, 30 firklu.s iu the market. [ 4 ; SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, LAW AND POLICE. ROBBERY BY A NEWLY-ENGAGED SHOP ASSISTANT. — Mary Ann Shirry, shopwoman, in the employ of Mk James M`Darhy, laeewan, &c., of N0..31, Oxford-street, brought; up at the )\-tr,xiborongth-street Police•comt, before-Mr. Lushington, charged with stealing gloves, lace, and a quantity of other articles of the value of 40, the property of her employer. Mr. J. Alsop appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutor said that in consequence of some information he received yesterday, he called the prisoner, who was in his employ as an assistant upstairs., and asked her what her teal name was, and she replied, " Shirry." He then asked her if she had any other name, and. she made no answer. 4le then put some more questions to her, and asked to see her boxes, and on her opening them he found in them goods of different kinds of the value of about ,k,lo, * and she admitted having taken them from his shop, but said she intended to put them back. He then gave her in charge, James Middleton, local constable, of Hanway-street, said he was called to the prosecutor's, and prisoner given into his charge for robbing the prosecutor and on going to her room the prosecutor found a quantity of his property in her boxes. After being cautioned the prisoner said she had taken the things, was sorry for it, and did not know what had induced her to do it. In reply to Mr. Alsop, the witness said he did not hear the pri soner say•ehe intended to put the things back. Mr, M'Darby wished the prisoner to be leniently dealt with as ho had ascertained she was the mother of one or two children. In reply to Mr. Lushington, the prosecutor said the prisoner had been in his employ only three weeks, and- he had a character with her, but not from her last employer. Mr- Alsop asked for 4 remand as he had only just been instructed. Inspector Harnett, E Division, said he had been informed that the prisoner got the situation through an advertisement in the Christian Times, and that she gave a false name. Mr. Lushington remanded tiw prisoner that the inspector might make inquiries. SCENE IN A GAY HOUSE.—John Gone, of 450, Lupus street, Pimlico, was brought up at the Westminster Police-court, charged on three summonses with assault. Mr. W. L. Smyth, who prosecuted, said the defendant kept a house, commonly called " gay," and had young women there who received the visits of gentlemen. A Miss Gordon, who was under the protection of a gentle man, took apartments at the defendant's house, and being ill had a young girl staying with her and a servant. Some dispute arose after two days, in consequence of the defendant's wife attempting to cheat Miss Gordon out of seven shillings, and during the absence of Miss Gordon, the defendant got into her parlour window and ejected the servant. When Miss Gordon and her friend returned home they were both violently ejected by the defendant and turned out of doors at half-past one in the morning in a drench ing fain, after only being in the house two days ; when a gentleman and the police came to their assistance, the gentleman was violently assaulted and th e police threatened. A lame defence was set up, and it was contended that the servant and friend were not allowed in the house, but Miss Gordon, who was the lodger, was not denied admit tance. The gentleman was the father of one of the parties, and in pulling him out they all fell down together. Mr. Woolrych was of opinion that the assault was violent and uncalled for, and fined the defendant 51s. hi all, or six weeks. The money was paid. THE Scovcu LEGITIMACY OASE.—After an investiga tion of a week's duration, the Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in the appeal case of Hill v. Ifibbett, in which a young woman, named Sarah Hay, claimed to he admitted as one of the heirs at law of a Mr. John White, who in 1869 died intestate, leaving personal property of the value of £50,000, and real property worth £5,000 per annum. It seems that about thirty years since Harriet Hibbett, sister of the intestate, was supposed to have gone to America, and in 1860 they were informed by an old man named James Hay, that he was the widower of Harriett. Hibbet, who had left him one daughter, named Sarah. The latter, if this were accurate, woolld be one of the intestate's next of kin ; but her claim was opposed by a widow named Mary 11111, on the assumption that Harriett llibbett was not her mother, the marriage between James Hay and Harden Hibbet being, as it was alleged, bigamous.—The Lord Chaneellor, affirming the decision of Vice-Chancellor Janie, dismissed the claim of Sarah Hay, on the ground that the marriage last re ferred to was invalid. A FORMEN BANKER TN THE DIVORCE CouNT.