The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

MONEY PAR ET AND CITY N.EWS. CITY, Two o'CLocr. Although very little alteration has taken place in the condition of the money market, an easier tone prevails, and the tendency of affairs appears more favourable, in consequence of the diminished pressure upon the resources of the Bank of England. During the last few days the withdrawal 3 of gold have been comparatively moderate ; and as accom modation has been obtained on easier terms in the general market, the authorities have also experi enced a falling off in the demand for loans. There were no bullion operations at the Bank of England yesterday. At the forthcoming meeting of the Australian Agricultural Company a dividend of 20s. per share will be proposed. A call of 2s. 6d. per share has been made by the Directors of the Clarendon Consolidated Mining Company of Jamaica. There was an active demand for cotton in Liver pool yesterday, and prices continued firm. The sales were about 12,000 bales. The half year's interest on Cape of Good Hope Government 6 per cent. Debentures will be paid on and after the 31st inst. At the meeting held to-day of the creditors of Messrs. L. Rodocanachi and Co., Greek merchants, who recently failed, it was stated that the liabilities amounted to £101,750, and the assets to £133,320 irrespective of £13,279 doubtful debts, which it is anticipated will realise a large sum. The suspension was produced by the stoppage of Messrs. F. Ede, Son, and Co., who are debtors to the extent of £18,882. After a few remarks the following resolution was unanimously agreed to by the few creditors present : " Mesas. L. Rodocanachi and Co. having explained the position of their several houses in London, Liver/3'o°l, Marseilles, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Cairo, by which it appears that their direct engagements in all amounted 'to £101,750, and the assets, which might be depended upon, amounts to upwards of £133,000, it was resolved that Messrs. L. Rodocanachi and Co. should con tinue to liquidate their estate, that the proceeds should be paid into an account at the Bank of England, in the joint names of L. Rodocanachi, Mr. A. S. Ralli, and Mr. J. E. Coleman, and that Messrs. L. Rodocanachi and Co. take the most effectual and speedy means of communicating with their partners abroad, so as to be enabled to specify periods for the payment of the liabilities in full, and that this meet ing be adjourned to the first week in March, to enable them to carry out the terms of this resolution. and that notice of a further meeting be given as early as possible." At the meeting to-day of the Mercantile Dis count Company, the directors report, which recom mended a voluntary liquidation was agreed to. The estimated value of the assets after paying cre ditors is £14,319, and the profit and loss account £34,880; but the auditor thinks thati the loss will not exceed the sum of £32,000. The market for Public Securities is very dull, but rather firmer, viz., 911 g for money, and 911 4 for the account. A favourable effect has been produced by the easier state of the money market, but busi- ness is exceedingly inactive. The New Threes are steady, at 914 4 ; the Reduced, at 914 Y ; the New 14 per Cents, are flat, at 76 ; Bank Stock remains at 233; India ditto, at 2184 , ditto 5 per Cent. Loan is fiat, at 1004 4 ; and Exchequer Bills show 310 alteration, being ss. to ls. dis. Continued activity prevails in the Foreign Market, and prices, in some instances, show in creased buoyancy. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 694 to 70; ditto New (1858), 554 ; and the 4 per Cents are 1014. Mexican are firmer at 224 Portuguese at 45/ ; Spanish at 484 ; ditto Deferred; at 404. Russian 44 per Cents. are flat at 924 4 ; ditto (1860) are 904 ; and Sardinian 814. Dutch 4 per Cents. remain at 1001, The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1861. 1860. Great Western £33.304 £34,015 North-Western 71,071 72,651 South-Western 11,050 12,301 Midland . ........ .. 37,274 36,700 rn South-Easte 15,374 17,036 great Northern 24,357 24,841 Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 5 ,3 53 5,632 North-Eastern North British. West Midland Great South ern an d W estern o f I reland 7,236 6324 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5,862 5,633 Glasgow aid South Western 7,434 7,2 3 Grand Trunk of Canada . 12,244 10,136 Great Western of Canada These returns, completed in most instances up to the commencement of the present week, still show some unfavourable features compared With those of the same period in the previous year. On the Great Western there is a decrease of £711; on the North Western of £1,580 ; on the South Western of £59 ; the Brighton of £1,251 the South Eastern of £1,662 ; and the Great Northern of £484. On the Midland, however, there is an. improvement of £574; the Lanca shire and Yorkshire of £914 ; the North _Eastern of £548 ; the Grand Trunk of Canada of £2,108; and the Great Western of Canada of £1,707. The transactions in the Railway Share Market have been moderately active, but prices in several instances have been unfavourably influenced by the character of the traffic returns. Caledonian, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North British have declined 55.; Bristol and Exeter, Great Northern, North Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern, 10s. North Westerns im proved 55., Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 10s., and London and Brighton, 15s. Quotations, how ever, are now generally buoyant. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhi bited little variation, with the exception of Grand Trunk of Canada, which advanced about 10s. Great Western of Canada and East Indian re mained at previous values. Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have slightly improved. Ottoman Bank advanced ss;, and Union of Australia, 10s. ; Crystal Palace Stock declined sg. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll 1 t a per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9l/ 1 f New 2} per Cent. Annuities 76 India Stock .. .. .. Ditto 5 per Cent ()Me Debentures, 1859 954 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO l2 Cousols for Account, Feb. 7 . . 911 / Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 10 Ditto £5OO 1 5 dis Ditto Small . 1 5 dis FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian 6 per Cent , .. Ditto 41 per Cent, 1858' .. . 852 fek Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860 B5l f Mexican 3 per Cent . Ditto Account 22f • Portuguese 3 r Cent., 1853 .. .. - Ditto A.ccou pe nt Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7 and '9 45/ Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. Ditto 4-1 per Cent. Ditto, 1860 9Ol Ditto 3 per Cent, 1859 Sardinian 6 per Cent. . .. — Ditto Amount Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account - Ditto New Deferred — Ditto Account- .. Ditto Passive . •... 17f Turkish 6 per Cent. . Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account ". . ....... 55i 1 5 Ditto Guaranteed, 4per ........ - - Ditto Account ........ ....... .. Dividends on the above paya.ble. in London. Belgian, 41 per Cent., Ex. 2sf, DAto Certificates, 4 per Cent, ........ 100 i TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money ....... . Ditto Account . 911 I THE HORSE-NAIL MAKERS' STRIKE. —A, in _ fuential meeting of horse-nail makers was held at the hotel, Dudley, on Tuesday,' when it w as res g lved that the resolu tion passed at Lichfield on the 4th inst., to the effect th a t the " unr easona bl e an d unjust" demand for increased wages should be strenuously resisted, should be s trictl y adhered to . A- second resolution was also passed, offering £5O reward for the detection of bellows cutters, and £5 for the convibtion of any person intimidating a workman. The Avenir Commercial gives some details re 84eetin g the new coinage to be issued in France. All the pieces are to bear the impression of the Emperor's head, t he with laurel, in token of his Italian victories. On t tio . gold and somo of the silver coins the present reverse is L 'o b e replaced by the imperial arms, mantle, sceptre, &c. last of the men who escaped from Norwich Castle 1, 1 ' we ek, James Simpson, has been captured at Ipswich by Alloway, governor of the Suffolk County Prison. The -'44r William Barber, was at large up to yostorday. -~ SHARE MAR.KET.