The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocr. Tho Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days have been rather inactive, and prices have slightly given way for several of the principle staples. Tea, however, has exhibited little variation. For sugar there has been a rather limited inquiry, and, except for the finer descrip tions, prices have slightly given way. Coffee has maintained its value, more particularly good and fine descriptions of Plantation Ceylon. In rice a fair amount of business has been reported, at full Prices. The operations in saltpetre have been re stricted by the Order in Council prohibiting the exportation, and prices, which at one time were exceedingly buoyant, are now quite nominal. The Tallow Market has continued dull, and a pressure of speculative sales has caused a further downward movement in values for both present and forward delivery. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a Much better feeling prevailed, and prices advanced id. to id. per lb. The sales were 5,000 bales. At the Bank of England yesterday there were no bullion operations of importance. _ _ . The Bank of Amsterdam has raised its rate of discount to 31 per cent. The steamer Ceylon, which leaves to-morrow for India, China, &c., will take out £129,208 in epecie, principally silver. There is a decrease of £585 in the traffic receipts of the Brighton Railway for the past week, and of £1,052 on the South Eastern, compared with the corresponding period of 1860. The traffic returns of the Great Western Railway of Canada for the week ending the 15th instant amounted to £10,563, against £9,936 last year. At the annual meeting of the proprietors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, held this day, the usual dividend of 3 per cent., making, with the 3; per cent. already paid, 7 per cent. for the year, was unanimously agreed to There was a meeting to-day of the Bank of Briti,h North America, when the following repo r t was adopted :—The directors have the satis faction of reporting that the result of the bank's operations, as ascertained from a review of the tusi ness up to Sept. 30 last, exhibits an increased profit Its compared with last year, due allowance having been made for losses incurred, and for such as may be deemed probable. They cannot, however, but regard with feelings of anxiety the continuance of a state of war in America. A prolonged disturbance oil hose commercial relations which have of late years acquired so extensive and beneficial a development, more especially betwee❑ Western Canad a and the United Stags, must press heavily on the trade of the provinces. In other respects, they regard the prospects of the north American colonies as encouraging. The harvest in Canada has again been abundant, and the marked progress and prosperity of its agricul tural interests can scarcely fail to attract the tide of emigration to that colony, whilst the recent dis coveries of gold in Nova Scotia, will, doubtless, under the fostering care of the local government prove hi ;lily advantageous to that province. Upon a careful estimate of the probable results of the Bank's business for the year, the directors have de clared a half-yearly dividend, payable on and after the 3d proximo, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax. Business in the market for Public Securities to day has been rather active, owing to the uneasiness still excited by the position of our relations with America. Several sales having been effected on speculative account, a fall of a per cent. has re salted, Consols having descended to 90 911 for baoney and the sth inst., and to 91-1 I for the January account. The New Threes and the Re clueed are 901-1, being steady; Bank Stock is firm at 2 321, 234 ; India ditto 228 and 230 ; ditto 5 per Cents, is 102 a ex div. Exchequer Bills, March, have advanced to 13s. and 19s. prem.; and ditto June to 14s. and 17s. prem. A general decline has taken place in Foreign Securi t i es , and business has been rather dull. T urkish 6 per Cents. are 79 80 ; ditto, 1858, 69 to i() ; but the 4 per Cents. are rather firm€r, viz., i ; Spanish Stocks have not been very exten invel— y dealt in, the 3 per Cents. have receded to u lk - , and the Certificates to 5/ 6 ; Mexican are very depressed, being 27 ; Buenos Ayres Deferred are b eady at 28; and Venezuelan at 22; Portuguese are firm at 47k ; and Sardinian are 791 ex div. Business in the Railway Share Market continued / ' e rY inactive, and the few bargains entered into 'aye been mostly at reduced prices. South Wes terns, North Eastern (Berwick), and North Eastern ( Y ork). , declined ss. ; Caledonian, Eastern Counties, La ncashire No r th er n A Stock, and Midlands, 10s. ; and ' La ncashire and Yorkshire, and North Westerns, 153. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have been v ery inactive, and prices have shown no material a lteration. Bahia and San Francisco realise 141 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam 6tl ; Sambre and Meuse 7 ; Grand Trunk of Canada 191 ; Great Western of Canada 9 ; East Indian 101 i ; and Great Indian Peninsula 100;1. Saint St oc k B an k an d Miscellaneous Share s con tinued without material variation. Union of Lan don declined to 27k. FIIIITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 13 ank Stock ~ Per C ent. Reduced Annu i t i es, . .....) Per Cent. C onso l s Annuities . "' New 3 p er C en t. A nnu ities 9oa i i I 41-muities, 30 yrs, expire litli Jan., 1880 - nitto for 30 yrs, expire s th April, 1885 151.9-16 I ndia Stock __. __ _ . ___ ..,..„_... Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1563 Ditto ditto April, 1864 98i Ditto 1859 Consols for Account, Dec. 5 914 1 901 x d t, In dia Stock f or Account, 5 per Cent March. June. 2,,ehequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 13 19 14pm 14 13 18 pm Ditto £5OO l3 14 pm Ditto Small 13 14 pm 117 pm , FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Jarazilian 5 per Cent " ' hTto 44 uer Cent, 1858 t Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860 .... uenoe Ayres 6 per Cent D itto Deferred 2B Mexican, 3 per Cent D itto Account P eruvian 41 per Cent .. 1 itt() 3 per Cent. r, Ditto Account 47 ° l rt ) ll t guese 3 per Cent., 18 53 . I to Account R ussian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St — il itte Wm) Cent D itto 3 per Cent. 1859 59 s a/dinian. 5 per Cent. - D itto Account • 794 S panish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred D itto Account S panish, Cert. o f C oup . no t f un d e d A Urkish 6 per Cent. — Ditto Account 7B Ditto New Loan ` , Ditto Account ~Ito Guaranteed, 4 per Cell t. ' en 3 per Cent Ditto Account . • Dividends on the above payable in London. D uch 24 per Cent., Exchange 12 Gull 65 THREE O'CLOCK. C onsols ' Money Ditto Account COURSE OF EXUHANGE.—THIS DAY. Alzsterdain ,Ditto oterd a b 4 ritw 1 . 