—Lord Penzance had an application before him to make a decree absolute in the cause of De Beer v. De Heer and Mures. This was a husband's petition for a dissolution of his mar riage on the ground of his wife's adultery. The petitioner is salesman bo a large city firm, and sent his wife out to Belgium for change of air. She there made the acquaintance of the co-respondent, who is a well-known banker both in Paris and Amsterdam. lie accompanied the respondent on her way home, and was guilty of adultery. It was proved that Mrs. De neer was now living ender the protection of the co-respondent a tho Place des Carmt.s, at Antwerp.—Lord Penzance granted a decree absolute for 4 dissolutbn of the marriags. DAMAGES AGAINST THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY Com. PANY.—At the Court of Common Pleas the case of Pur chose v. The Metropolitan Railway Company was heard. It was an action to recover damages for personal injury alleged to have been occasioned by the defendants! negli gence, On the 16th of July, 1869, there was an accident at the King'scross station on the defendants' line of rail way, caused by the anticipations of tho persons at the station that a train, which had been detained there five minutes, was about to be run into by another train coming on the same line of rails. - The passengers in the train at a standstill were hailed to alight, which they proceeded to do, and in the confusion several were 'injured. The plaintiff, an upholsterer in Grafton-street, Brighton, allegedthat he was one of the passengers so . injured, and that he had been ruptured. The railwaY company never heard any thing of the plaintiff's claim for a long time after the accident, and it was proved that he was attended by Dr. Addison, of Brighton, a couple of da•ys,after the accident, and was treated for an ordinary bilious attack. Ile again consulted Dr. Addision about six weeks afterwards, when he was suffering from a rupture, but on neither occasion did he appear to have mentioned to the doctor that he had been injured on the occasion of the railway accident. Two or three witnesses were called to show that the plaintiff had been subject to attacks of nausea and headache, of which he complained to a friend on the day of the accident. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— £lso. AN ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE. -- At the Central Criminal Court William Bailey Coomb, an accountant, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with forging and uttering a transfer of 1,500 shares of the, capital stock of the Great Eastern Railway Company, The prisoner's counsel urged in mitigation of punishment that he appeared to have yielded to a sudden temptation in committing the offence, and that there was an ultimate intention on his part to repay. The prosecuting counsel, however, said he could not join in the recommendation to mercy. The prisoner was con victed of forgery in 1859, and sentenced to . three years' penal servitude, and before that he had been couvictea of stealing a set of Mathematical instruments. The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to seven years' penal servitude. AN " OFFICER" IN A POLICE COMT.—At the West minstdt pollee-court John* Gilbert Bentley Booker Booth, known as Colonel Booker and Major Booth, was again brought up charged with have fraudulently obtained board and lodging by falsely representing that he was a retired officer of the Guards. The prisoner said that he had instructed counsel, who had not arrived, but th© matters h 1 vestion were but debts. He was a county magistrate and a gentleman, 'and had property which would pay all these demands in full, although he could not settle them at once. He was far from well, and begged that the, bail ?night be redueed, as the confinement at the House of Detention had seriously injured his health. Mr. Woolrycli'said he must go for trial, and remanded him till Wednesday to complete the depositions. A correspondent of the Journal des Debuts, published in Paris, says that he took part in the actiOn last week, and took from a dead Prussian an unfinished letter, in which was the following passage We begin to grow fatigued and weary, and Trochn has invented some new mitrailleuses and blinded loco . diatlves which arc very dangerous. it is final. time we. entered Paris, for the army sutlers greatly, and is in despair at seeing Christnnas approach without Gcvmany growing nearer. Happily Paris is short of provisions, and must f." urrender tell dayS. Were it etherwiiie . . ," .4ere the letter breaks off. NoncE.