-(THIS DA Y.) ORDINARY saattEs AND STOCKS. Share BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. Paid, Closing Price. 72 71: - 9,2 93 2 li d 4i 6di Closing , Business 100 ! - At tau tc& St Lawrencel all iR - 2 -: Share Railways. raid ' ' Price. j Done. e tk f Bom.,Baroda&.Centlndi 100 02 i ( Ga. 5 per cent... 50 !Belfast and Bally :Liana all - - 18 Do, Do. lif 16 2 1 13.14 !Bin, Wol , and Str. Val. all 85 81 205 Buffalo and Laiie Huron all 44 stock !Birk., La., and Ch June. 100 79 81 205 Do. New - - 25 ! Blackburn 25 ;Myth and Tyne all - - , 00 ( Buffalo,Brant&Godric.h 100 75 8 10 !Bost. Sleaf: and Mid.Co all 64 7 ' (6 p. Ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 stock ;Bristol and Exeter stock ,Caledonian 10 !Carmarthen & Cardio - an all - - 5 Clcutta.&S.F.as tn. (Lim) 3 5 p 50 !Cork and Bandon all - - 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s. - - 20 I Cork, I tlrock., ,t, Passage all - - 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 5 1/ 3 20 Cornwall all 6 64 2 0 Ceylon Guarantd. 6p. c. 74 1 p ( all until 6pc neran. A gets no div. I - - 174 Demerara all 10 Do A. - - 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 10 25 1 10 Do B all - - , 1 hasbeen' d. toB . stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 974 9 50 !Dublin & Belfast June. all - - aoi 20 Do. F Shares Ext.._ all - - 25 !Dun., Perth, &Ab. June. all 8 84 20 Do. Jubbulpore all - - stock East Anglian lOO 16 17 100 Do. 44 pc. Debentrs. all 97 ! stock !Eastern Counties lOO 50 51 100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864.. all 994 li stock 'Eastern Union, A stock 100 37 39 20 Geelong & Melbourne.. all - - stceir Do do Bdo 100 26 28 stock Geelong Corporation 6 25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 134 - - per cent. Bonds ...... 100 - - stock East Suffolk stock Edinbur , h & Glasgow 100 - - 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 70 stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 26 28 100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr. all 45 4: 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 50 51 stock Furness - - 100 Do. do. 1867.. all 42 4; stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 114 116 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 40 11 10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all - - stock Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 941 1 stock Great Northern lOO 1110 111 1114 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 8 14d 1 stock Do do A stock stock Do do B do stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 111 112 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 10 stock Great Western ... ... lOO 694 70 7 0 4 5 4 209 Do. New ... ... ... 18 101 1C stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 61 64 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, With 12 Trish South-eastern all - - opt, till '6O stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1135 1131 1184 ; 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O all 92 96 stock London and Blackwall 100 60 62 615 100 Do. do. '73 without opt all 93 96 stock Lon., Brfrht.. &S Coast 100 116 118 117 4 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 do all 88 82 stock Lond., Chat, and Dover 100 49 51 stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c lOO 83 85 stock Lond. &Nth. Western 100 981 98i 99 1 5 I stock Do. do. 5 per cent . stock Lond. & - 4th. Western.. 1 00 92 4 931 94 4 3 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 85 87 25 L'derry & Coleraine .. all - - 20 Do. Fourth do l5 1; If 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 810 20 Do. do all - - stock MAIL Shef. & Lincoln., 100 51 53 514 4 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds lOO - - 50 Maryport and Carlisle.. all - - 20 Newßrunswick & Canda 124 Do do 4 shares.... all - - Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7 10 Metropolitan 5 3g zid Class A Capital Share stock Midland - .... 6.4.0. Do new 1.4.0. - - P 20 Do. do. B Capital do. . • all 5 7 stock Do 'Arming. & Derby 100 103 105 .. Do. do. Land do. ...... 50 Ind. Gt. W. of Ireland all - - 20 Oude (Limited) ........ 59. - - 25 Dog shares all - - stock !Scinde ...... •• • • ci 4 100 9 7 9 71 _ as 25 Mid Kent. - - 20 D o. P unj au b .... El 10 24. 2 Fe* 10 Do, Cray Line . . all - - 20 Do . Do. .... -.. O, all --- _ 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all - - s t o ck D o. Indus. St. Flo. , ?,,,,'''• 100 92 gi 10 Newry & Armagh, clef 9 7 8 d 20 St. Andrews &Quebec A 18 - - 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all - - 10 Trinidad (Lim.) &Tip.. I 1 4 4 ______ dock Norfolk lOO 52 64 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 50 N' lin. Counties Union.. 34 - - d dock North British . 100 64 65 641 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 51 51 dock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 100 - - 20 Ardennes --. ...... .. all - - dock D‘ A stk ; A recs no d. 2 0 eah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. 10 ' 21 /1 until 6pclias beenpd.B 100 - - 5 ,Belgian East. Junction all 1 1 'took Do B stock ....... . 1 0 0 -- - 20 Beaters to Graissessac.. all - took Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 1034 1044 1031 25 Dodo. eI.N.E. purchase 13 13 1 p Ip P 6 Cs' - neaux Mine & Rail all 11 12 took Do Leeds .............. 100 f 0 41 100 Copiapo - ......&...... all - - ,tock Do York dock North London .. 10 Do new 2O Eastern of France .... all 23 24 9.16.4 North Staffordshire.... 175 I 21 24 ' 20Grand Rua. Guar. 6p. e. 6 - - I 10 N. and S. W. Junction.. all 10 104 20 Do. do. all - - 12 Not. & Grantham Rail.. 11 8 81 20 ;Great Central 3f France all - - 10 Feebles ...............• all - - 20 IGt. Luxem., Con. shs... all 61 of - Portsmouth - - 20 !Italian Junction .. ... all - - 10 Rhymney all - - 20 Lake! Constance & Bale. all - - tock Scottish Central - - tock Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 33 44 20 !Lyons & Geneva ...... all - - tock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 861 874 334 !Maria Antonia ........ all - - tock Shropshire Union . , - ... .. •..... all - - 10 Sittin (*bourne & Sheer. all 8 7 20 INamur & Liege ........ all 71 71 took South Devon tock South Eastern ... took South Wales .....- lOO 61 63 16 Do. New Shares .- .. 15 - - tock S. York. and River Dun 1 00 180 81 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref. all 84 94 20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all i 4 7 20 [Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. all 344 35 4 25 Stockton & Darlington all 41 42 20 tParie & Orleans.. - .... all 53 55 25 Do do ll 191 105 p Recife &S. Fran. (Pern.) took Taff Vale . ............ 100 . 1 - - 20 11 gua. 7p. et. Um-- 13 34 3d lock Do Prof. ko 1 - - 20 litiga & Dunaburg...... 14 - - 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rall 22 - - - 10 !Rome & Frascati - ...... all - 50 Ulster .. .'• - .... all - 25 Do ...... ...... - all 110 Do . 2 d 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref all - Lock Cale of Neath 13 Victoria Sta. and Pim all 114 111 10 Do. 54 per cent. Pref..... all 8 Ai took Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c. 2 14 1 d 50 Waterford .2 Limerick all - - 20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin 1? d 2O West Cornwall 20 West London all - - • 84 West Flandern 10 Do let class ........ all - - 10 o. 51 p. c. Preference.. all 94 91 20 Do 2d class .. . .... all - - 20 W. & N.W. of France .. all 21 22 took i WestHartlepool Harhr 20 Western of Austria.... 6 _ _ ' and Rail . 