111 • . • - • 25 521 2,5 60 karts • • 25 521 25 GO ''-rb ' Part "r g h — 13 81 13 9 Short. 25 20 25 321 )it to 3 Months. 25 55 25 621 k a l r seilles -c, alt fort on Maine.. 118/ 119 ~," Jett a 4. ri e - 14 25 14 40 qc) Petersilernbtirgli • — 14 25 14 40 33! 331 km nd — 9 adiz - 484 481 481 484 4.0 ? ...i. m a -Lora — 25 671 25 75 G a n ) ,,,, - ' ll oa . 25 671 25 72 2 V,aPles . .. 39a 394. -, alo r 1\ i _ s, llBi 1. : i ,, ,.. ,ni n. ... — 1181 119 .. -iisbor i . 52 521 Oporto. **************** ---- 52k 52a ioJaneiro. * • • .. New York York .• .• A ,.' r e , gn Gold in Bars (Standard) .... Silver Dollars per oz. £ ( 3 ) 17 0 9 0 ) f 0 0 0 gli in Bars (Standard) 0 0 So .A.lnerioan, Doubloons , , , , , , , , $) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share 74 8 6 6i 93 95 10 . 2 1021 1021 6.4.0 19.16. 12.10 2s 6cl 124 12i lOs. 10 10. 6. SHARE MARKET-THIS DAY ). Closing Business Paid.! price. I done. Railways. 'Belfast and Nor. Conn.' Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blyth and Tyne I I Bost., Sleaf.,and Bristol and Exeter I Caledonian 'Carmarthen &Cardigan; iC r>z and Bandon :Cork, Blrock, & Passag,el Cornwall ' Do. A A gets no div: till6p c.p an.has : Do. B been paid to B.' 'Dublin & Belfast Junc. Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June ' I East inglian :Eastern Counties ..... • 1 Eastern Union, A stock Do Bdo do I DoNw A. late E U lids East Suffolk 1 Edinburgh & Glasgow ! lEdin., Perth, & Dundee' Forth & Clyde Junction 'Furness ;Wash. and S. Western:l IGreatNrthn of Scotland Great Northern...... . Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish South Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire' London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast on., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen.' Shef., & Lincoln.' Maryport and Carlisle.' Dot slia es.. Metropoli. an Midland Do New Do firming. & Derby, Mid Gt. W. of Ireland Do. R shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle all Newry & Armagh, def. 9 'Newry, Wanipt, & Ros all Norfolk lOO North British Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 100 Do A stk ; A recs no d till 6 pc. has been pdß 100 Do B stork Nth. Eastern—BerwicK i 100 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 Do Leeds lOO Do York North London ' 100 Do new 5 North Staffordshire ! 17f N. and S. W. Junction ' all Not. Gan. Rl. & Canal 100 Peebles all 1' , rtsmouth .. I all it hymney F alt cottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock 100 Do Sc t. Mid. stock lOO Shrews. and Welchpool all Shropshire Union 100 Sittinabourne & Sheer all South Devon lOO S. Durham & Lane. Un I all !South Eastern llOO South Wales !S. York. and River Dun 1 '0 'Staines, Wok.,andWok all Stockton & Darlington all Do l3 Do New, 1860 5 Taff Vale. Do Pref. No. 1 Thames lI avenDk&Rail 22 lil , ter Do 2O Do Vale of Meath Victoria sta. and Pim all Waterford Sr, Kilkenny 100 Water , ord Limerick all West Cornwall all West London ' all Do Ist class Do 2d class all W. Hartlepool liar. R lOO West Midland Ox'ord 100 lto Newpor- 100 Do Hereford 100 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ' Paid. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Co. s Price. Done. ---..—. Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&Y.W .. .. Birkenhead lOO D'.&G.W q 4 b 6 Buckinghamshire lOO Do. Chester & Holyhea.. 100 Do 53 54 531 Do. 51 per cent 100 Do 122 124 Do. 5 lOO Do. Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val. all 13.1 J. &E.O . • !. E. Lincolnah. g6pr e. 100 Gr. North. 133 130 E.Union,llarwichShs all E,Counts. 4 41 Do. Woodbridge.... 100 .. .. Gls. Barr. &Neils. Dr. 100 Caledon . • . • Do. new Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. West. .. . • Hull and :-.elby all Yk.N. Mid 110 112 Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.& N. W 195 200 Loudon & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 61 63 Do. Preference Lon.,Tilb.& Southend 100 ,Peto &Co B5 87 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do 6 per cent lOO Do. Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNIV& M 31 31 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5. 5.6. E Counts. par i p g - ua. 5 per sent... Northn.&Ea.tn. sp. c. all Do. Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do. . Do. Fixed sp. C.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool li 0 N. E. Ber .. •• North Western . all Midland 151 161 &N.W 1 Preston and Wyre. I all & L L. Yk. j 43 45 Do. 4 shares A. all Do. --• • .. .. • . Roystn.Hitch.& Shop. 100 Gt. North. 133 136 Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 118 122 Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. 91 93 Wirubledn & Croydon) all L.&Brgtn 81 95 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share Railways. PA. I Closing- Business Paid. Prices. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c. pref. issued at £5 Brie. .E Exet. 4 p. c. at Do. slum es Caledon. £lO. 41 p. cent Do. guar. shares, No. 2 Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent Dun Perth, & Aber.Jun Do. Ist Class Pref 11 Anzn. Class A. 5 p. c Do. Class B 6 per cent Do. Class C 7 per cent E. Conn. Ex. 5 p.c. No. 1 Do No. 2 Do. new 6 p. c. st Eastern Union, 4 p. c Do. 5 p. c. guar Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. guar. S. & Edln.Perth,& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 er cent Glas.& S.W'st. gu. 5 p.c Great Northern, 5 p. c D 0.5 p.c.Redna.lop.c. pm Do. 44 p. c. do Do.sp.c.Redtr.atsp.c.pm Gt. Nh. of cot. Ist pret Gt. Sn. & W. (Ireland) 4 per cent Great West. (Perks and Hants Ext) 5 per cent Do. redeem. 44 p. ct Do. redeem. 4 p. et Do. irredeem. 4 p. ct i Do. 5 p. c. redeem. pref. Do. Birm. pref. shares IDo. ChesterS p.c. pf. abs DO. Chester 5 p.c. pf. alas Do. llirm. guar. stock Do. Chester guar. shares iDo. do do Lan. iv, Carl. 44 p.c. pref Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock Do.Barnsl.st£s 2s 10d! e Do. 6 p. c. (East Lan.) Do. 4) p. c. (Blackb. pur. Lon.tßrig.sp.o.gu. No.l Do. 5 per cent. do. No 2 Do. 6 per cent. do Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 Do. 4.4 per cent. do Do. 44 p. c. pref. shares Do. 7 per cent pref. stk Do. 6 p.c. do(W. E. &C. P.) Do. 4 p c. st.(div.def.lil'6s Do. 4 per cent. prof Lon.Chat&Dov. sp.c.pf. Do. West. Ex., B, a p. c. 1)0. Metrop. Ex. 14, 5 p.c. Lon. & S. W., Cov. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. st., late 3d shares Do. 4+ per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpl. anns. of 2s 6d I Londondy. &Cole. shs l l.ondony. & Ennis. shs Man. sh. & Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. l per cent. Do. redeem. 6 per cent aryport & Carl. 4 pr. c Do. 44 per cent . . Midland Con. 6 p c. stk. Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock.. Do. 41 per cent Do.Leic. audilit4per et. N4 , rflk. 