--KINAHAN's I 4). whisky Depot. Kinahan and Co. have removed to their new and spacious premises, No. Ga, Great TitehfizAd-street, Oxford-street, leading from Margaret-street, Regent-street, and Market-street, Oxford-street. Kinahan s Lb. Whisky. —This famous and most delieleu9 old mellow spirit is the very cream Irish whiskies, in quality unrivalled, p er f ec tl y pure , and more wholesome thin the finest cognac brandy. Can be obtained all over too hingdom, in the well-known sealed and labelled bottles, Or in bond for exportation at the LondowlDooks. Wholesale Agents to Messrs. Bass, Guinness, and Younger, and Dealers in Foreign \Vines anti Spirits. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. .There are some signs which go to indicate that Turkey will not make such a vital question of the - Black Sea neutrality as to reject all , means • of settlement. The Independence • Beige, amongst other autho rities., • believes, indeed, that the Porte will Offer no serious opposition. Its correspondent at Con stantinople says that General Ignatieff has completely reassured the Porte respecting the intentions of Russia. The Turkish GoVerument considers the question rather am • European tha,n, an Ottoman one. ft is aware . that the humiliation inflicted upon Russia by the 'clauses of the Paris Treaty affecting the Black Sea was infinitely more - dangerous for the security of Turkey, owing to the animosity it would create, than any freedom to the development of the Rll3- sian Marine in the Maine. The Ottoman government, in short, would have no objection to break down these useless barriers, provided the Treaty were not affected any further. • THE TATE ALEXANDRE DUMAS. The remains of the distinguished dramatist, and author, whose death we announced yesterday, have been interred at Puy, until a favourable opportunity allows of the will n being removed to Paris, At the burial of Dumas, besides the family of the deceased, there were present a dozen ladies, as many gentlemen, and about a score of villagers and peasant children: 'The death of the famous author was the result of a paralytic seizure, and ho wanted two or three years of attaining the allotted three score years and ten, Born on the 24th of June, 1803, at Villiers, Cotto rots, Alexandre Dumas was brought up, if not in the school of poverty, at all events, in narrow circumstances, for his mother applied, though in vain, for a military pension in return for her hitsband's services. The son's education, therefore, vas rather of a haphazard kind ; on applying for employment through the Interest of his father's friendS, he found bus little chance of aid ; and he might have staeved or died of hunger if it had not been for the kindness of General Foy, who re solved to befriend hini. Finding that young Dumas wrote . neat hand, the General recommended him to the pCst of supernumerary clerk in the office of the secretary of the Duke of Orleans (afterwards King of the .French). His scanty income of £5O was then a fortune to him who afterwards conceived that dream of exhaustless wealth — "Monte Chritso." In 1857 M. Dumas visited England during the General Election. Taken, collectively, the catalogue of his writings is scarcely conceivable for its extent, numbering, it is said, from first to last more than 1,200 Volumea A writer in a London contemporary some years ago gives the following description of M. Dumas ;—" If you should ever go to Paris, and chance in seine of the streets to meet a great boy, about Mt. 4in. in height, having a physiognomy resembling that of a negro, with frizzled hair, broad nose, and an olive complexion, his costume also being distinguished by some peculiarity, such as light yellow tinder waistcoat, or a riband of an infinite variety of colours, depending' froth his button hole ; speaking loudly and gesticulating fiercely, as if he was quarrelling instead of conversing with a friend—you may go boldly up to him, and say, without fear of being deceived, Good day, M. Dumas." Be assured it is the man himself ; for there are not two such physiognomies to be found in Paris at least, though there may be in the colonies, among melt of colour, He will receive you very civilly, converse with you, and in a few moments you will feel, as it wore, almost instinctively, that you are confronted with the greatest, or, at all events, the most prolific writer of modern times." Mr. Dumas's pen during the hey-day of his popularity was in constant and well-paid employment; and it is said that at one time his literary earnings amounted to an average of betweeki 700,0001, and 800,000 f.. a-year ; in other words about £28,000 or £32,000. • But, notwith standing this princely income, ...so great was his reck lessness and improyidence, that he was constantly hi pecuniary difficulties. Ilia contributions ,to the French fewilleto lo were at the bottom •or this success ; sent such 0 popularity, lit France