100 - - 20 'estern of Switzex land all -- - Lock West Midland-Oxford 100 44 46 444 61 6 iesbaden - truck Do. Newport 100 42 44 6 o. 8 per cent Pref all - - bock Do. Hereford 100 82 84 2O Zealand - stock stock 6.4.0. stock stock 50 stock stock stock stock stock 25 stock stock stock 10 19.18.4 stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock 13 stock stock stock stock stock PREFERENCE SHARES. osing Business Share Railways. ;Paid I price. Done. 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5O all ctk ißris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 100 20 !Do. do. do. Shares stock I Caledon £10,44 per cent 100 101 103 stock Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 100 65 ;Cork k Bandon, 55 p. c. alai, 20 I Cornwall. 5 per cent 204 214 64 pun.Perth&Aber..Tun all 6 64 stock E.Angn.Class A 7 Azsp.e lOO 99 101 stock Do. do. Class B 6 Re._ 100 112 115 stock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c lOO 106 108 stock E. Coun. Ex. sp. c. No.l 100 110 112 stock jDo. do. No. 2 100 108 110 stock Do. New 6 pet et. stock. 100 124 126 stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. 106 79 81 stock Do. 5 per cent guar... 100 stock Edin.&Glas.sp.e. shares 100 112 114 stock Do. 4p. c amt. S. &D. 100 90 92 stock I Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. 100 stock Furness, 5 per cent 100 stock Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. 100 stock IGreat Northern, sp. et. 100 116 118 stock • I r'o • 5p c• Redm., 10 p.c.pm 100 112 114 stock t Do. 44 p. c. do. do. 100 Do. sp.c. Bedm. 5 p.c. pml 80 86 88 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf.' all stock t G t.Sn. & W (Ireland) 41 100 98 10 0 p. et pref. stock 50 Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. sp. ct 6 stock ro. 'Redeemable, 44 p.ct lOO 98 100 stock Do. Itedeemable.4 p. at lOO 89 91:'. stock Do Irredeemable, do lOO 90 92 stock Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref lOO 101 103 102 8 Do. firm. Pref. Shares all 10 104 10 Ut. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh all 174 184 10 Do. do. sp. et. pref all 104 11 stock Do Birmsr. , ruar. stock lOO 76 78 264 I Do. Chester grna. shares all 204 214 135 I Do, do. do. 20 ; Do. do. do. stock ILan.&York 6p. C. stock lOO 135 137 stock I Do.Barnsl.st£s 3s 104 pc 100 stack Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) 100 stock Lon.. Brig.s pc.gu. No.l 100 116 118 stock Do. sp. c. No. 2j 100 116 118 stock Do. gua, 6p. c. stock Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 100 116 118 stock 'Do. do. 45 per cm'. 100 103 105 5 'Do. do. 44 p. c. shares., all • stock Do. 7p. ct. Pref, stock. 100 153 156 stock 'Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P.) 100 1304 134 stock tDo.4p.c.S.(div.def.til '65) 100 69 71 stock Lon. Chat. and Dover lOO 88 90 stock Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, sp. et.. 100 116 118 stock Lon. ft S.W, 7p. ct. stock 100 150 155 stock t Do. 45 per cent lOO 2s. 6d.'Do. (Prtsm. perpl anne. of 2s. 6d.. all 124 Londondy. ft Cole. sh. all 125 Londony. & Ennis. 4 sh.i all 131 144 stock Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et.i 100 6 ,D0..£6 stock IDo. 34 per cent llOO 78 72 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent ) 5 1 12 Maryoort ft Car., 4p. a all 12 ;Do. 45 per cent. all stock !Mid. eon. 6 p stock 100 stock IDo.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c 100 137 130 stock Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock 100 102 104 6 Do. with option till 1860 3 stock Do. Leic. ft Hit. pref. st.l 100 95 97 stock Norflk sp. c. Ex. at. 1846' 100 stock Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 100 stock jDo.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 100 stock North British, sp. lOO 111 113 stock Do. New, gua. sp. c 100 110 111 101 Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. she 3 4 14 p 10 1 Do. do. do. all stock Nth.Dev.nail. &Dck.Co. 100 stock N-East.Cons.Pref. 4p. c. 100 92 94 stock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 100 100 102 1014 17 Do. do. do 5.13.4. 4 4p 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 13 1 2 _4 IDo. do. Quarters, 1848. 9 35 IDo. York, et S. Purcli, 10 4 d p 20 North Staffordshire,.. , all 22 23 10 IRhytnney Guaranteed. all fif 'Scottish Central, new p all stock Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock lOO stock Do.Aberdeenxua.6p. 100 124 126 stock Do. 7p. e. pref. stoc 100 133 136 10s. ;South Devon, Ann. 10s all 104 11 10 Do. Fixed 44 per een all 1.0.6 'South Eastern (Readin, Ann., 1.0.6) ... all 23 24 stock Do. 45 per cent lOO 102 104 stock Do. Fixed 1 4p.e. Ist is. 100 192 104 stock - outh Wales, gua. 4 p.c., 100 91 93 stock Do. 15 per cent lOO 100 102 stock S.-Yorkshire, 4p. (Iglu : 100 85 88 25 Stock. & Dar. Asp. 0 1 all 271 28 25 Do. B 6 per cent all 82 335 25 Do. C 6 percent all 32 338 stock Watrtd & ICilkny, 6 p.c lOO 45 48 stock -Oxf lst Guastlt 100 124 123 stock I 1)o. 2d do 100 120 124 stook Do. Newport 5 paptred, 100 100 102 stock IDo.Perpet. 6p.c. pt 1866 100 123 126 stock 1 Do. till 1869, lst is. 100 116 120 124 Do. do. 2d is, 74 6 7 75 80 67 72 65 70 pr 1;l d 1 pr 21. 1I d 97} 94 97 98 994 101:h 21 22 70 72 45 47 50 55 42 47 40 15 94 15i I}d 1 d 10 2i 1 116 1 10 d 90 95 92 96 93 96 88 12 83 85 92 03 85 67 11. I}d 5 7 Share ,l Mines. 96j 97i I 214 2 51 51 - - 2* /1134 , I 1 I 3 231 31 21' 23 24 71 7; 19 20 ar 38 51 5) 1i d 1/ 19 20 d 5) g 9) 91 21 22 'T SECU XlO5 110 10 112 110 112 99 100 IG7 108 107 108 1051 1061 97 99 97 99 96 98 1051 106 i iloBi `TES. I Buniness done 22 I f 101 I ITIES. 97i 96 i 106 108; 7 Paid. Closing 1 Business Price. Done 31 1 t 195 205 410 920 110 115 111 12 7 7 23 2 5 71 81 A I 21 11 3 II 33 35 21 a 11 • 55 57 31 4 4f 51 34 91 8 13 91 10 93 45 300 3lO 3 4 i It 155 165 36_ 38 21 51 2 6 184 1 91 78 80 350 360 1121 1171 120 130 11 2 12} 131 19 21 17i 181 ES. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANU. LAW INTELLIG.ENCE.-(THIS .DAY). COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Justice Willes, and Baron Channell.) RYVES V. THE ATTORNRY-GENERAL. This was a petition for a declaration of legitimacy by Mrs. Lavinia Jannetta Horton Ryves, claiming to be Princess of Cumberland and Duchess of Lancaster. It will be remembered that the case was adjourned for the production of the original register of the petitioner's baptism at Liver pool, which, it was suggested by the Court, with the view of saving expense to the petitioner, could be transmitted by the rector to the registrar of this court. The rector refused to allow the book to leave his custody for a single hour, and that therefare Mrs. Ryves had sent him a supcena with funds to defray the expenses of his journey to town. Accordingly the book was this morning produced in court. I The petitioner again appeared in person. Mr. Welsby and Mr. Roche represented the Attorney- General for the Crown. The Judge Ordinary, addressing the petitioner, after having examined the baptismal register, said that the Court could come to no other conclusion but that the peti tioner had proved that her parents were legally married. Of course the Court could not tell what would be the result of the decision. Mrs. Ryves thanked the Court for their decision. The Judge Ordinary said there was no need of thanks, as the duty of the Court was to administer justice. SHERIFFS' COURT. THE UNION BANK AND ITS CLERKS--MILLER V. THE UNION BANK. Yesterday this action, to recover Xll, one month's wages, in lieu of notice, plaintiff having been summarily dis missed under very extraordinary circumstances, was brought up. Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Henry James, instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Farqu har, and Leech, of Moorgate -street, for the bank, Mr. Lewis, for his client, stated that the plaintiff had been a clerk in the Union Bank for five and a-half years. In the month of July last he was promoted to " ledger" clerk, and in that capacity he made an error of 6s. 6d. At least the error in the first instance was that of another clerk, but through inadvertence the plain tiff altered his book, and so the error arose; and he became 6s. 6d. wrong. Plaintiff endeavoured to trace out the mistake. He stayed at the bank after time, and at length he thought he had found it out, but he had not, and another inadvertent alteration was the result. Finally, the matter came to the knowledge of the manager, who said that Pullinger's affair had created such a sensation that this must be reported to the board. It was reported. All through September plaintiff was continued in his employment, and at the end of that month he received his salary. Upon the • 3d of October he was summarily dismissed, and he he' sought at this court redress and justice. Plaintiff was called and said that he had been for five years and a half in the bank, and described very fully the nature of the case leading to this action. He derived no benefit from making the alteration, nor did it put one penny in his pocket. He had been engaged on the pass-book before he was promoted to the ledger. He had to keep two ledgers, containing 600 accounts. In cross-examination, plaintiff deposed to his being told that, in consequence of Pullinger's frauds, this case must be reported. He did alter a customer's balance, but he did so entirely by inadvertence. Plaintiff described having put a star to the alterations, and, after a very long examination, Mr. James called the principal ledger clerk, who was of opinion a clerk was liable to dismissal for such an error as that committed by plaintiff. The resolution of the directors, discharging plaintiff for falsifying the books, &c., was read, and after a rather unseemly exhibition which Mr. James with much severity checked, and which led his Honour to threaten to clear the Court, Mr. James pointed out that in such a case as this the directors of a bank wore bound to be very stringent. If this were an inadvertence upon the part of plaintiff then the defendants were bound to pay plaintiff his month's salary, but the evidence went to show it was wilful Plaintiff would not make anything by the alteration, his, character was unimpeached, but he might have done it to save himself trouble. If a civilian assaulted another the punishment was slight. If a soldier assaulted his officer the punishment was death. So in a bank d iscipline was everything and whether it was thousands or shillings the result of error was the same. Mr. Lewis, in a very able speech, said that plaintiff was made the scapegrace of Pullinger's offences. Me thought if anybody had been wilful it was the directors themselves, who had shut their eyes to the deliberate errors and fraudu lent mistakes made by Pullinger, and detected the 6s. 6d. mistake made by plaintiff, and for which they discharged him. Mr. Lewis confidently expected his Honour's ♦erdict in favour of plaintiff, who had served the bank faithfully for nearly six years, who had made a mistake of 6s. 6d. through being employed in a, to him, new capacity, and who had been discharged summarily for such mistake. His Honour said no doubt this was an important matter for both parties, and he would reserve his judgment till to-day. This morning Mr. Lewis elected to be nonsuited. His Honour said his opinion was that this was a case for gharp were-matters of foot to be considered, which matters of fact were directly within the province of a jury. On the part of the plaintiff his prospects in life were at a stake, while on the part of the bank it was to be decided how their business was to be conducted. He was sure the bank did not consider this a matter of money, but one of principle. A gentleman who attended for Messrs. Johnson, Farqu har, and Leech, said that it was as his Honour had said The bank were anxious to spare plaintiff expense, and he proposed to adjourn the case, a jury to be summoned mean while. This suggestion was acted upon, no special day being fixed, Ills Honour complimented the legal gentlemen upon each side upon the manner in which they had conducted the Case, and the proceedings terminated. POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—(774is Day). MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.-Emily Gardener, a dissipated-looking female, was charged before Mr. Tyr whitt with the following assault on a young female named Emma Porter. The complainant said she was talking to a gentleman at the top of the Haymarket, when the prisoner came up and asked the gentleman to buy her an orange. She told the prisoner she had better leave, upon which the prisoner tried to strike her. With the view of preventing her doing so she put up her hand, upon which the prisoner seized hold of it, and in a savage manner broke one of her fingers. She gave the prisoner in charge, and then went to Char ing-cross Hospital and had her finger set. Prisoner said she did not do it; it was done before she came up, but this was denied by the complainant. Holden, 297 A, said that when charged the prisoner made no answer, but said she would give the complainant something if he would let.her go, and afterwards said she would " mark" the complainant when she came out. The prisoner was the most dissipated woman that frequented the Haymarket. At the hospital the surgeon said the complainant's finger was broken, and that she must attend again. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was very savage of the prisoner to serve a poor girl in such a manner, and fined the prisoner 405., or six weeks. The complainant was led out of court, having fainted, and being evidently in great pain. THAMES. ROGUES IN GRAIN—ROBBERY AT A BREWEIN.—Geo. Hilton, aged 39, a brewer's servant, of No. 2, York-place, Lower Chapman-street, St. George- in-the .East, and Thos. Lockett, 30, of 3, Thomas-street, labourer, were charged with stealing a sack of oats the property of Messrs. Henry Furze and Co., brewers, Church-lane, Wbitechapel. Police Sergeant Copping, No. 3 A, the well. known and intelligent detective officer, said he had been keeping a sharp eye upon the prisoners for several weeks. Last night he saw the prisoners with a truck in Thomas street ; Whitechapel. There was a sack of corn on the truck. The prisoners stopped in front of a house in Thomas-street, and Hilton went to the door and called out, " Dick, here is a sack of sawdust for you." Witness felt the sack and said "No, it is not sawdust, it is corn, you are my prisoners," and collared both men directly. The sack was branded with the name of the owner, Henry Furze, and contained four bushels of clean oats. He asked the prisoners where they obtained the oats, to which they both replied, " The fact is we stole the oats from Mr. Furze's brewery." Hilton was re • cently at the brewery doing a job. The other had been employed at the brewery and discharged for misconduct. He believed the prisoners had been in the practice of steal ing corn from the brewery for some time. The prisoners, who appeared in excellent condition, pleaded guilty, and in excuse for this offence, roared out "Want, want only made us do it." Copping said the prisoners were not in distress, and had good clothes on. Tke prisoners were sentenced to three months' imprison. ment and hard labour. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE. We are requested to state that the weights for this race were declared at 5 p.m. on the 22d of January, and that the forfeits are to be:declared to Mr. Topham, clerk of the course, at Chester, on or before the 29th inst., at 3. p.m. AMERICAN SHIPS UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG. — At Liverpool, within the last few days, several American'vessels have been registered under the British flag, in order to enable them to carry salt to south Carolina And returu With cotton Without fear of capture. Y 24., 1861. LITERA T URI. THE EARL OF ,DUNDONALD. Autobiography of a Seainavz. Val. 11. Bentley. Cannot England even no cv do something towards the expiation of her heinous ingratitude to one of her most glorious heroes--Thornas, " Lord Coch rane," tenth Earl of Dunde nald. It is due to the honour of this country thaic there should, at least, be made some posthumous attempt towards this tardy recognition of services 1 hat have been wholly unre warded, services the 7 nost signal and the most resplendent. It is only too recently and too pain fully in the recollecti on of us all, how this incom parable vindicator of the glory of England died, at a great age, in his moilest residence at Kensington, and was buried not by the nation, not by the Government —no, forsooth, they wanted prece dents for that l—but. by his relatives, with the sympathy of very ;many of his countrymen, in that great national mausoleum, the last resting place of heroes, and of men of genius, that grand old abbey down at West minter. There repose the mortal remains of this wonderful Sea Captain after the close of a life length .ened out beyond the allotted age of man, a life rendered ever memorable in the annals of Great Britaba by a series of the most ex traordinary exploits, ?and yet—marvellous to reflect —a life embittered by a succession of the most de plorable wrongs, of the most dreadful indignities, of insults the most sp,tematically ignominious and contumelious. Here was precisely one of those men whom (according to the prover bial phrase) King's, delight to honour— a man whose warlike achievements in all parts of the world were miracles of audacity—a man who again and again had risked life, and limb, and reputation in the service of his Sovereign and of his Fatherland--and who yet, in spite of all his deeds of matchless daring, lived for nearly fifty years after the last of his grand achievements had been accom plished the victim onlyof alternate obloquy and neglect. The anomaly of this great man's life is one of the most astounding problems of Modern History. What he did for England. and what England did for him —we cannot, now that he is dead, recall to remembrance without a pang of mingled shame and astonishment. Here—in " Lord Cochrane," for that is his veritable historic title, that, in truth, is th e name of terror to our enemies under which his astopishing exploits by sea and by land were ac complished—here, in very deed, was one of those matchless weilders of the sword apostrophised by Spencer as— "All aiightie men and dreadful derring doers I" Here was a Sea Captain second to no man of whom this world has record, second ne i t h er i n personal valour nor in genius to command—for the genius and valour of this man were both of them consum ' mate. Comparing him t o N e l son , t h e Hi stor i an of Europe has said, and said quite truly of Lord Cochrane (vol. ix., p. 335). " Equal to his great predecessor in personal gallantry, enthusiastic ardour, and devotion to his country, he was perhaps his s u p er i or i n or i g i na l gen i us, in ventive power, and inexhaustible resources." If Horatio Lord Nelson illustrated, as he did upon countless occasions a personal gallantry never to be surpassed—what shall not be said, too, of Thomas Lord Cochrane's valour—evidenced through inci dents like the following :—Tbat a seaman sitting beside Lord Cochrane in an open boat in the Basque Roads being killed by a cannon ball while in the act of looking through a telescope at the F renc h men - o f- war —" w i t h out saying a word or averting his eye, Coch rane took the instrument out of the dead man's hand and completed the observations !" That Cap tain Lord Cochrane, with his crew, late of the brig Speedy, being prisoners of war on board the French line-of-battle ship, the Formidable, during the action between the French and English fleets in 1801, in the Bay of Algesiras—" at every broad side the French received from the English these brave men gave three cheers, regardless alike of the threats of instant death from the French if they continued such unseemly interruptions, and the obvious danger that-they themselves might be sent to the bottom by, the discharges of their friends !" Incidents like these, however, are in Lord Cochrane's instance, scattered abundantly through the annals of the Great War. As with the anecdotes told of Nelson they are familiar, far and wide, to his countrymen. They embellish the pages of our history—rendering the volumes of our Naval Annals fit companions to the classic tomes of Plutarch. Yet it is this man whom we read of also in those extraordinary annals as the recipient from England in return for his extravagant ex ploits of valour, as the recipient from England (in return) only of the cruelest insults and of the most infamous punishments. As to his promotion in any way be looked upon as any token of recompencel his profession, that in his instance could hardly in Every step made by him in his nominal and titular rise in the Royal Navy of England was his by right—midshipman, lieutenant, commander, post captain, commodore, rear-admiral, vice -admiral, full admiral, until he came to be at last what he died as, viz., admiral of the red and rear-admiral of England! Apart from this his one sole recompense during life, from the hands whose glories his resplendent genius'and valour had so wonderously enhanced in both hemi spheres was—the red ribbon and the grand cross of the most honourable order of the Bath. The insig nia of that order of knighthood was in point of , fact literally the one sole guerdon doled out by England to Thomas Cochrane, to Lord Cochrane, to the Earl of Dundonald ! And that—what was the sequel of the history of the presentation of that single reward to Lord Dundonald? Why, that it was torn from him but a very short time indeed after its original presentation, thatit was torn from him too with every possible token of indignity, that the banner on his stall in Westminster Abbey was pulled down and kicked out of Henry Vll.'s Chapel as the symbol of a dishonoured knight, that he was dismissed the service of which he was the glory and the paragon, that he was deprived of all rank in the British Navy, pronounced guilty of fraud and lying and the basest conspiracy, that he was expelled from the House of Commons, that he was condemned to pay a fine of £l,OOO, that hewas imprisoned in the King's Bench as a malefactor, that he was condemned to stand in the felon's pillory:---and that all this is now known and proved to have been done wrongfully—Lord Coch rane being now known and proved to have been ab solutely guiltless of everything of which he was accused ! Is not this a painful history ? Are not these facts enough to make one blush for one's country, to make one weep for the anguish that must have been endured under all these ignominies, and for years and years afterwards, by . this heroic heart—by this heart the last and crowning evidence of the matchless heroism of which was the fact that it did not burst, that it was not broken by this infernal and most dastardly treatment. As to the completion of the vindication of the outraged character of Lord Dundonald, it has by this time, thank heaven, come to be simply matter of History. His own vindication of what has been finely termed—[the original phrase will be found shining luminously in Mr. Disraeli's Life of Lord George Bentinclq—the perfect chastity of his honour, Lord Dundonald's own vindication of his unsullied reputation will be read by posterity not without profound emotion, in the pages of this manly and outspoken Autobiography. Upon the last page of the last volume completing the work—so far, at least, as it had been carried down as a consecutive narrative before the veteran author's hand was relaxed by death, and the pen fell from it (never to be resumed), as the sword had been laid by previously —upon the last page of the last volume (vol. 11., p. 399) there will be found to have been recorded by the great Sailor Earl, who had done so much for, and suffered so much from, his country, the sub ' joined memerandum "Amongst the curiosities shown to visitors of the Bank of England, there was, and no doubt is still, a thousand pound bank note, No. 8202, dated 26th June, 1815, on the back of which are endorsed the following words : " ' My health having suffered by long and close confine ment, and my oppressors being resolved to deprive me of property or life, I submit to robbery to protect myself from murder, in the hope that I shall live to bring the de linquents to justice. " ' COCHRANE. (Signed) " King's Bench Prison, July 3, 1315."' Having written which—" There," adds the heroic veteran more than forty-five years afterwards, " There is the reward