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. p. c. Pref. st. 1847 D 0.5 IVay.ValEx.st.lBl7 Nort British, 5 per cent. Do. New gua.. per cent... Do. Bor. Un. prf. shs. Do. do. do. th.Dvn.liailADck.Co. N-East. Cons. pref. 4 p.c. 'Dn. 41pr. ct. redeemable Do. G. N. E. 4 p. ct. pref. Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. I Do. dn. Quarters, 1818.. El 9. York, 14. & s. Purch. North Staffordshire.... ymney Guaranteed . S lott ish Central. new of Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. c. pref. stock.... I Do. A berdeen.gua.Op Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann, 10s. Do. Fixed 41 per cent South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 6) Do. 4' per cent _, Do, Fixed 44 per cent South Wales, gua. 4 p. c. Do. 41 per cent Do. do. 1850 Do. 5 per cent. S. Yorkshire, 4 p. c. eua. Do. 5 p. c. g,ua. 'Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 p. c Do. C 6 p. c Wated & Kilkny. 6 p. c. W. Mid.-Oxf lst guastk Do. 2d do ^ 100 100 100 100 8.13.4 Do.NeNvPort 5 p.c. pf.ret.. Do. Perpet.6 p. c. pf. 1866, 100 Do. till 18091 100 L:l7 lo LO2 104 92 94 521 2 34 47 92 1i 94-1 4 991 i d 12i f f 89190 751 5 67 160 111 107 100 1 lipm 6 101 98 100 die par idis }pro 221 23i 102 9 1 fl - - 132 13( 10 104 234 24 100 102 99 101 98 100 85 88 27 281 32 33 32 33 42 45 123 125 121 123 100 102 120 123 !118 120 32i 2 125 4 113 121 112 111 681 9 81 I 106 i i 0 I i 1271 1 1 7 61 li P 5 6 42 43 111 11; 18i 51i 194 t2i 47 50 33 35 90 92 29 30 101 106 112 113 111 112 130 132 102 101 6S 68i 55 58 1011 1051 55 57 116 117 47 49 91 02 93 941 ~~ THIRD EDITION. BUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. CROYDON RACES.—(This Day). EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Yorkee Glautius Thirteen ran. Winner objected to for going on the wrong side of a post, RAILWAY STAKES. Ingestre Goldsmith Seven ran. CROYDON STAKES. Corkscrew Linkboy . 3 Farmer from Kerry Six ran. LONDON GAZETTR.—(This Evening.) CROWN •OFFICE, DEC. 3. The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom to constitute John Mellor, Sergeant-at-Law, one of her Majesty's Justices assigned to hold Pleas before the Queen herself. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 30. To be Honorary Surgeon to her Majesty—William Folds, Esq., Staff-Surgeon _Royal Navy, vice Dr. Oliver Evans, deceased. WAR- OFFICE, DEC. 3. 6th Regiment of Dragoons—Captain the Hon. Charles Wemyss Thesiger to be Major, by purchase, vice James D. Cowell, who retires; Lieutenant John Hardy to be Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. Charles Wemyss Thesiger. 9th Lancers—Cecil Edward Martyn, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase. vice William Charles Chitty Erskine, ap pointed to the 54th Foot. Royal Artillery—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Rawlings Mould, from the 83d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice William Haughton, M. 8., placed upon half-pay. Bth Regiment of Foot—Henry Champante Crespin, Gent., to be Ensign, by p irchase, vice William Geering Clark son, appointed to the 88th Foot. 18th Foot—Ensign George Albert Macdonnell, from the 19th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Walter Carrull, who has .., resigned. 22d Foot—Captain Richard Henry Holland, from the 24th Foot, to be Captain, vice Charles Watkins, who ex changes. 24th Foot—Captain Charles Watkins, from the 22d Foot, to be Captain, vice Richard Henry Holland, who ex- changes. , 29th Foot—Ensign Frederick Charles Ruxton to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Frederick Stirling Eckerson, who retires; Peter Heugh Andrews, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ruxton. 42d Font—Walter Aitken, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Robert Legh Crosse, appointed to the 52d Foot. 46th Foot—Ensign William Francis Spencer to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Peter Andrew John Ducrow, who retires; Walter de Winton Van, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Spencer. 54th Foot—Lieutenant Francis George S. Parker to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wm. Hill D awe Cl ar k e , who retires; Ensign Charles Samuel Chapman to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Parker; Cornet Wm, Charles Chitty Erskine, from the 9th Lancers, to be Ensign, vice Chapman. 60th Foot—Charles Mosley Turner, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice John Charles Mariette, who retires. 88th Foot—Ensign Wm. Hibberd Brower to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Wm. Hatfield, who retires ; En sign Wm. Geering Clarkson, from the Bth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Brewer. Rifle Brigade—Ensign Arthur Wilson Patten to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Fredk. Wm. Marsh Chalmers, who retires. Ist West ludia Regiment—Ensign Henry Charles Man- Bergh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Holt, promoted without purchase, in the Gold Coast Artillery Corps. 8d West India Regiment—Charles Frederic Wm. Moir, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Wm. Gavin, promoted without purchase, in:the Ist West India Regi ment. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Ensign John Bates Marston, Ist Battalion 10th Foot, Acting D e p u ty-A ss i s tant Commissary-General, having completed the prescribed period of probation, to be peputy-Assi s t au t C omm i ssa ry- General, under the provisions of the Royal 'Warrant of 28th October, 1858. MEDICAL DEPA WTMENT.—Assistant-Surgeon Walter B. Ramsbotham, M. 8., from the 59th Foot, to be Staff Assis tant-Surgeon, vice John M'Leod Cameron, M. 8., de ceased. CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. Alex. Hugh Hore to be Chaplain of the Fourth Class. BREVET. Lieutenant Henry G. Augustus Powell, Paymaster Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of 27th January, 1860. Paymaster George W. Macquarie, of the Military Train, to have the honorary rack of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of 27th January, 1860. The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the death of Lieutenant-General Sir James Holmes Sc'noedde, K.C.8., Colonel of the 55th Foot, on the 14th November, 1861 : Major-Gen. John Dawson Rawdon to be Lieut.-General. Brevet-Col. Brook Taylor, from Lieut.-Colonel, half-pay Unattached, serving as Brigadier •General on the Staff of the Army in Great Britain, to be Major-General. Lieut.-Col. John Wm. Grey, 85th Foot, to be Colonel. Major Edward Tomkinson, of the Cavalry Depot, Canter bury, to be Lieut.-Colonel. Capt. Arnold Moore Knight, half-pay late 12th Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major. To have the honorary rank of Inspector-General of Hos pitals : Deputy Inspector- G eneral of Hospitals, Alexander David son, M.D., retired Bengal Medical Department. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Chas. Mackinnon, retired Bengal Medical Department. I,eput.y Inspector-General of Hospitals, Donald Butter, retired Bengal Medical Department. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, John Greig, re tired Bengal Medical Department. BANKRUPTS. The portion of the "Gazette" containing the Bankrupts bad not arrived when we went to press. LA TV INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) HUNT V. lIUNT- JUDGMENT. His Honour the Master of the Rolls, in delivering judg ment, said,—This is a motion on behalf of the wife to restrain her husband from prosecuting in the Divorce Court an action instituted by him for the restitution of his con jugal rights. The marriage took place on the 11th Non., 1857, and a deed of separation was executed 30th April, 1860. There was on the first part the husband, on the second part the wife, and on the third part two trustees. There was a sufficient consideration to support the validity of the deeds. And the covenants were that the wife should live as a fern sole, and that ho should not take any proceedings to compel her to live with him. His Honour on considering the decisions referred to by the learned counsel, came to the conclusion that he could make no order.—lnjunction refused. THE SUN, [LONDON, TUESDAY EVE NI ffiG, :DEC 13 Elt 3, 1861. 9 11 44 45 64 6} 126 i 127 98 100 62 64 63 G 4 991 991 4d p 561 573 88t 881 9t 96 5 4} cl 101 lot 89 DI 121 126 39 41 97 99 45} 46i 36 3S 74 :51 65 67 95 97 5i 8 37 39 7 1 8 p 4 1 sil) 55i 24 3i d ip 83 5.6 12i 13 si. 6 46 48 43 46 89 91 93 95 all 214 6 6i [Ol 103 112 117 [lO 116 107 109 [O6 108 123 125 81 83 Ll t 113 80 91 so 82 114 116 110 112 102 104 107 109 97 09 98 100 88 90 89 91 102 ICI 9i 10 17 18 10} 11 75 77 20 201 10k 10 15 15! [36 133 102 104 112 115 112 115 136 13. i 112 115 [5O 155 127 130 73 75 91 93 11 113 131 14 t 24 126 fpm 65 70 iPm Share' 100 stk I 18 204 204 10 100 100 100 17i 20 stock 20 20 100 100 100 stock stock stock 20 stock stock stock 20 10 20 20 5 20 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. Atiautie & St Lawrence Born.,Baroda.t.Cent Ind GIL 5 per cent.. Do Do. Buffalo and Laze Huron Do. New . Do. Preferonce Buffalo,Brant,&Godrieb p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 18;3 Do. do, June 1, 187 , 1 elcuttnAS,Eastn.(Lih ) Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip !Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c. ;Demerara ......... lEastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c.' Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4i p c. Debantrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 18n-1870 'Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et Do. 6 per et. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do: 1872.. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Gt. South.of India (Lim, guaranteed 5 percent, Do. do. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 witlet opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 c 0... Do. 5 p. c. do. '7B d 0... 'Madras (guar., 4i p. c... Do. do. 5 per cent .... Do. 4t p. o. Extension Do. 5 do. Mclb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds.l Newßrunswick Canda Ity.,tLand(Lim.)g.6pC Class A Capital Shan- Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. Oude (Limited) ........ Scinde Do. Punjaub F, Do. Du. ........ ci Do. Indus. St. Flo. Fig Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. flOO 15 all 100 1 Closing Price. llPaid. 981 901 41 41 d :6 7 72 77 68 E 7 :2 4t 5 2 id 191 20} d 1001 101 a 9% 101 100 101 100 101 18 20 55 60 50 83 10 33 34 38 28 32 28 82 99a 100 k Id 98; 99i 81 91 111 111 VG 87 clO 88 92 981 991 91 93 5 7 4 6 101 102 id }d 97 93 d RAILWAYS. FOREIGN Algerian Antwerp & Rotterdam. Ardennes BalL&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine & Rail C0piap0.............. Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish ...... Eastern of France .... Grand Rus Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. klreat Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. sha Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout Lyons & Geneva Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref Paris,Lyons, & 3lcdi ter Paris & Orleans Recife & S. Fran. (Fern ) gua. 7 p. ct. lira Riga & Dnnaburg Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref Sambre & Meuse Do. Si per cent. Pref San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c S.Aust &Lomb Venetin Southern of France S. East Porfougal 7 p ct West Flanderp Do. 51 p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France West , rn of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden ..... Do. 8 par cent Pref Zealand .. . . BRITISE Alfred Consols (Philack) I British Iron ;Clifford ; Devon G. Cone. (Tavist.); East Bassett (Illog,an).. ;East Caradon ...... ;E. IV'l Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.), 'Great South Tolgus.... IG.Wheal Alfci.(Philack) !G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville ;Herod's-Foot !Hingston Downs (Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant) North Downs North Frances (Illog,aW; ;N. WWI Basset (Ilio 4 an)' 'North Wheal Crotty ! 'Par Console (St. Blazey) I Providence (Uny Lelnt.) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. ;South Caradon(St.Cleer) iS. Carn Brea (Illog,an) I S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim ;S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min ; Tin Crott Vale of Towey (Carm.) West Basset (IlloE.fan).. 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RUFFIANLY ASSAULT ON A LITTLE GIRL.—COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FlNE.—William Harding, a young man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following assault on a little girl named Sarah Bye, living at 12, Little Pulteney street. It appears that the little girl was passing along Russell street the previous afternoon, when the prisoner seized her by the hair of the head and lifted her off her feet. Ho then threw her down with great violence, and destroyed her bon net. Godwin, 206 0, corroborated the little girl, and said tha on asking the prisoner why he did it, he replied because the girl had followed him. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should send the prisoner for six weeks to prison, without a fine. It was a gross outrage on a little girl without any cause. CURIOUS CASE—A WOMAN BEWITCHED.—Elizabeth Armand, a dirty little woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting Mrs. Susan Eagle under the following circumstances ... The complainant, the wife of a bird-shop keeper, Great St. Andrew-street, said that on the previous night the pri soner came into the shop and abused and struck her several times about the head with her fist, and tore out a quantity of her hair. It was the third time she had so treated her. Mary Gardner said she heard the prisoner ask for Mr. Eagle, and on being told that he was not at home she at tacked Mrs. Eagle. Prisoner—The complainant's husband has bewitched me. He has been murdering all of us for some time while in our beds. Austin, 318 A, said the prisoner, both last night and this morning, told him that Mr. Eagle had bewitched her and set a spell on her. PrLoner—lle has sot a spell on me. lam snragod to madness, and can't live. lam bewitched. I live in Lam beth. Mr. Tyrwhitt—You will have to find bail. Whether you aro crazed or not, I cannot tell, but your conduct is dangerous. The prisoner, who is a strange looking woman, was then ordered to find one bail in £5. THAMES. THE GREAT SILK ROI3BERY.