at last, was the high road to wealth. The temptation* held out to him by rival journalists ta write for their papers were abundant. and irresistible; and at last, we are told, he entered into agreements to write five romances at once for as many papers, an instalment of each appearing At one time, indeed, about a quarta of a century ago, so great a farorc was r: ii-sed about his name as a contributor, and so fierce. was the contest as to who should have the Pre-emption of his pen, that -the question came before a court of law at Paris, and Ito had to sustain a prods against several (we believe five) of the great literary capitalists of Paris, who sued him for brelich of literary contract. It must not, ,of course, be supposed that M. Dumas wrote out all these'romances word for word and lino for lino for the publishers. On the contrary, he kept in constant em ployment a school of disciples, a corps of "underwriters," who worked out the ideas which ho sketched in the rough, and brought their labours back to him to be retouched by the hand of the great master whoth they served. M. Alexandre Dumas the younger, is well known both as a novelist and as one of the most popular dramatic writers in France. In the late sorties the French artilorists showed great skill in aiming the shells from the forts, so that they fell amongst the German troops whilst these were engaged in pretty close quarters with the garrison. " An official report from Versailles s4ys that the roads along the French line of retreat of the Loire are strewn for miles with rifles and other articles of equipment, as was . the case after the battle of \Voerth. This informa tion is sent by the Berlin correspondent of the Tint 3. The Pall Mall Gazette says it is not true, The Prussian army is said to have procured a great deal of corn from Hungary, and to have kept the 'waggons which carried it. In consequence of this'strange proceed ing the Austrian Government has issued a decree forbid ding the export of cereals and all other provisions from tho empire until the thousand waggons which tho Prus sians have kept are returned to the Austrian Railway Companies. Herr von Brandt, the German representative in Japan, addressed a letter to the Japan herald in referencato the difficulty about the neutrality of Japanese waters., • The Herald had stated that Von Bandt threatened in case his demands were not complied with to employ force, and to destroy the French hospital and barracks on shore. This statement the German envoy categorically denies. He has written on the subject to Teresima Tynski, the .Tapanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, who confirms his denial, and declarers the report in the papers to •be alto gether inaccurate. An Englishman in Paris, who saw the French troopi march out for the late sortie, says they were not smart, but in very good condition. "And most.remarkable, be cause most unusual of all, there were now to be seen filing past in interminable succession batteries upon batteries of the new guns, all thoroUghly equipped. I could not help, however, smiling at the horses which drew these trains c they are about the worst in raris. It was the more curious as Psris is full of good horses in ex' cellent condition. It seemed as if the French Generals intended to bring their worst horses into action in order that the enemy may he deluded into the meanest idea of the equine resources of Paris.* AFTER THE BATTLE.—What he experienced after the battle of Artenay, fought an December 3, la thus told by the corresPoutlent of the Cologne Gazette " heartrending scenes surrounded me upon my taking possession of the stable, and when I had made the neces sary arrangements for passing the night there. In a corner lay half a dozen wounded French officers, with smashed legs and arms, which had only been hastily bound up. They cried for water, while the surgeon and I helped them as well as we could. The poor women from the burning village of Loigny, carrying their little one's in their arms. poured into the - warm spacions stables by dozens, crying and yet trying to slippress their sobs, through fear of being scolded. They collected together in close groups, and dull sobs issued from all aid e s ; whilst the wounded men groaned, the horses . bit at their cribs,. and outside in the courtyard and on the road, the llimmel-kreuzdon nerwetter' of the commanding officers resounded, as they endeavoured in vain to restore order among the different batteries and companies, which were crowded together in helpless confusion.. When I quitted .my stable at last, and steered my way at night in the bitter cold among the semi-girdle of burning villages, I. came back again to Loigny to . view once more the . field of corpses. The flames rose high up' in the midnight air, and the thick black smoke was wafted towards the south. Silent men stepped ACTOEt9 my path bearing still more silent men upon their shoulders, whilst the calm moon looked down' upon their work. Here and there these un tiring men with the red ereSS picked up the corpses and placed them on their biers. 