bestowed on me by a Minis terial faction, memorable only for its political cor ruption." Is this pronounced by any one to be the effusion of (to give it its mildest terms) pique or petulance ? Let Sir Archibald Alison answer, Sir Archibald, whose political sympathies would go, if in either direction, instinctively in that of the Tory- Government. "In a free country," writes the His torian, in the 61st chapter of his opus magnum (vol. ix., p. 337), " no deed of injustice, whether popular or ministerial, can permanently blast a noble character." And he adds—" With the change 3 of time, the power which had oppressed England's greatest existing naval hero passed away; another generation succeeded, to which his exploits were an object of admiration, his weaknesses of forgiveness his wrongs of commiseration." And Alison observes. upon this point in conclusion — " On e of theme mo.colth deservedly popular acts of the new ministry hi succeeded to the helm after t he overthrow of ' the Tory administration was to restore him to the rank and to the honours of which he had been deprived ; and there remains now tom he historian onlyorts the the grateful duty of lending his h u mble eff to laid in rescuing from unmerited obloquy the vic tim of aristocratic, as he has frequently done those of popular, injustice." Honour to Sir Archibald LINES LEASED AT FIXED RE: Railways. Leasing (Closing Business Co.'s. I Price. Done. tiedt out and 'Retch ley, Bmcking - hamphire Chester ITolyhead.. Do. do. 5i per cent.' Do. do. 5 per cent. Clydesdale Junction.. Colchester, Stour Vali E.Lincolnshire,g.6 p.c. 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And now with regard to that other more requisite, and therefore more enthralling and attractive vindication with which we have here more immediately to do—the vindication from charges far more serious than that of being a mere partizan writer, the vindication of the lofty and stainless character of the dauntless Sailor Earl of Dundonald ! The recapitulation of the manner in which it has been accomplished by himself only immediately prior to his demise were only superfluous, now that the story may be turned to, as it is here told by his own truth-writing hand, guiding his historic pen in, the light of his calm conscience and in the presence of posterity. The second volume of the deceased Earl's autobiography will be found to contain a full and complete record from first to last of the Stock Exchange Trial, and its lamentable consequences. It will there be seen how totally innocent of anything worse than indis cretion was this Bayard of the Deep in a deplorable transaction, throughout which he was merely the victim of the nefarious proceedings of men as base as his own wretched uncle, Mr. Cochrane John stone ! And of that miserable foreign sharper, Baron (!) Charles Random de Berenger, who, dressed up in a masquerading uniform, and calling himself Col. Du Bourg, aide-de-camp to Lord Cath cart, presented himself about midnight on Feb. 20 1814, at the Ship Hotel, Dover, representing that he was the bearer of intelligence from Paris of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte ! Bane ill lachry nue. There was the hoax—in the perpetration of which the hero of the Basque Roads was wrong fully and infamously said to have been implicated. Enough for us if we here content ourselves with an extract from the "Historical Sketches of the Bri tish Statesmen in the Time of George the Third " —the literary masterpiece of one of the greatest in tellects of this age, Henry Lord Brougham, ex- Chancellor. Speaking:of the famous Trial of Lord Cochrane, and we cannot but add its in-famous con clusion, Lord Brougham there writes : "If Lord Cochrane was at all aware of his uncle Mr. Cochrane Johnstone's proceedings, it was the whole ex tent of his privity to the fact. Having been one of the counsel engaged in the cause 1 can speak with some confi dence respecting it, and I take upon me to assert that Lord Cochrane's conviction was mainly owing to the ex treme repugnance which he felt to giving up his uncle, or taking those precautions for his own salety which would have operated against that near relation. Even when he, the real criminal, had confessed his guilt, by taking to flight, and the other defendants were brought up for judg ment, we, the counsel, could not persuade Lord Cochrane to shake himself loose from the contamination by abandon ing him. " Our only complainst against Lord Ellenborough was his lordship's refusal to adjourn after the prosecutor's ease closed, and his requiring us to enter upon our defence at so late an hour—past nine o'clock—that the adjournment took place at midnight, and before we called our witnesses. Of course, I speak of the trial at Guildhall only. Lord Ellen borough was equally to blame with his brethren in the Court of King's Bench for that most cruel and unjustifi able sentence, which at once secured Lord Cochrane's re election far Westminster when the House of Commons ex pelled him upon his conviction. " In 1833, the Government of which I was a member re stored this great warrior to his rank of Adnkiral in our navy. The country, therefore, in the event of hostilities, would now have the inestimable benefit of his services, whom none perhaps ever equalled in heroic courage, and whose fertility of resources, military as well as naval, place him high amongst the very first of commanders. That his honours of knighthood, so gloriously won, should still be withholden is a stain, not upon him, but upon the councils of his country; and after his restoration to the service, it is as inconsistent and incomprehensible as cruel and unjust." (Lord Brougham's " Historic Sketches.") Those honours were at length, as we know, but only after many long years had elapsed, grudgingly restored to this incomparable Warrior of the Ocean. Grudgingly we say advisedly, for not until the very day before the sepulture of the mortal remains of the grand old earl, at Westminster Abbey, were the in signia of his knighthood of the Bath restored to his stall in Henry the Seventh's Chapel! In obedience then to the express injunctions of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and' His Royal High ness the Prince Consort. And there he rests at last, in that the fittest place of all for his burial, under the roof beams of the glorious old cathedral —that true hero and true knight—that veteran man of genius and man of glory, with no sem blance of a blot left to blur the splendour of his historic escutcheon. Yonder he repcses at last, in his honoured but unmarked grave. His unmarked grave ! Has England, then, no thin g rema i n i ng to • do—not in his honour, but in vindication of hers ? Yes—until this last deed in his instance, shall have been done—a thousand times, yes; England has yet to raise there, over his venerable dust, a monu ment inscribed with her recognition of his match less exploits and of his peerless reputation, and iuscribed, too, with the acknowledgment of her own tardy repentance for that national ingratitude by which his long and glorious life was em bittered. Lectures on the Surgery of Childhood. Delivered at the Hospital for Sick Children. By Athol D W. Johnson, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Hospital Mr. Johnson, the eminent surgeon to the Hos pital for Sick Children—that hospital which more than all others excites the tender sympathies of the humane—has, in the publication of these lectures, conferred an inestimable benefit on the numerous members of the medical profession scattered over the country to whose care the illnesses and acci dents of childhood are so constantly confided. By such this will, we doubt not, be regarded as a boo❑ of no small value. Mr. Johnson says : It is but a few weeks since a gentleman at this hospital asked me what work I could recommend him to read upon this subject ; and it was probably to his surprise, as I con fess it had originally been to mine, that he learnt that there was really no special book of the kind published. The number of works in various languages devoted to tbis medi cal diseases of children is very