—Mr. Woolrych recom menced the inquiry relating to the circumstances of the robbery of ten bales of China raw silk on the 10th of March last. Mr. Humphreys, jun., of the firm of Humphreys, Son, and Morgan, Newgate-street, who conducted the prosecu tion, said he expected to conclude the case and complete it next week. Mr. Woolrych said he was very glad to hear it. (The case was expected to occupy the whole of the day.) The Lord Chancellor arrived in town on Satur day e yening from bis seat, liackwood Park, Rants. OUR IRON-CLAD FRIGATES. In the article on this subject which appeared in our columns last week we stated that it was a great error to suppose that all our built ironsides were like the Warrior. We venture now to point out another error which is also very general—namely, that of estimating the whole of our iron frigates, whether building or built, as an already effective fleet. Now the fact is that at least 20 months from the present date must elape before four of our finest vessels—the Minotaur, the Achilles, the Captain, and the Northumberland, are even afloat; and we learn from the experience of the Warrior that, even using the greatest speed in equipment, it would be at least six months from that time before they could be ready for commission. The truth is that our iron fleet is much deficient in numbers as compared with that of the French. The great size and enormous massiveness of our vessels render the building of them a very slow process. It is the knowledge of this that makes us anxious to see more of them in hand, and we should heir with unmixed satisfaction that the Admiralty had car ried out the intention they expressed this autumn of calling for tenders for the construction of three more, in addition to those now building. The four really iron ships now being constructed (for we do not include in this category either the Bul wark or the Royal Oak at Chatham, which are merely wooden two-deckers cut down to be plated with iron, on the French system) are what are called the " improved Warriors," whose names we have already given. Every improvement which it is now seen that the Warrior requires these ships will possess, while, on the other hand, they will be free from all her defects, especially that most im portant one of construction, which leaves the stem and stern vulnerable to shot, The new ships will be coated with armour from end to end. At every point they will offer to the fire of an enemy plates of wrought iron not less than 51 inches thick, backed up with 10 inches of teak, with half 'an inch of iron (the skin of the ship) inside all. After the complete success of the trials at the Warrior target, the propriety of adding to the weight of the armour plates by increasing their thickness an inch is strongly disputed by some of the highest autho rities. For every purpose of warfare the Warrior is practically invulnerable, and it is contended that by still further adding to the weight of the plates no additional protection is gained, and a great deal may be lost in the effi ciency of the vessels by rendering them dan gerously unwieldy in rough weather. The War riot's plates of 41 inches weigh 950 tons, but to cover the new larger ships from end to end with plates of 51 inches will require no less than 2,000 tons of metal—an enormous mass of dead weight for a ship to carry in addition to her ponderous en gines, stores, guns, shot, and shell. It is this in creased number, size, and thickness of the plates that add such a heavy item to the cost of each of the new vessels, which require for their hull, en gines, and rigging alone an outlay of nearly £452,000. The Warrior up to the present time has cost rather over £400,000, and her successors, before they are at sea, will cost £600,000. These are large items, but it may be truly said that the country gets value for its money, and the first out lay is the last, for the hulls of these tremendous vessels ought to be as good two or three centuries hence as they are now. The new ships are not only to be steam frigat es, but steam rams also, for their bows project be neath the water far in advance of the apparent bows above. The bows, in fact, are formed like the outline of a swan's breast, according to the plan first suggested in the Warrior by Captain Ford. The length of the Warrior is 380 feet, breadth 58, and her tonnage 6,170. The new ships are 400 feet long 591 broad, and with a tonnage of 6,815. The in crease of breadth in the new ships will, however, be almost entirely under the water line ; and by this means, and by giving them a slightly flatter floor, their displacement is nearly 1,000 tons greater than the Warrior. This, as the decks are not wider, also increases the slope of the sides inwards from the water's edge, which in the Warrior is at an incline of about 1 in 13 feet, but in the new ships will be at an incline of 1 in 81 feet. This not only almost doubles the chance of the shot glancing, but has the still more important advantage of getting the weight more to the centre and diminishing the tendency to roll. The power of the War rior is 1,250 nominal ; that of the new ships has not yet been decided on, though en gineers say it is a point which admits of very little doubt. If the high speed of the War rior is to be maintained the new ships should have an increase of power in proportion to the increased weight and bulk of the mass to be moved. Bearing in mind that they will have a greater displacement and greater midship section than the Warrior, 1,500-horse power is considered the minimum of what they ought to have to do their 17 knots. No economy will be so false as that which reduces the speed of these noble vessels. The arrangement of the bows in order to fit them for the discharge of their tremendously destructive duties as steam rams is very peculiar. The " beak" is below the water line, and projects, as we have said, at least 20 feet in advance of what seems to be the bows above. Thus the long overhanging weight which the false cutwater of the Warrior necessitated in order to conceal her beak, which is above water, is entirely done away with, and the bows are water-borne for some 20 feet at least before any weight comes upon them. A space of 30 feet long by 9 feet deep of these seeming bows is left without armour plates, and only defended ftom the spar deck line upwards by teak bulwarks, which lower down like the bul warks of the