'Never lcis that cry of despair, • Kill me, for I cannot live r.struck deeper into my heart than upon that moonlit ni4t. And every now and again the silent men'stepped over those who, relieved from all earthly pain, had sent forth front their pale lips and with their 'ireA breath the name of some loved one into the cold, air. I see that I have missed my Ale, and have become sentimental. The reason is that I have not scm so many corpses for a long time. But it may not be out of place to confess that we have had enough of blood- Milling, of course presuMing that 010 NU price has heenpaid.'l BREAK FA ST. —E P PS'S COOO,A.- -GRATtFUL AND COM. FO TIM G.-,111 0 very agreeable character of this preparation haS rendered it ogeneral favourite. The Civil Service. Gazette&rc marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations pf digestion and nutrition ? and by a careful application of the fine prrportios of well-selected cocoa. 111 r. Epps has provided em- breakfast' tables with a delicately tlavofired beverage Which may save us many heavy doctors' hil h." Lach packet is labelltd—JA 'MN Epps ',V CO., Itclllooo- patAti Chemists. London. Also, makers of Epps's eacaoine, vori thin evening beverage. —Ad vt. P7O. THE la • THE SIEGE OF PARIS. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL GUARDS. ,The battalions, of Belleville, the most democratic region of Paris, are in disgrace, A court-martial is about to try ni,tuy of their refractory members. They are accused, says the Paris Journal, of havhig resisted the decree ordering the mobilisation of a portion of the National Guard. Further, all the reports of the three days' fight ing agree in stating that the conduct before the enemy of the companies consisting of *the Mobiles of Belleville was not as good as that of other batta lions. The young men of this quarter cannot be cowards, nays the Journal, and proceeds to ask why some of them have ,permitted themselves to be hoodwinked by wretches who play with them to such an extent that their courage is reasonably doubted. If they do not prefer being brave soldiers of France to acting the part of the prudent Janissaries of M. Flourens the name of Enfant de Belle ville will become a term of mortal insult. FROM A LADY RESIDENT. French lady, shut up in Paris, writes on the Pith instant :—" What a long and terrible trial this is, and how much I suffer from the want of news of my absent children. We are nevertheless getting on well, and the chances of success are restoring courage. During two days and two nights this week the cannon did not cease. It was a sinister and disheartening sound. Sleep was impos ible. The image of that field of battle is hth pressed upon me. Every fibre trembles. I mourn all my loved ones without knowing anything of them, How my son, who was at Metz with Bazaine, must have suffered, if his general was really a traitor. But you must low better than we what has happened ; for we scarcely dare believe anything, so many faliehoods have been uttered. There is now contentment, because there Is hope. At what a cost shall we obtain the mastery. ITow I regret that I did not lay in a supply of provisions. Wo can • obtain nothing now, even with money. We live almost entirely .on soup made from extract of meat. Every four clays they give us, for five persons, one pound and a quarter of meat (salt beef or horse), There is no lack of bread, and that is the essential ; but this cannot last long. People are calm; the poor are the best attended to, and that is right. It must not be supposed that Paris is a prey to anarchy, as the foreign papers say. There is a patriotic ardour which is general. Nevertheless, this must not last too long. We live in the midst of emotion and expectancy, and I fear to know the truth.." • THE ,MATRIMONIAL 'SCRIMMAGE. Six or seven weeks ago General Trochn begged the National Guards to mobilise themselves voluntarily. Those who volunteered were too few (less than 20,000), and of these feW too many were of inferior quality— an undisciplined, devil-may-care rabble. Then came an order that the National Guards must be mobilised, for their services were needed Outside Paris. Each battalion must furnish at least 400 men to be ready to march out of Paris -the contingent from each battalion to be made up, first, of volunteers ; secondly, of the bachelors in the battalion ; thirdly, of the married men of a certain age—and so on. Then followed the oddest