great, and includes many of the highest excellence; amongst these, I need scarcely refer you to the admirable " Lectures" of Dr. West ; but owing, I suppose, to these works having been written almost exclusively by physicians, the surgical affections have received but scanty notice, if any. After a long search indeed. I found in Frank's " Delec tus" a short Latin treatise by Oehme, " De morbis reoens Natorum Chirurgicis ;" but any author who applies to this in the hope of pilfering ideas with impunity, will, I believe, be deservedly disappointed. The distinction, - it is true, between medical and surgical affections in early life, as at all other ages, cannot be accu rately drawn. In many cases which are strictly medical, my assistance is occasionally invoked. In croup, for in stance, I have been sailed on to perform tracheotomy ; or for the consequences of pleurisy, to puncture the chest ; whilst in all my surgical cases I am over most glad to avail myself of the ready assistance of my colleagues. Without pretending, however, to logical accuracy,there is practically little difficulty in effecting the separation, in assigning to physicians and to surgeons their respective cases. The surgical affections of children may, I think, be con veniently arranged as follows : I. Those Congenital Malformations—using the term in a very broad sense, and including arrests of develop ment—which require the attention of the surgeon. 11. The direct or immediate consequences of Injuries or Accidents. 111. Surgical Diseases proper, which may follow one or other of the previous divisions, or which may arise from other causes. The first lecture relates to original imperfections, the second to accidents, and the third to surgical diseases proper. The concluding passage of this lecture we quote with pleasure as an evidence at once of Mr. Johnson's judiciary skill and tender thoughtfulness towards the young objects of his care : It is in children especially that a cure may be hoped for, even in most aggravated forms of disease of these parts ; for in children the plastic powers of nature are so great that recovery may take place when in the adult any such hope can scarcely exist. I have no hesitation in owning that, when I first became surgeon to this hospital (not so many years since), I was less unwilling to have recourse to operations than lam now. In recent times, what is called conservative surgery has made much progress, and a joint is now excised, where, formally, the extremity would have been sacrificed. This is, no doubt, a great improvement, but after all, the most really conservative surgery is to save the joint as well ; and this, I feel perfectly certain, can, in early life, with care, time, and perseverance on the part of the surgeon, be accomplished much more frequently than is generally supposed. I need scarcely dwell on the advantages of this preservation, if it be practic;ible : to say nothing of our avoiding the risk of an operation, which is always appreciable, and in the knee is considerable even in children, the length and proportions of the limbs are preserved, and a considerable amount of motion in the joint may ultimately, in almost all cases, be obtained. i n In the adjoining room you may see a few art naPl°' t u ie. r t o illustration of this restorative power on tilt o severe, parts about the joint was so extensive, the of time I was on In one child, Alfred Thistleton, in whom &ILI-II:talon of the and the health so much impaired,.that aut will find that the Ti ) t ab is a very useful the very point of proposing excisiotnh,e child is now stout and well, that one, and the knee is only partiailliar 4. glad to find my view s Whilst writing this lecture,nd nfirmed by a most emi nion might have neat surgeon in Dublin, 6 differently, for he has been the one whose, pi o n this subject c orroborated bl n differently, been expected to successful' advocate of excision ; I mean Mr. great and -cently published "Third Report on Ope rative Butcher states, that it is " impressed In ry, rative Surgehis ind, nay, that it is his sincere conviction, Butcher. strongly on ere operative measures willseldom in deedthat these s evere very be either warranted or called for" in children. That "rep„ it in the young is to be looked forward to, to be de pended upon as a certainty," and consequently that there s h ou ld be "no hasty rem ova l o f di sease d j o ints" in child hood. Among the poorer classes, it is true, we have many dis advantages to contend with. Time, good air, and good living, aro three great requisites in aid of our surgical treat ment, but the demand for our beds is so urgent, that the first can seldom be afforded within the hospital ; and, as an out-patient, m the child will seldom enjoy t he two last,whilst it . is deprived also, too often, of systemat ic car e and of judi ous nursing. Such impediments to success, as we cannot pretend to ignore them, must bo fairly encountered and grappled with; difficulties exist in all cases, and in every sphere of action; it is t he part of him who hopes to suc ceed in life, or who s trive s to conscientiously p er f orm his duties, to be prepared for difficulties, to exert himself to his utmost to overcome them. In bringing to a conclusion the first course of lectures ever delivered at this - institution, I may briefly state that they were undertaken; because my colleagues, as well as myself, were most anxious to render generally available any information which this hospital may afford; because we felt that our position here involved a trust, and that our offices had been bestowed upon us, not for our own indivi dual advantage but with the hop e th a t we m i g ht contri bute something to the knowledge of the diseases of children, and of their treatment. [ADVERTISEMENT.] THE NEW PERIODICAL. ANOTHER TOLLTME OF THE CABINET LIBRARY. Messrs. PALMERSTON; RUSSELL, and Co. have the honour to announce that early in March will (unless accident intervene) be Published, No. V. of the unpopular Perio dical, THE REFORM BILL. • OR, THE POLITICAL OLLA PODRIDA FOR 1861. With the following Contributions by eminent Persons : 1. Extension of the Suffrage. By the Lord John Russell. 2. Restriction of the Suffrage. By the Lord Herbert of Lea. 3. Right of the Untaxed to Control Taxation. By W. E. Gladstone, Esq. 4. Fancy Votes for Poets and Musicians. By the Lord Carli,le. 5. Universal Suffrage. By the Right lion. Milner Gibson. 6. "Who is on Exeter Hall's Side, Who ?" By the Lord Shaftesbury, D.D. 7. Let Philosophers Govern. By Sir G. C. Lewis. 8. Justice to Oireland. By the O'Hagan. 9. Vox Legis Vox Sapientire. By the Lord Campbell. 10. The Fok' ale and the Hustings. By Lord Clarence Paget. 11. Rights of th e P eo pl e ca ll e d R an t ers. B y Sir W. Atherton. 12. Civil Servants and Polite Masters. By the Duke of Somerset. 13. The Sofa, or Should Woman Vote? By W. Cowper, Esq. 14. All Things Made Pleasant. By the Lord Palmerston. New Palace, Westminster, S.W. , Punch. The Earl of Mornington has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris.' . _ A GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—A few nights since a murderous attempt was made upon a gamekeeper in the employ of Lady Emily Foley, of Stoke .Edith-park, Here fordshire, by a navvie employed on the Woseester and Here for of "d Railway, and k nown t o hi s companion.; by the soubri quet Lank." It appears that Nutt was out upon his beat when he came upon a man beating a field of turnips on a farm called Freetown, in the occupation of a gentleman named Pitt. He observed that the poacher had a gun and was watching the operations of the dog, and he therefore advanced towards him without attempting to warnhim off, but the fellow, on seeing Nutt, called upon him to " stand back," or he would blow his brains out. The keeper was about to close with his antagonist, when the fellow raised the piece to his shoulder and deliberately shot him. Provi dentially the man partially avoided the charge by a dex terous movement of the body, but several of the shots struck him in the face, and one of his eyes is injured and discoloured, though