little gunboats. But inside this slight defence comes a semicircular shield of armour, 7 feet high and 51 inches thick, and spreading com pletely across the bows of the vessel before the foremast, from side to side. In this there are to be portholes for two immense Armstrong guns. On the main deck below is another similar shield, reaching up to the iron spar deck, but without guns, as it is simply intended to cover the crew against the chance of a raking fire. By this arrangement the most complete protection is given to the men both on the spar and main deck, yet without incurring any top-heavy weight forward, as the shields are both within the water-borne line of the hull by at least 40 feet. The bowsprits of all are to be of iron fitted with a powerful hinge where they spring from the deck, so that before going into action they can be turned backwards and in wards, that there may be nothing to deaden the force with which the ships will strike when the occasion offers to use them as steam rams against the enemy. There appears to be very little doubt but that all these ♦essels will have four masts specially designed to carry more fore and aft can vass. Even the short cruises of the Warrior have shown that the conventional three wooden masts and square rig are as unsuitable for these ships as armour plates would be on a Holyhead packet. But, above all things, whatever the number of the masts, it is of the last consequence that all should be of wrought iron. Wooden masts are not only easily shot away, but are perfectly certain to go by the board on the very first attempt to use the vessels for one of the purposes for which they are specially built—namely, as steam rams. It is very possibie that in this last case the iron masts might do the same too, especially if square rigged ; but they have this immense advantage over timber, that they could not be shot away, and that if they went overboard from other causes they would tear them selves clear, and go down alongside like a deep sea lead. Wooden ones would of course, float ; drift astern, and to a certainty foul the screw with the wreck of cordage. No officer in either service was more alive to the imminence of the dangers which must thus arise from this cause from the use of wooden masts than the late Sir Howard Douglas, and as iron masts are as light, much cheaper, and ten times more durable than wood, every . steamship in the service, whether of wood or iron, should be fitted with them. In the choice of names for our ironsides the Admiralty do not seem lately to have been particularly happy. Twice they have altered the names of those now building. We hope neither the Achilles nor the Captain are to be rechristened, though we have not the least objection to another improvement on the names of the other two. The Iron Duke would, be J a far more appropriate name than the Minotaur, and an Inkermann infinitely more suggestive than the Northumberland. The sterns of all these new ships will be what is called "pink" sterns—that is, instead of being round and full, like the Warrior and Black Prince, terminating in a fine wedge-shaped point, almost similar to the bows of a fast-going steamer. By adopting this method of construction the number of armour plates required to cover it is re duced by rather more than a third, while the angle presented will be such that all shots must glance unless fired point blank at the broadside. All the internal subdivisions as to water-tight compartments, Rec., will be precisely similar to those of the War rior, and the same effectual protection is given to the magazines by casing them round with the coal and water tanks. The armament for each vessel is to be 36 100-pounder Armstrong on the main deck, and on the spar deck 21 guns of the same enormous calibre. The two forward guns through the semi circular shield we have already described are to be 200-pounders, with a pivot gun of the same size in the stern. They will thus be enabled at a single broadside to throw a ton and a half of shot and shell to a distance of nearly five miles if necessary. In addition to these four vessels now building the Admiralty are preparing at Chatham to coat the Bulwark and Royal Oak with iron plates on the French plan. Both these vessels were intended as 90-gun ships, but have had their dimensions altered and their scantling increased, to enable them to carry 4k-inch armour plates. It is admitted that these ships are only makeshifts which the Admiralty were compelled to adopt to keep pace with the superiority of numbers which the French navy had in vessels of this kind. Like all hurried makeshifts, however, both these frigates will be costly, and comparatively inefficient. In the previous article on this sub ject we stated how it was now found in the French navy that vessels built on this system (and they have none others) were practically almost use less as seagoing frigates, In our own navy it has for some time been known that woodwork, no matter of what strength, is unequal to sustain the long continued vibrations of the screw, when driven with a power and velocity which are necessary to the maintenance of the high speed our war vessels are admitted to possess. It was only the other day that the Emerald, a new 50-gun frigate, was compelled to return to port for caulking and repairs, rendered necessary by her having to steam against a head sea and hold her own in a fierce gale. It is easy to see how enormously this vibration is increased with the additional weight of armour plates, which make the timbers work so much that decking and caulk ing are necessary after every trip. From this cause alone La Gloire, the boast and pride of the French Navy, is now openly admitted to be all but unsea worthy. Our Admiralty cannot surely expect a different result for their ships built on the same manner. It is but poor consolation to know that these vessels are only makeshifts, and that no more are to be built, as the money that will be spent on them is almost thrown away. Ten years are the longest time even the most sanguine give them before the oak rots away under the iron. It may not be out of place here to notice briefly what other Governments besides the French are doing towards reconstructing their navies. The Danish Government ridicule the idea of 51 inch plates, and say very truly that, as 2 inches will keep out any shell, they do not care for the solid shot. They are accordingly having two very fire gunboats, of great speed and heavy armament, built here on this principle. The Russians are building here a very fine frigate of 30 guns, and 3,500 tons, en a model somewhat similar to the Warrior, and to be coated from end to end with 4-inch iron plates. Orders for other vessels of this class are expected. The Peruvian Government is building small iron plated gunboats here, and in addition to some fine wooden frigates building for the Spanish Govern ment on the Thames, instructions