scrimmage, which I offer to the notice of the future novelist. It is said that in the days of Noah people who ought to have been thinking of the deluge and preparing for it were curiously intant on wedding parties—"marrying and giving in marriage." Here in Paris, with the deluge upon us, mar riage is, or at least it was last week, the order of the day. In reality the marriages were few enough—very few in comparison with what is usual in Paris. But under the circumstances, and especially in consequence of. the publicity which the newly-married couples sought to give to their uuions, it seemed as if these marriages were very numerous, and as if life in Paris threatened to becothe all honeymoon. Cynical philosophers were full of glee. ' They said, "See hZiw these National Guards behave when they are called upon to fight." 'lt is better to marry than burn.' They go and get married ' to escape the necessity of fighting, and so we have innumerable idle flirtations and venerable intrigues suddenly patched up into most holy and respectable wedlock." The marriages are a fact ; and it is also a fact that most of them have been, so to speak, contracted in the same street. Out of 19 marriages reported one morning in one of • the newspapers no less than 17 were of , happy pair's who lodged in the same street, and. who, indeed, for the most part, inhabited the same houSes. But the explana tion of so many marriages of this kind is not precisely what the cynical philosophers suppose. They have been contracted, not as a means of escaping from the obligation to fight, but in the full expectation of fighting. It takes three. weeks to contract a marriage in Paris ; and those of the National Guards who attempted to marry in. order to escape being di.a,ughted into the companies of war had .not time to qualify themselves for such an exemption. Tho tnarrlages have boon the result mainly of an announcement made by the Government that the nation would provide for the widows and children of sucji of the National Guards as would fall in battle. The National Guards, therefore, who meant to do their duty, and to risk their lives, took to marrying simply as a moans of providing for the women dependent on them. — Times' Correspondent. TROCHU AND THE SORTIE. On the 2nd, after the fighting was over, says a French account, when Trochu was re-entering what he callS " his lodgings " in Fort Rosny, he met the 24th Battalion of the National Guard. He paused for a moment, and said : " Gentlemen, I•have good news for you. Since seven this mgrning we have had 100,000 men against us whom I had to fight with a young army, and for the second time the old army was driven back all along the line. lam playing a terrible game, and'l should not have played it if I had not felt behind me the moral and military strength of the National Guard. At one moment I thought I should have had to call you into the front rank, but once again the young army has beaten the old, and you may tell Paris so." This ad dress was received with enthusiasm. It has been remarked that Tiochu, in his despatch, said, "The Left; after having yielded a little, stood firm." The explana tion is that the General himself, seeing the Left yield, dashed to the front at the head of his staff, and by his ardour rallied the troops, who followed him, ftrul forced the enemy. to yield at that point. Trochu on One occasion, when cheered by the soldiers eried "Do not shout Vive Trochu I but Vive Ducrot ! for • I swear he is the boldest and most loyal soldier of France !" The firing, maintained during the night of the 2nd by the French, was so incessant that seventy-five cliassepots out of the 101 required repairs in the evening. THE INVESTMENT OF PARIS. The Times' correspondent at Versailles, in a letter of the oth, says the. Germans are not apparently going to try either bombardment or assault, nor are they, more pro perly speaking, going to prepare for an assault by any attempt at bombarding. The guns are still in the siege train parks :—There is a great change of opinion now about Paris. The Germans say they are in no hurry to get in—that is, their chiefs do. " The Parisians wish us to bombard them. We will not do so. We can wait hero for six months or ,more if necessary." What the outposts say to this Ido not know. . . . The more we hear and see of the events before Orleans the better wo can appreciate the gravity of our position if • Metz had not, most opportunely for the besieging army, sur rendered at the time. One week or ten days more, and 'the Army of the Loire, with ISO,OOO men and more than 400 guns, would have been on the back of the Crown Prince's army. It is impossible to conjecture what the result would have been. . . . It is to be noted that the losses of the German