it is thought he will not to-e his sight. Aa soon as Nutt recovered himself he made another attempt to capture the fellow, who had in the meantime taken the precaution to reload his gun, and who swore that he would either shoot liim dead or beat his brains out with the stock before he would allow himself to be made a prisoner. As discretion in such a crisis was cettainly the better part of valour, the keeper hastened home to have his injuries attended to, and to inform the head keeper of the formidable opponent he had met with. The fellow, too, at once de camped, and, although the police have been very active in endeavouring to effect a capture, they have not succeeded in their object. DEATH OF A CRIMINAL LUNATIC IN BETHLEHEM HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Sergeant Payne, co roner for London and Southwark, held an inquest in the Board-room of Bethlehem Hospital, St. Georges's, South wark, on the body of Anne Cuffarn, aged 38 years, who died in that institution, where she was confined during her Majesty's pleasure, for the murder of her child. The de ceased woman was tried at Stafford, in 1847, for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child at Walsall, where she was employed as domestic servant. She was acquitted on the ground of insanity, and ordered to be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. She was detained in the county gaol at Stafford for three years, when she was removed to Beth lehem Hospital, where she remained up to the period of her death. Dr. Hood said the conduct of deceased was quiet, excepting on occasions. A short time since she was taken unwell, and died on Tuesday morning, at five o'clock, from chronic bronchitis. After hearing evidence on these points, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. THE LONDON DISTRICT TELEGRAPH.—About two years ago a company was formed for a complete tele graphic ramification of London and its rapidly extending suburbs. The idea was based upon the very reasonable conclusion that, with the enormous population comprised within a radius of ten or twelve miles from Charing cross, a sufficiently remunerative traffic might be en sured by the adoption of a moderate and uniform tariff, whereby the undertaking would be made both remunerative to the shareholders and an almost neces sary convenience to the general public. From time to time, as the works have proceeded, posts and 'wires may have been noticed erected upon the tops of the most commanding buildings in the various thorough fares, and the novelty of the works has led many to take some interest in the undertaking and ita pro bable future success. It is stated that the company have now opened upwards' of 50 stations in the various parts of London and the suburbs for the transmission of messages, and have recently opened their new central station in Cannon-street. For the necessary working of their system, somewhat similar to the arrangements of the General Post-office, the greater part of the messages are telegraphed to this station, where they are sorted, and thence transmitted to their various destinations. Messages for the provinces and the continent are also received by the company at their various branch stations, so that all parts of London are, or shortly will be, in direct telegraphic communication with the general telegraph system of Europe, and messages from the provinces or continent can also be sent to their destination by the company's wires, whereby the present unavoidable charge for foot messen gers will be saved, and a more rapid delivery ensured. The intention of the company is to employ principally female clerks, and they now have 150 employed at their central and various branch offices. The experi ment has thus far been successful, and as female tele graphists are also employed by the other companies, it is hoped that a large and fairly remunerative field for labour is thus opened to well !educated and intelligent females. The number of applications for appointments is almost in credible, and the names and addresses of all eligible appli cants are registered for future references as additional clerks are required. The company are also erecting tele graphs for private purposes, and many firms who transact a large portion of their business by telegraph have had wires put up for their private use and carried into the company's central station, so that their messages can be telegraphed from their offices direct to their destination. A FRENCH SWINDLER.—At the Tribunal of Cor rectional Police, at Paris, a coarse-looking middle-aged woman was brought up on Saturday for swindling. " What is your name ?" asked the President. " Julie de Meilhac," answered the woman. "Do not say that," said the Presi dent, "for we know that your name is not Do Meilhac." " I never had any other." " You hare had many others ; you have, for example, called yourself not only De Meilhac, but Countess de Montignac, but is reality your name is Morel ; you were born in 1818 in the Maternity Hospital at Bordeaux, and were brought up in the Foundling Hospital of that city. You are now 42 years of age, and yet you re presented yourself as only 28. Tell me what you did in the early part of your life." " I decline to give explana tions." " You must tell." " I was brought up in. the convent of the Sacre-Casur at Bordeaux, and afterwards lived for seven years with the sister of M. Mocquard, the Emperor's secretary." " You mean that you were in a convent for the reception of frail women ?" A detail of Oi l e acts alleged against the woman was then given. She_ e l!' d gone to the lodgings of several poor people, introducing herself herself as a dame- de-charite, and after inquiringti them t apparent interest into their situation, and pro mising and then stolen relief, had sent thew out on some errand , different articles ; she had run up bills at i had got goods ing .houses, and gone away ' hotels and lodg.• fraudulent representations or ithrottiers, and not paid for on credit from wino dealers, w them ;and she had, either e by 00f. from one person, 480 f, downright robbery, obtain . third, 218 f. from a fourth, and from another, 114 f. fr"a being questioned about these diffe rent on. The woman, on , w i t h great insolence, and pretended not 1 the persons whom she had defrauded. rent cases, rein a l - o _ Pre sident was so disgusted with her that he At last you are an impudent creature!" She then cr i e d o ur, jumped u p in a rage, shook her fist, and was about to un to kno t w I; when a gendarme compelled her to sit down. The Tribunal condemned her to five years' imprisonment and 10 years' interdiction of civil rights. A letter from Naples of the 16th says A decree signed by M. Parini before he resigned th se e ver Presz power, ordered the restitution of the army muskets which still remain in the hands of the inhabitants. The mode adopted for the recovery of these arms is the only one likely to be attended with a favour able result. Every person will receive two ducats for each percussion musket and a piastre for each flint one. A priest named Ciarlone had preached in the Jesuits' church on two successive Sundays, and his sermons abounded in political allusions. Ho compared Victor Emmanuel to Herod, and Francis 11. to Jesus Christ. The rev. gentleman was pleased the other day to see his congregation augmented, close to the pulpit stairs, by a person whose face Was partially concealed by an ample shawl tied round his neck and who seemed to take groat interest in his discourse, while a few steps from hi; stood half a dozen carbineers, who also appeared to listen with great attention. Whcn M. Ciarlone had concluded, the person and the six carbineers drew round the pulpit, and tine unknown, opening his paletot, displayed a read sash while the carbineers tirrested the priest an presence of his congregation , none of whom shoiv ed the least disposition to inteirfere, and M. Ciar -at is now meditating some new t i'ece of eloquence t the Prefecture of Police. kat ) to the ;75; wag, 0. d. 5 8 6 0 4 10 5 4 4 6 6 2 )46 190 300 91 , neat i :--- ork, V o f so to :, 4$ Sin VY Dd ; 4