to build iron fri gates for the same power arc daily looked for. The Federal Government are building three gunboats to be plated with three-inch iron, and one most pecu liar submarine boat, called " Stevens's Battery," which only shows its six heavy guns on a slight iron ridge just above the water. A full account of this extraordinary vessel, which is now being hur ried forward by the Federal Government, and will probably be ready in a month or two, has already been forwarded to our Admiralty. The Confede rate Government is coating, or endeavouring to coat, the Merrimac, 50, and the Mississippi, 13, the two vessels which they seized in the Norfolk Navy yard, with four-inch plates, and King Victor Em manuel is having two wooden-plated frigates of 3,000 tons each constructed on the French plan in France. It is not too much to say, however, that as yet nothing has been designed or attempted which at all approaches the standard of the English iron clad frigates. The cause for regret is that we have so few of them, and that, in spite of the generosity of Parliament on this subject, the Admiralty are still so timid about ordering more. 99.} 9 91 9 61 61 — 6i ) f3i —v 1 i d 14j i 1 10& 11i 4 8i i par 22 23 81 8 81 fl 20 21 881, 6 8 334 404 b 2 54 41 3.1 13 15 6i 7 8t 91 25 26 61 7 94 10 20 21 ES. - 4 I 1 2 30 34 3(5 375 0 65 27 274 3 34 16 18 4 44 01 71 11 1} 37 39 St 41 40 42 51 51 21 21 31 31 It 2 7 41 42 I I 33) p5O 4 44 85 95 326 33i 1$ 11 7 8 & 13 14 1 52 54 290 SOO 80 85 75 85 21 3i I 6 . 16 17 15Y 164 .1. 100 9i 18k 14 19/ 1 1 27j } 17 13j i 52 lusiness done 1012 1002 111 100 i i 2 i .ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE. To-morrow evening a ball of the most brilliant descrip tion will take place at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. J ames's, the profits arising from which are to be added to the funds now in hand for the purpose of erecting the cen tral hall of the college. The assemblage on the occasion will, no doubt, be most interesting, as all the leading mem bers of the dramatic profession will be present. The ball is under the most distinguished patronage, and an evening of unalloyed pleasure is anticipated. '1 he admissisn is by voucher, which must be exchanged for tickets either at Michell's, 33, Old Bond-street ; Sam'', St. James-street ; or at the rooms of the Dramatic College, 15, Bedford-street, Strand. TIIIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Dec. 3.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 2 —Wind S.E.—Arrived—Tier Majesty's ship Flying Fish, from Sheerness, with loss of jibboom, cutwater, &c. Sailed—Lizzie Scott, for Algoa Bay. CARDIFF, Dec. 2.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Norma, for Jamaica. SWANSEA, Dee. 2.—Wind S.—AtTivod—Miero Senafyn from Havannah. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Flormel, from Callao for Leith. Sailed—Raven's Crag, for New Zealand. (131' ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—Alliance, steamer, from Havre. Sailed—Unity, fot Glasgow ; Feronia, for Neath ; Racer, for Swansea ; Triumph, for Seaham. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND Tuesday Morning►. Arrived, Dec. 2—Britannia, from Barbadoes ; Elm, from Bathurst ;thirty-one Stated, from Bahia ; Heroine, from Leghorn; Jersey. from Guernsey; Peveril of the Peak, from Calcutta; Jane Winn, from Havre; Pearl, from Cronstadt. Arrived, Dec. 3—Flecha, from Ghent. Sailed—Danfort Castle, for Sydney. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Cadiz, from Sunderland for Charente; Charity, brig, from the north for the west ; Alphington, from Algsa Bay for London. THE PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille prem., and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17$. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is at about the same Nice in London and in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 428 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.63 per £1 sterling st an dard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg - than in London. - The course of exchange atNew York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 107 i to 108 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is against England. But, after making allowance for loss of interest and charges of transport, the present price leaves no profit on sending gold to the United States. THE AMERICAN OUTRAGE.—On Sunday, at se veral of the churches and chapels in Nottingham, allusions were made to the insult to our flag and the critical position of affairs. Tho sentiments of the preachers were in all cases patriotic. The firm decision of Government was applauded, and hopes were expressed that the national honour would be vindicated. According to accounts from Messrs. Arles Dufour and Co., of Lyons, there has been no improvement in the silk trade during the past month. Under the continued pressure of the American crisis a general dulness has pre vailed, the limited wants for European consumption being insufficient to give rise to any sustained activity. It is thought, however, that with the present low range of Prin no further notable depression can be anticipated. THE VOLUNTEERS. Yesterday evening, in Westminster-hall, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Under Secretary for War, dis tributed to the 19th Middlesex, or Working Men's College Rifle Volunteer Corps, the prizes which have been contended for in the past season's shoot ing at the Government range on Plumstead Marshes. A very numerous company was assembled in the hall to witness the ceremony. The regiment, which is now nearly 900 strong, marched into the hall under the command of Col. Bathurst, shortly after 8 o'clock, headed by their band ; and having drawn up in three sides of a square, the proceedings were begun by a short speech from Col. BATHURST, who said that though the prizes were not so numerous or so valuable as those which had been distributed in that hall to another vol un teer corps a night or two ago, he was sure they would not be less highly valued by the winners of them. The corps had a right to boast that it had been to a great extent self-supporting. They had established a very excellent band,and had spent their funds in other objects calculated to promote the effi ciency of the corps. They had been much inter rupted in their practice from the want of a butt of their own, and if any generous minded person were inclined to present them with one they should not be too proud to accept it. But if they were not for tunate enough to have one presented to them he had no doubt that in a very short time they would ob tain one for themselves. The gallant colonel con cluded by calling on Earl De Grey to distribute the prizes. Earl DE GREY, who was received with loud cheering, said it was with great satisfaction that he had accepted Col. Bathurst's invitation on behalf of the corps to discharge this