armies in these last enoon*rs have very much, exceeded, pro rata, what they lost in the battles in which they overthrow the French Empire and captured its armies. It is felt that a great uprising of the people would be a very serious thing for these armies, strong and de serVedly confident as they are. Hence the new orders, which will prevent any enrolment of able-bodied Men in the occupied districts, and a strict watch will be kept on all Frenchmen who could swell the ranks of the enemy. The. Germans are now obliged to hang together. They stand in face of a popular " insurrection " in some dis tricts. IsTot a soul was there to give them warning at Chatillon when the enemy was stealing to surprise and murder thein. A STRANGE STORY. The Timcs' correspondent at Versailles says the follow ing story is in ciroula.tian there :—" A Pruspian officer and a party of men came to the residence of the Marchioness of B—, an old lady, who had not fled ike her neighbours. He seemed to know the name, for he inquired of the villagers where the house was, and if the lady was still living in it. He entered with his men, stormed and swore in the hall till ho saw the mistress. He ordered dinner for his party, spat on the carpet, took up a chair and dashed it against a mirror, threw a vase down from its stand, broke a clock over the chimney-piece, and behaved, in fact, abominably. The old lady was terrified to death. Dinner was served. The officer complained of the wine, and told his men to throw the bottles through the window till they got better drink. He dined apart, and treated the servants with the utmost insolence. At last, when the orgie was over, he asked to see the lady of the house. He was told she was in bed, ill and frightened. ' Where ? Oh : in this room ! But I am going to sleep here. The lady had to get up and turn out, and the officer - wen t in, broke some things, got into bed in his clothes, an d after a time rang the bell violently. A servant appeared, The officer pursued the domestic, and insisted on seeing the lady. Surrounded by her maids, and pale and fault ing, thr old lady received him at the don' of her room. 0 : took off his helmet, bowed with the utmost courtesy, an d said, " Madame, -I have accomplished a promise and ful filled a vow. Your husband was General the Marquis ° f B— ? " Yes." "He was in the Ist Regiment of Hussars a" captain when the French invaded Prussia ? " " I law s : he served in that regiment." " Well, then, madame , have to tell you that he came to the house of my grandmothher, whose father had fallen at Jena' You think I have acted badly here ; hut I know h ow Captain de 13-- treated our house. I heard the story as a boy, and I treasured it in my soul. I know the disgrace and ruin he brought upon my name, and I spare, you the recital of it. But I made a vow when it seen ol the idle whim of a boy, and now in part I have kept it. Good night, madame. Ido not pass a night under your roof. ,My men will protect you,' and so stalked away Well, suppose it be true. Will there be no such memories for the French children whom I see going to school , staring at the great Prussians trudging through the snow ? " NEWS FROM LYONS. A letter from Lyons says that the Prussian colulnil which pursued Garibaldi has retreated on Dijon in yea bad condition, having been repulsed at Autun and de feated at Arnay-le-Duc notwithstanding their good ox . tillery. Garibaldi, in his order of the day after Autoof warmly congratulated his artillerymen, as they deserved . He said that the troops might see from the result of that day that it was possible to resist the invaders even when their numbers were superior, and he announces that he will punish with extreme severity all those who fll at the sound of the cannonade. He calls upon the authorities of the district to refuse such miserable fugitive s food or drink, as they sprehd alarm throughout the country, and compromise the honour, and sometimes the life of those who fight. On the 2nd December a train of civil prisoners left Gra for Germany. Among them was Baron Thenard, member of the Institute, Persig-ny, sub-prefect of Gray, and several judicial, commercial, and social notabilities of the district. Twenty more left the next day having been arrested at Dijon. These arrests are intended as reprisals for the cat' . turo of German merchant captains by French ships. Baron Thenard was . arrested in his own chateau with a great display of force. The officer in command of the detach' ment offered him his liberty on condition that he would undertake to obtain the restoration of the German car tains - seized by the French fleet at Hamburg. 