duty—not as Under Secretary for War, but in his capacity of an hono rary member of the corps. He looked upon these contests as a most important valuable result of the volunteer movement, and he was happy to learn that the result of this particular contest proved that the 19th Middlesex was fully able to hold its own in this respect with the other volunteer corps throughout the country. He sincerely congratulated those who were winners, not merely because they were winners, but because by their devotion to a noble science—for science it was—they had made themselves good shots and had put themselves in a position to do good service to their country should an emergency arise. He did not look upon the mere money value of the prizes as being a matter of any importance. (Hear, hear.) If their funds had been expended in promoting the practical efficiency of the corps in other ways, it had been much better spent than in the purchase of more costly prizes, and he was sure every true volunteer would value the prize he received not as representing so many guineas, but because it was a witness of the profi ciency which he had attained to among his com rades. (Hear.) He hoped that those who were among the vanquished would not relax in their efforts to make themselves good shots ; for though there might be many occasions in war in which great services might be performed by good shots, yet in usual military operations the effective value of a bat talion would not be measured so much by the shoot ing of the prize.winners as by the average shooting of the whole body of men. (Hear, hoar.) When the Volunteer movement began, there were many per sins who—not unnaturally at the time—said that if too much attention were paid to these contests they would take the piece of other equally important parts of the duties of Volunteers, and that, while they were labouring to make themselves good shots they would forget the no less urgent part of their instruction comprised in the short word " He was happy to believe that anticipation had not been fulfilled in the case of the Volunteers generally. (Hear, bear.) They had attained a great proficiency in rifle shooting—in fact, they might be said to have changed in that respect the character of our coun trymen. Three years ago when the movement commenced, we were a nation which had very few good shots, but we might now claim to be equal to any other nation in the world. Bat it would have been a great mistake if that proficiency had been obtained by the sacrifice of attention to those mili tary formations and movements which were essential to their Efficiency in the field. He was happy to know that that was not the case generally with the Volunteers, and with regard to the 19th Middlesex he had ascertained before coming there, from the highest authority, that he should be perfectly justi fied in speaking in high terms of their proficiency both in company and battalion drill. (Cheers.) lie hoped that while they continued to labour to make themselves good shots they would bear in mind the importance of drill. The amount of service they might do the country would depend not on the pos session of cups and medals, but on the attention which they had paid to this branch of their duty, He would also impress upon them the great value of that general discipline without which, as had recently been seen, any body of armed men would become a mere rabble. He did not wish to sing the praises of what some people called " pipe-clay," or to expect from them that perfect regularity and preci sion which could only be attained by a regiment of the regular army, constantly and exclusively devoted to military exercises ; but there were certain general principles of discipline and subordination without which no body of men partaking of a military cha racter could ever be thoroughly efficient. So long as they remembered that those under whose com mand they served were entitled to their obedience in military matters, and to their respect on all occasions, they would every day become more and more capable of taking part in the noble work of national defence which they would inevitably bo called on to undertake should danger threaten our shores. The volunteer movement was a great social as well as military movement ; it was one of the most useful and elevated ideas which had ever ani mated the people of this country, but half its value would be lost if it did not teach men not only how to shoot, to march and manoeuvre, but also those principles of discipline which were as valuable in civil as in military life. (Hear.) In conclusion, the noble earl said—l thank you, gentlemen, for having invited me hero to-night, and I am glad to meet face to face a body of men who I am sure are animated by a determination that in no quarter of the world, whether north or south, east or west, shall the flag of England ever be insulted. (This allusion to the great topic of the day was received by a loud burst of cheering from all parts of the hall.) The following prizes were then presented by the noble earl : Regimental Prizes-Ist prize, a silver challenge cup and silver medal, won by Lieut. Hooper; 2d prize, a silver medal, won by Sergeant Allen ; 3d prize, a pewter tankard, won by Sergeant Perrym an. Regimental Company challenge cup, won by 2d Company, Capt. Roebuck. Ist Company-Ist prize, a bronze medal, wo n b y Lieut. Pattison ; 2d prize, a bronze medal, won ' O3 , Corporal Playfair ; 3d prize, a pewter tankard, won by Private 0. Penfold. 2d Company-Ist prize, a rifle-glass, won by Lieut. Hooper ; 2d prize, an ornamental cup, won by Lieut. Tansley ; 3d prize, a bronze medal, won by Sergeant Perryman. 3d Compan y-Ist prize, a silver medal, won b y Private J. Davison ; 2d prize, a pewter tankard, won by Corporal Butler. 4th Company-Ist prize, a pewter tankard, won by Sergeant Smith. 6th Company-Ist prize, a short Enfield rifle, won by Lieut. Preston ; 2d prize, a binocular field glass, won by Sergt. Burgess; 3d prize, a bronze medal, won by Private J. Nuttall, No. 1 extra prize, a silver medal, won by Sergt. Cripps ; No. 2 ditto, a pewter tankard, won by Sergt. Burgess ; No. 3 ditto, a pewter tankard, won by Sergt. Cripps. 7th Company—lst prizo, a silver medal, won b y Ce:our-Sergt. Pearce. Ist, a large sil ver ditto, 2d, an me 9 d t a h l C w o o m n p b a y n Company— PrivateEx t r H a p . v z o e r , y ; orna mental flower vase, won by Capt. Shaen ; ditto, 3d, an ornamental cup, won by Private I. Ivory. Sweepstakes—lat prize, a pewter tankard, won by Lieut. Tanslcy; 2d prize, an ornamental Clip, won by Lieut. Hooper. At the conclusion of the distribution Colonel regimentß a hurs t thanked d three h a r e l e r d s e f G r r t e h y e n o n behalf o bl e af of the earl l ended the proceedings. all all all all all all all all all MI 3.2.10 2.14.6 7.4.0 551 17s 6.8.6 8.12 4.11.43 1.10.1,1 1i 1.14.0 9.18.9 11 10.0.7 .5.9:6 all 18.1 S 27 11 13s ed 1.7.2