31 ; Thenard's answer was to take his travelling cloak and throw it into a carriage. _ Another account says that this affair of the hostages has produced great excitement in the East. The officer wil° proposed to M. Thenard to make the concession spoke in the name of the King of Prussia himself. M. Thenard replied with characteristic spirit, "If you want th e skin of a baron and of a member of the Instv tote, • take it ; if it is my fortune you want -- steal it ; as for my honour, it is beyond the reach of the King of Prussia himself. Let us go." via forty hostages seized belong to the best families of Haute Saone and Cote d'Or, but the number dons not content the Prussians, who intend to take as many as the Frond' fleet have captured German captains. They have also notified to the families of the hostages that they m ust answer with their fortunes for the losses caused to the German mercantile marine. An English vessel has recently brought 4,000 rifles frofl Genoa to Marseilles. The Paris Journal mentions that a letter carrier in the service of the Post Office has twice succeeded in passing through the Prussian lines, and, a few days' since , returned to Paris, bearing some five hundred letters frolic, the provinces. Mgr. 13aner, chief almoner of the Paris ambulances, has forwarded to M. Jules Favre a letter, which is counter• signed by several other gentlemen, declaring that he, With others, was fired upon by the. Parisians near Champig l on the 2nd inst., when riding forward with a trumpete r and a flag of truce. The Drapeau denies the assertion that the Bonapartist°, are manceuvring to effect restoration of the Empire, and declares that Republicans and Orleanists only need to have recourse to force or stratagem to gain their pollitS. for they never dare to appeal to universal suffrage. Th e imperial institutions, on the contrary, depend entirely On the national will. The Paris Journal states that one result of the action , before Champig,ny, on December 1, was to add five days supply to the store of fresh meat in the capital, from I,o o ° to 1,200 wounded and dead horses having been found 10 the lines carried by the Paris troops, while their own loss of horses did not exceed 300 or 400. The flesh of all thes° animals was to be distributed among the various butchers of the capital. The public schools and colleges of Paris present 0 singular appearance. The professors deliver their lecture° in the uniform of the National Guard, instead of in the classical toga. The junior masters, who were chiefly young students who were completing their terms, hav e been carried off for service in the Mobiles, and there 1 not a single student left indoors. Tho dormitories an d refectories unoccupied by pupils serve for accommodating the fire-engine men of the district, or as ambulances for the wounded. In the outer courts the students of the upper classes practise with their rifles, and gb through military exercises. The Cologne Gazette says:—" An English lady, w hoso name is to remain unknown, having offered a costly memento, consisting of a large gold cross and necklace, to the wife, mother, or other connection cf the Prussian officer who should capture the first hostile gun, has sen t it to Count Munster, it having been shewn that Lieute' nant Brandenburg, of the 46th Lower Silesian Grenadiers, captured the first gun at Woerth. The Count will hand it over to the Crown Princess, and beg her to present it the mother of the still unmarried lieutenant, who liv o at Budesheirn. The cross bears an English inscriF tion, stating the circumstances under which it was Pre• sented." A German letter says :—" An officer of hussars proposed to get into Paris, and managed to do so in the following wise. . He dressed himself in the ordinary garb of a peasant, and by the aid of a moustache ct la Napolefflit coupled with a perfect knowledge of the French tongue; managed to slip through our outposts. When he bac' passed the outermost lines, our forepost line lost no time in having a shot at him, but of course in the air. Th ° French, on the other hand, naturally concluded that he was a countryman. By the aid of a plausible tale he soeu found himself within the walls of Paris. Out he came i n the greatest glee that he had succeeded in evading the vigilance of the French outposts. He was the bearer a interesting tidings from Paris, not the least important of which was that in the laboratories there was no more saltpetre with which to make gunpowder." [ADvEßTlsiiitourd—Holloway's Ointment and Mc' Colds, Influenza.—Until within a very few years the o complaints were treated with blood-letting, blistering, an emetics. Now a more rational method of cure has been adopted. Holloway's Ointment and Pills purify, heal' and strengthen. They neither weaken - the body, nor die; comfort the nervous system. 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